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i ' . HERALD. m “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN 1)0 ANYTHING.’ VOL .II. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROJ WEDNESDAY, DECEMEEH 1(5, 181)1. NO. 15 snaIiKs luk u i;ak mkn. Drt. TALMAGH PR'! BOR ON NBTS ‘ GHF. > AT FOR THE ANN AR- SOUL Til. IJlIllgrril An* lli»lll tlllil I'us Then* In h Simn* lof Hu* Igimrni t all..* a Still .Mart* Iliingi'roiiN Snari* for tin* Yontli I'roiiil of Ills IntrlIrl't. Ann Ahuou, Midi., Dts*. IS. - Our citizens in l.noe nnnitiers litve ttvtiiletl themselves <>f the opportunity of he.ir ing Ur. Tuhimge, who is visiting the city by invitation of the students of the university, hast night a vast audience greeted the famous Brooklyn preacher at his lecture, and this evening, when he was announced to preach a special sermon to young men, there was no building in the city that would accom modate all who wanted to hear him. His text, was Proverbs i, 17, “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.” Early in the morning I went out with a fowler to catch wild pigeons. We hastened through the mountain gorge and into the forest. We spread out tiie net, and covered up the edges of it ns well as we could. We ar ranged tiie call bird, its feet fast and its wings flapping, in invitation to all fowls of heaven to settle down there. We retired into a booth of branches and leaves and waited. After awhile, looking out of the door of the booth, we saw a flock of birds in the sky. They came nearer and nearer, and after awhile were about to swoop into the net, when suddenly they darted away. Again we waited. After awhile we saw another flock of birds. They came nearer and nearer until just at the moment when they were about to swoop they darted away. The fowler was very much disap pointed as well as myself. We said to each other, “What is the matterf" and “Why were not these birds caught r" We went out and examined the net, and by a flutter of a branch of a tree part of the net had been conspicuously exposed, and the birds coming very near had seen their peril and darted away. When I saw that. I said to the old fowler, “That reminds me of a passage of Scripture, ‘Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.'' Now, the net in my text stands tor temptation. The call bird of sin tern [its men oil from point to point and from liraueh to branch until they are about to drop into the net. If a man finds out in time that it is the temptation of the devil, or that evil men are attempting tocapture his soul for time and foreter nity, the man steps bark. He says, "1 am not to be caught in that way, I see what you are about; surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.” THK SCBTI.KTY OK THK DKVU,. There are two classes of temptations ■—the superlieial and the suhterraicons —those above ground, those under ground. If a man could see sin as it is he would no more embrace it than he would embrace a leper. Sin is a daugh ter of hell, yet she is garlanded and robed and trinketed. Her voice is a warble. Her cheek is the setting; un. Her forehead is an aurora. She says to men: “Come, walk this path with me; it is thymed and prim rosed, and the air is bewitched with the odors of the hanging gardens of heaven; the rivers are rivers of wine, and all you have to do is to drink them up in chal ices that sparkle with diamond and ametliyst and ehrysoprasus. See! It is ail bloom and roseate cloud and heaven.” Oh, my friends, if for one moment the choiring of all these concerted voices of sin could be hushed we should see the orchestra of the pit with hot breath blowing through fiery flute, and the skeleton arms on drums of thunder and darkness heating the chorus, “The end thereof is death.” I want to point out the insidious temptations that are assailing more es pecially our young men. The only kind of nature comparatively free from temptation, so far as I can judge, is the cold, hard, stingy, mean temperament. What would Satan do with such a man if he got him? Satan is not anxious to get a man who after awhile may dis pute with him tiie realm of everlasting meanness. It is the generous young man, the warm hearted young iiiau, the social young man that is in, espe cial peril. A pirate goes out_oii the sea, and one rrt. out i<*r tP.>*e yuiiu; ucu r*‘e buoyant and * i:liusi.*-*rie. lie so who are dotcnuiicd to do som-Tuing for time and for eternity -for ilieui we will light, and wo now declare ever- fasting war against all the. influences that assail them, and we ask ail good men and piiilanllirop'sfs to who ! into line, and all tin* armies of heaven to bear down upiui tie* foe, and we prav Almighty Cod that with the thunder bolts of his wralh he wi'l strike down and consume all these influences that are attempting to destroy the young men for whom Christ died. THK CANT OK "I.IHgRAMTY.” The lirst class of temptations that as- saulrs a young man is led on by the skeptic, lie will not admit that lie is an infidel or aiiieist. Oh. no' He is a “fret* thinker." lie is out* of your “liborar men. lit* is fret* and easy in religion. Oh. how lih.-ral be is! lit* is so “liberal" that he will give away Ins Bible. lit* is so ‘diberul" that lit* will give away tiie throne of eternal justice, lit* is so "liberal" that lie would he willing to give Cod out of the universe. He is so "liber.11" that he would give up his own soul anti the soul ttf ell his friends. Now what more eould you ask in lilt* way of liberality? The vic tim of this skeptic lias probably just come from the country. Through the intervention of friends lie lias been placed in a shop. On Eaturdny the skeptic says to him, “Well, what are you going to do to morrow?” He says, “I am going to church." “Is it possible?” says the skeptic. “Well, I used to do diose tilings. I was brought up, 1 suppose, as you were, in a religious family, and I believed all those tilings, hut I got over it. The fact is, since I came to town I have read a great deal, and I have found that there are agreat many things in the Bible that are ridiculous. Now, for instance, nil that about tiie serpent being cursed to crawl in the Car den of Eden because it hud tempted our first parents; why, you see iiow ab surd it is; you can tell from the very or ganization of the serpent that it had to crawl; it crawled before it was cursed just as well as it crawled afterward; you can tell from its organization that it crawled. Then ail that story about the whale swallowing Jonah, or Janali swal lowing tiie whale, which was it? it don't make any difference, tin* thing is absurd; it is ridiculous to suppose that a man eould have gone down through the jaws of a sea monster and yet kept Ins life; why, his respiration would have been hindered; ho would have been digested ; the gastric juieo would have dissolved the lihrine and coagulated albumen, and Jonah would have been changed from prophet into chyle. Then all that story about the miraculous conception wl»v, If I»- fwirfootl*' I 01», sir, I believe in the light of nature. This is the Nincteelh century. Prog ress, sir; progress. I don’t blame you. hut after you have been in town as long as I have you will think just as I do.” Thousands of young men are going down under that process day by day, and there is only here and there a young man who can endure this art'll lery of scorn. They are giving up the'r would Ik* blown on by the breath of Cod until all the splendid estate would vanish into white ashes scattered in the whirlwind—then that instruction has been to you a precaution and a help ever since. There are hundreds of commercial establishments in our great cities which are educating a class of young nleii who will bo the honor of tiie land, and then* are other establishments which are educating young men to he nothing but sharpers. What chance is then* fora young uinti who was taught in an establishment that it is right to lie, if it is smart, and th:*f a Fn*neh label is all that is neccssa'y to make a thing French, and that you ought always to bo honest when it pays, ami that it is wrong to steal unless you do it well? Sup|K>se, now. a young man just starting in lift* enters a place of that kind when* there are ten young men. all drilled in the infamous practices of the establishment, lie is ready to lie taught. The young man has no theory ef eonimiT'-i il i*tliies. Where is he to get his theory? !k* will get the theory from his ein; ! <y rs. One day he ; ishos his wit a littl** be yond what the e;tabiislanent demands of him, and la* fleeces a customer until the clerk is on the verge of being seized by tlii* law. What is done in the es tablishment ? i h* i; net arraigned. Tho head of tiie o>!: ’ 'Munoiit says to him, "Now lie e.■ be eorcful, young mail; you mi .-hi beruu iit; but really that was splendidly done; you will get along in the world, I warrant you." Then that young man gees up until In* becomes head clerk, lie has found there is a [*:• :; him on inieuity. “leant do it,' the man said. They : mrong lemonade, it taken at bedtime, parted. The Lord looked after him, .j Seill break up a severe cold, grandly looked after him. He k worth The Iuost n>CPIlt Cfl | (MI | a , ions to,lay a hundred fold morethan 1.1^ bv Miell( , lH<m employer ever was or ever will be, ai he saved Ins soul. Tiie royalties which have gone to ;'charity from the sale of Moody and have aggro- Yuung men. it is safe to do righi There are young men in this house day who. under this storm of tem| tiou, art* striking deeper and dee their roots and spreading out broad their branches. They arc Daniels in • Bankey’s “Gospel Hymns' Babylon, they are Josephs in tiie Egyp- {gflated $1,2|M),(KHI. Ban court, they are Pauls amid the There are said to be over 2”.<HI0 In wild (leasts of Ephesus. I preach to. dians in tin* I'nited States who can encourage Bum. Isiy hold of G<m1 un<L* read English, and over 10,000 who can he faithful. Indian languages. Tin-: I'Kitii.s ok si-'.u*' mollTl'.ot’SNK.sJr To show the growth made in the in- There is a mistake we make abouS dustry of furnishing kindling wood, a young men. We put them in two single factory in Pennsylvania turns classes—the me class is moral, the out 5,000,000 bundles |M*r I other is dissolute. The moral are safe.,* The dissolute cannot he reclaimed. r* mg can Ik* accomplished between the electric flashes. Among the interesting parts of the ingenious mechanism is a gives the velocity of light r, ''''* v ""•""K 1 ' wl,iuh ■■' ll ,l,c e,ectric > 186,360 miles |K*r second. ' , currents pass A , , lr 1 l,,s at 0,10 nn anna- Put fresh Hsli in salted water for mlf * t , m . s i ll , i | ar but | ar ger i. hour before cooking ,t It hardens t , lan in on tcle . tiie iisli and improves the ilavor. ILi Pity Homos. W ords of W isdom. level best her hiis- A Springfield (Mo.) man is reported to have picked a pear from a tree hi deny both | r,.posit The moral llis orc l lar(1 ,|„ lt weighed llftv two are not safe unless they have laid hold , pullc< ^ u trifle over three pounds' »f and lie* dissolute mav he re- ... .... , • i , Miss Mon»nee D.iseom enjovs a I tho claimed. I s'liiposc there are self , 4 . .. .. • i , i. i advantages of!he Johns Hopkins mu righteous men m this house who leclno , ,* need of God. and will not seek after She h.," entered the depart- hini, and thev will go out i» the "'‘’nt of geology and will give signal world and Bmv will he tempted, and '^ tontio,, 1 ‘ 1 ° l'«;B'<.graphy, hut will not ,t . , (foe a candidal** for a degree, they will tie !!u:ig down by misCnr-! _ “ tune, and they will go down, dowtn, down, unt'i .'•mu* nighi you will see them going bone hooting, raving, shoutiug bla pkemy -going home to their mother, going home totheir eis ter, going leg :-* to t!*.* young compan ion to whom only a linlc while graphic sounder. The lever of the mag net works a shaft that causes eighteen brass lingers to vibrate. When the Augers fall they complete the electric current in eighteen wires that run to the twenty dials—connection lK*iiig as siinultaiiismsly broken when tin* lingers are raised. Ocular proof of the pres- senee of electricity is given in green sparks on the tips of the brers points when the connect ion is broken. Many persons elimh Bie extra flights of stairs above the battery room and only pause in the section of the tower where the four great dials art* placed. The gigantic hands of rolled steel each weigh forty |>oinids and are to lie seen dimly through the translucent glass of the dials that are about sixteen feet in diameter. The shaft that carries the hands pierces the center of the disk where it is connected with a large arm A woman mav do her to make a happy home for band and children, hut if she is treated as a slave and only given her hoard and clothing in payment for her services as mother, cook, wife, l laundress, nurse girl, ch.imhenuaid ‘ and seamstress, is it any wonder that ! little or no happiness exists in that j home? If a mother spoils her son In pampering and wailing on him all the years of his childhood and boyhood, : n I making hini think lii.it a man should always he wailed on by the woman of his household. Lit strange that he expects a wife to do the same, and that, in all likelihood she either wears out in a few year- from such service or else b**, onie Faith never wears along face. A poor man has as much right to his own as a king. at everything keep some is about mot over,-011111.0 sav, tin :-;ro, in the presene, flashing ligi: and censers promised (id <il a brilliant iiKctiihhum, One ]\.i : n' !:;r t'.ic ' ( 1: :|)ioy( r conies to ness perp?’t ii tlio csl i.;b! i.**! i iiicnt. Ii (* ! L*< >( 1 ■s i!i*o his \s < that i conn*:: VT r DO; '1 1 lii'ow ;, 'I iliisli.in.Is will open i nml .-1 ion? •Wliy I'lf liff* lias b(*f»5i she will sta: rol )bc; 1 V ls.-)t 1 1 lu» in; i' Noth- iu* v omes in, in’ thi' I.ir: ojily tSic 1 c !>•; 1 1; who lias he the pro;:! been im.mc J ic ’ r «m \vl iii“ on ens- in;/. wanti1 tollll I S JM .11 : iciu; ir a litt !<* on tl.o (mu liie. hunger ploy r. iNO In* kv ( •I’M •i>! i introilnccd 1 brea 1. eru 1 inti) ih Mt t.*S! Iisli! in*:: 1. It i' a j: *nr hear t wiien rule t! I.Mi \\, i i not w - !)Pl> Ii is w ays. pine ‘i it ;*ga You ii, list Ilf' vc.- ifc.”.! i: ill. *s * you can Jo sonn * iiigi*; It Well. 1 i«‘ * .!i-.! !! 1 ••■•. ii 1 ;»! :* not talk- tin* I'ia.ec v in^' an :\h. tr.. criou; 1 .*1 Ull 'Bug a ter mi: • 1. am riblt* a* 1(1 l r ••1 >!iilt; r r- ft. arm f: : "111 my ami i i. orange ! ios oins, ; in Blea r, they purity and kind mnu re-ehes the door she ii *t wirii an outcry, but n-r back from the door as ind in her look there will Hcey of woes that are coiii- il will shiver in fli.it will erv in vain New York's Sorliil Whirl. In the give nml take of social inter course in New York, society women have as much as they can do to pay debts incurred, to return civilities, to attend to the vast eorr. spondeneo entailed by the growth of their circle and responsi bilities, and, worse than all. to daily go upon rounds of ea'ls among [K’ople scattered ls*tween Washington and fituyvesunt sipiares, and the neighbor- (honds on either side of Central park. The matter of days which, inscribed on the cards of one's acquaintances, stare one in the far:* fro n December to April with unrelenting reminder that there is ntun* with an attachment of brass cog j wheels. Each flash over the wires leading from the battery room whirls through tin* big spool of wire in the armature, magnetizes tin* soft iron eon* and shield, swings a ratchet lever, gives a turn to the brass cog wheels, and thus causes the minute hand outside to swing along nearly ten inches. We go down to the outside world. 200 feet below, and when we turn to look up once more at the minute hand we understand that its seeming short steps each announce that down in the heart of tiie great building the tiny, trembling second hand of the regulator has just com pleted another delicate cycle and marked the Might of another minute.— w Dy and often i 1 1*';l I wif. ■cod of | “ f "•<;i“ l ' i|i Lv Bms Cor 8pri , lk .| (1 U) .p llb i ican . ii. to oi opened might occupy a chapter to it-j ' ! f° r I self. vmxs you-: book i i-i* la Tit AUK. io -o. book at k ai Iiim liv** y**ars ha - been uud -r trial *s!:;biis!i;-i'.*nf. Jbre he shop lo i r, b ! < c ! ;«*e|;s *ut!i of tie* hills. Me o-.i the eo*mler in Mi-comuiemL t'e-m lie [siilits out all good [siiuts hi the fabric. Me ef the sal**. The goods are wropped -.ith ami qm r !iiv-,' TKXfl’:' Now here i: Iiim today, from now, afr in such an i stands in th- ruddy with the I unrolls the good* geiitiemauly style, to the [lure'i *ser. tho feet up and ho dismisst's the enstonier v. mi , .i ,.i.,...i.fi,i **irfi,ij miiriiiii.' ” iin.l tbc country m-r' t int departs so hupre-sed •ith the st:iiiglitforwardii(*ss of that you ig man that and again, every unless interfered with. The young mail has been now in that establishment live years. lie unrolls the goods on the counter. lie says to' you Bio customer. "Now those art* the best then goads we have in our establishment;” they have better on tie* next shelf, lie savs, "We .or • selling these goods less vm-re i she umler wi:u ' t i i v bao!. my all ami i.eiu I * * -give him the wi-t<-h‘ [ in Ii hack t wiMs.ty; "I’iiI (Hi. self righi.' you are in | :-i day. Ami I lii lions of lif>* tie* wilhout God. **-.. I hat will not leave the j Dinner calls are obligatory; visits of t.icy liave erushed it, hut condolence and congratulation as rc- .'. s, •^ , ^ again, until current ns ts-eau titles. A thousand -i" will *tp *ii ilit* dtsir of ] allf ) miner olnims absorb the hours set apart for outside serviet*; ami with all this, many womi'ii Anti time for , class.>s, etinrscs anti lectures, and often keep tip studies hi which their young 'people are employed Those who talk of the rush of Ihe London season should rcllcct lhat what Bn* English eoneen- trate inlti thri'i* iiiouths, and put aside in fnvorof a inore leisurely and ralional existeuee, is by us spread over the en tire year. For, in one way or another. ' our business of pleasure goes on until June, and is transferred to Newport or Bar Harbor.—New York Cor. Ladies’ Home Journal. la r companion was will lihig out her her ragged shawl aim isf omnipotent elo me hack my husband! i ty protector! Give me Mini of tin* kind heart ■' * and tIk* manly brow i-k l * in.*!" Anil then ob*.<* ail filthy, will r ui.iilcd lo**ks, and tlii*y her oul ! I'ut her tut.!" •ou. man. without (iod il! f!.*rk after him to ten tli i'.sau l lemi'ta-' is un s.ilety for a man lie will come again spring and autumn, like A ft v Bibles. The light of nature! They have the light of nature iu China; they Dian cost:’ they are making twenty per have it in Hindustan; they have it in cent. He says, i here is nothing Ceylon. Flowers there, stars there, i ♦'•em in all the city; there are waters there, winds there; but no civi- j shops that want to sell the same thiiij lization, no homes, no happiness. Lan cets to cut, and juggernauts to fall un der, and hooks to swing to; but no happiness. I tell you, my young brother, we have to take a religion of some kind. But i may Ik have gone ■ r other prupa i! cannot be r:■- have only gom I speak are you voice within yo do that ? What Is Ih* iv a me makes you ip all our hearts so far as to co gone througl* : invite you back waits for you. t In. tro Idressing some who iu I .'■) 1 as-aiilt that t!iat the dissolute i" I l’er!i:i|)s you ! • astray. While ii hi* si ? Is there a saying. "What did Why did you go on mean by that?" in your soul that : God only knows i. if you have gone im't i -' ; dties, and have ;'ia .vhi'lc catalogue, 1 lIds hour. Tii • Lord "K'joic'*! oh. young hitter ami disheartened, Detroit Free Frees There are very many reason i home may no! Ii ■ a happy om the happiness found therein depends fully ns much on Mm husband as il dims upon the wife. We are told that in every true and tnarrige hnth hiislmnd an must learn to hear and forbear. In every home where h. ppiim-s exists there must he perfect trust, eo'i i deuce and love between tin* liusham: and wife. Tli re a■•l• t .v i kinds o! stitishiue in the world.and both quid leeessary —the one whicli is cansen by the sun's sliin’me out doors and the other by its shining in our hearts. Happy honms alMiund in the heart sunshine, and whclherit shineswilh- i out or not, there is naught hut Head love looks through nionev. It takes great trials to peole faithful. It is as wicked not to do right it is to do wrong. A man with a red nos. Ihe last to find j| out. I'akse worship will kill the .- quick as no w orship. Njf-.kvepli..n is one of the deadly of all dangers. \\ hen dlticnltics an they hecoum Me-'ings. 'I'he (lax has lo he broken before ils strengh ran lie know n. If you niiderlake to drag the cross you will fill-1 i! prolty heavy. I he surest way . f la coming good looking is to behave that way. No mail ran he much of a man who doesu t have much of a motive. I he righi to he saved i* Ihe i i. iie.-t p i..session that iiian can inherit. The man w ho t hiuks h a’l. p ns on! hi 'v**s to !*, If yon want lo we'I of ;* iu in don I |' ! '“i'!' lo he good not hiug to do. V. hen you liud a man who has the courage to live within his income knows it i i with. w no are .e* p go on ii,' uud i! on Urns w in MlKlllg entity. ossiMe have taiio.Kes Taking I'lace III Cliilltt. Tin* troubles in China are increasing. Cliimi seems to be on the verge of a revolution. It is the biggest empire in i, . , , . . , the world today. It lias more tlmn l,r, g lltl,e8S ,Ms ll " 3(!;i,0(KI,(M)() inhabitants, its walled cities loving deeds, the cheery, helpful where they shouldn't. you timl a he I'idess we souielaldv els walk whe: • will he '*• we should sure to walk foi: did 11 *!*V lllll Y* We have to choose between four or Hve. Shall it Ik* the Koran of the Mo hammedan, or the Sinister of the Hin doo, or the Zendavesta of the Persian, or the Confucius writings of tho Chi nese, or the Holy Scriptures? Take what you will; God helping me, I will take the Bible. Light for all darkness; rock for all foundation; balm for all wounds. A glory that lifts its pillars of Arc over the wilderness march. Do not give up your Bibles. If these people seoll at you as though religion and the Bible were At only for weak- minded people, you just tell them you are not ashamed to Ik* in the company of Burke the statesman, and Raphael the painter, and Tljorwal.lsen the sculptor, and Mozart the musician, and Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacon the philosopher, and Harvey the physician, and John Milton the [Mad. Ask them what infidelity has ever 1 to lift the fourteen hundred mil lions of the race out of barbarism. Ask them when infidelity ever iustitut- brightmorni^ ^‘tVthe'giass t'oT.is e< * ■'* sanitary commission; and, before eye and. looks off, and sees an empty vesseLfloating from port to port. He you leave their society once and for ever, tell them that they have insulted He says, “Now. that is a durable article, it will wash;” yes, it will wash out. The sale is made, the gmsls are wrap ped up, the country merchant g<M*s off feeling that he has an equivalent for h'- money, and the sharp clerk g<K*s into the private room of the counting house, and he says, “Well, I got rid of those goods at last; I really thought we never would sell them; I told him we were selling them less than cost, and he thought he was getting a good bargain; got rid of them at last.” And the head of the Arm says, “That's jivell done; splendidly done!" Meanwhile God had recorded eight lies—four lies against the young man, four lies against his employer, for I un dertake to say that the employer is re sponsible for all the iniquities of his clerks, and all the iniquities of those who are clerks of these clerks, down to the tenth generation, if those employ ers inculcated iniquitous and damning principles. I stand before young men Biis morn ing who are under this pressure. I say, come out of it. “Oh!" you say, “I can't; I have my widowed mother to support, and if a man lo'»i* a situation now he can't get another one." 1 say, come out of it. Go homo to your mother and say to her, “Mother, 1 can't Mr. Dclihi'niHoii of I*iii'|»omc. Bilhis (calling down the stair- whi* h are taking down so many way) - Maria, have the children gone voting men. I would like to to school? /- llP ;„, f, ir tiie memory of your Christian father stay in that shop and bo upright; whut says, ever m , . ^ ^ mi( j Fp jt llp( >n the deathbed of your . shall I do?" and if she is worthy of you us." But tho same morning he puts the glass to his eye, and lie sees a vessel coming from Australia laden with gold, or a vessel from the Indies laden with spices. He says, "That's our prize; bear down on it!” Across that unfor tunate slap the grappling hooks are thrown. The crew are blindfolded and are compelled to walk the plank. It is not the empty vessel, but the laden merchantman that is tho temptation to the pirate. And a young man, empty of head, empty of heart, empty of life—you want no Young Men's Christian association to keep him safe; he is safe. Ho will not gamble unless it is with somebody else's stakes. He will not break the Sabbath unless somebody else pays the horse hire. He will not drink unless some one else treats him. He will hung around the bar hour after hour wait ing for some generous young man to come in. The generous young man comes hi and ucorrts him and says, “Well, will you have a drink with me to*! v " The man. as though it were a sudden thin,; for him. say*. “Well- well, if you insist on it. I will - I will. Too me. , i*i t > go to |s I' liBoii unless somebody . I-- pays Ids evjsmsast For such young i i •*l we w,l! i:of light. We would (i** ii* n* eniitciid for Ihciii than Vartan nnd I'.Biiopia would light as to who should have the great Sahara des mother, and with swine’s snout rooted up the grave of your sister who died believing hi the Lord Jesus. AM, SUKKICIKNCV OK TUB SCHIITI'HKS. Young man, hold ou to your Bible; it is the best Ixsik you ever owned. It will tell you how to dress, how to bar gain, how to walk, how to act, how to live, how to die. Glorious Bible! Whether on parchment or paper, in oc tavo or duodecimo, on the center table of the drawing room or in the counting riKiin of the banker. Glorious Bible! Light to our feet and lump to our path. Hold on to it! The second class of insidious tempta lions that comes upon our young men is led on by the dishonest employer. Every eommeieiiil establishment is a school. In nine eases out of ten the priueipl(*s of.the employer lx me the principles of the employee. I ask the older merchants t > bear me out in tn •*!• statements. If, when you wit:* j starting iu life, in commere! .1 lif**. y.ei war:*; I that honesty was nut iu u i.ei’u*! • i'i ■ though yon might sail nil tic* go xi •* the shop you must not s dl your con science, that while you wen* to exerei-e all industry an I t-iet y ai were not I Kell your eon' inc-e if v >*; wi i'a t oiglit that gtl*.i* go;ten by i*i v/oiv eouihu Ii hie. and at the moment of ignition she will say, 'Come out of it, my son we will just throw ourselves on him who hath promised to be the God of the widow ami the fatherless; he wil! take care of us.” And I tell you no young man ever pcnnuiicntly suffered by such a course of conduct. Iu Philadelphia in a drug shop a young man said to his employ**', “I want to please* you, really, and I am willing to sell nmdic'uies on Sunday; hut I can't s* ll this patent shoe black ing ou Sunday.” “Well," said the head man, "you will have to do it or else you will liave to go away.” The young man said: “I can’t do it. I am willing to sell medicines, hut not shoo black ing." “Well, than, go! Go now.” The young man went away. The Lord looked after him. The hundreds of thousands of dollars he won hi this world were the smallest part of his for tune. (iod honored him. By the course he took he saved his soul as well ns his fortunes hi the future. A mini said to his employer. "I can't wash the wagon on t'miday moruinp: I bin willing to wii: h it on Rntur.liiy after noon; hut, sir. you will p'a .ise excuse me. I can't wash the v ■■roo on Sunday morning.” His employ* r sai.l. “You must wash il; my eiirri..ge aouies iu every Saturday night, and you have got to wash it on Bund.iv moniiui'." man, iu thy y l•llh. ami let thy heart cheer thee i i the days ol thy youth; but know thou that for all 1 base things (iod will bring Dice into judgment. Come home, young man. to your fa ther's God. Come home, young mail to your moB. r's (iod. Oh. I wi Ii Bint all the hatter: -* of the Gospel eould to day he unlimber .! against all those in- Alienee of our blown trumpet of warning and recruit tliilil this wliolt* audifiico would march out on a crusail * against the evils of so ciety. But k ( none of us be disheart ened. Oh, Christian workers, my heart is high with hope. The dark horizon is blooming into the morning of which prophets spoke, and of which [xx-ts have dreamed, and of which painters have sketched. The world's bridal hour advances. The imumtaiii.s will kiss ti e morning radiant and effulgent, and all the waves of the sea will become the crystal keys of a great organ, on which the lingers of everlasting joy shall pin) the grand march of a world redeemed, instead of tho thorn there shall eoine iqi the lir tire, mid instead of the briar tliere shall come up the myrtle tree, ami Die mountains and tho hills shall break forth kito singing, ami all the iv* s of !'.•• we**d shall clap their hands! ODDS AND ENDS. Th** Roman coverings on their horses, which the old Germans considered effeminate, and they despised them for it. in the time of Alexander Sovorus the horses of tho Roman cavalry wore iiiagiiiliccnt cov erings. Before the time of Nero the cavalrymen were obliged to present their horses without covering during the review, that it might be more easily ; seen whether they were in good condi tion. Nero, however, abolished the wise regul.itio:i on review, lie had a a weakness for display ami wanted tin* cavalry to present a grand appearance on such occasions. Even after the in- trodiiction of these coverings it was considered more graceful and manly to ride without them. Varro boasts of having ridden, when a young man, without a covering to his horse.—De- i troit Free Press. Mrs. Bilhis—Yes. “This is the girl's day out, isn't it?" "Yes. She's gone." “This is not tho minister's day to cull, is it?” “No.” “Any of the neighbors likely to drop in during the next hour or so?” “I think not.” “You’re alone, are you?” “Yes. What do you” “Then, put some cotton in your ears, Maria. I am going to shave myself ' with that new razor you gave me the Ul other dav.” Chicago Tribune. containing more then 500,000 people. China contains eighteen provinces, which are much like our states. It has hi addition to these, vast territories such as Manchuria, Hi, Mongolia nnd Thibet, subordinate to the main em pire, and ruled either by special gov ernors sent out by the emperor or through commissioners. Siam pays tribute to China. Corea has for years been sending an embassy with presents to Peking, and the whole of the eastern world was until within a very short tiino under these almond eyed, yellow faced, two legged mortals, outside proviuces'aiiiT Clnna tiaveTbeeii breaking. Little Corea, which has only about one-thirtieth as ninny peo ple as China, has hoisted the (lag of in dependence. Siam has practically thrown off tho yoke. Hnrmuh has gone info the hands of the English. The northern provinces arc being chewed at by Russia bite by bite.— Frank G. Carpenter in National Trib une. Good iih ii SHf Winder. Stranger—Have you any self wind ing watches? Jeweler—Self winding*? “Yes, something that will wind itself, yon know. My wife has been poster ing me for a new watch, hut I know she'll never remember to wind it after the Arst night, and it will mst out, just like tho old one.” "I have nothing of that kind; but I have a [latent phonographic watch which shouts •Wind me' at the pro|K*r time every night." “That won’t do. My wife'll just say ‘In a minute,' and then forgot all about it. I'll tell you what we want. Y'ou Ax it so that when it needs winding it will start up ami whistle ‘Comrades' until she attends to it.”—New York Weekly. words, and thekindlv tluinj'htl’ulm'.-s that oa*‘h incmhcr of the familv I rdv ever thin! s about the stick the that carried it up when they see shows toward the others lint make- l . ; ,i,t\ oi the * I v-ioekct. \Ye arc as responsible for what wo permit others to do in our name as r what we do ourselves. an idel. happy home --a perfect he.iv eti on earth. How many of us do air share in making such a hoiin hat shall he a heaven of red to all vho mav come wilhin its inlicrii.r? u * are F.lla Wheeler Wilcox condemns the practice of young girls being forced to rise early after a night Merchant Murdered in so< ; ial W e ‘ il “ 8 ' i " ,,1 savs: ‘ l CHIME l\ CHESTERFIELD. A Strict) Hill CiiF.n vw, S. ('.. Doc. 7.—Mr. J. P. Vilsun, of Siciely Hill.was killed last Friday aftcrnixin near S.N. is's Mill, just over (lie line in this was renowned or remarkable for have never yet heard a woman declare riser under all circumstances who did not wear a jaded and worn appear ance. I never vet saw a woman who bv a negro named The Li<iiiur llnhit a lire, The Christian at Work, comment ing upon the question, "Is Drunk enness Curable? the North !• vans eonnly !am*y. (iancy, while in Wilson's store oi h.inksgiving day, was beh; v tig in an obscene manlier' whe i \\ ils tii Irovc him oul with i meat knife, i’he next day. Wilson, while driving lack lo Society lllll from his hoti/i in Chcsterlicld county, was met by Ganev, who told him that he Wilson Ind him at a disadvantage the day defore, hut that he Ganey had the advantage now, and immediately shot him in thecheek. Wilson drove on to Socictcy Hill, where, before’ •lying, he told how and by whom lie was shot, and gave instructions as * what disposition hedesired to he made of his property. At last accounts Ganey had not lice 1 ! captured. Prinm-j ing kept her youthful looks and her • health who was nut a sound sleeper, and who if she lost her earlv hours iu the night by not make up for time. All the massage, all the physical cultuic social plea.-iir* them in the cosmetics, all beauty baths in Ihe world e; s did day- tin* and llllot AN ELECTRIC TOWN CLOCK. A l>f**rrl|>l 1**11 **f *« ■|lllt**|U***-i‘ Tlllil U Kr.lllv l'lllt|lll- 1111*1 IllllTrHIIlIK. The Arst tower clock .•ii*tuati**l by electricity in the luiited States is iu sueeessful iiperationi iu the eoiirt house .in bo* Angeles, Cal. This pioneer 'timepiece, that is eoimiioiily termed 1 “the big el*x*k,” might lx* ealleil iu bo as recently discussed American Review, says; “Til • liqiio:'habit must he regarded lirst of all, a< a vice, and not a disease, an I treated accordingly. Some arc led into the drinking ii •bit. n idoiiht. largely through Hie iidlu uee of an inherited app •tile, bub in the va-l Largest Family In Ihe W orld are there Kn- niujoril.y of cases, liquor habit jua a* It ell I heV tin ilea I parlance a eoinpositc, for it is i ,||||*.|-had lad it just a Boston has a eat nsvlum. 1 >» r '‘ i ' li, . v f "" r <''"< ks. as each dial in the ... • ai * towvr Ih sunnlkvl with its own wparato All trees an- evergreen m the tropica. ap|>!|r||t||N bv w i r ,. s fr( , m lb( . Baltimore (Ireland) h;us a Ashing lml j n ba tt,. r y. Tliere are also sixteen school. smaller clix-ks located in various parts Twenty-two uews|Ki|x*rs in the state () [ (he building, and these twenty of Kansas an* eclileil by woman. Home of the eaterpiltars in Australia measure twelve inches in length. It is ililllcult to trust a person’s the ology when his grammar is faulty. A single ranch in Washington pro duced fifty tons of Imps last season. to swear, to gamble because th 'ir evil I litem Hut wav. I i most men get drunk want to get drunk. T form form they lo l•ndl•ucie■i ol h *r v hecause I An Attempt v the any le.irii steal, lead I "lls. I hc\ I* cure intemper.mee in general by Ih us ' of nc lieines would he very ni’i'di in the tine wav." clocks Ix-at time together without tick ing, but with instantaneous precision. The regulator which i1*k*s the time keeping is a large eight day clock that | |j| u , | l -* i| 1 ,_, ,. mv profanitv differs from an onlinary regulator only in being provided with two insulated wires, and when its second hand com pletes its round it comes in contact An old Chinese proverb declares that w j tb u p | n tinum |x>int, which instnntu gin of word "picnic:" Tie.' lirst pienii neons touch makes a momentary elec- known .vis in Hi* yen - I'(12- not trie circuit by means of tin) wires, the ( p,,,,,!,,.,! u . ar with all the other How many Smith gland? It is In p issilde to answer thisques- tion with percision, hut (her arc data from which an aiiproximatcly correct idea may be obtained. The registrator general t dls us that in 1H2A it was possible lo cstim it*\ from eertuiu j records in his keeping, that lli*‘ri I were tlien living in England and ! Wales about 2.Vb‘mii Smiths, or one j in every seventy-thive persons com p sing the entire population. Sup- posing that this estimate waseorreet. and that the same proportion lias since been maintained, the statiam-nl mv fairlv he made that there are ] now about 335,814 or over one-third of a million Smith; in England and Wales. It is not quite easy to realize at once what an enormous mimlier | of people these figures repre sent. do for fagged cheeks ami hollow eyes and fatigue-blanched face what one gixxl hour of sleep every afternoon will do.” If Sampson Pope,clerk of the Sen ate, had a concealed weapon about his person and attempetd to draw it in the Central Hotel row, he should be indicted. The blackest negro about Columbia lias us much right to carry a pistol as the elerksof the House and Senate. Hall's Hair Renewer enjoys a world wide reputation for restoring the hair to bald heads and changing gray hair to the original color of youth. *1 see there is one class of men who are unable to obtain divorces in Chicago,’ remarked Mr. Stebhins. •For mercy sakes, who are they?" his wife questioned, he replied, as door. •The bachelors, he shut th*' lie following of word I - givea a; the o‘T- gixxl fixxl is nut as important as good cookery. (>ne IiiiiiImt mill in tho state of Wash ington turned out in 18!)() (ill,000,000 feet of lumber. In the city of Berlin, with a populn- tion of 1,315,600, there are hut 26,800 dwelling houses. Prospectors in Oregon have recently discovered the only mine of pure plati num in existence. Science is never enthusiastic. It hes itates at every step. It doubts and weighs every movement. Never put any portion of any plant in the mouth unless it known to he wholesome. A generous supply of Aiesh cimimunicatiiq docks, and cadi obeys the telegraphic , mandate by pointing a new minute. The source of the electricity for all this automatic whispering is found in batteries that are located in one of tho tower rooms, where two separate instal lations, each containing 211 cells, are in a cabinet together. Only one of tho two sets is, however, required at a time —the other is simply for use in case of an emergency, and it is hut the work of an Instant to connect the whole appa ratus with tho unused battery by sim- is certainly p |y turning the handle of a compound switch. Tho clocks need not lose a hot. rather minute In the change, for the switeh- one imnuiYii years ago. In thosi days, when such an cnterLinnicni wn.- proposed, il was therudom for lliosi who intended to he present to draw up a list of tin . a ded to have list was passe 11 picked oul Hi he would furnish, nicked olf the list, words picked ami out-of-door parties as pick and kuick, nir" articles (hat were good time; then Ike "i''"h person j., | ' |()k n ime of Ihearlieli which was H en Ero.ii these tw- Occasionally, remarks the Atlanta j Constitution, there is a hook reviewer j who claims that il is necessary to | read a hook through, line by line and word by word. But Oscar \\ ilde says: “To know the vintage and quality of a wine one dix'S not have to drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly • easy in half an hour lo say whether is worth anything or worth Ten minutes are reallv niekiit were lirst then as known a pie- ! nothing. | sufficient, if one has the indinct form, who wants to wade thrnuh I dull volume? One tastes it—and that is quite enough—more than enough, I should imagine.” Tim harsh, drastic purgatives, onee deemed so indispensable, have given place to milder and more skilfully prepared laxatives; hence the great and growing demand for Ayer's Pills. Physicians every where recommend them for eostiveness, indigestion, and liver complaints. A Sonic nir Thimble Free. Any lady sending at onee I he names and address of ten married lady friends or housekeepers to whom we can send sample copies of the most, charming illut rated ladies' newspaper ’ "shed today, will receive an elegant solid silver souvenir thimble. The Ladies Pictorial Weekly is the handsomest and most entertaining publication of its class and is hecom- ing universally popular witli in telligent ladies in both Canada and the I’nited States. It contains sixteen large pages,.same size as Harper' s j Bazaar, most profusely illustrated,ami j comes each week at only S2.011 a year. 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