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^ ^ jmf~TM 17 v Advertisements will be inserted at the I BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM n^w w ^ ? IV ^T^/T\ XT I iTC ll A Tl H Z Z.* ?IN? H H *5! H d H B td 9 I IK ^ In m 8 B I ^ ! Tl 9 ? > H B inch for each subsequent insertion. gg| Western South Carolina. g | | j ^VZ( /V 1 I 1 \J 1 V-/ 1 ? IL-^ 1 1 ? ^^ ? ? _ _ ? Notices in the local column 10 cents per RATES REASONABLE. line each insertion. - ? ~~ Marriage notices inserted free. O "\Tf^ 07 Obituaries charged for atjthe.rate of ona SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM YYVT LEXINGTON, S. C., MAY 20, 1896. Address Bfc<f n VULl. AA Y 1. G. M. HARMAN, Editor. i inn nniWiiw i cnrmUTV ???= |M?1 ' ' " IIIW" j id rni.vinu a .m lw.im i . 1 THE BEST Family Medicine Sbo Has Ever Known. "Words of Praiso from a Itcw York Lady for AYER'S PILLS t - ? " I would like to add my testimony to that of others w ho have used Ayer's Pills, and to say that I have taken them for many years, and always derived the test results from their use. Forstom ach and liver troubles, and for the cure cf headache caused bv these derangements, Acer's Piils cannot be equaled. "When my friends ask me what is tire best remedy for disorders of the stomach, liver, or bowels, my invariable! answer is, Ayer's Pills. Taken in seeson, they will break up a cold, prevent la grippe, check fever, and regulate the digestive organs. They arc easy to take, and are, indeed, the best all-round a family medicine I have ever known."? Mrs. Mat Johnson, 308 Eider Avenue, New York Citv. AYER'S PILLS Hr Highest Honors at World's Fair. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Cures ail Biood Disorders. ACKNOWLEDGE GOD. DR. TALMAGE WOULD AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. ' ??? God's Name Left Ont by a Mental Oversight of Oar Forefathers ? Congress Should Make No Appropriations For Sso ^ tar Ian Schools?Bright Bays to Come. Washington, May 10.?Never waa a timelier or more appropriate sermon than that preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage this morning. The snbject was "Before TV.?t- A ,3i'/vnTT> " hmrincr rpforOTiCO tO tllQ ! J.UCJ -ttUJVUAJU, early dissolution of congress, and the text selected was Psalms cv, 22, "And teach his senators wisdom." Senators in this text stand for lawmakers. Joseph was the lord treasurer of the Egyptian government, and among other great things which ho did, according to my text, was to teach his senators wisdom. And if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom -r*r it is senators, whether they stand in congresses, parliaments or reichstags or assemblies or legislatures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Lawmakers aro sometimes so tempted by ' prejudices, by sectional preferences, by opportunity of personal advancement, and sometimes what is best to do is so doubtful that they ought to be prayed for and encouraged in every possible way instead of severely criticised and blamed and excoriated, as is much of the timo tho case. Our public men are eo often the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted but cculd not reach, that mere injustices are hurled at our national legislature than the people of the United States can possibly iiusgir.>. j The wholesale belying of our public men is simply damnable. By residence in Washington I have j come to find out that many of our public ! men are persistently misrepresented, and ; some of the best of them, the purest in their lives and most faithful in the dis- j charge of their duties, are the worst de- ; famed. Some day I want to preach a ser- i mon from the text in II Peter: "They \ are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing ac" m. 11 1?C i T cusancn agailiiu tu ill lAiUic iuo u/iu. But these, as natural brute beasts, made ; to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of j p*v the things that they understand not." i So constant and malignant is this work j I cf depreciation and scandalization in re- j gard to our public men that all ever the land there are these who suppose that the city of Washington is the center of j all corruption, while what with its ! parks, sad its equestrian statuary, and its wide streets, and its architectural symmetries, and its lovely homes, it is not only the most beautiful city under the sun, but has the highest style of citizenship. I have seen but one intoxicated man in the more than six months of my residence, and I do not think any man can give similar testimony of any other city on the American continent God's Name In the Constitntlon, The gavels of our two houses cf na? i tional legislature will soon fall, and adjournment cf two bodies of men as talented, as upright and as patriotic as ever graced the capitol will take place. The two or three unfortunate outbreaks which you k$ve noticed only make more .conspicuous the .dignity, the fraternity, the eloquence, the fidelity which have characterized those two bodies during all the long months of important and anxious del jberat ion. We put a halo around great men of the past because they wew raw in their time. Our senate and jgP * he use of representatives have live such men where once they had one. But it will not be until aft* r tiny are dead that they will get appreciated. The world finds it safer to praise the dead than the Jiving, because the departed, having a iiearf pile of marble above rhom, may not ris* to become rivals. .But, before the gavels of adjournment drop and the doors of Capitol hill shut, there are one cr two things that ought to be done, and let us pray God that they may be accomplished. More forcibly than ever before, congress lias bfT<?_? implored to acknowledge God in outconstitution. The Methodist church, a church that is always doing glorious things, has in its recent Wilmingtonconference requested cur congress to amend the immortal document which has been the foundation and wall and dome of our United States government by injBerting th" words, "Trusting in Almighty God." If that amendment is , jnqrif, it will not_only pleas6_ aU the mma?amnmmmmmmmmmammmmmmm?Bmmmm good people of the country, but will please the heavens. It was only an oversight or a mental accident that the fathers who made the constitution did not insert a divinely worshipful sentence. They all, so far as they amounted to anything, believed in "God the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son." The constitution would have been a failure had it not been for the divine interference. The members of the convention could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Franklin's request that the meetings be opened by prayer, the Lord God was called on to interfere and help, and then the way was cleared, and all the states signed the document, a historical fact that all the rat terriers of modern infidelity * ' ^ ---i- T cannot Dara oui ui x ? that there was an exception to the fact that the prominent men in those times were good menTom Paine and Ethan Alien. Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot, did not believe in anything good until he was dying, and then he shrieked out for God's mercy. And Ethan Allen, from One of whose descendants I have received within a few days a confirmation of the incident I mentioned in a recent sermon, as saying to His dying daughter that she had better take her mother's Christian religion than his own infidelity. The article sent me says: "The story has been denied by some of the Allen family, but the Bronson family, some of whom were with the dying girl, affirm that it is substantially true. In such a matte: one confirmation is worth more than many denials." So says the article sent me. There is no doubt that Ethan Allen was the vnlgarest sort of an infidel, for, sitting in a Presbyterian church, his admirers say he struck the pew in front of him and swore out loud so as to disturb the meeting, and no gentleman would do that I do not wonder that some of his descendants arc asnamea of him, but of course they could not help it and are not to blame. But all the decent men cf the Revolution believed in God, and our American congress, now assembled, will only echo the sentiments of the fathers when they enthrone the name of God in the constitution. We have now more reason for inserting that acknowledgement of divinity than our fathers had. Since then the continent has been peopled and great cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific built, and all in peace, showing that there must have been supernal supervisal. Since then the war- of 1812, and ours the victory! Since then great financial prostrations, cut of which we came to greater prosperity than anything that preceded. Since then sanguinary 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865, and notwithstanding the faot that all the foreign despotisms were planning for our demolition, we a^e a united people, and tomorrow you will find in both houses of congress the men who fought for the north and the south, now sitting side by side, armed with no weapon except the pen, with which they write heme to their constituents who want to be appointed postmasters. The man who cannot see God in our American history is as blind of soul as he would be blind of body if he could not at 12 o'clock of an unclouded nocn see the sun in the heavens. As a matter of gratitude to Almighty God, gentlemen of the American congress, be pleased to insert the four words suggested by the Methodist conference. ? c j>tox? omy ucuaubt; ui ikc mauucoo va v^vu to this nation in the past should such reverential insertion he made, but because of the fact that we are going to want divine interposition still further in our national history. This gold and silver question will never be settled until God settles it. This question of tariff and free trade will never be settled until God settles it This question between the east and the west, which is getting hotter and hotter and looks toward a republic of the Pacific, will not be settled until Gcd settles it. We needed Gcd in the 120 years of our past national life, and we will need him still more in the next 120 years. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates of cur glorious constitution, and let the King of Glory come in! Make one line of that immortal document radiant with cmnipctence! Spell at least one word with thrones! At the beginning, or at the close, or in the center, recognize him frcin whom as a nation we have received all the blessings of the past and upen whem we are dependent for the future. Print that word "God" or "Lord" or "Eternal Father" or "Ruler of Nations" somewhere between the first word and the last. The great expounder of the constitution sleeps at Marshfield, Mass., the Atlantic ocean still humming near his pillow of dust its prolonged lullaby. But is there not seme cue now living who in the white marble palace of the nation on yonder hill not ten minutes away will become the irradiator cf the constitution by causing to be added the most tremendous word of our English vocabulary, the name of that being lxfcrc whem all nations must bow or go into defeat and annihilation?"God?" Churcli and State. Again, before the approaching adjournment of our American congress, it ought to be decidedly and forever set! tied that no appropriations be made to [ sectarian schools, and that the court! ship between church and state in this country be forever broken up. That | question already seems temporarily setj tied. I wish it might be completely and I forever settled. All schools and all institutions, as well as all denominations, should stand on the sams level before American law. Emperor Alexander of | Russia, at his Pcterhof palace, iisked I me hew many denominations of rcligion there were in America, and I reThe Shakers of Mount Lebanon, a community of simple, honest. Godfearing men and women, have prepared the Shaker Digestive Cordial j for many years, and it is always the I same, simple, honest, curative medij cine that has helped to make the j Shakers the healthy, long-lived peo j pie that they are. The Shakers j never have indigestion. Thi* is partly j owing to their simple mode of life, j partly to the wonderful propetties of | Shaker Digestive Cordial. Indigesj tion is caused by the stomach glands j not supplving enough digestive juice, i Shaker Digestive Cordial supplies j what's wanting. Shaker Digestive j Cordial invigorates the stomach and, I all its gl nds so that after awhile ; they don't need help. As evidence ; of the honesty of Shaker Digestive Cordial, the formula is printed on every bottle. Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to $1.00 per bottje. Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gunderman, of Dimondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this extract: "I have no hesitation in recom-* mending Dr. King's New Discovery as the results were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist Church at Rivers Janction she was brought down with Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she could not survive them. A friend recommended Dr. King's New Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in results." Trial bottles free at G. M. Harman's drug store. cited their names as well as I could. Then he asked me the difference between them, and there I broke down. But when I told him that no religious denomination in Ameriga had any privileges above the otheSJ no could hardly understand it The Greek church first in Russia, the Lutheran church first in Germany, the Episcopal church first in England, the Catholic church first in Rome, Mohammedanism first in Constantinople?the emperor wondered how it was possible that all the denominations in America could stand on the same platform. But so it is, and so let it ever be. Let there be no preference, no partiality, no attempt to help one sect an inch higher than another. Washington and Jefferson, and all the early presidents, and all the great statesmen of the past, have lifted their voices against any such tendency. If a school or an institution cannot stand without the prop of national appropriation, then let that school or that institution go down. On the other side of the sea the world has had plenty of illustration of church and state united. Let us have ~ V?Trrv\oiticTT on/1 . UUHO l W UJ tion born of that relation on this side cf the Atlantic. Let that denomination come out ahead that does the most for the cause of God and humanity, men, institutions and religions getting what they achieve by their own right arm of usefulness and not by the favoritism of government As you regard the welfare and perpetuity of our institutions, keep politics out of religion. Kational Conventions. But now that I am speaking of national affairs from a religions standpoint I bethink myself of the fact that two other gavels will soon lift and fall, the one at St. Louis and the other at Chicago, and before those national conventions adjourn I ask that they acknowledge God in th9 platforms. The men who construct those platforms are here this morning or will read these words. Let no political party think it can do its duty unless it acknowledges that God who built this continent and revealed it at the right time to the discoverer, and who has reared here a prosperity which has been given to no other people. "Oh," says some one, "there are people in this country who do not believe in a God, aud it would be an insult to them." Well, there are people in this country who do not believe in common decency, or common i honesty, or auf kind of government, preferring anarchy. Your very platform is an insult to them. You ought not to regard a man who does not believe in God any more than you should regard a man who refuses to believe in common decency. Your pocketbook is not safe a moment in the presence of an atheist. io nnW u/Ynrr"0 rvf rrrwlfi COYPTO WU AO liiV VMAJ UVV1AVV W? 0 ment. Why not, then, say so and let the chairman of the committee on resolutions in your national conventions take a pen full of ink and with bold hand head the document with one significant "whereas," acknowledging the goodness of Gcd in the past and begging his kindness and protection for the future. Why, my friends, this country belongs to God, and we ought in every possible way to acknowledge it. From the moment that, on an October morning in 1492, Columbus looked over the side of the ship and saw the carved staff which made him think he was near an inhabited country, and saw also a tborn and a eluster of berries (type of our history ever since, tli9 piercing sorrows and cluster of national joys), until this hour our country has been bounded on the north, south, east and west by the goodness of God. The Huguenots took possession of the Carolinas in the name of God. William Pcnn settled Philadelphia in the name of Gcd. The Hollanders took possession of New York in the name of God. The pilgrim fathers settled New England in the name of God. Preceding the first gun of Bunker Hill, at the voice of prayer all heads uncovered. In the war of 1812 an officer came to General Andrew Jackscn and said: "There is an unusual noise in the camp. It ought to be stopped." General Jackson said, "What is the noise?" The officer said, "It is the voice or prayer and praise." Then the general said: "God forbid that prayer and praise should be an unusual noise in the encampment. You had better go and join t hem.'' Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer At Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. "Oli," says some infidel, "the northern people prayed on one side, the the southern people prayed on the ether side, and so it did not amount to anything!" And I have heard good Christian people confounded with the infidel statement, when it is as plain to me as my right hand. Yes, the northern people prayed in one way, and the southern people prayed in another way, and Gcd answered in his own way, giving to the north the rc-establishment of the government and giving to the south larger opportunities, larger than she had ever anticipated?the harnessing of her rivers in great manufacturing interests, until ihe Mobile and the Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee are southern Merrimaes | and the unrolling of great southern ! niiues of coal and iron, of which the world knew nothing, and opening before her opportunities of wealth which will give 99 per cent more cf affluence than she ever possessed, and, instead of | the black hands of American slaves, j there are the more industrious black | tia/ids of the coal and iron mines of the l south, which are achieving for her fabj ulous and unimagined wcaltk j And there are domes of white blossoms where spread the white tents, And there are plows in the track where the war wagons went, j Aid there are So^gs where they lifted up | Rachel's lament. Lincoln's Prayer. ! Oh, yon are a stupid man if you do i pot understand how God answered B??a?w>ii?B?g?.ii WIMIMI t Abraham Lincoln's prayer in the White | House, and Stonewall Jackson's prayer in the saddle, and answered all the ' prayers of all- the cathedrals on both ! sides of Alascn and Dixon's line! God's i ^ country all the way past, God's country j ll now! Put his name in your pronuueia- \ s mentos. Put his name on your ensigns! ! d Put his name on your city and state ! r and national enterprises! Put his name ; v in your hearts. We cannot sleep well j the last sleep until we are assured that { the God of our American institutions m ^ the past -will he the God of our Ameri- j can institutions in the days that are to ! v come. Oh,-when all the rivers that emp- 1 v ty into Atlantic and Pacific seas shall j S pull on faotory bands; when all the j s great mines of gold and silver and iron ! d and coal shall be laid bare for the na- ! i| tion; when the last swamp shall be re- | ? claimed, and the last jungle cleared, j * and the last American desert Edenized, j ^ and from sea to sea the continent shall ! be occupied by more than 1,200,000,000 ' a sonls, may it be found that moral and J 0 religions influences were multiplied in j ~ more rapid ratio than the population 1 j ^ And then there shall be four doxologies i ] coming from north and south and east ; y and west, four doxologies rolling to- j r ward each other and meeting midcon- j y tinent with such dash of holy joy that J e they shall mount to the throne? ! a And heaven's high arch resortid again | c With peace on earth, good will to men. j j I take a step farther and say ti?at j I before the gavels of our senate and j 1 house of representatives and our politi- 1 cal conventions pound adjournment t there ought to be passed a law or adopt- t ed a plank of intelligent helpfulness g for the great foreign populations which J p are coming amoDg ns. it is tw iaie uuw ; <j to discuss whether we had better let t them come. They are here. They are l coming this moment through tho Nar- a rows. They are this moment taking the ? first full inhalation of the free air of America. And they will continue to y come as long as this country is the best c place to live in. t You might as well pass a law prohib- t itiug summer bees from alighting on a g field of blossoming buckwheat; you e might as well prohibit the stags of the t mountains from coming down to the t deer lick, as to prohibit the hunger bit- j ten nations of Europe from coming to tbis land of bread?as to prohibit the J people of England, Iceland, Scotland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Germany c working themselves to death on small v wages on the other side the sea?from 0 coming to this land where there are the ^ largest compensations under the sun. * "Why did God spread out the prairies of the Dakotas and roll the precious ore ? into Colorado? It was that all the earth might come and plow, and come r and dig. Just as long as the centrifugal ? force of foreign despotisms throws them ' ? off just so long will the centripetal force of American institutions draw " them here. And that is what is going to make this the mightiest nation on 0 the earth. Intermarriage of nationali- ? ties, not circle intermarrying circle and nation intermarrying Ration. But it is going to be Italian and Norwegian, ? Russian and Celt, Scotch and French, : ^ English and American. I C Greatest Nations of the Age. j ^ The American or iou years irorn now ; t is to be different from the American of J a today. German brain, Irish wit, French | civility, Scotch firmness, English loyal- 1: ty, Italian aesthetics packed into one | v man, and he an American! It is this j intermarriage of nationalities that is j p going to make the American nation the i to greatest nation of the ages. But what ! b are we doing for the moral and intel- | I lectual culture of the 500,000 foreign- i k ers who came in one year, and the j a 600,000 who came in another year, and ; p the 800,000 who came in another year, j I and the 1,000,000 who are coming into j 1 our various American ports? What are 1 C we doing for them? Well, we are doing j c a great deal for them. We steal their : t baggage as socn as they get here. We j I send them up to a boarding house, where i f the least they lose is their money. We t swindle them within ten minutes after ; I they get ashore. We are doing a great j i deal for them. But what are we doing ! I to introduce them into the duties of j t good citizenship? Many of them never j r saw a ballot box. Many of them never ; \ heard of the constitution of the United t States. Many of them have no acquaint- ; e . ance with our laws. Now, I sav, let the j 1 government cf the United States, so ' \ commanded by one political party or j p both political parties, give to every im- 1 r ? ' ? 1.- 1..o in 1 f migrant YVJJL/ J?IiUS line <? tunuiu, <u | ? good type aud well bound for long usage J \ ?a volume containing the Declaration j i of Independence, the constitution of the i I United States and a chapter cn the spir- j it of our government. Let there be such ! i a bock on the shelf of every free library i c in America. While the American Bible j 3 society puts into the right hand of every j I immigrant a copy of the Holy Scrip- , turee, let the government of the United 1 States, commanded by some political 1 party, put into the left hand of every immigrant a volume instructing him j in the duties of good citizenship. Tliero j are thousands of foreigners in tins land j who need to learn that the ballot box is : not a footstool, but a throne?not something to put your foot on, bnt some- ! 1 thing to bow before. i c Christian Patriotism. I r But whether members of the national ( . legislature, or delegates to one of the na- ; (ional conventions, or private citizens, let ns cultivate Christian patriotism. J ' Oh, how good God has l>ecn to us as a ? 8 nation! Just open the map of the conti- j J nent and see how it is shaped fcr im- : e measurable prosperities. Navigable riv- j t crs, more in number and greater than of any other laud, rolling down 011 all sides , into the sea, prophesying large manu- < factorie s and easy commerce. Look at r the great ranges of mountains, timbered with wealth on the top and sides and | metaled with wealth underneath. One : J hundred and eighty thousand square ; I miles of coal! One hundred and eighty , s thousand square miles of iron! The iron S to pry out the coal. The ccr.l to forge 1 t and smelt the_ iron. The land so con- | Cannot be Without It. Jamison, S. C, Sept. 2, '90. \ 1 Since the people know I keep St. j f Joseph's Quick Relief they have taken * it all out but one bottle, aud that one , I cannot sell until I get in some ; . more, for I cannot bo without it my- j self. It is beyond doubt the best } medicine for cramps, colic, and all kinds of pain on the market. Send < me three dozen bottles per express. ] R. D KITTRELL. For further information call on J. j 1 E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a j ' copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons Almaqae. 28. What We Inherit Vc are not to blame for. We canot be responsible for the dispoitions and tendencies which we erive from cur ancestors, nor aro we esponsible for the germs of disease .'hich may manifest themselves in ur blood as a heritage from former enerations. But we are responsive if we allow these germs to deelop into serious diseases which rill impair our usefulness and detroy our happiness. We are reponeible if we transmit to our lescendants the disease germs which t is possible for us to eradicate by he use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, the one rue blood purifier. This medicine as power to make rich, red blood nd establish perfect health in place f disease. 20 ourect that extreme weather hardly ever asts more than three days?extreme leat or extreme cold. Climate for the nost part bracing and favorable for irawn and brain. All fruits. All minrals. All harvests. Scenery displaying .utumnal pageantry that no land on arth pretends to rival. No South Amercan earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No English fogs. No Egyptian plagues. ?he people of the United States are lappier than any people on earth. It is he testimony of every man that has raveled abroad. For the poor more ympatby! For the industrious more opKirtunity! Oh, how good Gcd was to >ur fathers and how good God has been o ns and onr children! To him?blessed >e his glorious name! To him of cross nd triumph be consecrated the United States of America! There are three great reasons why ou and I should do our best for this ountry?three great reasons: Our fahers' graves, our cradle, our children's irthrighb When I say your fathers' graves, your pulses run quickly. "Whethr they sleep in city cemetery or counry graveyard their dust is very precious oyou. I %imk they lived well and hat. thev died ricrht. Never submit to lave any government over their tombs ither than that government under which hey lived and died. And then this ountry is our cradle. It may have rocked is very roughly, but it was a good radio to be rocked in. Oh, how much re owe to it! Our boyhood and girllood, it was spent in this blessed counry. I never have any patience with a nan who talks against this country, jrlorious place to be born in and a gloious place to live in. It has been our radle. Aye! It is to be our children's lirthright. You and I will soon be hrough. We will perhaps see a few nore spring blossoms, and we will pertaps see a few more summer harvests, nd we will perhaps gather a few more utumnal fruits, but we are to hand his government to our children as it ras handed to us?a free land, a happy and, a Christian laud. They are not to e trampled by despotism. They are not o be frightened by anarchies. We must and this government to them over the allot box, over the school desk, over he church altar, as we have received it nd charge them solemnly to put their Lfe between it and any keen stroke that rould destroy it. And thou, Lord God Almighty, we iut, with a thousand armed prayer, ino thy protection this nation! Rememer our fathers' bleeding feet at Valley 'orge. Remember Marion and Koscius:o. Remember the cold, and the hunger, nd the long march, and the fever hospital. Remember the fearful charge at Junker Hill. Remember Lexington, and forktown, and King's Mountain, and lettysburg. Remember Perry's battle ' 1 TT J. "O in tiie lase, ana nampiuu xvumt?, nuciu he Cumberland went down. Remein>er Washington's prayer by the campire. Remember Plymouth Rock and he landing amid the savages. Remem>er Independence hall and how much t cost our fathers to sign their names. Jemember all the blood and tears of hreo wars?1776, 1812, 1862. And nore thau all, remember the groan that vas mightier than all other groans, and he thirst that stung worse than all oth:r thirsts, and the death that was ghastier than all other deaths?the mount- on vhich Jesus died to make all men hap>y and free. For the sake of all this hunan and divine sacrifice, O God, proect this nation! And whosoever would >lot it out, and whosoever would strike t down, and whosoever would turn his tack, let him be accursed! Go home today in high hopes of the uture. The eternal Gcd is on the side if this nation. Our brightest days are 'et to come. hath socr.ded forth the trumpet that will never call retreat, le is Bitting out tbu heart3 of men before tno judgment seat, le swift, ray soul, to answer him, be jubilant, my feet! Our Gcd is marching on! Hovy's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars veward for an}' ease of Catarrh that ;annot be cured by Hall's Catarrh ]ure. T. J. CHENEY & Co. Props., Tolede 0 "We, the undersigned, have known ?. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, md believe him perfectly honorable n all business transactions and finaniially able to carry out any obligaions made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drugfists, Toledo, O., Walding. Kiunan t Marvin, Wholesale Druggist Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken iucrnallv, acting directly upon the fiood and mucous surfaces of the iystem. Price, 75c. per bottle, sold by all Druggists. Testimonials rce. 28. She Paid the Fare. They got into a crosstown car one ainy afternoon last week. He was a ?ocd looking, manly young fellow, the >ort that always has existed, and which let ns hope, will continue to flourish, rbere w.us an indescribable look of up :o dateness about her. As they sat down ne made a dive into his pocket for the fare. "Don't bother," she said in a mattef :>f fact tone, "I have the change right bere.'' ] There was something in her inflection that warned him not to protest, and he wisely allowed her to enjoy the sensa-. tion of paying the conductor for both.? New York Letter. ------ - ? ?-&&& Paralysis. From the Press, New York City. Morris Preslaner of No. 1 Pitt Street, New York, who is a real estate agent and collector of rents, caught a severe cold early last spring, which settled upon .his kidneys. Soon he began to suffer severe pain in his backbone, sides and chest. His symptoms grew rapidly more alarming, until at last he was as helpless as a child and could scarcely move as ho lay ou his bed. As Mr. Preslaner is well known in the part of town where he resides, he had many sympathizers, who did all they could to help him. Though a native of Berlin, Mr. Preslaner has lived in this country for forty years, having .jerved the country of his adoption bv three ? %/ - ? years' hard service iu the civil war. Ho enlisted with the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, taking part in many battles and marching with General Sherman to the sea. While in Georgia, Mr. Preslaner * was promoted to first sergeant for bravery on the field of action. He is now a member of Koltes Post, G. A- It., and is one of the most popular men in the Post. Mr. Preslaner told a reporter the story of his dreadful illness and wonderful recovery. The reporter met hrrn as he was returning from a long walk, and, saying that he had heard of his wonderful cure, asked him to tell the story. "When Mr. Preslaner was comfortably seated in his pleasant parlor, he told the following story, which, he said, he hoped everyono who was suffering as he had suffered would read. His words were as follows: "To begin with, I was taken sick just a year and a month ago, having taken a severe cold which settled on my kidneys. At first I thought the pain I suffered would soon pass away, but, instead of doing this, it grew more intense every day, so that in a week I could walk only i i i ? ii. | witn consiaeraoie auncuiry. "I called in a doctor, who said I had locomctor ataxia aid began treating me for that disease. He did me no good, and all summer long I could scarcely attend to my business at all. Then I called another doctor and took his medicine for several weeks, but experienced no relief. Dr. Truman Nichols, of No. 287 East Broadway, who I at last called in, helped me more than any of the other doctors, but along towards fall I grew worse, despite his treatment. I thick Dr. Nichols is a good doctor and understood my case, but despite this fact his medicines did me no lasting good. "Early in November the little strength I had in my legs left me and I was unable to stand. The pain in my back and sides became almost unbearable, and my limbs grew cold. An electric battery I bought failed to help me, and for weeks I felt myself gradually growing weaker until all hope left me, "Some time before this I had read of a wonderful cure a man had received from Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, but was so prejudiced against what I thought was a patent medicine of the usual worthless character that I could not make up my mind to try them. As my pains increased and death seemed coming near, I thought of what I had read and of the symptoms of the man who had been cured. They were prec sely the same as miue, and at last, with my wife's earnest entreaty, I consented to try the Pink Pills. "Iam now convinced that these pills saved my life. Gradually my strength began to return, the desire to live grew stronger witliin me. After having taken three boxes I left my bed. Ttiis was early in March. All pain had left me, and that terrible dead feeling in my legs had gone away. I wa3 still very weak, but before I had taken the fourth box I was able to get down stairs for a short walk in the open air. Now I feci as if I had been born again and am as happy as a child. Every pleasant day I take a walk, and am sure that in a month I will be as well as ever."' All diseases, such as locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, partial paralysis, sciatica, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous headache, palpitation of the heart, effects of la grippe, pale and sallow complexions, and all forms of weakness, either in man or womaD, disappear when Dr. "Williams' PinkPills for Pale People are taken. Pink ??? 1-" i- or?v /loolor X 111b CHL1 UU UUU^ui UJ- auj ? v? will be sent post paid on receipt of price (50 cents a box or six boxes for $2 50?they are never sold by the hundred or in bulk) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Happenings Along the Biver. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Rev. Mr. Shealy's Easter sermon was one of grand thought and was iutenselyjl-'stened to with eager ears. The church was most beautifully decorated by the gentle hands of fair ladies of the viciuity. It seems as if the correspondents have left the whole sheet for us to fill up, Mr. Editor, but I think we can fill her, though, in graceful style. That bachelor was afraid that he miorlit hurst his stove onen and ran ofi' and got married. &o more oven lids living out at tbe top of the chimney at the speed of a cannon ball shot from a Winchester rifle. Mr. J. H. Price has swapped for a four passenger carriage with frings around the top. Me and Efrum Potleg are going to steal a ride on top and put on breaks for him. Now for the candidates. Come a pitching, come one, come all. Come Commodore, I'll run Efrum Potleg against you and bet on his winning the race. I made a hay stack in my last arti cle, but I'll feed it to the cows now. I should have said, "Lordy, how Buds mouth waters for an April fool, for he didn't get any, and I think he is lamenting yet.'' Two of our little Misses have at 1 last realized the fact that it is leap e year and called on two young men v last Sunday. Don't you know those ? boys' hearts kicked fast and furious when they saw them coming. They now wish that every day had a Sun- e day eve. " P We are glad indeed to say that I Mai. J. II. Koou. of Brooklancl, has 0 ^ * < * v a singing schooi at St. Paul's church ^ (Hollow Creek), and wishes every j one to do as I have done, put down a "-hole scholar and make up the . time, for the Major is an excellent teacher of vocal music. I hope that rj he may ever succeed, for to succeed is success. When Messrs. James Koon and ^ Andy fails to catch fish its no use ^ for a Sheriff to think ho could get them even with a search warrant. ^ They took in about forty pounds on the night of the 23d, among them was a fine trout. Mr. Ilufus Koon and Miss Bernice t Kcisler were united in the holy bonds of wedlock by the Kev. J. D. Shealy, ? at the home of the bride's father, Mr. Simeon Keisler, on the 20th of ^ April, 1896. May they live a long, ^ happy and prosperous life is the wish of their friend, Andy. * v j Our Sentiments from an Ex- & change. ^ v 0 Louisiana Press, fc An exchange came to us last week ? with a blue mark around an editorial 11 booming a candidate for office. ? A printed slip pasted on the paper kindlv red nested us if we said anv- C J 1 ^ g thing about the candidate's candi f* dacy to send him a mark copy of the paper. ! We didn't do it. , We ain't going to do it. We ain't saying a word. We ain't going to say a word. Unless . The cash is in sight. And we see the smiling of the 5 Goddess of Liberty ou one hide of the dollar of our dad's and count the J tail feathers in the great American eagle on the other. In times past we have given away e columns of space and reams of pa- . per and pounds of ink in a political ^ campaign. ^ And what did we get in return7 Nothing but the privilege of wading in the mud behind the band wagon spilling coal oil on our only coat and getting shot in the tie with a Roman candle. * ( But times are changed and our I feelings have changed. I Everything has changed except I our pockets. o There is no change there. t T\T^ awa A T\rtmA/>rof Vnif TTfl fiin'f T ^ c aic a i/cuiuvi uu* MU v vr v v * no pack mule to carry no candidate I into office and get the cold shoulder. And perhaps the cold mutton after the election. J Our enthusiasm is gone. It has leaked through the holes in our elbows, and escaped through the apertures through our pants. Glory is a good thing but cold cash J is better. * Campaign thunder will no longer reverberate throughout these col- ^ umns except at so much per thunder. * Our campaign rooster has to be 8 fed, and wherewith shall we feed ^ him? . n He's lost his tail feathers from the 2 last campaign and needs some ex- 8 tract of gold and silver right now. * Our tow line is sagging in the 1 middle and unravelled at the ends. J The candidate is out for the office. J We are out for the stuff. fc How to Treat a "Wife. "Puffin TTnnlllj Journal."} \ JL 1 ULU X UViuv aavm. v ' % First, get a wife: second, be patient. You may have great trials and perplexities in your business, but do not i therefore, carry toyour home a cloudy 1 or contracted brow. Your wife may t have trials, which, though of lees magnitude, may be hard for her to bear. A kind word, a tender look, will do wonders in chasing from her brow all clouds of gloom.?To this i we would add always keep a bottle ' of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in j the house. It is the best and is sure . w I 1 to be needed sooner or later. Your j wife will then know that you really I care for her and wish to protect her 1 health. For sale by J. E. Kau.tTman. " D. J. Griffith for Governor. ? 1 C Andy Suggests Lexington's Popular Son for That Office. f To the Editor of the Dispatch: The platform of the Reform wing ^ of the Democratic parfy was gotten e up by the farmers and laboring class s generally and for for the benefit of f these classes, as well as that of i j other?, and we feel it our duty, j, bound heart and hand, to endeavor to a select the most available man belong- ] i ing to these classes as a candidate t j for the office of Governor, and one v who will not promise great things to } secure office knowing at the same- c time that he will no and cannot re- -] deem them. Let us have a candi- . date who has ever stuck to his party t and one who can be safely trusted I g with the State and her business in j ^ every emergency. ! i The man whom we would suggest a for a candidate for that office is the well known Capt. D. J. Griffith of Lewiedale. He is a farmer pure and simple, and he Las ever stuck to his party and the rights of the people. 1 Hoping that the Captain will enter t the race, I beg to remain, yonrs very } truly, Akdy. i New York Fashion Letter. The tailor gown with a slight derease io the skirt is one of the favor* te SpriDg costumes. While the newst skirts for utility dresses are somewhat smaller, the evening toilettes nd costumes of gauzy fabrics retain be fullness of the past winter, bnt b8 tendency of all skirts of the pree t ephcch is to bring the greater art of the fullness directly in the ack. Street costumes are popular ja.le with an Eton Jacket, a garment which will largely surpersede the lazer for the coming summer. The Iton is cut rather short on the hips with pointed or square postillion elects in the back and with a front oramented with plain or fancy reverf. .'no new Louis XV coat models are ery elegant with wide revers and with their hip pockets on the vest i 'he Spring sleeves from the best 1 <Tuw York houses are slightly smaller with a drooping shoulder effect lany of the imported sleeves are undo with seveial rufflss, jockeys, boulder capes or elbow puffs ever a ight lining. Toe Bishop sleeve is bo favorite for washing material?, a weil as for ekirt waist This sleeve . 3 often tucked or trimmed with lands of insertion. Silk waists still orm part of tbe costume, though bose in tbe Louis form are more topular than tbe draped or sburred raisls of last season. The outside tickets for early spring are slightly borler than those of last season. .'bey are tight fitting in the back ritb loose front and turned over rev* rs. Some are seen with a narrow mlt in the back, bat at tbe underpin seams tbe remainder of tbe belt s slipped inside. French cballies how designs in Dresden effects, with 'Impiro garland and with Persian ulors. Dresses made of tbesd fabrics re ornamented with Marie Antoinette tie bos and are much trimmed vith ribbons. For these items of inormation we are iudebtedto the Mo)owell Fashion Journals, which are Lvays abundantly rich in deecripion and designs. - Jl ' La Mode de Paris" and "Paris Ubum of Fashions" cost $3.50 per, ear's subscription; or 35 cents a copy [ he "French Dressmarker" is $3 00 ier anunm or30 cents a copy; and La Mode'?1 dU a year or id cents a opy. If jou are noable to procure itber of these journals from your lewsiealer do cot take aoy substi< ute, but apply by mnl to Messrs A. IcDowell Sc Co., 4 West 14 Street, few York. 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Here's a grand secret for you, lifc!c ones; and now that you know how o make mother happy, may you keep icr face always full of sunshine. Biliousness j 's caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges- j ion and pennits foo<l to ferment and putrify In j he stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache, j Hood's nsomina, nervousness, and, g f not relieved, bilious fever .81 a >r blood poisoning. Hood's 181 E'ills stimulate the stomach, " : ouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, constipation, ete. 23 cents. Sold by all druggists, rbe ouly Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. ' Happiness. > M Iu all ages of the world happiness las been and will be the great aim ?f mankind. Its promotion was tie ibject of all creation. It has two orms, external and internal. The sternal consists in pleasing the physical and mental faculties. This s the most commonly sought and njoyed, but it affords as much leia alisfaction than the internal as tie Loite is less than the infinite. The j eternal is often sought in vain. 3Mf n lave endeavored to obtain it by the ccumulation of riches, but in vain. Lhey have searched for it in the atainment of fame and power, but vithout success. Science*and ait iave never discovered it. It comes mly from God; it is the love of God. Phis is true happiness. It gives >eace to the weary soul and joy to he sad heart. It turns trials and orrows into bliss. It helps us better o enjoy the external. The internal s abiding, but the external comes md goes like the hours, and in a ime of trouble is not to be found. Whatever may be the cause of ulanching, the hair may be restored io its original color by the use of that ' potent remedy Hall's Vegetable; Sicilian Hair Renewer,