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^Vil'n^i titiCim" 'iVT^wri' Darkness eternal What the Earth Would Be Without the Gospel. ATHEISM VS. CHRISTIANITY Rev. Dr. Taimage Vividly Portrays The Gloom of an Infidel World. Triumph of Atheism Would Mean Death to Civilization. In this sermon Dr. Taimage gives ?. glimpse of what the world would be if he cnsnel were abolished and the hu ? ~ ??X- - - man race left without divine guidance. The text is Acts ii, 20, "The sun shall be turned into darkness/' Christianity i3 the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the uprolling vapors of skepticism and the smoke of their blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose the archangels of malice and horror should be let loose a little while and be allowed to extinguish and destroy the sun in the natural heavens! They would take the oceans from other worlds and pour them on the luminary of the planetary system, and the waters go hissing down amid the ravines and the caserns, and there is explosion after explosion, until there are only a lew peaks of fire left tJiooo !>rA f>nolin?r down ILL I LLC OULLly auu vuvuv 0 ? and going out until the vast continents of flame are reduced to a small acreage of fire, and that whitens and cools off until there are only a few coals left, and these are whitening and going out until there is not a spark left in all the mountains of ashes and the valleys of ashes and the chasms of ashes. An extinguished sun! A dead sun! A buried sun! Let all worlds wail at the stupendous obsequies. Of course this withdrawal of the solar light and heat throws our earth into a nni^ fVia Vlp^nmP ULLJLYdCOti. v;j-LLiij auu vuv WV^VM -w ? the temperate, and the temperate becomes the arctic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic and antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in toward the center and find the equator as the poles. The slain forests are piled up into a great bonfire, and around them gather the shivering villages and cities. XUe wtaitn 01 tue coai mines is uasuiy poured into the furnaces and stirred into rage of combustion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower, and the furnaces begin to go out, and the nations begin to die. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, California geysers, cease to smoke, and the ice of hailstorms remain unmelted in their crater. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at the mast, and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin, all nations dying; first at the north and then at the south. Child frosted and dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead at the hearth. Workmen with frozen hand on the hammer and frozen foot on the, shuttle. "Winter Piwm aoo eon 41] f?nrt?rp&lir!Cr winter. Perpetual winter. Globe of frigidity. Hemisphere shackled to hemisphere by v-' ' chains of ice. Universal Nova Zembla. The earth an ice floe grinding against other ice floes. The archangels of malice and horror have done their work, and now they may take their thrones of glacier and look down upon the ruin they have wrought. What the destruction of the sun in the natural heavens would be to our physical earth, the destruction of Christianity would be to the moral world. The sun turned into darkness! Infidelity in our time is considered a J-t.- mi 1 great juse. xuere axe v?uu icjoice to hear Christianity caricatured ana to hear Christ assailed with quibble and quirk and misrepresentation and badinage and harlequinade. I propose today to take infidelity and atheism out of the realm of jocularity into one of tragedy and show you what infidels propose and what if they are successful they will accomplish. There are those in all our communities who would like to see the Christian religion overthrown and who say the world tfould be better without it. I want to show you what is the end of this road and what is the terminus of this crusade and what this world will be when atheism and infidelity have triumphed fkVAT it. if t.hev r>an T sar if fhpv cnn. t I reiterate it, if they can. In the first place, it will be the complete and unutterable degradation of womanhood. I will prove it by facts and arguments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and cities and states and nations where the Christian religion has been dominant woman's condition has been ameliorated and improved, and she is deferred to and honored in a thDusand things., and every gentleman takes off his hat beAlt 1 ^ TTA11* AiliMn r? Vi AT?A IU:c nci. XL )uui tLDawiavivuz u<ivc been good, you know that the name of wife, mother, daughter, suggests gracious surroundings. You know there are no better schools and seminaries in this country than the schools and seminaries for our young ladies. lrou know that while woman may suffer injustice ?in England and the United States she has more of her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. Now, compare this with woman's condition in lands where Christianity has made little or no advance?in China, jn Barbary, in Borneo, in Tartary, in Egypt, in Hindustan. The Burmese call rrrifTAO ?n pa ov_? ii U11VO auu ao OV many sheep. The Hindoo Bible makes it disgraceful and an outrage for a woman to listen to music or look out of the window in the absence of her husband and gives as a lawful ground for divorce a woman's beginning to eat before her husband has finished his meal. What mean those white bundles on the ponds and rivers in China in the morning? Infanticide following infanticide. Female children destroyed simply because they are female. Woman harnessed to the plow as an ox. Woman veiled and barricaded and in all styles of cruel seclusion. Her brith a misfortune. Her life a torture. Her death a horror. The missionary of the cross today in heathen lands preaches generally to two groups?a group of men who do as they please aad sit where they please; the ether group, women hidden and carefully secluded in a side apart ment, where they may hear the voice of the preacher, but may not be seen. No refinement. No liberty. No hope for this life. No hope for the life to come. Ringed nose. Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embrated soul. Now, compare those two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go if Christian influences were withdrawn and Christianity were destroyed? It is only r question of , dynamics. If an object be lifted to a certain point and not fastened there and V the lifting power be withdrawn, how long before that object will fail down Wt to the point from which it started? It B? will fall down, and it will go still farther Wj than the point from which it started. / ?? ; Christianity has lifted woman np froa the very^ depths of degradation almost to the skies. If that lifting power be withdrawn, she falls clear back to the depth from which she was ressurrected. not going any lower, because there is nc lower depth. And yet, notwithstanding the fact that the only salvation oi i woman from degradation and woe is the ! Christian religion?and the only influence that has ever lifted her in the social scales is Christianity?I have reac that there are women who reject Christianity. I make eo remark in regard tc those persons. Ia the silence of youi own soul make your observations. If infidelity triumph and Christianity be overthrown, it means the demoralization of society. The one idea it the Bible that atheists and infidels most hat/ is the idea of retribution. Take away the idea of retribution aac punishment from society, and it wil! begin very soon to disintegrate, and take away from the minds of men the fear of hell, and there are a great man} of them who would very soon turn thi: world into a hell. The majority oi those who are iraignant against the Bible because of the idea of punishment are men whose lives are bad oj whose hearts are impure and who hate the Bible because of the idea of future punishment for the same reason thai criminals hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this brave talk about people fearing nothing of the consequences of sin in the next world, and I have made up my mind it is merely a coward's whistling to keep his courage up. I have seen men flaunt their immoralities in the face of the community, auc I have heard them defy the judgmenl day and scoff at the idea of any future consequence of their sin, bul when they came to die thej shrieked until you could hear them foi nearly two blocks, and in the summei nisht the neighbors got up to put the windows down because they could nol endure the horror. I would not want to see a rail trait with 500 Christian people on board gc down through a drawbridge into a wat ery grave: I would not want to see 50( Christian people go into such disaster, but I tell you plainly that I could mor( easily see that than I could for any protracted time stand and see an infidel die, though nis pillow were of eidei down and under a canopy of vermilion. I have never been able to brace up mj nerves for such a spectacle. There ii something at such a time go indescribable in the countenance. I just lookec in upon it for a minute or two, but th< clutch of his fist was so diabolic sue the strength of his voJce was so unnatu ral I could not endure it. "There is nc hell, there is no hell, there is no hell!' the man had said- for 60 years, but thai night when I looked in -he dying roon of my infidel neighbor there was some thing on his countenance which, seemec to say, "There is, there is, there is. there is!" The mightiest restraint; today against theft, against immorality, against libertinism, against crime of aL sorts?the mightiest restraints are th< retributions of eternity. Men kno^ that they can escape the law, but dowi in the oSenders' soul there is the realiza 4>?a.v% /v-P f a-rr zionnnf acpon/ God. He stands at the end o: the road of profligacy, and h< will not clear the guilty. Tak( all idea of retribution and punish ment out of the hearts and minds oi men, and it woul4 not be long befor< our cities would become Sodoms. Th< only restraints against the evil passion: of the world today are Bible restraints Suppose now these generals of athe ism and infidelity got the victory an( suppose they marshaled a great arm] made up of the majority of the world They are in companies, in regiments, ii brigades?the whole army. Forward march, ye hosts of infidels and atheists banners flying before, banners flying behind, banners inscribed with th< words: "No God! No Christ! No Pun ishment! No Restraints! Down Witl TY-v Off V ATI "Ol nOOQ P' TJll LII<J iJiUiU. O-O X vu jl. IVUJV . sua turned into darkness! Forward, march, ye great army of in Sdels and atheists! And first of all yox will attack the churches. Away witl those houses of worship! They hav< been standing there so Lng deluding the people with consolation in theii bereavements and sorrows. All thos< churches ought to be extirpated, thei have done so much to relieve the losl and bring home the wandering, anc they have so long held up the idea oi eternal rest after the paroxysm of thilife is over. Turn the St. Peters and St. Pauls and the temples and tabernacles into clubhouses. Away witl those churches! Forward, marci, ye great army of in? J -1 J 1 l-L J j. _1? .11 x*. nueis ana atneists, auu neit ui au scatter the Sabbath schools filled witl bright eyed, rosy-cheeked little ones who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon and getting instruction when the$ ought to be on the street corners playing marbles or swearing on the com.mons. Away with them! Forward, march, ye great army of infidels and atheists, and mxt of all they will attack Christian asylums the institutions of mercy supported by Christian philanthropies. Never mind the blind I eyes and tne deal ears and the crippled limbs and the darkened intellects. Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food and orphans fight their own way and the half reformed go back to their evil habits. Forward, march, ye great army of infidels and atheists, and with youi battleases hew down the cross and split up the manger of Bethlehem. On, ye great army of iniidels and atheists, and now they come to the graveyards and the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for it means the Resurrection. Tear away at the entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great army of infidels and atheists, into the griveyards and cemeteries, and where you see ? :Asleep In Jesus" cut it away, and where you find a marble story of heaven blast it, and where you find over a little child's grave "Suffer Little Children to Come Unte Me" substitute the woids "delusion" and "sham," and where you find an angel in marble strike ofi the wings, and when you come to a family vault chisel on the door, "Dead once, dead forever." But on, ye great army of infidels aud atheists, on! They will attempt to scale heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile hill on hill and Pelton upon Ossa, and then they hoist the ladders against the walls of heaven. On and on until they blow up the foundations of jasper and the gates of Pearl. They charge up ':he steep. Now they aim for the throne of him who liveth forever and ever. They would take down from their high place the Father, the Son, the iloly Ghost. ''Down with them!" they say. "Down with them from the throne!" they say. "Down forever! Down out of sight! ! He is not God. He has no right tc I sit there. Down with him! Dowr VYltll ViiriSL. Uh. my friends, there has never beer such a nefarious plot on earth as thai which infidelity and atheism have plan ned. We were shocked a few years ag( because of the attempt to blow up th( parliament houses in London, but if in i [ fidelity and atheism 3ilccc*ed in Lhei; l attempt they will dynamite a world i Let them have their full way, and thi: i world will be a habitation of three room: , ?a habitation of just three rooms, th< i i nno <> marl 1iati?p annt.licra lazarfttto. the other a pandemonium. These infi " del bands of music have only just begui * their concert?yea, they have onlj been stringing their instruments. ! today put before you their whole pro 1 gramme from beginning unto the close - In the theater the tragedy comes firs i and the farce afterward, but in this in : fidel drama of death the farce come: first and the tragedy afterward. Anc . in the former atheists and infidels laugl . and mock, but in the latter God him l self will laugh and mock. He says so 5 t;I will laugh at their calamity anc mock when their fear cometh." [ From such a chasm of individual, na [ tional, worldwide ruin, stand back [ Oh, young men, stand back from tha . chasm! You see the practical drift o: r my sermon. T want you to know when s that road leads. Stand back from tha chasm of ruin. The time i3 going t< come (you and I may not live to see it but it will come; just as ceitainly a; there is a God it will come) when th< infidels and the atheists who openly and out and ?ut and above board preacl and practice infidelity and atheists wil! * "? _ 1 - :?i. _ ' De considered as criminals against su . ciety, as they are now criminals againsi ; God. Society will push out the leper > and the wretch with soul gangrenec . and ichorous and vermin covered anc rotting apart with his beastiality wil . be left to die in the ditch and be deniec [ decent burial, and men will come witl spades and cover up the carcass when it falls, that it poison not the air, anc and the only text in all the Bible ap propriate for the funeral sermon will b< Jeremiah xxii, 19, "He shall be buriec with the burial of an ass/' A thousand voices come up to m( this hour saying: "Do you really thinl infidelity will succeed? Has Christi tianity received its deathblow? and wil 1 the Bible become obsolete?" Yes > when the smoke of the city chimne] , arrests and destroys the noonday sun Josephus says about the time of the de 1 struction of Jerusalem the sun was 5 turned into darkness, but only th< . clouds rolled between the. sun and th< earth. The sun went right on. It ii r the same sun, the same luminary, a; wnen at trie Deginnmg n snot oui iis.i [ an electric spark from God's finger, an< 5 today it is warming the nations, and u j day it is gilding the sea, and tod;i. [ is filling the earth with its light. '\a. \ same old sun, not at all worn ?ut though its light steps 190,000,000 in ;loi a second, though its pulsations an I 450,000,000,000,000 undulations in j 1 m \ second, xne same suu witu ucauaiu white light made np of the violet, an( 1 the indigo, and the blue, and the greei and the red, and the yellow, and th< 1 orange?the seven beautiful colors nov ' just as when the solar spectrum firs } divided them. j At the beginning God said: "Lettheri be light," and light was, and light is an< 5 iight shall be. So Christianity is roll 7 ing on, and it is going to warm all na 1 tions, and all nations are to bask ii [ its light Men may shut the window P blinds so they cannot see it, or the; _ may smoke the pipe of speculation un [ til they are shadowed under tHeir owi 5 vaporing, but the Lord God is a sun ? This white light of the gospel made u] of all the beautiful colors of earth an< 3 heaven?violet plucked from amid thi I spring grass, and the indigo of th< 5 southern jungles, and the blue of thi ' skies, and the green of the foliage, an< r the yellow of the autumnal woods, an* _ the orange of the southern groves, an( 1 . the red of the sunsets. All the beau * ties of earth and heaven brought on 1 by this spiritual spectrum. Grea ' Britain is going to take all Europe fo /^-j mi.- TT_j * , ' VTOQ. ?iie uimeu ouuea <aic sums w 5 take America for God. Both of then 2 together will take all Asia "for God All three of them will take Africa fo: J God. "Who art thou, 0 great moun ' tain? Before Zerubbabei thou shal become a plain.'' "The mouth of thi Lord hath spoken it." Halleluiah 1 amen! i " s Pure Food Wanted' Some very interesting and instructivi r facts have been brought out by th< ' Senatorial Committee with regard t< [ the general adulteration of eommercia f food products in this country. Prof. Mitchell, chemist of the "Wis consin Dairy and Food Commission ? said that the use of antiseptics as pre servatives has become "alarmingb great." They are used extensively 1 hs explained, to color and keep mill and batter, one of them in general us* 'r being a chemical which "acts disas trously on the tissues of the stomach | Others," he added, are used on choppec ' meats, bulk meats, oysters, fish anc | hams, and possibly on corned beef.' He also told of a drug that is t;exten sively sold to butchers for the purpos< of making their Hamburger steaks lasi j and keep up a healthy appearance"?ai 1 the expense, of course, of the healchj appearance and lasting qualities of th( 1 people who eat such meat. ' Dr. Wiley, the Ixovernment expert, gave the cheering information that he identified one of the meat preserving preparations as *'the same which wai formerly used at some of the medical colleges to preserve corpses obtainec for dissection, and is now occasionally put to service in disinfecting houses, where smallpox patients have resided.' _me maLciiaia gyumiuuiji uo^u iw the majority of jellies, manufactured nowadays," according* to sev3ral witnesses, are the cores and parings of apples," the substance of which "is mixed with glucose in large quantities with sugar in small quantities, and ther colored and flavored to suit the label or thepackage." T?. fin fVi#> ahnvn t.hp JLJLi OUUiUiUULiu-, v/** v ?w News and Courier very truly says thai in view of these, and the many othei like revelations recently made before the committee, and elsewhere, there are many thousands of people whc would be very glad to get certainly houi est and pure food products?jellies, butter, meats, baking powder, and sr on?and to pay well for them. Ar.j enterprisiDg person or corporation ic the South should find a good profit ir supplying the demand in any part. A Big Mill A charter has been applied for the Olympia cotton mills of Columbia. It? capital will be $1,500,000. The powei will be electricity, furnished by th? power plant on the Columbia canal. Il will be the largest mill in the south, having 104,000 spindles and 2,60C looms. The corporators are Columbia's mill and bank presidents and leading business men. OverlookedCoogler. W. D. Howells, the n >velist, in ar article in the North American Review, puts Rudyard Kipling and Williair "Watson at the head of the living poets of the English-speaking world and gives i Jam*"? Whifrfinmh Rilpv first. nl? 1 among distinctively American poets oi the day. Can it be that Howells ha: ) never heard of J. Gordon Coogler, th< 2 bard of the Congaree? Not to knov Coogler argues one's self unknown. Tttitik 7 A NEGRO DES??EAD0: 3 5 He Kills One Policemen and Wound > Another. 1 In Washington, D. C., last "Wednes ^ day Humphrey Taylor, a Negro sus . pected of the Rosenstein murder at Sli . dell, Md., shot and killed Police Set t geant Fritz Passau, wounded Police - man Gow and kept a posse of a hal 5 dozen officers at bay from the loft of: i House tor nearly two Hours, i Dozens of shots were exchanged be - tween the officers and the fugitive wh . only surrendered when preparation 1 were made to burn the premises. Las Saturday morning week Louis Rosen - stein and his wife, who kept a smal . store at Slidell, were found insensibl t and horribly wounded in their stor f room. Rosenstein soon died from hi i njuries and the woman is believed t fc be near death. Suspicion fell upon ) Negro named Humphrey Taylor, alia , Brown, w *o had disappeared. 5 A Negro answering the description o i Taylor was seen last Saturday evening r and information received by the polic 1 led them to believe their man was liv I ing in a small house about a quarter o - a mile west of Georgetown. Earl, t Saturday morning Taylor .vas seen t enter the Dlace and word was immediate 1 ly sent to the nearest precinct statio: i and a posse of officers hurried to th 1 place. The men were posted about th i house while Passau, Gowand anothe 1 officer attempted to gain entranc J through the front door. 1 Finally the door was forced. Th - two small rooms on the first floor wer j empty and the officers ascended to th 1 second story. The front room was als untenanted, and as the men passe 5 into the rear apartment, Taylor opene ; fire from the trap duor of a cock loft i - which he had taken refuge. i Sergeant Passau sank to the floo , dead with two bullets through his chest 7 DAK riAfTT AYNAW A/5 *A11 A?Vl ^1* r i uiiuumciu vvn upcacu ujlc imuugu 111 trap but failed to hit the fugitive. G-oi - received a bullet in his rigjit hand, bad s ly shattering it and another struck hi 2 metal badge and glanced downward th J entire length of his coat. The reserve s of two precincts were called out and th 3 house surrounded. The shooting, mear 3 while, had attracted several thousan 1 persons. Occasionally the Negro woul > fire a shot at the officers and immediate ! "y a volley would answer it, but no on was hurt. , "With revolvers in hand they watche s every window and tried several ruse s to draw Taylor's fire. He seemed t i have an unlimited supply of ammuni 1 tion. Finally, concluding that h 1 would not surrender, District Commis 1 sioner Wright directed the police t 2 fire the premises. A mattress was s< ? cured, saturated with oil and the off t cera began to remove the furniture. Seeing his game was hopeless, Taylc 2 surrendered. Surrounded by officei i with drawn revolvers he was hustle - out of the house to the patrol wagor when the crowd surged forward wit i shouts of "Lynchhim!" "Burn him! r and made a rash for the prisoner, i 7 i ope was secured and the mob made - desperate effort to place it around th a wretch's neck. The coolness of the oi ! ficers, however, saved Taylor, thong P he was rather badly disfigured by bio's 1 from the nearest of the crowd, e Upon searching the premises the p< e lice found $192 and a gold watch an e chain, where he had secreted then i He had a diamond ring and a sma i sum of money on his person. A Growing Town. t The receipts of cotton at Houstor fc Texas, since the firat of Septembei r 1898, passed the point of 2,500,000 bale 3 Friday last. This is a wonderful r< i cord, and places Houston ahead of eitl er G-alveston or New Orleans as a cotto lcuciviug auu uiauiuutiJig [;uxui. jlc - years ago che receipts of cotton a Houston did not exceed a half millio 2 bales a year. Since then it has becom > one of the greatest railway centres c the couDtry, at least 15 railroads csr tering there and reaching most of th cotton producing territory west of th 2 the Mississippi. A Fortune in a Sewer. 1 A descender into the Paris drain named Osais made a Monte Cristo soi . of discovery one night in the big sewe under the Rue Marie Stuart, not fa from the Central markets. He ha j just gone down below to do some sweej ing and was working on jthe side pat I of the drain, when he saw a large packe ? lying close to the wall. He opened i _ 1 L' T 12 _ _ T :l . ana iouna lnsiue a neap 01 ranway au other securities, which he immediatel I took to the nearest police commissary [ The bonds and obligations found ar ' worth $120,000 and Osais was compli . mented on his honesty. It is suppose ; that the securities were either lost b, t a bank messenger or were dropped int t the drain by a pursued thief, who ha T resolved to do away with all evidence > of his guilt. May Cause Her Death. [ Near Starr, in Anderson county, , deplorable incident occurred Monda; ^ night that threatens to claim the lif [ of a prominent farmer's wife. A Negr [ man and his wife on Mr. B. F. Gren r try's place had quarreled and the latte had fled the former's violence an< > sought refuge in Mr. Gentry's house . The enraged husband, locating her am [ being ordered from the house by Mi n-Anfvrv nrnf>ppidf>d frt break dnwn fch door, so frightening Mrs. Gentry, wh was in a delicate condition, that he j life is despaired of. The Negro ha t been punished, though to what exten ( is not yet known, as he is still in th< hands of indignant citizens. A ILich. Beggar. [ Charles Burkowitz, a blind beggar o i New York, who for a long time has fre J quented the shopping district of th< ; metropolis and who was arrested thi | other day for insulting a woman who re fused to give to him, is said to be th< owner of two tenements, each valued a ' . nnn fn 1 orffA crima a | WV Vj MU\4 WV liW?V IMigV DUJUUU V ' 1 Policy in several of the savings banki 1 of the city. "In a home in the country not fa from town," savs the Cattlettsburg Ky. Independent, "there may be see] ' quite a pile of seeing lying on the floo > nearly in the middle of the room, tha has been undisturbed for more than si: i months. At that time the head of th ' house wanted a chair, and seeing bu i one handy, he dumped to the floor th > sewing which lay upon it. His wif> 3 asked him to pick it up. He said h 5 wouldn't do it. She told him as h? threw it there it could remain until hi got ready to pick it np. She woul< nover touch it, and there it remains, i 1 memorial to an incompatibility of dis ; position." 5 The Massachusetts House has voted s 107 to 59, in favor of a direct inheri i tance tax on personal property. Ai F exemption of $10,000 is provided for 5 and the tax is graded from 1 per cen i on inheritances not exceeding $50,00* t to a maximum of 8 per cent on thosi amounting to $5,000,000 or over. > ^ i>i^ia!5S5ifefe?i ~\~~ " ~ " ! PEAfa OF MEMOfiY. arories of Famous 3Xen With K?markable . 2 S Z&emorlzlnz Facilities. Scaliger, the philologist of the sixteenth century, who edited several of the classics, was so certain of his mem- i ory that he undertook to repeat long i +yr\m T .0 +ir> ttat^Vq rtrif V? o rx 1 UViU JLMUU t? W* II4V.UI ? <-k*.0 - ger at his breast, which, was to he used < - against him in the event of his memory failing, while Seneca, the tutor of < f Nero, could repeat two thousand words 3 a exactly as he hecrd them. < Pope could turn at once to any pass- 3 age which had struck him when read- < o ing; and Leyden, the Scottish poet, '< s who died in the early part of tha cen- 1 t tury, was also remarkable for his memi ory. : .1 "When congratulated, on one occasion, < e upon lis aptitude for remembering 1 e things, Dryden replied that he often 1 s found his memory a source of incon- < o venience. Surprise was expressed at 1 a this, whereupon the poet replied that i s he often wished to recall a particular 1 passage, hut could not do so until he < f had repeated the whole poem from the j beginning to where the uassage occur- * e red which he wished to recall. < Leyden is.also credited with having ; ^ been able to repeat an act of parlia- ] y ment or a lengthy legal document after o having heard it only once. ] ' The newspapers of January, 1820, < a contain a number of allusions to the e case of a man named Thomson, who ( e drew plans of a dozen London parishes, ( * including every church, chapel, yard, e court, monument, lamp post and innu- , merable trees and pumps without refere ence to a single book and without aske ing a single question. e An English clergyman mentions a 0 man of weak intellect, who lived about , ^ the same time, who coulu remember the d names and ages of every man, woman n and child who had been buried in the parish during 35 "years, together with 'r the dates of burial and the names of ' the mourners who were present at the e funeral. * L Food Wrapped In Paper. s it is a very common practice to put e away food that comes from the shop in ,s the brown paper in which the dealer e wraps it While this may be convenient, it certainly is open to serious obd jection on the score of health and d cleanliness. Most of the cheap papers are made from materials hardly up~to e the standard of the housekeeper's ideas of neatness; and although a certain de- ' d gree of heat is employed in their prep?o .Vitr nr\ Rllffiripnt +A IS <"?wuu i-u " "J ??- ? o destroy all the disease germs with [. which the raw material may he filled. e When it is taken into consideration j. that waste papers of all sorts, and those o used lor all purposes, are gathered up ?. and worked over into new paper to i- wrap our food in, it behooves the housewife who cares for the health of ir her family to see to it that articles of s food remain in contact with such d wrapping the very shortest possible [ time. h It is not unusual to aee meat, butter, " cheese and otter extremely susceptible ^ articles put away in the very cheapest, a commonest brown paper. e Immediately upon the receipt of soft p. groceries or fruits they should be put h into earthen dishes, and under no cir's cumstances should they be allowed to remain in the papers in which they ). are delivered. d It is useless to expect that a better t. class o? paper will be employed, and n ew -"-.a mcTf a a -arpll mcslrA im our minds to guard against the trouble toy shifting all articles of food to some dish that is absolutely free from contaminating elements. r, ,g Sleeping Machines. Experiments have been made re[_ cently with some curious devices in the n shape of "sleep machines." Sleep will n sometimes result from fatigue of the L{. eyes. Looking at trees or other obiortfo ? vro m<zh alnnsr in the train will e frequently "secvl us off." yf An ingenious gentleman has prok. duced a machine for this purpose. It e is a box surmounted by two fan-like e panels, one above the other, revolving horizontally in opposite directions. These panels are studded with mirrors that throw upon the retina a vibrating is flood of twinkling light. -1 - ?--A J J j V? t a similar eiiect is pruuuccu uy aun>r ing at a bright ball placed high above ir the hand, so that some slight strain is d caused by staring at it Another apparatus for causing drowh siness is formed of clamps for squ*ezing the arteries leading to the brain. ^ The clamps remain in position for less d than half a minute, and by that time y the sufferer from insomnia has been ' placed in a state of somnolence by the ? decreased flow of blood to the brain. ? Still another method is to arrange " an elastic battery in the bed so that a y mild electric current acts upon the 5 spine. d s Remarkable Longevity. In a southern family lives an old man named Jeff, who has been with them and the previous generation for a more years than they can remember. y He is certainly pretty old 'himself, so ft tttoo rather cn-mTispdi when LL12> illlOUCOa ff vm twwuv? 0 he asked to have a few days off to go, l" as tie put it, "up to de old state of New J Haven," to see his aunt. ^ "Why, Jeff," said the lady, "your j: aunt must be pretty old; isn't she?" * "Yes'm," he replied; "yes'm; my ' aunt must he pretty ole now?she's e about 105 years old now." 0 "A hundred and five years!" exclaimr ed the lady. "Why, what on earth is s she doing up there in New Haven?" "Deed, I don't know what she's doe in', ma'am," rejoined Jeff, in all seriousness; "she's up dere livin' wid her grandmother!" ^ Wine-testers eat a small piece of bread with a scrap of cheese, "between ? samples, to insure an unprejudiced E taste. 2 The sentiment of the Northern t people on the subject of lynching, in f certain cases, is not all one way, it ap pears. The Albany, N. Y., Argus ?ays: "The Rev. A. D. Carlisle, a Pennsylvania Presbyterian, declares r that lynching under certain conditions , is justifiable,, and that under certain 2 circumstances he would cheerfully pull r the rope. Spoken like a true man, t who is not afraid to speak candidly. t 'Under certain circumstances'?namely, e the crime against woman?what man t with a spark of manhood in his heart e would hesitate to avenge by summary e means the honor and safety of his e household?" e ~ e The Boston Journal says: "It isn't 1 nff-PTi fh-it ar> Am^rioan shin refnfif?R to a. lend a helping cable, but when the - transport Senator, on April 30, five hundred miles out from San Francisco, met the disabled steamer Elihu Thompson, there was no choice for her but to a go right on. Her orders were to pro ^ ceed to Manila "with all speed." War U is an imperative master. JNo doubt ree lief will reach the Thompson in some other form." STORY OF A DIVER, 'erilons Adteutoroi of a Man Wboie Daily Work 1> Under River or Sea. TV? -r*k -1 k TX /T .Lfiver rtULter. .c*. ui irui uouu, | n tie course of his ten years' employnent as a diver lias had many interestng experiences and close calls from Heath. Chase Is about 35 years of age, stands ibout 5 feet 10 inches and weighs over L60 pounds, and is one of the pleasantist men that one -would care to meet. 3e is very modest?seldom talking ibout his own work, but a while ?er? +"ho -writer ?hm(>?5w1 in zettinz him ;o tell a few of his experiences. Probably one of the most Important iobs upon which, he ever worked, and :ertainly one of the longest, was the laying of the water pipes across the Keunebec River at Bath. This job rejuired the laying of 3,000 feet of big araterpipe, with a ball and socket join in water, the average depth of which svas fifty feet. Sometimes the depth was yver seventy and at times down to ibout thirty. The conditions that prevailed at that point were such that the Olivers could only work upon the ude, and so it took from August until the following April to complete the job. A few years ago Mr. Chase nearly lost his life while at work raising a sloop which had sunk in Boothbay Harbor. He got fouled with the cable of a buoy which marked the location -tttoo V?v?Tv<y nn *fnr UJ? lilt? W i j AUU YT (XO ?w* forty minutes. His air hose was caught in such a way that but very little air could get through it with the pump working to its best advantage, but the pump was an, old one and did not work well. "When he was finally cleared and hauled to th6 surface he was unconscious and Mack in the face from the want of air. It was feared that he would die, but he recovered, and on the next day went down and finished the work of raising the sloop. Probably the closest call that Chase ever had was while using dynamite to +>><* *vlHnca rif nrt old bridge which had been torn down. His tender was a new one, who had never worked for a diver before. Chase went down and placed the stick of dynamite in position and started to come back to where he would be hauled to the surface. He had covered part of the distance when he discovered a pile that would not have to be blown, but which could readily be hoisted to the surface with a rope, and signalled the tender to send him down a rope. The tender misunderstood the signal, and, turning to the man who was looking after the battery, called out: "It's all right, fire the charge!" Now it happened that the man who was looking after the battery was an old and experienced tender and knew that it wasn't all right to fire the charge while the man was under water. TT- ??* +<* ei/izx ryf thft float and xao xvciio n/ took hold of the lifeline just in time to receive tlie second signal for a rope from Chase. The rope was sent down, but it was night before Chase knew of his narrow escape. The tender who came near jnding Chase's experience as a diver only worked one more day and then quit?he never came around after his pay, either. It was while at work on this job that Chase, together with bis tender and helpers, was blown up by a dyna- I mite explosion. He had been down and placed the charge, but the tide, which was setting out strong, washed it down almost under the float. Chase had just reached the top and leaned over the side of the float in the usual attitude of divers when resting, when the charge was exploded. The shock threw the float and all the men into the air, and Chase must surely have been thrown Into the water but for the presence of mind of the same man who saved him the other time, who caught him and held him on the float. The wonder of this accident was that any one came out of it alive, for upon the float was a case or iuu suciu u* dynamite, which, fortunately, was not exploded by the shock. Chase says the most disagreeable part of his work is diving' for dead bodies. He has made several quick recoveries of bodies during Ms career as a diver. One of these was in Lewiaton about two years ago, when he recovered the body of a Bates College student named Well3. In just nineteen minutes from the time he dove lie had the body out of the water upon the bank. The deepest water in which he ever worked was off Egg Rock, near Bar Harbor. Here he was dowr. 100 feet at work upon the wreck of r Gloucester fishier crooner. ' " I, i ?y? THIS High Arm Sewing Folly guaranteed for ten y< ! all the latest attachment*, t ; meated vrood work. | Price $1S.C Money refunded after 30 daj is not as food as the $40.00 to Isold ky agemte. S?ad for ezreabra and itate Wu ar? headquarters for Fnrni Mattings, Carpets, Sewii Buy e?rriiiM, etc, I Address || IIIO & III2 6ri f / ^ Keeley 126 SMtTH STREET, A _ma ? ? IMIPA COB. V ANDEKHOJiST, III II |"i CHARLESTON, S. C. V ALCOHOL.. MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO CIGARETTE USING.. Produce each a disease having definite pathology. 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