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•|r-1 VOL. II. •IF FOU THE L1BEHTY OF TILE WOltLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” DAKUNGTOX, SOUTH C'AHOLIXA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1S91. NO 1). ^TTrr»r/MTrr L'-rii i nr cnest*r uirmH or Uio i^uuen.ter rarms or BKICKS \V ITlIOUT Si RAW ; the ancient*. Jacob’s (leHcemlanU lapidly I uiuitiplieO. j After awhile Egypt took u turn at fain- ; Ine, and those descendants of Jacob, the SERMON T. PREACHED BY THE DE WITT TALMAGE. Although the Popular Divine Hu. Preached Twenty-four Vear* In Ilrook- lyn. Ills Audlenro* AVere Never Larger. "The Harden of Kgypt" III* Text. Brooklyn, Nov. 1.—The Talieruaclo was throiiKwl its vsual this morning. The vast edifice filled to its utmost capacity with eager listeners shows how the popular preacher retains his power over the people. Although be has lieeu preaching in Brook lyn for more than twenty-four years, his audiences were never'so large as now, and although the largest Protestant, church In America has been built for liiili, there never was u time when so many persons were turned away for lack of room. The sub jeetof this morning's sermon was "Bricks Without Straw,” a continuation of the series on the confirmation of Holy Scrip ture which Dr. Tnlmage found in his jour ney from the Pyramids to the Acropolis. His text was Isaiah xlx, 1, “The burden of Egypt." What is ail this excitement about in tiie streets of Cairo, Egypt, this December morning In ISSW? Stand back! Wo bear loud voices and see the crowds of people retreating to the sides of Hie street. The excitement of others becomes ourpwn cx citeiuent. Footmen come in sight. They have a rod in the hand and tasselcd cap on head, and their arms and feet are bare. Their garb is black to the waist, except as threaded with gold, and flic rest Is white. They are clearing the way for an ofilcial dignitary In a chariot or carriage. They are swift, and sometimes run thirty or forty miles at a stretch in front of an eqnl- page. Make way! They are the fleetest footed men on earth, bat soon die, for the human frame was not made for such en durance. I asked all around me who the man In the carriage was, but no one seemed to know. Yet as I fell back with the rest to the wall I said, This Is the old custom found all up and down the Hible, footmen running before the rulers, demanding obeisance, as in Genesis lietore Joseph’s chariot the people were commanded, "Bow the knee;” and us I see the swift feet of the men followed by the swift feet of l lie horses, how those old words of Jeremiah rushed through my mind, “If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, howcanst thon contend with horses?” UE SERVES AS A FOOTMAN. Now, my hearers, in this course of scr mous I am only serving you us footman, and clearing the way for your coming into the wonders of Egyptology, a subject that I would have you study far beyond any thing that can be raid in the brevity of pulpit utterance. Two hundred and eighty-nine times does the Bible refer to Egypt and the Egyptians. No wonder, for Egypt was the mother of nations. Egypt, the mother of Greece; Greece, the mother of Rome; Rome, the mother of England; England, the mother of our own land. Ac cording to that, Egypt is our great-great grandmother. On other Sabbaths I left you studying what they must have been in their glory: the Hypartyle bsll of Knrniic, the arch! tectural miracles at Luxor, the Co.louimde of Horembeb, the cemeteries of Memphis, the value of a kingdom In ouc monument, the Sphinx, which with lips of stone speaks loud enough to lie heard across the centuries, Heliopolis and Zoau, the counu drum of archieologists. But all that ex travngauce of palace and temple and mon umeut was the cause of an oppression high as heaven and deep as hell. The weight of those blocks of stone, heavier than any modern machinery could lift, came down upon the Hebrew slaves, aud their blood mixed the mortar for the trowels. We saw agalu and again on and along the Nile a boss workman roughly smite a subordinste who did not please him. It is *no rare occurrence to see long lines of men under heavy burdens passing by taskmas ters at short distances, lashing them as they go by into greater speed, and then these workmen, exhausted witli the blast ing heats of tiie day, lying down upon the bare ground, suddenly chilled with the night air, crying out in prayer: “Ya, Allah!” “Ya, Allah!" which means O God I O God! But what must have bee'u tiie olden times cruelty shown by the Egyptians toward their Isrnelitlsh slaves is indicated by a picture in tiie Beni Hanuii tombs, where* man is held down on his face by two men and another holds up the victim's feet while the officials bant the bare back of the victim, every stroke, I have no doubt, fetching the blood. HOW THEY COULD AFFORD IT. Now yon see how the Pharaohs could af ford to build such costly works. It cost them nothing for wages—nothing hut the tears and blood of the toilers, and tears and blood are acheupdriuk fordevtl*. "Bricks without straw" may not suggest so much hardship until you know that the bricks were usually mode with “crushed straw," straw crushed by the feet of theoxeuin the thrashing, and, this crushed straw de nted to the workmen, they had to pick up here and there a piece of stubble or gather rushes from the waterside. This story of the Bible is confirmed by the fact that tpany of the brick wails of Egypt have on the lower layers brick made with straw, bat the higlu-r layers of brick made out of They gather tog tlier at a signal. Alex-I young tiiorcnauts, Old lawyers playing the ander’s armies aud all the armies of oldeu 1 Pharaoh over young lawyers, old doctors time were led by torches on high poles, playing tiie Pharaoh over young doctors, great crests of fire; and the Lord Almighty i old artists playing tiie Pharaoh over young j kindles a torch not held by human hands ’ artists, old ministers playing the Pharaoh Israelites, came to a great storehouse ! >,ur, by omnipotent hand. ( over young ministers, which Joseph hud provided, aud paid in I Not made out of si raw or oil, but kindled Let all oppressors whether in homes, til money for com. But after awhile the! out of the atmosphere, such a lurch as the churches, in stores, in oiliees, in factories, mouey gave out aud then they paid in cat- world never saw before and never will see -—t- 1 nr- i>* • tie. After awhile the cattle were all in again. It reached from the earth unto the possession of the government and then the | heaven, a pillar of lire, that pillar pruc-| Hebrews bought com from tiie govern- j tlcolly saying "This wuyl March tins j meut by surrendering themselves as slaves j way!" that supernatural flambeau ! ukoinnino ok slavery IN KuYlT. more than a million refugees set their i Thou begun slavery in Egypt. Tiie gov- eyes. Moses and Aaron lead on. Thun ernmeut owned all the Hebrews. And let , come tiie families of Israel. Then come modern lunatics who, in America, propose the herds and flocks moving mi across the | handing over telegraph companies and sands to what is the lieacli of waters now i railroads and other things to ire run by called Bnhr-ol Ktilzuin, but called in the! government see the folly of letting gov ! eminent get its hand on everything. I ! Would rather trust the lampio than any | ! government the United States ever had or I will have. Woe worth the day when leg j islutors and congresses and ndmfoistra- ! tk*iis get possession of anything more than j it is necessary for them to have. That would Ire the revival in this laud of that old Egyptian tyranny for which God has never hail anything but red hot thun- ! derbolts. But through such unwise pfo | cesses Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and the long line of agonies began all up and down the Nile. Heavier and sharper foil the lash, hungrier aud ghastlier grew the workmen, louder aud longer went up the prayer, until three millions of the en slaved were cry ing: "Ya, Aliahl Ya, A1 IhIi!” OGodl O God! Where was help to come from? Not the throne. Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the | army, Pharaoh's oifleers commanded that. Not surrounding nations. Pharaoh’s threat made them all tremble. Not the gods Am mon and Osiris or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh built their temples out of the groans of this diabolical servitude. But one hot day the princess Thonoris, the daughter of Pharaoh, while in her hflthlng house on the hanks of the Nile, has word brought her that there Is a baby afloat on the river In a cradle mado out of big leaves. Of course there is excitement all up and down the banks, for an ordinary baby In an ordinary cradle attracts smiling atten tion, but an Infant In a cradle of papyrus rocking on a river arouses not only ad miration, but curiosity. Who made that boat? Who made it water tight with liitu men? Who launched it? Reckless of the crocodiles, who lay basking themselves In the sun, the maidens wade in mid snatch up the child, and first one carries him and then another carries him, and all the way up the bank ho runs a gantlet of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out of the bathing house and says: “Beautiful foundling, 1 will adopt you as my own. You shall yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit on the Egyptian throne.” Nol No! No! He Is to be the emanci pator of the Hebrews. Tell It in all the brick kilns. Tell It among all those who are writhing under the lash, tell it among all tiie castles of Memphis and Heliopolis and Zoan and Thebe*. Before him a sea will part. On a mountain top, alone, this one will receive from the Almighty a law that is to tie file foundation of all good I ^ wifieh law while the world lasts. When hoi- Mediti riant: dead, God will conic down on Nelio and alone bury him, no man or woninn or angel worthy to attend the obsequies. Tbecbild grows upand goes out and stud ics the horrors of Egyptiau oppression mid suppresses his Indignation, jor the right time has not come, although once fora min ute he let fly, and when hesawu taskmaster put the whip on the Inick of a workman who was doing ids best, anti heard the poor fellow cry aud saw the blood spurt, M"-,es doubled up his fist and struck him on the temple till the cruel villain rolled over in the suad exanimate and never swung the lash again. Served him right! OOP WAS ON Ills SIDE. But, Moses, are you going to undertake the impossibilities? You feel that you are going to free the Hebrews from bondage. But where is your army? Where Is your navy? Not » sword have you, not a spear, I not a chariot, not a horse. Aid God was i on his side, and he has an army of ids own. Tiie snowstorms are on God’s side; witness the snowbanks in which the Freucli army of invasion were buried on their way back from Moscow. The rain is on Ids side; witness the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tempests so saturated the road that the attack could not lie made on Wellington’s forces until eleven o’clock, and he was strong enough to hold out until re-enforce meuts arrived. Had that battle been opened at five o’clock In the morning Instead of at eleven the destiny of Europe would have lieen turned the wrong way. The heavy rain decided everything. So also are the winds and the waves on God’s side. Witness the Armada with one hundred and fifty ships and twenty-six hundred and fifty guns and eight thousand sailors and twenty thousand soldiers sent out by Philip II of Spain to conquer England. What liecame of t hose men and that ship ping? Ask tiie wind and the waves all along the English mid Irish coasts. The non and the ships ail wrecked or drowned or scattered. So I expect that Moses will lie helped In rescuing the Israelites by a ■pedal weaponry. To the Egyptians the Nile was a deity. Its waters were then as now very delicious. It was the finest tint ural leverage of all tiie earth. We have no such love for the Hudson, and Germans have no such love for the Rhine, and Uus siaus have ho such love for the Volga os the Egyptians have love for the Nile , , | But one day, when Pharaoh comes down rough straw or rushes from tiie 11 '’■n ( to this river, Moses takes a stick and whips bank, the truth of the Look of Exodus l (| lL . waters, and they turn Into the gore of thus written in the brick walls discovered i ;l slaughter hou.,e, and through the sluices by the modern exploreis. land fidironds the incarnadined liquid That governmental outrage nos mways ; up jnta t he land and the nmiodor been a characteristic of Egyptian ruler* whelms everything from mnd hovel to Taxation totlie |>oint of starvation wu* I he t in-one room. Then came the frogs, with Egyptian rule in tiie Bible times as well us ft is In our own time. A modern traveler gives the figures concerning tiie cultiva tion of seventeen acres, the value of tiie yield of the field stated in plasters- Produce I.* t-' Expenses Clear produce.. Taxis Sbli 41(1 Amount cleared by Hie farmer lib’!'* Or, a* my authority declares, seventy per cent, of what the Egyptian farmer makes is paid for taxes to the government. Now, that Is not so much taxation as —eiissiun tiou. What think you of that, you who groan under heavy taxui in Aynericn? I have heard that in Egypt: the-working people have a song ilk* this, “They starve us, they starve us, they heat ns, they beat tis; but there’s some one uliove, there’s some one above, who will punish them well, who will punish them well.” But seventy per rvftt, of government tax in Kgypt is a mercy as compared to what the Hebrew slaves suffered there In Bible times. They got nothing but food hardly fit for a dog, and their clothing was of one tog, sod tbelr roof a burning sky by day and the stars of heaven by .tight. You aay, “Why did they aland It?" Be cause they hod to stand It. You see sioug back In the world’s twilight there was a famine in Canaan, and old Jacob nod hla a<ms‘ca:nu to Egypt for bread. Tho idd man’shoy Joseph, waaprinjemluister.and Joseph—I luppoae the father and the broth era called him Joe, for it does not make horrible croak, all over everything. Then this people, cleanly almost to fastidious ness, were infested with insects that be long to the filthy aud unkempt,'and the air buzzed and buzzed with flies, and then the distemper started cows to bellowing und horses to neighing, and camels to groaning, as they rolled over and expired. And then lioils, one of which will put a ! man in wretchedness, came in clusters from the top of the head to the solo of the f.’Ot. And then the clouds dropped hai! nud lightning. And then locusts came in, ; swarms of them, worse than the grass hoppers ever were In Kansas, and then darkness dropped for days so that < tiie people could not see their hand before their face, great surges of midnight cover 1 log them. And last of ail, on the night of the 18th of April, atxmt eighteen hundred years before Christ, the Destroying Angel •weeps paat; and baar it all night long, ika - flap! flap! flap! of hla wings until Egypt rolled on a great hearse, the eldest child dead in every Egyptian home. Tbs eldest son of Pharaoh expired that night In the palace and all along the streets of Memphis end Heliopolis, and all up and down tiie Nile there was a funeral wall i that would have rent the told of the un natural darkness if it had not been Ini' I penetrable. NOW IB ISRAEL'S CHANCE. The IsrselHtoh homes, however, were untouched. But these homee were full of preparation, for now la your chance, 0 Ye wronged Hebrews! Snatch up wnst pieces of food you can and to the desert! Bible the Red sea. And when I dipped my hands in its blue waters, the heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled over me. ON TUB RED SKA’S SHORE. After three days’ march the Israelitisli refugees cncumjied for the night on tiie banks of the Rial sea. As the shadows be gin lo fall, in tho distance is seen the hast of Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six hundred finest war chariots, followed by common chariots, rolling at full speed. And the glittering of the wheels aud the curse of infuriated Egyptians came down with the darkness. Hut the I/ord opened tho crystal gates of Uuhr-cl-Kulz:tni and the enslaved Israelites passed into liberty, and then the crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against the Egyptian pursuers. It «as about two o’clock in thiftuorniug when the interlocked axle trees of the Egyptian chariots could not move an inch either way. But the Rod sea unhitched tli,’ horses and unhelmeted the warriors, and left the proud host a wreck on tiie Arabian sands. Thou two choruses arose, and Muses led tile men in one, and Miriam led the women iu tiie other, and the wom en beat time with their feet. The record says: “All tiie women went out after her with timbrels aud withdauces. And Miriam answered them, Slug ye to thu Iiord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse aud his rider hath ho thrown Into the sea.” Whu^a thrilling story of endurance nud victory. The greatest triumph of Handel’s genius was shown in his Immortal dramatic ora torio, “Israel iu Egypt.” Ho had given to the world theoratori'o of “Esther aud Deb orah,” aud Athuliah, but reserved for his mightiest cXertiou at the full height of his [lowers the marshaling of all musical in struments to the description in harmony of tho scenes on which we this morning dwell. He gave twenty-seven days to this production, with its twenty-eight choruses, enthralling his own lime and all sftertimv with his “Israel iu Egypt." So the burden of oppression was lifted, hut another burden of Egypt is made up of deserts. Indeed, Africa is a great continent for deserts, Libyan desert, Sahara desert, deserts here and there and yonder, con deinning vast regions of Africa to barren ness, one of the deserts tiiree thousand milts long and a thousand miles wide, lint all thosi ijeserts-will yet lie flooded, aud so made fertile. Du Laaseps say's it can be done, and be who planned the Suez irrles t he Red sea nud the in, knows what lie is taking about. The human race is so multiplied that it must have more cultivated land, and the world must abolish its deserts. Eight hun dred millions of the human race are now living on lands not blessed w ill: rains, but dependent on irrigation, and we want by irrigation to make room for eight hundred millions more. By irrigation the prophecy will be iiiliiRed, and "the desert will blos- sum as the rose.” to from Egy pt the bur den of sand will be lifted. TEE IU RDKN OK MOHAMMEDANISM. Another burden of Egypt to lie lifted is the burden of Mohammedanism, although t hire are some good things about that re ligiun. Its disciples must always wash be fore they pray, and that is live times a day. A commendable grace is cleanliness, .strung drink is positively forbidden by Mohammedanism, aud though some may have seen adriinkeu Mohammedan, I never saw one. It isa religion of sohriety. Then they are not ashamed of their devotions. When tiie call for prayers is sounded from the minarets tiie Mohammedan immedi ately unrolls the rug on the ground and fulls (in ids knees, aud crowds of spectators are to him no embarrassment—reproof to many a Christian who omits ids prayers if [icople are looking. But Mohammedanism, with its poiyg amy, blight ieverything it touches. Moiuim incd, its founder, bud four wives, aud his followers arc the enemies of good woman !us<d. Muhammcdauisnr puts its curse on all Egypt, and by setting up u sinful Arab higher than the immaculate Christ, U an overwhelming blasphemy. May God help the hraveand consecrated mkisioiiurieg who are spending their livds in combating it. But before I forget it 1 must put more emphasis upon Hie fact that the last out rage Unit resulted iu the liberation of tiie Hebrews was their lieing compelled to make bricks without straw. That was the last straw that broke the canftl’s back. God would allow Hie despotism against ids people to go no farther. Making bricks without straw! THE OPPRESSION STILL GOES ON. That oppression still goej on Demand of your wife appropriate wardrobe and bountiful table without providing the means necessary—bricks without straw. Cities demanding in the public school faithful nud successful instruction with out giving the teachers competent liveli hood—bricks without straw. United States government demanding of senators aud congressmen nt Washington full attend ance to the interests of the people, hut on couipeuMitiou which may have done well enough when twenty-five cents wont us far ns a dollar now, but in these times not snflicient to preserve their influence and respectability—bricks without straw. In many parts of the laud churches de manding of pastors vigorous sermons and sympathetic service on starvation salary; sanctified Ciceros ou four hundred dollars a year. Bricks without straw. That is one reason why there are so many poor bricks. In all departments, bricks not tven or bricks that crumble or bricks that •re nirt bi1lk*-_at HIT" Work? atfsquatoly ■ [i:dd for is Wo: 111 mure ttuiu work”^ot pifld for. More str iw mid then better bricks, lint in all departments there are 1‘lla raoha; sometime* Uupftul a Ibnmioh and sometimes Labor q I'liurauli. When (Cap ital prusjicr*, und makes large percent age ou its Investment, and duolines to consider the needs of thoo|icrative*, and truiit.s llieui as so many limimn machines—their nerves no more tivtn ihr apuds ou the factory wheofc-then Cnfii Uttoi a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when workmen, not regarding the anxieties and business struggles of the firm employing them, and at a time whon the firm are doing their liest to meet an ho portant contract and Deed all bund* busy to accomplish it, at such a time to have his employees make a strike and put their em ployers Into extreme perplexity and severe iniis—thya Labor becomes n Pharaoh orjUie wurst uppressiou, and must lookout for; the judgments of God. THERE ARK STILL PflABAOTtn. When In Deoemlivrof ls“!), at the Museum at Boulac, Kgypt, I looked at the mum , mice of tho' old Pharaohs, the very mis I creants who dlabolized centuries, and I ODDS AND ENDS. Molussps is find in Louisiana Discontent is tiie want of soli reliance it i.' mtlrhiity of will. Oiiiilortim’s forty-flvo savings hauU- iiave $114,000,0(10 deposit - A single woman runs a lienriuoDt, (Pa.)livory and boarding stable Wounded vanity is generally by lar when for the complete extinotiou of the | tile largest factor in tbe agonies of dis Hebrews iu Kgypt lie ordered all the He- appointed love brew boys massacred, hut be did not find purely as it so line a tiling when his own lirst horn / , ,4. that night of the destroying angel drop-1 & businosa speculation is liable to sink ped di*;i!l on lho mosaic iloor «t the foot oi What all Hoys Should Know. SitiokiiiK Uoys. Do not lie .sati.■;fieil with your bov'i: education,.says School Sujipkmeiit. or in social life or political life, iu private life or public life know that God hates oppres , hoik, aud they will all come to grief here or hereafter. Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing, a cunning thing, u decisive thing ibo porphyry pillar of the palace. Let all the Pharaohs take wanting. Some of the worst of them are on a small eeiluln households, as when a uiau, because his arm is strong nud his voice loud, domi nate* his poor wife into a domestic slavery. There are 1 thousands of such coses where the wife is a lifetime serf, horopiniou disre garded, her tastes insulted, and her exist ence a wretchedness, though tiie world may not know it. It i.i a Pharaoh that sits j at the head of that tattle, and a Pharaoh , that tyrannizes that home. There is no more abhorrent Pharaoh than a domestic Pharaoh. There tire thousands of women i to whom death is passage from Kgypt to Canaan, because they get. rid of a cruel ! taskmaster. What an accursed monster is \ that mau who keeps his wife in dread about family expenses, mid must ho can i tions how she introduces au articleof mil linery or womanly w.tr.lrobe without. Im- ; iniliatiug consultation or apology. Who is that uiai.i umitig so? For six j months—iu order to. win that woman’s heart—he sent her every few days a bouquet wound with white ribbon nud uu endear ing couplet, aud took her to concerts aud theaters, nud helped her into carriages as though she were a princess, aud ran across the room to pick up her pocket handker chief with tho speed of an aatelopo, and on the marriage day promised all that the liturgy required, saying "I will!” with an emphasis that excited the admiration of all spectators. But now ho ‘ two cents for a postage stamp tiers why site rides across Brooklyn bridge when the foot passage costs nothing. He. t hinks now she is awful plain, and ho acts like the devil, while lie thunders out: i'Whore did you get that new hat from? That’s where my money goes. When my breakfast? Didn’t I tell you to sew ou that button? Want to tee your mother, do you? Yon are always going to see your mother! What are you whimpering about! Hurry up now and get my slippers! Where’s the newspaper?” The tone, the look, the im patience—the cruelty of a Pharaoh. That is what gives so many women a cowed down look. Pharaoh! you laid better take your iron he 1 o!T that woman’s neck or God will help you remove your heel. Blie says nothing. For the sake of avoid before reaching port. The yoinigost traveling salesuiRii in Illinois is iu the employ of a drug house :il Quincy He is thirteen. Duteli and American oysters are tnms|s)rte<i to the English waters to be fed six or twelve months and then marketed The Nebraska business men are soon to sturt mi exhibition car through tin eastern states to advertise the product.' of the state. The 48.000 oil wells in this country produce RIO,OOrt harrels of oil a day The cnpilal invested in tins interest amounts to $120,000,000 Mr O. D Wakemtin, of Deposit, N Y., owns a serviceable dog It late ly found and walked home with a pooketbook containing $400 in green i tacks. - Damages lor Flirting. Tiie courts of St. Paul will soon have an opportunity to pass upon a very im portant question. For umny years close students of social problems have been mystified by the discrepancies shown by various legal tribunals in Ox tfxliiumMi History. Every young reader who bos been charmed by tho wonderful story of Joseph iu Egypt must Im interested to know how much modern science and enterprise are doing to restore the (J rw k hook, until scenes and objects lie looked upon, nud the outlines of the very life of his gen j oration. Piihotu, one of the ■‘treasure ; '' ’ itb it flood '"c cities” in which doubtless that Hebrew j Spell all the hero and [cittern man stored up the , p, llge> surplus of the harvests of the "seven years of plenty,” has been discovered j by .Dr. Navillu and excavated from the! sand. It is tiie city which the Greeks 1 called Ileroopolis. Doctor Naville's explorations have enabled him also to identify the early camps of the Israelites, Succoth —a district, not a city—Pi-Hahiroth, Hall Zcphon and other places, and so trace their journey to where they crossed the Red sea. H seems almost as if the localities of Hible history were cast by design out side of tho path of destroying time. |.. ..c, „ Climate, the enibalmer's art, and the ' ll ' I* 1 , 1 all covering sand have kept the daily j M riie RH onlinarv world of the i’hmv.ohs, like an old hut \ Het’kon the iniciv indelible "negative," to be brought out in full photograph by nations thousands of years younger tliau they. Men like Marktte Hey, Mr. Petrie and Dr. Nuviilc have uuenrihed and ere still unearthing for us the very halls and streets v.diere uM Egyptian* bowed Hie knee to Joseph or trembled nt the miracles of Moses and Aaron, mid restoring to the light of day the iu scriptiotis aud some of Hie very papyri which they actually sr.v and read. It is a silent language these risen relies speak, for Hie vowels are nil gone Science gives the following signifi cant'facts concerning the rest! 11 s "f allow him to handle u Latin or smoking by boys: “In un experimental yon are sure _fl)le hand, words he knows Speak and write good English. Write a good social letter. Write a good business letter. Add a cdumnof figures rapidly. Make out an ordinary account. Deduct Ifil per cent from the face of it. Receipt it when paid. Write an advertisement for (he local paper. s Write a notice or report of a pub- thai observation of thirty-eight boys of all l elas.se i of societ y, and of average health, who had been using tobacco how for a period ranging from two mouths to two years, twentv showed severe injury to the constitution and'in- siiffie’iEUt growth; the existence of the heart’*’ -to imehs, coughs, alcohol; thirteen of the pulse, and tion. After the' iromisorv note. thirty-two showed of irregularity action, disordered and a craving for had iiitermittemy one had eonsmnp- ’ had abandoned the use of tobacco, within six monthi’ time one-half were free flora all their former symptom.-', aed the re mainder had recovered by the cud of the veur. out of tbem; but it requires but he begrudges "her in K a money valuation upon tiie female j imagination to bleat :io hfe and sound stamp, and won ! heart At Grand Rapids the other day into the at«r?> ! ",~ tuna of a [mst so real and so gnui Youth’s Companion. of discount on 1 | it for days, mouths, or years. Draw an ordinary bank check. Yiike if to (he proper place in bank to get tiie cash. Make iie.d and correct ea.fries in day book and ledger. Toll the number of yards of carpel required for your parlor. Measure the pile of lumber in your shed. Tell tile number of bushels oi bin, and the it nienl of Hie returns personal properly. in t he Columbia lu-gis’.er recentiv published a ;.f iv,;i '■•Sale ’.ogetin r v.ilh (be poM* ilk' value of raliroads in L' i oi' slab-meni ihe counii-. Ikikeley, Horry, Fpartauburg lave • essed 11 * l, l-ll! amt nty. of and a Jury awarded a pretty plaintiff five cents damages for breach of promise to marry, while last year a wealthy man was mulct iu the sum of $55,000 for J Ids fickleness in fracturing the cardiac : Do you < aU that coiTei'? j apparatus of a trusting spinster. Now conics a Hi. Paul young man. who sues his sweetheart for $5,000 damages for flirting. “This Is not a breach of promise suit.” says Hie plaintiff, cheerfuly, “bul a case for damages. I don’t like flirt ing. and I am going to show peoplethat this country is a very unhealthy one for that kind of business. I have been fair with the girl. I told her that I de tested flirting, and when I commenced I told het that I did it with Hie intention of .mar rying her, and 1 had every reason to largest little w heut in your value at current rales. Tell something about the great authors and statesmen of the pre'seut ^ .j Sumter have not been included, tho tax diipiiciitcs. not having been re ceived. The following is tbe assess ed value, uceoi'ding to th;* i.'egistcT's publieulion, of ilto countie- in this part of th-.' state: < ’h-stcr -! ,o(;:i,is.H;i lag a scamla! she keeps sileiit, but her tears a ail wrongs have pone lata a record Umt, | u . ( .[,i nR company with her you will have to tdeet os certainly as Pha-| t) n J j ranh had in meet hail and Kglttnini: and " darkness uml the death angel. God novel rave to any rian the r: a woman, and «lint a sneak you arc to take advantage of the marriage vow, and be cause she cannot help herself, and under; the shelter of your own home out-Pharaoh ■ the Egyptian oppressor. There Is some thing awfully wrong in a household where ! the woman Is not considered of as much to tyrannize ; believe Hint she intended to marry me Now sbe lias gone to flirting with other people, and I intend to punish her for iC’ -San Francisco Argonaut. l!eochi»r*i» Kngagement King. One day Mr. Heechor walked from importance as.the man. No room in this Amherst to Kattleboro, Yt., to glVe a worl I for any more Pharaohs! SIS HAS IIKKS OUR TASKMASTER. I Bill it rolls over on me with great power the thought that we have all been slaves ’ down in Egypt, and sin has been our task- j temperance lecture- ills first public ad dress. After speaking, be walked back the entire Journey, using the money sent lo take him there and back for master, and again and again v.e have fi-it | books- only reserving enough to buy a its lash. But Christ hits lie'ni our Moses < to lend us out of bondage, and we are for- • ever free. Tiie Red sen of n Saviour’s sac , rifice rolls deep and wide is tweeu us und onr aforetime bondage, and though there simple gold ring. The ring, worn out by hard labor while at the west, and mended time and time again-Hi* mending paid for by sewing at night maybe deserts yet for its to cross, we gre ( while others slept was, when we came on tiie w*y to the Promised Band. 1 hanks f () Brooklyn, so thin it could only be be unto God for this emancipating Gospell Co.no up out of Egypt all ye who are yet | 7 l, , nl,,g ’ W!US WOnl Io " 8 aftW •nslsvcd. What Christ did for us he will that until, after a quarter of a cen do fur you. "Exodus!” is the word. Ex-; tury’s use, it could he no longer re paired. Today it rests close to me as I write -sacredly kept as the result ol Henry Ward Beecher’s lirst earnings by public speaking at the age of seven teen * 1 once beard a young lady say, show ing her engagement ring "There! I always said 1 would never be engaged if I could not haven diamond ring." And then 1 thought of the old. worn ring, so carefully treasured, which, hall a century ago, cost eighty-five cents, and questioned if there was on earth a ring more precious. Mrs Henry Ward Beecher iu Ladies' Home Journal. odus! Instead of the brick kilns of Egypt come into the cmpurpic-l vineyards of God, Where one cluster of grapes is bigger than the one that the spies brought to the Is- ivtelili-s by the Brook Kshcol, though that clustev was so lu ge that it was borne “be tween two upon a st ■(!!." Vi Irnmc all by sin oppressed, V, .denmc lo ilia sacred rest; N'd’iilag brougat htni from idiova, Nolhbtg bid rtahs'iidng love. A Cliiu'cligoini' CniHsliopper. gome little amuseniect was created iu one of tlio leading lYesbylcrian diuretics of this city by the ant ics of a grasshopper, which rotle triumphantly into church perched upon the shoulder of a staid and worthy member. As the gentleman sat down tho insect, to avoid being crushed, hopped up nearer bis coat collar, and at once engaged the aCfintion of two little girls who were sitting in the pew behind, and who found the hopper infinitely more lively than anything from the pulpit. Several quiet but ineffectual attempts to catch the littio fellow from the country re sulted in making him skip t wice, once into the lace at the back of tho neck of a spin ster, vlio would known it, aud once somowbero out of sight. His reappearance was the signal for a hearty and irrepressible giggle on the part of the little girlfl, for he clung to the trainers of tho elder, who took up tho col lection, riding the whole length of the church twice, and then sought safety in the flowers gtouped about the pulpit.—Roches ter Herald. • Strangers In the House of Connmtns. The nmubor of strangers tulmltted to the various galierii-s .of tho house ol commons in each session of thu present parliament appears, from the ret unit granted to Mr. Childers on July 21 Inst to have been, in tho second session o, 1638, 8,22!), or a daily average of 2111. in 1887, 32,543, or a daily average o! 203; in 1883, 35,0’3, or a daily average of 21!); iu 1339, 25.537, or a iluiiy aver age of 210; in IB'.lo. 29,817, or n dail) average of 238, and in 1801, 22.882. or e. daily average of 102. Tiie total number of sitlhixs ol t!u house during tiie present parliament lias been 730, and the total number of persons admitted to the galleries was 152,015, or at the rate of 205 per sit ting. Ladies and distinguished strmi gors admitted to their respective gal leries are not included in the return, which stated that the speaker's gallery and tbe strangers' gallery were amal ganmted on June 17, 1838, and defig nated the "Members’ gallery."—Lon don Tit-Hils. duy* Til! wltal r.iikoaiis Tote! (six i,l d tote! Ipx for p ; Riimitcr of | lls ll- ..I lie would t.iki •T.V’l i t.iiii' of .ill' id iii imtliitig :i trip from 1’oston to Stm Fninriico. If he can do all this und more, ii is likely he has suflicien! education to enable him to make his own way in the world. If yon have more time and money to spend upon him, all well und good--give him higher English, give him literature, giv, him routlicm;',ties, give him seienee. and i{ lie is wry, very anxious, ahonl it, give him Latin and Greek, or whatever the course he intends pur suing in life demands. Example. total •yd Liter.:- iinmi-iY nine of '? 3. i 2 poses, UsSi’J; X'-if.S.te'.i. I Y’ork.—Tnlni I y.Ofi.tmUl: tot; pose*, *iO:MU.v i assessed, •!,78li; '•r:!.! ;•.!>( i. Kdgeiiehl lends ?’ hugest return of p; Cliarltv.loii is the ih i, returning only !.•; other counties 'vhMi! :. in Abbeville, -i,'.!-..e. A i *» ot rail operty 1 pur- polls roads taxaid" ta.x foi : : numivi value of properly, all pur* ot ; rjl-' : v he Wo realtor seeds with « e irchv.' hand, Ami dream we ne’er shall see theuimorc. Hut for r, ibon .and years Their fruit appears, In weeds that mar the land. Or healthful store. The deed* we do, the words v.e lukison. Beau fold ’ I 3.! rrte: V, Wlicro Iv Co ii (mi tin (t lit? A few days since I called ou a well known business man who, surrounded by the sumptuous comforts aud con veil lonces of an elegantly appointed offlee. should be perfectly contented with Ills lot as a workingman. However, as we chatted of one thing and another, he have shrieked had nbe j suddenly and emphatically remarked ‘Do yon know I’m tired of this blamed office? Fact Is. t’m so sick of it and it* business that it impresses me with being Just u workshop.” And then I went back to my plain desk and chair, witli their single wast# basket accessory, and congratulated myself on my own good fortune. -Detroit Free Dress Vnsrntefal. A Kentucky engineer named Hughes : lias discovered that it docs not always I i„ t0 ,[ iC sl |ji |> u . v s ? Tm [„ pay, financially, to save human life.! We count them'ever past; The other day he saw a man named: Bit they shall lari- Stevenson lying across the track ahead j the ^ 1u ,i‘ m , :n ; [jlcy of his tram, the engine was stopped within a few feet of Stevenson.- lie appeared drunk. Hughes pulled him off and kicked him two or three time* Stevenson was not drunk, but in a lit He hi si Hughes arrested and fined $9.01, costs and flue, although in* had saved ids hie.- Philadelphia Is-dger And we shall meet. I charge thee by the years gone by. For the love’s sake of brethren dear. Keep thou the one true way. In work aud play, Lest hi that world their cry Of woe thou hear. Gk.rendnn, L,r'.;; V ‘*1 lOtOU, A, • Darlington, 3,Mi.'.; FrGiield, Flnroi'ee. 2,592; t L ira u, 3,87 Greenville, 5,2119; 1'"Utph.lt. 2,53^ Kershaw, 2,528; 'Igunvns, !.|! Lexington, 3,037; Yiarh teo, 5’.O' Xew 1 terry, 55,(553; (leone*, !,h: ''•raiigeburg, 5,479 ; I'iekens, 1,8! I'nion, 2,747; W illiamsburg, 2,(5! Richland, 4,8(59. Charleston lead.' ; them all in 1 A Merry Heart. ’Tis well to have a merry However short we stay, There's wisdom in a merry Yi hate’er the world ntav heart. ,'<>ruiy of consideration j " mire er me worm nun su nendatiou h.r putting young j Philosophy may lift its head jeep is of Spanish origin li j And find out many a flaw, heart, IV. But That’ . me the philosophy i happy with a straw! Tiie Armn of u Devil Fish A Lout Him. The schooner James Townsend, which arrived from Fort Bragg, brought news of the extremely unpleasant experience George Barnes had with a devil fish nt the [dace named recently. Barnes, accompanied by a fisherman, was searching for sea eggs, nud n fine abaloue shell partly covered by a rock catcIllUR bis eye he determined to secure Vie prize. Barnes, who was barefooted, ■stepped into the water la ol.taih n good purchase on the rock, when his left ankle was seized by one of the tcutnalos of a Mg octopus. The surprised explorer made a hasty effort to draw his imprisoned foot away, bnt more deadly in tbelr grip thau tiie nippers of n pnliccmmi are the long, flexible feelers ol the devil fish, and soon three or four more' teutndcs of the Mile merged inoneter were .wrapped around Barnes’ fool and le", while hi* hips and waist were encircled iu the slimy ehibrace of the devil tish. Bsriie* used every exertion to Cither free himself or else laud thu octopus upon the beach, but his strength gave out and he would soon have succumbed to tbe fish’s An r.asy Way of SlwlrliIng. Here* is nn idea for those who are artistic and original It is something new and very pretty and consist* of providing ycur own designs for em broidery, taking them directly from nature. Tills is how yon can do it. Flowers are* preserved by dipping them in melted [uirafflne. By moistening white paper witli Leucine it becomes translucent, then you can easily sketch impressions of the flowers. When tiie paper dries it again is opaque and Hie impression sketched remain*. - New York Advertiser Cures fur SI^epleH.Hmnci. Cures foi sloeplcssiiess are very nn tuerous, and before any man could In them all he would be "asleep for over ' There are not a tew. however, which have stood tiie test of time, aud are therefore worthy of consideration A recommendation I. children nsle will he found particularly suitable foi afflicted fathers, who may sometimes be at their wits’ end "getting baby. . asleep.” It requires Unit the hack ; 1 ^ hte Lilt brings us happiness from tho neck to tiie waist, lie gently \ L brings us, we are told, rubbed * ; Whut’s hard to buy though rich ones There is much in the Chinese theory 1 try that sleeplessness will lie dispelled when \\ ith nil their heaps of gold, one rtd* the mind of every thought; Then laugh nwav—let others say whatsoever. M hute’er they will of mirth; A musician during a severe illness | Who laughs the most may truly boas! made his wife play the scale upand: He’s got the wealth of'earth', down on a small organ Often ufter : he wo* asleep lie would start slightly There’s music in a merry laugh, the amount of tax for a!! pui iioscs, if'.J 30,- 352.83;Greenville follow s with$10!i,- 047.78; Y’ork with 8103, 1)15.5(5; Edgefield $84,058.59; Abbeville, $71,901.90. Maf 1 boro}Ays le sibiin any county in (lie State, $29,378.03, and Oconee, $29,597.01. uul then sing what had put him to ; sleep Iloraeo in his "Satires’' recommends , swimming flic Tiliei three times! Sii Thomas Browne was uccustolued to re peat some verses oi n eertain hymn. Franklin took Ins nil bath. Sir Julin Sinclair counted, while Sir Julin Ren nic when engaged upon any public works never went to shs'p uiilil hi.- head had been combed and gently rubbed by some soft band. -Loudon Tit Hit* A Frlfinl Iii4l«‘4tl. Robert Beck, of Doblonega. wanted to get married, but Ids finance* were so low Hint lie eotild not parade the uece* sary $1.5(1 Hi* bruthor-ln law. who is thirty five years old. went out on the public square, mounted a dry goods vlsellke hold ami been drawn into tiie sea box. inadu such a strong appeal that bad not bis companion noticed his sad tllt , ,, rijwd chipped | n fhe necessary plttfht nna hastened to liia renoue. .. D i ^ A %s » Tbe fisherman plied a hatebet and a huge mid Nancy Jnno knife with good effect, and soon sections Higgte* were married on Saturday. - of tentacles were severed from the devil Savannah New*. fish and dropped In Hie tide, squirming —♦ —-— like eels. The whole.-ale’curving cf it* Aecommodatln*. feslera proved too much for the octopus, Anxious Traveler (to baggage smarher) A’moral beauty, too— It shows (lie heart's mi honest heart. That paid each mini his due* And. lynt u siiare of what’s lo span Despite of wisdom’s fears; And made the cheek of sorrows speak, The eye weep fewer tears. — - -«-*s>* —■ The larges! Sunday school in th, i world is iu Stockport, England; it : began in lWt'4. It now contains j 5,000 pupils and 140 teachers. It hits registered during its existence 0,000 scholar^ and 3,500 teachers. War Hwltoniix ul Ifvl^ohiiul. Ilclgolander* iiave been a little |mz tied during the [stst few week* owing ! “ lo stuue Italloou exjierlniciits wliich <!a|itain von Forster, oi tiie (lermtui j marine servico. ha* Iktu iimkiug on* Coihpluint has' been made to the ami about the island. Ascents Imve i ( j ovt . nlol . that there nro numbers oi taken place by day and night with tbe | , ... object of bolding commui.lctiou sea ; "eneheiary cadets at the South < art. ward with the island and for balloon linn Military Academy, whose fathers signaling The npitonranee of tire bal are able to pav for their education. Umuih Miimwd lbe mb.lt isqmlaHon. and j ,; ()NX , | . 1J0 ,. ’]’jH, n . ul C;l l|* { or t j, e gave Inflnite deliglit to Hie juvenile*. | . 1 . fora ImiIIooh l* a rare *i£lit in Itelgo !a'lo promises to hate Ihe matter m- land uitide on tiie Island, and the service* of some »kllled (tenunn artisan* have 'p), c gmtt Hest known species of b«.-i. requisitioned for tbe purpose «f | ^ ul . o rillll) . torrf1 nf lh „ bjlulo , For UiS’rmit Fancies. A female engineer, Miss Ida Hewitt, is regularly employed on the Gairo and Kanawha Vtdley railroad iu West Virginia. “Woman feels where man thinks.” Y r es, nud that’s what makes the men prematurely bald. “Do you believe man sprang from 'the ape? “No; but I believe woman i springs from tho mouse—in fact, I’ve seen her do it.” I have had many things in my I hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have been able to place ! in God’s I still possess.—Luther. i When home is ruled according to j God’s word angels might be asked , to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of •!heir element.—Spurgeon. Nnnol beat the world's record ou j the Stockton trotting track, in Gali- fornin last Tuesday, making ;i mile in 2:081. That beat Maud S. a half second. 1‘aiienec strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, strides anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; I she bridles the tongue, refrains the I hand, and tramples temptations.— Horn. A , - . , ™.. ...... ... .uv -™..., ssw their teeth anti liatr stcl finger iinil'< »rty tllfferonce how much « Dov - ^ are letter than the bouclage ant! th* flesh drawn tiAif over tboir thick .n worldly »(icca»« ( tits Int.'iuru ul Droluer* ,. ou | )aye sll ^ ert , ( [ It* scorpioii* will not bones, tho B.iroophagt’ of liaise dead, »nd sisters al ways .o*!!. hini ‘Uy th.’ same ^ jhiifply ft* tho wrongs that have monarch* side liy side, and i was. so fusel- aatn* that he W** ott.iwi hj ».-'ll two vm , B j. ()U al | your lives. Away! The uhted 1 could only with diMtenttysway years ohl-JoscriT "f.A ? J''' ,r ' n i mau who wh* cradled In the basket of; from the spot, I whs nut looking upon the tiougave to his family. Who had Ju*t nr j p B))J . tu# on t j, e jjj| e w j[j [o*,! y 0Ui Up!! last of the I’haraoh*. All over the world i ^v*4, to* Hyh**t oart nf ha/vot. t..« ‘ ypjj j* tha night of xnur resou*. old uivrrUsHts playing (liv Rhoraob over am! Its several holds on Borne*’ leg and —libolt here, my man, will you break mjr body relaxed, and be r.tu dragged up on trunk? It’* rather heavy, tli; us in I and allowed to recover from tiie Baggage SmXshir—Oan't promise you, i " ,n ' fright und weaknees tndncej by the un- bnt I'll try—look sharp I—Nsw York K[)och. i y pil picosunt adventure.—San Francisco Ex- ~ young gentleman wishes to — , . know which is proper to gav ou Many linproynmentH have been 1 vestigated by the Hoard of \ isitors. . . 7 . 1 . J . . . .; * J ■ leaving a voung lady friend after a call—good night or good evening? II 1 hi I, n (inner n-trt of Hie i * 1<J K 8 UVe qllUrtei’Ctl at the IsOUdon 1 * SeU ' 1 ,l '", 11 ' l ‘ e ’ ' 0U1I ° “tell—Siiy wstl •iukliiH In the upper part of the t> . , 1 ! good morn llg. Zoological Gtirdeug. Ihey cotm o uiouimg. from the southern part of Australia.' “A on 11 reniendvr, (’orney, that and are known as “the pigmy 'logs j every glass you take is a nail in your as he ivjmvd place. - London News. There are 752 penitelitinry Con victi . v-yv. * .<«r ■*r I-'V unifier : -■ j sir?” asked the tavern keeper of the Ouc doliuw avr ycTr for Tut ifituim traveler. “Table d’oat.” r*r»s*(<r-sk-, .f.-' wr*- *» ▼ , in this State. They are at of tbe rttlllpod,eB.” They are well.^t-'odin, ’ said the master ; as follow*! In penitentiary j formed,' frisky and gOodri^ihircd,'; 14 of whiskey for hi; labtM’er. 31, oil eutial 133, at Gleuison J and about, Ahe of^a musk-rut. : “W ell, your Monor,’ says tdrtiev, • 1 —• • ' ’’ • ■ 1 * u •‘■te' • utiimer in “How wlH vou have your horse fed * 'allege 1 ■i , 5, on farms 212. Uf.thjs ■ I hey are jvql hpg^, aiqi are not to Ije j ni ‘ l ? llB V 11 ^‘ lu •in.uber colored. 51 arc white and- 41081 eonfotiiakd aith. guiueiitpigs, jt Inch].y o *ttd»aud yeai’d just drive another .Ow-'* , -te • , > —WW 1 are a siiaeie.* of rvdeut. 1 house,” THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM.