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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN* l DAY SERMON. Subject: “Og, Kins of BadKan." ^ Tut: “Only Og, king of Bashan, re mained of the remnant of giants} behold hit bedstead teas a bedstead of iron; it it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon f Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it”—Deuteronomy iii.. 11. The story of giants is mixed with myth. William the Conqueror was said to have been of overtowering altitude, but when in aftertime his tomb was opened his bones in dicated that he had been physically of only ordinary size. Roland the Hero was said to have been of astounding stature, but when his sepulchre was examined his armor was found only large enough to flt an ordinary man. Alexander the Great had helmets and shields of enormous size made and left among the peonle whom he had conquered, so as to give the impression that be was a giant, although he was rather under than oyer the usual height of a man. But that in other days and lands there were real S ants is authentic. One of the guards of e Duke of Brunswick was eight and a half feet high. In a museum in London is the skeleton of Charles Birne, eight feet four inches in stature. The Emperor Maxi- mi n was over eight feet. Pliny tells of a giant nine feet high and two other giants nine and a half feet. So I am not incredulous when I come to my text and find King Og a giant, and the size of his bedstead, turning the cubits of the text into feet, the bedrtead of Og, the king, must have been about thirteen and a half feet long. Judging from that the giant who oc cupied it was probably about eleven feet in stature, or nearly twice the average human size. There was no need of Rabbinical writers trying to account for the presence of this giant. King Og, as they did, by saying that he came down from the other side of the flood, being tall enough to wade the wa ters beside Noah’s ark, or that he rode on the top of the ark, the passengers inside the ark daily providing him with foo 1, There was nothing supernatural about him. He was simply a monster in size Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds of gold, and Sardanapalus had 150 bedsteads of gold burned up with him, but this bedstead of my text was of iron—everything sacrificed for strength to hold this excessive avoirdu pois, this Alp of bone and flesh. No wonder this couch was kept as a curiosity at Rab bath, and the people went from far and near to see it, just as now people go to museums to behold the armor of the ancients. You say what a fighter this giant, King Og, must have been. No doubt of it. I suppose the size of his sword and breastplate corre- sponded to the size of his beadstead, and bis stride across the battlefield and the full stroke of his arm must have been appalling. With an armed host he comes down to drive back the Israelites, who are marching on from Egypt to Canaan. We have no particulars of the battle, but I think the Israelites trembled when they saw this monster of a man moving down to crush them. Alas for the Israelites! Will their troubles never cease? What can men five and a half feet high do against this war rior of eleven feet, and what can short swords do against a sword whose gleam must have been like a flash of lightning? The battle of Edrei opened. Moses and his army met the giant and his army. The Lord of Hosts descended into the fight, and the gigantic strides that Og had made when ad vancing into the battle were more than equaled by the gigantic strides with which he retreated. Huzza for triumphant Israel! Sixty fortified cities surrendered to them, land of indescribable opulence comes into eir possession, and all that is left of the giant king is the iron bedstead. “Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it.” Why did not the Bible give us the size of the giant instead of the size of the bedstead? Why did it not indicate that the giant was eleven feet high instead of telling us that his couch was thirteen and a half feet long? No doubt among other things it -was to teach us that you can judge of a man by his surroundings. Show me a man’s associates, show me a man’s books, show me a man’s home, and I will tell you what he is without your telling me one word about bim. You cannot only tell a man accord ing to the old adage. “By the company he keeps,” but by the books he roads, by the pictures he admires, by the church he at tends. by the places he visits. Moral giants and moral pygmies, intellectual giants and intellectual pygmies, like physical giants or physical pygmies may be judged by their surroundings. When a man departs this life you can tell what has been his influence in a community for good by those who mourn for bim and by how sincere and long continued are the regrets of his taking off. There may be no pomp or obsequies and no pretense at epi- tapheology, but you can tell how high ne was in consecration, and how high in use fulness by how long is his shadow when he comes to lie down. V\ hat is true of indi viduals is true of cities and nations. Show me the free libraries and schools of a city, and I will tell you the intelligence of its people. Show me its gallary of painting and sculpture, and 1 will tell you the artistic ad vancement of its citizens. Show me its churches, and I will tell you the moral and religious status of the place. From the fact that Og’s bedstead was thirteen and a half feet long, 1 conclude the g iant himself was about eleven feet high. ut let no one by this thought be induced to surrender to unfavorable environments. A man can make his own bedstead. Chan trey and Hugh Miller were born stonemasons, but the one became an immortal sculptor and the other a Christian scientist whose name will never die. Turner, the painter, in whose praise John Ruskin expended the greatest genius of his life, w&s the son of a barber who advertised “a penny shave.” Dr. Prideaux, one of the greatest scholars of all time, earned his way through college by scouring pots and pans. The late Judge Bradley worked his own wav up from a charcoal burner to the bench of the supreme court of the United States. Yes, a man can decide the size of his own bedstead. Notice furthermore that even giants must rest. Such enormous physical endowment on the part of King Og might suggest the capacity to stride across all fatigue and omit slumber. No. He required an iron bedstead. Giants must rest. Not apprecia ting that fact how many of the giants yearly break down. Giants in business, giants in art, giants in eloquence, giants in usefulness. They live not out more than half their days. They try to escape the consequence of overwork by a voyage across the sea or a sail in a summer yacht, or call on physicians for relief from insom nia or restoration of unstrung nerves or the arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is what this giant of my text resorted to—an iron bedstead. Let no ohe think because he has great strength of body or mind that he can afford to tr.fle with his unusual gifts. The com mercial world, the literary world, the artis tic world, the political world, the religious world, are all the time aquake with the crash of falling giants. King Og no doubt had a throne, but the Bible never mentions his throne. King Og no doubt had crown, but the Bible never mentions his crown. King Og no doubt had a scepter, but the Bible does not mention his scepter. Yet one of the largest verses of the Bible is taken up in describing his bedstead. So God all. up and. down the Bible, honors sleep. Adam, with his head on a pillow of Edenic roees, has his slumber blest by a divine gift of beautiful companionship. Jacob, with his head on a pillow of rock, has his sleep glorified with a ladder tilled with deacending and ascending angels. Christ, with a pillow made out of the folded up coat of a fisher man honors slumber in the back part of the «torm tossed boat. la Bible times, when people arose at the voice of the bird, they retired at the time the bird puts his head under his wing. One of our national sins is robbery of sleep. Walter Scott was so urgent about this duty of slumber that, when arriving at a hotel where there was no room to sleep in except that in which there was a corpse,'inquired if the deceased had died of a contagious disease, and, when assured he had not, took the other bed in the room and fell into profoundest slthnber. Those of small endurance must certainly require rest if even the giant needs an iron bedstead. . notice, furthermore, that God’s people on the way to Canaan need not be surprised If they confront some sort of a giant. Had not the Israelltish host had trouble enough al ready? No! Red sea not enough. Water famine not enough. Long marches not enough. Opposition by enemies of ordinary stature not enough. Ther must 1 /W the giant of the iron bedstead. “Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it.” Why not let these Israelites go smoothly into Canaan without this gigantic opposition? Oh, they needed to have their courage and faith further tested and developed 1 And blessed the man who, in our time, in his march toward the Promised Land, does not meet more than one giant. Do not conclude that yon are not on the way to Canaan because of this ob stacle. As well might the Israelites conclu le they were not on the way to the Promised Land because they met 0& the giant. Standing in your way is some evil propensity, some social persecution,some business misfortune, some physical distress. Not one of yon but meets a giant who would like to hew you in twain. Higher than eleven feet this Og darkens the sky and the rattle of his buckler stuns the ear. But you are going to get the victory, as did the Israelites. In the name of the God of Moses and David and Joshua and Paul, charge on Him, and you will leave his carcass in the wilderness. Yon want a battle shout! Take that with which David, the five- footer, assailed Goliath, the nine-footer; when that giant cried, with stinging con tempt both in manner and intonation, “Come to me and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field,” and David looked up at the monster of braggadocio and defiantly replied: “Thou comeet to me with a sword, and with a spear,, and with a shield; but I come to tbee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou has defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee unto mine hand, and I will smite thee and take thine head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a god in Israel.” Then David, with probably three swirls of the sling about his head, got itinto^uffleient momentum and let fly till the cranium of the giant broke in and he fell and David leaped on his carcasss, one foot on his chest and the other on his head, and that was the last of the Philistine. But be sure you get the right battle shout and that you utter it with the right spirit, or Og will roll over you as easily as at plght ne rolled into his iron bedstead. Brethren, I have made up my mind that we will have to fight all the wav up to the Promised Land. I used to think tnat after awhile 1 would get Into a time where it would ba smooth and easy, but the time does not come and It will never come in this world. By the time King Og is used up so that he cannot get into his iron bedstead, some other giant of opposition looms up to dispute our ways. Let us stop looking for an easy time and make it a thirty years’ war, or a sixty years’ war, or a hundred years’ war, if we live so long. Mast I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prise And sailed througu bloody seas? Do you know the name of the biggesf giant that you can possibly meet—and you will meet him? He is not eleven feet high, but one hundred feet high. His bedstead is as long as the continent. His name is Doubt. His common food is Infidel books and skeptical lectures and ministers who do not know whether the Bible is inspired at all or inspired in spots, and Christians woo are more infidel than Christian. You will never reach the Promised Lana unless you slay that giant. Kill Doubt or Doubt will kill you. How to overcome this giant? Pray for faith, go with people who have faithl read everything that encourages faith, avoid as you would ship fever and smallpox the people who lack faith. in this battle against King Og use not for weapons the crutch of a limping Christian or the sharp pen of a controversialist, but the sword of truth, which is the word of God. The word “If” is made up of the same num ber of letters as the word “Og,” and it is just as big a giant. If the Bible be true. If the soul be immortal. If Christ be God. If our belief and behavior here decide our future destiny. If. If. If. I hate that word “If.” Noah Webster says it is a con junction; I say it is an armed giant. Satan breathed upon it a curse when he said to Christ, “If Thou be the Son of God.” What a dastardly and infamous “If.” Against that giant “IP’ hurl Job’s “I know" and Paul’s “I know.” “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” “I know in whom I have believed.” Down with the “IP’ and up with “I know.” Oh, that giant Doubt is such a cruel giantl It attacks many in the last hour. It would not let my mother aloue even in her dying moments. After a life of holi* □ess and consecration such as I never heard of in any one else, she said to my father, “Father, what if after all our prayers and struggles should go for nothing.” Why could she not, after all the trials and sick nesses and bereavements of a long life and the infirmities of ol 1 age, be allowed to go without such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder I have a grudge against the old monster? If I could I would give him a bigger bounce than Satan got when, hurled out of heaven, the first thing he strack was the bottom of perdition. With Og’s downfall all the sixty cities surrendered. Notning was left of the giant except his iron bedstead, which was kept in a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and stout be once was. So shall the last giant of opposition in the church’s march suc cumb. Not sixty cities captured, but ail the cities. Not only on one side of Jordan, but on both sides of all the rivers. The day is coming. Hear it, all ye who are doing something for the conquest of the world for God and the truth, the time will come when, as there was nothing left of Og, the giant, but the iron bedstead kept at Rabbath as a curiosity, there will be notn- ing left of the giants of iniquity except something for the relic hunters do examine. Which of the giants will be the last slain I know not, but there will be a museum some where to hold the relics of what they onoe were. A rusted sword will be hung up—the only relic of the giant of War. A demijohn —the only relio of the giant of Inebriation. A roulette ball—the only relic of the giant of Hazard. A pictured certificate of watered stocks—the only relic of the giant of Stock Gambling. A broken knife—the only relic of the giant of Assassination. A yellow copy of Tom Paine—the only relic of the f iant of Unbelief. And that museum will o for the later ages of the world what the iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earlier ages. Do you not see it makes all the differ ence in the world whether wo are fighting on toward a miserable defeat or toward a final victory? All the Bible promises prophesy the latter, and so I cheer you who are the troops of God, and though many things are dark now, like Alexander I review the array by torch light, and I give you the watchword wnich Martin Luther proclaimed, “The Lord of Hosts.’” “The Lord of Hosts. 1 ” and I cry out exultingly with Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar, “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.” Make all the prep arations for the world’s evangelization. Have the faith of Robert and Mary Aloffatt, the missioners, who after preaching in BeChuanaland for ten years without one convert when asked what they would like to have sent them by the way of gift from England, said, “Senda communion service, for it will be surely needed;” and sure enough the expected ingathering of many souls was realized and the communion ser vice arrived in time to celebrate it. Ap propriately did that missionary write in an album when his autograph was requested: My album Is the savage breast. Where darkness re:gns and tempests wrest. Without one ray of light. To write the name of Jesus there And point to worlds both bright and fair. And see the savage bowed m prayer. Is my supreme delight. “Whatever your work and wherever you work for God—forward I You in your way and I in my way. With holy pluci fight on with something of the strength of Thomas Troubridge, who at Inkermann had one leg shot off and the foot of the other leg. an 1 when they proposed to carry him off the field, replied: “No. I do not move until the battle is won.” Whatever be the rocking of the church or state, have the calmness of the aged woman in an earthquake that fright ened everybody else, and who, when asked if she was not a frail, said, “No: I am glad that I have a God who can shake the world.” Whether your work be to teach a Sabbath class, or nurse an invalid, or reform a wanderer, or print a tract, or train a household, or bear the querulousness of senility, or cheer the dis heartened, or lead a soul to Christ, know that by fidelity you may help hasten the time when the world shall be snowed under with white lily and incarnadined with red rose. And now I bargain with you that we will come back some day from our supersteller abode to see how the world looks when it ■hall be fully etnparadised—its last tear wept, Its last wound headed, its last shackle broken. Its last desert gardenisod, its last giant of iniquity decapitated* And when we land, may it be somewhere near the spot of earth where we have together toiled and struggled for the kingdom of God, and may it be about this hour in the high noon of some glorious Sabbath, looking into the up turned faces of some great audience radiant with holiness and triumph. SABBATH SCHOOL. i INTERNATIONAL LESSON APRIL 3. FOR Lesson Text* “The Wav of the Righteous,” Psalm i., 1-18— Golden Text: Psalm i, 1 —Commentary. 1. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standech in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” The whole book of Psalms is divided into five books, the endings of which are easily seen (xli., 13; IxxiL, 19: Ixxxix. 5‘2; cvi., 48; cxix., ti). The anc.ent Rabbins, saw in the live books of Psalms the image of the five books of the law. It has been said that the Law is the Lord’s fivefold word to the congregation, and the Psalter is the con gregation’s fivefold word to the Lord. Psalm i. is the preface to tne whole book or or the text of the sermon. The sub ject is the happiness of the right eous and the destruction of sinners. The word translated “Blessed,” or more literally, “O the blessings,"’ is used over forty times in the Old Testament, twenty- five of which are in the Psalms. The first is in Dent, xxxiii., 29, and the last in Dan. xii., 12. It is a different word from another which is translated “Blessed,” signifying to bend the knee to, or worship, and used over 3CC times. In this negative description of the happy man observe the three times three of the down grade of the wicked, which be avoids—walketh, standetn, sittetn, the counsel, the way, the seat, the ungodly, sin ners, the scornful. The counsel would be to let religion alone. The way is toat of the theater, the gambler, the drunkard. The seat is that of confirmed impiety. By resist ing the first we get victory over all. The following are very heipfui texts in reference to counsel: Ps. cvi., 43; xxxiii., 10, 11; Ixxiii.. 24; xxxii.. 8, margin. 2. “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day end night.” This is the positive description . 2 the happy man and the secret of his blessedness. In the word of God ha finds God Himself, and God becomes his deligut. The entrance of the word has enlightened him, caused him to see bis sinfulness and plead guilty, led him to the blood tnat maketh atonement for the soul, and now he is the happy man whose transgression is for given, whose sin is covered and to waom iniquity is not imputed (Ps. cxix., 130; xxxii., 1, 2; Rom. iii., 19, 24; Lev. xvii., 11). Having, as a poor man—one possessing nothing but sin—found the riches of the Lord, yea, durable ricaes and riguteousness (Prov. viii.,18,19), his heart goes out to others who as poor as he once was, and so car rying to them the word of the Lord which made him rich,and seeing the Lord s grace to them, he learns to delight greatly in the Lord (Ps. xli., 1; Isa. Iviii., 8, 11, 14). 3. “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forta his fruit in bis season; his leaf iuso snail nos wither; and whatsoever he doetn shall pros per.” He learns to say with Thomas A. Kempis, “I have no rest but in a nook wita the Book,” and thus eating the word day and night, his roots go down deep by the living water and he learns to say to God, “All my springs are in Thee” (Ps. Ixxxvii., 7). And though he may be outwardly oppressed and afflicted, even falsely accused and imprisoned like Joseph, or actually beaten like Paul and Silas, yet he prospers, and can make bis joy in the Lord to be heard and felt (Gin. xxxix., 2, 23; Acts xvi., 2o<. The fruit of the tspirit, love, joy, peace, etc., is only ripened, mellowed and brought out more beautifully by the fruits of affliction. In Jer. xvii., 7, 8, there is a very similar description o2 one whose trust in in the Lor f, an 1 wuosa hope the Lord is. The secret is that the Al mighty God is the all sutfleient home of tha soul—or, in other words, in Jesus dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and we are filled full in Him (Gen. xvii., 1; II Cor. vi., 17, 18; Col. ii., 9, 10). 4. “The ungodly are not so. but are like the chaff which the wind drivetu away.” And yet Christ died for the ungodly (P,om. v, 6) and is not willing that any should perish (II Pet. iii., 9),entreating tnose wnose sins are as deep dyeu as scarlet and crimson to come to Him and bs made whiter than snow (Isa. i., IS). But if they will not turn to Him, persisting in disobedience and re bellion, then when He gathers in His wheat into the garner He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire (Math, iii., 12). He will say unto some, ‘•Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared tor the devil and his angles.” “These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the right eous into life eternal” (Math, xxv., 41. 46). Chaff is just like wheat in form, but it is all form and no substance. Let us take heed. 5. “Therefore the ungodly snail not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congre gation of the righteous.” Thus early m Scripture do we find reference to the dis tinctive resurrections and judgments of unrigbteousnes which are so c.eariy spoken of in the New Testtment. Ihe word “stand” in this verse is in Ps. Ixxxviii., 10, and else where translated “arise;” so we might read, “The ungodly shall not arise in tne judg ment.” The Scriptural programme is simply this: At death the spirits of the rigateous enter into conscious bliss, the spirits ot tne lost into conscious torment, the bodies of all alike going to corruption; when Curist comes to the air tor His saints their bodies rise, and soul and body reunited appear at His judg ment seat to receive rewards for service and places in His kingdom. Only believers are in that judgment. They return with Him to judge tne living nations ana convert Israel and bring in the millennium, or thousand years, at the end of wnich the ungodly arise to stand before the great white throne and go away into the lake of fire (Luke xvi., 22, 23; Phil, i., 21, 23; IThess. iv., 16-18; II Cor. v., 10, Lukexix., 11-15; Rev. iii., 21; I Cor. vi., 2; Rev. xx., 1-15). 6. “For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” He looks with approval upon the way of the righteous for they walk in His way. Their prayer is “Show me Thy wav, O Lord teacn me Thy paths” (Ps. xxv., 4), and they find that all His ways are pleasant and His paths are peace (Prov. iii., 17). The ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them, but the transgressors shall fall therein (Hos. xiv., 9). The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord (Prov. xv.. 9). There are openly ungodly people who confess that they care not for the way of the Lord , tbese are not the worst enemies of Christ, although by their own confession they are without hope in the world. There are others who bear the name of the people of God, and, like the remnant in Jeremiah’s day, say. “Pray for us unto the Lord thy God, that the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do ” Then when God’s way is made known to them, because it does not happen to be to their liking, they turn their backs upon God and do their own pleasure. (See Jer. xlii., 2, 3; xliv., 16, 17).—Lesson Helper. The Des Moines Register rises to exclaim that “the patron-saint of all nurses is the great singer, Florence Nightingale. Her labors in the Crimean war have immortalized her name more than the sweetest songs that ever fell from her lips.” Where did you get it, Mr. Register? What authority have you for saying that Florence could sing any better than a woodpecker? Call in your musical editor, examine your library, and then blame the whole thing oa some luckless compositor. The more the girls pine for some young man the more spruce they be come. LADIES* DEPARTMENT. The great foundation of civil virtue is self-denial; and there is no one above the necessities of life but has opportunities of exercising that noble quality, and doing as much as his circumstances, will bear for the ease and convenience of other men. WOMEN PHRENOLOGISTS. Among carious additions to the professions <,1 wenaen is the woman phrenologist She is fast gaining in popularity, and, in short, it is ex pected she will rival the fortune-teller in her mysticisms and trickeries, though, of course, you must admit that she hes science of a certain kind on her side. Just now she is quite a refined faddist and performs only among the select “400,” who pay her a goodly sura to keep exclusive and amuse only those of their set — [San Francisco Examiner. OLD FASHIONS REVIVED. In looking over a rare old book of illustration of fashions 120 years ago it is noted that many of the modes of the present day are almost identical in feature with those of long ago. For instance, the bell skirt, with borders, ruches and other horizontal trimmings; bodices with round waists finished with clasps, girdles and chatelaine or naments; the leg-o’-muttop sleeve buttoned half way up the arm, etc. These fashion prints also show the coiflure corresponding in several styles to the present method of arranging the hair. — [Chicago Post. WOMEN KEEPING BANK ACCO' NTS. The president of one of the big up town banks, ^uated near Murray Hill, tells me that during the past few years a wonderful change has come over womankind. Hundreds of women now keep small bank accounts and when they pay their bills they draw checks for the amounts, just the same as men and thus avoid a good deal of annoyance. Time was when women were as much afraid of keep ing a bank acount as of a buzz saw in action, and they grew nervous, blushed and hemmed and hawed when tiiey signed a check. All this is changed now. New York women are becom ing accustomed to business ways. They no longer carry rolls of bills in their pockets or knotted in their hand kerchiefs. Instead they carry dainty little check books. It’s the fashion, and who ever knew a New York woman to be out of the fashion? — [New Ybrk Mail and Express. WOMAN’S STATUS IN CHINA. During her first ten years the girl enjoys as much freedom as a boy* Like a boy, she wears her hair in a long “pigtail,” and frequently goes about in boy , *y attire, especially where there are no in the family, for in that case thc^Kiese wish to maintain the illusion thafiUhe house is not with out male decendants. During this time also, no m.lter what her station, she is trained in all household duties and woman’s handicrafts, writes Pro fessor Areudt in the Chautauquan. A high value is put on becoming de meanor, decent bearing and clothing, and in many houses it is considered a point of honor for the daughter to be able to prepare a large part of her dowry with her own hand. “While the Chinese girl may be no less fortunate than a European child during these years of impressionable childhood the Chinese parents, with few exceptions, commit the first wrong to their daughters by letting them grow up without any schooling. This applies especially to the North; in the South, particularly in the Quang-Tong province, in which Canton lies, a bet ter report was obtained; although there education among women did not begin to be so common as among men, there were a few schools for girls un der women’s direction, while many received instruction from private teachers at the homes of their par ents. evenings talking ngo HOW MEN PROPOSE. The I. S. O. S. Club was the matter ever a few and one woman held the floor. “Of course, Charlie’s case has brought the matter forcibly before me just now,” she said mournfully; “but I always have contended that men don’t know when and how to propose. I’ve refused at least three whom I’d have married if they had asked me at the right time.” A woman in a brown ulster, who sat off in one corner, suggested that it might have been bad policy to marry all of them, but the speaker treated this remark with the contempt it de- i served. “Charlie, yon know,” she went on, “poured the story of his passion into my ear at Harrigan’s Theatre, during a performance of the “Lust of the Hogans.” and while the Knights of the Mystift Shrine were singing their touching lay. He said it reminded him that he had been worshipping at a certain shrine, etc. I refused him on the spot. “A man whom I'll call George selected a particularly cold evening last month, when the mercury was burrowing in the ground, and made his little speech on my front steps. My teeth were chattering, my nose was red, I had a cold in the head and it was getting .worse every minute. My refusal of George was kind bui prompt” * “My experience was worse than that,” said auither member. “The youth proposedIto me at supper, after the theatre, an varied by bites (f bread and butter, remarks were and bj delicate attentions in the way of urging food upon me. I actually became so confused before he got through that I didn’t know whether he was offering me himself or the cold chicken. Anyhow, I declined them both. I want a man who can stop eating long enough to ask a woman to be his wife.” “The most interesting proposal of my experience,” remarked a third, “was that of an absent-minded young man who used notes. I was giving a little reception, and of course, my time was much occupied. The young man realized that this wonld be the case and, to facilitate matters, he brought with him a memorandum. I afterwards found it on the floor, where he had dropped it in his agi tation. “Montion raise in salary. “Mention loneliness. “Mention pleasure in her society. “Mention pro-pects from Uncle Jim. . “Never loved before. “Propose. “I’m being a sister to him now.” “You’re all very critical,” said the President, “but what do you think a man ought to do?” “He should exercise tact,” said one. “He should wait until the two are aloue, with no chance of interrup tion,” said another. “He should be sure that the sur roundings are in harmony with the situation.” “He should give his uudivided at tention to the woman.” Above all this rose the quiet voice , of a little woman who had not spoken before. “The man who doesn’t propose at the right time is exasperating,” she said softly; “but what of the man who doesn’t propose at all?” There was a sudden calm, and over the face of every member settled a look of patient suffering. — [New York World. FASHION NOTES-* Plaids and checks are very largo at present. Enameled jewelry is made to imitate rosettes and bows of ribbon. Spangles of different sizes and colors are employed in profusion for trim ming bonnets. Striped taffetas sprinkled with jar diniere effects are only found in light, delicate shades. Blue, iu all shades, is in great de mand, and especially the medium and very bright blues. A pretty fashion for dressing the hair is the use of soft puffs fastened with jeweled pins. Immense buttons of bone, ivory or smoked pearl fasten the openings oa long basques or jackets. The newest skirt is either the um brella shape or that with a crosswise seam down the centre of the front. The new goods displayed in the shops are coarse, light and loud. The hairy effects of the winter material* are produced in lighter colored and more lightly woven textures. There is a great deal of trouble in store for the fashionable woman who wants a perfectly fitted dress. The new dtapery must be arranged after the wearer has the dress on. Evening gowns are made of velou- tines, of very heavy soft silks em broidered in Byzantine patterns, silken crepes, changeable gauze embroidered in Japanese designs, bamboos and chrysanthemums in silken and golden thread. The buttonhole flower of the season is the green pink. Thanks to chemi cal invention everything can be changed now to suit fashionable ca price. The green pink looks like tis sue paper cleverly cut. It is frightful, but correct. The most popular wrappers just now are dainty, airy creations, to be worn over the night-robe. These are of India silk, accordion-plaited from top to toe. A bow, made of wide satin ribbon with long ends, is tied at the collar, and the ends should fall to the bottom of the wrapper. The newest dress wraps are a sort of princess garment with double- breasted front opening down the entire length of the side over a panel of some ceutrasting material. There are full elbow sleeves of plain goods edged with fur, over close-fitting sleeves of the material like the panel. Black silks are to be worn more than ever for dress occasions, but they will be brightened up by admixtures. A front and sleeves of black silk, with a rosebud spray, will be used with the plain goods. They will also be made with narrow ruflles around the skirt* each rufll: headed with a colored gimp. Tiie Louis Quatorze waist will remain popular. J Hawk’s Fight IFIf/t a Rooster. J. Ii. Huff of Nickujack had a novel adventure recently. Hearing a dis turbance among his poultry he stepped to the door just iu time to see a large hawk swoop down and fasten his talons iu a fine Plymouth rooster. Having nothing in his hands to make war upon the daring robber, his first impiuse was to save ids fowl from in jury, and rushing forward to where the struggling pair lay he seized the hawk around the neck with one hand and disengaging his talons with the other, he easily effected his capture. The hawk measured four feet from tip to tip.—[Savannah (Ga.) Nows. . IF 1 . 'WA2R,]SnB3ICEl BAKER & CONFECTIONER. AND PEA Lick IN DRY ROODS, SHOES, I0TI0IS AID GROCERIES, AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. TOBACCO AID C1GABS ifl Great Yarietj. Toys, Fireworks, etc., in Stock. Lauren* Street and Park Ivenut, Aiken, S. C. The Waverly House, % G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. In the Send of KYiig- S tree tv CHARLESTON, S. C. Large and Comfortable Rooms. SATES, *2,50 PER DAT. •iTT * THREE ^Pozzoi^i’s POINTS COMPLE POWDER: SAFE; CURATIVE; BEAUTIFYING. (.2.3. THREE Stteil All Druggists Vanoy BtorsJ | TINTS WRIGHTS HOTEL. S. L. WRIGHT i SOBS, Props. COLUMBIA; m m m 3, C r Table supplied with tke best. 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