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THE UNION TIMES UNION, S. C\ r PALMETTO POINTERS. THK DISPKNSAKY KOTTKNNKS8. Tillman Admits that the Scandal U Founded on Facts. The Philadelphia Press of last Wednesday prints a long story from Columbia in connection with the MixRon scandal and the dispensary. Fol lowing the dispatch is an iutcrview with Senator Tillman, udmitting the truth of the statement. Senator Tillman, in conversation with a Press reporter, admitted, with manifest chagrin, that the dispatches from Columbia dotailing disclosures of improper practices on the part of officials connected with the Stuto dispensary of liquors are probably founded on facts. Senator Tillman said that he had known for some time that an investigation of { such charges had been in progress. In fact, Governor Kvuus has consulted hini about tliein. "My advice ro uim was to search tho sen mini to the bottom anil punish auy person found guilty; if officials remove them from office and then prosecute them criminally. At that time the evidence did not seem conclusive, but my advices received since seem clear. Tho confession of Mixson's sou, if authetic, should leave no doubt. There is 110 doubt that u great deal has to be left to the honesty of men who handle public funds. If they are honest they will keep themselves clean. If dishonest they can get better of almost any system for a while. All we can do is to punish them when detected." THE ASYLl'M ItEGKXTS. l'attents Being Keoelveil Steadily at the ltate of One a Day. The board of regents of the State hospital for tho insane held their regular monthly meeting in Columbia last Thursday at tho institution. Most of the business was of a routine character. The board found the population of the institution to be 885 pa tients. The institution lias been receiving patients at tho rate of one n day all tho year. Duriug tho pas1 month thirty-one patients were admitted, so fur this month ten putieub 1 ' - J TUa Itnnril iti i.uvo ueeu iwuimcu. ^ ? ? btructed tho superintendent to do Li. best to have tho Dix cottage complete* by October lbt. Eleven patients ver discharged upon approbation. Th institution bus about one patient fo every 1,000 citizen# in the Btatc This is a remarkable low percentage c insanity as compared to thut shown b some of the States. <?> , Tilltnau the Star. United States Senator tbi.B. Sigt^a., last ' . ay at a pi nio and mass tuee. neld at We End Park under tho auspices of tl Harrisburg Bimetallic Union. Owir to a misunderstanding as to tho hoi when Tillman would speak the crov was not as large as it would otherwi have been. Tho speech of Henat Tillman was frequently cheered, ai he mude a rather favorable impressii on those who heard him. Hisrcai&r about tho downtrodden condition the workingmou of the country, ai his charge that the financial policy largely responsible for the present co ditions, were given close attcntioi lie discussed the issues in a charaett istio way and pointed out the way redemption from the evils of which complained. A meeting was held the court house at night, when Bet tor Tillman spoke on free silver. ? Medical College lienellclurlen. Governor Evans under the act of t Legislature has to appoint each ye one worthy young man in each Cc gressionul district to n scholarship the South Carolina Medical colle( lie has mude the following appoii xnents, the Fourth and Seventh d tricts not yet huving been filled: First district, It. A. ltiggs, of Ch leston; Second district, It. H. Tut Htuffords; Third district, Mill Ponder, Pickens; Fifth District, Walker Floyd, dr., Liberty Hill; Si: district, C. 1>. Napier, Itlenheim. -? -4?? An Kll'eettve Speaker. M r. Joseph T. Johnson, of this ci has received notice from the uatio committee informing him of hisassii incut to the middle West to nuke t ver speeches Ho will leave about middle of the mouth. Mr. Johnsot an uldo clmmpiou of the cauae aud work iu behalf of Hryan and Sev will make votes. He cau present I issue to the agrieuituriHts and prod ers of that section in n way to iustri ? Sjm rtu aim r<j Hera hi. At Columbia the Dispensary Ho took no action in reference to L penser Scott, as tho report as to eondition of affairs in his Diapens is not ready. He has been suspem without pay pending the action of Board, and his clerk, Mr. Schwa lias been relieved from duty, as th was nothing for him to do. - ? - Mr. Joshua Meyers, a farmer lit about fifteen miles south of Oran burg, was aocideutally killed by ? ting entangled in the belting o team cotton gin. Ho was horri mangled. Ward pull I believe It would b goo<l Idea to nominate Hzskpxski. 1 'a mighty good man. Ifwilah Oh. a goo<l man all right, but n?>v ??ould ever got up a campaign yell or sin .name as that? Indiauuoolia Jourua u Tim Transition of Constance, ti BY K. ItAY HOI*NKIU'RU. J1 'Yob, it will Ijo quito the match of tho season! Let me congratulate 1 you, Miss Blako," making an clnhor- " ate courtesy, showing a flush of duzzling teeth ami a Hooting dip of dimpics us she smiled at tho pretty re- 1 tleetiou in tho tall, silver-framed inir- t ror that hung in the innermost re- , cess of her maiden sanctum sanctor- i uin. I "It is quite true," she went on,still speaking softly to tho dainty young | person before her, "that Corson would never have proposed if 1 had not compelled hint, but no one knows but you and me," nodding sagely to the now sober little face in the glass?"not even Corson himself." 44 A dear stupid fellow," she went on, with something like a pout of the re8ebud lips, *'but oh !" clasping her hands and admiring tentatively the while her latest acquisition, a hoop of lire-flashing brilliants, " but oh! of , Biieh good old stock, and with lots ol spoudulix' too. " Ugh ! yoit vulgar girl! Will von never cease to talk slang, I wouder. ^ shaking u slender forefinger nditioii. tab 1 ugly. 1 "Dear old (luardy! Ilow very solemn ho said it ? 'Connie child ? * ate you sure volt love this young 0 man?' and L snid, 'Sure, (runrdy ? e ' Then the question is already settled,' r lie answered. " Good old Guardv ! He looks ill. y Maybe that was tho reason lie sent me away without another word. "I think my conscience did give just tho verv littlest t? ~ * l" n* >?. X answ , . .A, and tnen my " ed hi* J c- good sense came to my rescue. I just 8t gave myself a shake, and said: 'Coilae nio Blake! behave vourself! Isn't lg 3r Corson Wevlaiul passably looking, as rd young men go? Isn't he rich? Isn't st' ho from one of the very first families? Isu't he fond of you? I'rav don't beJQ gin to talk any ab->urd nonsense. Of ks course you love him!' of "He isn't so nice as Don, to be sure, . but dear old (riiardv! there are none 2 H " that are like him. u "Well, it is late," stretching her r arms above her head and making a distracting little mono at the face gazlin I . , , , .11 itilt enruestiv ai nor irom iue gins*. at [tt. "ami my list for tomorrow is a feari fully long one ; so good-night. Ami on tho whole," nodding her head mi a jje sago little fashion, "I think you a very >ar sensible sort of voting person." m in ... Ilelow stairs, in his own particular it- ilen, Donald Orton sat crouching over lis* a tiro, and although the nights were not vet cold, he strive roil. (r.ispinglv . . . . 8Q he pressed one hand over ins heart, :on and with an inarticulate cry sank hack J. in his chair. Slowly, very slowly, the color llowed hack to Ins bloodless lips, and the mnn straightened himself. "These attacks have not trouhlci me for a long while now," he inur nal mured. "Well, inavhe it is best thev * should come now uml end it all. M\ the occupation in life will be gone when I * is loso her ?my wee white blossom! ll k'? had like to have utiiuuuuod mo tonight. HMl .. [his must never know the oil >rt it cost uo- me. ?ot. "An old fellow like me seems quiti a patriarch to her, 110 doubt. Thirty nine and niuoteeu. No ?she inusi >is- nevflr know of that wild impulse, tlia the insatiate longing to tuko her in tnt ary trmx ami claim her iniue, all niiue! ? by right of long yearn <?f lovo ant watchfulness and care. To the chili ier^ I have tinea a father ? nothing uiorooh Clod! nothing more!" 'Dflf Leaning lazily over the aide of th "Kurydice," her white sails billowin f m above his nead, and looking far oat t ib\j where "The great title? ?f the tumbling bay Swing glittering in the golden day, a n Swing fttauiing t<? an<l frt>," ''',s Corson Wevland communed with Inn hos -w I vve b n " Hjr Jove ! wontlor how I came t I. do itj Always thought it would be I ird thing to do?propouj to a pifctty irl. It just sort of slipped outj she tid accepted inc and it was ull lover cfore I realized it. "Sober sort of duffer?that ( rtor? good sort of chap too, I guess-l-setod the whole business for nie in a ozeu words, without making tjiugs wUward, either. "Well, the Mater will bo Rati fied ow. 1 will settle down, and th< best hing I can <lo, too. "She's a dear little girl, prettvas a licturc and iptite exceptionable ; veu ho Mater will acknowledge that. "lloigh-ku! I'll go home uow-tell lie glad tidings and lie rejoiced iver ccordiuglv." | Connie, in Iter bridal robes of icavy ivory satin, stood again bore he tail, silver-trained mirror in icr Iressing room. Around tierstoo<icr muds, picturesque in Nile and h io trope, azure and rose, great pieire huts and long gloves of black nial ig sharp contrast'with the dainty go is. Since nine of the clock Connie nil been in the hands of her dies :s. The dainty filberts of nails were >1ished and pink, the refractory cur g locks wore piled high on the proily poised little head. Everything w in readiness but the filmy veil, ami it as us yet only eleven by the clock. Connie glanced uneasily at tho jy silver timepiece, and then gave a jh of relief. "One whole hour yet," she : rinured. Then turning to her att litiits : "I shall nut have the vol rrunged till the last minute. llu r, toll Mr. liortou 1 would like t< io him hi my boudoir." Then: "I r girls," to the admiring group in t r dainty gowns, "you look lovely I am glad 1 insisted upon that c r scheme; it is certainly pictures . Now leave rue. th> and soe the roe, ihixter says the ilorists are goue." Loft alone, Connie still stooi fore the glass. It was a troubled 1 a pale little face that looked bac t her today. Overwhelmed f with trousseau and w|/at u?. not ueen till the .etf girlhood that she began to feel, i\sv5 tossed restless and wide-evod, Wt gravity ai the step before her. Oh for a renssuriug motiiir-Jcv to enfold her in soothing nr.u and quiet her fears! It wm ih tirs t time she had ever mis&d mother's care. Don had been so yu>. to her, so good through all the vers he had been father, mother, broter friend. Life without Don \vs a something she had never faced >efore. And only Inst night ho ad talked of a long jonrnev?had sp?en vaguely of Aby.->s.u;a and Afguanuu and Ashante. She stood loosing at her refleon in the mirror, feeling strangely aie in the great, empty world. A d longing for comfort seized the r! and unnerved her. A well-known a in tiie outer room caused her to h swiftly and move forward. With stretched hands and pleading, trou 1 eyes, she half sobbed as she went; "Oh Dou! Don! take me in y arms and comfort mo as you iise6> when I was only your little 'iiiosst' lor I nm tiirtixi imam : "< 'ouiiiu! Blossom! my dtu'li! my darling woo girlie! Vnii nro re ? I?v ovorv right of (to I mid 111 Von nro mine and not this or niHii's! I claim von! by mv opowering c oisunnng Intro! " ho ( niiniMl, ruining nil the while pass ate lover's kIsm's on eyes and iips, t hair ami cheek ami chin. "Oh l>?n! Don !" she erieil, a fl of joy overspreading brow ami n< But the man, loosing his hold n her, pushetl her roughly from h mid raising Ins hands m a bowilde I way to his head cried : I "My (toil! my (toil! what linv r done!" Theu throwing himself his knees, prostrating himself hof j her, wriuging Ins helpless hands i sobbed: " Forgive me! Forgive me ! F givo me!" Her woman'* wit came quickly her rescue and she grew quiet. } o ^ was very white, but the hand she i on the man's shoulder was firm. "I havo been wicked?wicked! ] I diil not know--1 could not gu( See, inv Don?you a o always gi and kind and brave. Wo must j. brava now, you and I " They had changed places? th 0 two. It was the man who ncai a comfort most. A moment before I . vii child who oried out for sympa* i thy ?now it was a woman who sympa- | tbized, so quickly does ono pass the Rubicon that lies just beyond girl* hood. ^ There was a low murmur of admi* ration as the brido, leaning on the arm of her guardian, pnssod slowly ^ up the aisle of the flower-embowered b church. Little Mrs. Gossip could not resist j. saving to lier friend ns she gazed; "Aren't they a handsome couple! He is quite the handsomest man in the city, and they sav he worships the ground she walks on. I shouldn't wouder if it were true, too, for ho looks like a ghost, and she is white enough too, for that matter. "Dear! dear! that was au unlucky speech. 'Like a ghost' 1 suid, and at a wedding, too!" The last triumphant note of tho organ swelled out ou tho perfumed air and ceased. The bishop's sonorous voice rolled forth in the words of tho old soleinu service: "Dearly beloved, we arc gathered together here iu the sight of God and in tho face of this congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy luatrimouy." On and on, and at last to the old question : "Who piveth this woman to be married to th man?" Donald Orton, stepping back after J the presentation, was seen to stagger j and press one hand quickly over his heart. There was astir far down the aisle, , tho swift approach of quiet feet, a j shullliug noise for a minute or two 113 some persons went towards tlie vestry, but the bishop's voice rolled 011 niul the group at the altar stirred not. When the last sonorous "Amen" sounded, a buzz of excited talk and ' j the pealing ehimo of bells sounded j through tho building. Attention was divided between the procession wind- I iug down the aisle and tho closed door of the vestry. Tho bridal grou^i passed, but tho | crowd waited, talking excitedly the while. Quickly the word passed from ! lip to 1 i]>: "Dead! how shocking! Heart dis- j ease, tho doctors say. Oil, poor Con- j stance! Poor little bride!" Clad in the simplest of white breakfasts gowns, Coustauce stepped from her dressing room for the second time that day. holding out pleading hands for sympathy to the man before her. ^ aiilrlu Mlifo, let me comfort you," said Corson, touched to the depths of his simple naturo by the solemn service uud more solemu ufterloene. For a few moments she stood still, ler head on his shoulder; then, lookug earnestly in his face: "I will be 1 good wife to you, Corson, (rod rill help mo, and indeed 1 will try lard." "Yes, yes, darling. A far better wife than a useless fellow like me deserves," he said, feeling vaguely n something above and beyond hini in I the tense quiet ot her voice. , And so to earth's long list was allied one more of those dear unciuon/.cd saints, who, dropping self-ease j nd inclination, take up dun threads I f duty and, one by one, weave them j vithfully into life's warp and woof, nit the completed web, beyond the \il, may shine with the light of the 111 roue. ilAud so standing, her husband's I i ikn around her, tier vacant eyes see- J lift only the things of the far future, I j flm somewhere, the depths of her in! ntmost consciousness mayhap, Couswcu heard a voice, and the voice ( 'There bo harder things in life ! th i burying our dead ; there be i goiter strifes in living than in dying; i I bill for him who overeoineth there j | awitetb a crown of victory.The No Bohemian. _ ^ Tlir^Murket Value of Cast-Out Teeth. Iwonder whether ail my readers J kui.W the value of old artificial teeth wb<n they contain gold in any ipianTr .1.. ,w.? I .1 I.I I 111 jr. il IUCJ uwi, a n 11 \ ' i j i < | iiuwrtrj then to get goDd advice on tho subject beforo selling, for there is uu enormous demand for such articles in the advertisement columns of the papers, and I suspect that a good deal of swindling is done in tho trade. Thero is one advertisement in whioh these who have teeth for sale 1 ara recommended to apply to a nianu- , factoring dentist rather than to a 1 wardrobe buyer. A lady responded to thie advertisement the other day, and got an ofTer of ?1 for her set,but, i being dissatisfied with the offer, she I took the goods to a pawnbroker, who at once offered her ?2 I t shillings for , them. If, therefore,* manufacturing dentist is a hotter purchaser than an old clothes merchant, a pawnbroker would seem to have the advantage of both.?-Loodon Truth. KEY. DR. TALMAGE.! I'HK NOTED DEVINK'S SUNDAY NKRMON. Txxt: "And Judah spoko unto him sayng, The man did solemnly protest unto us, aying, Yo shall not soo my iaoo, except your rother be with you."?Genesis xlill., 3. Nothing to out! Plenty of oorn in Egypt, tut ghastly famine in Car.nan. The cattle noantng in the stall. Men, womon and hildron, awfully whito with hunger. Not he failing of ouo crop for one summer, but ho failing of all the crops for seven yoars. k Nation dying for lack of that which is to :omiuon on your table, and so littlo approdated; the product of harvest field and trlst unlit anil oven; the price of sweat and inxiety and struggle?Bread' Jacob, the ather, has the last roport from tho Hour bin, md he llnds that everything is out; and he ays to his sons; "Boys, hook up the wagons ind start for Egypt, and get us something to >at." The fact was, there was a great corn srib in Egypt. The people of Egypt hnvo jeen largely taxed in all ages, at the present :itno paying between seventy and eighty per :eut. of their products to tho Government. So wonder in that timo they had a large jorncrib. and it was full. To that crib they ;amo from the regious around about?those who were famished?some paying for tho >orn in money, when the money was ex Iiuusted, paving for tli?? com in sheep nut! alt e ami horses aud camels; and when they wore exhausted, then selling their own bodies and their families into slavery. The morning for stsriine out on the crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob gets his family up very easily. Hut before the elder sons ?tart they say something that makes him trend lo with emotion from head to foot, and burst into tears. The fact was that thesa cider sons had once before ho mi in Egypt to get corn and they hna been treated somewhat roughly, the lord of the corn-crib supplying them with com. but saying at the close of the interview, "Now, you need not come back bore for any more corn unless you bring something better than money?even your younger brother Honjamin." Ah! Henjamin ?that very name was suggestive of all tenderness The mother had died at the birth of that son?a spirit coming and another spirit going?and the very thought of tnirting with benjamin must have been a leartbreak. The keeper of this corn-crib, nevertheless, says to these elder sons, ' There is no need of your coming up hero any more j for corn unless you can bring It mijamin, your father's darling." Now Jacob and his family very much needed bread; but what a strugglo it would bo to give tip this sou. The Oiientnls are very demonstrative in their grief, and i hear the outwniling of the father as these elder sons keep reiterating in his ears the announcement of the Egyptian lord. "Ye shall not sec my face unless your broi iter be with you." "Why did you t-'ll him you had a brother?" says the old man complain- J iug and chiding them. "Why, father,'' they said, 4"lieasked us all about our family, and we had no idea that lie would make any such demand upon us as ho has made." "No use of asking mo," said the father, "I can not, 1 will not, give up benjamin." The fact was that the old man bad lost children, and when there lias been bereavement in a household, and a child taken, it makes the other children in the '.household more precious. So me uuy ior me uupariuro was luijouriii:.; sum j adjourned. Still tin; horrors of tIt? fatnin increased, an?l louder moaned tin.* cattle, and wider open erucke I tlio earth, and more pallid became tho cheeks, until Jacob, in despair, cried out to his sons, "Take benjamin and bo o(T." The older sous tried to cheer up their father. They said: "Wo have strong arms and a stout heart, and no Irirm will eomo to Benjamin, We'll see that he gets back again. Farewell!" said the young men to the father, in a tone of assumed good cheer. "F-n-r-c-w-e-l-l!" said the old man; for that word has tnoro quavers in it when pronounced by tho aged than by the young. Well, tho bread party, the bready embassy, drives up in front of the corn-crib ot Egypt. Those corn-cribs are filled with wheat and bnrloy anil corn in the husk, for modern travelers in those lands, both in Canaan and in Egypt, tell us there is corn there corresponding with our Indian maize. Huzza! The journey is ended. The lord of tho cornorib, who is also the Prime Minister, comes down to these newly-arrived travelers, and says, "Dine with me to-lay. How is your father? is this benjamin, tho younger brother whoso presence I demanded?" The travelers are introduced into the palace. They are worn and bud listed of tho way; and servants come in with a basin of water iii one hand and a towel in the other, and kneel down before these newly arrived travelers, washing o(T the lust of the way. Tho butchers ami poulterers and caterers of the Prime Minister prepare the repast. The guests are seated in small groups, two or throe at a table, the food on a tra.V; all the luxuries from imperial gardens ami orchards ami aquariums and aviaries are brought there, and are lining chalice ami platter. Now is the time for tliis Prune Minister, if he his a grudge agauist b mjiujiin, to show it. Will he kill him. now that he has him in his hands? 0. no! This lord of tho eorn-orib is seated at his own table, and he looks over tho tables of his guests; ami lie semis a portion to each of them, but sends n larger portion to Benjamin, or, us the biblo quaintly puts It, 'benjamin's mess was live times as much as any of theirs." lie quick ami scud word back with the swiftest camel to Canaan to old Jacob, that "Benjamin is faring well; all Is well; lie is fiiringsutnptuousiy; the Egyptian lord did not mean murder and deatli; but lie meant deliverance ami life when lie announced to us ou that day, "Vo shall not see mv face unless your brother bo with you.' " Well, inv friends, this world is faminesi ruck of sin. It does not yield a single crop of solid satisfaction. It Is dying. It is hunger-bitten. The faet that it does not, can not feed a man's heart was well illustrated in tho life of the English comedian. All the world honored him?did everything for him that tiie world could do. He was applauded in England and applauded in the United Stales. He roused up Nations into laughter. no inni no i'^iihI. Aii'l yet. although ninny people supposed liim entirelv happy, nml i tint thin world was completely satisfying his suiil. lie sits down and writes: "I never in tnv life put on n new lint tlmt it did not rain and ruin it. I never went out In a shabby coat because It was ruining and thought nil who had the choice would keep indoors, that the sun did not come out in its strength and bring out with it all the butterIlies of fashion whom I knew and who knew me. I never consented to accept a part I hated out of kindness to ancthor, that 1 did not got hissed by the public nnd out by the writer. I could not take a drive for a few minutes with Tcrrv without being overturned and having my elbow broken, though my friend got off unharmed. I could not make a covenant with Arnold, which I thought was to make my fortune, without making his instead, than in an incredibly short space of time I think thlrteeu mouths?I earned for him ?.40,000. and for myself ?1. I am persuaded that If I were to sot up as n baker, every one In inv neighborhood would leave off eAting bread." That Was the lament of the world's comedian and joker. All unhappy. The werld lid everything for Lord Byron that It could do, and yet In his last moment he a9ks a friend to come and sit down by him and read, as most uppronrlnto to his wane, the Utorv Of "The Itlcodlnff " Tni.?I.S?nn (he sculptor, executed. after months of care and carving, "Madonna and tho Child." rhn royal family same In nnd admired It. F.verybooy that looked at It was In ecstasy; hut one day. after nil that toll and all that Mlmiratlon. because be did not get os much xsmpensatlou for his work as he had expected, he took a mallet and dashed the exjulsito sculpture Into atoms. The world is [K>or compensation. poor satisfaction, poor solace. Famine, famine in all the earth; uot for seven years, but for six thousand* But, bleseed las God, there Is a great corn?rlb. The Lord built It. It Is In another and. It is a largo plneo. An AD go I once ? ntuund It. and m fur us i .-m oalenlitH it SBfl In one phrase, that com-crlb is ISOO mllea ACS long and 1600 utiles broad, and 1*00 hlghi and it is full. Food for alt nations. "Oh!" 9E say the people, "we will start right awavj Wg and get a supply for our soul " But stop ii SB moment; for from tho Keeper of that corn- IgS crib there comes this word, sayiug, "You <3 shall not seo Mv face except your brother rfjE be with you." In other words, there is no S such thing as getting from heaven pardon and comfort and eternal life unless we bring1 ? with us our Divine Brother, tho Lord .bsua Christ. Coining without Him we shall fall before we reach I lie corn-crib, and our bodies shall be a portion for the jackals of . the wilderness: but coming with the Divine / Jesus, all the granaries of heaven will swing ' open before our soul and abundance shall be given us. Wo shall be iuvited to sit in i>? niiinnn of the King, and at the table; and while the Lord of limren is apportioning ! wm from ills own table to the other tables n? I will uot forgot us: nml thou and tliero it will | l>o found that our Benjamin's moss is larger 1 timn all the others, for so it ought to he. j "Worthy Is tho Lutub that was stiiu, to ro- j ooivo blessing and riches and houor and J glory und power." 1 I want to make throo points. Every frank 1 ? and common -sonso man will acknowledge Ic'? himsolf to ho a sinner. What are you going I to do with vour sins'/ Ilavothorn pardoned, J you sav. How'/ Through tho mercy of God. 8 What ilo you moan by the mercy of God? B Is it tho letting down of a bar f ir tho ad- I mission of all. without respect to character? . ?,9*>>l Bo not deceived? I soo a soul uning up to I tho gate of mercy and knocking at the corn crib of heavenly supply; and a voice from I within savs: "Are von alone?" The sinner H replies, "All alone." Tho voice from I within savs. "You shall no; see my nardon- 9 ing face unless your divine Brother, tiie [ Lord Jesus, he with you." Oh. that i- the | point at whieh so mmiv nr.< diseomlltod. 9 Tlu-ro Is no mercy from Ood evept through B Jesus Christ. Coming with Ilim. we tiro ne? fl eepted. Coming without Him. we are r<v jected. Peter put it right in his great ser< ^8 inon tiefnre the high priests, wli ui tv* limn* dered forth: "Neither is there salvation ip ]M any other. There is no other name g. vec under heaven among men wherein* we maj H he saved." Oh. anxious sinner! Oh, ilyinj sinner! Oh. lost sinner! all vo:i h.w g.it t>* H do is to have this divine llmjumin alone with yon. Side l?v side, coming to the gn'e) ' v ail tno sicri'-iinii'ii's ? ! iu-n?. .. >1... _ open before yotir anxious soul. H Am I right in calling Jesus It'n?.rain? O, H vih lluchcl Iiv I only long ''iiO'isli to gi vo :i name to that eail I. and with :i ?Iyin_r ki-s II sho oalle 1 him llenoni. Afterward Jaeob H| h an on I his rutin . and ho eaile 1 him JIen* jumiti. Tho menniug <>r tin* nnir. ' she gavd IB was, "Son ot my Pain." Tho ineauii;g of H tlu? name tho father gave was, "S >11 of my Kighl H'tii'l." Aii I was not t'hrist tho Sou H of pain? All tli" sorrows of liaoh"! in tliat lionr wh'Mi she ^nvo her child ovr into tint haiols of strangers, was as nothing compare.! Hj with the straggle of (In I when ![ gave up His only Son. Ami was not Christ appropriately ealle I ''Son of the Ihght Hand?" |H 1 >i<l not Stephen look into heaven tunl suo Him standing at tin' rlitlit hum! of find? Am! ] iloes not l'aul peak of linn .as st Hiding at 11 tho ri'_*ht liati I <?f find making intercession E 1 for us? <>, i; njamiii?Jc.-us! S >n i f pang! I Sou of vietorv! Tit" ileepest emotions of out I | souls oii'.'ht to he >titT"iI at lie- - and of that II noinetu'lnttire. In vour pravers plead Hit I tears. His sufferings. His sorrow-, ami Hi.- H death. 1 f you refuse to do it, i i tile corn erihs an I the palaces of Imuv :? will be H liolte.I an<l barred against voi;r - .u!, .and:: voiee from the throne .shall .-tun ;...u with th? announcement. "You shall uot - ? My fa-' ^B except your brother ho with v ^B LEPERS AT LAR3E IN PARIS. Jhinv f.i*r? of Itm Disease, Wliirh is It- ^B ported to Ito Increasing. I The startling announcement is made tha* H there are over 150 lepers in Paris. One ot V thesj was picked up in a fainting condition a few days ago and taken to tho St. Louis Hospital, where there Is a special b'por war<l. Tho pnt'ents are attended to by an inflrmnr- I inn, who suffers periodically frotn a mil ' " ^ fl form of leprosy. ^ ? --B l)r. Hallopeau, of the sitno hospita', doe-' I not consider tho leprosy now in l'ranco :i i I strongly contagious; bat ho afllrms that it i I not dee reusing, especially in tlio delta of Hi' I Ithono and in the Alpes Maritimes. Ho add I that in some parts <>f Central and Northeri I Italy tho plague is concealed, and that as n I attempts are made to remedy it tho dange t I will inoronse. I Dr. Hallopiviu strongly condemns the 1 apathy of French sanitary laws, which allow 1 >?-or?\s m ,u .*?? iii'* ?i men: being allowed to carry moat and other food, and to sleep at night in corners of the Hallos Centrales or tinder bridges with other vn grants o! both sexes. VALUA3LE SNUFF BOXTS. At a It ceo i?t Sale in London tine I.on!* XVI. Ilroiighl S?*i;>(?t). | AithoiiL'h sun IT taking is now almost a lost art, snuff boxes sometimes fetch leug prices and are still in strong reipie.-t with collectors. A fej/ weeks ago a collect ion absolately unique in extent nn?l variety eanie f underthe hammer nt Christie's. It consisted of 1 111 boxes and realize 1 ttio enormous total of over *7(!,'J.')f), For one ln>x nlone. a Louis XVI., the biddor paid ?100;). and next tothisiin oval gold box of the Louis XV. period fetefied f 560 >. Others realized ?300') and ?2!)"i0, wlille a number of more modern designs found read/ purchasers at sums vnryiug from ?503 to ?2000. At an n net ion last summer a silver snufT box, so old that the workmanship on the lid was worn almost smooth, realized the seemingly ridiculous price of ?2050, and at tho same sale a gold box inlaid with pearls forming a monogram fetched *8)0 >. DOGS IN ARMY MANEUVRES. A German expedient for Locating the Wounded. A special feature in this year's Herman maneuvre.s will la* supplied by war dogs which have beeu most admirably trained 'or seeking the wounded and carrying patches. At the command "seek," npaniod by a gesture indicating the direction in which the doi/s are te search tlinv will start otT without allowing theinselvos to ho disturbed hy any surrounding circumstances; they will And the men who llguro as wounded with unfailing certainty, take a piece of tholr clothing ap, helmet or piece of cloth torn off?and bring this buck t<< the ambulance men, whom thoy then conduct to tho spot. Not .Sold a* American Itanf. According to tho United States Oonsut Johnson at Ant warp, there Is no truth lu tho storv which so excited American meat packers, to tho effect that hrokendown English omnibus horses are killed and paokod at Antwerp as earuiod beef under American labels. 'Hie consul reports to the State Department tba' he has made inost careful inquiry and finds that while the f&oglisU omnibus hacks do come to Ant warn in large numbers, they are slaughtered ana sold for fro.li meat and are not packed. ThU Company CImri Blcyloee. A KaiioaJ /\_Krv*vca*a ntiaJa olAnf.l*? -- ? 1 f ?? |VUW-?V v/uiwiorauiu^ fiUH 1Usuranee company baa boon floated lu London wtth the?for such a purpose -largo capital of #1.600,000. For an annual payment of #0.50, It will sond n man to the subscriber's houac to teach him to ride aud to clean his wheel, will store the machine when not In use, aud will Insure htrn for #500 against death and #250 against serious accident while cycling. The Champion Helt. The Louisiana Electric Light and Power Company, New Orleans, has ordered a bolt seven feet wide and weighing 3300 pound*. There are 450diidaa In It.