Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SELECT SIFTINGS. Alaska has the largest quart* mill. The London libraries all have a small stationer’s shop connected srith them, where the various conveniences for writ ing are supplied. According to an official return which has just been issued, there arc 400,000 milch cows in the colony of Victoria, and the annual value of their milk, butter and cheese is about three million sterling. The fastest English trains are those running between Euston and Edinburgh, which average forty-seven miles an hour, while the speed of the fast trains between Berlin and Hamburg averages forty-five miles. In oar schools at the present day wo use “Euclid’s Elements of Geometry,” written by Euclid 2200 years ago. Euclid also wrote on music and optics, antedating much which wo think we dis covered. The people of Tyro were such experts in dyeing that the Tyrian purple remains unexcelled to this day. The Egyptians wore also wonderful dyers, and could produce colors so durable that they may be called imperishable. A curious scarfpin worn by a Nashville (Tenn.) man is a petrified human eye, set in a gold frame. The present owner of this singular ornament found it in Peru while he was on an exploring tour in the land of the Incas with a party of scien tists. A London publisher advertised for seven bald-headed men, painted the name of his paper, Tid-Sitt, one letter on each head, and tried to get them scats at a pantomime, but the manager of the the atre objected. What a crushing blow to genius 1 Every stone in the tower and spire of St. John the Baptist’s Catholic Church on West Thirtieth street, New York City, was hoifted to its place by a derrick, the motive power of which was an old w'hite horse. The congregation is going to see that its last days are its best days. The colonial possessions of Great Brit ain in America comprise 3,043,140 square miles. These possessions are the Baha mas, Barbadoes, Bermudas,Canada, Falk land Islands, Honduras, Guiana, Jamaica and Turk’s Island, Leeward Island, New foundland, South Georgia, Trinidad, and Windward Islands. Dieppe is now a principal centre of European ivory manufacture, but it is in the East, especially China, that ivory is most highly prized and most elaborately worked into decorative forms. The Japanese also hold it in esteem, and it is extensively used in the inlaid work of Bombay in India. The true French plum—large, jet black, soft and juicy—comes from the shores of the Garonne and its affluent, the Lot, and is the fruit of the tree known as the prunier d’ente, or grafted plum. The center of the district is Clairac, a quaint little old-fashioned town built on % steep hillside overlooking the Lot. A rich man in St. Petersburg, Russia, died, leaving orders that his scaled will should be opened twelve months after his death. When opened it contained an other scaled packet, with iustructions that it must not be opened for a year. The will had seven seals, the last of which has only just been broken, al though the testator died six years ago. Vice-President Morton's country house at Rhinecliff, N. Y., is provided with 250 incandescent lamps. An interesting feature is the wiring of the house in such a manner that should any window or door be tampered with by burglars a special automatic switching device will throw into circuit a number of lights, thus giving the nocturnal intruder a blight and warm welcome. WISE WORDS. It Suffering is always a consecration, brightens and purifies. It is always our own feeling that illu minates the objects around us. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for any one else. Woman possesses in good, as well as evil, an energy which surpasses that of man. Some persons have the luck of perceiv ing stupidities only after having commit ted them. Every sorrow has its limits, and the most violent outbursts exhaust most quickly the fountain cf pain. A cynic has written: The hearts of most men are like the grates in inns, where the smile of any pretty woman is enough to set it in a blaze. The love of approbation, the desiro to please, to be admired, to be loved, is in some way the cause of all heroic, self- denying and sublime actions. Bulwer had said that“when a lie once S ets into the world, it is astonishing how ard it is to get it out. You may beat it about the head until it wsems to have given up the ghost, and then the next day meet it on the street as healthy as ever.” Those who are truly married are neither masters or servants. The idea of obedience is lost in the desire for the happiness of each. Love is not a con vict, to be detained with bolts and chains. Love is the highest expression of liberty. Love neither commands nor obeys. Selfishness may be said to bo at the root of most of the sin of this world, but vanity is a form of selfishness that does on intolerable amount of harm, and usually works woe to all who come in contact with it, as well as eventually to its possessor, undermining character, til* ,the whole being is like those timbers that, , perforated-ami .honey-combed by decay, tmddenly one day fall in powder.—Qhy (ago Saturday Herald. Of twenty-six children comprised in a Missouri family, no less than twenty-two were bom in couples. Not one of the twenty-six has yet married. Prepare For Spring By Building up Your System So asr to Prevent That Tired Feeling Or Other Illness. Now Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla mit September I, 1801. 0 ' rtillofciphj and Art.; A Colirg* of Com ■Ih '-Ti' Science; A Divinity J^htKP lAScjiopTof T«-hnolO(iy;lA LAwSohuol; A Brhool of PolUICAl Sclfluce; A Nculcfel Srhool. Send for catalogue to JOHN FTqHOWE] • uKOWELL, A. B„ President. ^ . . Trinity College P. O., N. C. Trinity High School (Preparatory) la Randolph COUIlijf, O|>00 August 1. F ««HUUipn REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine's Sundav Sermon Txxt: "Noah planted a vineyard, and he drank of (he n ine ond was drunken."— Genesis ix. v 20, 21. This Noah did the best and the worst thing tor the world. He built an ark against the deluge of water, but intro duced a deluge against which the human race has ever since been trying to build an ark—the deluge of drunkenness. In my text we hear his staggering steps. Shem and Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace, but there he is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world when, to say the least, there was no lack of water. Inebriation, haying entered the world, has not retreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from con fiscation by invaders, goes borne at night nnd finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. Uriah came to see David, and David got him drunk and paved the way for the despolia tion of a household. Even the church bishoos neoded to be charged to be sober and not given to too much wine, and so familiar were people of Bible times with the stagger ing and falling motion of the inebriate that Isaiah, when he comes to describe the final dislocation of the worlds, says, "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.” Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the world has been tempted to unhealthful stimulant*. But the intoxicants of the olden time were an innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful soda- water as compared with the liquids of mod em inebriation, into which a madness, and a fury, and a gloom, and a fire, and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Fermentation was always known, but it was not until a thousand years after Christ that distillation was invented. While we must confess that some of the ancient arts have been lost, the Christian era is superior to all others in the bad eminence of whisky and rum and gin. The modern drunk is a hundredfold worse than the ancient drunk. Noah in his intoxication became imbecile, but the vic tims of modern alcoholism have to struggle with whole menageries of wild beasts, and jungles of hissing serpents, and perditions of of blaspheming demons. An arch fiend arrived in our world, and he built an invisible caldron of temptation. He built that caldron strong and stout for all ages and nations. First he squeezed into the caldron the juices of the forbidden fruit Of Paradise. Then he gathered for it a dis tillation from the harvest fields and the orchards of the hemispheres. Then he poured into this caldron capsicum and copperas and logwood and deadly nightshade and assault and battery and vitriol and opium and rum and murder and sulphuric acid and theft and potash and cochineal and red carrots and poverty and death and hops. But it was a dry compound and it must bo moistened, and it must be liquefied, and so the arch fiend poured into that caldron the tears of centu ries of orphanage and widowhood, and ho poured in the blood of twenty thousand as sassinations. And then the arclj fiend took a shovel that he had brought up from the furnaces be neath, and he put tuat shovel into this great caldron and began to stir, and the caldron began to heave and rock and boil and sput ter and hiss and smoke,and the nations gath ered around it with cups and tankards and demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all, and the arch fiend cried; "Aha! champion fiend am 11 Who has done more than I have for coffins and graveyards and prisons and insane asyinms, and the populat ing of the lost world* And when this caldron is emptied I’ll fill it again and 1*11 stir it again, and it will smoke again, and that smoke will join another smoke, the smoke of a torment that ascendeth for ever and ever. I drove fifty ships on the rocks of New foundland, and the Skerries^ and the Good wins. 1 have ruined mora senators than gather this winter in the na tional councils. I have ruined more lords than are now gathered in the house of peers. The cup out of which I ordinarily drink is a bleached human skull, and the upholstery of my palace is so rich a crimson, because it is dyed in human gore, and the mosaic of my floors is made op of the bones of children dashed to death by drunken parents, and my favorite music—sweeter than Te Deum or triumphal march—my favorite music is theory of daughters turned out at midnight on the street because father has come home from the carousal, and the seven hundred voiced shriek of the sinking steamer, because the captain was not him self when ho put the ship on the. wrong course. Champion fiend am I! I have kindled more fires, I have wrung out more agonies, I have stretched out more mid night shadows, I have opened more Gol- gothas, I have rolled more Juggernauts, I have damned more souls than any other emissary of diabolism. Champion fiend ami!” Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this nation, and it takes no logical process to prove to this audience that a drunken nation cannot long be a free nation. I call your at tention to the fact that drunkenness is not subsiding, certainly that it is not at a stand still, but that it is on an onward marcb, and it is a double quick. There is more rum swallowed in this country, and of a worse kind than was ever swallowed since the first distillery began its work of death. Where there was one drunken homo there are ten drunken homes. Where there was one drunkard’s grave there are twenty drunk ard's graves. It is on the increase. Talk about crooked whisky—by which men mean the whisky that does not pay tiie tax to gov ernment—I tell you all strong drink is crooked. Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine, crooked whisky—because it makes a man’s path crooked, and his life crooked, and bis death crooked and his eternity crooked. If I could gather all the armies of thedead drunkards and have them come to resurrec tion, and then add to thathostall the armies of living drunkards, five and ten abreast, and then if I could have you mount a horse and ride along that line tor review, you would ride that horse till he dropped from exhaustion, and you would mount another horse and ride until he fell from exhaustion, and you would take another and another, and you would ride along hour after hour and day after day. Great host, in regiments, in brigades. Great armies of them. Aud then if you had voice stentorian enough to make them all hear, aul you could give the command, •‘Forward, inarch!” their first tramp would make the earth tremble. I do not care which way you look in the commun ity to day the evil is increasing. I call attention to the fact that t here are thousands of people born with a thirst for strong drink—a fact too often ignored. Along some ancestral lines t here rims the river of temptation. There are children whose swaddling clothes are torn (If the ehroud of death. Many a fatlier has made a will of this sort: “In the name of God, araen. I bequeath to my children my houses and lands and estate-.; share and share shall they alike. Hereto i s.hlx my hand aud seal in the presence of witnesses.” And yet per haps that very man has made another will that the people have never read, and that has not been proved in the courts. That will put in writing woulu read something like this: “In the name of disease and appetite and death, amen. I bequeath to my children my evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs, my wine cup shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation shall be theirs. Share and share alike shall they in the infamy. Hereto I af fix my hand and seal in the presence of all the applauding harpies of hell." From the multitude of those who have the evil habit born witli them lids army isbe- ing augmented. And I am sorry to ray that a great many of the dreg stores are abetting this evii, and alcohol is told under the name of bitters. It is bitters for this and bitters for that and bitters for some other thing, and good men deceived, not knowing there is any thraildom of alcoholism coming from that source, are going down, and some day a man sits with the bottle of black bitters on his table, and the cork flies out, and after it flies a fleud and clutches the man by his throat and says: “Aha! I have been after E on for ten years. I have got you now. 'own with you, down with you'-'’' Bitters! Ah I yes. They make a man's family bitter aud his home bitter and hisdisposition bitter and his daath bitter ami his hell bitter. Bit ters. A vast army all the time increas ing. It seems to me it is about time for the 17,- 000,000 professors of religion in America to take sides. It is going to be an out and out battle with drunkenness and sobriety, be tween heaven and hell, between God and the devil. Take sides before there is any further national decadence, take sides before your sons are sacrificed and the home of your daughter goes down under the alcoholism of an unbruted husband. Take sides while your voice, your pen, your prayer, your vote may have any influence in arresting the lespoiiation of this nation. If the 17,000,000 B rofessorsof religion should take sides on »is subj -ct it would not be very long before the destiny of this nation would be decided in the right direction. Is drunkenness a state or national evil? Does it belong to the North, or does it belong to the South* Does It belong to the East, or does it belong to the West* Ah, there Is not on American river into which its tears have not fallen and into which its suicides have not plunged. What ruined that Southern plantation*—every field a fortune, the pro prietor aud his family once the most affluent supporters of summer watering places. What threw that New England farm into decay and turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of the Green Mountains into the pallor of despair! What has smitten every street of every village, town and city of this continent with a moral pestilence! Strong drink. To prove that this is a national evil I call up two States in opposite directions—Maine and Georgia. Let them testify in regard to this. State of Maine says: “It is so great an evil up here we have anathematized it as a State.” Stake of Georgia says: “It is so great an evil down here that ninety counties of this State have made the sale or intoxica ting drink a criminality.” So the word comes up from all parts of the land. Either drunk enness will lie destroyed in this country or the American Government will be destroyed. Drunkenness and free institutions are com ing into a death grapple. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and I will build for every work ingman a house, and lay out for him a gar den, aud clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or hays, and secure him a policy of life insur ance so that the present home may be well maintained after he is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and has boy cotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It an nually swindles industry out of a large per centage of its ea rnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his v ay to work, and at the noon spell and on his way home at even tide. On Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might come to the family and sacrifices it among the saloon keepers. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it is carefully estimated that they would reach from New York to Chicago. This evil is pouring its vitriolic and dam-, aable liquors down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laliorers, aud while the ordinary strikes are ruinous, both to em ploy ers and employes, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which strike, if kept up, will bo the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next twenty years, if he will re fuse all intoxicating beverages nnd be sav ing, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Oh, how many are waiting to see if some thing cannot bo' done for the stopping of in temperance! Thousands of drunkards wait ing who cannot go ten minutes in any direc tion without having the temptation glaring liefore their eyes or appealing to their nos trils, they fighting against it with enfeebled will and diseased appetite, conquering, then surrendering, conquering again and sur rendering again, ami crying, “How long, O Lord! how long before these infamous solicitations shall be gone!" And how many mothers are waiting to see if this national curse cannot lift* Oh, Is that the boy-who had the honest breath who comes homo with breath vitiated or dis guised? What a change I How quickly those habits of early coming homo have been ex changed for the rattling of the night key In the door long after the last watchman has gone by and tried to see that everything was closed up for the night. Oh I what a change for that young man, who we had hoped would do something in merchandise or in artisanship or in a profes sion that would do honor to the family name long after mother's wrinkled hands are folded from the last toil I All that exchanged for startled look when the door bell rings, lest something has happened; and the wish that the scarlet fever twenty years ago had been fatal, for then he would have gone directly to the bosom of his Saviour. But alas I poor old soul, she has lived to experience what Solomon said, “A foolish son is a heaviness to his mother.” Oh! what a funeral it will bo when that boy Is brought home dead I Aud how moth er will sit there and say: “Is this my boy that I used to fondle, and that 1 walked the floor with in the night when he was sick! Is this the boy that I held to the baptismal font fof baptism? Is this the boy for whom I toiled until the blood burst from the tips of my fingers, that he might have a good start anda good home? Lord, why hast Thou let pa* live to see this? Can it be that tbeae swollen hands are the ones that used to wan der over my face when rocking him to sleep! Can It be that this swollen brow is that I onoe so rapturously kissel* Four boy I how tired he does look. I wonder who struck him that blow across the t niple? I wonder If he uttered a dying prayer? Wake up, my son; don’t you hear me?' wake up! Oh! he can’t bear me! •Dead! dead! dead! ‘Ob, Absalom, my son, my son, would God that I had died for thee, oh, Absalom, my son, son 7" ’ I am not much oFa mathematician and { •annot estimate Its but is there any one here quick enongh at figures to estimate how many mothers there are waiting for some thing to be done? Ay, there are many wlvee waiting for domestic rescue. He promised something different from that when, after the long acquaintance and the careful scrutiny of character, the hand and the heart were offered and accepted. What a hell on earth a woman lives in who has a drunken husband! O death, how lovely thou art to her. and how soft anil warm thy skeleton hand! The sepulcher at mid night in winter is a king’s drawing-room compared with that woman's homo. It is not to much the blow on the head that hurts as the blow on the heart. The rum fiend came to tho door of that beautiful home, and opened the door and stood there and said: “I curse this dwelling with an unrelenting curse. I curse that father into a maniac, I curse that mother into a panper. I curse those sons into vaga bonds. I curse those daughters into proflig acy. Cursed be bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch and chair, and family Bible with record of marriages and births and deaths. Curse upon curse.” Oh, how many wives are there waiting to see if something cannot lie done to shako these frosts of the second death off the orange blossoms! Yea, God is waiting, the God who works through human instrumentalities, waiting to see whether this nation is going to overthrow this evil, and if it refuse to do so God will wipe out the nation as He did Phoenicia, as He did Rome, as He did Thebes, ns He did Babylon Ay, He is waiting to see what the church of God will do. If the church does not do its work, then He will wipe it out ns He did lie church of Ephesus, church of Tliyatira, church of Sardis. Tho Protestant and Ro man Catholic churches to-day stand side by side, with an impotent look, gazing on this evil, which costs this country more than a billion dollars a year to take care of the J00,- OtK) paupers, ami the 315,1X10 criminals, and the 30,0(X) idiots, and to bury tho 73,000 drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of the sixty years of his life forty years ho had spent in ruining youth; but this evil may make the more infamous boast tiiut all its life it has been ruining the bodies, minds and souls of the human race. Put on your spectacles and take a candle and examine the platforms of the two lead ing political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrest of this evil and for the overthrow of this abomiu ;- tion. Resolutions—oh! yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It is safe to attack that or ganized nastiness two thousand miles away. But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation into ono bestial Balt Lake City. Resolutions against S oliticai corruption, but not one word aliout runkenness. which would rot this nation from scalp to heel. Resolutions about pro tection against competition with foreign ip- dustries, but not one word about protection of family aud church and nation against the scalding, blasting, all consuming, damning tariff of strong drink put upon every finan cial, individual, spiritual, moral, national interest. I look in another direction. The Church of God is the grandest and most glorious institu- tiononearth. What lias it in soiidphalanx accomplished for the overthrow of drunken ness? Have its forces ever been marshaled * No, not in this direction. Not long ago a f real ecclesiastical court assembled in New r ork, and resolutions arraigning strong drink were offered, and dergymeu with strong drink on their tables and strong drink in their cellars defeated the resolu tions by threatening speeches. They could not bear to give up their own lusts. I tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of, that to-day—not in the millennium, but to-day—the church holds the balance of power in America; and if Christian people—the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be the sworn ene mies of all uncleanness and debauchery and sin—if all such would march side by side and shoulder to shoulder this evil would soon be overthrown. Think of three hundred thou sand churches and Sunday-schools in Chris tendom marching shoulder to shoulder I How very short a time it would take them to put down this evil, if all the churches of God, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were arinel on this subject* Young men of America pass over into the army of teetotalism. Whisky, good to f (reserve corpses, ought never to turn you nto a corpse. Tens of thousands of young men have been dragged out of repoetability and out of purity, and out of good char acter and into darkness by this infernal stuff called strong drink. Do not touch it! Do not touch itt In the front door of our church in Brook lyn, a few summers ago, this scene occurred: Babbath morning a young man was entering for divine worship. A friend passing along the street said, “Joe, come along with me; I am going down to Coney Island and we’ll have a gay Sunday.” “No,” replied Joe; “I have started to go here to church, and I am to attend service here.” “Oh, Joe," his I GaIx! Stovs any time I The day is and we’ll go to Coney Island, am we'll have a splendid time.” The temptation was too strong, and the twain went to the beach, spent the day in drunkenness and riot. The evening train started up from Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe, in his intoxication, when the train was in full speed, tried to pass around from one seat to another and fell and was crushed. Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his life away on the grass, ho said to his com rade: “Joho, that was a liad business, your taking me away from church; it was a very bad business. You ought not to have done that, John. I want you to tell the boys to morrow when you see them that rum and Babbath breaking rlid this for me. And John, while yon are telling them I will be in hell, ami it will be your fault.” Is it not time for me to pull out from the great organ of God’s word, with many banks of keys, tho tremolo stop? ‘ Look not' upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at last it bitoth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” But this evil will be arrested. Bluchercame up just before night and saved the day at Waterloo. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon it looked very badly for the English. Oenerals Ponsonby end Pickton fallen. Sabers broken, flags surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men left out of the German brigade. The English array falling back and falling back. Napoleon r ibbed his hands together and said: “Aha! aha! we’ll teach that little Englishman a lesson. Ninety chances out of a hundred are in our favor. Magnificent! magnificent!” He even sent messages to Paris to say he had won the day. But before sundown Blucher came up, and he who had been the conqueror of Aueterlitz became the victim of Waterloo. The name which had shaken all Europe and filled even America with apprehension, that name went down, and Napoleon, muddy and hatless,and crazed with his disasters, was found feeling for the stirrup of a horse, that he might mount and resume the conflict. Well, ray friends, alcoholism is imperial, and it is a conqueror, and there are good people who say the night of national over throw is coming, and that it is almost night. But before sundown the Conqueror of earth and heaven will ride in on the white horse, and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlitz of triumph, shall have its Waterloo of de feat. Alcoholism having lost its crown, the grizzly and cruel breaker of human hearts, crazed with the disaster, will be found feel ing in vain for the stirrup in which to re mount its foaming charger. "So, O Lord, let Thine enemies perish I" SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A new machine makes paper boxes. Tough paper is made by mixing choloride of zinc with the pulp. It has recently beea found that certain fungoid growths have the power of re moving gold from water containing it in suspension. Contracts for the new Cunard steam ships of the Atlantic service stipulate that they must make uot less than twenty- two knots an hour. It is stated that as a result of the recent experiments several Italian war ships are to be altered to enable them to burn petroleum in their furnaces instead of coal. Celluloid in solution is now being ex tensively used as a lacquer for all kinds of fine metal work and as a wood varnish with results that arc said to bo superior to the old methods. A new inveution is a simple apparatus by which the itrect car trolly may bo guided without disturbing the connec tion in cases where changes are neces sary. The object is to keep the cars lighted during the operation. Observations seem to show that a de crease in the earth’s latitude is in prog ress, implying an alteration in the direc tion of the earth’s axis. The fluctuation Is thought to be duo to a minute oscilla tion caused by some changes in internal wars of the earth. In the electric gyroso ipe for use in cor recting tho error of a compass neither rolling nor pitching need be feared. It is said to be adapted to conect the com pass with certainty, as its axis of rota tion remains fixed as long as it is neces sary to prolong the observation: A new method of testing the hardness of metals consists in conducting an elec tric current through the test piece until it melts, and then comparing the strength of current required with the current necessary for tho fusion of a standard piece of metal of known hardness. Professor Thurston says: “The as sumption seems fair that the locomotive engine will have been superseded when we double our speeds, and that we must find ways to utilize the weights of the cars themselves tor adhesion, and to make each to carry its own motor.” One of the greatest problems of tho future is thought to be the transforma tion of carbon energy into light upon the same principle that the glow worm and firefly give their light, au'l when a single pound of combustible material will fur nish as much light as 's now obtained from a ton of coal. An American inventor has brought out a process for making soap from the res inous matter in tho needles of the pine tree. The resin is extracted by means of alkali, and the woody fibre is re moved from the product, which, on ad dition of fat, yields an ordinary soap containing resinous and fatty acids. M. Camille Gonzy, proprietor of farms in the commune of Mi lias (Western Pyrenees) to the extent of 1500 acres,has utilized the power of a neighboring waterfall to generate electricity, not only to light his property, but to work a wino press and to pump water for irrigating the vines. Some sixty-two miles of tele phone wires are required to connect all the apparatus. The pulsometer is now used for filling the tenders of locomotives with water. The pulsometer itself is of the ordinary pattern, connected with the steam tanks and feed valves by flexible piping, and when not in use is carried on the tender. When about to be brought into requisi tion it is simply lowered into a conven ient stream or lake by suitable means, and its application to this purpose is said to be extremely satistactory. A Queer Block of Ice. Alexander Loucks, while cutting ice recently, discovered a spider frozen in a solid block of ice. He ingeniously cut into the ice, when the spider stepped out and hopped about. The ice was some seven inches thick and was frozen abont two weeks ago.—San Francisco Ea- mrniner. In 1819 the United Florida from Spain. His Unique Sign. A striking signboard may sometimes be tho means of making tta owner’s fortune. There are plenty of places in New York where old umbrellas are mended, but the west side mender wbo put up the sign “Umbrella Hospital” struck an idea that none of bis rivets had thought of. People laughed at it, took a second glance at it, looked st the place, and told their acquaintances about it, thus advertising the umbrella hospital and sending customers to it. Unless tho signs fail, that signboard will yet enrich ite inventor.—Detroit Free Prut. Beware el Olntmeate fer Catarrh Contain Aiercnry, As mercury will surely destroy the Fense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous sur faces. Such articles should never be dsed ex- That cept on prescriptions Irom reputable pbysi- auiage they will do Is ten fold U sibly I clans, as i he < auiage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Caro, manufactured by K. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, and acts direct ly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine, it is taken internal ly, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J, Cheney &T Sold by Druggist*, price 75c. per bottle. Children Enjoy Tho pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when In need of a lax ative and if the father or mother be costive or bilious the most gratifying results follow Its use,so that It is tho host family remedy known and every family should have a bottle. Live leisurely unless you are anxious t lie in a hurry. making old persons feel young—and young persons strong; pleasant to take. To change the name and not the letter i h:»nge for worse nnd not for bettor. FITS stopped free by Dn. Kune’s Great Nrrvr Rkstoheii. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S3 trial bottle free. JL)r. Kline. 031 Arch StTphuL. Pa. Do You Ever Speculate f Any person sending us their name an l al- ormatioa that will leal & Co, tieourity mg dross will receive information that will lea l to a fortune. BenJ Building. Kansas C: BenJ. Lewis Jity. Mo. il Eng y is t land. weddiig day in Stomach For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and disorders, use Brown’s Iron Bitters. The Best Tonic, it rebuilds tho system, cleans tho Blood and strengthens the muscles. A splendid ton ic fer weak and debilitated persons. Biidlo th‘» a j petite r,ith reason and save bo stomach. LeeWa’s Chinese Headache Cure. Harm less in effect, quick and positive in action. Kent prepaid on receipt of SI per bottle. Adeler & Co.,fl23 Wyandotte st.,Kansas City,Mo Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma Guide Book and Man sent any whers on receipt of 00 cts.Tyler & Co.,Kansas Oity,Mo. Taken away —sick headache, bilious headachy dizziness, constipation, indigestion, bilious attacks, and all derango ments of tho liver, stomach and bowels. It’s a large contract, but the smallest things in tho world do the business—Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They’re tho smallest, but the most effective. They go ttt work in tho right way. They cleanse and renovate the system thoroughly—but they do it mildly and gently. You feel the gooa they do — biit you don’t feel them doing it. As a Liver Pill, they’re unequaled. Sugar-coated, easy to take, and put up in vials, and hermetically scaled, and thus always fresh and reliable. A per fect vest-pocket remedy, in small vials, and only one necessary for a laxative or three for a cathartic. They’re the cheapest pill you can buy, because they’re guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is returned. You only pay for the good you get. That’s the peculiar plan all Dr. Pierce’s medicines are sold on, through druggists. SALAFAGLEFA! Tho Indian Herb Remedy. Nature’s great cure for Indigestion, Sick Headache, Constipation, Bilious Attacks and all Troubles of tho Stomach, Liver and Bowels. For years this herb has been the only rem edy used by the celebrated Mescalero Indians, noted throughout the country for their remarkable strength, vigor and length of life. Thousands of testimonials on fllo. Only 25 cents for a box of this great household remedy. For sale by all druggists, or sent on receipt of price by tho SALAFAGLEFA HERB CO., Eddy, New Mexico. (No postage stamps accepted.) Reference, First National Bank. OF- A. B.O. AGRICULTURE A new book free telling In the simplest wav, how chips grow, what plant food they get trom the Air, Rain and Soil. —The way to Improve lands and make large crop* of Grain, VegctableM. Fruits, Flowers and Tobacco.—How Fertilisers are made and when to use them for profit, mailed free on receipt «<f thm- two-cent stamps to pay postage. W. S. POWELL 4. CO., —CUemlcnl X«>rtllizer Momifhcinrcrsy— BALTIMORE, MD. HOW TO GET WELL is a question of vital importance, but it is equally important that you use some harmless remedy; many people completely wreck their health by taking mercury and potash mixtures, for pimples and blotches, or some othel trivial disease. S. S. S. is purely vegetable containing no mercury or poison of any kind. And is at the same tune an infallible cure for skin diseases. Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta. Ga. How there are coming of winter as a con stant state of siege. It seems as if the elements sat down outside the walls of health and now and again, led by the north wind and his attendant blasts, broke over the ramparts, spreading colds, pneumonia and death. Who knows when the next storm may come and what its effects upon your constitution may be? The fortifica tions of health must be made strong. SCOTT’S EMULSION of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda will aid you to hold out against Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility, and all Ancemic and Wasting Diseases, until the siege is raised. It prevents wasting in children. Palatable as Milk. SPECIAL.—Scott’s Emulsion is non-secret, and is prescribed by the Medical Pro- fession nil over the world, because its ingredieQtS afb scientifically combined in such a manner as to greatly increase their remedial value. CAUTJ0N.—Scott’s Emulsion is put up In salmon-colored wrappers. Be sure and get the genuine. Prepared only by Scott &Bowne, Manufacturing Chemists, New York. Sold by oil Druggists. IF YOU WA&5T Write us. We will SEND our 100-PAGE CATALOGUE FREE, giving valuable Information. Wo make It easy to deal with us WHEREVER YOU LIVE. Our prices are MOST REASONABLE for strictly RRST-CLASS PIANOS. WE SELL ON EASY PAYMENTS. We toko OLD PIANOS in Exchango, EVEN THOUGH YOU LIVE TWO THOUSAND MILES AWAY. Wo guar antee satisfaction, or Piano to be returned to us AT OUR EXPENSE for RAILWAY FREiCHTS BOTH WAYS. I VERS & POND PBARiaTO. 'of BOSTON,MASS. DIPPV l/mcro POSITIVELY KEMEDIKD., DAUUl miLLO Grtely l unt Stretcher Adopted by studuiiti at Harvard, Amherst, and other Colleges, also, by professional and business men every where. If not for sale in your town Fend 23e. to It. J. LIIEELY, 715 Washington Street, Boston. ■ AniCC AMI V f 1 w,,,, sen ' i an . v Lanya 'alu.v LAMIE3 UnLI ■ bio Socrot that cost me #3, •nd a Rubber Shield for 30c. Conlldonlinl. Address Mrs. W. L. Lawson & Co., 58 State St., Chicago, 111. 5 'N ton scales \ $so Beani Box Tare Beam / ALL SUKS **«!,/ LOISETTE’S NEW PROF. MEMORY BOOKS. [emory Systems. Read* of Contents forwarded Criticism* on two recent Menu abont April 1st. Full Tables only to those who send stamped directed envelope. A1 no Prospectus POST FREE of the Lolsettiau An of Never Forgetting. Address Prof. LOISBTTR, 237 Fifth Ave., New York. KING OF ALL GOUGH CURES; DOCTOR ACKERS ENGLISH REMEDY SOLD faN ENGLAND for Is. lHd«, and in AM ERICA for £5 cent, a bottle. IT TASTES COOD.I 99 “August Flower' How does he feel ?—He feels cranky, and is constantly experi menting, dieting himself, adopting strange notions, and changing the .coking, the dishes, the hours, and manner of his eating August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels at times a gnawing, voracious, insati able appetite,wholly unaccountable, unnatural and unhealthy.—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling, fault-finding, over-nice- tv about what is set before him when i:c is tiiere—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels after a spell of this abnormal appe tite an utter abhorrence, loathing, and detestation of food; as if a mouthful would kill him—August Fiower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He has ir regular bowels and peculiar stools— August Flower tho Remedy. ® TACOMATwlyrr'li 1001 Trot hr. TACOMA iSvftS'lMK.Vr 10., TAiOHA, WASH. f,s»i WilMUIfliaMWOtttft *7 beautiful Silk A Kalin iHSIlYAliilllli A>c& enouirh lo oovei St* 20c.; best, 25c. Lemarie’s Silk Mill, LHi lel'ury N.J. nncmtlC cure for Tobacco habit; PuSIlIf t AdilrcKS P.O. Box r»l. (Hailstone. N-J IFflUC fcTt’D Y. Rook-keeplug, Boalnw MUfflC] ‘" Pemuanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, e8T IE thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars fr** : Bryant’w College, 437 Main Buffalo, N. id marie happy for t\ a ucrlbe to the No Namk Magazine. Always bright and interMtto*. ... — Sample copy, one dime. £fo/res AMERICAN PRESS CO., Baltimore, M<L HOM PENSIONS Great PENSION BIN Is Passed. era and Father* »r# e» titled to $ 12 * mo. FceflOw.icn you get your roone* Blanks free. JOSEPH II. HL'NTKB. AtU- Wmbluff ED.-L.HOMTLEY’SfJRfSVSS rivo universal satisfaction. Why should you pmy mkl- ilemen’t? profits when you can buy direct from us, the manufacturers» Send us $10 and the following measure* vnd we will guarantee to fit and please you or refund four money. Rules for measurement; breast measure, jver vest, close up under arms, waist measure over pants at waist, and inside leg measure from crotch to baAl- Semi Six Cents for 12 samples of our $10 Men’* Sims, fashion plate aud tape measure. Roys’Suits, $5.50» Children’s Suits. $3. KD. I1CINTLKY j Whoifvile Talior», 184 East Mmlboa Street, rklcaga, 111. Leading Southern Seed Hobm. EDS E Vegetable Seeds, Flower Seeds, Brass Seed, Clover Seed, Seed Grain, Potatoes, ftc. &c OFiNC IWF.UY MAN IIIH OW!f ROOFER. Two and Three Ply Rooting, suitable for all roofh tenpri thnn vn» other material and twice as dm iUe. Klro, Wind and Water Proof, Oitable for a* climate?, and < :in in* applied by any one. Descripi!* < uudognu with sample* of Rooting, Lining am sheathing Paper, Paints, &c., Bent on request. 'J 'gf' 1»' WILL I’AY YOU TO WRITS US. .}t>UN AHMITAOE, Itichmond, Va, - The univemnl favor ac corded Tilunorast’s Puget Sound Cabbage Seeds lends me to offer a I*. S. Grown Onion,the finest Yellow Ul -be in existence. To introduce It tfaml show Us capabilities 1 will pay $100 for tho best yield obtained from 1 ounce of seivl which I will mall for (jOctH. Catalogue free. Ihurc F. Tilllii*ha*l, La Flume, Fa. m FOR A ON E-DOLLAR RIliL sent us v/y man we will deliver, free of all charges, to any person la the Unit d States, all of th* following articles, care- fully packei: One two-ounoe bottle of Pure Vaeeline, • • 10 cU One t wo-ounoe bottle of Vaseline Pomade, - 15 u One Jar of Vaaeline Cold Cream. 15 M One Cjike of Vaseline Camphorle*, - - - 10“ One Cake of Vaseline Soap, unsoented, - - 10“ Ono Cake of Vaseline Soap,exqulaltely soented.25 “ One two-ounce bottle of While Vaseline, - - 25' £ 10 ptioi named. On no account be persuaded to acoej>t from your druggist any Vaseline or preparation therefrom unless labelled with our name, beeaum you will cer tainly receive an imitation which has Utile or no value CbcMibrough Ufg. Ce. t State 8$., N. V. Prices quoted on application. l)es» \ oriptire Catalogue mailed FREE, Contains valuable information for every Southern Farmer A Oardener, T. W. WOOD & SONS, «E£D9MKN, 8 & 10 South 14th St., RICHMOND, VA. a#****/**###******# td ?2.00 I for Udies $75 ^ Boys W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE CENTLeIhEN. fiC.UO (Iciiiiiup llaud-newiMl, an elegant and w stylish dress Shoe which commends itself, ftj.oi) 11 a lid-HCtvrd Writ. A line calf Shoe nn* “t equalled for style and durability. £4.30 (■•odyeur Writ is the standard drea* v shoe at a popular price. Folicrmati’M Shoes is especially odapted w for railroad men, farmers, etc. All made in Congress, Button and Laoe. lor Lndirrt is the only liund-eewed Shoe w sold at this ]x>ptilar price. Dongoln Shoe for Ladle* is anew de> A partiire and promises to become very popular. So* 00 * 110 *'for Ladle*,and >1.7*» forMissee £ still retain their excellence for style, etc. All goods warranted and stamped with name on bottom. If advertised local agent cannot lupplr you, send direct to factory, enclosing adverUaed price or a postal for order blanks. W. L. DOriJLAS, Brockton, Mas*. . WANTKD—Shoe dealer in every city and town not occupied lo lake exclusive agency. All nuenlM advertinod in local paper, send for illUHtralcd catalogue. Chichester's Bhbush. Red Cross fF** Diamohd brand rEHHMROYMi * VUiUS I rS,I H 5 5n ,C, 7? » ®**W , N£* The only Safe, Bare, an.1 reliable Pill for ■&]«. 10 >L'<- ‘O'! Gold mfUEt* •tlx”' kind. Refuse Sube$Uunim$ and ImitaiMs • a. o! 1 P . tU * 11 P Mtebo *fd pink wrapper*, are dancerouN rour. tcrfelt*. At Druegiit*. vr ■ fS' ^ -d -lSKF rur i,,Ura/in\uer, :al Co., Sauartb FU1 LA I> i:Li*HWF“ FEVER©]? SUte* purchased Ttti Picture, Panai die, maUsd for 41 J. F. SMITH A CO., Makers of "BU. Btaaz,’’ S5S 4 257 SrtMwiob St., N. V. City. CURE Biliousness, Sick Headache, Malaria. BILE BEANS. YOUNG WIVES! We Offer You a Remedy which Insures Safety to Life of Mother and Child. 4 ‘Mother’s Friend” Robs Confinement of Its PAIN, HORROR and RISK, as Thousand* Testify. Haxlowe, N. C., January, 18S0. Too much can’t b. said In pralM of ‘ Mother 1 , Friend." My wife need only wo bottles before confinement, and was n labor on!<’ twenty minutes. She le doing t^lcndldly. Thanke to ' Mother s Friend." JNO. 8. MORTON. | Lakae, Mo., Jan. is, isei. After using one bottle of " Mothers Friend," before confinement, I suffered but little pain, and did not experience that weakness afterward, ueual In such cases My recovery was rapid. MRS ANNIE OAOE r.-jt b? Eipress, CbarjM Pre-pald, on Receipt of Prtei, 11.50 pr Bottle. " Bool ic lolbeis,” lal'H Free BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA ' •ex.s ay savaftexsTa. -an Have You a Cough? Have You a Cold? Or Consumption? Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein WILL CURE YOU ! Ask your Druggist or Merchant for It. Take nothing else. piSO’S REMEDY FOR CATARRH.—Best. * Cheapest. Relief Is immediate. Cold In the Head It has no equal. Easiest to use. A cure is certain. For « u. -10 It Is an ointment, of which a small particle Is applied to the nostrils. Frlce, 60o. Sold by drusglsta or sent by mail. Address. E. T. Hazkltink, Warren, Pa. ALLIANCE MEN! Owing to the hearty support and the large trade wc have received from members of the Farmen' Alliance, we will hereafter allow 5 PER CENT. DISCOUNT On all orders received from members of the Farmers’ Alliance. To secure this discount In sending us orders always have the Secretary or President your Lodcro certify to your membership. J of 95 Words can not express the known snccess that onr World Renowned “Murray $M-06 ttugair.H have met with. They have stood the test of rough roads, hard cli mate and tough driving, and now STAND AT THE HEAD Without a known competitor. Beware of Imitators Of our Murray Buggies and Harness. S ’ that yonr Buggy has our name plate an; guarantee on it, and YOU A If I : NAKU WXXjBJBXI. XX. JVKTTJn.XLoa.'V R RAY* 5 95 IVA A.JLM jh-a Without a doubt the excellent quality of our Celebrated “Murray” #5 9li Har- nPHM has caused more comment and received more praise than anything that has been placed ou the market for years. Our plan of Selling Direct to the Consumer And declaring ourselves onenly and above board againat all PooIh und Twain i has also made ns many friends. Write at once for our free lUuHtrated t atalof/ue, containing full description and net rw*h prices of our v „ .. work. A’UXLIlw Or OO. f CINCINNATI, OHIO.