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1ERM. 01 SZTBSCfiL TlOJt. -^" r ? -^ ? - : ~~._ .:_ ?HI ^ Obituaries over tea lines charged {or at vj Oae copy one ytstx $1.50 __ \ ' -W* * '' -w., ^^r.V.r ulvertising rates. :S>-' ?jfe:r:i:::': VOL. XVIII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAT 9,'*'1588. NO.-25.' ?"-~ ^"gE p { V vf^-V- '- 'w - :,; * ' i .: ? , " * -\ / ? '"-tV ' ' * l ^ ' ;?: i i ii iwn in m i i.iiji xu. ug^sr.t^-^rrjr^'yr^avr >rr~. ~~--t"? mill UTirrirfT" TTf'V'i'nr"""' 'umhubmi^i?hpit i,? mn. l*:?. .'.Jg-r ?TTHS^w.-An^i TiiuimtMtoaJiaLL.-anr'w hit i "in > isbabsmmw?MWM " *' i " ? ^ CLOTH 1*6 " _ v f For tiie Spring and Summer ; V V. - * ' . I ?4.T? j x-i. - 'Vr 150 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. # I have just returned from "' ' ffieuYorthern Markets with a | choice Khrejs?ClothihgvHats, . Gent's Furnishing Goods, Trunks, Yalises, Satchels, Etc., Etc., equal to any house in the State 1 I am prepared to o?f|r great bargains- this. - season V* " * ^having bought for cash which 1 gi^ves xpe great advantage _ . * over |iny competitors. For styles, qualities, and low prices, I can astonish the old and young, big and ;; little, rich and poor. It can sell Gent's, Xonth's and Boy's Clothing cheaper than the *^r -1?v 5" -> - ~ ; cheapest. The. citizens of Lexington - . i are especially invited to ex- | ' ? " } ' amine my stock before pur- j chasing elsewhere. - Thank . ^ ing you for your past liberal patronage and soliciting a j continuant pf same, I! very respectfully, ^ - j ' V fcsOFPCJTTX" ^ -* > (Successor to Philip Epstin^&u^er Colmn? 'bia Hotel Block,) Sept. 7-tf-. . high school. - a A PUBLIC GRADED SCHOOL, | ij3Hfcopeii to ail white children' in i *^agjiiartiu School District oi ! TjpSfjf-sch okstic age free ofch^g^? Pnpi ia fmm y^iit "i^rnrTrr" tor ^^^Corps of Instructors. Principal, L. M. Mitchell; Assistant and Secretary, J. Walter Mitchell; Assistantin Primary Department, R. W. Haiti wattger; Assistant in Physiology and Hygiene, J. \V. Eargle. >1. D.; Assistant in Music, SfrsTDr. J. W. Er.rgie. p Terra-begtos- wWi- ?UJ" : f ends September 15th, Sgf Fox catalogue SdE*' " aoplv to : W'-j? - L. M. MICHELL. Principals " Feb. 22~4m / - Peak, S. C. | . Waifcted. 1 A- good reliable Agent fat thij^CQdkty*1 2X to sell/Smiths Patent b.o'ffc'ay""Force j P^mp and j?Ge'EA:ingfiisli(fe4 Bcst^selbng j .' Article in/the world. Inpkpcnsable to %'^fr/every -property owner, ms Saved thou- I / sands of dollars worth of property. Re- ) I cipes for destroying Btdxious iusects sent with eacW Pump. Excellent inducements to Agents. Circulars lree. Address Fernando B; Smith, Canton, Ohio. Mention this paper. Feb. 22-3m TWIMI IIWII" ?!!! ?! !! ! f?jfc l K MW GOODS! ua*** l^nvtA>Ainci .. c w uai gains. LEVER & STORK, J 48 Maiji Street, COLUMBIA, S. O., i . u r' .ij-: V " Have a full and complete stock of BOOTS AM) SHOES Ttyi Men, Ladies, Girl and Boy a, and. allow no one to undersell ihem. Be sure you give them a-call. aov 2?lv W, A. RECKLING, ARTIST, COLUMBIA, S. C , "I"s now making the best pictures that can X be had in this country, and all who have never bad a real fine picture, shoal i now try some of his latest styles. Spicitnens can be seen at Gallery, up stairs, neit to Kinard's. Mftrdl H-rt MAMTR or pULtW>? risoPMW.^!n? ~ ' S55d*<?*** DW r Jd namta* lowest #' wbet\o ^y.Rn<i_*^ -DEonly;Ocrai* prices for toneet vorth if S?d* iAH. 'jrj J*> * Ik LOSS AXD GAIN. DIVINE SERVICES AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. r - .. - f- % ' " , > i h?t. i)?. Talmas? Expounds a Familiar : Text with Characteristic Clearness and OrigrinaUty-?A False and Hallclotu Re-, pcirt Conternlug the Doctor'Denounced. f; ; Brooklyn. May ^ ?The Rev. T. Da Wiu Talroage, D. D., told the congregation at the tabernacle today* that a malicious falsehood * had gone through the country, saying that at a recent meeting of the officers of the Thirteenth regiment at his house he had set before them four kinds of trine. He said: "X will pay $1,000 to any charitable institution if it can be proved that one drop di wine or any other intoxicating liquor was offered in my house that evening. The twentyfive gentlemen present may be called - upon for testimony. Any three respectable clergymen or lawyers or detectives may be selected; they also to decide what charity shall have the money. I ask the newspapers all over the land, which have been misled by the false bool. to correct it1" ? The opening hymn of the service begins; ? Salvation * O, tbe -Joyful sound, Tia pleasure to our -sara Dr. Taimage announced as the subject , of .the sermon. "Loss and Gain," and his text wis: -What shall it profit a man, if he* shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"?Mark via, 36. I am accustomed. Sabbath by Sabbath, te stand before an audience of bargain makers. There may be men in all occupations sitting before me, yet the vast ma jority of them. 1 am very well aware, are engaged from Monday morning to Saturday night in the store. In many of the families of my congregation, across the breakfast table and the tea table, are discussed questions of loss and gain. Yet are every day asking yourself: '"What is the value of this? What is the value of tliat?" You would not think of giving something of greater value for thai which is of lesser value. You would not tliink of selling that which cost you $10 for $5. If you had a prop erty that was worth $15,000 you would not sell it for $4,000. You are intelligent in all matters of bargain making. Are you as wise in the things that pertain to the matters of the soul? Christ adapted his instructions tb the rircumstances of those to whom he spoke. When he 1 talked to fishermen, he spoke of the Gospel net. When he talked to the farmers, he said: "A sower went forth to sow.1' 'When he talked to the shepherds, he told the parable of the lost sheep And am I not right when speaking this owning to an audience made up of bargain makers that I address them in the words of my text, asking: '-What shall ft profit a . man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" ^13 1 propose, as far as possible, to estimate and compare the value of two properties. first, I havexo^ay that the worldxs JTfTT grand, rnnrffn^i n ft God's thoughts in stone. Its aewdrops are God's thoughts in pearL This world ip God's child?a wayward child indeed;it has wandered off through the heavens. But about 1,888 years age, oneChnstmas _ night. God sent out a sisterworbi-^5" T** , i i >?i**r**3fyTmTT^' over that wnidQ^ir,5S' "" t - & tong enough to get the promise of the wanderer's return, and now that lost world, with soft feet of light, orues treading back through the heavens. The hills, how beautiful they billow up, the edge of the wave white with, the foam of crocuses'. How beautiful the rainbow, the arched* bridge on which heayjm and earth come and talk to saclfotHpr in. tears, .after the storm is overt - How -*..'niuia cite feet of the lamp lighters that in a few buutttcfc set all dome of the night abiaze with brackets of firef How bright the oar of the saffron cloud that \xows across Hie deep sea of heavanl H6w beautiful the spring, with tndaJ blossoms in her hair I I wonder who it [ is tliat beats time on a June morning fox r the bird oi-chestra. How cently the harebell tolls its fragrance on the air' There may be grander worlds; swarthier , worlds, larger worlds than this, but 1 think that this is a most exquisite world | ?a 'mignonette on the bo6om of im, mensity' "Oh," you say, "take my i soul! give me that world! I am willing j to take it in exchange. I am ready now f for the baigain. It is so beautiful a ; world, so sweet a world, so grand a I world!" I But let us look more minutely into the i value of this world. You will not buy j property unless you can get a good title | to it. After you have looked at the | property and found out that it 6uits you. ; you send an attorney to the public office, j and he examines the book of deejjs, and [ the book of mortgages, and the book ol | judgments, and the book of iiens, and he j decides 'whet her the title is good before I you will have anything to do with it. j There might be a splendid property," and *? ? nwnntl.. allira^ trt rniirB-ftnt.1 i ill tfVy T OUAWM i-v j vwm ? Lf>, , ^ I but if you cannot get a good title you | will not take it. Now, I am here this ; morning to say that it is impossible to get I a good title to this world. If I settle ; down upon it, in the very year I so j settle down upon it as a perma? sent" possession- I may be driven | away from it. Ay, in * five minutes after I give up my soul for the world I : may have tc j)a# with the world; and j what kind of a title do you call that? i There is only one way ia which I. can :j hold an earthly possession, and that is through the senses. All beautiful sights through the eye, but the eye may be blotted out; all captivating sounds through the ear, but my ear may be 1 deafened; ah luseiousness of fruits and viands through my taste, but lay taste } may be destroyed; all appreciation of culture and of art through, my mind, but | I may lose my mind. What $ frail hold, then, 1 have upon any earthly possession! In courts of law, if you want to get a man off a property, you must serve upon him a writ of ejectment, giving him a ! certain time to vacate the premises; but j when Death comes to us and serves a | writ-of ejectment, ho does not give us s MPnmi nf fnr^warninc. He says: ivu^ OVWMW v "Off of thi? place! You have no right any longer in the possession." We might cry oat: "I gave you $100,000 for that property;" the plea would he of no avail. We might say: "We have a warantee deed for that property;" the plea would be of no avaiL We might say; "We have a lien on thst store house;" that would do us no goodDeath is blind, and he cannot see a seal, and cannot read an indenture. So that, first and last, I want to tell you that when you propose that I give up my sou} for the world, you cannot give me tlie first item of title. Having examined the title of a prop* erty, your next question is about insurance You would not be silly enough ' to buy a large ware house that could nol i possibly be insured. You would not have I anything to do with such a property. j Now, I ask you what assurance can you [ give me that this world is not going t< i | be burned up? Absolutely none. Geoloj gists tell us that it is already on fire; thai j the heart of the world is one greai , living coal; that it is just like a ship on .fire at sea, the flames I not bursting out because the hatches | are kept down. And yet you propose to j palm off-on me, in return for my soul, , a world for which, in the first place, you give no title, and in the second place, for which you can give no insurance. "Oh, " I you say, "the wat?r of the oceans will { wash over all the land and put out the j fire." Olu no. There are inflammable j elements in the water, hydrogen and : oxygen. Call off the hydrogen, and j then the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans j would blaze like heaps of shavings.. You I want me to take this world, for which j you can give no possible insurance. Astfomers have swept their telescopes i through the sky, and have found out I that there have been thirteen worlds, in j the last two centuries, that have disap- ; peared. At first they looked just like other worlds. Then they got deeply red; then they were on fire. Then . they got ashen, showing.they were, burned down. Then they disappeared, showing that even the ashes were scattered. And if the geplogist be right in liis prophecy, then our wc*f 1^ is to go in the same way. And | yet you want me to exchange my soul ' for it. Ah. no: it is a world that iscj burning now. Suppose you brought an insurance agent to look at your properly for the purpose of giving you a policy upon it, and while he?stood in front of the'house he should say f''That house is on fire now in the basement," you could not get any insurance upon it. Yet you talk about this world as though it were a safe.investment, as though you could get some insurance upon it, when down in the basement it is on fire. I remark, also, that thisv world is a property, with which everybody who lias taken it as a possession has had trouble. Now I know a large reach of land that . is not built on. 1 ask what is the matter, and they reply that everybody who has had anything to do with that property got into trouble about it. It is just so with this world; everybody that has had *any thing to do with it, as a possession, has been in . perplexity. How was it with Lord Byron? Did he not sell his immortal soul for the purpose of getting the world? Was he satisfied with the possession? Alas! aiasl thepoem.graphicaily describes his case when it says; Drank avery cup of Joy, Heard every trump of fame; Drunk early, deeply drank. . Drank draughts which common millions might have quenched. Then died of thirst because there was no more to drink. / Oh, yes, he bad trouble with it; andft) did Napolean. After conquering nations W** fU/s fka cmAfil ka line r1z\vm> VI VUV O n VI uvmi to die, his entire possession the military boots that he insisted on having upon his feet while he wvs dying. So it has been with men who had better ambition. Thackeray, one of the most genial and ! lovable souls, after he had won the ai> [ plause of all intelligent lands through his : wonderful genius, sits down in a restaurant in Paris, looks to the other end of the room, ...i; wonders whose that forlorn and wretched face is; rising up after L? while, he finds that it is Thackeray.in ; >l*a.jmiTor. <Jh, yes, this world is a 5 UUi??3?!?StT" ho .. f ever owned Asia? Who ever gained a city ? Who ever owned Brooklyn? Talk about gaining the world 1 No man ever gained it, or the hundred-thousandth part -oLit You are demanding that I sell my soul, not-for the world, but for a fragment of it Here is a nfan who lias had a large estate for forty or fifty years. He lies down to die.. You say: "That man is worth millions and millions of dollars." Is he? You call ftp a surveyor, with his compass and chains, and you say: "There is a property extending three miles in one direction, and three miles in another direction."Is that the way to measure that man's propear? Nol You do n6t want any surveyor, with his compass and chains. That is not the pay you want to-measure tbat man's . property now. It is an undertaker that you need, who will come and put his finger imhas vest pocket end take out a tape line, and '"he will 'measure five feet nine inches one way and two feet and a half the ether*way,/' That is the man's property. Oh, no, I forgot; not so much as that, for he does not own even the place in which he lies in" the cemetery. The deed to that belongs to the executors " ? ' * 1 A- ~ and the iieirs. cm, wuat a piupcit^ juu propose tcrgive me for my soul! If you sell a hill of goods, you go into the counting room and say to your partner: "Do you think that man is good for this bill? Can lie give proper security? "Will - he meet this payment?" Now, when you are offered this world as a possession, I want you to test the matter. 1 do not want you to go into this bargain blindly. I want you to ask about the title, about the insurance, about whether men have ever had any trouble with it, about whether you can keep it. about whether- you can get all, or the 10,000th, Or 100,000th part of it. There is the world now. I shall say no more about it. Slake up your mind for yourself, as I shah, before God, hare to make up my mind for myself, .about the value of this world. IJJcannot afford to make a mistake for my soul, and you cannot afford to make a mistake for your soul. Now, let us look at the other property ?the soul We cannot make a bargain without seeing the comparative value. The soul! How shall I estimate the value of it? Well, by its exquisite organization. It is the' most wonderful piece of mechanism ever ' put together. Machinery is of value in proportion as it is i mighty and silent avthe same time. You I look at the engine and the machinery in the Philadelphia mint, and, as you see it performing its wonderful work, you will be surprised to find how silently it goes. Machinery that roars and tears soon destroys itself; bpfc silent machinery is often most effective. Now, so it is with the soul of man, with all its tremendous faculties?it moves in silence. Judgment, without any racket, lifting its scales; memory, without any noise, bringing down all its treasures; conscience taking its judgment seat without any excitement; the understanding mid the wiJI i ail doing their work. . Velocity, majesty, I might; but silence ?silence. You listen i at the door of your heart. You caff hear no sound. The souJ is all quiet It is so delicate an instrument that no human hand can touch it. You break a bone, and with splinters and bandages the surgeon sets it; the eye becomes inflamed, the apothecary's wash cools it; but a soul off the track, unbalanced, no human power can readjust it. With one sweep of its wing it circles the universe and overvaults the throne of God. Why, in the hour of death the soul is so mighty, ! it throws aside the body as though it were a toy. It .drives back medical skill as impotent, ft breaks through the circle of loved ones who stand around the ' dying couch. With one leap, it springs j beyond star and moon and sun, and j chasms of immensity. Oh, it is a soul superior to all material things L No fire i can consume it; no floods can drown it; no rocks can crush it'; no walls can impede it; no time can exliaust it. It wants no bridge on which to cross a chasm. It ' wants no pljimmet with which to sound a ) depth. A soul so mighty, so swift, so silent, must be a priceless souL t I calculate the value of the soul, also, t by its capacity for happiness. How much 0 < * v . % joy it can get In "jtliislvorld out or friend- , ships, out of books, out of cloudy out | of the sea, opt of flowers, out of j ten thousand things; and yet all the"joy J it has here does not' test its capacity. | You are in a concert before the curtain ! hoists, and you hear the instruments jire- j paring?the "'sharp snap of the broken j string, the scraping of the bow across the j viol. "There is no music in that," you \ say. It is only getting ready for the j music. And all the enjoyment of the'j soul in this world, the enjoyment we j think is real enjoyment, is only jprepara- j tive; it is only auticipative; it-is only the j first stages of the thing; it is only the j entrance, the beginning of that which j shall be the orchestral harmonies and splendors of the redeemed. You cannot test the full power of the soul for happiness in this world. How much power the soul has here to find en- j joyment in friendships! but, oil, the j grander friendships for the soul in the j skies! How sweet the flowers here! but j how much sweeter they will be there! I 1 do not think that when flowers die on i earth they die forever. I think Uiat the j fragrance of the flowers is the spirit j being wafted away into glory. God says -j there are palm trees in heaven and fruits in heaven. If so, why not the spirits of j the dead flowers? In the sunny valleys j of heaven, shall not the marigold creep? ! On the hills of heaven, will not the amaranth bloom? On the amethystine walls of heaven, will not the jasmine climb? "My beloved is come down in his garden to gather lilies." No flowers in heaven? Where, tberf, do they get their garlands for the brows of the righteous? *" Christ is glorious to our souls now, - but how much grander our appreciation after a while! A conqueror comes back after j the battle. He has been fightin&ior us. : He comes upon the platform. He has j one arm in a sling, and the other arm ; holds a crutch. As he mounts the plat- ! form, oh, the enthusiasm of the 'audi- j encel They say: "That man fought for j us, and imperiled his 'ife. for us,'' and j how wild the huzza that follows huzza j When the Lord Jasus Christ shall at last ! 6tand out before the*multitudes of the ro- { deemed of heaven and we meet him ace j to face, and feel that he was wounded in the head, and wounded in the lands, and wounded in the feet, and wounded in the side for us, methinks we will '"be overwhelmed. We will sit some time gazing in silence, until some leader unidst the white robed choir shall lift the baton. ;jf light, and give the signal that it is time to wake the song of jubilee; and all heaven will then break forth into: "Hosannal Hosannal Hosanna! Worthy is the Lamb that is .slain " I calculate further the value of the soul by the price that has been paid for it. In St*. Petersburg there is a diamond that the government paid $200,000 for "Well," you say, "it. must have been very valuable, or th^ government would not have paid.$200,000 for it." I want to see what "my soul is worth, and what your soul is worth, by seeing what lias been paid for it. For that immortal soul, thdTichest blood that, was ever shed, the deepest grcan that wa^ever uttered, all ^ his holy heart. Does it not" imply #e- j menuuus vjut'ei > I argue also the value of the soul from the home that lias Seen fitted up for it in the future. One would have thought a street of adamant would have done. No; it is a street of gold. One would have thought that a wall of granite would have done. No; it is the flame of sardonyx mingiing With the green of emerald. One would have thought that an occasional doxology would have done. No; it is a perpetual song. If the ages of heaven marched in a straight line, some day the last rqpiment, perhaps, might pass out of sight; jbht no, the ages of heaven do not marfch in a straight line, but in a circle around about the throne of God; forever, forever, tramp, tramp! A soul so bought, so equipped*^, so provided for, must be- & prictiL?j-oool, a majestic soul-,-^tremendous soul. Now, you have seen the two properties ?the world, the soul. One perishable, the other immortal. One unsatisfying, the other capable of ever increasing felicity. Will you trade? Will you trade even? Remember, it is the only investment you can make. If a man sell a bill of goods worth $5,000, and he is cheated out of it, he may get $5,000 somewhere else; but a man who invests his soul invests alL Losing that, he loses alL Saving that, he saves alL In the light of my text, it seems to me as if you wei*e this morning offering your soul to the highest bidder; and I hear you say: "What is bid for it, my deathless spirit? What is bid for it?" Satan says: "I'll bid the world.".'. You say: "BegoneJ?tterf is'" no equivalent. Sell my I souljfor the world? No! Begoner1 But there is some one else ip the audience not so wise as that. He says: "What is bid for my immortal soul?" Satan says: "I'll bid the world." "The world? Going at that going at that, going! GoneF* Gone forever! What Is th jtfhing of greatest price, . Thfr whoio creation round? That which was lost in Paradise, >' XQ&3 WJ11CU in iS lUUUO. v I / Then let us gather reuntTthe cross, That knowledge to obtain; . * j Not by the soul's eternal loss. But everlasting gain. j Well, there are a great many people in the house who say: "I will not sell my soul for the world. I find the world is an unsatisfying portion." What, then, will you do with your soul? Some one whispers here: "1 will gire my - soul to Christ." Will you? That is the' wisest resolution you ever made. Will you give it to Christ? When? To-morrow? No; now. I congratulate you if you have come to such a decision. (Mi, if this morning the eternal Spirit of God would come down upon this audience and show you the vanity of this'world, and the immense importance of Christ's religiomand the infinite value of your own immortal souls, wbat a house thi3 would be! what an hour this would bo!, what a moment this would be! Do you know that Christ has bought your soul? Do you know that he has paid an infinite price for it? Do you know that he is worthy of it? Will you give it to him now? I was reading of a sailor who had just got ashore, and was telling about his last experience at sea. Tie said: "The last time I crossed the ocean we had a terrific time. After we had been out three or four days the machinery got disarranged and the steam began to escape, and the captain, gathering the people and the crew on deck, said: 'Unless some one shall go down and shut oft that steam, and arrange that machinery at the peril of ]iis life, we must all be doj shoved.' lie was not willing to go down jH himself. No one seemed willing to go. I'lie passengei-s gathered at one end of the steamer waiting for their fate. The captain said: '1 give you a last warning. If there is no one here willing to imperil his life and go down and fix that machinery, wo must all be lost.' A plain spdor said: TH go, sir;' and he wrapped himself in a coarse piece of canvas and went down, and was gone but a few moments when the escaping steam stopped, and the machinery was corrected. 'The captain cried out to the passengers: 'All saved! Let us go down below and seo what has become of tho m > pobtJfeJIow,' They went down. Th&e he 1^' dead." Vicarious suffering! Died for 3l! Oh, do you suppose that those peope on the ship ever forgot, ever can forjet * that poor fellow? "No!" they say?: "it v 3 through his sacrifice that I I got ishore.'* The time came when our j whgre race must die unless some one sl$a$! endure torture and sorrow and j sbarpj. Who shall come to the rescue! ShalHfc be one of the seraphim? Not one. Shailjit be one of the cherubim! Not onevQ* Shall ^ be an inhabitant. of issue pure -and unf&llen world? Not she. Then Christ said: "Lot Loqpap to do flay wilL O God;" and he > went down through the dark stairs of our sin.Jbd wretchedness, and misery, and wo3 h&d he stopped the peril, and he died,vthat you and I might be free. Oh, the oh. the endurance! oh, the horwxcrifice Shall hot our souls th&iriphiing go out toward him. saying* "Ldc^JFesus Christ. take my ioul. Thou ait -ivorihy to have. it. Thpu hast died Ced help you thus morning rightly to ciaUg^it this sum in Gospel arithmetic: "What shall it profit a man, if he srBdi gain* the whole worid, and lose his own soul?' ' * m * ' I ' 4 railroad Birmah. Tlie English are incessant in their endeavors to-open a trade route from India to China. One of the preliminary steps jo reacn cms ooject is cue estaousnment of a railroad from the valley of the I>rahire%>utra co 'he upper part of the Irasvadi^ by >vhich means they expect to sir^ngtSen- dieir position in Burmah. The region , to traversed is extremely mountainous, and tna road will have x> cross the -Patko: mountains Recently an expedition lias been sent out to .ascertain the* feasibility of building the road, cf wincbjffessrs Micbell and Needham were in charge. They found that the Patkoi ifinge. -which was formerly considered afri insurmountable barrier forth? ttr.de be&veCn Assam and Burmah, can be crosses oc a number of passes not exceeding i 500 feet in height. They succeeded il crossing it on one of these passes with, five elephants, and state that a road cd? be built without great.diffi'cuities. Tints the recent reports of Colqhourv'.a^d Woodthorpe are confirmed. Af the present time the trade between China and Bumiah is carried on by caravans consuming of from 200 to 2,000 animals. wliiph eros3 the range during the dry season, i. e., between the months of November and May. They cross the territory of the Rachitis, who exact heavy payments from them; nevertheless the caravans are subject to frequent attacks, and must be protected by an escort of armed men.?Science. A Crab Catching Ape. ' That's a lone fisherman," said a bird dealer as he pointed tc a Java ape. "It is the best crab catcher known." ''flow do39 he manage to get the crab?"; 'Catches him with his tail. Ee is the only kindf of ape that has a long tad. When it se^s a crab the ape backs up to Jim 11i-ii i' '^re the crab has disappeared, intrusion, *nbe the toil,' tlie ape leaps ' forward, a*d before the crab can say' Jack Robimson' it finds itself on dry land with IS,000 miles of terra, fir ma under the ape, who soon chews tip the crab and than tackles the next hole on its Ikf.. ' NftW '.Vrt?t Tolfl<Wg .. 1 I V*? of tb? Trawl. The incessant use of th? trawl hag depleted the fisheries on /iie east coast of England to aicb, an extent that the fishermen are ildistress. and the government is urgefibpl^e restrictions ou iLi* mode of fi5hmg^4$Hcago 1 "" OAU^HTI^ OF EVEL Wlmt the Newspaper*. Say Ab^ot Fimoni Onq of the Pair Sex?< Ladv CoJi* Campbell was offered -guJutf" 7^~*w'~,fe?u"rea America, which, on theliifvjee of Matthew Arnold, she declined, The most ffirless rider in the capital is Miss Frencji the daughter of Representative Frejfch, of Connecticut, who rides a very suited horse and sits her saddle with gace and composure. Mme. Jai^oschek's name is pro nounccd in tDree or four different ways, but her own wfj is as though the name were spelled *pan-ow-shek," with each syllable plainly sounded, and tlie accent upon the first,i Mrs. Annie ?8esant, the well known English radical j thinker and lecturer, is described by ^'correspondent who recently saw bei'as a well proportioned lady of Eiediua height and upright bearing, with a fadaof somewhat masculine cut, every lina^n it indicating determination and resolute purpose. Her voice, however, is jp^teant and well modulated, and her mannei is gentle. Mrs. George W. Child3 is a frequent and cordially welcome guest at Atlantic City. A correspondent at that resort c?o vc j.hnt Mea. Child-? nossesses oneof tile | finest coUSctioaa of jewels to be seen, though as a matter of fact she wears, as a rule, very few and simple jewels. She possesses, among other things, a rare East Indian gem that seldom gets beyond the borders of that land, and of which there are very |ew specimens in America. j A great portion" of the latter part of , Miss A1 colt's hre was spent with her sister and nephews and nieces at Nouquitt, a town or? tli^vest sfiore of Buzzard's 1 bay. It vra^^re that the sculptor. -Walter Ricketsoa, an intimate friend of . the family, s&ade the medallion of Miss Alcott not -long before she died. A photograph of this medallion i?^o6e of the Hkest pictures, to ;be had-oT her. When ffer sister saw the baa relief for the first time the tears came to her eyes and she said, "That.is my Loy." The proseht German empress ia the fifth English princess who has held that rarJr. The others were: Edgyth, daughter of Edwaid the Elder, wife of Otto k-Gunbild, daughter of Knut, wife of Henry III, of Germany; Matilda, the link between theNorman and Plantagenet dynasties, wife of Henry V, of Germany, I and Isabella, daughter of Ring John, i wife of Frederick -II, the wonder of the ! world. The last named princess was q ! direct ancestor of the late prince consort of England, and, therefore, of the present German empress FJoj-ence ^ Kelley-Wisclmewtsy, the daughter of Judge Relley, of Penn^yiI mnifu who married a Russian student ; abroad, is one of the closest observers of j the condition of the working'women of ; New York.ana oneof the best informed as j regards their condition and prospects. ; She does a good deal of newspaper and ; other literary work in that city, is a clear ; thinker and has a better faculty of putting ! things on fa per than her father. Slie is a fine taoKSng, vigorojgs young woman, with an Hmusually attractive fyce. Harriet Beecher Stowe is failing. Her memory grows daily more treacherous. She is mucji of the time her old self, com versing on si} the topics in which she is interested with great intelligence and " fluency. But there are intervals, not infrequent, during which she forgets the names >f friends, Loses track of her own I business concerns and cannot speak accurately of thee vents >f the past. _ln i J-- ' 1 ."v. r some or cnese torgetrui intervals sne nas denied ill tcquaincance with people whom she ts known to ielight to honor and vccasioned no little temporary embarrassment thereby A. fragile looking woman, tall, slight, with a graceful, yielding, willowy figure, > shadows under her eyes and ghosts look- j in# out jf ' hem, attracted some little at tendon itanding in front of a glowing ; mass of lark pansies in a florist's window , a lay >r Swo since. None of the passers | had aver seen quite such an embodiment : of ;he pailid, the wistful, the spiritueiie. Everybody turned to look a second time ; at the iar$e ?yes, the md curves of the ; face, *:ne nelancholy mouth that looked I as if, should it smile, it would light up the whole lountenance gloriously By and by it did 3mile. and cordially, at a ; little ohittwho ran up to look at the j pansi is too. The w mian was, beautiful. Nobody recognized the quiet figure, but j it was hat 7. a writer whoso name is ! signed to sou, > of tne strongest verse of j the day?Edith Thorn u. who has w-uiJy i . made N sw Y >rk oer oermanect home, j ! ~ | Pl?c.'* J" Phwo. Almost r* icy liwsoaper 'f-iw A t3- | traiia has woi^co-iig to. v&y il-ouc tti* | rabbit piS-fie a ;hic :o.ony Aid now j comas i iijcju* wui from . hin?, taring | ft imgir which threar/in 'h;u *mfirv j A recen; lumber if Cha FAu? Ctaecte I contains i memorial to :o*r imicror from | the governor >? (TVassutat staring rhac, ! owing co :he appearance of swarms of j rats, ijt has been found necessa.-y tc ?Uter tne router of che government ecuner service in three if the oostai station? m the Khaikha retcon :n Duter Mor>/' lia. For two years past the pasturage of .ne districts in question nas suffered severely from the ravages ot these vermin, sad last year Dearly every blade of gras? was eater up. Tlie w hole country l-.ts t<eon honeycombed with their ourrews. .ho horses and camels are in a famishing state, and there is no means cf keeping them al've. Tlie burrows are a source )f great dangei to the mounted winners, and the want of forage render? it inii>os6ible to maintain a simply of animals lor the service.?Scientific American. The Pope's Triple Crown. The popes did not always wear the tlireo crown tiara. At first they wore an orcli- ! jjary miter with one crown around it, j then a second was added to it. and then \ a third, when it took the name of triregno (three kingdoms). This explains why sometimes the simple .miter is used and sometimes called the triregno.?Catholic News. ^ Kut?U'? Convict Houses. Siberia, as a place of exili^s shortly destined to become a thing dflrthe jxist. ; The Russian government, acting upon j the advice of the governors of Irkutsk ! and Amor, has decided to keep its pris- j oners in large convict houses, instead of j sending them to Siberia.? Frank Leslies, j PERSONAL. PARAGRAPHS. Frederick Freer has an old gauze fan j that he says is his" mascot Whenever j he painta a woman holding the gauze fan ; l^r* ^ter fEraPer^ Frederick j left San Remo the sultan sent him a col- I jar. consisting of nine hazel nuts with : inscriptions from the Koran, over'which i hS jf.hes Md sheit3 of the palace Sttredi*^ "" Whicb' 83 * ? ttsrprmce'woufd cure 1)1,111 Probably the oldest 6mplova^r^? government in term Muse, an ancient-*'*' ^" man who has stood guard at imedoor of the secretaries of the navy since 1828. years . nldL-and growjys-^Q?.feeble tha^^a aalL. ?Professor^^TS^TrT^S^I^y ^ i the speaking telephone and the ^mtograph, is she feet tall, straight, witn^^ rather long face. Expression thoughtful, simple manners, lips wiiich often part in smile and are seemingly incapable of giving utterance to h.-vrsh words, hair and beard plentiful and now tinged with j gray, blue eyes and a complexion warm i and ruddy with health. Gen. Crook, the famous Indian fighter, stands six feet in his stockings, and is as straight as an arrow. He has been thirtysix years in the service, and knows his business thoroughly. When on the war path Gen. Crook wears an old canvas suit said to be worth $1.25. He rides at -? ' -tUK the head or nis cornum vu a LUUiCt wtui | a rifle across .his arm. Ee is'a devoted hunter and fisherman, and it is said that he would go 1,000 miles to shoot a bear. The * czarewitch's engagement to Princess Militza, of Montenegro, is, it is j stated, in accordance with a resolution j of the czar that in future the heir to the ! throne shrill marry a princess born in the Russian orthodox faith. Hitherto they have married Lutherans or Calviniste, who have been rebaptizea. In future the empresses mypt be taken from the princesses of Russia, Servia, Romnania, Montenegro or Greece, Barnes Greeley, a brother of the founder of The Tribune, is a farmer in Pennsylvania. He is an eccentric man, and while he advocates the doctrines of the Prohibitionists, he thinks that too much water is a dangerous thing. He attributes bis excellent physical condition at the age of 75 to the small amount of water he uses, both as a beverage and for cleansing purposes. Chickens and pigs are his favorite live stock, and they roam at will over his house. Mr. Greeley says that hjs brother Horace gave him a' position on The Tribune in its early days, , -but he did not like it, and after a short trial returned to his pigs and chickens. The coming emperor is of a sullen mold. The young crown prince stalked out of the big Friederich street station the other night and faced a multitude of ! men who were waiting for a chance to cheer th9 soldier idol who is to succeed the present invalid. . Prince William seemed then not pretty, but tall, surly, magnificent and intent. "Soldiers ore made to fight," he says. Bismarck's plea has been tliat in this,empire soldiers were "Kocarrfl fh.-> npflrt? hv convincing JLuau& W pi vov? IV v?? f - . W the enemies of Germany that it would not be wise to make war. At an early day the young crown prince will ascend the throne, and then the world will see what the 2,000,000 soldiers of Germany were created for They worship this moody, resentful prince, these 2, <300 >)00 fighters He is not yet 30: ne haoes the English- he detests the Russians, bis power will be absolute add unhampered Caricature* it King William. I remarked a curious ideal -ivoljuiou of | the king of Prussia on my way from I Paris. There I saw portraits prrring \ j sad change from my bland ind blonde >M I gentleman >f IS67 His eye had becooi3 ferocious, his nose corvine, hi3 muscacn*.1 porcupiaish bis whols jxpresston tbac >t an ogre His mstomary altitude was chat of a mounted brigand taking from French peasants their substance. In -Usacc i king had lost 9pme of his ferocity, out j acquired a Mephistophelian i.ir In Switz: erland a 'nnale enthusiast of tea * International League of Peace *nd Liberty ' portrayed Prussian aing and Frenon itnperor is two idols to whom human ja.iri! fices are offered, fhe Frenchman was i ; serpent god, William a Dark Forest demon. ? Cnjgsing the Rhine, I found "die sing shrunken :n dimensions, and quit#* .11* man. yet not altogether oveiy . As far northward as Baden, resentment against France was mixed with 1 feeling toward the Prussians resembling that of patriotic Mar}* land toward "lie *'Yankees'* luring our war. At Rastadt the king had become a great soldier, at Carisruhe a saintly soldier. With his armies on cios < soil of France. William I was father :f the Fatherland?Bar harossa coming fro a; liis cavern to add-Cliarlemagne's rrows. to his own, and give born x> Germany ? Moncure D. C&nwav in The Cosmvpoii** i_ The Temper of a Razor. . The finest grades of razors are so ioli- j cace that even the famous. Damascus blades cannot equal them in texture. ' ft is not generally known that the grain of a Swedish razor is so sensitive thai its general direction is changed after a, short j service. When you buy a fine razor the grain runs from the "upper end of the I outer point in a diagonal direction toward the handle. Constant stropping will twist the steel until the grain appears to ? set straight up and down. Subsequent } use will a rag 'die grain outward from the edge, so tliat after steady use for several months the fiber of the steel occupies a | position exactly reverse to that which api peared on the day of purchase. The process also affects the temper of the blade, | and when the grain sets from lower outer end toward the back you h^ve a tool which cannot l)e kept in condition by the most conscientious barber. But here's another freak of nature. Leave the razor alcne foi a month, and when you take it up you will find the grain has resumed its first position. Thiss operation can be repeated until the steel is worn through to the back.?Steel Worker in Globe-Democrat. There are now GGO students in Clafln i university, Orangeburg, S. C., an institution for colored j>eop!e. Most of them are paying their own way, and are studious, zealous and ambitious. Help the Orphans. Iu tbe Thornwfcli Orphanage, CHlton, S. C., are 55 orphans. Thty are from tbe States of South Carolina, 1 Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mis* ' eissip-pi, Texas, Illinois, Maryland op a j 1 Massachusetts. They are from the j Presbyterian, Methodic, (Episcopal 1 and Protestant,) Baptist, Episcopalian and Lutheran denominations. They 1 are taught only in schoolroom, bat are fitted by practical labor, for life's ' , battles. No servants are qldployed i in any domestic duty, The 'Chd.dreii 1 do it all. The boys learn printing, < farming, gardening and carpentering j I The idea of "helping ihemaef?^^ love to help the /atherJ^C as u0 or- 1 phan with prnp^^w admitted. 2 Gifts /or their support should be sent to Rev. Wm. F c S. 0. grj>wn to ti ions, that a central buddtug for dining roci *,d kitchen^,. , c, poses is lo be built, the CorueretoL I d of which wiii he iaid oa jjsy 2ijtji i li Tb& Stui day-schools are all aekiffl I a B?nalle8t gif; will help. j .. ? liScoreJi^-icrs^Efied. i j b ? * I '* V The iDCteasiug kuowledge among i k farmers of the value of artjTn-ijQ0Ub foods DUtuneilj* t> in f peas. They are belter for growing rp pigs and early fattening thau corn.? b Toe pea shades the ground and on- b doabted'y exhausts the soil lees than t most other grains. Io wheat grow- F ing sections a crop of peas fed down 6 by bogs wus regarded formerly as an c excellent preparation for wheat. II a the land was free from thistles it was * considered Dearly as good for tbe j wheat crop to grow peas on it, as it j t was to have naked fallow on. But as ; ' weeds come id, peas Dave come .uui i i of fashion. It is hard to keep pea j-1 land cleao, even wbeo the peas are id I rows wide enough to admit of cojti- ? vatioo. Tte pea vines grow unevenly ' so that one is apt in boeiog to cut * them off. For this reason, when grown in field culture, peas are gen- i i erally sown * or drilled in thickly I eooughr to cover the entire sorfhce. | This will keep the weed* down early j I in the season, and until the pea vines j begin to shrivel and dry op. bat the ground can be cleared of its crop and plowed before the l?texr weeds ripen I their seed ?American Cultivator. ! j | Closing Ssercises of St. Ander- j son's School. ~ Mb. Editor:?We had the pleasure of attending the closing exercises of the above named school. They were opened by siDging. The teacher, Mr. J. D. Senn, examined the scholars in reading, history, geography, and arithmetic, which examination spoke well for both teacher and pupil* tuaa fhp.n announced and we 1/ IUUV? WW ? were made the partakers of a sumptuous repast prepared by the fair ladiee of the community. After one hour i intermission all repaired to the school hmee where we listened to the dialogues and recitations by the j scholnrp. Essays wer*- re d by Misses j Mittie Seon and #Miunie Huffman* I Mr. William Johnson was then iotro : ^uced and delivered a highly inter- I eating address on the importance of j teacbi ig brother iy love in our schools j Mr. Senn then-in a few words closed j the exerci3es. So was spent a? other j | pleasant day and we retaroed to our ; i homes much pleased with this portion j ' of Lexington Fork.? Vision. ' P ~ , V "WASHING-TON LETTER. [From Our Regular Correspondent.] April 27tb, 1888. G*>v. Hill, of New York, says be is not a emdidate for tbe Presidency, v and that be wil^most willingly bead Phe New York delegation at St Loose for tbe'reoomication of Cleveland. Tb<we Jjpqpotbiog new in this, perhaps itSi^ky^satisfy that small class of Diinccrats who have been, trying to mKkej5Sap;i*-ar that Gov. Hill was b,if er}t$^pbsed to Mr. Cleveland. The examination of employes of the Government Printing Office by the fc^jr-essionai committee eogaged in instigating that establishment, proves that the half was never told of the enormo/hs quantity of private f work that was done there for Republican officials and friends of tbe Reptrblicau PaWw Pointer. The taxpayers of the couotry were thus robbed of many thousand dollars. For a Republican investigation this one has made a large amount of gocd Democratic campaign material, ? For a time it looked es-though tbe 7 Republicans intended to make trouble over tbe discussion <ri the Mills' taiijf . bill, but tbeir discretion and good sense prevailed and an agreement was made to devote twenty days to general discussion, exclusive of night sessions. This will give elf tbe time " ~ , for fui! and free discussion of the measure tbat anyone.coald ask. It . was ol>o agreed to divide the time * equally between the Democratic and Republican speakers. The Democratic "leaders hope to get a final vote-on the bill by It^e ffth of Jaoe, the date of meeting, 01 the Sr. Louis convention, Jbot th# state of the regular appropriation'..hills is sncb, to say nothing of j^rae other measures in which man y^nembersare interested, that it is ejcjremely dcabtful. Besides, if ty Bepnblic8ns should feel dispose^xo pat obstacles \ in tbe way, it will/ be impossible ito " ^ have the qaee^oo settled by that 3?te. Howev/r, there can he. do iarm in hoping antil the last. k uurr|bf ^ rLav^^eea^rtde in the loose this week in fa?Gr of the-- Mdls ~" / ,ill. notably one by Representative iIcMilho, of Tennessee, in which he named th8 Republicans with bavj&g* n?r . lothing to offer as a substitute for f ' be measore. ./ The Texas delegation in Congress, failed at tbe White Hoose on Tues* J ay and presented en invitation J f ie President'and Mrs. Cleveland * tiend tbe dedication of the> n/^ T-liirillilt' it y list in. TjfeJl, y 9. As )0t ihVTiV*.l een accepted nor declfta^ptK Resident wants to go, but J now that be can take the V Secretary Faircbiid is o*pposedy\*fefcw be bill which ^provides J^s^*yr^ i >eea .passed by the ilouse arfd is mip >efore *he Senate. He says it is * irely too~expensive. Tfiie expense o^j >rodaction ancTtkftJoss caused by tructiou of the notes wHI make lit . .ost as macb to &aiotaio a givin ' ' iver.ige, aa the entire face value of be currency wiU be. The Senate committee on - Postifiices has favorably reported a bill vhicb provides fofthe erection ot a v i .< public builcfitig in every town wbera be gross postal receipts for the three pears past have exceeded $3,000 per . uiunm. The cost of tbe baildiog is in no case to exceed $25,000, and tbe joet of the site is not to exceed $5,000. Senator Yoorbees bas made a speech on the President's message in ^ which ?e paid his respects to Senator logalls for the latter's recent attack " ; on Gens. McCreilan and Hancock. He ceviewed tbe services of the two, gen-_ erals during the war, and dwelt upon the injustice with which McClellau was treated becaase be was a Democrat. He then reviewed the reconstruction period, and denounced the Republican administration of SonUt-^-i v':V :,r ern State governments. He justified the South for refusing to affiliate with tbe Republican party, saying, as well might the frontier settlements be~expected to welcome another invasion of tomahawks and scalptBg knives. He said he coold see nothing to vender at in tbe 75,000 Democratic ma joiiiy given in Loaisiaca bui, a few da\s ago. These people w?e alarmed at the possibility of a return to power -?2 v f the party and the tuen who bad j robbed them and left tbem overbnrdened with debt. Ris only wonder was that the vote was not unanimors. He. then spoke of the prosperity tf the South under,, Democratic rule, and closed Lis speech with the pr ? die ion - bat the verdict.of the Acueri- \ can p-op'e in November crxt won'd be tout there had been honest, >h< le government fer the last foDr years. and tbat -it should be con? tinned. ;rJ&i ' ? ?,.. .4 Ki d: e. s i3 stowed ay ay in if# l.... * a rr.cc> 1i>fiV?? in ^rtWel' }/\ fl> t i > I S v * TVV w w ) w sueeteo every object aroaucL - ' ' ' * -< ' . - . 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