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BEAUTY OF THE GOSPEL. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ELOQUENTLY ON D1VINK SCRIPTURE. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris Made tie Subjrct of a Striking Comparison?TJie Symbolic Myrrh, Aloes and Caania?Some Rich Metaphor*. At the Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sunday, tli : Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached an eloquent sermon on <:The Fragrance of the Gospel,5' taking for his +0-5-f "A 11 tV>xr fmrmcnts email r>f TT1 vrrh and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces."?Psalms 45:8. He said: Among the grand adornments of the eity of Paris is the Church of Notre Dame, with its great towers, and elaborated rose-windows, and sculpturing of the last judgment, with the trumpeting angels and rising dead; its battlement of quarterfoil; its sacristy, with ribbed ceiling and statues of saints. But there was nothing in all that building which more vividly appealed to my plain republican tastes, than thecostly vestments which lay in oaken presses?robes that had been embroidered with gold, and been worn by popes and arch-bishops on great occasions. There was a robe that had been worn by Pius VII, at the crowning ox me ur3t jxapoieon. mere was also a vestment that had been worn at the baptism of Napoleon IL As our guide opened the oaken presses and brought out these vestments of fabulous cost, and lifted them up, the fragrance of the pungent aromatic in which they had been preserved, filled the place with a sweetness that was almost oppressive. Nothing that had been done in stone more vividly impressed me than "these things that had been done in cloth, and embroidery, perfume. But to-day I open the drawer of this text, and I look upon the. kingly robes of Christ, and as I lift them, flashing with eternal jewels, the whole house is filled with the aroma of these garments, which "smell of myrrh, and aioes, cassia, out of the ivory palaces." In my text the King steps forth. His robes rustle and blaze as He advances. His pomp and power and glory overmaster the spectator. More brilliant is He than Queen Yashti moving amid the Persians princes: than Mary Antoinette on the day when Louis XVI. put upon her the necklace of 800 diamonds; than Anne Boleyn the day when Henry VIII. welcomed ner to his palace; all beauty and all pomp forgotten, while we stand in the presence of this imperial glory, King of Zion, Kiog of earth, King of Heaven, King forever! His garments not worn out, not dust-bedraggled; bat radiant, and jewelltd, and redolent. It seems as il they must have been pressed a hundred years amid the flowers of heaven. The wardrobes from which they have been taken must have been sweet with clusters of camphire, and frankincense, and all manner of precious wood. Do you not inhale the odors? Ay, ay. They smell 01 myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out ot the ivory palaces. Your first curiosity is to know why the robes of Christ are odorous with myrrh. This was a bright-leafed Abssiman plant. It was tnfoliated. The Greeks, Egyptians, Bomans and Jews bought and soid. it at a high price. The first present that was ever given to Christ was a spng of myrrh, thrown on His infantile ted in Bethlehem, and the last gift that Christ ever had was m^rrh pressed into the cup of Hi& crucifixion. The natives would take a stone and bruise the tree, and tnen it would exude a gum tnat would saturate all the ground beneath. i'nis gum was used > or purposes of merchandise. One piece of it, no larger than a c&esthut, would whelm a whole room with odors, it was put in closets, m chests, in drawers, in rooms, and -lLs perfume auhered almost interminably to anything that was any where near it. So wnen in my text I read that Chrisi's garment smell of myrrh, I lmmediateiy concluue the exquisite swt-ocnebS of Jesus. I know that to many i?t is only like any h-atoncal person; anothar John Howard; * Mother philan thropic Ooerim; another Confucins; a grand subject for a painting; a heroic tneme for a poem; a oeauafnl form for a aUiao: bat to inose who have heard Hm voice, and felt His oar don, and received His oenbdiction, He is music, and ligiit, and warmtb, and tnrili, and eternal fragrance, Svree*; as a iriend clicking to >oq wnen all else betray. Lifting you Uj> while others try to push you down, iiot so much like morning-glories, that bloom only when the sun is coming up, nor like "four o'cl'xiks," that bioom only when the sun is going down, but like myrrh, perpetually aromatic?the 6ame morcing, noon, and mght?yesterday, to-day, forever. It teems ts if we cannot wear Him out. We put on Him all our burdens, and afflict Him with all our griefs, and set Him foremost in all our battles, and yet He is ready to lift, and to sympathize, and to help. We have so imposed upoa Him that one would think it eternal affront if He would auit our soul; and yet to-day He addresses us with the same tenderness, dawns upon us with the same smile, pities us with the same compassion. There is no name like his for us. It is more imperial than Casar's, more musical than Beethoven's, more conquering Charlemagne's, more eloqnent than Cicero's. It throbs with all life. It weeps with pathos. It groans with all pain. It stoops with all condescension. It breathes with all perfume. Who like Jesus to set a broken bone, to pity a homeless orphan, to nurse a sick man, to take a prodigal back without any scolding, io illumine a cemetery all ploughed with graves, to make a queen unto God out of a lost woman oi the street, to catch the sorrow in a lachrymatory that shall never be broken? "Who has such an eye to see our need, such a lip to kiss away our sorrow, such a hand to snatch us out of the fire, such a foot to trample our enemies, such a heart to embrace all our necessities? Your second curiosity is to know why the robes of Jesus are odorous with aloes. There is some difference of opinion about where these aloes grow, what is the color of the flower, what is tha par LLvUlol <*\JX Cite JLLC1U. OLLLLLvV it for you arid mo to know that aloes mean bitterness the ~orld over, and when Christ comes with garments bearing that particular odor, they suggest to me the bitterness of a Saviour's sufferings. Where were there ever such nights as Jesus lived through-eights on the mountains, nights on the sea, nights ir the desrt? \vho had such a hard reception as Jesus had? A hostelry the first, an unjust trial in oyer and terminer another, a foul-mouthed, yelling mob the last. "Was there a space on His back, as wide as your two fingers where He was, not whipped? Was, -here a space on his brow e an inch square where He was not cut of the briers? When the spike struck at the instep, did it not go clear through the hollow of the foot? Oh, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage. Aloes! Aloes! Your third curiosity is to know whv these garments of Christ are odorous with cassia. This was a plant that grew in India and the adjoining islands. You ao not care xo near waai jiina 01 a nower it had or -what kind of a stalk. It is enough for me to tell you that it was . used medicinally. In that Lnd and in that age where they knew bnt little about pharmacy, cassia was used to arrest many forms of disease. So when in my text "we find Christ coming with garments that smell of cassia, it suggest* to me the healing and curative power of the Son of God. "Oh," yon say, "now you have a superfluous idea. We are not biek. Why do v .rant cassia? We are athletic. Oar respiration is perfect. Our limbs are Lihe, and in these cool days we feel we could bound like the roe." I beg to differ, my brother, from you. None of you can be better in physical health than I am, and yet I must say we are all sick. I have taken the diagnosis of your case, and have examined all the best authorities j on the subject, and I .have come now to * - * *' - * tell you tiiat you are iuii 01 wouuus ami bruises and putrefying sores which have not been bound up, or mollified with ointment. The marasmus of sin is on us?the palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy. The man that is expiring to-night on Fulton street?the allopathic and homeopathic doctors haying given him up, and his friends are standing around to take his last words?is no more certainly dying as to his body than you and I aie dying unless we have taken the medicine from God's apothecary. All the leaves of this Bible are only only so many prescriptions from the divine physician, written not in Latin like the prescriptions of eartly physicians, but written in plain English, so that a man, though a fool need not err therein. Thank God that the Saviour's garments smell ot cassia. You know, or if you do not know I will tell you now, that some of the palaces of olden time were adorned with ivory. Ahab and Solomon had their homes furnished with it. The tusks of African and Asiatic elephants were twisted into all manner of shapes, and there were stairs of ivory, and chairs of ivory, and tables of ivory, and floors of ivory, and pillars of ivory, and windows of ivory, and fountains that dropped into basins of ivory, and rooms that had ceilings of ivory. Oh! white and overmastering beauty. Green tree-branches sweeping the white curbs. Tapestry trailing the snowy floors. Brackets of iight flashing on the lustrous surroundings. Silvery music rippling to the beach of the arches. The mere thought of it almost stuns my brains and you say: "Oh, if I could only have walked over such floors! If I could have thrown myself in such a chair! If I could have heard the drip and dash of tnose fountains!" You shall have something better than that if you only let Christ introduce you. From that place He came and to that place he proposes to transport you, for His "garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces." On, what a place Heaven must be! The Tuiileries of the French, the Windsor Castle of the English, the Spanish Alharmbra, the Russian Kremlin,?don/*A/\r*a T*r*?V? if "WVfcf DA mo r?TT OVL lillU IVi ^ VSU DV castles oil either side the Rhine as on both sides of the river of God, the ivory palaces. One for the angels, insufferably bright, wioged, fire-eyed, tempestcharioted; one for the martyrs, with blood-red robes, from under the altar; one for the king, the steps of His palace the crowns of the church militant; one for the singers, who lead the one hundred and forty and four thousand; one for you ransomed from sin; one for me, plucked from the burning. Oh, the ivory palaces! It is not a dead weight that you lift when you carry a Christian out. Jesus makes the bed up soft with velvet promises, and He says: "Put h^ down here very gently. ?ui th*i, uead, which will never ache again, on this pillow of hallelujahs. Send up the word that the procession is coming. Ring the bells. Ring! Open your gates, ye ivory palaces!" And so your loved ones are there. They are just as certainly tnere, having died in Christ, as that you are here. There *" a/ ^nc thing more they want. Indeed, there is one thing in Heaven they have not got. They want it. What is it? your company. But, oh, my brother, unless you change your tack you cannot reach that harbor. You might as well take the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, j expecting in that direction to reach I Toronto, as to go on in the way somo of I you are going and yet expect to reich j the ivory palaces. Your loved ones are j 1< king out of the windows o* heaver j now, and yet you seem to turn your j back upon them. .You do not seem to know the sound of their voices as well ! as you used to, or to be moved by the j sight of their dear ia'. ee Call louder, I ye departed ones. Call louder from the ivory palaces. When I think of that place, and think of my entering it, I feel awkward; I feel as sometimes wbjnl have been exposed to the weather, and my shoes have been bemired, and my coa; is soiled, and my hair is disheveled, a^d I stop m front of some fine residence where I have an errand. I feel not fit to go in as I am and sit among polished guests. So sojie of us feel about heaven. We need to be washed?we need to bo rehabilitated before we go into the ivory j palaces. Eternal -God, let the surges of Thy pardoning mercy roll over us. I want not only to wash my hands and my feet, Dut like some skilled diver, standing on the pier-head, who leaps into the wave and comes up at a far distantce frcm where he went in, so I want to go down i and so I want to come up. 0 Jesus, wash me in the waves oi Thy salvation! j And here I ask you to solve a mystery ' I 1"\/-*/-?rv\/\ i UOO UCCU LUC AUi LULIITOJ years. I have asked it of doctors of divinity who have been studying theology half a century, and they have give me 110 satisfactory answer, I have turned over all the books in my library but got, no solution to the question, and to-day I come and ask you for an explanation. By what logic was Christ induced to exchange the ivory palaces, of Heaven for the crucifixion agonies of earth? I ah*H take the first thousand million years in heaven to study out that problem. Meanwhile and now, taking it as the tenderest and mightiest of all facts that Christ did come, that He came with spikes in his feet, came with thorns in His brow, came with spears in His heart, to save you and me. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." O Christ, whelm this audience with Thy compassion. Mow them down use summer grain witn tne narvesnng sickle of Thy grace. Ride through tc-day the conqueror, Thy garments smelling "of mvrr, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces." 0 sinner, fling everything else away \ and take Christ! Take Him now, not | to-morrow. During the night following this very day there mr\y be an excitement in your dwelling, and a tremulous pouring out of drops from an unsteady and and affrighted hand, ?>nd before tomorrow morning your chance may be gone. F1AXOS AM) UHGAXB. One thousand Pianos and Organs to ciose out bj October 1. j311 Organs and Pianos sold at cash irice, payable November 1?no interest?delivered to your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from $24 up; Pianos from $150 up. All instruments warranted. Send for circulars. 3ny nn-r and have the use of the instmment. Remember we pav freight both wavs if the instrument don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than New York. N. W. TRUMP, * Columbia, S. C. Th? "ho has a good ronnd income aua lares sumptuouslv every day, ana clothes himself arid family in the fines', material, and spends hundreds of dollars annually in recreation aad pleasure, and then gives only five dollars for benevoleut purposes, calling it "the widow's mite" by way of apology, must be sadly lacking in self-respect, to say nothing about religious principles. Don't suffer from weakness and deb;1ity. Don't let gloom and despondency take possession of the human heart. Get health, get strength, get the power of endurance from uring B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm.) THE MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE. WHAT THE FARMERS' COMMITTEE SAY OF THAT INSTITUTION. Report of the Commlttte Sent by the Farmers' Association of South Carolina to Inspect the Agricultural College Untlrr General Lee. The report of Messrs. Tindall and Norrifl, the committee appointed by the Farmers' Association, to visit the Agricaitoral College of Mississippi and report their observatio ns, is as follows: To the Farmers' Association of South Carolina: Your committee appointed to visit and repoit upon the Mississppi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1-.OTTQ rvovfr?vmA/1 fVliif (1 Ilf.V to the befit of their ability, in the limited time at their command. Wo have only to regret the inability of the members of the Board of Agriculture, who were iavited, to join us in this investigation and report. The plant consists of One brick Dormitory, capacity 250 students 350,000 Academic building equipped for 300 students with recitation room?, assembly hall, ^c... 20,000 Laboratory 8,500 President's Residence 3,000 Six Professors, $2,000 each... 12,000 Dining Hall, Society Booms, etc 3,000 Hospital 2,000 Four small residences for ollicers 1,950 Two servant houses 600 $101,050 Equipment of College buildings (original) 19,165 The farm was a worn out cotton plantation of 1762 acres, mostly abandoned hills and deserted low lands which cost 18,038 Cost farm buildings (original). 10,835 Equipments (original) 6,882 Total cost ?35,750 These buildings and equmipments include barns for the accommodation of * *?- ? 'i ""l* ?AAm ^AI? 4.VIA 86YCTdi liuuurou ui stAjun, xuuui *v* n**v storage of hay, grain and ensilage, etc., for creamery, steam engines, mowers and other far n implements. A portion of the farm is devoted to experimental station work, the remainder to the production of beef, milk butter, corn and hay, fruits and vegetables. It has been operated more for educational purposes than for profit, bat has been seli-snstaining for the last four years. The statement for the present year shows $1,000 to its credit, with over $1,500 worth of beet cattle on hand. It should be stated here that the trustees require its products to be furnished to the college for less thau the market price. There are on hand in addition to the beef cattle about 130 bead milk cows and 100 calves. The different breeds serve as object lessons to the boys in the study of stock breeding, in addition to furnishing beef and milk to the college and cream to the creamery. The feeding is done by the students in experimenting to test the value of various foods for trie production of beef and milk, as well as to test the capacities of different breeds, j is at once instructive ana pronmuie iv j them, while it shows forcibly the adi vantage of the college being situated on | the farm. There is a president, sixteen professors and assistants and two hundred and ! eighty students. Many were kept away ; by the yeiiow fever quarantine. The ! college is under military government, | and tactics are taught by a United States : officer. There are live classes, one prep* ' atory and four collegiate. Agriculture ! is taught from the I eg inning, and we ' were much s .irprised to find that the j bo vs of the preparatory class understood j better what they had gone ov6r in thai | study than others and were rn^re inter! ested. About one third of the students j in attendance belong to this class. No i foreign language is taught, but | special rains are t::ken to thoroughly teach English and Composition. Tne labort"-./-:y is well equipped and affords ample facilities for the study of chemistr). The oourse in mathematics is as thorough and extensive as in colleges I generally All the sciences Tvmoii m| clade agriculture, are taught specia ly | and pailicalij ,;:ustratii in the Jaborai tory'and on tie iarxn. Special attention is gi ven to horticulture, book-keeping and farm management. The hospital is well supplied with trained nurses and pliys.ci^ns. The mess hali furnishes excellent board, done mainly from tie farm at about ?800 per month. This varies with the cost of the "/aw material and is charged to the students at actual cost, j The robust at ss of the students is as much to be attributed to the fine quality of t ie bread, butter and beef, as to the exercise given them in physical labor. LABOB Is required from all students aud is directed to ail branches of agricultural I work, such a draining, cultivation, milking, the care of stock, horticulture, etc.; ! It is claimed to be equally important as I illustrative of farm operations, to keep the boys in sympathy wiih iarm life, as ! to f Ornish, the means by which they are enabled to materially reduce their expenses. From the best information at our disposal, we do not think it interferes at all with the course of stady. The statistics prove that those students who earned most by their labor, also stand highest in their classes. The location l here of the experimental station with j the $18,000 given by Coegress, furnishes, not only object lessons to all of the stu! dents, but remunerative, practicle work to to many of the most skilful, and to the seniors who have just completed the sciences involved a great deal of work in this line, is given, that js of value. We were impressed with the care and intelligence displayed by the students in this work. The Director has oversight and control of station work, but assigns station work to the heads of various departments of tii? college who control its attai;s ana tue appumiimenlo uj. u.;?iouants in tiieir respective departments. The lines of station work mapped out are such as are demanded for the immediate benefit of the average farmer, and the solution of agricultural problems of greatest present importance?as the feeding of i'oity-seven lots of cows, three in each lot, to determine the best returns for butter; the feeding of forty-seven lots of steers, three in each lot, to determine the best returrs for beef, and like experiments with hogs; dairy work to ttst the best methods of making butter. Experiments with corn, cotton and hort:cuiture are planned and experiments with a view to find some species of grasses lor winter pasture. The students perform most of the work necessary except plowing, and are assisted thereby to reduce their expense, while they become as much interested in the experiments and results as the director himself. The analvsis of fer tilizers for the State is done "also in the college laboratory and by the professor of Chemistry and his assistants. The students do not perform the actual work in this line, but they may observe and be instructed in the methods and principles. Any farmer may send here a sample of fertilizer and have it analized -withoit cost. The fertilizer companies pay a laboratory fee. ATTENDANCE AND EXPENSE. The average attendance during the eight years of its existence is 315, which is one-third larger than the attendance at any other male college in the State. Notwithstanding, hundreds of boys were turned away for lack of accommodation. Over 1,600* boys have attended since its inauguration. Of these 80 per cent, are sons of farmers, two thirds of whom are sons oi farmers of small means, many of whom could not have attended, but for the opportunities fumiahed of reducing their expenses by labor at the college, for which they are paid 8 cents maTimnm an hour. The actual expenses of a student atfon/Jinor this ir ahnnfc ?125. The earnings of the students on an average reduces this amount to $100, whilst many reduce it to about $65 or less. The large number of students attending this college has in no way lessened that of the other colleges. On the contrary, the University and denominational college at Clinton have both had a larger since attendance its existence, whilst the high schools all through the State are now largely attended, which would go to indicate that its influence has been to awaken the educational interest thoughout the State, and that it has actually been the cause of the partial education of hundreds of boys who would not have otherwise received any at all. The report says the committee, by invitation, selected and submitted subjects for essays to the first class and was astonished by the excellence of many of the essays, especially when it was remembered that the students had entered with no requirements but to read and write and cipher through fractions. The career of many students is traced, showing that some of them have become professors, while many are superintendents of stock farms, creameries etc., at good saleries. A table is given, showing the percentage of graduates that have adopted farming as their busines in life. Of students who spent one year at the college the percentage is 58; of two-year students 55; of three-year students 46; of four-year students 56. Of the whole number of students 56.6 per cent, are farming and going to farm. '* ? * - J- . f AL _ Twelve per cent. 01 me one-year meu, 9 per cent, of the two-year men, 9 per cent of the three-year and 22 per cent, of the four-year men became farmers. Much is said of the college and its students in improving the agriculture and farming of the State which is saown to be wonderfullly strong and valuable, and the report closes with a statement of the causes of the opposition to the college, which proceeds chiefly from those opposing any appropriations for education except for common schools. Of more than 100 newspapers in the State only 5 oppose the college. HOME EDUCATION. PLAY SHOULD^ BE A PART OF THE HOUSEHOLD SYSTEM. Hereafter Education Will Mean the Culture of tl>e Whole Body?Damage Sometimes Done in the Sehoolroom?Moral Atmosphere of the Home. uauaren snouiu not 00 compeuea to tako to the streets for sport. It should be a part of the household system to afford play, and to do it as surely and systematically as books and food. We have a good deal yet to learn about play. We should have our hours for sport and relaxation when the whole household join in games. As home education increases, and it must increase, these hours will be doubly necessary. I would not allow a child to study or read over an hour consecutively. Then let him play and exercise his body one hour. At what age should we cease to play? If fools, we may stop early in life. Only wise people never cease to lovo and enjoy games. But the play room is not all. This is tho age of manual culture. The grandest of innovations has occurred. Hereafter education will mean the culture of the whole body?handcraft as well as head- ; croft. It follows that each house that is intended for a home should have its proT?iw'iAn tKo n/1 n.^otiAr* nf fVion/^ o ? IU1 uuo ^uuvakivu V>A LUO utuiu a workshop, a tool room for every member ol the family to find his chosen occupation. 1/ necessary, a separate beilding should adjoin the house. Where there are five children there may be five separate occupations chosen. One of mine prefers carpenters' tools and engineering, another printers', and a third cares mainly for horticulture. OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM FAULTY. , I am now advocating such household appurtenances purely on the score of health. Our school system is a blunder. No child should study from 9 till 12; and especially in rooms where they must sit. A child ai study should, much of his time, be on his feet, or reclining if he chooses, and changing about. When you add the books taken home for evening study, you have shown up our common method, whereby, to perfection, we destroy the health, vigor, beauty and character of our children. Every one ia damaged, and the majority are spoil eu. i insist upon pi ay as a duty, as a part of life, as In fact itself a part of study. A teacher of play would be far more sensible than the piano at $2 to ?4 a lesson. How about dancing? As a matter of health it is generally of no advantage whatever. It is no sooner acquired than night is turned into day, and then the play is carried to such extremes as to be disastrous. I have watched this matter from a physician's standpoint, and object totally to three or four hours and especially to six or eight, devoted to hilarious dancing, and those hours the ones that nature devotes to sleep. There is another point I cannot overlook. It is the close contact of bodies in round dances?a contact unwholesome, purely from a physical point of view. The moral effect others may discuss, but I object to any delicate perc/vn Kr?mcr Knmn cn rtcal v fitmna. pliere of grosser, coarser oaes. The physical effect is not likely to be understood, but it is seriously eviL I do not, therefore, care for dancing, unless conducted as a part of home sport, as it is not likely to be. A GOOD MOItAL ATMOSPHERE. It is, however, folly to talk of a healthy home that is not charged with a good moral atmosphere. I assure you the moral atmosphere is as real and tangible and efficient as the physical; and those who refuse or neglect to consider it will suffer accordingly. It is impossible for us to have about us, in close intimacy, those of gross temperament and physical sensuality, and not feel the effect on our bodies as well as on oux minds. This holds good, of course, of our own relation to ourselves. If we do not sustain a spirit of self-control and manly aspiration in our souls, our bodies are diseased as a consequence. One-half of all disease is the result of unsanitary mental conditions. Uniform honor, good faith, manhood, temperate desire, kindliness, will have a powerful effect in sustaining vigorous physical health. I have a brother physician who insists that if all people would keep in the best of humor for one hour before eating, during meals and for one hour after, tlicy would never be troubled with any disorders of digestion, or with headaches. He is a trifle crochety, but be is not far from right in his valuation of good temper a6 a foe to dyspepsia. At meal time it is peculiarly important that all should be decorous and kindly. The fashion of haste and fret at our meals is an indication of nervous irritation, and affects digestion directly. Bat in all other ways a house should be delivered from the destructive influence of immoral or unmoral habits. An habitual scold is not only a disagreeable termagant, but a destroyer of the physical health of her children. The effect on moral character is tallied dv x,ne enect on me ieavores 01 me young. I have supposed some to be more sensitive to moral atmosphere than others, but on larger experience I am satisfied that all are influenced in this way, and to their serious detriment. Tho art of building a healthy home is dependent upon the art of being ourselves pure hearted and honorable, generous, just and ! adaptable.?M. Maurice, M. D., in GlobeDemocrat. Paper bags, In which many articles are ; seDt from the grocery store, should be j saved for use when blacking a stove. You i can slip the hand into one of these, and handle the brush just as well, and the hand 1 will no' be soiled, and when through with \ them they can be dropped into the stove. J A guilty weight upon the heart takes the sun out of the sky. ( liability to insanity. ffo Saeb Thing as the '"Insane Temperament"?Nervous Energy. 1 douU very much if there is any such thicg as the "insane temperament-"' This is an organic constitution character ized by certain mental and physical qualities which is uniformly met with in those who are predisposed to insanity. At least no such temperament is recognized by physiologists or alienists of the present day Systematic writers generally admit the existence of four distinct temperatures: the sanguine, the lymphatic or phlegmatic, the choleric or bilious, and the nervous. Every physician who has much to do with the treatment of insane persons has witnessed instances of mental derangement not only in individuals of each one of these temperaments. but in all their possible combinations indeed, it is rare to find a person in whom anyone of the temperaments mentioned exists in its pure and simple form, those of mixed temperaments l>oing greatly in the majority. Perhaps the nervous temperament is the one which Is the most frequently met with uncombined with any other temperament, or at least so greatly predominating as to obscure any other that may be present. This arises from the fact that it is the only temperament that can be acquired by mode of life. If there is any tem}>emment which of itself predisposes to insanity it is '.lie nervous. It may be well, therefore, to point out some of its chief charairtw istics. The manifestations of nervous energy are markedly prominent, and give peculiar impress to the whole body and mind. The countenance is usually pale and the features thin and sharp; the pulse is quick, small and frequent, though not weak; the respiration active; the chest and muscular system are generally not largely developed; the skin is dry and rough and the digestive functions are nprfnrnifvl irrefrularlv. In conseouence of the comparative weakness of the muscles, persons of this temperament easily become fatigued; though, owing to the activity of the nervous system, they quickly rally. Prompt to form opinions and to arrive at conclusions, the subjects of the nervous temperament are not remarkable for stability of purpose. Their intellectual operations are rapid and brilliant, but at the same time not often persistent. Variety is constantly sought for, and the mental efforts, like the physical, are, as it were, spasmodic, full of energy while they last, but soon yielding to othersWomen were formerly much more fre quenuy cue suojects 01 mis temperament than men, but owing to the constant effort to get rich manifested by the male sex in recent times, and the consequent extreme development of the emotional system and of certain faculties of the intellect, it is now far more common with men. Indeed, I am not sure but that in civilized communities, especially in the large cities of the Cniied States, it has not become the predominating temperament. The man who day after day is kept uj>on a mental rack by that most harassing of all the emotions?anxiety ? will mentably undergo sueh psychical and bodily changes as will change liim from any other original temperament to the one undor notice. Of all the temperaments, it is particularly easy to be acquired. It is the outeome of civilization and refinement, and probably but for these agencies would never liave arisen. Among barbarous nations it is almost unknown, and savages never exhibit it; but it is common enough in London, Paris and New York and in men who, if they had lived a hundred years ago, would have been as phlegmatic as the most typical Dutchman. The diseases which are most apt to occur among individuals of the nervous temperament are those which concern the nervous system. Thus, we have the various forms of neuralgia, certain affections of the spinal cord, hysteria in all its protean varieties, St. Vitus' dance, catalepsy, ecstasy and insanity of all types. In fact, the nervous temperament itself is, if strongly developed, almost a pathological condition, the sensibility is so acute, the capability for receiving mental impressions so decided, and the system is so readily thrown into disorder from slight causes that the tem perament m question um-y often be considered as the first manifestation of disease. Persons of the nervous temperament are very subject to diseases which exist only in their imagination or which, being slight, are exaggerated by the constant habit of introspection in which they indulge. They are thus very frequently rendered seriously ill by the morbid attention they give to symptoms which are often by no means abnormal. But although the existence of the nervous temperament in a person predisposes him or her more than does any other te:u}>erainent to mental aberration, it is not to be supposed that it possesses this (Hjvver to the exclusion of the other teu)|>erameuts. The sanguine, the lymphatic and the choleric &e by uo means devoid of influence in this direction. Indeed, the latter is not far behind the nervous as a predominant temperament in insane persons. There is, therefore, no temperament which can par excellence be regarded as the insane temperament. Persons of all terni>era mental types are liable to insanity. Individual peculiarity is a factor not to be disregarded. Some people would never become insane, no matter what misfortunes might visit them or what uiental shocks they might suffer, while others might lose their minds upon the supervention of the slightest possible disturbing event. One man will suffer the loss of family and friends and money and his mind will retain all its clearness and vigor, while another will go into his barn and hang liiniseif when he learns that butter lias fallen two cents a pound. ?Dr. William A. Hammond in New York Mail and Express. Novel Method of Communication. It is related that Histseus, anxious to order Anstagoras to revolt, as the only safe w;n took the truest of his slaves, shaved his head, and, pricking the message upon his scalp, waited until the hair grew again, when he despatched him to Miletus, telling lum to ten Anstagoras "to shave his head and look thereon." This was one way to communicate an important message.?New York Commercial Anvertiser. Broiled Chicken. Cut the chicken open on the hack, lay on the meat board aDd pound until it will lie flat, lay it on a gridiron, place over a hf* of coals, aud brown nicely. It will i vok better to cover with a tin pie plate held down with a weight, so thot all parts of the chicken may lie close to the gridiron. While the chicken is broiling, put the liver, gizzard aDd heart into a stew-pan. and boil in a pint of water until tender; chop fine, and add flour, butter, salt, pepper, and stir in a mm of sweet cream. When the fowl is done, dip it in the gravy while hot, lay it back on the gridiron a few seconds, put it in the gravy, and let it boil for a half : minute. Send it to the table hot. A Direct Vote for President. Tariff reform and tax reduction are important measures, but a reform that lies 1 deeper is the reform of our system of na- ' tional elections. S-> l--nc as ibe people arc ' denied the right lo choose a President b\ 1 their direct votes, so long will the shameful frauds practiced in New York and else- \ where be continued. The best way to de- ; stroy the power of the trading politician is ] to destroy the system that gives him that ] power. If the people and not the State.- i ivere allowed to elect the President, the pivotal State idea, with all its concomitani t ;vils, would at once disappear.?Galvestot t News. i The home-stretch?Putting down the l farpet. w 1 HM?IMMM??B?M ! I WHS OF THE PAST. Vtoxnous Englishmen Who Said Some Verj Sharp and Pat Things. The late Mr. Alexander, the eminent architect, was under cross-examination at Maidstone by Sergeant, afterward Baron, Garrow, who wished to detract from the weight of his testimony. and. after askinsr him what was his name, proceeded: "You are a builder, I believe?" "No, sir, I am not a builder; I am an architect." "They are much the same, I supposeP" "I beg your pardon, sir; I can not admit that; I consider them to be totally different." "O, indeed! perhaps you will state wherein this great difference exists?" "An architect, sir," replied Mr. Alexander, "conceives the design, prepares the plan, draws out the specifications ?in short, supplies the mind; the builder is merely the bricklayer or the carpenter. The builder, in faot, is the machine; the architect the power that puts the machine together and sets it going." "0, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do. And now, after your very ingenious distinction without a difference, perhaps you can inform the court who wa3 the architect of the Tower of Babel?" The reply for promptness and wit is not to be rivaled in the whole history of rejoinder: "There was no architect, sir, and hence the confusion." One evening at Carlton House the Prince Regent observed the author of "The Heir-at-Law." "Why, Colman, you are older than I am." George replied: "Oh, no, sir; I could not -have taken the liberty of coming into the world before your Royal Highness." When a subscription was proposed for Fox and some one was observing that it would require some delicacyand ttrAn/l^wnnr V?A'/ T?AV TITAIIIA rck it ^A1. n vuuvxiug uv? A VA u v uxu uu^v ww* wyn said: "Take it? Why quarterly, to be sure." To all letters soliciting his subscription to any thing, Erskine has a regular form of reply, viz.: "Sir, I feel much honored by your application to me and I beg to subscribe"?here the reader had to turn over the leaf?"myself your very obedient servant," etc. "My Lord," said Dr. Parr to Erskine, whose conversation had delighted him, "should you die first I mean to write your epitaph." "Dr. Parr,11 was the reply, "it is a temptation to commit suicide." One of Currant friends, a notorious and lucky gambler, getting entangled In conversation with him, gradually lost his temper, and at last said, with great vehemence: "No man. sir, shall trifle with me with impunity." Curran corrected him by saying: "Play with you, you mean." An old lady residing in one of the charming villas near Tours, observing that her watch had stopped, told her maid to see what o'clock it was on the sun-dial in the garden. In a few minutes Mile. Nicole returned, quite out of breath aad carrying something heavy in her apron. "Ma foi, madame," said she, "I can't make out what it says, so I have brought it here, that madame may look at it herself." Bushe. the Irish Chief Baron, made this impromptu verse upon two agitators who refused to fight duels, one on account of his affection for his wife and the other because of his love for his daughter: Two heroes of Erin, abhorent of slaughter, Improved on the Hebrew command; Uuo uuiiurcuui? wiic uuu wjc uiLicruio uttu^utcr, That his days miRht be long in the land. Dr. Croly said very smart things and with surprising readiness. At his table one day when one of the guests inquired the name of a pyramidal dish of barley-sugar, some one replied: "A pyramid a Macsdoine." "For what use?1' rejoined the other. "To give a Philip to the appetite," said Croly. At the breaking up of a fashionable party, one of the company said he was about ic "drop" in at Lady Blessington's; whereupon a young gentleman, a perfect stranger to the speaker, very modestly said: "O, then, you can take me with you; I want very much to know her, and you can introduce me." While tb o other was standing aghast at the impudence of the proposal and muttering something about being but a slight acquaintance himself, eto., Sydney Smith observed: "Pray oblige your young friend; you can do it easily enough by introducing him in a capacity very desirable at this close sear son of the year?say you are bringing with you the cool of the evening."? London Society Times. Indian Mounds in Iowa. According to intelligence from that State several Indian mounds were recently opened in the country around Dubuque, "all seeming to confirm the theory that these mounds contain the relics of a prehistoric race, differing greatly from the American Indian, and a vastly superior order of intelligence and civilization. Last week several skeletons, in a perfect state of preservation, where taken from a mound a mile from Dubuque. They have been articulated and are now on exhibition. They are of huge stature. Another large mound, at Charles City, in Floyd County, has also been exploited. Here the skeletons were in a trench, instead of on the ground, and a quantity of pottery, arrow-heads and stone im plement8 of peculiar design were also found. The most curious relic was a vase with a rim ornamented in the same fashion as vases found in ancient English mounds and described in the report of the United States Bureau of Ethnology. That report states that specimens of this kind are exceedingly rare in this country. Further exploration* are to be mada" An "accessory after the fact," is nothiug more or less than a eomiuou every-day newspaper reporter. Two women Lave recently been regularly licensed as captains of vessels; one in New York harbor, the other on the Mississippi. A schoolteacher spent a long time in making one of his boys understand a very simple matter, and then, to relieve his mind, he said, "If it wasn't for me you would be the biggest dunce in town." A wedding custom of the season iu NewYork is that of inviting married men to act as ushers. The grooms prefer to ask the services of old friends who have pre ceded them to the altar, rather than to fall back upon boyish acquaintances. The United Stales buys ni*;re fr"ni Japan than any other foreign nation L;ist yea: 3ur impor.s, including raw siik, t< as, fans < hau Ikeix-hii f>, b?i;>boo, < !c . amounted to aea'ly sixteen million dollars. A clergymau of this city has invented ; machine by which he can extend or reduce he size of slippers at will. In this way ie hopes to utilize the Christmas presents ie will receive from the embroidering 1 poung ladies of his congregation. The Government pension roll contains ;he names of 452.557 people. Last year here were added 02,252 Dailies while in s ureases were allowed ia 45,TIG cases Har- , ison's administration will Lave to do souic * lustling to excel last year's record.? Cieveand Press. E 0 A DEAD LOCK OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. How Democrat- and Whit;s Quarrelled in i Organizing the House and How the Knot was Cut. (From the Baltimore American.) It was just fifty years ago when the Fifty-first Congress met. The Twenty-sixth Congress assembled for organization on December 2, 1S39. Hugh A. Garland was clerk. The question arose over the contest for the seat of live Representatives* elect, who having the commission of the Governor, had been placed upon the roll by the clerk. The e men were Whigs, while their opponents, who contested the seats, were Democrats. These representatives were from New Jersey. The importance of the question ? +W/\ XT AH !- /? Y*??> O UXOSti iruiu uiy AilUu LUttt uic nuuoc *?t*o near a tie politically, and a Whig majority would be secured by the admission of the members holding the commissions of the governor. The admission of the contestants, on the other hand, would give the Democrats a preponderance. The rule of the House then was what it is now being that the statute of 1867. incorporated in the lievised Statutes, section 31, has conv'rWi a usage into h law. The reading of the roll liaJ proceeded until the State of Now Jersey was reached, when the clerk stopped and announced that he had received a different return as to the live members sent to him by the Secretary of State of New Jersey, as he had certified to the election of live Democratic members) not on the roll. The clerk, on being requested to proceed with the reading of tne names on ihe roll, refused. The scene of disorder which ensued continued for three days, and on the iourtli day the case was started ty tiie House by John Quincy Adams, who appealed to the majority of the House to act. Mr. Rhett in const quence made the motion which was submitted by Mr. Adams that the House should appoint a temporary chairman and organize without the clerk. Another long contest ensued when this was done, at the end oi which the House passed a resultation ordering that the names of those be r(ad whose rights to seats were not contested In this way the Houie was organized, and R. M- T. Hunter elected Speaker, f he live Democrats were then admitted to membership, to the exclusion of the five Whigs who bore certificates. This action called for the severest censure from the public, which criticised harshly the ucconstitutionality of the whole proceeding. There is, therefore, a prtcedent for the action said to be coctempJated by some Republicans. But there is little probability of a repetition of these scenes. The Republicans havet airly and honestly elected a majority of che represenatives, and tuat majority will organize the Fifty-first Congress. Senator Quay, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said to-day GUU.C we xvepuuiicuua wuuiu uavo a majority of nine in the next House. "I do uot believe," he added, "that the Democratic Governors of States will give certificates of election to Democrats simply because they agree in political faith. 1 ^hail refuse to believe that any such thing will be done until I see it." Novel Tea Jackets. "Tea jackets" are meeting with great favor. They are pictaresquc little affairsof a variety of cuts. Cue model is made of robin's-egg blue, smooth-faced cloth. It j is cut short over the hips in front, with long Directoire coat-tails in the back. These quaint coats are worn over short skirts flounced with iace, and frequently sash ends come from the side nieces, and knot loosely over the front. Another model of a tea jacket is made of silver-gray cloth. The Ions; tails in the back are bcxpleated at the waist. The front pieces hang loosely from the throal over a tight fitting waistcoat of pale blue cloth, cm-1 broidered with silver. The skirt is aseiies of gray tulle flouncings over a blue foundation. -Table/Talk.- - Judge Pressley to Ketire. It is rumored here on very good authority that Judge Pressley will not be a candidate for re elecrion at this meeting of the Legislature, but will retire from the beuch. It is not idle rumor, either, as Judge Press-* ley is said to have told a gentleman of ihis city his iutent:on when iu Columbia last week. It is understood that General Izlar, of Orangeburg, will be one of the most prominent candidates to succeed the Judge. If the rumor is correct, and there seems good foundation for its tru'h, South Carolina will lose one of her ablest and mostworthy members of the bench, whose legal ability and high integrity has never yet been doubted or questioned.?Greenville News. The Negro Satisfied. The New York World has had represen1 tative negroes in all the Southern States interviewed concerning the political condition of the negroes in the South. From only three points are there complaints that negroes are interfered with in the exercise r\f rinrVito oc T^o 11*?r> Aru /.! ?_ Ui lUVli AlgUVO (N VIWVV/IO A-/II. I bliiiWI V} ilJVslJ mond, and Greenville, S. C. In every other section of the South the negroes say that they are not restricted in their rights as citizens. They are satisfied with the existing order of things. They ask'no interference upon the part of the incoming administration. They are, as a rule, content with what has been accorded them, and their testimony is in the main highly complimentary to the white people of tbe South. When putting away the silver tea or coffee pot which is not used every day lay a little stick across the iop under the cover. This will allow the fresh air to get in, and prevent mustiness. Bradstriet's says that reports from the country at large justify the expectations which were entertained of an improvement in business after the election. This is the case in nearly every department and in nearly every business centre. BLOOD AND BRAIN. Pure blood is 'what oils the machinery cf life, ease; every movement 01 me Doay, removes sua- | ness of the joints, drives out pain from the nerves, stimulates the brain, protects the liver and kidceys from irritation, enables physical exertion without fatigue, prolongs life, and makes men and women perfect in heakh and feature. Good blood and good brain are inseparable. Aim to keep^he blood pure by using the only true blood remedy, B. 15. B. (Botanic Blood Balm.) Miss S. Tomlinson, Atlanta, Ga^ says: " For many years I have been afflicted with rheumatism combined with severe kidney troubles, indigestion and nervous prostration. RKeUIIlatisni Several physicians were employed and numerous patent medicines resorted to without benefit. At last I began the use of B. B. B., and its effect was like magic. Rheumatic pains ceased, my kidneys were relieved, and my constitution improved at once." Z. T. Hallerton, Macon, Ga., writes: " Three years ago I contracted a blood poison. 1 applied to a physician at once, and his treatment came near killing me. I employed an old physician , and then went to Kentucky. 1 1 Hot Springs then went to Hot Springs and I remained two months, but nothing seemed to cure me permanently, although temporary relief was given me. I returned home a ruined man physically, with but little prospect of ever yetting well. 1 was persuaded te try B. B. B., and to my utter astonishment it quickly lieaied every ulcer." W. C. McCau^hcy, Webb City, Ark., writes: " I o A"e the comfort of my life to a use of B. B. B. I was troubled with blood poison Bad Blood for five or six yea rs, and found no I j relief equal to that given by this valuable remedy." Mrs. Emma Griffiths. Unitia. Tenn.. writer " The doctors said my boy twelve years old had crofula. His knees were drawn up and joints were stiff, and for three years he had Ix-er. Scrofula unable ^ walk. One bottle of B. B. B has done him so much good he can low walk, and his pain has ceased. Its action ou av bov has been Dronounced most wondsrfui" (LI THE BEST MACHINERY 1 REASONABLE PRICES. W Laur's Celebrated Saw Mills guaran- 13 teed as low in price as factory will quote direct. Unquestionably the best heavy -jgl savr mill built. Liddell Co.'s Pony and Standard Variable Feed Saw Mills? awarded first prize at New Orleans Exposition, and the best plantation and light custom mills on the market. ~ScT~~ man who has ever used a variable feed mill will have the old style, out-of-date belt feed. The Liddell-Tompkins Straight Line Engine has proven itself to be one of the |1 smartest, strongest, simplest and best saw mill and plantation engines in use, and wherever sold it does credit to the high talent which designed it. The New Era-Patent Portable Boiler, steams almost as well as the return tubular, far 1 better than the locomotive and has not the dangerous crown sheet and stay bolts Barbour Cotton Seed and Grain fl Crusher?, and Raymond Combination Mills. Jenkins' patent steam tight jB valve *, with replaceable .ceats. All kinds of machinery of the best quality at rea-T""-""* 9 sonable living prices. Write to me be- I fore you buy. W. H. G1BBES, Jr. Columbia, S. C. 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