Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Every style of Prince Albert Sails in Broadcloth, Corkscrews, of fkn$j coiors to suit evertbodj. r OVERCOATS. j Of every style and description, from the cheapest to best fabric, at low prices, YoimgMe^ if . ?r0TO to 18 years, ujecdless variety v ? lower prices than ^y body. ^ From 4 to twelve yoiia, in HtotfTftftflotts ] panto, either in two or three pieces, from j In white and scarlet fabrics, from the lowest to the very best in Camel's wool, in the at especially low figures. -For particulars call on X_i. EF3TI1T, tinder * olumbia Hotel. I ?Sept. 7-tf -LOAN A <D EXCHANSE; ' sm df mm rneuu. STATE, an' HO COOTY 0EP09IT0BY. ' COLUMBIA, s. c. I .Paid up Capital $120,000 Surplus Fund- 25,000 Undivided Profits 22,500 Transacts a general banking business. Careful attention given to Collections. SATING DEPARTMENT. Deposits ot $1 and upwards received. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable ou the first -days of January, April, J^Bfeuad October. A. C. HASKEKlI President JULIUS H. WALKER, Cashier. -June 10? lv FARMERS and MILLERS | -OF ? LEXWGTO.V TOXT CAN BTJY f Pratt, Wh?hip, and Brown Gins, Boss Cotton Presses, and Lid*dell Saw Mills, Stationary and Portable Engines A Boilers, ?Cane Mills and Evaporators. Cotton treed Crushers, Huliers, Ac., Shaffii.'g, Belting and Pulleys. All of the best make, material, and work% x . I manship, at lower prices than elsewhere. From W. H. GIBBS, Jr., |^9flHcity Hall Building. Columbia, S. C. I Aug 7? ^^EfiuuconiAl BANK ! ppillTIITrfcnviltb vnnm P COLUMBIA, S. C. Capital Authorized $100,000 Capital Subscribed $56,500 Transacts a Banking and Exchange business. Keceives Deposits. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Books of subscription ! : still open. Safety Deposit Boxes to rent at | - $6 per annum. f ?C. J. Iredell. James Iredell, r " President. Cashier. j ? Jno. S. Leaphart, Vice-President. ' Nov. 28?ly ! BRllllkUMI AfAIIEMV * PROF. G. A. LUCAS, Principal. ^TNPENS ITS SECOND SCHOOL SESsion September 2, 1889. This Institution offers unusual advantages to those seeking an education at home or preparation for college. , A thorough curriculum of English, also lAtin, Greek, French, Book-keeping, Ac., will be taught. Miss .Mamie Ford, an accomplished yo?WELg lady of Columbia, will give iustruc'?"" tionsin Music and Stenography. -- Board in good families at very reasonable rates. TUITION ' . From One to Three Dollars per month, according to grade of pupil. For fortner particulars address . . G. A. LUCAS. Principal. M. H. Witt, Chairman Board of Trustees, New Brookland, S. C. 4.ugast 21-39t? \ I? &s 4 i ' ' LOVING WORDS. Loving words cost but lit le, Journyiug op the hill of life; Bat they make the weak and weary Stronger, braver for the strife. Do you count them ouly trifles? i 4 What to earth are.suu and raiL? Never was a kind word wasted; Never one was said in Tain. When the cares of life arc many, And its burdens heavy grow, < For the ones who* walk beside yon, If you love thfJa, tell them so. ^ j What yon count of little value, s Has an almost magic power; c And beneath their cheering sunshine j < Hearts will blossom like a flower. So, as up life's hill we journey, 1 Let us scatter all the way ? Kindly words to be as sunshine < In the dark and cloudy day. 1 Grudge no loving word, my brother, 1 As along through life you go, To the ones who 5onrtiev with von: j , If voa lord them tell them so. > < For the Lexington Dispatch. < Letter from Pleasant J As I have seen so many letters in j < the good, old Dispatch from various 1 places, I have concluded to write a j few lines from these parts. .. < Farmers harvesting their crop^BMHweather is the ! finest Every one is j can't live more at 1 MKdt the lien and credit j It's a right good idea. If < just stick to it they will j " le^We that thev will be much bet- j so >n ;ff. Lien and mortgages is the matter witl^many of our 1 farmers to day. Too much hired la- \ bor; not enough of their own hand work. Too many think it would be a disgrace for them to go to hard down labor. I reckon they would j rather see everything under a mort gage. ' ? x 1- V-_3 J-_ A i rarenra may wor* uaru amu. j their children to school when they 1 can hardly spare the give [ them a good Christian education that s they may be a great help to them 5 about the farm; but, bless you, they . 1 don't go long before the little work j they do they must hare gloves on , to perform it, and the first thing you j ( know they want to go to *omt> town ; ( Jruj\j .h or off ttw tire railroad.- They?i say the farm is too hard work, they \ can make money much faster in other avocations. But let me advise you ( to "stay on the farm, boy," for it is | the backbone of the world. If the 1 farm stops every other wheel will I j stop. Don't be So ready to quit be- | } cause it is hard work, you will have to work no matter where you go, if I you want to make an honest living. j Some people seem to live without \ work but I never have found that place yet. It is true that some so-called so- 1 ciety fops will laugh and turn up 1 j their noses when they pass you, be- < cause you work in the dirt and don't > dress as fine as they, and say "they ' don't believe vou are much or von ? 1 would dress finer," when all they have is on their backs and may be half of that they owe to some dry ? % > goods merchant. When your childran are young ; you have the sense, but let them growup and you send them to a little high school or college and when they come j back it is just the reverse?they have the sense and you have none. 1 Thev don't care for anybody else but j / / themselves, and are jealous of every- ' body that have more than they. Teach 1 * PrrtOiVT mem more cuiunj. j. ut.vw.w. i If you could see your own scalp i through an ordinary magnifying glass, you would be amazed at the I amount of dust, dandruff, and dead j | skin thereon aceu* jlated. The best i and most popular preparation for I cleansing the scalp is Aver s Hair [ Vigor. The Synod of the Presbyterian ! Church of South Carolina met at i Spartanburg last Friday at 8 o'clock p. m. Caution to Mothers. Every mother is cautioned against giving her'child laudanum or paregoric; it creates an unnatural craving j for stimulants which kills the mind i of the child. Acker's Baby Soother | is specially prepared to benefit the j children and cure their pains. It is harmless and contains no Opium or Morphine. Sold by Dr. M. Q. Hendrix. New York city authorities will compel the electric light companies to ! take down the overhead wires and j put them under ground. We have a speedy and positive cure for Catarrh, Diptheiia, Canker mouth, and Head-Ache, iu SHILOH S CATARRH REMEDY. A I Nasal Injector free with every bottle. Use it t you desire health and sweet breath. Price 50 cents. Sold by Dr. 3|. 9- Hendijx. WHAT TROUBLE IS FOR. I SERMON PREACHED BY DR. TALMAQE SUNDAY, OCT. 27. i Gkxl'i Haud Shall Wipe Away All Team. ' Sweet Are the Usee of Adversity?The j Glories of Heaven Glowingly Portrayed. The Love of God. j Brooklyn, Oct. 27. ?The Rev. T. De ; Witt Talmage, D. D., preached to an j pverflowing congregation at the Acadimy of Music today. Before preaching he said that a misaken /lotion was abroad that the in- j iurancedh his destroyed ehurch was enough to rebuild, 'the repetition of lisasters left us in debt We have practically built three churches since [ came to Brooklyn First, the orig- J nal Tabernacle. -Soon after that we nade an enlargement that cost almost is much as a church. A few years ifter it all burned. Then we put up , ' ' .11. LTj S ! ,ne omiamg receuuv aesiroyeu, uuu j reared it in a time"when the whole , sou n try was in its worst financial dis- . ,ress. It was these repeated disasters :hat left us in debt. My congregation ( lave done magnificently, but any , ihurch would be in debt after so many ' jalamities. Now for the first time we ire out of debt. But we need at least , >no hundred thousand dollars to build j i church 'large enough, and we call >n people of all creeds and all lands to help. Before I help dedicate a new jhurch we must have every dollar of it paid. I will never again be pastor | >f a church in debt. It has crippled is in all our movements, and I snail never again wear the shackles. I have for the last sixteen years preached to ibout fire thousand people sitting and ' standing, twice a Sabbath, but everybody knows that we need a place that will hold eight thousand, f shalhnot i>e surprised if some man df wealth shal 1 say: "Here are a hundred thousand dollars if you will put up a memorial structure, and call it after the name of my departed father or child whose memory I want put before all nations and for all time." And so it i would be done. jwret are the uses op adversity. Dr. Talxnage's text was: "God shall wipe away alt tears from their eyes." Dft*r tnt -1 "*9: (To Coi/1 r iwt. ?wv?> Riding across a western prairie, wild flowers up to the hub of the car riage wheel, and while a long distance 1 from any shelter, there came a sudden : diower, and while the rain was falling in torrents, the sun was shining as brightly as I ever saw ilshine; and 1 thought, what a beautiful spectacle this is! So the tears of the Bible are ' not midnight' storm, but rain on pan- ; >ied prairies in God'ssweet and golden 1 sunlight. You remember that bottle 1 which David labeled as containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paula tears, and Christ's tears, and the har rest of joy that is to spring from the ' sowing of tears. God mixes them. ! 3-od rounds them. Goth shows them where to fall.; .GcKLexhahsiliem. A j census is taken of them, and jhera Un ., imnd lh>'~T8rttr6~ moment when they ue born, and as to the place of their jrave. Tears of bad men are not kept. * Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair clipped from his horses and mules, md made a great ado about his grief; but in all the vases of heaven there is { not one-of Alexanders tears. I sjieak >f the .tears of the good. Alas! me! ! hey are falling all the time. In summer, you sometimes hear the growl- ! ing thunder, aud you see there is a 1 >torm miles away; but you know from ! the drift of tlio clouds that it will not { lome anywhere near you. So, though it may be all bright around about us, there is a shower of trouble some- ' where all the time. Tears! Tears! # What is the use of them anyhow? '! Why not substitute laughter? Why : not make this a world where all the people are well and eternal strangers to pain and achps? What is the use ' [>f an .eastern storm when we might. liavc a perpetual nor wester? Why, when a faniilv is put together, not ; have them all stay, or if tliev must be transplanted to make other homes, 1 then have them all live? the family record telling a story of marriages and ' births, hut of no deaths. Why i\ot have the liar vests chase each other without fatiguing toil ? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It is easy enough to explain a smile, or a success, or a congratula- 1 lion; hut, come now, and bring all vour dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions, and heln me explain a tear. A chemist 1 will tell you that it is made up of salt pmd lime and other component parts; ' but. he misses the chief ingredients? the acid of a soured life, the viperine sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will tell ( you what a tear is; it is agony in solution. 1 Hear me, then, while I discourse to ' you of the uses of trouble. i'f FITS FOR HEAVEN. 1 First?It is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too at- ' tractive. Something must be done tc make us willing to quit this existence. If it were not for trouble this world would be a good enough heaven for me. You and I would be willing to take a lease of this life for a hundred 1 million years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholstered ? " J - -i -i 1 -1 _ j :*i. ana pinarea anu cnauueuereu wau such expense, no story of other worlds could enchant us. We would say: "Let well enough alone. If you want | to die and have your body disintegrated in the dust, and your soul go out on a celestial adventure, then you cau go; but this world is good enough forme." You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at Paris, and tell him to hasten off to the picture galleries of Venice or Florence. "Why," he would say, "what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrandts and Rubens aud Raphaels here that I haven:t looked at yet." No man wants to go out of this world. ?* out of any house, until he has a better house. To cure this wish to stay here, God must somehow create A disgust for our surroundings. How shall he do it? He canuot afford to deface his horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel from tl.e sunset, or to subtnwt an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette, or to drag the robes of | the morning in mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to mar bis own St. Paul's cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own "Last Judgment," or a Handel to discord his "Israel in Egypt;" and you cannot expect God to spoil the architecture and music of hispwij world. How then are we to be made willing to leave? Here is where trouble comes in. After a mau has had a good deal of trouble, he says: "Well, I am ready to go. If there is a house somewhere whose i-oof doesn't leak, I would like to live there. If there is an atmosphere somewhere that does not distress the lungs, I would like to breathe it. If there.. is a society / I somewhere where there is uo tittletattle, I would like to live there, Lf there is a home circle somewhere where I can find my lost friends, I would like to go there." He used to read the first part of the Bible chiefly, now he reads the last part of the Bible, chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis for Revelation? Ah! he used to hfl anxious chiefly to know how^ thfe world was made, andal^bout its geotogical construction. Now he is chiefly anxious to know how the next world was made, and how it looks, and who live there, and how they dress. He reads Revelation ten times now - where ho reads Genesis once. The old story, lkJn the beginning God created the hfluvettsand the earthiV-doesjiot thrill him half as much as the other stor\, "I saw a new heaven and a new iarth." The old man's hand trembles as he turns over this apocalyptic leaf, and he has to take out his handkerchief to wipe his spectacles. That hook of Revelation is a prospectus now >f the country into which he is to soon immigrate; the country in which he has lots already laid out, and avenues opened,, and trees planted, and mansions built. VThe thought of that blessed place somes over me mightily, and 1 declare that if this bouse were a gfeat.ship, and you all were passenger* on board it, and one hand could launch that ship into the glories of heaven, 1 should be tempted to take the responsibility and launch you ail into glory with one stroke, holding on to the side of the boat until I could get in myself. And yet there are people here to whom this world * is brighter than heaven. Well, dear souls, I do not blame you. It is. natural. But after a while you will be ready to go. It was uot until Job had been worn out with bereavements and carbuncles and a pest of a wife that he wanted to see God. It was not until the prodigal got tired of living among the hogs that he wanted to go to his Father's house. It is the ministry of trouble to make this world worth less and heaven worth more. OUB DEPENDENCE ON THE LORD. Again, it is the use of trouble to make us feel our complete dependence upon God. King Alphonso said that if he had been present at the creation he could have made a better world than this. What a pity be was not cont f f iJa not know what God will do when some men die. Men think they can do anything until God shows them they can do nothing at alL We lay oar great plans and we like to execute them. It looks big. God comes and takes us down. As Prometheus was assaulted by his enemy, when the lance struck him it opened a great swelling that had threatened his death, and he got well. So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon God until we get trouble, i. was riding with my little child along the road, and 6he asked if. she might drive. I said, "Certainly." . I handed over the reins, to her, and I o-W-ttitK 'vhlah , she <rrtrve. But'alter a while we met rtCSim and we had to turn out. The road was narrow, and it wns^sheer down on boLh sides. She handed the reins over to me, and said: "I think you had better take charge of the horse." So we are all children; and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power. It looks big. But after a while we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on sides; and then we are willing that both God should take the reins and drive. All 1 my friends, we get upset so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough. Can you not tell when you hear a man pray, whether ho has ever had j?v f mnhle? I ran Tim cadence. the phraseology indicate it. Why do women pray better than men { Because they have had more trouble. Before a man has any trouble, his prayers are poetic, and he begins away up among the sun, moon and stai-s, and gives the Lord a great deal of astronomical information that must be highly, gratifying. He then comes 611 down gradually oyer begutiful tablelands to "forever amen." But after a man has had trouble, prayer is with him a taking hold of the arm of God and crying out for help. I have heard earnest prayers on two or three occasions that 1 remember. Once, on the Cincinnati express train, going at forty miles the hour, and the train jumped the track, and we were near a chasm eighty feet deep; and the men who, a few minutes before, had been swearing and blasphemingGod, be^an to pull and jerk at the bell rope, anu got up on the hacks of the seats and cried out, "O God, save us!" There was another time, about eight hundred miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last lifeboat had been split finer than kindling wood. They prayed then. Why is it you so often hear people, in reciting the last experience of some frienu, say: "He made the most beautiful prayer I ever heard*" What makes it l>eautiful? It is the earnestness of it. Oh, I tell you a man is in earnest when his stripped and naked soul wades out in the soundless, shoreless, bottomless ocean of eternity. It is trouble, my friends, thatmake? .1 ........ US lt*ei L>UI" UCpCUUCUCC upon UUU. II c do not know our own weakness or God's strength until the last plankbreaks. It is contemptible in us when there is nothing else to take hold of, that wo catch hold of God only. A man is unfortunate in business. He has to raise a great deal of money, and raise it quickly. He borrows 011 word and note all he can borrow. After a while he puts a mortgage on his house. After a while he puts a second mortgage on his house. Then he puts a lien on his furniture. Then he makes over his life insurance. Then he assigns all his property. Then he goes to his father-in-law and asks for helpl Well, having failed everywhere, completely failed, he gets down 011 his knees and says: "O Lord, I have tried everybody and everything, now help me out of this financial trouble." He makes God the last resort instead of the first resort. There are men who have paid ten cents 011 a dollar who could have paid a hundred cents on a > > - x- / ?_.t 1: dollar 11 tiiey nau "one io crou in umc. Why, you do not Know who the Lord is. He is not an autocrat seated far up in a palace, from which he emerges once a year, preceded by heralds swinging swords to clear the way. No. But a father willing, at our call, to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. I tell you what some of you busi ness men make me think of. A young pian goes oil' from home to earn his fortune. Ho goes with his mother's consent and benediction. She has large wealth; but be wants to make his own fortune. He goes fin- away, falls sick, gets out of money. lie send_s for the hotel keeper where he is \ staying, asjJng for lenience, and the answer die gjbts is: "If you don't pay up'BW&irda? night you'll be removed d to .tne^ho^eital." The young man jends'to a^iarade in the same build p. He writes to a banker | - was M friend of his deceased pStether. N? relief. He writes to an .sdhoowiate, but gets no help. Saturday *?ght comes, and he is - moved totae hospital. Gettwig-^iei-e, he is frenzied with grief; and^e borrows a sheet of paper ahd aJtostage stamp, and he sits ._.down, fimt^he writes home, saving: lifer, I am sick unto death. | Comfe. II is ten minutes of 10 Vfcloefc wjjai she gets the letter. At lOocli^h^e train starts. She is five minutes from the depot.. She gets there in time to have live minutes to spare. Sfclpvondei-s why a train that can go thirty miles an hour cannot go sixty miles an hour. She rushes mto theJfSspital. She says: "My sou, what does all this mean 1 Why didn't you send for me/ You sent to everybody %ut me. You knew 1 could audi^vould help you. Is this the reward ! get for my kindness to you always/" She buuules him up, takes him' jiome, and gets him well very soon. f Mow, some of you treat God just as that youngsmau treated his mother. mti T .?5 . _ c :? l ?v ueu yoil girt iniu u iiiiaiiciai jjerptexitj, yoif call on the banker, you call on thehi>roker, you call on your creditors, $6u call on your lawyer for legal couiB&l; you call upon everybody,sand frhen you cannot get any helpj tbcnjfou go to God. You say: <40~Lord IJftome to Thee. Help me now out of my perplexity." And the Lord comes!though it is the eleventh hour. Hejiays: "Why did you not send for before? As one whom his motherslpmforteth, so will I comfort you.jjWt^ is to throw us back upon1 an 'all; comforting God that we have thisVn&istrv of tears. IT MAJflfiS I'S SYMPATHETIC. Again, jflpjsPlthe use of trouble to capacitate us for the office of sympathy. Th&priests, under the old dispensation, -Jrese set apart by having water spriiij&ed on their hands, feet and headsman# by the sprinkling of tears people^ are now set apart to the office of svmtjathv. When we are in prosperity Wp like to have a great many youiof people around us, and we laugh ^?en tney laugh, and we romp wheu|Jhey romp, and we sing . when theyi^bg; 1>ut when we have trouble we^ake plenty of old folks around. \5py?, They know diow to talk. Taktfnfi aged mother, 70 ^ears of age, and ^he is almost omnipotent in comfort* jr Why? She has been through itTnk At 7 o'clock in the mommcr sh&-%?fesr over to comfort a young- KK^fh^T who has just lost her babe. Grmidroo&er knows all about that trouble. Fifty years ago- she felt it. At 12 o'clock ;of that day she goes oyer to com fort afyidowed sou 1. Sue knows all a^u^ that. She has been walkir^ knocks at the door wanting bread. She knows all about that. Two or i tbrcg^krro^ji^ jaerrlife she.came to her last loaf. At 10 oV?ock"Tljatr nigfrrshe ! goes over to sit up with some one se; verely sick. She knows all about it. i She knows all about fevers and pleui risies and broken bones. Sliehasocen ! doctoring all her life, spreading plasters, and pouring out bitter drops, and shaking- up hot pillows, and contriving things to tempt a poor appetite. Doctors Abernethy and Kush and Ho! sack and Harvey were great doctors, j but the greatest doctor the world ever | saw is an old Christian woman. Dear I me 1 Do we not remember her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood? Was there any one who could ever so touch a sore without hurting it? And when she lifted her spectacles against her wrinkled forehead, so she could look closer at the wound, it was heeled Aju! when the j I^rtl took her home, although you j may liave been men and women 30, | 40, 50 years of age, 3-0u la3' on the coffin lid and sobbed as though 30U were only 5 or 10 )rears of age. 0 man, praise God if 3rou have in your memory thepictureof an lionest, sj'mpatfhetic, kiud, self sacrificing, Christlike mother. Oh, it takes these people ' whohave had trouble to comfort others in trouble. Where did Paul get the ink with which to write his comforting epistle? Where did David get the ink to write his comforting Psalms? Where did John get the ink to write his comforting Revelation ? They got it out of their own tears. When a man has gone through the curriculum, anil has taken a course of dungeons and imprisonments and shipwrecks, he is qualified for the work of synipathj*. When I began to preach, my sermons 011 the subject of trouble were all }x>etic and in semi-blank verse; but God knocked the blank verse out of me long ago, and I have found out that I cannot comfort people except as I m\*self have been troubled. God make me the son of consolation to the people. I would rather be the means of soothing one perturbed spirit toda\% than to play a tune that would set all the sons of mirth reeling in the dance. I I am an herb doctor. I put into the caldron the Root out of dry ground without form or comeliness. Then I put in the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the'Valley. Then I put into the eaJUrcn some of the leaves ironi llie Tree of Life, and the Branch that was thrown into the wilderness Marah. Then 1 pour in the tears of Bethany and Golgotha; then 1 stir them up. Then I kimlle under the caldron a fire made out of the wood of the cross, and one drop of that potion will cure the worst sickness that ever afflicted a human soui. Wary and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel shall rise. And on the darkness shall break the morning-, and - God will wipe all tears from their eyes. You know on a well spread table the food becomes more delicate at the last. I have fed you today with the bread of consolation. Let the table now be cleared, and let us set on the > chalice of heaven. Let the King's cup bearers come in.. Good morning, Heaven! "Oh," savs some critic in ?i - i: .. 1 IUC clUUIt'UUC, IIH3 Z>lUiV L"UUti'Uiiv.M j ' itself. It intimates again and again that there are to be no tears in heaven, and if there be no tears in heaven how is it possible that God will wipe any away* I answer, have you never i seen a clirift crying one moment and laughing the next; and while she was laughing, you saw the tears still on her face? And perhaps you stopped her in the very midst of her resumed j glee, and wiped off those delayed | tears. So, I think, after the heavenly j raptures have come upon us, there I i may be the mark of some earthly ! t grief, and while those tears are glit- j i tering in the light of the jasper sea, j i God will wi|>e them away. How well he can do that, s Jesus had enough trial to make him i sympathetic with all trial. The short est verse in the l>ible tells the story: "Jesus wept." The scar on the back of either hand, the scar on the arch of cither foot, the row of scars along the line of the hair,.will keep all heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just the one to silence all earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly grief; Gentle! Why, his step is softer than the step of the dew. It will not be a tyrant bidding you to hush up your crying. It will be a Bather who will take you on his left arm, bis face gleaming into, yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand, he .shall wipe away all tears from your eyes. I have noticed when the children get hurt, and their mother is awav from home, they go right past me and to her; 1 am of 110 account. SSo, when the soul comes up into heaven out of the wounds of this life, it will not stop to look for Paul, or Moses, or David or John. These did very well once, but now the soul shall rush past, crying: '"Where is Jesus? Where is Jesus?' Dear I/nxl, what a magnificent thing to die if thou shalt thus wipe away our tears. Methink it will take us some time to get used to heaven; the fruits of God without one speck; the fresh pastures without one nettle; the orchestra without one snap]>ed string; the river of gladness without one torn bank: thesolferinos and the saffron of sunrise and sunset swallowed up in the eternal day that 1 r ri.1', t ueams iruuiAjrvu s tuuiiicuauuci Why should I wish to linger in the wild. When thou art waiting. Father, to receive thy child? Sirs, if we could get any appreciation of what God lias in reserve for us, it would make us so homesick we would be unfit for our every day work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa university, put in my hands a meteoric stone, a stone thrown off from some other world to this. How suggestive it was to me. And I liave to tell you the best representations we have of heaven are only aerolites flung off from that world which rolls on, bearing the multitudes of the redeemed. We analyze these aerolites, and find them crystallizations of tears. No wonder, Aung off from heaven. "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN. Have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in heaven? How different it is when they get news there of a Christian's death from what it i3 here. It is the difference between embarkation and coming into port. Everything depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christian's death. If you stand on this side of the river you mourn that they go. , If you stand on the other side of the river you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference'between a funeral on earth and a jubilee in heaven?between requiem here and triumphal march there?parting here and re but together, in different rooms of the sano* house?the house of many mansions. Together! I never appreciated that thought so much as when we laid away in her last slumber my sister Sarah. Standing there in the village cemetery, 1 looked around and said: "There is father, there is mother, there is grandfather, there is grandmother, there are whole circles of kindred;" and X thought to myself, "Together in the grave?together in glory." I am so impressed with the thought that I do not think it is any fanaticism when some one is going from this world to the next if you make them the bearer of dispatches to your friends who are gone, saying: "Give my love to my parents, give my love to my children, give myylove to my old comrades who are in glory, and tell them I am trying to fight the good fight of faith, and 1 will join them after awhile." I believe the message will be deliv* ered; and I believe it will i:i ;rease the gladness of those who are before the throne: Together are they, all their tears gone. No trouble getting good society for them. All kings, queens, princes and princesses. In 1751 there was a bill offered in the English parliament proposing to change the almanac so that the 1st of March should come immediately after the 18th of February. But, oh, what a glorious change in the calendar when all the years of your earthly existence are swallowed up in the eternal year of God 1 My friends, take this good cheer home with vou. These tears of bereavement that course your eheeh, and of persecution, and of trial, are not always to be there. The motherly hand of God will wipe them all away. What is the use, on the way to such a consummation ? what is the use of fretting about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration it ought to he in Christian work! See you the pinnacles against the sky ? It is the city of our God, and we are approaching it. Oh. let us he busy in the few days that shall remain for us. The Saxons and the Britons went out to battle. The Saxons were all armed. The Britons had 110 weapons at all; and yet history tells us the Britons got the victory. Why? They went into battle shouting three times, "Halleluiah!" and at the third shout of "Hallelujah," their enemies fled panic struck; and so the Britons got the victory. And, my friends, if we could only appreciate the glories that are to come, we would be so filled with enthusiasm that no power of earth or hell couhl stand before us; and at our first shout the opposing forces would begin to tremble, and at our second shout they would begin to fall back, and at our third shout they would be routed forever. There is no power 011 earth or in hell that could stand before three such volleys of hallelujah. I put this balsam 011 the wounds of your heart Rejoice at the thought of what your departed friends have got rid of, and that you have a prospect of so soon making your own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry of tears, and exult at the thought that soon it is to bo ended. There we shall march up tho heavenly street. And ground our arms at Jesus' feet. People Everywhere Confirm our statement when we sry that Acker's English Remedy is in every way superior to any and all other | preparations for the Throat and Lungs. In Whooping Cough and 1 Croup it is magic and relieves at once. We offer you a sample liottle free. Remember, this medicine is ! sold on a positive "guarantee by D>. M Q. Hendrix. ~ 9?20 ODDS AND ENDS. i A Zanesville woman has worked on i a crazy quilt an hour adavforthirj teen years, and the quilt is not finished ! yet* A Pennsylvania farmer wants the i governor to set apart a "sparrow day" j ! when a wholesale onslaught may be i made on the obnoxious birds. One of the co-operative stores in Salt Lake City pays 3 per cent, dividends a mouth to the stockholders. It is a very interesting fact that the Protestant Episcopal church has in the Nebraska Deanery 1,050 Indian com municants, with nine Dakota Indians in holy orders. The family of Richard Wagner received ?2.000 sterling as their share of the profits from the recent performances at Beyreuth. Opportunity is in respect to time, in some sense, as time is in respect to eternity; it is the small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends. ?Sprat. The Irish Pasteur, McGovern. iu whose family tradition has handed down a successful cure for hydrophobia, recently received ?12 from the Newrv board of guardians for curing four patients sent to him by them. Lizards present a strange phenomenon. Their tail, brittle and easily broken, lives for a considerable length of time after being separated from its bearer's body; and. more than that, the lost tail is in a comparatively shoti time replaced by another, similar to the amputated one. Fire proofing material of all kinds is now as economical in cost as it is services We and ingenious in character. There is a building in Chicago constructed wholly of terra cotta. Foundations for the new and great library of congress are now building. Gen. Casey, the engineer in charge, has.about $6,500,000 allowed him for the structure. The library will l>e large enough to serve for ninety years, and with small additions for 120 years. An English paper gives this explanation of a familiar phrase "by hook* or crook;" About a century ago two celebrated king's counsel nourished, whose names were respectively Hook and Croke (pronounced "Crook"). They were generally opposed to each other in all important cases, and people said: "If you cannot win your case by Hook you will by Croke." Hence arose the idiom which is now so firmly grafted into the English tongue, . The distance in miles at wliith an object upon the surface of the earth is visible, is equal to the square root of 1? times the height of the observer in feet above the surface, and, conversely, the height in feet to which an ob server must be placed to see a distant object, is equal to two-thirds the square tlio /)ic(un/>o in milo? In the steeple of the Congregational church at Bingbam. Somerset county, face"is stan 1 ped autT it is su])|)ose<l^.o have been made by Paul Qeverej^^io, after the peace of 1783, established a foundry in Boston where he cast the first cannon and bells manufactured in Massachusetts. The old bell hasa good tone and seems likely to last another century. A Million of Babies. Take your j)encil and follow uie while we figure on what will happen to the 1,000,000 of babies that nave been born in the last 1,000,000seconds. I believe that is about the average ? "one every time the clock ticks." Oct 1, 1890, if statistics don't belie us, we will have lost 150.000 of these little "prides of the household." A year later 53,000 more will be keeping company with those who have gone before. At the end of the third year we find that 22,000 more have dropped by the wayside. The fourth year they have become rugged little darlings, not nearly so susceptible to infantile diseases, only 8,000 having succumbed to the rigors imposed by the master. By the time they arrive at the age of 12 years but a paltry few hundred leave the track each year. After three score years have come and gone we tine! less trouble in count ing the army with which we started in the fall of 1889. Of the 1,000,000 with which we beorun mir rvuiut hut 87ft 000 re:?iain: 630,000 have gone the way of all the world, and the remaining few have forgotten that they ever existed. At fhe end of SO, or, taking our mode of reckoning, by year 1969 A. D., there are still 97.000 gray haired, shaky old grannies and grandfathers, toothless, hairless and happy, in the year 1984 our 1,000,000 babies with which we started in 18S9 will have dwindled to an insignificant 223 helpless old wrecks, "stranded on the shores of Time." In 1992 all but 17 have left tins mundane sphere forever, while the last remaining wreck will prob ably, in seeming thoughtlessness, watch the sands filter through the hour glass of Time and die in Hie year 1997 at the age of 108. What a bounteous supply of food for reflection!? Cor. St. Louis Republic. The Stone Age In Pittsburg. In Pittsburg's sajad days wood was regarded as a good building material. A Dig fire disjiosed of that idea. Then bricks were used. Next, iron was regarded as the j)roper thing, and the iron block in Fifth avenue, between Wood and Market streets, is, with many others, evidence of the Iron city's iron age. But iron had its day aud Pittsburgers found stone and brick combined more suited to their growingdesire for better building material. The evolution took on a still better stage when natural gas made architectural beauty more possible. Today finds granite, marble and sandstone, and the finest of brick the accepted materials. Light colored granite has the preference, as can be seen at the intersection of Wood street aud Sixth avenue, and in other places. Thicr Tiiatopi'il liOi t*\ st.iv I I mw umwi im>i i hau v\/t??v w /%?* , . the stone age lias fairly set in for the Iran city.?rittsburg bulletin. A Trotting; Dog;. A hundred people or so saw a novel exhibition at the exposition driving park track today by a dog who can trot a mile considerably under four minutes. The dog is an Irish setter, not yet 3 years old, owned by Mr. Ketchum. of Brighton, Ont., and he trots as perfectly as any horse. His name is Doc, and there is nothing about him to indicate speed. Ilis build is that of the ordinary Irish setter, but in a race he seems imbued with all the spirit of a thoroughbred racehorse. Today Doc was attached to a little cart weigh- ; ing twenty-eight pounds, and when the youthful driver, Willie Ketchuni, aged probably 7 or 8 years, took his seat the dog^was galling eightc-one /~v / more Mr. just behind the latter and trot on a the dog well. The track quite been scraped, the says the dog would have gone^^^H^fl^^H^^^^H faster. After the the loosened and scampered off playful^^^^^^^^H^^Hj just like the ordinary canine. trotting ability was first discovered Mr. Riley while driving with his Strath Ian Queen on an asphalt paved street on the east side some time ago. There was a race, and the story is told that the setter beat Mr. Riley's mare about ten feet in two blocks. He was trained to trot before a year old, and one feature of his work is that he never loses the gait. A special matinee will l>e given at the course Saturday afternoon, and it is likely that the setter will crive nn exhihit.inn.? Kansas City Special to Globe-Democrat. An Anecdote of Wendell Phillips. This reminds me, without any special connection, of an anecdote of himself which Wendell Phillips once told me. A number of years ago a poor man, whose case, for some reason or 110 reason skillfully presented, had excited a good deal of sympathy among Boston philanthropists, conceived the idea of having an entertainment given for his benefit, and prevailed upon 'Mr. Phillips and the Rev. William R. Alger, both of whom were At that time extremely popular speakers, to give him what would be known in theatrical circles as a benefit The affair was very well advertised, men being even employed to carry placards about town, a means of advertising more novel then than now, and it was expected that Music hall, the place chosen for the exercises, would be crowded. Butjtfrom some cause or other, the weather, rival attractions, or what not the patronage was so light that the amount received for tickets was not sufficient to pay the ex penses. On the day fol lowing the lecture Mr. Phillips received a call from the beneficiary, who informed him that the expenses were $20 more than the receipts, and, just as the orator opened his lips to express his regrets, the visitor added coolly:' "I suppose that of course you and Mr. Alger will be responsible for the balance." Who really did pay that deficit 1 do not know, but the incident jfretty weii illustrates the moral attitude of the people who live by the sympathy ~bf the community.?Arlo Bates in Book Buyer. A large and very important discovery of uranium is reported in Corn wall. It iaa ttaae^jgaure vnin, the ore? market* price of uranium is $12,000 a ton. " *?? Scrofula in Children. The following is taken from a lei ter written under date of July 1, 1880, by Mrs. Ruth Beriey, a most charatible and Christian lady, of Salina, Kan. ikIn the early part of 1887 scrofula app?ared on the head of my little grandchild, then only eighteen months old. Shortly after * breaking out it spread rapidly all over her body. The scabs on the sores wolud pet 1 on on the slightest touch, and the oder that would arise would mak^ the atmosphere sickening and unbearable. The disease next attacked the eyes and we feared she would lose her sight. Eminent, physicians from the surrounding country ' were consulted, but could do nothing to relieve the little innocent, and gave it as their opinion, 'that the case was hopeless and impossible to save the child's eyesight.' It was then that we decided to try Swift's Specific (S. S. Sri That medicine at once made a speedy and complete cure. For more than a year past she has V>een as healthy as any child in the land." ci'red his little boy. My little boy had impurities of the blood that were of scrofulous nature, which resulted in the breaking out of an absess on the hip. I gave him Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) It purified his blood and restored his health. As a blood purifier it bat; no equal. 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