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A THE WILMINGTON UESSENtiEfttlTtffiSbA JAktfAKY. 12, lfiOT; 'A it 'or. I - V v7 7i- JT.nowleo'gre willf, help to ktep a family live. The more they know about their own tliysioloev the batter thev will be able to take care of themselves. The more a man and woman know! about health, and sick- " pess, the less trouble theyfwill have with the sickness of their children! Some standard medical ' book ought to be in every home library. The, most complete book of this kind is Dr. Piyce'sJ Common Sense Medical Adviser. It contains, more exact informa tion about the huitian body in health and disease than any oilier book ever printed in the English langru&Ke. More copies of it have been -sold than of any other medical work. It is written in plain language, ;free from technicalities! and is the work of a reg ularly graduated,i?perienced physician. It contains hundred of useful receipts, a knowledge of which will prevent much sick ness and save manjy doctor's bills) It as in- dexed, and contaifis over three hundred illustrations. 68o,joO copies of this- great, 1, 008-page work hate been sold at the regu lar pjrice $1.50 pejj.copy and how ant edi tion of half a millioBn in strong paper covers is being' distributed absolutely free. Any one may have a cojfy who will send 21 one cent stamps, to payjtbe cost of mailing only, to World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. The book bound in French (loth is 10 cents extra (31 cents in all). --Mrs. Bela F-. Howaitd. of Glen Ellen. Sonoma Co., Cal., writes : "Kiiclosed find stamps forthe '1'eople's Common .Sjrnse Medical Adviser.' J have bad two but catnot keep them. I cannot . do without one in the house, they save a doctor's visits, and as I live ab6ut ten miles from anvdoc- tors, their visits come hifrh (ten dollars). I have been in this place sixteen years, and have only had a doctor for my (jamily oiye in that time ' thjuka to your boo agio your medicines." THE CURSE OF DRINK. REV. DR. TAIiMAbrE CALLS HALT ON DISSIPATION. uks to your book ad your medicines." ervoul Debili -.3.-E..C. WEST'S I NERVE AND 'BBAIN TREATMERT. j " THE ORIGINAL, Al.i OTHERS IMITATIONS, j la boM under positive Written iu?iraiee ; byanthonzed aeents oflily.to cur"Weak Memory. ; LizzinssJ Wakefulness, Fits, Hysteria, Quick 1 cesa, Nidht Losses, tiwil Dreams, L.9ek of t'onfi- dnnee. NervousTiep3,.LjBsitude, all Drains, Youth ful Errors, or Exeesmfe Lieo of Tobacco, Opinm rr liinnnr. whii'h lrcuiti to F.liRnrv. Consiiinotion. Insanity and Death. At store or by n.ail. $i e b'x:ix for $5: with -written coarantefi to urp fir risiunii worn no v t"Bed (Label Special Extra Strength. For JmpotPncy, Loss of fnwpr. ' Lout Munhond. Kteriiity r Karrpnnessx i trtix aix tor ys. with. '-.vr-ttm i cuarantef .re in aDdaye. At store' p 1 - (f nil. "- n p'j Ppllamy, sole Agcr.t, Wilming ton. N. Cr flip APTER carteITsI a PILLS. Eiek Headache and raliere all the troubles Inci dent to a bilious state of the svRtem. such a Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress aftei 'tatiug, i'ain in the Slile. &c While their most remarkable suceess kas been shown ui curing 1& Headache, yet Cartirs- Litti.b1 Livtr Pills am equally valuably hi Constipation, curing and preventing this aiinnving enmplaiut. while they also correct all aisorders of tne stomach, Ktimulate the liver and regulaie the bowels. Even if they only cuired : . . r ' Ache they would bo almost priceless to those who Suffer from this1 flistressinc complaint: but .fortunately their goodnesr does not end "here, and those, who once try them will find these little pills valuable in so many ways that they will not be willintjlto dp without them. But after all sick head k iU! S Is the bane of so-raanv Eves that here Is where we make our great j boast. Our pills cure it while others do not ! Carter's Im-lt Tjver Pills are very small and very easv to take; ; One or two pills make a dose. Tliey are strictly veeetableand do not gripe or puree, but by their gentle action nleA.se all who use them. In vials at 25 cents. Ire for $1 . Sold everywhere, or sent by mail. CASTES KSSIJISS CO., Kew York. . ; i- M Pi' Sm! S:s3, SisllPrk An Eloquent and Picturesque Sermon on the Tople "The Sonar of the Drunkard." The Power and the Evils of Intemper ance In the Use of Liqaor. Washington, January lO.This dis course of Dr. Talmage 1b from" a most unusual standpoint, an arousing: call to reformation from dissipated habits, and must do Wide good. The 'text was Psalms lxix, 12, "I was the song of the drunkards." , Who said that? Was it David or was it Christ? It was both. These Messi anic Psalms are like a telescope. Pull the instrument to a certain range, and it shows you an object near by. Pull it, to another range and it will show you objects far away. David and Christ were both, eachin ; his own .time, the song of the drunkards. Holiness of doc trine and life always did excite wicked merriment. Although David had fully reformed and written a psalmody in which all the subsequent agea have sobbed out their repentance, his ene mies preferred to fetch up his old ca reer and put into metric measures sins long before forgiven. Christ, who com mitted no sin, was still more the sub ject "of unholy song, because the bet ter one is the more iniquit" hates him. Of the best being whose , voice evr movd thesair or whose foot ever touched the earth it might be said:. - . The byword of the passing throng, The ruler's scoff,, the drunkard's song. The earth fitted bp for the human race, in congratulation the morning stars sang a song. The .Israelipsh army safe on the "bank of the Red sea the Egyptians clear under the returned water, Moses sang a sonp. One of the important parts of this great old book is Solomon's song. At the birth of our .jora the virgin Mary ana ola Simeon and' angelic prima donnas in hovering clouds sang a song. What enrichment has been given to the world's literature and enjoyment by the, ballads, the ctor tides, vthe discants,' the dities, the roundelays, the epics, the '.lyrics, the dithyrambs! But my text calls atten tion to a style of song that I think has never been discoursed upon.; You some times hear this style of music when passing a saloon or a residence in which dissipation is ascendant, or after you have retired at night you hear it com ing out of the street from. those who. haviner tarried lone at their euDS. are on their way home th4 ballad of the inebriate, the serenade of the alcoholiz ed, or what my text calls the song of the drunkards.- i " IJor practical and saying and warn ing and Christian purposes I an nounce to you the characteristics i of that well known cadence mentioned in my text. First, I remark that the song of the drunkards is an old sons; Much of the music of the world and of the church is old music. First came the music of percussion, the clapping cym bal, which was suggested by a hammer on ah 'anvil, and then the sighing of the wind across the reeds suggested the flute, and then the strained sinews of the tortoise across its shell suggested the harp. But far back of that, and nearly back as far as the moral collapse of our first parentage is the song- of the drunkard. That tune was sung at least 4.243 years ar when, the deluge past. Noah came out of the ark and, as j if disgusted with too much prevalence of water, he took to, strong drink "td staggered forth, for all known ages the first known drunkard. He sounded he first note of the old music of inebriacy. An Arab author of A. D. 1310 e: "Noah, being come out of the ark. or dered each of his sons to build a house. Afterward they were; occupied in cow ing and in planting trees, the pipoins and fruits of which they had found in the ark. .The vine Alone was wanting. and they co,uld not discover it. Gabriel then, informed them that the devil had desired it; and indeed had some right to it. Hereupon Noah "summoned him to appear in the field and said to himr 'Oh, accursed! Why hast thou carried away the vine from me?' "Because, re piifvl the devil, 'it belonged to me.' Phall I part it for you?' said Gabriel. 'T consent,' said Noah, 'and wll him a fourth.' JThat is not sufficient for him said Gabriel. 'Well, I will tartehalf.' replied Noah, 'and h" shall take the other.' 'That is not suflVnt yt.' responded Gabriel. 'He must have two-thirds and thou one, ' and when thy wine shall have boiled on the fire tmtn '.two-thirds .are gone the re mainder shall be-nssiened for thv use.j"' A fable 'that illustrates how the vine has been misappropriated, IT IS AN OLD SONG Benhadad and 32 allied Kings, . riot ing in' ,a pavilion, took up .the 'sarhe bacchanal. Nabal was rendering that drunkard's song when his wife, beau tiful Abigail, came back from her ex pedition to save her husband. W- d was" singipg that song when the daugh ter of Herodias wheeled in the dance before him. Belshazzar and a thou sand lords renewed that song the-night the handwriting came out on the plas tering of the wall and the. tramp ofthe besieging host was heard on the -palace stairs. Ahasuerus sang that song when, after seven days of carousal he order ed Vashti to come into the presence of the roaring guests without her' veil on a January storm trying to command a June morning. Oh, yes, the song bf the drunkards is dn old song.. King Cyrus boasted that he could drink, more wine than his brother. . Drunkenness two billion twenty million dollars Which rum cosrts tftis country to year, fn the destruction of grain and sugar, and the, supporting of the pau pers, , and the Invalids and the crimi nals whlcJh strong drink causes, is only a small part of What is paid for ihlt expensive song of the drunkards. ' IT IS A SONG OF THE MULTITUDE. who heard of his membership of the church and the tragedy of his depaf ture, he became, as did the David and the Christ of my text, the sone- of the drunkards. EASILY LEARNED. ' ; Again, the song of Che drunkards Lf easily learned. Through What long and difficuH drill one must go to succeed as Again, this song of the drunkards is .an elevated and inspiring singer! Em- . . . . -. . . , . ma A'WVwvfrf a wiwnv . ni ! a multitudinous song not a solo, not a duet, not a quartet not a sextet, but millions on millions are this hour Hing ing it. Do not think that alcoholism has this field all to itself. It has powerful rivals in the intoxicant of other na tionshasheesh and arrack and -pulque and opium and Quavo nd mastic and wedro. Every nation, barbaric as well .as civilized, has its pet Intoxicant. This song of the drunkards la rendered i j Chinese, Hindoo, Araiblan,: Assyrian, Persian, Mexican yea, all the lan guages. All zones join it. No continent would be' large enough for the choir gallery if all those Who have this li bretto in their hands should stand side by side to chant the international cho rus. Other throngs are Just learning the eight notes of this deathf ul music which is already mastered by the or-, chestras'jin ful! voice under the batons in full swing. All the musicians assem bled at Dusseldorf or Berlin or Boston peace julbilee,- rendering symphonies, reauiems or grand marches of Men delssohn or Wagner or Chopin or Han-; del, were insignificant in numbers as comipared' with ' ; the innumerable throngs, host beside bost, gallery above gallery, who are now pouring forth the song of the drunkards. ) Years ago, standing before a bulletijl board in New York on the night of r,' presidential election day. as the new came in and the choice of the America people was finally announced, therij were people in the streets who sant roistering and frivolous songs. But in the street one man, in, deep, strong resonant voice, started, to the tune of "Old Hundred," "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," and soon a5 ma A'tibott, among the most, emlnen cantatrices that ever enchanted acad I emies of music, told me on ocean Chip's i deck. In answer to my question, r "Whither are you bound?" "I am going to Berlin and Paris to study music." i "What!" I said. "After all your world . renowned successes in music, going ; to study?" Then she told me through what hard, ships, through what self denials, through what almost killing fatigues, she toad gone in order to be a sineer. and that When in her earlier days a great teacher- of music, bad told her, there were certain notes she could nev er reach, she said. "I will reach them,' and through doing nothing else but practice for Ave years she did reach them. Oh, how many heroes and hero ines of musical achievement!, There are songs Which are easy to hear, but most difficult to render. When Handel, with a new -oratorio, entered a rojewn . where a . group of musicians had assemibled and said, "Gentlemen, you all read mu sic?" They said, "Yes, we play In church." "Very well," said the great composer. "Play this." But the per formance wag so poorly done Handel stopped his ears and said: "You play in church! Very well, for we read the Lord is long suffering, of great kind ness, and forgiving of iniquity, trans gression and sin. But you shall not play for me." Pure music, whether .fin gered on instrument or trilled' from hu man lips, is most difficult. But one of the easiest "songs to learn is the song of the drunkards. Anybody can learn it. In a little while you can touch the highest note of conviviality or the low est note of besottedness. Begin moder up and down the street the voices join- ately, a sip here and a sip there. Ber ed in the ooxorogy. JVtay jou bikhi.uk. day when the song of rescue and sal vation shall drown with an overwhelm ing surge this mighty song of the drunkards! . . t A SUGGESTIVE SONG. gin with claret, go-on with ale and wind up with cognac. First take the stimu lant at a wedding, then take it at meals, then take it between meals, then all the time keep your pulse under its stealthy touch. In six months the dull est sciholar in this Apollyonic music Again, the! song of the drunkard" is j may become an expert. First it will b a suggestive song. lOU near a nurseiy siuimipn in- a nicccniE'n. Alter awraie ii refrain, and i right away you think of .will be heard in a sPJy ha. ha! Further your childhood home, and brothers and on it wifll become a wild whoop. Then it sisters with whom you played, and , will ena'ble you to run ud and down the mnthw lone- sdnce eone to rest You five lines of the musical scale infernal. hear a national air, and you think of j Then ymi will have mastered it the th encamrjment of 1863, and the still night on the river bank, and the cam fires that shook their reflections up and down the faces of the regiment. You hear an old church tune and you are reminded, of; the revival scenes amid which you were brought to God. Noth ing so brings up associations as a song sung or played upon instrument "id the drunkards' song is full of sugges tion. As you hear it on the street quite late some night you begin to say to yourself: ?I wonder if he has a moth er? Is his wife waiting for him? Will his children be frightened when - - en ters the front door and staggers, whooping, up the stairs? What chance is there for that young man, started so early on the down grade? Ii what business will he succeed? How long hefnre that man" will rim through his property? I wonder how he got, so far i astray? Can' any influence De wieiura to fetch him back? He must have got , intr had comDanv who led him off." j So vou soliloouize and euess abou this man whose voice you hear on the street under the starlight. Notice that the second noun of my text is in the plural. Not "drunkard " but drunkards."; It would be dni1 work to sing that song solitary and alne. It is generally S a chorus. They are n groups. On that downward way there must be comnanionship. Here and there is a man so mean as always to drink alone,! but generous men, big hearted men, drinking at bar or in res taurant or in clubhouse, feel mortinen song of the drunkards. ' NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN. The most skillful way is to adopt the modern theory and give the intoxicant to your children, saying to yourself, "They will in after life meet j the intox icants everywhere, and they unust get used to seeing them and tasting them and controlling their appetites." That is the best way of teaching them the song of the drunkards. Keep up that mode of education, and if you have four boys at least three of them will learn the drunkard's song and lie down In a drunkard's grave, and if j ever laid a wager I would lay a wagei that the fourth will lie down with the other three. Or if the education of the children in this music should be neg lected, it is not too late to begin at 2l years of age. The young man will find plenty of young men who drink. They are in every circle to be found. Surely, my boy, you are not 'a coward and afraid of it? Surely you are ,not going to 'be hindered by sumptuary laws or the prejudices of your old father and mother? They are behind the times. Take something. Take it often. Some o the grea'test poets ' and orators have been notorious imibibers. If you are to enter a parlor, it makes you more viva cious and Chesterfleldian. If you are to transact business, your customer ii' apt to buy more if you have taken with him a sherry cobbler. If you art' to make a speech, it win give you ri was going out of chufch wlterje there was a great . awakening, "Why .. don't you sign the pledge?" He janawered, I have signed It 20 times and iwilf never sign it again." "Why, then,l( said the gentleman talking to him, "Hon't you go up and kneel at that altar, amkl those other penitents?" He took the advice and went and knelt.: After awhile a little girl, in rags and soaked with the rain, looked in the ichurch door, and some.one said, "What are you doing here, little girl?" Stte J said: please, sir, I heard as my father Is here. Why, that is my father up there, kneel ing now." She went up andi put her arms around her father's neck and said,. "Father what are -doing here?? And he said, "I am asking God tf forgive me." Said she, "If he forgives you, will we be happy again?'' '?Ys, my dear." "Will we have enough to eat again?" "Yes, my dear." "i-f will you never strike us again V f'No, my child." "Wait here," said sh,. nill I go and call mother," And spon the child came with the mother, it id the mother, kneeling with her husband, said: "Save me too! Save m i!" And the Lord heard the prayers at that altar, and one of the. happiest homes in England is the horoe over which that father and mother iow lov ingly preside. So, if in this serro" I have warned others against a dissipat ed life, with the fact that so few re turn after they have- once gohf astrn.y, for the encouragment of those who would like to return I tell yjui God wants you to come back, every ne of you. and to come back now, aids more tenderly and lovingly than any mother ever lifted a sick child out of aj aradl. and folded it in her arms, andferooned over it a lullaby, and rocked if to and fro, the Lord will take you ud 4-f fold you in the arms of his pardoning love. There's a wideness in God's mercy, Like the wideness of the sea: f There's a kindness in his Justice,? 'Which is more than liberty. j Wilmington" Marke' Si. I tyi U. bales. ear ' COTTON REPORTS, Wilmington, N. C, Januai Receipts of cotton today 456 Receipts corresponding day last 1,032 bales. This season's receipts to date-r-211,488 bales. I Heceipts to same date last I year 140,900 bales. " f The quotations posted at 4 o'clock to- i day at the exchange: Cotton firm. Ordinary .'. Good ordinary ......... Low middling... Middling Good middling Prices same day last year, 7c. NAVAL STORES. Spirits turpentine Nothing diifig. Rosin firm at $1.40 and $1.45. Tar steady at $1.00. Crude turpentine firm, hardS soft $1.80. Prices . same day last yer -Spirits turpentine 29c and 28c; rosiji 5 $1.35 and $1.40; tar 95c; crude turpentine $1.40 and $1.80. - . ' Receipts today 59 casks spirits; tur pentine, 1,178 barrels rosin. ?55 barrels tar, 8 barrels crude turpentine. 1 Receipts same day last yiear 6 casks snirits turpentine, 746 parrels rosin, 115 barrels tar, 13 barrels frude turpentine. j. 4 5 1 6 6 15-16 $1-30; tr take thp beverasre unaccompanied. glibber tongue. Gluck could compose There must be some one with whom to his 'best music by having his pianc click the rim of the srlasses, some one s health to propose, some sentiment to toast. There must be two, and sjill better of four; and still better if six. to eive zest to the song of the drunkards. Those who have gone down co"1 " tlon the name of at least one who help ed them down. Generally it Is me one who was a little hieher u- in social life or in financial resources, our friend felt flattered to have an invita tion from one of superior name. Each one drank riot only when he f like it, but when the other felt like it. Neither wanted to seem lacknsr in so ciality when he Was invited. So 100.000 men every year are treated into hell. Together are they menacled of "'"'1 habit, together they travel toward their doom, toe-ether thy mane merry over the cowardice or Puritariacl sentiment of those who never indulge, together thy Join their voices in the song of the drunkards. If the owe proposes to stop, the other will not. let him stoD. When men are getting down themselves, they do not want their associates to turn back. Those who turn back will be the scoff and caricature of those who keep on, and there will be. conspiracy to bring them back to, their. old places and their old .environment, and so have them renew the song of the drunkards. There was a tragedy in New York Sep tember, 1845. A man of marvelous nat ural gifts had, after arriving from his home in England, fallen into dissipated habits and, being a fine singer as well as Impersonator, entertained "stiv a barroom group at Newberyport.Boston and New York, but, by the grace of God and the kindness of one Joel Stratton, had been rscued and took the platform for temperance and moved vast au diences toward a better life. "Destroy was so rife among the Lacedaemonians him," said some of his old associates, An Xmas Riddle. Kvhat' pift will be oeSt icrl your father and iWh.it pift will be best for your teau and your j brother? i '"; ' ' ' J '.For pleasure ftnd comfort nnd prod Smas cneer 'j-Boy a pair of the-Slippes St. Nick bouht this I- "vrnr. ' , . 1 - ! . i P.'.r n linlM'ir rrcwnt. 'thnt.'will be ik ronslfint .source of comfort iind pleasure try a pair of our CJiMitiemen's Tan Slippers at l, fl.-an ri-.. I.Uramlrhf nor I'niSpt. Klinnprs at 2. Sel lit S lt2.:-. Cloth Flannel Linod Nulliners for LadU an l (lontlempn ut itlL'Si i r : .Ju-t received Ludirs' Jlisses'.and Children s i-; Black Jbrsey Lt-pphiR, ftenvy wipnt. for Cold ! -weather. Por uscful-'aud desirable presents 1 give us a call :':. - : Ml Freiidi 8 Son DISSOLUTION. rJTH? FIRM OF DIVINE &i CHADBOUEN iias this day been.dissni-ed by mutual consent j Tke business of,P lintk. i!s,' Sash, Doors and Blinds will bb contiau-.'i by the firm, of M. W L DIVINE & CD-.to whom all h--bts 4ue the bid JTmm arp -utirr.hlei 1 i "Havjng retired from-the jflrm of Divine & ghadbOuri I solibitforj my Successors, M. W.! ;IVINE & O ., the same generous patronage which has always been bestowed on us. , ";.' I). ' '" -. C C, CHADBOUR.X. i ilmlogtoa, N. C Dec. 81, 1696. jan 1 1m ' that Lycurgus- had all the vines of the vineyards destroyed. Paul" excoriates the Corinthians for turning the com munion of the Lord's supper at church into' a carousal, saiah" mentions the drunkards of Ephriam.'So much were the Athenians given to wassail that! a law was passed giving a man double punishment for the crim while Intox icated, the first punishment for the crime and" the other for the intoxica tion. It was a staccato passage in that. song when Alexander the Great rose from a banquet and struck a spear through the heart of Clitus while nut ting up the curtains, and, horrified t what was done, withdrew the sword from the dead body and attempted to take his own life. In the time of Oliver Cromwell the. evil was so great that offenders were compelled to wear -hat was called "the drunkard's cloa7 namely, a barrel" with one end ofj.it knocked out and a hole in the opposite end, the arms thrust through holes at the sides of the. barrel. Samuel John son made merry of his own" inebriacv. Oh. this old song!. All the -' centuries have joined in. Among the -first songs ever sung was the song of the d -1'-- ards. . i IT IS EXPENSIVE. Again, this song of the drunkards is an expensive song. The Son n tags and the Parepa .Rosas and Nilssons, and 'the other Tenderers of elevated and di vine solos received their thousands of dollars per night in coliseums and academies of music. Some of the peo ple of small means almost pauperized themselves that they might sit a few evenings under the enchantment of those angels! of sweet sounds. I paid $7 to hear Jenny Land sing when it Was not very easy to afford, the J7. Very expensive is such music, but the cost liest song on earth is the drunkard's song. It cost ruin of body. It.costsj ruin of mind. It costs ruin of soul. Go right down among the residential streets of anv city and you can hnd once Deauii ful and luxurious r homesteads that were expended in this destructive mu sic Th lisrhts nave gone out in the drawT ing room, and piianos, have ceased the Tnlation of their Jteys, me waruroue Lbas lost its last article appropriate att ro Trie neisnazia.reH.il m- "- left nothing but the broken pieces of nvshfVl chalics. t There It stad3, fh5 gbtliest thing on earth, the rem nant of a drunkard's home. The costli est thing on erth 4s sin. The most ex nplve of att nwsjie is the song of the 5 , Ms. It is the -bifihest tariff of drunkaxT1"' ' Jv gT M a the assassins, cuts the zrj' neieMt wounds of the hospital, m&n. the ry most of the alms houses, caw most of the ravings of the insane asy lum, and puts up most of the iron bars of the penitentiaries. It has its hand today on the throat of the American republic. It is the taskmaster of na tions, and the human race crouches iinrlr its anathema. Tie sone of the drunkards has for Its accompaniir..en f the clank of chains, the chattering teeth of poverty, the rattle of execu tioner's scaffold, the creaking door of the deserted home, the crash of ship wrecks and the groans of empires. The and they set ai trap for his feet, now do vou do, Mr. Gough?" said one on the street in New York. He nrete- - ' to be an old acquaintance, and sain 1 suDDOse you are so pious now and have got to, be so proua inaj. you win drink 1 a glass or soaa waier wun a" oirl shinmate." "Oh.- yes," said Mr. Gough, "I will drink a glass ot soaa nrc for- with nnvbodv. I will drinK a class with VOUi" . ' I - ' They went uown Chambers street to Chatham street and into a place where "Best Soda" was announced at me rinnr. After some delay there was handed to him a glass of soda water staid to be flavored with raspberry; out. alas. It was rum. that flew to his brain uTiri spnt him throueh the street an in sane man, and weeks passed before he came to himself and implored the par don of the Christian church that he had joined and resumed his wondrous fnr find and riehteousness. But nil th e-rnsrshoos and places of -"esi patlon rang with merriment at the temporary downfall. All the grogshops and wine cellars i or America wok up with new voice and new gusto and new enthusiasm and : hew diabolism the song of the drunkards. -: EFFECT OF A SONG. r There looms up in my memory one of the best and noblest friends I ever naa. He had been for 30 years a consistent member of the church. I knew not that at about 21 years of age he had ""ow ed the sea and' habits of inebriacy had been fixd upon him. But converted to God he began a new life. Yet it was a 30 years war against the old appetite, but about this' struggle I kenw nothing until he was dead. While absent dur ing my summer vacation I receiyer" -telegram announcing his death and asking me to come and officiate at his obsequies. I arrived at the moment the service was Uo begin and had not much time to make inquiries about his last hours. In my remarks, wthout anv 'limitations, I extolled his virtues while living and spoke of the heavenly rap tures into which he had entered. Af terward I foynd that he had died of de liruim tremens in the hospital, because he was so violent he could not be suffi ciently restrained in his " - beautiful home. He had been seized in the street with violent pains of body and went into an apothecary store to get medical relief. Something there piven him set on fire his old apetite for strong drink, ' and, utterly, irresponsible, he went from liquor store to liquor store, until, a raving maniac, the officers of the law bound him and took him to the hospital, where he died. Some time after I said to the doctor in the hospital. "Of what did he die?" And the answer was, "Congestion of. the braih," J said: '.'poctor I want to know th bottom f4 f ? """J11? pastor, and he was, of the best riend I ever had, Was It delirium .mmfi And tha doctor resnanded. treme., T m that' n his obse "Yes." Iia - 'Ved his virtues and. quies 1 naa exwi- . Unon which sooken of the heavenly jo, 8 he had en t erred? wo. x uu that my friend Was any more respon w nt hla taking off than a typhoid fever patient to6"" is responsible for leaping eut; of the fourth story window. But while, W were heartbroken about his going away. I thing that in the saloons, to those taken into the midst of a meadow, and a bottle . of champagne placed on each side of tbJim. The earlier you begin tc learn the song of the drunkards the easier 'it i3, but none of youare toe i old to learn. You can begin at 50 or 60 under prescription of a doctor- for aids to digestion or breaking Up of infirma- ties, and close life by gendering the song of the drunkards mo well that all pandemonium will encore the perform ance and want it again and again, Furthermore, the last characteristic of -the drunkard's song is so trenien dous that I can hardly bring myself Co mention it. The drunkards' song is a continuous song. Once start that tune: and you keep it up. You have known .a. hundred men destroyed of strong drink! You cannot mention five who got fully started on that road and stopped. The grace of God can do anything, but if does not do everything. Religion saves some. Temperance societies save some. The Bowery mission saves some. The Central mission saves some. But 100,000 who are annually slain 'by strong drink are not saved at all. , I have been at a concert-which went on for two hours and a half, and many people got up and left because It was too long. But 95 per cent, of those who are singing the drunkards song will to the last breath of their lungs ana the last beat of their hearts keep on rendering it, and the galleries of earth and heaven and hell wwi stay niiea With the astounded spectators. It ia such a continuous and prolonged sont( that one feels like making the prayei which a reformed inebriate once made: "Almighty God! If it be thy will thaf man should suffer, whatever seemet good in thy sight impose upon me. Le-, the bread of affliction be given me t eat. Take from me the friends of mi confidence. Let the cold hut of povertj be my dwelling place and the wasting hand of disease inflict its painful tor ments. Let me sow in the whirlwind and reap in the storm. Let those have me in derision Who are younger tnan x. Let the passing away of my welfare be like the fleeting of - a cloud, and the shouts of my enemies like, the rushing of waters. When I anticipate good; let evil annoy me. When I 100k for light let darkness come upon me. Let the terrors of death be ever before me .LM all this, but- save me, merciful God! Save me from the fate of a drunkard Amen!" j . ' A WORD FOR PREVENTION. You see this sermon is not so much for cure as for prevention. Stop before you strat, if you will forgive the sole cism. The clock of St. Paul's cathedral struck 13 one midnight, and sn saved the life of a sentinel. The soldier was arrested and tried for falling asleep at his Dost one midnight. But he declared that he was awake at midnight, and in proof that he was awake he said that he had heard the unusual occurrence of the clock striking 13 instead of ". He was laughed to scorn and sentenced to death. But three or four persons, hearing of the case, came up in time to swear that they, too, heard the clock strike 13 that same midnight, and so the man's life was spared. My hearer, if you go on and thoroughly learn the drunkards'' song, perhaps in the deep midnight of your soul there may sound something that will effect your moral and eternal rescue. But it is a risky "perhaps." It is exceptional. Go. ahead on that wrong roaa. and the CiOck will more probably strike the 12 that closes your day of opportunity than that it will strike 13, the sound of your deliv erance. : " ' A few Sabbaths ago on the stens of this church a man whom I had known in other years confronted me. At the first glance 1 saw that he was in the fifth and last act of the tragedy of in temperance. Splendid even in his ruin The same brilliant eye, and the same courtly manners,and the remains of the same Intellectual endowments, but a wreck. I had seen that craft when it plowed the waters, all sails set and run- nine by true compass: wire and cnn dren and friends on board, himself commanding in a voyage that he ex pected" would be glorious, putting into prosperous.harbors of earth and at last putting into the harbor 01 heaven, nut now a wreck, towed along by low ap petites, that ever and anon run him into the breakers a wreck of body, a wreck of mind, a wreck of soul. "Where is your wife?" "I do not know." "Where are your children?" "I d not know." "Where is your God?," ', "J do not know.',' That man is coming to the last .verse of that long cantata, that protracted threnody, that terrific song of the drunkards. ' '. ' ' i BE TIIB EXCEPTION. ' ' -But lf these words should come-rfor-you know the largest audience I reach I never see at all I say if these words should come, though at the' ends of the earth, to any fallen man, let me say to him: Be the exception to the gener al rule and turn and live, while I re call fft you & scene In England, where some one said to an Inebriate as he r .... . r Markets by Telegraph. FINANCIAL. j New York, January 11. Money on call easy at 12 per cent.; last j loan at 13$ and closed offered at 14 per jeent. Prime mercantile paper 34 per ?cent. Bar silver 64. Sterling exchange firmer with actual business ip bttskers bills at $4.84J4.84 for sixtyi ays, and $4.87$4.87 for demahd.'Posted rates $4.85$4.88. Commercial bills at S4.83ff$4.84. Government bonds steady; state bonds dull; railroad bonds feasier. Silver at the board was neglecteidJ Treasury balances: Coin 1122,568,371; currency $49,501,493. STOCKS AND BONDS. orlh faolfle do ofd northwestern XMJS S do pra Paotdo Mall, Reading Bock Island st Paul ....'... do pf d Hi I Cfirttniwtfts Ten n Coal Atro do vrd . Texan Paclho Union Padua .4.6 it- Am Cotton Oil 12V Am " Oil piu &4 Am8utr Renn 111J prd 101 Am Tobacco 78 " pfd ... 104 AT & Sant FV..13X Bait 4 hlo.....'4 Oan Palnc.....&o Ohesa 4 Ohio 17 Onto A AJton...16i lo.Bnr Qoln.7lir O to Gas Trust . 74 D -I Lack &Wst.l55 D 1 Cat Peed'a. E te ,.14 do Ofd .33 i Gn Electric. H IdoIb Cen ...JtZX L Srie& West..., 17 in pfd .4 68 Like 8hore..M149 L -a & Nash 4Y li-ia.N.Al&Chlo Manhattan Con.87tf Mem A Charl ....'5 Mlobtttan Cent. ..SO Missouri Paclfic...i0 Mobile & Ohio... 20 V Chat & 8t U .. 67X U 8 Cordage....-... io ora NJ Cent.... m N Y Central 83 NY NEni ... 4d Norfk & W prl.i5X D, 8 new 4's re130K; do conponr tsked. tbld, tax dl v, -ller. J3 23 V t6 ?4W Laox 4 v, a HO 9 Wabwh j C X do pfd ...4-l5 Western Union4 Wheel & L. sirm 5X do prd Ala uiaaa lui AU Class Bi.IU3 Ala Class C .. M Loan's 8l&mp 4' 94 N Carolina 4'bi.lOl N Carolina 6's-l. Si Ten N Set 3's Vaffs derd ... VsTst KeStamtf Va Fnnd Debt.4 U 9 coupon 4 U8!fs Hoataem By B' aonth Ky oum -Its do pf 'a 8 C new 1st 4'b. to II , a Sa4 3U) y JUly 25c, 25c 259c t259cir Sep tember 2G, 27c, 26C, 26c- ... - S Oats January 15c 15c. 15c. c; May 18c, 18c, 1894c Pork January S7.75, $7.75. J7.75. S7.75: May J7.95. $8.05. $7.90, $8. Lard January $3.92, $3.97, $3.92. $3.97; May $4.05, $4.12, $4.05, $4.12. Xvids January J4.05. $4.05. $4.05. $4.0j: May $4.07, $4.15. $4.07. $4.12. casn quotations were as follows: Flour quiet, easy, unchanged: No. 2 spring wheat 7778c; No. 2 red 86 87c; No. 2 corn 2222c; No. 2 oats I5el6c: mess pork $7.803J7.85: lard $3.92$3.96; short ribs $3.90$4.15; dry salted shoulders $4.25$4.50; short clear sides $4.25$4.87; whiskey $1.18. - New York. Ja.nua.rv 11 Trinii.. nnu steady; winter wheat, low grades $2.80 3ff.4o; ao iair to rancy 3.55J4.90; for patents $5.25; Minnesota $3.50$4.00; patents S4.50pS5.Z5: low extras 12S0tfS $3.45: southern dull, stead v. common to fair'extra $3.30$3.65; good to choice do $3.75$4.05. I Wheat Spot j market dull, eas'er: closing steady;; f. o. b. 97c; ungraded red 7898c. Options moderately active opd weak at llc decline; No. 2 red, January 889ic: March 9014c: May ?6c: July 82c. Corn Spots quiet; -weaker: No. 2. ""Sc elevator: 2930c afloat: steamer mixed 28c: No. I 3.' 27c: steamer yel low 28c. Options were dull and weak it Ac decline; January 28c: May 10c; July 31c. . Oats Spots dull, -quiet, steady: 00- tions dull, easier; January 22c: Febru vry 22c: May 227c. Soot prices No. 22.- o. 2 White 24c: mixed west ern 2224e. I Lard Quiet, stronsr. western steam 4.0; city at $3.R0: January $4.20 noml- -,1: refined firmer: - continent 14.55: "th American $4.55; compound 4 c. I Pork Ouiet. firm: sales 200 barrels: nw mens $8.25$8.75. Ke-ers Weaker;, state and Pennlv- "anta 17(fPJ8tc: Ice house 14flc: estern freh ifif)l6cr southern 150 1ft: limed 14"14Uc. Cotton Sped vi Firm; crude 20c: H'nw pHme 23"fJ)4c. yle Firm. fr dmnnd- d"mstic to e-rtra "'.ec: Janan 4ifj)c. Molassex Ouiet; New Orien ooen -ftle. rnnd to rhoice, new 2534c. M4.HjaM . . f A - -intj down: .T"rv Mroh $1 5? soko: Mfv w ctw3.5: July 70: re- "o"Vior .7'F PR; Spot Rio dull. rJo. 7. lOUc. . ?oo-ar Paw, iill. ptdvr fnir r- ''"Inir f. 1S-1fir: refined r-ii'p-t- No A nni .-H A. 4?ilio- ;ptj)Tinr A 4Y? . cut 'oaf 5c; crued Po: ss.nnl.ted 4c. ! NAVAL STORES. New York Rosin steady; strained. common to good $1.70$1.72. Turpen tine quiet at 2728c. , . Savannah Turpentine closed steady at 25c; sales 118; receipts 294. Rosin arm; sales 7,000; receipts 5,887. A B C D IE F $1.50; G $1.55$1.57; H $1.65: I $1J75$1.80; K $1.80; M $1.85; N' $1.90; W G $2.05; W W $2.35. . Shipping ! intelligence. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Steamer Oneida, Chichester, George town, H. G.. Smallbones. British schooner Willman Hall, Kiiowlton. Havanax Geo. Harriss. Son & Co. CLEARED YESTERDAY. Steamer Oneida, Chichester, New York, H. G. Smallbones. EXPORTS COASTWISE. For New York, per steamer Oneida, 1 "00 bales of cotton, 264 casks spirits turpentine, 100 barrels tar, 40 bags pea nuts, 100 packages merchandise. VESSELS IN PORT. STEAMERS. s. Moorby, (Br.),; 1,673 tons, LOwrie, South Shields, Alex Sprtint & Son. Crathorne, (Br.), 1,695 tons, Lewis, Las Palmas, Alex Sprunt , & Son. BARKS, j !arl (Ger.), 574 tons, Byer, Barbadoes, Paterson, Downing & Go. ' Audhill, (Nor.), 448 tons, ' Aas, Gars ton, Paterson, Downing & Co. schooners; j orancy. (Am.). 160 tons. Torrey. Chirleston, J. T. Riley & Co. Lucia Porter; (Am.), 362 tons, Farrow, Port au Prince, Geoi Harriss, Son & Co. W. C. WIckhami (Am.), 316 tons, Ewan. New York.. Geo. Harriss. Son & Co. - - r i ' ' Ida, C: Schoolcraft, (Am.), 306 tons, Bowye,- New York. Geo. Harriss. Son & Co', i . '. ! Meeosta, (Am.), 187 tons. Stratton. Hayti for New York, put In In distress, Ged. Harriss, Son; & Co. Eva A. Dananhour, (Am.). 217 tons. Johnson, Baltimore, Geo. Harriss. Son & Co Adelia r I . NORTH CAROLINA. The Express learns! that there is a prooaDiHty that the Tyson & Jone buggy shops will be moved from Car thage to Atlanta. Mrs. A. E. Bagwell, mother of Revi J. T. BagwelL D. D.. of the North Car olina conference, ? died In Alamance county on Thursday. The executive pom-mi rtoa mr hn. f trustees of the Baptist orphanage " " l"fX l lf orphanage, Thomas ville, N. C. on Wednesday, the 27th day of January. The Statesville Landmark sr.ys that Captain A. D. Cowl es will ask Gov ernor Russell to appoint him adjutant general. The Landmark says "he woulo fill the place admirably.' vSfT111' Reflector: Out In Mr. T. A. Nichols' neighborhood, In Beaver Dam township, there is a sensation. ' The cause is the rather peculiar action of several wells. Since tbe December snow three wells in the same vicinity hav gone to boiling. All over the bottom oi the wells the water bolls and bubble-i like a pot, and there Is an accompany ing singing noise that lean be heard some distance away from the wells. The: boiling seems to have no effect at all on the water, neither changing thq temperature nor muddying it; Some ot the neighbors don't know what to think of the wells and are getting uneasy about them. Raleigh News and Observer :For- syth'a $50,000 noiitt hraiu pletM Friday. The first court will be "em; m tc next week. President Thompson has called a meet- InCf Of th d'irA0f-O-l nf . CalAlml, Electric Company to decide the ques tion of rebuilding and equipping tho street car system. Mr. Thompson says that if the nw tnisfTiooa re fKA department amounts to 2,000 lights, he wm urge cne oirectors to put up the best j equipped lighting and . street oar system In the fltat?. a hrtir hniMiT,o With1 iron roof, will be erected and the equipment ror both lights and cars will be secured. A. H. Prince, of Vance: who graduated at the Agricultural ano Mechanical college, has been elected superintendent of th farm nf fho. ford orphan asylum. - Charlotte Observer: During; the year 1896 209 licenses were issued to white couples and 236 to colored people. The negroes are aihead by a small majority- -During the year corporation pa pers were Issued to ten companies.- The negro boy. Manual Adams, son oi Rufus Adams, who was knocked from the trestle between Mint and Graham streets Thursday night, is in a critical condition. He has a hole punched in his back and is very badly bruised up. He was sinking when last heard from. Friday Dr. Ephriam Brevard was elected physician for the St. Peter's hospital. Drs. Misenheimer and Gib bon "hod resigned.- Application will be made to . the general assembly oi this state for a charter for a new bank, the parent office of which will be in Charlotte, wiCh the privilege of estab lishing branches throughout the state, after the Canadian system, which has been so successful and advantageous to business interests in the provinces Charlotte Observer: Marion, January 8. Colonel John Finley Morphew, ond oft the most prominent criminal law yers in the state, died at Marion o i Friday at 3:30 a. m. He was about 42 years old, and had appeared in more homicide cases than any lawyer of his age in the state. Late Friday nife'hi there came to The Observer afflce the interesting information that the next United States senator from North Car olina will be -Professor Oliver Hinson Dockery, and along with this an ad monition to watch the professor.- Rev. R. Z. Johnston has been pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lincoln ton twenty-five years. The anniversa ry is to be celebrated the 8th, 9th anJ 10th. Hon. Thomas Settle telegraphs us from Washington in reference to an editorial paragraph in Thursday's pa per that 4ils, name has never been thought of in connection with the clerkship of the house, except, perhaps, by our correspondent, ad will not be so used. W Carlton. (Am.). 208 tons. Wall, Charleston, Geo. Harriss,; Son .& co. Robert A. Snow bury, Charleston. ciit ' ' ... u j. sawyer. (Am.). 288 tons, Kelly, New York, Geo. Harriss. Son & Co. Willman Hall, (Br.), 136 tons, Knowl- HaVana, GeoJ Harriss, Son & Co. (Am.), 165 tons, Pills Geo. Harriss. Son & ton. COTTON. j! Liverpool, January 11. 12:,30 pi m. Cotton Demand fair; prices easier; American middling 4 l-16d; sales (2,000; American 11,300; speculation and ex ports 1,500; receipts 42,100, all American. Futures opened quiet, demand moder ate. I ! American middling, low middling clause January 4d, 3 63-64d; January and February 4 63-64d, 4 62-fl4d; fcteoru- arv and March 3 62-64d: Mai ctl t and April 3 63-64d, 3 62-64d, 3 61-64d; (April and May 3 6364d. 3 62-64d: Mat and June, June and July 4d, 3 63-64d3 July and August 4 l-64d, 4d; August: and September 4L Futures quiet; tenders none. 4 p. m. January . 3 62-64d stfllers; Ja.nua.rv and February. Februarys and March, March and April 3 60-64dJ 3 61- 64d buyers; April and May 3 61-64d)TJuy-ers; May and June 3 62-64d sailers; June and July 3 62-64d; August: and September 3: 61-64d buyers; September and October (unofficial) 3 59-64d5 val ues; October and November (umojfl cial) 3 57-64d values. Futures fclosed barely steady. - New York, January 11. Cotton fjuiet? middling 7c; net receipts 62; gross re ceipts 6,422; exports to Great Britain 9,339; to France 1,094; to the ,conanent 50; forwarded 1,820; sales 3,103; spin ners 769; stock (actual) 291,900. . S .Total today: Net receipts SOS: ex ports to Gseat Britain 34,929; to France 1,094; to t&fe continent 17.464; t the channel none; stock 1469,992. Total so far this week: Net receipts 50,623; exports to Great Britain 38,051; to France 22,237; to the continent 24, 264; to the channel none; stock nne. Total since September' 1st: Neit re ceipts 5,133,704; exports to Great SBrit ain 2,029,837; to France 445,320; tto the continent 1,190,900; .to the channel none; stock none. 1 Cotton futures closed barelv sttady; sales 187.800 bales; January 6.90: Feb ruary 6.93; March 7.01: April 7-07 :LMay 7.14: June 7.19; July 7.24: AugustS7.26: Pentember 7.00; October 6.94; November 6.95. , PORT RECEIPTS. Galveston Firm . at 7c; nltreieipts 7.607: cross receipts 7.621. 1 Norfolk Steady at 6c; net receipts 3,558. , Baltimore Nominal at 7c. p Boston Dull at 7c; net receipts 1, 143; gross receipts 3,534. I Wilmington Firm at 6c; net re ceipts 458. Philadelphia Dull at 7c; net re ceipts 99. . I Savannah Quiet at 6c; net recSeipts 1,580. I New Orleans Quiet at 7c; ne re ceipts 11,394; gross receipts 11,937. Mobile Quiet at 6c; net receipts 3, 594. - i. v - Memphis Steady at 6T4c; net receipts 2,538; gross recelots 3,481. I Ausrusta Steady at 7 l-16c; ne re celots ?83; gross receipts 696. I Charlwton Firm at 65ic: net; re- ceints 994. Cincinnati Steady at 7c; net redeipts 1.007. ,:- : -.-:-': louiBviile Ouiet at 634c St. Lnis-rPtendy st 15-Hc; nei re celnts 394; gross tH;elpt 963. , Houston Steady at. 7g; net jeceipts ; grains: pRnYTSTcNs. etp Chicago, ; January 11. The leadljig fnt-nren were, as foltnwsr ; Ope ing. rilfho!t. lnwwt and closing: -K Wheat January 77c. .775 c. T7MC, 77;c : Mav softo. ROHc. ROc, 80c; July 76Hff?i4c 76c 75c. 75c ,. "4 , Corn January 2?4c. . ?2c, ' i?c, 22c; May 24c, 24c 4c, 24c; New York Stock Market. i New York, January 11. During the greiter part of the day speculation at the stock exchange was characterized by extreme dullness and, with rare ex-, ceptions, the' fluctuations Were too slight to call for extended comment. At the opening quotations were frac tionally, higher in sympathy with a small advance in London,- but almost immediately the traders showed a dis position to sell, partly in anticipation of a vote by the house adverse to the Pacific railroad funding bill. Union Pacific was pressed for sale right from thel start, and although London bought moderately the .stock fell 1 to 6, closing at the lowest ' point on the definite announcement from Washing ton! that the funding bill had been de feated. The other .'declines of import ance were 1 in j Manhattan to 87 on the feait that the) hearing in the Hen- aricKS case Deioife the state railway commission may result in disclosures unfavorable to jthe company, 3 in Wheeling and Lake Erie, preferred, 2 in Lackawanna. 1 in American Spirits preferred, 1 in Jersey Central, 1 in Big Four and 1! in General Electric. Illinois Steel, on ithe other hand, rose from 311 to 36.j The sharp drop in Union Pacific and some of the special tie Just named had comparatively lit tle krffect on the general market, which, towards the closej rallied to . Sug ar being especially firm desoite a furth er cut by the company's new coffee es tablishment at Tolrio St Paul a Ian held well, considering the unfavorable ihowiner made by the company for the first week of the current month. The totffl transact'ons were 1?6.68 shares. Speculation closed steady In tone. The bond market was irreeti'ar In tone. The total sales were $1,211 000. Tho Chloaa-o Market. Chicago, January 11. The wheat market encountered a good demand 4n stead of dislodging any May at $0 cents today. The (theory that sfqp loss orders to sell at the figure mentioned would be plentiful encouraged bear n aucra iu use extraordinary enae&vors to reach that price, but the theory was disproved by the developments. The preponderance of news was in the bull's fayor, but bearish sentiment was rampant a,n& consequently- prices de clined. It is claimed that the recent heavy exports of j corn and compara tively moderate o-rnorta of wltaof plains the true inwardness of the weak ness in the latter grain. 1 Cash wheat was! weak and lc lower. The corn market moved In Its usual slow and dignified manner: Cash corn was easy and c lower, if Oats imbibed weakness from wheat prices sagging a little. , The amount of business transacted was fair, but not large enough to 'attract unusual attention;- Cash oat$ were steady with no essential change fn prices. A I downward trend was communi cated to provisions by a decline In the hog market. - The weakness of wheat wasj likewise, an " adverse speculative1 Influence. There was fair buying to wards the close, on which prices re covered. .The demand came from pack ers and shorts generally. May pork closed 2 to 5c higher.. May lard 5c higher and May ribs 2c higher. -'.-H"-,a ' The Best Saiv n the world for Outs Bruises. Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever Sores.- Tetter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains. Ccrms, fnd all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay. required. , It is guaranteed to giv perfect satisfaction or money H.if,j. ed. Price 25 cents per bom. For sale by R. R. Bensmy. ; '-rd ' -. 'r 'V .T A jl r xs uiicn catisea ,-tp by overheat. As you f twux tuua ouu aciuuciat . your plates, your elassesriceeo theui ' out of boiline water. 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I - Net Mirpla In th Unl"l 8tnfa, . 1 i 1 J ' whjrthe RY XsX SFBA V B CO, of LI v-rpool, Sbonld be p bkuauje it 's tn- KtrofKFg Fit- I Burafcec Company, '. i II hM8 I arieM SoralUS r n h V P- IninnitM famnanv i I owm more Keal Kb ate In UuiU H. ban any other 1re ioa. Co.i jv i-iici-, rvniiij uiiicnu oj any r ire inaaranet oraiiany, in artdit on io the Re nri'y siven by ROYAL'H vast rsb Arseta all of ar indiv.auaUT r-fD0D8iblH ror Its I lahintrea h t- nVAl tu tmnn.t. p ylng ttie Policy Uoinrs for Icwes lhelajraeBBe amonDt of Ovei OnsHaudrj WALKER TAYLOR, Office Exrhnc Bolldlnjr. Telphoa 63. j Man's First Occupation (New York Journal.) Somebody has asked which, -was the oldest sport,- and started a discussion that has already put the antiquity of games beyond the middle ages. Hunt ing and fighting Were primitive man's chief occupation. These, as civilization developed, were gradually converted from being - means of livelihood into pastimes. But it ia impossible to tell exactly when the change took place, for it is not even yet complete, and what is sport to the squire and amateur is necessary work to the gamekeeper and professional soldier. NImrod, Noah's great grandson, was a "mighty hunter before the Lord," and as he was a "mighty one in the earth," he probably hunted for pleas ure, xnis is the oldest record or a sport. The stag' and Its kind which make the greatest demand on the skill and endurance of the hunter, would proba bly be the first animals pursued for pleasure. To hunt the lion was kingly sport from the earliest times. The Egyptian monuments show that all kinds of hunting, as well as fowl ing, were followed for pleasure. Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas,, of Junction City, 111., was told by her doctors sha had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr King's' New Discovery completely cur--ed her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Bggers, 139 Florida. 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