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CLOTHING
AND
HATS
L. EPSTIH'S,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
r
B T HAVE RETl'RED FROM THE
m _L Northern markets with a full and
H complete line of kudiiouable and most deM
sirable stock of Clothing tor the coming
0 season. I a:u prepared to offer to my
9 friends and patrons better inducements
than any house is thi city. Having made
it a life time stndv in the exclusive line of
I CLOTHING, HATS,
[ mn FIRMSIILXG GOODS, I
5 Enables me to buy everything a gentleman
i needs for his wardrobe at great advantage,
a thereby giving my customers the benefit of |
S my experience at low prices to suit their
I deinaud. I have cn hand every stylo of
I JSack Suits, from the cheapest to the best,
I -every style ot Frock Suits, from the cheapg
est to the best, in Cutaways sizes for lean
8 and fat people. Every st\le of Prince AlI
bert Suits in Broadcloth, Corkscrews, of
3 fancy colors to suit evervbody.
I OVERCOATS.
t Of every style and description, from the
cheapest to the best fabric, at low prices.
Young Men's Suits,
From 14 to 20 jtars. in gieat variety, at
Bargain Prices.
SCHOOL SUITS,
From 12 to 18 years, in endless variety, at
lower prices than anybody.
Childrens' Suits,
From 4 no twelve vears, in knee and long
li?r iut?o or three pieces, from
$? 25 a bait upwards.
PANTS,
Of every style and quality from 50e. a pair
saud upwards. The largest assortment in
this city.
. NECKWEAR,
K The largest assortment in this City.
L UNDERWEAR,
In white and scarlet fabrics, from the lowS
est to the-in Camel's wool, in the
f city.
[ TRLXp, VALISES, AND SATCHELS!
W at great bargains.
I RUBBER GOODS AND UMBRELLAS.
t at especially low figures.
For particulars call on
L. BPSTIIT,
Under Columbia Hotel.
SeDt. 7-tf
EPSTIB BEOS
HAVE OPENED
TfmnmcmaniK][n|
Their Big !' Bargain Su>re, with a choice
selection of fresh
ITOTIOUS,
.
H o x; S E
m r.ENTS FLRMSHiXfi GOODS,
V Shoes of a!i Kinds,
I I JC T sS
And everything usually kept in a FirstClass
Establishment. The goods will posilively
be sold at great bargains in t rder to
Hf * establish trade.
We have the exclusive agency of the
0
r a n, i spool; cotton
and we propose to give avay 1,001) dozen to
our trade. For particulars the ladies are
especially invited to call on
M EPSTIN BROS.
UNDER HOTEL JEROME,
corner Main and Lady Streets.
HHnthis Store will hereafter be known as
TOIIIIl BOISE,
U~5r~~COLUMBIA.
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COURAGE CHRISTIANS.
. j
J. T. CBAPS.
Listen to the sweet music of God,
With golden glories it sounds;
1 But whilst we listen we know,
| That in God all glory is found.
Beyond the stary skies above.
There is a Saviour of perfect love,
Be not discouraged, ye wayworn soldiers, j
But seek for eternal love.
Take up the cross and follow on.
After Christ who has gone belore;
Oh, I long, how I long
To land safe on the other shore.
-
Be of good cheer, ye Christian workers,
Be ye steadfast unto the law,
And-when satan tries to tempt ycu,
Torn your back and say no.
*
Who, oh, who, csn lorsase. a uear omium.
Who taken up himseli the sins of the
world,
And died the shameful dea:h of the cross.
That we wretched sinners might be saved.
No pearl from the ocean or gold from the
mine.
Can pardon and purity buy:
nrtrtSsNp the blood of a Savior divine,
And cling to the cross till I die.
But while I am a straggler away from j
home, I'll
toil in the vineyard and pray;
I'll carry the cross, while I think of the |
crown,
And watch, for the break of the day.
Conover, X. C.
Chips from Our Workshop.
An orange trust lias been formed
in Boston.
Tom Wilson, of Aslieville, X. C.,
has slain 3/57 bears in the mountains,
of that region.
. The number of churches burned
last year in the United States was a
hundred and eighty-two.
Seeds of the most valuable rarities
of cinchona bring ?1.000 per ounce
in Ceylon. There are nearly 100.000
seeds in an ounce.
Chicago now covers over one hundred
and sixty-nine square miles.
A seventy mile trip is required to
make a circuit of the city.
All the States and Territories of
the Union have an organized militia.
Of these 5.750 are cavalry, 5,054 artillery
and 90(,i33 are infantry.
The Iowa farmers raised enough
A cioua oursL nz tiir unit'x |
day dropped enough water on a rei
gion of two miles square to form a
lake ten acres in extent and ten feet
deep. k
Henry Sturdivant, a colored farmer
! near Rome, Ga., wears a numher
twenty shoe. He is supposed to
have a larger foot than any man in
the SouthA
negro woman near Raleigh, X.
C., cut her husband to pieces with
an axe last week. She is now in jail
to answer for the crime.
i A Chalange.?The proprietors of !
i Dr. Bull s Cough Syrup hereby chal|
lenge the Faculty to prescribe a rem
i edy more effective than theirs.
| I cordially reoomiuopd Salvation
j Oil to all suffering with rheumatism.
JOS. S. FOX. Cattle Dealer,
117 North Broadway, Baltimore, Md.
Johnstown does not seem to have
been thoroughly purified even by the
great flood. She resumes business
| with thirty-six grocery stores aud
fifty-one saloons.
An uncomfortably tight shoe may
be made perfectly easy by laying a.
cloth wet in hot water across where
it pinches, changing several times.
The leather will shape itself to the
I foot.
i
A colored witness was reminded
by the judge that he had sworn to
tell the whole truth. "Well, you sec,
boss." answered the negro, "I'se
skeered to tell de whole truth, for
fear I might tell a lie."
When a Chinese girl is married,
she must wait four months I e 'ore etiquette
allows her to pay her firs:
visit to her mother: but, alter this
initiatory call, she may go to the
home of her parents at any time.
* n -i ? 4.1...i 4-1,^ D.-i+o
! iron IS rouru su uuu at iu<- j. mo!
bnrg iron mills that 12,000 sheets
j are required to make a single inch in
j thickness. Light shines through one
j of these sheets as readily as it does
through tissue paper.
' It is said of a Canadian rpother
who di*d the other day: -She was a
true wife, a fond mother, and so m:maged
affairs as to marrv off her nine
girls before anv other female in the
? v
neighborhood could even get a beau.'*'
? t O
AAt
_one factory ' in the United
States there are manufactured between
two and three tons of postal
I cards a day all the year round. The
largest order eve.- tilled for 01 e city was
four million cards, or about twelve
tons of paper for New York.
Avers Hair Vigor restores color
and vitality ?to weak and
gray hair. Through its
healing and cleansing qualities,
it prevents the accumulation of
dandruff and euros all scalp diseases.
The best hair-dressing ever made,
and by far the most economical.
The only part of the cotton plant
; that has not been turned to some
good account is what is called the
mote. This is 4 fuzz that that drops
duiing the process of ginning, and
resembles very much that found oa?
northern grown peach of the large
variety.
is Life Worth Living?
~
Not if you go through the world a
dyspeptic. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets
are a positive cure for the worst
forms of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Flatulency
and Constipation. Guaranteed
and sold by Dr. M. Q. Hendrix.
I
SAMSON'S LOST STRENGTH. |
HIS MISFORTUNE DUE TO A BAD ;
WOMAN'S WILES.
Dr. Taliiiajjt* Preaches on the Various
j IVhys Good USeu Are Sometimes Shorn j
*
j of Their Strength?Full Text of Mis Dis;
course Sept. 29.
;
Brooklyn, Sept. 29.?After ex- j
pounding the appropriate passages of j
{Scripture in the Brooklyn Tabernacle j
this morning, the Rev. T. De Witt I
Talrnage, D. D., gave out the hymn:
So let our lips anil lives express
The holy f?otq>el wo profess;
So Jet our works arid virtuessliine
To prove the doctrine ^?!1 divine.
The subiect of Dr. Talmage's sermon j
?. "The shorn locks of Samson." i
He took for bis text Judges xvi, 5: j
"Entice him, and see wherein his >
great strength lieth, and by what !
means we may prevail against him, :
that we may bind him to afflict liirn; j
and we will give thee every one of us j
eleven hundred pieces of silver," The i
sermon was as follows:
THE STRENGTH OF SAMSON.
One thousand pounds, or about five :
thousand dollars of our money, were j
thus offered for the capture of a giant. !
It would take a skillful photographist '
to picture Samson as he really was.
The most facile words are not supple
enough to describe him. lie was a
giant and a child; the conqueror and j
the defeated; able to snap a lion's jaw, {
and yet captured, by the sigh of a I
maiden. He was ruler and slave; i
commingling of virtue and vice, the |
sublime and the ridiculous; sharp
enough to make a good riddle, gnu
yet weak enough to be caught jn the
most superficial stratagem; honest
enough to sett le his debt, and yet outrageously
robbing somebody else to
get the material to pay it; a miracle
and a scoffing; a crowning glory and
a burning shame. There lie stands,
looming up above other men, a mountain
of flesh; his arms bunched with
muscle that can lift the gate of a city;
taking an attitude defiant of armed
men and wild beasts. His hair had
never been cut, and it rolled down in I
seven great plaits over his shoulders, :
adding to his fierceness and terror.
The Philistines want to conquer him, i
and therefore they must find out |
where the secret of his strength iies.
There is a woman living in the val j
ley of Sorek by the name of Delilah, i
They appoint her the agent in the j
case. The Philistines are secreted i
in the same building, and then
Delilah goes to work and coaxes i
Samson to tell what is the secret of j
his strength. "Weil." he says, **if ;
you should take seven green withes,
such as they fasten wild beasts with,
and put them around me, I should be j
perfectly powerless." So she binds j
,.him with the seven green withes, i
-mi _i._ _1\._ I
XHtiJ SUJ3 JJIups mr Luiiiua. unu .->a^ a.
^\They come?the Philistines!" and lie
walks Out as though thero were p.G
impediment. She coaxes him again,
ana says, "Now tell me the secret of i
-this g^eafc strength.;" and ho r^pli?w. -f"If
you should take some ropes that j
have never been used, and tie me with 1
thep), I should be just like other I
men." She ties him with the rones,
claps her hands and slants. ''They J
come?the Philistines!" He walks i
out as easy as he did before?not a sin- i
gle. obstruction. She coaxes liim j
again, and he says, "Now, if you i
j should take these seven iong plaits of j
j hair, and by this house loom weave
i them into a web. I could not get
I away." So the house loom is rolled
| up, and the sh pule iiies backward and
i forward, and the long plaits of hair !
I are woven into a web. Then she ;
| claps her hands, and says, "They j
j come! the Philistines!"
He walks out as easily as he did be- !
fore, dragging a part, of the loom with j
| him. But after awhile she persuades J
j him to tell the truth. He says:. "If I
i you should take, a razor, or shears, and j
! cutoff this long hair, 1 shoijjd bepow- j
j erless. and in the hands ;ot my ,eno- 1
j mies.'" Bamsop sleeps, and, that she ]
may not wake him up during the pro
cess of shearing, help is called in. Von
know that the barbei-s of the east have
such a skillful way of manipulating
I the head, to this very day they will
| nut a man. wideawake, sound asleep.
I hear tho blades of the shears grinding
against* each other, ami I see fhe
long locks falling off. Tho shears, or
razor, accomplishes what green withes
and new-ropes and house loom could
not do. Suddenly she claps her hands
and says: "The Philistines be upon
thee, Samson He rouses up with a
struggle, but his strength is all gone!
, He is in the hands of his enemies! I
j hear the groan of tiie giant as they
I take his eyes pud and then I see him
' staggering on in bis blindness, feeling
1 O O O # ? * ; O
his way as he goes on toward Gaza.
The prison door is opened and the j
giant is thrust in. He sits down and
puts his hands on the mill crank,
which, with exhausting horizontal
! ptQtiou, goes uay after dayv week after
j week, month after month?work,
work, work! The consternation of
the world in captivity, his locks shorn,
hiss eves nunefcured. -grinding corn in
| (faza. In a previous feeimon on this j
; character I learned some lessons, but j
, another class of lessons are before us i
I now.
Learn first how very strong people i
( are .sometimes coaxed into great imbe- j
| cilities. Samson had no right to re- 1
i veal tiie secret of his strength. Deli- i
! fall's lirst attempt to tind* out is a j
j failure. He says; "G,reen withes will
| bind me," but it was a failure. Then
j he says, "A new rope will hold me,"
| but that, also was a failure, Then he
j says, "Weave my locks into a web and
i tiiat will bind me." yet that also was a i
J failure. But at last you see how she j
I coaxed it out of him. Unimportant j
actions in life that involve no moral j
principle may without injury be sub- j
iected to ardent persuasions, but as i
&oou a* you have come to the line that !
separates nghifrom wrong, no induce- !
ineut or blandishment ought iq
vou step over it. Suppose a. map lias |
been brought up in a Christian houso;
hold and taught sacredly to observe j
| the Sabbath. Sunday comes; you want I
fresh air. Temptation says, "Sunday
i is just like other days.-; now don't be
| bigoted: v/s wui rule forth among the j
i works of God; the whole earili is his
j temple; wo will not go into any dissj- |
i pations; come, now, I have the carriage
engaged and we shall be back
; soon enough to go to church in the |
] gvening; don't yield to Puritanic no!
ijorts; j ou will be no worse for a ride '
I ... <1,.-, ...-.none. .It,. !) (> out
; 2 l i tllU J * . - ; -
} and they say everything is iooking
j glorious." '"We!I, I will go to pioa.se
j you," is tlie response. Ami out they
j go over the street, conscience drowned
j if. the flatter of tiie swift hoofs and
the rash oi' ;h.c resounding wheels.
That tempted nam muv have had mora)
character enough to break the greet*
withes of ten thousand Philistine aji
lurements, but he has been overcome
' by coaxing.
I Two young men passing down this
street come opposite a drinking' saloon
with a roil lantern hung out from the |
door to light men to perdition. "Let j
us go in," says one. "No, I won't,'' j
says the other; "I never go to such !
places." "Now, you don't say you are i
as weak as that. Why, I have been j
going there for two years and it hasn't \
hurt me. Come, come now, be a man.
If you can't stand anything stronger,
take a little sherry. You need to see
tho world as it is. I don't believe in I
intemperance any more than you. I j
can stop drinking just when I want
to. Vou shall go. Now, come right
along." Persuasion has conquered.
Samson yields to the coaxing and
there is carnival in hell that night
among the Philistines aud they shout,
' Ha! ha! We've got him." Those
who have the kindest and most sympathetic
natures are the most in danger.
Your very disposition to please
others will be the very trap they set.
If you were cold and harsh and severe
in your nature you would not be tampered
with- People never fondle a
hedgehog. The most sentimental
Greenlander never kisses an iceberg.
The warmth and susceptibility of your
nature will encourage the siren.
Though strong as a giant, look out for
Delilah's scissors. Samson, the strongest
man who ever lived, was overcome
by coaxing.
WHAT BAD WOMEN CAN DO.
Again, this narrative teaches us the
power of an ill disposed woman. In
the portrait gallery of Bible queens we
ti nd Abigail and Ruth and Miriam and'
Yashti and Deborah, but in the rogues'
gallery of a police station you find the
pictures of women as well as men.
Delilah's picture belongs to the rogues'
gallery, but she had more power than
all Philistia armed with sword and
spear. Sim cpuld carry off the iron
gates of Samson's resolution easily
as ho shouldered the gates of Gaza.
The force that had killed the lion
which one day plunged out fierce
from the thicket utterly succumbs to
the silken net which Delilah weaves
for the giant. He who had driven an
army in riotous retreat with the
bleached jaw bone, smiting them hip
' - 1 1 *-1- i _l. 4
alia llllgn Willi great siaug uici~, nun
falls captive at tiie feet of an unworthy
woman. Delilah in the Bible
stands in the memorable company of
Adah, ami 2il]ah, and Bathsheba, and
Jezebel, and Athaliah, and therodjas.
How deplorable the influence of such
in contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe
and Huldah and Tryphona and Jephtha's
daughter and Mary, the mother
of Jesus. While the latter glitter in
the firmament of God's word like constellations
with steady, .cheerful, holy
light, the former shoot like baleful
meteors across the terrified heavens,
ominous of war, disaster and death.
If there is a divine power in the good
mother, her face bright with purity,
an unselfish love beaming from her
eye, a gentleness that by pangs and
sufferings and holy anxieties has been
mellowing and softening for many a
year, uttering itself in every syllable,
a dignity that cannot be dethroned,
united with thp ulayfu|np3aj that will
not bo checked, her hand the charm
trV ?ill :"f*p 4l' ' [Iiiin nni nil P'"- child's
worst wound, her presence a
perpetual benediction, liar name our
defense when we are tempted, her
memory an outgusbing well of tears
and congratulation and thanksgiving,
her heaven a palm waving and a coronal;
then there is just as great an influence
in the opposite direction in the
bad mother, her brow beclouded with
uiigoverned passion, her eye flashing
with unsaiictifled fire, her lips the
fountain of fretfulness and depravity,
her example a mildew and a blasting,
her name a disgrace to coming generations,
her memory a signal for bitterest
anathema, her eternity a whirl
wind and * suffocation and a darkness.
One wrong headed, wrong hearted
mother may ruin one child, and that
one child,* grown up, may destroy a
hundred people and the hundred blast
a thousand, and the thousand a million.
The wife's sphere is a realm of j
honor and power almost unlimited.
What a blessing was Sarah to Abraham,
was Deborah to Ijapidoth, was
ZippCjrab to Moses, was Huldah to
Shalfum.
There are multitudes of men in the
marts of trade whose fortunes have,
been the result of a wife's frugality.
Four hands have been achieving that
estate, two at the store, two at the
home. The burdens of life are com
paratjyeiy light when there aie oilier
hands to lielp us lift them. The greatest
difiiculties have often slunk awav
because there were four eyes to look
them out of countenance, What care
you for the hard knocks in the world
as long as you have a brig-lit domestic
circle for harbor! One cheerful word
in the evening- tide as you come in Iras
silenced the clamor of unpaid notes
and the disappointment of poor invest i>onji.
Your table may be qujte frugally'spread,'but
'it seems more beautiful
to you than many tables that
smoke with venison and blush witfl
Burgundy. Peace meets you at the
door, sits beside you at the table, lights
up the evening stand, and sings in the
You have seen an aged couple
^vho for scores of years have helped
each oilier ph in life's pilgrimage gq
ing down the steep of years. Long
Hisspeiatioi) bus made them much alike.
They rejoiced at fhesapio advent, they j
bent over the sam6 cradle, they wept !
at the same grave, in the evening
they sit quietly thinking of the past,
mother knitting at the stand, father in
his arm chair at the tire.
!i ow and then a grandchild eornes
and they look at him with affection
untold and come well nigh spoiling
him with kindnesses. The life currents
bea|. feebly in their pulses and
their work will sooq be done and the
Master will cull. A few short days
may separate them, but, not far apart
in time of departure, they join each
.-v, .M. tlirt nth*?>' eide the Hood.
Side by side let Jacob and Rachel be
buried. Let one willow overarch their
graves. Let their tombstones stand
alike marked with the same Scripture. |
jjlu'idren and grandchildren will eoirje !
in the spring jitrie iq bring' flower^.
She patriarchs of the town will come
and drop a tear over departed worth.
Side by side at the marriage altar.
Side by side in the long journey. Side
by side in their graves. After life's
J fitful foyer they slept \yelj.
pGMh tilSlORlG JASfca.
Hut there pre, as my subject sug!
gests, domestic scenes not so tranquij.
i What a curse to Job and Potiphap
j were their companions, to Aliab was
! Jezebel, to Jehoram was Athaliah, to
John Wesley was Mrs. Wesley, to
Samson was Delilah. While the most
| L-.sMelicnt pud triumphant exhibitions
j of character we jiutf among the women
of history, unU the world thrills
with the names of Marie Antoinette
j and Josephine, and Joan of Arc and
i Maria Theresa and hundredsof others, |
I who have ruled in the brightest homes j
! ami sung ihu ss\tretcsi pantos, ancj eni
chanted the nations with their art
j and swayed the mightiest of scepters!
i on the other hand the names of Mary
the First of t-ngland, ?Largaret of
France, Julia of Rome and Elizabeth
Petrowua of Russia have scorched the
eye of historti with their abominations,
and theii names, like banished
spirits, have gojie shrieking and cursing
through tfie world. In female
biography we !ind the two extremes
of excellence and crime. Woman
stands nearest khe gate of heaven or
nearest tfie dfor of hell. When
adorned by gi-^ce she reaches a point
of Christian elevation which man
cannot attain, laud when blasted of
crime she sinkssdeeper than man can
plunge. Yet I am glad that the instances
in which woman makes utter
shipwreck of iharayter are comparatively
rare,
But, says ~*oir?e cynical spirit,
what do -you jx> with those words in
Ecclesiasteji w6?rc Solomon says: "Behold,
this- liiyte I found, saith the
preacher, couirftng one by one to find
out the aceouiU: which yet my soul
seeketh, bat T hnd not: one man
among a thousjuid have I found; but
a woman anoug all those have I not
found?" Jjy jpswer is that if Solomon
had jehaved himself with common
decency a?d kept out of infamous
circles he wouhf not have had so much
difficulty in filling' integrity of chanacter
among vtymen and never would
have uttered syjcli a tirade, ^versinpp
my childhood.^ have beard speakers
admiring Dio&mes, the cvnical philosopher
who med in a tub, forgoing
through tl;g sl^eetsof Athens in broad
daylight witfea lantern, and when
asked what'he did that for, said:
am looking for an honest man." Now
I warrant that that philosopher who
had such hardjwork to find an honest
man was himself dishonest. I think
he stole both*-^ie lantern and the tub.
So, when Lh<&r a man expatiating on
the weaknesses of women, X immediately
sus]>ect hjtu and say ^here is another
So lor ymi with Solomon s wisdani
left out. StiTrT would not have the
i 11 ustrations I^aye given of transcending
excellency jn female biography
lead you to suppose that there are no
perils' in womau's pathway. God's
grace aloiie can make ?n jsabejja
Graham, ojr ? phristina Alsop, ov $
Fidelia Fiske.br a'Catherine.of Siena.
Temptations hark about the brightest
domestic circle. It*was no unmeaning
thing whef^od set up amidst the
splendors of ids word the character pfinfamous
lx;lijal<.
HOW THEV tyOSK THEm FffcENGTH.
Again, this strange story of the text
leads me to cohsider some of the ways
U. eliiru?i? moti rrexi flioin lnAlre
in ? uu u im_u gvy mkm iuviw
shorn. God, for some reason best
known to himself, made the strength
of Samson to depend on the length of
his hair; when the shears clipped it
his strengthens <*one. The strength
of men is variously distributed.^ Sometimes*
it lies physical de'velopment,
sometimes i^rilelletffuai attainment,
sometimes in lieart force, sometimes
in social position, sometimes in financial
accumulation; and there is always
a sharp shears ready to destroy it.
Every day there are Samsons ungiantcd.
1 sawayquug jnau start in life
under lh?m^^:heering< advaiUag.es.
scientihc doinihions. lie reached hot
only all rugged .attainments, but bv
delicate appreciation he could catcli
the tinge of the cloud and the sparkle
of the wave and the diapason of the
thunder. He walked forth in life
head and shoulders above others in
mental stat-ijre. He could wrcstje
with giants in opposing systems of
philoSophy and carry otl' the gates of
opposing schools and smite the enemies
of truth hip and thigh with great
slaughter. But he i?egan to tamper
with brilliant free thinking. Modern
theories of the soul threw over him
their blandishments. Skepticism was
the Delilah that shore his locks off.
and all the Pkilistii.es of doubt and
darkness i*ntl despair yyppe ppon him.
He died in a wry prison of' unbelief,
his eyes out.
Far back in the country districtsjust
where 1 purposely omit to saythere
was born one whose fame will
last as long is American institutions.
His name Wiethe terror of all enemies
of free government. He stood, the
admired of pillions; the nation uncovered
in lis presence and when he
spoke senate:'sat brt:>'bless under the
spell. The plotters a gainst good government
attested t<> bind him with
green withestud weave his locks in a
web, yet he valked forth from the enthralimeni,
i<H Knowing tie had'burst
a bond. Bui from the wme cup there
arose a des.r&ying spirit that came
forth to capture his soui. He drank
until 1 is eyes tap;? dim and iiis knees
kueokod toftfhsr and his strength
failed. Exl,aisfed with lifelong uia
sipa ions, he veil home to die. Ministers
pronoairci eloquent en logiums.
ami poets sung, aid painters sketched,
and sculptors, cliseled the majestic
form into mamltand the world wept,
bp I pverj wh.ifi-qit w as knqvyn that
it 'was strong drib* that canto like the
infamous Dc-'ila and his locks were
shorn.
From the Islnd of Corsica then
started forth a ature charged witl
unparalleled enemies to make thrones
tremble and -Jiivulso the earth.
Piedmqnij Napic Bayaria, Germany,
Italy, Austria ail England rose up to
crush the rising tan. At the plunge of fi
his bayonets Busies burst open. The
eartii groaned'nth the agonies of Hivoli,
AusterlitL iaragossa and Eylau.
Five miljiew^n slain in his wars.
Crowns were severed at his feet, and
kingdoms lioistl triumphal arches to
let him pass ufjar-, and Europe was
lighted up atwd&iiffagraiion of consuming
cities. \Ie could almost have
made a cai.sewa'd human bones between
Lisbon aid Ioscow. No power
short of oipttippeii God could arrest
him. But out cf tfc ocean of human
blood there aro# apirit in which the
conqueror founi fl>ro than a match.
The very ambition hat had rocked the
world was now to his destroyer. It
grasped for tcx.? miii and in its effort
lost all. lie rtaclU up after the seep- j
ter of universal doiinion, but slipped I
and fell back into (Isolation jti:d ban- 1
lshment. .'lpe Auj'tcan snip. damaged
of thb'$orm, jday puts up in Si,
Helena and 1 he ei-e go up io see the
spot where the Freeh exile expired in
loneliness and disgice, the mightiest
of all Sanisois slioi of his locks by
ambition, tl/at ma merciless pf aii
Denials. /
1 have lot time> enumerate. Evil
associations, suckle successes, spendthrift
hafcihs, misetv proclivities and
dissipatioi are the'iatnes of some of j
the shears wit i with men are every I
day made j owe less. They have !
strewn the eaith w,h the carcasses of j
giants andlilled thereat prison house i
with desfroyid Su>sqt?s, y jp> sji
grinding (hoinillinf despair, llieiy |
locks shorq atA thlr eyes out. If pa
rents only knew tuvliat temptations
their cliihlreii we? subjected they
would be morceanu in their prayers
and more ~par?{ul abut tiieir example. '
No young imp eijpes haying flig
pathway of sin pictred in bright colors
before him
The first, tim? 1. >p.r saw a city?it
I
was the city of rhiladelphla?I was a |
mere lad. I stopped at a hotel, and I :
remember in tne eventide a corrupt ;
man plied me with his infernal art.
He saw I was green. He wanted to
show me the sights of the town. He s
painted the path of* sin until it looked i
like emerald; but I was afraid of him. J
I shoved back from the basilisk. I i
made up my mind he was a basilisk. I |
remember bow he reeled his chair i
round in front of me and with a eon- j
contrated and diabolical effort attempt- J
ed to destoy my soul; but there were j
good angels in the air that night. It j
was no good resolution on my part, i
but it was the all encoinpassinsr- grace..
of a good.God that delivered me. 3eware!
beware 1 0 young man!
There is a way" that seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof is
deaths If all the victims of an impure
life in all lands and ages could be
gathered together, they would make a
host vaster than that which Xerxes
led across the Hellespont, than Timour
led across India, than William
the Conqueror led across England,
than Abou-Bekr led across Syria; and
if they could be stretched out in
single fi]e across this continent, I
think the vanguard of the host would
stand on the beach of the Pacific while
vet the rear guard stood on the heanh
of the Atlantic.
A WO^D TO THE WISE.
I say this not because I expect to reclaim
any one that has gone astray in
this fearful path, but because \ w&ut
to utter a warning for those who sfciil
mabitaiu their integrity. The cases
of reclamation of those who have
given themselves fully up to an
impure life are so few, probably
f|j|Ou do not know one of them,
have seen a good many start
out on that road. How many haye
I seen come back? $ot one thai
1 now t^nk of. ft seems as if the
spell of death ?is on diem and no human
voice or the voice of God can
break the spell. Their feet are boppled,
their wrists a re handcuffed. They
have around them a girdle of reptiles
bunched at the waist, fastening them
to an iron doom; every time they
brpathe the forked tongues strike them
and they strain to break away until
the tendons snap and the blood exudes;
and amidst their contortions
they cry out: "Take me back to niy
father's house, Where is mother?
Take me home 1 Take me lw>me!"
Do I stand before a man today the
locks of whose strength are being toyed
with, let me tell you to escape lest
the shears of destruction take your
moral and your spiritual integrity. Do
you not see your sandals beginning to
curl on that red hot path? Thisuav
in the name of Almighty God I tear
otf the beautifying veil and the embroidered
mantle of this old hag pf
iniquitv. and I show you ulcers
and" th? bloody ichor and the cancered
lip and the parting joints and the
macerated limbs and the wriggling
'Dutrefaction. and I cry out. Oh. hor- i
j rorof horrors! In the stillness of this j
I Sabbath fidOr J lift a warning. Re- !
i rr\ecqber it is much easier to form bad j
naBits than to get clear of them ; in L
ypi-e miimte -of time y uu'THay get into
a sin fi-om which all eternity cannot
get vou out.
Oh, that the voice of God's truth
might drown the voice of Delilah.
Come into the ways of pleasantness
and the paths of peace, and by the
grace of a pardoning God start fo,r
[Uroufis p,f honqr and dominion upon 1
which you may reign, rat Her than j
travel the road to a dungeon where :
the destroyed grind in the mills of de- j
spair, their locks shorn and their eyes
out. j
Three years hence the planet Mars !
will be nearer to the earth than it has i
been for 515 years (A. D. 1377). Astrologers
and lovers of the maryelou^ j
\yil] be disappointed to hear that nothing
of importance took place when !
Mai's came a few million miles nearer j
us than is his wont.
!
ODDS AND ENDS.
The French government has warn- !
ed the bishops that they must riot interfere
in the electious.
\ Swiss cheese which was received j
by an Atchison grocery firm the other ;
day weighed 700 pounds exclusive of |
the holes.
Judging' from thu increase of ostrich j
flies 'during the past two years, if j
something is not done to destroy them !
the feathers will not be worth send- \
ing to market.
ti, tho newly made tea plantations !
of Assam a red spider has suddenly j
shown itself, and threatens serious injury
to the plants unless some wash
can be found that will kill the spiders i
and leave no taste on the tea leaf. I
France's production and consuirjp- I
tion of piilu amount eyery year to !
4,3oM,000,000 gallons, which is three i
times in excess of the production of
wine.
A singular cause of bankruptcy was
recently alleged by a Victorian firm
of glaziers?a scourgeof grasshoppers. !
The insects had sq completely peyasta- j
ted the lancj that tf?e owuers became :
pisQl'venl'.
Under the jaws of Bulgaria, if a pat- j
cut medicine is warranted to cure a:
certain disease and fails to do it the
manufacturer can be prosecuted and
sent to prison. No cures for ccm^urnp- J
tion can be found in that country.
I^rofessor Brown is a strong advo- i
cate of the scalding of milk to be used j
for human food?by which means, he :
savs, consumers cap protect them* ,
selves unti| spph precautions as are '
nece*say.y to keep milk from infection
arc universally {akeu.
For every trunk carried 500 miles '
by rail in the United States, one is
smashed to the extent of $3. There
has been no improvement in the mat- j
tor of handling baggage from the time j
the first trunk was unhinged and split |
from top to bottom.
The authorities at Eton and BueJ'Cp/ I
huvo given Instructions that the pupils
at these schools shall not wear the ; 1
brown 4'untanned" leather boots with I '
ordinary attire, as they do not con- j
sider them becoming or dignified.
A London statistician figures that ! '
80,000 Ame'yicans have landed |n Eng
land this summer, the expenses across
averaging more than $10Q each, and |
that upon the lowest calculation they i
have circulated $"2t,0uo,ouo in Europe j
upon railways and at hotels, without ! 1
counting the money spent in pur- | *
chases. ; i
It is stated in Vanity Fair that |hu : *
late prince consort jeft upwaitl of 1
Wild I if If 1 in iViittwl iin "AUvm*! f'umiiv i t
huid." to make.'suitable provision for ! 1
his descendants who may hereafter re- j 1
quire it, other than the heir apparent ! s
and sueli members of the royal facility j c
as may marry jntq foreign reigning ; I
liQiisfcq. The queen has added to. this !
fund so. largely that it is now said to ; j
have considerably more than doubled, j ^
uud it still increases yearly, it is not, j .
however, intended that it should be j
available during the present reign.
THE SCHOLAR IN AMERICA.
Hiti Real Valao Is Not Appreciated by the
Mass of the People.
In his judgment of the scholar the
average American citizen lias usually
only one definite idea?that he is a
dreamer quite out of contact with actual
life. Consider for a moment the
genuine amazement and dismay with
which the average citizen regards a
serious attempt on the paftof educated
men to exert their due influence in
the solution of a great political or economic
problem. He seems to look
upon them somewhat as he would I
^ wajch a inonkeys escaped
from their cage and engaged in some
mischief, the effects of which they
cannot be made to comprehend; or,
to substitute a simile somewhat more
complimentary, that a throng of excited
pdssengere had attempted tocfio- f
tate toe management of a great ocean
steamer.
Of course no such view of scholarly ;
activity in the political field will be
? l -Ai ?1 A~ rpL? 1 J '
buuuiubeu iu. iuc iucu w hu uvvuic
their lives to the study of the records
of human experience as transmitted in
history and literature have not less,
but infinitely more, claim, to be heard
on any important subject than those
engaged only in the vulgar scramble
for wealth. Emerson's brief essay on
politics outweighs and will outlast ail
the floods of campaign literature and
selfish demagogic eloquence which
have so often since then deluged the
land.
But is there one of the older civilized
countries where the organs of the
horde of money getters would dare to
stigmatize the whole class of liberally
educated men as visionary theorists?
Imagine a university education regarded
in England as a disqualification
for high public office I Even in
Germany, where political leaders and
great scholars seem more nearly the
representative men of two distinct
castes, the illustrious double career of
a Mommsen shows that the gap is not
yet impassable. The oonditioh of
things among oursel ves is an alarming
symptom, indicating how far the j
most highly educated and wisest men
have lost their proper leadership in
the?national councils and the national
life. ]
Now, do the colleges, and the limit- j
hru^ir r?f MilftjpotM nAfl#vfivA ami i
earnest scholars generally, appeal as
directly and sensibly to the average
American as they could and should?
Among the philosophic few it
for-- an axiom which one rarely
thinks of e^er stating, that wider
knowledge, closer contact with j
the wise and good of all agea. j
the assimilation of their best j
thoughts, the contemplation of their |
glorious deeds, are the employments
which ennoble young ana old and j
make men truly happy.
But the typical American, as Pro
fessor Shaler has clearly set forth, is
only djmly pqnscious that he ever had
any ancestry ai all. That the achievements
of other races and peoples in
the past or present have any lesson of
overwhelming value to teach us he
certain)}1 does not believe. That the
poetry, the architecture, the plastic
arts, can be usedtto make life more
beautiful, more happy, better worth
living, he understands at best very
imperfectly. Perhaps he is open to
conviction. Is q proper, effort being
exerted to make bim realize ah this; !
American men road to a moderate extent.
Tho women of America have j
large leisure, a liberal share of influ- j
ence in home and social life, and ;
surely, also, a lofty consciousness of !
their duty as mothers of the race that i
is to be. To them, it may be chiefly, j
we may hopefully appeal.
Again, there is a widespread feel- j
ing that American literature is noj j
holding the height attained in the last
generation. The subject is quite too [ ,
large for a reviewer, possibly rather j
too serious for a professed optimist. j
But if our literature is losing, or in j
danger of losing, its vital power, its j
hold 011 the national power, may we j 1
not find a partial explanation in the ! I
fact that a great body of men, cl&irm |
ing, no doubt justlv, that they have ! (
accumulated knowledge \vorthy to be ! j
widely disseminated, nevertheless dis- j
dain to. learn and practice the art of !
adequate and graceful expression?-^ i '
Atlantic ^iopfhTy-. j 1
Women Who Buy Men's HaU. . 1 j
"It is not perhaps just the thing in i
point of good manners and social eti- (
quette to allow a woman to wait while y
yaw attend to the wants of a man," !
said a local hat dealer the other day. i
"But when a woman comes in to buy
a hat for a child of one of the late t
'man's straw hat fad,' and a masculine ^
comes in behind her we always wait
on him first. Why? Well, for various
reasons. The man as a rule buys )
a liat costing him all the way* from' >
^.25 to $5, while the woman seldom ^
wants more than $2 worth of hat t
Then again it is easier and more satis- (
factory to try to sell hats to a d?#en
men than to try to get'a woman to invest
$1.75 in a straw hat for herself or
7q cents in headgear for a child. They .1
will come in with one or two friends," c
continued the loquacious dealer, "and c
try on about every hat in the store be- r
fore they decide to take the first tl\ey j
looked at, or decide to go. elsewhere. ^
Then, after they Imagine they have i
flouted the best and most becoming [
style, and they are generally very sure i 3
to do that, they put it down and take j s
up another with, "Now, Julia, I don't [ <
know but this Would look as well on ; I
pie. Whatdoyou think?" Then follows c
an animated discussion, broken by c
various lapses into comments on outaide
matte re till the hat clerk begins f
to grow dizzy. He has not been used *
to that sort of thing, poor feilow, till a
within the last two seasons, and it I
wears on him. The woman about to n
purchase a hat for Johnny is a bother, ( d
but she does not become such an an- j p
mitigated nuisance as the woman buy- j ^
ing a hat for herself. I hope the rage j
for men's hats among the fair sex will ! P
soon disappear. I do not wonder thai j U
dry goods clerks aud those who have j
..nncf.iiitlv fn minictAw in ? wnm??n"v rl
OUilOUUNHJ VV VV, V? " V/pl*Mr?- W | Vl
vagaries are htddheaded." j s,
And the hatdealear weut out with a
smile to meet two young women who,
fortunately for hmi, only wanted to
look over lus stock of valises.?New
Vork Star. !
? | (.
! p
A new imperial tram lias just been i
>uilt for the emperor of l?.ussia. The :l
>aloons are covered with iron outside, j o
md then come eight inches of cork, j p
nstead of the steel plates with which j y
lie carriages of the old train were pro- j
eeted. All the saloons, which com- j
nunicate by a covered passage, are ex- j
ictly the same in outward appearance, j
;q that no outsider may be able to dis- j 11
rover in which carriage the csar is J 1
raveling. ! it
On a farm at Unadilla, Mich., war j I*
>rokd out between the bees and the I .
urkeys, and seventeen of the lat- j
er were stung to death before the ces- a
atiou of hostilities. j c>
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
P. T. BRODIE. - - EDITOR.
Drawing In Public Schojls.
BY ELEANOR M. M*DERUOT .. - ?- i
' * >4 sty* - - ~'V
"Drawing in public schools is useful
in many practical ways. Itjwjtivaijc^,
4t^upjkst pi ace, habits of acprate observation.
It cultivates a sepso of order.
and symmetrical arrangements of
facts reduced lo lines. It is a training
ofmuseuiar skill in the hand and arm,
^gftgog the muscfea to whey the . die
l" lut tUMWVt,
of expie^ng tiioughtwfl^papcr.
A child in a primary school can tell
more truthfully ami intelligently how
its school room apppe&rs to it in litres
on a slate, than it carf in written language
of older minds and latter develThe
uncuUured savage has always
learned a mode cf copveyTrg thought '
and historical facts by means of picture
language
How we search the hieroglyph;!..:
and monuments of the cull tired Kgvj *.
for the nose of Rameses 11! It is not
by written words alone, that we recognize
his actual existence in history;
bat by the repeated lines of portraiture,
found in many different memorials.
How eagerly was the supposed
mummy of the Ramases examined and
compared with the pictoral history of
man. \Vhon the closely drawn skin of
an aged man was seen to reveal a bone,
shaped as the ancient Egyptian artist
had pictured it, the peculiar shape of
the skull identified, the world accepted
the assertion that the mummy was that
of Rameses. The testimony of
pictorial art, rather than that of inscription
was accepted.
Shall the inborn capabilities of the
present generation be conceded to be
less, or to be of no use, because wo
have a higher mode of expression,
which with its superiority supersedes
the most primitive and easily attained
methods? Or, shall we while usng
ilin flvnrntJim nf thonoht
auu icui~iiiii? ii?v ? a?
by the means of words, at the same
time give the young the exquisite
pleasure of expression of incident and
fact in the simple language of form,
without the lengthy and laborons process
of gramtnat cat language.
Tn order to cultivate and teach this
suiiple l^aforn 1 ^ we ttee^l on^
'' The-'child needs to be allowed to
give his power play as be feels it. ??
Through the desire to show its thoughts
in rough lines being scorned, the impulse
dies. A resurrection of tbat
healthy desire to draw in the rough,
is akin to a niircle, after it has been
crushed by the scorn and indifference
of elders, who tell him the line is poor.
He thought not of the finish of the
line, but of the story to tell.
We should eherish all- impulses to
expression of thought. 15y the cultivation
of our natural powers in all directions;
the belter are our powers of
expression.
Drawing lrom tho objects arouna us.
is the only true way of acquiring the
power 0/ representing what we see and
feel, both in nature and in the praduc*
tions of,art.
If this power of expression by means
af lines be not cultivated in youth, time
;s lost, the muscles are unaccustomed
:o act and the mature person believes
le has not, and never has had, a powtr
;odraw.
Drawing is like reading and writing;
f not attained in early youth, the diffr-.
unities of attainment multiply, and the
vant of that power is realised and es*
)ecially regretted by those in whom the
mpulse to draw is strong.
Faithful ties.? if an Important lesson
aught bv drawing. We will not accept
inlruths in pictorial art. The distorted
idvertisement and falsely called comie- *
alentine are an outrage to our feel*
ngs. We call for truth in drawing.
<hall we not then give the children of
lie common schools additional means,
>f telling the truth?
How ofie.i we see a.child turn witfi
lisgust from an effort at a "representaion
of a man, "I can't diaw, I wish?I * " >V :ould
!'' Would it not be a means, M
education to that child, and would it
lot aof upon a suggestion which would,
telp it to satisfy ils longing to show
nithfully what it a tempts to show? .
iuskin says ' Ideas of beauty are
imong the noblest which can be pieienttd
to the human mind, invariably
txhaulting and purifying. Ideas of
uauty, be it remembered, are subjects
if moral, but not of intellectual pei>
:eption."
The call for designs, based upon the
onus of beauty and strength which
bound in nature, is now recognized.
}y introducing original designing from
atural forms in schools, among chili-en
of all classes, higher ideal-, of apropriate
forms of common articles
re set before the public, immediate
rogress in architecture and home
dornment is felt.
Foundations for correct criticism are
eeply laid by drawing in public
chools,
The army weakens from deserion
about fast as ir gains from reruiting.
In the first six months of
he present year fourteen hundred
nd sixty seven men deserted. Army
llicers ure continually studying the
* *
robleiu of desertion without reachis*
anv satisfaetoi v results.
r> -?
A Northern company lerntly put
\ jui Electric road in Nashville* >
'oiui., and an old darky was showing _/
to liis wife. '-Look at it! Look at y
,lie said "Biess the Lord, these y'
ankees are great people. Twenty- jr
ve years ago dey eoiiie down he^h
ud free the niggah. and now dey^
3ine down and ire - de mule-"
_-* j