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1^^ HP!/ x * "*?! j?.? _ % RELIGION A SOLACE Pr. Talmago Speaks Comfortln| Words for the Righteous. Dl*?*ati( for Thai* Wbeaa Llrai Bit* mur A n ?le t les?A11 la Wall Cor tha Bcllcvrr ? Truot Tkarenshlr la tioS. (Copyright, 1101. By Louis Klopsch. N. T.; Washington. Feb. S. There lo a great solace in this discourse ot l>r. 'l'aImage for those whosi lirea h&TS many anxieties; text Isaiah 3:10: "Say ye to tL?* right bus that it shall bo well with him." Hero is a promise for people whs are all right, but who will coma and get it? How many, or, rather, how I few, people do yoxi know who ure al' right?'- If it were asked of any assembly that those wlio ware sinless* aliouir risa up, none would rise er-.^pt, imbecildb and religious cru.nkb. An accident happened nenr CO centuries ago that started the human raca In th? wrong way, and wo havo not got ovei It. We know a grtftt many spte.ndhJ men and ap'<:ndid wotfien, but thet will tell you that tliqy hare not alwmya done the right thing or thought the right thought. If It were any ol your business, they could giro you an Inventory of frailties and mistaken and Infelicities that would be astonishing Here, then, vtru sar, Is a Bible promM* that goes a-begging: "Say ye to I the righteous that it shall be well with hltn." It is my delightful work to-day to show you thut> all the tons and daughters of Adam and Eve may appropriate the benedict*on of my text if they will fir?t do the right thing. Over hers in the next street was a man who in great misfortune lost, nil he had and was positively beggared, but a letter comes from some European city where the land rooords ave kept announcing to him that a great fortune is his. Now he is ?us opulent ns he was pauperised. He do(Ts bis rags and puts cu raepect-able attire and moves Into a homo appropriate for n man of vast estate. His worldly circumstances were all wrong last year; they arc all right this year. On the next street Is a man who was from perfect health prostrated, and he seemed to bo sick unto death, but a skillful physician took correct diagnasis of his disease and by prompt and vigorous treatment restored him to his former vigor. As to his health he was all wrong before; now lie is all right. In these two ways T illustrate my theme. By sin wa have all been morally bankrupted. Christ tha Lord from XLla Infinite riches pays our debts and emparadiscs ns in His mercy. From Hia richest wardrobe He pnta on us tho clean robe of His rlghtaonsnecs and gives us a pnlaca iu the heavens when, we are ready to go up snd take It. J^pw, us to our spiritual estate, we are ail right. We were morally diseased, but Christ tho pv.y?'cian, by a bath In the fountain of grace, cures US. jXoiT n * fn nnr iniril,..1 S..H1. we are all right. That is the war we come to the righteousness spoken of in the text. It is n. contributed righteouaceu, r mndn-over righteousness, an Imputed righteousness. The moment you get into right relations with Christ tLord that moment you can ^ appreciate the magnificent comfort of the 'ext, and I defy you, In all this great book, from the first Terse of the flrr.t chapter of Geucsia to the last-xerse of the last chapter of itevto find me a passage with higher^Kid deeper and broader and long-r --- (-*/> l Ifaai i...jt"of the text which is as deep as tho Atlantic ocean half way between the continents and high as the nun when the clock Is striking 12 at, noon. Hut I shall be awnmped with the oceanic tides of this subject unless the Lord help me to keep a foothold. "?ay to the righteous that it shall be well with him." Benr in mind that hut few people can stand worldly success. Water 5b a good thing, but too much of it will drown. ~"\ro i* ? good thing, but too nttieh of i*. will destroy. Lightning is a good thing, but too much of it dazxles and blinds. Success is a good thing, but too much of it. has overwhelmed many for this world and the next. If it were best for us, we would all be millionaires, live in palaces like the Athambra and be as personally attractive as Cleopatra appeared to Antony. But most of folks could not endure encli superabundance, and it Is absolutely necessary in order te keep them right that nine hundred ? ? - - and ninety-nine men out of one thousand should find life a struggle It keeps them out of mischief. Af'cr Adam vms ejocted from the premises where by ten minutes of employment a day l^e could keep the garden and dress it the best thing that could haprif?n to Vtiro tea* esr>%vA- ?*---* r ? ?? - CO. WU4JJUH1UI1 to vrorK and fight. The ground that bloomed w^h spontaneous flowers and milled with harvests that owed nothing t?> Slow ot hoe booamo hostile, and bramlo was substituted for rose, and the panther growled whore before he fawned, and horn and fang and hoof became belligerent. That F.denic ejectment shows ua as nothing else ever could that Idleness or only a few minutes of employment a day nre doom and overthrow. Put it down among . your blessings Instead of your tulsfortunes that you have to work hard with brain tri hand or foot or all three of them. How many men do you know worth $250,000 who ere devout and reusecrated and humble and generous and employing their moans for the world's redemption? You could count them up on the fingers of your two hands, even If by aocldent or war you had lest one or two of your lingers. As to the realm of personal attractivetru, how many women radiant of countenance and graceful of form do you know who are unaffected and nat- * MARK TWAIN'S LATEST. One of the Keenest Satires He Ever Wrote. In Tho North Amorioan Iloviow for February Mark Twain publishes ono of tho keenest satires that ever oarno even from his pon. Tho article is ono of the most caustio reviews of tho imperialist policy and tendencies of tho administration that wo have seen. Mr. Clemens takos as his themo "Tho Person Sitting in Harkncss.'1 Ho charges President MoKinley wiih playing "tho European fame, >no Chamberlain tame," and playine v>viiy. Of tho president's famous utt rar.ee about "criminal aggrcBsion," ho says: "The memory of that fino saying wi'i be rutlivcd by the remembrance of cc act of his but one?that he forgot i* ' within tho tw. . .cmcnth, and its honor , able gospel along with iv." In tho opinion of the satirist tho 1 m^hiod heathen for whoso "good and^^^^" j wo are making such rxcrti^^^^^^^k pusslcd by our "-tra^g^. , i?) ff Ul iMffy plow W? (tr* Oed, wlsf (htir beauty f?r tks betterment of the world end not for solftsh purposes? I only tako tha risk of asking tho question and leave to jou tho riak of answering it. Thaaa things I aay to show you that in order to have tho promiso of tho text fulfilled in your caao it is not necessary you havo phenomenal worldly success. Notice also that God gives the righteous tho power to extract good out of evil and by a divine chemistry to change the bitter into the sweet and the harmful into the beneficial. The promise that it shall be well with jou does not imply that jou are to be free from trouble. There is no escape from that. We all have family relations, and some of them will be making exit frem this world, so that bereavement Is the universal inhefttance. So aleo is financial loss. The difference between the prospered and those not prospered In the difference in the amount they can afford u lose. The more wealth a man baa the more he can lose, but one man can afford to tote a million dollars where another man cannot afford to lose one dellar. On larger or smaller scale all suffer financial loss. Amid the rapidity of the revolutions of the wheel of fihtlenal and international Issues fhO&etary perplexity is as common as day or night. So also misinterpretation and slander came to all who live active lives. Our actions, thoroughly h*?nest and above board, may csmo und?r suspicion. Every courtroom at every tcTm of court*hears illustrations ef the delusion of what is called circumstantial evidence. Innocent men are fined or Imprisoned or electrocuted because f an anfertnnate conjunction of events. What is true in eenrtreoms is true In all circles ef domestic or social or political or official life. Too have been misunderstood and misrepresented or will be misunderstood and misrepresented. Then how can m.T text be true? My explanation ia thie: The man without any divine grace in his heart find* ia theso troubles irritation and uabalief and melancholia and despair. A Christian man flnda is them mjbmlsnion and enlarged views and divine support and reeonaccration. Bereavement to the worldling brings bard thoughts of God and a resistance eo violent It dares not fully express iteelf. Bereavement brings to the Christian the thought of heavenly reunion and a snore complete laying held ef God. and a moie tender nnnre elation ef the divine presence, and deeper gTatitude that we were permitted to have the departed ?no so long1, and a more lively sympathy for the sorrow* of other* and another evidence erf God's love, for "wV><*rr. the Lord loveth he ebasteneth."' financial lose, which I jnst now enld Is an e to conic, neTcr breaks up a man who has strong faith In God. In t?st cavea it la a loss of surplus or It is the banishment of luxuries. Moit of the wants of the prosperous classes are artificial wants. The late Mr. Armour of the 5H0.00O.OCn estate pointed to one of his clerics on ordinary salary and said: "That man his a better appetite than I, sleeps bet'.er sight* and enjoys life more than I do." Oh, the gigantlo miseries of these who have too inuoh I A men in Solomon's time expressed as philosophic and reasonable a wish as any man of those times or of our times. His name was Agur, and he offered a prayer that he might sever have a auperabundance or a deficit, crying out: "Qive me neither poverty nor riches." On the one aide ha had seen the awful struggle of the I poor t? get food and clothes and shelter and to educate their children, and on the other aide ha had seen the gouty foot and the lndigestJan. and the Insomnia, and the anxiety about largo investment*, and the threatened paresis often characteristic of those Who are loaded up and loaded dawn with too many successes. Those peop'e who are generally culled the masses?that le, the most ef folk*?have the things absolutely nrceseary for their well being. They have no Murllloeon their wnll, nor a "Belshazrar's Feast" In the dining- room, nor a pair of sorrel* at their doorway. Kut they fcavo something which these EviperabundastW supplied seldom have. They have belter health because, be41 rr isnnswellfl.-l *? 41 1 11 ...{, vxu^iuiu iv n jiin, wicj |rri me necessary exercise, atid, their diet being: limited to plnn food, they do not suffer from midnight salads nnd nre not victimized by rare caterers. They retire for wholesome sleep at the very hour in which others aro leaving their homes for ths dance or the card pnrty. They still eloep the last sleep Just at well iu the plain graveyard ae those who have over them en arob of sculptured grnutte iu awrtliest n core pells or most hictonoal abbey. The reason eo marry people are miserable is because they do not let well enough alone. They are in oue occupation and eee Its Annoyances and so Change to another occupation and And as roanjr annoyance*, if not more. They lire la can piaco and know its uncomfortable environments and move tarto another plane rvLiob has fast as many limitations. Their investments yield them four per cent, and they tell out to make inveetmcnte that will yield ten per cent, and lose all. Bettor settle down and stop fretting about yourself and the world. Do any of ua fully reaiir.e the feet that Ued gives us three things in nnlimited supply, although no formula of prayer that I ever heard recognises them?water, air and sunlight? Water by the rlverfoll. Water by the lake/ah Water by the oaeanful. Some fer ablation, some for slaking of thirst, some for baptistery, some for fountains and aquariums. I never appreciated what a wemderful thing rtUr ia nntU last tfiunmur t Ktun^ hr 11.?? fomtoln. W-l? ? y VOlWid and araund ths emperor** palaoe at IV tarhsf, Russia. I bad been familiar wttb tbia ?'ondaj Jul element of nature from childhood, having been born on tbe banks of thu beautiful Rarltan and as s barefaeted buy dabbled In the brook near my father's bonse. bat I - *xrrsmr. * srd.iirndwwaMBB?aotw.?u grotd and Uodlinoss." IIo oonoludes by cxpouding tho faots of tho caso in tbo following words: "Tlicy lock doubtful, bat in reality they aro not. Thero havo boon lies; yes, but thoy wero told in good causo. We bare beoD troaohcrous; but that was only in order that real good might como out of apparent ovil. Truo, wo havo orushed a deceived and oonfiding people; wo have turned against tho weak and tho friendless who trusted us; wo havo stamped out a just and intelligent and well ordered republic; wo havcl stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we havo bought a shadow from au enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we havo invited our eloan young men to shoulder a di: credited musket and do handit's work under a flag whioh bandits havo been Booustomod to fiar, not to follow; wo havo debauohed America's honor and blackened her faoo beforo the world; but each detail was for the best We know this. The bead of every stato and soverignity in Christendom and DO ^ ' ?* i ?? r mr rwSHfl ?atfl Iut summer wiUr m?14 4* la play, ar la Strang* oaprlcs. or baautlflcatlon, or whei limbing tha ladder of tha light, 01 whan skillful workmen took hold of II to toaa it. or whirl it, or shape it inte erowna, or hoist it into columns, o> spring it into arches, or lift it ints stars, or turn it into crescents, or build | it into temples. You forget you eve* saw the less glorious waters at Chat? worth, England, or Versailles. Franco ( as you stand m the balccny of the pah aco overlooking the Finland gulf, bewildered and transported as you look at the one display called the tioldeo Stairway fotiutain. The water rolli down orer 24 steps one foot high and 20 feet long. All of these 24 steps an covered with sheets of burnished gold 8ilver step of the water ou stairs ol gold! What a glee of liquids! Rolling. ( dashing, foaming, enrapturing splen* i dors! Chorus of floods! Poetry of wa* ] ters! Doxology of torrents! Rut that whioh most impressed me there and ( elsewhere is the abundance of water j the fact that there are so many wateri that the continents can aitord to throw ( them away into the aea, Hudsous and ( Ohios, Oregons and Ama/.ons, Rhine* and Danubes and Volgas, and so ibun- . dant that the earth can afford to hav* ita oceans evaporate into the heavens ! Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Paciilcs. Dow rich the earth is with wa- , teral Best beverage af all the cations for after the richest banquet with tht ' richest beverages everyone wants at ' least a alp of it?water, cool water ' God descended water! 1 With still more abundance Is the ait 1 distributed. An earth full of it. A sky ' full Of it. Swiftest and strongest eugis ' cannot fly so high as not to have it in < the nostril or under the wing. And < what affluence of sunlight! Noonebut I tha infinite God could dispense so much I of it. The golden candlestick set on tha blue mantel of the heavens! So I great that the Almighty is compared to i it, the psalmist crying out: "The Lord God is a mb." It is high time that w , reeoguizs in our liturgies snd in our formulas ef prayer the three most 1 abundant blessings of the universe . which OTllii t? nil. Seme scientists are now discussing | the opening of communication l>c- , tween our earth nn<l the planet Mara. , Experiments are being made, but they ( will not auccced. We cannot build a i fir? large enough to attract the at' , tentlon <rf that world or lift a lens powerful enou gh to see any response I , lntenrtetler. We do not positively know that that world i? aceupled by living beings, or that If it is occupied communication with them would bo desirable. Tt might not be so good a . warld a? this, and thus communiontiwn with it would bo debasing. But I rejoice to know that Heaven is in touch with other worlda, for their ' Improvement and a depot for glorious 1 arrivals. It is ? thoroughfare between ' tbia world end that world and a cotnIrg enu going perpetual. Going out o ' tlrla world Is an natural as oomiug Into It, bnt the one la with pang and ' the other Is with rapture if we art * fitted for the uplifting process. It hall be well with you. Now, do not ; get so frightened about that asthma ? or that cough or that Influenza or ' that threatened pneumonia. The 1 worat thing that fatal disease can i do is to usher you into coronation snd r enthronement. It shall be well with f you. Take as good care of your health s as you can, have all the aanitary laws, 3 keep in this world as long aa you "j are permitted to stay and then when 1 the heavenly call cornea be glad to go. I do not oare much about what your q "last words" are going to be. People put too much emphasis oa "last words.", I woud rather know what | your words are now, in days uf health v and with mental faculties in full pla^ ^ | ?your words of kindness, your words , f sympathy, your words of helpful- , ess, your words of prayer. So lire , that If you do not say s word during ^ the last day of yxrur Ufe there will bo o doubt here about the place of your 1 destination. Yon will go right into saintly, prophetic, evangelistic, npos- \ tolie, cherubic. M-raphic, nrchangclio. 5 deific presence. ) It shall be well with you. Mother, you vrlll go right up into the posses- 1 aion of the babe that the scarlet fever 9 or croup took out of your arms, a sorrow that still stings you, and you ? often say she would now be ao ninny f years old if she had lived. You will * go into the presence of the old folks, for I hope you are of Christian an- e cestry, and you will find that they have no dimness of sight or halting ^ gait that requires a staff, for they have taken n draught from the fcun- 1 tain of perpe-tual youth that springs from under the throne of God. Ob, 1 the tollsofel companionship of He??en k in which you shall entorl It shall be 3 well with you. I ring this hell of 0 emancipation and triumph. I like the a way the sexton rings the bell of the old country meeting house. 1 used to I stand and admire him palling the u rope of that bell. H? rings It a good t while, ee that every farmhouse within fire miles hears it. Ho may halt a a moment to take breath end give the sweet.iwunde time to stir up all the t echoes of the hills. And when ho la l eld and net strong enough to pull the t rope any more, then he site and lietens while hie yon rings the church bell. Bo my text, seems a bell of invitation and victory. I began to ring , it la the opening of this discourse. I hope to ring it as long as I live, and | may thoso who come after ns keep m ringing it till those farthest off from God shall come into the great 1 temple of Gospel comfort and all the weary put down their burdens at its altar and find that pence which the 1 world ean neither give nor take away. Three times more I ring it. It Bhall 1 be well! It shall be well! It shall be < welll 1 Net Uf souSahle. Taaohcr?Aad why ahould w? ef dearer to rlie by our one cfforti? Jehoale wi?t?'Cause there's do tallIn' whan the alarna clock will go wrong.?.Baltimore American. Christendom, including our congress end our 60 stato legislatures, aro mom- J bers not only of tho ohureh, but also of tli 3 Blccnings-of-Civilization trust. (This world-girdling accumulation of j trained morals, high principles and , Justice cannot do an unright thing, an unfair thing, an uogonorous thing, an , unoloan thing. It knows what it is , about. Givo yourself no uneasiness; it I is all right." I Mark Twain could not havo found a , better subjcot for satirn and nobody | oould havo handled it with the roathing , I severity exhibited in tho artiolo from ' which wo havo quoted.?Atlanta Journal. ( A Mean Monster. The Atlanta Journal says: Bceauso sho ooul 1 not tio hor hu-band's h) oo to i suit him, Mrs. Boaulah I'owell, accord- i ing to allegations make in hor petition i for divorce filed Wednesday morning in i tho suporior oourt, was baatcn by her j husband, Thomaa C. Vowell. At other < ' times her husband was txircmoly uruol | to tier, she charges, and nho oitca this i ono iustarioe as showing his treatment { I of hor. She also alleges intoxication. < fc ? C I A FAMOUS STORY. The Horse Swappers as Depicted in Georgia Scenes. HOW BLOSSOM WAS FOOLED When He 8wapped Builet ard Oave Three Dolla s to Boot for Another, Kif, the "Critter " In the "Georgia Socnes" is the typisal picture of horse swappicg in the olden days, which nay prove interesting to tho present generation. It is tho story of how Yellow Blos om bantered Peter Ketch sod was properly ought. Yellow Blcscro he licvcd that he w?s just a "leetlobit" of the best man at a horse e wap that "ever trcd in shoe leather." After describing Bullet. Blossom's horse, and Kit, ;fce "critter" owned by ^eter Ketoh, at >omo length, tho Btory prooeeds as folows: "I tell you, man," proeeoded Yellow Blossom, "he is tho btBt live hors that vcr trod the grit of Georgia Bob Smart (bows the hcrso. Come here, Bob, tnd mount this horse and show Bullets xotionp." Hero Ballet bristled up ind looked as if he had been hunting Bob all day long and had just found im Bob sprang on his back "Boo >o-oc 1 ' said Bob with a fluttering noise >f the lip*, and away went Bul'ot is if in a quarter rsco with all his beau i'8 spread in hand-onon stylo "Nowfc'ch him ba^k/'said Blossom Bullet turned and oain>> in prett) muoh h he wert out "Now, trot him by," Bullet reduo 1 his tail to oustomary, sidled to the ;ght and left fairly, ar.d exhibited a" east three varieties of trot in tho thoit pace of fPty yards "Make him pane." B b commenced witohmg the bridie, and kioking at tlo i me time These inconsistent- m ivo rents chviouply and n ost natural? 'BoonccPcd Bullet, for it was impost i >'e for h m to learn from the method *botfcerhc to prcoeid or stand 1*11. He started to trot and was to d hat wouldn't do. He att? mptrd ? can rr, and was ohcckcd again He stopel and was urged to go on Bu'let ow lushed into the wide field of ex erimer.t ar d struck out en a ga:t of in own that completely turned the i*hios on his rider an I certainly d f ?vrd a patent. It seemed to have dc ived its elcmonts from tho jiv, th* r.inuot and the co'illioQ. If it **s not i pace in it. to man would veno oall it anything else; so it passed off 0 the satisfaction of tho owner. 4 Walk him!" Bullet was row at K mc arain, and he walked as if money ras staked cn him. I be strarger whose rame 1 after yards learned wa? Peter Ketch, living ixamined Bullet to kia heart'seonteot, itderrd his son Neddy to go and bring p Kit. Ntddj t oou appeared npon 1 t a well formed sorrel of tho middle iz , and in g^od order. 11:6 tout 'rumbles threw Bullet cnlirrlv in the hade, thoug) a glance was suffi jiont to ?ti fy ady one that Bullet had the cided advantago of kim in point of ulellcct. After a few banters, Peter Kctoh is luotfd: "Ntddy take a conple of sticks and leal on that hogshead at Kit's tail." N< d made a tremendous ri'y r,g at rhich Bul'ct took fright, brc\o his uidle and dashtdoff ingrard stjle, and ?m!d have stepped all further ccgotia iocs by going homo in disgust had not i 'rsvelcr arrested him and brought him nek; but Kit did uot move 4'1 tell you, gentlemen," continued ^tir, "he's tho ecarie?4 horse you ever aw He ain't as gcnle as Bullet, but io won't do any haim if you watch him. shall 1 put him in a cart, g g or wagon or je u, straDger? He will cut the same lapcr thorn he does hero, lie's a niontrous tuenn horse." 1'u'iug all this timo Blossom was ex mining him with the nicett sorutiog. laving examining his frame and limbs to row looked at his eyes. "He's got a curious look out of his yes," raid Blossom. 'Oujes tir." t aid Peter, "just as > ind a bat Blind horses alwa>s have lear eyes. Mako a motion at his ej cs f you please, sir." B'o 6om did so, and Kit threw up lis hcud, rather as if something pricked tim under tho chin than as if fearing , Mow Blossom repeated the experiment, and Kit jeikcd baok is consider ,blo a-tonishmeut. "Stsno blind, ytu see, gentlemen," mocctdtd Polcr, "but she's just as ;ocd to travel of a dark night as if she lad c>cs." "Blamo your buttons," said Blosloir, "if I like them eyes. "No," said Peter, 4'nor I eithir. I d atherhavo them made of diamonds, ut they'll do?if they don't show as nuoh white as Bulltt's." "Well, said Blossom, "make a pass it mo." ' No said Peter, "you mado the bancr; now mako your pass." ' Well, I'm never afraid to prioo my Torso. Ycu must give mo 125 to boot " "Oh certainly, say $60 and my sadl!o and bridle in. Here Neddy, my ton, ako daddy's horse." 4 Well," said Blossom, "I've made uy t a^B, now make youra." "1 am for ahort talk in horse swap ar d thf roforc always tell a g( ntleman at >nou what 1 moan to do. Yon must jive iro $10 " 1110880m swore absolutely, roundly tnd profanely that ke never would vive boot. 'Well," aaid Peter, "I didn't eare about trsdiDg; but you rut auoh high shines, that 1 thought I'd like to baok you oui, and l'vo done it. Gentlemen, you see l'vo brought him to a hack " "Coruo old man." eiid Blossom, ,'1'vo been Joking with you. 1 begin to think yon do want to trado. Therefore, givo mo $5 and tako Built t. I'd ratht r lose $10 any time than not mako a trado. though 1 hato to fling sway a good herno..' "Well," said Peter, 4,I II bo asolovcr is you are. Just put the $5 on Bullet's jack, and hand him over; it's a trado.' Blossom 6woro again, as roundly as Deforo, that ho would not give boet. and laid ho: "Bullet wouldn't hold $5 on us baok, nohow. But as I bantered ?ou, if you say an oven swap, here's at pou." "I told you," said Peror, * l'd bo as ilevcr as you; thorefore, lioro goos $2 noro, just for trado's sako. Give mc 13 and it's a bargain." Blossom repeated his formor asscr.ion, and hero partite stood .for a long lime, and tho bystanders; many wore sow collected, began to taunt both par .ies. Aftorsomo timo, howevor, it was protty unanimously dooided that the )ld mau had baeked Blossom out. At length Blossom swore ho "nevoi .vould bo baokod out for $3, after b?n coring a man," and aooordingly they jlosed the trade. "Now" ?mid Blossom, as be bended Peter tbe $3, "I am a men that, when be makra a bad trade, makes the most of it until he oan make a better. I'm for no rues and after olapg." 'That's just my way," raid Peter: "1 never goes to law to mend my bargains." "Ah, you're tbe kind ot a boy I love to trade witb. Here's your hoss. old man. Take the and saddle brid'e cff him, and I'll strip yours; but lift tbe blanket easy from Bullet's baok, for ho's a mighty tender backed boss." Tbe old man removed tho saddlo, but the blanket stuok fast. Ho attempted to raiFA it nil ltnll?t Vinir?<) v.ir ? - ?>*1V ? k/vn VU UIUiOCIl| I switched his tail and g*vc signs cf biting. "Don't hurt him, old man," said Blossom arotily, "take it off oasy. I am, perhaps, a leotle of tho best man at a horse swap that ever oatched a ooon." Deter continued to pull at tho blanket more and moro roughly, and Bullet became moro and moro cavortish, insomuch that when the blanket camo i tf ho had>rcaehcd tho kicking point in good earnest. The removal of tho blanket diBoJoscd a sore of BuIIoi'b backbone that Eeem cd to have defied all modioal skill, it measured t?*x full inohos in length, and four in breadth, and bad as many feat urea as Bulict bad motions. My heart siokencd at iho tight, and 1 felt that tho brute who had boon riding lvm in that situation deserved tho htlier Tho prevailing feeling, however, W8s tlat of mirth The laugh bccaras loud and general at tho old man's ex pense, and rustic witticisms were liberally bestowed upon him and his lato purchase Those Biosaom continued to provoke by varioui remarks. Ho asked <he<>ld man if ho thought Billet would lot $5 lio on his baok. Ho declared most s riounly i h at ho had owoed that horse throe m <mhs, and hid never discovered before that he bad a sere back, "or ho never would Jirve thought of trading him, e'c., 'to " Tho old man biro it a'l with li.i most I hilosophio compe suro He evinced no astonishment at his lato discovi rj, and made no replies, hut his own son Ncdd> had not disciplined i is leelings quite i>o well. liio?ycH opened wider ?ud wider. From the fi st to the last pull of the blanket, and whe n tho whole sore burst upon his view, a-toaishuient and lright seemed to o.n.eud for tho mastery of his ooun'enanec As tho blanket disappt arud ho stuck nis hand into his breed es pockets, he-aved a docp sigh and lapsed iuio a profound re'etie, from which Le was ooly arouscu bv tt>o cuts ai his 'a* her. Ho bore i he in as long as ho ccuio, ?nd when he ooulO control himsolt no longer, he began, vi h a certain wildncss of cxpros t-iou, wtiioh ?.avo a peculiar interest to wnat lie uttered: "His back's mighty bad off, but dod trot my s^ul'if he a put it to daddy as bad as he minks bo lias, for old Kit's blind and dtcf, I'll be dod trot if he ain't." "The dovil he is," ea'.d Bksiom. "Yes, dod trot my soul if he cin't. Y ju walk htm and tee if he ain't. His eyes don't lock like it, but he'd just as leave* go again the houso with ) ou, or in a ditch is anyhow >ow, you go try him ' The laugh was now turned ou B osKom, and many rushed to test the hdelity of the little b .*ys report. n. n? tipiriacnis eeiaoiisueu lis trum beyond oontrov. r y. "Neddy,"' haul tie old man, "you oughtn't tj try aud make people did ooutcuicd wiih their things, 8 ranger, don t mind what tlo little Loy sajs. If you can only get Kt rid of thent little failings, you'll find him all sorts of a horse. You area little the best man at a horse swap that ever 1 got hold oT, but don, t fool away Kit. Come, V.oiidj, my sou let's bo moving; the stranger seems to be (reMing snappish." I A Pathetic Story. At the close of his masterly speech in favor of the pat-sage cf the child la bor bill by the State Scnato on Thu-s day Sena'or Marshall of Kichl&nd County related tho following pathetic story: A policeman who knew that I was deeply interested in this child labor qucs lion, o&rne to ino aud said: "I want to tell you what 1 saw tho other evening 1 am intruded not to allow ohildrcu to play ball under tho elootrio lights for fear that they may break tho shades. One night, as I was on my beat near the mill district, a lot of littlo boys were p'aying ball. I to'd iht-m that they must stop Oao of the littlo fol lows rnado bold to speak to mo. lie said/We fellows woik in tho mill ail day and if wo do not play in tho night wo never will have a chance to play ball. We arc not like tho other boys who can play in tho day. Wou't you pleaso lot us play on? " The kind Hearted polioeman eaid,''Well? if that is so, you can play on, but bo careful not to break tho lamp shades." ilc then laid: Every child must havo its playtimo. In all well regulated sohools of this day ohildrcn are allowed to go out and play constantly. Their minds aro diverted frcm their school books and, by this play, they aro enabled to progross and improve in their studies. What a sad fact it is that littlo chil dren arc abut up in our mills from six in the morning to six in tho evening, with do opportunity of going out to play Lor even getting a breath of fresh air. 1 appeal to you an fathirs who lovo your children to do unto these mill children an you would havo your own chilcren done by. You may kill this bill and the fresh winds will blow from heaven the bright sunlight for you and I, and for your ohildron and mine, but not for the child who works in the factories of South Carolina After Mor? Inlands. The MoKioley administration seems to have an imatiate appetite for territorial expansion, though tho man at its head in his inaugural address solemnly warned his oountry to bowaro of tho temptation of '"Territorial aggression." Not satisfied with tho acquisition of i'orto ilioo and Hawaii, thopuroha oof more than 1,000 islands on tho other sido of tho world and kohemos for viitual if not actual domination of Cuba, tno imperialists aro planning to got hold of tho Danish West Indies. Negotiations ' for tho purohasoof thoso islands, begun some months ago but brokon off by a ohango of ministry in Denmark, aro ! said to havo loon rooponod with tho prospoot of consummation. Germany is said to desiro tho Danish West IndicB, but thoro is littlo ovidcnco that she J has made any groat effort to socuro thorn They aro cf littlo uso to Donmark and " if wo aro willing to pay her prioo for them wo can havo them. What next? ' ?Atlanta Journal. Tho Next Step. Tho South Carolina houso of rcpro; sontativos by a voto of GG to 32 killed i tho ohild labor bill to prohibit ohildron . under 12 years of age from working in i ootton faotorios. This was about tho i voto in the general assombly of Goorgia. Li will now bo in order, for tho South Carolina homo of reprcaontatives to pass a bill for tho protootion of t "wild English and Mongolian pheatanti."?Maoon Nowa ; . i ~ r//f ? Grove's' The formula know ius>t what vc J * Jo not advertise th their medicine it y Iron and Quinine pi form. the I ron malaria out ot the Groves is the Or Chill Tonics arc ir that Grove's is s arc not experimen and excellence h; only Chill Cure s the United States Xo Free Passes. Mr. otan'and's hill to repeal the Kw agaiit-t loVlio tfficirs ridirg on free passc? on railroads w?r ukeD up in ibe Senate on Tuesday week. Mr. Biice wanted to str;k < ut the < naoting words. lie thrugh the law should remain on the statute books. There may be ocoas'oaal violations of the spirit, of tho law. but bo did not believe the people wanted tho law repealed. Ho thought tho bill was generally regarded as a joke. Mr Stanland, tho anthor of the bill, said tho statute had been on the books for ten yearB and if any attempt had ever been msd j to enforce it he had never heard of it. Ho thought it a reflection upon every member of the legislature for tho law to remain?it Bimply meant the pcoplo thought we oould Bot be trusted. Ho did not beliovo any member could be influenced an to his voto by a little thing liko a ra lroad pass. He reviewed the oircum stances leading up to the cnaotment of the law and t aid it stood as a monument to tho times when faotional differences divided the people, and he wanted it wiped out, as we have buried all onr differences. The ayes and noes were called on the motion to ntrike out the enacting words and the bill was killed by a voto of 13 to 12, as follows: Ayes?Barnwell, Blakeney, Brio", Caughman. Douglas, Oairrs, Glonn, Graydon, Gruher. lleredoo, Miote, Sarra?t, Sullivan ?13. Noe-1?Aldrich, Appelt, Goodwin, Hay, Henderson, Udertoo. MoDormott, Sharpc. Staokhouse, Stanland, Waiker -12 Tho ami free t a-s law remains on the htatuto books. Fearful Famine in China. Kepotts received from Singan-fu all agree that the famine in the provinces of Shu si and Shensi is one of the worst in tho listory c f Chira All inform* tion on the subject is necessarily from Chinese sources and is fragmentary, bat '.V.% ?i? k'.'. '.u i\>t ri?u.e rYiec't" picturing a condition of affairs that 16 calculated to irouso tho sympathy of the world for the stricken people, [t is estimated I,at two thirds tf the peo pie aro without sufhoiont food or the means of obtainingit. Theweathcris bitterly cold and this adds to the miftrj of starvation. Thcro is little fuel in either prvoinces, and the people are tetricg cut the woodwork of their houses to obtain fuel to keep themsol ves warm. Oxen, horses, degs and other animals used by the farmors to aid them in their work in ordinary times have pratcically all been sacrificed to satisfy hunger. For three years the orops have beon failures in both provinces. There was more orlcssfamino in previous seasons, and tho people were in poverty wl en tho winter began Their condition has since been growing stoadily worse Letters assert that cannibalism is now practiced to a eonsiderablo extent. Li Hung Chang in conversation with Mr. Conger, tbe American Minister, said that the peoplo were reduced to eating human flesh. Many of them were selling their women and ohildrec to obtain money with which to buy food for the remaining members of their families. Infanticide is alarmingly oommiD. I'arents driven insaoo by want and tho erics of their ohildron foi food, which they arc unablo to provide, kill the little ones rather than be forced to listen to their onos of distress and tc see their sufferings. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the tense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through tho mucous surfaces. Such anticlce should never be used except on prescrip lions from reputable physicians, as the J . I : 111 . # ? a uaiuagu moy win uo n ion ioid to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufaoutural by F. J. Choney & Co., Toledo, <_> , contains uj mercury, and is ttkm inter ally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. In buy ing llall's Catarrh Cure bo euro youcd tho genuine. It is taken internally, and mado in Tolodo, Ohio, by F. J Chenoy & Co. Testimonials fieo. Sold by Druggists, prias 75o. pei bottle. Hall's Family Fills are tho best Burned to Death. A uispatoh from MoCormick to th< Augusta Chronicle rays: 1'ho littli six year old daughter of our folios townsman, Mr. Tom Korgauior had the misfortune fo moot with quite a sac ^ . V. \1T?J J i-- at uubvii ii cuucsuny uiuruiug. r?no Wl! landing too near a firo built out io the jard when her clothing oaught firo ant sho was so scveroly burned boforo th< firo oould be extinguished that deathro suited at 4 o'olook this morning. Fverj effort was mado by her physicians t< aavo her but tho most that oould b< done was to reliovo in a nwasuro hoi sufferings. Mrs. J H. Harmon, i neighbor who was tho firHt to reaoh her was severely burned in makiDj a heroic effort to extinguish tho dimes Don't Liko Fat Friars. The teas from tho 1'hilipiarn i tl at the native Catholics in tbo dis triot of Hinondo in Manila are diratic find and throaten to separate from th churyh. It is explained that they hav no grievance against tho ohurch itseli but to the friats?the fat friars, it i iroaumed, though not of tho Mark Hat na stripe. tEST PRESCRIPTION IS Fasteless Chill Tonic. is plainly printed on every bottle?hence you nt are taking when you take Grove's. Imitator? eir formula knowing that you would not buy ou knew what it contained. Grove's contains Lit up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that iglnal and that all other so-called Tasteless nitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows upcrior to all others in every respect. You ting when you take Grove's?its superiority aving long been established. Grove's is the old throughout the entire malarial sections of No Cure. No Pay. Price. 50c. To Purity Politics. KowVlilltt Senator E William K ('handler, OC* W ? I H.I09 who has ju9i been d? fea'ed f> r r -eleo- / a * m * I I lion to the senate, as, he ohar^es by a v.orn tVlilK ra lroad corpiratiou id this Male, hat, ?, # introduced a bill in 1 h : bh au 1 r-h bit- Ijit itp V/I 1 I I ^ iog corporations chartered by the U nt iTXIIIo? ed 8 atee from 111 >k'o< onninbu i. u* to I > 1 J 11 campaign funis r>b- ed ?ha? 1 e hao lei CO a 1 111 I C I partio'iiar y iu uiinu in t' c m?t c S?n- _ _ ator Chandler said: ' I he great evil of Ppu IlllllfM'S the expenditure ?>1 artst sum of money k' * in controlling poli it a is not individual iwyitiAa contributions, although it is true that ftJiLlc^lllCo9 men of many oiiluous like Senator |-v . Clark of Montana eculd aff.rd 10 mate IjOliCrS larger c intributioi b to ooutrol aoelio * lion than manv corpoiatione. But sceb P|o nnpc Utlil individuals are few To eonirol oo-* lmiCl o HI IH rorations in this reapcc: it in only m m . * neoetsary to provide 1 hat no oirpora 31 ftXC5llCI*S? tion 6hali ooniribute from its corporate funds in connection with any political ^kYVlTK^ ^'1 \Vw elto ion Tbo praotioi of corpora<ioo ** C5 kvjcl vv a y nnr.trihnti.m. I ? - - ? tun grown up hieco 18U6 Tnrte con Kip Saws, triluiioDi have te n undo in nearly all * cases directly from ti e ir?a?urirBof the and all other kind* of wood oorporatiocs by vo?e* of ?h *ir direoiora working machinery. My Serana have Uen male to both polittoal , * r? "1? :n s psrtiert m 1 geant Log Beam Saw null is the heaviest, strongest, and Commits Suicide. most efficient mill for the A cabloKiaiu received fio>u United money on the market, quick, Siatts xiD'ster Uuoter, at Gumma accurate. State Agent for H. (J.ty . aua.har s,anc/ B Hj r ?. B. Smith Machine Company SecnUry and Ct fc-ce of ti ? Uul'.ed , . . , . 1 J State L gation thor<a, oomaiiited ?a c de wood woi king machinery, by sioo iog h>w9c f id mo m a h H? For high grade engines, plain suffered a loog ii:oe-<9, a .d u is u< dir slide valve?Automatic, and tood that tbo a>t w?a coumi ted in a o0rliss, write me: Alias, tctupoiary kb.*rraiou ot m1 id. >lr ,.T , . , Bv.rouJe appoioitd lion M?*?aohu VYatertowit, and Struthers eettp. tc'ng a s n of a former chi f of and >\ ells the d plouiatio bureau of tbe Slate I) - V. 0 BA It HAM, partQunt H.I was ?p}o ntcd l0 the 1H2# Main St.. Columbia 8. C oonsu ar service as consul to Uaiavta in May, 18117 and wo aipnoicd to Tlir |rinCD lUnCCfi J Guaumaln Ci J on June 1U last llti |tlt LLAKILIi IRUllU. 1 parcms art' r?.?idrni of Wa-hicgton. i ? The New Pall Bearing j F T Dmnestic " Sewiug Machine L?^,H? It Leads in Workinanuhip, B> auty, V^.,. rv. ^ Capacity, Strength, Light Itnnn:og. ^ -d. \ Kvery Woman Wants Una. "TJLD NORTH STATE OINT MENT, the Great Antisepli. Alu,chment Needle. and Healer, cures Plies Ecrema parta , g' , Machlne, Sore Eyes, Granulated Eyelids f n T CarbunCes, Sells, Cuts, Brni. when 0?Lrin? u^dle. seud es, Old Sores, Bums, Corns ? ? -r,' r x i m ti sample. rrlce 27c tier down. Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails. nn.t* m Inflammatory Rheumatism, P0?1*** Aches and Paius, Chapped 1 Hands and Lips, Erysipelas ^0Dlt w*Dlod 10 1 l'??i It is something everybody L _ needs. Once need always used. } } KHirl t i ror eaie Dy an druggists and " ** i r dealers. At wholesale by 1219 Taylor Stret-i, THE MURRAY DRUG CO., COLUMBIA. S. C r Columbia. 8. C ,. < Ortman Pays the EXpress " bteam Dyeing of every L*ue. Ch*ae. Hege.'Liddeit ?od H^h "Ascription. Steam, Nap ?rt,""r.T!'v..,nS .?d u..,rts.,i., the, French Dry and System, i chemical cleansing. Send U ld?ll Automatic and plain F.ngtnet. for onr new price list and Mrt*\i2hi??ry circnlar All work gnar Karquhar Threshers and llnvin Drills anteed or no oharge. Diaeion Saws and riles rucrltws raokiags. :*tev?as Srwer Oilman's Steam Dye Works Kg an Woodworking Machinery 1810 Main Street "Queen of the South" Orlsi Vl.lt. | Kel;ey Dup'ex Feed Mtlle C?>I.I7 If BI A, 8. C Bandy Traps and 8team Specialties Magnolia eud Ooh uit>.a U*t>t>eU Metals. | A L. Ortman, Proprietor. PITTS' H- 8ibbe3 * CO-. " ANTISEPTIC IRVI60RATORI '["AfBwxKY-sMi.Lsi.mjw ( v?rau?Mrpc<!, ujrspopam, lUUlgefllOB j H(>4 UefV&lB StttfOl, Bad all stomach and bowel troubles, eolie or oholera morbus, teethiug troubles with COLUMBIA, 8. O. obildren, kidney troubles, bad blood and B all aorta of sores, risings or felons, euu and 1 s burns. It is as good antiseptio, when looally t applied, as anything on the market. 111*1*Q If'a ) Try it and you will praise It to others j 1.TJL (.11 ? U. J 9 i If your druggist doesn't keep It, write to * # ? MURRY DRUG COMPANY, ArOIIiatl<* !, nol-"MW,A- ' c Mouth j MONET TO LOAN Wash s On Improved real estate r Interest eight per cent. 4 payable semi-annually ! Whitens the Teeth ' Time 3 to f> years. Cleanses the Month No commissions charged SwVwteus the Breath E. K. Palmer, * Central National Bank Building, The? 80tf Plain St-, Colombia. 8. C. |V| Hfffty ftPIIIMMCAI>IE'",WHim Driur Co lUOLUMBlA.S. 0. J m