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, i j g ~ ADVERTISING RATES: j KATES REASONABLE. j line each insertion. JOB PRINTlSfiA SPECIALTY. Mamage notices inserted free. Obituaries over ten line charged for at regular advertising rates. VOL. XXII. LEXINGTON, S. C? WEDNESDAY, AFEIL 13,1892. NO. 21. ?~? 0.lH??K.M? I 3BBBBfi8SB3HOi&3HBEHBRBnHDHEBS3KSHnnBBBiHi AT THE TABERNACLE. 'The Dirine Astronomy as Described by the Prophets. In the Unchanging Volume of the 2>?ies?it is written mat uod is a God of Infinite Order and "With? out Variableness or Shadow of Turning. In this sermon Dr. Talmage traverses wild realms of thought to teach useful even- day lessons, based on the sext, Amos v, 8, "Seek him that sn&keth the Seven Stars and Orion/' A. <oountry farmer wrote this text? Aanos of Tekoa. He plowed the dKEuCh and trashed the grain by a new ttbrashing machine just invented, as : formerly the cattle trod out the grain. He gathered the fruit of the sycamore tree and scarified it with an iron comb just before it was getting .ripe, as it wasnecesssarv and custom . ary in that way to take from it the bitterness. He was the son of a poor shepherd and stuttered, but be fore the stammering rustic the Philistines and Syrians and Phoenicians ? and Moabites and Ammonites and Edomites and Israelites trembled. Moses was a lawgiver, Daniel was a prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king; but Amos, the author of my ?ext, was a peasant, and, as might be supposed, nearly all his parallelims . are pastoral, his prophecy full of the <odor of new mown hay, and the rat die of locusts, and the rumble of carts with sheaves, and the roar of wild beast devouring the flock while the shepherd came out in their defense. He watched the herds by day, and by night inhabited a booth made j ?jfc of bushes, so that through these ; I . lie could see the stars all nhrht lone-. o jojd was more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our I houses and liardlj ever see the stars, .. exoept among, the tall brick chira^be^?t, towns. ? stay out in the open fields all through rthe darkne&g his only shelter the curtain of the night heaven, with the Btellar eml broideries and silvered tasrv? sels of lunar light. jv-\ "What a life of solitude, all alone with his herds! Poor Amos! And at 12 o'< dock at night hark to the wolfs ^ark, and the lion's roar, and the briar's growl, and the owl's te whit -te-who, and the serpent's hiss as wittingly steps too near while K.oving through the tickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens, because it was so much of the time spread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing and others receding. He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons t.Vio wflr TTp Imr? a. -nnp+ir* nature, and he read night by night, and month by month, and year by year the poem of the constellations, divinely rythmic. But two rosettes stars especially attracted "his attention while seated on the ground or lying on his back under the open scroll of the midnight heavens?the Pleiades, or beven btars, and Urion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with spring, as it rises about the first of May. The latter he associated with winter, as it comes to the meridian in January. The Pleiades, or Seven Stars, connected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempest. The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a special inJS i.l_ - i-1. 1 _ V I ^ nueuce upwi i>u? euxhu, auu. ^ - ihey were right. If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic ocean, and the electric storms of the sun, by all scientific admission, affect the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? Astrology, after all, may have been something more than a brilliant ?" heathenism. No wonder that Amos of the text, having heard these two anthems of the stars, put down the ?t Vv w\ r? r\ BlrUUlf IDU^U MOU U1 tiiC I-lt/'l U-OiXlCt-Ll i and took into his brown hand and cut and knotted fingers the pen of the prophet and advised the recent people of his time to return to God, and saying, "Seek him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion." This com? mand, which Amos gave 785 years j B. C., is just as appropriate for us, tfe 1892 A. D. - In the first place, Amos, saw, as j [we must see, that the God who made the Pleiades and Orion must be the God of order. It was cot so much I j star here and a star there that impressed the inspired herdsman, but seven in one group and seven in the other group. He saw that night after night and season after season and [ decade after decade they had kept I step of light, each one in its own place, a sisterhood never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the time Hesiod called the Pleiades the "seven daughters of Atlas," and Virgil wrote in his JEneidof "Stormy Orion'' until now, they have observed thp nrdpr established for their com ! ing and going; order written not in manuscript that may be pigeonholed, but with the hand of the Almighty on the dome of the sky, so that all nations may read it. Order. Persistent order. Omnipotent order. What a sedative to you and me, to whom communities and nations sometimes seem going pellmell, and world ruled by some fiend at bapliazzard and in all directions maladministration! The God who keeps seven worlds in right circuit for six thousand years can certainly keep all the affairs of individuals and nations and continents in adjustment. We had not better fret much, for the peasant's argument of the text was right. If God can take care of the seven worlds of the Pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orion, he can probably take care of the one world we inhabit. In your occupation, your mission, your sphere, do the best you can, and then trust to God; and if things are all mixed and disquieting and your brain is hot and vour heart is sick, %/ J get some one to go out with you iuto the starlight and point out to you the Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some observatory, and through the telescope see further than Amos with the naked eye could?namely, two hundred stars in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula computed to be two trillion two hundred thousand billions times larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace with, the God who made all that and controls all that?tha/j. wheel of the conselMions turning-in the wheel of galaxieV for thousands of yefars without th^breaking cf a cog or the ^.lippinfe of a through the Lord charge you, "Seek the Seven Stars anc^g^|&Era|| Again, Amos, see, that the God who I two groups of the text yy .Shr-God 0f light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star, or two stars, or three stars, but makes seven; and having finished that group of worlds, makes another group? group after group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that God InvAR lio-Vif, Kft ivpII that h<=> kppr)S mat ing it. Only one being in the universe knows the statistics of solar, lunar, stella, metoric creations, and that is the Creator himself. And they have all been lovingly christened each one a name as distinct as the names of your children. uHe telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names." The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra. Sterope, Taygete and Maia. But think of the billions and trillions of daughters of starry light God calls by name as they sweep by him with beaming brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of light?natural light, moral light, spiritual light. Again and again is light harnessed for symbolization?Christ, the bright morning star; evangelization, the daybreak: the redemption of nations, Sun of Righteousness rising with healing in his wings. O men and women, with so many sorrows and sins and perplexities, if }'0u want ! light of comfort, light of pardon, 11 4- Ammnrl1 >wot?AV j 11^ 110 Ui 1U Ceil JLlCot through Christ, ''Seek him that makj eth the Seven Stars and Orion/' Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two | archipelagoes of stars must be an unchanging God. There had been no change in the stellar appearance in this herdsman's life time, and his father, a shepherd, reported to him that there had been no change in his lifetime. And these two clusters hang over the clestial arbor now just as they were the first night that they shone on the Edenic bowers; the same as when the Egyptians built the pyramids, from the top of which to watch them; the same as when the Chaldeans calculated the eclipses; the same as when Elihu, according to the book of Job, went out to study the aurora borealis; the same under Ptolemaic system and Copernican system; the same from Calisthens to Pythagoras, and from the Pythagoras i to Herschel. Surely, a changeless I God must have fashioned the Pleiades ; and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne i amids the ups and downs of life, and i the fluz and reflux of the tides of ! prosperity, to know that we have a j changeless God, "the same yesterday, \ today and forever!'' Xerxes garlanded and knighted the j steersman of his boat in the morn- | ing and hanged him in the evening ! j of the same day. The world sits in j j its chariot and drives tandem, and j the horse ahead is Huzza and the i horse behind is Anathema. Lord i Cobham, in King James' time, was I j applauded, and had thirty-five thous- j J and dollars a year, but was after ward execrated and iiveci on scraps i stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander the Great after death remained j unburied for thirty days, because no I one would do the honor of shoveling j him under. The Duke of Wellington refused to have his iron fence mended because it had been broken by an infuriated populace in some hour of political excitement, and he left it in ruins that men might learn what a fickle thing is human favor. "But the mercy of the Lord is trom everlasting to everlasting to them that fear him, and his righteousness unto the children's of children of such as keep his covenant, and to those who remember his commandments to do them." This moment "Seek him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.'' Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two beacons of the oriental night sky must be a God of love and kindly warning. The Pleiades rising in midsky said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and husbandmen, "Come out and enjoy the mild weather and cultivate your gardens and fields."' Orion, coming in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest. All nav:gation was regulated by these two constellations. The one said to shipmaster and crew, "Hoist sail for the sea and gather merchandise from other lands." But Orion was the storm signal, and said, "Reef sail, make things snug or put into harbor, for the hurricanes are getting their wings out." As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion was warning prophet of Oh, now I get the best Tkinds^of^sermonsJT neveT ; ^ ?piLa'^u 1 1 Ctrtrtrlre fnat pr 6 so kind, so indulgent, so lomP?F^*5 imbecile that men may do wh will against him and fractiire his every law and put the pry of their impertinence and rebellion under his throne, and while they are spitting in his face and stabbing at his heart, he takes them up in his arms and , kisses their infuriated brow cheek, saying, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." The other kind of sermon I never want to preach is the one that represents God as all fire and f Arfnro or. rl f V> n r? r\ rvr?/^l rvn rl on/1 ttti cuivuiv l uuuu\.i^iv/uuj c%lxvii rr itix red hot pitchfork tossing the human race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The sermon that I am now preaching believes in a God of loving kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion. You must remember that the winter is just as impoitant as the spring. Let one winter pass without frost to kill vegetation and ice to blind the rivers and snow to enrich our fields and then you will have to enlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries. "A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard" was the old proverb. Storms to purify the air. Thermometer at ten degress above zero to tone up the system. December and January just as important as May and June. I tell you we need the storms of life as much as we do the sunshine. There are more men ruined by prosperity than by adversity. If we had our own way in life before this we would have been impersonations of selfishness and worldliness and disgusting sin, and puffed up until we would have been like Jul ins r!#*snr wlin was mcwle liv sycophants to believe that he was dirine, and the freckles on his face were as stars of the firmament. One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made last summer by our swiftest steamer was because she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing her from New York to Liverpool. But to those going in the opposite direction the storm was a buffeting and a hindrance. It is a bad thing to have a storm ahead, pushing us back; but if we be God's children and aiming toward heaven the storms of life will only chase us the sooner into the harbor. I am so glad to believe that the monsoons and typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of the land and sea are not unchained maniacs let loose upon the earth, but are under divine supervision! I am so glad that the God of the I Seven Stars is also the God of Orion! 1 It was out of Dante's suffering came the sublime "Divina Commedia.'' and "Paradise Lost," and out of miserable infidel^attaek came the ''Bridgewater Treatise" in favor of Christianity, and out of David's exile came the songs of consolation, and out of the sufferings of Christ come the j possibility of the world's redemption, j and out of your bereavement, your j persecution, your poverties your mis- j fortunes may yet come an eternal | heaven. V ^ i_ ?? *4- 4-Virt4- i-n fVi/> ' Uil, WIllll R Ilieruy 11/ 10 turn/ m iuu text and all up and down the Bible God induces us to look out toward other worlds! Bible astronomy in Genesis, in Jushua, in Job, in the Psalms, in the prophets, major and minor, in St. John's Apocolypse, practically saying: "-Worlds! worlds! worlds! Get ready for them!'' We have a nice little world here that we stick to, as though losing that we 1 TP/> /Vp poll in OT XUStJ tUX. IY C m c anaiu Ui V? this little raft of a world. We are afraid that some meteoric inconoclast will some night smash it, and we want everything to resolve around it, i and are disappointed when we find that it resolves around the sun instead of the sun revolving around it. What a fuss we make about this little bit of a world, its existence only a short time between two spasms, the paroxysm by which it was hurled from chaos into order, and the paroxysm of its demolition. And I am glad that so many texts call us to look off to other worlds, many of them larger and grander and more resplendent. ''Look there," says Job, "at Mazareth and Arcturus and his sons!" i "TiAnk there." savs St. John "at the | moon under Christ's feet!" "Look there," says Joshua, "at the sun standing still above Gideon!" "Look there," says Moses, "at the sparkling firmament!" "Look there," says Amos, the herdmens, "at the Seven Stars and Orion!" Don't let us be so sad about those who shove off from this world under Christly pilotage. Don't let us be so agitated about our own going off this little barge or sloop or canal boat of a world to get on some Great Eastern of the heavens, uon t let us persist in wanting to stay in this bayn, this ^gg|koui|0Mn|MBi^en ggopen their gaSe^to ^iedby many) When I read, "In my Fathers house are many mansions," I do not know but that each world is a room, , and as many rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hallways, stellar windows, J TT J L-J ! stenar uomeu. now our ueparreu j friends must pity us shut up in these cramped apartments, tired if we walk fifteen miles, when they some morning, by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back in time for matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is the residence of twelve luminaries is the celestial home of the apostles. T> 1 XT X -X .. I 1 . X X u - remaps tuui steep cu ia ?'ut: dwelling place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. A manson with as many rooms as worlds, and all their windows illuminated for festivity. Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimulates our expectations! How little it makes the present and how stupendous it makes the future! How it consoles us about our pious dead, who, instead of being boxed ,1 -3 At, .1 1 it. ? up aiiu uiiuei tue giuuuu, uave uiu range of as many rooms as there are worlds, and welcome everywhere, for it is the Fathers house, in which there are many mansions. Oh, Lord God of the Seven Stars and Orion, how can I endure the transport, the ecstasy of such a vision! I must obey my text and seek him. I will seek him. I seek him now, for I call to mind that it is not the material universe that is most valuable, but the spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth more than all the worlds which the inspired herdsman saw from his booth on the hills of Tokoa. I had studied it before, but the Cathedral of Cologne, Germany, never impressed me as it did the last time I saw it. It is admittedly the grandest gothic structure in the world, its foundation laid in 1248, only eight or nine years ago completed. More than six hundred years in building. All Europe taxed for its construction. Its chapel of trie Magi with precious stones enough to purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of St. Agnes with masterpieces of painting. Its spire springing five hundred and eleven feet into the i heavens. Its stained glass the chorus of all rich colors. Statues encircling the pillars andjencircling all. Statues above statues, until sculpture can do no more, but faints and falls back against carved stalls and down on pavements over which the kings and queens of the earth have walked to confession. X Jive .111 rl I aisles and transept and portals combining the splendors of sunrise. Interlaced, interfoliated, intercol-1 umxied grandeur. As I stood out side looking at the double range of j \ llying buttresses and the forest of j pinnacles, higher and higher and 2 higher, until I almost reeled from dizziness, I exclaimed: "Great doxology in stone! Frozen prayer of A many nations!" Bat while standing there I saw a poor man enter and put 3own his pack and kneel beside his b urden on q the hard floor of that cathei Iral. And tears of deep emotion came into my c eyes as I said to myself: "T 'here is a j, soul worth more than all ti le material surroundings. That i> lan will -j live after the last pinnacle h; fallen, j and not one stone 01 an turn, uvun- i . dral glory shall remain uncn imbled. ( He is now a Lazarus in rags a nd \ erty and weariness, but im mo.vtal ( and a*son of the Lord God Aln lig. hty ( and the prayer he now offers, thoi igh t amid many superstitions, I heli eve God will hear, and among the ap ostles whose sculptured forms stanc i in the surrounding niches he will at ( last be lifed, and into the preseno 3 of L that Christ whose sufferings are represented by the crusifix before which , he bows, and be raised in due time ] out of all his poverties into the glorious home built for hirmmd built for us by 'Him who maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.'" Honoring Confederate Dead. < New Orleans, April (>.?Veterans \ of the Army of Northe rn Virginia, ( Army of the Tennessee, Confederate s Cavalry, Washington Ai*tillery, Con- j tinental Guards. Henry ? it. Paul Hat- t talion and visiting ex -soldiers, to- t gether with friendly and sympathiz- ? ing delegations from the Louisiana 1 State Militia, are this afternoon as- I t sembled in the picturesque Meterii. f i Cemetery doing homage to the mem- S 3 ory of their comrades who fought so- jj 5 bravely on the side of the "Lost N Cause." Floral offerings in profus- |; i sion adorn the grounds and the en- !; < I tabulatures cf the woDumental tombs | ^ A. Gordon Bak- ' wetHvere among the notable features a of the programme of ceremonies. t Deafness Can't Ise Cured. c a ' . 1-' f By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. Tnere is only one w.ay to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you j have a rumbling sound or imperfect j hearing, and when it is ei itirely closed, -v Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can bo taken out a and this tube restored to its normal a condition, hearing will be destroyed ( forever; nice cases out of ten are ^ caused by catarrh, which is nothing ?, but an inflamed condition, of the ki mucous surfaces. ^ "We will give One Hundred Dollars Q for any case of Deafness (caused by ? catarrh that we cannot cure by taking *, Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir- ;! j culars, free. -j. F. J. CHENEY & CO., \ t Toledo, O. || ? Sold by all druggists, 75 cents 24. ' i: Captured in Union. ^ V Union, S. C., April 6.?John Boyd, s the negro who wrecked the tri an on i] the Western North Carolina R lilroad ^ at Bostian's Bridge last fall, an id who esoarwl from the Charlotte iail some <. time ago, was captured in this c tounty d last night by Mr. S. S. Farrer. The d negro made no resistances, but made g the remark that if he had his pistol g he would not give up so easy, or j k words to that effect. He was ii brought here last night about ono n o'clock and lodged in jail, and was ? c carried to Charlotte today. t' "Why Have They 2Tot Com-.j ? plied." I b ! 0 Editor Lexington Dispatch: In last ; a issue of the Dispatch, "Magister"* \ I writes under a misapprehension. Tho i c Teachers' Association at its first \ meeting last fall requested several of its members to take the different ! o branches of the public examination i "V and publish answers to the questions. I c This, doubtless, is what "Magister'' p had dimly in mind. It is said, how- ii e\ er, that the board proposed to the t< one dissatisfied teacher to have his j C1 a iswers published in the Dispatch. | e] Probably ''Magister' heard of that & and was led into error by it. b Discipulus. 11 . ci Eczema, scalp covered with erup- n firms. doctors woven valueless. P. I h P. P. was tried and tbe Lair began to grow again, not a pimple can be a seen, and P. P. P. again proved itself d a wonderful skin cure. ' g ERY STJ.aCT STATUTE. ] . , S iegistraticr,! Law Causes Trouble in < Sumter County. ] < Lssista^t Attorney General Town- sen d Explains the Law on the Sub ject?Many Citizens Disfranchised ' i lolnmbia Kegister. There is considerable trouble in >umter county over the registration aw. Several citizens tried to regis- ' cr and could not because they j md failed to register under ; ;he Act of 1882. Governor TillI vrt/ioJxr/-.,! a lot for frnm IVTr SbftW ilii.il J. CUtl ttU (it J.UVWJ. ? I )f Sumter, on the subject. He re"errcd it to the Attorney General's office and has received the following opinion: To His Excellency, B. K. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S- C. Dear Sir: The letter of W. J. Shaw )f Sumter, S. C., asking whether a person who was qualified to register it the first call for registration and who did not register then, can now register, has been referred to the attorney General for his opinion, and [ have the honor to state to your Rxellency that such person cannot low register, nor is there any provision for his registration The registration Act approved the )th of February, 1882, provided that ,he books of registration should be jpened in May and June ^thereafter tfter due notice of the time and jlace, etc. It also provided that after ?be completion of the registration "thus ordered to be made in May ind June threafter, the books should 3e closed and not re-opened until afer the next general election, and hen to register "only" such as had wcome qualified after said election. There is no Drovision for resristeriner 1 V w i person who was so careless as to illow the proper time to elapse without registering. I have the honor tcV1y&ur obedient servant, D. ^^Assistant Att^H^HMP -The registration ^ tpIT} | vnj} PJ ind was made so for very satistfacory reasons. If a man becomes of 1 ige and fails to register at the next 1 >pening of the books he cannot thereifter register and is completely disranchised. So also with those who ailed to register, if qualified, under he Act of 1882. The Two Rotten Planks. After a rather protracted absence, ' bave returned to find in the Dis>aich of March 2d, a communication rhich removes the screen from the taor of "the bouse that Jack built," 1 ml reveals to the public that "Alii- i uceman" is none other that Mr. W. 1 ). Tatum, Vice President of Orange- 1 >urg County Alliance and prospect- < re candidate for the Legislature from 1 hat county. I had wondered much ow it were possible for any citizen f this county to be in doubt as to he identity of "Festus," but when it s known that "Allianceman" hails 1 rom the far off and obscure Bam>erg frontier the apparent density of lis ignorance on that question is ex- * >lained. ] Our courteous and worthy friend c 3 redeemed from the charge of labor- t Dg under any illusion as to the 1 weight of his articles when he frankly < ays that his ''first article was not 1 atended as an argument, nor is this/' i Vith this open confession, I beg to ? ssure him that both articles an- 1 wered the full scope of his fondest 1 [reams or intentions for they are as 1 tevoid of logical thought as an empty 1 ;ourd is of brains, though I am s ;lad to say his letters breathe a a indly spirit. Mr. Tatum, discover- ( tig who I am, compliments my "rep- 1 itation as a speaker,'' and with a dis- t retion truly commendable ignores a he very idea of a "stump discus- a ? ? ? ? ? -it ii _i ion, but vauntmgiy ueeiares mat i the woods are full of those who may ie less gifted by the divinity in point a f eloquence, yet have the advant- e ge of being on the right side." Yes, c have long known that the "woods" I obtained a sub treasury hermitage c rhere many such specimens abide e ut they seldom venture out into the I pen fields for a free discussion. ^ Vhat I was willing and ready to dis- b libs was the two planks of the Ocala t latform alluded to, the sub treasury t! i particular. Not one word or senmce which I have written or uttered an be tortured into attacking that utire platform as "rotten." The ict is they sugar coated these "rot- ^ ?n" planks with some excellent De- n loeraey, and the reader who would v onstrue ray former language into ^ leaning more needs to take many ^ >ssons in plain English. j But our wily friend seeks to invent li kind of razzle dazzle catechism to ^ 1 raw me into other issues. If the a entleman desires to open a class it\ a political economy I commend him to 3eek pupils nearer home where abunlant material will be found, but for aayself I beg to decline becoming me of his disciples though, perhaps, [ might sit at his feet and learn much, yet, knowing that any one can ask questions, I shall only answer in a general way that I favor the platform with the exceptions already men tionea. I feel sure that Mr. Tatum and myself will be found working together in the coming canvass unless be permits these disrupting issues to lead him to follow Polk, Terrell and Tom "Watson into the Third Party. They chased the phantom of sub treasury, as it had been presented? not the mythical "something better.*' Come again with some argument. I await developments. Boynton O'Brien. Sandy Run, S. C., March 30, 1892. Rheumatism Cured. Potsdam ers Red Star Store, Lake City, Fla. P. P. P. Manufacturing Co.: Gents?Have suffered with Rheumatism for some time, and tried great many remedies, but could find no relief until I used your great and beneficial P. P. P. I recommend it to suffering humanity. Yours, J. Potsdamer, More Money and Cheaper Money A dispatch from Washington to the Atlanta Constitution says. The Alliance Democrats of the House are preparing a bill which they believe, when perfected, can be adopted into law, and which will give the financial relief the present condition of the country needs. It is in the nature of a substitute for the sub treasury bill. The bill will be introduced within a few days. It will provide'for the government issuing money to the States at 1 per cent, interest upon collateral to the amount of three" i i 1 f 1. J n jpffe States can then a5? ~ lend this money to its citizens at interest and upon collateral decided upon by the States. The full details of the plan have aot been decided upon, but the general plan for issuing the currency to the States is on the same principle is the national banking law. The general outlines of the plan have been submitted to some of the best posted and most successful financiers }f this country, as well as to men of egai ability, and from all opinions to i large extent favorable have been eceived. The general plan, it is igreed, is good, but those who are nost interested are having some dificulty in arranging the details. However, they are advising with men vhose ability as financiers cannot be questioned, and a practical measure vill come out of it. Temperance Beading. rEMPEP.ANCE MAKES A PURE AND STRONG CHARACTER. To be temperate means that we should control our passions and apDetites. To resist these temporary lesires we only show to the world -hat we can live without disobeying he laws of God so far as alcohol is soncerned. The question has often )een asked, "What good does it do a nan to get drunk,v but it cannot be mswered. He loses all self respect ror himself and all his friends. He mows before he takes the poisonous iquor what effect it has on a man, jut that does not stop him. Shakeipeare has said 4'a drunk man is like i drowned man, a fool and a madman. )ne draught above heats and makes lim a fool; the second mads him, and he third downs him." There is not , nerve, a tissue nor an organ that if Jcohol is taken into the system does tot have a powerful influence over, j. _ j_v _ i i _ :\eu mieneres wuu me circulation uid the brain suffers quickest and aost. Common expresssions conerning liquor "flying to the head.'' ( jiquor is the cause of the most cruel . rimes being committed. On the light of Lincoln's assassination, Sooth rushed thaough the hall of a Vashington hotel shouting "Brandy, , randy,'' and the brandy drunk at hat hotel bar nerved his hand to lire ' he fatal shot. Supt. Press Work W. C. T. U. , 1 For Over Fifty Years, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ! as been used for over fifty years by | ' lillions of mothers for their children | i rhile teething, with perfect success, j 1 t soothes the child, softens the j . urns, allays all pain, cures wind j 1 olic, and is the best remedy for i ' )iarrhoea. It will relieve the poor ! < ttle sufferer imwediatley. Sold by | , )ruggists in all parts of the world, j Venty-five cents a bottle. Be sure J ^ nd ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Syrup,'1 ! ' nd take no other kind. 40. Struck by a "Waterspout. Bridges Swept Away and Railroad Tracks Washed Away. West Point, Miss., April G.?The most destructive strom that ever visited this section of the State is now prevailing'. It is a renulai JL 0 - o waterspout extending from Greenwood, on the Alabama line and from Macon to Corinth. Rain has been falling constai tly for four days culminating last night in a strom that continued throughout the night. Streams have all overflowed their banks, many bridges being swept away. Miles of railroad track have been submerged and much of the road beds destroyed. On the Geogia Pacific nearly four miles of track is washed away and in this county alone the loss of bridges is enormous. The Tybee, Squa wachie and Town creeks are higher than ever known, water covering the country for miles. Many houses were washed away and four colored families are reported drowned. The Toinbigbee river is above all previous high water marks, overflowing its banks, the water spreading out over the country for miles on either side, doing great damage. At Aberdeen the river has overflowed its banks for the first time iu many years. The river has covered several streets in that city and the people are greatly alarmed. It is still raining. t * Female "Weakness Positive Cnre. To the Editor:?Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the thousand and one ills which arise from deranged female organs. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any lady if they will send their Express and P. 0. address. Yours respectfully, Dr. A. C. Mabchisi, Utica, N. Y. Comfort for the Children. Very many of tbe blunde^^^F \ dren and much of their awk'w^ CL^L comes from requiring them to tff&" the tools and belongings of grown persons. Put a knife and fork de- N* signed for an adult into the hands of a child, and see how clumsily he uses them. If his hands were large L i. XT- 17 O fk enougu to we?ir a no. i or o or v glove, he would have no trouble. Try him with a tiny knife and fork, and see how readily the little hands master the implements. Put him into a chair, the seat of which is eighteen or nineteen inches from the Hoor?the usual height of an ordinary chair seat?how can a child only three or four feet high sit comfortably in such a chair? His legs dangle, he hitches round to find an easy resting place for his head, his hands, his back, and hitches in vain. Put him in a chair of size proportional to hira, and he is easy, graceful, comfortable, especially so if the chair has rockers so he can be in constant motion, and arms, so he can have something to work his hands on. If you have never been into a kindergarten. go and see how happy the little children are and how graceful, with furniture made just the right size for them. You will come home and if you have a little child you will not be content until he has a chair to fit him, and a table to sit at with his playthings outspread, of just the right height, and a knife and fork and a brush and comb not too large for him to handle easily. These outfits for children are inexpensive, and few investments give larger returns in content and comfort in grace and ease of movement. Each child in a family should be thus outfitted, and as he grows, succeed to the furnishings of some older child, while passing his on to a younger one. Mr. Johnstone's ITew Money BillRepresentative George Johnstone from the Third District has introduced a bill in Congress which is apt to attract considerable attention. It provides for the redemption of the bonded debt of the Government and the enlargement of the volume of the currency. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time the outstanding bonds due by the Government at a sum not greater than their market value. It also 1 -1 J - L 1- 1 / provides mat at eacii purcuase or bonds he shall replace the amount expended by issuing notes of the Government of like denominations as the Treasury notes now issued and in circulation. It also directs the Secretary of the Treasury to coin all Ljold aud silver bullion which now is i>r shall hereafter come into the possession of the Government, which L'oin shall be held for the redemption of flie treasury notes so issued.