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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
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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
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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
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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
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> 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
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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.
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Intcrcnteil Qnecn Victoria.
Qneen Victoria took a good deal of j
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Miss Brown was one of her majesty's j
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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
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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.
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the best way?"
"Sleigh it."?Pittsburg Chronicle j
Telegraph
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Address
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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,