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Humorous frpartmeut. Old-Fashioned Lard.?Grocer (to clerk) "Say, what became of that barrel of soft soap!" Clerk?"Don't know." "That's mighty strange, for it was sitting here." "Oh ! you mean that pale looking stuff?" "Yes." * "I sold it for lard." "Did, eh ?? "Yes, sir." "Did anybody kick ?" "Not exactly about the soap, but one man came along and said that the last flour he got here made him slobber like a horse in a white clover pasture, but?here comes some one." uc?a?* nn it m a??d a' UiU'UlliOi CUtCi3~ oaj) UUJ mvtv v that lard ?" "No, sir, just out." "Wush you had some more. Makes the best bread I've eaten sense I was a boy. W'y it jolts like bein' punched with a rail. That's the sort o' viddults I like?somethin' I can feel. Wife don't like it, but then she ain't been uster good livin'." "We'll order you some more." "Wush you would. You may talk er bout your cotton-seed oil, an' all that, but old fashion' lard is the best stuff fur cookin' purposes after all. It's nachul, an' nobody has ever improved on natur' yit. Wall, good raornin'. Don't furgit to order the lard. Say, I wouldn't care if it was a leetle stronger."?Arkansaw Traveller. ? He Must Go.?There is a postmaster in a village not fifty miles from Detroit who has got to go. Some of the patrons of the office were in the city yesterday to see about it. They want to load an "offensive partisan" shot-gun and fire it off at him from a distance of ten feet. Said one of the committee: "For one thing, he's got so high toned that he will no longer lick on stamps, and for another, he ddh't seem to care whether we get any letters or not. The other day I went in and asked him if there was a letter for me from York State. " 4No,' said he. 44 4Will you look?' says I. 44 4I know there isn't,' says he. 44 4But it's from my brother William, and his children have got the measles. I know there's a letter here, for I dreamed of fish last night' " 'Nothing for you,' he says. " 'But William must have written.' " 'May be he did.' " 'That's curious,' says I, 'for William alius writes me once a month.' "With that he goes off without another word, and I didn't git the letter till ten days afterwards. He hung on to it to spite me, you see, and I'm going to have him out of that if it costs a cow." Weeping at the Panorama.?Among the crowd present at the battle panorama the other evening was a boy about fifteen years of age. He had been gazing around hira for about fifteen minutes, when he began to weep. The fact was noticed, and directly a gentleman said: "Ah! poor lad. This painting revives some episode of grief in his life. My boy, why do you weep ?" " 'Ca-ca-cause, sir!" was the broken reply as his tears fell faster. "Does the sight of this battle move you ?" "Y-yes." "Did your father lay down his life on this field ?? "No." "But you lost a relative of some sort?" "Notr?not that I know of." "Then it must be these bloody scenes that overcome you, poor child." "N-no, sir. I .come in here on the money which dad gave me to buy molasses with, onrl if hno insf. sfrnplr me that the whole Union army can't stop him from givin' me a bimawful whalin' when I git home. I reckon that feller over there on a stretcher is me?after dad gits through bringin' up his reserves."?Detroit Free Press. Expected Her to Help Some.?Silas is a country character, who means well. He tries to earn a living and "tinkers around" at odd jobs and chores and whatever else he can get to do ; but he works a good deai as he talks with, a painful drawl that is very suggestive of that state of natural restfulness which his ilk call "born tired." Silas came to mend a fence the other day for one of his patrons in the suburban village where he belongs, with a peculiar air of festivity about him. He had on a bright new necktie of Japanese silk, and and his honest face was covered by and expansive grin all the time that he was receiving his orders. "You seem happy, Silas," said Mr. Blank, with some curiosity, when he had finished about the fence. "Ya-as," drawled Silas. "Ya-as, I've been a gettin' married this mornin'." "Married? You? Why, Silas, man alive, what on earth have you gone and done that for ? "You can't support yourself as it is!" "Well," said Silas, "I ken pooty neur support myself, 'n' I think it is a dum pity if she can't help some."?Boston Record. A Surprise.?The Northern Pacific Railway is but just finished when it begins to put on uniform the same as other railways. An order was recently made requiring all ' the servants of the company to dress in uniform, and a tailor was employed to get out .the suit3. To facilitate matters, the tailor started on a measuring tour, telegraphing ahead to all officials?"Take off everything but your pantaloons and shirt, and be on platform, when train arrives, to be measured for uniform." When the train arrived, the man would be found and the tailor ready to enter the train when it was time for him to go. Everything was worksnglikea charm, when he stopped atone of the stations, out iounu no man waiting in his shirt sleeves. He found however, a very pretty little lady, the stationmistress, and her big brother waiting to receive him. He concluded not to take the measure. He then telegraphed to headquarters?1''How many agents have you that don't wear shirts and pantaloons and where are they located ? Answer." Robbie's Reproachful Query.?Rob- j bie has been brought up to have a profound reverence for the Father of his country to ! think that no other heroquitecompared with ; George Washington. The other day his j brother was talking about his shoes. "Now, George's buttons are all coming off his shoes, j mamma," he said, "but I haven't lost one off mine for weeks." "The reason is," remarked his mother, proudly, "that your mother sewed them ou j herself. I have come to the conclusion that j no human understands or ever understood . the art of putting on shoe buttons but your mother." Little six-year-old was listening, and here he asked, reproachfully: "Noteven George Washington, mamma?" i J6TA minister, who had been accused of preaching a sermon that was not his own, went to the r,?.rishioner who had made the charge, and asked him to retract. "Well," j said the pariffiioner, "I thought, when I heard that sermon, that it was taken from a , book I had at home; but I went home and : looked in the<feook?and it was all there." 1 foettn. Written for the Yorkville Enqnirer. THE CORRUPT JUDGE. Natura lofece, e poi ruppe la alampa. BY I.NOOMAR. O, blasted forever and covered with shame And infanty deep be his vile craven name! May it blister the tongue like foul perjury, And cursed be forever his vile progeny ! May his tongue in its casket soon rot and decay And the light from eyes baleful fast fade awaj'! May his children be idiots! or his wife ne'er conceive, So such monsters the world may never more grieve. Great God ! just to think that most sacred Fane? The Templeof Justice?this wretch doth profane With his carcass polluted, and judgment doth pass,? . Judgment said I ? Its mockery rather; alas, This modern Jeffrey's an ignorant toper Whose decisions are sold for "so much" filthy lucre. His soul he would sell, but soul he has not, For if ever he had one, it died of "black rot." 0, why will legislators place on the Jiench * "a O WrknoA oCnht ia O A crtttttuic BU 1UU1 . M UUOV oit/fiv 10 w uvvxvu That banishes Justice from her sacred Fane,? In whose presence 'twere mockery to mention her name! Ignorantia stamps each line of his face, And tfhen Nature cast him she her mould did - deface: She blushed at her work ! and said?Truth to tell You'll ne'er see his equal except 'tis in Hell! No more such foul monsters I'll make, Nature said, They're too foul to view,?the mould I will break; And the mould she did crush as you'd crush an egg-shell, One such monster, she said, will suffice out of Hell! Theu name not his name, let it fester and rot; 'Tis reeking with infamy! in Hell 'twas begot! Let it pass from the mind like a dark, troubled dream, For of virtue it ne'er gave e'en a flickering gleam. Corruption is stamped on his foul-visaged face Like a curse and a blight on poor mortal race, And "justice corrupted" rings out on tho air As the Temple of Justice you're wont to draw near ; And the Goddess of Justice her head hangs with shame When the Sheriff, with pageant, aloud doth pro- I claim That "his Honor's" now ready justice to dispense ; But, alas ! outraged Justice has flown from thence; She has folded her robes and fled in dismay From the carion vulture!?she cannot there stay: She cannot a moment such mockery endure, For her fountains are brilliant, crystal and pure: The rich or the poor she knows only by name, And she'd measure out justice to both all the same; But this foul Gnome or Ghoul knows which is which, And in his decrees he will favor the rich. 0, cur3ed is the land, but more cursed is the wretch Whom I truly delineate in this short sketch. May Hell's woes surround him with pain and with fear, For from sad hearts he's oft wrung a blistering tear! On the confines of space may Gnomes meet this Ghoul, For in Hell's dread recess no Spirit more foul A double damnation so richly deserves ! On the confines of space may Gnomes meet this Ghoul And bury forever in Hell his black soul! ! May Devilsand Furies with wild mocking laugh Present him a goblet and ask him to quaff The seething white foam which thro' Hell floats around, Then pitch him in flames in which he'll ne'er be drowned! And tell him that Just ice at last's got her due, As they oceans of flame to his startled gaze shew ! May he bathe in its sulph'rous fiery tide 'Till his black soul is blistered e'en on the inside! From his mouth may flames issue and forever well While he's blisteriag and roasting 'way down deep in Hell!!! Then name not his name, let it fester and rot, 'Tisreeking with infamy ! in Hell 'twas begot! Columbia, S. C'., 1886. IgisccUaucuws fUailiug. KNAPSACKS WERE A NUISANCE. A New Yorker who was a Confederate soldier twenty years ago keeps his war toggery in his favorite den, and has some prints from De Neuville's pieces on the walls. He was looking at one of these prints, representing a French infantry soldier in heavy marching order, with his knapsacks, dishes, haversack, tent pole, coffee mill, blanket, overcoat and accouterinents strapped about him, and said: I take no stock in an army that went into the field in any such shape as that. A man would break down under such a camel's back load. We fellows looked a little like that at the first of the war, but there wasn't one of us that looked that way at the end of it. When we enlisted we went into our camp with boiled shirts, slippers, half a dozen pair of stockings, collars, turn any amount of brica-brac in the shape of brushes, razors, blacking,-soap, stationery and I don't know what all. Pretty soon we began to find our boiled shirts and collars superfluous, for we didn't have any balls and receptions, and we gave the shirts to the negroes or to the surgeon for bandages, or to the cooks for dishcloths. Then we began to fire away our brickabrac; then we shed our extra stockings, and finally we fired away our knapsacks altogether and just rolled our stuff in our blankets and hung them from our shoulders. That's the easiest way to carry anything. I rather hated to part with my old knapsack, though and being a bit of a cobbler I cut it down to this size. Here it is. You see it is only a foot square, and weighs, with the straps, about a pound. I went through the three days' quarrel at Gettysburg with that on my shoulders and hardly knew I had anything on them. I had got down to business then and all that there was in that bag was a flannel shirt and a pair of drawers, a towel and a bit of soap. I used to wash my stockings every night and attend to the blisters on my feet, and when my stockings were worn out there were chances for new clothes after a battle. What did the dead fellows want of stockings? Yes, war is a savage hnsinpss. and men who mix nn in it live like savages. Some of us, when we went into it seemed to think that it was a kind of pleasure excursion, but we found it wasn't. We didn't bother about tents. My partner carried a blanket and I had a sort of poncho of rubber. When the ground was wet we put the poncho on it and covered ourselves with the blanket, and when the ground was hard and snow was falling, we put the blanket under us and used the poncho for a bed quilt. Spring beds are good enough for me. I don't wan't any more fighting." Ix ax African Forest.?At this juncture the native guides arrived, having followed our footsteps, anxious to see the result of our self guidance. Wishing to transfer my responsibility to other shoulders I offered them a present of cloth if they would lead us through the trackless forests to the precincts of Rombo; whence I knew we could find our way unaided to Taveita. They consented and once more we entered the dusky woods, following a zigzag course by means of the rough paths which elephants had just made. Often the longstemmed flowers, and crushed stained grass would be slowly rising erect again from the prostrate position into which they had been trampled by the feet of the clumsy proboscidians, these lords of the forest who had just preceded us. Indeed, from time to time they would make their presence known by sonorous trumpeting, but as they were quite aware of our proximity they took good care to conceal their huge bodies. The undergrowth was so dense that you might have touched an elephant in your gropings before you saw him ; but above this dense tangle of six or seven leet in height rose the straight smooth trunks of superb trees; indeed, the timber I saw here, was exceptionally fine. The gloom of the forest was intensified by the enormous masses of orchilla-weed which grew thickly on the upper branches of the trees, in such manner as to suggest a gray, green cloth being thrown over the foliage. The density of the woodland growth was almost appalling; we felt like insects creeping and twining through the interstices of the mighty trunks. As we preferred to go whither the elephants had forced a way, our course was naturally an eratic one, and several times the men lay down in despair to pant and rest.?//. //. Johnston. + Too Late.?A story is told, as authentic, of a young man in the Highlands of Scotland, who became a drunkard, a gambler, and, in the expressive Scotch phrase, a "ne'er-do-well." His father owned a small farm which had been in the family for two hundred years. But to save Jock from the' consequences of his. misdoing, he was obliged to mortgage it far beyond the possibility of redemption. The old man sank under the disgrace and misery, and died, leaving his wife, two or three children and worthless Jock. But the shock of his death brought the boy to his senses. Pie foreswore cards and whisky, came home and turned into hard work. He toiled steadily for years. At last his mother was "struck with death." Jock, now a middle-aged, grizzled farmer, stern and grave, was sent for in haste. He stood in silence by her death-bed a moment, and then broke forth: "Mither! mither! gin ye see fey ther there tell him the farm's our own agen. An' it's a' recht wi' me." The story reminds us of Dr. Johnson, who went, when he was an old man, to stand in the market place of Uttoxeter, his gray head bared to the pelting rain, in bitter remembrance of some act of disobedience to hie father nn that, snnt, when he was a bov. But of what avail are these acts of atonement when the old father or mother whom we have hurt and slighted so cruelly is dead? Do they see? Do they forgive? Who can say ? "It is only," said a mother, lately, "since my own children speak to me with rudeness and contempt, that I understand how great the debt was which I owed to my mother, and how poorly I paid it." Many a poor girl who reads these words, who treats her mother as a member of the family who does the work of a servant without a servant's wages, or a lad who flings about the money which the father is fast spending his feeble life to earn, will awaken some day to utter their remorse in an exceedingly bitter cry ; to which, alas, there can come no answer. Soxgs of the Mocking Bird.?Mocking birds can be taught almost anything in the way of tunes. Macon used to boast of a bird that whistled "Dixie," and years ago a Frenchman traveled about the country playing airs upon the piano which his bird would follow accurately. At the Pulaski house, in Savannah, a negro used to keep a bird that would whistle a good alto to tunes his master whistled. One of I he most popular errors concerning the mocking bird is the belief that he has no song of his own; that he adopts and Klnn/lo nnli? (lia nfttoo rvf rtttior hirrlsintfiR U1VJIIUO V/lilJ HIV KViVO Vi vvi*v? W..MW ...*v ?, song. This is pure nonsense. The young mocking-birds reared in the garrets of great cities and beyond the reach of the songs of others sing as do the natives in their freedom, though not as strongly, since they lack the inspiration of mates, the mellow sunlight and liberty. Their song is, in fact, a number of songs, but entirely original. No man ever heard the divisions of the mocking bird's song in any forest. That he intersperses them with cat-calls, the hawk's screech, the whir of the bull-bat and the chicken's melancholy "peep," and notes from other birds is true, but these are only characters in his recitative ballad, features in the romance of his summers. That he sings his parts backward and forward and combines them anew is also true. The mocking bird's song is to?the ear what the kaleidoscope is to the eye, and the combinations of his songs are as endless as the glass forms in the toy. But the song notes are the same. The bird is probably the most continuous singer in the world, but there are two weeks out of every fifty-two when nothing can tempt him to sing, and that is when he is molting. At such times he may be found moping in a secluded spot lost in rayless melancholy. He looks then hot and sick, and the only note he utters is a short low whistle, not unlike that which the fat man makes as he removes his hat and mops his brow. Perhaps during this season the bird lays aside mockery, repents, and makes good resolutions.?Jfacon (Ga.) Telegraph. Wiio Owns Great Britain '/?Everybody knows that a small number of men own the bulk of the land in Great Britain, but there is always something startling about the figures. The total area of England and Wales (excluding London) is 37,243,839 acres or about that of New York, New Jersey and Delaware combined. One man owns 197,397, or 1-200 of the whole; a second 132,990 acres, and a third 102,780 acres; sixty-six persons own* 1,917,070 acres, equal to Delaware and the three lower counties of New Jersey; 280 own 5,42G,7G4 acres, a tract considerably larger than New Jersey; 874 own 9,207,031 acres, at which rate i,uuu persons wouiu own a iuu muu ui New York State. A body of men which does not exceed 4,GOO owns more than onehalf of England and Wales. In Scotland the situation is still worse. The area of that country is 18,940,094 acres, which is a little more than that of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshireand Vermont together. One man owns 1,320,000 acres which is as if a single individual owned a tract as large as Rhode Island and all of Massachusetts from Fall River to the end of Cape Cod ; two others own 431,000 and 424,000 acres respectively, or between them more than enough to make another Rhode Island; 24 men own 4,931,884 acres, which falls but little short of the area of Massachusetts; 12 persons own nearly onefourth of Scotland; 70 persons own about one-half of it, and n'me-1entlis of the whole country belongs to fewer than 1,700 persons. Ireland contains 20,159,078 acres, which makes it not quite the size of Maine. One person owns 170,119 acres; 202 hold about one-third of the island ; 744 hold about onehalf of all the land. Two-thirds of England and Wales are held by only 10,207 persons; two-thirds of Ireland by 1,902; and two-thirds of Scotland by but 330.?N. Y. Evening Post. Napoleon.?Here was an experiment, under the most favorable conditions, of the powers of intellect without conscience. Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed; never a leader found such aids and followers. And what was the result of this vast talent and dower ? * * All passed away, like the smoke of his artillery. Fish.?There is no class of creatures who have clone less harm to mankind than fish, j Yet it would seem that there is none which | have been so much the victims of the hu-1 man imagination. It seems to have come to the point that people have got to think that there is some unaccountable incongruity between fish stories and truth. Yet some strange things, which are told about fish, are true for all that. Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute, one of the very highest authorities on that subject, has as- ; sured a Herald correspondent that there is authentic evidence to show that carp have attained an age of 200 years. Prof. Baird i also says that there is a tradition that with- i in fifty years a pike was living in Russia i whose age dated back to the loth centtry. "There is nothing," he says to prevent a ysh from living almost indefinitely, as it 1 has no period ot maturity, but grows with : each year year of life." There are gold fish in this city that have belonged to one 1 family for over fifty years. They do not appear to be much larger than when they i were originally placed in the aquarium, and are every bit as lively as they were < when young. The Russian Minister says that in the royal aquariums in St. Petersburg there are fish to-day that are known by the records to have been in them 140 years. Some of them are, he says, over : five times as large as they were when first captured, while others have not grown an inch in length. An attache of the Chinese Legation corroborates this statement. He says there are sacred fish kept in some of the palaces in China that are even older than any of those in Russia. Rare old Birds.?When the first discoverers of the Mascarene Islands investigated that locality they found among other strange animals a number of huge birds without wings, that, however, were remarkable for their power of running. One was a rail that stood a foot higher than the tallest man, being over seven feet in height. Many centuries ago in France when man lived in caves, there lived a gigantic bird, called Gastornis, a great goose like form that towered aloft thirteen or fourteen feet. A huge goose called by the naturalists Creminoris has left its remains in awes and various deposits. Among the other curious birds of Mauritus was the giant of the pigeons, a bird as large as a swan; an immense pigeon with fluffy, unruly feathers, but incapable of flight. When Mauritius was discovered in thesixteenth century this bird was common. Thn Maoc? umro hnnrn imnrocaiuo pfPfltiirAQ At.V, ,..*??? ,,WV, ~ ? , the largest being over thirteen feet in height, with rudimentary or no wings; its legs appeared more like great columns of support than organs for locomotion, and the bones themselves were much larger than those of an ox. About the locality where the city of Rheims now stands, the remains of this great wader and swimmer have been found' in the caves mixed in among the bones of animals, as the great mammoth and cave bear. Sublime Self-Sacrifice.?At the siege of Turin, in 1706, the French had obtained possession of one of the subterraneous galleries which communicated with the citadel. Hoping by this means to make themselves masters of the citadel they had secretly posted in the gallery a party of 200 grenadiers. A Piedmontese peasant named Micha, who had been forced to serve as a pioneer, and who had been made a corporal, was at work on a mine near the spot with twenty men. Hearing the French overhead,and convinced that if they remained a moment longer masters of the, gallery the fortress would be lost, he determined to sacrifice his own life to save the place. He immediately sent away his comrades, desiring them to let him know by the discharge of a musket when they were out of reach of danger. A3 soon as he heard the signal he put the match to the mine and blew himself up along with 200 grenadiers. The king of Sardinia rewarded his wife and children, whom at the moment of hisdeath, Micha had recommended to his care, and he likewise settled a pension on the whole of his family. Shout History of Candles.?Candlesticks are mentioned in the Bible, but there ~ A ^ L/v ? .v /Kv.ikl- In in t\u ll'OrO St'L'IUS LU ue I1U UUUUL mai nicoc lampo nvib for burning olive oil rather than supports for what are now called candles. The candles used by the Greeks and Itomans were rude torches made by dipping strings of papyrus or rushes into pitch, and afterward coating them with wax. In Europe this candle was in use during the middle ages, the wick being of twisted tow. Often these were very large and heavy. Among thepoorer classes candles were made by soaking splints of wood in fat or oil. The use of these wood splints is mentioned in English history about the beginning of the fourteenth century. Wax candles were also made during this century, but they were expensive and deemed a great luxury. Soon after this a dipped candle made from tallow was inj troduced. A company for making wax candles was incorporated in London in 1874. Mold candles are said to be the invention of the Sieur Le Brez, of Paris. Spermaceti candles are of modern manufacture. 1 How to Preserve tjie Eyesight.? Avoid all sudden changes between lightand darkness. Never begin to read, write or sew for several minutes after coming from darkness to a bright light. Never read by twilight or moonlight, or on dark, cloudy days. When reading it is best to let the light fall from above obliquely over the left shoulder. Do not use the eyesight by the light so scant that it requires an effort to discriminate. The moment you are instinctively prompted to rub your eyes, that moment stop using them. If the eyelids are glued together on waking up do not forcibly open them, but apply saliva with the finger. It is the speediest dilutant in the world; then wash your eyes and face in warm water. 4 ? ? As Seen From the Moon.?If it were possible to rise above the atmosphere which surrounds the earth, we shall see nothing butuninten.se and shapeiy-aennea uan 01 lire, while eyerything else would be wrapped in total darkness. There could be no diffusion of light without an atmosphere or soiflfe similar medium for it to act upon ; but if the air about us extended a height of seven hundred miles, the rays of the sun j1 could not penetrate it, and we would be ! left in darkness. At the depth of seven j hundred feet in the ocean the light ceases i altogether, one half of the light being ab-1 sorbed in passing through only seven feet of j the purest water. ^ Dull people think it fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was earlier then they think, ! namely, in the balance or adjustment be- j tween devotion to what is agreeable to-day, | and the forecast of what will be valuable , < to-morrow.?Emerson. The happiness of your life dependsj upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore i guard accordingly, and take care that you : entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, i and unreasonable to nature. fteadiag fur the ahhath. CONDUCTED BY ItKV. ROBERT LATHAN. [ Original.] PUBLIC PRAYERS. It is not our intention to write an essay on the nature of prayer, neither is it our purpose to undertake to prove that prayer is a i great privilege and a commanded duty. j Every individual who has read the Bible with any dgree of care knows that we are commanded to pray, and pray without ceasing; and every individual, who has ever reflected for a moment on the subject, will admit that to be permitted to ask God for blessings, is a most gracious privilege. Our object at present is simply to call the i attention of our readers to the prevailing j incongruity of public prayers. Sophomoric | declamation and bombastic sentences are | pardonable in a school-boy at the close of a 3chool session or a country pic-nic, but declamation in a petition, or a petition declaimed, and the petition itself a string of bombastic sentences is not bearable. Multitudes of Godly persons refuse to pray in public because, they say, they cannot pray. This is not true. Every child of God can pray and does pray, but multitudes of the best men and women cannot declaim in prayer and it is a good thing that they cannot. Multitudes of saintscannotgetupa petition in high-sounding words and far-fetched figures, and it would be a glorious thing if no such so-called prayers ever-were offered up. The fact that plain Christians cannot get up a prayer full of classic references discourages plain Christians from attempting to pray in public. It ought not to have this effect. Learning is a good thingin its place, but its place is not in prayer. What may with propriety be called learned prayers are abominable. The man who makes known his wants, or the wants of others, in Latin and Greek quotations must have a strange notion of God. The impression he seems to be endeavoring to make on the mind of his maker is, that he is a learned man?a fine classical scholar. The language of prayerprayer in the proper sense?is always eloquent, touchingly eloquent, but it is the eloquence of simplicity. There is not a more touchingly eloquent sentence than the petition of the publican, "God be merciful to me a sinner." Another glaring incongruity in many? perhaps the most of public prayers?is that they sound more like lectures on theology than anything else. The whole plan of salvation is declaimed. The fall of man and its rlronrl fill pnnspniipnpp*?the doctrine of justification by faith?sanctification by the Holy Spirit, and everything else connected with the scheme of redemption is fully and Scripturally stated and explained to God as if he had never heard of it before. All this would be well enough in a sermon or a lecture; but in what part of it is there the faintest resemblance to prayer proper? Speaking after the rffanner of men, might not God say at the conclusion of such an orthodox harangue, "What you say is all true. I knew it long ago?before you had an actual existence; but what do you want ? Why attempt to tell me what I fully understand, and you do not understand?" It is surely exceedingly unbecoming, not to say very sinful, to convert a prayer into a sermon or a lecture. It is just as silly to repeat in the introduction to our prayers a long string of God's attributes. This may sound very learned, but in fact it shows the want of something better than learning. The introduction or preface, as it is often called, to the Lord's prayer is "Our Father, who art in heaven." This is marvelously simple when compared with the introductions to prayers which are sometimes heard. Another incongruity in many public prayers, and it may be in many private prayers, too, is that while they are long, unreasonably long, the idea of petition scarcely enters into them from beginning to end. In other words, God is not asked to give anything. This, no doubt, is one reason why what is called prayer is so seldom answered. The fact is, God was not asked to give or bestow anything, only in a vague or general way. In fact the petitioner often seems to address God as if he was not asking for something, but as if he was anxious to let his hearers know that he was a very learned man by telling tioci an tnat ne Knows auout a variety of subjects, some sacred, but most of them profane. There is something very suggestive in the me&sage which the sisters of Lazarus sent to Jesus when Lazarus was sick. "Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick!" Possibly this cannot be regarded as a prayer, for at that time, probably, Martha and Mary did not know that Jesus wias the Messiah. It however, is certain that they regarded him as one who was able to have influence with God. The thing suggested is that prayer is often too dictatorial. It is true that for somethings we have the privilege in prayer to command God, but in others we must not go beyond the bare statement of the facts in the case. "Lord, he whom the lovest is sick," isasfaras they dare safely go. When we know through the revelation which is contained in the Scriptures what is the will of God, then, in the language of the Scriptures, we are permitted to command God, but when the will of God is not revealed as it was in the case of Lazarus' sickness as how it would terminate, then we must be careful lest we dictate to God. All that we dare do safely is such cases is to make known the state of the case to God, and let him dispose of it as he sees lit. Strange as it may seem, those things which are only promised so far as shall be for God's glory are the things which are most earnestly sought in prayer, and those things which God has promised to give every one who will ask for them in the name of Jesus, are nearly passed by in silence. Asa rule public prayers should be short and the language Scriptural, not Ciceronian or Vergilian. Cicero's style and language are beautiful and sometimes his thoughts are sensible and moral. Vergil's lines run as smooth as oil and his figures are charming, but in a prayer offered to God they are abominable. The same may be said of the productions of the English classics. Nothing quoted in prayer is reverential except God's own "word of promise given." Missed It.?A young man dying in New York city was visited by the doctor, who found hirn in his lodgings alone. He told him he could not live. He said, "Is it possible I have to die so young?" "Yes," he said, "you have to die." And the young man exclaimed, with a good deal of sadness, I "Well, I have missed it at last!" And the j doctor said, "Missed what?" "Oh ! I have | missod heaven !" And then he went on to j tell how his friends pleaded with him, and j how he said there is time enough. And the ! last words heard to fall from him were just J in a faint whisper, "I have missed it !"and I he was gone. Whatever you do, don't miss i heaven. It would have been a thousand j times better never to have been born than j die in sin and miss heaven. flaT We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamp the light, and God the inheritance and portion of his people forever. ?he ?0tMIc inquirer. 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I RESPECTFULLY inform Stove 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 200 feet to contain the stock, and can fill orders promptly. COOKING STOVES FROM $8.00 UP. Warranted to give satisfaction. Best Box Heating Stoves from $2.50 Up. The goods aro 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. T&Sr 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 everv neighborhood in the State. TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. J. D. RATTERREE, ' Chester, S. C. October 15 31 12m THE COTTON PLANT. The Only Agricultural Journal in South Carolina. a AN EIGHT-PAGE, FORTY-COLUMN AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL ! Strictly and Intensely Agricultural, Fighting for and Aiding the Farmers. 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M. * Flag Station. G. R. TALC'OTT, Superintendent. February 18 7 tf RELIEF ! For Forty Years A Sufferet from Catarrh. WONDERFUL TO RELATE. ^ ' 7'OR forty years I have been a victim to CAJP TARRH? three-fourths of the time a sufferer from excruciating pains across my forehead and my nostrils. The discharges were so offensive that I hesitate to mention it, except for the good it may do some other sufferer. I have spent a young fortune from my earnings duringmy forty years of suffering to obtain relief from the doctors. I have tried patent medicines?every one I could learn of?from the four corners of the earth, with no relief. And AT LAST (57 years of age) have met with a remedy that has cured me entirely?made me a new man. I weighed 128 pounds and now weigh 146. I used thirteen bottles of the medicine, and the onlj' regret I have is that being in the humble walks of life I may not have influence to prevail on all catarrh sufferers to use what has cured me, Gninn's Pioneer Blood Renewer. HENRY CHEVES. "No. 267 Second St., Macon, Ga." "Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer of the above formerly of Crawford county, now of Macon, Georgia, merits theconfidenceofall interested in catarrh. \V. A. HUFF, Ex-Mayor of Macon." A superb Flesh Producer and'Tonic. Guinn'M 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 ?1.00; large bottles ?1.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon, Georgia. For sale by DOWRY & STARR, Yorkvfile. Aprils 11 ly " JOB PRINTING. 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 witn New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. Wo have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which we invite the attention of business men: It ILL HEADS. For 500 For 100" Half-sheet Bill Heads, ?3.?0 ?f>.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 nill 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, r. 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. Wo are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, FOrXDRY ( AND f Machine Shop. 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. i 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. 1886. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1886. Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables ARE still on a boom, and the year 188(3 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 con- , vinced. Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies Of every description will be kept. Spring Wagons, Plnetons, etc., of the best make, always on 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 Plneton and some Buggies on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold soon to make room for my new stock. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables, where they win receive tne uest attention. # F. E. SMITH. Al'PLH'ATIOX FOR DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned* Administrators of the estate of WILLIAM McGILL, deceased, have made a final ret urn and settlement with the Judge of Probate for York county, and on Thursday, the 3rd day of July, 188i), at 11 o'clock A. M., will make application tor discharge from liability as Administrators of said estate. WILLIAM McGILL,) A(,ininUtr.ltnPW THOMAS McGILL, } Administrators. C. E. Si'ENckr, Attorney for Administrators. June 3 22 5t* CHATTEL MORTGAGES, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. OFING COMPANY, JP IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. 152 TO 158 MERWIN STREET '' Cleveland, O. ''^,2?r Send for Cireularand Price P IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. y iy