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Is ..tiOII. n* is those may l>u who the . i OTiTioJS of ?'hris!, only i of flotl uu-i i'k- punishment ot su. God u!i inju.-yi> ' ami teaeh only liu truth. There is nothiagto gain front > u rjynisive j.ri sentation of religion. It not natural, yjm^'jiir,1" "t1' f-i1Lman to iniUoseVenltiresof "oii'r re ligion that Goil has made most prominent Thorn is a bright shin which it is of tho tit most iinportannn to emphasize in orilnr ti win nmii t o religion. Tim iawnof redornp iion and tim jov o' spiritual triamph forever obliterated tho sorrows or Calvary, Th. in- . m? rey iiu I lovu of God irrndiprismatic light on tho sombro picture of sin and judgment. . James B. Sir.*. J.mtor < liur !i of tin- Kpipltaity, Brooklyn, HOME LIFE. J)r TnlinaS'' I'f'Ai Ue? On tho frrcinf lite Household. Tf.xt: '[J.crd, dost^Thou no: earn that my sistor liatli left me to serve alone'- Bid her, tin'infurc, that sho help nm."?i.nkn .X..40, Yonder is a beautiful village iinmi.-'-.-1 ( a'l A r. 1 li in widow is takiirR crharpo of thi* premises. This is tho willow, Martha of Bethany. Ws, 1 will show you also the pet of the household. This is Mary, tho the younger sister, with a hook under her arm, and her faoo-having uo appearance ni .anxiety or has come. Christ stands there nds of LlihC | ' r>n. of , 1 Ml. ..f Colljl., |.:it lilir-*. i Again tU re is, the trial <>f severe econaniy. Niii" hundred .. ami ninoty-nino households mil of a thousand arc subjected to it? soma under mnro nnd some umTer le?-< stress of circumstances. Especially if I a man smoke vcrv expensive cigars, ami j tnI:every costly dinners at tin- restaurants, | he vlll l>e severe in demanding domestic j economies. This is what kills tens of thou- , J sands of women?attempting to make live ! dollars do tlie work of seven/ A voting woman about to enter the piarried state ' -aid Jo her mother '*11 >vy lomj^ducs the I hoitOyittOpil last?" The mother answered: i I " fhe lioneymoon lasts until you ?sk your i ' Iih-l)i?ml for money." ] llow great are the responsibilities of housekeeper-. Sometimes ail in-ligest ihlo article of food, by Its eflLvt upon a king. ' has overthrown aa empire". A distinguished 1 statistician savs tlmt of one thousand mi- 5 married mmi there are tliirty-eight erHn- 1 inals, and of one thousand married men t onl.c eighteen tire criminal-. What a sag- f AVstionof liome iiitluenee' l ei ' 1 - bo :na If of them. Housekeeper-. by the r<>o<I they provide, I?y the oouehes tle-v sprout, l?y tlx* books they introduce, by A the Influences they brlnt; around their e bomen, are deciding tin* physical. intellcc. il iItHAl. moral. eternal destiny of the race. o You say your life is one of siteriflce. I know f ill. t But. mv sisters, this i- the only life n Worth livinir. That wa- Florence Night- ^ Jnifnlo's life: that was Payson's life; that jtchrist s life. l< FRANKFORT LOTTERY CLOSED. JJ I.eu il I iglit of Twenty ,t wo Years Knd* In ni Abolition. T The fortv-one offices of the Frankfort '' Lottery scattered over Louisville, Ky.,\vero Sfi closed for the first time in twenty-live In years, and no dmwlucs were made at the tr principal office at Third andflreen Streets. fp Tin- lottery is closed for good. u The mandate of the supreme four, has ? not been received, but the owners of the lottery feit tliat nothing would !? gained S<J by keeping open, as Criminal .Indue W( Barker announced'thht his llrst net would .1 b" to proceed against the lottery without waiting for official notice. Tliu.s has entlpd (lc n n?l.? !...? ? ? .. 11ini im~ iM'fii wagco ror twenty-two f" y?r-i aguiiM the policy shoos o( Louis- wt villa. The company lin<1 two drawings an ilitilv. and its proiit-* average 1 ^lonoo a ,.| iic (Jllllll :? Paul. M-'l)onnl?l County Missouri) farmer- re- '.l ' curly issued a general invitation to hnnt rs to coma inn I kill '|iiail.thc l>ird-< having ii'i'nine so plentiful a" to In* a past. ?!** - - ? on Post age stamps ir. England arc g runted \v< villi a -inrcli made from polutov*. thi 0? *. .4 * It C Jl break foi iiiu-iiv u.m i. .iii air. One big bold mau said ho would make a way anil wo must follow, and we did. Wo seized our grips and got out somehow. The next ear was full, too, and so wo skipped round to the ladies' ear uud took refuge and standing room only, for it was crowded to overflowing with women and children ami Christmas doings of all kinds. 1 toll carriages mid hoys' wagons and boxes and paper sacks and toys and tin horns and baskets full of all sorts of tricks ?nd presents. (Mse whole seat was jceupied with an express wagou And it was full of bananas. Small boys were tooting horns all along lie lino toot' ton'! tool! toot! "SU; hat. Hob, said a l'oml | aront, "now, (top it!" Hobstopped a moment, till the ond parent rAcumni !> ? ? ...n . l>l|>ai Nlll<)l) nlh it friend. I'hen ho began. low n<l soft, hut soon got louder and loudr. "Bob I told you to stop that racket, r you don't I will throw that horn out f tho window. Boh stopped about wo minutes and whispered to ins iotlier that tho window wasent up he. too, was talking to a friend. Toot! ?ot!" I heard tho horn a kind of innissimo staccato, hut it soon swelled ' ito a tumnituoso furissimo fortissimo. < ken suddenly the fond parent seized it i rid stuck it in his overcoat pocket, t hev got otT nt the next station and t i?ir seats were taken heforo I could ( iv Jnek Kobinsoti. By and by enough ' i?d got o!V for me to pet a corner next I > a hot stove. It w fts close by tho war tank, but there was no water It ? as empty when v. e left V icksburg and ayed empty, livery minute or two ' mi woman or child or man cui.ic and | orked on that faucet in vain. Then a e men took the top otV and rein lied 1 >wn for water, but found none. I ho >rter passed through and his attention as called to it. hut he tnnde n<> sign ul brought no water.' hildren began to v for it, and I would havegivon half a mar ior a bucket lull for thoni, hut ! o train wouldn't stop long enough at i ,, station f<?r ino to step out and hu.v it. I | was raining outside. ' M "Water, water everywhere, hut not a i vv op to drink." Somebody blundered c that train. Some of the passengers j re from Texas, going ea>t t<? visit eir kindred, traveling on the haif u; , .f A A O., Friday C?XZ??l? \*r? *\Sita?W?l\ ' 1 ",kri?wii?o>?i.; \ sto times I imag- ^ur aid have been cro >uie, but de boss le boss knows." V >d people in evn't seem at all cor rice of cotton, >r has a bunch fire i bv that from All end, and thoy tlu pay. Peaches ypt very rapidly in ercial product. . <ls or more of * " lenderson aud to .>gion is about ,n< iah and Brans- su< is Atlanta and wi mal heat is a gu o. I read that a? of Washington ^ aud the.boys go round. Hendermucli. for the ov tho rain tnakcB .4 tilled the long ?d th aps the oldest liv- of and one of the best. Di twos, like Jefferson, Hn id. This town was * if Indians, So was Jussippi, and both ? pet. Like the Aztecs, Ssing away. There b< '?ught on the corner G It was built by a _ os for a mission fulrcd years ago and *e of the ages. It a. .r rwl " (v;e is by a ladder to . ng Home ten feet 1 l?Whnt on earnest, *' ro*hose followers of ?'< Li^io^'olo who pene- a j.^of ail countries to b dll to their faith; u , the homo of Tom v e days?the beau [c?. He practiced J >1 iu partnership with ? sign was over the 1 ree nnd Father." I 1 ge upon the attrac- t ig city and the good t r would make special 1 ou of Mr. Minis and are two of nuture's walk and conversa- f ;he world was full of ' wero kind to mo in will over give mo 1 them in memory. I i ft there that Naeogsuch citizens and was , ctined community, deridiau 1 found that dose connoction with bama Great Southern, me io buy a tioket and u for Chattanooga. .My ind a big lot of Texaus New Orleans unit wore i an v of tliem ??iuK yort Jrort i'ayne, ;ver Tom Hood ocm nbont a haunted t searos yon to read it, thousand haunted and forlorn, and j wouldnt walk night. Some of es and cost much 1 a hotel of lino cture with no curtain to the unfurnished or nnd machine rv ctoKlon ? j rvauicn W ilLl shadow and a spirit daunted, isper in the ear, stirred to go or come; Xo face looked euth from shut or ooen casement; Xo chimney smoked, there was no sign of home < From parapet to bisement. "No dog was at tlio threshold, great or small; Xo pigeon on the roof, no household creature; Xo cat demurely dozing on the wall^ Xot one domestic feature." This is the champion boom town of the South, but it was all Northern 1 money, and the fight was yaukce ] against y ankee. In due time wo reached Chattanooga, , for the Alabama (Jreat Southern is al- . ways on time, and makes its trip of 1500 , miles in nine hours. It is a delightful road to travel on. 1 was tired and I 1 was hungry, for 1 had had no supper or 1 breakfast. When dinnor time came I ' anticipated something extra nice for i Christmas, but I found x?rinted on a | little card "Luncheon," and the menu j said "Conscmm.f which I supposed j meant soup, and f ordered some. The waiter thought I uassick and brought me a little beef tea in a teacup. I von- s till ed to taste it and couldn't tell what it * was. hut it was the poorest appetizer I 1 pver tasted, and I shove I it aside. Con- L u>intn, cousomm-ulverualse. Connounc' :nc cm.sotum, thought I. *'<lot no sonp n oday, ' said i. He pointed to the tea j mi p. "I'm not nick." saul I, "bring , no sonic spring chicken." T wHSfihvn5'B 'ond of spring chicken. When it caine 1 t was. I think, part of a two-year-old " ipring rooster fried in batter h la my t! din viand. That's what the menu said, I1 'A la My Marlnnd." I wish that fi !andnl! could have been thero to have h ecu that parody on his grand old lyrio tl loom n "The despots heel is on tby shore, Mj,- Maryland." * Mnt I called for codec and it was good T nd refreshed nio. Then [ went round j > Hukofshcrs mid got my dinner. No s( lore limeheons and consomni for me. .imehcoii is German for a small slicv, a light repast between meals and that " ii>- luncheon where I lunched on hnst^ins day, and it cost me 75 conts. fe uskf'd for a room u few minutes to m iiuii}?c my nhirt. It itas a littlo fxlO ui d^thpt cost ino 75cent* more. ricT (,j<inuan | ?" " . lilt. I S^SST*" e'S ! . -? ?r? eneral he of thffPJ^STlitieilt of ag\riout- 1 e concerning a grand highway v fG ss the continent. What he actually ' tgeated wan that: ' 'A great national highway might.* j,0 1 istrueted, called, perhaps, 4'1 ?||e 1 eat ltoad of America,' which shot tj(| ' it join together the state* along i,ne ' lantic seaboard; then strike acro^R ' i country on a central line, sayfroil, < ishingtoti to San Francisco, joining 1 ire another line which connects the 1 ites on the Pacific coast; this road t be built, not by the geueral govern- ! )?t alone, but by the states, under . i*li arrancrements as they may make thin their own borders, and by the ^ vernment through the territories (1 its own lauds and reservations; j lilt not by taxation of the states or e people, but practically out of its m benefits. I have seen uine?? e benefits of good ro* Ivance in the value ofY["? n'iil of' th* 1 eir lines, that I see tntf"iei,iv4L)n ? building even a great national thor^-1ighfare, costing ten or twenty thound dollars a mile, and building it ulinately out of its own benefits, by a mporary use of the government or ate credit, to tide over until those jnefits can be realized. "There is no question but that such road would benefit property to the itent of five miles on either side of Suppose that property were to be i.sessed with a long term of pnyments 1 instalments running up to ten or fteen or twenty years, and suppose ae property actually adjoining the oad were to be nssessod two dollnrs n ucre, for instance, and the next alf mile back a little less, and the ext a little loss, and so on. but always giving the party owning the iropertv the privilege of selling out lis laud at a valuation if he did not boose to pay the assessment, and of niying it back again by paying the in * - ? ? v . i l- - erest, if he touna no nau imww ? ?"r>ake. The government could well nf'ord to 111 ike that liberal proposition, uid it would result in nearly all the present property owners getting the ictual benefit, of the increase of the value of their property, and paying Hie assessment entirely out of such increase of value. "I have merely outlined this, not as a perfect scheme, but as something that has suggested itself to nie out of my experience in road building, which, T think, with proper study and cure, might be applied on a grand scale. Such a scheme wo'tild arouse great interest among the u-hole people ot the United States; it i vould be something worthy of the natii in;' something worthy of the begin 111. rear1' ?re?t.iiry. The monThe line along tin Atlantic'lAdmve ould he the old posl road in the time of the Revolution. The route across the Alleghaniesmighl be the line that, the early settlers ol this region followed when i Daniel Hoono nnd his comrades came over the mountains to settle these beautiful plains. The line across the Rock\ mountains might he the line of Low if and Clark and Fremont, and when we struck the Pacific coast we would strike the oldest road in all our hislory, the Camilla Real, the great Spanish royal highway which joined together tlie Catholic missions of the Pacific const. The whole scheme would carry with it something that would inspire the entire nation. It is not any new scheme; it is not any new idea. It w as the idea of Jefferson nnd Madison and (iallatin nnd many other greut men who helped to start the national road w hich led through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, nnd reached as far us the Mississippi river." *: V GOOSE-PLUCKINC. * O.I.I I.. .. -V ! ?, ? ...... ...... ... >. .- I mm ?*a*rmcnt H licre Wonicn Arc the Worker*. All important business function of the enM side is the weekly gooseplucking. carried on sometimes by a private individual and his family, sometimes by a poultry-dealer, who |?avs bis assistants so much a bird. The jiluckera are invariably women md voting girls, and some are experts it the trade. The plucking begins ibout three o'clock on Thursdays, in inticipation of the early buyers on Friday morning, which is market-day n that section. The plucking couinues until Friday afternoon, and imbitious fingers, spry at the task, trip off great quantities of feathers in hat tune, and reap quite a harvest of lickels. Five ceuts a goose is the lighest price paid by auy dealer. The scene of the goose-plucking is >dd enough to unaccustomed eyes. A asernent, down to which a stepladder ives cm ranee, is the workroom. The UK, Win-like compartments, barrels ml boxes for stowing away the feathrs, and the benches on which the luckers sit are the chief features of imishing. The air in this underouse plucking place is misty with ic drifting down that adheres to the idling anil settles over the clothing f the workers. The hair of the girls ud the wigs of the older women are ecorated with tiny white feathers, ho geese are killed according to the ewish method, and are plucked as mil after as may be, as the feathers nit the skin more easily when tin- | csh is warm. "It's a pity that one coating of athers is all we can get," said the ' imager of a Kidgestreet goose-pluck- j ig. "If them birds could have been plucked when livin' nn?l t ? loose, they'd give us as ma^ . ^otfnds ? again later. We get 40 cental pound for these breast-feathers," he added, plunging bis hands down i^to the yielding mu*s of curliness. "SQiia quality don't need any curing. Th\o Jy in the other bins are the "inferifr grade. I am careful to keep them separate." X Geese lialf-plncked, wholly plutked, and those yet to be plucked htpig head-downward from the walls or lie V scattered on the stools and boxes. \ The pluckers all wear big, coarso nprons. and the yellow breasts of the birds gleam bare aud pimply in the draggling daylight as they are digested of their oovering. "Rip! rip ! ( rip !" is the only sound in the place; ^ the pluckers are too busy to talk; jwsiues, in? eve 01 tne manager is on m i :hom; Horn? are not working at bo Itf nuch a bird, bnt by the hour, or to >ny off some past obligation. Only he younger women can speak Engish. A country goose-plucking, where ' fi squeaking goose has her long nock 'Tinted round under tlje plucker'sj ?n' is robbed of her glory und%^ 'he very eyeXof the hissip* fcer canaor, is far mor^^pifrited, particu- 'mi \rly when, after ^fbo ordeal, the ^Kicked victims fiutrilleinselves free, " mI waddle off in loud co?c**v?? nmx' ^dignnnt ado over Their treat- eut. fk0 east-side goo?e PluckinK g the basement is tame ^coiidparifu>n. , The orthodox Jeu 3 use jjoose-grcase in the preparation of ?ll. their food, ofl lnrd being prohibited, and even butter or is prescribed in the cooking of certain st< dishes. This obligation makes neces- _ wiry the consumption of many geese. The flesh of the goose is liked also, not only by the Jews of that populous neighborhood, but by the Germans as well, so the weekly killiug and pluck- i ing of the long-billed cracklers assumes important place in the doingR of that particular vicinity.?Now York Post. / Tlit* Antiquity of Uolit. Gold was probably the first metal observed ami collected, because of the instinctive understanding of its in- ( , trinsic value. About it superstitious | grew, religious aud ceremonious rites, and strange crimes were committed for its possession ii\ tho days when it was believed that it was of such stuff that the sun itsolf was made and the I halls of Valhalla paved. Rock paintings and carvings of Egyptian tombs earlier than the days of Joseph indicate the operation of washing auriferous sand, and a subsequent melting in furnaces by the aid of blow-pipes. Less than twenty years ago the old mines of Nubia, so graphically described by Diodorus, were rediscovered on the shores of the Red sea, _ together with a line of ancient wells across the desert: the nndergronnd workings where ore veins had been followed by the pick, the rude cupelj ling furnace for assaying, picks, oil i lumps, stone mills, mortars and ! pestles, inclined warming tables of | stone, crucibles and retorting fur 1 "f V'lme.d tile, bv which the enI Here slaves and hapless prison I ! exchanged their life blood for , glittering dust to fill the treasuries of k | their captors. [n J!1(]ia and Asia r | Minoi the powdered ore was washed , down over smooth, sloping rocks and . gold in the fleeces of sheenI skius , """k in the stream. It , was literally a golden Heece that ( ! Jason brought back from tho Cauoa> | ",,s- *?rther north, and following ( ; the eastern foothills of Mount Ararat | to the southern slope of tho Ural mountains in Russian Siberia, where Inst year millions were taken out of the old mines, the ancient Scythians broke up rock and gravel with copper untile merits *i,? ..i:,. _? t B'i'wring dust, awl nuggets with the fuig? of wild l>oarj?, and carriod their gain away in bags of leather.?Modern Machinery. Tli? I.lhelloim MIrror. Xo*doul?t tho huntan race would consider it little short of a universal tragedy if there were no looking glasses. Yet in spite of their widespread use it is an astonishing fact that we have never seen ourselves as others see us. In the first place, the reflection in the mirror does not portray our likeness with any attempt at accuracy. The hair is wrong in tone, the eyes are not correct in color, and our complexions are hopelessly libelled by this specious household deceiver. It is certain that if the looking glasses spoke the truth the sale of various complexion washes would dec,reuse to half, for any fair skin looks gray and pallid in the glass, and numbers of women who have splendid complexions ruin them by trying to improve them because they look had in the mirror. You may he certain that, however plain your face seems, it is ! by no means so plain as it appeurs in ( the telltale mirror. Secondly, yon I cannot assume your nutural expression ! while peering in the looking glass. Tho eve must be in a certain position before you can see at all, and the eye, so far as expression is concerned,governs the face. The consequence is that you can see only one of your expressions in tlie glass, and that expression is one of attentive examina- '' tion. All the other expressions bv '' which your friends* know you, favor- r able or unfavorable, yon have never ? seen and never will wee. ?London v Answers. e A l'iiz/lc. II Willie Addlepate?There's 0110 thing q I cawn't understand, doncherno! |< Chollie Xoddlekins? What's that? n Willie Addlepate ? Why, when we t| stop to consideh?aw how uncomfortable it is in a crowd ?why, aw? i cawn't see why it is that there ale always more people in a crowd than 10 there are where there is no crotrdll - e* Luck. ' * ?a k ,T* 1 CHUMPERT, BUTLER ft MeOOWAH, 7 AttorMji R Maw. At o. a oiif't *w Ofl?* n i jcnrcta mvhvo; AtUmjl U Uv, IV*. t: Law Rang*. 8. STOKES. ^ Attorney at Law u4 Trial JwHia \ OAn Rear a# Court Hoaoa. h HARLEY B. LINDSAY., A \ Dbntmt, ^Tor Merchants and rata of in- J Long *?' ?nd W' ? I ?t9. Apply to I . CAVAJVm i mivi% Attorneys-at-Law, i Medical Card. \ ? Dr. John Lawson can be found at his \ Ice over F. Duke's drug store, night \ day. Calls left at Dr. Dukes drug ire will receive prompt attention. P. Townsknd, ? _ Asst. Atty Gen'l., Columbia, 3, O. Ben F. Townseito, Union, S. C. TOWNSEND k TOWNSKND, Attorneys, at Law, Union, S. C. Office Judge Townsend's old stand. CARD. doney to loan on short time on good security. W. W. DIXON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office corner Main and Judgment Sts., Union, S. C. mn nrvrupe u?nu wuw i vJLU vbvlUliO flirt uu nun . Ceaning, Dying and Silks renewed at short notice. E. W. WILLIAMS. la?ly. To The Public. For putting elastio in your shoes I lave a ' universal feed shoe machine' Soi.ro*, Pitching and Half Soleing. Mend Lamps call on J. S. IIinson, .Kick of tMioii nroa.?(t. f.) ^nrootti White For Your Face! SStSSSSSWIS repulslvo Instead of nttrart Ire. Hea.thv skin I. IZZ'JZV'* ; ?h? "un ?"ntn* to#* * al ? nnd cosmetics Injure the sfcla. Viola Cream anrt ?thasktn.TnsVlr.,; IL^IaL'^7 Bud "wmtlful. It In net n cosmetic not <M'T?r up, hut removes blemlsl.es. u a 11iirmlc'Mand al war? does Just \-hat weclslui r 'm, ?? Fr?v.? ir. Pml",,?non thnt wl" p?^'lvely F1 mnTr ?nndVj ''*' T"n ?lHl nonViIrfi'- testimonials from pi >mlIndies. Price 50 cents m jar at druggi .ts. TOLEDO. OHIO. Wanted?An Idea SSSjSS vznsst SKiJisbsn, ?y.a?"S3WMblMton. J tb.lr 11.800 priM oOt ua? VI ?w? aurirfl * MUOBI WinfU. BRING YOUR Job Printing to The Times It will be neatly executed. v T^SFf Who are Dawkinsand Thomson? They are the best barbers in town, For good work and civility No better caii be found. If you will but give us a trial You will never go elsewhere, For those who have done so have nev? Let any otber barber cut their hair. Our razors are bright and keen Our towels are new and clean, Will Site CP Vr?11 in fthnr* ?lm? .? WMV* V And 4 *what, do you think! Will shave you for a dime And give you a drink?" A New York Judge recently gave a oveslck swnln who had attempted sulide some sage counsel. "Don't get nelnncholy about a woman," he ndvlsd. "IiOVc doesn't amount to much /hen you sift It down. There are othrs." Not a very dignified utterance, erhaps. but a wise one. A whole volme Is contained In the cant phrase noted. Take it to heart; anil when >ve is cruel and friendship false reicmbcr that there arc others, and seek loin without ?lelny. Good Advice. A Texas newspaper offers the folwlng advice to negroes who desire to cape lynching: Sleep at night, work daylight, and attend church uu ttuu