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' :?5X .HHH n? ^^^HKtfS 0? SUBSCRIPTION. * I !? .:'r:" '? ^ "'] '*''0?'', < _ flt *Y- ' '^H . -- j Ot:'.; ;j --;ws k.-'Y - >; $ oh.ir:7Ca tor p.t ^ H||B one year. $1.50 J ,-/?^a1.ir ^mz:?:2* " ": ll vol. xix. " Lexington, s. a, Wednesday, apkil 10, 1889. no. 20. 1 .nyy'yy w - *- ? mArlitf>inA miorhf remain in r^ 1 * - ? o .^:r %.r. ., J.VVA u~: ! omc**- l'>? v r- .*;! ! u ' ' - 1' K L LEXINGTON CONVENTION B, f OF FARMERS I I^EPa^r V??< /f)U^ \ HOTEL BLOCK, % A> Where every Farmer of Lexington county and from all other counties in this State art cordially invited to inspect the largest and best assortment of MQTvfr T . - ? l> i READY MADE [IcLOTHING HiiTS, FURNISHING GOODS. r Straw Hats of ev^ /^tyle and quality. I have just returirLr from the Northern Markets with a full and complete line of lJPRI.\G A! SUMMER CLOTHING, BBS ?at? S THE ORIGINAL BACKET I STORE. Harness! Harness! B T7?OB THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WE Hk?~ Jl will sell one car load of HABNESS. B ^nr York buyer went all the way out B Weat, where one of the largest factories of . the kind in the United States failed. He j H made an i^ffer on a lot of Harness of about J RH jiftv cents on the dollar below their real K value. Of course he got them for spot V cash, as he gets all our other thunderbolts j that get is the way of competitors and j L*- pauses them to petition City Councils to sot grantor a license to sell goods'. We 1 cannot tgmc at that much, as a man is * cores are --- rron, leaving petitions ( * Tg* Wo tell the public th&t_ it 0^? <4? ^Jrson that wants harness of i ^ ^^Lo. f^SSne to ns from one hundred j ft miles all ar >und Columbia. Think of it. I kj Ik "We can save you from three to ten dollars of ft a set of Harness. This Harness com- n an iaes Buggy Harness, Double and Single; J ?E agon and Truok Harness, Double and sui i fri ngle; Saddles, of all grades, and Bridles. ; ^ hi can purchase a fine Plough Bridle for : cui cents, worth double. This sale will con- j ^ car i.ue only until the FIBST OF MAY, as we J >jSave not the room in our store to handle 8UC< i them; and another reason, w e may never QQu grt them that we can sell at the same price, men Wegill al^save you 25 per cent, in all | ^othing, Shoes, Dress the ftnd everything j^?u{ Call and see os. j youi I I'lve^ ^ faction in every arti- | j??* ^ 1 ^ ^ 01 BV 66d . liaeket Store,i mads HHK^ng tt groce F-^opposite City Hail, { make HEB attent COLUMBIA, 8. O. taker ^HB from HBftrk Office, 466 Broadway. owe t IB 0_ debt ( Jan IMm pjqr p wmammmmaaammBsm mniwmi ifunwiw """ ' THE SLAUGHTER. " " DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE IN ST. LOUIS. "Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Bo." A Loss That Cannot Be Replaced?The Equipment of a Man?Dangers to Young Men In Great Cities. St. Louis, .April 7.?The Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn, preached here this evening to a vast audience. His subject was "The Slaughter," apd his text, Proverbs, vii, 21: "As an ox to the slaughter." The eloquent preacher said: There is nothing in^ the voice or manner of the butcher to indicate to the ox that there is death ahead. The ox thinks he is going on to a rich pasture field of clover, whero all clav loner, he will revel in the herbaceous ?o 7 * luxuriance; but after a while the men and the. boys close in upon hirh with sticks and stones and shouting, and drive him through bars and into a doorway, where he Js fastened, and with a well aimed stroke the ax fells him: and so the anticipation of the redolent pasture field is completely disappointed. So many a young man has neen driven on by temptation to what he thought wouitl be paradisiacal enjoyment; but after a while influences with darker hue and swarthier arm close in upon him, and lie finds that instead of making an excursion into a garden he has been driven "as an ox to the slaughter." L We are apt to blame young men for being destroyed when we ought to blame the influences that destroy them. Society slaughters a great many young men by tne behest, "You must Ireep up appearances; whatever be your salary, you must dress as well as others, ycu must wine and brandy as many friends, you must smoke as costly cigars^ you must give as expensive entertainments, and you must live in as fashionable a boarding house. If you haven't the money, borrow. If you can't borrow make a false entry, or subtract here and there a bill from a bundle of bank bills; you will only have to make th^ecepuon a little while; in a few months, or in a year or two, you can make all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody will be the wiser. You yourself will not be damaged." By that awful process a hundred thousand men have been slaughtered for time and slaughtered for eternity. THE MISERIES OP GETTING IN DEBT. Suppose you borrow. There is nothing wrong about borrowing money. There is hardly a man in the house but has sometimes borrowed money. Vast estates have been built on a borrowed dollar. But there are t.wo kinds of borrowed money. Money borrowed for the purpose of starting or keeping up legitimate enterprise and expense and money to get i]f l whic^^jjj^^^^Aut.; - Tho/ 4, your 0* ^ in rKcTB - ? ? j oajS- til of the Render, things when you hi H KTowii some other street to \ Beting some one whom yen ov King- men kne wwhat is the d { Plb of being in debt more of would keen out of it What dicl JJ do for Lord Bacon, with a mihd ering above the centuries? It ind him to take bribes and convict hii as a criminal before all ages. did debt do for Walter Scott ? Br hearted at Abbotsford. Kept him' ing until his hand gave out in pai sis to keep the sheriff away from pictures and statuary. Better for if he had minded the maxim wliicl had chiseled over the fireplace at botsford, "Waste not, want not." i The trouble is, my friends, the \ pie do not understand the ethic: going in debt, and that if you y chase goods with no expectation paying for them, or go into do which vou cannot meet, you steal j so muck money. If I gointoagroce store, and I buy sugars and coffees a meats, with no capacity to pay 1 them and no intention of paying f them, I am more dishonest than if go into the store, and when thegrocei face is turned the other way I"fill n: pockets with the articles of merchai ctise and carry off a ham. In the or. case I take the merchant's time, and take the time of his messenger t transfer the goods to rnv house, vrhil in the other case I take none of th time of the merchant, and I wait upoi ! myself, and I transfer the goods with out any trouble to him. In oiiiei words, a sneak thief is not so bad as a man who contracts for debts he never expects to pay. Yet in all our cities there are families that move every May day to get into proximity to other grocers and meat shops and apothecaries. They owe everybody witain half a mile of where they now live, and next May thev will mw ? mwa oistant part of the city, finding a new lot of victims. Meanwhile you, the honest family in the new house, are bothered day by lay by the knocking at the door of lisappointed bakers, and butcher, and S Iry goods dealers, and newspaper oar- /} iers, and you *re asked where your > redecessor is. irou do not know. It (J ms arranged you should not know, i [ eanwhile your predecessor has gone > some distant part of the city, and : le people who have anything to sell ! ive sent their wagons and stopped lere to solicit the "valuable1' custom \ ' the new ueighbor, and he, the new j riffhbor, with great complacency ! icT with an air of affluence, orders the i lest steaks and the highest priced ! < gars, and the best of the canned l lits, and, perhaps, all the newspa- j t rs. And the debts will keep on ac- j' j nulating until he gets his goods on j \ i 30th of nei't April in the furniture s ** ' n low, let me say, if thero are any j U persons in the house, if von i a e any regard for your own ! c: vemence, you had better re- j re to some greatly distant part of j citv. It is too bad that, having j l'( all the trouble of consuming ; su goods, you should also have the | or, ble of being dunned! And let me ! ha <hat if vou find that this pictures 1 to! own photograph, instead of being j is 5 lurch you ougiit to be in the pen- j no iary! No wonder that so many be! ur merchants fail in business. \ bui are swindled into bankruptcy v:o lese wandering Arabs, these no- j the, of city life. They cheat the j Thi r out of the green apples which hea them sick, the physician who feet Is their distress, and the under- ' you who fits them out for departure dree the neighborhood where they the: iverybody when they pay tfco ; thou yf nature, the only deot they I foot ]& payi JQ . >?y V v \ * o? ? _ { "NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE." i Now our young- men are coining up j in this depraved state of commercial I ethics, and I am solicitous about i them.want to warn them against ! bein^f slaughtered on the sharp edges ; of debt. -You want many things you j havt^' not, my young friends. You ! shaifl have them if you have patience j jSmd honesty and industry. Certain | lines of conduct always lead out to certain successes. There is a law which controls even those things that seem haphazard. I i have been told by those who have ob! served that it is possible to calculate i just how many letters will be sent to the Dead 'Letter office every year through misdirection; that it is possible to calculate iust how many letters will bo detained for lack of postage stamps through the forgetfulr.ess of Ihe senders, and that it is possible to I tell just how many people will fall in j jthe streets by slipping on an orange | peel, in otner wordSjr^ere arc no : accidents. The most v insignificant ' event you ever heard of is the link be! twcan two eternities?the eternity of j the past and the eternity of the future. ! Head the right way, young man, and j you will come out at the right goal, j Bring me a young man and tell me ! what his physical Health is, and what | his mental caliber, and what his habits, } and I will tell you what will be his j destiny for this world, and his destiny j for the world to come, and I will not ! make five inaccurate prophecies out of I the five hundred. All tnis makes me ! solicitous in regard to young men, and I want to make them nervous in regard to the contraction of unpayable dents. I give you a paragraph from my own experience. DR. TALMAGfi HAS BEEN THERE HDI3ELF. Mv tirst settlement as pastor was in a village. My salary was $800 and a }>arsonage. The amount seemed enormous to me. I said to myself, "What! all this for one year?" I was afraid of getting worldly under so much prosperity! I resolved to invite all the congregation to my house in groups of twenty-five each. We began, and as they were the best congregation in all the world, and we felt nothing was too good for them, we piled all the luxuries on the table. I never completed the undertaking. At the end of six months I was in financial despair. I found what every young man learns in time to save himseif, or too late, that you must measure tho size of a man's body be fore you'begin to cut the cloth for hif coat. When a young man willfully and oi ? aaiyi /vf J cuoiou, "Action of unpayable goes into the conn goes, 1 debts he.knot ;not^>^btor, th< The creditors Se^ . -.i cry and aias {pack of hounds in full 1 ^s d?or ifor the reindee,. tge m0rning f/'5 ?$*?? sia^wii' -A/i T-TJr above, antTT and gi dunned^r.nd s\v< ti?e nervous dys lr^ toJPP^^ieuralgia, gets liver com r gets heart disease, gets conyulsi e;# h ^order, gets consumption. ^P? >-J?aH^he is dead, and you say tiK* .'course toey will let him alone," I debt nQj jJoWythey are watchful i Id whether thbe?_areany unnecessa nceX penses at the obsequie^tpjsee^vh ^ there is any useless handle on th j* ket, to see whether there is any 0 .? plu3 plait on the shroud, to see \v er the hearse is costly or cheap, t j?Y" whether the ilewej-s sent to the c: , . have been bought by the famil Jl!/n donated, to see in whose name y}e deed to the grave is made out. 1 they ransack the bereft household, books, the pictures, the carpets, 3eoj. chairs, the sofa, the piano, the r 5 tresses the nillow on which he c :url Cursed be debt! For the sake of y own happiness, for tho sake of y 5 , good morals, for the sake of your ^T~ mortal soul, for God'3 sake, vol j man, as far as possible, keep out ol II Rnf T ? ?x i>iixuk more young* n are slaughtered through* irreligit t Take away a young man s religion a r-s you make him the prey of evil. \ all know that the Bible is the 011 y. perfect svstern of morals. Now if yt want to destroy the young man's mc j als take his r>ible away. How w, 0 you do that ? Well, you will caricatu 0 his reverence for the Scriptures. yc Q will take all those incidents 01 u a Bible which can bo made mirth ofJonah's whale, Samson's foxes, Adam rib?then you will caricature eccent.ri Christians or inconsistent Christians , then you will pass off as your own al those hackneyed arguments agains Christianity which are as old as Torr Paine, as old as Voltaire, as old as sin, Now you have captured his Bible, ami you have taken his strongest fortresstho way is comparatively clear, and all the gates of liis soul are set open, in invitation to tho sins of earth and th6 sorrows of death, that they may come in and drive the stake for their encampment A LOSS THAT C.VsSOT BE REPLACED. A steamer fifteen hundred miles from shore with broken rudder and lost compass, and hulk leaking fifty gallons $ie hour, is better off than a young man when you have robbed him of his Bible, Have you ever noticed how despicably moan it is to take away the world's Bihte without proposing a substitute? It is meaner than to come to a sick man and stead his i medicine, meaner than to come to a i cripple and steal his crutch, meaner j than to come to h pauper and steal his j crust, meaner than to come to a poor | man and burn his house down. It is } .lie worst of ail lai-cenies to steal the ! dible, which has been tho crutch and j ticdicine and food and eternal home to j 6 many' What a generous and mag- I ] .animcus business infidelity has gone j ' a to! This splitting up of life boats j 1 nd taking away of fire escapes and j n <tinguishing of jight house* 1 coine out and 1 say to such people, ^ What are you doing" all this for?" " !)h," they say, "just for fun." It is ^ ch fun to see Christians try to hold j i<( i to their Bibles! Many of them ve lost loved ones, ancf have been u that there is a resurrection, and it | such-fun to tell them there will be i Ps resurrect ion! Many of them have i ieved that Christ camo to carry the | *,K dens and-to heal the wounds of liie ; -V rid, and it is such fun to tell them | f10 y will have to be their own saviourl | lnr nk of the meanest thing you ever j W11 rd of; then go down a thousand ! ?ni underneath it, and you will lind j 'ea' rself at tliotopof a stairs a hun! miles long; go to the bottom of I stairs, and yon will find a ladder a j tsand miles long; then go to the j of tne ladder and look off ajpreci- I %v'e.r 7 i and you will lind the headquarters of ! ' J the meanness that would rob this ; 3 j world of its only comfort in life, its { 3 | only peace in death and its only hope .j ; j for immortality. Slaughter a young | 3 man's faith in God. and there is not i ? much more left to slaughter. 1 r Now, what lias become of the slaughtered? Well, some of them are j 3 in their fathers or mother's house ! < broken down in health, waiting to die; i j others are in the hospital; others are j j in Greenwood, or, rather, their bodies i ' j are, for their souls have gone on to ' j retribution. Not much prospect for a 1 j young man who started life with good : health, and good education, and a j ; Christian example set him, and oppor- |i tunity of usefulness, who gathered all^fl his treasures and put them in one bos, and then dropped it into the sea. Now, how is this wholesale slaugh- j 1 ter to be stopped? There is not a per- J < son in the house but is interested in j that question. Young man, arm your- ' 1 j self. The object of my sermon is to ^ put a weapon in each of your hands ; 1 for your own defense. Wait not for . Young Men's Christian associations to , protect you, or churches to protect a Tv?->aoliiier to Gnd for lieln. take i J WU. care of yourself. First, have a room somewhere that you can call your own. Whether it be the back parlor of a fashionable j boarding house, or a room in the fou rth j , ! story of a cheap lodging, I care not. j " Only have that one room your for- ! : tress. Let not the dissipator or unclean step over the threshold. If they come up the long flight of stairs and knock at the door, meet them face to . ( face and kindly yet flrmly refuse thorn j admittance. Have a few family nor- j traits on the wall, if you brought them j with you from your country home, j Have a Bible on tho stand. If you can j afford it and you can play on one, i have an instrument of music?harp or | flute, or cornet, ormelodeon, or violin, 1 or piano. Every morning before you 1 leave that room, pray. Every, night after you come home in that room, pray. Make that room your Gibraltar, your Sebastopol, your Mount Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper come into that room, any more than you would allow a cobra to coil on j your table. Take care of vourself. Nobody else j will take caro of you. Your help will i ; not come up two or three or foar ! flights of staii-s; your help will come ! ) through the roof, down from heaven, i ' from Siat God who in the six thousand j years of the world's history never be- j * trayed a young man who tried to be ! , gocxi and a Christian. Let me say in regard to your adverse worldly circum- , ' stances, in passing, that you are on a * level now with those who are finally ' , to succeed. Mark mv words, youtut ? ^ ...? :* i ; | man, ana t jgR ^hal ^ose v^jjfc now. thirty ' B? I > aires of A, t i to^T m o wn to the MErcanJB <fQf bra^W^Mget somo books and rtSB 0h~. what mechanism G-o'^J to see- you in -in you$ fos(| ry ex- your "eyg^B ycfefr ear, ana then ? tether some doctor to take you into the d e"cas- secting room and illustrate to y> sur. what you have read about, and nev lieth- again commit the blasphemy of a* o see *n& 70u bave 310 capital to start w'4: askefc Equipped! Why, the poorest yen v or matl in this house is equipped as onl " the God of the whole universe qbul Chen afford to equip him. Then his bod, the ~a very poor affair compared with hi the wonderful soul?oh, that i, wpa nat- makes me solicitous. I am' not s< lies, much anxious about you, yoi ?g man our because you have so little to do with. our as I am anxious about you * because im- yoa have much to risk and lose or ing i ** j? J There is no class of persons that so ;eu I stir my sympathies as y-.-Ung men in m ?rcat cities. Kot quite enough salary to live on, and all the ^empfad m; that ).0 come from that defic Invited on all l*y hand3 to drink, aiu their exhausted nervous system seeming to demand stimulus. Their . eligion caricatured >Ly by the most of th<? clerks in the store l'e and most of the curatives in the fac,u tory. The rapids' of temptation and 10 death rushing against that young man 7 forty miles the hpur, and he in a frail s boat headed up stream, with nothing e but a broken oJr to work with. Unless :: Almighty God help them they will go | under. * Ah I when I told you to take care of j 1 yourself you misunderstood me if you i ; thought I meant you are to depend j upon human resolution, which may ; be dissolved in top fVv? ? .votui yji tiitj .vino ! j | cup, or may be blown out with the first g-ust of temptation. Here is the helmet, the sword of Lord God AI- r mighty. Clothe yourself in that pan- /oply and you shall not be put to corifusion. Sin pays well neither in this j world nor the next, but right thinking - ^ and right believing and right acting j D wili take you in safety through this J 01 life and in transport through the next, i tc I never shall forget a prayer I heard j r( a young man make .some fifteen years j ~m ago. It was a very short prayer, hut j vr it was a tremendous prayer: "Oh Lord, i p.help us. We find it so very easy to do | r" wrong and so hard to do right. Lord, j help us." That prayer, I warrant you, : reached the 6ar of God, and reached j his heart. And there are in this house j 0l> a hundred men who have found out? ! ^ a thousand young men, perhaps, who. j have found out that very thing. Lfc'is j ? j so very easy to do wrong, and so hard ' wa? to do right, ? j t[JC I got a letter, only one paragraph of j ^ which I shall read: J'Having moved iround somewhat I have ran across { ^ nany young men of intelligence, j Qc rdent strivers after that wiJl-o'-the- i nnTV risp, fortune, and -'>f ~e iV , yjil-j ?J! IIICSC i I J rould speak. lie was a young Eng- j r j. sliman of twenty-three or four years, j fc: ho came to New York, where he had j ?quaintanc6S, with barely sufficient j r0]03 > keep him a couple weeks. Ho j jcve, id been tenderly reared; perhaps I ; 1 tould say too tenderly, anri was not j 1)ere, ;ed to earning his living, and found j extremely difficult to get nnvposi- j []lvrn m that he was capable of tilling. j t]lcjr 'tor many vain efforts in this direr- | attent n he found himself on Sunday even- j (,uen* r in BUkiklyn, near your church, ; < th about three dollars left of his j 00l)"c?]r all capital. Providence seemed to t tl him to your door, and he do- | ,1 > , *>. , , ' ; UuCuQ mined to go in and hear you. ; n He told me Ins going to hear you j 'w<;,ina, t night jvas undoubtediy the turn- ; (.j;v,,qy point in hj3 life, for when j ,'7 it into your^church he felt ues- | tj10 ja^ N - '7 i X K'lftic, UiH wmic listening 10 vu... liscourse \r, better nature got the j riastery. i truly believe from what [ :his young man toid me that your j >oun?ing the depths of his heart that ; night alone brought him back to Ids ,}od whom he was so near leaving." LiEE Tin: r^'aHT ROAD AND KEEP TO IT. The ecbcMkat is* of multitudes in he bouse. I am not preaching an j ibsfractioD, but a great reality. Oh! j friendless young man, Oh I prodigal j young m:n, Oh! broken hearted j young mai . discouraged young man, wounded y^Etngman, I commend you to Christ this day, the best friend a man ev&tTuad. He meets vou this I morning. You have come -here for ! this b'cssii g. Despise not that emo- I on risingJa your soul; divinely ; liftod. Look into the Christ, j Lift one &swy?r to your father's God, ; to your sn '-'-her's God, and get the par- j doning-^jfc^ing. Kow, while I speak, | you are-j^jj^pOrks of the road, and | road, and that is the j wrong. idU. and I seo ycy^ start on th: Hr,-f A-^ao. Gnu happath morning, at the close of my ser. ice, I saw a gold watch of the wwJfs* renowned and deeply la- [ merited violinist Ole Bull. You re- J metnber I j died in his island home off the coast "of Norway. That gold watch \ he had wo-md up day after day through his illness, and then ho said to his compuni?- -, ''Now I want to wind this watch ?3 long as I can, and then when I am gone i want you to keep it wound up until it gets to my friena Dr. Do re- ! mus, in Now York, and then he will keep it wound up until his life is done, and then I want the watch to go to his youhg son, my especial favorito." 1 The great musician, who more than any other artist had made the violin speak and sing and weep and laugh and triumph?for it seemed when Tie drew the bow across the strings as if all earth; and heaven trembled in delighted sympathy?the great musician, in a roo-f- looking off upon the sea, and surrounded by his favorite instruments of music, closed his eyes in death. "Vfhile all the world was mourning at his departure, sixteen crowded steamers fell into line of funeral processor* carry his body to the main land. There were fifty thousand of his countrymen gathered in an amphitheatre of the hills waiting to hear the eulogium, and it was said when the < - -i ?* t. gnat oiuWi1 ul I Lie lia t IW SUiilUl UU ' voice began to speak, the fifty thou sand people 0:1 the hillsides burst into tears. Oh! tbet was the cloge of a life that had done shrnuch to mako the world happy. have to tell you, young man, iffy.rjljp right and die right, I that was a'jWiie scene compared with that which will greet you when from the gaUancs oji nfljUMMrthfij one hunJhCi -four thousand d g-en[I T' -^T' a nl raan * v. I i,At th-e annua1 meS^HKrt J I My of German iiatarS^^ f55?* I swians; Professor WalXS? Vv p4 I an address n-vm+i deliver? ly i ^."'-ontho "jraciieopf WJ ../? rruiiien," reported in La. S (1 maino Medicals for Sei^c. 26, 1838. E y endeavored to clear himself froi s any accusations of unfairness c t prejudice by referring in compl :> mentary terms to the talente , v. omen who taught in the echoc , of . frelemum ? to Louise Boui i geois. Marguerite de la Blanche, Marii Louise Laciiapelle and many other, eminent in the practice of midvafery, He also admitted that for many centuries the healing art had been in the hands of women and that they had mads -valuable contributions to tbe literature of medicine Ho believed that women should hold a position on a level with that of men, as their functions and attributes were as necessary to the existence and jnaintenance of the human species a-i those of men, but that their vocation should be the rearing and fostering of children. This vocation rendered them everywhere and always the equals of men. Since the number of marriages was diminishing every year they bad necessarily been driven into seeking other duties. Their entrance into medicine, however desirable it might seem to them, menaced not only their interests but those of humanity at large. Although their opportunities had been abundant, they had never advanced medical science.. Midwifery, for example, which for nanyi centuries had been almost exlusiroiy in their hands, had made no >rogress until it was taken up by men. j 'heyjfcaguired great manual dexterity ( i the art, but little e:se. Women had r ever in any art created a masterpiece; j ih music, which seemed properly L > beJtorig- to them, they had donr jDthicg that might immortalize a g ime.- Their presences in colleges dotted ,to the instruction of men was a , nd/anceto the teacnersand students. ? laboratories they were unwelcome, ft they were awkvvq^d and careles^ H ^^raliest di'Scu.ty discouraging ?m, and the assistants complained i P? women students who besieged them | ^ ;h inquiries upon trivial matters, i jri arcot, at whoso clinics and lectures { Aw arge number of women attended, j J> quoted as saving that women j ught more of themselves than they j "of humanity; they consented un- i w0 ingly to be dressers in the hospitals j to carry out antiseptic treah-*' A-*75swoiis ?or which they would j ^ ;ar to be well suited. They were i co:: np.bitious and aspired to the front i the : ?iid to the moist prominent po- j 0;i3, ' ! anc nature had barred their way to ! ciar which they ought to fill, Wal- I ^0UJ concluded that, women doctors | 10 future before.them and would j -^m( bo more than the exception, j ^his ithsiunding- thi.s^opinion, he gavo j advt credit, curiouisly enough, for i owd excellent memories, tlieir close ' low ion to lectures, and their fre- j Can* ability to pas4 bettor examina- j bion ;han men. Pi pfessor Waldeyer ; way t<led by stating ihat if man was j fhe c >) take, the initiative for the pro- i Mr* u of new idea s, if lie had more ! opint ce in his actio* is and his plans, j ers? v , on the other hand, was more j "^0r? endowed wits other qiialities | ^h0 *r > precious. titCwas therfcre in i ?i *? ircstof iiumcj Ttiy that die. wi^h?' * SLifJ J hands of men. Notwithstanding Professor Wald- i over's attempt to show his freedom | from bias, his address leave.s a very ; different impressiou. Ho seems to have forgotten that midwifery was taken hut of the hands of women at a j period when they were regarded as be- j ing of low intellectual capacity, were j allowed no educational advantages, j and were made to occupy a very bum- i ble position in affairs. Thi3 we be- i Lteve was the true cause for the as-, ' sumption of midwifery by men rather than any inefficiency upon the part of ' women. Many will demur to the : statement that in art and in literature j they have accomplished nothing, j Women have certainly during the past half century produced work : which will hist as long as that of most j if not all of their contemporaries.: j No matter how one may feel in this j matter, it 13 certainly unjust to decide I the question in such an off hand man- j ner. The argumentative and senti- | mental power of this social problem j has passed, and only time can decide whether women should enter the medical profession or be restricted to the duties of a housewife. This de-' cision can be reached by allowing them every opportunity to fight the matter to a successful or unsuccessful finish.?New York Medical Journal, i i Cultivation of Grapes. A California paper gives some interesting facts relative to the growing of. grapes. It says: 4,The total expense of cultivating an acre of grapes is $15; the curing and packing of an acre of grapes, making 100 boxes of raisins, j $55. The average price of raisins for | the last four years has been about $1.60 ; per box. Putting the price at $1.50 j per box for the four grades, we have a, j total net profit.of $05 an acre. Many j vineyards do better than the above, j Vineyai ds have frequently been known j to produce grapes enough the first year ! after planting*to pay expenses of cultivation. The second year brings from $30 to $50 per acre gross; third year, $60 to $75."?New York Telegram. ^ Singular Deaths. A Baltimorean recently dropped asleep on a pari: bench, when, nis head falling forward, he unconsciously choked to death over the stiff edge of his celluloid collar. A dog died in Ilinois the other day from; drinking the water in which a flannel shirt had been rinsed. A St Louis1 mau has died of erysipelas contracted from a verdigris brass collar button bating into his neck; and a mail tn Chicago was roasted to death by the firing of his cotton underclothing as dried before an open grate.?Bostou hanic is W by magnifi discovered i Bertie, is about broad, and *r^^BBeH^Burgon once ended an i mated sermon with?"and so Joi m. was lodged in the whale's bol y. where, my dear brethren, we v Bdi leave hhn until we meet again m ii J SabbathA, s Let veils be abandoned; they t fe injurious to the eyes, especially the 33 of crape and those which are spott >r or figured. A veil should never i- worn, except to protect the eyes fro d dust or sleet, ana then for as short ?1. time as possible. M. Zola is now-engagvi in studyin 9 railway life, for the purpose of wri 'i ing about it what, no doubt, be suj poses will be a "great" novel. In pui suance of this object ho rides on looc ' motives. As affording some idea of tht amount of light gold now in circula tion in Lonaon, it is stated that re centlv a financier accepted ?^000, largely made up of half sovereigns, ana, o"n the amount being weighed at the banker's it was found to be short by ?19. When a Turk dies, the legs are tied together and the arms stretched by tli? sides. The burial takes place as soon as possible after the death. The corpse is bandied very tenderly, as the Turks believe any lack of tenderness would bring the curse of the dead j man's soul upon them A medical scftool is to be established j in connection with Johns Hopkins ! university and Johns Hopkins nospi- j tal. So far, $80,000 of the $100,000 fund for the relief of the university has been subscribed. The other $20,000 will soon be forthcoming. During the last year the number of female riders of the bicycle has won- j ierfully increased in Philadelphia, i Twelvemonths ago there were less than ; i 1 dozen ladies in the city who could | nount the wheel, but now the nuxn- ! is oertainly not less than seventy- ii ive, and is steadily growing. ^ A workman engaged in removing ~ odies from an old graveyard in San s rancisco found in a coffin, containing "V le remains of a Chinaman, one of the .l >0 gold slugs which were coined and it in circulation by the San Fran- j tb sco assay office in 1852. Thinking i or e Diece was a Chinese coin, the man I ed to sell it to a contractor for $o. ce ic latter refused to purchase the slug, ! foi d, when its true value was soon i , er discovered, the finder said he ^ ?uld not sell it for $75. . I tea '. t "J [ he* Hie Mound Builders. * a Ir. Gerard Fowke has, in a recent j ^6fi itribution, given another blow to : beg old notion that the mound builders | North America belonged to an j ient and extinct race. Messrs. Lu- for t Carr and Cyrus Thomas havej <oe?, j held to the view that these inter-*! ig earthworks were constructed by 89D<: nHcan Indians. The evidence to i bitic effect is overwhelming, and few i ? )catesof the old view haveendeav- j "ne to make head i4 xr il. iHT. ! ftllj t ke adopts the bypotnesis of Meisrs. ^cr ft and Thomas, abandoning the nothat there was anything in the ; the t of a racial difference shown by j (]0 onstruction of these earthworks, i Fowke also criticises another ! studi on concerning the mound build- j j3 at | riiich was to the effect that they I very much more numerous than Cbem idians of this country at the time Math settlement by the wbitec. Most . ? ose who have made a car^4 P * oi the firouna ma &iao *** posed to agree witn lum 211 in is crm- 1 cism. ' | \ The fact appears to be that our In- I dian tribes, at least in the Mississippi ! valley, were a few centuries ago rathe r j '< more sedentary than they were at the I j time when they were iirst s#cn by the ! whites. I have myself had occasion Tl to note the fact tliat during the mound ; 2 building period the buffalo was not : accessible to the aborigines, that beast,; at that time probably noi having made | ? his way east of the Mississippi river, j f When tiie herds of this animal became ; abundant in the Ohio and upper Mi - ! sissippi valleys, the people appear to a j t; great extent to have abandoned agin- i , culture and betaken themselves to the j 1 easier support which the chase of this i b creature afforded them. There is ; hardly Giiy doubt that the aborigines j of North America were of substao- I 9 tially the same race and with much i t, the same habits as our well known j Indians.?N. S. Shalcr in Bofetor. Her- 1 ~ aid. / \ j o j | _ He! I on and Chailty Booming. Stranger?Kissing sociables! What i are thevV Rural Belle?They are never held I except to raise money for some great j religious or charitable object. The , yOUng UVCll liru IJUIIUIUIUCU, u. i. n _ , iiiij . payment 9f u fixed sum somo girl, j \yncm he doesn't knew, of course, is brought' up. to him and he is allowed j to kiss her. He never finds out whom | r he kissed; but by paying enough he J can finally kiss every girl in the ' room. So, you see. he gets the one ho j > wants, but he never can toil which ; { one it was." 44I sec. Is there much activity in ; c religious and benevolent circles in & j j. town like this?" "Yes, indeed. It just keeps every j c one of us busy hunting un objects to t h<5ld sociablos for."?Philaaclpliia Ii> , cord. , Os.r G-irls at School. j j / It often happens that.our gradual- j iug young ladies ere not real!} thorough in anything. They never will bo thoroughly taught until coeducatipa exists everywbero and until parents demand lees show, iess sensation and more study. A mother cm boasts that h6r 17-year-oid .daughter will graduate in the spriDg. Graou- | ' ate in what, madam? In cno show piece of music, iu one snow piece of painting or drawiDg, in one show composition. She has studied wine jttoksandknows almost enough to g. \ ^eiit ^HLw >9.03 \ Uo_get icovAV^ abo&t ios?\ ?* ~?3 I d?^ i^?beftU ' I ^go 1 i^^^sDootiug each el! uve^with boy pistols, and givo no mc nthoogbis^cr-gir'itf.thaD they do to t cent U-^~. , >lear ttiaa m the moon. ,000 j The career of a modern yom * ^ wouoan is as rapid and as disiressit mi- aP *he career of Mr. Solomon Grund. iah who was bora ou a Monday and gu loped through life in a s<:Ven d;id ix\ She gradnates in white eill$?jjj mental philosophy at 17 and has i saason or so in societv. Bv 20 eh? >se ed is married, aud afc 25, when shi b6 ought to be in the very heydav o! m a, gracious, wboiesome, healthy young womanhood, she is a fagged out burnt body and the mother of a let oi y babies. Her music is gone, he: * drawing is gone; she cannot 3D much y as Bay " boo " in French, and all her , boasted education is less than noth-T ' iDg. When she graduated it was with a fine Sourish and sue read amid applause the pretty valedictory, from which a discreet teacher had carefully pruned away all signs of originality, leading only the nice!v j phrased platitudes and proverbs tba' are respectable. Bat now, alas! the , doss cot SO mnoh ?? A _ mwm (io xuuii & D6Vi3* , | paper. She has no art of tkinkicg. and aa old woman at 25, she has j accomplished nothing in life save ? L diploma and a husband. It is the most beatiful life of all for a woiar, ,, that of the wife and mother; but this : wife cannot preserve her charms in ft the domestic circle i: eh9 has no*. :r patiently and thooghtfally cultivated 0* ibem to make the last. Sna harried c.r hroogh the veVy best of her life. T ,(l< 3 done with and gone. Good 01 ,ot ad, gay or sad, it is gone forevei., oui he can never be a girl again, anity and ignorance rushed her froi ireagh the rose garden 'time, when X ie blossoms were fair and th?- CdQ ehards were full of June's sweet- fai)j sbs. It wiii nevar be June .again for , fcer- of I The' really thoughtful and earnest t^at ,chsr will be proud of having it> , tj : racks youcg women of 18 and 20 ... ire of age. These have mir.d9 that ^ [inning to act, to move, to think. ! ? [ 01S 8 n 3se will be worthy of hsr teaching, i , J - i 'ecii thev have broadened to something i " ^ rer tha* >^rang3 and beaux tied j licg note's, etc. The rnl-.'.i" ' "?? - - -' Jt' | t.y ! 5 n, the recitation an J e?S .?v, the I rrn1:.dress, the newspaper report of it * ! t(J V 1 ! he weekr, of excited preparation < y-\ & ii Li T 11 this?why it is enough to turn s ^ iead of a 17 year-ofe girl. And . ^ > es turn her bead, away front ^ ? es, away from the real way she school. What has she learned? | Kerc listry ? Physiology ? Po4anj ? or.d it i emalice? Astronomy? Philcno- econora The history sad all the eoi- as it is <) M JJ.it ubor<^^^|^HH^H| p b:d< s she sb ;rt: r. L ats ehe vv i: iicish school 110W TTILL IT E? CSASGE^f * Ic n aot ?- d'tgrave to I>r? a trbool ^ irl at 20 \t-a:a a ad at 11 .tint:* iu? " * O eSaoc3, but j; is ai.n^st a dbgraca or us to hmry t ?ir f irlt? tdoucr.J O o' 'tfraduaiv:'' 1.Lh::i r.i,i L vo iheui c9'Iy ft>r ail a unci so:*V gas at aa figj v.-Leu tl ty s;.ouid iii? be tC tiop.-U 'v :c c??? > Or.-ugh be I! jv.oiy o!i i tsiae f tbeir youth. At ibe OAoilitioi,, Go proudest KiGsbsT \y ' h*"- t.uC v. ?j( S3 laughter figu.efl tr.ost Aetp.ier.tiy on bo st:;go, wiij.js : a tut- i j ca w he prcgrauane. How t.~ r/ r- ovvr to earn that ibia :? .ill v.r :i::; xh^t 163 iOitemeut -.nd 'vcrryipg p- : a'aMjo or t!l this education-;i bighjins i-rV.i x / vrong anyhow?a waste ci uconey, ;f time and braio, aau,ihut the school eacher, if only she cfta 3, would be ho first one to try oat, against ir. The very nature of Lor work coltirates falbfulnesj-and bnnes'y in ibe jharaeter cf a school teacher. She 3 better satisfied v.-ben b&*r git is arc rue and high iniodod and nooroogb. m .i /i. i i y Lney.to-us reiiret ro^-r tfseeing, ana his is a" high egotism we all >oght to have. What greater good f 5an you eay of ir.e t'uau \hit you are be better woman for let ruing things 1 A me, that you are truer and more iispoeed to honesty becaose q?_fcooweg ir.e. The isrself tbe tiro* wasted oa I be 2:>uriahibg music oc x>og boarer 7re wort, 5 ?x-fl be ' Jsi s e ? . ^ ' \^* .^ ' Tv fcS.^^ ' - ; results <a sai^aiiSc discoveries to"^ y ^1? X * ! agricultural practice. The aim of the J? *'department is a practical one and in \/ the direction ?t cooooay aod variety in production, tbrough the aaioa of . \ science aud experiment. The past. \ year has been one ci activity ancl aaw sections ao i branccos have been ~y \ organized, the? work of which v;iU' j V prove of great value to the future; ' agricultural operations of this c- * country. ^ ; Tiis appropriation by the cation*! government of Sio.OuO per aauuiu to each of the b-afes ut.a territories which have established cj-ficaliara! 1 *- .1 s soileges or ugricnli.ur;.i ucp trrmecrs * jf colleges, ia accord a see with tba ict us Congress approved IvTv^'h 2, 887. ha3 led *0 the C-S-..v?:S'irnf-i 6W atutiULo or 'I-e dr-.Vfclpioeat cf cicti uis previously rstuosbed under i5,ats aaLiority in i arty seven 5 aUs and or.e territory, j several Sta'er, two or more dis- . y v iot srahcns u??t ia operation; ia bars the stations have eevcral I ficcbes under one head. Couot- p r tb<-se latter r.s sibglo si.a'iocs, tbs *1 number ?t present is forty-two, ? w * k couuiieg ihe branches separately 3 total ira-ibbi' would bo nut ie.r * 11! hfiy. r' x leaders and tae public in general ' hardly fad io bs surprised at She id growth ma k- by tbs enterprise slevaticg a ?r;c ;>.! . are o? the a?d t cieoce, when it is remembered pthe urn agriculture! experiment oa ia the Uci'ed Sia.es w<is <-sshed i'i ' to example WK-5 followed slowly rhere until ia ISSa eeveaof thc-.-o ir:r-t':c:t,iv;iS bu i btoa )i'z?.u ia ?. > S-xU'?. SiiiC3 .-. ui.u-r iI:o .'aw-.'- ;? ' fuM.isnfcd ^ 1 ,.f -i g^iera! govr^aii |gjjl| reports .:re I? >- }{ published, '? uo 1: ./.-i! -n Dakota, C s as rar?1-! iv pR>:* of domestic y to rof-It thocakncf ktioseca to vaeh the dislssa. - ^ ^