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_ _ s* PJ^S55HSIHB5^S?S^H5S5H5a ^ - Ta/" ww- fy '"^fly A IS W Advertisements will be inserted at the --frTHF I FXINQTON DISPATCH.girffir ? Western South Carolina. m n n g ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 ^ J?L X 1 iug to advertise for three, six and twelve A 0 " _r^? - --- ~-? . Notices in the local colnmn 5 oents per JUTES SEASONABLE. - ~T7" i^inirtm." and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties InUc u felm.fcct ^SaSSTSS-??a^? _0 \ Representative rlcujspnpcr. tours i,emnjjiun ?- 1 <?nt a word, wien theym?<~uoo.<?<*. "~?I? KT Q Marriage noticos inserted free. _ soesOTiFnoiuirEBASNOU ^ == , - LEXINGTOn7s- 0., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1890. _^Ll_ ~?"4 """ ]QB flBIBt A SPECIALTY. V0L' AAI ?? ??? _ a.t.p?mt THE DAWNING YEAR. QBE DRY GOODS COMPANY Uaaag ^dtei mmm? __ ?. /r /\ -tvT A the epidemic of la grfppe a few yeais DR. TALMAGE GIVES OUT SOME A "p-y J -tC-* ? * a^Q wben 80 maDy cases resulted in NEW YEAR THOUGHTS. \A/ - OI -jTJIW[I31 A, H. O., pneumonia, it was observed that the . * * attack was never follpwed by that Life i? Not Measured by Year*?Not ^rr'-p? "FT,TT"T' - - - " ~ " disease when Chamberlain's CoU{.h should it Be Measured by Mi?for- X(i^O >XA.Ii> ^A ' y) * ? ? i. r?vi/I T^nlifo AttoiltlOll _ . . ., ,, Remedy was used. It counteracts ;~rrrk Mak"'ve" roor Solicts a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Prompt, and I onto Atiennon. MT u/deDC7 of a cold or k ,rinrft - ?? C- A 1000 kw Amari^on PfOQQ A QCH ivu^jr;i5abt WJ Aum iv?t* A ?VWW -? elation.] Washington, Jan. 1.?Appropriate to the exit of one year and the entrance of another year are the practical suggestions which Dr. TaJmage puts inthis discourse, which propose a different mode of measuring time from that ordinarily employed; text, Genesis xlvii, 8, "How old art thou?'' The Egyptian capital was the focus of the world's wealth. In ships and barges there had been brought to it from India frankincense and cinnamon and ivory and diamonds; from the north, marble and iron; from Syria, pnrple and silk; from Greece, some of the finest horses of the world and some of the most brilliant chariots, and from all the earth that which could best please the eye and charm the ear and ^ gratify the taste. There were temples aflame witfi red sandstone, entered by the gateways that were guarded by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics and wound with brazen serpents ann aaorneu | with winged creatures, their eyes and beaks and pinions glittering with precious stones; there were marble columns blooming into white flower beds; there were stone pillars, at the top bursting into the shape of the lotus when in full bloom. Along the avenues, lined with sphinx and fane and obelisk, there were princes who came in gorgeously upholstered palanquins, carried by servants in scar let or elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snow white horses, golden bitted and six abreast, dashing at full run. Ou floor8 of mosaio the glories of Pharaoh were spelled out in letters qf porphyry and beryl and flame. There were ornaments twisted from the wood of tamarisk, embossed with silver breaking into foam. There were footstools made out of a siDgle precious stone. There were beds fashioned out of a crouched lion in bronze. There were chairs spotted with the sleek hides of leopards. There were sofas footed with the claws of wild beasts and armed with the beaks of birds. As you stand on the level beach of the sea on a summer day and look either way, and there are miles of breakers, white with the ocean foam, dashing shoreward, so it seemed . as if the sea of the world's pomp and wealth in the Egyptian capuai ior miles and miles flang itself up into white breakers of marble temple, mausoleum and obelisk. It was to this capital and the palace of Pharaoh that Jacfib, the plain shepherd, came to meet his son Joseph, who ? had become prime minister in the royal apartment. Pharaoh and Jacob met, dignity and rusticity, the gracefulness of the court and the plain manners of the field. The king, wanting to make the old country man at ease and seeiDg how white bis beard is and how feeble his step, looks familiarly into his face and says to the aged man, "How old art then?" Last night the gate of eternity opened to let in amid the great throng of departed centuries the soul of the dying year. Under the twelfth stroke of the brazen hammer of the city clock the patriarch fell dead, and the stars of the night were the funeral torches. It is most fortunate that on this road of life there are so many milestones, on which we can read just how fast we are going toward the journey's end. 1 feel that it is not an inappropriate question that I ask today when I lock into your faoes and say, as Pharaoh did to Jacob, the patriarch, "How old art tbon?" How Life Is Measured. People who are truthfuf on every . other subject lie about their ages, so that I do not solicit from yon any literal response to the question I have asked. I would put no one under temptation, J bnt I simply want this morning to see by what rod it is we are measuring our earthly existence. There is a right way ana a wrong way or measuring a door, or a wall, or an arcb, or a tower, and so there is a right way and a wrong yvay of measuring our earthly existence. It isVith reference to this higher meaning that I confront you this morning with the stupendous question of the text and ask, "How ola art thou?" There are many who estimate their life by mere wordly gratification. When Lord Dundas was wished a happy new year, he said, "It will have to be a happier year than the past, for I hadn't one happy moment in all the 12 months that have gone." Eut that has not been the experience of most of us. We have found that though the world is blasted with sin it is a very bright and beautiful place to reside in. We have had joys innumerable. There is no hostility between the gospel and the merriments and the festivities of life. I do not think that we fully enough appreciate the worldly pleasures God gives us. When yon recount your enjoyments, you do not go far enough back. Why do you not go back to the time when you were an infant in your mother's arms, locking up into the heaven of her smile; to those days when you filled the house with the uproar of" boisterous merriment; when yon shouted as you pitched the ball on the playground; when on ?? the cold, sharp winter night, muffled up, on skates you shot cut over the resounding ice of the pond? Have you forgotten all those good days that the Lord gave your Were you never a boy? WfiiC fc you never a girl? Between those and this how many mercies the Lord haa hPKtnwod nnon vou! How many joys have breathed up to you from the flowers aud shone down to you from the stars and chanted to.yon with the voice of soaring bird and tumbling cascade and booming sea and thunders that with bayonets of fire charged down the mountain side 1 Joy! Joyl Joy! If there is any one who has a right to the enjoy - * - al . ^ n>ent8 of tbe wcriti, it is lue V/Utibunu) for God has given bim a lease of everything in tbe promise, "All are yours." But I have to tell you that a man who estimates bis life od earth by mere worldly gratification is a most unwise man. Our life is not to be a game of chess. It is uot a dance in lighted ball, to quick music. It is not tbe froth of an .ale pitcher. It is not tbe settlings of a wine cup. It is not a banquet, with intoxication and roistering. It is the first step on a ladder that mounts into the skies or tbe first step on a road that plunges into a horrible abyss. "How old art tbot:" Toward what destiny L v are yon tending and how tast are yon getting on toward it? The Fwvrowed Brow. Again, I remark that there are many who estimate their life on earth by their sorrows and misfortunes. Through a great many of yonr Jives the plowshare bath gone very deep, turning up a terrible fnrrow. You have been betrayed, and misrepresented, and 6et upon, and slapped of impertinence, and pounded of misfortune. The brightest life must have its shadows and the smoothest path its thorns. On the happiest biood the hawk pounces. No frnnVila /if C/imo kind iiuui v& v/v* uiu v* uvaajv While gloriocs John Aliltou was losing his eyesight ho heard that Salmasius was glad of it. Whilo Sheridan's comedy was being enacted in JDrury Lane theater, London, his enemy sat growling at it in the stage box. While Bishop Cooper was surroended by the favor of learned men his wife took his lexicon manuscript, the result of a long life of anxiety and toil, and threw it into the fire. Misfortune, trial, vexation for almost every one! Pope, applauded of all the world, has a stcop in the shoulder ?tbat annoys him so much that he has a tunnel dug, so that he may go ffhobj. served from garden to grctto and from grotto to garden. Cano, the famons Spanish artist, is disgusted with the crucifix that the priest holds before him because it is such a poor specimen of sculpture, and so, sometimes through taste, and sometimes through learned menace, and sometimes through physical distresses?aye in 10,000 ways? troubles come to harass and annoy. And yet it is unfair to measure a man's life by his misfortunes, because whew there is one stalk of nightshade there are 50 marigolds and harebells; where there is one cloud thunder charged there are hundreds that stray across the heavens, the glory of land and sky, asleep in their besom. Because death came and took your child away did you immediately forget all the five years, or the ten years, or the 15 years in which she came every night for a kiss, all the tones of yoar heart pealing forth at the sound of her voice or the soft touch of her nana.' .Because in seme fiuancial Euroclydcu your fortune went into the breakers did you forget all those years in which the luxuries aDd extravagances cf life showered on your pathway? Alas, that is an unwise man, an ungrateful man, an unfair man, an unpbilosophic man, and, most of all, an un-Christian man, who measures his life on earth by groans and tears and dyspeptic fit and abuse and scorn and terror and neuralgic thrust! Again, I remark that there are many people who estimate their life on earth by the amount of money they have accumulated. They say, "The year I860 or 1870 or 1898 was wasted." Why? "Made no money. " Now, it is all cant and insincerity to talk against money, as though it had no value. It may represent refinement and education and ten thousand blessed surroundings. It is the spreading of the table that feeds the children's hunger. It is the spreading cf the table that feeds the children's hanger. It is the lighting of the furnace that keeps yon warm. It is themaking of the bed on which you rest from care and anxiety. It is the carrying of yon out at last to decent sepulcher, and the putting up of the slab on which is chiseled the story cf your Christian hope. It is simply hypocrisy, this tirade in pulpit and lecture hall against money. The Corse of Money. But while all this is so, he who uses money or thinks of money as anything but a means to an end, will find out his mistake when the glittering treasures slip cut cf his'nerveless grasp, and he goes out of this world without a shilling of money or a certificate of stock. He might better have been the Christian porter that opened his gate or the begrimed workman who last night heaved the coal into his cellar. Bonds and mortgages and leases have their use, but they make a poor yardstick with which to measure life. "They that boast themselves in their wealth and trust in the multitude cf their riches, none of them can, by any means, redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him that he should not see corruption. " But I remark, there ate many?I wish there were more?who estimate their life by their moral and spiritual development. It is not sinful egotism for a Christian man to say: "I am purer than 1 used to be. I am more consecrated to Christ than 1 used to be. I have get over a great many of the bad habits in which I used to indulge. I am a great deal tetter man than 1 used to be." There is no sinful egotism in that. It is not base egotism for a soldier to say, "1 know more about military tactics that I used to before I tcck a musket iu my kaBd and learned to 'present arms' and when 1 was a pest to the driJJ officer. " It is not base egotism for a sailor to say, "I knew better how to clew down the mizzen topsail than I used to before I bad ever seen a ship." And ^there is no sinful egotism when a Christian man. fighting the battles of the Lord, or if you will have it, voyaging toward a baveji of eternal rest, says, "I know mure about spiritual tactics and about voyaging toward heaven than I used to." Why, thee are those in this presence who have measured lances with many a fee and unhorsed it! There are Christian men here who have become swarthy by hammering at the forge of calamity. They 6tand on an entirely diilerent plane of character from that which they once occupied. They are measuring tbeir life cn earth bv golden gated ?abhnthc hv ceutccostal orayer meeting, by communion tables, by baptismal fonts, by halleluiahs in the temple. They have stood on Sinai and heard it thunder. They have stCGd on Pisgah 8nd looked over iutothe promised laud. They have stood on Calvary and seen the cross bleed. They can, like Paul the apostle, write on their heaviest troubles "light" and "but for a moment." The darkest night their soul is irradiated. as was the night over Bethlehem. II?? TWT-r~w I' 11 by the faces of those who have come'tb proclaim glory and good cheer. They are only waiting for the gate to open and tbe chains to fall off and the glory to begin. I remark again, there are many?and I wish there were more?who are estimating life by the good they can do. . John Bradford said be counted that day nothing at all in which he had not by pen or tongne done some good. If a man begin right, I cannot tell how many tears he may wipe away, how many bnrdeus he may lift, how many orphans he may comfort, how many outcasts he may reclaim. There have been men who have given their whole life in tbe right direction, concentrating all their wit and ingenuity and mental acnmen and physical force and enthusiasm for Christ. They climbed tbe mountain and delved into the mine and crossed the sea and trudged the desert and dropped at last into martyrs' graves, waiting for the resurrection of tbe just. They measured their lives by the chains they broke off, by the garI ments they put upon nakedness, by tbe miles they traveled to alleviate every kind of suffering. They felt in tbe thrill of every nerve, in tbe motion of every mnscle, in every throb of their heart, in j every respiration of their longs, the 1 moonifinont frnfh ""VnmAn livfith TlUtO j , j himself." They went through cold and I through heat, foot blistered, cheek smitj ten, back scourged, tempest lashed, to j do their whole duty. That is the way they measured life?by the amount of good they could do. ^ The Eternal Life. Do yon want to know how old Luther was: How old Richard Baxter was? How old Philip Doddridge was? Why, you cannot calculate the length of their lives by any human arithmetic! Add to their lives 10,000 times 10,000 years, | and you have not expressed it?what 1 they have lived or will live. Oh, what a [ standard that is to measure a man's life by! There are those in this house who think they have only lived 30 years. They will have lived a thousand; they have lived a thousand. There are those who think they are 80 years of age. They have not even entered upon their infancy, for one must become a babe in Christ to begin at all. Now, I do not know what yonr advantages cr disadvantages are. I do not know what yonr tact or talent is. I do not know what may be the fascination of yonr manners or the repnlsiveness of them, bat- I know this: There is for von, my bearer, a field to cultnre, a harvest to reap, a tear to wipe away, a sonl to save. If yon have worldly means, consecrate them to Christ. If you have eloquence, use it on the side that Paul and Wilberfcrce used theirs. If you have learning, put it all into the poor box of the world's suffering. But if you have none of these?neither wealth, nor eloqunce, nor learning?you at any rate have a smile with which you can encourage the disheartened, a frown with which you may blast injustice, a voice with which you may call the wanderer back to God. "Oh," you say, "that is a very sanctimonious view of life!" It is not It is the only bright view of life, and it is the only bright view of death. Contrast the death scene of a man who has measured life by tbo worldly standard with the death scene of a man who has measured life by the Christian standard. Quin, tbe actor, in his last moments said, "I hope this i tragic scene will soon be over, and I I hope to keep my dignity to the last." Malesberbes said in his last moments to the confessor: "Hold your tongue 1 Your miserable style puts me out of conceit with heaven." Lord Chesterfield in his i last moments, when he ought to have ! been praying for bis soul, bothered himj self about the proprieties of the sick| room and said, "Give Day boles a chair." j Godfrey Kneller spent his last hours on i earth in drawing a diagram of his own ! monument. Compare tbe silly and horrible departure of such men with the seraphio elow on the face of Edward Pay son as be said in bis last moment: "The breezes of heaven fan me. I float in a sea of glory." Or with Paul the apostle, who said in his last hour: "I am now ready to t8 offered up, and the time of my departure is at band. I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of j righteousness which the Lord, theright! eous Judge, will give me." Orcompare it with the Christian deathbed that yon witnessed in your own household. Oh, my friends, this world is a false god. It will consume you with the blaze i in which it accepts your sacrifice, while j the righteous shall be held in everlast! ing remembrance, and when the thrones have fallen and the monuments have i crumbled ana the world has perished j they shall banquet- with the conquerors ! of earth aEd the hierarchs of heaven. The Coming Year, j This is a good day in which to begin ! a new style cf measurement. How old I art thou? Yon see the Christian way of j measuring life and the worldly way of j measuring it. I leave it to you to say I which is the wisest and best way. Tbe | wheel of time has turned very swiftly, j and it has hurled us ou. The old year J has gone. The new year has come. For j what you and I have been launched upj cn it God only knows. Now let me ask i yon all, have you made any preparation I tnr ikn #iiMivqS Vnn have inoHn nrpnai'fl 1 L\JL IUU lUlUiV. UMtv J tion for time, my dear brother. Have I fou made any preparation for eternity? Do you wonder that when that man on the Hudson river in indignation tore up the tract which was handed to him and jnst one word landed on his coat sleeve, the rest of the tract being pitched into ! the river, that one word aroused his | soul? It was that one word, so long, so ! broad, so high, so deep?"eternity." A j dying woman, in her last momentH, | laid, "Call it back." They said, j "What do yon want?" "Time," she ! said, "call it back." Oh, it cannot be | called back. Wemight lose our fortunes ! and call them back; we might lose our I health, and perhaps recover it; we might lose our good name and get that back, but time gone is gone forever. Some of yea during the past year made preparation fur eternity, and it : makes 110 uilfereuce to yon reaJly, as to , the matter of safety, whether yon go i now or, go some other year?whether j this year or the next year. Both your feet on the rock, the waves may dash I around you. You can say, "God is our refuge and strength?a very present help." You are cn the rock, and you may defy ail ea^h and hell to overj throw yon. I congratulate yon. 1 give von great iov It is a happy new year to yen. j I can see no sorrow at all in the fact 1 that our years are going. You bear ecme people say, "I wish I could go back I again to boyhood." 1 would rot want 1 j to go back again to boyhood. I am j afraid I might make a worse life out of j j it than 1 have made. You could not I afford to go back to boyhood if it were ; : possible. You might do a great deal 1 worse than you have done. The past is j gone! Look out for thefutare! To ali j j Christians it is a time of gladness. I \ am glad the years are going. You aro ' coming on nearer home. Let yourcouu| teuauce light up with the thought? j nearer home! j Now, when one can sooner get to the. center of things is he not to be congratulated? Who wants to be always in the freshman class? We study God it: this world by the Biblical photograph j of him, but we all know we can in five ; minutes of interview with a friend get : a more accurate idea of him than we j can oy studying mm ou years inruu^u i pictures or words. The little child that I died at six mouths of age kuows more I of God than all Andoverand allPrincei ton aud all New Brunswick. ! The Center of the Wheel. Does not- our common sense teach us I that it is better to be at the center than j to be clear cut on the rim of the wheel, 1 holding nervously fast to the tire lest we be suddenly hurled into light and j eternal felicity? Through all kinds of ; optical instruments trying to peer in i through the cracks and the keyholes of heaven?afraid that both doors of the j celostial mansion will be swung wide ! open before our entranced vision?rosh! ing about among the apothecary shops | of this world wondering if this is good I for rheumatism and that is good for I neuralgia and something else is good for a bad congh, lest we be suddenly ushered into a l^nd of everlasting health where the inhabitant never says, "I am sick!" What fools we all are to prefer the circumference to the ceDterl What a : dreadful thing it would be if we should j be suddenly ushered irom ims wintry | world into tbe May time orchards of heaven, and if our pauperism of sin and i sorrow should be suddenly broken up ! by a presentation of an emperor's castle | surrounded by parks with springing ! fountains and paths, up and down ! which angels of God walk two and two! In 1835 the French resolved that at ; Ghent they would have a kind of niu: sical demonstration that had never been j heard of. It would be made up of the I chimes of bells and the discbarge of ! cannon. Tbe experiment was a.perfect | success. What with tbe ringing of the bells and the report of the ordnance tbe city trembled and the hflls shook with the triumphal march tba'. was as strange as it was overwhelming With a most glorious accompaniment will God's | dear children go into their high resii deuce when the trumpets shall sound ! and the last day has come. At the sigi nal given the bells of the towers, and ; of the lighthouses, and of the cities 1 will strike their sweetness into a last ; chime that shall ring into the-beavens and float off upon the sea, joined by the boom of bursting mine and magazine, augmented by ail the cathedral towers j I of heaven?the harmonies of earth and the symphonies of the celestial realm ; making up one great triumphal march, i fit to celebrate the ascent of the rei deemed to where they shall shine as the j I ? 1 gears uuever >iiiu ever : fNCURABLE I DISEASES 3? Many diseases considered in- \ curable are catarrh | under ether names, j Kf Simple catarrh in H0 E? ^1C ^CUd *S ca^e(l w <7 |&\ incurable. Con^ A sumption is ca~ tarrh of the ami its in the more adv'i'W/ffv a need stages; ' ' ' but great num! bers of people die of consumption needlessly, -it is certain that every phase of catarrh, including many cases I of consumption, are cared by the right j treatment. Pe-ru-na, I)r. Ilartraan's . great prescription, attacks catarrhal i diseases scientifically and cures them, j I)r. Ilartman explains it fully in his j books which arc mailed on application, j Here is a letter from Mrs. Ilarmening, Mazo .Manic, Wis., who is one of many \ cured of consumption by Pe-ru-na. I She says: ! Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, 0. Peak Siks:?' I cannot praise your j remedy too highly. Last winter 1 had la grippe and hemorrhage of the lungs followed. All the doctors around here { told me I had to die of consumption. ; Then 1 thought 1 would a sic Dr. Hart1 ' -J-: i.n.n t .mi ti,? I IIliHl 1UI UU 1U-. V? Iiiv.il a. uiu. ; scribed De-ru-na for inc. and I took it ! according to his directions and was cured. I advise everybody that is troubled with lung disease to take Dr. Ilartman's treatment. I am sure they ! will not regret it if they do. I am now | enjoying good health, and can thank i l'c-ru-nu for it.'1 i The Republicans aie getting ready to wave ibe bloody sh'rt in Congress. ? i l :? 1 i._ The politicians are uetsmiutxi iu ni :k; the most oat of the race ti\ u Lies in the Carolina?, but they will j be as dumb as oysters ia reference to the troubles in the State of Iliiolic is. ! ??o??a?ii?iPii ? _?_____ | I CORNCOB MEAL. " j tTucil For Mnliln:: STnple Snpar, Cof* i fee nml inlmoco. ; "We are constantly meeting with ! fakes and fakirs." said a young Wall | street broker the other day, "but one of : ! the slickest schemes that 1 have ever I ; come across was a corncob mill in 1 Cairo, Ills. The way I became acquaint- i ed? with the business was through a friend of mine cut there, who was interested in the deal and who picked mo up, a young chap without any money, } and made me the purchasing agent in ! Chicago. "It was a long time before 1 myself I knew the wherefore of the mill. It was j erected in an inaccessible place, two or i three miles out from Cairo, and a board j I fence ten feet high was built around it. i The company had its own private wires I to Chicago, Kansas City and New Orleans, and every detail of the business j was scrupulously kept secret The employees themselves did not know what | j use the corncobs were put to. They merely knew tbat large quantities of cobs were sent in, but the company gave it out that they were seeking to iDvent a new process for paper pulp, and that silenced questions "This was not the only use for the cob meal, however The company furnished it straight to one coucern out in Kansas City and to another down in New Orleans. It was part of my business, however, to find ont the disposi ticn that was made of the tneai, ana i this is the strange part of my story, j The firm out in Kansas City showed me j a Jarge vat and a distilling apparatus, i J!n the vat coffee berries were placed and j boiled. The drip, which was strong j black coffee, passed by means of the ! distiller over to another vat containing j nothing but this corncob meal. Tbelat- ! tcr became saturated with the coffee | juice. Both berries and meal were dried, i and the boiled berries were placed upon the market as a cheaper grade of coffee, while tko meal was put up in packages arid sold for gronnd coffee. "The firm in New Orleans had a similar scheme, except that it made use of tbo stems of tobacco leaves. You know j t hat in cigar and oi:her tobacco factories ; the leaves are summed and the stems are sold to snuff manufacturers. Eat this firm boiled the stems, distilling them off into a vat containing corncob meal. The result was sold as tobacco under a brand you'd easily recognize were I to mention it. "Another curious use for corncobs I discovered in Chicago when 1 was doing th3 buying. I wen: around to all the big grain elevators and contracted to take their cobs at ?1 per car. All you had to do was to run your car on the siding next to tbo elevator when they opened a shoot and fill the*car with cobs in a very few minutes. So you see tfcero was very littJe expense attached tc it, as the elevator people helped load tbo cars in order to get rid of the cobs. Bat I was greatly surprised one day to find that I bad a rival who was trying to bull the market. He had gone to the elevator men and offered them $1.25 per car for the cobs. 1 bunted hira up and laDghingly told him that 1 didn't know there was another fool in town looking for corncobs. Later on he told me the use he made of tbem. He showed me three or four immense kettles in which he made sirup out of the commonest anc! coarsest brown sugar. Into the sirup he dumped his cobs, broken up into little bits. The result, after straining, was one of the best imitations of maple sirup that I ever struck. It tasted exactly like the genuine. The firm that 1 worked for paid $50,000 for its plant and declared a small dividend the first year The second year it paid 250 per cent dividend. It ran along swimmingly until the Illinois legislatnre passed a law prohibiting the . exportation of adulterated food stuffs, i That killed the schema. The plaut is being used now as a flouring mill." I New York Commercial Advertiser. A Coptic Prayer. I have written with my hand, and the writing bears witness io me, bet cause cue day I shall leave it and deJ part. With what strength my hand has j j written, when my hand shall perish i my strength is still there. And there is no scribe that will no: ! pass away, but what bis'hands have ; I written will remain forever ! Write nothing with thy band bnt | j that which thou wilt be well pleased to see at the resurrection 1 wrote, and 1 thought there was no i harm, h?catise my hand will perish one j day, and us writing will remain. And 1 knew that God will bring it j forth tomorrow What then?oh. that | I had considered -what defense will it : make? j The Lord Jesus Christ, may he cause I this holy copy to avail for the saving of ! tho soul of the wretched man who j ! wrote it I j And lighten the eyes of his mind to { know the mystery of his interpretation | and the understanding of his spiritual : secret and make him worthy to strivo ! in knowing for himself and him who I shall read in itl?From Coptic Version J of New Testament. Tlie .Nile Valley. ! 1 do not myself believe that our genj eration will gdt much value out of the | Nile valley For in what does the Su clan consist? It is, as it were, a single llllt.au UI L'li:e biiiv (lifiniiaiTusa a i^a-ui/ ; brown nugget, ami even the blue thread | Itself is brc wn for many months in the year Where the waters of the Nile ecuk into the banks there grow thorn bushes vnrl poisonous weeds. Where the inhabitants splash the water over their scrappy fields?perhaps 50 yards j square?there are baid wen crops. This ! belt of vegetation is rarely more than a few hundred yards bread. And the rest ! is desert?miserable, aching, desolate desert There is plenty of room to lie j down and die iu. But it is no place for a man to live in.?"The Fashoda Inci* ! dpiit. " hv Lieutenant Winston Soeucer J Churchill, in North American Review. --?-? -O- * ? Charity covers a multitude of sins. aanBBBBnBaBnHan ^BSCLUTEEvl Makes the food more d< * ROYAL BAKINQ PO VOLCANIC BATHS. The Bntlier Revels In a Crater'of Ice Cold Mad. Volcano batbs are the proper thing nowadays in certain parts of California and Mexico. Down in Mendocino county, Cal., such baths have become most frequent. Tho volcano bath is not a water bath, nor is it a fire bath or a lava batb, as might be supposed. It is a mnd bath, and no ordinary mud batb at that. Ice cold mud of a bluish tint and of the consistency of freshly mixed*inortar is tho element into which the bathers plunge, splashing and spluttering. The way they manage it is unique. A sapling is felled in the forests near the volcano craters, stripped of its limbs, carried to the crater and placed across it, 60 that each end of the pole rests on firm ground. I Fancy yourself sliding out on one of these saplings stretched across a crater's mouth, theD slipping gently off into the middle of a corelinc. bubbling, ice cold mass of mud and swinging yourself there, suspended by your hands until fatigued. Then, with just life enough left to crawl back along the log:, you reach unyielding ground again. Once plunged into one of the craters of mud, with all tics to the sapling above severed, a person would be lost forever, being swallowed U|D m the murky depths in an instaut, for vastly quicker in action and surer of its victim than quicksand is the mud of Mendocino's mysterious volcanoes. Cleanliness has nothing to do with it. It is not that for which people face the dangers of the volcano bath. The : mud which is belched forth from the j earth's interior is supposed to contain important medicinal properties. There are about 25 of these singular j mod belching volcanoes in Mendocino j connty, and they are among California's , many wonders. They are situated high on a mountain side, seven miles from Cahto. At this time of the year they are nnusually active. Their gnrgling roar m.iy be beard for a distance of several miles when they are most violent The mud frequently shoots over the rim of the crater, flows down the mountain like a lava stream and enters one of the Eel river's tributaries called Mud creek. It fills the craters, which are about five feet above the earth's surface and bounded v#th a circular base or miniature crater from four to seven feet in diameter at the base and two to three feet at the top. Prospecting parties have hewn ! down sapliugs 50 feet in length and j pushed them into the mouth of a crater, i Some of these have disappeared alto- j - gether. Others remain near the surface, I playthings of the muddy clement, which | tosses them about like fishermen's bobbins in a rough sea. A significant coincidence is the fact that when the ocean, 20 miles away, is unusually heavy and rough the volcanoes become intensely active, belching forth not only their burden of ice cold mud, bat volumes of warm vapor. In some mysterious way the ocean seems to control their action. ?San Francisco Bulletin. I When Cscncn Was Silenced. Congressman Cannon is a bard bitter J and merciless. I never saw him discon- | certed but cuce, ana men no was uimself hit hard and silenced fcr the day. It was this way: Boutelle, as chairman of naval affairs, brought in a bill to pension the widows and orphans of the victims of the Maine disaster in Havana harbor. Cannon jumped on it and asseverated that any jacklcg pension attorney could drive a coach and four through the bill and loot the treasury without limit, and then ho cited similar legislation in the casecf the Samoa disaster in lbS9. , Boutelle is a fierce man, a capital talker, the handsomest man in the house and impulsive. Springing to his feet, his face ashen with anger, every nerve quivering with passion, his voice vibrant with rage, he pointed his finger at Cannon and exclaimed, "Mr. Speaker, there are men in this world who would break up a funeral procession if they were not appointed to drive the hearse." The house screamed with laughter anrl delight, for there were few there into whose legislative dumpling Cannon had not at seme time put a spider, it was the only time old Joe was not able to return a Roland for an Oliver. ? Washington Letter in Louis j viJlo Courier-Journal. ' Old Jobn Urynnt. Jobn Bryant, a brother of William Culleu Bryant, is living in Princeton, Ills., in good health. A relative living in Bclleview, Fla., writes of him: | "John Bryant was 91 years old last j July, I think. Pie writes me quite often, I though it is some time now since I have heard, not since he went north in the i spring. I suppose if ho is well ho will ! bo in St. Nicholas, near Jacksonville, j thrs winter That is where he usually ! goes. His mind is bright as ever, and j for his ago he is quito active; cannot ; see to read evenings, sg some of ns used [ c ; to plan to have a few games of whist ! every evening to while away the long j hours fcr him." i ! A A<mt 3'er.cn rcsi. ! Michigau has developed a new peach I pest which arrests the growth of tho j fruit when it is; about the size of a haj zeluut, thus producing a crop locally i .'known as "iittle peaches. " It was first noticed ahcut two years ago, and this | year its ravages were alarmingly exteni uive. So far no remedy has been found j for it, though expert investigation and i experiment are not wanting. In Saugaj :;uck township during the present sealion more than 4.0(X) trees were affected. k| BAKINCV ^ Powder Pure Vicious and wholesome WDER CO., NEW YORK. An I it welcome Visitor. Mr. T., a business man of Cleveland, [ says The nam Dealer, rents desk room I in his office to Mr. B., whence the fol| lowing story. "Is Mr. B. in:" asked a | caller. "No," replied Mr. T., thinking I he recognized an unwelcome caller. "Well, I'll wait for him," replied the j caller, sitting down At 5 o'clock he was still waiting. } At o:30, still waiting. A few minutes before 6 Mr. T. closed his desk for the day and prepared to go homo. The caller ventured to ask if Mr. B. was likely to return to hisoffico that I day. Mr. T. answered: "No. He' is in Buffalo and will be i back next Tuesday morning." | The caller showed uo anger. On the contrary, he smiled. [ "Don't apologize," be said. "My business was not important, and your i office has proved a pleasant lounging j Parf 1c " hu irlrtnrt 14 I ^iU S. UUV IC| uv Ui(?UUl^ U'UUVU) A suppose I'm coming dowu with the smallpox, and the doctor told me I must stay indoors and keep warm." Carried Off a Roof by a Turkey. Harry Dahill, at the Norwalk hotel, climbed oct on the roof to catch a 32 pound turkey that bad escaped and was roosting there. Ho took the bird by the legs. It started to fly and pulled him into the air and off the edge of the roof. Then he let go, and now ho has a broken arm. Hartford Courant. A Little Late. Book Agent (to Georgia backwoodsman)?I have with me, sir, the lives of all the Federal generals. Would you like to take them? Georgia Backwoodsman?Naw, I don't want ter take 'em now, but if yer Viorl nrtmo tor mo $3 TOiira nan TM PT ilHV* VUiliU bV? vv J VU4 U M^v %4 v* tuck ther whole lot.?Atlanta Constitution. Regardless of Age. The kidneys are responsible for more sickness, suffering, and deaths than any otner organs of the body. A majority of the ills afflicting peop'e t' - lay is traceable to kidney tremble It pervades all classes of society, in all climates. regardless of age. sex or condition. Tbe symptoms of kidney trouble are unmistakable, such as rheumati -m. neuralgia sleeplessness, pun or dull ache n the back, a desire to urinate olteu day or night, profuse or scanty suppiy. Uric acid, or brick-dust deposit in urine are signs of clogged kidneys, causing poisoned and germ-Mi el blood. Sometimes the heart acts bad-y, and tube casts (wasting of the kidneys) a>*e looud in tae urine, which if neglected will result in Bright's Disease, the most dangerous torm of kidney trouble. All these symptoms and conditions are - promptly removed under the influence ol Dr. Kilmer's Swanip-Koot. It has a world wide reputation lor its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. No one need be long without it as it is so easy to get at any drug store at filly cents or one dollar. You can have a sam| pie bottle ol this wonderful discovery, Swamp-Root, and a look telling all about it, both sent to 30:1 absolutly trie by mail. Send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamtou, N. Y , and kiudly mention that yon read this liberal offer in the Lexington Dispatch. For Wedding Cakes. i Just received a full and fresh line i of fruit ingredients and decorations consisting of citron, raisins, currants, spices, essences, ready for immediate use without trouble, cake icing in white and colored sugars, leaves in gold and silver, white and greeD, I rcses in while and red, a varied a .:Oi tment ot fancy candies for Inm- | I ruing on Christmas and wedding I cakes, Baker's and Huylers choco- j late, a complete assortment of these goods can be fouud only at the I Bazaar. $500 Savod. I I have been using Ramon's Liver Pills ?t Tonic Pellets lor tie pist two years and considt v that they have saved me ?5(0 in doctor's bills, to say nothing of the snfi'-r- | n.g and loss ot lime. I c 11 rtcomaunl j li em as one of the best liver pills ever made. I sell twelve boxes ot Rimon's to ? T, _1 ) l.?., . fi ur Ol ftuy Oilier K1HU. ucc? rno; | 11 1< ar of petting overstocked on Katnoa j Remedies for tiiev are reudy sal ami i always give satisfa<.t on-R L. McD.miel. j Kt-ily, La. For sale by G il Hirmmand j J. E Kiuifuianu. He Spoke Too Soon. i The young man had asked her the ! momentous question, j And she had softly whispered j "yes." j Then she asked: "Henry did you " '*Xo, darling, he interrupted," with a beaming smile. '-Never." She drew herself away. "I was not going to ask you if you * 1. - ?_ Tl ? " ?lw. ever cared ior anyoouy ei-r. ouc .s lid. 'T was about to ask you if you i fell in love with me for myself alone/' j After balf an hour's haul work he j succeeded in j^catiug her. There are plenty of,people in the world who practically giumble because they can't find something to grumble about. A piano contains neatly a mile cf wire. ? o 'ri " to remit in th^L dangerous disease* It is the best remedy in the word for bad colds and la grippe. Eveiy b >ttle warranted. For sale by J. E. Kaufmann. The Lisa Lavr Question, T) the Editor of the Dispatch: In a recent issup of your valuable piper I read a justification of the lien law. Taken from your standp )int its continuance is seemingly itmtifvd. f will trv tn trnrMo tha J ? ----- - - J V VWVI iUU views and observations of one who has intimate connection with the effects and woi kings of this arch destroyer of independent manhood ai d moral integrity. The purpose of a 1 laws should be the elevation of the people in irtellect and morals thereby checking the incentive to crime, duplicity * nd evasion. "While this law stands on the statute books one man is as good as another, or better in the proportion of bis ability to procure, a ceitain amount of cotton, orother saleable products. This fact alone is a direct incentive to those inclined to crime. Again, after such persons have procured advances they are tempted to dispose of anything they can by other channels than the p oper ones as tbey know that the crop raised is the end of the obligation to pay, thus putting a premium on dishonesty. The honest man is no better than a thief, or not as good under the law because he surrenders everything and has to buy at the price established by the experience of the merchant, which price is fixed by the number who pay out of a cert tin number furnished. We will illustrate A merchant undertakes to supply 1' 0 parties at $100 each and baa found by experience eighty will pay. Ke charges a per cent, sufficient for the eighty to pay the bills of the 100, thus getting himself into he moral wrong of taking twice if aU pay. Thus the honest and industrous pay the biils of the rogues and idh rs. You say again that the poor man could not get credit which is a mistake of the same-kind as the assertion that a man could not borrow money if theusuary law was enacted. Money is more plentiful at 8 per cent, than it ever was at 12 ;;o 15 percent, and even higher rateK and I submit, there is a certain amount of capital in the merchantile business aud that goods will be sold jusi the same whatever law is repealed cr meted. The lien law sustains any profit demanded and the buyer is hound to bis furnisher without recourse. It reminds one of a trap baited for rats?they can get in easy enough but if they get out it is th ough the mercy cf the man wto owns the institutions. We never can have true manhood on top 'till we knock out all props on which rascala can stand. American manhood is * the pride of the woild, and the only way to keep it up?to the standard is to annul all laws that in their tendency protect or justify actions net morally right. Yours for fairness. J. F. Lylts. A most remarkable record has been made by Samoa's Pepsin Chill Tonic in curing Cuiils and Fever and all Malarial Troubles. Only about one in every thousand who nsed this famous remedy in *96 reported a failure to cure, and to each of these the money was promptly refunded. Tasteless and guaranteed. 50c. For s&le by G. M. ?, i Herman and J. E. Kautmann. Fond Mother?Well, Harold, how are }ou succeeding at college? Harj old?The teacher says I'm getting ! up in figures. Indeed. Yes; I used to be seventh in my cl^98 and now I stand sixteenth. I am pushing on. R?v. G. H. Morrison, of Hartwell, Ga , is nosloth or sluggard, butwhatsoever his hand findetb to do he does it with all bi3 might. Besides preaching every Sunday and sometimes on j Saturday, ho made this year, with . ; his family, twenty-one bales of cotton ' and enough corn to do him, and pays [ his subscription promptly, all of j which goe3 to prove that he is of the I earth. I { Colonel Jiru Smith, of Oglethrope, ! Ga., will not make more than 15,000 i bales of cotton this year, where he I usually ?ets 25,000. He says the man who farmed successfully this year will do to farm again. j Coal men say there is about to be | a coal famine. The price has gone up about CO to 75 cents a ton. A hosiery knitting mill may be built at Merry Hill, N. C, by J. H. White. When we say a person has gpod sense about most thing3, we mean, of course that about most things he has good sense to agree with us. Methodist Appointments. Tbe following plan for Lexington | Ciicuit, durirg the year 1890, will be observed: j 1st Sunday, Hebron, 11 a. m.; : Koreb, 3:30 p. m. 2nd Sunday, Shilob, 11 a. m , and I the Saturday before at 11 a. in. 3 d Sunday, Hebron, 11 a. in., and j 3:30 p. in. -Itb Sunday, Lexington, 11 a. m., | and 7:30 p. w. Wanted. ! 1,000 pounds of beeswax, in large : or small quantities. Highest market j ?v;/.a hr 1? li. Harmau. at the , r? ?' ? ? liazaar.