The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 28, 1904, Image 2
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OF GUD NAVY
commends Pa-ru na- -Other Prominent
Men Testify.
!y^ JSTichohon
Commodore Somerville Nicholson, of
the United States Navy, in a letter
from 1837 It St.. X. \W. Washington,
D. C., says:
"Your Peruna has been and Is now
used by so many of ray friends and acquaintances
as a sure cure for catarrh
that 1 am convinced of its curative
qualities, and I unhesitatingly recorameud
it to all persons suffering from
that complaint."?S. Nicholson.
The highest men lu our nation have
given Peruna a strong endorsement.
Men of all classes and statious are
equally represented.
II you UO not derive prompt hiiu saiisfactory
results from the use of Peraoa,
write at once to Dr. Hartman.
giving a fall statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman. President of
The Har t ma n Ca itariu m, Columbus. O.
Ask Your Dr??gi't for a free Peruna
Almanac for 1904.
Missing No Opportunity.
A large, good natured man was
greatly attracted to a little girl in the
dining room of an up-town hotel the
other day. She was about two and a
half years old. was beginning to run
about and talk a good deal, and also
appeared to be at- home in the hotel.
After smiling at him across the dining
room and making friends with him
At a distance he accosted her In the
nai;. ne usksu oer ine regulation
questions put by strangers to children,
.all of which she answered as promptly
-as her baby fashion would permit.
Finally the man shook hands with
her and said: "You are a nice little
girl. Shall I bring you a box of candy
^ .to-morrow?"
The little one looked puzzled a moment,
then spoke up brightly:
"No; 'oo better doe det It now!"
She got the candy that evening.
The total production of gold
throughout the world in 1903 was $327.000,000.
against $299,000,000 in 1902.
and $291,000,000 in 1901.
neapolis, Minn., tells how woman's
monthly suffering may
be permanently relieved by Lydia
EJPiokham'sVegetable Compound
[ *'D?a* Mbs. Pinkham :? I have
'*?.^ever before ffiven my endorsement
rfor any medicine, but Lydia E.
JPinkhiim's Vegetable Compound
ihaa added so much to my life and
^happiness that I feel like making an
"^ iccption in this ca3e. For two years
iovery month I would hare two days of
.-loevere pain, and could find no relief, but
^one dav when visiting a friend I ran
Jnacross Lydia E. Pink ham's Vege?,
tabic Compound, ? she bad ur-ed
it with the best results and advised
me to try it. I found that it worked
wonders with me ; I ngw experience
no pain, and only had to use a few
bottles to bring about this wonderful
change. I use it occasionally now
when I am exceptionally tired or worn
out."? Miss Alice M. Smith, 804 Third
Ave., South Miuneapolis. Miun.. Chairman
Executive Committee, Minneapolis
SCudy ( lub. ? iCOOC forfeit if original e f above
Utter prc'iitf nrnii'.enc.ia ct.nnot Oe /.rtdi/cerf.
hvdiil K. Piukham's Vegetable
CoiajMnmc! carries women safely
through the various natural
crises and is the safe-guard of
woman's health.
The truth about this great
medicine is told in the letters
from women being published in
this paper constantly.
Saw mills
TIm DeLoach Patent Variable Friction.Peed
Saw Mill with 4 h p cuts 2,000 fret per day. Al'
sizes asd prices to suit. DeLoach Shingle Mill*
TMtti.v Trimmers. Planer*; Cora and Buhi
Milts, Water Wheels, L*Jh Mills, Wood Saws
Oar handsome new Catalog wtll interest you
Loach Mill Mfg. Co.. Box 8M. Atlsnts. Ge
A SOFT-HEARTED BAKER.
Assumed Woes of Actress Too Muc
for His Composure.
Recently a new play was performe
in Prague, the principal characters i
which are a beautiful young lady am
a brilliant young officer,but are uuabl
to rasrry because they are as poor a
church mice. True, the young lad;
has a very rich uncle, from whom sb
hopes to obtain aid, but she very sooi
discovers that he is a:i arrant mise
and will not give her a farthing.
The woes of the lovers touched th<
hearts of many in the audience, bu
only one person proved really equal t<
the occasion. This was a worthy am
wealthy baker, who had actually beei
moved to tears by the distressinj
scenoe on the stage. At last his hear
overflowed, and the moment the ricl
I uncle vanished with a bitter sneer a
i his niece's folly on his lips, he rushei
j from his seat to the footlights, and
taking a well-filled purse from hi;
pocket, handed it to the astonlshei
heroine, saying:
"Here, take this?you'll find a gooi
dowry in it?and have nothing mor
to do with that wretched miser."
Every one in the theater roared a
[ the good fellow's simplicity and gen
! erosity, but he could not see that h
I had done anything unusual, and, a
he refused to take back the purse, th
, heroine, with a smile, laid it on i
; table, and the play went on.
I
Curious Lawsuit in Ceylon.
A curious lawsuit regarding th<
ownership of lands was tried recentlj
In Ceylon. The trouble originated al
an archery competition held by King
Parakrania Bahu VI., who ruled ovei
Ceylon in the fifteenth century, it
which there were two champions whc
outdistanced all the rest and alike hit
every mark that was submitted tc
1 them. The king was about to dividt
the prize w^en from a neighborly
pond a frog was heard to croak. Th(
king seized upon a solution and de
clared that whichever could hit th<
frog, aiming only by ear, should gair
j the prize. One of the archers trans
i fixed the frog with the arrow. So de
lighted was the monarch that, beside;
the original prize, he gave to the win
ner an estate of 50,000 acres. Tht
! present claimants in the lawsuit were
the descendants of the archer.
The ministry will never be a soft
snap to the man with a sensitive soul.
"My nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys. I
was suffering intensely from severe
pains in the small of mv back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
| painful passages of abnormal secre;
tions. No amount of doctoring relieved
I this condition. I took Doan's Kidney
' Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will prove
a blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders who will give them a fair
trial."
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. X. Y..
proprietors. For sale by all druggists,
price 50 cents per box.
Dyed Young.
Burr Mcintosh was taking a photoj
graph of one of the theatrical com:
panies in town. A youug girl of not
I over sixteen years, with startllngly
i yellow hair tripped across the stage.
"Here comes 'The Beloved of the
Gods,'" whispered the manager.
"Why have you dubbed her that?"
asked Mr. Mcintosh, with interest.
"Because she has dyed so young."?
New York Times.
Impossible to Square Circle.
No circle can be squared because
"14159, which Is the ratio of the circumference
to the diameter, is not a
square.
FITS p?mnnently cured. No fits or nervousness
after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer. t'ilrialbottleand treatise-free
Dr. It. II. Kliss, Ltd.. 331 Arch St.. rhtla., Ph.
A bent pin is the easiest thing imaginable
to iind when you are not looking
for it.
lO.OOO Plants For I6e.
This is a reu.arkable offer the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse.^ Wis., makee.
They will sena you ineir Dig piant ana
need catalog, together with enough seed
to grow
1.000 fine, sdid Cabages,
2,000 delicious Carrots,
2.000 Blanching, nutty Celery,
2.000 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1,000 splendid Onions,
1,000 rare, luscious Kadishes,
1.900 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in
duee you to try their warranted seeds?
for when you oucc plant them you will
grow no others, aflH
ALL FOR RUT 16C. POSTAOE,
providing you will return this notice, and
you will send them 20c. in postage, tliev
\i ill add to the above a package of tlie fa
mous Berliner Cauliflower. IA.C.L.]
What a crand and glorious world this
would be if every man would follow tiie
sdvicc he gives to others!
Mrs. Window'sSoothiDgSvrupforehildrer
f cofhinp, soften the gums, reduces inflannna
t ion .allays pain.euros wind colic. 25<\ a bottle
Trie only persons who don't break good
resolutions arc those who never make
them.
Tuts am Fadeless Dyes are fast to
light and washing.
Chronic complaining doesn't make a hard
lot any softer.
>o. 5.
m SMISWHtRlAlLllSt FAILS.
IS B??t Coucb Syrup. Tastes Good. Use H
Ba In tlma. 8oid by druggist*. |w|
PLANS THAT WENT WRONG.
h Showing How Hard It Is to Driv
Folks Into Matrimony.
d Once upon a time, before everybod;
a I hau learned to attend strictly to hi
d own affairs, a man and a maid were ii
e ! love with each other, but, though thi
s was patent to all their friends, neithe
' ~ * ?? ' ???. ? TJ/Mi'rtrnr t Vi n i
y j Ul III U III IVilOV 11. vm'-.
e i friends said unanimously: "We wil
a i demonstrate it to tliem and write i
r triumphant Q. E. D. upon their wed
! ding morn."
e ; Therefore, the maid never was in
t ! vlted anywhere that she did not fln<
3 ' the man invited also; nor wa9 the mai
i j invited anywhere hut that he fount
i i the maid likewise a guest. Further
5 ! mere, the man always was detailed ti
t take the maid in to dinner, and the;
i could not so much as glance at eacl
t other without everybody else havin;
i an errand out of the room, and societ:
[, became a vast manufactory of oppor
s ! tunities for them to revel in earl
j other's company alone and undis
! turbed. Now, before this had time t<
d ' become a habit with them, both thi
e man and the maid penetrated the darl
j plot.
t ; Whereupon the maid tossed he:
i- ! head, saying: "They needn't think
e have only one chance," and immedi
s ately betrothed herself to an Impeculi
e ous fortune hunter whose only rec
a ; ommendation was his title.
I And thereupon the man hastily mar
! ried himself to a grass widow fron
j Chicago, whose reputation, they d<
> I say, was responsible for the big fire.
Consequently all their friends nod
t ! ded their heads sagely, and whisperet
' to each other, "Didn't I tell you so?"?
Alex Ricketts In Philadelphia Ledger
C
' Golden Sands.
L i In twelve months Yarmouth, Eng.
' i derived a revenue of about ?2,85!
'r j from its beaeh. The sale of sand ant
; : shingle produced ?504, and payment;
' ; for the right to place stalls on th<
" i beach ?700.
> ;
i !
National bank notes are onc-sixti
. i of the money in circulation.
' I "Don't you find It tiresome," sait
j Mare Ai.ior.y, "to fievote so mueh tim<
} ! to literature in addition to your variou;
! ; ways?" "Yes," replied Caesar, "bu'
' it pays. Tliere is nothing like beiuj
i your own military critic."?Washingtoi
Star. t
This?
We offer One Hundred Dollar; Reward for
' any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured 0/
I lull's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., To'.eio, O.
Wc,theuuder3l<ned,hav3 known F. J. Cheney
for the hist 15 years. and bolieve him perfecily
honorable in all busines* trausactlom
and ilaauclally ab'.e to carry out any obligations
made by their Arm.
West k Tauai, Wholesale Drugglsts.Tolele,
Ohio.
I WaLDiso,KiNSAN&MiBYix,WholesttleDra;1
! cists, Toledo, Ohio.
1 Hall'sCatarraCureLs taken intemilly.aotincdirectly
upon the blood and mucoussuri
laces of thosyste n. Testimonials sent free,
l'rico, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Take Hall's Family Tills for constipation.
"We will never give up," said the
South American military leader. "Give
iin what?" asked the coldly practical
man. And after a moment of refieei
tion the military leader candidly rej
plied: "Anything we can get our
hands on."?Washington Star.
i
80 lintlifli Mncnronl Wheat Per Acre.
Introduced by the U. S. Dept. of Agr
It is a tremendous cropper, yielding in
good land 80 bu. per acre, and on dry. arid
lands, such as are found in Mont., Idaho,
the Dakotas. Colo., etc.. it will yield from
40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and Speitz and
Hanna Barley and Bromus Inermis and
Billion Dollar Grass, makes it possible te
grow and fatten hogs and cattle wherevei
oil is found.
Jl'ST 6ENP 10c. AND THIS 50TICT
Ito the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse
Wis., and they will send you free a sample
of this Wheat and other farm seeds, together
with their great catalog, alone
J100.00 to any wide-awake farmer. [A.C.L.]
A mean man often has a powerful influence
over a good woman.
IMso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections 01 taroai ana rungs.? vr*r,
O. Esdslet, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10,1900,
Any man i* liable tc make mistakes, but
! it is the other fellow who blunders.
i Teoslnte an?l Billion Dollar Grass.
1 j The two greatest louder plants on earth
one good for 14 tons of hay and the othei
8( tons green fodder per acre. Growl
everywhere, so does Victoria Rape, yield
! iug 60.000 lbs. sheep and swine food per
acre. [A.C.L.]
JUST SEJfD 10c. 15 STAUTS TO THE
j John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.
and receive in return their big catalog anC
' lots of farm seed samples.
! Truth is a stranger that & good manv
; people don't care to meet.
WAS TOO FAR AWAY.
| Young Maiden's Dream of Romanci
Sadly Shattered.
Maisie was the daughter of a rlct
j merchant, and therefore she coulc
I afford to be romantic. To her most
i young men with black mustaches ar.d
. ! an inclination to cheat the barber ol
: his just dues in the matter of hail
! were heroes of a high order. Papa
! Spillkins* cashier was this sort oi
I ; young man, and Maisie decided that
; her heart and both her 6% hands
were his alone. One day she met him
in the street, but he passed her by
; with an abstracted air.
j "Papa," she said sadly that even
ing. "I saw that handsome cashier oi
i yours this afternoon. It is sad tc
think that he should be chained to the
| dull routine of an office. He is a poet
I am sure. He has such a heavenly
far-away look in his eyes."
i "Yes." snapped old Spillkins an
' grily, "and that far away look isn'l
confined to his eye. It's all over him
' Just at present. He bolted this after
noon with as much of my money as
he could lay his hands upon."
Holland's Irrigation Works.
Holland has 10,100 windmills, eac!
of which drains 310 acres of land, a
an average cost of 25 cents an acri
* year.
i
THE PERFECT MAN
a ? t
, OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
8 O
11 The Measure of the 5tature of True
s Perfection Found Only In the Pcrr
son of Jestfs Christ,
r
^ Br.OOKLYX. X. V.?Dr. Reese F. Alsop,
* rector of St. Ann's Church on the Height?",
[- preached Sunday morning on "Commercialism."
He took his text from St. Luke
xii: 13: '"Man's life consisteth not in the
1- aKnnilanw (it till" tllirlZS wllicli lie l>OS
i ge?ses."
! J Jr. Alsop said:
I heard lately from a brilliant speaker
an address on "Commercialism." To the
'* surprise of all, it was a panegyric rather
3 than a diatribe. His argument was that
f commercial, that is, business activity, the
industrial epoch in which we live and
1 whose push we feel, engenders certain use*
fui and even moral qualities, such as thrift,
j underlying all accumulations of capital:
truth telling, which is essential to successful
trading: trust, without which the vast
i credit system of the day could not exist:
i- the sense of responsibility shown in the
honestv of the great army of clerks and
place holders, among whom breaches of
? trust, defaults and the like are comparai
tivelv rare, the percentage of the honest
being surprisingly high. At the same time
our Civil War and the Pot War have
r shown that the commercial spirit did not
I extinguish heroism and liberality. itness
the gifts of rich men to education and
charities.
Now that is all true, and yet there is a
* bad flavor about the word commercialism.
It has another cannotation. Is it not a
w matter of emphasis? Jesus says. "Seek ve
first the kingdom of God." He says again,
1 "What wall a man give in exchange for his
) life?" What are men exchanging their life,
with all its possibilities of symmetrical de
velopment, for? W Hat are tney seeKing
first? Is it not too largply material sueI
cess? St. Paul says: "Having food and
- raiment we have enough." The feeling of
to-day scorns such moderation. A modest
' competence is nowadays nothing accounted
of. To make a living is not enough: to
achieve comfort for self and family is a
small thing: men aim and toil and struggle
for more dazzling prizes?a success that
) makes a noise and is talked of; that glitI
tcrs and dazzles the eye.
? Tltis is commercialism as I understand
it: the measuring of success by the stand'
aid of the market place, the sinking of
other aims in the eager rush after gain.
There are high things possible for man.
Culture of body, mind, growth in moral
and spiritual attainments, expansion in
faculty and usefulness. There are magnificent
careers open to him in science, in art,
1 | in literature, in philanthropic service.
? ' Over against all these stands the spirit of
I the age and cries follow me. The ideal is a
? man who turns everything to gold that he
t I touches: a man who gets ana holds and
j 1 then goes on to get more and hold more.
' Two conversations lately overheard illustrate
the point. Dr. Kainsford, of St.
George's Church, walking down a Xew
York avenue, overheard tne talk of three
or four university men before him. Looking
upon the gleaming equipages and splendid
dresses flitting by, one said to another:
"I tell you. boys, it is money that goes in
this town, is it not?" The belief that it is
money that goes?the feeling that it is
money that ought to go?are evidences of
an almost universal sentiment.
"Who is building that magnificent
h^.se?" said one to another. '"Oh. that is
io be the residence of so and so. He used
to be a poor Baptist preacher, but Rockefeller
found out that ne had business ability,
and I tell you he did not leave hi:n
long a Baptist preacher. He took him
intn Standard Oil Comnanv. and now
see what a success he has achieved." There
speaks commercialism. There is the voice
of the ideal which has almost hypnotized
our generation.
Agassiz's splendid reply to the lecture
> bureau, "I have no time to make money,"
| sounds like a piece of insanity. Gordon's
refusal to accept reward from the Chiuese
Emperor for his help in the l'ai Ping rebellion
sounds like a piece of Quixotism.
The "simple life," as lived by Tnoreau in
the woods, as pictured by Wagner, sums
only an idyllic dream. The pursuit of
learning for learning's sake, the service of
man with no itch for reward, the quiet.
' unostentatious sacrifice of personal interest
I for the good of others, these are repudiated
as folly. The maddening crowd's
| ignoble strife is what makes itself heard.
I It draws like the song of the siren. Like
I the suction of a vast maelstrom, it seizes
( men and draws them in. Ky and by. dizzied
bv the tierce whirl, they forget the
high things and are content to be simply
money-makers. That i? what 1 understand
oy commercialism; me iiirusuiij; iuiu me
, front place of merely material success. It
> is a corruption of the spirit in which life is
livid. It is a low, wrong motive. It brings
> in and holds before the soul a false stand|
ard of value. It misconceives what is the
real success of life. It subordinates the
man to his possessions. It is a radical corruption
of the ideal?an absolute reversal
of what our text says. Commercialism de1
clares and persuades that man's life does
i consist in the abundance of the things
. which he possesses. Therefore, it urges
let him love supremely those thiftgs; let
' tiim aim at them, follow alter them, sink
his very life in them. Let him for them
forego, if needs be. mental culture, artistic
development, moral elevation, spiritual activity
and all that goes to make a full developed
manhood. Quench, if necessary,
> all lofty aspirations. Get things, gather
them about you, enthrone yourself on and
> among thenj. Let atrophy seize every
other faculty bo your faculty for getting
and getting on grows stronger. (
Let me give an illustration or two. i
j There is a story of a man who was so eager (
to keep safe a very precious thing that he
took it with him into a closet, set his canr
die on the floor and then diligently nailed
fast the door, only to find, as his candle
flickered out, that he had shut himself in 1
with his treasure. Nailed and encoftineJ
in his own strong box. Here is another: i
I read some time ago of a young man, who, i
I upon graduation from college, found him- i
self the possessor of $50,000 a year. He had i
health, strength, education, position. ]
Choices lay open before him. He might go i
I in for political life, for philanthropic serv- <
t ice, or college settlement work. lie might
I become a student and a patron of arc. of 1
, literature. He might throw himself into i
the civic life of his day. In any of a dozen I
ways he might find his life bv losing it in <
Vtnt Vaa' I
, he was dazzled by the ideal of the age.
Ambitious to turn his one million into
: many, to win the power or notoriety vast ]
i wealth can bring, he flung himself into a I
banking house. All the beautiful opportu- '
nities that invited him he forewent simply ]
and only that he might increase his pile?a i
pile which was already sufficiently large. ]
. Grant him ali the success he coveted, what i
would be the end? A dwarfed man. with i
1 an immense tiile heaped up around him. A 1
> life practically sunk and lost in the ahund,
ance of the things which he possessed.
As I said. then, a moment ago, cummer*
rialism is found in a wrong .emphasis. ,
. Wealth is good fairly won and nobly used. 1
It is not money, but the love of money, .
that is the root of all evil. Business is
good, commerce is good and necessary, in- 1
t dustrialism is good and brings forth a
i goodly progeny of virtues; zeal, activity. ]
. pcrserevance, cleverness in affairs, are all
praiseworthy. Material success is dcsir- j
* able. "The blessing of the Lord it maketh i
rich." Yes. but to put these tilings first,
to rush after them so eagerly as to forget i
other and higher things, in a word, to sink
in them one's life with its possibilities of
growth and beauty and usefulness, that is
: to have caught the spirit of the commer'
cialism of the day and the age.
e Who can loolc abroad without seeing
how this spirit tends to invade and even
/
to dominate every sphere of human aetivicy.
\Ve read of commercialism in politics,
in art, in literature, in education, in the social
world, even in religion, and '.hough we
may not have a distinct definition ready
we have a fairly clear idea of what is
meant. The place holder in nation or city
or State whose main thought is what he
can make and not what he can do: the artist
who listens not to the voice of his ideals
hut to the bids of the market, and paints
or carves simply ior the money to be got:
the author who writes simply what will
sell and forgets the truth for which he
ought to stand and the service in the way
of instruction, or comfort, or amusement
which he might minister to his fellows, is
each one tainted with commercialism. It
has crept even into our universities, tempting
boards of trustees and faculties to bow
too subserviently to those who can furnish
endowments, temoiinc the voting man to
turn from courses that cultivate the mind
to those which prepp.ro for business. Our
theatres have felt the influence, and think
more of pieces which will draw than of
those which will elevate as well as amuse
and recreate those who see and hear.
Yea, it is conceivable that even the
c.iurch may not escape. The ministry
that sets pain above usefulness has caught
the contagion. "Put ine into the priesthood
that 1 may eat a piece of bread!' So cried
one of o!d. The very thought was a desecration.
The ministry that is sought for
the sake of "the pieces of bread'' for a livelihood.
whether it be large or small, is a
ministry not to Hod, not to those among
whom it is exercised, but to the man that
holds it. The clergy who are in orders
chiefly for what they can win in the way
of comfort, or respectability or income are
unlit for their place. They s<.r\c not Clod
cr their fellows, but themselves. And so
the church vWe chief aim is a large pew
rental ar.ri a fashionable congregation?forgetting
the while that the Master's boast
was that to the poor the gospel was
preached, is tarred with the same stick.
Yes, commercialism is in the air. It is
the spirit that now works?that stealthily
penetrates every daT>artment of modern activity,
always seeking to make gain the
dominant motive. There is no line of work,
no business, no profession safe against its
insidious influence. It invades law and
medicine, even divinity, as we have seen.
It is felt in halls of legislation and scats of
government. Yea. it pervades even society.
making the fine raimept and the gold
ring and the large bank account more potent
to open doors than gentle birth and
fine breeding.
How are we to resist this influence?escape
this spirit? Just as we resist the contagion
of an epidemic, the depression of a
malaria, by fort living the powers ot .ue.
A man in whom the tide of life is full and
strong will walk unscathed through the
plague laden air. The health that is in
nim resists ihe disease that rushes upon
him. The bacteria that floats into throat
or lung, or stomach finds no nidus and
dies. It must be thus, then, that we escape
the spiritual dauger. Fortify the life
within. Remember that life is more than
meat; that the kingdom of God and His
righteousness are infinitely worthy of our
seeking. Do not forget the possibilities of
your life, what you can make of it in the
way of growth, what you can make of it in
the way of usefulness. Keep your eye on
the Master. In Him see what you may be
?in Him see what you may do. Yea. not
only keep your eye on Him, but keep in
livinc touch with Him, that the tides of
His life may flow into your soul, and carry
you on and up to the measure of the stature
of the perfect man in Christ Jesus.
Finally, my brethren, "whatsoever things
are honest ?'whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
tilings are lovely, whatsoever thirtgs are of
gooif report, think on the?e things." Turn
your thought and your eyes away from the
dazzling bait of the age. Escape its snare.
Seek first the kingdom of God. Determine
to be a man. mentally, morally, spiritually;
rlptprminp to 1>p a hrnthpr to vour fellow
man, and do for him a brother's part; determine
to be a child of the neavenly
Father and obey His will, so far as you
know it: resolve that in you the splendid
possibilities hidden in the gift of life shall
be realized, and you shall have learned
how to use this world without abusing it.
Then commerce, business, success shall
minister to you but not enslave vou; shall
embellish your lite but not absorb it; shall
bring you. perchance, an abundance of
things to possess, but leave the while
strong and pure within you the life of
fiod. Then shall you in very deed possess
the abundance of the things which are
yours. Lei them once get the better of
you. climb into the throne of your heart
and life, and then they possess you and
you are their slave and their victim; nailed
and ineotfined in your own strong box
in your soul also.
Living in Hop*.
The habit of living in the future should
make us glad and' confident. We should
not keep the contemplation of another
state of existence to make us sorrowful,
nor allow the transiency of this present
to shade our joy?. Our iiope should make
us buoyant, and keep t;s firm. It is an
anchor of tlie soul. Ail men live by hope,
even when it is fixed upon the changing
and uncertain things of this world. But
ihe hopes of men who have not their
hearts fixed upon God try to grapple
themselves on the cloud wrack that roils
along the flanks of the mountains; while
our hopes pierce within that veil, and lay
bold of jhc Rock of Ages that towers
above the flying vapors. Let us then be
strong, for our future is not a dim peradventure,
nor a vague dream, nor a fancy
of our own. nor a wish turning itself
into a vision, but it is made and certified
bv Him who is the God of all the past and
of all the present. It is built upon His
word, and the brightest hope of all its
brightness is the enjoyment of more of
Hi? presence, and the possession of more
of His likeness. That hope is certain.
Therefore, let us live iu it.?The Rev. Alexander
MacLaren.
The Poor Man'* Oay.
Tn ?TT our towns, and throifghont too
large a portion of our country districts,
the Sabbath rest is violated and the worship
which was the consequence and condition
of this rest is abandoned. At the
same time the soul is deprived of its nouranrl
ttio KrtHv nf its renose. The
poor man and the workingman are delivered
up, unprotected, to the every dav increasing
influence of error and evil. Thus
the profanation of the day has become
the ruin of the moral and physical health
of the people, at the same time that it is
the ruin of the family and of religious liberty.
The Sabbath is emphatically the
poor man's and the working man's day.
And there is no surer way to break down
the health, as well as tne morals and religion
of the people, than to break down
the Sabbath. To say nothing of the Dicine
law. 011 mere worldly grounds it is
plain that nothing is more conducive to
tlje health, intelligence, comfort and independence
of the working classes and to
i>ur prosperity as a people than our Christian
American Sabbath.?Count Montalembcrt.
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Past anil Future.
The pa?c is dead and has no resurrection,
but the future is endowed with such a life
that it lives to us even in anticipation.
The past is. in many things, the foe of
mankind; the future is, in all tilings, our
friend. For the past there is no hope; for
the future there is both hope and fruition.
The past is the text book of tyrants; the
figure is the Bible of the free. Those who
ire solely governed by the past stand like
Lot's wife, crystallized in tne act of look-,
ing backward, and forever incapable of
looking forward.?H. Kirk White.
The Year.
Beautiful is the year in its coming and
in its going?most beautiful and blessed
because it is always "the year of our
Lord."?
isn
George Francis Train Dies Afterj|H
Varied Life W 1
[IE ACCOMPLISHED MANY THINGS '
Starting in an Humble Capscity, H?
Forged Ahead to the Front Ranks
In the World.
New York, Special.?George Francis
Train, who died here Monday night,
probably was one of the most picturesque
figures in the history of ^
America. Only a year ago. when he
was then 74 years old, he dictated the i
reminiscences of his extraordinary ca. L
j a.
ruer, anu iuc icauu *? aa ?
book form. Summarized in bis own ^
curious fashion, this contained infor- *
mation about his life:
"Shipping clerk, 16; manager, 18;
partner in Train & Co., 20, with an
income of $10,000; established the firm
of George Francis Train & Co.. Melbourne,
Australia, 1853; agent White
Star Line, income $90,000; started 40
clippers to California in 1849* built
railroad connecting Erie with Onio and
Mississippi; pioneered the first str^t
railway in Europe, America, Australia^,
and England; built first Pacific railway,
1862-1869; owned 5,000 lots in
Omaha, worth $3,000,000; been in 15
jails without a crime."
Mr. Train's parents, with several^!
brothers and sisters, died at New Or-^H
! leans from yellow fever, and hi3 child-^H
hood home was on his grandmother'^H
farm in Massachusetts. Not long afte^^fl
entering the Boston shipping hous^^fl
founded by his cousin, he went
and from that time on he wandereafl^^H
over the globe.
In 1S72 he began a career as lectur^^H
and agitator, and held public debate^^fl
with some of the ablest orators in th^^H
country. A few years ago be made
trip around the world in 60 days, say-^H
Ing afterwards that his psychic force^H
enabled him to overcome all obstacled^H
When Mills' Hotel No. 1 was open?^^|
several years ago, Mr. Train went thei^H|
to live, and since then made it his^H
headquarters. One of the features of
i his eventful life was his admiration for ^
children, and for years a familiar spec. ^
1 taele In Madison Square was "Citizen'*
Train on a bench surrounded by a
! group of little ones.
Mr. Train's last adventure occurred^^
I last summer, when he was quarantine
??* Cviiin In a QmallnAT 10A* j
lation camp and threatened that city
with a suit for $50,000 damages. He
war the author of at least 50 books
and frequently asserted that "hie
j psychic power eventually would make
I him the most potent sovereign of
! the eaifch.
Coffin Factory Eurned.
! Burlington. N. C., Special.?On#
! of the most disastrous fires in
! the history of Burlington originated in
! the factory building of the Burlington
Coffin Company of this place about
10 o'clock Tuesday morning. The
plant consisted of three large buildings
besides the engine and boiler house,
dry kilns, storing sheds, etc., and was
I one of the largest business enterprises
of Burlington, as well as one of
the principal casket factories south of
Baltimore, and has been doing a very
prosperous business. Owing to the intensely
cold weather this morning,
work in the factory building was not
resumed, rne origin or me mc 10 uuknown.
for when the fire was discovered
the entire second story of the
factory building was in flames, which
soon reached every part of the building
and spread to the engine and boiler
house, the dry kilns, and to an immense
quantity of lumber on the
yards. The factory was equipped with
a very complete outfit of machinery,
most of it being of the latest and most
improved designs, all of which was
lost, together with the entire stock of
patterns, coffin bits and machine ft
room. An immense quantity of lumber
was in stock, more than 250,000 feet
of which were burned, together with
a large stock of covered casket shells. I
The total loss is estimated at frem
$25,000 to $30,000, with about $10,000
Insurance on the factory building and
the machinery. It is understood that f
the company will rebuild, probably I
upon an enlarged plan, at as early a j
aaie as pracwcaoie.
Governor and Judge Fined
Pope, Ark., Special.?In the mayor's
court Tuesday Governor Jeff Davia
and Associate Judge Carroll D. Wood,
of the Supreme Court* the two candidates
for the Democratic nomination J
for Governor, were fined for assault. ?tl
The trial is the result of the'encoun- J
ter bet wen the men in the joint de^
bate here on December 18 last. After
hearing the testimony Mayor Black
fined each defendant $10 for a breach
of the peace and in addition assessed I
a fine of $50 against Governor Davis 1
aggravated assault. Both filed notics J
that they would appeal.
King Peter to Abdicate.
Vienna. By Cable.?King Peter,
servia. according to a report from
Cottinje, Montenegro, is prepared vol-^B
untarilv to renounce the throne. Tbe^B
Prince of Montenegro is said to have^H
received a mandate from Russia to^H
clear up the precarious situation
Servia, and Kfng Peter is alleged tgjm
have recognized the untenability of hi* ~W
position and to be willing to abdic&U M
Lee's Birthday.
Atlanta, Special.?The annlverew^^H
of the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Sfljfl
of the Southern Confederacy, was
served throughout the^South
day, many schools anBanks bei^^^H
closed in his honor^^^Knorlal
tices were held in The^^BB
banquet of tl^^^^^^LSoc^^HH
was
speakers being^^^B^^^^Bfl^BB|
Gen. Thomas I^BBB^H^BI^^^flB
Terrell,