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LIKE SHARP RU _t God's Jur'gments Are w'S anc Sure. NATIONAL S!NS PUN SHED By Keen instrum anis No C.rni ty Happens By Chanco. But is Directed Sy Divine Wisdom. Dr. Talmage, in his jgurney wct ward through Europe, has reccn'; visited scenes of thrili' it r events. He sends this scr', D which he shows that rai' :re ; .tu,'d in this world and t'iat Gd r d them for their virtues an'.i purishcs them for their crimes . Th-e text is Isaiah viii. 20), "In the sane day sh-ll the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyona the river, by the king of As: ria The Bible is the boi'iot book ever written. There are no st' i;udes in Ossian or the iliad or the O 1 ey So daring. Its imagery siotUu'' ssCnms on the verge of the reekie. but or:y seems so. The fact is thit G.d wou'd startle and arouse and pr.,pel men a'A nations. A tame and tude would fail to aem::ha the o jeot. While there are t-nes when he employs in the Bible the gente dew and the morning cleud ana the dove and the daybreak in the presentation of truth, we often find the irvu ch:viot, the lightning, the earth (' , I spray, the sword and, i my ter. ' ,,. razor This keen ,iId i1 to e has advarced in usd. a t, ages. In B'ible tie : a s l :t beard rem..iucd ueta in tL e eons of mourci- g a:.: lu t i, tu. the razor was a;wa q su,:sure sys bol. D.vid said of D eg,. ::s anta) nist, "Tay toegue is a 4harpe raz yr working dece tiuly'---that is. it pre tends to clear the face, but is realy used for deaaly incisi'n. In this striking text c the toilet *ppar ude eiie: clrotimstance: Ja some of its pr:pi) cu' ., 'v " sends against it thrce As rian ki'gs first Sennacheriy, then bathiddon and afterward Nebuehadnezz ir. These ti ree sharp invasions that cut down the glory of Judae are compared to so maoy sweeps of ti razor across the face of the land. Ana these devastations were called a hired razor because God took the kings of Assyria, ' i; whom he bred no eyn pathy, to do the work aid paid them in palaces and spcis atnd annexa tions. These kings were hled to exe cute '.he divine behests. And n, the text. which on its first readi:ng nay have seemed trivial or itapt, is chtargcd with 'nomentous import, In the same day sh.il the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria." Well, if God'b judgments are razor-, we bad better be careful how we use them on othcr people. Ia care ful sheath these domestic weapons are put awaiy where no one by accident may tch them and where the han-ds of children may not reach them. Suech instruments must be carefully handled or not han died at all. But how recklessly some people wield the judgments of God! If a man meets witui business misf ortune, how many there are ready to cry out "That is a judgment of Gud upon him because he was unscrupulous or arrogant or over reaching or miserly. I tsought he would get cut down. What a clean sweep of everything! His city house and country house gone. His stables emptied of ali the fine bays and sorrels and grays that used to prance by his door. All his resources overtatrown and all that he prided himself on tumb!cd into demolition. Good for him." Stop, my brother. Dout bling~ around too freely the judgment of God, for they are razors. Some of the most wicked business men succeed, and they live and die in prosperity, and some of the most hon est and conscientious are driven into bankruptcy. Perhaps the unsuccessful man a manner was unfortunate, and he was not reaily as proud as be to-uted to be. Some of th-se who c~stry thieir heads erect and iook imperil are hu~n ble as a child, while many a man in seedy coat and slouiii hat andi unolack ed shoes is as proud as L ~ici~. Y au cannot tell oy a maa's look. Pahaups he was not unseru5;uious in bumi ess, for there are twc sies to e .ery so.r,, and every bedy that accompiiee auy thing for hamiself or oia.ra sus iui duanoaiy ?xed about. kkrL.a Lis busmnes misfortuue was not a [uin ment, but thetaiteri, ueiphj~ne to pre pare him for heaven, an~d U64 .ay lo ve him far more than he Iuo.es .5ou, whto can pay cloiiar her colA.r aind areC ydt down in the conaer:at eae e as Al. w hom the Lord? lovem i giv $400O000 aian lets 01e on biee piuoAaY No; whoma tine L rd avvech i. *hasteznetn. Betatr ke i your laud t the Lords a a.>s hic taey' et and wound people tiat tic na. cieserve it. if you wtant to shiavnef di :eu of tov bnlbuing pride ci s ur os a st; e so, but oc very~ carciut Low y-ou p-tt the sharpetdge on otn.r-,. tlsw I uu u like trie oehavaor 01 tao-e er-.na who' when peup~e are uui1*tuuU se 'i. told you ao-getuLsg pan:.m-seurvtd him right!! If tu.~e i.su-d-.:-. o's got their deser., ,they wo.ui lomg ago have been pai ed over the mamus The mote in their naghi:er s ens s' smali that it takes a mieoeoj. to nul it, givee the~m more tr..ubte the th.: beam which coseures tme-r o.%fn eptics With air bomietauLes sup:re1 i9us and sometimes phara-aica asa aiwa. s ba judgment and sharpeu it on the iPose ot their own hard hear.s and tnen go to work on men sprawikd ogut at I uii iength unaer disaster. cutung merei.ee.ly. They begin by soft exrsm ef :-my paty and pity and hast pra.se and lather the victim all over they put on the sharp edge. Let us be careful how we shoot at others lest we take down the wrong one, remembering the servant of King Wil liam Rufus, who shot at a deer, but the arrow glanced against a tree and kilkd the king. Instead of going out with~ shafts to pierce and razois to cut w'e i-ad better imitate the friend of Rich r Cesar de Lion. Richard, in the sat of thec Crusades, was cap'turea a.d injre oned, but none of his frieuds knew .'where, so his loyal fr-iend wenit arouund the land from stronghiold to str.;ugheid and satg at eh vando. a .-.-ch. of song that Richard Lnear de ioa had taught him in other days. And one day, coming before a jbit where he sus pected him king might he inee:reerited, ne sang two lines of song, aud iauipcci ately King Riehard i re.:dea from his celi with the other two iue:-, andi so his whereabouts were discovereu, atd a sue cessful movement was at on&e mec fr his liberation. So let u, go up and down the world with the music or ktnd words and sympathetic hearts, serenad ing thle unfortunate and trying to get cut 0f trouble men who had noble na tu-es. but by unforeseen circumstances hrve been incarcerated, thus liberating ins. More hymnbook and less razor. Especially ought we to be apologetic ani merciful towards those who, while they have great fault?, have also great virtues So::e people are barren of vir tues. N> weeds verify, but no tl lers. I must not be two much enraged at a nettle along the fe2tce if it be in a field containing 40 acres of ripe Michigan wheat. Sorui timth a") naturalis:s told us there was on the cup a spat 20,000 miles lo, het from the brightness and wa~roh t ooneuded it was a good deal cf a su'i sai. The sun ,an afford to have vry arge spot upon it, though it be 24 (ow mils loug, an! I am very ap ose.zuc f':;r these meutn who have great faalts; w'ile at the sometime they have ,:acn:tieent virtues. _;in, when I read in my text that the 1)rd shsves with the h:red raz)r of A-ssria the land of Juda I thir'i my sf of the precision ot God's provi dence A razor s.uug the tenth part of an inch out uf tho right line means either failure or aleration, but God's de:aings never slip. and they do not uti-s by the thou.sandth pert of an inch t:e rht d:rction. People talk as timagh thin s in this world were at 100,e eas. Ch. ra sweeps across rti :es and Mladvii and Paler-no, :. we watch arnxi udy. Will the epidemic sweep Egarope and America? pe ople say, " nat will entirely depend ua whether the inoculation is a succ.ss ful cxperiuaent; that will depend en tirely on quarantine regula:ions; that depend on the early or late appearance of frost. That epidimic is pitched into the world, and it v',-s blundering across the ca)Iinents, and it is alt 1 gu -swork 'rand au app dling perhaps.' I alins, perhiaps, that God had s'me :M'ug to d> ,veit atd twat his mercy to have in some way protected u1; tut he .a, have done as much for u, a :, *: i Lt.riae and the ha'th oth rs. it was rig t and a necessity that a; e .uti n sCou'd be ued, but there have *ome enougn macaroni from Italy, ai euogh grapes from the south of F.anee, aid enough rags from tatter d ti-'us, and hidden in thec articles of tr :n="or atmOn enoug h choleraie - ?-' '~v 4 o- :hi, tie a.l the -i z . in in the i em teries. I :k :,:c .. org ad quarautn7 es. . e, a'o first of al:, and -t of ', and all the time, I thank G d. in ad the 6,000 years of the world's existence there has not one thing merely "happened so." God is not an anarchist, but a King, a Father. When little Tad, the son of Presi dent Lincoln, died, all America sympa thtzed with the sorrow in the Wnite I'ouse. He used to rush into the room where the cabinet was in session and whil. the most eminent men of the land were discussing the quettions of na tional esistence. But the child had ud c:e about those questions. Now, Goo t~ e Father and God the Sin and God the Holy Ghost are in perpetual session 1s regard to this world and kindred worlds. Shall you, his child. rush in to criticise or arraign or condemn the divine government? No; the cabinet of the Etreal Three can govern and wil zovera in th, wisest and best way, and thre- never will be a mistske and, ike razor skilifully swung, shall cut that wbeh ought to be cut and avoid that which ought to be avoided. Preci sion to the very hairbreadth. Eairth y timvpleoes may get oar of order and strike wrong, aying it is 1 o'clock when it is 2, or 2 when it is 3. God's clock is always right, and when it is 1 it s rikes 1, and when it is 12 it strikes 12, and the second hand is as accurate as the minute hand. Further, my text tells us that God sometimes shaves nations, "In the saute 'day shall the Lord shave with a razr that is hired." With one sharp sweep he went acros~s Juasa, and down went its p:ide and its power. In 1861 God shaved the American nation. We had allowed to grow Sabbath desecra tion and oppression a-ad blasphemy and fraud and impurity and all sorts of tur pitude. The south had its sins, and he north its sins, and the east its sins, and the west its sins. We had been warned again and again, and we did not heed. At length the sword of war cut from the Sr. Lawrence to the gulf and from Atlantic seaboard to Pacific sea board. Thbe pride of the land, not the co-ards, but the heroes, on both sides went down. And that which we toouk for the sword of war was the L~rd's raz>r. Ia 1862 again it went across the lad; in 1863~ again; in 1864 again. Then :he sharp instrument was incased and put away. Never in the his:ory of the ages was ny ;andi m:,re thoroughly bhaved than oung those four yeais of civil comn br, au'i, amy brethren, if we do not que. strme of our individual and national uns tue Lomrd will again take us in 1lued. lb* an other razers within r-eh bescdes w'ar-e pidemies, drous.hts, diges, piques-grashopper and io eus-or oar o-verrtowering suecee may Iso f.:r eiate t be jeatonsy of other lania tb. uncer somL: pretext the great na i res may conotue to put us dawn. Our nation, so easi y approached on n.rth and south anid from both oceans, unght have on hand at once mare hos tiies tran were ever airayel against adt, onme piwer. I i ope no such co-n tination agtnet us 'mili ever be form.. d. Lam I wan..o shaw:that. as Assyria was tie hired ra ra agaistJuda. and C; rus tre1:irs"d raz->r ag-atnst Bartylon, aud the Hnu., the hired rz-zr against Gh Grh, :ra. are uow many raz rs ih' -h- Lord could hire if, because of ur ratic al sies, he should unmdcrtake t -h sa us. In 1S7t0 Germany was the rz r wit-h whica the Lrd shmared Fauce. Jatpan was the razr with wieni be saved China and America tme razor with which be shaved arro eni t, oppresive and Bible hating Spain. Bt natcoas are to re pent in a day. Ma y a seedy and worldwide comting to God iuder on both sides the sea all nation i cdaaity. But d'o not let us as a na in eithe r by aurighteous law at Wash inton or bad lives among ourselves defy the Almighty. One would think that our national symbol of the eagle might smetimes sugest another eagle-that which an cint Romei carried. In the talons of t at ea:,e were clutched at one time Britan, France. Spain, Italy, Dalmatia, Rho.N ricu, Pnncnia, Mosia, Da cia Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, Asia \mr ria P- o icia, Palestine, E' ' pt anid all no th'-rn Africa and all he m M diterraneani, in da ' the world hat was worth hay' , a i-undred and twenty millions of pe p e un er t he wings of that one eagle. Were is she now? Ask Gibbon, the hstoran. in his prose poem, "The D~s eine and Fail of the Rman E.npire." Ak her gigantic ruics, bemoaning their sanss through the ages, the soreech owl at windows out of which worldwide conquerors looked. Ask the day of j a::nert, when her crowned debau edre. Coammodus and Pertinax and Cu. and Diocletian, shall answer fr te ir infainy. As men and as na tion let um repent and have our trust in a p::.rde--inz~ God rather than depend of 13 of the greared h:ie of the world Napoleon h:i i Waterloo. Pride a. ,i : t - 71 ride in the same sae But notice once umr.,, :i 'm'" rh all, in mny text. tha~ct; i; ", in ld +.t io)ing that hen 1 i' . n sary f r in to cut he ha' to , to " thers for the s arp ed i. ae ' "!t:l the 'tmel day shall the Llr: i1 ,h ;:a wiith ' .:z r that i, hired." Go! is irve. G :d is pity. God is help. God is i-ter. d is rescue Tuere are no sharp edges about him, no thrustine oint.. no in struments of lacerei )rI. I1: W' baim for wounds, he h !i:i .I want cieine Salve : i .:, " that. Bit if thilt g e? work to do, : in rep a razor. i at he hires. 'Gd h 1i n's abot hn that hurts, save wh(u dire neces-t y ee mand:, acd then he has to go clear off to som one else to get the instrum'nt. This divine eeency will be uo nov,-i tv to those '>. have p)a lre'i tae al varean n i maere, where (ud ; ul-merge himself in hai nan tca-s ani crim~oned himself from puectured arteries and let the terrestrial aad infernil worlds mau! him until the chandeliers of the sky had to be turned out, because the uni verse could not endure the ou'rage. iilustrious for love he tnit hive h:en to take a:1 that as our sub titu:e, pay ing out of his owu hear. th pr:c of our admission at the gates of -(avea Kiog Henry H of Eglan i er wad his son as king -:d o: the day of coro nation put on a servaut's gar an'l waited, he, the king, at the sor'sable. to the astonishment of all the priaces. Bat we know of a more wendrous sete -the King of heaven and earth ,ffer ing to put on you, his chud. tt:e crown ot life and in the form of a setvant wait ing on you with bie<sing. E .ol that love, all paiating, all seul: ture al music, all arohitecture, all ur-l i,.! In Dcesdenian gallery let Raphael h:): him up as a edll. at.d i-1i thedral let Itbens hand im dm ion the cros as a -rnUr, al Lif iel make ali his orarvrio v.b a c ar.und that one chord-- lie was wio.d for our trangression-, braiis,! for eu:0 i 1ui ties." But not unzii all the' ee.:d get home, and fr )m the countenanaes in all the ga-les tf the rat-omed shall h revealed the wonders of redeiup tins, shsll either nvi or seraphi or arch io hoosv tie nheigt a,-d depth and le'ngth and breadth tt tfn love of At our nationl cs'ital a monument in bcnor of him who did more than any one to achieve our Awericaa independ ence was for ecores of years in building, and most of us were discourae-:d and said it never would be completed. And how glad we all were when in the pres ence of the highest officials of the na tion the work was done! But will the monunient to him who died for the eter nal liberation or the Luinan race ever be conioleiEd? Fir ages the work has been soiog up. E angt lists and apostles and mar. rs hive been adding to the neavenly pile, and evari .ne of t h millions of redeemed going up from earth has made to it contribution of gladness, and weight of glory is swung to the top of other weight of glory, h ghtr and higher as the centuries ga by, higher ani higher as the whole mil lenniums roil, sappuire on the top of Jasper, sardonyt on the top chalecdon; and chrysoprisus above telpaz, until far beneath shall he the wall, and towers anc domies of cur eart hly capital, a monument forever an-i for ever rising and yet never done, 'Unto him who hath loved up and wa-hed us from our sius in his osn blood and made us kings and priests forever." Alleluia, amen.* Medical Appomntments The State says Gov. 31uS ve eney has made a departure in the matter of 'he appointments to the medical college in Carleston. One of his appointees is a young woman, the first of her sex to be given au appointment to the medical college of the State by any governor. Gov. McSweeney considered I er the most worthy of the applicants for the sholarships. H er father is dead and she is one of 13 children. She has been for some years by her labor aiding in the education of her younger sisters The governor thought that under these circumstanecs she was entitled to the appointment. Her application 14a backed up by the s~rang' s' kind of endorsaeuts The app iu ments to the saholarships were announced Satur day. These scholarshlj s incelude onJ3 tuition and the applicaut has to agree to finish the co irse at the institu ton. J.tere were a number of ajpea-us frenm would have been glad to have iven eash appliant aa appoinem-.m. he had oiy one appotatmeat irini eaani d trict In mlanag the tl etiou nie La, eneavoreu to secure the met dieerv tng. All of th.: a1plieants were highiy endorseu, andl it his been a dithieult tak to miaae thle seitetion. T1he followit-g are the alppuntwents as mide by tlL Fast De-triet-Miss An:ibella K Pentiss of Charle. .~ Second Djitet-. R. Turnball o! Aitsen. Th~lird Distriet-J. G Ejivards of Ab bev lie. F.,urth Distrit-JohuGesgg '.ielar ter or W\ousuoro. Fiath Il)suiet-F. 31. D)urhami of Ciwey. Sintb Di~trie -W. B Youngul 'fTi: S S:venth Di?striet-i..r'. tr i E. Ri. e e of U:angetiurg. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors. Ulcers, arc all curable by B. 1B. 13. (Botanic Blood Blm,) which is made especially to cur, ali terribie Blood Diseases. Persisten, Sores, Biood and Skin Blemishes, Seroula, that resist other treaitents, arc quickly cured by B. B3. B. (Boutanit Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim pes, Red, Itching Eezema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Cambuncles, Blotehes, Catarn, Rheuimatismi, etc., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B3. B3. Blool Poisin producing Eating Sores, Erupitions, S :ollen glands, Sire Throat etc., cured by B. 13 1. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B. B. does not cou tain vecetable or miineral poison. One bottle will test it in an ease. For sale by druggists ev'erywhlere. Liirge bottles $1. six for five 853. Write for free sataplebottle, which will be senut, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free maedieaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. PROF Frederick Starr. of the Department of Anthropology in the University of Chicago, it is reported, announces his belie f that "the American people are becoming "Indians, and will eventually revert to '-the abo rrinai type. IN DREAMLAND. Dreamiaa.'. D-ranton : . in your magi! I have i! .e 1 wan".re a through hap py hours ::td r. . Flower strewn. nos mn-,. h:Ine end shudow pattern', wToughs which i- nd benrath the birds singing Na re's sng; scent. l breczces Iwing. ever li:e1 with Petaled blossons bending low clad in garments gay. Fairy folk in happy mood dancing 'mal the doises. Surbeams spinning webs of gold all the perfect day. D rear.::n'1. Dreamla.d. in thy leafy tern .-reGipr God and good many _ in*.us hour, L ot t, irave th'e for this world wide haeut troubled. Rap:::red b thy calm content, perfect ress and power: A'gel vo ees in thy choirs chanting pra Ers ant praises, Lovi fr! ..:s of other days who had .la-p of th.". --id touch of hearts true and trici1 forever. All o::r br!~htest and our best greeting us once mor-'. There amonr them. best beloved, one with eyes of amber. Face a's fair as any saint In that land of calm. Lips which blesed me with their touch, hair a happy halo, Voice whose rotcs were silver toned sinzint Eden's psalm; Why should I return to earth from that land of loving. Why come back to earthly life with its curso and care? Dreamland Is the perfect clime with its sunlit spaces, Thither will I guide my barque, cast ing anchor there. L EDGAR JONES. Three Over Tinted Eyes a S Star, in .t- of Tom'a . -who Could -t Emergencies.9 T hli;F .may be a moral In this story, athough its exact nature would see- to i uncertain. Perhaps that is the penalty for its being true. Tommy was a young man- in Boston looking for a start In life. He had a document In his trunk which certified that he was an S. B., and that he knew all sorts of things about electrical en gineering. One day he saw an aiver tisement In a New York paper, in-which the National Cold Storage company of New York expressed a desire for the services of a competent young man as assistant superintendent of its new plant. Tommy knew about the Na tional Cold Storage company and its nw plant. They were respectively the largest things of the kind in the coun try, and any connection with them would be likely to be. a desirable one. So Tommy packed, a modest bag and went to New York on the morning train. He would have liked to wait for two star letters of recommendation which he knew he could get. Dut as the men who would have written these two letters happened to be out of town, and as the hours specified in the adver tisement for making application were the next day between ten and one, he went without them. That night in New York. having noth ing better to do. he went to a theater with a roof-garden attachment. When the vaudevi!!e palled a hit he started for a stroll preparatory to going to bed. As he was leaving the theater a man accompanied by three women pre eded him out of the door. They were nice-looking people-the man a big. prosperous-lookting chap in evening clothes, andi the women in pretty sum mer dresses. As Tommy passed them at the (oor they stoppcd to speak to seine acquaintances. That is. the rman and one of the women stopped. The other two women walked slowly on ahead. At the corner they turned into the comparatively quiet street that ran alongside of the theater, evidently un der the impression that their escort ws close behind. A few yards down this street a tall man with a vandiyke beard stood' on the curb. As the two young women approached he turned toward them, and as they got opposite im he took off his hat andstepped in their path. "Good evening, pretty little girls," he said. "Wh~ch way you going?" One of the young women looked hastily arournd- for th eir- escort, but the other'stood glued. The man ~.tood with is feet far apart and smiled into her eyes like a satyr. Then he put out his hand and attempted to chuck her nn der the chin. Thereupon four things happened in quick succession. Tommy, who had been only a few yards behind th e young omen. and who had seen the whole incident, dashed forward and laid hold of the vandyke-bearded man. The lat ter madec a terrifle squtirm and took to is heels down an alley, leaving a par-i of his coat collar in Tommy's grip'. The two young women fled backward to ward the corner; they did not notice ommy at all. At the same moment the young women's escort and- the oth er woman appeared around the corner. 'rhe t wo young women began to speak to the big man with one voice. "Stand r!zht here a moment." he said, nd hurried up to Tommy. "Did vou address those two ladies?" he asked. "No." answered Tommy, pleasantly. I hapened-" "You lie!" said the blg man, and hit Tommy in the eye. Tommy was annoyed as he pIcked mse'f "p from the sidewalk. Also the ig man had hold of his collar. The big man evidently conttemp.tlated nothing so vulgar as a street fighit. ITe merely ntended to shake most of Tommy's teeth down his throat as a lesson, and then to proceed on his way. lEut Tom my had an other spe'alty besides elee tricl engineerxrtz-footha!!, at tackle. it was reaatd of him t!:at he had ubed a Yale tackle's nose Co contin touat in te dust during na:rtat eh game :htat the ciose the Yale tackle had 'sat down in his tracks and wept. Albo Tomny had been fond of sparring. He hooked hia righrt arm into the big man's ee and swung his left into is stom ach. where, froan the big~ mn's build, e was sure that it would make an im presson. Then for a space of two minutes things happened swiftly. The big man was as strong as a buffalo, and he un :oubtedly k::ew what, a boxing glove was. Bunt also. undoubt ediy. he was a ffoP' liver. and Tommy hamnr'redl his wraistline f'1hu::y. Tommyn hadl also foundl the blg man's Gther eye, and his urp'er lip, witich needed a stitch, and his nose, which called aloud for the at tention of a surgeon. On the other han d. Tommy's own eve was sealed like overnment envelope. A respectable--sized crowd had gath ered who evidently appreciated. the fact that they were getting a cho'ics sample of the fistic art at a bargain price. The three women who had ae :-npaned the big man stood where they could view proceedings, wringing their harnds. Suddenly the one whom the vandye-bearded man had accosted uttered a little cry of horror. This dis tracted- the big man's attention for a fraction of a second, and Tommy on the Imw an. nrougui mm to -a. knees. Then two policemen came up. "Thith fellow inthuitterd a young w om' in my nartv." sani lt" 1"mar. .hrer:t his !'ae'd p. . TIlery:" easp.d t~he y::r.n won n who l.' had r. insiud. "h1? is not wih hi ,ck it adis '. n o yo w ;nt, tomak a n t asked,'r' t polemn of Tmmy "Nast a l. rid Tonm, th ern Then;'.I1.t theyee a t:. , ' t}!' one rii ' ' .'~. 1:5t m i n pat an T m wt "ie ote nian to bed.~' T~e net moningn whe Tommy co. sut- at n:ro hais ey rembeat Tunaer sn.Hewssrrgytm ed toey back toaot co the arca man.z an his pat.a(' n~i. ~ 10 his tn With tret e e t:'yo a iran fohir a respobni b p:ae, withoit a 'ign of a recommend ation ant an eye that Tol: e. ai tho:gh She hadi spent t}h previe:: right on. the Thwer. Then for the first time Tommy sworm at. the br. man. But 11 o'clock fo;:n! h:im at the noii (e of the National C'(: htor company. The man in hetk mkntcal when Tommy to a: him his buivss. Then he in fornt tat:nl twhat the president had iv'en al(e out o ton that day. and aL'pp.:1;a :m wou .1hae :o be made en tha. fIintg. Tomov, b re::th eti a .si::h Of relief.and went back to his hotel. rest of that. day and : ait he wore a hec smak poultic a e thahis eye. Ts w!as ben eh al from a nt peiCts point ofn ie butt t s far as :annearancies wvent, the eye was more }l.ringly imp res-ionistic thenext mornig than before. Tommy felt dressed as he started for the Cold Storae O ice. There were four or ie applicarts in the outer oilice, who looked as though they had ben brought up in self-respecting Chris tian homes. Tommy sat in one corner and glared at anyone he caught look ing at his eye. He sat there two hours before his turn came. Then the clerk said the president would see him, and smiled again pessimistically. But by this time Tommy felt too much like a Eocial outcast to resent it. The president sat at a handsome cherry desk. Ile was a large man, but he was pale, and looked ill. His upper lip was goriously decorated with court-late this right eye was cot ered by a patch, and his left eye was part'y closed and of a color scheme that rivalled Tommy's own. Tommy's heart slid down into his boots and tried to get. through the floor. The next moment he found himself sittin in a eair at the right of the president's desk. I le sat there and regarded the pres e indrmitied duml. iupe "You wa ripplygefort po ith? ased the arat, mand hrshlefye. a party clomedted ofhat'heo ws.cem thatndatilled Tommy owned oml-' hewar about donor inhi ebctsa nd ineerinair an the ight of eprof.iCh-a' mes. lie satptertendn readedl of Tpresidentsnrtesd.uenbetune diskuedly gt Tmany'ashy. "om aondrit? te task edw. e "o. ndsio"si Tommy.epandhl "ieOb. - i, anwrd th aTommyo.Ch "he ral diEyet beigat ofe?"aske the president.snore.Tnh tne igTedy toare Tomy' pee tou o yoe othrionk e. a d "No wsiridn cce" said Tom "O. nd, rnn" anweeti carm." The presidentsti ienefrsv eamot.Tommy dtepeegnt ouee ugly. "What we want for this place," said the president finally, "is a pushing, self-reliant-, resourceful man-one wno can Thy out his own work and meet emergencies as they arise." The president paused again,thought fully. "I think you ought to fill the bill," he said. Tommy sat motionless for the space of a minute. Then he handed thef presi dent the coat col!ar of the V'an Dyke bearded r.n and clinched the barga in. -N.Y. Sun. ETIQUETTE OF THE DANCE. A Few Thing" That Should De Known by Every Devotee of Terp miehore. The et~quette of the ballroom or the private dancing party ought to be fa miliar to all who attend such diver sions, but, if 30, its observance is far from universal. A few general rules should always be borne In mind, says the Chicago Chronicle. When a man is presented to a young woman at a dance he usually saya al most at once: "May I have the pleas tre of this dance?" After dancing and walking about the rooms two or three times the young man may take the girl back to her chaperon and plead anoth er engagement. or, better. she suggests that he take her to a place near her mother or chaperon. The lady is the one to frat intimate her desire to stop dancing. If a man holds a girl too tightly she should drop her band from his shoul der so as to bring it between her part ner and herself. If he does not take the hint let her stop dancing at once under some pretext so evident that he may realize her displeasure or disap roral. A chaperon should not be lacing in personal dignity; nor should she dance whle her charge is unprovided with a partner. A girl should be attentive to her mother or her chaperon, presenting her friends to her and occasionally stopping to say a few words. lBoth young men and maidens should be careful to remember that their dan cdug engagements must be kept. A girl must not refuse to dance with one man under some pretext and then dance with another; neither should abe dance with the same man more than two or three time. A young man invited to a house should danceas early as possible with the daughter of his hostess and pay them every possible attention. Four Men E ung. A dihpatch from New Orleans says "in "Bloody' Tangipoah Friday tight, four negrocs were hanged, after the jail in the village of Pon tchatoula had been broken open and the prisors accused of robbing the family of Henry Hal feltr, had been taken from their cells. Mrs. Holfeiter, who resisted the col ored men was chocked and beaten so unmercifully that she lost her mind. Wheale.1 1-ncng a..e fea,.ed." LIGHT AS CURB FOR MEASLES. Experiments Show That Sunshine Will Alleviate the Severity of Disease. Recent experiments indicate that the sun may be a potent remedial agent in the case of persons attacked with smal:pox,scarlatina and measles. These experiments were made by Dr. Finsen. of Copenhagen, and Dr. Chatiniere, of St. Mande, and so novel were they that they ha--c aroused a good deal of dis cussion among the members of i.-e Academy of Mledicine in P'aris,s-1ysh New York IIerald. Dr.Chatiniere a short time ago treat ed 12 children who had measles accord ing to his new method, which is scien tiilcally known as phototherapie. lted light was the only cure which he usei. and this he mado serviceable in the fo! lowing manner: On the window. cf the sick room he hung red curtains ani on the table near each bed he placed a lamp which gave forth a red light. Iie acted thus because he felt satisfied that the irritation of the skin In cases of measles Is due to the chemical rays of the solar spectrum, or, in other words, to the ultra violet rays. and not to the so-called caloric or heat rays. If this were not so how account for the fact that the pustules and scars are es pecially deep and marx:ed on the face and hands, which are the very parts of the body that are most exposed to ti.e solar rays? The result showed that he had not erred in arriving at this con clusion. His little patients rapidly re gained their health, and the virtue that lies in red curtains and red lamps is being extolled by many physicians. Impressed, like Dr. Chatiniere, by the fact that the influence of the solar rays is especially manifested on the face and hands of patients, Dr. Finsen conceived the idea of subjecting per sons suffiering from smallpox to the in fluence of ultra-violet rays, which reached them after the light had been filtered through thick red curtains. The result was that the little vesicles or bladders gradually disappeared and the patients did not suffer from the customary fever and, furthermore, were notpockmarked. Theultra-violet rays, indeed, In the case of these pa tients produced the same effect as the red light in that of Dr. Chatinlere's, the most notable token of their efficacy being the absence of fever and the rest lessness and the gradual disappear ane of the eruptions before coming to maturity. It was also noticed that the rays had a marked effect on the mala dies in so far as they affected the bron chial tubes. Dr. Finsen's method of eure has been introduced into France by Dr. Larat and is being used not only in cases of smallpox, but also in cases of certain forms of skin diseases. HOW TO DRESS WELL. A Woman's Identity Should Not Be Sacrificed to the Taste of the Dressmaker. If a woman is afraid to decide about her own style, let her get na artist to tell her what it. is. and what she can wear to the best advantage, says the Ledger Monti s. Having ascertained her style and the colors sle should wear, then she holaO never devi~ate from them. She must strengthen herse!f to ignore wonderful bargains in the wrorg styes and colors, and prepare herself even to endure a certain amount of monotony in her wardrobe. But her reward lies in being invariably well dressed and in having an air never to be acquired by sinking one's Iden tity in the nondescript taste of the average dresemaker. A buineee woman is wise to select some one standard color that best suits her-eay brown, or navy blue, or gray'-and then, having bought the , prIncipal garment. in this tone, to buy all others in harmony with it. It affords a woman a wonderful op portunity to appear smartly dressed en the least possible outlay. And it is remarkable how many pretty varia tione can be found to prevent any one color scheme growing tiresome. It Is an excellent plan to begin this sinple method of good dressing when girls are quite young~. It cultivates their taste to a very great degree and enables them, as they grow up, to dress, well with but little thought or money. What a wise preeaution It would be to give every girl her own pin-money, however little, and teach her to be self-reliant, for it is a sad fact that it is usually the woman who has the least ability to dress we13 who thinks most about her clothes, always strug gling for effects and doomed to fail ure; while the woman or girl who un derstands herself, her style, color and the courageous art of eelective shop ping can get the largest returns for her time and trouble. The consciousness of looking well is pretty sure to bring repose of mind and manner-en attitude in which a woman Is best clculated to meet the social and business world at her best. A Great Pity. The Greenville News, edited by Prof. W. H. Wallace, one of tile foremost educators in tihe State. in speaking of the adop tion of scho..1 books by tile State Board of Education. says: "We cannot account for the discarding of Maury's gogra~t hies, unless it is in obedience to the new craze for the newmethod of teaching geography. Some regard Maury's as antiquated. We regard this seieis as the best of all. th:.ugh Frye's is ex cellent of its kind-and that is tile kind( that is iln demanld now by most schoolmen. it does look like a pity, though, that a book by so distinguished a southlerai author--thle 'pioneer of the sea'-should have to give place to a New England book." Prof. Wallace is not tile only teacher who takes this vie w of it. We have hleard expression of opinion from at least a dozen teachers and every one of them preferred Maury's geographies to Frey's except one, and that one admitted that she had not compared tile two books criti cally, but though it best to have a change. H. J. Behrends, of Tecunmsh, Neb., has ten gro wn up sons, all of whom and himself will vote for Bryan and Stevenson. Five of the boys will cast their first presidential ballot next Novem ber. The Blak~ely, Ga , Rerorter sas "the man who will dead beat the aver age country publisher. poor and rneedy as he is. would pul! up young corn in the field of his neighbor from whom he Makes the food more del ROYAL BAKNe POWL ARAB ACTORS AND THEATRE J. E. Woolacott Describes a Perfor mance of "Romeo and Juliet. ,T. E. Woolacott writes from Carlo, thus describes a performance of "Ro meo and Juliet" by Arab actors: "From our box facing the stage we look down on a sea of red tarbooshes, broken here and there by the turban of a sheikh. On our left a few harem boxes with white lace curtains drawn tightly across the front indicate that the fair sex are not entirely shut out form the joys of the drama- The peep holes originally cutt to enable the ladies to obtain a clear view of the stage have been in several instances materially enlarged by the hands of the fair playgoers, and we catca now and then a glimpse of a face, the flash of an earring, and the red glow of a lighted cigarette. "Impatient for the play to begin, the occupants of the back benches stamp their feet with dogged persist ance, and after ten minutes of this amusement the curtain is rung up, re vealing the entire company, stiff and erect, formed in two rows, the princi pals, of course, in the foreground. "In a doleful chant, punctured with mournful groans, we have the pro logue. and assuredly the 'misadvent ured, piteous over-throws' of the lovers of Verona never fathomed the depths of woe suggested by this Arab choir. The curtain falls amid vociferous ap plause, and five minutes later rises again, revealing the amorous Romeo clad in red doublet and sky-blue trunks, gazing with rapture at the balcony of his lady-love. "My mentor assures me there is good literary workmanship in the version of 'Romeo and Juliet 'that is being played. But the story, itself has been materially tampered with. The gar rulous old nurse does not appear, and the Count of Paris furnishes all the comic relief vouchsafed by the trans lator. This doughty nobleman's cos tume consists of a brown velvet doub let, sky-blue continuations, which only continue to the knee. ending tliere in a little lace frill, striped socks, and brown slippers. Juliet flouts him to his face, whereat the Arab playgoers howl with delight." Betraying Pens. "Killed by a letter" was the signifi cant heading of a Havana newspaper over an article telling of ex-Minister De Lome's fall. This legent would be an appropriate epitaph over the politi cal graves of many public men. The rivalry between Hamilton, the leader de facto of the Federal party, and Adams. the leader de jure. incited Hamilton's letter during the campaign of 1S1G. arraigning Adams, which was one of the causes of the rupture and overthrow of that party and the triumph 'of Jefferson and the Demc racy. Hamilton's letters attacking Burr were the cause of the duel in which Hamilton lost his life. Jefferson's letter to his old neighbor. Mazz:. in 17l. in which, by pretty pilain implicntion, he traduced Wash intnadother men whom the Ameri entrn panpd honored. kept Jefferson de nrnand pexla!ining fd'r many years, his hiistoric letter to Van Buren on this subject having b'een written shortly before his dleath and twenty-eight years after the Mazzel epistle wras pen ned. The reservation and pubileation of Jefferson's "Anas.' 'or dairy, which srelya sort of tetter to posterity, wihisspiteful assaults on the memory of Unamilton and other emin ent men, showed an amazing lack of discernment on Jefferson's part. and has called nut from all his creditors and bingraphers exeuces which accuse. "Never write a letter," said Talley rand. "and never hurn one that you receive."' If Nicholas Biddle had ob served the first part of this Injunction the fate ot the United States bank, over which he presided, would prob ably have been different. .7aekson wou'ld not have been able to perform that second labor of Hercules In slay ing the hank "hydra." and the politics of the '30s would have lost one of its most picturesrlue episodes. An interesting and usualTyv level headed personage. Biddle. hrid what Juvenal called an "ineurable Itch for writing." and this led him and his in stitution to their doom, defeated Clay and the national Republican party In 132, and. as one of the consequences of the bank's overthrow. bronght on the panIc of 1827. The "Rhen letter" precipitated the contest of 1830 be tween .Tackson and Calhmmn out of the line of succssion to Jackson's poli tical heir. dwarfted Calhoun from a national to a local figure. and turned him to the partisan metaphysics out of which were evolved nullification and that morbid and wire drawn politicnl philosophy In defense of slavery that brought on the war which destroyed slavery. The "Star-Eyed" a Cook. "Tears ago, when I belonged to a ecere of yotang cavaliers in New York Citv.' said Col. Henry Watterson at Clr~iriberlin's. "'I deshened the dish now gene! ally known as lobster a la New burgr. I gave my lidea to Charlie Del nmonico, and he saw that It was carried Sreessf5ul execution. John McCulloc.h wais one of us. and to John is due the anflearance of broiled live lobster in the Faist. lHe had caugeht on t.o the epicuronen way of preparing It durmIz his stay In California. In after vears I attained some fame as a manipulator of certain dishes. terrapin, perhaps. be ing my masterpiece. '"Curiously enough. nll the newspaper stories have given mte credit for being an artist in the preparation of oyster stews, but my experience with the bi valves Is limited. I always left them to JTohn Chamberlin. while he would not allow any one but myself to attend to the diamondbatcks. "I cent begin to tell you how much of this ingredient or the exact quantity of the other to put with the terrnpin, but I know how to blend them all in an i:stinctive sort of way, and I've nevor rot found the man who didn't admit that my ceoking was of the highest order."-Washington Post. "Now," said the enterprising inter viewer, "please read this over and hold up your right hand?" "But." said the publec man, "this is merely an interview." "That's all it is now. But I thought it would be a good thing to be appoint ed a notary public. We've had too many denIals, and- this article's going to be an afdavit be'ore It gets into the paper."- -Washi:ston Star. As a whole, tile Boer struggle for independence must stand in history as one of the~ most gal lant. They fought solely for thleir liberty-. That indep~end ence is lost, but the spirit that defended it will live and secure for South Africa the lar-gest measures of freedom consistent with orderly g'overlnent. T.he present English purpose, ex emplified in the "treason act," is not to accord to the Afr-ikan ders any consideration, but that~ 4F0WDER; URE icious and wholesome suRCO., ,,Ew vORK. A ROBIN'S APPETITE THE DAILY RATIONS FOR A SONG BIRD ARE STARTLING. Food of the Little Beings That Flute ter, Fly and Feed- Their Value to the Farmer-Mian's Attitude To ward ills Most Industrious Friend. If a man ate as much daily in pro portion to his weight and size as does a wren 'r a robin, to compass his food his statue would need be so great as to have the crown'r.g head several feet further from the ground than is the capstone of the George Waslington monument at the C::pital City. This statue estimate is based on the premise that the m'n with the big ap petite would only need to gain in heigh. If he were 6400 feet hgh and only a foot and a half thick he would I e somewhat ungainly, and to bring him down from the clouds a bit, and still keep up the bird and food compar iscn, the man, to eat as much daily proportionately as a robin, must neces s:rily be thirty feet high, ten feet trick from back to front and five feet broad across the shoulders. Moreover, if a man did his duty by Mis fellows in the selection of food, as do the wren and the robin, nis diet would consist in the main of centi pedes, scorpions, skunks, rattlesnakes, gophers. and tarantulas, anu other ci catures whose living is supposed to be a menace to the world. It has been freely asserted by some scentists within the last few years that if all the birds which make the earth beautiful and musical were to die, the departu-e of all mankind from the world would not long be delayed. From man's attitude toward the song and insectivorous birds, killing them sna robbing their nests In the com puntiorless way that he does,, It does not appear that man has much dread of the fate which awaits him if his f.-athered friends take their flight to a better land. Notwithstanding human ludifference to possible impending an nihilintion if milliners' agents and h.unters go on slaughtering the song siers, it is really not a difficult matter to demonstrate fairly conclusively that ornithological students are not far wrdng when they say that man's life depends upon birds' life. As a plain matter of fact, it'is be, lieved by everybody who has watched the little beings that "flutter, fly and feed" about his door, that if their ap petites were not as vigorous as they are, and if the nature of their food were not such as it is, the insect plague of Pharoah would visit the land, so that it would be darkened with the n-ultitudes of the visitants, and that they would "eat every herb of the land anci all the fruit of the trees,",and: Sthere would remain "not any green thing In the trees or in the herbs of the field." The farmer who sees a robin or a catbird peelring away at a cherry Is likely to shoot the bird, forgetting in his wrath at the fruit theft the good c ffices of the bird in killing the insects which would have devoured the hus bandman's trees, stalk, stem, leaf and fruit A GRLEDY ROBIN. A robin nestling, two-thirds grown. s fed by the mother bird every day food to the amount of four times the little one's weighit. The mother bird, and the father bird, too, for that mat ter, probably eats proportionately the same amount. Now, a little calculation will show what this means. An aver ge robin household contains four chil dren. Let it lie assumned that each lit tle one weighs three ounces. Th'is will make a food supply of twelve ounces .aily for each nestling, or forty-eight ounces for the four birdlings. During he same time the father and mother unless they are starving themselves the benefit of the young, as somets eems munch more than probable, at one pound of food apiece, makig a total for the robin family of five pounds of provender for the day.- Dur ing some months almost every bit of, food consumed by old end young birds w of an insect nature, fruit forming but a smaller part of 'the diet Early i summer a robin family was watched hourly, the head of the observer bein within five feet of the nest, whichtj old birds visited fearlessly and f their young, utterly ignoring the pr enee of six feet of humanity andU pair of staring eyes. A large part the food which the redbreasts brough consisted of those green slugs which tre seen so often feeding on the leaves mnd tender stems of the trees. 1I s this creature which lnvariably"Iiumps" itself as it moves on its devastating way. Angle worms wvere, perhaps, moore in evidence as food than any other single species of crawler. though eaterpillamrs were fed frequent ly. At times each bird would bring sa ny as three insects at once. -The feeding process was constant from su rise until sunset, the old birds going not more than fifty yards from home for their food supply. Ange worms, grubs, slugs, and the like are heavy provender, and the es timate of twelve ounces a day for tlie o and sixteen ounces a day for the old Is doubtless on the under side of extravagance. If a man should un lertake to eat as much in proportion to his size as does a robin he would upply his stomach every day with be tween f600 and 1.000 pounds of solid matter. the amount varying, of course, with his weight and stature. A man six feet tall.'weighing 180 pounds; In order to keep pace with the robin. must eed eat 'j50 pounds of solid matter a ay. and if he would do th'e same amount of good in proportion to his slze that a single redhreast does he would enfine his di''t to pestiferoos This In Ohio. At Man fi Id, C) , W doesday Ps:g iogr an elder of the Dowie ebuneh with two of hi., f.illowcr. was escor:ed to a train by a m->b and hustled out of Gan vile, Ga.. Dec. 8, 1899 Pitt' Antiseptic Invigorstor hs been used in my family and I amn per fectly satisfied that it is all. and will do all, you cisim for it. Yours traly, A. B C. Dorsey. P. 8.-i am using it now mnyself. tt s doing me good.-Sold by I'he Muzr ay Drug Co., Columbia, S C., anid all