The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 19, 1885, Image 1

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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1885. VOLUME XXL?NO. 19. PAJStIG PRICES ? AT ? . B. BENSON'S STORE. CLOTHING STRUCK BOTTOM! Those who fail to see my Stock are the Losers! --^-0-? ?UITS considered cheap two weeks ago at $17.50 must go now at $14.00. Those at C. $12.50 can now be nad for $10.00. Although everything was marked low at first, I have made a general cut?in fact, have slaughtered prices: $10.00 Overcoats at $7.50. $8.50 Overcoats at $6.00. $5.00 Overcoats at $3.50. ? $5.00 Pants at $2.25. A good line of $3.00 Shoes. Curtis & Co.'s Celebrated $6.00 hand-made Shoes for ' gentlemen. A good Calf Congress Gaiter, home-made, at $2.50. A full assortment of home-made Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Miles' Fine Shoes for Gentle? men. Ladies, Misses and Infants now in stock. :; r-'-BUBBEK GOODS, CIRCULARS and NEWPORTS for Ladies and Misses. G08SAMER and heavy RUBBER COATS for Men and Boys. Nice line of OVER? SHOES* all sizes. RUBBER DOLLS, and such tricks. LAP ROBES and HORSE BLANKETS. "Another lot of STETSON'S HATS just received, and more coming. AU people who eat will be interested in my prices for GROCERIES. Will save you money on many things not here mentioned. Read my Locals each week and keep posted. Big drive in cheese. Try me on hardware. i will knock the black out on canned GOODS and CRACKERS. Will do you good on teas and COFFEES. See my Golden Rio?might be sold for Java, i Old-fashioned Seed:Tick Coffee. I mean- business. Must sell my Goods, profit or no profit. Can't afford to be idle, for 'tis said that "idleness is the Devil's workshop," and I would rather keep busy, if it is but swapping dollars, than to enter a copartnership with "Old Nick." 5 1 . ?"? O .-.:?.? .:.-? . , ' ? 1. .. . . .? ? That is,T can when I wear the JOHNSTON SPECTACLES, sold by : E. B. BENSON, Anderson, S. C. IND WMf ER ANNOUNCEMENT. J. P. SULLIVAN * CO. o '?Tj^NCOURAGED by our success in the past, we come to the front again with the best JEi offers we*Kaye ever before been able to make. THE LARGEST STOCK, And Prices as Low ?s is consistent for honest Goods. JEANS?We can sell you Jeans from 10c a yard to 40c a yard. Come and see our VIRGINIA CASSIMERESL WOOLEN GOODS are cheap. All-wool Red Flannel for only 10c a yard. Ladies' Dress Goods/ Shawls and Cloaks. ? Jersey Jackets are very fashionable, and cost a great deal less than ever before. WVca^Selia*3iice fitting Jersey for 65c- We have them in Black?, Navy Blues and Cardinals. Ladies' and Misses' Underwear, Youthsj and Mens' Clothing. ? ' W? have bougbta large 8tock of READY-MADE CLOTHING from first hands, and ean offer bargains in full Suits, or in extra Coats and Pants. An Immense Stock of Boots and . Shoes. ither Boots for $1.50, a pair. Wo mens' all-sol Q-BQOEBIES, Mens'alirsolid leather Boots for $1.50,a pair.- Womeus' all-solid leather Shoes for 75c a pair. ? Mm " We have had our Cellar enlarged, and are prepared to exhibit a larger and more complete Stock of Groceries than heretofore. We have a large COFFEE TRADE, and intend to hold it by keeping the BEST GRADES. We will sell you the best Rio Coffee 8 lbs. for one dollar. SUGARS have within the last few mouths advanced, but we will sell a pure Brown Sugar 14 Iba. for $1.00. Very respectfully, J. P; SULLIVAN & CO. 8eptlp?i886 > 9; JOIN W. DANIELS, Estate Agent, .Anderson, S. O. HAS MANY TRACTS of LAND AND MANY LOTS FOR SALE, AND A FEW TO RENT. THOSE INDEBTED TO CLARK & CO., JOHN W. DANIELS, Prop'r., To JOHN W. DANIELS for Record ing Deeds, Mortgages, Liens, &c, while Clerk of the Court?by Note or Ac? count?may save money by coming to see me. Office on Main Street. JOHN W. DANIELS. Oct 29, 1885 16 J. B. CLARK, MERCHANT TAILOR, WOULD respectfully inform his friends and customers that he is now loca? ted on Main Street, second door below the Post Office, where he would be happy to serve them with Custom-Made Clothes in the latest and most approved styles. Sept 3,2885 8 3m AT COST, AT COST. IR CBAYTON & SONS, One Door East Masonic Hall. We are now offering our entire Stock of CLOAKS, WALKING JACKETS, SHAWLS AND CLOTHING, AT COST! AN OVERCOAT for $2.00. Just think of it! This u no catch. We menu what we Bay. Will sell any article in the above line at (Jost, and they didn't cost high, either. We have the handsomest assortment of CARPETS and RUGS ever displayed in this market, at prices that defy competi? tion. Call and examine our Stock. It is complete in every department, and at prices that are sure to please you. Oct 29, 1885 16 EXECUTORS' SALE. BY virtue of the Will of Reuben Bur riss, deceased, we will sell at his late residence in Savannah Township, in An? derson County, S. C, on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd December, 1SS5, at public outcry, the following property, to wit: The Homestead TRACT OP LAND, containing two hundred and thirty-three nnd three-fourth acres, more or less, situate in Savannah Township, in Anderson Coun? ty, S. C, lying on Waters of Mountain Creek, adjoining lands of Estate of Levi B?rrigs, deceased, Zerah Burriss and others. And, also, all the Personalty of said de? ceased, to wit: Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming and Blacksmith Tools, Two Mules, several head Cattle, Corn, Wheat, Ac. <fec. Thums of Sale?Personalty cash, and Land one-half cash, and balance on acred it of twelve months, secured by a bond and mortgage of the premises, with inter? est fron> day of sale. Purchaser to pny ex? tra for all necessary papers. WM. BURRISS, Jr., D. J. BURRISS, Executors, Nov 5,1885 17 4 MASTEE/S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Anderson. In the Court of Common Picas. Jeptha Harper vs. Sarah R. McElroy.? Ac? tion to Foreclose Mortgage. PURSUANT to an order of foreclosure made in the above case by Judge Wallace, bearing date October 9, 1885, I will sell at Anderson C. H., B.C., on SALE DAY IN DECEMBER, 1885, the mort? gage premises below described, to wit: All that TRACT OF LAND, containing 180 acres, more orjless, situate in Anderson County, on Six and Twenty Mile Creek, adjoining lands of A. B. Bowden, Thos. Dickson, Wm. Smith and others. Terms of Sale?One-half cash, the bal? ance on a credit of twelve months, se? cured by a mortgage of the premises, with interest from day of sale. Purchaser to pay extra for papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 13, 1885_18 . 4 MASTER^ SALE. State of South Carolina, Anderson County. . In the Court of Common Pleas. Hugh Robinson, surviving Executor of Z. Hall, deceased, vs. A. P. Warnock?Ac? tion to Foreclose Mortgage. PURSUANT to an order of foreclosure made in above stated case, bearing date 15th October, 1885,1 will sell at An? derson C. H., S. C, on SALESDAY IN DECEMBER next, the mortga^d premi? ses described below, to wit: All that TRACT OF LAND, situate in Hall Township, containing 98 69-100 acres, .more or less, adjoining lands of W. E. Walters, Amaziah McAlister, L. M. Hall, B. Strickland and others. Teems of Sale?One-third cash, the bal? ance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, to be secured by a bond and mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay extra for papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 12, 1885 * 18_4 MASTER^ SALE. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson County. In the Court of Common Pleas. Samuel J. Duckworth vs. Ruth M. Rogers, Joseph N. Brown and others.? Action to Foreclose Mortgage. PURSUANT to an order of foreclosure made by Judge Wallace in the above case,: dated October 9, 18&>, I will bell at Anderson C. H., S. C, on SALESDAY IN DECEMBER, 1885, the mortgage premises described in the pleadings, to wit: All that TRACT OF LAND, on which Ruth M. Rogers now lives, containing 100 acres, more or less, situate in Anderson County, 8. C, adjoining lands of John B. Hogg, Thompson Hogg, Q. W. Rogers and H. M. Prince. Txbm8 of Sale?One-half cash, aud the remander on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, secured oy bond and mortgage of the premises. Pur? chaser to pay extra for papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 12,1885_18_4__ MASTER^ SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Andebson County. In ?ie Court of Common Pleas. 6. H. P. Fant vs. John Allen Emerson, and others.?Action to Foreclose Mortgage. PURSUANT to an order of foreclosure made in the above case by. Judge Wallace, bearing date October 9, 1885, I will sell at Anderson C.H., 8.C., on SALE DAY IN DECEMBER next, the mortgage premises, described below, to wit: All that TRACT OF LAND, situate in Anderson County, S. C, containing 236} acres, more or less, on waters of Rocky River, adjoining lands of Thomas Hanks, J. H. Emerson and Samuel J. Emerson, r Terms of Sale?One-third cash, and the balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, secured by bond and mortgage of the premises, with leave to anticipate payment. Purchaser to pay extra for papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 12,1885_18_4_ MASTERS SALE. 8TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, . County of Anderson. In the Court of Common Pleas. Mrs. C. D. Bewley vs. J. Banister Allen, and others.?Action for Foreclosure. PURSUANT to an order made in the above case by Judge Wallace, dated October 9, 1885, I will sell at Anderson C. H., S.C., on SALESDAY IN DECEM? BER next, the mortgaged promises describ? ed in the pleadings, to wit: ONE LOT in the City of Anderson, on the North side of and bounded by Depot Street, bounded by lots of Dennis O'Don nell on the West, and Estate of M. D. Ken? nedy, deceased, on the East, and being 105 feet in depth, and ? feet in width, more or less. ALSO. All, or so much of that TRACT OF LAND, containing 423 acres, more or less, situate on Tugalo River, in Fork Town? ship, adjoining Wm. Holland and others, as may be necessary to pay off the mort? gage creditors. This latter Tract may be subdivided into two or more Tracts to suit purchasers. Terms of Sale?One-third cash, and the balance on a credit uf twelve months, with interest from day of sale, secured by bond and mortgage of the premises, with leave I to the purchasers to anticipate payment. Purchasers to pay extra for papors. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 12,1885_18_4_ "MASTERS SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson County. In the Court of Common Pleas Joseph N. Brown, as Guardian of Olive M. Brown and as Assignee, vs. E. A. Rus? sell and J. T. Nix.?Action to Foreclose Mortgage. PURSUANT to an order of foreclosure made in the above case by Judge Wallace, dated October 12,1885, I will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C, on SALESDAY IN DECEMBER next, the mortgage prem? ises below described, to wit: I. All that TRACT OF LAND, situate in Anderson County, on waters of Twenty Three Mile Creek, containing 148 acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Thomas H. Russell, R. O. Williams and others, known as the old homestead of D. k. Hamilton, deceased. ALSO, 2. All that other TRACT, situate in An? derson Uounty, on waters of Twenty-three Mile Creek, containing 120 acres, more or less, adjoining the Tract above mentioned, the lands of A. M. Young and others. Terms of Sale?One third cash, and the balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, .secured by bond and mortgage of the premises, with leave i to anticipate payment. Purchasers to pay extra for papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 12, 1885 _18 4 MASTER'S SALBT State of South Carolina, County of Anderson. In the Court of Common Pleas. H. E.Cooley, Plaintiff vs. Mathias Roberta, JaneCothran, etal.?Complaint toset aside Conveyance, lo pay Debt.*, d-c. PURSUANT to an order to mo directed in the above cuse, I will resell at Anderson C II.. S. c. at the risk of the former purchaser, on SALEDAY IN DE? CEMBER, 1885, the following described Real Estate, of which Allen Cothran died tei/.ed and possessed, situate in Anderson County, on waters of Saluda River, adjoin? ing lands of Elizabeth Acker, Warren Fleming, J. E. Gaines, W. D. Cox, ct al., I and divided into the following Tracts, to i wit: NO. 1, containing filly acres, more or less. NO. 2, containing fifty-six acres more or less. NO. 3, Containing fifty-live acres, more or less. TERMS OF SALE-One-third cash, the remainder on a credit of twelve months, to be secured by a bond and mortgage of the premises, with interest from day of sale. The purchaser to deposit with the Master, within fifteen minutes after sale, $250.00 as a guarantee of his compliance with the terms of sale, and if the purcha? ser fail so to do, that said Land will be re? sold immediately, and so on until a pur? chaser complies. Purchaser to pay extra for all necessary papers. W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master. Nov 12, 1885 18 4 FAMILY RELIGIO*. A Sormon Preached by Rev. I>. K. Frier son, D. D,, ia the Anderson Frcsbytorlnn Church, on Sundny, October, 11 1883. A subject such as this is, of primary and profound importance, universally conceded, essential to any proper con? ception of religious duty, is not voiced by one single declaration of the Sacred Scriptures; but by the whole drift of their teaching, by the necessary impli? cations of all its precepts, by the very necessities of gospel propagation and by its occupancy of the fifth one of the great leu words of the decalogue, where it absolutely covers the whole field of the relations of man to man, whether as superiors, inferiors or equals. With a profound and solemn conviction of its immediate and constant urgency, for every interest of the Church and society, and as holding within itself the only safe and reliable and "natural cure for a de? clining orthodoxy, for vagaries of popu? lar belief in morals and religion, for skepticisms overt and incipient, for bold infidelity, for that bold temerity of the age which veutures to question the most venerable institutious and the most sacred doctrines: as the prime agency which must prepare the rising genera? tion for that inevitable but fearful con? flict of opinion upon which they must soon enter; a conflict which, from all, present indications, must be more iutenso, more radical and more fearful in its con? sequences upon the Church and upon the State than any which have preceded it: as tho agency which is to erect a muni? tion of rocks against that most menacing question which threatens ere long to come down upon us?the question of divorce: as tho true, the final hope of the world against the frightful ravages of spirituous intemperance, constantly widening and extending its march over the earth, and as the true, the proper centre of power which must effectually resist the tide of Sunday desecration and rescue our holy time from the hands of the enemy; with a solemn conviction that family religion is God's prime agen? cy against all these fearful evils, I wish with equal solemnity to call your atten? tion to it. Some man will doubtless say: Surely family religion cannot be a subject of such wide-reaching grasp as to engross the whole field of religious and social duty, and to hold a power which can arrest all the evils of our social existence. But I answer: Give me religious homes all over this land, and you will have given me the life-giving tonic which will send a healthful moral circulation through all our population; the power that will unlock our prison doors, that will sweep the docket of our criminal Courts of their unsightly and disgraceful crimes; because you will soon have reared a population too proud, too hon? orable and too pure to patronize a drink? ing saloon ; too much animated with the fear of God and the love of God imbibed at the sacred altar of the ^family to pat? ronize by tbeir presence a military drill, a musical entertainment, a boat-race or excursion on the Sabbath. Give me family religion in the home, the holy centre of human society, and you will have ?et in operation a power there which will ramify through it and reach to its very circumference; erecting before you a race of young men who will de? mand a purer circulating literature; a population that will cease to furnish col? umns of moral tragedy and of virtue in ruins to our journals,'and cease to fur? nish the taste that revels in them ; who will demand that our theatres be cleansed of their meretricious and indelicate spec? tacles or go to ruics for the want of pat? ronage : a race of young women who will know how to bring the power of their sex to bear upon the unbecoming familiarities of the ball room by an abso? lute refusal to honor them with their presence. Yes, I look to the prevalence of religious homes for the correction of extravagant and gaudy dressing, for sim? plicity of Sunday apparel, for an arrest upon the remorseless dissipation of the age, for the purification of the theatre, for the rescue of the simple dance from its meretricious complications, for the closing of drinking shops and the arrest of an insatiate intemperance, for quiet Sundays, fur honest business, for an in? dustrious and economising people, for instructive journals and pure books. I look to Kiligious homes to foster such an appetite for truth, knowledge, virtue as will repudiate the novel that introduces you into mean company aud into secret chambers and surreptitious exigencies that demand a forced toll from virtue: that rejects at sight the book that with all the garish splendor of the pictorial art addresses your littleness rather than your manliness. Yes, I look to pious homes for the training of the human soul from earliest years up to a noble man? hood in all that dignifies our race and in all that constitutes a noble Christianity, and I hold most strenuously that this Bacred and primitive institution must do its work early and well to save the world from all its disorders and to save the souls of men from eternal perdition. For if the hearts of the lathers are not turned to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, God will come and smite the earth with a curse. Let me try to urge homo upon my brethren the great duty of family reli? gion by tho following arguments: 1. The primary and normal law of pro? pagating the Gospel is by pious families. All home missions are only a secondary expedient aud provision to overtake a lapsed condition of the couutry arising from neglected households. The prima? ry desigu of the home and the family is, as Malachi tells, a "godly seed." Its very do3ign is to train Christians from earliest infancy up to manhood. The pious pair are the progenitors of infant believers, that by birtb become the nat? ural and rightful heritors of the parental faith. The Kingdom of Heaven is their property. Their training is meant to prepare them to make use of jL to put them in possession of it. Their training is their conversion : their induction. The conversion of an adult sinner who ha3 escaped this training by default of pa? rental faithfulness is provisional grace, called in Malachi the "residue of the spirit." It is special grace overtaking the prodigal and lost one. Men are in? ducted into the Church of God by sudden and visible conversion onlg became tbeir parents failed to induct them during their childhood. The natural and necessary consequence of every pious household, where the parents are alive to the value of the great estate they are appointed to transmit, and where they are duly faith? ful in transmitting it, is that every child becomes a Christian. The spiritual na? ture just as truly grows as the corporeal and intellectual grows under this divine arraDgement. Every house was intended to be a seminary of Christianity, and is so to the extent that the law of the in? stitution is obeyed. There is no arrange? ment coiict. able that is so complete in all its appointments for the imparUilion of Christianity and for protection from and fortification against vice in all its forms as the household. Sinners aud ilagrant transgressors are vagrants from the household law. Considered, therefore, as the great original law of propagating Christianity, it is impossible to estimate the importance of a return to parental fidelity aod the power of family religion in extending Christianity. We have lost a world of advantage by becoming ab? sorbed in meaner interests. My breth? ren, we have lost the most precious time ou wtrtb, childhood lime. It is an irre parable loss when children have grown to adult year* without due training iu the years of impressibility. Let us look our errors in the face. 2. Where there are uo prayers in the house, no exemplary leading of the child heart up to God, the very best opportu? nities of impressing the idea of a per? sonal aud reigning God, and so of fixing the influence of that indispensable idea upon the whole future character, is irre? parably lost. Infidelity becomes impos sible to a child trained up from infancy to pray. I say to pray reverently, and not to mock God by heartless formality. The household prayers that are cold and formal, a package of set phrases rattled off without feeling, to get that part of the household business dispatched; the prayers that are so long as to weary out all child-patience; the prayers that are continually contradicted by the sour, bitter, scolding, tattling, slandering of the day: the household religion that feeds the children on cold prayers and warm breakfasts cannot fail to disgust tbe children, and probably makes more infidels than the house where there are no prayers at all. But family worship at a suitable hour, with all the children present, not deferred till 10 p. m., as if it were tbe bitterest pill of the day, and with half the little ones gone to sleep: a brief, hearty, holy prayer, with a song in which the infant voices warble iu tbeir sweet cadences; a prayer that composes the souls of the household to re3t with the reverent and thankful remembrance of a holy and protecting God. Ah ! this kind makes infidelity impossible. 3. Notice the relations of family reli? gion to the Sunday School. The latter must never relax the former. A little child outside the circle of the family is at once thrown iuto new relations. He is at once in contact with a multitude of children, each of whom finds himself stimulated by the novelty of the situa? tion to indulge his pleasantry, his wit, his playfulness. Holy feelings yield to mirthfulness. His ideas of religion are at once adulterated with a mixture of opinions. What he needs now is the presence of bis father and mother to keep around him the remembrance of home religion. For the Sunday School in its proper office is to husband, to con? serve and to extend home religion; to support and encourage it, not in any de? gree to take its place. The Sunday School is the school of all the families of the Church; the great family of the faithful without any of its elements left out, taking charge of orphans, also, who have no believing fathers and mothers. It is the Church going to school in the house of God. A child as much needs his father in the Sunday School as he needs to hear him pray and sing in the family. For the irresistible conclusion of the boy is, and the actual practice, too, that if father does uot need the Sun? day School, neither will I when I?am grown. The father needs as much to be in the Sunday School as the boy, for it is not all a matter of information in the Scriptures; the father's heart is under? going the same tuition of loving and parental care in the great school as in the school of his own home. Again, if you all came with your children to the Sunday School, you would at once dis cover a sobriety, quietness, order, rever? ence, meekness which can not be secured without you. If tbe idea is inculcated that the Sunday School is for the chil? dren, then the inference is natural that the sanctuary service is for the parents and adults; then with mistaken compos sionateness the children arc permitted to retire when their service is over. Then the family is broken in both services and family religion injured. Whatever sep? arates the family in its religious interests, deterioates family religion, aud breaks the social bonds of religious influences which binds them. The great congrega? tion is a congregation not of individuals, but of families. The true integer that enters into its composition is the family, for our staudard definition of the Church is: the assembly of the parents and their children. You need your son John by your side in your pew as much as your son John needs you at home. For how often has the parental heart secretly said during the service: Oh, that my son might now be impressed with the influ? ences of these truths! And how often have you beard tbe word so much better when you heard with the ears of your children ! 0, if you rely upon the Sun? day School and relax the duties of the household, you do an irreparable injury to yourself, your children, to the Church and to the world 1 4. Every family ought to be supplied with a stock of religious literature to for? tify the household against corrupt 'read? ing matter. There is more malaria in the atmosphere to day than ever before. The authors of corrupt literaturo are endeavoring to make a living. It is easier to throw on the market pictorial stuff, home and street chat, cheap inci? dents and tragic stories colored and var? nished, than to elaborate useful thought. It is also easier to read. The idle intox? ication it produces comes on without price, without study. Novelties, won? ders, startling events exhilarate the mind; even disgusting and unmention? able crimes, half veiled from view, though at first arousing your indiguation, leave their foul foot prints upon your recollection. But worse, if possible, than this are those literary periodicals which, under tbe disguise of modern taste and modern improvement, and under the cloak of a purely literary subject, at? tempt to handle theological subjects, throw thorn into odious contrast with modern popular thinking, strangulate the whole argument with a contemptuous caricature that makes the truth seem dreadful to the youthful mind, poisons and prejudices tho understanding against the foundation truths of the gospel at the very momeut that the writer is simu? lating an affectionate concern for gospel truth. You are trying to teach your childreu the truth of God, hard or easy, cheering or humiliating, and you permit these glozing and insidious papers or books to enter your dwellings and neu? tralize the parental iustruction aud training of all the earlier years! You are bound, my brethren, to erect a quar? antine against the intrusion of moral and religious infection. You must see that the serpent has not crept into your house. You aro to know what stuff, under the gui30 of family reading, taste etiquette, hygiene, coming from some irresponsible ! publishing company, makiDg large and generous promises, lies on your parlor table or has crept into tho chambers of your children. Provide against it first by careful and early implantation of truth, and then by a carefully selected reading in religion and literature. Pro? vide for the houie bread instead of a diot that debilitates and derange** the moral energies. 0 ! it is for your lamentation to see our promising youth quaffing a hybrid literature born of the froth of the sea; a literature that steals their time, despoils them of their faith, weakens their fortitude and introduces them iuto a region of haziness, of doubt, of unrest and of chronic misery! 5. The family is the true conservator of the Sabbath. I venture to say that if the Sabbath goes down iu tho household, no amount ox pulpit power, no amount of religious reading, no amount of civil legislatiou can save it. The reason is obvious. It is the family that trains in? telligent bearers of tho word, and gives the pulpit its power. It is the family that must generate a taste for substantial reading and a thirst for knowledge. In vain might you supply a house with re? ligious literature which bad no relish for it, and the great evil of to-day is that our family training has failed to produce an appreciation of valuable reading. People will buy a good book to get rid of your importunity, not to read it. The secular journal with its markft, \ln busi? ness notices, ita prices current, its jocular pleasantries, its political discussions take up the quiet hours of the Sabbath. I call your attention to an agency that is fast stealing away tho Sabbath from our homes. It is the Sunday secular paper. With a scrap of religious news as the excuse, or a piece of a sermon on some popular issue, or some semi-religious selection, the wholo circle of trade, of business, of game, of amusement and of crime is thrust upon your Sabbath hours, aod you authorize the intrusion. There are families professing religion with one, two or three secular journals on their tables, but not one rclUjious paper. And the same persons assure you that they cannot afford to take a religious paper, 'ibis is not the worst of it. The children are thus effectually taught by exampie that religion is of the very smallest im? portance, and that Sunday is well .spent by reading about the very things in which the hands are employed on Mon? day. My brethren, let us all try to keep the Sabbath holy. Let us resolutely - keep all our secular papers on file until Monday morning. The Sabbath is the great family day, the child's day, when father is at home, when mother rests from her cares, and when the finest op? portunity exists for loving and affection? ate instruction. This day lost, the finest work of the family is lost. You tell me that it is iron government to imprison the children the whole of Sunday. But how could it .be that the yoke of religioD, I which our Lord tells us is an easy yoke and its burden light, had become an iron government? Notice one moment and you will see. You had the finest oppor? tunity in the world to train up your little tender child to love what you loved. Had they seen father and mother keep? ing Sabbath holy from morning to night, reading, singing, talking with kind, cheerful, affectionate joy, the whole day clean of business, of the store, the mar? ket, of idlo jokes, of worldly conversation, they would never have knowu that Sab? bath, law was other thau a law of nature, to be obeyed just as much as the law of work. But when you lost your opportu? nity and allowed the children to hear conversation on farming, on trade, on politics, wheu you led them out with you to examine fine stock, to see fino build? ings, to stroll in quest of entertainment, you taught them as well as you could that Sunday was an idle day, an obsolete law, kept as far as popular opiniou seem? ed to require; and when you began to tighten the reins of family government, it was iron government because the sub? jects had not known law ; had, in grow? ing up, borne no Sabbath yoke. The young horse that has bad no yoke upon him, no bit or bridle to hold him, cannot be broken to service without great severi? ty, cruelty and danger. This, my breth? ren, is the iron government and the cru? elty of which many parents complain, and finding themselves incompetent to the task of recovering their lost power give it up in despair or yield with the protests of ineffectual complaints and groans when it is too late. But what must parents do in such a case as this? Give up the task of recovery ? No. Not so long as prayer may go up to God; never give up so long as affectionate tears and gentle entreaties and loving epistles aod holy parental love, deep and lasting, have power over erring youth; not so long as there is a Holy Spirit to invoke to your aid. 6. My brethren, this leads me to speak of the influence of outside popular opin? ion ou the household, which renders pa? rental energy and watchfulness trebly arduous. Popular opinion in any com? munity is the outcome of the family centres of that community, the effect of training in childhood modified by tho current thought of the day. This popu? lar sentiment grows into a controlling influence aud reacts upon the homes of our people with almost irresistible power. It is almost impossible for young people to resist it without the very strongest succor from their parents. Your son observes his youthful companions from other households selecting their associ? ates at will, shaping their Sunday life at will, keeping late hours, rising late iu the morning, visiting churches at a dis? tance from home, sitting with their associates in rear pews in the sanctuary, vacating their place in" the family pew, seldom at family prayers. Your daugh? ter observes her young friends strolling the streets on Sunday afternoon with nice young gentlemen ; going with them at night to public resorts, to open re? ligious meetings where no one is respon? sible for religious order; going with their escorts to open balls where no one is responsible for the promiscuous asso? ciation, or to some theatrical exhibition or some farcical expose gotten up by a foreign troupe, unknown to anybody, aud for the delicacy of which no mortal under the sun is responsible; and your daughter, poor child ! like a caged bird, desires to go. What a tremendous in? fluence is this upon children that desire to be obedient to their parents and faith? ful to the vows takeu at their baptism? What a tremendous influence is this upon parents who do not wish to cage their children, as if they would run away iuto lawless liberty, or to shut them up at home as if the country were iufested with wild beasts ? What are these strug? gling, pious families to do? Yield to the tide ? Succumb to popular opinion? No. Not, so long as there is a protest deep down in the parental heart; not so long as there is a loving, filial bond that binds the heart of the child to its mother aud to its homo > not so long as there is a sovereign voice from above saying: my son, my daughter, go not in the way of evil men. No, we will sever tho bond that binds us to human society rather than dare to break the cord that binds us to God. Yield our boys to the floating malarias and moral pestilences of the em? poisoned air, our daughters to the teach? ing and manipulations of vagrant cockneys from foreign countries seeking a living by amiserablc toll upon the de? cency and virtue of our youthful popula? tion? No. Let us hold our children in our arms and cling to the ark of God, rather than be swept by a resistless tide of opinion into sin and into hell. Mothers, fathers, are you floating before that tide ? Are you falling prostrate be? fore a remorseless public opinion and saying I can't help it?my children rauat be fashionable or lose every prospect of success in life ? Then, 0, mothers! 0, fathers! I must hold you re-ponsible for thrusting that tender girl of 14 in'o the heaving, surging, remorseless billows of wild opinion and of wreckless sinners. I must hold you responsible for the agonized death-bed of that child, when in forthcoming years you shall wring your hand* and cry to Heaven, but there shall be no answer, neither any that cloth regard. The very centre of happiness, the very seat of holiness, the very cradle of itifant purity, tonderness, helplessness is the lirst place of the devil's attack. Two loving hearts and four strong arms, and a circle of affections strougcr than death, prove alike the preciousnoss of the chargo and the dangers that surround it. God has proved clearly enough by that reruarkablo arrangement that wolves prowl arouud the fold aud that the lambs are the coveted victims. You say to yourself, "Little children are safe and go to Heaven when they die." Ah ! but where are those that live and have not gone to Heaven yet? You indulge au infanticidal thought and do uot know it. If all that die go to Heaven, is uot that preferable to the opposite, that all should live and run the risk of going to hell? Could you, should you desire to be re lioved of tho happiness, the honor, the glory of rearing them for Heaven ? No, my friends, let us accept the honorable trust, the happy, though onerous task, the tank that call- for ceaseless watchful? ness, untiring vigilance, unwavering for? titude und almost superhuman courage, for the honor of training immortal souls for Heaven, and thank God that the task is sweetened with love. 0! that we would now all roturn to this honorable and glorious task! 0 ! that the smoke of holy incen>c might now be seen to rise from every home and every home become, as it was originally intended to he, a sanctuary of holiness. Then would you witness such a scene on earth as you have never seen. Then would our Sab baths be wreathed with an unbroken bald of peace, the Sabbath train would stand still in obedience to God; horrid intemperance that now stalks over the land would disappear; jails would be empty; journalism would not herald human crime, literature would breath the sweet pure atmosphere of nature, and a prosperity overtake the world which would be the harbinger and ernest of that glory for which all crea? tion now groaneth and travailetb. Slleuco of Peace. Ah I If they could only speak. There is a marble slab at the head of every grave in the National Cemetery to tell of war. If there is no name the word "Unknown" signifies that a soldier who was killed in a certain battle lies buried there. It is the guns which are silent?which have nothing to speak for them. Here and there one has been saved as a relic, but the vast majority have disappeared in the molting furnaces, to come out in more peaceful form. What of the great barbette guns at Fort Sumter, the black-mouthed monsters which roared defiance at Beauregard as he 6truck his first blow at the Federals ? What of the grim muzzles which belched flame from the many port holes as brave Anderson fought to delay the iuevitable ? A hundred cannon manned by Confed? erates, hurled death and destruction at the fort for fateful hours, and nearly every one of them was called into use in later years. Can one single piece of | that ordnance be found to-day? Great siege guns hurled shot and shell into Yorktown, Charleston, Petersburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Island No. 10, and half a score of other places. Who can point out the spot where one of those monsters lies resting to-day ? In the rank weeds at Fort Pillow lies a disabled cannon. It may be spoken of as dead. A great shell from a Federal guuboat inflicted mortal injury. If that old cannon could only speak, what a atory it could relate of the fierce fights .in the bend of the great river. It helped to drive tbe gunboats back again and igain ; it thundered at them as they anally ran the gauntlet; it fell into Fed? eral hauds; it was retaken by the Con ifederates; it saw all the horribleiiess of | war before it was thrown down to sink away in the soft soil and be half hidden in tbe weeds. On the ridge above Vicksburg?the ridge from which a hundred guns hurled shot at tbe Federal craft?one may find two old cannon, defaced, crip? pled, useless. They will never thunder again. If they could speak! Just think of the story they would tell, beginning with Sherman's attack, and ending on that historical Fourth of July which witnessed Pemberton's surrender 1 Be? tween those dates were hundreds of days a.nd uights?days of battle?nights of jf.larra?weeks of starvation?months of I suspense and horror. These cannon could' tell us all, but they are forever silent. And what of the hundreds of field batteries? Each gun came to have its name and history. Each one came to have its friends and admirers in the brigade. Each new scar added to its list of friends?each battle proved it more worthy of confidence. Think of j tbe battles one of those rusty, defaced and useless pieces could name 1 Think of the thrilling iucidents it could relate! In the roadside ditch between Fred ericksburg and Chancellorsville one lies dead, and so buried out of sight that few eyes rest upon it. On the field of Antie bun?over in the woods where Hooker rushed at Stonewall Jackson and could not drive him?lies another. No man cao say that a third can be found, though be look over every field of battle known . to history. What of the pieces which flamed and roared at Bull Bun, Wil? liamsburg, Fairfax and the Seven Days? What of those which thundered up nod down the Shenandoah and the Drury? What of the hundreds which belched shot and shell at Fredericksburg, Chan cullorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Appomattox? Of tbe hundreds not one single dozen have been preserved through these twenty yeais of peace. The bur? den of silence is upon them. They may exhibit their scars and rust, but the secrets of the battle lie safely hidden in their black depths. They could tell of j fathers, brothers, aud sons?of heroes and cowards?of advance and retreat? of gallant eharge and .bloody repulse, but they aro silent forever.?Detroit Free Press. Death and Desolation. SELMA, ALA., November 9.?On Fri? day night one of tho most terrific and destructive storms ever known in this Slat6 passed over the section of country just north of this city, washing away bridges, railroad beds, growing crops, and levelling forests aud houses for miles. The cyclone was accompanied by torrents of rain and appalling electric discharges. It started ou the Cababa River, passed through Dalian, Perry and Bibb Counties, leaving a dead waste of forests, plantations, houses and villages. Exploriug relief parties say that the track of the cyclone was half a mile wide. They have gone over forty miles, picking up tbe dead and wounded, and they don't know how much longer the track is. Thirteen persons have been found killed outright, and forty or fifty dt.ngorously wounded. A uumber of persons cannot be accounted for. Bales of cotton were blown from gin-houses and burst and scattered everywhere. No two Jocks of lint were left together. A miu driving with cotton to the city has been lost. The cotton and wagou were bluwn a quarter of a mile, and the man atd mule? were carried off and cannot be found. Growing erop?, potatoes, &c, were torn up from the ground. Even trees and cotton stalks were barked. K?lief parties are so.arching for the dead arid dying, and everything is being done to relievo the destitution. The negroes are frightened nearly to death, and bud dl-3 about together or squat, alone unclad in the fields and under the fallen trees stupefied and speechless with fear and superstition, unable to tell where any members of their household are. The city is being canvassed for money and subscriptions to bury the dead and relieve the wants of the destitute. The Richmond Democrats have testi? fied tbeir appreciation of the services of) John Sherman and Governor Foraker in the lute canvass in Virginia, by extend? ing the following hearty invitation to those gentlemen: RiciiMO.vn, Va., Nov. 4, 1885. .Editor Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincin? nati, Ohio ; Please invite Senator Sher mtin and Judge Foraker to visit Virginia to assist in celebrating our glorious Dem? ocratic victory, which they so nobly con? tributed to by their recent speeches. They may be assured of the warmest gratitude of our people. ? Attach as much importance to your mind as to your body. "Is Ufo Warth Living?" A Frenchman has written a book entitled, "la Life Worth Living?" This man may not be either a Utopian cr a pessimist. And the book, in spite of its title, may not embody the whining argu? ments of one who has failed in life. It may not, and it need not, contain a single sentence that could be, by perversion, construed into an apology for suicide. However much it may shock progressive optimists to hear it, it may as well be admitted, not for argument's, but for conscience's sake, that this book is treat? ing a live issue. There are many men and women who are in no great trouble either of mind, body or estate, who ask themselves every day almost without giving form to the question mentally, "la I life worth living?" And there is a large class whose census would surprise us if I it could bo taken, who positively believe that the worst calamity that ever befalls a. man is to be born, and the only real go<d luck he ever encounters is to die. A king in the orient who had a pros? perous reign of forty years, kept a diary. At the end of the forty years be discov? ered that he had spent fourteen happy days. When this fact was made public, it was the subject of much wonder and comment. Yet there is little doubt that thousands of his subjects better situated for enjoyment than the king even, had enjoyed less happiness in the same period. Col. Gardner of the British Army during the last century was deemed the happiest man in the realm. He possessed every grace and fortune, And yet be was known to wish that he had been created a dog instead of a man. These instances are given to illustrate the patent truth that the outward appear? ance of happiness cannot be relied on. The same two instances may be used to illustrate also that even when all the required conditions of happiness are present, the individual surrounded by those conditions may be acutely misera? ble. The conclusion is forced then that human happiness is an effect which does not invariably follow its logical cause. All the requirements, conditions and opportunities for happiness may be present, and yet for a reason unknown or for no reason at all, the man finds him? self unable to employ them. Thus it follows that when the opportunities for happiness are unfavorable, the absence of it is absolutely certain, and when they ;.re favorable the chances of being happy are superfinely slim?in too many in? stances, alas! the proportion being as fourteen days to forty years. The pursuit of happiness is the busi? ness of life, no matter what form it takes. If one man is given wholly to frivolty and another wholly to the engrossing cares of business, it is because each con? ceives that in his particular course the greatest happiness lies. If ouc man is moral and another dissolute, it is because .each seeks his good, whether present or future, in his line of conduct. But lumping every class, industrious and idle, moral and dissipated, affluent and poor, into one common whole, the fact remains that existence is a grinding lo id to the great majority, and like the irre? pressible ghost, the question returns, "Is life worth living?" We see many whose surroundings mutely tell us that they have nothing to live for. Their pa3t has bicn as ''a raging wave of the sea foaming out its own shame," and their future bids fair to be "as a wandering star to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for? ever." Those who cannot look backward with pride, can scarcely look forward with hope. They have made shipwreck of li/e. Adversity is upon their habita? tion like a cold and settled rain. It may be sorrow; it may be crime; it may be both. But whatever it is, the world that burst upon them as a blue-domed and flower-floored Eden, has blackened into a plague spot, a wilderness, and a sepul? chre. To such as these life is not worth living. They live on from a sense of duty or from the animal's instinctive dread of death. But there is another and larger class who are asking themselves if life is worth living, and it is this class in whom weariness of life constitutes and unsolved enigma. With them there is no apparent cause. They are people who have seen no trouble above the average, and with whom the world is going well. They have their share of earth's goods, and it seems ought to be happy. From this class, however, the ranks of suicide are largely recruited. With them the allotted years of life seem too long, and they tire of the journey before it is ended. They have lived until every pleasure palls upon tbe taste. Ambition is dead, and love has lost its delights. Like the chil? dren of Israel in the sun-bleached desert, ' in the morning they say would God it were evening, and in tbe evening they say would God it were morning." Life has left for them no new and fresh and sweet sensations. "Tno world Las less of brightness, Ar.d the earth a ghastlier whiteness Every year." They are unwilling to die, but they wish they had never been born, thus registering their protest against the asser? tion that life is worth living. The two classes mentioned, compre? hend a very large quota of the human race. It is only the unbalanced and the extremists among them who resort to suicide. The great throng plods on like pilgrims without a Mecca, disgusted with living aud afraid to die. They have perennial ennui. They have a weariness which rest will not refresh. This intan? gible affliction is what common parlauce has crystalized into the term "ills of life." From them, alas! who is free ? In prescribing for these "ills of life'' doctors have differed, aud no man svas wise enough to decide. What is the tummum bonuml The voices of all the ages have asked it, and their only answer was a taunting echo. Here sages have become fools and oracles dumb. Over this question philosophy itself has folded its wings in baffled silence. In every age the epicure and the stoic have grown weary of life together, j?nd their voices have choroused the cry, "Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there?" This is the question of a nerve racked race to-day. It is paramount in the fertile valleys of the new world ; it is paramount among the rock-dwellers where the Himalayas ki>s tbe skies. And it is but another form of the ques? tion "Is life worth living." And now the question comes up, is there a remedy for the "ills of life ?;; Is there a balm in Gilead? Is life worth living? It is worth living if its every pulse beat U in harmony with laws that are higher than nature's laws. A life like this never grows weary. There is no friction ; for day by day the joiuls are oiled by an unseen hand. In a life like this growing old is not decaying, it is ripening for a better life; and the head that grows whiter with the years is Lut an almond tree that is blossoming for the garden of the Lord. Tt is a life like this that turns the sorrow of the living into Mibdued sweetness, and makes the ceme? teries of the dead magnetic to surviving ?*riends by arching every grave with a rainbow of hope. As a broken machine can be best repaired by the mechanic who made it, so the broken and worn out spirit must seek resuscitation from its Creator. Life is worth living if all who are bruised and wounded can find the physi? cian of whom Isaiah said, "He was wounded for our transgressions ; He was bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. and with Sis stripes we are healed." ? "What is ease ?" aiks a philosopher. Eafe is a thousand-dollar salary and a hundred dollar job.?Puck. Lost on the Lake. Port Arthur, Ontario. November 10.?A terrible marine disaster, re<ult.;:g in tlie drowning of forty eight person;) and the loss of one of the most valuable passenger steamers on ilie Lakes was reported last night when the steamer Arthnba.-ca arrived. On hoard of tie Arthabasca were Capt. James Moore, commander of the Canadian Pacific Railway steamer, Algoma, two passen? gers and eleven of the crew. They wens all that were left of the o'2 persons tht'; sailed for (his port from Owen .Sound on the Algoma last Thursday. The story of tbe disaster, as related by Capt. Moore, is, that the Algoma passed through St. Mary's Canal, bound for this port, last Friday noon. Soon after reaching Lake Superior the wind began to freshen up from the Northwest, and a great bank of leaden clouds along the Northern horizon denoted tbe approach of heavy weather. Realizing, however, that the Algoma was one of the stronges; and most powerful steamers afloat and well able to cope with even a severe gale, Capt. Moore kept her on her course. But as night approached the wind con? tinued to increase iu violence, and by dark had developed into one of the fiercest and most destructive gales ever experienced on the upper lakes. As the gale increased the sea began to make, and before midnight Lake Superior was lashed iuto a wilderness of seething foam, while the tempest screeched and howled and great seas swept completely over the struggling steamer. The situa? tion was made all the more terrible by a blinding snow storm that set in before morning. It was impossible to see the length of the steamer. Passengers and crew were terrified beyond measure and momentarily expected to see the steamer plunge to the bottom. By the instruc? tions of Captain Moore, the officers cir? culated among the passengers, trying to allay their fears. Tbey were paoic stricken, however, aud huddled together in the cabin, where the screams and prayers of women and children could be heard above the thundering of tbe gale. Saturday morning Isle Royal was sighted and Capt. Moore headed tbe steamer for Rock Harbor, where ho hoped to gain a shelter. The island forms a natural harbor of refuge, but near the entrance there is a dangerous reef, and just as the str .mer was Hearing the entrance she struck the reef. There was a terrific shock and then the steamer came to a full stop. The passengers rushed out of the cabin and beseecned tbe officers to tell them what had hap? pened. "We are on a reef," replied the captain, "but if you will only keep calm as possible, I trust all will be safely landed." Just then one of the crew reported that the steamer's bottom bad been punctured and that she was filling with water. The boats were at once got in readiness and all started to leave tbe steamer, but just as they were about to lower them the steamer slipped off the reef and disappeared with an angry roar. The water was covered with the strug? gling forms of men and women, and then all was over. Only fourteen lived to tell the tale. These got into one of the boats, but were powerless to save themselves, as they were without oars. Capt. Moore, how? ever, wrenched the footboard from, the bottom of the boat, and with that as a paddle succeeded in working the boat to the island, where the survivors were picked up by the Arthabasca. Sunday Liquor-Soiling, The Archbishops and Bishops of the Catholic Church of the United States, at the close of tbo third Plenary Council held at Baltimore in December, 1884, issued a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of their charges. The pastoral let? ter contained a summary of the decrees or rules passed by the Council, and v/hen published one paragraph attracted con? siderable attention. It read: There is one way of profaning the Lord's Day, which is so prolific of evil results that we consider it our duty to utter against it a special condemnation. This is the practice of selling beer or other liquors on Sunday or of frequent? ing places where they are sold. This practice tends more than auy other to turn the day of the Lord into a day of dissipation, to use it as an occasion for breeding intemperance. While we hope that Sunday laws on this point will not be relaxed, but even more rigidly en? forced, we implore all Catholics, for tbe love of God and of country, never to take part in such traffic, nor to continue or patronize it. And we not only direct the attention of all pastors to the repres? sion of this abuse, but we also call upon them to induce all of tbeir flocks that may be engaged in the sale of liquors to abandon as soon as they can the dan? gerous traffic, and to embrace a more be? coming way of making a living. This straightforward admonition from the Bishops showed ihe attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward the liquor traffic. Up to this time there had been a mistaken impression among many who were not members of the mother Church that, while she did not iu any way encourage the liquor traffic, she was uot directly opposed to it. When the pastoral letter appeared, however, it be? came evident that the Roman Catholic Church in America was opposed to in? temperance and the grog shops. There were some who shrugged their shoulders wheu they read this paragraph, and de? clared that they did not believe it would have any perceptible effect upou the liquor-selling members of tbe Church. The matter has not been so thoroughly brought out before the several congrega? tions by the priests as it will be, should the decrees which were forwarded to Rome be returned with the endorsement of the Pope. As is always customary, the decrees adopted by the last Pleuary Council were forwarded to Rome, the Rev. Dr. O'Con aell, rector of the American College aud Procurator for the Archbishop cf Balti? more, acting as messenger and ambassa? dor. On his arrival at the Eternal City the decrees were delivered into the hands of Cardinal Simeoni, prefect of the Pro? paganda, by whom the decrees were handed over to the Congregation of the Propaganda, a body of Cardinals and theologians, who examined them careful? ly. The Congrcgatiou of the Propagan? da submitted a report upon the aecrecH to the Holy See. The Rev. Dr. O'Con - nell, who has been absent nearly a year, is now on his way back to the United States with those decrees, which have been duly examined and passed upon by the Holy See. There is now much speculation in ecclesiastical circles as to the manr.er in which the decrees relating to the liquor traffic were received by the Pope. If the latter has given them his approval and endorsement it is expected that there will soon be inaugurated in this country a crusade agaiust the liquor business of an exceedingly effective character. The organization of the Catholic Church is such that it can, with the assistance of the Pope, do more to cripple the business of the grog-shop than any other religious body. Dr. O'Counell is expected to arrive at Baltimore within a few days. The decrees will then be published, and the priests and Bishops will be able to ascertain how far they are to have the assistance of the Holy See in carrying into effect the decrees against intemper? ance? New York Sun. ? Iu Paris the dressmaking trade rep? resents the movement of $50,000,000 a year, and give3 employment to 30,000 women. Some of the society women spend as much as $30,000 a year on their costumes.