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WE CVN NEVER FORGET. t There are faces that live in our hearts, Though for years some have been 1id away 'Neath the sod, in the silence of death, Where ne'er comes the blest light of the day; Yet the glance of an eye, soft and dark, Or the smile of a stranger we meet, Will recall all the features we've loved t Of the face that, to us, seemed so sweet. 'There are voices we cannot forget, Which, like music, still ring in our heart, Though, since last the tones fell on our ear; I We have lived 3 ears, as strangers, apart, Yet by chance, through the din of the t world, Comes a voice, sweet and clear as a bird, And at once, in our heart, mem'ries fond, Of the dear ones we loved, have been stirred. There are words that to us cannot die Words of comfort and courage and cheer, Which were spoken by saints up above, Who once toiled and suff eredi down here; And they speak to our hearts, through the years That have passed since we heard the blest tones, And they echo again through our souls. And stifle our world-weary groans. There are pleasures we knew in the past, That are treasured in memory yet, And, though time rolls relentlessly on, We can never those pleasures forget; But, when dark storm-clouds roll o'er our way, And life has no sunshiny days, - Then the pleasures we loved in the past Willi eturn, with their charm, to our gaze Oh ! the things that we cannot forget, That we would not forget if we could: They are treasured in ioemory's home, 'Mong the true and the pure and the good. And when life on this earth is all o'er, And we never more labor or wait, Miay we cherish those memories still, When we enter the heavenly gate. ROSE-LEAVFS. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVF-S. "There are six of us:" said Fenelia Greyton: "and nothing to live upon. She looked around upon the rest of the Greyton family with the tragic air of a modern Medea. The Greytons lived in a pretty old manor house on the Bloomingdale road just a pleasant drive out of town. They liked pretty draperies, and cul tivated rare roses, and painted lovely little amateur pictures, and basked, in a sort of unthinking way, in life's sun shine. They didn't know quite how much income they had, nor exactly where it came from. They only knew that everything was in the hands of "poor papa's la er"-a darling, white-hair ed old pianthropist, who was devot ed to the heathen, and who officiated as Secretary to half a dozen foreign missionary associations. And when ever they wanted money they went to him for it. And one day, when Mrs. Greyton and her daughter Lilla went to the city office with a bundle of unpaid bills to get Mr. Framingham to write a check for them, the door was pad locked, and a little paper notice "To Let" was tacked upon it. Where had Mr. Framingham gone? Nobody knew. When would he return? The pub lic was densely ignorant on that sub ject. Why had he gone? And in answer to this quettion there was a very uni versal shrugging of shoulders, and a whisper about a general' "smash-up." Poor Mrs. Greyton! She and Lilla were both as ignorant and inexperi enced of the world as a pair of white kittens, and it was some time before she could comprehend that Mr. Fram ingham was a thorough faced villain, and that she and her little flock were penniless. "What shall we do?" murmured Mrs. Greyton, after she had wept trugh hr whole supply of pocket "Couldn't we sell our hand-painted china?" said Olarice, a swarthy browed girl of eio-hteen. "I designed every piece myseIf. And Mr. Favalhi said "Pshaw!" curtly interrupted Fen ella. "Just look at the chmna stores, crowded full of far finer work. Poor Clarie! they wouldn't pay you the price of the mineral paint it took to do them for your plaques and vases." "I can do art embroidery very nice ly." suggested Mona, a tall, shy girl with liquid black eyes, and jetty hair growing low on her forhead. "The embroidery market is over full," said Fenella, who was the incar nation of common sense for the fami ly. "If you could do housework now, Mona-" Mona looked down at her slim white hands, all sparkling with rings, and shuddered. But Bess, the youngest, camne brave ly to the rescue. "The first thing," said she, "is to send all the servants off except Ann. We can't afford to pay four girls and a man any longer." "But who is to keep the garden in order," cried Clarie, "if we discharge the man?" "It must go without being kept in order," said Bess, "or else we must do it ourselves." "My poor roses!" sighed Mrs. Grey ton. "Mamma's roses shall not suffer," said Lilla. "I will look after them myself." "And old Mrs. Playford, who spends a month with us every summer?" said Mona. "And the Bidgood girls, who always invite their friends here to the midsummer picnics-and all the peo ple whodrive out from the city to lunhesandteas-" "We must make a clearance of the whole of 'em !" said Fenella, crisply "unless, indeed, they would like to make a business matter of it and pay their board." "Oh, Fenella!" cried Mrs. Grevton. "Well, why not, mamma? SJo far as I can see, we haven't g-ot money to buy ourown bread and butter-so how can we afford to order ices, and frozen puddings, and pates de foie gras for other people? But if we had a regular income, I am almost sure, with Ann's help that we could set a vy nice table for boarders." L~alooked terrified "Mamma," said she, "has it come to this?" Bess frowned savagely. "Lilla," said she, "don't be a fool! unless you think you would like to starve." And while the family were still in committee-of-the-whole, old Mrs. Playford's huge, old-fashioned ba rouche rumbled up to the door, with a Leaning Tower of Pisa strapped on behind in the shape of trunks! "I'm a little earlier than usual, my: sweet girls," said she, with a smile: that revealed the golden hinges of her: false teeth after a most ghastly fash ion. '"But the season is intolerably< hot, and my doctor declares it would be suicide for me to remain longer in town. And I know, darlings. I am1 always sure of a welcome here !" l Mrs. Greyton was about to reply,j when Fenella stepped forward. "Then you haven't heard of it?"1 said she. "We are ruined, Mrs. Play ford. Old Mr. Framingham has spent all our money and gone to Australia. We can't entertain company any lon ger. But if you would like to board ] here, at a reasonable compensation, 1 we shall be glad to receive vou, anda give you all thie comforts of a home.' nrned a sickly putty color "'Johlni, John: sle cried to the tan: "voh needn't unstrap those 'uiks. I have so many friends who re anxious for my society, that eallv I am not at liberty to accept our very singular proposition" (to 'enella). "Of course" (to Mrs. Grey oni "I sympathize deeply with you. ut we all know that riches iave i ings, and I never did put any conti lence in Mr. Framingliam as a busi Less man. So sorry that things should ome to such an awkward conplica ion:" "There she goes the old harridan aid Mona, as the withered lianld vaved itself from the carriage Wim ow, half-way down thet drive. "She ias lived upon us for six suilille's, LUd now she wouldn't fling one of us t penny if were starviug: Old Mrs. P'lavford was bttter than In advertisement in the newspapers. 'he Bidgood girl caie it) more; tLe ity people kept sublimely away. The 1d adage concerning the flight of rats rom a falling house came strictly rue. " Rosa Bidgood hasn't even comie Ifter that conserve of rose-leaves I romised her." said Mona, sadly. -And I gave live dollar'for the spices md essential oil, and I dried the jac luemnilot and neil leaves so carefully md Clarie painted such a beautiful yl ttertly jar for it: "Can I have the pot-pourri. Mona. isked Bess. suddenly. "Yes, ;f you want it." answered alona, with a shrug of li shoulders. "We can't eat nor drink dried rose leaves. "Perhaps we- can," said lBess to her elf. And she rummaged out divers and undry rare old porcelain jars aid mases from the family stores, tilled lhem with the sweet, strangely-scent d mass that Mona had concocted, and arried them quietly to town. "It smells exactly like Mrs. Grey on's drawing-rooni at the manor iOUSe here!" exclaimed Ferdinand [oughton, as he entered the studio of Siss Malvina Morris, a fair feminine sculptor, who had some very original deas of her own, and was on "hail ellow-well-met" terms with all the ther artists of both sexes. She was neither young nor pretty, yet every one liked Miss Morris. "Well, I should think it might," aid she. "Do you see those wine jars n the shelf ?" "Of course I do. What are they" "They are filled with-conserved rose leaves.~ Mona Greyton made them. Bess, the second sister, wants me to sell them for her. Real old porcelain -leaves full of the subtlest scents of Bendemeer. Will you take one at ten dollars, Ferdv:" "Then it's irue?" said Houghton. "About their financial troubles? Unfortunately yes," said Miss Mal vina. "Ionly wish I could help them. Come, buy the pot-pourri-there's a ood fellow: 'Its may last ten-dollar bill." said Ferdinand, "but here goes: Mona Greyton is an angel. Do you suppose, Miss Mally, she would accept a poor artist like me, with no particular in ome and nothing to live on "Try it and see," said Miss Morris. "But I'm not half good enough for ber." "Possibly," acceded Miss Malvina. "But there are five girls, you know, ad nothing to live on." So Ferdinand bought the pot-pourri, ad rode out at once to the manor blouse. "Your uncle, sir, wants to see you Lp at the house." said the groom who led out his little gray nag. "I can't stay this morning," said oughton. "l'm in a hurry." "But it's some very particular busi ness," said the man, running down the pavement after him. "Oh, hang business:" said Hough lon. And off he rode. Mona was in the garden with a basket, gathering mor'e rose leaves. She thought the pot-pourri question promised favorably. Caice was painting desperately away at old India ginger jars. up stairs. Fenella was writing an advertise ment, "Boarders 'Wanted," for the paper. "The house is as big as a hotel," said she. "Why not niake some use oit?" Mona Greyton listened withismiles and tears to Ferdinand Hioughton's vehement proposal. "But wvhat could we live upon?" said she. "Why, I could paint pictures," said this sanguine young wooer. "I'm sure to sell them at a tearing big price as soon as my name becomes a ittle better known: and I'll have your mother and all the girls to live with us." "Oh, Ferdinand?" said Mona. half laughing, half crying. And then the young artist knew that he had not p leaded in vain. "And it's all owing to the pot pourri," said she, "the sweet, p~oetical pot-pourri." "Every bit of it," said Ferdinand. But his uncle listened gravely to he tale when the young man came home, late in the moonlight, with his eart full of love affairs. "Humph:" said Uncle Barlow. How many pictures did you sell uring the past year?" "Two, sir." "At how much? "Seventy-five dollars each," rel uc antly adnmitted Ferdinand. "Hlumph :" again gruntcd this re entless old Rhadamanthus. "And you expect to maintain a wife and her other and four sisters on a hundred nd fifty dollars a year?" "I shall manage to maintain them in some way, sir," said the un abashed nephew. "There's always tihe F'ar West. you know." Uncle Barlow laughed. "I think we can manage to do bet er than that for you, you young scamp." said he. "If you had turned ack this morning when I sent for you, nstead of pelting off to the manor ouse as if it were a question of life or eath, you would have learned that >ld Framingham had been ovei'hauled .n London, en route for Van Dieman's and, gorged with plunder like an old .each." "What, sir :" shouted Ferdinand. 'The Greyton's defaulting lawyer:?" "Himself and none other." said ucle Barlow. "We had a cable tele ~rame at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Greyton's noney is all safe in the hands of our ondon agent." "But sir," gasped Ferdinand, "how 1 you come to know this:" "Old Dorrance Greyton did me a avor once, when I was a struggling nan," said Mr. Barlow. "It was not ny intention to stand by and see his vidow defrauded without some slight affort in her behalf. It seems that I vas just in time. So thlere was an end of the G revtonm .roubles. They kept the old manor 0use. Ferdinand Houghlton set up iis studio there in one of the gr'eat orth-lihted rooms, and Mrs. Hlough on mares pot-pourri every year of ose-leaves. And as fast as the other giirls marry >f-which is by no means a slow~ busi iess, for they'are ev one of thiem iandsome-shie gives each a wveddinig resent, of a1 swee't conserive of scented eaves, in an old Oriental jar. 'For pot-pouirris are Im-kv," she TOO LATE TO RErALL. REV. DR. TALMAGEON WRONGS THAT CANNOT BE RIGHTED. Ili, Opinio m of tlie Ill pardotlable Sinl.": Not sib. e Totd:y to Cosili( t l I I Sotile Irreveabtle M1itkes -:liier:ttled--The '-igil (.til of tlie Gosiel. F-w Y mK, JulIY 14. In his ser mon for today lev. Dr. Taliage, who is still in the west on his annual sum me1r tour. chose a subject which has beeni a fruitful theme of theological disputation for centuries past viz, "'hIe i)ardonable sin." Tie tixt selected were: -A1 m11anniit. of sill and blasphemiy shall be folr\ivel unto len, tut th,1e blasphemy a"alist the 1iolV (Ibest slintl not be forg-ivell tn to ien!. Anid wthosoever speaketh a word against the Stn of n , it shall be forgiven hnn,but whosoever speak eth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be for2iveln himi, neither in this world, neitelir in the Vorld to comie" Matthew xii.: ,:3. '1 e found no place of repentance, tlough he sought it carefully with tears"-liebrews xii, 17. As sometiles you gatherl the whole family arund tile evenilng stand to hear sone book read. so now ve gath er - a great (iristian family group to study this text, and n0w nmyjv one and the same lamp cast its glow oni all the circle: \ou see from the first passage that I r.ad that there is a sin again.st the I1olv G host for wvhich a muau is; never pardmed. ( >ince having lcolimitted it, he is bound hand and foot for the dungeons of despair. Sermons may be preached to him, songs may be surng to himn, prayers may be offered in his blehalf, but all to no purpose. He is a captive for this world and a captive for the world that is to come. Do you suppose that there is any one here who has committed that sin All sins are against the Holy Ghost, but my text speaks of one especially. It is very clear to my own mind that the sin against the Iliy Ghost was the as cribing of the works of the Spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of the apostles. Indeed the Bible dis tinctly tells us that. In other words, if a nan had sight given to him, or if another was raised from the dead, and some one standing there should say: 'This man got his sight by satanic power. The Holy Spirit did not do this. Belzebub accomplished it," or, "This man raised from the dead was raised by santanic influence," the man who said that dropped down under the curse of the text and had commit ted the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost. Now, I do not think it is possible in this day to commit that sin. I think it was possible only in apostolic times. But it is a very terrible thing ever to say anything against the Holy Ghost, and it is a marked fact that race has been marvelously kept back from that profanity. You hear a man swear by the name of the Eternal God and by the name of Jesus Christ, but you never hear a man swear by the name of the Holv Ghost. There are those here today~ who fear they are guilty of the unpardonable sin. Have you such anxiety? Then I have to tell you pos itively that you have not committed that sin, because the very anxi etv is a reeult of the move ment of the gracious spirit, and our anxiety is p~roof positive, as cer tainlv as anything that can be demon. strated in mathematics, that you have not committed the sin that~ I have been speaking of. I can look off upon this audience and feel that there is salvation for all. It is not like when they put out with those lifeboats from the Loch Earn for the ille du Hav-re. They knew there was not room for all the ~passengers. but they were going to do as well as they could. But today we man the lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry out over the sea. "Room for all :" Oh, that the Lord Jesus Christ would, this hour, bring you all out of the flood of sin and plant you on tihe deck of the glorious old gospel craft. But while I have said I do not think it is possible for us to commit the par ticular sin spoken of in the first text, have by reason of the second text to call your attention to the fact that there~ arc sins which, though they may be pardoned, are in some respects irrevocable, and you can find no place for repenitanice, though you seek it caefully with teal's. Esau had a birthright given him. In oldlen times it meant not only temporal but spirit. ual blessing. One day Esau took his irtrighlt and tr'aded it off for some thing to eat. Oh, the folly: But let us not be too severe upon him, for some of us have committed the same folly. A fter lhe had made the trade, he wanited to get it back. JIust as thotgh you tomorrow mnorning should take all y-our notes and bonds and overnment securities and should go nto a restaurlant andl in a fit of reck lessness and hlunger' throw all those securities on tihe couinter' amid ask for a plate of food, making that exchange. This was the onie Esau made. lie sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and he was veryv sorry about it after ward, but "hie found no place for r'e petnce, thloughl he sought it careful it with tears." There is an impr'essionl in almost every man's mind that somewhere in the future there will be a chlance where he can corr'ect all his mistakes. Live as we may, if we only repent in time. G3od will forgive us. and then all will be as well as thiough we had nev er committed sill. My discourse shall come in collision with that thleory. I shall show you, my friends, as God will help me, that there is such a thing as unsececssful repentance: that there are things'done wrong that al was stay wrong anud for them you mar seele some place of repentance and seek it carefully, but never find Belonging to this class of irrevoca ble mistakes is the folly' of a misspent outh. We amy look back to our col lege days anld think how we neglected cheitry, or geology, or botany, or mathematics. We may be sorry about it all our days. Can wve ever get the discipline or the advantage that we would have had had we attenided to those duties in early life: A man wakes up at 40) years of age and finds that his youth has been wasted, and he strives to get back his early advan tages. Does lie get them back-the das of boyhood. the days in college, the days under his father's roof: "Oh," hte says, 'if I could only get those times back again, how I would implrove them :" My brother, you will n~ever get them back. They are gone. gone. You may be very sorry about it and God may forgive, so that you may at last reach heaven,but you wvill neer get over some of tnte mishaps that, have conic to y-our soul as a re st of yotur neglect of early duty. You mar tre to undo it: y'ou canmnot undo it.' \hen you had a boy's arms and a oys~ eyes and a boy's heart you oughit tot hia'e attended to those t~is. .\ man says, at 5(1 years of ae "I do wish I could Zet over these haits~ of lidoltnce." When did you et them -A-t 2o or' 25 years of age. Y o cannlot shake thtem oilf. They w'll hang to yon to the very dayx of your deaith. If a younlg man11 through 1011ong course of e'vil 'onduIct un~der' mielis his ph!iysical helilthl, anid then re~ets of it. in after life, thle Lord bring back good physical condition. I ' said to a minister of the gospel, one C Sabbatli, at the close of the service, t "Where are you preaching now:" <,h, he says. "I am not prlaching. 1 I am sufferinr from the physical ef- 0 fects of early sin. I can*t preach now; f 1 am sick." A consecrated man he now is. and he mourns bitterly over t early sins. bit that does not * arrest t their bodily etfects. The simple fact is, that men and wo- I n11,1n often take 20 years of their life to t build up influences that require all i the rest of their life to break down. i Talk about aman beginning life when he is 21 years of age; talk about a wo- t maii begining life when she is 18 t years of age: Ah, no In iany respects I that is the time they close life. In< nine cax.es out of ten all the questions of eteriity are decided before that. 1 Talk about a majority of men getting their fo.tunes between 30 and 40: They get or lose fortunes between 10 and 2u. A\ hen voutell miethataman is just beginiig life, I tell you he is just closing it. The next 50 years will not be of as mnuh importance to him as the first 20. Now, whi- lo I say this: Is it for the annoyanca' of those who have only a baleful retrospection: You know 1 that is not my way. I say it for the 1 benefit of young men and women. I i want then to understand thlateternity < is wrapped up in this hour: that the sins of youth we never get over; that 1 vou are now fashioning the mold in 1 which your great future is to run; 1 that a minute, instead of being 60 seconds long, is made up of everlast ing ages. You see what dignity and niportance this gives to the life of all ] our1' young folks. Why, in the light of this sub ject, life is not something i to be frittered away, not something to 1 be smirked about, not somethingto be danced out, but something to be weighed in the balances of eternity. Oh, young man, the sin of yesterday, the sin of tomorrow, will reach over 1 1000() years-aye, over the great and unending eternity. You may, after < awhile, say : "I am very sorry. Now I have got to be 30 or 40 years of age, 1 and I do wish I had never committed those sins." What docs that amount to? God may pardon you, but undo those things you never will, you never can. In this same categor3 of irrevocable mistakes I put all parental neglect. We begin the education of our child ren too late. By the time they get to be 10 or15 we wake up to our mis takes and try to eradicate this bad habit and charge that, but it is too late. That parent who omits, in the first ten years of the child's life, to make an eternal impression for Christ, never makes it. The child will pro bably go on'with all the disadvantages which might have been avoided by parental faithfulness. Now you see what a mistake that father or mother makes who puts off to late life adher ence to Christ. Here is a man who at 50 years of age say to you, "I must be a Christian, and he yields his heart to .God and sits in the place of prayer to day a Christian. None of us can doubt it. He goes home and he says: "Here at 50 years of age I have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish a family altar." What? Where are your children now? One in Boston: another in Cincinnati; an other in New Orleans, and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establish your family altar? \ ery well better late than never, but alas, alas, that you did not do it 25 years ago! When I was in Chamouni, Switzer land, I saw in the window of one of the shop~s a picture that impress ed my mind very much. It was a pic ture of an acciaent that occured on the side of one of the Swiss mountains. A company of travelers, with guides, went up some very steep pldaees-places which but few travelers attempted to go up. They were, as all travel ers are there, fastened together w.ith cords at the waist, so that if one slip ped, the rope would hold him-the rope fastened to the others. Passing along the most dangerous point, one of the guides slipped, and they all start ed down the precipice, but after awhile one more muscular than the rest stuck his heels into the ice and stopped, but the rope broke and down, hundreds and thousands of feet, the rest went And so I see whole families bound together by ties of affection and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldliness and sin. The father knowvs it, and the mother knows it, and they are bound all together. After awhile they begin to slide down steep~er and the father becomes alarm ed, and lie stops, planting his feet on the "Rock of Ages." IHe stops, but the rope breaks, and those who were once tied fast to him by moral and spiritual influences go over the precip) ice. Oh, there is such a thing as com ing to Christ soon enough to save our selves, but not soon enough to save1 othiers: llow many parents wake up in the latter part of life to find out the mis take ! The parent says. "I have been too lenient," or "I have been too severe. in the discipline of my children. If I< had the little ones around me again, how ditferent I would do!" You will never have them around again. The wvork is done, the bent to the charact er is givenl, the eternity is decided. I say this to young parents-those] wvho are 25 or 30 or 35 years of age have the family altar "tonight. How do you suppose that father felt aIs he leaned over the couch of his dying child and the expiring son said to him "Father, you have been very good toi me. You have given me a fine educa tion, and you have placed mle in a fine1 social position: you have done every thing for me in a worldly sense: but, father, you never told me how to die. Now IJam dying and I am afraid." In this category of irrevocable mis takes i place, also, the unkindnessi done the departed. When I was ai boy, my mother used to say to me soinetimes, "DeWitt, you will be sor-1 ry for that when I am gone." And I: r-eember just how she looked, sitting there, with cap and spectacles, andi the old Bible in her lap, and she never said a truer tihing than that, for I1 have often been sorry since. While1 we have our friends with us, we say unguarded things that wound the feel ings of those to whom we ought to give nothing but kindness. Perhaps the pharent without inquiring into the matter, boxes the chiild's ears. The< little one. who has fallen in the street. comes in covered with dust, amid, as though the first disaster wer-e not enough. she whips it.t After awhile the child is taken, or the parent -is taken, or the companion is taken, and thosec who are left say, "Oh, i.f we I could only get back those unkinde words, those unkind deeds; ifc we could only get recall them: But you cannot get themc back. You might bow down over the I grave of that loved one and cry and I ry and cry --the white lips woulds make no answer-. The stars' shall be plucked out of their sockets but these e influences shall not be torn away. Tile world shall die, but there are i sonmc wrongs imnmortai. The mortala of which is. take care of your friends while youi have them. Sparec the e scolding: be economical of the satire: shut up in a dark cave, fr-om which f they shall never swarm forth, all the v words that have a' sting in them. You c will wish vou had some day- -very a~ soon you will- -perhlaps tomorrow. s Oh, yes. While with a firm hand you t admiiste alo paentl diphie, aso; .dminister it very gently. lest somc lay there be a little slab in the ceme ery, ai on it. chiseled "Our Willie" >r m- Unarlie." and though you ow down prone in the grave and seek place of repentance and seek it care ully with tears you cannot find it. There is another sin that I place in he class of irrevocable mistakes, and hat is lost opportunities of getting rood. I never come to a Saturday light but I can see during that week hat I have missed opportunities of etting good. I never come to my irthday but I can see that I have vasted many chances of getting bet er. I never go home on Sabbath from he discussion of a religious theme vithout feeling that I might have lone it in a more successful way. :ow is it with you? If you take a cer ain number of bushels of wheat and ;catter them over a certain number of icres of land, you expect a harvest in )roportion to the amount of seed scat ered. And I ask you now, Have the ;heavcs of moral and spiritual harvest orresponded with the advantages riven How is it with you? X ou nay make resolutions for the future, )ut past opportunities are gone. In ie long procession of future years all .hose past moments will march, but ,he archangel's trurpet that wakes .he dead will not wal:e up for you one >f those privileges. Esau had sold his birthright, and here is not wealth enough in the reasure houses of heaven to buy it >)ack again. What does that mean? [t means that if you are going to get my advantage out of this Sabbath lay, you will have to get it before the and wheels around on the clock to 12 tonight. It means that every mo ment of our life has two wings, and ,hat it does not fly like a hawk in cir 3les, but in a straight line from eter ity to eternity. It means that though >ther chariots may break down, or Irag heavily, this one never drops the brake and never ceases to run. It means that while at other feasts the ,up may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cupbearers to this feast never give as but one chance at the chalice, and, rejecting that, we shall "find no place for repentance, though we seek it :arefully with tears." There is one more class of sins that [ put in this category of irrevocable ins and that is lost opportunities of. sefulness. Your business partner is a proud man. In ordinary circum stances, say to him, "Believe in Christ," and he will say, "You mind your business and I'll mind mine." But there has been affliction in the household. His heart is tender. He is looking around for sympathy and solace. Now is your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold your peace. There is a time in farm life when you lant the corn and when you sow the iced. Let that go by, and the farmer %vill wring his hands while other hus bandmen are gathering in the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting, and there is an opportunity for you to speak a work for Christ. You say, "I must do it." Your cheek flushes with embarrassment. You rise half way, but you cower before men whose breath is in their nostrils, and you sag back, and the opportunity is gone and all eternity will feel the effect of your silence. Try to get back that oppor tunity' You cannot find it. You might as well try to find the fleece that Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew that came down on the locks of the Bethlehem shepherds, or to find the plume of the first robin that went across paradise. It is gone; it is gone forever. When an opportunity for personal repentance or of doing good passes away, you may hunt for it; you can not find it. You may fish for it; it will not take the hook. You may dig for it; you cannot bring it up. Re member that there are wrong and sins that can never be correcte; that our privileges fly not in circles, but in a straight line; that the lightnings have not as swift feet as our privil eges when they are gone, and lt an opportunity of salvation go by us an inch, the one hundredth part of an inch, the thousandth part of an inch, the millionth nart of anch, and not man can overtake it. Fire winged seraphim cannot come up with it. The eternal God himself cannot catch it. I stand before those who have a glo rious birthright. Esau's was not so rich as yours. Sell it once, and you sell it forever. I remember the story of the lad on the Arctic some years ago-the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed in the Arctic in the time of a fog, and it was found that the ship must go down. Some of the passengers got off in the lifeboats, some got off on rafts, but 300 went to the bottom. Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough seas of life, some have taken the warning, have gone off in the lifeboat and they are safe, but >hers are not making any attempt to scape. So I stand at this signal gun >f the gospel, sounding the alarm, Beware! beware! "Now.. is the ac ~epted time: now is the day of salva ~ion." Hear it that your soul may ive: A Novel Obituary. The happiest thing in the obituary ine we have seen in a long time is an ~xtended notice of one John Black nan, written by a friend of his and rinted in the Marion Star. After an numeration of Mr. Blackman's sev ~ral virtues we are given the follow rg touching episodes of his career: "The subject of this notice was, hroughr most of his life, a dissipated nan-drank a great deal of liquor. he writer has known him often to stay at Marion a week, and even two weeks, drunk every day; lying out on .he cold, wet ground at night, or other ancomfortable places wherever he night chance to be when overcome with liquor and with sleep. Devilish >oys about town would box him up md ship him off on the train to WVil ninigton, as it was said.' At other imes they would smut his face, neck mnd hands and let him walk about in hat condition, and then, pretending o get mad with whoever did him so, rould take him into a store pretensive y to wash him off, and give him a rash pan of castor oil and tell him to ash and 'Jack,' as he was called, ould wash himself with the castor >il. Yet 'Jack' would take all this in ~ood part: did not disturb his equa iimity at all." The~ writer is obviously a conscien ious person, averse to concealments nd opposed to forgetting or omitting nything of interest regarding the eceased. It is p leasant to be informed, owever that Mr. Black man remain d sober "fifteen or twenty years" and ied at last in the full odor of sanctity .t the age of ninety-rather a dis ouraging fact for teetoelars. The amented citizen was a good soldier of wo wars but we submit that there eems to be a slight incongruity some there in this paragraph when consid red with that alread quoted: "Such men can not be too highly ap reciated. He should be held out as n example to all who followv him." That the youth of Marion should be xhorted to take as an example pro iinent citizen who went on drunks a ortnight long, slept where he fell, as shipped to Wilmington in box ars, had his face blacked and amid 11 these discouraging circums~tances urvived to the respectable age of nine y, is unusual, to say the least. --Green WELL PONE. RICHLANI. ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE COU'NTY DECLARES FOR PEACE. The JDenocratic Convention on Latst Satur (lay Agree to Divide the I)ee;cation to the Constitutional Convention Retween Ihe Two Faction.s. COLcMBIA, S. C., July 14.-Ricliland County has decided to divide the dele gates to the Constitutional Conven tion. This wvas done at the meeting of the County Convention today. Ev ery precinct in the county was repre sented and there were about one hun dred delegates present. The Convention assembled at 12 o'clock in the Court House. It was called to order by County Chairman Ray and Col. McMaster elected per manent chairman and Mr. E. J. Wat son secretary. Before the Convention got down to business Mr. W. H. Lyles said that he learned through the newspapers that he had beeTi eected a delegate from Ward 3. He had been a member of the club since its organization and lie had the warmest feelings for its mem bers. Of late years he had not been in accord with some of the actions of the club. We have been swept away from Democratic moorings, lie said, and for that reason lie could not con scientiously serve as a delegate and he asked that his name be stricken from the roll. Mr. N. G. Gonzales said that he could not participate in any primary called by the Irby committee. He couldn't participate -.n the action of the Convention and he aked to be ex cused. Capt. Lowrance said that the whole thing was out of order. These gentle men should have sent in their resigna tions to their clubs. The names of the two gentlmen were then stricken from the roll at their own request. The list of delegates was then handed in and the Convention proceeded to business. Mr. F. H. Weston moved that the temporary organization be made per manent. He alsointroduced the fol lowing resolutions: W' Breas there is a movement among Democrats of South Carolina to bury their past differences, to reconcile the opposmg factions in the party, and Whereas, such a movement is truly commendable and desirable and should receive the hearty su pport of all who love their State and glory in its pros perity. Therefore, be it Resolved, That Richland County should send to the Constitutional Con vention a delegation composed of three Conservatives and two Reformers. Mr. E. J. Brennen said that before any resolution was discussed the call for the convention ought to be read, so the delegates would know clearly what the object of the convention was. County Chairman Ray said that the convention was called to decide whether there should be a division or not. Mr. Talley moved that the preamble be stricken out. There are some men who honestly differ with us, he said, and we should do nothing to offend them. Mr. Weston withdrew the preamble. Mr. Brennen said there ought to be something definite in the resolution as to how the plan was to be carried out. As it is only a recom mendation, and there is no assurance that the arrangement will be carried out in the primary. Mr. Patton said that we are Demo crats, and we are met here for a pur pose. The main question is whether there should be a divison, and that is what we are here to aiscuss. We are not here for hairspliting. If we vote the resolution down then we may as well go home. There were loud calls for the question. It was put, but the Chair could not decide by a viva voce vote what had been done. Before a divison was had Col. Tho mas expressed his views on the pend ing question. He heartily seconded the resolution. He made an eloquent address holding that now wasthe time, if ever, that we should compromise and make mutual concessions. If the Constitutional Convention shall eli minate the neoro as a factor in State politics then tlie white people could divide. The making of a Constitution s a great work and the responsibility s great. We must go at it united and not divided. He maade an earnest plea for a division of delegates throughout the State. There were several others who want ed to speak but the Convention had enouo-h and the previous question was calle7 and the Ccnvention proceeded to vote on the Westionresolution. The roll was called and the vote resulted in favor of the resolution by 53 to 39. Mr. John T. Seibels moved that the vote be made unanimous. There were a few nays, but the adoption of the re solution was received with applause. Mr. C. V. Hennies moved that the Conservatives name three men and the Reformers two, to be voted on by this Convention. Mr. Tallev did not think the Conven tion had a right to nominate-delegates. There were several motions made to adjourn, but they were voted down. Col. McMaster then offer-ed the fol lowing resolutions: Whereas the Democratic party of South Carolina comprises two factions, namely, the Conservative party, which adherers to the national platform of 1892, on which Mr. Cleveland was elected President, and the Reform party, which embraces all political creeds from Populism to true Demo cracy; and Whereas this Refor-m party, although it has in its ranks many good men, is dominated by a dangerous ring, which is responsible for most of the bad leg islation and corroupt elections in the State, and for their selfish purposes have called for a primary; and Whereas an effort has been made by patriotic men to heal our dissensions b.y sending good, wise and competent delegates to the State convention to frame a Constitution which will in sure good government and honest elec tions: therefore, be it resolved by the Democrats of Richland County: 1. That we repudiate the primary ordered by the so-called Democratic party of South Carolina, and do re fuse to attend, or vote at any such primary. 2. That we call upon all good men throughout the State not to vote at this primary as we believe it a trap to perpetuate the power of a ring which loves office better thtan the wel fare of the State. 3. That we invite all good Demo crats throughout the State to attend the election ordered by the State and to watch the managers and vote for good men competent to frame a Con stitutioni. Col. John P. Thomn's opposed the resolutions and said that the conven tion had done all that they could legal ly do under the call. H~e moved to lay Col. McMaster's resolutions on the table which was promptly done. Mr. Patton moved that the matter of arranging for cairying out of the divi son be left to the executive committee, which was adopted. Mr. F. E. Williams then introduced resolutions to the effect that the Demo cracy of Richland recognized the su premacy of the State executive corn mittee and went on to suggest ideas ried out. They were similar to theI idea of Dr. Robertson and after the reading of them it was not considered necessary to take action as the con vention had already decided upon al lowing the executive committee to de vise the ways and means of carryingI out the agreement. About twenty or twenty-five men then arose upon their feet and made motions to adjourn. The chair put one out of the many. which was unanimously carried and the convention adjourned amid great cheering. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Facts of Interest, Gathered from Various Quarters. Prohibition carried Spalding Coun ty, Ga., by 73 majority. A negro preacher in West Virginia is organizing his race to go to Libe ria, where they "will not be lynched." The Liberals have so far been bad ly beaten at the elections held in En gland. The Conservatives lead by a large majority. Abe Small, alias Will Thompson, was arrested in Baltimore last week for the murder of two policemen in Savannah last August. A. N. Towne, second vice president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Company died last week at San Francisco. An American named Zermatt Par kett has accomplished the ascent of the Matterhorn, over 14,700 feet above the level of the sea. In the Circuit Court of Indiana, the Democrats have had set aside the appointment act passed by the Repub lican Legislature last winter. There is great excitement in Sofia over the attempted assassination of ex-Prime Minister Stambuloff, and the police are openly accused of being accessories to the assassination. Night watchman Brewer on the Cape Fear and Yakin Valley Rail road yard at Greensboro, N. C., was run over by a 3 ard engine last Wed, nesday night and cut in two. He was se venty-five years old. Coal Operator T. D. Stein, of the Phonix Mines, Idlewood, Pa., ha been indicted by the secretary of the miner's organization for using fraud ulent scales in weighing coal. He has, it is alleged, swindled them out of hundreds of tons. The Governor of Wyoming has received a letter from citizens resid ing in the vicinity of the Indian trou ble, imploring him to send troops to the scene. Indians are gathering there in force and the whites fear an uprismg. The first bale of the 1895 cotton crop was sold at auction in New York on Wednesday, It was from Daval Coun ty, Texas, and was bought by J. C. Graham & Co. Its grade was full middling; price paid, 14* cents. President Spencer, of the Southern, says that there is absolutely no truth in the reported purchase of the Sea board Air Line by the Southern Rail way, and Vice-President St. John. of the Seaboard Air Line, as emphati cally denied it. The family of C. C. Newton. en route from Marion, Ind., to Arkan sas, have been poisoned by eating toadstools, which they supposed were mushrooms. Two girls, aged 13 and 17, and a boy aged 15, have died. At a meeting of the supreme exec utive board of the A. P. A., at Chi cago last week resolutions were adopt ed to the effect that the association is not making war on the Roman Cath olic religion, but on its political fea tures. Arrangements are being made for a convention in Petersburg, Pa., for the study of the Bible prophecies in regard to the second coming of Christ A prominent minister who is com mite to the doctrine that will be under consideration, said: "We are not classed as cranks, but hold a doc trine which is gaining rapidly. It is asserted by one of the leading minis ters of the Presbyterian Church that there are at present five ministers committed to this interpretation of the prophecies where there was one ten years ago." Valkyrie III., the challenger for the America's cup sailed for New York on Monday. McFarland, of North Carolina, a horse trainer, was instantly killed by lightning at Cape Charles. Va., last week. An American lady, Miss Balthy has obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Goetingen Univer sity at Berlin. IPock Hoskins, a negro, shot and killed Chief of Police Thomas J. Os borne, of Norton, Va., Wednesday night while the officer was attempting to quiet a disturbance at a negro dance. The jury in the case of Mary Aber nathy, one of the women on trial at Lunenburg Court House, Va., for the murder of Mrs. Pollard, rendered a verdict of murder in the first de ree. *As aresult of a big fire in Cincin nati Thursday the square bounded by Walnut, Water, Vine and Front streets is in ashes. T wo firemen were killed and sixteen injured. The loss will reach *300,000. Harry Bowden, a Pennsylvania operator, was killed by tramps at Bucyrus, Pa., last week, and his body placed upon the tracks, where it was struck by an engine and decapitated. The crime was committed for the pur pose of robbing the man. T wo colored men were killed on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near Williamsburg, Va., on Monday night. and another fatally injured, by their heads coming in contact with an overhanging bridge. They were standing on top of a frieght car. Mate Wilson, from Boston, was killed Tuesday at Philadelphia by be ing struck by a negro lunch peddler. He was teasing the colored man, and finally threw a cobblestone in his bask et of cakes. The negro turned quickly and struck Wilson back of the ear with his fist. Wilson dropped like a. log and died almost immediately. A Santa Fe freight train bound from Denver to Colorado Springs fell through a bridge on Wednesday near Monument, Col., killing three per sons, fatally injuring three. and se riously injuring fifteen oth':rs. There were twenty-three cars '.n the train loaded with stone and limber. The train passed nearly over the bridge when the timbers gave way and the~ train went through into the gulch fif ty feet below. By the bursting of a steam pipe con nected with the starboard engine of the torpedo boat Ericson during a speed trial Wednesday near New Lon don. Conn., five men were frightfully scalded, and it was at first thought that three of them would die. Later the physicians in attendance announc ed that they had hopes of saving the lives of all the injured men. The men were connected with the engineer de partment of the boat. The silver men of Georgia held their Convention at Grillin on Thursday. Arrangements were perfected for a thorough organization of "bimetallic clubs" all over the State. Mr. Stambulof, the "B~ismarck of Bulgaria," died at Sofia on Thursday.| The mansion occupied by the Turk-| ish consul resident at San Francisco was destroyed by lire last week. It cost $35.000. The Rev. Liddell Phillips a promin ent Baptist missionary resident at Calcutta, died last week. The treasury department has issued ROYAL KI POWDER Absoluteiy Pure. A cream ot tartar Daing powde* E1ighest of all in leavening strength.-La - est United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 1( wan St.,N. Y. rver for Tiban svmpathizers and fili busters :Jon0 our coast. W. W. Long. a man from Ohio, was arrested at Skyland. N. C., last Friday on tie charge of bigamy. Ten thousand people-delegates and visitors- -attended each daily sessionof the Baptist Young People's Union of America, held in Baltimore last week. Andrew Thomas. a negro, was vnched att -erantou, Miss., on Thurs day, fora brutal assault upon an aged white woman near Moss Point. Miss., two weeks ago. In Plaiston, an eastern suburb of London, two weeks ago, two boys named Combe. aged respectively 13 and 11 years. brutally murdered their mother by stabbing her to death. They then played a game of cards on her dead body. The boys are believed to be insane, as the result of too much reading of novels and bad books of dif ferent sorts. The returns from the Parliamentary elections in England indicate a com plete victory for the Conservatives. A pleasuire boat capsized near Yar moth, England, on Thursday, and six of the occupants were drowned. Commissioner E. B. Stahlman, of the Southern Railway and Steamhip Association, declares that-he will de cline re-election The president of the American Hu mane association, who lives in New York, declares his purpose to stop the proposed bull fights at the Atlanta Exposition. Mr. Sam Basheat died at Suwanee Shoals, Fla., last week. Claimed to be 110 years old. The State Bible Society. CoLMBI, S. C., July 18.-The an nual meeting of the State Bible Asso ciation of South Carolina will be held at the First Baptist Church in this city on Thursday and Friday, the 1st and 2d days of August next. The meeting will be largely attended from all indications. The following circular in regard to the meeting has been issued: Charleston, S. C., July 10th, 1895. To the Local Bible Societies of the State. Brethren: The executive committee of the State Bible Association be&to remind you that the annual meetig of the association will be held at the First Baptist Church, Columbia, S. C., on Thursday and Friday, the 1st and 2d days of August. You are earnestly requested to send. at least two delegates to this meeting; and in order that arrangements may be made for their entertainment, you will please send at once to the com mittee of arrangements at Columbia, the names of the delegates you propose to send. The following named gentlemen constitute the committee of arrange ments: Rev. W. C. Lindsay, Rei.-W' W. Daniel, Rev. M. M. Kinard. Please attend to this important mat ter at once. You are also requested to sendto the annual meeting a report. covering the operations of your society during the past year, the~ number of members be longing, the number of Bibles distrib uted, the amount of money collected, ad anything calculated at all to the irterest of the Bible cause throughout the State; report as full as possible. The committee have made every effort to make the approaching meeting a success, and earnestly ask you to lend thenm your assistance. If practicable, defray the traveling expenses of your' delegates from your treasury. It will not cost you very much, as will be seen from the schedule of reduced rates herewith enclosed. Gi re the Bible cause tihe benefit of~ your presence at the meeting in Au- - gast and your prayers. Respectfully, Henry P. Archer, Chairman Ex. Comn. State Bible Ass'n. Robert M. Means, Secretary. THE PROGR.ADIE The following is the programme: First Dav's Session-1i. 12 o'clock m. Calling of~ the meeting to order by the president, Rev. Win. M. Grier, D. D).: 2. Reading of the Holy Scriptures ad devotional exercises; 3. Enroll ment of delegates; 4. Reading of the minutes of the last annual meeting; 5. Annual address of the president; 6. Aupointment of standing committees. Night session-Address by Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Law, of Spartanburg,.dis tict Superintendent of the American Bible Society. Second Day's Session-1. 9 o'clock, eading of the Holy Scriptures and eotional exercises; 2. Reports of lo- - -al Bible societies; :3. Discussion; 4. Address by Rev. Dr. H. WV. Bays, of Abbeville: 5. Reports of committees; . Election of officers; 7. Adjourn ment. _____ Took H im to a Mob. MomLE, Ala. July 18.-Andrew Thomas, colored, who criminally as sauted and brutally beat an aged white woman named Mrs Vise, near Moss Point, Miss, and who was capt ured here some ten days ago and held for requesition from the Governor, of Mississippi, was taken to Scranton, Miss. by Sheriff Miner on an early freight train which reached Scranton five minutes past4 this morning. There was a mob of 230 men at the train heavily arm y to receive the prisoner. When~ the 'sheriff noticed a special train from Moss Point standing on the upper end of the siding he called to his deputy that the jig was up. Lights were extinguished in the ca boose and the prisoner was concealed in a box under the seats. The crowd litterally swarmed around the train nd jeered at the sheriff. A tall Missis sippian discovered the negro in his hiding place and cried out " Come on bos, here he is," and with this the rowd with a rush swarmed into the oach. Half dr-agging and half punish ing the mob ran with their victim up nd across the track to a large water oak that stands just accross the track from the station. There were no pre iinaries. The rope was in readiness nd the negro was swung in midair. Then commenced a fusillade that last d fully fifteen minutes and the body was literally made a peper box wit bullets. An exchange says if the eggs bought during very hot weather seem of ques tionable character. place them mn a pan of water: if the large ends turn 14p teY aire not fresh. This is an in- ' fallible rule to distinguishes a good