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CHOICE OF FRIENDS. Dr. Talmage on the Evils of Bad Company. A KINDLY WARNING TO ALL. Old and Young Must Shun Evil %ssociates, as "a Companion of Fools Shall be Destroyed." in this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks on a theme which all men, young and old, will be glad to see discussed. and the kindly warning will no doubt'in many cases be taken; text, Proverbs xii, 20, "A companion of fools shall be destroyed." "May it please the court," said a con victed criminal aben asked by the ju&se what he had to say why sentence' death should not be pronoutlle, upon him, "may it pthaee court. bad com pany has becn my destruction. I re eeived the blessing of good parents, and in return therelor promised to avoid all evil asociates. Had I kept my pronsn I shodd have avoidcd this shame anti the burden of 2uilt which, like a vul ture, threatens to drag me to i.jstice for my many crimes. Although I once movcd in high circles and was enter tained by distinguished tuen. I am lost Bad cimpany did the work fvr me.' Only one out of a thousand illustrations was th:at of the fact that "a companion of fools shall be destroyed." It is an invaria.ble rule. Here is a hospital with a hundred men d.wn with "he ship fever. Here is a healthy man who goes into it. He does not so certainly catch the disease as a good man will catch moral distem per if he consents to be shut up with the vicious and the abandoned. In the prisons of the olden time it was the custom to put the pri.oners in a cell to gether, and I am sorry to say it is the cus'tom still in some of our prisons; so that when the day of liberation comes, the men, instead of being rt-formed, are turned out brutes, not men, cach one having learned the vices of all the rest We may in our worldly occupation be obliged to talk to and commingle with bad people, but he who voluntait ly chooses that kind of association is carrying on a courtship with a Delilah which will shear the locks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Look over all the millions of the race, and you cannot show iL e a single instance where a man voluntari ly associated with the bad for one year and maintained his integrity. Sin is catching; it is infectious; it is epi demic. A young man wakes up in one of our great cities knowing only the gentlemen of the firm into whose service he has entered. In the morning he enters the store, and all the clerks mark him, measure him, discuss him. The bad clerks of that establishment, the good clerks of that establiahment, stand in some relation to him. The good clerks will wish him well, but they will wait for a formal introduction, and even af ter they have had the introduction they are very cautious as to whether they shall call him into their association be fore they know him very well. But the bad young men in that estab lishment all gather around him. They patronize him, they offer to show him everything that there is in the city on one e'onditio-that he will pay the ex penses, for it always happens so when a good young man and a bad young man go together to a place of evil entertain ment-'-the good young man always has to pay the charges. J ust at the time the ticket is to be paid for or the cham pagne bill is to be settle d the bad young man will affect embarrassment and feel around in his pockets and say, "Well. well, really I have forgotten my pocket book." In 48Shours after this innocent young non has entered the store the bad young men will gather around him, slap him on the shoulder with familiar ity, and, if he is stupid in not being able to take certain allusions, will say, "Ah, my youang friend, you will have to be broken in." And forthwith they go to work to "break him in." Oh, young man, let no fallen young man slap you on the shoulder familiar 'iy! Turn aronnd and give a withermng glance that wuil mse tue wretch cower in your presence. There is ' mon strosity of wickedness th~at ce.* stand before the glance of purity an i honor God keeps the lightnungs of heaven in his own scabbard, and no human may reach them, butt God gives to every young man a lightning which he may use, and that is the lightning of an honest eye. Anybody that understands the temptations of our great cities knows the use of one sermon like this, in which I try to enforce the thought that "a companion of fools shall be de stroyed." And, first, I. charge you, avoid the skeptic-that is, the young man who puts his thumb in his vest and swag gers about, scoffing at your old fasn joned religion, then taking out the Bible and turning over to some mnysteri ous passage and saying: "Ezpiain that, my friend, explain that. I used to think just as you do. My father and mot~ier used to think just as you do. But y ou can't scare me about the future. I used to believe in those things, but ['ve got over it." Yes, he has got over it, and y ou will get over it if you stay in his compainionship mauch longer. For awhile he may not bring one argument against our holy Chris tianity. Hie will by scoffs and jeers and caricatures destroy your faitta in that religion which was the comfort of your father in his declining years and the pillow on which your old mother lay a-dying.I That brilliant young skeptic will af ter awhile have to die, and his diamond will flash no splendor into the eye of death. His hair will lie uncomnbed on the pillow. Death wilt come up, and this skeptic will say to him: "I ern. not die. I cannot die." Death will say: "You must die. You have but tea seconds more to live. Your soul give it to me right away. Your soul!" 'Oh, no!" says the skeptic. "Da not breathe that cold air into my face. You crowd me too heard. It is getting dark in the room. Here-take my rings and take all the pictures in the room, but let me eff." "No," says Death. "Your soul! Your soul!" Then the dying skeptic begins to say, "O God!" Death says. "You declared there was no Go-i." Then the dying skeptic says, 'Pray for mue," and Deathi says: "It is too late to pray; you have only three seconds mere to live, and I will count them off-one, two, three. Gone!" Where? Where? Carry him out and lay him down beside his old father and mother, who died under the delusions of the Christian religion sing ing the songs of victory. Again, avoid the idlers-that is, torc or the shop or :hc factory and try I ,o seduce you away from you regular calliug ard in your business hours try to seduce you away. There is nothing that would please them so well as to have you give up your employment and consort with them. These idlers you will find standing around the engine houses or standing at noonday or about noon on the steps of some hotel or fashionable restaurant, giving the idea they have dined there. They have not dined there. They never dined there. They never will dine there. Before you invite a young man into your association ask him plainly, "What do you do for a living?' If he says, "Nothing; I am a gentle man," look out for him. I care not how soft his hand or how elegant his apparel or box high sounding his fami ly name, his toueh is death. Thesc people who have nothieg to do will come around you in your busy hours, and they will ask you to ride with them and they will tell )ou of some exeursion that you must make, of some wine that you mustdrink, of some beautiful dancer that you must see. They will try to take )ou away from your regular work. Associate with these m'en, and. first of all, yvu will become azhamed of your apparel; then you will lose your place, then you will lose lose your respectability, then 3ou will lose y our soul Idleness is the next door to vi:lainy. When the police go to fiad criminals, where do they go to find them? They find them among the the idle-those who have nothing to ao, or, having somethivg to d., refuse to engage in their daily work. Some one c-tme to good old Ashbel Green and asked him why he worked at S0 years of age when it was time for him to rest. "Oh," he replied, "I work to keep out of mis chief." And no man etn afford to be idle. I care not how strong his moral character, he cannot afford to be idle. But you says: "A great many people are suffering from etaforced idleness. During the hard times there were a great many people out of employment." I know it, but the times of dullness in business are the titues when men ought to be thoroughly engaged in improv ing their minds atd enlarging their hearts The fortunes to be made 20 years from now will be made by the young men who in the times when bu i ness was dull cultivated their miuds and improved their hearts. They will get the fortunes after awhile, while those men who hang around their stores, never engaging in any useful occupation, will be as poor thin as they are n-,w. It is absurd for a 2hristian man to say be has nothing to '10. I went into a store in New York where there were five Christian nan, and they said they had nothing to do. The whole world l ing in sin. Poverty to be comforted, sickness to be allevia ted, a Bible in the back office, every opportunity of mental culture, spiritual culture; every inducement to work, yet a Christian man, sworn before high heaven to consecrate his whole life to usefulness, has nothing to do! If you have not any business for this world, my Christian frieni, then you ought to be doing business for eternity. Again I counsel you, avoid the pleas ure seeker, the man whose entire busi ness it is to seek fur recreation and amusement. I believe in the amuse ments of tne world so far as they are innocent. I could not live without them. Any man of sanguine tempera ment must have recreation or die. And yet the amusemente and recrea. tions of life must administer to hard work. They are only preparative for the oceupation to which God has called us. God would not have given us the capacity to laugh if he did not some times intend us to indulge it. God hath hung in sky and set in wave and printed on grass many aroundelay. But all the music and the brightness of the natural world were merely intended to fit us for the earnest work of life. The thundercloud has edges exquisitely purpled, but it jars the mountain as it says, ' I come d own to water the fields " The flowers standing under the fence look gay andi beautiful, but they say, "We .,tsad here to refresh the hus band aeen at the nooning." The brook frolics and sparkles and foams, hut it says: "I go to baptize the moss; I go to slake the thirst of the bird; I turn the wheel oi the mill; in my crystal cradle I rock muekshaw and water lily; I play, but I work." Look uut for the man who plays and never works. Lock Out for that man whose entire business is to play ball or sail in a 3acht or engage in any kind of merriment. These things are all beau tiful and grand in their places, but when they become the chief work of life they necome a man's destruction. George Bruumel was admired of all England. Hie danced with peeresses and went a round of mirth and folly, until af ter awhile, exhausted of purse, ruined of reputation, blasted of soul, he begged a crust from a grocer, de caring as his deliberate opinion that he thought th .t a dog's life was better than a man's. These mere pleasurists will come around you while you are engaged in your 'A~rk, and they will try to take you away. T'hey have lost their places. Why not you lose your place? The ou will be one of them. Oh, my friends, before you go with these pleas ure seekers, thone men whose entire life is fun and amusement and recrea tion. remember while after a man has lived a life of integrity and Christian consecratio'n, kind to the poor and ele vating to the world's condition, when he comes to die, he has a glorious reminiscence lying on his death pillow, the twere pleaturiat has nothing by way of review but a torn platbill, a ticket for the race, an empty tankard or the east out rinds of a carousal. And as in delirium of his awful death he clutches the gobiet and presses it to his lips, the dregs falling on his tongue wll begin to uneoil and hiss with the adders of an eternal poison. Again, beware of Sabbath breakers. Tell me how a young man spends his Sabbath, and I will tell you what are his prospects in business, and I will tell 3 ou what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life a sacred day when we are to look after our souls. is it exorbi tant after giving six days to the feed ing and the clothing of these perisha ble bodies that God should demand one day for the feeding and the clothing of the immortal soul? Oar bodies arc seven day clocks, and they rneed to be wound up, and if they are not wound up they run down into the grave. No man can continuously break the Sab bath and keep his physical and mental health. Ask those aged men, and they wil tell you they never knew men who continuously broke the Sabbath who did not fail either in mind, body or moral principle. A manufacturer gave this as his experience, ie said: "I1 owned a factory on the Lehigh. Every thing prospered. I kept the Sabbath, and everything went on well. But one) Sabbath morning I bethought myself of a new sbuttle. and I thought I would invent that shuttle before sunset, and 1 ..efused all food a drink until I ha :ompiqted that shuttle. By itadown I had completed it. The next d3y, Monday, I showcd to my workmen and friends this ncew shuttle. rhey all congratulated me on my great success. I put that shuttleinto play. I enlarged my business; but, :-ir, that Sunday's work cost me $30,000. From that day everything went wrong. I failed in business, and I lost my wi." Oh, my friends, keep the Lord's day You may think it old fogy advice, but I give it to you now: "Remuember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six dass shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; ia it thou shalt not do and work." A man said that he would prove that all this was a fallacy, and so he said, "I shall raise a Sunday crop." And he plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then he put in the seed on the Sabbat h and cultivated the ground on the Sib bath. When th2 harvest was ripe, he reaped it on the Sabbath, and be car ried it into the mow on the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant to his Christian neighbors and said, "There, that is my Sunday crop, zand it is alt garnered." After awhile a ztor:a came up and a great darksess. and the light nings of heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunjiay crop. Beware, young tuen, of ali Sabbath breakers. Again, I charge you, beware of asso ciation with the dissipatci. G. wtith them and you wili in titue ad.'pt ttbeir habits. Who is that man faleu aga;in:-t the curb stone, covered with bruises and beabtiliness? lie was :s bright faced a lad as ever looked up from your nursery. His mther rvcked him, fondled him, would not let the night air touch his check and held him up and looked down into his loving eyes and wondered for what high position lie was being fitted. He entered life with bright hopes. The world be.:koned him, fiiends cheered him, but the archers shot at him, vile men set tiaps for him, bad habits hooked fast to him with their iron grapples; hi.s feet slip ped on the way, and there he lies Who would think that that uncombed hair was once toi ed with by a father's fingers? Who would think that those bloated cheeks were ever kissed by a mother's lip.? Would you guess that that thick tongue once wade a house hold glad with itS innocent prattle? Utter no harsh words in his ear. lielp him up. Put the hat over that once wanly brow. Brush the dust from that coat that once covered a generous heart Sho.v him the way to the houe that once rejoiced at the souad of his F-ot step, and with gentle words te - o. children to stand n:Aet as you hey. au through the ball. That was a kind husband once and an indulgent lather. He will kueel with them no more as once he did at family prayers-the little ones with c!asped hands looking up into the heavens with thauksgiving for their happy home. But now at uwidnight lie will drive thenm from their prniows and curse them down the steps and howl after them as, unclad, it. fly down the steet !n night garweurs, . oldr the calm starlight. Who slew that man? Who blasted that home? Who Ilunged those children into worse than orphaaage--until the hands are blue with cold, and the cheeks are blanched with fear, and the brow is scarred with bruises, and the eyes arc hollow with grief? Who made that life a wreck and fiiled eternity with the uproar of a doomed spirit? Oa, if I had some art by which I could break the charm of the tempter's bowl and with mailed hand lift out the long serpent of eternal despair and shake out its coils and cast it down and crush it to death! Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh, turn your back upon these men. Shake off the sceptic. Shake off the idler. Shake off the pleasurist. You may do this work of ejection in polite ness, but you may do it firmly. You are not under any circumstances to lose all the remembrances of the fact that you are a gentleman and must always act the centlenman. A young man said to a Christiaa Quaker, "Old chap, how did you get your money?" "Well," said the Quaker "I got it by dealing in an article in which thou mayest dealt if thou wilt-civility" Be courteous, be polite, but be firm, Say "No" as if you meant it. If you ay "No" in a feeble way, they will keep on with their imploration and their temptation, and after awhile you will stand in silence, and then you willi say, after they have gone on a little longer, "Yes,'' and then you arc last. Oh, turn your back upon the ban quet of sin! I call you to a better feast today. The promises of God ar. the fruits. The harps of heaven are music The clusters of Eschol are pressed into the tankards. The sons and daughters of the Lord Amighity are the guests, while standing at the banquet to pour tne wine arid divide the clusters and command the music and welcomec the guests is a daughter of Gol, en Le t.ruw the blossoms of para dise and in her -:heek the flush of cletial suwr. Aud her uame is Religion. "Hecr way are w.e's of pleasantness, and all b r ;-.v are peace." Another Georgia Fiend. A dispatch from Fitzgerald, Ga., says: "At about 2 o'clock Tuesday morning a negro named Bill Clark en tered the home of M1rs. Sarah Baker, white, aged nearly 70 years, and com mitted a criminal assault upon her. rs. Baker came here from Mlirn--apo lis, Mian. Nearly all the residlents of the town are from the north and north west. it was sevtral hours before M1rs Bker was able to apprise her neigh bors of the outrage. I he umari was eap tured and positively identitied by his victim. Arrangements were made for a lynching when cooler counsel pre vailed for the time and a preliminary exaination was held and Clark was ordered committed to jail. While the trial was in progress the lynching sp'ir it arose again and arracgements w~re made to hang Clark as soon as hauds could be laid upon him. Learaing of this the officers spirited himi away out of a back door. T1he mob, muade up of both northern and southern men. rs still looking for him- Should he be found lie will be hanged." Follows the Flag. The Chrarkston News anid ('-urir. referring to the fact that Se:.a or J juew, of Arkansas, declared "the (cn'timu ton follows the flag." the !r::er fr quent assertion that "trade folioxs the fiag," and the reports romn 31anila that saloons follow it, declares that "alto gether there is quite a procession b hind the beloved emblem." Gainesville, Ga., D~c. 8, 189. Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator in my ramiy and am perfectly that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. It's doing mie good. Sold by f'he 31ur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all bEDICINES VS. NOSTRUMS, Proprietary Remedies from the View point of Modern Medical Science. (JA3ES it. THOMPSON IN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ) Che time is past when imembers of the medical fraternity, who would speak with authority on matters per taining to their profession, can deny that curative agents of real efficacy are to be found among proprietary reme dies. Physicians belonging to what may be most aptly termed the "old fogy type" have been repeatedly chagrined at viewing the wonderful cures effected by a proprietary medicine, after they had, in sweeping terms, denounced the use of all specifics of the class under discussion as fraught with the gravest menaces to physical wePare. As a na tural conseqtience of this fact the num ber .f those among the medical profcs sion who still administer univtrsal and unquahfied condemnation to proprieta'y remedies as a class is very small and 's cons:atutly on the wane, both as regards numerical strenuth and ia respect to character and ability. The Journal fi llealth in this matter, as in all others which belong to the tieli it oCcupies. has always endeavored to bringits view, into comtiplete harm. ny with the facts that preseuted themselves to its jidg. ment; and it has never att-mpte' to warp facts in such a wa; as to make ithen fit into its preconceived views For while the former spirit is indica tive of an enlightened and reasonjig progress, the latter is an unmistakable sign of intellectural stagnancy. Ap plying these remarks to Whe surject of proprietary medicines. we would indi cate our attitude in this regard about as follows: Waile dealing out to the iuipostures so extensively prevalent in tnis line the mobt unequivo-al and out sp'ken censure, we do not hesitate to bestow words of commendation on such specifies as have shown by actual trial before our hygienic staff that they are remedies of undoubted theraputie vir tue. A medicine which has fuhiled our mist exacting demands in thi4 respect, and one which therefore we feel justi tied in recoumending to our readers, is "Life for the Liver and Kidneys," u'ffered by the Life Medicine Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina It has demoutrated to us, so conclusive ly as to leave no room for doutit even on the part of the most skepti-al, that it is a thorouvh curative agent in all cases of dyspepsia, indigestion, constipa tion, biliousne.-s, Bright's disease. dropsy, gravel. rheumatism and all dis orders ariing from a diseaed condition of the liver, kidneys and urinary orgons. la order to show how completely free from every non-judicial considera tion our investigations are, we shall indicate briefily the manner in whiclh the examination of the reuiedy under discussion was conducted. A repre sentative was sent from our office to collect testimony in regard to **Life for the Liver and Kidneys." le wa, himself an entirely diAnterested party, and the ioqairy wtiieh he pursued was conducted in suah a secret manner that no one commercially connected with the article in question had any means of knowing that its merits were being made the subject of investigation by a hygienic authority. Thiose who had used the remedy fer the maladies in which it claims to bring relief were in terrogated in regard to the effect it had exercised in their own eases. The answers which were received were characterized by an astonisbing unani mity. Every person who was visited and questioned with respect to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys" replied that he had found in it a most efficaci ous cure. This fact was ascertained to be true not only in cases of ordinary severity, but even in those instances which had succesfully withstood the skill of physicians as well as the cura tive powers of other proprietary reme dies. Having prosecuted our examination of the medicine in qiestion in a man ner that could not fail to detect any harmful attributes that might belong to it -for our examination extended to all classes and to almost all ages-we feel that a simple regard for the precepts of equity, as well as the health-de mands of our readers, calls for an editorial reeog nition of the genuine ther ipeutic vir tues of 'L~fe for the Liver and Kid neys. __________ Gloomy Forebodings. A gentleman in Augusta has received a let ter from a private correspondent in which he refers to the political status in this country nd the impression which it has created upon the minds of Republican citizens of France. We quote the following paragraphs from the letter: 'Lou speak with much pa triotism about Oid Glory and the Stars and Stripes. Twenty years hack thai was all right, but since t he G .0. P. is in power, with its gold staaitrd, but with no go'. in its treasury; wit h all the trusts and c'mbinations; nmaking war against the Filipinos .and siding with Engla nd ag'ainst the Boers, 1 don't see that I am very proud of our flag which used to stand for liberty, but now means highway robbery." "It did mue good to hear W.- J. Bryan. ice said we had bctter t-:ke down that mt s:tute in the harbor of New Lork oh "Liberty Enlightening the World," and get in its place a second hatnd statute of George, the Fourth of Engzland; it would be more appropriate and better suit the occasion and the time. If we don't have a change soon of some kinid I think I will live to see the day when we will have a dictator here oi an emperor. u e are going that way sixty miles an hou:. 11. pit> liaan Frenebmen told me "if the Uni ted S:ate., kept on this way for another ten years, iuere ising the army, getting~ colotmes and doing everything like we are d..ii in E irope, we are all gone l'he United States will fall and we will fall, atnd then it will be a long time be fore anothcr repiutlic can stand." News and Courier." A Triumph in Science. There can now no longer be any question whbatever of the true scientific value of the Keeley Cure for alcohol ism and morphi-1eism. indeed, this treatment was not actually offered to the public b~y its di-coverer, the li' iDr. Leslie E. Keel.-y, until h- L::d i carefui experitmentatuon and by other methods assur-ed himself of its safeiy aid tili -ay 'This treattment has al .,.i- -.:.' the test of time, and the p'ublic confidence in its merits is con mtantly strengthened by the public's observation of what it has actually ac comlished. 'The number of those who have been eured at Keeley Institutes is large enough to extend the piroofs of its blessed fruits to every section of our country. The Keeley treatment is a.dministered at the Keeley Institute, Columbia. S. C. Suicide of a Lady Mrs. Susmn Thirkild, aged sixty hree years, committed suicide Thurs ay morning ten miles from Greenville. She was in good health, but had pre iously intimated she would end her ife. She jumped in Reedy river and was drowned. She was living with her SPOOK- FURNiTURE. If Not This, Then What Could It Be? -A Peculiar Story. A singular story is related by the New Orleans Times-Democrat. It was told by a well-known professional man at a stag dinner, and the unusual ex perience stated in his own words is well worth repeating: "In the spriing of 1S92," he said, "I was living in a house in North Ram part street, which I had taken on a one-year's lease, expecting to build. Our family consisted of myself and wife, our little boy, then only 5 years old, and my unmaried sister. The house was a two-story brick, which had been built before the war and the interior arrangement was very sim ple. The front door opened on a hall, which contained the staircase and ran all the way through on the right-hand side, while on the left was, first, our parlor, then the dining-room, and last ly, a small unused apartment not much larger than a closet. Upstairs were bedrooms, and in the rear was a detached kitchen. We allowed the lit tle room on the first floor to stand vacant for several reasons. To begin with it was actually too small for ac tual service, and it was badly lighted by only one high, narrow window, be sides some of the plastering had fallen from the ceiling, and I was afraid the rest might come tumbling down on our heads. That was undoubtedly a source of danger, and prevented us from using it for storage, so we sim ply left it as we four.d it-entirely em pty. I suppose the room was con structed originally for a pantry. I have been a little particular in de scribing these details because, as you will see, they have a direct bearing on my story. "We had been living in the house almost a year," continued the speaker, "when one Sunday In June, as nearly as I can remember, I went with my wife and child to see some friends near Audubon Park. My sister was visiting at Biloxi at the time, and we let the servant off for a holiday. We got back at 5 o'clock or thereabouts, for I recollect it was still quite light, and as we were walking toward the bouse I noticed that somebody had left a stepladder standing directly In front of the high window opening into the little disused room on the ground floor. 'That's rather a cordial invita tion to prowlers.' I said half joking. 'Let's see whether any have availed themselve.9 of it.' So when we went inside we flalked back together to the last door and I pushed it open. 'Why! what does this mean?' I exclaimed in astonishment. There was nobody there, but the room, which had always been entirely vacant, contained sev eral pieces of furniture. A rough looking table stood in one corner, with an old-fashioned straight-back chair in front of it and opposite was a small bed cot. There were some papers and other things on the table and a relig ious print stuck on one of the walls. I started to go in, but my wife held me back. 'Don't go in,' she pleaded, 'the plaster may fall. Those things must belong to the cook. It struck me very strange that the cook should move in without asking permission, but I noticed that my wife was very nervous so I drew the door to and we went into the parlor. A few minutes later I walked outside to shift the ladder, and as I picked it up I glanced through the window. The room was perfectly empty. "I am not superstitious, and the proof of It is that I thought immediate ly I was the victimof some practical joke. I re-entered the house quietly from the rear and again I opened the door. The room was as empty as a drum, and it was evident at a glance that no sort of trickery was remotely possible. I won't attempt to describe my feelings. I was so shocked, so be wildered, so frightened to tell you the truth that for a moment or two I was sumply rooted to the spot. Then I pulled myself together somehow and went back to the parlor. My wife saw at once that something was wrong. "It's that room!" I blurted out. 'There's nothing in it now-not a stick!' "And immediately I had a case of hysterics og my hands. That's about all there is to the story. Next morn ing I examined the place carefully by broad daylight, and it was plain from the dust on the floor that no furnish ing of any kind had been there for years. We left the house before the end of the week, paying a month's for feit on the lease, not because we be lieve in spooks, but because we didn't care to stay in a place where unac countable things happen. It's bad for the nerves. My wife and I have talked the matter over a thousand times, carefully comparing notes, and as far as we know we both saw the same things. My boy must have seen them, too, for when we went back Into the parlor he asked his mother 'whether that wasn't Aunt Hattie's chair.' Aunt Hattie is an old relative of ours, who has a favorite straight-back chair, sim ilar to the one we saw in the room. Of course we have never allowed our selves to refer to the occurrence be fore the child, so I am unable to say positively what else he observed. What I saw myself was as* plain and as distinct as you are at this moment. I even noticed that one of the table legs had been mended with a piece of slat, and my wife remarked the same thing. The house is still stand ing, and has since been occupied by several successive tenants. As far as I am aware none of them have ever had any unusual experience." BLACK EYES. Treatment for the Kind That Art Not Given by Nature. When the patient is seen early, be fore discoloration has set in, cold com presses or evaporating lotions are in dicated; this reduces the swelling and limits the subsequent discoloration. But if the patient is seen after he has a fully-developed "black eye. hot compresses and massage are required. The affected portion is smaeared over wit.h vaseline and rubbed for 10 mIn tes several time a day. By:. frequemt massage and continuous hot applica ion's the discoloration may be almost entirely removed within twenty-fou: ours. The professional "black eye artists use a poultice of the scraping f a root, which is thought to be br:. ny root. A single hume'.u hr <Ii su;port A ro oUtchery. Brookvile. Pa.. has a crow hatchery, s~aid to be the only one in the world. This bird's jet black head makes a handsome trimmin-; for iadies' hats, and millners are credited with paying :' ta~sfr each h:ead. The eggs of . ach in an ordinary chicken in nator in fifteen days. and in eight wekhs the birds are big enough to be guillotined. Farm H-ands WantedI. Five thousand v :aite farm hands are .anted by the Haw.aiian sugar planters o meet the conditions imposed by the [aaiian governruent upon the grant f a privilege to import more contract aorers from Japan. which conditions re that an equal number of Caucasians hall be induced to immigrate to the slands for every 5.000 Asiaties here fter to be admitted. Miss Wabash Amiazed. "What Is-.hat 0>1 proverb about the oss and thyrolling sto'-?'' queried the Chicago gr "A revolving fi nent off the pale zoic age collects no c!yga:iaous ve~g e:tion,'' replied her couansom Bos ton. "Land's sake!" ejaculated the Chica.J o girl, and let it go at that.-Chica- I' A WaR DICTIONARY. Definition of Boer Terms Now in Fre quent Use. The following list vill be found use ful by readers of the war news. The pronur.eiation of the more difficult words is given: Aapies river (Arpie.). -Runs through Pretoria into the Limpopo. Afrikander.-A white man born in South Africa of European stock. Ber.-A mountain. Bethulie (Beth-oolD).-Town in the Orange Free State. Bultong.-Boer provend r. Dried meat. Boer -A peasant. Burgier.-Nlales over sixteen years ol.41 posemirg ithe franchise. Con:mandAnt.- Command, r. Cou:nMatdo.-A blcdy < f Boer-. C omm ar'deer. -Tfo mobti,;z , :to r. (ju'i I)a.n -Ar' artifieial 1lk'. Dieioom --Pole f an ox A agon. -!)rg:i -A water lsole or ceep .lirth. 1)n -- Kit r brandi. D'pp' r .-The putn-aIieal I hermn 13-r. lrop -A village. lDrdt -A ford. Ethowe (lith-. ow) ).- Camp in Zulu !and. RIesidence of eonmissioner. Field Cornet.-A mas:trate with e(riain military powers. FoGtin.-A tpring. G abeiones(G.b ber-ooni) - Very im portant natise town, ninety miles oorth ,,f Mafeking. Geldeuhuis (Geld-den his) -For m(rly member of the Volksraad for Johannesburg. Griqualand West (Greek-a-land). Di-triet of Kimberley dianend mines. Kantoor (Kantort).-Row-ky mining valley near Iarbertan, in Transvaal. Klip -A stone. Kloof.-A ravine. Komati Poort (Ke-marty-poori) - Bord-rtown, Transvaal and Portuguese territory. Koje.-A hillock. Kraal -A cattle pound, or collection of native huts. Krantz -A cleft between hills. Laager -A Boer camp. INealies.-Indian corn;staple food of natives, and much grown and used b) the Boers for bread. etc. .3Nek -The saddle connecting two hills. Oorlog.-War. Palapswe ( Pal-larp sway) Very large native town in Bechuanaland. Chief Khama's headquarters. Pdn -A sheet of water. Pont -A ferry. P ort.-A pass between or over the mountains. Iama thlabama (Ray-math-lay-bar me) -Near Mafeking; British cam p. Roinek.-Literally red neck. Boer term for English soldiers. Schuin's Hoogte (Skeins-boog-ta5). Hill in Natal; just over the Transvaal border. Battle in war of 1881. Sluit.-A dry ditch. Spruit.-A small stream. Taal.-The Boer Low Datch lan guage. Trek.-Traveling by ox wagon. Uitlander-A nonburgher 'of the Transvaal. Vreldt-The South African prairie. Veldt Cornet.-See field cornet. Vereenigi ng (Fur-eeny-ging).-First station on the Tiansvaai side of the Vaal river. Custom house. Vierkleur.-The four-colored~ Boer flag, red, white, blue and green. --J uViei.-A small lake. .iVoorooper.-The boyjleading the first span ofan ox team. Voortrekker.-The older generation of Boers who took part in the Great Trek of 1837. >~ Zirp.-A Boer policeman. CZoutspanberg (Zoot-pans-berg ). Very large northern district of Trans vaal. H ighly mineralized. FREE BLOOD CURE An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Slrofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches, Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Poison producing E3.ting Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B BI. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B. B. does not con ti vegetable or mineral poison. One bottle will test it in an case. For sale by druggists everywhere. Large bottles $1, six for five $5. Write for free samiplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free medicaf adivice will be given. Address Blood Balmn Co., Atlanta, Ga. Csught a Fire Bug There is a self-confessed firebug be hind the bars in the jail here. A negro by the name of Ossie Shackelford was arrested at Mc Bean station and brought here: and put where she is now, together w'ith another negro by the name of .\lundy. Ossie confessed to the aushori tics that she had set fire to two houses. She said she was working for Mrs. hloidins on Broad street and several weeks ago she broke some crockery for which she was reprimanded and told that the amount would be taken out of her wages. Later she did some of her h-yu'ehold duties in such a manner as to again cause her to be reprimanded. This- angered her and she took the bur tLer from a kerosene lamp and poured the contents on some c'othing in a closet and lighted it. She also ac knowledges having fired a double tene ment house on Center street, which was occupied by Tom Lark and Tom Po'pe. before it was burned. She said .he did this because the negroes living in the house did not treat her right. Aucusta Chronicle. Rather Natural. Snator Lodge has delivered a speech in the senate upholding the presiden tial policy and declaring that the presi dent should be authorized to control the Philippines and our position be clearly defined, lie deprecated mak ing the Philippines a party issue, which, by the way, is rather natural from a Republican standpoint. -- Augusta Croniele. Chicago is Sore. Chicago is very sore over the nation al Democratic convention going to Kansas City. The Chicago Record says: "if Democrats had been warned in advance, instead of paying $6 for a night's slumber on a cot in Kansas City, they would have taken the $6 two months ago and gone there quietly and ASLUTEY URE POWDER Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL DMSG1 POWDER CO., NEW YORXC A ROYAL BATTLE THE DRYEST STATE 4pider and Hornet in a Scientific Fight. RAIN FALL VARIES FROM THREE TO There was a fight in the yard of a house on Germantown avenue, says a Philadelphia paper, between a spider The People Do Not Concern Them and a hornet about which a privileged selves Much About the Rain, Buti crowd of spectators went wild. There were no cries of fake, for the fight was to a finish. True, the contestants dis- gatlon. regarded Marquis of Queensbury rules and fought under the unsportsmanlike regulations of the old London prize mountains and grass in the valleys, ring, but the affair was pulled off but these grow in spite of the fact thati without the knowledge of the policeis in the dryest part of the, wtheu wae knowlinterfr ep c United States. E-ven within the bound-* and there wars no Interference. aries of this one territory, however, the; The scrap started by the hornet web rainfall varies from over twenty-five; ting tangled up In the spider's web.inhsayratCmGodninhe The spectators were drawn by the loud buzz of the hornet made In trying to mountains to three inches a year ati escape, and they started jeering the Yuna on the desert. Twenty-five inch2i spider because that wary beas' stayed es of rainfall a year means, perhaps, a Iipossible crop. hree inches a year In hs coner.means no water at all. The people of "Time" was called again and again.. Arizona do not, therefore, concern "Poke him up," suggested somebody finally, but hardly were the words the nle much wi an oe ta spoken when the spider dart~d out. about it nce in a whie don oa The tight was on. Betting five to four on hornet on account of heavier weight burst, but such a rainfal has little re and longer reach. lation to the possibilities of the soil Round 1-The hornet jabs with his from a productive point of view. sting, but the blow falls short. Spider The settler in Arizona first seeks run. very nimble on his feet. Makes a rush but well met by hornet, who swats him sette hme upon th landnd with a wing hook. Fiddling in the cen- straightway proceeds to get rich, for tre. both watching for an opening. The runnin- water upon Arizona soil is like spider goes to his corner. End of a gold mine-it produces wealth. round 1. Betting even, with few back- has been the system ever since ers of hornet. It was the spider's the memory of man, for there are An round. zona ditches which are nearly 400 Round 2-Spider rushes at opponent, years old, and the present generation Is: who, as before, rears and strikes. not quite sure what manner of people Again the spider, by clever footwork, dug them. eludes the blow. The spider by his Xt ry of man, how. quickness makes the hornet look like ever. when Arizona w almost a a novice, but if the hornet lands one trackles desert, overrun with fierce and blow it is all over. Both hesitate to warlike Indians, and it is within the mix It up, and the crowd jeer. Round meniory of even the children of An in hornet's favor, if anything. Betting zona that all this has changed; deserts brisk at even money. have been made to bloom and all war Round 3-Hornet comes up laboring like Indians have either been sent to heavily. Spider dances arount! him,. h y hunting grounds or are used: but will not mix it up. Suddenlyth ap bnt ill ot mx I up.Suddnlyfor exhibition purposes in wild west. rushes In and lands a beautiful blow shows and Eastern expositions. on the head, jarring the hornet. Breaks All this has been done by ignoring away before the hornet, who is grow- the usual way of watering the earth ing weaker, can return. Another rush and by utilizing the melting snowbanks follows. Both mix it up heavily, the as their waters raced toward the sea spider tryinz to land the finishing blow. Hornet fighting grandly. All over. The ter courses. or ditches, have these am spider has just jabbed sting in solar bitions and Industrious Arizoda people plexus, the hornet gives a few convul- du" and ;;M.000 acres of this wonder-. sive struggles, falls and lies still. He ful valley lands grow rich with green: is counted out and then eaten by his things of the eatt in response to the: victor. water from these ditches. It is net all There was much dissatisfaction fun to settle on these ard lands, and it among the backers of the hornet, who Is no easy task to have dug these declared that if their fvorite had not ditches, but the results have paid ten been drugged in the first place he fold to those who dared thi task. would never have entered the web. Great mining camps are always near Referee decides bets must be paid, how- by. Miners always have money to spend ever. They want the best the earth can give them, and the Irrigated lanids of Ar-. A An Annoying Book. zona have been paid, for with the The Arkansas Legislature will be money dug from the bowels of the Vol petitioned to forbid the sale of a book. canic hills. The citizens of Fort Smith have the T rni stram of rionaore petition well under way. The petitionno digalthycnndsllme states that the book is calculated towteisand.Tgtthshee prejudice the public against Fort peo tevlc~ o ofvrdwt Smith.prprntosoeteltlthtfls The book Is the life story of thefrnthclusasoeesnsfte "Hanging JTudge." the sternest of all ya.I h otso ugdcn American justices. It is the biographvy n hywl lcegetrc as of Judge Isaac Charles Parker. TheThmetnsowadheitrris title is "Hell on the Border." Judge ~llhrmigeadieqetuilh. Parker was known as "The American dogtsrkstevle eo n Jeffreys." He sentenced 200 men to teprhdvgtto al p hi death. One of his chief executionersus.Teth sordwewilb alone hanged eighty-six men. His courtloedtoadmr enryhnc was a continuous performance. Hemoewatoth drstpcei opened court at 8 a. m. and sat In judg.Amria ment until dark. When he passed his first sentence he burst into tears. Not- A atSd ol withstanding that he afterward sen- " ih"si on ayr h tenced 199 men to. death and sent 199 hsa fiei e okadahm more to prison for life. He was burned i roln ~htIhdkp con and hanged in effigy in Indian Terrn-ofteuericdnsIhvntcd tory. On the day of his death there wasintecusofm wakthugte a joyful riot in the old jail at Forteatsdonmwytohefr.Oe Smith. Ark. o hs niet-thpee n He had two ruling principles: "Dorandylstw k- deaprc equal and exact justice," was one, and lrysrn mrsino e a the other, "Permit no innocent man to hryn ln hr tet odn be punished, but let no guilty man es- m mrlabtenm n'afn cape." Men were hanged in squads,drvn rawhnIotcdalte five at a time, on the Fort Smith gal- ilaedo e h a eyltl lows by his order. He was at once thegilnomreta orGyrsld most esteemed man in Arkansas and pol rse n ut nrtce the most hated man in the Indian Ter- fo h an ofra nubel ritory. Though he passed the deathwet sentence upon 199 men, Judge Parker " ure lnvgeytikn was opposed to capital punishment. He aothwwtadcl n ieal administered justice according to thethcilmutbadrtetngI laws of his state. He quarreTed withmy inaderiatoowhcI and won a victory over the Supreme otncmntt ohm ytefr Court of the United States. rbtt aetebig o~h x George Maledon, slim, lithe. smilelesspesuroefecangteshto and (8 t-ears old, the man who hangedth cilrndw tee. W nI eighteight men., Judge Parker's ablecaeqieutohehldseurd lieutenant. the "Prince of Hangmen." deyanfcdm.Shlokdu as they picturesquely put it in thewihtemsenangmlendad West. the most famous executioner of qiesml u laaty modern times. is another figure of "M ol' se. "Hell on the Border.""Iloedonadisvrdsh George Maledon was the hangman wsnrigi e iteam hs during most of Judge Parker's adminis kybtlqatszdaduaond tration. He hanged eight-eight men. sv o ht ae iclrdb h He was dubbed Judge Par'-er's "under- ri. Wa i o h c derstudy." Very grim and picturesque qise ntedlyter n x Is the humor of the West In such c- rese e fteadl doisrn umstances.aludrudrtoecrmsne. S. W. Harmon served on the jury In Te okago oka h hnn the famous "terrible court" a hundredeysithcilsranwtfead times. He is the author of the me- wn n u nsieo n aei moirs of what he styles "a great courtimrsngomy idthfatht and a greater Judre." to which he hasheeyswr ap.Iavntbn givn he ite, Hel o te Brdr." abe Popei Dof Nth Colcton hef thatidonl."-e okSn Arranae'ssometimbrker.h It I realy ot afathr'sfaul th t Dothes gromnse tof ive fcth Fohat ihathislitle augtersupose hi Arzoas Tonhip drycotmpar ou-h to kow veryhin. Chldrn arbo ntehsdthat Even witoln the foxes, toavefaih.Butonepaentsholdande ofwhi nownes inrrthey woswevrth begn:ralnal. vare frm ovte twnsh-ip, "Pap youwentthrugh he en- uadtadnsevera heices stae ya t ~fi ours at chool did'tYyum" oxes Mr. desert. wsnt-fie nh "Ye, dar;I sen tw yers n eson rahfao misear smeans, pehis, ck ciene."pes.sibe ere Thre inohe of ter id ofyor fce pparsto e n tetiees, ndwater or fivTe eoles wer right siderandntheorigttsideeseemsetockilled be he ef. Teooknglasrveses Ithesede ofc doitht ra. Tlneyl it, desn'tIta"ut aix-onthod u in a ke n nncea "Yes" nar thei chickend coop caled h outh and ottm o yor fce he ameburt, but wsuc msakeana Thast ite wayationhat the p ossibiltie ofur the "Why-c-a."Pcarsn' Wei - fosmaea pridiv aon, ofeiesw.eo Thiessttlertin Ariog.firt asn how ohnn Repied, thogh tat n thene with killedence, On tis rtculr evnin hi el e o;tt hiserlf upnt the dogn wasnsingoigateluonh Arizon sof thlie siserhadtod hm o sy o M. ank muntain with two- podes Thealth. nsn tat he ada bd cld nd as hs asmeen the syeste everfo sance sorr shecoulnotcomedownthca rm eory afas for the foxesAr. On h oca~o, ls, e asIn a rsod,_adthprsentgeneatio__ s There was oncatdy.te have wat elevn es tfisle Whorfoie M. Enkinon aid- vmrnin whAoscna was aidmone "Whee isyoursistrJhnny"cFlpnosodser, doven wtfercean Jonyrepie:- -at'sk so,"iansand iisth n othe "Sh's p anir snzi' hr bame me mry of ee n chlde g olf bAr bea of."Chiasr Tibue. ezone th alltishaschnged; dSrt Recetlythe ovenorhaseceved a e been di a fro bloomy and aar "ike inias ae roinhreent to fre numbr o aplictios fr apoitme thie happ huis fround her are used tha itbe tatd fr he eneit f ftos Hexshiio porchose n aid es appicntstht ter isnosuc ofc adshe nd histwierin exotitio.e 'f in hisStae. her wa anoffcef Allehd hias Se trine by egnorpe terapi inpetor bu te lgisatre itnde babytiizin the megng snowband has bolshe tha an deolve thadu the id anwat red roward thsa tie onth cont suerisos ndor-hrFifens hudsred mlof artlcial wh nissiners.The Satr.orses.v gofro dthehe. thes m bptios live indtr ious riora Tepl & indo fr crea~ th ss th artn responses tothe Youneeatoepyrsfruh.ma thee ditches.tn sntl A. weny-fve entbotleof . L & .fun B. setlAnthny adlaes, and wo Will rive ll ilsawy.smnowl esoo rersnt sove dog thes See ad. andetryait-neveririig.tedatlanin oonAre-s