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I U r jMMBa '1 aEBBBB A. ' i' m BBBBHtSa BSgjf ? B1M B gjjjjPj I MIMjjge t IT t =l I j .i?i ; , i .. iBBga?as .B it j c=s=s i. BMgjMj _ The Abbeville Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1894. ESTABLISHED 1844 DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thomson, OFFICE [Ji'-STAIRS ON McILWAIN Corner, Abbeville. S. 0. _ ?AmTA? IUUNTALi JMUULUXi. ]AM NOW READY TO DO ALL KINDS of Dental Work. Crown, Bridge uud CelloM a specialty. S. F. KILLINGS WORTH, j office up-stnir next Now Hotel. March 21,181M. Abbeville, S. C. K ICHARD GANTT, Is now prepared to do . all work In his department in the heel manner and at reasonable charges. Monthly customers shaving, hair culling and sbairfi -oinrSJ per month. Racors honed and put n t he best condition for 25 cents each. i Lumber !| 1AM PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS for all binds of Lumber. _ ^ ^ | ' Saw raiiJ located on iana 01 j. ivu;vn, J. F. BRADLEY, Manager. March 2,1802, tr Medium copy. A Complete and Full STOCK OF THE CELEBRATED Metropolitan braod of Mixed Paints ? OF ? - JOHN LUCAS & CO. | . . j always on hand at the City Drug Store.! 1)fUCE8 IN ONE GALLON CANS by the single can $1.25. A liberal discount to pxlntera usinn large quan11ties. Oct. 25. 1808. tf Registration XOTIOE. 1"'HE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION will be opened In my office on Law Range, as the law directs on the First Monday in Each MoDth, until first Monday in July, 1S94, when the law requires tbem closed until alter the next general election. This Is for the purpose of registering all persons who have become of age. or entitled to register since last election; >o ^ transfer persons from this to another county: and from one township to another, or from one residence to another. All this munt.be done before or on the first Monday in July, 1X91. Lost certificates may be renewed to within 30 days of the electlou, and tho?e who he- ome of age between 1st July and the election, may register at any t ime before electiou. Those who Refused or Neglected to Register before the last election, cannot register until the law Is changed. J. D. CAR VILE, Supervisor of Registration for Abbeville < County. [Dec. 6,1S93, tf Groceries! Groceries! Groceries! NEW FIRM. LIVINGSTON & PERRIN, DEALERS IX Stank Grai mi Fancv Groceries YOU will find evpryihlnK that Is :>ept in ? flret aIrh* islmieiii. Particular attention given lo the Market Department. Having secured the services of n first class botcher we Intend to mnke this department first class Id every respect. Fresh Meats Always on Hand Also, Tinm > mftTifi nvrmvrri rt a tjti * nn ruiAiuxio, uniuno, uiiuDiiujD and all Country Produce. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE paid for'CATTLE and HOGS. Give us a Cull nt , Q. H. MOOEE'S OLD STAND. NO. 2 OOTHRAN RANOE. Jan. 10,18!H, 12ra MUTUAL VTfTRITE TO OR CALL on the undersigned ? ? or to the Director of your Township for any Information you may desire about our plan of Insurance. We Insure your property against destruc"flSS, WHDSMX OR U6BTM&, and do so cheaper than any Insurance Cornpuny in exlsteuce. Remember we are prepared to prove to you tbatonrBis the safest and cheapest plan of Insurance known. DAVID AIKEN, Agent, Coronaca, S. C. J. FULLER LYON, Pres. Abbeville, S. C. BO ARD_DIRECTORS. S. M. Anderson Ninety-Six Township. .1. M. Major Greenwood " I*. W. Sullivan Cokesbury " W. B. Acker Donnalds *4 B. M. Cllnkscales Due West " T. L. Haddoo Long Cane " J. W. Scott JSraithville " K. W. Wutson White Hall ' l)r. J. D. Neel Indian Hill " <;apt.John Lyou Cedar Spring " *It. Itlohift Abbeville J. E. Wukefleld Diamond Hill f B. Franks Lowndesville " George M. Smith Magnolia " March 21.1804.?12roo. Another lot of those noveltlf dress patterns Just In at Hnddon's. { r%/%/%/%/%/%, %/%> j B. K.. Beacliam, + DEALER IN j Lumber, Sasli, Doors, Blinds, 4 J Moulding*, Laths, L ine, Shin- ? ^ gles, Builders' Hardware. J ^ I ?!mo carry a side line of ? POULTRY WIRE, WIRE CHAIRS, ^ | WI RE HANGING BASKETS, PLASTERS ? SAND SCREENS, AND SAND RID- W ? DLES, AND ALL KINDS OF f 5 WIRE GOODS. * %+%%%%%%%?, * WM. II. PAKKER, President. A. W. SMITH, Vice President.! JULIUS H. DnPRE, Cashier. The Fanners' Sank of Abbeville, j DEPOSITS SOLICITED. ( ***-a - $>65,790 ' ' 5,000 ; I DOES GENERAL. BANKING BUSINESS. Euys and sells Exchange and makes Collec tiotia. A Savings Department bus been established. Amounts received of 81 and up wards. Interestat4 per cent, payable quarterly,? January, April, July, October. Small say Inge Increase rapidly. .. [March 1, 1893,12ra Proprietor. | NEW FIRM. | Manager. L' Abbeville Supply Co. Successors to J. H. LATIMKR. ^i?ocx:?jcx:? z A mil line of all Hf avy Groceries. Corn. Bran, Hay, Meal, Bacon. Salt. Cotton Seed Meal, Molasses, Syrups A bargain in 25cts Molasses, also In a frlois Syrup. A line ol'Augurs, Coffees, Rice and Grits of all grades. Cheese of the finest. Try one pound "t ourOOcis blended Tea. IN CANNED GOODS?We are foil In all the staple goods. Canned Peaches, two pound can lllcts We kpI; the Richmond Stove Co.'s Stoves and Ranges. Every one warranted. TINW ARIi.?Everything in a line of Staple Tinware. Nails aud Builders' Hardware of evfrykltid. Cheaper than ever before. * TOBACCO?Two uew brands in 9 inch 5's at 25c.ts per pound. Give us a chance to show and price our goods. W T"k Maii?o'Av V MS M~d ) V> J ( 1 " As Easy as an Old Shoe." \ This old saying originated with some one ! who had never worn a pair of the famous ! Williams, Kneeland & Co's. Mens Fine Shoes, OR Padan Bros. <fc Co's. Ladies Fine Shoes. ; These Shoes have the comfort of an old shoe, and all the grace and style of a new one. If you want an easy, comfortable and perfect fitting Shoe, try a pair of the above manufacture. You will find them i at < WU99 U lUAIi l liV St, Dealers in Shoes, Gents Furniylrings, HATS, TRUNKS, VALISES AND UMBRELLAS. GARDEN SEED, ? In Bulk and Full Size Papers. H. W. Lawson & Co. I (New Spring Goods!*! OUR STOCK IS NOW COMPLETE AND CAN SHOW YOU ANY- I THING YOU WANT IN THE 1 I Dry Goods Line. I i i We wish to call your attention specially to our stock of WASH GOODS. We have some genuine Bargains in Wool Dress Goods. Be sure to see our stock before you buy, It will save you money. Oxford Ties ! Slippers ! We have an elegant line of Oxford Ties, in all shapes. Come 1 around and we will show you the prettiest line you ever saw in ; this Market. Every pair guaranteed, and can always give you , a perfect fit. We have them in Tan at all prices. CAR LOAD, 1st PATENT FLOUR at $3.75 per Barrel, CASH. A BARGAIN for You. AUG. W. SMITH. A Prayer. Father, from out the tumult and the strife That never know surcease, Wft cry to thee: Lord of our troubled life, Grant us thy peace! Onr air Is filled with din of angry cries, The battle sounds increase, From Ihe calm azure of thine upper skies Grant us thy peace ! Harsh discords all thy trner music drown, Love's tender breathings cease; Upon the clamor and the grief look down ! Grant us thy peace ! Fierce passions our compliant natures sway, Courage and faith decrease, ITorrnccoH mil K fao v? n rwl ilnnkf tn Tlioo irn pray; Grant ur thy peace! We crave that inner quiet so desired When outer storms increase; To rest on Thee, for we are very tired : Grant us thy peace ! From duty's path?however steep?we ask For no ill-timed release; Only?for strength to finish well our taskGrant us thy grace! ?Kdward A. Church, In Boston Courier " HE IS RISEN. " Discourse in TrinlCy Clinrch Knwlor Sunday by Rev. E. Mtt'radey. Text: '-But now is Christ risen from the lead and become the first fruits of them that dept."?1 Cor. xv. 20. There are many ways, my dear brethren, in tvhich we might consider the marvellous jvent of history which our Church throughjutthe world commemorates today. As regards its Importance we may aflirm thai it is jneof the three moat wonderful manifestations of the Divine favor to man. Christmas, 3ood Friday, and Easier; the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection, mark .he three a 1 l-l m port ant facia of Christianity. Not, that we can afford to regard the many >ther incidents and occurances of Our Lord's life as unessenlali or unimportant by the ilde of these. The whole series ol 'events are init: together in a wonderful order, and to ,ake away aught from among them would be :o detract irom me unity ana narmony 01 uie whole. Nevertheless, as we look down the whole scheme of human salvation, these .hree events seem to staud out conspicuously Trom among the rest, not as in any sense sepirate or disconnected, Out rather as summing jp wkthlu themselves the entire meaning of lie many aud varied phases of Oifr Lord's L?lfe. And It Is because of this "many-sidediess," If we may so express it, that we And It so difficult, to treat any one of the three with any degree of thoroughness. The Ideaol the Resurrection is interwoven io minutely with the whole design of man's redemption that it is impossible to speak of it In its entlreness with any degree ol satisfaction without following it throughout this vast lomaln of thought. We cannot, therefore, seek to consider It In these manifold aspects which It presents, hut we may endeavor this morning to hint at its general bearing and significance to us as Individuals. The Resurrection of our I>ord is not an Isolated fact pertaining merely to his own person and lite, but. In some real and actual way It involves each uud all of us in our several Jestlnies. In some real and pentinent way, Ills life Is to be my life, his Resurrection mine. As I have Intimated before, the Incarnation Is not merely a fact or history, it is a living reality of the presnt. Our Lord is dally Hnd hourly becoming Incarnate to the lives of each and all ol us who habitually feed upon Him in our hearts by faith with thanksgiving. If, His life, therefore, ts to beoome real In our lives, so also must His resurrection since this is but the natural result ur product of His life. He who lives in the life of Christ must Inevitably rise in His resurrection, for the one produces the other. lu Tact the process of the resurrection is contained in the process of the life, and it Is to thl6 great fact I would especially direct your thoughts this morning. I say the life of Christ is a resurrection In itself. Once only let ub endeavor to grasp the true meaning of what It is to live in Christ! Of what we really are to understand by faith and prayer, and this daily, hourly feeding with our hearts upon our Saviou'r lite and and character ! Ob! my brethren, It means something lur deeper than a mere feeling of ecstacy and delight, something far more significant to our souls than the mere temporal |oy we feel in the exercise of our spiritual devotions. Why should this happiness be experienced at all. What causes this Joy unspeakable to spring within the breast, ever pointing to visions still more glorious beyond? Do you think that It sliculttes nothing? Does It speak to you of nothing greater, or nothing itill more beautiful and sublime tbau the mere napplness you may experience in this present life? Oh, my breihren, it means chore than this, when the ruddy glow comes upon the face ol youth, when the muscles harlen and expand, craving a constant exercise, tve know lrom the sense of comfort and well being that physical health and llle are strong within. So too when we meditate alone upon the scences of beauty which Uod has spread jefore our spiritual gaze?reastlng our hearts ipon the loveliness we view on every hand? what means tbese suauen teeungs or unearthly Joys, these hopes for something still beyond the present sphere of worldly happiness and knowledge, this constant craving of jur souls for something still beyond, beyond which God and the Infinite al >ne can;saMsfy ? What means It all, I ask, but that the life of 3od 1b already strong within tbe soul, that faith and prayer on our part have opened up the flood gales to the Eternal Spirit, which now demands our Infinite endeavor. It is tbe Spirit of God, my dear brethren, which is strong within us, pleading with our hearts, purifying our lives, transforming our jbaracter, ever urging us onward to the vast forever. Which, if our faith could only last, would never leave us from this moment onward, but would dwell within us, strenghthjnlngour souls, lilting our lives above this world ever moreanu more. It is tbe spirit )f the resurrection. The same spirit, which pulsed your Ix>rd from death, and now promises you the gift of eternal life. Oh. my >rethren,think what li all means to you. NVlth mch an opportunity now within your grasp, with tbe spirit oT life and Immorality now jpen to tbe arms of faith, think what eternal jonseaueuces hang upon the use you make of .his Gbd-glven faculty. Think what tt means* \o pray. Think what it means to meditate with laith upon the Heavenly vision. My jrethreu, it mean the actual reception of me Holy Spirit Into your hearts and life. It. aeanp God's life. The life of Immorality in foil. Think of it! What will you do about t? Will you starve your son I? Will you mowtngly neglect the exercise of faith, and prayer and meditation ? thus resolutely shutLing ofl'your heart from every spiritual iutluen?;e your soul from the spiritual sustenance It craves, or will you live in such exercUes, will you dally and hourly, through all the pears of your earthly pilgrimage, feed upon pour Lorn by faith with thanksgiving and Lhus grow ever more and more in etrrnal lealth and happiness? It rests with you to lecide your course, my brethren, and your dejlslon has to do with lu/inlte and eternal consequences. My brethren, I believe that the more we Snow of ChrlM In our daily lives, the more we leel the power of the Holy spirit in our hearts, the more natural will all these ihiniss become to us. We shall see. that after all, these things are not "reverses of nature," hut the carrying out of it. So will it be with every problem of religion, s-o will It be with the problem of tho rtsuriection as applied to ourselves. I repeat It, man today can test the powerof the Incarnation lo his own Individual experience, and if the power of the Incarnation, them the power ol Ihe resurrection. There is such a thing as a Spiritual Power here in this world, and it is the powtr of God unto salvation. All men may know it,all men may test lis ability to deliver from sin, satan and death; all men may satisfy themselves whether it be of God, or whether it be ol men You nfl know well what the power ot ideals has been in lifting man above the world. IJut, my brethren, to lift means to change, to lift him nb.ive the world means to make him unlike the world. To lift a man above this world, to inspire tilm with the vUlon of a lofty hope, an Infinite ideal, so that he will willingly, gladly throw away bis idols, drown every evil inclination of lus nature, give up each and everything for God. 1 say to do all this, to lift, man thus above the world means to change him, aud change him completely lo another aud a dldurent being, to make him a new and a perfect man iu Christ. This is the change of Ihe resurrection. it begins here, but it ends there. U begins in mind, built dues not end there; It takes body with it. It is not merely a spiritual elevation, but it is a spiritual, mental and physical change in the man. It begins within; ay. deep down in the In nerinost recesses of Hie heart; it begins there, but it. grows steadily outward and upward and on ward till the body, the mind and the rwan entire?all have changed?he has become u new and a higher creature. My brethren, beve we wot all ot us, from time to time, watched the beginning of this change this mighty transformation in the lives, of those about us? How gratifying is it to our hearts! It may be, perhaps, the fruit of some good fortune one has met with, but more often is it the trying lesson brought iibout by sad and bard experience with the world. A sudden grief, some great misfortune has come upon our friend. At once we note I a change. At first, however, it is only the saduess of a burdened heart, a heart that has felt, perhaps, for the first time, the loneliness of a sorrow too deep to be uttered by human lips, too deep even to be assuaged by human j sympathy. For awhile it is the darkness of utter hopelessness, the agony of an absolute despair. But, all at once, at the very mo-1 ment when all seems lost?the very moment1 I when the night is blackest and too?i hopeless, a light appears and at once another change. It is not that he has returned to his former self again, for he is still a different man trom the man we once knew. He is not the same gay, dariDg, self-lrustlng man, however, nor again is he the man oe'rwraught, overburdened with the weight of an all too heavy grief. No, the mark of his trial may be still upon his brow, bis look, his word, his manner may still portray the memory of a fearful struggle?there may be yet some burden on his heart, but the crisis has passed now. The heavenly vision has come at last, a new meaning of" trial, sorrow and dlsappolntment has come upon him, a new life opened up before him And as month by month and year by year, time rolls onward on his way, the change grows more and more complete. The world, perhaps, the cold, half-seeing world, may see but little transformation, but bis friends note every chanue. They feel when talking with him that they are in the presence of a holier man. The thoughts of the world are laid aside?frivolity, Jest and gossip all bushed, and men instinctively revere the sanctity of his presence. How wonderful Is the power of holiness! How awe-Inspiring when suddenly and unexpectedly we experience Its mighty power. How all transforming In its influence. Yes, we note its influence first of all upon the mind and hearts. It purifies the aflectlons, raises the thoughts, transforms and elevates the character. It makes another man. It lilts the soul from spiritual evil and spiritual corruption. It makes a man pure within? healtby In thought, strong In actlou, confident in purpose. It purifies and cleanses from the power of evil. For if it be sin that is the foul disease of mind?if to live in sin means to die mentally, not only in a life to come but in this life?if it corrupts man's moral nature first of all, but does not stop here?if moral evil generates mental evil, mental evil generates physical evil, and all evil death, ay* death to the moral, death to tbe mental, death to tbe physical man?If sin be responsible for all this. I Kay, none the less Is it true that righteousness and true holiness will deliver froin these fearful consequences, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." : If you sow the seeds of disease within you, you must not be surprised to reap Lhe conseouences?death?but it you sow the seeds of j health within you, you can likewise expert i its natural resul I?Eternal Lile. So ax we I naw that sin would cover all man's being, > body, mind and soul?so also will liollnes>.; Holiness will not stop with mind and heart. It wllll lake the body also. And this is the resurrection?tbechanee of character, change | of mind, change of body, all brought about by i tbe infinite power of Holiness. We have witnessed the beginning of such a res-I urrectlou In our friend. We have seen hls| mind develop and expand in the strength i and beauty of a holy Hie. Day by day, and ! year by year we have watched the growth of | tbe God like soul within htm. More and ! more as time flies onward we feel the ever deepening sanctity, the ever broadening gloglory of His life, till Anally, that which Is so strong within muut magnifest Itself without. The very countenance at last seems changed; the uplifted eye, the smooth, calm brow seem glowing with unearthly radiance. Ah ! there Is nothing truer. Tbe natural man may indeed wax old?long years of sickness and of trial may have done their work, but through all the changes of the outer man, through sunken cheek and faded eye, through wrinkled brow and withered form stands forth, though only half re vealed, the glory of another .manhood, my majesty of the perfect man in Christ, Why, brothers, the spiritual body, the resurrection body is forming eden now within us, the more we live in Christ. This body that we wear, this outward frame, this weight and size," this flesh and blood Is but a chrysalis; au outward shell, which; if the life of Christ be strong within will soon decay and perish, only to reveal the greater beauty hid away. Even now, despite the intervening veil, tbe ova onitcrhtpnpri with celestial grace rosy view the imperishable srlory of the Inner man. How true it is! Oh, if our spiritual eyes were only open, oh, if the veil of sin and death were only torn asunder, how different all would be ! My brothers, the veil Is evil before oureyeR: it will be to the end of life, it will never in tills life be wholly cast aside. But even now, we may see more. Even now we may see more or lens dimly "the light that never was on laDd or on sea'' enveloping all the world. One instant's meditation in the Holy Spirit and all the world is changed?one instant only, and as the eyes of the disciple were! opened to behold the glory of their Redeem-1 er, thatever memorableday upon the mount so in one moment may our eyes behold the partial transfiguration of our own sinlul but rising selves. It Is not the work of a moment, it Is a long, long process. Dally we must die to sin, daily we must rise to Christ. The light that has once burst upon our hearts, must never go out, but must go on broadening, broadening ever more and more, even unto the Perfect day. Out of the natural grows the spiritual.?"Time Is eternity begun." The world Is but the stepDing stone to heaven. The life to be, is but the loKlcal fulfilment of the life that Is. Let the et II die, let the good survive and l]ve. ? ? How to Study the Bible. Recently Bishop Vit.cenf, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was iu Kansas City and visited the Training School of our G'burch, and at the re quest of the Principal delivered a lecture oil the above topic. One of the students made notes, and gave the following report to the Evangel: "1. Take what recommends itself to jou in the Bible and profit by it with heart. It may be a passage here or there which contains comfort or a command or help of some kind. Aocept it as God's Book. The twelfth of Romans shows me the life of a perfect man ; the Sermon on Ihe Mount teaches me my duty ; the twenty-third Psalm gives me comfort. "Study the Bible critically. It is the divine Word given through human agency,so you need not be surprised to tind human expressions iu it. What God wrought man wrote. God revealed himself to man in history. The Bible is history in which men act and speak. "3. Study the Bible analytically. On every page we find biography, topography and chronology. I study the Bible that 1 may find how to live? know my duty. "The 'two P's and four D's' is a key j that will fit any page, passage, or: chapter in the Bible : "Persons, "Places, "Dates, "Doings, "Duties, "Doctrines, "Study on your own account. Get all you can out the subject beforeyou go to any commentary. Think for yourself if you would be benefitted. "The Bible makes us powerful. We want to know it. Christ himself overcame by quoting the Bible. Take what helps you for your own heart. Let ! them not be tables of stone but fleshly tables for God's law. We can only i teach others what we know ourselves. 1 Jjive what you teach. The Word was j first action in Christ and it becomes j action again through (he living, loving j Christian." If God ever did anything good forj our graudparents, we ought to be sure of bis readiness to do good things for us ; for CJod is always the same. I For tne loung convert. 1. Remember always that you are not your own, but God's. God's because He created you, because He has redeemed you by the precious blood of His dear Hon, because He has made you His child by His Holy Spirit. 2. Pray to God every night and morning, at least; kneel down and ask for what you want for your body and soul. And pray for others as well as for yourself. 3. Read every day a verse or two of the Bible; think over what you read, ana iry 10 act up to it. 4. Evefry night think of what you have oblto wrong during the day, and pray to God to forgive you, for Jesus' < sake, antlito keep you from sinning again in.tijje same way. 5. Keep the Lord's day holy. Never misajgoing to church at least once everv Sfinday. Go to the holy commumbn whenever you can. Prepare your heart for it beforehand, and make thanksgiving to God for it afterward. [WUenyoucan, go to church when thfelje kre weekday services. Q. /Attend services at your own chur6h when you can. Do not be led * b^Tale curiosity to go to different v churches. We should go to church to * worship God, not please our selves nor ? to be amused. t 7. Avoid bad company, and never go to auy place where you may be J ie<npted "to do wrong. 8.-Jfyou have done wrong, confess c it, and get right as soon as you can. c Pray to God for help, and if you want 1 advice, do not be afraid to go and ask t your own pastor. t 9. Never be out of heart when you have done wrong. The Lord will for- J give you, if you are really sorry. Never be over-conflndent when you J ? - - ? .1 ama V/\i? fn ! I n e\ v t I ( nave uuiic ut:ui. xvu imi ucai time. ^ ](). Thiuksomething of the four last things?death, judgment, heaven and 9 hell. That will help you to be earnest. c Think often of God's goodness. That e will make you love him. And if you f love Him, you will take delight in His ' commandments. 11. Be patient. Be watchful. Perse- c vere. j3 t Being Pleasant.?It will surprise many persons to learn that being t pleasant is merely a matter of habit. I Tt must be cultivated like every good i habit. It has its root intan unselfish g desire for the happiness of others, not excluding one's own family. It will r require a great effort at first to check v the hasty words, to forego the profit- v less argument, to withhold the imper- g tinent criticism, to speak the truth in t love, but it is an effort that is w?-ll re- j paid by the results. Rudeness is never justifiable. It is sometimes neces- f sarv to reprove, to warn, to remon- fc strate, even to speak gravely and plain- t ly of faults that should be corrected, t All this can be done without encroach- c ing in any way upon the courtesy that is due from one human being to an- c other. Well bred persons are never rude ; the chivalrous man, the refined v woman hesitate to hurt the feelings of p any one with whom they are thrown r in contact. They treat them with the t respect which they exact for them- v selves. There is no surer sign of a flippant, ill-regulated narrow mind than adteregard fortherights ofothers. "Be courteous," is a divine command as binding as "Be pitiful." ( Private Marks on Our Silver Coin.? ' The "mint mark" on our silver coin- c age is so well known that almost any * school girl cau tell you where the [ piece was coined. The "s" means that 1 it is from the San Francisco mint; J; "c. c." that it was made at Carson 1 City, and "o" that it is the work of the New Orleans money-makers. Be- 11 sides the above you will find some c very small letters occasionally, esp? Ciaiiyon me me siauuuru ummr, iue r Columbian coins, and the 1893 design j( in the quarters and half-dollar pieces. 1 On the standard dollartbe letter is a ^ microscopic "m" on the left loop of 1 the ribbon which binds the wreath v surrounding the eagle. Another "m" 11 of larger dimensions may also be found on the pame coin at tbe lower J1 edge of tbe neck ol "Liberty," just in 1 the edgeof the hair. These minatufe 11 letters are private marks of Mason. 8 tbe man who made the dies. i A San Francisco physician makes ? the following statement: "A man J that smokes 100 cigarettes a day, in- 5 baling them, takes 120grains of opium; S I.q oiviAkoo ttftu oiornroftpa a <lav r takes sixty grains of opium. There is 5 no question about it. Analysis has 9 proved it. In addition to the poison 11 of the nicotiue, he takes in each cigar- ~ ette the deadly narcotic, opium. No [' cigarette that I have ever heard of is free from opium. That is where the . soothing etfect from the inhalation comes in. Beyond question, the boy 0 that smokes oigarettes stunts his n ? * HtnArtUo Kio nn???rnc tiroo Irnno ^ grUWIU) niCUttB Ui0 uci ?to, ncaavuo r bis heart aud kidneys long before he ? reaches manhood." A well mannered man is as respectful and considerate to his inferiors as to his equals aud superiors. This was b the opinion of Chesterfield, who ob- a serves: "I am more on my guard as v to my behavior to my servants and to n others who are called my inferiors a than I am toward my equals, for fear n of being suspected of that mean and ? ungenerous sentiment of desiring to n make others feel that difFerence which p fortune has, perhaps too undeservedly, I made between us." b Henry Clay, returning a colored ser- I vant's salutation by the lifting of his n bat, was asked why he did so. He c< replied that he did not wish the colored t< man to have better manners than he f< had. a m g m ?i An English journal tells a good story P at the expense of the Earl of Derby. ^ While walking on land belonging to 0 the Earl, a collier chanced to meet the e owner. His lordship inquired if the w collier knew he was walking on his d land. "Thy land? Well, I've got no * ' laud myself," ' was the reply, and I'm h like to walk on somebody's. Wheer did tha' get it fro' ?" "Oh," explain- G ed his lordship I got it from my ances- S( tors." "An wheer did tha' get it fro"? e (juered the collier. "They got it from a their ancestors," was the reply. "And where did tha' get it fro'?," "They fought for it." "Well bedad," said s, he collier, squaring up to the noble o ear], "I'll fight thee for it !" v A Pftalm of Death. "The flowers spring and grow and bloom, Then droop and fade away, The merry bees and butterflies Can live but one short day, And so with us?we live our time, Then perish and decay. But e'en when the sweet flower is dead Tbe fragrance dotb remain, And insects perished long ago Some beauty may retain, So that, although now past and gone, Their lives were not in vain. Can we not live so that when we Are numbered with tbe dead, Some act or word will still be left That we have done or said, And although past, our lives may still Some ray of beauty shed ? ' iV hy should tbe flower retain its scent And all our lives be lost ? Oh! let us strive while still'we live, Unharmed by Death's chill frost. To make our lives some grace still hold When wo tbe stream have crossed." ?Edith M. Palmer, Corunna, Mich. Sotting- Dragon's Teeth. "John, where are ypurtowela !" said tfrs. French to her son, when she vent to visit him at college. "You iad a dozen nice new ones at the beginning of the year, and here are only hree." "I don't know where they are," paid rohn.,' "And where are your handkerhiefs?" continued Mrs. French. "I narked them very carefully with your lame; there were a dozen new ones, >esldes as many old ones, in your runk when you left home." "I don't know where they are," said lobn'. ^ "This umbrella certainly is not rours. The one you took from home yas a gicat UCill uener man IQ1S. ?Vnere is your umbrella?" Mrs. French was puzzled. But later he was told, but not by John, that ollege boys help themselves to whativer they fancy belonging to their nates, and call it "pinching" or"swipDg," and think or try to think it no larm. John's towels and handkerhiefs bad thus disappeared one by me; and as John was too honest a felow to steal, his stock of these articles tad run very low. "I congratulated Miss Jenks on ler engagement," said young Mr. Jrown to a lady friend, "and she said t wasn't true : that she was not enga;ed." "You oughtn't to have done that," eplied the friend ; "the young man to yhom she is engaged is in Paris this rinter, and Miss. Jenks says if her en;agementwere known, she wouldn't lave any attention at all from her 'oung gentlemen friends." What kind of a harvest will come rom such sowing an this? Can a lie ?e anything but a lie? Can stealing >e anything else than stealing, no mater what names it may masquerade unler. These incidents are taken right out if last week's happenings. Brand th? ant.inn with itaronl nama* vrite the commandments on the doorposts; bold up the standards of eterlal right, and your child, mother, will >e spared what ignominy, and you, ? yhat unavaling sorrow !?Selected. Prevailnir Prayer. , It is an unspeakable privilege of the Christian life that we may appeal to Jod directly. Like the Shunammite voman, we may disregard common neans and ordinary channels, we m*y purn all human ways, and appeal to be Master himself. "As the Lprd iveth, and as thy soul liveth," I will lot leave thee," said the Shunammite o Elisha. How the world would be shaken and oved; how speedily it would be leaned of the fllthiness of sin ; how luickly the dark places would be illuainated ; bow even tbe sick would reDice how tbe wayward would hasten o their homes; how selfishness would anisb ; how near Jesus would come to hose who profess his name, if they vere to come before God. refusing to eave him withour the blessine they eek! If such as Luther needed a deermined laying bold upon God, cerainly we, whose lives have so much. Qore of tbe sordid elements in them, hould realize our weakness, unless irayer, whose every syllable is uttered u faitb bind us to God. Luther cried o God and claimed the fulfillment of f his promises. One can almost, inin pagination, see him approaching, in lis fervor, even to the very throne of >od, refusing to look this way or that, lis eyes blind to all else exceptthe Tightness of his countenance, his ears eaf to every sound except to the worda ulfilling the promise claimed ; all the niverse shut out excepthim ; allaims argotten save the burden of his peti ion. Suoh prayer prevaileth. Its answer rings power to win men into the love f Him and his work. The weakest nay grow strong in the power of his aight. "For whatsoever is born of rod overcometh the world; and this is he viotory that overcometh the world, ven our faith."?Young Men's Era. It is true that a man's manners may ethe making of him, but as manners re only the expression of the man It /ouldbemore proper to 9ay the man lakes the manners. Good manners re the results of good sense, good ature and a little self denial for tbe ake of others. Swift 9ays, "Good lanners is the art of making those eople easy with whom we converse." t is the art of sayiug and doing the est tbiug in tbe kindest way. La Iruyere says, "A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his onduct." The manner of a man de?rinines his reception amoug his jllows. "Give a boy address and ccomplishments," says Emerson, and you give him the mastery of alaces and fortunes wherever he goes, le has not the trouble of earning and wning them; they solicit him to nter and posess." "You had better," 'rote Chesterfield to his son, "return a ropped fan genteelly than give a aousand^pounds awkwardly, and you ad better refuse a favor gracefully ban grant one clumsily. All your !reek can never advance you from ^cretary to envoy, or from envoy to mbassador, but your address, your ir, your manner of good, may." From youth up to old age, nothing d develops man, physically, mentally d morally, as an intimate acquaint?ith soap and water,