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r THE CURSE OF DRINK. A STR!K!NCLY STONG SERftON ON IN TcMPERAiSiCE* The Evil* of Liquor Drinking: Earnestly Presented?Some God yet Lifelike Pictures. The text of Dr. Talmage's Sunday sermon was: "It is my son's coat an evil beast hath dovoured him." Genesis xxxvii., 33. The following is the discourse. Joseph's brethren dipped their w+>ior'o nnfii. in coal's blood and vivmvi M wv?v 0 ? ? then brought the dabbled garment to their father, cheating him with the idea that a ferocious animal had slain him, and thus hiding their inL famous behavior. But there is no deception about that which we hold up to your observation today. A monster such as never ranged Afri can thicket or Hindostan jungle hath tracked this land, and with bloody -L-XI?x n? maw Xitilill StTtJWl.l LUC WUl/iUCiiti IUU1 1 the mangled carcasses of whole gen^ erations; and there are tens of thousands of fathers and mothers who could hold up the garment of their slain boy, truthfully exclaiming, "It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him." There has in all ages and climes, been a tendency to improper use of stimulants. Noah, as if disgusted with the prevalence of water in his time, took to strong drink. By this vice, Alexander the Conquorer was conquored. The Romans at their feasts fell off their seats with intoxication. Four hundred millions of our race are opium eaters! India, Turkey and China have groaned with the desolation; and by it have been quenched such lights as Halley and DeQuincey, One hundred millions are the victims of the betelnut, which has specially blasted the East Indies. Three hundred millions chew hashish, and Persia, Brazil and Africa suffer the delirium. The Tartars employ murowa the Mexicans, the agave; the people at Gunarapo, an intoxicating quality taken from sugur cane; while a great multitude, that no man can number, are the disciples of alcohol. To its trenches they fall. On its ghistly holocaust they bum. Could the muster roll of this great army be called, and they could endure the reeking, festering putrefection and beastliness, what heart could endure the groan of agony? Drunkenness: Does it not jingle the burglar's key? Does it not whet the assassin's knife? Does it not cock the highwayman's pistol? Does it not wave the incendiary's torch? Has it not sent the physician reeling into the sick room: and the minister, with his tongue thick, into the pulpit? Did not an exquisite poet, from the very top of his frame, fall a gibbering sot into the gutter, on his way to be married to one of the fairest A-P \ Arrr -fV>O uau^iiicx& ui i MUJLVA ~>ery hour the bride was decking herselffor the altar; and did he not die of delirium tremens, almost unattended, in a hospital? Tamerlane asked for one hundred and sixty thousand j skulls with which to build a pyramid But if the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to dissipation could be piled up, it would make a vaster pyramid. The Sabbath has yeen sacrificed to v the rum trafic. To many of our peo pie, this day of the week is the worst. Bakers must keep their shops closed on the Sabbath. It is dangerous to have loaves of bread going out on Sunday. The shoe store is closed: severe penalty will attack the man who sells boots on the Sabbath. But down with the window shutters of the grog shops! Our laws shall confer particular honor upon the rum traffickers. All other trades must stand aside for these. Let our citizens who have disgraced themselves bv trading in clothing, and hosiery, in hardware, and lumber, and coal take off their hats to the rumselier, elected to particular honor. It is unsafe for any other class of men to be allowed license for Sunday work. But swing out your sighs, O ye traffickers in the peace of families, and in the souls of immortal men! Let the corks fly, and the bear foam, and the rum go tearing down the half-consumed throat of the inebriate. God does not see! Does he? Judgment will neYer come! Will it? I do not know but that God is determined to let drunkenness triumph s_ and tne nusbanas ava soas 01 inousJT j ands our best families be destroyed by this vice, in order that our people, amazed and indignant, may rise up and demand the extermination of this municipal crime. There is a way of driving down the hoops of a barrel so tight they break. "We have, in this country, at various times tried to regulate this evil by a tax on whiskey. You might as well try to regulate the Asiatic cholera or the small-pox by taxation. The men who distil liquors are, for the most part, unscupiilous, and, the higher tite tax, the uivxc u^uuv^uuuu uv iu'.vtv \ugu^u.u>~ tion. Oh! the folly of trying to restrain an evil by government tariff! If every gallon of whisky made?if everyflask . of viafe produced, should be taxed a thousand dollars, it would not be enough to pay for the tears it has wrung from the eyes of widows and orphans, nor for the blood it has .dashed on the Christian church, nor for the catastrophe of the millions it has destroyed forever. T ol.-rvf/?V> ftro Virmcoc in f.Vns ?f.rppf The first if bright as home can be. The fattier comes at nightfall, and the children ran out to meet him. Luxuriant evening meal. GratulatioD, and sympathy, and laughter. Music in the parlor. Fine pictures on the wall. Costly books on the stand. Well-clad household. Plenty of everything to make home happy House the second: Piano sold yesterday by the sheriff. "Wife's furs at pawnbroker's shop. Cloak gone. Daughters jewelry sold to get f our. Carpets gone off the floor. Daughters in faded and patched dresses. Wife sewing for the stores. Little child with an ugly wound on her face, struck in an angry blow. Deep shadow of wretchedness falling in every room. Door bell rings. Little children hide. Daughters turn pale. Wife holds her breath. Blundering step in the hall. Door opens. Fiend* brandishing his fisheries. "Out! out! "What are you doinghere?" Did I call this house the secsnd? No: it is the same house. Rum transformed it. Rum embruted the man. Rum sold the shawl. Rum tore up the carpets. Rum desolated the hearth. Rum changed that paradise i-nfn o I sketch two men that you know very well. The iirst graduated from one of our literary institutions. His father, mother, brothers and sisters were present to see him graduate. They heard the applauding thunders that greeted his speech. They saw I the degree conferred and the diploma, given. He never looked so well. Evervbodv saiJ, "What a noble- brow! sVl;at & fine ey-! Wh:it ;<m:dv\ manners! What orlliiani prospects!'" All the world opens before him. and cries, "Hurrah! hurrah!"' Han the second: Lies in the station house. The 'doctor has just been sent for to bind up the gashes received in a fight. His hair is matted, and makes him look like awilk beast. His lip is blood}* and cut. "Who is this battered and bruised wretch that was picked up by the police, and earned in drunk, and foul and bleed i t n ?._? xl. ^ > ing: uia jl cuu mm muu luc scwiiu : He is man the first. Rum transformed him. Hum destroyed his prospects. Rum disappointed parental expectation. Rum withered those garlands of commencement day. Rum cut his lip. Rum dashed out his manhood. Rum! accursed Rum ! I have shown you the evil beast. The question is, Who will hunt him down, and how shall we shoot him ? I answer, first, by getting our children right on this subject. Let them ?" r.rJ+'U nn n++cv orovsinn tr? gJIU>V U.jM M lvxi (VU UbVVJ. >.? > V* vvr strong drink. Take care how you administer it even as medicine. If you find that they have a natural love for it, as some have, put in a glass of it some horrid stuff, and make it utterly nauseous. Teach them, as faithfully as you do the Bible, that ram is a fiend. Take them to the almshouse, and show them the wreck and ruin it works. Walk with them into the homes that have been scourged by it. Again: We will battle this evil by voting only for sober men. How many men are there who can raise above the feelings of partisanship, and demand that our officials shall be sober men? I maintain that the question of sobriety is higher than the question of availability; and that, however eminent a man's services may be, if he'have habits of intoxication, he is unfit for any office in the gift of a Christian people. Our laws will be no better than the men who make them. Spend a few days at Harrisburg, or Albany, or Washington, and you will find out why, upon these subjects, it is impossible to get righteous enactments. Again: We will war against this evil by organized societies. The friends of the rum traffic haye banded together; annually issue their circulars: raise fabulous sums of money to advance their interests; and. by grips, passwords, signs and stratagems, set at defiance public morals. Let us confront them with organizations just as secret, and, if need oe, with ? ^ ? ? ?-o tv>mr? grips UZIU. pUSS-WUjL U&, tliiAW. OIqU-o, iiicwjutain our position. There is no need that our philanthropic societies tell all their plans. I am in favor of all lawful strategy in the carrying on of this conflict. I wish to God we could lay under the wine casks a train which, once ignited, would shake the earth with the explosion of this monstrous iniquity! Again: We will tiy the power of the pledge. There are thousands of men who have been saved by putting their names to such a document I know it is laughed at; but there are some men who, having once promised a thing, do it. "Some have broken ! the pledge." Yes; they were liars. ! But all men are not liars. I do not | say that it is the? duty of all persons to make such signa ture; but I do say that it would be the salvation of many of you. The glorious work of Theobald Mathew can never be estimated. At his hand four millions of people took the pledge, and multitudes in Ireland, England, Scotland J A ??- ? -i4" 4-411 4-Viic /Iotf a,LLU "t flipril','!,. UlIV V ACUU 111 CUJ. bJLXJLO <uaj . The pledge signed to thousands has been the proclamation of emancipation. Again: We expcct great thirgs from inebiiate asylums. They have already done a glorious work. I think we are coming at last to treat inebriation as it ought to be treated, namely, as an awful disease, self-inflicted, to be sure, but nevertheless a disease, once fastened upon a man, sermons won't cure him; temperance lectures will not eradicate it; religious tracts will not remove it; the gospel n-n - Ul WJUA i?KJ0 aiicou ill- hjj. der the power of tMs awful thirst, the man is bound to go on; and, if the foaming jrlass were on the other side of perdition, he would wade through the fires of hell to get it. A young man in prison had such a strong thirst for intoxicating liquors that he cut off his hand at the wrist, called for a bowl of brandy in order to stop the bleeding,- thrust his wrist into the bowl, and then drank the contents. Stand not, when the thirst is on him, between a man and his cups. Clear the track for him. Away with the children; he would tread their life rmf.. Aim with the wife: he would dash her to death. Away with the cross: he would run it down. Away with the Bible; he would tear it up for the winds. Away with heaven? he considers it worthless as a straw. "Give me the drink! Give it to me! Though the hands of blood pass up the bowl, and the soul trembles over the pit?the drink! give it to me! Though it be pale with tears; though the froth of everlasting anguish float on the foam?give it to me! I drink to my wife's woe, to my children's rags: to my eternal banishment from rinr? o-nrl Vim-va on el h oftV/iT?' GivA if to me! the drink!" Again: We will contend with these evils by trying to persuade the respectable classes of society to the banishment of alcoholic beverages. You who move in elegant and refined associations: you who drink the best liquors; you who never drink until you lose your balance, let us look each other in the face on this subject. You have, under God, in your power the redemption of this land from drunkenness. Empty your cellars and wine closets of the beverage, and then come out and give us your hand, your vote, your prayers, your sympathies. Do that, and I v.-ill promise three things: First, that you will find unspeakable happiness in having done your duty. Secondly, you will probablv save somebodv?perhaps your ovm child. Thirdly, you will not, in your last hour, have a regret that you made the sacrifice, if sacrifice it be. As long as you mate drinking respectable, drinking customs will prevail, and the plow share of death, drawn by terrible disasters, will go on U;r;:ing up this whole continent from entl to end with the long, deep, awful* furrow of drunkard's graves. I call upon those who are guilty of flioco irwlnloov>r?os: in nnif flip of death. Oil! what a change it would make in your home! Do you see how everything there is being desolated ? Would you not like to bring back joy to your wife's heart and have your children come out to meet you with as much confidence as once they showed? Would you not like to rekindle the home lights that long ago were extinguished? It is not too, \ i late to change. It may not entirely ; obliterate from your soul the memory j of "v:v--fr\] y( r/.rs an'.I a vu;nr"1 ropcis-! nor smooth out fro:a your aiud-1 ous brow the ?v;h.klc.s -a trouble Las plowed. It may not call back unkind words uttered, or rough deeds done : for perhaps in those awful moments \*ou struck her 1 It may not take from your memory the bitter thoughts connected with some little grave. But it is not too late to save v/wrcr>lf. rm/1 zpr-nrp fnrdml ft/ml vnnr family tiie remainder of your fast-soill# life. But perhaps you liave not utterly gone astray. I may address one who may not have quite made up his mind Let your better nature speak out. You take one side or the other in the war against drunkeness. Have you the courage to put your foot downright. and say to your companions and friends: "I will never chink intoxicating liquor in all my life, nor will I countenance the habit in others." XXtl^e 11UI/JLJL1JLI?? IiU ? J L.LI ObX UiiQ L?_t i-j_nv. It Las turned the earth into a place of skulls, and has stood opening the gate to a lost world to let in its victims, until now the door swings no more upon its hirges, but, day and night, stands wide open to let in the agonizecT procession of doomed men. Do I address one whose regular work in life is to administer to this appetite ? For God's sake get out of that buriness! If a woe bo pronounced upon the man who gives his neighbor drink, how many woes must be hanging over the man who does this every day and every hour of the day! Do not think that bee tuse human government may license you that therefore God licenses you. I am ? i n. - x surprised to near you men say uiai they respect the ''original package" decision, by which the supreme court of the United States allows rum to be taken into States like Kansas, which have.decided against the sale of intoxicants. I have no respect for a wrong decision. I care not who makes it. The three judges of the supreme court who gave minority repeats against that decision were right, and the chief justice was wrong. The right of a State to defend itself against the nun traffic will yet be demonstrator! f.lia ciirvrpnip r-rvm-f noi.Tvit.hstand ing. Higher than the judicial bench at Washington is the throne of the Lord God Almighty. No enactment, national, State or municipal can give you the right to carry on a ousiness whose one effect is destruction. God knows better than you do yourself the number of chinks you have poured out. You keep a list: but a more accurate list has been kept than I yours. You may call it Burgundy, Bourbon, Cognac, Heidsieck, sour mash, orbeer. God calls it strong drink WJietiier you sell it 111 a low oyster cellar or behind the polished counter of a first-class hotel, the divine curse is upon you. I tell you plainly that you will meet customers one day when there will be no counter between you. When your work is done on earth and you enter the reward of your business, all the souls of the men whom you have destroyed will crowd around you, and pour their bitterness into your cup. They will show you their wounds and say, "You made them," and point to thenunquenchable thirst and say, "You kindled it:" and rattle their chai and say, "You forged it." Then their united groans will smite your ear, and with the hands out of which you once picked the sixpences aud the dimes, tliey will push you off the verge of great precipices; while rolling up from beneath, and breaking among the crags of death, will thunder, "Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink!'' The Bill is Dead. The cold, palsied hand of death has been laid on Mr. Lodge's bantling. __ -The bill will never come up. The Senate commits wincli is consiucr! ing it know ver little about it, and the other Republican Senators know less. No caucus has been called and none is likely to be for weeks.*' This was the waj* in which a Re i-i: O i.?.. ?*u ^ ,v<? puuixuttii kjtrjjiauui. ivuu is jjj. yuoi wuu to know, put his foot upon the statement which was given out to-day for the benefit of the Republican radicals wh) are thirsty tor nodding plumes and gleamingbayonets at the polls, that the consideration of the bill was nearly completed and that it would soon be reported totheRepublican caucus. The fact is that the bill is nowhere near complete, even to the satisfaction of the five Republican members of the committee on elections.?New York Herald. A Martyr to Duty: The St. Louis Republican States that Congressman James P. Walker, of that State, who died suddenly Saturday last of apoplexy, was a martyr to duty. He was canvassing his district for renomination, but hurried back to Washington to vote against the force bill. The long trip in the intense heat was primarily the cause of his death. Commenting on this the Republican aptly says: "Let Democratic absentees in "Washington who neglect interests of their constituents, though almost withing sound of the Speaker's gavel, remember the sacrifice of Walker in leaving a closely contested canvass and traveling a thousand miles through the broil-^ ing heat when his vote was needed." The Power of Money. itti. _ i ? a i j wnat an muueiice iur gvuu ui is exerted by the proper or improper use of money. It seems to be the first essential of modem life. Sad indeed is the lot of that man or that woman without lnonry and without friends. Especially in cases of sickness is the need of money left most pressingly and yet even the rich with all their money fall into a state of poor health and die. whereas if their money was rightly expended and the proper remedies apphed they might ,1 ^V> rejjtLLu jueaiuj. MIU swcugiu. Z. A. Clark. Atlanta, Ga., says: "I spent four hundred and eighty dollars in gold to cure me of terrible blood poison that affected my limbs and nose and body, with running ulcers. One month's treatment of P. B. B. healed the ulcers, restored my appetite, strengthened my kidneys and added 21 pounds to my weight." Still, in spite of this and much other testimony, there are many who refuse to try the remedy, seeming to prefer to pay large fees to physicians, or visit distant springs in vain hopes vfY-nvpvv Tlip o-rpoi, truth how ever, ever shines brightly and that is. that no one who ever gave B. -B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) a trial ever i found disappointment therein.* 0. H. Rudolph. Talladega. Fla.. 1 writes: "I had blood disease for six ! years, but nothing benefitted me. although I paid two hundred and fifty rl nil rive fori- trpntinpnt. At last I tried B. B. B., and found it a quick and cheap blood purifier. ***** kv nii.iunn ? n m , in ?*****w?i Uncommonly Common, j ^ A 703-50 W SHE JONCtiiiLiiD IT. libertine h.;-. finished cleaning her gloves. an<i \v.;s putli::^ away the bits of old Ii::i!i:fl the "deodorized'' lluid. whose faint hatel'iilness she declared she detested. "It's quit;* as bad as common benzine." she said to her mother, who was busy cooking a spirUucllc sort of supper on the gasoline stove in the other room. They leased the entire house, a twostory and basement brick, rather centrally located, and relet unfurnished rooms or suites in such a maimer as to clear their own rental while reserving the double parlors and the joys of proprietorship. Ti-.fv were very com !'..rtab!y arranged. Ill the evening. iiobert;ne could make herself pretty, close the foldingdoors. run her fingers lightly over the keys of the upright piano" and feel equal to the entertaining of the most eligible gentlemen friends?even Wilfred Wales, Esq. In some respects she was mere at ease with this gentleman for company than with any one else. Not because he was unusually handsome?beyond the frequency of his new clothes?or talented, or cultured, or witty; not because of any subtle charm in lils conversation, like that of poor Dick Ethel, \4h0ra she had known so Ion?, ami who. she whs forced to admit, would always remain the :-a:nc visionary enthusiast and :>ohemian. Poor D:"ck! If 1ip would only quit crying to make a living with his pen, and become a practical member of society?a tailor, or shoemaker, or something honest! No, but when "Wilfred Wales was calling Robertine knew there would be no after remarks from her mother, that good lady being, at such times, content to retire to peaceful dreams and a book-case bedstead, leaving the young people undisturbed. Mr. Wales was a moneyed young man, with further "expectations. * and Robertine felt it wotud be the merest folly to discourage his attentions. She knew herself thoroughly; knew all her disad vantages and all her little attractiveness. She had sized herself up long ago as a moderately pretty brunette,who could sing and play passably, read a French novel without the dictionary, write a dashing sort of letter, and dance all the newest fancies. She never forgot that she had neither fortune nor family?a blue lookout for any girl of twenty; that she had talent in no particular direction; that she was physically too delicate for continuous labor, be sides being unfitted, by ambition, for the life of a working-woman. Yet sometimes she felt sick of it allsick of doing lawyers' copying at home, and addressing wrappers by the thousand, and scheming now to best spend the money so earned and bow to construct the prettiest costume in which to attend theatre or promenade concert with Mr. Wales. (Often she would tar rather have gone sauntering in the park, clad in her plain, brown "MotherHubbard," with Kichard Ethel beside her, and his pleasing fantasies.) But what could she do to support herself? ''You can't be a clerk in any store." said her mother, "it takes away a girl?s social position." "If she has any," said Robertine ironically. Meanwhile they had got on very well without touching the insurance money received at the death of Robertine's lamented father, which was but a small sum at best, and which the mother would need for herself when once the daughter was married. Robertine shook out three pair of evening gloves, and said musingly, "JSTow I'm ready to go anywhere if only some one invites me." *'ir i were you i wouian t go wun anybody but Wales," admonisned her mother. "If he sees you running around with common tugs like Dick Ethel, he'll ship you!" Mrs. Eerris was often more forcible than elegant, and always unconscious of nautical tendencies. She was a thin, nervous woman, with an extraordinary contempt for the oipolloi. She was often heard to say that she had been struggling for years 10 Keep ner neaa aoove wawr, as also that of her deceased husband. (Poor man! his head had gone under ground in spite of her!) Robertine colored. "I never go with any one I'm ashamed of," she said, indignantly; "and as for Mr. Wales, the 'shipping' process may be conducted by the other party." "O, no doubt you feel able to manage your own affairs. Some folks, when they have a little streak of luck, act as if it would never be day with them?" closing with a pet antipnrasis. "Now, mother, what is the use of such talk? Let us eat our supper in peace." And they did: after which, Robertine having adjusted her toilet, went to the front windows and drew the curtains back, admitting the evening breeze. The sun was declining ana the sky therewith glorified; she stood where it might dazzle her eyes a moment, then turned away. "Mother, shall I close the foldingdoors? Dick Ethel is coming over." "O, yes: for heaven's sake, shut the doors, so I needn't hear him yarning. If I were you I wouldn't fool away my time on such common " Robertine banged the doors and lost the remainder. "Come in, Dick," she called, through the wire window-netting. "Don't stop to ring." "You are alone?" he said, smiling faintly as he entered. "I thought you might have company." " You see for yourself I haven't." "Your mother is well, I hope?" ''Quite; and busy, as usual." "I met her on the street to-day, but I do not think she saw me." "Perhaps not," said Robertine, doubtfully, remembering her mother's disdain for common attire. "But what are you doing this week, Oick? What is the latest romance?'' "I haven't done much," he answered slowly, "but I have thought of so much I would like to do. O. I nave had such beautiful thoughts! Dreams that I would like you to share with me!" Robertine stirred uneasily. "I have had thoughts too," she said, half lightly. "I have been thinking or getting married." lie looked at her in a curious way, but did not interrupt, as she went on: "Yes, I have about decided that the only thing I can do is, get married." "0 Robertine!' he said, in a shocked voice. "You think I am joking, Dick, but I am not. I am taking a business view of the matter. I must find a rich husband. You seel belong to a very good-fornothing class: incapable anci indolent, yet ambitious for social distinction; mediocre in talent, yet refined in taste, while my education has been of such a supernciai nature mat tne tnougnt or it disgusts me." 1 4 0, Robertine!" he repeated, distressfully. "But you couldn t sell yourself ?you could not marry for money alone!" "0, dear no," she answered, cheerfully, "not for money alone. I must . have a respectable-looking husband, with a suspicion of brains. * Then, too, while she is about it, why can't a girl happen to fall in love with a man who has money? I regard it as my duty to do this, and?by the way?you ought to follow my example." He changed his seat to one beside her on the sofa, and spoke in a hurt, reproachful tone: "Robertine, these words are unworthy of you. I can't understand why you should joke, either. "We?we have been ffooti friends " then he broke off. as if he had lost all self-control, all power of speech. She was moved, and remained silent until the sound of her mother in the other room seemed to give her tongue new impetus. "Ah, Richard. lArt is long and life is fleeting!' We have no time to be great or to foster grand thoughts. Vv'hy, even you and I might be silly enough"to fall m love with each other" but it wouldn't do, would it? O no. it would be ridiculous?-mad! The very lust thing on earth!" "The very last tiling on earth," he repeated, quietly. They were nonlocking at each other now, yet they wero botn strangely pale. "The very last!" she said, recovering ! y Hersf-ii alter a moment; tn?n abruptly: j -Richard, I want to tell yoa some litth- tliin.sfs?iconfidential, you know, I sir' tly coufi& nliai."" ?i-ichitrd. this midsummer; but I suppose you know people wear flannels ii. viinter-time?Indies do." Ih.T seeming irrelevancy might Other times have startled him: now he only sighed inquiriuglv. ' V.'ellV' "Well. lust winter- you remember liow cold il was?how many flannels do you suppose mother and I had apiece?'' "Three, perhaps,5' he ventured,wearily* "No. indeed: we had three between us. This kept us washing one twice a week, which was tiresome, beside wear ins out l-1L' garments. Fancy having one such article of ciothing and taking it off at bedtime to wash it that it may dry by morning. Isn't the thought abominable?"1 The long, quivering breath that he drew smote her painfully, as she felt that, through her, his heart must ache c long time" perhaps forever. She could not look at him. lie rose without speaking. Perhaps he could not trust his voice. ' You are' not going, Dick? But perhaps vou haven't been to supper." I don't know," he faltered. "I must cama h'arl- T t v>ar\0 ?U aim lliiJOil rt Ui?. ? ?JL. nvvv you will not do anything hastily. Bodertine, remember?remember I am your friend?always." Then he went out and away. Mrs. 1 erris slid the doors ajar and entered. "Gone at last?" she asked, glancing through the window at the tall form crossing the street with slow, dispirited gait. "If he doesn't look common!" llobertine had gone to the piano. "Mother," she said impatiently. "If Maj. Drummond proposes again you'd better marry him. He's uncommon enough to suit you?especially his tem per." She could have sobbed aloud, she so hated herself. She fancied Richard ascending to his poor room across the way?his gray, cheerless, pathetic room ?and sitting down uncomforted among his manuscripts. She could see his pale face, his sad, brown eyes. She hated herself, and her mother, and Wilfred Wales, and all the cruel, bitter world! She tried a strain of Mendelssohn's music to soothe and strengthen her. and her mother spoke, as if reminded: "The piano rent is due to-morrow, Robertine. Don't let me forget;they are very exacting." Robertine changed to fierce opera melodies, and immediately Mr. Wilfred Wales arrived. Mrs. Ferris had made her cscape and closed the folding-doors. 'T was thinking of you," said Robertine sweetly, and speaking the truth. "Of me? is that so? Then I'm glad." lie pressed her hand with all a lover's fondness. Nor was he really so objectionable?a well-built man with a prepossessing countenance and a frank, easy speech. lie never romanced, nor paused for exactness, nor unfolded quaint discoveries, nor indulged in ben trovato poesy, as poor Dick Ethel was wont. He was a cheerful caller and often made her laugh; still there were times when she could as well have yawned. (Poor Dick Ethel might have talked all night and never wearied her.) ^'Take the rocking-chair," sne begged, "and I will sit right here on the sofa. "We can both see the street and feel the breeze." "Thanks," said Mr. Wales, twinkling his great third-finger diamond by care less motions of the hand. "I say, what do you think? I am going to change hotels." "Indeed? Why I thought you liked your place so much?" "I aid, until this morning. Never was more surprised in my life. What do you suppose I found in my coffee?" UA fly," the young lady suggested. "Not exactly." uThen a roach?" "Oh, no; dear me, not so bad. But it was a shred of something resembling cotton..' . "O!" said liobertine m a relieved tone, "a niece of the dish-cloth. And you will change because of that?" "I have serious thoughts. Ar.u now, Robertine " She turned to the window and gazed intently. ''What are you looking at?" he asked. "That literary friend of yours coming out across? Clever fellow, isn't he? "Wish I could write. But, do you know, Robertine, I fancy?though I may be mistaken?I fancy the poor fellow hasn't got a good tailor." Robertine answered very deliberate1... LiT 4-1 Z4. , 4-1^4 ly. J. tiuiijs. ii uiuic jLnuuauie mail uo hasn't any at all." 'What: you don't mean he is distressed? That would be rough! A fellow that can reel off such things. I'd like to help him out some way or other. Do you think he'd be offended if I asked him to accept a present?" "I know he would be offended," she answered decisively. Wales heaved a sigh, but she knew he didn't feel greatly disappointed. He was excellently disposed as far as offering to be liberal went. "0,1 suppose SU, li Ciaaciltcu, tilCOC XCXHJVVO OiO proud as the dickens." "But about your hotel?" "Well, I have nearly decided to make a change. A hotel is very comfortable, but a man gets to thinking he'd like a home of his own." lie left the rocking-chair for the sofa precisely as Ethel had done so short a time before. " Robertine," he said softly, and took possession of her hand; "Robertine,you know what I mean, don't you?" "I do not know what you mean," she answered in a low, firm tone. ik*r\ ? J*- ,J?-1;? ? jl/uii t )uu, uoiim^, uuix t jruu xjliiuvy I love you and want you for a wife? Yes, I want a wife and a home!" She had caught every word; it had not escaped her that he wanted a wife as an adjunct to?a home. And she resisted no longer, but allowed him to draw her face nearer and nearer, until it touched his lips. It was really arranged, thought Mrs. Ferris, sighing contentedly in the other room, where she had not missed a word. After all Robertii^was a sensible girl; and she thought sne would go in and light the gas and receive the news. '"Here are some matches, daughter," she said innocently. "It will soon be dark/' Wales arose bowing, and managed after a fashion to announce the engagement. Mrs. Ferris. stood a moment as if astonished, then approached, smiling benevolently. Iler little speech had been well rehearsed. "I am not wholly surprised," she said. ''Robertine is so frank that she has poorly concealed from me her growing ah . ..tion for you. I am overioved that she has found one so worthy of her?and?and I congratulate you both." Saying which she withdrew with unusual dignity. Mr. Wales remained an hour or so; then he told his betrothed she looked tired and he would not keep her up. He lifted her hand and pressed it to his lips. It was not a very beautiful hand, but we know lovers and lovers have kissed other five-and-three-quarter members whose only merit was their scrawny individuality. So Mr. Wales departed. JLWUClblllC Ull ?(W CAtiCliiClJ' wakeful, and tossed about so violently that her mother reminded her of the style of bed they occupied. "You are not crossing the channel." she said severely. "Mother, haven't vou- really thought of marrying Maj. jDrummorid? He is very devoted; he has a neat income, and stands well in society. There is nothing common about him. You might be perfectly happy." "Why do you want me to marry him?" "Well, I have led Wales to understand that you are thoroughly independent?in short, a very desirable sort of mother-in-law; that you have some in- j surance-money. and also an offer of | marriage. klIrs.Maj.Drummond' sounds ! well, mother, and nobody need know ! the acquaintance began through his ad- j vertisement for unfurnished rooms." ' Ill think about it, itobertine." * * * * * * * Dick Ethel heard the news the next j day when he called, Kobertine being nh<jpnt: "I hope she may be happy," he said quietly, and went away. lie repeated this in a note to the girl herself, adding, "Forgive me ^ if ever I have hurt your A 1 rc-enngs. . c may never?meet again, I but I pray God to'bless you forever and ever." She wept over his written words. "Forgive him! Dear old Dick. I was 1?/\t 1\ rw iinnK I JXVIl V?wiu?v <JL 21I11I. v UCfil, UC41 UiLL t Dick!" " : "I shaii accept Maj. Drummond," said Mrs. Ferris at Inat. <? 'That's right. mother. Really I know l no one I would rather you should many. As for the gout, it only troubles him * occasionally, and baldness has come to I be curable.-' J "I shall do," said her mother sharply. / "Perhaps you will, too. if you maintain 1 your dignity and stop associating with c common trash like Dick Ethel." Ilobertine turned pale. c "Why do you never call Wilfred -common/ mother?" _ " \v ny.J v? ell?even it lie deserved it. ^ "which he doesn't?I wouldn't hurt your ^ feelings." * fo ikMy feelings!"?with scornful vehe- mence. **13ah! Because he has plenty of money n and drosses well! Mother don't mention I Dick Ethel again, if you please! We 8 are none of us lit to black his shoes." ******* Ilobertine was married in late Octo- a ber. and wore the white satin and g orange-blossoms over a heart that was I ffrnwino1 orrjiflnnHv lio-litpr. S^hr> aki H developed'more sense than sentiment, as the days passed, which, though not displeasing to Mr. Wales, surprised him. "Dearest,", he said one night early in the honeymoon, "you married me "for love, didn't you?" "Why, of course," she replied unhesitatingly. She was sitting on the side of the bed, and looked bewitching in her rosepink wrapper. "And even if I had been poor, you I would have loved me just as well, S wouldn't you?" a "O, I can't tell," she said with utter candor. "If you had been poor, we | might never have met, or I might have ! loved some one else, and you not cared | for me. Don't you see? Why it's nothing against one s lover that he hasalittle property. 0 no, I am quite sure it I is nothing against him!" She spokr' very earnestly at the close, and then he laughed and, stooping, kissed her check. Girls Id Che Schools. "The girl would make a better student in our public schools and 8 colleges," said one of the prominent | educators of the city recently, "if she S had the same incentive, the same rao- 8 tive. that the young man has. The 3 young man who goes to the public 1 schools and colleges feels that he is to be |j a breadwinner. He has this for a clear | purpose in getting an education. But | if-, is Tint. sn with thr> <rirl. With her I motive is everything, and not having | the motive she* does not study to her | full capacity. She looks to getting I married some day, and having some j c one else provide the bread for her. "Of course, this is generally speak* H ing. We hear a good deal about wo? | man's power of application as compared with man's, but my experience ? has been that if a girl knows what she is after, if she has a distinct purpose, in nine cases out of ten she will display T steadfastness of aim that is quite equal ? to that of any boy. "Much has been said about the capacity of the female intellect for mathematics, but I can sav that the 1 girl excels in pure mathematics. Girls are exceedingly fond of history and literature and invariably stana high in those studies. "The best students are Hebrews? that is they carry off the honors. But this is not always a fair test of intellectual capacity. The scholarship of a student is determined quite as much by ? her home influence, by her surround- \ ings and associations, as by her text books or instructors. As a rule the wealthy Hebrews avail themselves of the advantages of the public schools and colleges for their children, while, generally speaking, the children Oi Christian parents in similar Snancial eircumstauces go to private institutions. This mates it particularly dif? I ficult to institute race comparisons i ? the public schools. 1 "The colored girl has great imita tive powers. She does not evince ordinarily a high degree of intellectuality, but in. all subjects in which the J imitative faculty plays a part in pro- j greas she usually does'exceedingly well. K bhe is especially quick at drawing and penmanship, and the like. But when it comes to such subiects as recuire the p higher faoulties of reason or judgment I " she is frequently below the average. J "The artistic?that is, the naturally artistic?student is the girl of Celtic race. But the girl of Anglo-Saxon descent is the one who generally displays the,best-developed 'all-round1 intellect." ij N. Y. Times. is Don t PuH Ont Supet ,-jouh Hair. j Yaxag Fau&lford of Philadelphia, ^ who was at Newport last summer, hc.1 ^ met -with a curious and porhaps fatal ? experience. Some +ime ago he dis- ^ covered a small tuft of hair growing on his neck which seemed to have no relation with the hair of his head. ^ Last week a barber whom he patron- I ized suggested that he should take the b tuft of hail- out by the roots, and Padel- s ford told him to go ahead. The bar- s' ber performed the operation, and ^ Padelford is said to be lying now at the 1< point of death from an attack of blood t] poisoning which the operation has in- h duced."iV. 7. World. t] Pianos and Organs. ~ N. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Organs, i iy direct from factory. No agents' com- | missions. The celebrated Chicker- | ing Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrat- | ed for its clearness of tone, lightness | of touch and lasting qualities. Ma- k son & Hamlin Upright Piano. Ster- \ ling Upright Pianos, from ?22 up. j % Avion Pi arris from S200 nn. Mason ' ?> & Hamlin Organs, supassed by none, j f Sterling Organs, SoO up. Every In-11 strument guaranteed for six years $ Fifteen days' tripl, expenses both j | ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on In- J | stalments. j | A Disfigured Countenance. Many people who would scarcely ^ notice an armless or legless man will 9 instantly detect and remark on any | blemish of the human face, and dive | into all sorts of speculations as to g its cause and attendant circumstan- | ces. If you doubt this assertion be- | come possessed of a discolored optic | and note how much attention it will | invite. A black eye is generally 3 avoidable, but blotches, pimples and *| other scrofulous and eruptive marks fl steal upon us without "warning, and are frequent!}* the first intimation of the fact that our blood is going wrong, A prompt and systematic | use of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke & Root and Potassium), will purify the j| blood, cleanse the skin and give back I tn the fn/'p nni,lire's familiar, ruddy ?1 signs of health. Get it of your drug- 9 gist. Abbott's East Indian Corn Paint. 9 Eradicates Coins, Bunions r-ns a Waits where oil otter remedied K fail. : 1 ; }{? ?The Georgia Supreme Court has ; refused a new triru for Tem Wool- ii folk who murdered, nine members of ! % his family in Bibb county. i ! '? How this great country of ours does ff grow! There were 4,400 new post- ft offices established during the' last fiscal year. Br gSMSI B yg ? & B'vf J-fc? Jas^5" i ;w REB'jlAIOR ?A,SP?ClFiC 2 v^.rtSTRUAtiON OR MOMTHLV S1CKVESS r "XKtPi DURING CttJVNGE. Vi USE. it,tKT .BMU3E.R4* SUF KRlHSWliBE WKDEn jsook T 0"W O ftfwmwdfba mdfiad regulator cd. atlanta sa saic "yall snacasrs. ft~a? <j& gp?hi?SS & KfcAB WOSkS Ct!W5?37 S v*2 u32 *?*' INVISIBLE TUBUIAB EAS gy )&a iiPfi S Cl'SHIOHS. Whispers heard. ComrtaMi?. Suctosrfalwhereoll Uearrf!ecfcii. SoHbj F. K!SCOX> Jr. ii i3 BrMway, Sew Yoi i- Write for fceok ?f proof* FKEJf ? J mm PATS fssz8EI||| A Great Offer that may not again be a repeated, so do not delay. "Strike ? while the Iron is Hot." Write for Catalogue now, and say what# paper you saw litis Advertisement in. g Rc-member that I self everything thata goes to lurnishin.^a home?manuCacluringS some things and buying others iu the re largest possible lots, which enaDles me to? wipe out all competition. MareaiOToy WgStfgm A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fall size,J 15 x 17 inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces oft ware: delivered at yonr own depot, all! freight charges paid by me, for only! TWELVE DOLLARS. Again. I will sell you a 5 hole Cooking! Range IS x 13 inch oven, 18 x 26 inch top, I fitted with 21 pieces of ware, lor THIK- j TEEN DOLLARS, and pay tbe freight to j your depot. Do sot pay tvo prices fir year goods, I will send you a nice plush parlor suit, walnut frame either in combination or banded, the most stylish colors, for $33.50 to jour Railroad station, freight all paid. I will also sell you a nice Bedroom suit consisting of Bureau with glass. I high head Bedstead. 1 Washstand, 1 Centre L4Vio( i vauc wai tuaas, x wvug COIO OUUB back rocker, all for $16.50, and pay freight! to yoiir depot. Or I will send you an elegant Bedroom! suit with large glass, fall marble top, fori 830, and pay freight. Nice window shade on spring roller 8 .40 H Elegant large walnut 8 daj clock, 4.00S Walnut lounge, 7.00 B Lace curtains per window, 1.00 g I cannot describe everything in a small B advertisement, but have an immense stores containing 22,600 ft. of floor room, withg ware house* and factory buildings in other? parts of Augusta, makiDg in all the largest? business of this kind unoer one manage-S ment in the Southern States. These stores? and warehouses are crowded wth then choicest productions of the best factories, My catalogue.containing Illustrations ofjg goods will be mailed ifyo'u will kindly pay a where you saw this advertisement. I pay? freight. Address, I. F. PADGETT, Prop?. Pitt's finite,5i?^ Caps! tee, 3110-1112 BROAD STREET, ACGUSTA, GA. - li Ph eTozer Engine Works (Successor to Dial Bngin Works.) rOHN A. WILLIS, PROPR., 117 West Geeyais Street, ft ^ NEAE |g H o? MANUF A.CTUBER8 OF rozer Steam Engines, nd all sizes of both Locomotives and return Tublar Boilers. firy^ITrtnnrlrv trnrt in irrm and Brass Ri?? airing promptly executed. CHAKLOTTE FEMALE 1NSTITUT The building is now modernized and nproved as a boarding school until it j second to none in the South in com>rt and conveniences. The Corps of .'eachers eDgaged for the coming ses ion is the best the Institute has ever ad. No other institute in the South can ffer advantages superior to those ofsred here in the Literary, Music and Lrt Departments. Mr. Maclean continues to be the v A- r Tir . mt. x -C xl director 01 .music. jlxi? patrons vi uie nstitute, whose daughters were taught y Mr. Maclean during the past sesion, are referred to in proof of the catement that he is the best teacher of lusic who has ever taught in Char>tte. As originator and director o he June Musical Festival in this city, is reputation has extended throughout ie South. Wm. R. Atkinson, Principal. pwtg i" iiibii ill in i k Spring Medicine ? \ FOB TIRED 1 I IAN m WOMAN. I P. P. P. will purify and vitalize your B ! blood, create a good appetite and give your Bg ! whole system tone and strength. < A prominent railroad superintendent at if I Savannah, suffering with Malaria, Dyspep- H j sia, and Rheumatism saj a: -ftpr . ~*ing B P. P. P. he never felt so well in his life, and ? feels as if he could live forever, if he could B always get P. P. P." If you are tired oat fr ?,j: ".k and a close conflne?ent, talre p. p. p. I If you are feeliru? brujjy in tie spring B and out of sorts, take P. P. P. E If your digestive orgsjs need toning tip, take P. P. P. I If you suffer with headache, indigestion, B debility and weakness, take PrMV If you suffer with rervous prostration, K nerves unstrung and a general let down 8 of the system, take P. P. P. I For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Scrof- 9 ula, Old Sores. Malaria, Chronic Female B Complaints, take P. P. P. I Pricklv Ash, Poke Root f . $ T'fco oest bloo:: purifier in the world j UprH.'tX E'l-S., IVhoiesale Dru^^ists, (5 fee!: - Froprietors, $ Lr??jtcf*3 Blccx, ?av<?cah, Ge. >* Detectives ntcd in crery Cooot7. Shrewd sua to ?jct oader InitroetloM or SecretSerrtee. Eipcfieoce net neoc*ary. Particular* free. snaan Detective Bnreao Co. 44Arcado,Clsdaaiti,0. i A ft ~m -DR. GKOSVENOR'S? Be!I-cap-sic Piasters ARE THE PEST POF.OUS PLASTERS IX THE WOKLD. They are the best plasters in every vraj for the quick relief of LAKE BACK. PAD* IX THE CREST, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. Unlike all other plasters, these are Purely Vegetable and Harmless. F.elleve instantly ana never fail to cure. SAFE, QUICK A>"D SURE. Sold by druggists or mailed on receipt of 23c. by GRoSVENOR & RICHAR1.M, Boston, Mass. PITT'S CARMINATIVE! * TT^T? i TWCT'VTPPDV |/UK?auniui uiooiuiiui J? Diarrhoea and Cholera Infantum. A Eleasant medicine of incalcuable merit in the ome circle for child or adult. It is popular, pleasant, and efficient. Truly a mother's frien . It soothes nnd heals the ioucous membranes; and checks the mucous discharge from head, stomach and bowels. The mucous discharge from the head and lungs are as promptly relieved by it as the mucous discharge from the b-we5s. It is made to relieve the mucous system and cure nausea, and it does it. It makes the Cnsica.1 period of teeth* lng children -afe and easy. It invigorates and builds up the system while it is relieving and curing the wasted tissue. It is recommended { and used largely by physicians. For t<a!e by Wannarraker <fc Murray Co., Coiumbia, 5?. C., and wholesale by Howard & Wiilett, Augusta, Ga w rums is ia m For Estimates oil , . STEAM SAWMILLS, Ginning, Harvesting and other chinery -write to tke undersignedJh^^ wno mil guarantee the goods th^^^^^ may offer in all resects, and maJ0 matters interesting both to consul end competitors. jfl We will also furnish needed in the line of supplies^ ing, Oils, Piping, Fittings, fl Inspirators, Injectors, PumpsM W. H. G3BBES, Je., & M Colmnbi^ DEPOSITMM SOUR SURPLUS MOSEY Jj COMMERCIAL B -OF- 9 COLUMBIA. S. One dollar and upwards Interest at the rate of 4= per cB annum, paid quarterly, on tifl days of February, May, Augu^| November. Married women V minors can keep account in their? H?Zf 11 I j urur.i X CtiCrVO Vi iJJ-i/vX V*JU ^ lowed by special arrangement. C. J. Tredkt.t,, President. Jko. S. Leaphabt, James Ikfdfll, Vice-President Casliiei TALBERT & SOFS \ ENGINES AND BOILERS, SAW MILLS Jtk AND GRIST MILLS M Areacknowledged to-be the best ever sold in this ^State. fl When yon buy one of them yoa are satisfied that yoa have made no mistake. Write for our prices. COTTON GINS AND 1 TOTTIW PI!F,SSKS I AT BOTTOM FIGURES. M I can save yon money. V. C. BADHAM, Gen. Agt., COLUMBIA, S. C. <?-Hbme office and Factory: Ricnmond Va. UPPXA5 BEOS., Wtolesile Druggists, 3olfl Proprietors, Llppmzn's Block, SaTmBih, Gx PACKER'S g^liB HAIR BALSAM !TrW^Kf^, ?SS Cleanses and boantifles tne hair. RKflfiSS^feS'l'roniotos a luxuriant growth. BgSSSgs ^gg-N??or Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cares scalp diseases & halrtalllOB jfifS??5r SJ 6<te-and Itl.uQatDrnggfots. A?oti Consumptive. Ha\e yoa Cough. Bronchitis, Asthma, In-11Kestion?? Use PARKER'S GINGEK TONIC. It has cured the -worst cases and is the best ? remedy for ail ills arising from defective nutrition Take in time. 50c. and Si. Hindercorns. The only sure Cure for Corns. Stops all pain Ensured comfort to the feet. 15& at drug gists* Eiscox <fe Co.. N. Y. _ FlKE SHOcife. 1 HafAsk. for catalopie. >' TERRY M'F'G CO.. Nashville. Ten* WRITE TO HOLLER & ANDERSON BUGGY CO., ROCK HILL, S.C., For their Catalogue giving Prices, Terms and References of Buggies, Carriages. Was'ons.Road and Phaeton Carts, Harness, etc. All first-class * work made by hand and -warranted Prices lower than any other of same grade. Our Vehicles are running in every county in South, Carolina, and in many counties of North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. All inquiries promptly answered. In writing please mention ibis paper ai:d don't forget to give your PcstoSace address and ^ sign your name plainly. a Holler Anderson Buggy To., J ?MAMJFACTURERS,? ROCK HILL. - - S. tfHH