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.BILL ARP'S LETTER. | . 1 ? i . HK FIMDS FOOD FOR THOUGHT | IN TUB TRUTHFUL CAMERA. PbotO Gallery by the Countryside Marks Civilization's Progress. i Tbo photograph gal lory in a country i town is one the most pleasing marks of Christian.civilization and the ' ad- , vanoement of modern soienoe. I pass i by one every day and it is gratifying to see its patrons awaiting their tnrn !, or coming out with smiling faces and all arrayed iu their best apparel. It ! is a family discussion before they come what dress to wear, what ornaments, 1 and how the hair shall bo arranged, or whether to sit or stand, whether a side view or a front or whethor the baby shall be taken alonoor with its mother. All classes aro on an equality beforo tbo camera, for the sunlight of nature baa no favorites. So far as fare? and i features aro concerned, tbo canu-ra ; tells tbo truth, tbo whole truth and nothing but the truth. This morning j as I {nosed I saw a countryman sitting on the stops with a child in his arms. His wifo and littlo girl * wero inside awaiting their turn. I used to know him boforo ho wan married, und so I stopped and gave him my hand. His folks wero poor, honest and industrious, and I have great respect for all such. Tho women do tho housework anu hive tho care of the childreu. The men cultivate their littlo farms, work tho roads, sit on the i juries, nurse their nick neighbors,bury j the dead, go tislitng on Saturdays aud , take tho family to mooting on Suudays. I They are geueralty Populists, not because of any political principles involved, but because of affiliation and association. Most of their kind are Populists Uud thorcfore clannish. Thoy Btick together becauao they o.ro cither poor or less than rich. Their fathera fought in tho Into war, and these will tight in tbo next if it comon iu their days. It may be a rich mau's war, bnt it will be a peer man's fight. "Are yon goiug to have the baby's picture tuken." "No; not this one," unirl )ni *'T wnnt.i'il tri v \vifi-'n ft.r.il onr I little girl's. They nro in there. I I thought. I would like to have them about the bovine, for lifo is uncertain, you know. Jim Moore's wife died lust year und Jim says ho would give the world for her picture, nud Jack Brown lost hia little girl in June. She was n , mighty puny little thing, but Jack hain't got no picturo r.iul no 1 concluded to lmvo fouil' taken for feur of accident. / "That is all right," raid I, "but suppOBO you die; wouldn't your wife like to have one of you?" "I reckon aho would. She mentioned that, but pictures don't become u rough mau liko me, and besides, it would coat more money than I have got to spare. The winter in coinin' on i and wo all have to have shoes and j stockings nud the like, and my cotton [ crop was powerful short, but I will | have initio taken sometime. I reckon , all your folks have got 'cm, haven't they?" Love for wifo aud children is the i best virtue of human kind, and poor , tolks have rs much of it as rich ones. ! Yes, more. Many of them haven't -? < . i. ?: i . A i. _.: _ .. iv .? i anything i'I.HH io ilivmu iuch kucu- , lions. It i? a pleasing tiling to see , thorn at the picture gallery and to wit- , uess their pride when thowoik is done ; nud tho faces i f their loved ones uro ' beforo them on enameled card.-, fresh and clean from the artist's hand. What a wonderinl art it is. I remnn- 1 her well when the lirst daguerreotype was taken in our town. It was only forty years ago, and whon our first little girl was four yenrs old we hsd her picture taken. She was a little beauty thou, nnd I thought tho picture was tho sweetest gem on earth. Wo have 1 it now in its old fashioned ease. That little girl is long sinco a mother nnd has pictures of her own little girls, and they are much liner in their finish, but I prize llie lirst one most. It carries inu back in memory to thp days of my sweetest, fondest, pronucst, parental love. I idolize that child uud I love her dearly yet, but alio left us for a youDg man she was no kin to in Votes FIave hern cast by thousands f'f sufferer* from impure blood, and tholr vs.jict baa (tied the question of the great curative power of Hood's Bnrsaparilla. Every mail oar brings in thue? letters of praise for Hood's Karsaparilla. They tell the aawe wonderful story of health restored. e*in and suffering relieved, and happiness brought baok. They prove Hood's Sarsaparilla Is tho best -In fact t he O.ie True ttlood Puriflr r Oe|l#k euro ;'ll LP er Ills and HOOSB S riliS Sick Headache. ? cauls. Reliable Charlotte Merchants Call on them when you RoloCliarlotte N <\ Wr to them ir you do not ro, and have your orders tilled hy mall. In umtweriiiK advertisement* kindly men lion this paper. MTMPTWfi EST WOKK. "eaeona Me Prices iftifilifltf Wr te NuivsAs Times I't'u. House. fftB WfPflB P M. A NI) I; KWS, Hi- in W. Trails UwiiM Uftll Also Pianos, O cans A- Bicycles. Pfifli WATPB and laoer bkkh. R. ywwa walfcft poutnkk bkewino co, C. Valaer. 317 S. C'olloRe Street. VfTfififPQ Surreys, Pliaetons, Road wagons. UiluaV Carts hto. Manufacturers Agent* V* rit for catalogue. S. 8. Mc .Inch A no. 0 tho world,'and who baa never done anything for her but to give her a ( ring and book* of poetry and a little French cuDdy now and then. We had to give her up to him, and as Turn Hood aa}d: "3ho took our daylight with her And the ] ys that we love beat, With morniug light upon her brow And pearls uuou her breast." Do. uerre was a benefactor to the emotional aide of our nature. He was a French artist?a painter of pauo- I rama* of cities like Hondou and Paris nud Naples. Ho used the rays of the ' hud through colored glni-s to heighten (he effect of his paiutiug?, and kept on t experimenting with suulight until iu > 1839 ho caught it on the king aud j ......1,. ;? *? I_ai:~ ?i_? 1 ... "iuv?u it. obiua IU uiuin^iiu nun iu* fleet the images thrown npuo them. His suooess was partly accidental, partly desigD, and he himself was astonished at bis discovery. In HHO Arugo made the anm nucement to tho academy of sctouce and Daguerro was made an offiC'T iu the Legion of Houor and voted a pension ol b.UUU traues a year. He died iu 1S51 aud a monument was erected to him In Paris. But like all inventions, Da^uorre's was crude uud imperfect. Photography bus growu out of it and Bemus now to bo the perfection of art. It is usod in making the exact likenesses of all the great works of art aud nature and bringing them in reach of the millions who have never s >en aud never will see the originals. All tho monuments, py ram ills, cburidies, cathedrals,bridges, mountains and waterfalls?all tho grand old paintings of Raphael aud Rembrandt, all tho sculpture of tho old masters aud even tho aspects of tho moon and eclipses of tho sun and tho reproduction of tho ancient manucripts of the Old and New Testaments. The lightuiug itself cannot raoro instnntly speed its way than photography now catches a bird on tho wing <>r a raco horse on tlio turf or a \uoteor iu the heavens. Just so it was with tho locomotive, tho spinning jenny, tho sewing machine, tho telegraph and telophoje. All weto improved from timo to timo by tho ounniucr of the human brain and human baud until they now seem to bo perfect, but they are not. On the mantle near mo I soo a cabinet photograph of a well preserved old man who has a sweet little black-oycd grand-child on his arm, while her head rtsts trustingly upon his shoulder sad touches his venerable cheek. She looks shyly and timidly at you, bat clings to the old man as the tender vireclings to tho old oak that the storm has riven. Tho old man's face is ca'm and serene. I like those pictures for tho children's 6i?kc, and wish that I was so coupled witli every little gratulehild and that my wife had somo to match them. I was ruminating that wheu I am dead and gone and that little girl is a mother, maybe she will show the picture to her child and say: "I uever knew my father, for he died when I was very young, but tlmt old man was ray grandfather and he was g??tl to me aud I lovtd him very dearly." Maybe when I am in the spirit land I will some times be near her and hear her talk that way ? maybe so; who known? r lowers unci iuu-iu me the sweetest girt of (lud to mu' kiixl and picturts ami painting the sweetest that come from the hand of man. Bat of nil the cameras that catch and hold fast the images of art or nature there are men of science who nstert that none are equal to the retina of the human eye. 1 hey my that every look or glunce or vision makes an impoesston there. An impression so delicate and uupnlpnhlo that millions inay lie upon its glassy surface and the last thing seen is on the top. They ssy that if a man is murdered while lie faces the murderer the assailant's face and form will 1> found upon the victim's eyes. Some experiments have been made to prove this, but tbev were imperfect and unsatisfactory. Maybe it will yrt bo proven.?BitL Art iu Atlanta Constitution. r"-' A Despot i ; t ?>st mistress. 8Lie was post mist r< >s of 1 Vir/,.*f.>' e, Cornwall, and ruled her ofliee with a | baud of steel. S!r? mid two rules which admitted of no exception she never gave change, and she would not open the ofliee window when "Hex Closed" or ".Mall not Sorted" was placarded. The sport-loving gentry often tried to ureas imougii un I'.isi-inm nucs. i v?o siK'h attempts .Mr. t'aines, sometime inspector general ???" her majesty's mails, chronicles in Ids boo!;. "On the Track of the Msil-CVaeh:" A traveler wagered that he would break through the blockade of "Ilox Closed." He knocked so persistently at the little window, that at last It was opened far enough tor him to thrust in a bundle of letters, lie thought for a moment that lie had won; hut he didn't know the post in 1st i ess. who tiling his letters into the street. Then n colonel undertook to undermine the postmistress's position on the glving-of-ehange oucstioii. Presenting himself at the window, he tendered a hnlf-erown. ret]nesting to he supplied with a shilling's worth of postage stamps. "I give 110 change" said the lady. "Oil. very well!" teplicd the colonel, lie withdrew for a minute or two, I .. iii, .. I...., ..;.i.i j pennies. Tapping gently at the window. lie suavely said, "A penny stamp, if ynti please, madam." She tlx?*?1 11iin with the glittering eye of triuiiipli. tank the penny, gave the stamp, and shut the window. A minute later there was a second knock, and a second request, "A penny postage stamp, if you please, madam!" At the thirtieth penny the postmistress .surrendered and agreed to give change. ' ? No Luck of Tone. """* She--What I object to in n hoarding touse Is the lack of tone. He?Oh, ha! You haven't heard the Jrl In the next room singing "Wheu ftraimer Comes Again."?Judy. "ARMAGEDDON." I>K. TALMACJK'SSUNDAY T1IKMR. Ho Talks About Hattlcs that llavo Been, lSut Says the (ireatest Will be the World's Closing Battle. Text: "And he gathered them together la a place called In the Hebrew tongue, Armago<tdon.J'?llev. xvl., 10. Mcgiddo is the name of a mountain that looks down upon Esdrrolon. the greatost battlefield that the world has ever seen. There Barak fooght the Canaanltes; there Gideon fought the Midlanites; there Josinh "fought the invading Egyptians. The whole region stands for battle, ami the Armageddon of my text borrows its name from it, and is hero used, not geographically, but figuratively, while setting forth the Idea that there Is to be a world's olosing battle, the greatest of all battles, compared with which the conflicts of this century nnd all Kn?i anntueiiui ttrava Inotoul lautniioa of the groator number of combatants enKASttd, the greater victory and tho greater licfeut. The exact date of that battle wo do not know, and tho exact locality Is uncertain. I may be in Asia, Europe, Atricn. or America; but the fact that such a buttle will take place is us certain as God's eternal truth. When I use the sunerlative degree in regard to that coming conflict, 1 do not forget that there have been wars all along on stupendous scale. As when at Marathon Miltiades brought on his men, not in ordinary march, but in full run, upon the horsemen of l'ersia and the black archers of Ethiopia, and scattered them, and crying, "Bring lire! Bring lire!" set into flame the ships of the invaders As when Pizarro over came Peru. As when Philip the Second triumphed over I'ortuga1. As when the Iluns met tho Goths. As when three hundred Spartans sacrificed themselves at Thermopylae. As when the Cartliageniaus took Agrigenfum. As when Alexander headed tho Macedonian phalanx. As when Hannibal invaded Italy, llattlo of Hastings! Battle of Vulmy! Bat lie of Arbeln! Battle of Tours! Battleof Borodino! Battle of Lueknow! Bulla of Sollerino! Battle of Fonteuoy where 10 i.OOU were siain! Battle of Chalons where 3)0,000 were massacred! Battle of Herat where Genghis Khan destroyed l.fiOn.OOO lives! Battle of Neishnr where 1.747,000 went ifown to death! 1,810,Oi.O slain at Troy! And American battles, too near us now to allow us to appreciate their awlul grandeur and significance, except you who worothoro, facing the North or facing the South! But all (lie battles I have named put together will not equal in numbers unlisted, or llercenrss\ or grandeur, or triumph, or rout, tho coming Armageddon contest. Whether it shall be fought with printers' typo or keen steel, whether by brain or muscle, whether by pen or carbine, whether by booming cannon or thunders of Christian eloquence, I do not know, and you may take what I sav 03 figurative or iitorat, hut lake lis curtain what St. Jolin, in liis vision on the rocks of tho Grecian archipelago, is pleased to call "Araiageddon." My sermon will Ilrst meulion the regiments Hint will bo engaged in the conflict; then will say something of the commanders on both sides: ami then speak of the battle itself and tho tremendous issues. Beginning with those who will llg t on tho wrong side, I llrst mention the Regimen's Diabolic. In this very chapter from winch my Text Is taken wo are told that the spirits of devils will be there. How many millions of them no one can tell, for th statistics of the satauie dominions have never been reported and tho roll of that host has never on ?arih been called; but from tho direful, and continental, and p anetary work they have already done, ami*the fact that every man and woman and child on earth has a tempter, there must beat least sixteen hundred millions of ev.l spirits familiar with our world, l'erluips as many more are engaged on especial enterprises of abom nation among tho Nations aa<l empires of the earth. Reside that there must be an inconceivable number or inhabitants in realms pandemonine, staying there lo keep the great capitals of sin going from age to age. Many of them onen lived in henvoii, but engaging in couspiraey to put Satan on tiie throne, they wero hurled out and down, ana 1 hey are now among the worst thugs of the universe. Having been i:s three worlds,? Heaven, earth and hell.?they have all the advantagesof great experience. Their power, their speed, their cunning, their host! ity wonderful beyond all statement1 In tho Armageddon they will, I doubt not. be present in full array. i?y will have no reserve corps, hut ail will be at tlm fronr. There will not only be soldiers in that battle who can he seen and aimed at, hut trocps intangible an I without corporeity, and weapons may Urike clear through tlmm without giving thorn hurt. With what shout ofdetinnce will they ( limb up the ladders of lire and lean from I 1 the ? ? ryitv\ritj* |?i^ny o r. :?4*w>>.iMiMUy'?ri>, but lrfun'wdh\tfe>f j{W#?4ut l?y J: urt rm "r V'ftp pmprl N tW when written in ISLiL but inucp u|^>r.>|>oiut| in i3Wi,A4i?*l<MiJ; yofc. wi(H nfilb-vim'tyX-iu* weU Sen JenovnliTi iianner turl'd, S^ont^oilUU^tyonij.lIu^fixk.s^'Usilotin ' fc|ii8Sl?i?9iW itlil? w*rW . ij vnT-Ar? tiw We;doei?tfibttitv?t)li)-t!- 1 "? *.#??'.7 JMT ?y>V2 Uf. a* . - fHTt 1 tTti'TTT T*M young tnan who bad Jived near there. our uora >1 vtra irm. EnormouH quantities of American ooro ore ! reported to have arrived at Tern Cruz, Ilexloo, and to be now In storage there. tli'* but! laments otaslvsto.H intotho last campaign ot hell! Paul, the bravest of ail men, was impressed witli their might for evil when l?o said, "\Ve wrestle not against flesh and blood, hut against principalities,and against powers, and against the rulers of tho darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in High places." Oh, what an agitating moment, when tho ranks diabolic move up and take their p aces for conflicts in tho Armageddon! Otlior regiments who will march into tho light will be the llcgiineut Alcoholic. They will bo ma to of the brewers' companies, distillery owners and liquor dealers' associations, and the hundreds of millions of their patrons. These millions of victims of alcohol joined by the mill ons of the victims of arrack, the spirituous liquor of China, and India, and Arabia, and Egypt, and Ceylon, and H am. Other regiments on I hat wrong side will bo made up of offenders of all sorts ?tho defruudors, ttie libert ues, tlis dynam tore, the Anarchists, tho oppressors aud the foes of society, the criminals of all Nations, by whatever name they are now called, or shall then bo called. They may not before that have openly taken sides, but then they will l?e compelled to take side-. With what venom, witli what violence, with what.desperation they will fall into tine at tiie great Armageddon! Is it ncd appalling, these uncounted regiments of the earth, to let joined by the uncounted regiments from per lilion'.' t an any power cope with them? Especially when I ted yon who their commander is, for so much In all wars depends upon the cli eftain. Their leader will not be a political a "ideat or a military "happen so." By talent, and adroitness and courage, and unceasing indiistrv lie ha3 come to Ih bad eminence. II disputed the throne of heaven with the Almighty, but no one has ever disputed the throne of eternal night witli this monarch who wilt in tho last battle take the held in person. Milton calls him Lucifer, Goethe calls him Mephlstophems, the Hobrow cull. him Abaddon, the Oiook calls him Apollyon. He is the impersonation of all malevolence, of all oppression,of all cruelty. The summing up of all' falsehood. In his makeup nothing bad was loft out and nothing good was put in, an I. tie is to l)e the Genera), l lie Cotdtnandor-int; I Chief of a'l the forces oil the wrong sido of ilie great Armageddon. Ho lias been in j more butties than you have ever raid aboirfj; and lie lias gained more victories'than bavin ever been celebrated in iills world. Hut'!? J guess Hiis old warrior of Pandemonium will not have an undisputed llultl.' 1 guess thorn will I hi ail army to dispute wit ii Ilia forces. I have mentioned tho supremacy <^| (his world. I guess our troops will not hnvo to run when, on tho day mentioned, in inv text, all ttio lnfenml batteries shall litj. iinliinbereil. Wo have been rcVi<>iy(nR 11(4 troops iliaholie. We huvo been measuriirg tho calibres of their Runs. Wo havo been e$;j utliiuinR tl?oir.ammunition wagons. .Now lot its lopk at tho'forces to l>o marshalled ia the Armageddon on the right side. First of all. 1 mention tho Koglrnouts Angelic. Alas! that the subject of demonology seouas better understood than the subject of angelology. But the Rlorious spirits around tho throne and all tho bright immortals that till the galleries and levels of the nuiveneare to take part in that last ' great fight, and tho Beg 1 meats Aagelto are . I the only regiments capable of meeting the Regiments Plutoatc. To show you something of an angei's power, I ask you to consider that Just one of them slew one huudred and eighty-live thousand of Sounaoherib's boats In a night, ami it Is not a tough arithmetical question to solve. If one angel can slay ono hundred and elghty-flve thousand troops In a night, how many oaq | five hundred millions of them slay? The old Boole says that "They excel In j strength." It is not a celestial mob, but a dlscipled host, and they know their rink. Gherablm, seraphim, thrones, principalities and powers! And the lender of those regiments In Miohael the Archaugel. David saw Just one group of angels sweep past, and they were twenty thousand charioted. Paul, who in the Ganinliun college had his faculties so wonderfully developed, confesses his incapacity to count thorn by saying, "Ye are come to Mount Zlon and an . Innumerable company of'nngels." If each soul on earth has a guardian angel, then there must be sixteen huudred million unguis on earth to-day. Beside that. heHven must bo full of angels, those who stay there; not only the tw-dve angels who, we are told, guard tho twelve gates, but thnaa nntrala irh?\ hul r\ In f lu> iv/icaKin n ml ?-?#-* uvwv nu^vts ' MV *??V TTV/l^U?|', UU?4 SW on mission from mansion to mansion, un<l help to build the hosnenaa and enthrone the hallelujahs and roll tho doxologlos of tlio service that never ends. But they all, if required, yill be in the last fight between i holiness nnd sin. Heaven cou! I afford to adjourn, just one day, and empty all its temples, and mansions, nnd palaces, and bou evards into that one battle. I The next regiments that 1 see marching into the light will be the Regiments Kseleslastic. According to the last accounts, and practically only in the beginning of the gos- < pel movement which proposes to take the whole earth for Hod, there are f.>up million six hundred thousand Methodists, three I million seven hundred and twentv-llvo thou- < sun.! Baptists, one million two hundred and 1 eighty thousand throe hundren anil thirty- ] three Presbyterians, one milliou two hundred nn t thirty thousand Lutherans, and six i hundred nnd forty thousand Ep-copalians. ji But tho prefut statistics of churches will bo ! utterly swamped when, after all tho great ' i denominations have done their best work, j I tho slowest oT nil tho sects will have more ! numbers than the present enrollment of all i denominations throughout Christendom. I 1 see tbom movlog into the ranks,* carrying a standard striped and starred; striped as suggesting Him by whoso stripes we are hea o I, and starred as with tho promise that those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as j the stars, forever nnd ever. Into that battle on our side will roll those mighty engines of 1 power, the printing presses of Christendom. Into that battle will also niovo the mightest telescopes, that shall bring tho st'.s In their ' courses to light for our Go 1. I Again, the Regiments Elemental will como into thnt battle on tho rigl^ side. .The 1 winds! God showed what He could do with 1 them when the splintered timbers of tho 1 ships of the Spanish Armada were strewn on tho rocks of Scotland, Norway and the M.>h>rl.ln? IT.. ..u I ?1._? MW/XVIW* Alau n u n r??l\J Ul 1 Willi! I-'J could do with them when Ho put tho whole ' oarth under them, leaving it subn<pioous one I hundred ? d tlfty days. Tho earthquakes! j Ho showed what Ho could do with thoin when lie let Caracas drop into tho open mouth of horror and tho islands of tho sea ' wont into entombment. The lightnings! Ho 1 showed what He could d> with thorn when He wrnppnd Mount Sinai in flame, and wo have all aeon their flashing lanterns moving with tho chariots of tho tnlduiirht hurricane. All the Uegimonts Elemental will come in our ide in tho great Armageddon. Come aud let us niouut aud ride along the line, and review tho troops of Emanuel, and And that tho Regiments Terrestrial and Colestial that eomo into that hat tie on the right si'lo are, as compared with those on the wrong si te, two to one, a htindro 1 to one, a thousand to one. ( But who is tho Commander-in-Chief on | th s side? Splendid arm eg have lieon i ruined,caught in traps, flung over precipices, i and annihilated through the incompetence or treachery of their general. Who com- i' mauds on our side? Jeliov ih-Jirdi' so- J called in one phi'te. "Captain of Sal vat i >n." so-called in another place, King of kings. T.ord of lords. Couqnoror of conquerors. His eye omniscien'. His arm omnipotent. Ho will tak? tho lead. He will draw tho 1 sword. He will give tho command. Aud whoa lie plants His foot for the conibal, tho foundations of the earth will quake, and j whon II? shall give tho battle shout, all tho i gates of h dl will tremble. B it do not let us shout until after w ? have soon tlw two amies clash in the last struggle. Oh, my soul! Tho, hat tie of nil time and all eternity opens. "Forward!" "For- j ward!" is the command oil both sides Riven, j Tho long lines of tioth armies waver, d wing to and fr-"?. Swords of truth uguiu-i , engines infernal. Black horse cava'ry of perdition against white horse cavalry of heaven. Tno redemption of this, world and tho honor of the thrown of God to vindicate, h w ir?mendous is tho butt 16! The army of righteousness sooris giving away; but no! It is only a part of'tho mniuvuvm of the infinite light. It is a dep oy of the host celestial. What a meeting in this Held of splendor and wrath, of tho ang-ds, and of tho 4inbolic. of ho.sanna and bhisphomy, of song and curse, of thediviuc and tho satanic. Tho thuuderbolts of the Almighty bur.-t and blaze upon tlio foe. Boom! Boom! ity the torches of lightning that illutniuatod the seen" I see that tho crisis of tho Arma ge won ti ts oome. it is inn turning point of this inst battle. The next inomout will i decide nil. Avo! tho forces of Apollyon i are breaking ranks. See! 8eo! Ttiey fly! Some on foot, *omo on wing; they tly. Back over the battlenieuts of perditiou they go down witli infinite crash, all tho Kogiinents Diabolic! Back to the mountains and eaves tho armed hosts of earth, crying as they retreat to tho roiks au<l mountains, "Fali on us and hide us from tho face of Hitn that sitleth upon the throne, au 1 from the wrath of tlio Lamb, for tho great day of His wrath hits come, and who shall bo ablo to stand." And whilo Apollyon, tbo prisoner of war, is being dragged in chains to his dungeon, and our Conqueror is reniountiug His throne, 1 took off upon the battlefield, and among the slain I Hud the carcasses of Mohammedanism, and Papanisai. aul Atheism, utpl inliileiity,jiud Dissipation, and Fiaiui. and multitudinous Wrong, s'rewing the plain, and I hear th?? angel that standoth in the sun crying in the worths of Beveltvtiou, to all the fowls tliu fly in the midst of heaven? tho eagles, and the vultures, and the hawks, aud tho albatrosses? "Corao and gather yourselves to-* gether unto tho supper of the great God, that ye may eat the tlesli of kings, and tho flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men. and the fleah of horses, and of them th it sit on tlieru." ; ; ; - . Xho-ipriphesiol Anuu_:eddon or ttic text 1wi?eb'enn fought, ny<t Christ and His followers-Uavn won the <1nv. . The- kingdoms of this tkprld have become the kingdom* of our Lord nnrl His Cnriijt ;~4H 1K? Christ Inn workers.bT'our time, you', ftjy hearers, and you, mv readers, and all the (JJirstinn worklow; of; ad'the ages, haVLC tydhfo.i on the madnlHotmr result, and tno victory is purs as inueh.-as theirs, 1'hir innmupt -invitiug all oulsifldys, Hi&'dtffV ' lu' rahsafr.edjbhiod of the"* eVerlKstinK'-tfoVenitut, to*p't Into the ' r{?jiks o/Xlmwu<.inerv)r.-;, .jyait ui^J/ar..th" b:?n-. 1 FULLY RESTORED. A TRAVELING MAN M ADE WELL AND HAPPY. Attacked by the' Two Fiend*, Rhenrntt-ira ?nd Kidney Trouble, but the Plots ot Both ere Polled by ' ' the Pink fills. Krom the Republican. Caribou, Me. Mr. O. A. 8h?pard. of Cfttbou, Maine, who wn* so dreadfully afflicted with kiduoy disease and rheumatism, and looked upon.as incurable, tells tho following story of his disability and cure- . . "Early iu the fall of 1694 I had, as f supposed, kidney trouble, and It was slowly, ami surely making headway lit undermining my health for I was fast' 1/rvuiniUK uunuiu 1U QUOU? IU U1Y UUlinv as a traveling salesuiaQ, cny back"seemed ?!ran?t ready to break af'.or riding any distance in buggy or sletglt. " The bad fedling* had been growing in my baok for a period of Jive or six years, but 1 had hot given it much attention, not supposing it. to be anything but what would wear cJL lint in the fall atxive mentioned I wad compelled/ to give, my attention to it, for fhVI to stoptravliog tiud go to doctoriug myaeW. My -efforts denied fruitless. I grew worse aud Worse. My weight was decreasing. My blood vm ajtjjSjirvntly growing.ppor and less in quantity 'At this stage symptoms of pulmonary trouble appeared, making a bad complication, which the physicians did not attempt to cure, nml I had lost hope. "Just at this time, a friend, and ho was a friend indeed, advised me to procure some ol Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and with littlo faith . hat they would do ino any good, but out of respect for my friend's advice, (I thought it would do no harm at least) 1 ordered six boxes. I took them. Mv blood at nuoe began to increase aud I fur ihe flrst time in many weeks had a good night's sleep! My improvement w s noticeable trem tin* start! My weight began to increase! My appetite grew! Happy? Well 1 think 1 was! 1 at last had found just what iny system no ded to defeat the robbers preying on my health and I thought it the time to be uierry. "I purchased another half dozen boxes atel when they were gouo. two more, which effectually cured inc. I increased in weight until from what was almost nothing for me, I tipped the scales at 190 pounds, my present weight, ami 1 owe it all to tho Pink Pills. May the knowledge of them be brought to all suffering as 1 did, for I know they will be benefited aud cured, and 1 doom it u pleasure to recommend tlieni. "i linvo traveled for thirty years and have be:inl of m.iiiV stranee thincs niirnclcM. etc.. but I think my own experiencestranger thnn them ml. "Now I can drive bard ell day, from early morning to lato nt night end not feel it. I iim just as woll as 1 ever was. No, sir,I nevor felt any bad effects from their use el all. It was a gradual but sure fight and the rink Pi.la wore victorious. Long may they wave!" Dr. Wl l Hums' Pink P.lis /ontuln, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and riobiuws to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They nre an unrolling specific for such dis'usee as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' deuce,sciatica. neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, I ho after effect of la grii>pe, palpitation of the heart, pale aud sallow complexions, all forms of weakness cither in tnale or female. Pink Pills nre sold l?y alt dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, orsix boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold In bulk or l>y the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Comix my, Schenectudy, N. Y. *tatk or Ohio, Citt or Toledo, ( Lucas County, t ** "RANK .1. t'liKNKY make - oath that ho fs tlis senior partner of the firm of P. J.? IIF.nkv ic i o .doing business in tlieCityof Toledo,< 'nini'v [fid Slate aforesaid, cud that said firm will pay thosum t>f ON a IIt'.s11aco I>OI.I,aki for ? a< i and every cane of CATASIIII thai cannot b? cured by the us-: HALL'S CATARRH CUIIK. FRANK J. C nF.NKT. Sworn to before in" anil subscribed in my i?*? i presence, this 81 h day of December, J sk.v i. r A. D. ldsd. A. \V. Gi.r AKUN. ?Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Interna ly. and nets directly on t lie !>.?? ??! u:ul mucous suriacea jf tho system. Send for i<-t iinnniaiK, I rev. F. .1. Cuk.-.'lv a. to., Tokuo, O. Sold by Drill*-i-tx. Halt's Famdy Pills arc tli'j beet. it ?v .nr Ii l on ill*. "My fa'heriot a bo;; of Tkitekink from a friend wlin liuil l)i;ii:ic! it s..:m winwe in liir W.st. He luis hail ei zenui \crv tail n 1 n* lime, ami Tktti.icni: i? the only *.li:.^c tliiit ha- wcr tie. eliltd i-iin. "P.O.ISC send liy xprc-* il. 1). half-do/.cn f I ve iki ilou.il iIV.: i* \\ i i o- !!! mean* of selling a gtcul drill o. it Wry truly. Mi:.s. 1.. M u.coi.m, SOI St.. I'i nvidct.c., it. 1. t box by tuuil tnr t.?i . :n stamp . J I SHITTItlNK. SllVNtlliab, (ill. Don't Tobttcro Spit and Suiol.e Vonr Life A u.iy. If you want to qui tobuc-o us nr easily .-iti'l forever, re-ruin u?s tiiun .oo'.l, bo mailt well, strong, magnetic. full u! new life and viiror, take No-To-Bnc. the wonder-worknr th&t lua'ios weak men strong. .Many gain ten pounds In ton days. Over 40),'KW cured, liny No-To-tiao troui your own oruzgist. Under rvi-o.ute (tU'iratiteo to cure. Rook uuil sample tree. Artdrenb sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Mr*. Winalow'a Soothing Syrup for chlldreg teething, aoftens the gum*. reduces inflammation, allays puin. cures wind colic.26a a bottle. FlTSstopped tree una pertnanentlyoured. N'n fits after first ?k*y'a n-e ??r Ph. Ki.i.nb's Uhkat NkiivkKkhtokbu. V rte&itrial hotbeaii'l treatise. Send lo Dr. Klu.e. ttU Arch St.. l'liilu., i'u. Capcabbtsat imtnato hver,k 'dneys ami bovr le. Never sickeu, weaken or gripe. 10c. tnnrmnus quantities of codfish are being taken on tho southwest coast of Newfoundland. Dobbins' Kleetric Soap in chrajier for you to use. If you/a/low direction*, than any otlier soaps would ti if given io you. for by its uso cothet art saved. Clothes cost tuoro than soap. Ask your grocer for Dubbins'. Take no other. Jlig srume is plentiful around Tohaohapl, CjU., deer and bear beingespecially plentiful. WnKN ti.liods or costive, eat a C'a?caret, candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c..26c. Iflfcri rure for ConMiinprton nae no equal a* * Cough modlfJne.?r. M. Abbott, jks s?ntCtt St., Buffalo, N. Y.| Mn) 9, M9i .Titht try h 10? Ik)* of (??Kcnret.ir. the finest liver aud bowel regulator ever injtde. . 8 . N..U.--4& I4A&I Ptf CSOIJ?, NII.VKIt.... MIlNrY ....BOOK FHKR. If I U If li I ll?i Daurhy, ('olmnbun, O. Beit Coo((b 8yfu?. tatars <umxi. Cm? CT^^ecim ATP" nfflQTBUfiOUUTBBD^^ !?>??4 u+m rim, M trtium EKMKM O EN6LEBERG * * RICE HULLER. The only machine that in one operation, will Clean, Hull and Polish rough rice? patting it in merchantable eouditlon, ready (or table use. Simple and easy to manage Write (or prices and terms. Also CORN MILLS, SAW MILL?. PLANING M ACII INKS, and all kinds of WOOI>-WORKING MACHINERY and e ?:? biunvrj auppues. ' Talbott amd I,iddell Engines and Boiler? on band at Factory Prices. V. C. BAOHAM. OKNKRAL AGHXT, Columb a, - S. C. CAROLINA " * , *hMIXTURE. 1 he Mildest ?n?l Host Oe. l*nekago r>t NMOlvl.VO TollAIVO In Ihe world. AhIc your <h alors for It Try It and yon will sure Ilk" It. MnnnfMrtuivit l?y j PIEDMONT TORACCo WOllKS. Hock Hill. 8. C. A Trustworthy Treatment. Iiulcrsrd and Until by the U. S. Government in ttio Soldiers' and Sailors' National Homes. If you nre addicted to tho MQUOIt, MORPHINE. OPIUM. LAUDANUM, CHt.OHAI* COCAINE or TOBACCO habits nrul WISH to be CUKEI) with little or no discomfort and freedom from nil possible danger, address for information TilK KKKLKY INSTITUTE. fi. West corner l.ady and Marion Streets or Drawer Columbia. S.l! Tramp's Expression of Gratitude. "It Is very kind of you. madam." said tho trump, "to give mo shell a lino dinner." "Ilon't fuention it, you poor man," .. .. ? . . . a said wio Kimi-nearieu woman. "But I will repay you," said the tramp, gratefully. "I'll (oil nil my pa la you are a flinty-lieartod termagant that ain't never known how to oook nolhln' decent, no's they'll Rive your house the go'by and won't never bother you." j Whnt She Meant. J Bearded I^ady (striking the fat \vo? , man on the Jaw)?Yes. you did. | Fat Wowan-What dhl I do?' Bearded Lady?Tried to have njv coui tract cuucelled by telling the manager | that I had a close shave tills morning, j Fat Woman (apologetically)?La vr nukes! I meant that you had a narrow escape from being run over by a trol ley ear.?New York World. Bad Blo<d Fudley?Why Is more poetry written in spring than at any other time of th* year? Semlloy?1 suppose it is because nearly everybody feels sort of good-fornothing then.?Washington Thuea. With a better understanding- of the transient nature of theunnny physical ills which vanish before pypper efforts? gentle efforts?pleasant cfloiv_ ? rightly directed. Thcro is comfort in the knowledge that bo many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, "Syrup of Figs, promptly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are duo to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its beneficial efFeets, to note when yon -purchase, that yon have the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoymentof good health, and the system is regular, then Jasatives or other remedies are not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one mav be commended tothe most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have, the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrupof Figs stands highest ami is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction* flDillM littl>i(ecurrd. D>">kN?k ul iii !*l fr3?.drb m Woollet.a*' ahta *. OSBORINTE'S SHudtnedd iNn ' r' Sobool of dhortliAnci JtUUUMTA. UA. No tail boaka dhA. Autooi bminooo from d?r ?f riit?rtn(. ? ptpmt. ooiiAfm oarr-a / ??4 r"odi u-?d. S*Bd frr kwiiomtlf illa?ir>t?d ?<* Ufa* Kjinl (impw Uu 1* u; MulXra oitr, I., ftltm, ?>rft. C?.. > Hw Twk ?fc |