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HEAVENLY HOME. Dr. Talmags on the Glories of the Father's Home. j THERE ARE MANY ROOMS, And There is a Place For All of God's Children. The Family Room ~ and Its Blessed Association. In a unique way the heavenly vrorM j is di?coursed upou by Dr. Ta Image ia I tbis sermen UDdcr the figure of a home; text, John xiv, 2, ';In my Father's house are many rooms." 0 Krtftio medicine that is a ! i-LW C AO t? 4/v4?.?v v are all. The disciples were sad, and Chrift offered beaven as an alterative, a stimulant and a touic. He shows them that their sorrows aie only a dark "background of a bright picture of coming felicity. He lets them know that, though now they live on the lowlands, they shall yet have a hou'e on the uplands. Nearly all the Bible descriptions of heaven may be figurative. I am not positive that in all heawn there is a literal crown or harp or pearly gste o? throne or chariot. They may be only used to illustrate the glories of the place, but how well they do it! The favorite symbol by which the Bible presents celestial happiness is a hcuse. Paul, who never owned a hcuse, al1 1 - ,*T, iQOUgQ ne liireu xui t??v Italy, speaks of heaven as a "house not made with hands," and Christ in our text, the translation of which is a little hanged, so as to Rive the more accurate meaning, says, "In my Father's house are many rooms." This divinely authorized comparison of heaven to a great homestead of large accommodations I propose to carry out. In some healthy neighborhood a man builds a very commodious habitation. He must have room for all his children. The rooms come to be called after the different members of the family. That is mother's room, that is George's room, that is Henry's room, that is Flora's room, that is Mary's room, and the house is all occupied. But time goes by, and the sons go out into the world and build their own homes, and the d*.n?rhtf?r3 are rnarrLd or have talents enough sing-y to go out and do a good woik in the world. After awhile the father and mother are almost alone in the big house, and, seated by the evening stand, they say, "Well, our family is no larger now than when we started together 40 years ago." Bat time goes till farther by, and some of the children are unfortunate and return to the old homestead to live, and the grandchildren come with them and perhaps jreat-grandchildren, and again the bouse is full. Millennia ago God built on the hills ef heaven a great homestead for a family innumerable, yet to be. At first he lived alone in that great hou?e, but after awhile it was oecu_- ied by a very large family, cherubic, seraphic,angelio. The eternities passed on, and many of the inhabitants became wayward and left, never to return, and many of the apartments were vacated. I refer to the fallen angels. 2s ow t'aese apartments are filling up a^aia. Ihere are arrivals at the old homestead of God's hildren every day, and the day will come when there will be no unoccupied room in all the house. As you and I expect to enter it and make there eternal residence, I thought you would like to get some more particulars about the many roomed homestead. "In my Fathers house are many rooms." You see, the place is to be apportioned off into apartments. We hall love all who are in heavc-n, but there are some very good people whom we would not want to live with in the i?me room. They may be better than we are, but they are of a divergent temperament. We would like to meet with them on the gelden street3 and worship with them in the temple and walk with them on the river banks, but I am glad to say that we shall live in different apartments. "In my Fathers house are many rooms.'' You see, keaven will be so large that if one wants an entire room to himself or herself it can be afforded. An ingenious statistician, taking the statement made in Revelation, twentyfirst chaptcr, that the heavenly Jerusalem was measured aud found to be 12, 000 furlongs and that the Jength auc and height auu on.^d.L- oi i*. axe equ-l. ; ays that wculd make heaven in y.z<? 948 sextillion 988 quintillion cubic fcti, and then, reserving a certain porii for the court of heaven and the streets and estimating that the world may last a hundred thousand years, he ciphers out that there are over 5,000,000,000,000 rooms, each room IT feet long, 16 feet wide, 15 feet high. But I have no faith in the accuracy of that calculation. He makes the rooms fc:o small. From all I can read, the rooms will be palatial, and those who tare not had enough room in this world will have plenty of room at the last. The fact is that most people in this world are crowded, and, though out on a vast prairie or in a mountain district people may have more room than they want, inmost cases it is house built lose to house, and the streets are and t.hft is nrnwder! Viv ? ? v . ther cradles, and the graves crowded in the cemetery by oiher graves, aad one of the richest luxuries of many people in getting out of thi3 world will be the gaining of unhindered and uncramped room. Ana I should not wonder if, instead of the room that the statistician ciphered out as only 17 foct by 16, it should be larger than any of the roome at Berlin. St. James or Winter palace. "In my Father o house are rnnms " Carrying out still further the symboliim of the text, let us join hands and fo np to this majestic homstead and see for ourselves. As we ascend the golden steps an invisible guardsman swings open the front door, and we are ushered to the right into the reception room of the old homestead. That is the place where we first meet the welcome of heaven. There must be a place where the departed spirit enters and a place in which it confronts the inhabitants telestial. The reception room of the newly arrived from this world?what scenes it must h-ve witnessed since the first guest arrived, the victim of the finfc Iratricide, pious Abel! In that room Christ lovingly greets all newcomers. He ledeemed them, and he has the right to the first embrace on arrival. What a minute when the astended spirit first sees the Lord! Bettor than all we ever read about him or talked about him or sang about hira in | all the churches and through ail our earthly lifetime wiil it be. just for one second, to see hiai. The most rapturous idea we ever had of bim on sacramental days or at the height of ?ome great revival or under the uplifted bawn of an oratorio is a bankruptcy of thought compared with the first flash of his appearance in that reception room. I At that moment -when you confront each other. Christ booking upon you and jou looking upon Christ, thore ' -L-mi 3 sill be an ecstauc itirm suu su^iu^ m emotion that beggar all description. ! Look! They need no iatrodcetion. Long ago Christ chose that repentant sinner, and that repentant sijr.er chose ! Christ Mightiest moment cf an immortsi history?the first kiss of heaven! Jesus and the 3cul! The soul and Jesus. But now into that roceptiun room pour the gloriStd kinsfolks, enough cf earthly retention to let ^oukLOtf tr:em, ! but without their wounds or tbeir I ,-ickness or their troables?see what Leaven has done for them?so radiant, so gleeful, so transporting lovely I ( They cail you by caixe. They greet you with an srior proportioned to the i arguish of your parting and the length of your generation. Father! Mother! There is jour chiid. Sisters! Broth- i | trs! Friends! I wi=Ji you joy. For ; veers apart, together a^ain in the reception room of the old homestead. You see, they will i*now you are corn-. ! iiig. There are so many immortals | filling all the spaces between here and heaven that news like that files like i lightning. They will be there in an instant. Though they wero in some * <* A J other Korid on errana irom u-fia, a j-igoal wonld be thrown that would felch them. Though you might at nrst feel dazed and overawed at their supernal splendor, ail that feeling will be gone at their fi'st touch of heavenly salutation, and we will say: ''Oh, my lo<t boy!"' *'Oh, my lost companion! ' ' Oh my Just friend! Are we here to gether?"' What scenes in that reception room of the old homestead have been witnessed! There met Joseph and Jacob, fiaaiDg it a brighter ro>m than anything they saw in Pharaoh'* pakce; David aud the little child for whom be once fasted and vrept; Mary acid Lazirus after the heartbreak el Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lois:-IsabcIla Graham atid her aailor son; Alfred and George Cookmaa, the mystery of the sea at last made mani fest; Luther and Magdaiene, the the daughter he bemoaned; John Howard and the prisoners whom he gospeliz-.id. and multitudes without number who, once so weary and so sad, parted on earth, but gloriously met in heaven. Among all the rooms of that house there is no one that more enraptures my soul than that reception room. "In my Father's house are many rooms." Another room in our Father's house is the throneroom. We belong to the rojal family. The b-ood of King Jesus flows in our veins, so we have a right to enter the throneroom. It is no easy thing on earth to get through even the outside door of a king's residence. Daring the Franco-German war. one eventide in the summer of 1870, I stood studying the exquisite sculpturing of the gate of the Tuiieries, Paris. Lost in admiration of the wonderful art of that gate, I knew not that I wis exciting suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the crowds of people, I found myself being closely inspected by the gov ernment officials, who, from my complexion, judged me to be a German and that for some belligerant purpose I Ka ATaminin? the sates of the pilace. My explanation in very poor French did not satisfy them and they followed me long distances UDtil I reached my hotel and were not satisfied until from my landlord they found that I was only an inoffensive American. The gates of earthl? places are carefully guarded, and, if so. how much more tne throneroom! A dazzling palace is it for mirrors and all costly art. Xo one who ever saw the thronproora of the first and only Xapnleon will ever forgat the letter N embroidered in purple and ? * * * i- - i ^ j gOIQ Oil tne upnoisrery ui cumr auu window, the letter X gilded on the wall, the letter X chased oa the chalices, the letter X flamiDg from the ceiling. What a conflagration of brilliance the throneroom of Charles Immanuel of Sardinia, of Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabeth of Ejgiand, of Bodiface of ltalj! Bat the throneroom of our Father's house hath a glory eclipsing all the thronerooms that ever saw scepter wave or crown glitter or ioreign embassador bow, for our Father's throne is a throne ft grace, a throne of mercy, a throne of holiness, a throne of justice, a throne of universal dominion. We need not stand shivering and cowering before it, for our Father says we may yet one day come up and sit on it beside bim. '"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne." You see we are princes and rincesses. Perhaps now we move lbout incognito, as Peter the Great in the garb of a ship carpenter at Amsterdam or as Queen Tirzahin the dress of a peasant woman seeking the prophet for her child's cure; but it will be found out Txr?k o ra TT7 K ^>r? * ro <rA f anuiig nuv n v mv r .i v into the tbroneroom. Aye, we need not wait until then. We may by prayer and song and spiritual uplifting this moment enter the throneroom. 0 King, live forever: We touch the scepter and prostrate ourselves at thy feet. The crown of tbc royal family of this world are tossed about from generation to generation, atd from family to family. There are men comparatively young in l^rlia who have seen the crown on three emperors. But whereever the cornets of this world rise or fall they are destined to meet in one placo. And I look and see them coming from north and south and ea3t and * ri VI - T* . 1 ? west, trie opamsn crown, tne uaiian crown, the English crown, the Turkish crown, the Russian crown, the Persian crown?aye, all the crowns from under the great archivolt of heaven?and while I watch and wonder they are all flung in rain of diamonds around the pierced feet. Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run. His kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till onn c.Vin 11 riao i?nf1 cet m\ mriro Oh, that throneroom of Christ! "In my Father s house are many rooms." Another room in our Father's house is the music room. St. John and other Bible writers talk so much about the music of heaven that there must be music there, perhaps not such as on earth was thummed from trembling c'-rincr nr pvntpf' bv frvnfVi nf ivory key, but if not that, then something better. There are so many Christian harpists and composers and Christian organists and Christian choristers and Christian hymnologists that have gone up from earth, there must be tor them some nlace of especial delectation. Shall we nave music in this world of discords and no music in the land of complete harmony? I cannot give you the notes of the first bar of the new soDg that is sung in heaven. I cannot imagine either the solo or the doxology. But heaven means music, acd can mean nothiDg ! else. Occasionally that music has j escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller, dying at ! Beaufort, S C-, said, "Do you not hear?" ''Hear what?" exclaimed the bystanders. "The music! Lift me up! Open the windows!" In that music room of our Father's house you will some day meet the old i i .to??? 11 tl irmasters. Mozart and Handel anc Men* d^lsohn and Beethoven and Djddrldge. wiose sicred poetry was as remarkable as his sacred pros^, aod James Montgomery, and William Cowp^r, at last got rid of his spiritual melancholy, aod Bishop Heber, who saDg of ''Greenland's icy mountains and India's coral strand," aad Dr. Raffles, who wrote of "Hub in yonder realms of light,'" and Isaac Watts, who went to visit Thomas Ahnev and wife for a week, but proved himself so agreeable a guest that they made him stay 3B year?, aad side by side Augustus Toplady, who has got over his dislike for Methodists, and Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike for Calvinists, and George W. Betkuce, as sweet a soogster as he was great as tKo n? * * T h * Vll. Ch uti ?UU UUV u UbMVl. V& A JUV V AA lage Hymns," and many who wrote in verse or song, in ctarch or by eventide cradle and many vrho were passionately fond of music, but co'ild make none themselves, the poorest siager there more than any earthly prima donna and the poorest players there more than any earthly Gottschalk. Ob, that music room, the headquarters of cadence and rhythm, symphony and chant, psalm and antiphon' May we b? there some hour when Haydn sits at the keys of one of his own oratorios, and David the psalmist fingers the haip, and Miriam of the Red Sea ba*.ks claps the cymbals, and Gabriel puis his lips to the trumpet and the four and twenty elders chant, and Liiid and .farepa render matchless duet in the musio room of the old heavenly homestead! "In my Father's house are many rooms." Another room in our Father's house will be the family room. It may correspond somewhat with the family mom on earth. At moraine and even iDg, you kuow, that is the place we dow meet. Though gvery member of the household have a separate room, in the family loom they all gather, and joys and sorrows and experiences of all styles are there rehearsed. Sacred room iu &U our dwellings, whether it be luxurious with ottomans and divans and books in Russian lids standing in mahogany case or there be only a few plain chairs and a cradle. So the family room on high will be the place where the kinsfolk assemble and talk over the family experiences of earLli. the weddings, the births, the burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the children departed remain children there? Oh, no! Everything is perfect there. The child will go ahead to glorifield maturity, and the aged will ? back to glorified maturity. The risii. sun of the one will rise to meridiat and the descending sun of the oth< will return to meridian. Howev<. much we lov? our children on eartL. - J *4. _ J 4.*. J Te would coDSiuer it a uuuieauu uibaster if they staid children, and so w.? rejoice at their growth here. And when we meet ia the family room of our Father's house we will be glad that they have grandly and glorioufly matured, while our parents, who were aged and infirm here, we shall be glad to find restored to the most agile and vigorous immortality there. If 40 or 45 or 50 years be the apex of physical and mental life oq earth, then the heavenly childhood will advancc to that, and the heavenly old age will retreat to that. When we join them in that family room, we shall have much to tell them. We shall want to know of them, right away, such things as these: Did you see us in this or that AT tVio cxtlior cfnifrjlo'? Hid win Vnnrr when we lost our property and sympathize with us? Did you know we had that awful sickness? "Were you hovering anywhere aiound us when we plunged into that memorable accident? Did you know of our backslidi^? D;d you know of that moral victory? Were you pleased when we started for heaven? Did you celebrate the hour of our conversion? And then, whether they know it or not, we will tell them all. But they will have more to tell us than we to tell them. "In my Father's house ars many rooms." TTnw wnnlr? if-. rlr> frn* mv Rprmnn tn leave you in that family room today? I am sure there Is no nom in jfnich you would rather stay than in the enraptured circle of your ascended and glorified kinsfolk. Wo might visit other rooms in our Father's house. There may be picture galleries penciled not with earthly art, but by some proceas unknown in tLis world, preserving for the next world the brightest and most stupendous scenes of human history, and there may be lines and forms of earthly beauty preserved whiter and chaster and richer than Venetian sculp lure ever wrougut?ruums uesiue ruuaia, rooms over rooms, large rooms, majestic rooms, opalescent rooms, amethystine rooms. "'In my Father's house are many rooms " I hope none of us will bo disappointed about getting there. There is a Tocm for us if we wili go and take it, but in order to reach it it is absolutely ! necessary that we take the right way, and Christ is the way, and we must enter at the right door, and Christ is the door, and we must start in time, and the only hour you are sure of is the hour the clock now strikes, and t he ocly second the one your watcn is now licking. I hold in my hand a roll of letters inviting yeu all to make that your I h?me forever. The New Testament is only a roll of letters inviting you, as the spirit of them practically says "My dying yet immortal child in earth ly neighborhood, X have built for you a great residence. It is full of rooms. I have furnished them as no palace was ever furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are nothing, chrysoprasus is nothing, illumined panels of sunrise and sunset is nothing, the aurora of the northern heavens nothing, compared with the splendor with which I have garitured them. But you can enter there, and so I have opened a fountain where you may wash all your sins awav. Come now! Put vour wearv but clearsed feet on the upward pathway. Do you not see amid the thick foliage on the heavenly hilltops the old family homestead?" "In my Father's house are many room"." Married Nine Times. Wesley James, an oldjNegro, whose home is in Charlotte, has one 'of the most remarkable histories we have ever heard of. He has been married nine times. Eight of his wives are dead, and he no;? lives with the Dinth. He ;s 75 years old and is hale and hearty. His oldest children, twins, are 55 years old, and his youngest, twiDS also, are 12 months old. James savs he is the father of 56 children, and iuaay of them he has not heard from in years.? Charlotte News. Many Wari. Woo-ra en Vm?i7 ixitVi watoViinor nnr I I V Wi V OV WUOJ 7? IIMVVM*U^ own war in the Philippines and the British-Boer conflict in Africa that probably the greater number of us have ovtrlojked the fact that Belgium is haviug a little war of her own in her dependency, the Congo Free State, that Italy.is about to have a brush with Morocco, and that there are revolutions going on in Venezuela and Columbia. The makers of guns and ammunition ought to be enjoying a season of great prosperity. j MUCH-NAMED FEBRUARY 2. j j Otherwise Snown Thronchont tbo Conutry as Ground Ho^ Day. i February 2 Is a much named day. | It is Candlemas Bay, Purification of j ine virgin .uary, j. l eseiuauon ol : Christ in the Temple and colloquially I in England the 'Wives' Feast, but the i name that is possibly most familiar to j us Is Groundhog Day. The celebration of Canalema3 is observed in the Angelican, Roman, Greek and Lutheran churches, its principal feature being the distribution of candles and a procession of lighted ones. It is more than probable that it is from this custom that the name Candlemas Day originated. Some authorities claim that the institution of the feast antedated the manner of celebrating it, claiming that this festival -was first j r 40 ; : a ou>?ei\eu ju o-?^, uunug me reiyu ui .Tustinan, 'whereas the first procession of lighted candles did not occur until the seventh century. Another authority while giving te honor of originating the celebration of the day to Justinian, says Pope Gelasius, in the latter port of the fifth century, had the first procession of lighted candles. The ceremonies of Candlemas Day in England have been very much modified since the time of the Reformation. An order of Council, passed In the second year of the reign of EdwardVI., abolished the candle carrying in that country. ,a.t jrworne, uuwever, quite late in our century, the candle3 were blessed and distributed with much pomp and ceremony, accompanied by a great procession of ecclesiastics. Unlike the majority of weather prognostications taken, as is a -usual custom, from these set days, Candlemas weather signs go by contraries. Fine weather betokens a continuance of winter and cold days, while an inclement day is a sure promise of an early spring and bright summer. Our well-known name, particularly among mnfll n r* /?r? UUL iUUU <4.1111. IVICI^U pUpUlAtlUJLl VJ. (groundhog Day for the second of February, comes from an old proverb the early Germans brought to America from their Fatherland, that "the badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day, and when he finds snow shining he draws back into his hole." East of the Mississippi the badger Is Bcarce and little known, so the farmers transferred the mantle to the woodchuck, or ground-hog. Facts Concornfnc Copra. Copra, which is one of the chief products of the Philippine islands, Is the dried meat of the cocoanut. The industrv. whila rnmnarfltivelv vnnnsr | presents some unique features, and the production of it is the outgrowth of attempts made a few years ago to find convenient method of exporting | the surplus quantity of cocoanut oil produced in the islands. The earthen jars in which the oil arrived at Manilla were too easily broken to be transr ported with any degree of safety. The only available alternative was a crude form of barrel made in China for the purpose, but these leaked so profusely that they gave very poor results. Thr-Kft difficulties led to a. eearrtfi for a. more convenient form In which to export the product. It was for the purpose of supplying this need that M. Eduard Vidal taught the natives how to prepare the cocoanut in a dry form such as is known on the market as copra, basing his process upon some experiments which he, together with some planters in the province of Misamis had carried on with considerable success in the year 1882. The method of preparing the copra is a comparatively simple one. When the nut is perfectly ripe it is cut into halves and placed in the sun without further preparation. In a few hours the meat of the nut is contracted by the effect of the heat and becomes detached from the shell. The morsels IS J. ?- ^ aaIIAAIAJ A ul iiUL kernel cut? iusu cu.uevt.eu auu exposed to the sun for several <Javs, so that all the water which they contain may be evaporated, care being ex. ercised to guard against moisture and dew, which would foften the material. When the substance becomes brittle, it is considered ready for the market: In ordinary times it is claimed that a thousand cocoanuts will give, in the province of Visaya3, about 600 to 700 pounds of co-pra, but actual experience hardly bears out these claims, the average being from 420 to 490 pounds per 1,000 coooanuts. The copra industry during its comparatively short history of fourteen years In the Philippines has attained considerable dimensions. Ho Needs & Bracer. "Old man, I'm a goner. Yes, I'll have a drink, but don't you get two for a quarter drinks. I shstild feel that Tni'no rv-icf 15 PAnts and o.orildn't do it. No, I'jn. not superstitious, Taut I can't brace up against nineteen koodoos. This is Friday, the 13th of January, and I'm a marked man. I -wanted to go over to Brooklyn, and, like an idiot, took a ^Greene avenue line' car. "Now, there are just thirteen letters in the name of that line. I got on the car and was the thirteenth passenger. There were thirteen advertisements and thirteen straps on each side of that car. The nam? of the maker of the car had thirteen letters in it. The conductor's uniform had thirteen buttons on it and there were thirteen divisions on the face of the fare register. "No, I don't -want 'a nice cocktail.' Count the letters in that combination of words. Gimme 'a bromo seltzer.'" But another count settled even that drink, and he took "Milwaukee beer" -3 * J.'.J ? O A? -* ? A ana nearly uieu ui msui, 11 oki in the Hrltldh Mnsenm. Peor'f c"an ask how many books there are in the British Museum, but nobody seems to know. In fact, there are so many that it is impossible to count them. Some years ago it was estimated by measurement that there were 2,000,000 books there. Since that estimate was made the number has considerably increased, so that at, the present time the total is probably nearer 3,000,000. Whcro Weakness Is StrenfffJi. In many employments requiring dexterity and quickness with the hands wcmen are iar more valuable than men. For Instance, where the folding af large quantities of books or magazines is required ono woman 'can do as much as two men. One of the most notable of the many tributes paid to Admiral "Dewftv since his home coming: was that of the Due d'Arcos^ Spain's recently appointed minister to the United States. "It does not surprise me in the least/' said the minister, speaking of the admiral's welcome in Xew York and Washington, and then our some t;;;u ivc an 1 present, frie.it wont on to de^lar !.n "f-ir the extraordinary ^ji vice he has rendered his country no honor that can be shown him in return is too great.-*' A dmrf>s>in?? an.-.ident occurred ThurscLy morning on the Georgetown and Western railroad. The loz tram of the Atlantic Coast Lumber company loaded with timber, was backing down to Georgetown, when it struck a cow, which derailed six cars, throwing them over tAe side of the track, killed three colored ~*on aud badly injuring three others, besides injuring a fine horse used in loading legs. The dead and woundei were carried to Georgetown and taken care of. PERPLEXING HAWAII j AN ISLAND WH CH HAS NO NORTH, r/MiTii r- a -r r\r> \A/cOT 3uu i n, cflj i ua *?k-i. _____ j The Difficulty of Getting One's Hearings? Terms Used in ludlcatlng the Different Sides cf Streets?Are Official and Used In All Legal Document*. Visitors to Honolulu are often perplexed to set the points of the compass fixed in their minds -with reference to | streets and locations. They are still more perplexed to find nobody -who knows them and nobody who feels the need of knowing them. To the visitor, especially from the Mississippi Valley, where the Congressional survey of public lands has laid out everything four-square, so that directions and distances are always thought of in +"h onct nv tneir reiauou iu mxui, ouuu, west, this is incomprehensible. But it does not "Lake a very long residence there to learn that the points of the compass in the ordinary matters of direction are of very little practical use, and the prevailing system indi eating locations and direction, aaapieu from that used by the native Hawaiians and continuing the use of their nomenclature, Is a very practical one and well adapted to conditions. The islands are small and of volcanic origin. There Is at least one main range of mountains on each island, though there may be subsidiary ones. As Is well known, mountains do not run with special refererce to the points of the compass. And the narrow valleys cut and crowdcd out of the volcanI ic mass and extending from the mounI tains to the sea bear still less appreci ablo relation to them. So that if one were to establish the points of the comwith relation to any one of these valleys quarter of a mile would bring him to another, where he would have to take his bearings all afresh. But there are two objects he can never get out of sight of. These are the mountain and the sea. And on this fact the basis both of the nomenclature and of the system of direction rests. With relation to any point the two cardinal directions are toward the mountain and toward the sea. Now, the native Hawaiian terms for these are "mauka," toward or in direction of the mountain, and "makai" toward or In direction of the sea. The topography of the country, a series of valleys extending from the mountain to the sea, and the feudal tenure under which land was held in the ancient day, led to the division of the country into narrow strips, or districts? moku, as the larger were called; ahupuoa, the next smaller, and Hi. those still sraaller, but all, with very few exceptions, extending from the seashore to the top of the mountain. In this way common people, restricted to their own ilis, yet had access to the sea to fish and swim end ride the surf, to the mountains for firewood and building material, and to land between to cultivate taro. The boundaries w !! r?nrnfnl]rr /In. fined In time immemorial and remain the game to-day.. Moreover, each district had its name, and that name remains. With the mountain above and the sea belew and the narrow districts in succession, each with its boundaries and name well defined, the basis of the system and nomenclature of direction was complete. A given point or object is "mauka," toward the mountain, or "makai," toward the sea, in relation to another object or point: and and it is "waihihi, or "ewa." in the direction of the district of Ewa, for the other relations of direction. So that in Honolulu, for instance, where no street runs north and south, or east and west, and few streets run straight in any direction for any great distance, no one spoaks of the north or south side of the street?po one can: nor of the east and west sides. But every street Ms a mauka and makai side, or a waihild and ewa side So a particular corner may be precisely and accurately described as the ma uaa- aiuuii * vuiv^i? \jk uiuawi v,??c*. . These terras are not only colloquial, but official. They are used in contracts, deeds, wills and statutes. They suit conditions and hare grown out of them. Mere Perversity. "Dar's one of de sma'test mules in dis city," announced the proud proprietor of an ash cart to one of his patrons. "He unde'stan's eb'ry wo'd I say, same like he v/as a pusson." "Hardly, I guess. Tell him to go ahead a little." "Get up, dar, Sunshine!" and the mule began to back. "Look at that now." "Dat's what 1'se telling you, boss. J Ef dat mule don't unde'stan' me pehfect, how do he kDow to do de op'site ebery time? He ^ever miss since I had him, boss."?Detroit Free Press. A Strange Animal. Devil's Island, made famous as the prison of Dreyfus, has a strange species of animal found nowhere else on earth. This odd animal has been called the coatl, and Is a peculiar combination of mammlferous, carnivorous plantigrade It Is about the size of a cat when full grown, with a long head shaped like a pjlaliliu, cl ucuicuuuui juvac;, ixiaixiiU^ it the Cyrano of animals. The jaws are long, like those cf the young alligator and it uses its forepaws to carry its food to the mouth, as monkeys and squirrels do. From the Other Side. Here is a "personal!" that appeared not long ago in a London newspaper: "Willie, return to your distracted wife and frantic children! Do you want to hear of your ?ld mother's suicide? You will if you do not let us know where you are. Anyway, send utu;&. jvui laujei o *;vivicu uiucischaum." And jet we say the Briton baa no rory lively sense of humor. The City of Ghent. The famous old city of Ghent, Belgium Is built on twenty-tlx Islands, which are connected with one another by eighty bridges. Three hundred streets and thirty public squares are contained in these islands. The Mushroom htrer. In London a paving stone which weighed 500 pounds, and which was wedged in on all sides by other stones, was lifted up by a mushroom. Nothing Like Trying-. "Ha," exclaimed the jealous man. "Somebody has been pressing a kiss upon your brow!" "No. no, no," protested the unhappy woman. "Then you hare been sitting too near the radiator!" he thundered, ::u alfectation of politeness. "1 or there is a hole burnt in your comp!oxion!" It is not easv to construct the storr that shall be at once psychological and medicorealistic, but as will be seen, the riffle can be made.?Detroit Journal. An Odd Collection. A French woman has collected for fifty years specimens of corsets worn at different periods and in her chateau is a billiard room with glass cases in which axe her treasures. Those who shudder at the idea of an eighteen inch waist would be shocked at a corset of the Catherine de Medici reign with a waist of thirteen and one-half inches, and outside cover of steel bars to prevent stretching. There are to be seen some leather stays worn by Charlotte Corday, and a pair of brocaded satin, ones, which once belonged to the Empress ef -Austria, with only a nrteen and one-half inch waist I 1 I . VALUABLE WALKING STICKS. ! i i I ? Interesting Historical Facts About Some Famous High-Priced Canes. ; In a hairdresser's window at the . , heath resort of La Bourboule, in ' France, some little time ago an ugly, ungainly cudgel, worth about six | pence, was displayed, together with the notice, "A stick of genuine olive J wood; from Jerusalem. It formerly be1 ! longed to Pontius Pilate in the year 27 ' of our era. Price, 7,000 francs." Any ! one desirous of wasting a little time 1 ! might have asked the vendor for proof ; | of his veracity, but we, having duly I recorded the existence of this remark! able stick, will on to that of Dr. j H. Hale, of Deti^it, which is, to the best of our belief, the most valuable stick extant It was formerly the practice of physicians. as old prints prove, to carry canes in the hollow heads of which some disinfectant was placed, which the doctor smelled through perforation in the gold top. Dr. Hale's famous staff, however, boasts of a head j containing a fine chronometer, and is, with its jeweled ornaments, worth about $2,000. It is somewhat of a co-incidence that two of Queen Victoria's most famous walking sticks should be intimately connected with the Stuart regime, but such is the case. The staff of the stick she habitually uses, we learn, is of stout English oak. and was made for and presented to Charles II by a loyal subject at Worcester, the wood being culled from a branch of the famous tree whose leafy boughs gave the wandering king shelter from the Cromwellian soldiery. Tlie Prince of Wales, who possesses no fewer tlian 172 walking sticks, is obviously a collector, but we very much doubt whether he possesses a more interesting specimen than that purchased at the Culloden sale by her majesty, the Queen, In July, 1S97. The stick in question was made of hazel wood, and the head was fashioned so as to represent Wisdom and Folly, but the special interest it possesses is the fact that it was once the property of of "Bonnie Prince Charlie." Her majesty became its owner by an outlay of" $S00. A stick of more than ordinary Interest is one fashioned from an oar belonging to one of the most famous vessels of this half century, the Confed erate steamer Alabama, that eventually cost England some $17,000,000. In July, 1S90, a -walking stick, once the property of George IV, and before him of George III, was sold by auction for $00. It is somewhat strange that the stick of Napoleon Bonaparte, Great Britain's terrible opponent at the time of the regency, should be sold during the reign of the fourth George for $190? the stick, by the way. was of tortoise shell. Hi* Reputation Second to XoheLittle knot of lawyers were swapping yarns in an office on Corondelet ct'nni' Vqtc Arlonns whpn snmebodv mentioned .in attorney, now dead, who enjoyed a great reputation in his day for rough and ready repartee.. "The old Major," as we used to call him, said one of the party, "certainly had a handy tongue. I remember, years ago, there was a riverman who had made his headquarters here, and who was especially famous for two things?his enormous appetite and his tendency to draw the long bow. On one occasion he got into a wrangle with a cotton factor over some alleged tampering with a consignment that turned up short, and a lawsuit was the result The Captain told a pretty damaging ~ A 4.-U/S. SlOrV OH IIIU WllUCdd siauu, auu LJac : other side, knowing: his reputation for 1 romancing, attempted to impeach his evidence. Among others called for that purpose was the old major, who came with extreme reluctance and proceeded to dodge all the questions asked him. Finally the young lawyer who was doing the examining got mad. 'Look here Sir" he exclaimed. 'I want a direct answer without any further evasion. What do you know about this : man's reputation for truth and verac1 ity?' 'Well, Sir, replied the Major deliberately. 'I can't say as to his reputation for truth, but his reputation for voracity is second to none in New Orleans.' There was a roar of laughter and the case collapsed. DoJng; Too Much. "That is the fourth paper I have seen that has a department headed, T(*AM'NAn A t>/\ T^Ainnr ' " VIA VV JLiat >? Ui-IICXA -ciic liv claimed, throwing down the newspaper. "Well, what of it?' she demanded aggressively, for she was one who might properly be classed as an advanced woman. "What of it?" he exclaimed. "It's altogether too broad and sweeping. Eight or ten years ago it might have been all right for a department, but 1 now such a beading as that includes tho Trhnlp naner. Tf thev want to cet up something off in one corner of the sheet somewhere they ought to head it What Women Are Not Doing.'" One Follows the Other. "After all," said the bachelor, "the ; difference between love and dyspepsia is purely relative. It is a matter of time only. One Is future and ihe other is past" "How do you mean," asked the bewildered maid. "The lover doesn't want to eat an_ the dyspeptic wishes he hadn't," answered the bachelor, thereby thinking he had scored one on the sex that was continually disturbing his peace of mind.?Chicago Post A Helm?t for Headache. A French doctor has invented an electric helmet, inside of wnicn is a small motor that vibrates strips of steel, the motor making 600 turns per minute. This whizzing is supposed to cure nervous headache and put the sufferer to sleep. With the Procession. An ingenious mechanical device pastes paper labels on 100,000 cans in ten hours. Dovrn a chute rolls a cease less procession of cnns, and each picks up a label as it passes. Beit Not lift Good. A quart of oysters contain, on the average about 'the same quantity of nntritive substance as a quart of mil's ar a pound of rery lean beef. Cost of a Fetty Suit. The folly of going to law is shown by a recent transaction in the Justice Court at Greenville, Tex., The constable levied upon S00 pounds of seed cotton, which when sold the next day -3 1 t,i. +U unuer tuts aiuuruuieui uiuu^ui tuc bum of $11.34. When all costs were paid there was left $3.70, which,-by the terms of the original instrument, went to the attorney, leaving the attaching party without a cent: for the collection. It Wasn't Llk? Her. Husband?Whacsthar you are read ing? Wife?It's a letter from mother. Husband?And what does she sayV Wife?Ob, not much . anything. Husband?You are trying to deceive me. If s a cold day -when your mother hasn't anything mucn to say.? Chicago Nevrs. pi* WnrV To test the skill of their working-^ men. the.: Commute- Francaise- def1 T Chemlns-'de <?? 1'Est, at theli*? works in Epernay, ''Recently - caused a locomotive to Jje "i>iounted," or built up, piece by p!^e, ai soon as possible. It was finished in ftAy-sIx hours. ! -ox ^ IS GROWING IX P< SIMPLY : It i* vera io prtuf. It will never become lua-py. It i? tbe ocl; Perfect Ma tre-s. h is ' bs'jiuteij n> n-ab-oibexsf. OUR GO.vKAN'JEE:?Vicej will bj re u-<?, ^ ftu are not entirely i-a i.-fiel. Our booklet, witb foil de^aripfion, w;li b If j our local <1 a'er does n^t s-e I them P.e?pcctfalij, Royall & Bor Growth of Insurance. The Atlanta Journal says the growth of the life insurance business is one of the most re-1 markable phenomena of our times. The old companies have increased their business at a most remarkable rate, and there are many new companies which have in a few years grown to great importance. Wonderful ingenuity has been displayed by insurance experts in designr> ATTT O /*? A+iTTZi lllg 110 tv CLJLLVJL ai/Uia^lXV^ and it is now possible for a man, woman or child to get life insurance of almost any kind that may be desired. The companies grant far more privileges to the insured than they formerly did, and make their propositions so attractive that they are accepted by many who would have paid no attention to the old-fashioned methods of life insurance. Confidence in life insurance companies is stronger than it ever was before, and the wisdom of taking life insurance is more fully appreciated among all classes of people. This is evident not only from the largely id creased number of policyholders, but from the fact that so many persons carry policies to immense amounts. Poor men and men of moderate means carry life insurance as a protection to their families, and many rich men take policies to immense amounts because they find them good investments. The success of the insurance companies is due'largely^to the fact that they have, as a rule, been fair and even liberal in dealing with their policyholders and their heirs. It is due also to the fact that so many men of ability, energy and enterprise are in the insurance business. The management of insurance companies and the insurance agents and canvassers have shown a most remarkable degree of tact and perseverance m pushing their business. The benefits of life insurance, we must consider also, have been very greatly extended by fraternal and co-operative associations and orders. These are notably better conducted and more^ reliable than they once were. There are many of them which are justly regarded as safe as the old line insurance companies, and they are a blessing to the country. They have millions of policy holders and carrv manv [millions of insur ance. They are conducted on strict business principles and their condition is improving steadily. To a very large class of people these fraternal insur- ; ance associations are a distinct benefit, and we are glad to note their increasing strength and ' prosperity. KIDNEY, BLADDFR, UBINAR AND LIVER DI3K.A>F;S, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGfSTrO* ANU r. ?N'MT1 PATIOS POSITIVELY (URHJ BY THE <?F Db. HILTON'S LIFE FOR THE LIVER ANDjaBHEYS. A vegeuble'preparation,-wherever knowc he m 8t popular of all remedies, beciuee ih< most effectual. Sola wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co. Columbia Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S. C. Macfeat's < School of SHORTHAND ?AND? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. | This School has tbe reputation of being the beet business institution in tbe State. Graduates art> holding remunerative positions in oaercsntile bouses, banking, insurance, real estate, railroad office, &c., in this and other etates. Write to W. H. M*cfoat. ographerConulbiv C fo-" '.?ra: i To get strong and healthy use j one bottle Mue- j say's Iron Mix- , ture. Price 50c IH IIUIIMI! CI* u Calf i oil maiiivQO -g OPULARITY DAILY ^ I BECAUSE U i? the oivtt-' ?-Ia":ic mattr?.s n al*. It is bcit-T than tae bctst hnir u?*t*7tf2>. i. i - u: ... ? ^ Ku.f It 13 CVtr^ liii! ? * run# pv itv w?? li is jeconia.t-bilfd by leading phj*:eia?e. t'uLdci, *iibnui q if nfwr $9 a g*t?* e m?i ed <n Ajolicition. writs as dir-j.-t. ' "'S den, MANUFACTURERS, ^ G0LD3B0R0, If. C. Come to the J State Fair f To be lield at COLUMBIA, S. C., November 6th to 10th, and we will show you, in operation, me most complete and mod- fg ern ginning sys- |j tern ever pat on -?| the market. We will.exhibit the Murray System with the Celebrated Eagle Gins, % m ueammj resuers -AND- ^ Liddeirs Direct Oonnssted : Automatic Enpe, Bics Holler - J And othe machinery. It will pay all interested t* 4. see our exhibit and investi gate the merits of the differ- . ent machinery we show W. H. Gibbes & Co., jg Headquarters for Machinery a "Mill C! 1, auu luiii ouppiica, ^ SL C. ^ ^ What Would, the Business ITT _ _ 1 .1 T\ TT7 il f TT A wona uo vvicaonc us? We know cr.r bue:ness and we always have emp'oyment. We secured cur trauiEgafcthe COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE, ..3g Gvflufbh?s,-S C, and w??a!d a!vi-ey>a f*? do lik?-wne if joa desire t&e b s'. la iq?j c uatry No other choo! has a more 'horong'a ftu-ines* cou n?, i siaipleror ek-.ier!evoei aiouh taj cuurw, or m.>r?> 8uccass?*u! eniaue*. ' Tncir ca'?l\eue gives tuW in'.>r tution to cou-pe-i of *?ud /, rn-es ..f m ti ?a. b->?H. ?ecuriDg positions. nod other inducements. Send f.?r it and "aTi<? the c-)'?ri>e w -nted. '? _ . . .... __ . \dl<vs?, ? . H isfcW HiulKY, 4t PftbiiJent. Q Ginning muuumuiy. j The Smith Paeumatic Sactiou yt Elevating, Ginning and Packing t-ysterc Is the simplest and most efficient s the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one givitfg absolute satisfaction. ? Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam tan Mills caunot be equalled in design, ef- ^ [iciency or price by any dealer or manu N **. ?a}turer in the South. Writ0 for T>ric^? and catalogues. V. C. Badham. 1326 "Maiii Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. OLD NGRTH STATE OINTMENT IS WHAT YOU NEED ! It cares piles, eczema, oar buncles, bail?, sore eyes, sties and granulated eye lids, ol sores, cuts. bruises, bnrns. erv - ~ "j 7 J sipelas, inflainatorv rlieumatism, corns, bunions and ingrowing toe nails. Taken internallv it cures dyspepsia, bilious fever, stomach ani bladder troubles. Ii is the tiert tbins on the mirk?! for all ; hese hlSictiot s There Is noth;.ajz to equal t for KUney Trouble aa'* Co';c in horaes, md all it co-t ia 25o a box. At wholesale by MUST.AY DRUG CO.. Columbia, ?. 0