The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 04, 1890, Image 4

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HI S:ERMON IN THE TABERNACLE PULPIT O7 BROOKLYN. Dr. rt~-r - I-n !:w ' n il= In tih Broid: ke alemy of Hu preQachcd furo Li:e et So they hanged iam'm on thet .'flows that he prenared r'.fo Mor ecA Esther 7:10. Follwim is thesermon: Here is an Orie-tal courtier. about the most offensive man in Hebrew history, Haman 1by name. He plot tdo~r the 1 esrcio of the Israe litish nation, and 1 wonder not that in sonme of the Hebrew synagogues to tuis day when Hanan s name is mentiond. the con!.rogation elench their tists. and szamp ti:eir feet and cry, -Let his naue be blotted out! Hs.'man wais primne minister in the magnaicent court of Persia. Thor oughly appreeiative of the honoir con ferred, he expects everybody that he passes to be obsequious. Coming in one day at the gzte of the palace, the s a I rop i.. ir heads in honorof his oilie: but a .Hcbirew. named Mor lcai, gzuS upon the passing digni tary withou-,t bendiug his head or taking off his hat. He was a good man. an d would not have been negli gent of th1E ordinary courtesies of life, but 'he felt no respect either for Haman or the nation from which he had c But he could not be hypcrical; and while others made orient:O sla':, getting clear down bef.oie 1-s pitn minister when he i.e Hebrew. reax ed oin mush-of his neck. and that i.< 'i ' up.sa ec"aeof decai. To mako along story shortthrough Queen E -sther thi ole plot was reveald to her husband, Ahasuerus. One night Ahasuerun, whowas affeet ed with Uisoni1a in his Sleepless hours ealls for his secretaryX to read to him a few pa-sages of Persian history, and so while awa' the night. In the book read that night to the king an account was given of a conspiracy from whic'h Mordecai the Hebrew had saved the king's life, and for which kindness Mordecai had never received any reward. Haman, who had been tixing up a nice gallows to hang Mordeeai on, was walking ont -side the door of the king's sleeping amantu and wa- called in. The king tol him that he Iald just had iead to .im the accouit of some one who had saved' his (the king's) life, and he asked what reward ought to be given to sueh a one. The self-con ceited Haiman. supposing that he himself was to get the honor.and not for a moment that the de liverer of the king's life was Iordecai, says: "Why. your' majesty ouIght to make a triumph for him, and put a crown on him, and set him on a splendid horse. high-stepping and full-blooded. and then have one of your princes le ad the horse through the streets. erying -Bow the knee, here comues a man who has saved the king's life'' Then said Ahasuerus in severe tones to Haman: "I know~ all about your scoundrelism. -Now you go out and make a triumph for Mordecai, the Hebrew, whom you h..ek. -iut the best saddle on the m-~.est horse, and you, the prince, hold the stirrup'while Mordecai gets on, --and then lea~This horse thro'.i~the <street. Make haste" What a spectacle! A dy and tragedy atone and t& 'same time. There they go! 2- cai, who had been despis~d-~ 'starred and robed in the 4 ' Haman, the chan et ,~ hling the prancing, ,champing stallion. Morde bends his neck at last, but it is to look down at the degraded prime ~minister walking beneath him. Huzza for Mordecai! Alas for Haman! But what a pity to have the gallows, re cently built, entirely wasted! It is fifty cubits high, and built with care. And Haman had erected it for Mor decai, by whose stirrups he now walks as groom. Stranger and more stating than any romance, there go up the steps of the scaffoling. side by side, the hangman, and Hamran the ex-chariellor. "So they han ged Hama on the gallows that he had prepared for MIordecai." Although so many years have pas sed since cowardly Ahasuerus reign ed. beauifuil Esther answered to his <whims and Persia perished; yet from the life --nd dea th of Haman we m'ay draw living lessons of warning and instructio)n. And. li--st, we come to the practical s'eggestion that, when the heart is wrong, things very insig niicant will destroy our comfort. 'Who would have thought that a great prime minister, admired and applauded by millions of Persians, would have been so nettled and hiar rassed by anything trivial? What more could th'e great dignitary hu'.e wanted than his chariots and atten dants, and palaces and banquets? If afdluence of cirtumstances can make a man contented and happy. surely Haman should have been contented and happy. No: Mordecai's refusal of a bow takes the glitter from the gold, andrichness from the purple, and the speed from the chariots. With a heart puffed up with 'svery infation of vanity and revenge, it was impossible for him to be happy. The silence of Mordecai at the gate was louder thanthe braying of trumpets in the palace. Thus shall it always be if the heart is not right. Circum stances the most trivial wi'll disturb thespirit.... It is not the great calamities of life that create the most worriment. I have seen men, felled by repeated blows of misfortune, arising from the dust, never desponding. But the most of the disquiet which men suffTer is from insignificant causes: as ahon, attacked by some beast of prey, turns easily around and slays him, yet runs roaring through the forest at the alighting on hisbrawry ncckof a few insects. You meet some great loss in business with comparative com posure, but you carn think of petty, trickeries inilicted upon you which rouse all your capacity for wrathand' eminm in your heart an umbearable annoance. If you look back upon your life you will find that the most of the vexations and disturbances o; spirit which you Met were produced by caiemstances ta wero not worty of noti.ce. If you want to be happy, you., must not care for .trifles. Do not he too mmnute in your inspec tion of the treatment you receive ..from others. Who cares whether Mordecai bows when you pass, or stands erect and stiff as cedar:' That woodmian would not make much cearng in the forest, who should stop to bind up every little bruise andi scratch he received in the thick t. nor wil that man accomplish mucu f C.r the world or the eLure.n. who is too watchful and appreciative of petty ammyanices. Therear iul titudes of iwopie in the world. com stantly harrowed em IeIc.' vas: their lives notd. 1i searicli ou t (hose things whi'ch are attiactivw amt[ de serving, but in spyin; out. with all their powers of visin to see whether they cannot 1in1d a Mordecai. Again. I le:Un from the life of the man under our notice that worlldly vanity and sin are very anxious to have oiety bow before them. Ha man was' fair emblem or entire world liness. and Mordecai the representa tive of unilinching godliness. Such were the usages of society in ancient times that, had this Israelite bowed to the prime minister, it would have been an acknowledgment of respect for his character and nation. Mor decai would, therefore, have smined against his religion had he made any obeisance or dropped his chin half an inch beforo Hamnriu. When, there fore, proud Hanan attempted to compel an homage which was not felt, he only did what the world ever since has tried to do, when it would force our holy religion in any way to yield to its dictates. Daniel, if he had been a man of religionl compromises, would nov:r luave been thrown into the den of lions. Ho might have made somue arrangement with King Darius whereby he could have retained part of his form of re ligion without making himself so completely obnoxious to the idolaters. Paul might have retained the favor of his rulers and escaped martyrdom if he had only been willing to mix up his Christian faith with a few errors. His unbending Christian character was taken as an insult. Fagot and rack and halter in all ages have been only the different wsin which the world has deman ded obeisance. It was once, away up vn tL top of the temple. that Satan cnurad.d the Holy One of Nazv reth to :neel be&ore him. But it is not now so much on the top of churches as down in the aisle and the pew and the pulpit that Satantempts the espousers of the Christian faith to kneel before him. Why was it that the Piatonie philosophers of early times, as well as Tolaud, Spinoza, and Bolingbroke of later days, were so madly opposed to Christianity? Certainly not because it favored im moralities, or arrested civilization, or dwarfed the intellect. The gen uine reason, whether admitted or not, was because the religion of Christ paid no respect to their intellectual vanities. Blount and Boyle, and the host of infidels hatched out by the vile reign of Charles the Second, as reptiles crawl out of a marsh of slime, could not keep their patience, be cause, as they passed along, there were sitting in the gate of the church such men as Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and John, whowould not bend an inch in respect to their philoso phies. Satan told our first parents that they- would become as gods if they would only reach up and take a taste of the fruit. They tried it and failed but their descendants are not yet satisfied with the experiment. We have now many desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet another apple. Human reason, scornful of God's word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath of a Haman. and at. tempt to compel the homage of the ~gods, but in the presence of men and angels it shall. be confounded. "~GolltTiall smite thee, thou whited rvll. When science began to make its briint discoveries there were facts brought to light that seemed io overthrow the truth of the Bible. The archm~ologist writh his crowbar, and the geologist with his hammer, and the chemist with his batteries charged ugon the Bible. Moses's ac count of the creation seemed denied by the very structure of the earth. The astronomer wheeled round his telescope until the heavenly bodies seemed to marshal themselves against the Bible, as the stars in their cour ses fought againse Sisera. Observa tories and universities rejoiced at what they considered the extinction of Christianity. They gathered new courage at what they considered past victory, and pressed on their con quest into the kingdom of nature un till, alas for them! they discovered too much. Gods word had only been lying in ambush that, in some un guarded moment, with a sudden bound, it might tear infidelity to pieces. It was as when Joshua attacked the city of Ai. He selected thirty thousand men, and concealed most of them; then with a few men he as sailed the city, which poured out its numnbers and strength upon Joshua's little band. According to previous pan, they fell back in seeming defeat but after all the proud inhabitants of the city had been brought out of their homes, and had joined in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that brave man halted in his flight, and with his spear pointing toward the city, thirty thousand men bounded from the thickets aspanthers sprang to their prey, and the pursuers were dashed to pieces, while the hostslof Joshua pressed up to the city, and with their lighted torches tossed it into flame. Thus it was that the discoveries of science seemed to give temporary victory against God and the Bible, and for a while the church acted as if she were on a retreat; but when all the opposers of God and truth had joined in the pursuit, and were sure of the field, Christ gave the signal to His church, and, turn ing, they drove back their foes in same. There was found to be no antagonism between nature and rev elation. The universe and the Bible were found to be the work of the same hand, two strokes of the same pen, their authorship the same God. Again: Learnr the losson that pride goes before a fall. Was any man ev er so far up as Haman, who tumbled down? Yes, on a smaller scale every day the wor-ld sees the same thing. Against their very advantages men trin into destruction. When God humbles proud men, it is usually at the moment of their arrogancy. If there be a man in your community greatly puffed up with worldly sue css, you have but to stand a little while and you see him come down. You say, I wonder that God allows that man to go on riding over others' br-ads and norking gr-eat assumptions -: nower. There is no wonder about h.~Haman has not yet got to the to. Pride is a commander, well plmed and caparisoned, but it leads forth a dark and frowning host. We have the best of authority for saying that "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." The ar-rows from the Ahnighty's quiver are apt to strike a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes his great spear in defiance, but the small stones from the brook Elah made him stagger and fall like an ox under under the bare p)les do not Leti 'h: force of the storm, but those with :,Ii sails set capsize at til uden(1( ' (eit of the telipest. Pm-theroreol.. let thilt r of (4U mU teach us owl <filkly tarns the wveel of iorttime. One day. except ing the king. Hrunau was 1he mighti man in Persia: but the next day. a lackey. So we go up and so we come dowi. You seldom find any man twenty years in the same cir custances. Of those who ina politi cad life twenty years ago. were the most promine'nt. bow few remain in conspicuity! Political parties make certain men do their hard work, and then, after using them as hacks turn them out on the comons to die.Every four years there is acomplete revolu tion, and anout five thousand men Nwho ought certainly to be the next President are shamefully disappoint C. while some. who are this day ob scure and poverty-stricken, will ride upon the shoulders of the people, and take their turn at admiration and the spoils of office. Oh, how quickly the wheel turns! Ballot box es are the steps on which men come down as oftc- as they go up. Of tbezs who were long ago successful in the accumulation of property, how few have not met with "reverses, while many of those who ttien were straitened in circumstances now hold the bonds and the bank-keys of the nation. Of all fickle things in the world, fortune is the most fickle. Every day she changes her mind, and woe to the man who puts any confi dence in what she promises or pro poses! She cheers when you go up, and she laughs when you come down. Oh. trust not a moment in your heart's affections to this changeful world! Anchor your soul in God. From Christ's compaionship gather your satisfaction. Then come sor row or gladness. success or defeat riches or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or sickness, life or death, time or eternity, all are yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's. Were I called to sketch misery in its worst form, I would not go up in the dark alley of the poor, but ur the highway over which prancing Buce phali strike the sparks with their hoofs, and between statuary and parks of stalking deer. Wretched ness is more bitter when swallowed from gemmed goblet than from earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If there are young people here who are looking for this position and that circumstance, thinking that worldly success will bring peace of the soul, let them shatter the delusion. It is not what we get, it is what we are. Daniel among the lions is happier than Nebuchadnezzar on his throne. And when life is closing, brilliancy of worldly surroundings will be no so lace. Death is blind, and sees no difference between a king and his clown, between the Nazarene and the Athenian, between the bookless, hut and a national library. The frivoli ties of life cannot with their giddy laugh, echoing from heart to heart, entirely drown the voice of a tremen dous conscience, which says: "I am immortal. The stars shall die, but I am immortal. One wave of eternity shall drown time in its depths, but]I am immortal. The earth shall have a shroud of flame and the heavens flee at the glance of the Lord, but I am immortal. From all the heights and depths of my nature rings down, and rings up, and rings out, the word 'immortal.'"- A good conscience and assurance of life eternal through the Lord Jesus Christ are the only so curities. The soul's happiness is too large a craft to sail up the stream of worldly pleasure. As ship-carpenters say, it draws too much water. This earth is a bubble, and will burst. This life is a vision and will soon pass away. Time! It is only a ripple, and it breaketh against the throne of judgment. Our days! They fly swifter than a shuttle, weaving for us a robe of triumph or a garment of shame. Begin your life with religion and for its greatest trial you will be ready. Every day will be a triumph, and death will be only a king's serv ant callling you to a royal ban. quet. In olden times the man who was to receive the honors of knighthood was required to spend the previous night fully armed, and with shield and lance to walk up and down among the tombs of the dead. Through hours of that night his steady step was heard, and, when the morning dawned, amid grand pa rade and the sound of cornets the honors of knighthood were bestowed. Thus it shall be with good man's soul in the night before heaven. Ful ly armed with shield and sword and helmet, he shall watch and wait until the darkness tly and the morning break, and amid the sound of celes tial harpings the soul shall take the honors of heaven amid the innumera ble throng with robes srzowy-white streaming ever seas of sapphire. Moadecai will only have to wait for his day of triumph. It took all the preceding trials to make a back ground for his after successes. The scaffold built for him makes all the more imposing and picturesque the horse iuto whose long white mane he twisted his fingers at the mounting. You want at least two misfortunes, hard as flint, to strike fire. Heavy long-continued snows in the winter are signs of good crops next summer. So many have yielded wonderful harvests of benevolence and energy because they were a long while snowed under. We must have a good many hard falls before we learn to walk straight. It is on the black anvil of trouble that men hammer out their fortuw' s. Sorrows take up men on their shoulers and enthrene them. Tonics are nearly always bit ter. Men, lke fruit-treoss, are bar ren unless trimmed by sharp knives. They are like wheat-all the better for flailing. It required the prison darkness and chill to make John Bunyun dream. It took Delaware ice and cold feet at Valley Forge, and the whizz of bullets, to make a Washington. Paul when ho climbed up on the beach of Melita, shivering in his wet clothes, was more of a Christian than when the ship struck the breakers. Prescott, the histori au, saw better without his eyes than hecould have seen with them. Mor decai, despised at the gate, is only the predecessor of Mordecai, grandly mounted. The Mother's Friend, used a few weeks before -confinement, lessens the pain and makes labor quick and comparatively easy.-Sold by all Druggista. Rheumatism was so bad that .James Irwin. of Savannah, could hardly walk from pain in his shoulder and joints of his legs. P. P. 1'. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) was resorted to and Irwin is well and happn. WAlt ON TiE FARMR. WHAT THE TAR:FF DOES FOR OUR ACRICULTURISTS. %*%.t. ed . 113 I * e, 1 Chd :ue V :. : Ir. - :: -r,, Th:a to .ier'e:an2 Al .\.- r 1 P'rot-ctioln in i h ah- w miln t ryme-nn E. E. W!ison i':he New Yo:k Wold. The protected muanufacturers of the United S-ates have two selling prices -a wholesale price for home trade and a retail price for foreign trade. The situation is sumiunwl up by one of thema who writes: --Our prices to the domestic trade average about 10 per cont. more than to the export trade. We box and de liver in New York all our export goods. Domestic goods are quoted on cars here." Another one says very frankly: -Our discounts to the home trade are for wholesale purchases. Our discounts to foreign trade are for re tail purchases. We sell single ma chines at retail to foreign purchaser 10 per cent. less than our wholesale rates to the domestic buyer. Nearly all our protected manufac turersadvertise in foreign newspapers, and from their advertisements it can be seen that the foregoing statements are very conservative. They sell abroad retail at 25 to 40 per cent. discount on the wholesale prices charged in this country. Two papers are published in New York city for circulation in foreign countries only. It is very difficult to get copies, but not impossible, and whoever will take the trouble to write to either one for a copy will be told frankly that the reason why they are not sold in this country is "because the retail prices quoted for export are considerably lower than large dealers must pay for the same articles here at wholesale." These are the exact words which the editor of one of them used. The Australasian and South Ameri can publishes the advertisements of our protected manufacturers and the "prices current" for Australia. The American Mail and Export Journal publishes the foreign price list in a separate supplement, which can only be obtained from a foreign country, so carefully is it guarded. The Engineering and Mining Jour nal publishes an American edition and an "Export Supplement" which is not sold in this country, but which can be obtained by any person writr ing for it. Every farmer knows the price he has to pay for these implements. Here is the advertisement, to sell at retail, free on board, at New York, at discounts ranging from 30 to 70 pei cent. from the list price, which is lower than the dealer in them can buy, while the farmer must pay the list price. To the foreigner the pro tected mill-ownea sells a seed-drill for $6,30; a combined drill, rake and plough for $9.30; a Firely whoel-hoc and plough for $3.50; a hand plougi for $1.75. The foreigner buys fa Oneonta Clipper plough for $9.80 but no American may. For the Chieftain hay-tedder the American pays $59, the foreigne2 pays $35.40, and in like proportioz for all like things. On ploughs of all kinds the dis count to the foreign buyer is 30 pa cent. On the Nye Improved rake the dis count of the foreign buryer is 25 pe: cent. On all other horse-rakes, hay-ted ders and potato-diggers, 40 per cent On garden rakes the discount tc the foreign buyers is 70 and 5. On east-steel garden rakes it is 7( per cent. And so on. These advertisements continue in this one paper for forty two columns. Every protected industry in the United States which four weeks agc was besieging the Committee oi Ways and Means for more "protec tion" than it now has, is advertising abroad, at retail, cheaper than it wil] sell at home wholesale. Its "protec tion" is "protection to charge the American consumer a higher price thanit charges the foreign consumer.' All the denials the paid advocates of the protected mill-owners may ut ter will not avail against the simple foreign advertisements of the mill owners themselves. It is not a ques tion of taking any man's word. Each voter can easily prove it for himself by sending twenty-five cents to the Engineering and Mining Journal and asking for the export supplement, or by having a friend in some foreign country send him the foreign adver tisements of theso protected mill' owners. The former is the easier and quite as convincing. There are forty-two wide columnsm of this reading in each issue, which should be interesting if not import. ant to the Republican farmers who have voted steadily for twenty-five years in favor of "protecting" these manufacturers in charging from 10 to 20 per cent. more to their country men than they charged to foreigners. To get at the exact facts, the Tariff Reform Committee of the Reform Club, of New York, began last Au tumn to gather from the protected firms their domestio discount sheets. By correspondence from foreign countries, through foreign merchants, the foreign discount sheets were ob tained, although in some cases they ~were furnished directly and with the discounts-the sender being cynically indifferent to any comment. The work of compiling and collating was intrusted to Mr. J. Alexander Lind quist, of Cornell University, one of the most painstaking and careful of tariff writers, and he has now on file, tabulated and arranged, many thous ands of these discount sheets, cover ing every branch of protected~ manu factures and showing that in every industry the mill-owner can and does and is only too glad to compete in the foreign market, where he is not "protected," witha the foreign mill owner. Omitting the illustrations, here is a summary of his report of the home and foreign prices charged by the protected firms engaged in some of the protected metal manufactures. In every case the. "foreign price" is retail, for a single article (or package,) free on board in New York city, while the domestic price is for large wholo sale lots at factory, freight or express to be paid by the buyer: OvmTORS-PloTECTED 45 PER cExT. Price in Price to home market. foreigners. Wheel hoe, cultivator rake and plough . . .811 00 $ 8 40 All-steel hoe and cul tivator, with wheel, 8 00 0 75 ll-steel plain cultiva tor, with wheel . .. 720 4 50 RAES AND TEDDEns--PRtOTEcTED 45 PER CENT. Lock-lever rakes....,8 15 00 $14 21 Self-dump rakes..18 00 17 12 Hrvay e -er..... 28 00 25 25 'otato-digger.. 8 00 6 75 PLOUGI.-1nPROTE1TED 45 PEi cENT. Chilled. 9 iwh cut..S.. 5 60 $ 5 9 AllitEed. imb r't . . 2 *i 7 5; AliIs!eel, 1;i i:wuh ...Ini 50 0 1.5 Tlu ee-horse. ChiPed, sr.. . . . 7 7 t; 93 Chilled, j r.......... 7 35 r) ;1 All-steel, sr ..... .... . 14 004 12 UI0 All-steel, jr.... . 14 60 12 h Four-horse. Two'gang ploughs, all steel..... . .. 68 80 52 92 These are the prices that the for eign farmer has to pay for one plougL, and the prices which the American dealer in ploughs has to pay in large lots at the factory. The foreigner pays no more freight than the Ame, can dealer-sea freights are cheap. Farmers know tho prices they have to pay the local dealers. Last month the axe manufacturers of the United States formed a -trust. under the name of the "American At and Tool Company." The trust was formed by the consolidation of four ten of the largest manfacturing concernz in the country. Concerning it the Iron Age vI March 27th, 1890, says: "The general feeling among the trade is that the axe makers have formed a very strong 'association,' and have complete control of the market, or so nearly so that the out side makers will have scarcely any appreciable offect on prices. It is found that scarcely any orders car be placed with outside manufacturers who are not under the control of the 'American Axe and Tool Company. The trade will do well to note the changed condition in this line o goods as regards the higher prices now ruling, and the strong p::obability of their maintenance for some time tc colue. On first quality goods an ad vance is now made of S1.75 to 1.25. A further advance is contemplated ir the home market. There is no ad vance possible in the foreign market For what is called hollow-ware such as ten sets, cake dishes. etc. listed at $10.00, the home dealer pay. $5.30, but the buyer for the foreigi market pays only $4.61 for the sam articles. On knives, forks, spoons and othei flat-ware listed at $10.00, the pric< to the dealer in the "home market is $4.36; but a buyer for export regardless of the quantity he m : take, pays only $3.73 for the sam articles. The largest manufacturers of thes< goods have consolidated their inter ests and in this way control prices a well as though a trust had bee: formed. That the public gener1l; may not become aware cf this tLh goods are sold with the stamps of th, old companies, as though no cha-ng< had taken placa A typewriter which costs hi thi country $100 or, if the buyer has al ready purchased three, $O for ece additional one he may buy, een b bought for export for $60. But space Is worth something, an< it is idle to print more. For ever; item here quoted, or that remains t< be quoted, the price-lists are on fik and those prices to American an< foreign consumers are the prices eer tified as correct over the signatures c the protected firms charging them. There is no guess work Li the fore going figures. They cannot be imi poached by any Republican editor o: advocato of the continuance of prc tection, who has any character t< lose. To the blind, the deaf and the ii otie, who cannot or will not look ani listen, these figures will have n< meaning. but to the men of sense( who have not surrendered themnselve: into party slavery, they will hmay much. They can no longer believ, the liars who are hired by the mill owners to tell them that they neec this "protection" and must have it o: they must close their mills. Abbot's East India Corn Paint re moves quickly all corns, bunions ani warts without pain, MwrTox, Fu.-This to certify tha1 I have been afflicted with Scrofula or Blood Poison, for a number o: years. The best physicians of Mo bile and this city said nothing coulb be done for mec. I also took a large quanity of-, but found no relief ir anything that I took. My limbs wert a mass of ulcers, and when I was sent to a physician in Mobile my en tire body was a mass of sores. .1 h ad given up all hope, and as a last re sort tried P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium). aind after us ing four bottles (small size) the sores have entirely disappeared. and my general health was never~ better than at the present time, and people that know me think it a wondierful cure. Respectfully, ErazA Toun. Dyspepsia, distress after eating, sour stomach, loss of appetite, a faint, all-gone feeling, bad taste, coated tongue, heart burn, all re lieved and cured by P. P. P. (Prick ly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium). It will regulate the system, gi';es an appetite and makes you well. Diseases p~eculiar to womeon, es pecially monthly disorders, are cured by the timely use of Bradliel~s Fe male Regulator. Sold by all drug. gists. He who is feeling miserable, saf fering with Dyspepsia avd Indiges tion and often times with dizziness, would do well to take P. P. P. at once. P. P. P. (Prickly As;h, Poke Root and Potassium) will em'e7( you and arrest the disease in its incipien Scrofula is an imp~urity of the blood which produces unsightly lumps or swelling, which, accumula ting in the glands of the neck, causes painful riunning sores on the arms, legs or feet, which develops ulcers in the eyes, ears or nose, often causing blindness and deafness. Take P. P. P. (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Po tassium). It has proved1 its.elf the most remarkable of all blood puri fiers. -.. E. Murray. lately treasurer of Aiken county, S. C., has ma1:de good the amount of his shortage in State funds, and says he will settle his ac count with the county and school funds in a few days. His defaleaitioni is attributed to carelessness. -The publishing houses of Lippin cott Brothers, E. H. uTh-r &Co. Hertr & Coates, Co wiV .rih'ie & Co it is announced, will not join the trust and will fight the combination for all FARMERS AND THE GENSU3. IS 1.:iae - i n .gw i tye The.ni., ea beI J!vun 1.'S) visw distrirts. Thie e are 175tsu perviors i all. There are 42,000 enmn1Iertos. who in all parts of the co~nury will begin their work Monday moingi. Jo, 2. 190. Every farm will be vited bef ore June 30, and the folluwinig questions willbe asked, keeping in! mind that the figures you are to give nearly all pertain to the crops; of 1:89. and not to the growing cr yps of 190: (1) Your name as occupant of the .arm. k2) Are you owner, renter for money, or for share of the crops of the farm? (3) Are you white or black? (4) Number of acres of land, improW ed and urnimproved. (5) Acres irrigat od. (6) Number of artesian wells dowing. (7) Value of farms, build nigs, implements, machinery, and live stock. (8) Fences: Cost of build ing and repairing. (9) Cost of fertili zers. (10) Labor: Amount paid for labor, including board; weeks of hir ed labor, white or black. (11) Pro ducts: Estimated value of all farm productions sold, consumed, or on hand for 1889. (12) Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value of all forest products sold. (13) Grasslands; Acres ol each kind of grassland cut for hay or pastured; tons of hiy and straw sold; clover and grass seeds produced and sold; silos and their capacity. (14) Sugar; Cane, sor ghum. maple, an d beet; sugar and molasses; acres, product, and value of eac. (15A Castor beans: Acres. (16) Cereals: barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats. rye, wheat; acres, crop, aminount of each sold and consumed, and value. (17) Rice: Acres, crop, and value. (18) Tobacco: Acres, crop. amount sold. and valuc-. (19) Peas and Beans: Bushels, and value of crop sold. (20) Peanuts: Acres, bushels, and value. (21) Hops: Acres, pounds, and value. (22) Fibers: Cot ton, flax, and hemp; acres, crop, and vadue. (23) Broom corn: Acres, poundz, and value. (24) Live Stock; Horses, mules, and asses; number on haud Jund 1, 1890; number foaled in 1889: number sold in 1889; numbe died in 1889. (25) Sheep: Number on hand June 1, 1890, of "fine wool. "long wool," and "all other;" numbe of lambs dropped in 1889; "sprint lambs" sold in 1889; sold in 1889 oth er than "spring Iambs:" slaughtered a for use on farm in 1889: killed b3 dogs in 1889; died from other cause in 1889. (26) Wool: Shorn sprin s of 1890 and fall of 1889. (27) Goats . Number of Angora and common. (28 Dogs: On farm June *1, 1890. (29 Neat Cattle: Working oxen; milcl cows, and other cattle on hand Jun< 1, 1890; number of pure bred. grad 1 and common; calves dropped m 1889 cattle sold in 1889, 1naughter d foi use on farm, and died in 1889. (30; Dairy: Milk-total gallons producc jon farm; sold for use in families; seni to creamery or factory; used on faam fincluding for butter or cheese; uset on farm in raising cream for sale, in cluding for creamery or factory. But, ter-pounds made on farm anu soli in 1880. Cream-quarts sent tc -creamery or factory; sold other that y to creamry or factory. Cheese pounds made on farm and sold ir - 1889. (31) Swine: Number on hand 1 June 1, 18S90; sold in 1889; consumed y on farm and died in1889O. ':2) Poul try: Number each of chic -ens, tur Skeys, geese, and ducks on hand Jun( 1, 1889; value of all poultry sold eggs produced, sold, and value in 1889. - (33) Bees: Yumber of stands, pound! of honey and wax produced, and Svalue. (34) Onions: Field crop number of acres, bushels produced. and sold, and value. (35) Potatoes: Sweet and Irish, bushels produced and sohl (36) Market garden and ismall fruaits: Number of acres in ve getables;, blackberries, cramberries, raspberries, strawberries, and other small fruits, and total value of pro ducts in 1389. (37) 'Vegetables and fruits for canning: Number of acres, produrts, in bushels, of peas and. beans, green corn, tomatoes, other t vegetables and freits. (38) Orchards: Apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and prunes, and other orchard fruits: in each the number of acres, rrop in 1889, number of bear ing trees, number of young trees not bearing, and value of all orchard pro ducts sold. (39) Vineyards: Number of acres in vines bearing and in young vines not bearing; products of grapes and raisins, aiad value in Besides these questions on the regular Agricultural Schedule No. 2. Superintendent Robert P. Porter has ordered several special investiga gations in the interest of agriculture, among which are Viticulture, Nurse ries, Florists, Seed and Truck Farms, Semi-tropic Fruits, Oranges, etc., Live stock on the great ranges, and in cities .and villages; also the names and number of all the various far mers' organizations, such as Agricul tur-aland Horticultural Societies Poul try and Bee Associations, Farmers' Clubs, Grange:, Alliances, Wheels, Unions, Leagues, etc. In no part of the census work have the lines been extended more than in the direction of agriculture, and if farmers will now cheerfully co-operate with the enumerators and other oili cials in promptly furnishing the cor reet Ilgures more comprehensive re turns regarding our greatest indus try will be obtained than ever be Two vaiuce. DEACON Sucra-See that 'ar hiorse 'Taint mor'n a week since a city feller offered me 8'400 for him. Kinder wish now Ird a-took it. Too valuable a animal for me to keep. Say, if you was sorto lookin' for a bargain in hess flesh I might Stranger-I dont care to purchase. I am the tax assessor. (Wr-ites) 'One horse valued at $400-. Deacon Slick-Hold ond hold on: Ever since he took the blind staggers that hess aint been worth Assessor-But the city mlan's offer? Deacon-'Before I could close the bargain with him thme keepers camne along sn' snaked him back toj the insane asylum. Put the ho.ss down on yer list as dear at $5. Munsey's Weekly. -..Take Kilrain's term in Missis-' sippi expired Thursday. During the two months' confinement under Mr. Rich. Kilrain became possessor of a mill through the friendship of his jailor. learned to fish, shoot and ride, and will return home a much im-~ A ROMANCE: IN'DEED. uni! Ten A .ar. Aft :I Occurr.:l. of WynKoopvile. LawreniAce count:. has; a se uo ht is4 uiue wii %V;ty. T-n years: a:.co 1teieo George Axtmillcr. a carpeiter (f VyN! oia -ith a vou:g lawyer naimed Stu:Lel GravCs. thet son of a prolilinent citizen of the county. The runaway '.vouan was. only 17 years of age. and had been married to Axmller less than a year. She Was rem:u imablV iandsomue, but of an illiterate fauniily. Axiiller was an industrious yo ung1" man. well houg'ht o. ..e '( slnt - the non4y heL could rat.~ try.1.ing- to !ind' hiswi. but no trace of the runaa.v" s eve':. discovered.. Young1- Granoac father died within a year after the elopveent. and l0it is- property,". vah1:od at .75.000-, to a siistant rWbl tiv-. as his wvas d1-1l and~ the runaway sot. was h.is oly ch.1 The old wan. in h:s wv-ill. disow.ed his son. Nothin: was.V eV"r hard of the eloping (oule. Axi:imler remained in the vilinge and wo'ked at his trt.k. Last Surday night a Cruriag? stop ped in front of the' village postofficc. an1d1 a mam who was in thecarriage asked a passer-by where George Ax miller live 3. The house was pointed out to the str:miger. who drova on. This was about nine o'clock at night. On Monday morning when Axmillcr c!ame out of the house where he li d. he saw a package on the hill. He picked it up. t. was a dressed to him. He opened it :nd found that it was a package of bank iot(:s. On the top nore was a iec of paper on which vias writtenc the following: ..Anianda is (Lead. Five vea's ago. Since then I have saved the enclosed. It it is anty recoipense l5 for the injury I did. for Glod's sake take it. s. . A~usanda was le nase of Axmil ler's runawav w!. Tle p:a-kag cont~:n 1]. i5. ii in o10 bills. No one doub!)ts that the :ian. who asd was SanuJlGraves. Hie disappeared as s ids he pered, and left no trace. No own begrudges Axmille his good fortiute. "Heart Failure" or H eam-t Ba ak? Mr's.Florence Rt. Masterson. thl wife of e'x-Jadge Masterson. of Pres cott. Ari., fell dead in the hallway ol the Grand Union Hotel last evening Ex-Judge Masterson is the mine own er who, with Miss Alice M. Hopkin son. figured in a shooting al'ray :i the Granu Central Alats at No. ( West Thirty-sixth Street last Monda; week. Mrs. Mastelson was liviig in Dem ing, N. H., when she heard about th< altercation in which her husband fig ured and sie determined to comi East. for what purpose is not yei known. She was about thirty-cigh1 years old. She reached this city Tuesda morning and took rooms temporarii with her nephev., Dr. C. E. Adams of No. 1-31 East Thirteenth Street She appeared to be worried and de pressed. and spoke frequently abou her husband's troubles. Mrs. Mas terson seemed mo;t anxious to se her husband. adi she sent severa nlotes to him. requeJsting Lim to cal] He paid no attention, it is claimed to her requests. The lady went to the Gand Unior Hotel yesterday morning. intendli to remain there~ several days. Dur ig the afternoon she called upon Dr Adams again~ and discussed her ort troubl.-s with him. The fact that hei huLsband had ignored her requests to call, she said distressed hcr ver; muen. Shortly after seven o'clock lasi evening she said she would r'eturn tc her hotel. Dr. Adams accompanied. her. They entered the hotel eleva tor and were taken up the floor or which her room was located. Just at they stepped from the hallway Mrs Masterson raised her hand and feld dead, of heart failuare it is supposed Dr. Adams hastened to ex-Judg< Masterson's apartments, No.33 West Thirty second Street, and then tc his ofiee, at No. 6 Wall Street. He was found at the latter place, and be came excited when he heard the newt of his wife's death. ide hastened tc the hotel. and wa very muuch affected as he looked at her dead body. Dep uty Coroner Jenkis gave a permi for the removal of the body whiei was taken to an underht: ker's estab lishment at;No.:354 Avenue aind pr'e AN A PPEAL TO EARLE. Charlestorn Democrats Ask Him to Run for Go' ernor. CnumLsrox, May 29.-The old line Democrats of Charleston opened the campaign today. the following piaper was sent tonight to Attorney General Earle, at Sumter: -The present political situation in South Carolina makes it an absolutely necessity that one of the strougest, Ibest, and most available of our citi zens be urged to become a ecsndidate for Governor. Many of the best cit izens in different sections of the State, realizing this fact, have sent in their urgent requests asking Attor ney General Earle to become a can didate for that office. Laying aside all personal preferences in this mat ter, and thinking only of the great importance at this time of centering on a man for Governor, we too put in our petition and hope tha. Attor ney General Earle wiil consent to bo come a candidate for Governor." The letter is signed by quite a number of Democrats.-Special to Greenville News. The Great Huidsonx Bay. A Canadian surveyor who wams en gaged in an official expedition to I~nd son's Bay in 1885 and 1886 says few peole have any idea of the resources of this great sea. Its shores are the haunts of the musk ox, the moose, the reindeer, the red deer, the white bear and his black brother, the otter, the beaver, the mipk, the black fox, also the silver, gray, and white varieties, and other valuable fur-hearing ani mal.s. Its waters are teeming with the most .raluable varieties of water mamn mnals and fish. Hie has seen the bay as far as the eye could reach appear one undulating mass of whito porpoises. Both the hides and oil of these are very valuable. In some parts of the bay and in the straits the shores of the is1 and arc swt~rming with walrus. It has been rep~orted by professor Bell that one island ca the east coast was found to be thickly strewn with the Ivory tusks of the walrus. Tha3 tusks are valuable, though the chief value of the walrus lies in the hide, which weighs on an average 300 pounds. and Is worth from 10 to 20) cents per pound. ' --The GIrandArmy of the lh'epuir lic has bought the land whew. th~e Andersonville prison stood, aml will HOW GRANT POPPED THE QUESTrwm~ A Pretty R aniice Connected With the Great G;eneral's Euiaemet. A striking icts ? in theo lio.d .Geu. Grant was mntioned bv an inmamate friend. It related to the delcate SUb ject of how the General popped the question. Thoset who knew General Graut intimatelv c: inagi-ne how he cuuld storm a rampart, ch:irge L bat tery of artillery, or lead a forlorn hope in battle easier than he could isk for the hand of the woman he loved. The occasion when the young Lieutenant in the army and Julia Dent pighted their troth was not one of those ideal moonlight nights nor were the stars twinkling over lovers' sighs, but on a dlark, stormy night in the woods of Missouri. The Lieutenant was visiting his army comrade and former class mate, Fred Dent. He had driven into town in a buggy with his comrade's sister. The young people were on their way home. The darkness had overtaken them. The rain had fallen I in torrents and the roads were axle deep with mud. The lightning flashed and the thunder pealed out of the blackness of night which followed. A swollen stream and a frail bridge stood in their way. As they reached the daunerous spot a sudden fqash of elec tricight revealed the terrors of the flood, and the dangers of the bridge. In an instant, availing himself of this moment of light, the brave young ofi cer urged the good steed upon the quivering floorway. A dreadful burst of thunder shook the very foundations of the earth. The young maiden, who had thus far bravely faced the terrors of the situation, stunned by the tre mendous crash, grasped the unmoved Lieutenant by her side with affrighted force. The bridge now began to yield to the undermining action of the rag ing torrent. As it seemed to sink away the maid exclaimed in her fears, "O, we are lost." ---No, Julia," came a tender reply from the heart full of emotion which beat in that brave young breast. "Nothing shall happen to you. I shall take care of you." Another flash in timely succession re vealed the terrible situation, but one judicious stimulation of the powerful steed brought the Lieutenant and his heart's treasure once more upon the solid ground of the other side as the plankway of the bridge moved away in the surging flood. Retscued from a sit uation so p'lous wa- the occasion for a thought ul silence. The storm beaten lover's pushed on their trying way through mud and rain and wind. Soon out of the darkness came a voice, "Julia, were you frightened?" "What a terrible night it is!" said the maiden in reply. --I would always like to care for you and protect you. May I do so?" "Yes,;' in the simple innocence of her girlish heart was the answer.-P1dadepia Inquirer. Dinner Dresses, Escorts and Intro ductions. Ladies attend dinner-parties i trained dresses and waists eithe decollete or with square or Iointc< fronts. A maid is always in attend ance in the dressing-room for thi ladies, on the second floor. Before thi gentlemen leave their dressing-roon the servant in charge gives to each al envelope containing a card on which I written, under his own name, that o the lad: whom he is designated to es cort to the table. At the door o the ladies' dressing-room he meets th, lady who has accomapanied him to thi house, and both descend to the draw~ ing-room. In passing down the stair case the gentleman either takes ti Iside next the balustrade or precede the lady. Gentleman do not wea: gloves, but full dress is always con sidlered necessary, the only variatioi being, if the gentleman is in mourning ne wears black instead of a white neck tie. Meanwhile host and hostess wal near the door of the drawing-room in order to welcome the coming guests In entering this room or thesdinng room, the lay may take' either th< left arm of her escort or on the right, though to me it seems natural that up on most occasions the left arm shouk be given to lady. The old, chivalri< spirit of leaving the right arm free foi defense is a custom which ought still t< be maintained. It is frequently necessary to intro. duce a gentleman to the lady whom he is to escort to the table, and at smna] dinner-parges the envelope containin names of those who are to sit side b3 side is omitted. In that case a word from the host to each gentleman is suicient. The custom of "roof introductions,v as they are termed, has been instituted in this country, but to my mind they are an inadequate species of hospitality There is no reason why all who as semble at the same time and place should not know each other. Intimacy is another and a different thing but christian courtesy teaches that intro ductions are incumbent on those who would entertain at their best.-George WI. Childs in Good Housekeepinlg. Better than Children. Almost every driver of a brick 0r dirt teanm passing through the streets site with his head down and lets his team take their own sweet will, know ing they are big enough to run over everything but a street-car. On a dirt team going up Cass avenue the other day, says the Detroit Free .Press, the driver seemed to be asleep, but this was only a sham. He was tiguring on how many teams he could make crowd the curbstone to get past him. Woman scolded and men swore, but he gave no heed. At length a one-horse wagon ame along loaded with dry wood ashes. The teamster saw it afar off and made for it to run it upon the side walk. The other driver saw through the scheme and as', the vehicle ap prached he wheeled across the course of the team, jammed the two horses to gether so that they sturned :,sharp and upset the wagon, and at the right mo ment he worked his shovel and'let the gale sweep off a bushel or so of ashes over the other rig. It was a grand success. The cirt wagon was brokeu, its load dumped on te street, the driver got a scalp wound. and the horses broke the harness all to pice before tLe- stopped kicking. In addition everything was white with ashes. The two men glared at each other a moment, and then the ash man Iaquired.: "Am I the man you have been lay ig for all winter?" "Say! say!" gasped the other through the ashes on whiskers and mustache, " took you for a basket phaet a with two children in it. Blow my bloominog eyes, but I must be getting nearsight Not the Same Party. astor (to hired bov)--So i ha're caught you stealing out of the~ barrel?" Hired Boy-"Yes, pasn I ownup." "Don't you know. Th:mms:. that when vou steal 'iou commnit a hinoaus sin? Moreover,' there is a Bering who sees all that we do. before whom even I bow myr head with fear and tremn bhing. Do you know whom I meni?" "Youmr wire, I sup)y~se."-om'~U They have unear-thed mr. Kansa~s the remains of a turtle which niast have been in life at least eighteen feet long b' twelve broad, and have beenm capa be of floating a dra: her.,e aeross a Dakota has a 1.500-foot well. cix inches in diameter, and throwing 4.000 ao of water a-minute. Thbere are n~ tht w~air we]s .(X00 feorddeen.