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Beookxyn, April 27.?The attraction of the parks in their new springtime garb, which affects many congregations at this season, does not diminish the crowd which pours into the Academy of Music to hear the eloquent preacher. This morning the great edifice was thronged, as usual, as soon as the doors were opened. Alter me reading 01 tux txppx-u^> passage of Scripture and the singing of the hymnv"Glory to God on High,'' Br. Talmage announced as his text Isa. lx, 18: "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto the thee, the fir tree, the pine tree and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." Following is his sermon in full: On our way from Damascus we saw the mountains of Lebanon white with snow, and the places from which the cedars were hewn and then drawn by ox teams down to the Mediterranean sea, and then floated m qrreat rafts to Joppa, and then ag&m drawn by ox teams up to Jerusalem to build Solomon's temple. Those mighty trees in my text are called the "glory of Lebanon." Inanimate nature felt the effects of the first transgression. When Eve touched the forbidden tree, it seems as if the sinful contact had smitten not only that tree, but as if the air caught the pollution from the leaves, and as if the sap had carried the virus down into the very soil until the entire earth reeked with the leprosv. Under that sinful touch nature witnered. The inanimate creation, as if aware of the dams ge done it, sent up the thorn and brier and nettle to wound and fiercely oppose the human race. THE MILLENIUM. Jffow as the ohysical earth felt the J0mcts of the first transgression, so it shall also feel the effect of the Saviour's mission. As from that one tree in Paradise a blight went forth - * - - _ through toe enure earxn, so irom uuo tree 011 Calvary Another force shall speed out to interpenetrate and check, subdue and override, the evil Isrthe and it shall be found that-the tree of Calvary has more potency than the si tregjli -P^racftlei Ai the nations are ^Evangelized, I- think a%jorresponding change will be effected in the natural . woria. I verily believe that the trees, and the birds, and the rivers, and the skieewill have their millenium. If man's sin affected the ground, and the vegetation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ's work be less powerful or less extensive? Doubtless God will jfiake the irregularity and fierceness from the elements, so as to make jthem congenial * a.Wbunijffli ful of grain. Soils which now have peculiar proclivities toward certain ro ms of evil production will be delivered from their besetting sins. Steep mountains, plowed down into more gradual ascent, shall be girdled with locks of sheep and shocks of corn. The wet marsh shall become the deep grassed meadow. Cattle shall eat unharmed by caverns once haunted of , wild beasts. Children will build playhouses in what was once a cave Oi serpents, and, as the Scripture saifch, tlThe weaned child shall put his band on the cockatrice's den." Oh, what harvests shall be reaped , when neither drouth, nor excessive I rain, nor mildew, nor infesting Insects shall arrest the growth, and the utmost capacity of the fields for production shall be tested by. an intelligent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift and competency characterizing the world's inhabitants, their dwelling places shall be graceful and healthy and adorned. Tree and arbor and grove around about will look as if Adam send Eve had got back to Paradise, yjrreat cities, now neglected and unwashed, shall be orderly, adorned with architectural symmetry and connected with far dis tant seaports by present modes of transportation carried to their greatest perfection, or by new inventions yet I . X i? x . J so spring up oui 01 ice waier or arop from the air at the beck of a Morse or a Robert Fulton belonging to future generations. Isaiah in my text seems to look forward to the future condition of the physical -earth as a condition of great beauty and excellence, and then prophesies that as the strongest afcd most ornamental timber in Lebanon was brought down to Jerusalem and constructed into the ancient 1 temple, so all that is beautiful and excellent in the physical earth shall ret contribute to tne church now being built in the world.. "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir tree; the pine tree, and the box to gether, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." arocs o? issr prgfhecy axbexdy rougxi p. o. Much of this prophecy has already been fulfilled, and I proceed to some practical remarks upon the contxibuj uons which the natural world is makJ lug to the kingdom of God, and then i draw acme inferences. The first contribution that nature gives to the church is her testimony in behalf of the truth of Christianity. This is an age of profound research. Nature cannot evade men's inquiries as once. In ohemists laboratory she is put to torture and compelled to give up her mysteries. Hidden laws have come out of their hiding place. The earth i . * l _T._ _ _ ^.1 1 U ana me neavens, aace mey nave uwu ransacked by geologist and botanist and astronomer, appear so different from what they once were that they may be cailed "the new heavens ana the new earth." This research and discovery will have powerful effect upon the religious world. They must either advance or arrest Christianity, make men better or make them worse, be the church's honor or the church's overthrow. Christians, aware cf this in the early ages of discovery, were Rous and fearful as to the progress sience. They feared that some ral law, before unknown, would ^^enly spring into harsh ^collision with Christianity. Gudpowder and the gleam of swords would not so much have been feared by religionists as electric batteries, voltaic piles and astronomical apparatus. It was feared that Moses and the prophets would be run over by skeptical chemists and philosophers. Some of the followers of Aristotle, after tho invention of the telescope, refused to look through that instrument, lest what they saw would overthrow the teachings of that great philosopher. But the Christian religion has no such apprehension now. Ikin* onjyonr tjiwcogea and 4 t ' wmmmmmmmmmmmmmamaMtammsasammmmi scopes _a?d~spectroscopes?and the more the better. The God of nature is the God of the Bible, and in all the universe and in all the eternities he has never once contradicted himself. Christian merchants endow universities, and in them Christian professors instruct the children of Christian j communities. The warmest and most ! enthusiastic friends of Christ are the bravest and most enthusiastic friends of science. The church rejoices as j much over every discovery as the world rejoices. Good men have found that there is no war between science and religion. That which &t first has ; seemed to be the weapon of the infidel ! has turned out to be the weapon of the Christian. SCIENCE IS- FOR CHRISTIANITY. ! <HMnccinnti mav he divided i^V/JlOUiiUV vuvy .. into those which are concluded and those which are still in progress, depending for decision upon future investigation. Those which are conclude have invariably rendered their verdict for Christianity, and we have faith to believe that those which are still in prosecution will come to as favorable a conclusion. The great systems of error are falling before these discoveries. They have crushed everything but the Bible, and that they have established. Mohammedanism and paganism in their ten thousand forms have been proved false and by great natural laws shown to be impositions. Buried cities have been exhumed and the truth of God found written on their coffin lids. Bartlett, Robinson and Layard have been not more the apostles of science than the apostles of religion. The dumb lips of the pyramids have opened to preach the gospeL Expeditions have been fitted out for Palestine, and explorers bave come back to sa^ that they have found among mountains and among ruins and on the shore of waters liv- ; ing and undying evidences of our j glorious Christianity. Men who have gone to Palestine infidels have come back Christians. The v who were blind and deaf to the truth at home have seemed to see Christ again preaching upon Olivet, and have behela in vivid imagination the Son of God again walking the hills about Jerusalem. Caviglia once rejected the truth, but afterward said, 44I came to Egypt, and the Scriptures and the mrramids converted me." When I \ was in Bevrout, Syria, last L^oemfesr, our beloved_4marrcan missionary. Rev. JJfTJessup, told me of his friend - -who met a skeptic at Joppa, the seaport of Jerusalem, and the unbeliever said to his friend: "I am going into the Holy Land to show up the folly of the Christian religion. I am going tc visit all the so-called 'sacred places,1 ami write them up, and show the world that the New Testament is an imposition upon the world's credulity.'1 Months after. Dr. Jessup's friend met "the skeptic at Beyrout, after, he j had completed his journey through the "Holy Land, "Well, how is it?11 said to? aforesaid gentleman \ to the skeptic. The answer was: "I y flora KAftn it ftl] Hqri|i^T| fp" to ^?scroy cams' y uwuu uoiuLiega. -^gtejr what T myselfr saw during my recen^ absence; I conk elude that any one who can go through the Holy Land and remain an unbeliever is ^hher a bad man or an imbecile. God employed men to write the Bible, but he took many of the lame truths which they recoiled, and with his own almighty hand he gouged them into the roefcs, and drove them down into dismal depths, ana, as docu- I meats are put in the corner stone of a ! temple, so in the very foundation of the earth he folded up and placed the records of heavenly troth. The earth's i cornerstone was laid, like that of other sacred edifices, in the name of the Fa ther, and of the Son, and of the Holv Ghost. The author of revelation, standing among the great strata, looked ^ upon Moses, and said, "Let us record for future ages the world's history; you write it there on papyrus; < will write it here on the bowldera"*. NATURE'S INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO CHRISTIANITY. Again, nature offers an invaluable contribution to Christianity by the illustration she makes of divine truth. The inspired writers seized upon the advantages offered by the natural world. Trees and rivers and clouds and v rocks broke forth into holy and enthusiastic utterances. Would Christ set forth the strength of faith, he points to the sycamore, whose roots spread out and strike down and clinch themselves amid great depths of earth, and he said that faith was strong enough to tear that up by the roots. At Hawarden, England, Mr. Gladstone, while showing me his trees during a prolonged walk through his mag- J nincent park, pointed out a sycamore, and with a wave of the hand said, "In your visit to the Holy Land did you see any sycamore more impressive i than that?' I confessed that I had not. Its branches were not more remarkable than its roots. It was to such a tree as that Jesus pointed when he would illustrate the power of faith, "Ye^might say unto this sycamore tree, Be thou plueked up by the root ana oe mou cast into tne sea, ana 11 would obey you." One reason why Christ has fascinated the wo0. as no other teacher is because instead of using severe argument heavas always telling how something is the spiritual < world was like unto something in the j , natural world. , Oh these wonderful i j '"likes" of our Lord! Like a grain of j | mustard seed. Like a treasure hid in i ' a field. like a merchant seeking j I goodly peails. Like unto a net that j ' was cast into the sea. Like unto a ! | householder. _ Would Christ teach the precision j with which he looks after you, he says j he counts the hairs of your hea"d. j WeU, that is a long and teaious count ; if the head have the^ average endow- j ment. It has been found that if the j hairs of the head be black there are i about 120,000, or if they be flaxen there i are about 140,000. But God knows j tbe exact number: "The hairs ofvour | head are all numbered." Would Cnrist j impress us with the divine watchful! ness and care, he speaks of the spar! rows, that were & nuisance in those ; i times. They were caught by the then- : | sands in the*net. They were thin and j scrawny, and had comparatively no i meat on their bones. They seemed I -i . ? -1---1 j valueless, wuemw ui i I dead. Now, argues Christ, if my fa- | i ther takes ears of them will he not j take care of you? Christ would have j the Christiau'despondent over his slow - j neas of religious development go to'bis i corn field tor a lesson. He watches first the green shoot pressing up through the clods, gradually strength- j enicg into a stalk, and last of all the ! huak swelling out with the pressure of | the corn: 4<Iirst the blade, then the ; ear, after that the full corn in the ear." EXPRESSIVE IMAGERY. Would David set forth the freshness and beauty of genuine Christian character?he sees an eagle starting from it* jggptaffcej the moulting semen, / J its old feafners sited, and its vfings and breast decked with new down and plumes, its body as finely feathered as that of "her young ones just beginning to try the speed of their wings. Thus rejuvenated and replumed is the Christian's faith and hope by every season of communion with God. ''Thiv youth is renewed like the eagle's." 'Would Solomon represent the annoyance of a contentious* woman's tongue, he points to a leakage in the top of his house or tent, where, throughout the stormy day, the water comes through, falling upon the floor?drip! drip! drip! ana he says. "A continual dripping in a 1 tWA. very rainy day ana a coaieutwuu .?^ man are alike." Would Christ set forth the charaoter cf those who make great profession of piety, but have no fruit, ne compares them to barren fig. trees, which have very large and showy leaves, and nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrate deceitful friendships, he speaks of brooks in those "climes, that wind about in different directions, and dry up when you want to drink out of them: "Jfy brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away." David when he would impress us with the despondency into which he had sunk, compares it to a quagmire of those regions, through which he had doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up to his neck, and he cried, "I sink ia deep mire where there is no standing." Would Habakkuk set forth the capacity which God gives the good j man to walk safely amid the wildest perils, he points to the wild animal j called the nind walking over slippery rocks, and leaping from wild crag to ; wild crag, by the peculiar make 01 its hoofs able calmly to sustain itself in the most dangerous places: "The Lord I God is my strength, and he will make mf feet like hind's feet." j Job makes all natural objects pay tribute to the royalty of his book. As you go through some chapters of Job you feel as if it were a bright spring morning., and as you see the glittering drops from the grass under your feet, " you say with that patriarch, 44Who hath begotten the drops of And now, as you rea4you seem in the siient_<jz^??!fht to behold the waving ofpu great light upon your 11 -~J f-iiv ftrtd it t.ha paic, ttau-'juu iwtt ? .. ?. ^urgca- -borealis, which Job described soTong ago as "the bright light in the clouds and tbe splendor that oometh out of the north. As you read on there is darkness hurtling in the heavens, and the showers break loose till the birds ily for hiding place and the mountain torrents in red fury foam over the rocky shelving; and with the same poet you exclaim, "Who can. number the clouds in wisdom, or who can stay the bottles of heaven?" As you read on you feel yourself coming in frosty climes, and, in fancy, -wading through the snow, you say, with that same inspired writer, "Hast thou entered into the - treasures of the snow?" And while j the sharp sleet drives in your face, and 1 the hail stings your cheek, you quote ! ' & "-Hast thou seen the treas, jreg of the In the Psalmistjr " "Deep calleth izhto deep;*and the roar of forests: "The Lord sbaketh the wilderness of Kadesh;" and the loud peal of the black tempest: "The Gocf of glory thundereth; and the rustle of the fong silir on the well filled husks: "The valleys are covered with corn;'1 and the cry of wild beasts: ' 'The young * lions roar after their prey;" the hum of palm trees and cedars: "The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree; he shall grow likq a cedar in Lebanon;'' the sough of wings and the swirl of fins: "Dominion over the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea." PRESENTATION OF CHRISTIAN TRUTHS. The truths of the gospel might" have been presented in technical terms, and by the means of dry definitions, but under these the world would not nave listened or felt. How could tbe safety | of trusting upon Christ have been pre| sen ted, were it not for the figure of a rock? How could the gladdening effect of the gospel have been set forth, had not Zacharias thought of the dawn ; of the morning, exclaiming: "The day spring from on high hath visited us to give light- to them that sit in darkness." 410w couia tne soars intense .longing for Christ have been presented so well as by the emblppi of natural hunger and natural thirSc? As the lake gathers into its bosom the shadow of hills around, and the gleam of stars above, so, in these great deeps of ill vine truth, all objects in nature arc grandly reflected. We walk forth in the spring time, and everything breathes of tne Resurrection. Bright blossom and springing grass speak to us cf ihe coming up of those whom we have loved, when in the white robes of their joy and coronation they shall appear. And when is the autumn of the year nature preaches thousands of funeral sermons from the text, "We all do fade as a leaf," and scatters her elegies in our path, we cannot help but think of sickness aruj the tomb. Even winter, "being dead, 3 speaketh." The world will not be argued into the right. It will be tenderly illustrated into the right. Tell them what religion is like. When the j mother tried to tell her dying* child what heaven was she compared it to light. "But that hurts my eyes," j said the dying girl. Then the mother ! compared heaven to music. ''But any j sound hurts me; lam so weak," said j the dying child. Then she was told that heaven was like mother's arms. "Oh, take me there 1" she said. "If it is like mother's arms, take me there 1" The appropriate simile had been found at last. Another contribution which the natural world is making to the kingdom of Christ is the defense and aid V 1 - - .1 wmen use elements are compeiieci to give to th6 Christian personally. There is no law in nature but is sworn for the Christian's defense. In Job this thought is presented as a bargain made between tne inanimate creation and the righteous man: "Thou shall be in league with the stone3 of the field." What a grand thought that the lightnings, and the tempests, and the hail, and the frosts, which are the enemies of unrighteousness, are all marshaled as the Christian's body guard. They fight for him. Thev strike with an arm of fire, or clutcn with their fingers of ice. Everlasting neace is declared between the fiercest elements of nature and the good man. They may in their fury seem to be indiscriminate, smiting down the righteous with the wicked, yet thev cannot damage the Christian's sou), although they may shrivel his body. The wintry'blast that howls about your dwelling yon may call your brother, and the south wmd coming up on a June day by way of a flower garden you may call your sister. Though so mighty in circumference and diameter, the sunand the moon have a special charge concerning vou. "The sun shall net amite thee by day, nor the moon by sight.11 Element* forest hidfoz;. ln'the eirtn ape now harnessed and at work i* producing for you food and clothing. 801310 grain held that you never ?aw presented you this day with your rrbrnmg meal. The great earth and thdheafens are the busy loom at work fcf ydh; and shooting light, and silvery sstraarn, and sharp lightning are onl^tFdven threads in the great loom, vjfh God's foot on the shuttle. The spirit that converted your soul hatfcl so converted the elements from -eianit}'- toward you into inviolable frijfcdship, and furthest star and deepest Severn, regions of everlasting cola a3e?eli as climes of eternal summer, altfhave a mission of good, direct or indirect, for your spirit. THE jSSrcr>Y OF NATURAL OBJECTS. Now 1 infer from this that the study of nutiEgd objects will increase our roligiou^z-o wiedge. If David and Job and J^HtraiKl Paul could not aS'ord to let gc wihout observation one passing oi ?-iF#-. nf snow, or soring bios Vivuv^ vr^ 7 A w Rom, yog cannot afford to let them go without kudy. Men and women of God mos| eminent in all ages for faith and zeal! indulged in such observations?P^3on and Baxter and Doddridge and Kannah More. That man is not wdrthy the name of Christian who saunters listlessly among these magnificent disclosures of divine power aroufcd, beneath and above us, stupid and uninstructed. They are not worthy fc live in a desert, for that ha* its fountains and palm trees; nor in | regions of everlasting ice, for even ; there the ctars kindle t?eir lights, and auroras Sash, and huge icebergs shiver in the morning light, and God's power sits upon them as upon a great white throne. Yet there are Christians in the church who look upon all such tendencies of mind and heart as soft sentimentalities, and because they believe this printed Revelation of God are content to be infidels in regard to all that been written in this great book of jthe tihiverse, written in letters of stars,-in paragraphs of constellations, and illustrated with sunset and thundercloud and spring morning. " I infer, also, the transcendent importance of Christ's religion. Nothing is so far down, and nothing is so high nothing so far out, but God makes tH? rf-' if snow and' temoest' and dragon are expected to praise God,, auppostf^rou he expects no homage from your soul? When God has written his truth upon everything around you, suppose you he did. not mean you to open your eyes and read it? Finally, I learn from this subject what amhonorable position the Christian occupies when nothing is so great and glorious in nature but is made to edify, defend and instruct him. Hold up your Heads, sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, that I may see how yon-hear your honors. Though now you may think yourself unbefriencfecb^hiy spring's soft wind, and next summer's harvest of barley, and next autumn's glowing fruits, and next winter's storms, all seasons, all element zephyr and euroclvdon, rose's breath isd tnuiidercloud, gleaming light apt-thick d&rkne?s~aiSL5worn to ;! * cbtioris jsl angels a3TTm^reat.<rod would unsheath his sword apd arm ^ the universe in your eausej&ifcher than that harm should toucH'you with one of its lightest fingers. VAs the mountains around about ! Jerusalem, so the Lord is around a bout his people from this time forth for evei^^T OH FOjpfCRE SYMPATHY WITH NATURE. Oh fcgiinore sympathy with the natural" w&rld, and then we should always htve a Bible open before us, and and wapould take a lesson from the most fleeting circumstances, as when a storm came down upon England Charles,Wesley sat in a room watching it through an open window, and frightened by the lightning and thunder a little bird flew in and nestled in the bosom of the sacred poet, and as he gently stroked it and felt -the wild oeatii? of Its heart, ho turned to his disk and wrote that Ifvmn w&ich. will be sung* While the world lasts lover of my bouI, I/4t me to thy bosom fly. Whj^ the blilovs oear me roll, Vblle the tempest stiii is hir;lu Hldgjhe, 0 my Saviour, hidA v A ""T^TQio gv>rm oMUeSe poSl, T Aftfii iuto the haven guide. " ^ KJ nx>ji w ui.y txjuj. at 7'A Tariff Pcom. Kingman (EanJ Democrat. He sat at %is door at noonday, lonely aad gloomy and sad, brooding over the jprice of his corn crop and figuringhow much he had; He had worked irom early springtime, early and late and hard, and he was countingkisgesets and figuring out his reward. -He figured that it took two acres tojmy his two boys new boots, and ten acres mGre on top of this to fit them"out with new suits. To buy his wife a protected dress it took 100 bushels more, while five acre3 went in a solid lump for the carpet on the floor.. His tax and his grocery bill absorbed his crop of cats, while the interea^&g his farm mortgage took [ all hie fattened shoats. . The shingles on his cow shed and the lumber for ! his bamhad eaten up his beef steers and tij^j^uice of his corn. So he I sat iiHiSRIIbr at noon day, lonely and ^-hamv'-and sore, as he figured up his wealth a little less than it was the year before. "By gum, they say I'm protected, but 1 know' there's something wrong; I've been decieved 1 and gulled ana hoodwinked by this ' high-profested song. They told of rebellious traitors, and held up the j bloody isg, and I followed along like a pumpkin, and now I am holding the bag. But from this time on 111 invacfi.-j-cfz* ?nrl crpf, fo the hottnm nf facts, and 111 bet ? ? to begin with that the tariff is a tax. ' The New Discovery, You have heard your friends and neighbors talking about it. You may yourself be one of the many who know from personal experience jusc how gCrS&HL thing it is. If you have ever tried it, you are one- of its staunch friends, because th6 wonderful thing ^out it is, that when once given a kBr, Dr. Kings. New Disco v ery ever.a'ffer holds a place in the house. If you have never used it and shou%be afflicted with & cough, cold or any Throat. Lung or Che3t trouble, secure a bottle at once and give it a fa r trial. It is guaranteed every time, or mpney refunded'Trial bottir at sLy drugstore, * flUk : THE PRINCE WAS LICKED. A Story of Quaen Victoria's Justice In the ?arlv Days of Her Reign. Osborne, Isle of Wight, is Queen Victoria's seaside residence. | Many years ago, when the Prince i of Wales was a lad, he was on* day ; nlaving on the beach, when he spied a I haslcet of fish. Thirsting for fun, he overturned the basket and sent the Ssh sprawling into the water. The youngowner?a boy about the prince's age?soon returned, and, enraged at the loss of the day's toiis, attacked the perpetrator, giving him a vigorous beating; whereupon his royal highness flew angrily to the castle. "Enow ye, lad, who ye've been lay* ing hands on?" asked a fisherman, approaching; "it's nane other than the beir to the throne." Consternation rilled the mind of the boy and all hi3 family?still more when, in the evening, a summons came from the queen to that youth to present himsel/ at Osborne castle. The little fellow started with trembling, thinking over all the fireside tales that his child ears had heard of chains and "dungeon keeps," tortures and the ax?cheerful musings to ac J I mmnsnv his slow, reluctant steos up j the avenue to the castle. His agitated j little brain was trying to frame a I speech in defeuse; but, when he was ushered into the royal presence every word deserted his lips, and he could not lift his eyes from the floor. 'Are you the boy that ddred whip my son, the Prince of Wales?" asked the queen, .sternly. "I be, y'r niaj'sty," he replied, trembling in every limb; "and I beg yV pardon, y'r znaj'sty." "You dou't even try to evade the truth," said the queen. "What provoked you to do it?" "Tney ? they"?the boy hesitated, still trembling, "they was iny father's lish, y'r maj'sty. Didn't know 'twas his royal highness." _ "Ah, I begin to understand." Then turning to the prince, she asked: "What did you do to his fish?" "Wanted to see if they'd swim," said the beij^e^uareut, examining the ug ures. arftiie c^petr^srrHr^^^e a iittxe, The queen turned to the flsherboy, and said: "You are a brave lad for defending your father's possessions. Of sucn metal may my army be made I Her^ is a guinea for your fish, and jSextf time tibe prince, in hiseagerneia for knowledge, overturns your ^basket,' give him another whipping, and you shall have two guineas from his -purse." A lighter hearted boy never went out of castle gates, and a light hearted father was ever after loyal to Eng* land's queen.?Treasure Trove, The Brooklyn Bridge Cable, j Proof of the degree of dependence | of the public upon the slender wire I rope known as the bridge cable has ^ j been more than once, afforded. PerI haps the sustaining power of a rone , r has never i>een more* carefully watchy ;-i. ctL-?tne f-aiutoai iadicmtion of Weakness-.Tsr&iy pari trnew pk?? is put in, and when the rope has been - worn until it is-generally reduced the whole is removed and sold. A relief cable is kept constantly in place ready to be rigged at an hour's notice, and a brand -new one, with its more than two miles of length wound about an enormous drum, is kept all the time on the dock below the Brooklyn end of the structure. One end of it is carried up to the bridge and fastened there, so that the briefest possible time may be required in an emergency in stretching it. An interesting fact in connection with the use of new cables on the bridge is that after a fortnight's use their length increases from seventyfive to one hundred feet The cause of this is mainly the compression of the cable, which has a hemp center, by the grips, thus occasioning the elongation. When the cable gets too long a piece is cut out and tne ends spliced. A new cable costs $5,000.? Brooklyn Eagle. The Real Danger in a Barber Shop. What, then, is the possible danger ! of infection in a barber shop? I reply | that there is practically none?at least, ^ 110 more than at your own home?in ! any barber shop respectably kept with a aue regard for cleanliness. A drummer traveling continually among large cities of the United States, ana stopping at the best hotels, runs a much greater chance of being killed in a railway accident than of getting the barbers itch. Still, after all that has been said, there-remains one chance which makes : the liability of infection greater in a t barber shop than in your own home. | The weak point of a barber's outfit is | his towels, of course. I know that ' onfV\ riKtrimor Via?? a fnnrfil Knt what is the previous history of that towei? It may have-absorbed some i parasite from tlie skin of the last man, then have been carelessly thrown in a tub of water and afterward dried in a very perfunctory manner. Nothing less than a thorough soaking in soapsuds, then wringing it out and finally drying it. in hot air of high tempera; ture, will completely suffice to avert : this risk.?Interview in New York ! Evening Sum ODDS AND ENDS. A Russian lady proposes, in the col' umns of a Russian newspaper, that women of Russia and France should ! join in forming a corps of am'azons to | fight the amazons of Dahomey. A leading English scientist states. j that women have better eyesight than : men, and that in all his experience he ! has never met a wcman who was color | blind. An Athens, Ga., 14 year old boy i has ihade a complete dynamo, capable of lighting one large arc light, run bv a treadle. He has also made a complete telephone with" an improvement in the transmitter, which is said by electricians to work perfectly and to be much simpler than the on'e now in ! use, j Near Tuscon, iu Arizona, a verv i large cave has been discovered, whicn ! is as yet unexplored, and from which j ranchmen in the neighborhood have I obtained beautiful specimens of lime j carbonates, . During the recent hoods at Ana! heim, Cal., every hummock was j swarming with hares and rabbits that ! were driven from the plains. They j were slaughtered by thousands by boys and men, who used sticks, ana when tired of the sport would run the poor beasts off their dry places into the raging waters. j The pet names of the four baby ; states are as follows: North Dakota-is : the "Flickertai! state." South Dakota i is the 1 'Swinge Cat state,v Washingi ton is the "Chinook state," and Monj tana is the "Stubbed Toe state." ' meiZ_<teamftgJPbiyn??ian j * 1 had a queer experience. The steamer ran into an electric storm, the masts, I yards and rigging being brilliantly il- J lurainated with balls of fire. The first officer says it was a grand sight, many of the passengers coming up on deck to see it. Two thousand ammunition carts, baggage wagons and other military transport venicies, built in Warsaw, have oeen shipped by the Russian war i department to Batoum. They are in- , tended for Central Asia. One of the finest pieces of work ever turned out at Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco, is a whaleboat built for King Malietoa, of Samoa, to be presented to him by the United States government as a token of esteem for his kindness to American officers and sailors at the wreck of the Trenton and Vandalia. There is a dog in St. Louis that is a regular funeral goer. While driving out the road to Bellefontaine with a funeral he was seen to get up and trot along beside the hearse. No more was thought of him until the ^rave was reached, and there the big bundle was seen hanging on the outskirts of the crowd, just as much interested as any one. From that time on he has been a regular mourner, and he goes to every funeral that takes place. A gentleman has offered $5,000 to any university in New England will send a physicist to witness Keeiy's experiments, who will bind himself not to gi^e an opinion until the nature of Keelv's discoveries have been made known to him, and he has seen the demonstrations which Keely is ready to make in pi-oof of his claims as a discoverer, not as an inventor. One of the most extraordinary of African trees is that known as the baobab. It is almost a forest in itself, and serves as a complete sylvan palace on the largest scale. Rarely growing more than seventy feet high, its \ branches extend horizontally, supportj ed by a trunk which has a ffii th gTeat| er, it is beiieved, than that of any other | known tree. One of these extraordinary trees was found on measurement It is now believed that the tnaxn/ moth abounded to as. great an extent \ upon the east as on the west coast of Behring sea In fact, mammoths have already been discovered in Alaska and news comes that a syndicate has been formed for the purpose of procuring their ivory tusks, which are now of great value and which will undoubtedly continue to become more valuable as the elephant is being exterminated, An innovation in the placing of the orchestra, inaugurated at tne first "Ascanio" performances at the Grand Opera house, consists in making all the players face the audience, instead of playing' partially toward the stage and partiaHy toward the audience. The conductor's stand is placed at the point farthest removed from the stage, ? ami hep of^'course, turns his back toward! th^. audience? but as. he is in front cf ali his forces he is not obliged, as is so often the case now in our operatic performances, to turn partially or wholly around to make musicians aware of his intentions. Orange Growing in Florida. Another dealer said that orange growing in Florida was not the bonanza that it had been said to be. unless the groves were- in hummock lands which are adapted to its culture. The Florida grower oould not look for more than $1.75 a box on an average for his fruit Out of this he had to pay 50 cents a box freight to market, 50 cents for picking and packing, while the cost of growing, including the fertilizing process, brought him down to a profit of only about 50 cents a box. A bad year would wipe out two years' profits. But the business was ; growing. There were in Florida about 10,000 growers. The capital invested was from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000, Three yeare ago there were produced 1,250,000 boxe3, two seasons ago, 2,100,000, and in 1889 about 2,500,000 boxes.?New York Tribune. A Humble Hevo'a Death. Engineer Burns, who was killed in the wreck at Robard's station, in Henderson county, was the author of a heroic act ten years ago that made him for a time famous. He was the engineer of a fast passenger train on the main stem of tne Louisville and Nash ville road. One day he detected, VzLy a short distance ahead, a Little child sitting in the middle of the track playing with its rattle. He couldn't stop the train, the distance was so short, but he ran out and climbed down on the cowcatcher, and fastening one foot between the bars to balance himself, reached out and snatched the child up. Burns was presented with a gold medal and greatly lionized by the press and people for this heroic deed. Stor ies of this kind have been read in the Sunday school papers, but this was an actual occurrence. Owensborough. (Jty.) Messenger. To Dislodge a Fish Bone. Barnweil Poopi?. The raw white of an egg, if swal lowed in time, will effectually dislodge a fish bone in the throat. A fewyears since a little boy of my acquaintance swallowed a round tin whistle as large as an ordinary checkerman; remedies were given, Jmt without avail, when a neighbor hearing of the accident called and recommended that the white of an egg be given. It was done and the desired result obtained. A famous English lecturer claims thatlhe whites of two eggs will render the deadly coiTosive sublimates as harmless as a dose of calomel. There is an old su perstition that eggs laid oil ?'nday never spoil, and will, if eaten, cure the colic, but I fail to find this substantiated by either scientists or the honest farmer's wife, and it probably had its origen in the brain of some superstitious, ignorant old negro. The most delicate constitution can safely use Dr. J. H. McLean's Tar "Wine Lung Balm. It is a sure remedy for coughs, loss of voice, and all throat and lung trouble. I I 4 | Harry?"Dearest Amelia, can you, i will you give me your hand?" | Amelia, (looking at Harry's grim fingers)?"I don't know, Harry?no, I'd better not. It would be so hard for you to keep it clean, you know. I think you have rather more hands already than you can attend to." - waips xroa our worasaop. If you want fine cannf d goods you will always find them at the Bazaar. Queen Victoria's doctor's bill is $4,000 a year. If health and life are worth anything, and you are feeling out of sorts and tired out, tone up your system by taking Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. Apr. 80. A citizen of Franklin, Penn., is taxed nine cents on real estate and $3.50 on dogs. it is saia mat tne citizens oi xort Worth, Texas, donated Sam Jones the sum of $2,500. For a saf6 and certain remedy for fever and ague, use Dr. J. H. 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McLean's Liver^ and Sidney Pillets is quite sufficient and more agreeable. A spectator of a fire in Wilmington, N. CM met with a singular accident A stream of water from the hose struck him in the face and tore one of his eyes from its socket "O, Mrs. Snappy! I saw your husband in the park with three or four ladies around^ him." "That's all ; right, but let me catch him with one ' lady around him-? Faults of digestion causes disor- *i ders of the liver, and the whole system becomes deranged. Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsapanlla perfects the process of digestion and assimilation, and thus makes pure blood. A Newport, Ky., widower forfeits an inheritance of $77,000 by marrying again. It was his first wife's property, willed to him on condition that he should remain single. Sick headache, billiousness, nausea, costivoness, are promptly and agreeably banished by Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Pellets (little pills.) A rat recently killed at Wingate's Point, Dorchester county, McL, meas- \ ured seventeen inches from the tip of lis can 10 me ena 01 us nose, ana six inches across its back Dizziness, nausea, drowsiness, distress after eating, can be cured and prevented by taking Dr. J. H. Lean's Liver and Kidney Fillets (little pills.) ,4 The first peaches of the season have come to Savannah?14 crate. ?: They came from C. B. Thorton, Tarpon Springs, Florida, and were consigned to Boston and New York markets. ' . Ladies, if you want your stoves to look as good as new, use Lustro Stove Polish, only 10 cents a box. " And your kitchen tables, tin ware, etc., to look neat and clean, try the kitchen soap, at the Bazaar. Sheep grow to an immense size in Southern California. One was recently killed in the mountain region < of San Bernardino county which, it is reported, dressed four hundred pouids of mutton. Even the most vigorous and hearty people have at times a feeling of weariness and lastitude. To dispel this feeling take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla; it will impart vigor and . vitality. Bight of Ocean Waves. American 2s"ote? and Queries. % A sea captain recently took what are probably the most careful observations as to the hight of ocean waves in a gale which have ever been recorded. He made them during a voyage around Cape Horn, and to do it he went up to the main rigging to get, if possible, the top of the wave coming up astern in a line of eight from the mast to a horizon at the back. The reason he selected the mastiff was this, that, as a rule, it is nearly a midships (the actual foot of the wave below the main jdraught, equal to the sight elevation), and the observer is necessarily above the true hight. It was a difficult operation, but the captain obtained some good observations, marking the hights of the waves on the mast. On measuring the distance from these to the main draught he found them to be as follows: 61, 64, 58 and 65 feet respectively, varying in length from 650 to 800* feet. i Pimples, blotches, scaly skin, ugly spots, sores and ulcers, abscesses and tumors, unhealthy discharges, such as catarrh, eczema, ringworm, and other forms of skin diseases, are symptoms of blood impurity. Take i I>r< J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla, iV ^ . ' ^ . ' ? 'i C-., * *