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I THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 31, 1890. A QUICK KOUT OF SIN. REV. DR. TALMA:v: F” VORG A GUDDEfJ He TliinUfl t!:c' Tv t.i Can Ko Cr.ptarnJ ; Tor r.lK'-t!-; • »y Fnvr.lry of the Cliristiau r,:i-.:;.-Aa rioquont K*- i hortatlon For a revival. WASliINGTON, >' of Dr. Taluiago i:i 1 movement to rapn rigliteousncPH elrilt' l~.—lull fioruion half cf a pndden e tho world for i, chord that will vibrato timnigh Cdiri^tendoui. Tho text is II Kings xviii, 23, “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou bo able on tby part to set liders upon them.” Up by the waterworks, tho upper reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of the besieging army and the generals of besieged Jerusalem i ro in coiibultation. Though Gemixal Rab-shakoh had been largely paid to Ktrp the siege, ho kept the money and continued tho siege—the military miscreant! Rab-shakeh derides the capacity cf the city to defend itself and practically says: “ifon have not 2,000 men who f an manage horses. Produce 2,000 cavalrymen, mid I will give you a present of 2,000 cavalry horses. You have not in all your be sieged city of Jerusalem 2,000 men who can mount them, and by hit and bridle control a horse." Rnb-shaUch realized that it is easier to tiud horses than skill ful riders, and hence he makes the chal lenge cf tho text, “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if then be able to set riders upon them.” Rab-shakeh. like many another bad man, said a very suggestive thing. Tho world is full of great energies and great opportunities, but few know how to bridle them and incut;t them and man age them. More spirited horses than competent riders! The fact is that in tho church of God we have plenty of fortresses well manned and plenty of heavy artillery and plenty of solid col umns of bravo Christian soldiery, hut what wo most need is cavalry—mounted troops of God—for sadden charge that aeems almost desperate. If Washington, if New York, if London, are ever taken for God, it will not bo by slow bom bardment cf orgumoutatiou or by regu lar unlimboring of great theological guns from tho pert holes cf the churches, but by gallopof sudden assault i;ud rush of holy euergy that will astound and throw into panic tho long lines of drill ed opposition armed to the teeth. Noth ing so scares tho forces of sin as a re vival that come;-, they know not whence, to do that which they cannot till, to work in a way that tin y cannot under stand. They will ho overcome by flank movement. Tho church of God must double up their right or left wing. If they expect r.s from tho north, we will take them from tba south. If they ex pect us at 13 o’clock at noon, wo will come upon them at 13 o’clock at night. Tho opportunitic ; for this assault are great and numerous, but where aro the men? “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if tbon ho able to r t liders upon them. ” I’ru'.se For tho Frons. The opportunitic i of saving America and saving tho cmnv planet were never j so many, never so urgent, never so tre mendous r.a now. Have yon not noticed tho willingness of tho printing press of the country to give tho subject of evan gelism full swing iu column after col umn? Such work was formerly confined to tract distribution and religious jrmr- palism. Now tho morning and evening newspapers, by hundreds and thousands pf copies, print all religious intelligence and print most awakening discourses. Never sinco tho world has stood has such a force been offered to all engaged in the world’s evangelization. Of tho more than 15,000 newspapers on this continent I do not know one that is not alert to catch m.d distribute all matters of religious information. Oh, now I see a mighty suggestiveucssin the fact that the first book of any importance that was over published after Johann Guten berg invented tho art of printing was tho Bible. Well might that poor man toil on, polishing f.touca and manufac turing looking glasses and making ex periments that brought upon him tho charge cf insanity and borrowing money, now from Martin Bret her and now from Johann Faust, ufitil ho set on foot tho mightiest power for the evangelization of tho world. The statue in bronze which Thorwald.-vu erected for Guten berg in 1837 and tho statue commemo rating him by David D’Angers in 1840 and unveiled amid all the pomp that military processions and German bands of best musio could give the occasion were insignificant compared with tho fact, to bo demonstrated before all earth and all heaven, that Johann Gutenberg, under God, inaugurated forces which will yet accomplish tho world’s redemp tion. • Tho newspaper press will yet an nounce nations horn iu a day. Tho newspaper press will report Christ’s sermons yet to ho delivered and describe his personal appearance, if, as somo think, ho shall come again to reign on earth. Tho newspaper press may yet publish Christ’s proclamation of the world’s emancipation from siu and sor row and death. Tens of thousands of good men in this and other lands have been ordained by tho laying on of hands to preach tho gospel, but it seems to mo that just now, by the laying on of the hands of tho Lord God Almighty, the newspaper j^esses aro being ordained for preaching th > gospel with wider sweep and mightier resound than wo have ever yet imagined. The iron horses of the printing press are .••11 ready for tho battle, hut where aro tho men good enough and strong enough to mount them and guido them? “I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou bo able to set riders upon them.” Useful lit Itattle. Go out to tho Soldiers' homo and talk with tho men who have been iu tho wars and they will give j’on right ap preciation of what is ihn importance of the cavalry service in battle. You hear the clatter of the hoofs and the whir of the arrows uud the clash of the shield; and tho bang of the carbines as they ride up and down tho centuries. Clear back in timo Oymardyas led 20,000 mounted troopi in DeKfiriana. Jn xphus says that when the I .raelit ; escaped from Egypt .50,0'Mi cavalrymen rode through the parted ibd ~oa. Three hun dred and si venty-oney rs b fere Christ Epamiuoudu i he;' led his tr... j s at full gallop. Alexander, on a horse that no other man could ride, led his mounted troops. Seven thousand horsemen de eded tho struggle at Arbeln Although saddles were not invented until the time of Constantino, and stir rups were unknown until about 450 years after Christ, you hear tho neigh ing and snorting of war chargers in tho greatest battles of the agns. Austerlitz and Marengo and Solferino were decid ed by tho cavalry. Tho mounted Cos sacks re-enforced the Russian snow storms in tho obliteration of the French army. Napoleon said if he had only had sufficient cavalry at Bautzen and Lutzen his wars would have trium phantly ended. I do not wonder that tho Duke of Wellington had his old war horse Copenhagen turned out in best pasture, and that tho Duchess of Wel lington wore a bracelet of Copenhagen’s hair. Not one drop of my blood hut tin gles as I look at the arched neck and pawing hoof and panting nostril of Job’s cavalry horse. “Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? lie puweth in tho valley; ho goeth on to meet the armed men. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He saith among the trumpets, Ila, ha! aud ho smelleth the battle afar off, tho thunder of the captains aud tho shout ing-” Tiio Hold Fasti. I think it is the cavalry of the Chris tian hosts, the grand men and women who, with hold dash and holy reckless ness and spurred on energies, aro to take tho world for God. To this army of Christian service belong the evangelists. It ought to he the business of the regu lar churches to multiply them, to sup port them, to cheer them, to clear tho way for them. Somo of them you like; somo of thmn you do not like. You say some are too sensational, aud somo of them are not enough learned, and somo of them are erratic, and somo cf them aro too vehement, aud some of them pray too loud. Oh, fold up your criti cism and let them do that which wo, tho pastors, can never do. I like all tho evangelists I have ever seen or heard. They are busy now; they aro busy every day of the week. While we, the pastors, serve God by holding tho fortress of righteousness and drilling the Christian soldiery and by marshal ing anthems and sermons and ordinances on the right si !<\ they are out fighting the forces cf darkness “hip and thigh, with groat slaughter. ” AH success to them! The taster they gallop the better I like it. The keener the lances they fling the inert) 1 admire them. We rare not what conventionality they infract if they only gain tho victory. Moody and Chapman aud Mills and Jones and Harrison and Muuhnli and Major Colo and Crittenden and a hundred others are now making the cavalry charge, and they are this moment taking Now York and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for God, and I wish they might take our nation’s capital. Hear the tremendous facts: There are now in this country nearly 100,000 church congregations, with nearly 21,000,000 communicants and seating enpacify in church for more than 43,000,000 people—in other words, room in the churches for three-fourths of the population of this country, and about one-third of the population of this country already Christian. In other words, we will have only to average bringing two souls to God during the next three years and our country is re deemed. Who cannot, nud. r tho power of tho Holy Ghost, bring two souls to God in thice years? As so many will bring hundreds and thousands to God, most of you have to bring only one soul to God and the gospel campaign for this continent w ill bo ended. If you cannot bring one soul to God, or two souls, or three souls, in three years, yon aro no Christian and deserve yourself to bo shut out of heaven. Tho religious pes simists of this country aro all tho time depicting the obstacles as ro great aud our forces as ho small that we half of the time feel that we aro attempting an impossibility. Take out of your prayers and preach ing some of your stuffing of groans and put in something of acclamation and triumph, aud the United States will bo gospeli/.ed, aud if the United States bo gospelizod America will ho gospelized, and, America gospelized, wo will take Asia from the Pacific beach and Europe from tho Atlantic beach, and not far from now tho lost star we live on will take its place among tho constellations that never fell. Let the more than 21,- 000,000 communicants, as they lift tho sacramental cup to their lips, take oath that they will not rest until tho other 40,000,000 are saved. Tho opportunities are all saddled aud bridled. Where are tho men and women to guide them? “I will deliver thco 2,000 horses if tbon bo able to set riders upon them.” What two men can do for good or evil is im pressed upon me by the fact that, two Scotchmen going to California, each took something that would remind him of his native country. The one took a thistle, tho national emblem of Scot land. The other took a hive of bees. Years went by, and tho work of tho two Scotchmen is widely set n. Tho curse of tho Pacific slope is the thistle, and tho blessing of the Pacific slope is tho honey found everywhere in woods and fields. In your life are you responsible for honey or thistles, aud if one man can do so much good and another so much evil, how much could he dotxjfor the ransom of this country by 21,000,000 people nil consecrated? Full L’p tlio Itlinds. Got out of tho way with your dolor ous foreboding and chango yonr dirges for what wo have not done for the grand march oi what wo may do and will da The woman at Sedan, in whose house Napoleon the last was waiting to make surrender of himself aud bis army, said I to tho overthrown French emperor, I 'What can 1 do for yon?” And the do spairing ex-monarch replied, "Nothing but draw down the blind -o that I can not be stared at.” iu thi ; gospel cam-, paigu wo have plenty to'draw down tho blinds. In God’s name, I say, pull up the blinds and let the morning sun of the coming victory shine upon us. What we want in this campaign for God is tho self abnegation and courage of tho men of Sir Colin Campbell, who, as Lord Bishop Cowio of New Zealand, onco chaplain of his nrmy, told mo, said to the troops: “Men, no retreat from this place. Die right hero. ” And they shout ed: “Yes, Sir Colin. Wo will do it." And they did! Temporary defeats ought not to dis hearten. What is Bunker Hill monu ment? Monument of defeat. But from that bloody mount American independ ence started for its grandest achieve ment, aud all tho defeats of the cause of God aro incipient victory. Thy salats In all this glorious war Bhail conquer, thongh they die. They see tho triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. And now, standing as I do iu this national capital, let mo say that what we want in the senate and house of rep resentatives and tho supremo court is a Pentecostal blessing that will shako the continent with divine mercy. There re cently came into my hands the records of two congressional prayer meetings, on the rolls of which were the names of tho most eminent senators and repre sentatives who then controlled the des tinies of this republic—tho ouo con- gressiona^irayer meeting in 1857 and the other in 18GG. The record is in the handwriting of tho philanthropist, Wil liam E. Dodge, then a member of con gress. There aro now more Christian men in tho national legislature than ever before. Why will they not band to gether in a religions movement which before tho inauguration of tho next president shall enthrone Christ in fho hearts of this nation? They have tho brain, they have tho eloquence, they havo the influence. God grant them the grace sufficient! Who in congressional circles will cstl.hlish the capitolino prayer meeting in 18S)7? Lot the even ing of tho last decade of this century bo irradiated with such a religions splen dor. There aro the opportunities for a national and international charge, all bridled aud saddled. Whore aro tho riders to mount them? A Quick Flight. Tho cavalry suggests speed. When once the reins are gathered into the hands of the soldierly horseman, and the spurs are struck into tho flanks, you hear tho rataplan of the hoofs. “Veloc ity” is the word that describes tho movement, acceleration, momentum, and what wo want in getting into the kingdom of God is celerity. You see tho years are so swift, and tho weeks aro so swift, aud tho days are so swift, and the Tours ere so swift, aud tho minutes aro so swift, wo need to bo swift. For lack of this appropriate speed many do not get into heaven at all. Hero we are in the last Sabbath of the year. Did you over know a twelvemonth quicker to be gone? The goldourod of one au tumn speaks to tho goldcnrod cf the next autumn, aud tho crocus of ouo springtime to the crocus of another springtime, aud tho snowbanks of ad joining years almost reach each other in unbroken curve. Wo aro in too much hurry about most things. Business men in too much hurry rush into specula tions that ruin them and ruin ethers. People move from place to place in too great haste, and they wear out their nerves and weaken the heart’s action. But the only thing in-which they aro afraid of being too hasty is tho matter of tho soul’s salvation. Yet did any one ever got damaged by too quirk repent ance or too quick pardon or too quick emancipation? The Bible recommends tardiness, deliberation and snuillike movoment in some things, as when it enjoins us to bo slow to speak and slow to wrath and slow to do evil, hut it tells us, “Tho king’s business requireth haste,” and that our days are us the flight of a weaver’s shuttle and ejacu lates: “Escape for thy life. Look not behind thee. Neither stay thou in all tho plain. ” Other cavalry troops may fall back, but mounted years never re treat. They are always going ahead, not on an easy canter, Lui at full run. Other regiments hear the command of “Halt !” and pitch their tents for the night. The regiments of tho years never hear tho command cf “Haiti” and never pitch tent for the night. Tho century leads on its troop of 100 years, aud the year leads on its troop of 805 days, and the day leads on its troop of 24 hoars, nud the honr leads on its troop of GO minutes, and all aro dashing out of sight. Perhaps there aro two years in which wo aro most interested —our first and our last. Held up in our mother’s arms, we watched tho flight of tho first With wondering eyes wo all watch the coming of tho last Tho namo of that advancing year wo cannot call. It may be iu tho niuoties of this century, it may bo iu the tons or twen ties or thirties of tho next century, hut it is coming at full gallop. Dow to Meet It. With what mood will wo moot it? In jocosity, as did Thomas Hood in his last moment, saying, “I am dying cat of charity to the undertaker, who wishes to earn a lively Hood. ” Or iu fear, as did Thomas Paine, saying in his last moment, “Oh, how I dread this myste rious leap in the dark!” Or in boastful ness, us did Vespasian, saying iu his last moment, “Ah, inethinks I am be coming a god!” Or in frivolity, as did Dcmonax, tho infidel philosopher, say ing in his last moment, “You may go home; tho show is over. ’ ’ Or conscience stricken, ns did Charles IX of Franco, saying in his last mounnt: “Nurse, nurse! What murder! What blood!” Or shall we meet it in gladness of Chris tian hope, liko that of Julius Charles Hare, who said in his lust moment, "Upward, upward 1” Or liko that of Rio , ,,r d Baxter, iu his lust moment say ing, "Almost well. ” Or like that of Martin of Tours, saying iu his last mo- mrnt, "I go to Abraham's bosom.” Or j like that of polished Addison, who raid | in his last moment, “See with what ease i a Christian can die. ” Or liko that of i G' orgn White field, who felt that ho had said nil that ho could of Christ, de clar ing iu his last moment, “I shall din si lent.” Or liko that of Mrs. fjchimmel- j pcnnich, who said in her last moment: “Do you not hear the voices? An<l tho children's are the londe'st. ” Or liko that of Dragonnatti, saying in his last mo ment: “Stand aside! I see my father nnel my mother coining to kiss mo. ” Or ns diel the dying girl whei, having a few evenings before sat on a bench iu a London mission, was seen to have tears of contrition rolling down her check, nnel who, departing from the rexnu, had pn* in her hand by a Chris tiau woman a Bible, with the passage marked, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.” Though having promised to bo at the next meeting, sho did neit come. The Christian woman who gave her the Bible was visiting the hospital, and the nurse said to her: “I wish yem had beeu here a little while ago. We had a young woman who had been run ove-r by a wagon. Poor thing, she was fearfully crushed ami died al most at once. Sho had a Bible in her baud, with your name in it, and she said when she was brought in: ‘Thank God, I found Christ as my Saviour last night! The blood of Je!Hus clirist, his son, cleanseth us from all sin.’ ” Oh. my friends, if all right for the next world, the years cannot gallop past too rapidly. If it were possible for the cen turies to take the speed of the years, and the years tho speed of the days, and the days the sived of tho hours, they could do us no harm. Tho shorter our life tho longer our heaven. Tho sooner we get out of the perils cf this life, if our work bo done, the better. No man is safe till he is dead. Better men than we have been wrecked, and at all ages. Lord aud Lady Napier were on horseback on a road iu India. Lord Napier suddenly said to Lady Napier, “Ride on aud fetch assistance aud do not ask me why. ” yho sped on and was soon out of sight. The fact was a tiger’s eyes glared on them from the thicket, and he did not dare to tell her, lest, affrighted, sho fall in the danger and perhaps lose her life. From all sides of us, on this road of life, there are perils glaring on us, from tigers of temptation, and tigers of accident, and tigers of death, and tho sooner we get out of tho perils of this life the hotter. Let 1897 take tho place of 1896, and 1898 the place of 1897, mid our souls will Lo landed where there slin!l bo “nothing to hurt or destroy iu all God’s holy mount.’’ “No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not 1h> found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. And the ransomed of tho Lord shall return and conic lo Zion, with songs and ever lasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” A Grand SjM-ctaclr. Oh, will it not he grand when from tho windows and doors of the “honso of many mansions” we look out and see passing along tho golden boulevards of heaven the white horse cavalry that St. John describes in Revelation? John Wesley said he thought horses had souls, but take the story in Revelation as fig urative or literal, yon must admit that ueno hut cavalry horses am mentioned as being in heaven. John xix, 14, “The armies which were iu heaven followed him upon white' horses.” You s?c, they aro mounted troops. Their leader is iu deep crimson attire. His vesture, wo aro told, is ‘ ’dipped in bleed, ” not blood of human slaughter, as many other cou- querors have their attire, but his own blood, blood of crucifixion ageuy, the blcod by which ho redeemed you and me. That deep red of garment is in viv id contrast with the snowy white charg er on which our Lord is seated. Aud no saved sinner ran gaze on that red and that white without remembering that though his sins were once red like crim son they havo become whiter than snow. Oh, those celestial cavalcades whom our Conqueror in scarlet shall lead on through the streets of heaveul Wide streets, hundreds of mounted troops abreast, long streets, thousands in sight followed by coming thousands through tho long day of heaven which hath no setting sun. Mind you, only tho cavalry are in that shining procession, those who did work outside the forts, those who dared nil things for God, those who had iu them the spirit of holy dash. We who did easy work may look at that procession, but will not be u part of it. There they pass, the equestrians and equestriennes of heaven, regiments of evangelists, of tract distributers, of street preachers, of salvation armies, of ouco half starved homo missionaries on the frontiers, of those who did in conspicuous service for Christ and never had their name iu the newspapers but once, aud that iu tho notice of their own obsequies—a notice not accompa nied by the request, “Bend nq flowers,’’ for there was no danger that there would be a profusion of flowers. As from the windows and doors of tho "house of many mansions” wo look on the passing spectacle some of us will wish that on earth we had had less sal ary and more hardship, less comfort and more exposure, less caution and more courage, less shelter aud more storm, less smooth sailing and more cyclone, and that we had dared all at the front instead of taking good caro of ourselves iu the rear. Forward, mounted troops! Favorites of heaven! Cavalrymen and cavalry women of fhu L<»d Gcal Al mighty. No chargers of heaven too white or too arched of nock or too prancing of gait for those seated on them. If Job’s warhorse, whilo tho bat tle was going oo, said, “Ha, ha!” shall not these chargers, now that tho day is won, utter a more jubilant “Ha, ba?” Forward, under arches of triumph, by fountains rniubowed of eternal joy and amid gardens abloom with unfading efflorescence, and along palaces where, after they have dismounted, these souls shall reign forever aud ever, they muich, they brandish their weapons with which they gttiuod bloodless victory, and they rise in stirrups of gold to greet nil tho rest of heaven gazing upon them from the amethystine balconies. A glorious licit veil it \til Be for all of ns who any where nud an; .. >w served tho Lord, but an especial heaven, a mounted heaven, i processional heaven, f..r those who have done outside v. orb, exposed work, and belonged to the Lord’s cavalry. “The armies which were in heaven fol lowed him upon white horses.” Then, let tho creaking door of tho clos ing year go shut. When that closes, bet ter doors will open. The v orld’s bright est and happiest years aro yet to conic. Toward them wo speed on in swiftest stirrup. Cavalry charge at Inkennan was not so rapid. At last the equestri ans equal tho chargers. At last tho riders aro as many ns tho horses. A Glaxu Mansion In Newport. A magnificent dwelling hoosc, built wholly of colored glass bricks, has beeu planned to he built at Newport for a Pa cific coast millionaire. The architects aro not yet permitted to disclose tho namo of the prospective owner of this unique architectural oddity, first, be cause ho is still aim ad, and, second, be cause certain details of construction havo not been determined. This Newport building, which will bo designed somewhat after the style of an old Pompeiian palace, is to be begun during the coining winter. On account of tho elaborateness of tho design and the great care and skill required in tho construction of the building it will not bo completed under two years. The architects say that the ground plan of tho honso will in somo respects resemble that of the honso of Pausa, fa miliar to readers of “The Last Days of Pompeii.” Tho bricks will bo of vari ous sizes, shapes raid colors, and the ef fect will boof an oriental richness which will defy description. This will l o tho first residence in the world constructed cf such material and on theso lines. It is to ho built iu tho form of a square, inclosing an open court, inside of which a fountain will play. By means of electric lights in many colored globes concealed at tho sourco of tho fountain tho water will fall in a shower of varicolored hues. It is said that tho owner of this fountain contemplates on certain occasions hav ing perfumed water flow from tho foun tain, thus scenting tho entire court, and on occasions of festivity a continuous current of California wino of his owu vintage will flow from tho pitcher held iu tho uplifted hand of the bacchante iu the center cf tho fountain.—Chicago Chronicle. TURNI] AMD Fntton Timepieces. A buttonhole watch is obviously a very useful and ornamental fashion. This unique timepiece can always bo kept in sight uml enables ouo to auswer a question as to the time with tho min imum amount of trouble. Largo quan tities of these miniature watches were imported from Franco for tho Christmas Boason. The buttonhole watch fad orig inated i:i France. They were first worn by bicyclists in tho sleeve or iu ono of tho lower buttonholes of tho coat They enabled the cyclist to seo the time with out iucouvcnieuce while riding at full speed. In America they will ho worn, how ever, in tho lapel of tho coat. Tho or dinary form of buttonhole watch has a face about half nn inch iu diameter, or even lers. It may readily be seen that when these tiny faces aro tastefully dec orated they will ho highly ornamental to the lapel of most ccats. At a distance they might readily bo mistaken for a badge cf tho Legion of Honor or some similar device. Tho works of these novel watches are about tho size of nn ordinary lady’s watch. The face, which is about one- fourth tho diameter cf tho works, is con nected with the mechanism by n thin neck. The buttonhole watches may bo bought for $10, e.ltliQugh some of the most elaborate designs aro worth ten times that figure.—New York World. Coal From China. China has thrown down f he gauntlet to the big coal miners of this country. An American bark recently brought to tho Pacific coast a mixed sample cargo of anthracite and manufactared coal mined and made iu the Touquin district It ia intended to push the Chinese fncl at prices greatly below those which Penn- rylvauia and Welsh coals of tho same character are now bringing. Experts have pronounced tho Touquin coal bed practically inexhaustible. Tho manufac tured coal is entirely new to American markets. It is made by tho Chinese na tives from coal dust. Tho dust is mixed with u pitchy snbstuuce and compressed into egg shaped lumps. The inflamma ble cement aids combustion, and the coal makes a very hut aud n very clean fire. Tho imported coal is said to be of the finest quality, fully equal to tho best American or British coals, whilo it c&u bo sold profitably at a price much be low the standard rates. Pennsylvania and Welsh anthracite for bouse use aro now selling on tho Paoiflocoast at about |13 u ton. Tho Touquin coal of the same grade cun bo sold to give a good return at Ida ton, while Touquin anthracite iteum coal can be quoted at least |1 a ton under tho present price of Welsh coal of that grade. Temperature wf Deep Well*. W. Hullock, a government expert ge ologist, has taken tho temperature at various depths in tho famous “deep wells” at Wheeling. Several of theso aro over 4,000 feet in depth. In one of them—one in which tho depth, as given by the foreman of the drilling company which put tho well down, is 4,558 feet —it was found that tho temperature at a depth of 1,300 feet was 20.4 degrees, centigrade. When the instrument was lowered to a depth of 2,000 feet aud given time to do its registering, it was found that tho mark had been set at 83.2, while at a point only eight feet from the bottom and 4,550 feet from the surface of the earth it registered as high us 48.4 degrees.—Si Lcraia Repub lic. WITH Bj The Danger ia Aver AYER’S “Nearly forty years ngo^af. some weiks of sickness, mv hs... turned gray and began falling out! so rapidly that 1 was threatened with immediate baldness. Ilearisg Ayer’s Hair Yigdr highly spoken of, I commenced using this prepara- ..f linn, and was so well satisfied^ the result that I have never tried any other kind of dressing. It stop pl’d the hair from falling out, stimu lated a new growth of hair, and kept the scalp free from dandruff. Only r.n oceasii oal application, is now needed to keep my hair of good, natural color. I never hesitate to recommend any of Ayer’s medicines to my friends.”—Mrs. II. M. Haight, Avnca, Neb. 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