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RELIGION A SOLACE Dr. Talmago Speaks Comfortlnj Words for the Righteous. DUfleorit f?r Thmr Who.. LIt?i Bit. Mur Anilttl^i?All la Wall Car the Hallaver ? Trust Thoroughly laUol (Copyright, 1101. hy Louts Klopach. N. T.; Washington. ! eb. I. Thar? la a grout solace in this ?i!? coursa ot Dr. TaImage for those whosi lires have many anxieties; text To.1st. t.1/l. ?! . - ?1 _I_U. uaisu mw. ouj jo iv wir n)(iu ?6u? that it shall be well with him." Here is u promise for people whs are all right, but who will come and get it? How man/, or, rather, how few, people do you know who are a I' right?'lf it were tusked of any assembly that^thoso who were sinless should rise up, none would rise except imbeoildfc and religious cranks. An accident happened near 00 centuries ags that started the human raca in the wrong way, and we haio not got ovei It. We know a grtat many splendW men and splendid worten, but thet will tell you that tli$y hnre not always doue the right thing or thought the right thought. If it were any ol your business, they could give you an inventory of frailties and mistakes and Infelicities that would be astonishing Hers, then, ybu say, is a Bifjle promise that goes a-begging: "Say ye t? the righteous that it shall be well with hltn." It Is my delightful work to-day to show you that all the sons and daughters of Adam and Eva may appropriate the benediction of my text 11 they will (lr?t do the right thing. Over here in the next street was a man who in great misfortune lost nil he had and was positively beggared, but a letter comes f?*om some European city where the land records are kept announcing to him that a great fortune is his. Now lie is as opulent as he was pauperised. Ho dofTs his rags end puts on r?-mpectuble attire and moves Into a home appropriate for n man of vast ertate. His worldly circumstances were all wrong last year; they are all right this year. On the next street is a man who was from perfect health prostrated, atid he CPd m * ri t/l ciolr Of V..?a ? w ?,VIV uuiv uratu, uut< a skillful physician took correct diagnosis of his disease and by prompt and vigorous treatment restored him to his former vigor. As to his health he was all wroug before; now he is all right. In these two ways I illus trate my theme. By sin we have all been morally bankrupted. Christ the Lord from Sis Infinite riches pay*, onr debts and mparadisca us in His mercy. From Hi* richest wardrobe He puts on us the clean robe of His righteonsriefs and gives us a palace in the heavens when we are ready to go up and take It. J^pw. as to our spiritual estate, we are all right. We were morally diseased, but Christ the physician, by a bath In the fountain of grace, cures ua. ^Xow, as to our spiritual health, we are all right. That is the way we come to the righteousness spoken of In the text. It is a contributed right- , aouancM, a made-over righteousness. , ? an Imputed righteousness. The ino- , xnent you get into right relations with , Christ fife I,ord that moment you can % appreciate the magnificent comfort of , the *ext, and I defy you. In all this great book, from the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis to the lastxerse of the last chapter of Rev- J to find me a passage with higher^W^d deeper and broader and ionsror !*???<-mrr"of the text \ which is as deep as the Atlantic ocean ] half way between the continents and j high as the sun when the clock is < striking 12 at noon. But I shall be < swamped with the oceanic tides of ^ this subject unless the Lord help me < to keen a foothold. "Bay to the riglit- \ sons that it shall be well with him." 1 Bear in mind that but few people 5 can stand worldly success. Water ia ] a good thing, but too much of it will , irotrr.. "Hre is a good thing, but too ] much of it xvill destroy. Lightning is ( a good thing, but too much of it daz- ' ales and blinds. Buccess is ? a-nr^ i i - --- ? r thing, but too much of It. bos overwhelmed many 'or this world and th? next. If It were best for us, we would all be millionaires, live in palaces like the Athambra and be rs personally attractive as Cleopatra nppeared to Antony. But most of folks could not endure eueh superabundance, and it la absolutely necessary in order tc keep them right that nine hundred ? and ninety-nine men ont of one thouI aand should find life a struggle. It keeps them out of misohief. After Adam was ejocted from the premises where by ten miflutea of employment a day l^s could keep the garden and dress it the best thing that could happen to him was compulsion to Work and fight. The ground that bloomed w*Jh spontaneous flowers and rustled with harvests that owed nothing to plow ?t hoe beo&jue lrarrtlle, and bramble was substituted for ros*. and the panther growled whsro before he fawned, and horn and fang and hoof became belligerent. That TCdenie ejectment shows ua as nothing else ever could that Idleness or only a few minutes of employment a day are doom and overthxow. Put It down among your blessings instead of your misfortunes that you have to work hard with brain of hand or foot or all three of them. How many men do you know worth $250,000 who arc devout and consecrated and humble nrti generous and employing their means for the world's redemption? You could count them up on the fingers of your two hands, even if by aocldcnt or war you had tost one or two of your fingers. A* to the realm of personal altractivebicm, how many women radiant of countenance and grnoeful of form do a you know who are unaffected and cat- " t MARK TWAIN'S LATEST. ? b One of the Keenest Entires He Ever 1 Wrote. , In Tho North Amorioan Roview for 5 Fobruary Mark Twain publishes ono of ^ tho koenost satires that over oaino oven o from his pon. Tho article is ono of tho o most cau3tio reviews of tho imperialist 0 policy and tondonoioo of tho adminis- ? trat ion that wo have seen. Mr. Clemens [ takes as his theme "Tho Person Sitting a in Darkness." IIo oharges President s MoKir.lev wiih playing "tho European t game, *no Chamberlain game," and h playins "suiy. Of tho president's t famous utt' ranoo about "criminal ag- c gxcBsion," ho says: \ "Tho memory of that fine saying wi'l ? bo outlived by tho remembrance of cc v aet of his hut ono?that he forgot i* : k within the tw<. .omcnth, and its honor , v able gospel along with it." In tho a opinion of the satirist tho 1 <^^Lled v heathen for whose "good j ^ wo are making suoli excrtiu^^^^^^a by Mi ?f ?m ul doeply ptowe W> fbre 0*d, using tktir beauty for Ui b?tt?ra*nt of the w?: 14 and no* far selfish purpoaaa? I only tako tha rlak f making the question and leave to you tha risk of answarinf It. Thaaa things I aay to abow you that in order to have tha promiaa of tha text ful* tiled in jour caae It ia not neceaaary you have phenomenal worldly aucceea. Notice aleo that God gives tha righteous the power to extract good out of evil and by a divine chemistry to change the bitter into the sweet and the harmful into the beneficial. The promise that It shall be well with you does not imply that you are to be g free from trouble. There is no escape from that. We all have family rela- y tions, and some of thein will be mak- c iu( ciiv irvai iqji nono. so mat Be- g reavement is the universal inherit- g ance. So also if. financial lose. The 5 difference between the prospered and 4 those not prospered is the difference t in the amount they can afford to lose. y The more wealth a man has the more e he can lose, but one man can afford t to Vote a million dollars where anotb- t er man cannot afford to lose one dol- t lar. On larger or smaller soale all C suffer financial loss. Amid the rapid 1*7 of the revolutions of the wheel of d dhtlenal and international flnauce i fhoaetary perplexity le us common as a day or night. c So also misinterpretation and elan- t der came to all who lire active lives, f< Our actions, thoroughly honest and r above board, may ctme under sua- li picion. Every courtroom at every term C of court-hears illustrations ef the delusion of what Is called elrcumstnn- d Hal evidence. Innocent men are fined f or imprisoned or electrocuted because c ef an unfortunate conjunction of t erenta. TYliat Is true in courtrooms vi ie truo In all circles ef domestic or t! social or political or official life. Ton ? have been misunderstood and mlrrep- t resented or will ho misunderstood and g misrepresented. Then how can my text be true? My explanation Is thia: G The man without any divine grace in r' his vsart tlnds Is the.so troubles Irritation and unbelief and melancholia n and dosrpair. A Christian man finds in ^ them submission and enlarged views and divine support and reronsecration. Bereavement to the worldling * brings hard thoughts of God and a re- ? aistance so violent It dares not fully express itself. Rereavement brings to " the Christian the thought of heavenly ** reunion and a snore complete laying P hold of God. sod a more tender nppre- '' elation ef the divine presence, and ^ deeper gratitude thmt- we were per- ** milted to have the depnrted ?no so w long, and a snore lively sympathy for ^ the sorrow* of ethers nnd another evl- w desco e<t God's love, for "whom the ** Lord loTeth he ebasteneth." Financial less, which I Jnet now eaid ** la aTtre to come, never breaks up a man who has strong faith In God. In a1 most caves it la a loss of surplua or it *' is the banishment of luxuries Most of the wants of the prosperous classes ^ are artificial wonts. The late Mr Ar- *c JBor,r ai the STIC.000,0C0 estate ptrinted to one of his clerks on ordinary salary ? and said: "That man has a better ap- ** petite than I, sleeps better sights and C enjoys life more than I do " Ob, the ?] gigantic miseries ef these who have too uBuohl A man in Solomon's time w exp-essed at philosophic and reasonable a wleh as an/ man of those time* ex or of our times. His name was Agur. and he offered a prajar that he might u never have a superabundance or a deficit, crying out: "Oire me neither ml poverty nor riches " On the oue aide ^ he had seen the awful struggle of the poor t? get food and clothes and ebeltcr and to educate their children, and P' on the other side h? hsd seen the w gouty foot and the iadigaatioa. and 7* the Ineomnia, and the anxiety about aT large investment*. arid the threatened pereri* often characteristic of those ' Who are loaded up and loaded down a* tvith too many successes. Those peopie who are generally called the masses?that i?, the most ?f folk*?hare ' the things absolutely nccrstary for their well being. They hate no Mu- en rflloaon tbeir wnll, nor a "Be'ahar.rar's *c Feast" in the dhniag room, nor a pair of sorrels at their doorway. But they fcaro something which these superabundantly supplied seldom haTe. Tfcey hare better health because, be- OT li.g compelled to walk, they get the sn oecesaary exercise, ahd. their diet be- ?' !rg limited to plan food, they do not 7* suffer from midnight salads nnd are jot victimized by rare caterers. Th^y retire for wholesome sleep at the very ce lour in which others nro leaving their somes for the dance or the card party. IF They trill aloep the last sleep Just at well iu the plain graveyard ae those ** who have over them an arch of sculp- *r tared granite incwrtliest oeor?p?lla rr most historical abbey. The reason ?o many people are mi?- Wl :rablo f? because thay do not let well 9r mouga aiane. Jhey are in tue occu- Wl jatlwb and coe ltn Annoyances and bo ?'1 ih&nge to another oeoopatlon and And ls many ancoyuncee, if not more. ** ["hey live in eih* piaoei and know ita uncomfortableenvironments and more 1(1 jrto another place tvhiob ha* fnrt b> nar.y limitations. Thetf investments " riald them four per cent. and they aell *? rot to sr.ah? Invi? that will ?!' rield ten per cent, and loae all. Bet- **> or settle down and stop fretting about *? rourself and the world. be Do any of ue folly realize the feet T'' hat Ued givea us three thinj^n in nn- It imitcd supply, although so formula ?f prayer thai I ever beard recognises m ihem?water, air and sunlight? Water * ?y the riverfull. Water by the likefah tr\ rVater by the eeeanful. Some f?r abln- * ion, lomt for slaking of thirat, some w< or baptistery, some for fountains and al< iquariums. I never appreciated what w< i lvocderful Ihicg rater is until last n u miner 1 etood by the fountains before *>e ind around the emperor's palaoe at 1'e- w< erhef, Russia. I had been familiar ritb thla Wonder fu? element of nature rorn childhood, having been bora on be beaks of the beautiful Eerltan and i? a barefooted boy dabbled In the jq' irook near inj father's house. But I ??. II.HH I I I *1 reed and Godliness." Ho ooooludes Uli y cxpouding the faots of tho caso in in ho following words: bci 'They lock doubtful, but in reality l|' hey are not. Thoro have boon lies; ^ cs, but thoy wero told in good cause. jQ, Ve havo been troaohcrous; but that was ud mi} iu oruer mai real good might come un at of apparent ovil. Trtio, wo have irushed a doceivod and oonflding pco- 19 ile; wo have turned against tho woak ' ,nd tho friendless who trusted us; we , "cl lavo stamped out a just and intelligent i 001 nd well ordered ropublio; wo have 18CJj tabbed an ally in the back and slapped ho faoe of a guest; wo have bought a Da hadow from an enemy that hadn't it o soil; wo bavo robbod a trusting friend if bis iand and bis liberty; wo have in- ' died our clean young men to sbouldir sh< . di; credited muskot and do bandit's sui iork under a flag which bandits bavo inc icon accustomed to ftar, not to follow; fox ro have dobauohed America's honor th< nd blackened her faoo beforo the bu lorld; but each detail was for the best tin Ve know this. Tho head of every stato j to nd sovcrignity in Chriatondom and UO on< I ?1- .. ? ? iaeoe mONd aattl lul NDBtrwk rtWr oould 4* la play. ar la straag* eprloe, or boautlflcatloa, or whti Jluiblug tho Udder of tho light, 01 .K.. .1,111*..1 ? I..L V.IJ - ! o toaa it, or whirl it, or ihapr it inta rowni, or hoiat it into columns, oi priug it into arches, or lift it inta tars, or turn it into crcacrnta, or builii ^ t into tropica. You forget you ctci aw tba leas glorious waters at Chat* rorth, England, or Versailles. Frunce a you stand In the balcony of the pal- ' co overlooking the Finland gulf, be rildered and transported as you look t the one display called the Golden Itairway fountain. The water rolli own over 24 steps one foot high and 0 feet long. All of these 24 steps art overed with sheets of burnished gold iilver step of the water on stairs ol old! What a glee of liquids! Rolling. c lashing, foaming, enrapturing apleu- ( ara! Chorus of floods! Poetry of wa- J ers! Doxology of torreuts! but thai vhioh most impressed me there and f lsewhere is the abunuaucs of water j he faot that there are so many water! | hat the continents can afTord to throw ( hem away into the aea, Hudsons and t Ihios, Oregon* and Anta/.ons, Rhinci nd Danubes and Volga*, and so shun- ^ ant that the earth can afTcd to have ts oceans evaporate into the heavens . itsditsrraneaus and Atlantics and Paiiics. How rich the earth is with wa- . ersl Best beverage ef all the nations or after the richest banquet with the ' iebest beverages everyone wants at ;ast a sip of it?water, cool wuter 8 lod descended water! c With still more abundance is the ail 8 istributed. An earth full of it. A sky J ull of it. Swiftest and strongest eugla 1 annot fly ao high as not to have it in o bo nostril or under the wing. And c rhat affluence of sunlight! Noonebut ? ho infinite God could dispense so much t f it. The golden candlestick set on he blue mantel of the heavens! So I rest that the Almighty is compared to * i, the psalmist crying out: "The Lord od it & sun." It ishigli time that w < reognizo in our liturgies and in our ? srmulaa of prayer the three most ]( bundant blessings of flat universe <. rkioh coma te all. Rome scientists are now discussing j he opening of communication be- ? ween our eartli and the planet Mars. n Ixpcriments arc being made, but tbey c '111 not succeed. We cannot build 3 re large enough to attract the at- u tntion od that world or lift a lens t owsrful ciiou gh to see any response , lxersTeuar. We do not positively ( now that that world is occupied by ring being*, or that if it is occupied ' Biwmunication with them would ho esirnble. ft might not be ao good a j rid Hfi this, and thus communion on with it would bo debasing. But ' rejoice to know that Heaven is in rueh vrlth other worlds, for their ' nprevement and a depot for glerioua 0 rrivala. It is a thoroughfare between % lia world and that world and a com- t( ig and going perpetual. Going out o " r'a world is as natural as coming in> it, but the one la with pang and ^ le other is with rapture If we are w tted for the uplift;ng process. It tail he well with you. Now, do not w et ao frightened about that asthma C r that ceugh or that Influenza or 0 tat threatened pneumonia. The '' orat thing that fatal disease can H > is to usher you into coronation and i-i ithrouement. It shall bo well with r >U. Take as good care of your health si ? you can, have all the sanitary laws, 3 eep in this world as long as you e permitted to stay and then when m le heavenly call cornea be glad to go. do a?t oare much about what your q ast words" are going to be. People it too much etnphasia oa "last bi ords." I woud ratkor know what tar words are now, in days of health w id with mental faculties in full plaj ^ your words of kindness, your words ? ! sympathy, your words of helpful- (j !*s, your words of prayer So live H ist If you do not say a word during ie last day of your life there will be ? doubt here about the place of your j> stination. Yen will go right into _? intly, prophetic, evangelistic, aposdie, cherubic, eerapliic, nrcliargclio. ^ lific presence. 7 It shall be well with you. Mother, >u will go right up into the posses- ?j on of the babe that the scarlet fever croup took out of your arms, a rrow that still stings you, and you ?! ten ear she would now be so many * urs old If ahe had llred. You will ? into the presence of the old folks, r I hope you are of Christian an- ?stry, and j-ou will find that they ive no dimness of sight or halting ^ lit that requires a staff, for they ^ ire taken a draught from the founIn *f perpetual youth that springs m under tbn t U rr.Ti* nl Ca.1 ol. h' e blissful cmopanionehip of TTen?en h: which you shall enter! It shall be a ell with yen. I ring this bell of ID nnncipatten and triumph. I like the a1 ay the sexton rings the bell of the d country meeting house. 1 used to pi and and admire him pulling the g< pe of that bell. Ee rings it a good hi hfie. ee that every farmhouse within ro miles hears it. H# may halt a g( omMt to take brimth end give tha rest, aoundn time to stir up all the r? here of the hills. And when ho is d and not strong enough to pull the ^ ps any more, then he sita and lisna while his son rings the church ^ 11. 60 my text, seems a bell of intation and rictory. I beg*n to ring Us the opening of this discourse. I > 511 to ring it as long aa I lire, and ^ ay those who come after na keep 1 ringing it til) those farthest off j am Otd shall corns Into ths great mple of Gospel comfort and all the * ttLTj put down their bnrdena at its tar and find that peace which the 11 arid can neither give nor take away, ires timet wore I ring it. It shall * 1 welll It shall be well! It shall b# 01 ill! K Ret Dependable. . Teacher?And why should we ea- ^ aver to rise by our owa efforts? lehnale Wis#?'Cause there's ne tell' when the alaru clock will go h reng.?Baltimore Americau. ristendom, inolading oar congress d oar 50 ntato legislatures, aro momrs not only of tho ohureh, but also of j j Blcsaings-of-Oiviliration trust, j is world-girdling accumulation of n iin d morals, high principles and a itico cannot do an unright thing, an fair thins, an nnennnrnim ihino ?n cj? n" -u m clean thing. It knows what it is 0 sat. Oivo yourself no uneasiness; it all right.'' b Mark Twain conld not havo found a H. tter snhjcot for ratiro and nobody ^ lid havo handled it with the scathing rcrity exhibited in tfio article from yi ick wo havo quoted.?Atlanta JourL ol A Mean Monster. The Atlanta Journal bays: Beoause 3 ooalJ not tie hor hu-band's shoo to ti it him, Mrs. Bcaulah t'owoll, accord- ti I to allegations make in hor petition n d.voroe filed Wednesday morning in ti 3 superior oourt, was hasten by her pi sband, Thomas (j. Vowell. At other ol jeshcr husband was extromoly oruol her, 6ho charges, and she oites this w o instance as showing his treatment u her. She also alleges intoxication. 0| fa. ^ fcL , ^ . A FAMOUS STORYr l"he Hers* Bwappin as Osp'Ctsd in GecrgU 8canit. HOW BL08S0M WAS FOOLED Afhen He Swapped Buiiet nrd Oave Three Delia s to Boot for Another, Klf,the "C.itter " Io the "Georgia Scenes" is lbs typi>al pioture of horse swapping i? the >ldcD d?j<s, which Kay prove intcrestog to (ho present generation. It is tho Btory of how Yellow BIobom bantered Peter Ketch and was irepcrly caught. Yellow Blo^scm be ieved that ho wib just a "Icetle bit" of ho best man at a horse awap (hat "ever red in shoe leather." After dcecribrg Bullet, Blossom's horse, and Kit, Lo "critter" owDcd by Peter Ketch, at omo length, tho elory proceed? an folows: "I tell you, man," proecoded Yellow PcBPom, "ho is tho bc?t live hor? that vcr trod tho grit of Georgia Bab Smart nows the hcrBO. Corno hero, Bab, nd mount this horse and show ltullols Lotionp." Hero Bullet brisilcu up nd looked as if he had been hunting lob all day long atd had juo-t found im Bob sprang on his back "Boo o-oc 1' said Bob with a flattering noise f the lip?, and away went Bul'ot s if in a quarter rcoo with all hi? beau b b spread in hand-omo at\ lo "Now fetch him ba^k," said Blossom Juliet turned and oam>> in prctt) much 1 ho wort out. "Now, ttot h.m by," Bullet rcduo d his tail to customary, sidled to the :ght and left fairly, ar.d exhibited a' aet three varieties of trot in tho thoit pace of fifty yards "Make him pane." B b commenced witohmg the bridlo, and kicking ?t tl o mo time The so inconsistent- m >vo icnts chviouply and n o?t Datura ly uconccrcd Bullet, for it wasimponi e for h m to learn from the methed shetberhc was to prcoetd or Btaud I'll. He Btartcd to trot and was tod hat wouldn't do. Ho atte mpted a can rr, and was checked again He atopel aod hid urged to go on. Bidet ow lushed into the wide field of cx <riirer.t aid struck out on a ga:t of m own that completely turned the ?blo? on his rider an I certainly d * rrvrd a patent. It sremed to have dc ived its elements from tho ji?, tin :inuot and the cotillioo. If it ?ifl not pace in It. ro man would veno call ii anything else; so it passed off j iu? p?vi8'action or me owner. 4 Walk him!"' Bullet was row at cmo arain, and Lc walked as if money ra6 staked id him. I be s'rarg r whose ^aroe 1 after ards learned wa* Peter Ketch, having zaminrd Bullet to his heart's content, rdcrrd his son Neddy to go and bring r Kit. Neddy ?oon appeared upon i t a well formed sorrel of iho middle z , Bnd in geod order. IPs tout rumble- threw Bullet entirrlv in the hade, though a glance was auffi ricnt to ti fy any one that Bullet had the > cided advantage of kiw in polut of .lellect. After a few banters, Peter Kctoh is uoi i d: "Ntddy take a couple of 6ticVa and cat on that hogshead at Kit's tail." N<d made a tremendous rt'pi-g at hioh Bullet took fright, bro\o his (idle and dasiudt ff ingracd stylo, and tuld have stopped all further cegotia one by going home in disgust had not reveler arrested him and brought him a*.-h; hut Kit did not move '"1 tell you, gentlemen." continued cUr, "he's iho ecarie?* norsn you ever iw Ho ain't as gen ie as Ballet, but e won't do any haim if you watch him. hall I put him in a carl, g g or wagon ir you, ttraDgrr? lie will cut the same iptr there he dots here. He's a mon.reus mtnn horse." I'u'ing all this timo Blossom was ex mining him with the nicett soruting. lavirg examining his fratre and limbs e now leoked at his eyes. "He's got a curious look out of his i't s." raid Blossom. 'Oil yes tir." i aid Peter, "just as ind a hat Blind horses always have ear eyes. Make a motion at his eyeB you please, e:r." B'o-som did eo, and Kit threw up is hcud, rather as if somttbing pricked im under tho chin than as if fearing Mow Hiosscm repeated the cxprriett. and Kit jerked baok is con.,:dcr ;lc a-tonishmeut. "Stono blind, ycu eco, gentlemen," roccedtd Peter, "but sho's Just as icd to travel of a dark night ao if she ad ejes." "Blamo your buttons," said Blosm>, "if L like tbrm eyes. "No," said Peter, "nor I cithtr. I d ithcrhavo them made of diamonds, ui tbcy'tl do?if they don't show as uoh white as Bullet's." "Well, said Blossom, "make a pass t mo." ' No raid Peter, "you mado the ban;r; now mako your pass." " Well, I'm never afraid to prioe my orso. Ycu must give mo $25 to boot " "Oh certainly, say $50 aod my sad!o and bridle in. Here Neddy, my ton, iko daddy's horse." "Well," said Blossom, "I've made ly i aes, now make yours." "1 am for short talk in horse swap rd therefore always tell a gentleman at nee what 1 moan to do. Yon mast ivo mo $10 " Blossom swore absolutely, roundly d profanely that ks never weald vive oot. 'vVoll,"eaid Peter, "I didn't earo bout (riding; but you cut auoh high bines, that 1 thought I'd like to baok ou out, and 1'vo dono it. Gentlemen, ou seo I vo brought him to a hack " "Come old man." aiid Blossom, l'vo been joking with you. 1 begin 3 think you do want to trade, hcreforo, givo mo $5 and tako Bullit. 'd raihtr lose $10 any time than not rako a trade, though 1 hate to fling way a good horse..' " Well," said Peter, "I 11 bo as clover i you are. Just put the $5 on Bullet's ack, and hand him over; it's a trado." Blossom sworo again, as roundly as oforo, that ho would not give boat, and tid ho: "Bullet wouldn't hold $5 on is baok, nohow. But as I bantered ou, if you say an even swap, here's at ?... " JU. "I told you," P?id Pcrnr, "I'd bo as ever as you; thorofore, horo goos $2 ioro, just for trado's sako. Give mo i nod it's a bargain." Blossom repeated his former assorun, and horo partus stood .for a long me, and tho bystanders; many wore ow oolleoted, began to taunt both pares. After somo timo, howovor, it was retty unanimously deoided that tho Id man had backed Blossom out. At length Blossom swore ho "never ould bo baokod out for 13, after btntring a man," and aooordingly they obed the trad*. "Now" id Bloaaom, u he bandet Poter the $3, "I am a man that, whet he makra a bad trade, make* the mos of it until ho can make a better. I'm for no rues and after olaps." "That's juat my way," raid Poter "I never goes to law to rneod my bar gains.'' "Ah, you're the kind oi a buy I lov< to trade with. Here's your hoss. otc man. Take the and saddle brid'e c if him and I'll atrip yturs; but lift tbo btanke easy from Bullet's biok, for ho's i mighty tender baoked hos9." Tbo old man removed tho saddle, but the blanket stuck faBt. Ho attempted to raieo it, and Bullet bowed himself, switobed his tail and g?vc signs of bit ing. "Bon't hurt him, old man," Baic Blossom arohly, "lake it off easy. 1 am, perhaps, a lectio of the beet mat at a horse swap that ever oatched i coon." Peter continued to pull at tho blank ct more mod moro roughly, and Bullet became moro and more cavorlish, inso much that when the blankot oamo it] ho had'reashed tho kicking point it good oarncet. Tho removal of thoblankct disoJoscc a aoro of Bullot's biekbonc that seem ed to have defiid all modioal skill. li measured six full inohos in length, and iour in breadth, and bad as many foat urcs bb Bullet had motioDB. My hearl siokened at ilio tight, and I felt thai tho brute who h?d been riding Ivm in that situation doservrd tbo htlicr Tho prevailing feeling, however, was tb at of mirth The laugh became loud and general at tho old man's ex penso, and rustic witticisms wore liberally bestowed upon liim and hie lato purchase These Uios9om ooutinu ed to provoke by varioui remarks. He asked ihe old man if he thought Billet would lot *5 lie on his back. Ho declared most b ricu-ly that ho had owaed that horse throe m >nihs, and hid never discovered before that he had a sere back, "e>r ho never would have thought of trading him, e'o., 'to " Tho old man biro it a'l with tl o rnoBt ihiloBophio eompi sure He evinced no astonishment at bis late disaovi rp , and made no replies, but his own bod Nedd> had not disciplined I is feelings quite so well His ?yes opened widei and wider. From the fi-ai to tho last pull of the blanket, and wht n tho whole Bore burst upon his view, a-loaishoie at and fright seemed to cin.end for the mastery of his oc-uu enancc As the blank.t. disappt ared he stuek nis band into kiB bteeel ei poekcla, he-aved a deep sigb aud lapstd iuto a profound reverie, from whioh Lc was only aroua ea bv the outs at his 'a'her. Ho bore them as long as ho ctuio, Mid wheo he ooulf oonirol himsclt no longer, he b?i' gan, vi h a certain wildoess of cxprcs clou, which para a peculiar interest to wnat he uetrrcd: "His back's mighty bad off, but dod tre>t my snil'if he s put it to daddy as bad as ho minks bo has, for old Kit's blind and dee.!, I'll be dod trot if be ain't." "The devil ho is," sa'.d Blcstoui. "Yob, dod trot my tool if he cin't. You walk him and tee if he ain't, flit eyes don't look liko it, but he d just as leave go again the house with you, or in a ditch ? anyhow >ow, you go try him ' The laugh was now turned on B:ossom, and many tushed to test the hdeliiy of the little biys report. A few experiments established its truih beyond oontrov. r y. "Neiddy, ' said tl e old mao, "you oughtn't to try and make people dia contenicd with their things, S ranger, don t ipind what tho little Loy says, ll you can only got Kt rid of the m little failings, you'll find him all sorts of n horse. You are a little the best man at a horse swap that ever 1 get hold ol but don,l fool away Kit. Oorne^ bLoudy my sou let's bo in'tVVKg; the strangei seems to be ga\ting snappish." A Pathetic Story. At the close of his masterly spceol in favor of the paeeage of the child la bor bill by tho State Scnato on Thu-s day Scna or Marshall of Hichland Coun tv related the following pathetic story A policeman who knew that I was deep ly interested in this child labor quos lion, oame to mo and said: ' I want t( tell you what 1 saw tho other evening 1 am instructed not to allow children t< play ball undor tho eleotrio lights foi fear that thoy may break the shades One night, as 1 was on my beat neai the mill district, a lot of little boyi were p'ayiog ball. I to'd them thai they must stop Oao of the little fol lows made bold to speak to mo. 11? raid,'We fellows woik in tho mill ail day and if wo do not play in the nighl wo never will havo a ohanoo to plaj ball. Wo are not liko tbo other boyi who can play in tho day. Wou't yoi please let us play on? " Tho kinc hearted policeman said,l'Woll? if tha is so, you can play on, but bo carcfu not to break the lamp shades." He then taid: Every child must havo in p'ajtimo. In all well regulated sohoolf of this day children are allowed to g( out and play constantly. Their mind! aro diverted frcm their sohool book! and, by this play, they are enabled te progress and improve in their btudies What a sad fact i'. is that little ohil drcn aro shut up in our mills from si] in the morning to six in the evening with no opportunity of going out t< play tor cvcd getting a breath of frost air. 1 appeal to you as fathers whi love your ohildren to do unto tln-si mill children as you would havo you nan nhilnron /1a?a Ko Va?i ???t. L. % I this bill and the fresh winds will blow from heaven the bright sunlight for yoi and I, and for your ohildroo and mino but not for the child who works in tbi factories of South Carolina After Mora Inlands. The McKinley a ^ministration scemi to have an insatiate appetite for terri torial expansion, though the man at iti head in his inaugural addross solomnl] warned his oountry to bewaro of thi temptation of ''Territorial aggression.' Not satisfied with tho acquisition o 1'orto Hioo and Hawaii, thepurcha oo moro than 1,000 islands on the othc sido of tho world and kohemos for virtua if not actual domination of Cuba, tni imperialists arc planning to got hold o tho Danish West Indies. Negotiation for tho purchaso of theso islands, begut some months ago but brokon of! by i change if ministry in Denmark, ar< said to havo boon rooponod with th< prospect of consummation. Germany ii said to desiro tho Danish West Indies but thoro is littlo evidence that shi has made any groat effort to seenro then They aro cf littlo uso to Denmark ant if wo aro willing to pay her prioo fo them wo oan havo them. What next ?Atlanta Journal. Tho Htun Tho Seuth Carolina houso of repro sontativos by a voto of t>6 to 32 ki 1 lc< tho ohild labor bill to prohibit ohildroi oiidor 12 years of ago from working ii ootton faotorios. This ass about th voto in the general assembly of Goor gia. It will now bo in order, for th Sonth Carolina homo of reprcaonta lives to pass a bill for tho protootion o "wild English and Mongolian phea aanta."?Maoon Now# -wr- " w - > fw 1 V0< ^a| I t fc ~ THE I ? "i V 44 "W r ' /?* , uruyca [ The formula | know just what y Jo not advertise tl t their medicine it j | Iron and Quinine p i form. 1 he I ron ^ malaria out of the Grove's is the Oi Chill Tonics arc i that Grove's is : t are not expenmer and excellence 1 only Chill Cure : the United States Xo Free Passes. Mr. StarBand's Hill to rcptal tke l?w ? agaii.t-t i ul lio <ffi<?irH ridtrg on fret passes on railroads w?s taken up in the Senate on Tunday wck. Mr. Biice w*ni< d to str'k ? ut the < u aoting words. He 'he ugh the law should i remain on the statute books. Then may be oooas'onal violations of the spirii of tho law. but ho did not believe th< i pcoplo wanted tho law repealed, lit i thought tho bill was generally regardec 1 as a joke. Mr Stanlaed, tho author of tho bill, i said the slatuto had been on tho bookt for ten years and if any attempt hac , ever been mads to enforce it he hac i never heard of it. Ho thought it t i reflection upon every member of th< i legislature for the law to remain?ii i simply meant tho pcoplo thought w< 1 oould not bo trusted. Ho did not be licvo any member oould be influeneec as to his voto by a little thing hko i ra Iroad pass. He reviewed tho oircum i stances leading up to tbe cnaotinent oi tho law and i aid it stood as a monu tnent to tho times when faotiooaldif ferencos divided tho people, and hi wanted it wiped out, as wo have buricc all onr differences. The ayes and noes were called on thi motion to stiiko out thccnacting wordi L and the bill wns killed by a vote of 11 to 12, as follows: Ayes?Barnwell, Blakeney, Brie Caughman. Douglas, Gairrs, Gl?nn i Graydon, Gruber. HemdoD, Mtoie, Sar ; ra?t, Hullivan ?13. Nue??Aldrich, Appeit, Goodwin i Hay. Henderson, Uderton. MoDoruiott i Sltarpc, Staokhouse. Sianland \V? ki. , ?12 Tho ami free ; ass law remains o; the btatuto bonks. t Fearful Famine in China. Hepoits received from Singan-fu al agree tl at the famine in the provinoci of Shti si and Shensi is one of the wore in tho 1 istory c f Chira All inform* i tion on the subject ia necessarily fron Chinese sources and is fragmentary, bu , *A.i. v.tn>ic .u ?.\.c rHiro rueci , pic uring a ooncition of affairs that i r oaloula'od to trouse tho sympathy o the world for 'ho stricken people. I is estimated at two thirds cf the j>eo plo arc without sufficient food or th< means of obtainiogit. Thcweatuer is bit tcrly cold and this adds to the miser; of starvation. Thero is little fuel ii either prvoinces, and the jeoplo &r< . tearing cut tho woodwork of thci " heu-iOtj to obtain fuel to keep themsel ves warm. Oxen, horses, drgs and othc animals used by tho femora to ait them in their woik in ordinary time have pratcically all been sacrificed ti . satisfy hunger. For three years thi crops havo beon failures in both prov ' inocs. Thero was more orkssfam , ine in previous seasons, and tho peopb . were in poverty wl en tho winttr began Their ooodition ha3 bince been growin; , stoadily worse Letters as6crt that can [ nibalism is now practiced to a coo-iid . erablo extent. Li Hung Chang in con Vcrsation with Mr. Conger, tbo Ameri can Minister, said that the people wer ' reduocd to eating human flesh. Man; , of them were selling their women ant , ohildren to obtain money with which t I buy food for the remaining members o , their families. Infanticide is alarming lyoommjn. Parents driven insano b; want and tho cries of their ohildroD fo food, which they arc unablo to provide kill tho little ones rather than be force to listen to their ones of distress and t . see their sufferings,Beware of Ointments for Catarrh tha t Contain Mercury 1 as mercury will surely destroy thesensi ^ rtf umrtll and t.1/. t n! '1 --- * l v. I/M?v?* nuvt W'iuj?lViCI) uviaugc III 1 whole system when entering it throug! 3 tho mucous) surfaces. Such anticle 3 eliould never bo used except on prescri p ^ tions from reputablo physicians, as th dam ago they will do i-? ten fold to th ' good you can possibly derive from them 1 Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufaoutural b, ' F. J Chonoy & Co., Toledo, O , con 3 tains no mercury, and is Ulttn inter ally, acting directly upon the blood am mucous surfaocs of tho system. In buy ing Hall's Catarrh Cure be euro you se 3 the genuine. It is taken internally, am mado in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J Chene s & Co. Testimonials fieo. ? Sold by Druggists, priar 7&o. pe ? bottle. f Hall's Family Pills aro the best | Burned to Death. 1 A dispatoh from MoCormiek to th 0 Augusta Chronicle says: Tho littl f six yoar-old daughter of our fclloi s townsman, Mr. Tom Korgsmor had th 1 misfortuno to meet with quito a sa ik death Wednesday morning. Slio wa a s anding too near a tiro built out in th a yard when her clothing oaught fire an s Bho was so scveroly burned before th , fire oould bo extinguished that dtathre a suited at 4 o'olook this morning. Fvcr i effort was mado by her physicians t 1 aavo her hut tho most that oould b r done was to reliovo in a mcasuro ho ? sufferings. Mrs. J H. Harmon, noighbor who was tho first to rcaoh hei was severely burned in makin a hcroio iffort to extinguish (ho fl lines j Don't Liko Fat Friars. Q The cons from tho I'hilipiuts i j 0 at tho nativo Catholics in tho dit o triot of Bioondo in Manila arc dualii fiod and throaton to eorarate from th o church. It is explained that thoy hav no grievanco against tho church itsell f but to tho friaia?tho f at friars, it i- | resumed, though not of tho Mark Hai na stripe. aria. Chillsa^ ^ I 3EST PRESCRIPTION IS Tasteless Chill Tonic. is plainly printed on every bottle?hence you on are taking when you take Grove s. Imitators r i_ i i ij - icir iormuia Knowing tnat you wouia not ouy r'ou knew what it contained. Grove's contains >ut up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that igina/ and that all other so-called Tasteless mitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows superior to all others in every respect. You iting when you take Grove s?its superiority laving long been established. Grove s is the sold throughout the entire malarial sections of No Cure. No Pay. Price. 50c. To Purify Politics. ^ \f j 11 r' Senator E William E Chandler, CI* 4*1 111*} ! who has just been dtfea'ed f? r r -eleo- / * _ %y| 1 ? lion to the senate, as he ohar^es by a l.'OI'll iYJ I 11.^, ra lroad corptratiou to this i-t-u-, baa % - introduced a bill in t h: en ate | r bit- f; | no \'I | I I w I iog corporations chartered by the U ill- ^ * 3 ed 8 ates from m >k<o< ooninbu i-oh to ?/a lYiilliii* t campaign funis As-cd wha< I e liao IVK'C llllllv^lN, 3 partio'iiar y iu uiiou m t' c rn?t e S?n- j ator Chandler said: ' I he great evil ol MpH ^11 1|*j^ I the expenditure <>t a v ?st sutn of money * * iu controlling poli ice is not int.ividua! 171 .. ^ , oontributions, although it is true that I 3 men of many miltious like Seoator . I Clark of Montana could aff.rd to mate IjOlIOrS 1 largci c intribuiiot s to oouirol aoeho ' i lion than many ooipoiati >ns. Hut such Plo Itnrc 'I till 3 individuals are few To control co-- lttllvl 8 til III t rotations in this respto: it is only ? w j l 3 neoetsary to provide that no oorpora iXl ftXC51101*$} - tioD shall oomribute from its corporate 1 funds in connection with any political ^SYVlTll^ Co tire t cite ion. The pracitoi of corporation O Oct. V* t } contributions to polit ca. eommittees i y f has grown up since 18U6 Tncse oon lvll) UtiWSi trituiions have te?.-n undo in nearly all * cubcs directly from t? e tr. a-mrirs ot the and all Other kinds of wood ^ ? ? corporations by vo'et <>f th ir directors working machinery. My Seri and nava bten male to both political . 0 ? psrtivH." geant Log Beam Saw mill is 3 the heaviest, strongest, and * Commits Suicide. most efficient mill for the * A cablcgiaui reooved fto.u United money on the market, quick, States min ster Huater. at liut-atua. accurate. State Agent for K. I City, s at? s t hat 8.doe/ U Kf r it o N4....I.,.. n ..... ...... n . 1 | i i r III- I o Fll 1 t il Al d C 11 1 IIH vOlIl 1 'all I V ? secretary aou llb-150 of lie lJi.r.e<l , . . , . 1 J * State L gati^n thcr., oommitted ?u e de wood working machinery. 111? h,f ... ~ -.1- LI- h1..*" I .. ... ?i. .^vv ...s u i no ui u II lid a v> uigu ^ I a Ki.1T> CII^IIIC9, [iltllU . suffered ft iooit iIidc*. n .d h is ui djr slide valve?Auioiuatic, aod i ftood thai thfl a it w?s co utii tod in* Corliss, write me: Atlas, 1 tempoiary abirr&'iou ol w >d. >lr .?r . , . u. Kv.Ivuw.t appointed liuu Mis-mo'ni Watertown, and Sirutliers 1 fetif, Icnn a s of a foriijer chi f of aild ella the d ploiustio bureau of ibe State l> - V . (J BAD HAM, partoieni Ho was ?p,o oicd to the 1H24J Main St.. Columbia 8. O ooneiu ar Rervioe as aonnuk to lii'.avia 10 1 May, 18517 and wo a,,> noted to Tlir irinCD 111(111(1 1 9 Guatemala Cry on June 19 last. Ho I IlL LLAUlU iIIULLU. A t parents are resident of Wa-hicgton. 1 ; ? ....= The New Rail Be^ringr J t~ /ffljgX "t DSmesffc " s > i&m , Sewing Machine *9agic 11 Loads in Workuiaotthip, B?-auiy, n ? V Capacity, Strength, Light Hanmng. r <> 6 \ Kvery Woman Wants One. oJL.D"NORTH STATE OIN I [ MENT, the Great Antisepti, Attactmeal Nbb<11bs and , Healer, cures Piles Eczema pana ? MachlB?, 3 Sore Eyes, Gianulated Eyelids f n ' Boils, Cuts, Brnie wben orderi needles seed e8, Old Sores, Burns, Corns ^ . -o' . f ri. ., sample. Price 27c iter doieu, Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails. 1 Inflammatory Hhemnatism, PoslPaiai Aches and Paius, Chap]>ed 1 Hands and Lips, Erysipelas **Dled ? 1 * '-rrti It is something everybody 1 _ . needs. Once need always used, uuiiii e For sale by all druggists and ; j* ofcLULL, 7 dealers. At wholesale by j 1219 Taylor Street, { THE MURRAY I>KUG CO.. COLUMBIA, tt. O f Columbia. 8. C ; * I Ortman Pays "*?? ??, "J* oal. ? ine tApress i - 3S? bteam Dyeing of every L^ue, chase. Hege,;Lidj?u ?nd High | description. Steam, Nap .?j u,.,rttH,d., e tha, French Dry and 8y?tem. b chemical cleansing. bend Ld tdell Automatic and plain Engine#. ? for our new price list an.1 ..New Brick^lacbinery circnlar All work guar Karquhar Thresher? anJ Grain Drill? anteed or UO charge. Otseton Saw? and rile? 0 ^ re?rles? i fcckingfl. ^jeracis dtwer v Drtman's Steam Dye Works Egan Woodworking Machinery. 1810 Main Street ' "Q'leen of the South" QrUi Mill, j j Kelley Dup'ex Feed Mill? Ooi.UMBIA, S. (J j Bundy Trap? aaci Hteam Specialties Magnolia aud Coll uitn* Uabtxjit Metal*. . 1 A. L. Ortrnan, Proprietor. pittb* H. Sihbes k Co., r ANTISEPTIC IKYIBORATORI MAl U,NKKY'>",MUM , Cure? La Grippe, dyepepei*. lndige?tioa 804 Oervalo Street, and all stomach and bowel trouble?, eolte or ohelera morbu?, teething trouble? with COLUMBIA, S. C. ohildren, kidney trouble?, bad blood and 0 all sort? of ?ore?, rising? or felons, cut? and e barn?. It 1? as good antiseptic, when looally " applied, a? anything on the market. n W?w*C? ar^o o Try it and you will praise It to other? ill. Ill IcAY W d If your druggist doesn't keep it, write to m " MDRRY DRUG COMPANY, ! ArOIUfltlC o ' c i Mouth 'j MONEY TO LOIN Wash i \_ l ? ? * ? e \Ju improved real estate r Interest eight per cent. a payable semi-annually. ^ hlieno the Teeth Time 3 to 6 years. Cleanses the Month No commissions charged 3wv?etens the Breath E. K. Palmer, * CentralNational Hank Building, The? ' 80fi Plain St-. Columbia. 8. C. Opwassas Drut5 Co., . i ?r.V?ErS.??*- [OOLUMB1A.8. C. \Ji| a. M. WOOU.1V. M. O., MlanM. Oa. l ' |