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. tz.C* wmmygjCSKt uu^?w^5i?**cgc???6<sw , cux school system" Is Protested Against by Dr. Tai- | mage in a Sermon. HIS WARNING TO PARENTS. Finds a Timely Lesson In the Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter. Thousands of Children Educated Into Imbecility. In his sermon Dr. Talmage lodges a protest against the parental heedlessness and worldly ambition which are threatening the sacrifice of many American children; test. Judges xi. 36, '"My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth . unto the Lord, do to me according to I that which hath proceeded out of thy j mouth." Jephthah was a freebooter. Early turned out from a home where he ought to have been cared for, he consorted with rough men and went forth to earn his living as best he could. In tho&e times it was considered right for a man to go out on indepenent military expeditions. Jephthah was a good man according to the light of his dark age, but through a wandering and predatory life he became reckless and precipitate. ine grace 01 vjrou uuaugto ? u?u ^ , heart, bat never reverses his natural j temperament. The Israelites wanted the Ammonites driven out of their country, so they sent a delegation to Jephthah, asking him to become commander in chief of all the forces. He might have said. "You drove me ouf" when you liad ho use for me and, now you are in trouble, you want ine back," but he did not say that. He takes command of the army, sends messengers to the Ammenites to tell them to vacate the country and, getting no fatwtcKIa TAsmrvnse. marshals his troops for battle. Before going out to the war Jephthah makes a very solemn vow that if the Lord will give him the victory, then, on his return home, whatsoever first comes out of his doorway he will offer in sacrifice as a burnt offering. The battle opens. It was no skirmishing on the edges of danger, no unlimbering of batteries two miles away, out the hurling of men on the points of swords and spears until the ground could no more drink the blood, and the horses reared to leap over the pile of bodies of the slain. In those old times opposing forces woild fight until their swords were broken, and then each one would throttle his man until they both fell, teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death stare, until the plain was one tumbled mass of corpses from which the last trace of manhood had been dashed out. Jephthah wins the day. Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Sound the victory all through the mountains of Gilead. Let the trumpeters call up the survivors. Homeward to your wives and children. Homeward with ^ your glittering treasures. Homeward to have the applause of an admiring nation. Build triumphal arches, swing ont flacs all over Mizuah, open all your doors to receive tie captured treasures, through every hall spread the baDquet, pile up the viands, fill high the tankards. The naiion is redeemed, the invaders are routed and th-* national honor is vindicated. Huzza for Jephthah, the conqueror! Jephthsi, seated on a prancing steed, \ advances amid the acclaiming multi... tudss, but his eye is not on the excited populace. Remembering that he had made a solemn vow that, returning from victorious battle, whatsoever first came out of the doorway of home, that, should be sacrificed as a burnt offering, he has his anxious look upon the door. t i ? - ?- - ^ ?xi? i i wonaer wnais spouess xamu, nuai brace of doves will be thrown upon the fires of the burnt offering. Oh, horrors! Paleness of death blanches his cheek. Despair seizes hi?" heart. His daughter, his only child, rushes out the dooway to throw herself in her father's arms and shower upon him more kisses than there were wounds on his breast or dents on his shield. All the triumphal splendor vanishes. Holding back this child from his heaving breast and pushing tHe locks back from the fair brow and looking into the eyes of inextinguishable affection with choked utterance he says: ''Would God I lay stark on the bloody plain. My daughter, my only child, joy of my home, life of my life, thou art the sucnfice!" The whole matter was explained to her. This was no whining, hollow hearted girl into whose eyes the father looked. All the glory of sword and shield vanished in the presence of the valor of that girl. There may have been a tremor of the lip, as a roseleaf trembles in the sough of the south wind ; there may have been the starting of a tear like a rain drop shaken from the anther of a water lily. Bat with a self sacrifice fliof. -man m*v Tjnf, rAarOi and rmlv wo man's heart can compass she surrenders herself to fire and to death. She cries out in the words of my text, "My father, if thou hast opened they mouth unto the Lord do unto me whatsoever ? hath proceeded from thy mouth." 1 She bows to the knife, aad the blood, which so often at the father's voice had rushed to the crimson cheek, smokes in the fires of the burnt offering. No one can tell us her name. There is no need that we know her name. The garlands that Mizpah twist- , ed for Jephthah, the warrior, have gone into the dust, but all ages are twisting this girl's chaplet It is well that her name came not to us, for no one can wear it. They may take the name of Deborah or Abigail or Miriam, but no one in all the ages shall have the title of this daughter of sacrifice. Of course this offering was not pleasing to the Lord, especially as a provision was made in the law for such a contingency, and Jephthah might have redeemed his daughter by the payment-of 30 shekels of silver, but before you hurl your denunciations at Jephthah'a cruelty remember that in olden times when vows were made men thought s they must execute them, perform them, whether they were wicked or goodThere were two wrong things about Jei'hthah's vow. First, he ought never to have made it. .Next, having made ? - I i. \ I xl ._ I ^ 1 it, it were setter Dr?<sen man sept. But do not take on pretentious airs and say, UI could not have done as Jephtbah did." If in former days you had been standing on the banks of the Ganges and you had been born in India, you might have thrown your children to the crocodiles. It is uot because we are naturally any better, but because i we have more gospel light. I Now I make very practical use of & this question when I tell you that the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter was a type of the physical, mental and spiritual sacrifice of ] 0.000 children in tbis day. There are paracts all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their children a class of influences which will as certainly ruin them as knife and , r frtiwiTr -i IT r-n ."' torch destroyed Jephthah's daughter; i While I speak the whole nation, with- j out emotion and without shame, looks upon the stupendous sacrifice. In the first place. I remark that much of the system of education in our day is a system of sacrifice. When rtliil.-lrpn sit nr seven hours in school and then must spend two or three hours in preparation for school the next day, will you tell me how much time they will have for sunshine and fresh air and the obtaining of that exuberance which is necessary for the duties of coming life? No one can feel more thankful than I do for the advancement of common sehool education. The printing of books; appropriate for schools, the multiplication of philosoi-vkinol anro-ratni t.llA PStnhl ish mATlt of normal schools, which provide for our children teachers of largest caliber, are themes on which every philanthropes ought to be congratulated. But this herding of great multitudes of children in ill ventilated schoolrooms and poorly (quiped halls of instruction is making many of the places of knowledged in this country a huge holocaust. Politics in many of the cities gets into educational affairs, and while the t^o w/vIUiaaI ova c/"?roKVvlinor Fnr t.Tia pUilUVdl ];ai ftiu ?mv honors Jephthah's daughther perishes. It is so much so that there are many schools in the country today which are preparing tens of thousands of invalid men and women for the future; so that, in many places, by the time the child's education is finished the child is finished! In many places, in many cities of the country, there are large appropiations for everything else, and cheerful appropriations, but as soon as thA aimrnnriation is to be made for the educational or moral interests of the city we are struck through with an economy that is well nigh the death of us. In connection with this I mention what I might call the cramming system of the common schools and many of the academies; children of delicate brain compelled to tasks that aaight appall a mature intellect; children going down to school with a strap of books half as high as themselves. The fact is in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate for the simple reason, they say, "We cannot afford to allow our children's health to be destroyed in order that they may gather the honors of an institution." Tens of thousands of children educated into imbecility, so that connected with many snch literary estab- . lishments there ought to be asjlums for the wrecked. It is push and crowd and cram and stuff and jam until the child's intellect is bewildered, and the memory is ruined, and the health is ruined, and the health is gene. There are children who once were full of romping and laughter and had cheeks crimson with health who are now AMf m fKA farn/vAn nolo "PQn&A IUi L1CU >Uli 1U C4i uv/i uuuu * uwu^ irritated asthmatic old before their time. It is one of the saddest sights on earth, an old mannish boy or an old womanish girl. Girls 10 >ears of age studying algebra! Bojs 12 years of age racking their brain over trigouometry! Children unacquainted with their mother tongue crying o^er their Latin, French and German lessons! All the vivacity * of their nature beaten out of them "by the heavy beetle of a Greek lexicon! And you doctor them for this, ar d you give them a little medicine for that, and you wonder what is the matter of them. I will tell you what is the matter of them. They are finishing their education! In my parish in Philadelphia a little child was so pushed at school that she was thrown into a fever, and in her dy mg delirium ail night loDg she was trying to recite the multiplication table. In my boyhood I remember that in our class at school there was one lad who knew more than all of us put together. If we were fast in our arithmetic, he extricated us. When we stood up for the spelling class, he was almost always tne head of the class. Visitors came to his father's house, and he was always brought in as a prodigy. At 18 : years of zzz he was an idiot. He lived ten years an idiot and died an idiot, not knowing his right hand from bis left or , day from night. The parents and the ; teachers made him an idiot. You may flatter your pride of forcing < your child to know more than any other children, but you are making a sacrifice i of that child if by the additions to its i intelligence you are making a subtrac- ; tion from its future. The child will go 1 away from such maltreatment with no i exuberance to fight the battle of life, i Such children may get along very well I while you take care of them, but when i you are old or dead alas for them if, 1 through the wrong system of education 1 which you adopted, they have no ; swarthiness or force of character to i take care of themselves. Be careful i how you make the child's head ache or its heart flutter. I hear a great deal i about black man's rights, and Chinaman's rights, and Indian's rights, and 1 woman's rights. Would God that some i body would rise to plead for children's j rights. The Carthaginians used to ; sacrifice their children by putting them 1 into the arms of an idol which thrust i forth its hand. The child was put into 1 the arms of the idol and no sooner 11 touched the arms than it dropped into j the fire. But it was tht> art of the '] mothers to keep the children smiling ] and laughing until the moment they 1 died. There may be a fascination and 1 a hilarity about the styles of education i of which I am speaking, but it is only 1 laughter at the moment of sacrifice. : Would God there were only one Jeph- s thah's dauehter! i Again there are many parents who { are sacrificing their children with wrong system of discipline?too great rigor or . too great leniency. There are children ^ in families who rule the household. * The high chair in which the infant sits * is the throne, and the rattle is the ' scepter, and the other children make up j the parliment where father and mother j have no vote! Such children come up to be miscreants. There i3 no chance ' in this world for a child that has never J learned to mind. Such people become ( the botheration of the church of God 1 and the pest of the world. Children that do not learn to obey human authority are unwilling to learn to obey divine authority. Children will not re- 1 spect parents whose authority they do > not respect. Who are these young men * that swagger through the streets with 1 their thumbs in their vest talking about * their father as "the old man," "the ' governor," "the squire." "the old 1 cbap'.:? or their mother as ; the old wo- ! man?" They are those who in youth, 1 1*1 Jl. _ l i i in cnuanooa never learned to respect authority. Eli, having heard that his sons had died in their wickedness, fell ! over backward and broke his neck and < died. Well he might. "What is life to i a father whose sons are debauched? Th<j ' dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste ' and the driving rains that drip through the roof of the sepulcher are sweeter than the wines of Helbon.. There must be harmony between the father's government and the mothers government. The father will be tempted to too great rigor. The mother will be tempted to too great leniency. Her tenderness will overcome her. Her voice is a little softer, her hand seems better fitted to pull out a thorn and . soothe a pang. Children wanting any- ' thing from the mother, cry for it. They hope to dissolve her with tears. But the mother must not interfere, must not coax off, must not beg for the child when the hour comes for the assertion | of parental supremacy ana the subjuga- j tion of a child's temper. There comes in the history of every child an hour ! when it is tested whether the parents j shall rule or the child shall rule. That ! is the crucial hour. If the child triumphs in that hour, then he will some day make you crouch. It is a horrible scene. I hare witnessed it. A mother I come to old age, shivering with terror j in the presence of a son who cursed her j gray hairs and mtfcked her wrinkled ! face and begrudged her the crust she j munched with her toothless gums! row sharper than a serpent's tooth ilia To h ive a thaukli si cbi <i! There are many who are sacrificing their children to a spirit of worldliness Some one asied a mother whose children had turned out very well what was | the secret by which she prepared them ! for usefulness and for the Christian ! life, and she oaid: "This was the secret. When in the morning I washed mv children, I prayed that they might be washed ia the fountain of a Saviours j mercy. When I put on their garments | I prayed that they might be arrayed in the robe of a Saviour's righteousness. When I gave them food, I prayed that they might be fed wi.h manna from heaven. When I started tbem on the road to school, I prayed that their path might be as the shining light, brighter and brighter to the perfect day. When T nut, fhft-m to sleen. I craved that they might be infolded iD the Saviour's arms. Oh, you say, that was very oid fashioned. It was quite old fashioned. But do you suppose that a child under such nurture as that ever turned out bad? Further on thousands and tens of thousands of the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught to be in sympathy with all the artificialties of society. They are inducted into all the hollowness_of what is called fashionable life, 'l'iiey are taught to believe that history is dry, but that 50 cent stories of adventurous love are delicious. With capacity that might have rivaled a Florence jSightingale in heavenly ministries or made the father's house glad with filial and sisterly demeanor their life is a waste, their beauty a curse, their eternity a demolition. I lift up my voice against the j fice of children. Hook out of my window on a Sabbath, and I see agrou.- of children unwashed, uncombed, unChristianized. "Who cares for- tl ca? Who pravs for them? Who utte:s to them one kind word? When the city missionary, passing along the park in JNew lork, saw a ragged iaa ana neara him swearing, lie said to him: '"My stop swearing! You ought to go to tne house of God today. You ought to be a Christian.'1 The lad looked in his face and said: "Ah, it is easy for you to talk, well clothed as :?ou are and well fed. But we chaps hain't got no chance!'' Who lifts them to the alter for baptism? Who goes for*h to snatch them up from crime and death and woe? Who today will go forth and bring them iBto schools and churches? No; heap them up, great piles of rags and wretchedness and filth. Put underneath them the fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on more lago's, ana while we sit in the churches with folded arms and indifference crime and disease and death will go on with the agonizing sacrifice. Daring the early French revolution at Bourges there was a company of boys who used to train every day as young soldiers, and they carried a flag and they had on the flag this inscription, "Tremble. Tyrants, Tremble; We Are Growing Up."' Mightily suggestive! This generation is passing off, and a mightier generation is coming on. Will they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of sin and the foes of death, or will they be the foes of God? They are coming up! I congratulate all parents who are doing theii best to keep their children away from the alter of sacrifice. Your prayers are going to be answered. Your children may wander away from God, but they will come back again. A voice comes from the throne today, encouraging you, t;I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee." And though when you lay your head in death there may be some wanderer of the family far away from God, and you may > 1 T_ . T _ 1 I ce zu years in neaven ueiure s<uvau.vu shall come to his heart, he will be brought into the kingdom, and before the throne of God yon will rejoice that pou were faithful. Come at last though 50 long postponed his coming. Come it last! 1 congratulate all those who are toiling for the outcast and the wandering. Your work will soon be over, but the inn j.: ;n nuence you are setung iu iuouuu win aever stop. =Long after you have been garnered for the skies your prayers, pour teachings and pour Christian influence will go on and help to people heaven with bright inhabitants. Which would you rather see. which scene would you rather mingle in in the last ;reat day, being able to say, "I added house to house and land to land and manufactory to manufactory; I owned half the city; whatever my eye saw I bad, whatever I wanted I got," or on :hat day to have Christ look you full in ;he fa^e and say, "I was hungry, and pe fed me; I was sick and in prison, md ye visited me, inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye lid it to me?" An exchange gets off the following: [ want to be a farmer and till the virgin soil, and labor in the sunshine to 'weatand stew and boil; I want to earn arge acres whereupon the rye to sow, md wateh the cornstalk waving, and aear the mortgage grow; I want to be a ?armer, and grow a Hubbard squash. :he pumpkin and potatoes, and other stuff, by gosh; I want to be a farmer. I > --..1 au upuil iuy ouui, uun ua>cu 15cu.^ noney to buy a gopher bole. A special dispatch to the New York {Vorld from Manila says: "It is the universal opinion among army men here hat it will require the presence of 50,-, )00 American troops to occupy the :erritory that has been taken and ;o keep open communications among' :he islands." We would infer from ;his that our forces arc not making much progress towards pacifying the aatives of the Philippines. A paper published a long obituary says an exchange, of a.aan who had died in the community, closing with the ratement that a "loog procession of friends followed the remains to the last roasting place." The ^>mily read the nore and discovered the supposed error and asked the editor to make correction in the word '"roasting," but he said he could not do it until the seven years back subscription which deceased owed j him had been paid. The only man that doesn't make a fool of himself occasionally is the one that nature saved the trouble. STATE DISPENSARY,! j j The Forma! Report of the Legis- j i lative Committee, r\irn\/Ti iiha t % i i n? ai it tVtKT IHINU I?> ALL KIUH I . | The Profits and Losses, Receipts : and Disbursements, Assets And Liabilities Tabulated. The legislative committee, after mak- i eg a formal inspection of the dispen- j sary, has submitted its report. From j . the figures submitted the expense was greater than the profit the last quarter, ' the time covered by the report. The total receipts for the quarter amounted j to S377,G94.24 and the total disburse- J ments to ?391.236.57, bringing down j the balance in the State treasury at the j i first of the year from $4(5,073.21: to j ' $32,433.91. The report follows: Dear Sir: The committee appointed j 1 by the officers of the general assembly | to investigate and examine tiie books of the State dispensary for the year 1809 begs leave to submit the following report for the quarter ending 3Iarch 31st: The stook on hand was taken on 1 March 31st and April 1st by D. F. Efird, representing the committee, and 1 Messrs. Miles and. Bojkin, represent- 1 ing the State board of control. All j liquors, supplies, machinery and office ! fixtures were exhibited and taken, as j per inventory submitted. The committee met April 17th and j proceeded to examine the books and < cnnr?Vipr<5 fnr r.liA mrmt.hs nf .lanuarv. ! 3 . -w. ~ ~ _ w V 7 . February and March. - We found the ] collections and expenditures, with ' vouchers for each and every item prop- : erly recorded. ( We append hereto the following statements: Assets and liabilities for said quarter; profit and loss account, and cash statement of receipt and dis- ] bursements. J We find that the books of the institu- 3 tion correspond with the cash balance of the State treasurer, with the exception of warrants issued which have not ' been presented for payment. All of which is respectfully submit- i led. T. J. Stanland, D. F. Efird, A. C. Lyles. Quarterly statement of State dispensary for quarter ending March 31: ASSETS. Cash in State treasury March 31....:.- $ 32,438.91 Merchandise in hands of I a dispensers March 31 210,283.18 j Merchandise at State dis- i pensary 135,449 98 s Supplies 35,421.70 Teams and wagons 150.00 Machinery asd office fixtures 2,500 00 < Contraband 775 00 Real estate 34,899 45 ( Suspended accounts ' 3,517.95 * Personal accounts due State * j for royalty on beer, etc.. 7.255.88 j e Total assets $462,696.43 1 ' LIABILITIES. 5 School fund $406,325.58 1 r? _ . i _ i { rersonai accounts uue oy State for supplies, whiskies, wines, beers, alcohol, etc 56,370.85 j Total liabilities $462,696.43 ] Statement of profit and loss account c for quarter ending March 31st: PROFITS. J Gross profits on merchandise sold during the quar- 1 ter ; $100,334.40 Discounts on whiskey purchases 1,323 31 Contraband seizures 1.904.17 J Permit fees 4.50 , Profits from beer dispensa- j ries St... 6,422 98 c e Total gross profits ?109,989.36 i losses. < Supplies, bottles, corks, 1 labels, wire, tin foil, j boxes, etc., used during { quarter- $ 31,773.32 ^ Depreciated value cf teams ( aud wagons 30.00 i Depreciated value of ma- ( chinerv and office fixtures 38S.30 Constabulary 12,692.77 Breakage and leakage 131.73 Freight and express charges 19,242.22 i Labor 3.997.03 1 Insurance 217.50 I Expense account 5 200.69 1 T"-* i on r\n t jjiagauon iou.vu . Loss by robbery at Salke- t hatchie dispensary '14.72 r Loss by fire at Jacksonboro [ dispensary 22G.S6 t Worthless wines at W. J. Mott's dispensary 59.10 Undercredit of prices of goods at tne manning ais- s pensary 100.00 1 Uop.n-1 license by dispenser * at Ulmer's, the profits of * that dispensary not being c sufficient to bear expenses 50.00 * Total expenses $ 74,354.24 C Net profits on sales for quarter, passed to the credit of the school lund 35,695.12 ^ Total S109.939.36 ] Cash statement for quarter ending 1 of 1QQQ- i A'AUl vu AWVV ~ receipts. * Balance in Scate treasury. .$ 46,073.24 January receipts 139,740.76 February receipts 117,747.19 March receipts 120,116.29 ^ Total $423,677.48 \ disbursements. January disbursements... .$151,596 14 February disbursements... 133,568.95 March disbursements 106,073.48 ( Total , $391,236.57 ' In 1511 when the Spaniards, under ' Velasquez, were devastating Cuoj. a < chief by the name of liatu??y, wa-< con- 1 demnei to V.urneJ alive. When i ure-d at. tlie >take to embrace Chnstian- 1 itj i li te i.io soul might find admission 1 into Heaven, he inquired if the white men would-go there. On being an swered in the affirmative, he exclaimed, "Then I will not be a Christian; 1 for I would not go again to a place 1 where I must find men so cruel!" What impressions of Christianity are wegiv- t ing the heathens of the Philippines? I C The New York World's account of ' the burning of the VaDderbilt country ? place, '"Idle Hour," where W. K. Vauderbilt, Jr., and his bride were spending their honeymoon, contains this bit of information: "Two Pinkerton de- ^ tectives were on the premises. One j was outside the house, the second had , accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt _ to 'Idle Hour,' at the express wish of c the bride, and occupied a room on the " same floor as the young couple." * '.T i ? !! I vmi m-V.-, ? 1 > 'lit . PAPER COLLARS, They Arc Still Made, Largely for Export. "Oh, yes, paper collars are stili made," said a haberdasher, smilingly, in reply to an inquisitive customer. 'Thirty years ago they were worn by men who considered themselves very good dressers. Now their use is conlined to a few old fellows who won't ; change and, of course, they have to j be manufactured to order. There are ; several customers for them here, and j a wealthy planter who lives some dis- | tance north of the city orders them by j thousand lots. I was in New England last summer, and while visiting a little i town famous for its collar-makers saw ! an old nlant used for turninsr out the paper article. It had been rusting i away in snence for years, and I was i astonished at its size. The buildings easily covered an acre, and the machinery was enormous. I was told that in its heyday the concern shipped its product all over the world, and sold paper collars even in the Fiji Islands. I supposed they must have been used nc tritnTYiinrrc rmccinnnrv "The celluloid collar inaustry is still very much alive, and you may be surprised to know that its trade last year was the largest on record. Who buys them? Lots of different people. Thousands are sold to seafaring men, particularly those whose voyaging takes mere into tne tropics, rxance, ueimany, and Italy import an immense number. Another big lot is supplied tinder contract to the Russian army? a. fact not generally knovrn?and I understand there is a large sale of them in Turkey. "The principal market in this country is in the West. The lumbermen up in the Minnesota and Wisconsin regions regard them as very recherche, i-nri fhot7 hnT thorn hv thf? hnlf?. Tn the cities they are worn generally by policemen, who would find it impossible to keep a linen collar looking neat in bad weather.The great objection to celluloid collars used to be their Inaamabilitv. Their composition is very Like gun-cotton, and it was formerly a common joke to touch a match to a fellows neck-gear and see it vanish. JTou can't do that now. A new process has rendered them fireproof." The Best-Lighted City. Paris is now said to be the best lighted city in the world and a model [or all cities that are bent on introducing electric lighting on a grand scale, [t is the great installation under the rast central markets of Paris that has enabled he municipality to command :he situation and to carry out a scheme which has been settled, not hastily, but after a patient, scientific md systematic study. This installation, however, has never t>een intended for the general work of Lighting. It is for experimental purposes, and also for acting as a regu/ ?>? ?staa Aonh tho .U.IVi. VI VMVU Ua I AWtVU V*m VHV :ity, radiatiiig from a centre, being eased for a limited terra to a responsible electric company. The old troublesome question of how to dispose of wires never arises iu Paris, where, thanks mainly to the subways, there are absolutely no obstructive wires. Tea Cl arette?. The ordinary much-maligned tobacco ;igarette, says a medical journal, must Field up the finest place as a destroyer )f nerves and vitality and general eneny of mankind. Its successful rival, which has apperred recently In the ield, is the tea cigarette. It is made .'rom unbroken leavt of green tea mis:d with a little tea dust. The combinaion. is moistened, rolled and inserted n a paper wrapper so that outwardly t looks like an ordinary cigarette. The iffects are peculiar. The smoker first ixperiences a thickening sensation of iie head and is afflicted with a desire :o sit down. This phase is followed jy a period of intense exhilaration, .vhich, presumably, accounts for the labit; the third phase is nausea and lisgust for all food. The beginning of recovery is marked )y a yearning for tea in any form. The tea cigarette habit is said to be peculiarly difficult to overcome. An Ingenious Device. Formerly the ashes on steamships vere gathered into great cans, hoisted :o the decKS with more or less difficulty md thrown overboard. Among the lew devices for labor saving in this lirection is a chute into which a very ;trong air current is forced. The ashes ire placed in the chute as they ac:umulate and are almost instantly >lown through this conductor into the :e.a_ The amount of labor saved by bis means can scarcely be appreciated jy those who have not watched the wearisome dragging of the enormous quantity of refuse from the furnaces n steamships; and large plants of this lescription. Good Work of the Anc.ents. Eighteen hundred years ago or thereibouts, the Roman emperor Trajan milt a bridge across .ne Danube, the jiers of which are found by the Rou * wirvwet +n C11Q. IlULlIilll ovrxavt ain a new structure, which Trill unite :he towns of Ternu Severin, in Rounania, and Gladova, In Servia. In the niddle of the structure the statue of Trajan will stand lour squares to all :he winds that blow. School Children Provided For. At Roubaix, one of the socialist itrongholds of France, the 11,000 pubic school children receive free food md clothing at the expense of the own. Their dinner at scnooi consists if soup, bread, vegetables, meat and a jlass of wine. At the beginning of ;nmmer and of winter each child retires a complete suit of clothes. A Strange Pet. Perhaps the strangest pet ever kept )y a man was a wasp which Sir John jubbock caught in the Pyrenees and esolved to tame. He began by teachng it to take its meals on his hand, and u a very short space of time it grew o expect to be fed in that way. Very Hard Wood. Some of tne petrified wood found in Arizona, it Is said, is so hard that steel ools will not work It, the petrifications >eing only three degrees less in hardless than a diamond. An exchange gets off the following: [ want to he a farmer and till the virgin Boil, and labor in the sunshine to sweat - ?J ~ <3 Vv/vM. T TT-ont to parTi I dXIU bLU VV dUU UVllj JL VV 0 ? icres, whereupon the rye to sew, and watch the cornstalk waving, and hear [he mortgage grow; I want to be a banner, and grow a Hubbard squash, :he pumpkin and potatoes, and other stuff, by gosh; I want to be a farmer, [ do, upon my soul, but I haven't got :he money to buy a gopher hole. On the Trail of a Pension. A somewhat pathetic letter comes :rom an old colored citizen. It is as 'ollows: "De rain has done beat down my cot.on, an' most er my co'n -is done ruint. ily son wuz a sojer in de war wid de Suaniels. He lost two legs in. it Do rou reckon de guv-ment will give him |2 a leg fer 'em?" Level Sea Bottom. The bottom of the Pacific between lawaii and California is said to be so evel that a railroad could be laid for iOO miles without grading anywhere. This fact was discovered by the United States surveying vessel engaged in naking soundings with a vievcpf laynz cable. - A * wmmwtmu i m iThb iinni i ^ 11 iiwV i 1 t*W - . ^ PECULIAR PREJUDICES. i ?.?. ' Nearly Everyone Manifests Soma Favorite j Eccentricity. - j , i i^rerycoar, more or less, possesses a | favorite nreiiidfrp -o-TiiVh in tfiA pvw i , ? __ ( of everybody else, appears nonsensical i and unnecessary. In the gay time o? j the Georges, for instance, the young j rakes strove their hardest to develop j some peculiarity or curious prejudice, j by -which their names-would become ; famous, and possibly through this behanded on to posterity. Just now there is an eccentric old gentleman living near Luton, in Bed fordshire, who persists in donning the attire of an earlier time. Any day he may be seen taking his walks, wearing knee breeches and an indescribable green waistcoat, whilst his silk hat is peculiarly antique. Notwithstanding _ the remonstrances of his friends, he re- | fuses absolutely to dress up-to-date, protesting that he is a great admirer of the good old days and of all its customs. The present-day orthodox dress Is far too sober and severe to suit his tastes. Equally singular is the prejudice against modern things shared by an other old gentleman who is the squire ; of a small village in Derbyshire. He j also shuns from his tables any French j ;.r continental dishes, allowing the :ook to prepare only plain food, in .vhich a saddle of beef always plays a conspicuous part. As might be expected, he is a firm believer in the greatness of his country, and has never yet j evinced a desire to travel further than j Scotland, where he possesses anotner j residence. A celebrated author professes a ter- j rible prejudice against cats. He can neither eat nor -worlc while one is in the room, and says that, without seeing the animal, he can tell whether one ia about. A well-known politician is similarly prejudiced against the feline race. Music halls and theaters are the pet aversion of another individual, who ascribes much of the wickedness of this world to their influence. His eldest son, of twenty-two, once visited a certain place of this description, and so enraged was his father that the latter vowed that if it occurred again he would cut him off with the proverbial chillinc A -wealthy old lady living in Derbyshire las never yet entered a train, although her age must be very nearly eighty. Her ideas are naturally very old-fashioned, and so great is her dislike to railways that-she has fixed upon a house some fifteen miles away from the nearest line. When she does travel, she accomplishes it by means of a pony chaise very similar to the one the queen uses at Balmoral. Science's Triumph Over Crime. The Berlin newspapers have lately been telling with great ^Tee of a triumph of science over crime. In one of the great offices of the German capital, a number of petty thefts had been committed, the pockets of coats hanging in the anterooms being visited and cigars and small change extracted. The police -were for a time nonplussed and invoked the aid of science. A professor being consulted, he advised the insertion of a delicate aniline powder in the mouth end of seme cigars to be placed at the mercy of the thief. The next morning there was a summoning of the clerks an a general inspection of Hno nnVunnv VOrtth WSS LiieiJL 1UUUCU. w ---? discovered with aniline tongue and lips. = Keeley 126 SMITH STREET, a Cor. Vanderhorst, | e i ? ^ ? ? CHARLESTON, S. C. ** M ^ I ATrtnnnr. li.JJVVW.VJU MORPHINE ' OPIUM : TOBACCO CIGARETTE., | USIN'G I j Produce each a disease haviDg deSn- { ite pathology. The disease yields j easily to the Double Chloride of Gold j ? 1 -i-i-i ?-J -i. 1.1 I Treatment as aamimscereu at iubuwvc j Keeley Institute. N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is j administered in South Carolina ?S;Y CHARLESTON ^ HON! THIS High arm Sewing Fully guaranteed for ten ye I I all the latest attachments, b< i inentcd wood work. " Price $18.C Money refunded after 30 day j is not as good as the $40.00 to ; sold by agents. Send for circulars and state We are headquarters for Fumr Mattings, Carpets, Sewir jj | Baby C'arriacca, etc. I Address IIIO & 1112 Brc I ' lO?bjEWln'Mi 111 III Tie Great Setmion. ] ' The great reunion of the Veterans of I the ever to be venerated Confederacy is now but a little more than a month .-,ff T'nu nn/3'.-irxr i.otrinfi?rvi Pif flfa? i old Charleston is oozing at every pore | and such extensive preparations are be- j ing made for the reception and enter- j tainment of the thousands who vrill visit the old shino of chivalry as will cause this to overshadow all other reunions,-especialj. in open-handed hospitality and the coming together of the scattered survivors of the heroic a nine? ! that stood the shock of the world> j -V 1 ,?tkon , t;u<llgca 111 ICglVLL XVX ilivxo U.au ?^'M. . years. As the Rock Hill Herald says \ it it to be a great occasion and every ; old Veteran who followed the Starry , Cross ought to be there, and as the bar- ! talion's move once agai?: over Charle?- i ton's proud thoroughfares, hear us in j days of yore the invincible "rebel yell. '* I It will be there and will awaken memo- j rics of the immortal achievements < f j the grandest armies that ever faced an j overpowering foe in battle. Gen. Joe ! Wheeler will deliver the emtio< and the ever-faithful city will be gorgeous ! in holiday attire in honor of the coming j once again of the men who stood her j hrm defenders for so many years. The j Veteran visit to Charleston may be i their last pilgrimage to the Mecca of j Southern chivalry and fcoaor. and there I will be no disappointments. Th^ News i and Courier tells us of the great preparations being made, and from it we learn that more money has been subscribed than in any of the other Reunion cities and the end is not yet. Nearly $15,000 have been raised and the sources of contribution have by no means been exhausted. In addition to the funds secured for the entertainment of the Veterans the city has ex pended over $30,000 in the erection of the handsomest Auditorium in the Southern States^ There is another very significant indication of the general interest in the Reunion, and that is of all the money raised not $500 have come from people or places outside of city of Charleston, and not a cent of the fund for the entertainment of the Veterans is the result of municipal appropriation, but represents the patriotic offerings of the people of the city to the men who wore the Grey. The eommiflpft on nuartersand housing has Dro vided sleeping placesfor 30,000 visitors and every day Eew names are added to the list of those wlio will assist in taking care of the guests. A very important feature of the arrangements for the reception of the people is the special effort that is being made to give the ladies every comfort that is possible under tbe circumstances, to which reference is made elsewhere. The committee on restaurants has secured the names of places where meals can be furnished to 25,000 persons daily. ?TO THE COLUMBIA, S C, for catalogue. Free scholarships rm ftflsv conditions to those who write sou a. Railroad fare paid. Cheap board. Notes accepted. Can pay part of expenses by working in the college office. Address, men- j tioning course d-sired. \Y. H. NEWBERRY, Prest j a a _ _ ? _ _ paaciears School of SHORTHAND I ?AND? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, ?. C. Th:s ?choo' h*? t" e reparation of being the ; he i htusite** ii:vim?iou in tr e Si* ? ; nr? S-o'iHnz re n?in$mti?e j'Ovi i>t;? ?? J fT-eri-ai.tiV h-h'ir.kui=r, i-uiir?nci?, r?;i' > rai &<?.. m 'iiis aa i t-- < r "I lf? ?0 W II Ml'-f tit. <*o?rt ; rxp1 r O'lnnjbw, S 0 , fi-r :er:n* e'.- j r T oi^Pfi ssw1 y DhPly __ .. L Machine |p ars, fitted with ?T2k w eautifully in.a$50.00 machines ^ iff jig wnat you want.. kw ture, Stoves, ig Machines, The Padgett Furn >ad Street, hi i -rmriifw ????* Flour Mill j Machinery CONTRACTS TAKEN TO KURSiSH COM- V _ 1 ? *1 f?"i- I issuer rioar mm*. ?REPRESENTING THE? r5!-L J fill.. RSIH li]?*!#? J iiiCDiMiD buy iiiw nuif.i, a Flour ?l.i: I 1 t: i t; ;?i v' aad lt/i :< > i?a i: t i ? > / : ?. "M I am prepared to build mill> ?.? -S the most improved plans aad j.' prices to compete with aay o:m C JL in the trade. We guaraat*- J the products of our^wiis t-> equal the grades of the best Western miils. Before piaciag your orders m to?? n w M*V* I also handle a complete line of "A' ? > I ^ Workiag Machinery: Saw Mills. K > gines and Boiler, Cora Mills a.ii M. chinery in general. Having been established in bu<iz?t^3 .j: here for sixteen years, I have baih up my trade by-selling the very class of machinery, and am i:? j b srtcr position to serve the intere?- >f tay ^ customers than ever before. ?2 - :M "" mi m* V. li. uaanam, | Fro.n ticker Drrcct io Pl'-'lhe ~,cr "JS | A Good J 1 SSS give encuea h m TllC vexation. ?? f ^ I Mathusbck ? | ^ Is always Good, always Reliable aR T ighf always Satisfactory, always Last* mm "9e5 ing. You take no chances In boy aH > ^ SI1 costs somewhat ^ore than a 9 95 cheap, poor piano, but Is much the M| ' ?? cheapen m toe ena. gSSv tootherHisrhGradePlanosold?p M sSa reasonable. Factory prices to retail SS? buyers. Easy payments. Write?*. ?M H * LUDDEN & BATES, 3 /& Address: JL>. A. Jb'JR.kcejur*; .w> u( ^ - COLUMBIA.. S C J We are State Agents for -n 1 _;nik.?i SPECIALTY of equippio^r i^t^TTv^-c - ; K/vlom flrinr?/?ri<?<5 with the t 'u^rnlc:? Murray Sinning System, J tije si:upl*-st ana i?o*t O-jUo.: giii'tcl H oij this system c<jui-?a i-J s a huhsr asav^H ket piice than any other. h>j (~th? mi<fl ehiucry itself id a snxrvd of -i up \z\l$ A Wcco'itroi th'sSuN; :ii ?.pr.?v?,4 I Murray Ci<-a.ilit? Feeder. *??;c.i i*H u:?quej>tioru.bi} the be-t gii feeder ?v; y?.t iaveatcl. P*ru?\s co>i?.cui,jiaUUj{ H d ^?rchais of michider.v of cili-1 km 1 are invited to correspond wich us Machinery akd 'wilt, Supplies of . all kinds at h in i-iu^iotarcM -t2 No-7 is the time to pljwe voir order Jj for a ihresniag raaebine; bay the best, "J we sell it?she FAKQO'if V: v - I 'it tf^" Of " *1 1 * tfV -T?B l<< ? t 1 *1? , V'-K * * li. v j Ky ( i-U ;}'.\ S C iiilLe lor; i-jii i'ji-li'J Co't'i'i ! '?> ijti . \ i?d.ro iKir 0?. jsj . _ ..^SSZSU 'SS? ?72ZaBB3SM* % :APW^i !l 1 1^1 EI * w-! m >>''. ?.- ? V/-> t VT io. 8 COCKING STOVE I C t\ly $IC~GQ. U-:.? 17x11 in* u :??ur -c ?n?4r**' ji ? f -tJ t lii.rs ;:a?i jruaran- p i\ .1 ?oo?l b:ikcr We Jit ilii* if ,'U' i.p wiJt forty i koesof ware 1 t!.o latest stove ware. fo :ulvcrtise our I/iisint-sfi we is Si ! r!:;s N<>. s ( coking Stove, ; U-?i "i:li ' < I'i-.t'rs <-f ware fur j 5/O.GC GASH. y-M ^4^.^ ' I iture Co. | Augusta, 6a. i 1-1 1