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i THE CURSE OF DRINK. " N A STRIKINGLY STONC SERMON ON IN r, TEMPERANCE. y tl The Kvllx of Liquor Drinking Knriieatly i Preeente.1?Some (J oil yet Lifelike Plet- f area. 11 The text of Dr. Talmage's Sunday V( sennon was: "It is my son's eoat 0; an evil beast hath dovoured him." ft) Genesis xxxvii., 33. The following is the discourse. * Joseph's brethren dipped their ^ brother's coat in goat's blood and ? then brought the dabbled garment ^ to their father, cheating him with y the idea that a ferocious animal had u slain him, and thus hiding their in- ^ famous behavior. But there is no C] deception about that which we hold up to your observation today. A ^ monster such as never ranged Afri g( can thicket or Hindostan jungle hath c trucked this laud, and with bloody maw hath strewn the continent with j the mangled carcasses of whole gen ^ erations; and there are tens of thous _ ands of fathers imd mothers who c could hold up the garment of their -v slain boy, truthfully exclaiming, "It j is my son's coat: an evil beast hath r devoured him." There has in all j ages and climes, been a tendency to f iravWAWll* nun of V/\nh uuj^iv|nri unc vi obXi-utAHiuia. van, ? as if disgusted with the prevalence ^ of water in his time, took to strong j drink. By this vice, Alexander the Conquorer was conquored. The llomans at their feasts fell off their seats j with intoxication. Four hundred j millions of our raco are opium ea- r ters. India, Turkey and China have groaned with the desolation: and ^ by it havo been quenched such lights as Halley and DeQuincey, One hundred millions are the victims of the betelnut, which has specially jj blasted the East Indies. Three hun- u dred millions chew hashish, and Per- f, sia, Brazil and Africa suffer the deli- r rium. The Tartars employ murowa the Mexicans, the agave; the people at Gunarapo, an intoxicating quali- -t ty taken from sugur cane; while a e great multitude, that no man can number, are the disciples of alco its ^ To its trenches they fall. On ghastly holocaust they burn. Could the muster roll of this great ariny called, and they could endure the j reeking, festering putrefection and beastliness, what heart could en- _ .3 i 1 - r (1 H uuxe me groan 01 agony: Drunkenness: Does it not jingle p the burglar's key? Does it not whet j the assassin's knife? Does it not v cock the highwayman's pistol? Does ^ it not wave the incendiary's torch ? Has it not sent the physician reeling ^ into the sick room; and the minister, ^ with his tongue thick, into the pulpit? Did not an exquisite poet, from the very top of his frame, fall a gib- { boring sot into the gutter, on his way to be married to one of the fairest daughters of Kew England, and the 4 very hour the brido was decking her- c self for the altar; and did he not die ? of delirium tremens, almost unatten- 1 deu, in a hospital? Tamerlane asked T for one hundred and sixty thousand f skulls with which to build a pyramid. 11 But if the bones of all those who 9 have fallen as a prey to dissipation J could be piled up, it would make a ? vaster pyramid. ? The Sabbath has yeen sacrificed to 4 the rum trafic. To many of our peo- \ pie, this day of the week is the worst. 1 Bakers must keep their shops closed ? on tho Sabbath. It is dangerous to u have loaves of bread going out 011 0 Sunday. Tho shoe store is closed; 7 severe penalty will attack tho man 11 who sells boots on the Sabbath. But down with the window shutters of * tho grog shops! Our laws shall con- J fer particular honor upon the rum J; traffekors. All other trades must * stand aside for these. Let our citi- a zens who have disgraced themselves J by trading in clothing, and hosiery, * take oirtrcSr ?Sfi> ML88? ; 1 Ti.: t uicttcu iu piuuuuiiu xiuiiur. ills 1111- ' safe for any other class of men to b e * allowed license for Sunday work. But J swing out your sighs, O ye traffic kers in the peace of families, and in 1 the souls of immortal men! Let the ] corks fly, and the bear foam, and the 1 rum go tearing down the half-con- J sumed throat of the inebriate. God does not see! Does he? Judgment ' will never come! Will it? ( I do not know but that God is determined to let drunkenness triumph I and the husbands avd sons of thous- t ands our best families bo destroyed t by this vice, in order that our people, i | amazed and indignant, may rise up t and demand the extermination of f this municipal crimo. There is a way ( ?0f driving down the hoops of a bar- ? rel so tight they break.. We have, in this country, at various times tried to regulate tlus evil by ta tax on whiskey. I You might as well try to regulate the Asiatic cholera or the small-pox by taxation. The men who distil liquors are, for the most part, unscupulouH, and the higher the tax, tho more inducement to illicit distillation. Oh! the folly of trying to restrain an evil by government tariff! If every gallon of whisky made?if every flask of wine produced, should be taxed a thousand dollars, it would not be enough to pay for the tears it has wrung from tho eyes of widows and orphans, nor for the blood it has dashed on the Christian church, nor c for the catastrophe of the millions it cl has dostroyed forover. c I sketch two houses in this street v The first if bright as home can be. f The father comes at nightfall, and h the children rim out to meet him. " Luxuriant evening meal. Gratula- If tion, and sympathy, and laughteO^ ? Music in the parlor. Fine pictures tl on the walL ..Costly books on the 1 stand. Well-clad household. Plen- tl ty of everything to make home hap- o py. t 1ml) Jiui uftui n ouup. viuw tfUllv. v Daughter's jewelry sold to get flour. Carpets gone off the floor. Daughters e in faded and patched dresses. Wife a sewing for tpe store*. Little child }] with an ugly wound on her face, \ struck in an angry blow. Deep shad- a m ow of wretchedness falling in every ii room. Door bell rings. Little chil- y dren hide. Daughters turn pale, o Wife holds her breath. Blundering \ step in the hall. Door opens, tl Fiend, hrandishing his fisheries, (1 ft Out! out! What are you doinghere?" Did I call this house the second? i o; it is the same house. Hum trans>rmed it. Rum ombruted the mau. [uiu sold the shawl. Rum tore up jo carpets. Hum desolated the earth. Hum chaugcd that paradise ito a hell! I sketch two men that you kuow Dry well. The first graduated from ue of our literary institutions. His ithcr, mother, brothers and sisters ere present to see him graduate, 'liey heard the applauding thunders lat greeted his speoch. They saw ae degree conferred and the diploma iven. He never looked so well. Evrybody said, "What a noble brow! Vhat a tine eye! What graceful iannors! What brilliant prospects!" II the world opens before him, and ries, "Hurrah! hurrah!" Man the second: Lies in the stalou houso. The doctor has just been out for to bind up the gashes reeived in a light. His hair is matted, nd makes him look like a wilk beast. r:? i:? ui. i.. .....i ~..A A.AO up lO UAVAAIJ IU1U tUt. UU ltt liia battered aud bruised wretch that ras picked up by the police, and arried in drunk, and foul and bleedug ? Did I call him man the second '! le is man the first. Rum transformed lim. Rum destroyed his prospects, turn disappointed parental expoctaion. Rum withered those garlands >f commencement day. Rum cut his ip. Rum dashed out his manhood, turn! accursed Rvm f I have shown you the evil beast, 'he question is, Who will hunt him lown, and how shall wo shoot him 1 answer, first, by getting our childen right on this subject. Let them ;row up with an utter aversion to trong drink. Take care how you dminister it even as medicine. If ou find that they have a natural love or it, as some have, put in a glass of b some horrid stuff, and make it itterly nauseous. Teach them, as aithfully as you do the Bible, that um is a fiend. Take them to the Ini8 house, and show them the wreck .nd ruin it works. Walk with them uto the homes that have been icourged by it. Again: We will battle this evil by oting only for sober men. How nany men are theie who can raise tbpve the feelings of partisanship, tnd demand that our officials shall >e sober men? I maintain that the question of obriety is higher than the question >f availability; and that, however ininent a man's services may be, if le have habits of intoxication, he is mfit for any office in the gift of a Christian people. Our laws will be lo better than the men who make hem. Spend a few days at Harris mrg, or Albany, or Washington, and rou will find out whj-, upon these iubjects, it is impossible to get right;ous enactments. Again: We will war against this svil bj- organized societies. The friends )f the rum traffio have banded together; annually issue their circulars aise fabulous sums of money to ad'anee their interests; and, by grips, Misswords, signs-and stratagems, set ? defiance public morals. Let us onfront them with organizations ust as secret, and, if need bo, with nips and pass-words, and signs, mainain our position, There is no need hat our philanthropic, societies tell all heir plans. Iam in favor of all lawul s^ltcgy^iirilie carrying on of this oafiict^ J-wish to God we could lay mder the wine casks a train which, nee ignited, would shake the earth irith the explosion of this monstrous oiuuityl- Agtfin: ' vWe will try the power of hq^Vledge. .There are thousands of a en wnjtohavp been saved by putting heSi^A^cS^o such a document. I mow It iS laughed at; but there are ome men who, having once promised . ii.;? ,i:i ,,c! 1 l?? b tiling, LIU it. OUlUt* UUVU UlUlkCt Ue pledge.-' Yes; they were liars 3jut nllhnen are not liars. I do not - ? *V... i_U ia *1 v. rvf. all jturHont .0 make such signature; hut I do saj hat it ?would be the salvation ol nany of you. The glorious work o] rheobald Mathew can never be esti nateil. At his hand four millions o! :)eopl?i<0ok tho pledge, and multi udes in Ireland, England, Scotlonc ind America, have kept it till this day rho pledge signed to thousand! las been the proclamation of emnn ipation. Again: We expect great thirgf rorn inebriate asylums. They have ilready done a glorious work. ] hink we are coming at last to treat nebriation as it ought to be treated lamely, ns an awful disease, self inlicted, to be sure, but nevertheless e liscase, once fastoned upon a man lermons won't cure him; temperance ectures will not eradicate it; religiout racts will not remove it; the gospel >f Christ will not arrest it. Once un ler the power of this awful thirst ho man is bound to go on; and, if the oaming glass were on the other sidt >f perdition, he would wade through he fires of hell to get it. A young nan in prison had such a strong thirst or intoxicating liquors thathe cut of) lis hand at the wrist, called for a >owl of brandy in order to stop the deeding, thrust his wrist into the owl, and then drank the contents. Stand not, when the thirst is on lim, between a man and his cups. Hear fifetoAFfcok for him. Away with he chflffiyn: he would tread their life >ut. vrkt\x the wife; he would Away with the wtraj* ltro it down. Away r|th the Bible; be would tear it up the Winds. Away with heaven; ie ownuflers i WbfthlesH as a straw. (WVtk dwiitl if f" Y ??W ^ 1 tV/ lUOi fliough the hands ofjibod paws up W4>6wl, and tlrtjpjgjlg^rembles ovor lie pit?-the d#mk! give it to me! U the foam?give it to mef^I drink o my wife's woe, to my, children's age; to. my eternal banishment hfCkf irtf9"h6pe, and heavenrOffl%| o me! the drink!'' Again: We will contend with these vils by trying to persuade the reportable classes of society to the anishment of alcoholic beverages. Tou who movo in elegant and refined ssociations: you who drink the best quors; you who never drink until ou lose your balance, let us look ach other in the face on this subject. rou have, under God, in your power tie redemption of this land from runkenness. Empty your cellars and wine closets of tlio beverage, and I then come out and give us your hand, your vote, your prayers, your sympathies. Do that, and I will promise three things: First, that you will find unspeakable happiness in having done your duty. Secondly, you will probably save somebody?perhaps j your own child. Thirdly, you will 1 not, in your last hour*, have a regret that you made the sacrifice, if sacrifice it be. As long as you make drinking respectable, drinking customs will prevail, and the plow share of death, drawn by terrible disasters, will go on turning up this whole continent from end to end with the long, deep, awful furrow of drunkard's graves. I civil upon those who aro guilty of those indulgences to quit the path of death. Oh! what a change it. would make in your home! Do you see how everything there is being desolated? "Would you not like to bring back joy to your wifo's heart and have your children come out to meet you with as much confidence as once they showed? Would you not like to rekindle the home lights that long ago wore extinguished? It is not too late to change. It may not entirely obliterate from your soul the memory of wasted years and a ruined reputar tion, nor smooth out from your anxious brow the wrinkles which trouble has plowed. It may not call back unkind words uttered, or rough deeds done ; for perhaps in those awful moments you struck her! It may not take from your memory the bitter thoughts connected with some little grave. But it is not too late to save yourself, and secure for God and your family the remainder of your fast-going life. But perhaps you have not utterly gone astray. I may address one who may not havo quite made up his mind Let your better nature speak out. You take one side or the other in the war against druukeness. Have you i tho courage to pld your foot down: right, and say to your companions i and friends: "I will never drink intoxicating liquor in all my life, nor will I countenance the habit in others.'' Have nothing to do with strong drink. ' It has turned the earth into a place i of skulls, and has stood opening the , gate to a lost world to let in its victims, until now tho door swings no more upon its hinges, but, day and night, stands wide open to let in the agonized procession of doomed men. Do I address one whose regular work in life is to administer to this i appetite ? For God's sake get out > of that business! If a woe 1* pro> uounced upon the man who gives his neighbor drink, how many woes must be hanging over tho man who does i this ovory day and every hour of the day! Do not think that beciuso human government may licenso you that i therefore God licenses you. I am ' surprised t? hear you men say that they respect the "original package" ; decision, by which the supreme court of the United States allows rum to be i taken into States like Kansas, which ' have/lecided against the sale of intoxicants. I have no respect for a i wrong decision. I care not who makes it. The three judges of the supreme court who gave minority reports against that decision were right, and the chief justice was wrong. The right of a State to defend itself against the rum traffic will yet be demonstrated, the supreme court notwithstanding. Higher than tho judicial bench at Washington is the throne of the Lord God Almighty. No enactment, national, Stato or municipal can give you the right to carry on a business whose one effect is destruction. God knows better than you do yourself tho number of drinks you have | pourod out. You keep a list; but a more accurate list has been kept than i yours. You may call it Burgundy, Bourbon, Cognac, Heidsicck, sour i mash, or beer. God calls it strong i drink Whether vou sell it in a low. oyster collar or behina the polished f counter of a first-class hotel, tho dif vine curse is upon you. I tell you plainly that you will meet customers f one day when thore will be no coun ter between you. When your work I is done on earth and you enter the reward of your business, all tho souls of the men whom you have dostroyed - will crowd around you, and pour their bitterness into your cup. They will j show you their wounds and say, 5 "You made them," and point to their [ unquenchable thirst and say, "You t junuieu it; and rattle tfieir chain , and say, "You forged it." Then their united groans will smite your ear, and i with the hands out of which you once , picked the sixpences and the dimes, ? they will push you off the verge of i great precipices; while rolling up from [ beneath, and breaking among the - crags of death, will thunder, "Woe , to him that giveth his neighbor drink!" i The Power of Honey. ' What an influence for good or evil > is exerted by the proper or improper use of money. I' seems in be the * first essential of modern life. Sad 1 indeed is the lot of that man or that 1 woman without money and without friends. Especially in cases of sickness is the need of money left most pressingly and yet even the rich with all their money fall into a state of 1 poor health and die, whereas if their tnnnnv wno li.v/uvj nun llfjuujr DApVUUDU OUU W1U proper remedies applied they might regain health and strength. 1 / A. Clark, Atlanta, Ga., says: "I spent four hundred and eighty dollars in gold to cure me of terrible blood poison that affected my limbs and nose and body, with running ulcers. One month's treatment of P. B. B. healed the ulcers, restored my appetite, strengthened my kidnoys and added 21 pounds to my weight." Still, in spite of this mid much ? other testimony, there arolhany who . io'try the remedy, seeming to prefer to pay large fees to physicians, or visit distant springs in vain hopes i of recovery. The great truth however, ever shines brightly and that is, iV.i * ? i 11mi inf urn wy<> ever gave u. is. ?J. (Botanic Blood Balm) a trial ever found disappointment therein. O. H. Kudolph, Talladega, Fla., writes: 'T had blood disease for six years, but nothing benefitted me, although I paid two hundrod and fifty dollars fa?fceittfoent. At last I tried B. B. B., aaK^ound it a quick and choap bloo<Ppurifier. . ? - X Uncommonly Common. 1,7; ROBEETTNE'S ROMAHOE-HOW 8HE "til CONCEALED IT. iSJ Uobertine had finished cleaning her is (1 gloves, and was putting away the bits or t of old flannel a ad tho "deodorized" yon fluid, whoso faint liatefulness she do- in 1 rioted she detested. "It's quite as bad do, u^outmnii beuzine." she said to her lou: mother, who was busy cooking a apir~ ear ituelte sort .of supper on the gasoline 1 stove in the other room. poa They leased the entire house, a two- at t story and basement brick, rather cen- strt trull v located, and relet unfurnished ki rooms or suites in such a manner as her to clear their own rental while reserv- u ing the double parlors and the Joys of litt proprietorship. stri i ney were very coinrortably arranged. In the evening, Robertina could 41 make herself pretty, close the folding- suf doors, run her fingers lightly over the in 1 keys of the upright piano, and feel 1 equal to the entertaining of the most tini eligible gentlemen friends?even Wil- Big fred Wales, Esq. In some respects she was moro at ease with this gentleman 44 for company. than with any one else* hoi Not because he was unusually hand- yoi some?beyond the frequency of his new 44 clothes?or talented, or cultured, or lywitty;.not because of any subtle charm 44 in his conversation, like that of poor us. Dick Eitliel, whom slie had known so we long, and who, she was forced to admit, ing would always remain the same viBion- on< ary enthusiast nnd Bohemian. Poor it c Dick! If he would only quit trying to drj make a Uving with his pen, and become a piacuwrisntnoer or society?a tail or, * or shoemaker, or something honest! No, but when Wilfred Wales was calling ltobertine knew there would do no ar- a ter remarks from her mother, that good h lo/lo Yiatnre nf onoh 2mna font fa va_ Wll I?\iJ , UV OUVll UlUCDfVVIIWUV IV IO" J tire to peaceful dreams and a book-case ? bedstead, leaving tlie young people undisturbed. n8! Mr. Wales was a moneyed young man, with further "expectations," ana Robr ertine felt It wotild be the merest folly to discourage his attentions. She knew Sir herself thoroughly: knew all her disadvantages and all her little attractive- 8 * ness. She had sired herself up long t* ago as a moderately pretty brunette,who "r could sing and play passably, read a th French novel without the dictionary, zil write a dashing sort of letter, and dance " all the newest fancies. She never forgot that sho had neither fortune nor , family?a blue lookout for any girl of M. twenty; that sho had talent in no particular direction; that she was physically too delicate for continuous labor, be sides being unfitted, by ambition, for the life of a working-woman. c Yet sometimes she felt sick of it all? "a sick of doing lawyers' copying at home, aiil and addressing wrappers by the tliousand, and scheming now to best spend the money so earned and how to con- J,Ui struct the prettiest costume in which to *a< attend theatre or promenade concert with Mr. Wales. (Often she would far " rather have gone sauntering in the park, clad in her plain, brown "Mother- J*11 Hubbard," with Richard Ethel beside he( her, and his pleasing fantasies.) But what could she do to support herself? "You can't be a.clerk in any ve store," said her mother, "it takes away a gin s social position." "If she has any,"said Robertine ironically. be Meanwhile they had got on very well without touching the insurance money er] received at the death of Robertine's lamented father, which was but a small J1' sum at best, and which the mother f0! would need for herself when once the daughter was married. Robertine shook out three pair of co evening gloves, and said musingly, "Wow I'm ready to go anywhere It only ox someone invites me." co "If I were you I wouldn't go with P? anybody but Wales," admonished her mother. "If he sees you running mi around with common tugs like Dies w' Ethel, he'll ship you!" Mrs. Ferris was (I* often more forcible than elegant, and nij always unconscious of nautical tendencies. She was a thin, nervous wo- "a man, with an extraordinary contempt W for the oipolloi. She was often heard br to say that she had been struggling for ' years to keep her head above water, as hii also that of her deceased husband. le| (l'oor manl his head had gone under ground in spite of her!) llobertine colored. "I never go with any one I'm ashamed of," she said, in- y? dignantly; "and as for Mr. Wales, the 'shipping' process may be conducted by y the other party." 1 d( "O, no doubt you feel able to manage your own affairs. Some folks, when they have a little streak of luck, act as if it would never be day with tnem?" Closing With ? peVaiitlyUxaoio. w "Now, mother, what is the use of such talk? Let us eat our supper in peace." And they did: after which, llobertine having adjusted her toilet, went to the front windows and drew the curtains back, admitting the evening breeze, nc The sun was declining ana the sky in therewith glorified; she stood where ft bl might dazzle her eyes a moment, then turned away. "Mother, shall I close the folding- 116 doors? Dick Ethel is coming over." "O, yes; for heaven's sake, shut the co doors, so I needn't hear him yarning, an If I were you I wouldn't fool away my in. time on such common " ftV Rnhf>H.inA tlio ilnnra an/1 loot " * the remainder. "Come in, Dick," she called, through ?t< the wire window-netting. "Don't stop ar< to ring." th "You are alone?" he said, smiling ^ faintly as he entered. "I thought you might have company." 4*You see for yourself I haven't" "Your mother is well. I hope?" bl< r ay to - I x?j^Rer AatnOHtreet to-dfly, Dtit11 do nokJJtfk She saw me." , "PeriBpe not," said Bobertine, doubt- ^ fully, remembering her mother's disdain for common attire. "But what are you doing this week, Dick? What is the latest romance?" V, "I haven't done much," he answered fa slowly, "hut I have thought of so much _ I would like to do. (XInave had such beautiful thoughts! Dreams that I Would like you to share with mel" Itobertine stirred uneasily. "I have had thoughts too." she said, half lightly. "I have been thinking of * getting married." j lie looked at her in a curious way, ,J but did not interrupt, as she went on: "Yes. I have about decided that the ? only thing I can ao is, get married." P "O Bobertine!' he said, in a shocked f voice. n "You think I am joking, Dick, but I aaa not. I am taking a business view of d the matter. I must find a rich husband. / Ton sea I belong to a very good-for- n nothing 4lass; incapable ana indolent, ft yet ambitious for social distinction; medkxf V in talent, yet refined in taste, gi while my education has been of such a supfrtig|p?rore that the thought of it ~ he repeated, distress- I ]| fuTiy. you couldjjiH sell yourself 1 ID ?you could not marry for money alone!" I IE 'dear no," she answered, cheer- II fully, "not for money alone. I must IK have a respectable-looking husband, M with a suspicion of brains. Then, too. while she is about it, why can't a girl happen to fall in love with a man who has money? I regard it as my duty to H?; do this, and?by the way?you ought to fu follow my example." ren He changed his seat to one beside her nut on the sofa, and spo^ in a hurt, re- ? proachful tone: "Robertine, these words are unworthy of you. I can't understand why you x should loke, either. We?we have been Km ffood friends?j" then he broke oil. as Hl' e had lost all self-control, ail power ipeech. he was moved, and remained silent il the sound of her mother in the er room seemed to give her tongue v impetus. Ah.ltichard, 'Art is long and life leeting!' We nave no time lobe great 0 foster grand thoughts. Why, even 1 and I might be silly enough to fall ove with each other, but it wouldn't would it? O 110, it would be ridlcus? mad! The very last thing on tht" The very last thing on earth," he reted, quietly. They were not looking inch other now, yet they were both ingely pale. Tne very last!" she said, recovering self after a moment; then abruptly: ltichard, I want to tell you some lo things?confidential, you know, etly confidential." Yes," lie said, vacantly, ltichard, this is midsummer: but I pose you know people wear flannels winter-time?ladies do." ler seeming irrelevancy might ot her les have startled him; now he only bed inquiringly. Well, last winter?you remember v cold it was?how many flannels do 1 suppose mother and I had apiece?" Three, perhaps," he ventured, weariNo, indeed; we had three between This kept us washing one twice a ek, which was tiresome, beside wear;out the garments. Fancy having 5 such article of clothing and taking >fT at bedtime to wash it that it may r by morning. Isn't the thought )minable?" L'luklAng, qutvAfimr broaih Uiat hfl iw smote her painfully, as she felt it, through her, his heart must ache >ng time, perhaps forever. Ihe could not look at him. lie rose limit speaking. Perhaps he could ; trust his voice. 'You are not going, Dick? But per;>s you haven't been to supper." I don't know," he faltered. "I must and finish some work. *1?1 hone i will not <10 anything hastily, Uobine, remember?remember I am your md?always." Then lie went out i away. drs. Ferris slid the doors ajar and ened. 'Gone at last?" she asked, glancing ougli the window at the tall form ssing the street with slow, dispirited it. "If he doesn't look commonl" tobortine had gone to the piano. 'Mother," she said impatiently. "If ij. Drummond proposes again you'd iter marry hiui. lie's uncommon JUgh to suit you?especially his temr. >he could have sobbed aloud, sho so ted herself. She fancied Richard comling to his poor room across the iy?his gray, cheerless, pathetic room ind sitting down uncomforted among i manuscripts. She could seo his pale co, his sad, brown eyes. She hated rself, and her mother, and Wilfred ales, and all the cruel, bitter world! She tried a strain of Mendelssohn's asic to soothe and strengthen her, and r mother spoke, as if reminded: 'The piano rent is due to-morrow, )bertine. Don't let me forget; they are ry exacting." Robertine changed to fierce opera alodieB, and immediately Mr. Wilfred ales arrived. Mrs. Ferris had made r escape and closed the folding-doors. "I was thinking of you," saul Robtine sweetly, and Bpeaking the truth. "Of me? Is that so? Then I'm glad." b pressed her hand witli all a lover's ndness. Nor was he really so objectionable?a )ll-built man with a prepossessing untenance and a frank, easy speech. 0 never romanced, nor paused for aotness, nor unfolded quaint disveries, nor indulged In ben trovato esy, as poor Dick Ethel was wont. He was a cheerful caller and often ide her laugh: still there were times ien she could as well havo yawned, oor Dick Ethel might have talked all glit and never wearied her.) "Take the rocking-chair," she begged, md I will sit right hero on the sofa, e can both see the street and feel the eeze." "Thanks," said Mr. Wales, twinkling 9 great third-flnger diamond by careis motions of the hand. "I say, what do you think? I am goer to change hotels." "Indeed? Why I thought you liked ?ur place so much?" "i aia, unui mis morning, ^ever us more surprised in my lire. What > you suppose I found in my coffee?" "A fly," the young lady suggested. "Not exactly." "Then a roach?" "Oh, no; dear mo, not so bad. But it cut a ihwd of Homathina rose milling ?tton..' (Concluded in our next issue.) A Disfigured Countenance. Many people who would scarcely >tic? an armless or legless man will stantly detect and remark on any emish of the human face, and dive to all sorts of speculations as to i cause and attendant circumstans. If you doubt this assertion beme possessed of a discolored optic d note how much attention it will vite. A black eye is generally oidable, but blotches, pimples and her scrofulous and eruptive marks ial upon us without warning, and o frequently the first intimation of e fact that our blood is going ong, A prompt and systematic e of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke >ot and Potassium), will purify the x>d, cleanse the skin and give back ihn fns>/> nafiirfi'n familiar md/lv rns of health. Get it of your drugit. Abbott's East Indian Corn Paint. EradicateB Corns, Bunions ans 'ails where nil other remedied il. ^.BfJADFlELDS juTFEM/VLEREGULATOR Ar.rjSTRUATlON on Monthlv sickness jBOOK "WW O M A W'suiuvffiu U OF!ELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTABJL ?t? tVAU WWWIL Cleanw* *ii(1 beautlflra tlx hair. Promote* a luxuriant growth. Never Fail* to Rortora Qrw* Hair to it* Youthful Color. Onre* aoalp Jlecoa** A hair falllaa A?oo Consumptive. A to you Cough. Bronchitis, Aathma^^^A Llont Uso PAKKBR'H OINUKU^^^ ? ins curci me worm o?m and ledy for all Ilia arlalmr rttfon Tako In time. 50c. uflHH Eindercqjfl heonly sure Cure for thei TALBERT & SON'S ENUINKS VNI> BOILKK4,?\W MILLS B AND QKIxT .\f 11.18 fl Are acknowledged 1<? ?.e the brat ovrr *<>10 L In Hi Ik SSI ??! . K Wltcn you buy oiieofUiem you are suMMled n that you have made no mlnUke. 7 Write for our price*. II COTTON I,INS AND COTTON PI'ESSES R T A P UO TOM KIOUKKS. ? I can wivo you money. V. C. BADIIAM, ticn. Ajct., * COLUMBIA. 8. C. ir 4Qf~Home olllce and Factory: y Hlonniond Vr. P' IS si * ? .1 , 2 B . n J MWV Ml a WW Vi Uijf NMTUUlg A No. 7 Flat top Cooklug Stove, full size, Ift x 17 Inch orsn, fitted with 21 piece* of wnro; delivered til your own depot. All freight charges pnld by me, for only TWELVE DOLLARS I Again, I will Mil you n 5 hole Cooking ti Range 13 x 13 Inch oven, 18 x 26 Inch top, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, for TtiiiiTEKN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to your depot. Do not p&j two prices fcr jour goods. I will soiid you a nice plutth Parlor suit, walnut frame either In combination or banded, the most st.vllah colors for M33.AO to jour Railroad station, freight all paid. , 1 will also sell you a nice B?aroom anil I consisting of Bureau with glass. 1 high | head Bedstead. 1 Wasbstand, 1 Centre table. 4 Cane scat chairs, 1 Cane Boat and back rocker, all for in.fto, and pay freight to yonr d'-pot. Or I will send you an elegant Bodroom suit with large glass, full marble top, for Van, and nay freight. I Nice window shade on spring roller ? .40 Elegant large walnut 8 da; clock, 4.00 Walnut, lounge, 7.00 Laos curtains per window, l.oo I cannot describe everything In a small I advertisement, but havcan Immoaseatore I containing 22,600 ft. of floor r.orn, with I ware house* and factory building's In other | parts of Augusta, making in all the largest business of this kind Tinder one managenoenttn the Southern States. These stores and warehouses are crowded wtta the choicest productions of the best factorlos. My catalogue containing Illustrations of goods will be mailed ifyou will kindly sAy whero you saw this advert Iscmout. I pay freight. Address, L. F, PADGETT, Propr- Padgett's furniture,Store $ Carpet Store, 1110-1112 BROAD STREET, ? AUGUSTA, GA. F~~> C* MX PWNESa a Mtau Mills CUfliibv r< kHm n leek's INV1S1ULK TUBULAR (Aft IMF Baa I CUSHIONS. Whispers hoard. Coinf.r?aWr!TJi.?5l .ken .11 IU??IUefkll. H.Ukj P. IllfCni aalr. ?U Sc'Seaj. Saw T?rk. Write fer a?k ?f pr?a ?"< DEPOSIT YOUR SURPLUS MONEY IN TI& COMMERCIAL BANK, -OF? COLUMBIA. S. C. One dollar and upwards received Interest at the rate of 4 per cent, pei annum, paid quarterly, on the firta days of February, May, August am November. Married women am j minors can keep account in their owi name. Higher rates of interest a) i lowed by special arrangement. . C. J. Iredell, President. Jno. S. Leaphart, James Iredell Vice-President. Canine. LIFPHAN BROS., Wholesale Dragglsts, Sole Proprietor!, Llppmsn's Block, SaTaanah, Ok TO PLANTERS AND MILL H! For Estimates on STEAM SAW^MILLS, Ginning, Harvesting and other Ma- j chinery write to the undersigned, who will guarantee the goods they j may offer in all respects, and make , matters interesting both to consumers j and competitors. We will also furnish everything needed in the line of supplies; Belt- ! ing, Oils, Piping, Fittings, Valves, Inspirators, Injectors, Pumps, Etc W. H. GIBBES, Jr., & Co., Columbia, S. 0. PITT'S CARMINATIVE! Jj*ob ookbkotinu n au8ka dv8bntery 1 Diarrhoea and Cholera infantum. A Elefuutnl medicine of Incalcuable merit In the oine circle for child or adult. It Is popular, pleasant ami efficient. Truly a mother's men . it Hoothesand heals the nouooua membraneat and checks the mucous discharge from bead, stomach and bowels. The mucous difidiarffA from lha bnori ?-/? ? ?- .. .... .nu ?io mm promptly relieved by It as the mucous dla charge front the b wel?. It la made to relieve lite mucous ayatem and cure nauaea, and It does It. It makes the Crislral period of teething children safe and oaay. it invigorates and builds up the system while It la relieving and em lag tne wasted tissue. It Is reoomtnended and used largely by physicians. Kor sale by Wannamakey a Murray Co., Columbia, 8. <V i and wholesale by Howard St Wlllell, August*, r W < -DE. GROSVE^OE'S? Bell-cap^iC Plasters rHv.: THK BEHT POBOU8 PI.ABTERH IN THE WORLD. They are the bent planter* In every way for I ,? ?<* relief of \t^,^"rik' paijf this chkht, niuraloia. <f <ft, <f>ther plasters, thee* are Purely / -%Jd Harm lee*. Relieve Instantly 1 ?r1 40 7K. QUICK AMU SUM. IrnRKlHla or mailed on receipt of /OMuSVKNOR A KICHARI>% Boston. Mas* AVItlTK TO LOULEli & ANDERSON HUGO V CO., OCX HILL, - - - - S. C., For their Catalogue giving Prices, crxuH and References of Buggies, arrioges, Wagons,Road and Phaeton arts, Harness, etc. All first-class ork made by hand and warranted, rices lower tliau anv other of mimo fade. Our Vehicles a"*e running in ,'ery county in South Carolina, and i many counties of Noi*th Carolina, reorgia aud Florida. All inquiries romptly answered. In writing please icntion this paper and don't forget > give your Postoffice addross and gn your name plainly. toiler Anderson buggy ., ? manufacturers,? ROCK HILL, - - - - B.C. DETECTIVES tsud in trtn C.uctj. Shrewd ? to Ml uwdre UlUMlIWi Mv 0Mr?t 0W14m. fat UwtMV ftvt* rum D>actlw^?ru?0?. rh eTozer Engine Works (Sncwwor ?o Dial Hnglu Work*.) ^ IOIIN A.WILLIS, PROPR., 117 West Oervais Street, f W wm ra MANUF VCTUBERH OK rozer 8team Engines, Ind all sletR or both i/ooomotl ves and return Tublar Hotlem. *V Foundry work In Iron and Bratts Hepairing promptly executed. CHARLOTTE FEMALE IKST1TUT The building is now modernized and improved as a boarding school until it is second to none in tho South in comfort and conveniences. The Corps of Teachers engaged for the coming see Bion is the best the Institute has ever had. No other institute in the South can offer advantages superior to those offered here in the Literary, Music and Art Departments. Mr. Maclean continues to be the Director of Music. The patrons of the Institute, whose daughters were taught by Mr. Maclean during the past see muu, urv reierrca 10 m prooi oi ID6 statement tLat he is the best teacher of Music who has ever taught in Charlotte. As originator and director o the June Musical Festival in this city, bis reputation has extended throughout the South. Wm. R. Atkinson, Principal. Ail-Ask for catalogue. * TERRY M'F'G CO.. Nashville. Ten*. f A Spring Medicine I y ? * ? swmvhhm ^ ; FOR TIRED j MAN AND WOMAN. P. P. P. will purify and vltalfce your *? blood, create a good appetite and give your whole system tone and strength. I A prominent railroad stmorintendent at Savannah, suffering with Malaria, Dyspepsia. and Rheumatism ga< v P. P. P. be never felt so well In his life, and feels as If he could live forever. If he oould always get P. P. P." ^ v. Ifyou aretlredout fr^hvw 7r:.aand M cloao coiilluegiuut, take P. P. P. If vou ere feeling bTtT" to the stria*: I and but of sorts, take | P. P. P. If your digestive organs need toning up, toko P. P. P. If you suffer with headache. Indigestion* debility and weakness, take P. P. P. If you suffer with rervous prostration, nerves unstrung and a general let down of the system, take P. P. P. For Bls6d Poison. Rheumatism,!ftagofp. p. p. Prickly'Ash, Poke Hoot and Potassium. The best blood purifier In the world. UPPMAN BROS., Wholesale Druggists, Bole Proprietors, i Limux's Block, Savannah, Oa. r?w?|mvMg|piK KBRb J ~ j y^n > . a J(cb*otB u