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J -WTEE^ BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM ?IN? Western South Carolina. 0 RATES REASONABLE. O SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM JOB PRINTING A SPECIALTY. g???? ? ; NOBLE WOMANHOOD. DR. TALMAGE TELLS OF THE VALUE The Lexington dispatch. A Bcprescntatiue Hcu-spapcr. Cocers Lcxiinjion and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties l.ihc a Blanket. VOL. XXIX. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1890. NO. 10. OF GOOD WIVES. Hundreds of Men Are Successful Only Because of Wise Helpmates?Great ' In PJety, Kindness and Hospitality. [Copyright, by American Press Association.] Washington, Jan. lo.?A Scripture character whose name is not given hecomes the subject of Dr. Talmjme's sermon in which he here sets fm'th the qualities of good and noble womanhood; text. II Kings iv, 8, "Elisha passed to Shnnem, jvhere was a great woman." The hotel of our time had no counterpart in any entertainment of olden time. The vast majority of travelers must then be entertained at private abode. Here comes Elisha, a servant of the Lord, on a divine mission, and he must find shelter. A balcony overlook ing the valley of Esdraelon is offered him in a private house, and it is especially furnished for his occupancy?a chair to sit on, a table from which to eat. a candlestick by which to read and a bed on which to slumber, the whole establishment belonging to a great and good woman. Her husband, it seems, was a godly man. but he was entirely overshadowed by his wife's excellences; just as now you sometimes find in a household the wife the center of dignity and influence and power, not by any arrogance or presumption, but by superior intellect and force of moral nature, wielding domestic affairs and at the same time supervising all financial and hnsinpcq affairs?the wife's hand was su MlIU ULU win wvus t*uit vui uuttu to the good prophet Elisha. Yes, she was a great woman. Practice Hospitality. In the first place, she was great in fcer hospitalities. Uncivilized and barbarons nations have this virtue. Jupiter had the surname of the Hospitable, and he was said especially to avenge the wrongs of strangers. Homer extolled it in his verse. The Arabs are punctilious on this subject, and among some of their tribes it is not until the ninth day of tarrying that the occupant has a right to ask his guest. "Who and whence art thou?" If this virtue is so honored among barbarians, how ought it to be honored among those of us who believe in the Bible, which commands us to use hospitality one toward another without grudging! Of course I do not mean nnder this cover to give any idea that I approve of that vagrant class who go around from place to place, ranging their whole lifetime, perhaps under t^e auspices of some benevolent or philanthropic society. quartering themselves on Christian families with a great pile of trunks in the hall and carpetbag portentous of tarrying. There is many a country parsonage that looks out week by week upon the ominous arrival of wagon with creaking wheel and lank horse and dilapidated driver, come under the auspices ina+imtinn tn soenda J Ui. ovaiv vut?A<vuv?v ? few weeks and canvass the neighborhood. Let no such religious tramps take advantage of this beautiful virtue of Christian hospitality. Not so much the sumptaousness of your diet and the regality of your abode will impress the friend or the stranger that steps across your threshold as the warmth of your greeting, the informality of your recepItion. the reiteration by grasp, and by look, and by a thousand attentions, insignificant attentions, of your earnestness of welcome. There will be high appreciation of your welcome, though you have nothing but the brazen candlestick and the plain chair to offer Elisha when he comes toShunem. Most beautiful is this grace of hospitality when shown in the house of God. I am thankful that I have always been pastor of churches where strangers are welcome. But I have entered churches where there was no hospitality. A Ktrancrer would stand in the vostfbule Ifor awnile and then make a pilgrimage tip the long aisle. No door opened to him until, flushed and excited and embarrassed, he started back again and. coming to some half filled pew, with apologetic air entered it. while the occupant glared on him with a look which seemed to say. "Well, if i must, I must. " Away with such accursed indecency from the house of God. Let every church that would maintain large Christian influence in community culture Sabbath by Sabbath this beautiful grace of Christian hospitality. A good man traveling in the far west, in the wilderness, was overtaken by night and storm, and Wie put in at a j cabin. He saw firearms along tho beams | of the cabin, and he felt alarmed. lie ; did not know but that he had fallen j into a den of thieves. lie sat there great- | ]y perturbed. After awhile the man of j the house came home with a gun on his j |honIder and set it down in a corner, j l?ie stranger was still more alarmed, j Kfter awhile the man of the house j whispered with his wife, and the j gtranger thought his destruction was on the shuttle or the banking house or the worldly business. Yon see hundreds of men who aro successful only because there is a reason at home why they are successful. If a man marry a good honest soul, he makes his fortune. If he marry a fool, the Lord help him. The wife may be Ihe silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices down on Exchange, but there oftentimes comes from the home circle a potential and elevating influence. This woman of my text was the superior of her husband He, as far as I can understand, was what we often see in our day, a man of large fortune and only e modicum of brain, intensely quiet, sitting a long while in the same place without moving hand or foot, if you say "Yes" resjxmding "Yes;" if you say "No." responding - "No"?inane, eyes .If shut, mouth wide open, maintaining his position in society only because he has a large patrimony. But his wife, my text says, i was a great woman. Her name has not come down to us. She belonged to that collection of people who need no name to distinguish them* What would title 1 of duchess or princess or queen?what would escutcheon or gleaming diadem be to this woman of my text, who by her intelligence and her behavior challenges the admiration of all agesY Long after the brilliant women of the court of Louis XV have been forgotten and the brilliant women of the court of Spain have been forgotten and the brilliant women who sat on the throne of Russia have been forgotten some grandfather will put on his spectacles, and holding the book the other side the light read to his grandchildren the story i of this great woman of Shunem who ' ? ? ? LI ^ r^nviotloU 1030 MAIN STRXoelng planned Then the than of the house came forward and said to the stranger: "Stranger, we are a rough and rnde people out here, and we work hard for a living. We make our living by hunting, and when wo come to the ni<rlitf;ill wo are tired and we are ant to go to bed early and liefore retiring we are always in the habit of reading a chapter from the word of God and making a prayer. If you don't like snch things, if yon will just step outside the door until we get through I'll be greatly .obliged to you." Of course the stranger tarried in the room, and the old hunter took hold of the horns of the altar and brought down the blessing of God upon his household and upon the stranger within their gates. Rude but glorious Christian hospitality! Woman's Sympathy. Again, this woman of my text was great in her kindness toward God's messenger. Elisha may have been a stranger in that household, but as she found out he had come on a divine mission he was cordially welcomed. We have a great many lK>oks in our day about the hardships of ministers and the trials of Christian ministers. I wish somebody would write a book about the joys of the Christian minister, about the sympathies all around about him, about the kindness, about the genial considerations of him. Does sorrow come to our home, and is there a shadow r?n +1>Q /vroUla thoro !)TV? lin rt rl T Pfl Q nf hands to help and many who weary not through the night watching and hundreds of prayers going up that God would restore the sick. Is there a burning. brimming cup of calamity plated on the pastor's table, are there not many to help him drink of that cup and who will not be comforted because he is stricken? Oh. for somebody to write a book about the rewards of the Christian ministry?about his surroundings of Christian sympathy! This woman of the test was only a type of thousands of men and women who come down from mansion and from cot to do kindness to the Lord's servants. I could tell you of something that you might think a romance. A young man graduated from New Brunswick Theological seminary was called to a village church, lie had not the means to furnish the parsonago. After three or fonr weeks of preaching a committee of the oflicers of the church waited on him and told him he looked tired and thought he had better take a vacation of a few days. The young pastor took it as an intimation that his work was done or not acceptable. He took the vacation. and at the end of a few days came back, when an old elder said "Here is the key of the parsonage. We have been cleaning it up. You had better go up and look at it." So the young pastor took the key. went up to the parsonage. opened the door, and lo. it was carpeted, and there was the hatrack all ready for the canes and the umbrellas and the overcoats, and on the left hand of the hall was the parlor, sofaed. chaired, pictured. He passed on to the other side of the hall, and there was the study table in the center of the floor with stationery nj>on it, bookshelves built, long ranges of new volumes, far beyond the reach of the means of the young pastor, many of these volumes. The young pastor went up stairs and found all the sleeping apartments furnished. came down stairs and entered the pantry, and there were the spices, and the coffees, and the sugars, and the groceries for six months, lie went down into the cellar, and there was the coal for a.ll the coming winter. He went into the dining hall, and there was the table already set?the glass and the silverware. He went into the kitchen, and there were all the culinary implements and a great stove. The young pastor lifted one lid of the stove, and he found the fuel all ready for ignition. Putting back the cover of the stove, lie saw in another part of it a lucifer match, and all that young man had to do in starting to keep house was to strike the match. You tell me that is apocryphal. Oh. no. that was my own experience. Oh. the kindnesses, oh. the enlarged sympathies sometimes clustered around those who enter the gospel ministry! I suppose the man of Shnnein had to pay the bills, but it was the large hearted Christian, sympathies o? the. woiuan of Meekison of Ohio Has Been Greatly Benefited by Pe-ru-na. Congressman I). Morkison of Ohio, write3 the following letter to Dr. llartnian. Dr S. I>. llartnian, Columbus, 0. Dear Sir:?I have used several bottles of Pe-ru-na and feel greatly benefited thereby. I have beeu afflicted Hon 0. Mkfkisos. xri'h catarrh of the head and feel cncouragod to believe that coutinued use of IV r.i-im will fully eradicate a disease of thirty year-.' standing. Yours sincct ely. i?." m 1:1: k isc ?x. Th<J continued rerojpt of endorsements like this f??r Dr. Ilartinan's crrcat catarrh remedy, prove its\a!uc beyond question. Men of prominence everywhere arc recognizing* tin* merit of IVru-na and are willing to {five expression totheir judgment becausea certain, absolute cure for catarrh is a public good. All druggists sell I'e-ru-ija ^ IIMJjMLBPHBWCIWWWBOWBPW? IITiiTi nuimii rm "W. IK :et, Soliets a Share of Sfmnem that Tooted after the Lord's messenger. Strong to Bear Trouble. Again, this woman of the text was . great in her behavior nnder trouble. Her only son had died on her lap. A very bright light went out in that j household. The sacred writer puts it i very tersely when he says. "He sat on her knee until noon, and then he died." I Yet the writer goes on to say that she j * ? n i?? r% ? exciaimeu, "u is wem vjreat iu pi us- ; perity. this woman was great in trouble, i Where are the feet that have not been | blistered on the hot sands of this great ' Sahara ? Where are the soldiers that j have not bent under the burden of j grief? Where is the ship sailing over j glassy sea that has not after awhile j been caught in a cyclone? Where is the j garden of earthly comfort, but trouble j i hath hitched up its fiery and panting i j team and gone through it with burning j I plowshare of disaster ? Under the pelt- i ing of ages of suffering the great heart j of the world has burgt with woe. Navi- j gators tell us about the rivers, and the j Amazon, and the Danube, and the ' j Mississippi have been explored, but who j j can tell the depth or the length of the i I great river of sorrow, made up of tears ! j and blood, rolling through all lands J and all ages, bearing the wreck of famj ilies, and of communities, anil of em pires, foaming, writhing, boiling with J the agonies of 6,000 years. Etna, Cotoj paxi and Vesuvius have been described. I but who has ever sketched the volcano j of suffering retching up from its depths I the lava and scoria, and pouring them | down the sides to whelm the nations ? I Oh if T fnnld cjithpr all the heart strings, tlie broken heartstrings, into a | liarp I would play on it a dirge such as i I was never sounded. Mythologists tell i j us of gorgon and centaur and Titan, j and geologists tell us of extinct species j of monsters, but greater than gorgon I or megatherium, and not belonging to j the realm of fable, and not of an extinct , species, a monster with an iron jaw and j a hundred iron hoofs has walked across j the nations, and history and poetry and I sculpture, in their attempt to sketch it and describe it, have seemed to sweat great drops of blood. But, thank God, there are those who can conquer as this woman of the text conquered, and say: "It is well Though my property be gone, though my children be gone, though my home be broken up. though my health be sacrificed, it is well; it is well!" There is no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to rise in the hinder part of the ship and hush it. There is no darkness bnt the constellation of God's eternal love can illumine, and, though the winter comes out of the northern sky, you have sometimes seen that northern sky all ablaze with auroras which seem to say: "Come up this way. Up this way are thrones of light and seas of sapphire and the splendor of an eternal heaven. Come up this "way." We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed <m perilous aeeps, oux cannot oe lost. Though satiui enrage the wind and the tide. The promise assures us the Lord will provide. Home DnticR. Again, this woman of my text was great in her application to domestic duties. Every picture is a home picture, whether she is entertaining an Elisha or whether she is giving careful attention to her sick boy or whether she is appealing for the restoration of hexproperty Every picture in her case is one of domesticity. Those are not disciJ pies of this Shunemite woman who, ! going out to attend to outside charities, neglect the duty of home?the duty of wife, of mother, of daughter. No faithfulness in public benefaction can ever atone for domestic negligence. There i has been many.a mother who by indei fatigable toil has reared a large family j of children, equipping them for the du ties of life with good manners and large intelligence and Christian principle, starting them out, who has done more for the world than many a woman whose name has sounded through all the lands and through the centuries. 1 remember wjicn Kossuth was in this country there were some lactic ho got honorable reputations by presenting him very gracefully with bouquets of flowers on public occasions, but what was all that compared with the plain lHungarian mother who gave to'truth and civilization and the cause of universal liberty a Kossuth V Yes, this woman of my text was great in her simplicity. When this prophet wanted to ! reward her for her hospitality by askj ing some preferment from the king, j what did she say V She declined it. She j said, "1 dwell among my own people." i as much as to say. "I am satisfied with ! ii i j. n ;i.. i i > my lot; an i wain ui> iaiuu> aim i ! my friends around me; I dwell among J j my own people." Oh! what a rebuke to the strife for j J precedence in all ages! How many there j are who want to get great architectuie j J and homes tarnished with all art, all < I painting, all statuary, who have not I enough taste to distinguish between j ! Gothic and Byzantine and who could i not tell a figure in plaster of paris fivm i ! Palmer's "White Captive,"-and would j | not know a. boy's penciling from Bier- ; j stadt's "Yosemite." Men who buy , ; large libraries by the square foot, buyj ing those libraries when they have i scarcely enough education to pick ont ; the day of the month in the almanac! j on. n.?w many mere are sumnj; iu i have things as well as their neighbors | or better than their neighbors, and in 1 the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted j and business firms thrown into bank- j ruptcy and men of reputed honesty j rush into astounding forgeries! Of course, 1 say nothing against refine- j went or culture. Splendor of abode, ! sumptuousness of diet, lavishness in art. neatness in apparel ?there is nothing against them in the Bible or out of the Bible, Hod does not want us to j prefer mud hovel to Knglish cottage or i untainted sheepskin to French broad- ; doth or husks to phuappbor theclum- j siness of a boor to the manners of a ! gentleman, Ho<1. who strung the bcadi j with tinted slidl and the grass of the ! field with thp dews of the night and j hath exquisitely tinged morning cloud j and robin redbreast, wants us to keep | ; our eve open to all beautiful sights and . S^lOILTCIECTO^ Your Valued Patron; j our car open to'ail beautifTifcadences | and our heart open to all elevating sen- i timents Grcnt In I'iely. But what 1 want to impress upon ; you, my lu arcrs. is that you ought not j to inventory the luxuries of life amour; the indispensables, and you ought not i to depreciate this woman of the text, , who. when offered kingly preferment, i responded. "I dwell among my own i people." Yes, this woman of the text j was great in h ?r pictv. Just read the chapter after you go home. Faith in j God. and she was not ashamed to talk J al>out it before idolaters. Ah. woman ' will never appreciate what she owes to j Christianity until she knows and sees j the degradation of her sex under pagan- i ism and Mohammedanism I Her very birth considered a misfortune. Sold like cattle on the shambles. Slave of all j work, and at last her body fuel for the j funeral pyre of her husband. Above the shriek of the tire worshipers in India, and above the rumbling of the Juggernauts I hear the million voiced groan of wronged, infnlted. broken hearted, j downtrodden woman. Her tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris, the La Plata, and on the steppes of Tartary. She has been dishonored in Turkish garden and Persian palace and Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones have been sacrificed in the Indus and the Ganges. There is not a groan, or a dungeon, or an island, or a mountain, or a river, or a lake, or a sea but could tell a story of the outrages heaped upon her. But. thanks to God. this glorious Christianity comes forth, and all the chains of this vassalage are snapped, and she rises from ignominy to exalted sphere and becomes the affectionate daughter, the | gentle wife, the honored mother, t he useful Christian Oh, if Christianity has done so much for woman, surely woman will become its most ardent advocate and itssuhiimest exemplification! A I)laI>oIii-nl Invention. Details are given of an invention which fills us with dismay. According to the account furnished by the inventor. his new phonographic voice trumpet magnifies musical and vocal sounds in such volume as to render them unendurable in a room and satisfactorily distinct two miles off. In time he hopes to extend the stentorophonic capacity of this terrible trumpet to { thrice that distance. JdiS-fcrst idea was i to enable ship captains to converse in a heavy sea fog or at night. Now, however, he has realized that by the aid of liis sound magnifier telephones can be made which will allow a political speak- | er or professional vocalist to entertain j three or four audiences seated in halls { wide apart at one and the same time. The power which is thus placed in I the hands of those who are fond of hearing their own voices is nothing short or J devastating. Imagine again the inflammatory effect of a debate in the French j chamber being "switched" on to the working quarters, or of Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett simultaneously ravishing the ears of the house of commons and of a "demonstration" in Hyde park. Seriously, it is impossible to profess enthusiasm for an invention calculated to enhance the dominion of din under which modern dwellers in cities incessantly groan.?London Spectator. Wanted ttie Title. A correspondent of the Toronto Globe at Washington says that at a luncheon given to the Canadian commissioners the women present kept the menu cards and got the commissioners to write their names upon them, that they might have a souvenir of the occasion. One woman saw with undisguised concern her card filling np with plain everyday names. She was astonished that Sir Wilfrid and the other Canadian knights signed their names without the prefix ! of Sir. but as she neared Lord Herschel i she felt that things would be different. ! for was he not a lord high chancellor of i England? Her astonishment turned to dismay j when the card again came back, this ' time with the single word HerscheL j "Herschel!'' she said. "Herschel! Why : doesn't he sign it 'Lord Herschel?' " j In vain it was explained to her that i peers signed only their titles, and that ! it would he very bad form to put Lord i before it. She had been bunkoed and j knew it In that souvenir today there ; is no doubt a footnote fur the benefit of j her friends, explaining that Herschel is a lord, even though he doesn't acknowl* I edge it himself An Kxpevmive French Soldier, i It is open to question whether France bas had her money's worth out of Pri- . vate Petit, who was recently serving in I the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth in- i fantry regiment at Lyons Petit was i born in the republic of Paraguay, of French parents, who tieglected to make the necessary declaration at the consulate. Ignorant of this, he came to France and was promptly arrested as a deserter and sentenced to a term of imprison- j uieut. When this was over, lie did his ; three years' service, at the expiration ] of which he demanded, in accordance i with the law, his expenses for his jour- j ney home. Attempts were made to per- j suade him that France was a moro desirable country to reside in than Para- I guay, but ho refused to be convinced and insisted on the sum to which he : was entitled being paid him. Expenses hftinc allowed at the rate of so much per kilometer, Petit's little bill came to 4,125 francs, it may be doubted if his services t<> Ins country were worth this amount.?Paris Letter. To the Public. We are authorized to guarantee pvtry bottle of Chamberlain's Cough IFmcdy and if not satisf ct ay to rcfuud the money to the purchaser. There is no better medicine made for la ^iij p<\ colds and whooping < ougb. Pi ice. 'Jo and oOc per bottle. Try it. ' For sale by J. E. Kau/mann It is hard to understand why a j stingy tnan hates a thief. r, TSS., age. Prompt and F I ! Intcrcnteil Qnecn Victoria. Qneen Victoria took a good deal of j kiudly interest in the recent marriage i of the niece of the late .John Brown, j Miss Brown was one of her majesty's j many goddaughters and was named j Victoria. As a child she often accompa- j nied her uncle to the castle, and the i queen gave her hosts of pretty toys, j For a wedding gift her majesty seut her a silver teapot inscribed "V. B., From Victoria, ft. I., November 8, 1898, "as well as presenting her with a handsome wedding dress and a bridal j ? ?-I ?. i t. U/?L'CA??tO Ultrl 1 11 ft \r r? Vdl Willi lUilii^u uuu iucu; I white heather. The S<-nt of the Soul. The facetious man ambled gingerly over the icy pave. "These are the times that try men's soles," he called to a passing friend. He threw a heavy emphasis on the "soles" and tho friend smiled. At that moment the punster's feet flew from under him and he came down i with a resounding thwack. "I see,"said the passing friend, with I much gravity, "that the exact seat of the soul is still a matter of doubt."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her Suggestion. "Do you know what is the best way j to kill time in the winter, Dick?" said ! an Alleghauy girl to her steady com- j pany. "I know several ways. But which is ! the best way?" "Sleigh it."?Pittsburg Chronicle j Telegraph ~ I ?tate ok Ohio, City of Toledo, i t Lucas County ) ss | Frenk J. Cheney makes oalb f bat be is ?!?e senior paitner of tbe firm ; of F. j. Cop;?fc Co, doidp busi- j Dess in I lie City of To'edo, Cmntv ! tod S'ate aforesaid and that said j 6rm will pay tie sum of Oce Han- j drrd Djliais for each and every cafe ; of C itanh H at raonot be cared by i the use of Hull's Catarrh C ire FRANK J. CHENEY j S voru to before roe and subscribed | in my presence, this G h day of December, A D 188G. | seal i a-}}' gl\f '?:. ( ) Notary Public. Hill's Citarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous t-urfaces of the system. Sjnd for testimonials, free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. CUTS OFF THEIR HEADS. i Tilts In lloiv tlie Saltan of Morocco Treats Tax Dodger*. The sultan of Morocco is going to prevent his subjects from evading the payment of their taxes, even if in do ? * ? i _ -i a ing it he lias to ocneaa every tax aoager in the country. In his majesty's domain tax dodging by the rich is well nigh universal, and well informed students and travelers, knowing how corrupt and rapacious the sultan's government is. do not doubt that much of it is justifiable. But the sultan looks at the matter in a different light. He declares that there is no excuse for tax dodging, that it is criminal and, moreover, that he has hit upon a pi*~**hinent to fit the crime. Frank E .Jackson, a globe trotter of 30 years' experience, has recently made a tour of north Africa, including the accessible parts of Morocco, and in a personal letter to Frank L. Dingley of Lewiston. Me., a brother of the well known representative of that name, he gives a graphic account of the sultan's bloody and desperate method of procedure. While in Tangier. Mr. Jackson learned that the sultan, at the head of a large l>ody of troops, was marching through the country collecting taxes, and that at Laroiche he had decapitated a largo number of tax dodgers and spiked j their heads above the city gates, tc | serve as a warning to others who might | not be disposed to pay their dues i promptly "A company of five was formed," ! writes Mr Jackson, "to visit Laroiche j and see if this ghastly report was true, j The party consisted of an Englishman, who spoke Arabic; a German and three Americans. "We boa reed a small steamboat at Tangier and sailed down the coast to Cosa Blanca There we engaged mules, j donned Arab costumes (a very prudent j thing to do) and early in the morning started to Laroiche. about 25 miles inland. It was a beautiful country through which we passed, fertile and well cultivated. the monotony of the desert relieved by the tig and olive trees and the stately and ever present palm. But it is a country centuries behind modern civilization. Women are still sold into virtual slavery and not infrequently to take the places of beasts of burden More than once along the way we saw a farmer working his land, his wife and a mule yoked together drawing the plow. "We reached Laroiche alnmt noon. It is impossible to describe the sicken- j ing sight which met our gaze as we rode up to the main entrance to the city. There above us in a ghastly row were 15 human heads shriveling in the broiling sun Wo rode around to the other gates, only to find the same grewsoine display. In all we counted 45 heads spiked to the hoard arches over the city gates Our curiosity was fully satisfied. anil all of us regretted tliat wo j had traveled so far to learn that there : was at the close of the nineteenth cen- ! tnry so barbarous a country on the faeo ; of the earth as Morocco "And not all of the heads were those ; of tax dodders. Some were of ohl men | and women who had never possessed, i anything worth taxing It seems tho suhau bud vented his spite on them after learning that a number of wealthy residents id' the city had been warned ' of his coming and had tied to the mown i-OKEjEW, 'olite Attention. K?& \i?0?> ? ? Makes the food more < BQYAL BAKINQ ! tains", fnuffig 4TirIr~chsTi anu ot7u.T portp1 valuables with tin.'in. "These murderous raids are made once a year by the sultan, and it is said that he nearly depopulates some of the districts I hroiigh which he passes. [7 pun trustworthy authority we learned that what we saw at Laroieho may be scan in the wake of the saltan at every city along his route. If more bloody caputs are gathered in one place than can be conveniently disposed of there, these are carried on to decorate the gateways of the uext city. "?Boston Herald. Ftlftitimift In lltttliN. The oft debated question whether the ; present generation carries personal cleanliness to a greater length than the J ti n mouovh finii /?i/l ho/1 a /?nriftna i pi CV. VTW i ii?, I4i\t C? C4 * ? V> *4.1 | light thrown upon it at the recent Tin Plate Workers' conference. Une Wolverhampton manufacturer stated that not a quarter as many portahlo baths were made now as formerly, and another referred to the fact of orders for 200 shower baths having been taken by a traveler in one journey at some past peticd, while he supposed that at the present time a manufacturer did not sell three shower baths in a year. From this it would seem that the shower hath is obsolete and that the fixed hath has merely superseded the portable one. It would appear, therefore, that the verdict should rather ho that fashion in baths has changed than that cleanliness came in with the prevalence of the lixed hath ?London News. I'lioti>ba of (lie Saltan. Photographs of the sultan have been much in evidence lately in consequence of the kaiser's visit to the Holy Land. But these portraits give a false impression of the sultan as ho really looks today. Abdul Ilaxnid hits not h;ul his photograph taken for 22 years, and the pictures which have appeared in the illustrated papers represent him as he was when he ascended tho throuo. The sultan was horn in 1842, and he is therefore 5U years old. lie wears a long beard, which is now turning gray. When ho was a prince, he was without a beard, hut as soon as he ascended tho tbroue he abandoned the use of razors. ?London Globe. ChiiiCMC Hamboo. Bamboo is of universal use in China. I The windows are delicate latticework of bamboo, and tho furniture is of slender bamboo, bent and curled and plaited. The water bucket is ?, good big stalk, sawed off just below tho joint ?iul made as deep as is needed alcove it. * -' * - i ~ : : . 4-. a or ;i nonie a sicihut piece is i.wn and treated in the same way How Mnst Tlil.t Mother Have Felt f Mrs. Mary B Throckmorton, who has just died in Washington, was the daughter of Charles Pendleton Tutt, who served in tho war of 1S12 and who was a warm friend of President .Jacksou At tho outbreak of tho civil war Colonel John A. Throckmorton, her husband, a native of Virginia, joined the Confederate army, while his son, the present Major Throckmorton, was appointed a lieutenant in tho United States army. At the first battle of Bull Run the father and sou met on opposing sides, and as soon as she learned tho fact Mrs. Throckmorton secured tho trausfer of her son to the army of the west, so that a second meeting of tho two in battle might be avoided. Mrs. Throckmortoi retained her residence in Washington throughout the period of the war and devoted herself to looking after tho welfare of the prison* ers in tho old capitol building.?New York Tribune. w Fjirin Women Voters. Although women in Paris had the right for the first time the other day to vote, few exercised the privilege. In the second arrondisseuient only three voted, and a similar number in the eighth. .Much the same was theiesnlt in every other arrondisseuient. while in the Quartior Latin, which might ho thought the very sanctum sanctorum of women's rights, not a single member of the fair sex took the trouble to vote. The sole exception to this otherwise general indifference was the first atton dissen lent, which comprises tho Halles. or markets, where several hundred women gave their votes. .sin;; iiohIm I'mlcr DilUcuIllc?. "What appears to be the matter with your father?" inquired the doctor as lie hastily put his clothes ou. "He's got the plumbago," replied the boy. "I think that's what maw says it is." "Pain in the small <>f the back. I presume?" said the doctor. "No, sir. he hain't got no small of the Kick. My paw weighs "JS i pounds. " ?Chicago Tribune Mothidist Appointments. The following plan for Lexington Circuit, dining the year 16-00, will ho observed: 1st Sun-lav, lu-brou, I I a. in.: Ill reb, d:00 p. in. 2nd Snnduv. Miilu!;, 11 a. in , aid the Saturday bef.ne 11 a. in. .'lid Suudav, JK-reb, 11 a. i:i , and Hebron, .">: '? '! p. >?. 1th Sunday, Lexington, 11 a. in . and T:'h> ]> in. Wanted. 1,000 poundo of bees.in I n goor small quajathiea. Hi.ybi.rti loarltt. na-i p ii.l oy? id. 11. Hi; ;uvi, at the Bazaar. COLUMBIA, S. CL? October 13?tf. lb Sarin? Powder PilRE Jelicious and wholesome jj >QwQER CO.. NFW YORK. I I'" NORWAY AND SWEDEN. i Two Countries W'iohc Tien \rf Near the Ilreji I. i fi jj Point. I Tbe demand of Norway and of tho Norwegians for political autonomy and tho reluctance or refusal of Sweden and the Swedes to Riant it are matters of growing interest. Tho Norwegian constitution dates back to 1S14, and the Norwegians say thev withheld certain rights which the Swedes aver were surrendered* to the common monarchy along with the right of the king of Sweden to declare war, make peace, contract alliances, send and receive embassadors and manage tho foreign affairs ; of tho two kingdoms. The exact polit| ical relations between Norway aud Swe| den were not very clearly defined, and ! as a result of this iudefiniteness aud ! the ambiguity of the laws concerning them there lias recently been a great ; deal of friction. The most recent cause i of controversy arose from the alleged at| tempt of the king of Sweden to reduce tho strength of tho Norwegian army while maintaining a large Swedish arriiv for use iu the event of trouble. The area of Sweden is 172,000 sqnare ! miles. The* area of Norway is 124,000 ' square miles, cr considerably loss The | population of Sweden is nearly 5,000, j 000. The population of Norway is i 2,000,000. The population per square ! mile of Sweden is 2b; of Norway, 10 i In a total population of 5,000,000 in 1 Sweden the excess of females is 100,000 It is just as Iar^e in Norway in a total i population of only 2,000,000 Sweden ; has one largo city, Stockholm, with a 1 population of nearly 300,000 The largest city in Norway is Christiania, j which is only half as large The excess ! of births over deaths in Sweden is 00, j 000 a year; in Norway it is 30,000 | The total emigration from Sweden iu a year is 45,000, mostly male; from I Norway it averages 10,000 Practically all the emigration from j Norway and Sweden is to the United ! States. Tbero is some immigration info i Sweden; into Norway none at all The | population of both countries is mainly rural, but more largely so in Sweden | than in Norway. There are six times as many Swedes in Norway as there are , Norwegians in Sweden. There were 1,500 Americans in Sweden by the last census, but no Americans to speak of in j Norway. Financially Sweden is much , the stronger country of the two, and ; the Swedish army is generally regarded as more formidable than the Norwegian : army, which numbers 30,000 The ; Swedish army numbers about 40,000 on ' a peace footing. The total debt of Sweden is 200,000,! 000 crowns, or about ?70,000,000 The total debt of Norway is 100,000,000 i ? ?jo nnn non Tho dUVYiJft, UX IKfllij V"*v? v'/vjwv. ? ' revenues of Sweden are from customs and excise chiefly, from an income tax and from the sale of stamps. The income of Norway is from customs chiefly The postoffice receipts are relatively i greater in Norway than in Sweden, and the internal revenue taxes are lfiucb ! larger in Sweden than in Norway. The Swedish army costs about 2o per cent of the total national outlay. The Nori wegian army costs about one-seventh, j Norway spends more relatively for its 1 navy than Sweden, and the civil list of Sweden is, of course, very much larger than that of Norway. Seventy-three per cent of the forest lands of Norway are pine forests. Sweden by the last census bad 30,000 miners, in the iron and coal mines chiefly. Sweden's chief exports are to England. The chief imports to Sweden are from Germany. The United States does very little business with Sweden. The chief exports of Norway j are to Great Britain, and the chief imports are from that country. There are 1 0,500 miles of railroads in Norway, and i a smaller mileage in Sweden. There are i J.",0U0 miles of telegraph lines in Norj way and 8,5C0 only in Sweden.?New j York Sun. If the Baby is Cutting Teeth He wure and use that old and well | tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Sooth | ing Syrup for children teething. I: ; soothes the child, softens the gums, ; allays all pain, cures wind colic and : is the best remedy for diarrhoea. ! Twenty-live cents a bottle. It is the best of all. f OBITUARY. | Mrs. Cedccia Hayes was born ! Match 11th, 1838 and died the 10;h ' of January 1890. She survived her ! husband, Dr. E. S J. Kayes, a num ; 1) t of years. Having i;i recent i yens lived in the home of her son. '.toncie Ciingman, at Augusta, G o. ; where she departed this life after a | btief illiness. j All her children pre< e led Iter to * he better world save two?Coiiuc .....j t/,?uia ciit-iofiriMn Site was an / ??uii JL V/LI vu : < xemplanary member of St. John, i -Kvaugeiieal Lutheran chujcb, of Lex > irgton county, S C. She was Jri;lto ; rest in St. John ccwehr/ with her 1/Ved ones. The funeral ser vices were I conducted by the It. v. J G (Caichen, in the presence of a congregation oi ; m rrowing relatives and fiieads who | greatly mouru her loss. Thebereavul : f.ifnily have the sincere st sympathies : oi' the entire Community in their : p rdlliction. - ? Calomel, sulphur and lard, mixed, : is a certain cure for sore heads in : fowls; calomel destroys the humor? j sulphur and lard heal the soles. ADVERTISING RATES. A Jvcrtjse'.jtfius will bt inserted at the r^.te yf ouo ceot per word for first insertion, and one-hiuf cent tor each subsequent insertion. Libera! contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local column 5 cents per line f.ieh insertion. Obit tinrio'; charged for at the rate o! one cent a word, wi en they exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. UARM YN, Fd-t >r and Publisher. La Grippe Successfully Treated. '*1 !.u\v j.ist ri i nvi n-.l from tho seeund slit ick t'f la grippe Ilii^Vcrti, says Mr. -Jas. A. Jones, publisher ci the Lesukr, Mexia, Te.v;s. "Iu the latter case I used ChamberIain's Cough Remedy, and I think with considerable success, only being in bed a litrto over two days against ten days for tLi?? former attack. The second atiack I am satisfied would have been equally as bud as the first but for the use of i 1.iruuedy as I had to go to bed in about six bouts after heinir 'struck* with it- v.hilo in O " " " ' * " *"w bf first ease I was able to attend to business about two days btfore getting \iown For sale by J. E. Iviufmanii. Tlio Handwriting cf God in the Government cf I?en. FAUX IX. Since n?\ l ist aitielo t lie Uoitcd States have declared war and hersolliers have placet! her flag on hostile soil. That war has bc.ru fought and its unj rccc dti'led ar,d brilliant achievements gave the most corniceit g pi oof of the universal rule of the living God ovci the dei.tinies of nun and nations. At the commencement of this war fhe most sanguine btlieve in America's greatness and of her dashing bravery the nations of the world would cot have dared to hive given utterance '0 ihe belief that such tiiuraphs were evm possible over the old discipline legions and armies of Spain From the beginning of MeKinley's id ministration the most strenuous efforts were put forth both day and night to put our fortifications in a condition of defense against the navy . of Spain. No one amcng the Europeans dreamed that our navv could do mure than support our fortifications to advantage, and even poor, deluded, benighted Spain was amused tt our impudence to suppose that our sailors end soldiers would evc-r reach her shores. The vessels that w-ie expected to Lombard our cities and drive our vessels into port now as wrecks adorn ;h: coasts of the West Iudies or sleep in the solitude of the dark blue sea and their sailors only reached our continent as prisoners cf war or as fugitives sought safety among their enemies from their burning and stranded barks. Prom the battle of Manila to the surrender of Santiago was one continual scene of tr.umj h of American freedom and progiv ss ever European -itaunation and barbarism. It wo had an inspired historian to say that God delivered the Spaniards into tho uuiids of the Americans, the real cause of our granduer would "not be more cleaily told than by the results and issues of our war with Spain. J.'Le buttle of Ai be la, where the Great Ahxuuder with fifty thousand . Greeks met and annihilated the army of Persia of one million of trained and wcli discipline d soldiers and commanded by the most experienced chieftains of the Empire, would be l maiicclous evidence of gallantry or chance, if he had won in the spirit of prophecy of Daniel. Alexander has been justly called great. The ciisis and the occasion really mailt Li?n gieat. The future of the human family and the decrees ..f an Almighty God "both conspired to make him great. We are told by the historian that when the High Piiest at Jerusalem read to him tho prophecy of Daniel as to his rise and fall that the great soldier wept like a child. He imagined that it was his own greatness that was ruling this mighty empire. Alexander was no blinder than many ^ our public men ?^^0^ .jf today when flushed with either political or mihtaiy glory. God is only doing with them what he did with Alexander, Ccasur, Charles the Great, Napoleon, Washington and Lincoln. Whether President Mcl\ ii.h-v will ri.rhtlv dincprn rpmnina to be seen, but be has been placed iu power by a great government and in a great ciisis and on ali such occasions the history of the past shows that G )d nuke no mistakes in the instrument he is using to accomplish his purpose, and our administration so far by its wisdom and conservatism warrants us in believing that God has made no mistake in rejecting Wm. J. liryan and accepting William Mcfvnley iu this eventful situation. Of his I am fully convinced and will give my jeasons more fully in tho next article 1 am fully persuaded chat cur Pi evident will descend in history us a brilliant star iu cur galaxy, and whose lustre will not be dimmed by any era in our history. Let us lay aside our prejudices and 1 view it as citizens ami patriots and as real disciples of the truth. We are passing through a course i f instruction ourselves and preparing for a day oi" greater usefulness to the needs of the human family and we had as w< il face the issues like men and be instructed thereby. Xothirg during the war more fully shows God's interference in our stiuggle wjiii Spain than the bombardment at Caimancia. As most cf the leadi ers ot the Dispatch probably know ihe contents of mines are explosives made cf nitre ghcerine in soino shape and have a dreadful destructive power. It is put in bottom cf haiborand places where ships are expected to travel and the vessel in striking will explode them and destroy the gunboat and the sailors, itey : 1 ^ K-. il.A l .1 i were iuaue uv me mo:i e.\pericnctu | manufacturers and placed were oil' j war vessels in bombardment wuu d ! likely to strike and yet the politicn j of e:i<h one was known to the ?pant isk lleet and they could avoid rurr; sing against tiiem. iiie harbor afc : Cai.'uenera was besciged and taken : and to tiie great surprise <f tLe i Spanish none of their torpedos v ere ! oi auv use m the battle. iheAineii j ieaus were still aii iut that somewue | in the harbor and dragged for tlitm I CONTlNl'tD ON SLCONO 1'AOli,