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Paid to Policy Holders since Organization : $124,558,722.56. Surplus : Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01. - ) Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Year. IN case of lapse the Policv is continued in force as long as its value will pay for; 0-, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for its fall value is issued in exchange. After the second year Policies are incontestable, and all restrictions as to residence and occupation are removed. Cash Loans are made to the extent of 60 per cent, of the reserve value, where Yiilld assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security. Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs. WEBB & MATTISOM, Managers for South Carolina, Anderson, S. C. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOTJB, HAMS LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 5 CHIQTJOLA PLACE. ISO-acre Farm to rent, BILL ASP'S LETTER. Do Want* to Know Who Patented the Cotton Gin* Atlanta, Constitution. Now that the Young Men's Library Association of Atlanta have organized a historical department to search out and preserve the history of Georgia, let me commend to them the history of the cotton gin. If Eli Whitney was a pirate who robbed and defraud1 ed the true inventor, then let it be known and chronicled. It seems to be well established that he brought sixty suits in Georgia for violation of his patent, and that he recovered in only one of them; that the neighbors broke into his workshop and destroyed his model, and that he moved back to Connecticut and made a new one; that the State of Georgia refused to honor his claim as the inventor and never gave him a dollar. There was some reason for this. Our people are not slow to reward merit, and would give honor to whom honor is due. Please publish the following letter and let the committee on Georgia his? tory investigate. The invention of the cotton gin is a bigger thing in the world's progress than the invention of the spinning jenny by Arkwright. The writer of this letter is too well known and too highly related to be ignored or treated with indifference. Our Georgia inventors and discoverers have been most shamefully treated by Northern pirates, who, for a century, have been on the watch for everything that would put a dollar in their pock? ets. Oar people have never locked up anything nor concealed it, and hence these spies who hang around the patent office and understand all its mysterious machinery have been able to step in and get the advantage of j our inventions. It is said that Rev. F. R. Goulding, the author of "Young Marooners," was really the inventor of the sewing machine. It is very certain that William Longstreet, the father of A. B. Longstreet, of Geor? gia fame, was the inventor of propell? ing boats by steam. The State records show that on September 26, 1790, he addressed a letter to Governor Tel Mr, asking his assistance and that of the Legislature in raising funds to construct a boat to be propelled by steam. This. was three years before Fulton wrote his letter to the earl of Stanhope announcing his discovery. As Longstreet failed to obtain public aid, he had to wait until he secured private aid, and he did at last build and propel a boat on the Savannah river that moved against the current at the rate of five miles au hour. But Fulton beat him to the patent oflhe and got all the honor. Longstreet also invented the breast roller of the cotton gin that entirely superseded the old method. Then there was Dr., Crawford W. Long, of Jefferson, Ga., who in De? cember, 1814, demonstrated the great principle of anaesthesia and actually used it in his practice for two years before ever Morton and Jackson and Wells pretended to discover it; but those men slipped down to Washing? ton, as usual, and made a great to-do over 'it and put in for large rewards. They quarreled among themselves as to who was the discoverer, notwith? standing they were dentists in part? nership. Jackson got ahead some way, and Morton was ignored by the people of Boston and his business was ruined?ruined because he tried to steal from Jackson what Jackson had stolen from Long. I remember well when Morton's lethean, as it was called, was first introduced in. Athens, Ga., in 1846. I was in college there, and while suffering from a decayed tooth went to a dentist by the name of Lombard, who asked me if I was willing to have the lethean adminis? tered. I consented, and the tooth was extracted while I was unconsci? ous. Soon after leaving his office, and while still partially drunk from the ether, my friend and I met Pro? fessor McKay, and I reeled up to him ac.d said, "Good morning, old Mack." That was his familiar name among the students. He seemed much astonish? ed and asked my friend where I got my whiskey. My friend explained to him, and ^e smiled and passed on. At that very time Dr. Long claimed that the discovery was his, and not Morton's. It was not then in general use, but seemed to be confined to the dentist for extracting teeth. But, about the cotton gin and Whit? ney's claim to it, I know that your readers will be interested in Mrs. Laura Jones McNabb's letter, which is &s follows' "Bainbridge, Ga., May 16, 1894.? Major Charles H. Smith, Cartersville, Ga. Dear Sir: I always feel like entering a protest against Eli Whitney as the inventor of the cotton gin, but, having no proof of what I know are facts, I have kept silent. Miss Boggs's letter, however, encourages me to write you the information I have, which, though rather vague, is some? thing more than an impression. "Early in the seventies my grand? mother, Mrs. Martha Moseley Jones, who bad lived for forty years at Wash? ington, Wilkes county, came to live with us at Kirkwood. I heard my father, Dr. Joseph Jones, ask her where those cotton gin papen were, saying he wished to present them to the Young Men's Library in Atlanta. She replied: 'I burned them, with many other old things that no one cared for but myself.' My father was very much troubled about it, saying : 'Why, that was the only proof we had that Uncle Watkins, and not Eli Whitney, was the inventor of the cot? ton gin.' "Mr. Watkins was my grandmoth? er's brother-in-law, and she came into possession of the papers at his wife's death. She died at LaGrangc, Ga., having married Judge Harris., of that place. "The following is the account my father then gave of the invention, as well as I can remember, and which he published once in some Atlanta paper, an agricultural paper, I think : While Eli Whitney was staying at General Green's place he visited Mr. John Watkins. Mr. Watkins had invented a cotton gin, and showed Whitney the model, never dreaming that a guest at his house would steal his invention ; which, however, Whitney did, and that perhaps accounts for his 'becom? ing mysterious,' and the 'final break? ing of the machine by the neighbors,' though I do not remember to have heard my father mention that. He said, however, that Mr. Watkins' j friends and neighbors were outraged with Whitney, and were anxious for his prosecution, but he did not think Mr. Watkins ever took any steps to prevent his getting the patent. "Mr. Watkins was a wealthy South? ern planter, who amused himself with his inventions, several of which he had patented. A machine for making cut nails, if I amnotmistaken, was one. "The papers which my grandmoth? er burned, and which she called 'the cotton gin patent right,' m?st haw been from the patent office at Wash? ington, tthd if so, I suppose there is some record of the invention there ; but I have never known how to insti? tute an investigation. I do not think the above conflicts at all with Hiss Boggs's impressions. "My father's younger brother, Ma? jor William R. Jones. Bessemer, Ala., perhaps knows something of the mat? ter, or Colonel James Robertson; of Habersham county, a nephew of my grandmother, who spent much of his boyhood with her, might possibly have heard the circumstances. They were both, however, much younger than my father, and I doubt if they know any? thing about it. Respectfully, ? "Mrs. Laura Jones McNabb." Sew Political Scheme, Governor Tiilman has received the following anonymous communication, which he considers a bright produc? tion : Oranqeburq, S. C, May 23, 1894. Governor B. R. Tiilman, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir : I have read with interest the replies of yourself and Senator Butler to the questions pro? pounded by the State Alliance, and after a careful comparison and study of the two papers it gives me pleasure to accord to you in national politics that hearty support which I have always given you in State politics. Your position.is well taken and strong, and I feel confident that you will win. To my mind, there is one point yet to be settled?how to issue money to the people after the government makes it?and it is upon this point that I take the liberty of writing you. The free coinage of silver and gold will issue money direct to the people of the West; the pensions will bo a direct issue to all Yankeedom, but the South will have no money issued to her except what little she gets by pub? lic improvements. Thin puts "the land we love" at a great disadvantage, as she will have no money supply, ex? cept what comes to her in the regular channels of trade. I write to suggest to your maturer judgment and experience a plan for the issue of money direct to the peo? ple, a plan that will know no North, nor South, nor East, nor West. It is this: Let the government issue a pension in greenbacks (legal tender for all dues, public and private) to every couple who contracts the marriage relation ; also a bounty of $10 (green? backs) to the parents of every child born in wedlock after the enactment of these suggestions into law. The effect of such a* law would be marvel? ous. The volume of circulation would expand with the increase of popula? tion. New industries would spring up. Joint stock companies would be formed for the manufacture of cradles, baby carriages, cotton diapers ana soothing syrup. A greater demand would be created for food and cloth? ing, and there would no longer be any over-production along these lines. Young people could then pool their issues and go into a combine for home production, without any dread of financial crysis. Woman's suffrage would no longer be a burning question and labor would receive its recom? pense. Every woman would be a Till manite for all time and the next gen? eration of young men would always be ready to go to Darling-town. I submit the above, hoping it may meet with your approval. In conclu? sion, I will say that I am not wedded to this plan, or anything else. You may accuse me of having "an axe to grind" by this scheme, butyoucannot convict me of the charge till thenew law puts me to the test. Wishing you a long career of suc? cess and usefulness, I am, as ever, Your ardent supporter, _Krof. What IS Fireproof] A writer in the New York Recorder, commenting on the destruction by fire of the Rev. Dr. Talinage's tabernacle, in Brooklyn, says : ., What is fireproof ? Iron isn't, because it melts in fierce heat, and in less heat expands. Thus an iron beam between two walls may expand so much as to throw one of them down. Stone isn't, because in fierce heat it crumbles away to dust. The material which is most nearly fire-proof is good brick. The more it's baked, the harder it gets. So the best fire-proof buildings have brick terra cotta walls, floors of hollow brick, and doors and casings only of wood. Even then a fireproof build? ing will burn if a very hot fire attacks it from the outside. But a fire start? ing in one of the rooms only burns that room and stops. It never gets very hot In such a fire as that in Chicago and Boston, the best of buildings would be damaged greatly, even if they did not fall. Wood, when it is thin, burns very rapidly, but in big beams it doesn't catch fire so rapidly. So, in ordinary wooden buildings it is the hollow spaces between the laths and the walls and floors that carry the fire out of sight like so many chimneys until it is ready to burst through. These hollow floors are one of the greatest dangers in fire. The stair? way, with its wooden stairs, and the elevator shaft, if there is one, are the points of greatest danger, because they draw the fire up like chimneys. That is why, in case of a fire pretty well started, it is always better to go out by the fire escape instead of the stairs. ? ills Resort. "Arc you the celebrated Mme. ! Bombaston ?" he asked, after he had climbed four flights of stairs and was admitted into a mysterious apartment. "Yes," replied the bizarre-looking personage who had received him. "The great clairvoyant ?" "Yes." "And you foretell the future ?"' "Yes." "And read the mind ?" "Yes." "And unfold the past?" "Yes, yes." "Then," said the visitor, as he took a roll of bills from his pocket eagerly, "tell me what it |vas my wife asked me to bring home for her to-night!" Bncklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. Hall's Catarrh Cure for sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, CHICK AHA?G1. Captain HcCaslan's Account of Bis Re? cent Trip to the Bloody Batclo Field. Editor Press and Banner.1 Please allow me space in your paper to give a brief description of our trip to the Chickanlauga battle-field. Our commission were all in readi? ness on the 16th, and pleasantly seat? ed on the G., C. & N. railroad, when we left Greenwood at 2.34 p. m. After a pleasant ride we were land? ed in Atlanta in due time, when we all enjoyed a good supper at the Kim ball, the pride of Atlanta. Soon we boarded the train for Chattanooga, and arrived at one o'clock and took shelter in the Red House, just across the street from the depot. Early the next morning Gen. J. S. Fullerton of the National Committee called and informed us that Gen. H. V. Boynton would call for us with car? riages and take us to the battlefield, about eight miles from Chattanooga. After a pleasant ride over the finest pike road I ever saw, we landed, where, ju3t thirty-one years ago, the two great armies contended for the mastery. Many sad thoughts filled us as we called over in our memories the names of the brave men who fought their last battle just where we were standing, and whose spilled blood and mouldering bodies made the soil sacred to us and hallowed in the hearts of all Southerners. What changes time has wrought! Instead of meeting foes, we were met by the identical men who fought us, and the liberality and courtesy shown us helped in a measure to dispel the gloom which had settled upon our band of eleven who had participated in the awful struggle which has given -that battle? field such a conspicuous place in the history of our nation. All the old land marks are preserv? ed with great care. Not a tree that stood there then can be cut, and not a house can be removed or changed. The government has bought the bat? tlefield, containing over six thousand acres. All of the little country roads that existed then have given way to splendid pikes. Our army drove the enemy all day Saturday, and on Sun? day morning we were in possession of all the field of Saturday with its countless dead and wounded. The two armies were posted fronting each other on opposite sides of the Lafay? ette and Chattanooga road, with our army a little nearer the road. Large tablets with the names of the corps, divisions and brigades, are posted just where each line was standing, and a turnpike road running down in rear of each army, so that there is no trouble in finding just where all the different commands were posted when the fight opened. All you are required to do is to locate the march or charge and where you struck the enemy. The enemy had decidedly the ad? vantage in position, as the foot hills, or, as we would call them in South Carolina, mountains, reaching down and in some places making part of their line. They had also, when it could be done, formed breast works of such materials as they could collect in the night. As to what occurred along the entire line I am unable to speak, but will confine myself to the part ta? ken by the 10th and 19th S. C. V., in fcLat memorable fight. We were ordered forward with Dcas' brigade on our right, and Anderson's as our support. Manigault's brigade was the extreme left of our line. Forward we went through the woods, when suddenly we burst into an open field of some ten or fifteen acres grow? ing in corn, with a house on the oppo? site side, and a battery placed some seventy-five yards in front of the house. That house is known as "widow Glenn's house." We crossed that field at a right oblique, and en? tered into a very heavy wooded ground, where we suffered very severe? ly from an enfilade fire on the left of our regiment. The troops in our front belonged to Gen. Sheridan's division, and gave way before our charge. Gen. Wilder, who was posted about three hundred yards in rear of General Sheridan, said to us that when those guns in front of the Glenn house ceas? ed to roar he looked, and seeing Gen. Sheridan's men running he immedi? ately double-quicked his battery and brigade of five regiments of infantry, armed with seven shooting rifles, down to the Glenn house and gave us the enfilade fire just as our two regi? ments swept by in the woods. The 19th S. C. is credited with capturing the three pieces of artillery posted upon the hill. On we went until we crossed the Crawfish road, which was half a mile beyond that point. Then we halted and Gen. Manigault brought up the three Alabama regi? ments and we reformed and moved by the right up that road along which Gen. Rosecrans had his army tele? graph line, until we reached the Vi dette house, in a little field just at the foot of the Snodgrass hills. Here we were placed in position with Dent's battery just on our right, and which battery we supported all Sunday evening. Dan Hagan was killed up on the hill just in rear of the 34th Alabama, and his body was placed in the little house just in the little field in our rear. Long and stubborn was the fight at that point, and Gen. Bushrod Johnston succeed? ed in getting in the rear of the enemy after dark by going round the steep hills and attacking him in the rear when three Illinois regiments were captured, thus ending the_ fight so far as our command was concerned. To make this so very interesting we met the identical men we fought. About half a dozen of General Wil der's men who vouched for our state? ment of the Glenn house, and an equal number from Ohio who met us at Snodgrass's in the evening fight. The men from Gen. Kershaw's brigade fought about two miles to our right. And just herd would like to relate an incident: Gen. Boynton, who was commanding the Regulars of the Un? ion army said that when the men rais? ed the yell and started for his men, that he told them men were coming in their front that they had never fought before. On they came: he poured shot and shell into them, but forward they rushed. Volley after volley of his men's deadly aim failed to check them, when he suddenly saw through the woods a flag in the advance of the line and upon it "S. C." On they came, flag still defiant. He said to his men, "A Captaincy for any man who will bring me those colors." Just then the flag bearer was killed, and with his last living efforts he threw the flag back down the hill to his com? rades who carried it off. He is anx? ious to know the name of the shot flag bearer. If any man in Kershaw's brigade knows the name I would gladly write to Gen. Boynton and have the spot where he fell marked by an ap? propriate tablet. I was struck with the fact that there is no distinction shown to either Tin ion or Confederate Generals. The government builds just the same kind of monument over both. Our commission will recommend to the Governor to ask for an appropria? tion sufficiently large to mark the dar? ing of South ""Carolinians upon that field of blood. I asked Gen. Boynton if there would be any objection to our placing the shaft on an eminence very near to headquarters. He said, none, be? cause no troops that have ever been there yet have claimed to have gone there but Carolinians. Just there Kershaw captured a battery. I saw the place marked where Capt. J. M. Townsend was killed j where Col. Bland of the 7th was killed ; also where Major Hard was killed. The graves of the 7th Regiment men are just where they were buried, never having been disturbed. I would like to ask the 19th if any of them remembers passing or seeing a pond just after the fight in the weods at the Glenn house ? If so, did wc pass it to the right or left ? It is called "Bloody Pond," because the wounded' of both armies collected there to get water. I am of the im? pression that it must have been to our right. I would like to know. I can assure the old soldiers of the 19th and 7th that their gallantry is commented upon more than any I saw. Don't misunderstand me ; I am re? porting to those regiments, of course, as include all of South Carolina's sons in the above. "We had a good time and met a jolly, clever set of men. I told Gen. Wilder that their cour? tesy and generosity had overpowered me, but that I found the same dispar? ity in numbers existing now that I found thirty years ago?about-five to one. Their States make very liberal appropriations, and send more com? missioners than we do. Three towers, seventy feet high, have been erected upon Snodgrass Range, which gives you a view of the entire battle field at a glance. Gen. Wilder's brigade i3 building a tower at Glenn's, sixty feet at the base and one hundred and ten feet in height. I told him I thought it the most appropriately placed tower on the entire field, and when he asked me why, I told him that it was upon the identical spot where the 19th South Carolina took Sheridan's battery and no one in future ages could visit this field and not feel that he was standing where noble Carolinians *made a name that will never die. Gen. Wilder, after he got used to my jokes seemed to take quite a fancy to me. He showed me a photograph taken from his hill just as our men came into that field and began the charge. He has promised to send me one which I will send to you so that you can show it to the 19th men when in Abbeville. Any man who was with us as we entered that field Sun? day morning will recognize it at a glance. The field is to be dedicated 20th of September, 1895, and I hope some of our regiment may be able to be there. I assure you that we have no concep? tion of the field until we go there and talk face to face with the men we fought and hear their version and see how entirely we agree. I asked Gen. Boynton why the gov? ernment had bought this field in pref? erence to any other. He said that it combined more advantages and disad? vantages than any other field of war. Had either General known the field he could have demolished his antagonist. The Assistant Secretary of the war, Mr. Dana, telegraphed just after Sheridan's division left the field that it was worse than Bull run, and had Gen. Bragg been posted of the true state of affairs just then, it would have been a glorious day for the South. We also were able to mark the posi? tion our two regiments occupied on Missionary Ridge. The only breast? works I saw along the entire ridge are those built by Gen. Manigault's brigade. I would like to see every old 19th soldier now and tell him just what I have seen, and just what I know, because I can't write as I would like to impart it. The National committee, consisting of Gen. J. S. Fullerton, Gen. H. V. Boynton, Col. S. C. Kellogg of the Union Army and Gen. A. P. Stewart of our army, told us that the South Carolina commands had marked their places with more satisfaction to them, and knew more of what they did, than any men who had been there from any State. The following Southern States had a part in that fight: Alabama, Arkan? sas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten? nessee, Texas, Virginia. While the North had Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minne? sota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee. United States regulars, Wisconsin ana Missouri. Strange to say it took Southern blood on both sides to settle this dif? ficulty. This battlefield is to be used to teach object tactics to the rising generation. And will be visited in all ages with great interest by all who are seeking interesting points in America. A visit to this field will give us some idea of the gigantic task we had upon our hands. The abandoned can? non of both armies with tons of shot and shell are collected there and being constructed into monuments to mark the resting places of the great Gener? als on each side. A very appropriate disposition to make of them. No more will they roar, burst and shriek, or send death and sorrow, but in si? lence they will simply tell of the his? toric event in which they took so con? spicuous a part. R. F. McCaslan. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deaf? ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin? ing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deaf? ness is the result, and unless the in? flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearin g will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in? flamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. JB?rSold by Druggist, 75c. ? There is at present a colored prisoner in the Alabama mines who speaks twelve different languages, Some Glimpses of Heaven. BY THEODORE L. CUYLEE, D. D. There are but few things that have been revealed to us in the Bible about Heaven. God's Book devotes a great many pages to the rules for right liv? ing in this world, even though our sojourn here is short. Its aim is to show us the way to Heaven ; but only a few sentences are devoted to the description of the eternal home of God's people. The Bible says enough to pique our curiosity, tn excite spec? ulation, to sharpen a spiritual appe? tite, but not enough to lift the sub? lime mystery which overhangs it. A few things are made quite clear to us. In the first place, it is not merely a condition j it is a locality. It is dis? tinctly bounded, or else such words as "walls" and "gates" would be a fan? tasy. Having no need of sun or moon or stars, the "Lamb is the lamp therof." There is something beauti? fully suggestive in the many-sided? ness of Heaven, with gates of entrance from every point of the compass. This emphasizes the catholicity of the "many mansions" into which all the redeemed shall enter, from all regions of the globe, and from every denomi? nation of Christendom. All shall come in through Jesus Christ, yet by many gateways. The variety of "fruits" on the trees of life would seem to point toward the idea of sat? isfying every taste and aspiration of Christ's innumerable household. Having no gross bodies that require food, we shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. The aspirations shall be for. larger knowledge?to be? come greater, wiser, nobler; to be? come filled more and more with God? forever "reaching forth unto the things that are before." Heaven assuredly is to be a home, and its occupants one vast household of love. No one will be lonesome, or complain of the lack of congenial so? ciety. Shall we know each other there ? Most assuredly we shall; for God's Word never hints that our iden? tity shall be destroyed by the process called death. We shall be the same persons, even if the external condi? tions become different, when the nat? ural body becomes a spiritual body. In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus the wretched sufferer is de? scribed as recognizing Abraham in the abode of the blessed. Would our Lord have given His sanction to an utter fiction ? If Abraham so pre? served his identity as to be recognized and to be addressed by name, why not every other inhabitant of our Father's house ? Paul expected to depart and to be with Christ, and still to be Paul after he arrived there. With what delight he expects also to greet his spiritual children in glory ! The vet? eran soul-winner exclaims : "What is our joy or crown of rejoicing ? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming ?" This would be solemn nonsense if Paul did not hope to recognize his Thessalonian converts in Heaven. The early Church all held to this doctrine of future recognition. Martin Lu? ther, in one of his Table Talks, said: "We shall know father and mother and each other, on sight, better than Adam knew Eve." That sturdy old j N4ew England theologian, Dx. Na tnanel Emmons, was never given to imaginative flights ; and . during his last sickness he said: "I want to go to Heaven. I want to see Isaiah and Elijah and the Apostles ; but I want to see Paul more than any man I can think of." There are many others of us who may want to ask many ques? tions of the author of the Epistle to the Romans. What family reunions there will be there also ! "I do not expect," said an eminent minister to me once, "that I shall be so absorbed in looking at my Saviour that I shall forget my dear old mother; I shall look for her as soon as I get within the gates." When Cyneas, the ambassador of Pyrrhus, returned from his visit to Rome in the days of her glory, he re? ported to his sovereign that he had seen a "commonwealth of kings." So will it be in Heaven, where every heir of redeeming grace will be as a king and priest unto God; and Di? vine adoption shall make every one a member of the royal family. What a comfort that we will never be obliged to pull up our tent-poles in quest of a pleasanter residence. Heaven will have no "moving day." No humble child of toil will be tortured any lon? ger about the scanty means to pay rent, or tremble at the sight of an ex? acting landlord. When you and I have packed up at the tap of death's signal bell, and set out on our last journey, there will be a delightful permanence in those words, 11 forever with the Lord." No longer shall we dread to be torn away from associa? tions and kindred whom we love, and to be sent off into strange places or among uncongenial faces. One of the best evidences of the en? tirely sanctified condition of Chris? tians in that world will be that God can trust us there with complete hap? piness and unalloyed prosperity. I never met with a Christian in this world who could be ; even Paul need? ed a thorn in the flesh to prick his pride and keep him humble. There is not one of us whose religion might not soon decay if exposed to the constaut sunshine. We require continual chas? tisements and settings-down and set? tings back, and frequent trials of head-winds and storm. Nothing would ruin us sooner than to be allow? ed always to have our own way. But in Heaven it seems likely that we can bear to be perpetually healthy, per? petually prosperous, perpetually hap? py, without the need of watchfulness or the fear of falling. How hard it will be to recognize ourselves ! We shall require no rods of correction, and there will be no house-room for cross? es there. Can it be, my brother, that you and I shall ever see a day that will never know a pang, never make a false step, never hear a sigh of shame or self-mortification, never sec one dark hour, and never have a cloud to cross the unbroken azure of our sky ? And oh, what a joyful relief to poor bed-ridden sufferers to know that "none shall say I am sick ; neither shall there be auy more pain !" Happy is that follower of Christ whose life work is kept up so steadily to the line that he is ready to leave it at a moment's notice. The leagues to that world of rest?where the holiest activities are restful?are few and short. Happy is he who, amid the busiest service of his Master and his fellow men, is always listening for the footfall this side of the golden gate and for the voice of invitation to has? ten home ! A true life is just a tar? rying in the earthly tent for Christ until we go into the mansion with Christ. "I hope your master has gone to Heaven," said some one to a Southern slave in the old time days of slavery, 'Tee afraid he has not gone dare," replied Ben; "for I ncber heard him speak of dat. When he go to de North, or to de Virginny Springs, he always be gettin' ready for weeks. I ncber see him gettin' ready for goin' to Heaven." That simple negro's words have a weight of wisdom and solemn admonition to us all. For let us be sure that no one of us will get even a glimpse of Heaven's glory or a taste of its joys unless we are making ready for it by a life of obedience to Jesus Christ. There may be many who will knock at the gate and cry "Lord, open to us," and find too late that they have shut that gate against themselves.?Independent. ? m ? ^ REGRET. I've been settin' here all evenin' a cryln' to myself Over a little soiled book from oIT the gar? ret shelf. It's been twenty years an' over since I hev seed tho book, An' to-night I felt so lonely-like I thought I'd go and look Fer it. Fer some how all these years I've hankered fer the book A layln' there so lonely-like in that de? serted nook ; But I could'nt trust my feolin's, an' bo I let it lay All dusty on the garret shelf until this very'day. You see, it b'longed to little Tom, who died long years ago; It seem to me but yesterday, though time does draff so slow. I almost see his little head bendin' over the book, Lookin' at the picters in it as children likes to look. I seem to hoar his little voice, ring out in merry glee, ? As he'd find a purty picter, and tell of it to me, An' his sunny, clusterin' curls jes' tech? in' of tho book, Ay he'd look at the picters as children likes to look. I could stan' the losin' of him, though time does drag so slow, Ef it wasn't fer what I done, moro'n twenty years ago. 'Tw'as one brilin' day in summer, an' I'd been workin' hard, Besn a bakin' an' a washin' an' a weedin' in the yard; When little Tom came a runnin', a hold in' up the book, Sayin': "See this picter, mother. Ob, mother! please do look." But I was warm an' awful tired, an' 'stead of lookin' to see, I turned around an' slapped tho child, an' cried, quit botberln' me. An' I kin see the grieved look yit come to his little eyes? But how should I know baby Tom was ripening for the skies ? An* that day wuz the very last he ever touched the book: He went an' put it on the shelf with such a sorry look. An' that night he was taken sick, an' all the time ho'd say, "Oh, mother, I won't bother you; I'll take my book away." I hear it durin' all tho day, I bear it all the night, It comes to me with evory sound, it comes with every sight; An' when I'm settin' here alone, an' memories roun' me crowd, An' the clock ticks so lonesome like, and souu's all soem so loud, Then plain I see his little face, so dimpl'd soft and fair; The big blue eyes brim full of tears, the curly yaller hair, An' th3 little voice draws nearer, so plain it seems to say, "Oh, mother, I won't bother you; I'll tako my book away." Maley Bainbribge Oust. A Tired Engine. "We often hear engineers say that their engines are tired or sulky," said Reynold Chase, of Louisville, to a re? porter for the St. Louis Globe-Demo? crat. "I never realized exactly what they meant or how much truth there was in the practical aspect of the question ?until one of the three en? gines in the larger electric power house in our city absolutely refused to work, although it was identical in every respect with the other two, which worked perfectly. The expert engineer, who had put up the engines under a guarantee, after trying re? peatedly to make the ill-tempered en? gine start, suggested that it be left alone for a few days, when?he was quite certain?it would quit being contrary and work like a charm. He proved perfectly correct, and now all three engines are working uniformly well. Mechanical engineers have a most interesting explanation of this apparent absurdity of moods and whims of inanimate objects. They attribute the tired feeling which loco? motives and tools arc known to exhibit on certain occasions to molecular ac? tion, holding that the constant vibra? tion and possible extremes of heat and cold interfere with measurements, not sufficient to be appreciated by any measuring instruments now in use, but just enough to upset the most careful calculations of the designers. Resting a machine or tool for a short time allows the necessary recontrac tion or re-expansion to take place, and the article is good as new. In electrical machinery, concerning which there is a great difference of opinion and a great deal yet to be learned, atmospheric and other condi? tions easily account for any difficulty that may arise, but in steam machin? ery, which is much better understood, the molecular theory seems to be the only solution of the problem. The Credit ol a Lynchlog Community. "It is a significant fact that in com? munities where a disregard for law causes lynching to be common, as in many cities down South," said a man? ufacturer yesterday, "you will find that the people have this same disre? gard in the smaller matters of busi? ness principles. It is one of the un? written rules in our establishment not to give credit to any person in a town or district where lyuchings are fre? quent. As we have a great deal of trade in the South, the requests we have had to make recently for cash with orders have been quite numerous. It has become an urgent necessity for the people of this country to be educated to understand that lynching is a crime ; that it is murder. They don't seem to be able to appreciate the difference between the killing of a man to save the life in defence of an? other and the lynching or killing of a man in cold blood before the law has passed upon him. One is perfectly proper and the other is nothing less than murder and a disgrace to the country. I am afraid the Courts have done a great deal towards encouraging lynchings. The dilatory manner in which the penalty of a crime is meted out is aggravating indeed. It is in the power of the Courts to educate the people to a regard for law by dealing' summarily with criminals.?Pitttburg Dispatch. ? Brown?Did the christening of the twins go off all right? Mr. Pop peigh?Yes; but I didn't like the hymn the choir sang. Brown?What did the choir sing ? Mr. Poppcigh "Still there's more to follow," All Sorts of Paragraph*. ? There are over 500.000 telephones in service in the United States. ? There are over 350,000 bicycl ridden in this country every day dur-v ing the summer months. ? Smokeless powder said to bo superior to any yet in use has been invented by an American. ? James McCloud of South Dakota has raised a horse which has eight perfect hoofs, too on each leg. ? More than four-fifths of the mur? ders in the United States last year were by men who had no regular occu-._ pation. ? Buffalo is the only city in the United States that can claim the dis? tinction of having furnished two. Presidents. ? There are 187 pounds of aalt in a ton of water from the Dead Sea. In the Atlantic the amount is 81 pounds to every ton. ? At the end of each hair of a cat's whiskers is a bulb of nervous sub? stance which converts the hair into extremely delicate feelers. ? Christianity does not propose to make a man better than his neighbor, but it proposes to make him better than himself. ? One of the sages says: "Don't go to law unless you have nothing to lose; lawyers' houses are built on fools' heads." ? Dwarfs live much longer than 3 giants, the latter unusually having weak constitutions and soft and brittle bones. ? The lamp used by Epictetus, the philosopher, sold for 3,000 drachmas soon after his death, in the year 161. A.D. ? According to the Koran the an? gels who gave warning of the coming destruction of Sodom were Israel, Gabriel and Michael. ? One oucht to carry his religion^ into everything that he does, just at he carries any other part of himself-? unconsciously. ? Hermann Harnes, who formerly lived on a farm near East St. Louis, % but who was last heard from in Min? nesota, once slept 44 months without waking. ? Dr. Caldwell says that there are ^ but three known "tobacco takers" : The African goat, the hideous tobacco worm and the rational creature?man ! ? The Bovista gigantea, a species of fungi, will grow in one night xromA the size of a pea to as large as a water? melon. Its increase of cells per min? ute has been estimated at 66,000,000. % ? Near Brenham, Texas, lives a. man who has only one eye, the strange feature of his case being the fact that the place where the other eye should ; be is a blank, and has been so' from - birth. ? "You say, Pat, that the Garden of Eden was in Ireland." "Yis.sor." "But there are no serpents in Erit "Shure, now, don't you know tha Adam lived before St.' Patrick ken over." ? Within the last month lot Kentucky and Ohio have granted ft suffrage to woman, making twenty three States in which women can vot on equal terms with men in all elc tions pertaining to school manage ment. ? During a call that little foi _ year old Mary was making with her mother, a slice of cake was given to her. "Now, what are you going to say to the lady ?" asked the mother. "Is you dot any more ?" said little ? Mary, demurely. ? It is computed that the death rate of the world is 67 a minute and the birth rate 70 a minute, and this seemingly light percentage of gain is sufficient to give a net increase of population each year of almost 1,200,- - 000 souls. ? If three or five or more men are asleep in a room and one of them is intoxicated, the flies will gather on the tipsy man, and avoid the others. The reason is that insects revel in the . oder of alcohol and sometimes get drunk on it. ? "Can a man serve two masters ?M inquired the pastor of the mild-eyed deacon. "He has to, sometimes,]' confessed the deacon. "I think not." "You never had boy twins at your house, did you ?" inquired the deacon softly, and the pastor retired in dis? comfiture. ? One of the greatest natural curi? osities in Central Arne 'ca is the vol can de Aqua, or water volcano, which is situated in Guatemala, about 25 miles southwest of the capital. Its apex is 14,450 feet above the level of the sea, and cultivated fields and forest trees extend almost to its sum? mit. It occasionally vents forth tor? rents of pure, cold water. In 1869 an "eruption" of this kind inundated the northern valley and destroyed a whole village situated on the side of the peak. ? Her lips quivered, and her breath came in labored gasps, but she did not speak. "Do you love me ?" he anxi? ously demanded, seizing her shrink? ing hand. "I?I don't know," she faltered. Gently he insinuated his arm about her. "Darling," he mur? mured, "would you like to have me ask your mamma first ?" With a sud? den cry of terror she grasped his arm. "No, no, no !" she shrieked convul? sively. "She is a widow. I want you myself." She clung to him until he solemnly promised that he would say nothing to the old lady for the present. ? On January 5, 1885, there was a remarkable addition to the world of freaks caused by the advent of an 11 ounce baby at the home of Mrs. Charles Tracy, Kingsbridge, N. Y. The child was but a fraction over 6' inches in length, and its feet were so small that the mother's engagement ring easily slipped over them and up to the knee. The head of this little wonder was about the size of a wild crabapple, and many who saw the freak declare that its face was not larger than a silver quarter. Its mouth was so small that it was abso? lutely impossible for it to grasp the nipple of an ordinary nursing bottle, and it seemed stretched to its utmost capacity over a goosequill which some genius fixed to the cork of a two-ounce bottle which was filled with milk for the nourishment of the midget. A man of ordinary grasp could clasp his fingers around the body of little Tracy and easily join them with the thumb without causing the little one the least inconvenience. Rudy's Pile Suppositoey is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to 3Iartin Rcdy, Lancaster, Pa. For Sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists Anderson, S. C.