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A BOSTON METAPHYSICIAN'S THEORY Two Storekeepers?The Clergyman Who Drews-Effects of Evil Thoughts. In a Boston course of metaphysics which I am now undergoing the chief metaphysicker asks of his class questions like these: "Why, when two stores are opened on the same street, and near each other, and both alike as to quality of goods kept, does one succeed and the other fail? Why will one be crowded with cuntomers and the other be bare of them?" Thus he answers: "Because one storekeeper has an inviting mind and the other hasn't. Because, separate and apart from business, one storekeeper really likes to see people and be agreeable to them for the sake of making them feel plessant, and the other doesn't. Be cause cistomers feel the thought of the inviting mind agreeably, and that of the uninviting mind ""disagreeably. "Because, according to the present school of Boston metaphysics; thoughts are things, like many other tilings that can't bo seen or touched, but neverthe less they are very fine, impalpable, in tangible, airy, subtile tilings, and all of us have within us an almost unknown and certainly unnamed sense that feels things as they come from the people about us, and this feeling will be agree able or disagreeable according to the nature of the thought felt. The store keeper who feels mean inside, who doesn't care a straw whether you are suited or not, or who only cares to suit ' you for the sake of the custom he may get of you, won't make you feel and can't make you feel as pleasant as the one who, with all the desire to draw cus tom, has a genuine wish that the ham, . butter and eggs you buy of him will do you good, and rather than they should not would at heart prefer you should buy them elsewhere, though he lose your j custom." But our metaphysican goes further, much further. Indeed, I dare scarcely tell how far he does go. He says that clergymen are popular and draw for the same reason that the storekeeper does. That is, if the minister be really glad to see his flock, be they few or many, he sends out to them from his pulpit agree able thought. If he be a perfunctory, mechanical sort of preacher, who has in reality no interest in his calling, and is only in it because, being an "apt scholar" and able to load Ids memory heavily I with so-called facts and figures, his pa concluded he should go into one of the "learned professions," or thought that for the honor and renown of the family one of the boys should shine (or try to) in the pulpit, and therefore put him through a perfunctory course of divinity, when the boy would rather have been a blacksmith, or a blackleg, or something of the sort, why, then, as the metaphys ical or rather natural result, he can only when in the pulpit send out a black smith, or blackleg, or otherwise order of thought;, no matter how much he may try to cover it up with good words and sentiments. He says also that our thoughts can reach p?ople a long way off, and so may theirs reach us and make us feel pleasant or unpleasant, as they are good or other wise, and that any amount of tlfls sort of unconscious telegraphing is constantly going on about us. Say that a person is jealous or envious or otherwise down on you, and doesn't want you to succeed in any enterprise, then you will feel that though ;; it will depress you; you won't know why or wherefore. It's just the same a.', though one of those diabolical BO-called friends ever stood in front of you while engaged in some undertaking, saying: "You'll fail. It's all nonsense you're trying to do that. You ain't got ? it in you!" And the possible misfortune is that the thought of friend or enemy may at last discourage you and blind you as to your real ability. Because a current of thought that you live much amongst, or even a current that is di rected on you, may make you see and judge things exactly as the person send ing it sees and judges them. Say you live or associate among people who are hostile or prejudiced against some par- | ticular friend of your own who is absent ?one. whom you know to bo square and honest. Do your best you may find your view of that friend more or less colored by their prejudice, and his cr her possible little failings or peculiarities so magni fied and exaggerated that you will find yourself at last seeing him or her in the same h'ght and with the same prejudice, though in the depths of your soul you feel or fear you may be wrong. So says our metaphysician. He says also that thousands of people give way before the constant pressure and fretting of envious, jealous or otherwise ugly thoughts directed on them by another or others and get so discouraged by it as to be at last able to make no further effi cient effort in what they want to accom plish, but that there's no need of their being so flattened out by it, for the rea son that if they did but even suspect the cause and resist it and set their minds against it, this resistance would turn the evil thought current aside. He says also that an ugly thought poisons the blood of the person that tliinks it and is the r? al cause of disease, and that the cleaner a person's thoughts the purer will be their blood, and that there is for human beings a condition attainable in which no disease could affect them.?Prentice Mnlford's Letter in San Francisco Chron icle. The Coloring Matter in Cochineal. Experiments hare been made^by Lieb ennann, who states that cochineal does not contain more than 10 per cent, of pure coloring matter. Cochineal car mine is a kind of lake very similar to turkey red lake, and contains a large amount of alumnia and lime combined with nitrogenous matter. A commer cial sample of very good quality was found to contain 17 per cent water, 20 per cent, nitrogenous matter, 7 per cent, ash, and 50 per cent, coloring matter. ?Scientific JournaJ. Sunshine Tut to an Odd Use. Sunlight has been put to odd use at Brussels. Falling on a small shaft the rayj cause an upward draught of air which 6etu a fan in motion, and that in turn starts machinery that winds a clock. ?Exchange. Shoes Ulised In the Antipodes. There isn't much show for our leather or our manufactured shoes in Australia. The people have good-sized, civilized feet, and they produce more leather than they want. They have reduced to a sci ence the manufacture of leather from skins of the native ani mals, and as long as the lat ter hold out, Consul Griffin doesn't see any market for us. The skin of the kan garoo is much used, but the Austrahans do not discriminate much, and carve up their native bears, or ruthlessly destroy the bandicoot (the native pig) or the dingo or native dog, so that all tastes may be suited in leather. The fashion able slippers are made from the skins of tho platypus, and are highly prized. The people in New Zealand don't go much upon style. Their feet are large and un shapely,' and pegged boots are considered just the thing. In South New Zealand brass rivets aroused to fasten the soles to the uppers. The good people of Japan do not show any desire to cultivate American leather or shoes. All the noble subjects of the Mikado hanker after European fashions, and spend some of their incomes in wear ing French shoes. The young women in Japan are not much behind our own. They catch on to all the new fashions in European dress, apo the manners and customs of Europeans, and take savage deUght is showing their pretty feet and silk stockings. They don't# want any shoes of American'manufacture, and the bulk of the natives are satisfied to go through life wearing a sandal or a wooden clog. Consul Patton does not tnink there is any field for American manufactures in the Japanese empire.? j New Yord Mail and Express. - Candy Shops of Other Lands. In the matter of confections, by tho way, New York, speaking after the man ner of men beats the world. They hardly know what candy is in London, where still obtains th* antique and exploded superstition that it is a sort of pap pecu liarly suited to and designed for infancy. A country where ice cream is a rare and novel compound, sold at fabulous prices and by the wine-glass full, presents to the American imagination difficulties in the way of courtship and marriage which might be expected to seriously check the natural increase of the population; but the untraveled Eaglishraan has never yet learned that sweets to the sweet is the proper method of bombarding maiden hearts, and he seems to get the necessary preliminaries settled some way in a goodly number of cases unassisted by any ??fter gastronomic influences than are died by his own indigestible plum pud ding. The oandy shops there are small and humble places where the proprietor gladly exchanges a portion of his simple goods for a penny, or even a fraction thereof, instead of refusing, as do our brilliant and lordly confectioners, to ne gotiate for less tlian half a pound of com pounds ranging from ."50 cents to ?1 a pound. The idea of such airs in such a business would be laughed to scorn. In Paris they aro in theBe respects somewhat more tivilized, and. indeed it was from Paris that we learned our early lessons in the worship of sugar, but we have now far outstripped our teachers both in the number and splendor of the shops and in the expensiveness and variety of our con fections.?New York Graphic. Problem of a Commercial Polo. Chief Engineer Melville, in a reeent leoture, described the Arctic out fits nec ?ssary for explorers and the mistakes made in making them too heavy. He $aid: "I have slept comfortably on top of a sled in a sleeping bag with the ther mometer 100 degrees below the freezing point of water." The Arctic sleeping bags, he explained, were worn with the hair inside, thus re versing nature. It was 'the only fur j ilothing worn that way. He thought j the very idea of unlimited appropriations i by congress caused an Arctic ex pedition to be loaded down with the wortldess rubbage of every crank in the land. His sleeping bag weighed ileven pounds. The Greely expedition bags weighed twenty-two pounds?ele gant things1 to sleep in, but death to those who attempted to carry them." In con clusion the chief engineer said that with his knowledge, born of, experience, he expected at some future day to conduct i party in safety to the Arctic regions, and to find a grand, public spirited man of vast means who would aid him in jolving the problem of a commercial pole- The road was one of trial and tribulation, but the object was attainable and the scientific world would not bo satisfied until it was reached.?Philadel phia Times. Japanese Passion for Tattooing. The Japanese have acquired such a passion for being tattooed that a law has been passed forbidding the marking of J natives. The law does not apply to for I eignere. It is quite the thing now to be tattooed, and elaborate designs are traced on many travelers as an indelible rem iniscence of thoir sojourn in the east. Pile sons of the prince of Wales, when here a few years ago, were tattooed, and wveral Russian dukes and sprigs of no bility have undergone the process. The son of Longfellow recently submitted to a very elaborate tattoo decoration, and for more than three months was in the hands of the tattooer, who did an amount of work on him during this time that is usually spread over a period of three or four years. This caused of course, a se vere nervous shoek, which he was only able to withstand by the application of application of hypodermic injections of morphine.?Yokohama Letter. Another Veteran Drops Out of the Ranks. Pierre Solidor Milon, who was 98 years old last November, claims to be one of the seven survivors of the wars of thr first Napoleon. His papers show that he enlisted hi 1800, was in the French army for ten years and nine months, rose from the ranks to the grade of lieutenant, and was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He is the father of sixteen chil dren, and has lived in Philadelphia sinco j 18S0, supporting himself by playing the i violin in orchestras and giving music les j sons,?Exchange. rabbit-skinb for hat-making. The Growth of an Enormous Industry.? Tho Business in France and England. The trade in rabbit skins for hat-mak ing is now an. enormous industry. The skius are doubly valuable, the hair being used for felt-making and the pelts to boil down into glue. The present statistics of the industry in Europe may be figured from the fact that 80,000,000 of skins are collected in France, 25,000,000 to 30,000, 000 in England, almost entirely from the warrens of the sand-hills and woods; 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 in Belgium, al most wholly of domestic breed (as are nine out of ten of the 80,000,000 of French skins): 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 in Russia, Sweden and Norway, and 4,000. 000 in northern Germany, yearly. In Austria and Hungary there are about 12)000,000 coUected, but retained for home manufacture. Spain and Portu gal have skins of inferior quality, which are kept for the hat factories of these countries. France occupies the clnef place in the commerce of rabbit-skins, not only in regard to quantity but to quality. There is no rabbit comparable to the French rabbits, either to eat or to make hats of. Both to Belgium and. to England large quantities are exported. The supremacy of France did not ex ist at the start in the rabbit-skin trade. In the early part of this century the Ger mans and English took the lead in the preparation of the skins. France was oppressed, and was unable to take ad vantage of this new industry till 1847. From that date we reckon the rise of a trade which has attained to gigantic di mentions. Paris, which is the cen ter of the preparation of tho material, dispatched agents ' in every direction to employ brokers, chif foniers and other collectors of skins of rabbits and hares, which had before been seldom preserved for any use. The most energetic and successful purveyors in this industry were the Auvergnats, who still remain the chief agents in the col lection. In 1847 the couperies de poits worked up 2,500,000 of skins; the estab lishments in the provinces consumed about an equal quantity. At first the manufacturer collected and stored rabbit skins, and transformed them into hats with very rude machin ery. It is only recently, by the distri bution of labor, always advantageous, . that the preparation of the stuff has been separated from the manufacture of hats, and the collection of the skins is organized as a* distinct industry. In I England there are now some twenty ! firms engaged in preparing and cutting j the skins, the largest of which firms are in Southwark, and others in Manchester ! and Leeds. The industry altogether is a very interesting one in many respects, and it represents a Uvirig to large num. bers of people, mcluding the collection of skins in the towns and villages through out the country, and the hundreds of women and girls occupied in "pulling" and in other operations preparatory to the felting, when the hat manufacturer enters upon the mysteries of his special trade. The value of the rabbit skin tr^yltr^iu. j England alone last year was over $1,000, ; 000. There are no statistics at ;hand of the trade in this country, but it is very important, and there are even places where rabbits are bred in order to pro vide skins for the market. TliiS is, how ever, a perilous experiment, as the ex perience of Australia and New Zealand with their rabbit plagues will demon strate.?Cincinnati Enquirer. Xo Angle-Worms in Florida Sand. A northern settler in Florida complains of a certain poverty of the soil there. The fishermen, ho says, find no angle worms. Recently he imported a num ber of the ruddy specimens, such as the northern boy digs a box full of in a few minutes, when he wants to go fishing, out of the earth behind the barn. They were sent oh in a wooden pail filled with loam, and the settler, boring a few holes in the pail, set it in Florida ground. The worms did not go out exploring through the holes, as they might have dono, but remained closely bunched up in the exact center of the pail; and at the end of a few weeks they had become almost as colorless as the sand fleas of the sea shore.?Harper's Weekly. A Pike's Tenacity of Fife. It is reported that a young pike which was recently sent from Holland to Paris _packed in ice showed signs of life on reaching its destination, and that not withstanding it had been three days out of water, and frozen stiff, it was resusci tated, and is now swimming about in a tank in the Trocadero aquarium. Which goes to show that the theory of Benjamin Franklin and others that animation may be suspended by freezing and restored by thawing at any time suiting the purposes of the operator?a theory heretofore sup posed to have been whimsically con ceived?may have sometliing in it after all.?Harper's Weekly. King Montezuuia's Descendants. On the pension list of the Mexican gov ernment there are still several descend ants of King Montezuma. The treasury pays every New Year $8,800 to the count countess of Miravalle, $3,300 to Don Mariano Ortiz, the same sum to Dona Carmen Garcia Trevilla, an amount of euphonious nomenclature which the claimants were probably induced to ac cept in part payment.?Cor. Cincinnati Enbuirer. We Should Also ltcmember. "There is a good deal of religion in na ture," solelmly remarked a young Aber deen elergyman calling upon a lady of his congregation recently. "There is," was the quiet reply. "We should never forget that there is a Bermon in every blade of grass." "Quite true. We Bhould also remember that grass is cut very short sometimes."?Chicago Herald. Pronunciation of "Yen!, Vidi, Viel." The pronunciation of Latin, as now taught at Harvard, would sound like bur lesque to those who learned Latin twenty or thirty years ago. Veni, vidi, vici i3 pronounced Wanee, weede, weeke. This revolution is due to Professor George M. Lane, who thinks he finds Iiis authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian.? Boston Evening Traveler. Removed TO OUR NEWLY FITTED UP STORE OPPOSITE THE TENT. -o NOTICE. Wc do not propose to undersell everyone else, but we are ready to meet fair competition. Our Stock is now complete: give us a call ? Mr. I. S. CUMMINGS is with us, and will be glad to see his .old friends and customers. We sell the. ROYAL 'ST. JOHN SEWING MACHINES. Machines of all makes repaired. Large Wogen Yard in rear of Store. VQSE & SALLEY. SPRING CLOTHING. TITY NEW SPRING CLOTHING -l'-I has arrived and been placed on the counters and ready for a critical inspection. New poods opened in even' department for I the SPRING TRADE; this large assort ment of SPRING CLOTHING for Men, Youths and Boys arc selected from the iargest and most reliable Manufacturers in the country. ' This stock is unusuallv attractive in STYLES and PATTERNS, the ONE and THREE BUTTON CUTAWAYS are of imported CORKSCREWS, WHIPCORD and CHEVIOTS, made and trimmed equal to any custom made garment, also will fit J and cling to the figure and hold their shape. See my line of the PATENT SQUARE SHOULDER garments in SACK and CUT AWAY SUITS. I am the sole agent of these goods, and those who have worn them can testify to their superiority over ] all other garments in fit, wear and holding their shape. Every department, GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, SHOES, and BOY'S, are full of choice novelties for the SPRING AND SUMMER SEASON. Call early and make your selection. RESPECRFULLY, M. I.. li'n'ARll), COLUMBIA, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1S77. Twenty-five Years Experience. T. Mhiavette, Watch Maker and Jeweler, And dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry Spectacles, Silver and Plated Ware and Musical Instruments. All work warranted for one year. Orangeburg. . C. INSURE YOUR PROPERTY with KIRK ROBINSON, AGENT, COMPANIES ALL FIST-CLASS AND RELIABLE. LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTEND ED TO. I am still selling Brick, Lime, Laths, Hair and other Building Material. ALSO 1 am now prepared to furnish Coal and Wood in any quantity. All orders left with me shall have prompt attention. No dravage charged. Give me a trial. July 23- ' KIRK ROBINSON j B-'or Sale. ONK TEN HOUSE POWER EN ginc and Boiler complete. Abo one Circular Saw Mill. The above can be boimht on verv reasonable terms. Fcb 23 " HARBIN R1GGS. STONO Pliospliate Company. CHARLESTON, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1870. HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS! HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS! f . SOLUBLE GUANO (highly ammoniatert.) DISSOLVED BONE. ACID PHOSPHATE. ASH ELEMENT. PHOSPHATE FLOATS. GERMAN KAN1T. HIGH GRADE RICE FERTILIZER, A BLIZZAWTTbIAZZWd: ANOTHER BLIZZARD IS COMING, BUT IT-WILL BE A COLD DAY when PRESCOTT fails to sell you CHOICE GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASS and TINWARE cheaper than any other house in the city. I have also just received a choice Stock of FRESH GARDEN SEED, SEED POTATOES, &c. FRESH AND CHOICE GROCERIES Received Every Week at tho Cheap Cash Store. CHARLES W. PRESCOTT, Proprietor. . -;-0- ? . Z3T1 am prepared to manufacture TOMBSTONES. &?., at shortest notice and in the most artistic style. Jan 28-3m . ( James Van Tassel, DEALER IN CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors and Segars. A T MY ESTABLISHMENT CAN BE FOUND ALL THE STANDARD XjL arricles of GROCERIES at Rock Bottom Prices, as well as purest and best WINES, LIQUOKS. &c, sold anywhere. Also the choicest SEGARS AND TOBACCO to be found in the market. ? W1IE.H LOOKING AROl.lI) GIVE ME A CALL JAMES VAN TASSEL. OLD VELVET RYE WHISKEY! EIGHT YEARS OLD. ? Giratee? Pnre anil Wnolesoine for MM or Oiler Uses. FOR SALE ONLY BY W. T. LIGHTFOOT, Nov 2G-3nios EST AEEINII EI> 1832. C. & E, L. Kerrison. 88 IIASEE STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. DRY GOODS, Black and Colored JDrc** Goods LINENS, HOSIERY. &c, &c , IN LARGE VARIETY. EBTA11 Orders will receive prompt and careful attention. STCnsh ordere amountiug to $10 or over will be delivered In any county free of charge. C. A 12. B.. Itcrritton, auuiOly Charleston. S. C. FUtJTZ'S HORSE AND CATTLL POWDERS Ts*? FOUfZ$ No iinnsr will '!!'? of Colic. Hots? ?.r Ixsa Ft v?il If Knntz's l'owilcr? are med In time. F'.ut/v I'ewilet* wlllrinvMul prevent llou fiinrjtr.a. K?litz*? Powilrnl will prevent Gaiy.* ix Fowls. Foiiizv I'owiieri will Inerawc the quantity of milk and (tum? twenty per cent., and make llic butter firm and ?weet KoutzV I'nwdrre will cure or prnvent almost kveet Dixvakk U) whlrli Hom-nund ( attic urn KubjccL FofTZ'8 POWPKEI WILL civ>: S.vt16facti0x. Eold everywhere. DAVID T. FOUTZ, Proprietor. BilTIJIOr.E.MD. For sale by DR. J. G. ER. WANNAMAK Feb-4 OCH* SON'S Celebrated Fashion Catalcjrno QC?T CDCC 'or BprLag nndTjum Otll I rnCCmer, 1380, ready March 10th, to any address. Ulustratcd and lists cvervthlngforLadles', Genti', Chlldrcns' anil'infants' wear and Housekeeping Goods, at prices lotrer than those ot auy house in tho United States. Com pier o nut iftfactiuu p-uaran'tvit, or money re funded. II. C. K. KOCH ?fc SON, ?th Ave. & UQlh tit,, N. x. CUy.