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?/will have no f., Yoa are a d joor time Bare connected ?ure a statesman, itaken op with re ie W ashing l he Mahone of Da will have a Et in my house. I once pafc Jenny Lind warble. [ given a cent to hear any iW3i this religion spoken do anything &r the din the nursery, for the par leeping apartment? at deal easier to invite a K>pt the resolution of Re wast to be certain fetion. It religion is fmy piano oat of tone Bfc of tfce children rac te ball, and sour the crape on the doorbell, I guest than tQ get rid of jrot2 do not want religion yon not ask it to cotiie, for aiter roey stay a great while. went to visit Sir Tbomas Abaey at their place in aod was to stay a week and years, and if religion once o your household the probabili will itay there forever. THE FAMILY A1TAR. p>ff,'tbe question I want to discuss FWhat will religion do for the | behold? Question the first What f it do for your fa$?er's house if you | re brought up in a Christian homes. | Hie whole scene has vanished, but ! tomes back to-day. * The hour for ] W prayers came. You were i fcrited ia. Somewhat fidgety, you N&a&d listened:' Your father made Bo pretention of rhetorical reading, md hb jaut went through the chapter b a plain* rtrajghtfi>rward way. Then jron knelt. It was about ti same joorning by morning and. night Wtfghi, for he had the same sins to MC^ardon for, and he had the same tlenfags ftr wMch to be^atefel day after day and year after year. ; The prayer ? wvf longer than you would like to have had it, .for the game at bail was waiting, or th* skates were lying tinder the shed, . . ? e school books needed one or two'ipore looking aft the lessons. Your parfeats, some what rheumatic and stiffened with j age, found it difficult to rise from their kneeftng. The chair at which they knelt is gone, the Bible out of which tbsy read has perhaps fallen to pieces, . the parents are gone, the children scattered north., cast, sooth and wast, bot that whole scene flashes upon yotir memory to-day. h'"^ ill Etfthat morning and evening eg arc?e in" font fiuh or elevating? Is it .not among the most sacred reminiscences? You were not as devotional as some, of the older members of your father's house who were kneeling with yon at the time, and you di& not bow your head as closely as the/ and -yon looked around, and you saw jost She posture your iather and mother assumed while they were kneeling on the floor. The w&c!e scene is so photographed* on yoor memory that if you were an ar you could draw it now just as they how much would you have that obliterated from your memory?^ It^ll comes back to-day, and you are in the homestead again. Father is there, mother is there, e?vou children] are there. It is the same^oid prayer, ^opening with the same petition, closing with tfee same * thanksgiving. The family prayers of 1840, 1850 as fresh in your memory as though, they were uttered yegferday. The tear thafrstarts hom your eye melts all that scene. *?"* !,k it? Why, many a time itias you steady in the struggle of life. ? started for a place, and that jedced you baek, and you eater. ?i&C- I: I ? jr of your father upon yocthan all Shakespeare and and Dante. Wr ?ffiouJBtaiu? aud a moment I'ySSjpn this i^lea KDBUSHED EVERY HY ? Jdren _ W. I. TILLEPlGUi His <?AMDLN, S. 0., March 2~?ml we , ^*3! ~ : ! -P^J J f os the first time graying and the Democrats ha*^ bring ug out iro- of every Jkle8. t- ? --ay in the morning, ^ ' ."u*T U30?rday our daily bread/* ltd feit down in idleness and starve to death, bat prayer and hard work will give a livelihood to any family. Fam ily religion pays for both worlds. Let us have an altar in each one of oar households. Yoa may not be able to formulate a prayer. Then there are Philip Henry's prayers, and there are ^IcDuffs prayers, and there are Philip Doddridge's prayers, and there are the Episcopal church prayers, and there are scores of books with suppli cations jus*, soiled to the domestic cir cle. "Oh," says some man, UI don't fee 1 competent to lead my household in prayer." Weil, I do not know that it is your duty to lead. I think perhaps it is sometimes better for the mother of the household to lead. She knows better the wants of the household. She can read , the Scriptures with "a more tender enunciation. She kjgpws more of God. I will put it plainly and say 84e prays better. Oh, these mothers decide almost everything. - Nero's mother was a murderess. - Lord By ron's mother was haughty arid imp}-, ous. You might have guessed that from theurchiMren. Walter Scott's mother was fond of poetry. Washington's mother was" patriotic. ; Samuel Budget's mother was a thor-~ bugjh ChristiaaJ St. Bernard's mother was soble minded. So yon might have\guftssed from their children. Good men' always have good mothers. There may once in 10 or 20~years be an exception to the rule, but it is only an exception. Benjamin West's mother kissed him after she had seen his first wonderful sketch with the pencil. - Benjamin West afterward said, "That kiss made me a painter." A young man received a furlough to return from the army to his lather's house. Afterward he took the fur lough back Jo the officer, saying, tl would like to postpone my visit for two weeks." At the end of the two weeks he came and got the furlough. He ifas asked why he waited. "Well," he replied, "when I left home I told my mother I would be a Chris tian in the army, and I was resolved not to go home until I could answer her first question." Oh, the almost ^ omnipotent power of the mother! But* if both the father and the mother be right then the phildren aire almost sure to be right - " The young people ' may make *1 vide curve from the straight path, bat \ they are almost sore to come back to the right road. It may not be until < the death of one of the parents. How often is it that we hear some one say, he was a wild young man, but since his lather's death he has been different." The fact is that the father's coffin, or the mother's coffin, is .often the altar of repentance for the 'chilcf Oh, that was a stupendous dj^yr. the day of father's burial It was not ? the officiating clergyman who made the chief impression, nor the sympa thizing mourners; it was the father asleep in the casket ? The hands that had toiled for that household so long, folded. The brain cooled jgff after 20 or 40 years of ; anxiety about how to put that family icf right position. The lips closed is far x many years of gobtF advice. There are more tears falling in motbL er's grave* than in father's grave, but over the father's tomb I think there is i kind o f? awe. It is at that marble pillar many a young man haa been revolutionized MEDITATION AT THE GRAVE. Oh, young man with cheek flushed with dissipation! how long is it since you have beear .out .to your father's grave? Will yoir^jot go* this week? Perhaps the storms df* the last few days may have bent the headstone until it leans far over. You had bet ter go1 out and &e whether the gate of .the lot isi closed, f You had better go out and see whether the lettering has been defaced. You had better go and see if you cannot find a sermon in the springing grass. Oh, young man, go out this week and see your lather's grave! j- ; Religion did so much for our Christian ancestry. Are we not ready this * morning to be willing to receive it into our own households? If we do receive it, let it come through the front door ? not through the ioor. In other words, do not let us .smuggle it in. There are a great many families wlTo want to be religions, but they do not want any body outside U> kaow it They would be mortified to death if you caught them at family prayers. T^ey would not sing in the worship for |?ear their neighbors would hear them.1 They do not have prayers when they have company! \ T They do not know much about the nobility of the western trapper. A traveler going along was overtaken by night and a stormy and he entered ~ cabin. There wefe firearms hong d the cabin. He was alarm had a large amount of money % bft he did not dare to out into the night in the He did not like the look* oi the hoosehold. After awhile the ifcther ? the western trapper ? came in, gun on shoblder,. and when the traveler looked at fcim he was more affrighted. ? After awhile the family were whis pering together in one corn~? of the room, and the traveler thought to himself uOh! now my time has come; I wish I was oat in the storm and in the night rather than here." Bat the swarthy man came up to him and said: ''Sir, we are a rough peeple; we get oar living by hunting, and we are very tired when the night comes, bat hefbra going to bed we always have a habit of reading a little out of . the Bible ao^baviitg prayers, and Pthink* we usual custom tonight,. *n$ j??ott believe in that land [&t?ing~4f$oa wiC josi step* outside f the door --far a little while I will be [ to yOO." ? X ? " i Ob, there are many Christian p i rents who have not half the courage^ of that western trapper. ? They doinot want .their religion projecting too conspicuously. They would like to i have it near by *> as to call on it in case ofifitnera,!,; hot as to having it dominant in the household from the 1st of January, 7 o'clock a. m., toithe oxSt ol-^i^ceaa ber, 10 o'clock p. ;m. they do not watrt- it They, would rather die and have their' * families perish with them than to cry oat in the bold words of the soldier in [my text, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord," j IN'CIDEXTIN TALXAGE FAMILY. . was in wy ancestral line an incident so strangely impressive that it seems more like romance than reality. It has sometimes been so in accurately put forth that I now give yoo the tree incident/ My god father and graadmd&er, Uvine at 8omerville, K J., went 5 to Basking Ridge to witness a-r?viyal under the mmutry of the EsvTTr Fmley, They came home to impressed with what they had seen that tiey resolved on the salvation of thefr children. The young people of the house were to gef off -for an evening party, and my grandmother said: 'Now, when you are all ready for th$ party, come to my room, for I have something very important to tell you. All ready for departure, they capie to her room, and she said to them, ?Xow I want you to remember, while you are away this eveningrthat X am all the time in this room pray 1 ing for your salvation, and I shall not cease praying until you get back " I The young people went to the party, but amid the loudest? hilarities of the night they could not forget that their mother was preying them. The evening passed, and the night pa3sed. The next day my grandparents f &n 0utci7 *** an adjoining room, and they went ia and found their daughter imploring the salvation of the ecspefc The daughter told them that her brothers were at the barn aud at the wagon house under powerful conviction^ sin. j They went to the barn. They found my uncle Jehiah, who afterward became a -minister of he gospel, crying to God for mercy, lhey went to the wagon house. They found their son David, who afterward became my fether, imploring God's pardon and mercy. Before a great i K * Wh?ie &m^T>we? aved. and Dav:d went and- told the story to a^ywng woman to whom he was amanced, wh^as a result o?the story, became a Christian, and from her own hps?my mother's? I We received the incident j ? j ' story of that conveiW^use hoM rap through aU the neigl&or ho^from family| to femily, untH the W& region wis whelmed! with r* |H a^biiinjgv anc a&Wnext oap^inion in the village church at oomerviile over 200 souk stood up to P rotas the faith of the gospel. Mv mother, carrying: the : memory of this iS0'. ^y womanhood into urther life, m auer years was resolved upon ;the salvation of her children, and for many years every week she met three other Christian mothers to pray for the salvation of . their fanai ?f3* I fc th*c a11 ^ members of those families were saved? myself the .youngest and the last *' ? r, s A GRAXSMOTilER S PRAYER. There were 12 of us children. J I trace the whole line of mercy back' to that 'hour when my. Christian grand mother sat in her room imploring the blessing of God apon her children. Nine of her" descendants became preachers of the gospel Many^f her , descendants are in heaven, many of Jhem still in - the Christian conflict I)id it pay for her to sp3nd the whole evening in prayer for her household? Ask her before the throne of Qod sur rounded by her children. In the presence of the Christian church to-day I make this record of ancestral piety. Oh, there is a beauty an<^ a tenderness and a lublimity in family religion! There are but four or five pictures in the old family Bible that I inherited, but DC)fe never illustrated a JBible as book is illustrated to my eyes. ThnJtigh it T can see into marriages and burials, joys and sorrows, meet ings and partings, Thanksgiving days and Christmas testivals, cradles and deathbeds. Old, old books! speak out and tell of the sorrows comforted,, and < of the dying hoars irradiated. Old, old book! the hapds that held thee are ashes, the eyes that persued thee are cjt>aed. "What a pillow .thou woukifsl make for a dying ffead! I salute ak the memories of the past "when I press it to my heart and when I press it to my lips. THE OLD FAMILY BIBLE. Oh, that family Bible! The New Testament in small type is not worthy of being called by that name. Have a whole Bible in large type, with the family record of marriages and births and deaths. What if the -curious should turn over the leaves to see how o!d you are? You are younger now than yon will ever be again. The curious will find out from thos? with whom you have played in your child-' hood how old you are. iiave a fami ly Bible. It will go down from generation to genemtion fall of holy memories. A hundred years after you are dead it will be a benediction to those who come after you. Other books worn out or fallen apart will be :?ung to the garret or the cellar, but this 1 will be inviolate, and it will be yoor protest for csntories against iniquity! and in behalf of righteous ness * Oh, when we seb wiiat family re ligion did for oar f&rther's household, do we not want ii to come into the dining room to break the bread, into the nursery to bless the young, into the parlo* to purify the socialities, into the Hbfac^to control, the reading, into thebedroom to; hallow the slum ber; into the hall to watch our going oat and oar csxamg in? Aye, there are hundreds of Voices in this house ready to cry out: "Yes!; Yes! As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." ' There are two arm9 to this subject. -Xhe one arm puts its hand on all .par&its. It says to them: <*Don't interfere with your children's welfare. Doj^^jnterfere with their eternal happaneag. Don't you b~ anything you do pint out your foot and trip 7"c- S -tr1.* ? ' ' V ' ' ~:S . into ruin.Y Start them under the shel ter, the insurance, the ever&sting help of Christian parentages Cate < ihiama will not save them, though catechisms are good. The rod will not save them, though the rod * may be hecefearjir Lessons of virtue; will not save them, though they are very important. Becoming a through and | through, up and down, Ait and out Christian yourself will make them The other arm of this subject puts its hand" upon those who had a pious bringing up, but as *yet have disap podntecLytbe expectations excited in regard to them. I said that children brought up in Christian households, though they might make a wide curve, were very apt to come back' to the straight path/ Have you not been curving out lohg enough, and is it not most time for you to begin to curve in?.' v . . \ K)h," you say, "they *ere too rigid." Well now, by brother, I think you have a pretty good characier considering what yon say your parents were. Do not boast too much about the style in which your parents brought you up. , Might it>j not be possible that you would be 911 exception to the general lule Jtaid down, and that you might spericT your eternity in a different world, from that in which your parents are spending thiire? ' - CHRISTIAN SOLICITUDE. < I feel anxious about you; you feel anxious about yourself. Oh, cross over into the right path! If your parents prayed for you twice a day ? each of them twice a day for 20 years ? that would make 29,000 prayers for you. Think of them! By the memory ofy the cradle in which "your' childhood was rocked^, with the foot liat lojSg ago cea^ejHo move; by. the cri^ia which you/own children slumber night b/ night under .God's protecting care/ by the two graves in which sleep tpose two old hearts that beat with lov 3 so long for j your welfare, and by the two, grates in which you, now t ?e linug j father ajjd mother will find ypur last repose, I urge you to the diibarge of your duty. j *' Though parents ma; in covientfut be Aud have their heaven in riew, They are not happy till ihey ^ee ? j They children happy too. ^ Oh, you departed Christianlauces ry fathers fcnd mothers in glfy/y, bend fromi the skies today and give new emphasis toSe%t you told us on earth with: many tears and anxieties! Keep a place for ns by, your blissful sic-e, for tyxiay, in the ? presence of earth and iheaven and hell, and by the help of the cross, and amid overwhelming and gracious memories, we resolve, each one for hittfself, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" : . Washington Aftermath. In t*he first placs Irby and those of his side have begun the war against Senator Butler for the United States Senate fighteen months hence They have studied over the matter caref illy and are making every attempt to*pull the factional fight here; into the Federal patronage matter with* the idea of injaring Butler and aiding Tillman. They wish to force him into the fight thus early. Butler is thoroughly arming himself for tfce fray and is willing aod ready for tit to begin at once. He is likely to v be heard from ere very Iong.( Senator Butler, I am iold, has some powerful ammunition which will be exploded when : least ex pec ted The fight is rapidly drifting on and ftie^ desertion of Tillman by Caughman, Ferry and many other of his more j powerful friends of the past few 1 years is | beinning to be significant. These meo are declaring themselves for Butler unqualifiedly. Irby and Tollman are speaking^ of them in terms noti calcu lated to strengthen them with others. A wonderful transformation is certainly in progress. ' Senator Butler, seems to have no fears whatever of the ultimate result v As to Ipe question of the pontr<*l of Ee<}efal patronage, almost anyone tafl \sfee-ihe final result. Cleveland h nW going to mix up in the factional' fight here. At the same time I thiok I can assert that Irby and the Tillman faction are not going to have any weight whatever in the securing of the patronage. Mr. Cleveland is surely going to consult a high-toned and prominent Carolinian who has no interest in the factions. He is going to listen to whajt Butler, Brewlay, Hampton and oihef men whom he knows to be his staunch -friends say, and then if he finds that their repre sentations will give him the best man for the office he is going to appoint hi m./? Cleveland is going to be in this ? s in alT^thar matters, entirely independent i This fight for the patronage is -^"citing intense interest in Washington as well as to home. Irby and his followers are' making every applicant for office say whether they are for Tillman orVnot before they will sign any reccpramendations,. whatever. ? Brawley is regarded in Washington as the most influential man from the South gow in CoDgress and what he says in this patronage matter is going to have much weight Both Irby and Tillman have as yet received no hopes from President Cleveland, as has been shown by | Governor Tollman's utterance on the subject already quoted. Senator Irbji appears to me to be rather bine. $<* matter what Cleveland does, however^ tie effort will be made to make capita! oat of it. ; . ? K. r" ^ : '*? : . j Never before, perhaps, has Carolina! bad so many hungry office, seekers on the field so soon ; after the inauguration of a Democratic Presif dent. The names of scores I have already quoted. There werej ttjtjug more which were not mentioned at alt To give bnt a partial idea number of these applicants it is^nlj necessary to say that fur the past t<& days Ssnator Butler's committee rootfl has been every day ?Ued with South ^Carolina office-seekers and he has bai to hide himself in tllte capital building whenever he wished any privacy. He has received so -many applica tions that last Thursday it took two men nearly all<fey to assort them and file them away. \ Cal Caughman and Ben Perry are constant visitors at his j * i ? p South office. Irby don't seem to be jap popular witf the office-seekers. Thjey seem rather to desire to steer clear of bim. Senator Butler does not even find rest at his home in iJbe evefiings. - : j \\ T? i ' -i ? * ^ ? "* 1 The district attorneyship Sight is waxing very warm. If Cleveland's utterance about not appointing men -who held office under him before is earned <$n;t to the letter Gen. You mans, who was making a strong race, will be dr^pped behind and the race will be between Elliott, Murphy and Dargan -with the chances in favor of Elliott. Earle is no ldiiger in the race. Hw chances were practically all destroyed by Senator Irby's announcement that he and his tide were solid for him. This change of attitude towards Earle creates consid erable comment ? , _____ *> % - & ? For the collectorship Perry who is supported by Senator Butler, seems to be far in the lead. Gen. Bratton is his strongest opponent as far as I can ascertain. There are, however, a ^reat many yet in the race. Col. Mc Master is/still in Washington looking out for number one. For AJ. S, Marshal, Mauldin and McCaliy? fire the leading candidates. Tompkins :ind Pope do not seem to have much chance. The Tillman men are divided in supporting those two. For this office, however, the applicants are still coming in and it is hard to loll what the result will be. Governor Tillman said the other night that he could not understand all the talk about his candidacy for United States Senator, and remarked ?hat he hacl never yet announced that he -would l>e a candidate. He said, however, that he would obey the call of the people. The Governor seems -to want the glory of being asked to gratify hi& ambition. . Senator^ Irby's headquarter^ at the Naticoal Hotel are ^cjuit^ well fitted up, but there ns & great difference between the|n and^ Senator Butler's quarte?s. WlHJo the-? one is seldom if ever visited bj^any wrtl but a few supporters and friends, the other * is usualy packed with prominent fallen. Senator Irby does not appear to D&-tfery popular socially in Washington. ^ f The attitude of Congressman : Shell and Talberl, towards the Tillman party excites considerable interest iu the national capital. Mr. Shell's voting with Butler and Brawley followed by his announcement that he was out of politics for good, created a double surprise. Talbert's frequent uncom plimentary references to Irby and Tillman were also surprising, and interesting developments may follow in the near future. It stirred the heart of every true Carolinian to see the cordial reception accorded that gailaut old warrior statesman Gan Wade Hampton, at bis hotel, on the streets and every where else when the high compliment paid him by the 'Senate became generally known, and when all his old friends k new beyond perad venture that he was to remain for four years in Washington. It was a just tribute to a great man, and he showed his greatness in the manner in which he received such attention^ Sometimes the old gentleman wpte almost over come. Certain protoiu&nt men tell me that the' action of that Senate is regarded as one of \ thifc highest compliments, ever paidN ^ man in public life by that body.^i General Hampton has been much improved in health since his return to Washington. I have, heard it Baid that Governor Tillman is setting his sails to be the farmers' candidate for Paesident iojjr years hence: Those who have talk*! about it say he could get the nomirfa^j tion easily if the j^Iliance-Thjrd party people should Smbine into 6ae great Farmers' party. South Carolina's representatives iu Congress form as to personal appear ance a peculiar body of men. Jobn stone, Hemphill and Uncle George Tillman who retire are all distiin guided looking men. Brawley, Lar imer, Strait, Shell, Talbert, McLaurin and Murray make a nove} aggregaA tion. Brawky is a very distinguished looking man. McLaurin and Talbert are handsome men. Muray | is per haps the ugliest member of the body, with his greasy blac sJ skin and tre mendous mouth and/eet. Fortunate ly the South Carolina delegation does not sit toother. 4t)ver in the Senate both Bqlfer and Irby sit on the right of the President, the former almost in fronts the latter around on the ex treme end. Butler is one of the handsomest men- in the body, while Irby attracts attention Canary Mil ler is occasionally seen on the floor. Dr Sampson Pope has virtually taken up bis headquarters in Wash ington with Senator Irby. When I ileft the Senai/jr was threatened with an attack of pneumonia and the doc tor was acting physician to him. He had not, up to that time, filed his ap plication for tTnited States Marshal. I ? < . i Governor Tillman suffered much the old on inauguration day [CiNitly he said that while i? charger he longed for the Governor of North Carolina to gallop in Bighjt and make the tradi tional remark to the Governor of South Carolina. ' He thought that re mark might do more to help him than a rubber overcoat Led: The South Carolina Governor's staff 1 officers and Genera) Rich bourg and staff displayed the first gray uniforms tp greet . the eyes of President Cleve land in the parade and when the j marine band struck up Dixie as they passed the renewing stand there was a mighty cheeir. In tW^ilwtde during the day the horses of Cols Brennen and" Kendal I stopped and fell with them. After the parade, and pre vious thereto, tbe Governor's Guards did not show themselves much about the capitoV I remember seeing one of them looking for a place to get a snap shot vie<r of the capitol build iog I with hiskodak. It was so large that jj he was lost in winder and I tjiink he jj wenV off aod bought a ten cent photo graph from a ;pedler. Some of the boys got to see Baby Hath at a win dow in the White House in the arms of her nurse; and^fcerkrigbt little one waved her bands at the grey uniforms. 1 " 1 r ' f ?; ? Superintendent "Bunch" McBee cer tainly made the trip to Washington pleasant for the executive party and newspaper representatives, as already told. Once there, however, he was scarcely seen again. Retiring Congressman J. J. Hemp hill is immensely popular in Washing ton^ As I have already stated he is as gbpd as appointed "to a justiceship on the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. ? The Statg. * .? THE HAWAIIAN MATTEh. Considered by the Cabinet -Latest from the Islands ? British Churlishness. Washington, March 14.? The cabinet, at its session to-day, discussed the matter of the appointment of a ; commission to visit Hawaii. Ex Representative Blount, of Georgia, was favorably considered as one of the commissioners, and he was in the cabinet room duriDg pact of the meet ing. ^ The mail from Honolulu, which reached San Francisco last.Thursday, arrived in Washington this evening. The annexation commission received a large budget of newspapers and letters One of the letters stated that Mr Woodhouse; the English consul general at Honolulu, had, up to the time the steamer left there, not called upon the members of the provisional government nor extended to them any of the usual courtesies. The same was true of the officers of the Japan ese frigate which bad recently arrived in the harbor; aud the letter giving this informatiou stated that they seem ed to be acting under the influence of the British officials. ^ The reception given to Capt Wiltse Of the Ignited States steamer Boston fist prior to bid departure from the i?ands for Saa Francisco was the largest social affair ever held in Hon olulu. The affair was given under the auspices of the provisional gov ernment aud leading citizens. The officers of the British steamer Garnett, who had been invited, did not attend the receptior. A member of the provisional gov ernment wrote to the commissioners stating that there was no truth in the report that a division of opinion ex isted apiong the members of the cabi net, but that everything was progress ing with the -same harmony that marked the inauguration of its ad ministration. The same mail brought two dis patches t:> the Navy Department, which wera not made public. AN HONOR TO GEN YOUMANS. Invlte*l to Take 1'art iu a Very Touching Eveut. The foliowing invitation to Gen. Le Hoy F. Youmans explains itself: Columbia, S. C., March 13, 1893. Gen. Le Roy F. Youmans, Columbia, s. a Dear General: As you are proba bly aware, the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States has set apart next Saturday, March 18, as a day for holding memorial exercises at Washington, commemorative of the life and public services of our kinsman, the late L. Q- C. Lamar, Associate Justice of the United States. The Bar Associations of the differ ent States have been asked to send representatives ?to take part in these exercises. On behaif of the Lamar family iu this State we unite in re qufsjHig you to represent theui on this m^thorial occasion. / We feel that we could not be better represented than by South Carolina's most eloquent son, 5>who is himself such an able member of the profession to which Justice Lamar belonged. Trusting that you will find it con venient to be preset t, we are Very truly yours, R. G. Lamar, A. Jones Lamar, li. L. Lamar, T. J. 1). Lamar, "\\^ F. Lamar, I B. B. Lamar, J. C. Lamar, 0. B. Lamar. A Popular Contribution. Chicago Tribune: A New York clergyman told his congregation the Other Sunday that all those who put $5 iu the contribution box would get $50 back in their business within a year, and that if they failed to realize that promise they could draw on him personally for that amount. The box promply filled with crisp $5 notes, and if the contributors realized the tenfold return it is probably safe to say that this church yrili not be large enough to hold the congregation next year. A Practical Answer. President Harrison promises to give a practi&il answer to the oft-repeated questlbns, ** What shall we do with our ex -presidents?" He will make himself useful by lecturing before the law school of the Stanford University in California. His determiuatiou wifl be universally approved, as it -will teach the rising generation that a man honored by the people above most of his fellows can wiu honor in other fields, and not centeut himself with being siniply ornamental. ? Chicago Herald. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, asd all |>at eot business conducted for Modcratc Fcrs. OUft-OmCE i? Opposm U. S. Patent Office and we can secure patent in less time than those remote from Washington. Sead model, drawing or photo., with descrip tion. 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