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Perilous undertaking would it be to attempt a comparison between the attributes of God. They are not like a mountain range, with here and there a higher peak, nor like the ocean, with here and there a profounder depth. We cannot measures infinities. We would not dare say whether his omnipotence or omniscience or omnipresence or immutability or wisdom or justice or love is the greater attribute. But the one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than any other. It was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not in his dotage, as Professor Eichhorn asserted, but you can tell by the repetitions in the epistle and the rambling style and that lie called grown people "little children" that the author was probably an octogenarian. Yet Paul, in midlife mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars hill, said nothing stronger or more important than did the venerable John when he wrote the three words of my text, "God is love." , Indeed the older one gets the more he appreciates this attribute. The harshness and the combativeness and the severity have gone out of the old man, and he is more lenient and, aware of liis own faults, is more disposed to make excuses for the faults of others, and he frequently ejaculates, "Poor i human nature!" The young minister > preached three sermons on the justice of God and one on the love of God, but when be got old l:e preached three sermons on the love of God and one on i the justice of God. ) Descent of the Prince. Far back in the eternities there came ! a time when God would, express one | emotion of his nature which was yet unexpressed. He had made more worlds than were seen by the ancients J from the top cf the Egyptian pyramid, , which was used as an observatory, and more worlds than modern astronomy has catalogued or descried through telescopic lens. All that showed the Lord's aimightiness, but it gave no demonstration of his love. He might make 50 Saturns and 100 Jupiters and not demonstrate an instant of love. That was an unknown passion and the secret of the universe. It was a suppressed emotion of the great God. Rut t there would come a time when this passion of infinite love would be declared and illustrated. God would veil it no longer. After the clock of many ). centuries had run down and worlds had been born and demolished, cn a comparatively obscure star a race of human beings would be born and who. though so bountifully provided for that they ought to have behaved themselves well, went into insurrection and con' spiraey and revolt and war?finite against infinite, weal; arm against f thunderbolt, man against God. If high intelligences looked down and saw what was going on. they must have prophesied extermination ? complete extermination?of these offenders of Jehovah. But, no! Who is that coming out of the throneroom of heaven? Who is that coming out of the palaces of the eternal? It is the Son ' of the Emperor of the universe. Down the stairs of the high heavens he comes " * "? it - ~ ? . c ? tin ne readies iue wm iiu ui ;i ^ixviuber night in Palestine and amid the bleatings of sheep, and the lowing of cattle, and the moaning of camels, and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for 33 years in3 vites the wandering race to return to God and happiness and heaven. They % ?43 \77" Vk Vl1 am \II i ivT A iTv ?nr"^ jti Solicits a SI ir were the longest 33 years ever known | hi heaven. Among many high intclii- ! gcnccs what impatience to get him ' back! The infinite Father looked down j and saw his Son slapped and spit on and suppcrless and homeless, and then, ! amid horrors that made the noonday heavens turn black in the face, his body and soul parted. And all for what? Why allow the Crown Prince j to come on such an errand and endure i ; such sorrow and die such a death? It ! was to invite the human race to put i down its antipathies and resistance. It was because "God is love." A Consoling Statement. Now, there is nothing beautiful in a ; shipwreck. We go down to look at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on the Long Island or New Jersey ! coast. It excites our interest. We j wonder when and how it came ashore j and whether it was the recklessness 1 of a pilot or a storm before which nothing could bear up. Human nature wrecked may interest the inhabitants ! i of other worlds as a curiosity, but i | there is nothing lovely in that which ! ! has foundered on the rocks of sin and j j sorrow. Vet it was in that condition i of moral break up that heaven moved j to the rescue. It was loveliness hovering over deformity. It was the lifeboat putting out into the surf that attempted its demolition. It was harmony pitying discord. It was a living God putting his arms around a rec! remit world. The schoolmen deride the idea that i God has emotion. They think it would ! be a divine weakness to be stirred by j j any earthly spectacle. The God of the j j learned Bruch and Schleiermaehcr is ; j an infinite intelligence without feeling. J i a cold and cheerless divinity. But the j j God we worship is one cf sympathy j i and compassion and helpfulness and j affection. "God is love." In all the Bible there is no more consolatory statement. The very best people have In their lives occurrences inexplicable. They are bereft or perse- j cuted or impoverished or invalided, j They have only one child, and that j dies, while the next door neighbor has I oiwrkTi . liililron ami thpv r\vo nil snared. The unfortunates bay at a time when the market is rising and the day after the market falls. At a time when they need to feel the best for the discharge of some duty they are seized withphysical collapse. Trying to do a good ! and honest and useful thiug, they are i misrepresented and belied as if they had practiced a villainy. There are people who all their lives have suffered ! injustices. Others of less talent, with j less consecration, go on and up, while ! they go on and down. There are in many lives riddles that have never been explained, heartbreaks that have never been healed. Go to that man or that woman with philosophic explanation, and your attempt at comfort will be a failure, and you will make matters worse instead of making them better. But let the oceanic tide of the j text roll in that soul, and all its losses and disasters will be submerged with blessing, and the sufferer will say, 4T cannot understand the reason for my troubles, but I will some day understand. And thoy do not come by accident. God allows them to come, and 'God is love.'" Divine Pity. But for this divine feeling I thin!: our world would long ago have been demolished. Just think of the organized wickedness of the nations! See the abominations continental! Behold the false religious that hoist Mohammed and Buddha and Confucius! Look at the Koran and the Shastra and the Zend-Avesta, that would crowd out of the world the Holy Scriptures! Look at war, digging its trenches for the dead across the hemispheres! See the great cities with their holocaust of destroyed manhood and womanhood! What blasphemies assail the heavens! What butcheries sicken the centuries! What processions of crime and atrocity and woe encircle the globe! If justice had spoken, it would have said, "The world deserves annihilation, and let annihilation come." If immutability had spoken, it would have said: "I have al- ; ways been opposed to wickedness and always will be opposed to it. The world is to me an affront infinite and away with it!" If omniscience had spokeu, it would have said, "I have watched that planet with minute and ail comprehensive inspection, and I cannot have the offense longer continued." If truth had spoken, it would have said. "I declare that they who offend the law must go down under the law." But divine love took a different I view of the world's obduracy and pollution. It said: "I pity ail those woes j of the earth. I cannot stand here and see no assuagement of those sufferings, i 1 will go down and reform the world, j I will medicate its wounds. I will | calm its frenzy. I will wash off its i pollution. I will become incarnated, i I will take on my shoulders and upon my brow and into my heart the con- j sequences of that world's misbehavior. I start now, and between my arrival ! at Bethlehem and my ascent from Oli- j vet I will weep their tears and suffer ( their griefs and die their death. Fare- j well, my throne, my crown, my seep- ' tor, my angelic environment, my bcav en, till I have Jinislied the won; ana come hack!" God was never conquer- j cd but once, and that was when lie was conquered by his own love. "God is . love." In this day, when the creeds of churches are being revised, let more, emphasis be put upon the thought of my text. Let it appear at the begin- j ning of every creed and at the close, j The ancients used to tell of a great military chieftain who, about to go to battle, was clad in armor, helmet on head and sword at side, and who put out his arms to give farewell embrace A - > . _ .,,,,1 (|1A o ftVi<r]; f f>(l lit j TO JUS Cllliu, ami mv v.i.iv.. .....-o I his appearance, ran shrieking away. ! Then the father put off the armor that caused the alarm, and the child saw who he was and ran into his arms and snuggled against his heart. Creeds must not have too much iron in their. GLOBE DRY I SI. MOITCKTC tKET, lare of Your Valued . How is This? j We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that i. 1 1 I tT^n'o Ooforrh CHL1LIJL jJO UUICU U\ JLian.5 uaiuiiu Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. | We the undersigned have known j F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and fin-, ancially able to carry out any obliga- i tion made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wolesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. make up, terrorizing rather than attracting. They must not hide the smiling face ami the warm heart of our Father. God. Let nothing Imply that there is a sheriff at every door ready to make arrest, but over us all and around us all a mercy that wants to save and save now. Why the Cible Wa* Written. If one paragraph of the creed seems to take you. like a child, out of the arms oi' a father, let the next para jxrapli put you in tne arms or a raoiuer. "As one whom his mother eomforteth so will I comfort you." Oh, what a mother we have in God! And my text Is the lullaby sung to us when we are ill cr when we are maltreated or when we are weary or when we are trying to do better or when we are bereft or when we ourselves lie down to the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek of the mother against our cheek, and there sounds in It the hush of many mothers, "God is love." This was the reason the Bible was written. The world needs no inspired page to tell it that God will chastise sin, for that is proved in the life of many an offender. You can look through the wicket of any prison and see the fact which the world understood thousands of years before Solomon wrote It "The way of the transgressor is hard." The world needed no Bible to tell it that God is omnipotent, for any one who has seen Mont Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean in a cyclone knows that. The world needed no Bible to tell it of God's wisdom, for everything, from a spider's web to the upholstery of a summer's sunset, from the globe of a dewdrop to the rounding of a world, declares that But there was one secret about God that was wrapped up in a scroll of parchment, and It staid there until apostolic hand unrolled that scroll and lot out upon the world the startling fact, which it could never have surmised, never guessed, never expected, that he loved our human race so ardently that he will pardon sin and subdue the offender with a divine kiss and turn foaming malefactors into worshipers before the throne. Oh. T am so glad that the secret is out and that it can never again be veiled! Toil it to all the sinning, suffering, dying race, tell it in song and sermon on canvas and in marble, on arch and pillar; tell it all around the earth?"God is love." Notice that the wisest men of the nations for thousands of years did not amid their idolatries make something to represent this feeling, ibis emotion. They had a Jove, representing night; Neptune, the gcd of the sea; Minerva, the goddess of wisdom; Venus, the goddess of base appetite: Ceres, i:hc goddess of corn. nn<l an Odin and an Osiris and a Titan and a Juggernaut and whole pantheons of gods and goddesses, but no shrine, no carved image, 110 sculptured form, has suggested a god of pure love. That was ueyoua numan brain. It took a God to think that, a God to project that, a God let down from heaven to achieve that. False Religions. Fear is the dominant thought in all false religions. For that the devotees cut themselves with lances and swing on iron hooks and fall under wheels and hold up the right arm so long that they cannot take it down. Fear, brutish fear! But love is the queen in our religion. For that we build temples. For that we kneel at our altars. For that we contribute our alms. For that martyrs suffered at Brussels market place and at Lueknow and Cawnpur and Peking. That will yet bejewel the round earth and put it an emerald on the great, warm, throbbing heart of God. The world has had many specimens of slandered men and women, their motives slandered, their habits slandered ?slandered until they got out of the world and then perhaps honored by elaborate oulogium and tall shaft of granite.-all four sides chiseled with the story of how good and great they were. But 110 one under the heavens or ever the heavens has ever boon so much slandered as God. Bad men have fought against him and have thought they heard his voice in the crash of a thunderstorm, but have not seen him in the sunshine of the spring morning. They have blamed him for wrongs which they had done themselves. The sight of a church building excites their disgust. They like the madrigal of a saloon better than the doxology of a temple. They do not want to live with him in heaven, but would prefer on leaving this world to go into some realm where God has abdicated the throne and from which he is exiled forever. The reason is they do not know him. They do not realize the fact that God is the best friend this world ever had or ever will have and I that he would do more for their lmnpi- ! iicss than any one in the wide universe. that he would help them in the weai' and tear and tussle of this life, that he would hush their sorrows, that he would help cure the evil habits with which they sometimes struggle, *hat mods com D3ST, TI3., Patronage. Polite and he TvoultJ at their request not only for- i give, but forget, Hie wrong things in i + lifil Vac- f rV<*V>f ' Allll 1 lmt i.1 ' the only thing that God ever does forget?pardoned transgression. The best memory in the universe is God's memory, and he remembers all that has j transpired in all time and in all eter- j nity save one kind of occurrence. That passes completely out of his memory, lie declares, "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." Convincing Proof. Do you want more proof that "God is love?" Yea, disinterested love. No compensation for ks bestowal. No re- , ward for its sacrifices. Hut I call that back. The world did pay him. It paid him on Calvary, paid him with brambles on the brow and four spikes, two | for the hands rind two for the feet, and one spear for the side near the heart; paid him in execration, paid him with straw pillow in a barn and a cross on a hill, paid him with a third of a century of maltreatmert and hardship save one , year?yea, is paying him yet in rejec- j tfnn nf his mission of mercv. Having ' dethroned other kings, the world would like to dethrone the King of kings. But he knew what be was coining to when he left the port als of pearl and the land where the sun never goes down. Yes; he knew the world, how cold it is. and knew pain, hew sharp it is. and the night, how dark it is. and expiation, how excruciating it is. Out of vast eternity he looked forward and saw Pilate's criminal courtroom and the rocky bluff with three crosses and the lacerated .body in mortuary surroundings and heard the thunders toll at the funeral of heaven's favorite and understood that the palaces of eternity would hear the sorrow of a bereft God. What do the Bible nhd the church liturgies mean ^h:-n they say, "He descended into hell?" They mean that his soul left his snored body for awhile and went down into the prison of moral night and swung back its great door and lifted the chain cf captivity and felt the awful lash that would have come down on the world's back and wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice and took the bolt of divine indignation against sin into himself and, having vanquished death and hell, came out and crime up, Laving achiev- j ed an eterna! rescue if we will accept I It Read it slowly, read it solemnly, read it with tears. "Lie descended into hell." He knew what kind of pay he would get for exchanging celestial splendor for Bjthlehem caravansary, and he dared ali and came, the most illustrious examp.e in all the ages of disinterested love. Yea, it was most: expensive love. There is much human love that costs nothing, nothing of fatigue, nothing of money, nothing of sacrifice, nothing of humiliation. But the most expensive j movement that the heavens ever made j ; was this expedition salvatory. It cost t the life of a King. It put the throne of t God in bereavement. It set the nni- ^ verse aghast. It made omnipotence weep and bleed and shudder. It taxed j ( the resources of the richest of all cm- j t plres. It meant angelic forces detailed i ' to fight forces demoniac. It put three ( worlds into sharp collision?one world t to save, another to.resist and another : to destroy. It charged on the spears ] and rang with the battlcaxes of human e and diabolic hate. Had the expedition 1 ? of love been defeated the th'-one of God i t would have fallen, and satan would ' have mounted into supremacy, and sin 1 would have forever triumphed, and j mercy would have been forever dead. Tlie tears and biood of the martyr of ; the heavens were only a part of the infinite expense to which the Godhead went when it proposed to save the J 1 world. ; Now, the only fair tiling for human j hearts to do is to echo back that sovereign love. You and I have stood in mountainous reg'.'ons where, uttering one distinct word, the echoes would come back with a resonance startling ; and captivating, and from all our I hearts there sheuld sound unto the j heavens responses glorious and long j j continued. Let the world change its style of payment "cr heavenly love. No more payment by lances, by hammers; ! no more payment by blows on the j cheek and scourging on the back and j ] hooting of mobs, but payment in ardors of soul, in true surrender of heart and ! love to the God that raade us and the , Christ who ransomed us and the Eter- j nal Spirit who by regenerating power I ( makes us all over again. Beyond <"oniitarinnn. j , Alexander the Croat, with his host. I j was marching on Jerusalem to capture , and plunder it. The inhabitants came ] out clothed in white, led on by the high priest, wearing a miter and glittering | breastplate on which was emblazoned the name of Gcd. and Alexander, see- , ing that word, bowed and halted his army, and the city was saved. And if ^ we had the love of God written in all our hearts and on all our lives and on all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation would fall back, and we would go on from victory unto victory until we stand in Zion and before God. Leandor swam across the Hellespont guided by the light which Hero the fait ljeld from one of her tower windows, j and what Ilollespcnts of earthly struggle can we not breast as long as we can j sec the torch of divine love held out . from the tower windows of the King! ] Let love of God to us and our love tc God clasp hands this minute. 0 ye (lis- ] satisfied and distressed souls who roam the world over looking for happiness i and finding none, why not try this love of God as a solace and inspiration and eternal satisfaction? When a king was ] L1'USS1U& U ur.M-1 l HI uiuudii, nu >Miui was to bo 'ound. and man and boast were perishing from thirst. Along the < way there were strewn the bones of caravans that had preceded. There ; were harts or reindeer in the king's i procession, and some one knew their , keen scent for water and cried out. | j ''Let loose the harts or reindeer." It was done, and no sooner were these creatures loosened.than they went scur- e LNY, :T -*^GK23!3E3, c; OIJJMIUA, s. rrompt Attention. CM rying in nil directions looking for wa- j tor and soon found it, and the king and i Ids caravan were saved, and the king i wrote on sonic tablets tiie words, which j lie had read some time before. "As the j hart panteth after the water brooks so ; panteth my soul after thee. O God/' Some have compared the love of God ; to the ocean, but the comparison fails, j for the ocean has a shore, and God's j love is boundless. Hut if you insist on j comparing the love of God to the ocean | put on that ocean four swift sailing j craft and let one sail to the north and ' one to the south and one to the east i and one to the west, and let them sail j on a thousand years and after that let j them all return and some one hail the : fleet and ask them if they have found , the shore of God's love, and their four I voices would respond: "No shore! No shore to the ocean of God's mercy!" [Copyright, 1900, Louis Klopsch, N. Y.] Intoxicated !>y Ten. Those who think it is impossible to pet drunk on tea have never seen a j blond young man who frequents on j clear nights the plaza of the postoffice. j lie is a victim of the tea habit, visits i Chinatown regularly and drinks the { special tea which is brewed there at ' 23 cents a bowl, lie will put away in j an evening 13 or 20 bowls, becoming j finally as boisterous and silly as though j he had put away as many cocktails, j though he will not stagger. lie says j he remembers nothing after the ninth j or tenth bowl of tea and that cn the j day after one of his sprees he has a j wretched headache and a sore, parched ; mouth. lie does not drink alcoholic j beverages because lie dislikes their j taste, and he is a member in good ; standing of a total abstinence society, j An effort has been made to throw him out of this organization; but. since he violates none of its rules, that cannot 1 be done.?Philadelphia Record. A Lesson In Dimensions. A farmer driving a dump cart backed down on the wharf at Cape Torpoiso. Me., the other day and asked the men on the big dredges to drop a bucketful in his wagon. They laughed at linn anci saw ins cart couwn l qih | enough. lie didn't believe them and said he was willing to risk it. Finally the men said if he would unhitch his horse they would accommodate him. This he did. and up came a big seoopful. The arm swung in over the wharf, and the load was dumped. If the farmer never before had a realizing sense of how much 12 cubic yards were, ho certainly has now. for it buried his cart completely from view, and it took him two hours to dig it out. - . ^ ? How To Cure Croup. Mr. E Gray, who lives near \menia. Duchess county. N. Y, say*: 'Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is he best medicine I have ever used, [t is a fine children's lemedv fir ;ronp and never fails to cure " When >iven as soon as the child becomes ioacsc, or even after the croupy ;ough has developed, it will prevent .be attack. This should be borne in mind and a bottle of the Cough Remedy kept at hand ready for instant use as soon as these symptoms ippear. For sale by J. E. Kaufnann. ONE ON THE GOVERNOR. Kn Old Darky Who Cleverly Tnrned the Tables on Vance. The story is told of Senator Vance )f North Carolina, the champion story teller of the senate, who has a broad stripe of CaH'iuisin down hi.s bac-5:. hough he is not a communicant of the church, that, riding ol<?ng in Buncombe county one day. he overtook a venerably darky, with whom he thought he tvould have "a little fun.*' "Uncle," said the governor, "are you going: to church?" "No, salt, not exactly; I'm swine back from church." "You're a Baptist, I reckon, ain't you ?" "No. sah, I ain't no Baptist, De most of do bredrcn an sistorn about here has ; been under (le water." "Methodist, then?" "No. sail. I ain't no Mefodis" nndder." i "Campbellite?" "No, sail, I can't arrogate to myself j 3e Cam'ellite way of thinkin," "Well, what in the name of goodness ire you, then?" rejoined the governor, remembering the narrow range of choice in religions among North Carolina negroes. "Well, de fac' Is, sab. my old marstcr was a heruld of de cross in de Presbyterian church, an I was fetch' up in dat faith." "What! You don't mean it? Why, J that is my church." The uegro making no comment on i this announcement. Governor Vance went at him again. "And do you believe in all of the Presbyterian doctrine?" "Yes, snli; dat I does." "Do you believe in the doctrine of ; predestination?" "I dunna dat I recognize de name, i sail." "Why. do you believe that if a man i Is elected to be saved he will be saved j and if he is elected to be lost he will ' hf* lost'''' "Oh, yes. boss. I believe uat. It's gcs- ! pel talk, dat is." "Well, now. take my ca^o. Do you j believe that I am elected to be savedV" ! The old man struggled for a moment with his desire to lx? respectful and po- ' lite and then shook his head dubiously. ! "Come. now. answer my question." ! pressed the governor. "What .10 you say?" "Well. I'll tell you what 't is. Mars j Zeb. I'sce been libin in dis hyar world 1 nigh on GO years, an 1 nebber yet liyard of any man bein 'leered 'tkour be was j a candidate."?Religious Telescope. "" ? litra o l-r>_ t UI every a x jjli xi'juuc, u?c , ible to rend arid write. v*? * c1 HJa \ w \'-l ;r.ber i3t f The Xesro I'rol)lem, "It will not do." remarks the Atlanta Constitution, "to ignore or sneer at the work for negroes hciug carried on. We have it to meet, and the quicker we meet it the better. The progress oi these colored institutions should spur us up to something more than we have been doing. The figures show that since 1S25 2.111 negroes have been graduated from college, most of them since 1S70 and for the last six years an avtrnge number of about 130 a year. Listen to this: "Ninety per cent of those graduated in southern colleges remain and work in the south, while fully nil per cent of those graduated in t ho north go south and labor where the masses of their people live.' Not only do we retain P0 per cent of these educated black people, but 7,0 per cent of those educated north come back, a compliment to the eolith ns the place best adapted to them, but a menace also unless we arouse ami keep our white boys in front of the procession!" Are ( !inrelies Apntlictic? The Rev. I)r. F. W. Tomkius. rector of the Episcopal Church of ti e Iloly Trinity. Philadelphia. in an address Dofore tiie Pennsylvania State Evangelical Alliance in Wiikesbarre declared that the eliurches were apathetic. "Why is it." lie asked, "that the church has always been associated with gloom and with dim light and with funernis? Why do we of the clergy always wear this black of sorrow and are afraid to break the tradition of wearing it? Why is it that when I ring a doorbell, garbed in my monotonous suit of black, the people next door wonder who is dead in that house? 'lite church should raise the shout of joy and make religion joyful, optimistic, helpful and a wholesome cheer and comfort, so that others will bo impressed with the fact that she bears only glad tidings." An Kcttns; Ilucitc Ad. The Philadelphia Record says that the cheap restaurants of that city employ many unusual devices to attract attention, one of the most startling being a megaphone attached to a phonograph, which announces from the doorway the principal bargain in meals, with the prices. There is a restaurateur in South Ninth street who lias hit upon an equally novel scheme. In front of his door is displayed a pair of scales, on which is the following placard: "Weigh Yourself Before and After. Try One of Our 1"> Cent Meals and See How Much Vou Gain." It isn't a slot machine either. It is an old. secondhand pair of scales, and the man who weighs himself manipulates the weights. Veteran Car Driver and Motormnn. Among the few "eight stripe men" working for the Boston Elevated Hailway company and longest term motorman on the Cambridge division of the road is Alexander Cox of the Harvard Square and South Boston line, who has piloted the company's cars continuously since 1S39. Although the old man, now nearly (JO, has acted as driver and motormnn for more than 40 rears, many a man of 40 is far less active and energetic than ho. lie has but twice during all his service missed a ear which lie was intended to run. On each occasion the accident happened on a day following his absence from work and was owing to a change time table of which lie had not been notified.? Boston Globe. JAPANESE SERVANTS. Well lo Inquire Whether They Are Princes* or Divinity Student*, A lady, talking to me about servants the other day, said that she liked the j Japanese better than any others for many reasons, but that even they had j their drawbacks, one being that they did not like to stay in the country aft- i or the 1st of October, as so many of ( thorn were college undergraduates. "I have a Columbia junior i:i my dining room," said she. "and a Harvard divinity student in my kitchen at the present time, but that is not all. A short time ago I had a chamber man and a -.t-nc iii-riiU- recommended to me by si fellow .Japanese who had lived with me before. lie was a nice ; looking little fallow, but not a very pood servant, for his mind seemed to < be on other things r:*':or than his work. And then he would ask me sueii . profound questions! I reaily could net answer then), and he always had a book in his hand, even when he was making the beds. Finally 1 had to tell him that, much as 1 liked him in many ways. 1 should be obliged to let him go. 'All right.' he said. and. >? my surprise, ho went that very day while I was out without waiting for his money. As money is usually the tiling that they 1 work for, I womleml and waited, i Hearing nothing from him, I wrote to ! the Japanese throng!) whom I had on- | _ - ! gaged liini. making a particular point of the unpaid wages. "The man wrote back not to worry ( about that: that my ox-chambermaid and waiter was not in need of money: j that he was a prince who had come to America to travel and observe; that he was going to write a book en our manner? niul customs ami thought that the best way to b-arn them was to live in an American household: Since then I have been particular to ask my J a pa- < nose servants whether they are princes in disguise or only divinity students."? Critic. Latest Bucket Shop Game. The "typewriter decoy" is the latest thing in Waii street confidence games. J If you get a letter signed "Your own ; Carrie." addressed to you apparently by mistake end telling you how to turn $100 into believe it not. Such Ictti rs are being sent all over tin* j country by ?; bucket sliop man to per- I pons who are likely to swallow the bait. He is Carrie. The prospective victim gets the letter in the business j envelope of the bucket shop man. It | is seemingly written by the linn's typewriter to her best young man and tells | him how many people are getting rich j by sending their money to her employ- j or* auJ how* many thousands of dollars In profits she mails hack to them rath month. 1'nder promise of secrecy she arranges to send him her savings, which be is to mail for investment under his own name, and at the end of the month they are to he married and spend the profits on their honeymoon. The hest tiling about the "typewriter decoy" from the bucket shop man's standpoint is that the postal authorities cannot accuse him of using the mails to defraud.?Now York World. Sankey's Hymns In the Transvaal. P.ut the most of the strategy of the war was originated on the Iloer side by Oom Paul and on the English side by General Roberts. It is said by those who should know that whenever the Boers followed the advice of Com Paul they succeeded: whenever they followed any other advice they failed. Nor are the P.oers so bad as they are painted. 1 did not find the dirt and the hypocrisy 1 had expected. It seems to mo that these veldt folk are terribly in earnest in religion, as in -ther things. As a clergyman I could not have been treated better than 1 was by De Wet, Delarey*. Rotiia and the others. The psalm singing, too. was wonderfully impressive. "Ik Ileb cen Yuder in hot Bcloovde Landt ("1 Have a Father In t \ the Promised Land") was a favorite. Moody and Sankey's hymns were in every house.-National Magazine. I!e Didn't. Sousa was once rehearsing a band In Yonkers for a charity concert. This was before he had arrived at his present standing in tlie musical world. The Yonkers musicians were a peculiar lot, and when rehearsing he had to stop several times on account of the cello player, who, by his cards, was evidently.* n vnltmf?er "vlrtmvsn " The vi?*tiin?rt cellist would persist iu playing the wrong notes. At last Sousa turned to liiui .and said: '"Do you know, sir, what kej? the piece is in?" "Oh, yes," replied the virtuoso assurIngly; "it's in four Hats. Up on Broadway, Yonkers. where 1 cane from, we sometimes put them in, and sometimes we don't. I don't."?Exchange. A Lore Story 011 Stone. An interesting memorial of Abraham Lincoln has recently been dug up uenr an old cellar on the hill above old Salem mill, near Salem, Ills., where "Greene & Lincoln" kept a store. On the stone is cut the inscription, "A. Lincoln and Ann Itutlcdge were betrothed here July 4. 1S.'>3." It is said that Ann Rutledge's untimely death prevented the marriage and that the loss of his sweetheart saddened the remainder of Lincoln's life. The stone is oval and weighs erght pounds. It is the property of Mrs. Xannie Green of Ynlulu, Ills. Automobiles For Naples. The hackney coach proprietors and cab drivers of Naples are more enterprising than the London ones. They have formed themselves into an elecIromobile company for the purpose transforming the hackney coaches and carrozclla into automobiles within three years, their desire being thus to forts tall any foreign society that might introduce the new mode of locomotion. ? London News. The Best Plaster. A piece r.f flannel lampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound to the aflVctcd parts is superior to any plaster. 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The drunkard is blacklisted and boycotted without ;tny formalities. Story of a Slave. To be bound band and foot for years by the ebaiu9 of disease is the worst foim of slavery. George D. Williams, of Manchester, Mich , tells bow such a slave was made free. He say.1: '*My wife has been so helpless for five years tba she could not turn over in bed sIodp. After using two bottles of Electiic Bitters, she is wonderfully improved and able to do her own work." This supreme remedy for f*male diseases quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness, melsncfyrly, Leadache, backache, fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle woi kiug medicine is a God send to we?k, sickly, run down people. Every bottle guaranteed. Only ?0 cents. Sold by J. E. Kaufmstnn, DrucL'ist. -? ? Time's Mutation. ' Really, your face is very familiar, sir, but you lccui to Lave the advantage of me in names." ' I fancied," be said, ''that yon W( uld kuow me. My name is lianas ai d :our years ago bad the honor to be your c- acbmau.*' "SuP she fairly t-naried. ' But a remai knhlv lucky series of stock investments" he went on, ktnve enabled me to become your itt xt tk or neighbor." ' fSo pleased to renew our acquaintance, Mr. Bangs,v she smiliDg eaid. l. - - - , A