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'NEWS AND NOTES FOK WOMEN, , “Cigar” is a new shade of brown. Beach tan is now the fashionable color. / Archery is again the most popular pas time. The ends of velvet bows are now cut square. [ Flannel dresses are the most worn by •young girls. ! Women arc eligible to school offices in Sixteen States. Jenny Lind's grave is covered with fresh flowers every day. Princess Mary of Teck is one of the prettiest girls in England. Turkish women eat rose leaves with butter to secure plumpness. Queen Victoria, of England, is in favor of Sunday music for the people. Nearly 15 J women are buying and sell ing real estate in Superior, Wis. i Miss Grace McDonough, of California, is a pretty girl with $3,000,000. ! The Archduchess Valerie's wedding dress had a train fourteen feet long, i The ladies of Chicago will receive and entertain the Federation of Women's Clubs in 1882. The Misses Emily and Georgiana Hill have started a school of journalism in London, England. Clara Morris, the emotional actress, is a great lover of birds, and has a regular aviary at her home. The very English girls along the Hudson and about the bay wear white duck yachting suits. Deep girdles, well boned after the peasant bodice, are put on the new toil ets of white and figured silk. Sweet-pea blossoms, white and col ored, real and artificial, are the popular decorative flowers of the moment. Gold bracelets made of satin gold and fastened with small padlocks are very fashionable and equally expensive. One of the prettiest dress patterns for all round wear is a black India silk flowered with pink and green posies. The “robe” dress is shown in hand worked trimmings and haud-painted velvet for the cuffs, collar and brelottes. Mrs. Theodore Irving, the founder of the order of King’s Daughters, is the widow of a nephew of Washington Irv ing. 1 A new impetus is given the cape, which appears in all styles of creamy lace and net, and also in ermine and lamb's fur. The favorite flower of the Princess of Wales is the Alexandra orchid, which was named for her soon after she went to England. Miss Juliet Corson is obliged to sit in an invalid chair while she directs and il lustrates her methods of cooking before her classes. Sarah Bernhardt, the great French tragedienne, is the owner of 120 birds, and has for other pets a large black cat and half a dozen dogs. The most stylish sleeve is the full bishop, made with a loose slip wristlet one inch wide and banded just above the elbow with a two-inch ribbon. A young woman in Florida has just died in untold agony from the results of a bite of an insect which was concealed in a bunch of flowers she wore at her neck. Beautiful white toilets for receptions and dinners are made of the finest and richest of China and India silk scattered over with tiny white silk buds, leaves or rose sprays. A fancy is shown for velvet bands on white mull and flannel dresses. Generally a Grecian or scroll pattern is worked on the black ribbon velvet with metal or white cord. A bill making women eligible to the office of notary public has passed the Dakota Legislature, and Mrs. C. S. Thorp, of Britton, has receiver! the first commission. The board of education in Columbus, Ohio, has decided that hereafter there shall be no difference in the salaries paid to men and women who are teachers in public schools. I Fine Irish point lace, in pure white an! pale beige tints, is made use of for bonnets, for evening drives, and is also much used on sailor and garden-party hats of Neapolitan braid. As many as three or five rows of tiny buttons are seen on bodices, and they are also plentifully on cuffs, collars and coat tails. These coat-tail basques will be the thing for all fall suits. The first colored graduate from the Department of Music of the University of Pennsylvania is Mias Ida E. Power. She is an accomplished violinist and has written several short sonatas. The ex-Emprcss Frederick, of Ger many, and her daughters have laid aside their weeds and drive about Windsor, England, dressed in monk's brown, with hats, gloves and shoes to match. Mrs. Millais, wife of the famous Eng. lish artist, is said to be the happiest woman in Europe, though it is hard to reconcile this statement with the fact that she keeps fifteen servants. A charming toilet recently worn at a fashionable garden fete was of white foulard, with a broad rose-pink stripe in it and a delicate and beautifully shaded flowering of pink rosea between the stripes. The reefer coats, warranted to resist the elements, are the rage just now. They are lined with brilliant silk, cut hip deep and double breasted, closed with eight brass buttons and finished with a step collar. Brave Catherine Watson, of Glasgow, Scotland, a young art student, lost her life a year ago in savings little boy from drowning. Her heroism has been com memorated by a Celtic cross reared on a rock at North Berwick. Sleeveless and zouave jackets are worn on some of the summer toilets. The ma- aterial used on cotton, muslin and ging ham dresses is generally fine velvet, but against silk there is nothing prettier than embroidery or Irish lace. Every window in Mrs. Geo. W. Child’s Long Branch (N. J.) cottage is filled with a bright scarlet box thickly planted with palms, ferns, banging vines and flowering plants. The contrast of the scarlet and green is most striking and very beautiful. A novelty is the handkerchief dress, made of white cambric. The edges are hemstitched and ornamented with a border just like a handkerchief. The ma terial has to be built on a silk founda tion, as it hasn't substance enough to stand of itself. ^ young woman has died in Sussex, England, from an excess of tennis. It seems she sought to make herself pro ficient for a tournament and played in- cessantly, often in the hot sun. Brain fever ensued, and in her last hours she raved about the game. Mrs. John A. Logan says she has taught herself the use of carpenter tools until able to build a cupboard or put a new shelf in the pantry. She smashed one thumb, sawed the other half off, crippled two fingers and knocked her knees, but perseverance won and the jack-plane is king. , ■ ■ \ COREAN SKETCHES, SINGULAR MANNERS OF A QUEER PEOPLE. The Men Wear Whito Robes and Rig Rats—The Women's Dress —Shops and Mauufac- t urcs. It is highly probable that the peninsu la of Corea, projecting southward be tween China and Japan, will, at some fu ture day, be a position of great impor tance to European rivals for maritime su premacy iu those regions. Its extent is about equal to that of Great Britain. For many years it has been claimed as a de pendency of the Chinese Empire, but it is practically an independent THE FARM AND GARDEN. A CITT GENDARME. Slate, with a population of about nine millions, ruled by an hereditary sover eign, who iu turn is supported by a powerful aristocracy. The most recent and accurate account of the country is that given by Mr. W. 11. Carles, who, as English vice-consul, enjoyed unusual op portunities for study and observation, lie describes the capital city, which is ENEMIES OF THE POTATO. One could almost say that man is one of the worst enemies of the potato, if we may judge from the manner iu which he sometimes neglects one of his best of vegetable friends. While it requires a warm, rich soil, he gives it a water- soaked clay bed, and when the feeble plants come to the surface no encourage ment is given them to struggle against the weeds that threaten to choke out the last spark of life. Many insects prey upoa the narcotic herbage of the potato, the most destruc tive of which is the Colorado beetle. But with this well under subjection by a fully understood plan of applying London purple or Paris green, there re mains now only to develop the methods of overcoming the blights and rots, the worst of which is the so-called well rot. This is due to the growth of a low form of vegetatiou closely related to the mil dew of the grape. It first appears on the leaves as frosty patches, and from there it grows down the stems, and final ly its sleivler threads reach the tubers, causing them to rot. From the fact that the leaves are first attacked, and the rot works down the steins to the potatoes, it is evident that when the leaves and stems are dying prematurely the tubers should be dug at once. Let the potatoes dry thoroughly in the field after digging, and store only the sound ones in a dry place with a good circulation of air. Avoid a damp, poorly ventilated room. The vines and all decayed tubers left in the field should be burned. As preventive measures at planting time it may be suggested that a second crop should not be grown where the pre vious crop failed from the rot. The seed should be free from the trouble,and therefore only sound potatoes are suit able for planting. Early varieties, planted early, are most apt to escape, for the rot does not get started usually un til midsummer. Experience has demon strated that it is best to hill the potatoes somewhat at t he plowing, as many germs of the disease fall from the leaves and are washed down to the tubers with the rains.—American A'/ric'tlturi?!. DTE STREET IN SEOUL. called Seoul or Kyoung, a large walled town of 150,000 or 200,000 people, situ- ! ated ou the Han-Kang, the chief river of the interior, toward the west coast. The buildings, except the royal palace,arc mostly in the Chinese style of architecture, like those of Pekin; but the costumes and manners of the people are peculiar; tho men of the respectable classes all wear white robes, unless they are Government officials, who arc attired in silk or crape of tho brightest colors, and they have COREAN WOMAN AND CDILD, singular hats of wickerwork, shaped like inverted baskets, resting on their shoulders; but the women have pretty caps, made partly of fur, partly of braid, with a scarlet tassel. The shops, fre quently arranged in small open compart- BREAKING A COLT TO THE CARS. One morning last spring a traveler ap proaching a country railway station no ticed a man holding a young horse some twenty rods distant from the track, upon which a train was then standing. The man's left hand grasped a strong leather halter at the point where it is fastened to the leading line, while his right hand held firm hold of a heavy strap buckled loosely about the horse's throat. Tho man, who was speaking to the horse in a low voice, presently began moving with him over the open space toward the locomotive, which thus far was perfectly silent. The horse's open nostrils and erect ears showed him to be somewhat excited at the strange apparition, but he evidently felt assurance in his keeper, by whose side he had moved with short and nervous step over perhaps half the dis tance between himself and the train when the locomotive suddenly let off steam. The terrified creature turned like a flash, and in so doing' for an instant swung the man's feet clean off the ground! But before the horse made the first spring in the opposite direction the man's feet were again on solid earth and he lost hold with neither hand, although the horse dragged him beyond the place of starting before be could be stopped. Casting his eyes around at the still hiss ing locomotive the horse again sprung forward, but coaid no more free himself from the man’s hold than a rat could es cape from tho teeth of a terr'er. After a few more futile attempts the horse again turned around, and this time found him self able to endure the sight of a locomo tive. Thus he stool for perhaps two minutes with staring eyes and quivering muscles. After a little the steam was shut off, when the man loosed his hand from the strap around the horse's throat aud with it began stroking his neck, still speaking to him in the same low- toued voice. Soon the horse became quite composed, whereupon the man, again grasping the throat strap with his right hand, urged him toward the train as before. With many stops and snorts of inquiry the horse permitted himself to be led again toward the locomotive.wliich.whenhe was about the same direction from it as the other time, burst forth into a second hissing, quite as loud as was tho first. Again was repeated tiic scene already de cribcd, but the horse did not drag the man so far as before, nor did he require so long a time in which to be quieted. The steam shut off again, and t.ie man and horse once more approached the train, which now moved away from tho station. The last glimpse of them showed the horse watching the now accustomed terror and the man by his side still grasping the head of the leading line and stroking the horse's neck—a beauti ful and expressive illustration of the power over an intelligent animal of man's courage, kindness aud patience.—New England Earner. COREAN WOMEN. menta around the sides of a courtyard, usually display a collection of household utensils, embroidered shoes nnd cloth, metal work, pottery, saddlery, filagree and fancy wares; but the C'orean manu facturers have no great merit of artistic workmanship. Tho wider streets arc lined with booths for the sale of food, fruit, grain, meat and tobacco. A few of the aristocracy ride about on ponies; but their ordinary conveyance, as they sel dom or never walk iu public, is a chair carried on long poles, like a litter, upon men's shoulders, aided sometimes by a single wheel underneath the chair. The spoken language of the Corean people is of Tartar origin, but mixed with Japa nese and Chinese forms of speech, and tho written literature is in Chinese char acters. Tho Buddhist religion is preva lent, but the Lao-Tze, or ancient relig ion of China, is cherished by many of the older families. A Smuggler's Rase. Early the other morning Inspector Au- sinder, who was watching the steamer China, heard a splash in the water astern, then the cry of “a man overboard.” Hurrying toward the spot whence the sound proceeded he saw a man lying on the surface of the water. He was not drowning though, but was accoutered in a complete Paul Bonyton swimming suit. When he saw the inspector coming hi swam away. Suspendc 1 by a rope from a port-hole of the steamer was a sack, which when examined was found to con taiu 100 ilvc-tacd boxes of opium. Tilt value of those, with the sixty boxes pre viously captured, ie about $1200. — Franeueo Chronicle. Au English liiii*uu purdiused tho right to slaughter aud pack 8011,000 httis a year iu Serria, DOES FRIT-GROWING PAT? Fruit-growing ns a whole is. without doubt, a profitable occupation; jet the majority of farmers who engage in it are probably disappointed because their ex pectations have been placed so high that the result must necessarily fall below their hopes. Estimates for future profits arc often based upon prices received it the home market for ftuits brought front a distance. Especially is this true rc garding small fruits. The grower natu rally reasons that his home gro wn fruit will go into the market iu so much bet ter condition than that which is shipped from a distance that it will bring quite as good a price, even if somewhat latei in season. But by the time his plants are grown aud the fruit is ready foi mat set the condition may have changed Some other grower, not so very fai away, may have found the cxeellem opening offered by the same market, aa( is there as a competitor. His neighbor have been inspired by the same idea a about the same time, and are hardly a season behind him with their products. Or his first crops, owing to imperfect methods of cultivation and handling, knowledge of which can only be obtained by experience, have failed to come up to the high standard of his hopes. These drawbacks may lead him to the eoaclu- sion, if he is a man easily discouraged, that fruit-growing is not profitable. Yet, with all these discouragements, it is strongly probable that his trial acre of strawberries, or currants, or blackberries has paid a better net profit than any pos sible acre of wheat, or corn, or meadow. If the acre of fruit has not made a for tune, it has at least indicated the road to a better income. If the crop was straw berries, the experience gained will enable one to duplicate it to better advantage, with a better knowledge of the most de sirable varieties for bis locality. Then another acre may be put in raspberries and blackberries, which will follow the strawberries in the season of harvesting and marketing. ’ One each may be putin currants aud gooseberries, which among small fruits best bear shipping, aud will enable the cultivator to ted. the value of other markets after the home trade lias been supplied. Plums, cherries, peaches, etc., will follow ip their natural ofder, until the fruit farm, large or small, be comes an accomplished fact, and then, if it is managed as a systematic business, it will be strange indeed if it does not yield a handsome return for the capital and labor invested. Fruit is every year becoming more plentiful iu our markets, and the in creased consumption keeps pace with the supply. If this condition forbids great profits to the individual specialist iu fruit culture, it improves the cbauccs for the best icterest of agriculture at large. It is better that many should be able to acquire a competence than that one shall make a fortune, and it is one of the be nign influences of our progressive agri culture that we can put within the reach of ail classes the most wholesome cf foods. Fruits which were once known only as delicacies by the masses are now upon their tables daily in their respec tive seasons. As our population increases, farmers all through the great eastcru aud middle sections of the country cultivate mainly the smaller and more delicate products of the soil. The orchard, the garden, and the dairy will take the place of grain fields; aud the farmer who plans to follow this line, content with moderate returns, will not be the one to exclaim that fruit-growing is unprofitable.— American Aqriculluritt. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The best fed fruit tree is the last on* attacked by insects. It is cheaper to haul than to drive the fat hogs to the railway station. Frost is blamed ior killing many an orchard tree that is starved to death. It is economy to dispense with fences as much as possible, and it is convenient. The roads ot a neighborhood are a strong indication of the character of its inhabit ants. There is nothing so easy to grow in this world as weeds, and nothing else is so profitless. The farm may not yield big profits, but is there any other calling so sure to gain a man a living? The secrets of large yields always and everywhere are rich soil, good seal and thorough tillage. Clover and oat straw fed together furn ish more nutriment, pound for pound, than timothy hay. A trotting match between the cows and the dog may lie interesting, but it does not make butter. You are under no obligation to loan to the person that does not promptly return articles in good order. Save up all the manure you can and spread it on your land next fall and plow it under lightly. We want to get rid of scrub land and scrub farming, as well as of scrub stock. Grade up alt along the line! Mr. W. H. Gilbeti, a New York dairy expert, says “the mau who takes care of the cows makes the butter.” A score of farmers fail because they try to do something other than farming, where one fails by sticking to farming. If your horses shrink from you, when you enter their stall?, do some detective work on your hired help, or—yourself. Shelter your wagons, plows and other implements from the sun as well as from the rain. One is about as destructive as the other. Get a stencil and put your name on your larger farming implements, sacks, etc. Get a die, and stamp your name on smaller implements. Reset and repair your fences during the interval between laying by and harvesting the crops. Make the fence straighter, build it up higher and be sure to stop all the big cracks. It is a curious fact that some men would rather make five dollars by trad ing horses than twenty-live dollars by housing farming implements. A cow that has to get her living by gnawing the parched pasture, under an August sue, without other feed, is not likely to make a great show at the pail. It is said that a mixture of two parts by weight of cottonseed meal to one of good hard wood ashes make almost a per fect fertilizer for general crops. Try it. One of the very finest fertilizers for melons is old bones, gathered up and re duced by placing them in alternate layers with ashes the previous yesr to using them. Prepare your land for fail turnip patches. Break it up deep aud thoroughly and harrow well. Bo sure the ground U well manured. An old cow pen is oue of the best places about the farm for a turnip patch. The price of the cow does not indicate her value as a producer. Gilt edged but ter is something that depends on how it is made. The cow gives the milk, but upon the management of the milk, cream and butter depend the quality. The Illinois Hay Palace. Scattered throughout the United States at different times there have risen ice palaces, crystal palaces, blnegrass palaces, corn palaces, summer palaces and mineral palaces. Now another one is building— a hay palace. Some time ago the good people of Momcncc, III., looked out upon the vast Kankakee marshes from which the people of the vicinage derive their chief income, and conclude'? that after harvesting aud REV. DR. TALMAGE now THE HAY PALACE WILL LOOS, baling the wild grass they would use it to build a hay palace in which to hold an inter-state exposition. The structure, whose walls arc to be constructed of the big bales, will have a length of 201 feet and a width of 170. The display will include collections of live native fish, geological, botanical, ornithological and zoological exhibits, Indian and prehistoric relics, and repre sentations of the products of farms, factories, forests and mines,—Mail and Ex-rcu. • - Dclmonieo's Pompeiian Pillars. When Delmonico’s Hotel, at the cor ner of Beaver and William streets, was built, in 1835, two handsome marble pillars, with their corresponding steps, were brought from Pompeii and erected at the entrance. They had previously been at the entrance of some old temple. When the hotel was demolished many persons expressed a regret that the pil lars should be lost. They have been re stored, however, to their old position at the entrance of the new office building which the Delmonieos are erecting.— New York Mail and Kxprm. THE BROOKHTN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject. “In the Lion's Den.” Rosa Bonbeur claims that she ha* painted her beso pictures siiue s i - a' tamed the age of fifty. The striking miners in Belgium now number 18,000. Text: “Then the Kina commanded, and then brovght Daniel and cost him into the den of Hone,''—Daniel vi., lit. Darius was King of Babylon, and the young man Daniel was so much a favorite with him that he made him Prime Minister orKceretary of State. But no man conlel gnin such a high position without exciting the envy and jealousy of the people. There were demagogues in Babylon who were so apprec'ative of their own abilities that they were affronted at the elevation of this young man. Old Babylon was afraid of young Babylon, The taller the cedar the more apt it is to be riven of the lightning. These demagogues ns red tha King to make a deerte that anybody that made a petition to anyone except tho King within thirty days should 1)0 put to death. King Darius, not suspecting foul piny, makes that decree. The demagogues have accomplished all they want, because they know that no one can keep Daniel from sending petitions before God for thirty days. 6o far from being afraid, Daniel goes on with his supplications three times a day. and is found ou bis housetop making prayer. He is caught in the act. Ho is condemned to be devoured by tho lions. Rough executioners of the law seize him and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the growl of the wild beasts, and 1 see them pawing the dust, and as they put their mouths to iho ground tbo solid earth quakes with their bellowing. I see their eyes roll, and I almost hear tho fiery eye balls snap in the dnrkuess. These monsters approach Daniel. They have an appetite keCn with hunger. With one strobe ot their paw or one snatch of thoir teeth they may leave him dead at the bottom of the cavern. But w hat a strange welcome Daniel receives from these hungry monsters! They fawn around him; they lick his hand; they bury his feet iu their long manes. That night he has calm sleep, with his head pillowed ou the warm necks of tho tamed Hons. But not so well docs Darius the Kingsleep He loves Daniel, and hates this stratagem by which he has been condemned. All night long tho King walks tho floor. Re cannot sleep. At the least sound he starts and his flesh creeps with horror. He is impatient for tho dawning of tho morning. At tho first streak of tho daylight Darius hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and Hang shut long before the people of the citv waken. Darius goes to thedeuof lions; he looks iu. Allis silent. Ho heart stops. He feels that the very worst has happened; hut gathering all his strength he shouts through the rifts of the rock: “O Daniel! is the Got! whom thou servest con tinually able to deliver thee?” There comes rolling up from the deep darkness a voice which tats: “OKing! live forever. My God has sent His angel to shut tho lions’ mouths that they have not hurt me.'' Then Daniel is brought out from the den. The demagogues are hurled into it, aud no sooner have iticy struck the bottom of the den than their flesh was rent, and their hones cracked, and their blood spurted through the rifts of Hie rock, and as the lions mnko the rocks tremble with their roar they onnounco to all ages that while God will defend His people the way of the ungodly shall perish. Learn first from this subject that the greatest crime that you can eemmit in the eyes of many is the crime of success. IVhat had Daniel done that he should be flung to tho lions? Ho got to l>o prime minister. Tbey could not forgive him for that, and he boid in that a touch of unsanctifled human nature as soon in nil ages of the world. Bo tong as you aro pinched in poverty, so long as you are running the gauntlet between landlord and thetax gatherer, so long ns you find it hard ivork to educate your children, there are people who will say, ‘Toor man, 1 7 for liiir ' 1 ■ f r # •**** cmj^ x wv/i man, x or him; he ought to succeed, poor man!” But after a while tho tide turns in your favor. That was a profitable investment you made. You bought at just the right time. Fortune becomes good humored and smiles upon you. Now you nre being in some department successful your success chills some one. Those men who used to sym pathize with you stand along the street, and they scowl at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money or more influence Ilian they have, and you ought to bo scowled at from under the rim of their hats. You catch a word or two us you pass by I hem. “Stuck up,” says one one. "Got it dishonestly,” savsauother “Will hurst soon,” says a third. Every stonp in your new house is laid on their hearts. A our horse's hoofs went over their nerves. Every item of your success has been to them an item of discomfiture and despair. Just as soon as in any respect you rise above your fellows, if you are more virtu ous, if you aro more wise, if you are more influential, you cast a shadow on the pros pect of others. The road to honor aim success is within reach of tho enemy’s guns. Jealousy says, “.Stay down or I'll knock you down.” “I do not like you,” said tho snowflake to the snowbird. ‘‘Why don't you like me''” said the snowbird. “Oh!” said the snowflake, “you are going up and I am coming down.” Young mer chants, young lawyers, young doctors, young mechanics, young artists, young farmers, at certain times there were those to sym pathize with you, hut now that you are'be coming master of your particular occupa tion or profession, how is it now, young lawyers, young doctors, young artists, young farmers—how is it now V The greatest crime that you can commit is the crime of success. Again, my subject impresses mo with th« value of decision of character in any depart ment. Daniel knew llial if he eontinuod bin adherence to the religion of the Lord he would be hurled to the lions, hut having set his compass well he sailed right on. For the lack of th.il clement of decision ot character so eminent in Daniel many men are mined for this world, and ruined for the world to come. A great many at forty years of ago are not settled in ally respect, because they have not been able to make up their mind. I’erhaps they will go West Per- Imps they will go East. Perhaps they will not. I’erhaps they will go North. Perhaps they may go South. Perhaps they will not Perhaps they may make that invest ment in real estate or in railroads Perhaps they will not. They aro like a steamer that should go out ot New York harbor, starling for Glasgow,and the next day should cliango for Havre dc Grace, and the next for Charleston, anil the next for Boston, and the next for Liverpool —these men on the sea of life, everlastingly tacking shin and making no headway. Or they are like a man who starts to build a house in the Corinthian style and changes it to Doric, and then completes it in the Ionic, and is cursed by all styles of archi tecture. Young man, start right and keep on. Have decision of character. Character is like the goldfinch of Tonquin: it is magnifi cent while standing firm, but losses all its beauty in flight. How much decision of character in order that these young men may be Christians! Their old associates make nrcastic tiingo at them. They go on excur sions and they do not invite them. They prophesy that he will give out. They won der if he is not getting wings. As he passes they grimace and wink and chuckle, and say, “fhere goes a saint." Ob, young man, liavo decision of charac ter. You can afford in this matter of relig ion to lie laughed at. What do you care for the scoffs of these men. who aro affronted tiecause you will not go to ruin with them? AVhen the grave cracks open under their feet, and grim messengers push them into it, and eternity comes (town hard uoon their spirit, and conscience stings, and hopeless ruin lifts them up to hurl tnem down, wiil they laugh then? 1 learn also from my subject that men may take religion into their worldly busi ness Daniel bed enough work to do to occupy six men. All the affairs of state were in his hand-questions of finance, questions of war, of peace, all international questions were for his settlement or ad justment. He must have had a corre- spondcuce vast beyond all computation. There was not a man in all tho earth who hud more to do than Daniel, the Secretary of State, and yet we find him three times a day bowing before God in prayer. There are men in our day who have not a hun- dredth part of Dmiiel's engagements who say they nre too busy to bo religious. They have an idea somehow that religion will spoil their worlclly occupation, Hint it will trip I he accountant’s pen, or dull the carpenter’s saw, or confuse tho lawyer's brief, or disar range Hie merchant's store shelf. They think religion is impertinent. They would like to have it very well seated be side them in church on tho Sabbath, to find the place in tho pialm book, or to node* them awake when they get sleepy under the didactic discourse; or they would like to leave it In the paw on Sabbath aveniag, as they go out closing tho door, saying: “Good night, religion; I’ll bo back next Sunday!" But to bare religion go right along by them all through life, to have re ligion looking over their shoulder when they are making a bargain, to have religion take np a bag of dishonest gold and shake it. and say: “Ha! ha! where did you get that?’ they think that is an impertinent religion. They would like to have a re ligion to help them when they aro sick, and when tho shadow of death coines over them they would like to have religion as a sort of night-key with which to ojien the door of heaven; but religion under other circum stances they take to be au impertinence. Now, my friends, religion never robbed a man of a dollar. Other things heing equal, a mason will build a bettor wall, a - cabinet maker will make a bettor chair, a plumber will make a better pipe, a lawyer will make a bettor plea, a merchant will sell a better bill of goods. I say other things being equal. Of course when religion gives a mau a new heart it does not propose to give him a new head, ot to intellectualize him, or to ehnugo a man’s condition when tiis ordinary state is an over- throwot the philosophical theory thatatotal vacuum is impossible; but the more letters you have to write, tho more burdens you have to carry, the more miles you have to travel, the more burden-; you have to lilt, the more engagements you have to meet, tho more disputes you hrvo to settle, the more Opportunity you have ot being a Christian. If you have a thousand irons in the fire you nave a thousand more opportunities c salving God than if you had only one iron m the fire. Who so busy as Christ? And yet who a millionth part ns holy’ The busiest men tho best men All the persons converted in Scripture busy at the time ot their being converted. Matthew attendin'’ to his custom house duties, the Prodigal Son feeding swine; Lydia selling purple; Simon Peter hauling in tho net from the sea; Saul spurring his horse toward Damascus, going down on his law business. Busy! |,u,v! Daniel with all the affairs of state weighing down Ufion his soul, and yet three a day worshiping the God ot Heaven. Again, 1 learn from this subject that a man may take religion into his polities. Daniel had a'j the affairs of state on hand, yet a Christian He could not have kept his ele vated position unless he had been a thorough politician; and yet all the thrusts of officials and all Iho danger of disgrace did not make him yield one iota oflds high toned religious principle. He stood before that age he stands bsfore all ages, a specimen of a Chris- tian politician. So there have been in out- day nn I in the days of our fathers men as eminent in the serviceof God as they have been eminent in the service of tho Ste*’. Such was Benja min F. Butler, Attorney-General of Now York, in the time of your fathers. Such was John McLean, of Ohio. Such was Geo. Briggs, of Massachusetts. Such was Theo dore Frelinghuvsen, of New Jersey. Men faithful to the State, at the same time faith ful to God. It is absurd to expect that men who have been immersed in political wickedness for thirty or forty years shall come to reforma tion; and our hope is in tho young men who are coming up, that they have patriotic principle and Christian principle side by side when they come to the ballot box and cast their first vote, and that they swear allege mice to the government of heaven as well ns to the Government of the United States. Wo would have Bunker Hill mean less to them than Calvary, and lexington mean less to them than Bethlehem. But because there are bad men around the ballot box is no reason why Christian men should retreat from Hie arena. The Inst time you ought to give up your child or for sake your child is when it is surrounde I by a company of Choctaws; ami tho last time to sun-ender tho ballot box is when it is sur rounded by impurity aud dishonesly and nil sorts of wickedness. Daniel stood on a most unpopular plat form. He stood firmly, though the dema gogues of the day hissed at him and tried to overthrew him. We must can y our religion into our politics. But there aro n great inany men who are in favor of taking religion into national politics who do not sec the im portance of taking it into citv politics; as though a man were intelligent about the welfare of his neighborhood and had no con cern about his own home. Religion would drive out all base person alities from politics. You have a right to discuss men’s politics amt denounce their political sentiments, or receive them as you will, but you have no right to assail their private character, ns is done every autumn. That is not carrying religion into politics. Now you can always tell without asking, in any contest, what candidate I will vote for. It is always for the man who is most bad gered, and most abused, and most opit upon, and most howled at. You have a'right to contest n man’s political sentiments; you have no right, for base political purposes, to assail bis private moral character. My subject also impresses mo with tho fact that lions cannot um-t a good man. No man ever got into worse company than Daniel got into when ho was thrown into the den. tVhat a rare morsel that fair young man would have been for the hungry monstors! If they had plunged at him he could not have climbed into a niche beyond the reach of their paw or the snatch of their tooth. They came pleased all around about him as a hunter's hounds at the well known whistle come bounding to his feet. You nee t not go to Numidiato get among the lions. You all have had thstn after yon —.♦•h#* Hon of f*n*nr ! 9l ffco lioM I’kf sickness, tho Jion of persecution. You saw that lion of financial panic parting his mouth down to tho earth, and ho roared until all the banks and all the insurance companie.* quaked. With his nostril ho scattered the ashes on the domestic hearth. You have had trial after trial, misfortune after mis fortune, lion after lion; aud yet they havo never hurt you if you put your trust in God, and they never will hurt you. They did not hurt Daniel, and they cannot hurt you. The Persians used to think that spring rain falling into sea shells would turn into pearls; and I have to tell you that the tears of sor row turn into precious gems when they drop into God’s bottle. Y’ou need be afraid of nothing putting your trust in God. Even death, that monster lion whoso den is the world’s sepulchre, and who puts his paw down amid thousunds of millions of the dead, cannot affright you. When in olden times a man was to get the honors of knighthood he was compelled to go fully armed the night before among the tombs of the dead, carrying a sort of spear, and then when tho day broke ho would come forth, and amid the sound of cornet and great parade he would jjfet tha honors of knighthood. And so it will lie with the Christian in the night before heaven, as fully anned with spear and hel met of salvation he will wait and watch through the darkness until the morning dawns, and then he will take the honors of heaven amid that great throng with snowy robes streaming over seas of sapphire. AN ANTI-TREATING LEAGUE. Perhaps the observing citizen miy liavo noticed a peculiar-appearing bronze badge, patterned after a four-leaf clovei and fast ened in tho lap pel of sundry coats, tt is evidently a stranger upon the s.ione, and if the citizen’s curiosity is arouse 1 he will ex amine closely. Ho will seo upon it in raised script letters tho words: “Anti Treating League.” The words havo a significant sound, and the curious ones will naturally ask a question or two. lie will ascertain that this anti-treating league is n society without any ofllcers, by-laws, constitution or meeting place. He will also ascertain that no meetings of any kind are hold, and that tho mom hers of the organization—if it can be dignified by tho name, have no opportu nities to confer with one another, unless it is when they meet upon tho streat. All these anti-treaters are not tetotalcrs by any means. They do not all scornfully refuse a drink, but they do in a determined muinor refuse to return any compliment of the kind that may bo tendero 1 to thorn. They give every treater to understand tint, while they may drink with him, ho may never drink with them. It is not from any lofty motive that they pursue this somewhat odd course and ad here to this somewhat exceptionable prin ciple. They aro opposed to treat ing bxnus3 it is an expensive habit. “If I treat every one that treats me,’* they reason, I s mil havo to have a purse as long us a yard stick/' So they give up tho practice altogether and perhaps they are wise. There is no perhaps about it. Their wisdom is of tho practical kind. The habit that Americans have of inviting a half-dozen friends to stand in front of a bar and pour down the liquid is one wholly without sense. And, besides, it is exceedingly burdensome upon the pocket book.—Wasniiwloii Star. Death of mTL. Bonham. Columria, S. (’.—Gen. Millodge L. Donham. Railroad Commissioner of South Carolina, died at Haywood * White Sul phur Springs, Waynesville, N. C., Wed nesday. age 73 years. The Census May Not Please You, But You Will be Fully Satisfied With Hood’s Sarsaparilla TEMPERANCE. NOTHING AND SOMETHING. [t is nothing to me, tho beauty said. With a careless toss of her pretty head, The man is weak if ho can’t refrain From the cup you say is fraught with pain- hut * It was something to her in after years. When her eyes were full of burning tears. And she watched in lonely grief and dreau, And started to hear a staggering tread. It is nothing to me, tho mother said; I have no fear that my boy will tread The downward path of sin and shame, And crush ray heart and darken his name— But It w T as soncthing to her when that only son From the path of right was early won, And madly cast in the flowing bowl A ruined body and sin-wrecked soul. It is nothing me, the merchant said, As over his ledger he l>ent his head, lam busy to-day with tare trot, Aud have no time to froth and fret— But It was something to him when over tho wire A message came from a funeral pyre; A drunken conductor had wrecked a train, And his wife and child wore among the slain. It is nothing to me. the young man said; In his eye was n flash of scorn and pride; I heed not the dreadful things you tell, I can rule myseif, I know full well— But 'Twas something to him when in prison ho lay The victim of drink, life ebbing away. As he thought of his wretched child and wife. And the mournful wreck of his wasted life. It’s nothing to me. tho voter said, The party’s loss is my greatest dread— 'i hen gave his vote foifctUe liquor trade, Tho’ hearts were crushed and drunkards made— But It was something to him’in after life, When his daughter became a drunkard's wife, And her hungry children cried for bread. Ami trembled to hear their father’s tread. It is nothing to us to idly sleep While the cohorts ©{.death their vigils keep. To gather the young ami thoughtless iu— And grind in our midst a grist of sin— But It is something—yes, all, for us to stand And clasp 1 y faith our Saviour’s hand— To learn to labor, live aud light On the side of Go l and changeless right. —D. S. T. Butterbaugh, in the Voice. TAUGHT TO DRINK RY HER HUSBAND. A week or so ago a young woman giving tho name of Mrs. Belle Webber was taken to the city receiving hospital tp be treated for morphine poisoning. She tol l the attending surgeons that she had swallowed a dose of the poison at her room on California street a short time before. Though tho stomach pumps were promptly applied, the internal aratorny of tho sufferer persistently refused to yield anything bearing a closer resem blance to morphine poisoning than a large quantity of malt, vinous and spirituous liquors. Dr. Bunker speedily reached the conclusion that it was simply a plain case of chronic drunkenness. He informed the wo man of his opinion ns he disrnisse 1 her. Early yesterday morning a Ho ward street physician telephoned to tho receiving hos pital that a woman was about to die in his office from strychnine poisoning. He wanted hell). He received a reply that if his 1 patient wanted the services of hospital phy sicians sho would have to goto the receiv ing hospital. Accordingly, half an hour later a hack rolled up to the hospital door and a wotnau alighted t herefrom. She was at once recognize 1 as Mrs. Webber. The doctor understood the case ot once, and, in stead of administering strychnine antidotes, he treated her for alcoholism. She speedily recovered, and to a reporter related an in teresting story. She is not over thirty years old and is still, despite her dissipation, quite handsome. She is a sister-in-law of State Senator Meanv, of Merced County, ami her husband is John Webber, proprietor of the Webber Hotel at Stockton. She has been t wice marrie I. Her first husband, shesays, induced her to drink, nnd when she married Webber the thirst was i already strongly develope 1. Her husband. | seeing this, misused her and she recently fled j from home to escape his abuse. She says she | came to this city last Tuesday, on money j furnished her by a Stockton Police Judge, j She began drinking as soon as she reached | the city nnd is now on the verge ot delirium j tremens. She has a twelvc-ycar-old daugh- | ter living with her parents in Merced.—Son Francisco Chronicle, NO LIQUOR IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Chief Justice Dighton Corson, of the South Dakota Supremo Court, has handol down n decision that has been awaited with great in- | terest in all parts of the State. In effect, it floes away with the sale of intoxicating ! liquor as required by tho stringent laws al- ready enacted. He affirms the constitution- I ality of the law and gives tho county courts lulf juris liction to fine nnd imprison liquor sellers without interference of grand juries | or other courts. I His decision is very long, covering the | ground thoroughly, and was made up on a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Robert Evans, an original package dealer of Pierre, who was fined $100 with two months’ imprisonment by tho county judge, and went before the Supremo Court on the writ on the grounds of no jurisdiction in tha court below. Hallo Catarrh (hire is a iquid and is taken in trual y. ami acts « iivctly u, o the blood and mucous mu faces of the em. Herd for tfstimoMijils, free. Sohl by Druggists, 75c. V C Ciiemcy A Co., Proprs., .oledo, O. A storm moves of» nii’csper hour FITS stopped free by Dr. Klink’8 Great Neuvk Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2trial | bottle free. Dr. Kline.WU Arch St.,PhDa.,Pf. A Russian sium—Siberia B ecimm’s Pills act like magic on a weak 8 oui'iCC. 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Tho temperanco movement is having a substantial backing from a strictly business quarter. The New'Jersey Central Railroad bus followed tho example of Vanderbilt's lines and issued an order forbidding on pen* alty of dismissal all employes of the road to take anything intoxicating cither while on or off duty. Naturally this order has stirred up some feeling among tho employes, who do not as a rule, profess to bo total abstainers, and the leeling is not, perhaps, as warmly commendatory of the order ns is that of the traveling public. Temperance could havo no stronger indorsement than tho fact that these great roads enforce it an a matter of policy, aud it is undoubtedly truo thatdrink- lug habits arc going more and more out of fashion. One hears much less often tho well- worn phrase: “A very brilliant fellow whoa he is sober.” In the keen competition of tho present day to mnko his way in tho world a man needs to have nil his wils about him, which bo cannot havo when his brain is stupefied by drink.—IFas/nar/fmt Star. On the mend —the consumptive who’s not bo reft of judgment nnd good sense- lie’s taking Dr. Fierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. If taken in time and given a fair trial, it will effect a cure. Consumption is Lung-scrofula. For Scrofula, in its myriad forms, and for a!! Liver, Blood and Lung diseases, tho “Dis covery” is an unequalled remedy. It’s the only guaranteed one. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, you get your money back. You only pay for the good you got. “Discovery” strengthens Weak Lungs, and cures Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, Severe Coughs, and kindred affec tions. 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