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I have just returned from
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choice Khrejs?ClothihgvHats,
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Gent's Furnishing Goods,
Trunks, Yalises, Satchels,
Etc., Etc., equal to any
house in the State 1
I am prepared to o?f|r
great bargains- this. - season
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^having bought for cash which 1
gi^ves xpe great advantage
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over |iny competitors. For
styles, qualities, and low
prices, I can astonish the old
and young, big and ;; little,
rich and poor. It can sell
Gent's, Xonth's and Boy's
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(Successor to Philip Epstin^&u^er Colmn?
'bia Hotel Block,)
Sept. 7-tf-. .
high school.
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^^^Corps of Instructors.
Principal, L. M. Mitchell; Assistant and
Secretary, J. Walter Mitchell; Assistantin
Primary Department, R. W. Haiti wattger;
Assistant in Physiology and Hygiene, J.
\V. Eargle. >1. D.; Assistant in Music,
SfrsTDr. J. W. Er.rgie.
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Ttyi Men, Ladies, Girl and Boy a, and.
allow no one to undersell ihem. Be sure
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ARTIST,
COLUMBIA, S. C ,
"I"s now making the best pictures that can
X be had in this country, and all who have
never bad a real fine picture, shoal i now
try some of his latest styles. Spicitnens
can be seen at Gallery, up stairs, neit to
Kinard's. Mftrdl H-rt
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DIVINE SERVICES AT THE BROOKLYN
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i h?t. i)?. Talmas? Expounds a Familiar
: Text with Characteristic Clearness and
OrigrinaUty-?A False and Hallclotu Re-,
pcirt Conternlug the Doctor'Denounced.
f; ; Brooklyn. May ^ ?The Rev. T. Da
Wiu Talroage, D. D., told the congregation
at the tabernacle today* that a malicious
falsehood * had gone through the
country, saying that at a recent meeting
of the officers of the Thirteenth regiment
at his house he had set before them four
kinds of trine. He said: "X will pay
$1,000 to any charitable institution if it
can be proved that one drop di wine or
any other intoxicating liquor was offered
in my house that evening. The twentyfive
gentlemen present may be called
- upon for testimony. Any three respectable
clergymen or lawyers or detectives
may be selected; they also to decide
what charity shall have the money. I
ask the newspapers all over the land,
which have been misled by the false
bool. to correct it1" ?
The opening hymn of the service begins;
?
Salvation * O, tbe -Joyful sound,
Tia pleasure to our -sara
Dr. Taimage announced as the subject
, of .the sermon. "Loss and Gain," and his
text wis: -What shall it profit a man, if
he* shall gain the whole world, and lose
his own soul?"?Mark via, 36.
I am accustomed. Sabbath by Sabbath,
te stand before an audience of bargain
makers. There may be men in all occupations
sitting before me, yet the vast
ma jority of them. 1 am very well aware,
are engaged from Monday morning to
Saturday night in the store. In many of
the families of my congregation, across
the breakfast table and the tea table, are
discussed questions of loss and gain.
Yet are every day asking yourself:
'"What is the value of this? What is the
value of tliat?" You would not think of
giving something of greater value for
thai which is of lesser value. You would
not tliink of selling that which cost
you $10 for $5. If you had a prop
erty that was worth $15,000 you would
not sell it for $4,000. You are intelligent
in all matters of bargain making. Are
you as wise in the things that pertain to
the matters of the soul? Christ adapted
his instructions tb the rircumstances of
those to whom he spoke. When he 1
talked to fishermen, he spoke of the Gospel
net. When he talked to the farmers,
he said: "A sower went forth to sow.1'
'When he talked to the shepherds, he told
the parable of the lost sheep And am I
not right when speaking this owning to
an audience made up of bargain makers
that I address them in the words of my
text, asking: '-What shall ft profit a
. man, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul?" ^13
1 propose, as far as possible, to estimate
and compare the value of two properties.
first, I havexo^ay that the worldxs
JTfTT grand, rnnrffn^i n ft
God's thoughts in stone. Its aewdrops
are God's thoughts in pearL This world
ip God's child?a wayward child indeed;it
has wandered off through the heavens.
But about 1,888 years age, oneChnstmas _
night. God sent out a sisterworbi-^5"
T** , i i >?i**r**3fyTmTT^' over
that wnidQ^ir,5S' "" t - &
tong enough to get the
promise of the wanderer's return, and
now that lost world, with soft feet of
light, orues treading back through the
heavens. The hills, how beautiful they
billow up, the edge of the wave
white with, the foam of crocuses'.
How beautiful the rainbow, the
arched* bridge on which heayjm
and earth come and talk to saclfotHpr in.
tears, .after the storm is overt - How
-*..'niuia cite feet of the lamp lighters that
in a few buutttcfc set all dome of the
night abiaze with brackets of firef How
bright the oar of the saffron cloud that
\xows across Hie deep sea of heavanl
H6w beautiful the spring, with tndaJ
blossoms in her hair I I wonder who it
[ is tliat beats time on a June morning fox
r the bird oi-chestra. How cently the
harebell tolls its fragrance on the air'
There may be grander worlds; swarthier
, worlds, larger worlds than this, but 1
think that this is a most exquisite world
| ?a 'mignonette on the bo6om of im,
mensity' "Oh," you say, "take my
i soul! give me that world! I am willing
j to take it in exchange. I am ready now
f for the baigain. It is so beautiful a
; world, so sweet a world, so grand a
I world!"
I But let us look more minutely into the
i value of this world. You will not buy
j property unless you can get a good title
| to it. After you have looked at the
| property and found out that it 6uits you.
; you send an attorney to the public office,
j and he examines the book of deejjs, and
[ the book of mortgages, and the book ol
| judgments, and the book of iiens, and he
j decides 'whet her the title is good before
I you will have anything to do with it.
j There might be a splendid property," and
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I but if you cannot get a good title you
| will not take it. Now, I am here this
; morning to say that it is impossible to get
I a good title to this world. If I settle
; down upon it, in the very year I so
j settle down upon it as a perma?
sent" possession- I may be driven
| away from it. Ay, in * five minutes
after I give up my soul for the world I
: may have tc j)a# with the world; and
j what kind of a title do you call that?
i There is only one way ia which I. can
:j hold an earthly possession, and that is
through the senses. All beautiful sights
through the eye, but the eye may be
blotted out; all captivating sounds
through the ear, but my ear may be
1 deafened; ah luseiousness of fruits and
viands through my taste, but lay taste
} may be destroyed; all appreciation of
culture and of art through, my mind, but
| I may lose my mind. What $ frail
hold, then, 1 have upon any earthly possession!
In courts of law, if you want to get a
man off a property, you must serve upon
him a writ of ejectment, giving him a
! certain time to vacate the premises; but
j when Death comes to us and serves a
| writ-of ejectment, ho does not give us
s MPnmi nf fnr^warninc. He says:
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"Off of thi? place! You have no right
any longer in the possession." We
might cry oat: "I gave you $100,000
for that property;" the plea would he of
no avail. We might say: "We have a
warantee deed for that property;" the
plea would be of no avaiL We might
say; "We have a lien on thst store
house;" that would do us no goodDeath
is blind, and he cannot see a seal,
and cannot read an indenture. So that,
first and last, I want to tell you that
when you propose that I give up my sou}
for the world, you cannot give me tlie
first item of title.
Having examined the title of a prop*
erty, your next question is about insurance
You would not be silly enough
' to buy a large ware house that could nol
i possibly be insured. You would not have
I anything to do with such a property.
j Now, I ask you what assurance can you
[ give me that this world is not going t<
i | be burned up? Absolutely none. Geoloj
gists tell us that it is already on fire; thai
j the heart of the world is one greai
,
living coal; that it is just like a
ship on .fire at sea, the flames I
not bursting out because the hatches |
are kept down. And yet you propose to j
palm off-on me, in return for my soul, ,
a world for which, in the first place, you
give no title, and in the second place, for
which you can give no insurance. "Oh, " I
you say, "the wat?r of the oceans will {
wash over all the land and put out the j
fire." Olu no. There are inflammable j
elements in the water, hydrogen and :
oxygen. Call off the hydrogen, and j
then the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans j
would blaze like heaps of shavings.. You I
want me to take this world, for which j
you can give no possible insurance.
Astfomers have swept their telescopes i
through the sky, and have found out I
that there have been thirteen worlds, in j
the last two centuries, that have disap- ;
peared. At first they looked just like
other worlds. Then they got deeply red;
then they were on fire. Then . they got
ashen, showing.they were, burned down.
Then they disappeared, showing that even
the ashes were scattered. And if the
geplogist be right in liis prophecy, then
our wc*f 1^ is to go in the same way. And |
yet you want me to exchange my soul '
for it. Ah. no: it is a world that iscj
burning now. Suppose you brought an
insurance agent to look at your properly
for the purpose of giving you a policy
upon it, and while he?stood in front of
the'house he should say f''That house is
on fire now in the basement," you could
not get any insurance upon it. Yet you
talk about this world as though it were a
safe.investment, as though you could get
some insurance upon it, when down in
the basement it is on fire.
I remark, also, that thisv world is a
property, with which everybody who lias
taken it as a possession has had trouble.
Now I know a large reach of land that
. is not built on. 1 ask what is the matter,
and they reply that everybody who
has had anything to do with that property
got into trouble about it. It is just so
with this world; everybody that has had
*any thing to do with it, as a possession,
has been in . perplexity. How was it
with Lord Byron? Did he not sell his
immortal soul for the purpose of getting
the world? Was he satisfied with the
possession? Alas! aiasl thepoem.graphicaily
describes his case when it says;
Drank avery cup of Joy,
Heard every trump of fame;
Drunk early, deeply drank.
. Drank draughts which common millions might
have quenched.
Then died of thirst because there was no more to
drink. /
Oh, yes, he bad trouble with it; andft)
did Napolean. After conquering nations
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to die, his entire possession the military
boots that he insisted on having upon his
feet while he wvs dying. So it has been
with men who had better ambition.
Thackeray, one of the most genial and
! lovable souls, after he had won the ai>
[ plause of all intelligent lands through his
: wonderful genius, sits down in a restaurant
in Paris, looks to the other end of
the room, ...i; wonders whose that forlorn
and wretched face is; rising up after
L? while, he finds that it is Thackeray.in
; >l*a.jmiTor. <Jh, yes, this world is a
5 UUi??3?!?StT" ho ..
f ever owned Asia? Who ever gained a
city ? Who ever owned Brooklyn? Talk
about gaining the world 1 No man ever
gained it, or the hundred-thousandth part
-oLit You are demanding that I sell my
soul, not-for the world, but for a fragment
of it Here is a nfan who lias had
a large estate for forty or fifty years. He
lies down to die.. You say: "That man
is worth millions and millions of dollars."
Is he? You call ftp a surveyor, with his
compass and chains, and you say: "There
is a property extending three miles in one
direction, and three miles in another
direction."Is that the way to measure
that man's propear? Nol You do n6t
want any surveyor, with his compass
and chains. That is not the
pay you want to-measure tbat man's .
property now. It is an undertaker that
you need, who will come and put his
finger imhas vest pocket end take out a
tape line, and '"he will 'measure five feet
nine inches one way and two feet and a
half the ether*way,/' That is the man's
property. Oh, no, I forgot; not so much
as that, for he does not own even the
place in which he lies in" the cemetery.
The deed to that belongs to the executors
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and the iieirs. cm, wuat a piupcit^ juu
propose tcrgive me for my soul! If you
sell a hill of goods, you go into the
counting room and say to your partner:
"Do you think that man is good for this
bill? Can lie give proper security? "Will
- he meet this payment?"
Now, when you are offered this world
as a possession, I want you to test the
matter. 1 do not want you to go into
this bargain blindly. I want you to ask
about the title, about the insurance,
about whether men have ever had any
trouble with it, about whether you can
keep it. about whether- you can get all,
or the 10,000th, Or 100,000th part of it.
There is the world now. I shall say
no more about it. Slake up your mind
for yourself, as I shah, before God, hare
to make up my mind for myself, .about
the value of this world. IJJcannot afford
to make a mistake for my soul, and you
cannot afford to make a mistake for your
soul.
Now, let us look at the other property
?the soul We cannot make a bargain
without seeing the comparative value.
The soul! How shall I estimate the value
of it? Well, by its exquisite organization.
It is the' most wonderful piece of
mechanism ever ' put together. Machinery
is of value in proportion as it is
i mighty and silent avthe same time. You
I look at the engine and the machinery in
the Philadelphia mint, and, as you see it
performing its wonderful work, you will
be surprised to find how silently it goes.
Machinery that roars and tears soon
destroys itself; bpfc silent machinery
is often most effective. Now, so it is
with the soul of man, with all its tremendous
faculties?it moves in silence.
Judgment, without any racket, lifting
its scales; memory, without any noise,
bringing down all its treasures; conscience
taking its judgment seat without any excitement;
the understanding mid the wiJI
i ail doing their work. . Velocity, majesty,
I might; but silence ?silence. You listen
i at the door of your heart. You caff hear
no sound. The souJ is all quiet It is so
delicate an instrument that no human hand
can touch it. You break a bone,
and with splinters and bandages the
surgeon sets it; the eye becomes inflamed,
the apothecary's wash cools it; but a soul
off the track, unbalanced, no human
power can readjust it. With one sweep
of its wing it circles the universe and
overvaults the throne of God. Why, in
the hour of death the soul is so mighty,
! it throws aside the body as though it
were a toy. It .drives back medical skill
as impotent, ft breaks through the
circle of loved ones who stand around the '
dying couch. With one leap, it springs
j beyond star and moon and sun, and
j chasms of immensity. Oh, it is a soul
superior to all material things L No fire
i can consume it; no floods can drown it; no
rocks can crush it'; no walls can impede
it; no time can exliaust it. It wants
no bridge on which to cross a chasm. It
' wants no pljimmet with which to sound a
) depth. A soul so mighty, so swift, so
silent, must be a priceless souL
t I calculate the value of the soul, also,
t by its capacity for happiness. How much
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joy it can get In "jtliislvorld out or friend- ,
ships, out of books, out of cloudy out |
of the sea, opt of flowers, out of j
ten thousand things; and yet all the"joy J
it has here does not' test its capacity. |
You are in a concert before the curtain !
hoists, and you hear the instruments jire- j
paring?the "'sharp snap of the broken j
string, the scraping of the bow across the j
viol. "There is no music in that," you \
say. It is only getting ready for the j
music. And all the enjoyment of the'j
soul in this world, the enjoyment we j
think is real enjoyment, is only jprepara- j
tive; it is only auticipative; it-is only the j
first stages of the thing; it is only the j
entrance, the beginning of that which j
shall be the orchestral harmonies and
splendors of the redeemed.
You cannot test the full power of the
soul for happiness in this world. How
much power the soul has here to find en- j
joyment in friendships! but, oil, the j
grander friendships for the soul in the j
skies! How sweet the flowers here! but j
how much sweeter they will be there! I 1
do not think that when flowers die on i
earth they die forever. I think Uiat the j
fragrance of the flowers is the spirit j
being wafted away into glory. God says -j
there are palm trees in heaven and fruits
in heaven. If so, why not the spirits of j
the dead flowers? In the sunny valleys j
of heaven, shall not the marigold creep? !
On the hills of heaven, will not the
amaranth bloom? On the amethystine
walls of heaven, will not the jasmine
climb? "My beloved is come down in
his garden to gather lilies." No flowers
in heaven? Where, tberf, do they get
their garlands for the brows of the
righteous?
*" Christ is glorious to our souls now, - but
how much grander our appreciation after
a while! A conqueror comes back after j
the battle. He has been fightin&ior us. :
He comes upon the platform. He has j
one arm in a sling, and the other arm ;
holds a crutch. As he mounts the plat- !
form, oh, the enthusiasm of the 'audi- j
encel They say: "That man fought for j
us, and imperiled his 'ife. for us,'' and j
how wild the huzza that follows huzza j
When the Lord Jasus Christ shall at last !
6tand out before the*multitudes of the ro- {
deemed of heaven and we meet him ace j
to face, and feel that he was wounded in
the head, and wounded in the lands, and
wounded in the feet, and wounded in the
side for us, methinks we will '"be overwhelmed.
We will sit some time gazing
in silence, until some leader unidst the
white robed choir shall lift the baton. ;jf
light, and give the signal that it is time
to wake the song of jubilee; and all
heaven will then break forth into: "Hosannal
Hosannal Hosanna! Worthy is
the Lamb that is .slain "
I calculate further the value of the
soul by the price that has been paid for
it. In St*. Petersburg there is a diamond
that the government paid $200,000 for
"Well," you say, "it. must have been
very valuable, or th^ government would
not have paid.$200,000 for it." I want
to see what "my soul is worth, and what
your soul is worth, by seeing what lias
been paid for it. For that immortal soul,
thdTichest blood that, was ever shed, the
deepest grcan that wa^ever uttered, all ^
his holy heart. Does it not" imply #e- j
menuuus vjut'ei >
I argue also the value of the soul
from the home that lias Seen fitted up
for it in the future. One would have
thought a street of adamant would have
done. No; it is a street of gold. One
would have thought that a wall of granite
would have done. No; it is the flame
of sardonyx mingiing With the green of
emerald. One would have thought that
an occasional doxology would have done.
No; it is a perpetual song. If the ages
of heaven marched in a straight line,
some day the last rqpiment, perhaps,
might pass out of sight; jbht no, the ages
of heaven do not marfch in a straight
line, but in a circle around about the
throne of God; forever, forever, tramp,
tramp! A soul so bought, so equipped*^,
so provided for, must be- & prictiL?j-oool,
a majestic soul-,-^tremendous soul.
Now, you have seen the two properties
?the world, the soul. One perishable,
the other immortal. One unsatisfying,
the other capable of ever increasing
felicity. Will you trade? Will you
trade even? Remember, it is the only
investment you can make. If a man
sell a bill of goods worth $5,000, and he
is cheated out of it, he may get $5,000
somewhere else; but a man who invests
his soul invests alL Losing that, he
loses alL Saving that, he saves alL In
the light of my text, it seems to me as if
you wei*e this morning offering your soul
to the highest bidder; and I hear you
say: "What is bid for it, my deathless
spirit? What is bid for it?" Satan says:
"I'll bid the world.".'. You say: "BegoneJ?tterf
is'" no equivalent. Sell my I
souljfor the world? No! Begoner1 But
there is some one else ip the audience
not so wise as that. He says: "What
is bid for my immortal soul?" Satan
says: "I'll bid the world." "The world?
Going at that going at that, going!
GoneF* Gone forever!
What Is th jtfhing of greatest price, .
Thfr whoio creation round?
That which was lost in Paradise, >'
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Then let us gather reuntTthe cross,
That knowledge to obtain; . * j
Not by the soul's eternal loss.
But everlasting gain. j
Well, there are a great many people in
the house who say: "I will not sell my
soul for the world. I find the world
is an unsatisfying portion." What,
then, will you do with your soul? Some
one whispers here: "1 will gire my - soul
to Christ." Will you? That is the'
wisest resolution you ever made. Will
you give it to Christ? When? To-morrow?
No; now. I congratulate you if
you have come to such a decision. (Mi,
if this morning the eternal Spirit of God
would come down upon this audience
and show you the vanity of this'world,
and the immense importance of Christ's
religiomand the infinite value of your own
immortal souls, wbat a house thi3 would
be! what an hour this would bo!, what a
moment this would be! Do you know
that Christ has bought your soul? Do
you know that he has paid an infinite
price for it? Do you know that he is
worthy of it? Will you give it to him
now?
I was reading of a sailor who had just
got ashore, and was telling about his last
experience at sea. Tie said: "The last
time I crossed the ocean we had a terrific
time. After we had been out three
or four days the machinery got disarranged
and the steam began to escape,
and the captain, gathering the people
and the crew on deck, said: 'Unless some
one shall go down and shut oft that
steam, and arrange that machinery at
the peril of ]iis life, we must all be doj
shoved.' lie was not willing to go down
jH himself. No one seemed willing to go.
I'lie passengei-s gathered at one end of
the steamer waiting for their fate. The
captain said: '1 give you a last warning.
If there is no one here willing to
imperil his life and go down and fix
that machinery, wo must all be lost.' A
plain spdor said: TH go, sir;' and he
wrapped himself in a coarse piece of canvas
and went down, and was gone but a
few moments when the escaping steam
stopped, and the machinery was corrected.
'The captain cried out to the
passengers: 'All saved! Let us go down
below and seo what has become of tho
m
>
pobtJfeJIow,' They went down. Th&e
he 1^' dead." Vicarious suffering! Died
for 3l! Oh, do you suppose that those
peope on the ship ever forgot, ever can
forjet * that poor fellow? "No!" they
say?: "it v 3 through his sacrifice that I I
got ishore.'* The time came when our j
whgre race must die unless some one
sl$a$! endure torture and sorrow and j
sbarpj. Who shall come to the rescue!
ShalHfc be one of the seraphim? Not one.
Shailjit be one of the cherubim! Not
onevQ* Shall ^ be an inhabitant.
of issue pure -and unf&llen world?
Not she. Then Christ said: "Lot
Loqpap to do flay wilL O God;" and he
> went down through the dark stairs of our
sin.Jbd wretchedness, and misery, and
wo3 h&d he stopped the peril, and he
died,vthat you and I might be free. Oh,
the oh. the endurance! oh, the horwxcrifice
Shall hot our souls
th&iriphiing go out toward him. saying*
"Ldc^JFesus Christ. take my ioul. Thou
ait -ivorihy to have. it. Thpu hast died
Ced help you thus morning rightly to
ciaUg^it this sum in Gospel arithmetic:
"What shall it profit a man, if he srBdi gain*
the whole worid, and lose his own
soul?' '
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4 railroad Birmah.
Tlie English are incessant in their endeavors
to-open a trade route from India
to China. One of the preliminary steps
jo reacn cms ooject is cue estaousnment
of a railroad from the valley of the
I>rahire%>utra co 'he upper part of the
Irasvadi^ by >vhich means they expect to
sir^ngtSen- dieir position in Burmah. The
region , to traversed is extremely
mountainous, and tna road will have x>
cross the -Patko: mountains Recently
an expedition lias been sent out to .ascertain
the* feasibility of building the road,
cf wincbjffessrs Micbell and Needham
were in charge. They found that the
Patkoi ifinge. -which was formerly considered
afri insurmountable barrier forth?
ttr.de be&veCn Assam and Burmah, can
be crosses oc a number of passes not exceeding
i 500 feet in height. They succeeded
il crossing it on one of these
passes with, five elephants, and state that
a road cd? be built without great.diffi'cuities.
Tints the recent reports of Colqhourv'.a^d
Woodthorpe are confirmed.
Af the present time the trade between
China and Bumiah is carried on by caravans
consuming of from 200 to 2,000 animals.
wliiph eros3 the range during the
dry season, i. e., between the months of
November and May. They cross the territory
of the Rachitis, who exact heavy
payments from them; nevertheless the
caravans are subject to frequent attacks,
and must be protected by an escort of
armed men.?Science.
A Crab Catching Ape.
' That's a lone fisherman," said a bird
dealer as he pointed tc a Java ape. "It
is the best crab catcher known."
''flow do39 he manage to get the
crab?";
'Catches him with his tail. Ee is the
only kindf of ape that has a long tad.
When it se^s a crab the ape backs up to
Jim 11i-ii i' '^re the crab has disappeared,
intrusion, *nbe the toil,' tlie ape leaps '
forward, a*d before the crab can say'
Jack Robimson' it finds itself on dry
land with IS,000 miles of terra, fir ma
under the ape, who soon chews tip the
crab and than tackles the next hole on its
Ikf.. ' NftW '.Vrt?t Tolfl<Wg .. 1
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V*? of tb? Trawl.
The incessant use of th? trawl hag depleted
the fisheries on /iie east coast of
England to aicb, an extent that the fishermen
are ildistress. and the government
is urgefibpl^e restrictions ou iLi*
mode of fi5hmg^4$Hcago 1 ""
OAU^HTI^ OF EVEL
Wlmt the Newspaper*. Say Ab^ot Fimoni
Onq of the Pair Sex?<
Ladv CoJi* Campbell was offered
-guJutf" 7^~*w'~,fe?u"rea America,
which, on theliifvjee of Matthew Arnold,
she declined,
The most ffirless rider in the capital
is Miss Frencji the daughter of Representative
Frejfch, of Connecticut, who
rides a very suited horse and sits her
saddle with gace and composure.
Mme. Jai^oschek's name is pro
nounccd in tDree or four different ways,
but her own wfj is as though the name
were spelled *pan-ow-shek," with each
syllable plainly sounded, and tlie accent
upon the first,i
Mrs. Annie ?8esant, the well known
English radical j thinker and lecturer, is
described by ^'correspondent who recently
saw bei'as a well proportioned
lady of Eiediua height and upright bearing,
with a fadaof somewhat masculine
cut, every lina^n it indicating determination
and resolute purpose. Her voice,
however, is jp^teant and well modulated,
and her mannei is gentle.
Mrs. George W. Child3 is a frequent
and cordially welcome guest at Atlantic
City. A correspondent at that resort
c?o vc j.hnt Mea. Child-? nossesses oneof tile |
finest coUSctioaa of jewels to be seen,
though as a matter of fact she wears, as
a rule, very few and simple jewels. She
possesses, among other things, a rare
East Indian gem that seldom gets beyond
the borders of that land, and of which
there are very |ew specimens in America.
j A great portion" of the latter part of
, Miss A1 colt's hre was spent with her sister
and nephews and nieces at Nouquitt,
a town or? tli^vest sfiore of Buzzard's 1
bay. It vra^^re that the sculptor.
-Walter Ricketsoa, an intimate friend of
. the family, s&ade the medallion of Miss
Alcott not -long before she died. A photograph
of this medallion i?^o6e of the
Hkest pictures, to ;be had-oT her. When
ffer sister saw the baa relief for the first
time the tears came to her eyes and she
said, "That.is my Loy."
The proseht German empress ia the
fifth English princess who has held that
rarJr. The others were: Edgyth, daughter
of Edwaid the Elder, wife of Otto
k-Gunbild, daughter of Knut, wife of
Henry III, of Germany; Matilda, the
link between theNorman and Plantagenet
dynasties, wife of Henry V, of Germany,
I and Isabella, daughter of Ring John,
i wife of Frederick -II, the wonder of the
! world. The last named princess was q
! direct ancestor of the late prince consort
of England, and, therefore, of the present
German empress
FJoj-ence ^ Kelley-Wisclmewtsy, the
daughter of Judge Relley, of Penn^yiI
mnifu who married a Russian student
; abroad, is one of the closest observers of
j the condition of the working'women of
; New York.ana oneof the best informed as
j regards their condition and prospects.
; She does a good deal of newspaper and
; other literary work in that city, is a clear
; thinker and has a better faculty of putting
! things on fa per than her father. Slie is
a fine taoKSng, vigorojgs young woman,
with an Hmusually attractive fyce.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is failing. Her
memory grows daily more treacherous.
She is mucji of the time her old self, com
versing on si} the topics in which she is
interested with great intelligence and
" fluency. But there are intervals, not
infrequent, during which she forgets the
names >f friends, Loses track of her own
I business concerns and cannot speak accurately
of thee vents >f the past. _ln
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some or cnese torgetrui intervals sne nas
denied ill tcquaincance with people
whom she ts known to ielight to honor
and vccasioned no little temporary embarrassment
thereby
A. fragile looking woman, tall, slight,
with a graceful, yielding, willowy figure, >
shadows under her eyes and ghosts look- j
in# out jf ' hem, attracted some little at
tendon itanding in front of a glowing ;
mass of lark pansies in a florist's window ,
a lay >r Swo since. None of the passers |
had aver seen quite such an embodiment :
of ;he pailid, the wistful, the spiritueiie.
Everybody turned to look a second time ;
at the iar$e ?yes, the md curves of the ;
face, *:ne nelancholy mouth that looked I
as if, should it smile, it would light up
the whole lountenance gloriously By
and by it did 3mile. and cordially, at a ;
little ohittwho ran up to look at the j
pansi is too. The w mian was, beautiful.
Nobody recognized the quiet figure, but j
it was hat 7. a writer whoso name is !
signed to sou, > of tne strongest verse of j
the day?Edith Thorn u. who has w-uiJy i
. made N sw Y >rk oer oermanect home, j !
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Pl?c.'* J" Phwo.
Almost r* icy liwsoaper 'f-iw A t3- |
traiia has woi^co-iig to. v&y il-ouc tti* |
rabbit piS-fie a ;hic :o.ony Aid now j
comas i iijcju* wui from . hin?, taring |
ft imgir which threar/in 'h;u *mfirv j
A recen; lumber if Cha FAu? Ctaecte I
contains i memorial to :o*r imicror from |
the governor >? (TVassutat staring rhac, !
owing co :he appearance of swarms of j
rats, ijt has been found necessa.-y tc ?Uter
tne router of che government ecuner
service in three if the oostai station? m
the Khaikha retcon :n Duter Mor>/' lia.
For two years past the pasturage of .ne
districts in question nas suffered severely
from the ravages ot these vermin, sad
last year Dearly every blade of gras? was
eater up. Tlie w hole country l-.ts t<eon
honeycombed with their ourrews. .ho
horses and camels are in a famishing
state, and there is no means cf keeping
them al've. Tlie burrows are a source )f
great dangei to the mounted winners,
and the want of forage render? it inii>os6ible
to maintain a simply of animals lor
the service.?Scientific American.
The Pope's Triple Crown.
The popes did not always wear the tlireo
crown tiara. At first they wore an orcli- !
jjary miter with one crown around it, j
then a second was added to it. and then \
a third, when it took the name of triregno
(three kingdoms). This explains why
sometimes the simple .miter is used and
sometimes called the triregno.?Catholic
News.
^ Kut?U'? Convict Houses.
Siberia, as a place of exili^s shortly
destined to become a thing dflrthe jxist. ;
The Russian government, acting upon j
the advice of the governors of Irkutsk !
and Amor, has decided to keep its pris- j
oners in large convict houses, instead of j
sending them to Siberia.? Frank Leslies, j
PERSONAL. PARAGRAPHS.
Frederick Freer has an old gauze fan j
that he says is his" mascot Whenever j
he painta a woman holding the gauze fan ;
l^r* ^ter fEraPer^ Frederick j
left San Remo the sultan sent him a col- I
jar. consisting of nine hazel nuts with :
inscriptions from the Koran, over'which i
hS jf.hes Md sheit3 of the palace
Sttredi*^ "" Whicb' 83 * ?
ttsrprmce'woufd cure 1)1,111
Probably the oldest 6mplova^r^?
government in term
Muse, an ancient-*'*' ^" man who has
stood guard at imedoor of the secretaries
of the navy since 1828. years .
nldL-and growjys-^Q?.feeble tha^^a aalL. ?Professor^^TS^TrT^S^I^y
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the speaking telephone and the ^mtograph,
is she feet tall, straight, witn^^
rather long face. Expression thoughtful,
simple manners, lips wiiich often
part in smile and are seemingly incapable
of giving utterance to h.-vrsh words, hair
and beard plentiful and now tinged with j
gray, blue eyes and a complexion warm i
and ruddy with health.
Gen. Crook, the famous Indian fighter,
stands six feet in his stockings, and is as
straight as an arrow. He has been thirtysix
years in the service, and knows his
business thoroughly. When on the war
path Gen. Crook wears an old canvas
suit said to be worth $1.25. He rides at
-? ' -tUK
the head or nis cornum vu a LUUiCt wtui |
a rifle across .his arm. Ee is'a devoted
hunter and fisherman, and it is said that
he would go 1,000 miles to shoot a bear.
The * czarewitch's engagement to
Princess Militza, of Montenegro, is, it is j
stated, in accordance with a resolution j
of the czar that in future the heir to the !
throne shrill marry a princess born in the
Russian orthodox faith. Hitherto they
have married Lutherans or Calviniste,
who have been rebaptizea. In future the
empresses mypt be taken from the princesses
of Russia, Servia, Romnania,
Montenegro or Greece,
Barnes Greeley, a brother of the
founder of The Tribune, is a farmer in
Pennsylvania. He is an eccentric man,
and while he advocates the doctrines of
the Prohibitionists, he thinks that too
much water is a dangerous thing. He
attributes bis excellent physical condition
at the age of 75 to the small amount of
water he uses, both as a beverage and
for cleansing purposes. Chickens and
pigs are his favorite live stock, and they
roam at will over his house. Mr. Greeley
says that hjs brother Horace gave him a'
position on The Tribune in its early days,
, -but he did not like it, and after a short
trial returned to his pigs and chickens.
The coming emperor is of a sullen
mold. The young crown prince stalked
out of the big Friederich street station
the other night and faced a multitude of
! men who were waiting for a chance to
cheer th9 soldier idol who is to succeed
the present invalid. . Prince William
seemed then not pretty, but tall, surly,
magnificent and intent. "Soldiers ore
made to fight," he says. Bismarck's plea
has been tliat in this,empire soldiers were
"Kocarrfl fh.-> npflrt? hv convincing
JLuau& W pi vov? IV v?? f - . W
the enemies of Germany that it would
not be wise to make war. At an early
day the young crown prince will ascend
the throne, and then the world will see
what the 2,000,000 soldiers of Germany
were created for They worship this
moody, resentful prince, these 2, <300 >)00
fighters He is not yet 30: ne haoes the
English- he detests the Russians, bis
power will be absolute add unhampered
Caricature* it King William.
I remarked a curious ideal -ivoljuiou of
| the king of Prussia on my way from
I Paris. There I saw portraits prrring \
j sad change from my bland ind blonde >M
I gentleman >f IS67 His eye had becooi3
ferocious, his nose corvine, hi3 muscacn*.1
porcupiaish bis whols jxpresston tbac >t
an ogre His mstomary altitude was chat
of a mounted brigand taking from French
peasants their substance. In -Usacc
i king had lost 9pme of his ferocity, out
j acquired a Mephistophelian i.ir In Switz:
erland a 'nnale enthusiast of tea * International
League of Peace *nd Liberty '
portrayed Prussian aing and Frenon itnperor
is two idols to whom human ja.iri!
fices are offered, fhe Frenchman was i
; serpent god, William a Dark Forest
demon. ?
Cnjgsing the Rhine, I found "die sing
shrunken :n dimensions, and quit#* .11*
man. yet not altogether oveiy . As far
northward as Baden, resentment against
France was mixed with 1 feeling toward
the Prussians resembling that of patriotic
Mar}* land toward "lie *'Yankees'* luring
our war. At Rastadt the king had become
a great soldier, at Carisruhe a
saintly soldier. With his armies on cios <
soil of France. William I was father :f
the Fatherland?Bar harossa coming fro a;
liis cavern to add-Cliarlemagne's rrows.
to his own, and give born x> Germany ?
Moncure D. C&nwav in The Cosmvpoii**
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The Temper of a Razor. .
The finest grades of razors are so ioli- j
cace that even the famous. Damascus
blades cannot equal them in texture. ' ft
is not generally known that the grain of
a Swedish razor is so sensitive thai its
general direction is changed after a, short j
service. When you buy a fine razor the
grain runs from the "upper end of the I
outer point in a diagonal direction toward
the handle. Constant stropping will
twist the steel until the grain appears to
? set straight up and down. Subsequent
} use will a rag 'die grain outward from the
edge, so tliat after steady use for several
months the fiber of the steel occupies a
| position exactly reverse to that which api
peared on the day of purchase. The process
also affects the temper of the blade,
| and when the grain sets from lower outer
end toward the back you h^ve a tool
which cannot l)e kept in condition by the
most conscientious barber.
But here's another freak of nature.
Leave the razor alcne foi a month, and
when you take it up you will find the
grain has resumed its first position. Thiss
operation can be repeated until the steel
is worn through to the back.?Steel
Worker in Globe-Democrat.
There are now GGO students in Clafln i
university, Orangeburg, S. C., an institution
for colored j>eop!e. Most of them
are paying their own way, and are studious,
zealous and ambitious.
Help the Orphans.
Iu tbe Thornwfcli Orphanage, CHlton,
S. C., are 55 orphans. Thty
are from tbe States of South Carolina, 1
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mis* '
eissip-pi, Texas, Illinois, Maryland op a j 1
Massachusetts. They are from the j
Presbyterian, Methodic, (Episcopal 1
and Protestant,) Baptist, Episcopalian
and Lutheran denominations. They 1
are taught only in schoolroom, bat
are fitted by practical labor, for life's '
, battles. No servants are qldployed i
in any domestic duty, The 'Chd.dreii 1
do it all. The boys learn printing, <
farming, gardening and carpentering j I
The idea of "helping ihemaef?^^
love to help the /atherJ^C as u0 or- 1
phan with prnp^^w admitted. 2
Gifts /or their support should be
sent to Rev. Wm. F c
S. 0. grj>wn to ti
ions, that a central buddtug
for dining roci *,d kitchen^,. , c,
poses is lo be built, the CorueretoL I d
of which wiii he iaid oa jjsy 2ijtji i li
Tb& Stui day-schools are all aekiffl I a
B?nalle8t gif; will help. j .. ?
liScoreJi^-icrs^Efied. i j b
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The iDCteasiug kuowledge among i k
farmers of the value of artjTn-ijQ0Ub
foods DUtuneilj* t> in f
peas. They are belter for growing rp
pigs and early fattening thau corn.? b
Toe pea shades the ground and on- b
doabted'y exhausts the soil lees than t
most other grains. Io wheat grow- F
ing sections a crop of peas fed down 6
by bogs wus regarded formerly as an c
excellent preparation for wheat. II a
the land was free from thistles it was *
considered Dearly as good for tbe j
wheat crop to grow peas on it, as it j t
was to have naked fallow on. But as ; '
weeds come id, peas Dave come .uui i i
of fashion. It is hard to keep pea j-1
land cleao, even wbeo the peas are id I
rows wide enough to admit of cojti- ?
vatioo. Tte pea vines grow unevenly '
so that one is apt in boeiog to cut *
them off. For this reason, when
grown in field culture, peas are gen- i
i erally sown * or drilled in thickly
I eooughr to cover the entire sorfhce.
| This will keep the weed* down early j
I in the season, and until the pea vines
j begin to shrivel and dry op. bat the
ground can be cleared of its crop and
plowed before the l?texr weeds ripen
I their seed ?American Cultivator.
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| Closing Ssercises of St. Ander- j
son's School.
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Mb. Editor:?We had the pleasure
of attending the closing exercises of
the above named school. They were
opened by siDging. The teacher, Mr.
J. D. Senn, examined the scholars in
reading, history, geography, and
arithmetic, which examination spoke
well for both teacher and pupil*
tuaa fhp.n announced and we
1/ IUUV? WW ?
were made the partakers of a sumptuous
repast prepared by the fair ladiee
of the community. After one hour i
intermission all repaired to the school
hmee where we listened to the
dialogues and recitations by the j
scholnrp. Essays wer*- re d by Misses j
Mittie Seon and #Miunie Huffman* I
Mr. William Johnson was then iotro :
^uced and delivered a highly inter- I
eating address on the importance of j
teacbi ig brother iy love in our schools j
Mr. Senn then-in a few words closed j
the exerci3es. So was spent a? other j
| pleasant day and we retaroed to our ;
i homes much pleased with this portion j
' of Lexington Fork.? Vision. '
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"WASHING-TON LETTER.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
April 27tb, 1888.
G*>v. Hill, of New York, says be is
not a emdidate for tbe Presidency, v
and that be wil^most willingly bead
Phe New York delegation at St Loose
for tbe'reoomication of Cleveland. Tb<we
Jjpqpotbiog new in this, perhaps
itSi^ky^satisfy that small class of
Diinccrats who have been, trying to
mKkej5Sap;i*-ar that Gov. Hill was
b,if er}t$^pbsed to Mr. Cleveland. The
examination of employes of
the Government Printing Office by
the fc^jr-essionai committee eogaged
in instigating that establishment,
proves that the half was never told of
the enormo/hs quantity of private f
work that was done there for Republican
officials and friends of tbe Reptrblicau
PaWw Pointer. The taxpayers
of the couotry were thus
robbed of many thousand dollars.
For a Republican investigation this
one has made a large amount of gocd
Democratic campaign material, ?
For a time it looked es-though tbe 7
Republicans intended to make trouble
over tbe discussion <ri the Mills' taiijf .
bill, but tbeir discretion and good
sense prevailed and an agreement was
made to devote twenty days to general
discussion, exclusive of night
sessions. This will give elf tbe time
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for fui! and free discussion of the
measure tbat anyone.coald ask. It .
was ol>o agreed to divide the time *
equally between the Democratic and
Republican speakers.
The Democratic "leaders hope to
get a final vote-on the bill by It^e ffth
of Jaoe, the date of meeting, 01 the
Sr. Louis convention, Jbot th# state of
the regular appropriation'..hills is
sncb, to say nothing of j^rae other
measures in which man y^nembersare
interested, that it is ejcjremely dcabtful.
Besides, if ty Bepnblic8ns
should feel dispose^xo pat obstacles \
in tbe way, it will/ be impossible ito " ^
have the qaee^oo settled by that
3?te. Howev/r, there can he. do
iarm in hoping antil the last. k
uurr|bf ^ rLav^^eea^rtde in the
loose this week in fa?Gr of the-- Mdls ~" /
,ill. notably one by Representative
iIcMilho, of Tennessee, in which he
named th8 Republicans with bavj&g* n?r .
lothing to offer as a substitute for f '
be measore. ./
The Texas delegation in Congress, failed
at tbe White Hoose on Tues* J
ay and presented en invitation J f
ie President'and Mrs. Cleveland *
tiend tbe dedication of the> n/^
T-liirillilt' it y list in. TjfeJl, y
9. As )0t ihVTiV*.l
een accepted nor declfta^ptK
Resident wants to go, but J
now that be can take the V
Secretary Faircbiid is o*pposedy\*fefcw
be bill which ^provides J^s^*yr^ i
>eea .passed by the ilouse arfd is mip
>efore *he Senate. He says it is *
irely too~expensive. Tfiie expense o^j
>rodaction ancTtkftJoss caused by
tructiou of the notes wHI make lit .
.ost as macb to &aiotaio a givin ' '
iver.ige, aa the entire face value of
be currency wiU be.
The Senate committee on - Postifiices
has favorably reported a bill
vhicb provides fofthe erection ot a
v i .<
public builcfitig in every town wbera
be gross postal receipts for the three
pears past have exceeded $3,000 per .
uiunm. The cost of tbe baildiog is
in no case to exceed $25,000, and tbe
joet of the site is not to exceed $5,000.
Senator Yoorbees bas made a
speech on the President's message in ^
which ?e paid his respects to Senator
logalls for the latter's recent attack
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on Gens. McCreilan and Hancock. He
ceviewed tbe services of the two, gen-_
erals during the war, and dwelt upon
the injustice with which McClellau
was treated becaase be was a Democrat.
He then reviewed the reconstruction
period, and denounced the Republican
administration of SonUt-^-i v':V :,r
ern State governments. He justified
the South for refusing to affiliate with
tbe Republican party, saying, as well
might the frontier settlements be~expected
to welcome another invasion
of tomahawks and scalptBg knives.
He said he coold see nothing to vender
at in tbe 75,000 Democratic ma
joiiiy given in Loaisiaca bui, a few
da\s ago. These people w?e alarmed
at the possibility of a return to power -?2
v f the party and the tuen who bad j
robbed them and left tbem overbnrdened
with debt. Ris only wonder
was that the vote was not unanimors.
He. then spoke of the prosperity tf
the South under,, Democratic rule,
and closed Lis speech with the pr ?
die ion - bat the verdict.of the Acueri- \
can p-op'e in November crxt won'd
be tout there had been honest,
>h< le government fer the last foDr
years. and tbat -it should be con?
tinned. ;rJ&i
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Ki d: e. s i3 stowed ay ay in if#
l.... * a rr.cc> 1i>fiV?? in ^rtWel' }/\
fl> t i > I S v * TVV w w ) w
sueeteo every object aroaucL
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