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4 BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. G, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, A'PKIL 1, 1896. VOLUME XXX.?NO 40. Iii il Ii! "WHY buy old shop-worn Goods ? Goods tlrat have been picked over, the best styles gone, when you can buy NEW GOODS at possibly less money than the old stuff cost you. Our Stock is NEW?"brim full" of all the latest styles the market affords. Here's some prices for you to think over : 22 pairs good Jeans Pants, worth 75c. the town over, but we sell 'em for 50c. 144 pair s good Wool Pants, in brown and grey checks the $1.50 kind. Our price $1.00. 48 pairs all-wool stripe Pants?the $3.00 kind. Going at $2.50. ' We have others on up to $5.00 and $6.00. SCHOOL SUITS FOR BOYS. Our line of Knee Pant Suits is the most complete line you can find, and the prices are?well, we have 'em from 75c. up to $6.00. Send your Boy in and let us fit him up. B. 0. EVANS & CO. P. S?A. G. Means, Jr., is now with us. B. 0. E. & CO. THE SPRING TIME IS COMING When every Live Farmer will be up and doing about, and antici pating their wants ------ V Have added an immense stock of e* such Goods as will be needed at # this time of year to their already large Stock. Our ever increasing trade demands large quantities of Stoel Plows, Plow Stocks, Back Bands, Trace Chains, Harness, Shovels, Spades, and Hoes, And we have them ! We want your trade. We have the Goods. Our prices are beyond competition. So come to see us, and we will sell you. Now is-the time to buy a set of? BLACKSMITH TOOLS And fit up your Shop. If you give us a chance we'll sell you, sure, for we bought them right and will sell them right. I Yours faithfully, brock: bros. FRESH AND PURE GARDEN SEED ! OUR New Stock of Seed have arrived, and we are selling them at ex tremely low prices. White Onion Setts.. 15c. quart?2 for 25c. Yellow or Red Onion Setts. 10c. quart?3 for 25c. ill Paper Seed. 3 for 5c. The largest papers?twice as many Seed as you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON, PEAS, BEANS, &c, At correspondingly low prices. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and wejiave been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to plant your garden come and see us and we will save you money. ORR & SLOAN, BE"?^rE dry sailing! IS the only voyage that's good for the health. Warmth is worse than noth ing without dryness. Wet feet may bring on any number of ailments, Wearing our RUBBERS iu bad weather guarantees dry footing. That's the only way you can be sure of being dry. Our Rubbers are high, well made, durable, and impervious to dampness. Nothing in Rubbers can be better or cheaper than ours. Reinforce your Rubbers with our Al SHOES. the YATES SHOE CO. Masonic Building, Anderson, S. C. NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHfti f?9. HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORE.IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE CENT TO $100.00. ^-No charge for Engraving. ^ff-The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it'=! a pleasure to show them. P. S.?If70a have Acsja*.U3 with J. if. tlUBB ARD & BRO. make sottlement with no st above place. i m - - y JFOHN m H ?B BARD. ' BILL ARP'S LETTER. Look on the Brighter Side of Life, Says Arp. Atlanta Constitution. Outside of revelation, there is sure ly sufficient proof of original sin and moral turpitude in human kind. If: a man could be lifted up in a balloon high enough to see the earth roll under him and could ieep his position until it had turned a time or two upon its axis, the scene that would pass his vision would be proof enough. What a horrible revcdation of war and bloodshed and suffering would pass beneath him in almost every part of the earth! We boast of modern civili zation, but has every advance to be baptized in blood? Suppose a man could see at one time all the present misery of the world and all the crime that caused it, could he endure the awful picture? Would it not paralyse his soul and obliterate his power of vision and make him a maniac? Every day we read of these horrors and shud der, but they . re afar off and we hat e become almost hardened to them by their daily repetition. If familiarity with danger breeds contempt, for it so does, a daily recurrence of crime and suffering and grief breeds indifference. Unless we see it with our own eyes we are not greatly affected. The weeping prophet exclaimed: "Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears!" but there is do prophet to weep nowadays. We have no time to weep. The poet says: "Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn," and if we could actually see every battlefield and all the blood and agony, and into all the prisons and chain gangs and into every hovel and garret and dark alley where the poor do con gregate, and into the hearts of all the mourners at all the funerals, we would never smile again. The memory of them would haunt us and we would be more than willing to quit this horri ble world and take cur chances in another. But we will let the preachers talk about this. We mu?t look on the brighter side. There is no comfort in pondering and lamenting what is go ing on in Turkey and Abyssinnia and Cuba, or over the long continued quar rels at Washington, or the shameful broils in Kentucky, or the daily crimes and murders and suicides and lynch ings that fill the newspapers. New is the blessed springtime, when all na ture is smiling upon us. When the flowers are blooming and the grass is springing and the hirds are singing. Even the beasts of the field and the fowls in the yard are happy, and every created thing save man seems to re joice in the goodness of the Creator. What is the matter with man, any how? Woman is not so, nor are the little children who play and sport around us. The poet says: " Every prospect please? And only man is vile." But after all, there is comfort in knowing that there are some good men. Yes, lots of them. You can pick them out in town and city and country, and a great traveler who has been all over the world anc. mingled with Gentiles and Jews, and Arabs and Hottentots, and the heathen Chinee, says he found good, kind hearted people of every tribe and na tion and religion on the globe. He said a traveler could never be a secta rian or be intollerant, like many of our so-called Christians are. Last Sunday I went in the country with a friend to visit an old lady who is on her last bed. She has lived eighty-three years and I reckon never had an evil thought in hor life. She was pleased to see us and ?he nearness of death gave her no alarm. "For the sake of my grandchildren," she said, "I would like to live a little longer to help them and guide them in the right way." Her Bible was printed away before the war and had been patched and pasted and mended until it would hardly hold together, but she knew a good deal by heart and told us what portions of it were her greatest com fort. These old-fashioned mothers ire the best people on earth and when they have passed through all the per ils of motherhood they seem to outlive the men. There are three urnes as many old women in this town as old men and they are most all of them svidows. I would rather insure the life of a woman of forty-five than that of a man of thirty. I would get the premiums longer. The old-fashioned men lived longer than they do now. They had simple habits and limited iesires. I mean the well-to-do men ivho lived in comfort. The old presi lents, leaving out Washington, whose leath was not far from old age, out lived the modern ones. John Adams ived to ninety-one and his son to ?ighty-one. Jefferson was eighty :hree, Madison eighty-five, Monroe seventy-three and Jackson seventy ;ight. This makes an average of nghty-two years, which is very un :ommon. The average of all the ^residents is only sixty-eight years, [n looking over their records I was surprised to find that three of them lied on the 4th of July and that Jef 'erson and Adams expressed a desire ;o die on that day. Whether Monroe lid or not the biography does not say. [ have no doubt that he did, for that lay was very dear to the patriots of ;hat time and their wish was father ;o their fate. It amounted almost to vill power, for the chance for a man o die on that day was only one in $65?and the chance for three presi lents out of six to die on that day is , ilmost beyound computation. Could t have been chance or was it their spirited devotion to the day and the leclaration that gave birth to a great ?ation? Neither Polk nor Pierce nor Harri son not Johnston nor Grant saw his ,hree score and ten. But ever since King David made the declaration that ,he days of our years are three score rears aud ten, that has been the al lotted age of man. It is still the av erage age of a prudent man, whatever nay be his occupation. Man is very nuch like a wagon. If it it. kept greased and painted and under shel ter it will last twice as long as if it bo ?eglected. Of course, the mind has nuch to do with the health of the jody. Trouble will shorten life and )ring the gray hairs sooner to the rrave, and that is why the farmer's. ife is the most conducive to longevity, [t is the most independent of all oc mpations. It is subject to less .emptation, less hazard, less worry, tnd it is a little closer to God in its laily communiou with nature. The iccepted tables give to laborers forty four years, to mechanics forty-seven, ;o merchants forty-eight, to profes sional men fifty-two, and to farmers sixty-four years. If long life is an index of good health and prosperity, then the farmer is blessed above all other people. There is force and truth in the old maxim that "God made the country and man made the town." But after all the crime and misery that we read of this age is a great im provement on Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham could find more than ten good men in any town or city in this country. I believe he could find fifty in Cartersville and a hundred and fif ty women. The Lord's pity and con sideration for consideration for sinners is very wonderful if He will save a whole city full,for the sake of ten good men. Maybe that is why He doesent rain fire and brimstone on the wicked now. It might do harm to the righteous. The ungodly ought to give Christians credit for that. If the wicked people of this world were all bunched in one country and uot a good man in it, how long, I wonder, would the storm stay off? How long would the wicked stay there if they could possibly get out? It is a re deeming trait in human nature, how ever wicked and depraved, to respect virtue and good people There are but few of the ungodly who would abolish the churches if they could, or who would rear their children in any but a Christian country. Bill Arp. Carr Confesses. Atlanta, March 23.?Alex Carr, who is to be hanged here on Friday, confessed to-day that he has been shaming insanity for more than a year. He shot and killed James King on the street in August, 1894. When his trial came on, Carr pretended to be in sane. He was twice examined by ex perts who pronounced him sane. He allowed his hair to grow long and never spoke to any one except his lawyers. He has had two trials and was con victed both times and has twice been sentenced to death. The strain be came too great on him as the day of his execution approached, and this afternoon he sent for Sheriff Barnes and confessed. The sheriff took a witness with him. Carr was having his hair cut at the time the sheriff and his companion arrived. Mr. Barnes spoke to him, and said : "Carr, you are looking un usually well to-day." "Yes," replied Carr, "pretty well for a man who has undergone what I have." The barber stopped his work and Carr, almost as straight as he was when he fired the fatal shot at Captain King, sat back in his chair, and said : "I have been looking forward for a long time for the coming Friday. I was not afraid to die, and am not afraid now. But I want time to prepare to meet my god." He then requested the sheriff to send the Rev. Mr. Haughan, chaplain of the jail, to him. He then related his experience with the doctors who recently examined him. Looking at the sheriff with a sus picion of a smile on his face, Carr pointed to a hole in the wall, and said : "Mr. Barnes, haven't you been watch ing me through that hole ?" Sheriff Barnes replied that he had not?that he did not know that the hole was there and then the jailor in formed Carr that the hole did,jnot go through the wall. "Well," exclaimed Carr, "all I've got to say is thatthe hole has given me much uneasiness." The condemned man said: "My father and my lawyers are entirely in nocent in this matter. They are firm ly of the belief that I am insane. When I get to the gallows, I shall make a statement that will exonerate them." Stopping for a moment, Carr passed his hand over his face and remarked : "Gentlemen, I can tell you this has been a terrible strain on me." Mr. Barnes asked him about the killing and he said that there was no malice in -the killing, as he was not prejudiced against Captain King. He guessed that it was either whiskey or an attack of indigestion, as he was not feeling well on the day that the killing occurred. Some further ques tions were asked Carr, and then he said: "Gentlemen, this secret was more than I could bear. I might have remained silent and have been sent to the asylum. Then I might have re covered and have carried this secret with me. I reflected on the matter and have decided that I would rather go to the gallows than to be burdened altogetherwith such a terrible strain." Sheriff Barnes and Mr. Hamman on leaving the Jail, stopped by the office of Governor Atkinson and gave him the news. The Governor smiled and remarked: "There is nothing like holding a tight rein to the end." Governor atkinson had set to-morrow for hearing from lawyers as to the insanity of Carr. Of course the hear ing will not now take place. Mr. Lowry Arnold of the firm of Arnold & Arnold, said when spoken to about it : "It is a thunderclap to us. This is the first we have heard of it." Slow Poison. "I suppose I have sold millons of cigarettes in my life," remarked a tobaccouist yesterday, "and I often wonder whether my doing so will be placed against my credit in the next world. It is the one part of my business that I positively loathe. I really think that at the rate cigarf ttes are now being consumed?and the rate is steadily increasing?the c?ect will be decidedly apparent in the next generation of mankind. The cigar ette is a form of slow poison which, while it may not result in death must necesarily leave its effects upun the human system. You may not be lieve this, but during the warm weath er I have often noticed that if flies are shut up in the ease where ciga rettes are kept they will die in less than five minutes. The very atmos phere seems to poison them. On the other h?ind, I have placed flies in a cigar case, just out of curiosity, and they show not the slightest evidence of discomfort."?PhiladctphiaRecord. ? "James, you've been fighting. I can tell it by the look in your eye." "Yes; but mother, you should see the look in the other boy's eye." Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, an mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell, and completely derange thewholo system when enterlns it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles shouM uevor bo used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possi bly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manu factur? by F .1. Cheney <t Co., Toledo, 0., con tains no mercury, and is taken Internally acting directly upon tne blood nnd mucous surfaces of t^e system. In buying Hall's Catarrh furo bo sure you get the genuine. It Is taken internally' and mads in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Choney 4 Co. Testimonials free. *3rSold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle, THE WAR'S SUREST SHOT. Lamar Fontaine's Career in tbe Confed erate Army. From the New York Sun. Memphis, Tenn., March 14.?Fol lowing the peaceful and monotonous avooation of a planter and a man of letters in the secluded hamlet of Lyon, in Coahoma County, Miss., not far from Memphis, lives Lamar Fon taine, who was perhaps the most san guinary single-handed fighter in the civil war. He carries the scars of sixty-seven bullets, and killed so many men that he cannot make even an approximate estimate of the num ber. The Marquis of Lothian in his his tory of the war of secession, publish ed several years ago, being conversant with many incidents in the life of Fontaine, says in effect that none of the historical or traditional heroes of the chivalric middle ages, no soldier the world has ever known, whose deeds of valor have come down in story, song or fable, can hold a place alongside this man in the qualities of bravery, perseverance, or devotion to duty, and the Marquis laments that the Confederate States produced no poet or biographer capable of embalm ing the memory of this nineteenth century warrior. Fontaine began military service as chief of scouts and courier for Gen. Stonewall Jackson. He served in the same capacity with Gens. Stuart and Johnston, and for a short time with Lee. He took part in twenty-seven pitched battles and more than one hundred skirmishes in which blood was Bhed. Although he was only a private in the ranks, he was once in trusted with a carte blanche order on the treasury of the Confederate States. He was known as the best marksman with rifle or revolver in either army. He was wounded sixty-seven times, and thirteen times his lungs were grazed. Five times during the war he was as dead. Lamar Fontaine has in his veins the best blood in the South. He is of the same family as the late Justice Lamar of the United States Supreme Court. Fontaine came to Memphis this week to attend a gathering of tho local Con federate Veterans' post, and to read a paper commendatory of the South Battle Abbey project. He is under the average in stature, wears a jaunty costume, the most conspicuous features of which are a broad-brimmed hat and a short jacket. "Have you any idea of the number of men you killed in the course of your war career?" he was asked. "I could make no estimate, but on one occasion I shot sixty men in sixty minutes, and the record was kept and vouched for by Gen. R. E. Lee him self. It occurred at Waterloo Bridge, near Warrenton Springs, onlhe Rap pahannock, in August, 1862. That was about the first time I ever met Gen. Lee, though I had often seen him before and knew him by sight. I was then acting a courier for Gen. Jackson, who, it seems, had been telling Gen. Lee about my skill with a rifle. On this day I oarried dispatch es to Gen. Lee from Gen. Jackson. When I had performed my duty, Gen. Lee expressed ? desire to see if what he had heard about my ability as a marksman. I told him I would do my best to demonstrate it. Over across the valley was a ridge upon which was stationed a Federal battery that was pouring shot into the Confederates as fast as the guns could be loaded and dis charged. Drawing forth and opening his watch, Gen. Lee ordered me to proceed. I began to shoot. "I would say, 'Now I'll shoot No. 2 on gun No. 1, and the man would drop at the crack of my rifle. 'Now, No. 1 on gun No. 4,' and that man would drop. And so the work continued As fast as a man on the battery fell over another would take his place. > Final ly Gen. Lee closed his watch." 'That will do,' said he. 'Sixty men in sixty minutes is your record.' "On a later occasion Gen. Lee asked me if my conscience did not trouble me. "What for?" said I. "Because of the people you have killed.' " 'General,' said I, 'does your con science trouble you when you kill a rattlesnake?' " 'Why do you ask that ?' he re plied. " 'Because,' I answered, 'when I enlisted for the war I made up my mind that it was my duty to kill every Fl ' 'irai soldier I could, and I kill Federal soldiers from the same sense of duty that you would kill a rattle snake.' " Fontaine was asked how he acquir ed such fine skill in the use of fire arms. "Among the Indians in Texas," he replied. "When I was a small boy I settled with my parents in that State. Later I went to live among the com manches, and for thirteen years I nev er saw the face of a white man." The most remarkable feat accom plished by Fontaine from the point of view of the historian was the carrying of dispatches and caps into the city of Vicksburg, when that city was be seiged by the Federals. At that time Memphis was in the hands of the ene my, and Fontaine, acting as a spy, and under disguise, had been in this city for a month or so, picking up what information he could for the benefit of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who had his headquarters at Jackson, Miss. One day there came a sum mons for him to report to Gen. John ston at once. Simultaneously the Federals in this city got knowledge of Fontaine's orders and of his presence here. The desire to capture such a dangerous spy and redoubtable Con federate sharpshooter became so in tense that a large reward was offered for him, dead or alive, and troops were sent to cover all the roads lead ing southward. He avoided them and reported on time to his general at Jackson for orders. The orders were that he should carry dispatches and forty thousand musket caps through the Federal lines into the city of Vicksburg. The difficulty of this undertaking may be judged from the fact that Vicksburg was be leaguered by 75,000 Federals under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. All the ap proaches to that city were controlled and guarded by the Federals, and there was a reward of $20,000 for the head of Fontaine. He set out on his journey, avoiding all thoroughfares. Under cover of darkness he passed through the Federal lines, and was about to make a run for the Confed erate outposts, when he found himself in a clump of brushwood, confronted by a half dozen soldiers, who appeared to know who he was, for on sight they opened fire on him. He rushed among them, revolver in each hand, and four of the men fell dead before his aim. The other two fled, and the spy ran into the oity. When he presented himself before the officer in command his dispatches and musket caps in tact, it was found that he had on his body the marks of seventeen bullets. This adventure is well authenticated. As to the numerous "fatalities" in which Fontaine appeared as the cen tral figure some of them had their lu dicrous side. John Eston Cooke, the writer of a very popular series of Con' federate historical novels, was a com panion of Fontaine during the war and used him, undor various names, as a character in his novels. In "Mohun" Fontaine is sketched in the character of Night Hawk. In "Sur ry of Eagle's Nest," he has the flame of Farley. Curiously enough, the novelist in this work states as an his torical fact that Fontaine was killled at Petersburg, which proves only that Fontaine was such a skillful actor as to deceive his closest friends. "It is true, though," Fontaine said to the writer, "that at Petersburg I was wounded in a hot skirmish en gagement, and, being unable tc run away, I simulated death when the Federals overran the ground on which I lay. When it was learned in my company that I aras dead one of the officers sent off at once for a coffin in which to bury me About the ;ime the coffin arrived in camp, I shewed up, too. That interfered with this fu neral. But next day, in the course of a general engagement, that ofiicer who had displayed such friendship for me received a fatal wound, and the remains of the poor fellow were nent home in the coffin he had ordered for me." It was while on his mission to Vickshurg that Fontaine was honored with unlimited credit upon the Con federacy. It was in the shape oi1 an order signed by T. 0. Mims, the chief quartermaster of the war deportment, and read: "The Confederate States Treasurer will honor any draft preseuted him signed by Lamar Fontaine." Perhaps in all the history of war fare no such credit was ever before reposed in a private soldier. Fontaine has won honors in literature. Ho is a popular writer of war sketches, and a recent burlesque article ontheVene zuelean controversy, in which he un dertook to express the patriotism of the Confederate veteran toward t;he Stars and Stripes, evoked a half-col umn editorial article from the Lone' Times. But as a writer he is" m widely known by the poem, "Quiet Along the Potomac." While the credit for this composition has been claimed by several others and publicly accorded to a few, those who are aware of Fontaine's claim and the indisputa ble evidence upon which it rests no longer entertain any doubt about his good title to the authorship. Looks Through Flanks. Thomas A/Edison has justified tie name that has been applied to him? the "Electrical Wizard"?for he has just made a discovery that will prove of incalculable aid in working out the practical uses of the Rentgen rays. Mr. Edison got his tubes perfected some time ago so that he could depend on them, but he was puzzled by the limitations of the photographic plat2. He becamed convinced that the fluores cent theory was the only practical one to work on, on account of the great saving of time, as no long exposures were necesary, and no need for the slow process of developing the plat? before the result could be ascertained. He therefore began an exhaustive ex amination of chemicals. Of these he ha3 one of the largest collections in the country. Each was put to the test of its igni tion, fusibility and fluorescent quali ties. More than 1,800 chemicals and chemical compounds were experiment ed with before the one desired was found. It was a compound which had been made for Mr. Edison by his chemist six years ago, and had beeu forgotten. It is well known that the intensity of the effect of the X rays varies with the square of the distance, so that thu compound that would prove satisfac tory at a long distance from the tube must be of great sensitiveness. To the great delight o:F Mr. Edison thin new substance was found to be six times as sentives, both as to distance and intensity, as the Bariun platins, cyanide, which up to this time, has been used. I saw Mr. Edison last evening, and he said that the new substance was not expensive, but was difficult to make. He had used all he had on hand in experiments he made on Satur day. The results attained were sur prising. A box was made with a screen of the fluorescent compound on one side, and on the other a peep hole for the eye. Placing this before the eye of the observer, ic seemed as though there was no limit to the pene trative power of the X rays The bones of the hand were distinctly seen through a 2-inch plank, then through four inches, then six inches, and final ly eight inches of solid wood. Mr. Edison said to me : "I call this new arrangement the 'fluroscope.' I don't know whether there is such a word?if not, I will m?ke it. I can fix the fluoroscope so that you can put it on like a mask over the face and then look through any object that is placed between you and the tube. In fact. I ^ you can move around with it. The ' effect is instantaneous and there is no more waiting for a long exposure, and then for the developement of the plate, for the plate and the plate holder are done away with entirely, and the ob server looks directly at the object he wishes to see. Just, think what a gain this will be. A surgeon can put on one of these fluroscopes and look right through a man's hand or arm or leg, or, for that matter, through his body, and see what the conditions that he will have to encounter are."?Neio York Herald. ? Stephen Hogan, of Northfield, Vt., went into the woods one day re cently to chop down a tree. His dog returned to the house later, and by his peculiar actions it was supposed that something had happened to his master. Upon searching, Mr. Hogan was found to be unconscious, having been struck with a dead branch. He died the next morning, having never recovered consciousness. An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to Melick's drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for in flammatory rhcumal.ism which had crippled me up. After using three bottles I am completely cured. lean cheerfully recommend it.?Charles II. Wctzcl, Sunbury. Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10, 1894?Walter Ship man, J. P. For sale at fifty cents per bottle by Hill Bros. UNIVERSALITY 01' RELIGION. BY IlEV. D. J. STAFFORD, D. D. "For there is one God of all; who is above all and through all and in us all."?Ephes. iv., 6. From the pillars of Hercules to the pagodau of China, from the temples of Eg3'pt to the fanes of India, from the extremest north to the extremest south, from the extremest east to the extremest west, all over the continents of the world and the islands of the ocean, the earth is everywhere cum bered with the work.", of religion. Good or bad, high or low, refined and elevated or impure and degrading, man, as a matter of fact, has every where had a religion, aud everywhere manifested it outwardly. ? A certain school of scientists left no stone unturned, hunted the universal globe, looked into every corner, cran ny and crevice of the earth to find human being?or a thing with that form and seeming?without reason and without religion, but no such man has been found. Darwin confessed it, Dawson establishes it, Mivart proves it, and Tyler, who has discussed the question exhaustively in his "Primi tive Culture," leaves no doubt upon the subject. Man everywhere has a religion. He has' lost; the arts; he has lost the sciences ; he has gone backward in stead cf forward in the question of civilization. Nay, he has descended to a depth and degree in the abyss of moral degradation fearful to contem plate, where the light of reason be comes a fitful and uncertain glimmer ; where every trace and lineament of his once perfect nature seem to be obliterated. But the light burned, it illuminated the darkness. And that God "who is above all and through all and us all," that God who inspired the prayer, heard the voice of faith crying iu the darkness of error and lifted man out of error and vice to truth and virtue. What boots it to argue against re ligion because of the multiplicity, the contradictions of religion ? The prin ciple remained behind all corruptions, behind all contradictions. The super ficial out and over growth of error could not destroy it. Behind all re mained deep in man's rational nature those principles upon which religion depends, guarded ar d protected in the whole human race by that God "who is above all, through all and in us all." But man could net and did not stop with a bare recognition. The idea of God is the most fruitful of ideas, the greatest of ideas. It protects the weak against the strong ; it consoles the afflicted, and when everything else fails man finds in God refuge and strength. Such an idea ; hould have a great expression. The mind of man could not stop with the bare recognitoa of God as existent, and did not do stop. But went on, and would go on by its natu ral light, and power, even independent ly of the added and additional light of revelation to clothe the idea with at tributes ; or, in other words, to form for and for itself a sufficient and satisfactory idea of God ; thus, if existent and eternal and creator, then intelligent, Infinite and merciful. The human race has not stopped with a bare recognition ol! God, for the idea of the infinite is a fruitful idea, involving ulterior principles and consequences. The intelligent soul of man by a natural and spontaneous impulse sort to give to God an intelli gent recognition, aud the lips of man moved in prayer. For what are men better than sheer' or goats, That nourish a bliod lire within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hsndt to prayer ? The human race has prayed, and [frayer is the intelligent recognition of m intelligent God by an intelligent ireature. Thus mankind has been, not only theoretically, but practically, religi dus. For while belief ht,s been gen eral, unbelief appears only in individual rorm. It has never even reached national importance. There has never neen, as Plutarch and Cicero testify, t notion of infidels. And even the individual who professes unbelief will, n unguarded moments, give testi mony to the innate religiousness of man. The soul of man, "naturally Christian," left to its untrammeled ind spontaneous action, acknowledges Jod, aud ories out to Him. And this proves that man is naturally religious, )r that he is what the Greek phil )sopher defined him, "a religious ani mal." But not only has the human race Drayed ; not' only has man acknowl ;dge God by speech and given ex ?ression to the sentiments of his ?eart in prayer, but he has done more. ?or, side by side with this universal sustom and practice of prayer, ap jears another institution or right, ikewise universal?sacrifice. It is ,he dogma of every religion, it is per ormed in every temple, it is the oc iupation of every priesthood and the >ractice of every people. The human race, all nations, all nen, have in some way or other ac knowledged original sin, for the uni rersality of sacrifice to placate divine mger suppose!} the universal con iciousness of guilt, and wherever the ncense of prayer has mounted to ?eaven the smoke of sacrif.ee has as iended with it. Now, if the universal consent and estimony of the human .race stand or religion there must be something n religion. Nor does the fact of iuperstition and error destroy the ralue of the argument For the false upposes the true, spuriou3 the gen line. If men believe in false pro mets, it is because they have the dea of prophecy. If they offer hu nan sacrifice, as all the pagan nations if antiquity" did, it is because they lave the idea of sacrifice, and the be ief in spells and charms and incanta ions is evidence of a and the belief n something more than natural. The fact remains, then, that reli ;ion, theoretically and practically, has ieen universal, aud this age, which is occupied with facts and the explana ion of them, by the providence and j nspiration of God, "Who is above < .11 and though all and iu us all," and i jho has never left Himself without , witness in the world. By a neces- j ity well as truth, unbelief proclam- ] ng Him, as well as belief, for we do j iot deny that which is not. All nonuments, all tradition, all ages, all 1 eligions, proclaim Him. The man, then, who is not religious tands up against all thin, agaimit the ;niversal belief and testimony of the forld. Every man who acts aecord ng to nature, who follows the natural iromptings of his heat, who does not title the aspirations of his own soul nd put out the light of his cwn mind, | | rill pray and offer sacrifice and be lumble and just and pure, and thus rorship "the God of all, Who is bovc all and through all and in us . Il" 1 i. Talk on Bird Sense. Mrs. Olive Thome Miller's bird talk at the "Waldorf yesterday morn ing treated of "The Eduoation of the Young Bird." The lecturer gave many facts new to her audience, and told several interesting anecdotes of her own experience and observations. "It has been generally thought," she said, "that birds know'everything instinctively, almost as soon as they are born. That is far from being the case. They have to learn and be taught most of the aocomplishments which they are to possess, Just as children are obliged to pursue a course of education. In the first place, they must be taught how to eat. When the parents bring them food for the first time they have to be shown how to take it. The fear which birds have of human beings is an acquired senti ment. Young nestlings do not show it. The fact that birds are taught to sing has often been proved. They have been taken as soon as hatched and put into the nest of another species. By the time they are grown they have learned the song of their foster-parents, and never sing a note of their natural melody. Even grown birds frequently teach themselves the songs of other varieties. An English sparrow in Brooklyn, which had been hurt so that it was unable to fly, was adopted by a family who owned a canary. I have myself gone to the house and heard every note of the canary's song reproduced by the wild little stranger. It was even sweeter than the original, for the sparrow had naturally a pleasanter voice." Mrs. Miller says that great attention is given by the parent birds to the proper education of the nestlings in the matter of flying. The mother and father often fly above the nest in cir cles, calling meanwhile with a peculiar note. Finally the little ones are per suaded to try, and these exercises.are repeated several times a day. It is a mistaken idea, she says, to suppose that the young birds separate from their parents as soon as they leave the nest. On the contrary, the .family keep together all summer and winter, until the following spring, and the children often assist the father and mother in their care of a second brood. Mrs. Miller told some experiments made by Prof. Lloyd Morgan of Eng land in raising birds from the egg without the care of the mother. He discovered that the little orphans were absolutely ignorant of what was suit able for their food, and would as soon peck at the lighted end of a cigarette as at anything more wholesome. They did not know how to drink, either, and he was obliged to 'force water into, their mouths and teach them that it was something to be swallowed. From these investigations he drew many proofs of the amount of knowledge which the bird under natural condi tions gains from imitations and in struction.?New York Tribune. Concerning the Devil. The devil is the only gainer when a hyprocrite joins the Church.?Rams Horn. The devil would never get another soul if he couldn't make black look white.?Ram's Horn. The devil is in the liquor traffic, and you can not get him out so long as you let the traffic live.?Religious Telescope. The devil is always laying snares for people who have an exaggerated opinion of their own strength.?Rich mond Christian Advocate. Worrying about things they can not help, is one way by which some well meaning Christians unintentionally amuse the devil.?Religious Telescope. The devil hasn't much to fear from the Christian who lets the dust accu mulate on his Bible, or who never prays in his family.?Kansas Cliristian Advocate. Archdeacon Farrar's celebrated words, a little changed, would read : "Every nation, it is said, has its own devil, and the devil of America is in temperance."? Western Christian Ad vocate. "Speak the truth and shame the devil," says the ancient adage; but as a matterr of fact, nothing can de light Satan much more than the disa greeable way some people have of speaking the truth.?The Look Out. Satan feels comfortably at home in at least five places in this Christian country; namelyj the saloon, the brothel, the gambling den, the infidel's heart, and the home where the Bible is not read.?Religious Telescope. Satan seldom does a bigger day's work than when he convinces a young girl that she ought to read the unclean literature of the day so that she may know how to avoid the snares and pit falls which besej; her life.?Richmond Christian Advocate. An industriously prosecuted task of the devil, for many years, has been to indoctrinate publi? men with the be lief that one can be personally pure and politically corrupt. He has so far succeeded in the endeavor, as to well-nigh wreck this republic; but there are signs of an awakening to a better view.?Tennessee Methodist. Never fight the devil with your own weapons or you will surely fail in the conflict. He will overmatch your best arguments, outwit your shrewdest policy, and withstand and wear out all your mere natural pluck and tenacity, [f you -would so fight as to win the day, "Take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to with stand in the evil day, and having done ill, to stand."?Free Methodist. Women's Ways. The corners of a girl's mouth turn up until she is 20; after that age they begin to turn steadily down ward. Unless a woman is quite willing to tiave some one open her letters for aer all her life, she should never get married. If women spent as much time in keeping their husband as girls spend In getting them, there would be less complaint of the faithlessness of men. There are many of the qualities of i girl in the women to admire, and many of the qualities of a woman in ;he girls who keep men's admiration. The women who builds her hope of happiness on the flattery she receives :rom the men, might as well build a ;astle of sugar and expect it to stand i rain storm.?Atchison Globe. ? It will he an agreeable surprise io persons subject to attacks of bilious jolie to learn that prompt relief may oe had by taking Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In^ many instances the attack may be prevented by taking this remedy as soon as the first symptoms of the dis ease appear. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. .Ul Sorts of Paragraphs. J ? The tyrant, it has been said, is\J but a slave turned inside out. ? He that hath slight thought of ^ sin never had great thoughts of God. ., ? Vi vacity in youth is often inis-Jl taken for genius, and solidity for dull ness. ? The bay of Fundy has the higu-/.|| est tide k the world. It rises a foot every five minutes, and sometimes at tains a height of 70 feet. ?"Prosecutor, will you tell me wh<rfs| was present when the d?fendent slap ped you in the face?" "Myself, your Honor." ? In a New York local oourt a few . days ago a Chinaman who was call?^gj as a witness, took the oath by lighting a parlor match and blowing it gl ? Dooter?''What yoi? need, young||| man, is change." Patient?"Then there is no hope for me, doctor. It will take all my change to p,ay your ? "Iahore does hope," said Uncle Mose, "dat dey will git dis heah new photograph trick so fine by summer g dat a man kin tell wedder; a melon is A ? "Have you read thafc-^rticle ottf| how to tell a bad egg?" "No, I hivZm en't; buz; my advice would be, if you^ have anything important, to tell a bad egg, why, break it gently." ? J. W. January, formerly Post-J|l master at Minonk, 111., is said to Wl| the only man living that ever amputa-^ ted both of his own legs with his own hand and afterwards recovered. ? ? The present century, itis stated; has witnessed the birth of not less than fifty-two volcanic islands, of which nineteen have disappeared: be- |1 neath the sea, while ten are now habited. ? In Decatur, Michigan, the popu- | lation of whioh is 1,500, the president of the village ouuoil is Mrs. Alma Sage, and. all of the town officers, ex cept that of official dog catcher, are filled by women. ? A statistician estimates that the total length of the telegraph lines of "'. the world is , 904,701 miles, while the 'M entire extent of wire employed on the same is 2,682,583 miles, or enough to encircle tiie globe'at the equator rath ?w? more than 107 times. ? The marriage wasn't a month old, the young bride and her visiting moth er sat watching the clock work.toward midnight. "What is that heavy, broken, uncertain footstep coming up the stairs?" said the mother-in-law sternly. ;'I guess it's George, mama. You know he always stuttered, and here of late it seems to have got some how into his walk." ? "Poli tical economy is a ticklish subject. A man has to be wide awake to understand all about it. For in- . stance, the very ideas of capital and Si labor?" "Look here! that is simple^ enough. Supposing I borrow $20^ from you; that would represent capi- % tal." "To be sure.'1 "Then after ? ^ while you would be trying to get your money back. That would be labor." 4- , ? Parson?You are a total abstain er, I believe, Mr. Flint? Farmer'i Skinflint?Yes, sir, I be. I never tasted liquor but once, and that was to the country fair 23 years ago. Hee % Hawbuck treated me three times that : } day, and I got jest dizzy enough to .;':)| let some scamp pass a lead nickel on me. When I found that out I says to myself, 'You ve had enough,' aDrfjfcgg ain't tetched a drop since, nor I aifl a-goin' ter! ? The lonr price of corn has creatjj a demand for it in Europe, and as tflfBu result, shipments have been , vejfi heavy, especially from Southern porfl The crop of the South was far in c? cess of its own needs. As an instanjB of the increase in this export tradw Port Royal .nay be cited. Last y? this port cleared 116,900 bags of fifflj and only 200,000 bushels of corn. TjE year already 1,250,000 bushels of cB have been exported and a shipmen 800.000 bushels is already contracH for.' The South and the West tfl contribute to this supply^^ JB M ? "W-when I was a b-b-b?y/'onl stuttering, lying John Stulty used tr3B say, "I read the st-story of G-G-GeorgJi Washington and the 1-Mittl^H h-b-hatchet, and I 1-1-liked it 80 Vflfl that I th-thought I'd p-p-play.it OB my father. So I w-weut out a^B ch-chopped cl-down an apple tree tufffl he'd taken lots of p-p-pains withjH And when he c-c-came home and asj?H ed about it, I said: 'I c-c-cannot teuH 1-1-lie, father ; I d-d-did it w-with JB axe,' and he g-gave me suchfl 1-lamin' that I h-haven't told the trrsB since." S ? "Well, Uncle Joe," said a WasOT ingtonian to Iiis rural uncle from thWB West, "how did you enjoy yourviaB to the House of Repr?sentatives? "They warn't in session." "Is dB so?" "Yes; I waited nearly all S M for thfaaAfa^>me to order, but tcH jus' kept faiKin' and langhin' asJ-jfl tin' up personal arguments over pdH tics till, b'gesh, they had wastedB much time that I reckon they thou? it war too late ter hold er session M to-morrow." ? It has long been known that theffl are several species of fish that lay ?fl unthinkable number of eggs duriafB each spawning season, but nothinjBS like accurate figures were ever^jrenj until the learned Dr. Maundff" jBH the results of his experiments, JH world. Hefomd that the mL^Pi^H produces 454,751 eggs every year; the ^ herring, 36,960 ; the cod, 3,686,760? but that the ling, the wonder of all egg-laying creatures, deposits 19,248,- ^ 625 eggs on an average during ?acn_?^ spawning season! ? Some hopeful speculators who have been counting unhatched ohiok- ; ens are about to start a poultry ranch near San Francisco which is to be the ) largest in the world. It is to reach | its full capacity in three years, whcnJ it is to put on uhe market annually^ 000,000 eggs and 90,000 chickens H broiling. The plant will include v?? incubators, with a capacity of 2,00^8 eggs each, and no end of nouses ana pens, which will be contained in ajqm ty acre ranch. There will be 900 hen&B laying for the incubators and 10.000^6 laying for the market. J| ? During the winter of 1S93, F. w? Martin, of Long Reach. West Va? contracted a severe cola which lefSB him with a cough. In speaking JSi how he cured it he s&ys: "I nsed_afl eral kinds of cough syrup but founH no relief until I bought a bottle OH Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, whicS? relieved me almost instantly, and inffl short time brought about a complctSH cure." When troubled with a coughjB or cold use this remedy and you-wiUB not find it necessary to try sevenJ] | kinds before you get relief. It has been in the market for over twenty years and constantly grown in favot and popularity. For sale at 25 and 5tfc|j cents per bottle by Hill Bros? i