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JAMES C. BOYLIN, Publisher. The.Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, SI.5o a Year. NEW SEKIES-YOL. III.-N0. 10. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE .20, 1889. "WHOLE NUMBER, 403 LISTEN! We have on hand a fresh supply of Oat Meal and Buckwheat. We are Belling a good deal of this kind of goods and are thereby enabled to have it on hand fresh at; all times. There is nothing more palatable or wholesome than Oat Meal as a break fast dish.- Try it. We have recent ly received a barrel of Georgia Syr up. This is the most delicious syrup in the market. Call for the Georgia Syrup if you want something nice. We also keep the beet grades of New Orleans and Cuba Molasses. We want especially to call your attention to our line of Tobaceos, We are selling all grades of tobacco com mon, medium and fancy goods. Something especially adapted to the peculiar tastes and desires of every one. We have a tobacco that sur passes in quality, with regard to price, anything we ' have 'ever seen.' Old tobacco that is rich and waxy and free from grit that we are selling cheap. If you want something that you will like give it a trial. If you want any kind it Groceries sugar, coffee, flour, meal, ship stuff, rice, hominy, or anything in this line we can please you. When you want to buy Hardware shovels, forks, mat tocks, picks, axes, horse traces, back bands, hames, single trees, heel-bolts or plow lines remembar where it is kept. If you need a pair of Shoes come to see us, and we will give you 9. genuine Bargain. If you are going to buy a pair of pants, then this is the place. We sell pants about right. If you need any Dry Goods calicos, plaids, or notions of any kind try us and we think we can fill the bill. Come in and examine our stock. BENNETT BROS. Lytcii Cotton Planter . AND PIEDMONT WAGON. Largest stock of these goods ever brought to the county. Don't fail to see me before you buy. Prices guar anteed. G. A. MARTIN, Morven, N. C. RACKET STORE! MORVEN, N. C. Facts worth Knowing that Pour Hundred and Sixteen Broadway New York is Headquarters. That we buy goods BELOW THE MARKET VALUE. That we sell for SPOT CASH at a SMALL PROFIT. That we make no choice of customers. That we sell strictly for Cash on Delivery. That' we give you FULL VALUE for your mon ey. That the "RACKET" is the place to luy your goods. We simply UNDERBUY and UNDERSELL That we have greatly REDUCED THE PRICE on our WINTER GOODS, That we are CLEARING OUT for our SPRING STOCK. That our town is on a BOOM. That we will sell you s;oods at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. TVe will sell you a DOLLARS WORTH OP GOODS FOR A DOLLAR. YOURS FOR BARGAINS, . .8ATTC0M & CO. N. Y. Office, 416 Broadway. WE HAVE JUt-T REDEIVED A CAR LOAD OF THE CELEBRATED Plow Brand Guano. Call early and get what you need. J. A. LITTLE & CO. Executors Notice. I HAVE this day qualified as Executor of the last will and testament of Thomas H. "1 hreadgill, deceased, before the proper Court in Anson County, N. C, and I hereby notify nil persons having claims against the estate of my testator to present the same to me, for p iy men t, on or before the 13th day of June, 1890, or this notice will bar their payment and recovery. And all persons owing the state of my said testator must pay the same At once to me. This 6th day of June, 1889. JOSEPH W ALLEN, Executor ' i.. -Tfcos. H. ThreadgUL deceased. Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds', and cannot be sold in competition with the mul tude of low. test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall St., New York. DR. J. T. J. BATTLE OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERV ICES TO THE PEOPLE OF WADESBORO AND VICINITY. J. M. DUNLAP, M. D. S. B. CARPENTER, V. D Ansouville, N. C. Cedar Hill, N. C. Drs. Dunlap and Carpenter Having formed a copartnership for the prac tice of medicine, respectfully offer their pro fessional service to the good people of Anson and contiguous territory. W. A. E0SE, GENERAL ISURAKCE GET. Represents the leading Fire and Life Insur ance Companies. . - Office Martin Street, Wadesboro, N. C. 6 W. F. GrEAT, D. D. S., DENTIST, (Office Over L. Huntley's Store,) Wadesboro, North Carolina. ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED. 26-tf RAPHAEL ALLEN, Barber. HAIR CUTTING, SHAMPOOING, Shaving, &c, done with neatness and dispatch. Shop near Mr. Bruner's Bakery. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. D. A. McGregor A ii. Principal. THE FALL TERM BEGINS MONDAY. SEPT. 3ap, 1888. Tuition iw Lttebaky Department $2, $3 and $ 4 per month. ' Music $4 per month. J?No deduction made for lest time. DR. J.G. BROWN, Surgeon Dentist. Offers his professional services to the citi- izens of Anson county, and will visit any neighborhood where there is Dental work to justify. I will be at Wadesboro on Monday, Tues day and Wednesday of court week. A DAUGHTER OF CAIN. BY 8. f. JES8 AMINE DICKSON AND MRS. M. F. DAVIS. Polkton Academy, POLKTON, N. C. REV. JNO. P. BOYD, Peincipai.. J. M. SIMPSON, Associate. TERMS PER MONTH: Primary Course, - $1.00 Preparatory Course, $1.60, $2, $2.50,. $3.00 No deduction for lost time. Tuition mva- ble at end of each school month. For furth er information apply to KEV. JJSU. r. BOYD, Polkton, N. C. T. J. INGRAM, Corner Wade and Rutherford streets, WADESBORO, N. C, Will continue to furnish his patrons with BEEF, - Mutton, Pork, Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Fresh Oysters, Fish, Fruits and Vegetables, And whatever else ean. satisfy the appetite of a gentleman always giving the best the market affords. I will pay the highest mar ket price for Co we Hogs, Sheep, Chicken. , Eggs. &c. &c 27tf DRAKE'S MAGIC LINIMENT A sure cure for Diarrhea, Dysen :' tery, Cholera : Morbus, &c. ; Take it. McLendon & Parsons. Before Purchasing Write to headquarters for prices of K T h re shin g Ma chines Farmers cannot do without THE CELEBRATED Wheeler Vibratory Thresher or other implements made by us.V , Mention this paper. , - I- Chester Meiick MT g Go., . . Albany; n. y. , f7 Chas. A. Goodwin, PROPRIETOR . Raleigh Marble & Granite Works, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Monuments, Box Tombs, Head Stones, &c., in Italian or American Marbles or Granites. Estimates made for all kinds of Stone "W"ogc?3s: on -board cars or delivered in any part of tne scare. Read the following testimonial; - Raleigh. N. C. Feb. 19, 189. The undersigned, as Executive Committee ol tne .bnotweJl Memorial Association contracted with Mr. Charles A. Goodwin. marbie and granite dealer, to erect a monu ment in Oak wood Cemeterv to the mnninre of Capt. R. A. Bhotwoll. Mr. Goodwin ful- nneu nix conurucir anu executed this work with great success: and to the rifir ant iuf ac tion of the Association and the friends of Capt. Kbotweu. . i liUljJSIN E URISSOIL ; . D. E. EVERITT, , " Z. WALTER CLARK. ' Chas. A. Goodwin, . '- t Raleigh, N. C. chapter xxv. i violet's flight discovered. "Hark J to the hurried question of Despair! 'Where is my chilcW an Echo answers Where" While Violet wretched and heart broken was stealing away from her home, Randall Marvin, unable to sleep was tossing restlessly on his couch remorse eating. at bis heart like a cankering worm. Turn where he would Violet's pale, pleading face was ever before him, and ever in bis ears rang the pleading ery : "For my mother's sake tor my mother's sake 1 ' Only once during the long and nev er to-be forgotten night did he close his eyes in slumber, and even that did not prove a season of forgetful- L ness, for while he slept the face of the dead Violet arose before him, not bright and laughing as in the old days, but pallid, sorrowful and drenched with tears. W hen he reached out his arms to take the vision to his ' bosom, a cry broke from her lips, and Bbe fled before him, exclaiming: "Touch roe not, Randall touch me' never again! You have broken the pure heart of my child, and through the instrumentality of your second love you have turned her adrift in the world. Of the sin you have ac cused her, before high heaven she is as innocent as the babe unborn. Ran dall! Randall may God forgive you I cannotr With a cry of anguish he awoke to find the broad light day streaming in at tha window. "God help me!" he cried. Then he sprang up, and dressing himself with nervous haste, hurried out in the open air. He was pale and haggard, his eye were sunken, and his whole air, one of extreme dejection. Like an insane man he wandered aimless ly from place to place, until the-sun was high in the heavens, and then with slow and and apparently un willing ateps. he walked toward the house, meeting Joel who was on his way to his cabin. The old man look ed unusually dull and sleepy, and as Mr. Marvin passed him, he" glanced back over his shoulder, muttering: "Tain't no wonder you looks bad, Massa Randall, when you's let dat wicked 'oman drive our poor, dear Miss Vi'let's own chile 'way from her home. Dunno what de poor dear will do, but reckin she's t,ot fren's sho'll go 'mong.. De good Iior' only knows what's gwine ter happen next ole Joel don't, dat's sho' th ing. " "My heavens! what ails you, Ran dall?' cried Mrs. Marvin, as she met her t.usband at the door and drew him into the library. "I am heart-sick," he replied, sink ing on a chair and turning his white face upon her. "Heart sick?, n with a look of alarm. " Yes, heart and soul-sick ! Hester. I have acted in a brutal manner to ward my poor child. She may be innocent of all I have accused her. Yesterday I was insane with passion and turned a deaf ear to a l her pleadings, but this morning-1 feel that I can forgive her even if she is guilty." Mrs. Marvin grew alarmed lest her plot was falling through, and ap proaching him softly, she knelt on the carpet at his side, and taking bis hand in "her own murmured: "My poor Randall. God . knows I sympathize with you, for it must be dreadful to nave a child act in such a manner. "But Violet may be innocent." he said, "and if she is, I have cruelly wrougea ner. "If she was truly innocent, why would she not reveal the cause of her broken engagement?" returned the evil woman. "True, true, Hester, but still she is my child, and I must at least speak with her again on this subject. Will you send her maid Bera tome,.dear?" Mrs. Marvin arose and her lumin ous eyes flashed angrily, as she open ed the door to pass out. In the -hall she met Bera. The girl's eyes were charged with tears, and her dark face wore a frightened expression. "What is the matter, Bera?" Mrs. Marvin cried. Bera did not stop to reply, but rushed into the library, exclaiming: "Massa Randall! Massa Randall, Miss Vi'let's gone 1" "Gone!" cried Mrs. Marvin, a wild, triumphant joy sprinping up in her heart. "Gone 1" echoed Mr. Marvin, reel ing and catching at a chairLfor a support, while a deadly pallor came over nis face. Gone where? Speak girl." tsera arew oacK witti norror, as shesaw the look on his white face. then remembering herself, 3he said: "Lor' only knows, Massa Randall, whar poor Miss Vi'let's gone. She didn't sleep in her bed last night, an' when I went ter her room dig morn in' she waren't dar, an' some o her clothes is gone." . "I thought yon slept in Violet's room at night," put in Mrs. Marvin. "So I alius does till last Dight when she tole me she wanted ter be left all alone," Bera replied : - "My God, this is' more than I can bearl" cried tlie wretched man sink ing back -on on his chair aud bury ing his face in his hands. "Randall, calm yourself. Bera may be mistaken, and Violet per haps has ,one out to walk," spoke Mrs. Marvin, in hor low soft voice. casting a look of intense hatred qpon her, Bera turned to leave the room, saying: "Ef she'd jest gone out walkin' she wouldn't a tuck hr clothes wid her I reckin." "I will go to Violet's room," Mrs. Marvin continued, "and ascertain if Bera's statement is tiue." So saying, she glided away. When she entered Violet "s room, he found ciauaine mere in advance of her. She was standing bjr a table with a note in her hand, and as her mother entered she held it toward her, Bay ihk: - ."Ihehird has flown, and 'we are safe at last. Ifound this note on ber desk " Mrs. Marvin grasped it eagerly. It read.; My Darling Papa: "Just one more time I will call you by this dear, sweet name, and then I will forget that I ever had a father. To-night I shall leave my once happy home, never more to return. You have accused me of a dark and dreadful sin a sin of which I am innocent, yet, papa, 1 forgive you, but since I have become an object of scorn and suspicion, I will say farewell, and go out in the world hoDing to find what what 1 do not posess here kind and trua friends. I will no long er wear the name of Marvin, but in its stead take that of my puie and sainted mother. "Papa farewell, until in the presence of my mother and.a just God we meet again. "Violet Viviaw." "Randall must not see this," and Mrs. Marvin tore the note in shreds. and held it over alighted match until it was consumed in the flame. "Wnat will you do, then?" Claud ine asked. "I will write another." -She drew a pencil from her pocket as ,8 he spoke, and wrote: Randall Marvin: Since you forbid it I will no longer call you papa, and it is perhaps as well, since I am in truth unworthy to be your daughter. l tnougnt tnis morning to deny my sin, but having found that useless I will acknowledge all, and leave you for ever. I am guilty of the sin you accused me, and of much that you did not. To-night I leave you, and I trust you will forget me, since I do not de serve to be remembered. "Violet." "Transcribe that!" handing the base piece of forgery to Claudine and waiting impatiently while 6he re wrote it. In the meantime Randall Marvin, alone with his misery, was walking the library floor his hands clasped behind him and his proud head bowed upon his bosom. At length be paused and leaned heavily against the marble mantel, and standing there "winter's of mem ory" seemed to sweep over his soul. "She was Violet's child," dropped from his white lips, "and my idol. Oh, Godl where is she? where is she? Violet my pure angel wife, I can not ask you to forgive me." The words were scarcely spoken when Mrs. Marvin glided in, and without a word, laid her own base note in his hand. . Slowly he read each cruel word, then with a groan that seemed to cume faom his very soul, he sank down among the cush ions of his chair looking more like a dead thau a living man. "Do not take it so hard, Randall." murmured the wicked woman, kneel ing at hiEside. "She was Violet's child, and I have turned her adrift in the world," was the only reply that came from his white lips, wnile his eyes wandered vacantly about the room. A dark frown gathered on the wo man's face, and a firy gleam shot from her veiled eyes, 6ut it passed un observed by Randall Marvin, for he seemed alike oblivious of her pres ence and all else. Down.in the kitchen another scene was being enacted. Aunt Dinah sat with her hands folded on her lap, and the great tears streaming down her dusky cheeks, while around her stood some half a dozen negro wo men, Bera among the number. Their faces were all expressive of the most heart-felt sorrow, aud Bera's sobs were painfully audible. "De Lor' forgive da serpent ob a 'oman fur drivin' our poor dead an' gone Miss Vi'let's chile 'way from her own home, ,caza I knows it's some ob her doin's dat's at de bottom ob it all," sobbed Dinah, as she wiped the the tears from her eyes, ani looked at the distressed band about her. "Dat's so, aunt Dinah," sobbed Bera," caze my dear Mies Vi'let wouldn't neber left ef dat wicked 'oman hadn't jest broke her innocent heart. Dey's run her off, an ef I knowed whar ter find her. I'd run away an' go to her. But Lor' only knows whar she is, she may be dead dis mornin'." "No, Miss Vi'let ain't dead nuther." said Uncle Joel, as he entered the kitchen and joined the distressed group. "How do you know, JoeJ ?" they all cried in a chorus. "jfebbe I dreamt it an' mebbe I didn't; but Miss Vi'let didn't walk 'way Irum Sunnyside las' night." the the old man said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Den how did she get 'way?" cried Bera and Dinah in the same breath. , "She got 'way in de keerage, but you keep mum 'bout dat, I tuck her ter de city, blessv her heart, an' "she tuck de keers at twelve o'clock las' night.' "De Lor' will bless you de longest day you lives, Joel, an when you dies He'll take you up to lib' wid him in de glory ob de hebinsl" exclaimed aunt Dinah, while the old man brush ed a mist of tears from his eyes and turued his back on the group. iiivery DiacK at Sunnyside bad loved the gentle Vijlet, almost with a worshipful love, and there was a day of mourning among them when it became generally known that she was gone. But what of the unhap py father whose harsh words had driven his child from the home of . ber birth? All day long he sat alone in the library, refusing to be comfort , ed, and seemingly oblivious to the presence vot every one who came about him. No statue of marble could have seemed colder or more dead to sight or sound thau did Randall Marvin all that long aud memorable day. J Violet had been hiB pet, his idol, and he-bad lavished upon her all the strength of a father's love He bad never spoken an un kind word to her, until m that mo ment of blind passion, when believ ing her guilty of a siu his proud heart could not pardon, he had allowed himself - to use language which when calmer moments came. brought himagony of mind, and an -guish of spirit. That inorning he arose tult-y determined, even, though his child was guilty, to take ber again to his heart, and by love and gentleness win ber back to the old path. But these better resolves came too late, and the k'uowledgo of it seem ed to turn' him into an image of stone. As the day passed aud uight came, incoherent words began to fall from his lips. MTs. Marvin tried iu vain to get him to his rom, bnt be did not pay the least attention to her. and he remained in his chair, until he was lifted in the arms of two stout negro men and. laid upon his couch from which he did not rise in many weary days and weeks. Mrs. Marvin informed the people that Violet had gone to a distant State to live with a weatthy maiden aunt. When Jasper Palmer received this intelligence, ie was insane with passion, and threatened to expose Mrs. Marvin, whereupon she calmly informed him that he would likewise expose himself.' Then when he grew violent she insinuated that to win Violet he had only to follow her up. "But you must go immediately," she said , "for in a few weeks after she arrives in Virginia, she will start with her aunt on a continental tour." It is useless to say that he acted at once upon her advice, and the third night after Violet Marvin left her home Palmer started in pursuit, little suspecting how deeply he was being deceived. Thus for a time the wily woman rid herself of his pres ence, trusting to her evil brain to provide her with some other decep tion by which she could extricate herself in the end. TO BE CONTINUED. Wages in the United States in 1800. Scientific American, The condition of the American class nearly a century ago is full of instruction. In the laige cities, un skilled workmen were hired by the day, bought their own own food, and found their own lodgings. But in the country, on the farms, or where ever a hand was employed on some mblic work, they were fed and odged by the employer, and given a few dollars a month. On the Penn sylvania canals the diggers ate the coarsest diet, were housed in the rudest sheds, and paid $6 a month from May to November, and $5 a month from November to May. Hod carriers and mortar mixers, diggers and choppers, who from 1793 to 1800 labored on the public buildings and cut the streets aud avenues of Wash ington, received $70 a year, or, if they wished, 60 for e.11 the work they could perform from March 1 to December 20. The hours of work were invariably from sunrise to sun set. Wages at Albany, and New York were 3s., or, as- money then went, 40 cents a day; at Lancaster, $8 to $10 a month ; elsewhere in Penn sylvania workmen werecontent with $6 in summer and $5 in winter. At Baltimore men were glad to be hired at 18d. a day. None by the month asked more than $6. At Fredericks burg the price for labor was from $3 to $7. Iu Virginia white men em ployed by the year were given 16 currency ; slaves, when hired, were ciothed, and their masters paid 1 a month. A pound, Virgi na money. was, in Federal money, $3 33. The average rate of wages all over the country was $65 a year, with food and perhaps lodging. Out of this small sum the workman had, with his wiles help, to maintain his family. A Far-sight Machine. Mr. Edison is reported, in a con versation with a reporter who solic ited his ideas on the subject of the projected world s fair in JNew York City, as saying that he would take an acre of space in such a fair and completely cover it with his inven tions, or wnicu he has no less than 70 now under way. "One of the most peculiar, and now promising good results," said Mf. Edison, "Is what I may call a tar sight machine. Bv means of this extraordinary inyen tion, the Electrical Review sayB, he nopes to be able to increase the range of vision by hundreds of miles, so that, for instance, "a man in New York could see the features of his friend in B.ston with as much ease as he could see a performance on the stage, "inat, bo added, "would be an invention worthy a prominent place in the world's fair. and I hope to have it peifcted ljng hetore isa5. " A True Tonic .When you don't feel well and hardly know what ails you. gire B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) a trial. It is a fine tonic. T. O Callahan. Charlotte, N. O., writes. B. B. B. is a fine tonic, and has done me great g od." Li. VV. lhompson, Damascus, ta., writes. "I believe B. B. B. is the best blood purifier made. It has greatly improved my general health." in old gentleman writes: "B, B. B. gives me new life and new strength. If there is anything that will make an old mau young, itisBBB." P. A. Shepherd, Norfolk, Va., August 10th, 1888, writes: "I depend on B B B for the preservation of my health. I have had it in my faimiy now nearly two years, and in all that time have not had to have a doctor." Thos. Paulk, Alapaha. Ga , writes: "I suf fered terribly from dyspepsia. The use of B B B has made me feel like a new man. I would not take a thousand dollars for the good it has done me." . W. M. Cheshire, Atlanta, Ga., writes: "I last seemed to settle in my right l'eg, w hich swelled up enormous! v. An ulcer also ap peared which discharged a cup full of matter a day. 1 then gave a. a. is. a trial aud it cured me." To Keej off Mosquitoes. Take a small quality of a two per cent carbolic acid solution and sprinkle sheets, coverlets, pillow and bolster on both sides, the edges of bed curtains, and the wall next the bed. The face and neck may also be slightly welted with the solution Not a single gnat or mosquito, it is said, will come near. A Duty to Yourself. -It is surprising that people will use a com moii. ordiuarv Dill when thov can secuse a valuable English one for the same money. Dr. Acker's .English pius are a positive cure for sick-headache and all liver troubles. jhey are small, sweet, easily taken and do not gripe, ooia oy r.. a. vovingma o. ksj. . FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complant you have a printed guarautee on every bot tle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. It never fails to e are. Sold by Mclendon & Parsons. THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bour bon. Ind., says: "Both myself and wife owe our lives Lit. BU.llAja'H CUiNiSUMPf ION CURE." Tor sale by McLendon & Parsons. Facta About Dancing. - -The Baptist - Record recently pub lished the following article: Jb rom time to time our opinion bas been asked on the question of danc ing. We. preler to state some Iacts touching the practice, and have ev ery one to do his own- thinking and reach his own conclusions: 1. It is a fact that the dancing mentioned approvingly in the Bible was carried on by the 6exes separate ly. and generally, if not always, as a religious act. 2. It is a fact that modern dancing. however well done, adds no worth to the character. 3. It is a' fact that a trained mon key can excel the best taught lady or gentleman in the use of the heels. 4. It is a fact that it requires no in telligence nor virtue to dance well. 5. It is a fact that there is no more honor in dancing well than there is in jumping, walking, running, or wrestling well. Dancing matches are on a par with walking matches, etc. 6. It is a fact that mixed dancing becomes extremely fascinating. 7. It 18 a fact tnat much valuable time is lost by this 6pecies of revelling. 8. It is a fact that money is wast ed on dancing. 6. It is a fact that people who can not entertain themselves and each other in a rational way, and must employ their heels for this purpose, are to be pitied. 10 It is a fact that young ladies permit familiarities in the ball room which public sentiment universally condemns as dangerous to purity. 11. It is a lact that many females have been ruined by attending dan ces 12. It is a fact that the beet of young men, even of those who dance, do .not wish their sisters to attend balls, and they do not wish to marry dancing girls. 13 It is a fact the whole spirit and tendency of dancing is worldly. 1 is a fact that no one was ever uoted for piety and dancing. la. It is a fact that when a profes sor of religion follows dancing his in fluence for good is lost. 16. It is a fact that no one ever dances to glorify God, but an apostle enjoins us to do everything to His honor. 17. It is a fact that the most ar dent advocates of dancing always change their views in the presence of death. All these facts can be proved, and are true beyond doubt In the light of them it ought not tobe diffi cult, to any inquirer alter the right way to come to a safe conclusion. Reader, if you are a christian and wish to decide the question. Shall I dance? with reference to your church growth, influence and happiness, you win never dance. It is a safe rule says one, to engage in nothing upon wtiicn we cannot aslc the divine blessing. Apply this simple rule to the dancing question and your feet win never be found in the slinnery ways of the ball room. He "Was Prepared. San Francisco Chronicle. A travelling missionary had been through a very rough country, and bin meek spirit bad been sorely tried. He had found his spirit Of irreverenco and disbelief all over the land, and the ground was very stony. But he left in despair when he struck an old man at a railway station in Texas. They were both waiting for the train. They discussed various things.-snd nnaiiy toe missonary asked: Are you prepared to diet' 'I guess you've always got to be prepared in this country.' Yes; I'm prepared to die or get the drop on the other fellow.' 'I don t mean that. Are vou prepar ed for a hereafter J' 'A hereafter! Look here, stranger, I was brought up in Arkansaw, an' I went from there to Missouri an' from there I came to Texas, an' I've lived here ten years. I guess I can stand any here after as may be.' Verdict of Experts. "Fetch in the body," ordered the foreman of a Texas coroner's jury. The body was laid betore them. The jury made a careful examination, and questioned the attending surgeon. "Whar was he shot!" "Square through the heart," "Dead in the centre o' the heart?" "Right in the centre." "Who shot him?'' "Jake Daniels." A dozen witneeses declared that Jake fired the shot, and Jake him- solf admitted it. The jury consulted softly for some time. "Well, gentlemen of the jury." said the coroner, "what's your verdict?" Waal, J edge, answered the fore man, "we've come to the conclusion that Jake Daniels i the dandiest shot in these parts and don't you forget n J POINTS FROM PEAUSON. Some Tellhur Sentences from His Re vival Sermons. 'I will tell you, sir, it is an awful thing to live, and it is an awful thing to sin, and one of the most awful things about sinning is that you have to reap the., consequences, , .though. Jt has been forgiven.' 'Here are some of you with, the sledge-hammer of sin driving the 8 pokes of iniquity deep into the door posts of your soul, some of them spikes of adultery, some of profanity, some, of drunkenness. God Al mighty. vin-. sovereign grace soma day, ami I hope very directly, may come down and extract those spiked of iniquity, from the door-posts of your soul.' But. dying man, the scars are there, the consequences are there, and so certain as God lives you will reap those.' Dear young man, you think it fun to sow. wild oats; it may be bell to reap them, it may be perdition and loss even in this world.' 'Heaven is too high and. hell is too deep, and time is too ehort, and eternity is too long, and souls are too valuable to be quibbling over mere matters for controversy's sake.' There is the principle laid down that in the sight of our fellow men we, who claim to be christians, are justified by works. And why by work6? Because we c uld not see anything else. We can't see a man's faith ; we can't see his heart ; we can w see bis conscience. We caa see his works, and by his works we can see that he is justified, and we could not nee it any other way.' 'If your faith and your works do not tally, there is something wrong as certain as God lives.' 'Regeneration is the pivot upon which heaven and hell turn so far as you and I are concerned. "And sometimes I am really puz zled about what you are going to do with just such a class as this if they are going to get to Heaven at all. tnese card -playing, theatre-going, pleasure-loving sort of people. it .18 character . that determines destiny. Character is what a man is; a man s moral character is what a man is morally in the sightof God. wnen you enter eternity, the thing that will decide whether you go up to Heaven or down to Hell will bo the character which you have" when you die.' 'I would rather have one versa of the bible to read to a dying penitent than to give him an hour's talk. Let science go to the end of tho earth; let philosophy take care of it self, and poetry and rhetoric and es-. says and things of that kind go. Let us preach God's plain, glorious, bleep ed, eternal tj-uth. It is all that will keep men out of hell, and keen souls from dying. JSo man has a right to .sav that any thing in God's Word is a type of something else iu God's Word, utiles ne can hnd authority for.it in God's vv ora. 'The reformation is all richt. but it don't wipe out the past.' luere is just one kind of faith. It is either faith, or it is no faith at all.' Consnmption Surely Cured. To the Editor Please inform your read ers that I have a positive remedy for the aDove named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been perm anently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FRKK to any 01 your readers who nave consumption it they will send me tneir express and pest omce address. Kespecu-iiy, I. a. fcii,uuuAi, M. v., 181 Pearl St. New York A hard problem. Flossie (looking) up from her history) Well what I don't understand, about Columbus Discovering America is, how he knew It was America when he'd never seen it before. Munsey's VVekly. 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I've srot a pointer that the folks are very sympathetic. If I go with one leg I'm sure of it." Very well. Just leave your leg here and I'll take care of it:" The wooden substitute was unstrap ped and handed over, and the crip ple used the CJutch to help himself down tne alley. D ive minutes later he rang the doorbell of a house around the avtnue, to h ive it open- d oy tne man ne nad seen at the barn. "W wha whatl he gasped iu astonishment. "Very sympathetic family lives here!" quietly replied the other. "You seem to have met with a sad loss, and I'm anxious to help you. rt j j i- - ... nere is a woouen leg wnicn may nc you." 1 he log was handed over, the man sat down on the steps and strapped in on, and as he got up and stumped through the gale, he said to himself: "I've heard of coincidences ever since I was knee high to a hop toad. but tnis is the brst one that ever hit me with both feet to oncel" Extraordinary Bone Scratching. Herbert Sperry, Termont, III., had Erysipelas in both legs. Confined to tl;e house six weeks. Hesaye: "Wh ji I was 'able to get on my legs. I ha-i an itching sennatiou that nearly run me crazy. I scratched them raw to tne bones. Tried everything witbou6-; relief. I was tor men ted. m this way for two years."' J. then found Clarke's Extract of Flax.(PapiUonJ Skin (Jure at the Drug Store, used it. and it has Cured me sound and well " Clarke's Flax Soap has no equal for Bath and Toilet. Skin Cure $1.00 Soap 25 cents. For sale at E. A. Cov ington & Co., Drug Store. out of a boarding-house recently. He was trying to seu a spring medicine warranted to create ao appetite. New Orleans Picayune. - Clarke's Extract of Flax Cogh Car. It is a sure cure ,for Whoopmg Cough. It stops the whoop, and per mits the child to catch its breath. It is eutire y harmiws. Good for any cough of chiidlmoi or old age. It heals the bronchi and lungs, and stops the cough. 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