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Mr. Spurgeon. Thirty minutes in a hansoin took us to the "Surrey side." to Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle. We found the great body of the audience admitted by ticket before the opening of the doois to the crowd*, wljich was not very large. A few hundred waited, and all went in with a rush when the time came. By dint of good en gineering we got an excellent seat in the body of the house. The interrior of the building is of an oval form ; and two galleries, one above the othei, run entirely around the curve. The preacher stands on an open platform, surrounded by a railing on a level with the first gallery. The choir occupies a circular gallery directly at the foot of the preacher's stand and a prodigious voiced leader . therein leads off in the music. ,: There is no organ or any instru mental music of any kind only the voices of the congregation, who all'stand and unite in the singing as the verses are given out by the preacher, one at a time. It was a heaviy, dose of Methodism, 5.000 strong, and in such a crowd it was not difficult to raise a glow which all good Methodists deeply enjoj ed. I enjoyed it myself. This church of Mr. Spurgeon holds six or seven thousand people and it was so full that some were standing in the aisles. Spurgeon is a burly, animal looking man, with a large, gross ~face, biggest at the jaws and gradually tapering to the top of his head. Looked at form the front his head and face from a truncated cone. He looks scarcely over 30 and has" a full shock of black hair. His body is large and he bids fair \ to be a very great man in cir cumference at least. He looks like anything but an intellectual person, and no one would think of classing him under this head. He impresses one as possessing even a more felicitous fluency than either Mr. Beecher or Mr. Chapiu, and he has trained him self to very clear biblical ex positions, or else he gives them without training. He abounds in pictorial langu age which is his natural utterance. This exuberance of talk runs into excesses of expression and ges ticulation which have made him famous. - The present sermon was quite free from them, though there was enough to mark the character of the man. Thus he spoke cf "the depths of sin into which man falls but never so deep but that the long arm of God can reaoh down and draw him but." He referred to the Apostle's powerful language, and said : "See how he drives this nail, see how he rings this bell, till he tolls the knell of every doubt." He called on his hearers to plunge into the ocean' of the God head," though they could never rejoice m sinless perfection till they got to heaven. He prayed for the Queen and court, and asked that "God would reform its mem bers and given them grace, but at any rate take care of the poor." He conducted the service in a colloquial manner giving copious commentaries upon the Scriptures whicn he read, and asking the audience to sing some verses to "the good? old Scoth tune of Dundee." He prayed that each individaul might be delivered of his besetting sin and spoke particularly against sloth and indolene, in which I could fancy he might be thinking of himself. His growing obeseity is likely some day to make him an inactive man, and be a clog on his fancy. Speaking of the difference be tween a sinner and a saint he observed: ''The sinner cared no thing about his sinning; but when a good man sinned he^went about with sore bones for [marjy a day." "The good man never chewed the cud of his sin./ Of Truth ho remarked that "her. best armor was her naked breastsA which obs?rvate had a strong Milesian flavor.] Spurgeon has a pleasent vocice and that flexible and sonorous speaking tube that never requires lubricating. He talked the greater part of an hour and a half in full round tones without effort. He fliungs out tropes and figures as a conjurer throws up balls, apparently trying to see how many he can keep in the air at one time. He speaks like one who is on familiar terms. with the Almighiy, and has the entree to kingdom come. He ip not cut off the samo hardtwisted Scoth web as Caryle and Lord Brougham, but is excellent shoddy. Po not wear impermeable and tight-fitfing hats that constrict the blood-vessls of the scalp. Use Hall's Hair Renewer occasionally, and you will not be bald. Pea Culture. Cotton Plain. I write you to lr*t you kuow that I am done planting cotton, but I never get done planting corn and peas. When my land gets too wet to plant corn I pitch, in to planting peas. Our trada agent came by t"he other day and said : "Brother, your land is too wet." "Yes," says I, "but I am going to plant peas here and dry the ground with manure." The land was a little too wet, but you know that oats and peas never get a fair'showing and that is why they don't make any more than they do. Now, brethren, I want, you all to plant one acre of peas just the way I planted mine and give the report of *he profit to The Cotton Plant next fall. Break up your land twice with grabs. Lay off the same, only run two furrows in one, 3 1-2 feet apart, then put down 100 pounds of good guano and bed on it, then open your beds | like for cotton, only you run twice, opening a good furrow, then drop your peas every 2 feet in the drill, dropping from 12 to 15 peas in thu hill. Then take a good fertilizer and put 100 pounds in your pea drill, then cover with harrow, walking your horse in the middle of row. I cover two rows at the same time. Then cul-ivate same as (cotton, only let alL of your peas stand. Now brethren, you can do this as late as the middle of June and they will do well. I have my patch planted and expect to gather more dellars off my pea acre than my cotton acre. Now, just think for one moment what 1,000 acres thoroughly prepared would make and I know that there are more of you than that. I expect to make 15 bushels of shelled peas, and be like the Indian, have my vines to boot. These vines will be good boot, either for your land or stock. Now I hope you will try the ex periment this season, then you will not have to be toled into it next! season. May God bless us with good and j rich blessings. W. R. HAYES. Harmon}', S. C." A Geneva watchmaker has in vented a talking clock that can bo so adjusted that it will invite the courting young man to stay to breaskfast. The Augusta Evening Herald says: "Should Carolina run out of rope for damnable scoundrels who assault little school girls, our fiiends over the river can call on us for a supply.", "Don't be afraid of the bacon, Mr. Jenkins," said a boarding house mistress to a boarder. "Not at all, madam. I've seen a piece twice as large, and it did not scare mc a bit." The two largest apple trees in the State of New York are both near the town of Wilson. The largest was planted in 1815, and 33 full barrels of apples were once picked from its branches in a single season. The other is on the farm of J. G. O. Beown, and yield 20 barrels of "choice" fruit aud 5 barrels of "culls" in the season of 1891. Pimples ?AND Blotches ?RE EVIDENCE That the blood is wrong, and that nature is endeav oring to throw off the impurities. Notl \ing is so beneficial in assisting nature as Swift's Specific (S. S. S) It is a simple vegetable compound. Is harmless to the most delicate child, yet it forces the poison to thc surface and eliminates it from the blood. I contracted a severe case of blood poison that unfitted me for business for four years A few bottles af Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) cured me, J. C. JONES, City Marshal, Fulton, Arkansas. , Treatise^on Blood and Skin Diseases nailed tree. 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But the man who conceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a chi]tis ball, so that it would come back to the hand when thrown made a fortune out of his scheme. The modern sewing machine is a miracle of ingenuity-the product of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through a hundred and fifty years, but the whole brilliant result rests upon the simple device of putting the eye of the needle at the poii. t instead of at the other end. THK LITTLE THING6 THE MOST VALU ABLE. Comparatively lew peopla regard themselves as Inventors, but'almost everybody has been struck, at one time or another, with ideas that seemed caloulated to reduce some of the little frictions of life. Usually such are ideas dismissed without further thought. "Why don't the railroad company make its car windows so that they can be slid up and down without breaking the passengers' backs?" exclaims the traveler. 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To the person whs submits to it the simplest and most promising inven tion, from a commercial point of yiew, the company will give twenty-five hundred dollars m cash, addition to refunding the fees for securing the patent. It will also [advertise the invention free of charge* This offer is subject to the following conditions :' Every competitor must obtain a patent for his invention through the company. He must first apply for a preliminary search, the cost of which will be five dollars. Should this search show his invention to be unpatentable he can withdraw without further ex pense. Otherwise he will be expected to complete bis application and take out a patent in the regular way. The total expense, including Government and Bureau fees,will be seventy dollars. For this, whether he secures the prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of three reputable patent attorneys of Washington. In tending competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with their application : "-,-, 1892. MI submit the within described in vention in competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. u _?, NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION. This is a competition of rather an unusual nature. It is common to offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful one merely [selling his for the amount of the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something entirely different. Each person is asked merely to help himself, and the one who helps himself to the best ad vantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The prize is only a stimulus to do something that would be well worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan fora club house on a certain corner is not accepted has spent his labor on something of very little use to him. 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