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[' * ' ' -''r " ' r- - - v.' r>- ' The Abbeville Press and Banner! BY "HUGH' WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29. 1891. VOLUME XXXV. NO. 49? New Quarters iw cnnns lllil.l UUVIFU I am Noi Prepared to Offer ReasonaMe Prices tie Largest aid Best Selected stock of Watches, Clock: jxwxxiHY Silverware, Spectacles, and Gold Fens, A nA avarrthf nir 111 the JEWELRY Li ever offered "to tbe" people of Abbeville coun Silver and Nickel Watches from $2.50 to Gold Watches from $15 to $75. ^ Clocks from $1 to $15. * CHAINS. CHARMS. LOCKETS, SLEEVE BUTTONS, COLLAR BUTTO? 8CARK TINS, STUDS, LACE PINS. BROCHES, EAR RINGS and DROPS, ai CHILD'S DRESS BUTTON SETS in GOI and Rolled Plate at the Lowest Prices. Gold Rings, [quality guarantee from 75 cts. to $10 Sterling Silver Thimbles, Spoons and For very low. The celebrated Wm. Rogers Knives, Fori Spoons, <fcc. Triple plated on Nickel Silver 14 K. Gold Spectacles and Ey Glasses Irom 94.50 to 98 per pair. Why Injure your eyes by wearlne che glasses when you can get Pebbles for $2.50 [ pair. It will be to your advantage to call on i should you need anything In the Jewelry li Repairing neatly done and all work guars teed. Office In store of J. C. NICKLES. J. T. Duckett, JEWELEI Greenwood, S. C. Oct. 15, 1890. D. A. ALLEN, Prop. J. F. RICE, Su ALLEN MAK0FACTORING CI Clinton, S. C. -MANUFACTURERS OFDoors, Sash, Blinds, Moul< ing. Brackets, Front Doors, Stair Bails, Newel Posts, Balusters, Scroll Sawing and Wood Turning, Flue Dryefl Lute for BiiUo Contracts Furnished at Short Notice. Flrat CIhm Work a Specialty and c Work Hnnrnatfed. Correspondence solicited and letters of qniry promptly anRwert'd. WRITE BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHEH Best Work. Lnuml Price*. J. F. MILIiER A CO. are agents for us, k orders given totheiu will receive prompt xentloD. March 2, 1891. l'Jm. STATE OF SOUTH CAROL! County of Abbeville. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. The Greenville Savings Bank, Plaintiff, against Evafi. Maloney anil Howard L. Odlorne, 1 fendants. SUMMONS. FOR RELIEF. {Complaint not Served.) T the Defendants, above named: You ARE HEREBY SUMMONED A] required to answer the complaint in this Hod, which on March 31sL 1889 was filed tbe office of the Clerk of Common Pleas, the wild County, and to serve a copy of y< answer to tbe said complaint on the subnet era at their office in the city of Greenville, V., within twenty days after the service lie of, exclusive of the day of such service; a if you fall to answer the complaint will the time aforesaid, the plaintitT in this tion will apply to the Court for the relief znanded in tbe complaint. Dated March 30th, 1S?1. WESTMORELAND & HAYNESWOR' Plaintiffs Attorney! THOS. L. MOORE, C. C. P. \ Seal f ,-v~J April 1, 1891, 6 DON'T PLANT Tir i. n w esitJiii vuii. Get the Best Home Raised See Isaac a. kellar one of the b* corn raisers of AbbevllleConnty has produ an|excelleni variety of need corn, of which largest crops are always mndc. He makes corn crop a specialty, and his seed may he lied upon to give satisfaction. He has a I lot of picked seed corn on hunil which tie fers to sell at two dollars a bushels. Applj I. A. KELLAR or J. O. EDWARDS. April 1, lofll. rpH E TEACHERS of PUBLIC fr X Schools of this County whose certlllcj of qualification have expired, and those siring a higher grade, will meet the Board Examiners at Abbeville on Friday andSa ?ay me -im nnu xoiu ?> iu'ai ji|irn, ut o'clock a. m. The white teachers will n on Friday, and the colored on Saturday. E. COWAN. Ch'm'n Board Ex March 18, 1801. J. M. STEADMAN. McCormick, South Carolii OAS PURE. LIGHT BRAHMA A tjt Barred Plymouth Rock eggs tor sal< tow tigure for Taney stock. 'I1HK MAIN WHEEL IN A WATCH I makes 4 revolutions in a ilay of 24 hours, or 1,460 In a year. Next, the centre wheel, 24 ne revolutions a day, or 8,760 in a year. The i ,v third wheel 192 in n day, or 59,as0 in a year. The fourth wheel 2,440 in a day, or 545.000 in a ?]g year. The lilth, or scape wheel. 12,900 in a " day, or 4,728,200 in a year. The "ticks" or , hnuta nf lliohnluncfl u-heel 388 900 In a daV. Or 141,882.000 lii ii year. " 1 The above is mathemetically correct, and should prove to you that a WATCH Is a very | delicate and complicated raachlne.andshould It be out of order the watch requires the at- ' fS tentlon of u 1 ?" First Class Watchmaker ' ,D j The undersigned offers you all the advan ] tages that skill aud experleuce can command , in the repairing of ^ Watchs, Clocks and Jewelry. 1 EN(iRAVING 1 any style letter or monograme executed at short notice. < All Work Warranted 12 Months. ! p. A first class stock of GOLD. SILVER and ( NICKEL WATCHES, JEWELRY. SILVER { WARE, GOLD PENS &c. : Rogers and Bro.,1 ne in- ? 1 Wm. Rogers j J FORKS, KNITES AND SPOONS. | Goods guaranteed as represented or mony i refunded^. No charge for engraving goods |j Place of business In F. F. Dunbar A Co's - store. p< It. B. Hennemann, GREENWOOD, S. C. Jan. 30,1891, it , tr,e7lwilson7 DXMGCXIiV. I fl&?Offlce up stairs oyer R. W. Cannons 6tore Aug. 1!S, 188y. Roof nh-irlrpti fnrt.hfi Pnrmfir! S PROM CROSS PURR WYANDOTTE ANDl, * Brahma. Eygs ">0 cents setting. Froin , pure Bronze Turkey 1 Address: P. L. STURKEY. i McUormick, H. C. < i Lewis Redmond i I; The well-known Stallion, can be found at Waller's Stable1 Greenwood, S. C. TERMS, CASH, SD Five DollarB a Single Visit. Ten Dollars a Season. Fifteen Dollars Insurance. Money by Insurance Due as soon as MareisascerIn talned to be in Foal. for PEDIGREE?Lewis Redmond is a Deep Bay, .... Seven Years old, Fifteen and One-Half Hands High; Sired b? Messenger, Grandslre Old Granger, Great - Grandslre Old Mambrino S. Chief, Great-Great-Grandsire Mambrino Paymaster. Dam a very fine Kentucky More, said to be Hamiltonian. For further inforillation address t W.J. McGEE, Riley, S.C. de April 8,1891, 3m PH DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thomson,, OFFICE UPSTAIRS ON McltfWAIN Corner. Abbeville, S. C, March 23, 1891. tf MACMURPHY & STORY, I ARCHITECTS, No. 8 Gray's Piazza, AUGUSTA, GA. A M PRRPAKF.n TO MAtvK PLANS and , A" superintend the building or }d. CHURCHES. COURT HOUSES, SCHOOL HOUSES, JAILS. HOTELS. THEATRES, ,u.r STORES. DWELLINGS. June 4, 1890,12m ced the doors, blinds. I.ie And all Other Building Materials. fpHE UNDERSIGNED WILL KEEP 1 from thlb date on a lull supply of Doors, Blinds. Lime, Shingles, Laths, aud all kinds of building m terlal. Call at J. F. Miller's store. ;X B. K. BEACHAM, <ie- Manager. tur' Feb-9-185,1 :!m ten ,eel T)ICHAR1> (iANTT, is now prepared to do IX all work In his department in the best mnnner and at reasonable charges. Monthly cuKtoiuers shaving, hair cutting and shampooing $1 per month. Rasors honed and put ' in the best condition for ?j cents each. Walter L. Miller, Attorney anri ComiMellor lit f<nw, m abbeville, s. c. t>Ractices in both state ant lND i Federal Courts. Special attention given ? to collections and to Investigating titles. Dec. 8, 18W . tirno .:> . . t; -- V W,Ail^ Too Many Collection*. McFagg had a somewhat serious difference with his spiritual pastor about some personal matter not long ago, and coming oft' second best in the encounter he straightway announced his intention to his joining the Episcopalian community. This was a month ago, and next Sabbath th<^ members of the parish church congregation wen; somewhat astonished to see Mac occupying his usual seat in i their midst. Alter service was over j old Crawford, who is a rather inquisi- ( tive personage, approached Mac on | the subject of his return. ] "I thought you had joined the j Episcopalians," said he. j 'No," replied Mac, "I haven't. J intended doing so, but I have changed | mv mind." j ''All!" exclaimed the other, inrerrogatively, "what induced you to do that, pray ?" "Well," replied Mac, "the fact is, I could never stand so many collections. They have far to many of them for me." "Collections!" repeated Crawford. ' Why, I didn't think they had any more collections than we have ourselves." "Hav n't they, exclaimed Mac. "Man iiive, we can't hold a candle to them in that respect. Why, last Sabbath, when I went to their church for the first time, I happened to pick up one 5f their prayer-Dooks that was lying on the seat in front of me, and began to read it, as I was somewhat early, and kTery few of the congregation had yet irrived. I hadn't read verv far before [ came to the conclusion that it would uot suit me to become an Episcopalian, so I got up, and came out." "And what about the collections?" aueried the other. '1* -- ii X- i i? "i uiuu t wan ior xnem w utsyiu, ( mswered Mac ; "but there must be a errible lot of them, for on nearly ev;ry page of the book it said 'Collect.' Dne collection every Sabbath is quite vs much as I can stand. It must be iwfully expensive to be an Episcopaian. Ferewnrned by Pigeons. A few days before the most destructive earthquake on record the pigeons sf Antioch are said to have left their nests in the city walls, and taken refuge in the suburban groves. The philosopher Dion Damascius warned tiis fellow-citizens to follow the example of the winged refugees, but failed Ix> inspire them with his present)mnntm nf 1 nrt/1 nn fho fhlrrl rlnv same an earthquake which cost the i lives of 550,000 human beings, and i shook the very mountains all over < Syria and Asia Minor. On the after- 1 noon of the 5th of October. ] 746, the < barber Perez, a citizen of Lima in Pe- ) ru, was attending to a customer, whose dog suddenly began to betray I signs of uneasiness by standing in the j ipen doorway of the shop and break- s ing forth repeatedly into a peculiar s howl, then listening for a second or two, and breaking out into that omni- 1 )us wail again. Several of the visitors had started to their feet, but stood 1 silent looking aj each other in vague *larm, when the owner of the shop i made a spring for the door, as if under . the impulse of a sudden inspiration, f ind rushing out into the street, 1 ihrieked out a warning : cuidaa, vtoinos"?"Look out, neighbors!" he i touted, "there is tronble coming !" | and almost as an echo of his words a rumbling noise and the sound of dls- I taut screams approached from the di- i rection of the sea, and in the next ! minute the crash of falling houses re- J jounded on all sides. An earth-wave had struck the town, and swamped i the neighboring seaport of Callao i with a flood that swept away all but ; forty of its five thousand inhabitants. RICHMOND & DANVILLE RAILROAD COLUMBIA A GREENVILLE D1V CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In Effect March 8, 189]. (Trains run by 76th Meridian time.) NORTHBOUND. ! No. j No. j No. ! No.! No. No. J 13. j 17. I 15. I 9. j 41. 43. lA.M.l I | | Lv Charleston 7 00 j lA.M.IP.M.I I Lv Columbia 11 00| H 20 6 00 Ly Alston.. |12 18; 7 U5i 0 59| Lv Union 2 02 Ar Spartanburg I 3 12l I I Lv Tryon 5 46 I Lv Saluda I 6 271 I Lv Flat Book (j 5-1 Lv Hendersonville 7 071 I Lv Asheville 8 00 Ar Hot Springs 9 40i I I LvPomaria. 12 31 7 22 7 18f Lv Prosperity 12 55| 7 45 7 33|i A..M Lv Newberry 1 13 8 03 7 471 I 6 10 Lv Qoldville 8 4(i, 10 00 Lv Clinton 9 OS J' ]<t 44 Ar Laurens .* ..| 9 4o? 11 40 T v,,nof? O., I 2 SOI 9 18 P.M.! Lv Ninety-Six.. ^ 2 50 9 18 (a.M. Lv Greenwood 3 121 9 40 I P.M. Lv Hodees ! :i ^l10 051 5 *?! 12 Ir L?v tioages j- 3 40,10 051 i Ar Abbeville 4 15'10 40 0 15 1 ftj Ar Bi-lton I 4 .uHll 001 I p.M. Lv Belton J 4 f0| | 111 10j Lv Williauistun... 4 53 i ill 22 Lv Pelzer 5 00 11 2? Lv Piedmont 5 171 I 111 45' Ar Greenville 6 00| | |12 $)| AT AnUrrnOD O ZUI Ar Pendleton 6 15' 11 3?| j [ ?S| Ar Walhsllft. 8 05 ai- Atlanta ...... 12 00 IP.M.JP.M.J [__j_ SOUTHBOUND. j No.! No. ! No. ! No. ! No. No. I 14. 18. 16. I 10. I 40. 42. P.M.iP.M. A.M. ! Ar Charleston j 9 45j j J .. Ar Columbia I 5 30! 9 OOjlO 50 Lv Alston 4 251 8 10| 9 43 Lv Union 2 4" Lv Bpartonbnrtc I 1 401 LvTrjon 12 31| j j | Lv Saluda. jil 43 j j Lv Flat Rock 'll 18| I \ Lv Hend'sonvilleJll 0l> Lv Asbevllle 110 10i II j Lv Hot Springs jpS 82j j | j Lv Pomarla I 4 101 7 55i f> 851 | j Lv Prosperity.... 8 40 7 33 !) 03 P.M. Lv Newberry 8 10; 7 Mil K 45] I -1 35 LvGoldvllle | | | 7 521 | 1 5? Lv Clinton 7 32j 1 21 Lv Laurens " I L.v Ninety-six... J j j (k-| u nj Lv Greenwood jl2 ."IKi ft 50i < P.M. HRiSigi !' *' Lv Abbeville 11 Oftj 4 4<Jj P.M.j I .r?0 Lv Belton 1 a3| 4 S?| Lv Williaimton...l 10 :!3| I I (111 Lv l'elzer 10 2' -i ;V>| Lv Piedmont ;10 10| i 8 H7i Lv Greenville 9 :i 0O| Lv Anderson 110 1!?| 4 00| I Lv Pendleton 9 37 Lv Seneca I 9 OOi 1 Lv Walhallft. 8 :? Atlanta | A.M. | Tmlnstt, 10, IS,"14, j."?, II!.IT,1S,'^ IMilwTlally except Sunday Mulu Line trains 13 and 14 dully between Columbia and Hut Springs. Dnily except Suudny between Alston and Greenville. 1). CARDWELL, Dlv. Pass. Atrt., Colo robin, 8. C IAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Paw>. Agent,Washington D C. ? Tlie Truth at All Hazards. Sometime after the beginning of the present, century there were living in a busy country town in the North a pious'couple who had an only son. For this son they daily prayed to God. So the foundations of an upright life were laid in the boy's heart, and among these very especially a regard for uprightness and truth. In.the course of years the boy's school days were ended, and also iiis apprenticeship to a business life in a country town, and as there was no nrosuect for him there he went to Ene land, to one of the great seaports, and j by and by lie irot a good position in a, merchant's office. But he was not long in this excellent place before he was put to the test in a very painful way with respect to the lessons he had received about truth. It was part of the business of lhat office to have ships coming and ?oing. And it was the rule when a ihtp came into port that its captain *ent word to the office that he had arrived and was now waitiug instructions where to discharge the cargo; ind it was the duty of the manager of the office to send back instructions to the captain where and when this was to be done. A few mouths after the little lad from the North came to the jffice a ship laden with coal came in, mil rhp usual inessaere from the cai> :ain came, but someTiow or other 110 inswer wa9 sent back to him. The japtain waited a week, but still no ivord came back. Now, that was very lard on the captain. Until his ship jot free of its cargo it had to lie idle in ;he dock, aDd all who belonged to the ihip were kept idle too. So at the end )t a week the captain sent word *- the )ffice that his ship had been kept so oug waiting for instructions where to lischarge its cargo that it had missed a ;ood offer of a new cargo, and the office would have to pay him for the oss. This payment is called "demur age." When the manager of the office got ;his message from the captain he was /ery angry. He sent for the little lad ?rom the North and eaid to him : "Didn't I send you down to Captain Smith with instructions to discharge his cargo ?" ' The little lad said : "No, sir; I do lot remember being sent down." "O, but I did," answered the manager. "You have forgotten." And there for a time, so far as the of^ce was concerned, the matter was allowed to rest. But the captain did not intend to let it rest there. He applied for his dervmrrnnro 4nH when thHfc WHS refus l"u""hv' }d, he took the master of the office to law, and by and by his complaint ame before the judges in the court of law. The day before the trial the manager came to the little lad from the North and said to him : "Mind, 1 ?ent you to the dock with those inductions to discharge the coal."* "But I assure you I cannot remember your doing so," said the lad. "O, yes, but I did. You have forgot- i ten." It was a great trouble to the lad. He had never been sent to the dock. He could not say that he had been sent; and he foresaw that he would have to say before the judges what would certainly offend the mannger und lead to the loss of his excellent place. On the morning of the trial he went to the court. The manager came up md the poor lad tried once more to assure him that he was mistaken, but he would not listen. ?>Tf in oil rirrhf " hp uuid lllutllv "I sent you on such a day, and you have got to bear witness that I did?and see you say it clearJy !" In a little while he was called into the witness box, and almost the first question put to him was whether he remembered the day when Captain Smith's ship came in. And then this: "You remember during the day being sent by the manager of the office to the dock with a letter for the captain ?" "No, sir." "Were you not sent by the manager of your office to the coal ship on that diiv ?" "I was not, sir." "Nor the next day ?" "No." "Nor any other day?" "No." The gentleman who put the question was a barrister. He had been engaged by the manager to win the case for them. But when he heard the little lad's reply he turned to the judge and said : "My lord, I give up this case. My instructions were that this witness would prove that a megsage to discharge had been sent to Captain Smith, and it is plain no such proof is to be got from him." Ko thp nase endad in the captain's fa vor and against the office in which the little lad had found so excellent a place. He went to his lodgings with a sorrowful heart and wrote to his father and mother that he was sure to be dismissed. Then he packed his trunk to be ready to go home next day; and In the morning, expecting nothing but his dismissal, he went early to the office. The first to come in after him was the master. He stopped for a moment at the lad's desk and said : "We lost our case yesterday." "Yes, sir," answered the lad ; "and I am very sorry I had to say what I did." By and by the manager caine in ; and after a little time he was sent for to the master's room. It was a long while before he came out. Then the little lad was sent for. "1 am going to be dismissed," he thought t' himself. But the master said to him, "I was sorry yesterday, but not with you. You did right to speak the truth; and to mark my approval of what you did, I am going to put you in charge of all the workings and sales of our Glenfardle mine." Then he sent for the manager and told him what he had said, and added, "And the young man will make his reports direct to me." JSix months afterward the manager left the office, and, young though he was, the little lad was appointed to his niiw>p And before as manv vears had passed he was admitted as junior partner in the firm; and lie is now at the head of the entire husiuess?the man aging partner. In hiscu.se truth was the beat. Rut r want to s\y that, if things had turned out other" than they did. and he had been dismissed, it would still have been the best for him to speak the truth.?Sunday Magazine. Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss if it issue not in a resolution to do so no more. One More Unfortunate. On Thursday night. February 5th, a oung woman not more than thirty ears of age tottered into a wretched estaurant in the basement of No 94 Are Yfe Shining? Ye are as lights in the world. I'hll. II. 15. Fellow Christians, are we shining? } Dally shining as we might? .. All along our pilgrim Journey Can the world descry our light ? J Shining out upon its darkness, j Beacon lights mid storm and strife, u Where the clouds have gathered blackness, a Holding forth the word of life; ft AmUl the fogs of skepticism. t Unbelief and scorn and pride; f When the godless make derision, Do our candles never hide? e Do we keep them clearly burning? Shedding light for all around? , For the wanderer returning? I< For the lost and lor the found; b For the comfort of each other, tl For the weak and for Ihe lame, n Who are greatly helped or hindered, f As our lamps burn bright or wane! 1 y Are we honoring the gospel ? J, Proving it the power of God By the straight paths wo are making ? In the way our Saviour trod ? t Is our faith In Christ producing 'l Constant care His charge to keep? h So that, suddenly Appearing, q He shull not find us asleep! g Lord, forgive us our short coming; w Holy Spirit, be our guide; . Faith and works In concert Joining, a Till the Bridegroom claims His Bride. il E. M. Tripp, in Friends' Review. ^ ? k "In His Name.'' $ Why do Christians so commonly e1 ask "for Jesus' sake?" Wherein his h Word are we taught to use this com- a mon formula? Why not retain the d phase that Jesus himself gave us, e which is far more beautiful and equal- I* lysimple? "If ye abide in me, and 8 *v>?? SM ??/MI rtcilr TirViofniror 11 ijlly wuiua iiuiuc in vuu, aon. ituuvctu ye will, and it shall be done unto you." n The devout soul loves the language of e< the Lord, and, denied the original b words, insists all the more strongly ti upon the integrity of the thought. t< Thus>, "And whatever ye shall ask s< in my name, that will I do, that the fi Father may be glorified in the Son. ? If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it."?John xiv., 13, 14. "Hitherto ye asked nothing in my name."?John xvi., 24. "Wnatever he shall ask of the Fatner in my . name, he may give it you."?John J1 xv., 16. "In that day ye shall ask in u my name."?John xvi., 26. "What- a ever ve shall ask of the Father, he will give it you in my name."?John xvi., 23. Can we doubt God's correct choice of words with which to express his meaning? He certainly might have said "for Jesus' sake,'' but he did not. Why should you or I? Now, to ask, "in my name" is not to ask "for Jesus' sake." How mauy Christians are praying amiss with God's plain instructions before them? Should some wealthy friend place at your disposal his bank account with directions that you make all drafts in his name, no amount of jugglerj' about "for his sake" would obtain for you one penny. Shall the loyal one, lifted to a joint heirship with Jesus Christ, deem his instruction for drawing upon his riches of less importance than man's careful direction??Horace Watds, in Christian Inquirer. How He Changed HU Opinion. Lord Shaftesbury told me a curious circumstance connected with Hone, the author of the "Every-day Book." Tt was told to him by Mr. Plumptre, M. P., for Kent, who, being present at a meeting of. the directors of the religious tract society in London, was surprised to see Hone there. On the breaking up of the meeting, Hone went to him and said, "I noticed that you looked at me very much, and no doubt you were wondering why I should be here. I will tell you. ] was walking up from Blackheath to London, and came to a part of the road where two ways diverged, and 1 n did not know which way to take. I t saw a little girl sitting in a garden ? with a bo:>k in her baud. I went in i: to ask for information, and after 1 had s. found out what I wanted, I said to the girl, 'What book is that jou are read- r ing?' She answered, 'The Bible.' v '0,'I sard,'surely that Is not a book f for a child like you to read?' 'Why t not?' she replied; 'my mother reads | it, and gets all comfort from it.' Well, I walked on toward London, and the t * ^ I- 11 UA<?m4A/1 ma 1 i reply or mm unuu uuumcu mc. * u felt that I had never gone into a prop- f er examination of that book, so as to r make it a source of comfort to myself, r and I determined that I would do so. s I have made that examination, with t the result that it has entirely changed c my opinion with regard to the Bible, i and tbat is the reason why I am here." \ ?Life of Sir George Burns. i *??. a c Tower of Babet,?Three different t piles of ruins in Babylouia claim the 1 distinction of being remnants of the 1 original tower, the building of which s caused the confusion of tongues. A S full account of this remarkable semibistorical event may be found in the eleventh chapter of Genesis. The first of the three ruins above mentioned is the celebrated Nimrod's tower \ near Akkuref; the second on the east , bank of the Euphrates river, five miles j above the modern city of Hillah; third t the conical mound known as Birs t Nimrud, six milesand a half southwest of the city last named above?all t in Babylonia. Biblical scliolars throw t the weight of their opinions in favor ? of Birs Nlmrud as being the site of the a proposed heaven penetrating shaft. f The ruins at this point, which con- r sist mainly of kiln bricks, liuge stones 0 and vitrified mortar, almost hidden from sight by sands, theaccumulations a of centuries, are 198 feet in height and ? nearly HOOyards in circumference. Sir r R. K. Porter, who has given much study to the Birs Nimrud ruins, be- s lieves its vitrified appearance to be the ^ results of numerous lightning strokes, r conclusions which, taken in conuec- t I tion with the tradition that the tower t was destroyed by fire from heaven, e ! forms an interesting subject for thought t i Porter also says that, with tlie exception of natural accumulation and de- t cay, the tower is, in his estimation, j almost in the exact condition as left r at the time of the confusion.?St. p Louis Republic. r 1 e .> ? i.?? ?,au | r A HK'ITKIt l/IIAnill. ? in ij nun knocking the horse chestnuts" off* a r | tri e on Cass avenue when a pedestrian ? i observed : i "J suppose you think they will act 1 as a charm to ward oil" rheumatism, 1 but they fton't." "I didn't" suppose Ihey would," replied the la<^^ f "Then wl^Hf-you want of them?" i "To act aSrgjtrm to ward oft' lick- i ings. 1 knWp g g who carried four i of them in his pockets and didn't get f licked in four straight weeks ? i i M - 'ark Street, New York. She was Ireadfully emaciated, but her delicate nd refined features Indicated that she tad been reared amid culture and well orn. Once she had been very beautiul, and even now, though great the maciation, there were none of th? igns of dissipation so frequently met /ith girls who have enjoyed the priceiss blessings of a home of refinement, ut who have later been cut adrift brough betrayal or any other of the aany agencies which are ever at work a drag down the unwary. This oung woman was poorly clad, but her lothes were clean. She dragged herelf into the cheap restaurant, and to he keeper said, "John, I am cold and lungry. I want a cup of coffee, but I ,ave not a cent." "All right, you ball have it," returned the proprietor, he sank into a seat, and as the coffee /as brought, drew from her pocket a ried crust of bread, and tried to bite i; she had not strength. "I will 54 ft ???'l + V*rx KAofaiifan^ farm 11 iur yuuj' saiu iuc i^owuiuuv eeper. When it was returned, she ipped it in the coffee and took a bite, Lien replaced the balance in her pockt, after which she stretched forth her and for the coffee, but it fell, as, with little scream, the young woman ied, Those at the other tables gathred around her for a moment. Her irge blue eyes were open, but glazed, onie one threw an apron over her ead, which a young woman passing lised as she passed out, and exclaimJ, "Oh, that is Annie Muller." A lack wagon was driven up to the reslurant; the poor woman was taken ) the morgue. In her pockets were )me Salvation Army leaflets, a card om the Salvation Army on which 'as written, Lost: All bave sinned. Look: Unto roe. Live: Jesus saves. On a piece of paper were the followag linen well calculated to bring tears > the eyes even of the most selfish nd stony nature? On the street, on the street, To and fro with weary feet, AchlDg heart and acblng bead ; Homeless, lacking dally bread; Lost to friends. and joy, and name; Sold to sorrow, sin, ana ibsme; Wet with rain and chilled by storin Ruined, wretched, lone, forloln; Weak and wan, with weary feet, Still I wander on the street. On the street, on the street, Still I walk with weary feet; Lonely 'mid the city's din. Limp in grief aud woe and sin, Far from peace and far from home, No one caring where I roam ; No kind hand stretched forth to save, No bright hope beyond the grave; Feeble, faint, with weary feet, Still I wander on the street. On the street, on the street, Whither tend my wandering feet? Ix>ve, and hope, and Joy are dead? Not a place to lay my bead; Every door against me sealed. Hospital and Potter's Field, These stand open. Wider yet Swings perdition's yawning gate. Thither tend my wandering leet. On the street, on the street. On the street, on the street, Late I walk with weary feet Ob, that this sa<i life might end! Oh, that I inijcat And One FriendOne who would not from me turn, Nor my prayer of sorrow spam. Oh, that I that Friend could see! He would pitying look on me. Such as 1 have kissed His feet, On tne street, oa the street. On the street, on the street. Might I Here a Saviour meet! From the blessed far-ofl years Comes the story or her tears, Whose sad heart, with sorrow broke, Heurd the words of love He spoke; Heard Him bid her anguish cease: Heard Him whisper, "Go in peace !" Oh, that I might kiss His feet! On the street, on the street. The fathomless agony of soul, the aeasureless misery of spirit, voiced in hose lines give us a hint of wht.t this >oor girl suffered, and yet her sufJ'erngd are the sufferings of tens of thouands. A black wagoo drove up to the little * i j_? 1 escauraiit r riuity mumjug, mc uuu roraau was taken to the morgue and rom thence ou the steamer Fidelity to he Potter''* Field, there to be thrown n the trenches of the city's dead. This unknown dead woman is a ype of a multitude who are perishing >u every hand, in the midst of our >resent Christian civilization, in the nidst of unequalled wealth, in the nidstof social indifference and stolid elfishness, which willingly pay out ens of thousands of dollars for ban[uets or carnal pleasure, and contrib* - ' *" ? ~ '" ? 1 <? f a rvA n 1 tio lie prilK'tJIV HUUJ9 iui ovaicij icuj^ivo vith sky-cleaving turrets, but which if action display moral obliquity and \ total lack of conscientious realization if human brotherhood when appealed o to save the sinking, dying mass.s. fet it is written that He whom with ip service they call Master came "to eek and to save the lost."?American Spectator. ? 1 ? Mowing; Beftide All Water*. A Christian young man from a town n western New York, was passing a light in New York city. On going to lis room at a hotel he found upon the able the Bible with this inscription ipon the fly leaf : "Placed here by the American Bide Society." Underneath were writen with a lead-pencil these words : 'Although a stranger to this Book, I ;m not an unbeliever. This night, or the first time in eight years, I >icked it up and read tiiat which I lid uot expect toflud, Psalm xl." Thre6 initials were signed to this, .nd below another hand had written, 'Your words have added another eader." The practical man of the world may mile at the financiering that invests noney in Bibles to be placed in every oom in a large city hotel; but cannot hose who are seeking to lay up reasures where moth and rust do not orrupt, find some encouragement in his little incident? We may never know the sequel of he story on the fly-leaf of that Bible. Sven the fact that it has found these eaders may never reach those who >laoed it theie. But perhaps that eadiug of the fortieth Psalm may lave touched a heart hardeued by ight years of neglect, and led him *to nake his own the prayer, "O Lord, nake haste to help meand perhaps re this he can testify with the Psalmjt, "He bath put a new song in my nouth, even praise unto our God."? American Messenger. One at a Time.?A small boy of our was riding on a rocking horse vith a companion. He was seated ather uncomfortably on the horse's leek. After a reflective pause, he mid : "I think if one of us gets off" I x)iuu riae mucn neiier. Speak Not Harshlj. Hpeak not harshly?much of care yjg Every human heart raast bear; Knough of shadows darkly lie Veiled within the sunniest eye. jS By the childhood's gushing tears, /f-SS By thy griefs of after yearn, J '3 By the anguish thou dost know, ^ . ->,31 Add not to auother's woe. 3 Speak not harshly, much of sin Dwelleth every heart within; In 1U closely covered cells w Many a wayward passion dwells. By the many hours misspent. Hv thA <rl ft a fn arrant 1 p n f. liJ By the wrong thou didst not shun, ' :'l By the good tbou bast not done, With a lenient spirit scan, The weafenesn of thy fellow-man. Where are you going, my pretty mitid * -*jS Going to Sanday-schocJ, she said. Have you been of late, my pretty maid? ' 3 Not for about a year, she said. Then why do you go, my pietty maid? ;$8 Christmas Is coming, sir, she said. There was an old raanjn a tree ?V UU WU UWnui] uuicu u; < WW. Wben asked "Does It buzz?" He replied, "Yes it does, ; It's a regular brute of a bee." In Christ. j \ /%J| Every Christian Is in Christ All Christians are in Christ. It is not - ' JS blasphemy, it id not irreverence, it is jg not thoughtlessness, to say this. We S have authority for it. We cannot ei? W plain it, but we can assert it. Paul says : "There is therefore, now nooon- jfl demnation to them who are in Jeans; ? Christ. And again: ''That I may. ? win Christ, and be found in him."' -'M And again: "Who also were in ? Christ before me." And Jesus says: "lam in my Father, and ye in me." 11 a 4*% ma )) *(l A a If nonnnf AUIUO ill UJCl *TXB AW VMUUV. fruit of itoelf except it abide in the *9 vine, no mere can ye except ye abide :-.'M in me." It is a great mystery, but it Is ,M als<*te great revelation. Christ is in JL the (Christian, and the Christian is In ? Christ. The Are of the forge is in the ?[ bar of steel, and the bar of steel is in ^ the fire of the forge. The car can (ire into it only by getting into the fire.- ^ The Christian can get -$9 Christ in him only by getting in \^j? Christ. It is very wonderful, but $? very glorious.?Illustrated Christian Weekly. Exact measurements are out offfiM place in hearty and affectionate speech. even though sincerity and truthfulness in such speech must never be counted unimportant. It is not right to say that we are glad to see another. ^ or that we love him dearly, when '.-.j that is not the truth; but when we do >sj love auother, or are glad, to see him, it ia right for us to say so without stint- "-'Ja ing or measuring our words. EXtmSM travagance in such a case is a great as deal better than exactness; indeed, J extravagance is exactly what is want> ; ed. The Bible measure for kindly '|g words and wajs is more than a meaaure; it is a measure "pressed down, and shaken together, and running over." That is a better standard of measurement than one that is closely up to the limits, in any affectionate ft outgivingof the spirit and feeling. A child realizes ims iruin instiuuuveijr, .,fi^ and he is a pattern to us all so far. A~ ~ story Is just now going the rounds of vjl a lour-year-old child who, when asked -vM how much she loved her father, an-Vjfl swered promptly : "As many pounds'/sB as twenty times all the counting there is, and twenty millions mote than ^9 that." And.tbat was the way to ana- /^| wer such a question. It was a great deal better and a great deal truer than ,11 if it had been expressed in cold-blooded exactness. Let no one be afraid ofyfl giving overmeasure in measureless"M Opinions and Convictions. ? Aii'-m exchange makes the following nice-Ja distinction between opinions and oonviction?. Something which is worthy J of attention in this day while opinions ^ are so common and convictions so'.'*m rare. ooiro i ho or roof, rl { ffaffliinfl ,'fia OU1I1C VfUC o?jo vuv gkvww V*...V.VMVV - -?* between our generation and the Pil- Vi| grim Fathers ia, "They had convio- .:y3 tions, but we have ouly opinions." 3s We are not sure but this describes the difference exactly. There is quite , J difference between opinions and oon<? victions. 'Conviction' is derived from .31 two Latin words which mean 'to fjlpj thoroughly conquer.' A man of con- . 35 victions is one who has been thorough* ? ly conquered aud possessed by some '-~j great moral idea. These men of oon-"||9 victions, usually alone at first, hated, viilified and slandered, then joined by>cl9 others, have wrought all the reforms of the centuries. We have enough who are sitting on the fence, plenty . %9 destitute of spinal column. A crowd fM of opinionists are watching the leaders of their party, who are their weath ^ cr wanes, looking to see which wajp^Sj the wind is going to blow. To whlcn ~"! party each of us belong ? But oh/now '-i much the world of to-day needs men of convictions! In this age of the decay of conscience, when the tendency J* to compromise with evil ia every?|i where, when the sharp lines between truth and error are being effected, r^jS when the world has invaded the^ church, When ministers are heard to i confess that they do not like to preach the unpaiable truths of the Bible, how J much depends on the resolute few -YS who are determined to be true! But s# thank God, He has always had a ^ remnant!" Immediately after His baptism, M our Blessed Lord was led by the Spirit, Y; into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil. This was the first event af- ' ter his glorious "sealing" by God the 'M Father. After blessing came testing. .'I But what followed? Testimony for God in the power of the Spirit. "Jesus Jj returned in the power of the SpIrit'V^j The lesting-time is always meant to be' _ jj a steppiug-stone to higher blessing. It is not enough to have received the Holy Spirit; we must also know the m power of the Spirit. It is through the pathway of temptation we are led to the knowledge of His mighty power And so we are fitted for a life ofservie. in fellowship with Christ. Christians! put that down as the Divine order for vour growth in grace?Blessing, Test- . 7?j ing, Power, Service. It is by doing our duty that we learn to do it. So long as men dispute 3 whether or no a thing is their duty they never get the nearer. Let them - ^ set ever so weakly about doing it, and the face of doing things alters. They find in themselves strength which 1 thev knew not of. Difficulties which - It seemed to them they could not get over disappear. For God accompanies it with the influence of His ble9ned .3 Spirit, and each performance open* our minds for larger influxes of His <i grace and places them in communion with Him, '