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^flj^^toii dispatch, ^ 4 ^ ^ J awtomw binsl f SH I ^e^pyone year..................$1.50 * ? regular advertising rates. BV:: rri:::::::::::::: 5 vol. xix. Lexington, s. c? Wednesday, February 20, m no. 13. jjtjzz,. ^l-iii I,;.., it ;a uirt>iTT /-? I Lament. EjUTIIlG, , 1 Ii CLOTflK i a : 'y; .'v hg ent'h bbfil at ^ . I W Greatly Reduced Prices || H p FOB THE ^Kjkxt thirty days. SiV5 us a call, and you will be conthis is no humbug. Rather raHHfck away heavy weight goods season, we prefer to close a bargain to our cusHHKfur new ^^^Hrering Goods stock, consisting of of BEST GOODS. fl^^H^uHnggmve room for them, so call selling DHB. at B|^?i,? i i M-r- ' ^?KT -"^fe. OWING TO A RECENT PURCHASE j by our New York buyer from a bankrupt I ] sale, we are informed that we must make * ' room for > j ( ' I $15,000 . [c ijjbM Worth of Goods g Purchased for us at FIFTY CENTS ON C THE DOLLAR. Our house is small, j tl What must be done? We will apply the ^ one successful rule of the Racket Store, I ^ and that is to cj jL CUT TO PEICES J That will make it to the interest of every j ^ j W. toaw, woman and child who loves to get I A bargains to purchase from us, and to make di Repricesso I ^ It Will Pay to Pur-! 2 ? chase ? on In advance of their immediate wants. Men's Shoes, sold heretofore at $1.48, now j ^ 90c. Roys' Shoes 48c, worth $1.00. Reg- ^ ular Woman's Button Shoes, fine, 95c., cel< regular price $1.50. Ladies' Fiue Lace | o* Shoes $85c., worth $1.25. A splendid j suit of Men's clothing $3.98, worth at least $7.00. Neckwear, we sell the finest line for 20c., worth regular from 50 to 75c. lett Red Flannel Shirts 40c., worth 90c. We the find that merchants who advertise to sell ' foot for Cost and do not do so, do their busi- . ? , , tem ness more harm than good. Truth and fair dealing is the only road to success. that This is the logic?come and see the facts. lias WE WILL PROVE WHAT WE ADYER- d _ tise, if yon will call at the ?mini mil siiii. ^ Ohri N. B.?This sale will be strictly one ^ ^ price, as we cut to the lowest possible cut secoi When we say 41 cents, we do not mean to swift take 40 cents. amid eclipi W. R. JOHNSTON & CO., uigei Ho. 72 Main St., Olambia, S. C. lowei atth< New York Office, 466 Broadway. jnp. 0 Jan 16?3ia the t blaZO HONEY TO LOAN!55 half IN SUMS OP AND UPWARDS, the de to be secured by first mortgage on im- to hid proved farms in Lexington and Richland lifted counties. Long time and easy terms. Apply to ABNEY & THOMAS, uffi ? Attorneys, Columbia, S. C. ?r{; 7 0cL31?6in wiiirL 6w" .. 'Syji? .> ' $ - * c , '.^vOrV '??& BhC? ~ Wri" V . jCggg^c... v. - dr?& # CHRIST'S WRITING. TRACING IN THE DUST THE WORDS HYPOCRISY AND FORGIVENESS. rhe World Is Still Under tbe Divine Eye. Christ's Gentle Treatment uf the ErringWoman?An Illustration of tbe World's Injustice. Brooklyn, Feb. 17.?Dr. Talma^e ^reached this morning in the Brooxiyn Tabernacle on the subject: "Tho Literature of the Dust" After explaining appropriate passages of Scripcure concerning Christ he gave out he hymn: Oh, could I speak the matchless worth, Oh, could I sound the glories forth Which in my Saviour shine. Text: John viii, 6: "Jesus stooped lown and wrote on the ground." A Mohammedan mosque stands no*? i-Vinyls nnw ct/wl Heroa's te 111 Die. tlic scene of mv text Solomon's temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar thundered it down. Zorobabel's temple had stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take our places in a temple that Herod built because he was fond of great architecture and he wanted the preceding temples to seem insignificant Put eight or tenmodern cathedrals together and they would not equal that structure. It covered nineteen acres. There were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar ana silver tables on which stood golden cups, and there were carvings exquisite and inscriptions resplendent glittering balustrades and ornamented gateways. The building of this temple kept ten thousand workmen busy forty-six years. In that stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence sat Christ, and a listening throng stood about him, when a wUd disturb ance took place. A group of men are pulling and pushing along a woman who had committed the worst crime against society. When they have brought her in front of Christ, they ask that he sentence her to death by ctrtrnnrr Thev are a critical, merci I levant Isy and liy 4'Let Im with ley will liplicity Iway he Inen It been Ires the lie was Inee, or liger of Into in I word. Iverted In deIs case vusrxxvya uavui^CitStretl OL1L. WUlSt IS victor, and he says to the woman: "Where are the prosecutors in this case? Are they all gone? Then I discharge yon; go and sin no more. " CHRIST WROTE IN SHIFTING, VANISHING DUST. I have always wondered what Christ wrote on the ground. For do you realize that is the only time that he ever wrote at all? I know that Eusebius says that Christ once wrote a letter to Abgarus, the king of Edessa, but there is no good evidence of such i correspondence. The wisest being her world ever saw and the one who lad more to say than any one who >ver lived, never writing a book or a chapter, or a page or a paragraph, or a yowl on parchment. Nothing but this iterator? of the dust, and one sweep >f a brush or one breath of a wind bliterated that forever. Among 11 the rolls of the volumes of be first library founded at Thees mere was not one scroll of hrist. Among the seven hundred jousand books of the Alexandrian brarv, which by the infamous decree f Caliph Omar were ustod as fuel to eat the four thousand batns of the ty, not one sentence had Christ inned. Among all the infinitude of flumes now standing in the libraries ! Edinburgh, the British museum, or srlin or Vienna, or the learned rectories of all nations, not one word j ritten directly by the finger of Christ : 11 that he ever wrote ne wrote in ? uncertam' * vaiushms ! My text says he stooped down and j *ote on the ground. Standing straight . aman might writoon the ground * th a staff, but if with his fingers he [ >uld write in the dust, he must bend * ar over. Aye, he must get at least J one knee or he cannot write on the 1 >uncL Be not surprised that he ? oped down. His whole life was a ^ oping down. Stooping down from T tie to barn. Stooping down from estial homage to inobocratic jeer. >m residence above the stars to ere a star had to fall to designate v landing place, "From heaven's at door to the world's back gate, fj >m {writing in round and silvered ^ ers of constellation and galaxy on blue scroll of heaven, to writing the ground in the dust, which the p ; of the crowd had left in Herod's ? pie. If in January you have ever J ped out of a prince's conservatory J ; had Mexican cactus and magna in full bloom, into the outside air !y egs. below zero, you may get some jv of Christ's change of atmosphere ^ 1 celestial to terrestrial. How j,, iv heavens there aie I know not, f, there are at least three, for Paul 11 ' 'caught up into the third heaven." ^ ~L J * t ' i &t> uauie uown iroin niftiest neaven an e second heaven, and down from cai id heaven to first heaven, down wl: er than meteors ever fell, down cer st stellar splendors that himself no! sed, down through clouds, all? igh atmospheres, through appall- wh pace, down to where there was no fro: 'depth. From being waited on ha\ ) banquet of the skies to the broil- iiig f fish for his own breakfast on by ; >anks of the lake. From em- self tied chariots of eternity to the i?g 3 of a mule's back. The bom- mat iherubic, seraphic, archangelic, ten! e paying of sixty-two and a two cents of tax to Caesar. From tren athless country to a tomb built the e human dissolution. The up- othc wave of Galilee was high, but the d to come down, before, with scril et, be could touch it, and the got vind that rose above the billow with ? tvas nigher yet, but he had to come down before, with liis lip, he could kiss it into quiet. Bethlehem a stooping down. Nazareth a stooping down. Death between two burglars a stooping down. Yes, it was in consonance with humiliations that had gone before and with self abnegations that came after, when on that memorable day in Herod's temple he stooped down and wrote on the ground. THIS WORLD IS STILL UNDER THE DIVINE EYE. Whether the words lie was writing were in Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, I cannot say, for lie knew all those languages. But he is still stooping down , and with his finger writing on the ground; ip the winter in letters of crystals, in the spring in letters of flowers, in summer in golden letters of harvest, in autumn in letters of Are on fallen leaves. How it would sweeten up and enrich and emblazon this world could we sec Christ's caligraphy all over it. This world was not flung out into space thousands of years ago and then left to look out for itself. It IS Sl'LiJl U1IUC1 vug \u? uiu Christ never for a half second takes his hand off of it, or it would soon be a shipwrecked world, a defunct world, an obsolete world, an abandoned world, a dead world. "Let there be. light" was said at the beginning'. And Christ stands under - the win try skies and says, Lot there be snow flakes to enrich the earth; and under the clouds of spring and says, Come ye blossoms and make redolent the orchards; and in .September, dips tl branches into the vat of beautiful coxors and swings them in the hazy air. No whim of mine is this. "Without him was not anything made that was made." Christ writing on the ground If we could see his hand in all the passing seasons, how it would illumine the world 1 All verdure and foliage would bo allegoric, and again we would hear him say as of old, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;" and we would not hear the whistle of a quail or the cawing of a raven or the roundelay of a brownthresher. without saving, 4'Behold the fowls of the air, they gather not into barns, yet your Heavenly Father themand a Dominic lien of the barnyard could not cluck for licr brood, yet we would hear Christ saying as of old, "How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings;" and through the redolent hedges we would hear Christ saying, "I am the rose of Sharon;" wo could not dip the seasoning from the salt cellar without thinking of the divine- suggestion, "Yo arc the salt of the earth, but if the safe havo lost its savor, it is fit for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men." Let us wake up our stupidity and take the whole ror and they see tlie frcsco at their feet. And so much of all the heayen of God's truth is reflected in this world as in a mirror, and the things that arc above are copied by things all around us. What right haye we to throw away one of God's Bibles, aye, the first Bible he ever gave the race? We talk about the Old Testament and tfie New Testament, but the oldest Testament contains the lessons of the natural world. Some people like the New Testament so well they discard the Old Testament. Shall we like the New Testament and the Old Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest; namely, that which was written before Moses was put afloat on the boat of leaves which was calked with asphaltum; or reject the Genesis and the Revelation that were written centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No, no; when Deity stoops down find writes on the ground, let us read it. X would have no less appreciation of the Bible on paper that comes out of the paper mill,'but 1 would urge appreciation of the Bible in the-grass, the Bible in the sand hill, the Bible in the geranium, the Bible in. the asphodel, the Bible in the dust. Some one asked ail ancient king whether he had seen.the eclipse of the sun. 4'No," said he, "I haye so much to do on earth, I have 110 time to look at heaven," And if our faculties were all awake in the study of God, we would not have time to go much furrV???f tVi?Vn O/-.v..1-. i~ '1 ~ T 1 p*.XW^lX VX1V 4.xI OV JL IiUV O 20 fear that natural religion will ever , jontradict what we calf revealed re igion. I have no sympathy with the ' ollowers of Aristotle, who after the , elescope was invented, would not 00k through it, lest it contradict some f the tlioorjes of their great master. j shall be glad to put against one lid ^ f the Bible the microscope. and gainst She other lid ot me mole the 1 elescopr. e 'HE WORDS CHRIST WROTE: "IIYI'CC- C Itisy AND FORGIVENESS." s But when Clirist stooped down and rrote 011 the ground, what did he -rite? The Pharisees did not stop to ti xamine. The cowai-ds, whippet! of d leirown consciences, lied pell moll. | oi otliing will flay a man like an aroused st mscience. Dr. Stevens, in his "'His- ti >ry of Methodism," says that when V ev. Benjamin Abbott of olden w mes was pieaehing, lie exclaimed: m For aught I know there may be a B urderer in this house," and a man in se in the assemblage and started for tit e door and bawled aloud, confessing ar a murder he had committed fifteen itc are before. And 110 wonder these B: xarisees, reminded of their sins, look i cit eir heels. But what did Christ write j <>p the .1? - i ' uav uivuiiuv l nu 4->JtJlt5 IKil'S JH>L HU ite. Vet, as Christ never wrote tei ything except that once, you vo mot blame us for wanting to know an lat he really did write. But I am cx< tain lie wroto nothing trivial, or be/ thing unimportant. And will you see >w me to say that I think I know v.'h at he wrote on the ground? I judge to < m the circumstances, Ho might tlie re written other things, but kneel- Set there in the temple, surrounded j noi a pack of hypocrites, who were a anc appointed constabulary, and hav- Cm; in his presence a persecuted wo- wh< 1, who evidently was very peni- pea , for her sins, I am sure he wrote Cre words, both of them graphic and at /. lendous and reverberating. And i face one word was Hypocrisy and the ' wh< ir word was Forgiveness, From | Waj way these Pharisees and j Dur; >es vacated the premises . and j men out into the fresh air, as Christ, Dusi i just one ironical sentence, W r unmasked theni, 1 know thev were first class hypocrites. It was then as it is now. The niore faults and inconsistencies people have of their own, I the more severe and censorious arc they about the faults of others. Here I they ai-e?twenty stout men arresting and arraigning one weak woman. Magnificent business to be engaged in. They wanted the fun of seeing her faint away under a heavy judicial scn; tencc from Christ, and then after she had been taken outside the city and i fastened at the foot of a precipice, the Scribes and Pharisees wanted the sat! isfaction of each coming and dropping a big stone on her head, for that was ; the style of capital punishment that they asked for. Some people have taken - the responsibility of saving that Christ never laughed. But I think as he saw those men di*op evcry1 thing, chagrined, mortified, exposed, J and go out quicker than they came in, he must have laughed. At any rate, j it makes me laugh to read of it. All ; of these libertines, dramatizing indignation against impurity. Blind bats lecturing on optics. A flock of crows nn their wav u? from a carcass, de " i # : nouncing carrion. Yes, \ think that j one word written on the ground that | day .by the finger of Christ was the I awful word Hypocrisy. But I am 1 sui-e there was another word in that dust. From her entire manner I am ' sure that arraigned woman was repentant. She made 110 apology, and i Christ in no wise belittled her sin. j'But her supplicatory behavior and j her tcai^ moved him, and when he I stooped down to write on the ground, i he wrote that mighty, that imperial word Forgiveness. When on Sinai God wrote the law, lie wrote it ! with finger of lightning on* tables 1 of stone, each word cut as by a cliisol I into the hard granite surface. But when he writes the offense of this woman he writes it in dust so that it can be easily rubbeft out, and when she repents of it, 0I1, he was a mcrci| ful Christ! I was reading of a legend that is told in the far east about liim. He was walking through the streets of a city and he sa w a crowd around a dead dog. And one man said: "What ' a loathsome object is that dog!" "Yes," said another, "his ears are mauled and bleeding." "Yes," said another, "even his hide would not be of anv use to the tanner." ''Yes, "said another, "the odor of his carcass is dreadful." Then Christ, standing there, said: "But pearls cannot equal the white) ness of his teeth:" Then the peoi pie, moved by the idea that any ono could find anything pleasant concerning a dead dog, said: "Why, this must be Jesus of Nazareth." Reproved and convicted they went away. Surely this legend of Christ is good enough to be true. Kindness in all his words and ways and habits. Forgiveness. Word of eleven letters, and some of them throues, and some of them palm branches. Better have Christ write close to our names that ono word, tlum to Why didn't t'nese uucican Pliarisees bring one of their own number to Christ for excoriation and capital punishment? No, no; they overlook that in a man which Ore}' danmate in ? woman, /uuj so the world has had for offending women scourges and objurgation, and for just one offense she becomes an outcast, while for men whose lives have been sedomic for twenty years, the world swings open its 'doors of brilliant welcome, and they may sit in legislatures and senates" and parliaments or 011 thrones. Unlike the Christ of my text, the world writes a man's misdemeanor in dust, but chisels a woman's olfeiise with great capitals upon ineffaceable marble. For foreign lords and i>rrnccs,\vhosenamea_ cannot eycn be mentioned in res}>ectable circles abroad because they are walking lazarettos ot abomination, our American princesses of -fortune wait, i and at the first beck sail out with them , into the blackness of darkness forever. ( And in what are called higher circles { of society there is now* not onlv the j imitation of foreign dress and" foreign " manners, but an imitation of foreign j. dissoluteness. I like an English- 0 man and I like an American, c but the sickest creature on 0 eurth is an American playing the j Englishman. Society needs to be re- y constructed on this subject. Treat p them alike, masculine crime and p feminine crime. If you cut the one 0, in granite; cut them both in granite. ^ If you write the one in dust, write the ^ Mlier in dust. No, no, s^ys the ivorid, Jet woman go- dawn and let nan go up. What is that I bear ef dashing into the East river at mid- q; light, and then there is a gurgle as of cr trangulation, and all is still. Never niud. It is only a womau too disouraged' to Jiye. I jet the mills of the ar] ruel world grind right on. IGNIFICANCS OF CHRIST'S DUST WRIT- wi ING. fie But while I speak of Clirist of the de )xt, his stooping down writing :n the sic ust, do not think I underrate the lit- kn raturc of the dust. It is the most a t >lemn and tremendous of all liteny- ha< ire. It is the greatest of all libraries.^" ^-wii vTien Layard exhumed Nineveh he hu" as only opening the door of its stri iglitv dust. The excavations of 1 umpeii have only been the unclasp- ran ig of the lids of a volume of a na- spo m's dust When Admiral Farragut als( id Lis friends, a few yearn ago, vis- we xl that resurrected city, the house of Jan dbo, who had been one of its chief the jzens in its prosjieroua days, was est: ened and a tilde was spread in that Mat use which eighteen hundred and Dop ? years lias been buried by essa PMmlirtH ITU.? i twui X1 we (1 Iris guests walked over the ajicj rjuisite mosaics and under the the rutiful fresco, and it almost not med like being entertained by those all < ocighteen centuries ago had turned simi Just. Oh, this mighty literature of naiil dust. Where arc the remains of and maoherib and Attila and Epaini- ever ldas arid Tamerlane and Trojan wou I Philip of Macedon and Julius and sar? Dust! Where are the heroes liten rj fought on both sides at Chrero- preg , at I hustings, at Marathon, at cinat ssv, of the 110,000 jr.cn who fought Lgincourt, of the 250,000 men who td death at Jena, of the 400,000 "A >se armor glittered in the sun at put y gram, of the 1,000,000 men under said t ius at Ai'bcjla, of the 2,C41,000 irtgp . under Xerxes at Thermopylae? otl t! * "A here are the guests who danced m ? Hie floors of the AJIiamDra, or me 1 or- i sian palaces of Ahasucras? Dust! ! Where are the musicians who played and the orators who spoke, and the i sculptors who .chiseleth-and the archi- ! tects who built iit all Tnc centuries ex- j cept our own? Dust! The greatest library of tho world, that which has the widest shells and the longest aisles and the c^ost multitudinous volumes and the vastest wealth, is the underground library. It is the royal } library, the continental library, the ! hemispheric library, the planetary I library, the library of the dust, j And all these! library cases will ' bo opened, and all 'these scrolls unrolled and all these volumes unclasped and as easily as in your library or mine we take up a book, blow the dust ofF of it, and turn over its pages, so easily will the Lord of the Resurrection pick up out of this library of dust every volume of human life and opeu it and read it and display it. And the volume will Ixj rebound, to be set in the royal library of the Kind's palace, or in the prison library of tne sc|lf destroyed. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust! It is not so wonderful after all that Christ chose, instead o&an inkstand, the impressionable sad-d. on the floor of an j ancient instead of a hard i ]>en, put forth Era forefinger with the i same kind of nerve, and muscle, and j i-n/l flesh, as that which makes I up our owi> forefinger, and wrote1 the awful doom of hypocrisy and full and complete forgiveness for repentant sinners, cvc^i the worst. ( And now ? can believe that which I read, how tlfat a mother kept burning a candle in the window every night for ten years! and one night very late a poor waif c* the street entered. The aged woman &r?id to her, "Sit down by the fire," aiulihe stmngei said, '.'Why do you keep that -tight in the window?" Theaggd woman said"That is to light pjy wayward daughter when she returns. Since she went away ten years ago, my hair has turned white.. Folks blame mo for worrying about her, but you see I am her 'mother, and sometimes, half a dozen times a-night, I open the-door and look out-into the darkness and cry, 'Lizzie!" ^Lizzie!' But I must not tell you any more about my trouble, for I gness. from the way you cry, you have trouble- enough of your own. Why, how cold and sick you seem! Oh, fay I can it be? Yes, you are Lizzie, my own lost child. Thank God that you are Mmeagain!" And what a umo of rejoicing there was in that house that night! And Christ again scooped down, and in the ashes of that'hearth, now lighted up not more by;the great blazing Jogs than by the ioy of a reunited household, wrote tlie same liberating words ?1 ^Atrrli. THsroroi uuuui uiuiu i wu uh. ? teen hundred? yearsagom thedustof the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness. A- word briid enough and hig I enough to bypass through it all the, armies of h^.ven, a million^ abreast, I lucid, vflH Nathaniel Hawthorne I had a command of a wonderful voI cabulary aryd a most suggestive and I surprising Style. He was also of exI eel lent taste and felicity in theconI struction of |iis sentences. The late I Dr. Ripley, so long the literary critic I of Tlie Tribune, wrote in a full, round I and informing style. Mr. George I Bancroft, the historian of the United I States, ejnploys an animated, picturI esquc, original, yet never redundant I style. A beautiful style, simple, H classic, unaffected, 113 that 01 the great I Dr. Channirig, who played so impor- 1 Htanta part in thia country fifty years 1 Haga His writing was replete with a W1 1 * ^ uigu umt unaireciea moral sentiment, < the very i-everse of the Pliariseeism so often displayed by some modern writers. The noble style of John i Fiske will repay study, and it is seen j in its best estate in the '^Excursions of * in Evolutionist.'' Andrew Lang is < master of an enviable style, as every \ me wil 1 declare who know his4 'Letters r o the Dead." The style of Henry James ] ss\ibtlet patural and engaging. Rob- c srt Louis Stevenson employs a style c] hat is sometimes uneven, but is often f peat. t< Among the newspaper writers of >ur own country and of the present ay, perhaps the best stylo is that of [f. Joseph O'Connor, the editor of the a: 'ost-Express of Rochester. It is terse, b, icid, calm, argumentative and with- e\ jt a trace of effort or affectation, to he late Dr. Greeley was master of a tc j rely American, racy and individ- ni ll style. In controversy especially of j used to let himself out with great th Feet. Ho had wit as well as humor, es tie of the most delightful paper writ- fir s we have ever known was the late flc r. James F. Shunk of Pennsylvania, tic e bad not only wit, but imagination ge id feeling* also. Every sentence bub- ye sd oyer with joility, and between his ter t .and imagination the balance was fin Id even by a high intelligence. His in aih was a great loss to the profes- wo u which he adorned without being col own, and enriched without leaying Ve non?ment. The elder Mr. Bennett the i an extraordinary style, audacious, j cle, tty, cunning, reckless, full of grim mor that amused even while it deDyed. A ^ for the six works of contempo- bor icous interest which our corro- old ndent inquires for, and which must wat >be models for a student of style, clot will name the Bible in King picc r?*s' version, a book of eternal and able refore of contemporaneous inter- into Ciirdinal Newrnan's "Apoloeria:" i a m :ttiow Arnold's 'Literature and who una;1' William Ellcry Channing's tivcj yon Napoleon Bonaparte; Daniel "r. iter's speech in reply to Hayne, bet) Abraham Lincoln's speech* on now Gettysburg battle field. We do his r mention these six productions as ed tl comparable in importance, but as thou lar-in elevation, grandeur, origi- stop ty and beauty "of expression, Th as alike indispensable to pock V English writing student who glare Id seek to cultivate that last teeth most delightful perfection of try art?a chastened, elegant, ! nant, fresh, imaginative and fas- ! ^c, ing style.?New York Sun. iourr ??5?~?r India dwell ll in favah ob de motion as hit am arour rill signerfy hit by saying 'Aye I1" | isolat he pompous chairman of a meet- j necte< f colored people, and a loud shout ; Whei ivel" was the response. j house 11 aginde motion say 'NoP " i pletes d !*' came more faintly, but from the ti [ ! jJCISUUS 111 (111 jJUJ.10 ci 1111; iwiii. 4'Hit am caiTied unanimously," the chairman said, sagely. . This declaration was repeated several times when there had been numerous dissentients. At last, an elderly darlry rose in a corner of the room, and in. a stentorian voice addi-essed the ! chair: "Mistak Clieerman." "Mistak Jackson," said the eliairman, recognizing the speaker. "I rise, sah," said Mr. Jackson, ponderously, "to a p'int of order. I jes' wanted" to ask how come it, dat you say dc questions hab been voted unanimously, when dey has been voted only by r ~ ajority, sah ?" The cnuirman rose with great dignity, and said, in a tone of keen rebuke, "Will Mistak Jackson please to b'ar in mind dat 'majority1 and 'unanimously1 are one an1 do same terms, sah? Yes, sah; dey are anonymous an1 do same, sah. De p'int ob order am. not well taken, sah."?Youth's Companion. Work of the Coreans. An interesting collections of the productions cf the Coreans has been j brought to England, and is now in the ; Kcw museum. Like the Japanese, i these little known people make an cx- | tensive use. in their few industries, t s\f icmn/lo frnm tlio Ivorlr ! V/l J/U|A;i , UUiVil iJiiiuuv ? of the paper mulberry. This collection includes various white or cream colored . jiapcrs for drawing, writing, wrapping, etc., with fans and hand screens of paper and bamboo, oiled paper tobacco pouches and hat coverings, paper kites with bamboo frames, sun blinds of bamboo split into thread like stripes, and fmcclothing?such as undershirtsaud cutis?of split rattans. Very fine work is displayed in some of the articles.?New York Telegram. ODDS AND ENDS. A cup of strong coffee is an antidote for the odor of onions. Two ladies have been elected bank directors at Atlanta, Ga. There are 3,000,000 women in the United States earning their own liv- . ing. Four things come not back?the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity.? Haz litt Tourists, on the river Nile are now taxed. The results of this tax go to the preservation of the monuments of the country. An English naval officer estimates that there are $200,000,000 in gold and silver under the sea-, which could be reached by good luck. A ne^ro boy near Camden, S. C., lost a dollar that belonged to liis mother. He felt so badly about it tliat be began crying bitterly, and did not stop for twenty-four hours, and then he died from exhaustion. Chamfort once said: "Society is comj>osed of two great classes, those ^^^^^v^noreappetite thaq dinner I White marble monuments'are going I out, and but few headstones are now I made for tho fashionable dead in I white material. Granite in dark I shades is all the rage, and nearly all I the new monuments are being made I in that material I Mrs. Edith Pans has organized in I London a Lady's Guide association. I Ladies desiring to adopt the profession I must pass an examination, and, if acHcepted, are supplied with an engraved f Hbadge. They must bo familiar with j , Hthe geography of Loudon, cab, omni- | lb us and railroad routes, public build- i ' Sings, fees, etc. They also assist in the ! ? Icarc of needlework and packing. I B The following expression from The j Boston Globe is a- fair indication of j a H>ublic opinion: "The lesson taugbt j r Ay the growing versatility of,women. | L As shown in recorded -results, is - that j [ Ahe ought to have a fair chance. The Aulk of progressive and fair minded J, 1 ' 1 i-? . u.u u\/ty itauj* tu cuuceae inis. ?he result may tip over some of the ei lierishcd notions of our grandfathers' . lavs, but the age is ours, and a rightul share of its opportunities belongs h< d woman." The Genuine Tea Plant. ifc The plant from which the Chinese r>d Japanese obtain the tea is called y botanists Tlieabohea. It is a small rergrecn tree or shrub, closely allied ^ > the camellia?indeed one of the latr. called warratah. is also said to fur- lS sn a eertain class of tea. The bush the genuine tea plant grows from roe to six feet higii, bushy, branchnumerous, leafy. The young shoots, lely silky, are evergreen. The < iwers are white and not* unlike myrt, but longer and usually two to- 1 *D ther; the anthers and stigma are an< llow; it flowers in August and Sep- ,nber in its native country. It was st introduced into Bi-itish gardens 3ci< 17G8. The black and green teas, as oee obtain them, depend for their i or upon the process of drying. or < ry young leaves and shoots give re<y ! ilncst tea,?San Francisco Chronimat trac A Well to Do Beggar. l well known figure in the neigh- ^ia-l hood of tho Stock Hxchango is an prej man with a long gray beard and cry eyes, who dresses in shabby 55 ^ hes and plays doleful ail's upon a both :olo. His appearance is so miser- tjies > that many pcoplo. di*op a dime ! Jiis battered hat. This was what ,J<3re i-ominent broker was about to do subj, m one of Inspector Byrnes' detec- ' 3stopped him and said: : ec"^ P1..4 ~11 1 " * ' lLuib uiu icuuw 13 a fraud. I'll faow< 10 has more money in his pockets > f f1 than you have. Wo looked up e ecord the other day and discover- and i bat he was worth a good mauy sure sands of dollars, but no will not begging." is by 0 broker returned the dime to his every ct and the old piccolo niayer ;d with his. watery eyes at the det-o.-~New York Journal. ??y Shocking the Snake*. ^ j cording to a German scientific tal, they are using electricity in *? . to prevent snakes going Into rronrtl ings. Before all tho doors and id the house two wires arc laid, etGrm ed from ono another and con- out, b :l witli an induction apparatus. ,, , 1 the snake'attempts to enter tho i or go under it, he com- of pu the circuit as he crawls over no wires, and if the shock he * gt*i& HWiJI l> AiU UUU XV Xv> xxavij frighten him so tliat ho goes away from there as soon as he can.?Frank Leslie's Newspaper. An Even Divide. "This world is pretty evenly divided, after all," said the butcher as he scraped away at his block. "How?" "Lady in the diamonds and seal skin gets out of her carriage end comes iu here and inquires for 'sassage.' "" "Well?" "Well, other foil? have the money and us butchers have the eddecashun. Hakes mo feel more content"?Detroit Free Press. A colored woman testified at a trial in Stanford, Ky., "that she would have been killed had she not seen the bullet, which was coming straight at her, and dodged it." "What Lie Saw at Cburch. A centl email who attended services at Whitehall chapel, London, gives the following inventory of what he saw: Two clergymen, two pew openers, two sextons, two organists, sixteen choristers, seventy-seven lighted candles and a congregation of thirtythree, including children.?Philadelpliia Times. It is said that the veterans of the late war are dying at the rate of 6,000 a year. Those who say that woman lias nc sense of humor have not been close observers, or they would have noticed that a mustache tickles her.?Boston Courier. Louisiana furnishes alone one-seventh of our sugar. Her crop in 188S was 360,000,000 pounds. Living Beyond One's Means. The papers last week contained accounts or the arrest of two young men in Columbia on the change o: breach of trust. One, from-Bennetts ville, was the agent-of a book house who had sold books and had spent sixty or seventy dollars more than hit share of the proceeds?expecting tc be able to replace it by future sales but business was dull, and be coulc not do it. The other was the manager of a store at Laurens for an Augusta house. He was getting a salary aDd, supposing be would continue it his position for some timei be overdrew his salary by four or five hundred dollars?expecting to replace it out of his salary as it should accrue it ? e x < A 1L. A *j'A ins mm, urn iuu au^ubiu uu, ^losedits business at Laurens,, anb I game cause that gets so many yoooj I people into debt How many young I married people there are who loac Bthomselves with debt, rain their credit land wreck their usefulness and hapbiness by startiug oat in the world with the false notion that respectability requires fine clothing, fine fnrbiture and an elegant style of living; bud, who, haying enjoyed the good Ihings of life for a short season, pass Ihe remainder of their days in shabby Bentility, envying their more prosperous neighbors and railing against be inequality of fortune. I The young people of this genera on need specially to learn that pov. bty is no disgrace, and that there can b no genuine respectability without bnesty. r>nQ rf Mfltrlw-'n ?,v .. w* ? J V IJUIUIOICIO put ie whole thing in a nutshell when j said in his sermon last Sanday at the man whose salary is $1,000, id who lives to the tnne of $1,500, a frand.?Newberry Observer. A Test Fcr a Sermon, > ? i "He is one the best men I ever I ew, wholly consecrated to God, 1 in all matters save one conscien- i us almost to fanlt. But his con- i mce in financial matters sadly t ids a toning up. For some reason s ither he seems to have but little tl ard for his obligations in money g iters." The foregoing is an ex- a :t from a private and .confiden- V letter. Whether it describes a tl icher or a layman it is unneces- fii ' to say, since there are possibly sa 1 preachers and laymen to whom te e words apply. There is food th i for profitable thought, and Tl ect matter enough for columns of fai )rial reflections. We prefer, ca ivor, to give the text only, and In ie reader preach his own sermon ly; make hs own application. Be cr< of the latter, for the application crc far the most important nark nf * < "" discourse.?Southern Christian Ge calr., the au< ou may hive the stars in a nail sj-0 iang the ocean on a rail fence cor put the sky to soak in a the I and unbuckle the bellyband of fcav ty and let the sun and moon js 8 nt don't think you can escape j^y ace that lies on the other side g)W rgatory if you don't pay for for I >a'per." ^ crat * [The following poem was written by the late Richard Lyles, of Danville, Va., a lawyer of fine legal and literary attainments, who plnnged himself into despair through the sparkling glass.] i I have been to the funeral of all my hopes, And entombed them one by one ; Not a word was said, Not a tear was shed, When the mournful task was done. Slowly aud sadly I turned me round And sought my silent room, And there alone 0 By the cold hearthstone I wooed the midnight gloom. I *' ' t y&. \ '' -S''/?$' i And as the night wind's deepening ! Lowered above my brow, X 1 wept o'er days When manhood's rays Were brighter far than now. The dying embers on the earth Give out their flickering light, As if to say, This is the way Thy life shall close in night. I wept alond in anguish sore O'er th$ blight of prospects fair, * While demons laughed And eager quaffed My tears like nectar rare. , Through he'l's red halls an echo rang, * > An echo loud and long, 1 As in the bowl I plunged my soul In the might of madness strong. I And there within that Rparkling glass I knew the cause to lie. This all men own, From zone to zone, Yet m^lions drink and die. , Cotton Seed ? Terracing?Grass | Growing. uotton seea is tne best and cheap* ' est manure that the Southern farmer t can use. So why sell your cotton ? -3 seed when crashed aod used with lot > manure there is no better or cheaper i fertilizer, and even with this compost I acids or phosphates render them still * more efficacious. Selling your cotton * seed even at fifteen and twenty-five ? cents a boshel, and replacing them 1 with expensive, doubtful commercial ' manures, is poor economy, especially when you risk the chances of excbang^ ing seed, which yon know to be a 1 good fertilizer, for an article which is 5 pf doubtful utility. The oil of the t c jtton seed is becoming in great de ; prices. In summing it up, it may be pat down as a penny-wise and pound b ? ? foolish transaction on the part of the farmer when taking into considers- ?'?&. tion the nses that cotton seed are fit for: first as a fertilizer, then as food for cattle, and then for lubricating oil, and also for lard. Why, fifteen or twenty-five cents a bushel is not half its valae. It amounts to almost giving away something for nothing when it comes to exchanging cotton seed for commercial fertilizers. Who have made the most money from commerI cial fertilizers, the manufacturers or the farmers ? Most certainly the manufacturers. The manufacturers hav^ become rich at it, while the farmers ?the best and most successful among them?have barely held their own. A vast majority, do doubt, were losers by it. Let facts speak for themselves. I wager that farming will pay better if a farmer will hold on to his cotton seed and compost them with his lot manure, and rotate his crops and turn. under vegetable matter to de- ' compose in the land than by selling his cotton seed and baying fertilizers. The great mistake that farmers have nade since the war has been in buyng for their farms so many things hat they should have made themelves. The out-go has far exceeded ^ heir inoome, and that has been reat error and trouble with them, ud still continues to some extent, ftth those who have not terraced leir farms yet, let terracing be their rat wo*k?be sore and terrace and kve your lands. And those who have rraced, overhaul them, and where ere are are anv HufAnfo ran..-, n.? ? ??j bliVUi* be day for washing afad gullying rms shonld be no more when they 0 be saved al so h'ttle cost and labor. February sow oats, and sow large* ; decrease as much the cultivatable )ps, and increase the small grain >ps, clover and grass. A spontaons hay crop was made in North orgia last fall from crab-grass by > snmmer rains, that was abondant 1 valuable. Oq some farms, where rms and droughts damaged the n cropp, the hay saved was twice value of the corn, and no hay I e seen made from the sown grasses uperior in quality than crab-grass . The crab-grass seed should be n, and sown as other grasses are, there is no hay more valuable than )-grass bay.