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iv | . ; r; THE LEXINGTON OiSPATOH, ( """ . ~ """"" i^mEUuti RATES? ^ rCBLIsatD EVICT WEMIESDaT ; i y (.pace fof i each insertion. 7 Eli MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ! _ ', ^ Marriage notices inserted free. ^ ^ One copy one year $1.50. j~ [ ~ ~~~. -/urnta* advertising rates. : :Ktrr 5l vol. xvni. Lexington, s. c? Wednesday. October it, m no.-is. r?~ ,?--? T^r ? .L..^.ui r?.-, ? r.....^.?^..,? eu. i ^?r.-.-^r-. w~* ttvcrvtirtrsMavxpvpm'VX'XrrMR *ztt/3^5Z3ZZ^4*2i*&& l?&S7ZXaf* yjff* || ?1 .? ???MM? CLOTHING For the Spring and ; i Summer ?AT? 3LJ- EEFSTXaiT'S, 150 Main Street, Colombia, S. C. * . I have iust returned from j / . _> the Northern Markets with a HL -? ^ " choice lini of CIAtbinpr, Hats, j Gent's Flbmshiiiof Goods, j . v ' T '? Trunks, Talises, Satchels, "Pfr> r>nn?l tr> anv "-^1 house in the State. I am prepared to offer great bargains this season I having bought for cash which gives me great advantage over my competitors. For styles, qualities, and low prices, I can astonish the old and young, big and little. Hch and poor. I can sell Gent's, Youth's and Bov's 7 %. Clothing cheaper than the cheapest. The citizens of Lexington are especially invited to ex-?-?" ofA/ilr Ko-fnm nni1 UJU1IZC Uljf !JtW l\ l/v IVI V chasing elsewhere. Thanking you for your past liberal pWMiage and soliciting a ll Jam very respectfully, v ' ' ^Successor to Philip Epstiu, under Columbia Hotel Block,) ?Seot. 7-tf ' i - THE MOST POPULAR <fTOOMENTS]> -AND&s*jig jlimiu, -ARE AT? M. A. MALONE'S. Superior good.-: Iroin fooleries of largest ! ^productions, witu immense Capital and I greatest reputation. " i t. yona wi ut a i\ow i'jhiio at $250. $300. $350, $400. ^450 to $000. J can supply you I take secoainhanil Pianos in par; payment ; for new onest giving me a stock of second ^Jpuid Pianos v'fcveb I ean sell cheap. \ r If yon want Parlor Organs at $53. $63, * $76, $85, $10fW.ud .^wards, I can accommodate you. If you want s.u Organ ,"^? c^sreh or Sab l>ath-schoo! at joV $80. .-85", $100. S125 to $260. * !! procure on??. special , discounts to chnrulnsx and ministers. The favorite* viz: Eaay New Home And Dome *tie, also White aud JDavis 1 Sewing Machines. tien supply machides : from S3U to S60. all warranted. Cau sup- > ply you with needles, part*. Attachments or ' oil for all makes of maohifce*. I have the bosf. eqniped M?si? ffonse in <his section of the State, and defy .eojn petition, quality conjidered, Call on xne for rterms, etc. Offioe, Post Office Block, 192 Main Street. COLUMBIA, S. C. I , ?W. A. MALONE, Proprietor,! 4 Jane 20?6m ; C "DO THYSELF NO HARM." REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON IN THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, Suicide In Olden Time Wu Considered Honorable and a Sign of Courage?Modern Apologists for This Crime?Genuine Science and Revelation in Accord, Brooklyn, Oct. 14.?At the tabernacle this morning, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., took for hi3 text, Acts xvi, 28 and 29. "He drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, fitupposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." The sermon was as follows: Here is a would be suicide arrested in Ins deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and according to the Roman law, a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner; and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced tr be endungeoned for three or four years, then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years; and if tha nriwinor hraatHncr nail waa fr> ha-ra suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge i to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not confidence in bolt3 and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be- something strange and : supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, waking j out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing ; that they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the execu- ; tiouer's ax on the morrow and suffer I public disgrace, resolves to precipitate : his own decease. But before the 6harp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the un- ' loosened prisoners arrests the blade by ; the command: "Do thyself no harm." ! In olden time, and where Christianity I had not interfered with it, suicide was coniidered honorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned himself ; when told that Alexander's ambassador ; had demanded the surrender of the j Athenian orators. Isocrates killed him- j self rather than surrender to Philip of j Macedon. Cato, rather than submit to I Julius Caesar, took Lis own life, and after i three times his wounds had been dressed tore them open and perished. Mithridates ; killed himself rather than submit to Pom- j pey, the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed j bis life by poison from his ring, con- ; sidering life unbearable. Lycurgus a i suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the dis- ; aster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, i and one night his servant heard the ex- j emperor arise, put something in a glass j and drink it, and soon after the groans I aroused all the attendants, and it was i only through utmost medical skill he was : resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate, i Times have changed, and yet the j American conscience needs to be toned ? up on the subject of suicide. Have yea j seen a paper in the last month that did j not announce the passage out of life by j OtjsV own behest? Defaulters, alarmed \ V-i<ot o? osws, qy.it liio prc-oi^l , tately. Men losing large fortunes go out ; of the world because they cannot endure j Aviofftn/ia "CVnoHvjto/1 ofF^tiAU ! COiimj CAlOVQiiVX?. JL JL UOHttWV* domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impatience, | anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitu- ; tion, misanthropy, are considered suffi- i cient causes for absconding from this j life by Paris green, by laudanum, by bel- j ladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, j by firearms. More cases of felo de se in the last two years than any two years of the world's existence, and more in the last month than in any twelve months, j The evil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some ! doubt as to whether there was really j anything wrong ahout quitting this life : when it became disagreeable, and there are found in respectable circles people j apologetic for the crime which Paul in j the text arrested. I shall show you be- j fore I get through that suicide is the | worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a I warning unmistakable. But in the earlv ! part of this sermon I wish to admit that j some of the best Christians that have ever : lived have committed self destruction, ! but always in dementia, and not respon- | sible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Chris- i tian who dies in his bed in the delirium oC typhoid' fever. While the shock of ; the catastrophe is very great, I charge i all those who have had Christian friends : under cerebal aberration step off the i boundaries of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord i took them right out of their dazed and j frenzied state into perfect safety. How : Christ feels toward the insane you may | know from the kind way he treated the j demoniac of Gadara and the child luna- j tic, and the potency with which he J hushed tempests either of sea or brain. ; Scotland, the land prolific of intellec- ! ? ' J ^ TT tual giants, uaci none graauer man nugu Miller. Great for science and great for God. He came of the best Highland blood, and was a descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent for piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attainments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of JJuckiand and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and he struck .bis tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until lie brought geology and tideology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the CVeaipr" and the "Testimony of the Rocks" proclaimed the bans of an everlasting rnarriag6 between genuine science and revelation. On this latter hopk he toiled day and night through love .of nature and lore of God, until lie could not sleep, and his brain gave away, end lie was found dead with a revolver by his side, fbe cruel instrument having had two bullets?;Qp.e for inm and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner's inquest was examining ! it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Miller, after his i brain had ceased throbbing that winter nfght hi his study at Portobello? j Among th,o j#igliriest of earth, among j tin? mightiest ,oi Jieayen, No one doubted the* piety of William j Cowper, the author of those three great ; hymns, "Oh, for a closer whIk wich God," "What various hindrances we j meet," "There is a fountain Idled with blood:" William Cowper, who share* .with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the j chies Upnorsof Christian hyunsoloay. in hypochondria he resolved to lake his j own life, and ixxle to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at he very point from which he expected I tpepfing, and rode back to his bonre, j and that night threw himself upon his Lown knife, but the blade broke; and ; he hanged inm^lf to the ceiling, i rope parted. No wonder that 1 <GoJ iucrciiully delivered him from amentia 1 c ss: down and I ka7b*fcfinr?.imhiirnirmh -atiiu um ! wrote mar omer njrmn just asmemora| ble: Gocl moves in a mysterious way His wouders to perform; lie plants his footsteps in the sea. And rides upon the storm. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan his work In vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. ! "While we make this merciful and ! ! righteous allowance in regard to those j who were plunged into mental incoherence, I declare that that man who in the j use of his reason, by his own act, snaps the bond between his body and his soul j goes straight into perdition. Shall I j prove ill Revelation xxi, 8: "Murderers | shall have tlfeir part in the lake which j burneth with fire and brimstone." | Revelation xxii, 15: "Without are j ; dogs, and sorcerers, and whore- ; i mongers, and murderers." You do not ! believe the New Testament? Then, per; haps you believe the Ten Commandments; ! j "Thou shalt not kill." Do you say all these passages refer to the taking of the i life of others? Then I ask you if you ire not. as responsible for your own life j as for the life of N ^ -7? God gave you : a special trust IrS^tJur life. He made j you the custodian of your life as he made : you the custodian of no other life. He ; gave you as weapons with which to de- j ! feml ic two arms to strike back assail- i ants, two eyes to watch for invasion and ' a natural love of life which ought ever j to be on the alert. Assassination of j others is a mild crime compared with ; the assassination of yourself, because in ' the latter case it is treachery to an es- | pecial trust, it is the surrender of a cas- J \ic you were especially appointed to keep, j ic is treason to a natural law and it is ! treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how 'God in the Bible looked j upon this crime, I point you to the i rogues' picture gallery in some parts of J the Bible, the pictures of the people who ! have committed this unnatural crime, j Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the j walls of Bathshan. Hera is the man who chased little David?ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, Witch of Ender. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him; and when the servant declines, then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide. Here is Ahithophel, the Maohiavelli of olden times, betraying liis best friend David in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom, and joining that fellow in his attempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, he takes a short cut out of a disgraced life into the suicide's eternity. There he is, the ingrate! Here is Abimelech, practically a suicide. He is with an army, bombarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life he has left in his cracked skull he commands his armor bearer: "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me." There is his post mortem photograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was * a martyr, and we have in our day ^pologists for him. And what won k!r. iu _ day when, we lvw> book rSfrefiltng AaronHurr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue to .George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the part of some of his pretended apostles?a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of all the ages, Judas Iscariot, All the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to commit suicide if any man ever had?what with his destroyed property, and his body all aflame with insufferable carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it, a pestiferous wife, and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs n rvicmA nf hrolren nnt+prv vet erv ing out in triumph: ''All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil, and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those who havehurled themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it, and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. AVhat is the cause? I.charge upon infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter be blissful without reference to how ive live and how we die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the next? And when our existence i here becomes troublesome, why not pass right over into Elysium? Put this down among your most solemn reflections, and consider it after you go to your homes: there has never been .a case of suicide where the operator was not either demented, and therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all tiitv ages, and I challenge the whole universe. There never has been a case of self destruction while in full appreciation of his immortality, and of the fact that that immortality would be glorious or wretched according as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected him, lou say 11 is a L... trouble, or you ; , sny it is electrical currents, or it is this, [ or ii is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is the abdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity which practically says: "If you I 'haft like this life get out of it, and you j will land either in annihilation, where j there are no notes to pay, no persecutions j I to sutler, no gout to tolment, or you will j j land wheri there will be everythingglori- j ous and nothing to pay for it." Infidel- j i ity always has been ajiologetic for self j immolation. After Tom Paine's "Age of Pea son" was published and widely j 1 read there was a ;narked increase of self 1 slaughter. I A man in London heard Mr. Owen de- | | liver his in lidel lecture 011 socialism, and j j went borne, sat down and wrote these j I words: "Jesus Christ is one of the | weakest characters in history, and the | Dibie is the greatest i>ossib!e deception," j and then shot himself. David Hume I >vu;to these words: "It would be no I crime for ine to divert the Nile or the j Danube from its natural bed. Where, ! then, car. be the crime in my diverting a j few drops of blood from their ordinary ; phannel?" And having written the , essay he loaned it to u friend, the friend 1 read it, wrote a letter of thanks and ad- J miration 'and shot himself. Appendix j to tile santo i>ook. Poussear. Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, ! under certain circumstances, were apolo- ! getio for self immolation. Inildelity puts uj) 110 bar to people's rushing out from j this world into the next. They teach us 1 it docs not make any difference how you j live hero or go owi of tiiis world, you i will laud either in an oblivious nowliere ' or a glorious soniev. here. And infidel- j ity holds the uppel-end of the rope for the suicide, and uiui> the pistol with j which a man blows his brains out. ana mixes the strychnine lor the last swallow. If infidelity could cany the day and persuade the majority of people in this country that it docs not. make any difference how you go out of the world you will land safely, the Hudson and the East rivers would be so full of corpses the ferryboats would be impeded in their progress, and the crack of a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the ramble of a street car. I have sometimes heard it discussed whether the great dramatist was a Christian or not. I do not know, but I know that he considered appreciation of a future existence the mightest hindrance to self destruction: For who could bear the whips and scorns of time. The oppressor's wroug, the proud man's coutumely. The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of otSce, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, "When he ftmself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels boar. To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after deaA? The undiscovered country, from whose bourne No travelers returns?puzzles the will? Would God that the coroners w5uld be brave in rendering the right verdict, and yheft ifL^casc of irresponsibility they sjiv! <l Whilft this man was Hpniontprl took his lifein the other case say: "Having read infidel books and attended infidel lectures, which obliterated frornij this man's mind all appreciation of any-1 thing like future retribution, he committed self slaughter!" Ah! Infidelity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God am! , angels and men, stand up, thou-monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy | cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages! Stand j up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na- : tions, leper of the centuries! Stand up, j thou monster Infidelity! Part man. part : panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the hu- ! man gore through which thou hast waded, i stand up and take thy sentence! Down j with thee to the pit and sup on the sobj j and groans of families thou hast blasted, ! and roll on the bed of knives which thou j hast sharpened for others, and let thy j music be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the ! crimes of self immolation for the last j century on the part of those who had | their reason. My friends, if ever yonr life, through ; its abrasions and its molestations, should! seem to be unbearable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, do ! not consider yourself as worse than others. | Christ himself was tempted to cast him- ; self from the roof of the temple; but as i he resisted, so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your j trouble J prescribe life instead of death, j People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on j the way. Remember that God keeps ; the chronology of your life with as much precision as he keeps the chronology of nations, your death as well as your cradle. Why was it that at midnight, just at j midnight, the destroying angel struck J the blow that set the Iseraelites free from ! bondage? The four hundred and thirty years were up at 12 o'clock that night, j The four hundred and thirty years were not up jit 11, and V o'clock would havo i been tardy ancT'tOO late. The four hundred and thirty years were up at 12 o'clock, and the destroying angel struck ! the blow, and Israel was free. And God knows just the hour when it is time to lead you from eartlily bondage. By : liis grace make not the worst of things, j but the best of them. If you must take j the pills, do not chew them. Your ever- j lasting rewards will' accord with your j earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave | to Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as j had been a chain of iron. For the asking?and I do not know to whom I speak in this august assemblage, but the word may be especially appropriate ?for your asking you' may have the same grace that was given to the Italian martyr Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from "the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." . And remember that this brief life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very thin < but very important rim, and close up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better keep out of it until God breaks that rim and separates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm or summer insects, reap nor mio | a jungle of Bengal tigers. There is a sorrowless world, and it is i so radiant that the noonday sun is only j the lowest doorstep and the aurora that ! lights up our northern heavens, con- i founding astronomers as to what it j can be, is the waving of the banners j of the procession come to take the con- j quorors home from church militant to ! church triumphant, and you and I have i ten thousand reasons for wanting to go i there, but we will never get there either j by self immolation or impenitency. All j our sins slain by the Christ who came to 1 do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepulchral gates behind us j will be overpowered by the clang of the j opening of the solid pearl before us. O I God, whatever others may choose, gino# me a Christian's life, a Christian's deatK*^ a Christian's burial, a Christian's immor- i tality. * TH? FAIR SEX. Lady Dudley, the famous English i beauty, is as white as a pond lily. * Wellesley girls have been provided with an imported Venetian gondola. Ninon de l'Enclos said a woman is j more influenced by what Bhe divines j than by what she is told. English society is stirred to its profoimdest depths by a discussion as to | whether the Countess of Dudley really does sleep between black silk sheets. Mrs. "William Morris, wife of the poet, j is said to be a great believer in her hus- j band's socialistic propaganda. She is a woman of much beauty, and has two I pretty daughters. Queen Christine, who is one of the finest female swimmers in the world, re AAMyv/MN A "DAT? AP CCI1UJ 6WUU1 tHJIUOS I.UO XJ1J Vi ucu<uuau iii three-quarters of an hour. Tlie widow of the late Emperor Fred- j eriek is making a collection of all the obituary notices which have appeared in j the world's press in reference to her hus- | band. Sarah Althea Hill (Sharon) Terry was i once a student at the Woman's seminary in Danville, Ky., where 6he is remembered as an attractive girl, noted for her sweet temper and amiable disposition. Women have been eligible for places on the Louisiana school boards for ten years, but now for the first time one has been thus placed. A school district in \Ye>t Carroll, in the northeastern part of the state, hus tho honor of first doing this. A lady who recently visited Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that the poetess is accustomed to plan her bills of fare a week in advance, subject to such changes as unforeseen circumstances may cause. She does all her marketing and takes great pride in her household duties. ULtuXXtX, JTLXtvtf [ ? ' * -IT' ? 1 Iff- ' W-'-rfj ? '?M v.3-.'-LUU.-J ar, | ^ueo^ \ 1 ctom rqntiyrecei ved from a Glasgow gentleman copy of her speech a; Glasgow inscriboou a piece of parchment no larger tin a threepenny bit. Via* writing is so mute as to be illegible except through araioscope, and was the work of a man ov^fO years of age. -Irs. Arthur Stanard (John Strange Winter) says that hen she went to the first rehearsal of "ootle's Baby" at the Globe theatre, a&is black cat followed her through the sta? door and on to the boards. From the moment she knew her play would be success. Mrs. Stannard invariably w<rs on amulet round her neck. It is said that te Princess Maud of Wales carefully colets, in the yards of Saiidringham Hut*, and in those of , Windsor, BalmoraLnd Osborne, all the peacocks' feathersjm^ begs them also from her young fends of the English j nobility. -gmage, received ; without pretty hand I 6cpeens andsS^hei^at bazars for the profit of pooi Jitf/, children. Maria PiAu&J of Portugal, is a very talented v^Pm^.She takes very little invest in .polfc# preferring outdoor sports to the in^-jJ^s of statesmen. She is a clever hotseMoman and loves the chase. She is a good swimmer, and |?al\vnvi^ears a "tndal which she gained [ ter^B^Bkebpa^Veas ago for saving' the r iives^S^ief' tv*. hildren who, falling into the sea at (fences, would have been drowned if their mther had not jumped into the water a ad rescued cbem. She is a good pianistl siigs fairly well and is very fond of thifthatre. She is an artist in water color {inning and her pictures, sell well. A Boy Oollibo&tor from Boston. Speaking of copyright Max O'Rell told a funny story a>out his collaborator in his book on Anerica. lie was very much amused witl an elevator boy in a Boston hotel. In jngland an elevator is calls:1 a ' lift." lax O'Rell questioned the coy one da^ [bout his experiences with the queer pople he came across, and the little feUor told one or two very original anecdote'. He was promptly taken into partnership. An agreement was actually. (7iawn up between Max 0'Rell and thjt elevator boy, by whicli the lad became 4 collaborator in writing the book and wi i get cue dollar on every thousand copies ?old. He wrote out his ; own anecdotes, ^nd his "copy" will go to the printers. "The boy had often given me a lift,?.said Max O'Rell, "and I thought it be only fair to give him a lift. So I ook him into partnership," The authc's idea in this curious proceeding is to a?viate possible difficulty ; in protecting his copyright. He says that the boy's name shall appear on the ; title page, if lecessary.?New York World. Vi The Bier of Persia. The shah of Persia, who is about to make a tour oi Europe, is that exact cross between ffiatleman and barbarian, ; tyrant and pf<5gessive, that it is difficult i to know precise^ what to do with him. , .~:n id.-.: i c.? ?n i l)Ul lie YVJLL1 UT3 WLlIZiWl, iUi OU txlo^L, UIIU feted, and will go back to Persia with liis brute instbcfc strengthened. The > cliief charactai-jtic of the fellow is low passion. He isja sensualist and cruel. He never had. e^en ordinary Persian ad- ; vantages t^^^exefined and educated, j virtuaiiv ban- ; LlicoTmB. ^ming to power with all i his grossness uirestrained by culture, ho J has made a skrn, strong and vicious ! ruler. His betters can be found any- ! where in the slums of the cities, and a sprinkle of his equals among the aris- j tocracy anywhere.?Globe-Democrat. Sir Charles ^nd Lady Dilke are riding through India, rr ' One of the Latest Whims. The newest thing among the "carriage girls" is that the footman shall lie provided with a small shawl of a color to match his livery, and when he opens the carriage door he holds up this shawl so that i lie feet of the lady descending shall i nofc be seen. The whim originated with a (Tnicago heiress who had feet of the proportions which the lunny paragrapher is prone to ascribe to the women of that city. She is extremely pretty and wears a number six glove, but only her shoemaker and her maid kuow tlo number of her shoe, and they wouldn't tell for worlds. Her shoemaker has lain wake nights planning a last that will make that gin's foot look small, and he lias never succeeded except in his dreams. She is painfully sensitive concerning it; her skirts are all made to touch the floor, and so skillfully hung that when she j walks liiey drape their lolds in such a ! way that not a glimpse of a boot appears. But oiv day she had cause to alight from her coupe in front of a large mirror that was outcMe of a furniture shop, and then and there she discovered to her horror that every time she stepped in and out of her carriage ^11 her precautions for concealing her feet were useless, and any passer by might see. She went home in despair and never put one of those unliappv feet into her carriage again until she had thought. out the plan of the shawl. Being a woman of wealth and a social leader, anything she did was sure to be eojVied, and now it is held that it is indecent to expose feet under such circuuxstauce^?pud aill the footmeu are pro >yjtn^^hyihawls for modesty's | oweet-?^SvRfork W<orld. A Pair,* I bCcdi-ru Sho?-.-,. Making a shoe iBthe olden time, when 1 one man killed tW beast, utc.-: :d and tanned the |kii^ made the shoes for himself, was a If mparatively simple matter, but at pr^k to such an. extent has the divisfcg|MMabor gone that it is said that processes must be gone Um^P^with before the hide is ready for tiie customer in the elegant j shoe store of the present day. Just as ! all science is required to feed a mau, for i on his dinner tabled will be seen the pro- { duels of every land on the globe, just so j all countries contribute to the manufacture of a pair of shoes. The leather, for example, comes from our western plains, the bark from our forest trees, while the cloth, thread, nail?, wire, screws, steel, brass may come from as many different quarters, and a large number of machines have been /invented to simplify the work; but in spite of all this, after lite leather is duly prepared, and comes to the factory read]' for manufacture, no less tlian fifty different pairs of hands are employed in one point or another in putting together the forty-four pieces which | enter into a pair of fashionable shoes. Prairie Dogs' ''Happy Family." There is another old story now nearly i entirely exploded. -1 refer to the happy j fa mil v of the "prairie doer." the prairie o\v! and the rattlesnake all living in harmony in the samrcBurrow. Of course tliev do nothing olfiM> kind, but thexxiarmots have to put x Jvith these owls anil snakes th.e best tlie^*an, precisely as we, ' in our large tow* and communities, ! have to put up with jour owls and snakes j i:i human form?Bieeting and passing ; men every day of our lives whom per- j haps we know well to be sneak thieves j and cutthroats. It'? said upon good authority that prairie ,marmots will even desert the burrow' in which a big j "rattler" enters, and even, if small cob- j blest ones be handy |i the neighborhood of the entrance, dejiberately seal it up ! with them, so that the snake cannot get 1 T \ i i out ami must starve to ueatn.?sorest; and Stream. Now and Artlutic Idea. A new and artistic idea has been introdueed at dinnerparties lately. The knives i and forks are all different and each one made after some special design. Dimin- j utive copies of antique German and J Turkish swords serve the guests mascu- ; line for knives, matched by tiny daggers | <>f Italian patterns given to those of the sex feminine. Fanciful flower shapes fail to the lot of the ladies for spoons, matched by leaves wrought in silver for I thoii escorts. No two pieces arealike, ! and not one but suggests it8*destination, ! whether for man or maid. A Damascus | blade, a quaint old Russian weapon, a j daintily petaled wild rose is useful as a conversation suggester, however whim- J sical the notion in other ways.?Detroit | Free Press. A Check That JDid Good. Some weeks ago a prominent real j estate dealer in Los Angeles handed a i gentleman a check fQr_$?diiiO in a deab,> The recipient of ifnaving some ITEtlei obligations ot*4aniiing as the result of | too much boom, quietly indorsed it and ' handed it to a e*ed$Gs, and thus it started ! on its mission of charity, love and busi- I ness. In due course of time.it turned | up in the hands pf the original drawer of { it, with no less than fifteen indorsements on the back, "if, had paid $37,500 in debts, made fifteen men happy, and returned to its drawer.?Santa Ana (CaL) cm. 1 DUIUULUU. If They Ever Get There. We recently heard a congregation sing that grand old hymn "Am I soldier of the cross?" As they came to the lines "Must I be carried to the skies onflowcry boils of ease?" the thought came to us. Yes, you must, or some of you will never get there. The thought of real lighting with evil has never occurred to you, and the only idea you have of .going to heaven is to be carried|there "on flowery beds of ease." Alas!?Louisville Western Recorder. The World's Greatest Copper Mine. "Just think of the wealth of the Calumet andJiecla copper mine in the upper peninsula," said a gentleman who has stock in that company and who is enthusiastic on the wealth of the northern mines. "Reliable estimates hewe been made in that mine by shafts and measurements, and there is in sight $600,000,CCO worth of copper. There are eighteen years' work ahead measured, and no one knows how much more.?Chicago Times.Hal Clayton, a full blooded California Indian, recently astonished the editor of The Eiko (Cal.) Independent by calling at the oftice and ordering a supply of visiting cards. MEN OF NOTE, i Bits of Interesting Personal Gossip Culled from the Newspapers. Bismarck has a mania for getting n-ucu J icvjuui nj Alexander Dumas is said to be the rich est writer in the world. ICaiser William has given orders that the public celebration of the victory at Sedan should cease. M. Paul Blouefc, "Max O'RelJ," is preparing a lecture on.Americans for a tour of Great Britain. Chief Justice Fuller is far from tall, but his new gown of office took more silk in construction tlian the dress of a society woman. Uncle Elias Gibson, of Kilbourne, Bis., who is Hearing hi? 90th year, has the distinction of having killed ninety-two wolves since the war, a record that no other Illinois man can even approach. Gem William. T. Sherman seems to have not the slightest fear of death, and talks of it sometimes in an off hand way that, is extremely weird. Not long after Sheridan's funeral Sherman was speaking to a friend of the many prominent officers of the late war who had died. "1 shall have to hurry up," remarked Sherman, '-and die pretty soon, or there will be nobody but militia to bury me." Professor Bonney, the great geologist, is described as a man of some fifty autumns, with rather a thin face, splendidly developed cranium, which is nearly baid, ami darkish beard, that is now undergoing the process of grizzling. Professor Bonney is of about the ordinary stature. His voice is naturally gentle, but he can command peremptory and decisive tones when the occasion requires. 1 lo wears spectacles. Another wonderful blind man has made his appearance in the newspapers. His name is Alden F. Ilays, and he lives near Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Hays keeps a coal yard, and lie conducts the entire business himself. He writes all his lettors on a type writing machine, but he keeps his liooks with pen and ink. He walks all about the town by himself, and without the help of a cane, and on Sundays lie plays the organ in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Hays is a son of Gen. Alexander Hays, who lost his life in the battle of the Wilderness. Jefferson Davis' home at Beauvoir, Hiss., is a model of the old time architecture of the far south. The house rests on large brick pillars, eighteen feet about the earth, and is surrounded by deep verandas supported by Tuscan pillars. Wide glass doors open into a hall that is twenty feet wicLe and extends quite through the house to the latticed veranda in the rear. Oil the grounds there is a vineyard, and in the beautiful garden grow orange and fig trees and all kinds of tropical flowers. Father O"Sullivan, who left New Yorkcity a short time ago for Florida, and died at Tampa of yellow fever, traveled extensively through Europe and was with the British army in Africa during the war with the Zulus. In one engagement where, through an unfortunate blander, one portion of the British force began firing on a detachment of their own men. Father O'Sullivan volunteered to run the gauntlet and inform the attacking party of their mistake. For this act of bravery he received a gold medal from Queen Victoria and was promoted . to the rank of major. He had many ' friends in America who will learn of his 1 death with sorrow. j Justice Horace Gray, of the supreme court, is putting the linishing touches to the quaintest new house in Washington. Tl is a reproduction in brick and stone .... 1 .. .V...K1, ai'U I'll ll uuuuio couio *ji iiju ihuiiiaij New England farm house, with its high pitched roof and overhanging eaves. It is perfectly plain and rigidly rectangular, ' and attracts more eyes than its more or- j r..-.mental and conventional neighbors. What did you build such a house as that for?" asked a society woman of the tall and handsome bachelor justice the other day. "For my library, madam," 1 ho replied, with his still, old fashioned bow. His library is as dear to liim as tho ;<?f his eye. His sister keeps his house?lie keeps his library. There is no j other law library liko it in the United . Stales, except, of course, the all comprehending National Law library in the I old supreme court room in the basement j of tbe Capitol. When Fill Nye, tho humorist, passed through Chicago recently, lie did not t*n | a tunny story nor cracu: a ."joae taat was caught by his friends. Nye is a jovial and cordial fellow, but he allows" his funny sayings to enter the world by his pen more than by his mouth. The difference in financial returns from the two methods is evident. The caricatures of himself that illustrate Nye's funny stories are excellent representations, barring the few exaggerated qualities. The hald head, smoothly shaven face and generally cadaverous expression behind a pair of spectacles aro all there in the original article. Bill Nye is a bright looking man. He is less than forty years old. tall and thin. His complexion is sandy and his hair very thin, liis dark eyes are bright, and the prominent lower jaw, jo smooth and regular in outline, has the habit of moving itself down at intervals and assuming a comical position that is about thu only humorous thing in Nye's address, liis good nature is never failing. There is nothing of the dude about Biil Nye. He is too thin to have his clothes lit him very well, and too fond of assuming the easiest attitude "TuTcaTr V'Vbl m lounging uoouc to maintain a good tit"#1"* ever fj^one. _ There ore 210 flies _^nJ everyday sort of a newspaper 'man?no journalist?and the sarde- ready companion all the year round. Crabbing a Pacific Lsland. Chili has coolly seized Easter island, in the eastern part of the Pacific, distant about 2,309 miles from the cast of South America. It is inhabited by Polynesians. This is the island upon which are to be found gigantic stone statues fairly well chiseled into likenesses of the human form. Who the sculptors were who cut these stones has never been learned. Chili wants to make a penal colony of the island and put her prisoner to work in the ou.trrios. "When you see what you want in the Paciiic grab it,'' seems to be the doctrine of many governments at present. ?New York Press. Direct from tiro Front. JvNnxviT.r.E. 'I i:.w , Ju'?, 2, IR&S The Su it"' Sf-i'i'ifw AH on', a t (la.: Oen>*iJ.'iiKN:?I tv?:i oheeifu'h >ie< trntbfni!y h.?\ sii;%* S S. S. ia tie ^rei-fesf blood purifier nu ? ?r'n I. iSSr I a.'Uirm'ieA bioob poison. Pb>?ic;itt s Tit Jitfi] ;ne with i><> fpx d leenltp. I i'-ok ? half drz-o) ti.tl^?ei f ;t;da < f blood medicine, but wiihon? receiving any per.ri.amid relict! I vfti i concert to ivy S S S. I lifclirst c?t7{tIt- witli iije graves* dotthtt)1 sticrtw. I had been so <-f{<r?j deceive d Hut iinpr</v*'i??e!it cam?1, al><. I continued iis nee nr,til perfect!) well. I have s.ince manicd ?i rt have a healthy family. r No h-.tr.e of the ?1ia-?ae ih.5-eeu. S/.rttV Specific dune all this for me, him! i ion ;p ?t? ful. Y<<i.re truly, J S- Stkadfk. 118 Dsie Avenue. Tu-iS-o < eases mailed free. Tti? Swiff S; t'cilic Co., Drawer !> Atlanta, Ga. Sow Wlrjat After tl?? f'tilnre t^f the hist ubea' crop, ftr.tnr* ir-:ni!!a may have tec Sittlf. {?> flow !<>r mother crop. Thero arc s<ur.e rciuumn why even ?ne should |.nr. forth his >*?? < x?*r# tioiiK in rv.iso his own supply of vfifM?. If fnc t>t-?o; I * depend it western flour they ate oof jjr.ii\> lay in a supply whrn it ia cheap hut vill iake the ri?v!c of toft market arm offer when u conn r is M.HfJo. Tbi fact thai wheal c'osftd in Chicag? iant Wc.incmlay at J,0-1. m:d TI.iks Iy at 1 20 <iud bounced up. to 1.50 fhiduy, j;nd to 2 CO Saturday is ; 9tion?j ftrpument m favor of f!?? L'lftsluiof.i i'nnneis pairii t; their o.v; wheat. Should ihrse prices h- 11 f??> some time, i! hit w;>n!il sell :0 $7.00 o $9.00 a barrel. Then heme raised vhesi ti >it costs in labor $1 50 a bushel, is cheaper than we;-tern wheat i< r which you have to pay ox? ? dollar. Tlunilu? Ibur, m ule hem >!3l best wheat it:ou?ai ccutrtry riiil.b. is heifer thai) ney pafint evei twined jqt from a western rrisli. As to fcb? time for sowing* in this climate you lunst use your own judgment un-.i ilo the best y?'!i can. The ordinary flight NUSed last SfcaitU ii. will ilo atwell for seed as th?.: which is io uort d flOUl oll.it' State.1. Tnkit.o .?i r-hin^r. into ci snuirMv.p. you shot^/ sow etungh wheat, fur the demandsof your farm ?Carolina Spartan. Consumption Sur:ly CuredTo Tin' Enrrou :?Please infuru' your mulei*; thai. I hs?\c? n posdi1 reiucrtly f r the above named disease By ihs # timely nse thousands o: hopeless cases have been permanent';, cured. I shall bo cjiad to send f?< bottles of my remedy fkkk to any (f your readers who have consumption if fbev will semi me Mnir j,r d post office address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCTM, M. 0 ! RSI Pearl Street, Now York. Life is made no, not, of <:ip o j nacrittcrM or ?: 11i?-:; but of !i11?? thi:i?> : in which (.miles and kmdri! and ; m -il oMigalihrs g?e:i liJilo'n.i!!y j fro what *.?. id aii:l {if'.u.n vr. Ii??j }i;*?i : j iml secure couifoit. j When the hair shows signs < f fail J i?L', h gi >;t otico to ii.se AN'.v's Hair j Vigor. This preparation strengthens j the scalp, promotes the growth of cow 1 hair, r. s'on s the natural color to gi-y iml hilt-il lctir, ami remle^-j i.i soft, i [..liaut. aud glossy. i The Condition of the Crops Throughout tLe State Shown to be Rather PiscvMw aging-Cotton, Coru and Rice Suffer from the Wet Weather and Overflows. Tho Siate Dopaririient of Agriculture fuiui.-hes the following report oc the weather a^l the crops October 1: The suiishine for th*1 month of September w;is considerably below the average. Tlx- rainfall was excessive. Reports of observers to the State Weather Service show that the rainfall for September, 1888, was 8 8 inch s, title* f ?r the bame month iu 1887 the rainfall was only 5.7 inchbs. Frost was general in all the middle ao<! upper counties ou the 30th of the ^ Tho continuous nuns in the letter 1 i oa:t of An trust, oxleodicg to tie in. .!?{!* of September, did great damage to tho eottou crop. Tlie full loss c<nnol be accurately estimated at this date, but in some sections it 19 staled ;?t lid per cent. The average decline u condition, U9 estimated frocu reports of correspondents since the lat of September, is Id per cent. Tte greater part of the crop on bottom lands was destroyed by lloods. Ou EJisto and Wadmtdaw IxlaDda the M.ng staple cotton wue injured by rust u (i c itrt':>i!!.;rs. The rains there were excessive. The }ieid on these islands :.s estisnared'at 12.') pounds lint to the acre. On James Iaiaud the yield is es.iaittled )ii 250 pounds lint per acre, fn j>eik? ]?'\ county the yield has been reduced ]"> to 20 per cent, by the heavy reus aud the worms. The " * average condition for the State is reported a? 77, and indicated yield is %???* ? ? ? 1 r* "t ?%.MI I./? J lint ?\?. r o A f/i. i*ru ?v x\>?j ^v>uuuo i;i uui |/rA pvav? A large part of the corn crop on b )ttorn lands was totally destroyed y fluids, iu;d on uplands was damaged by ux.-ef-a.ve rainfall. In soma sections tho grain sprouted in the shuck. In parts cf the mountain counties the fodder was seriondy injured by the frost on the 30th of ? September. The condition for the StHtf is reported at 7G; indicated yield 9 bnshels per acre. Tho rice crop iu the low country has btseu badly damaged by the floods, rPhe^'ffreis nshig Ligiifci "ttiau ever* known before. In Georgetown county, on the St*ntee River, the entire crop, covering over 4,000 acres, was injured 95 to 40 per ceDt. In 6ome places in the county the crop is considered an entire loss, one correspondent. reporting that many planters will not save a graiu. In Colleton a conespou-ient e?ys the crop is cat short one-third, both in quantity and quality. In Beiktley highland rice is safe, but on North and South Santee River ;t is almost a total failure; possibly or e tenth of the crop will be saved in u damaged condition. Berkeley, Colleton and Georgetown counties produce nearly f?0 per cent, of the entire rice crop i f the State. The condition for the State is reported al 88; indicated yield 22 bushels per acre. The conditio!) and prospective yield of the smaller crops is reported as follows: Peas? condition, 72: indicated yield, 5 bushels per acre. Irish potatoes?condition, 01; yield 66 bushels per acre. Sweet potatoes? o 'edition, 04; yield, 07 bushels per acre. Sugar car.e?condition, 00; yidil, 01 gallons per acre. Sorghum ?condition, 88; yield, 64 gallons per acre. Advica to Mothers. Mrs. Wixslow's Soothing Syrup should always be need when children natural, quiet sleep by relieving the . child from pain, and the little cherub J awakes as "bright as a button." Tt ? is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the howt Is, and is the best known remedy for dialrl o-i, whether aiising from teething <-r other causes. Tw6utyiluo nnolo u IimI ll/> .Tnnp 97 lr. K chord <\>kimao. a prominent faru:? t of Edgerield county, has recently been very despondent over the damage to the crops by the fiesbete. Thursday he arose from the dinner (able, weui into an adjoining room, took his gun, seated himself in a window, r! :< *(,} tho ranzzln of the goo against his heart, poshed the trigger with a yard stick, kiliiag himseM iar Ho was fifty-three years old* A CHII.D KILLED. AnoMv r < hi! \ killo.d <vy the rise of opiates ojveti in ihr;Wta> of Soothing amp. \Vhj' their chil dren such poieon ia aurprising when they 01 in relieve th? cfciftf of its pee.iiiiar troubles by using Auk?-r*H Rabv Sooth# r. It eooiHio? no Opium or Morphine, Sold &y "W. P. Roof.