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" ALL TROUBLES PAST, j. "THERE WAS A RAINBOW ROUND APniiT THr THRON?.M The Si;ci! of Promise from God aiitl What It Teaches to Men?The Trial* of Christians and Their Kainbow of Promise. The subject of Dr. Talniage's Sunday discourse was. "All Troubles ' Pas:'* and the text, Revelation iv., 3: "There was a rainbow round about the throne."' Following is tlio sermon: As, after a night of fearful tempest at sea, one sliip. more staunch than another, rides on undamaged among the fragments of spars and hulks that jl float about, so old Xoah's ark. at the close of the deluge, lloats on over the wreck of a dead world. Looking out of the window of the ark, you see the of houses. and the sheaves of wheat, and the carcasses of cattle, and the corpses of men. No tower is left to toll the burial; no mourners to form hi line of procession: no ground in which to bury the dead. Sinking a line twenty-seven feet long, you just touch the tops of the mountains. Ghastiiness and hon or! The ark, instead of walking the sea, like a modem ship, in majesty and beauty, tos ses helplessly; no helm to guide: no sail to set: no shore to steer for. Why 0- ^ protect the agony of the good people in such a craft, when they might in one dash of the wave have been put out of then* misery? But at yonder spot in the horizon we see colors gathering in the sky; at just the opposite point in the horrizon other colors are gathering. 11 " ^1- - J- I Iind mat tney arc me iwu yuuwoco of :m arched bridge. The yellow, the red, the orange, the blue, the indigo, the violet are mingled, and by invisible hands the whole structure is hung into the sky, and the ark has a triumphal arch to sail under. An angel of light swings his hand across the sky, and in the seven prismatic colors he paints with pencil of sunbeam ihr? everlasting covenant between God and every living creature. God lifted up that great arched bridge, and set it over His own head in the heavens. John saw it. for he says: "There was a rainbow round about gi . the throne." I notice that none but the people V\T11 ' \ v&cf/. !ti t]?rlr saw the rainbow. I It cast its shadow clear down into tlie writer where the people were buried, and lighted up the- dead faces with, a strange radiance, but they could not P see it. So only those who arc at last found in Christ, the Ark, will see the overspraiing glories of the throne. Hence you had better get into the ark' As you call your family out at the close of the shower to show them the sign in heaven, so I want you all a?, last to see the grander rainbow round about the throne.'" Look there T says Noah to his wife, 4*atthat bow in the clouds: and, Skein and Japhet, look! look!?the green, the vellow. the red. and the orange!'' I should not wonder if some of j-our ?w own children in the Good Land should lifter awhile cry out to you, ';Look, father! look, mother! there is a rainbow round about the tin-one!" You had better get into the ark, with all your families, if you want to see it. I notice also that the chief glory of V God comes after the rain. No shower, no rainbow; no trouble, no brightness of Christian consolation. Weavers are sometimes, by reason of their work, dusty and rough in their ap?? parel; and so it is the coarse-clad | ? tempest, whose hand and foot swing ' the suuttle, that weaves the rainbow, i Manv Christians are dull, and stupid, i 1.__ 1 4-1,,.,. 1UK1 usfit-ss uecitus-c uiuc aivu had disaster enough to wake them up. The brightest surf that heaven ?-J^" makes is thrown over the shoulders of the storm. You can not make a thorough Christian life out of sunshine alone. There are some very dark lines in the ribbon of the rainbow; you must have in life the blue as well as the orange. Mingling all the c-olors of the former makes a white light; and it takes all the shades, and sadness, and vicissitudes of life to make the white lustre of a pure Christian character. Your child asks you. ''Father, what makes the rainbow*'' and you say, "It is the sunlight striking through the raindrops." Therefore I wondered how there could be a rainbow -LLCxi V ^JLL OJULLVl/ IXIV-L U4V uv there; but then I conclude that that rainbow must be formed by the striking of heaven's sunlight through the falling tears of earthly sorrow. When we see a man overwhelmed with trouble, and his health goes, and his property goes,and his friends go,I say, "Now we shall see the glory of .God in this good man's deliverance." " As at Niagara Falls I saw, one day, ten rainbows spanning the awful plunge of the cataract, so over the abysis of the Christian's trial hover the rich-hued wings of all the promises. I notice that the most beautiful Mvlnrrt; of this world are to bo r>ro served in heaven. When you see the last color fade out from the rainbow of earth you need not feel sad. for you will see the rainbow round about the throne. That story about the world burning up has given me many a pang. AYhen I read that Paris was besieged, I said. "Now the pictures and statues in the Louvre and Luxembourg Avill be destroyed; all those faces of Rembrandt, and those bold dashes of Rubens, and those enchant r>>An+< of 7-fn nhn.pl r.n rymvfis. n,nd those statues of Canova." But is it not a more melancholy thought that ruin is to come upon this great glory of the earth, in which the mountains are the chiseled sculptures, and upon the sky, in which the "transfiguration" of sunrise and sunset is hung with loops and tassels of fire? I was relieved when I found that the pictures had been removed from the Louvre and the Luxembourg, and I am relieved now when I think that the best parts of this earth are cither to be removed or pictured in the Good Land. The trees must twist 111 the j last fire?the oaks, and the cedars, I and the maples? but in heaven there , shall be trees of life on the bank of j the river, and the palm trees from 1 which the conquerors shall pluck j their branches. The Hudson, and the St. Lawrence, and the Ohio shall 1 boil in the last llame, but we shall ( have more than then* beauty in the i' Hiver of Life from under the throne. The daisies. and the portulaeas, and j the roses of earth will Anther in the , hot sirocco of the judgment, but John j tolls of the garlands which the glori- . lied shall wear: and there must be ! flowers, or there could be no gar- ' lands. i I see the same truth set forth in 3 the twelve foundations of the wall of i the heaven. St. John announces the i twelve foundations of this wall to be, < the first, oi' jasper?yellow and red: i the second, of sapphire?a deep blue; ( the third, a chalcedony?a varied i beauty; the fourth, emerald?a blight < green color; the fifth, sardonyx?a bluish white; the sixth, sardius?red i and fiery; the- seventh, chrysolite? I golcteii-hued; the eight, beryl; a bluish j green: the ninth, topaz?a pale green j mixea witn yeit^w? uit? umv>.yvr j prasus?a golden bluish tint: the eleventh, jacinth?fiery as tkc sunset: tlie twelth. amethyst. But these precious .stones are only the founda- j tion of the wall of heaven?the most j inferior part of it. On the top of this j foundation there rises a mighty wall! of jasper?of brilliant yellow and j gorgeous crimson. Stupendous cata-1 ract of color! Throne of splendor i cnMimifv Ifc-UV* Yon see that the beautiful colors j which are the robes of glory to our j earth arc to be forever preserved in I this wall of heaven. Our skies of j blue, which sometimes seem almost j to drop with richness of color, shall j be glorified and eternized in the deep i everlasting blue of that fiery stone j which forms the second foundation i of the heavenly wall. The green that sleeps on the brook's bank, and rides on the sea wave, and spreads its banners on the mountain top, shall be eternized in the emerald that forms the fourth fomidatiou of the heaver 1}" wall. The fiery gush of the [ morning, the conflagration of the j autumnal sunset, the electricity that shoots its forked tongue out of the i thunder-cloud, the flames at whose breath Moscow fell and JEtnas burns shall be eternized in the fiery jasper. It seems as if all earthly beauty were in one billow to be dashed up against that wall of heaven: so that the most beautiful things of earth will be kept either in the wall, or the foundation, or in the rainbow round about the throne. I notice the unspeakable attractiveness of heaven. Iu other places the Bible tells us of the tloor ox heaven? the waters, and the stones, and the fruits; but now St. John tells us of the roof?the frescoed arch of eternity, and the rainbow round about tfce throne. Get a ticket, and carefully guarded, you go into the royal factory at Paiis where the Gobelni tapestries of the world are made, and see how for years a man will sit puttting in and out a ball of colored worsteds through the delicate threads, satisfied if lie can in a day make so much as a finger's breadth nf hMnfvfnr? Irinf's ftailOliV. 13lit behold how my Lord, in one hour, with his two hands, twisted the tapestry, now swung above the throne, into a rainbow of inlinite glory. Oh, what a place heaven must be! You have heretofore looked at the floor: this morning take one glance at the ceiling. On earth the deluge of sin covers the tops of the highest mountains. I heard an Alpine guide, amid the most stupendous evidences of God's nowor ytvonv ni. bis Trmlft fts llO stum bled in the pass. Yes, the deluge of sin dashes over the top of the highest mountain ranges, lievenge, drunkenness, imp ety, falsehood, blasphemy, are but different waves of a Hood that has whelmed nations. New York is drowned in it, Brooklyn is drowned in it, Boston is drowned in it, London is drowned in it, St Petersburg is drowned in it?two great hemispheres are drowned in it. But the redeemed, looking into the "rainbow round about the tlirone," see the pledge that all this is ended for them forever. They have committed their last sin, and combated their last temptation. No suicide leaps into +1i/\or. lvi-ioVcf- tcqfovc- nn Tvrrvfnnif.v liA fouls that pure air; no villain's torch shall lire those temples: no murderer s hand shall strike down tliese sons of God. They know that for thorn the deluge of sin is assuaged, for "there is a rainbow round about the tin-one." * Now the world is covered with a deluge of blood. The nations are all the time either using the sword or sharpening it. The factoiies of the world are night and day manufacturing the weaponry of death. Throne against throne, empire against empire. The spirit of despotism and freedom at war in every land: despotic America against free America, despotic England against free England, despotic Germany against free Germany, despotic Austria against HP1-* s\ 4- 1^1 a A'f II tru ^LU^ULia* J.JUV fcyc*UUJ.V/ Ui earth is being fought?the Armageddon of the nations. The song that unrolled from the sky on the first Christmas night, of "peace and good -.vill to men," is drowned in the "booming of the great siege-guns. Stand back, and let the long line of ambulances pass. Groan to groan. "Uncover, and look upon the "trenches of the dead. Blood! blood! a deluge of blood! JtJut tiie redeemed 01 neaven, looking upon the glorious arch that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over. No batteries are planted on those hills; no barricades blocking those streets; no hostile Hag above those walls: no smoke of burning villages: no shrieks of butchered men; peace! German and Frenchmen, who fell with arms interlocked in hate on the field of death, now, through Christ in heaven, stand with arms interlocked in love. Arms stacked forever: shields of battle hung up. The dove instead of the eagle; the lamb instead of the lion. There shall IVA f A AV /1QL4VAV I'M 011 kJU 11W ill 111^ tv JJIUXU VI U^/QWVJ .4-4-1. ?tXi j GocI?s holy mount, for tlicre is a rain-! bow round about tlie tloronc. Now the earth is covered with the deluge of sorrow. Trouble! trouble! The very first utterance when we some into the world is a cry. "Without any teaching, we leani to weep. What has so wrinkled that mans face? "What has so prematurely 1 I.:,, i.nn,?a WilltdilTl lil?> ililll . YVUitU tuuo VUU that sigh? 'What starts that tear? Trouble! trouble! I find it in the cellar of poverty, and far up among the heights on the top of the crags; for this hath also gone over the tops the highest mountains. No escape from it. You go into the store, and it meets you at your counting-desk; you go inta the street, and it meets you at the corner: you go into the i liouse, and it meets you at the door, rears of poverty! tears of persecution! ears of bereavement!?a deluge of Gears! Gathered togatlier from all I the earth, they could float an ark [arger than Noah's. Bat tlie glorified. looking up to the bow that spans the throne, shall see that the deluge is over. No shivering wretch on the palace-steps; io blind man at the gate of the lO'pvjily temple, asking for alms; no 'his; of the bcrew-driver on coflin : : -l-nt 1 1.^/1 J.U. lWAfll up iil; L JULV ^ULAXK.\J\y 1 | mil j eml. in lines of yellow, and red, md green, and blue, and orange, md indigo, and violet: "They shall lunger no more, neither thirst any nore; neither shall the sun light on :hem, nor any heat: for the lamb vhic-h is in the midst of the throne >hall feed them, and shall lead them .into living fountains of waters, and Lrod shall wipe away all tears from :heir eyes." Thank God for the glory spanning the tin-one! In our boyhood we had a superstition that at the foot of the rainbow there was a casket of buried golchbut; I liave to announce that at the foot of this rainbow oi' heaven thsreisabox made- out 01 the wood of th;; cross. Open it,?uid you find all the treasures of heaven. Oh that our eyes may all look upon ; this bow of promise, lifted by Christ's own hand! We shall trace the separate ; lines of beauty across the firmament, i In the line of red X shall see the blood ! I it' ID <* TV.Wl. "ill 4 1?/-v "Kin/-. v'* *?V ill ? * l* MiUV.> ItlXL I./4 UWV .1 J that colored. His ch^ek; in tlic green.' the freshness of Kis grace; in the ; violet. His humility; in all that curve j of beauty, the bend of ids right; arm of love swung over ail the re- j deemed. But mind what I told you at the ' beginning, and what I tell you at the close?that none but Xoiii's family j in ft if ark saw the rainbow, and that only those who are at last in Christ shall discover it ami J the glories of Leavon. "Except a man be born again, he I cannot see the kingdom of God.' A STORY OF THE WAR l "Talking about the war." said, my friend Blackman, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe and thoughtfully gazed in the fire, '-there is one incident connected with it wliich will haunt me to my grave." Pie paused a moment, and then answered my look of inquiry us follows: "It was in '01,in Virginia,and three ns had left the camp on a foraging expedition. I remember it was a beautiful night?a full moon in cloudless sky?not a very favorable niglit for the work wo had m liaiul. which was simply the getting of a bushel or two of green corn from a field wliich was closely watcliecl. "13 at we were successful, and were on our return trip to the camp when we were attracted by a noise, as of some one walking, in an old,al>ando!vcd barn by the roadside. "There had been spies about, and we were suspicious. So we paused in the road and listened. "Presently a man appeared in the doorway. A glance sufficed 10 showthat lie was a Union soldier. He did not appear to see us. but stood with folded arm?, gazing upon the clear and beautiful sky. Then he walked forth, bareheaded, and stood with his back to us, still gazing on the sky. "'A spy!'was the exclamation of my comrades. -Lot's startle him with a bullet.' " Til just lire for fan,' 'and not to hit him,' and suiting the action to the word, raised my riile and blazed away. '"I never could tell just how it happened?God knows I didn't aim to kill him!?but as my rifle rang out on the still night air I saw the dust fly from his coat of blue: then he turned suddenly and faced us?then ?fell on his face in the road. ""We hurried to his side,but he was dead. Some cursed fate had guided my bullet to his heart, and all that we could do for him now was to bury him there by the roadside. There were no papers on his person by which he could be identified. \Yc to unci only aiittic testament wun tlie initials, -J. H." on the fly leaf,the picture of a woman young and beautiful, in' a gold locket, and a ring with the same initials, 'J. II:' engraved on the inside." Blackman paused a moment, and put his hand over liis eyes, as if to shut out a painful vision. "Do you know," he said, after he had remained silent for several minutes, "tliat I can't get away from the memory of the thing? I never walk I along u> road but that the scene comes back to me, and I hear the crack of the riile; see him turn in the road and face me, then fall to his death: and somehow, I have a premonition >Im11 V.A rtO ?.'11/1/1AM *? C* ! i.LUit m\ ?iii uu ?*o cuvutvx^ no i Lis was. and will come when I least expect it." He left me abruptly ami retired to Ms room. A little thought that his words would be verified and that I would never see him again in life. He-left early the next morning, for his home in Mississippi. A telogram that his plantation was in danger of being submerged by the floods hastened his departure. Only a week afterward I read this announcement in a New Orleans newspaper: "News of the terrible drowning of Mr. Blackman and his ouly daughter has just readied this place. Ti. _\.i i.?/i it/ St'CJil Lilt Lb IliS IILLIU f^lXi mill UL-IUI playing near the river, wliicli lia<l ris en to within twenty yards' of the house. Mr. Blackman and his wife were busy packing up, preparatory to removal out of the reach of flie advancing waters, and the little one had slipped away from them unawares. They did nqi know of the danger she was in until, alarmed by her screams, her father rushou out,! only to see her straggling in the wa j tcr. He plunged in to save her, and \ 11 1 TV uoiix were (uuwneu. I was pained and surprised by the j mournful news, and instantly recall-, ed the forebodings Blackmail had j imparted to me that memorable night in the hotel. He had foretold his death. Was it i chance?or fate. F. L. Staxtox. | j The Assessed Value of "Wife. A recent opinion rendered by the | Virginia Court of Appeal, shows; that the law recognizes a graded val- j uation of wives. The complainant had sued for J damages for the loss of his wife, j who had been killed through the ; negligence of the defendants. On j the trial evidence tending to show that the deceased i: :<i been a superior wife was oflw rti. and, presumably influenced by this, the jury gave the complainant a verdict for ?0.000. i The defendants objected to proof as to the character of the wife, and carried the issue to the highest court of the State. The tribunal holds that such ovi- i dence was perfectly proper as means of estimating the damage suffered by the husdand. "If the character and conduct of j she wife/' says the Court, "be such | that her death will cause but little I torrow. suffering and mental anguish; ii t i tii n p _ i i to tiie liusoauci, men me iair ana just proportion of tlic damages to be { awarded by the jury, will be measur- j ed accordingly. Bui if on the con-; trary," the Court added, "the wife be j loving, tender and dutiful to her i husband; thrifty. industrious, eco nomicai anu pruuent?as me evidence iu this case proved Mrs. I\IcConnell to be?then her price is far above rubies, and the loss of such a wife, of such a helpmeet, of such in- j lluence, of such a blessed and potentj ministry and companionship, is a: proper element of damages to be j considered by the jury in Axing: the solatium to be awarded to the hus-: band for tearing her from his heart i and home."?Buffalo Saturday Ti-; dings. * \ * *VOC?"H MI'M I 'UV-j ' H*t-I' A TALK WITH CAPT. TiLLMAN. lie a llej?orter S<?m" ?>f His Views "f : tlifFcndit'S I<?!> .> j!i Sonfh Carolina. "* TL?.e c.MTi-spou;!- ul >J" ?Ii--(J ii'stor. X<-v.s ;aiu 0?HaiijV ".v :;f-s ; to Unit pup.* as K<]i;j?vs: i < ' r'uvjucr U. I*. I'iliiji.v:v.*!:-; t iiig the oiiice oi' G^vtiiior i South; a Carolina. was in Angaria today! f teaching :i new man the rou'n \u de- i* ii er initUi lo his custonifi'.s ?u tJii-i j city. Yoiir eoiTespondenl ; topped I ( Mr. Tillman, who is an enthusiastic 3 aspirant, and had a short em versa-, \ tion with him 0:1 the pohiics oi the 1 Palmetto Stn.to. 11 I iirst asked ii.iu who wovdit :ti<] ? liim ill stumping 1 h? Suiic. He iai- ( swcred that Col. Y. J. Pop'-, of New-ii berry. aiu'l Mr. Iv.iircn" i*ary. of Abb--11 ville. who are boL. ai'.> ilu- <>i' 1 Attorney General. and Mr. H. L. Farley. of Spartanburg who is ;1 dulate for Adjutant ami Inspector i 1 General. arc- booked to ma'cc cam- j < pai^n s[x)'H*lics. :' "Then there is n contention be- j' tween -Messrs. Pope una Gary for the j < same officer" I huiuired. ;] "Yes.' replied Mr. Tillman, ''t.bey j I I arc both after the same oilice. Each j 1 | man will lake Lis ov.u skillet | through.' but ihoy will preach from j ' j ay plat' oral. They will all be in j > Greenville on the 3or-ii, ;.mu lam j1 going to speak, too,it*I can jjet there." j j continued -Mr. Tillman. "Wliat do you think of Koib's do- ; feat in Alabama.'" I next asked the fanner, for your candidacy raid 1 Kolb's is considered in the same light. His retort to this pertinent ques- : tionwas: "I sec no analogy between : m;ne and Kolb's candidacy, for he ran as the Farmers' APianco candi dale out and out, and 1 do. not con- , sidcr myself a candidate of the A1 liancc, for I advised the Alliance not in -ntov Iinliiifs. and I asked them not to take any action :is an organization in my beliali." "V?rell, who nominated 3*011 at. the Convention held in Columbia last March?" "Why, the people, of course," he answered. ''That was no Alliance meeting. All classes ot people were invited to the Convention, but of course there were a numoer of farmers there. I11 fact you cannot hold a meeting in Carolina without bringing the farmers in." Mr. Tillman then said that he hoped two or three more candidates would enter the race for Governor: and gave as his reason for that desire that all could not then speak at the same meetings, and that would give some of them a chance to get a vncf As to the cry of any division among the Carolina Democrats, Mr. Tillman' said that was all nonsense, for "I am a simon-pure Democrat, and will abide by the Democratic Convention. The only truth of any division is between the Democrats :iud the masters." The only thing that is worrying Mr. Tillman, lie says, is the labor of the canvas's but he intends going around the State with the crowd as long as he can wjg. ' Do you intftid to answer Col. Butler's mien letter in defence of his management of tlie affairs oi' the Board of Agriculture?" "I will reply to that in Greenville," responded the fainier. "who says he bas encouraging reports ^ from all : parts of the State upon Ills chances . for his election. "Why." sats Mr. ; Tillman, "if they will give me a free vote and a fair count I will scare the ringsters in Charleston. They are ; already scared; but I mean I think I : will clean them up, and I believe I will do it anyhow." iVR- STEWART'S HEART. An Atlanta Tax Collector lias II!? Heart on t'leKiirlit Si?le. I . Every one that laiows"~Mr. Andy Stewart, the kind-hearted and sun- i shiny tax collector, knows also that his heai't is on the light side. j It is not only on the right side, ' ethically and morally speaking. It is on the right side of his sturdy frame. He is built that way. Up North somewhere a dray ran : against a man ai\d jostled his heart ] ! over from his left to las right side. ' jsot so witn .ur. Qtewan;. n 11 cn Mr. Stewart was not Mr. Stewart, [ but only a cliubby babe, innocent ot' J collecting t ixes, his mother, in ex- ' ploring his body, as mothers will, 1 \ thinking that their children are gi'eat } and delightful mysteries, she* found 1 that Andy's heart was on the right ' side. Of course she quickly told Mr. i Stewart. The two examined the child j Sure enough, there was no heart-beat ] on the left side, but it beat its life's < tattoo jit a very vigorous rate on the < other side. . -v i Tli/% /1nr>tnv wna irs mirl I henceforth Andy was to he a freak.! i The boj*s at school looked upon him !. as a wonder, find when he grew, to j < manhood the physicians far and near j i came to him and craved the privilege | < of examining the heart that bcal [ iout true on the right side. Mens ; 1 hearts are tooleft, too sinister. ! 1 But the insurance agents objected j 1 to freaks. They refused to insure a i man whose heart was right. It was < too much of a freak, and not enough 1 in the "old line" for the old line com- I panics. However, Mr. Stewart got ] his life insured in three benefit ass'o- < ' I' n. _ 7> 1 A ?n.^ ciauons, inc x\ufy?ii iu/ciuiuiu, mu ( Ancient Order of United "Workmen i and the'Mystic Circle, carrying $18,- j 000- in the three. ZMr. Stewart says: . ' "The doctors used to conic to look 1 at me. but it got to be too much ol" i a bore to be examined as a freak. My ? wife says that when I am buried, she i will stand guard over my grave to ] 1-ofoi st.ndonts from cut- < tiiiir me up. But* I wouldn't mind j t that much, if it would be of. any ben-! eiit to science and teach the doctors ] how to cut up live people without i killing them. - 1 -There is a man of the same name t as myself, though 110 kin to me, Mr. t Joe Stewart, a teacher of Marietta, t who has his heart on the right side. That is the only other case I know of where a chjld was bom with his i. heart on the right side and his liver j \ o]i the wrong side." j 3 ??i * Not For Ingalls. J * The Atchison (Kansas) Champion j ! a radically Republican paper, has ] created a sensation in that State by j taking a bold stand against the re- ? xr CAWUVll l/i X-LV-/J-L. VUilU V. l/V i the United States Senate. It bases its opposition on the ground that ? "Ingalls has never during his eigh- | teen years of service in the Senate f done a solitary thing in the way of ;1 legislation, never secured the passage r of a single measure. never as much a# | v given assistance in good faith to ob-fa tain the enactment of any l>ill for j s the l?onolit of Kansas, but, 011 the j r-rmf.rnrv. 1ms &iinr)lv used llis DO.sitiOll i to advance bis personal interests .11 j n politics." This is certainly very plpJai j t talk for a party organ. > ! 1: 1 I macmxtm mm mmu." ?=.rv RUSSiAN HEBREWS. omeof the Trials Tlicy St;i it-r in :hc ; - z.u-'s Empire, A curious raid important :ipi use lias just been tccideu in- tLe; ourt of cassation or tuc Senate. wiacii .fiords a striking example of the duplicated disKi.-difies oi ilie Jews : ii Kussia, says the .London innes. ; Llaw student of Jewish race execut ! il ;i deed of transfer by which he! aado over his property in KieiV, consisting of house and land, to his wife nlier own right, but the notary aiblic refused to legalize it on the jround that the wife, who was also j )f the Jewish faith, had 310 right to j icquire landed property in ivieil". whatever might be the-rights of her lusbaud. The matter went to court. and it ,vas decided that, although a Jew josessing a diploma of either of the :hree learned degrees had the right :o reside in all parts of the empire, md in virtue of such right might acquire property in the district of his [residence, yet this right to acquire property was the result of an exception to the law granted in favor of the j e wish doctor or master of law or arts, as the case might be, individually, md was not communicable to his wife Dr children. The decision was upheld and of sinned on appeal to the Senate tit St. Petersburg. Possibly we siiall Si'*ov fl 1 r\ irlvnc oiwl of Hussion -lews not having tlio right to reside with their husbands and fathers in districts where the standard of their education gives them privilege to live. SAVED BY TRANSFUSIONT3ie iilood of it Miiti Inl^wlueed Into the Veins of ix Woman Giving Per Life. Lizzie Cunningham, a young shop girl, was found unconscious in bed on the morning of January (i. Beside her lay her friend. Mary Fallon, a seamstress, dead. The unlighted gas jet was wide open and the room was full of gas. Miss Cunningham was taken in a comatose condition to the New York Hospital. She failed to rally alter receiving the usual treatment, so on January 7 lier physician decided to try the transfusion of blood. In two operations forty ounces of blood, poisoned by the inhaled gas, had been drawn from her. Amos L. Lincoln, a bi>r. healthy telegraph lineman, under treatment for a muscular affection of the arms, volunteered to give the blood needed to fill her veins. About twenty-five ounces were drawn from his right arm into a basin containing phosphate of soda: which was intended to keep the blood from coagulating. A little rubber pipe terminantig hi a glass tube was attached to the bottom of the vessel,wliichjwas elevated several feet above the girl's body. The glass end or tlie tube wat inserted in the radial artery in iier wrist, and Ames Lincoln's blood was let into her veins. Miss Cunningham remained unconscious until January [). She then revived enough to speak a little, but soon sank bad: into unconsciousness, from which she was revived during the next four days only occasionally and with great difficulty. On the 13th she began to show symptoms of improvement, although her body was totally paralyzed and her niincl was inactive and clouded. The paralysis continued until Febuary 1, when Miss Cunningham began sitting up in bod and occasional}* leaving it. She continued to convalesces lowly, and a few days ago was sent home with only a slight halt in her gait and a general stillness of Lev movements to tell of her narrow escape from death. Dr. Robert F. Weir, the attending physician, said that despite tlie unusual length and strenuousness of her struggle for Life she was just about as sound as ever in mind and body.?New York Star. Mountain Conflagrations. I'eteusbukg, June 11.?Reports arc received here of disastrous conflagrations and great loss of property in kbe mining district of the Ural Mountains. The iron works at Eufalcisk jnd New Janck. a thousand dwelling liouscs, four school houses, tin-ce shurclies, a hospital and magazine ire completely destroyed. Forty persons were burned to deatb.and 18.000 svere made homeless by the destruction of the towns. Irtin-j: Troubles, Ilheumatism 3*]tc. Frequently a person is supposed to lave consumption when it is some Dtlier disease altogether that is roluciug ]iis flesh and making him look pale and thin. J. "W. Yates, Tullahoma, Term., writes: "It does me good to praise Botanic Blood Balm. It cared me )f an abscess on the lungs and asthma ihafc troubled me two vcars and that other remedies failed to benefit." ?50 you sec it is .sometimes wen to ;ry constitutional treatment. No ;emedy is so good as B. B. B. (BoianijL' Blood" Balm) for rebuilding ivrsted tissue, and giving liealth to )vcrj portion of the system reached that circulating steam of life, the lurnan' blood. Again, it is often supposed that colds and exposure are the )nly causes' of sciatica, rheumatism. Snrii is not ulwevs the ease. It s frequently caused by impurities in ;lie blood. \Ym. Price, Luttsville. Mo- writes: I was afflicted with sciatica ffad had ost tlie use of one arm and one leg or nine . years. I wem to Kot springs and also tried different doc;ors. but found no cure until I tried botanic Blood Balm. It made me : sound and well. I am weli known in I his vicinity." | . Observe, even when tiie renoTvned lot Springs i'iiiled, 13. L. 13. brought clief. Remember. v.o matter ivkat )lood remedy you have tried or inended to try, 13. 13. 13. is the only one hat will give you complete sfctisfaoion. The importance of purifying the >lood cannot be over-estimated, for i-iflirmf r.nw blond VOU flilOV trood tealtli. P. P. P. (Prickly Ash Poke Joofc ?iih1 Potassium) is a miraculous )looJ purifier, performing more euros u six months than all the sarsaparilas and so-called blood puriiiers put ogether. Ivhcumatism.?James Paxton. of Javannab. Ga.. says ho had liheumaism so bad that he could not move rom the bed or dress without help, j t.,1 Mi.if nif?7iv ir-moilies. out I eceived 210 relief unfil ho begun to | use P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke lioot \ nil Potassium.) and two bottles re* j tored him to health. ; 3 Eontlily irregularities ure relieved ; .nd cured and much sullc-ring saved 0 woman by use of Bracllield's Fcaale Regulator. Sold by druggists. r - FARMERS AMD SCHOOLS. .V IViiitoil Ai-!-de From a Leidinr; sontli- 1 ern Fanner. .'iwiuv Lull- lime since. X wrote. ior | in;.' Cuirivaro:-. an nrtiele on farmers i ami fairs. This article was intended | to ia?> ist* more interest in the development ox our agricultural resources. I am wiitin^' now upon farmers and school^ to awaken more interest in the kindred subject of education. Out- income i'rom our farms will serve but poor advantage, if the part necessary it! not given to the intellectual culture una improvement of our children. There .".re but few misfortunes j more full of evil 10 any community, than the absence of educational training. The fanner makes a great mistake, who allows his children to grow up without such mental training and such general education as will lit them, at least, for the practical duties of life. 7+- fincmv tn iliof \rp ;>vr> tinT. ; giving prope% attention to those do-! mantis in tiio rural districts. In the j absence of schools, many children | arc- put upon the community as illit- j crates, who become a burden to so- j ciety and the State. AYLiy not make these boys and girls, by training and education, good citizens, useful to themselves and helpful to the State? I llniiy men excuse themselves from the duties necessary to maintain a neighborhood school, by putting the onus upon the State. The State, say they, has undertaken the education of its children and they feel themselves relieved. The question is not as to tlie undertaking of the duties, as much as its discharge. Ave the advantages for an education in our country districts fully up to the demands of tlie communities? If not is it not tlie duty of citizens of such communities, to begin at once to remedy these defects ' Xo man in believes our country schools are what they ought to be. nor what they might be. under proper cfiort and proper interest. In many sections of the State our schools arc not continued longer than three or four months. The amount paid is not sulSeent to warrant the services of even an ordinary teacher, and the limited time 0/ the school cannot give such instruction as will remain with the child until the school opens again. The lack of competent teachers is of itself sufficient to destroy the efficiency of the instruction. It would seem, then the lirst thing we need to do. in order to improve the country schools, is to advance the standard for teachers. To get better teachers. however, it will be necessary to pay better prices, and to earn better | prices we must extend the time of the schools. At best, therefore, it would appear that the first thing to do into or| range means to extend the time of the schools four to nine months, and i IX1CJLL <IXJL VlUVi. WVCOA? will follow. If the State cannot be induced to extend the appropriation sufficient to warrant the additional time for 1 be schools, then the farmers. should themselves and among themselves, by voluntary assessment, raise such amounts as will be necessary to extend the time and establish .uch | schools tis the community may ue| mand. ! Some people make the mistake . to relr upon the pittance furnished by the -State m sufficient for ordinary dcmands. and excuse themselves upon the ground of the aid furnish CJU LT) LIXU VI JUU1V ! aid from tlie State rather iiian exorcise their right to a personal contribution to the education of their children. Formerly the State did none of this work and the parent was left to do it all. The fact that the State relieves the citizen of about one-half this burden does not at all excuse the citizen from cheerfully carrying the other hall. If farmers, all over Georgia and the South, would onh* recognize thenduties in this connection and go to work, using the aid of the State, as far as it goes, and supplementing, when this is exhausted, by drawing I upon biioir mtuviuuiu iui the building of good aud comfort a| ble school-liouscs una the maintenance, in every community, of good schools, our rural homes would be more cheerful and happy, our children would be more intelligent, and the country would take 011 a look of thrift and gladness that would open an era of prosperity to the State. I may have more to say upon country schools in a subsequent number. Yv". J. Nof.tmex. Iion?csti'cet's Old Soldiers. General James Longstreethasarrived iu St. Louis from Richmond, Va.. ivliAvr? lio in the TjCe statue unveiling' ceremonies, lu talking Ireely of the treatment he received from his old soldiers while m Richmond the General said: "The bo;?*s may misjudge me aCd my motives f?nd actions with their heads, but their hearts are all right every time. I would not take a good deal for my experience. The old soldiers covered me with Confederate iiags. cheered me, cried over me, and ~ rtTk/I O/VOD. \\ 1 Uilg III.) lliiUH old man who served under me is now totally blind. He said: "General. I will never see you again in this world, but I hope we'll meet up yonder where we can all see. I wans to hear your voice once more before I die." General Longstreet was much affected while talking of bis old comrades in arms. 3icing asked by an mterviower who. in his opinion, was the best cavalry oilicer in the Conf.'>( ]^r\-\co. frfmpyo] LoilL'Slroet replied: "The best cavalryman on either side was Jeb Stewart. He was the greatest cavalry soldier. I think, the world ever knyvr." Do FJ rules Dread Death? Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. who presided at the banquet tendered to Walt Whitman Saturday evening, is a sort of universal genius. A man of abundant means, elegant leisure andscien-1 tilie and literary taste, he has em- j braced in the curriculum of his studies many branches of learning, and in a controversy with Col. Robert G. Ingerscli showed himself on the oc?. ? ?n -i i .1? casion J i'iwxt'vi 10 iuuit' mini a ;uuicu for that astute reasouer. -What tTc I tlic lower animals know c! death.'" j said the colon c-I. repeatm.^: a question ! addressed to him by another member ! of the pfu iy. "As much :;s you or IJ do. If you pursue :i cockroach won t1 it run from you?" Without stopping: f to inouire what could lsavesuirffcsted i cockroaches at the restaurant where they bad dined. Dr. Br!nto?i sai-1. "I beg your pardon, colonel. Docs not the insect nm from pain rather iiian deniii?" And for once the greatlogi-; cian was at sea for an immediate an-! s ww .?p] ill add pi lia I ntfoi rev. nr* u A/-.-? . ?. /-vi- 4-1- 4* t.r.i- . I JLJLi'J sj?. liavj ill at, U.1.^- | trict nominated Hon. Tlios. B. Rood j for Congress by acclimation. / * f i 0 ~ * * L * \ inw jju^i jn wn? a ? A Robin Vanquishes a Cat. Sunday v.*;is evidently a good day / fnv v/Vhrns. \T? rjiwrw hvinor nf flip ' ?i North End saw, for the iir.si time, ?! a robin singing on the ground. Hopping along tlie shaven lawn. the bird would make his dive for a worm, and, having swallowed his dainty mouthwnnld fcr^nk mil, into full son<?: I I tlien. hopping on, he would make a ' dive for another morsel?and so on. A resident of Edword Street saw a still more curious sight. A young robin, unable to fly, had tumbled C upon the ground, and a stealthy cat c was creeping crouchingly up to the v youngster. She had got within about r six feet of him when the mother bird r iy +'.i f ho I'i ?J\JSSS9LV+J XL >? tt."J tilW XUtMVA.; .-w witness didn't seem to know which? put in a sudden appeararce. Taking i a position near the young bird the i parent, ruiiiing all its feathers and 1 assuming the exact aspect of a mother hen defending her brood. ?iew at the cat and actually drove it in flight from the s 'Ci:.''. ;: Cannibalism in Egypt. ijoisDox, Jane 12.?liie most &paccounts are receh ed of the sufferings of the people in Upper Egypt and along the scene of the expedition for the relief of Gordon. It is said that the inhabitants, driven desperate by starvation, feed on each other, while all lands of animals, however loathsome, are eagerly sought lor food. The wretched i people tight with each other for mor- i sels, and hundreds are perishing i daily. Failure of of crops is said to j cause this awful misery, though the wars in which British ambition for territory has prominently figured have doubtless had their influence in causing the failure of the crops. Inj deed, it is said that most of the male j population left the devastated region without sufficient men labor to I ; raise crops. * - Disastrous Storm in the West. Di:s Moines, Iowa, June 12.? Reports received at railroad offices in tills city say tliat the Milwaukee and Pock Island railroads sustain se /ere losses from the storm at "Weston Underwood, and Persia, an I all trains are suspendid on both r oads. The fost stock train on the 1 Linois. Central plunged into a -washout at ac-kley yesterday, with seven car loads of cattle, over 100 head being killed. The storm about Adair was the worst ever known there. Heavy clouds rolled up from the northwest ill nvmiiti<~r ?vnrl l\v XJJ. LiiO V, t CCUV1 K/J J. ?/ V LAJ.V wind was blowing a hurricane, and rain fell in blinding sheets. Corn is badly washed out and orchards and gaidaus are ruined in man}-places. Rheumatism js cured by P. P. P, Pains and aches hi the back,shoulders, ankles, hips, .and wrists are all attacked and conqured by P. P. P. This great medicine, by its bloodcleansing proprieties, builds up and strenghtens the whole body. ^JpFSELO'S i ?h^V:s $z?:$m4w' Mr-f4STRUA710N 0? MONTHLV CtCKNSSS lr ^KtN DUR'.MR nV.AUGE. QV USE. GutfvT. V} K&SER '"o SUFF IRttiS WILL S? MOIDEII jSOVX T 0"W 0 M bSHTJUUEDfja BRA OF I ELD FtcSUiA TOH CO. ATLANTA GA iqlo sy.\ u asucsem. I 11 f I ?sd| i ^ ^ C*VJ t+1 e.r OU r^rr ::25' 5*5 OPT wrsrsjfg .: ? fc. -. fj-- iw. S-.. A .? ."4 ,;; u&r.i. -ur?TS.V?>??S E>iiLr?-%j;jS-"? i; T,K5?V..VV .ir '-,;;:Yg{UU.SXS. dily i is&cJl CLe r-.-ist AVi >: WW* s?-nrt XvTTOLfrSCK? T^:??r.st * -CO" r."lNK m the world. J):Uctcus tT.o Cpariiliasr. THY IT. ? / ?,. ffe AsS your L?,u?,S's>i' w- ? ? 0 E. PHILADELPHIA. Wanted 10 every County. Siirewi oca to act omlcr instructions in our See ret Service. Experience not necessary. Particulars free. Grannan Detectire Bureau Co. ?4?rcs?o,Ci2Sia2atifQ> rrx si ASSESS & *s*cs wjts.ju? > *;v*- M SL^ J-NVivJtf-a "Jruwa EA3 itssj P4 2 mms. :.?*!. f\-*> r- !-:&*>:?. Sewafj|-?h? r -.?!! Hrw+tfotel. Setoff K.?l?f<JXr cmj, lirMwa}, >.c%* Vc?"k. ."?r bcoi: ?r ;?r:u* m'WJJ PAR&SR'S SffiSSS HA!R 8AI?$A8S 5^ .i'"! JxMat;:l?i tlie Iiair. f ^ C?5'froiBfttaai iu.-'.'r::?r.t growth. |ky?fc&S&? Vk?* N??ei* fans to Restore Gray ?Hair ii Hi Youthful Color. ! t Z&iygyy* sc C<\ ?.~.i >: i?>r.c r>ri;?gista. t GILDER'S LIVER PILLS! Remove llic bile f<om the system, cure all bilious troubles, and prevent malarial disease:!. For ra!e i>y all druggists *nd rner chants at 25 cents a box, o: mailed on roceipt. ol price by BARKETT DRi*<J 00., Augusta, O'a. TAKE G1LDKCS PILLS. HT_T 7 ) GUARANTEED TO OUR ? JLX? JL .Cick Hcadache and ConI stipation la a siwrt time. Prevents all Maia! rial troubles. Price fifty cents. For saie by druggists and merchant?. Manufactured by the Barrett drug co., A*i?rsla. Ga. ! The Tszer Basins Works (Successor to Dial H:;giuc Works.) JOHN A. W1LLIS, PllOPli., 117 Y\V.st Gee vats Street, ? \ kbab Wi . I H i Miff 1 I | g ; ^ ?-MAX!UFICTCBE RS ' ! '?- - ! Tose** 8 team Engines, Arid r.ii siz' .- of both L?x-o:in>:i\ts ana vosuru TcUar ;ioj.er-. JS-CFour:dry work in iron aucl Cra<>? If'.puixiiif; froniptly executed. J . JERSEY FLITS! ' '.ifj Chill and Fever Cure. Larsre bottles CO cents r [id guarAuteed 10 cu~e ":\v rtt-e of Cauls nd Fever, Malaria, It.;crmi:ic;:t ai k Ke^ Litteat t 1 TUi-: iiililiKTT LLUG CO., I^'l Aucus'a, Ga. TRY JLICEY i-'LATr". ^ i pywn m 11: > -n. X'Ui. Uii STEAM SAY; MILLS, xinning. Harvesting and other Maliinery write to tke undersigned, mo will guarantee the goods they nay offer in all respects, and make natters interesting both, to consumers i nd competitors. > "We will also furnish everything leeded in the line of supplies: Beltng, Oils, Piping, Fittings, Valves, ' [nspirators, Injectors. Pumps. Etc. W. II. GT3BES. JeCo., Columbia, S. C. is k Spring isloine I. : r - xy^^gTra?aT7CSOg - "*^ZZS2GSKBBa f'i?] i?1 " fi pU?.gg I Jjv > Cv fc u ?. t ? 3 ?rr fiarf- f? > -i r. L'r.-'t^srwyz^c^.^^jcs^.j) ^ f l? ||D 10* I ;"s .r va- :^>k?3gjoffrcaeaBWWW ? S* 'o ?. ?. P. will purify arsd vitaliae your S ... J\ blood, create a gcod appetite and sir* your jg --?j?v ?5 whole system toneank strength. kfe I k> A prominent railroad r.inerinbendent at p| ?3 Sarannah. suffering with JliJaria, Dysp?p- gj Si tiia. and Rheumatism br: r; g p P. P. P. ho new felt so well in his life, and ft "l 8 feeL; as if he could live fcre7er, If h? could B >* always get P. P. P." S3 If you are tired out f? C ? TUk and ? gj close confinement, t&ka I P. F. P. I p If you are feeiiiur b?4?y ia the soring c? ?1 ar.d out of sorts, taka I P P P | ^ 5 B B 9 Co & r? i' your digestive orr" 2s reed toning up, 2 ? 5 s ^ p ~ ? g p ? P I ? \ J m ? C 2 a Cfc ^ If you s?u<v withhcadachc, indigestion, ? S debility and 'Ac'iil^ncSs, ta.L'0 ES | Y.Y.f. | J If you suffer with rorvous prostration, r' rj nerves unstrung and a general let down if gj of tha sjst?n, tcko p. I P. P. P. i J For Blood Poison. IlheumEttsao, Scrofrgj via, Old Sores. Malaria, Cferoaie Female pi jf-3 Complaints, ta'co g | P. P. P. I \ | Prickly Ash, Poks Root | | and Potassium. | r! 71.6 b'Nt blocd i> :riilcr in las vrorld. ^ ? 'liTilAi: " ?.. Wholesale Draggisa, p I'roprietors, B ~ "j jj.'/ics. SuTancai, Ge? a deposit" j YOUR SURPLUS MOSEY IX TE>, 1 COMMERCIAL BANK, -OFCOLUMBIA. S. C. > . 4 One dollar and ud wards receivec. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. pe. annum, paid quarterly, on the firs,. days of February, May, August an*. November. Married, women Tm*, . ^ minors can keep accost in iheir owl name. Higher rates of mtexesr -alowed by special arrangement. -3 C. J. Iredell. President. Jxo. S. Leapeart, -James Iredell. Yice-Plesident. Cashie* Igfegj- v IJgggi&s % fpillliil-Jift -V \j-,' JTv-.':>Sr'JSsiiLi ggjggi I DBS II! fill IK T11E FOLLOWING LINE OF MACHINERY. TALBOTT & SON'S EXGEsEN AND BOILERS, SAW 3HLLS AND GRIST MILLS. VAN - j. WINKLE, HALL AND / SUMMER'S COT- L TON GINS. ^9 ACME DOUBLE-SCREW COTTON fl PRESS: THOMAS DIRECI ACTING STEAM PRESS, JJ -SAYLOR" SEED COT- - \ TON ELEVATOR, The most perfect in use. .111 kinu of WOOD-AVOEK1JNU -\IA(JiiL>ERY for Planing Mills and Sas, > , Door and Blind Factories. BBICK MACHINES. Complete- Oil Stills and Glnrorit-designed and eauipped- .* V. C. BEADKAM, Genl. Agv & G3 Main Street, Columbia, S. C, TEE TALBOTT ENGINE IS TH>BEST OX THE MARKET. i?>5?? ' " FINE llSi lllli. ^ C^-Ask ;br futalo;r:;c. TERRY .WG CO.. Nashv:lle. T?,v ? PITT'S C A EMI NATIVE! i TT'OR OOHBECTIXG NAUSEA PYSBKTERY, JL lMa?rIjava and Cholera Infiiutara. A plewan1- lue-ilcinefniac3lc:>abl? ??erit in the home circle for rhi!.! or :?du!t. I*. Is popular. pleasant ari?i ::cr.i. lruiy a moiw-r s frien . Jt sooi lies :u-u heals the mucous membranes; and checks the mucous d'sch-.rgo from liend, stomach and bowels. The mucous ilischarjje froir; the head ar.d lungs are as promptly relieved by it as the mucous dis harjrc from :h<; b wc's. It, is made to relieve M themucous.system and cure nausea, 2nd it fl ioes it. It makes the C'nsica! period of teethchildren <at>aud e-*sy. it Invigorates 8i)d Jk Guilds up th" system whi> it is relieving am; ;ui injr the wasted 'isfue. It i.? recommended lad ::seo larje-y i*y physicians. For vale by Wannatnak< r & Murray Co., Columbia, s. C., md wholesale by Kowanlo; ',Vii:e:t. Auj'.w?, 3a. _ J LI?I'2i.?i-3E0S., ^7Iio!ccaIeCnigglsl3, -H tile Proprietors, Lippnsan's Block. Sa7222ak,Ca.B