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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889 NO A DELIGHTFUL SABBATT. Sermon by the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D. Th. Sabbath Should be a Delight-A Da' of Joy and Rest-The Savlas Bank for the Storing of Mental and Physical Forces. "A Bright Versus a Doleful Sunday" was the subject of Rev. Dr. Talmage's recent sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. After expounding appropriate passages of Scrip ture he gave out the hymn: "Welcome sweet day of rest. That saw the Lord arise." The text was, "And cal the 3abba a do light'-Isaiah lviii. 13. Dr. Talmage said: an element of gloom striking through all false religions. Paganism is a brood of horrors. The god of Confucius -frowned upon its victims with blind fate. Mohammedanism promises nothing to those exhausted with sin in this world, but an eternity of the same passional indulgencies. Bat God intended that our religion should have the grand characteristic of cheerful ness. St. Paul struck the keynote when he said: "Rejoice evermore, and again I say nejoice." This religion has no spikes for h feet; it has no hooks for the shoulder; it has nolong pilgrimages to take; it has no funeral pyres upon which to leap; it ha; no Juggernauts before which to fall. Its good -ehoer is symbolized in the Bible by the .brightness of waters, and the redolence of ilies, and the sweetness of music, and the ;hilaWes of abanquet. A choir of seraphim ,ebasted at its induction, and pealing trumpet, and waving palm, and flapping wing of archangel are to celebrateits tri wphs. It began its chief mission with the chest: "Glory to God in the highest!" and t wfill close its earthly mission with the as eiptton: "Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth !" But men have said that our religion is not okeerful, because we have such a doleful Sabbath. They say: "You can have your religious assemblages, and your long faces. and your sniffling cant, and your psalm books, and your Bibles. Give us the Sun - day excursion, and the horse race and the .convivial laughter. We have so much joy that we want to spread it all over the seven days of the week, and you shall not have one of our days of worldly satisfaction for - religious dolefulness." I want to show these men-if there are any such in the hosse this morning-that they are under a great delusion, and that God intended the fifty-two Sundays of the year to be hung up ]We bells in a tower, beating a perpetual -hime of joy and glory and salvation and Heaven; for I' want you to carry out the Idea of the text, "And call the Sabbath a I resaark, in the first place, we are to find a this day the joy of healthy repose. In this -democratic country we all have to work esome with hand, some with :rtia, some with .toot. If there is in all this house a hand 'that bas-not' during the past year, been sa'etched forth to some kind of toil, let it be oYe sell the ukk rom. You practice at the bar. You ed a newspaper. You tan the hides. You semus the gospeL You mend the shoes. You si at the shuttle. You carry the hod -et bricks up the ladder on the wall. And e one occupation is as honorable as the Sther, provided God calls you to it. I care aot what you do. if you only do it well. But whea Saturday night comes you are jaded sad worn. The hand can not so skillfully manufacture; the.eye can not see so well; .*e brain is not so clear; the judgment is -not s well balanced. A prominent maau urer told me that he could see a differ -mo between the goods which went out of Is establishment on Saturday from the goods that went out on Monday. He said: "!bey are very diferent indeed. Those that were made in the former part of the week, because of the restthat had been previously :given, wo'-e better than those that were .made in the latter part of the week, when 'th men were tired out." The Sabbath .eom and It bathes the soreness from the Mebs, quiets the agitated brain, and -uts eat ,the fires of anxiety that tune 'bees burning all the week. Our bedies -are aeven-day clocks, and un lass on the seventh day they are wound ug, they run down into the grave. The Sabbath was intended as a savings bank; iato it we are to gather the resources upon -which we are to draw all the week. That man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own were, his own muscle, his own brain, his own bones. He dips up the wine of his own life, and throws it away. He who breaks the Lord's day gives a mortgage to disasea and death upon his entire physical -estate, and at the most unexpected moment *tat mortgage will be foreclosed and the soul ejected from the premises. Every gand, and pore, and cell, and finger-nail de -mands the seventh day for repose. The respiration of the lungs, the th-ob of the golae is the wrist, the motion of the bone In - its socbet declare: "Remember the Sab bath day to keep it holy." There are *thousands of men who have had their lives - dashed out against the golden gates of the Sabbath. A prominent London merchant -estfesm that thirty years ago he went to London. He sage: "I have during that time watched minutely, and I have noticed tat the men who went to business on the Lord's day, or opened their counting-houses bave, without a single exception, come to faiure." A prominent Christian merchant in Bosten says: "I find it don't pay to -work on Sunday. When I was a boy, I noticed out on Long Wharf there were mer -chants who loaded their vessels on the Sabbath day, keeping their men busy from morning till night, and it is my ooservation that they themselves came to nothing tese merchants-and their children came to nothing. It doesn't pay," he says, "to work on the Sabbath." I appeal to your observation. Where are the men who twenty years ago were Sab bath-breakers, and who have been Sabbath breakers ever since? Without a single ex ception you will tell me they have come either to financial or to moral beggary. I defy you to point out a singie exception, an4 you can take the whole world for your field. It has either been a financial or moral defl cation in every instance. Six hundred and forty physicians in London petition Parlia ment, saying: "We must have the Sabbath obeyed. We c-an not have health in this city and in this nation unless the Sabbath is observed." Those in our own country have given evidence on the same side. The man who takes down the shutters of his store on the Sabbath takes down the curse of Al mighty God. ThIV farmer who cultivates his ground on the i-abbath day raises a crop *f neuralgia, and of consumption, and of death. A farmer said: "'I defy your Chris tien Sabbath. I will raise a Sunday crop." So be went to work rand plowed the ground on Sunday, and harrowed it on Sunday, and he planted corn on Sunday, and he reaped te corn on Sunday, and he gathered it into he barn on Sundasy. "There," he says. "I have proved to you that ali this idea about a fatality accompanying Sabbath work is a perfect sham. My corn is garnered, and all is well." But before many weeks passed the Lord God struck that barn with light. ..... -ad away went the Sunday cron. So great is the moral depressin aumg upon those who toil upon the Sabbath day, that you may have noticed (if you have not, I call your attention to the fact) that in cases where the public interest demands Sabbath toil the moral depression is so great that there are but very few who can stand it. For instance, the police service, without which not one of our houses iould be safe-there are very few who can stand the pressure and temptation of it. In Lon don, where there are 5,000 policemen, the statistics is given that in one year 921 of that 5.000 were dismissed, 523 were sus pended and 2,492 were fined. Now, if the moral depression be so great in occupations that are absolutely necessary for the peace and prosperity of society, I ask yo:: what must be the moral depression in those cases where there is no necessity for Sabbath work, and where a man chooses worldly business on the Lord's day just because he likes it, or wants to add to his emoluments? During the last war it was found out that those public works which paused on the seventh day turned out more war material than those which worked all the seven days. Mr. Bagoall, a prominent iron merchant, gives this testimony: "I find we havo fewer accidents in our establish ment and fewer interruptions, now we ob serve the Lord's day; and at the close of the year, now that we keep the Sabbath, I fnd we turn out more iron and have larger profits than any year when we worked all the seven days." The fact is, Sabbath-made ropes will break, and Sabbath-made shoes will leak, and Sabbath-made coats will rip, and Sabbath-made muskets will miss ire, and Sabbath occupations will be blasted. A gentleman said: "I invented a shuttle on the Lord's day. I was very busy, so I made the model of that new shuttle on the Lord's day. So very busy was I during the week that I had to occupy many Sabbaths. It was a great success. I enlarged my buildings, I built new factories, and made hundreds of thousands of dollars; but I have to tell you that all the result of that work on the Sab bath has been to me rain. I enlarged my buildings, I made a great many thousands of dollars. but I have lest all and I charge it to the fact of that Sunday shuttle." I will place in two companies the men in this com munity who break theSabb ath and the men who keep it, and then I ask you who are the best friends of society! Who are the best friends of morals! Who have the best pros pects for this world! Who have the best for the world that is to come? Sabbath morning comes in the household. I suppose that the mere philosopher would say that the Sabbath light comes in a wave current, just like any other light;but it does not seem so to me. It seems as if it touched the eyelids more gently, and threw a brighter glow on the mantel ornaments, and cast a better cheerfulness on the faces of the children, and threw a supernatural glory over the old family Bible. HailI Sabbath light! We rejoice in it. Rest comes in through the window, or it leaps up fromthe ire, or it rolls out of the old arm chair, or it catches up the body into ecstasy, and swings open before the soul the twelve gates which are twelve pearls. The bar of the unopened warehouse, the hinges of the unfastened store window, the quiet of the commercial warehouse seem to say: "This te ntiig bwit weary ban s a aching side and sick heart. Rest for the overtasked workman in the mine, or on the wall, or in the sweltering factory. Hang up the plane, drop the ads, slip the band from the wheel, put out the fire. Rest for the body, for the mind, and for the soul. "Welcome, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes." Again, I remark, we ought to have in the Sabbath the joy of domestic reunion and consecration. There are some very good parents who have the faculty of making the Sabbath a great gloom. Their children run up against the wall of parental lugubrious ness on that day. They are sorry when Sunday comes, and glad when it goes away. They think of everything bad on that day. It is the worst day to them, really, in all the week. There are persons, who, because they were brought up in Christian families where there were wrong notions about the Sabbath, have gone out into dissipation and will be lost. A man said to me: "I have a perfect disgust for the Sabbath day. I never saw my father smile on Sunday. It was such a dreadful day to me when I was a boy I never got over it, and never will." Those parents did not "call the Sabbath a de light;" they made It a gloom. But there are houses represented h ere this morn ing where the children say through the week: "1 wonder when Sunday will come!" They are anxious to have it come. I hear their hosanna in the house; I hear their hosnna in the schooL. God intended the Sabbath to be especially a day for the father. The mother is home all the week. Sabbath. day comes, and God says to the fc'her, who has been busy from Mfonday morning to Sat urday nightat the store, or away from home: "This is your day. See what you can doc in this little fiock in preparing them for Heaven. This day I set apart for you." You know very well that there are many parents who are mere sutlers of the household; they pro vide the food and raiment; once in a while, perhaps, th.ey hear the child read a line or two in the new primer; or if there be a case of special discipline, and the mother can not manage it, the child is brought up in the court-martial of the father's discipline and punished. That is all there is of it. No scrutiny of that child's immortal interests, no realization of the fact that the child will soon go out in the world where there are gigantic and overwhelming temptations that have swamped millions. But in some house holds it is not that way; the home, beautiful on ordinary days, is more beautiful now that the Sabbath has dawned. There Is more joy in the "good morning," there is more tenderness in the morning prayer. The father looks at the child, and the child looks at the father. The little one dares now to ask questions without any fear of being answered: "Don't bother me-I must be off to the store." Now the father looks at the child, and he sees not merely the blue eyes, the archr'd brow, the long lashes, the sweet lip. He sees in that child a long line of earthly destinies; he sees in that child an immneasurable. eternity. As he touches that child he says: "I wonder what will be the destiny of this little one?" And while this Cihristian father is thinking and praying the sweet promise fiows through his soul: "Of such is the kingdom of Heaven." And he feels a joy, not like that which sounds in the dance, or is wafted from the froth of the wine cup, or that which is liku the "crackling of thorns under a pot," but the joy of domestic reunion and consecration. Have I been picturing something that is merely fanciful, or is it possible for you and for ae to have such a home as that? I be deve it is possi ble. I have a sta;;.:ic that I would like to give you. A groat many people, you know, say there is nothing in the Christian discipline of a housenold. In New Hampshire there were two neighborhoods--the one of six families, the other of five families. The six families disragarded the Sabbath. In time five of these families were breken up by the separation of husbands and wives; the other by the father becoming a thief. Eight or nine of the parents became drunkards, one com mitted suicide, and all came to penury. Of .s.m e -o flty descendants, about twenty are knwn to be drunkards and gamblers and dissolute. Four or five have been in State's prison. One fell in a duel. Some are in the almshouse. Only one be came a Christian, and he after first having been outrageously dissipated. The other five families that regarded the Sabbath were all prospered. Eight or ten of the children are consistent members of the church. Some of them became officers in the church; one is a minister of the Gospel; one is a missionary to China. No poverty among any of them. The homestead isnow in the hands of the third generation. Those who have died have died in the peace of the Gospel. 0, is there nothing in a household that remembers God's holy day? Can it be possible that those who disregard this holy commandment can be prospered for this life or have any good hope of the life that is to come? Again, we ought to have in the Sabbath the joy of Christian assemblage. Where are all those people going on the Sabbath? You see them moving up and down the street. Is it a festal day? people might ask. Has there been some public edict command ing the people to come forth? No, they are only worshipers of Go d who are going to their places of religious serviee. In what delicate scale shall I weigh the joy of Christian convocation? It gives brightness to the eye, and a flush to the cheek; and a pressure to the hand, and a thrill to the heart. You see the aged man tottering along on his staff through the aisle. You see the little child led by the hand of its mother. You look around and rejoice that this is God's day, and this the communion of saints. "One Lord, one faith, one bap tism." Some familiar tune sets all the soul a-quiver and a-quake with rapture. We plunge into some old hymn, and all our cares and anxieties are bathed off. The glorious Gospel transports us, the Spirit descends, Jesus appears, and we feel the bounding, spreading, electric joy of Chris. tian convocation. I look upon the Church of God as one vast hosanna. Joy dripping from the baptismal font, joy glowing in the sacramental cup, joy warbling in the anthem, joy beating against the gate of Heaven with a hallelujah like the voice of mighty thunderings. Beautiful for situa tion I The joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion. It is the day and the place where Christ reviews his troops, bringing them out in companies and regiments and bat talions, riding along the line, examining the battle-torn flags of past combat, and cheer. ing them on to future victories. 0, the joy of Christian assemblage! .I remark, also, we are to have in this day the joy of eternal Sabbatism. I do not be lieve it possible for any Christian to spend the Lord's day here witnout thinking of Heaven. There is something in the gather ing of people in church on earth to make one think of the rapt assemblage of the skies. There is something in the song of the Christian church to make one think of the song of the elders before the throne. the harpists and the trumpeters of God ac oompanying the harmony. The light of a better Sabbath gilds the top of this, and earth and Heaven come within speaking distance of each other, the song of triumph waving backward and forward, now tossed up by the church of earth, now sent back by the church of Heaven. -Dayoft the week hTe6sr Emblem of eternal rest." The Christian man stands radiant in its light. His bereft heart rejoices at the thought of a country where there is neither a coffin nor graves; and his weary body glows at the idea of a land where there are no burdens to carry, and no exhaustive journeys to take. He eats the rapes of Eshcol. He stands upon the mn :ntain top and looks off upon the promised land. He hears the call of the eternal towers, and the tramp of the numberless multitude with sins forgiven. This is the day which the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 0. ye who have been hunting for Sun day pleasures in the streets, and on the river bank, and in the houses of sin, I commend to you this holy service? I do not invite you to swallow a great bitterness or to carry a heavy yoke, but I invite you to f eel in body mind and soul the thrill of joy which God has handed down in the chalices of the gold en Sabbath. With what revulsion and with what pity we must look out on that large class of per sons in our day who would throw discredit upon the Lord's day. There are two thingi which Christian people ought never to give up; the one is the Bible an d the other Is the Sabbath. Take away one and you take both. Take either and farewell to Christianity in Ithis country; farewell to our civil and re. ligious liberties. When they go, all go. He who has ever spent Sunday in Paris, or Antwerp, or Rome, -' he be an intelligent Christian, wyill pray (16 that the day will never come when the Sabbath of continental Europe shall put its foot upon our shores. I had a friend in Syracuse who lived to be one hundred years of age. Ie said to me in his ninety-ninth year: "I went across the mountains in the early history of this country. Sabbath mornIng came. We were beyond the reach of civilization. My comrades were all going out for an excursionr. I said: 'No, I wou'L go; it is Sunday.' Why, they laughed. They said: 'We haven't any Sunday here.' '0, yes.' I said, 'yvau have. I brought it with me over the ruountains.'" There are two or three ways in which we an war against Sabbath-breaking usages in this day~ - e~ the first thing is to get omf children upon this subject, and teach themn that the Sabbath day is the holiest of all the days, and the beet and the gladdest. Unless you teach your child under the paternal roof to keep the Lord's day. therc are nine hundred and ninety chances out of a thousand it will never learn to keep the Sabbath. You may think to shirk responsi Ibility in the matter and send your child tc Sabbath-school and the House of God ; that will not relieve you. I want to tell you in the name of Christ, my Maker and mn3 IJudge, that your example will be more po tential than any instruction they get else where, and if you disregard the Lord's day yourself, or in anywise throw contempt upon it, you are blasting your children with an infinite curse. It is a rough truth I know, told in a rough way, but it is God's truth. nevertheless. Your child may go on to seventy or eighty years of age, but that child will never get over the awful disad vantage of having had a Sabbath-breaking father or a Sabbath-breaking mother. It is the joy of, many of us that we can look back to an early home where God wa~s honored, and when the Sabbath came it was a day of great consecration and joy. We remember the old faces around the table that Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt when we think of those blessed associations and we may have been off and commnitted many indiscretions and done many wrong things; but the day will never come when we forget the early home in which God's day was regarded, and father and mother told us to keep holy the Sabbath. There is another way ia which we can war against the Sabbath-breaking usages of the country at this time, and that is by making our houses of worship attractive and the re ligious services inspiring. I plead not for a gorgeous audience chamber; I plead not for groined rafters or magnificent fresco; but I do plead for comfortable churches, home like churches-places where the church go g population behave as they ought to. Make the church welcome to .ll, howeves ..er.1 eadr theY mar be. or whratewa sa have been their past hisry; for I ink the church of God is not so much made for you who could have churchos in your own house, but for the vast population of our great cities, who are treading on toward death, with n - voice of mercy to ar rest them. Ah 1 when the prodigal comes into the church, do not stare at him as though he had no right to come. Give him the best seat you can find for him. Some times a man wakes up from his sin and he says: "I'll go to the house of God." Per haps he comes from one motive, perhaps from another. He finds the church dark and the Christian people frigid (and there are no.people on earth who can be more frigid than Christian people when they try), and the music is dull, and he never comes again. Suppose one of these men enters the church. As he comes in he hears a song which his mother sang when he was a boy; he remembers it. He sits down, and some one hands him a book, open at "Jerusalem, my happy home, Name ever dear to me." "Yes," he says, "I have heard that many times." He sees cheerful, Christian people there, every man's face a psalm of thanks giving to God. He says: "Do you have this so every Sunday? I have hoard that the home of God was a doleful place, and Christians were lugubrious and repelling! I have really enjoyed myselfI" The next Sabbath the man is again in the same place. Tears of repentance start down his cheek; he begins to pray; and when the commun ion table is suread, he sits at it. and some one reaches over and says: "I am sur prised to find you here. I thought you didn't believe in such things." 'Ah !" he says, "I have been captured. I came in one day, and I found you were all so loving and cheerful here that I concluded I weuld come among you. Where thou go eat I will go; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried." Ah! you can't drive men out of their alas, but you can coax them out-you can charm them out. I would to God that we could all come to a higher appreciation of this Sabbath herit age I We can not count the treasures of one Christian Sabbath. It spreads out over ne the two wings of the archangel of mercy. 0, blessed Sabbath! blessed Sabbath! They soff a great deal about the old Puritanic Sabbaths, and there is a wonderful amount of wit expended upon that subject now the Sabbaths they used to have in New En gland. I never lived in New England, but I would rather trust the old Puritanic Sab bath, with all its faults, then this modern Sabbath, which is fast becoming no Sab bath at all. if our modern Sabbatism shall. produce as stalwart Christian character as the old New England Puritanie Sabbatism, I shall be satisfied, and I shall be surprised. Oh, blessed day I blessed day ! I should like to die some Sabbath morning wheathe air is full of church music and the bells are ringing. Leaving my home group with a dying blessing, I should like to look off upon some Christian assemblage chanting the praises of God as I went up to join the one hundred and forty and four thousand and the thousunds of thousauds standing around the throne of Jesus. Hark! I hear the bell of the old kirk on the hill~de of heaven. It is weaau sn.a, ror behold the Bridegroo. oometh. It is a victor's boll, for we are more than conquerors through Him who hath loved us. It is a Sabbath bell, for it calls the nations of earth and heaven to ev erlasting repose. "0 when, thou city of my God, Sball I thy courts ascend? Where congregations ne'er break up, And Sabbaths have no end." A JAPANESE TEA-HOUSE. Pleasant Sights and Soenes In the Land of the Miand. The pretty tea-house quite enchanted us. We began by admiring a rough curbed well in the court-yard, with a queer para sol arrangement of a roof, high over the well-sweep, and passed to the pretty gar den, that was all cool, green shade at that late hour in the afternoon that we saw it. The stairway was steep and high, as all stairways are in this land of short people; but at the top we entered upon a loeg, dim corridor, with a polished floor of dark keyaki wood. Our rooms were at the farthest end of the house, overlooking a third charming garden, and each little room differed in the beauty of Its wooden eilings, its pretty recesses, screens and Irregular windows. The charm of that tea house, however, was a little maid, who, for artless ways and general winningnss, can not be matched in Japan. Upon our arrival sh helped carry our traps up-stairs, and then went into the moat native raptures over our rings, hair-pixie, bead trimmings and belongings. She clapped her hands in ecstacy, her bright eyes sparkled, and she showed rows of the most dazzling and regu lar teeth. We noticed then that see was rather nice looking, and had more *wIt and animtion than any of the specimens we had encountered before. When we ate supper, sitting on the floor around an eight-Inch high table with little Tatsu presiding and wait iig on us, we discovered that she was really beautiful; but It was her charming frankness, her simplicity ad naturalness, added to her quickness and grace that made a complete conquest of us all. After thea, we let none of the other maids have a turn at waiting on us, although they sat quietly on their heels in the room to be ready at call. It was Tatsu that we called for when we clapped our hands, and the whole staff of maids answered "Heil Heil" in chorus. atu enjoyed it immensely, too, and went off and arrayed herself in her freshest blue and white kimono, patronized the best hair dresser in town, and came back with gor geous bite of craps and gold eord tied in with the butterfly loops of her blue-black hir.-Christian at Work. Humble Workers. If your station Is a humble one fill it to the best of your ability, and that is all that will be required of you. God only wants now and them a Paul, a Luther, a Calvin and a Mioody, but He always wants, and the world always wants, a multitude of men sd women ready to bury their lives In the tunnels and mines of society, away from the gaze of those who seek a less noble and a less enduring work. To a 'rast number of such self-denying, humble workers. like tose "of whom the world was not worthy." the State, the church and society are meet deeply indebted to-day; and, though their names are unknown and their deeds are un sung, yet in the world to come they may have a fuller joy and a more blessed inher itance than many who are occupying a more conspicuous place, and seem to be doing a larger work in the world.-Christia In q uirer. _______ ___ -Kind words produce their own knage in men's souls, and a beautiful image it is They soothe and quiet and comiert the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words In se abundane as they ought to be used. -Oe of the bes sights spa whlh he men eyes can rest Is an old man full to the bim of sweetness and hopea regular opti mist in every thing that concerns grace and ql, -riciga Chriane Advocate, TILE SPLENDID SOUTH. AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS'S ENTHU SIASrIC REVIEW. Marvelous Progress Against Opposing Eir cuur.tance-A Glorious Empire and Peo ple and How they Have Recovered from Wasttng Wer. aFrom the London Telegraph.) This is the time of year when statis tics find favor, and there are few quar ters of the globe in which the prospects of the future appear more favorable than in those Southern States of Amirica which once seemed so hopelessly beaten in war and broken in resources. '-No such advance in wealth," writes Mr. G. W. Curtis the editorof '-Harper's Maga zine," "has Ev.r been made in any other part of the American Union as that re corded by the Southern States between 1880 and 1883." In 1880, the fifteen years which La-d irtervened since 1465, when the great rebelli-n nt:der Mr. Jef ferson Davis collapsed, had na.t Futic:d to restore prosperity to oue of the mast ricLly ehldowed counties on the face of the gtobe. It was in that yeer, however, that the. reha tion of ''Secessit be gan, we ray no -:e perceive, in earnest, as is shown by he. remaikable fact that the So'he rr railrosds covered about 17.000 miles in 1880, and about 36,000 in 1S8. Still more notab!e has been the growth of irn msnufactures in Alabarna, Geor gia, Virginia, Tennessee aud Kentuyky, and of their collective products since 1880, in which year they turned out 200. 000 tons of pig iron, against about a million in 1888. Last year there was a decreaso in the total yield of the blsit furnaces of the United States, but that decrt ase was confined to the North, and did not extend to the south of the Poto mac and Ohio rivers. Alabama and Tunneasee continued to auvance while Petnsylvania fell back: and the pros perity of those two iron-producing tates of the South n.,w is wholly out trapping their Northern aidiferous rivals. Moreover, the iron of the "War rior Fields" of Alabama is said to be not only the best but the cheapest in tho world. Turning next to cotton, which many prophets of woe declared could only be grown by slave labor, we find that nearly seven million bales of that great staple were produced in 1888, against 5,500,000 in 1880. The observing South erner has discovered, moreover, that it is more profitable to turn his cotton into yarn, and to export it to Europe, than to Bend it raw and packed in bales. The result is that there are now 300 cotton mills in the Southern States against about half that number in 1880; and al recady the looms of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia are threatening the New Eng land States and lowering prices in Law and Lowell, Mass., and Providence, R. L Fourthly, the lumber trade establish ments of the South at present employ about 100 000 hands, and turned out last year planks and and sawn timber worth nearly ?20,000,000 sterling, Finally, the value of Southern live stock has increase to the extent of ?40,000,000 in the last eight years, while her agriculture has made a corresponding advance. These really astonishing figures, and many more of the same kind, are sum monad up by a Trans Atlantic Journal, the New Orleans Time-Democrat, with the statement that in eight years the available capital of the Southern States has increased by ?50,000,000, in their gross wealth by more than ?200,000,000 stearling. All this has happened in a country one single State of which Texa-possesses an area larger than that of France and Spain combined-a State which could, if as thickly as Great Britain, support 70,000,000, human be ings. Bearing these figures in mind, we can easily e-timate the magnificent pros. pects of the Southern States of tie American Union when it is mentioned that on the 1st of July last there were fewer than 20,000,000 inhabitants in the whole of Secessia, three-fifths of whom were whites and two-fifth blacks. More over, the climate is equally delightful and salubrious, especially to those who in July and Augmt-the only two in conveniently hot months- can afford to retire to the mountains which overhang the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Once, indeed, in tventy years or so, the yellow fever appears at some little town where the laws of sanitation have been outrageously neglected, and produces fright altogett r out of proportion to the mortality which it causes. Last summer and autumn, for insane, a visitation overtook Jackson vie, in Florida, and telegrams were scattered all over the United States, and cabled to Europe, proclaimning the "r-ava ge" of a pestilence which in five montns put four hundred persons to death-le-s than the number of victims killed by consumption in this Metropolis every two months. More than a quarter of a century ago the still living Benjsmin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, showed the in habitants of New Orleans, whom he ruled with a rod of iron as Military Governor, that cleanliness and yellow fever stand to each other in the relation of alkali and acid. Last winter the whole area of the Northern States was desolated with a worse scourage than "Yellow Jack" those "blizzards in which hundreds of human beings perished and hecatombs of hogs were frozen to death on their road from the West to New York. For the greater portion of the year the cli mate of the Southern State is as soft as that of Italy and as brucing as that of the Tyrol. When Mr. Cleveland and his yo~ng wife made a brie-i Southern trip after enduring the hardships of an un usually severe winter in Washington, the President is said to have expressed astonishent thaet wealthy Americans should thamk it necessary to cross the Atlantic and take up their abode on the shores of the Mediterranean, when their own country offers a fine climate, and the Gulf of Mexico more attractive scenery even than the Bay of Naples. At this moment Mr. Jefferson D)avis is passing his mild decline in the extreme South of the State of Mississippi in a house callied Beauvoir-bequeathed to him in 18'79 by Mrs. Dorsey-an entire stranger in blood--which looks out upon the Gulf of Mexico, and is described by it4 fo+tnat nnuant an "the most de lightfnl spot on earth." If any Englih man desires to have the horoscope of the "New South" and of its prospects drawn for him by a competant hand, he would do well to follow the emample of Lord Roseberry, and seek out the ex President of the Southern Confederacy in his Mississippi home. A WO1TN's WAR ON WOMEN. The Cruel Awindles of a Heartless Adven tures-Miserable Ending of a Strange. Bad Career. (From the Baltimore American.) Mme. Guinan, once a celebrated fi male beautifier or enameller, of Paris, died in an old log hut, about six miles north of Catonsville, Wednesday last. Mme. (luican, whose real name was Paynaud, or Paynard, used to carry on busicess as a perfumer in the neighbor hood of Paris. She advo:tised a peculiar treat, warranted forever, and a large number of ladies principally of the aristocracy, whose personal attractions were fiding, -vailed themselves of her skill. Uher process was to give one or 't Wo ws,'. t her patient, which brought out ri;; t'ul eruptions on the skin, then to d.cOedu:, t : oroceed fiuther until a bar gia was nah1, and the money paid, terrifying he: patient at the same time by assuticg her thatif the processceased at the particueir stage to which it had been carried, the wou!d not be beautiful, but hideor.i, for the remainder of her eristcuce.. ?giinst one of them, the wife of an aniral in the navy, Mme. Guiuaa brogk. t an action for breach of c.mtract, claiming $3,000 as the price of -toration." The jury however gave a verdict against her, and her ill-success i 1is o-is, no doubt, was the cause of Ler future adventures. Nothing was beard of her until she figured in a re markable case in 18G9, in which Mrs. Bcunsu charged her with obtaining money under false pretences. Mrs. ihanaux wBas ev dently a woman of weak intellect, and undoubtedly of advanced years; but on the strength of a promise ;rom Mme. Gainau, that the comeliness Of yoath should be restored to her, and that she should marry a duke, she parted with over S?,000. A servant represented toe duke at several interviews, and the lady was delighted hrt her supplies of money gave out, and Mime. Guinau had the hardihood t > have her arrested for a breech of contract. This led to a reve lation of all the proceedings, and after a short trial Mme Gainau was sentanced to five years in prison. She could not have been liberated more than a few months when she had bask many of her oid customers, and for some years con tinned driving a profitable business. In the winter of 1884 she was again com mitted for trial on the charge of obtain. $500 under false pretences from Mrs. S. J. Nichols, who had been induced to leave all her jewels in the woman's hands in consideration of being rendered for ever beautiful. Mrs. Nichols was a married woman, about twenty-four years old, and a daughter of a celebrated singer, and the wife of a prosperous stockholder. She was put through a course of washes, lotions and baths, rep resented by Mme. Guinau to be enor mously expensive, immediately after which the rash broke out on her face and disfigured her. In this condition Mme. Guinan demanded more money, and threatened that if it were not forth. coming, she would discontinue the treat ment, and thus the patient would be hideous for life. Terrified by these threats, Mrs. Nichols confessed all she had done to her husband. Becoming exasperated at the part Guinau had played in disfiguring his wife, he had her brought to trial. She was found guilty, but escaped from prison after serving several months of her term. For some months her whereabouts b5ad the detective and police departments, and they ninally gave her up for dead D~uring the period of her escape she had fled tc a lonely and unfrequented part of France, where she remained almost a year, quiet ly underan assumed name. Sneflast gain ed the confidence of all who came in contact with her, and the village was surprised one morning to hear that she had left for parts unknown. She went to the gay city of Paris again, but soon sailed for America and landed in New York 1875. For many days she endeavored to gain a practice in her art, but her endeavors were not crowned with the success she had anticipated, and be coing weary and disgusted at the check era life she was leading, she determined to ma~ke amends ior tho vrong Flhe had done. She sought the counsel of a priest, who advised her to do penance and seek a life of retirement fromn the world. To do this was greatly against her feelings, but she finally determined to follow his admonitions, no matter at what sacrifice. Her sojourn in New York was of short duration, she soon drifted to this city, in quet of a lonely spot where she could end her days. A shelter in Howard County was offred, which she gladly accepted. The American reporter, after several miles walk through mud and climbing over fences, reached the habitation of this old hermit. It is situated about six miles in a northerly direction from Catonville, and in a part of the country which is rarely visited. About a square from a crocked lane-which are so numerous in this portion of the country the reporter peered through the trees and saw the log hut. Soon he stood be fore the dwelling of the person who for years figured conspicuously in the lives of tae aristocrats of Paris. When the door was opened about a dozen eats were fonud, some slumbering peacefully, others jest waking from their daiy siesta. Nothing else was to be seen but a rug~ thrown carelessly on the floor, and, on a broken table, a bottle with a ca do in it. In the left hand corner of 'this hut was a buedhe of straw on which Mie. Guinau had breathed her last. Besides i was an old arm chair. Across this was thrown several straps of huge dimensions, which, no doubt, she used in bodily chasisemients. Mmne. Guinau was known by only a few persons. Logical reasoning and theories may convince a eupesticial observer, but earnest seekers after truth demand ex perimental knowledge, found only inthe testimony of those who have experienced he virtue of an article. For this reaLson the thinking world knows that B. 13. 1B. (Botanic Blood B3alm), excels all other lod puriisers, judging it as they do from convincing truths they see pub-. ahaird from time to time. THE UHINESE NEW YEAR. The Chinamen of New York Making a ltIght of It.-They Bow Down to Jose, Osb :Ms Wines, They Pay Visit and Exchange Cu-.. one Red Carde..Presents for hildren (special to the Philadelphia Times.) - NEw YoRK, January 29.-Chinamen in New York and elsewhereinthe United States will take a solid day of rest to morrow as far asmanual work or money making business are concerned. It is their New Year's, the 5075th of Ponk o wong, founder of the Chinese world. . It began silently when all the goodand bad Christians of Gotham were sound or otherwise in sleep, at 12.30 o'clock to night. There was no bell rung, no whist ling of steam engines nor salutes of war vesse'e. Not even as much as a tin horn announced the arrival of the New Year of nearly one-third of the entire world's population. They simply shot oft a few small five-cent fire-crackers. Nevertheless, not a Chinaman in all Chinatown here went to sleep the entire night. They satup and waited patiently chewing watermelon seeds and "hitting' the enchanting pipe as anxious for the arrival of their new year as some Chris tian wives waited for their dilatory hus bands who went on a fashionable club expedition. PREPABlNG Bob TEm 0oLnUm3ZIO-. As early as 7 o'clock this evening the clerks and other employes of the various Chinese shops began tb bolt for their re spective apariments to prepare for their great national holiday, and to take their annual ablution, don clean undergar ments and brand new blouses, prepara tory to presenting themselves before Joss for the remission of their crookedness of the entire year, so that by. 8 o'clock every store was forced to shut down for 'the want of help. The dozen or more big restaurants, the fantan and other shops immediately followed suit, pulled down their blinds and barred their doors and hundreds of the floating Chinese population whose only boarding house were the Chinese restaurants, were forced to take beefsteak, onions and second-. handedhashintheneighboring American ~ restaurants'in the absence of delicate shark-fins and delicious birds' nestsoups of the Cninese Delmonies. At about 10 o'clock Chinatown for the first time in a year was desolate, dark and silent as an Egyptian tomb. But within the tightly closed doors of. every Chinese establishment were aglow with all manner of illuminations. Gas, kerosene lamps, candles. sweet oil lamps and lanterns were lavishly employed. Even the utmost corners of the hallways were made glorious for once. Such are the superstitions of the Chinese that they believe that if upon this day a man c:n live glorious and happy the rest of the year is assumed with thesameresults. Under these illuminations they hastily prepare and get into shipshape for the great midnight celebration. Joss i pulled out from "Spidervillfe" in some obscure and filthy corner of the room, is duly dusted and straightened out and hung up by a new string upon thefamily or store alter and ready to be treated once more to a great "blow out" of roasted meats and to receive the annual homage from its owners, devotees and general traduces. WELONGa TEE HEw as. At about 10.39 o'clock most all the houses had things in shape to begid the new year, and the celebrants began to put on their best clothes in which to re ceive the incoming year. All the mer chants were attired in blue and yellow gowns of sois silks, with a black satin - short esp. Their queues were let down to hang naturally on the back, as in their own country. A black sat n skull cap. with an imitation coral button on top and red silk tassel hanging on one side, ornamnenting the head, and big silk baggy pan:s a la Turk upon their lower extre mities, completed the new yearcotumles of the elite of Chinatown. Precisely at 12.30 a few fire-crackers shot off at the Chinese Temple announced the arrival of the new year, andinstantly the head of each family began'the cere monies at the shrines of their -respective house Joss. These are the same~ ceremo nies as at the declaration of the Chine. Tempte recently, only not so long,,and consisting mostly in burning Joss sticks, increases and the offering of wines and swetmeats. When the head of the family got through the other members of it feli before Jossin a body and prayed in silence. After each had poured ire cups of wine upon the foor they arose to congratalate each other with "IKoon hi Fali Toy"-"Long life, happiness and prosperity to you." MiXIN A NaHr 0r rr. At about 1 o'clock theintimate friends and relatives began to arrive and to make New Year calls. These must nlrst make their "Ko tow," or prostrations, bfore the family Joss and thien turn their attention to th~e inmates of the hoswih consists of each squeezing hisow hadswhile saying "Koon hi Fah Toy." After duly changing big red New Year cards, looking like country show bilis, they oflered tea, cigars and Tswe early calls are only about two minutes long. They will be continued ll day to-morrow and next day. It is not fashionable to make New Year calls on the third day, although the celebra tions last tieariy a week. Chiname~n who are fortunate enough to have children will send them out with their nurses to make New Year calls, for tomorrow morning is the Chinese chil dren's "Christmas," the only holiday upon which they receive presents. These presents are mostly in money, silver or gold dollars, wrapped in red rice paper, while the nurses receive only quarters or ten-cent silver pieces. Cnineseetiquette compels the recipients of these juvenile calls to make these donations, anud they never call only upon those whom they know are good for the amount. Bat there are only five pure-blooded Chinese children. The half-breed children, or those born of Chinese fathers by white mothers, only get about half the amount that the other children get. The New Year celebration at the Jos house will begin Friday and the fastings will last about a week hence. WOiG CmnN Foo. Perform a good deed, speak a kind word bestow a pleasant smile, and you will re ceive the same in return. The happiness you bestow upon others is reflected back. He that pelts every barking dog must pic up a great many stones