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^timorous gcjiartmcnt. "Pot Liquor Bill" at the Front.? Col. Ned McLure of South Carolina, the new Appointment Clerk of the Postoffice Department, is one of the best read men and most interesting talkers in the country. Speaking with a reporter of The Critic today he said: "Of course, being a Southern man yourself, you know what 'pot liquor' is and how it is liable to capture people. Well, there was in South Carolina a character whose name was Bill Wages. On account of his fondness for that liquid he was known as 'Pot Liquor' Bill Wages. He was married ari the father of some progeny. He had no desire to become a warrior when the North and South had their very warm and active differences, but a tempting lump of hard cash induced him to go to the front as a substitute for a man who had more money than courage. He was assigned to Company I of the Sixth South Carolina Infantry and arrived at his post just in time for the Second Battle of Bull Run. When things got warm, Wages gently sloped towards the rear. He sloped very actively, out was stopped by an officer and ordered back to the front. 'Not much,' he yelled out, as he continued to slope, 'up there is no place for a man with a family V " Washington Critic. Her Father is a "Planter."?A good story is told of the daughters of an undertaker of this city. She had married a California millionaire, and so had her sister. The other sisters had married army officers. They are now residing in the far west and make great pretentions in a social way. The story goes that one of them being asked by some of her wealthy society acquaintances in San Francisco regarding her former home, replied that she came from the South ?" "From the South ?" was the queried respose. "Yes." "What part of the South ?" "Oh, from the District of ColumbiaWashington." "Ah, the District of Columbia, Washington. What is your father's business ?" "Oh, he is a planter." The father is still "planting" in the district of Columbia.?Chicago Journal. Righteous Indignation.?A gentleman, hearing a noise in his yard, went out and found old Porter Clay, a noted politician handling his wood. "What are you doing there, you rascal?" "Who's er rascal?" "You are, you scoundrel." "Huh, calls me er rascal an' er scoundrel. White folks er gettin' mighty elequent when da wants ter 'buse er generman. Fust thing yer knows I'll hab yer 'rested fur slander." "Yes and I'll have you arrested for attempting to steal ray wood." "Stealin' yer wood! W'y, I neber thoughter sich a thing. Seed er rat run under dis wood an' I wanted to ketch him. Kain't keep frum killin' rats. Wuz born dater woy, but ef yer wants ter 'prive me o' dis heali pleasure all right. Doan kere now ef de rats eats up ever'thing on deplace. Good day ter yer, sah." Too Fond of the Medicine.?"I see you have got that black bottle filled again !" remarked Mrs. Splatterby, the other day, as Splatterby was hunting around for the sugar. "Yes," replied Splatterby, "a little something is good to have about the house in case of sickness." "I don't think whisky is good," said Mrs. Splatterby. j "And why isn't it, I would like to know?" asked Splatterby, with some degree of feeling. "Many of the most eminent physicians recommend it." "Well," said Mrs. Splatterby, with a composed cast of countenance, "if it is a good medicine, it don't agree with your syst iKrkf itaii o rn nooor \rol 1 t trill X lll/lltc Uiai J\J U lllb UV1I.1 v? while there is a drop of the stuff in the house." Conveying an Idea of Size.?A naturalist who had bestowed attention upon the sea and its inhabitants says that he has observed whole shoals of herring, "in their anxiety to escape when pursued by whales, piled up above the surface of the sea to the height of from three to six feet. On one occasion the fish formed a mass even with the top of the mast of a fishing boat, namely about fifteen feet, and had part of this mass fallen into the boat it would doubtless have sunk." There is on record another curious description intended to convey an idea of size, namely, that of "a pumpkin so big that eight men could stand around it." "I understand you have stopped practicing?" said an American secretary of state to an eminent colored physician. "Yas, sah; 'eluded ter gin up de trade an' go ter preachin'. In dis country dar ain't no money ter be made in de practicin' o' medicine. Why, sah, if I had er 'voted my time ez close to ter suthin' else ez I hev ter dis business, I would er been putty well off by dis time. Ober two-thirds o' my patients neber paid me, sah." "Why didn't you sue them ?" "'Twouldn't done no good, 'cause da wus dead, sah. I got de wus' class o' patients. None of 'cm never had no healt' an' constitution." "Were you at the ball at the Governor's mansion?" asked Mrs. Peter by of Dr. Perkins Soonover. "Yes, I was there, and enjoyed myself very much," replied the doctor. "I didn't see your name in the list of distinguished personages." "I know that very well. The editor has a spite at me, and left my name out. Ah ! Mrs. Peterby, we doctors have lots of enemies in this world." "Yes, but not as many as in the next."? rn ft.'/i* lexas oijiifiys. Had Been a Boy Himself?Tom Anjerry, a student in the University of Texas, applied to Professor Snore for permission to be absent. "I would like to be excused from ray geography lesson this afternoon, as I want to take my sister out riding," said Tom. The old professor, who is no fool, looked at the young man over the top of his spectacles and said slowly: "Want to take your sister out riding in a buggy, eh ? Is she related to you ?"? Texas Si/tings. A Thing Much Better Left Unsaid j An Irish lawyer havingaddressed the Court as "gentlemen," instead of "yer honors," after he had concluded, a brother of the bar reminded him of his error. He immediately arose and apologized thus: "May it plase the Coort, in the hate of the debate I called yer honors gentlemen. I made a mistake, yer honors." The speaker then sat down. Jenkins playfully remarked to his wife that in her he possessed five fulls. "Name them, my love." "You are beautiful, youthful, dutiful, faithful and an arm full." "You have the advantage of me, my dear." "How so, my precious?" "I have but one fool." Jenkins made no further inquiry. I | fjpSfdlattMujs fUading. TETSY HAMILTON. SHE AST) HER COVS1X PINK VISIT MISSISSIPPI, Where They Have a Good Time Eating Turkey, Visiting Relatives and Seeing the Country?They Visit the A. and 31. College, Where the Boys Learn to 3Iake a Living, etc. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] I and cou9in Pink has got back from our trip at last. We been over to Massysip. When we taken that trip last year to the exposition, at New Orleans, and sailed around longer old Miss Slack and her gang, the settlement folks 'lowed they reckined as how we would stay at home awhile, but it jistputa taste in our mouths for ridin' about on the kars,aud when wegota invite to come over to Massysip we packed our hand satchels and started. We had a powful fine time, and I know in reason me and cousin Pink eat enough turkey?everybody peared to know we was turkey eaters. They say the turkeys would just natally gobble time they see us come in sight, for they knowed their time had come. We went to a heap of places and struck up with lots of folks that knowed folks we knowed, and it never tuck us no time to git acnuainted. We met a right smart chance of kinnery, too, and them that was not kin claimed kin, and we never knowed the difference in|particularat West Pint, Massysip. We went to Macon and to Okolona and to Starkville, and every time we moved it was like gitting into a new nest of kinnery, for they all called me "Cousin Betsy"?and tuck a powful shine to cousin Pink like they had knowed her allers. A mile from Starkville, is the A. & M. college. Cousin Pink she wanted to see them boys out thar and tried to put it off on to me, and atter I seed how nice they was, I didn't keer if she did for they was worth seeing. You don't git a chance every day to see 450 boys?in perticular sich boys as them. They work hard, earn ther board and schoolin' right thar, and lam a trade that helps 'em to make a livin' the rest of ther days. We got thar about milkin' time in the evenin' and seed the boys at work, some a milkin, some a feedin of the fine cows, Jerseys and Ayreshires and some tendin to the Creamery. That Creamery taken my time; it was a plum sight to me and cousin Pink, for we never had saw one?hits a machine, lor dividin' of the cream from the milk?wheels a-runnin' arouud and milk a pourin' out at one spout and cream at t'other?sich yaller cream ; and they had a churn bigger'n maw's old' bureau. They make a big chance of nice yaller butter and send it to Mobile and New Orleans, and we et some of it at Meridian. Them boys does all the work they own selves. They tend the ground around thar, and they say you would not know it was same place, and they lam 'em all about farmin' and raisin' of vegetables and fruit and sich like, and you don't see a nigger no wharsabout. A man that driv us out there said: "Dats de bes' way in the worl' to git work out er de whi' folks?des take de niggers clean out er dey sight." It was pretty to see them boys muster in ~ oil /Ihc.ooq/1 olilrc onrl it llllt? UUt 1U tut Jaiuj an uitoovu uuav) to hear 'em answer to their names and march into the "mess hall." They made a terrible rattle with their knives and forks and a powerful clatter with their tongues, and was as noisy and happy as a passle of black birds. They give 'em between nine hundred and a thousand loaves of bread a day, and bake their own bread and its good for we tried it. It rained while we was in Massysip, and cousin Pink she lowed she knowed in reason the creek at home was riz, well she was mity rite it had riz, they say it looked like a river. All the foot logs on Talladegy creek went down and many a poor little pig and calf wasdrownt; and Schmidt's mill upon Choccolocco creek washed away and lodged agin the railroad bridge away down on Coosa river sixty miles below. But we never knowed nothin' about no flood, that was the time we wasflyin' around and eatin' turkey and ribbon cake. The fus we knowed of it was when we got to Meridian. The word come on the telegraph for us not to come home tel the road was fixed. We wasn't a thinkin' about comin' home no how, and that was a good excuse to stay. We liked Meridian so well, it was like makin' a tarripin turn loose to pull us away. We stopped at Livingston, Alabama, and drunk some water outen that great artesian well that cures everything, and Cousin Pink she made a face and whistled like she had bit a green simmon tel I blinked at her and nudged her. You see it makes them Livingston folks mad ef you don't like that water, they'd druther you'd say sumpen agin one of ther children, so Cousin Pink she taken another sud and smacked her mouth like she thought it was powerful good, and the fust chance she got she threatened to murder me if ever I got her into another sich a box. Cousin Pink is a plum sight. Quiek as the washouts was fixed Cousin Pink she come on home and I went up to Birmingham and the gals let in to beggin me to stay to the "Pronunciation j Match." You see I reckin they thought | ! I needed it, but when I got thar I found j j out some of the rest of 'em needed it as j bad as me. Some of 'em said they'd go to the dee-po with me and some said they'd go to the dep-po with me and tothers the day-po, and bless you if it hadn't been for my free pass on the Georgia Pacific road i no tellin whar them galls would have tuck I me, nor when I'd ergot home. But I arrove safe and sound. And now I we are landed away over here in Atlanty, i Georgy. Pap, he seed in the Constitution | that Jeff Davis would be here the 1st of May j when they area gwine to unveil the statute : of Ben Hill and hedrutherrun theresk of loi sin his whole tater crap as to miss a seeing ! of Jefferson Davis. You see him and pap j knowed one another enduring of theConfed eracy, ana pap ne naa a nam crmer nameu i atter him, and lie lows he knows in reason ! Jeff, wouldn't never forgive him if he was ! to go home without seeing of him and a shakin' of his hati'. How lowed as how he j reckoned thar wouldn't be no chance to set down and have a good long talk with him ; but heknowed in reason Jeff would ruther talk to him as to talk to a heap of 'em that he'd be obleege to speak tojistfor perliteness. The whole face of the yeth 'pears to be alive with folks now, and if many more 1 comes I don't see whar they are a-gwine to bed 'em, that's the reason we'uns come a j head of time, and he wanted to pick us out a good place to see whar we wouldn't git! run over. We hadn't more'n landed here tel Cousin Pink she takes the tooth-ache j and wanted to go home ; she raought have | stayed at home a whole year and that old j tooth wouldn't thought about aching. I | had no notion of gwine home tel pap seed I Jeff, and me and her perused arouud White-! hall street and found Dr. W. G. Browne, the j tooth-doctor, and he doctored up her teeth and made her plum happy and now she wants to live in Atlanty. Curis how blue1 everything looks when a body's got the ! tooth-ache. Pap's happy and plum sober as a jedge. I He can't hardly wait for Friday to come ; he can't think of nothin else, he whistles "Dixie" and "My Maryland," and "All quiet along the Potomac," and once't in a while wipes off a tear with his red cotton hankercher. He loves to talk about them old confederick times; all this talk about Jeff. Davis a comin' have stirred up his feelins powerful, and I'll be plum glad when its all over and we git home. Betsy Hamilton. A Concert Under Difficulties.?The famous Polish violinist, M. Henri Wieniawski, when "starring" at Petersburg, was ordered to play once before the Czar Alexander II. In due time he appeared at the Winter Palace, was shown into a State department, where the Emperor made his appearance, accompanied by a large Newfoundland dog. When the artist began his performance the dog, which was lying at his master's leet, got up anu siowiy approached Wieniawski, who began to feel somewhat uncomfortable, fearing that the animal, according to its kind, might begin to accompany his play by a howl. Instead of this, however, the dog come close up to him and put his two fore pawson the artist's knees. It is easy to understand that such a situation was anything but advantageous to the musical performance. Nevertheless Wieniawski continued his concert, while the dog, not satisfied with his demonstrations, came closerand closer, following with his head every movement of the arm. At the thought that his art would be forever ended if the gigantic mouth should open to bite his right arm off the violinist trembled inwardly with fear, but did not dare to discontinue his play. At last the Emperor, who had evidently enjoyed the situation, inquired: "Wieniawski, does the dog incommode you at all ?" "Your Majesty," replied she artist, "I fear I incommode the dog." Alexander II. was much amused by the answer and the dog was called back. A Conjuror's Wonderftl Trick.?The Figarothe most popular newspaper of the French metropolis, Jnvited a very select number of notabilities to be present at the first appearance in Paris of a marvelous conjuror and of a singularly complete Russian Coral Society. The name of the "illusioniste," as he calls himself, is Buatier de Kolta, and he is a Hungarian by birth. His tricks were all original and perfectly incomprehensible even to the adepts assembled to criticise them. I will only attempt to describe one, which thoroughly puzzled all present. After spreading a newspaper on the floor he placed a chair upon it, and then asked J - A- -!i. -1 TT/x iu./x... /V..AM a young muy iu su uuwii. jio umcw uvci her a piece of silk, which barely covered her from head to foot. He then rapidly removed the drapery, and the chair was empty. As soon as the amazement of the spectators gave them time to applaud, the young lady walked in from the side and bowed her acknowledgments. There certainly was no trap in the floor, the chair was of an ordinary kind, and the trick was done in a strong light. The lady, in fact, disappeared before the very eyes of the audience; but so quickly was the trick done that no one present saw her escape. 9 The Arizona Camels all Sold.?The camels which were imported and used for some time in carrying goods and freight across the dry wastes of Arizona, were after the completion of the Southern Pacific railroad, turned loose and allowed to roam away, as being of no further use. Among the passengers on an evening train at Omaha, was Mr. John Shirly, one of the wealthiest land-owners in Australia. He has just purchased from the company which imported them the entire lot of camels, which now, by natural increase, number about 400, and he is going to New York on a brief business trip, after which he will return to Arizona, and arrange for the recapture and shipment of the animals, which will be a big job and require a good deal of time. It is proposed to use them in the unsettled and barren portions of the smallest of the five continents, and in transporting freight across the portions which are barren and destitute of water, but contain some rich mines. The entire drove was purchased for ?10,000 which is much less than the same number could be purchased in their native country, and carried across the two oceans for. Indians in Alaska.?The St. Paul Press says: A. P. Swineford, Governor of the Territory of Alaska, reached St. Paul Wednesday, coming directly from Portland. He says the population of Alaska is wholly made up of Indians, who are different from the North American tribes. They are what is called Asiatic Indians and are a thrifty and honest class of people. The principal industries are mining and seal-fishing, they being very expert in the latter, and becoming quite rich from their labors. These Indians are very affectionate, especially to their wives, whom they treat with kindness and tenderness. Their children are being educated as well as possible in that country, and the entire tribe is regarded as a frugal, thrifty race of people. Woods That Will Not Make Shirs. There are sixteen species of trees in America whose perfectly dry wood will sink in water. The heaviest of these is the black ironwood (condalia ferrea,) of Southern Florida which is more than thirty per cent, heavier than water. Of the others, the best known are the lignum vitie (guaiacum sanctum) and mangrove (rhizphora mangle). Another is a small oak (quercus grisea), found in the mountains of Texas, Southern New Mexico and Arizona, and westward to the Colorado desert, at an elevation of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. All the species in which the wood is heavier than water belong to semitropical Florida or the arid interior Pacific region. An Albany doctor asserts that electricity has been one of the most beneficent of modern health restorers. It is now used successfully for a great variety of maladies. Tumors are cured by it, paralysis relieved, neuralgia dissipated,sleeplessness overcome, colds broken up, rheumatism benefitted, constipation helped, some skin diseases healed, and asthma, St. Vitus' dance, and a great number of other affections favorably influenced by its proper use. Of course many cases are not in the least helped by electricity, and it should always be administered by any expert as a guarantee that more harm than good may not result. de Lesseps says that the building of the pyramids, which occupied .'50,000 men tnn vaopa woe hnv'a nlov tn HlP hllilflinfr nf tvu VVJ w r? ? the Panama canal. He estimates the power of the machines employed as equal to 500,000 men. - ? fifcaT Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die. fiSaT* It is perfectly safe to have some men owe you a grudge, for they never pay anything. ?aT A wise man in his household should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. i fiST The man who mounts his high horse is invariably the one who gets the least pity when he falls. I grading for the fahhath. CONDUCTED BY 1113 V. ROBERT LATH AN . [Original.] THE CHURCH OF SAUDIS. All that we know of the ancient Church of Sardis is contained in the first six verses of the Book of Revelation. The name Sardis does not occur elsewhere in the Scriptures, except when the names of the seven churches of Asia are given. Of it but little is said, but that little is awfully significant. The first thing that is said to the angel of this Church in Sardis is, "I know thy works." It is a most remarkable fact that these are the introductory of each of the seven letters addressed to the seven Churches of Asia. "I know thy works," is what Jesus Christ says of every congregation of professed Christians in the whole world. The world may not know its real character, neighboring congregations of Christians may be ignorant of its works, but the king and head of the Church knows them, and 1 l ? .,.^11 K K1U W9 lllt'lll WCll. The description given of the Church in Sardis is short and simple. "Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead." This might be said of a multitude of Christian congregations to-day. Like Sardis they have a name to live. They are noted for their punctuality in the discharge of what are usually called the external duties of religion. The members are regular in their attendance upon the means of grace. They attend church regularly, listen attentively to the preaching of the gospel, partake of the emblems of the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and conduct themselves becomingly before the world. They are more than this. Like Sardis they have a name to live. They are noted for what is mistaken for piety, and for what really resembles piety. They are not hypocrites. They are making no efforts to deceive any one. They really think they deserve the illustrious reputation that they have obtained. Notwithstanding all this, God said oftheChurch of Sardis that it was dead, and he says the same thing of all congregations thatare like Sardis. Every congregation is made of members, and its general character is determined by the character of its members. All the members of the Church in Sardis were not dead. The majority were, but there were some who had not defiled their garments. These few subserved the end of life-preservers for a time, at least, for the whole. It is evident that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Church of Sardis, but we are only inferentially told what it was. In fact, the Church of Sardis, although it had a name to live, was notorious among men for its life?was rotten to the core. Before men its works were perfect, but before God they were not. This is suggestive?startlingly suggestive. Men are satisfied with appearances, however hollow, 1 " ' * ^ r ?J Dill uou is noi. aien are saiisneu tvitu uaternal service, God demands the service of the heart. In what particular respect the works of the Church of Sardis were not perfect before God we are not told in so many words. The words "not perfect before God" suggest volumes. The chief end of man is to glorify God. In practice, the members of the Church of Sardis lost sight of this fundamental principle. They did a great many things for some purpose, but not for the glory of God. Whether they thought of glorifying God at all by anything they did, or said, or thought, we are not told. Possibly they did, but something else was first and the glory of God was second. Self and and not the glory of God, lay at the foundation of their works. When we inquire into the motives which prompt us to serve God we will be apt to find that we are individually startlingly like the Church of Sardis. Our works are not perfect before God. It may be that we hold high positions in the Church and bear the reputation of being devoutly pious but after all, our works may i not be perfect before God. It is always proper and in the end will be profitable for us to inquire why we are what we are. There was nothing wrong in the Church of Sardis having a name to live. There is nothing wrong in any individual having a name to live. On the contrary such a reputation is very desirable and is cheap, bought at any price, except imperfect works before God. The sin of the Church of Sardis probably consisted in that it?the majority of its members?did the right thing out of improper or selfish motives. This is a narrow place in the road that leads to heaven. God is a jealous God. He will be either all or nothing. We must do what he commands us to do, do it in the way he commands it, and do it for his glory. Such being the case, we may well ask "who can be saved?" There area vast multitude of ministers of the gospel. These all, or the overwhelming majority of them, have a name to live. May they not, with profit, ask themselves the question, "Am I dead?" Millions are annually expended by the Church militant for the spread of the gospel. The end ostensibly proposed to be accomplished is worthy of auy expenditure, but what, it may be asked, is the real end proposed to be accomplished by spreading the gospel among the heathen. The reply made by many is, "The conversion of the heathen to Christianity increases the resources of the world." This is certainly true. Every island of the sea which is brought under the dominion of Jesus Christ adds to the agricultural and commercial wealth of the J world, but are our works perfect before God when we attempt, or are actually engaged in Christianizing the hcathgn in order that we may make money out of them. On the same principle and with the same end in i view, syndicates construct and control rail road lines. It is not said that the Church in Sardis regarded itself in a live and flourishing condition, but the inference is that it did. It was increasing in numbers, and extending its influence over the adjacent regions, j Here is another narrow place in the road I that leads to heaven. A congregation may j be dead and yet its numbers constantly inj creasing. A spurious revival of religion in i a congregation may result in increasing the i number of the members, and a real revival i may result, and no doubt, often does result In decreasing the number of members. An old minister once reported, with tears of joy { streaming down his cheeks, that his congrei gation had experienced a wonderful outpouring of the Holy Spirit. One of the re| suits was that a backslider had been reclaimed and seventeen members had been disciplined for various immoralities, such asadultery and drunkenness, and turned out of the church. For the Church of Sardis it would no doubt have been a good thing had all except the few who had not polluted their garments been turned out. Possibly the officers did not know the dead from the liv- j ing, and it may be, as is sometimes the case, I that the officers did not belong to the living j ; portion of the congregation. They were I the dead leading the dead. The peculiar condition or state of the Ancient Church in Sardis is full of warning, not only to congregations, but also to single persons. Sardis was admonished to remember that the gospel in its purity had been preached to it, and by it the gospel had been received. The same is true of thousands of congregations in every quarter of the land. The Church in Sardis is admonished to \ "hold fast." This indirectly, but emphat-1 ically, declares that it had let go its hold on j the doctrines of Christianity, and then followed, as a necessary result, a lax and lati- j tudinarian practice. The same is true, pos-1 sibly, of some of the apparently most flour- ! ishing congregations of the present day. They ignore the doctrines of the cross and ! their practice is not perfect before God. It may be, and no doubt is, very popular with [ the world, but it is odious in the sight of God. The Church in Sardis was commanded to "repent." To change its mind, to think differently and act differently. This command is addressed to every congregation, and to every member of every congregation on earth. The punishment which the king and head of the Church would inflict upon the Church of Sardis, in case it did not repent, isnot stated directly. It is, however, stated, and that very emphatically, "i win come," he says, "on thee as a thief in the night, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." What he will do when he thus suddenly comes upon it, is stated by declaring what he will not do to those who have not defiled their garments. "I will not," he says, "blot their names out of the book of life, but I will confess their names before my Father, and before his angels." To those who have a name to live and do not repent he will blot their names out of the book of life, and he will deny their names before his Father and before his angels. In this there is something calculated to awaken serious thoughts and solemn inquiry in the mind of every individual whose name is written in the book containing the membership of any congregation. Each may ask the question, "Is my name to be stricken from the book of life ?" "Am I to be denied by the Saviour before his Father and the whole universe?" "Have I a name to live, but am dead ?" Family Worship.?After many years' absence from America, a missionary was asked, upon returning, what changes in his native land impressed him most. "One of the most painful," said he, is the breaking down of family altars." On this subject Canon Liddon remarks: There is one mark of a household in which God is known and loved, which is too often wanting in our day?I mean the practice of family prayer. Depend upon it, the worth of a practice of that kind can only be measured by its effects during a long period of time; and family prayers, though only occupying a few minutes, do make a great i- L ~ 4- i-Urx A uniereiict; iu any iitiusuiitjiu ni wic cnu ui ii year. How, indeed, can it be otherwise, when each morning, and each evening, too, all the members of the family, the old and the young, the parents and the children, the master and the servants, meet on a footing of perfect equality before the Eternal, in whose presence each is as nothing, or. less than nothing, yet to whom each is so infinitely dear that he has redeemed by his blood each and all of them ? How must not the bad spirits that are enemies of pure and bright family life flee away?the spirits of envy and pride, and untruthfulness and sloth, and the whole tribeo'f evil thoughtsmake jvay for his gracious presence in the hearts of old and young alike, when, as he brings us one by one nearer to the true end of our existence, so does he and he alone, make us to be "of one mind in a house," here within the narrow presence of each home circle, and hereafter in that countless family of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues,which shall dwell with him, the universal Parent of all eternity. Work.?It would be well if all Christians would resolve to be workers as well as givers of money. The need of the Church and the age is the practical contact of class with class, the rich with the poor, the sufferer with the healthy and the strong. Jacob had a vision in early life (most have visions then), but Jacob's ladder began with the ground, if its top reached heaven. Let us begin with lowly work. The fly works, and seems ever in a hurry, but what he does is not very manifest. The bee works quietly and for a very-sweet end. T/\ onwiTA n c?UA*?f flrvio a r? rl fill if 5c fur haf. JL U OCI vg (V OiiVJJ. C 11 UIV U1IV4 4*14 4 V 4tv m* vv w , ter than a long and idle life. The minister was right who, when told "he might live five or six years, if he gave up work, but only three years if he persisted in preaching," replied at once, "I prefer three busy years for my Master to fifty yearsof leisure." Let us all guard against excuses for not doing. Pleart and will are generally our only need for the accomplishment of most enterprises. Specially let us guard our religious life from idle excuses. We may only ride on deer to our businesses, and on tortoises or snails to our religious duties. BST" That is a good story which the ltev. Dr. Kust, Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tells to the Annual Conferences before which he presents the claims of his society. A young negro in the South had been converted, and at once wanted to preach. His elders thought he was not fitted for the important work ; but he well-nigh staggered them by relating a vision, in which he had plainly seen the letters "G. P. C.," which could mean only, "Go preach Christ." A white-haired negro preacher slowly arose, and told the ambitious young brother that, while he had no doubt seen the letters in a vision, he had failed in the interpretation. They probably meant, "Go, pick cotton," or "Go plow corn." This settled the matter. A preacher in the New York Conference, when the story was told a few days ago, remarked to a friend, sitting near: "I wish we had men in our white Conferences sharp enough to explain away as satisfactorily the arguments by which our young incompetents try to convince the committees that they have been called to preach the gospel. Pittsburg Advocate. j&gr Among the things which, thirty-five years ago. went to make up the crime of high treason in Italy, was the possession of a Bible, which was in the list of revolutionary and forbidden books, and for a man to own it was to subject him to prison, the galleys and even to death. Now, Bible depots are established in every Italian city, and itinerant venders circulate the book freely. In a conspicuous store in Corso, Itome, a whole window is filled with copies of the Italian version of the Scriptures. The New Testament can be purchased for five cents, and a separate Gospel for two cents.?Chicago Herald. Godly Stability.?A judicious observer has said : "The longer I live the more I am certain that the great difference between men?between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant?is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make any one successful without it." &rip Christian, believe this and think on it, that love which brought the son of God's love from heaven to earth, from earth to the cross, from the cross to the grave, from the grave to glory; that love which was weary, hungry, tempted, scorned, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crucified, pierced; which did fast, pray, teach, heal, weep, sweat, bleed, die, that love will eternally embrace thee. ?he ^gotfeville (?uquim. TE11M8 OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, 8 2 50 For six months, .*. 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"Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer of the above formerly of Crawford county, now of Macon, Georgia, merits the confidence ofall interested in catarrh. W. A. HUFF, Ex-Mayor of Macon." A superb Flesh Producer and Tonic. (xiiinn** 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 31.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon, Geofgia. For sale by DOWRY & STARR, Yorkville. April 8 11 ly ~T0 THE CAROLINA STOVE TRADE." 1 RESPECTFULLY' inform Stove Buyers all over the Stale 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 200 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 CASH ON DELIVERY'. J. D. RATTERREE, Chester, S. C. October 15 31 12m rw%www? /N/\mmA*T T*T A fT Tilti UU11U3 rjLiAA'r. The Only Agricultural Journal in South Carolina. AN EIGHT-PAGE, FORTY-COLUMN AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL ! Strictly and Intensely Agricultural, Fighting for arid Aiding the Farmers. The attention of the Farmers' Clubs organizing now in our State is called to THE COTTON PLANT, As the only Agricultural Magazine in our State. Only GO Cents a Year. SEND FOR SAMPLE COPIES. Address THE COTTON PLANT, Marion, S. The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING. HiGH ARM, "NewHowe" WHICH IS THEMST SEWING MACHINE EVER MADE. I CALL special attention to the following features : The NEW HOWE is a new machine throughout, differing in every point from the machines heretofore manufactured by the company. The needle is self-setting. It has the most room under the arm; the perfect Howe stitch: no holes to thread, except the needle; the easiest shuttle to thread ; the most perfect take up ; the loose balance-wheel; the largest bobbin; absolutely no vibration; the most perfect tension. It Ts the lightest running; noiseless, and the most pleasing in appearance. Prices within the reach of all. Call and getaj descriptive circular, and see the machine, which I is always on exhibition at my Photographic Gallery. * ! PHOTOCrRAPHY. I would inform the public that I am yet making PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles. I Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of pictures. Pictures by the photographic process enlarged, and all work done in the best style of t-l- nn'Woat < the art at reasonauic [?n.ra, ^ Libortv street, near the jail. J. It. SCIXORB. GARRY IRON RO< IItO\ ROOFINO /eSziS&t' CRIMPED AND I'ORRl'UATED SIDING. Iron Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, SUl'TTERS 40., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF May 10* THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF YORK?COl'RT OF COMMON FLEAS. Mary J. Guthrie, Plaintiff, against Arthur Williamson and Rettie Williamson, (children of John X. Williamson, deceased); Martha K. Carter, Sylvanus Williamson, Harriet Ragland, Louisa Carter and Leroy Williamson, (children of J. Glenn Williamson, deceased) and the widow (name unknown) of Robert Williamson, deceased, (also a son of the said J. Glenn Williamson); John M. Williamson, Sarah Ann Jones, and Addie Williamson (married, name not known), (children of Milton F. Williamson, deceased); H. Leroy Williamson, John Williamson, Samuel Williamson, Tazwell Williamson, Alexander Williamson, Rettie Williamson, Emma Williamson and Williamson (name not known), (the children, of Samuel E. Williamson, deceased); William A. Williamson, and John J. Williamson, (who, with the Plaintiff, are the children of W. Lewis Williamson, deceased); James L. Williamson, Mary E. Wilson, and Robert J. Williamson, (the children of Sylvanus Williamson, deceased) ; F. Leo Erwin and John R. Erwin, (the children of Ann R. Erwin, deceased)? heirs-at-law?and Robert E. Guthrie?as Administrator?of J. Harvey Williamson, de j rv _ j? 3 j... r? j ceased, .ueieimauis.?tsummunx jut iitiuj? Complaint not Served. To the Defendants above-named, all of whom, , except .James L. Williamson and Robert E. Guthrie, are non-residents of the State: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which is this day herewith tiled in the office of the Clerk oftheCourtof 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 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 April 28, 1886.] [r?. s.] Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis. Dated Yorkville, S. C., April 28, A. D. 1886. C. E. SPENCER, Plaintiffs^ Attorney. April 28 17 6t "c. & L NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., taking effect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, February 7th, 1886. going south. Leave Lenoir 6.00 A. M. Arrive at IJudsonville,* 6.24 A. M. Arrive at Lovelady,* 6.40 A. M. Arrive at Hickory, 7.10 A. M. Leave Newton 8,0") A. M. Arrive at Maiden,* 8.36 A. M. Arrive at Lincolntou, 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 Creek,* 11.07 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 11.30 A.M. Arrive at Yorkville, 12.05 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.25 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville,* 12.53 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville,* 1.30 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M. going north. Leave Chester, 4.25 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 4.55 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.30 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 5.55 P. M. Leave Yorkville 6.10 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 6.45 P. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 7.40 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.55 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.11 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 8.35 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.00 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 9.40 P. M. ArriveatNewton, 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 __________ 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 Avork 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: KILL HEADS. For 500 For 1(KH> Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.50 $0.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads 2.00 3.00 Monthly statementsat samepriceof sixth-sheet Dill heads. We will fill an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note, $2.15 $3,25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00 ' For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in ev- f ery 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 prepared to*furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will ue pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, FOUNDRY AND JMachine Shop. , ifr3 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, i 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. 1880. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1886~ Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables ARE still on a boom, and the year 1886 finds me with some of the finest' Vehicles ever shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and surpasssed by none. Everything will be kept ' in the best style. Give me a trial and be convinced. Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies Of every description will be kept. Spring Wagons, Plnetons, &t\, of the best make, always on 1 hand. FOR FUNERALS I have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence Coach, which will be sent to any part ef the county at short notice. Terms reasonable. A Big Bargain. I have a Jumpseat Phieton and some Buggies on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold SOOIl III IIIUKU ruuill 1W1 III V I1U\> SIAMJJV. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables, where tliev will receive the best attention. F. K. SMITH. ill'1*LIC A TIO\ FOR CHARTER. THIRTY (lays after date, application will be made to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for York countv, for a Charter incorpo- " rating THE YORK COUNTY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION. R. ANDRAL RRATTON, Secretary. May (1 IS 5t 3FING COMPANY, JE IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. L52 TO 158 MERMHN STREET Cleveland, O. ^Send for Circularand Price ' IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. <t ly