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lumorous fjepattment. Cooked for the Patient.?Old Dr. Hewston was distinguished for philanthropy. The doctor carried his diploma in his nat, and his conscience in his hand. On one occasion the doctor had a case of malignant typhoid fever. He prescribed rest and nourishment for his patient. "Give Dan plenty of chicken. He must have more nourishment." "Shall I kill a chicken ?" "Yes, you'd better kill a young rooster; broil it well and add plenty of butter. Patients with typhoid fever like pleuty of gravy." Dan's wife killed, dressed and cooked a fine chicken. "That's about right," said the doctor, who was suDerintendinff the iob. as he envious ly eveS the chicken. "Dan, how are you feeling?" "First rate, doctor, first rate." "Let me feel your pulse ?" Dan extended Jiis hand and arm. "You are more feverish than usual. I just ordered your wife to broil a fine chicken, but you can't eat it; you are too feverish." "What shall we do, doctor ?" anxiously inquired the wife. "I see no way out of the difficulty but to eat the chicken ourselves. I once suffered from typhoid fever myself, madam." Badly Left-Handed.?Two friends were at a musical concert. One of them remarked: "The violinist I see is left handed." "Yes, I see, but not very badly, I should think." "Badly ? Why, you don't mean to say that there are degrees in left handedness?" "Of course I do." "I didn't know that." "It's a fact, nevertheless. This fiddler seems to get along very well, at least, he acts all right. Tell you what's a fact. I knew a man once who was so badly lefthanded that he couldn't eat with his right hand." "What?" "It's a fact. He used his left hand for everything. Why, he couldn't sleep with his right hand." "You are foolish." "No, I'm stating a fact." "Couldn't eat nor sleep with his right hand ?" "That's what I said." "Why?" "Didn't have a right hand." A Monstrous Time.?"You do not look well," said the governor of Arkansaw, addressing an old fellow who had iust arrived from the northwestern part of the State. "No, I am bad off. I never had such a spell o' sickness sense the day I wasbornd." "Malaria?" "No, governor, not malaria. I don't mind malaria. Why malaria is fun for me, but the caper that struck me about three months ago came nigh blowin' out my taller dip. Ef it hadn't been for the fact that I am so humpshouldered I would have been gone." "What difference did that make ?" "Well, you see, I was tuck down with miningitis. Its game is to pull a man's head back. With me it was impossible. You never seed such a struggle in your life. Sometimes after a long pull the infernal thing would spit on its hand an' go at it agin, and I would brace myself an' grin. Oh, we had a monstrous time."?Arkansaw Traveller. Pretty Rough on New Jersey.?Calling at a wayside slab-house in the hill region of Arkansas, the sun-bonneted mistress very cheerfully granted a traveler's request for dinner; but a similar petition on behalf of his horse met with the reply: "Jes' go and see my old man; he's out thar in the bahn." The traveler soon returned with the report that no such person was to be found. "No one was there but an old nigger milking a cow." "Well, stranger, that's my husband." The stranger, in his amazement, burst out with: "That nigger your husband ? It seems to me that a likely woman like you might have done better than that!" "Wall, I dunno," said the woman, looking up reflectively from the frying bacon ; "I dunno, my kin kind o' think I've done pretty well.- My sister married a New Jersey man." Where our Courts Have No Jurisdiction.?She had quarreled with him, and he left her and married somebody else after the engagement had been pending some time. He was wealthy, and she was mad and vindictive. She consulted a lawyer. "Did you tell him to get out?" asked the lawyer. "iso; l oniy ioiu mm 1 never wuuieu iu see him again." "Did you say that the engagement was at an end?" "No; I only said that I would not marry him." Hum. Did he ever promise you should l>e his wife ?" A million times. He plighted his faith to me three times a week for a year. He stole my young affections. I tell you, I am his wife in the sight of heaven." "Humph, I'm afraid, Miss the courts have no jurisdiction in that case."? Francisco Chronicle. A Congressman's Wind.?Half a dozen men in a saloon in Nipandtuck, the other night, were trying to blow out a candle ten feet distant, but all failed. Presently a genteelly dressed gentleman entered the room and offered to bet fifty dollars that he could extinguish the candle twelve feet distant. The bet was promptly taken, the genteely dressed man blew out the candle at the first effort, pocketed the money, took a drink, and then left the barroom loafers looking ateach other in blank astonishment. "Who in the dickens is this 'ere feller, 1 .... 1 1 i.U ? Uk...~OJ .. k r. Ko<l anynow : w queritru me uum ?uu nau lost the bet. "Don't you know him ?" said the barkeeper. "Why, that feller is an Indiana Congressman and goes around to the county fairs and wins money by blowing the bottoms out of lung-testers! It's no use to bet against his wind, boys!" Wanted ax Emblem.?Uncle Abraham, over on Chatham street, was speaking to an acquaintance the other day about putting an emblem over the door of his store. "I'd put a'bee-hive," suggested the man." "Vot does pee-hife shtand for?" "For industry." "Oh, dot vhas all nonsense. Dot doan't show people dot I sell a $14 suit for $8." "I know, but the bee is a worker." "Yes, but dot doan't do. Eferyboty vhas a worker. Industry vhas all right, but if somebody tjmes back mit a pair of pants dot shrink oop eighteen inches, dot peehife doan' oxplain dot dis vhas a singular climate on pants." "Who is that old duffer?" asked a' new groceryman of the milkman, as a well- { dressed man went by. "Why, he is one of our most trusted citi-1 zens," was the eloquent reply. "How do you make that out?" "He has I been owing me a bill ever since I came ! here." That's^ust how we made it out," laugh- j ed the milkman, gleefully, and the grocery-: man scratched his head till he caught on.? Merchant Traveller. Calm Neutrality.?"How does your father seem to regard my coming here ?" ! anxiously asked Adolphus of little Bobby, i while Miss Maud was upstairs getting ready to present herself. "I guess he don't care nothing about it," ! replied Bobby, carelessly. "So he has no objections, eh ? But what did he say, my little man?" "He said if Maud was a mind to make a fool of herself, why let her." IST Popular Concerts in Chicago: Prof. Wienerachnitzei?"I vas going to gif me a , penefit goncert. Could I sold you a few tickets? Von dollar each." Victim?"Yes; you may give me ten tickets." Prof. W?. "Veil, I tell you vot I do. You gif me fife dollars unt I vont gif me no goncert. Den ve both make money; aint it . ?San Fran- ( oixco Chronicle. UlisceUaueons gUadiug. j CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS IN LIFE. In a recent address before the Georgia ; State Medical Association, I)r. Searcy stated that the physiological conditions of success in life depend mainly upon a vigorous, healthy action of the brain and nervous system. It follows, therefore, that the structural integrity and functional capacity of the brain are matters of the deepest importance, and their preservation and improvement are of vital moment. The author believes that much would be accomplished, could we discover the ways in which the brain capacity is increased and lowered. The problem is a most delicate one, for up to a certain point the receptivity of the brain is dirpr>Mv nrnnnrtinnal to the strain already brought to W\r upon its capacities. An even balance between the brain functions is an essential element. The superior man must have the ability, not only to comprehend,'but, in equal degree, to discriminate; he must be able to select for a purpose. Beside the ability to learn, a man, to be successful, needs the power to verify his learning, to deduce his own conclusions, and to execute his purposes with persistence. A simply erudite man is not necessarily successful. On the contrary, he is often the reverse, a perfect failure, for lack of the saving virtue of common sense. The capacity to receive is of small value unless it be coupled with an ability to adjust, arrange, and impart. It frequently happens that a man who is simply a scholar and nothing else is at an absolute disadvantage in the presence of an unlettered man who is blessed with an inherent excellence of capacity in these departments of brain action. One need not be educated to possess this trait, though it is the addition of education to such natural gifts that brings distinction. It is not an exaggeration to say i that many a man of eminence has had occasion to envy his humbler associates the possession of thoseso-called commoner merits which would have given his own attainments a greater availability. Nature apparently requires a certain amount ot the concrete to maintain the mental equipoise. The man who can learn, reason and execute with equal facility possesses the elements of success, etfen though his qualities be of but an inferior order; while one who has any of these faculties abnormally developed at the expense of the others will always be crippieu oy uie auseuue ui mc ^uum features of a successful life. Hints About Steam Boilers?"There are many things, said the manager of a successful boiler-making company "about a perfect steam boiler which the average person does not know. Of course it is not expected that he should. A boiler, to be perfect, has to be simple in construction, and it should have a constant and thorough circulation of water so as to mantain all parts *at one temperature. It should be provided with a!mud-drum to receive all the impurities deposited from the water, in a place removed from the action of the fire. It should be supplied with a combustion chamber so arranged that the combustion of the gases commenced in the furnace may be completed before they escape to the chimney. All parts should be readily accessible for cleaning and repairs, because safety and economy depend upon it. The heating surface should be arranged as nearly as possible at right angles to the currents of heated gases and so break up the j currents as to extract the entire available heat therefrom. The boiler should have a large water surface for the disengagement - 11? -A ? iW ^ In nHOtmnt cu ine sieam lrum me n mci iv/ pitmn foaming. "Besides these it should havea large and free passage between the different sections to equalize the water line and pressure in all. It should have a steam and water capacity sufficient to prevent sudden fluctuations in pressure on water level, and have no joints exposed to the direct action of the fire. There ought to be a great excess of strength over any regular strain. The water space should "be divided into sections so that if any section gave out no general explosion could occur and the destructive ef-j fects would be confined to the simple escape of the contents. It should be provided with the very best gauges, safety valves and other fixtures. "According to good authority, explosions j are the effect of weakening of the iron by i strains due to unequal expansion caused by i excessive heating of different portions of: the boiler. Frequently they are caused by j corrosion from long use or impropersetting. 1 If steam boilers are properly proportioned j and constructed, they will, when new, be safe against considerably more pressure than the safely valve is set to; but against j the dangers resulting from unequal expansion ordinary boilers have no protection, a fact not properly appreciated by either engineer or the public." His Owx Stitches.?Chief-Justice Mans field, said to friend, who, having been appointed Governor of West India island, complained that he would have to sit as a judge. "Decide according to your common-sense, but don't give your reasons, for I have noticed that your judgment is generally right, but your reasons are usually wrong." Mr. Webster once in conversation went further than Lord Mansfield. He insisted that a witness might give valuuable testimony, and yet be unable to support it by a good reason. In support of his assertion, he told this anecdote. In a case of great importance, a tailor whose evidence would decide the verdict, affirmed that he had made the coat which had been produced in court for the prisoner. { The prisoner's counsel tried to create a doubt as to the identity of the coat, and asked the tailor how he knew it was the coat. "Why, I know it my by stitches, of, course." "Are your stitches longer than those of j other tailors?" "Ob, no." "Are they shorter?" "No, not a bit shorter." "Any thing peculiar about them?" "I don't believe there is." "How dare you, then, swear that they are yours?" The witness was silent for a moment?the question seemed to have perplexed him,? and then, throwing up his hands, he ex-1 claimed,? "Mercy on us! As if I didn't know my own stitches!" The jury believed him and his testimony convicted the prisoner. Mr. Webster insisted that the jury were right, and said "The fact is, we continually build our judgment upon details too fine! for distinct cognizance. And these nice shades are trustworthy, though we can give no good account of them." How Chewing Affects the Nerves. High medical authority is responsible for the statement that in temperate ana coia i countries tobacco creates thirst, and thereby | encourages drinking habits; in tropical j climes it has no such effect on the smoker, | and the taste for alcohol rarely follows its! use in those latitudes. Very eminent ob- j servers have, indeed,attributed the proverb-; ial sobriety of eastean peoples to the use of! tobacco. There are important qualifications having reference to the smoker himself and his surroundings, and modifying the effects of his indulgence in such a manner as irresistibly suggest the old proverb: "One man's food is another man's poison." But, further, the effects vary according to the method of consumption ; and here we touch a question of great interest, bearing upon several stimulant narcotics, and that j is the question of chewing. All solid foods undergo this process in the mouth, and of, our chief products, tobacco, coca, opium and betel are also chewed. The act of chew- j ing powerfully affects the nerves of the | mouth, being branches of the fifth pair of nerves, and in close connection with the brain. While it has long been understood that certain nerves in the mouth excite, when stimulated by food, the pleasureable sensations of taste, it is a more recent discovery that the chewing of solids produces through the fifth nerve certain stimulant impressious upon the nervous centres. One of the consequent efforts is a quickened circulation in the brain. What light this throws upon the habit of chewing the world over! SST Rabbits damage Australia to the extent of $10,000,000 per year. Wolves could hardly do worse. 1 Che Jtorn SfHer.. I A BARONESS CAUGHT. | now HER ARDENT ADMIRER ARRESTED j AND MARRIED HER. A handsome, well-dressed lady was strolling past the stores on one of the fashionable streets of Paris inspecting the contents of the show windows after the manner of women, particulary those which contained fashionable dresses and hats, referring of course to the show window, not to the ladies. A little gentleman, also well dressed, followed her. In fact one might say he pursued her. Every once in awhile he would stop, and gaze on the lady with undisguised admiration and an eye-glass, and sigh as if he had been eating large quantities of unripe fruit. As soon as the lady saw him, an expression of disgust and rage nimr hor linnrknmp fpnflltvic hastily entered one of the stores, closing the door after her with a bang that sounded like an imprecation. "Don't imagine, dearest, that you can escape me," said the little man, who had followed her into the store. "What do you wish?" asked the storekeeper of the lady. "I wish you would protect me from the impertinence of this man, who follows me wherever I go." "If I annoy you, madame," said the little man, you have no one but yourself to blame for it. It is not my fault. Everything in the world must have a beginning, and so must our personal acquaintance." "That, sir is a very stupid joke," said the lady, scornfully. "I never joke, madame. Please listen to me for a few minutes," he said persuasively. "1 desire this scandalous scene to come to an end." "So do I. Will you be kind enough to take my arm, and I will accompany you to your residence, orany where. Oh, I could be happy with you in a desert!" "But, sir, I don't know you." "That's what distresses me. All that I ask is for you to give me a chance to become acquainted with you. For your own sake madame, take my arm; I'd offer you my hanri ton if f thought vnu would tflke it. and my heart, too." "You are an impudeut fool. I shall not take your arm." "That's what I expected you to say," replied the little man with a sigh, "but, thank Heaven ! I can compel you to listen to what I h'ave to say. I shall simply call on the police " "To return you to the asylum for the feeble minded, from which you are no doubt a fugitive, or perhaps it is the jail from which you have made your escape, for you look as much like a villain as you do like a fool, which is saying a great deal," said the lady, her face wreathed with contempt. "Why do you propose to send for the police?" asked the proprietor of the store. "The lady will tell you why," said the little man. "Do not allow her to leave the store until I return, or you will be held responsible by the authorities. I will go for a policeman and a hack. Once more', madame, will you take my arm, and return to your residence, or shall I go for the police. It is positively your last chance. 'So long as the lamp holds out to burn the prettiest sinner mav return.' as the noet suvs. Re turn with me to your residence." The anger and astonishment of the lady knew no bounds. She glared at the audacious little man, aud hissed "No!" with a big N. After once more warning the store-keeper not to lose sight of the lady, the little man went out. Everybody present was paralysed with astonishment. The lady said that she was Baroness Z, and lived on the Rue de Paradis. She was about to leave the store when the little man reappeared with a policeman. "Policeman, I authorize you to arrest that i lady," said the little man. "Policeman, I want you to arrest that puppy who has been insulting and annoying me i on the street," exclaimed the Baroness. "Madame, you must go with me to the station house," said the policeman. "But I am the Baroness Z, and have not done anything." "That's what they all say. When we get to the station house you must tell the police justice all about it. This gentleman accuses you of theft." "Theft!" exclaimed the lady. "Yes, theft," replied the policeman, smiling cynically, "but please don't make a scene. One person likes absinthe, another has a weakness for cigars, and you probably have a penchant for emptying the pockets of strangers." "This is infamous!" exclaimed the lady, "I am Baroness Z, and if you will accompany me to my residence I will convince you of your mistake and pay you for your trouble," said the Baroness. "Ah! an attempt to corrupt the officers of justice. I'll put you on my little list." "Now, Maaame, the hack is in waiting at the door," said the little man. There was nothing to do but obey. The look the Baroness gave the little man was enough to frighten a lion, but he only sighed and shook his head, as much as to say, "this is a tough world." The Police Justice seemed to be a very nice gentleman. He had just dined and was in the best humor imaginable. On seeing the Baroness he smiled and bowed. He had so much to do with people who had been run over on the streets, drunken rowdies, disreputable women and such canaille, that he was pleased to see some apparently respectable criminals patronize his court. Taking his seat on the judicial throne, he asked pleasantly what was the nature of the case. The little man and the Baroness sprang to their feet. They addressed the chair simulneously, and with considerable show of emotion, particularly the insulted baroness. Judge?Don't both speak at once. Which of you is the complainant? The Gentleman?I am. The Baroness?I am. Judge?That is impossible. Policeman, which of the parties applied to you first. Policeman?The gentleman did, your Honor. The Judge?Now, sir, you have the floor. Madame, you will allow the gentleman to state his case. The Baroness sits down with a gesture of despair, me nine genuemuu uows iu me court, clears his throat, and asks: "Has your Honor ever been in love?" Judge?1 might reply to that question that it was none of your business, but I do not blush to acknowledge that on several occasions I have been under the influence of the tender passion. Complainant?Then your Honor will comprehend to some extent the suffering that I have undergone. About two months ago I recovered from a dangerous, and, what might have been a fatal illness. My physician said I needed a change of air and amusement. I lived at that time in the Boulevard de Tophet, so I moved to the Itue de Paradis. My greatest pleasure was to look out of my window every morning and witness the awakening of Aurora. Baroness?Your Honor, he lies. He did not bother himself in the least about the rising sun. It was me that he stared at like the escaped lunatic that he is. For the past two months I have not been able to look out of my window without being subjected to the impudent glances of that wretched little caricature of a man, whom your Honor allows to air his insolence in your court. "0, you wretch !" and the Baroness grit I her teeth and shook her head at the com-j plainant, who sighed. "Proceed," said the Judge. Complainant?What the lady says is to some extent true. Yes, I conless I feasted my eyes on her peerless beauty. My physician told me that I needed something to divert my mind from the cares of business. That is my excuse. After awhile it became a positive necessity for me to stand at my window. O, what a lovely vision it was! j How beautiful she is! but your Honor can | see for yourself. Isn't she a daisy ? Judge?Please confine yourself to the case, j young man. I have been there myself, so ! to speak, but the rules of the court do not j Eermit you to elaborate so much. You ave the sympathies of the court, but be brief. I Complainant?I neglected my business, I' shut myself up in my room, and I lived only for her. How often did I resort to strategy to communicate with my lovely tormentor! I sent her letters breathing of love from my window. I saw her tear them to pieces, and scatter them to the winds of heaven. I sent her flowers, almost as fresh and beautiful as her lovely lips and eyes, and next morning I saw my bouquets in the trash barrel amid dead cats, cold hash and like defiris. Judge?Poor, unfortunate young man ! Complainant?Well may your Honor say that I am unfortunate. The sympathy of this Honorable Court is balm to my bruised and bleeding heart. Soon people will read on my sad tombstone: "Iiere lies a poor young man who perished of unrequited love. lie could move police justice, but he could not move the cruel object of his affections." Judge?Come to the point, if you please. What is vour complaint? Complainant?I bribed her servants; they ! took my money, but the base menials never j gave me a chance to converse with her. j Disguised as a letter-carrier, I sought to converse with her, but she ordered the jan-! itor with large copious feet to kick me out into the street, wnich he did. Whenever she went out I followed her as faithfully as her own shadow. Judge?What a nuisance you must have j made of yourself. Complainant?True love is never discour-! aged. Yes, I followed her wherever she went. I learned yesterday that she was j going to move away, so there was no time i to be lost. Driven to despair, I registered a solemn vow, about six o'clock this morning, that I would tell her of my love before the sun sank to rest behind the western hills, j When I attempted to explain my emotions on the street, she Repelled my advances. She refused to listeri'to me. Then being in despair, I accused her of theft and had her brought before your Honor. Judge?That was the act of a lunatic. Complainant?Perhaps it was. But your Honor will concede that it was crowned with success. I have at last had an opportunity to tell her that I loved her for herself j alone. Thanks to your Honor, she has been obliged to listen to me. God bless your Honor for it. Heaven will reward you for , it, .and I will not forget it. . | The Judge looked at the Baroness, who ' blushed, and looked down on the floor. "Yes, your Honor," continued the complainant, "you will place it on record in this case that 1 am twenty-five years old, and rather good-looking; the only son of my parents, who dote on me. Make a note of it that I have an income of ten thousand francs a year; that I own a beautiful villa in the country and a hotel in Paris. Please record also that I am of noble birth, my family coat of arms being three clover leaves under a lion rampant in an azure field. Also state that I tendered my hand to Madame . Just put it down." His Honor laughed. The Baroness, who was a wealthy widow, smiled and blushed. They will be married next Sunday.?From the French, in Texas Sittings. JOHN B. GOUGII. John B.Gough, the world renowned temperance lecturer, died on the 18th ultimo, at the residence of Dr. Burns, in Philadelphia, j to which he was taken on Monday night previous, when he was prostrated by a stroke of apoplexy while delivering a lecture in that city. He was a native of England, and came to this country in 1829, having 50 cents in his pocket when he landed. He learned the book binder's trade, got into bad company, and for eight years.was exceedingly dissipated, becoming a confirmed sot. In October, 1842, he was induced to attend a temperance meeting. Here he took the pledge of abstinence and kept it for five ? ? TT!, months, wnen ne vioiaieu n. ;us ini-uus induced him to try again, and he soon began to publicly advocate the principle. His reputation as an orator spread through the United States and Canada and reached England. In 1853 the London Temperance League invited him to visit Great Britain. The visit, intended to last only six weeks, was protracted to two years, during which time he advocated the cause of temperance i throughout the island. He then resumed i his labors in America. In 1857 he again i visited England, and lectured with still : greater success than on his former visit and in 1860 returned to America. He accumu- j lated a large income, and continued to lec-1 ture regularly until 1873, when he announced that he was about to leave the field as a public lecturer; but continued to appear at intervals. Once while on a lecture tour he violated his pledge, but this he always claimed was the result of a conspiracy to lead him astray. He was sixty-nine years old and had of late years lived at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was buried. Fourth Class Postage Rates.?Senator Wilson, chairman of postoffice affairs in the Senate, should carefully study the bene- \ ficent postal systems of the less progressive nations of the world, before he presses his bill to double postal rates on fourth class matter. The avowed reason for this increase is the old, old story that was heard when the first great battle was made by the people to reduce old-time postage from 63, 12i, 183, 25, 31 i and 371 cents, according to' distance. "The Postoffice Department does not^pay," was the protest when postage was reduced from 37A to 10 cents, then to 5 cents, then to3 cents and now to 2 cents; | and the same fogy-cry comes up to double the rate of fourth class matter and make it the same as letter postage. It will startle most people to learn that i even our present rates of 16 cents per pound on fourth class postal matter is largely in excess of the rates for the same matter in all the foreign countries. In England it is little more than one-third as much as here; in Germany it is less than one-half; in Canada it is just one-fourth; in France it is greatly below our rates, and all through Europe fourth class matter is carried to and from all countries at an average of nearly ! one-half less than our present charges. Is it not sufficiently discreditable for the most, intelligent and progressive people of the: earth to be behind other nations in postal facilities without attempting to take another steD backwards by increasing the already j excessive cost of fourth class matter? The Postoffice Department doesn't pay, but neither do the army nor the navy pay, and cheap postage is quite as important to the country as Generals and Admirals. And fourth class postal matter is the one feature of the present postal system that is the most needed by the masses of the people. It is yet in its infancy, but is growing rapidly and will soon reach immense proportions if cultivated by the government. It is the channel of exchange for the industrial and active business elements of the country, and they are the elements which create our wealth. So far from increasing the cost and limiting the volume of fourth class postal matter, the rate should be diminished at least to the standard of other governments, and facilities increased for such transmission.?Philadelphia Time*. 8ST An experiment in tea culture has been made at Auburn, Placer county, Cal., where a plantation was set out sotne years ago. There are about fifty tea-plants which have for several years been producing tea that is pronounced of good quality. Further experiments will be made with tea-seed, and the result will he watched with interest. I fUafliug for tbe Sabbath. i CONDUCTED BY ItEV. ROBERT LATH AN. i* [Original.] } DELUDED. 1 There is no book in the world which gives 1 us so clear and correct an insight into human nature as the Bible. It not only teach- { es us all that can be satisfactorily known { about the being and attributes of God and * the plan of salvation, but it contains a correct and life-sized portrait of every member < of the human family. It names no one now ' living, but describesall minutely. We have t nnlv to read the Bible carefullv in order to f learn what we are, and what we do and j think. On one occasion, our Saviour deliv- i eredadiscour.se in the Treasury at Jerusalem. It was during the observance of the ( feast ot tabernacles. There were present on \ the occasion, a large number of Jews from i all quarters of the country. When the discourse was concluded many of the Jews ! signified their belief in him. With many of them, possibly with most of them, the belief was nothing more than an intellectual 1 assent to the truth of what the Saviour said. ; To those believing Jews our Saviour said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my ! disciples indeed; and ye shall know the , truth and the truth shall make you free." i This language of our Saviour seems to indicate, not uncertainly, that he knew, that ( the faith of at least some of those who pro- i fessed to believe on him was not of the right kind. The exhortation of our Saviour, al- . though timely and eminently proper, highly insulted these Jews who, in some way, signified their belief in him, and they replied, "We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man." This was certainly a marvelous declaration. It contained a mixture of truth and falsehood. This, however, is not marvelous. No man ever told a falsehood which did not contain some truth, or semblance to truth. The truth or semblance of truth gives currency to the lie. The individuals who impudently replied to our Saviour were certainly in one sense, but not in the Scripture sense, the seed of Abraham. They were Jews, and for anything known to the contrary, with untainted blood. Abraham was i the progenitor of the Jews. The Arabs might, with propriety, make the same declaration. Ishmael was the son of Abraham, consequently the Arabs of the desert can say, as truthfully as the Jaws, "we be Abraham's seed. The expression, "Abraham's seed," in its proper Scripture import, means [ to have the faith of Abraham. This the Jews, who, on the occasion referred to, re- ! plied to our Saviour, did not, in all probability, have. They were simply the descendants of Abraham, as were also the Arabs and the children of Keturah. When the Jews said to our Saviour, "We be Abraham's seed," their language had only the semblance of truth. When, however, they said, "We were never in bondage to any man," there was not even the semblance of truth in one syllable which they uttered. We stand amazed at the moral depravity of those who dared, in the face of facts, to make the declaration. It would be difficult to find a people who experienced so many national reverses and individual , calamities. Without much figure of speech it might be said that the Jews began their national existence in slavery. ADrariam had been dead only about one hundred and fifteen years when Jacob went down into Egypt. Isaac was alive when the sons of Jacob sold their brother Joseph into slavery. The wholedescendantsof Abraham through the line of Isaac and Jacob, were only seventy when Jacob went down into Egypt. Joseph lived after the arrival of his father, Jacob, in Egypt, about seventy years. Soon after death of Joseph, the descendants of Jacob were reduced to the captivity of not simply dependency, but to the most abject slavery. In this miserable condition they remained from the death of Joseph until the return of Moses from the land of Midian, a period of more than one hundred years. They wandered about in the wilderness for forty years, and all except two who came out of Egypt died in the wilderness. Scarcely had the Jews reached the land which God promised Abraham until they were reduced to servitude by Chushan-Rishathaim. This state of servitude began about sixty years after the Israelites crossed the Jordan and lasted for eight years. From this servitude they were delivered by Othniel, and were free for a period of forty years after which they served Eglon of Moab, eighteen years. From tnis tney were delivered by Ehud, and were free for eighty years; but were again reduced by Javin, of Canaan, whom they served for twenty years. They were again delivered, but after forty years they were reduced to subjection by the Midianites, whom they served for seven years. They were delivered from the Midianites by Gideon, but alter a period of about ninety years they were again reduced to a state of servitude by the Philistines and Ammonites. This lasted eighteen years. At this time Jephtha rose as a deliverer, but about thirty years after Jephtha, a bondage to the Philistines began which continued for forty years, ^rom the time the Israelites crossed the Jordan until Saul, a period of about four hundred and eighty years, they were in bondage one hundred and eleven years, nearly one-fourth of the time, and during nearly the whole time they were, on account of their sins, terribly harrassed by their enemies. Yet, in the face of these facts, which probably every Jew knew, which every Jew certainly had the means of knowing, and ought to have known, they say with an air of self-importance, "We were never in bondage to any man." Put this is not all. In the very beginning | of the reign of Itehoboam, ten of the twelve tribes revolted and followed Jeroboam. Two hundred and fifty-seven years after this the kingdom of Israel?the ten tribes which followed?was exterminated. The people were carried into captivity, where no one certainly knows, ana what became of them no one can certainly tell. The . kingdom of Judah continued to exist for a period of about one hundred and fifteen ' years longer, and then Nebuchadnezzar con- < quered Judea and led the people into cap- 1 tivity. After seventy years they were re- 1 stored, but they could scarcely be said to be J a free people any more. They were the vas- [ sals first to one and then to another of the t surrounding nations. To make an end of , their independent nationality, Pompey, t fifty five years before the Christian era, i i captured Jerusalem, and the land which i God had given to Abraham became, on ac- I count of the sins and iniquities of the those } who boasted that they were Abraham's seed, a Roman Province. The Jew was deprived of everything which had the semblance of national liberty. At the very moment . those Jews said to our Saviour, "We were 1 never in bondage to any man," they were : the miserable slaves of the Romans. Not ' only so but the Jew had lost his cast. He was t held in contempt by all the nations to whom 1 he was known. Yet the deluded creatures say, with an air of pride, "We were never | in bondage to any man." The answer of|, those believing Jews to our Saviour is cer- j tainly very humiliating, but it is just as certainlyvery suggestive. The fact that they j t were Jews did not make them in any re-1 c spect different from the rest of the human j \ family. They were the offspring of faithful 1 a l u?v. fAn o-rnof cine (T-inrl hiiil ! iA.UI illlclIII 9 UUb lui viicn givuv v<\/v? xMvtj I in accordance with his oft-repeated threat-1 . ening, deprived them of everything except1 life, which man holds dear. Two promi- ; nent features of sin are glaringly presented in the reply of those believing Jews as they ) are called. Sin deludes us of all good and t then it deludes us, causing usto believe that j the consequences of sin are not what they j1 really are. The advice of our Saviour was neither illtimed nor harsh, but it wounded the pride . of the believing Jews, apd they spurned it with contempt, at the same time giving utterance to a falsehood unmitigated by the slightest semblance of truth. Just so it is to-day. There are multitudes who are not Jews, and who cannot and will not claim < that they are Abraham's seed, but who do profess to believe on Jesus Christ, who will fly into the face of any one who exhorts them to discharge a duty. They profess to j have faith in Jesus Christ, but they are mis-' erbly deluded by Satan. I lie ?otfeville (Swqitim. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: single copy for one year, 8 2 50 ?or six months, 1 25 ?or three months, 75 Two copies one year, 4 00 ren copies one year 20 00 Vnd an extra copy for a club of ten. 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REPAIRISTO, Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice. Steain Engines, and agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, any class of work that may be wanted in his shop, he ttrtll otfnnrl onxr r?all fnr ronoirinnp afilfiATinrv All Bines, 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. C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., taking etfect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, February rth, 188(5. OOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir <5.00 A. M. Arrive at. Hudsonville,9 <5.24 A. M. Arrive at Lovelady,* '5.40 A. M. Arrive at Hickory, 7.10 A. M. Leave Newton 8.0.5 A. M. Arrive at Maiden,* 8.33 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.10 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's* 9.43 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 ureeK,' n.u< iu. 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Pictures by the photographic process j enlarged, and all work done in the best style of heart at reasonable prices. Gallery on West I iibertv street, near the jail. J. R. SCHORB. | APPLICATION FOR DWHIARGeT j N'OTK'E is hereby given that the undersigned, j Executor of the estate of JOHN YOUNG, I leceased, has made a final settlement with : he Judge of Probate for York county, and i >n the 5th day of April, 1886, at 12 o'clock, M., i vill make application for a final discharge | rom liability as Executor of the said estate, i It. E. PORTER, Executor. | March J S> 5t EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. A LL persons having demands against the es- j {\_ of HUGH A. GALLOWAY, deceased, are ierebv notified to present the same within the inie prescribed by law, duly attested. Persons ndebted to the said estate are required to make mmcdiate payment to the undersigned. 11. M. McGILL, Executor. February 25 8 Jt GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of JL_ IRON ROOFING CRIMPED AM) CORRUGATED SIDING, Irou Tile or Shingle, FIRE l'ROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS AC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0] May 10 TOWNSHIP ELECTION. State of South Carolina?York County. Office County Commissioners York County, February 6th, 1886. iyr OTICE is hereby given to all whom it may : 1.N concern, that at a special meeting of the ; Board 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: | "State 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, plaeesand purpose of such election, and appoint managers therefor. That at such election you will submit to the qualified voters of said township of York, the question of subscription by said township of York, of the sum of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOL LARS to the Capital siock 01 me ueurgeiuwn 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 part; IN SEVEN PER CENT. COUPON BONDS, payable twenty-five 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 may be 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 <}toestion 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 orseini-annually as may be agreed upon, at theoflice ofthe 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 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 the duty of the "":J (ho sum viz.: uuaiu IU ouuownuv IUV WV.?M ? , 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 sosubscribed, 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 I shall not commence to bear interest until delivered by said Trust Company to said Railroad Company; and they shall not be delivered to said Railroad Company except in the following manner, and upon the following other conditions : The bonds, representing the sum subscribed, shall be delivered to said Railroad Company in pro rata parts as said road, of standard or broad 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 SouthTi-mvl tho romninitio- twentv-five thousand dol lars of saicl bonds shall be likewise delivered, and scrip or stock shall be delivered by saia Trust Company to correspond in amount of bonds delivered as aforesaid. Provided, however, that the line of said Railroad from Black's to Yorkvilie, shall conform to the survey for said road, made in December, 1885, known as the direct route, said Company being allowed to diverge Southwest of saidline not inore-than 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 as a pu blic highway through said township and county. Provided, further, That said Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company shall have no control over the I bonds so subscribed, except by and with the coni sent of the Massachusetts and Southern Con! struction Company, theparties constructing said I railroad. j It is therefore, Ordered, by the said Board, i 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 13tn 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 ana to make returns of the results thereof. At said election all persons voting who shall favor the proposal to subscribe to the capital i sto?k of said com nan v as herein provided and conditioned, shall* vote on written or printed ballots with the word "SUBSCRIPTION" thereon ; and all persons voting who ma}' oppose said proposal to subscribe, shall vote on 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 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. John Caldwell, John F. Oates and J. Robert Lindsay, are hereby appointed managers to hold said election. Tliev will make their return ot said election to this iBoard, at Yorkville, on Monday, the 15th day of March next, at 11 o'clock A. M. * JOSEPH N. STEELE,) r.nnnt? . JAMES B. ALLISON, :/rtl R. W. WHITESIDES,) Comm,s February 11 0 5t JOB PRINTING. 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