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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 16 1895. ESTABLISHED 1843. A London paper reports that Queen Victoria cannot walk now without the assistance of servants, but it is certain, ait least, that the grand old lady, unlike her royal grandfather, Is not dying at the top. She is nearing the age of 70 and has reigned fifty-seven years, and her judgment In matters of statesman ship is probably as good to-day as It ever was. The Boston Tiaveller, which has been erebrating its seventy-second'birthday lately, has become a really phenomenal afternoon newspaper under the mani agement of Charles E. Hasbrook, who Is well kncwn in Chicago and the West. The paper is bright, newsy and uncon ventional, with an uncommonly strong editorial page. The success of its man agement In invading and capturing so conservative a field as Boston Is mat. 'er of widespread journalistic comment Driven wells are becoming quite pop ular since the advent of machinery for doing the work In an efficient manner. By the use of these, large volumes of water are obtainable in places where none could be procured before.' These wells are sunk about seventy-five or one hundred feet usually, and, with a -pipe of from two to eight Inches in di ameter, issue water in abundance, and have proven very valuable to many a mill. So varying are the conditions in connection with locating a driven well, that costs canrot be given, but it is commonly estimated that about four dollars per foot for six-inch pipe covers ,qxpense. Edison's Adventure. The authors of "The Life and In ventions of Edison" tell a good story of the manner in which their hero once saved the life of a child at the risk of his own. He was then the newsboy of a train running between Port Hu ron and Detroit. ThU -*ation agent at Mt. Clemens had a -i year and a half old, with whom Edison-"Al," as he was called-was fond of playing during the half hour or more that th( :ran stopped at that station. One summer forenoon, while th< train was being taken apart and made up anew, a car was uncoupled and sent down the track with no brakeman to control it Edison, who had been look ing at the fowls in .the poultry-yard, turned just in time to see little Jimmie on the main track, throwing pebbles over his head, utterly unconscious of langer. 41 dropped his papers upon the plat form, seized the child in his arms, and threw himself off the track, face down ward in sharp, fresh gravel ballast, without a second to spare. As it was, the wheel of the car struck the heel of his boot. "I was in the ticket-office," says the child's father, "and hearing a shriek, ran out In time to see the train hands bringing the two boys to the platform." Raving no other way of showing his gratitude, the agent said: "Al, if you will stop off here fou: days In the week, and keep Jimmie out of harm's way until the mixed train returns from Detroit, I will teach yor ielegraphing."4 "Will you?" said Edison. "I will" He extended his hand and said: "It's. a bargain." And so Edison became a selegrapher Her Son Returned. "Madam," he said, as she held the 4 door open a little way and asked him what he wanted, "perhaps it so hap- I pened years ago that you had a son Wvander away from the family fire side?" "Yes, It did," she replied, as she open ed the door a little further. "He went out into the cold world and became a wanderer o'er the face of the barth?"I "Yes, he did." "Days and weeks and months ran in to years and you heard no word of him? You know not whether he lived or led?" "As you say, I knew nothing," replied the woman as she stood in the door and looked fixedly at the tramp. "Well, ma'am," he continued, "I don't want to raise any false hopes, but "But you are just a little too late,' she finished, as he swallowed the lum1 In his throat and tried to wipe away a tear. "My wandering son returned about two hours ago and is now tak ing asoak In the bath tub. Had you -called earlier this morning, you know-" "Then the situation Is filled ?" "It is." "Just my luck, ma'am, but of course you are not to blame for it. I congrat-. ulate you and your wandering son and I will bid you good-day and try the 'amily next door."I Contagious. Mammy-Do you hear what der phy sician says? You've got the chicken pox. Hain't I done tole yer dat somp fin dreadful gwine ter happin 'less you kept way fum dat hen-coop ?-Harper'r 1 Bazar. Responsibility for tho Meteor. I Just after the recent meteoric display '1 a Conyers negro woman was heard to I exclaim: "Who dat fro dat chunk o'i fire ober my house? Dat wuz some white reb, I noze."-Atlata Constltv i tion. Practicing. Mrs. Bacon--As I came up the street I saw a policeman on this beat with his arm around a lamp-post. The Cook-Yes, ma'amf; that's a way lte has when he's thinking c' me ma'am.-Yonkers Statesms.a A man never learns how to step on the tack of adversity with comfort to himself. HERE IS GOLD IN ABUNDANCE 'he United States Leads the World ir Its Production. The Mint Bureau has completed it: stimate of the production of the prec ous metals during the last year, and 'urnishes a table of comparative re ;ults for the last three years. The fig ires are as follows: Eear. Gold. Silver. [893........$155,500,000 $207,800,000 892........ 146,200.000 197,200,000 1891........ 130,600,000 177,000,000 The United States continued to leal :he world in gold production last yeai n spite of the South African develop nent. The mint estimate of the do nestic product last year is 1,739,32. Ine ounces worth $35,955,000, compared with $33,014,000 in 1892. This domestic product of 1893, it is agreed by both fficial and unofficial authority, is the Largest in a dozen years, so that while frica is rapidly increasing the world's ;old supply, the United States is hold Ing its own against the world, and howing no sign of exhaustion. While there is depression in other industries, the gold miner keeps at work, and i1 mneeting with at least the average re ward for his labors. The San Francis !o Chronicle thinks that, in view of what has been accomplished the last ear, those people who have been mak. Ing such a fuss about the African dis. %overies would do well to fix their thoughts on gold fields nearer home. t insists that the California gold min ing industry is far more important than appears to be generally recognized, and that capitalists who are directing their nergies to the development of these resources are enthusiastic, and predict ing a great increase in the product o' 1894. This remarkable impulse given to gold production cannot fail of important anects upon the settlement of the silver auestion. An international agreement would establish the ratio between the two metals for a time, but when the production of gold outruns that of sil ver the latter must almost inevitably succumb. The gain of 1893 over that >f 1S92 was almost equal between the two metals. Scotland 150 Years Ago. The produce was carried in sacks on iorseback or on sledges, or (later in the sentury) on tumbrils, which were ;edges on "tumbling" wheels of solid wood, with wooden axle trees, all re olving together. These machines rere often so small that in a narrow )assage the carter could lift them bod ly, for they held little more than a wheelbarrow. They had wheels a fooi ld a half in diameter, made of three )ieces of wood pinned together like a )utter firkin, and which quickly wore nt, and became utterly shapeless, so hat a load of 600 pounds was enor nous for the dwarfish animals to drag. Eet even such vehicles were triumphi f civilization when they came lnt ise when the century was young. Carts are a later invention still, and vhen one, in 1723, first carried its tiny oad of coals from East Kilbride tq ,ambuslang, "crowds of people," it is: -eported, "went to see the wonderful nachine; they looked with surprise, mlt returned with astonishment" In nany parts of the lowlands they were1 iot in ordinary use, even till 1700, whle n the northern disticts sledges, or reels on the backs of women, were 'hiefly employed to the end of the cen ury. The wretched condition of the nads was the chief cause of the relue ant adoption of carts. In the dryest weather the roads were ofit for carriages, and in wet weath *r almost impassable, even for horses -deep in ruts of mire, covered with tones, winding up heights and down illls to avoid swamps and bogs. It ras this precarious state of the roads thich obliged Judges to ride on circuit. .nd a practice began as a phiysical no essity was retained as a dignified iabit, so that in 1744 Lord Dun re igned his Judgeship because he was o longer able to "rIde on circuit." rhe Scottish Review. For Which One? Customler (in hardware store)-I want muzzle. Absent-Minded Clerk-Medical stu ent or dog?-Philadelphia Inquirer. After the Refusal. Biby-Well, I may be poor but I'm ertainly happy. Mabel-That's why you're hopeless. f you were only normally miserabre might consider, buit I couldn't think ' yoking rayself with a fr'eak.-Ex ha nge. Well Turned It would be a pleasant thing if ab eople who are plagued with short aemories had the ready tact by which he composer Rossini once turned his wn defect into a graceful compliment. Ie met at a dinner one evening Bish p the famous English song-writer, to v'hom he had been introduced on a pr-e ious occasion, and to whom he had aken an instant liking. "Good evening, Mr. -," began Ros in, eordially, extending his hand; but he name of his English acquaintance tad basely deserted him for the mo There was scarcely a perceptible hesi a~tion on his part, however, for instant y he began to whistle softly the open ng bars of Bishop's glee, "When the Wind Blows." The face of the "English Mozart," at ishop was often called, lighted up vith a smile of gratification, and Ros tini's failure to recall his name was in ;tantly forgiven in the recognition of is pretty compliment When a man dies, we wonder if the fact that he has a lot of life insurance Is any comfort. ifg Armies and Niavies. The armies of the world stand ir hia order: The French army at the head; second, at a very short inter val, the German army; third, the Rus sian; fourth, the Austrian. At sea, the first four powers are Great Brit ain, France, Italy, Russia. Taking the two elements into consideration we have France leading with seven point; Great Britain second, with four points, made on one element; Russia &'th three points, and Germany with three points, made on one element; Italy with two points and Austria with ne point. The reasons for our decision are )rietly these: On land France has a iarger body of trained men than Ger many has, and is surpassed by Ger many only in the number of horses I and in cavalry. The French artillery c is believed to be finest in the world. The German army comes second, but c very close to the French. The Rus- " sian army is larger than either the 9 French or the German army, but its f material is not so good, its equipment e not so good. Its infantry far exceeds that of the French or German army; 3o does its cavalry; but its artillery 'ind engineer forces are much smaller Lhan those of France and barely equal r ihose of Germany. Austria probably stands fourth in number of men and equipment, though Italy pushes it P 'very close. 0 On the sea Great Britain leads with the largest number of armored vessels, second largest number of leaviest guns and largest number of lighter. but still heavy guns, and second !arg est number of men. Further, Great 9ritain has just built andis now build ng sixteen new armor-clads and forty Lve cruisers. Franee stands second, a 1aving since 1871 spent much money E intelligently on her fleet. She stands third -in the number of armor-clads, t first in cruisers, but second in the z vuns these mount; second in the eavy guns, but first in number of c men. Italy, soon after 1870, began to t build up its navy, and now stands c 1,ourth in armor-clads, third in cruis- I ers, first in heaviest guns, and fourth t in number of men. Russia comes I econd in number of iron -clads, second I l in cruisers, third in heavy guns, and ! a third in number of men. The Russiani q eet is capable of being bottled up B argely in the Baltic and Black Seas, 1 herefore the Italian navy is put third. f Other elements enter into the decision: 1. in that we simply follow the opinions p 6f the principal authorities on arma- a -ent.-St. Louis Glob.e-Democrat. ; t "fi A small boy, living in the uppez D part of New York State, having heard C his father say that it was a poor rule V that would not work both ways, baited a hook with a fish and went out to catch some worms. B Christian Couege Students. It was stated last year that out of tho 70,000 college men in this country and S1 Canada, 8,000 were church members, o0 and the remaining 82,000 were not. -3 Next statistics were furnished by the Young Men's Christian Associations is established in some hundreds of col- b lgs. Since that report, however, 3( a new branches have been formed, giving e larger returns, though the average is not so good. Three hundred and thirty five college associations show that 32- t: 00 'men are church members in the b1 colleges which have associations and a about 43.000 are not. There are said to be altogether 200,000 men in the in stitutons of higher learning on this continent, so that, assuming the same proportion, there are probably 85.m0I' hurch members out of 200,000 college student? Forcing the Issue. I. a deal, ad if Idon't egin t squz yohel sqez me.] Olk Dutch yalcok re inndngfa eor hasgotn mferi a foer iesns of ne yWhe'lla gqets mre iste ny -a rime in his life when he 'aas on new lthes all througi Causes of Fires. Statistics are quoted to show that in New York City last year 3;47 lire. were caused by coal oil, 2830 by gas, 273 by matches, and only 4S by the use of electric light and power. The only discoveries people past for. ty make are curious lumps on their bodIes which worry them to death e~he Choir Bas5, tranger - Why do you put the hoir so high up in the gallery? |Dea- e con-Because the bass has such a leep voice that if he was below no- I body could hear him unless they sat In the callcr .-Pucm, _ UOUSEHoD MUTTS scHOOL CAE. Beat together until foamy the yolk f one egg, one cupfnl of white sugar, piece of butter the size of an egg. .dd one cupful of sweet milk, one int of flour into which has been sifted wo teaspoonfuls of baking powder, nd the beaten white of the egg. Fla or with lemon or vanilla. Butter a iece of white paper and put it in the ottom of the cake pan. Bake in a ot oven.-St. Louis Republic. THAT GELATT. To dissolve gelatine. is not so easy a iatter as some cooks suppose. If the elatine is covered with witer and laced on the hearth or on the baek i the stove it will melt in fifteen or wenty minutes; but in nine cases out I ten it will be strong flavored- and rill spoil whatever it is added to. 'his is the reason that gelatin6 is not ally appreciated by many housekeep' rs. If the gelatine be soaked in cold rater for two or more hours, and then ave boiling water or milk poured on , it will dissolve immediately, and arely will have taste or odor. Here 3 a good rule to follow: Put a box of gelatine in abowl, and our over it half a pint of cold water. 'over it and let it stand for two hours r more. When ready to use it, add alf a pint of boiling water or the %me quantity of boiling milk. Stir, Dr a few minutes, and the gelatine rill be dissolved.-New York World. Jellied apples make a very good weet dish, when other sweets fail. elect a dozen sound, well-flavored ellow pippins. Pare them; take out he cores and lay in cold water the t Anute you get through with them to i revent their turning dark. Take the ores and parings and half a dozen iore apples sliced rather thin; put em in a saucepan and cover with ne quart of cold water. Simmer birty minutes, stir, and then drain brough a jelly bag. To every pint of ,quid that you get add a pound ol )af sugar, set over the fire, and ae :on as the sugar is dissolved add the uartered apples. Cover, and cooki lowly until the apples are tender. Do ot let them get so soft that they lose, I eir shape, or the dish, in looks at - 5ast, will be a failure. Take out the I ieces on a skimmer, one at a time, nd lay them on a plate. Boil the I yrup twenty minutes, and when a lit- I le of it cooled jellies, take it fromthe. re. Put the apples in bowls or wide. iouthed jars, and turn the j nll ver em. When cold tie up as you do any resrves or jelly.-New York Post. - 1 HOSEHOLD HIM-m. Butter put into clean pots and well arrounded with charcoal will keep ood for twelve months. In baking bread or rolls put a tucepan of boiling water into the* ven. The steam will keep the crust I nooth and tender. Much of the heavy cake and bread the result of the oven door beingI anged when closed. Close the doorI s gently as possible. Nearly every one1 pens it gently enough. For frying alwaysput a poundeor two fat in the pan. There is no waste, as be same fat can be used over and over y pouring it thorugh a strainer into crock kept for the purpose. To remove claret stains from a table loth put salt on immediately and bickly over the spot. Rinse in coldl rater before washing. If not entirely 1 emoved apply lemon juice and dry in 'i be sun. A little kerosene oil in the water rith which you clean your windows akes them take a much higher polisb nd makes much easier work of thati ane of a housekeeper's life, window. leaning. Never buy stale fish. It will look abby and dark and will have an un leasant odor. Fresh fish is firm, the yes are full and rather bright, and~ he odor, while it is always fishy, will o be disagreeable.I Those in search of novel luncheon ainties should try the peanut sand ich, which had its origin in Boston. e sure the peanuts are freshly roast d. Chop fine and spread between lices of buttered bread cut very thin. To make garlic vinegar pure and slice dozen cloves of garlic, put them in preserving jar with one pint of megar, cover and set away for twoa eeks, then strain into a bottle. One blespoonful of this vinegar added o a otato salad gives it a delicate fla or of garlic. Lace pillows and spreads can be red to advantage after washing by utting down a sheet on the floor and inning each scallop firmly and se-I tnely to the sheet so that all sides arej ecured. -Leave it over night, and rhen dry take up carefully and fold eady for use. To cure a sty take the white of an gg in a saucer and rub into it a small inch of powdered alum. It will be ome a curd. Put it between two fine iece~s of muslin and bind it over the ye before retiring for the night. In be morning the sty will be gone, or mch better. One more application rill be sufficient, and no more stie, ril come. Chlles-"Aren't you going out tc rlk with me ?" Henwy-"I cahn't go until I dress, Challe-"What's the matter with our present costume?" Henwy-"I hs<en't got my chrys' na.ae m.ma Beoord. THE WATCHEl. Deep In the "Vale of the Shadow,' Down through the gloomiest dense, There glimmers the sheen of a halo, In the heaviest night of suspense. Trembling it hangs In the silence, ' Faint as a quivering wraith, Elusive even to science; But there to the keen eye of Fait& Slowly it gathers and lengthens, And fades as it were with a breath, Yet ever and ever It strengthens, And out of the Valley of Death There glints the soft beams of the dawning And hope Is restored with the light. A loved life comes back with the morning, And sorrow has flown with the night. -C. Turner, In Outign PITH AND POINT. Without caws-A dead crow. - Hard to beat-Last year's carpet. If anybody can shoot the rapidi uccessfully it is the gunboat. a The popular pianist finds little diffi ilty in realizing on hisnotesof hand. The very greatest novelty in girls ocketbooks is money. -Athisor lobe. The man who makes the most noise n a quarrel isusually believed to bein he right. Barber-"Do you want a haircut?' ictim-"Not only one, but all of hem."-Judge. There is nothing a woman likes bet er than to get hold of a sick man who ikes to try remedies. The doctor who will discover a rem dy for fits and starts may treat the orld. -Galveston News. It is rather too much to expect a aan on his uppers to be a whole ouled fellow. -Buffalo Courier. Wonder if an iceman minds it when he woman of his choice looks coldly in his suit?-Boston Transcript. Every husbar d has a mind of is wn, but it is sometimes lodged in the Lead of his wife. -Galveston News. She-"Did you see my new hat al he theater last night?" He-"J idn't see anything else."-Bosto Eranscript. Kind Party-"Why are you crying ike that, my little boy?" Little Bo1 -"'Cause it's the only way I know ow."-Vogue. Don't be a clam. If you've got e anything of the. kind be a mud tur le. Then you may have some o you.-Truth. Sister-"This recipe says to stir we ad set on a hot stove." Small Broth< r-"Don't ye do it, Sis. Yot'll b >rry if you do."-Detroit Free Pres I would not live always, I couldn't if I would; Death has such a liking F For the beautiful and good.' -Kansa City Jon Justice-"Why did you steal t vaterproof cloak?" Prisoner - ". idn't think it was wrong to try and ay up something for a rainy day." rexas Siftings. Doctor-"Iwould advise you to taki walk every morning before breakt st." Sappy-"But, doctor, I-ah ever get up until after bweakfasa 'know."-Tit-Bits. Matchmaking Mamma-"Ethe1, wh: on't you marry Fred Hardcash? Di ou want a husband made to order?' ithel-"No, mamma;- I want one ade to obey."-Truith. The Sage-"In choosing a wife ~oung man, you must not look fo ~eauty alone." The Youth-"Of cours< iot. It is the other- kind of a gir: bat one may expect to find alone." -Indianapolis Journal. "Hicks is crazy about etiquette. H aw in the paper the other day that is bhe best circles the wife ladles out the soup and he has- consequently give: p soup." "Why?" "He has n< -ife."-Pittsburg Bulletin. "I don't suppose this business dE ression affects you tramps much, id the philanthropist. "Yes,i oes," retorted the tramp. "Tb rality of the food we get these day is somethin' awful. "-Brooklyn Life. Hungry Higgins-"Mada.m usetes have as good a home as anybody til isfortune overtook me." Mrs. Pott -"Indeed? And what was the natur< f the trouble?" Hungry Higgins My father-in-law lost his job. "-Ii ianapolis Journal. Micrebes on Post UarGa. The latest scare in microbes hs been started by Professor Uffelman, ostok, who infected a letter wit: holera bacilli and put it into a poi bag. When the letter was taken on' wenty-three and a half hours later the bacilli were still alive. Bacill were also found living on post card wenty hours after infection. Th icro-organisms were found to di rapidly when placed upon coins.J y charged with cholera bacilli wa afterward placed on some beef. A lit ie later the meat was found to b warming with bacteria. A finger wa ufeted with cholera bacilli ant tied. One hour later the, finger wa rubbed on some roast meat. and nu merous bacilli developed subsequent ly. The moral of these experiment s obvious. --Scientific American 'WELL VEBSED DE DIVs&oN. Pa-"Bobby, the school teacher i: forms me that you are well up in d vision." Bobby-"Yes, sir." Pa-"Well, Bobby, suppose I tol you to divide this apple equally b tween your little sister and yoursalf how much would she get?" TE BEOO~rYt D[IXDURS 5UN' DAY 5$RBfGU. Subject: "After the Battle.' TZXT: "And it came to pass on the mr, tow, when the Philistines came to stip the slain, that they found Saul anid histhreesona fallen in Mount Gilboa."--I Samuel xxxi., 8. Some of you were at South Mountain Shiloh or Ball's Bluff or Gettysburg . Northern or Southern side and E ask you ; there is any sadder sight thian abalefielA after the guns have stopped firing? Iwak~ across the feld of Antietam Lust after t - oohfliet. The scene was so sickening I ah not describe it. Every valuable thing had been taken from the bodies of the dead, foi there are always vultures hovering over an4 around about an army, and they pick up the watches, and the memorandum books and the letters, and the daguerreotypes, an the hats, and the coats, applying them their own uses. The dead make no rests, tanee. So there are always camp follower going on and after an army, as when ot went down into Mexico, as when Napoleo ' marched up toward Moscow, as when VonI Moltke went to Sedan. There is a simiI lar scene in my text. Saul and his army had been horribly out tq pieces. Mount Gilboa was ghastly with the dead. On the morrow the stragglon camei on to the field, and they lifted the latohet of the helmet from under the chin of the dead,' they picked up the swords and bent them om their knee to test the temper of the metal,' and they opened the wallets and counted th coin. Saul lay dead along the ground, eigh or nine feet in length, and I suppose th I cowardly Philistines, to show their bravery leaped upon the trunk of his carcass anJ leered at the fallenslainand whiatledthroul I the mouth of his helmet. Before nightthos: cormorants had taken everything I from the feld. "And it came to passonth morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his threq sons fallen in Mount Gilboa." Before I get through to-day I will show you that the same process is going on all the I world over, and every day, and that whe men have fallen satan and the world, so fat from pitying them or helping them, go tq I work remorselessly to take what little there Is left, thus stripping the slain. There are tens of thousands of young men every year coming from the country to oul great cities. They come with brave heart4 and grand tations. The country ladl sit down in e village grocery, with theii feet on the iron rod around the stove, In the evening, talking over th prospects of the young man who hasgoni off to the city. Two or three of them n that perhaps he may get along very well an succeed, but the most of themp failure, for it is very hard to think those whom we knew in boyhood will ever make any great success in the world. But our young man has a fine positionin a dry pods store. The month is over. HA gets n ages. He Is not accustomed to have so much money belonging to hImself He is a little excited and does not know exactly what to do with It, and he spends i$ in some places where he ought not. Soon there come up newoompanionsandacquainta ances from the barrooms and the uuloons og the city. Soon that young man beg. waver in the battle of temptaton, ad his soul goes down. la a few moatf he has fallen. He is morally dead, a mere corpse of what he once was h harpies of sin snuff up the taint and on the field. His garments out. He has pawnod his wat Hi is fatling him. His credit perabu. Beli' too poor to stay In the city, and he Is too .or to pay his way home to the country. wn, down Why do the low fellows of theelty now stick tohim solosely? Is it to help him back to a moral and spitualife? Oh, no. I will tell you why they stay. They are Philistines stripping the slain. Do not look where I point, but yonder stands a man who once had a besutiful home in this city. His house had elegant furni ture, his children were beautifully clad, his name was synonymous ith honor and use fulness, -but evil habit k2ocked at his front door, knocked at his back door, knocked at his parlor door, knocked at his bedroom door. Where Is the piaxgo? Sold to pay the rent. Where is the hatrack? Sold to meet the butcher's bill. Where are the carpets? Soldto get bread. Where is the wardrobe? Sold to get rum. Where are the daughters? Working their fingers off in trying to keep the family together. Worse and worse until everything is gone. Who Is that gigu h front steps of that house? That Iareto hopng o fndsome chair or bed that hasno beleedupon. Who are those two - tlemen now going up the front step.?e one is a constable; the other is the sheriff. Why do they go there? The unfortunate is morally dead, socially dead, financiallydead. Why do they go there? I will tell youwh the creditors and the constables and~th sheriffs go there. They are, some on to own account and some onaccbunt of the law, stripping the slain. An es-member of Congress, one'of the most eloquent men that ever stood i' the House of Representatives, said in his last moments: "This isathe end. I am dying dying on a borrowed bed, covered by a bor rowed sheet, In a house built by public charity. Bury me under that tree in the mid die of the field, where I shallnot becrowded, for I have been crowderi all my life." Where were the folly politicians and the dilang comrades who had been with him, luhn at his jokes, applauding his eloquencead plunging him into sin? They have left. Why? his wite is gone, his othationre goner his mone is gone, his epuatioe goneey thing is gone. Why should they stay any longr? heyhave completed their work. Tehaestripped the slain. There Is another way, however, of doing the samc work. Here is a man who, through his sin, is prostrate. He acknowledges that he has done wrong. Now is the time for you Ito go to that man and say, "Thousands of Ipeople have been as far astray as you are and got back." 19w Is the time for you to Igo to that man and tell him of the omnipo tent grace of God, that Is sufficient for any poor soul. Now is the time to go and tell how swearing John Bunyai, through the' grace of God,atterward came to the Celestial City. Now is the time to go to that man and tell him how profligate Newton came Sthrorgh conversioni, to be a world renowne preacher of righteousness. Now is the time totell that manthat multitudes who have been ,pounded with all the flails of sinand dragged through all the sewers of pollution at last have risen to positive dominion of moral E You do not tell him that, do you? No. I You say to him, "Loan you money? No SYou are down. You will have to go to the Sdogs. Lend you a dolldr? I would not lend you five cents to keep you from the gallows, Yod are debauched! Get out of my sight, a now! Down! You will have to stay downl"j 8 And thus those bruised and battered men are sometimes accosted by those who ought toi lIft them up. Thus the last vestige of hopei 8 13 taken from them. Thus those who ought to go and lift and save them are guilty of stripping the slain. The point iwant to make is this: Sin is hard, cruel and merciless. Instead of help-. ing a man up it helps him down, and when,: like Saul and his comrades, you lie on the field, it will come and steal your sword and; helmoet and shield, leaving you to the jackali and the crow. ...But the. world and satan do not do their work with'the outcast and abondoned. I respectable impenitent man comes to die. Re isfiat on his back. He could not get ud If the house was on fire. Adroitest medical He has come to his last hour. What does 6 satan do for such a man? Why, he fetches Sup all the inapt, disagreeable andA harrowing thingasin his life. He says: "Do you remem brtoechances you had for heaven and missed? Do xou remember .aM those laae pobnous words and thoughts and apuasa )on't ronember them, eb? n make Sure aemaber them." And then etakes all the >ast and empties it on that deathbed, as the nalibags are emptied on the postoffie Dook. 1nan Is sick. He cannot get away from Then the man says to satan: "You ha edelved me. You told me that allwoul4 well. You said there would be no trouble A he last. You told me f I did so andso you ould do so and so. Now you corner mg ad hedge me up and submerge me in evey hg" vese" ha!"sayssatan.Iwas onl olqymIt ismirth for me to see you sufN or. . been for thirty years plotting to et you Just where- are. it is hard los reu now- it will bworse for you ateS 6wble. Itpleasesme. Lie stdIl,sir. Don't linch or shudder. Come, now, I will tems > from you the last rag of on. I will rend away from your soul e last hope will leave you bare for the beating of the Iis mn busnes to strin the slain" You are nassemng on toward f enm=: - nationof althat issal. To-day ycustop and hink, but It is only for a moment, and then rou will tramp on, and at the alose of this ervice you will go out. and the cuestion vil be, "How did you like the sermon?" Lud one man will say, "I liked it very well," md another man will say, "I didn't like it 6t all," but neither of the answers will touch he tremendous fact that if impenitent you re going at thirty knots an hour toward hipwreck. Yea you are in a battle where rou will fall, and while your surviving rel tives will take your remaining estate and he cemetery willtake your body the messen -ers of darkness will take your soul and ome and go about you, stripping the slain. Many are crying out, I admit I am slain; :admit it." On what battlefield, my broth. irs? By what weapon? "Poluted Imagin.n ion," says one man; "Intoxicating liquor," ays another man; "My own hard heart," sys another man. Do you realize this? Lhen I come to toll' you that the omnipo ent Christ is ready to walk across this bat leflelid and revive and resuscitate and resur ect your dead soul. Let Him take your umd and rub away the numbness, your head od bathe off the aching, your heart and ;top its wild throb. He brougt Lazarus to lie, He brought Tairus's daughter to life, He rought the young man of Nain to life, and hese are three proofs anyhow that He can rng you to life. When the Philistines came down on t leid, they stepped between the corpses, mn hey rolled over the dead, and thgy t6ok iway everything that was valuable. so t -as with the people that folloired ater the es at Chancellorsville and at Pitsburg ding and at Stone River and at A tripping the slain, but the Northern jouthern women-God bless theml-ae on he field with basins and pads a wt*els ad lint and cordials and Christian en iouragement, and the poor fellows that here lifted up their arms and sg&" tow good that does feel sine you e 9!" And others looked up and said, "0h ow you make me think of my rhotherr Lud others said, "Tell the folks at home I lied thinking about them." And aother 1ooked up adcl aiMISS, Vod'T.ous tie a Verse oA ,'Home Sw9eetHom. 17 SrI ie?" And wathe tows u he hats were of, and the service wiread Ilam the resurrection and the life." h honor of the departed the muskets were oaded and the commang "Pzeet re!" And there wa a t s the gead of theg *o Mientenant -- the Phusetts or --- nthe re enti of uth a volun M." " n so wroes thsgr field t moral and a bW the tgel of Sod come a 3iaimdS_4. Pere wa voices of a-it And voice -o lope and voices of andvaces of heaven,, - ~i One nt Isaw a tragedy n the ee )f Broadway and Houston eteet, A youa to which had beehat - rniogh 1o that yo4 could see he hd llet forehead, stout chest; had a development. Splendid young man. young man. Honored young man. Why did he stop there while so many were pi and down? The fact is that everyl a good angel and a bad con ending for the mastery of his an fhere were a good angel and a a traggling with that young 'man's ion! at he corner of Broadway and EoustOn let "Come with me," said the good ~~gl - ' wrilitake you home; I will spedmywig aver your plo; I will lovinly eseortyo sll throu life under supernatural rte lion; I wllbless every cup you drink ofe, every couch you rest on, every doowy you nter; I will consecrate your tears when you wreep, your sweat when you toll, and at the last I will hand over your grave into the adof the bright angel of a Christian re urcton. In answer to your father's a on and your mother's prayer I have be bent of te Lord out of heaven to be year gurinsirit. Come with me," said the godangeli a voiceof unear. twas music like that hiha te of heaven whena seraph ,o no," said the bad angel; "come noe; IE have something better to bf.~ wrines I porare from chalices of bwthn erousI the d4joe I lead is over loe llHated wihunrstrained Indulene; tbre no God to frown on the tmlsof sin wrhere I worship. The skies areltlan Thd paths I tread are through meahws, daied ead primrosed. Come with me. . The young man hesitated at a timewh esitation was ruin, and the hadage mote the good angel until St dpre~ ra away unti a door flashed ope a ~e sky and forever the wings vanished-. ~t was the turning point in that young rn's history, for, the good aglflown, he esitated no longer, but starte onath aywhich is beautiful at the opnnbut lasted at last. The bad angel, eangthe ~aopened gate after gate, and at each, gate the road became rougher and the sky unore lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the gate slammed shut It came to with a jar thai indicated that it would never open. Passed each portal there was a grinding 'f locks a ashoving of bolts, anid the scen ry on e side of the road changed from gardens to laserts, and the June sig became a cutting b~ecember blat, and the bright wings of the bad -n34 turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of ligh became hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the star had tossed with wine, poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and - on the right side of the road there wae a serpent, and thie man uaS4 tothebad angel, "What is that serpent?" ana the answer was, t'That Is the serpent of stinging reme~rse.' Dn the left side the road there was a lion, md the man asked the bad angel, "What is hat lion?" and the answer was, "That is the ion of all devouring despair." A vulture lew through the sky, and the man asked the lad angel, "What is that vulture?" and- the inswer was, "That Is the vulture waiting for he carcasses of the slain." And thenathe man began to try to pull ofif urn the folds of something that had wound him rou dand round. and hesaid to the bad angel. "What isait that twists me in this aw !al convulsion?" and the answer wis "That ' the worm that never dies." And then the nan said to the bad angel: "What does all pils mean? I trusted in what you saia at the. porner of Broadway and Houston street; I uusted it all, and why have you thtis de Wived me?" Then the last deception fell off he charmer, and it said: "I was sent forth - rom the pit to destroy yoursoul. Iwatched py chance for many a long year. Whenyou esitated that pight on Broadway, I gained aiy triumph. Now you are here. Ha, hal tou are here. Come, let -us fill these two shalices of fire and drink together to dark nes and woe and death. Hai- hail!" Qh, oung man!- will the good angel sent forth ~y Christ or taebad angel sent forth by sin. get the victory over your soul? Their wings ire interlocked this moment above you, -on lending for your destiny, as above the Apen ines eagle and condor fight mid-sky. This ~wun mana decie destiny.