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SUMMER STOCK
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CLOTHING,
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S' - " ' ? ASP?
(X* Gi\TS FIHYISHIXGGOODS
following quantities will be
" sold
At and Below Cost
"* i . 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.
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^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 ^
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Home Industry! 5
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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
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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, '
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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.
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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.
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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
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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/
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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,
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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,