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fke lexis6t0h dispatch, ^ ^ ^ ^dveen^ing mtes:^ ' jbfto |b 'jjjgi column Me. p? Kn? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. _ inserted ?? 2? ?-? ? ? ? Obituaries ever ten lints charged for at p? One oepy one yea*.*? W.5Q, r. . , - . /. '_ regular advertising rates. vol. xix. j8t lexington, s. c., wednesday, makch e, 1889. no. 15. ? fasjpapt?'-* .>x:, . ? miI GENT'S | v ' ' ' ' Furnishing Goods at Greatly Reduced Prices .2?!'J-'^ r,'. -,:CvV v' **' "y- ^J for the NEXT THIRTY DAYS. fGive us a call, and you will be con* rmced that this is no humbug. Bather than pack away heavy weight goods for another season, we prefer to close them out at a bargain to our customers. Our new Spring Goods will soon be in stock, consisting of the jgjl LATEST STYLES of BEST GOODS. We must bave room for them, so call Money is tight, and we are selling : suits at lower than SOCK BOTTOM PRICES, HB c6ium:bia, s c. I B m m A <*REAT SALS ** RACKET STORE! " t' OWING TO A RECENT PURCHASE by our New York buyer from a bankrupt aale, we are informed that we must make zoom for $15,000 Worth of Goods Purchased for us at FIFTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. Our house is small. ? "What must be done? We will apply the one successful rule of the Backet Store, and that is to CUT TO PBICES That will make it to the interest of every iian, woman and child who loves to get bargains to purchase^rom as, and to make the prices so It Will Pay to Purgjife chase In advance of their immediate wants. Men's Show, sold heretofore at $1.48, now Boys' Shoes 48c, worth $1 00. Regular Woman's Button Shoes, fine, 95c., regular price $1.50. Ladies' Fine Lace Shoes $85c., worth $1.25. A sp.endid suit of Men's clothing $3.98, worth at least $7.60. Neckwear, we sell the finest line for 20c., worth regular from 50 to 75c. Bed Flannel Shirts 40c., wortn yuc. we find that merchants who advertise to sell for Cost and do not do so, do their business more harm than good. Truth and fair dealing is the only road to success. This is the logic?come and see the facts. y^ws^rrrzL pbove what we advertise, if you will call at the 6uiisii mm mm N. B.?This sale will be strictly one price, as we cut to the lowest possible cut When we say 41 cents, we do not mean to take 40 cents. \ W. B. J0H>"ST0>* & CO., No. 72 Main St., Columbia, S. C. New York Office, 466 Broadway. Jan 16?3m MONEY TO LOAN! IN SUMS OF $300 AND UPWARDS, to be secured by first mortgage on improved farms in Lexington and Bichlacd counties. Long time and easy terms. Apply to ABNEY & THOMAS, Attorneys, Columbia, S. C. C?fca-8n J . 1 *i?r '* fr ~X0 OOW-NOTHINGISM." | DR. TALMAGE TALKS ABDUT THE CRY, "AMERICA FOR AMERICANS." He Says It Is Absurd, Contrary to the Spirit of American Institutions, and Citfust?Wio Are Americans??Advantages of the Influx of Nations. Brooklyn, March 3.?Dr. Talmage preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning on the subject, "Shall America be reserved for Americans?" As his sermons are now translated in every language of Europe and many languages of Asia,, in his audiences may be seen persons from many different nations. After an exposition of the scripture ho gave out the hymn: ; Ann of the Lord, awake! awake! / Put on thy strength, the nations shake! Text, Acts xvii, 26: "And hath made of one blood all nations." That is, if for some reason general phlebotomy were ordered, and standing in a row were an American, an Englishman, a Scotchman and an Irishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Norwegian, an Icelander, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Russian and representatives of all other nationalities bared their right arm and a lancet were struck into it, the blood let out would have the same characteristics, for it would be red, complex, fibrine, globuline, chlorine and containing sulphuric acid, potassium, phosphate of magnesia and so on, and Harvey and Sir Astley Cooper and Richardson and Zimmerman and Brown-Sequard and all the scientific doctors, allopathic, homeop&thic, hydropathic and eclectic, would agree" with Paul as, standing on Mars Hill, his pulpit a ridge of limestone rock fifty feet high ana among the proudest and most exclusive and undemocratic people of the earth he crashed into all their prejudices bv declaring in the words of my text that God had made "of one blood all nations." The countenance of the five races of the human family may be different as a result of climate or education or habits, and the Malay will have the projecting upper jaw. and the Caucasian the oval face and small mouth, and the Ethiopian the retreating forehead aid large lip, and the Mongolian the flat face of olive hue, and the American Indian the copper colored complexion, hut th? blood %o *>?a coma an/} inrliftfitftS that thftV fl.ll had one origin and that Adam and Eve were their ancestor and ancestress. amieptpa is THE MIXING CALDRON OF NATIONS. I thinlr God built this American continent and organized this United States republic to demonstrate the stupendous idea of the text. A man in Persia will always remain a Persian, a man in Swtoggland will always remain a Swiss*^KfciB8n Austria will always all to help kHl them^&is not hard for me to preach such a sermon, because, althpugh my ancestors came to this country about two hundred and fifty years ago, some of them came from Wales and some from Scotland and some from Holland and some from other lands, and I am a mixture of so many nationalities that I feel at home with people from under every sky and have a right to call them blood relations. There are madcaps and patriotic lunatics in this country who are ever and anon crying I out. "America for Americans." Down witn the Germans I Down with the Irish I Down with the Jews! Down with the Chinese! are in some directions the popular cries, all of which vociferations I would drown out by the full organ of my text, while I pull out the stops and put mv foot on the pedal that will open the loudest pipes, and run my fingers over all the four banks of ivory keys, playing the chant, "God hath made of one blood all nations." There are not "five men in this audience2 nor five men in any audience today in America except it be on an Indian reservation, who were not descended from foreigners if you gojar enough back. The only native Americans are the Modocs, the Shawnees, the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, the Seminoles and such like. If the principle America only for Americans be carried out, then you and I have no right to be here and we had better charter all the steamers and clippers and men-of-war and yachts ana sloops and get out of this country as quick as possible. The Pilgrim Fathers were all immigrants, the Huguenots all immigrants. The cradle of most every one of our families was rocked on the bank of the Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon or the Seine or the Tiber. Had the watchword "America for Americans" been an early and successful cry. where now stand our cities would have stood Indian wigwams, and canoes instead of steamers would have tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut; and, instead of the Mississippi being the main artery of the continent, it would have been only a trough for deer and antelope and wild pigeons to drink out of. What makes the cry of "America for Americans" the more absurd and the more inhuman is that some in this country who themselves arrived here in-their boyhood or arrived here only one or two generations back are joining in the cry. Escaped from foreign despotisms themselves they say, "Shut the door of escape for others." Getting themselves on our shores in a life boat from the shipwreck saying. Haul the boat on me Deacn ana lei me rest 01 the passengers go to the bottom! Men who have yet on them a Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue crying out, America for Americans! What if the native inhabitants of BeaveA, I mean the angels, the cherubim, the seraphim born there, should stand in the gate and when they see us coming up at the last should say: i "Go back I Heaven for the Heavenians!" WHERE THE ABSURDITY IS UNJUST. Of course we do well not to allow foreign nations to make this country a convict colony. We would have a wall j built as high as heaven and as deep as ! hell against foreign thieves, pickpockets and anarchists. We would not let them wipe their feet on the map of the outside door of Castle Garden. If England or Russia or Germany or France send here their desperadoes to get clear of them, we would have these desperadoes sent back in chains to the places where they came from. We will not have America become the dumping place for foreign vagabondism. But you build up a wall at the Narrows before New York harbor, or at the Golden Gate before San Francisco, and forbid the coming of indiistQOUS and bard work ing , and " honest populations 01 other lands who want to breathe the air of our free institutions and get opportunity for better livelihood, and it is only a question of time when God will tumble that wall flat on our own heads with the red hot thunderbolts, of his omnipotent indignation. You are a father and you have five children. The parlor is the best room in your house. Your son Philip says to the other foui< children, "Now, John, you live in the small room in the end of the hall and stay there; George, you live in the garret and stay there; Mary, you live in the cellar and stay there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen- and stay there. I, Philip, will take the parlor. It suits me exactly. I like the pictures on the wall. I like thq lambrequins at the windows. I like the Axminster on the floor. Now, I, Philip, propose to occupy this parlor and I command you te stay out. The parlor only for Philippians." You, the father, hear of this arrangement and what will you do? You. will get rod in the face and say:."uohn, come out of that small room at the end of the hall; George, come down out of the garret; Mary, eome uo from the cellar;Fannie, come out of the kitchen, and go into the parlor or anywhere you choose; and, Philip, for your greediness and unbrotherly behavior, I put you for two hours in the dark closet under the stairs." God is the Father of the human race. He has at least five sons, a North American, a South American, a European, an Asiatic and an African. The North American sniffs the breeze and he says to his four brothers and sisters: 4'Let the South American stay in South America, let the European stay in Europe, let the Asiatic stay in Asia, let the African stay in Africa; but America is for me. I think it is the parlor of the whole earth. I like its carpets of grass and its upholstery of the front window, namely the American sunrise, and the upholstery of the back window, namely the 'American sunset Now I want you all to stay put and keep to your places.". I anv jsure the Father of the whole human race would hear of it and- chastisement vwoulc come and-, whether by earthquake 01 flood or drought*' heaveuK^rkenine swarms of iocust'and g^asKPpper oi destroying angel of pestilence, God would rebuke* our selfishness as s nation and say to ^ winds of heaven t " Thir^fewld is mj house and thej^orfch . American is n< more my;'"child -than .is the ?Soutt I American 'and the European and th< Asiatic and the African. And X bull this world for all the children, and th< parlor is theirs and all is theirs." For let me say, Whether we will or not, th< population of other lands will com* here. There are harbors all the wa^ from Baifih's bay to Galveston, and I you shut fifty gates there will beothe] gates unguarded. And if you forbi< foreigners from coming on the steam ers thev will take sailing vessels^An< if you forbid them coming Sn flBn; vessels they will come in Doats^Hon if yen will not let them come i^Rpat forbidding- a swarm of sumrmu* tS from lighting on the clover top, pass a law forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to rise when the moon puts under it silver grappling hooks, or a law that the noonday sun shoula pot irradiate the atmosphere. They have come. They are coming now.. They will come. And if I had a voice loucl enough to be heard across the seas I would put it to the utmost tension and cry, Let them cornel You stingy, selfish, shriveled up, blasted souls who sit before your silver dinner plate piled up with breast of roast ^turkey incarnadined with cranberry* your fork full and your mouth full * and cramming down the superabundance till your digestive organs are terrorized, let the millions of your fellow men have at least the wishing bone. AMERICA HAS ENOUGH ROOM FOR ALL. But some of this crv, America for Americans, may arise from an honest fear lest this land be overcrowded. Such persons had better take the Northern Pacific or Union Pacific or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and'Charlotte air line or Texas and Santa Fe, and go a long journey and find out nA mni? + r>or? o tonfh narl r.f +Viie vX-LUU UV JJLLUiU VI Ut * J M> IA.XJ.V4_L |VUi V V4 UUM continent is fully cultivated. If a man with a hundred acres of farm land should put all his cultivation on ono acre he would bo cultivating a larger ratio of his farm than our nation is now occupying of the national farm. Pour the whole human race, Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands of the sea, into America and there would be room to spare. All the Rocky Mountain barrennesses and all the other American deserts are to be fertilized, and as Salt Lake City and much of Utah once yielded not a blade of grass now by artificial irrigation have become gardens, so a large part of this continent that now is too poor to grow even a mullein stalk or a Canada thistle, will through artificial irrigation like an Illinois prairie wave witn wheat or like a Wisconsin farm rustle with corn tassels. Beside that, after perhaps a century or two more, when this continent is quite well occupied, the tides of immigration will turn the other way. Jfoil ucs and governmental affairs being corrected on. the other side of the waters, Ireland under different regulation turned into a garden will invite back another generation of Irishmen, and the wide wastes of Russia brought from under despotism will with her own green fields invite back another generation of Russians. And there will be hundreds of thousands of Americans every year settling on the other continents. And after a number of centuries, all the earth full and crowded, what then? vv en, ax uiai time some mgni a panther meteor "wandering through the heavens will put its paw on our world and stop it, and putting its panther tooth into the neck of its mountain range will shake it lifeless as the rat terrier a rat. So I have no more fear of America being overcrowded than that the poi-poises in the Atlantic ocean will become so numerous as to stop shipping. THE ADVANTAGE . OF TUE INFLUX OF NATIONS. It is through mighty addition of foreign population to our native population that I think God is going to fill this land with, a race of people 95 per cent, superior to anything the world has ever seen. Intermarriage of families and intermarriage of nations is depressing and crippling. Marriage outside of one's own nationality and with another style of nationality is a mighty gain. What makes the ScotchIrish second to no pedigree for brain and stamina of character, so that blood goes right up to supreme court bench and to the front rank in jurisprudence and merchandise and art? Because nothing under heaven can be more unlike than a Scotchman and an Irishman and the descendants of these two conjoined nationalities. upj^ss / Iiwimi.i .r?i rum flings them, go right to the tip ? top in everything. All nationalities * coming to this land the opposites will j all the while be affianced, and French -1 and German will unite and that will 7stop all the quarrel between them, and ] ^ one child they will call Alsace and * the other Lorraine. And hot blooded c Spaniard will unite with cool blooded ? Polandemand romantic Italian with j matter of fact Norwegian, and a hun- * j dred and fifty years- from how the race j 1 ! occupying this land will be in stature, c ! in purity of complexion, in liquidity c ; of eye, in gracefulness of poise, 1 j in domelike brow, in'taste, in intelli- ^ gence and in morals so far ahead of t anything now known on either side ? the seas that this last quarter of the Nineteenth century will seem to them * like the Dark Ages. Oh, then how * they will legislate and bargain and pray and preach and govern I This is " the* laud where by tne mingling of J races the race_prejudice is to get its j death blow. How heaven feels about * it we may conclude from the fact that ? Christ, the Jew, and descended from a ! j Jewess, nevertheless provided a reli- 1 gion for all races, and that Paul, (. +r?/Yiiflrli a .Taw became the chief apos- 1 tie of the Gentiles, and that recently 1 God has allowed to burst in splendor ] upon the attention of the world Hirscli, ? the Jew, who after giving ten million 1 i dollars to Christian churches and hos- { i pitals, has called a committee of na- j ( i tions and furnished them with forty p < million dollars for schools to elevate his I 1 race in France and Germany and Rus- ' sia to higher intelligence and abolish, 5 as he says, the prejudices against their { < race, these tiftv million dollars not 1 given in a last will and testament and ! at a time when a man must leave his 1 , money anyhow, but by donation at 1 fifty-five years of age and in good 1 health, utterly eclipsing all benevo- 1 > lence since the world was created. I i must confess there was a time when I entertained race prejudice, but* thanks to God, that prejudice has gone, and if I sat in church and on one " side of me there was a black man and on the [ other side of me was an Indian afiJ-be) fore me was a Chinaman arid behind-, : I me a Turk, I w 'ild be as happy as I am " I now standing in the'presence of this brilliant audience, and I am as happy r now as I can bo and live. The sooner ' we get this corpse of race prejudice I buried, the healthier will be our i American atmosphere. Let each 5 one fetch a spade and let us r dig its grave clear on down deeper > and deeper till we get as far down as i the center of the earth and half way 3 to China, but no further lest it poison t those living on the other side the earth. 3 Then into this grave let down the ac} cursed carcass of race prejudice and 3 throw on it all the mean things that 1 - ?-i 3 nave ever oeen saiu auu ?thwsu wc7 tween Jew and Gentile, between Turk f and Russian, between English and r French, between Mongolian and anti1 Mongolian, between black and white, - and put up over that grave for?tomb1 stone some scorched and jagged chunk r of scoriae spit out by some volcanic I eruption ana chisel on it fw,epitaph: s "Here lies the carcass of one who i cursed the world. Aged, fiear six " t housand yea^l^T^ted this life for I A RATIONAL VIEW OF TEE CASK 9 ! - Now, in view of this subject, I have ' ' two point blank words to utter, one ! suggesting what foreigners ought to 1 do tor us, and the other what we ought i to do for foreigners. First, to foreign era. Lay aside all apologetic air and realize you have as much right as any ^ man who was not only himself born here but his father and his grandfather and great-grandfather before him. * Are you an Englishman? Though f during the revolutionary war your I fathers treated our fathers roughly, t England has more than atoned for that * by giving to this country at least two c denominations of Christians, the * Church of England and the Methodist * church. Witness the magnificent t liturgy of the one and theWesleyan J hallelujahs of the other. And who shall ever pay England for what Shakespeare and John Milton and Wordsworth and a thousand other i "authors have done for America? Are you a Scotchman? Thanks for John Knoxas Presbyterlanism; the 1 balance wheel of all other de- 1 nominations. And how shall Amer- s icans ever pay your native land for what Thomas Chalmers and Macin- t tosh and Robert Burns and Christopher North and Robert McCheyne and c Candlish and Guthrie have done for I Americans? Are you a Frenchman? j We cannot forget your Lafayette, who j. in the most desperate time of our. ^ American revolution, New York sur- ^ rendered and our armies hying in retreat, espoused our cause and at Bran- j dywine and Monmouth and Yorktown put all America under eternal obliga- j tion. And we cannot forget the com- ^ ing to the rescue of our fathers y Rochambeau and his French fleet j. with six thousand armed men. Are j you a German? We have not forgot- t ten the eleven wounds through winch , your Baron De Kalb pourec out his ? life blood at the head of the Maryland and Delaware troops in the disastrous ? battle at Camden, and after- we have T] named our streets and our cities and j, counties after him we have not paid a ^ tithe of what we owe Germany for his valor and self sacrifice. And what r about Martin Luther, the giant Ger- j. man who made $ray for religious lib- ^ erty for all lands and ages? Are you a Poiander? How can we forget your u brilliant Count Pulaski, whose bones were laid in Savannah river after a mortal wound gotten while in the stirrups of one of the fiercest cavalry charges of the American revolution? But with 110 time to particularize I say, "All hail to the men and women of ^ other lands who come here with lion- c est purpose!" Renounce all obligation to foreign despots. Take the oath of American allegiance. Get out your naturalization papers. Don't "talk J against our institutions, for the ract j that you came here and stay shoivs *. that you like ours better than any ^ other. If you don't like them there are a steamers going out of our ports almost v. every day, and the fare is cheap and, ^ lest you should be detained for parting civilities, I-bid you g-ood-by now. But if you like it here, then I charge r( vou, at the ballot box, in legislative ^ hall, in churches and everywhere be ^ out and out Americans, Bo not try ^ to establish here the loose foreign Sab- ^ baths or transcendentalism spun into ^ a religion of mush and moonshine, or ^ foreign libertinism or that condensation of all thievery, scoundrelism, lust, gI murder and perdition which in Russia j. is called Nihilism and in France called cj Communism and in America called ALharchism. Unite with us in making ^ by the grace of God the fifteen million . square miles of America on both sides i the Isthmus of Panama the paradise ^ of virtue and religion. ^ GIVE .THE FOREIGNERS INFORMATION ^ ABOUT AMERICA. XJ My other word suggests what Ameri- sp cans ought to do for foreigners. By er all possible means explain to them our tli institutions. Coming here,, the vast sc majority of them know about as much oriceri-ing republican or democratic orrn c: government as you in the Juited iKates know about politics of )enma"k or France or Iialv or Switerland, namely nothing. Explain to hem thai liberty in this country means iberty .o do right, but not liberty to lo wrong. Never in their presence ay anything agaia^heir native land, or, no matter hov?a&uch they may lave bicn oppresS^pf.'there, in that lative land there arsrsacred places, abins or mansions around whose loors they played and perhaps somevhere there is a grave into which they vould l:ke, when life's toils are over, o be let down, for it is mother's pave ?rd it would bo like going tgain into the loving arms that irst l^ild them and against ;he bosom that first pillowed them. Vly I rnj ! how low down a man must xave descended to have no regard for ;he place where his cradle was rocked. Ooii't mock their brogue or their stumbling attempts at the hardest of dl languages to learn, namely the English ' language. I warrant that hey speak English as well as you ;ould ta^Scan aina vian. Treat them m Amcitt'.i as you would like to be created ii'Spr the sake of your honest ! principlc^or a be tier liveislsyod for i-oursehV>^vor$E__fa?.iily you had moled DMlerlhe shadow of Jungfrau, :>r the R'gi, or the Giant's Causeway, :>r the Bohemia Forest, or the Fian- j Ionian Jura. If they get homesick, j is some them are, suggest to them j that God is as near to help them here j is he was near thent before they i crossed the Atlantic, and that j the soul's final flight is less j than a second whether from the j beach of the Caspian sea or the banks j of Lake Erie. Evangelise their adults through the churches and their children through the schools and let home missions'and tract societies and the Bible translated in all the languages of these foreign people have full swing. Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead of being an element of weakness the foreign people thoroughly evangelized will bo our mightiest defense against -12 the world. The congress ot the United States recently ordered Built new forts all up and down our American coasts, and a new navy is about to 1>e projected. jBut let me say that three hundred million dollars expended "in coast defense will not be so mighty t>p a vast foreign population living ii America. With hundreds of thousands of Germans in New York, Germany would as soon thinki of bomLshelling Berlin as attack^ ' *wvrlo r\f fliAllCTOlTI jjicr us. * * itUL q of ? Frenchmen in New York, Fraw^ would as sotJ[ think of firing on With bundles of thousands of/jj^ lishmen in Nev^jjjork, Englanjj would as soon thinkM^^ro^Djj|^London. The mightiest dei^eag^^ European natijns Europeans inching fjl upimd down the American contifcient, a wail of heads aud heartscojpsecrated to free government Abulwailk of foreign humanity heaved up all airing our shores, re-enforced by the AJl&ntic ocean, armed as it is. with tempests and Caribbean whirls wir^HT~y giant billows ready to fling mountai^ from their catanault^we ^^^HKtGod, add if foufld in his ^.eed not fear him. As six people will yet sit iown at lr national table, let God preside, him be dedicated the netal of oar mines, the sheaves of our Siarvest fields, the fruits of our orchards, the fftBrics of our manufactories, lie telescopes of our observatories, the relumes 6c our libraries, the songs of our ihurches. the affections of our hearts, md all pur lakes become baptismal bnts and all our mout tains altars of >raise and all our valleys amphithear res of worship, and our country, laving become fifty nations consolilated in one, may its every heart hrob be a pulsation of gratitude to iim who made "of one blood all naions ' and ransomed that blood by the layment of the last drop of his own. A ROOM FULL OF BIRDS. low Olive Thome Miller Writes Surrotraded by Feathered Pets. / In these days of inquiry into the iterary habits of writers Olive Thorne filler's bird room ought to find decription. Tnoreau observed the shy, wild hings of the woods from his hut by Yalden pond. Burroughs looks out >n the open air world from an upludson farm. Roe studied among he strawberry beds in his garden, like Hamilton Gibson, the nature ar ist, Olive Thorne Miller goes to the leart of nature in summer, but shuts lerself up in winter in Brooklyn townShe shuts the birds in with her and ler bird room is the most interesting ipartment that ever a city house held, n it the little folks in feathers disport hemselves almost in freedom. It is ler study, at times her sleeping room, >ut robins run up and down the floor n fashion as saucy and chipper as if hey were picking up worms in the >asture land after a June rain. A >old blueiuy trails the ink over the >aper while she writes, and the notes hat she's jotting cover every movement of * the shy bluebird preening timself in the sunshine, secure in the lelief that her back is turned, while 11 the time her eyes are fixed on his eflection in the -mirror in her hand, jirds splash in the bath dishes, bird? art and tumble and play tricks in the ir. There are cages ? wire cages, mind you, not wood?hanging at the rindows. The door of every cage is pen. From every cage door leads a erch projecting six inches or more ito the room. There are perches rossing each window. There are erches from the gas fixtures to the rindows. 1 There are perches in every onvenient spot in the room. In front of one of the windows Lands a table'covered with a rubber pread. On the table are one or two erclies and a row of tin pie plates ainted a dull brown color and roughned by having gravel sprinkled upon lem before the paint was dry. These re the bath pans. Thev are full of -ater, and a delightful beach picnic ic birds are having in them. There is matting on the floor in lieu f a carpet. This is a study and bedDom, you remember, and must be lrnished for human as well as 1 gathered occupation. Matting can be j ashed, and docs not hold dust enough . > give Mrs. Miller's little winged 1 ii mi * S I lenas me astnma. mere are snacies : the windows, but no lace curtains >r claws to catch in, tangling up nail toes, Ther8 is no upholstery, 1 nt plenty of wooden and rattan < lairs, < There is no embroidery, no knick- ! uacks, nothing for inquisitive beaks 1 pick at and injure, but there is a i x>kcase or two with cloths laid over < to rows of volumes, nlainly furnished i *essing table, every tiling simple, but i ifficient, pretty, not in the least bare. ] nder the most frequent perches are ] tread newspapers, and; curiously < lougli, the/bird population keeps to 1 icse, and^' Mrs. Miller says, seldom * tils anything in the room. t la % % comer ^reli out_cf tkeir t i way?for the bird student does not believe in overtamiiig the wild creatures?stands Mrs. Miller's writing<Jesk. On a stand by its side is a pile of note books, each lettered with the name of one of the birds. Bird tragedies and comedies, bird loves and griefs, every phase of bird life and experience is being enacted, and day by day the woman who watches it all is writing each bird's diary, making a library of bird biography.?New York Mail and Exp"*3 -% Forecasting Brents. It is not given to any one to know the future, and even those who pretend to a knowledge of' it are apt to fail on some points. The author of "Lusitan^an Sketches" tells "a story which beaf^ directly on this subject As we were proceeding through a i muddy lane and stream, ' some of these horses - are .rgiven to rolling in water," exclaimed a good humored Irishman of our party; ''look out, \ mv friends I" The words were scarcely out of his mouth, when down went his own horse. He fortunately managed to extricate himself and scrambled up .* i i ?iv: ij : J * me oanK, out. uummg- wuuiu muuv* the animal to dse til 1 he had rolled over and over, crashing and. wetting the saddle completely. Keiths thrashing behind nor haulmgat his rein had any effect?roll he would and did. It was impossible to resist laughing. "Why, your horse is as baa as a mulel" we cried. "It wasyour own fault, my good fellow. Why did you not spur him?" observed some one. 'That is good I" saicHhe Irishman. "How could I know it-was my horse that was going to roll?"?Youth's Companion. The Bin Waa Paid. 'Til see about it," he said, as he handed the bill back to the collector. "It's only $5, and" 'Til see about it, I told yonl" "And we need money. It would be a great favor." "Didn't I say I would call?" "Yes: but when?" "Look herel" rose up, debtor, as B "No, mean to insult me? papers ^rT Inyan to go down to th thatjJ^Dd.&et them to put in a notic Qjpjou will soon depart for Europe mod day, sirl?;; M "Herel comtkCbackI Here's yon jrmcmeyl Do yen suppose I want 5(X f ^Uectprs making a rush on my office Please(recefpT&ebilL Sorry I kep - Center of the United Stat he* The photographers are all at && m garbing the geographical cen ter of th? United States. Taking Quoddy Head, Me., as the most eastern point, Alton islands th>e most western, Point Barrow, Alaska, the most nortiiern . Kev West, Fla., the most southern, and forming a parallelogram, it appears that the geograDhical of the country is 270 miles west of San Francisco m the Pacific ocean. Who says we have no rights to the Pacific?-?8nrincfield rTnirjjf *ODL)b AND What a pity it is that thereaH|Q many sweet sinners and sour saints. No longer talk about the kind of person a good man ought to be, but be such.?Aurelius Antonius. The danger from gases only in connection with house drainage are said to be comparatively easy to avoid, the malt consideration being a continuous thorough ventilation of the pipes. The perceptive and the reflective faculties are practically useless unless they be conjoined with the executive faculty. How many scholars there arefwho know everything?but how to use it! Quaritch, the London bibliophile, wants ?6,220 for a psalter of the Fifteenth century he has in stock, and which he calls "the grandest work ever produced by typography and one of the rarest of the early monuments of printing." M. Meyer, of Paris, claims to have invented a paper indestructible by fire. Specimens nave been exhibited which had been for four hours in a pottery furnace. He has also invented incombustible colors and inks. All European governments acknowledge that Uncle Sam has the strongest weapon of war in the dynamite gun. A French paper says every one such gun is equal to five ironclads. Dr. Le Baron, an eminent physician of France, says that such a thing as a person having a snake or a lizard in his stomach was never known and never will be. Ail such cases nave been imaginary. An American quack doctor sold some liquid on the streets of Paris which he warranted to relieve pain in one minute. Some of those who were not relieved made complaint and he was sent up for a year. The Hon. G. R. Dibbs, the new premier of New South "Wales, is a man of strong will and iron determination. Rather than pay costs that he believed were unjustly awarded against him, he prefexred to spend twelve months in Darlinghurst jail, Sydney, for contempt of court "We stand now over some of the mysteries of eternity as children that look with fear down into deep, dark ponds on winter evenings. On some eternal summer day ^ve may pass by that way and find them dried to the abiding ground and the mystery at an end." In Michigan university "a larger proportion of women than of men are taking choice the full classical course." President Angell reports: Men are becoming scientific rather than classical, on account of the new openings in scientific professions, while women study Greek and Latin, to meet the requirements of teachers. A youth who went into a Buffalo store" and asked for socks, not knowing the proper size, was told to hold out his hand. The customer held out his hand and doubled up his fist as directed. The clerk took a sock from a box, wrapped the foot around the fist and guaranteed a perfect fit. 'T am iust as sure it will fit you as though I had measured your foot," said he, 4'as the distance around the fist is always the length of the foot" Electric Photography, Electricity is coming to the fore in the pictorial as well as the other arts; and photographers are enabled to dedare their independence of the sun. By means of the flash light process, the camera can work at midnight or in the gloomiest crypt as effectively as put doors at high noonday; ana its adaptability to special purposes in nedicine and surgery give it an important relation to modern scientific progress. Dr. Roberts has recently Exhibited the flash light method pul> icly, showing the way in which the i shutter upon the camera is moved, and ho magnesium powder exploded at he same instant by means of an 1 electric current. The shutter movement is accomplished by means of a temporary magnet placed next to the shutter and connected with a simple mechanism which moves the shutter as the current is turned on. or off. Another wire from the batteryis connected "with an elliptical shaped ram in which is placed the powder The current heating a steel wire in turn ignites the powder. Back of the pan is placed a polished re* i Sector, by which much light is saved. A picture of an audience in a darkened I theatre may be obtained literally "in a Sash"?and. often is. The ladies lump when the magnesium explodes, out they have been caught by the camera at the instant of the Sash. -The plates are developed in a dark room, and prints as well as lantern slides are procured.?Frank-kesHe's Newspaper. . . %nj-| A. 8?nMsmbiaii Verdict. """ r. .. . .4T.i 'Rastus Johnson (colored gentleman of leisure)?What's dis I yearljoul marry-age bein' a faleryafc? -Who's 'sponsible fur datsayja'? Fete Pullback (meeJdy^l^sSt? whal dey all say. llastas.^^ 'Rastus J. ?Dey all lies, denl poan I know what Pin f^taUon* *boot! Wasn't I a toilin' and a slavin'posson till 1 became the odder half od Cclia Tucker? An' nnf^:ftfo?L^--dgl)des ofc my own homeT XSrft^i sit Voun' an play de banjo and 'courage Oelia wki de washing an' not keer whedder dc whitewashin' season am good or bad! Celia can git two dollahs a day at dc tub. No, sah, marry-age am not ? fale-yah. ?Pittsburg Bulletin. The property of the Metropolitar Museum of Art, in New York, is wort! $2,272,705, and recent donations bj Mrs. J. W. Drexel and H. C. Mar quand will JWell this sum to thre< millions. v .Farmiag at a Loss. v I wish to ask if the farmers an not still carrying tbeir corn to mil |^B(^^tone in one end of thb sack " jn other? Prof. Ct^D^^^W^HsimBBmBi! f * ! tial observers to the one and a ball i millions of acres planted in cotton ic Sootb Carolina, we bare an annna net loss of $4,950,000 caused by the 086 of fertilizers of the gross pro ceeds of one crop oat of five.? Harry Hammond, in Aiken Journal and Review. Sens That Lay. Leghorns lay more eggs than any other variety of fowls; so says Felcb, the patriarch of poultry in America. He also claims that the white Leghorn will lay larger eggs v than other varieties of Leghorns. He commends as an excellent oross for praotical porposes?meat and eggs? a white Leghorn cockerel on light Brahma hens. A correspondent says: fTtU~ U/ini V%AM AAA X Vta?*A AtTAW OAAf\ iuo ueob uou cg^ x ua<o c?ci ocou or tasted is that of the light Brahma hen, laid io her second year. This egg is dark colored, rich flavored, large sized, thick swelled, ropy white, and heavy, rich yolk. In size, weight and qnality, the Brahma egg more than makes up for loss of number as compared with the Leghorn. Mr. Felch says the egg of this cross? white Leghorn and light Brahma ?is large, rioh and dark colored, and strong shell. For all practical pnrposes?eggs for eating or shipping or meat for eating?I can commend this oross to farmers who wish to cross with two varieties of pare bred fowls. A 2Tot Use for Lemons. "If yoa ever use lemons," remarked onr housewife to a lady friend, and have a portion of one left over, be sare yoa do not throw it away. I am never without them in the hoase, as I always ase them for flavoring; bat of what nse are the pieces?1' "Jast this. The next time yoa thick you are done with a lemon just dip it in salf and rub your copper kettle or stewpan withoit. You will be surprised to find what a brillian surface will obtain if you rob the article instantly with a dry, soft cloth. You can polish all braes work by the same means; every stain disappears as if by magic. A mouldly lemon put into a dirty saucepan half full of water and boiled for half an hour cleanses the utensil amazingly and removes any odor, such as fish i or onions. Try it, and see if I am j not right.." Laurens county can boast of two young ladies, sisters, that actually ginned cotton, ran a stationary engine, and plowed and worked a cotton patch, in order to pay for their schooling. ; ' Can Man beam to yjy ? ^ ; A. few weeks ago ao adventurous aeronaut succeeded in fiyiog a coaple fltf miles in the sabarlw of New York, with the aid of a huge machine that had wings, and he seemed to nee them with considerable 8noce88. For . something like a generation the in* i veofcor of 4his flying-machine bad been at work upon it; had had been laughed at because of it as heartily as ever the 1 irrepressible Eeely, of motor fame, wae laughed at he was a Scotchman, who posijf&ed true Scotch tenacity. He stack to bis idea and finally had tborM&efaction of seeing " its great wings beat the air and carry ' it a considerable distance before it 1 was thought well to let it rest. As a result of this there has been > I OrgaaiKetfr a Wiupuj nuu a ua^nat . r $1,000,000, the. object of which is v V 1 to educate the public in the matter of . . ; r, flying, and to supply the wings that y i ..., " ^ will be necessary. v- Eren the aagoat Academy of Sci- v, f eocee, which once every week die-; * oasses subjects that most people know nothing about, and whose members * know pretty much, everything that | mortal man ought to know, is taking r some cognizance of the affair at iasoe, ' and in a quiet way are discussing the q nest ion as to whether or not man will be able to fly. Many of the professors insist that, as man has by aid of machinery been able to propel him* self tbrongh the water, why the f I ooomMHH^^H^HI its power o! lighten) "Should man ever fly successfully," said the learned manf "he will have , to do it by means of meehanism mod* eled after the elastio and muscular form of the sea bird." , , &5?a Just what will come of the discos, sion of the Academy of Science remains to be seen. Nothing at all may come of it in the end except a good deal of theorizing. Bat in the meantime Patrick O.Campbell, the dongbty Scotchman, who is the inventor of the machine that made the recent saccessfnk flight through the air, is ^ going right ahead and is terribly in earnest He has worked nearly all , his life on bis invention, and now, backed as he is by a capitalized com- ~pan j, he thinks he sees snccess ahead. : A Boom for Bamid in Georgia. It is probable that the cultivation of the ramie plant in Georgia will shortly be attempted on a large scale. Several well known gentlemen in Pitt8barg, Pa., have organized a company ander a charter and parchased a tra^of land in Georgia. Ia oar latitude three crops of stems a year can be harvested, and it is thought that the manufactare wilt be ^ in fall blast as scoq as the baildiogs and machinery can be pot op. The cotton belt is also the ramie belt, and is more extensive in this country than anywhere else in the world. y The caltare of the plant is not expensive, and only the cost of separating the fibre has heretofore stsod in the way of its development ^The Pittsbargers have secured a machine called a decorticator that will rate the fibre cheaper than toucan - ; be done in China, and wjra this machine the vexed probleiy. of ramie manafactariog will be settled. This plant has been used for ages in China and other Eastern countries* in the manufacture of a great variety of fabrics, some as fine and brilliant as silk. The woven material baa been an article of commeroe for centnries, and in Europe is need as a substitute for silk.?Atlanta Constitution. *. * Missouri is the only State in tbe - 77 V Union that makes no provision for ber militia. In 1886 there were seven 1 regiments in tbe State, while now 4* there are bat two, numbering 1,809 men.