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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JA YNES. WAIiHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 23, 1893. VOLUME XLIV.--NO. S. DESOTO FLOUR cannot be beat, The bread it makes is white and sweet It is the Highest Patent made SCHUMACHER sells this fancy grade MARVEL FLOUR is a Straight Patent Can't be excelled by any combatant ; OVEN LIFTER is a good Flour, sure, But Marvel is better and costs no more. DAMON FLQ?K, is avery good grade, Called Choice Family, a lame self-made ; Is white and cheaper than bolted meal, Of this grade Schumacher sells a great deal. DONT FORGET The Charleston House. S GOODS ALWAYS HEW ANO FRESH ! S I * especl fully j / O. H. Schumacher. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. January 20. 1 SK. . 1 SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE FOR PARTIAL PROSPECTUS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT will contribute thc first serial to appear in a magazine from her pen for many vears, entitled "THE ONE I KNEW TliK BEST <>F ALL." //. C. DUNNER will furnish a series of six sketches, en tiled "JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANK.*' Illustrated. ROBERT GRAN T will relate the further experiences of Fred, and Josephine in "A SEQUEL TO THE REFLECTIONS OF A .M.vl;i:lKi> MAN." Wustrated. SAROEJj FREDERIC will contribute a political novel of great, power, entitled "THE < OPPJiKlIEAD." BY THE AUTHOR OF"JEURY." Miss S. B. ELLIOTT, the author of "Jerry." will write a realistic story of j life among the Tennessee mountaineers. '.THE DURKET SPERRET.** PERSONAL liEMJNISi EN CSA SOME CNPUBHSHED LETTE RS OF CARLYLE TO EDWARD IRVING and others, dealing with a part of Carlyle's life far different from that brought out in the recent literature <.!' Carlvle remi niscences. RECOLLECTIONSJOE LIN COLN AND SUMNER. By the late MABQCIS DE CHAM atti s. Loth articles:! are full of new matter. AN ARTIST IN ? JAPAN. By KoBKJUT BUTM, who has jnst returned from a residence of nearly two years in that country. Abundantly illustrated hy the author. HISTORIC MOMENTS, "which 'have been a feature of the magazine during will be con tinued i>y some particularly striking pa pers, among them several by the great war correspondents. WILLIAM IL RUS SEL, ABCHIBAL? FOBBE$, and others. MENS Oi ' 'UPAI /OA'S. A series of articles on the life work ol men in many cawing*--the chief ways, (exclusive of profess?-n?Sj? in which men earn th.-ir livelihood. . THE WORLD'S FAIR IN CHICAGO. A series will be published later in the year giving-thWmpresvj?ns. made by the exhibition upon ctiitecerit ob^fervers ol note, both American and foreign: and many of these observers will be also : artists who will illustrate their own a? ti des. . ; MISC EL I.. 1A EQI . I fi 71' L ES. Further contributions to the POOR IN j GREAT CITIES. Mss. Bi i:\r.n'- il-' lustrated paper on he London plan for , HOME AID TO INVA LID CHILDREN, ' etc Of special, interest also"will be JPKO- ' y Kr. CT. REXLPEIX*S authoritative account j ot the PEARY RELIEF EXPEDITION , (illustrate*!.) a very inter sting ai tide by j OCTAVE C/.AXNK on the exhibition of ; WOMAN'S ART now going on in Paris, an<I articles upon' artistic subjects, ac- i counts of travels, etc., etc. THE ILL I rSTRA TIONS ' . of the year will represent the work not j only of the well-known illustrators, but many drawing will also appear by artists who are best known as painters. :) '. TERM S l I 25c a* W/er. nnrnilj firrTD The numbers UrLUI/lL UFI Lil. for 1S92 and a subscription for 1893.$4.50 TI.e same, with back numbers, bound in cloth..'.<;.00 Now is the ti^ subscribe. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743 Broadway, New York. Is ?( a Question of Time : [Associate Reformed Presbyterian.] Our work should not press tis so ?losely that we can not daily find ?ime for a few moments Of quiet meditation and prayer. It were bet-! .<.:. to let :t part of our work go un lone, it were better to let some of j .be household cares be unattended o. than to deny ourselves the privi- ? ego of a few momentsof un in ter-1 ?upted communion with God. It you kl be time well spent for the armer to lay down his plow for a ittle while and step aside to some; juiet place to seek for strength and . visdom for the duties of the day. rh?- busy- wife^ whosehands are al-' vavs f?lled with work and her mind mrdened with cares would do well : o lay all aside, take ber Bible, and jo to some quiet room and spend a j iltle while with (iod. This is what j ?ur spiritual nature needs. It will iot do to wait until wc have time. IVe ought no more to do this than ve would think of not eating ot j ?looping until we could lind lime rom our work. It pays io take time br prayer. Hal wheti wc say that we have not ! he time, is it not rather true that i ve have not tin-disposition ? Jf we ?ightly appreciate such privileges, if | .ur souls desired a few.quiet moments vith God, could wc not, ami would ve not, generally, lind the time? bit suppose our hearts are s<> mgrossed with our worldly cares nat we do not want to lay aside our j vork? None thc less ought wc to p 1" it. None tho less do wc need thc ; ?tren gt h that comes from prayer, hough we are not conscious of our: iced. In such a case, and this is the ' .ondition of many of us, we should mdeavor to close the door against >nr worldly cares and go to God, araenting our deadness and asking Him for more spiritual life. If wei tlways wait until we have the time ' ind the spirit of prayer, there is dan o-r thai this most important means d' grace will be greatly neglected, j Thc Journal of Education states i hat New York City has in her pub- J ic schools to-day 289,304 jiu pi ls, j ?ccupying buildings and land valued ? it * 15?326,6<IO. There are also 25,000 j ?upils iti evening schools, making a o?fl of 339,304, with 4,002 teachers. This is probably the grandest numer cal exhibition of city public school ife in tlie world. It has not grown ip with the growth of the city, but s wholly the product of compara ;ively recent times. Forty years ?go there were 24,320 pupils where here are now 339,320, or but one :ourtecnth as many as at present, sixty-two years ago there were but ),178, jor but one-fifty-eighth* as many; eighty-two years ago but 400, jr but one-eight-hundred-and-fiftieth; while eighty-five years ago there (vere but 70 pupils, i. e., there are 1,847 tirfles as many as in 1807. That year the total investment for ;ity fr?e schools was $913.09. i A THIRTEEN DAYS' MULE-BACK j KI DE THROUGH TWELVE COUN TIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, GEOR GIA AND TENNESSEE BY THE TIMBER RAMBLER. [Correspondence KKOWKK COUBIEB.] Having had for a long time a de sire of getting better acquainted with the resources and the inhabi tants of the mountain section of this and adjoining States, I came to the conclusion, to carry out this point in view, that it only can be done prop erly on horse or mule back. I, there fore, left Walhalla bright and early on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 ST, and, by way of Stump House Moun tain, Rogue's Ford and Pulaski roads, reached my friend, Kev. Dave Carter, at ll A. M. Being well sup plied in my saddlebags, however, with all the necessaries'for the inner man, I declined his hospitable offer of parta*, ng dinner with him. and crossed Chattooga river at the Rho lettcr Ford, three miles above Tal Julah river, and landed safe and sound at the hostlery, near Sinking Mountain, kept by Mrs. Aunt Fan nie Smith, world-renowned, not only for the substantial and well-cooked meals, but her kind heart, hospitality and talkativeness in general. lier hotel register shows many names of many tongues and from all quarters of the globe, who come to view the grand and unexcelled scenery of Tallulah Falls and gaze at nature's wonder, the Sinking Mountain, situ ated on Mrs. Smith's property, on , Chattooga river. J icing engaged two years ago for some time on that part of the river in buying up and marking timber, I gave this mountain my thoughts and careful study, and, from what I have learned and seen, I 'came to the conclusion that the same has been literally undermined by shafts and , tunnels ages ago hy Spaniards and Indians in search of precious metals, and time will shov Uuxt my theory is correct in having the property , thoroughly developed in a very, short tune. THURSDAY, THE -I>, found nie on my way to Clayton, the , county seat of liaban county, Ga., where I stopped, as usual, at the . Wall House, kept in elegant and j hospitable style by Mrs, Wall, a sis ter of Mrs. Dr. Bell, of our town, spending thc evening pleasantly with ( ray friend. Capt. F. Bleckley, the 1 newly elected Ordinary of said i comity, and Inter on with our towns man. Dr. J. W. Bell, who, bv the way, is gaining himself a splendid practice. I left this mountain burg on j FRIDAY, THE OI>, via Burton P. ()., on Tallulah river, ( up Dick's Creek to Iliawassee (Lap, | on the Blue Ridge proper, down the ( Hightower Creek and Iliawassee ( Uiver to Iliawassee, the county seat , of Townes county, Ga. , Slopping at the hotel kept by a j Mr. dolm J I. Corn, I gathered a good ^ deal of information regarding the j mineral and timber resources of the j county and got highly impressed , with the school facilities offered to j the young of both sexes in two high j schools, and I was informed that over < five hundred pupils are patronizing these institutes ot learning. It T always impresses me most favorably < to see at every county seat in Geor- j gia imposing buildings erected for ( the education of the rising genera- j lion and, it is a splendid sign of the ( thrift ami progress of a county. ; Daily mail connects this town with j Clayton. Ga., and Murphy, X. C. j The land is, generally compared with the uplands of Oconee county, j poorer and thinner than ours. The ( mountains, however, give splendid \ pastures for stock of all kinds, and, judging from the immense amount-of chickens, eggs, meat and dried fruit j (muled away to Murphy, X. C., this ? ? people art raising their hog and j ( hominy and other necessaries for life r at home and not in the West. I lav- , mg a ride of thirty-three miles on <. SATURDAY, THE 4xil, i before me, I started away before sun- ] rise, well equipped, however, with ?. everything to make a man coniforta- 1 ble. I followed the Iliawassee river, : crossed the North Carolina line three ; miles below Iliawassee town and ] into Glac county and by noon reached j < Hayesville, the nicely situated county ? ] seat of said-county. Recrossing the 1 Iliawassee river I took the South i side road on said stream, and, after , a most tiresome ride of seventeen ; miles more, I reached Murphy, X. j C., late that evening. i SUNDAY, THE OTU, I devoted, in spiteof an all day'sr?in, 1 to looking over Murphy, the county ? seat of Cherokee county, X. C. It ] really has the finest county court f house I have ever seen, andy from 1 information received, I learn that the 1 building complete cost ?28,000. 1 Adjoining the court house lot is a ( large tobacco warehouse, owned by the Cherokee Tobacco Warehouse i Company, and, judging from the i many wagons loaded with tobacco i hogsheads met the day before going towards Murphy, there must be ? i good deal of that weed raised in county. What else they rs around there I couldn't see, as c< and fodder are very scare artic with them. Murphy lies very picturesque the forks of the Valley and Iliaw see rivers, has two depots, one the Western North Carolina Railro on the North side of the Hiawas: river, and the other on the Soi side of the same, where the narr gauge extension of the Marietta a North Georga Railroad, from t Blue Ridge stops. Connections 1 tween both depots have to be ms by conveyance or on foot, over mile di-lance, through mud thi feet deep. In conversation w citizens I learned that this mud punishment is put on the travel for the purpose of making him st over night at this town. All the talk in Murphy is tobae< mineral and blind tigers and I ha seen more mineral prospectors, spec lators, land agents and sharks duri my short stay there than I have se in the same length of time in ai mining town of the Pacific coast Australia, and after all it amounts very little, as mining properties a held too high and therefore scar investors away. Having to lav over on MONDAY, THE G i ll, tor news from home and other j ?arl I visited a saw-.lill six miles abo' the town. The company spe 865,000 for booms, machinery and in plant, and, after getting everythin in good running order, the Legisl; ture ot North Carolina passed an Ac at their last session, forbidding the to float logs down the stream, whi< means as much a? ruin to the con pany. Hiawassee river, at Murphy, about as large a river as ?Chattoog at Rogue's Ford, and gets to the si; ut Tugaloo, at Fort Madison, aft< the Valley river intersects with it. Compelled to go t<> Madisonvill Tenn., in Monroe county, and th roads being so terribly cut up, I sei my mule on TfKSDAY, TIIK ITH, by way of Blue Ridge, Fanni county, Ga., to Ellijay, Gilmer count; Ga., myself taking the Narrow Gang Railroad to Blue Ridge, fron: then via Minetta and North Georgi Railroad, by way ot Ducktowi Tenn., to Mad ison ville, Tenn. Muk ing my return trip on V\'KI>.\*KSI>AY, TIIK 8TH, t reached Ellijay, Gilmer count} Gra., at 3 P. M., took a look at th Lown and found another grand schoc building erected for thc develop nent of the brains of the youngster af that section of the country. Tua uight I stopped in company with m; mining partner, J. T. Whitener, a the house of I>. A. Burrell, on Carti say river, six miles from the forme -own. Mr. Burrell is originally fron the Pine Mountain section, in Rahm ?ounty, Ga., but a citizen of the Carti .tay section for the last thirty-eight years, and glad was he that I coule rive him the whereabouts and wei :are of his brothers, still living in Lhe upper edge of Oconce and ir Kabun counties. Himself and hi: rind lady made us feel at home thal light, and never will I forget lue lospitality and good will of this kind people all along the whole length of ^articay river. On THURSDAY. TIIK OTU, - ve visited the celebrated Burrell jobi mine, one mile from Carticay P. O., which shows a solid six feet juartz vein of free gold, and, after nspecting and gazing at it with won der for nearly a whole day, I trans icted some imposant business (which .cally induced me lo undertake this rip), ard lost my way on top of the ?Ymicalola Mountains and was com lelled to camp out that night in the :oId and rain without any shelter, ire or light. At day brate on KU DAY, THE 1<>TM, bund me in the saddle again, and, ifter a short ride, I found that I ;amped all night not more than two niles from the mines. Having vanned myself with hot coffe< and a jood breakfast and a double-ration 'or the mule, found at the house of Mr. Anderson, I began the most tire ;orne day's ride daring my whole trip, ,he rain pouring down in torrents ill day, the roads hardly Ht to travel ind the streams out of their banks. Passing through the Northern part )f Dawson county, Ga., into Lamp ?n county, I arrived at Dahlonega, ;he county seat of said county, and ?vas royally received by mine host, fas. Allen, the proprietor of the Hall (louse, and the mining fraternity of Dahlonega and of the neighboring nines. IB consequence of the fearful wea ther all day, I couldn't take the ob ?ervation of the country and people [ am generally used of taking, but suffice it to say that on the approach to town it became clear to me that the mining of the precious metal is the mainstay of that section of the country. I found at the Hall Honso miners A all nationalities and I regret that my time was so short that I couldn't spend another day among those clever people and visit their numerous min ing works, to which invitations were extended to me from all sides, found many new, and, I hope,"lasti acquaintances, which in the futu no doubt, .will be beneficial, not ot to me, but to all in this section, a especially of the mountains of Ocon and Rabun counties. Dahlonega is another great cent of learning and a good roany nara of Oconee boys were mentioned me who made use of the college ai school facilities there. It is a wonder to me that Da lonoga is not connected by railro with the outside world. There however, a track graded one-half t way from Gainesville. Telepho connection they had, but as soon the wire is put up again, they ti rae, thc moonshiners of that sectb arc cutting it down. The Hall House is run by M James Allen, from Greenville, S. ( and it is the most modern equipp< hotel in the mountains. You fir there all the comfort and good che a weary traveler may seek and expec The rain poured down all nigh and still it was raining when I le Dahlonega on SATURDAY, TI1K ll TH, at an early hour, for Clarkesvill EZabcrsham county, Ga. Taking wh: thev call the lower road th rou" j White county, (ia., I had the Minci j Pine, Walker and Skiks Moontah j to ray right, and Pink and Yona Mountains and Xacoochee Ya ley to ray left, and after crossin Chattahoochee river, six miles, an Sornlee river, near Clarkesville, found comfortable quarters for ma i and beast aud a welcome receptio I at the house of Mr. Fuller, where formed the acquaintance of Mr. Mai stin Fuller, the Sheriff of raentione county. Toccoa City being only thirtcc miles from my stopping plac< although pretty well tired ont, I cor : eluded to make usc of another rain ! day, and started, after breakf: ., o Sf.MiAY, THE I2TH, i for that town, where I reached th 1 Simpson House just as the dinne j bell was ringing. Both man am j beast needing the necessary rest, wi made ourselves comfortable and a 'home, and I enjoyed the plentifu ?and well-cooked meals at this snlen ! . . . . ; did hostlery, which is kept in ai 1 Al style by a Miss .Simpson i It seeras to me that this place is : ! haven for the drumming fratcrnit; j on Sundays, as they wore pouring ii I by every train all day. Having had thc much required ros MONDAY, THE 13TH, ' saw me on my last day's trip an< j crossing thc Tugaloo by Jarreu'i Kridge and passing through For Madison and Westminster, I reacbec home safe and sound and full of new ideas, knowledge and impressions, at ? P. M. On all my trip I found nothing else tuan thc most welcome hospi tality, which I attribute a good dea to myself following the mottcr:i4 WKer> you arc in J lome yon must do as tia Hornau docs'''' G. WANNKR, The Timber Rambler. Vine Hill Vineyard, February 14. 130:1. In most congregations there are snr.ie parsons who often get very sleepy, and who sometimes go to sleep during preaching. In some cases this is doubtless due to some constitutional infirmities, in others it b largely a matter of habit. Now we wonder if it ever occurs to such persons that possibly they cause the service to be less profitable to others as well as themselves. It is not very inspiring to a preacher, to say the least, to see a part of his audience asleep or barely able to koop their eyes open.4 It does not cause his thoughts to come faster or make him any more earnest in his delivery. On the contrary, it has a depressing effect. It makes his preaching like towing against the current. He can not feel thc interest in it himself that Le otherwise would when he sees that a part of his audience are taking no interest in it. And this lack of inter est on his part causes his message to bc less forcible and effective on those who are listening. A wide-awake, earnest audience has not a little to 'do with making a preacher earnest and forcible in his preaching.-Asso ciate Reformed l'rrsl>yttria)i. Dr. Merrill E. Gates, President of Amherst College, is one of the fore most of the line band of educators which now grace our country. Ver)' lately he is reported as speaking ear nestly of some perils to our educa tional work, emphasizing one in a special manner. His words are as follows : uXo graver danger threat ens the higher education in our land than subtly assails it when Christian people advocate the lowering of the standards of intellectual life and of scholarly work at a Christian col lege, in order that larger numbers of good, but incapable, young men may share in the looser and lower courses of study thus opened to them." $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to ?ure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to thc medical fra ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease ? and giving the patient strength by build ing up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. " The proprie I tors have so much faith in its curative I powers that they offer One Hundred Dol j lars for any case that it fails to1 cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. I Sold by druggists, 75 cents. I ' ... * THE SILVER QUESTION. [Atlanta Journal.] A valued subscriber writes to the Journal for information on the sil ver question : "Please tell," he says, "in plain language, what the fight on the sil ver question means. I read about it every day. and each day becomes more muddled. Can't you give say in a few words-what all this racket is about ?" It would take more than a "few words" to state all that the fight on the silver question means, but the recent discussion in Congress nar rowed itself down to this : The Democratic party are divided upon the silver question; some are absolutely opposed to the coinage of j silver; some are in favor of a limited ! coinage, and some are in favor of a ! free and unlimited coinage. The Sherman law now in force al lows the government to purchase ?4,500,000 of silver bullion per month, and to either coin it or put it in the treasury vaults as collateral and issue silver certificates to the amount of the value of the bullion so purchased. The bill to repeal this Act brought about the discussion. The bill failed to pass. Another let of Democrats are op I posed to the Sherman law, for they favor the free and unlimited coinage f of silver, but when they were con fronted with a bill to reduce the pur chase of bullion from ?4,500,000 to ?.2,000,000, they took the lesser of the evils, as they ciaim, and voted against the repeal of the Sherman law. Under the Sherman law, now in operation, the men who dig silver out of the earth, carry it to market and whatever it is worth in the mar ket they sell it for, just like any other commodity-just as if it was coal, cheese or cotton. The Sher man law restricted the government from purchasing more than four mil- j lion five hundred thousand dollars of j of silver a month, but very soon there was so much rained that it was not wortli sixty-five cents per 412 grains. The law requires that there shall j be 412 grains of silver in a dollar, j At one time it cost the government more than a dollar to buy 412 grains. Now the 412 grains can be bought j for Go cents, and the government j sa - .-s to itself the difference between j t'i.-rt price and the dollar it issues. It is said that on account of the splendid yield of silver in some re cently discovered mines that the; government can buy 412 grains, ! enough to make a dollar, for 18; cents. The government would then become a manufacturer with good profits. If it is true that silver can be dug out of the ground at a cost of eigh teen or twenty cents per 412 grains, the amount that goo? into a dollar, then under thc Sherman law, restrict ing the purchase by the government of more than ?4,500,000 per month, silver will find its own level just like any other c vnmodity, and the silver smiths and jewelers throughout the country will be able to sell you cheaper silver watches, waiters, gob lets and tea sets. It is on account of this fluctuation in the price of silver that some are opposed to its coinage altogether. The esteemed friend who wrote for information on the silver ques tion seems inclined to free coinage, and asked what that meant. Thc answer is found in the foregoing re sumo. Those who favor free and j unlimited coinage of silver simply mean to say that when a Western miner digs 412 grains of silver out of his minc, all he has to do is to carry it to the United States treasury and 1 get a dollar for it, no matter who- ' thor the market value of the 412 grains is 20 cents or 65 cents. To a man who does not own a sil ver mine, or even has any kind rela tives that are so fortunate, it might appear that this would be favoring j one industry at the expense of oth ers. Why not the farmers of the i South send ten pounds of cotton j and draw a chromo for it in the j shape of an all-cotton dollar bill. Tli? failure to pass the bill repeal ing the Sherman law will stop all j further attempt Tit silver legislation this session, and tho public will have j a rest until next December, unless j Mr. Cleveland calls an extra session of Congress in the meantime. A Successful Farmer and Father. rspartanburg Cor. Greenville News.] John Lanford, Sr., at Lanford Sta- j tion, in Laurens county, has become ? quite feeble recently. Ile has been j a remarkable man. Ile is the father ? of fourteen children. He has seventy-; five grand-children and thirty-seven; grcat-grand-children. Ile is SS years 1 old, and has been able to look after his business until very recently. Last year he made 900 bushels of corn, 11,000 bundles of fodder, a fair crop of cotton, wheat and oats. Besides raising his own meat he sold several hogs. He married a sister of Dr. Benjamin Wofford, of our city. Young farmers ooght to imitate Mr. Lanford's example. He settled down on farming as a business and by his close and constant attention he dig nified and ennobled his calling. If Spartanburg had a thousand young farmers starting-out in life with the same fixed purpose lo succeed that inspired Mr. Lanford, our agricultu ral interests would get on the upgrade. Go Slow ! Mr. L W. Tillman, who recently went from Lancaster to Texas, has written a very interesting letter to the Lancaster l?emete. He sends this advice to his South Carolina friends : "Texas is making a big pre paration for a cotton crop next sea son, and if the season is favorable look out for a large crop and a low price. I would advise my South Carolina friends to be sure and see first to their grain crop and make cotton a surplus, for I am sure they cannot compete with Texas making cotton, with all their commercial fer tilizers." . * mi PAID TO POLICY HOLDERS, 5^32,000,000.00. PAID I1V DIVIDENDS, $9,500,000.00. THE PHOENIX POLICY;7 ABSOLUTE GUARANTEES-NO ESTIMATES. Age: 35. 810,000. 20 Payment Life. Cost per year, : ?286.30. Cost for 10 years^, : ?2,863.00. Gurantees at End of Ten Years s First Option-Extended Insurance for 16 years and 7 months longer for -*"*. ?10,000 Second Option-Paid up Policy - ?4,860 Third Option-Cash value. ?1,980 JFonrth Option-Loan at 6 per cent - - - ?1,100 At en?! of lf> years, if First Option is taken, the policy holder gets '26 years and 7 months Insurance, for ?10,000, at a net cost of ?2,863.00,.which is at the rate of less than ?11.00 per ?1,000 (guaranteed) per year. If Second Option, the Pfid up Policy is in excess of cost, ?1,997. If Third Option, the net cost of Insurance for ?10,000, for ten years, is ?8S3.00, or ?8.83 per ?1.000 per year. Guarantees at End of Twenty Years ; Cost for 20 Years- : : : ??,726. First Option-Paid up Policy .... ?10,000 Second Option-Cash value .... ?4,980 Third Option-Loan at 6 per cent - - - ?2,700 Options are given for every year in body of Policy in plain figures from 3 years upwards. Policy Incontestiblc after two years. W. M. HUTSON, Gen. Agt., Columbia, S. C. W. A. KAY, Dist. Agt., Greenville, S. C. THE PHONIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONN. February 2, 1893. A Remarkable Production. [St. Louis Republic] The following literary oddity con tains fifty-eight words, one hundred and twelve e's and no other vowels : "We feel extreme feebleness when we seek perfect ea ;ellence hen-. We well remember men everywhere err. Even when Eden's evergreen trees sheltered Eve, the sergent crept lhere. Vet, when tempted, when cheerlessness depressed, when help lessness fetters, when we seem de serted-then we remember Bethle hem; we beseech the Redeemer's help. We ever need the rest the blessed expect." The papers state that Dr. Ralph Butterfield, of Kansas City, by whose will Dartmouth College receives nearly $200,000^, was so penurious that he "would follow wagons lo their destinations, and after die coal had been dumped and carried into the house, he .would pick up the few remaining coals, place them in a bas ket and carry them to his shop, lu this way he would collect a consid erable amount of coal, and would sell it by the bushel." If the story is true, it wo.lld be a question for a casuist whether the good done by hts benefaction was greater or less than the evil from the example of his miserly life. Hut perhaps be is enti tled to the alleged epitaph on a Colo rado tombstone, "He was riot so mean sometimes as he was at others!" When you have corrected your child for any sort of wrong conduct., let that be an end of the matter. The force of your correction will be utterly broken if you keep up a per petual allusion to the misconduct that called it forth. One of the blessed things about God's forgive ness is that he remembers oar sins against us no more forever. As far as such a thing is possible, he lets the nv .nory of our offenses fall into oblivion. In this respect, as in oth ers also, we ought to imitate his example.- Christian Advocate. Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of the vital organs. If the liver be inact ive, you have a bilious look, if your sto mach be disordered, you have a dyspep tic look. Secure good healt? and you w ill have good looks. Electric Bitters is the great alterative and tonic. Acts directly on these vital organs. Cures pimples, blotcles, boils and gives good complexion. Sold at The Norman Carroll Co.'s drug store. Price, 50c. per bottle. Mr. G. R. Scott, of The Witness, New York, says that if the same energy were shown in prohibiting the drink evil as the authorities have shown in protecting their country against cholera, it would soon be stswped out. Told About Women. Woman is a bundle of nerves, with extra knots in them for mind and heart. Woman is a valuable article that costs more in thc keeping than in thc acquiring. Woman is a man's incentive to go forward-the tempting bait and the merciless whip. ! Woman is only a rib of man. but she is worth all the other bones in his body put together. Woman is the stringing of a fitful harp, played by tile wind : man is thc golden framework. Woman is the index of the family iH'iok ; from her you can judge of the chapters and the illustrations. Woman is the seivc through which sift the tiner attributes of human nature, and the tilter which separates good from cvi!. W'oinan is thc only female in crea tion who sings; she is also the only ten?ale whose plumage is finer than that of its mate. "In her tongue is trie law of kind ness." This is one of the excellen cies of the virtuous woman as described in thc hist chapter of Pro verbs. The phrase, "law of kind ness.'" is suggestive. It moans more than a kind disposition. The nature of law is to restrain, to enforce obe dience where 't is not willingly ren dered. It implies control. So here we think it means not merely a habit of speaking kind words, but a restraint placed on the tongue, an injunction, so to speak, against ail unkind utter I anees. Such a ?aw is a part, a most i ni port:)'. I part, of a perfect Chris tian chara? ter. A law is needed. With the best of men thoughts come up from the heart which should never : pass the lips. It is sometimes said that we ought to speak just what we I think, but this is not according to the t Bible. When unkind thoughts come into our hearts, let them perish unspo ken. That law of kindness should never let them get possession of the tongue, it is not hypocrisy, but \ Christian self-control, to refuse utter '? ance to unkind and angry feelings. ; Let the law be in your tongue and see that, it is faithfully enforced. j Assocaife Reformed Presbyterian. '--? j If a ragged beggar from the streets wore invited into a king's palace, ' three things would be necessary before he would be at all fit to go : He . would need to put off his rags, to' j thoroughly cleanse himself from filth j and dirt, and to put on new clothing. Not less is required of sinners who j are invited into the palace of the Great King. They must put off the old man, be renewed in the spirit of their minds," and put on the new man, which after God is created in ri?ht eoosn?ss'and true holiness.-Assoc? at?'Reformed Presbyterian.