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68. IMf S Stit tWAoted Washington Divine'] K Sunday Subject, * ... "& xt: "She. supposing Him to be the gar dener."?John xx.. 15 Here nre Mary Magdalene aad Christ, jusi a His resurrection. For 40 0 years r and gh'istlv tyrant bad heen kllllnu peqplo nnd dragging them Into his eold pal' aee. He had a pass on for human skulls. For tony centuries he bad been unhindered la Ms work. He ba-t taken down kings am Cedns and conquerors and those without a*. In that oold palace there wen flftalyes of skdlls and pillars of skulls and altam of skulls nnd even the oballoes at thf table were made of bleached skulls. To th< skeleton of Abel he had added the ake.etont of all the ages, and no one had deputed hirigpr unt-l one Oood Friday, about 186* )Mp ago. as near as 1 can calculate it, i Mighty Hi ranger came to the door of thai awfnl place, rolle<l back the door, nod went in, and seizing the tyrant, threw him to th< pavement am put upon the tyrant's nect the,beel of triumph. Then the Mighty Stranger, exploring al thegha-tly furniture 01 tho plaoo and walk lag through the labyrinths, and opening th< dark collars of mystery anil tarrying under i roof the ribs of w iloh were made of human bones?tnhrying for two nights and a day the nights very dark and the dny very die seal, He seized the two ohlef pillars of tha awful palace and rocked them until It begat to fall, nn t th-n, laying hold of the pon-ier <m? front gate, hoisted It from Its hlngee am marched forth crying, "I am the reeurrec tion.'* That eyent we celebrate this Easti* morn. Handellan and Beethov.-an miracle of sound ad lod to this (loral deooratlot which has set the place abloom. There are three or four things which tb< world nu t the ohnrch have not noticed In rt gard to the resurrection of Christ. Flrsl our tior.l in gardener's attire. Mary Mag dalene. grief struck, stands by the rifled sat oophagui of Christ an l turns around, hop lag she can And the tracks of tho naorilegtou resurrectionist who has despoiled the grave nd she tinds some one in working appart come forth as if to water the flow<-rs or up root the woods from the garden or set to rt climbing the failing vine?some one i working -apparel, His garments, perh-ip: baring the sign of tho dust and the dirt < the occupation. Mary Magdaleup, on her faoe the rain of fresh shower of weeping, tarns to this work ?aun and charges him with the deeecrutto -of the tomb, when, lo! the stranger respond flinging His whole soul into one word wliic tTombles with all tho sweetest rhythm c <wirf h n nil Kua van aaulnn i Ifa ? ? ?Wn peculiarity of acoentuatton all the incoRnit fell off. and she found that Instead of talkln with an humble pardoner of Asia Minor, ah was talking with Him who owns all the ham (or uardens of hiMireu. Oonsieliatlons th *J asters ot forRotraonots, the sunflower th ohlef of nil, the mornlnR sky and midnlRl aurora, flarinR terraces of beauty, blazin like a summer wall with coronation rosi and Rlnntn of battle. Blessed ami gloriov mist ike of Mary MaR-lalene! "She, suppo tnR Him to be the Rardener." What do< hat mean? It means that wo hare an ever, day Ctu 1st for everyday work In everydn apparel. Not on Sabbath taornlnR in oi in. st s?e:nly apparel are wo more attract it to Christ tbi^u wo are in oar everyday woi dress, man^RinR our morohaudlse, smltit our uuvt', plowtnR our Held, tendinR the fl InR shuttles, mendlnRtho garments for 01 household, pravidlnR food for our famllt If Christ had appeared at daybreak with wrown upon HI* head, that would hn corned to suRROst cspecal sympathy f tnon trchs. If Christ had api>earod in eha ot ro| i and with robe diamonds I, that won have seemed to be especial sympathy for tl affluent. If Christ had appeared with st iter's sash and sword dangliuR at His sid that would have seemed to Imply espeot sympathy for warriors. But when I Mi Christ in Rardener's habit, wth perhaps tl flakes of the earth and of tho upturned st upou His Rarinents, then I spell It out th He has hearty and pathetic understand^ with everyday work and everyday nuxie and everyday fatlRue. Roll it down in comfort all throuRh the aislee. A workiiiR day Christ in workic day apparel. Tell it in tho darken! corridi of the mountain to the poor miner. Tell to the factory maid in most unvuntllaw St a llshmenl nf T.r.n-. II />? t rr. MV nvn w? uaucasior. II! It to the clenrer of roughest new ground i western wilderness. Tell It to the sowir wo no, a stitch Id the side for every stitc In the garment, some of their cruel on ployers having no right to think that th* trill get through the door of heaven an more than they could through the eye of broken needlo whloh has just dropped on th bare floor from tho pricked and bleodin Angers of the consumptive sewing gir Away with your talk about hypostatic unio and soterlology of tho council of Trent au the metaphysics of religion which woul freeze practical Christianity out of the worlt but pass along this gurdener's coat to a nations that they may touch the hem of and feel tho thrill of the Chrislly brothoi hood. Not supposing tho man to be Cmsai not supposing Him to be Socra'es, but "sup loosing Him to i?e the gardener."' Oh, that is what helped Joseph Wodgwooti toiling amid the heat and the dust of th potteries, until ho could mako for Quee Chariot to tho tlrst royal table service of Enc iish manufacture. That was what helpe James Watt, scoffed at and caricatured uut lio could put on wheels tho thunderbolt o power which roars by day and by ntglit i ?vcry fnrnaco of the locomotive cngino c Amor ca. That is what helped Hugh Miliei toiling amid the quarries of Cromarty, unti every rock became to him a volume of th world's biography, und he found tho foot step* of the Creator in the old red sandstone Oh. tho world wants a Christ for tho office n Christ for the kitchen, a Christ for the shop n Christ for tho Imnking house, a Christ lo the garden, wuilo spading and irrigating tin territory' Oh. of course w?> waut to se Christ at last In royal robe and bodlamondnd a celestial equestrian mounting tho whiti horse, but from this Easter of 1897 to out last Easter on earth we most need to s?x Christ as Mary Magdalene saw Him at th daybreak, "supposing Him to he the gar AnoJior thing win.li the church anil tin world have not noticed in ref.ard to the res urrectlon of Christ is that Ho made His (Irs |K>st mortem appearance to 0110 who had beei the seven deviled Mary Magdalene. On* would have supposed II*' would huvo raa*li His ilrst posthumous appearance ton womni who ha*l always l?een illustrious for good nws. There are saintly women who have nlway> been saintly?saintly in girlhood, saintly it infancy, always saintly. In nearly all out families there have been saintly aunts. In my family circle it was saintly aunt Phebo in yours saintly aunt Martha or sniutlv aunt Ruth. <>!! always suiutly. Hut not so was the one -p d mi of in the lex'. Whit*.- y ou ure not to confound her with the rejientnnt courtesan who had made her Jong looks do the work of towel at Christ's foot washing, you are not to forget that she was exorcised of seven devils. What a en pilal of demonology she must have boon! What a choru- of all "diabolism! Hevou devilstwo for tho eyes and two for the hands and tw*i for the feet and one for tho tongue. Seven devils, yet all these nro extir|>ntod, and now she is as good as oneo she was had. and Christ honors her with the first posthumous appearance. What does that mean? Why. it means for worst sinner greatest grtye it means those lowest down shall eome, perhaps, highest up; it mentis that the clock that strikes 12 at midnight may strike 12 at midnoon; it means that the grace of <?od is seven times stronger than sin, Mary Magilaleue the seven deviled became Mary 1 Magdalene the i?vea angeled. It mean* that when iho Lor-1 moot* uh at Inn He will not throw up to uh what we have been. Alt He wild to her wan, "Mary!"' Many peoole ; having met ber under such cir>u instances I would bave mid: "Let. me eee, bow many ' iievlln did you have/ One, two, thr e, four. Ave, six, seven. What n terrible piece you were when I first met youl" The most of the Christian women In our day would have , nothing to <io with "Mary Mag mien* ev-n after her conversion. leet somehow they -e , * compromised. The only thing ( have to snv against women is that they hav > not enough I mercy for Mary Magdalene. Christ put a I t pathos and ad remlnUcenoe nu I all anttolpa- , I tton nod all pardon and all comfort and all heaven Into one word of four letters, "Mary!" Mark you, Christ did not npte-ar I to some Bible E Isabelb or Bible H innah or I Bible Esther or B'ble Debora t or Bible Va?h- ! I tl, but to Mary; not to Mary against whom ? nothing was sal I; not to Mary the mother of | I Jeens; not to Mary the mother of Ja>nea; not ? to Mary the sister of Lasarus, but to seven ? devl ed Marv. i There Is a man seven deviled?devil of ? avsrioe, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil r of Indolence, devil of falsehood, devil of i strong drink, devil of immrttv. Choi can t take them alt away, seven or seveotv. I ro te t over the new cantilever bridge that spa us ? Niagara?a bridge 900 feet long. 850 feet of c oh asm from bluff to bluff. I passed over It without any anxiety. Why? Because twenI ty-two locomotives and twenty-two curs - luden with gravel had teste t the bridge, tbousan Is of people standing on the Can? a llnn side, thousands standing on the \merti can side to app aa I the achievement. And , however long the train of onr Immortal In tereets may be, we ere to rein-mber t at t God's bridge of mercy spanning the ohasm i of sin has been fully tested by the awful 'on nage of all tho pardone I sin of all the aires, 1 church militant standing on one bank, church triumphant standing on the other r bank. Oh, It was to the seven deviled Mary s that Christ ma le Bis first post mortem api pearanoe. There is another thing that the world and a the ohureh have not observed In regard to i- this resurrection, an 1 that is, it wns the t, morning twilight. f- If ths ohronometer hal been Invented and ' Mary had as good a watch aa some of the e Marys of our time have, she would have is found It was about half past 5 o'clock a. m. i. Matthew says it was In the <iawn; Mark says >1 it was very early tn tb- morning; John s <ys y It was while it was yet dark. In other words, *- it was twilight. That was the o'olo k at n which Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for ?. the gar <enT. Wnat rtou that m-an? It >f means there are eha 'ows over the grave unllfted?shadows of mystery that are hovera log. Mary stooge I down and tried to look c- to tho other end of the oryp . She gave hysn terlc ootcry. 8he could not see to the other i, en I of the crypt. Neither can you see to the ti other end of the grave of your dead. Neither if can we see to the other end of our own grave, it Oh, if th-re were shadows over the family o plot belonging to Joseph of Arlmathea, is It g strange that there should be some ehadows ie over our family lot? Easter dawn, not Easter t- noon. ie Shadow of unanswered question! Why is* tnaimfkno tulran oaruv frrtm tllV WMV VffA it they ever cItbq to us If they were to bo taken ig so soon? Why were they taken so suddenly? pis Why could they not have uttered some fureis well words? Why? A short question, but a s- whole crucifixion of agony In It. Why? cs Shadow on the grave* of good men and y. women who seemed to die before their work iy whs done. Shadow on all the graves of lr children because we ask ourselves why so re beautiful a craft was launohod at all If It was rk to be wrecke I one mile outside of the harbor? ig Hut what did Mary Magdalene have to do In y- or-ler to get more light on that grave? Hho jr had only to wait. After awhllo the Easter es stin rolled up, and the whole place was y flooded with light. What have you an l I to A" order to get more light on our own a torch srwent"M6w<rTfffb ve necropolis where his ancest irs wore buried, or and went deeper, farther on until he oameto in across around which were arranged ?bo id caskets of his ancestors. He also found a lie casket comaining tho body of one of his own )!- family. He had that casket opened, and thero e, by em'a mor'sart he found that the body was al as perfoct as eighteen years betore when id It was eratombod. But under the explorelie tlon his body and mind perished. Oh, >il my friends, do not let us morbi lly at struggle with the shadows of the sopuilg cher. What are we to do? Wa t. It Is ty not the evening twilight that gets darker and darker. It Is the morning twilight that se gets brighter and brighter into the perfect ig day. I preach it to-dty. Kunrlse over >r Pore le Chaise, sunrise over Qreyfrlara It ohnrhyard, sunrise over Gre-nwood, over d Woodlnwn, over Laurel Hill, over Mount ill Auburn, over Congressional burying ground. In sunrise ovor ev ry country graveyard, sunig rise over the catacombs, sunrise over the h sarcophagi where the ships He buried. Halt past 5 o'.-look among the tombs now, but iy soon to be tho noonday of explanation and iy beatitude. It was In the morning twilight a that Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for a 10 gardener. g Another thing the world and the church I. have not observed?that Is, Christ's pathetic n credentials. How do you know it was not d a gardener? His garments said He was a ri .fOvJae... Tk- H-l ? .. n.,.,ni,ci, iuu umra ui mo upturned carta 1, scattered upon His garments said He was a II gnrdener. How do you know Ho was not a it gardener? An! Before Easter had gone by r- Ho gnve to aomo of His disciples His three credentials. He showed them His hands and >- His side. Three paragraphs written in rigid or depressed letters. A scar in the right I. i aim, a scar in the left palm, u scar amid e the ribs?scars, scars. That Is tho way they a know Him. Thnt is the way you and I will know Him. d After Christ's interment every collular il tissue broke down, and nerve and artery and if brain were a physiological wreck, and yet n He comes up swarthy, rubicund and well, if When I see alter such mortuary silence such . radiant appearance, that settles it that I whatever should become of the bodies of e our Christian dead, they are going to come - up, the nerves rostrung, the optic nerve reillumined. the ear drum n-vibrate, the whole , body lifted up, without its weaknesses and i, worldly uses tor which there is no resurrecr tion. Coino, is it not almost time for us to n go out to meet our reanimated dead? Can e you not h? ar the lifting of the rusted latch? , Oh. the glorious thought, tho glorious > consolation of this subject when I Hud Christ coming up without any of the lncerao tlons?for you must remember He was lacn crated and wounded fenrfully in the cruci Ilsion?coming up without one! What does that make me think? That the grav * will ; get nothing of us except our wounds and - I imperfections. Christ wont into tho irruve t exhausted nod bloodless. All the current ot l file life had poured out from His wounds. y Ho had lived n life of trouble, sorrow and t) privation, aud then Ho died a lingering 1 death. His entire bo :y hung on four - spikes. No invalid of twenty years' suffering over went into the grave so white and ? ghastly and broken down as Christ, and yet i here He comes up no rubicund and robust she supposed Him to be the gardener, i Ah. all the sioeaches, and the headaches. ; and the buck aches, and the leg aches, and ihe heart aches we will leave whero Christ ieft Ills! The ear will come up without its heaviness, the eye will eomo up without its diniiK ?.?. 1 he lung* will come up without <?ppres.-e i respiration. Oh, what races w will i run when w<-becomeinuijortal athletoa! Oh, what circuits we will take when, all earthly imperfections substracted ?nd all cub stint velocities added, w? shall set up our residencu in that city which, though vaster than all the cities of this world, shall never nave ono ODsequy'. j Standing this morning round the shattered , masonry of our Lord's tomb. I point you to u world without henrso, without muffled drum, without tumulus, without catafalque < and without t> tear. Amid all the cathedrals . of the blessed no longer the "Dead March ' i in Saul." hut whole lit?rotti of "Hnlleluiali 1 Chorus." Oh. put trumpet to )!?? mid finger ] to key and loving forehead against the ] hosom of a risen Christ' Halleluiah, amen! , Halleluiah, amen! f!RP'S WEEKLY UTTER.1 >INIOSS AS TO HOW UIIILSllOULH HE BilOUtiHT UP. | fl LITTLE WHIPPING IS NECESSARY.' llnlrm Children Are Made to Fear Parent. They Will Never Make (Jootl Men and Women. An esteemed friend requests that I write a letter about how to raise a family of children ho that they will all behave, the boyn make good citizenn, good husbands, good fathers and the girls make good wives and good mothers. "la it possible to do his?" he asks. When the lawyers determine that a thing cannot be legally done they say it is "ultra vires," which meaus beyond strength. In the first place, it is not popfdble to devise any plan or method by which all children can be raised or trained to do right and behave. It is "ultra vires" and even if it were possible, it is "ultra vires'* with me to make it known. Ever since the failure of Adam to raise Cain, this thing of raising all the children to be good has been an unsolved problem. Whether the difference in children of the same family is due to the laws of heredity or the doctrine of election or to different environments and associations or to the devil himself we cannot tell, but one or more of these canses have been at work. My wife and I were disconrsing about this last night and in all our acquaintance of half a century we could not name a single family of six or more children of whom were good. Anxiety and grief and trouble because , of children is the common lot. It be, gan with Adam and came on down to V 1. 1 T.?aI> otwl riovwl o,,,7 Hnln. ! mon. anu yet these men liad the ape} rial favor of Ood and were blessed by I Him in every way except in the conduct of some of their children. Poor old Eli, I the hi eh priest and judge of Israel for ' forty years, was cursed with two bad j boys and Ood at the last cursed him for not restraining them. "There ' shall not be an old man in thy house ! forever, and all the increase of tbj I house shall die in the flower of theii i age." Because his sons made them j selves vile and he restrained I them not. What an awful curst was that! These sons of Belial This word means worthless,bad, nangh ty, vile, and fits many a bad boy ii our day. It is a fact that reflects 01 our sex that the sons of Belial ari "He restrained then tfWi.'" V^ei.,': tne good old man di< talk to them and reprove them Sfrfs earnestly. "Why do ye such things It is no good report that I hear. Y make the Lord's people to transgress If one man sin against another tin judge shall judge him, but if a mai sin against the Lord who shall entrea for him?" I wonder what kind of restraint tin Lord expected or required of Eli. I was not. ta'king or pleading witl them, of course, for he did that. ] wonder if the old man dident experi ment on the modern Atlauta plan ol raising the boys on his love and their honor, for fear of breaking their spir its. It makes an old man very tired tc read the wise utterances of the modern Solons against corporal punishment of bad boys in the public schools. I had rather go and ask the convicts in the chaingang for an opinion. Nine-tenths of them would say I began in disobedience and was not refitvQi'no/1 Tl,/x 1?? ? A _ 1- t * 4 * * * 1 . x nr inmtiiiiiiiiie mot ih mat at least one-fourth of the boys at these ' schools have no restraint at lionie and J if they are not punished at school they pet it nowhere, and so these sons of Belial go to the bnd very early and become victims to the rigor of the law and the courts. There is many a boy in these schools who is right now on his way to the chaingang. These Holons say that corporal punishment is brutal and barbarous and mnst give away to the progress and refinement of the ase. About what timo did the youths of this generation become better than those of half a century ago? Bead the daily papers and answer. Howmany houses in Atlanta are in mourning because of the bad conduct of their boys? What good results can come from expulsion of a bad boy from school? He is not wanted anywhcre by decent people, and so he associates with his kind and becomes worse and soon comes to grief and and brings sorrow to his kindred. Obedience to law, to government, to parents is absolutely necessary for the peace and welware of society. This obedience is enforced among bad men by the fear of the law. It cannot be enforced among bad boys except by fear of corporal punishment. Their honor or their shame is too feeble a factor to be considered. Obedience must begin early, even in infancy. My lit ne iwo-year-ohl grandchild loves to play in the dirty coal box. "Caroline, you must not do that," her mother says, and enforces her command by slapping her little hands and then Mashing them. That, is corporal punishment, and is just as* severe to the little child as tho rod ia ? the boy of ten, und both are right an 1 both effectual. The enforcement of obedience in early childhood aaves all necessity for punishment in later years, and it saves a sight of scolding. Whit a world r>f worry bad children are to ether people! What a comfort are good ones it home and abroad. Hosne mistaken parents say that their w>ya are too iiiglistrung to be whipJd. Yes, and those boys are in daomof being still higher strung when in a tit of passion ! they kill somebody. The poet Shelley said "Obedience is the bane of geuins, virtue, freedom and truth; makes 1 slaves Y>f men and of the human frame ' a mechanical automaton." He was one of these highstrung sublimated creat- , urea whose rule of life was to do as he pleased, to follow his own sweet will. What a miserable life he lived,and was drowned when only thirty years old. He alarmed his schoolmates by his storms of passion. Was expelled from Oxford when nineteen. The same year he eloped witn a hotel keeper's daughter and married her at Qretna Green. Three years later he abandoned her and she drowned herself from grief. Soon after this he married another woman, with whom he had heen living previous to his first wife's death. He was the intimate friend of Lord Byron aud Leigh Hunt, and they witnessed he cremation of his body and deposited the ashes near the grave of Keats, ?u the Protestant cemetery at Rome. No, I cannot tell anybody how to ' aise their children. It is a fearful responsibility. I have known preachers to undertake the task and fail, and the congregation smiled inwardly at ?he preacher's failure to raise his own in an exemplary and orthodox way. 1 said something about the laws of heredity coming in as a factor in the euring of children. I knew two good 'men in Rome before the war who had a like number of boys growing up, and these two families were close ueighbors, and their boys mingled together and went to the same school and Sunday school and church. One set of these boys was good, manly, industrious and a comfort and an honor to their parents. The other set wat- .. mischievous and untruthful. In - J .hey were several times caught stea.i^g or with stolen goods in their possession. And yet the , parents in both families were always exemplary in their conduct , and conversation; I asked Dr. Miller how he accounted for that. "Heredi( iy," said he. "One Bet of these boys have bred after their grandfather, who was a very bad man. I knew him well, and he was a terror to the commiiTiit* 'I V*oho cryonflRnn tiAVA started out on his line. Bad blood in horses will Rome times skip a generation and . then crop out. Just so it is with human blood." "Can it not be eradi1 cated?" said I. "Oh, yes," he replied. | These boys shonld have had more restraint in infancy and youth. It takes [ more for that sort. The whippings they are getting now come too late, J and I fear will not reform them. But most any disposition to vice can be t reformed if begun in time. It is the . same in animal and vegetable creai tions. You can cut off a kitten's tail , from one litter to another until they s will ultimately be born without tails. You can dwarf a peachtree or enlarge | tomato." STfw, while I have my settled cont anybody to suspect uiui'metc imb i/rich . any brutality at our house. Some of e our boys received corporal punishment . at rare intervals. Others had none? ? not a stroke, except a spank or two i from their mother. Like most parents, t we thought that other people's children needed more than ours. But 3 even the punishment they did get they I have not forgotten and still talk of it i as a big thing. [ Now . as to the girls, of course they . should not suffer corporal punishment F in the schools. In tho lirst place, they do not need it. Secondly, if they did, there is no natural and suitable place ? to receive it,and if there was, it cannot he found with propriety.?Bmi, Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. A Question of Nhtps. The fundamental principle of navigation, and therefore the controlling elementary law of maritime strategy, Is the physical law of displacement?that a floating vessel Iuvariably weighs neither more nor less than the quantity of water which Its Immersed part dis piuces. it is a consequence of this law that the weight of a ship of given -size Is constant. Within certain limits i builder may distribute the weight s he pleases. He may assign so much o hull, so much to engine of propulsion and the remainder to cargo. For a given speed, the weight of engines for ships of the same size will he much the same. The builder, therefore, must c..oose between assigning weight to hull or giving It to cargo. A very strong hull means reduced carrying capacity, n groat carrying cupaoity moans a hull of the lightest possible construction. To these elementary conditions is due the difference between a ship of war and a merchant ship: the merchant ship must necessarily be constructed to carry the greatest weight of cargo possible, consistent with a hull strong enough for navigation, and with propulsion sufficient for the speed required in its business. The moment the hull is unnecessarily strengthened the ship will cease to he 1 able to compete as a carrier with other I ships of the same size and speed which, having lighter hulls, can carry more cargo. A ship built with a hull specially strengthened In order to withstand the various shocks of Iwittle cannot In peaceful trade pny as a commercial enterprise, and the merchant ship, with Its hull lightened down to the margin of safety, can never be exposed to the same rough treatment for which the man-of-war. with its specially strengthened framework, is prepared.? National Review. Electricity. In Sobnltz, In Saxony, experlinenta are being made to cover real flowers and leaves with a metallic coating by means of galvanic electricity. A way of doing this has been Invented, and the question now is, how to make such weatber-procf flowers available for mlllluery purj >ses. BLOWING ROCK, The Grm of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. High np nmong the Bine Pidge mountains of North Crrolina, live thousand feet above sea level, is the summer resort of Blowing Bock. And thither come the health seeker from the .North, and the inhabitant of many a heatstricken Southern city, to drink the pure, sparkling water and breathe an air that stimulates like wine. The only mode of reaching this Sky Land from the hast is by a twenty mile stage ride from Lenoir. Ti.is town itself has an altitude of one thousand two hundred feet, and the tiaveler from New Orleans or Charleston buttons his coat against the cool morning breeze as he steps from the hotel veranda into the waiting wagonette. And what a rule it is! The frequent summer rains have kept the grass and leaves the hue of emerald, but the golden rod and cardinal flower by the roadside, and the scarlet foilage of a gum tree or the graceful festoons of a Virginia creei>er, admonish the traveler that autumn comes early in these hoights. The read winds among the hills for six or seven miles and then strikes the Yadkin river, and follows it to the cool, bubbling spring which is its source. The scenery grows more wild and rugged as we climb; so dense is the undergrowth which springs from the black mould that we wonder how the squirrels, which are frisking about, have the temerity to venture into such a tangle. T he horses struggle up the ascent, and, turning a sharp augle in the road, the whole world, as it were, lies below us. We look sheer down into the tree tops which skirt the J ohn's river and then out into the sweeping lines of the blue Hidge as they rise range upon range ana seem to melt into the blue of the sky. "is this the top?" "No; Miss, tnis ain't nothin'. We do a mighty sight mo' climbin' befo' we git tuar." And so we toil up the winding way. Off to the South and West rise Table Bock, Hawk's bill, King's Mountain, Mitchell's i eak, and, towering above them all, The Urand Father, its top the protlle of an old man's face, if the start from Lenoir has been made in the alter noon, the air grows cmuy oeiore tbe summit is reached, and search is made among the baggage for shawls and rugs. As day declines, the sun seems to pause a moment on a distant peak, flooding all the surrounding mountains with violet light, and then sinks to rest, 'lhe darkness falls quioklv. You are tired now and close yotu eyes a moment, but some one breaks in upon your revery with an exclamation of wonder. You look up to find the woi Id flooded with moonlight. It resti like a halo over the mountains, and tipt every fern and balsam-bough with silver. \N e climb on, a mile perhaps, amid this glory, when the tired horses, admonished by voice and whip, break into a brisk run, and the Hotel, ul! aglow with the light of open wood lires, stands hospitably beforo us, and oui journey is ended. Tbe days of dreamy laziness whicl follow are indescribably luxurious. Om may go to bed at night and sleej around the clock with the deep, health ful slumber of a baby. The jailed api>e Ca is Miiickcned iu that clear airunti ing of soup, ami indir through the bill of faro to the verv las item with never a vision of indigestion Blowing Kock is preeminently cos mopolitun. There the summer girl ma] dress and dunce anil ride anil flirt to tin very fulness of her heart's desire. Or, she may let her finery lay hidden in tin depths of her trunk and go tramping about iu thick shoes and short skirts from sunrise until dark. It is hcauti ful to watch tbe invalid's color conn stealing back, and the j>oor little sicklj children grow round limbed and brown in the bracing atmosphere. Verily, this is Nature's great Sanitarium, where that good old mother takes her children into her lap and soothes their jangled nerves, where the doctors nre never in evidence and the medicines delightful. S. T. Pin'dkr, G. P. A.. Lenoir, N. 0. Per ect y ?ruti> liii Helen?So he has proposed at last! How did It happen? Maude?i told him that I wsk going to be married. Helen?Why, Maude! Maude?Yes, and il aroused him instantly. He actually raved. And so I ti?ok pity on hhn. and we are engaged. Helen?Hut you told him a fib. Maude?Not at all When I told him I was going to l>w married, 1 meant to him.?Boston Transcript. It has been found by experiment that tea retards digestion. An infusion of 1 per cent, of tea causes a perceptible delay; a 3 per cent, infusion will delay the digestion, sometimes, as much as twelve times the normal period; a 10 per cent, decoction arrests the digestion of all starchy foods. Money to Loan. In Sums of $300 and upwards upon Improved Real Estate in Union County at a low rate of interest. Long time and easy payments. Apply to HYDRICK & SAWYER, Attorneys-at-Law, 0.0m UNION, S. O Medical Card. Dr. John Lnwaon can be found at his office over F. Duke's drug store, uight or day. Calls left at Dr. Duke* drug store will receive prompt attention. Dr. J. //. HAMILTON. Physican and Surgeon, Office No. 3, Up Stairs in the New Hank Building. Union, S. C. | gCHUMPERT, BUTLER * MoUOWAJf, Ait?ro? ye ki Law At C C Culp'e (Id Office D. E Hydriok J. A. Sawyer, Spartanburg. 8 0., Union, 8.0 JJYDRICI A 84WYER. Attorneys at Law Col McKissick's Old Othce. J^UNROA MUNRO, Atteroeye at Law, No. 9 Law Route g 8. RTOKKd Attorney at Law aad Trial Juallaa, OSoo Rear of Court Houae. Dtt HARLEY B. LINDSAY. Dentist, Office over Merchants and Planless bank, Main street. 0, P. Townsrnd^ " Asst. Atty Gen'L. Columbia, tk ? Ben F Town send. Union, S. O. TOWN SEND k TOWNSENB, Attorneys at Law, Union, S- G. Office Judge Townsend's old stand CAIU). Money to loan on short time on good security. W. W. DIXON, attorney at law. Office corner Main and Judgment Sts., Union, 8. C. OLD CLOTHES MADB~NEW! sBBBwawmaHanBHa Ceaning, Dying and Silks renewed at short notice. E. W. WILLIAMS. 13?ly. i T"#, '.'hA T>..KI *-? For putting elastic in your shoes I I ave a universal feed shoe machine, Seems, P t -hing and Half Soleing. Mend ng Lamps call on J. S. IIinson, Imck of JM-ot-t Rrns.? (t. f.) ccTcn wm Buv a I UUavU Sewing Map chin* from the Music and hewing Machine House. 3 $50.00 for a $65 Organ. 1 $250 for a $425 Piano. Guns away below regular prioe. QionV* cheap for cash. I Good terms on iiu... t 8. M. RICE, Jr E. U. 7 ????????????? i Who are Dawlcins and Thomson? They are the best barbers in tow*, s For good work and civility - No better can be found. ' If you will but give us a trial You will nevei go elsewhere, | For those who have done so liave new l^et any other barber cut tlieir hair. 1 Our razors are bright and keen . Our towels are new and cV^an Will shave you in short tine I And '-what, do you t.-iinkl , Will shave you for a dime And sive von a ririnlr?" BRING YOUR Job Printing to The Times It will be neatly executed. SURVEYING. 1 will be in Union until next June prepared to do surveying in the afternoons and on Saturdays. Call at the Graded School or Mr. Jacob Rice's. DAVIS JEFFRIES. (40?t. f OT?,nsr..;-r ? wjssasvs: jomt J_o3 tjniatniiMia riuor ?1|1M Doriauq !??. un 'mpi jaoX ymoaj gSSS esp| m-patuBM UNION MARBLE ?AND? Granite Works. GEORGB GEDDES Buy a Smooth White C_^W Skin ?r?<?8K I ?e^Jtijr-sK3SL; For Your Face! It probably needs renewing, for a )? ronjrh. r?], freckled, blotched or pimpled, until It hut twoon* repulolvo inatMul of attractive. Koaithy akin IB alway* beautiful. The aun and wind, Impure eoapa and coauiottoa Injure the akin. Viola Cream; cleanaea, noorlahea and reetovM the akin, matrtnc It aofI, white and beautiful. It la out a coacaeiio ?duea not o >ver op. but remove* blemishes. H ta harmless and alwajra does juat what we otelm for It. The only preparation that will poaltlvety remove Freckle*, BJaok heads, Tan, Hunburn and llinplos. Hundreds of teetlnaetilala from protnl! noot loUjlea. I'Hce 50 cents a Jar at druggists. I (!. C. BITTNER CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. ''