Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRUMPET CALLS. Ommen RmN #Gus& a WasW Ne" to OVE for Got always takes In everybody else, Folas w h o bope are gener ally folks who help. GiTE love the power, and it wil1 always help. A sTING1 Christian is a ' 1 living dishonor so Christ. IT is hard to tire the man whom Christ has rested. SOME of the best friends the devil aas belong to church. IF sin could not bide its face none out devills would love it. Tag widow who gave the two mites did not sLarve to death. PEorLE who dislike to talk about God seidom love to talk to Him. Snex happiness, and you will fail. seek Christ, and you will find both. THERE can be no true Doliteness without the practice of selt-denlal. IT is a great mistake to remember your trials and forget yo:,r blessings. THERE are people who trust the Lord. but it is oniy when they have A to r1 TUE devil's power over us is de t 3troyed when we tiud out that God ;s o love. b MANY a prayer fer a revival has I oeen defeated by a church entertain- k tent.I PEOPLE are scarce who think that the :olds in the next house have re li.on enough. THERE are people who would dc more growing in grace if they would c try growling less. ALL the scen.ce in the world can't o make a bad man feel at home in a e good prayer meetin'z. THE devil enjoy9 himself in the I company of people who are we.1 u pleased with themselves. h ThE only kind of a sinner who can. not be saved to-day, Is the one who will not trust in Christ. V Dust on a Christian's Bible is h top dressing that the devil can al Weas to make a crop. I> xIAN can ever get religio. ondUgh in his head to make the devil let go-of his hands and feet. IF Christ is seen in your life, some body will be convinced that God is still working miracles on earth. Waps an evil thought Is trying t. force Itself upon your mind, the devil is knockli'g at the door of your heart. Soovma or later the world is going to be taken for Obrist, "n spite of the preachers who are jealous of each other. iT is hard to convince a worldlma, that a sin 13 black clear through, as long as he can hear y~old jingling in its pocket.I MANY~ a man who asks God to lead him (when he goes to prayer meeting / ---suffers the devil to guide h:m when he goes to vote. DANXIEL had time to pray three ----imes a day, but some church mem bers think they are doing well if they pray once a week. EVERYBODY knows that the sur. has spots on It, and yet some people always expect a ten-year-old boy to be about perfect. THE man who knows that b's scales and measures are wrong, has all the proof that God will give W'm that his -eliglon is niot right. THE ILord has promised that out of every trne believer there shall flow rivers of living water, and yet how inany have an experience that re minds one of a very poor pump. ADAX was put out Eden for coms mitting one sin, and yet there are liars and thieyes who expect to be made welcome in lieaveni because their wives belong to the church. Figures anid Finances. Neariy 700 vessels are employed ini our foreign commerce. The annual int:rease in wealth in 0 the United States is over $35 per in- a habitant. During Victoria's reign India has ' comned 42,000,000 In gold and ?206,- ~ 000,000 in silver. Manhe ranks as. the eighth state Irn a the mater of railroad construaction C for the year 189&. The banking capital of the Ulnited b States is estimated at $5,160,000,000 ~ Lhe gieatest in the world. In the world's mints from 1850 to 0 1890 there were coined 9,194 tons of b gold and S1, 235 torns of silver. The aggregate de~ osits of Boston savings banks are nearly 8400, 00J, 000, in more than 1,200,000 act ounts The life insuran~e companies own $100, 000,000 worth of real estate. Three comnanies own three-fourthi A Costly Fence. The big fence which surrounds the palace of Corneilus Vanderbilt, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-eighth streets is commented upon a good deal by out-of -town correspondents and others interested in the doings of this multi-millionaire. The fence is by no means a remarkable one to the casual (bserver, says the New York San. it is an iron fence, ten or twelve feet high, and similar to those in general use in Paris and Berlin. A member of the tirm of iron wvorkers wh, manufactured this fence. in speaking or it recently, said that it was a oetter piece of work than it seemed to be from the out side. It is wrought iron, not cast iron and it cost Mr. Vanderbilt $4:, 000. Prayer by Machinery'. Praying by machinery is usea among the inhabitants of Central Asia. A large hollow cyl nder like a drum is erected, and within it are in. closed the prayers that any one may wish to oier written out neatly. Tecylinder is then made to revol e by6 w~indorwae power, an every imadznes it to be e ulvalent to a verhal repetition of all the orayers it K11ITED H: Tobacco fn Africa. The Kaffirs, who cannot get snuift 3 ne and as pungent as they wish, ib the already prepared mass be ,een stones, andi mix it with a kind pepoper and some ashes. The Acks in Dschesire mix their tobacco Ith water and natron, so as to form a and of pap, which they call bucka. hey take a mouthful and roll it )out for a time with their tongue. here are regular bucka parties given. The Shylock Qu~otation. A good story is told on ex-rension DIMinssioner Black. Everyone who tows Black Is aware that he Is one the most dignifled legal 1;-ractition. , in the West, and that he Is also imewhat enamored of the classi.s. .at long ago he was attorney it. a 5ury ease at Springdeld, Ill., and to Is aldress to the jury he quotea very eely from the "h2ierchant of mnice," and wound up by saying iat although the plaintiff' could de and his pound of i e--h the terms of BLUEWAS ARTE :sbod idno eabe imtogob and7 this. Th atone fr /h alee \uue emd ey uc mue At' th ln e ton acdresed-befr caseaata Theiafot hto cannos gie nup, nlin and asungta theuy wihat er te arasdnopfrhpinrth ass be-l teonl stone.n Ai iega wieand o iepe who some ases. hea cksr in thbee micasionry theaccok ndig on aic. tBlack'al wulda e taena outhful sanrll tt tf artimeh could hei repongue. her arenvgars. k atisgvn Tb.~ i nfo imoet conta. u an goo rabis odg.x nso ITi ntmre Ban Evone hle mosBa saae that anoe is wones 's idte West aen tfunn eis. ei frm the T "T erT DO t OT i -AD SHAWL. 'Not tneo Right Kind of Tea. "4Spe.aking:, of alliteration," said a awyer the other day to a New York Times man, "I am remi-nded of what I heard In a down-town grocery store last summer. 'Gut eny good m'lasses, George?' asked a farmer's wife of the zrocer 'Good's I ever had in the store, Mrs. Littlefield.' answered the grocer. 'Waal, put me up tew gall'ns, George.'I A week or so later Deacon Littlefild called the grocer to ac count for selling- his wife a poorer quality of molasses than she had been accustomed to. 'It's good 'nough in 0I Injine puddin',' he said, 'an' brown bread; but, George, I gin ye word as % de'kin, it's terrible teejis in tea.'" Little Ethel--What are these an-' archist people talking about? Lit tie Johnny-Why, they wants every thIng everybody else has got and they never wash themselves. Little Ethel-Oh, I see. They is little boys growed upi.-Good News. C C t t t t c t i.. Abd /b7h Lw Intecus ofatia1 eor cortto ul ongh a certi poin werupon ousefr datoaintifYo, Tiseme as Carlesetinde - wha passed on ah down-to. grery oe lrable sume.'t n gdu mlasbea tiorote artd ofarhecort, wthe ofus. tice whooas Ieh) had anth "arle, rsLtiedour asee nhe Litsesed thale 'ithegoe"t c couetl," seaig Leget wil yoor qonrualit o molasw?" thntehdbe accuotomed to. 'it' g'now,hespnde brhead cout, Geor Ingin yeiworty. "Wdelli, itwos rileurj hon teass" nit"e iqethea perextee aon-1 Te onny-Waihtene wantsevfeup' thinea estroadan else veds gotm. tey nelverinas themsolvesin ithie awelwhve it see. Tyiiteby t t _ I Il -R IiT F5- EP THE BIG LAGOON. am Interesting Place by the Sea on the California Coai. i On the northern ooast of California, 4ome thirty miles below the mouth of 'he Klamath River, is one of the most 1iteresting natural formations to be tound in this country, known as the Biig Lagoon. Here the coast, which runs north and south up to this point, takes a sharp turn inland, bordered by high hills, running toa distance of ibout three miles, then turning out gain makes a sharp bay, almost V ;haped, and forsages past a sand bar has been washing itself up across this bay until the bar has raised up out of the water some ten or twelve feet, having a width of about 100 feet and L length of four miles, reaching across he entire bay. This bar is in the shape of a root When there is a storm the breakers 6ill roll up one side of it, break >ver and run down into the bay in ide, and it is a novel sight to stand here and watch the waters, mount in high on one side and perfectly alma on the other, the line between ,he two at intervals hidden alto ,ether. This bar is a sort of short cut nd can be traversed on horseback. In a storm the horseman will one ninute be high and dry on land, the iext minute a large wave will roll up nd, running under the horse's feet to ,he depth of a foot or more, the rider vill be, for an instant, four miles or o at sea on horseback, with no land iearer than the high bluffs of the nainland in sight. Moss agates may be found in abun lance on the pebbly beach, and when. he sun shines they glitter with daz ;ling brightness. The wild duck that frequents this )art of the coast literally fill this in and bay, and the passing hunter, hould he take a shot at them, will aise such a cloud and such a quack ng that he will think all the ducks f the earth have gathered there. Oc asionally some wild beast, like a bear r a panther, will be found crossing his bar, and the Indians have much port when such a thing happens, the nimal rarely escaping capture oi eath. Here the Digger Indians abound, iving on the shell fish, which they atch along the beach, seldom 'going ver the rk.ge of hills to capture a .eer, which are plentiful. It would stonish a Yale or Harvard foot-ball cam to come upon this scene some right morning at low tide and see be squaws and children playing la rosse on the beach. They get so ex ited with their sport that they keep up until the tide drives them from he beach, often staying there until bey have to chase the ball down into e surf.-Detroit Free Press. Water Proof Masonry. What was at first cons-dered a, oubtful experiment, namely, the se of coal tar as a means of render g masonry impervious to water, es ecialy in positions exposed to di ict contact with the latter, has roved a practically valuable resort. ised as a coating for masonry built ~ p of very norous stone, tar renders ~ Squite impervious, even at a depth f some fifty feet of water, and, ac arding to the opinion of those whose ~ rperience has been extensive with ~ 1, the article should be utilized in C I pubic buildings particnlarly those ~ esigned for the preser'ration of works ~ tart, the dissolvig action of water, ~ en upon mortisr of superior cquality, C eng well known, and also the un vorable effect of the exudation of e ater charged with lime salts from ~ 1e water. Two methods of using -ie tar are named, namely, in a boil ig state in one or several layers, is being suitable for surfaces ex ased to the air; or it may be made >flame up before using, this being ppropriate to surfaces which have to e a covered up. It Is stated that when a iling coal tar Is employed in three 1 >ats on masonry the result is a black id very brilliant varnish, which e rfectly resists the action of frost, f ater, and sun, being likewise abso- t tey impervious; and the tendency y the black coating to absorb heat ay be overcome by white-dusting t ie whole before the tar is quite dry. '5 READY-MADE GRIEF. t Brnicious Literature Which Developer 1 Nothing But Korbid SentImentaliam. S There Is a certain morbid senti ent amcng women which is admired ~ ad cultivated by many of us who are 0 herwise suffliently strong minded. 9 mean a fondness foi' a peculiar tylje ~ ipoetry and those terrible little I coks which are sent by one's friendsa se moment a bereavement or otherd ouble occurs. I have known a case a here seventeen of these little vol. mes were received by a mourner g ithin two weeks. The donors had h rawn heavy pencil marks around all e' be most harrowing passages, so that a y no chance could they be over oked, and over those books wereh pent hours and hours of weeping, t at certainly did not make the los ce n easier to bear. Nor are mourners the only women ho indulge themselves in this way. 'he very happiest of women will reasure scraps of verses from the ewspapers descriptive of the most ~ eartrending sorrow, and make them. b lves cry over them with real enjoy- s ent. t What I desire to emphasize is that a omen do themselves a great deal of A arm by indulging this morbid senti- a int. It takes the place of wiser, a iore healthful thoughts and condol- t' ace. it is exactly as pernicious as %' reading medical books, a study of fi hich will convince nervous persons p aat they have every disease thereir 3 escribed. d There is more comfort in a verse t iScripture, a warm hand clasp, and f: aif an hour's hard work, than in a y elf full of the morbid little vol. e mes. As for the verses. instead of o ading and crying over them, men, t nd women would better be laying in a q :od sto~k of happy, wholesome ideas c ad thoughts, to help them bear the t oubles when they actually do come. f -ebruary Donahoe's,t The palmy days of Apelles, the Greek t stoic painter, were abou4~332 5, 0. U il T HE breath I~f farnA is dust, bh tivian is snlid mud. SUIT (KNEE PAY Ctood Manners. Looking over the list of things on( nay or may not do in society, we fin( ;he authority of the Golden Rule be 2inci all good manners. The bes I - . )red people are those who never for act what is due to others; the law! )y which they are governed hav< >rung i Cto existence to answer, ned, to spare people's feelings, preju les or exertions. That one mus1 >t break an engagement to dine, ;ys Bazar, is not simply because ono ust never break any promise, bul )ecause doing so will disarrange thi hole affair, and make awkwardnes nd Inconvenience for those that hav en so kind as to ask one to the ble. That on calling ceremonious13 none member of a household, who i eeither temporarily or permanently, he visitor should leave his card, ne k for the lady who is at the head o a house, even I quite Indifferent as 0 whether she sees her or not, is not he command of an idle piece of hypoc sy, but is to be done both because e courtesy Is due to the person bose thresholai is crossed, and be use it makes the circumstances sy for the person on whom the call really made, avoiding any disturb ce or jealousy. That she may not fuse an invitation from one and ac pt it from another is not a rule for e arbitrary curtailment of her lib rty and pleasure, but is made for the ~ke of sparing the sensibilities of the e whose invitation is not accepted. Ld so on to the end. The essential uirements of etiquette may be met yany one who remembers under all cumstances to do and say that Tich is most agreeable to others. en if some minor points are neg ited. ,The Power of Habit. The other morning, a tall, stout an with a straggy, half-grown beard ,d every indication of poverty in his parel, entered the Riggs House and proached the desk where Proprietor )e Witte was standing. "I have not had any thing to eat cept a sandwich yesterday morning r two days," he said in a voice that embed with weakness. "sCan'1 ou let me have something?" Mir. De Witte gave him a card to e steward, and pretty soon he was raciously disposing of a plentiful eakfast. When he had finished he consciously dipped his fingers in e water glass, passed them over his e, and drying them on the napkin rse from the table. Drawing him f up he smiled with satisfaction, d putting his hand into his pocket his tattered vest, he drew forth a lie and proffered it to the aston ed waiter. When the latter re sed the tip, the man appeared to aken from a dream, and with red ning face he muttered something d hurriedly went out. His gait, bearing manner and poise ~nerally were those of a man who d known better days, and the un )scious recognition of the water ~owed that the power of habit ac ired in the days of hie prosperity d asserted itself when ,ahe momen ry pleasure of a square meal had used him to forget his present ght, Signs oftAdvanlcing Years. -Do you know the surest indication, old age?" asked Dr. Reed of a num e of friends at the Lindell. The est indications In man," he con ued, "are moist eye, a dry palm and brinkage of the calf of the leg. 1 these indications are due to some tion of the nerves consequent upon vancing years. In the matter of e eye, the fifth section Is interfered ith, and it Is this which causes a w of water. The dryness of the ur Is produced by an interference ith the functions of the body, alst e to the action of the nerves, and ic shrinkage of the leg follows om similar causes. In old age, too, u notice some men become more )rpulent than in the earlier portions their lives. With drinking men a charge Is often produced by the antity of saccharine, which they nsme with their drink, and, with ose who do not drink, it follows om other physiological changes. As )the hair becoming gray, it results, the majority of cases, from thc artal closing of the hair cells and e reduction of the quantity of nat a1 coloring matter which the clos g produces. With women the dim ess of the eye does not come so soor sit does in mm L'S, UNDERWAIST AND KILT) FOR BO) A Fish with a Corset. Forest and Stream s:-.eaks of a cu t rious find in the Cape Ann tish mar -ket, at Gloucester, Mas It was nothing less than a mackerel wvith a rubber band around the body. The band had been put on the fish when quite small, and stayed there ln spite of the rapid growth of the wearer. The fish's body under the band did not g~row, which caused a dep'ression in the full-grown body of about three inches In depth. The depression was covered witn a healthy skin in no way unlike that on the rest of the body. The fish measured In length 14 inche, diameter of body each side of the depression 7f inches, diameter of depression 5 inches. The fish was undoubtedly In a healthy condition, and tMe band was strong and could be stretched like any other band. BLOUS WAIT ANDCAPE ds," nEWSotwest ~ F O, Rh peO pl usrestit and Sram matte of Cu. Iheos plin ar te geneAlly flooded, thig lest tha a ufceret depth ta rubber peoletoge arout bots.Th bandsthlsdareent huldon the fishdse qie thsmall, ane acsted t eeI sptae ofr strappd grothesd ofth thearer. The fishsod nern the caressalong inole fulowblace hosef, abouti three incheskingdt. Thipoe hsi insoualy aucossiee tat on e rsoth boutin iThat fis meanton inhegoun 14 inhes , ameteronod eac sids can st depreson nres. countr toase nobedln a hoealsty codtio, and itne ban this exatod aoind coulde stthed lshe thy othr tndn. adraot ntepan Thywher stilts al Vsdaylng pttsin Stheonwhenc the o plhe strilts, s nd aigtte ofure Thee folaowns recoendlyasooded Rusal psinlass togt aut inotsa. Thpies arue oel, in oder hands, likre the weareaccutoed add siee, but ar farmlyc stadt the isideas o arety-ongr to orty-eh houslf Ead oa hi in walking The oe Next dsualvely an opce atoe endi insouratb utting Itft acohlan ohnc thfroundh ehoin hi, te person can (aniesthr can wnill befndet add the atcmton curene in-a glassr t see quanite and woe te shing and cniintlyn ths eate addsition, While tlh stra the r leing through aut cothe ain. u Th ey wealuaber stilt alesn, Ca putein tem tone whn they oerei th origingantkngyhm. Catersoen (Shny trning)-Don'igt a dear M C asWy Ineve CTesolln Is recmmnde toschurc awakdt ecpec.Taeoe unef Ruan ingens s Tap Inosmld pieces aybris goe nor yordaner oc get a wamdacero that thue so-as twety-foGentoemn-rogh ous t Teatp-Ys.ive mal1 anc you'sti a ce-.v nn)htbth soluHvao-sall nd 41t S OF 8-10 YEARS. She WAs E. "Why, my dear, what on earth is :he matter with you? . You look as If you could bite a ten-penny nail in two," said Mr. Day when he came home the other evening and found his wife with her hat and gloves on standing in the vestibule of their house. "Don't ask me a word about it, Ralph Day, and don't you dare laugh or Il-I'll-leave you- I never was so mad in all the mortal days of my life. I-I-oh, I could swear!" "Well, please don't do that," said Kr. Day. "What are you standing tere for?" "What am I standing for? Why aave I been standing here for three wretched hours? Oh, I could flyZ Haven't any eyes. Can't see why am standing here?" "No, I can't.' "Can't see that the back part of my dress is caught in these miserable inside doors and that I can't-oh, you go to laughing and I'll use this par sol onyoui I started out to mnake some calls nearly three hours ago and whilelIwas standing here a draftof. wind banged the door shut and caught ithe back part of my dress in it, and I just couldn't getaway. It's Thursday, and the girl's out, and there's no one in the house, . and the outside doors were shut so I couldn't make any one hear me from the street. As usual, I'd forgotten my latch key, and here ryve stood and stood and stood -until I thought I'd die, and - Ralph Day, if you don't stop laughing and ,giggling like an Idiot I'll-'ll-you hurry and open this door and let me get away from - here or I'll never speak to you again n earth! Oh, I'm so mad!"--Free Press.C K1ITTED OVEE-JACKET - Seea Growfn Fromoted bsy Belettty. Dr. yames Leicester, of the Mer hant Venturers' Technical school, as beenstudying the growth of seedsI awhat may be described as ectrified earth. A box about three ~et long and two and one-half feet ide was filled with soil, and near each nd two metalplates, one of zinc, the ther of copper, each about one ~uare foot in size, were immersed, nd were united outside by a copper ire. It Is evident that by slow chem al action on the zinc a current will ss through the earth toward the >pper, and returning by the outside pper wire will form about the sim. lest of simple cells. Various seeds ere sown in the earth between the lates, and in every case it was aund that the seeds grew much uicker than they did when the lates were absent. SimilB and en more definite experiments W-. ado with glass tanks, some with id some without the metal plates. 1I of them were filled with the same ~rth and were treated with the same antities of water. In one typical stance the result Is thus stated: n the case of .hemp seed It was Lily an inch above the surface be . re there was any sign of it in the cinary vessels." The experiments - re varied in several ways, but al- - ays with substantially Identical re its. It was found that if the soil s watered with a little very dilute etic acid thei growth of the seeds - s much quicker when the metal ates were present, whereas without temf no difference, was noticed. Fhe K~new It. Mr. DinwiddIe-l see that Mrs.G(lad one has written an article on chil- _ ron, in wilch she says they need ange. Alrs. Dinwiddie-Don't IM now that? lI on't they come toa me o or three times a day and ask for niekel or a dime?-PIttsburge brnicleTelegragh.- .