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NO. -39. | ""'*' 1 TO CLOSE OCT i MY SUMMER STOCK OF CLOTHING, AND | GEM'S FLRMSHlNG GOODS The following 'quantities will be sold At and Below Cost From this date until further notice:. . 50 assorted Men's Suits, of differ-ent fabrics, at $4.97. worth $7. 40 assorted stjles of Wool Fabric * * ? _ X AO OA Suits, at $o.yo, a Dargam ai 93. ou assorted Blue Flannel Suits, from $5 upwards. 55 Diagonal Sack Suits, from $5.78 and upwards, fully worth double the price. 25 Corkscrew Cutaway Suits, all wool, warranted, from $7.87 upwards, richly worth $12. 25choice Colored Suits, $9,371, cheap at $14.50. 25 assorted Prince Albert Suits, from $11 upwards, a bargain at double the price. 150 assorted Children's Suits, of handsome make and quality, lrom $1 35 a suit and upwards. These are special bargains. 75 assorted Boy's Suits, lrom 12 to 18 years, at special low prices. In addition to my large stock of Pants, 1 have lately received fifteen hundred dollars's worth of choice Cottenades and Jeans Pants, which will be offered at 67 cents a pair, These are positively, the greatest bargains ever offered in this city, They cannot be made up for double the price. My stock of CHILDREN'S KNEE PANTS AND am FLRMSHIXG GOODS Will compare with any stock in this city for quality, style and, prices lower than the lowest in this city and State. Look at the price list: 75 dozen Linen Turn down Collars at 75c. per dozen, or 3 for 25c. 100 dozen assorted Linen Standing Collars, at $1 per dozen, worth $2. 75 dozen choice pure Linen Collars, $1.25 per dozen, worth double the price. J50 dozen assorted Cuffs of p All descriptions, the best goods on the market, at $1.75? $2. $2.50 and :$3 per dozen. 25 dozen Shirts, anchor brand, at 4"c. each and upwards. 35 dozen fine Pleated Percale, Pique and a variety of fine styles, at less than cost. 30 dozen Balbriggan Undershirts, 20c. 25 <lozen (jauze v nciersnms, at t?c. I 33 dozen tine Gauze Undershirts, at .30c. and upwards. 20 Bleached .Jeans Drawers, at 40c. The cheaptest and best line of Flannel Dress Shirts, at 30c. each and upwards. My stock of Hosiery, Suspenders, pi Silk Umbrellas, Gloves and Neckwear Is the largest and cheapest in this } city. Polite attention given to all who will tavor me with their call. L. EPSTIN, Under Columbia Hotel Block. Sent. 7-tf I PATRONIZE Home industry! ??THE? ' i Tozer Engine Works, 117 WEST GEKVAIS STREET, Near Union Depot, Are m/w /:>perated with a competent force of Skilled Alechauics. and are manufacturing all siisct of " TOZEIl ENGINES " and BOILERS, including RETURN TUBULAR AND LOCO-1 MOTIVE BOILERS. Pulleys and Shafting, _ Castings in Brass or Iron ; Furnished at Reasonable Rates. i^Repair Work Promptly Executed- ! BRASS GOODS A SPECIALTY. Remember, ThsA " THE TOZF.R " has stood the test of j actual and general use for years, and has no ; superior on the market. All ot its parts ! are thoroughly inspected and tested, and all our work is fuiiy warranted FIRST- j / -CLASS in material and workmanship. For Price-Lists, &e., apply to JOHN A. WII.LIS, Proprietor Tozer Engine Works, 317 West Gervftis Street. foluinbia, S. C.j ' Mar. 13?ly. GOING TO MOVE "TTTHILE NOT INTENDING TO V change our present location we do ; intend to move our present stoek into the hands of our customers , .AT PRICES-THAT WILL TEMPT | | everybody who wears or has to buy | ^ Shoes and Slippers ; ' 0 lay in ft year's supply. See what we ! offer 300 Pair Ladies' Kid Opera Slippers, at j 4*5c, per pair. 1 360 Pairs Ladies' Oxford Ties, at 67 cents ; g>er pair. 180 Pairs Ladies' Oxford Ties, Patent : Leather Tips, at 72 cents per pair. t250 Pairs of MlSses* Kid Slippers, at 40 ! tcents per pair. 12<> Pairs Ladies' Dongola Button Shoes, I ^it $1.75, formerly 5*2 50. Ladies' $3.fH)41utton Shoes, at $2.45. Gentlemen's Shoes, High and Low Cut At a Big Sacrifice. Our entire stock will be offered regard- ; iess of cost or former price, as we intend j to move our stock as stated and turn it into cash. LEVER & STORK'S, I 48 Main Street, \colijmhia, H. O. nov 2?ly DAWN AND DTJSK. Slender strips of crimson sty Near the dim horizon lie. Shot across with golden bars Reached to the fading stars; Soft the balmy west wind blows Wide the portals of the rose; Smell the dewy pine and fir, Lisping leaves and vines astir; On the borders of-the dark CJaylv sings the meadow-lark. Ridding all the birds assemble Hark, the welkie seems to tremble. Suddenly the sunny gleams Break the poppy-fettered dreams Dreams of Pan, with two teet cloven, Piping to the nymph and faun. Who, with wreaths of ivy woven. Nimbly dance to greet the dawn. Shifting shadows indistinct; Leaves and branches, crossed and linked Cling like children, and embrace, Frightened at the moon's pale face. In the gloomy wood begins Noise of insect violins; OAC 4*-A ^i/ui .>ch thaiv 1 Qtnna OWnilliO VI U4D-airo AAdou vuvn In their atmospheric camps, And the sad-voiced u hippoorwill Echoes back from hill to hill. Liquid clear above the crickets Chirping in the thorny thickets, Weary eyelids, eyes thai weep. Wait the magic touch of sleep; While the dow, in silence tailing. Fills the air with scert of musk. And this lonely Dight bird, calling, Drops a note down through the dusk. ?Frank Dempster Sherman Mr. Ralph Elkins lives at Mariom ville, Mo., and is a successful fanner He says that he has been a grea sufferer from impurities of the blood which made his limbs stiff' and gav> him pain in the lungs; but that he took Swift's Specific, and it sooj relieved him entirely. We have sold Swift's Specific fo six years in quantity lots, and tin goods have been entirelv satisfactory O v ' and without a complaint from a singh customer. Hutcherson & Elliott Paris, Texas. Swift's Specific has a brisk ant constant sale with us, and the univer sal verdict is, that as a blood medicin it has no rival. Lankford tic Toyman, Druggists, Sherman, Texas. Mr. Jas. J. McCalley, of Monet Mo, says he had dyspepsia for eigb years, which made him a wreck, sic! and suffering'during the whole time After trying all the remedies, ineludin< all the doctors, in reach, he discardei * * /? n ' ^ je very t Ding ana took s>wm s Dpecmu He increased from 114 to lo8 pounds and was soon a sound and health man. Sho Had a Bits. Every one had his or her line ovei the rail of the boat awaiting a bit* when the freckled face girl with an bu?n hair turned to the young mai with downy moustache and two watcl chaius, and exclaimed : 4 Oh ! Augustus, I believe?bclievi I have a bite!" "Then pull in," he commanded. "But it may be a great big fish, anc he may pull nie into the water." "I won't let him." "But if he does?" 441 will save you, or we will perisl together!" "Then?then I will pull." She pulled and brought in a sc; robin about as big as vonr finger. Tin O 4.' C peril had passed. We sneered at til catch, but they minded it not. Not ur til that moment had they dared ac knowledge their love, lie was lien and she was his'n, and they were ver happy as they spit on their bait fo more luck. Caution to Mothers. Every mother is cautioned agains giving her child laudanum or paregoric it creates an unnatural craving for stini ulants which kills tlie mind or th child. Acker's Baby Soother is spe cially prepared to benefit children am cure their pains, ft is harmless an< contains no Opium or Morphine Sold by Dr. M. Q. Hendrix. To Keep Dried Fruit. Jiarnwell People A subscriber, who h39 tried th plan successfully, asks us to tel housekeepers how to keep driee fruit so that it will not be Doublet with worms aod will get better the longer it is kept. Pack the drie< fruit tightly in j irs or cans, sprink ling the layeis with whiskey, whic! will help to preserve it and will a1?' give it a delicious flavor. A pint c whiskey will be enough for a bush* of fruit. Wbeu treated tin's way i Will keep indefinitely and never b troubled with worms Pimples on the Face. Denote an impure state oV the bloo and are leokedaipon by many with su* picion. Acker's Blood Elixir will r< move all impurities and leave the con plexion smooth and clear. There i nothing that will so thoroughly buil up the constitution, purify an strengthen the whole system. So! and guaranteed.by Dr. M. <^. Hendrix Give Tour Stock Fresh Water. North Carolina Farmer. When stock is turned on the pasture and there left all day, the water suppl must be looked after. A milch cm must have plenty of nice fresh watei She cannot to wait until she i driven up at night. The water is necessary constituent of the milk, an must have it during the time the mil is being manufactured. If deprived < water during the warm days her suppl of milk will fall off. A Duty to Yourself. It is surprising that people will us a common, ordinary pill when the can secure a valuable English one fu the same money. J>r. Acker's Englis pill are apositii:? cure for sick-head ache and all liver troubles. They ar small, sweet, easy taken and do ik gripe. Sold by I)r. M. Q. Hendrix. tftMn.id irw?viinm 1111 iiw rithmmum THE STRONG- SWIMMER.' SUBJECT.OP Dh\. TALMAGE'S SERMON AT SEATTLE, AUG. 18. "He Shall Spread Forth His Hands In the Midst of Them, as He That Swlmmeth Spreadetli Forth His Hands to Swim," the Words of His Text. Seattle, W. T., Aug. 18.?The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brook- I iyn, pi*eached here today. His text was Isaiah xxv, 11: "He shall spread fortli his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth j his hands to swim." The preacher j said: At this season of the year multitudes of people wade into the ponds and , lakes and rivers and seas. At first putting out cautiously from the shore, but having learned the.right stroke of arm and foot, they let the waters roll over them, and in wild glee dive or float or swim. So the text will be very suggestive: "He shall spread fortli iiis hand in the midst of them, as he j that svvimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The fisherman seeks out unfrequented nooks. You stand all dav on the bank of a river in the broiling sun, and fling out your line, and catch - ! nothing, while the expert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock, ' and in a place where no fisherman has been for ten years, throws out his line ' j and comes home at night, his face e ! shining and his basket full. I do not : ! know why we ministers of the Gospel i ; need always be fishing in the same , stream, ami preaching from the same r | text that other people preach from. ; 1 cannot understand the policv of the j minister who, in Black friars, London, * ! England, every week for thirty years ? I preached from the Epistle to the Hej brews. It is an exhilaration to me ! when I corne across a theme which 1 j i feel no one else has treated, and my ; text is one of that kind. There are ' paths iu Gods Word that aie well e ! beaten by Christian feet. When men j want to quote Scripture, they quote the ; old passages that everyone has heard, i When they want a chapter read, they , j read a chapter that all the other people t i have been leading, so that the church |. today is ignorant of three-fourths of the i Bible. You go into the Louvre at Paris. ' 1 You conline yourself to one corridor ' of that opulent gallery of paintings. ^ j As you come out your friend says to . ; you, "Did you see that Rembrandt?" i, j "No." "Did you see that Rubens?" v j "No." "Did you see that Titian?" i "No." "Did you see that Raphael?" I " "Well " savs votir friend. i "then you didn't see the Louvre." j ! Now, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ourselves to one r j of the great corridors of this Scripture 2 ! truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million who has ! I ever noticed the all suggestive and j : powerful picture in the words of my -j text. A BOLD FIGURE. ? j-' This text represents God as a strong swimmer, striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. I "He shall spread fortli his hands in ! the midst of them, as he that swine I nieth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The figure is bold and many , sided. Most of you know how to swim. Some* of you learned it in the \ city school, where this art is taught; some of you in boyhood, in the river a near your father's house; some of you j a ! since you came to manhood or wop manhood, while summering on the ! beach of the sea. You step down in "~j the wave, you throw your head back, j you bring your elbows to the chest, II ; you put the palms of your hands y | downward anu the soles of your feet r i outward, and you push through the ! water as though you had been born i aquatic. It is a grand thing to know ; how to swim, not only for yourself, | but because you will after a while, i perhaps, have to help others. I do ! not know anything more stirnne or ? sublime than to see some man like ; ! Norman McKeuzie leaping from the i- j ship Madras into the sea to save e Charles Turner, who iiad dropped from the royal yard while trying to looseu i ; the sail, bringing him back to the j i deck amid the huzzas of the passeni gers and crew. If a man has not eu thusiasm enough to cheer in such cir! cumstauces he deserves himself to drop i the sea and have no one help him. into i The Royal Humane societ^)f Eng; land was established in 1774, ms object i to applaud and reward those who 0 j should pluck up life from the deep, i) i Auv one who has performed such a j ! deed of during has all'the particulars ! of that bravery recorded in a public I record, and on his breast a medal done * I in bine, and goid, and bronze; anchor, 1 i and monogram, and inscription, tell j ing to future generations the bravery h j of the man or woman who saved some 0 | one from drowning. But, my friends, * J if it is such a worthy thing to save a ' body from the deep, I ask you if it is " not a worthier thing to save an im* mortal soulV And you shall see this e hour the Son of God step forth for this achievement. "He shall spread forth his hand in the midst of them, as lie that swinjineth spreadeth forth i iiis hands u> swim." | j THE RACE IN A SINKING CONDITION. In order t<> understand the full '* ; force of this ligure, you n5ed to real * j ize, lirst of all, that our race is in a > i sinking condition. You sometimes is i hear people talking of what they con(1 | sider the most heautiful words in our language. One man says it is "home," ! another man says it is the word "mother," another says it is the word "Jesus," but 1 will tell you the bitterest word in ail our language, the word > I most angry and baleful, the word saturated with the most trouble, the word that accounts for all the loathsomeness, and the pang, and the outrage, , | and the harrowing; and that word is ' j "sin.." You spell it with three y ; letters, and yet those three letters LV | describe the circumference and pierce i\ ; the diameter of everything bad m the is j universe. Sin I it is a sibilant word. a I You cannot pronounce it without givf] j ing the siss of the flame or the hiss of k | the serpent. Sin! And then if you ,f , add three letters to that word it deI scribes everyone of us by nature? * j sinner. We liavo outraged the law ! of God, not occasionally, or now and theu, but perpetually. The Bible deI clares it, Ilarkl It thunders two j claps: "The heart is deceitful above j all tilings and desperately wicked." [ "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." 0 ! What the Bible says our own eon ] I scienceatfirms. After Judge Morgan ' | had sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death |r | his conscience troubled him so much 11 i for the deed that ho became insane, I- j and all through his insanity ho kept e 1 saying: "Take her away from me! ,1 : 1 >ady Jane < j rev. 'lake her away! Lady j Jane Grey." ft was the voice of his conscience. And no man ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but his conscience brings that matter before him, and at every step of his misbehavior it says, "Wrong, wrong." Sin is a leprosy, sin is a paralysis, sin is a consumption, sin is pollution, sin is death. Give it a fair chance and it will swamp you, body, ; mind and soul forever. In this world ; it only gives a faint intimation of its I virulence. You see a patient in the I first stages of typhoid fever. The ' cheek is somewhat flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded by a slight chill. "Why, you say, "typhoid fever does not seem to bo much of a disease." But wait until the patient i 1? i? : .,..,1 lias wen six vveexs uuu^-x xu, u.?xu liis energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect iS gone, then vou see .the full havoc of tlie disease. Now sin in this world fs an ailment which is only in its very first stages; but let it getv under fall, way and it is an all consuming typhohl. Oh, if wtr could see our unpardoned sins as God sees them our teeth would chatter, and our knees would knock together, and our respiration wduld be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiven, they are bearing down on you, and you are sinkingsinkiugaway from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking away from everything that is good and blessed. A SWIFT SWIMMER WANTED. Then what do we want? A swimmer 1 A strong swimmer! A swift swimmer! Auu, blessed lie God, in my text we have him announced. "He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as l>e that swimmetli spreadeth forth his hands to swim." You have noticed that when a swimmer goes out to rescue any one he puts off his heavy apparel. Ho must not have any such impediment about him if he is going to do this great deed., And when Christ stepped forth to save us he Shook off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were free; and then he stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it came up over his wounded feet, and it came above the spear stab in his side?aye, it dashed to the lacerated temple, the high water mark of his anguish. Then, rising above the flood, "he stretched forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." If you have ever watched a swimmer, you notice that his whole body is brought into play. The arms are flexed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangulation, the whole body i3 in propulsion. And when Christ sprang into the deep to save us, he threw his entire nature in to it?all his Godhead, his om nisei ence, his goodness, his love, his om nipotence?head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out 011 the sea and so deep down in the waves and so far out from the shore that nothing .short of an entire God could save us. Christ leaped .out for our rescue, saying: " 4,Lo! I come to do thy will," and all the surges of human and satanic hate beat against himv. and those who watched him from the gates of heaven ; feared he would <*0 down under the wave, and instead of. saving others would himself perish; but, putting his breast to the foam, and shaking the surf from his locks, he came on and 011, until lie is now within the reach of every one here. Eye omniscient, heart infinite, arm omnipotent. Mighty to save, even unto the uttermost. Oh, it was not half a God that trampled down bellowing Gennesaret. It was not a quarter of a God that mastered the demons of Gadara. It was not two-thirds of a God that lifted up Lazarus into the arms of his overjoyed sisters. It was not a fragment of a God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. No. This mighty swimmer threw his grandeur, his glory, his might, his wisdom, his omnipotence and his eternity into this one act. It took both hands of God to save us?both feet. How do 1 prove it? On the cross, were not both hands nailed ? On the cross, were not both feet nailed! His entire nature involved in our redemption! THE RESCUER MUST BE FEARLESS. If you have lived much by the water, you notice also that*if any one is going out to the rescue of the drowning he must be independent, self reliant, able to go alone. There may lie a time when he must spring put. to save one and he cannot get a lifeboat, and he goes out and has uot stremrth enough to bear himself up, and hear another up, he will sinlc, and instead of dragging one corpse out of the torrent you will have two to drag out. When Christ sprang out into the sea to deliver us he had no life buoy. His father did not help him. Alone in the wine press. Alone in the pang. Alone in the darkness. Alone in the mountain. Alone in the sea. O, if he saves us he shall have all the credit, for "there was none to help." No oar. No wing. No ladder. When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the battle charge in front of his troops, he had a whole army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney sprang into the contest and plunged in the spurs till the horse's flanks spurted blood, all France applauded him.But Jesus alone! "Of the people there was none to help." "All forsook him and fled." 0, it was not a flotilla that sailed down and saved us. It was not a cluster of gondolas that came over the wave. It was one per son independent and alono, "spread ing out his hands among us as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim." Behold then today, the spectacle of a drowning soul and Christ the swimmer. I believe it was in 1848, when there were six English soldiers of the Fifth Fusiliers who were hanging to the bottom of a capsized boat?a Tx>at that had been upset by a squall three miles from slore. It was in the night, but one man. swam mightily for the beach, guided by the dark mountains that lifted their top through the night, lie came to the beach. He found a shore man that consented to go with him and save the other men, and they put out. It was some time before they could find the place where the men were, but after awhite they heard their cry: ''Help! Help!" and they bore down to them, and they saved them, and brought them to shore. Oh, that this moment our cry might be lifted long, loud and shrill, till Christ the swimmer shall come and take us lest we drop a thousand fathoms down. If you have been much by water, vou know very well that when one is m peril help must come very quickly, or it will be of no use. Onouiiiiute may decide everything. Immediate help the man wants or 110 help at all. Now, that is just the kind of a relief | we want. The case is urgent, imminent, instantaneous. Bee that soul I sinking. Son of God, lay hold of him. i Be quick I be quick! Oh, I wish you i a|l understood how urgent this Gospel | isi. There was a man in the navy at ! sea who had been severely whipped | for bad behavior, and he was maddenj ed by it, and he leaped into the sea. j and no sooner had he leaped into the ! sea than, quick as lightning, an alba tross swooped upon him. The drownj ing man. brought to his senses, seized ! hold of the albatross and held on. The ! fluttering of the bird kept hint on the j wave Until relief could come. Would I now the dove of God's convicting, ! converting and saving spirit might j flush from the throne upon your soul, and that you, taking hold of its ])otent j wing, might live and live forever, j LAY HOLD OF THIS STRONG SWIMMER. J 1 J 1 1 1 1 I want persuade you 10 iay noiu j of this stroug swimmer. "Ncf," you i say, "it is t^ways disastrous for a j drownig^yoap to lay hold of a swimmer." is not a river or lake but has a < alamity resultant from the fact that when a strong swimmer went "out to save a sinking man, the drowning man clutched linn, threw his arms around him, pinioned his arms, and they both went down together. When yo**i are saving a man in the water you do not want to come up by his face; you want to come up by his back. You do not want him to take hold of you while you take hold of him. But, blessed be God, .Jesus Christ is so strong a swimmer, he comes not to our back, but to our face, and he asks us to throw around him the arms of our love, and then prom ises to take us to the beach, and he will do it. Do not trust that plank of good works. Do not trust that shivered spar of your own righteousness. Christ only can give you transportation. Turn your face upon him as the dying martyr did in olden days when he cridd out: "None but Christ! None but Christ!" Jesus has taken millions to the land, and he is willing to hike you there. Oh, what hardness to shove him back when he has been swimming all the way from the throne of God to where you are now, and is ready to swim all the way back again, taking your redeemed spirit. I have sometimes thought what a spectacle the ocean bed will present when in the last day the water is all drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to beach. There is where the harpooners went down. There is where the line of battle ships went down. There is where the merchantmen went down. There is where the steamers went down, a long line of wrecks from beach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day when the water is drawn off I But oh, how much more solemn if we had an eve to see the spiritual wrecks and the places where they foundered. You would find thousands along- our roads and streets. Christ came down in their awful catastrophe, putting out for their souls, "spreading forth his hands as* a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swimbut they thrust him in the sore heart, and they smote his fair cheek, and the storm and dark* ness swallowed them up. I ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold of him nowl You will sink without him. jJTroi^horizon to horizon not one sail in sight. Only one strong ~ swimmer, yvith lioad flung back and arms ?uts^jfead. I hear a great many 'in the audience saying: "Well, I would like to be a Christian. I am going to work to become a Christian." My brother, you begin wrong. When a man is drowning, and a strong swimmer comes out to help him, he says to him: "Now be quiet. Put your arm on my arm or on my shoulder, but don't struggle, don't try to help yourself, and 111 take you ashore. The more you struggle and the more you try to help yourself, the more you impede me. Now be quiet and I'll take you ashore." When Christ, the strong swimmer, comes out to save a soul, the sinner says: "That's right. I am glad to see Christ, and I am going to help him in the work of my redemption. I am going to pray more and that will help him; and I am going to weep extravagantly _ j *n u~i? v.: >? over my sins auu uiai vvm ueip mm. No, iny brother, it will not. Stop your doing. Christ will do all or none. You cannot lift an ounce, you cannot move an inch, in this matter of your redemption. This is the difficulty which keeps thousands of souls out of the kingdom of heaven. It is because they cannot consent to let Jesus Christ begin and complete the work of their redemption. "Why," you say, "then is there nothing for me to do?" Only one thing have you to do, and that is to lay hold of Christ and let him achieve your salvation and acliieve it all. I do not know whether I make the matter plain or not. I simply want to show you that a man cannot save himself, but that the Almighty Son of God can do it, and will uo it ' it, if you ask him. 0, fling your two arms, the arms of your trust and love, around this omnipotent swimmer of the cross. saved! saved! That is a thrilling time when some one swamped in the surf is brought ashore and being resuscitated. How the people watch for the moment when he begins to breathe again, and when at last he takes one full inhalation, and opens his eyes upon the bystanders, a shout of joy rings up and down the beech. There is joy because a life has been saved. 0, ye who have been swamped in the seas of trouble and sin! we gather around you. Would that this might he the hour when y'ou begin to live. The lord Jesus Christ steps down, he gets on his knees,-* lie puts his lip to your lip, and would breathe pardon and^life and heaven into your immortal ^pul. God grant that this hour there may be thousands of souls resuscitated. I stand on the deck of the old Gospel ol.in umid Q ( lvmrd noceoi'io'Pi'a nil . of them hoping that the last man overboard may be saved. May the living Christ this hour put out for your safety, "spreading forth his hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim." Iyove's Wretchedness Abroad. Several Berlin families have been thrown into mourning lately by domestic tragedies in which love figured as the motive cause of all the mischief. One Sunday morning the sound of shots was heard from a compartment of a carriage 011 the Metropolitan railway. When the train was brought to a standstill the lifeless corpse of a young man and a sweetly pretty girl ! under 20, v/hose parents resido '^11 a I suburb of- this city, were found in the compartment, eacli shot through the temple. It was clear from the contents of the letters ip their pockets that they had met with the express purpose of dying together. Another j suicide was committed near the Lake of Como, in Italy. Nineteen yeai^ of age and cf prepossessing appearance, | the young Berlin girl \yho snuffled ofl" | this mortal coil bv her own act had been engaged against her will by her ! parents to a cousin whom she disliked, j in older to free her from the ties and i consequences of a love affair she had ) ? / i ' had with a retired officer. The in; clinations of her heart, however, had I more weight than the convenances of : society, and the new state of affairs 1 had such an effect upon her nerves j and her health that her parents sent ; her to Italy for change of air. There j the faithful heart could no more sub j mit to the thought of the union im | posed upon her. A correspondence j with her parents on the subject seems i not to have resulted as she desired, | and at length she wrote one last letter to her mother and one to the lover to whom she clung faithfully, and disappeared from the house in which she was residing with a relation. A few days afterward her corpse was found in a secluded olive wood near the lake. ?Berlin Cor. London Telegraph. Took Breakfast With Jefferson. Samuel Henslev, of this countv, is \r I 'JO years or age. He was reared in \ ir giiiia, and in his youth knew Thomas Jefferson well. A few days ago he said to a Sun correspondent: "I was born in the neighborhood of Montieello, President Jefferson's Virginia home. I 1 lave seen Torn Jefferson many a time, and I ato dinner with him once. I'll tell you how it was. Many years ago I was a barefooted boy, roaming the fields and woods of Virginia. I lived near Monticello, and to tell the truth, didn't think much more of Tom Jefferson than any other Virginia gentleman. So one day when a companion and myself found a big bee tree in Monticello woods, we determined to ask Mr. Jefferson for the honey. The next morning, bright and early, we went up to Monticello, and sent in our request to the father of the Declaration of Independence. He sent back word to us to come in and eat breakfast with him, and we could have the tree. We were quite willing to share his breakfast and in we went. We got a good breakfast, but I couldn't eat much, for I was somewhat afraid of the old gentleman, and then Mr. Jef ferson wrote ail order to his overseer to let us have that bee tree. "We nearly sweated ourselves to death cutting the bee tree down, and we didn't get a. hal f gallon of honey out of it. I have seen Tom Jefferson a thousand times, but that was the extent of my personal acquaintance with nun.?Jiunrorciviiie (ivy.; uor. New York Sun. Catching Flics. The earl;; Greek naturalists reported that the crocodile caught and ate leeches. His plan of operations was described as simple but etfeetivo. The great reptile lay on the banks of the Nile witli his mouth open and his eyes shut, ?s if off guard. The leeches attached themselves to the inside of his mouth, and when their numbers were sufficient to give the huge creature a taste, his jaws came together with a sharp report. Mr. Powell found that the crocodiles of New Britain had a similar habit. At every turn in the river we saw a .<, colony of crocodiles of all sizes flop ; off the bank into the water* where they had been previously lying catcli; ing flies.' _ Their fly catching is performed in this manner. They take up their position on the bank, and remain perfectly motionless with their mouths open. Flies, attracted by the peculiar musky smell of saliva in their mouths, settle in swarms inside the open jaws. Presently there is a sharp snap, and a hundred or so of flies are entombed. 1 was not aware before I saw this that crocodiles were fly catchers, as well as fish, flesh and fowl eaters.? Youth's Companion. Professor Edward P. Crowell, of Amherst college, dean of the faculty and professor of Latin and literature, is totally blind. When he lost his eyesight four years ago he tendered his resignation to the trustees, but they refused to accept it. Sight Transmitted by Wire. Thomas A. Edison announced the other day that he is at work 011 a new invention by which sight as well as sound may be transmitted by electric wire. It seems, however, that a young German named Korzel has anticipated him. The Centralblatt fur Electrotechnik gives an interesting account of an exhibition recently made by this gentleman, in which two of his instruments in different cities were connected with a -telephone wire. The features of the person standing at one end of the wire were distinctly seen in a glass plate at the other end, and the larger type in a newspaper held l>efore the instrument in one city was M 1 A L _ . xl 771 easily reuu in me utaer. iLYeryumig seen was greatly reduced in size, but this was 'ueoause the glass plates were small, this phenomenon being governed by the laws of optics and not those of electricity. The secret of the wonderful invention lies in the sensitiveness of selenium to the elfects of light. When a ray of light falls on a plate of selenium the electric conductivity of the metal changes. Mr. Korzel uses a plate covered with a composition which he calls bifonide of selenium gelatine for 4'collecting" the image of the person usirrg the telephone, which is then transmitted by the same wire that conducts the sound of hisr voice and thrown, apparently without the use pf any further apparatus, on a glass plate at the other end. In this way the peisons using the telephone cannot only hear but see each other. ?Philadelphia Inquirer. Studying the Currents of the Ocean. Prince Albert of Monaco has recently reported the results of his experiments to ascertriu the ocean circulation in the north Atlantic. Four years ago he set adrift several hundred flo.ats, many of which have been nicked ivn. Some of these were hoi low copper balls, some oak barrels and some omiliary bottles. In 1885 lie cast overboard 011 the seas northwest of the Azores 100 floats. Fourteen of this number have been recovered, giving clear indications of a southeasterly current curving around the western islands at a daily mean rate of 3.83 miles. Of 510 floats which the prince launched in 188(1 nearer the French coast nine have been picked up, showing the movement of a current in a similar direction with a nielli velocity of about six miles a day. the United States coast survey is now conducting similar experiments 011 the Atlantic currents with improved floats, each marked by a white painted pine siatf. It is to be hoped in the interests of navigation that all who find them will comply with the j printed instructions which each float 1 carries.?Now York Herald. Tin' lhsr.\T< 11 is.O!;e of the bett advertising uje.Jijj^? in the Slate. A REAL AMERICAN PRINCE. Ex-Governor John Lee Carroll's Claim to the Title of Uriel. It is not generally known that there is a real, live American prince, born on the soil, able to trace his direct descent to the man who last bore the title, and having 110 European or other competitor to contest his right. Another lives in the ancient castle, renovated and modernized, and derives his income from his broad lands, but he makes 110 claim to the title and bears another which is the gift of an English king. The man is John Lee Carroll, once governor of Maryland, and the title is Prince of Uriel. One of his progenitors, Charles Carroll, of Carroll ton, signed the Declaration of Independence, a rather democratic document for a prince to put his name to, and the family have long since ceased to trouble themselves about the title, but they are the lineal and only descendants of the men who bore it for a thousand years. Ex-Governor Carroll is descended from Roger Carroll, or, more correctly, Rory O'Carroll, the last chief of the Keep Jroill I11JI1 U1U K.uu?icu;?0 nuiui led to his father's mania. But it was of no avail, and he, too, undertook the task of ousting Lord Rosse from the ancestral home of the O'Carrolls. Neither secured to bother about the bleak, heath covered hills over which the MacTavishes held sway. This last prince of Uriel, as MacTavish called himself, once made an alliance with the O'Donovan Rossa Fenians, by which for a time they received a douation of $20 a month. Finally ho notified them that, unless they recognized him as a prince of Uriel and began their communications in the proper form with ''May it please your highness," he would not condescend to take any notice of them. That ended the alliance. The council would not hear of "princes or royal highnesses. " "We must draw the line somewhere," said one of them, "an' be the hokey pokey! I wouldn't call any man 'Yer Royal Highness'if he was to give ten thousand a year to the cause." Poor Prince MacTavish, who was a tall, slim and very aristocratic looking young man, went through a course of training to fit him for the task of winning back the ancestral lands by the sword. He entered the Servian army as a volunteer during their disastrous war with Turkey some thirteen years ago, fought under the banner of Don. Carlos and sought the sanction of the pope for his enterprise. He -found Unscrupulous lawyers who preyed upon his mania and encouraged him to go on, until he was finally put in a place of safety by his friends.?New York Journal. Bourrienne in his memoirs of Napoleon mentions an incident which sho.ws that architects' estimates of the a Pn' i j\ i 7 .1 * .3 cosi 01 re Lining oiu uuuumgs varicu as much from the actual expenditure in 1800 as they do today. Bonaparte was bound to have St. Cloud as a summer residence. The architect reported it would cost him about 3,000,000 francs to put it in proper shape. It cost 6,000,000francs, independently of j the furniture. A Vienna man of science has pubj lished statistics showing that one I smoker contracts diphtheria to three j non-smokers. His theory is this, that | tobacco protects the throat against mii crobes very much as it destroys para{ sites on rosebushes. ,? ODDS AND ENDS. A retreat for retired women missionaries has just been opened at Round Lake, N. Y. A trustwortv estimate of the spring wheat crop in Minnesota is 80,000,000 bushels :i<r:iinst 70.000.000 actual yield __0 ? , last year. The fashionable London wedding ring has recently been of dull gold, but Princess Louise went back to the old fashion and chose hers bright. The national superintendent of public buildings and grounds recommended in his annual report the eivction of an addition to the White House as a private residence for the president. Ten. veal's ago a man near Lexing bad twenty-tour ten by dogs. Since tnat poisoned and shot over and engaged in the A Bombay n ew spape two one and the bride struggling on fiat made open the from of temperature falling report ing May the Paris, the 1,673 | whom 0 were seized with and 4 within a fortnight process. three after the treatment had been pletely carried out, making one death^^H^^I^^| in 554, or, ill' lading all cases, 1 in 128. Dr. Grade nigo, professor of ophthalmic surgery in the University of Padua, lias just succeeded in transplanting the cornea from the eye of a barn fowl into the eye of a patient under his care. On the eighth day after the operation the transplanted cornea presented a quite pellucid and convex appearance. Such a result has not been recorded in the annals of continental surgery. Tho French chamber of deputies having failed to vote the money for the purchase of Millet's "The Angelus," the painting will become the property of tno American Art association, for whom it is purchased by its agent, Mr. Sutton. The latter will exnibit "The Angel us" for two months in* Pans fojr the benefit of charitable institutions. There is a man living somewhere in Russia who is 140 years old. So at least says a Russian newspaper. It appears mat ne is an oia?a verv oia ?soldier, and in his youth was^subject to 180 blows from the knout, and condemned to hard labor for life in the mines of Siberia, from which, however, he was released after a sojourn of eightrand-thirty years. A curious method of testing the freshness of eggs is mentioned hy Dr. D. G. Evans, an English physician. He has observed that when a perfectly fresh egg is placed to the ear and violently agitated, no sound is noted; but, if the egg is stale, a knocking sound is heara, as if the contents were not sufficient to fill the shell. The staler the eg? the greater are the oscillation ana me sound generated. Dr. Evans says the test is an infallible one. Facts and Figures, Dr J. R. McDendon of Georgia, gi?es the following facta and figures to the Atlanta Journal, concerning the valne of cotton and jote bagging, and the great advantage to be gained by the nse of cotton bagging instead ofjnte. He'eays: If the cotton crop of 1889 is as large as that of 1888, 49,OO,O()0'yards will be required to wrap the crop. If the cotton is wrapped in jute, * $?,900,000 will pass out of the planters hands. ii tbe cotton is wrapped in cotton bagging, $4 900,000 will remain iosido tbe lines of the cotton States to be added to the circnlating medium. The making of 40,000,000 yards of cotton bagging will consume 100,000 bales of cotton, which decreases the number of bales for the market and enhances the value of the remainder ? cent per pound, making the gain to the cotton planters $8,0*25.000. The J. R Adams f .ctory can put a bale of cotton into its spioniog room for $0 77 less than it can be laid in Lowel, Mass. If the cotton was spun in the South, $47,390,000 wonhl be saved in freight charges, etc. A better day is comiog for in 1887 the product of the Southern cotton mills was $48,000,000 against $*21,000,000 in 1880. It is a fact worth strong emphasis that cotton mills are increasing more rapidly in the South thau anywhere else. Common sense will, at no distant day, compel tbe spinning of raw material where it can be done the cheapest. The way to have goods cheap i9 to make them at the least expense. The cotton crop of 1889, if sold as heretofore, will give the planters $300,000,000 If wholly raanufac I lured in the South the great sum ot I $1.000,000.000. ! The difference in the price of the . I raw material and that of the mann factored article is $700,000,000 in | favor of the South. No other country in the world could have existed as long as the South has under such a system of drainage. God hasten the time when the farmers of these United States will receive just profits for their products. Told, cough, coffin is what philosophers term "a logical sequence." . One . i "s very liable to follow the other; but I by curing the cold with a dose of Ayer\s Cherry Pectoral, the cough will be I stopped and the coffin not needed?just A lady says the first time she was ^fl kissed she felt like a tub of roses* swimming in honey, cologne, nutmegs and cranberries. She felt also as if something were running through her nerves on diamonds, escorted by several little Cupids in chariots drawn bv angels, shaded by honeysuckles, and melted People Everywhere. Confirm our I that Acker s English Remedy su| perior to any and all other preparations j for the Throat and bungs. In Whooping Cough and Croup it is magic and relieves at We offer you a sam| pie bottle free. Heinember, this Kemedv is sold on a positive guarantee by 9 *20 What could he truer than the expression of an exchange that* should man be judged by n an, heU^^H^H^H be Irish clan of that name, and the lineal descendant of the princess of Uriel, who played a not unimportant part in the history of ancient and mediaeval Ireland. He espoused the cause of tlu; Stuarts in the wars between Charles I and the parliament, and stood loyally by that 'ungrateful family when other Irishmen of his kind under Owen Hoe O'Neill, who had won rank and fame in the armies of Spain, * were battling to shake off the English yoke. Ireland was crushed under the iron heel of Cromwell, and Col. Roger Carroll accompanied Charles II in nis exile, taking service under various European governments according as the whims of the banished prince dictated. During his absence the lord deputy. Sir John Parsons, found the Clan O'Carroll's domain, which, in violation of the rind its of clansmen had been conferred 011 the chief by an Euglish title, a most desirable location and selected it for himself. He settled down there and made it his home. Amon? the numerous Irish and Scotch Jacobite families who made their home in Maryland were the MacTavishes. They were the chief of the clan, and, as such matters go, as ' blue'1 in blood as the Argyles or the Sutherlands or the Fifes, or any others now counting among the Scotcn aristocracy. In later times the MacTavishes intermarried with the Carrolls and the families are now related. This involves a curious feature of family history and a strange freak of the old "blue blood" run wild. One daughter of the Carrolls, as is well known, married a Bonaparte. Another married a Wellesley, brother of "the Iron Duke" of Wellington. Still another married a MacTavish. A son of this MacTavish conceived the idea of running for the British parliament, and with the aid of the Wellesleys contested the borough of Dundalk, then rotten to the core. The Wellesleys were Tories, but family influence was ' stror^ger than party fealty, and MacTavish was elected over a candidate supported by the Carlton club in London. An old Irishman now living in this city remembei'S well that rmlicking canvass, and describes how MacTavish used to drive a four-in-hand through town "showering fistfuls of sixpences and four penny bits among the mob." He was unseated on petition of bribery, these "sixpences and fourpenny bits" constituting the bribes. Then lie commenced suit to recover the O'Carroll estate from Lord Rosse, and wound up in a private lunatic asylum. His son was trained with great care, and evervthing possible was done to 1 t? i.;._ 1?