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LOCAL AND SPECIAL. .Short Stories of the Wook-INtliiN l'ickeri l'|i at the Conrt House hiuI on the Streets?Pencil Picture* Without Flourishes. HUXriN<; A HOME IX THK HAPl'Y LAXI?. Mayor R. M. llill has received from a lady In Chicago a letter of inquiry as to the cost of a modest horue, expenses of living, church and school advantages, etc.. In this section. She finds it advisable, on accouut of the deliicate health of members of her family, to seek habitation in a mikler clime. Mayor Hill has replied anc\ it is hoped his reply will cause this lady and her family to come hither. Abbeville possesses in an eminent degree the advantages 6he seeks. AX ABBEVILLE BOV. Mr. Lewis \V. Parker, formerly of this place, now a leading lawyer of Greenville, is prominently spoken of as a candidate for Mayor of the Mountain City. He is an ableyouug man and would make Greenville a good Mayor. He is a son of Hon. \V. H. Parker. HITTIXG IT LIVELY. Hon. W. P. Wideman, of this county, is folowlng the seductive lead of fame. He is now alluded to as the "'renowned humorist." Mr. Wideman has "Hit the Grit" in numerous places during the last few months, and seems to be pleasinc the public. Ho has not yet favored Abbeville with a date. THE CRESSWELL ESTATE. Probate Judge Hill had before him last week an importnnt case?that of the estate of the lateH.H Cresswell. R. F. Fleming brought suit for S-100, for services rendered said estate. "- fuming woo rpnresented bv Gravdon & Graydon ; the other heirs, defendants, by Mr. 1^. W. Perrln. JudgraeDt was rendered Id favor of R. F. Fleming to the extent of S300. Judge HU1 has granted Charles Drennan letters of administration on the estate of Mrs. Jane Burnett. lodge room reports. The various lraternal lodges are electing their delegates to the respective State meetings. The local lodge Knights of Pythias has elected Mr. J. M. Lawson and S. G. Thompson delegates to the Orard Lodge, which con venes at ADderson on May 15. I>r. F. E. liar*<osvrt i a oltornQto M.P. DeBrubl, Esq., will represent Abbeville lodge Knights of Honor in tbe Grand Lodge at Columbia on tbe 21st Instant. Mr. W. A. Templeton, Vice Grand Dictator. Col. J. Townes Robertson, Grand Treasurer, and Capt. L. W. Perrin, of the Committee on Laws, will also attend. A BUSTED BONANZA. If tbe Mutual Loan and Investment Company, of Atlanta, should In the course of a lew years shell out tbe returns once promised, citizens of this town would be about $106,000 better off than now seems probable. Two hundred and fourteen of those S500 shares are held in Abbeville. About $250 has been sent to Atlanta every month for the paFt two years?just for the honor of being fleeced * * * ?Ir* nora. oy ine most guigeuus uumuuj ju dlse of monumental gall. MUNICIPAL SINNERS. Mayor Hill's court bad a familiar look and some familiar attendants Monday morning? ones tbatseldom stay many moons away from blzzoner's magisterial presence. Tbe story Was like many another. Tbe subject for discussion was one tbat tbe usual Saturday nlgbt can-cuss failed to settle. Wll! Colbert, one of tbe colored aristocracy, that is to say, a railroad man, called on a dusky damsel whom be had befriended, but sbe was "coy, uncertain and hard to please." When be upbraided ber for not coming out Into tbe garden, Nancy, before tbe black nlgbt bat bad time to fly, sbe denounced bim He evidently thought sbe whs conversing through ber milinery, and be knocked tbe skyward obstruction off and made some forcible remarks In prose. Nancy left bim to count tbe stars, but be didn't count muchonly called for Nancy. Two women swore bedashed a pistol, but nobody else saw it. It was a pipe, Will said. The Mayor assessed Will S3 and gave him some good advice gratis. Koino nn fnrthpr hllRinoas. thf> mPfct log adjourned until tbe next time, subject to tbe future actions of tbe children of Belial. Tuesday, George Williams entertained tbe court. Hunday night he entertained tbe congregation at the colored Baptist church by some more or less fine scorn of an offlciou* deacon who was doing tbe usher act. The Mayor requested George to speud the next twenty days of bis valuable time in perlorating tbe city real estate. He is sustaining tbe honors of the whole city chalngang. The city court has not yet recovered Its equilibrium from laut weeks' dearth of devilment. A SERIOUS AFFAIR. An altercation which came near proving fatal occurred on the square Saturday afternoon. Mr. James Taggart received dangerous wouods at tbe uands of Enoch Wardlaw, colored. The difficulty originated at Mr. Taggart's wood shop on Washington street. Later some remark of Wardlaw's was repeated to Mr. Taggart, who, armed with a new wagon spoke,and accompanied by Mr. WlllPerrin, went In search of him. Wardlaw was found In front of Bernau's store., Mr. Taegart struck at Wardlaw with his spoke. Wardlaw flashed a knife which seemed to be in readiness. In a few seconds Mr. Taggart bad received nvegasnes. .?r. rerriu gui uum ui the spoke and knocked Wardlaw down and was clubbing bim severely wben tbe officers arrl y 0(j Cblel Riley and special officer Gslns separated tbe eombatants and took Wardlaw to tbe guard bouse. Tbere was a disposition on tbe part of some of tbe crowd to take charge of Wardlaw, but he was under lock before a sufficient number collected. About 9 o'clock at night Wardlaw was taken to tbe county Jail. Mr. Taggart received Ave Revere gashes. He has,of course, suffered Intensely, but. tbe chances are for his recovery. A COSTLY SAnni.E. Henry Moore, colored, who took a saddle from a gentleman at Lowndesville several months sgo, and sold It In the lowar part of the county, was before Magistrate Cox Saturday. He paid 813.45, being the costs in the case. This case has caused a great deal of 1 confusion. It Is a common $4 one. KOR ALDERMAN?29 VOTES. Twenty-nine people voted in the city elec tXon yesterday. Messrs. L. H. Russell, Jas. L. McMillan, WadeS. Cothran and Jones F. Miller were elected Aldermen from tbe four wards ot tbe city respectively by a unanimous majority of twdnty-nine votes. THE GREAT DIVIDE. Mr. Tbos. A. Graham, the Auditorof Greenwood County-that-is-to-be, ca/ne up Monday to .separate the tax-returns of the property in his territory from those which will in future represent the wealth of Abbeville Countv. It will reoulre several davs to do this work. Mr. J. Y. Joues will assist. Mr. Graham left yesterday to set about performing the most difficult part of the division. He will go along the line and ascertain what proportion of real estate In tracts divided by the new county line belongs to the respective counties. Such property will be listed in each county according to tbe value actually existing in such county. GONE TO PRESBYTERY. ?? ? Rev. Dr. Wilson, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Elder W. A. Templeton left yesterday for Anderson to attend; the spring meeting of the South Carolina Presbytery. MAYORS' MEETING. Mayor Hlil has received from Mayor Calvert, of Spartanburg, an lnvltatian to attend In tbat city on May 5th a convention of tbe mayors and intendants of tbe towus of tbe State. It is proposed at that meeting to discuss many matters relating to the affairs of municipalities. Mayor Hill has not yet decided as to whether or not be will attend. COUNTY OFFICERS. Supervisor Lyon has six road machines and fourteen convicts at work on the roads. He will spend most of his time directing these forces. Clerk McMillan will mind base. Master Miller has moved all his professional and official effects to the Master's office. A new desk has been ordered for him. School Superintendent Milford Is too busy selling school books to visit schools. The book business is booming. SCRAPS. Judge Ernest Gary was recently In town. He has returned to Edgefield. Miss Mattle Brown, who has been visiting Mrs. W. R. Bullock, has returned to Belton. Mrs. Jones F. Miller and Miss Munday visited in Green wood this week. No railroad news. Roseola is raging. It won't fool you. Mr. F. L. Morrow is night ticket agent at tbe Seaboard depot. Mr. John A. Devlin, of Dne West, was in town yesterday. His horse pulled out of his buggy and left bim stranded in thejroad above Long Cane Church. Supervisor Lyon's lorce nearby rescued him. SBCEDINO. Governor Ellerbe has ordered an election in Indian Hill Township, this County, and In Hlbler Township, Edgefield County, on the question of allowing said townships to join Greenwood. The date is May 12. With a single blow of bis insignificant tail an elephant can knock down the strongest man. Life of n \pphcw <?f Jolur ('. Calhoun " Who lilllpil Three Men. j} New York Sun. j A l.os Angeles, Cal., Miircli ?>.-old, ill and ; T paralyzed, but nervy enough to the last to J look down the muzzle of a loaded revolver i\ without tliuchiufj, was Douglas K. Lilly, who d P/smnna t'wfflrdflV. Hp U'Uft 1 SI years old. lie had billed Three men during his lifetime, which he finally ended by killing himself. He was born iu South Carolina and was a nephew of .Johu C Calhoun. He lived there ^ uutil he was years old, and then he fought I a duel io which he killed his adversary. The ?jj friends of the dead man made so much trou- I ble for young Lilly thnt he slid out of that 3 country and came to California. At first he 5 lived at Benicia, where he knew well the H young Capt. U. S. (jraut. Each of the men * had a good horse of which he was very proud ai and they used to meet on a certaiu piece of good road outside the town and match the mettle of their horses. Lilly joined the first rush to tbe newly found gold fields in ls4!>, and prospered 60 well at the business of gold digging that iu a year or two he had acquired a lalr-slzed fortune. But one day In the summer of 1SS6 he quarreled with a man in Marysville. Both drew their guns. Lilly had his -?.% or>H Athor mun ft* II <lnml t hrt r?iK- V tol exploding in his clinched hand as he l'ell V totheiloor, and the bullet whistling past ? Lilly's bead so near that K singed his hair. (V Lilly was arrested, and it cost him every cent * of his fortune to defend himself in the long th< trials that followed. Hut at last he came off clear, and then he went down to San Francis- ex co and lived tbere for several years. For C0] some months he roomed with John iMackay, at a time when tiiey were both so poor thai ou half the time they dirt not baveeuough to eat. . Their stock of clothes rau low, and at one oe time they bad between them only one pair ol au presentable trousers, which they took turns in wearing, oue going out and the other remaining in seclusion until the return of the . fully clad one. W1 Then Lilly came down to San Diego and for gt a time lived tbere and in lower California, miniug, making money and losing it, getting yjn into trouble and out again and living 10 the " full the life of tbe time and the place. When tbe civil war broke out be went to Texas and bought horses and mules for tbe Confederacy. He bad a number of tights with Apache Indians, in one of which be was wouuded and came near being made a captive. After the war he returned to southern California. X< In 1873, at Spadra, be bad an argument with . the Rev. Benjamin Standerfer, who was a La leading pastor in the Christian denomination ?k In southern California. The argument, which begaa in a difference of opinion about certain ho tenets of the Chrlbtlan church, grew hotter and bolter, branched out into personalities, no and at last Standerfer drew back bis fist and c_ attempted to strike Lilly. The latter bad his ur gun out in a dash, and, as tbe preacher's an knuckles touched his tace, Lilly sent two bul- . lets through Standerfer's chest killing him IS instantly. The trial which followed was one of the sensations of the Pacific coast. Lilly wt was found guilty in tbe first trial, bul was acquitted alter a second. This murder trial, like the previous one, lost him his entire for- foi tune, and he did not recoup himself further ihor> ??-> aot enmicrh fop ? comfortable living. A1 His defense, of course. Id both cases was thai M he bad acted la self-defence. But the last kill- w Ing seemed to sober down his high temper, aud he always kept the pistol with which be did it as a remtuder that he must curb bis ha spirit. It was with the same weapon thai he . put au end to his own life nearly a quarter ol IS a century later. He hinted no Intention of nn suicide, and it Is supposed by his friends that uu he had uo hope of recovery from his recent paralytic stroke and merely wished to escape the horrors of a prolonged old age as a bed- fin ridden invalid. W SECRETS OF POMPEII. Buried City Now Nearly Cleared ol llohriu of Seventeen fen I n r its. At last, after perhaps a century of more or less intermittent work, Pompeii,.the city of ancient Roman pleas- bii are, has been practically cleared of the ha volcanic debris of seventeen centuries. Now, for the first time since that fata! *. day whose awful happenings Buhver ia< depicts so graphically?and doubtless so truly?in his famous romance, the fin forum, which was the central feature of the place, aod the Strada dei Sepol- ' cri, the principal suburb, can be real lzeu id loeir mutual reiauous. un The earJy work of clearing tbe bis- pr toric city, pursued with vigor uuder Murat when he found himself tempo- I. iarily installed as kiug of Naples, was I * set back from time to time by new ? eruptions of Vesuvius. As late as 18i!3 Miss Berry records in her journal: "We set out, a large party, for Pompeii. The drive of 14 miles is very dis- 'al agreeable, notwithstanding the view of wi (he bay aud the mountains around. jn 'I'ho nimlcru anri lava nf flip prnritimis last October (1822) have scarcely yet r" oeeo swept to each side of the streets, but are left on the road. Outside Pom- thi peii it is half way up the horses' leys." g0( Is'o such impediments now await the traveler, aud a very prosaic and dis- wc tiuctly dilatory train deposits him at an t? unpretentious and not very cleanly railway station. .Except to the highly classical aud ul- Is tra enthusiastic eye Jthe first impres- pa sions of Pompii are disappointing. The first place of interest which is passed is the so called basilica, supposed to have been used as a law court, but distinct from the tribunals, which were at the bu farther side of the forum, of which the yc construction was not completed when the city was covered up. The most striking feature of this open space is f3 roino fho latnnln nf \,T?niiQ Lut * cwv. r A maiu street of Pompeii leading * from the station is tbat known as the Strada dell' Abondava, at the corner of :>c which is to be seen the cbalcidicum, or exchange, one of tbe most beautiful buildings as yet revealed, its ceutrial hall having been surrounded by columns of Pariau marble. an' In the stre-t of tombs, however, we Wi ure upon more solid ground, for not a %e few of the monuments bear the names pjj and the busts of those to whose memory they were erected. At the extreme end of the strada is the so called Villa of j Diomede, which has attractions alike for the lover of fact and fiction, for here were found the bodies of 17 wo- .? men and children who had sought re- . fuge under the portico, but were ap- iQf parently suffocated. got The amphitheater is even farther away from the center of the town than i lie sepoicri, anu 11 is ou iujs poiui mai r recent excavations have beeu chiefly directed, with very important results. It must be remembered that Bulwer th< Lytton was quite accurate in describing ihe games which were in progress at the time*of the fatal eruption of \V Vesuvius which swallowed up both se Pompeii and Herculaneum, and one of the results of the works carried out here is to show that the loss of life on [g tha* occasion was less thau formerly .. supposed. The people assembled at the amphitheater had time to make their eseape to the open country beyond. Ht Scarcely more thau 700 bodies have Co been discovered, and the perfect state <. iu which many of them were found is at least negative evidence that time would not have reduced others to im- Cu palpable dust. The activity, however, of the present Italian government will not be relaxed until Pompeii has been pu forced to give up all its secrets, and in the meanwhile it is giving up its ? treasures of marble, bronze and gol.i and bringing to light, among other facts, that portrait painting, for mural y decoration, was practiced probably by *>h Greek artists for their Roman patrons. ',ej cai China imported 13,000,000 square feet of American lumber last year, most W of it from the states of Oregon and Washington c* c The bill establishing the gold cur- go* rency standard in Japan only awaits the siguature of the emperor In order f, to become a law. *-'a A tender heart hurts occanionally: but nobody who has tried one will an exchange it for the other kind. Let us remember that peace as well TK as charity begins at home, and try to keep back the unkind word and the angry look. SPRING t J SPRIN < 1807. J J 1897. cui rm;? P. r, LJG11, mild 06 Ul SECOND SPRING OPENING! VlTH THE GRAND SUCCESS WE MET WITH OUR F jenitig we have been stimulated to have another one that will contiia e remainder of the Spring Season. We wish to say that our most sau ' ' 1 1 *? IS ??.1 TIT/* m/if a pectations have been raore man aouoiy reunzeu. nc u?yo ? mpetition from an adjoining county. They had their goods on thespot e of the largest stocks in Upper South Carolina, and the general verdit en, our competitors were strictly out of it when competing against our d styles. We have the markets of the world opened to us to buy goods fron th our resident buyer in New York on the go all the time in search of yles and Great Values re are able to give you the very Newest Parisian St and at the verv Lowest Spot Cash Prices. No dating asked for on our bills which is a greatsavingof 15 or 20 per you. We buy our goods for Spot Cash and from the very be9t bou jw York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is a pleasant thing to se ndle fine goods, and sell them cheaper than you can buy the old shop oddy stuff' from these fellows that will run ten blocks to see it some use won't give him a few days more dating than 30 or GO days. You ' house can afford to sell goods as cheap on time a9 for the Spot Cash, st thing we ask a house is, What are your best spot cash prices, and e your best Cash Discounts ? Cau't you give 8 per cent, discount ? the way to buy goods in order to give your customers good values. < ;11 bought, and bought for spot cash, are half sold. You can't afford to pay for some one's dating, but you want the most : the money, and we say to you honestly, ? - ? ? ? ? ----- -? * n UR PLACE IS WHERE YOU SHOULD ViU As stated before, we have the markets of the world to buy from, ai ,ve the money to pay Spot Cash for them. So don't let some old cbaj ruunmg his heels ofF trying to get some one to give him 30 or GO days c his bill tell you, you can't buy stylish goods in Due West. The trading public of Due West and surrounding country buy and le goods as any section in the land, and with this fact before us, re Have Bought One of the Best Selected Stocks that Ever Shown in Abbeville or Anderson County. # We Except None! * You may and will find larger stocks, but no better selection and no oh as cbeap, and we repeat: Don't be lead off with that fool idea that you y nice stylish goods in Due West. We have them, and other partie ve them, and just as Stylish, and Cheaper than you will find them 01 ?w York, and if you will add the express, cheaper thau you cau buy ere. We came here to give you just such a store as you want?one that yo d everything you need?and get back home in a few minutes, ready to e garment you just bought, No more long drives to see what is the les. You have that right'at your doors, with a short walk or drive iuer or tea, you cau see all the latest Paris Fashions. We keep th( ench Magazines,such as Le Bon Ton and Le De La Mode. n Our nniinerv Departmer You will find some of the very newest ideas, and all the late Pa apes and Colors. Our Two-Tone Shapes in Hats are all the go. A - intnnia "nr?n'f fail tn fn see them. Ribbons C SI^IC V'OJKO IUI IIIIWUVC* axv.. V .v... ? dths and colors. Ask to see the New Green for trimming hats. FI great profusion. Wire Hat and Bonnet Frames, Chilton, Crapes, I ilings and everything kept in a First-Class, Up-To-Date Millinery fi e have 9een a good many Milliners, but we have never seen bu it could touch Miss Florence Ballard in trimming a hat. She will giv ad honest work. No hats around us trimmed with pins, but we giv >rk that will stand, and won't curne apart in church for somi pick up the pieces. Our Dress Goods Department full with the very Newest Weaves and Novelties. We have them in tterns from 25c to 75c per yard. No two alike. Our Silk Department. e have had a grand success with our Wash {Silks. Have sold out 01 t will have in a beautiful lot this week. We have them right in ] iu should see our 25c Wash Silks?have them at 25c, 50c and 75c yard. Our White Goods Department brim full with all the New Weaves in Lappet *Cloths, Mousseline De dia Mulls, French Organdies, all the New Lace effects, Embroder -iss, Lawn and Nainsooks, Laces in cotton and silk effects, Embrodery to 75c. Lace9 from ljc to 50c. Our Wash Goods Department isn't been overlooked. We have all tbe new stuffs and ideas in 3d 4-4 Percales?just the thing for Shirt Waists. Beautiful liue of Cc ash Stuff for Dresses and Waists in Russian Crash. Irish Linen Homes phyr Lappets, Colored Francaise, Nainsook Dimities, Mosseline ! isse, Ruxton Suitings, etc. Ducks, French Ginghams and Calicos beautiful Shades and Figures, suitable for Shirts and Waists, etc. leach, Brown, Check and Plaid Homespi 4 Bleached and Brown Sheetings, Bleached and Brown Drills, Bed ;s. w e nave everyming 111 uomesui; uuuua m uic wnwi pi iuc. ads were bought for the Spot 0:.sh, and they will sell. Some Odds and Ends Tossa Silks, Check Muslins, White Lawns and a lot of other short it we are selliug for 5c yard. These goods are worth 10c to 20c yan ;y must go at 5c. Fans! Fans! e have a choice lot of hand painted in Jap and Silk Ooods. Don't fi ! them. Just the thing you want. Our Parisol Department full with the very Newest Styles in Handles and Goods. Beautiful ?s with Ribbon Bows on them?all the ideas and ellects. Our Corset Department is all the best Brands and Makes, such as Thomson Glove Fitting, It. rset, Feather Bone, Dr. Warner's Health Corset. Don't fail to see oi mmer Corset. Full and complete line of Ladies' Handkerchiefs, Veilings, Collar; Us, Neck Wear, Hosiery, etc. Sundries. ill line of Silk Floss in Wash and Knitting Silk, Cotton Floss, Linen J lored Working Cotton, Seaming Braids, Silk Braids, Novelty Braids, t Ladies' Shoes and Slippers. e have a very line line of Shoes and Slippers from the best makes, ould see our "Waldroll'" Ladies Shoe. It is a beauty with new toe intifully finished oil". Our Silk Top Oxblood Slippers are the rage, a't aflbrd to miss seeing them. We have beautiful foot wear in every Jliildren's and Misses' Shoes and Slippe e have them in Pat Tip and Oxblood with new toes and lasts. We have many, many things we haven't the space to mention, but gi all, and we can show you better than we can tell you. We have the c< ods and at correct prices. We have no six and twelve months' prices, everything marked at sh Prices. All bills due at the end of every month. Thanking the trade for the liberal support we have received this Sp J hoping to give you all the Parisian Styles as they come out, we remai Yours respectfully, iTSJjLt, KM.IS CO I >110 AV EST, S. O. /% !! The Power of Fnlth. ~2* Faith is a living power; it is the very J j highest power of life. It is life in its f I; highest and most powerful exercise, j lr ' Take the case of a man who has a large , J amount of faith in himself. That faith j ,^,<1j will give him a resoluteness of char- r acter, an energy of will, a singleness r cf eye, which will enable him to over- * I come all difficulties. In the accom- \ i p'.islimeut of his object be will submit j to any privation, and deny himself any j ^ jiudulgence; he will give his days to \ 1 ! hard labor, ami his nights to anxious j I | thought. He will inspire others with ( m u ! a conviction of his capacity, aud enlist ^ | their services on his behalf; and thus f achieve results which others less en- j . clowed with thisquality cannot hope to j [ obtain. What but this personal faith s i has actually removed mountains, and ^ cast trees into tbe midst of the sea. It j was faith that enabled engineers to ( pierce tunnels through the Alps, to ( IRST drain the German Ocean, and plant ] f trees in its old bed in Northern Hoi- i land. It was faith that bridged the , miirtA ?sa1_ ; : r*. -U : ^ IUI.a/1 ocean wuu us swui sui|)s, uuu uukcu ( trong the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, , from l'ie German ocean with the Baltic , . . by means of their wonderful canals. , It has achieved the most marvelous re- ] prices guit9 iu every department of human industry. ( i end But there is a higher faith still?viz., j Npw that which a man has in others, and , which has the power of calling forth all that is the best iu them. Such faith , vies ma^es objects of it great, develops v in them tbe germs of goodness, aud stimulates them to attaiu their ideal. ( A man must be believed in order to do ( ce_ his best. Contempt or indifference ses in has always a tendency to diminish his 11 and power. Our Saviour himselfcould not do ruanv miehty works among his own w"111 people because they did not believe in other It was the faith of people in him know thai: enabled him to perform miracles The in their behalf. "Believest thou that I t * can do this?" was the crucial ques1 tion upon the right answer to which lhis depended Christ's power. And so in Goods every case, faith in a man, sympathy with him sets all his faculties free for , the efforts of which they are capable, : gooas anj pro(juces results which astonish himself. It is by such faith that all the miglity reformations of the world JT J are effected. Faith in humanity lies , at the root of every good work. nd we But there is a higher faith tf an these ) that two kinds of faith in self and in others I tin ?viz., taltn in won. this is tue oign- , B est faith of alJ, the highest manifesta- ' tion of life, the greatest force in the use as universe; for it is a susceptibility to or receptivity for that which is divine, and communicates to the person who WES Possef-9t,s the very nature itself of that which is divine. This failh in God is not a thing apart from our na- ' ture, and imposed upon it from witht out. It is, on the contrary, the exerf ci>e and spiritualization of an original quality of our nature. It is the daily leaper fajtb by which we live brought into i can't coutact with the highest possible sub3 jjere ject, and in this contact with the di. .. vine made itself divine. Andsogloriutsiue j3 au aii-conquering principle, goods [t brings heaven to our help : it allies umilipoieuce wuu our uwu jjuwci. Faith in God is the source of all the greatness of man. Believing in Christ, make we become kings unto God ; we are inlatest spired with all might to rule our own ( after nature royally for him ; we go forth to [ . subdue the world to his sway: for to : "est believe in Christ is to believe in the highest ideal that has actually been realized in the ordinary molds of human -4- life : and by Christ who has realized all 1 t? our ideals strengthening us, we can do all thiugs. risian ? r " ^'ie Simple Koine Remedies!. in all ^ (<ure-all?Camphorated Oil.?A owers 9imple iiome-made liniment than is al- 1 SJ UL1H- 03OSL UiiiglCttl Hi 119 I C3UI13 13 WUIJJUCCU r of kerosene, cauipbor gum and sweel ' oil. Into a quart bottle put a pint of t one kerosene, and add as much camphor eyou gum a9 will dissolve, adding a little e y0U more day by day aud sbakeng tbor=> np oughiy. Then add a half a pint of " sweet oil, shake well, and it is ready for use. It should be well corked aud keptoutoftbe way of children. Use for burns, cuts, bruises, stiff neck joints, Dress sore throat, bunions, and about all the ailments tbat flesh is heir to, as it w Ml cure, and tbat right speedily, almost every thing; aud in our faminy it has egaiued tbe soubriquet of "cure-all." ie lot, To illustrate : A young girl severely irices. 3calded her entire hand with hotgrease the day before her graduation. Tbe baud was immediately swathed in soft cloths, which were kept saturated with c, the liniment: and by night tbe beat i bad been so completely drawn out that les in no trace of the burn remained except from a slight redness. By the following evening that had completely disappered. My ov/n hand was so severely scald4 y.g ed with steam that it felt as though ' th? llesh might be fairly cooked. It ilored wa? ouce wrapped up and the linipuns, meut applied, but so tierce was the i Richie heat that the liniment evaporated in less Chan a minute. Application after i application was made until evaporation ceased. The accident occurred about I nine o'clock in the morning. At tea time I unwrapped my hand, prepared i 111S l*le meal, au(l w'shed the dishes with apparently a well hand. It was, of Tick- course, a little tender, but not in the The least painful, and so natural in appear- i ance that no one would have imagined < that in had been scalded. A burn or scald of any king will not < kliatar loner pfimjiin soro if this oil be I ends ut once applied. Last spring, just as 1 J. but begun house-cleaning, 1 bruised my finger in such a way ihat the nail was I torn halt way back to the root, and the linger mashed until the blood came, s til to .it was immediately wrapped up in a i cloth saturated witb the liniment, and instead of nursing a sore linger for ' days, I went to work the next morning I Han- w'r-' au eulire,y cureL* huger. One suffering with a very severe i "stiff neck" saturated a llannel cloth in I the liniment, bound it about the affected part, went to bed and took a < & G. nap, and when she arose ner neck was ! J r 50c well. A cloth saturated with the liniment < and bound over sore bunions will soon I i and cure them. Could till this entire page with instances of its wonderful cures I ?but the above will sullice, < Cough medicine.?This is made by p. placing a tablespoonful of flaxseed in a * .' Ji tile more than a pinto'" cold water. ( !^c- l'ut over the tire and boil fifteen or twenty minutes. Remove, strain, add I the juice of a lemon and sweeten to f You taste. Allow children to drink a few c >, and swallow every hour or so, and it will You soon allay a severecough. If the lungs t line, seem sore and breathingisdiflicult, put J a flannel sack of hot salt (coarse salt t l being best)ou the chest changing for a hot one as soon as one grows cold ; 1 or it is well to apply the following : ? ve us Ointment.?Into a tablespoonful of i jrrect turpentine. Spread on a cloth, spriuI soft, fresh lard, work a teaspoouful of g.)0t j kle with salt, and apply directly to the I lungs, covering witn another cloth to c protect the clothing. This acts fully t 'rin?- as quick and as effective as any of the ui high-priced ointment sold in the drug stores) for coughs, sore lungs, etc. 1 When a man considers himself a9 / "one in a thousand," he naturally re- f. Kurds others as ciphers. L f s Friend* in Time of Sorrow. Tt is natural to wi*h to have dear riends near in an hour of triumph, it s still more an instinct of the heart to viah this in the season of sorrow, fesus invited the three disciples to the nountain top that they may heboid ;lory ; he invited them into the depth >f the garden that they might support 11m in lii? hour nf amnv. The soul of the Saviour was exceedng sorrowful, even unto death. The lour to which he had long been lookng forward had arrived ; bnt it proved o be intolerably bitter. Grief has a double instinct; it seeks solitude ; and Jesus removed himself a itone's cast even from the three into he depths of tbe grove; yet at the lame time it seeks sympathy ; it is a elief to it to pour itself 6ut into willngears; and, therefore, Jesus wished ;hem to be near, that he might go to :hem when tbe state of his overcharged leart would alloy him. The disciples ijhI need, besides, to nrav on their own iccount. They, too had reached a jrisis in Iheir fortunes where they might suffer shipwreck, and again and igain he urged them to watch and pray, lest they should enter into temptation. It was a golden opportunity for the three, when they could have obtained insight into the heart of their Master, and might have reudered him service which would been divinely recompensed besides preparing themselves for playing the man in the scenes which were about to ensue. But it was a lost opportunity. Tbey were near him in Gethsemane, yet they were not with him. Je3us had invited them to a degree of confidence and intimacy bevond what they had ever yet enjoyed; but they could "not enter eo far into bis secret. We wonder especially at St. John. Heat least might bave kept awake, although the other- two had slept. He should have filled the place of the augel who bad to come from heaven to strengthen the Saviour because there was not a man to do it. St. John's loving and sensitive heart you would havd expected to be all alive and awake when he saw tbe state into which his beloved Master bad fallen. But even he succumbed to tne drowsiuess of grief: and Jesus came seeking sympathy and comfort and found none. "Sleep on now," he said, "and take your rest." Christ still invites us into Getbsemane When may he be said to do so? When his cause appears to be in desperation; when the world is all tigaiust him, and his truth requires to be maintained against the organs of public opinion and the dead weight of conventionalism ; when to confess him associates us with the poor and despised, while those whose good opinion we have been accustomed to enjoy wonder at us. In circumstances of this discription a rare opporfunity is "* * ' A _ rti :_i ottered 01 geiung near iu tunsi. Never do we understand him so well, never does his love shine so full upon us, as when we are sacrificing honor, comfort, pleasure for his sake. But too often the opportunity is lost. Selfindulgence in some form comes in. It may not be a gross form ; the sleep of the deciples in Gethsemane was very pardonable, and our self-indulgence may be something equally innocent. It may be the reading of a book when we ought to be eaving a soul; it may be sitting in the comfort of homewhen we ought to be on the track of the homeless; it may be acquiescence in tbe opinions and practices of the respectable set to which we belong when we ought to come out from them, and, at the risk of being thought odd, or even mad, offer our protest. A thing in itself entirely innocent may act as a soporific?to dull the sense of dutyaod smother the call of Christ?so that the opportunity of being brought close to him through the fellowship of his sufferings is lost forever.?From "The Two St. John's of the New Testament. Itnni'd Horn Blast*. Young lions areoiten very jame. Getting the big bead shrinks the h ?art. The fears we borrow are the hardest to drive away. Whenever the flesh is on the throne ihe devil is king. Unless you want to be poor, don't try to keep all you get. The man will always be busy who truly follows Christ. The devil has no better helper tha"h a harmless-looking lie. Tl - ? 1 * ? I i 4- l-v aaivia man Jit IS nuruei iu uiue nnu suiuc lucu than it is to fast alone. We are rich, not in what we have, but in what we cannot lose. Is there anything the devil can'i make out of an envious man ? Live to be good, and you will never tire of your employment. When you pray for a revival, don't go to church with a long face. The more men disappoint us, tbe more we should have faith iu God. When a little man is lifted up, everybody linds out that he is little. The man who thinks he knows others, is a great stranger to himself. The man who would be considered "fian tiimo nut tr> hp nthprwiap. Do away with a personal devil, ind there is uo need of a personal Christ. It is a mistake to call anything success that is not according to God's plan. If you knew that to-morrow, would beyour last day how would you spend this. There are some very important lesions which can only be learned from a mistake. It is doubtful if there is any man who has not at some time in his life been a hypocrite. The man who has lived only for him self has wasted his time and robbed Lhe world. There can be no true and abiding 30mfort and peace that is not rooted ind grounded in faith. The man who has never used bis ;yes to consider the mercies of God, nas used them to small purpose. Turning a mad dog loose is a trifling :hing, compared to what the devil can Jo with a gossiping tongue. Iu the very same breath with which Fesus said, "Let not your heart be :roubled," he also said '"Helieve." The man who refuses to walk iu the ight as God gives it, has only himself to blame for what happens in the lark. Do good as often as you have opporunity, and the Lord will see to it that four time and talents are well employ-, ;d. There was weeping at the grave of [,a/.arus, but everybody threw a stone it the place where Absalom was bured. There is no pride so dangerous, beause so subtile, as'lie pride of holiless. The most insidious serpent the world las ever known isso-f,ned ''best soiety." The inhabitants of the United States onsume more than half the quinine irodumi iu the world. *I.el Brotherly Love Cootinne." . BY REV. J. B. WALKER, D. D. V When the penitent believer is just- 9 titled, the love of God is shed abroad V in his heart. Love is the lirst fruit of j the Spirit. Christ says to believers, "Continue ye in my love;" and St. 1 Paul's word-, which we have quoted, i t.i! - ? ~ C ' are out ail ecuo or repeuuuu ui ^unsi o workn. The believer loves God because God first loved bira. The unspeakably precious gift is to be cherished and preserved as the riches tof all our treisures aud the source of brotherly love. The apostle says: "Let brotherly love continue.' If we do not retain it the fault is ours; so don't hinder, don't drive it away. This language surely implies that we may hinder and expel this love from our hearts. How may we do this? In various ways. As it was, when we believed, love was shed abroad iu our hearts; so when we fall iuto doubts our faith grows weak, and our love grows cold. It is by living diligently in the path of duty, and actively in tbe use of the means of grace, we cherish and keep warm in our hearts love to God ana our brethren. M Another cause for this hindrance to ? brotherly love is that when misunder- M standing arise between us and our ^ brethren we are too hasty in our conclusions as to tbe nature and intent of what our brother is said to have done or said. We do not stop to inquire about tbe surroundings and the motives of our brother, but suddenly, like a lucifer match, ignite into a blaze of wrath, whereas a little patience, a little investigation, yvould have cleared up the matter, and pleasantly terminated the difficulty. Again, we sometimes fail to follow the scriptural direction. We do not first of all go to our brother alone in f-ho anirif nf Inoe ?nH in interest of peace, and talk with him, but talk with A. B. aud C perhaps in an excited aud bitter spirit. Such talks are most N always unpleasantly exaggerated, and V the case made worse than it was. Let ^ us in such cases do as the Master has commanded, and most geuerally the matter can be satisfactorily adjusted. Then there are some who think more bigbly of themselves tban they ought to think, aud demand more consideration than they deserve. Such are too sensitive. They take as slights and contempt words aud acts that were never so intended. The power and fruitfulnessof brotherly love has not been fully appreciated, nor as generally exercised as It should have been. It is tbe grand (est of discipleship?a test internally to us and externally to all men. Cbrist did not say, as some of his professed ministers and disciples have done, "If ye subscribe to certain creeds and standards, all men shall know ye are Christ's disciples." Or, if ye conform to certain modes and forms of worship, are Christ's disciples ; or if you have certain ordars of men and certain forms of Church government, ye are Christ's disciples. No, but this he said : "By "11 *>?An lrnAOf f hot Vfl a pa mv 4 LUIS SUU11 ua IUUU AUVir wum*V j N, M* V disciples, if ye have love one to an- > other." Had Christ's teaching been heeded, the Church would have presented an undivided front. With all her energies concentrated she would have marched forward with irresistible steps to the moral conquest of the world, and long ago tbe triumphant > shout would have rolled up from a I thousand landa, "Alleluia: for the I Lord God omnipotent reigneth." But > alas! instead of this devinely appointed I plan, mere professed believers who bad v a name to live, but were really dea<T, | became narrow-minded, intolerant, per- I secutinc bitrots. so tbat millions have \ been persecuted for righteousness'sake, 1 persecuted by aJl the cruel forms that hntnan malignity could devise: imprisonment, confiscation, banishment, torture and death by the sword, wild beast, and the flaming stake. In more modern times' by the unspeakable atrocities and horrors of the inquisition, and by various acts of compulsory conformity, and numerous legal disabilities, to the unutterable wrong of millions, aud to the unspeakable hurt aud hindrance of Christ s cause. The graud and gracious spectacle of milliousof men lovingone another, in the midst of this selfish and cruel world, would have compelled belief in a religion so unearthly, a religion that had power to work such vast and blessed results. The proof of this Is before us: the Church has more love than ever before, and more power, and more success. She is doing not all her duty, but far more than ever before along all lines of evaugelical aggressiveness. She is giviug millions for education, for church building, for various noble charities, and millions to send forth and .sustain godly men and consecrated women to far-off and long-benighted nations to bring them to the glorious light and liberty of the gospel. There are fewer controversies, and the controversies are less acrimonious and bitter. Men are ceasing to believe that men can be made Christians by compulsion. Few now would imitate the oigot who said : "My brother, do you love the Lord?" and befere answer could be made, doubled his first, and said : "If you dou't, I will punch you on the head, aud make you." No, it i9 love that drives the Churches' chariot wheels, and all resistance must yield to love. So let brotherly love continue, aud abound more and more. ?Nashville Advocate. Use and Abuse of Money. There are many fellows at college . who have money and use it well, but the mere fact that a man has cash in ' his pocket does uot get him on to athletic teams, or into college clubs or societies, or at the bead of his class. It helps him on if he's a good chap. It holds him back if he isn't. Then by and by, when you utt through college, you will find it just the same in businesses of all kinds. Money seems to help a good man along and seems to be the worst enemy of a bad man. So that to think only of money first, and then of doing line things with it after it is gained, is putting the cart before the horse. And, if you want to be in the senate, it's the wrong way to go at it to go down to South America and work in u gold mine for 20 years simply and solely to "raise the cash" for the purpose of buying the votes of a state, even if such a procedure were moral and right, which is uuqustionably not the case. Afiictiou is a good school; but most people would rather be excused from attending it. There is one kind of canned goods that goes oil' quicker than any other gunpowder. ti"Meilieel e^KR," keep Elites and lice nwny from youug chickens, and out of hen nests. Come and get some, it' uot satisfactory rnouey refunded. Hay aud bran. Urandeur Hour, new lot coming. Howe cured hams. Morrisons best lard. Ureaklast bacon. Cottolene, all sizes. Mica axle greece. The best 25 cents tobacco in town, come and sec it ami ??et a III cents box. \V. I>. Harksdale A Co. ' t