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.lv" ~L*f From the Devil'e Jest Book. Beside the tewing-table chained and bent, They stitch for the lady, tyrannous ani proud? For her a wedding gown, for them a shroud; The etioth ivud iticth, but never meud the rent Torn in life's golden ourtains tilad Youth went, And left them alone with Time, and now if bowed With burdens they should sob and ory aloud, Wondsiing, the rioh would look from their content. And so this glimmerring life at Inst recedes In unkiown, endless depths beyond re call; And what s the worth of all our anoient creels, If here, at the end of ages, this is all? A white face floating in the whirling ball, A dead face splasoing io the river reeds? Edwnrd Mnrkham. DR TALMAUE 8 DISCOURSE On the Importance of Prompt Action in Anything We Have to Do From a paesago of Soripturo unobserved by most readers Dr. Talmago in this disoourso shows tho importance of prompt ?otion in anything wo havo to do for ourselvosor others; text, Koclcsiftstes xi, 4, "Ho that obscrvoth tho wind shftll not sow." What do yon find in this paoked sentence of Solomon's monologue? 1 find in it a farmer at his front door examining tho woathor. It is seedtime. His fields have boon plowed and harrowed. The wheat is in tho barn in sacks, ready to bo taken afield and scattered. Now is tho time to sow. H it tho wind is not favorable. It may blow up a storm before night, and ho may got wot if ho starts out for tho sewing; or it may be a long storm, that will wash out the seed frem the soil; or thoro may have boon a long drought, and the wind may oontinuo to blow dry weather. Tho parohed fields may nottako in tho grain, and the birds may pick it up, and tho labor as well as tho seod may bo wasted So ho gives up tho work for that day and goes into tho houso and wails to see what it will be on tho morrow. On tho morrow tho wind is still in tho wiong dirootion, and for a wholo week and for a month. Did you over see snob a long spell of bad . weather? Tho lethargic and overcautious and dilatory agriculturist allows tho season to pass without sowing, and no sowing, of course, no harvest. That is what Solomon means whon he says in his text, "He that obscrvoth the wind shall not sow." As muohin our time as in Solomonio times there is abroad a fatal hesitancy, a disposition to let little things stop us, a ruinous adjournment. We all want to do some good in the world, but how easily wo aro halted in our endeavors. Perhaps wo aro solicitors for some groat oharity. There is a good man who has largo means, and ho is accustomed to givo liberally to asylums, to hospitals, to roform organizations, to schools, to ohurohes, to communities desolated with Hood'or dovastatcd with fires # But that good man, like many a good man, is mercurial in bis temperament. He is depressed by atmoshperic changes. He is always victimized by tho oast wind. For this or that reason 1 you postpone tho charitable solicit*- S lion. Mnannhiln tKn unffarifir* ? wish to alloviato docs its awful work, I and tho opportunity for rolicf is past, s If tho wind had been from tho west or \ northwest, you would have cnterod tho philanthropist's oounting room and c Bought ihw gift. hn? *b<?wind was blo-v- i ing lrom the cast or northeast, and you \ did not mako tho attempt, and you a thoroughly illustrated my text, ''He i that observeth tho wind shall not sow." t Thoro comes a dark Sabbath morning o Tho pastor looks out of tho window and c scos tho clouds gather and then dis l oharge thoir burdens of rain. Instead p of a full ohurch it will bo a handful of h people with wot foot and tho dripping t umbrella at tho doorway or in the ond s of pew. The pastor has prepared ono c of his best sermons. It has oost him i groat research, and he has boon muoh ?: in prayer while preparing it. He puts t tho sermon aside for a clear day and r talks platitudes and goes home quito ? depressed, but at tho same time feeling n that ho has done his duty. He did not h realize that in that small audiocco v> there wero at least two persons who t ought to have had better treatment, d One of thoso hearers was a man in a s orisis of struggle with evil appetite. A r oarefully prepared discourse under tho s divine blessing would have been to him ii complete viotory. The fires of bin r would have bocn extinguished, and his keen and brilliant mind would havo L boon consecrated to the gospel ministry ti and ho would have bocn a mighty cvan- t gel, and tens of thousands of souls u would havo, under tho spell of his a Coristian eloquence, given up sin and t( started a new life, and throughout all ti the heavens there would have been a congratulation and hosanna, and after bi many ages of eternity had passed there o would be celebration among tho ran- o semed of what was accomplished ono stormy Sunday in a ohutch on earth a under a muhty gospel s? rm.?n deliver* d o to 15 or 20 people. Bui the crisis I il speak of was not properly met. Tho t? man in strugglo with evil habit h ard > that stormy day no word that moved si him. He went out in the rain uniu a vited and unhrlped back to his evil S way and down to his overthrow. Had tl it boon a sunshiny Sabbath he wouid il havo hoard something wunh hcaiiug. h But tho wind blew from a stonny direo- 1 tion that Saboath day. That go*pcl ai husbandman notioed it and acted upon t) its suggestion and may disoover some w day his great mistake Ho had a sack m full ef tho finest of tho whe^t, hut ho w withheld it, and some da> he will find, fi when tho whole story is told, that ho 21 was a vivd illustration of tho trath of ti my text, "He that olscrvcth the wind 11 shall not sow." gi In all dopartmcnts of lifo tho.o aro m those hindorod by tho wind of puhlio In opinion. It has become an aphorism hi in politics and in all groat movements, "Ho is waiting to sco which way tho y( wind blows." And it is no easy thing to defy publio opinion, to be run upon t0 by nowspapcrs, to bo overhauled in so )i| oial circles, to bo anathematized by ti, thoso who hcrotoforo wero your frionds w and admirers. It requires a horoism (j whioh fow possess. cr Yot no great reformatory or olevating w movomont has over boon accomplished th until somo ono was willing to deny what yf tho world should think or say or do. [{ But thoro havo been mon and wotnon of w; that kind. Thoy stand all up and down 80 tho oorridors of history, examples for hj, us to follow. Uharlos Sumner in tho ? United States scnato, Alexander II. Stophons in <ioorgia convention, Savon- w] arola staking his lifo in time of perso- jK oution Martin Luther lighting the S| battlo for roligious freedom against m the mightost anathemas that wore t}, over hurled, William Uaroy loading 0f the missionary movomont to savo m a heathen world whilo ohurohos o] denounced him as a fanatic and with attempting an impossibility; .Icnnor, jD the hero of medioino, caricuturod for W( bis attempt by vaccination to beat back the worrt disease that emote the nations. They who watoh the wind of pablio opinion will not Row. It is an unocrtain indioation and is apt to blow the wrong way. Communities and ohnroheB and nations sometimes are thrown into hysteria, and it requires a man of great riiaipoi'o to maintain a right position. Thirty-three soars ago thoro came a Li mo of bitterness in Amcrioan politios, and tho impcaohmcnt of a president of the United States was demanded Two or tnreo patriotic men, at tho rifk of losing their senatorial position, stood juts gainst the demand of their political associates and saved tho oountry FrAril thftf a?Kif?K all a nf mil t\? otino vm- Mt* j'w|'iw wi nu |'?i uto Dow see would have been a calamity md would havo put ?vory subsequent president at the mercy of hiB opponent". It only required the wai-iug of a few months, when timo it&clf removed all controversy. "Lot m have war with England if ooeds bo," said tho most of the people if our northern states io 1861, when Mason and 81idell, tho distinguished southerners, had b?cn taken by our navy from tho British steams r Trent ind tho English government resented tho aot of our government in stopping jce of their ships. "Givo up those prisoners," sa'd Great Britain. "No," said the almost, unanimous opinion of tho north. ' Do not givo them up. Lit jb havo war with England rather than mrrender thorn." Then William >1 3< ward, secretary of state, faced one of Llio fieioost storms of publio opinion ?ver set n in this or any other oounsxy. Seeing that tho retention of -those two non was of no importance to our ooun ;ry that t he ir retention would put Great liritain and tho Uoitod 8ia.es into im ajedi.tc confliot, he bairi, "Wo give ihctn up " They wro given up. and hrougb the resistance of popular clamor jy that one man a worldwide calamity vas adverted. Some of us rt member as boys huzzv ng when Kossuth, tho great Hunga dan. rode up Broadway, Now York. Moft Americans wore in favor of taking iomo decided steps for Hungary. Tho >uly result of euch intorfcronoo would tavo been the sacrifice of all good protcdent and fr?r with Eiroptan nations. Then Daniel Webster, in his immortal 'Hult-cmann letter," bravod a whirl vird of popular opinion and saved this )ation fnm useless foreign entanglencnt. VVrebstcr did not observe tho vind when ho wrote that letter. So in itate and ohuroh there have al ways boon nca at tho right time ready to faoo a nation fall?yea, a world full?of opposition. How many there aro wbc give too itnoh time to watching trio weather vano md studying tho barometer!* Mako up ?ou mind what you aro going to do and hen go ahead and do st There always will ho hindrances. It is a moral dis :r - 11 - 1 k-jiui ii you Miow pruaenoc to over naslcr all tho ether graooa. The 151bio uakca more of courago and faith and icrscvcrauo than it doea of caution Lt is not onco a year tba'. tho great >ccac steamers fail to to sail at tho ap minted t'liio booauso of tho storm sigials. L tt tho weather bureau prophesy that hurricane or oyolonc it may, dcx; rVtdnosday, next Thursday, noit Sat lrday, the steamers will put out from )iew York and Philadelphia and Boston tarbors and wilt reaoh Liverpool and iouthaupton aud Glasgow and BrcmcD, heir arrivals as certain as thoir em mrkation. They oannot afford to cmult the wind, nor can you in your lifo royago. The grandest and boBt things ever aoomplished havo boon in tho teoth of kOHtility. Conuidor tho grandest onter iriso of tho eternities?tho salvation of > world. Did tho Romaa empire send tp invitation to the heavens inviting he Lord to doscond amil vooifcrations if welcome to oomo and take possession if tho most oapaoiou3 and ornate of tho lalaocs and sail Galilee with richest imicrial flotilla and walk over flowers of Solomon's gardens, which were still in bo outskirts of Jerusalem? No. It truck him with insult as soon as it ouli reach him. Let the camel drivers n tho Bethlehem caravansary testify, ice the vilest hato pursue him to tho orders of the Nile! Watch his araignmcnt as a criminal in the courts! ice bow they belio his every aotion, aisiutcrpret his best words, howl at i;tn with worst mob;?, wear him out ri'.h sleepless nights on oold mounainsl See 1 im hoisted into a martyr om at which tho noonday orowlel it elf with midnight shadows, and the onks shook into cataclytin. and tho dead larted out of their sepulchor, fooling I was do timo to sleep whon suoh fcorors were being enacted. Tho winds of stormiest opposition Lw on his cradlo, blow on his mounain pulpit, blew upon the homosteads hat dared to give him shelter, blew pon his grave, but ho went right on nd sowed the earth with sympathetic cars and redeeming b'.cod and eonsolaion and help ulncss ar.d redemption ud victory. It was an awful timo to j dw But behold tho harvest of hurclios, as: lums, worldwide charities, 1 iviuzvtout:, inlicnmuins! .Just ?.ah ov r ihc names of (ho men il l w."ui? n who h?vo done miat for ur pour o.d wirid, sud \ou will oall ho of those wuolisd uio'ia al' r thorn. They wirj t-huuLcd by ihc 1 lice, tluy wore cartooned by mo stirMB, ihoy lived ou toed whioh you nd 1 wi u.d i. ,t throw 10 a kennel, ouio of mem died id prison, some of ' hom we.c burned at the stake, some of ' ieni were buried a j ubiio expanse ' fjhU c of the laws of eamtat o?. 1 hev wore hounded thro gh the world ud bounded ou j ot it. Now wo cross io oocau to bi o the room ia whijh they ' cro b ra or di d and lo >k up at thj 1 lonuin nts winch tho church of iho orld ha:1 reared to thoir matchless . 'l Iny and courage. After 100 or JO or 300 years the world has made ' p its mini that instead of being .gcllatou tiioy ought to have been ir.anded instead of cavo of tho louuiaiu forrisilonco they ought to ' avo had bestowed upon theui an Al- j am bra. Young man, you bavo planned what j >u aro going to bo and do in tho world, t it you aro waiting for oircunistaneos ? i bcoouio uooro favorable. You are, g Ice tho farmer in the text, observing ( io wind. If jttcr start now. Oostaolcs j ill help you if you oon<juer them t at your way through. I'etor, Coop f , tho xxiillionairo philanthropist, who t ill bless all suoocoding centuries with c io iosiitudon ho foundod, worked fivo j ;ars for $25 a yearo and his board. r enry Wilson, the Chiistian statesman t ho commanded tho I'nited States c nato with tho gavol of tho vioo pro- c denoy, wroto of his early days: Want sat by my oradlo. I know q hat it is to ask a mother for bread hon sho has nono to givo. 1 loft my linn at 10 years of age and sorvod an iprcntiooship of 11 years, receiving a ontli'fl schooling each year, and at i o end of 11 years of hard work a yoko t oxen and six shcop, whioh brought c o $~il In tho first monthaftor 1 was years of ago I went into tho woods, t ovo a team and out mill logs. I aroso v tho morning boforo daylight and t jrkod hard till aftor dark ana reooiv d tha miinlfioeot too of 16 for the month's work. Kaoh of those dollar# lookod aa large to mo as tho moon looks tonight." Wonderful Henry Wilson I But that was not bis orginal name. Ho ohanged his mmo beoause he did not want on him the blight of a drunken father. As (he vioo president stood in my pulpit in Brooklyn, making the last address ho ever made, and com mended tho religion of Christ to the young men of that oity 1 thought to myself, *'You yourself aro tho sublimoBt spcotaolo 1 over saw of victory over obstaolcs." For 30 years the wind blew tho wrong way, yot ho did not observo the wind, but kept right on sowing. Many of us who aro now preaohers of the sospol or medical praoiitionors or members of tho bar or morohants or citizens in various kindB of business had very poor opportunity at tho start bo oauso we had it too easy?far too easy. Wo ncvor approoiated what it is to got an education bccauso our fathers or older brothers l?*id thn B.ihnnlinu not got tbo muscle which nothiog but hard work can dovelop. 1 congratulate you, young mac, if to you life id a strug glo. It is out of suoh circumstances God mtkes horoos, if thoy aro willing to bo uiado. Cut your way through. If.it woro propor to do bo and you should etand in any board of back dirootors, in any board of tralc, in any legislature, state or natioDtl, and ask all who wore brought up iu luxury and ease to lift thoir hand, hero aud 'here a hand might bo lifted. But ask thoso who 1 ad an awful hard tiiuo at tbo start to lift their bands, and moat of tbo hanos wonld be lifud Tho borots of oburch andst*tc were not brought up on confectionery aud cako. Whether in your life it is a touth wind or a north wiud, a west wind or au cast wind, tha^ is now blowing, do you not led like saying: 'This whoio sub j.-ot I now diciae. Lord God, through thy Sou JebUa C rill, my Saviour, lam th'.no forever I throw inycelf, reckless of everything into the occau of thy mercy." '"But," says Bomo one in a fr'volous and rollicking way, "I am not hko tbo farmer you find in your text. 1 do not watoh tho wind. What do 1 caro about tho weather vane? I am sowing now." What aro you sowing, my brothoi? Aro you sowing evil habits? Aro you sowing infidel and atheistic beliefs? Aro you sowing hatreds, revenges, discontents, unclean thoughts or unoleau actions? It' so, you wiil raiso a big orop ?a very big orop. fno farmer sometimes plants things that do not oomo up, and ho has to plant them over ag&ia. But those evil things that you have planted wilt take root aud oome up in harvest of disappointment, in harvest of pain, in harvest of despair, in harvt si of fire. Go right through sorno of tho unhappy homos of Washington and New York and all the oities and through tho hospitals and penitentiaries, and you will find staoked up, piled together, tho sheavos of such an awful harvest. Ho sea, ono of the first of all tho writing prophelB, although four of the other prophots are put beforo him in the canon of Scripture, wroto an astounding metaphor that may be quoted as dosoriptivo o those who dj evil: '"They have sown tho wind, and they shall reap tho whirlwind." Same on has 6aid, "Children uiiy be strangled, but deeds never." There aro other persons who truthful ly say: "I am doing tho best I oau. The clou is aro thiok and the wind blows tho wrong way, hut I am sowing prayers and sowing kindaess and Bowing help tuiccfas and sowing hopes of a bolter world." Good for you, my brother, my sister 1 What you plaot will ooino up. What you sow you will rise into a harvest the wealth of which you will not know until you go up higher. I hear the rustling of your harvest in the blight fields of heaven. Tho soft galos of that land, as they pass, bend the full headed grain in ourvcB of boauty. It is golcon in tho light of a sun that nover sets. As you pass in you will Dot havo to gird on the sioklo for tho reaping, and there will bo nothing to reminds you of weary husbandmen toiling under hot summer sun on earth and lying down under the shadow of tho trco at noontide, so tired were they, so very tirod. No, no; your harvest will bo roaptd without any toil of your hands, without any boswoating of your brow. Christ in ono of his sor mons told how your harvest will be gathered when ho said, "Tne reapers are the angels." TbatHouoy Was Out. Tho KaLsts City Journal tells this story: "Frank Anderson was for yoars a well known commercial traveler who made Galena, lie was passionately fond of honey, and the proprietor cf tho Galeua hotel, at whioh ho always stopped, always had somo on hand for hioi. On one trip Anderson took his Wife along, and as ho approached Ga 1 iena ho montionod to her that ho was getting to a place where ho oou>d have 1 honey. Whon tho pair was bitting a: ino supper tabic that night no honey appeared, a id Anderson slid anarp.y to the head waiter: NVuere is my hou uy'f The waiter suii'ol and satd Yi u mean the little hl*o* hairoi one? Oa, slit a >ii'i wort te.-o uj#.' " Oue of the Trend. i?i'h Cars Tuo Southern raw* .j iiav.ug u.ae.guI'i Cll "UlOlKIllOa'd dill) LAIS ' UD llje 1 Wasting v u a.a iku hw.stern Luiiitd ' bOiWtcu Aliaui * an N w V rk, making 1 ihn oun <;1 iho ha s. panwogM ir?i fl id tin. U^.tcl J? ate j, hu> ;u.'o.eu? d lu ' jOiaiu.u^ a- oue . f the e-?rs for uhj on ' these uauis (J. utiumcn s C.uo Car "At 1 lantio,"' wh en -.-'as rcoeu'.ij used by 1 Prudent MoKtu ey on his tour to the 5 Pacific Coast. N j botU r guaranico of * the oUeaco i of these c ub ears could be r.vcn ilitu tr.at tie/ nr.! of the c ?sd of 1 Pullman equipment sclc.tou by the ' Trostd u fji uis t ur which ai a mat- 1 tr of Oourse, is of the finest woikman- 1 ihip ai d latest design. $100 Rsward. $100 , The readers of this paper will bo | ideas* d to leain that there is at loast 1 ine dreadod diaoaso that science has t icon ablo to cure in ail its uiagos and 1 hat is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo ia i ho only positivo curo now known to < ho medical fraternity. Catarrh boing c i c.institution ! disease, requires a con a ititutionai treatment. Hall's Catarrh c Jure is takon internally, acting direct i y upon tho blood and mucous surfaces i if tho systorn, thereby destroying tho t dundations of tho disoaso, and giving I ho patient strength by building up tho s lonstitut'.on and assisting nature lu do t ng its work. The proprietors have so <j uuoh faith in its curative powers, that c hoy oflor one Hundred Dollars for any t laso that it fails to ouro. Bond for list j if testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. Sold by druggists, 75o. t Hall's Family Fills aro tho best. Ants may bo easily killed by pour- s ng a tablospoonful of bisulphido of oar- a ion into a small holo opened in tho p enter of tho ant-hill and then quiokly 1 ,nd tighily closing all openings into 9 ho nost. Tho diaJiy vapor of this t olatilo liquid will spread through all b ho galleries and tflnnels and kill tho f' nts by tho wholesale. h I THX FOEX04STB FOR JULY The Rsy Irl Hicks Predict Man] Astronamlo Disturbances A combination of astrocomio cvonti out of the ordinary falls on and about the opening of July. Tfae oppositioi of tho planot Jupiter?The worl< greater than all other planets anc moons oombined?falls on June 30;h aDd tho opposition of Satura, tho nex' greatest planet, falls on July 5th. The full moon, or moon in opposition t< oaith and sun, and henoo in oonj motion with both Japitor and Saturn, false 01 July 1st. Tho planets Venus ant Merouy are, also, in oonjunotion witl each other and the earth on Juno 30th, with earth and Meroury in aphelion, and Vr?nn<* in rm*iKnl!/x? - *?1 - ? ? - .u I'wiiiiviiv/u. ouun a uai anoing and lining up of tbo worlds i? not an ordinary ooourronoe, and to sa] just what tho result should bo, ii metoorologioal way, is not an entirely easy thing in our present stato o knowledge. Addod to all the above, it must bkopt n mind that wo are still near the contor of the Jupiter equinox, and that a regular Vuloan storm period cxtondfrora tho 1st to the ?>.h of July, wind ing up with moon on tho oslestfov equator on tho ti.h. Wo feel warranted in saying that a maximum tendency to seismic, clootrioal and volcanio pcrtur bationa ia more thsu provable under this oonditi ?u of things. We have alar many timos called attention to tho fad such remarkable conjunctions and op po-tions of cthir planets with earth snd sun. has a marked tendency t< sovtcr and segregate tho solar enorgj in that pert of tho celestial longitud occupied by an unu ual astembuire ul planets. Tncso thines botDg reasonably prob ablo, wo predict that lie world's o it r?c. reocri will sho w a atatc of oosmi . and meteorological ucr. at during llu o'osiug days of Juno and well int( July. L :t it bo positive'y understood that we do not predict an ..thing out ol nature's regular order, and that w. oounsel quietness and peace of mind even in toe exoroise of that caution forethought and watchfulness whio) should always ba exorcised in tho face of Datum's vicissitudes and phenomena Tho storm period ocntral on Jul) 3rd, shown in tho storm diagram will bring a series of very aotiv< storms, during which tho frequent ant marked fluctuations of tho barometei will both bo an admonition and oonsti tutoasluiy. Tbo oncoming of storu areas may be attended with very higi temper*.urcs in (mattered sections o this and other continents; but we pre diet that tho phenomenally low teen peratures will bo rcalizid generally. Ordinarily, wo would diuio tbo 3rd 4th and 5th as days of greatest storu danger, but under tho unusual oondi tions prevailing, thoy arc probable an) timo from the 1st to the 6th. Reactionary storm conditions wil exist on tho 8 h to 10th, ooulinuin; probably over the moon'd perigee ol the 11th. Falling barometer, rising temperature and wiods from tho oast _?_J >L -Ml 3 .? ouu duuiu min prcocoa mo aoiu* btoriDb and pri cipitation of this and al other July periods. The central storm period for Julj fills from the 13'.h to the 18th. Ttu orisis of this period will fall from Sun day, tho 14:h, to Wednesday, the IS h Barometric and atmospheric condition: will plainly indioate when storms an gathering west of your looa>uy, and just as positively will tho samo thingindicate when tho stonn centers havi goue oast of your locality, alil ough the path of tho actual storms may not have passed over your immediate section. This central Vu'ctn period for July i: embraced in tho Venus period, shown by the storm diagram to bo ocntral or July 31st. Tho ono thing that gives possible hope for tains ov?r int rioi parts of our oountry during the last half of July and tho first half of August, is tho prcsenco of this Venue period. If sutilcient humidity should not be present during the regular storm days in this Venus period, there igreat probability of cxircmo beat and hot, withering winds, especially in the open grain regions of the west and northwest. Thunder gU9ts arc al way: probable when tho moon passes the eelcstial equator in summer, the l!>.b of July boing such a date. Tho stars print .-d in - oonncc'ion with Sunday and Monday, the 21st and 22nd, stiow that reac'ionary disturbances are duo on and touching these dates. The probability of rain aud storms at ttrie timo is inorcased by tho presence of a Mercury period, blended with that of Venus, central ol tbc 26 ?h and extend ing from tho 21st to 31st. More or less rain with probablo cloudbursts, hail aad dangerous winds need not surprise any one during tho storm period which is eontral ou tho 26th. Oao of tho warmest terms of the summer may bo expected in ao. motion *uu this period, and many storm clouds with severe thunder gusts will bo natural about Thurdd y, the 2h h, ! 'Sunday, tho 23th. Destructive hail are rnoro n an probable a( t*??s period, a-i we.l as a, oih r periods *uh iu me Vonun braje. Pho gr.at heat p.oba.de *i Ibis tmio will br, a* up -t ?uu 0 JiiolUoi m ot ihut-toruii, nud very co >i uigtus lor the cea>uu will folio J la most pans o! tho c, uu r.., espe. i*il? iu LUe loIiIimtljI. It rai i ? do uo appear .a;iog ir.t last ten uays of Ju;y, me jo.J I'K tor r..iu m luu great western ml Dorthwosicro gmtn region* is not uu-.oura^ius for tlio rest of iho i umiutr md osr y au uain.' J ho la.t iwj d*, s ?1 thu mouth, with lull n?o >u and Uuui at ino comer ot her disturbing [?eriod, arc ic*oti nary storm fi at as. l)u ?Ld tourobin^ then: days the b*ro meter, thermometer and wind currents will niiow a return of st.?r oi cojdtuoa... Oar readers must remember that even n a ueaion of great drouth the regular iml reaitioLibry btorm periods wiii be jlamiy apparent?the barometer will all, and black, blustering storm clou ts viil ariso on aod about thu storm days. Uut what promises to be an abundant am will too often Cud in violoul gu ts >f wind, thuuder aid dust. Such ilouds may oonior about a narrow area, ind lot fall a destroy iag aloud burst xtrcmcly loeal in cxtont; but tho very ntonsity of suoh storms prevents a nornal diffusion of what moisturo there nay bo in tho atmosphoro and olouds. It;aco, wo often hoar of dealt and dotruetion in looal Hoods when the oounry as a wholo is suffering from extreme irynoss. This is pcouliarly the tonlonoy during tho .Jupiter period of por ubatioo. This season is in a Jupiter >eriod. Work of Lightning. A dispatoh from Floronoo to Tho Itato rays a single bolt of lightning Vodncsday afternoon tompirarily topped the working of a dozen Boll, n?i twenty fivo South Carolina tclo honos by burning out tho fuao wires, t also struck the court house and split ovoral trees. Another bolt damaged ho oleotrio light plant considerably, urniDg out scvoral lights and ono transormor. Thero was very little rain. A igh wind blew for an hour. V I 7* ~ OUR BATTLE FLAGS.' r Tha Colors ot the Lost Cause and ' Their Origin. ; / i AN IN T ERE8TINQ 8TORY 1 t Which May B ar Rovislon of an ! > Ante-Secession Flag Which I i 8ecame the Flt?g of i South Carolina. ' The first, says the Newport News Herald, tlag indicative of sehession was raised at , Charleston, 8. C., December 19, 18U0, one j day prior to the passage of the ordinance 1 whereby South Carlina withdrew from the r Fed. ral Union and declared its independence. ^ The Hag is a tl ag of solid red, with a crescent and a star, in white, quartered in the upper ' left hand corner. Who designed the tl ig is not known to this writer; a number of , Charleston ladies purchased the material, . male it on the pattern described, and ran it I up on the tall s'aff of the Custom House. Its dimension* were eight feet in length and six , feethroal. Later it became the naval fiag of South Caroiiua and couiinued such to the close of the war. Those made for the na7y were forked at the end. Tne South Cutolina privvt teer Dixie, tlyiuir tho star and cresccut Hag, engaged the United Mates battle ship 1 Ktystoue State, and after a terrific fight, in ) which the Keystone State suffered terribly, , the Dixie was captured in a siukiug oonditiou . , its emird crew beiug dead or disabled front 1 . wouuds. Toe oritic3 objected to the ted flig with 1 its silver quartering*, on the grouud that * silver or whue on red was non-heralaic. It was criticised aiso on the ground that it was 1 3 almost identical wi.h tue Turkish flag. * . Those aud other points of objection, while H > fuliiug to attract tue attention of tho naval 5 [ commanders caused aiterat'ons to be made J . in the original, after which the I.egis- 1 lalure adopted the remodelled pattern as ine 1 s flag of the sovereignty of the State of Sou h <J i Carolina, , CROSS OF ST. OtbORUK. 0 1 The revised South Carolina tl tg bad the ) cross of St. George in blue as its chief quartering, the cross emblazoned both on its up. 8 f tight and transverse, with white stars cor- ? [ responding in number to the number of d 3 States iu the southern Confederacy. Another t alteration was that the small star in white f appearing on the original tlag near the ores- a " cent was substituted in the tlag of sover 3 eignty by a white palmetto tree r 1 The first national tlag of the Southern Con ? i federacy was adopted at Montgomery, Ala., t f March -t, lbCl, and w *s hoitted to the summit of the stall of the Capital building in that t ol.v Ulu t ? T-l? J ' " v. ,, ...no .. u. ijruT, uaugmer 01 r.x-rtesi- t dent Tyler, pulling the cerd which Bent the * Stais and Bars gliding gloriously up tne pole ? ? in the presence of a multitude who greeted 1 1 the new tlag with deafening cheers. t The Act of the Confederate Congress in 1 j session at Montgomery. Ala declares that 1 the flag of the Confederate States of America < ] shall consist of a red field, with a while '1 . space extending hsrizontally through the t the centre, and equal in width to one third 1 1 of the width of the flag, the red space above 1 > and below to be the same width as the white; 1 ? a canton of blue extending downward ^ 1 through the white space and stopping at the B 1 upper border of lower red space. In the c centre of the blue canton stars correspond ing in number to the nuaber of Stales in the I Southern Confederacy must be placed in a c 5 circle, the circle indicative of perpetuity. t THK I1RST t'LAU. The tirat flag bore seven stars, that b ing , the number ot States in the Conftderacy at ^ ' the time the Stars and Bars became the 1 1 Southern tlag by enactment at Montgomery, t ) Ala , on the dale mentioned above Later t ! became customary to make flags with thir- , I teen stars, one for each of the eleven seceding y , Mates, one for Miuyland and one for Ken- 0 lucky, and in some instances the Stars and t ' Bars bore fourteen stars, the State of Mis- j souri being included in the Southern constel- , 1 lation? 1 The Stars and Bars ceased to be the lrgal I national flag on May 1, 1 fetid, an Act of Con: greBS passed on that date substituted another I tlag hereafter to be described, but while the . Stars and Bars by the subsequent enactment . ceased to be the Hag of tne Confederate 8 i Mates of America, to the end of the war it v floated on many forts and was carried by s 1 many regiment. It is probable that when C > Father By an wrote his immortal requiem of t the Lost Cause he had iu mind the Hag of j ) the Stars and Bars. The Beauregard Battle tl ig is the beet j known emblem of the Lost Cause, and the , history of its origin is exceedingly interest- 8 ' ing It was designed jointly by Gen. Pierre louluut Beauregard and Col. William P. V Milet, of Gen. Beauregard's stall. In t 1 heraldic terms the battle tlag consists of a n held of red and quartered therein a broad, {, blue saltier bordered aui white, both bars of J I the blue white bordered saltier to be em- i l blazoned with flve-poiuted stars correspond- . ing in number to the number of Slates iu the Southeru Confederacy. 11 BALT1MOBK UlRl/s WoHK. ^ After agi eeiug upon the pattern and de- . stgu a German artist, serving on Gen Beau- 1 regard's tiafl', made a picture of the battle nag. wnica ucn. Joseph E. Johnston ap 8 proved, and itmnediaely Misses Constance p and Jennie Carey, two Baltimore belles, so t jouruttu in Fauftx County, Va , organized a t sewtug ciuli and made a number of these \ which were used in siit>sr<|iient battles. ^ lu September, 1801, the Cjulederate t on gress enacted a bill authorizing ttie desun described above as a bailie tl tg of the South " eru Coulederaoy, and ouch it couliaued uu 1 tu toe cud of hostilities. g lu an address before the bmisinna Division ot the Army ot Northern Vir^iuia, delivered in December, 1877, lieu. Beauregard desoribed l:ic luOideuLs leading to tue lidop a iiou ot tne bati e H ig, in substance, as fob r tows: at 4 c'olock in the afternoon; July ill, r le'il, the tia tie was i.t?uig ou the plains ot ^ \l tuas-us o tl ret lorcenietits were urgently . ueedea on toih stde?. lieu, MoDoWetl wao sitng anxious ey?s towaids tue 11.ue Kidge Mouuiatns, hoping to see Patterson s column emerge troui tne uual oioud which hung 11k. a pail on his ll ink. lieu. Beauregard was J | alto watching tu the situs direction, expectlugjuiiu Etriy, with ib? 'JliU Virginia, the r 7tu nouisiana and the 15lh Miss ssippi, a b coiiiu.il sirgrg enough to route the enemy f aiready hammered to the verge of defeat. A Coiitedciuiu signal edlicer informed his auxicus commander that a ttroag coluuiu was approaching by the Warren turnpike, prob- n ably Paltersou, the signal olticer state 1. The air was uioliouie-sss, not a breeze stirring, j and the colors of the advanoiug host drooped r arouud tne etatP, so taut at the distance in ^ terventng 'bey resembled the Uuited States Utg. Jusl ilicu a gust of wind caught the tl ig of tne front line and sent it streaming out from its slat)', enab mg the Confederate ^ leader to see at a gtanco mat it was Early and not Patterson he discerned. It was the ' dilliculty observed at the first battle of c Manassas in distinguishing between the Stars and Bars aud Stripes that brought t about the adoption of the Beauregard battle tiag, a ll ig which endured to the and nt" ib? laul struggle, and has siuoe been adopted as tne seal oi the l?ost Cause. T new fi.au Aoorrcn. As has lieeu stated, the Stars and Bars adopted March, INtJl, at Montgomery, Ala , continued to be the uational tUg uulil May 1 1, lHtid, on which day tho Congress of the Confederate States of America, in session at Richmond, Va., which had become the Capi- _ tal of the Southern Confederacy, enacted a * bill adopting a new Mag tho mod%l of which t< is said lo have been the creation of two Mis- t( eissippians The new national tUg enacted n on May 1 18tid, was a solid held of white with j] tho Beauregard battle Mag <piartered in the jj upper left-hand corner as a canton, the width of the tlag to be two thirds of its lcng'h. The proportion the canton bore to ** the ting was m fol(Owa: The CAnton to be in widili three fiftns of the width of the entire Mag, the width of white beneath the 0< canton to be one-third of the length of tho white from thg outer border of the canton to ?] THE I Grove's The formula know just what y do nor advertise t their medicine if Iron and Quinine [ form. The Iron malaria out of the Grove's IS the Ot Chill Tonics are i that Grove's is ai v- itui inivi and excellence i only Chill Cure ihe United States. heend of the flig. Actual test of the Ha; ndicated fatal objections. When wrappeu u its etatf a few furls of the canton disap ieared from yiew, leaving in sight only tht vhite Held- 'lhe soldiers ridiculed it as tht hag of truce," applying other epithets, ami he new flag fell into d.siise It is not likely hat many of them were ever made. Ihert >re Confederate Veterans now living wht lever satr or heard of the flag of 1863, k <u?i ocularly as tbo tl tg of truce, soci.led by be gallant boys wno believed witn all tht eal of their hearts aad the courage born o leep conviction impressed upou their souli hat the wnite flag would he raised by tht ither tide to the coutentiou. IIRAURKOAftD BATTLE FLAG. The national flag last authorized by Con ;ress in a bill enacted March 4, 18(15, con isted ot the flag with the snow-white fieK leecribed in the foregoing paragraph,being he same in ail particulars as the flag adoptti >y fhe Confederate Congress, May 1, 1863 vith au additional quartering, consisting of t erticil, bar of red at the end of the flag, tbi ed bar to be in rridtb one half of that portioi if the flag between the right-baud border o he canton and of the tl tg. In addition to the Beauregard battle tl a a here were other battle flags, which, whih lot sanlioned by the Confederate Congress rere used ou bloody battlefields with tht tuthority of generals ofcorp* r.nd divisions >ne of these battle flags was that borne by he regiments and brigades of Gen. 1'atClo turnc s divisions. It consisted of a hold oi due, bordered with white and a silver moot juartered in the very centre of the blue field L'ne veterans who fought under the com nand of Gen. Pat Cleburne remember tht leiautiful moon hag, which in camp, on tht uarch, or in the tumult of battlo. cheered heir hearts and aroused them to deeds o ra'or which arc Btill going down the ages tnd will always have a p ace on the page) if history. Were no mention made of the "Bjnnit Hue Flag thai Bears a Single Star," tht ireation of (hat beloved miniitrel of tht loutb, Harry McCarthy, the title of the flag leseribes it exactly. It is a field of solid i ue with a single large five-pointed stai pianercd in dm centre, it is said that Harry dcCarthy saw Texas soldiers at New Orlcant :arrying the tlag and conceived the ides hat it -*&* the li?g of the Confederacy, henct he insp..-ation wnich came to the heart o: bat sweet sieger brewing forth in song irhich will be near i when the great-grand hildren of the veterans of the war will it heir turn be the ancestors of the coming laughters and ions of the Southern Confed racy. A New Horse Disease, llooently a distato has appeared iinong horses in Now York whicl eomc to bo very fatal, and none of tht etcrinary eurgoons seems to know ouoh about it other than that it is vtrj ontagious. For some time horsemen icreabouts have been apprehensive thai t' would spread at far as this State, and iavo hoeu looking out for it with muob onocrn. A telegram received by the ovornor Friday may meaa that it hat Ircady reached South Carolina and the etcrinary surgeon has been asked by ho governor by wire to look after the natter very caiefully. Hero is tht elegiaai received, whioh is signed by dr. Loll >y -Springs of L monster: Fieaso have veterinary surgeons come o Lancaster at onoo. Epidemic among nulcs; ono dead; four sick. Local torscmen don't known anything aboul t. Plea~e send him at ouoe. Answer." 'resident Ilirtzog of Cieinson was noticd at onoe. In this connection the evernor suggests that henceforward >ariics needing the veterinary surgeon airgraph Clem ten College direct, as his would be quite a saving of time. Vo clip the ab wo from the Ctlnmbia >iaie sea woa a advisa our farmers to ?a'>ah their stock oloscly and if thej otico any tymptoas of tho disoaso to ola e tho siak animal at onoo a telirspn for the veuri > ?ry surgeon. Am 'I'licy t'luni Now. Spartan Did I understand you to idmit that your ri\al is the champion nigilist ? Fitz-Corhctt No, sir, T said "plagiaist." He's been using a lot of my old lewspaper interviews as his own.? *hiladelphia Press. Well Mrs. Pierpont (ecstatically)?Tsn'tit 11st a poem of a spring bonnet! Mr. Pierpont (dubiously)?Yes, a nagazine spring poem?I run't make icad or tail to it; or tell'^which is tho ront or back.?llrooklyn Kagle. A l.ikrljr Vnrn. Lady I suppose you got that red lose from drinking rum? Sandy Pikes?No, muin. T stuck me lead out of do ear door an' me nose ubbed agin de bricks on dc side ob le tunnel.?Chicago Daily News. Mlint \\ nn lte?|iilrcil. Mr. IfolesayU?1 want an office boy hat don't chew, smoke or curse, and is ilwavs neat, clean, brave, manly and lourtcous. Annlinnnf It.ill** r..w. ? J "v ? ? JUU vant Is a matinee iilol!?Puck. A tr.ro Sign. "I am certain that Minnie intends to narry Frank." "What makes you so certain?" "I heard her scolding him for sendng her such valuable presents."? Harem Life. To Birmingham and KetnrnOn account of the National Grand 'cmplo, Mosaic Templars of America. ) moot at Birmingham, Ala.. July 30 ) August 4, tho Southern railway anoudc:s rato of ono first-class faro foi to round trip from all points on its ncs to Birmingham, Ala , and return, iokots to he sold July 2Sth, 29th and llth, final limit August tlth, 1901. Foi otailed information oall on or addross ay agent of tho Southern railway oi jnneotions. W. H. Tayloo. A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. aria. Chills 9tt(t hakes' ^ *9 hakes cst is Tasteless Chill Tonic. is plainly printed on every bottle?hence you ou are taking when you take Grove's. Imitators heir formula knowing that you would not buy you knew what it contained. Grove's contains )ut 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 riglnal and that all other so-called Tasteless mitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows superior to all others in every respect. You ruing when you take Grove's?its superiority laving long been established. Grove's is the sold throughout the entire malarial sections of No Cure, No Pay. Price, 50c. [ SIXTY LIVES LOST. ~ He I>ied for Her. Samu<1 Logan, bod of Judge 8. T. > Logan, was crowned in the Tenneneee s Cw . , n . , uver at Knoxville. Tcdo , Thursday l ?X4&-?ra**d Report* Caused by evening after rescuing M as Guion of ; O.Ed B-dl., B.ing Wa.h.d 1\?; ',1"? 'Tv^ orov a ot young unou ty people had goto on tie river for a boating. In { ? ^ _ _ at Ipmntino in ridn ????* > k _ , - ^ ?, , v , . %uv ?? ?C UVU1UU AND FLOATING IN FLOOD. Bteru wheil of a steamboat the boat i dipped and Mis* Gaion, thinking the I boat was overturned, leaped into the Pa?i? Van Dyke 8< w tne Great river. Logan followed and kept her _ . . ... _ . . frcm sinking. After a lard struggle Co limn of Wator Ruthing jn tbe tu ^ulent wav ? ho got Miss _ .. _ . _ Gaion to the boat At. i was being Down Mountain Gorge pulhd intn thn boU and before he,J 1 11_ __ ui- could be extended, young Logan sank Upon His Home. from exhtu,tion tnd dro;BedB 1 A dispatch from Roanoke Va , says To prevent the dcoay of posts, the k a telegram from Blarh rid Wednesday Pnd of the post to be put in the ground 8 afternoon says there are no important Bhould fee charred on a fi:e A coat of i developments there. Repair work is tar is then applud with a brush. The f ??lDfc u8" Tuh * 5U9l- tg'""- tar Eoaks into the pores of the wood B;uefiuld is the great shipping point and after being in the ground awhile for the Pocahontas Coal company com- turBBiQt0 B kind 0f re8in, keeping out ' mg rait It is said there that ooal tbe wmtor. ; fields will not bo ablo to ship out any , ?.. coal for the next 30 days. It is thought o TT " 1 i at Bluiti-dd that the loss of life will [jftW lll8* . reaoh in the neighborhood of 60. The ' f ooal fields will suffer almost inoaloul- Al*n 111 ? ab'e loss as a result of the wiBhcd-out V^vrl II i-"-I AllOj tracks and damage to their maohiuery. ?>? 1Vr*ll A gentleman arriving from the V./&I10 ItLIIISj stricken section gives an explanation -r^ w n . for the report first oireulated that great i ftp l-l 11 a I pi*a r masses ol human bodies were to be seen l-ljAvyC AA UllCi , floating around in the water. It seems I)AQ IT 11 i that thjre is a graveyard between Nor- JL cU -LI-11110*$ j folk Janotion and Keystoae, whioh -p. . > towns are about a mile apart, and at lid T1 QTAA1.0 8 | whioh point the storm was very severe. ? ' * Ibis graveyard is near the bank of the T)^.! 1 j river which caused the great destruo AjOAA0a Sy r tion. When the flood same the graves or-as a - gave up their dead and added greatly to JL 18-1101*8 ftH (1 i the bodies seen. i Mr. J. B. Frances, a Roanoke man MRfollPPfl : who is in K.ey6tone installing a water ielubvliClDy f plant, and who was first reported dead, ^ u*b nnvvcD au wiio icning tier HO -^w?iis &a,\, * -?? i safe and sound. Ho has the following /->? . to say about the disaster: '"A big flood U1 Cn tjto . visited the town last Friday night AVl^F kJd Tf Oy Eve ybody had to go up on the moun- - ,, .? , . , . tains. Men, women, and children were Md all Other Ulids of wood drowned in the streets and houses went working machinery. My Ser11 lating down with people in them. All geant Log Beam Saw mill is our crowd are Bafe. We are entirely j(jie heaviest, strongest, and * 1 out off from tho outside world and 1 # ' 5 provisions arc getting vtry short. There mo8^ efficient mill for the ' is now ro watrrin the to^n " Another money on the market, quick, leiUr Wednesday fiom Keystone says accurate. State Agent for H. ' between 10 and 15 people were drowned g. Smith Machine Company ' a?ace^t' k?U9ea WMbed *w*y wood working machinery, P TTsi'well, Va , also suffered from the F?r high grade engines, plain 1 oloud 'burst. The house of Paris Van slide valve?Automatic, and 1 Dj ke, four miles west of Tazewell, in Corliss, write me: Atl&S, ; a gorge of the mountains, was washed Watertown, and 8truthera away. Van Dyke heard tho roar of __o 1 water and started home from the field. ana VV611B. 5 When a short distanoe from the house ? V/. BAD HAM, he saw the water lushing down the 1820 Main St., Columbia, 8. G. mountains and tearing np and twisting r 1 off giant trees as if shrubs, tho water . 5 leaping 40 feet high and travelling with jj3 frightful speed. Van Dyke rushed for \ ' iSv \ tho house toward his family, but the f r I | vv water overtook him and swept the house and all its inmates away. Two i j (I 7~_ _ . f 1 children, 5 and 7 years old. were in- ' /*\ stantly killed, their brains being dashed -it-., r V - 7^^ fll'-" y*out against the rooks and timbers. The >Tf i';A"' " nil bodies ware washed to low lands. A S . ' P i, little girl, 11 years old, holding a yo'ing sister in her arms, was earrioi 200 f J f? - ! ?. i~ - : ^ yards. The sister" tossed on tho waters ?j and when rosened were unoonsoions. ?*1 1 Another member of the family died ^ ^ pa ? Wednesday afternoon aad Mrs Van ; , "'t 'SJF Dyke la btill unconscious and cannot At Odsr Bluff, 16 miles weBt of Taze PlPTltV ftf Plflfifi^ woil, 17 dwelling-* w ro aw.pt away, riClltJ Ui * iaLOa but co lives are lost. At P undiny ? Mill, four lives wero lost. K'.obo, a AT? UpGIl small town a* ven miles west, was mini *st completely destroyed. Rivena, to grsd^ates of the Colnuibim Ru.tness iw ) milts weBt, was badly damaged, College mud ev-. ry grmJu ?te is ih iroughai d many busnoss houses w? ro do- ly qualified to fid a responsible poeition etroyed The dtmage to county roads w^V11" ^usine-* w?r,li . . i . We fit young iten and women for business Will not bo 1 as ihan |nQ 000. careers, and ms.isi them to secure good Him rerreai nope. positions. Mrs. Sleepyize?Henry, the alarm por special suumcr ra'es, and catmlogu es clock just went off. giving full information, send at once to ?<? ZZfZLjColumbia Business College. Columbus (O.) State Journal. COLl MBit, 8.0. A Di?mai Fmiimre. W. H. NEWBERRY, PresidentHewitt?Are you a good judge of women's ages? ITHE YOUNGBLOOD I Jewctt?No; I can't guess a worn- ??????????? an's age any nearer t.ian she can her- LUMBER COMPANY self.?Town Topics. augusta, gfl Hainan 1.Imitations. ... ... ,. " ? _ . _ _A, . , . Office ahi> Vt orks, North Ai iicsta, 8. First Tramp?Tt s hard fer a man ' ^8eoo?TTr,hlV-"lt'. all rl?htl A DOORS. 8?ll. BLINDS AND BUILDER'S feller can't git out of sawln' some HARDWARE. wood.?Puck. " FLOORING, BIDING, CEILING ahd IN?v *1 Ch"n'T,,,0r . BIDE FIN1SH1NO LI MBER IN Aon know Will was just crnzy to marry me!" said the young bride. GEORGIA PINE, ! "Yest that e what everybody AH Correspondence given prompt atten' thinks." replied her jealous rival.? tlon JujT 2 ly Yonkers Statesman. ? ? A Sad Accident. Hon Wm K nim?W? fc(. J w M " JUSl/LST/W ters. Mary B., aged 12, and Francis 1)., 1^772 aged 8, and George B. Bryan, the 10 if Of year old son of Green Bryan, were Jr (yySJjyy-fYf i drownod at Newbero, N. 0 , Friday. /V?<f/yULS The party was out rowing opposite ^?res?'_ 0 78INGafc'^ the waterworks, when the boa1, was "?* *"" Spartanburg, 8. O. i swamped by waves. Mr. Clark's littlo ?? son, Wm. K ., Jr., was the only one of [~7r) ^ ^ party saved, he clinging to the boat un- ^ Pf\11 till rescued. The bodies of the two " - Jl VvllfQh i youDg women have been recovered Mr. xjii ^tl N ' 9-'lrk? Republican and had at d I-SCHOOL"SHORTHAND different t.mes been State senator, re- (Ae,ua| Bus.nesTli' ^ presentative, deputy collector of cue- fch#,pBoard Wh.ruM.ONi atcuico. toms and postmaster of Newborn. r ?' ? d