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> THE LEDGER: GAFFXEY, S. C., JUNE IT, 1807. "WOMAN'S FHIST SIN. eve4 fatal step in the garden ' OF EDEN. Jtr. T:,>(ii!iso on tlie Itangcr of it I’oorly Kt'sulatod Iiqtil.sitin-m-Ms— A Pic- tur«‘M;u«‘ Sermon on ttic ICuin of the Hu man Itaee. New Youk, Juno 1J.—A new intor- pretutiou rf tlu* cal nnity in ParadL'C is giviu Ly Dr. Tahnapo in this sermon, which is ladon with practical lessons. The text is Gon< sis iii, ti, ‘ ‘And when the Woman saw that the tr<e was good for food, and that it was pleasant to tho eyes, and a tree to le desired t>) iu::ko one wise, she tot k < 1 tlie- fruit thereof, and did cat, and gave also unto her hue- band with her, and he did eat.” It is the lirst Saturday afternoon in the world’s existence. Kv< r since suu- ris-e Adam has been watching the bril liant pageantry tf wings and scale s and deeds, and in his first lessons in zoolo gy and ornithology and ichthyology lie has noticed that the robins f!y the air in twos, and that the fish swim the wa ter in twos, and that the lions walk the Helds in tw< s, and in the varm redo lence of that Saturday afternoon he falls off into sh n.itr, and, as if by al legory to teach all ages that the great est of earthly blos-inps is sound sleep, this paradisaical Kinnoknce ends with the discovery on the part < f Adam of a corresponding intollipou'-o just landed on a new planet. Of the mother of all the living I speak—live, the first, the fairest and the best. In Eden. I make me a garden. I inlay the paths with mountain moss, and I bordtr than with pearls from Ceylon and diamonds from Golconda. Hete and there are- fountains tossing in the sunlight and ponds that ripple under the paddling of the swans. I gather me lilies from the Amazon, and orange groves from the tropics and tamarinds from Goyaz. There are woodbine and honeysuckle climbing over the wall and starn d spaniels sprawling themselves on the grass. I invite amid tin so trees tho larks, and the brown thrushes, and the robins, and all the 1 brightest hhels eif heaven, and they stir the air with in finite chirp arei carol. And ye t theplae e 1 is a desert tilled with darkness and death as compared with the reside nce of the woman eif the* text, the subject of my story. Ne ver since have sueh skies lookeel down threaigh such leaves into sueh wate>rs. Ne ve r has rive r wave haei sue h curve and she e n and 1 ank as adorned the Pison, the Ilavilah, tho Gihon and the* Hidde kel, e ven the* peb bles being bdellium and onyx stone. What fruits’, with no eure ulio to sting tho rind! What flowers, with no slug to gnaw the root! What atmosphere, with no frost to chill and with im heat to consume! Bright colors tangled in the grass. Pe rlume in the air. Musie* iti the sky. Great se*eiio eif gladne ss and live* and jeiy. 4 Right there under a bowe r of leaf ami vine uml shrub oecuired the first marriage. Adam tee k the hanel of this immaculate daughter eif Ge d ami prei- nouneed tho cere mouy when he said, “Be net of my benie, and flesh of my fle-di.” A feirbidden tree ste e d in the* midst of that e xepiisite* park. Eve, harm ful curiosity has stood by the inventor until forces that were hidden for aget come to wheels and le've rs and shaft: ami shuttle s—force s that fly the air oi swir the sea or cleave tin* mountaii unti. tlie earth jars and roars and ring; and crackle s and booms with strange me chanism, ami ships with nostrils ol hot steam and yokes of fire draw’ tk< continents together. I say nothing against healthful curi- csity. May it have other Leyden jar's, and other electric hatte lies, ami othe r voltaic pile's, and either magnifying glasses, with which to storm the bane e castles of the natural world until it shall surrende r its last see re t. We thank God lor the geological curiosity of Pro fessor Hitchcock, and tho mechanical curie sity of Liebig, ami tho znole'gieal curiosity of Cuvier, anel the inventive curiosity eif Edison, but we must a fin, it that unhe-althful and irregular inquisi tiveness has rusheel thou.-anels anel tens of thousands into ruin. Eve just tasted the- fruit. She was curious tej find e,ut how it last, d, am- that curiosity blasted her and blaster, all nations, ho there are clergymen in this day, inspired by unhealthful iu- eiuisitirenets, who have tried to look the world to throw open all its pri°on doors and display the crime, and throw open all its. hospitals ami display the dise ase, and throw op n all the insane asylums and shew the wretchedness, anel open all the sepulchers and show the dead, and open all the* doors of tho lost world and show tho damned. That one Eelenic transgression stretched chf’tds of misery across the* heart e*f tho world and struck them with dolorous wailing, and it has seated the* plagues upetn the air ami the shipwrecks upon the tempest and fastened, like a leech, famine to the he art of the* sick and dy ing nations. Beautiful at the start, heir- rihle at the: last. Oh, how many have experieneed it! Arc there here those who arc votaries of pleasure? Let me warn you, my biotin r. Your pleasure boat is far fre m shore, anel your summer day is ending roughly, for tht* winds and the waves are loud voiced, anel tlie overcoming clouds are all awrithe and aglcam with terror. You are pint the Narrows and almost outside the Hook, and if the At lantic take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt neve r get to shore again. Put hack; row swiftly, switte-r, swifter! Jesus from the shore caste th a rope. Clasp it quick er, and the daughters were diligent in their kindness to tho aged, throwing wreaths of blessing on thej road that led father and mo; her down the* ste e p of years. God bless eiur homes. And may the* home on e aith be: tho ve stibule of our hetme in heaven, in which place may we all meet—fathe*r, mother, son, daughter, brothe r, skte r, grandfathe r ami gramlmether and grandchild, and thet entire gr< up of precious ones, of whom we must say, in the words el transporting (diaries Wesley: OtK* far lily, v.-i* dwell in him; One <*liur< h above, t cnenth. T’loupU now diviele-il by the stream— The* narrow sit earn of death— One- army of tho being God, To his command we 1 o\v. Pari of the I - st have cr*- ‘ d the f.exyl, And part are i-rossing now PRICKLY ASH ' 3 BITTERS AT INTERVALS DURING THE MALARIAL SEASON tering e,ut e ne day an i;<* looks up at , the tree* and sees tin* be nutiful fruit and wcudcrs if it is swe e t anel we.ude-rs if it is seiur, and standing there* says: “I think I will just pui my hand ripe n the* fruit. It will elo net damage; to the- tre e. 1 will not take the Iruit te» e at, but I will just take* it e!e v n tei exainine it.” She examine el the fruit. She* said, “I do neit think the re can he any liaim in my’just breaking tin* rind of it.” She put tho fruit to her teeth, she taste d, she allow eel Adam also to t; to the fruit, the eh e r eif tin* we tId e pentd, anel th<* n einst* r sin eute re d. Le t tke> he aveusgallurLlark:. tin* v.inds sigh cn tin* lose m of the* hills, anel cav ern, and eb sc rt, and e arth, anel sky> in in one long, deep, he ll r< tiding howl, “The world is lost!” Be asts that 11 feae were hurmh ss and full of play put forth claw ami sting ami tooth and tusk. Biros whet tin ir beak fe.r prey. Clouds troop in the sky. Sharp thorns shoot up tin; ugh th" soft grass. Blastings on tin* le ave s. All tin* chords of that great harmony an* snapped. Upon the brightest hom<* this world ever saw emr limt ]iui> nt- turm ei the ir back anel re el berth on a path of sorrow the broken hearted myriads *)f a ruined race. I)anf;< r of CorlMity. Do you not see, in the* lira place, the danger of a j cu rly n gulate d mqumi- tiveness? fche* wanted to km w lew the; fruit taste d. Hie* found c ut, but li.buO years have de plored that unhe althful curierity. Healthful eu r ie..sity has de.tio a great deal for le tie rs, feir art, for science and for religiejn. It has gene down into tin depths of the e arth with the* gcolegist and se en the liist chapte r of Gene sis written in the hoe k of na ture illustrate d with engraving on re e k, and it stood with tin* antiepiurian w hilo he blew the* trumpet cf re t-umetioii ove r buried ile reuliuie um and Pompeii, until frem tin lr sepulcher tin re came up shaft and terrace and amphitheater. Healthful curie>ity has nilurged *h<* tele se e jiie* vision of the astronomer, until Worlds hidde n in the* distant heavens have trooped f* rth and have joined the choir praising tin Lord; planet weighed against planet and wildest comet las- send with resplendent law. Healthful ouneisity lias ge ne* down and found the tracks of the* eternal Ged in the polypi mid the starfish under the: sea and the majesty cf the great Jehovah encamped unele r the gorgeous curtains of the Oah- Ln. It has Studied the spots Oil the; ; an, and tho larva in a Leech leaf, and the light under a firefly’s wing, and the terrible eye glance (>1 a condor pitching from Chimborazo. It has studied tho myriads of auimalculu; that make up tho phosphorescence* in a ship’s wake) and the* mighty muzoe f suns and spheres and, constellations and galaxies that blow on in tho march ol God. lieuith- irs—mysteries that were barred am. be.Reel ircr.i all human inspection—anel they have wrenched their whole moral nature out of joint by trying to pluck fruit fw>iM Iframhes Ley end that reach, or have come out on limbs of the tree from which they have tumbled intc ruin witlie.ut remedy. A thousanej trees of re ligious knowledge from which wc , may eat and get aeivautape*, but from j certain trees of mystery how many | have plucked the ir ruin! Election, fie*c j agency, trinity, resurrection — in the disc ussion of these subjects hundreds j and thousands ef pee ph ruin the soul. Tie re are men who actually have been ke pt ejiit e f the* kingdom of he aven be- • cause the y e*c:uld not understand whe He Ichiscelec was not. I'orfcieUlen I’riiit. Oh, hew many have been destroyed by an unhealthful inquisitiveness! It is seen in all directions. There are those j who stand with the* eye* stare* and mouth j gape; of curiosity. They are* the first to , hear a’falsehood, build it another story high and two wings to it. About other pee pie’s nppuic 1, about othe r people*’.* , business*, about other pi'ople’s financial erudition, about other people’s affairs, the y t.re overanxious. Every nice; pb co ! of gossip stops at their door, and they fatten and luxuriate in the endless re und of the* gi'<*:it world e,f tittle* tattle*. They invite* anel sumptuously ente rtain at the ia house* Colenc 1 Twaddle! anel Ks- quite* ( bite iiat and Gove rnor ismalitalk. Whe ever hath an innuendo, whe ever, hath a scandal, whoe ve r hath a valuable i secret, let him tame* and sacrifice! it to this godde ss of sjjhitter. Thousands e,f Adams and Eves do nothing but eat; frt.it that eioe s not belong to them. Men | quite well known as mathematicians failing in this ce.mputatie u of me ral algebra: Good sense plus good bre eding, minus curiosity, eejuals minding your own affairs. '1 in n, how many young me n through | curiosity go thre.ugli the whole realm 1 e f Ertiich novels, to see whether they ‘ ail; n ally ns bad us me ralists have pro- | uouuce el them. They ce tae ne ar the ve rge* e.f tin pre cipice just to le ok off. Tin y want to see how far it really is eii v.n, but they lose the ir balance while tin y 1 ok and fall into remedile ss ruin, or, interring tin nisi Ives, clamber up, bleeding und ghastly, on tho roe*k, gib- L- ting with curses or groaning ineffec tual prayer. By all means encourage healthful inquisitiveness, by all means dise e uiage* ill regulated cuirnaty. This hi! je e t abo impre sse s me* with tin fact that fruits that arc sweet to the taste may afterward produce great ago ny. borbiiiden fruit for Eve was so pi, usant sin* invited In r husband also to tain* of it, but her banishment from parn(!’>* and (5,000 ye ars of sorrow, and v. reu he due ss, unci w ar, and woe paid for that luxury. Sin may be; ve ry sweet at the start, and it may induce great w retchedness alte rw arel. The cup of sin is s] ..ihling at the top, but there: is eb atii at tlie be ttom. intoxication has gr< at e xhilaratie n fe r awhile, and it fillips the* ble eid, and it makes a man see live stars where others can see only e.tn* star, and it makes the* jeer man rich, and turns che eks which are w hite re el as rose s; but what about tlie; dreams that ce me* afte r, when he; se e ms falling in m gnat heights, i r is prostrated by othe r fancied disasters, and the perspi- ratie.n stands en the forehead—the night dew of e verlasting darknc.-s—and lie is ground under the* horrible hoof of nightmare < shin king with lips that crackle! with till ce nsuming torture? “Rejoiee, Gj-oung man, in thy youth, und 1: t thy heart cheer thet* in the* da\s of thy youth, but know thou that lor all the .-e tilings Ge el w ill bring thee in to judgment.” Sweet at the start, hor rible* at the last. Go into that hall of re ve Iry, whe*re ungodly mirth stagge rs and blasphe mes. Listen to the* sense less gabble. See* the* last trace of intelligence dashed out from face s made in God's own image. “Aha, uhu!” says the roist ering inebriate. "This is joy for yon. Fill high your cups, my boys. I drink to my wife’s misery and my children’s rags and my God’s defiance.” And he knows not that a fienrl stirs tho goble t in his h.uiel and t_iut udders uncoil Irom tlie; dre gs and thrust their forked tonga: s hi;. :;.g tl.rum 1. rLe- .rot!, on the lim. The Philistines jeered and laughed anil shouted at Samson. Oh, they wanted him to make sport for the m, and he made sport for them. How bright and gay was the* seen** leir a lit tle while. After awhile the* giant puts one hand against this pillar und the e ther hand against that pillar and hows himself, and 8,000 me rrymake rs arc* mushed like grapes in a wine press. 1 Sin rapturous ut the stait, awful ut the last. A Great TrauiegrrMrion. That one Ede nic trunsgre ssion did not semi to bctnmh, but it struck a blow which to this day makes the earth stag ger. To find out the coma epu uce h of ; that cue sin you would have to compel through the keyhole of God’s mystcr- j 1}', now or never. Oh, are there* net some of year who arc freighting all your loves and joys and hopes upon a ve sscl which shall never reach the pert of heaven? Thou nearest the breakers, , one heave urcu th. rocks. Oh, what an awful crash was that! Another lunge may crush thee beneath the spurs or grind thy bone's to powder amid the | torn timbers. Overboard for your life, overboard! Trust not that loose plank nor attempt the wave, but quickly clasp the fe et of Jesus w alking cn the w atery pavement, shouting until he hear thee, “Le rd, save me or I perish!” bin beau tiful at the start—oh, how sad, how distressful, at the last! The ground over which it leads you is hollow. The fruit it offers to your taste is poison. The ! promise it makes to you is a lie. Over that ungodly banquet the keen sword of Ge d’s judgment hangs, and there are oirine us handwritings on the walls. Observe also in this subject how re pelling sin is when appended to great J attractiveness. Since Eve’s death there has be en no such perfection of woman hood. You could not suggest an attrac t ive mss to the body or suggest any re finement to the manner. \*ou could add no gracefulness to the gait, no luster to the* eye, no sweetness to the voice. A , perfect God made her a perfect woman, to be the companion of a perfect man i in a pe rfect home, and he r entire na ture* vibrated in accord with the beauty and se i g e f paradise*. But she reh llt el against God’s government, and with the *utme hand with which she plucked the , fruit she launched upon the* world the "rimes, the wars, the tumults that have sot the universe a-wailing. Fatal Attractions. A terrible offset to all her attractive- , mss. Wc ait* not surprised when we I find men ami women naturally vulgar g< ing into transpiessiou. We expect that people who live .a the ditch shall have the manner:; of the ditch, but how shocking whe n we find sin appended to supe rioi e ducation and to tlie re fine- , mints of social life. The accomplisk- ine uts of Mary, quee n of Scots, make In i patronage of Darnley, the* profligate!, the* more* appalling. The ge nius of Cath erine* II of Russia only se ts forth in me re* powe rful contrast her unappeasa ble ambition. The translations fn m tin Greek and the Latin by Elizabe th, ami herwendaful (jualificuticns fe r a queen, make the more disgusting her caprieiousuess of affection anel her lie.t- uess of te mper. The* greatness of By lin’s mind makes the mao alarming Lyion’s sensui lity. Le t no one think that refine ment of inaiim r or e xeiuisitenoss cf taste or sh- periority of education cuu in any wise apologize* for ill temper, for an cppivs- j sive spirit, for uukindne ss, for any kind of sin. Dise -L* elience Godward and trans- 1 gres'iou uiauwarel can give; no e xcuse. Aceouip^ishine ut 1m uveu In^h is no apol ogy for vice* hell deep. My subject also impre sses me with the le gal influence of worn in. Whe u I , see Eve with this pow e rful influence; ove r Adam and over the; gene rations that have followed, it suggests to me , tho gre at power all women have for good e-r for e vil. I have no sympathy, nor have you, with the* hollow flatte ries showe red uje n woman fie-m the plat form and the* stage. They mean noth ing; they are accepted as nothing, j Woman’s nobility consists in the* e x* r- ‘ e ise of a Christian influence, and w hen I see this jKiw • iful iullitaiee of Eve up on he r husband and upon the whole* hu man race I make up my mind that the , frail aim of we man can strike* a blow which will re sound through all eternity j down uine ng the dungeons or up among the thrones. Sweet Home. Of course I am not spe aking of re*p- r» st utative wome n—of Eve, who ruined the* race by one; fruit picking; of Jael, who drove a spike* through the hcael of fcsisera, the warrior; of E-tlicr, who j overcame royalty; of Abigail, who stop- pe d a he st I y he r own beautiful pre.w- ; e ss; of Mary, who nursed the world’s Saviour; of Grundmotlier Le is, iftimor- talized in her grandson Timothy; of Charle tte* C’orday, w l.o drove the dag ger through the heart of the assassin of her lover, or of Mario Antoinette, w ho by one look from the balcony e f her e ..ni nil., n d a n*e , l*, h**!* e.-\* n se elToItl the throne of forgive mss and womanly courage*. I speak not of these extraor dinary persons, but of these who, unam bitious for political power, us wives ami mothers and sia< rs and daughters, attend to the thousand sweet eflie es of home. When at last we* come to calculate the forces that decided the destiny of nations, it will he* found that the mightie st and grandest influe nce* came from home, where* the* wife clue reel up despondency and fatigue* and sorrow’ by her own sympathy, and the mother triiiii'd he r child for he aveu, starting ths little feet on the path to the celes tial city, and the sisters Ly their ge n- tlencss refined the manners of the Uotk- Te*tine*SM«*e Xlocntainet-rtt at t!i<; Fair. Vanity Fair is the name given at Nashville to that interesting part of the show which might have inherited the meaningless name: of Midw ay. All our old friends of Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta are there, from the disciple of Barmin., who tried to induce a group of country cle rgymen to ente r the Cairo theater by telling the*m that “this is the fiance that John the Baptist lost his head over,” to tho tamer of more or less wild beasts. But over in one corner of Vanity Fair is a show that is genuine anel characteristic of tlie state of Tennesse. There Uncle Jack, an old moun taineer in a coonskin cap, presides over a moonshine still, and, afte r explaining carefully to every visitor all the fine points cf tho magic change of corn through sour mash into “mountain dew,” whispers solemnly as a dead se cret that he never distille d a drop of wildcat whisky in his life—never. Uncle Jack has an assistant, a tre mendous fellow, who lacks only a few inches of 7 feet in his Loots (I doubt if he was ever measured in his stockings). There is a good deal of ample human nature in the customs of eastern Ten nessee. The mountains arc not so very large, and occasionally one gets too small to hold two of its inhabitants. Then it is that the careless man has to go, and the man who always kept his gun leaded remains. Uncle Jack’s big assistant seems always to have been a careful, fore handed, or ut least fore armed, citizen. Unele Jack would bo a more com fortable* man to share a mountain with —a man git en rathe r to contemplation than to ncti'iu. 1 stood besieie him one day while a gentleman who was dan gling in the sky on a bicycle scat sus- pe nded from a balloon was supposed to be! sailing an “airship.” Uncle Jack followed him with his eyes until he became a mere speck. Then he said, “I wouldn’t car’ to ever WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, TIME, SUFFERING. Don’t Wait for disease to fasten Itself in your lio-ly e .o t a botileof I'kii ki.T Asu lUTTKRS at once, kc-ep it in the hou.se anel whene ver you feel bilious, tlui!, constipated, -or y our stomach is weak taken few doses, It will save you doctor bills, time lost In slckne-3 anel much misery SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price $1.00 Per Bottic. ■‘(’berokop Drug Co. Si><*cial A<_o*nts. riio JjSmu Ia£uiii—, <>untit i n Oil to soila- llt 1 makes people so thirsty I couldn't >ell slide sodn if There is nothin': so re fresh in<: on a hot day a> a -if good. 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On the Ctli of May e f last yi*ur I had journeyed perhaps for the* twentieth time* to the distant river station anel re e < inme ne-i el the weary routine* of an other laum h, w ith very moderate) ex pectation indeed, and when on that, to me, memorable afternoon the signal was given and the aerodrome sprang into tlie air 1 watched it from the she.re* with, haielly a In p- that t!:*.* long serif's of ac cidents hud eeine to a close, and ye t it hail, s.nel ii r the lir.-t time* the* aerodrome* swept continuously through the air like a living thing, and as second alter sec ond passed <*u the face of the stop watch, until u minute had gone by, and ir still flew cn, anel as I heard tho cheering ef the f*w speetaters, I felt that se nn thing had bee n aece.mpiished at last, for never in any part of the* w e rid er in any period had any ma chine of man’s construction sustained itse If in the air before fe r even half of this brief tune. Hill llie; aeroelrome we nt on in a rising course* until, at the; e*ud of a mintUe: s.nd half (for whid time only it was provided with fuel and water), it had accomplished a lit- tlo over half a mile, and now it settled rather than fell into the river with a gentle* descent. It was immediately taken out and flown again with e*eiual success, nor was the re anything to indi- eatu that it might not have- flown in- eie finite ly exoe pt for the: limit put upon it.—Professe r Langley in McClure's. .1 A. < AUKOt.L. I’re-siele*)!: M fn. e i>. IF I). WIIKAT. Ti.*a>.ur< r (Fitriicv MG. e'u. IF M. WILKINS. Late of WilLiim Me*r- cIim nt >. W. ee' \ 111’KNTF.lt. of far ml I A < arpi-nlcr. MiTcliantJi. .1. (F WAKDLAW, S< c'ry, (iaIVucy Manf. < o. GiilTncy. i .1. I. s \ it ft ATT. Merchant anel Fan;!' ; Hon. \\ M. J EFFEHIES, Farmer. Horn S. I Ion. < W. \V 11ISN A NT. Mi i i*lia nt ati'i Fa rtu- er. Wilk'nis ville. >. ('. III.NKY M. McAHKN. e'apitiiliat, M •A<l*)ns- vi I le. N. ( i). 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Miss Gary’s suggestion met with general fa vor, and the discussion was kept up at a live !y rate during the remainder of the hour. If the re is one topic more than an oth(*r upon which Mrs. McKinley waxe s e Icque nt, it is marriage. Above every thing she extols tin* de votion of her hus- baml as an example to young men. hho uulie*sitatingly asserts that marriage b we man's highest mission win u coupled with tho mutual respect which be ge ts perfect confide nce*. In the discharge: of In r domestic dutie s sho believe s that a wife and mother finds her truest happi ness and reward.—Pittsburg Dispatch. WARREN Sc MORGANS, hi J. E. Webster’s old oi'ice. 21 JEWELED. Q Elgin. If 'Von iiro Luok v iCnouj^li • to own :i good watch and i: ^ets out of order always take* it to relirtldc and efficient jewel ers for repairs and you will continue to have a “ood watch. We can repair any kiml of a watch and also k«''*p watches and all kind- of jewelry for sale. 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