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From this date until further no tice: ^assorted Men's Suits, of different-fabrics, at $4.97. worth $7. 40 assorted styles of Wool Fabric Suits, at So.95. a bargain at $3. 32 v - _ assorted Blue Hjmicel Suits, from So upwf^rds. BpPiagonal Sack Suits, from $$58 and upwards, fully worth double the price. 25 Corkscrew Cutaway Suits, all wool, warranted, from $7.87 upwards, richly worth S12. 25choice Colored Suits, $9,371. cheap^J; $14.50. 25 assorted Pruice Al^ef^ Suits, from $11 upwards, a bargain at doable ' ' the price. 150 assorted Children's Suits, of handsome make and qualjSB r ity, lrom $1 35 a suit aud upwards. SB >4' These are special bargains. 15as sorted Boy's Suits, from 12 to 18^ B \ears, at special low prices. Inad-~ ditiou to. my large stock of Pants, t i have lately received fifteen hunBm dred dollars'.* worth of choice CotBH tonades and Jeans Pants, which ?. |B will be offered at 67 cents a pair. hh These, are positively the greatest bargains ever offered in this city,jj^B They TTTnTftikke made up for double BK the price. My stock of " \ W CHILDREN'S KNEE PANTSs?-ss I GENT'S FIMING GOODS n Will compare with any stock in this B city for quality, style and, prices K lower than the lowest in this city S 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 Colj& iars, at SI per dozen, worth $2. 75 B dozen choice pure Linen Collars, B 31.25 per dozen, worth double the price. J 50 dozen assorted Cuffs of c all descriptions, the best goods on t Hb the market, at $1.75, S2.50 and r 9B . $ * per dozen. 25 dozen Shirts, an9B ' ?fcbr brand, at 4 c. each and upflflk yf&A&t 35 dozen fine Pleated Per- ? BS cal^: jPiqu* and a variety of fine i g BBn less than cost. 30 dozen H Undershirts, 20c. 25 SB dozen c.>auz^ Undershirts, at l;c. BB dozen iL^Gauze Undershirts, at BB f*- arj(1 npvrwds, 20 Bleached EBB Jeans Drawers, ut40c. ThecheapS| line or Flannel Drews' HB Shi^t:., at '6%*c. each and upwards. ML iiiLmiiiii^i - """ r ^M< J S:\V- Umbrellas, Gloves "ana k BB Neckwear ni \ Is the largest and cheapest in this i H h -rity. Polite attention given to all , b ' who will ktvor me with their call. ? j ^ Ip j . ? P S T I ? i vv Under Columbia Hotel Block. j j, ^ -^epT. 7-tf ? - : tl PATRONIZE ! c Home Industry! 5 : % | U L i THE ! b Wpftter Engine Works, ? H 117 WEST GERVAIS STREE r, j ^ H Near Union Depot, fi |M Are now operated with a competent force ' BB ot Skilled Mechanics, and are nianufactur- ? sizes ot " TUZEK ENGINES and . a ^MbOILKR-. including a S RETURN TUBULAR AND LOCO- : jj B MOTIVE BOILERS. e ^Pulleys and Shafting, I Castings in Brass or Iron ^ Furnished at Reasonable Rates. ^erRepair Work Promptly Executed- q /r BRASS GOODS A SPECIALTY. F a i Remember, ? /~? ' * ^ * > ' ' 1 - * rv /v/l i VvA foof I* jH^B rHh' lU/j&it mis Mi/un iuc vwv V* j trial aud general use for years, and has 110 c B^Khperior on the market. All ot its parts ( thoroughly iuspaeted and tested, and pur work is fully warranted FIKST- ; ICLASJ S iu material and workmanship. j s H i&r Price-Lists, Ac., apply to I a. wii.lis, j M Proprietor Tozrr Engine Works, ' Efl^B BhBb W 117 Wrst Gervais Sfreel. Columbia, S. C. t (UhXG TO MOVEj E "-\T^HII>E NOT INTENDING TO J 3k Art clinage our present location we do intend to"inove our present stock into the * hands of our customers Kt mm THAT WILL TE1IPT J everybody who wears or has to bnv K Shoes and Slippers ! IS to lay in a year's snpplv. See what we 1 mt oflVr 9 300 Pair Ladies' Ki.l Opera Slippers, at k 45c. per pair. 9 360 Pairs Ladies' Oxford Ties, at 67 cents per pair. B 180 Pairs Ladies' Oxford Ties, Patent jg ' Leather Tips, at 72 cents per pair. ? ffB 250 Pairs of Missek Kid Slippers, at 40 cents 9 120 Pairs Ladies Dongola Button Shoes, 9 at $1.75, formerly $2 50. I 9 Ladies' $3.00 Button Shoes, at $2.45. < ? Gentlemen's Shoes, High and Low Cat ( B- at a Big Sacrifice. 9 Our entire stock will be offered regard^B less of co-t or former price, as we intend ' Br to na ove our stock as stated aud turn it i BB into cash. I LEVER & STORK'S. II 48 Main Street, COLUMFtlA, S, C. Hr , nov 2?lj k OUR DEVIL'S DARLING. a0>9O**n\\\\*?t*is09 UnVF>\ II 30O5.On uy> , v/J uyo -/n ?? H <H ellllo ,lS ?? - Si> ? ( ---) ? j Her face is wide, her head is thick, Her tongue keeps up a clackety-click: Minds every one's business but her own, 1 A nuisance abroad aud a pest at home. A Qoartsr of a Million j Is What a Columbia and Greenville En- | gineer Comes in for by the Death? of an Uncle of His Wife. ^t?A rr\ Ki O tn ? I I' luiu tuu vviuuivia * It is not often a freight train leaves any city with an engineer at the throttle worth a quarter of a million of dollars M Such was the case yesterday when Engineer W. H Dorsett diew out from the Columbia and Greenville yard with the morning freight for. Greenville. Mr. Dorsett has filled the position of engineer on the Columbia and Greenville Railroad for something over a year r past and has made his home in Columbia during that period. His wife, a Miss Pope before marriage, is the j daughter of the late Superintendent Pope of the Vaucluse cotton factory, j and is a niece of Mr. L. A. Pope, who, j as the owner of extensive silk manufac turing business at Patterson, N J. j amassed a large fortune. By the death of this uncle, Mrs. Dor- i sett falls heir to one-fourth of his fortune, estimated at over one million of dollars, as she is one of the four heirs i among whom the estate of the de- ; ceased is to be divided. M^s. Dorsett j yesterday received notice of the bequest j and sent on an acknowledgement of tfo^eceipt of the information. Mr. j Dorsptt^Sij^ a telegram yesterday i attend to the business^^^'^^^^ A Duty to Yourself, It is surprising that people will use i common, ordinary pill when they ran secure a valuable English one for he same money. Dr. Acker's English ill are a positive cure for sick-head^he and all liver troubles. They are | mill), sweet, easv taken and do not . ;ripe. Sold by Dr. M. Q. Hendrix. i J Buy at Homo. > J The Manufacturers' Record feays: 1 inds, is a duty every man owes } J eighbors and his follow taxpaj. [is income may be small or great and t is expenditure in proportion, but when 1 e buys elsewhere, what he can get 1 ith equal advantages at home, he is . ljuring himself as well as his fellow- | itizeas. If our readers everywhere ill look about they will soon discover lat they can find in their own town, i ountv or State many things that they 1 ave been accustomed to obtain from istant places This is particularly i *ue of those manufactured goods hich the South is a heavy purchaser j 'ormerlv nearly every tool, machine, \ ousehold article and garment material j sed in the South was made at the ;orth or in Europe. It was a necestty then, but It need not be in the uture. Every day new industries are j tarted and established ones are en 1 uged. The South has ceased to be ; bsolutel) dependent on other sections, nd can make itself independent if ' is people will that it shall be. lhe rst move in tbis d:rection must be ncourag-ment of home industries, j luy all you ne d of the quality you re- j itiire at ti e nearest home point Do iot sen J North for anything you can ;et at the same price and of the same ' [ualily of some one near by. Enter- ( rise ic any community rebounds to its ' dvantage even when a single individ- ( lal or firm is the immediate gainer One thing the South greatly lacks is , eady money. There is great wealth >f lands, bail lings, mefbhandise and i :rops. but comparatively little of cash j >r its equivalent Every dollar expended n its adds to the circulation and by so nnch reduces interest rates. Every lollar unnecessarily sent away has preusely the opposite effect When a ! Southerner buys a hoe, a steam engine, ! i set of furniture or any other things I hat is made at the South from North- ' ?rn manufacturers or their agetvs he j s by so much helping to keep his sec- j ion at the mercy of the "money lords" j )f the North, while every man who buys j vhatever the South produces that he : leeds is by little or by much assisting ! lis section to attain financial indep n- j lence. Political economy, like charity v must i >egin at home if the South would at ain the full measure of that wealth and hat consequent financial independence 'or which God has given her the foun- j lation in bounteous natural resources, ; but in the practice of that economy her j people must learn to buy at home all her domestic products they need, and to purchase elsewhere nothing that she supplies. V Advice to Mothers. Mas. Winslow's Soothing Syrop ihoold always be used when children are cuttiDg teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving the j child from pain, and the little chernb awakes as "bright as a button." It i is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all j pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from , teething or other causes. Twenty- | five cents a bottle. June 27?ly. The shortest way to do mouy j things is to do only one thing at a time. . i j TRIED IN THE BALANCES. DR. TALMAGE, THE BROOKLYN DIVINE, IN OMAHA. The Hundwritiug on the Wall, "Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found Wanting," His Text?A Judgment Every Day. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 1.?Great interest was manifested here today, the Rev. T. i)e Witt Talmage, D. 1)., j.preaching to an immense congregation. His text was: "Thou art j weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."?Daniel v. 27. The preacher said: Babylon was the paradise of architecture, and driven out from thence the grandest buildings of modern times are only the evidence of her fall. The site having been selected for the city, two million men were employed in the rearing of her walls and the building of her works. It was a city sixty miles, in circumference. There trench all around the city, Trorn which the material for the building of the city had been digged. > There were tweiitv-five urates on each side the city; between every two gates a tower of defense springing into the ^fies; from each gate on the one side, a street running straight through tiie corresponding street on the tii^re were fifty streetsnftflTniniles long. Through the city ran a branch of the River Euphrates. This river sometimes overflowed its basics, and to keep it from the ruin of the city a lake was constructed into which the surplus water of the river would run during the time of freshets, and the water was kept in this artificial lake until time of drought, and then this water would stream down over the city. At either end of the bridge spanning this Euphrates there was a palace?the one palace a mile and a half around, the other palace seven and a half rpiles around. The wife of Nebuchadnezzar had been born and brought up in thecoma?try, and in a mountainous she couid not bear this fiat Jr*. , , Oi Babylon; and so, to please^ tl Nebuchadnezzar built iue,f the city a mountain fouc^*e midst o. ?) high. This inountaiiP?uadred feet q into terraces sunn^ffwas built out the top of^0Srte& on arches On g e arches a layer of flat e< iTie top of that a layer of Kjtahd bitumen, on the top of that v t\o layers of bricks closely cemented, q o the top of that a heavy sheet of p lad, and on the top of that the soil p paced?tlie soil so deep that a Leba- j ton cedar had room to anchor its t uots. . There were pumps worked by c nighty machinery fetcnuig up the ^ vater from the Euphrates to this bang- ^ ng garden as it was called, so that mere vvci-o fountains spouting into the iky. . . t Standing below and looking up it < must have seemed as if the clouds < were in blossom, or as though the sky \ leaned on the shoulder of a cedar. All ^ < Lhis Nebuchadnezzar did to please his , ( wife Well, she ought 10 have been/ ' ? >'* i < IT JW'WmpTe of Bel us, with towers?one j .ower the eighth of a-mile high, in } which there was an observatory where j istrot 101 iters talked to the stars. There j was in that temple an image, just one < mage, which would cost what would j oe our fifty-two million dollars. j IT WAS A GRKAT CITY. , O what a city! The earth never saw j my thing like it, never will see any- j Jiing like it. And yet I have to tell | pou that it is goiug to be destroyed, j i'he king and his princes are at a 5 "east. They are all intoxicated. Pour j >ut the rich wine into tlie chalices, j Drink to the health of the king. Drink j :o the glory of Babylon. Drink to a ( j-reat futurc. A thousand lords reel intoxicated, j The king, seated upon a chair, with vacant look, as intoxicated men will? with vacant look stared at the wall. , But soon that vacant look takes on in- ; density, and it is an affrighted look; j md all the princes begin to look and wonder what is the matter, and they look at the same point 011 the wall. And then there drops a darkness into ( the room and puts out the blaze of the jolden plate, and out of the sleeve of ( the darkness there comes a finger?a linger of fiery terror circling Rroupd md circling around as though it 1 would write; and then it comes up and with sharp tip of flame it inscribes an the plastering of the wall the doom i>f the king: "Weighed in the balances, and found wanting." The bang of heavy fists against the gates of the palace are followed by the breaking in of the doors. A thousand gleaming knives strike into a thousand quivering hearts. Now Death is king, and he is seated 011 a throne of corpses. In "that hall there is a balance lifted. God swung it. On one side of the balance are put Belsha/.zar's ~ /\n flttwwlliOV* Ol UUjjUriUIiiLlUO, UI1 bieo?A'uv? >J*V4V v balance are put Belshazzar's sins. The sins come down. His opportunities go up." Weighed in the balances?found wanting. FALSE WEIGHTS. There has been a great deal of cheating in ourcouutry with false weights anil measures and balances, and the government, to change that state of things, appointed commissioners whose business it was to stamp weights and measures and balances, and a great deat of the wrong has been ! corrected. But still, after all, there is no such thing as a perfect balance on j earth. The chain may brake, or some j of the metal may be clipped, or in some way the equipose may be a little disturbed. You cannot always depend upon earthly balances. A pound is not always a pound, and you may pay for i one thing and get another; but in the balance which is suspended to the throne of God, a pound is a pound, and right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul, and eternity is eternity. God has a perfect bushel and a perfect peck and a perfect gallon. When merchants weigh their goods in the wrong way, then the Lord weighs the goods again, if from me imperfect measure the merchant pours out what pretends to lie p gallon of oil and there js less thai) p gallon, God knows it, and he cplls nnnn fiU renrmlinor ansre! to mark it: **1'^ ~ ~ ~ "O t O "So much wanting in that measure of oil." The farmer comes in from the country. He has apples to sell. He has an imperfect measure. He poui-s out the apples from this imperfect measure. God recognizes it lie says to the recording angel: "Mark down so many apples too few?an imperfect measure." We may cheat ourselves and we may cheat the world, but we cannot cheat God, and in the great day of judgment it will be found out that what we learned in boyhood at school is correct; that twenty hundred weight make a ton, and one hundred | and twenty solid feet make a core wood. No more, no less, and a rj ion which does not take bold of I i life as well as the life to come b J religion at all. But, my friem ?, ta i not the style of balances I am to a j of today, that is not the kinr ( weights and measures. I am to x , of that kind of balances whictfi | weigh principles, weigh chuifc, ? wei^h men, weigh nations and vli \ worlds. "What!" you say, "is ii- , sible that our world is to be ! < edf" Yes. Wliv, you would ik 1 , if God put on one side the bafes j ! suspended from the throne the is. ; j j and the Pyrenees, and the Hinids, , and Mount Washington, and a|ie j cities of the earth, they would (sh j . it. No. no. The time will comefen i ( God will sit down on the_ whihyne : , to see the world weighed, antTone ! side will be the world's opportiles. | and on the other side the worldJns. | Down will go the sins and awfrill j go the opportunities, and Gtfvill j say to the messengers with tliefch: ! "Burn that world! weighed aiyund wanting!" GOD'S BALANCES. . So God will weigh churcl He takes a great church. Tli great church, according to the woiiV esti- | mate, must be weighed. Hputs it j on one side the balances, ande minister and the choir and theflilding that cost its hundreds of... th<^nds dollars. He puts them on oieide the balances. On tha other fi of the scale he puts what that chub ought to be, what its eonsecratioDUght to be, what its sympathy frthe poor ought to be, what its devdon to all food ought to be. That ion one side, hat side comes d<n% and the church, not being ahf-to stand the test, rises in the baland. It does not ; make any difference tout your ma<>- j nificent machinery, ^church is built | for one thing?to s.'e souls. If it saves a few souis whj it mi^ht save a multitude of souls.iod will spew it out of his mouth. Wghed and found wanting! So God timates natious. How many times he*s put theSpjh ish monarchy into^h?^agrfec found it insuti^^J^Condemned A' was placed on ! # * - - --d An/1 nroinrlm/] i ie sides ine scaies, ?uu uw. . le French empire, and Napoleon said: ! Have I not enlarged the boulevards? ! id I not kindle the glories of the hamps Elysees? Have I not adorned *; le Tuileries? Have I not built the : ilded Opera house?" Then God w^igh d the nation, and he put on one side lie scales the emperor, aud the boule- i ards, and the Tuileries, and the /bamps Elysees, and the gilded Opera i louse. and on the other side he puts iiat man's abominations, that man's ibertinism, that man's selfishness, hat man's godless ambition. This last ame down, aud all the brilliancy of ! lie scene vanished. What is that roi^e coming up from Sedan? Weigh- j k! and fouud wanting! But I must become more individual ; md more personal in my address. I Some people say they do not think j clergymen ought to be personal in iheir* religious address, but ought to leal with subjects in the abstract. 1 io not think that way. What woald j jrou think of ttdymtra^who W* tins AuHiHOlf loads the ?un, he puts the butt of it against the breast, he runs his eye along the barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash *0 the antlers on the-rocks. And so, if we want to be hunters for the Lord, we must take sure aim and fire. Not in the abstract are we to treat things in religious discussions. If a physician comes into a sick room, does he treat disease in the abstract? No; lie feels the pulse, takes the diagnosis, then he makes the prescription. And if we want to heal souls for this life md the life to come, we do not waut to treat them in the absti-act. The fact is, you and I have a malady which, if uncured by grace, will kill us for ever. Now, I Want 110 abstraction. Where is the balm? Where is the physician? A JUDGMENT EVERY DAY. People say there is a day of judgment coming. My friends, every day is a day of judgment, and you and I today are being canvassed, inspected, - - 'I V.I f weighed. Here are me uaiances ui the sanctuary. They are lifted, and we must all be weighed. Who will come and be weighed first? Here is a moralist who volunteers. He is one of the most upright men in the country. He comes. Well, my brother, get in?get into the balances pow, and be weighed. But as he gets into the. balances, I say: "What is that bundle you have along with you?" "Oh," he says, "that is my reputation for goodness, and kindness, and charity, and generosity, and kindliness generally." "O my brother 1 we cannot weigh that; we are going to weigh you? you. Now, stand in the scales?you. the moralist. Paid your debts?" "Yes," you say, "paid all mv debts." " Jiave you acted in an upright way in the community?" "Yes, yes." "Have you been kind to the poor? Are you faithful in a thousand relations' in life?" "Yes." "So far, so good. But now, before you get out of this scale, 1 want to ask you two or three questions. Have your thoughts always been right?" "No," you say; "no." Put down one mark. "Have you loved the Lord with all your heart, and soul, and mind, and strength?" "No," you say. Make another mark. "Come now, be frank, aud confess that itf ten thousand things you have come short? have you not?" "Yes." Make ten thousand marks. Come now, get me a book large enough to make the record of that moralist's deficits. My brother, stand in the scales, do not fly away from them. I put on your side the scales all the goods deeds you ever did, all the kinds words you ever uttered ; but on the other side the scales I put this weight which God says I must put there?cn the other side the scales and opposite to yours I put this weight: "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified." Weighed and found wanting. Still, the balances of the sanctuary are suspended and we are ready to weigh any who come. Who shall be the next? Well, here is a formalist. He comes and he gets into the balan ces, and as he gets in I see that ail ins religion is in genuflexions and in outward observances. As he gets into the scales 1 say: "What is that you have in this pocket?" "Ohl" lie says, "that is Westminster Assembly Catechism." I say: "Very trood. What Have you in the other pocket?" "Oh!" he says, "that is the Heidelberg Catechism." "Very good. What is that you have under your arm, standing in ;his balance of the sanctuary?" "Oil!" he says, "that is a church record." "Very good. What are these books on your side the balances?" "Oh!" he says, "those are 'Calvin's Institutes.' " "My brother, we are not weighing books; we are weighing you. It cannot be that you are depending for your salvation upon your orthodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds and the forms of religion are merely the scaf foiling for the building? You certainly Are not going to mistake the scaffolding for the temple. Do you not kflow that men have gone to perdition wfth a catechism in their pocket?" "But," says the man, "I cross myself jften." "Ah! that will not save you." "But," says the man, "I am svmpahetic for the poor." "That will not ave you." Says the mail, "1 sat at. . ,he communion table." That wilf not save you. "But." says the man. 'I have bad my name on the church record." ^'That will not save you." "But I have been a professor of religion forty years." "That will not save you. Stand there on your side the balam^i. and I will give you the advantage?1 will let you have all the creeds, ull the church records, all the Christian conventions tnat were ever held,ajjthe communion tables that were ev^ouHt, on your side the balances. On the other side the balances I must put what God says I must put there. I nut this million pound weight on tne other side the balances: "Having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From v ? 1 * * v such turn away." Weighed aua rouna wanting} ] THE WORLDLING NEIGHBOR. . Still the balances are suspended. Are there aiiy others who would like to be weiglied or who will be weighed? Yes; here comes a worlding. He gets into the scales. 1 can very easily see what his whole life is made up of. Stocks, dividends, percentages, "buyer ten days," buyer thirty days." Get in, my friend, get into these" balances and be weighed?weighed for this life, and weighed for the Fife to come. He gets in. I find that the two great questions in his life are, "How cheaply can I buy thesegoods?" and "How dearly can I sell them?" I find ho admires heaven because it is a land of gold, and money must be "easy." I find from talking with him that religion and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vulgar interruption, and he hopes on the way to church to drum up a new .customer! All the week he r weighing fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing coals, weighingcifnfections, weighing worldly and penkhable commodities, not realizing the fact that he himself has been weighed. On your side the balances, 0 worldling 1 I will give you full advantage. I put on vour side all the banking \houses, all the storehouses, all tne cargoes, all the insurance compauies,factories, all the silver, all the goIcBhll the money vaults, all the safe deposits?all on your side. But it doe^not add one ounce, for at the very moinent we are congratulatingyou oh vour fine house and upon your princeiy incom^Gpd and the angels are writing your soul: "Weighedandi^bia wantBut X must^g|^^^^^&eak of the final my friends, aswhich WA tvq 1 IT chasms. lurking ambush. come for thy prison. thy ness pull thee Suddenly the The angel with on^ff^^^Besea | and the other foot on ujWBKwill swear by him that livetbforever and ever that time shall be no lotiger: "Behold, he cometh titb clouds, and every eye shall see Mm." Hark to the jarring o? the mountains. Why, that is the setting down of the scales, ! the balances. And then there is a flash as from a cloud, but it is the fflitter of the shining balances, and they are hoisted, and all nations are to be weighed. The unforgiven get in on this side the balances. They may j have weighed themselves and pronounced a flattering decision. The world may have weighed them and I pronounced them moral Now they are being weighed in God's balances? the balances that can make no mistake. All the property gone, all the titles of distinction gaae. all the worldly successes gone; there is a soul, absolutely nothing but a soul, an immortal soul, a never dying soul, a soul stripped of all woxlly advan tages, a soul?on one sid* the scales. On the other side the balances are wasted Sabbaths, disregarded aermons, ! ten thousand opportunities of mercy and pardon that were east aside. | They are on the other side the scales, [ and there God stands, andin the pres ence of men and d-jvils, cierubirn an< archangel, he announces vhile groan ing earthquake, and cracking confla gration and judgment trumpet, an< everlasting storm repeat it; "Weigher in the balance, and found wanting." PROFESSING CHRISTIANS IF THE BAI AKOES. But, say some who are Christians "Certainly you don't mean to say tha we will have to get into the balances Our sins are all pardoned, our title t heaven is secure. Certainiv you ar not goin<* to put us in the balancesS Yes, my brother. We must all appea before the judgment seat oT^Cnris and on that day you are certainly gt ! ing to be weighed. I O follower of Christ 1 you get int the balauces. The bell of the judj inent is ringing. You must get inl | the balances. You get in on tnissid< | On the other side the balances w j will place ail the opportunities of goc I which you did riot improve, all tl : attainments in piety which you migl i have had, but which vou refused I ! take. We place them all on the oth< I side. They go down, and your soi rises in the scale. You cannot weig against all those imperfections. Well, then, we must give you thea< vantage, and on your side the scales v will place all the good deeds you ha^ ever done, and all the kind words yc have ever uttered. Too light vet I Wei we must put on your side all the co secration of your life, all the holine of your life, all the prayers of yoi life, all the faith of your Christif Ufa Tnn lio-ht vet! Come, uiigbl ?-v" "o I. men of the past, and get in on th side the scales. Come, Payson, at poddridge, and Baxter, get in on th side the scales and make them con down, that this righteous one may 1 saved. They come and they get in tl scales. Too light yet! Come, the ma tyrs, the Latimers, the Wicklitfes, tl men who suffered at the_?takfLi' Christ. Get in on this side the Chri j tian's balances, and see if you cann | j help him weight it aright. They con ! anugetin. Too liglit! Come, angt , j of God 011 high. Let not the righteo perish with the wicked. They get on this side the balances. Too iig i yetl ] I put on this side the balances ? the scepters of light, all the thrones power, all the crowns of glory. T< 'I light yet. But just at that point, Jesus, the Son of God. couies up to the balances, and he nuts one of his scarred feet on your siae, and the bal- a ances begin to tremble from top to \ bottom. Then he puts both of his scarred feet on the balances, and the s Christian's side come down with a j stroke that sets all the bells of heaven t ringing. That Rock of Ages heavier than any other weight. But says the Christian: "Am I to be J allowed to get off so easily?" Yes. If ( some one should come and put 011 the other side the scales all vour iinper- < fections, all your envies, all your jealousies, all your inconsistencies of life, they would not budge the scales i with Christ on your side the scales. Go freel There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free! Weighed in the balances, and nothing, nothing wanted. OH I GLORIOUS HOPE, i Oh! what a glorious hope. Will I you accept it this day? Christ making j up for what you lack, Christ the atonement for all your sins. Who will accept him? Will not this whole audi ence say: "lam insufficient, 1 am a ^sinner, I am lost bv reason of my transgressions, but Christ has paid it all. My Lord, and my God, my life, my pardon, my heaven. Lord Jesus, I hail thee." Oh I if you could only Understand the worth of that sacrifice wbioh I have represented to vou under a figure?if you could understand the worth of that sacrifice, this whole audience would this moment accept Christ and be saved. We go away olf, or back into history, to get some illustration by which we may set forth what Christ has done for us. We need not go so far. I saw a vehicle behind a runaway horse dashing through the street, a mother and her two children in the carriage. The horse dashed along as though to hurl them to death, and a mounted policeman with a shout clearing the way, and the horse at full run, attempted to seize those runaway horses and to save a calamity, when liis own horse fell and rolled over him. He was picked up half dead. Why were our sympathies so stirred? Because - hft was badlv hurt and hurt for others. But I tell you today of how Christ, the Son of God, on the blood red horse of sacrifice came for our rescue, and rode down the sky and rode unto death for our rescue. Are not your hearts touched? That was a sacrifice for you and me. O thou who didst ride on the red horse of sacrifice! come this hour, and ride through this assemblage on the white horse of victory. MOUNTAINS OF SALT. What au Old Settler Han to Say About Tliiwe on the Colorado River. One of the oldest settlei-s of Fort Yuma, A. T., Capt. J. A Mellon, said_ in a recent interview: "There urii Kbrado rirer that are less known the heart of central Africa. We ^H^Rp there to get salt. .There are mountains of salt up in the Yir M B'hicii is a tributary of the Colo or which is larger and than Goat islaud. The salt is white; it is clearer than You inay take a piece of it or eigbt'inches thick and read a Km on newspaper through it. ^^r"The salt mountains cover a JPstretch of about tweuty-five miles on both sides of the Virgin, seven miles up from the Colorado. A single blast ot giant powder will blow out tons -r n-u.c. ,ir,t Upon ions Ol IU una sau uwo uv? dazzle }*our eyes as you might expect, while riding along on the river steamer or clambering over it. It has a layer of sandstone from two to eight feet thick over it. When this is torn* away the salt lies in full sight, like a great snowdrift. How deep it is no body knows. This salt is destin- i ed to be a source of great* wealth. Hamilton Disston, the big saw inanu facturer, and BaJdwiu, of the Baldwin locomotive works, are the only men who have secured any of the salt mountains. When the Utah Southern railroad is pushed on from Frisco, Utah, it will tap the salt mountains and then an enormous revenue will be realized from them." Capt. Mellon brought down from the mines, for the Academy of Sciences, San Francisoo, some queer 1 things. Under the cap roek was found charred wood and charcoal, besides some matting made of cedar bark. The salt had preserved it. It might have lain there thousands of years. Evidently there had been a slide that covered up the camp equipage of some prehistoric men. Strange to say, a similar discovery has been made in the salt mines of Louisiana. The rocks up toward the salt mountains are pointed and cut into hieroglyphics which none of the Mojave, STuma, j Piute or other Indians know the meand in? of In the same interview Capt. Mellon said: "There are valleys along the great, but as yet unknown, Colorado, singly as much as 120 miles long and twenty miles wide. That will be the ,r( real orange country of the globe. They are as rich as the valley of the Nile. Irrigation will redeem them. Water will be brought on them as sure ir as destiny. "El Dorado canyon is grander than ' the Grand canyon of the Colorado. The tops of the windows in the steamer 0 Gila do not project out more than six inches, vet I may put my head out ?c and look as high as 1 can, and 1 can't a see half way up the mighty walls of the canyon. The river is 350 feet wide ^ there, too. The only way you can see to the top is to get right out on ^ deck and look straight up. The walls are so high that there is perpetual Shade there. Neither the sun nor the moon can shine in. It takes ten hours going up to go through the canyon, and two hours coming down. "By the Colorado river and the Virr gin you can run clear up to Nevada r and Utah. Many people have laugh>u ed at me for saying I was going up 1 into mountainous Nevada by boat, n\ but that's just what I have been do^ iug right along. Strange as it may seem, and little known as it is, the IU Colorado has more navigable water tv without portage than any other river on the Pacific coast. It has 700 miles, ,,i wtrile the Columbia has but 350. The 1(1 % .? * i n.u e Uolorado is theoniyreai nem ior exie plorers on the North American contiije tinent outside of the frigid north. The ie wonders that could be unearthed there r. will yet attract the attention of the ie greatest scienists of the world."?San or Francisco Examiner. is- : ~ ot tie Isaac S. Dement, the winner of a sis stenographic contest at Lake George us last summer, gave a speed exhibition iu in Omaha, in which he wrote 225 ht words the first minute, 242 the second and 260 the third. Corcei* may puff" a man np, bol will never prop hii? op. ODDS AINU trNus. The boast of the town of Larone is l pair of horses that will mow a field vithout a driver. George Green, of Alabama, has been ;erving a term of imprisonment for nurdering a man who is now found X) be living. There is said to be such a scarcity of sailors that men cannot be found to iquip the new ships of our new navy. There are 14.247 policemen in London, and 14.267 cabs. When the United States purchased Alaska of Russia the amount paid was seven millions of dollars, or one aineteen-twentieths of a cent per acre. "1 often feel an aching void," remarked young Fitzpercy to Miss Susie. 4,I am sorry you are troubled with chronic headache," replied the girl, sympathetically. Reports to the Illinois state board of agriculture show that the aggregate yield of wheat in the state for the year will be about 34,000,000 bushels, an increased yield i>er acre of unusually Hue berry. Many a man has credit for a good temper who never knew what it was to be provoked, while he who has retained his explosiveuess by great effort nine times has the reputation of bein? u fiery tempered man because the dynamite got the better of him on the tenth. The state lioral society of California, at a recent meeting, debated the question of tiie adoption of a national flower. The sunflower, it was stated, was the only flower that could be considered "native," and with a view of considering that flower at close range an exhibition was jriven at the meeting of a large number of double sunflowers. A "mineral palace" is to be erected at Pueblo, Colo., by capitalists of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pue bio. The framework of the building will be concealed outside and inside with ores of all kinds, mineral specimens, coal, iron, steel and copper. The interior will represent tunnels, drifts, shafts and smelters. In the Jferue d'Hygiene Therapeu tique Blanrogl^owar 1, a female doctor gives statutwjfcproof that the mortal ity from arpj^J^-ia is rapidly increas illg. Tvveuty^va&rs ajo III l- rauw this mortality^vaAhetween 36 and 4; deaths in evelfy^ft),000 inhabitants now it amounteid&fyo to 121 in ever 100,000. In En^ftud, the deaths ii every 100 number 22% in America, 6' to 90; in Germany,*i 140 to 155; ii Christiania, 340. ; The squirrel must. go. The board of supervisors of Alameda and Contr Costa counties, Cal., have passed ai ordinance deefciting squirrels a nuij ance. Apparent! numerous iu^i^|^B^I? 53^*- xney^K> compelled? reed on the cropsr<rfid tfiushave gmn ed the enmity of the farmers. . Abou t,aSir Douglas Stqw art agree<hilg8Fliis family estatqMl GrandtiSlI vJlfei^ Murthly Castle^S; Perthi^rfi, tCrafcn Sic wart Kennd^l of Nev?fork, for ?372,983. No s<ra er had lie sealed the agreement thai he changed his mind ana iie has sine been in litigation with the object c evadiug it. He has taken resort to ai old Scotch law, by which he ma; claim to be "weak and facile of mind, and therefore "easv to be impose upon," and induced to agree to th sale "bv fraud or circumvention,"an when Iving under "essential error. The judges of the court of sessio have allowed the case to be tried o the issue of fraud, and, whatever th decision at Edinburgh, it is though certain to be carried to the house c iords. Just Like "Wale*. The fat dude is getting to be quite common figure about town, whil old fashioned fat men are inclined t "bant" in order to reduce their bull the new fashioned fat man apparen ly cultivates what the other shun: He feeds on farinaceous and tissu building food, and surveys himself i the 'club mirror with growing con placency. I notice, also, that he cu: his hair, or has it cut, shorter in tt middle than at the sides, and that h walks with quite a perceptible lim] When I applied to my fashionab. friend, Oadley, for an explanation < these phenomena, that gifted and pr< found repository of all elegant info mation smiled on me beni<ml; 4'Why, bless me! me boy," said h 44 'aven't you read it?" ancl he fisht out of his wallet a newspaper clippiuj which read: 4'The Prince of Wales getting bald and fat, and is troubh with a serious lameness from varico veins."?New York News. . MosqultoeH In England. Mr. G. H. Ferrall, F. E. S., cor menting on some statements made i the daily press, says: 4'There are aboi a hundred species of mosquitoes in tl world, occurring in all climes. Eigl or ten species have been known to i; habit England for more than fifl years, in fact, since they were" fir studied. No new species to Britai have been recorded for more than iifl vears. No specially tropical speci has ever been recorded as having o i currea in cniam, out out; ui uur nc known British species has recent! been recorded in Mexico. Most, if n< all, of our British species bite in vei hot weather, when, apparently, lil their betters, they require more liqu: refreshment. Finally, mosquitoes, i well as Hessian tiies, are as couimc in England as white butterflies." English Mechanic. The Editor's Pet Saurian. The numerous callers upon Edit* Bailey at his sanctum on Prestc street are most invariably attract* by a young alligator that lie has in tank of clear water. The creature a great pet of the editor, and he h named it Dan Smith, after his hon< the mayor. He has had it sever weeks, and it is quite gentle, beir easily mesmerized by being tickh under the chin or having its het stroked gently. It is over two fe long.?Houston Cnr. Galveston New A Railway Car of'Steel. PlnvM?n-r f lit, Iaof /-?>? tlipaA mAnt k?V 1.W..MVV. a mysterious proceeding has been g ing on at the Chicago for^e and lx works, at the corner of Wentwor avenue and Fortieth street At last leaked out that the mysterious mec anism that Was being put togeth was a railway car. It is understo that its originator is named Ford, ai is backed by capitalists from Missou The distinctive feature of the car the fact that it is all iron or steel. T 1*00f, sidesand end of the car are ma of steel boiler plates riveted togetln and it is nothing more or less thai huge boiler. It is not quite roun l however, being-somewhat the sha of a horseshoe?the round part beii the ton. In the bottom, it is said, a ' several steei guuci-a uatneu in cement i much the same as in the Pullman i cars. Along the sides is an array of ; windows precisely similar to those of | an ordinary passenger coach. The top of the car is destitute of the heavyroof and ventilating arrangement that ! is seen on ordinary cars. It is said ; that ventilation is secured by pumping air into the care through pipes. These pipes in winter will furnish | warm air. Thei-e is also a system ot i ventilators around the windows. The inventor says that it won't burn up, ! it will last longer, it won't telescope I in a collision ana it is cheaper.*? Chi- V cago News. | Why Some Were Lone, Others Round. , Mr. Henry Rickerson, of Rutledge, i . 11 . i " i i j. ? j teiiS II mat ne lias iwo uegrv men ! working with him. He gave both of ! them a watermelon patch. One day i as he was walkiug over his farm he saw oneof his negroes lying flat down in his patch. He asked him what he was doing and he replied that he was planting nis watermelons. He claimed that if he would lie down to plant j them they would grow very long. The ; other boy laughed at him and said he , was going to stand straight up to plant | his, and so he did. Strange to say,; ! every melon the boy has raised who j planted while lying down is very long i and is lying down, while all those rais! ed by the boy who planted while standing are sitting on their ends and are perfectly round.?Macon Telegraph Electric Flatirons. When the kerosene stove was invented housekeepers rejoiced over the i prospect of something that would reI fieve them of some of the additional j heat required in cooking, washing and ironing during the not days that Maine had at tnat period, but if the Waterville man's new electric experiments work as anticipated, undesired heat will be reduced to a minimum. In addition to his recently invented p>Wt.ric oven Mr. Willis Mitchell has perfected a flatiron for which wonderful effects are claimed A cord is at- * tached to a circuit and connected with the flatiron, which is thereby heated for use, all of the heat going to the bottom of the flatiron when it is needed. [ An iron heated in this way is alwavs ready for use, and, it is said, can be * run all day, or as long as the current : is turned on, without the operator \ leaving the table when at work. The 1 amount of heat given to the flatiron 7 can also be regulated as desired.?New * York Telegram. [l s Mk.^Thos. C Lee, proprietor of the a Lee Hotel, Arkadelphia, Ark.; says ii that Sw.fit's Specific has so strength5 ened his wife for her labors as hostess ? ^that he can recommend and empha- / ?P&l^he assertion that as a tonic for la- / ili^l^M^children S. S. S. has no equal. j Mn. B. ESH^iiatley is a prominent ^1 merchant of Ku^on. La. lie says he * ? ??1'' tn mottv n#?r MUH& 31'IU a k ' 1 rvjv. iv ikuxj |mp, and knows of sorrwi.. ^^Kes of blood diseases, and has never ? heard of a failure to cure. * Several e cases of contagious blood poison were ,f cuied after *11 the doctors and all other ii remedies had failed. * I am of the opinion S. S. S. should d stand at the head of the list of blood e remedies. I arrived at this conclusion d from scores of persons who have told tne of the good results of its Use. I. have been selling S S. S. for years, n j 9 e and it lias won a large sale. it, C A. Guikfith, Mayfl Vwer, Ark. >f ** a* Meucuky and potash mixtures dry op the secretions of the body, cause mercurial rheumatism and dyspepsia, a and finally run the system down to e such a condition that other diseases are ? induced. Swift's Specific "builds up t' the patient from the first dose, apd 5 gives life and vigor to the whole human ie fcame. n 4 ts The Quiet Girl. ie ie j>. Young people are apt to fancy that quiet girls are necessarily stupid ones: they see no evidence of brilliancy, and O" . . / . i _ _i r_ f onn a wrong estimate 01 me unurauy ter of that demure maiden whose only e, ambition in life seems to be to sit and id listen while others talk. For nobody seems to think it a duty to draw her out; nobody believes there is anything to draw out If, however, she is not satisfied' with her condition, nobody hears anything about it, and consequently everybody believes, if they give n_ her a thought, that she is perfrctly rein signed to the common place, and that at she could.not appreciate aoytbing bet?? ter. By and by, when the quiet girl 111 writes a successful novel, or otherwise makes her mark in the world, we won^ derhow she gained her knowledge. jn "She never knew a hundred people in Ly ner life." we say. Vet. all the same, es she has known these few people to c- some purpose; she has leisure to refleet on all she has seen. She has not been so occupied in amusing herself, ,y in advertising her good points, in makin? the most of herself, but that she id could observe otbors and use all the as material in her world. In the mean>" while it is the quiet girl who marries ? earliest, who makes the best match, who fills the niches whcih her more brilliant sisters leave vacant, who manages the servants, runs the sewing machine, )n listens to the reminiscences of the old, ?d and often keeps the wolf from the a door. is IS ? 3r People Everywhere. al 4r( id Confirm our statement when we say ld that Acker's English Remedy is suet perior to any and all other preparations S' for the Throat and Lungs. In Whooping Cough and Croup it is magic and lis j relieves at once. We otter you a sam >v~ i pie bottle free. Remember, this Rem! edv is sold on a positive guarantee bv I Dr. M. <J. Hendrix. 9-20 , b- | ei* i ()ne of the "sweet graduates" in a J ' j i neighboring town read an essay on !l. ! Physiology in which she s.bd "The js human body is divided 'mio three parts, }1Q I the head, the chis*. and the stumick. de j The head contains the eyes and ?r, j brains, if any. The chist contains the ia -Jungsand a piece of the liver. The j stumick is devoted to the bowels, of I* which they are five, a, e. i, o, u, and r? I sometimes w and y,