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UttmaM fUpartwent ISF' Robert, a bashful young student of Cupid, recently summoned up enough courage to escort a young lady home. At the breakfast table next morning his father said: "Well, my son, did you go home with any of the girls last night?" x "Yes," said Bob. , "Who was she?" Robert hesitated, but finally blurted out: "I thought it was Annie Warren, but when we got to the turn of the road she went into Ella Ham's house." "But'I should think you might have told by the sound of her voice," said his father. "Neither of us said a word," said Bob, blushing and stammering. Boston Boots.^-A wealthy citizen had been out until the small hours with convivial companions, and he arrived home slightly exhilarated. He managed, by describing several erratic rather than geometrical lines, to get to his bed room and into a chair. Then he called to his wife in a single whisper: "I can't get my boots off." "What's the matter with your boots?" "Nozzin," (in a faint, whisper.) "What's the matter with your hands, then ?? "Nozzin." "Why don't you pull your boots off then ?" "Maria, I've forgot the combination !" The Domestic CoMPROMisE.-"Bromley, I'm having a wretched time with my wife. We wrangle fearfully, and she's so wordy that she overwhelms me every time." "Well, Derringer, these little pleasantries are not to be avoided, it seems. My wife and I have reduced them to a science. She demands but two words, and I good-naturedly let her have them. It's a small concession, you see." , "I should think it was. I envy you, Bromley, 'pon my soul I do. Oh, by the way, what are the two words?" "The first and the last."?Pittsburg Telegraph. It Was Mutual.?Two men who were rail-fencing along Michigan avenue under the influence of drink the other day met at Rowland street. After a long stare at each other one turned away with the remark: "Too bad! Too bad! Zhat feller'd be oKirtnufnof mnn ! r* til* nAlinf.flT ' foo HiHn'f, UUO Olimaib^Ot UIVU IU Vi wuuvaj aw %aavtM ? git shrunk." The other looked after him and mournfully soliloquized: "Poor man! Might go to Congress as well as not, but for zhis awful habit. It is really too bad. I must shee him and tell him of 'sr degrading 'fluences of shrink." "Not five minutes before that electriclight tower fell the other evening," said one citizen to another, yesterday, "I passed it with my wife. A little later one or both of us would have been killed." "I see. It is too bad." "How?why ?" "Probably only one would have been killed, and the survivor would have receiv ed at least $5,000." The first speaker is still looking up the street at the spot where the second dissappeared. A Very Practical Woman.?This short, but pointed conversation between two ladies was. overheard in front of the Japanese wood carvers'stall, at the Ignatius Hall exhibition. They were attentively regarding the carved figure valued at$3,000. "It's a wonderful piece of work of course; but I wouldn't give $3,000 for any old wooden man." "Well, I should say not. Why, if I had $3,000 I could afford to have a live one."? San Franciscan. Where He Dwindled.?"What kind of a man is he ? Good, bad, or indifferent?" "Well, that depends a good deal on who teeters on the other end of the plank with him." "How so, sir?" "Well, if you size him up alongside of Judas Iscariot he, looms up midlin' fair; but when you come to get him down between such fellows asyou and me, Judge, he does dwindle terrible surprisin'?he does for a fant."?Chicaao Ledaer. a u "What seems to be the trouble here?" he asked as he elbowed his way into the crowd. "Runaway," some one answered. "Humph! Nobody hurt, I suppose?" "Man almost killed." "Oh! Ah! but of course he'll get wellalways do. What an idiot I was to run two blocks in hopes to see a dog-fight!" "You're looking badly, Mr. Ellis. Why not try the hot-water cure? Dio Lewis says it will cure every complaint." "That shows how little he knows, then." "But you haven't tried it." "Oh, I haven't, eh? I've been in hot water ever since I married, and I ain't getting no better very fast." "Wouldn't he go along with you?" asked a judge a day or two ago of a policeman accused of unmercifully clubbing a prisoner. "Oh, yes, he went along all right," replied the policeman. "Then why did you club him ?" asked the judge. "And sure, your Honor, what did I have the club for?" J?* An exchange, ridiculing the ridiculous county fairs, which make no effort at good shows, says that the Clearfield fair consisted of a calf, a goose and a pumpkin. It rained so hard the first night that the goose swam off, the calf broke loose and ate the pumpkin, and a thief prowling around stole the calf, and that ended the fair. Wife?"What a very polite young man Mr. Dunley is!" Husband?"Yes? I never discovered it." Wife?"He was very polite to me last evening." Among other compliments, he spoke very pleasantly of my singing." HusbaDd?"Did he? That was polite." ? ? ? 5@~A West Virginia horse thief is said to have the peculiarity of running away with a woman whenever he steals a horse. He has a theory that this reconciles a man to the loss of his horse.?Boston Post. "Are you chewing tobacco?" said a iady to her husband a few evenings ago as he walked up to the stove and removed the cover. "No," he replied. "What are you doing, then ?" "Spitting it out." V3P Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the days of the week, but judging from the contents of the contribution plate most men consider it a kind of silver and copper anniversary. 93 In Washington: "Mr. Congressman, allow me to introduce my son William. I believe the paper said this was the day for the introduction of Bills."?Louisville Courier Journal. He: "I see the latest idiocy of women is to have a monkey for a pet." She: "This is not new. It was so when we got married." $3* A friend of ours, absent on a trip to Washington, writes that he has been all through the national capital and considerable of his own.?Lowell Citizen. p.;- - UJisceHtttteous fUadhuj. MR. HEMPHILL ON SILVER. In the debate on the Silver question, in the House of Representatives, on the 20th ultimo, the following proceedings are reported : Under the special order the limited debate on the adverse report on the Free Coinage bill was begun, and the floor was taken by Mr. James, of New York, in opposition to the bill. Mr. James premised hisspeech with what he stated were a few words of personal ex-1 planation. People were wont to look to lawyers and professors and political leaders for legislation on financial questions instead of to business men, such as he was. The result of this looking to lawyers, professors and political leaders was that now the country was in a slough. The Car of State was very nearly ditched. This was not a quesnnmufKinrr crroot if YVHJS f\ 11 IS 11 l/l UVlIlg QUUIVUIIiiQ gtVMv ^ ? .. ? question of getting out of something bad. It was not a question of making good time; it was a question of getting the wheels out of the slough; it was a question which business men ought to solve. If the business men had dealt with the silver question, the team of the State would not have been stalled in the mire as it is now. They should have spoken out and insisted that their advice should be followed. They should join their forces for the judicious handling of great questions. The so-called demoralization of silver had been from the start, a great blunder. Coinage under the Bland act should be suspended, for a continuance of that coinage was but organized chaos in the United States. The coinage of silver under the Bland act had been from the beginning, and was now, a colossal business blunder; and he believed that had it not been for the passage of that bill, silver would have been remonetized long ere this?both in the United States and Europe. He went on to argue that Germany, France and England were in a condition where little pressure, such as the suspension of coinage in this country, would force them infrw orlrirvtino- hi.mptal i<?m. For the United States to fix a day for the suspension of coinage, unless there was an international concurrence before, that time was a summons which European statesmen could ignore. Mr. Seymour, of Connecticut, followed on the same line. , Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, branched off from the coinage question to advocate a proposition to encourage the production of sugar in this country by a system of bounties. Mr. Hemphill, of South Carolina, said that the question before Congress was as to the best method of restoring gold and silver to a parity as money metals, and he advocated as a means to this end the appointment of a commission to secure an international bimetalic union. The present standard of silver dollar had neither a dollar's worth of silver in it, nor was it a promise to pay a dollar in the future. Every time that the Government bought 80 cents worth of silver and stamped it as a dollar it stamped falsehood on the face of its own coin, and robbed the man to whom it was paid. Congress should not require the Secretary of the Treasury to perpetrate this gross injustice, auu oy iuruiug suver un wie wumij eventually put gold at a premium and drive it out of circulation. Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, suggested that greenbacks, national bank notes, silver and gold alike paid debts and taxes. Mr. Hemphill replied that greenbacks and national bank notes did not pretend to be real money, and no man accepted them as such. They were a promise to pay in the future. But a man who took a gold dollar or a silver dollar had the right to rely on the honesty of the government, and when he took a silver dollar worth 80 cents he was fooled thereby. This country had never been a double standard country. The people had been prosperous and happy in the past and this had been confessedly under the single standard of value. There could be neither justification nor excuse in forcing upon the country a monetary policy, directly in the teeth of past history, and one which threatened to unsettle value, discourage business and stop the wheels of progress simply for the purpose of maintaining a financial delusion among the people. He would be glad to see two kinds of coin floating together at par at a proper ratio, but if the country must have gold or silver alone, he much preferred the former. There was S12 gold per capita in the country against $4 in silver. The United States had been confessedly a gold using country inni 1 suite .tod'*, aiiu iiu reusun uuuiu ue ussi^ueu for such a change in policy as would reduce our metalic money to one-fourth of its present value. If this were done what would become of the great debtor class ? Had any plan been suggested by the silver men by which this policy could make one dollar do the work of four? If farmers were to be paid for their cotton in silver worth 80 cents, the day Tor their prosperity was in his opinion, forever gone. The relative value of silver and gold would be fluctuating in the future, as in the past. The cotton grower must make allowance for that. By the time the deduction was made from the value of cotton for freight, insurance, weighing, the difference in value between silver here and gold in Liverpool, there would be little or nothing coming to the men who sold it. He asked the gentlemen who represented Southern constituents to consider well before they adopted a policy which turned the agriculturalist over to the tender mercy of money sharks. A gor deal had been said about the stockjobbers of Wall street. If there was one thing they delighted in it was a fluctuating money market. The great fortunes of Wall street had been made almost entirely when gold was at a premium and when the business of the country was conducted on fluctuating currency. That had been the key note of the millionaires. Referring to the difficulty of getting the standard dollar in circulation, he said that the history of mankind did not show that good money required any power behind it. It went on its own merits. The legal value of our silver dollar over the real value was mantained only by an act of Congress. One-fifth of its value rested upon the act of Congress, and the only assurance the people had that this fictitious value would continue was found in the hope that Congress would continue in the same mind that it was in 1S79. If Congress should at any time withdraw the legal tender function of silver, down it would at once fall to its real value, and every citizen of the republic who had silver in his pocket would in the twinkling of an eye find that it had fallen 20 cents on the dollar. In 1873 the trade dollar had been made a legal tender for any sum not exceeding In 1876 when 15,400,000 of these dollars had gone into the pockets of the people, Congress had deprived them of their legal tender qualities. The Treasury refused to receive them, and they were worth only about 85 cents. The Government was in the peculiar.condition of receiving at the Treasury a dollar which contained 4121 grains, and repudiating another containing 420 grains. It multiplied its inferior coin at the rate of $20,000,000 a year, and refused to recognize its better money coined out of exactly the same metal. Was it any wonder that the people were slow of taking the standard dollar when they realized that one-fifth of the value rested wholly on the action of Congress? Those who desired to see the country enjoying a stable currency could not be blamed if they insisted that the people should be provided with coin which was what it pretended to be, and depended on its value or what was in it, and not on varying notions of an ever changing Congress. Poor people were entitled to as good a dollar as anybody, and if his vote would give it to them, they should certainly have it. He believed that if the great body of the people of the country apprehended the facts connected with this issue and understood what was being done in their name, they would repudiate the whole thing as a sham and humbug. He then went on to discuss the policy of Great Britain which he declared was the richest nation on earth, and said in conclu sion: How has England achieved this most enviable position? Certainly not by coining silver, for she has not indulged in that for near a century, and while our friends say that England has grown enormously rich on a wrong financial policy, still if we cau bring these United States to the same condition as the mother country, have all nations debtors to us and conduct our entire people to that contentment and happiness that comes with prosperity and wealth, I for one will not disdain to follow her example. That would be indeed a glorious result, worthy the noblest ambition of a statesman and patriot, and toward the accomplishment of which I would count myself happy on being able to render the slightest aid, fori most desire of all worthy j things to contribute something during the i years of my active manhood to the true development of this great country, and to the improvement and amelioration of the condition of that generous people who have chosen me to this high office, and with whose good name I shall be proud to have mine associated as long as anything said or done by me shall be remembered among | the sons of men. [Applause.] Mr. Bynum, a member of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, supported the minority report, which favors the passage of the Free Coinage bill. Mr. Stone, of Missouri, announced himself in favor of any measure which would tend to restore silver to an equality with gold. ^ For the Yorkville Enquirer. JOHN S. CHAMBERS, ESQ. DEATH OF A FORMER CITIZEX OF YORK COVXTY. Many friends in York and Chester will j mourn the death of this most worthy ChrisI tian gentleman. Noble traits gemmed the characterof our lamented friend. Blending harmoniously with the winning qualities of a sympathetic and generous neart, were the sterling attributes of a well-regulated understanding, a sound and discriminating judgment, firmness of principle and devotion to duty. Nothing mean, or low, or groveling, came near his head or heart. He , was one of the truest of friends, and one of the noblest of men. A devoted husband, a I tender, watchful father, concerned not only I for the usefulness of his children in society, | but, above all, for their spiritual and eter[ nal well-being, anxiously desiring that they should seek first the Kingdom of God, and j choose the better part that shall never be taken from them, he was a comfort and | blessing to his pastor, whose "heart could safely trust in him." Asa Christian, he was humble, distrustful of self, ever impressed with a proud sense of his entire dependence upon the sovereign grace of God. He had a clear perception of the gospel system, and the precious doctrines of grace, heartily embraced by him had moulded his Christian experience. Asa ruler in the church he was just and impartial, making no invidious distinctions. The solemn responsibilities of his office were felt by him. The headship of Christ over the church was , to him not a sentiment, buta reality. He looked upon himself as the representative of Christ, entrusted with His honor, and charged with executing the laws of His Kingdom, and realized that only thus could he repre! sent the true interests of the people. He j was their representative, not their deputy. The integrity of his Christian character, the blamelessnessof his walk, and alifeabounding in good works, were a standing testimony to the power of the gospel; before which, blasphemy laid its hand upon its mouth, and infidelity was dumb. He gave his heart and his hands to every cause, whose object was the expansion of his Saviour's Kingdom and the glorifying of his Saviour's name. In has last hours, no wave of apprehension ruffled his placid breast. His Saviour's presence imparted peace?sweet peace, sacred peace, victorious peace, that smiles at death and the grave, and says: O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory ? The silver cord was gently loosed, and the emancipated spirit was borne by loving angels to the home of the Redeemer and the redeemed, to the royal entertainment of the King of kings and to the marriage-supper of the Lamb. In society, his deuth has vacated a sphere of virtue, honor and usefulness, which none but the pure, the upright and the true hearted are qualified to occupy. Upon his honored memory rests the love of kindred and friends, the gratitude of the poor, the benedictions of society, the blessing of the Church, and the smile of God. a. w. m. Charlotte, N. C. The following notice of the death of Mr. Chambers is copied from the Ennis, Texas, Saturday Review at' November 21, 1885: an old citizen gone. On Sunday morning last, Mr. John S. Chambers, an aged and much respected citizen of Ennis, breathed his last at his home in this city, in the 74th year of his age. He was a native of York District, S. C., where he was born in 1812, and lived there and in Chester county, until 185(>, when he emigrated to Bradly county, Ark, and from thence in 1874 to Ellis county, Texas. In 1879 he became a resident of Ennis, improving a home in our city and removing to it from his farm, six miles west of town, where he lived until the day of his death, sincerely respected by all who knew him. He was a ruling Elder in the Presbyterian church. Possessing a remarkably clear judgment, but of a quiet, unobstrusive nax ^ tkn nAnfirlnnno onil lurt", jiu umiuiaiucu iiiciuuiiuwvvuiiu esteem of his brethren. His respect and veneration for the church and sanctuary were characteristic, and such as is only inspired by close communion with God. lie departed this life in the full triumphs of the Christian's faith. His funeral Monday was one of the largest we have seen in Knnis. A touching tribute to his memory was the attendance of the children of the public school at his funeral services, at the C. P. church, which, amid a large concourse of sorrowing friends, were conducted by his pastor, Rev. T. W. Erwin, assisted by Rev. Mr. Joplin, Prof. Taylor, at the organ, singing "Safe on the Evergreen Shore," and other appropriate solos, with feeling and effect. The remains were afterward tenderly placed in Myrtle Cemetery. To his family, j his friends and his church, John S. Cham- j bers has left the inestimable treasure of the j example of a consecrated and devoted life, j Peace to his ashes. I fjkaflwg for the $ahhath. CONDUCTED I1Y UEV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Orlglnnl.] "WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE ?? The words which stand at the head of this article, occur in one of the most remarkable passages in the Bible. The time they were uttered was during the progress "of a feast of the Jews," but what particular feast we can only conjecture. The circumstance which led to their utterance is thus briefly stated : At that time, we are told (John 5,) there was at Jerusalem, by the sheep market, or rather, by the sheep gate, a pool called Bethesda. In some way, there was connected with this pool five porches, in which lay a great multitude of persons afflicted with various diseases, or rather the subjects of various misfortunes. There were gathered around this pool a great multitude of blind, lame and palsied persons. These, we* nrn tnld wprp "umitinf for the movine1 of the water." In explanation of what is meant by "moving of the water," it is added : "An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water; whosoever then first after the troubling ot the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." This is perhaps the most remarkable passage in the Bible. In no other place in the Scriptures is any mention made of this pool, and neither Josephus nor Philo say anything about it. The clause of the tyiird verse beginning with the words, "waiting for," and the whole of the fourth verse is left out by many ' editors of the Greek Testament. They are left out by Westcott and Hart in the Greek texts prepared by them entirely, they say, from original manuscripts. They are left out by what is called the Revised version of the New Testament. Notwithstanding all this, the reasons for rejecting the words are not unattended with difficulties. Whether the words declaring that an angel went down into the pool at a certain season and troubled the water, are spurious or not, we are certainly informed that there was in one of the porches connected with this pool a man who had been the subject of some ailment for thirty-eight years. How long he had been at the pool we are not told, neither are we informed as to what was certainly the matter with the man. The name of the man is not given and he is spoken of in the most general and indefinite manner. "A certain man." He may have been a Jew, or he may have been a Gentile. He may have been of a good family, or he may have belonged to that class of the human family, which is known only by its obscurity. The only thing that is definitely stated is that he had been a sufferer for thirty-eight years. For anything that we know to the contrary, he may have been born "in that case," whatever it was, and consequently he was a sufferer all his life. Notwithstanding the il ? - / 1_ L!_L vagueness in me uriei nisiory wxucn weare given of this "certain man," the indefiniteness is actually definite, and in reality we are told a great deal about him, not directly but indirectly, and in his case we are taught a moral lesson of vital importance. The first thing noteworthy in his case is, Jesus saw him and knowing that he had been the subject of affliction for a long time, said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" or, in modern English, "Doyou desire to be restored to health ?" There is no evidence that Jesus had ever seen or heard of him before. The man may have been wellknown about Jerusalem, but by far the larger portion of our Saviour's life was spent at Nazareth, a little town in Galilee, sixty miles north of Jerusalem. The probability is that ourSaviou'rhad never seen the man, nor heard any one speak of him before. Still he knew that he had been a poor afflicted creature for thirty-eight years. All this Jesus knew because he is omniscient and knows all things. This suggests a delightful train of thought. Scattered all over this sin-cursed world of ours, there are a great multitude of "blind and haltand withered." They have spent their lives in great obscurity and misery. They have been "in that 1 ? - t ? A? it Af,A case" ii long unit;?suiting umiuiunc ucmcsi to them by human ties, are growing weary of them. In winter they shiver with cold, and are parched with the heat of summer. They are neglected. All of these Jesus knows. The reply of the impotent man is worthy of notice. "I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool." He did not say, "Yes, I am anxious to be made whole," and yet he did say so indirectly, but very emphatically. No matter whether or not he was blind, as some suppose, or could not walk as others think, we are indirectly told by the man himself, that of himself he could not get into the pool, and no one would lend him a helping hand. He was an "impotent man"?a man dis abled by disease. He was lying?probably he could neither sit, nor stand, nor walk. He was solely at the mercies of his fellowmen, and they neglected him. His case was a sad one. How long he had been lying near the pool, and how often he had been disappointed no one can tell, but he had met with disappointments. Poor, helpless creature, in the tones of one who was nearing the line which divides hope and despair, he said to the Saviour, "I have no man toput me into the pool." It is evident from the reply of the impotent man to our Sayiour that he earnestly desired to be healed?to be made well. This the Saviour knew as well as he knew that he had been "in that case" for a long time. Why did the Saviour ask the man if he desired to be made whole? The man had been there, how long we know not, but whether the time was long or short, he was at the pool for the purpose of being healed. Why did the Saviour say, "Wilt thou be made whole ?" It was simply to give the man an opportunity of declaring, or making public the desires of his heart. Here again we are taught an important lesson. Morally, the whole world lieth in wickedness. Sin has made us all "impotent folk." Morally, all of Adam's race are blind, and halt and withered. In the gos-"i ufimnn 1\a! r?? io OcLrOfl 1 VlO |)C1 iiuimui uciii^ jo uuuvv4 v?iv v^wvw tion, "Wilt thou be made whole?" None, by nature, do really desire to be made whole, but those who are by grace made to desire to be healed of their moral impotency, must make known that desire as did this certain man, by acknowledging their own utter helplessness and their destitution of help in man. They must say, and say it so that it can be heard not only by God, but by their fellow-men, "I am helpless and neglected." Those persons who assert that it is useless to join the church, may learn from the answer of this "impotent man" to our Saviour a lesson which they should lay seriously to heart. Had the "impotent man" made any other reply to our Saviour than that which he did make, in other words, had he not frankly and fully confessed that he was unable to help himself he would, we may safely say, have remained an "impotent man" until death had taken him to the other world. It is said that none out of the Church can or will be saved. It is said, however, and said with confidence that it is Scriptural, that ordinarily there is not a particle of hope of salvation outside of the pale of the visible Church. So soon as the "impotent man" had stated his helple.ss and, as he no no doubt thought, hopeless condition, the Saviour said : "Rise, | take up thy bed, and walk." The impo- i tent man is commanded to do these things any one of which would demonstrate that he was made whole before he was commanded to rise. The Saviour found him prostrate and helpless and he commands him to rise. Next he is commanded to take up his bed. It was no doubt a miserable thing. It was the bed of a poor neglected man who had been helpless for thirty-eight years. No .1 1.1 !i ~ 1 1 I 1 A 1 1 . uuuum was ;t naru utju, anu una uecu jjuuhj tended to. Whatever were its defects it j was his bed and so far as we know his only \ bed. To take it up would further demonstrate that lie was made whole. Again he was commanded to walk. For thirty-eight years?more than half of a long life?he had been confined to his bed. His whole physical strength whatever he may once have been had was gone, his muscles had perished because they had not been used and he was a mere skeleton. This man who had lain a-bed for thirty eight years is commanded to walk. This added to his rising and taking up his bed would prove beyond all contradiction that he was not only recovering but that he was sound and well. Immediately, we are told, the man who had lain on his bed helpless for thirty-eight years, "was made whole and took up his bed and walked." No time intervened between the command of the Saviour and its execution by the man. The command was in one moment and the execution was in thfe following moment. Whence came this power to the impotent man ? Whence came the power to the dead, and, as was ^supposed, stinking corpse of Lazarus, to come out of the sepulchre? The power was in the word of Jesus. With the command to rise he gave the "impotent man" power to rise, with the command to take up his bed he gave him the power to take up the bed, and with the command to walk he gave the power to walk. Just so it is with men spiritually impotent. They are commanded to repent and believe the gospel?to accept of Jesus Christ as their saviour. They are by nature dead in trespasses and sins but still they are commanded to believe. The power to believe in Jesus Christ they have not, but he who gives the command to believe gives the power to believe. The healing of this "impotent man" was a miracle. No philosophy is able to account for it. So the quickening of a soul dead in sin is a miracle of grace. No philosophy can understand it, no philosophy can explain it. Never should we forget that the whole of our duty consists in obedience. When God commands it is rebellion to say "we cannot." He never commands us to do anything which he is not ready and willing to give us the power to perform. A good illustration of this is found in the case of Moses, when sent to deliver his people out of Egypt. Moses pleaded his inability for the undertaking. I, in substance, said God to him, made the tongue, and I can makeyour stammering tongueeloquent. A case illustrative of the results or consequences of disobedience is found in the case of Saul who was sent to destroy Amelek. Because he disobeyed, God rejected him from being king. POSSESSING THE LAND. This glorious land of ours is destined to become Immanuel's land, the efforts of Satan to the contrary notwithstanding. Before human eye beheld the mountainsof Colorado, Christ had put his mark (Ez. 9:4) upon one of their highest peaks. At an altitude of 14,178 feet behold a white cross, its perpendicular arm 1,200 feet, and the horizontal 700 feet, sunk into a cleft 50 feet wide and 100 deep, filled with perpetual snow. Already we see how the different denominations vie with each other in their efforts to reach and elevate the masses, and to spread light and truth abroad. Our own church (General Assembly) supports 1G10 home missionaries, in addition to those laboring in foreign fields, and contributed during the past year to her eight boards the enormous sum of $10,102,053, and our church is only one among many others equally zealous and liberal. In view of these facts, how absurd | the assertion that Christianity is dying out in the world! Could Voltaire, who predicted that in the year 1800 the Christian religion would have disappeared from the * At % ? ? mn? I eartn, see tne cnurcn id 1000, now usiuujshed he would be! Then let no Christian worker be despondent. Pointed reefs may seem to defy the rolling waves, but very soon they disappear beneath the waters of the incoming tide. So infidelity may lift up its proud head for a while but the time is speedily coming when "the earth shall be full of knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. 11:9). Let all Mission Boards and all missionaries at home, and abroad, take new courage, and prepare thoroughly for the last decisive battle between light and darkness, evidently near at hand. While Satan is concentrating his forces, it does not behoove the Christian to be inactive and consult his ease. Light cannot illume without consuming itself. Let him who would aid the great cause of Home Missions begin the work nearest home?in his own heart? and then try to bring another soul to Christ, as Andrew brought his brother Simon, who afterwards became the prince of apostles. Thus any one, in high or humble station, may become a Home Missionary.? Rev. P. A. Skicarz, in Presbyterian Home Missionary. Are There Few ? Will You Be One ? "Are there few that be saved ?" Not so very few, when the final reckoning comes to be made; for in the Father's house are many mansions, and that house is to be "filled." Not so very few; for the Saviour is to see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied, and He who died for all, would not be satisfied with a few souls as his recompense. But the saved will be far fewer than they might have been ; and the failure * * / --li. I., Un will he wholly meir own mun?siminj uueause they did not "strive," and strive in time, to enter into that gate of whose straightness they were forewarned. They thought it better to "labor and tug and strive" for the world's wealth, honor, and pleasure, of which the most utterly failed. With the same effort they might have won the riches and glory of heaven. Reader, will the number of the saved be one less than it might have been, for lack of your name written among them? Personal Influence.?Upon the higher Alps, the snow is sometimes piled so high, and so evenly balanced that the crack of a whip, or the shout of a voice, may give sufficient vibration to the air to bring down the whole mass upon the travelers below. So in our moral world, there are souls just hoveringoverthe abyss of ruin ; a word, or even a look from us, may cause them to plunge down into the depths from which there is no return ; or a helping hand stretched out to them in the moment of peril may lead them back to the safe, sure paths of virtue. Knowing that we have such power, shall we not humbly pray, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from all evil?" fiiar The Bible tells us of the streams that it may allure us to the fountain ; it tells of the past acts of God's faithful love that we may be led to set our hope on God, and feel that he who hath helped and loved will help and love unto the end. 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THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared to do all manner of work in light iron and brass castings, and general machine work. REPAIRING, Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice. Steam Engines, and 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 engines, 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. Tn TUT? PI DOT TATA CTAVF TP A DF IV lilU U/LlVUiililJV UlVIJLi llkill/lJ. r RESPECTFULLY inform Stovo Buyers all over the State that I carry in stock, for Fall and Winter trade, 550 Cooking and Heating Stoves & Ranges. By actual count, requiring Store and Warehouse room, 25 by 260 feet to contain the stock, and can till orders promptly. COOKING STOVES FROM $8.00 UP. Warranted to give satisfaction. Best Box Heating Stoves from $2.50 Up. The goods are bought from parties who sell large jobbing trade only, and challenge a comparison of quality and prices of Stoves with any market North, South, East or West. Write for circulars giving prices and a full description of Goods, and SAVE MONEY. I am very anxious to get a sample Stove sold in every neighborhood in the State. TERMS OACir M"\T 1UJT.TVKRV "j.'d. ratterree, Cheater, S. C. October 15 31 12m The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING. HIGH ARM. "NewHowe" WHICH IS THE BEST SEWING MACHINE EVER MADE. 1CALL special attention to the following features : The NEW IIOWE is a new macnine 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 Gallery. PHOTOGRAPHY. I 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 011 West Liberty street, near the jail. J. R. SCHORR. Koch* son's Celebrated Fashion Catalogue CENT CDCC ior Spring and SnmOCn I rnCCmer, 1&6, ready March loth, to any address. Illustrates and llsta every thing for Ladles', Gents', ChUdrens* and Infants' wear and Housekeeping Goods, at prices loteer than those of an7 houso In tne CJnlted States. Complete satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. II. c. F. KOCH SON, tit la Ave. & 'iOth St., N. V. City. March IS 10 2m APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. NOTICE is herehy given that the undersigned, Administratrix of the estate of JOHN J. MILLER, deceased, has madea final settlement with the Judge of Probate for York county, and 011 Monday, the 10th day of April, A. D., 1886, at 11 o'clock A. M., will make application for a final discharge from liability as Administratrix of said estate. MARY O. MILLER, Administratrix. March 18 11 5t APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Executor of the estate of JOHN YOUNG, deceased, has made a final settlement with the Judge of Probate for York county, and on the 5th day of April, 1886, at 12 o'clock, M., will make application for a final discharge from liability as Executor of the said estate. R. E. PORTER, Executor. March 4 9 5t GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of W. . IRON ROOFING CRIMPED AND CORRUGATED SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS AC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0] May 10 A SUPERB Flesh Producer and Tonic! HEAR THE WITNESSES!! 10 to 20 Ponnds!!! A Man of Sixty-Eight Winters. I AM 68 years of age, and regard Guinn's Pioneer a*fine tonie for the feeble. By its use my strength has been restored and my weight increased ten pounds. A. F. G. CAMPBELL, Macon, Ga., Fob. 18, 1886. Cotton-Gin Maker. A Crippled Confederate Says: I only weighed 128 pounds when I commenced Guinn's Pioneer, and now weigh 147 pounds. I could hardly walk with a stick to support me and can now walk long distances without help. Its benefit to me is beyond calculation. I). RUFUS BOSTICK, Cotton buyer. Macon, Ga. Mr. A. H. Braiuhlett, Hardware Merchant ol' Forsyth, Ga., Writes: It acted like a charm on my general health. I consider it a fine tonic. I weigh more than I have for 25years. Respectfully, a. H. Bramblett. Mr. W". F. Jones, Macon, Says : My wife has regained her strength and increased ten pounds in weight. We recommend Guinn's Pioneer as the best tonic. W. F. Jones. Guinn's Pioneer Blood Renewer Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, ^ Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles SI.00; large bottles 81.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon, Georgia. For sale by DOWRY & STARR, Yorkville. March IS 11 ly "67 & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD? 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Leave Gastonia, 7.55 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.11 P. M. Arrivoat Hardin's 8.35 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.00 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 9.40 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 10.05 P. M. Leave Hickory, 10.50 P. M. Arrive at 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 Nonprinting. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and first-class appointments throughout our office, 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 invite the attention of business men: IJILL HEADS. For 500 For 100'.' Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.50 $6.00 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 fill an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER lIEAjDS.^ For 500 For I00t> 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 exercise the utmost | care to ensure accuracy. We are Drenared to furnish all other kinds of printing, irom a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, TXIE .STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIN A, COUNTY OP YORK?COl'KT OF COMMON PLEAS. William E. Erwin and George J. Steele, Administrators of George Steele, deceased, Plaintiffs, against Samuel E. Bratton, Robert E. ? j Bratton, William E. Bratton, Jerome B. Bratton, Rebecca I. B. Ashcraft, John A. Bratton, John S. Bratton, J. Rufus Bratton, Napoleon B. Bratton, Martha E. Lowry, Mary C. Lowry, SophiaC. O'Bannon, Elizabeth De Loach, Jane E. Williams, Agnes B. I Harris, Camilla A. Erwin, and Harriet J. Dixon, Defendants.? Summons for Relief? Complamt not Served. To the Defendants above-named, the first six being non-residents: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which is herewith this day filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, at his office in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the'day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. [Summons and Complaint filed March 15, 188(5. Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.] Dated Yorkville, S. C., March 15, A. D. 188(5. C. E. SPENCER, Plaintiffs' Attorney. March 18 11 Gt* THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, t j COUNTY OF YORK -COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Anderson Earwood, individually, and as Administrator of Charlotte Gaston, deceased, Plaintiff, against Betsie Carroll, Mary A. Settles, MeliahTrantham, Thomas Earwooa, Riley Earwood, Oma Enloe, Andrew Gladden, John Ramsey and Holly Ann Ramsey, Defendants.?Summons for Relief?Complaint not served. To the Defendants above-named, all being nonresidents : YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which is this da}' herewith filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, at his office in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Dated Yorkville, S. C., March 15, A D., 1880. C, E. SPENCER, Plaintiffs Attorney. March 20 12 Ot "OUR WOMEJTI THE WAR." TWO or three years ago the publishers of the Charleston )Veekli/ News mid Courier conceived 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 different 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 482 pages, printed 011 good white paper and bound in cloth. The book is one of unusual interest and should be read by 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 see the book. The price is only ?1.00 which places it within the reach of all. SAM M. GRIST. OFIIVO COMPANY, ^ IROX ORE PAINT And Cement. 152 TO 158 MERWIN STREET Cleveland, O. ? Send for Circular and Price F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. 0 ly