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F \ POETRY, "i J'at? Tide Ditsy. ' Come.^ress up the hearth with bright holly, And wreathisof tbe mwUetoe bough, Came, rou* discontent a? sheer folly, Tbe Ikorpe is no "place for it now. ? / : * :A?ray wjth tbe cares of to-morrow! Gi*e pti%fcre"s light p^n-iule fall sway; Away with *0 trouble and ?orrow, Oh, this is f|e TwJrld't holiday. Come, set the Hf Yale-log a-blazing. Ia mirth let there be not a pause, Tell baby sweet woriea ama2ing, Of Christ and of old Santa Claus. All, all the ircrld oe'r joy is reigning. Throb* iu heart with fast feativa 1 beat; Peace, peace, wreathe the winds, cease com -4T ptainmr. Peace, peac<;, let each bosom repeat. Joy! joy! 'tis tbe morn for rejoicisg, % prire all tfctf is dre try away, &?? Kfe'r bitter jjtoings no ?oieiog: \ Oh, -this is tbe world s holiday. Jp j* joyThea:* the merry bells' ringing, ^ "flail, t iiorr to God,'! say the chimes; Peace. peace, Ffearen' $ choirs are singing, J, *9?od will to je men of all climes " Come, wme, banish frowning and fretting, Be merry, li^at- hearted and gay, Lmsrh k*ng. *rw the time for forgetting Life* ills,? 'tis the world's "holiday. s ? James Edwin Kerr. AT THE TABERNACLE. ^ THE LE$SO*S TAUGHT BY BiRTH DATES ANO ANNU^lvHOUOAYS. ^11 Other A?Rhcriwri<ii Axe Jnferlor in ?J Importance to Cbrbtmaf ? The Y>ar 1X9:} l* Certain toHoa Memowblo On?-^?tare'? Wnoii of ^ Growth and Dewy. Brooklyn, Dec, 25. ? The sermon j preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage this j morning Was of a character especially i appropriate to the hrfidav season, and j was listened lo with rapt attention by j an audience that crowded the Tiber { i j uacle. Before beginning his dweoorie tbe preacher gave out the opening! hymn:' "j '4a Joj* to tie world: the Lord lit* cotne: L?te*nh, receive her kiog. The t?xt selected I was Colossiaus . li, 16, * In r<i?pect of a holy day/' What the Biblfe here aid elsewhere Tt calls a holy day we; by .change of one letter and change of pronuaciation, calf holiday. But by change of spell ; ( . ! iog and accentuation we caonot change >1 the fact ^ that holdidays have great significance, As long as the world stands Chriatmas clay and Kew Year's day and Easier day will be charged and suickarged with solemn suggestive new and hc ly mirth, ] Whether you take the old style of mv^text and call them holy days, or tb^miodern style f. j and cali them holidays,? they somehow set all my nerves a tingle and my ^?deeper emotions via to profoundeat j agitation. I am glad that this season I we have the bolidavs completely founded. J&ot years, Christmas day tftairtieg in the midst of one week, and New Tear's day stnttag ia . the midst j of another week<*> we have been [ perplexed to know wfcen the holidays began and when they ended, and per haps we xnrfj have begun them too soon or continued them tooloug. Bat this year they are bounded by two beaches of gold ? Sabbath, Dee. 25, \my ai?d Sabbath, Jan. 1, 1893. The one Sabbath this >ear com "memorates the birth of the greatest being that ever walked the earth; the | other celebrates Jibe birth of the * greatest yea *s of alt time; the one day j ^supernatural because of an nnhiaged star and angelic doxology, and the other day aatural, but part of a precession that started with the world's existence and will go on until tfce world is burned up; both the first and tbe last day? of these holidays coming in with Siibbatical splendor and girdling all the days between with thoughts that have all time and all j eternity ia their emphasis. How shall - ' we spend them? At haphazard and without special direction, and -they leaving, as they go away from u I physical fatigne aod mental exhaus tion, tbee&ct of late hour* and reek '\! fcssaess lit diet adding another chapter to the. mora and spiritual and eternal disasters which have resulted from misspent holidays? Oh, no! A stout and resounding no! for all the eight ? . a!: I :? . ';f' I prt?pose that we divide this dayjsiHB, the two Sabbaths of the .[ holidayWd the six days between, in jto thre^ chapter a ? the first part a chapter of illustrious birthday the second part a chapter of; annual decadence; tbe third part a chapter of lyChronologieal introduction. DAYS OF THE GREAT. First* tbe3,i ctecpter of iMuatnous birthday; Not a day of any year iml has been- marked by the nativity of some good or great souL Among discoverers the birthday of Hamboldt ; waa Sept 14 and of David Livingston March 19. Among astronomers the ? birthday of 'Isaac Newton was Dec. 25 and of Herscbel Nov. 17. Among s the birthday of Cicero was S a ad of Chrysoetom Jan. 14. prim reformers the birthday 1 Howard was Sept 2 and of Fry May 1. Among painters of Eaphaei was March Angeio March 6. ^ the birthday* of Feb. 22, of Hamiltoi of Jetf ? nemans wis SeplT 25, of Ltim tia of Isabella Oraham 5 Joty^. But what are all Uic^e birth v days compared wiih Bee. 25, foe on or about that day was bo^n one who eclipsed ail the great names of all the f- 1 f (\e?turie? ? v esus of Bethlehem. 'Jeaus i ; ot Nazareth. Jesus of Golgotha, Jesus ; of Ohvet, Jesusof the heavenly throne? Tbe greatest piotares have been ? ' made aboui sceoesHn &is lifetime, j The greatest sacrifices bqjieW of bat tie or ia hospital or on lonfr.jaarch or ia aaarty^iom have bees insplrggr by f 4 rra ekxjaeoee ever spoken we been M |rBttered-: Jm i be- proclamation of km Gospel. ??^r*aadest oratorios -tlflft ve'ever icllSi orchestras were l*-' ?Li: *4L sl: mili!. ^ 1Sr i^s?cip?ive of bis liirand desttfc. T5we ; '|4:! feave-Wn otherimte^ but neoe Ske him who "spake as never man spake." ThereJ?ve l?eii other re^>naers, b?t none , like I'm feomjpitie4 hir j t*\ tmof**** * ** tbel jj i&ppcdr itxl the W kme foot bomik iike a roe, aDd tbe last caae of dementis shall come to its right ?ukL There hare beeivother disco voters, bat none [ iike him ahle to find ho* man may be just with G*d- There hare beea other deliverers, but none like him, the res cuer of nations. There ? have been L other paunen, but done like him who | pot the image of God on a lost soul. ? No fonder we coiebrate his birth, ; Protestant church, Catholic church, ? Greek church, St Isaac's of St Petersburg, 8L Peters at Rome, the Madeleine at ParifcySt. Paul's in Lon I don joining all our American cathedrals a d churches and log cabin meeting houses and homes in keeping i this preeminent birth festival. | THE SCPEB3TAL IilGHT. Elaborated tad prolonged efforts have been made to show ; that the star j that pointed to the manger in which J Christ Was bora was not what it appeared to be, but a conjunction of ! Jupiter add Saturrf- , Obr. wise men of the west a ay that the wise men of the east were mistaken. Astronomers, )ou know, can calculate backward as well a* forward, and as they can 1 tell what will occur ! a hundred ?ears from now among $e heavenly bodies, so they can accurately calcu late backward and tell What occurred j eighteen or nineteen hundred years ago. And is it true that seven years before Christ, in Cbalde^, about three hoars before day dawn there was\ conjunction of Jupiter and Haturn. Standing in Jerusalem and looking over toward Bethlehem, those two stars would have seemed to hang over that village, and it is su ggested by a learned- professor that t be magi may have had weak eyes, so- that the two stars may have looked Eke one. Iof> order to take everything isupernatnral out of the story we have n blind the eyes.- of the magi and introduce a ?second star to help oat tie idea of the one 8 tar. Bui I prefer the simple i story of the Bible, that a light of so rue ^kind ? stellar or mete* ric ? pointed ! from the sky "to the straw cradle. ! When it is so easy for ?'^>d to male a | world that he puts eigh ?en mil Hons of them witbiu one sweep of the tele scope, he couid certainly afford: one I silvery^ or fiery signal ofjsome kinji to j point the world to t^ place where ! the sovereign of the universe layi in ! carnated and infantile. | j If God ootid afford to make an especial earthquake at tile crucifixion, nt Calvary |HOTV4PMI|niV|Rip [ the- aslant rocks on still sho wing that the; sioo of nature at that which was felt la none ; ings, then he could unusual, something j thing positive, somethii | at the nativity i If a kin of a son can hav^be j and couriers sent with j to announce the gladness at the gates and wake up an emjtfrewith cannon ade, I am not surprised that, at the j birth of the \ Son of God there was I celestial agitation, andj my only a convul Sar spot surround something Uiant, some tremendous at the birth illumined dispatch one star or , all worlds i wonder is that* instead | one meteor giving si : did not make not other worlds; take i event when Christ came world and another get the * souls be saved by this celestial Why tereat in the ro?n another rid was to *??rou)d t* acen'f? b ifl would have been a stel I a? disgrace, an astronomical^ scandal, if, when the Godhead iay compressed in the form of an io&nt, something from above had not pointed down, as much as to say. "There he is! Look, jail earth and heaven! all Look, all ti&ie ,aud eternity r CHfcttfT MrST SEEDS feuFFEK. ' the birth at Bethlehem been more note! and start to the heavens than- the crucifix on Calvarjj.'- It was expected that ? v/wrist Would j be maltreated. The ? world always had maltreated its good and great friends. Joseph hurled into ! the pit, , 8ha4racb put into the fire, Jeremiah lowbred into a dungeon, David hounded from bo/ th root , Elijah compelled to star4^ortak4 his foed from the beak of ad ffrthy raven, and Socrates condemned o death, so that the Calvarian massacre was in the same old line of i But the novelty of al! ! the conju action of divi inanity, .Invisible deity , j nerved nod fleshed in mi si que. A child and yet (treatment ages was lityaod hu tuscled and culiue phv God! Why, ited down j that night, seme angel! would have I rushed down aad pointed with his f glittering scepter. Isaiah and David ; and Ezekiel, who foretold the coming, ; would have descended from their thrones and stood on the roof of the barn or in some way designated the honored locality. As the finger of light that December 25 pointed to the j straw eradle, now all the fingers of Christendom this moment, fingers of childhood and old age, fingers of ser men and son? and decoration and festivity, point to the J great straw I cradle. AnT" I?not right in saying that the first of the three ; chapters of j the holidays should be devoted to the illustrious birthday? Bly song and ? prayer .and solemn reflection and charities to day, and by gifts aud trees that bear fruit in an hmir after they are planted, and family gathering aad 't hilarities sounding from cellar to gar ret to-morrows keex> C&ristraaa. A*,, far'&snpossible gaifeer the child* | ren antf the grandchildren, hot pat no \ estoppel on racket, whether of laugh j ter or swill feet or toys in shape of j rail trains or trumpets or infant effigy. Let the old folks for one da f at least say nothing about prospect of early d&ffese, or jthe degeneracy of modern times, or the poison, in confectionery. , If you can not stand thegsowe, retire from it for a little while into some other room and stop your ears. Chnstinas for children without plenty ot noise ia no Christmas at t all- If children and grandchildren , cannot have full swing during the holidays, when wi$f they have itf- (They will he stiU soon en j aogh, and their feet will slackenHhetr pane, aad th? berdem of ? .them down. Houses "when the children are will bear ly still While yon calf years after set the children of oar Sabbath school wild wit I: delight, and ib The CbristiaD Herald, with which SI am cod petted, we are celebrating | the hoTiHjiys by sending ont from two to four "thousand Bibles a day, and they wiB continue to go out by ex* press, by messengers and by mails un til we hare distributed at Jeast one hdqjdred thousand copies of the good old Book on which Christmas U built, and which gives the only healthful interpretation of these swift flying years. J ALL THAT LIVE MUST DIR. The second chapter of the holidays j must speak of annual decadence. This j ia the last Sabbath of the year. The steps of the year are getting short, for it is old now. When it waved the springtime blossoms the year waff young, and when it sHong the scythe ; and cradle through ' the summer -harvest fields the year* was strong, but it is getting out of breath now, and after six more throbs of the pulse will be dead. We cannot stop this annual* decadence. Set all the clocks back, set aR the watches back, set all the chronometers back, but you can not pet time back, j For the old family clock you might! suppose that time would have especial respect, and that if you took hold of those old hands on the face of that centenarian of a time | piece and pushed them back you might expect that time would stop or retreat finr at least a few minutes. "No, do!" says the old family cl?ck. **I must go on. I saw your father and : mother on their wedding day. I ! struck the hour of your nativity. { counted the festal fcgurs of the day in i which you bfoughthome a bride I sounded the knell at your father's 1 death. J tolled at your mother's de parture. \ ea, I must round your own going out of life. I must go on. I must go on. Tick, tock! Tick, took!" : THE UXCEASISG PLIGHT OF TIME. But there is a great city clock Highv ! up in tfre tower. There are so many wrongs in all our cities to be righted I so many evils to ;be extirpated, so' many prisons to be sanitaried? stop | the city clock ui$l all these things i are done, j Let common council ? and j the people of the great town decree I that the city halfj clock shall stop. W e do not want the sins of 892 to he banded over tojy&93. We do not want the young year to inherit the misfortunes of the old year. By lad dersfciifted to the tower and by strong baiK^-t^ke bold and halt the city elude, v "?K??no!" Bays the eity clock. J I cannot wait until you correct ail evils or soothe all sorrow or drive out all sin. *1 have been counting the steps of your progress as a city. I have sees* your opportunities. Ihave deplored your neglects, but time wasted is wasted forever. I must go oq. I must go on: Tick, tock! Tick, tockf' But in the tower of the capi' tols at Washington and London and Berlin aadViepn* iind all the great national capites there are clocks. Suppose that by presidential proc lamation and resolution of senate and house of representatives our national dock in the Capitol turret be ordered to stop. i^Stop, 0 clock, un^il section* al animosities are cooled off, until our Sabbaths- are better kept, and drunk enness turns to sobriety, and bribery, fraud aad dissipation quit the Und! ^top, O clock, in the tower <*f the j^greac United States Gipitol!" ' No, no!" says the clock. "I have been gmng on. so long ? cannot afford to , I- funded the birthday o? | American'independence. I rang" out the return of peace in ] 865. I have | seen many president * inaugurated. I struck the hour of Lincoln's assassina tion. I have beattime for emanctj?a tion proclamation, j and Chicago fire, and Charleston earthquake, and epi ' demies of fever and cholera. Nations never stop. They march on -toward salvation or demolition. And why fhould I stop? I chime for the nation al holiday^ f toil &r>the mighty dead. Tmu-tgoooJ t m?wtS.? on! Tick, tock!" There may be a difference of a few seconds or a few minutes iu thfr timepieces but it I will be a serious occasion when next Saturday: night about the same hour the family clocks, and the city clocks, j aod* the national -clocks strike oue! j two! three! fmr! five! six! seven! eight! i nine! ten* eleven! twelve! THE DEAD YEAH-^D ITS DEAD. | Jwjr I to have 1892 depart ; j8 It.** has been a good year. What bright days.! What starry nights! What harvests! VV hat religious convocations! What triumphs of art and science and invention and enter prise and religion! But alas, how sacred it has been with sorrows! What pillows hot with fever that could not be cooled? What graves opening wide enough to take down beauty and strength * and usefulness! What octogenarians putting down the staff i of earthly pilgrimage and taking t^e crown of heavenly reward! What^chil dren, as in Btble time, cryiugf. "My head, my beadl! And they carried him to his mother, and he sat on- her knees nntU noon and then died." This year went the chief poet o? England and - Jr.!? r *** America. Our John G. Wbittier ? greai in literature and ^simple as ? child ? for did I not spend an afternoon with him in a barn in the Adirondacks, and in the eveniug we played blindmans buff, he tying over my eyes the handkerchief while the holtel parlors rang with the merrymaking? And Tennyson, this year gone ? he who- for this particular season of the year wrote: wiH 10 the sky V cloud, the trnsstj ?;gbt. d7inr?n the night. ? *** WfcaW bellow bi}?die.i What mingling <>f amotions in this yeaH What orange blossoms for Wriage j altar, and what j myrtle ik the toimbs of the dead' j Hosaunas and lamentations in collision, j Anthem and dead! march mounting jfrom the same iw>ry key* Before this year quite leaves the earth let it hear our repentance for opportunities that ran -never retoru. Kiud words spoken too late or not spoken at all. Means of getting good or doing good m j- completely gone by that the _ ,!1- could not ivcal] Asm. -}&n h fee that this year is our sins are unforgiven, and. |sio- certaintjjr^lbat i^hen 31 lias sp^-sawa^1 we blissful etenjfey? The r Imingly soksjm^Fweek of all the year is the last week of Decem ber. ; L-fX;-,] * t 8 . i - j . ' -? r:> But On opeping this subject, pin re ^ect of a iiojy day," jia.my text puts it, or a. holiday, as we moderns write and pronounae it, I advised tfeat yoq divide this season into three chapters --the first ft chapter pt illustrious birthday, the second a .chapter of annual decadence an the third a chapter of ch ronological introduQtioi ? and i this last chapter we have reached!. In j olden times\there waa a style of closing an old year and open ing a new on^ that was very suggestive. The family Would sit up until twelve o'clock at ni^ht, and wfcen the clock struck twelve the family woultf all go t-? the front door of the house, take>| down the bar an^l turn back the lock and swing the door wide open to let the old year dut ^nd the new year in. And thjut is ifhat we are going to do. With the same measured st p that time has keptf sifice it started it will came to our door in the closing night ofchis week. With what spirit shall we let tlhe new year iu? I have already indicated ' that it is to be one of the greatest years of all chronology. i "Why?* you a>kr~\"Have you any ; : forebodings or premonitions?" No." Are you expecting the millen. ium this year." No! u Why, th?D. say this abftut tiie coming year?" For j the simple neason that I find as the years go by I'they become more and more ereutfuL Compare tbe Nine teenth century with the Eighteenth ! century! , EACH YEAR MORE EVENTFUL. s> Compare tbe firsthalf of this century with the last half. The surges of this ocean of time are rolling htgtfer aud higher. The forces of right and wrong j are rapidly i multiplying, and their 1 struggles must be intensified. It is a,1 chronological fact that we are ?'l the time coming nearer to the worlds edenizatiou first and then to its in cineration, to its redmption and ?ie^ molition. And so I expect that i 1893 wall be ^greater j ear than 1892. Its weddi g bells will be merrier. It* obsequies will be sadder. Its scientific discoveries mure brilliant. Its pros perities more significant Its opening more grand. Its tetmin#ti>n 'more stupendous, j l ook out for 1893! Let printers liave in their cases of type pleauty of exclamation points to set up a sudden .paragraph Let the con servatories hkve profusion of flowers that can he twisted into garlands. JL^t churches have pleanty of room for in creased assemblages. Let tneu and women have more religion to meet t he vacillations, and the [exigencies, and the demand*, and the raptures, and the woes this comiug 1893. In what inood sjiall we open the door of the newvyear? With faith, &roug faith.bnoyant faith, triumpht faith, Goj^i will see you through. His grace will be sufficient If you trust him.. You can go to hi oi at auy tune aud find sympathy. ; Mv little qhild gr>t hurt one m ?rning during her mother's absence. We looked- after the case as well as we could. Toward night her m ?ther re turned, and for the first, time the child cried and cfied vociferously. Some oue said to her: "What do yoo cry for? You did not cry all day." Her reply was: "There was uo one to cry tfij' ; And 80 joti sometimes suppress y??b'r trouble because there is >410 fulf _ re i source of earthly sympathy. But I rejoiced! tell you that fu God you alwja>s have some one to ? cry to. He * will cojud ?le and! help in teverv crisis. | Come, now, let me unstrap that knap sack of care from your ^shoulders Come prosperity or adversity, come wedding or be. rial, come health or sickness, come life or death, come time of eternity, all's well, all's well! Keep jour b* ari. right and all else will he right Men and women have sometimes giveu strange and whimsi cal directions iu regard to what sh*H be dooe with their hearts .after death. Robert Bruce ordered his hea^t to -foe. i sent to die'&dy Land for huritfl. The i Earl of; Leicester ordered his heart | sent to Brack ley hospital Isabella, j daughter of tbe Earl of Pembroke, I died at Berk ham instead, but rdered her heart taken to Tewkesbury ?a thedral. Lord Windsor, dying in a foreign land, ordered his heart inclosed in lead aud sent to England for burial in the chapel of Bradenham Now what shall we decree for our heart? Tbnt it be the Lord's, aud theu it makes no-diflerence what else becomes of it. i Living and dying, may it all be his. YOUTH HAS ITS LESSONS FOR AGE. Thus iu three chapters I have coun ted that the holidays be grouped. May nothing interfere with their feliei ! tie?l May they k>e so speut that they i will be food for pleasant reminiscence | further on. You know that after : awhile the old homestead will he | broken up. For years and years the | children come fcorae to spend the holi days, and the house is rummaged from j garret to cel!a\ aud the scenes of childhood are rehearsed, and we laugh till the tears conie as we talk over ; some boyish or girlish freak or cry j over some old trouble ended; but the j heart swings back again to mirth, for ; it does not take half a second for ra : tear of x the eye to strike the smile of ; the lipe. For a few years the grand i children make the holidays merry. I One of the many uses of. grandchild j ren is t? keep the old &Hra young. Then after a few years the annual gathering at the old homestead is half broken up, fur .. g[ gone. A years after (for there are it two yean between the time of thinf goiag) the other half of the holiday season is broken op. Then the old house goes into the possession of strangers, and the sons and daugh ters by that time have homes of their own. Thej plant their own Christmas j trees, and hang up th*?ir owu child - j ren 'a stockings, aod twine their owu : holly and mistletoe, and have their own good times. They will perhaps be riding out on some of tbo^e holidays eitherTlMleigh or carriage twenty or tlnlrtjr^ars from now along rhe pltfons | where we slumber the la?t sleep, aud may We have been so considerate and j sympathetic in our demeanor toWfd them now that they wil i t,y n say to another ,1. as the* pass the si [^eWeyanl, wished tfceir children a merry Christ^ mat or feiiappj new year.'' ' U.% ! ;-t ' r* 3 Mean while wer, their parents and grandparents, will; I bope, through the atonement of our blessed Lord, be , keeping holidayalivelier and higher' op; in the presence of the very Christ whose birtfr the earthly Christmas commemorates, and of tbe"Ancient of , Days** who saw - the" first yeajr open, and will see the last year close; in jtcompanionship with the ever widening circle of heavenly-kindred, many al ready there and many soon to come^ and the ' table of that festivity will purple with the grapeajif Eschol, and redden with <4tbe new wine 6t the kingdom,"' and glow with "twelve manner of fruits" from the trees of life, and the gifts of those holidays will be mansions i and 'thrones amf crowns of glory that never fade away. Oh, that these delightful holidays of earth may fit us for thoi?e more de lightful holidays of heaven! r IS THIS I REFORM HOUSE & JOSH ASHLEY'S APT CRITICISM ^OF HIS CO-WORKERS^ N Th?> Reformers Will Reilac? Salaries In the Sweet Bye-and - Bye? Not Thfe Evening, 'Smother Evening,* * Good Evening. Columbia, Dec. 22.? There was not a ripple to break the dull raonot ouy of the Hou*e proceedings yester terdav. The page* went to sleep, member* gaped au<l leaned back list lessly in their chairs, and even the wheels of legislatiou were tired. The Speaker and** the . clerks "got in the neck," though, and wer; kept as busy | a? queen bees, f WHu IS our ON "FUTURES? The concurrent resolution request ing Congress to pass the ^nti-optioa* \bill was agreed to, a motion by ,JVouKoloitz to strike out the enacting I wards bei^g promptly tabled. I ; SERVICE OF SUMMONS. A SeBate bill to amend subdivision i 4, section 155, code of civil procedure, relating to the service of summons in civil actions, ?o that- it shall read, "In all other cases to the defendant per sonally, or to any person of discretion residing at the residence or employed at the place of business of said de | tendant," paB>ed its second reading. BILLS THAT WERK KILLED. Cotfeurreut rm>lution , to jietitioir Congress to enact a general bankrupt law. Bill to abolish the office of Super visor of Registration in Horry county, aod to devolve its .duties upou the auditor and to fix pay therefor. To incorporate the Charleston Ira pro vement Company. To amend an act entitled 4,An Act to provtde for the payment of a sal* ary to the Sheriff for services in crimiual cases and in certain other cates therein meutioued," approved December 22, l8iH. P a88EI> 8EC0ND READING. The House disposed of about sev enty five second heading bills, almost clearing the calendar. Among them are the following: > Bill to permit county %nd State officers to give bouds *?r to procure i policies ot assurance, insurance, guar antee or trust companies in lieu of official bouds with individual sureties j I Bill to amend an act eutilled "An Act to amend the charter of the Wadesboro. W jusboro and Camak I Railroad Company "app oved Decem ber 24th; 1890. ' Bill providing that when any land or other property is purchased from the Sinking Fund Commission of this State, the purchase money shall be payable only in gold or silver coin, United States currency, national bank I uotes and coupons due on Brown bouds and no other. To incorporate the Deep Water Terminal Company. ~\B>ill providing for a right of actiou against a municipal corporation for damages sustained by reason of defects in the repair of streets, sidewalks and* bridges within the limits ot said municipal corporation. To provide for the adopting of le ! gitirnate children and allowing them lo iuherit. To amend section 1826 of the Gen eral Scatutea^iu relati n to distress tor rent. i To iuCDrporate the North Augusta j Railroad Company. Relatteg~to the revision, digest aud arrangement of the statute laas of the State. To recognize the South Bound Railroad Company, incorporated in j the State of Georgia, as the same corporation as that incorporated in theState of South Carolina, under the i same name, to provide for the leasing of the said company and the exteution I of its charter. (Report fevorabje.) At 3 o'clock a recess was taken i uutil 8 p. m. Night Session. The sequel shews that the "re formers" wee making a "greeting ! blutt7 over the salary deduction farce. ! When they came to the actual pruning point their courage oozed out and the scalptl fell from their unwilling hands. The opportunity was attorned them in the House last night, as Josh Ashley says, to show that they practiced what they preached, but they shoved it by. j Wheu the bill was called last night Mr Breazeale moved to make the salary of the Secretary of Stats $1,900, fitfeh $200 additional for duties as | keeper ei. State "House and grounds, j Mr Sullivan aai?l he did not believe j in hunting for cheap labor. As a labor j ing man he thought that the General | Assembly would belittle the State officers by cutting down their pay. Mr Bacot moved to strike out the enacting words of the bill. A motion to table this prevailed by a vote of 51 to 35. Mr Tayror moved to cootinoe the bill until next session. This prevailed by a vote of 53 to 5$, as follows: Yeas? Barry, Bacot, Breland, Byrd, : Covington, Cooper, Cram, Denni*, J. T: Duncan, T. C. Duncan, Egan, EHis, Farley, Felder, Folk, Foster, Garris, Glover. Hamilton, Hardee, I Harvey, Henderson, Hill, Hough, ! Hydricki Jetferiea, Jordan, Kelly, i Kennedy, Knotts, Leseene, W. H. i Mauldin, Rhodes, Rivers, Russell, ' Shu man. ftingletary, Skinner, A. J. Smith, Stack house, Stokes, Sturkie. Sullivan. Taylor, Thomas, Tindal, cr> Von K<rtoit*/W*tt8, W|t?to8i J. a Wolff, Woodward, Youmaas. tl Kays ? Speaker Jones, ? Ashley, piackwell, Blease, Breazesile, Brace, Brice, Buist, Carpenter, CwroII, Cox, Davit, Dendey, Edwards, Elder, Estridge, Graham, Gunter., Hammett,* Bardin, Harris, ; Johnson, J. D, Kiaard, H. J. Rinard, Rirkland, Lancaster, Lemmon, Love, Magill, La ban, Mauldin, Mc White. Mishoe, Mitchell, Oliver, Parks, Pat ton, Pearman, Perry^J^billips, Rast; Eowland, Rogers, J. L. Smith, Sud dnth,Tatum, Vaugban. Waters, Whit mire, Wilborn, W. C. Wolfe, Yeldell. Citizen Ashley was wroth over the result, and, after indulging in several sotto vocfr remarks, snch as "ain't this a lovely reform House!" moved to take up from the table the motion to re consider. Mr Watts? I move to table that or any other motion that will kill it. Mr Ashley '8 motion was lost by a vote of 36 to 58, and the salary reduc tion fraud sunk int> the succotash. The calendar having been cleared there nas no work on hand and, after a mock session with Possum Hunter Stanland in the chair, ^nd Dan Sulli van as reading clerk, the House, at 9.30 o'clock, adjourned. ? The State. Daty and Pleasure. As I sit in front of my fire, in the red flames njjjaber less pictures appear and disappear. Now I see a wide* plain, green as the heart of an emerald. The sky in the west is aflame winh golds and reels of the setting sun, fading and deep ening like living things. Beyond the .plain in a forest two figures stand apart. One is clothed in a garment black as the -impenetrate night, and &om the dark veil wfcichjcovers her head looks a face beautiful a marble image. The large, soft eyes are heavy with sorrow, but the beautiful mouth is set in an expression of firm and cruel command. One white .hand holds back the veil, and the lines of that hand against the somber back ground bespeak a strengfn that makes one tremble. \ diadem of jewels rests on her broad brow and gleams and sparkles. with the colors of the sky. Her eyes search the forest unceasingly. Poised otf one foot the other figure, smaller and delicate as a rose leaf, seems about to float in the air. A white veil, i which glows and burns like* an opal, is throwjp, around her.- Rosea are in her hair a*d drop their fragrant petals at her feet. Her shining eves are as cold ? and as blue as a northern sky, and her hair is like strands of twisted gold. Her -full red lips curve in an alluring smile, and her small hands and' delicately rounded arms, rosy in the sun ray* move in graceful rhythm, which is music unheard. She, too, looks toward the forest. fc At last a maiden creeps trembling from the shadow of the tree*}; she turns her head from side to side like a hunted hare. Both figures advance to meet her. She gazes timidly from one to the other? a dull biot as she stands between ! them. One whispers duty and the other pleasure. The fire is burning low; the picture is fading.? Frances Chapman in Short Stories. A During Young Creature. "I sometimes wonder that any child ever lives to reach maturity," said P. C. Wright. "The saying that there is a special providence watching over chil dren, drnnken men and fools must be a truism. We hear mncli of th? reckless ness of boys, but I believe thd?t girls take fully as many chances with the great hereafter. When my oldest daughter ?was five years old she did nov, climb hills nor ride wild horses, but she went bath ing in the Mississippi river and bad a penchant for exploring old wells. When we traveled we had to label her so the poliee would know where to return her. At 6even years of age she mounted a rail way locomotive, during the temporary absence of the engineer and fireman, pulled open the throttle and sent it spin ning down the line at a mile a minute gait nntil the steam was exhausted. _ "At ten years she manufactured a hot air balloon and attempted an ascent, but fortunately" the flimsy airsMp' was too small to bear her above die earth. I believe that girls ar6">iat orally as sensible to danger as their brothers. diM. with proper culture, would make as go. k1 Soldiers. '?St. Louis Globe-Deiuocia:. An Egyptian Superstition. .The Egyptians believed tiiat human life had its seat in the bead. Jn order that the dead person should notrenllv perish altogether, reproductions of ilw form, and particularly of the f;u-e. of the defunct were provided for tlie soul to take up a residence in. As liiauv .?.? forty such images have been found in :i single tomb, and for the same object rich people had numerous statues made to represent themselves as well as the dear departed. Owing to the perpetuation of this no tion that carved and sculptured figures I of human beings are occupi^-by spirit^, it is veryNdifficult to find a statue in Egypt today that has not been more or less defaced and broken by the natives, who imagine that in this manner they can render such spirits powerless to harm them.? Washington Star. s Ancient Nation* and Electricity. The ancient natioqg have records of electric currents or j?gnetic forces. This power was confine to their wise men, priests and astrologers, who made use of their knowledge to frighten the ignorant and keep them nnder complete control of the chnrch or other supersti tious power. Those loadstones were made use of by the priests in the errand ceremonies of their sacred temples to frighten sinners and reward saints.? New York Telegram. ______ Worthy of a Boy." Papa? I have a little time this morn ing, and we'll go down town and get the bicycle I promised you for passing the school examination successfully. ^ Little Son? I saw two-pr^iue* girls on bicycles yesterday, and f don't wanV anything that girls can ride. . . ^ - ; Papa? Well, what can we do about it? Little Boy ? I was thinkin vo6 might get me ^ trick mule. ? Good Xews. , ? One Dollar a Shot. An in{U?Umt justice of the peace in Barry, fined a poor marksman six dollars for firing six shots at his wife. The weapon was a -six shooter. Had it been a seven shooter the man would have probably been fined one dollar more. ? Y ankgeJBlade. Csveats, sad Trade-Maries obtained, and all Pat ent business conducted for moocratc Fcts. Our Orncc is Ow>srrr U. s. Patcwt omcc sad we csn secure patent in less time Una those reaaote from Washington. Send asodel, drawing or photo., with descrip tion. We advise^ if patentable or not, free of charge. Our fee not one till patent it secure^ .. A Haimin, "How to Obtain Patents," wXh cost of taste is the U. S. sod foreign coanines; sent free. AlMW, C.A.SNOW&CO. Opt. Prrarromcc. washiuctos. d. c. < What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel pitcher's prescri ptiqSi for Infants and Children. It conittuns neither Opin m, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a hai mless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil* It is Pleasant. Its guarantee it thir y jean9 use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys ^ orms and allays fevcrishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Soar Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Col le. , . Castoria relieves T -i teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency* Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas* toria is the Children's Panacea? the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "Captoria is an excellent medicine for chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Dr. G. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. __________ ' \ " Castoria is the Wt rem&ly for children of which I tun acquainted. I hopo the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of thfir children, and use Castoria in ecad of the various quack nostrums which are destroying thfir loved ones, by forcinjjopium. morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful ageets down thfir throats, thereby sending rhem t <f premature graves. " Da. J. F. Kiwchklo*, Conway, Ari y Castoria. " Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recotnjnend it as superior to auy prmcriptiou known to me." 1 n. A. Aitcncit, M. D., CSo Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. 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