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"OWE NO MAN." ONE P PI E;' A i; T-i. OG RELIG10Ni. A Sermon ltecca:its Vre"::circci - be- Rev. P. V- 101, a. of' Lanc:cster--Text:" e No :l' Auruthi::."-Rom. X 11, . Lancaster Ledger. I know : f no more jppropriate season or the pulpit to speak out uoc the -duty of meeting one's fiancal ob!iga tions than now. The summ_"r has pa sed; the crops are being rapidly harvested and now is the time for men to pay what they owe. But, you say. there is no money in circulation, crops are very shott. I believe it is a good tag for some men that crops are short, for it gives some of tre dishonest fellows some excuse, and you know the old adage, "A poor excuse is better than no excuse." And again, if some men did not have something to murmur against God for they would be miserable. Our people are A MURMURING PEOPIl. Did you ever see a crop that was not short? I would like to see bow much corn and cotton an acre had to prodnce in order to come up to some men's idea of a full crop. It is a chronic case of grumbling. Some one has said, "Some people are so miserably miserable that they are miserable if they are not mis erable." You may take that home and study it out. What our people want is iefigion to make them willing to let God run this world. But I wish to talk to you to-day about making and paying debts. In the first place I wish you to notice that every man is * A DEBTOR TO GOD. This is true in every way we look at it. 'There are none of these debts that man may hope to pay in full, and God does not require it of us. We can never re pay him for that infinite love that res eued us from perdition. But there is a debt that we de owe and one that is ex pected of us to pay. It is a debt a gratitude. I am not going to take up much time this morning in showing you ae' you may pay this debt. I preaeb-'d to you last Sunday morning on thll sion of Zaceheus, and ycu - conver expected to pay it. ' saw how he forget that they - Aoo many people They love to ta' owe God anything. love to sine . about free grace. They AlL" that song, "Jesus Paid It - vow, brethren, you have worked .,a's land, you have breathed His air, you have had His rain and sunshine, you have lived in His houses, you have eat His bread, in a-word you are God's ten ants, and if you are honest men you will pay the rent. Some people say they have nothing to be grateful for; they have had affliction, or some calamity has be fallen them, and they do not see where God has been good to them. If there is one of those sort here this morning all I have to say to you is you are an ungrate ful wretch, and you had better thank God that He has not sent some awful punishment upon you. One more remark and I am done with this part of my sub ject. When men begin to realize that times are hard and economy is necessary, the begin to practice it first at the house of God. They cut down church expense one-half. God will not bless any such economy. oblgatonsyouar under to your fellow men. Pope says "An honest man is the noblest work of God." That may. be a little exaggerated, yet there is a great deal of truth in it. I know that the higbest type of a Christian man is much teworld. Ana now ta~t amanof the, world -may be houest. But at the same time I know it is impossible for any man to be a Christian and be dis lhonest, or, to put it plainly, not pay his Fdebts. I wish to lay special emphasis upon that fact. Many of our eo-called Christains have entirely too, LoSE IDEAs OF HONEsTY. One of the specific rules of our church forbids "The borrowing without the Sprobability of paying for them." It is a rule that is pregnant with the spirit of SChrist, yet I am afraid it is a rule that we, as Christians too often forget. *Christ did not fail to set us an example in economy as well as in other things. -He was born of poor parents and He was raised in poverty, and he was satisfied to -lead a life of self-denial. WVe are too ex travagant. Westart out in the first of f .he season as if we kniew that our fields were going to be burdened with the harvest; and we invest in this and that luxury, and by the time the crop is -planted 'we are "way in debt." The summer drought does not cause us to Sholdpi much; and when the harvest is gathered and the. profits do not balance the expenses we go off murmuring about - the short crops, and that we had just as well not try to make anything in this country. The fault does not lie in the crops it lies in OUR EITRAVAGANOE. There is no use in a man's being waste ful simply because he has plenty. Take the case where Christ fed the multitude. They cared nothing for what remained. Tjey did not think they would get hun ~gry again, and Christ bad to command, Gather up the fragmients that remain, that -nothing be lost," and when they were gathered twelve baskets were filled. Now. if we will only stop being extra vagant the crops will improve by a large per cent. I can tell some of you men HOW TO MAKE TWO BALES 01 COTTON. Suppose you leave off your one drihk a day, make ten cents, in one year there are $6.50, one bale of cotton. Then suppose you leave off your cigars, ten cents more a day, one more bale a year. I do not blame our l armers for boycotting the merchants who sell goods for more than they are worth. I only wish they would go on in their boycotting and boy cot some of these barrooms. I tell you that is'a business that Lancaster County can well afford to do without. If some of our people would only remember that the money with which they buy their -whiskey, tobaceo, fine clothes, etc., be longs to the raren who have been furnish ing them with lard and meat, it would not be long before they are "square with Sthe world." Another great expense which generally results in dishonesty is the thing of try ing to HKP UF APPEARANCEs. It is a, curse to our country. Some people have not yet learned to accept the condition of affairs which the war left them in. They wish to live high and work little. We have people who were once rich, now as poor as a~s poverty, yet they try to hide it frja the world. And then there are some, thank God not many, who never did have anything and never 'will, but 'who try to ape those who are rich. Now the men who feel all this the most are the creditors. Some of you people would be thunderstruck if you could only see the accounts that mer chants have against this class who try to keep up appearances. It weas a happy his when sotne one called them broken down hypbcrites. There would be a mighty revolution in society if the dishonesty of some people was exposed. I have had some of your merchants to tell me that there are people here who make large accounts and never try to settle them, and yet they claim to be respect able. Now, while there is no special virtu in poverty, it is no sin to be poor. &nd when a man meets with a business. lanity, if he wi:! 'nlv iao: . int:e .u io'4 th.it.U Again, man in deoj la I OSES 111s si.pL-:Fsri lFspecially is Shia tnil: alt ;;::a timel (,1 ! .he yt::r. Every lime :ou meet n :::in pl ou .w"e you thinuk ab!)t ti n a , t. I 'it sXpect there are men in our county who Ca: : no: come to !',n '"w " t hat nerou.. th A fres _ .e~~ li cnatters not now imue'n uorey is laid in :' fr< there is not economy there. -r la'r w credi: will i.e lost. A man s:ouid think it before he mnuries. Yuung z:--w, if vou M are poor and have to work for your livi nt, ti you had better let these au - ?ARLOR GIRLS alone. They are too nice to go into the to kitchen, the keys are turned over to the servants, and things are wasted. Be sure you get a woman who will enter into K your plans and not waste mere money in a year than you can make in ten. A woman who cannot live on her husband's a salary is not fit to be a wife. I would se not have you to try to stint yourselves ed and mske your homes unhappy. But the e happiest home is not always the one a upon which the most money is spent. othing encourages a man more to pro-be ride than to know there is a woman in la his home who will use economically a hat he places there. ~ on I chose this subject for to-day because, er [ believed it was one of interest to most >f us. -0 THE CROPS ARE SHORT, er and that is the very reason wvhy yOU ris should make a*special effort to meet your en >bligations. It was no sin fc you to go th n debt. I do not suppose there is one Va an out of a hundred who is able to pay we ,ash all the year round. But as money dc s going to be scaro you should do your eq >est to pay your creditors, for they will K feed every cent of it, And then, as I st, nave eaid, this thing of not paying your As lebte is a prevailing sin. It makes my we 'e' burn with shame to say it, but it is in trae that the pulpit itself is sometimes R rilty. The preacber who will not pay tr his debts is not worthy of your confidence. o He has no more right to preach the gos- m pel than a barkeeper has. And then there tit are too many of the leading members of o the church guilty. They can be very p sanctimonious, and can run the affairs of c the church, yet they are dishonest enough ft to cheat their creditors. to What our country needs just now as fc much as anything else is a av REVITAL OF DEBT-PAYING RELIGION, d beginning right at the house of God. A pt religion that will not make a man pay his to debts will not, keep him out of hell. t "Religion," says one of our evangelists, "will make a man unload." . It matters at not if the note is out of date, or if he f may avoid paying by some technicality f( of the law, yet if the debt is an honest t one he must pay if he proposes to be a Christian. Now let us begin to run over n accounts and see how much we owe, and let us pay it, so that we may- look the t world fairly and squarely in the faee and say, "I owe no man anything." The "eetlig of Congrcss. t The Fifty-first Congress assembled at 0 noon last Monday. In view of the neces- P sary consumption of practically the ' entire day in tbe organization of the n ne w house of representatives, the pres ident's message was not read until P Tesday.e The officers of the house were agreed 11 upon by the Republican m caucus on Friday nigh. e~'y are as 2 follows: For spea nomas B. Reed, I ofe Edward McPherson, ~ of Pennsylvania; for segata-rs A. J. Holmes, of Iowa; for post-master, ti J. H. Wheat, of Wisconsin; for door- t keeper, C, W. Adams, of 31aryland. t Ex-Speaker Carlisle will manage the I Democratic minority in the house. It tI is said that Mr. Carlisle takes the ground 1i that the Democratic party in Congress U stands pledged to tariff reform, and ti therefore, if the majority should present it a reasonable tariff measure, it will be i the duty of the Democracy to try and t perfect it as far as possible, and then 0 vote for its passage. It will not be the ri policy of the Democrats to block general il legislation. On the contrary, they will tI do all in their power to facilitate that 0 which is for the general interest of the ~ people. In the contested election cases ' they will endeavor to secure a fair and P impartial investigation of the eases, and ' will resist anything that savors of an g injustice. The present session will have brought ti to its attention for action a number of b matters upon whieb the public has be- - ome well informed, by reason of pre- C vious discussion. Among them are the e: Blair educational bill; the bill to forfeit St land grants, general and special; bill to a declare trusts unlawful; the dependent I pension bill; bill to repeR the civil ser- II vice service and oleomargarene tax laws a and various measures relating to the 1 tariff, internal revenue and general ' financial system. ti There will also be presented to the l senate the resnlts of the investigations ti made during the recess of the several n committees upon the dressed beef busi- ti nes, the subject of irrigating arid lands. 0 the relations of Canadian railroads to ~ the Inter-State commerce law and the commercial relations ex'isting between r_ the United States and Canada, includ- li ing the Alaskan seal fisheries. I Si The silver question will speedily come h up in some shape. Senator Stewart's it resolution, introduced last session, d e-a claripg it to be the sense of that body that the secretary of the treasury should purchase the full limit of silver bullion b. for coinage, fixed by law at $4,000,000 monthly, will be pressed for adoption. Cheek Carried Him through. Henry A. Cook, of Leominster, Mass., tl wanted to be elected to the Legislature, a so early last month he published a notice ai o that effect in the local paper, hired a all andi on October Sth placed himself c in nomination before a convention of enthusiastic fellow citizens. He asked no one to ratify the nomination, but he F ratified it himself. He told his constitu- i r ents why he was a good man for the t honor, and that, being sensible people, Ic he knew they would take his ad vice andai vote for him. He said that there were b now eight or ten candidates in the Re- di publican party to go before the conven- d tion and that he intended to spike all their guns by telling every mean thing he had ever done, together with some of his good deeds, and thus fore stall the possibility of being slandered by - his enemies. He began with his birth, and showed or tat he had been a hostler, a peddier, a t chairmaker, a comb-maker, a carpenter, j a blacksmith, a manufacturer, a gambler, a thief, a large real estate dealer, a law -re yer, a detective, and that his present oc cupation was seeking the oince of repre- e tentative. Hie wanted it understood thatit he was a total abstainer without being a to prohibitionist. The, humor and frank- t ness of the would be legislator made him hosts of friends. He ran as an i dependent. and was electnd by a piu raity of 34 votes over the Republi can nominee in a strong h.epublican? dis-t In the cotton mills one weaver form- po erly managed one loom; now manages wi A N IGHT AT ROUND KNOD. r".::~j h l c'. ei:~ct.,d i'a ;im :.:: th:t i have c'ver loevi the -:u:. Of : eit'' ., cn the ln. <f ti :di;at Air .;e, in Wsc-:era >:lth ' min. Tbe :aiwa leavc A heville, I1' t noted sanitarium, and proceeds ns at it c::: to get over the Bline Ridge ,untains. First there is the Swanna- ; a tunnel, which- is about a third of a !e long. After that there are six er tunnels somewhat shorter. Then to Pm the top of the mountain the rail V undertakes to wind its way down t o the valley of the Catawba River or d il Creek. The road here is probably h crookedct in all creat:on. It winds d rewinds and twists and goes ever d under itself in a way that is perfect- ti bewildering to the traveler who v.ithes c know in which particular part of the 6 uoatin he is. Froii Little Sr. Ber- sl rd, a peak that is above the Round lot Valley, the raihw:y e.:n be seen in h renteen different plac:-, workig up d down the mountair.s, and no two t< ttions of the track are on the same ale- a tion. The train runs down this crook iron pathway with all ate-am shut off CI d the brakes turned on. It is a teary 5 perience for. a traveler, but the road a d is perfect. and has all been toek bal ted and laid with heaviest :-teel tails, f d no accident has ever yet taleri place a that portion of the'line, so the chances a that startling as the ride is to a tray :r accu-tomed to level railwavs, that rtton of the track is safer than many s her iines that have less grades and -oks upon it. But snvhow it is worth king something, . it is any risk, to a joy the wonderful ada :vinding ;.ound u e mcetains and descendi ig into the !ley of the Catswtba. But the most h )ndcr:. sight tha - -r sav- .d ubt if there is ancici.: the woilci to a ual it-is that seen from the Round t iob Hotel at midnight. A party of us i>;d there to see the night train from Eeville -come down around that net >rk of curves and 1ieavy grades. Dur- e the couple of days I stayed at the >und Kuob Hotel I was piraticr.lly a spasser, because the hovel was not ened, and Col. Sprague, anxious as he y5 be to receive Pa :uest at: another t no, had anything but a cheerful look his face when two northern newspa . r men stepped from the train and an unced their intention of staying there e r ra couple of days. Howerer, there is o much cordial hospitality i:. the South r a tired traveler ever to be turned ray from an rody's door, even if the or is that of an unopered hotel where -eparations arc actively o.ing forward receive the guests who come to stay ere during the season. We sat up late the first night talking )Out the wonderful place in which we und ourselves, atd get ting information r intended excursions into the moun .ins and up the creeks and to the aterfalls. It was about it o'clock at ight when Col. Sprague said to us: Come out on the veranda -and see the idnight train. It's about due now, id to see it come dowu the mountains a sight not to be missed." We all went out on the broad piazza of te hotel. The building is situated ght beside the railway track, and the ain that we were to get the first sight t f about a mile above us nodid have to . ass with a few feet of where we stood 'hen it had completed-the descent. The ight was very'dark, and there was a imble of thunder over the pinnacle int of the Blue Ridge. The air, bow rer, was Iuminoust h;my Sd of~Irc iesgedoeaTnie the phosphgrescent ~ack which follows a ship in the ocean. he roar of the little Catawba River ov r e rocks was very scothinig and musical. -ot a sound of the coming train could be lard, because it was not yet thbrough e tunnel. In fact t-he first intimation at we had of its approsch was not: rough sound but sight. With a start! Eg suddenness a great .pine tree high on e mountain top stood out in bright re If as if it had been thrown against the .ountain side by a tremeudous stereor con. It looked like a tree of silver and was illuminated by the white head ght of the locomotive. Then another ce, and another and another stood out 2 the mountain side, and finally the igged, rocky side of the cutting was uminated like a scene from Switzerland rown against the dark mountain side North'Carolina. Te~en came the train ith its long gleraming row of glittering indows, made alt the more startlingly ~ ain by the dense darkness of the night. he mountain background noted as a reat sounding board across the valley, I here it was echoe-d by the the moun in on the other side of us and thrown I ck again in con fused Niagara of sounds. g fter a moment the train diaappeared as x stirely as if it was swallowed up by the t rth. It bad gone around to the other c de of the mountain, and not a sound or sight of it did we get for some moments. g he hills still reverberated with its com- c g, but that, too, died away, and, t though every one listened intently, I ere was not a rumble to disclose its hereabouts. A few monments after a see-f on of the pine covered mountain still t wer down flashed into the ligh-, and I is time, as the train turned, the illumi- a ted disc flew rapidly along the moun- t in side, giving the trees the appearance z rushing into the light and theu rusb- e g out into the darkness again. Then I e had a second broadside view of the I ishing train and the long procession of c ;hts once more crossed the mountain r: de, but this time lower down than we I md first seen it. Again the thunder of I 3wheels woke the ochocs of mountain t. md valley and once more it plunged into o livion, with thatstartling~ suddenness I ich made it seem as if the train had a en blotted out of existence. 1 From the further mountains some time t ter was heard Jhe faint rumble of the 'y aim, echoed back to us from the other t :i of the nearer hills, and at dluerent s >ints the invOnible train rnade its where >uts known by the echoing mnurmu:- of t e mountains. We went round to t iazza on the other side of the house ~ d the-re caught glimpses of the train in expected places, and finally we saw it V ming around the hill in exactly the ' 'Osite direction we had seen it on the a e~ of its first and second appearing. - nally it got down to the level of the P of of the hole! on the opposite side of e e valley and swept around, coming ser and lov',er, until it drew up at the ogz platform on the other side of the tilding. it is worth going many hun- n ed miles to see the midnight train come ri >w the mountain at Round Knob. e - .--- 01 On November 15, J. D. Horton. a t ug farmer living near Durham, N. C, ri ysteriously disappeared, and foul play ss susp'e:ed. J. P. Davis, an empioyee the farm3, told Horton's old mother at her son had deserted her. The iohborhood did ntot believe the story, d search was made about the premises,0 ulting in the discovery of Hor ton's d v buried in ~ an old barn. Davis n :ped, and the Durham, N. C., author es sent a police officer to Danville, Va., search for Da&n On Sunday, while is flicer and e . Danville chief of lice were in conference at the hotel, ac iter ask-fd the~ proprietor if he should m ke 31r. D)avis for dinmnuer. The name s suggestive, aud the officers wernt to Sroom: indicated, where they found J. Davis. Hie was cuarged with the~ 'In :rder and confessed the crime. Ue had a led Horton, he said, in order to get H: ssssion of his far m. Hie killed him a th a bootjack and buried the body in tri EFFERSON DAVIS DEAD.I' *ri \i:. ! :l O.V Sh~t.: 'tO -1' rO= th iw.ln Y'S f hS l ,1.iw 'lh) e:hou il t- x -asl ch -lth t a :j - t ar e1.tiW I oe ssl to-ug et-, of an 2w o fa Olf d:aN-h isener ppeared -to si t '7 D), vi.s <ih '.re this met:nin 1.5 From the bI;gi. nniog of hII f:. ta il a -ir. Dais hid h insisted th: hiz. cau Ii as quite hopeless thouth entd of et tin or fear of death Lever appeared to a he wver list hold liu :s sirits si ich we e rarvaed eer budyaut from t< e befinni;g f the a ack. In vain fe d the doctor thve to fo : pon I in that his helth h- imprving. lit i cal dy loin thi, tihe wsyno im- et rveinut, but wn h ritian resigna- gi on he wascoutlnt to accept what Provi fr chee had i store for hii. Only once y id he waver in his belief tat his cded : lowed no imllroven at:d that was Yt fl a early hour yesterday morning when 3i phytully remarked to Mr. Payne: I am afraid that Ishall be c->mpelled ci >agree with the doctors for once nd P imiats I am a lite f better." cit All day long the favorh symome ft aetinued and late i the afternoon, as It iste as four o'clock, 31rs. Davis sent suchn cheering message to Mrs. Stamps and si Ir. and Mrs. Farrar that they dicided t] >r the first time since r. Davis has iU enh taken ill to attend the French y per. At six o'clock last evening. e ithout any assignable cause, 3Mr. Davish as seized with a congestive chill which emed to absolutely crush the vitality his already enfeebled body. So weak 1 as Mr. Davis that the violence of tnd e ssault soon subsided for lack of vaitdty pon which to prey. From that moment the time of his death the history of f is case was a gradual iking. At Seven S 'clock airs. Davis administered some t medicine, but the ex-Presidentdeclinedd Sreceive the whole dose. She urged up n him the necessity of taking the re tainder, but putting it aside with the entlest of gestures, e w hispered. "pra xcuse me." i These was his last wor ds. Graduallv he a rew weaker, but never for an instant em ed to lose consciousness. L ying eacefully upon his bed, and without :ace of pain in his look. een oaied )r hours silettly clasping and tenderly ressing his wife hnd. With un aunted Christian spirit he awaittd the nd. From the moment of the t dread assau: f the congestive chill, those gathieredi round his bd side who had been v: th 2g and noting with painful interet. t very change of symptom for the pa onth, knew well that the messenger as even at the door About halh-past ten o'clock Associate t ustice Feuner went to the French Opera I louse to call to Mr. Davis' beside alr- t nd Mrs. Farrar and Mrs. Stamps. As non as the messenger reached themj hey hurried to the bedside of the dying e x-President. By half past eleven o'clock I here were assembled i the death cham t >er 3rs. Davis Messrs. Chaille and Beck- f tam, Associate Justice and Mrs Fenner. t oIs. Smith grand niece of the dying tan, and br. and Mrs. E. H. Farrar. inding that Mr. Davis was breathig omewhat heavily as he lay upo. his t ation the otr dised hm to rae i tpoln i., n: -ide. Witnh ohj pet g initt u t het ia illie a tlee din rat weea once hirvlv abredooprgt cr.s hey 1:9:3phe. la orsmeistee a ins ;tbing vsoftlyin bt i:tly 1 Itr ans mo~e theebe ee iresir-t' t*n 'illhey pastsedri cmo silened i beShe at Psbn~ers wta be silver t r. haw eu PFloeanthnonces >is irnen.t pThete of bilhe Cone- - ros "ihreetn trhoeslet of puo."t ste cutom haco:uts e fical had come r iena rcento e orours t the pl traf ehy the boge were th cutshg a eoredo tHe fiitaidosv ta Con ster shad prvenwr for t~ihe election s nti he offcer evre fur ea , andoI ht the pwet osfo hersiente mshoul Mr.atower robadid shens to roiz I oe anril foe e of thelosttu ha ion o her.nie KSowin fo ther preo ishmetio th nhearfecin seeks So- a s potmsersa aronce rn led cr-1 er.ccuns Thefpomtey cominiseedect drnpsbn thepepleitad ot appotedur hi mt u he waseno postmagteriener. s t ais tee twsandvltso the exPeidn' sslless, hei mcoriaompiaed vialth Salc ofst mshould be acetaed to hew Yaorit Wofhd. '#n. h ei Mr.th lrgsel and Fcowertanngownge h atrnetof the presient isbillcenedn :rsu"eetn the srabeorteectoof pos 2asero, stomros fcas and Cogesmn tel asvenu coltr the adiipeto, obstuct rof the ngewhrupin ihe pduties Ia ,teror ime te maintainstng poen-t o es sld s pro ie fobjheectionl I i theseoflice fr tevery reasn tad taehm the chower of the Pitictns.ul Mcrs Flower'lyms opro-o osel an famendmet o the lConstit ono like toite Staveory thecived Wishenton t endhe prsents time fa [ ostmseris arbec conernedhith er inlyl would etiadesirable char. Fon - 2a e onts, i othbey wasted.b let dTbyote popeiostead combpinendb yf then cPresidetors hotate genterl tlnta grip ton ond throagsn outer ountry tem dstinedstr istuge fialg rearslsw, the peoplesol fully in ossesshthicofne and absropotesall tt .g injoity ofefense.tindns. Te anno e liehe larges ndronstng growng, abronotgensfth upreint a is conceded, C idcthnets scrambe fors potatie res I ime o nenacttr sand nondeme usb reiya no b-e adminisraton oulderut al une phblinebsis and hpils sho urini trte sames timte dte appointin oer t >o'r wate seted aor andobjectioabe >ol. thedpeope otvr aons ditat, ned him ther choie o the servicants. ax -illi they favort with the epicsbt'it Im 5o Washingto arut the comsen ies o pitwever, itones ar subjet onwhic to.adh eopl mnee neductn, n r.c Flw a' r's efort wil (l to t t beatd.ieo Tdhoe notorioud thuts fcrmbers anudb faiulopain have bgnahemryotte jter >ryats buls e the p enioe rre- in 1re tihe andlcaton sm stogptet.t IOW TO TREAT INGERSOLL. e Wayto alcet the mo-Called Arauencnts i of the isold Unbeievic-r. 'the GI.!! ing quest"tica] hInre been nt to~ a cal ~ teig rssQr, lie lolows in the Albany Jour I ar Proes-or : Are not Ingersoll's l ruen its nttanswerable ? What are mn going to do about, it ' SEVEnAL STUDiNTS. you are out halt a dollar apiece, e e you'? No, no; I cannot answer i c.. Roys, I recall the incident in my and impetuous youth of wasting I psu;nd and a b: if of bird shot on a t uall owl. I followed him from tree tree, and shot away a hatful of athers, and when he died of fatigue found that his body was about as i rge .1s a robin's and I :out it. to no trthly use. lie was a decepti ve tar it. If 1 understand the gentleman om Peoria, he wishes to liberate 1 uth from the incubus and thraldom I 'superstition. That devastadi g in- i uence of the country clergyman's on < 00 per annum and a donation is what orrie Rcbert, and he proposes to ire it and eradgate it for the trifling 1 ittance of $250 per lecture. For fifty mnts he proposes to liberate your mind 'om that influence wnich filtered into from the trembling lips -of your other, and free it from the chain of perstition loaded upon your soul by ie rough but loving hand of your Lther. Of course he worries about ou more than those old fogies did or fifty cents. You look aound you in the city ere and you discover several millions f dollars invested in hospital., semi aries, asylums, forced on the suffering mmunity by the same mythical, tiraculous and superstitious incubus f religion. You ask the gentleman om Peoria where his little public in :itutions are, founded by his peculiar ,aching, and he says in an absent .inded manner, "Fifty cents at the oor." Boys, you see sometimes a poor ian's funeral procession, with a emocrat wagon, and a little coffin in so small you can carry it under your rm. A poor couple walk behind it rith breaking hearts. Their baby is i the little coffin. It was their all. 'heir hearts are broken. Oh. if we nly had Bob there to tell them about berty and myths and miracles-for fty cents -how it would cheer them p. But you say there ar so many infi els. Boys, you are mistaken. An in .del is an abnormal growth, and Na are feels funny once in awhile and reates a freak, e. g., the living akele o, the fat woman, the two-headed :ri. So there is about one infidel to million sane men. The most of these sllows are amateur infidels. They alk Ingersoll in fair weather, and ,ray themselves hoarse every time it hunders. A well-develope i case of holera-morbus will knock their infi elity out of them and leave them in a old sweat like a china dog in an ice Louse. I know them. The most of hem are like the boy who runs away rom home and comes back to stay vith father nights. Then, again, boys, take . look ,round you when you invest another ifty cents in liberty, and corpare the :rowd with the kind of people you ind in almost a..y church. Is it the idor of sanctity you smell? Hardly, ioys, hardly. But you can eat peanuts here and choke on the shells while 'ou applaud the funny jokes about the eaven where you know in your eart you hope mother is, or hear the umble Nazarene ridiculed, who, you *hinic, and always will think, gave a ome to your weary old father when Ye, bos ~~ uments are un nswerable, and I think_the-seaso vill come along, and the e:hurches will ontinue to bioom, and all nature will nost exasperatingly and calmly per orm her functions if Robert is not ~nswered. You kn'sw when the firet teamer crossed the Atlantic a great hilosopher was delivering a most onclusive argument to proof that by tO possibility could a steam vessel ross the ocean, and that provoking teamer came snorting and sizzling nd splurging right into the harbor. oys, so will God's fooiish children go ight on praying and preaching and ying and going to heaven in spite of rgument.________ BIG MONEY IN AN ACRE n Acro, Yield of Corn thac Bleats the oOLUMIA, S. 0. December 5.:-Capt. .Drake of Marlboro, has just gathered 54 bushels and forty pounds of corn com one acre. This beats the world's ecord, the highest before being 212 ushels and a fraction, raised by Dr. arker on an acre, in what is known ow as the Asylum farm, in the sub rbs of Columibia. Capt. Drake is a competitor in the ontest from the $500 prize offered by 'he American Agriculturalist for the Lrgest yield of corn on one acre, to rhich our state board of agriculture pill add $500 more if won by a South arolina planter. REPUBLICAN f0WPkATERS Get Into Trouble in North Carolna. John W. Brown and Wmi. S. Hlender >n, colored clerks in the postofice at harlotte, N. C., were arrested last hursday by postoffice inspectors. rown was arrested for rifling regis *red letters, and Henderson for rifling ~dinary letters. There have been num ~ous complaints of registered letters eing~ rified while in transit in Noazth arolina since October 1, and upon in estigation the trouble was located at ie*Charl otte ofiice. Inspectore haive een watching Brown. and Henderson >r the last three nights and saw them oth in the act of robbing the mails. prelimitnary hearing was h'eld before ie United States Commissioner and the arties held to await the action of the rantd jury of the United States Court. he accused are well-known negroes, rown being secretary of the county epublican committee. They were ap >1nted clerks in the postoflee June 1. ne of the letters was addresed to John ~namaker, Philadelphia. Labor's Rtevolution. In a matnufacture of hoots and shoes Le work of five operatives is now done one. A carpet machine with one operator >es the work of fifteen men. Modern improvements in mannufao ring flour saves 75 per cent, in man' di abor. A machine with one nman and a boy n make as many cans as ten men by old ptocess. One boy, by machinery in turning nodwork and material for musical strumnents, perform the work of renty-five men. The steam and horse power used in is country in 18S.0, was one million d a half, in ISSS it was over twelve illion. By the use of mining machines one tudred and sixty in a month can ine as much coal in the same time as 3 *e hundred mriners by old methods. At Elliottsville, West Virginia, on eursday, four' little girls, children o agh Dunn, a wealthy mine owner, C and a keg of powder in an abandon- ~ working shaft. In some way they C ploded it and were blown to atoms. i teir mother lest her reason when j d of the fate of her children, j c A RAIN RECORD SMASHER. ore Water Has Come from the Cloud this Year than for Eighteen Year i Be 1ef1ore. :dore thau four leet of water has iillet in Cinciuu from clhud.- aince tat New Year's day. The meteoro >gical reports show that between anuary 1st and November 12th the >cal rainfall has measured 51.04 aches. This is fear above the normal mount, and, judging by the outlook, is probable that the year's rainfall will break the'record, which has been :ept for eighteen years. During that ime only twice has the rain for a ear exceeded 50 inches. In 1855 the recinitation was 55 inches, much of t-hich fell in December. Last year 52 aches wasprecipitated, and again De ember was very wet. Thayear, with nore than a mouth and a half to spare, only four more- inches are nee.ed to >reak the record. In 1884. on Novem er 16th, the precipitation had not eached 50 inches, and in 1866 it was >nly 46 inches on November 15th. A singular thing about the heavy torms of November this year has een the lack of high winds. This, Sergeant Dunn says, is quite unusual. The year's precipitation so far by nonths has been as follows: January, .38 inches; February, 3.07 inches Iarch, 4.09 inches; April, 5.90 inches nay, 3.25 inches; June, 2 38 inches tuly, 9.53 inches; August, 3.09 inches september, 7.43 inches; October, .t2 nches; November, (so far) over 4 nches. If not another drop of rain should all from now till 1890 the precipita ion so far will place the year third on he list. Sergeant Dunn frankly ad nits that he cannot explain the excess n rainfall. Tobacco Culture. Much has been written about the possi bility of tobacco culture in this State, both for and against, and the result of the contest for prizes for specimens of eaf tobacco about two years ago caused many diverse opinions as to its practica bility. The farmers in Florence County and vicinity seem, however, to have solved the question successfully, and have shown that good tobacco can be raised thereabouts, at least, and sold at figured which make it a profitable crop. Mr. F. M. Rodgers, Jr., of Florence writes the department of agriculture that he has sold 18,000 pounds of his thi year's crop, and all at -ood pr!ces; tha all in that vicinity who raised tohacci have been able to sell it at. good prices and last, but not least, that in the vicin ity of Florence alone 1,200 acres of to bacco will be planted the coming year. As the tobacco acreage of the entire State for this year was nut 635 acres, the .mportance of the fact that it is to b< doubled next year in one county alone will easily be seen.-Columbia Register Make Prompt Settlements. The Cotton Plant, the official organ f the Farmers' Alliance of this State says "We are informed that there are nmem bers of the Alliance who are holdin; their cotton and allowing their account with merchants to retrain unsettled arte they have become due, without makin arrangements for eitension of time f( payment. If this is being done we atr sure it is not with a view of injurt; merchants, but rather to carry <mit ti policy of the order not to rush Qotte upon the market too rapidly and tnerel: cause a decline in price. Br. w'hei members of the order have incmtred obl gations, to be discharged by a. certai day, they ought either to make promj settlement or go to theit merrinants ai secure an extension of 'ime. This is or fair and just, and -is in accorda~nce wit the instructions .f the 16ationat (Comt Committee and the principles and teaci ings of the order. ilowNever Tineb a ni may want to boltI his cottot, hie ougl not to do it, if it causes muen to suff who have sold him goods with the e: pectation. of a settlement at :, certa day. Since the Palatine bridge disaste the Central railroad authorfties has issued an order directing all sign: tenders to stand on.the track for fia minutes after each train has passe with a red light or flag, and after fia minutes have elapsed to stand five mia utes longer displaying a green signa No trains dare run by the red signa hence the chances of collision in cat of accident are materially lessened b this arrangement. The boys of the colleg'e for the blini of Worcester, England, play a ver fair game of cricket, the ball used b< ing made of wicker, with a bell insid of it, which rings when it is thrown The wicket keeper claps his hands b< hind the stumps to guide the bowlei and so expert are the bowlers thatthe; can hit the wicket with three balls ou of six. The new city of Johannesburg, il the south African gold regioni, is at tracting attention, and there are thos who predict for it a phenomenal fu ture. They promise a million inhabi tants in five years' an output of gol< which will gild the whole world, commercial importance threatening the established trade centers of thi Old World, and a political and socia position second to no city .in Africa north or south.. The Eiffel tower has already pai< the cost of its construction. An offi cial notice has been issued, informing the shareholders of the Eiffel Towei company, that they can claim repay ment of the last fifth of the capital in vested by them in the undertakring The other four-fifths were paid pre viously on presentation of coupons The fortunate possessors of these se curities will, however, continue to re ceive dividends. The concession oi the tower is for twenty years, aftei which time it becomes the property of the city of Paris. A Tictim of Greed. James 11. Riley captured a five pound bass in Saratoga lake in a some what novel way a few days since. He had started out early in the morning for fish, but his quest was unsuccess ful. While rowing back to his place his attention was arrested by- a dis turbance of the water near the shore nid in a very shallow spot. Lookine >losely, -he saw that a large bass, wits lorsal fin above the surfacc,'-was the xmuse of troubling the water. He ap yroached as near as he thought sae md was about to shoot the fish, when te iscovered that it seemed somewhat hisabled. Investigation owed, when he game had been scoo d in with a iet, that the greediness of the base was he cause. In his mouth was famid a unfish weighing almost a pound. xchange._______ An Old Baltimoro Clipper. A remai-kable vessel, a fore and aft chooner of a bout eighty tons register urden. called the Vigilant, is now, ad has been, regularly runnino from anta Cruz to St. Thomas an3 vice ersa as a passenger, freight and mail acket for upward of fourteen years. he Vigilant, it is said, was built in ~altimore, during the very first years f our national independence, mnaking er upward of 100 years old. She was f the '"Baltimore clipper" class, so uned many years for speed, and must ave been a wonder and a beauty' rhen launched. - Baltimore Amen ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works Manufacturers and Dealers 31arine Stiat ioiarv aId Pol i Ibl E in.s d n Mill Ma~cineryI, floitont Presse., Gins , R;;i:'mait. :::nI boat, ilachiiists', Engineers' a ndl 311 S ;u i. ! M r-'lealirs ,.r,: i lm!! t I l - int;1 j>!r ,ll,r. < nf l 111!: rI.' . East Bay Vor. Priteh ard -- Charleston, S . C. - - - R. C. R i:EELEY, l'rc-edtnt. C. Iss . JE iNS, G n l'1 i nger. Rici. . - - - The Cameron Barkeley ram PaII @ C()iIMLSSIO)N MERCHIANTS; - AND .GENTS F)R: Erie City Eni.:ine and Boilers, Atlas Engine an2 I tle. - -iC Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins We have in stock one each 60, 65, ad 70 "w. : ; ii1 that we are offering way below e mi. Se..1 for; i.. 0;.;, Rubber andi LeLnier Dei31tin, mal a cp n: sii e . We u-a ranteIe Lowest I rices loi* - -. - -O: CAMERON & BARKELEY CO. Cha' ries on, S. C. F. J. PELZER, Pr sident. - -) 1l4'R. '" rrr. Atlantic Phosphate Company, MIANUFACTU1iEh OF STANDARD FERTILIZERS, .AND DIPORTERS OF PELZER, RODGERS, & CO., General Agts., 1r~tOWN'S WA Ji.F.'. (1lLL S' (IN. S. C. Mr.. M. LEvI, of Manning.. 1qI , p1O C".l to '"pply Ihi . :n it e lblic gen erally, with any of the above ran t SECKENDORE & MIDDLUN Cotton Factors, NAVAL STORES, No. 1 Central Wharf, OCRT ES TOC1', s . C. F. W. CAPPELMANN, AE.LER IN CHOICE GROClI'RIES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, S. E. Cor. Meeting and Reid Sts., CHARLESTON, S. C. Choice Flour a specialty. Sugars sobl near cost. No charge for dr:yage. Goods de livered free to depot. Country orders promptly attendedi to. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Liouors and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. WETIIERHONL & FISCHER MANUJFACTURiERS AND'DEALERS IN General~ Building Material. 3asDoors, Blinds, Moulding, Scroli Sawing, Turning, 'Door and Window Frames, Liunber, Flooring, Ceihing;, - Weather-boarding, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lime, &c.. Office, Salesroom2, Factory and Yards,..Snmith, Near Queen Street, - Cliarzeesto S. C. irWrite for prices, or send a list of your wants for an estimate.9K - . [GEo.E.ToME. HIENrY.OLIET. A M3O B Gee, E. Toale & CoA M'O B Jr. - general Commission Merchant, e 31AVFACTURERLS AXI) WJlOLESALAs d AND DEALER IN Lime, Cemesnt, Plaster Parns, lHair, Fire D~oOrs, Bricks and Fire Clay. Sash, .Land Plaster and Eastern Hay. hlnds. Agent for Whitc's English Portland 0MOuLlings. Cement. Mantels, NO. 1% E AST BAY, Grates. etc. CHARLESTON, S. C. Scroll Work. Turning and ALNHGIS Inside Finish. Builder s Hard- .-D D . . ware, and(l euClil C'JIERA W, S. C. Bull ing M teri. I 1zVisit.C.3anni ng every month or two OFFICE AND SALESROOMS. JOSEPH F. RHlAMIE, 10 and 12 Hayne Street, AlTTOR.YEY AT LAW, , REAR CHARLESTON IIOTEL, MIANNING, 8. C. . Charleston, S. C. OH .wI~N All Work Guarnteed. /rn adCuseoatL, S1Vrite for estimoates. -31ANNINGan S.uwo a. La. MANUFACTURERS OF MANNS. C. lors, Sash, Blinds, Mvouidngs s YnivPbi 1 ___ ~3 King Street. Coarleston, S. C. Two Doors North of Liberty. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampooing - SALOON. n-rEsI~A nATXrs, HoT Asa co.. Special attention paiid to cutting of chiil S R ICE BEER I RICE BEER ! . We are the sole muanufacturers of this de -- licious and healthy beverage, which after - -hav ing Leen analyzed by :?il the eminent chmss in A tlanta, Ga., (during 'Prohibi -AND - tion" and after the most searching scrutiny B -cn *aeil for traces of alehohol, was allowed to be sold Buidm Maenl.ref atSate and city license, ana so also ESTrAIL ISHED 1812. . more recentliy after further a?nalyzin gin Flor ida. it tills a long fit want for a stimulant CHIAR LESTON, S. C.. ani ppe.tiz? r that is not intoxicating; plcas ______________________________ - __t to the taste, con'tains nour-ishment and spci Bly suited for persons of weak aind del OL iicate constiutionrs. It has the tasteof lager H. B LWIN L~ & J~bee'r ofC th- finest flavor; besides, to add to iitsva t anul& ieme?Cfmu qualities, is special -DEA1.lh i N--I ly min~or ourr eclbrted world renowned rain, iay, -orig'imd Artesian well water. Put. up in ai Ha Ill. Feed. 'eses4on~ dozen pants ats1 2.3 w1dozen; ) 3 - tie dzen t sipc dozen, anad in casks oZ Soutern eed lycSot ~her iten dozen caeh at t0 cents per d)oen.. Cash Seed Barley, Western nd d sn apeac fore. oyihe Texas R~ed Rust Prc. of \ .* t. o .Xgnts, and none genuine Oats a Specialty. - CA R & K ERS T E N, No. 162 East Bay, and 15 anm. i 1 TMI . ret.iwar. Elizaibeth Strec .t.'' s ia ad anneram ater Work. ~JI~tLKS~iX., - j Charleston, S. C.. U. S. A. Th ( . tcdpoplec have organized a s t(m. d :-ots have reports from H-emme's 2051arafl en ta conies 'lowing that the people 99 *Iare :: Tb e thU'Ved oiver the privilego of 228 ling Fitreet, di. i in :heir proanets ot industry aa Opp. A cadenay - of Music, the P'" ped .Janu..ry f air. The South 20N, ~ ~.Carehna 21:i way Company has uffered CHARES' ON, . C.rdu:s te to' i. fair. The Atlantic - - - - - --- . oest .Lr.c w i. d ' p b::bl do so, ar~d the N. WILSON. I .xichmoud D e.? e I~iiway Company * is aced to e?'..nd tu midrte s I'. exhibi A (USTEV'rEI:.lI;/ 3E 1 .1'...t1: , .::d vistor O : t.ening~i the :air. A -(1 (l/-.Tr. ce.n .8. if the 'Vt::: is to >~e made in .\AN; .ING~. S.C.' behalf f the .fair