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NO. 9. | EditorandProprietor. . * ( ^ gggBMtM85flBWB8EMMiMMMBEia???BM?b?ui mint! Minis 11. EPSTI1TS, Under Colnml>ia Hotel. I Will offer for the holiday seasons the following line of I--, rilillllG, HATS AND " 1 Famishing Goods, p , ~ y i At such low prices which will defy competitor! at home or abroad. 75 Fine Suits iu Cutaways, Sacks and Prince Alberts. 125 Medium grade Suits to suit all classes of jeercbants, mechanics and tradesmen at lsss than coat of production. 150 Assorted Children and School Suits below cost. 50 Assorted Children and Boys' Overcoats at a bargain. 75 Very Fine Ovtreoats to sell cheaper than the cheapest. 250 Assorted all Wool Overcoats to sell from $2 each and npwardR. 2,?00 Pairs Assorted Pants for dre^s and coomon wear at very low figures. i 200 Choice.-Single Coats at half price. 250 Assorted Vests at low prices. SHI H ITS. FI R HITS. WOOL HATS k'l Mil iais i n y ? v m ?.? " j " v ' ? r>f every style of the Litest fashion at tremen dous low prices. Underwear and Neckwear to sell regardless of cost. f VALISES, TRL XKS AND UMBRELLAS v . must be sold way below their worth. , * I invite the public to inspect my stock, to nuke I TENDER COLUMBIA HOTEL. ||" 15! MAIN STREET, Sept. 7?tf ^ ?LOAN Mil) EXCHANGE? ? she of scull cooin) STATE, CfTY ASB COUNTY DEPOSITOE K|[ COLUMBIA, S. C. Paid up. Capital $120,( _ Surplus rund.Tr. 25,( Undivided rronw zz,i Transacts a general banking busine Careful attention given to Collections. SAFIff DEPARTS EST. t Deposits ot $1 and upwards receiv< Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cei 0, per annum, payable quarterly on the fi days of January, April, July and Octobe A. C. HASKELL, President W C JULIUS II. WALKER, Cashier. P>|s June 19?lv r?' "MILLER BROS.' Are AMERICAN, and the BEST. leading business pens. ST Palcon ? And Nos. 75, 117, 1, Acsib. leadino stub pens. 1 " Carbon Stub And Nos. 119, 102, Gbant Pen. jjf leading ledger pens'. I Subbam % and Nos. 101, 505, 080. (leading school pen8. So*23 University ^^^HIQSnSa31 and nos. 333, 444, 16. A The Miller Bros. Cutlery Co.. Meriden. Cot manufactursbs op Steel Pens. Ink Erasers and Pocket Cutler. -A.H? THE BAZAAR. October 9th ?1 y. COMMERCIAL BANK COLUMBIA, S. C. Capital Authorized $100,0( Capital Subscribed $87,7( Transacts a Banking and Exchange buj ties*. Receives Deposits. Iuterest allow on Time Deposits. Books of subscripts still open. Safety Deposit Boxes to rent $6 per annum. C.J. Iredell, James Irf.dell, President. Cashier. Jn*o. S. Leai'H.vrt, Vice-President. Nov/28?ly BROOKLAND ACADEM PROF. G. A. LUCAS, Principal. Opens its Second school se sion September 2, 1889. This Insi tution offers unusual advantages to tho seeking an education at home or prepar tion for college. A thorough curriculum of English, al Latin, Greek, French, Book-keeping, Ac will be taught. Miss Mamie Ford, an accomplish) young lady of Columbia, will give instru tions in Music and Stenography. Board in good lamilies at very reasonab rates. / TTTITION From One to Three Dollars per mont according to grade of pupil. For further particulars address G. A. LUCAS, Principal, or M. H. Witt, Chairman Board of Trustees, .New Brookland, S. C. August 21 39t? THE OLD HOME. Ai;THrR r.. Salmon. In the quiet shadows of twilight I stand by the garden door, * nd gaze on the old, old homestead, So cheerished aDd loved of yore. But the ivy now is twining Untrained o'er window and wal And no more the voice of the chi Is echoing through the hall. Through years of pain and sorrow, Since first I had no part. The thought of the dear old homestead Has lingered around my heart.; The porch embowered with roses, The gables' droppiug eaves, And the songs of the birds at twilight Amid the orchard leaves. And the forms of those who loved me In the happy childhood years Appear at the dusky windows. Through vision dimmed wilh teais, I hear their voices calling From the shadow far away. And I stretch my arms toward them In the gloom of the twilight gray. J3(lt Only tee mgm winns auswui As I cry through the dismal air; And only the bat conies swooping From the darkness of its lair. Yet still the voice of my childhood Is calling from far away, And the faces of those who lov( d me Smile through the sha lows gray. * HAVE FAITH IN CI!HIST. THE REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE PREACHES IN LONDON. Pau! and Silas and the I'hilippiau Earthquake?No One Is Safe?All Must Trust the Lorn If They Would lie Saved?How to I>o It. London, Jan. IS.?The Rev. T. De Witt Talraage, D. D., of Brooklyn, preached in this city today, taking for his text Acts xvi, 31: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." He said: Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places even now; but they were worse in the apostolic times. I imagine, today, we are standing in the Philippian dungeon. Do you not feel the chill ? Do you not hear the groan of those incarcerated ones who for ten years have not seen the sunlight, and the dvep sigrh of women who remember their father's house, and mourn over their wasted estates? Listen again. It is the cough of a consumptive, or the struggle of one in a nigbtn-iiwt ft' a crrpflt. horror You listen again, and hear a culprit, his chains rattling as he rolls over in his dreams, and you say: "God pity the prisoner." But there is another souud in that prison. It is a song of joy and gladness. What a place to sing in! The music comes winding through the coron their backs are bleeding yet. ' lie flat on the cold ground* their fast in wooden sockets, and of c< they tfannot sleep. But they can Jailer, what are you doing with 1 people? Why have they been p nere? 0, they have been trying to 1 ? the world better. Is that all? T1 all. A pit for Joseph. A lions Lfor -Daniel. A blazing furn act Sbadracli. Clubs for John We * An anathema for Philip Melanct A dungeon for Paul and Silas, while we are standing in the gloo x that Philippic dungeon, und we the mingling voices of sob, and gi )00 and blasphemy, and hallelujah, XX) deulv an earthquake! The iron >00 of the prison twist, the pillars c s8- off, the solid masonry begins to h and rock till all the doors swing c and the walls fall witha terrific c] ?<3. The jailer, feeling himself respon ct. for these prisoneis, and feeling su rat to be honorable?since Brutus k r. himself, and Cato killed liiniself, Passing killed himself?nuts his s1 to his own heart, proposing- with strong, keen thrust to put an ei his excitement and agitation. Paul cries out: "Stop! stop! Do X* self no harm. We are all here." r I see the jailer running througl dust and amid the ruin of that pri aud I see him throwing himself il at the feet of these prisoners, cr ^ out: "What shall i do.' What: P I dot" Did Paul answer: "Getoi this place before there isanothcre; quake; put handcuff's and hopple ^ these other prisoners, lest they 3 awav?" No word of that kind. ( W pact, thrilling, tremendous ans answer memorable all through ^ and heaven: "Believe on the & Jesus Christ, and thou shall be sa\ P EVERY ONE IN DANGER. Well, we have ail read of the ei quake in Lisbon, in Lima, in A1 ^ and in Caraccas; but we live in a P itude where in all our memory t has not been one severe volcanic in. turbance. And vet we have seen earthquakes. Here is a man who y been building up a large fortune bid on the money market was fel all the cities. He thinks he has go yond all annoying rivalries in ti ^ and he says to himself: "No am free and* safe from all possible r turbation." But a national p strikes the foundations of the < mercial world, and crash! goes that magniticent business estab )0 ment. He is a man who has buili a very beautiful home. His daugl j have just came home from the s e(J nary with diplomas of gradual on His sons have started in life, hoi at temperate and pure. When the e ing lights are struck, there is a In and an unbroken family circle, there has been an accident down a beach. The young man venturec far out in the surf. The telegi * hurled the terror up to the city. II earthquake struck under the fou tious of that beautiful home. Th ano closed; the curtains dropped; laughter hushed. Crash! go all t domestic hopes, and prospects, am pectations. So, my friends, we 1 oil foil Kn oliol/Iiiff /Irwurn nf c i* 14. IV 4 b bUV/ auuaitjg WV" u VI u se great trouble, and tbere was a i a- when we were as much excited as man of the text, and we cried out? so did: "What shall 1 do? What sh "? do?" The same reply that the ap< made to him is appropriate to ^ "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, v" thou shall be saved." There are s ,je documents of so little importance you do not care to put any more t your last name under them, or t your initials; but tbere are some d h, ments of so great importance that write out your full name. So Saviour in some parts of the Bib] called "Lord," and in other part: the Bible he is called "Jesus," ant other parts of the Bible he is ca ''Christ;" but that there might L mistake about this passage, all tl eajE.es ssms. in lozethei?i the. I j Jesus Christ.v Now, who is this Be1 ing that you want me to trust iu and ! believe in? Men sometimes come to i me with credentials and certificates of i good character; but I cannot trust } them. There is some dishonesty in their looks that makes me know I shall be cheated if I confide in them. You cannot put your heart's confidence in a man until you know what stud" he is made of, and am 1 uni reasonable this morning, when | I stop to task you who this is j that you want me to trust in? No j man would think of venturing his life 011 a vessel going out to sea, that had ! never been inspected. No, you must have the certificate hung amidships, telling how many tons" it carries, and how long ago it was built, and who built it, and all about it. And you .* not expeet me to risk the of my immortal interests on boaru any craft till you tell j me what it is made of, and where it j was made, and what it is. When, then, j I ask you who this is you want ? ~ 4 * 4 ??> WA 11o n'O e a lilt? IV irudl< i LI, > l/u veil me ilV- *? uo u very attractive person. You tell nie that the contemporary writers describe him, and they give the color of his eyes, and the color of his hair, and they describe his whole appearance as being resplendent. Christ did not tell the children to come to him. "Suffer little children to come unto me," was not spoken to the children; it was spoken to the Pharisees. The children had come without any invitation. No | sooner did Jesus appear than the little j ! ones pitched from their mothers'arms, j an avalanche of l>eauty and love, into his lap. "Suffer little children tocome unto me." That was addressed to the Pharisees; not to the children. Christ did not ask John to put his head down j on his bosom; John could not help j but put his head there. Such eyes, i such cheeks, such a chin, such hair, j such physical condition and appear- ; ance?why, it must have been com- j pieteiy capuvauug uuu wiusuiuc. i suppose a Took at him was just to love I him. 0! how attractive his manner, j Why, when they saw Christ coming j along the street, they ran into their houses, and they wrapped up their invalids as quick* as they could, and brought thenn out that he might look at them. O! there was something so pleasant, so inviting, so cheering in everything he did, in his very look. When these sick ones were brought out did he say: "Take away these sores; do not trouble me with these leprosies?*' No, no; there was a kind look, there was a gentle word, there was a healing touch. They could not keep away from him. TERRIBLE AS WELL AS GENTLE. In addition to this softness of character, there was a fiery momentum. How the old hypocrites trembled before him. How the kings of the earth turned pale. Here is a plain man with a few sailors at his back, coming off the Sea of Galilee, going up to the palace of the Caesars, makng that palace quake to thcToundations, and utrhey iuacyT or insipiau^o^haracter feet was accompanied with majesty, i ~ i 1 : T L tint) unit umuipuieiii. i.?esi, tiie v\ sing, should not realize his earnestness, these Christ mounts the cross. You say: ut in Christ lias to die, why not let him I nake some deadly }>otion and lie on a co sat is in some bright and beautiful home cave he must die, let him expire amid k for kindly attentions." No, the w< sley. must hear the hammers on the h< hon. of the spikes. The world must li; But to the death rattle of the sufferer, m of world must feel his warm blood di hear ping on each cheek, while it locks oan, mto the face of his anguish. An< sud- the cross must be lifted, and the 1 bars is dUg on the top of Calvary. It n rack be dug three feet deep, and then leave cross is laid on the ground, and >P*n, sufferer is stretched upon it, and rash, nails are pounded through liei sible alld muscle, and bone, tliroi icide the right hand, through the left ha :illed and then they shake his right hanc and see if it is fast, and they shake his word foot to see if it is fast/and then t one heave un the wood, half a dozen sh< id to ders untler the weight, and they But the end of the cross to the mouth thy- the hole, and they plunge it in, all Then weight of his body comiug down 1 the the first time on the spikes; and w; ison, some hold the cross upright, otl lovvn throw in the dirt and trample it do ving and trample it hard. 0, plant t shall tree well and thoroughly-, for it it ut of bear fruit such as no other tree e arth- bore. Why did Christ endure it? s on could have taken those rocks, i g^t with them crushed his crucifiers. Join- could have reached up and gras wer; the sword of the onmijxitent God i kartb with one clean cut have tumbled tl: Bord jjito perdition. But no, he was to < red." He must die. His life for my life. life for your life. In one of the arth- ropean cities a young man died on 44-Vil/] rA*?thn/iy>i*Y?nr f mniulflw Qr ovaiiv/mivi tuun iiuts y i uiuiuui . lat- time after, the mother of this yoi here man was dying, and the priest ea : dis- in, and she made confession to fifty priest that she was the murderer, i has not her sou; in a moment of anger {lis had struck her husband a blow t It in slew hint. The son came sudde; t be- into the room, and was washing av tide, the wounds and trying to resuscit >w 1 his father, when some one loo] per- through the window and saw him, i auie supposed him to be the criminal. T :orn- vouug man died for his own niotl all You say: "Tt was wonderful that lish- never exposed her." But I tell yoi t up a grander tiling. Christ, the fijoi iters *God, died not for his mother, not eiiii- his father, but for his sworn enem Lion. O. such a Christ as that?so loving nest, self sacriticing?can you not tr veil- him? ippy HOW TO TRUST JESUS. But I think there are many under tthe spirit of God who are saying: 'T v I too trust liitn if you will only tell rapli how;" and the great question asl An by thousands in this assemblage nda- - How? liowf" And while 1 &iuh e pi- your question I look up and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so of hose uttered in the midst of his sermo 1 ex- ' Master, help!" How are you to tr lave in Christ? Just as you trust any o onie You trust your partner in business w time important tilings. If a commerc this house give you a note payable tli is he months hence, you expect the p ail 1 ment of that note at the end of th >stle months. You have perfect confide) us: in their word and in their abili \. ItAmA Gwlnif \*AI I /\\??v ctwv* J.UU UuUlv tV/VlCT.J , t oine I there will he food on the table. Y that I have confidence in that. Now, bail | ask you to have the same coi jvcd ! deuce in the Lord Jesus Chr ocu- 1 He says: "You believe; 1 U you ! away your sins;" and they i the , all taken away. "What!" you s; ;e is i 1'before I pray any more? Befon s of ! read jny Bible any more? Before 1 in cry over my sins any more?" Y lied \lxi4 moment. Believe with all yc ? 110 : heart and you are saved. Why, Chi is only waiting to get from you w] you srive to scores of people every d; Y?nrtt is tnalT conliOonce, if these people whom you trust day by day arc more worthy than Christ, if they arc more faithful than Christ, if they have done more than Christ ever did. thei {five them the preference; but if yen reallv think that Christ is as trust worthy as they are, then deal with bin as fairlv4 ' Oh," says some <?:e in i light way, "i believe that Christ wa: born in Bethlehem, and 1 bel.ieve thai he died on the cross." Do you believe it with your head or your heart? I will illustrate the difference. Yoi are in your house. In the morning you open a newspaper, and you reat how Capt. Braveheart on the se: ! risked his lu'e for the salvation of hi: I passengers. You say: "jVhat a grant j fellow he must have been! His fam j ilv*desorves very well of the country.' J You fold the newst ? and sit dowi { at the table, and perliap.: do not thinl of that incident again. That is his I torieal faith. But now you are on tin sea, and it is n^ght, and yon are asleep ! and are awakened by the shriek <> "Fiie!" Y<?u rush out on the deck You hear, amid the wringing of tin hands and the fainting, the cries: "No hone! we are lost! we are lost!1 ! The sail puts out its win^s of lire, tin ropes make a burning ladder in th< [ night heavens, the spirit of wrecl j hisses in life waves. and or | the hurricane deck shakes out it: I banner of smoke and darkness. "l)owi | with the life boats!" cries the captain "Down with the life boats!" IVopb ! rush into them. The boats are abou ! full. Room only for one more man | You are standing on the deck liesidr the captain. Who shall it be? Yoi ! or tlie captain? The captain says | ''You." You jump and are saved He stands there, and dies. Now. voi believe that Capt. Rraveheart sacri I ficed himself for his passenger's, bu I you believe it with love, with tears j with hot and long continued exclania tions, with grief at his loss and will j joy at your deliverance. That issav j faith. In other words, what voi believe with all the heart, and believi in regard to yourself. On this hingi turns my sermon; aye, the salvatioi of your immortal soul. THE BRIDGE OP TIIE ItOCK OF AGES. You often go across a bridge yoi know nothing about. You do no know who built the bridge, von d< not know what material it is made of but you come to it, and walk over it and ask no questions. And here is ai arched briige blasted from the "Rod of Ages," and built by tire architect o j the whole universe, spanning the darl i 1./-.4 mAAn o?i? on/1 mrrliforiti<no?u I gui 4 i;ci>?tvn Olli C4IIVI ? | and all God asks you is to walk acrus j it; and you start, and you come to it : and you stop, and you go a little wa1 j on and you stop, and you fall haci ! and you experiment. You say: "Hov do Tknow that bridge will hold nic'f instead of marching on with linn step asking no questions, but feeling tha the strength of the eternal God i under you. 0, was there ever a irizi offered so cheap as pardon and heave: are offered to yi>u* For how niich fc^jnillion dolljars? It iscertJnk that. OnefaKfuirg?''" i>ess .. that. "Without money and wi "If P"ce-" nionev to pay. No ,1 ney to" take. No penance to s , Only-just one decisive action c > ji soul: * "Believe 011 the Loid * ,, Christ, and thou shall be saved." i I try to tell you what it is to be s , i I cannot tell you. No man, no ^s can tell you. But I can iiint m." For. my text brings me up to J point: "Thou shalt be saved. 1 P" means a happy life here, and a j , 1 ful death and a blissful eternil ' f? is a graud thing to go to sle< st i u*?kt, ant* to UP *n the mor ,, i and to do business all day feeling ,, j all is right between my hear! the ^0(h accident, no sicklies persecution, no peril, no swore p^j' do me any permanent damage. a forgiven child of God, and , bound to serine througli. 1I< left ! swoni he whl 800 me through, j r j mountains may depart, the earth * j burn, the light of tlio stars in; 311 ' | blown out by the blast of the Pu? i ten* hurricane; but life and c l..? tilings present and things to#-om , mine. Yea. farther than th ,r.?r j menus a peaceful death. lers j CHRIST TAKES AWAY T1IK PEAR wn ! DEATH. i Mis. Hemans, Mrs. Sigournet j t(> Young and almost all the poets v said handsome things about d Thero is nothing beautiful abo j When we stand by the white and rj- features of those whom we love i they give no answering pressure < hand, and 110 returning kiss o lein ^ we not want any bod v poet j- around about us. Death is loath? ncss, and midnight, and the writ gu of the heart until the tendrils snaj I curl in the torture unless Chri ?me us' ^ confess.to you loan ! nite fear, a consuming horroi ime death unless Christ shall be wit! the ^ would rather go down into a ca md wild heasts or a jungle of reptiles she ?rave> unless Christ goes hat nie" y?u tell me that 1 am Qj earriecLout from my bright home 'i put away in the darkness? 1 ca 1 bear darkness. At the first comij l j the evening I must have the ga: UK| and the further 011 in life I gel more I like to have my friends an l0l. about me. And am 1 to be put o: P0 thousands of years in a dark 1 j Df with no one to sneak to? Whei t 0f holidays come, and the gilts an for tribuU'd, shall 1 add no joy t<; jea ''Merry Christmas" or the "H New Year?" Ah, do not point c 'list to the hole in the ground, the g and call it a beautiful place; u j there be some supernatural illun the tion, I shudder buck from it. ril whole nature revolts at it. ; now this glorious lamp is 1 {e(| j above the grave, and all I /IQ i?L" ate irn>?o (lio jg, ftliVW AO ^VUV J AAllVt n i \J 1 is clear. I look into it now with* single shudder. Now my auxie ten no1, a!X)U^ my anxiety is t may live aright, for 1 know th * my nre is consisiem wnen 1 cor: Us> the last hour, and I his voice is si "t* and these eyes are closed; and \ . | hands with which 1 beg for your nal salvation today are folded ovc ree still heart, that then I shall onl; a-" gin to live. What power is the anything to chill me in the last ice jf (Jlij-ist wraps around me the sic his own garment? What darl ect can Up0n my eyelids then, 0l! the heavenly daybreak? 0 dea .. will not fear thee then ! Back tc .j' cavern of darkness, thou robber c lr" the earth. Fly, thou despoiler of ilies. 'With this battle ax I hew in twain from helmet to sandal voice of Christ sounding all ove; f | earth, and through the heavens: 5 * death, 1 will he thy plague. O g: es? 1 will be thy destruction." >ur TO BE SAVED, rist To be saved is to wake up in tiat .presence of Christ. You know ay. ? - - : ; jcsus was upon earth how happy he i made every house lie went into, and - j when lie brings us up to his house * how great our glee. His voice lias 1 more music in it than is to be heard in ' all the oratorios of eternity. Talk not ' i about banks dashed with ei'lorescenee. 1 | Jesus is the chief bloom of heaven. 1 | We shall see the very face that beam> ed sympathy in Bethany, and take t tlfe very band that dropped its blood - from the short beam of the cross. (>. 1 want to -stand in eterhitv with him. 1 Toward that liarU-r I steer. Toward f i tlmt goal 1 run. I shall be satislied J | when I awake in his likeness. Oh, 1 j broken hearted in<-:i ai??! women, how ? 1 sweet it will be in that good iand to 1 ; pour all your hardships, and l>ereavc ments, and losse s into tiie loving ear of Christ, and then have him explain 1 ! why it was best for yoiC" lve sick, and : ; why it was best for a to be"\vidow* j ed, and why it was befor you to he - ; pei-seculed, and wb\ it was best for you~io be tried, and have him point to f j an elevation i>roportionate to your <lis * j quietude here, saving: "You suffered - with me on earth, conic up now anil ; lie glorified with me in heaven." Some one went into a house where % l?oJ l\artn fj iUm) t\f t vnnKlo " lliCI C liau UV>V1 U jjWVI \tvi*? VI VIVM>/|\ - . and said to the woman there: "Von v" | seem to be lonely.'" "Yes," she said, 1 I "1 am lonely." "llow many in the s i family'/" "Only myself." "Have 1 you had any children!" "I had seven children." "Where are thev'/" > "Gone." "All gone?" -All." "All 1 j dead?" "All." Then she breathed a ; long1 sigh into the loneliness, and * : said: "O, sir, I have been a good J | mother to the grave." And so there : are .hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereavements of life. 1 L point you today to >he eternal balm j j of heaven. Are there any hero that 1 i am missing this morning/ O, you ' ! poor waiting maid our heart's sor ' I row jxnwed in no In man ear, lonely 1 and sad! how glad you will be when " i Christ shall disband ali your sorrows 1 and crown you queen unto God and | the Lamb forever! 0, aged men | L* ; and women, fed by bis love 'and 1 : wanned by his grace for thi-ee score ' years and ten! will not your deerepij tude change for the leap of a hart i ; when you come to look face to face t J upon him whom, having not seen, you j ; love? 0, that will the Good Shep; < herd, not out in the night and watch. I ing to keep off the wolves, hut with i i the lambs reel ini ug crn the sun lit hill, x i That will be the Captain of our salva- j 1 ! tion, hot amid the roar, and crash, x'j and boom of battle, but amid his dis.. i banded troops keening victorious fesilm l!vi/lofri"<vn>i 5 ' HVltJ. mat ?11A UV VAJV* , ' of the Church coming from afar, the ! bride leaning upon his arm while he i j looks down into ^tr face arid says: v | 'Behold, thou art lair, my love! Be'' ; hold, thou art fair." 1 , i / ; i 1 The Small Pay of Preachers. * j People who are* in the habit of L j grumbling about tiio excessive salaries , ! paid ministers may be surprised at ; ] some iigures conducing salaries paid 1 in the Pbilsdclphir'oonference oi the ; ,>i there were oiiv'* niuetv-one who itilOUl ! . ,,, /1/u., Vdour ' ceive $l?bOO or more salary per y uiiVr There are 1(55 who get less than $1. J. the a,,d forty who get less than $600. i,,.,, salaries of some not exceeding $ I (JVIW 1 . , ?* ' ' The Philadelphia conference is om aved' ! l*10 in the Methodist Episci .j i church, and it embraces within limits many strong appointments. '* tiiis ' ma^es a oetter showing, proba ?) jt i than most of the other conferences H,.lce the Methodist Episcopal church, wl v ' i is the largest Protestant denominu * j in the country, and is becoming on niiio- l*ie wealthiest, can do no better fo; f that 1 P1>eac^ers? what shall be said of ' atK| painful poverty of the ministers i many of the smaller sects? And w i ' can ' '>ecomes the sneer which so o j l>n| i falls from the lips of ignorance, at lie"is ' well paid'' preachers "whohaves , j.as j an easy time," and who are char The ! with nreaching fur money?-Alto tnav i triUxm. xy be ; judg j A Slccpiiij; Girl. leatii, | A French paper of recent date si e, are ! There is a sleeping girl now at Al. fit- it ! court, in the Department of the (j who is likely to puzzle the physici; O!*' j Her slumber is not that of one I peaceful trance, but isagitated liket ', Dr. | of a person under the influence of have i nightmare or the "blues." For ' iiMvf nint? i3:h>5 slift has been iilnn at it. j into this strange somnolency, tlui rigid which she sometimes heals her , and ; on the head and breast and :>f the ters incoherent and unintelligible f the clamations. Bouillon is now and tl izing j poured down her throat when >oiue- | opens her mouth, and by this me lgiiig | she is kept alive. The girl. \vh< i and i twenty years old, and a farm servr st be ^ lias had brief fits of drowsiness beft i iufi- ' but 110110 of them lasted so lon| r, of | that in which she is plungc-d at p line, i ent. The Ideal doctors are complet veof ' nonplused bv this strange case, : than , expect that the unnatural sleep'wiiJ with i followed by death.?Montreal Star, to be , and j At a tirst class restaurant in Ph itiiiOt delphiu a patron ordering a tcrrapii "e nl shown a boxi full of the reptiles ? s allowed to select his mind's fancv. the j on 11 u ! CANINE PSYCHICS. 11' for dace t ":4t'Co?intMl?le Action of a Doj; at U Ileatli of Her Brother. i dis ! The following remarkable insta ? the i of canine sagacity savors of psych: appy j phenomena, and will be interest lown alike to lovers of dogs and student: rave, 1 psychology. nless Councilman Charles A. 3a nb uina- of Cambridge secured two Irish se My I pops, a while ago, which grew i But beautiful, intelligent dogs. They w if ted ' brother and sister, and were nu? i Nanki Pooh and Yum Yum. Ab xVuv } six months ago Mr. Sanborn g >ut a ! Vuui Yum to a man living in a co ty is ' P\v town several miles from Post hat 1 :U1(1 kept "Naiik.'' qt. if ' In the forenoon of two weeks ; no 10 i last Sunday Mr. Sanborn rode lent, 1 horseback to llyde Park anil rctu these j while Nank trotted gayly at his si eter- I In the afternoon Mr. Sanborn t Ttho ; family wont for a drive behind v be- handsome span, and the dog-, as i re in I his wont, followed at a short dista hour ! to the rear. The course taken i irt of | across the Brook line bridge to Colt; <11 ess ; farm, at vt'hich point Mr. Sanborn < amid i that his pet was still pursuing the i th, li riage,theil up the Brighton road tow > thy j Alistou. A few minutes later, n; >f ail ! turning around, he missed thoauin fain- ! Imt presu/ming that Nank had -c* thee' confused! at the press of turnout.1, the '< that pari of the road, and thai r the would nj|n home when he discove "O , that Im* had lost his master's !? : rave, gave Iff ie thought to the matter. : But Fie dog was not at home wj I they arrived, nor did he put in an i the : ptiarailce tliat night. Monday, Ti vheu l ilsy apd Wednesday passed, and ! doings "having "oecfi received of the animal's whereabouts, it was supposed i 1 hat lie had been stolen. On Thursday. however, a jwstal was received by Mr. Sanborn from Warren White, of Stoughtou, slating that the dog had crawled into that gentleman's dooryard almost exhausted, and whining piteeotisly. Friday a messenger was sent to Slough ton to procure Nanki Pooh, but only to lino him dead. Mr, White explained tSiat the dog had obstinately refused sustenance, and that j morning 4*td hx>l:ed up at the getitlei man witii almost human anguish dej. pictrd on his face, and, sorrowfully j sobbing, expired. il seems thai the faithful creature I I lad retraced the Sunday morning trail 1 to Hyde Park, and after running pre| sumably hundivds of miles back and | forth in his vain search for liismaster, diefof a broken heart. .^io^ow conies toe strangest part i i Uiv 4. ,..... t VV1 IIIV Oi'/I >, j At about 1 :S0 o'clock Friday mornI Sanborn was awakened at his ! homo in Cunibridgeport bv what he thought was the howling of a dog in ! hi.-, yard and u scratching on the front I door, lie listened intently, but all be[ ing still lie concluded it was a dream j caused by his niiiul being weighted ; with the loss of N'anki Pooh. He was i just dropping again into sound slum! ber when the noises were repeated, j Again he listened, and hearing noth; ing further. he was about to fall asleep ' when the third time he was aroused I by the sounds. Iieing thoroughly stirred up now, lie went to the window, and lookingdown into the moonlit driveway, he beheld, as he supposed, the missing pet. He went to the door, opened it, and in rushed, S not Nanki Pooh, hut Yum Yum, who, j paying no attention to Mr. Sanborn ; or the other inmates of the dwelling, j who had by this time arisen, bounded upstairs as if mad; then down again and out to the stables-and back, all the whi!e# moaning piteousiy. and tiualiy dropping at Mr. Sanborn's feet, uttering a low, mournful cry. This was just before & o'clock in the morning. and, upon comparison, was found i to be exactly the time when Nanki i Pooh died heartbroken in Slough ton. When it is remembered that Yarn Yum might have run hack to her old home at any time during the pas! six months, but never did, and that she chose that particular night and hour, the significance is apparent, lihe wanders disconsolately about the premises. ... : i" c.'.t i.. 1 sniiiliig in eveiy corn' r ivr luumui Naiiki and apparently sorrowfully lamenting her brother's loss; and Mr. Sanborn says that lie: will ncvfcfr'agyin part with loyal Yum Yum if he cau belj) it. ?Boston Ulobe. ;n ODDS 'AND ENDS. It is said that forty-eight languages are spoken in Mexico, the greater part of which are Indian. The three hundredth anniversary of the discovery of. the microscope is to be celebrate fat Antwerp i'nis vetir. Tlreiaqiuai consumption of.sugar by th^oeenl^o^ni^^o^ed^^ingdorn re- j country of the world; its produ ear- i about 30,000,000 pins a year, and 000, j ujingiiam is t!ie center, with an *j1(? i turn of'3T,000,000. j A new Shinto temple has been ^ j j cated at Tokio, the materials of w 1. were dragged to the sacred site r" ropes made of human hair ?a free I i offering from the pigtails of 330,0 . the faithful. licii Sweden is perhaps the most Pr< ion 1 ant country in the world; of a i e of ' lation of 0,000,000 tlmr<>*ire only r its Roman Catholics, the rS^uiiudt the population belonging "a 1 mot" i of j thvly to the Lutheran church, hut The fear is expressed in London ften the visit of some 30,003,000 strut the to "Paris during .the exhibition I uch in sueii a terribly insanitary state ged tlieevil local conditions have tti ona the i:t tl iwir/'i into :i soft of viri typhoid. The sanitary conditio tiie city is said to be very bad. According t<> the I inures of iv.s: posted military men abroad, tiie i ain- mobilization of the French, Uei ise, ami Kussian armies would cost ms. <>00.UUd? and there maintenance ii in a j lield would cost i!iG.000,000 peruk Jiat Of i:>, 000. Oct) barrels of saltanni the consumed in tin: United States M the gun furnisiies two-sixths. New ged one-sixth, ten other salt produ 'ing States one-sixth, and two-sixths sell imported. ut" | The brain of the insane Iiom ex' j and suicide Daley was found tow ^ 1 | lii'ty-nine ai:U one quarter ounces, e to show no gross pathological les u,!s This is just the weight of muri 3 j Kuioirs brain; one oimce heavier j Jim Fish's and six ounces heavier j Daniel Webster's, i* as i , . , , , res- !S f"ocnluted Juat a rang ejv j mountains consisting of lfG (. Ujj j miles of rock falling into tlit; I be ' would only maintain tin; heat! j single second: a in ass equal t<> ill : the earth would maintain the iica ; ojily nii.'-iy tiii-? " years, and a: 1 . i equal to that of the sun itself fa! i into the sun would ulford 2J,00t years of M-n heal. | There !s a curio.-:? \ along the 1 j mount, Moi'gaiilov.'n and Fills! ; railroad, about six miles above t< tta* | wortii noticing, says 'i no Morgan! i (Pa.) Fust. Two sycamore trees, si nee j ing about ten fei i apart, arc joinei ical | get'uer by a iniib liftecn inciies i ing j anieter, and it's dollars to dough * ?f ! which tree it started to grow f j Theyarethc only Siamese twins in nrn ! vicinitv. f 4 e\? # ^ It is startling to hear that then | 200 more death:, a year from canc< c".' I !! i :i i i i;i Ireland, with an neil ; " " ? ; " . oui g,v:<l(,r population, iho only i .. lish institntion for its treatment is u I of Glasgow, now two years in oj 0 i lion. During the lii'St year i)Sl }KU ! were treated in the house and S.OSU rj j side consultations given. Last i the inmates have mimhered d,T;tS J there were over J 8,000 outside coi a,: j tations. tnd j The number of horses in Euro tl 10 J Russia H 21.000.0P0, including six ,vas ; ermncnt studs, beside a large inn nee j of private ones, says The Amci ,vas j Agriculturist. 'IVic Russian gov age ; meat devotes annually $80,010 U aw ' ]>uit'llase of stallions, and, so v ar- i spread has been the interest of aril i years in improving this .stock. Kin ; races, trolling matches and s! : ii, have heen largely increased all slur j the eountrv. * ' An electric indicator of then: ' of railway stations is coming in Li in England. A magnetic ajipat i::1' ; turning a roller on which are pri tin: names <?i* stations in good vi: ie!1 letters is titled over the windot alv | every carriage willi an electric be 1<?s | Crtii the attention of passengers t< 113 chance. The instruments are.com ed iifseries, and are under the control of the guard, who changes the name by a simple touch of a button before j the train stops. Twenty years ago diamonds were at i three limes their present value. The discovery of the South African mines brought down the price, but amalga! mation in the last twelvemonths has I put it up by above 100 per cent. The rough estimate is that auring the last i few years the output of diamonds lias | been 4,000.000 carats per annum, and ! that these, cut into 1,600.000 earats, ! have sold for ?4,000,000. It costs ten shillings per carat to cut diamonds. ] The South African mines being now amalgamated, the output is reduced to one-half, i. e., 2,000,000 carats, but the ; merchants estimate that this will still produce ?4,000,000, because thev regard this as a lixed amount which, no ! matter what the price of diamonds i may be, will be spent oil them. Mrs. Washington Wanted Preeeat. The custom of giving New Year's ! presents has apparently not died out ! in the south yet, as a woman iu that ! r.oA4tAit l.?fol t Iia .">Cttiun iaiui > n ivtc tuv ivnv?? icv tor to Mi*s. Harrison: 'T am very desirous to get a Nev Year's present from Washington City, and consequently I have located on you for the ! present, as I gave all the aid I could to j give Harrison the president's of; lice. Mv son John cast his first and : only vote for Mr. Harrison through my influence, and many, many others, j and now a New Year's keepsake will , 1 Hi highly appreciated from you. If i you respond to my desire please do not ! express it, as I have vowed never to i nay express again unless I could get ! to see what I pay lor. So pay the ex; pressage when you ship the present, : that I will not have to break my j vow. A dress pattern or anything. : Your true friend, Mrs. George Washi ington."?Philadelphia ledger. ! The Putty Jar Gnu. The girls in Waterbury, Conn., got ; the "putty jar craze," and they made life a burden to the policemen of that town for awhile. The policemeu naturally inferred that all the young ladies in the street had gone stark mad. J Bevies of fascinating and beautiful girls were seen to dart suddenly into liie street now and then, pounce upon something iu the gutter or on the roadbed, pick it up, and then return to the sidewalk and trip serenely on. They were merely gathering raw material for the. putty jar craze. One bewitching maiden fluently explained what the putty jar business is. "It's lots of i fun," said she; "you bet it is. Why, ; you see, you get any kind of a jar, .the | cuter tne better, and you get your faj ther or brother to roll out some putty, I and you have him cover every part of the jar with the putty. Have him stick it on about half an inch thick. It will stick on of itself. Then you have jots of sport. : Slick everything you c^n ;hink of and pick up in the house, Or - or streel> on ^,e pubL^jyi^Jn jJexZry ml uf nilil ilrwigai OkHSMSM -i and .screws look pretty'good, and bu ct is i 01/ l*!e street that look odd ancl I jji,.. j uing on the putty. Knickknacks ou^. ; the factories and odds and ends j shops look good, too, and after . .. ! have got the jar all stuck up, ther T"-! i have it bronzed and varnished. 1 ; I . i "11 there is to the putty jar craz -V, i Cor. New York Bun. will 1 00 of ! rm . ,. , , ^ the immediate cause of the B . ian revolution is supposed to test- ^ been the rumor that the empew >opu- | tended to abdicate soon in favor < ~,000 j only daughter, who is persouall' <*' ' i -.i * * ' " popular wiLii me people ana n en' husband is one of the Orleans pri : a foreigner and a Frenchman, that j * eft k Wants to Speak a Good Wc that j rned i silent | After suffering untold agoniet " ot i three yearn from rheumatism, ar I ter trying, various remedies wit -U *id ! I desired to try S. S. S. j man i taking eight bottles I was ent ?2u,- cured. Therefore I cheerfully i the mine to many testimonials whiel >nth. i to prove the great success of S. tally j as a remedy tor those sufteriug ichi- i rheumatism. ^ ?r'c i John McDonai.d, 101 n*> McDonald's Mill, G are mii.i.ikex's bend. ehdi j The following extracts is t and ! from a letter received from Mr. ions, j ham McKain, proprietor of theIV lerer j son House, at Tallulah, Mac than j Parish, La.: "While I was mere than , Jtgiijcy at Milliken's llend, in ; parish, during the year '87 and ? V' i 1 sokl large quantities of Sv : Specific (S. S. S.). and during 7 , i time everv one that used the n or ii .. . at of i ('ine was loud in its praise. An t f.... those who was lwnefitted bv S. ! mass was a man?si hop dead?who I h u g" rancor in its most malignant f .\UU0 j pj,, ]uui spoilt n small fortune in i iug to effect a cure, but without i cess. After the knife had been L>';'? there was still a cancerous tain own ' ^?01^ the wound never heal aIIj. 1 finally pursuaded him to try ? d to- ! S., and it alone eradicated the n di- [ o:t, and he recovered pe: nuts j health. FroYn that time until ru.n.1* i death, which was several year 1 l5> ; synitom of disease never returnee NOT A SYMTOM IN FIVE YEARS. d are j crm i .1 had scrofula in 1884 and lach tiroly cleansed it from my systen x-ot- using seven bottles of Swift's ill:: I 1 .<-< it ci \ t 1 j. " "" j ciiif r>. n. j 1 nave uui uo sons *JmPtom ()^ ^ since that time, out- ^ Wilcox, Spartanburg, S. 1 year Treatise on Blood and Skin a , j eases mailed free. SWIFT'S S ; CIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, ( pean | rp]l;, spring meeting of the S -;n't Agricultural and Mechanical Soc Vooii ! an^ ^l0 meeting of the State Grs e,!u. i will he held in Columbia on the > the of February. Both meetings wil ride- lield in Agricultural Hall, that of hlte : Grange at 1'* a. in. and the Agr tnat Society at S p. m. lows , . * A Is Life Worth Living? ones > use I d you go through the won utws ! dyspeptic. Acker's Dyspepsia utfd h'ts is a positive cure for the w dulc forms of Dyspepsia, Indigesi oi Flatulency and Constipation. G > the ' :U1fuOvl and sold by Dr. M. Q. 1 jCCt- ' ^ Why I Go to Chvefc on Baiay Sohteths. I attend church on rainy Sundays because: 1. God has blessed the Lord's day and hallowed it, making no exceptions of hot or cold or stormy days. 2. I expect my minister to be there and should be surprised if he were to stay at home for the weather. 3. If his hands fail through weakness I shall have great reason to blame my self, unless I sustain him by my prayers and presence. 4. By staying away I may lose the prayers which would bring God's blessing, and the sermon that would have done me great good. * 5. My presence is more needful on , Sundays when there are few than on AAA AM iL A lO must: uitYN nufu iuc i~.uuj.wi i? ^crowded. * _ ". 6. Whatever position I hold in the chur^hrliry example must influence others. If I stay away why not they? 7. On any important business, rainy weather does not keep me at home, and church attendance is, in God's sight, very important. 8. Among the crowds of pleasure seekers I see that no weather keeps the delicate female from the ball room, the party or the concert. 9. Such weather will show me on what foundation my faith is built; it will prove how much I love Christ. True love rarely fails to meet on appointment. 10. Those who stay from church because it is too warm or too rainy, frequently absent themselves on fair days. I must not take a step in that direction. w ., 11. Though my excuses satisfy myself, they must undergo God's scrutiny; and they must be well grounded to that. 12. There is a special promise that where two or three are met together in God's name he will be in the midst of them. 13. An avoidable absence from church is an infallible evidence . of ^ spiritual decay. Disciples first fol low Christ a distance, and then like Peter, do not know Him. 14. 3Iy faith is to be shown bymy self-denying Christian life, and not by the rise or fall of the thermome ter.' 15. Such yielding to surmountable difficulties prepare for yielding to those merely imaginary, until thousands never enter a chhrcH, and yet think they have good reasons for such neglect. 16. I know not how many more Sundays God may give me, and it from l you Every mother is cautioned against 'hat's ?iY*no iier child laudamun or paree."? goric; it creates an unnatural craving ^ for stimulants which kills the mind of the child. Acker's Baby Soother razil- is specially prepared to' benefit the have children and cure their pains. It is >f"}?' harmless and contains no Opium or Morphine. Sold by Dr. M. Q. Hen rlioee dri*noes, Preaching From the Heart. ^ Zyon's Herald. ! It is only when ft minister preacher ( j from hi& own heart that he reacher id ftf- b*4?1**8 0* others. A purely intelhout ^ec^ufl^ 8ermon stops with the intelifter *e?t; a doctrinal ?ormon is nothing irely more ^an a 8ph"itual opiate. But a(|jl let a man utter what he has felt and a ?ro ^nowu' k* touch the harp-string ? g that has vibrated in his own soul, from there comes that hush and spell over an audience, that chained atten tion, the lifting of faces which seems like a white table of God's finger to write on. Who has not felt the irresistible power of a hidden experience aken interpreted by another soul? This is the secret of all oratory, of all symladi pathetic power of man over man. iison The greatest preachers are not those han- w^? ma? ?tftim to the highest this Bpholarship, who are sound philosoph'gg ical thinkers or doctrinal giants, but rift's whose" large hearts have throbbed that w^h the deepest spiritual expernedi ieTire* "Gut of the abundence of the iono- heart the mouth speaketh." These 5 g are the men who can hold on vast had audiences and sway them as the orm. wmd sway? the forest. Their lantry guag** mav l>e plain, their style unsu'c pohshed, their manner awkward, but used they know the stops and keps of the t human heart as the organist knows iing. instrument, and all the solemn ? g and sweet music of life answers to can- their ,0U(>hLiVc' bis People Everywhere s, a 1." Confirm our statement when we srv that Acker's English Remedy is in every way superior to any ar^ji all other fn~ preparations for the Throat and * ?v Lungs. In Whooping Cough and jPe~ Croup it is magic and relieves at u once. We offer you a sample bottle r free. Remember, this medicine is sold on a positive guarantee by Dr. Die- M. Q. Hendrix. 9?20 1PE ^a- Judge J. J. Maher of Barnwell has ,, , been commissioned as codifier of the ^!aJe statute laws of South Carolina, to ie * perform which duty he was selected l%e by the Legislature at its recent sen sion* at which an Act was passed ,,, e providing for the revision, digest an , arrangement of the statute laws, and . 10 * the formation of a penal code for this State. The amount appropiiated , for the work is $5,000, together with *500 for clerical services. 1 _ I il Jl : rub During 1889 slightly over onehun orst dred million dolars worth of gold has tioii, been dug from the earth on the four uar- continents. The largest quantity Jen- came from Australia, California and South Africa.