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L LEXINGTON CONVENTION
B,
f OF FARMERS
I I^EPa^r
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HOTEL BLOCK,
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Where every Farmer of Lexington county
and from all other counties in this State
art cordially invited to inspect the largest
and best assortment of
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i READY MADE
[IcLOTHING
HiiTS,
FURNISHING GOODS.
r Straw Hats of ev^ /^tyle and quality.
I have just returirLr from the Northern
Markets with a full and complete line of
lJPRI.\G A! SUMMER CLOTHING,
BBS ?at?
S THE ORIGINAL
BACKET
I STORE.
Harness! Harness!
B T7?OB THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WE
Hk?~ Jl will sell one car load of HABNESS.
B ^nr York buyer went all the way out
B Weat, where one of the largest factories of
. the kind in the United States failed. He j
H made an i^ffer on a lot of Harness of about J
RH jiftv cents on the dollar below their real
K value. Of course he got them for spot
V cash, as he gets all our other thunderbolts j
that get is the way of competitors and j
L*- pauses them to petition City Councils to
sot grantor a license to sell goods'. We 1
cannot tgmc at that much, as a man is *
cores are
--- rron, leaving petitions ( *
Tg* Wo tell the public th&t_ it
0^? <4? ^Jrson that wants harness of i
^ ^^Lo. f^SSne to ns from one hundred j ft
miles all ar >und Columbia. Think of it. I kj
Ik
"We can save you from three to ten dollars of
ft a set of Harness. This Harness com- n
an
iaes Buggy Harness, Double and Single; J ?E
agon and Truok Harness, Double and sui
i fri
ngle; Saddles, of all grades, and Bridles. ; ^
hi can purchase a fine Plough Bridle for : cui
cents, worth double. This sale will con- j ^
car
i.ue only until the FIBST OF MAY, as we J
>jSave not the room in our store to handle 8UC<
i them; and another reason, w e may never
QQu
grt them that we can sell at the same price, men
Wegill al^save you 25 per cent, in all |
^othing, Shoes, Dress the
ftnd everything j^?u{
Call and see os. j youi
I I'lve^ ^ faction in every arti- | j??*
^ 1 ^ ^ 01
BV 66d . liaeket Store,i mads
HHK^ng tt groce
F-^opposite City Hail, { make
HEB attent
COLUMBIA, 8. O. taker
^HB from
HBftrk Office, 466 Broadway. owe t
IB 0_ debt (
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""" ' THE SLAUGHTER. " "
DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE IN ST.
LOUIS.
"Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Bo."
A Loss That Cannot Be Replaced?The
Equipment of a Man?Dangers to Young
Men In Great Cities.
St. Louis, .April 7.?The Rev. T. Do
Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached here this evening to a vast
audience. His subject was "The
Slaughter," apd his text, Proverbs,
vii, 21: "As an ox to the slaughter."
The eloquent preacher said:
There is nothing in^ the voice or
manner of the butcher to indicate to
the ox that there is death ahead. The
ox thinks he is going on to a rich pasture
field of clover, whero all clav
loner, he will revel in the herbaceous
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luxuriance; but after a while the men
and the. boys close in upon hirh with
sticks and stones and shouting, and
drive him through bars and into a
doorway, where he Js fastened, and
with a well aimed stroke the ax fells
him: and so the anticipation of the
redolent pasture field is completely
disappointed. So many a young man
has neen driven on by temptation to
what he thought wouitl be paradisiacal
enjoyment; but after a while influences
with darker hue and swarthier
arm close in upon him, and lie finds
that instead of making an excursion
into a garden he has been driven "as
an ox to the slaughter."
L We are apt to blame young men
for being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy
them. Society slaughters a great
many young men by tne behest, "You
must Ireep up appearances; whatever
be your salary, you must dress as well
as others, ycu must wine and brandy
as many friends, you must smoke as
costly cigars^ you must give as expensive
entertainments, and you must
live in as fashionable a boarding
house. If you haven't the money,
borrow. If you can't borrow make a
false entry, or subtract here and there
a bill from a bundle of bank bills; you
will only have to make th^ecepuon
a little while; in a few months, or in
a year or two, you can make all right.
Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody
will be the wiser. You yourself will
not be damaged." By that awful process
a hundred thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaughtered
for eternity.
THE MISERIES OP GETTING IN DEBT.
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly a man in the house but
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast
estates have been built on a borrowed
dollar. But there are t.wo kinds of
borrowed money. Money borrowed
for the purpose of starting or keeping
up legitimate enterprise and expense
and money to get i]f l
whic^^jjj^^^^Aut.; - Tho/ 4,
your 0* ^
in rKcTB
- ? ? j oajS- til
of the Render,
things when you hi
H KTowii some other street to \
Beting some one whom yen ov
King- men kne wwhat is the d
{ Plb of being in debt more of
would keen out of it What dicl
JJ do for Lord Bacon, with a mihd
ering above the centuries? It ind
him to take bribes and convict hii
as a criminal before all ages.
did debt do for Walter Scott ? Br
hearted at Abbotsford. Kept him'
ing until his hand gave out in pai
sis to keep the sheriff away from
pictures and statuary. Better for
if he had minded the maxim wliicl
had chiseled over the fireplace at
botsford, "Waste not, want not."
i The trouble is, my friends, the \
pie do not understand the ethic:
going in debt, and that if you y
chase goods with no expectation
paying for them, or go into do
which vou cannot meet, you steal j
so muck money. If I gointoagroce
store, and I buy sugars and coffees a
meats, with no capacity to pay 1
them and no intention of paying f
them, I am more dishonest than if
go into the store, and when thegrocei
face is turned the other way I"fill n:
pockets with the articles of merchai
ctise and carry off a ham. In the or.
case I take the merchant's time, and
take the time of his messenger t
transfer the goods to rnv house, vrhil
in the other case I take none of th
time of the merchant, and I wait upoi
! myself, and I transfer the goods with
out any trouble to him. In oiiiei
words, a sneak thief is not so bad as a
man who contracts for debts he never
expects to pay.
Yet in all our cities there are families
that move every May day to get
into proximity to other grocers and
meat shops and apothecaries. They
owe everybody witain half a mile of
where they now live, and next May
thev will mw
? mwa oistant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims.
Meanwhile you, the honest family in
the new house, are bothered day by
lay by the knocking at the door of
lisappointed bakers, and butcher, and S
Iry goods dealers, and newspaper oar- /}
iers, and you *re asked where your >
redecessor is. irou do not know. It (J
ms arranged you should not know, i
[ eanwhile your predecessor has gone
> some distant part of the city, and :
le people who have anything to sell !
ive sent their wagons and stopped
lere to solicit the "valuable1' custom \
' the new ueighbor, and he, the new j
riffhbor, with great complacency !
icT with an air of affluence, orders the i
lest steaks and the highest priced ! <
gars, and the best of the canned l
lits, and, perhaps, all the newspa- j t
rs. And the debts will keep on ac- j' j
nulating until he gets his goods on j \
i 30th of nei't April in the furniture s
** ' n
low, let me say, if thero are any j
U persons in the house, if von i a
e any regard for your own ! c:
vemence, you had better re- j
re to some greatly distant part of j
citv. It is too bad that, having j l'(
all the trouble of consuming ; su
goods, you should also have the | or,
ble of being dunned! And let me ! ha
<hat if vou find that this pictures 1 to!
own photograph, instead of being j is 5
lurch you ougiit to be in the pen- j no
iary! No wonder that so many be!
ur merchants fail in business. \ bui
are swindled into bankruptcy v:o
lese wandering Arabs, these no- j the,
of city life. They cheat the j Thi
r out of the green apples which hea
them sick, the physician who feet
Is their distress, and the under- ' you
who fits them out for departure dree
the neighborhood where they the:
iverybody when they pay tfco ; thou
yf nature, the only deot they I foot
]& payi
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{ "NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER
BE."
i Now our young- men are coining up
j in this depraved state of commercial
I ethics, and I am solicitous about
i them.want to warn them against
! bein^f slaughtered on the sharp edges
; of debt. -You want many things you
j havt^' not, my young friends. You
! shaifl have them if you have patience
j jSmd honesty and industry. Certain
| lines of conduct always lead out to
certain successes.
There is a law which controls even
those things that seem haphazard. I
i have been told by those who have ob!
served that it is possible to calculate
i just how many letters will be sent to
the Dead 'Letter office every year
through misdirection; that it is possible
to calculate iust how many letters
will bo detained for lack of postage
stamps through the forgetfulr.ess of
Ihe senders, and that it is possible to
I tell just how many people will fall in
j jthe streets by slipping on an orange
| peel, in otner wordSjr^ere arc no
: accidents. The most v insignificant
' event you ever heard of is the link be!
twcan two eternities?the eternity of
j the past and the eternity of the future.
! Head the right way, young man, and
j you will come out at the right goal,
j Bring me a young man and tell me
! what his physical Health is, and what
| his mental caliber, and what his habits,
} and I will tell you what will be his
j destiny for this world, and his destiny
j for the world to come, and I will not
! make five inaccurate prophecies out of
I the five hundred. All tnis makes me
! solicitous in regard to young men,
and I want to make them nervous in
regard to the contraction of unpayable
dents. I give you a paragraph from
my own experience.
DR. TALMAGfi HAS BEEN THERE HDI3ELF.
Mv tirst settlement as pastor was in
a village. My salary was $800 and a
}>arsonage. The amount seemed enormous
to me. I said to myself, "What!
all this for one year?" I was afraid
of getting worldly under so much
prosperity! I resolved to invite all
the congregation to my house in
groups of twenty-five each. We began,
and as they were the best congregation
in all the world, and we
felt nothing was too good for them,
we piled all the luxuries on the table.
I never completed the undertaking.
At the end of six months I was in
financial despair. I found what every
young man learns in time to save
himseif, or too late, that you must
measure tho size of a man's body be
fore you'begin to cut the cloth for hif
coat.
When a young man willfully and oi
? aaiyi /vf
J cuoiou, "Action of unpayable
goes into the conn goes,
1 debts he.knot ;not^>^btor, th<
The creditors Se^ . -.i cry and aias
{pack of hounds in full 1 ^s d?or
ifor the reindee,. tge m0rning
f/'5 ?$*?? sia^wii' -A/i
T-TJr above, antTT
and gi
dunned^r.nd s\v<
ti?e nervous dys
lr^ toJPP^^ieuralgia, gets liver com
r gets heart disease, gets conyulsi
e;# h ^order, gets consumption.
^P? >-J?aH^he is dead, and you say
tiK* .'course toey will let him alone,"
I debt nQj jJoWythey are watchful
i Id whether thbe?_areany unnecessa
nceX penses at the obsequie^tpjsee^vh
^ there is any useless handle on th
j* ket, to see whether there is any
0 .? plu3 plait on the shroud, to see \v
er the hearse is costly or cheap, t
j?Y" whether the ilewej-s sent to the c:
, . have been bought by the famil
Jl!/n donated, to see in whose name
y}e deed to the grave is made out. 1
they ransack the bereft household,
books, the pictures, the carpets,
3eoj. chairs, the sofa, the piano, the r
5 tresses the nillow on which he c
:url Cursed be debt! For the sake of y
own happiness, for tho sake of y
5 , good morals, for the sake of your
^T~ mortal soul, for God'3 sake, vol
j man, as far as possible, keep out ol
II Rnf T
? ?x i>iixuk more young* n
are slaughtered through* irreligit
t Take away a young man s religion a
r-s you make him the prey of evil. \
all know that the Bible is the 011
y. perfect svstern of morals. Now if yt
want to destroy the young man's mc
j als take his r>ible away. How w,
0 you do that ? Well, you will caricatu
0 his reverence for the Scriptures. yc
Q will take all those incidents 01 u
a Bible which can bo made mirth ofJonah's
whale, Samson's foxes, Adam
rib?then you will caricature eccent.ri
Christians or inconsistent Christians
, then you will pass off as your own al
those hackneyed arguments agains
Christianity which are as old as Torr
Paine, as old as Voltaire, as old as sin,
Now you have captured his Bible, ami
you have taken his strongest fortresstho
way is comparatively clear, and
all the gates of liis soul are set open, in
invitation to tho sins of earth and th6
sorrows of death, that they may come
in and drive the stake for their encampment
A LOSS THAT C.VsSOT BE REPLACED.
A steamer fifteen hundred miles
from shore with broken rudder and
lost compass, and hulk leaking fifty
gallons $ie hour, is better off than a
young man when you have robbed
him of his Bible, Have you ever noticed
how despicably moan it is to take
away the world's Bihte without proposing
a substitute? It is meaner than
to come to a sick man and stead his i
medicine, meaner than to come to a i
cripple and steal his crutch, meaner j
than to come to h pauper and steal his j
crust, meaner than to come to a poor |
man and burn his house down. It is }
.lie worst of ail lai-cenies to steal the !
dible, which has been tho crutch and j
ticdicine and food and eternal home to j
6 many' What a generous and mag- I ]
.animcus business infidelity has gone j '
a to! This splitting up of life boats j 1
nd taking away of fire escapes and j n
<tinguishing of jight house*
1 coine out and 1 say to such people, ^
What are you doing" all this for?" "
!)h," they say, "just for fun." It is ^
ch fun to see Christians try to hold j i<(
i to their Bibles! Many of them
ve lost loved ones, ancf have been
u that there is a resurrection, and it |
such-fun to tell them there will be i Ps
resurrect ion! Many of them have i
ieved that Christ camo to carry the | *,K
dens and-to heal the wounds of liie ; -V
rid, and it is such fun to tell them | f10
y will have to be their own saviourl | lnr
nk of the meanest thing you ever j W11
rd of; then go down a thousand ! ?ni
underneath it, and you will lind j 'ea'
rself at tliotopof a stairs a hun!
miles long; go to the bottom of I
stairs, and yon will find a ladder a j
tsand miles long; then go to the j
of tne ladder and look off ajpreci- I %v'e.r
7
i and you will lind the headquarters of ! '
J the meanness that would rob this ; 3
j world of its only comfort in life, its { 3
| only peace in death and its only hope .j ;
j for immortality. Slaughter a young | 3
man's faith in God. and there is not i ?
much more left to slaughter. 1 r
Now, what lias become of the
slaughtered? Well, some of them are j 3
in their fathers or mother's house ! <
broken down in health, waiting to die; i j
others are in the hospital; others are j j
in Greenwood, or, rather, their bodies i '
j are, for their souls have gone on to '
j retribution. Not much prospect for a 1
j young man who started life with good :
health, and good education, and a j ;
Christian example set him, and oppor- |i
tunity of usefulness, who gathered all^fl
his treasures and put them in one bos,
and then dropped it into the sea.
Now, how is this wholesale slaugh- j 1
ter to be stopped? There is not a per- J <
son in the house but is interested in j
that question. Young man, arm your- ' 1
j self. The object of my sermon is to ^
put a weapon in each of your hands ; 1
for your own defense. Wait not for .
Young Men's Christian associations to ,
protect you, or churches to protect
a Tv?->aoliiier to Gnd for lieln. take i
J WU.
care of yourself.
First, have a room somewhere that
you can call your own. Whether it
be the back parlor of a fashionable j
boarding house, or a room in the fou rth j ,
! story of a cheap lodging, I care not. j "
Only have that one room your for- !
: tress. Let not the dissipator or unclean
step over the threshold. If they
come up the long flight of stairs and
knock at the door, meet them face to .
( face and kindly yet flrmly refuse thorn j
admittance. Have a few family nor- j
traits on the wall, if you brought them j
with you from your country home,
j Have a Bible on tho stand. If you can
j afford it and you can play on one,
i have an instrument of music?harp or
| flute, or cornet, ormelodeon, or violin,
1 or piano. Every morning before you
1 leave that room, pray. Every, night
after you come home in that room,
pray. Make that room your Gibraltar,
your Sebastopol, your Mount
Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper
come into that room, any more than
you would allow a cobra to coil on j
your table.
Take care of vourself. Nobody else j
will take caro of you. Your help will i
; not come up two or three or foar !
flights of staii-s; your help will come !
) through the roof, down from heaven, i
' from Siat God who in the six thousand j
years of the world's history never be- j
* trayed a young man who tried to be !
, gocxi and a Christian. Let me say in
regard to your adverse worldly circum- ,
' stances, in passing, that you are on a
* level now with those who are finally
' , to succeed. Mark mv words, youtut
? ^ ...? :* i
; | man, ana t jgR ^hal ^ose v^jjfc
now.
thirty ' B? I
> aires of A, t
i to^T
m o wn to the MErcanJB
<fQf bra^W^Mget somo books and rtSB
0h~. what mechanism G-o'^J
to see- you in -in you$ fos(|
ry ex- your "eyg^B ycfefr ear, ana then ?
tether some doctor to take you into the d
e"cas- secting room and illustrate to y>
sur. what you have read about, and nev
lieth- again commit the blasphemy of a*
o see *n& 70u bave 310 capital to start w'4:
askefc Equipped! Why, the poorest yen
v or matl in this house is equipped as onl
" the God of the whole universe qbul
Chen afford to equip him. Then his bod,
the ~a very poor affair compared with hi
the wonderful soul?oh, that i, wpa
nat- makes me solicitous. I am' not s<
lies, much anxious about you, yoi ?g man
our because you have so little to do with.
our as I am anxious about you * because
im- yoa have much to risk and lose or
ing i **
j? J There is no class of persons that so
;eu I stir my sympathies as y-.-Ung men in
m ?rcat cities. Kot quite enough salary
to live on, and all the ^empfad m; that
).0 come from that defic Invited on all
l*y hand3 to drink, aiu their exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their . eligion caricatured
>Ly by the most of th<? clerks in the store
l'e and most of the curatives in the fac,u
tory. The rapids' of temptation and
10 death rushing against that young man
7 forty miles the hpur, and he in a frail
s boat headed up stream, with nothing
e but a broken oJr to work with. Unless
:: Almighty God help them they will go
| under.
* Ah I when I told you to take care of j
1 yourself you misunderstood me if you i
; thought I meant you are to depend j
upon human resolution, which may ;
be dissolved in top fVv? ?
.votui yji tiitj .vino ! j
| cup, or may be blown out with the
first g-ust of temptation. Here is the
helmet, the sword of Lord God AI- r
mighty. Clothe yourself in that pan- /oply
and you shall not be put to corifusion.
Sin pays well neither in this j
world nor the next, but right thinking - ^
and right believing and right acting j D
wili take you in safety through this J 01
life and in transport through the next, i tc
I never shall forget a prayer I heard j r(
a young man make .some fifteen years j ~m
ago. It was a very short prayer, hut j vr
it was a tremendous prayer: "Oh Lord, i p.help
us. We find it so very easy to do | r"
wrong and so hard to do right. Lord, j
help us." That prayer, I warrant you, :
reached the 6ar of God, and reached j
his heart. And there are in this house j 0l>
a hundred men who have found out? ! ^
a thousand young men, perhaps, who. j
have found out that very thing. Lfc'is j ? j
so very easy to do wrong, and so hard ' wa?
to do right, ? j t[JC
I got a letter, only one paragraph of j ^
which I shall read: J'Having moved
iround somewhat I have ran across { ^
nany young men of intelligence, j Qc
rdent strivers after that wiJl-o'-the- i nnTV
risp, fortune, and -'>f ~e iV
, yjil-j ?J! IIICSC i I J
rould speak. lie was a young Eng- j r j.
sliman of twenty-three or four years, j fc:
ho came to New York, where he had j
?quaintanc6S, with barely sufficient j r0]03
> keep him a couple weeks. Ho j jcve,
id been tenderly reared; perhaps I ; 1
tould say too tenderly, anri was not j 1)ere,
;ed to earning his living, and found j
extremely difficult to get nnvposi- j []lvrn
m that he was capable of tilling. j t]lcjr
'tor many vain efforts in this direr- | attent
n he found himself on Sunday even- j (,uen*
r in BUkiklyn, near your church, ; <
th about three dollars left of his j 00l)"c?]r
all capital. Providence seemed to t
tl him to your door, and he do- | ,1
> , *>. , , ' ; UuCuQ
mined to go in and hear you. ; n
He told me Ins going to hear you j 'w<;,ina,
t night jvas undoubtediy the turn- ; (.j;v,,qy
point in hj3 life, for when j ,'7
it into your^church he felt ues- | tj10 ja^
N - '7
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K'lftic, UiH wmic listening 10 vu...
liscourse \r, better nature got the j
riastery. i truly believe from what [
:his young man toid me that your j
>oun?ing the depths of his heart that ;
night alone brought him back to Ids
,}od whom he was so near leaving."
LiEE Tin: r^'aHT ROAD AND KEEP TO IT.
The ecbcMkat is* of multitudes in
he bouse. I am not preaching an j
ibsfractioD, but a great reality. Oh! j
friendless young man, Oh I prodigal j
young m:n, Oh! broken hearted j
young mai . discouraged young man,
wounded y^Etngman, I commend you
to Christ this day, the best friend a
man ev&tTuad. He meets vou this I
morning. You have come -here for !
this b'cssii g. Despise not that emo- I
on risingJa your soul; divinely ;
liftod. Look into the Christ, j
Lift one &swy?r to your father's God, ;
to your sn '-'-her's God, and get the par- j
doning-^jfc^ing. Kow, while I speak, |
you are-j^jj^pOrks of the road, and |
road, and that is the j
wrong. idU. and I seo ycy^ start on
th: Hr,-f A-^ao.
Gnu happath morning, at the close
of my ser. ice, I saw a gold watch of
the wwJfs* renowned and deeply la- [
merited violinist Ole Bull. You re- J
metnber I j died in his island home off
the coast "of Norway. That gold watch \
he had wo-md up day after day through
his illness, and then ho said to his
compuni?- -, ''Now I want to wind this
watch ?3 long as I can, and then when
I am gone i want you to keep it wound
up until it gets to my friena Dr. Do re- !
mus, in Now York, and then he will
keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then I want the watch to go to
his youhg son, my especial favorito." 1
The great musician, who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak and sing and weep and laugh
and triumph?for it seemed when Tie
drew the bow across the strings as if
all earth; and heaven trembled in delighted
sympathy?the great musician,
in a roo-f- looking off upon the sea,
and surrounded by his favorite instruments
of music, closed his eyes in
death. "Vfhile all the world was mourning
at his departure, sixteen crowded
steamers fell into line of funeral processor*
carry his body to the main
land. There were fifty thousand of
his countrymen gathered in an amphitheatre
of the hills waiting to hear the
eulogium, and it was said when the
< - -i ?* t.
gnat oiuWi1 ul I Lie lia t IW SUiilUl UU '
voice began to speak, the fifty thou sand
people 0:1 the hillsides burst into
tears.
Oh! tbet was the cloge of a life that
had done shrnuch to mako the world
happy. have to tell you, young
man, iffy.rjljp right and die right, I
that was a'jWiie scene compared with
that which will greet you when from
the gaUancs oji nfljUMMrthfij one hunJhCi
-four thousand d
g-en[I
T' -^T' a nl
raan *
v. I i,At th-e annua1 meS^HKrt
J I My of German iiatarS^^ f55?*
I swians; Professor WalXS? Vv p4
I an address n-vm+i deliver?
ly i ^."'-ontho "jraciieopf WJ
../? rruiiien," reported in La. S
(1 maino Medicals for Sei^c. 26, 1838. E
y endeavored to clear himself froi
s any accusations of unfairness c
t prejudice by referring in compl
:> mentary terms to the talente
, v. omen who taught in the echoc
, of . frelemum ? to Louise Boui
i geois. Marguerite de la Blanche, Marii
Louise Laciiapelle and many other,
eminent in the practice of midvafery,
He also admitted that for many centuries
the healing art had been in the
hands of women and that they had
mads -valuable contributions to tbe
literature of medicine Ho believed
that women should hold a position on
a level with that of men, as their functions
and attributes were as necessary
to the existence and jnaintenance of
the human species a-i those of men,
but that their vocation should be the
rearing and fostering of children.
This vocation rendered them everywhere
and always the equals of men.
Since the number of marriages was
diminishing every year they bad necessarily
been driven into seeking other
duties. Their entrance into medicine,
however desirable it might seem
to them, menaced not only their interests
but those of humanity at large.
Although their opportunities had been
abundant, they had never advanced
medical science..
Midwifery, for example, which for
nanyi centuries had been almost exlusiroiy
in their hands, had made no
>rogress until it was taken up by men. j
'heyjfcaguired great manual dexterity (
i the art, but little e:se. Women had r
ever in any art created a masterpiece; j
ih music, which seemed properly L
> beJtorig- to them, they had donr jDthicg
that might immortalize a g
ime.- Their presences in colleges dotted
,to the instruction of men was a ,
nd/anceto the teacnersand students. ?
laboratories they were unwelcome, ft
they were awkvvq^d and careles^ H
^^raliest di'Scu.ty discouraging
?m, and the assistants complained i P?
women students who besieged them | ^
;h inquiries upon trivial matters, i jri
arcot, at whoso clinics and lectures { Aw
arge number of women attended, j J>
quoted as saving that women j
ught more of themselves than they j
"of humanity; they consented un- i w0
ingly to be dressers in the hospitals j
to carry out antiseptic treah-*'
A-*75swoiis ?or which they would j ^
;ar to be well suited. They were i co::
np.bitious and aspired to the front i the
: ?iid to the moist prominent po- j 0;i3,
' ! anc
nature had barred their way to ! ciar
which they ought to fill, Wal- I ^0UJ
concluded that, women doctors |
10 future before.them and would j -^m(
bo more than the exception, j ^his
ithsiunding- thi.s^opinion, he gavo j advt
credit, curiouisly enough, for i owd
excellent memories, tlieir close ' low
ion to lectures, and their fre- j Can*
ability to pas4 bettor examina- j bion
;han men. Pi pfessor Waldeyer ; way
t<led by stating ihat if man was j fhe c
>) take, the initiative for the pro- i Mr*
u of new idea s, if lie had more ! opint
ce in his actio* is and his plans, j ers? v
, on the other hand, was more j "^0r?
endowed wits other qiialities | ^h0 *r
> precious. titCwas therfcre in i ?i *?
ircstof iiumcj Ttiy that die. wi^h?' * SLifJ
J
hands of men.
Notwithstanding Professor Wald- i
over's attempt to show his freedom |
from bias, his address leave.s a very ;
different impressiou. Ho seems to
have forgotten that midwifery was
taken hut of the hands of women at a j
period when they were regarded as be- j
ing of low intellectual capacity, were j
allowed no educational advantages, j
and were made to occupy a very bum- i
ble position in affairs. Thi3 we be- i
Lteve was the true cause for the as-, '
sumption of midwifery by men rather
than any inefficiency upon the part of '
women. Many will demur to the :
statement that in art and in literature j
they have accomplished nothing, j
Women have certainly during the
past half century produced work :
which will hist as long as that of most j
if not all of their contemporaries.: j
No matter how one may feel in this j
matter, it 13 certainly unjust to decide I
the question in such an off hand man- j
ner. The argumentative and senti- |
mental power of this social problem j
has passed, and only time can decide
whether women should enter the
medical profession or be restricted to
the duties of a housewife. This de-'
cision can be reached by allowing
them every opportunity to fight the
matter to a successful or unsuccessful
finish.?New York Medical Journal, i
i
Cultivation of Grapes.
A California paper gives some interesting
facts relative to the growing of.
grapes. It says: 4,The total expense
of cultivating an acre of grapes is $15;
the curing and packing of an acre of
grapes, making 100 boxes of raisins, j
$55. The average price of raisins for |
the last four years has been about $1.60 ;
per box. Putting the price at $1.50 j
per box for the four grades, we have a, j
total net profit.of $05 an acre. Many j
vineyards do better than the above, j
Vineyai ds have frequently been known j
to produce grapes enough the first year !
after planting*to pay expenses of cultivation.
The second year brings from
$30 to $50 per acre gross; third year,
$60 to $75."?New York Telegram. ^
Singular Deaths.
A Baltimorean recently dropped
asleep on a pari: bench, when, nis
head falling forward, he unconsciously
choked to death over the stiff
edge of his celluloid collar. A dog
died in Ilinois the other day from;
drinking the water in which a flannel
shirt had been rinsed. A St Louis1
mau has died of erysipelas contracted
from a verdigris brass collar button
bating into his neck; and a mail tn
Chicago was roasted to death by the
firing of his cotton underclothing as
dried before an open grate.?Bostou
hanic
is W
by
magnifi
discovered i
Bertie, is about
broad, and
*r^^BBeH^Burgon once ended an i
mated sermon with?"and so Joi
m. was lodged in the whale's bol
y. where, my dear brethren, we v
Bdi leave hhn until we meet again m
ii J SabbathA, s
Let veils be abandoned; they t
fe injurious to the eyes, especially the
33 of crape and those which are spott
>r or figured. A veil should never
i- worn, except to protect the eyes fro
d dust or sleet, ana then for as short
?1. time as possible.
M. Zola is now-engagvi in studyin
9 railway life, for the purpose of wri
'i ing about it what, no doubt, be suj
poses will be a "great" novel. In pui
suance of this object ho rides on looc
' motives.
As affording some idea of tht
amount of light gold now in circula
tion in Lonaon, it is stated that re centlv
a financier accepted ?^000,
largely made up of half sovereigns,
ana, o"n the amount being weighed at
the banker's it was found to be short
by ?19.
When a Turk dies, the legs are tied
together and the arms stretched by
tli? sides. The burial takes place as
soon as possible after the death. The
corpse is bandied very tenderly, as the
Turks believe any lack of tenderness
would bring the curse of the dead j
man's soul upon them
A medical scftool is to be established j
in connection with Johns Hopkins !
university and Johns Hopkins nospi- j
tal. So far, $80,000 of the $100,000
fund for the relief of the university
has been subscribed. The other $20,000
will soon be forthcoming.
During the last year the number of
female riders of the bicycle has won- j
ierfully increased in Philadelphia, i
Twelvemonths ago there were less than ; i
1 dozen ladies in the city who could |
nount the wheel, but now the nuxn- !
is oertainly not less than seventy- ii
ive, and is steadily growing. ^
A workman engaged in removing ~
odies from an old graveyard in San s
rancisco found in a coffin, containing "V
le remains of a Chinaman, one of the .l
>0 gold slugs which were coined and
it in circulation by the San Fran- j tb
sco assay office in 1852. Thinking i or
e Diece was a Chinese coin, the man I
ed to sell it to a contractor for $o. ce
ic latter refused to purchase the slug, ! foi
d, when its true value was soon i ,
er discovered, the finder said he ^
?uld not sell it for $75. . I tea
'. t "J [ he*
Hie Mound Builders. * a
Ir. Gerard Fowke has, in a recent j ^6fi
itribution, given another blow to : beg
old notion that the mound builders |
North America belonged to an j
ient and extinct race. Messrs. Lu- for
t Carr and Cyrus Thomas havej <oe?,
j held to the view that these inter-*!
ig earthworks were constructed by 89D<:
nHcan Indians. The evidence to i bitic
effect is overwhelming, and few i ?
)catesof the old view haveendeav- j "ne
to make head i4 xr
il. iHT. ! ftllj t
ke adopts the bypotnesis of Meisrs. ^cr ft
and Thomas, abandoning the nothat
there was anything in the ; the t
of a racial difference shown by j (]0
onstruction of these earthworks, i
Fowke also criticises another ! studi
on concerning the mound build- j j3 at |
riiich was to the effect that they I
very much more numerous than Cbem
idians of this country at the time Math
settlement by the wbitec. Most . ?
ose who have made a car^4 P *
oi the firouna ma &iao ***
posed to agree witn lum 211 in is crm- 1
cism. ' | \
The fact appears to be that our In- I
dian tribes, at least in the Mississippi !
valley, were a few centuries ago rathe r j '<
more sedentary than they were at the I j
time when they were iirst s#cn by the !
whites. I have myself had occasion Tl
to note the fact tliat during the mound ; 2
building period the buffalo was not :
accessible to the aborigines, that beast,;
at that time probably noi having made | ?
his way east of the Mississippi river, j f
When tiie herds of this animal became ;
abundant in the Ohio and upper Mi - ! sissippi
valleys, the people appear to a j t;
great extent to have abandoned agin- i ,
culture and betaken themselves to the j 1
easier support which the chase of this i b
creature afforded them. There is ;
hardly Giiy doubt that the aborigines j
of North America were of substao- I 9
tially the same race and with much i t,
the same habits as our well known j
Indians.?N. S. Shalcr in Bofetor. Her- 1 ~
aid. / \ j o
j | _
He! I on and Chailty Booming.
Stranger?Kissing sociables! What i
are thevV
Rural Belle?They are never held I
except to raise money for some great j
religious or charitable object. The
,
yOUng UVCll liru IJUIIUIUIUCU, u. i. n _ , iiiij .
payment 9f u fixed sum somo girl, j
\yncm he doesn't knew, of course, is
brought' up. to him and he is allowed j
to kiss her. He never finds out whom | r
he kissed; but by paying enough he J
can finally kiss every girl in the '
room. So, you see. he gets the one ho j >
wants, but he never can toil which ; {
one it was."
44I sec. Is there much activity in ; c
religious and benevolent circles in & j j.
town like this?"
"Yes, indeed. It just keeps every j c
one of us busy hunting un objects to t
h<5ld sociablos for."?Philaaclpliia Ii> ,
cord. , Os.r
G-irls at School. j
j /
It often happens that.our gradual- j
iug young ladies ere not real!}
thorough in anything. They never
will bo thoroughly taught until coeducatipa
exists everywbero and
until parents demand lees show, iess
sensation and more study. A mother cm
boasts that h6r 17-year-oid .daughter
will graduate in the spriDg. Graou- | '
ate in what, madam? In cno show
piece of music, iu one snow piece of
painting or drawiDg, in one show
composition. She has studied wine
jttoksandknows almost enough to
g.
\ ^eiit
^HLw
>9.03 \ Uo_get
icovAV^ abo&t
ios?\ ?* ~?3 I
d?^ i^?beftU ' I
^go 1
i^^^sDootiug each el!
uve^with boy pistols, and givo no mc
nthoogbis^cr-gir'itf.thaD they do to t
cent U-^~. , >lear
ttiaa m the moon.
,000 j The career of a modern yom
* ^ wouoan is as rapid and as disiressit
mi- aP *he career of Mr. Solomon Grund.
iah who was bora ou a Monday and gu
loped through life in a s<:Ven d;id
ix\ She gradnates in white eill$?jjj
mental philosophy at 17 and has i
saason or so in societv. Bv 20 eh?
>se ed
is married, aud afc 25, when shi
b6 ought to be in the very heydav o!
m
a, gracious, wboiesome, healthy young
womanhood, she is a fagged out burnt
body and the mother of a let oi
y babies. Her music is gone, he:
* drawing is gone; she cannot 3D much
y as Bay " boo " in French, and all her
, boasted education is less than noth-T
'
iDg. When she graduated it was
with a fine Sourish and sue read
amid applause the pretty valedictory,
from which a discreet teacher had
carefully pruned away all signs of
originality, leading only the nice!v
j phrased platitudes and proverbs tba'
are respectable. Bat now, alas! the ,
doss cot SO mnoh ?? A
_ mwm (io xuuii & D6Vi3* ,
| paper. She has no art of tkinkicg.
and aa old woman at 25, she has j
accomplished nothing in life save ? L
diploma and a husband. It is the
most beatiful life of all for a woiar, ,,
that of the wife and mother; but this :
wife cannot preserve her charms in ft
the domestic circle i: eh9 has no*. :r
patiently and thooghtfally cultivated 0*
ibem to make the last. Sna harried c.r
hroogh the veVy best of her life. T ,(l<
3 done with and gone. Good 01 ,ot
ad, gay or sad, it is gone forevei., oui
he can never be a girl again,
anity and ignorance rushed her froi
ireagh the rose garden 'time, when X
ie blossoms were fair and th?- CdQ
ehards were full of June's sweet- fai)j
sbs. It wiii nevar be June .again for ,
fcer- of I
The' really thoughtful and earnest t^at
,chsr will be proud of having it> , tj
: racks youcg women of 18 and 20 ...
ire of age. These have mir.d9 that ^
[inning to act, to move, to think. !
? [ 01S 8 n
3se will be worthy of hsr teaching, i ,
J - i 'ecii
thev have broadened to something i
" ^ rer
tha* >^rang3 and beaux tied j
licg note's, etc. The rnl-.'.i" ' "??
- - -' Jt' | t.y !
5 n, the recitation an J e?S .?v, the
I rrn1:.dress,
the newspaper report of it
* ! t(J V 1 !
he weekr, of excited preparation <
y-\ & ii Li T
11 this?why it is enough to turn s ^
iead of a 17 year-ofe girl. And . ^ >
es turn her bead, away front ^ ?
es, away from the real way she
school. What has she learned? | Kerc
listry ? Physiology ? Po4anj ? or.d it i
emalice? Astronomy? Philcno- econora
The history sad all the eoi- as it is
<) M
JJ.it ubor<^^^|^HH^H|
p
b:d< s
she
sb ;rt:
r. L
ats ehe vv i: iicish school
110W TTILL IT E? CSASGE^f *
Ic n aot ?- d'tgrave to I>r? a trbool ^
irl at 20 \t-a:a a ad at 11 .tint:* iu?
" * O
eSaoc3, but j; is ai.n^st a dbgraca
or us to hmry t ?ir f irlt? tdoucr.J
O o'
'tfraduaiv:'' 1.Lh::i r.i,i L vo iheui
c9'Iy ft>r ail a unci so:*V
gas at aa figj v.-Leu tl ty s;.ouid
iii? be tC tiop.-U 'v :c c??? > Or.-ugh
be I! jv.oiy o!i i tsiae
f tbeir youth. At ibe OAoilitioi,,
Go proudest KiGsbsT \y ' h*"- t.uC v. ?j( S3
laughter figu.efl tr.ost Aetp.ier.tiy on
bo st:;go, wiij.js : a tut- i j ca w
he prcgrauane. How t.~ r/ r- ovvr to
earn that ibia :? .ill v.r :i::; xh^t 163
iOitemeut -.nd 'vcrryipg p- : a'aMjo
or t!l this education-;i bighjins i-rV.i x /
vrong anyhow?a waste ci uconey,
;f time and braio, aau,ihut the school
eacher, if only she cfta 3, would be
ho first one to try oat, against ir.
The very nature of Lor work coltirates
falbfulnesj-and bnnes'y in ibe
jharaeter cf a school teacher. She
3 better satisfied v.-ben b&*r git is arc
rue and high iniodod and nooroogb.
m .i /i. i i y
Lney.to-us reiiret ro^-r tfseeing, ana
his is a" high egotism we all
>oght to have. What greater good f
5an you eay of ir.e t'uau \hit you are
be better woman for let ruing things 1
A me, that you are truer and more
iispoeed to honesty becaose q?_fcooweg
ir.e. The
isrself tbe tiro* wasted oa I
be 2:>uriahibg music
oc
x>og boarer
7re wort, 5 ?x-fl
be ' Jsi s e ?
. ^ ' \^* .^ ' Tv fcS.^^ '
- ; results <a sai^aiiSc discoveries to"^ y ^1? X *
! agricultural practice. The aim of the J? *'department
is a practical one and in \/
the direction ?t cooooay aod variety
in production, tbrough the aaioa of . \
science aud experiment. The past. \
year has been one ci activity ancl
aaw sections ao i branccos have been ~y \
organized, the? work of which v;iU' j V
prove of great value to the future; '
agricultural operations of this
c- *
country. ^ ;
Tiis appropriation by the cation*!
government of Sio.OuO per aauuiu to
each of the b-afes ut.a territories
which have established cj-ficaliara! 1
*- .1 s
soileges or ugricnli.ur;.i ucp trrmecrs *
jf colleges, ia accord a see with tba
ict us Congress approved IvTv^'h 2,
887. ha3 led *0 the C-S-..v?:S'irnf-i
6W atutiULo or 'I-e dr-.Vfclpioeat
cf cicti uis previously rstuosbed
under i5,ats aaLiority in i
arty seven 5 aUs and or.e territory,
j several Sta'er, two or more dis- .
y v
iot srahcns u??t ia operation; ia
bars the stations have eevcral I
ficcbes under one head. Couot- p
r tb<-se latter r.s sibglo si.a'iocs, tbs
*1 number ?t present is forty-two,
? w *
k couuiieg ihe branches separately
3 total ira-ibbi' would bo nut ie.r *
11! hfiy. r' x
leaders and tae public in general '
hardly fad io bs surprised at She
id growth ma k- by tbs enterprise
slevaticg a ?r;c ;>.! . are o? the a?d
t
cieoce, when it is remembered pthe
urn agriculture! experiment
oa ia the Uci'ed Sia.es w<is <-sshed
i'i '
to example WK-5 followed slowly
rhere until ia ISSa eeveaof
thc-.-o ir:r-t':c:t,iv;iS bu i btoa
)i'z?.u ia ?. > S-xU'?. SiiiC3 .-.
ui.u-r iI:o .'aw-.'- ;? ' fuM.isnfcd ^
1 ,.f -i g^iera! govr^aii
|gjjl|
reports .:re I? >- }{ published,
'? uo 1: ./.-i! -n Dakota, C
s as rar?1-! iv pR>:* of domestic
y to rof-It thocakncf ktioseca
to vaeh the dislssa. - ^ ^