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'' the ux^nbtoh oispatsh, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ n j advertising rates: 1MRMS OF SUB 'CRiPTIO V Marriage notices inserted free. Oa* eopy oae year $1.50 N regular advertising rates. ?|: jsix,:::::::::::::: 2 vol. xix. ' Lexington, s. c., Wednesday, .January 23, 1889. no. 9. ?*-. ^?' ?aes4aoRwaaa?eg?gBBBWBaa?^wggEBB?asgagaac?aMg?a?afcaiB3sawB?MMaia?? ? mn v rassays* i.uwu<IJJIIijiinmiii aasKasaoBQHEMBHaEZBHBnn MHMnniMiMMHai . s ^ GOOD NEWS! The Woolen 3Iills Have Reduced their Tarifl" A my Clothing: Bills. ?U? AfV . Has just returned from all ll?e Northern a?a?kets with the latest selection of CHOICE CLOTHING t* airt everybody in Lexington county, aid aid young, rich and poor; for Children, School Boys, Youths' and | Hen's Suits, in great variety of styles j sad qualities, which cannot be excelled I ^-bj^aay house in this city. I am willing ! it worlffor low wages and small profits. I took advantage of my second pur j chase this season by going to the Northern markets late, in order to se-1 core bargains to meet the hard times. I bought the goods for cash, so it en- j mo tA ?*ll it at a close margin I ill, and examine i Red Flannel and ' nel Hair Under-1 ays at such low nish the greatest : ore a Hat on his u will dud in my j TiflBPi hmm | 4 INSTRUMENTS'^ ii?-:' ?AND? unit roims; AT? M, A.MALGN StMftor goods from factories of largest predictions, with immense capital tand jtmtmt gq^tetfon. E JWQ want * Kew Piano at $968, $400, $450 to $600, I can supply you. I tkki second-hand Pianos in part payment ftt M*r ones, giving me a stock of secondhand Pianos which I can sell cheap. \ If yon want Parlor Organs at $55, $65, ff&s-Si. $78, $85, $100 and upwards, I can accom npdate you. If yea want an Organ for church or SabWth^school at $<55, $80, $87, $0" $1U>, $12$ te $260, will procure One. Special discounts to ehnrches and ministers." PTba favorites, ?iz: Easy running Neyr Imm and Domestic, also White and Davis | Sawing Maohines. Can supply machines j farm ?90 to $60, all warranted. Can sup- j jir- piy yon with needles, parts, attachments or oU for all makes of maehihes. I have the best equiped Music House in ; thte section of the State, and defy compe- , tition, quality considered. Call on me for . g?g?. terms, ate. Office, Poet Omce Block, . ' - 192 Main Street, : \ COLUMBIA, S. C. M. A. MALONE, Proprietor. [ ihuas 20?023 ] -'t'yIV-'x''. r'.-'Jftli-.* ;*,**. - ' *? - r' i *"1 * ^jXrXFr?* ' ?- -w -' - > THE HOMEWARD MARCH. 11 11 V . i fSERVON PREACHED*3Y REV. T. DE j I WITT TALMAGE, D. D., JAN. 20. 1 ! r The Servants of the Lord Should Rouso' j j Themselvcs. as Did Duviil and IIi3 Men, ; 1 ucd Recover Their Loved Ones from tlio i 1 l'ower <?f the Evil One. Brooklyn, Jan. 20.?T3ie 3?ev. T. j ( Do "VVitt Talmage, P. P., having ex- i t pounded appropriate passages of Scrip- J 1 lure, gave out the hymn: j t Who are these in bri ght array* This innumerable ihron;?, j Round the altar nujht jnul dny j { IXun'ug their triumphant sonjr? j , The subject of the sermon was "The j t March Homeward,'" and "tire text I j ] Samuel, xxx, 8: ''Pursue: for thou j \ shall surely overtake them, and with- j t out fail recover all." Pr. TaImage ; s said: J <; There is intense excitement in the j \ -village of Ziklag. David and his men I are bidding good-bv to their families. 1 and are off for the wars. In tljat lit- c tie, village of Ziklag the defenseless j ones wih be safe until the warriors. I flushed with victory, come home. But i will the defenseless ones be safe? The j t soft arms of children are around the ?. | necks of the bronzed warriors until 1 j thev shake themselves free and start, e an J handkerchiefs and llags are c ; waved and kisses - thrown until the t l armed men vanish beyond the hills. 1 I David and bis men soon get through f with their campaign and start home- > | ward. -Every night on their way j i honie, uo sooner does the .soldier put ! his'beifcfon iffe knap^di than i;i his i | dream lie hears the welcome of the j r wife and the shout of the child. * Oli, j .. what long stories they "will have to tell I I i theiV families, of how they dodged the i ] r battle ax! and tlieh will i-oll up their > ^ f sleeve and show the half healed wound. : j W ith glad, cjuiek step, thev march on, : | David and his men, for they are maroli- j s ing home. Now,they come up to tho . last hill which overlooks Ziklag, and [ they expect in a^mometit to sec the j dwelling places of their loved ones, j : They look, and as they look their j t cheeks turn pale, and their lip Quivers, | j and their hand involuntarily comes down on the bill. of the.sword. ^ "Where is Ziklag? Where are our > homes?" thev crv. Alas! the curling f ? v. - iL.:...:.. i.n. 1 smoKe arove me rujn tens me uxi^cuv. t The Am&lekites have come down and L consumed the villagje, and carried the ] mothers and the wives and the chil- l \ dren of David and his men into j.t ?captivity- The swarthy warriors J stand for a few moments trans- ] ( fixed with horror. *Thcn their j < eyes glance to each other/ and j ^ they bu^st into uncontrollable weep- j ing, for.&heiT a strong warrior weeps t the appaUi.-.g. It seems as if c the emotion might fear him to piecys. j They "'wept until they had nomore * j power to weep." But soon their sor- g ?"OW turns into rage, and David, swing- , ing Ida sword high in air. cries: 'Tut- , *>% fg *? Bha-t ovc-rt^c ftem. J without^ fail recover ail._ 3Ww the -A a /double quick/ $ sort in sorrow and in rage; They find by 1 . the -sjde of the road a half dead 9 , /Egyptian, and they resuscitate him, ami compel hin^, to tcil iho whole j , : Story, hid says-. "Yonder they went. j I the captors and the captives;- minting4 j ; in the direction. Forward, ye four . ; hundred brave mefi of fire! Very j soon David ahd his enraged company j come unon the Aaialekitish host. | 1 Yonder; they see their o.wu wi ves and | children and mothers, and under I Amalekitish gur>;l. iiere are the of- .. ; fleers of the Amalekitish army holdi ing a banquet. The cups ^re full, ; j I the music' is roused, the dance j j f begins. The Amalekitish host eheerg^ ! ana cheej^itiF.^eer.ovor their v'v ? tory. But, without not8 of warning of trumpet, Davidy**"" bis ] | four hundred mcii ki^A'l1011 the ] I scene suddepiy, as.I\0^'S^ru.coburled ; ' his. Scotchmen. up^Vf* e reveler at j Uonun/^L'KttPTt r>4vid and his men | } | look fip, a?Kt t>ne glai.-ce at their j . I loved one9111 captivity and under , : Amalekih^i truard throws them into a j | verv ^T determination; for voy t j ijy$ 1h?u' men will fight when tliey Isdkrhi for their wires and children. '( Ah, there are lightnings in their eye, j } and every linger-is .a spear, and their j c voice is like the shout oi' the whirl- ! \ wind. Amidst the upset-tankardsand ! j the costly - viands crushed underfoot, I ^ the wounded Amalekites' tie ttlieir ! } blood mhigliug with their wine) I ^ shrieking for mercy. iSo sooner do David and his men win the victor}' ^ than they throw their swords down into ; ^ the dust?what do they want with 1 ^ swords now??and the broken families ! 1 come together amidst a great shout j , of joy that makes the parting scene in j * Ziklag seem very insipid in the coin- , pai-isou. The rough old warrior has j to use some perf usion before ho can get his child to come to him now after , so long an absence; but soon the little , finger traces the famiiiar wrinkle j , across the scarred face. And then the j ' empty tankards arc set up, and they ' ^ are tilled with the best wine from the j r hills, and David aud his men, the hus- I j bands, the wives, the brolhei-s, the j s sisters,, drink to the over brow of the j ' ! Amalekites and to the rebuilding of j Ziklag. So, O JJord, let thine enemies ; j perisiil ' I t THE LOST RECOVERED. | j Now they are coming home, David j [ and his met) and theirfamiiies?along i j procession. Men, women and chii- x uren, loaded with jewels and robes , .and with all kinds of tropics that the j . Amalekites had gathered no in years j [ of conquest?everything now in the j [ hands of David and his nun. When J L they come by the brook 15esor, the i { place where staid the men sick and :u- \ 1 competent to travel, the jewels and the : robes and all kinds of treasures are J divided among the sick as Well as ; among the well. Surely the lame and ? exhausted ought to have sorhe of the i : treasures. Here is a robe for this pale j , faced warrior. Here is a pillow for , ' this dying man. Hero is a handful (' of gold for tiie y.atiled trumjKder. i really think that these men who j fainted by the bi-ook Ix-sor may have j endured as much as those men who j j went into battle. Some menu fellows I . objected to the sick ones having any j of the spoils. The objectors said: ! j ''These men did not ligut." David. j with a magnanimous heart, replies: j j "As his part is thatgoeth da.vnto the { battle, so shall his part be that tar rieth by the duff." \ Thissubiect is pmctieally suggestive j ( to me. Thank God, in these times a j x man can go oil' on a journey, and le j \ gone weeks and months, and foiiie j ( back and see his house untouched of ? incendiary, and have I:is family on ! | the stej* (o greet him, if hv telegram | | lie has tore told the moment of his | i coining. But there are Amalekitisli j , disasters, and there are Amulekitish ! j. diseases, that sometimes come down I t ijion ones home, making as devastating work as the day when Ziklag took Ire. There are families in my congregation whose homes have been iroken ii]>. No battering rani ;mote in tiie door, no iconoclast rambled the statues, no flame leaped nnidst the curtains: but so far as all lie- joy and merriment that once beongod to tliat house are concerned, he home lias departed. Amied diseases canto down upon the quietness of he scene?scarlet fevers, or pleurisies, >r consumptions, or undehned distrdcrs came and seized upon some n embers of that family and carried hem away. Ziklag in ashes! And rou go about, sometimes weeping and lometimcs enraged, wanting to get >ack your loved onesas much as David md his men wanted to reconstruct heir despoiled households. Zikag in ashes! Some of you vent off from home. You counted lie days of your absence. Every day ceinea as long as a week. Oh, how rind you were when the time came for "on to go aboard the steamboat or rail mr and start for homo! You arrived, t'ou went up the street where your i welling was, and in the night you >ut your hand on the door bell, and. M.hohi! it was wrapped with the signal of bereavement, and you found hat Amalekitish Death, which has levastated a thousand other iiouseloltis, had blasted youi-s. You go thout weeping amidst the desolation >1* your once happy home, thinking of he bright eyes closed, and the noble leans stopped, and the gentle liands bided, and you weep until you have io more power to weep. Ziklag in tshes! ,' OfR ZIKLAGS IN ASHES. A gentleman went to a friend of nine in the city of Washington, and isked that through him he might get i consulship to some foreign port. My riend said to him: "What do ton vant to go away from your beautiful l.oine for, into a foreign port?" "Oh," iu replied, "liiv home is gone! My ;ix children are dead I 1 must get iway,- sir. 1 can't stand it in this country any longer." Ziklag in ashes! Why these long shadows of be reavencnt across this audience? Why is it hat in almost every assemblage black s the predominant color of the apjarel ? Is it because you do not like nftYon or brown or violet? Oh^no! i'ou say: "The world is not so bright o us as it once was; ami tnere is a ;torv of silent voices, and of still feet, lucl of loved ones gone, and when you ook over the hills, expecting only >eauty and loveliness, vou find only !evastation and woe. ?iklag in ashes! In Ulster county, N. Y., the village hu rch was decorated until the fragrance of the flowers was almost bevilderirjg. The maidens of the vil age4tad emptied the place of flowers iponVone marriage altar. One of their >vvn number was hii lanced to a miniser of Christ, who had come to take ler to his home. With hands joined, unit!si a congratulatory audience, the o v. st were taken! In three days from hat time one of those who stood at he altar exchanged earth for heaven, [he wetliUog march bj-oke dowft Ib^d dirge! There not Bh had gone out from tuem before in tiis strength low he comes home lifeless. The vbolo church bewailed him. The sol-mn profession moved around to loo^ tpou the still face that once b^a learned with messages of salvation. Little children were lifted uyto look it him. And some of tho^j' whom he lad comforted in days ofyrf>r row, when ,hey passed that siienyform, maae me place dreadful wj^r their weeping. Another villag^/rofitied of its flowers ?some of pufNin the shape of i erosS fo >^rtnboiize his hope, others :)ut in .'he shape of a: erown to syrnx>lrv his triumph.. A hundred lights \pfvm out in que strong gust from the >pen door of a sepulcher. Ziklag in ishes! 1 preach this sermon today, because [ want to rail v you, as David rallTed jis men, for trie recovery of the loved md the 1 osC- I want not only to win leaven, but I want all this eongregaion to go along with me. 1 feel that cmehow I have a responsibility in /our arriving at that great city. I lavo on other Sabbaths' used other iniueements. 1 mean today, for the ake of variety, hoping to reach vour leart, to try another kind of inducenent. Do voy really want lo join the ompaniouship of your loved ones who ravo gone? Are you as anxious to oin them as David and his men were o join their families? Then 1 am lere, in the name of God, to say that rrou may, and to tell you how. I remark, in the first piace, if you vant to join your loved ones in glory rou must travel the same way they vent. No sooner had the half dead Egyptian been resuscitated than ho jointed the way the captors and the aptives had gone, and David and his nen folio wr J after. So our Christian riends have gone into another ountiy, and if we want to reach heir companionship we must lake he Same road. They repented; vo must repent. ril:ey prayed; ,ve must j)ray. They trusted in Christ; we must trust in Christ. Phey lived a religious life; wc must ive a itdigious life, Thev were in ' "! ? * ? oiac tilings ::t,e 1 rvti-v>jj. low that they arc- gone, there is a halo irouud their names; hat they had heir faults. They said and did things .hey ought never to have said or dene. Phey were sometimes rebellious, someiwes east down. They were far from ;eing perfect. So 1 suppose that when ve have gone, some tilings in us that ire now only tolerable may be almost esplendent. Tut as they were like lis n deficiencies, we ought to be like them u taking a supernal Christ to make !p for the deficits. Had it not been or Jesus they wouklltayeall perished; :nt Christ confronted them, and said: * i ? . 'I am the way, and iney loou it. THE CAPTIVE'S PATH UNPLEASANT. I have also to say io you that the >atli that these captives trod was a I'oubleit path, and that David and his neii had tu over the same difficult vay. While these captives were being a ken off' they said: "Oh, we are so ijvd; we arc So sick; we are so lungry!" }>ut tlie men who had harge <?f (htm said: "Stop this cry!ii?-1 Go on!" David and iiis men iso found it. a hard way. They had o trawl it. Our friends have gone nto glory, and it is through much tibulafion that we are u> enter into he kingdom, How our loved ones ised to have to struggle! How their Id hearts ached! How sometimes hey had a tussle for bread! In our hihlho**! wo wondered why there ve.re so many wrinkles on their faces. A'e did not know that what were ailed 'V-row's feet" on their faces were ho marks of tlie black raven of trou>lc. Did you never hear the old eopie, seated by tho evening stand, a!k over their early trials, their lardships, the accidents, the burials, ha disappointments, the eippty iloui rarrei when there were so many hum .'-A ' " * ' . ' V - .' V ' gry ones to teed, liie sickness almost I unto death, where the next dose of | morphine decided between ghastly bereavement and an unbroken home cir; cle? Oh, ves! it was trouble that i whitened tneir hair. It was trouble I that shook the cup in their hands. ' It was trouble that washed the j luster from their eyes with the rain .of teal's until they needed spectacles. It was trouble that made ; the cane a necessity for their journey. I Do you never remember seeing your old mother sitting, on some rainy day, looking out of the window, her elbow on the window sill, her hand to her : brow?looking out, not seeing the falling shower at all (you well knew she was loo Icing into the distant past), i until the apron came up to her oyes, j because the memory was too much* for : her? Oft the big, unbidden tear, Stealing down the furrowed cheek, Told in eloquence sincere. Tales of woe they could not speak. But this scene cf weeping o'er, Past this scene of toil and pain, They shall feel distress no* more. Never, never weep again. _ _ "Who are these under the altar?'' the Question was asked; and the re sponsecame: "These are they which I came out of great tribulation, and have j washed their robes, and made them i white in the blood of the Lamb." Our friends went by a path of tears into ; glory. Be not surprised if we have to travel the same pathway. * I remark, again, if we want to win the society of our friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, but we will also have to j>osiLively battle for their companionship. David and his men never wanted sharp swords | and invulnerable shields and thick breastplates so much as they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Ainalekites. If they ! bad lost that battle, they never would have got their families back. I suppose that one glance at their loved ones in captivity hurled them into the battle with ten fold courage and energy. They said: "We must j win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man j on point of spear or sword. We must i win it." And I have to tell you that ! between us and coming into the com! panionship of our loved ones who are ; departed there is an Austerlitz, there j is a Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. ' War with the world, war with the j flesh, war with the devil. We have j either to conquer our troubles, or our j troubles will conquer us. David will ! either slay the Anialekites, or the i Amalekites will slay David. And yet is not the fort to be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the besie^o ; ment? Look! who are they 011 the J bright hills of heaven yonder? There ! they ai-e, those who sat at your own I table, the chair now vacant. There they are, those whom you rocked in infancy in the cradle, or hushed to ^ sleep 111 your arms. There they are, those; in whose life your life was bound up. There they ai-c, their brow more raaiant than ever before you saw < it, their lips waiting fortluTjv^^^l fast aclcScss g&neom <>f their" face7 Sever more to oe sick, never more to lough, never more to limp, nevermore JU> be'old, never more to weep.'-'1 They < are watching from those heignts losee if tlucough Christ you can take that' fort, and whether you will rush ii upon them?victors. They know that upon this battle depends whether you : will ever join their society; Up: | strike harder! Charge more bravely! ! Remember that every inch you gain puts you so much farther 011 toward that heavenly reunion. 'VICTORY OR DEATH!" If this morning while 1 speak you could hear the cannonade of a foreign navy, coming through the "NaiTOVS,'* | which was to despoil our city, and if f they really should succeed in carry-; j ing our families away from us, how long would we take before we resolved to after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from Springticld or old and rusty in the garret, would be brought out; and we would urge on, | and, coming in front of the foe, we | would look at them, and then look at our families, and the cry would be: "Victory or death!" and when the ammunition was gone we would take the captors on the point of the bayonet ornnacr ttie breech ot the gun. u you would make such a straggle for the j getting back of your earthly friends, j will you not make as much struggle for the gaining of the eternal companionship of your heavenly friends? Oh, yes! we must join them. We must sit in their holy society. We j must sing with them the "song. v\ c | must celebrate with them the trjumph. j -Let it never be told ou ea^rth or in | heaven that David and liis men pushed ! out with braver hearts for the getting j back of their earthly friends for a few i years on earth than we to get our dej parted! You say that all this implies that our departed Christian friends are alive. Why, had vou any idea they j were dead? They Iiave only moved. If you should go on the 2d of May to a house where one of your friends lived, and found him gone, you would } not think that he was dead. You ! would inquire next door where he had I moved to. Our departed Christian | friends have on lv taken another house. : The secret is that they are richer now ; than they once were, and can afford a i better residence. They once drank ! out of earthenware; they now drink i from the king's chalice. "Joseph is i yet alive," and Jacob will go up and | see him. Living? are they ? Wiiy, if I o man oon 1 i i?, ftiic lUmn /!?> ?'L* i a UJULi V-UrtJ 11 I V ViVA.., ?.??. .. I dungeon of earthly captivity, can he ' not live where he breathes the bracing | atmosphere of the mountains of | heaven '< Oh, yes, they are living! ; Do you think that Paul is so near j dead now as he was when he was living in the Roman dungeon? I>o you thmk that Frederick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead now as he was when, year after year, he slept seated on the floor, his head on the bottom of a chair, because ho could tind ease in no other position? Do you think that Robert llall is as near dead now as when, on his couch, he tossed in physical tortures? No. Death gave them the few black drops that cured them. That is all death does to a Christian?cures him. I know that what 1 have said implies that they are living. There is no question about that. The only question tliis mornino- is whether VOU will j f-~ ----- o : ever join llicjn. But 1 must not for get those two hundred men who fainted by tlie brook Besor. They could not take another step farther. Their feet were sore; their head ached; their entire'nature was exhausted. Besides that, they were, broken hearted because their homes were gone. Ziklag in ashes 1 Auid yet Davia, when he comes up to them, divides the spoils among them. He says they shall have some of the jewels, some of the robes, some of the j t;-ensures. -i look over Tins audience ; this morniijg, and 1 find at least two j hundred who Lave fainted by the ) brook Bersor?the brook of tears. Yoa ! feci as if you could not lake another step farther, as though yon could never looi up again. But 1 am going to imitate David, and divide among you some glorious trophies. Here is a robe: "All things work toi "-ether for good, to those who love i God." Wrap yourself in that glorious I promise. Here is for your neck a i string of pearls, made out of crystali hzed tears: "Weeping may endure , for a night, but joy cometh in the j morning." Here is a coronet: "Be i thou faithful unto death, and I will | give thee a crown of life." 0 ye ; fainting ones by the brook Besor, dip j your blistered feet iu the running ; stream of God's mere v. Bathe your j brow at the wells of salvation. Soothe ! your -wounds with the balsam that : exudes from trees of life. God will ; not utterly cast you off. O broken I hearted m* 0 broken hearted woman, | fainting by the brook Besor. YOU WANT DIVINE NURSING, i A shepherd finds that his musical i pipe is bruised. He says: "I c^n't get i any more music out of this instru| ment, so will just break it. and I j will throw this reed away. Then I i will get another reed and I will plav | music 011 that." But God says he will i not cast you off because all the music | has gone out of your soul. "The ; bruised reed he will not break." As ! far as I can tell the diagnosis of your I disease, you want Divine nursing, and ! it is promised you: "As one whom ; his mother coinforteth, so will I comfort you. God. will see you all the | way thrvughy|D troubled soul, and ! when yon comfe down to the Jordan of ! death, von wilPpnd it to be as thiu a brook as Besor; for Dr. Rpbinson says*that,- in April, Besor drie~. up and there is no brook at alh-^Aiul in your last moment ydiTwIlT be as placid as the Kentucky minister who went up to God, paying, in the dying hour: | "Write U> ray sister Kate, and tell her i not to be worried and frightened about I the story ; of the horrors around the ! death bed. Tell her there is not a i word of -truth in it, for I am there i now, and Jesus is with me, %pd I find | it a very jiappv way; not because I am j a good irjan, for 1 am not; I am nothj ing but a, poor, miserable sinner; but | I have a'.i Almighty Saviour, and both I of his arikis are around me." May God Almighty, through the blood of ' the everlasting covenant, I hrintr ?*> into the comnanioiishin of i our lov^d ones who have already | entered vjlie heaveuly land, and en; tered tub presence of Christ, whom, I not having seen, we love, and so j David bhaii recover all, "and as his j part is teat goeth dowu to the battle, ; so shall tiis part be that tarrieth by the ; stuff." i I 1 AS 4 CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA. i VCiuit a &|keman Says of Traveling oa an Road. a tli? heahW^Kiors who are daily passengers oSH? road. You see that young laxly sitting in one of the orchestraiChairs of this car;, well, she is employed in a law office iu New York. Jay at ten tion was fi rst attracted I to her a x>ut six months ago because she loohed so thin and pale and always seemed exhausted after her climb tip the stairs to the platform. I sometimes In d to help her on, especially if she was a trifle tardy. She seemed to ! appreciate my kindness and always afterward has had a pleasant word for me^/Ahout a month from the day J f^tsaw~ITer she began to look much improved. She told me that she had .'consulted a physician about her health 'and he had advised her to ride on the /iIawW/vI wtiU naffiilofiifv o n/1 f licit cV? n ^ J UlCVai^U ?> I Uil IV^UJUJ IVJ MiJU VllMW ?J?? *_ 5 was beginning to find ujsadvjce beqe' llcial. Bui this one ease is uot solely jNvliat I base my belief on as to the good ] Results of elevated travel. There are ! twenty or thirty men and women | whom 1 come in contact with every ! day on my train, who have confessed I t6 me that they ride regularly to the j ,end of the road for the physical benej' Sts they derive from the trip. I have ! had men tell me that a ride over the j elevated road on a warm day in sumj mer did them as much good as half a ] day spent at the seaside or in the coun' try. They are so high up that they get plenty of pure air through the open windows. Some people change off and take the surface road once or twice a week for variety." "Do passengers show many evidences of fear in traveling on the elevated?" ''Afraid of accidents? Oh, yes! Women sometimes loesk frightened when making sharp curves at high s|>eed. First they look around the car, then out of the window and sometimes al| most leave their seats. 1 have seen women bury their face in their hands, apparently waiting for the worst. But cases of this sort grow rarer each day, and it is only strangers from out of town who show outward signs of fear, j t have talked with a g-ood many people j on my 'rain and the number of people who are superstitious and have an inward nervous fear of some horrible accident rather astonishes me. It is pot those who make occasional trips that think of danger, but the thougnt of riding back and forth every day makes them nervous. Some men think that" by taking a surface car two or three times a week they reduce the j danger. For ray part 1 think 1 would j prefer to rem niv chances on aq ! elevated train jq a:i accident i than in a surface car under { tho elevated. But this nervous feeling ! gradually wears away even with inI valid passengers. They dislike the i idea of allowing their fears to get tho j better of them, and, more than that, | dp they dislike the surface roads. fter riding on the elevated. tho Panic ! distance 011 a surface ear seems inter| unliable. It is strange how many invalids will climb up the long stairs just for the ride on the elevated. U seems to put new iife into people. There are less causes !o provoke a man's patience 011 the 'L* than 0:1 the surface roads. The stops are regular, usually there is plenty of room, and an elevated car is a very good place to meditate, to read or for sightseeing, The surface car is not without its ailvantages, but it seems slow, close and stuffy to the habitual 'L' traveler. Change for the bridge!''? Brooklyn Eagle. M ** f- IJlo-hr. j One morning, on a crowded car, a j fashionably dressed young lady took I a seat on the grip. At the next crossing a young man with a lunch basket and a)iole in his hat took the vacant place beside her. She seemed to he greatly displeased at what she considered fiis presumption, and distorted her pretty face into such a frown as would, have subdued any youm? fel low oi ordinary uravery. ire, uowj ever, was not to be withe: c.l l>y a ; glance. Be evidently recognized his : right to the only vacant seat and I meant to stay. As the car gave a lurch she dropped in front of her a j large silver pin from her hair, which i her unwelcome companion politely I picked up ancl hauded to her. The f spoiled beauty was too ill-natured to i recognize any act of kindness on his : part and disdainfully turned her head away. With the greatest composure, he pitched it over the dashboard, which so enraged her that she left the car at the next stop, to the amusement of two or three passengers who had been witnesses to the episode.?Chicago Journal. MUCH IN Li I I LL. i Electricity moves 2SS,000 miles per I second. I m.Jr. in A ! 1 cf!?*} I TO f) 1"? | JLliVTi V JO 111 KJJ* V* 1 1V/Jf 9 ?AUW1(U?U*? Mti i ancient spinster of 105. She has 1 smoked for liftv vears. Thomas Wilkinson, of Vernon, N. Y., has a beard live feet long, which i lie wears tucked under h^ vest, j A man can hire a house in Japan, keep two servants and live on the fat ; of the land, all for a little over $20 a | month. | Wood workers are using naphthaline as a wtxxl preservative. It is said ; to leave the wood dry, and with only a faint aromatic odor. The sultan never uses a plate, but i takes his food usually with a spoon or ; his lingers directly from the little ketI ties in which it is cooked. Sir. William %Pearcc, the great Engi lisli ship builder, left an estate valued } at $6,250,000. The projxn'ty will be j divided between his widow and son. It is asserted that most of the mem bers of the English parliament sutler ! from dyspepsia. Long sittings and the irregular sessions of the house is tlie cause. The Grand Duke Alexis, brother of the czar of Russia, is one of the be'st patrons of the Parisian cafes and sing ! ing gardens. He is exceedingly demoj cratfc in his manner.and mixes freely ; wiih the Parisian pleasure .seekers. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickenson carries ; the responsibility of two positions at i the Denver university. She holds the I full professorship in literature, or, i more properly, holies Litres, us .her : work includes more than literature or j language, and she also has the direc tion of the women's work in the uni versity. 1 Two young women of Sacramento went' buck It-berrying near Bollinas, where they were spending a fewweeks, arid a big brown bear came into the patch and endeavored to monopolize it. One of the girls had a i small rifle, and, finding that either j they or the bear must go, tookj^i^ftfT . aim and pet ^jl0 Ajygeffnlhneier of Westphalia bet i^ttrata dozen bees liberated three miles I from their hive would reach it in bel ler time thaira dozen pigeons would reach their cote from the same (lis tance. The first bee begtth^^J Hpigeon by a qu Agaged for years copying manuscripts f m Europe that bear upon American history, proposes to print the most important of his discoveries. The price of the set will be .$500. A small government appropriation would place j these documents within the reach of every library in the land. : A big liawk swooned down on one i OJ inns. iUcti/Lic JUUI iJvsi a cuivaciia, ai j Decatur, Ga. Her 12-year-old boy. I Marcellus, heard the squawks of the ; fowl and ran to the rescue. lie j grabbed the hawk and tho bird sank j Doth talons in the little fellow's ami; I but Marcellus was plucky, and held j the hawk until his mother came and I cut off its head with a hatchet. Wearing Flanuel. ; There is no reason why you should remain thin or have cold feet and ; corns, as you complain of. I was that | way myself once, but, as a cure, our ; old negro cook told me to wear a flan j lie] or woolen waistband, that is to j sav, cover my body from chest to hip | with flannel or woolen next to the i skin besides tho regular winter or i summer clothing, and to keep the band 011 all tho year round. I tried it some ! years ago, and at first I saw 110 change in my size or waist measurement, but : suddenly I noticed I could not button the waistband, and 1 moved the but' tons. Before three months passed I moved the buttons four tidies. I still ! wear the flannel, and you see the size i of mv girth. I am not at all uncomfortable, and I can say truly I have not been chilled through smce I put I on the band. The extra covering over i the stomacfl causes a great internal : heat, which is carried by tho blood to j all parts of the body, ana this heat aids i digestion, and altogether I think the ; woolen waistband solves the question ; of dyspepsia and indigestion. As for : cold feet and corns. I promise you that | if you scrub your feet in cold water 1 every night before going to bed for ; sixty days your feet will not bother ; you further, and notonly that, but you . will have to get a shoe a size smaller than you had been wearing, if not U\t> sizes smaller. Try it and let tr.e know. ?Letter Carrier in Globe-Democrat. I A Now Slose. ; A new and interesting variety of rose, the Iiosa beggerriana. vat*, gen| uina, the wild rose from central Asia, i lias i-ecently been discovered and introduced into Durope. In a recent 1 - /1 1 in i.i.: numoer 01 uaitieu una r uresi ujis hum; is described as having a height of from four to six feet, remaining in bloom : all the summer. The flower, though j small, is of a pure white color, and the leaves have a sweetbrier odor. At the herbarium of Harvard university the i plant has proved hardy. This interesting contribution to our roses leads ! us to note the point that central and eastern Asia is the rose garden of the I world. From that region come the greater number of the many plants ! belonging in the family of roses which contribute fruits or flowers to the delectation #>f man. Asia is indeed the i land of roses,?popular Science News. Names C!i<inijii!?. There has been for many years past a diminution of English names on the ; court lecords of this city, and at pres; ent a purely Anglo-Saxon name isselj dom met with. This is illustrated in i the marriage license department very plainly, about one-fourth of the names {ippcuring upon the marriage lists being English, the remainder being i German, Bohemian, Poles, Scaudiuai vian and other nationalities, princi; pally the nationalities of central ! Europe. There has also been a very I perceptible falling ofF in French names in this part of the country dur: iiig- recent years, which indicates that i the French names, like the English, i are becoming leas and less as the years go by.?St. Louis Globe-Democ-rai. The Bustle as a Mouse Trap. As a young lady of Bridgeport wa: ! dressing for a party, a mouse put ir an appearance and, naturally enough : created groat confusion, but filially ! disappeared. After the lady had re j turned from the party and was disrob ing for the night, what was lier aston ishment to lind the poor mouse in he: bustle, but the place of fancied sccur : itv it had sought in the excitement o ; the chase had proved a death trap. A some time during its presence there ii : had been crushed to death.?Kartfori ; Times. Lizhtuiug ami Nerves. There is a lady now living in Clove i land, upon'whom an electric shock ha: left the most remarkable truces. lSom< fourteen years ago. during a thunder ; storm, she was so shocked as to ix partly paralyzed for some days, aiu | since then, whenever there is a storm .| thougli she suffers no pain and retain; : speecti and consciousness, she loses : all muscular power, and only regains ! it when the weather grows calm. SIu ! feels sharply the difference in a storn confined to the upper currents ant one that stirs all the aerial deeps. In a mountainous, breezy region, sin says, the electric inliuencc is not s( strong lis 111 one vvtiei-e tue land i: ! level and the air measurably calm The only preventive she lias is to g< | indooi's and shut herself in a roou , darkened and lit with gas. Ever ! there, if the storm lasts a few hours ! she isbvercomeby it. though the ful j or absence of rain makes but little dif j ferenee in her condition. - Mew YorL ; Telegram. | Miss Isaliel Hapgo.x.1. the transhitoi of Tolstoi's writings, acquired hoj j knowledge of Russian from a Nev I Testament and a dic.'munrv A Revolution in Ramie. I ' | A Secret that Solves a Difficult Prob ! lem and that will Prove a Mine o I Wealth to the South. t A discovery that promises to be o atroost importance to the Sontherai States has been made by Dr. C. F | Panknin, of Charleston. It is co , practicable or proper at this time t< give the details, but sufficient can b< ; said to sbow the nature of the dfs covery and its valne. At different times many experi meats looking to the culliyaiioir o j rumie have beenmaderfn" the South and the_^4fmt7TThfts been found, cai n.Ul./Mtt- Tf CfM 1 - ^ue gi'uw ti wiLUuai v; uj. j.i ??u j grow anywhere that cotton grows, h j no expense whatever for eultivatior It grows like a weed, and is nofcsi^ ject to the ^ expensive vt&ffin which the b^P? the ramie plant could be prepared fc manufacture' without injury to th ! peculiar quality and value of thi fibre. It i's such a process as th* which has been so long sought wfcjicl ; Dr. Panknin has discovered. Without any mechanical proeess o consequence pnd by simple cberr.ica I treatment, occupying in all from forty eight to sixty hours, the bark of th; ramie is brought into condition to b carded and spnn, so that in this con dition it is available for all the vari ! ous uses for the different ttxtil I materials, such as the finest cottoj and silk. Dr. Panknin has been en gaged on his experiment foraconsid i erable time, and has now brought i to a satisfactory conclusion. The process, as has been said, is o the simplest possible character, thi i only difficulty being to find out thi j process. Ramie is cultivated and i: i e- -L 1 n?? 3 ;.\ manuiaciureu iur use 1 u uuouuuirnm goods, linens and similar cloths, bn ! the process is kept secret and th< right to make use of it is not sold. A SA? STORY, J 'j The child coughed. Ths motho j ran. No remedy was near. Befon : morning the poor little sufferer w?i j dead. Mora!: Always keep Dr. Acker i ' English Remedy at haod. For sah by W. P. Roof. At Crawfordaville, Ind., Jan. f?d ; Case Arnold, a laborer, ate sixty-twi raw eggs ou a wager, at the People's ; Theatre last night. His backer; j offered to bet that he conld eat Av< dozen more, but there were no takers several hundred dollars having al ready changed hands on the result ' After the exhibition Arnold wont to j restaurant and ate a hearty meal. Colds are frequently the result oi : derangements of the stomach and o ! a low condition of the systen. generally. As a corrective anc etrengthener of the alimentary organs Ayer's Pills are invaluable, their us< 1 being always attended with market benefit. | It costs 1,000 for liquor licenst in Florence and Leesviile this year | After this year Leesviile will be a drj I town for 00 years. That wo7 be l'i : loug iimo between drinks." The oppressed subjects of European governments turn tnrthis country foi i free homes, free laws, and for thr | free nso of Salvation Od for tbeii j pains. It is the slight cold frequently | contracted that finally undermines i the system. Use Dr. Hull's Congh j Syrup in the beginning stages, and ! be cured. It ay a Fainting Ferson Sown- * s i ) I It is surprising how everybody ! rushes at a fainting person and strives ! to raise him up, and especially to keep bis head erect There must be aa instinctive apprehension that if f j a person seized with fainting or other * j fit, fall into the recumbent position 1 i death is more imminent I must i have driven a mile to-day whiie a lady faintiDg was held upright. X 5 | found her pulseless, white, apparently i dying,.and I believe, than if I had ~ ! delayed ten minutes longer she would 1 ! really have died. I laid her head down on a lower level than her body, . i nrwt pnlnr rafnrnorl in > i her lips and cheeks, and she became J ; eori9cions. To the excited group of 1 friends 1 said: Always remember lt this fact?lamely: Fainting is caus, | ed by a want of blood in the brain; s i the heart ceases to act with soffi :ient j ; foico to send the usual amount of ? j blood to the brain, and hence the I person loses consciousness ^because 1 | the function of the brain ceases. Restore the blood to the brain and I instantly the person recovers. Now. | though the blood is propelled to all j. j paits of the body by the action of the heart, yet it is still under the ioflu1 ence of the laws of gravitation. In the erect position the blood ascends to the head against gravitation, and the supply to the brain is diminished, j I as compared with the recumbent j position, the heart's pulsation beiog ; equal. If, theD, you place a person j.; sitting, whose heart has nearly ceased ^ I jo beat, his brain will fail to receive , | blood, while if yon lay him down, t i with the head lower than the heart, ' I blood will rnn into the brain by the mere force of gravity; and, | in fainting, io sufficient quantity frt raofrkra nnr o/ii/^non no a v? jluuvvvI| aa'.nrejetrchr.s ns how to manage the -fainting persons, for they always fall, and frequently are at once restored by the recumbent position into which 2 they are thrown.?Medical Journal B land, {which .was ma)nteia.ftc^fc?, some 0 years. The Statd thus organized 1 was afterwords disbanded, and i Territorial Tennessee was again annexed to North Carolina. * In 1838, f in a speech by Daniel Webster on 1 the carrency, he gave the following . as among the laws passed, by the e Legislature of the State of Frankland: 3 ; Be it enacted by the General As_ ' sembly of the State of Frankland, - ; and it is hereby enacted by the ane thorilyofthe same, that from the 31 first day of Janaarv, 17S9, the 9ftla. I lies of the officers of th8 Cotnmon. ! wealth be as follows: i His Excellency the Governor, per annum, 1000 deor skins r! His Honor tbe Chief Justice, per B j annnm, 500 deer skins. e ! The Secretary of His Excellency 3 I the Governor, per annum, 500 racr. 1 coon skins. I ' t ; Tho Treasurer of the State, 450 g ; raccoon skins. Each County Clerk, 000 beaver ~ skins. Clerk of House of Commons, 200 r : raccoon skins. 3 ! Justice's fee for signing a warrant, s ; one mnskrat skin. 3 To the constable for serving a. war3 rant, one miok skio. i Abbeville will be dry for the next vsar. , * } The steamer Kate Adams was j burned on the Mississippi river last . week and twenty lives were lost. 3 i It is claimed now that a girl does i, j not become an old maid nntil she ia - | thirty. | Walterboro loads the State in high 1 j license. It has two bar-rooms that ' pay ?1,500 fcach per year. ^ | Ex Gov. Kellogg says"the Southern f : Republicans want Blaine and Sheri man in Harrison's Cabinet. j The I'oited States aruiaer Vesuvius, ( j recently built, has proved by several i trials to be the fastest war vessel in j the world. The place in Aiken where horsetraders congregate on public daya is 3 I oalled "bone yard alley." A goat butted a trainman off the I top of a freight train in Wyoming Tor 1 j ritory, and in the fall the man's neck j was broken. i j The colored Republicans are : j demanding their ftharok-of the spoils ? j from tlio incoming administration, ! and nothing less than a Cabinet posi I tion, it is claimod, will satisfy mem. ! Their demands are startling the ! Northern Republicans. Rrnce, Doogi lass, Lynch aud Langston are coni a;dered capable of representing the colored race in the Cabinet. o n