Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. •Tet is used on everythin". Perfumed gloves are u novelty. Epaulets are Uwer and squarer. Jet is the very height of fashion. Nerv challies arc in cheviot finish. The fashionable skirt gets tighter. The corselets and girdles are laced. Taffeta silk grows rapidly iu favor. The straight braided belt is pretty. White gloves are worn in the street. Cornflower blue is favored by fashion. Milanese jewelry has again found favor. There arc bracelets with diamond bow- knots. Thumb-rings are the latest fancy of the fair. Tea color is the favorite tint for fash ionable laces. Black and gold is a favorite combina tion for small bonnets. A bird’s wing of diamonds affords an effective hair ornament. Blonde hair is improved by being crimped a little in the back. Black melton is considered the best and finest material for riding habits. Miss Charlotte M. Younge, in her sixty-seventh year,, is writing her 101st book. The summer bell skirt is wider and fuller than the original model of the early spring. The tendency is again for gold linings in silver cups, bowls, cream jugs, and the like. The Empress of Japan excels in play ing the ‘ koto,” a Japanese instrument like a zither. The Queen of Italy does the most dif ficult pieces of Italian and German com posers on the piano. Lady Macdonald enjoys the reputation of being the most accomplissd conversa- sionalist in Canada. There is a startling rumor abroad to the effect that befurbelowed white petti coats are coming in again. Heavy cords and milliners’ folds are used by French and English designers on plain skirts of silk or satin. The gifted Queen of Itoumania is cel ebrated among- her subjects for her line playing on the harp and piano. Of belts there is an unlimited variety. Leather belts, Russia, crocodile skin, and Suede, are in many designs. The latest freak of fash ion puts revers and sleeves of shaded feathers on the light cloth jackets for outdoor wear. The new fashionable envelope is not only loug and narrow, lint very long and very narrow, not at all pretty, though it is stylish A unique finger ring is a solid dia mond heart, surmounted by a diamond crown. This double design also figures as a brooch. Paris milliners sell half a dozen veils with each hat. The newest fashion is that of the tiny embroidered rosebud on a black ground. Emma Abbott’s cremation dress was a $5000one, and the veil which covered her face was so strung with gold threads that globules of gold were found in her ashes. Steel tape measures that coil up inside a circular shaped silver case, and are marked by a thumb slide, are numbered with elegant little conveniences enjoyed by both sexes. Catherine Weed Barnes, a niece of Thurlow Weed, resides at Albany, N. Y., and is recognized as the leading woman amateur in this country in the art of photography. Ametican women arc getting to have a mingled look of English and French women—the superb indifference of their English sisters and the exquisite trim ness of the French. There is nothing romantic about Ida Lewis. She once saved the lives of two sailors in a storm at Narragansett Pier, R. I.,aud received a gold medal. She now works in a restaurant. Mrs. Jcnness-Miller advocates plenty of sleep for the preservation of woman’s youth and good looks. It is her custom to take every fifth week off and do noth ing but sleep, nap and lie around. ‘‘Four things are required of a wo man,'’ say the Chinese, “that virtue may dwell in her heart, that modesty shine on her forehead, that gentleness flow from her lips, and that work employ her hands.” Mrs. W. C. Whitney and Mrs. Levi P. Morton have laces worth from $50,000 to $70,000. The Belmont laces are al most priceless. Mrs. ^Marshall Roberts and Mrs. Bradley Martin have exquisitely fine, choice and rare laces. The eccentric Wall street operator, Mrs. Hetty Green, who is popularly re puted to be worth something like $40,- 000,000, has a daughter now about eighteen years old. There is also a son, to whom, Mrs. Green declares, she will leave the bulk of her fortune. London now has a number of women of aristocratic lineage who are in trade as milliners or dressmakers. The pioneer of them all is Lady Granville Gordon, who six years ago opened a little shop in Park street. Her capital at the start was only $750, but she has been remarkably successful. 3o the doctors are rebelling against BKirts that drag. They say that women and children are bringing all sorts of disr eases into the house via the pestilential train. One family physician recommends that the dresses he thoroughly brushed and disinfected after each wearing. Miss Emily Dickenson, whoso poems have been published only since her death, is said to have left 800 manuscripts of complete pocme and fragments of nearly as many more.- Her shyness amounted almost to n mania, and her late years were spent entirely iu her own home, but she loved children and had a habit of lowering gifts to them from her win dows. Growing Lettuce by Electric Light. It is now believed that where it is profitable to grow lettuce under glass foi market, the electric light can be profit ably used. Win. Rawsou, of Arlington, Mass., has experimented for one season and feels encouraged to go on with it. The Worcester Co. (Mass.) Horticultural Society has published an account of what Mr. Rawsou did. One house for forcing lettuce, 200 feet by twenty-four, was given in charge of one arc light, active till midnight, at a cost of $15 per mouth. The crop was advanced in time twenty per cent. One week's advance in live, is a great gain to the market man. When the electric light was brought to some perfection, much was hoped for it as an aid in the artificial culture of plants. Dr. Sieman's experiments iudi rated some good results, but no attempts have been made to apply the principle to profitable uses. It seems to lie conceded that plants can proceed with those changes necessary to healthy plant growth to a great degree under electric light, though not nearly to the extent they can under sunlight; but the open question is, will they do this to an extent to make ita use profitable to the culti- yator.—Krt Ttrk IndepmUnt. THE FARM AND GARDEN. JUDGMENT REQUIRED IN CHEESE-MAKING. Curd should contain about seventy- five per cent, moisture when pressed, and dry out down to thirty-three per cent, when cured. To determine and retain this proper proportion of moisture in cheese is one point which requires good judgment in the operator, and can not be determined by means now known of a practical nature. Observation and practice arc the only guides at present known, and a cheese-maker must rely on his own experience and good common sense.—American Dairyman. HENS LATINO SOFT-SHELLED EGOS. The shell of a fowl’s egg consists mainly of carbonate of lime with ft small amount of phosphate of lime, and if either is wanting in their food the shells will be either very thin or entirly want ing. Usually fowls find sufficient lime about the grounds where they run, but it is always well to keep a supply of half-burned oyster or clam shells where the fowls can find them when wanted. Sometimes, however, soft-shelled eggs are due to overfeeding and consequent indigestion, and in such cases oyster shells arc an excellent corrective. Get a bushel or more of oyster shells, and burn them until they can be readily crushed with the hand, and place them in a con venient spot, and see if they do not cor rect the fault of which you complain.— New Yorh Sun. FOODS FOR A SUCKING COLT. A young colt should be taught to eat food wheu a month old. The mare; should, of course, receive extra food to enable her to nurse the colt well, and bran and linseed mash wmee a day will largely increase the milk. The best place for a mare with a colt is in a loose' box stall, and as soon as the confidence of the colt is gained and it may be han dled, a little bran and crushed oats, with a pinch of salt added, may be given toil in the hand. After two or three days it will look for it and follow its owner for it. Then a small shallow box is nailed to the side of the stall and the food is placed in it for the colt. A few ounces a day is sufficient at first, but at three mouths old the colt should be eating two pounds a day. After this it will eat whole oats, but some bran should still bo given, as it contains alt the elements of growth for a young animal.—New York Times. CLOSE MOWING. There is nothing gained by cutting upland grass too close. Some farmers mow their meadows as close as possible, and make the turf look as if it had been shaved with a razor. Of all grasses timothy probably suffers the most from too close moving. It should not be cut below the first joint, and better still above the second. When cut through the bulb, or too near it," the plant is often killed. The meadow will start much quicker if the grass is cut about two or three inches high than when be low that height, and the pasturage which will be gained will much more thau bal ance for the extra amount of hay of doubtful quality that is obtained by close mowing. Finer grass can be cut lower than coarse ones, and lowland meadows suffer but very little from being cut close, and possibly benefited, as the sun can thereby reach the ground and dry out the excess of moisture. Our object in this note is to speak against the close cutting of upland meadows, especially timothy, when thereby the roots are un duly exposed and often killed—American Agriculturist. POSTHOLE PUNCH. A very useful, cheap, durable, almost indispensable tool on every farm in all parts of the country, writes J. E. Blod gett in regard to a posthole punch. The body of it should be of cast iron, seven teen inches long, round, four and one- half inches diameter at upper end and tapering to a point at the other. A hole for the handle should be in the large end, two and one-half inches at its open ing, two inches at its lower end and six inches deep. Any man can make a pat tern and get the casting at any foundry. The handle can be made of any hard wood, driven in and made of size to be easy to handle. Such a tool can be used with success in all kinds of soil, even in quite stony land. With an outfit con sisting of a punch, a heavy maul, and a short-legged stool to stand o.i to drive the posts, two men can set more fence- posts in a day than in ten days’ hard work iu the old way of digging the holes, and equally well for all practical purposes. The posts need be only half sharpened, just the corners shaped off a little with the axe—a rainy-day job at making kindlingwood. Knowing the above facts by experience, and seeing some men breaking their backs digging postholes 1 was led to write to you.— New York Tribune. BEEKEEPING. In a bulletin on beekeeping, issued from the station of the Rhode Island Agricultural School, at Kingston, Mr. Cushman says: ‘‘Bees are poor property in crude and impractical hives, but in those well adapted to their purpose give a good return for the time and money in vested. Beekeepers who have taken the time and trouble to study the business have succeeded with practical hives, easily opened, iu which the combs arc straight and even, allowing of quick ex amination with little distuibancc of the bees. They unite weak colonies in the fall, feed them if m want of winter stores, and in winter givt protection from wind and prevent loss of heat from an outer case, with (lacking, or by comfortable quarters in the cellar. Extra stores are supplied in spring, and, if needed, a more prolific queen, and by various means extensive breeding induced to get a large army of gUbcrcrs and comb builders before the honey harvest. If no more swarms are wanted breed ing is discouraged during the honey flow and swarming is prevented by one of several methods; and the large army of workers use up their short lives in stor ing honey instead of raising bees. The crop is removed, a young queen given in place of one whose best (lowers arc used, the remaining beci are allowed honey enough for winter and raise enough young to keep up their strength until spring. This is followed year after year, whether the season be good or poor, so wheu the harvests come a good crop is insured. Improvement in yield in some sections is due to the planting of basswood trees in private grounds and along roadside; for shade. Nothing iu this country equals basswood bloom for honey produc lion. Alsikc clover, now more generally planted ou heavy soil, in connection with ar in (dace of red clover, is also grad ually increasing our bee pasturage, as well as the farmer’s crop of cattle fodder. Bees may obtain the nectar from alsikc bloom, while they are unable to reach that iu the blossoms of the first crop of red clover. Buckwheat, usually a profit- table crop aside from honey, may be planted to stilt increase the supply of bee food, though it does not always yield honey. Mr. Cushman empha’-izrs the import ance of Hurting with a good hive and sticking to it, so as to have oue kind only in an apiary, thus making possible doubling, dividing, changing combs ol brood or honey, tiering up, etc.—New York World. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Wage war on weeds now. Clean out the fence corners now. Crowd corn cultivation continually. Reduce the number of fences on your farm. Fences oil a farm like corners in a house are what cost. Raise your own dairy stock; there are many advantages in it. The fertilizer applied to any crop is never all taked Up by it. Better have grass than weeds along the roads through your farm. Always cut away ail lead wood. It may be done at any time. When you feed, do you know the weight of a forkful of hay ? Drag the potatoes before high enough to cultivate with cultivator. Planting on poverty-stricken soil is like fishing in barren waters. No cow that is kept all the while in doors can be perfectly happy. The farmer can grow vegetables cheaper than he can buy them. Clover, corn and skimmed milk will grow pigs and make nice pork. The clematis provides a handsome climber for arbors and verandas. Try on your own farm to make home production overbalance home consump tion. The surest way to improvement of stock is by the introduction of improved blood. Remember that in ordinary good soil, the best crop of potatoes is gained with flat culture. If you do not get all the manure out, pile it up where it will not leech or fire- fang any this summer. To save radishes from the attacks of the fly sprinkle the leaves with soot or wood ashes just as soon as they are above ground. To know what to feed saves the pocket- book; how to feed saves the man; when to feed saves the pig; the combination makes a feeder. American Garden calls attention to the Merkel, a new red raspberry, wholly dis tinct from ail other varieties and possess ing several valuable qualities. Farmers do not use the harrow enough. Keep it iu the corn field from the time the corn is planted till you can use the cultivator to advantage. Ducks need looking after frequently during the day as they are apt to get on their backs, and in this position they are entirely helpless and will die unless turned on their feet. The crab apples are both ornamental and useful, and may justly claim a place in ornamental gardening. The single and double flowering varieties from China’ and Japan are splendid in flower. In many cases it will be a good plan to let the turkey hens hatch out the second laying of eggs. The weather being warmer and more settled there is less danger of loss than with the earlier brood. In sending poultry to market remem ber that size aad condition count for more than color or shade in skin. Live and dressed poultry sell by weight, and the price per pound is often determined by the condition. As soon as harvest begins is the time to commence saving feed for the poul try during the winter. With a little :are a good supply of feed can be ob tained at a low cost and a good variety be secured. Mr. W. C. Barry tells that Mine. Georges Bruaut is one of the hardiest roses in his collection. Itcamo through :he past winter without being injured in the least. So said the liural New Yorker t month ago. So said Mr. Falconer. At this time many chicks die in the ihell because of too rapid evaporation luring incubatiou. Putting a sod under the eggs at the beginning or sprinkling ihe eggs with water the day before the/ ire to hatch will help to give better re sults. Cholera is always to be dreaded dur ing the summer. It is easier to prevent .han to cure, and all necessary pains should bo taken to keep the fowls in good health. A sick fowl generally cost; more to cure than it is worth. On the farm a general purpose fowl will be the most satisfactory one—that will lay well. The hens make good mothers and the matured fowls are good for the table. Special breeds are best for those who make a specialty of the luiiness. A Canine Hero. A correspondent of an English paper writes: “I recently witnessed the fol lowing little incident on the Thames, near Twickenham, when the river was full ot land water, and therefore, very iwift and dangerous. Two dogs, one a large animal, the other a little terrier, were enjoying a swim near the hank, but soon the little one was carried out some listnnee and was unable to get to shore. By this time the big dog had regained Ihe shore, and, seeing what was happen ing to his companion, began running backward and forward in the most ex citing manner, at the same time whim 1 pering and barking, and evidently not knowing for the moment what to do. The terrier was fastiosingstrength, and, ilthough swimming hard, was being rapidly carried down stream. The big log could contain himself no longer. Running some yards ahead of his strug gling friend, he plunged into the water and swam vigorously straight out until ae got in a line with the little head just tppearing behind him. Then he al lowed himself to be carried down, tail list, until he got next to the terrier, '.his being accomplished in the cleverest manner, and began to swim hard, gradu- illy pushing the little one nearer and aearer to the shore, which waa gained iftcr a most exciting time. The fact of ;his canine hero going so far ahead to Blow for the strong current, and the judgment shown iu getting alongside, md then the pushing, certainly see ned to me to betoken instinct of a very high irder. ” A Strange Epidemic. A curious epidemic is raging iu Kansu, China. Its symptoms are headache, fever and ague, vomiting and weakness. Those attacked must at once resort to medical aid or death would result in a few days. The poor, who cannot afford to pay for treatment, are dying rapidly, and the authorities are exerting them selves to provide charitable treatment with medicine free of cost. Home super stitious people believe that the god who transmits messages in such a mysterious manner is at the bottom of the whole thing, and to appease it they offer wine, food, incense and paper money to th« telegraph pclcs, and prostrate themselves in front of them praying for forgiveness and indulgence. No cures effected through such means have yet been re ported.—St. Louis Neiiublie. Brazil has incuased imposls five pet tent, REV. DR. TALMAGE fhe Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon Text: "We are witnesses.’’—Acts iii., 15 Standing amid the bills and groves of Ken tucky, and before thU great multitude that no man can number, most of whom I never saw before and never will see again in this world, I choose a very practical theme. In the days of George Stephenson, the perfector of the locomotive engine, the scientists proved conclusively that a railroad train could never be driven by steam power suc cessfully without peril; but the rushing ex press trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London, have made all the nation witnesses of the splendid achievement. Machinists and navigators proved conclu sively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic, but no sooner had they success fully proved the impossibility of such an un dertaking than the work was done, and the passengers on the Cunard, and the Inman, and the National, and the White Star lines are witnesses. There went up a guffaw of. wise laughter at Professor Morse's proposi-” tion to make the lightning of heaven his er rand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done; hut now all the news of the wide world put In your hands every morning and night has made all nations witnesses. So in the time ot Christ it was proved con clusively that it was impossible for Him to rise from the dead. It was shown logically that when a man was dead he was dead, and the heart, and the liver, and the lungs hav ing ceased to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigid beyond all power of friction or arousal. They showed it to be an abso lute absurdity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they 8 roved this than the dead Christ arose, and le disciples beheld Him, heard His voice, and talked with Him, and they took the wit ness stand to prove that to be true which the wiseacres of the day had proved to be impos sible; the record of the experiment and of the testimony is in the text: “Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.” Now let me play the skeptic for a moment “There is no God " says the skeptic, “for I have never seen Him with my physical eye sight. Your Bible is a pack of contradic tions. There never was a miracle. Lazarus was not raised from the dead, and the water was never turned into wine. Your religion is an imposition on the credulity of theagee.” There is an aged man moving in that pew as though he would like to respond. Here are hundreds of people with faces a little flushed at these announcements, and all through this throng there is a suppressed feeling which would like to speak out In behalf of the truth of our glorious Christianity, as iu the days of the text, crying out, “We are witnesses'" The fact is that if this world is ever brought to God it will not be through argu ment. but through testimony. You might cover the whole earth with apologies for Christianity and learned treatises in defense of religion—you would not convert a soul. Lectures on the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental discipline, but have never saved a soul and never will save a soul. Put a man of the world and a man of the church against each other, and the man of the world will, in all probability, get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion that seem illogical to the world, and always will seem Illogical. Our weapon in this conflict is faith, not logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith, not S rotundity, faith, not scholastic exploration. Ut then, in order to have faith we must have testimony, and if live hundred men, or one thousand men, or five hundred thousand men, or fire million men get up and tell me that they have felt the religion of Jeeus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, an inspira tion, I am bound, as a fair-minded man, to accept their testimony. I want to put be fore you three propositions the truth of which I think this audience will attest with overwhelming unanimity. The first propo sition is: We are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The Gos pel may have had a hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, but we were vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary thing. We know better. “We are witnesses." There never was so great a change in our heart and life on any other subject as on this. People laughed at the missionaries in Mad agascar because they preached ten years without one convert, but there are many thousands of converts in Madagascar to day. People laughed at Dr. Jiidsun. the Baptist missionary, because he kept on preaching in Burmah live years without a single convert; but there are many thou sands of Baptists in Burmah to-day. People laughed at Dr. Morrison iu China for preach ing there seven years without a single con version; but there are many thousands of Christians in China to-day. People laughed at the missionaries for preaching at Tahiti for fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Ben gal seventeen years without a single conver sion; yet in all those lands there are multi tudes of Christians to-day. But why go so far to find evidences of the Gospel’s power to save a soul? “We are wit nesses.'’ We were so proud that no man could have humble! us; we were so hard that no earthly power could have melted us. Angels of God were all around about us, they could notovercopie us, but one day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat or at a Presby terian catechetical lecture or at a burial or on horseback, a power seizsd us and made us get down and made us tremble and made us kneel and made us cry for mercy, and wo tried to wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but we could not. It flung us flat, and when we arose we were as much changed asGourgis, the heathen, who went into a prayer meeting with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the meeting and destroy it, but the next day was found crying: “Oh, my great sins! Ob, my great Saviour!" and for eleven years preached the Gosnel of Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being “Free grace!" Oh, it was free grace! There is a man who was for ten years a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had sent down its roots around the palate an! the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals ot the body, mind and soul, but he has not taken any stimu lants for two years. What did that v Not temperance societies. Not prohibition laws. Not moral suasion. Conversion did it. “Why,” said one upon whom the great change had come, “sir. I feel just as though I were somebody else.” There is n sea cap tain who swore all the way from New Yora to Havana, and from Havana to San Fran cisco, and when he was in port he was worsa than when he was on sea. What (lower was it that washed his tongue clean of pro- tanities and made him a psalm singer? Con version by the Holy Spirit. There are thou- -ands of people here to-day who are no more what they once were than a water lily is a nightshade, or a morning lark is a vulture, or dav is night. Now, if 1 should demand that all those people here present who have lelt the con verting power of religion should rise, so far from being ashamed they would spring to their feet with far more alacrity than they ever sprang to the dance, the tears mingling with their exhilaration as they cried, “We are witnesses T’ And if they tried to sing the old Gospel hymn they would break down W ith emotion by the time they got to th - second line: Ashamed of -lesns, tha! dear friend <m whom my hopes of heaven depend? No! When I blush, be this my shame, That 1 no more revere His name. Again, I remark that “we are witnesses” of the Gospel’s power to comfort. When a man has trouble the world conies in and says: “Now get your mind off this; go out nna oreatne me tresn *iir; plunge deeper m- to business." What poor advicel Get your mind off it! when everything is upturred with the bereavement, and everything re minds you of what you have lost. Get your min t off it! They might as well advise you to stop thinking, and you cannot stop think ing in that direction. Take a walk in the Iresh air! Why, along that very street, or that verv road, she once accompanied you. Out of that grass plot she plucked flowers, or into that show window she looked fasci nated, saying, "Come, see the pictures.” Go deeper into business! Why, she was asso ciated with all your business ambitions, and since she has gone you have no ambition left. Ob. this is a clumsy world when it tries to comfort a broken heart I I can build a Corliss engine, I can paint a Raphael’s “Madonna." 1 can play a Beetho ven s sympnony as easily as tnu worm can comfort a broken heart. And yet you have been comforted. How was it done? Did Christ come to you and say; “Get your mind off this. Go nut and breathe the fresh air. Plunge deeper Into busineeaf’ No. Then was a minute when He came to you—per haps in the watches of the night, perhaps in your place of business, perhaps along the street—and He breathed something Into your fouI that gave peace, rest, Infinite quiet, so mat you could take out the photograph of the departed one and look info the eyes and the face of the dear one and say: “It is all right. 8he is better off. I would not oall her back. Lord, 1 thank Thee that Thou has comforted my poor heart." There are Christian parent* here who are willing to testify to the power of this Gospel to comfort. Your son had just graduated from school or college and was going into ousmess, ana me Dora took mm. ur your daughter had just graduated from the young ladies’ seminary, and you thought she was going to be a useful woman and of long life, but the Lord took her, and you were tempted to say, “All this culture of twenty years for nothing!” Or the little child came home from school with the hot fever that stopped not for tne agonized prayer or for the skill ful physician, and the little child whs taken. Or the babe was lifted out of your arms by some quick epidemic, and you stood wonder ing wby God ever gave you that child at all if so soon He was to take it away. And yet you are not repining, you are not fretful, you are not fighting against God. What enabled you to stand all the trial? “Oh," you say, "I took the medicine that God gave my sick soul. In my distress I threw myself at the feet of a sympathizing God; and when I was too weak to pray or to look up He breathe! into me a peace that I think must be the foretaste of that heaven where there is neither a tear nor a farewell nor a grave." Come, all ye who have been out to the grave to weep there—come, all ye comforted sou’s, gel up off your knees. Is there no power in this Gospel to soothe the heart? Is there no power in this religion to quiet the worst paroxysm of grief? There comes up an answer from comforted widow hood and orphanage an 1 childlessness, say ing, "Ay, ay, we are witnesses!" Again, I remark that we are witnesses of the fact that religion has power to give composure in the last moment. X shall never forget the first timo I confronted death. We went ncross the cornfields in the country. I was led by my father's hand, and we came to the farmhouse where the be reavement had come and wo saw the crowd of wagons and carriages; but there was one carriage that especially attracted my boyish attention, and it had tdacknlumes. I said. “What’s that? what’s that? Why those black tassels at the top?" And after it was explained to me 1 was lifted up to look upon the bright face of on aged Christian woman, who three days before had departed in tri umph. The whole scene made an impression I never forgot. In our sermons and our lay exhortations we are very apt, when we want to bring il lustrations of dying triumph, to go bark to some distinguished nersonage—to a Johu Knox or a Harriet Newell. But I want you for witnesses, f want to know if you have ever seen anything to make you believe that the religion of Christ can give composure in the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorney, jury and judge will never admit mere here- say. They demand that the witness must have seen with his own eyes, or heard with his own ears, and so I am critical in my ex amination of you now, and I want to know whether you have seen or beard anything that makes you believe that the religion of Christ gives composure in the final hour. “Oh, yes,” you say, “I saw my father and mother depart. There was a great differ ence in their deathbeds. Standing by the oue we felt more veneration. By the other, there was more tenderness." Before the one you bowed perhaps, in awe. In the other case you felt as if you would like to go along with her. How did they feel in that last hour? How did they seem to act? Were they very much frightened? Did they take hold of this world with both liands as though they did not want to give It up? “Oh, no,” you say; "no; I remember as though it were yesterday; she had a kind word for us all, and there were a few mementoes distribute,! among the children, and then she told us how kind we must be to our father in his loneli ness, and then she kissed us goodby and went asleep as a child in a cradle.” What made her so composed? Natural courage? “No,” you say; “mother was very nerv ous; when the carriage inclined to the side of the road she would cry out; she was always rather weakly.” What gave her composure? Was it because she did not care much for you, and the pang of parting was not great? “Ob,” you say, “she showered upon us a wealth of affection; no mother ever loved her children more than mother loved us; she shogved it by the way she nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out." What, then, was it that gave her composure in the last hour? Do not hide it. Be frank and let me know. “Oh,” you say, “it waa be cause she was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we should all meet her at last at the foot of the throne." Here are people who say, “I saw a Chris tian brother die, and he triumphed." And some one else, "I saw a Christian' sister die, and she triumphed." Home one else will any, “I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed.” Come, all ye who have seen the last moment of a Christian, and givetea- timony in this cause on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hands on the old family Bible, from which they used to read the E remises, and promise in the presence of igh heaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothiug but the truth. With what you have seen with your own eyes and what you have heard with vour own ears, is mere power in mis uospei so give calmness and triumph in the last exig ency? The response comes from all sides, from young and old and middle aged, “We are witnesses!” You see, my friends, I have not put before you any abstraction or a chimera, or any thing like guess work. I present you affida vits of the best men and women, living and dead. Two witnesses in court will estaDlish a fact. Here are not two witnesses, but millions of witnesses on earth and in heaven testifying that there is power in this religion to convert the soul, to give comfort in trouble and to afford composure fn the last hour. It ten men should come to you when you are sick with appalling sickness and say they ha! the same sickness and took a certain medicine and it cured them, you would probably take it. Now. suppose ten other men should come up and say: “We don't be lieve that there is anything in that medi cine.” “Well,” T say, “have you triedit?" "No, I never tried it, but I don’t believe there is anything in it,” Of course you dis credit their testimony. The skeptic may come and say i “There is no power in your religion.” “Have you ever tried it?" “No, no.” “Then avaunt!” Let me take the testimony of the millions of souls that have been converted to God and comforted in trial and solaced in the last hour. We will take their testimony as they cry, "We are witnesses!” Professor Henry, of Washington, discov ered a new star, an! the tidings sped by submarine telegraph, and all the observa tories of Ft,rone wnro ,vat/>liinrr fni- that. new star. Ob, hearer, looking out through the darkness of thy soul, cans! thou see a bright light beaming on thee? “Where?’ you say; “where? How can I find it?” Loo, along by the line of the Cross of the Sou o* God. Do you not see it trembling with all tenderness and beaming with all hope. It is the Star of Bethlehem. Deep horror then my vitals froze, Ueathstruck I cessed the tide to stem, Wheu suddenly a etsr arose— It was the Siar of Bethlehem. Ob, hearers, get your eye on it. It is easier for you now to become Christians than it is to stay away from Christ and heaven. When Mme. Sontag began her musical career she was hissed off the stage at Vienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steininger. who had already begun to decline througn her dissipation. Years passed on, and one day Mme. Sontag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, and she said: “Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that von are learlimr hr the hand?” And the little child replied: “That’s my mother, that's Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that phe lost her eyesight.” “Give my love to her,” said Mme. Sontag, “and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this after noon.” The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, and it was said that Sontag sang that night as she had never sung before. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the dav of Amelia Steinln- gers ueatn Madam Sontag took care of her and her daughter after her. That was what t he queen of song did for her enem;. But oh, hears more thrilling story still. Blind, immortal, poor and lost; thou who. when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart didst hiss thy Lord away—Christ comes now to give thee eight, togire thee a home, to give thee heaven. With more than a Hontag’s generosity. He ootnee now to meet your need. With more than a Sontag’e music, He comes to plead for-thyideliver- anna. A Drunkard's Hoad Secret. A Philadelphia shoe merchat says that two years ago a man came into his office in the last stages of alcoholic decline, apparently, and exhibited an invention which would revolutionize men’s shoe fastenings and make a fortune for some one. It was some sort ot an arrange ment which closed all the buttons at once by the turn of an invisible lever, and was as much an improvement on the old method as the lever skate is upon the old-fashioned kind. That was the first and the last the merchant ever saw of man or model, and he is wondering now if the inventor’s secret went into a grave in potter’s field. lie cannot in the least recall the manner of working the fastening.—Chicago Hcrahl. A boy in Washington State caught fifty-four wild pigeons with one swoop of his net. THE LABOR WORLD. Nevada has Chinese miners. Ohio miners want nine hours. Some Chicago tunnel diggers earn $2.75 a day. Home Boston sweaters pay sixteen cents a flay. New York has an Italian shoemakers’ union. Key West. Fla., has 4000 Idle cigar- makers. Rochester boss tailors were indicted for conspiracy. A Boston union will run a co-operative hat and cap factory. Cigars made by Chinese in San Francisco are labeled “Key West.” New York bricknaodlers will leave the Federation and join the K. of L. An Omaha contractor on city work has been ordered to employ union hands. A national convention of textile workers will be held at Fall River on August S. The royal arsenal at Spandau in Prussia recently discharged a thousand laborers. Women are employed as hod-carriers in Austria at wages of twenty cents per day. More than’ 1.30,000 married women are env ployed in shops and factories in Germany. Savannah (Ga.) lumber mills have shut down on account of South American trou bles. American laborers in Central and South America are starving and idle. They get thirty-five cents a day. The coal companies at Mayberry, W. Va., have denied their miners the right to post up notices of their meetings, but they Hold tnem just the same. The proprietors of Villery’s iron works at Saarbrucken, Germany, presented a hand some money bonus to tneir 5300 employes at their jubilee celebration. The full returns of the recent elections in Australia give twenty-six representatives in Parliament to organized labor. The political movement in Australia is not quite one year old. There are 2100 men now employe I by the Cramps, of Philadelphia, and tne weekly pay roll averages $30,000. In a few month? this force will be increased to twice its pres ent proportions, in order to work the yard to its tull capacity on the four large naval vessels now beint? built. NEWSY GLEANINGS. France has 1,000,000 Socialists. Chicago bas twenty-nine parks. The Dutch Cabinet has resigned. Kansas has 73,000 Alliance farmers. There are 350 cotton mills in the Houtli. • Mexico is on the verge of another revolu tion. Philadelphia has twenty-six million aires. The new copyright law went into fora, July L Grasshoppers are numerous in Norm Dakota. So far this year 1639 miles of railroad have been laid. A RAILROAD is to be built to supplement the Suez Canal. China again refuses to receive ex-Senator Blair os Minister. The dipbtheria is raging among the Cali fornia Navajoes. Minister Frederick Douglass has re turned from Hayti. The Indian troubles in Arizona hare been suppressed by troops. Of 10,757 farms in Utah, 9734 are made fertile by irrigation. A fine lithia spring bas been discoveret near tVytheville, Va. Growers of early fruit in California tbi-> year reaped a bonanza. Italy has two new steel protects! cruis ers, named the Etruria and Umbria. New Orleans’ artesian wells are, fro.n some unknown cause, rapidly drying up. The population of Chinatown in San Francisco has fallen nearly 5000 in the last six months. The assessed value of real estate in Bostoi, for the current year will show an increase id about‘f30,0U0,0u0. State or Ohio, City or Toledo, I „ Lucas County, i Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is.the Fenior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney * Co., doing business n the Lily of Toledo, ^•unty and Slate aforesaid, and lliat said i.rji will pav ihe sum ot Oue Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catahkh (hat can not be cured by the use of Hall’s Catahkh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed iu my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1SS6. , , A. W. Gleason, !SEAL [ ’ —-— ’ Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure ie taken internally and lets directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. S nd for testimonials, fi ee. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. fW Sold by Druggists, 75c. A YELLOW fir tree, measuring 111 feet in length and fifty-four inches in diameter, has already been started towards the World’s Fair, having been shipped from Beattie, Washington. f lOOO la Prises. The publishers of the Rambler Magazine will giveffOOO in prizes for the largest lists of words formed from Rambler Magazine. The first prize is $300 cash; the eecona, >100 cash; 51 other cash prizee and special weekly prizes will be given. Send 15c. for copy Rambler con taining full information, or 30c. for 3 mos. sub scription to Hambler Pub. Co.. Syracnse, N. Y. ■ A marrying craze is reported to hare broken out among the achool teachers of Detroit, Mioh., and over half of them are to be wedded during the summer. Ladies needing a tonic, or children.who want building up, should take Brown’s Iron Bitters. It is pleasant to lake, cures Malaria, Indigestlon.Buiousncss and Liver Complaints, makes the Blood rich and pure. Of the 78,000 members of the Kansas Far mers’ Alliance there are only 7500 whose farms are not mortgaged, Don’t Feel Well And yet you are not Blck enough to consult a doc tor, or you refrain from bo doing for fear you wlU alarm yourself and friends—we will tell you juM what you need.' It is Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which will soon lift you out of that uncertain, uncomfortable and dangerous condition, Into a state of good health, confidence and cheerfulness. You’ve no Idea how potent this peculiar medlclue Is In such cases as yours. N. B. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. 1’repared only tJ, I, HOOD otOO., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar B. N U. 29. A BOUT East Tennennpe’n FINE CLIMATE and Great Resources ir KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; dally 1 mo., ! 30o.; weekly 1 year, 91; samples 5o. ‘German Syrup” Here is something from Mr. Frank A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt House, Lewiston, and the Tontine Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men meet the world as it comes and goes, and are not slow in sizing people and things up for what they are worth. He says that he has lost a father and several brothers and sis ters from Pulmonary Consumption, and is himself frequently troubled with colds, and he Hereditary often coughs enough to make him sick at Conaumptlonhisstomach. When ever he has taken a cold of this kind he uses Boschee’s German Syrup, and it cures him every time. Here is a man who knows the full danger of lung trou bles, and would therefore be most particular as to the medicine he used. What is his opinion ? Listen ! “I use nothing but Boschee’s German Syrup, and have advised, I presume, more than a hundred different per sons to take it. They agree with me that it is the best cough syrup in the market.” 9 Lost Stitches. A party of ladies and gentlemen were shown through a large carpet establish ment in Broadway a few days ago. They were permitted to look into every cook and corner of the building except one. At the bottom of the stairway leading to the top floor they came upon a closed door, upon which were the words “Posi tively No Admittance.” The curiosity ef the ladies were awakened at once. “What is up there?” inquired one eag erly. “That is our workship,” explained the represi n dive of the firm. “We have 15U women on that floor sewing carpets.” “Oh, I should so like to see them at work,” said the fait questioner with a playfully beseeching look. “I am sorry that I cannot take you up there,” replied the firm’s representa tive, “but the rules are very strict. Really, there is nothing worth looking at, and there are no trade secrets there. The reason that the firm interdicts visit ors is because the presence of strangers in the room causes every sewing woman to look up and takes her attention off her work from one to five minutes. Sup posed each woman loses an average of two minutes. With 150 women that means a loss to the firm of 300 minutes, or five hours of time. That is too much time to lose when we are working under a full head of steam, as we are uotv.”—• New York Times. The Mormon Temple at Suit Lake, Utah, holds 10,000 people. How- n Tourist Mahos VI one v. Dear Readers—While visiting (dace.-, of in terest. I spend my leisure time plating table- ware and jewelry and telliiqf platers. I make from $5 to $15 per day. The work is done so nicely that every person wants it. I paid $5 for my plater to H. K. Delno A- Co., Columbus. O. \\ hy not have a good time and money in your (locket, when for $5 you can start a busi ness of your own? Write the above lirm for circulars. A Tourist. <q£cg!* l MTj»9»S A prompt return of your money, if you get neither benefit nor cure. Kisky terms for the doctor, but safe and sttft for the? patient. Every thing to gain, noth ing to lose. There's just one medi cine of its class that’s sold on these conditions—just one that could be— Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery. It’s a peculiar -fray to sdl it—but it’s a peculiar medicine. It’s the guaranteed remedy for all Blood, Skin and Scalp Diseases, from a common blotch or eruption to the worst Scrofula. It cleanSSs* purifies and enriches the blood, and cures Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, and all manner of blood- taints, from whatever cause. It- costs you nothing if it doesn’t help you. The only question is, whether you want to be helped. “Golden Medical Discovery” is 1 the cheapest blood - purifier sold, through druggists, becafls# only pay for the good you Can you ask more ? 'The “ Discovery ” acts ei well all the year round. Mi the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, at 003 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. you get. f b ? Kansas City is promised fee at five cents a hundred, as a result of competition. Many persons are broken down from orer- work or household cares. Brown’s Iron Bit ters rebuilds the system, aids digesthm, re- moves excess of bile, and cures A splendid tonic for women and children. If you would be conecr in pronouncing Manitoba accent the last syllable. FITS stopped free by Dr. Ki.inf.’s Grbat Nerve Restorer. No ills after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. O-H Aivit St,. Rhilft., Pu. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomn- bon’s Eye-water.Dru^ists sell at L'Sc.per bottle OJCI3 ENJOYS Both the method and rerults when Syrup ofFigs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet protn ptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem eflectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Byrup of Figs is for sale in 50o •nd $1 bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept »ny substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. * II r,A K I M a IMihl. Sweet TIILW . HEADACHE. .Souil I O cent m in stamps lor .1 . PLK, if your dealer doe.! not KCKl* IT. TA V I BROS*., MANUFACTURE!^, WillSlOtl, N« C’e SMITHDEAL«j PRACTICAL gg phy, 1 3 tlemen D»y And Night ’ O Hessiona. Bmlthdeal’a COLLEGE. 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Hence the I nge estates like the Es tate ol Boston, 1 he Eilt\ Assoet ites, the AstorEstSU* of New York, and hundreds of other estates which could be mentioned, in all the great commercial cities of the world. The stock of this Company is Beilin; to-day at K’3.30 per share, subject t » a lvance sifter Au<us : 4, 18flL Par value, $10u. Paid ti;> capital.* June 1st, 1891, $£47,000. Send or call for full particulars at the office of the Company. Washington fir., iConi'M If-11, BOS TON, .11 ASS., where photographs or its buildings can be seen. OEO.LEONARD, Prc3 t. A. A. HOWE, Treas Ask my ngenfn for W, L. Oowjrla* Shoes. If not for sale in your place ask your dealer to send for cStalogue, secure tho agency, and grot iliem lor you. OTTAKK NO Ml Us'riTLTE.ua W. L. 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Graduates Assisted to positions. *BRYANT’& STRAffON IDslNTsiVoLLEGriduTsVIlDL KY. CORDIAL FOR DIARRHEA, DYSENTERY, And ill CRAMPS Stomach Troubles. IT IS A SURE CURE., THE BEST THIN fi FOR TEETHING CHILDREN. Ask your Druggist or Nlerchm’ 'u l it, and take no suts.itutp