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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1886)
YOUNG MKN IN CITIES. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES RE GARDING TEMPTATIONS TO BE MET. A Typical Case Quoted and Commented on at Length. Snares Which Encirck tho Youth in tho Great Centors anco 3ecomiug Feebler Lonesomo the Pall Is Complete. Success Crowns all Kinds to Integrity Examples of Bo Found Christ's Wounds the Only Guides. Special to the Kanvif City Timet. Hiiooki.tk, N. Y., Sept. '-U The opening liytnn at tlic Urookljn tabernacle to-day bc Rlns: Amazing grar,c-liow wrct the oumL That .icd a wretch llko met 1 once whb lost, hut now am found) Was blind, but now 1 tec. After expounding a pniuage of the scrip tures the Hev. T. DcWIttTalinage, I). D., took for his text Proverbs lv., ()! "Ponder tlicpath of thy feet," and preehed tho following ser mon on the subject: "Two Young Men Who Came To Live In the City:" It wan Monday, Beptembcr 20, at a country depot. Two young men are to take tho cars for the city. Father brought them In awacon with two trunks. The evening before at the old home was rather a sad time. The neigh bors had gathered In to say good-by. Indued, all the Sunday afternoon there had been a strolling that way from adjoining farms, for It generally known that the two boys were going to the city to live, and tho whole neigh borhood was Interested, some hoping they would do well and others, without taylug any thing, hoping for them a city failure. IJ'.AVIXO rou A CITV I.IFn. Sitting on tho fence talking over tho matter tho neighbors would Interlard their conversa tion about tho wheat crop of last summer, and the apple crop yet to bo gathered, with re marks about city prospects of Edward and Nicholas, for those were the names of the two young men Edward 17 and Nicholas 11)', but Edward, although two years younger, being a little quicker to learn, knew as much ns Nich olas. They were both brown-faced and liearly, and had gone through nil tho curri culum of hearty sports by which luubclo Is developed and tho client llllcd out. Father and mother on .Monday morning had both resolved to go to tho depot with the boys, but tho mother at tho last moment backed out, aud she said that somehow she felt quite weak that morning, and had no appetite for a day or two, and so concluded to say good-bye at tho front door of the old place. Where she went aud what she did after tho wagon left I leave other mothers to guess. The breakfast things stood almost till noon before they were cleared away. Hut little was said on the way to tho railroad station. As the locomotive whistle was heard coming around the curve tho father put out his hand somewhat knot ted at the knuckles and one of thu Joints ntlffcncd years ngo hv a wound from a scythe anil salil: "(Jooil-by, Edward; goodliye. Nicholas! Take good "care of yourselves and write as soon as you get there, and let us know how they treat you. Your mother will bo auxlous to hear." 1 Till! AnillVAI. IN (IOTIIAM. Landed In tho city tlioy sought out with considerable Inquiry of policemen on street comers and In questioning of ear drivers tho commercial establishments to which they were destined, so far apart that thereafter they seldom saw each other, for It Is astonish ing how far apart two persons can he In a largo city, especially If their habits are differ ent Practically a hundred miles fiom Howl ing Green to ( anal street, or from Atlantic avenue to Fulton, Edward, being tho youngest, wo must look after him first. Ho never was In so large n store in all his life. Such Interminable shelves, such skillful Imitations of real men aud women to dlsplav goods on, such agility of cash boys, sueli Immensii stocks of goods, and a whole community of emploe.. Ills head Is confused us he seemed dropped like a pebble In the 'great ocean of business life, "llavo you seen that greenhorn from the country I" whispered young man toyoiiugmau "He Is In such anil such a department. We will have to break him In some iilnlit." Ed ward stands at his new place all day so home sick that any moment ho could have cried aloud If his prlilo had not suppressed overv thlng. Hero nnd there a teur ho carelessly dashed off as though It weru from Influenza or a cold In tlio head. Hut fomo of you know how a j oung mail feels when set down In a cltv of strangers, thereafter to tight his own bahles, aud no ono near by seeming to care whether ho lives or dice. Tho center of a descit, a month's Journov lo tho Ilrtt settle ment, Is not much more solitary. i.kii nvr ix ro TUMPTATlOJf. llut that evening us the hour for closing has come there aru two or three young men who sidle un to Edward and ask him how ho likes tint cltv. nnd where he exoccta to co that night, and if ho would like tliein to show him the sluhts. llu thunks them and says ho shall have to take tome evenings fortiuttacklug and making arrangements, as lie nan nisi arrived, but says that after awhllo ho will bo glad tc accept their company1. After spending two ot three evenings In his liosrillug lioui-o room, walking up uud down, looking at tho bare wall or an old ehromo hung there at thu time that religious newspapers by such prices advanced their sulnerlptlon lists, nnd after an hour toy ing with thu match box and uv. r aud anon ex amining his watch to i-co if it Ii time to retire aud It seems that 10 o'clock at night or even 0 o'clock will never come ho resolves to ac cent tho chupcroiilug of Uli new friends at the etore. Tho following night they are all out to- f;cther. Although his salury Is not large, he s quite flush with jmcket money, which the old folks gave him alter Baving by for some time. Ho ran not be mean uud these friend! re doing all for his pleasure and so ho puyi tho bills. At the door of places of enchant niciit hit companions can not llud tho change, ud thev accidentally fall behind Just as the ticket otllco Is approached, or they say they will make It all right and will themselves pay the next time. Edward, accustomed to farm life, or village life, Is dn.ed and cnehauted with the glitter of spectacular sin. l'laln and blunt Iniquity Edward would have immediate le repulsed, but sin accompanied by bewitch Ing orchestra, sin amid glided pillars and gorgeous upholstery, sin arrayed in all the at tractions Hint the powers of darkness In com bluatlou cau arrange to uiuguetue a young man, U vcrv ulllcrcnt from slu in us loam come and dtsuimtlng shape. HRJIMTINO Tllie I'lllST IMPULSES. Hut after a few nights being very late out. lie says: "I must stoji. My purse won't stand this. My health won't stand this. My reputa tion won't stand this." Indeed, one of the business firm one night from his private box, In which he applauded a plav, In which atti tudes aud phracDlogy oecuirod which II taken or uttered In his own parlor would hay caused him to shoot or stab tie actor on thr iot from this high pi iced box sees lit cheaper place the new cleric of hl store, and IS ICJ 10 atK qut'tliuus iiuum imiMis, mm wonders how, on th salary the house pay lilm, ho can do as he docs. Edward, to re cover his phislcal vigor and hi nuances, ttopiMd a while ud spent a few more cveu lugs examining the ehromo oil the wall and counting tho matches In the match box, ci goes down Into tho boarding hoiue parlor tc hear the gossip about the other boarder or a discourse on the liuutlleietieir of the tabl are considering the price paid the criticism evere lu proportion as tho fault Under pavi little or Is revolted to leave unceremonious!; aud pay nothing t 1L "Confound III" cried the young man, "I can not stand this life any lontrcr, nnd I must go out and see the world." The same youiigmen and others of a now larger acquaintance are ready to escort hhn. There is never any lack of such guidance. If o man wants to go the whole round of sin, he can find plenty to take lilm, a whole regiment who Know the way. nr.suLTS op iuxklesb mvixo. Hut after awhile Edward's money Is all gone. He has received his salary again and again, but It was spent before lie got It, bor rowing n little here and a littlo there What shall ho do now. Why, he has seen In his rounds of tho gambling tables men who put down a dollar nnd took up ten, put down a hundred and took up a thousand. Why not he. To reconstruct his llnanccs ho takes a hand and wins; Is so pleased he takes another hand and wins; Is In u frenzy of delight and takes another hand and loses all. When he first came to the city Edward waR dlsiwscd to keen Sunday In quietness, reading a little nnd going occasionally to hear a ser mon. Now Sunday Is a day of carousal. Ho Is so full of intoxicants by 11 o'clock In the day lie stagircrs Into one of the licensed rum holes of the city.' Some morning Edward, his breath stcnchful with rum. takes his place In the store. He Is not fit to lc there. Ilo Is llstles?, or silly, or Impertinent, or In some way Incompetent, and a messenger comes to hhn. and says: "The llrm desire to seo jou in their private oillee." The gentleman In the private olllce says: "Edward, we will not need you uny more. We owe you n little money for hvrvlces since we paid you lust, and here It is." "What Is the inatt'Tl" says tho young man. "I can not understand this. Have J done any thing!" The roplv Is: "We do not wish any words with von. Our emrncemciit with each other Is ended 1" ox tub noAi) to piuioition'. ',Otit or employment I" What does that mean to n irood young man I It means oppor tnnltv to get another and perhaps n better place" It means opportunity for mental Im provement and preparation for higher work. 'Out of employment 1" What does that menu to a ilNilpiiteil young inani It means n light ning express train on n down grade on the grand trunk to perdition. Al Morale was a winged noie on wuicn .tinuoiiict preieimcu ,io have ridden by night from Mecca to Jeru salem, and from Jerusalem to the seventh heaven, with such speed that each step was in fnr no I hi-1' p. could reach. A vountr mail ' out of employment through Ills dissipations Is seated on an Al Horak, riding as fust In the opiXKdtu direction. It Is now only live years since Edward came to town. Ho used to write home once u week at the longest. Ho has not written home for three months. "What can bu thu mutter!" say the old people at home. Ono Saturday morning the lather puts on the best apparel of his wardrobe and goes to the city to llud out. '(). he has not been here for n long while," soy the gentlemen of the llrm. "Your sou, 1 am sorry to say, Is on the wrong track." Tho father goes hunting him fiom plaeo to place ami comes suddenly upon lilm that night In a place of abandonment. The father eavs: "My son, come with me. Your mother has ciit me to bring you home. I hear you are out o' money and good clothes, aud you know as long as we live you can have a home. Coniu right away," he says, putting his hand on the young man's shoulder. Tiir. oi.n fatiikh's axxiutv. In nnirry tone Edward replies: "Take your hands olt mel You mind j our own business I I will do as I please I Take your hands oil of me or I will strike you down! You go your wav mid I will go mine!" That Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning for It is by this time i o'clock In tho morning--the father goes to the city homo of tils Mm Nicholas, and rings the hell, aud rings luraln and again, and It seems as If no answer would he given; hut after a while a window Is holfted and a voice cries: "Who's there!" "It. Is me," says tho old man. "Why, father; is that you!" lu u mliiutu the door is opened and the con says : "What in the world has brought you to the city at this hour of the night i" "O, Edward has brought me here. I feared your mother would go staik era.y not hearing 'from him, and I llud out that It Is worse with him than 1 suspected." "Yes," says Nicholas, "I had not the heart to write um anything about It. I have tried in v next with hint and nil In vain. Hut it Is after 'J o'clock," hijh Nicholas to his father, "and 1 will take you to a bed." On a comfortable couch In that house tho old father lies down eoaxluir sleep for a few hours, hut no sleep conies. AVhnsc house Is It! That of his son, Nicholas. Tho fact Is, that Nleliohu soon after coming to tho city became ilidlspKiisablo lu the commercial establish ment In which he was placed. He knew, what few persons know, that while In all depart ments of business, ami incclmtiliii, nnd art, there Is a surplus of people of ordinary appli cation and ordinary diligence, there Is a gieat scarcity, and alua,s has been a great scarcity, ol people who excel. Plenty of jH'oplo to do things poorly or to'erahly well, hut very few clerk, or business men, or mechanics who can do spleudlill) well. ATTUNIIISU ttTIUCTI.Y TO IllSISIiSS. Atmreelatlni: this. Nicholas had resolved to do so grandlv that thu business llrm could not do without lilm. Alwajsnthls place a little after every In id had gone. Ah extremely (Hillto to thoso who decline purchasing as to those who made largo puieha.sos. ilo drunk no wine, for ho saw It u thu einpolsontnent of multitudes, and when any ono -isked htm to take something, ho said "No" with tho po cullar Intonation that meant no. His conver sation was ahvavs as ptuo as if his sisters had been listening. ' He went to no place of nmue meut where lie would be ashamed to die. He never bet or gambled, even at u church fair. When he was at the b.urdlng house, after ho had got all the artist e development ho could possibly receive from the ehromo on the wall, lie Wgan to studv Mint which would help him to promotion studv iH-iiinaushlp, study bi ographies of successful bus.ness men; or went forth to places of Inu.iccnt amusement and to Young men's Christian associations, uud was not itfuatned to lu found at church pnwer meeting. Ho rose from jkmUIoii to tuition, and from one salary to another salary. Hl'CCKSH UtOWNS lSTKOIIITV. Onlv live jenr In town, and vet ho Iina rented his own houso or a suite of rooms, not very large, but a homo lurgo enough lu Its happiness to bo a typo of heavou. In the morning as tho old father with handkerchief lu hand comes erring down stairs to the table .. ......i. ui.i.. 'I'll.. Iliei'O MO lOlir pciluil!, mm lui vum rmu. mu young man, and opposite to lilm the best blessing that a (iod of Inllnlto goodness can bestow, iiamelv, a good wife, aud on another sldu the high 'chair llllcd with dimpled and rollicking glee, that makes tho grandfather opposite smile outside w Idle he bus a broken heart within. Well, as I said, it was Sabbath, and Nicho las and his father, knowing that Micro Is no place so appropriate for a troubled soul as tho bouse i4 (iod, llud their way to chinch. It Is communion day, and what Is the old matt Mirdrlso to see ills son passdown the aisle with one of the silver chalices, showing him to be a church olllclal. The fact was that Nicholas from tho start In city life honored Mod, and (iod had honored him. When the first wave ol cltN temptation struck lilm ho hail felt the need of divine guidance and divine protection, and In prater had sought a regenerated heart, and had obtained that mightiest of all armor, that mightiest of all protection, that in ghtlest of all rciufoiwinonts. the inultipolent and oin nip tent grace of Mod, and you might as well throw a tliutto down against (ilbrullar. expect ing to destroy it, us w ith all tho combined tomj tatlons of eunh aud hfll try to overthrow a young man who can truthfully say:' Mod Is my refuge and sttc ngth." tiik i:si or a hiotous urr C'ome, let ui uu-UDUro Nicholas around the head. As muiiy Inches ot braiu as any other Intelligent mail. Lotus moasuie lilm around the heart. It U so Urge it takes lu all tho earth and all tho heavens Measure him around the purse, llu has iikmv rvMiurccs than nine- tenths of those w ho on that Monday, Septem ber 'Jd, en mo lu ou auv of the railroad f.'otu north or Miuth or cat or west. Hut that Sabbath afternoon while in the back room Nicholas and tils father are talking over any ntte opt at the lYciuiiiitloii of Edward, thete is a Uniting of the door Ml and a man with the mi'lorm of a pullivmun stands there, and u iniiii witli oiueeiiiharrawinut and sumo lulling, and In a rouiulnhui way says that In a lliiht lu some low haunt ot the clu Ed want had been hurt He says to MclioU: "l heanl that lie was some relation of )ours uud 1 thought you ougut to know lu" "Hurt! Is he badly hurt!" "Yes; very badly hurt." "Is the wound mortal !" "Yes; It Is mortal. To tell you the whole truth, sir," says the policeman, "although I can hardly bear to tell you, he Is dead." "Dendl" cries Nicholas. And by this t.'mc the whole family are In the hallway. The father savs: "Just as I feared. It will kill his mother when she hears of It. O my sou, my son I Would to Moil I had died for thee. O my son, my son I" "Wash off tho wounds," says Nicholas, "uud bring hhn right here to inv houce, anil let there be all respect and gentleness shown hhn. It Is the last we can do for lilm." tub DirrminNcr: lii'.Twr.nx mux. O, what obsequies I The next door neigh bors hardly knew what was going on; hut Nicholas and the father and mother knew. Out of the Christian and beautiful home of the one brother Is carried the dissolute broth er. No word ot blame tittered. No harsh things said. On a bank of camellias is spelled nut the word "Hrother." Had the prodigal been true and pure nnd noble in life and hon orable In death ho could not have been carried forth with more tenderness, or slept In a more beautiful casket, or been deposited In a more beautiful garden of the dead. Amid Un loosened turf the brothers who left the coun try for cltv life live jeans before now part for ever. The last scene of the fifth act of an aw ful tragedy of human life Is ended. What made the difference between these two young men! Hellglon. The one depend ed on himself, the other depended ou Mod. They started from the same home, had the same opportunities of education, arrived In the city on the Fame day, and It there was any difference, Edivurd bad the advantage, for ho was brighter and quicker, and all tho neigh bors prophesied greater success for him than for Nicholas. Hut behold aud wonder at the tremendous secret. Voices come up out of this audience and snv: "D.d you know these brothers!" "Yes; knew them well." "Hid von know their parents!" "Yes; Intimately." What was the city, what the street, what the last names of these joung men! Youhaveex citcd our curiosity; now tell us nil. i:ami-i.ks rot ni i:vi:iivwin:ni:. 1 will. Nothing in these characters is flcti tious except the names. They nro In every city, nnd lu every street of every city, and in every country. Not two of them hut 10,000. Ave, ayel flight before me to-day and ou cither side of me and rbove me they sit and stand, the invulnerable through religious de fense, and the blasted of city allurements. Those who shall have longevity In beautiful homes and others who shall have early graves of Infamy. And I am here to day lu the name of Almighty Mod to give you the choice of the two characters, the two histories, tho two ex periences, tht! tw'o destinies, the two worlds, the two eternities. Standing with you nt the forks of the road something makes me think that if to-day I set before the people the liTinlnl of the two roads they will nil or them take the right one. There are before me in this house and In the Invisi ble audleneo back of this for journalism has generously given me every week full oppor tunity to address the people In all of the towns and cities of Christendom I say, in the vlslblo and Invls'blo audience there arc many who have not fully made up their minds which road to take. "Come with usl" cry all the voices of righteousness. "Come with usl" cry all the voices of slu. BUltUlIXIirjltlXO TO six. Now, the troublo Is that many make dis graceful surrender. As we all know, there Is honorable and dignified surrender, as when a small host yields to superior numbers. It is no humiliation for a thousand men to yield to ten thousand. Ills better than to keep on when there can he no result except that of massacre. Hut lho3o who surrender to sin inako a suirrnder when on their side tliev have enough reserve forces to rout all the armies of perdition, whether led on by what n demono grapher calls Hclial, or Heelzehiib, or Apollyon, or Abaddon, or Ariel. The disgraceful thing nbout the surrender nt Sedan was that the French handed over 41U Held guns and mltrallleiisls, (!,0U) horses and .'1,000 armed men. Aud It Is base for that man to surrender to slu w lieu all tho armaments of Almlghtl ness would have wheeled to the front to light his battle If ho had waved one earnest hlgnal. Hut, no! He surrendered body, mind, soul, reputation, home, jiedlgree, time and eternity, while vet all the prayers of Ills Christian an cestors were on his side and all thu preferred aid supernal, cherubic, beraphic, angelic, deltle. I'LKADlNfl I'OU YOUXO STItAXOKUS. AVhv tills fccrmoni! I have made up my mind that our city life is destroying too many joung men. There comes hi every September aud October a large influx of those between 10 and 21 vears of ngo and New York and llrooklyu damn at least a thousand of them every year. They are shoveled oil and down with no more compunction Mum that with which a coal heaver scoops the anthracite Into n dark cellar. What with the wine cup aud the gamblers' dice, and the scarlet enchant-re-s, no young man. without the grace of Mod, is safe ten minutes. There Is much discussion about which is the worst city of the continent. Some say New York, some say Net,- Orleans, some say Chi cago, some say St Louis. What 1 have to say Is, you can not make much comparison between the Inllnlties, and in all our cities the temptation seems lutliiite. Wo keen a great many mills running day aud night. Not rice mills or cotton mills. Not mills of corn or wheat, but mills for grinding tin men. Such are all tho grog-shops. Hn'iiscd and unli censed. Such nro nil the gambling saloons. Sueh aru all the houses of infamy. And we do the work according to law, nnd we turn out a new grist everv hour, ami grind up warm hearts and clear hearts, and the o.irth about a elder mill Is not more faturated with tho beverage than the ground about all these mlnd-destrolng Institutions is saturated with the blood of viet ins. Wo say to Long Island neighborhoods and villages: ' Send us more supply;', and to Westchester and Ulster nnd nil the other counties ot New York: "Send us more men nnd women to put under the wheels." Mlvo us full chance and wo could grind up lu the municipal mill 500 nay, l.!M nv ClIltlST'sl woi'sns. We have enough inuchlucrv : we have enough men who can run them, (live us nioro homes to crush I Mlvo us more paternal hearts to pulverize I rut into the hoper the ward robes and the family IPbles and the llvell ho.ids of wives and children. Mlvo us more material for these mighty mills, which are wet with tears and sulphurous with woe, and tr.'iiihllng with earthquakes of an Incensed Mod. who will, un ess our cities repent, cover us un as iiulek and as deep as lu August of tin. viMir Til Vesuvius avalauched llerculuneum, O, man uud woman, ponder tho path of thv fi-ct! Seo which wav vou are going. Will nu linvo tho destlnv'of Edward or Nicholas! On this sacrainentardny. when the burnished chalices stand lu the picscnce ol liie people, start from the foot of the cross for usefulness and heaven. Plutarch tells us that after kIu In mid his twenty three wounds had lieen displayed to the people, arousing an inn.iiitmlliiliii! uxcltemctit. and tho body of li ilmul ciuinuomr. according to ancient Clls torn, had been put upon the funeral p lo aud the flames arose, people rushed up, took from the blazing mass torches, with which they ran through the cltv, crying the glory oi wio as vntln,ili'il ruler and the shame of his assas siiiiitors. On this sacramental day. when the ,!,... i,i....,li,r u- niiiU nf ClirUL onr king aie shown to you, and the Arcs of nU earthly sutTerlng bhtxo before your Imagination, each one of ton take a torch and start heavenward a torch with light for yourself ami light for others; for the race thai starts at itio cross ends at the tlioue. Whde the tweuty-thrce wounds of Catsur wrought nothing but the consieruntlou of the eople, from the live wounds of our Conqueror there Hows a trans-f,,i-nilni iwiu.T to uiuke all the uncounted mil lions who will accept It forever happy aud for ever free. Ho Didn't Oiiaraittuo Its S.tfety. Strnj;ir "I loft my umbrolln lioro hist night. Whew is it?" "Shoiikfoiior "1 tlou't know." "Wliy, I...I-., " vou sttUl I uouhl lutivo it "Yos. but 1 l iln't say you'll llml it hero when you caniu uiiok. tiiki (fcf'fliu (iff. The Galatea Is like old Mother Hubbard, When she got there the vup boarU wa bare ImvI Voui tir. Absolutely Pure. This powder never vnrics. A ninrvel of purity, Htroiigth nnd wholesomcric.su. Moro conomicnl than tho ordinary kinds, nnd cannot bo Bold in competition with the multitude of low tet, short weight nlum or phosphate powders. Sold only n ciins. KoyaIi Uaki.no I'owdeii Co., 100 Wall St., N. Y. ENTENNIAL HOTEL BAR. E. MILLER. Proprietor. Ifavins fitted up the Centennial Hotel Hur-room, und removed my Btock of Wines, Liquors & Cigars to that place, I urn better prepared than ever to entertain and regale my customers'. I keep none but the best ol Eufctcrn Liquor, Milwaukee, "Wall a Walla, and Union Iteer. lso, the Finest Brands of Cigars, -COMMERCIAL m anil FgsiI stai. Oppositr Ck.ti:n.niai Hotel. JOHN S. ELIOTT, 1'ROPJUETOIt. Un v!nn f 1 1 itt lull n1 lila fi fi nil nnniilflr 1 MUIIll.lll.1. "-' w... ...... I' I " linuloh'v willi ittnnlo fnntn. nlmLv nf fnp(L UUillWH J H.i.J'. ........ T I good hostlers mid new buggies, in better prepared than ever to accommodate cus tomers. JNly terms are reasonuoie. Adam Ciiossman, Phoi'iiiktor. Has now on hand and for Bale tho best ol HARNESS, LADIGO, UPPER nnd LACE LEATHER. SHEEP SKINS, ETC. POKTIiAMl) IKE1HS Paid for Hides and Pelts. HOT LAKE! Ritnnteil four miles west of Union depot on south side ol the 0. R. it N. Co.'s rail road. ii luinmittij JJiiim In Comfortable Rooiiih. Honlth for tho Sick, and Rest for tho Weary. Ird fnr tho Relief ol Wo- " " V ..... , .. ,,, men. ia iinucr me huh.tvihhhi ui uu ....v, has had thirty years' experience. fcj. l MWtlAliU, -l-ropnuiur. SMOKE OUU 97 Host Havana Filled 5 Five Cent Cigar. 5 Jones Bros., agents, Union. E. GOLLINSKY & CO. A Positive Cure. il!S r on tie. middlo-neeil nnd old, single or married, and all who sutler with LOST .lBAXItOOB, Nervous Debility, SpennatorrhaM, Seminal Losses. Sexual Decay, Failing Memory, Weak Eyes, stunted development, luck ol energy, impoverished blood, pimples, im pediments to inariiage; also blood ami skin diseases, syphilis, eruptions, hair falling, bono nains. swelliiiKs. sore throat, ulcers, .fleets ol mercury, kidney and bladder irinihles. weak back, burn tin: urine, incon tinence, gonorrliu'ii, gleet, stricture, receive searching treatment, prompt, relief nnd .nr.. fnr lit,. lloni Su.i:s cons ilt confidentially. If in trouble, call or write. Delays are danger t all at once; 'T years experience, Tonui Cash. Ullite Hours t n. in. to o - m. DR. VAN MON. ISCAR, 12 UU Third St. Portland, Oregon SPRING BLOSSOM OTTXXIIIIfil y BOILS, PIJU'LES. HliOTCIIES And Eruptions of the Skin. Dvs nupsia. Sick Headache, ana an KIDNEY COMPLAINTS. , wkint m a rrtrrcuct. I rnce. ouoi trut' ru. iuo. Sold Toy all DruErerista KUo lijr II O It . nerrAto, wrltMt i bvr u.ed f prln ltl.- m fct i,.wp.l. Imllzrt (lun nnd Sick llf4i-l.'.Mdlvj .. Mil oje i iiii.w;. it unul..l "Vuu rc . Iltmr to sm ou (LIMITED.) Manufacturers GARRIAG! Blackboards, Road Carts, Spring Wagons, Etc. CANTON CLIPPER PLOWS, HARROW'S. ETC. GALE CIUl.LEU PLOWS. AND IDEAL. FJSKD iUii,!. SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST. FREE. MITCHELL & LEWIS GO,, Limited. 192-191 Front St., Portland, Oregon. Pianos E. M. FURMAN, Agent. WALLA WALLA, HOWLAND & "WILSON", Manlucturers ol FURNITURE Main Street, Keen constantly on hand a lanre ding, Desks, Oflico Furniture, etc. Upholstering Done Lounges, Mattresses, and all Kinds of age Dealers in Groceries, Tobaccos and Cigars. Variety and Fancy Goods, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry- Musical Instruments, Ficturo Frames, Bird Cages, Baby Carriages, Etc. Candies, Nuts and Fruits, Scbsol Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Novels, Etc., of Ever- description. Orders from all parts of the country promptly attended to. PHOTOGRAPH - GALLERY. Jones Bros., JLx'-fcis-ts , All Kinfls of FliotoppHc Work Done in a Snperior Maimer. New Scenery and Accessories Just Received. All Work Warranted to Give Satisfaction. VIEWS OF RESIDENCES TAKEN ON APPLICATION. J La EEi of and Dealers in RlinRI.Q PHAiPTflN BALL WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Union, Oregon. supply of Parlor and Red Room Sets, Red in the Best Style. Furnfturo made to order. Your patron sonciiuu. Organs BROS., ' . ' '