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integrity and Christian consecratlt 11, will flash no splendor Into the eye of A KINDLY WARNING. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS, Blood Humors M. T. HYER Ed.tor. death.

His hair will lie uncombed on the pillow. Death will come up, and this skeptic will say to him: "I can not die. I cannot die." Death will "xou must die. lou have but ten ondg more to live. Your soul give It to me right away.

Your soul!" "Oh, no!" says the skeptic. "Do not breathe that cold air Into my face You crowd me too hard. It Is getting dark in the room. Here take my rings and take all the pictures in the room, but let me off." "No," say Death, "lour soul! Your soul!" Then the dying skeptic begins to sny, "0 God!" Death says: "You declared there was no God." Then the dying skeptic saj's: 'Tray for me," and Death says: "It is too late to pray; you have only three seconds more to lire, and I will count them off one, two, three. Gone!" Where? Where? Carry him out and lay him down beside his old father and mother, who died under the delusions of the Christian religion singing the songs of victory.

Again, nvoid the idlers that is, those people who gather around the store or the shop or the factory and try to seduce you away from your regular calling and in your business hours try to seduce you away. There is nothing that would please them so well as to have you give up your employment and consort with them. Idleness is the next door to villainy. When the police go to find criminals, where do they go to find them? Tbey find them among the idle those who have nothing to do, or, having something to do, refuse to engage in their daily work. Some one came to good old Ashbel Green and asked him why he worked at 80 years of age when it was time for him to rest.

"Oh," he replied, "I work to keep out of mischief." And no man can afford to be idle. I care not how strong his moral character, he cannot afford to be idle. But you say: "A reat many people are suffering from enforced idleness. During the hard times there were a great many people out of employment." I know it, but the times of dullness in business are the times when men ought to be thoroughly engaged in improving their minds and enlarging their hearts. The fortunes to be made 20 years from now will be made by the young men who in the times when business wan dull cultivated their minds and improved their hearts.

They will get the fortunes-after awhile, while those men who hang around their stores, never engaging in any useful occupation, will be as poor then ns they are now. It is absurd for a Christian man to say he has nothing to do. People go to Florence and to Venice and to Rome to see one of the works of the great masters. I think I can show you the picture of one of the great masters. "I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Then I saw and considered it well. I looked upon it and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth and thy want as an armed man." There is no more explosive passage in all the Bible than that. It first begins to hiss like the fuse of a cannon and then bursts like a 54-pounder.

The old proverb was true: "The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil!" Therefore seek something to do. If no worldly business offers, then, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, go out on Christian toil, and the Lord will bless you, and the Lord will help you. AgainI counsel you, avoid the pleasure seeker, the man whose entire business it is to seek for recreation and amusement. I believe in the amusements of the world so far as they are innocent. I could not live without them.

Any man of sanguine temperament must have recreation or die. And yet the amusements and recreations of life must administer to hard work. They are only preparative for the occupation to which God has called us. God would not have given us the ca-. pacity to laugh if he did not sometimes intend us to indulge it.

God hath hung in sky and set in wave and printed on grass many a roundelay. But all the music and the brightness of the natural world were merely intended to fit us for the earnest work of life. The thundercloud has edges exquisitely purpled, but it jars the mountain as it says: "I come down to water the fields." The flowers standing under the fence look gay and beautiful, but they say: "We stand here to refresh the husbandmen at the nooning." The brook frolics and sparkles and foams, but it says: "I go to baptize the moss; I go to slake the thirst of the bird; I turn the wheel of the mill; in my crystal cradle I rock muckshaw and water lily; I play, but I work." Look out for the man who plays and never works. Look out for that man whose entire business is to play ball or sail a yacht or engage in any kind of merriment. These things are all beautiful and grand in their places, but when they become the chief work of life they become a man's destruction.

George Brummel was admired of all England. He danced with peeresses and went a round of mirth and folly, until after awhile, exhausted of purse, ruined of reputation, blasted of soul, he begged a crust from a groier, declaring as his deliberate opinion that he thought a dog's life was better than a man's. Those mere pleasurists will come around you while you are engaged in your work, and they will try to take ou away. They have lost their places. Why not you lose your place? Then you will be one of Ihem.

Oh, ray friends, I fore you go with these pleasure seekers, these men whose entire life is fun" and amusement and recreation, remember while after a man has lived a life of kind to fho poor and elevating to the world's when he comes to tile, he has a glorious reminiscence ly ing on his death pillow, the mere pleas-urlst has nothing by way of review but a torn playbill, a ticket for the race, an empty tankard or the cast out rinds of a carousal. And as in delirium of his awful death be clutches the goblet and presses it to his lips, the dregs fall' ing on his tongue will begin to uncoil and hiss with the adders of an eternal poison. Again, beware of the Sabbath breakers. Tell me how a young man spends his Sabbath, and I will tell you what are his prospects in business, and I will tell you what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life a sacred duty when we are to look after our souls.

It is exorbitant after giving six days to the feeding and the clothing of these perishable bodies that God should demand one day for the 't eding and the clothing of the immorltrt soul? Our bodies are seven-day clocks, and they need to be wound up, and if they are not wound up they run down into the grave. No man can continuously break the Sabbath and keep his physical and mental health. Ask those aged men, and they will tell you they never knew men who continuously broke the Sabbath who did not fail either in mind, body or moral principle. A manufacturer gave this as his experience. He said: "I owned a fuctory on th Lehigh.

Everything prospered. 1 kept the Sabbath, and everything went on well. But one Sabbath morning I bethought myself of a new shuttle, and I thought I would invent that new shuttle before sunset, and I refused all food and drink until I had completed that shuttle. By sundown I had completed it. The next day, Monday, I showed to my workmen and friends this new shuttle.

Tbey all congratulated me on my great success. I put that shuttle into play. I enlarged! business; but, sir, that Sunday's work cost me $30,000. From that day everything went wrong. I failed in business, and I lost my mill." Oh, my friends, keep the Lord's day.

You may think it old fogy advice, but I give it to you now: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." A man said that.he would prove that all this was a fallacy, and so he did. "I shall raise a Sunday crop." And he plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then ha put in the seed on the Sabbath and cultivated the ground on the Sabbath. When the harvest was ripe, he reaped it on the Sabbath, and he carried it into the mow on the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant to his Christian neighbors and said: "There, that is my Sunday crop, and it is all garnered." After awhile a storm came up and a great darkness, and the lightnings of Heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunday crop. Again, I charge you, beware of association with the dissipated.

Go with them and! you will in time adopt their habits. Why is that man fallen against the curbstone, covered with bruises andbeastliness? Hewasas bc'g-ht-faced a lad as ever looked up from tht tur-sery. His mother rocked' him prayed for him, fondled him, and would1 txi let the night air touch his cheek and held him and looked down into his loving eyes and wondered for what high position he was being fitted. He entered life with bright hopes. The world beckoned him, friends cheered him, but the archers shot at him; vile men set traps for him, bad habits hooked fast to him with their iron grapples; his feet slipped on the way, and there he lies.

Wrho would think that that uncombed hair was once toyed with by a father's fingers? Who would think that those bloated cheeks were ever kissed by a mother's lips? Would you guess that that thick tongue once made a household' glad with its inno cent prattle? Utter no harsh words in his ear. Help him up. Put the hat over that once manly brow. Brush the dust from that coat that once covered a generous heart. Show him the way to the home that once rejoiced at the sound of his footstep, and with genth words tell his children to stand back as you help him through the hall.

That was a kind husband once and an indulgent father. He will kneel with them no more as once he did at family prayers the little ones with clasped hands looking up into the heavens with thanksgiving for their happy home. Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh, turn your back upon these men. Shake off the skeptic.

Shake off the idler Shake off the pleasurist. You may do this work of ejection in politeness, but you may do it firmly. You are not under any circumstances to lose all the remembrance of the fact that you are a gentleman and must always act the gentleman. A young man said to a Christian Quaker: "Old chap, how did you get your money?" "Well," said the Quaker, "I got it by dealing in an article in which thou mayest deal if thou wilt civility." Be courteous, be polite, but be firm. Say "Xo" as if you meant it.

If you say "Xo" in a feeble way, they will keep on with their imploration and their temptation, and after awhile you will stand in silence, and then you will say, after they have gone on a little longer, "Yes," and then you are lost. Oh, turn your back upon the banquet of sin I call you to a better feast to-day. The promises of God are the fruits. The harps of IIeaen are the music. The clusters of Eschol are pressed into the tankards.

The sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty-are the guests, while standing at the banquet to pour the wine and divide the clusters and command the music and welcome the guests is a daughter of God, on her brow the blossoms of paradise and in her cheek the flush of celestial summer. And her name is lie ligion. "Her ways are ways of pleal antness, and all her paths are peace." Are Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla "I alway take-Hood's Harsup'irillii in the Spring and It the best blood purifier I know of." Bald-Win, Mich. "Eruptions that came on my face have-all disappeared since I began taking Hood' Barsaparilla It cured my fatherof catarrh." Alpha Hamilton, Bloomington. Ind.

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The Crowning Slight. An Atchison man has been henpecked during the greater part of his life by a wife and five daughters. Against his will he has been obliged to take little homeopathic pills when he would have preferred quinine, to attend the Episcopal church when he preferred the Baptist, and recently his women folks compelled him to be vaccinated by a woman doctor. Atchison Globe. Tou Can Get Allen's Foot-Enae FREE.

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A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All druggists and shoestores sell it. 25c. The proposition of the T. M.

Roberts Supply House, Minneapolis, found elsewhere in this issue, should be accepted at once, by everyone. 57 big packets of garden seeds for a few cents, and a fine knife free. When you write them mention '11118 paper. Charged to Account. Father "You're altogether too extravagant, sir.

Now, what did you pay for that suit you've on you?" Son say, pop, you must think I'm a chump." Detroit Free Press. Coughing Lend to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Go to your druggist to day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents.

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No other medicine has helped so many. Remember this when something else is suggested, Mrs, Pinkham' address is Lynn, Mass Her helping hand Ss always outstretched to suffering women. Oainide l'rlion Wall. nenry Donnell, a colored convict in the Joliet penitentiary, is now outside of prison' walls for the first time in more than 22 years. Not more than three or four convicts have served so long a term in the Joliet prison.

Donnell was sentenced to a life term for killing a man in Kane county. The pardon board recommended his case for clemency, and Gov. Tanner commuted the sentence to 43 years. With the time allowance for good behavior this was reduced to 22 years and nine months. Honored.

Senator Henry M. Dunlap, of Champaign, has been appointed a United States commissioner of horticulture to the Paris exposition. The senator is a horticulturist by profession, and has a large fruit farm at Savoy. For the last four months he has been collecting and preparing materials for the horti cultural branch of the government exhibit. He has charge of the district l3'ing between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the Rocky mountains.

State Banks. The auditor of public accounts has Issued the regular quarterly bank statement, showing the condition of all state banks on February 14, 1900, giving nggregate resuorces and liabilities and showing the increase or decrease as compared with December 4, 1899, the time of the last statement. At the time of the last previous statement there were 155 state banks. ow there are 151. The statement shows a total Increase of in deposits.

Illinois Crop. The monthly bulletin of the Illinois crop service for February says: winter wheat ta generally In good con dition, especially in the small acreage over the northern half of the state. In southeast counties slight damage is re ported on thin soils. Rye is also in good condition and is thought to be unharmed by the cold. Conflicting reports are re ceived In regard to grass.

In the counties of the southern half of the state fruit is unharmed. Stock generally is doing well. Bunker Convicted. Edward S. Dreyer must go to the penitentiary as punishment for embez zling the funds of the est park board in Chicago, the jury in Judge Waterman's court returning a verdict of guilty.

This is the second time since 1896 that the former banker has been convicted of withholding $316,000 of the park funds from his successor as treasurer of the board. School Snperlntendenta. Alfred Bayliss, state superintendent of public instruction, has announced dates and meeting places of conferences of county superintendents of schools for 1900 as follows: Peoria, April 24, 8 p. East St. Louis, May 1, 9 a.m.; Carbondale, May 2, 9a.m.; Effingham, May 3, 9 a.

TJrbana, May 15. 9 a. m. Chicago, May 16, 9 a. m.

Springfield, May 22, 9 a. m. Died In Hon(-Kong, The news of the death from fever of Lieut. Charles R. Emrich, at Hong-Kong, whose funeral took place there, caused .1 great shock to relatives and friends in Galesburg.

Lieut. Emrich was the son of Henry Emrich, editor of the Galesburg Plain Dealer, and was born in Galesburg August 28, Told in a Few Line. Mrs. A. E.

Synon was found dead at 240 Green street, Chicago, her skull crushed by a hammer blow. Police arrested her husband, whose clothes were blood-spattered. Mattoon is endeavoring to secure the national home for disabled and aged engineers to be established by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Six hundred of Joliet's leading citizens have organized for a fight in behalf of the extension of the sanitary canal as a ship canal from Lockport to the Mississippi river. Dr.

J. L. Shepard, of Galesburg, has accepted an appointment as surgeon in the regular army and will start for Manila April 1. During 1899 the Field Columbian museum in Chicago was visited by persons. Chicago free employment Agencies have secured positions for 19,691 persons.

The Chicago Alton railway will begin sinking coal shaft at Virden with intention of developing field. William E. Henry, formerly mayor of Joliet, died in that city, aged 80 years. Dr. N.

L. Hufty, a practitioner at Delavan for 36 years, is dead, aged 7ii years. Jacob O. Chance, clerk of the supreme court of Illinois for the southern district, died at his home in Mount Vernon, aged 67 years. Charles E.

Lutat shot his brother and killed the latter's wife in a row over money matters in Chicago. June white miners charged with killing five negroes in the Carterville riot were acquitted. Judge Robley D. Adams died at Fairfield, aged 54 years. Rev.

Francis M. Randolph, for 40 years a Methodist minister, died in Harrisburg, aged 61 years. George P. Henshaw, 0 years old, a drummer in the First Illinois regiment during the Spanish-American war, was found dead in his home in Chicago. Ex-Congressman George E.

White, of Chicago, has been granted a divorce from his wife because she believed iii faith cure. Walter Stewart and Miss Smith, prominent young people of Paris, eloped to Charleston and were married. Forty horses belonging to Patrick Mulchare, a scavenger, contractor, were burned to death in a stable in Chicago. Dr. Talmage Speaks Concerning Evil Associations.

Aptly Illnlrnle Hii Text That Conipnnlon of Pool Shall lie Detroyed" Advice (or Young and Old. Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch. Washington, March 4. In this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks on a theme which all men, young and old, will be glad to Bee discussed, and the kindly warning will no doubt in many cases be taken; text, Troverbs 13:20: "A companion of fools eh all be destroyed." "May it please the court," said a convicted criminal when asked by the judge what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him, "may it please the court, bad company lias been my destruction.

I received the blessing of good parents and in return therefor promised to avoid all evil associates. Had I kept my promise I should have avoided this shame and the burden of guilt which, like a vulture, threatens to drag me to justice for my many crimes. Although I once moved in high circles and was entertained by distinguished men, I am lost. Bad company did the work for me." Only one out of a thousand illustrations was that of the fact that "a companion of fools shall be destroyed." It is an invariable rule. Here is a hospital with a hundred men down with the ship fever.

Here is a healthy man who goes into it. He does not so certainly catch the disease as a good man will catch moral distemper if he consents to be shut up with the vicious and the abandoned. In the prisons of the olden time it was the custom to put the prisoners in a cell together, and I am sorry to say it is the custom still in some of onr prisons; so that when the day of liberation comes, the men, instead of being reformed, are turned out brutes, not men, each one having learned the vices of all the rest. We may inour worldly occupation be obliged to talk to and commingle with bad people, but he who voluntarily chooses that kind of association is carrying on a courtship with a Delilah which will shear the locks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Look over all the millions of the race, and you cannot show me a single instance where a man voluntarily associated with the bad for one year and maintained his integrity.

Sin is catching; it is infectious; it is epidemio. A young man wakes up in one of our great cities knowing only the gentlemen of the firm into whose service he has entered. In the morning he enters the store, and all the clerks mark him, measure him, discuss him. The bad clerks of that establishment, the good clerks of that establishment, stand in some relation to him. The good clerks will wish him well, but they will wait for a formal introduction, and even after they have had the introduction they are very cautious as to whether they shall call him into their association before they know him very well.

But the bad young men in that establishment all gather around him. They patronize him, thiy offer to show him everything that there is in the city on one condition that he will pay the expenses, for it always happens so when a good young man and a bad young man go together to a place of evil entertainment the good young man always has to pay tha charges. Just at the time the ticket is to be paid for or the champagne bill is to be settled the bad young man will affect embarrassment and feel around in his pockets and say: "Well, well, really I have forgotten my pockebook," In 4S hours after this innocent young man has entered the store the bad young men will gather around him. slap him on the shoulder with familiarity, anil, if he is stupid in not being able to take certain allusions, will say: "Ah, my young friend, you will have to be broken in." And forthwith they go to work to "break him in." Oh, young man, let no fallen young man slap you on the shoulder familiarly! Turn around and give a withering glance that will make the wretch cower in your presence. There is no monstrosity of wickedness that can stand before the glance of purity and honor.

God keeps the lightnings of heaven in his own scabbard, and no human may reach them, but God gives to every young man a lightning which he may use, and that is the lightning of an honest eye. Anybody that understands 1he temptations of our great cities knows the use of one sermon like this, in which I try to enforce the thought, that "a companion of fools shall be destroyed." And, first, I charge you, avoid the skeptic that is, the young man who puts his thumb in his vest and swaggers about, scoffing at your oldi-fash-ioned religion, and taking out the Bible and tinning over to some mysterious passage and saying: "Explain that, my friend, explain that. I used to think u.st as you do. My fatherand mother used to think just as you do. But you can't scare me about the future.

1 used to believe in those things, but I've got over it." Yes. he has got rver it. and you will get over it if you etay in his companionship much longer. For awhile he may not bring one argument airainst our holv Christianity. ne will by scoffs and jeers and carica- tures destroy your faith in that religion which was Hie comfort of your father in his declining years and the pillow on which your old mother lay a-dy ing.

That brilliant young skeptic will after awhile have to die, and his diamond EUREKA, 1 1 ILLINOIS. Every Boer who iS able to cnrry a gun is fighting' in the Transvaal. In a recent battle a Boer boy only 12 years old was taken prisoner by the He had been in the thickest of the fight, and hud both leg broken bj a bullet. Seventeen members of the Sweden rikdng have introduced a bill recom mending the abolishing of the import duty on pdrk. They point out the fact that during the year 1S99 the im port of pork exceeded the export by 20,778,335 pounds, for which an import duty of about $670,000 has been paid.

In Russia, women are employed as apothecaries. In the state and municipal dispensaries, women prescription clerks stand on the same footing as men, while in the large cities like St Petersburg, Moscow and Kiew, there are pharmacies in which the business is conducted entirely by women. Since the Rockefeller's share of the Standard Oil Company's dividends gives him an income of $32,000,000 a year from that source alone, Mr. Carnegie's statement that the oil king is the richest man in the world still holds good, despite the remarks of Mr. Frick, which credit the iron king with only $24,500,000 a year.

The Twentieth century will have about 380 eclipses, the solar being to the lunar in about the ratio of four to three. For the first time in any calendar year since 1823 the year 1935 will have seven eclipses, the largest possible number. The total solar eclipses visible in the United States will occur in 1918, 1923, 1925, 1945, 1954, 1979, 1984 and 1994. Judge Brewer, of the United States supreme bench, is the author or rather the editor of a work embodying the great orations from Demosthenes down. He has incorporated Champ Clark's speech in eulogy of Frank Blair in the collection, and it is one of the richest in classic and historical allusion the American congress ever heard.

It is generally supposed that more men are killed by artillery than infantry fire. This is a total erroneous notion, as from medical reports it would appear that the rifle is responsible for nearly 90 per cent, of the British killed. In the Franco-German war it was estimated that 6,989 Germans were killed by rifle bullets, and ony 695 by artillery. Japanese servants are more and more in demand every year in New They are looked upon as more capable than any other kind of domestic help. There is one serious objection to them.

They lavish their politeness and courtesy on the masculine members of the household in which they are employed, and can not be induced to treat the women with respect. For the current year it is prophesied the yield of the Baku oil fields will pass 50,000,000 barrels. The petroleum yield of the United State for 1897 was 60,568,081 barrels. It is an interesting evidence of the different conditions in effect in the two great oil fields of the world that the yield in the United States was from many thousand wells, while that of the Baku field all came from a few hundred. Gen.

Joubert's wife has repeatedly accompanied him in his campaign against marauding natives and on euch occasions always insisted on personally caring for his food. While on a visit to Amsterdam Mrs. Jou-bert was shown an interesting collection of ancient pewter in one of the museums. "Good material to make bullets," was her only comment. One of the statutes which will be placed in Copley square in Boston is of Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride at the outbreak of the revolution.

He is shown just as he has reined his horse to call to a farmer that the British are coming. Those who have seen the model say that the work is most lifelike; the horse preserves some of the momentum of his dash and is full of fire, while the figure of Revere shows the intense excitement of his wild journey. Electricity is employed for guard duty in the Cincinnati Zoological garden. A fence of fine wire mesh about eight feet high surrounds an inclosure in which there are a number of fine game birds. It was found that rats, cats, climbed over this, so that two copper wires were stretched all around the top of the fence about an inch and a half above it and some distance apart.

At night the watchman turns on the electric current, which accomplishes remarkable re-Bults in killing predatory animals. When the District of Columbia was firvt established it was ten miles stpiare, and took in the city of Alexandria. After some years Virginia desired to have the part in that state fended, and the part of the square in that state was turned back to the jurisdiction of Virginia. Recently there has been shown a disposition to Jt part of the old territory in Virginia come back, possibly because the Government is likely to expend mere money in improvements if it holds the territory than Virginia is ever likely to do..