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|ittWM0U!S Hrprtmrnt. I EvoLVing a Story.?"Ah!" said Smith, a commercial traveler, to a group of friends, "I was witness to a sight just before leaving Chicago." And then he told how he had seen a poor German immigrant with his wife and family of eight yellow-haired children, how he had become interested in them, and had learned that they had left their native land to seek a home in the Northwest. He was touched with the tenderness of the father and saw him purchasing apples for the children. All the family except the father had taken their seats on the train and he was just making change for i-i 11 1 ?i 4-?:^ nib suii'ii puruimat; vvneu uic uaiu ucgou iu moveuut of the station. He made a rush for it, sipped, and then, before the eyes of the poor family and other horror-struck passengers, his head was taken off by the cars. Smith's friends were much affected and it was decided to take up a nurse for the poor widow and fatherless children, and this was speedily done and a neat sum presented to Smith to be forwarded. He, with tears in his eyes, said: "My friends, I thank you, but I can conceal it no longer. That train took off the rest of the man, and he still lives." Smith will not travel this week. He is laid up for repairs.?Detroit Free Press. He Forgot Something After Ai,l.? Bloomsby, who is out on the road a great deal, is quite forgetful. When packing his valise to go away he is pretty apt to leave something whose loss causes him not a little inconvenience. The last time he went out his wife told him to think of the articles he wished to take and then to tie strings around his fingers to represent each one. As fast as he put an article in his valise he could take off a string, so that if any strings were left he would know in time that he had forgotten something. He concluded to follow her advice, ana the articles he wished to take and the strings on his fingers corresponded exactly. "This time," he said, proudly, as he laid down his valise to go to breakfast, "I have he satisfaction of knowing that I haven't onvfhinor " ivi^viivu uuj An hour later he was well on his way to Kankakee. Suddenly it struck him that he had forgotten something. He thought a moment and then groaned. He had neglected to bring his valise.?San Franciscan. ? ? S&" Some of the students at the University of Texas are more given to wine than to books, but some of them are very industrious. One of them, on being invited to play a game of billiards, declined. "Why, what's the matter?" "I've quit all that. I get up at five and study three hours. After breakfast I go to hear Professor Roberts' law lecture. In the afternoon I study five more hours, and I never quit my "nooks before eleven o'clock at night. I study seventeen hours a day." "Why, man alive, that's too much. That's enough to kill a mule. But you don't look as though you overworked yourself. You are as fat as a buck and your complexion is rosy. How long have you been studying seventeen hours a day?" "I am going to begin to-morrow," resoonded the overworked student.?Si/tings. Providence and Quails.?"They were discussing in the Illinois legislature," said a gentleman from Springfield, "a bill to prevent the destruction of quail for three years. Speeches of various sorts were made. One farmer advanced the suggestion that there were too many quail. If they should be preserved for three years they would eat up all the crops. Then up rose an honest Granger, who had not opened his unouth before, with this valuable contribution to natural history, delivered in a drawling, squeaking voice: "Mr. Cheerraan, I've lived in Illinov, man and boy, for forty years. Enduring all of which time I've followed agricultooral pursoots exceptin' for seven years, when I was a-runnin' of a saw-mill, and I have obsarved this about quail; Whenever there is too many quail the good Lord He freezes them out." That settled it.?Philadelphia Record. Lying Too Far Apart.?In a huuter's camp different men began to unfold their yarns. Among others a Iventuckian said he once shot a buck in such a way that the bullet, hitting the right ear, passed through the heel of the right hind foot. Jeering and laughter greeted this monstrous story. "Brown," called the Kentuckian to his companion, "tell these fellows if what I say is not as true as gospel!" "Why, yes," replied the other, "I saw it myself. You see, gentlemen, when he pulled the trigger of his rifle, the buck was just scratching his head with his hoof." Then he whispered to his friend, "That wasa narrow escape. Another time don't lie so far apart." Wag* "Don't you want to go to the better world, Tommy?" asked a Sunday-school teacher of her new scholar. "No, mum," promptly replied the frank little fellow. "And why not, Tommy?" "0, when I die I want to go where a felln?? nar? ' IVl Mill iWV* "Well, my boy, you can rest there." "Well, in that song we sung it said we'll shine there." "Certainly; don't you want to shine there." "No, mum; I don't want to shine there. I get enough of that here. I'm a bootblack, mum !" He Knew How it was Himself.?"Well we are penniless, or mighty near it," he said as he reached home and threw the evening paper to his wife. "Wh?what is it?" "The Mechanics' bank has busted, and we had $4,000 on deposit there." "But Richard," she said, after glancing at the article, "the president says that he hopes to pay all depositors in full." "And didn't I say the same to my creditors when I failed in the grocery business, and did a single one of them receive five cents on the dollar?" he howled. 4- -o A Colored Man's Hint.?Colonel Witherspoon, of Austin, is a very close man. Not long since he lost his pocket-book containing a large sum of money. It was found by a poor, old, but honest negro, who asked: "Is dis heah de portmonia yer lost?" "Why, yes. I'm a thousand times obliged to you." "Thank you, boss. You is welcome. And if ever you lose your pocket-book, and I should happen to find it I'll give it back to you, and it shan't cost you a cent unless you want to reward me for my honesty."?Texas Si/tings. A Pleasant Compliment.? Minister's wife (looking over the paper)?"You are referred to in this morning's paper, my dear, as a distinguished clergyman." Minister?"H'm. I thought that my sermon yesterday would attract attention. Is it published in full or only a synopsis given?" Wife?"Neither. You are spoken of as a 'distinguished clergyman' in connection with that patent medicine testimonial you sent to Dr. Quack." Whistling ent0uraged.?Black-"They tell me your wne is quite a wnisuer. White?"She is. whistles most of the time." Black?"And you allow it? Don't it annoy you?" White?"It don't annoy me, and as for allowing it, I encourage her in it." Black?"Why?" White?"Because a woman can't whistle and talk at the same time."?Globe Democrat. Had Seen That Kind of a Man.? "Here is a curious case, ma'am," said the superintendent of the insane asylum. "This man imagines he is the motive power that runs the world. He's perfectly harmless, though, but he thinks the world wouldn't move without him. Very queer notion, isn't it?" "I don't know about that; my husband has got the same notion in his head."?California Maverick. t@r No matter if a woman hasn't but three lines to write on a page of letter paper she can't resist the temptation to write two of them on. the side margin and then sign her name upside down over the date.?Palmer (Mass.) Journal. fhe Jam and JntsMe. For the Vorkville Enquirer. FARMERS' CLUBS. In the Enquirer of last week, I read with much interesttheeommunication from the Bethel Farmers' Club. Something of this sort must bedone by our farmers everywhere to bring about better yields of all kinds of crops, or the country will be found most years in its present condition. If one or two farmers under the stimulus of a small premium, offered by a local club, can so increase the production of two of our staple crops on a single acre of ground, why may not such yields be the rule and not the exception ? Here and there throughout the Southern country we read each year of fine yields of cotton, corn, oats, wheat and tobacco. as marked exceptions to the general crop; thus proving that there must be a great fault somewhere. The intensive system on the one hand, or larger areas carefully prepared for, and cultivated entirely by improved machinery, seem to be the methods necessary for lowering the cost of production. With the cost of production thus lowered, the amount of clear profit is the greatest to those farmers who know how to practice intelligent economy; whilst the whole country is more prosperous by the difference between cost and market value. It is not the seemingly low price of cotton that is embarrassing the country, but it is the cost at which this crop was raised. In the experiment of Mr. Clinton, it is stated that he used a variety of corn known as "Anderson." If this is the same corn with which the writer experimented for five years in York county, it will be another feather in his cap; but Mr. Clinton will have to try again. Mr. Hardaway, of Thomasville, Georgia, with this same corn, raised 87.| bushels on one acre; and the writer raised 96 bushels on one acre of branch bottom, and 156 bushels on three acres of upland. The 96 bushels was raised in '78, and the 156 bushels in '77; both of which years were very dry at the time that corn was making. The writer, with his present experience, regrets that he did not persevere in the attempt to improve and largely increase the productiveness of this corn. Dr. Parker, of Columbia, is on record as having produced 214 bushels of corn on one acre of land; and the possibilities, in the writer's opinion, are beyond that. The man who makes 250 bushels on one acre will be getting nearer the mark; but he will have much to learn and many things to observe very closely before he can make them all work together in such grand results. I). C. Anderson*. ,r oo?,i i oor* Jionroe, i\. c., reuruary ^uu, iow. Plant Food.?No animal manure contains any value except what goes into the animal as food. The manurial value of a ton of clover hay is placed at about $9; of roots, eighty cents; cotton meal and linseed meal, about $30. But as roots can often be bought very low, at $6 or $7 per tou, and cows may eat a bushel or more per day, the manure made in a day may be of nearly equal valun whichever food is given. As wood ashes, unleached, are a complete plant food, they are often undervalued ; yet, compared to other potash compounds, they are worth, for their potash, only fourteen or fifteen cents per bushel. Neither plaster, salt nor lime can be called manure, as they coutain neither of the three elements we need buy. They may help develop a plant that is already in the soil. If they were plant food continued application would enrich the lawn, which everyone knows they do not. Humus is not plant food, but it helps the land to hold plant food. Stable manure is valuable for the small amount of plant food contained in it, but the microscope can hardly detect it, the proportion is so small compared to the inert portions. Rotation op Crops.?By practicing a proper rotation of crops and returning to ?|| mnnilPO irvwlfi frnm fppdinf tilt auil ill! uiu uiutiuiv 0 the fodder and the littering with the straw a farm may be kept increasing in fertility. The soil is really inexhaustible of its mineral matter, and as long as there is decaying organic matter in it some considerable nitrogen is gained from the atmosphere. The longer the rotation the better and more effective in this way it is. An excellent rotation, which furnfshes feeding and selling crops in abundance, is first clover and grass for hay, and then pasture; corn on the turned sod ; beans to follow the corn ; wheat i to follow the beans, and clover sown with the wheat; one year clover; oats on the clover sod ; roots on the oat stubble; then potatoes, and wheat following the potatoes, with clover and grass following and flnishingthe rotation. This requires ten fields and gives plenty of straw, hay and roots for feedingcattle. How to Turn* a Manure Heap.?The interior of a manure heap, when it is well put up, heats and rots rapidly, but the outside is cool and does not decompose. To turn the heaps then is a necessary work at this season. Make the heap square and flat at the top, so that it will keep all the rain which falls upon it. When it has heated and cooled down in the center, begin at one side and turn it over, putting the outside in the center of the new heap and the decayed manure all around. Move half the pile in this way. Then begin at the other end and proceed in the same way ; thus making two neaps. Place the fresh manure carried out on each side of these heaps and where the old pile stood, and keep it closely piled against them. This will draw the heat to the fresh manure. In the course of time the two heaps are thrown back again into one. This is excellent work to keep one warm in cold weather, better and more healthful than sitting around a stove. Frostbites.?Dr. Lapatin, in the "Proceedings of the Caucassian Medical Society," advises that fingers and toes which have been slightly frostbitten, and which subsequently suffer from burning and itching sensations, should be painted, at first once, unci afterwards twice a day, with a mixture of diluted nitric acid and peppermint water in equal proportions. After this application has been made for three or four days the skin becomes darkened and the epidermis is shed, healthy skin appearing under it. The cure is effected in from ten to fourteen days. The author has found this plan very effectual among soldiers, who were unable to wear their boots in consequence of having had frozen feet. They were in this way soon rendered capable of returning to duty. Farmers Should Head More.?It would be a good thing if farmers would learn that the printing press has become | the leading implement of agriculture and I the great lever promotive of agricultj ural advancement. The only modification ! of the proposition is that it be properly usj ed. However, every other agency and im| plement intended to promote the interest j of the farm may be improperly used as j well. Farmers, especially South Carolina j farmers, should give more time to reading, j The present, seasons affords them a very favorable opportunity, and all should emi brace it. Get books and papers, especially | those devoted to your calling; have them I plentifully about you, for the children like ' such things and will soon become interested in them. fife**-It is useless to say we have entirely a cotton producing country. It is proved every day that there is money in farming, but not in the all cotton farm, liaise all you need on the farm, and then plant several acres of cotton for surplus money. Cotton must be the surplus crop. Iteduce the acreage of cotton one-half and manure and care for your land, and in three years you | will raise equally as much as before the reduction, and not'work as hard. It requires | more labor, care and attention to make a poor crop than a good one.?Marion Cotton ! Plant. fi^g-This is a good motto for all young i farmers: "It is infinitely better to operate a ! one-horse farm on a cash basis, than to ope' rate a large one on a credit. With a small 1 farm, conducted with industry and wisdom, i success is almost certain. With a large farm conducted without a large cash capital, no matter how industrious and wise a ! man may be, failure is almost certain.? 1 /{entree Courier. j finding fflt the $ahhath. | CONDUCTED BY ItEV. ROBERT LATHAK. [Original.] FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. The words faith and belief have a common origin. However different they may look, they mean identically the same thing. The word belief occurs only once, so far as is remembered, in the English translation of the Scriptures. This will be found in II Thessalonians, 2:13. In the Greek it is the same word that is translated two hundred and thirty-four times, faith. To believe means the same thing as to exercise faith. Faith is sometimes said to be belief in testimony. This is a very good definition of faith, but it is not a definition of what faith in Jesus Christ is. All men believe testimony. It is impossible for them to do otherwise. All men have faith. A man without faith would be a man without even the intellectual powers of a brute. Without faith, no transaction of any kind or character could be effected. There could be no planting, no cultivating, and no reaping. Faith isan important factor in every human effort. There are two kinds of faith. The one may be called natural faith, the other religious faith. They have some things in common, or, more correctly, they resemble each other in some respects. Wherever there is an intellect there is natural faith, and wherever there is a moral nature there is religious faith. It is very little of the little that any one knows which he has learned by means of his senses, or thought out by his own powers of reasoning. Only a comparatively few of the human family have ever investigated, or are able to investigate one of a thousand principles which they believe as firmly as they believe the testimony of their senses. All men are moral beings and all men have religious faith?they believe some things which may be classed under the head of the religious. Those persons who worship stones have religious faith, and the fact thatthey worship stones is an evidence of their faith. We may say that it is absurd to suppose that any person can exercise faith in stone.s, but we should reflect that there are multitudes, even in Christian lands, and who lay some claim to be Christians, who place horse shoes above their doors. These persons certainly have faith in something for something. The thing may be absurd, and really is absurd, but still it proves that faith exists, and that it is religious faith. Such things are usually called superstition, and so they are, but superstition cannot exist in a mind destitute of religion. When it is said that all men have faithreligious faith?it is not said that all men have faith in Jesus Christ. This we know is not the case. A large number of the human family never heard of Jesus Christ. These cannot believeon him, because neither natural nor religious faith can be exercised without knowledge. All faith comes by hearing. Many who have heard of Jesus Christ, positively reject him. These do K..,,rv f.iith in him fr?r nlthnncrh faith uui' navu jaiiu in iiiui) ?vi cometh by hearing, we may hear and not believe. Again, many who profess to have faith in Jesus Christ have no correct Scriptural knowledge of his person or his offices. They believe in a Jesus Christ, but not in the Jesus Christ who is revealed in the Scriptures. These hope to be saved, but their hopes are not well founded. In asensethey desire to be saved, and in a sense they expect to be saved, but their desires and expectations?and these constitute their hopes?are only apparently better founded than are the hopes of those who worship gods of their own make. In fact all those who adore a Jesus Christ who is not revealed in the Scriptures, no matter how strong may be their faith, and no matter how devout may be their religious services, are laoiaiers. All men believe?all men must believe. They cannot avoid believing, but all men are not capable of believing in Jesus Christ. No man can believe savingly in Jesus Christ, until he has been "born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Faith in Jesus Christ may be viewed as a power, and as that power in exercise. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came into our world, manifest in the flesh, to save sinners. This is a matter of pure revelation. Neither creation nor providence make any discoveries on this subject. Notwithstanding the ruinous effects of the fall there remains in man enough of intellect to understand that the revelation is from Heaven, and that it makes an offer of salvation to all who will believe on Jesus Christ. That there lived near nineteen centuries ago, a personage who bore, while living, and still bears, the name Jesus Christ, is a historic fact established on historic evidence, no sane man will deny, and consequently all who know the history of JesusChrist believe that there was such a person. This, however, is not faith in JesusChrist. Further, an individual may believe that Jesus Christ is the Saviour, and only Saviour of sinners, but determinedly refuse to accept him as his Saviour. Such a person has no faith in Jesus Christ. He has not the power to accept of him. The power to believe in Jesus Christ is clearly revealed in the Scriptures to be the gift of God. Natural faith is the gift of God and so is the power to believe savingly in Jesus Christ. Natural faith is a gift of creation, or it is a gift bestowed upon man in creation. Faith in Jesus Christ as the saviour of sinners is a gift bestowed by the Holy Spirit in regeneration. All men by nature are dead in trespasses and sins. Those who are quickened into life, or those who are born again, or those who are born j of God are given the power to believe in i Jesus Christ. In its exercise, faith in Jesus Christ is the receiving and resting on him, and on him alone, for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel. The object of faith in Jesus i Christ is always Jesus Christ himself. We ; are not commanded, or exhorted, or entreatj ed to believe that our sins are pardoned and that when we die we will go to Heaven. We are simply commanded to believe in j Jesus Christ and a gracious promise is made ! to us that if we will we shall be saved. A life of faith in Jesus Christ is a life of ' *- > -1 Tocno If UUIi 11II Uill ur^cuuvutc UI1 viuim. J v is not a life of inactivity, but one of continj nous effort in obedience to the revealed will ' of God. It is manifest, on a moment's reflection, i that faith in Jesus Christ is preceded by a I knowledge of him. It is in the nature of I things, impossible to accept of him as a sa! vior, and to rely on him entirely for salvaI tion, until he has been revealed to us by his | word and spirit, lie is clearly revealed in | the Bible, but without the enlightening inI fluencesof the Holy Spirit, he cannot be dis| covered, by the unaided intellect, as the ! chiefest among ten thousand, the one altogether lovely. The influences of the Holy 'Spirit attend the reading of the Bible and j the preaching of the gospel, and by or ! through these, as means, faith is wrought in the soul. Faith in Christ Jesus is the great incentive, not only to labor but also to suffer for the cause of Christ. Faith in Jesus Christ lills the soul with energy which prompts us to undertake great things and j which accomplishes great things. It makes ' the weak strong and the poor rich. With-! out strong natural faith no man ever accom- i plished great things. Possessed of strong ! natural faith men of feeble bodies and lim-1 ited pecuniary means have effected wonders. | They have converted the ocean into a high-; ! way for the commerce of the world?made ' the lightnings of heaven bear their mes-1 sages to the distant portions of the world, ! and secured the shadow of perishable substances as they sped their way to dissolu-1 tion. Faith in Jesus Christ infuses into the soul supernatural vigor. Itconverts old age into vigorous and joyous youth. Impelled by it , the missionary of the cross bids adieu to J the pleasures of home, and proclaims peace ' and pardon, through a crucified Saviour, to a people of a strange tongue. As an instru- j ment in the hands of his master he breaks down the fortified strongholds of Paganism | and plants in lands full of horrid cruelty, ' the gospel of peace. ' IgiSfeHaucous ?catlittg. j For the Yorkville Enquirer. A TALK ABOUT EVOLUTION. I was frequently amused during the ses-! sion of the South Carolina Synod at Ches-j ter, in October last, from the fact that the j Woodrow men were so anxious to keep the I anti-Woodrow men in order, when really i the Woodrow men were the men who were ! out of order and have been for the last j eighteen months, owing to the fact that they have been defending a doctrine which ! does not and cannot exist, either in the ani- j mal or vegetable kingdom, so far as the ere- j alive act is concerned. The etymology of j the word evolution shows that it means only the development of the substance after it is created. For instance the oak is grown from the acorn, owing to the fact, the nature or germ of the oak is in the acorn. So in regard to all seed and grain in the vegetable kingdom. An acorn never has and never can produce an apple tree, nor can an apple seed bring forth an oak tree. Sometimes we find an apparent cross; but in all such cases, it works on the descending scale. The same law holds true in the animal kingdom. Every animal, bird, fish, &c., takes after its kind, and they never increase without sexual intercourse. Cross A. I f 1,1 4.U/x A ing in in is instance wuuiu ue mc ucsuuution of the species, for it would be contrary to nature, because directly opposed to the eternal purpose of God. As we run back in thought, we eome to a period when nothing existed, but infinite space, and the infinite God. Now worlds and creatures almost innumerable exist in this space. In the ^ginning of time, (now near six thousand yeare since, according to the bible account or creation) God threw into this space, the heaven and the earth. How sublime the thought, and how becoming the Almighty God, to behold Him hurling into existence this mighty frame work of nature by the word of His power, in a miraculous manner, and in as little time, as has since been required to call the dead to life. Really, the pigment of evolution could as well be applied to the resurrection of the dead, as to the creation of man at first, or any of the lower animals. By an act of his almighty power God made man of dust (inorganic dust) out of the ground ; to which dust, Adam has long since returned. So that, that dust is to-day as it was before it was formed a human body, and made in God's image, and with its'mother dust it will mingle, until the judgment day, when God will again call it forth a glorified, immortal body. Omnipotence alone is adequate to produce life. Spontaneous generation, like perpetual motion, is a thing unknown. The scientist's search for the one is as vain as the philosopher's labor for the other. If we credit the Bible, in connection with the book of nature, we must admit that every existing living organism has come from a parent, and every original parent came forth at God's command, as he said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so." By the words, "after his kind," we are to understand not oniy mat tne uinereni species of animals were given a distinct and separate existence, but also that that existence was to be perpetrated throughout all time. In virtue of this fact the hypothesis of the transmutation of species is untenable, for not a single instance of such transmutation has ever been verified. As Professor Lionel S. Ileale well remarks, "Notwitstanding all that has been asserted to the contrary, not one vital action has as yet been accounted for by physics and chemistry. The assertion that life is correlated force, rests upon assertion alone, and we are just as far from an explanation of vital phenomena by the force hypothesis as we were before the discovery of the doctrine of the correlation of forces." Man is directly from God, who is the source of all good ; and from the fact that he was made in the likeness of God, he must have been created immediately in a miraculous manner; and I am persuaded that between Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, or Woodrow, on an impartial, or prayerful consideration of the subject, would be compelled to feel that they are maintaining a most improbable conclusion, for it is not in accordance with natural analogy that anything should rise above its own level. No motive-powercan put forth more or other than the energy that is in it. Thus man, who was made but little, lower than thp ano-fils of heaven, could not flow upward from lower sources, but must have relation to some higher creative being. (Yet "the scientific genesis would make him little higher than the apes; the Bible Genesis little lower than the angels.") Sustaining this relation to God, the only creative being, man's body will be raised an immortal body, and inasmuch as God is infinitely holy, the redeemed will forever be putting on more and more of God's likeness, which thing they could not do, if evolution applied to man as the creative power. Nature never contradicts revelation, for God is the author of both. If they were contradictory, it would be making God contradict Himself. God is unchangeable ; he is the same to-day that he was before and at the creation of the world. Hispurpose wasthesame then as it is now. He ever has had in view his own glory and his people's good ; hence he has always favored right, and opposed wrong. By means of the law and the gospel God's attributes and purposes have been made known to man, who is the agent to carry forward his work ; and as such is required to obey both law and gospel. As already stated, every living organism has come from a parent, and since the creation of the first pair of the different kinds of animal species, all increase in the animal kingdom has been caused through sexual intercourse. This is God's method of multiplying on the earth, and as He does multiply, He requires that "everything shall take after its kind." Now, kind reader, look for a moment at the impious theory of evolution and see what a glaring sin has crept into the church, which sin, some in the church have the hardihood to defend. This evolution theory carries you back through unknown ages, and at some period in the infinite past began its work of populating the world, which work, it is claimed has been completed by the gradual development of the animal species, along down the line of ages, until finally the ape (or monkey) developed into the man. This theory is evideptly opposed to the standards of the Presbyterian church, to the word and purpose of God, and virtually makes him guilty of the sin of Modonuj; for this development could only be brought about by carnal intercourse between the different species of animals. This intercourse is sinful; it is forbidden by God, and called down his judgment on those committing it, and will ever expose all those who countenance it to the wrath and curse of the Almighty. Well may our soul stand aghast when we see members of Chrst's kingdom advocating the doctrine that this was God's method of creation at first, when if it had been his plan then, it would be yet, lor God is unchangeable ami cannot sin. And further, in regard to God's plan of creation, when Noah entered the Ark, God * 1 ' /t.tAMtf 11 ?t t rt ri? eommanuea mm 10 iuku ui c?uj uv...6i tiling of all flesh, two of every sort shall thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female." We see from this scripture, that the male and female of every living thing, both clean and unclean, were gathered into the ark for the purpose of re-peopling the earth. God can never change his plan or purpose. Evolution does away with God's power to work miracles; hence it would require ages to gather the dead to the judgment, when on the contrary, the Bible plainly teaches, that the dead will rise at the blast I of the judgment trump. The Bible was not written as a book of! science, but as a revelation, bearing on the character and destiny of man ; hence the j great truths of religion are to be received by faith. That which is susceptible of demonstration can never be an object of faith, it seems plain to the writer that all who i support the theory of evolution must discredit revelation; for this theory attributes i every miracle to natural causes. If the j miracles of the Bible were not miraculous, then the Bible becomes a blank, for if one part is rejected, this virtually makes the whole null and void. If such teaching as this is the result of a chair in a theological seminary, ouropiu ion is, not only ought the occupant to bo removed, but the chair should he kicked out after him. I hope I say this with the spirit of kindness and love; yet feeling it to be a duty to defend the truth. I am not surprised to find error in the church, but I am atnazed to see wise men advocating a doctrine which has already disturbed the peace, and probably may bring about the dissolution of the Southern Presbyterian Church. God can bring order out of confusion ; yet let those fear who bring about needless confusion. "It must needs be that offences come, but woe unto that man by whom they come." W. W. ItATCNFOUI). Social Life in Early New England. The grade in social life, which was largely a name, was shown most in the meeting house. The seating of families and the as? c - ^ A :?: signing ui pews was uuc m inc must (.mucult tilings. The minister arid deacon were nearest the pulpit. The boys and colored people were assigned the back pews or those in the gallery. This idea of "social dignity" was brought from the old country, but gave way in the growing oneness of life in America. The days of the early New Englander, were not all dark. There was much of the austere in them, but there was also a grain of mirth and cheerfulness. We must bear in mind that the clergymen wore the early historians of the country; and they put much gloom in their writings. The New England inn was a place of great resort. In the poverty of newspapers, people came here to gain what news there might be. The innholder was a leading man in the community. He got the news from the driver and passengers of the ?tage coach, and of the travelers who chanced to be passing through town. The innholder knew the public men of the country, for they had partaken of his sumptuous dinners and had lodged at his inn. If the walls of these ancient New England taverns could talk what stories would they tell, notof the debauches alone, hut in the dark and stirring days, of patriotic and loyal sentiments and deeds, whose influence*went out for the founding of the nation and the perpetuity of the blessings of freedom. He who strives to know of early New England must not look alone to the learning, character and influence of its ministers, but to the manners, life and influence of the innholders. Do Amateurs Make good Workmen*? A machinist in The Mechanical Engineer thinks they do not. He says a failing common to all amateurs or non-professional workers is too great haste. It matters not whether they are amateur machinists, or carvers, or painters, or amateurs in any handicraft, the same weakness affects them all. The amateur wishes to see how his work will look when it is done, and he cliorhtc thp nrpliminnrv nrnfpss and hastens toward the final one, with the result of making a botch of the business in hand. "If I were asked what were the most necessary qualifications for a successful amateur, I would say patience and perseverance. Rarely do amateurs make good workmen, and it is most frequently for want of these virtues."?Scientific American. A Victim of Compulsory Education*. "Let us hev compulsion'ry edyeation," writes a gentleman who has been elected to the Legislature. "Ef it hadenter been fur that sorter larnin' i woulder bin till yit in the Ilowlin' backwoods of ignunce. i am in favur of passin' a bill in that thar direckshun, fur we is needin' edyeation in this heah lan' uv ourn. i am edicated now but uster wa'n't."?Arkansas Traveler. YORKV8LLE ENQUIRER. Prospectus lor 1886. A BUGGY AND TWO CASH PREMIUMS! TX issuing our prospectus for 188(3, we deem it only necessary to announce that the leading features which have characterized the editorial aonduet of the Yorkville Enquirer for more than a quarter of a century will be retained, and what it has been in the past will be an assurance of what it shall be in the future. The leading departments of the paper will be retained as heretofore, and they will be conducted with the same labor and care that have marked our efforts in the past. The Sabbath Department, which, under the control of Rev. Dr. Lathan, has been an interesting feature of the Enquirer for seventeen years, will he continued. While the Lit\fiiji.nl 1 annnnu fnntiirna nf thn V.V quiker will be kept up to the standard which has given the paper a distinctive character, careful attention will also be given to the News department, which will embrace a record of the leading events at the State and National Capitals; Congressional and Legislative proceeding; "Scraps and Facts," being a hotch-potch of light current topics; a eompend of the News Abroad and at Home; General Correspondence; Market Reports ; Local, County and State News; Editorial Articles upon appropriate subjects intended to promote the welfare and prosperity of our State and people, which will, we trust, continue to render the Enquirer a welcome and entertaining Family Journal. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION-FREE OF POSTAGE. Single copy, one year, ?2.50 Two copies, one year, 4.00 One copy, two years 4.00 Premiums to Club-Makers. To club-makers for the approaching volume, we oflcr THREE PREMIUMS for the three largest clubs, as follows : For the largest club, ONE BREWSTER SIDE-BAR PIANO-BOX BODY TOP BUGGY, with leather quarters, leather cushions, full leather trimmings, silver rail around seat, double perch and well ironed. The Buggy is of standard grade, of the latest style and is valued at ?75.00. For the second largest club, a Cash Premium of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. For the third largest club, a Cash Premium of FIFTEEN DOLLARS. The Buggy premium will be delivered to the successful competitor, at the Enquirer office, free of charge for freight. CONDITIONS. The three Premiums mentioned above will be awarded on the following conditions : The person getting up the largest club of yearly subscribers to the Enquirer, at ?2.00 per annum, for each subscriber, will be entitled to the first choice of one of the above Premiums ; the person getting up the second largest club, at the same price, to the second choice; the person getting up the third largest club, to the third choice. The time for completing clubs under the above offer is limited to 1 o'clock P. M., on the SECOND MON DAY OF MARCH, 18SG. Competitors may begin to secure subscribers at once?the time of subscription to commence whenever the name is handed in. The money for each subscriber is expected to be paid at the time the name is entered upon our books, and no name will be counted in competition fora premium until thesubseription price ii;iM uueu puiu. To persons who make up chilis of ten or more names, hut who may fail to obtain a premium, wo will send the ExqtrinRit one year free of charge; and to those who send a Club of twenty or more names, but who may fail to get a premium, we will forward the Knqitikku one year free of charge, and a copy, one year, of any weekly newspaper or monthly magazine published in the United States, the publication to be selected by the person entitled to receive it. It is not necessary that the names of a club should all be at the same post-office. Names may bo taken at any number of places. One name for two years will be equivalent to two names for one year each. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letteror money order drawn on the Yorkville post-office. In sending names, write plainly, giving county, post-office and State. * All subscriptions will bo discontinued at the expi ration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so that the number sent by any 0110 person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. Persons who commence making clubs, will not be permitted, after the names have been entered on our books, to transfer the names to another club-maker's list. fiO* The time in which additions maybe made to clubs under this proposition, will expire on the SECOND MONDAY OF MARCH, 188*5. Therefore, persons who desire the benefit of club rates, must subscribe and pay for the paper before that date, as after the expiration of that time it will not be furnished for less than ?2.f>0 unless new clubs are formed. All letters should bo addressed to Ii. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. v . GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of w IRON ROOFING CHIRPED AXI) CORRUGATED SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS 4C., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 May 10 /y FOlTIfDKY AND Machine Shop. THE umlersignc:l would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on i his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY I ANI) MACHINESIIOP, in which he is prepared ! to do all manner of work in light iron and hrass castings, and general machine work. KEPAIROG, I f\r oil twnmnfiv /IAnn i-\n ?hnrt nOfi(?P. I Steam Engines, anA agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, any | class of work that may be wanted in his shop, he | will attend any call for repairing stationary enI gines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the engine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. | c7 &TTnarrow gauge railroadSCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. taking ell'ect at 112 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, February 7th, 188<L GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir '>.00 A. M. Arrive at Hudsonville,8 <>.24 A. M. Arrive at Lovelady,8 0.40 A. M. Arrive at Hickory," 7.10 A. M. Leave Newton...?. 8.05 A. M. Arrive at Maiden,9 8.33 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 0.10 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's8 0.43 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 10.07 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 10.23 A. M. Leave Gastonia 10.40 A. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek,8 11.07 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 11.30 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 12.03 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.25 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville,9 12.53 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville,* 1.30 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.25 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 4.55 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.30 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 5.55 P. M. Leave Yorkville <>.10 P. M. Arrive at Clover, <>.45 P. M. Arrive at C'rowder's Creek 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 7.40 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.55 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.11 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 8.35 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 0.00 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 0.40 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 10.05 P. M. Leave Hickory, 10.50 P. M. Arriveat Lovelady 11.20 P. M. Arrive at Hudsonville 11.37 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 12.01 A. M. * Flag Station. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. February 18 7 tf JOBPRINTllVG. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and first-class appointments throughout our otlice, we are prepared to execute all manner of JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which we invito the attention of business men : BILL IIEAWS. For 500 For 100" Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.30 $0.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet oill heads. We will till an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note, $2.15 $3,25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) ; 3.00 5.00 For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instance. We also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exorcise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Aauress, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING. HIGH ARM, 11 IKTexv Howe " j ^ WHICH IS THE BEST SEWING MACHINE EVER MADE. 1CALL special attention to the following features : The NEW IJOWE is a new machine throughout, differing in every point from the machines heretofore manufactured by the company. The needle is self-setting. It has the most room under the arm; the perfect Howe stitch; no holes to thread, except the needle; the easiest shuttle to thread ; the most perfect take up ; the loose balance-wheel; the largest bobbin ; absolutely no vibration; the most perfect tension. It is the lightest running; noiseless, and the most pleasing in appearance. Prices within the reach of all. Call and get a descriptive circular, and see the machine, which is always on exhibition at my Photographic nanery. PHOTOGRAPHY. T would inform the public that I am yet making PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles. Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of pictures. Pictures by the photographic process enlarged, and all work done in the best style of the art at reasonable prices. Gallery on* West Liberty street, near the jail. J. R. SCHORR. I "OUR WORM IX THE WAR." TWO or three years ago the publishers of the Charleston Week!// News and Courier con| ceived the idea that the women of the South could, if they were given the opportunity, write some interesting sketches of home life during the war, and requested dill'erent ladies of several of the Southern States, particularly Virginia, South Carolinaand Georgia, to contribute articles on the subject. The result was that SEVENTYNINE sketches were published in the paper and such great interest was manifested in them that after the series had been completed the publishers decided to issue them in book form. This was done, and the result is a handsome volume of 4S2 pages, printed on good white paper and bound in cloth. The book is one of unusual interest and should be read bv every one. especially those who experienced the many trials and* sufferings gone through by the women and children of the South during the war. Call at the ENQUIRER OFFICE and seethe book. The price is only $1.00 which places it within the reach of all. SAM M. GRIST. February 11 tl tf CHATTEL MORTGAGES, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to ' Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. OFING COMPANY, , hJP IRON ORE PAINT And Cement, 152 TO 158 MERWIN STREET Cleveland, O. 'va Send for Circular and Price F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. !' ly TOWNSHIP ELECTION. Slate of South Carolina?York County. Offick County Commissioners York County, February Oth, 1880. NOTICE is liereby given to all whom it may concern, that at a special meeting of the Hoard of County Commissioners for said County, this day held, a proper petition was presented from a majority of the freehold voters of York township, resident therein, as follows : "Statu of S. Carolina?County of York. To the Honorable the County Commissioners of York County: The undersigned, qualified voters of the township of York, and freeholders therein, respectfully petition: "That, in accordance with the Act of the General Assembly incorporating the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, and the several amendments thereof, your Honorable Body will order an election to beheld at the election precincts in the township of York, specifying the time, places and purpose of such election, and appoint managers therefor. That at such election you will submit to the qualified vntoi-s nf said townshin of York, the question of subscription bv said township of York, of tho sum of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS to the Capital Stock of the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, or such other railroad in which the said Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad may be embraced or form a nart; IN SEVEN PER CENT. COUPON v BONDS, payable twenty-live years after the date thereof: the funds realized from said Bonds to be expended exclusively in the construction of said Railroad from Black's, (or King's Mountain, N. C.,) by the most practicable route to Yorkville ; thence to Rock Hill, or direct to Rocky Mount, and to be Broad or Standard Gauge. The Bonds to be executed and delivered under such further conditions as maybe agreed upon between the County Commissioners, as agents of the said township of York, and the said Railroad Company." And after duly considering the same, a resolution was adopted to submit to the qualified voters of York township, at an election to be held / AT YORKVILLE, in said township, the question of subscribing to the capital stock of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company (formerly called the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company) the sum of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS by said township, in coupon bonds of said township, of the denomination of one hundred, five hundred and one thousand dollars, to be due in twenty-five years from the date of their issue; said bonds to bear interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be paid annually or semi-annually as may be agreed upon, at the office of the Treasurer of York county, or at such bank in the City of New York as may be agreed upon between the parties, that is to say", thesaid Railroad Company and this Board as representing said township. " And it is conditioned that said bonds shall be delivered in exchange at par valuation, for an equal amount _A ol the stock of said railroad company in the following manner, that is to say : That when the said Railroad Company shall notify the Chairman of this Board, that the said Railroad Company has accepted the said subscription to the capital stock aforesaid, (upon the terms and conditions specified in this order, and notice by the County Commissioners, as Agents of said township), then it shall be thedutv of the said Board to subscribe the sum specified, viz.: SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, to the capital stock of the aforenamed Railroad Company, and to superintend and direct the execution and engraving of said bonds so subscribed, and to have the same deposited in a Trust Company, acceptable alike to the said Railroad Company and to the said Board of Commissioners; and thereupon the said Railroad Company shall deliver to said Trust Company for the County Commissioners, as Agents of said township, : Certificates of Stock of said Railroad Company, or authenticated Scrip representing said stock, to the full amount of said subscription. But it is expressly provided that said Bonds "< j shall not commence" to bear interest until delivered by said Trust Company to said Railroad I Company; and they shall not be delivered to said Railroad Company except in the following | manner, and upon tfie following other conditions : The bonds, representing the sum subscribed, shall be delivered to said Railroad Company in pro rata parts as said road, ot standard or Droao j gauge, shall be completed, with track laid as follows, viz.: When the track is laid and the railroad is ready for operation from Black's to Yorkville, fifty thousand dollars, par value of said bonds, shall be delivered by said Trust Company to said Railroad Company ; and when the track is laid to the line of said township, going Southward, the remaining twenty-five thousand dollars of said bonds shall be likewise delivered. N and scrip or stock shall be delivered by said Trust Company to correspond in amount of bonds delivered as aforesaid. Provided, however, that the line of said Railroad from Black's to Yorkville, shall conform to the survey for said road, made in December, 1885, known"as the direct route, said Company beingpratiownd to diverge Southwest of said line not more "tban two miles from any point thereon, and North-east of said line not"more than four miles from any point thereon, if deemed necessary by said Company. Provided, further, That the proceeds of the "bonds so subscribed shall be expended in the construction of said Railroad in York township. Said road, when completed, to forever remain and be operated asa public highway through said township and county. Provided,' further, That said Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company shall have no control over the bonds so subscribed, except by and with the consent of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company, the parties constructing said railroad. It is therefore, Ordered, by the said Board, that this notice and order shall be advertised in the Yorkville Enquirer, published in Yorkville, for thirty days prior to the election herein provided for. " That the polls be opened and that an election be held at Yorkville election precinct in said township on SATURDAY, the 13th day of MARCH next, at which said election the electors of said township may vote for or against said subscription, pursuant to the laws governing general elections, under managers duly appointed and qualified to conduct and hold said election and to make returns of the results thereof. At said election all persons voting who shall favor the proposal to subscribe to the capital stock of said company as herein provided and conditioned, shall vote 011 written or printed ballots with the word "SUBSCRIPTION" thereon ; and all persons voting who may oppose said proposal to subscribe, shall vote 011 a like ballot with the words "NO SUBSCRIPTION" thereon. And if it shall appear from the return of said election that a majority of the qualified voters t of said township have voted in favor of said subscription, it shall be the duty of said Board of Commissioners to make said subscription as herein provided. Messrs. Walter T. Barron, John F. Oates and J. Robert Lindsay, are hereby appointed managers to hold said election. Tliev will maketheir return of said election to this Board, at Yorkville, 011 Mondav, the 15th day of March next, at 11 o'clock A. M. * JOSEPH N. STEELE, j ,.nnntv JAMES B. ALLISON, ?r, R. W. WHITESIDES,) * omm,s lf>February 11 (> 5t $14,000 WANTED. Office of County Commissioners, Yorkville, S. C., February <>, 1880. "VTOTICE is hereby given that in accordance with an Act authorizing the County Commissioners to borrow a sum of money equal to one third of the taxes levied for"county purposes for 1880, upon a pledge of the entire taxes so levied, the Board desires, upon said security, to borrow FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS," to be payable January 1st, 1887, with interest from the day of the loan, at SEVEN per cent, per annum. Sums on this loan will bo received in any amount from one hundred dollars upward. By order of thfi Board. JAS. B. ALLISON, Clerk. February 11 <> tf ?hc f orfeviUe #nquim. 4 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, 8 2 50 For six months, 1 25 For three months, 75 Two copies one year, 4 00 Ten copies one year 20 00 And an extra copy for a club of ten. 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