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At such low prices which will defy competiton at home or abroad. 75 Fine Suits in Cutaways, Sacks and Prince Alberts. 1*25 Medium grade Suits to suit all classes of merchants, mechanics and tradesmen at less than cost of production. 150 Assorted Children and School Suits below cost. 50 Assorted Children and Boys' Overcoats at a bargain. 75 Tery Fine Overcoats to sell cheaper than the cheapest. 250 Assorted all Wool Overcoats to sell ffom $2 ea<*h and upwards. 2,500 Pairs Assorted Pants for diets and common wear at very low figures. 200 Qhoice Single Coats at half price. . 250 Assorted Vests at low prices. | SILK HATS, FI R HATS, WOOL HATS " '-tr o? ?verv s* vie of the Litest fashion at t rem en dons low prices. [^ Underwear and Neckwear , to sell regardless of cost. L VALISES |B .mnst be sold way beiow jtheir worth.. inspect my stocky UNDER COLUMBIA HOTEL. II i5i main Street, B -LOAN AND EXCHANGEB STATE, CITY AND COINTY DEPOSITOR M UULiUJLBlA, J>. u. I ?|* Paid up C*e?itaL $120,( Hr Surplus Fund 25,C Undivided Profits 22,f HS Transacts a- general banking bnsiue Careful attention given to Collections, W SAVI.YG DEPARTSEST, S Deposits oi $1 and np wards receive I Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per ce: ||l^^^*per annum, payable quarterly on the ft days of January, April, July and Octobe I A: C. HASKELL, President. I JULIUS H. WALKER, Cashier. June lit? lv "MILLER BROS.' VES Are AMERICAH. and the BEST. leading business pens. 87 Falcon . And nos. 75, 117, 1, acme. leaping stub pens. | So. 4 WB Carbon Stub b and Nos. llsnwtgbakt pkx. BS LEADING LEDGER PENS. V , bjb and nos. 101, 505, 030. b leading school pens. 95 No'23 b University H and nos. 333, 444, 16. HHjfe The Miller Bros. Cutlery Co.. Meriden. Cc RBH . MANtTFACTURKBS op HR Steel Pens. Ink. Erasers and Pocket Cutle bh iLT THZ HH B A Z A A R ^^H ' October 9th ? 1 y. COMMERCIAL BANi Hr COLUMBIA, S. C. flR^ Capital Authorized $100,0 Capital Subscribed $83,0 Transact a Banking and Exchange bt |p?| 21688. Keceives Deposits. Interest allov on Time Deposits. Books of sabscript still open. Safety Deposit Boxes to ren1 $6 per annum. C. J. Ibedeix, James Ibeoell, President. Cashier Jno. S. Leaphaf.t, Vice-President. I MOORLAND ACADEIH ' 5^ ' - ; ' PKOF. G. a. LUCAS, Principal. I- * r^i |f\PENS ITS SECOND SCHOOL SI PP' sion September 2, 18S9. This In lotion offers nnusnal advantages to th f neeking an education at home or prepa k -lionfor college. f. A thorough cnrriculum of English, a ijggXatin, Greek, French, Book-keeping, & ^ will be taught. Miss Mamie Ford, an accomplisl young lady of Colombia, will give instr tiojis in Mosic and Stenography. Board in good families at very reasons rates. TUITION From One to Three Dollars per mon p according to grade of pnpil. ^ For farther particulars address G. A. LUCAS. Principal M II ?r Chairman Board of Trustees, New Brook land, S. C. ' THE STORMY PASSAGE. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES IN THE ANCIENT VILLAGE OF CAPERNAUM. A Sertnou Appropriate to the Place Delivered on the Banks of the Lake Where Christ Stilled the Tempest So Many Centuries Ago. Capernaum, Dec. 'The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached here today to a group of frieuds oil "The Stormy Passage,1' taking for his texts the verses of the gospel folio wing: John vi, 17:" "Entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum and Mark iv, 39: "And he arose and rebuked the wind and the sea." He said: Here in this seashore village was the temporary home of that Christ who for the most of his life was homeless. On the site of this village, now in ruins, and all around this lake, ; what scenes of kindness and power, j 1 A .1 T : aiiu yiurv aim [wiuua v> ucu uui ijwiu lived here! It has been the wish of my life?I cannot say the hope, for I , never expected the privilege?to stand ) on the banks of Galilee. What a so- ! lemnity and what a rapture to be here! j I can now understand the feeling of i the immortal Scotchman, Robert MeCheyne, when, sitting on the banks of this lake, he wrote: It is not that the wild gazelle Comes down to drink thy tide. But he that was pierced to save from hell Oft wandered by thy side. Graceful around thee the mountains meet. Thou calm reposing sea; But ah! far more, the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked o'er thee. I can now easily understand from I the contour of the country that bounds i this lake that storms were easily tempt- ; ed to make these waters their play- j ground. From the gentle way this lake treated our boat when we sailed on it yesterday, one would have j thought it incapable of a paroxysm of rage, but it was quite different on both the occasions spoken of in my two texts. I close my eyes, and the shore of Lake Galilee as it now is, with but little signs of human life, disappears, and there comes back to mv vision the lake as it was in Christ's time. It lay in a scene of great luxuriance; the surrounding hills, terraced, sloped, grooved, so mauv hanging gardens ol beauty. On the shore were castles, armed towers, Roman baths, everything attractive and beautiful?all styles of vegetation in shorter space than in almost any other space in all the world, from the palm tree of the forest to the trees of rigorous climate. ?. OXE WAVE OF BEAUTY. y seemed as if the Lord had launched vue wave of beautv on all the scenXand it hung and" swung- from hill an oleander. Roman It ^ems as if we shall have a quie nigjit. Not a leaf wicked, in the air a ripple disturbed the face of Gen neSaret; but there seems to be a littl excitement up the beach, and we lias . ten to see what it is, and we find it a] ? embarkation. - From the western shore a fiotill pusliiug out; not a squadron, o t deadly armament, nor clipper wit] La valuable merchandise, nor piratic ve* seis leady to destroy everything the, if. cou-ld seize, but a flotilla, bearing mes singers of light and life and peace - Christ is in the front of the boat. Hi disciples are in a smaller boat. Jesu; weary with much speaking to larg multitudes, is put into somnolence b the rocking of the waves. If thier was any motion at all, the ship wa easily righted; if the wind passed fror starboard, to larboard, or from lai ?<y board to starboard, the boat wouli rock, and by the gentleness of the jnc " tion puttiug the Master asleep. Ain they extemporized a pillow made ou of a fisherman's coat. I think 11 sooner is Christ prostrate, and hi head touched the pillow, than he i souud asleep. The breezes of the lak j. ruu their fingers through the locks o ? the worn sleeper, and the boat rise - and falls like a sleeping child 011 th bosom of a sleeping mother. Calm night, starry night, beautifi night. Run up all the sails, ply a 9 the oars, and let the large boat and th small boat glide over gentle Geune: aret. But the sailors say there is g( iug to be a change of weather. An even the passengers can hear th W moaning of the storm, as it comes o with great stride, and all the .terroi of hurricane and darkness. The larg boat trembles like a deer at bay anion M the clangor of the hounds; grei W patches of foam are tiung into the aii the sails of the vessel loosen, and tb sharp winds crack like pistols; tb B smaller boats like petals poise on tb W cliffs of the waves and then plunge. THE STOP24. Overboard go cargo, tackling an rv. masts, and the drenched disciples rus into the back part of the boat, and la hold of Christ, and say unto bin: "Master, carest thou *j>t that w Eerishi?" That great personage lift is head from the pillow, of the fishe; (man's coat, walks to the front of tb a vessel, and looks out into the stern All around him are the smaller boat: driven in the tempest, and through comes the cry of drowning men. B the Hash of the lightning I see tb '"P calm brow of Christ as the spra isi- dropped from his beard. He has or red WOra for the sky and auothe u* tb ion waves. Looking upward 1.- jries tat 'Peace!" Looking downward he says "Be still!" The waves fall flat on their face: the foam melts, the extinguished stai relight their torches. The tempest fab mtm dead and Christ stands with his fe< r?T on the neck of the storm. And whi] i the sailors are bailing out the boat: L JL ttLid >v U11C II1CJ aiu u v ;ii^ tu uumiu^i the cordage, the disciples stand i amazement, now looking into th calm sea, then into the calm sky, the ES- jQi0 the calm Saviours countenanc< stl" and thev cry out: "What manner c ose ra- man is this, that even the winds an the sea obey him?" ;lso ALWAYS HAVE CHRIST IN THE SHIP. The %ubject in the first place in ^ presses me with the fact that it is ver nc_ important to have Christ in the sliij for all those boats would have gone 1 ,ble the bottom of Gennesaret if Chri had not been present. Oh, what lesson for you and for me to lean We must always have Christ in tl ship. Whatever voyage we unde take, into whatever .enterprise v start, let us always have Christ in tl ship. All you can do with utmo tension of body, mind, and soul, yc are bound to do; but oh! have Chri in every enterprise, Christ in evej vovage." There are men who ask God's he % / j at the beginning- of great enterprises. He has been with them in the past; ; 110 troubte can overthrow them; the storms might come down from the i top of Mount Hermon, and lash Gennesaret iu^p foam and into agony, but it could not hurt them. But here is another man who starts out in world.lv enterprise, and he depends upon tlie uncertainties of this life. Henas no God to help him. After a while i the storm comes and tosses off the | masts of the ship; he puts out his life: boat and the long boat; the sheriff I and the auctioneer try to help him off; I they can't help him off; he must I go down?no Christ in the ship, j Your life will be made up of sunshine I and shadows. There may be in it : Arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; I | know not what is before you, but I I know if j-ou have Christ w'ith you all shall be well. You may seem to ^et along without the religion of Christ while everything goes smoothly, but ; after awhile, when sorrow hovers over | the soul, when the waves of trial dash t no 11 Ar?Ai? Imntimuna /loolr on/1 tVlA I VXW* V? VI ?UV ilUI I 4V<4U? MUV* KMV decks are crowded with piratical disasters?oh, what would you do then without Christ in the ship? Take God for your portion, God for vour guide, Gocf for your help; then all is well; all is well for time, all shall be well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord bis trust. He shall never be confounded. But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start to follow Christ they must not expect smooth sailing. don't expect smooth sailing. These disciples got into the small boats, and I have no doubt they said: "What a beautiful day this is! What a smooth sea! What "a bright sky this is! How delightful is sailing in this boat I And as for the waves under the keel of the boat, why they only make the motion of our little boat the more delightful." But when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that following Christ was not smooth sailing. So you have found it; so I have found it. Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would say, if ever men ought to have had a smooth life, a smooth departure, then those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and such a life. St. James lost his head. St Philip was hung to death on a pillar. St, Matthew had his life daslied out with a halbert. St. Mark was dragged to death through the streets. St. James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Thomas was struca through with a spear. They did not find following Christ smooth 'sailing. Oh. how they were ail tossed in the tensest! John Hussin the fire; Hugh McKail in the hour of martyrVlom; the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters--did they find ijt smooth sailing? But why go into, ijiistoiy, jy heu we can. draw ldm, tormenting him about his relig t ion, trviug to get him niad. They sue '* ceed in getting him mad, saying l" j '"You're a pretty Christian!" Doe ? j that young man find it smootl I sailing when he tries to fol n low Christ? Or you remember i | Christian girl. Her father despise a i the Christian religion; her mother de r i spises the Christian religion; he h brothel's and sisters scoff at the Chris >* j tiau religion; she can hardly find i Y J quiet place in which to say her pray ?* j ers. Did she find it smooth sailing ' ! when slie tried to follow Jesus Christ s : Oh, no! All who would live the iifi >? ; of the Christian religion must suffe '? | persecution; if you do not find it ii )' \ one way, you will get it in anothe e ; way. The question was asked: ''Wh< Ii ! aw/v %%/\A fV* A A n/ i aro uiuac urojnir iuc ujivuei ixiii u the answer came back: "These ar< * j they who came up out of great tribu ^ iation?great flailing, as the origins J* has it; great flailing, great pounding J 1 ?and had their robes washed an< d | made white in the blood of the lamb. 0 | Oh, do not be disheartened 1 Tak s courage. You are in glorious com :s j panionship. God will see you throug] e, ; all trials and he will deliver you. M; f j subject also impresses me with th fact that good people sometimes ge e very much frightened. BE NOT AFRAID, j | In the tones of these disciples as the; 11 rushed into the back nart oi the boat 0 I find they are frightened almost t< *" death. They say: "Master, carest thoi y not that we perish f" They had n< " j l-eason to be frightened, for Christ wa e j in the boat. I suppose if we had beei 11 i there we would have been just as mucl j affrighted. Perhaps mo;e. In al * < ages very good people ar#t very mucl o j afl'righted. It is often /o in our day i and men say: "Why, look at the ba< "> ' lectures; look at the various errors g<3 ie ; ing over the church of God; we ar Le j going to founder; the church is goinj ie 1 to perish; she is goingdown." Oh how many good people are affright ; ed by iniquity in our day, and thin] d the church or' Jesus Christ is going t< h be overthrown, and are just as mucl v I affrighted as were the disciples o i: i ray text. Dcn't worry, don't tret, a: e j though iniquity were going to triumpl ts ' over righteousness. A lion goes intx r- ; a cavern to sleep. He lies down, witl ie j his shaggy mane covering tlr i. | paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin i s, j web across the mouth of tiv ^ cavern and say, "We have capture< y i him." Gossamer tliread after gossa 1X1 iner thread, until tlie \vno:e ironi o y the cavern is covered with the spider' 16 web, and the spiders say: "The lion i [e 1 done; the lion is fast." After a whil 5: i the lion has got through sleeping; h i: ! rouses himself, he shakes his inane i he walks out into the sunlight; h 5> does not even know the spider's web i Is spun, and with his voice he shakes th ! mountain. So men come spinnin ^ j their sophistries and skepticism abou ^ i Jesus Christ; he seems to be sleeping 5' They say: "We have captured th 0 Lord; he will never come forth agai 11 : upon the nation; Christ is capture te forever. His religion will never mak 11 I any conquest among men." But afte | a while the Lion of the tribe of Juda '* ! will rouse himself and come forth t d shake mightily the nations. What's spider's web to the aroused lion ? Giv truth and error a fair grapple an ~ truth will come off victor. .v j FOOLISH FEARS. >; I But there are a great many goo to people who get affrighted in other n st i soects; they are affnglited in our da a i aoout revivals. They say: "Oh! th i! j is a strong religious gale; we ai ie ; afraid the church of God is going t r- ; he upset, and there are going to be /e great many people brought into tl ie church that are going to be of no u: st j to it;''and they are affrighted whei >u ever they see a revival taking hold < st the churches. As though a ship ca; y tain, with five thousand bushels ( wheat for a cargo, should say son Jp 1 day, coming upon dec*:: 4Jhrovr ore V board all the "cargo;"" and the sailors* should say; "Why, captain, what do you mean i Throw over all the cargo?" "Oh," says the captain, "we have a peck of chaff that has got into this five thousand bushels of wheat, and the ouly way to get rid of the chaff is to throw all the wheat overboard." Now, that is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great many Christians who want to throw overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who are the subjects of revivals. Throw all overboard because they are brought into the kingdom of God through great revivals, because there is a peck of chaff, a quart of chaff, a pint of chaff! I say, let them stay until the last day; the Lord will divide the chaffy from the wheat. Do not be afraid of a great revival. Oh, that such gales from heaven might sweep through, ail our churches 1 Oh, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in England* and Robert McCheyne saw in Dundee! Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton! 1 have _ i i I-in ^ m r a oiujii uearu my miner len 01 lue xaci that in the early part of this century a revival broke out at Somerville, N. J., and some people were very much agitated about iL They said: "8h, you are going to bring too many people into the church at once;" ana they sent down to New Brunswick to get dohn Livingston to stop the revival. Well, there was 110 better soul in all the world than John Livingston. He went and looked at:the revival; they wanted liinj to stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath, and looked over the solemn auditory, and hffsaid: "This, brethren, is in reality the of God; beware how vou try to stop it" And he was an ofd man, leaning heavilvon his staff?a ,very .old man. And he lifted that staff, and took hold of the small end of the staff, and began to let it fall slowly through between the finger and the thumb, and he said: 4'Oh, thou impenitent, thou art falling now ?falling from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that cane is falling through my hand?falling certainly, though perhaps falling slowly!" And the cane kept on fal fine through John Livingston's hand. The religious emotion in the audience was overpowering, and men saw a tvpe of their ^oom, as the cane kept falling and falling, until the knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's hand, aud he clasped it stoutly and said: "But the grace of God can stop you as I stopped that cane;" and then there was gladness all through the liouse at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. "Well," said the people after the service, "I guess you had better send Livingston nome; he * is making the revival worse." Oh, for gales from heaven to sweep all the continents! The danger of the church of God is not in revivals. GOD AND MAN IN ONE PEP.30N. r-fljT) my gubiect imt r^flrrV * vCTucI u^rui\ - hone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. - Tired, he falls asleep; he is a man. , But then I find Christ at the prow ol s the boat; I hear him say: "Peace, be 1 still;" and I see the storm kneeliug al his feet, and the tempests folding then i wings in his presence; he is a God. s If I have sorrow and trouble, anc want sympathy, I go and kneel dowr r at the back part of the boat and say !- "Oh, Christ! wearvoueof Gennesaret, i sympathize with all my sorrows, mar - of Isazareth, inau of the cross." A X man, a man. But if I want to con ? quer my spiritual foes, if I wapt tc 3 get the victory over sin, death, and r hell, I come to the front of the boat, i and I kneel down, and I say: "Oh, r Lord Jesus Christ* thou who dost husl: > the tempest, hush all my grief, hush 1 all my temptation, hush all my sin" 3 A. mau, a man; a God, a God. I learn once more from this subjecl 1 that Christ can hush a tempest r It did seem as if everything must gc I to ruin. The discipies had given up " the idea of managing the ship; the e crew were entirely demoralized; yel i- Christ rises, and he puts his foot on I the storm, and ft crouches at bis feet. 7 Oh, yes! Christ can hush the tempest e You* have had trouble. Perhaps i1 t was the little child taken away from vou?the sweetest child of the household, the one who asked the most cu y rious questions, and stood around you , with ttie greatest fondness, and the :> spade cut down through your bleed i ing heart. Perhaps it was an only 0 son, and your heart has ever since s been like a desolated castle, the owh 1 of the night hooting among the fallen a arches and the cru mbling stairways 1 Perhaps it was an aged mother b You always went to her with you: ? troubles. She was in your homi a to welcome your children int< life, and when they died she wa ? there to pity you; that old hand wil ? do vou no more kindness; that whit) lock of hair you put away iu th ; casket or in the locaet didn't look a k it usually did when she brushed i away from her wrinkled brow in th i home circle or in the country church f Or your property gone, you said: " s have so much bank stock, I have s 3 many government securities, I hav ? so many houses, I have so man; i farms?all gone, all gone." Why, sir ? all the storms that ever trampled witl i their thunders, all the shipwreck* ? have not been worse than this to you 1 Yet you have not been completel, overthrown. Why? Christ says: " f have that little one in my kee :ng. s can care for him as well as yo s can, better than you can, < e bereaved mother 1" Hushing th e tempest. When your property wee >, away, God said: "There are treasure e in heaven, in banks that never break, s Jesus hushing the tempest. There i e one storm into which we will all hav mi.. 1 g to run. xue aiuuicui. ? ucu n it let go of this world and try t r. take hold of the next, we will war e all the grace possible. Yonder I see n Christian sotii rocking on the surge d of death; all the powers of darkne; ;e seern let out against that so#?tli >r swirling wave, the thunder of the skj h the shriek of the wiiltl, all seem *t ,o unite together; but that soul is nc a troubled; there is no sighing, thei e are no tears; plenty of tears in tli d room at the departure, but he weej uo tears?cahn, satisfied and peaci ful; all is well. By the flash of th ^ storm you see the harbor just aheat g. and you are making for that harboi y All 'shall be well, Jesus being on is guide. ' Into the harbor of heaven now we glide; We're home at last, home at last. Softly we drift on the bright, sllv'ry tide. a I We're home at last, ie ! I Glory to God! all our dangers are o'er. We staud secure on the glorified shore; ;1~ Glory to God! we will shout evermore, n We're home at last. [>? t >f "When money is tight it is quie That is more than can be said of maj rv. \ " ENDS* Skulls otr Ipmansoldiers, the teeth being perfect have been discovered in the chalk at folks tone. Mrs. Moil* Caird, who started the "Is Marria^a Failure?" business, has been studyixir Buddhism. There is q young giantess 6 feet 8 inches high. >aid absolutely to be only 12 years olchpn exhibition in Loadoitr She is a DoaCossack. The fast ?il service between New York and JKT Francisco has been refrt foil dflvs tvrontv-twn hours vtuww vv "7 ^ - ? ? and forty-fivt minutes. "What a fiae thing old age is," said M. Augier lot long before his death. "One is su:rounded with care, attention and re.pect. But what a pity that it lasts *> short a time." A sturgeot fourteen feet long was caught in tVe Sacramento river, near Chico, last wiek. Instead of killing it the flsherraei fastened a rope to the body and-tun ed it loose in the river to get fat. The; feed it on the entrails of salmon, aid the captive likes the treatment. : Little Jim vas but a few years old when there w^.s a wedding in the family. The agt-i grandmother kept her seat during the ceremony. In telling about it after/ard Jim said: "We all stood up and jot married 'cept gcstfcr maf ^ " A novel adj^erfissment appears in a Gloucester (M*ss.) paper. It is from % property holder, and notifies a oertain gang of boor]urns that he intends to assert his rigb s against annoyance. It also reminds the parents of hoodlum minors that here is a .legal responsibility for destruction of property, and closes with tip remark tnat if tne police did theirjutv there would be no occasion foi Jle advertisement. The farmiatof the neighborhood of Hiawatha, Kai., are burning corn for fuel, finding It cheaper than coal. Corn is sold on the farm for twenty cents per busiel, while the average price of coal delivered at the farm ranges from twenty-one to twentythree cents peribusbel. The Farmers' alliance brought the attention of the fovmUM tn tVl. uaI o-f? tta nm'naa nf tlm amiamwm w viis ^uatuo |/ji iuua vi vuv two commodities, and advised that half the eonucrop be used as fuel, thus advancing the price of the other half and saving money in their fuel bills. The farmers have begun to act on this advice. The construeqoq of the canals designed to overcame obstructions in the Tennessee rive/ at~Musc]e shoals has been completed. It was begun^y1 the governmeM in 487ft and Hearer' $4,000,000 has thus far been expended on the work._[The opening of the canals ^HH^^^B^Hadies for a gratuity never ^^R^H^^Hj^^Hthing. Another sai BHBIHBlHsionally gave him penny wner^ier purse was handj still another said he never hear \ of a lady even noticing a poor sweepei ) The marvelous growth of the colc t nies is now a fain iliar story. Certair ly nothing more < -emarkable has bee seen in the history of the world. Dui t ing the fiftv years succeeding the a< i cession of her majesty, the area go\ : erned by the queen, exclusive c , Great Britain, increased from 1,100 i 000 to 8,400.000 square miles; the Ei i ropean population' of the colonies ir creased from 2,000,000 to 10.000.00C > the colored population from 9,800,00 I to 26,200,000; and'the state revenues c , jiossessions beyond the seas grew fror , ?24,000,000 to ?122,000,000a year. 1 Z. T. Devore, a Parkersburg (W. Va | merchant, owns a dog of superior ii teliigence. The dog goes to the stor with the mail everymorning, and fror I ti aI.ap 4 V* a mrttl n.1 /Ihai'oa^I 4/-v 411A nn it ia&ca tiic uioii auui caatu iu tuo [ji vate residence to Mr. Devore's hom< > Nothing can divert him while attern * ing to his duties as mail carrier, an ' he never makes a mistake in takin the letters to their proper directioi 1 Every evening he sees to it that tlj evening papers are taken to the houw and if by chance the papers should b missing, either by being blown ftwa 1 by the wind or carried off by the boyj the dog makes a raid into some neigl bor's yard and hypothecates a papei which he carries off home. The Deterring Poor. j As superintendent of the Providei t association, which seeks to relieve tb i distress of the worthy poor, X disagre entirely with the great mass of math Srintect and preach.*! about the mei icant class. This is all to the eife< L that hypocrisyand false pretense ai ^ the rule among the destitute. This 8 deny. St. Louis has no mendicar class, and the hardest part of our L a bor is to hunt up and relieve the clai e of poor whom our organization di s sires to benefit The self respectin t poor man or poor woman in dozens c e instances that come under my uotic every winter shrinks from askin j alms until he or she has reached 0 state of destitution that is pitiable, an e which we never intend should b ,, reached. They sell everything tin ? will bring a coin before coming to u [J and then in tears and trembling , Many of them, after awaiting for horn to pluck up courage to tell their sa y stories, would depart with the word 1 unsaid if we did not look for just sue t people. We frequently issue reli< 1 * * t 1 . X J 1 A. 1 ' u ucaets, wincn are returneu out ua 3 used because the head of the famil e has found work, and desires not to et ^ the bread of charity.?Rev. Edwar $ Flach in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If - IS Having a Go*d Time. ? A young man who came out of tl e woods of Michigan to have a goo o time, picked five tights, stole a hors it and ouggy, set a barn on fin a cleaned out a grocery, assaulted an o :s ficer and landed" in jail on a si ?s months' sentence. He mourned a li ? tie because he didn't have such a ver T, rood time after all. ? Detroit Fre o Press. )t . ' *0 e Dyspepsia "*nd .Liver Con >s plaint. * Is it not worth 75 cents to fr j yourself from every symptom of tho r' distressing complaints, if you t-liii iy so call at our store and get a bott of Shiloh's Vitalize!*. Every hott lias a printed guarantee on 11, use :i cordingly, and if it does you no go< it will cost you nothing- Sold 1 Or. M. Q. Hendrix. Happy is the bride who does n hear all the comments and critioisi t. of her dear friends who make up t n. audience at the wedding] The Cash System. Monroe Register. The cash system gives the fanner his vote; edut^iisaJum in the affairs of government; helps Mm t<r vote in- . telhgently; annihiKates difficulties; strengthens the intellect; makes home attractive; educates, feeds and clothes the children. It teaches <the value of the brain; makes a mother happy and contented. It wins friends, fills the barns and the larder and obeys the command of God, "Owe rib man anything." When we abolish the credit system and adopt the cash system we not only obey God's commands, but instead of our creditor . being master we call him friend. God in his infinite wisdom and mercy will smile upon and bless us. "Who breaths must suffer, and ?.? ? . 11 i who thinks must mourn, ana ne alone is blessed" who knows that pain and suffering can be cured by Salvation on. P Although we havp^Mqird persons remark?"Itk worth its weight in ^ol^'?stlll Dr. Bull's Cohgh Syrup is to be had at all drug stows for 25 cents. Pin up two facts to be considered when you are discouraged: There are fewer business failures among farmers than among any other class More men l>egin without capital and become owners of good business in farming than in any other vocation. Calthstl?a of Cork. Corks are an article of convenience to which little attention is commonly given, and yet immense fortunes have been made in their production. Their cultivation and manufacture form an important item in tho industries of Spain. An account of this from Mr. Pay's work on that country is of interest. The cork tree is an oak which grows best in poorest soil. It will notendure * frost, and must have sea air, and also an altitude above the sea level. It is lfuuu umj aiuujf <ui utc wnav u? umuu, the northern coast of Africa ana the northern shores of the Mediterranean. There are two ijarks to the tree, the outer one being stripped for use. The cork is valuable according as it is soft and velvety. The. method of cultivating it is interesting. When the sapling is about ten years oBiHa^tripped or the outer bark for^about the * After eight or ten years the barb 3 has again grown in, and then the fcgf f 4 is again stripped four feet from th< a roots, Tliis stripping is very coarse, and is used as floats for Ashing nets. 4 Every- ^Sflnr-years^-therea^ter it L stripped, and each year tvr6 feet higher up, until the tree i&40 or 50 yeaw h old, when it is in it^himei and maj then be stripped eve^F^ years fron n the ground to the b^Uhes, and wil.; p* last 200 years. I^^kbout twenty years before anytlj^^^^be realizec from the tree, th< " Spaniards, of look ing after posi^^^^^^^Kew nev trees.?You * China feels just now under the direc displeasure of heaven, manifested frj n the late fire at the most sacred build i nrr r?f !?<? omnivp thft "Altar f> V* ?MV VM?^? W? ?. ? ? . .) Heaven/' at Pekin, and the breach be i- tweeu the emperor and empress. Th< e young1 emperor was forcea to marrj n the neice of the empress dowager i- though he would have preferred quit< another wife; and, as the unlucky 1- young empress is scarcely equal to th< d dignity of her position, Kwang-Si g refuses to see her, and has quarrele< i. with the empress dowager. Accord * ingly . the superstitious Chinese be J, lieve that the temple was burnt dowi >e as a' judgment, although the fire wai y apparently caused by incendiaries. This sacred "Altar of Heaven" wa ?- a beautiful tripal ..circular terrace o i\ white marble, with three roofs of blm tiles, and close to the 'Temple o Heaven," or "Temple of Prayer foi the Year." It was erected about tin lt year 483, and was used for tho annua ie imperial spring sacrifice in February ^ A bullock was then burnt before th< ;r altar, while the emperor prostrate* j. himself before the tablet of the su 2l preme ruler of the universe, and after ^ wards before his ancestral tablets, an I other bullock being killed for eacl emperor commemorated. Finally i prayer was read from a scroll, whicl 33 was subsequently burnt upon the al 3 tar, in order that the petition migh v ascend in flame to heaven. The em J peror will perform the same ceremony .p next spring before the ruined altar. 0> I liUUUUU V4 1 a d "A man who has tried it" says tha >e wooden posts treated as follows, at i it cost of a penny apiece, will last so lonj 3, that the person adopting it will no r live to see his posts decay. Tak rs boiled linseed oil, and stir in pulver ,d iied charcoal to the consistency o [s paint, and put a coat over the timber h " if A railroad dog, who travels steadilj If with his master in the cab of a Denvei y and Rio Grande locomotive, is said h it be highly valuable in many ways. H< d can scent cattle on the track whei they cannot be seen and drives then off when they are indisposed to get off Electric Flatiron*. l? When the kerosene stove was ir " vented housekeepers rejoiced over th ie prospect of something that would rt y lieve them of some of the additions heat required in cooking, washing an x ironing during the not days tha Maine had at tnat period, but if th Y Waterville man's new electric exper * meuts work as anticipated, undesire heat will be reduced to a minimunc In addition to his recently invente electric oven Mr. Willis Mitchell ha perfected a flatirou for which wondei rul effects are claimed. A cord is ai ee tached to a circuit and connected wit sc the tlatiron, which is thereby heate jj. for use, all of the heat going to th I 4 bottom of the flatirou when it is needec ' An iron heawd in this way is alwav ready for use, and, it is said, can d w- j run ail day, or as long as me curret >d j is turned on, without the operate >v j leaving the table when at work. Th ; amount of heat given to the fiatiro can also be regulated as desired.?Nei ^ York Telegram. ns Cotton is king, and yet he is coi he tinually sent out of the country whei he reigns. / X \ * MEDICINES GETTING CHEAPER. Progliiti Say Thera I* Lm AdaltotatlM r Now Than There (Jeed to Be. It may be consoling to the general public to know that at the national cor.^itje&-<if<druggists, held in Indianapolis, a committed" tor whom the subject had been referred reported unanimously that adulteration in < drugs is decidedly on the decline. They ] think that in the present state of chem- j ical science adulteration is only possi- ^ ble in a few preparations, ana then not to any very great extent. j In other days, the committee says, ' pharmacology dealt principally with extracts, tinctures, oils, balsams, ] juices, gums and the like; today the ] places of these are, for the most part, 3 occupied by clearly characterized chemical combinations. In times past medicines #ere com- 1 ?i/vnV?/lcw1 fenm auK?ton/>M rvf vaciaKU constitution and condition, whose ex-, animation, test, assay or ae&fasis must needs be a matt$r-dfr exceeding difficulty andpften of impossibility: while no^rehaveexactl-y constituted 8aJiS,"composite ethers and alkaloids of definite chemical composition; whose identity may mostly be shortn by one or two simple precipitations or color reactions, aud whose purity can often be determined by a mere melting, boiliug, combustion or solution test; but at ail events, by analysis. Even a number of the more indefinite and heterogeneous substances of the ancient materia medica, such as extracts, have recently been forced to yield their "incognito" to searching ; test methods, as, for instance, the determination of alkalofdal strength, so that falsifications have become readily recognizable. Some of the ethereal oils, however, and essences, balsams, etc., which admit of no identity, reactiou or quantitative assay, except that exercised on or by the sense of smell, are today, perhaps, quite or nearly as susceptible to adulteration as they ever were. The medicinal compounds of the Seventeenth century" were chiefly empirical nostrums or mixtures of sub- i stances, some of which neutralized i others, and compounding prescrip- < tions and manufacturing medicines were carried on without anyjefereoce , to scientific principles. ' ~ -j The dissatisfaction of the compounds ' of medicines, no doubt gave rise to * this new departure, for trie continued ( complaints of the physicians made f them aware that for anything other . than crude or garbled drugs, but little J reliance could be placed in the whole* ] > ? # .t . % 4 ^ J i.1 ~ 1 saie aruggisi 01 mai oay. ana uue i dispenser bad to produce his powders .1 1 by pestle and mortar, if the phys^^ cian's prescriptions were to be reaiablS| Now, in those days, it was the praJ| ' " on similar businesses toda^ t is certain, moreover, i esale druS?ist ^ a exdflpBNMhe miller, For it was not an uncommon practice to send com' paratively inert substances to the mill j to be ground and mixed with potent drugs. , Tricks were resorted to in the adulteration of simple chemical substances, i which leaves but little doubt that, I notwithstanding there was a want of r chemical knowledget there was no I lack of deliberate intention to de5 fraud. Early in this century guaranteed r powdered drugs were introduced in trade by Thomas Heming, who claimed that his soft, impalpable, hricdit looking vegetable r>owders were as pure as the unsightly pow1 ders that compounders were produc7 iug for themselves by pestle and mor1 tar. The success attendant upon the production of pure powderea drugs was 3 an incentive to some houses, and it 7 came about that not only were chemi ' cal substances prepared with due re 3 gard to their meaicinal purity, but the 7 organic novelties, sucu as quinine, 3 morphine and strychnine, which were j then finding uses iu medicine, were produced on a manufacturing scale ol purity, which, considering the chemical khowledge of the manipulators, 1 ' was highly creditable. 5 Perhaps the most important factor in the gradual improvement in the ! quality of the commercial powders ' has been the extremely low marke! ? rates which have prevailed of late years in the prices of the vast majori r ty of crude drugs. Most of the incen ? tive to adulteration was removed. The pharmacy laws passed by var ious states, as well as the enactments ? relating to the adulteration of food products, are also beginning to exerl their influence in the direction ol greater purity.?New York News. He Wats a-Saylng. , A man led a raw boned, humble faced mule down Clifford street yes t terday morning, turned into Griswolc and Anally disappeared in a blacker smith shop. "Shoes?" queried the stalwart smith. "Yes." "Hind?" t "Yes." "As I was a-saying when you cam* 1 in" : Here he picked up one of the mule'i legs and was sent half way across th< shop by a twist of the animal's hip j He returned to the attack with unruf fled calmness, saying: "As I was a-saying when you'n th< mule came in" * This time he got a hind foot in th< r ribs and was almost knocked over hi: 5 anviL He braced up, opened his eye: 5 a little wider, and making auothei 1 grab for the same foot he repeated: J "As I was a-saying when the mul< and you hove" This time he got both feet in quid t- succession, and was driven to the wal e ten feet away. * "What is it you are trying to tel il me?" asked the owner of the mule. d "Why, I was a-saying as you turn it ed the corner that if you brought thai e infernal brute to this shop id breal j. his back with a crowbar, and now yoi ' 1 ? TO ? ' * ? .? T*V i _ . d gel mm out or i a ao nr?ueiroi i Free Press* d - - - ? f A Healthy Growth. t* Acker's Blood Elixir has gained |j firm hold on the American peopl - and is acknowledged to he superio I to all other preparations. It is s positive cure for all Blood and Ski e Diseases. The medical fraternit it indorse and prescribe it. Guarai ,r teed and sold bv Dr. M. Q. Hendiii e " __ " It is expected that by another ye.', fresh figs, raised in Florida am i Georgia, will be put on the Northcri i- market in considerable quantities 'e Several large fig groves have latel been platted. Tlu Tree Bridge BilL rht Principal Provisions of the Act ^ Unite in Securing Free A the Gem-rai Assembly mssing of an Act pr-hiding a wa^| W :his county and Lexington, the main <<M arovisions of the same are published m -ttttHI selow for general information. *^^0ppllp Now that the opportunity has been provided the next step will be to arrange fcr the necessaiypiebminary requisite to tate advantage^pU-tiie isme and carry out the-^?6nditions mposed. The^a&m^provisions of the Act H^as follows: Section 1. That the County Comnissioners for the County of Lexingon and the City Council of the city >f Columbia be, and they are hereby, mthorized to contract provisionally or the purchase of either or both of Vlo ftTA Vvw/1/?oo r\noiltA Alf*T aI Pa _ aav i" v ulAugun urm. U1C tll j VI VW " umbia, the one across Broad river, mown as the Broad River bridge, tnd the o^e across the Conraree river, known as the Jongwee bridge, to be paid for in luch proportions as are hereinafter ipecitied by the city of Columbia and Lexington county as may pe . voted ' for under the provisions of this Act: Prodded, that the price to be pai^^j^L poth of the said bridges shal^M^B^I ?eed in the aggregate 550,000; and provided n case both of said bridges ^ pe purchased for said HB bounty Commissioners Council may for the erection ictoss one to 550,000. Section "JnuvnTTRIwll I .hall submit said county, ited a body politi^^^^^^HBH|^^^^^^^B purposes of purchasinr^^^^^Bpjrporatefortbe ng question '&" . B ? bridges and ?* .Ivotere I ship 14-100, t<4eS^J^ I 11-100,' to . 11-100, to Piatt Spring township 10-100, to Bull Swamp township 8-100, to Saluda township G-100, to Broad River township 6-100. to , Boiling Springs township 6-100, to - i Hollow Creek township 5100, to Black Creek township 2-100, to Gilbert Hollow township 5-100, to Chinquepin township 2-100; and the City Council of the city of Columbia shall likewise submit the question of purchasing said bridges, or either of them, and of issuing bonds of the said city to an amount equal to two' thirds of the price agreed to be ( paid for said bridges or either of them, to the qualified voters of said city: Provided, four-fifths of the actual resident male freeholders of the city of Columbia, to be ascertained from the books of the Auditor of 1 Richland county, shall first petition ' said council to call such election, and said City Council shall determine / I whether four-fifths of the resident male freeholders of the city have > signed the said petition; and the said ; County Commissioners of the county of Lex|Jgton and the City Council of the c?|*of Columbia shall respectively border elections to be hel<J in saijmty of Columbia and county of > Lexington, specifying the time and ? purpose of the election, which shall ^ be held at the usual voting precincts f for the respective city and county, and they shall respectively for the M said county and city appoint the managers for every election precinct, i who sfiall without compensation noiu ' i and conduct said elections at which \ elections the bollots shall have written or printed thereon either the H| words, "for bridges," or the words, "against bridges." Notice of the jUKM election in the city of Columbia shall be published in one newspaper 1 published in the city of Columbia for one month prior to said election, and notices of the said election to beheld in the county of Lexington shall be published for the same period in one ^|HHi newspaper published in said county. Shiloh's Consumption Cure. ' This is beyond question the most successful Cough Medicine we b.tve 1 ever sold, a few doses invariably cure the worst Cough, Croup, and Broni chitis, while it's wonderful success in the cure of Consumption is without a 3 parallel in the history of medicine. J Since it's first discovery it has been p sold on a positive guarantee, a test which no other medicine can stand, a If you have a Cough we earnestly ask you to try it. Price 10 cents, 60 c cents, and 81 00. If your Lungs aiv * sore, Chest or Back lame, use Shi1 ? T? - T11.U? O.I.1 1... TV. i ion s rorous .nasiei\ ooiu uv j./i, 1 M. Q. Hendrix. t* Some of the novelties at a recent c Philadelphia wedding are thus desi eribed: The parlor was arranged in t rose and chrysanthemums, to represent the interior of a drawing room car. The bride stood under a marriage bell, and at six o'clock six whistles were blown, and bells were rung all over the houses, denoting . | that the bride is starting on her 1* I . 11 %_ , e _ a journey inrougn me. " A Child Killer. * t- Another child killed by the use of opiates given in the form of Soothing Syrup. "Why mothers give their chilr dren such deadly poison is surprising d when they can relieve the child of itR i peculiar troubles by the use of Acti. er*s Baby Soother. It contains no v Opium or Morphine. Sold by Dr* M. Q. Hendrix.