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SERMON BY DR. TAIIAGE.
HIS SUBJECT A MOST TIMELY ONE:
i "THE VOICES OF NATURE."
They Are Articulate and Harmonious, He
Say*?The Doctor's Congregations Not at
All Affected by the Beautiful Weather
at the Springtime.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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| 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. McLean's
Chills and Fever Cure; it is
warranted to cure.
In the poor house of Cook county,
Illinois, there are fifty Union soldiers.
This is a remarkable record.
The watermelon acreage in southwest
Georgia this year will be twentyfive
per cent, greater than last year.
Ex-President Cleveland is said to
have a law practice of $25,000 a year.
More business is offered than he can
attend to.
There are times when a feeling of
lassitude will overcome the most robust,
when the system craves for
pure blood, to furnish the elements
of health and strength. The best
remedy for purifying the blood is Dr.
J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla.
A Boston young man can shift his
heart from Ins left to his right side,
and dislocate every joint and put
himself together with perfecteas^^^^^^g
I Vnrlr rriviollrr
I nw^ll Uil^UKUiJ WVIi UWtUtlJT
$6,000,000, is now valued at $?00,000,000.
It cost to keep it ap $400!000
a year.
No need to take those'lag cathartic
pills: one of Dr. J. H. 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.
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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,
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