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a? 1 I I The Press and Banner.' By Hugh "Wilson and H. T. WardliurJ Wednesday, April 7, 1880. "Indecent AssaultI"?A Now Crime.; If you have not a heart of atone, it will be touched by reading the .following very slight allusions to what would seem to be an infernal outrage, which was committed last Saturday upon the person of a defenceless little girl by 9 "prominent merchant of Columbia." 1 The yews and Courier which so recently : justified the lynching of a one-armed j defenceless negro, dismisses the subject! <>f Iho Columbia affair in tho following item: A OKAVK Cn.VRGK riiEFERHED AOAINST! A 1*HuM 1N ENT M Elton ANT OK C'OLL'M1IIA. CoLl'MBtA, April 3. ? Considerable j sensation was created here to-day by the' arrest of Peter B. Glass, at one time a ! prominent morchant of this city, for an i alleged assault upon a white girl about J 11 years of age. The testimony bel'oro; the trial justice shows that the girl was! enticed into the house of the accused | upon an invitation to accept some (lowers \ and that the assuIt was then committed ; upon her. She reported the facts to her I mother who instituted proceedings1 against the assailant. Glass was arrested! and gave bond for tive hundred dollars to appear at the next term of the General; Sessions to answer the charge of indecent assault. The Ilegister which has been usually' i level-headed, has a mere mention of then circumstance and incidentally speaks ol j the Tact that "the mother of the little jrirl < was committed to the lunatic asylum ; night before last in consequence ofthe;< distress of mind occasioned by the oc- ? currenec." We copy all that we find in < the Itesiater, as follows: j< INDECENT ASSAULT. j ' Mr. P. B. Glass, formerly a prominent j( merchant of this city, was brought be-: i fore Trial Justice Marshall ami bound;} over yesterday, in the sum of $.100, t?.? j answer to a charge of committing an in- , decent assault and battery on a little;' white girl, ten years old, on* last Tuesday !? afternoon. The hearing was only :i pro- ! liniiiiaryone, and the case will*have a' judicial examination atyd full trial in the ' Circuit CourL The mother of the little;? girl was committed to the Lunatic Asy-'. him night before last, in consequent*? of: the distress of mind occasioned by the 1 occurrence. i: Tho Daily Mcrcttry a new paper in i Columbia, lias still a smaller notice of I the affair. It is as follows: j < INDECENT ASSAULT. Mr. P. D. Glass, of this citv, was ves-; Ti i ,i Yi.vti..(. Mm*. I' shall on the charge of indecent assault jl on ji young white girl. After hearing; < testimony and counsel, Mr. (ilass was'f bound over for trial at the next Court of;* General Sessions in the sum of ?500. If the Yeoman has made any mention j' of Ujo affair, we have failed to see it. When a negro assaults a white woman: he is "a brute," "a black devil,"' and is } beyond the "pale of the law," and is en- j. titled to none of its protection, but when , "a prominent merchant of Columbia" at- j, tacks the virtue of a little girl it is an , "indecent assault,"and the perpetrator of t the deed is bound over to Court in the - s sum of five hundred dollars. , It may not be forgotten that a negro t boy in Union attempted an "indecent as-j{ sault" upon a little child in Union coun- 1 ^ tv last fall. If the circumstance is re-! mem be red, it will not be forgotten that it j ^ was with difficulty the Sheriff saved him j from the hands of lynchers. The eul-!,, prit was brought before the Court of. * General Sessions and promptly hung,! as he should have been. We are not in favor of lynching under j any circumstances, anil merely call at- J tention to this occurrence to show* thatj Judge Lynch may sometimes Ik: partial " in the administration of punishment. J c, If the alleged crime had been commit- v ted by a defenceless and fri. ndlcss crea-!' ture, against the daughter of one of "the t families," does anybody suppose that he would be at liberty to-day? If not, isjtl the Democratic party carrying out its! ? pledges to give "equal and exact justice" j s. to all citizens of the State? The vilest, tl criminal should be allowed a chance be- u fore the Courts of the Stato. Jj !.? ! in Political School Teachers Should be j ri Dismissed. || By a wise provision of the Constitution tl of the United States, the Government of P Church and State is kept separate. II ; u there was a necessity of separating thej is government of Church and Stato, we J? think there is also a necessity for separa- 0 ting the government of State from the n government of the political party which may be in power. ThcStateSuperintend- t< cntof Education should not he a political j g ofUccr, neither should the different teach-I c< crs underbim be politicians. For our;a own part, we think whenever a teacher, I u be he IV?K>crat or Republican, engages j f; in politics be should be dismissed from j d l>e school. What right has a teacher to ] \\ advance'particular political doctrines, or j tl to control or direct denominational is-1 ai sues? Is he employed hy the Government for any such work ? We think not ,|c< and in the future we t-hall most strenu-1 a ously advocate the dismissal of politi-' j? cians from our public schools. Let I>em- j c; ocraticand Republican teachers abstain!! from politics as long as they are in the I tl pay of thegovernment. It is an outrage j t< for the government to make pensioners j a of politicians, under the pretext that they ! p teach schools. As a rule, the white teach- o crs have bothered themselves very little ? with politics, but during the recent cam- j h paigns, in too many instances the colored ! o teachers, at night and on Saturdays are j p traversing the country attending political I meetings, to the injury of their usefulness as teachers. We ask the attention of thej State officers to this great abuse of offl-1 cial power, and the improper expenditure! ^ of money in the employment of politi- j 0 cians instead of teachers. I^et them " adopt a rule to the effect that no man? ja Willie or uiacK, vrno engages hi pontics ~ shall be continued in the service. Such a ia course is absolutely necessary to insure i1 faithful public fcerviccs. i The Outlook. j I The indications are that the negroes in t South Carolina will run a full ticket \ against any ticket that may be put; > in the field by the Democratic . 1 : c party of the State. We notice from j r our exchanges that the negroes in vari-lj ous counties are showing signs of activi-; ty in thier opposition to the whites. In j Abbeville oountj' a few ol' the dusky Jj political leaders soem determined to re-j* new the race issue with all the force they j J ),> ivo-ir imt rocnive verv .. little sympathy from the more sober end j i reflecting masses whose attention at pres- jr ent seems to he directed mainly to agri- j ^ culture and the production of the great s staple. Any man or set of men who.\ whould disturb them in their peaceful ' and profitable pursuits doserves to he' t whipped through the land with a cat-o'-|t nine-tails. The people of this county have no idea of allowing the negroes to c take charge of our political affairs, and tho sooner tbey and their leaders under- ^ stand this fact, the better for all parties.) Under no circumstances are wo going to; />ni>n.fi?l/l tiocroes. or their dirtv!r white allies, to fill the publicoflioesofthis!a county, and wo hope that they may notjfl attempt to disturb the peace and quiet of a this county in an effort which will be v as futile jw it will be disastrous to the ^ best interests of the public welfare. In no countrj' in the world is the white man ^ governed by the negro, and we are sure;c n precedent will not bo furnishod by J Abbeville couuty. 't! V A Munificent Provision for Solicitors? The Fall Court in Abbeville. "We resume the subject which \vc discussed in our last issse, and write another article reviewing the recently published "Acts nnd Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina" for the regular session of'79 and the extra session of 'SO. As we said before, it is unnecessary to notice all and singular; and we, therefore, only cite some of those Act* which are of general interest. Act, No. 248, is of great interest to Abbeville Count3-, as it appoints the holding of the Court of General Sessions for this County for the first Monday in February and the third Monday in October, and the Court of Common Pleas for the "Wednesdays" following the iirst Monday in February and the third Monday in October. This change l'roiu September will 1)0 welcomed l>y everybody, public and lawyers and all. The word "Wednesdays" is not as clear as it might be. Of course it is supposed to mean "the Wednesday next following the first Monday in February, and the Wednosdav next following the third Monday in October;^ but it might mean any "Wednesdays following/' According to the literal interpretation of this Act, the Court of Common Picas can be held in Abbeville County oji any Wednesday in the year. Act, No. 249, reqnires the eight Circuit Solicitous of the State, "or so many as may be deemed necessary by the Attorney General," to attend the sessions of the General Assembly, "to assist the Attorney General in and supervise the engrossing and enrollment of all Acts passid during the session, and to see that the ivork is neatly, promptly and correctly ;lonc," and to assist "in drawing Hills" ?Tor nil whi^h Mipv will 44n:irhM rn oive"the same per diem as the members )f the General Assembly shall receive for ;ho session." "Per diem'' is supposed, >f course, to mean "pay per diem"; but ivhy not say so? And, then, is it really so that the Solicitors will "each receive" he same pay per diem as the "members" >f the General Assembly shall receive 'for the session" not simply as each netuber shall receive, but as the "inem_>crs," all of them, shall receive; and not dm ply what each member shall receive >ev diem, but what "the members" shall receive "for the session"? What does it ill mean ? Surely one of the eight Solictors had a hand in drawing this HilL For sec how much it gives "each" of the ;ight Solicitors: There are .34 Senators, md 12." Representatives, in all 157 "members." These, at So each, receive per Hem $785. If the session lasts 30 days, hey cost the State ?23,550. Now, if "each" )f the eight Solicitors is to receive "the 'amcper dicvi"' as "the members" of the Scneral Assembly receive "for the session," the Solicitors will "each" rocoive or a session of 30 days, ?23,.">0,?in nil, [88,400; and if an Extra Session of ten lays is called to correct, for instance, a nistake of the engrossing clerks, the Soicitors will "each" receive $31,400,?In ill, $251,200. This Act, No. 249, is either i splendid provision for "the eight Solictors." or a snlondid nroof of the ereat iced "themembers" of the General As:embly have of the help of the Solicitors 'in drawing Kills," Supposing one of he eight Solicitors were to prefer his :laim for $785per diem, how would the ,'ourt defeat his eiaitn ? Might we sugrest that the Governor convoke the Gen- j nil Assembly for another extra session,, -an extraordinary session, to repeal Act \o. 240? ?o? Incorrcrt. Lexington Dispatch. The Abbeville 1'rc.ss and Z'anner says: j "The Lexington Dispatch, if we are iiot j .. 'r. 1 ? .vl'l llNlilKt-H, it l?-v? nvi-rtn u^ii .10 ivmn 1 <>11 liose favoring primary elections in that | nunty, intimated that nnless that plan ,as adopted, the Tail elections could not e carried by the Democratic party of this I tate. When such a sentiment is made, : means, when translated into plain Knlish, about this: 'If we cannot have dugs our own way, we will allow the] republicans to win.'" If instead of contenting itself with the' wing clause "if we are not mistaken" ic Pre.** and Bonner had exercised its sual journalistic diligence it would not ave so widely departed from its usual mrnalistic correctness. Inasmuch as! le Dispatch neither said or intimated uvthing of the kind, the column edit"-1 ial which the Press and Banner devotes j > tnc subject has no application so far a* i le Dispatch is concerned. We must add 1 lat we think the Press and Banner dis-1 laved a want of journalistic courtesy in j ot citing the article of the Dispatch to hich it refers, when so serious a charge i made and so much of its valuable space i devoted to making it so prominent, he. Press and Banner with its high sense f journalistic propriety will doubtless nikc the amende hono-able. We are sorry that we erred in the mat>rof the position of our friend, and re-! ret that our language was such as to; uivey the impression that we "displayed j want of courtesy." In all statements hich we may make we endeavor to be lir, and never under any circumstances j o we intentionally place any one in a rong position. In our intercourse with ic brethren of the press it is our highest iin to be courteous. On no account ould we'knowingly "display a want of curtesy" by a failure to observe the menities which should exist between >urnalists. The article to which icfernce was made by us as appearing in the .czivgton Dispatch was published about lirce week's before we wrote the article j which the Dispatch takes exception, nd was not before us at the time?the aper had been destroyed. We assure) ur friend tnat wo did not intentionally I lisrepresent him. We arc glad to put) im right ou the record and to know that I ur remarks did not apply to so good a a^er as the Dispatch. An Editor's Experience at Farming. Mr. E. W. McLenna, editor of tlic Zd'jcficld. Monitor, lias been elected honorary member of tht Centre Springs Farners Club, and 1i;ls been invited to write ,n essay on the best method to make two | housaud pounds of seed cotton to the ere. In acknowledging the compliment he editor of the Monitor says : We tiiko the occasion to return our hanks to the Centre Springs Farmers'I 'lub for the honor they have conferred j ipon us, and to assure our good friend, | vho seems to have cotton on the brain? j i>r he makes no allusion to corn?that we \ ,re the very man he is looking for. Yes, \ ve will write an essay foryou?sometime, i ,Ve know just how it is done. We gradlated in the cotton planting business scv-, :ral years ago. Wo wrote out our expedience at the time and published it in the Lrxmglon Vi.ipatch ; but as our space is [uite limited, we can but brietly refer to there. Our experience commenced in 867. In writing it up, we alluded to the ligli price of cotton iu 186fi,uiid to the asiiirance of the poet that: "There is a tide 11 thealVsiirsof men which taken at the! lood leads on to fortune;" and that we| aw, or thought we saw, the fortune loom- j ng up in the distance and had o#ly to; each out our hand, or rather had only to | nake a lew bales of cotton and possess it. Veil, we made cotton for two years and nmined up the result as follows : "Two ear's labor lost, seven hundred dollars n debt, religion gone, children ragged, j heir father disgusted, cotton consigned j o its "own place" together with the auhorof the foolishness about the 'tide.'I nd cotton planting abandoned for more ongenial pursuits." Seven hundred dollars in two years ! rhat was poor farming when compared j o our experience. Several j'ears ago we bought to make a fortune in one year on I ed oats. When the crop was gathered! nd sold we found that wo had lostj bout five hundred dollars on that crop! lone. There is no telling how much we j t-ould haveiost if we had planted cot- ' mi. 4 If anybody supposes that the Hon. D. W. | liken can bo beaten for Congress In thl>| ounty he Is mistaken. In a primary elee-! Ion he can carry nine-tenths of the votes of. ibhevlllc County. There is no doubt about I his. ' I The Xcgro Caucus. Last week we made some mention ; the negro caucus which was supposed j have been held in the Colored Masoi j Hall, It is How denied that they met the lodge room, which is above stairs, li i it is asserted that they met in the low ! room of the lodge building, which is o\v ed by the Colored Masons', but whctli j they met in the lodge room or not, t j fact that the caucus wan held has not be denied. Among the prominent negrc | who took part in that meeting we tail 'to get the names of Tom Ilutten of Nil jtv-Six, and Iversoti Reynolds of B( Jdeaux. It is said an informal caucus J the "faithful''have chosen Lctn Cuill I County Chairman. ' It is now thought that the negroes 'not intend to hold a Convention to el( I delegates to Columbia, but that a few : the ollice-seekers will engineer the mi i ter so that delegates to the State Convc I tion will be appointed by the different cal clubs. 1 A ! . 1 la wrv 511 | aiuua ijuuui i.-? fvv ! exceedingly zealous. In a tiilk. \vi j country darkies a few days ago, he is i i ported to havesaid that the negroes won j liavo guns at t'10 next election. If t j State didn't furnish them, that the Unit I States would. IIo had it in writing tl ' s.ieh would he the case, and urged t | country negroes to he faithful and true "the party and that the negroes wc (bound to win tho next election ; if th> ! could not win in one way, they would another." I We give the above rumors for wb I they are worth. We received the infr | mation from a source we believe to be r | liable, and such being the ease we tliii j it well enough to inform the public as | who may be attempting to array the n igroes against us. xne negroes nave i ' right to complain in this County. TJi< are fairly treated, and in the matter ! schools, they have more colored tcache | in tlie pay of government than they hi j when the State was under the rule of t I carpet-baggers. Opposition to n Third Term. | Tiio growing opposition to a third ter J is developing much strength with l I Uepublicans in all sections of the Nort 'and Grant's prospects arc correspond in | ly woulng. Sherman has expressed j willingness to accept the nomination | Ohio goes for him with unanuiitv. ! I fact he may be considered as really < ; the anxious bench. Blaine is still pron J nent out it appears to us that Washburi j at present has the iuside track with pre j pects of winning. The New York Tri I nne, the King Radical paper of the Nor | is strong against Grant, and charges hi j with the disintegration of the Repub can party in the South, and thinks 1 I would smash the whole machine if 1 ! were allowed to run it for another ten I The New York Hcvahl and tho Sun ca j express strong opposition to him in ne.i I ly every issue of these papers. It nc j seems pretty cortian that Grant will : defeated. The Fencc Law. i I Wo think this is a matter that shou I be left entirely with the farmers, as tin 'are the parties directly interested, ai i after a full and fair investigation, shou i they decide either for or against a chanp | we think allotlior classes should acquies I in their decision.?Elbcrton Nc.wx. We think a newspaper should speak o and express its views on overv importa question that may bo agitating the pu lie mind. If the Ncu>n favors the law, should say so, and give the reasons for doing. If it is opposed to its patrons "r CCIYIIIg lilt: Ul'lil'Jiw ui uiu uv-.ji n?i. enacted, it should be equally eandid. ? ?<*?? THE COMIXG GREAT CItOP. A South Carolina Farmer who Tall of n Crop of 8,000,000 Bales th Year?The lleasons for his Faith. (Letter to the .Vol1 York Bulletin.) Hamiikkg, s. C., March 2G.?Informatk regarding t ho area of land now being; prep.nn lor cotton may be of interest {o those oper ting In the Maple. The writer Is a plant himself, and has no interest in the stable lilis moment. fllHl lias careniii}- imjuirvu mi the farmers immediately around him the e: act act cage prepared this year. In eomparlst with that of 1870. The following is the t suit: XUMllKK OK ACRES IX COTTON. 187U. 1S-S0. Planter A 5ti 75 Planter JS tin Iin Planter (' 'JO .>1 Planter l? 1(0 M5 Planter K -'i TO Planter ] ' 18 Hit Planter t? I- 18 Planter II lttO 10> Planter I 50 is Planter J GO 65 Planter K 11 30 Tojni -183 70.5 ?showing an increase in nercage this year nearly 50 per cent, over that ol last year 1 this immediate section. From the best info mation obtainable, 1 am disposed to place tl increase in South Carolina at not less than per cent, over that of 187.1. and the increase more likely to exceed this percontage tin fall below it. Now, the same impulses that are mukit planters here increase the urea in cotton a operating with equal force throughout thcei tire Sou til; and to these causes must be -sti added the taking in of new lands and natnr . ? I.. ?!.? i'xipllsioil ol i'm i i i iihiuii kiav From these fuels, It. appears lluit. with an o dinary season, no worse than Hint of 1K79, Is not Improbable that the cotton crop of is will he very large, and may approximate > 000,000 bales, againsta. prospective result fi 1557'J of o,00i>.UiM) bales. It Is a great, mistake to suppose thai tl Southern people are not making money 01 of their cotton crops at present, prices. Tl expense of making cotton and delivering Iti the railway station is about $11 per acre, ai the average yield of the (-south Is 101 lbs. pi acre, showing the cost, of cultivation to I about ;">%c per lb. Now the prices obtaiiu by the larriicrsatlnterlor towns for last year crop have averaged fully ll'4c per lb., an thus thire will have remained In the South clear uroiit of not less than $1u0/XH>,u00 as II result of last year's cotton planting. Th enormous profit annually made In eottou ctl tivation is Just wl'C'e the stcaily, rapid rec peratioii ot the South comes from. Cotton the only cash product of the United State and its value to the country may be real let when it isJinown that the clear het prollt its cultivation amounts annually to mo tiian the aggregate gross yields of all I ho go! and silver mines of the West. Fakmku. THE GREENVILLE RAILROAD. It is to be Sold, But the Reportf Purchase by the Wilmington Roa Cannot be Traccd. [iV?w? and Oniricr.] Columbia, April 2.?The report that tl Greenville and Columbia Railroad is to li purchased hy the Wilmington,-Columbia at Augusta Hail road Company cannot lie traei toany responsible source here. The sale \vl lake place on the 15th instant, and steps \vl be taken to protect the interest ot the Sta in its guarantee of &30i>,U00 on the bond< dehtol' the road. Fifty-six convicts were sent, from here to-d: to wotk on uie i.eiiou, t*aaiey miu huuui, ton Itailroad. It Is reported here that the creditors of tl Greenville and Columbia 1 lit) I road will bid I the road at. the ensuing sale at the minium; price ti.x<-d by the decree of the Court, If p?i sible, und hold tne State for its ehdorsemei of ?.YtDU,'AK) on tlie bonded debt of the roa The necessary steps will be taken to prote the Intirest of the State in the sale of tl ruuU. The Fish Law. "There shall be a close time in all the creel streams and Inland waters of this State fro; the setting of the sun each Thursday until ti rising of the sun on Tuesday, during whit; time nil seines, net* or any plan or device f< the stoppage or collecting of tisli which ol struct* any portion of any creek, stream < inland waters, other than a dam for mam facturliiK purposes, shall te removed fro; said creeks, stiram* or waters ; anil the owl er In whole or in partof any such obstructlo plan or device ucfriiig the period afore.sai shall be deemed jruilty of a misdemeanor, at! upon convict Ion thereof beforo any Court t compe tent Jurisdiction, shall be flnod in li sum of two hundred dollars, one-naif of whit shall go to the informer and the other half I the County in which thp case shall be tried,* Imprisoned for a period of not less titan tlm nor more than six utonlhs, or both, at thedl. cretlon of the Court trying the ease." Approved March 22, 1S78. Annocncemf.nt?RiitTns. ? In the laft< aprtof February, to Mrs. Mary K. Gll!ei Missionary of the Associate Reformed (,'luire in Epypt?a daughter. About the mlddlet March, to Mr;, Rachel Pressley. wife of til Assobinte Reformed Missionary in Mexico^ a son.? a. it. iTcsoyicnait. Deaths in March in Dcf. West. ? Tli mortuary record for the month01 March I the Inst ei^ht or ten years for this place, Isce fa inly noticeable: Dr. it. C. Grier, Dr. Jnm< P. Pressley, Kev. Jonathan Galloway, an now Mr8. Donner have all diod In March, an all abont the same day of the month.?A. J Presbyterian. Col. H. Til man Wnrdlaw, of the A bbnil Prats mid Banner paid uh a pleasant pop-ca last evening. We found him an agreeabl gentleman and a splendid representative i the fraternity. "Wc were glad to meet him.' Scwberry Seas. j&k l ^ ^ Tlic Prodigal Son, SERMON BY HENRY WARD BEEC1 in KKiut! * cr Delivered in Plymouth Church, M n-! lSj lvS77. ,er J (Christian Union.) be; You will find my text In (lie loth chapter ] Lu Ice's gospel. It is tin; partible of tlic pre I gal boii. I will read it: ?es| "A certain man had two sons; And t , j younger of them said to his father, Fath I giveine tin; portion of goods ttiat fill In th ie- 1 inc. And he divided unto them Ills ilvlr | And not many days after the younger s >r* (fathered all together, and toolc his Journey 0f} to a farcountry, and there wasted his si stance with riotous living. And when hoh in, | spent all there arose a ndghty lamtne in tl land; and lie began to belli want. And went and joined Jjimself to a citizen of tli (JO I country; uiut he pent him into liis tlelds 1f,i j feed swiue. And lie would fain have (111 ' : his belly with-tiie husks that the swine <1 ..ri...... .,.,.1 i,,. in.hi imvn iiiito lii in. And wh . ! he came to himsoli, lie said, ilow nr-tiiy hit | servants of my father's have bread eiiou if), land to spare, ami I perish with hunger! I will urine and no lu my lather, ami will s lo- ' unto him. Father, I havesinncdagalnst hen I en, and hel'ore thee, and am no more wort j to he called thy son; make me as one of t nil i hired servants. And he arose, and came ;.|j i Ids father. Hut when he was yet a treat w jolt", Ids father saw him, and had compassb rp-jand ran,ami fell on his neck,and kissed hi , , | And the son said unto him, Father, I ha llu I sinned against heaven and In thy si^ht, a lie jam no more worthy lobe called thy son. II t, j the father said to hisservants, Hiing forth t etl j best robe, and put it on him; and put a ri iation bis hand, and shoes on his feel: and bii ] hither the fatted calfi and kill il; and let lie j eat and be merry. For this my son was de n ' ami is alive again ; lie wus lost, and Is loin ! And they began to bo merry. Now his elt fJ*C j son was in the Held: and as he came a ? I drew nigh to the house he heard music a - | dancing. And he called one of the servaa in ] imd asked what these things meant. And said unto Idm, Thy brother Is come; and I | father hath killed the fatted call, because tat i bath received him safe and Kound. And j was angry, and would notgoin; tnereiV ,r" came his father out and entreated him. A p. I he answering said to his father, I.o, th< i......... ,i . i nllu> neither trar 'k grcssed 1 at any time thy commandment; n (0 yet thou never invest me a kid that J mix inuke merry with my fricmls: but ns soon e- this thy son was come, which hath devour llf. thy living with harlots, thou hast killed I | him the tatted calf. And he said unto in By j Son, thou art ever with me, and all that f: have is thine. It was meet that we shot | make merry and be glad : for this thy broili rs I was dead, aiul Is alive again; and was lo . i and is found." 11U I It is a little remarkable that in almost t lie whole of religious literature the point of ei j phasis in that exceedingly beautiful para! | has been mistaken. We hear a great d< | about the prodigal son. The narrative It j been the foundation of infinite sermons, i has gone into poetry. It has become class I And the prodigal son has been made lo ov< m I lay th'- story, limit was not the youn;< |k> brother that was the point of the story at si it was the elder brother; and yet. we he hi very little about the eider brother. As age oral thing tile emphasis is misplaced ; a - that which is made to give force and dratiu a ic ii'terest to the history Is the wanderl away of the younger brother, his wrong cc duct, and ills return to his father's house. In other words, ttic handle is celebrated, b tiiatof which It is the bundle is forgotten. Jn Now, what was Iho stateol' mind in will ii- our Saviour was preaching? A great part i the Uospcls we cannot understand; nor c llp we understand much of the Epistles, unit is- we arc perfectly familiar with the public se ' tiinent, the morals, the (esthetic or ethic 0- views, of the times in which the events ,i, I corded in them oecurrcd, and to which th were relative. tn The Jews had intens-e scrupulosity conccr 15 I lug all manner of religious ceremony and t ternul propriety. They were pre-emineni lie proper. Propriety was the law of their II l They measured everything. They measnr 1IC their steps, their gestures, their prayers, th' n. ftllorings. They did everything according , j rule. All their actions were regimented a en i drilled to the last degree of regularity a ir. | precision. 11 Hut, <ui the other hand, they iiad a very f< ,w bie appreciation of the conditionsol tin [jg I dispositions. They were scrupulous as i <riri.x mid observances, and services, and < votions; bul when 11 xvus a matter of pii< or envy, or Jealousy. or selfishness, or crueli ! they bad very little consciousness respcrti l1?. In regard lo tliesc qualities they were 1 I dlllerent. I More than that, and worse than that, thi scrupulosity not only had bred in them hit *. i rerence to disposition tint had kindled irt tin u' i positive animosity and hatred of those w hi > differed from them In external ideas a r(> character, They were 11 lull Church; and III Jjn I had an abounding contempt not only I I Low church, but for no cnurch. They < jspiscd unregulated Jews, and they dcspls ut! wilh an intlammatory bigotry the wholes i tile world. otj So they stood In this peculiar state of mir; |). i that tliej" were without sympalhy for the rn . and were Intensely sympathetic with thei it, selves, regarding themselves as worthy on i so ; count of external ])utic!llliousness more tin j on account of mild, sweet, rich dispositiot C-j They looked upon all fellowship Willi the t beneath them and outside of them not on without interest, hut with positive indigt I lion. j Vou will recall the familiar scenes which < | eurred both In the life of the apostles and the lllc of the Master. You will remcinl j that, because our Saviour w as social, and r jccpicd social life as lie found it; he w ! charged by the aesthetic Jews with absolti is I viciousness. Chr ist himself is a w itness . | Hi'"; is I ".John camc neither eating nor drinkir I and they say, lie hath a devil.'' Jle was a reformer that refused to enter I to the conventions of society, and stood 01 | side in the wilderness. Jle was rigorous; in i in.-,. <i u':itnlei*i!i*? snlril: he was like 01 I possessed at a devil, as tlicy supposed insa a-1 pcple were; and they thought.hr was era*; cr "The son of man came eatingand drlnkii at (as other people did ;) and they say, "Heboid man gluttonous, and a wine bibber, a friei s- of publicans and sinners.'' ,n 'J'liat shows how he stood with the 1'harlsc e-1 themselves because he showed a leeling I sympathy and brotherhood toward men as I ton lid them. You will recollect nil illustration ot tl whereChrist dined with the rich man. I did not despise him because he was rich. 1 ! did not. repay his hospitality by reading him a lone discourse about the sin of rlchi lie wasnoi (li?coiirteouseiiough tocrltlclset ! table, the meat anddrink, of his host. Hi1 s I down having a kindly feeling for the rl | man, and for those who were in sy mpall with him?the rulers. * I J Us t there came In from the street, as Itwc from the rabble, bad folks?re<i!ty bail. III ' were?drawn by a secret yearning to him; ai j they sat down also; and outside stood eerta ! Pharisees, who were simmering, bolllngovi ; with criticism; and they said to Christ's dis n i pies, "Why does your Maxtor eat with pub r" | cans and sinners?" as much as to say, ' <Jo< J? Lord ! we wouldn't do anything like tin I You never caught us <loing such a thing. V "'wouldn't eat with wicked people. V ln j wouldn't touch them; nor would we alb them to touch us if we could help it; ami 'K; they did touch us, we would spend a whe re J day in ablutions before we went intoordina J*' life again. Vet your Master is sitting dov ' ! with them, and they areieanlng on him; ai fj' I he knows what they are. That, woman Is :f I ? n i>/i..rrtn ?i I Inu' VI'lift iu ? I niiriui,; imu. mini icuiuin.u?...iJ"* hireling of the Unman government, anil wl ' wrings their hard-earned property froin li own countrymen; and there is your Mast " sitting cheek by jowl with those despieau jr! folks." ! That Interpreted the spirit, the sense lordly pride, the consciousness of the ohs< vnnee of outward propriety on their pa IC! which awoke in them a feeling of repugnan "I | to men that were not like them, timt we i lowcrand worse than they were in extern '*r. moralities, and which separated them fro 3<-1 their kind. This was not the spirit of a si ;d c|r jrr,,Up 0f men simply, it was the spirit " | the time. It was liie spirit o'f the Jewii j Church In that day. It was not the result 11! human nature extending itself ontiinawari j It was the spirit that was sedulously cultiv ,s i ted in men. ''"I Now. to meet tills coldness, this ernelt this bigotry, this wickedness of a pretendi lK religion, which makes a inan Inhuman, ai 'sf I turns him against his kind, and scparat Illlil lUr irotn 1 lirm, in inr I I 01 111m 1'itm.j | of the prodigal son. It Is gout-rally expoun I'.' j ctl ns li the object whs to show .voting mi j how dangerous It Is to eel drunk, to run In j dissipation, nnd to break away from the i I straints of home; but that was not the; obje latall. The aim of (be parable was to tal jone wicked man, for whose wickedness the i was no exsusc, whom* conduct was reprehe >(] ! slblc in t he extreme, but who did not elal , to be rlghleous, and who was not altogcth 1(1 i bad: and to put over against him aiioiln wicked man whose wickedness was a kind dry rot-a wickedness not oo/.iug nnthcoi j side, but cankering and destroying the vei structure of the inside. Tim purpose or tl ie j narrative was to lmld these two men up, tr >is i in such a way that people should feci III id | vice Is less vicious, that crime Is less pcrllou 'd ; or that dissipation is less odious than it rca II j ly is, 1>ii t in such a way I hut they should fc ill that pride and selfishness and Inlolcraiii le jure even more culpable, more dangerousai . d'aiid more hateful than those other things I and that is what was done In the parable iy 1 thi- prodigal son. a-] I.ook a moment at the structure oI I J The younger brother represents ine: >o j perience, incautious youth, untrained at in I unrestrained passions, lie lias no thoir.il m i of economy asan element of wise adininl j (ration, and no thought of character as tl nt: end of life, lie asks that he may receive ir tl.' mediately that portion of Ills lather's gom ct j which is lo eoAie to him, that he may set i it* for himself; ami receiving It he sets up f< I himself by wandering away, and golm; whe ' lie will not be himlereil or molested In tl | freedom of Ills lower life, lie takes Ills shu [of the property, anil goes Into "a far coin 58 ! try," and uathers about him boon compai in ; Ions, aniMliey cat and drink, and give then ie selves up lo hilarity, and waste his subslam ' 1 " -i-"-" "?.t i..l-<. lomr in u'listc it man >r | substance hy such methods. > | The course of the |>r<i< 11ltiit was reckless. >r; wns not canker nor rust thnt destroyed It 111 11-! ft was hemorrhage that ailed liim. lie nilm in himself on the run. The best that you <-u J-i say nhout hint is that the first part of li ii. i career he choose those thine* to destroy hln id self with which had In litem the element < d j sociality, lie connected himself with h of kind, it Is true; he connected himself by tl ie lower passions with the lowest kind of pe< h j plo, biicIi as they were; hut nevertheless I to ! was social and cordial. Ills very wicked lie ?r | ran In the channels of sympathy, poor as tl 0 i sympathy was, and in the chartnvis of kini ?-1 ness poor as the kindness was. That was tl' type of man; and lie brought himself con plelely to ruin. Then there is In the structure of the pan ;r hlo, without a word being littered, a powerft n,! representation and dramatic, teaching < h I warning and of caution. IIow soon afu :>f, transgression there comes remorse! Jfo ic i soon out of wasteful abundance there conn - 4 ,f ? ?? a hrllliar ? [ iiimine : now miuh nun tn,..* .. ~ I loader, as it wore, of fashion, eomas the con ip j punlonshln of swineherds and the content} ? I of men! Without boincaetually analyzed r r. J minted, that is the effect produced l>.v the e: ,s i quisle dranm on every thoustful mind. (IJ But now comes a more luminous and r< ,j; lievlnj: feature. When trouble came he \vn ? i not cankered, obstinate, sullen, despalrln) ' lie did not say, "Well now die, and let tin . ! tie the end of it." Jlis memories wereawal ened; and the hoy that had cone away fror 1 home had not lost all affection for his kin dred; and when he shivered at niuht. an "*r hungered by day. he said, "I remember ni ~ father's housc.^Whv. there the very servaiu r , thin?; tlicy have an abundance; and I wl\ 111 go back. 1 have forfeited my sonsh|p midiw my rights; but my lather will hire nie ns a! w servant, 111 whose position I deserve to stand;! ai and though I am humbled I shall have sus-iKl II* ! tenanee at the hand of my father. Ho I will j 01 Kay,'Father, It Is all plain; there Is no dls-1 h Igulslngit: I have squandered every thing; I!'1 I have offended against the law of God; I have s( sinned against heaven openly; and I havo hi ] sinned chietly, father, against you; and I am | '< ! not worthy to be allied the child of such a;'" I lather ax you are : let me come back : and i " : limbii ,Tu u i ?? , \\ I So far he was humbled. lie was subdued. d< of ] He had become rational. It Is not every man n dl-lthat is made rational, and that is softened: " | and subdued by trouble; but lie was. I " lie i You will observe this exquisite touch in the! tl er, i narrative: that when lie was soliloquizing,1111 to i and thinking what he was going to say to lus | e1 ig. | lather, lie thought of a great deal more than I h 0111 lie said when he got buck, ile said to him-1 li in-1 self, "1 will arise and go to my lather, nndlai ib-; say unto him, 'Karlier, 1 have sinned against; ai ad ! heaven and before thee, and am no more e: nit! worthy to be called thy son; make me as on** j oi lie [of thy hired servants;"'but when ho went iat back lie did not say it all. He said, "1 have Jo to j sinned against heaven and In thy sight, and | w cdjnmuo more worthy to be called thy son;',tai lid but he had no chance to say, 'Make mo as one 1ill en | of thy hired servants.-' There was no time i el cd j for that. The old man was beforehand within gli i him, and threw his arms about his neck, and ] ti 11 chocked that. oil'. The paternal love was too I fr ny iquick lor the child's confession and humble! it iv- j supplication; and so lie only said, "I have sc by | sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and si by lain no more worthy to be called thy son." Ii to lie could not get out any more. It wan the Ii ay i-rm of love that hindered him. And I am tl in, | sure that nobody In whom there was the least n ni. throb ol kindness, nobody who ever saw ui ve loved ones wandering and sinning, mid af- w ml terward saw them come back clothed in their U lul right mind, can fail to enter into syinp.Mhy ti lie the father's command, and the Impetuous- oi ng nests of It, when he said, "Bring lorth the ti ng best robe [nothing but the best would dojnnd tl us put it on lilui; and put a ring on his hand, K ad | and shoes on his feet; and bring hither the U id. | fatted calf fa token of the utmost hospitality ier to the most honored guest) and kill It; and j w nil | let us eat and be merry." The house shook ft nd | with merriment; and there was a week's I w is. merry-making in true oriental style. n lie I Now comes the rc<tof the parable. It was g: by [the luck of tills good father to have a son j it he j that was not profligate. He had one religious] tl lie son. He had one son that never spent money JI' >re in dissipation. This son Was very careful ofiii ud property. He was not Inclined to wanderje: >se IIUMIV IV,Im lwtmn Tin ctiiv?,l lllulnr llitl Tilth - I 1, if- er's roof. He was very exact and methodical b nil In all homo duties. And thatwasall rlirlit. *1 lit it whs beautiful. It was very much to lie a it* | prised in him. as It would have been praise- \ cl ed i worthy In anybody. And he fell so prowl tot p rot* | tliliik lie was such a good mun that he did u ni, jnot know what to do with himself. While! tl 1 his brother was gone ho occupied himself in- j l< ild wardly In saying, "Scapegrace! Thank God j h ier there is one virtuous man In this family." w st, And whenever anybody spoke of his father's j a misfortune he would mysteriously shake his j I"1 head, and say, "Yes, father has had some n n- trouble; but it has been made up to him." tl >le lie had such a sense of his own goodness, I f< 'al propriety and morality that he despised his lit as brother. And so, when the hound of music j rt It ami dancing caught his ear, he called aser-tw lc. vant t>> liitn, and said, "What Is all this that|n is going on In the house?" The servant, full j tl :cr ,,f simplicity and eagerness, said, "Why, lb ill; your brother has. cotno back." Anybody's ,b ni' heart ought to he stirred to its very depths at i w 'n- the thought of a. lost brother found; but his cl nd heart was not stirred?excopt with anger. 111 't- "My brother returned?"?why. It would come ja ng like a tide sounding in fro s the sea, with all j ni- the power of the ocean behind it, to almost! c In anybody: but that was not the case with him. ji ut "My brother? No. Go toll my lather that 11 ft won't go In."' Those tidings were carried | f( cli, hack to the father; and they murrcd the | p ol I feast. m an | Uut si e the greatness and tlio graeiousness, e "ss of the father's love. Ho was taking back the j n-1 penitent. Here was the dry-rotted elder a sal j brother. envious, hard, ugly: lint the old ? re- man's heart was.so large that he did not throw I y cy I him out of his sympathy; and ho went outitl and entreated him. I c 'n- Now consider tne colloquy. It was very j h 'X- striking. Consider the ground of the older! si tjy brother's refusal to be glad, it was wholly j ti fe. founded on his own excellence. Ho wax so l; ed regular that he hated anybody who was lr-jc L'lr regular. He was so moral that lie could not si to hear anybody that was Immoral. He was! nd such a man that If despised mankind. And | w nd in respose to his father's entreaties he said, Ii "ho, these many years do I serve thee, noith- 1 ii ;c- or transgressed I at any time thy commiin-!o ii inenl.'' it is as If he hud said,"! am a model. 1 y to Lay your linger, old man, on a single instance , 0 le- in which I have not been just rlirlit. And'tl lo, yet you never gave me a kid that I might1 ii ty, 1 make merry witli my friends; tint a*soon as ; y ng] this your son had come, who lias devoured | tl in-j your living with harlots, you killed for hint I the fatted calf. In other words, "I should j f L'lr I J1KU UJ li JlfJW wimiMMi UI h icniin iiur* i."nmi fi lif-: you have tut hack, and that you arc making I fi ill | such nn ailo over in Hip house? Why, ho isl.A ho! that son of yours who devoured your living < v iid | with harlots. A pretty character hois to i f, ey | niaUe so mueii l'.i&s over! And yet you have si or i killed the Jutted cull' i'or him." j a le-1 Now, stand at that point and ask yourself11.1 cd wiiicli y\?u would nn her be: the younger n- brother, reprobate through the whole nf his si early career, or the elder brother, regular, i m ;d. moral, obedient, at borne. Tlu-re Is no <|iies-jh ee lion as to the elioicc between the t wo sides, i si in- Morality on the one side is so admirable, and j ? ic- iiiiinoraliiy on the other side is so repiehen- u in sibletolhe last degree of emphasis, that no 111 is. one eotild ?lo other than choose t lie former. ! h ise lint a change eame, and the young man re-jw |y pen led, and humbled himself, and returned j t< ia- to his lionie, and was received by paternal ? love and forgiveness; and now he bids fair 111 >c- to live a virtuous and noble life; and is heicjd injtiiat between the conduct of the younger to ier j brother, converted and returned, and t!ie'u ic- conduct of the elder brother, correct, Initio as hard and cold, there is a marked contrast, ii ite The younger brother, though lie has been a , c ofj reprobate, has a manly and noble nature, and . t> lias entered upon the purpose of reconstiuct- j p ig, ing his life; and he deserves and ought to re-! si ceive the sympathy of every noble-minded j f. iii-in Tin! older brother. although tie loth! i'-. it- been moral anil religious so far as Ins outward ; I) lio lilt: is concerned, lias been cold and hard and ' li ic. unlovely In his disposition, and lias uiaui-lti nc losicri,uud manifests,u.spirit wliiclt ought lojT :v. bo condemned by every noble-minded man. ti lie It 1h a pitiabic tiling to see the ruins of n ; n Tadtimr in the wilderness; it is u pitiable! tl nd thinu to sec the magnificent temple oi tJreece j t; and Home lie prostrutv; but to see a man who; !ps has been endowed with radiant understanding { li of and who is rich In imagination, and whose na a he lure is noble, and whose heart Is kind?lo see ' 11 such a man destroyed by evil habits is more j tl lis pitiable still. It is one of the most pitiable n lr tilings in tiie world. Vet such thines are:c jp happening; and we do not need to no out oi l to Hrooklyn to see them. And when a man I n r>s. tails meihinks one should do ns;the sons ol"! n he Noah did, who, when their father lay drunk,' ii at look.a garment and went and covered him, j y eh To see a xo"d miRi fall is enough to cause iji i,v tears to rain irom the eyes ol evi ry man who! n has it true and sympathetic heart. When a; |> re nian falls is no time lor a<|iinforlIs, for vitriol, i it cv f.ir Hulling; it is no time lor piercing swonls; I nil and venomous words: It Is a lime for soirow. | n In It isa time for sympathy. It is u time forjU f>i*, succor. It Is a time when we should fulfill >m ,,|1 the coin inand oftlie npostle, and eiuember' tl ii. I hose that are overtaken by faults, and hear i fi i?l in mind that we, too, are In the flesh, and are j y tl, liable, like them, lo tall hendlong into ruin.j'n And It ought to be easy f.>r a man to get'Ji \'c back again when lie lias fallen Into evil, I'm ,w There otigh: tube quick hamls of sympathy 111 II* stretched out to help him by ten thousand j 11 il,. good men. There ought lobe multitudes of j r< rv generous nearis icauy m nuiui im- m.-? nuium, i u rii and smooth his way. And when I see hitnjei id tncl.with averted eyes, severe remarks, bit- n ,i ter criticisms gibes and Jeers, or (tie sneers of j ai it newspapers, i think 1 behold the scene of the | it lio parable enacted over again; only It Is riot the I t< jg prodigal that has run through a whole career) g< ,.r of vice, but one who, by surprise, at one blow, s< ,l0 is overthrown. Some sudden disaster, lion- c' like, has sprung upon him, and he tlnds him-! of soil' sliding down some unknown plane or n i-. falling over some unexpected abyss. Men be- b |l Inn thus hi ought, into trouble, a wall, us ilia (.p wore; is lifted up before them when they to j st re get back; the elder brother, so to speak, j tl iI stands In their path, and discourages their! ti recovery, and they are kept down; whereas, j II i,. If a spirit of mercy and kindness and lovcjhi of were shown toward them, they would be in- ir Kji spired to make the strongest effort in their; w of power to reform their demoralized life, and i ei n. become worthy and honored members of so-! w li-' clety once more. Ills sad to know that Injst the majority of cases where men depart from ' tl ,Vi rectitude the hardness and unsympathy of! p,j morality and piety make their career hope-jit ?l less in the future. ei t.s Now, although I III* Is a historical occur-j ,|e rence, tho history Is one of that kind which ,|. never rifim out. It Is like the Amazon, which li is never empty, because Its waters evaporate, lo and go up Into the sky, and condense, and | In comedown again In the form of rain, and 1 pi Cl, keep the river running forever. There are I si many histories of tho iilble tnat are like a] n. circular ball which rolls round and round, m and which areas true now as they were In the | it; n, .lews' tune?it great deal more so; because i m there aregt'eat many more people now than ' ni ,.r there were then, and there ate a great many | d< of more circumstances and conditions which | w it. lead to such events. . (., iy Jn the first place we ought to have It tin-1 M derstoud that men who live In integrity, in j tl tit purity, and in fidelity to domestic ubliga-ibi .,1 lions, and who fulfill tiieir du.les toward wi* st 1S> clety and property, are, so far as these things I vl j.' go, better men Limit those who disregard I w ,.| family relationships, and the proper morall- re ee ties of society, and throw themselves away tl ?l In swinish pleasure. \S'e must not mar the til _ beauty of integrity, of propriety, of honesty, a| of of sobriety, or vlriures like these. They are j w safeguards, they itre honorable men; and no X l_ method of criticism, no mode ol interpret)!- ei ij.' lion,'nothing, s-houid lower them; and any m ni manner of interpreting the parable of the w ,t prodigal son which makes the roistering en s. man, as he is pictured, in the height of his lo K. lolly and wickedness, better because he has a to n. | warm and generous heart, than the other inan v< |K I who Is power and right?any such liiterpre-{di ip tation of this parable will always miss the I nt ,i mark, anil will lead to great mistakes, not ri. simply as to morrals, but as to understandio lug a? well. ri. Therefore give all due credit to the elder brother. 11 in fault was not that lie was strict with hlmsell; It was not that he squandered ' 'little; it was not thai he never transgressed to Ins lather's commandments : all these things 1 LI jj I were In his favor, hut any morality that dries j til j up men's sympathies and kinder leelings not' su If, I only is not a perfect kind ol morality, but is j pn i,J it morality that is dangerous. Or, to put ititc .,1 tin another shape, any religion that makes a | ii ! man Ici-I emotions, oi contempt or 01 nnireo i lk 1 toward n 11ii 1 mm creature Is n<>t true religion. I Cc i.l Ii ii be religion ai nil, ll Is the religion of the ,f tinviI, anil not tliu religion of Hie Lord Jesus ; j,s | Christ. Rti ie | The ntonlngjieart of Cod Is a niotlior heart. | >- I Forever ami forever it lius been, and forever J ' ie ami foiever It will be. 'l'hcdlvine nature was j {5 ^ not juit Into thoughts or words; It was made j 10 manifest in the Lord Jesus Christ by deeds > f , 1-1 and acts, lie interpreted It to us. And the I,.1 | doctrine of the divine nature Is that holiness ! M1 i- heals unhollness; that purity heals impurity; i that light heals darkness; that good ii ess heals I n- badness. It Is the recline rail ve power of the 11 divine nature that makes God blessed for- j >(, ever. And whoever has the true religion has ( ] >r I a religion that assimilates him to the divine i in iv ! nature and brings him Into companionship j eo I with men. Whoever, therefore, comes Into. lie it I the true church,?whether it be the Roman | be 1-1 church or the Protestant church, and wheth-! ho it; er it be through onelorrn of baptism or auoth-' en )r'er, whether it bo with symbol or withoutIcii ? ' - ?t. I. no I l,n t Ii I S f ii rin* r\p tvi f h. />? (. \vuiuni, nui'inci m uw .......... ... ......... ! out litursy, whether it be orgauizi-ri or unor- j ?. I gun I zc<l?whoever coiiick into the true church s i comos Into it in such n way that his own at-1 1 !, | tainments, at every step, bring him, not to a s a j Ills kin, not lo men t hat arc like him, not to coi j men that arc in nihility with him, alone, but let a j lo men thai are unlike him, to men thai arc ; in; i- ' over against, him, to men that are opposite to ) mi d I hlin In every moral quality, as well. Ju.-t asan y ! a physician goes to a man because lie is Melt.' I hi s! Just as a surgeon goes to a man because be is ilej -'Wuluidoil; so true religion brings a man to rill lose of his fellowmeh who are in trouble or 'ant that he may heal or succor them. Ami 'lieu a man is !>o good that he does not like nytut good men, woe be to him! if you ;e a man who Is so obedient that lie can not ndure a man who is not obedient, woe be to I in ! Whenever you see a man so rigid that u despises lax men, woe be to him ! If you reh man who is so godlike that he is not a It like God, woo be to him! When you seo iligion working in such ways in men you lay be sure that it is the elder brother's region, and not the religion of the father, i henevur you see men who are led, by their Bvotin lo religion, by their views of holiess. by their aspiration, ami by their attainicnt, lo such goodness that they are etl'ecmily separated from the world, and that icy do not recognize it; whenever you sec len who arc seeking, 10 the exclusion of /crything else, the bliss of the purified In caven; whenever you see men who are lookig lor peace and satisfaction in this world, ml who have no patlcnoe or sympathy with nyiiilng which does not bring to then) these uperlenees, you will llnd that they are not l Hie type of Christ. When the battle rages or when a man's ivn household is beset by lurking demons lio are seeking his life and that of his wile nd children, is it a time for him to creep uni;r the roof, where he will be safe, and let liis lildren and wile make out the best they can? . i...i. .. muii'u ,,wii I'niititrv Is in oerial is It me for him, If he Is a patriot, to keep away om the army? Or, if ho is swept into It, is for hitn in the ilny of buttle to seek Home srvice where the hall# do not whistle, and to iy, ''Let him be killed who will: I do not itend to he hurl" ? Would that be beautiful i a patriot? And when this great world, nit groans and travails in pain until now, eeds nothing so much as sympathy and pity nd help, ana when there are few that are illlng and ready to dry the tears that drop > tiie ground, and lilt men out of their oubios, is it the eonceptlon of religion that tie should get into the nest of peace in the ee of life, and, like a bird, giving no heed to io noises that coine up from the contest he>w, sing and rock in-sweet quiet? Is it hnsllikc. Nay, 1 go farther and sny that any religion 'hlch (ills a man with bitterness toward ills How-men; any religion which (Ills a man lth envy, or solllshness, or over-lastldiouse*s; any religion which causes a man to rein 1 wickedness as a personal affront; any iligion which brings a man Into such a state lathe not only is without sympathy, but as positive anger and contempt and bitteress?any such religion presents again, in an saggeratcd Jorm, the spirit of the eluer rotlier. I do not say that the vicious are otter than such a man; it is not for me to ,t in Judgment on other men; but I say that wicked man In ills vices lias as many lianccs of reaching heaven as a Chlrstian roiessor of exceeding devoutnuss who lives i hate, who takes men by the throat because icy are faulty, who, though lie is lorglven, irglves not his fellow-men, and who draws Iniself luck from oilier# uecuuse iricy are icked, bccuuxe they are wrong, because they re vulvar, because IIicy are unclean. What shall become of the world It'there Is obody that Interprets (Jod's love? What In no meaning of Christ's laying down his life jr his enemies? How little of true theology ; yet breathed Into churches! See how they ght. See how they nil Join to fight men ho are not in any church. See how, when len full into sudden temptation, or when my gradually slide into troubles, and arc rouglit into shame and remose, and they lie roken-hearted and dying?see how those ho call themselves Christians giril uptlieit lean garments ami tliauk tiod that they ever committed such sins, and are glad thai I last Justice has its due 1 Oh, is this religion? Js it religion In the luirohes? Js it religion in the Individuals ly friends, have you ever considered what >rgiveness of others is? It is not merely >rgivihg men when thej' have done you it crsonal injury; it Is also forgiving them rboiuthey have injured (society, and offendtl society laws. The Way back from crime or from vice it lways very hard. The way into wickedness -how easy ills! Itis down hill. When a oung man is working down toward evil lirough intemperance, through lust, through rime, the descent is at first so gradual thai e does not notice it; but at last it becomes u precipitous that lie is suddenly and Irrerievubly hurled into ruin. While goingdown > easy enough, getting back is always dilliult, and often well-nigh if not quite ixnposI hie. How much there Is of so-called friendship liieh only goes with prosperity! How mucli iendship, so-called, tails you when yon ari i adversity ! If you have a friend, you have in* who loves you so that he dares to I el I von our faults. If you have a friend, you have ne thai not only is willing to dlvld*- Ills all'ec Ions with you, but is willing so divide his litlor Willi }(HI. II Jon lliivuu irii-nu, iiiiu (tu are in trouble, lit- comes anil says, "Ii rue or dot? If it I* true I will stand l>y yon, f it is not true I will defend you as innocent f it is Irne you never needed a friend s< lueh ns now. If it Is not true you need n lend to sec that 110 injustice is done you.' ind oh, how much there Is expressed in the rord friend; How different Is a true irieinJ 'din one who, when you are In trouble, Umds afar oil, and says, "l'robably It. Is so; ml if it is I nni too good to be cnught in sucli ompatiy as that." My heart Is very sore, though not for my r>lf, (?od knows. The papers liuvcbeen tlllrd riililn the past, few wi.*eks, with things whicii axe come very close to ir.e. A man wbc tood high In otllce In this 'dty, a man win Lood yet higher in usefulness, a man of cleai nderstunding and of the kindest feelings lirongli a mistake which many of you >na?> ccoinmittimr to-day, ami which many meii rlio have died on beds ol honor had commit d, is discovered, and lie comes to th( round; and his church lays him on the pub e dissecting table,stud cuts liiin up with 11 uliheratlon that is extraordinary. It dwelh n Ills sin, and guilt, and fall, destruction itil you ilnd that It is a church clearing it.< wn skirts in dealing with him. It. lsmak ig record before ihepublicas the elder broth r did, saying, as it were. "See how much bet r we are." Where is the love, where Is tin ity. where Is tin* sympathy, Unit ought to l? liown by Christian men toward an crrlia llow-iminI know but very little of tin lets; but I know that when a Christian rother Is In trouble there ought to hen pavi011 of ('hrlstiun hearts into which he can en*r. lie ought not to be lef; to die in despair here ought to be tears enough shed for him 1 wash away his transgression. It Is a sari ilng to sfe men rent and devoured undei 10 name of religion, of honesty and of purl y. The elder brother was rood so fur a" lie wenl 1 goodness; but. a goodness that keeps a mat! way from compassion, 11 way from tender ess, and away from forgiveness?Hod grant latsuoh goodness may spread slowly, and iny have but lew churches and but lew dis Iples. And now, how Is It with ourselves. In 0111 jlulloiiR to our servants, toour partners. t< */?i> Ilitit h?iv?? r>hs>iitr>rl MM fin#! tntlmsi* H'lw live maligned us? Has God's grace given on such a feeling that when a man has inired you, you say, "He need* my forelvencsf lore than he <11*1 nefore he injured me. lh i in Ihegall of bitterness* and in the bond 01 il'inity; ami I never felt so much for him a> do now, though lie has smitten me: and 1 otonly forgive hint hut I would lie willing > meet him as the father met the prodigal >n"? Have you hail a conception of religion nit had In it. as ils central element, love irglveness? Have yon ever road whal our lllble says about anger ? I allost never met anybody who did not islify himself in wrath. When I urge men i forgiveness. they say, "That is more than ature cim do." It is certainly true thai a I lire does not do It. It is a thins which :<)nires (.'race. Nature has horns and claws nil teeth; it is a ravelling beast; hut grace li >mpassionate and tender; and have you so inch of grace that when a man Is bad you re sorry for him? and are you not only-willlg but anxl >us to help him ? Have you pity ir those that have fallen? Does your heart r? out after those who are In prison? Do you ek the welfare of your fellow-man whati'cr may he t *?_ !r rank orcondltlon ? When you think that God enters Into partersliip with every creature that breathes the reathof human life, so that when you wrong man you wrong the God that Is in him, and ?that If you serve him vou serve the God mt Is In him, how sacred he becomes! Nci mplcand no altar, for sacredness, is like the ving, throbbing soul of man; and If you ring the Spirit of (iod and of Jesus Christ to icn, there will be nothing In this world that 111 seem so dangerous In your sight as not to ire for them; and if you are Christ's there ill be nothing so characteristic of you as >rrow. and sympathy, ami pity, and love for lose who arc in want and need. Beware of the prodigal's beglnntng, bul nltatehis end. IJewnre of the elder broth 'u rl iKunsif Inn flr*t. middle find last. A Mountain's Singular Move. An Atlanta correspondent thus refers to the rgo mountain In North Georgia which drop d Into a suddenly-made chasm sonic time nee: This mountain, known as rngolo, Is an enorioiis one. It Is more than two miles ahixit s base, and It is about as high as Stone iiMintaln. Some months ago a thundering iilse was heard, as If a lively earthquake Mid nly commenced operations. A gentleman ho was uolng by tlie Jngolo mountain loolcI toward It, and was anuized to see fully oneilrdof the enormous mass break loose from ic rest and suddenly vanish into the earth 'neath, carrying with it immense trees, one, etc. Altera few days the scene was Isited, and It was found tiiat the ground on lilch uf>oul one-third of the mountain was sting had opened or broken through, and le mass, thus being left without support, imbled into the chasm provided for it. It jparently about tilled this chasm to a level 1th the ground, but lias since been sinking, o one can imagine the cause, and fears are itei tallied that the rest of the mountain list follow. Tne side from which the mliss as torn is ragged and Irregular, no stratitiition having been followed In the tearing ose. The mass has just let down about two et further, and the whole ease will he In stlgated by competent scientists, who are terinined to probe the secret of the lost ounlaiu. ? Courteous and Liberal. fLaurrnxrillc Herald.} Tho followlhg letter from MaJ. \V. .1. IIousn, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Air ne Itaiiroad, will explain itself. Kmanaisg from the source it does no one will be rprlsed, as it is not the tlrst time that t'ommy lias manll'fsted Its broad, courteous, enrprlsingand liberal spirit: Atlanta ('iiaki.ottk Railway, Atlanta, Ga? March lEJd, I88P. i7. 7\ I!. Crete*, Ktlitur Laurensvillc Herald, Lauren*, C. II., S. C. Dkak Sue?Our General Manager underinils that the Press Convention of South irolina meets this Spring at Greenville. He sires the members to use our Hoad to any lint or points which may suit the will of the alorlly. 'Will you have ttoe kindness to mmunieate with some of the leading memrs, and inform ineas early as you can as to elr wishes, rtc. Your attention will greatly illge, Yours, very truly. W. J. HOUSTON, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. fW line (lirnln fl 11110 Rink- Hill** g tlin last two weeks. The nature of his mplalnt is not certainly known. The liver, iwever, Is seriously out of order. 11c has en improving for a lew days past, and it is , iped the disease Is yielding and thut the j re will he permanent. Consulting physlins speak hopefully of Ills condition.?-1.11. j vxbyteriun, ? I iVe chronicle the death of Mr. W. S. Keese?I ad event. Yesterday as we saw the hearse, uveyintc his remains to Sprlngwood feme y we could lint think of the change;* In hu-, in lite. Mr. Kecse had good traits that ide him many friends, but lie was mortal, I il with Christian charity we should throw | veil over his faults, and now that he is" td remember only thegood in liltn.?Green- i c Sews. . | GRANT AND LEE. : The Former's Story of the Surrender at Appomattox. J. li. Young's "Around the World with Grant.'1 "On tlio nl?ht before Lee's surrertder," wild , Cenenil Grant, "I had a wretched headache? h end it Chen to which I have been subject?nervous prostralion. Intense personal Buffering. Hut, suffer or not, I had to keep moving. I saw clearly, especially after Sheridan had cut ott (he escape to Danville, that Lee must surrender, or break and run Into the mountains ?break In all directions, and leave us a dozen i guerrilla bands to lljtlit. The object of my ! campaign was not Richmond, not thedefeat 1 of Lee In denial light, but to remove liiin and ' his army out ot tho contest, and. If possible, I to have him use Ills intluenccln Inducing the surrender of Johnston and the other isolated armies. You see, ihe war was an enormous strain upon thtf country. Rich as we wore, I do not see how we could nave endured It another year, even from a financial point of view. "So with these views I wrote General Lee, and opened the correspondence with which I the world Is familiar. Lee docs not appear I 'well In thai correspondence? not nearly so 1 J well as ho did In our subsequent Interviews, ' I where Ills whole bearing was that of a putrlot I and gallant soldier, concerncd alone for the I I welfare of Ills army and his State. I received * I word that Lee would meet me at a point withJ In our lines near Sheridan's headquarters. I I had to ride quite a distance through a muddy country. I remember now that I was concerned about my personal appearance. I had an old suit 011. with my sword, and without any distinguishing mark of rank except the shoulder-straps of a Lieutenant General on a _ woolen blouse. I was splashed with mud In 1 my long ride. I was afraid Lee mluht think 1 meant to show him studied discourtesy by so coming?at least I thought so. But I had no other clothes within reach, as Lee's letter found me away from my base of supplies. I i kept on riding until I metSherlaan. The I General, who was one of the heroes of the I campaign, anu whose pursuit, or i,ec won perfect in Its generalship and energy, told me I where to find Lee. Iremember that Sheridan was Impatient when I met him, pnxlousand suspicious about the whole business: feared there might be a plan to escape; that lie had Lee at his feet, and wanted to end the business by going In and forcing an absolute sur, render by capture. In fact, lie had Ills troops ready lor such nil assault when Lee's white ! flau caine within Ills lines. 1 went up tothcliouflo wliere Lee was waiting. I found him In a fine, new, splendid uniform, which only recalled my anxiety a* to my own clothc* vlillo on iny way to mccl . him. I expressed my regret that I whs com, polled to meet him In so unceremonious ft * manner, and he replied that the only suit he hud nvalluble vas one which liutl been sent i by some admirer in Baltimore and which he II then woie for tho tlrst time. We spuke of old j friends In the army. 1 remembered having seen-Lce In Mexico, lie was so much higher I In rank than myself at the tlmctlmt I supJ posed lie had no recollection of me. but h? ! j said he remembered me very well. We talked I of old times and exchanged inquiries about j friends. Lee then broached the subject of our mt'CMIlK 1 wmi xiiill UIJ' Id Iiif, nmi i? vv listening attentively, asked me to write tlicm down. I took out my'manifold order book . , and pencil and wrote them down. General , Lee put on bis glasses and read them over. , The condition* gavo the officers their side . arms, private horses and personal baggage. I said to Lee that I hoped and believed this would be the close of the war; that It. was most Important that the men should go hom. , and ko to work, and the government wouln ; not throw any obstacles In the way. I.ec answered that It would have a most happy effeet, nnil accepted the terms. 1 handed ovi r my penciled memorandum to an aide to put ' Into Ink, and we resumed our conversation [ about old times and friends In the armies. "Various ollleers came In?Longstreet, Oor* , I don, Pickett, from the .South; Sheridan. Ord , and others lrom our side. Some were old 1 friends?Longstreet and myself, for Instance? I and we had a general talk. Lee, nodotibt. ex' j pected me to ask for his sword, but 1 did not | want ills sword." "It would only," said the j General smiling, "have gone to the Patent . I Ottlce to bn worshipped by the Washington 'j rebels." There was a pause, when General , | Lee said that most of the animals In the cavalry and artillery were owned by the privates. ' and lie would like to know, under the term*; | whether they would be regarded as private I property or the property of the government. , 1 said that under the terms of the surrender [ they belonged to the government. General ! l>'e read over the letterand said that wit* so. | ; | I then said to the General that I believed and; _ I hoped this was the lust battle of the war; Unit ' I saw the wisdom of these men setting home < | to work as soon as possible, and that 1 would . ' give orders to allow any soldier or otllcer . ' j claiming a horse or mule to take it. General . liit^nowru lionic cniouun ill una?it iu iiiik 1 '' winch I also shared?ami xalil It would have a j ' [ mo-t happy eflec'. The Interview ended, and | !; I gaveordcrs tor rationing the troops. The!, , | next (lav 1 met Lee on horseback and we had i ; ju talk. In that conversation I urged upon \ i 1 General I.oe the wisdom of ending the war by |1 ; the surrender of the other armies. I asked | | him to use his influence with the people oft ' i the South?an influen. c that was supreme? p I to hrlitu the war toan end General i.ee said i ' | that, his campaign in Vlrelnla was the last t ' * i organized resistance which the South w; s ', ' capable of making? that i might have to j I march a good deal and encounter isolated i ! I commands here and there, but there was no ! | longer any army which could makea stand.! ; I told Lee that this fact would only make his j j responsibility greater, and any further war 1 would lie a crime. I asked him togo among ; the Southern people and use his influence to have all men unuer arms surrender on the ' same terms given to the Army of Northern J 1 Virginia. He replied that he could not do so' ' without consultation with President Davis, j, ; 1 was sorry. I saw Jiat the Confederacy had. : gone beyond the reach of President Davis, < J and that there was nothing that could he done; 'i except whaLLcccould do to lienelit theSouth-! ' I ern people. I was anxious to eet I hem home | 'J ami have our armies go to their homes and1' !| fields. Hut Lee would not move withoutl '. Davis, and, as a matter of fact, at that time,; ' or soon alter, Davis was a fugitive in the woods. "Let: was of a slow, conservative, cautious nature, without imagination or humor, nU! ' ways the same, wlih grave dignity. 1 never , ' could see in his achievements what Justifies i ' his reputation. The Illusion thalnothing but I heavy odds beat him will not stand the ulti-j j mate light of history. J know it Is not true.! i Lee wild h good deal of n headquarters Oener-t i '! it!?u desk General from what I can hear and i < 1! from what Ills officers say. lie was almost j too old for active service?the best service In j \ the field. At the timcofthc surrender he ' was.Vior .jitand I was 4:!. "Ills officers used to say tlwt he posed himself,* that he w?? retiring and exclusive, and ! "I that his headquarters were difficult of access. \ , ' | I remember that when the commissioners >' M came through our lines to treat, just before! I 1 the surrender, that one of them remarked on I j ' I the great difference between our hcadquur-j1 'j tors and Lee's. I always kept open bouse at' ] "j headquarters, so far as I lie army was concorn-' 'led. Sly anxiety," said the General, "forj I ; some time before Hichmond fell was lest Lee j j should abandon It. My pursuit of Lee was j I hazardous. I was in a position of extreme; ! 1 difficulty. You see, I was marching away > . 1 from my supplies. It Lee had continued his j ' | Might another day I should have had to aban- ; < i don the pursuit, fall buck to Danville, build i the railroad and teed my army. iSo far as sup-1 1 piles were concerned, 1 was almost at my last! i j gasp when the surrender took place." j J I EDISON I>* A NEW LIGHT. j j '! ? ' ; He Has Discovered tiie "Philosopher's ' Stone." I iy<rw York H&altL] " I The narrative and descriptive article which i , we print in other columns will cause a sensa*; . i tion, both in the ntininjfnnd scientllic world, i J i It gives the results of the most recent experi-1 , I meats in that prolillc birth place of wonders, I ' Mcnlo Park. The "wlzzard' of that tamous i ] locality has outdone himself, not, perhaps, In ! i the curious and amazinguppcals lie iias made < to the popular sense of novelty, but certainly ( in the eclipsing pecuniary valueof this latest . of his great discoveries. ! I Edison has Invented methods by which he| . can extract a greater amount of gold from the rejected residuum or tin miners' phrase; tlie | ( "tunings." 01 numerous quart/, or saiui mun j Is obtained by the present processes from the ' virgin rocks delivered fresh from the power- I ful trituration of the crushing mills. After . the system now practiced hits exhausted the] ' ores of all the gold they can ho made to yield, . .Mr. Kdlson can Uike up the tailings and ex- J tract more gold from tlieni than they were r made to give out before they were rejected as worthless refuse. The average yield of the I crushed and triturated auriferous rocks is less I than twenty dollars a ton. Mr. Edison can I ! take up the hitherto valueless tailings and I ! make them yield an astonishingly greater! r ! amount. The specimens from the Humes I yielded under his treatment at the rote of $750 t per ton; the black sand from the lava beds. ?. i per ton; the richest product was from the tall- r lings of the Powers claim, which was the r te i c | of il,4(H) per ton. There is nothing Incredible | even in this last estimate, considering the c I great value of go.d In proportion to its welgnt g I It requires only about seventy-eight ounces of gold to be worth ?1,100, ami seventy-eight | C 'ounces Is but a minute fraction of a ton. lint I If tlieaveragc yield from the tailings were no I (greater than the ordinary yield from the vlr- 3 | gin ores the profit would be immen-e, since I.Mr. Edison estimates the expense of his process at only IKi per ton. Hut the profits from tailings which contain $>M)or$7j0orSl,-100 p<r ton seem fabulous. This great discovery was an occidental reI suit of Mr. Edison's researches to find a sup-1 p ! ply of platinum for his electric lamps. He j I j sent explorers far and wide to discover new I MMUl'lVl til HUB IIJUI.-|'liin,wig iiieuii,ui? <uri I ply of wlilcli was limited to a few mines. It] ? I was round In small quantities In the tailings I ? j of the California golii mines, anil Edison set! himself at work to Invent a process for ltsj. cheap extraction. In the course of his exper-1 J* Imentson the specimens sent him he was sur- J ii I prised nf the large amount of gold which ex-| f, lsted in the rejected residue of the mines, and ; this gave his researches a new direction. He sides trying to discover n cheap process fori extracting platinum from the tailings he! 'alined at a process torseparating the far larger! I quantity of gold. The success of the process j has been complete and the wealth which is I : likely to result is beyond computation. [ f Hcfore allowing his discovery to ho known1 beyond the small circle of hiscontldeniiul as- j j coctatcs he made contracts for the tailings of ( I a number of the most extensive mines. "The | ! Edison Ore Milling Company" was formed, | with .lames 11. Uarker as nrosldeni; Chns. 11,' r Lewis, vice-president; and Hoot I,. Cutting as I I ! Breosurer; Sir, Kdison himsell holding a place . it In the board of directors. When thecontracts cs ! were made it was supposed that Kdison want-j j eil the tailings merely for the platinum they ' contain, the most experienced mine owners' , n<? of the DOHSlbllities off *?. I wealth w.iich lay concealed In the accumula-1 ; ted tailings. I j This crept discovery comes as near as ho). ; , I cnee can ever hope to come towurd realizing 1 ri| I the dreams of theold alchemists. They spent | 1 I laborious lives in experiments todlscover the I philosopher's stone by which baser suhstances | | were to he transmuted into cold. What they ' sought In vain has virtually come tc. Mr. Ed I- j son as the reward of researches prompted by a fortunate accident. In exploring for cheap I | platinum he has discovered a method of'rr transmuting worthless refuse in to a source of \ Inexhaustible and fabulous riches. Goethe W. winds up his great philosophical novel, "W'ilhelm Melster," by making one of theclmrac-j lr ters say to the hero: "Thou resemblest Saul, | J'f the son ot Klsli, who went out to seek his fa- i thcr's asses and found a kingdom." Kdlson | went out to geek platinum for his lamps and d'1 found "the potentiality of wealth beyond the i1,1 dreams of avarice.'' j ^ John Brooks, aged 81 years, last Sunday! week married l.uey White,aged joycars. All i the parties are coiorcd. j 1 On Exhibition!! j > A COMPLETE STOCK ?OTP? 1 m in siin goods. 1 i i f Fou have but to look, to see that our stock is ' I . Large and Well Selected. 1 Prices always guaranteed. Call and get * yonr wants Supplied. * W JftFT. STVFTTH fr SAIff k WW V MATA4AU MVAll # ^ / March 31, 18S0 it mil S 'j EHIHHJinn ! ANNOUNCE THE BECEIPT OF A j LARGE ASSORTMENT OP Spring Goods, CONSISTING in part of CALICOES, LAWNS, SWISS, U CHECK MUSLIN, PlftCES, COEDS, STSIFES and * MARSEILLES, GRASS CLOTH, KNICEEEBOCEEES, DELAINES. 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UHiid, r Ineoil chronton, niottoo*. curds, rlncn, ' edge of the ribs, increases on pres- picture furnishing of all kinds, All orders % sure; sometimes the pain is in the left j^dJJIow priced64 ^ Ncw house, new side; the patient is rarely able to lie " ' T?A>mr+ Tnnao on the left side; sometimes the pain is i JarOuClt J0H6S, felt under the shoulder blade, and it Ninety-Six. frequently extends to the top of the January 28, i??. . i shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken -?-? _ ?? for rheumatism in the arm. The XJ ^ stomach is affected with loss of appetite and sickness; the bowels in gen- SOOtS cillCL S1IO6S, Heir* ;ral are costive, sometimes alternative rnnM_A_J ?uh iax; the head is troubled with ness and. Tanjrard. 4 pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy 13EST material used, fine workmen employ.. *1, i i. . rpi f D ed, custom work made promptly, and at sensation in the back part. I here IS tlielowext bottom prices for cash. Hides al;enerally a considerable loss of mem- 'i'{oT 3 J j t r i ca*n or Id exciutnge for leather or work. irw acromnanied with a Dainful sen- Jitnuurv 2s. iteo. iv. sation of having left undone some- i :hing which ought to have been done. /1|I I 1TA I fl IT I IT A b. slight, dry cough is sometimes an 11 I A 1! II k I] I I 1 II i lttendant The patient complains of || I |l 1 II ' l|I |l 1II f weariness and debility; he is easily U L 11II U I U U1111 U I startled, his feet are cold or burning, ind he complains of a prickly sensa. ion of the skin; his spirits are i??; Take Notice. ind although he is satisfied that exer- $ wrmlH hp hpnpfiriil tn hi'm v<?f CPECIAL INDUCEMENTS offered to Club*, ,ise WOUlu De DenetlCial to mm, yet 0 Cheaper than last year. Standard Brands f ie can scarcelr summon up fortitude ?'}?'<* have been tariely used and tested. t. . x *. t r l. x. j* * ^ Give us a call before buying elsewhere. It may inough tO try it. In fact, he distrusts be we can save yoo money. :very remedy. Several of the above Trr TA?| CmifVi Xr Ann svmntoms attend the disease, but cases . uVOaDUUWI 06 DUIl* jave occurred where few of them ex- ! 17 ^ Kted, yet examination of the body, yj -p. y. -p. y. \ tfter death, has shown the liver to |_| I \ [ I |j' lj' u |j' lave been extensively deranged. M If I i II II. i A II. AGUE AND FEVER. ' $ ' dr. c. mclane-s l.ver p.lis .t, latiMer and Jeweler, :ases of Ague and Fever, when aken with Quinine, are productive of at tiie store of he most happy results. No better t> ttj p un^ll :athartic can be used, preparatory to, ^ U?'rilW0LLj )r after taking Quinine. We would i ii/ILL nlway* have on hand a variety of dvise all who are afflicted with this i nAa batches for ?aie. a ! larirp number of handsome clocks trn dnll* lisease to give them a FAIR TRIAL. {expected. Call and ?ce them. For all bilious derangements, and as i simple purgative, they are unequaled. t? tiieimde. BEWARE OP IMITATIONS. THAW?! VPC The genuine are never sngar coated. JL " W XX Jb (llAvOt Every box has a red wax seal on the lid, : ,'ith the impression Dr. McLanb's Livkk 'ILLS. A LTi PERSONS LIABLE FOR TOTTN The genuine McLane's I,iver Pills bear \ J} J* J t0 m,ttke thclr relurn" i . r -T .j tj?_ ! bj lh? 1st dfly of next-* he signatures of C. McLank and Fleming At 1 taxeu musj bo paid by the 1st dny of Iros. on the wrappers. next May. By order of Town Council, A Insist upon having the genuine Dr. C. TP HIT ART ITC m IcLane's Liver Pills, prepared by Flem. J' * vlUAllLLDj fl ig Bros., ofPittsburgh, Pa., the market being Trea8Urer T0W11 Council. M nil of imitations of the name McLaney I March 10. 1K80. lm. pell?d diffeuDtly but same pronunciation. |? 1 : ' fijj T T PI A PIT Gr lle & Ciifiia Railroad. j| JLi VjLiimV. Reduced. Rates. . ^ _ . _ ?I ? n, /~\X and after February the 30th, tbo followtfnn TrlO Pnnn fit 'I'ho I POTT 'J JnK tlckcu will b? placed on sale at all fUl lllu llUUll U1 lilU bidll J?"1'Vl1 ' , ROUND TRIP TICKETS from Any Ptatlon tt v vr rnvrr T#nm to ptvv xcv tonny sUition nt the rfttc of POUR CENTS i LffPhtinnfr Aiv tih?i1 Jn Pcr counting distance both way*. Good r* ? V^kvtionIfurniiSlllh R TKN DAYS, includingdayof wile. Tho I h A n ilu pcn,on wish- roumj tripticket* good for threedaysat three ' rent* per mile will he kept on sale iuj heretoUTafnTioe Panoivad fore- The rate for children between tb? age W atcnes tiepairea Of slxand twelve year* .will be half of the above rates, ring tliem In. I have all the tools and ma- R. H. TEMPLE rials to do it up In the best of style and at General Superintendent e lowest rates possible. If you want your Jabkz Norton, Jr., General Ticket Agent. nek repaired bring it In and it will be done Lr?*f if vnn wiitit. vnilP " 1 THOMAS DUCKETT. TFWFLRY MFNDED Vft4JA JLVYLLni nr * WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER, Bring it on. If you Want yonr NINETY.SIX, s. c. EWIN& MACHINE MENDED DtfSMSA o^ua?7o lUiiuiiinu muiiuxjx) be gut.h a8 reprcscDttKj Orders from abroad ils Is the plflcc to got it done In tho best r>( promptly Attended to. tier. You ?it) buveuny piece mad# new. or | Feb II, 1NS0, tf eoliloncrepaired, lr you want yourtfwi or i slol repaired this Is the plneo to !iave it nrrrr nnmr n ? nnr > nne * I mc. All these articles will be repaired In CHILDREN CARRIAGES j e best of order al the Lowest Price*. I "Jive me (i trial and satisfy yourselves? \f ARBLE TOP TABLES, Marble Top Bo- 5 SUMS CASH. Lt| reaus, and Chairs of all kinds for sale J cheap at JOHN L. CLARE. J.D. Chalmers. ranuaryk 1879. if. Mcrch ]n- lm< U I I