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?V \ IX THE D' RK I n>et a child at close of uay, Grouping ztonn a d:iskv way, And. pleadingly, I heard him say: "Father, the path is dark and drear, But If I knew that thou we ft near, I could walk on without a fear * ?*"Rnf. rcpon T Mnrnt si?p fhv face. Nor in the irJoom the p-thway trace, Nor know amid the crops' ng ways, "Which on*- thon wc test, 'ore afraid, I tremble in the deep'ning stiade; Without tby voice or hand to aid. " f thou wouldst only sp-ak to me But tn a wiiispt-r, 1 would he - ' Comforted, tfaougu I cir id not see "A step before m^; I would know Tbattfi?>u ar- here, and Icouln co Straight through t!ie dark t; 2nd tliee so? "If thou for me tin? way basti Ianned, Let ae 'out touch thine utstretced hand. And Father 1 will understand." As thus the iiitle straying pled, "Just so,??troubled soul!" I -aid I stumble 'mi4 the gloom cismuyed. "Spea- but one word n:y heart tc cheer. And it w.U banish all niy fear, If 1 but know that thou a: t tore. "And I will dare the dr ariesl strand. If 1 may only touch thy hand, My listening heart will understand. "Then cheered and comforted. I'll know Thou art sontewhs-re near, and so Stra ght onward, through the dark. Til go." . at the 1 abhrnacle. . Rev. Dr. T?]ma?? breachts ai E'cqaent Ans-iyersary Strmos. Brooklyn, May G.-This wa3 a great da> in tbe history of the Brooklyn Tabernac'e. The Sguies i' ibwer3 back of the plaiform, 1869 and IS94. ind'cated Rev. Dr. 7&lmj<*e's ume t-f coming to Brooklyn and the present celebration, snd were introductory to ihe great mect , mgs in honor of Dr. Talcage's paitor" rate to take place on the foiiowmg Thuredsv and Fridav. presided over by the mayor cf the city: and Ex-Secreta?y of the Navy General Tracy, and to be participated in by senators and governors and prominent men from north, south, east aud west. The subject cf the sermon today was "The Generation?," the text being Ecclesiaste3 i, 4, "Oae generation passeth away, and another generation comcth.'"' According to the longevity of people ' in tteir particular ceDlury has a generation been called 100 jears, or 50 years, or 30 years. By ccmmon consent in our nine-teenth century a generation is fixed at 25 years. The largest procession that ever ; UiUf 19 j,iU\/\/CWiWU V* I VM-?^ ? the greatest aricy *hat ever marched is the army of generations. In each generation there are about nine Jul! regiments (f days. These 9,125 days in each generation march with wonderful precisios. They cever break ranks. The never c;rcand arms. They never pitch tests. Ttiey never halt. Toey are never cfi' on furloash. They came cut cf the. eternity past, and they move oa toward the eternity future. They cross rivers without any bridge or boats. Tae 600 icccnortai* of the Crimea dashing into ihem cause no confusion. Tbey move as rapidly at midnight as at midcoon. Their haversacks are fall o? good bread and bitter aloes clusters ot ricocst vintage ano r?ut.ae:s vi k^uu ^ u* tears. With a nsuiar tread that no or dcr of "double quick" can hasten, or obstacle can slacken, their tramp is ou and on and on and on while mountain* crumble and pyramids die. 'Oae gen eration passeib, and another generation cometh." . ' fbia is mv twcntv fihb anniversary sermon, 1869 *nd 1894. It is 25 years since I assumed tbt Broo^lvu pastorale. A whole ceueration has pasted. Tiiee ?- - seneraticns we hr.ve kt:owL?.hat ?rbicb preceded our owl., uiat which is now atKa fmr.t ur>^ r>.nmincr on. We. bUV AX. W f UtfV4 VMW VXW ??, _ are at the ";eels of cur predecessors, and cur successors are at cur heels. Wba< a generation it was that preceded ml* "We who are now in the front regiment are the only t nes competent to tell the new generation jest now coming m sighi who '.ur predecessors were. Bioamphy cannot tell it. Autobiographies c nnot tell it. Biographies are generaliy written bv special friends of toe departed, perhaps by wife or sjo or daughter, and they only tell the good thiols The biographers of one cf 'he first presidents ef the Uuiteci Su?iet< make co rccord ot me president's account Docks, now in the archives at tlie capitol, which I have seen telling bow much be lost or gained daily at the gaming. The biographers of one of the early secretaries of the United States never described the scene that day witnessed when the secretary was carried dead drunk from the state apartments 10 his own home. Autobiography is written bv the man himself, and no one wculd record for future times his own weaknesses and moral deficits. Those who keep; diaries put down only thiDg tbat readLwell. No man or woman that ever Jived would dare to make full record of all the thoughts and words of a lifetime. We who saw and heard much of the generation marching just ahead of us are far more able than any book to describe accurately to eur successors who cur predecessors were. Very much like ourselves, thank you. Human nature in them very much like human nature in us. At our time of life they werft. very much like we now are. At the time they were in their teens they were very much like ycu who are in your teens, and at the time they were in their twenties they were very much like vou who are in vour twenties, Hu man nature ?0t an awful twist under a fruit tree in Eden, and though the grace of God dees much to straigfcten things every new generation has the same twist and the same work of straitening out has to be done over again. A mother in the country districts lxjwcting the neighbors at her table on some gala night bai* with her own hands airracged everything ia taste, and as she' was a;)Out to turn from it to rtceive her guesis saw her little child Ku oocWent. nr.spt <i rv.iohmr all nver tne vs hits cloth and soil everything, and the mother lifted her hand to slap the child, bat she suddenly remembered the time when, a little child herself, in her father's house, where they had always before been used to candles, on the purchase ot a lamp, which was a matter of rarity and pride, she took it in her hands and dropped it, crashiua irrto pieces, and looking up in her father's face, cxpect ing chastisement, heard only the words: It is a ead loss, but nsver mind. You " 1 * ? ? ? ^** ?? > Anfo Q1U DOL LLieiiU IV w;n. JJiOtui* itself Generations woncienally alike. Among that generation that is past, as in cur own and as it will be in the generations following U3 iho*e who succeeded bfcame tfcc target, shot at by those who did not succeed. In those times, as in ourB, a aau's bitterest enemies were tho-e whom be had befriended and helped. Hates, jealousies aud revenges were ju-^t as lively in 1SG9 a* in 1894. Hypccrisy sniulid and looked solemn then as now. Theie was ju-<t as muc;i avarice among the apple bane's as now among tbe cotton bs1' auc! among tte wbeelbarro^s as am, ng the locomotives. The tallow (.ancles stiiv the same s.ns that are now found under the electric lights. Homespun ?.as just as oroud as is the modern fashion plate. T?entv~ five years?yea, 25 ceniur.es?have not changed human nature a particle. I sa\ this for the eDCour^ecirci ci t^ose who think that our times raonor>"l ze aii the abominations of the: ai.es, Oae minute | after Adam cot cut Mde oi paradise Le ; wa* ju^t like ycu O man! One step after Eve left tie caic she was just like you, O wctusi.! Ail ibc faults aud vjccs ; are many tin-cs centenarians. Yea, 1 s3fe. : -r.-k. tho c"ics S>dom. Gomorrah. Porspfii, H rcu'sr-eum. Kehopolis and ancient Memphis ^ere as much worse than rur mod ru cities ns ycu might expect- trom th". fact iV-:T ibe cnr.d r'.i cities have somewhat \iek'<-d to the res*raial3 ot Chr:ei;3D^tJv. *h:le tho?e aocienv ciufs were cot linked in their abominations Yea. that aereraiioa which passed eft within the last 25 Years barf their bereavcoeotf*. thtir temptations, their stru^^les their di?appom aisots, their secc^ses. ' >??? f .Incji. t h ?" - f?Ta/?r>PC!ap? anri t.hftir t iir ii ?vi-> ^ %?~v- -wV., ejit-ta, like the.NO t .v:> ^enora'ions now :n sight 'ha1 in advance ard ?h?? following Ba' tbe 25 vea^- re-wc^ n 1809 and 1394 ?ho1" n'UC't they sa*! Hu-* txsuc^ ihev d'&c'fv?n-< ! Row e^uc1! the* felt. Witbiii * h' T?cie t'n-^ ha?e pt-i formed tbe mint c;es<<fVe telephone and the phouograp1). From ihe cbs<-rvai:-rie3 oifaer worldnave b<-en seen to heave in si^ht. S's. pres'dents ot the United States bave bf en mausuraTed T--iP3atIa.n-ic voyage abbreviated from 10 Jays to 5i. Chicago and New Y<:k, otce l.hree days r.p*rt, rvr-lo O-l hcnra Kt? thp cp?:ihnl<? UU*T UhW VJ wuw T www. limited. Two acdi ionai railroads Lave been built to the Pacific. France has passed from monarchy to republicanism. Many of tne cities have nearly doubled iheir populations. Luring that generation t^.e chief surviving heroes of the civil war have gone into t*c eGcampment of the grave. The chief physicians, atr torneys, orators, merchants, hava paesed i ff the earth or are in retirement waiting for transition. 0?er men in editorial chairs, in pulpits, m governors' mansions, in legislative, senatorial and congressional halls. There are njt 10 men or women cn l he earth now prominent who were promiusnt 25 years ago. Tfce crew of this old ship of a world is all changed. Others at the Le'm, others on the "lookcu " others climbing the iatlines. Time is a di.:'tor who with potent anodyne has put an entire generation into sound sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, j 1: das rcugaiy prorugusu parliament auu with iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers except one queen from their high places. So far as I observed that generation, for the most part they did their best. Ghastly exceptions, but so tar as I knew them they did quits well, and many of them gloriously well. They were born at the right time and they difid at the right time. They left the world better than they fcuad it. We are indebted to them for the fact that they prepared the way for onr coming. Eighteen hundred and ninety-tour reverently and gratefully salutes 1869. 1 ?ae gen eraliOD passeth away ana anoicer generation comeah." There are fathers and mothers here whom I baptized in their infancy. There is not one person in this church's :>oard of session or trusses who were here wfx-n I came. Here and there in this vast assembly is one person who heard my opening sermon In Brooklyn, r>nt not more than one person in every 500 no=? present. Of lbs 17 persons wno ?&ve me a uoacimous call whan I came oclv ihree, I believe are living. Ic r> Tf iu or* JDlib ILU5 OCILL'VU AO LUt G, UU^Oi xvi 4i? uu anthem- While this world is appropriate as a temporary stay, or an eternal residence it would be a dead failure It would be a drtadiul sentence if r>ur race, wore doomed to remain cere 1 000 winders ao<! 1 000 summars. G >d k?-ep* us here just long enough to give us an appetite tor heaven. Ead we been b^rn m celestial realms we *ouid not hav? been able to appreciate the bliss. I' needs a many . a^h blasts in this world to qualitv us to properly estimate he superb c'imate of that good land wasre it is never too cold or too hot too cbudy or t^o alarios. Heaven will be more to us thnn to those supernal be :ngs wiio were oever tempted or S'ck or bereaved or tried or disappointed. S > you may well takr my text out of ih?min>r key aodsetit to a tune in the major key. 4 Oi?e veneration passeth away or>/^ crpnArarifin r.ometh." X>tbmtj can rob us of tbe satisfaction that uncoumed thousands of tbe generation just passed were converted comfort ed and harvested for heaven bv this church, whether ia the present building or the three preceeding buildings in which tbev worshipped. Tbe two 2reat" organs of tbe previous churches went down 10 the memorable fires, but the multitudinous songs thry led jear after >ear were not recalled or injured. There is no power in earth or bell to kill a halleluiah. It is impossible to arrest a hosanna. What a satisfaction to know that there are many thousands in glory or; whose eternal welfare this church wrcngit miehtilj! Jsotbin-i can undo ~ * ~ J _ J i.L _ Hat wors. iney nave aeceoueu, iac multitudes wco served God intbat generation. That chapter is gloriously en;?ed. But that generation has left its impressioa oa this generation. A sailor was dying oa shipboard, aad be said to his mates: "My lads, I caa only think of one passage of Scripture, "The soul that sinaeth, it shall die,' and Traana ririfrinor in TT1T7 Pt>r5 'Th? M4<?w ? ? 7 soul that sinneth, it shall die.' Can't youJhink of something else injthe Bible to cheer me up?" Well, sailors are kind and they tried to think of some other passage cf Scripture with which to console their djdn? comrade, but they could not. One of ':hem said: "Let us call the cabin boy. His mother was a Christian, and I guess he has a Bible." The cabin boy was called up, and the dying sailor asked him if he had a Bible. He said, "Yes." But he could not exactly And it, and the dying sailor scolded him and said, "Ain't you ashamed of yourself not to read your Bible." $>~> the boy explored the bottom of bis trunk and brought out the Bible, and his mother had marked a passage that just fitted the dying sailor's case, "Tbe blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth from all sin." That helped tbe sailor to die in peace. So one generation helps another, and good things written or said or done are reproduced long afterward. Daring the passing of the last generation some peculiar events have unfolded One day wLiie resting at Sharon Springs X. Y.?I think it was in 1S70, the year after my settlement in Brooklyn?aud while walking in the park of that place I found myseli asking the question* "I wonder it there is any special mission for me to execute J.a this world? It there is, may God show it to me." There soon came to me a <rrea" desire to preach the gcspel through the secular printing press. I reahzad that the vast majority oi people, even in Christian lands, never enter a church, and that it would be an opportunity of usefulness infinite it that door of publication *ere opened. And so I 1 ecorde-3 that prayer m a blank book and offered the prayer day in and day cut until tbe answer came, though in a way different from that which I had expccted, for it came through the ml?represemation and persecution of enemies, and I have to record it for the encouragement of all ministers of thfc gospel who are misrepresented that it the misrepresentation bs virulent enough ami bitter tnoush, and continuous enoug'-i, taeie is uo-am^ taai b\j wiucuo CPe't? Held ot usefu'sess as hostile attack, u voa are re-iliy doiDz tbe Lira's work. Tbe bigger the lie told about me the bi^er the demand to see aod hear whai I real)? was doias:. From ooe s!o? r.?" ^---rTrinn:p. nnhlie<mon to 2notber the fork has 2<meon uati! wees by week and for about 23 years I have Gad the worid tor m? au.lleuc? as no msu ever had, and today more so tban at anv oiLer lime. The syndicates inform roe that uiv sermons go nov to about 25 000 000 people in all lands. I mention th'S -not in vain boast, but as a testimony to the fact that God ans wers prayer. Would God I had better occupied the field and been more cocstcrated to the work! May God for give tne for lack of service in roe pr.s: I *cd doable and quadruple and qamtuj pi* my work In trie future. In tbis my quarter century sermon I record the racs that sid-? s>de with fh? nrr>r**M*s^r?r? nf hlpco!n?7<; h^S ?Tor.P 3 - ?' procession of disasters I rim preening today in the fourth church building sidch I hfgan in tnis city. My iirs'sermou was in the old church on Scbermerhorn street to an nud'ence chiefly of empty seats, lor the church w-.js almost; extinguished. Taat church Ailed and overflowing, we built a jargf*r church, wnich after two or three years disappeared in fliiue. fhen we b'lilt another ciiurcb, whicha!so in aline of fi^rv succession rtis<ppe.ired :n samj wiiy. Tben we put ud this bailcii:<g, and may it stu-d for m<t:>y years h furtrtds of righteousness and a light, house tor the s'.orm tossed, its gates crowded with vast-assemblages luc^ after we hive ceased to frequent them W? have raised lu this church over Sl.030,000 for church charitaole purp >ses durine the present jJastorare, while we have given, free of all expenses, the gospel to hundreds of thousands of strann'-rs year by year. I reoord with gratitude to God that during this generation of 25 years I remember but two Sibbatbs that I have missed service through anything like physical indisposition Almost a 'fanatic on the suojrct of physical exercise I have made the parks with which our city is blessed the means of good physical condition. A daiiy walk ani run in the open air have kept me ready for work and in good liumor with all the world. I say to all young ministers ot the gospel it in easier to keep good health than to regainit when oncelo3t. The reason so many good men thiok the world is going "to ruin is because their own physical condition is on the downgrade. Xo man ought to jreactt who has a diseased liver or an enlarcrt-d spleen. There are two thing3 ahead of us that ought to keep us cheerful in our work?heaven ana the millennium. And now", having come up to the twenty fifch milestone in my pastorate, I wonder how many more miles I am to travel ? Your company has been exceedingly pleasant,0 my dear people, and I would like to march by your side until the generation with whom we are nnwrnnvini; abreast and steo to sten shall have stacked arms after the last battle. But the Lord knows best, and we ought to be willing to stay or go. Most of you are aware that I propose at this time, between the close of my twenty-fiJth year of pastorate and be.fore the beginning of my twenty-sixth year, to be absent for a few months in order to take a journey around the world. I expect to sail from San Francisco in the steamer Alameda May 21 My place here on Sabbaths will be fully occupied, while on Mondays and every Monday,I will continue to speak through the printing press in this and other lands as heretofore. Why do I go? To make pastoral visitation amnnff npnnle whom I have never seen. but to whom I have never been permitted a long while to administer. I want to see tbem in tbeir own cities, towns and neighborhoods. I want to know what are their prosperities,whar. their adversaries and what their opportunities, and so enlarge my w->rk and get more adaptedneas. Why du i go?. For educational purposes. I want to freshen my mind aud heart oy news scenes, ne* faos, new manners and customs I want better to understand what, are the wroDgs to be righted and tbe waste pi ices to be reclaimed. I will put all I learn in serajons to be preached to you when I return. I want to see the Sandwich Isiands, not so much in the light of modern politics as in the linjht oi toe gospel of Jesus Christ,which tias transformed tQeoo.aQG Snmoa aud those vas'realms of Ne^ Z-HUDd aud Australia and Oeylon a'jd Iidta. I want to see what Christianity Das accomplished. I want to set* how the missionaries havr been lied about as living in luxury and idleness. I want to know whether the heathen religions are really as toierable-asd as c >ramendable as they were reprecanrtrfi hr? thftir ndhf-rp.nts in r.he narlia ment ot religions at Chicago. I want to see whether Mohammedanism aud Buddhism would be a good thin? for transplanting in America, as it has again and again been argued. I Want to hear the Brabmans pray. I want to test whether the Pacific ocean treats its guests any better than does the Atlan tic? I want to see the wondrous architecture of India, aDd the D-lni and Cawnpore where Christ was cruciQwi in the massacre of his modern discip'rS, and the disabled Juggernaut unw^eeled by Christianity, and to see if the Taj which the Emperor Shah Jehaa built in honor of his empress really means any more than the plain siao we put above our dear departed. I want to see the fields where Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell won the day against the sepoys. I want to see the worlJ from all 3ides, how much of it is in darkness, how much of it is in light, what the Bible means by the "ends of the earth," and get myself ready to ap preciate the extent of the present to be made to Christ as spoken of in the Psalms, "Ask for me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, 1 -C <1UU iue ULLermusi/ is ui ouo cauu for thy possession," and so I shall be ready to celebrate in heaven the victories of Christ in more rapturous song than I could have rendered had I never seen the heathen abomination^ before they were conquered. And so I hope to come back refreshed, re-enforced and better equipped and to %> in 10 ^ears more effectual work than I have done in the last 25. And now in this twenty fifth anniversary sermon I propose to do two tilings?nrsc, to pun a gariana ou me grave of the generation that has just passed off and then to put a palai branch in the hand of the" generation just now coming on the field of action, for my text is true, "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh." Oh, how many we revered and honored and loved in the last generation that quit the earth! Tears fell at the time of their going, and dirges were sounded, and signals of mourning were put on, but neither tears nor dirge nor somber veil told the half we felt. Their going left a vacancy in oar souls that has never filled up. We never get used to their absence. There are times when the sight of something with which they were associated?a picture, or a book, or a garment, or a 9taff?breaks us down with emotion, but we bear it simply because we have to bear it. On, how snowy white their hair got, and how the wrinkles multiplied, and the sigbt grew more dim, aud the hearing less alert, and the step more frail, and one day they were gone out of the chair by tne ilreside, and from the plate at the meal, and from the end or the church pew,where they worshipped with us! O my soul, how we missed them! But let us console each other with the thought tnat we shall meet them again ia the land of salutation and reunion. And now I twis: a garland tor that | departed generation. It need not be c >3tly, perhaps jus:. a handful of clover blossoms from the Held through whicn i they used to wal?, or *s many violets ' as you could bold between the thumb and the fore linger, plucked out of the garden where tbey us*d to walk in the the coo1 of the day. Put these old fash; iODed flowers right down over tee heart | that never again will acne, acd mthe feet i that will never agam be weary, and the arm that has forever ceased to toil. Peace, father! Peace, mother! EverlastI ing peace! All that for the generation gone. But what shall.we do with the pa'.m branch V That we wiil put in the nand of the gear ration corning on. Yours is to be tne genorau jc for victories. Tne Ust and the present generations have been perfecting the steam power, and the electric light, and tne elfctic t'orcrs To these will be added transportation. It will be your mission to use all tbese forces. Everyi-hia^ is ready now fur you to march right up and take this world for God and heaven. Get year heart right by repentance ana the : pur.-.'oainc zr.:ce of the Lord Jesas I ar d your mini right by elevating book ar<ti pictures, and your body right by eeooasiurn ';nd Q-ld exercise and plenty of (7. K-;r, and by luaking as ofren as you eac upon the fdce of the mountain and of St-.. Then start! In Goq's nam" star! And here is the palm branch. From conquest to coDqaest move right on and right up. You will >oon have the wh ile li-ld for yourself. Before aaother 25 years have gone, we win be out of rhepuipits, and the offices, and the stores, and the factories, and Lhe benevolent institutions, and you wili at th^ front. Forward into the ba'.tle! If God be for you who can bs H?aini<t you'? "He that spared net h:s own son, bat delivered btih up lor us all, how shall he not u'itn him also freely give us all things': ' And tor us who are now at the front. having pat the garland on the grave of thi- la-t generation and having put the , palaa branch in the ha?>d of the coaling genera-ion, we will cheer each other in trie remaining onsets and go into the , shioing gate some wnere about the same time, ana greeted oy the generation that has preceded us we will have to wait or;lj a iictle while to greet the generation that will come after us. A r.A rr?i<l orsr t > jf Ko rrl/^ri/\noV T*hroa l r* ji.i av'j Liacfc- tui i.uuo . x.u&vw generations in heaven together?the grandfather, the son and the grandson, the grandmother, the daughter and the grass ddaughter. And so with wider range and keener faculty we shall realize the full signiiicance of the text, "Oae generation passeth away, and another generation cometh." AFFAIRS !N AUGUSTA. Mvst?l;u? Daath aod Suspected Polaoni ins:?shockios: JDeath. Augusta. Miy G.?Prof. W. B. Dil- i Ten, principal of the Central Grammar 3choo~l, died this morning at 5 : o'clock uucer singular circumstances. , Prof. Dillon went fishing on May Day, i it being a holiday in the schools, ami has not been very well eince. He missed two days at school, bat yesterday-left . home in apparently gecd condition. He told his wife hs was eoicgto see a friend ; cut on the Sand Hill3. and if he came ; back at all it would be late. He did not i return home last nishu and when his fatber-in-iaw, B. Lester, returned from church today and still there was no news he went out to look for him. About 2 o'clock he locked ia the ; school building and found Prof. Dillon i leaning back in his chair unconscious, j At 5 o'clock ha died, having spoken but ] once. There was evidence of a tenrnor art resuscitation and Dr. Doughty ask<;d: i "IIow do you feel, Bsn? He replied: ] 'Never better," and then relapsed into | unconsciousness, from which he aid not agam recover. At the coroner's inquest i the physicians declined to give any nosi- ( tivc theory ot the cause ol death and an autopsy was ordered, but the result has . cot yet been reached * , T!">e autopsy, as far as carried on tonight, did not show any gro38 lesion or disease of any of the organs of the j twltr Th*? ntv>.1.nrs whr> were with bim , before death say the symptoms pre- , senied were act such as would fit aoy usual disease or common poison. The organs were ail round normal ani m & tairly health? condition. Dr. Holliday, who performed the autopsy, s?ave it as hi? evidence that be was unable to deter rn'ne the came o? neath, but the contents of ihw stomach bad been taken out and preserved f >c ;-xami-.ation b? a com peteat chemist, which mav reveal the , rue cause of death. The verdict of the jury ?vas That the cause of dea'h was unknowu until the stomich was examined by a c^mist. Fa'lure sc fir to tiod the cause i f Prof. D: lion's death makes it a ~ 1 . AfAw-n "n^ArnoeAi? StiivJilLiVuiiH Lu ycOwt. y ? i, iviwovt a/u^vw w*.$ very caoable, a fiae disciplinarian and b;3o"sd hv bis sch >ol. He leaves a wife ncd uo childreo. He was married tbou-, a year aso, and w*s 34 years old. '{e was a M*s <n, an 0 d Fellow, a Kaiaht of Pnyaias snd junior eecond liea!.eaauti ol tbe Clinch R:fliS. Another deplordble occurrence was ( ihe burning this afternoon ot little Annie B. H-nry. tie ei2ht-year-old sister of Mr. Jje Henry, of Savannah, and Mr. , Thomas P. H^nry, the newspaper man, :jOw of Ne^v y.-rk, Tuis little daughter of Mrs. Mary Henry was playing m a neighbor's yard with several other children. They had matches and were light? incr a. lir?htweod torch when Anoie's clothing caught. Her screams attracted the wifa of Policeman Trommerhauser, who ran to ihe child's assistance and seizicg her in her arms, tried to smother the fl imes by hnldius: the cviild close to her. 1 Mr. Henry Kennedy followed close behind Mrs. Trommerhauser. andja3tas the latter's c'othes were catchins seized ihe -child .from her, tearing the child's clothes open in the bacfc he stripped them from her, but she was already so radly burned that the skin came off with the clothing. Her internal burns seemed to have destroyed or benumbed her nerves, and though conscious she seems to suffer no pain. Sne will probably die.?News and Courier. A Slinderoa* Lie. On the second page of this week's Times and Democrat will be found an article taken frcrn the Xew York Sun, ? '??- u J WDICii CUUIU1U3 iASLfUUII UUWU ll^uu liein* as any article we ever remember reading. The article iQ question purports to be the observations of a "gentleman wno has lived in South Carolina fifteen years" on what he calls the "cracker" element of this State. It virtually classes, the entire farming population of South Carolina as "crackers." They are said to be descendants of pirate3 driven from the seas and c mvicts imported as slaves from the old country and are described as being druDkards, assassins and loafers by in heritance. instinct ana eusrom. xne Greenville News says it doubts "if the man who gave the interview was ever in South Carolina longer than a week at a time. His whole story bears evidence of dense ignorance regarding the people of this State and of a purpose to injure tne State as a whole." It reads like the production of one of the fellows who write Southern dialect stories VArfScrn m9(TU7!noa arH mfnt, rtf wfcom have never been this side the Potomac river and never seen a live Southerner. Anybody who has even the slightest acquaintance with the people of tbe State generally knows that the South Carolina countrymen are the cleanest blooded population in tbe Unioo. The great majority of them are f:oao Scotch, Scotch Irish and English ancestors. Their appearance is evidence enough of that mud a wonderfully lar^e proportion of tbem are direct descendants of revolutionary families. In very plain houses and among very plain and unpretending people we often lind pedigrees traced oack to the time of the war of 1776 with accuracy unci directness wmca mast 01 i*ew York's four Hundred would probably envy, lo Lancaster county, of w&icb ?tsti alleged resident speaks particularly the people are especially aod remarkably distinct iu their local and family records and all through upper Suutb j Carolina rtie Tory ;:ca Whig families I are yei remembered and recited in nearly every neighborhood. It is an inj teDs-eiy interesting subject and study, i especially to ih. se with a taste for his| tory, and no man who had taken tbe silgtues;- piiiUS tU JUIUiLU UlLUSCil iceardio/? the State and people would hrtvc tH'k<;d the absurd stuff quoted un<e.-s hs nad entered himself ia acomi'0-invc contest of falsehood." &?DJ F^rinh New Vokk, May 13.?A. special cable to i'.'ie fcLrraid irorn Caracas says that a ttrriOie earthquake took place In Vengula <>c April 28 The cities of Morida."La Qmiilas, Chi?uara, and Dao Jiiho, are reported tosaiiy destrovod Villages are said to be wrecked. Full particulate will be learned slowly, out probacly ten thousand people perished WASHINGTON'S MOTHER. A Monument Erect d xo H?r Memory Unveiled. Fredericksburg, Va., May 10 ? Tqc monument to the tnoiher of Washington unveiled today is an obelisk of vhite marble, fifty feet high. Its base consists of three courses, the upper one bevelled and surmounted by a die bearing the simple inscription: tk\farv t.hp. mnf.hp.r of Washington." A cap surmounts the die and from this rises the beautiful white shaft. The site is at the edse of a beautirol plateau, and near the two array bonlder3 upon whicb tbe patriot's mother was accustomed to sit- for hours daily with her feniltius. Tbe exercises at the manument were opened with prayer by ltev. James P. Smith, who largely inspired the movement that resuted in the erection of tbe monument. He was aide to Stonewall Jackson and heiped carry himci! the field when morLally wounded at Chancellorsvilla. Mayor Rowe then ?xtended a brief and appropriate welcome on tbe part of the city, after which Governor OTerrall deft nr^z-lraaQ /"\f TXT a! _ UVGlwU a iilUCCCI IJLXlUUbCO auuLWQO v* HVicom? on behalf of the State, concluding his eloquent peroration by introducing President Cleveland, who delivered a most patriotic address. The delivfiry occupied fjrty-five minutes. At its conclusion Governor O'Ferrall presented to Mrs. Chief Justice Waite, president of the Nationl Association, engrossed resolutions of the ladies of the Fredericksburg Association expressing their thanks for the efforts of the former towards erection of the monument. President Cleveland then came to the front of the stand and held a public re ception, in which more than 10 000 perBons participated. Following this, the 4-Vv a Mai? TT Liosiucui nan ass^iawvu iv uuo jjuu+LJ Washington House, ffhere he rested for a time. Iq the evening a bouquet .was given in honor of the occasion, over which Hon. J. B. Sever presided. It was thought that the president would return to Washington immediately after the unveiling ceremonies, but he was an unexpected and most welcome guest at the feast. A storm of acclamation greeted bis unannounced appearance: When the qoisv welcome had subsided sufficiently for President Sever to formallv present bim, Mr. Cleveland adyanced to the front of the platform and acknowledged the tumultuons reception in a brief and bappy impromptu spjech, which was most enthusastleally cheered, mid rrrki.ik IT* OIaypaI a?v<4 f AAlr hlQ QOfit. nuuu LULL VIOTWiauu ?wa U*u UVMWI Governor O'Ferrall was then introduced and made a briet and happy response. Vice President Stevenson was introduced as a Master Mason to respond to the second toast, which wa3 '"To George Washington, a Master Workman." Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court then arose and annonced himself as doubly a grand%on cf Vir-nr. .J H"Pa ?K? ginia, uusreu luo 'utiai,; j-u wmmonwealth of Virginia." Thi8,wa8 felicitously responded to by Mr Blair L^e. The evening pasaed away most delightfally, in the enjoyment of the sub staatial and intellectual repast spread by the eenerous hos'.s of the occasion. The President aod his. party returned to Washington on a special train at 5 o'clock. The weather Wis most bsauti'ul and the celebration one ol grateful memory to all who witnessed it. In the Presidential partv were Secretary and Mr3. Gresham, Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle, Secretary and Miss Mirtoa, Sec ?-i ?'? r ?. D/v, retary &uu juts* lj^luuho, j, uobuiasbgi General B:ssell, P.-ivate Secretary and Mrs. Thurber and many men distinguished in puolic life. Fitteen thousaad Vurgmian? assembled from all parts of the State to do honor to the noble woman, whose memory they hold dear. Id the throng were representatives of names contemporaneoas with Washington and familiar in the history of the State many prominent in the present administration of its affairs. The surrouading country was deserted for the time. THE SENATORIAL FIGHT Between Batler and Tillman L'.kely 11 be Warm. Washington, May 11.?About the middle of next month one of the hottest campaigns ever waged in South Carolina will be opened between Senator Butler and Governor Tillman for Senatorial honors. Sanator Irby, the jan'or Ssna tor from the Palmetto State, is chairman of the State Damocratic committee, and it is incumbent upon him to start the ball rollinz. He says tie proposes to call the State executive committee together oil the 7th of June, aad m about a weeek or ten days following Senator Butler and Governor Tillman will commence their joint canvass. It will probably be a bitter personal struggle between them, for Senator Butler is aDxlous to retain his seat in the Senate, and Governor Tillman has been bending -r u:~ TusroAnol enoroips Ail UJL 1113 ^UUUl/A? ouu ? ? to be elected a3 Senator Butler's successor. Both of them are good stuaop speakers aud they are to speak together fconi the same platform all oyer the State. Senator Butler is an aggressive campaigner, and he and the Governor have been shying political bricks at eaca other at long range lor several montha past. When they come together on the same stump theie mil probably be pome stirring appeals to their respective followers, and those who are familiar with the characteristics of the two predict an exciting contest from start to finish. Both men are past masters in the art of working upon the passions of their respective followers, and the combat will take on a national as well as a local flavor in view of Senator Butler's promin r- oloA KoPdtlQP nf CUU6 ILi UL1C QQUAbC A^iU ctiow uvummww v? the notoriety Governor Tillman h ts acquired by reason of his famous dispensary liquor law. South Carolinians here are anxiously awaiting for the battle royal to commence, and at the present writing both side3 aDpear to be about equally confident of victory. &. well-known South Carolina Congressman, who is supposed to have a slight leaning towards Senator Butler, for personal reasons, but who has heretofore affiliated with the Tillman movement in the State, wab asked to-dav for hi3 opinion as to the probable outcome. He replied tfcat tie looked tor a desperate struggle between Senator Batler ana Governor Tillman on the stumD. and that at the present time it was difficult to pick a winner. Sena tor Batler is sappDsed to represent the Conservative or National Admioistrational wing of the South Caroiiaa Demo cracy, while G"Vernor T'llman is the leader of the Anti-National Administration-Farmers' Alliance-Populist forces m the State. Tne Governor has the advan tag*? of being surrounded by the State organization and the political machinery absolutely at bis control. Sbnator But ler has made advances to some 01 tne Governor's men bv assisting them and their fnend3 in securing Federal patronage, but in doins so it is claimed that he has driven some of the Conservatives from his camp, and therefore it is a question whether his recruits from the 'fillman camp have exceeded the desertions from his standard among the Conservatives.?News and Courier. Closed, COLr^xsrA, S- C? May 10?A proclamation was issued by Mayor Sloan to ??*? tho Mrwjp nf linnnr sftllinff uajr uuu v?ww? w. ?x?-- . establishments in this city from tomorrow, and instructing the police to enforce the law against; illicit sales. I \ t e POSING AS MARTYRS. A Wiislilastoo Judge mid jary Plsy to Coxvy's Baa<l. Washington, May 9.?Tba three leaders of i?;c commonweal, Geo. Jacob Schle- Ccxey, Marshal Carl Browne and Christopher Columbm Jcnes, were found <;u;i;.v y?sierday of violation the laws by a jury of their peers, and will have to submit to a sentence hereaf* ter to be imposed by the court for tbeir recent demonstration on the Capitol. All three of the accused were sonvicted on the first count of the indictment, which charged them with displaying in the Capitol croandsihe banner cf the Coxey Good roads Association. Jones of Philadelphia wa3 asquitted of toe see ond count which accused him ot treading on the grass, but Coxey and Browne were convicted. The jury retired at five minute3 before 1 o'clock, alter hearing a long charge Irom Jadge Miller, which left them little alternative but to convict if tbey followed his leadings. About half past 3 o'clock the jurors sent for the instructions given for the defense, but the government objected and they filed into the court room while the judge read the instructions. Youug Attorney Hyman endeavored, excitedly, to hav i the fact that the objection came from the prosecution laid before the jury, but he was suupresed. Judge Miller stated that ne would not have handed over the written instructions under any circumstances, as - ' "* ? * : ?K mat would nave oeeo irre^uiar. \juiy five minutes after this episode the jury returccded with the indictment. "General Coxey had been visiting with his wife and his daughter, the "Goddess of peace" ef the May day procession, but took his seat within the bar aud all of the party received the result smillinsly, except Mr. Hvman, who was on bis leet wita 3ome uojauuyu tu the form on which t'ae verdict was presented, but he was sat upon by his colleagues. Attorney Lipscomb, immeai ately entered a motion for new trial and another in arrest of judgment. Judge Millar gave him four days to file the formal paper, then the judge made inquiries about bail and Frank Hume, a well known wholesale grocer, who several Umes has been a candidate for the Democratic nomination to Congress from the Virginia district across the Polomac river, signed a bond in $500 for each of '.he three convicted commonwealers. Gen. Ccxey left the courtroom on the arm of his wire, poshing through a curious crowd which made no demonstration. The conviction of himself and Jones was a surprise io the commonweal sympathizers. Coxey said that it was evident that his prosecutioa was not on account ot what he had done, but because of the principles in behalf of which he had acted. Carl Browne remarked: "I was surprised at the coa? viction of Brother Coxey, because he was plainly acquitted by the evidence of any technical violation of the statutes. For my own part. I expected to be convicted." Just after the closing plea for the d? fense, Browne's lawyer had asked permission to read to the jury a statement written by bis client, but Judse Miller declined to admit it saying that Browne had been eiven all his rights In being de fended by able attorneys. The paper was written In Browne's usual grandilo/in/*ri4 on/3 thu**. hp O-J iV OUU MTV.11.VVI VUMW ww -w ? from his lawyers regarding the line of defense, that he would have admitted the technical violations of the law and have asked the jury to acquit him on the ground than he was merely exercising his constitutional rights. Two weeks may elapse, during which the trio will be free on bail, before the motion for a new trial is argued and de c?ded. The penaltv provided by law is the same for each cfiense, viz: A fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty days, 01 both within the discretion of the court. Accordingly, the mg^imum punishment which may be meted out to Coxey and Browne is $200 and 120 days, wnue Christopher Columbus Jones is subject to $100 and sixty days. By a curious CongrssIODai error in f> recent bill which reorganized the District courts, there is no appellate court to which a police case can b8 carried. The only method ot appealing from Judge Miller's sentence will be by an application to a higher court for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari. Attorney Lipscomb has announced that; he will take this step if Jud<?e Miller overrules the motion for a new trial. Howerer, such a petition will not operate as a stay of to the defendants from J ? ? tr serving their sentences while it is pending. Did Not Expect If. The Charleston Snn records rather an amusing incident in connection with the recent letter of Congressman McLaurin. According to the Snn's story "Professor Marchant queried the Congressman as to whether he, Marchant, was- the object of the former's nf '/vnck nf fhflir UCa^llptlUU XIX Uig JL^UUVi V*. V/UV VJL WUW4A little creatures, a peripatetic school teacher, who wants to be superintendent of education.' McLaunn frankly replied that Marchant was . the person he meant. Whereupon Marchaht says his friends advise! him to 'hit' back, but he was 'afraid' of a man who would say to his face what he had intended for him in print. That such a man must be 'mad'?meaning crazy. This indicates the curious state of mind that the customary equivocation and dodging of public men has given rise to. Marchant knew, as others knew, that McLaurin referred to him. But he thought on putting the question directly to him that McLaurin would, as usual in such cases, find a way out of it bv evasion. To f36 Professor's blank amazement McLaurin simply replied that tie did mean him. Such ; irectneas left the Professor without a word of reply, la these equivocating and demagogueic tiro 3 such an incident is refreshing." A. TerrSbie Leap. Xett York, May 6.?M-ix Meyer, a wealthy dry goods merchant of Seima, Ala., jumped from a fourth story win d jw of the fashionable Graham apartment house at Eighty Ninth street and* Madison avenue, early this morning and received injuries from which he /lipri twn hours lut.piv Mr. M?ver had been suffering from insomnia and temporary aberration for 3ome time past and came to New York recently to be treattd by a specialist in nervous diseases. At 3 o'clock this morning while his nurse was temporarily absent, he arose from his bed, went to the window and jumped to the side walk, sixty feet below. He struck a bronz- railing which surrounds the house, bendiDg it as if it was so much lead. When picked up his chest was crushed in and his head terribly maDgled. His attendant was immediately summoned, but despite the doctor's efforts Mr. Meyer died in two hours without regaining consciousness. Mr. Meyer was accompanied to this city by his daughter. His wife is at their home in Selma. The Soldiers and Sailors Association of Richmond, yesterday issued to all soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy an invitation to attend the unveiling of the monument, May 30. Quarters and rations will be provided organized bodies who notify Capt. Chas. Ellett of ntention to attend and time of arrival. Moy Hoe, a San Francisco Chinaman, lollo *s a curious business. He gathers up the bones of nearly all the Chinamen wbo die in this country and ships them back to the Flowery Kingdom. He is constantly traveling through the country upon his mission. He is employed by the Chinese "companies. / V I \ I \ \ \ \ .. . INDiAN WAR AT ROCK HILL. Catawba JSravea at Odds-?Tho Wholo I I Tribe May Bfcm? Involved, ! | Rock Hill, S. C., May 7.?War has been ceclarcd anions the Catawba barves, with a probability that the whole tribe will become involved. Each 3 ear the State of Sooth Carolina j appropriates $800 to the remc'anfc of the I Catswba Indians in this county. This j money is distributed among the mem- i bers of the tribs by Capt. A. E. Smith, i the agent. The tribe now numbsrs six- \ ty-eis'ht Indians and half-breeds, and the i custom has been to distribute the fund j among the pure bloods and such oi the j oan-Dreeue as uave xuuiau uiotucts never am^ng the balf-breeds whose fathers only are Indians. Under the rules of the tribe as they have existed for generations, so we are informed, children only inherit from their mothers, never from their fathers. This fact is the cause of the present trouble. Jeff Davis Ayers is a member of the tribe. About seven tears ago he was lawfully married to a white woman, who has borne three children by her husband. Of these chiloren one is six years old, anothei four years and the youagestone year. Thursday all the Indians came to town to draw the money appropriated Ko iho Ktolp hut. h*f,-irA tho K0J ? could be effected Avers learned that the ageat would observe the rules of the tribe and not apportion the money amoDg the children ot any white woman who was the wife of an Indian, inasmuch as no part ot the fund was appropraltcd for a while woman, and under the tribal regulation children could only inherit from their mother. If she had no claims upon the fund, the children would have none.' This regulation deprived A ti??la /\f onir norfc in thft dift tributiOD. Finding this was the condition of aftairs;Thursday morning, Avers made demand upoa the Indian Agent through his attorney, W. B. Wilson, Esq., for his children's part of the fund, bat the agent has not yet made the distribution, as the Indians threaten to hold his bondsmen responsible if he pays any money to the Ayers children. Thus matters stood Thursday morning when Ayers approached a cumber ol his comrades who where standing on Main street. They denounced him for delaying the payment of the money. One burly felloe, John Brown became furi ously mad and assaulted Ayers, when the women interfered and a general fight waa imminent. The chief of police happened to be on hand and nabbed Brown, but he resisted and jerking the chiefs " - ?? ?- * A* ii. walking stick out ci die naa, larew n into the street. About thi3 time Policeman Carroll reinforced the chief and the two hurried Brown oft' 10 the guard hcuse, He was subsequently taken before the mayor and fined $15 or thirty days. He failed to pay up and is now in the jug.? Columbia Register. Found at Lait. Editor Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune has a handsome buff and white villa at Los Angeles. He lives there [ part of the time, managing his paper by i telegraph and indulging his fads, of i % * ' < -a ?4 ?1%A 1 wqicq ae nas a uumuer, auu uc is xiku?. No nun is wholly happy without fads. Oue of Editor Medill's fads is the fountain of youth, which he described to a newspaper correspondent lately. Toe fountain itself is in the San Bernardino mountains and is nothing else than a great reservoir of melted snow. The sbow water is the purest in the world, Mr. Medill thinks, and he drinks it in great quantity, so that it will wash away the lime in his system. It is lime in the system that makes people get old and die, in the judgment of The Tribune's veteran editor. Mr. Mt-dill nim self is dow 73 years old and has bad time ! to get considerable lime into him. This choked bim ap, blood and bones, till it gave him rheumatic goat. He went to various springs in Europe and America to get cured, but ail were no goodThen he studied into the science of rheumatism ana gout and concluded drinkiDg distilled water would wash out the lime that had gathered about his jjints. That helped some, but it wa3 reserved for the snow water cf San Bernardino to complete the cure. It is not eating so much as drinking that fills the body up with lime, he contends. Jf, therefore, mankind will flush themselves, so to speak, 'With 11 ? -4 cnemicany pure waier, auu wuidicj, even of the aispensarv brand, they will clear themselves out and stave off old age. Mr. Medill claims that he is renewing his youth on snow water. Say Good Words. The teacher who educates your children toils on year after year doing her duty and often more than hfer duty. She may train them in the perfect way, making them grow to neble manhood and womanhood, but never a word of appreciation does she hear. Let her make a mistake, however; let something go wrong, and you denounce her in terms of the severest blame. The newspaper writer gives his lifetime f-A wrif.inc thincs that will be helpful t<> his readers. It is his daily and nightly thought how he will interest them, instruct them and give them new courage when they are weary and disheartened. Never a word of praise do yon give him. If he says anything you do not like, however, li&e lightning descend the bolts of your wrath. He hears from you then?he does indeed. The office boy and the little errand girl?mere children, ignorant, blundering and timid?come into your employ when they ought to be playing outdoors. They do their poor best and grow pale and nervous, like overworked grown people, while yet they are children. You score them for their mistakes and shortcomings; you threaten them with discharge; you talk to them cruelly, uo you ever praise mem when they do well? Do you ever say one kind, appreciative word to those whose task it is to please you? Such a word would sweeten* life to them for days. It would be like manna iD the wilderness. It might inspire their wboie future lives. Do you ever say it? It is a cruel, heedless world. A Crowning Crime. Little Rock, Ark., May 5.?Reliah!? information reaches here of the burning of a negro in Ouchita supposed to have had small pox. The telegram conveying the intelligence says last Mon day a negro at Miles station, in Ouchita county, was taken sick with some kind ot a breaking cut whbh was thought to be small pox aad a doctor was sent for but for some reason he did not attend the case. T?*s negro was put in a cabin to which .some one set fire and he being unable to escape, perished in the fiaai-28. Une report says he was shot and then burned while another report says he.was only burned. One thing is sure and that '8 tbe house occupied by the nesro was burned to the srouod and he can not be j oil? : J?n_,? 1UUUU uu w. A uc xucuuiij VA WU ?uu-.J parlies is not koawn. Wadered Away and Died, Clmberland, Md., May 7.?Search ers have found ihe dead body of Julian Sibley, a well known carpenter of th!s city, who wandered from his homes on last Sucday morning while sufierina: from temporary aberration of mini. He was ft.und on the cl:ft3 of the well known ^yiils mountains, about one mile from this city, and it is generally thought he died from exposure. Te3? doings ot the Republican secre taries of state in Kansas have been under investigation, and It is asserted that they collected $10,000 in illegal fees in nineteen years. Now comes the present incumbent talking-about putting the homes of wealthy people to the torch. 4 - - ^ - - -m . r J - ?t | Musical Homes are Huppy Homes. f'.Have you ever noticed it? Call to J/5 i oind the homes of your friends who lave a good Fiano or O reran in the i tense. Are theiy not brighter and ; m>re attractive than those where the ! diuae art of music never enters? To i be sure it costs to buy a good instru- ^. 1 rvioif hut- if ia?t-.<? mjirir vpars. and will ; pa7 its costs many a thousand times ' Jl | over by interesting the young folks In u i then homes. Don't make the mistake, i thouth, of investing haphazard. Post i yoursblf thoroughly by writing Ludden j & Bat?s Southern Music House, Savah! nab, la., the great music house of the j South,established in 1870. They have V j suppliej 50,000 instruments to South J [ ern hones, and have a reputation for fair prices and honorable treatment of cu3tomets;and they represent the leading pianos and organs of America 1 They tafea pleasure in corresponding v with you, sending free catalogues, etc. Write then. Sixteen" years ago prosecution was begun against John O'Neil, a noted Inter-State iiauor dealer, of Whitehall, N. Y., for Infraction of the Vermont prohibitory law. The highest Courts of State and nation hare had the case and pronounced the prohibitory liquor w laws of Maine and Vermont constitutional. Last Friday O'XeiU, a rich man, paid a fine of. ?6,702 and left prison rather than not pay it and stay in fifteen years mors. i-lCSETT FATS THE FREIGHT | iVh? i'c- Eitr>ais fer G?cs! te taisisgue sjhJ Set What Y? Cm Sari <? 1.K? s-r ;::is 1 4 ^?JCE now $?s > ? other Bedrooia 3L 7; ?L ** a Kuite, all pricca. v.-- i-=-e=-J jmt-, $69 ?r/ff^$37 /?asg~ '??? Just ic Jntroduee them. ^ fretSht paid on this Or- J nT " ----- ?*p- (iuara^teed to b? % J .. j- 3 2??*^ oraraa or money r*^oed' " ^ Ei-srant Plash PARLOR SUITS; conEietlD? o; Sofa, \ rru Chair, Rocking Ohair. Eivan, ?ini 2 side ChHirx?worth $46. V/ihd?Jiv?i It tc your dasot for $3S. ????; * TfclaNo.: cj?? j JllplSfli ^ ijIISl|l[ S8p | A. BOO with all" attach meets, for 9?3*ammi^. - . ONLY $18.50 delivered to your o^pot. *7*Tbe regular price of this BUGGYJs S to 75 dollars. 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