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fhiu^mton?^?*'| ^^??-^^5 [ :_^^ ~: ^ ^ ^ \| advemls^^si ^ v >-3r3^,. * **"""'^"Ui^i ^P' , ; each insertion. jt Marriage notices inserted free. >^v 7ERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ... ? i, '? * ' "*" Obituaries over ten lints charged One oopv one year $1.50 '. " 7 -J | ^ -?giUar adverting rates. :: :: sr^,:::::::::::::: 2 vol. xix. lexington, s. C.^gredxesday, may l, 1889. no. 23 | Editor and Proprietor. J [ I , I ?THE? LEXINGTON CONVENTION OF FARMERS I I WILL TAKE PLACE AT wncmTwrFCS JLJU JC?X~ iSM JL A Mm wr OUtkiaf SstabUskmiat, ! UNDER COLUMBIA HOTEL BLOCK, J Where every Farmer of Lexhjg^ggnimjfci and from all oth*.r^ f 'ahd^Best assortment of READY MADE CLOTHING EC^-TS. ?iAKiiAii!imr> nil no tUKNisnmuu uuvo. Strafl^fets of every style and quality. I ha^N^fereturned from the Northern Markft^SK a foil and complete line ot SPRING AND SHIR CLOTHING, to suit and fit evtrybody, no matter how qi?i or \??iuig tney may be, no mntter how little money they Jmay have, I pronose to soil rtiv how. if I can't at my prioa I will at yours. All i want is a fair ahoviag. Uuu auU c-*.amine my Stock when you visit Columbia and see for yourselves. You can hiv* anything in my shop at your own price. L. EPSTIN, I 50 Main Street, OOiT7MBIA, S.'C J For 60 Days AT THE ORIGINAL BACKET STOBE. Harness! Harness! For the next sixty days we will sell one car load of HARNESS. Oar New York buyer went all the way out West, where one of the largest factories of >iha kind in the United States failed. He snade an cflfer on a lot of Harness of about fifty cents on the dollar below thejir real value. Of course he got them for spot cash, as he gets all our other thunderbolts that get in the way of competitors and causes them to petition City Counoils to not grant us a license to sell goods. We eannot wonder at that much, as a man is more than apt to halloo when his corns are worse trampled on. Well, leaving petitions aside, we want to teli the public that it will pay every person that wants harness of any kind to come to us from one hundred miles all around Columbia. Think of it. We can save you from three to ten dollars on a set of Harness. This Harness comprises Buggy Harness, Double and Single; Wagon and Trnck Harness, Doable and Single; Saddles, cf all grades, and Bridles. Yon ean purchase a fine Plough Bridle for 5 cents, worth double. This sale will convince only until the FIRST OF MAY, as we .have not the room in our store to handle them; and another reason, ue may never get them that we can sell at the same price. We will also save you 25 per cent, in all other Merchandise, Clothing, Shoes, Dress Goods, in short, anything and everything in the mercantile line. Call and see ns. We guarantee satisfactiofi in every article purchased at the Old Original Eacket Store, I Opposite City Hail, COLUMBIA, 8. C. New York Office, 405 Broadway.. Jan 16?3m THE SOUL'S FAREWELL THE BOD^ So we must part forever. And nltho' I long have beat xnv wings niid trie dto g? Free from your narrow limits and control Fortti into space, the true home of th soul. Yet now, yet now that hour is drawin; near, I pause, reluctant, finding you so dear. All joys await me iu the realm of God, Must yen, my comrade, moulder in th sod? I was your captive, yet you were m slave, Your prisoner, yet, obedience you gave To all my earnest wishes and ccmmtnd1 Now to the worms, I leave those willic hands. That toiled for me, or hold the book read, Those feet that trod where'er I bade the tread, Those arms that clasped those dear ones and the breast Ou which one loved and loving heait foun r ?- ?v, v/V wiiieh iiv pi avers t Aliost? jn->t3 ? God have risen, Those eyes that were the window of rc ptison From these, all those, Death's angel bic me sever. ! Dear Comrade Bodv, fare you well fo l ever. 1 ! I go to my inheritance; and go With joy that only the freed soul cj know. Yet, in my spirit journeying?: I trust I may sometime pause near your sacr dust, \ j A CENTENNIAL SERMON, AN ELCtiUENT DISCOURSE 6V RE TAI MAr.P equipage is on me sine 01 our msun : tions? I know it by tiie history of tr j last one hundred and eight years, Tb I American Revolution started from th j pen of John Hancock in Independenc nail in 1776. The colonies withot ships, without ammunition, withoi guns, without trained warriors, witl out money, without prestige. On th i other side, the mightiest nation of t b earth, the largest armies, and ibegraiu est navies, and the most disiinguishe commanders, and resources inex ha us ible. and nearly all nations ready t | back them up in the tight. Nothin as against immensity. The cause of the Aiperican colonier which started at zero, dropped^ stii lower through the quarreling of ih I generals, ana through the jealousies s I small successes, and through the wir ! ters which surpassed all predecessors i; depth of snow and horror's of cougeaJ mem. Elisha surrounded by tli whole Assyrian army did not seem t be worse off than dia the thir teen cole nies encompassed and uvershadowe* by foreign assault. What decided th contest m ouj' favor? The upper- forces the upper armies. The Green am White mountains of New England the Highlands along the Hudson, th mountains of Virginia, all the Appa Jachian ranges were full of re-enforce xnfeuts which the young man Wash ington saw by faith; and his men en dured the frozen feet, and the gau grened wounds, and the exhausting Hunger, and the loug march becaus* >lthe Lord opened the es of th? young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountains were fui pf b?rse? juicL. chariots of * # ? wn- I ni.iii'Aw'-. i i Ko Nation in a Moi-e Glorious Conditl Than the United States?The Cause of t American Colonies and the Great Re' lation?Different Varieties of Lies. ' | Brooklyn, April 2S?At the Tab j nacleto day, the Rev. T. Re Witt T i mage, D. D., preached a sermon i I propriate to the coming centenoi The vast congregation sang the hyr : beginning: Before Jehorah'a awful throne. Ye nations, bow with sacred Joy. ! Dr. Talmages text was II Kings vi.; "And the Lord opened the eyes of I i young man; and he saw: and, beho i the mountain was full of horses a 1 chariots of fire round about Elish He said: i As it cost England many regime ; and two million dollars a year to k< : safely a troublesome captive at S Helena so the king of Syria sends / : a whole army to capture one minis ? cam'ea round the village . Dotnan, where the prophet was st i ing. At early daybreak the man s | vant of Elisna rushed in and sa ! "What shall we do? there is a wh i army come to destroy you. We in ' j die, we must die." But Elisha was i i scared a bit, for he looked up and s; the mountains all around full of ; ' j pernatural forces, and he knew ll I if there were 50,000 Assyrians agaii him there were 100.000 angels for hi and in answer to the prophet's praj in behalf of his affrighted man s vant, the young man saw it t< ; Horses of fire harnessed to chariots j fire, and drivers of lire pulling rej I of fire on bits of fire; and warriors j Sre with brandished sword of fire, a the brilliance of that morning sunr j was eclipsed by the galloping sph dors of the celestial cavalcade. "A j the Lord opened the eyes of the you ! man; and be saw: and, behold, t j mountain was full of horses and ch; J iots of fire round about Eiisha." j have often si>oken to you of the Ass : nan penis vvnicn uireaten our auk j ican institutions, but now as we s | assembling to keep centennial ce i bration of the inauguration j Washington, I speak of the upp j forces 01 the text that are to fight < I our side. If all the low levels are fill 1 with armed threats, I have to tell y< ! that the mountains of our hope ai courage and faith are full of the bors and chariots of Divine rescue. ALLEGORY OF THE CHARIOT OF FIR You will notice that the Divii equipage is always represented as chariot of fire. Ezekiel and Isaiah ar j John when they corne to describe ti Divine equipage, always repress) it as a wheeled, a harnessed, an uphc : stered conflagration. It is not a chari ! like kings and conquerors of ear* j mount, but an organized and cor pressed fire. That means puriii. ju tice, chastisement, deliverance throng burning escapes. Chariot of reset? yes, but chariot of fire. All our n tional disenthrallments have bee through scorching agonies and red ui asters. Through tribulation the ind vidua! rises. Through tribulation n dons rise. Chariots of rescue, bt chariots f But how do I know that this Divir i ? _ _ iL . _l 1 . ; ^<about Ellslia.ff Washing! U>n hirriscA-s^K^a miracle. What Joshua was m ^6 first 3 ' Americau presider^^^^^^Qj jfig. , ^ry. A thousandjl^^^^celled e him in diilerent ! thenxalliaroundiiessand oor^lHj^ : of character, ^he world never sa7l ? I his like, and probably never will sej j his like again, because there probably j never will be another such exigency, i He was let down a Divine interposii tion. He was from God direct, e ! 1 do uot know how any man can j read the history of those times without admitting that the contest was decidy ed by the upper forces. I THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CIVIL WAfi. Then iu 1861, when our civil war opened, many at the north and ? ; at the south pronounced it national g i suicide. It was not courage against cowardice, it was not wealth against poverty, it was not large states against I smal 1 states. It was heroism against j heroism, it was the resources of many u generations against the resources of j generations, it was the prayer of the ' -i , norm flgainsi me prayer cue euuw. it was one-half of the nation in arm,3a wrath meeting the other hjjtf ' n.irinii.^Blvi iMlirnifethe comj mandei*-in-chi?f of the United States ! forces was a man^rrcftad been great iy ! in battle, but old age had come with j manv infirmities, and he had a 3g j right to quietude. He could nol mount a horse, and he rode on the ! battle field in a carriage asking the r- ! driver not to jolt it too much. Purinj | the most of the four years of the con test, on the southern side was a mar | in mid-1 jfe, who had in his veins th< m j blood of many generations of war | riors, himself one of the heroes o j Cherubusco and Cerro Gordo. Centre , i ras and Chapultepec. As tne year i passed on and the scroll of carnagj i unrolled, there came out from botl = sides a heroism and a strength and a de termination that the world had neve ; seen marshaled. And what but ei > j termination could come when Phili j Sheridan and Stonewall Jacksoq mei v ! and Nathaniel Lyon and Siane; Johnston rode in from north an south, and Grant and Lee, the tw thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Yei ob wo ai^* a nation, and yet we are ? hs peace. Earthly courage did not decid the conflict. The upper forces of tfc ro" text. They tell us there was a battj fought above the clouds on Lookoi 3r_ mountain; but there was somethin "j_ higher than that. Again, the horses and chariots < *P" God came to the rescue of this natic ai- in 1876, at the close of a president! nn p!potion famous for devilish ferocit; i A darker cloud yet settled down ujx i this nation. The result of the electic | was in dispute, and revolution, not ti \7. tween two or three sections, but rev ' lution in every town and village ai "7 city of tho United States, seemed 11 Id: minent. T&e prospect was that Ae nd York would throttle New York, ai a." New Orleans would grip New Orlear and Boston, Boston, and Savanna nts Savannah, and Washington, \\ as geP ington. Some said Mr. Tilden w ot elected; others said Mr. Hayes w elected; and how near we came 7 universal massacre some or 7LTCT the honesty and rigl 7T eousness of infuriated politicians,!) ! ? I ascribe it to the upper forces of t) text. Chariots of mercy rolled i I r and though the wheels were not hea 7 and the flash was not seen, yet 1 , ? through the mountains of ihe nor Ua; and the south and the east and tl 7; west, though the hoofs did not clatfc the cavalry of God galloped by. ! toll you God is the friend of tl 1 r | nation. In the awful excitement " th9 massacre of Lincoln, when the; ^; was a prospect that greater slaught r would open upon this nation. G< hushed tno tempest. In-the awful e: _; citement at tho time of Garfield's a sassination, God put his foot on tl LP? neck of the cyclone. ncj THE SPLENDID CONDITION OF TH] [SQ UNITED STATES, m- To prove that God is on the side 1 this nation, I arguo from the lasteigl ng or nine great national harvests, ar ho tan tho national health of the la 1V. quarter of a century, epidemics ver X exceptional, and from the great revi1 ;v- als of religion, and from the spreadir /r. of the Church of God, and from tl Lre continent blossoming with asylun ]e. and reformatory institutions, and froi of an Edenization which promises fchi ier this whole land is to do a paradif where God shall walk in the cool c ed the day. 3U Lf in other sermons X showed yo 1(j what was the evil that threatened t ?3 upset and demolish American institi tions, I am encouraged more than ?_ can tell you as I see the regimen! ae wheeling down the sky, and my jew a miads turn into doxolo^ies, and tha which was the Good Friday of ths m tion's crucifixion becomes the Easte morn of its resurrection. Ofcours )jl God works through human instru 0i mentalities, and this national bettei rk ment is to come among other thing q. through a scrutinized ballot box. & s. the law of registration it is almost in r'a possible now to have illegal voting There was a time?you and I rec?em a. ber it very well?when droves of vag m aboncls wandered up and. down oi 3. election day and from poll to ; and voted nsv<\ vote<i there, am I' f-Sttcl everywhere, and there was q, ^ challenge; or, if there were, i amounted to nothing, because nothing 10 could so suddenly be proved upon th< 2, vagabonds. Now, in every well or ganized neighborhood, every voter i ie watched with severest scrutiny. [q ! must tell the registrar mv name, an( ^ i how old I am, and how long I hav< S resided in the state, and how long ! ^ j have resided in the ward, or the town j. j ship, and if I misrepresent fifty wit v. crcAf nrill )11CQ ovtrl cUiif mo oni l5 ?.Aivi OUUW 111 V WUW IIKJLL e ; the bailot bos. Is not that agrea1 ; advance? And then notice the Jay <] ; that prohibits a nv.n voting if he ha? f. i bet on the election. A step furthei ^ j needs to be taken, and that man for a- bidden a vote who lias offei-ed or taker ? | a bribe, whether it be in the shape of a * free d-ink, or cash paid down, the sus Ii i picious case3 obliged to put their hand g | on the Bible and swear their vote in , ; if they vote at aiL So through the t. i sacred chest of our nation's suffrage, q j redemption will come. [_ i God also will save this nation e ! through an aroused moral sentiment. 0 There has never been so much dis }. cussion of morals and immoral.?. Men, L\ whether or not they acknowledge e what i? right, have to think what is right. We have men who haye had j their hands in the public treasury the most of their lifetime, stealingall they g could iay their hands on, discoursing eloquently about dishonesty in public | servants, and men with two or three . | families of their own, preaching ek>. I quenily about the beauties of the _ | seventh commandment. The ques : tion of sobriety and drunkenness is \ ihrast in the face of this nation as u i never before, and to take a part in our ! nolitical contests. The question of na} . tional sobriety is going to be respect5 ' fully and deierentiall)' _hear<^ at_ the Hi oi every icgrlsIature^^^^^^BS house of representatives i United States senate, and J | I tent voice w_ili ring down tl ? ' ! I across this land and ba<^ ing to fkese rising tidert-^JB I ness which threaten V Lana church and nr*^ K/ofealt thou come, V. v,o WfEji shall thy proy^f^. ^7 I tm ^aVl not in i Jshea tenmentas I | ^ a iiousefly's wt^yjr <fw, . B^^ie upper . I: nT " the the injfl ^IIWHIHIBBhII were furrigfiTd#1 Jr-r.larce? their number and the greafc^^|m enemy. Antigonus their com^Hj^H straightened nimself up and indignation and vehemence many do you reckon me to ^ * when we see tne vast ungues > against the cause of sobriety^^H| > sometimes be very discouragii^^^B I ask you in making up your of the forces of rignteousness-^^^H i vou how many do you reckc^^^J } Lord God AJmighfcy to be? commander. Tne Lord of QoHB f his name. I have the best auti^^H for saying that the chariots of Go^H s twenty thousand, and the mouo^^H 9 are full of them. HV *' You will take without mv say^H^ !- that my only faith is in dnristi^^ ? and in the upper forces su ggesb^^L the text Political parties come^H p go, and they may be right and may l>e wrong; but God liveSgj^H y think he has ordained this d a career of prosperity tliajt noWpH 6 go^ism will T>e aVle to halt. I t, to live to see a political party wliicp it will have a platform of. twd platito-* le the Ten Commandments ahd t%^f L6 mon on the Mount When thag^ le is formed it will sweep across this lasl if; like a tornado, I was going to slfyjiuj g when I think it is not to be deyastdj tion but resuscitation, I change th'i rf figure and say, such a party a3 tha ?n will sweep across this land like spta Vinotron *1 ai 2Uit? n-uui . ,r y. Have you any doubt about the neec >n of the Christian religion to purifvan< m make decent American Ppytl?2^~ every yearly or quaareunla^eleetioi o- we have in this country id factories, manufactories of Ues, n- they are run day and night, and^ tM >w turn out half a dozen a day all fcquipW id and ready for full sailing. Large lie is, and small lies. Lies private and he b, pqblio and lies prurient Lies put bid h- and lies cut diagonal Long limbe as lies and lies with double back actioi as lies complimentary and 1^ aen &&& WT] believe, and lies that aoboay a it- lieves. Lies with humps like came] ut and scales like crocodiles and necks e be long as stories and feet as swift as a n, antelopes and stings like adders. Ii{ rd raw and scailopea and panned an ill stewed. Crawling lies and jumpin th lies and soaring lies. Lies with a b? tachment screws and puffers an -r, braiders and ready wound bobber; I Lies by Christian* people who neve us lie except during elections, and lies b at people who always lie, but beat then re selves in a presidential campaign, er I confess I am ashamed to nave xl foreigner visit this country in sue! times. I should think he would stani S- dazed, his band on his pocket book ie and aare not go out nights. Wha will the hundreds of thousands of for s ejgners who come here to live thin! of us? Wb&t a..disgust they mus of have for the land or their adoption of The only good thing about it is, mani of them cannot understand the Englisi st language. But I suppose the Germai ,v ana Italian and Swedish and Frencl papers translate it all and peddle ou the infernal stuff to their subscribers 10 THE ONE REMEDY FOR A GREAT EVIL is Nothing but Christianity will eve] n stop such a flood of iffdecency. Th< it Christian religion will speak after ? 5e while. Th6 billingsgate and lov >f scandal tlirough which we wade every year or every four years, must be reu buked by tr -t religion which speaks 0 from its two great mountains, fron i- the one mountain intoning the com 1 mand, 4 "Thou shalt not bear false wit 3 ness against thy neighbor," and fron: i- the other mount making plea for kindit ness and love and blessing rather than l- cursing. Yes, we are going to have a ir national religion. e There are two kinds of national rel ligion. The one is supported by the *- state, and is a matter of Human polis tics, and it has great patronage, and y under It men will struggle for promii nence without reference to qualiflo* % tions, and its archbishop is supported i- by a salary of $73,000 a year, ana there ere great cath edrals, tne maa chincr ana canonicals, and . room for a thousand people, yet an i audience of fifty people, or twenty 3 N ^people, or ten, or tpwb. * i religion. asthat, I this majority of the peoplWS^Xeya^ s evangelised, and then they wirnftSg; I age the secular as weii as toe religious. 1 Do you say that this is impracticable! 5 i iw. xuc tunc is tuiuiug juat oa ccr[ tainly as there i3 a God and that this is his book and that he ha3 the strength - and the honesty to fulfill his promises. 1 One of the ancient emperors used ?q t pride himself on performing thai r which his counselors said was impos5 slbje and J. have to tell you today that ? man's impossibles are God's easies. - | "Hath he said and shall he not da it? i Hath he commanded, and will he not t bring it to pass?" The Christian religion is coming to take possession of i (&yei*y ballot box, of every school houset i of every home, of every vallev, o! ) every mountain, of every acre or pur | national domain. This nation, notj withstanding all the evil influences . $hat ape trying to destroy it, is going I *? ^ve' Vat?a*i r*? ?*I r.Vi 11 11 _ tr siuvv:, avuvi uiug vv vyuu ^1.14ton, when ''Satan was hurled headloug flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down," 1 have the powers of darkness been so j determined to win this continent as i they are now. What a jewel it is?a j jewel carved in relief, the cameo of I this planet! On one side of us the Atlantic ocean, dividing us from the worn out governments pf Europe. On the other side the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the superstitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators develop their courage. A continent 10 500 miles long, 17,000,000 square muss, and. all of U but about on^-seventh mpa^le of rich cultivation. One hundred** millions of population on ! t^is continent of North and South ?ono hundred millions, and room; for many hundred millions E:- All flora and all fauna, all [sand all precious woods, and all s and all fruits. The Appalachian range the backbone, and the fivgrs the ganglia carrying life all ttfrohgh ana out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist of- a ;giant continent, all to be under one government, and all free, and all Christian, and the scene of Christ's personal reign on earth if, according to the expectation of many good people, he shall at last set up his throne in tffis world. Who shall have this .hemisphere, Christ or Satan? Who shall-iiave the shore of her inland seas, _*hg silver of her Nevadas, the gold H Colorados, the telescopes of her HHkatories, the brain of her uni^^Kes, the wheat of her prairies, the savauuas, the two great, ^^^^rpch i ng from for- u&i|j c.v, bus rote, by earnest praytenance of Christian iny support of great phi>y patting body, mind 'and ightsideof all moral, relational movements, not be long before it will ty difference to you or tc 3mes of this continent, sc y comfort is concerned, rant of it will be sever , and that will take in tin Largest, ana there will be room and t< spare. That is all of this country w< will need very soon?the youngest o ft we have an anxiety about th and the happiness of the gen that are coming on, and it wil nd thing if, when th& archai: mpet sounds, we find that ou jr, like the one Joseph of Ar provided for Christ, is in th 5TRATIGN FULL OF BTGGESTIYJ i JfRSfc t One of the seven wonders of tl t world was the white marble watc s tower of Pharos of E<*ypt. Sostratu w- the architect and sculptor, after buil jv ing that watch tower cut his name c Mr.t Then he covered it with plaste J/ing, and to please the king he put tl ml monarch's name on the outside of t] K Dlasteringr; and the storms neat uj the seas fished in their fury, and th< Ftwashed otf the plastering, and tn I* washed it out, and they washed - down, but the name of Bostratus w i deep cut in the imperatoble rock. < r across the face of talis nation tb? k have been a great many nan W written, across our finances, acr< Lour religions, names worthy of membranee, names written on t V architectine of our churches a 5 our schools and our asylums and < Ik homes of mercy, but God is the arc 3 tect of this continent, and he was ' sculptor'of alli^ grandejffs, P1U tc m iieflwPflBrtfin.ll Tit? 1lI erateuTthe div a signature and divibe name will A brightarand brighter as the mril nl mums go by, ana the world shaffl. gU that the God who made this conlinj dB has redeemed it by his grace frozaf g w its sorrows and' from all its crimes. t-'k Have you faith in such thing $ tkat? After all thechariofcs have lx 5. un 7 heeled, and afte*/ all the v :r chaigers have been^frippled, the ch y iots which Elish^saw on the morni r of his peril will roll on in triumj follower l^rall the armies of heav a on white horses. God could do b without us, but he will not. 1 i weakest of us, the faintest of us, t , smaller brained of us, shall have t part im the triumph. We may r have o?' name, like the name of S> k tratus.AUt in imperishable rock a t conspicuous for centuries, but we sh; ! be remembered in a better place th 7 that, even in the heart him who cai I to redeem us and redeem the worl i and our names will be seen close l thesha^ture of his wound, for as I t' (Jtafl^Kirows out his arms toward ? ''Behold, I have graven th o^^^Balms of my hand." By t . of all agencies, the poten< 3 o.^^K-, I beg you seek our nation ) ago there werd 4.000,0 ' the dead letter postoSiee W^Bngton?letters that lost the } wj^B>ut not one prayer ever di;*e< t ed^Plho heart of God miscarrie ThBi'ay is all clear for the ascent . vo-MsuppHcations heavenward in t i oalBrf tpis nation. Before the post con^B^ication was so easy, ana lor t agc^^Brock one hundred feet hig on of England, there was bar^^^Bned to a post, and in gre lett^Hrthe side of the rock, bo i cou^^R&eeu far out at sea, were tl , jwo^^RPost Officeand when shi] [ C&n^Hf a boat put out to take a;: fetc^Hprs. And so sacred were tho affection in that barrel tin no ^^Bas ever put uDon that barre contained messages f< Europe, 'and iLBia, an ayd all the islanpfe of the s& Maify a^orm tossed saiior, homeaici kindness by Uiat^r^ci J^glH^^Srchange of aymmi^^ f Iowu; postal celestial not b kT^*6>fa\ struck rock on a wintry coas I but ov tfaeBock of Aaea r ? ? - ^ , Raouing to Death. The death in San Francisco of a we known geutlemau caused by runnin to catch a ferry boat finds a counte; part in the suddeu death at a Londo railway station of a man who wa hurrying- to catch a train, but wa just too late. He was expressing hi vexation to one of the employes at th station when he fell suddenly an with a groan expired. A London pi per closes an editorial note of the ai fair with this solemn adjuration; 441 is better to lose a reputation for nunc tuality than through such smalf am fleeting anxiety to snap the irrepar able thread of existence.' In the ver j nacular this might be called a 4'soli* j chunk" of wisdom.?San Francises j Chronicle. Sweet Sympathy. Fond Mamma (reprovingly)?Char ! lie, dear, never a^ain let me see yoi I tryiug to trap and kill those dearhttl' j sparrows, iou will become a heart j less, cruel man. | The Bame (an hour later)?! wil | take this, Miss Alamodo; the brillian ! hues in this bird o: raradise head sui | my complexion admirably. And . fbink my daughter vrilj take that love : ly creation trimmed with the thrush'* | win^s ami oriole'? head.?Pittsburg I Bulletin. The empress of Austria is attendee 1 by a woman physician. | ^ 4 DUNEGAN'S DOLLARS. They Are Found Buried ill the GnvoI aud Occasion ? Law Suit. On the 21st day of March, 1887, Mr. Cicei-o Bales, a son of Mr. Isaac Bales,] was bedding cotton rows on a farm! i (the old home place of Mr. Joseph ; Dunegan, deceased) about three miles north of Gainesville on the Chattahoochee river, turned up a gold coin, and upon close examination found 238 $5 gold pieces. Heat once imparted tne information to his home folks and numbers of outsiders, and j the heirs at law of Joseph Dunegan' | claimed it. Mr. Isaac Bales J?rought | it to Gainesville and deposited! t to nis ; credit at the bank of Banks & Bro.. ; but hearing that quite likely he would | be sued for it, took the specud deposit out of bank and hid it a\/ay. Messrs. John F. and Ezekiel Dunegan, as administrators of aforesaid, through their attorneys, Messrs. Hooper, Perry and Smitn, brought I bail trever for it to the August term n f Hall sunerior court and on thej I iotJjLday of.March, 1887, Mr. Baiea /the forthcoming- of the ! property, to answer the judgment, ! execution or decree of the court At the first trial of the cause the jury failed to agree upon a verdict and s mistrial wa3 declared. ! At the August adjourned term, hek ! November, 1888, the case was agair | called in its order and the trial pro j ceeded, and the evidence produced or [ the trial showed that in tne year 1864 I | Mr. Joe Dunegan took a trip to fch< > ; Rocky mountains and returned to hi , j home in Georgia some time durinj i I the fall with considerable gold dusl i | which lie had coined into five dolla ) I gold pieces at the mint in Dahlonega 3 i the whole amounting to from $3,00 f ! to $3.500,.and that it was his custom t e j bury his* money in the ground, a r j there was no bank in Gainesville i 1 j that time. i- In 18G1 Mr. Dunegan made a trip 1 r Pike's Peak for the purpose of gettir i- some gold dust he naa buried ther e and on his way back home he m taken ill in Illinois, where he died, tl ?. secret of his buried money in Georg " being buried with him. His fami knew that ho had gold buried som v where on his farm, but after futi ' efforts to discover its wfiepeaboul V gave it up as a bad job. In an une pec ted moment the treasure was u - earthed by the hands of a Strang* ' ' and litigation commenoed for its p< 'session. The case was ably conduct ? bv the counsel for the plaintiff, a every inch of ground was stubborn ^ met by Messrs. Dunlap, Pickrell a TTirtmrwnn. attorneys for the d&fez it | *"zri '5s Trie jury found in favor of the pla 60 tiffs, and a motion for a ney trail v ?re made, which was overruled, and ie3 case went up to the supr?m? on a writ of error to. the October ter P" but each side being quite uncertain Al? to who would finally triumph in n<i end decided to make a division a i put a sudden stop. to. litigation. ^ ^nftDunegan^jgia an hoQora; ?uff^?a^ccenmcin maj*jy%ays, but< ^Pi.l^-TT-high esteem by the pwpb his county *nd represented I ou, county in the legislature several ten gee Thus ends the bitter contest for ''yaiier boys" and all parties interes "In seem to be perfectly contentec Gainesville (Ga.) Cor. Atlanta Con as tution 9011 j Silent Men. ^ j Men great in deeds are often fc turn. Does their taciturnity ai t? from the diifidence which fears 1 en WOi^s should exceed deeds, or fron 3: conviction that safety is promoted ,, silence? Washington's reserve mi Pg him stiff, formal and ill at ease ? company, but it also prevented a plans from taing betrayed to Jan e my, and the country from being j ceived by his promises. William'the Silent was frugal ! words, because a reserve that c ai* ceaied his designs, even from th j", acting with him, was necessary to i ' independence of the Netherlands A writer in leisure Hours says tl the most dramatic of silent men v Wallenstein, the antagonist of Gus . I vus Adnlnlms nml fV>? />Anim owdftw - - vuv WU4U4?UUVI the emperora armies in the thi; ^ years' war. He insisted that thede est silence should reign around hi 00 His officers took care that no lo conversation should disturb their g< a eiai. They knew that a chamber!* 'A had been hanged for waking h 'Y { without orders, and that an officer w ^ i would wear clanking spurs in t | commanders presence had been lT cretiy put to death. aJ, In the rooms of his palace t [o servants glided as if phantoms, and Q' dozen sentinels moved around 1 a tent charged to secure the silence t geueral demanded. Chains we stretched across the streets in order 16 guard him against the disturbance sounds. Jr Wallenstein'staciturnity, that mai t him shun speech, and his love of : j fence that caused him to be irritat ' at the slightest uoise, were due to 1 J | constitutional temperament. He ne? a I smiled, he never asked advic? fro ^ i any one. and he could not endure j be gazed at. even when giving an c I der. The soldiers, when he crossi the camp, pretended not to see hit jt umt a curious look wou W 'bring them punishment.?Youti Companion. j: Longevity pf PUat*. | Plants grow as iong a3 they liv | and they live much longer than at I inals. A baobab tree . in Senegs H | about 100 yards in circumference, w; ? reckoned by Adanson to be over 5,0i ? years old. An oak in Dorsetshir u Eng., is thought to be 2,000 years o}< ^ I As tiie baobab is now known to be l3 ; fast growing tree, doubt has bee [9 j thrown on Adan3on's estimate. Bare T i Humboldt thought the dragon tree < J ! Tcneritf'e the oldest tree, but Ajs | Gray, in ' Johnson's Cyclopedia, [. I gives precedence in tree longevity t i the Mexican taxodeum or hala ^ \ | press, a very slow growing tree. jj : Urieans ncavune. lo Ela otto Country. .. ! Americans who have visited G \ j neva, in Switzerland, will recall tk 3 ; church of St. Pierre, one of the olde; 1 in Europe. Parts of the structure dat | back o thousand years. The edifice to be enlarged and partially rebuilt < >. ; a cost of #100,000. This is John Ca i vin's old church. 3 ! Apropos, and as illustrating hoi - transient fame is, the writer of thes ! lines being in Geneva a year 1. i asked the guide, a bright and intell t! gent young fellow who spoke Englis ci' well, if he knew Calvin's house, [ "Calvin," said he, "what was hi ! first name?" s!; "Why, John?John Calvim" / ! "What was his line?" j "He was in the theological businest i and was a prominent dealer." I ; He had never heard of him!?Clei ' gyman in St. Louis Republic. ODDS AND ENDS. Pineapple culture in Florida yields $400 per acre. During the civil war 267 Union soldiers were executed for desertion. It is estimated that there are 20,000 more women in Washington than men. I The Royal academy in London has definitely decided not to open its doors on Sundays. By taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it he is superior.?Bacon. One of the latest inventions is e three cornered steel nail that will drive easily and will not split the wood. Pittsburg claims to be the greatest freight producing city in the Unitec 1 States. She furnishes each year some i 18,000,000 tons. The French academy has been- 'au' tborized to accept a legacy bequo^tiw | by a M. Robin, fortbe purpose orfound I ing an annual prize of 1,000 francs fo 1 fllalnifity j ... ?innnnmo Th 4 IS GXpGCMJU IK3 ^AVfwvfv*w* government contributes the greate | part and the city of Paris most of th rest 1 Never live in hope or expectation . while your arms are folded. Go helps those that help themr^Jves . Providence smiles on those who pi " their shoulders to the wheel that pix j pels wealth and happiness. ?Tillotsot B Ernest Hull, of Lyme, Conn., caugl g a big striped bass off shore in a nov< y way. The fish was floating on tl waves seemingly benumbed with tl J cold. Mr. Hull thrust an oar into i gills and towed it ashore. It weigh* 0 41$ pounds. o There is a yellow haired tailless c is that haunts the White House con it dors. They call it Dan, and many i gard it as the president's masc* to There was a yellow dog that used ig follow Gen. Garfield wherever e, went, out of gratitude for a bone tt is the president once threyr him when was on the verge of starvation ia t ia street. If A gentleman made a purchase ii North Pearl street drug storou f le dayg ago, says The Albany Journ The clerk tied up the i>ackage and advertently negleoted to cut the twi: A* The purchaser carelessly put the pa age in an outside pocket and left i store. He had gone nearly a bh when a passerby noticed the stri trailing behind him. He had -i wound nearly a ball of twine with nd knowing it One of the most noted of the art . | cietkt of London is the. Society in- | Lady Artists. The members of^ ras institution give au exhib:UonJ| th? year, to which are art critics torn TQ; pictures are for ff,rtrait a^Iiesi to The ladies^ md domestic gen .ucceS3 water to have than with oils. ble 0,8 811 11? Xnamed Vortjoie has of 4^j^^S&uied to death for an ej ^ HlSunary performance. He was b 2^ * tried by court marshal at Oran fo lag attempt to desert, when he sudds ^ threw the quid of tobacco comfort stowed away in the recesses of ;te4 cheek iu the face of Col Thierry, I ? presided. The man was at onoe ;St<. tenced to death for ao assault ou s perior office, while on duty. , A goose belonging to J. H. Pan of Macon, while gra2ing along aci- track of the Georgia Southern & rise time ago, was caught under the tn lest of a passing train and had one leg i a ered near the knee joint For s< by time the goose hobbled about in ide woods uncared for. At last howe in it claimed the attention of Mr. Parr his whose ingenuity fashioned for ne- maimed fowl a neat wooden leg de- place of the lost member, upon wi it walks with much grace. of onose Batsia Bed With a Girl the A gentleman tells us the follow ha* under an earth that we will not divi the name of the young lady, nor his name under any circumstances. rtv said: . ep. There is a certain young lady ' m. will never eat much supper, if a yo ud man eats with her on an invitation m- do so; but when she retires for night, will take a biscuit or piece FJ bread, and munch it after lyiug do Oue night last week she had a vis s^. and didn't eat, on retiring she tool large number of sweet cakes and wi he she ate enough, fell asleep. II a long she slept no one knew. I jJ3 awakened the house screaming at JJ? bearj breaking rate, and the peo thought she was being murdered, of rushed a big brother and a marr sister, the latter with a lamp. 1 de young woman was in bed yelling, u si don't," and other articulations of I ror. The brother ran and pulled ^ the covering, when out rushed two ^5 three rats, and down fell pieces of ca Tb? g'fl tin urn >r, that she was awakened by what ? ed thought was a man feeling her pers &as the rats after eating scainpei over her She was frightened nea L* into convulsions, and gave vent to I terror in the ear splitting screams, fc says she is always going to eat herst per at the table herealter, if there j a dozen young men there.?jimertc il, (Ga) Republican. 13 x) Picture of the True Gentleman. i The following sketch is called "T 5 Portrat of a True Gentleman !" was found in an old manor house Gloucestershire, written and fratn< sa and hung on the mantle piece of * tapestried sitting room. "The tr Mt. gentleman is God's servant, the worl f* master and his own man Virtue is I ^ business, study his recreaMon, contei merit his rest and happiness his l ward- God is his Father, Jesus Chr is his Saviour, the sain'S his brethrt and all that need him his friends. I & votion his champion, charity his cha; ia herlain. snhriptv tinflpr tumnoMn ? J ?? r ? 4 his cook, hospitality his housekeepi I* Providence his steward, charity 1 treasurer, piety his mistress of t ^ house and disoresion his porter to i ^ in c-r out as most fit," b To make sealing wax for fruit cai take eight ounces of rosen, two ounc a gum shellac and and a half ounce [beeswax. Melt all together. Thlsw ! make a quantity, and may be melt< j for use when wanted. | What in life is more beautiful ths j happy humau faces. } t s / t t | A Simple Explanation ci uravuy. * Gravity exists wherever there is mat* ter. It is the power which every particle of matter possesses of drawing every other particle to itself. As you stand on the earth you are drawn down toward it. If some one were to lift you up. and then let you loose, you would fall; in other words you would 1 be drawn strongly toward the earth be* neath you. ; In the other side of the woili, which \ss^ 1 is round like a ball, is another country where people live. Almost opposite j where you are standing now is the j (.'ape of Good Hope. Thrre are chil- r dren standing there'with their feet to L the earth-upside down, to your notions. 1 Take an orange or a ball and suck two i pins straight into the opposit4?pde?. Let onVof the two. nins^be you and Httfe'Hottentot in Soutli r (h^Africtf, the heads of the two pins your ; heads and the points your feet. Though ^ eartnisbeneath his feet. If he drops ? a stone it falls to the earth in the di . i- _ e re&ion from the head ot the pin 10 mc point, just as a stone you drop falls to Li ihe earth in the direction from your d head 10 your feet.?Huvpefs Young 5. People. it * Fighting for a Corpse. gj Dedijam, Mass., April 25.?About ie a week ago Mary E. Carpenter, a hand* ^ ie some brunette, 26 years of age. died ts of consumption. She resided with id her husband, Oscar Carpenter, in her mother's home. The deceased was a at Catholic and her husband i? a Protest* n' ant. Mrs. Hand, Iter mother, secured, a lawyer when she was aware her ?C daugliter was to die, and had her mak* I tie a will directing that her body be Lat to her mother, who was to have char|^^^^^^H her be Carpenter heard of became and claimed -1 wAnnri i a had been toiu .\r&i uic ew buried was be iicr' ^he ^be have if un- law . S? einff ??l aB^^^;ars are sometimes rag sumecFta-6todying out each other bqIv pedigrefe.. 1&i? ; in * the wild,' hajdeoJ^s^/^^ abiv West it ii-very. different. There'^he h*s pop precipitate reigns, and it is no un- who common thing for a woman to get an offer on sight. The other day in St. 18W* Louis a Boston widow found a husband . , in an hour. The Arkansaw man who "uie P?PPec* mean* business, and gave her a minute fr? deride Westward thu mo ? , ??- . ? ? _ lcks hopes of spinsters takes its way. sev ome Piies. the . When visiting a friend last summer the ca^e(* *?y attention to a curious r [q plan for preventing the plague of flies uch hi his house. The upper sash of one of the windows in his sitting room being opened for ventilation. There was suspended outside a piece of common fishing net. My friend told me that not a fly would ventu e to pass through it. He has watched for an hour at a time, and seen swarms fly to within a few inches of the net. and then, after buzzing about for a little, depart. He told me the flies would pass through un(r the net if there was a little light?that t? is another window in the opposite wall. tjie Though the day was very warm, I did not see a single fly in the room during my visit, though elsewhere in the town * they .were seen in abundance. I sup: pose they imagine the net to bespider's ben We^' or some ?tber traP intended for r their destruction. She a ??Sa1? ... n.i. ^ JBUUUy b Albino UU VAliB. Pje A cat is a curious animal. It has fore /n feet and also fore legs. Its head is at one .nd of its body and its tail is at he the other. When it walks its head Oh goes before and its tail follows along ier' behind. Its front feet walks before, ?? and its hine feet walks along behind. or If a kan is tied to a cat's tale, it will ks. not track when ?t walks, [t is not good *** 'for a cat to tie a ViTrrrrtriif ?mm ?>M( ^ 'Ilc* to Its tail eather. It is not apt to watlf on? too fast and get heated. A cats tale is a recJ good handle to pick a cat/ up by. but rly its hard on th$ cat. Cats can clime lcr treas. Dogs kant. That is lucky for cats. When a dog gets alter them they L!P kan clime a trea. when they kan *ass ire back without getting hert. You kant hit a cat. \\ unct I thru a bute at one tfnd I hit an ole ruster. The ole ruster he d:de, but the cat didu't.?Oxford Echo. ^ Celery as a Cure for Bheumatism. ! Celery is the latest for rheumatism. " ' It is asseited that disease is impossible if the vegetable be freely eaten The fact that it is so generally put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic ^ powers from being known. The celery should be cut into bits, boiled fn ." water until soft and the water drank by the patient. Put new milk, with a litj ' t:e flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with the boiled celery, s rve warm, with pieces of toast, eat it with pofaQr toes and the painful ailment will soon V yield. Such is the declaration of & he physician who has again and again tried the experiment and with uniform success. He adds that cold or damp j never produces but simply developes ns the disease, of which acid blood is es the primary and sustaining cause, and 0f that while the blood is alkaline there jjl can be neither rheumatism nor gout. id "Do joti mean to tell me that Joe is really dead? That was the last thing in I expected of him." "Well, it wastho last thin* he did, w^sp't it?" J' S i : %