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A New Origin Attributed to
MethOdism.

The following is from DR.. Eggleston's
illustrated historical paper in the May
Century: About 1879 there sprang up
in England what were known as the re-
ligious societies. and though a great
part of the religious history of England
and her colonies in the eighteenth CEN
fury lay in embryo in that movement,
we can not now tell the name of its
tons. 1t is possible that some stray
seed frem Spencer's pietistic meetings
in Germany had been waited across the
Channel, but it is more probable that
the English societies were indigenous.
The members of these obscure associa-
tons stirred up one another to devo-
ton and resorted to the communion of
the parish churches in body. 1t was
the phenomenon so often seen in the
worlds religious history-a church
growing within church that had lost
the power to satisfy the aspirations of
the human spirit. About 1851, a dozen
years after their beginning, some of
these associations came under the in
fluence of the reformatory impulse set
a-going by the revolution of 1858; and
by this means losing their merely pie
tistic character, they undertook to CO.
operate for the suppression of the
prevalent vices of the time. Three or
four years later the hidden leaven of
the societies began to make itself felt
as force to be reckoned with, and
| Queen Mary and Archbishop Tillotson
thought it worth while to lend their APP
proval to this new movement, which
had grown while sovereigns and pre-
lates slumbered and slept. BY 1701
there were twenty allied societies for
the reformation of manners in the Brit
ish Islands, besides forty 'devout So
cieties of the original kind. The most
conspicuous outgrowth of the devout
societies was the Methodist movement
of the eighteenth century, though l do
not know that the connection has ever
before been pointed out. The so-called
Holy Club of Oxford from which
issued the Wesleys and Whitefield, APP
pears to have been merely one of the
religious societies which had already
nourished for fifty years, and some
of which were still in existence thirty
years later. From this same familiar
model Wesley doubtless borrowed the
outlines of the plan that resulted in the
more highly-organized Methodist So
ceties out of which in time have come
the great Methodist bodies"
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Sneezing Catarrh.

The distressing sneeze sneeze, sneeze the acrid
watery discharges from the eyes aud the pain
full inflammation extending to the throat, the swell
ing of the mucous lining, causing choking sensa-
tions, cough ringing noises in the head and splitting
headaches-how familiar these symptoms to
thousands who suffer periodically from head colds
or influenza and who live in ignorance of the fact
that single application of SANFoRD's RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH will afford Instantaneous relief.
But this treatment in of simple catarrh gives
but faint idea of what this remedy will do in the
chronic FORMS where the breathing is obstructed by
choking, putrd mucous accumulations, the hearing
affected smell and taste gone, throat liberated and
hacking cough gradually fastening itself upon the
debilitated system. Then it is that the marvellous
curative power of SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE mani
tests itself in instantaneous and grateful relief.
Cure begins from the first application. 1t is rapid,
radical, permanent, economical, safe.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one bottle
of the RADICAL CURE, one box Of CATARRHAL
SOLVENT and an IMPROVED INHALER; price 81.
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
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and feebleness, all break the spirit Have you
never heard of Mr. Nathan Chase, of New Bed
ford, Mass.2 A man nearly four-score years old,
and hale and hearty as in youth. And yet he
was supposed to be dying Of heart trouble less
than two years ago. Here is what he says:
"a year ago OF more l began to lose
flesh and strength. ] sent for my physician to
know the cause. He examined me, and said it
was my heart that the old machinery was
wearing out, and | must be careful. Still
grew worse. Finally l got so bad / could
scarcely breathe; / could not lie in bed but
had to sit up all night with possibly one
hours sleep out of twenty-four. And yet
to-day, / am in fine condition; can go
up three flights of stairs without incon-
venience, and feel as well and about as young
as ever in my life before. What accomplished
this? Hunts Remedy-nothing else. 1t has
made new man of me, and bless God for it
every day"
Such an experience should be valuable
lesson to all readers, both old and young.
1t shows that long and happy life is posi-
BILE. 1t shows that men or women need not
despond. 1t shows that by care and the use
of the right remedy health, happiness and
long life may he secured by all.
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Two Ends.

When a small boy was carrying
not very large ladder, when there was
a crash. An unlucky movement had
brought the rear end OF my ladder
against a window. Instead of scolding
me, my father made me stop, and said,
very quietly: Look here, my son,
there is one thing l wish you to re-
member; that is, every ladder has two
ends" | never have forgotten it,,
though many years have gone. Do
not we carry things besides ladders that
have two ends? When l see young
man getting " fast habits l think he
sees only one end of the ladder, the
one pointed towards pleasure, and that
he does not know the other is wound
ing his parents hearts. All! yes, every
ladder has two ends, and it is thing to
be remembered in more ways than one,
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Thou KnOwest.

O Lord, know not what / should
ask of thee. Thou only knowest what
| want; and thou lowest me, if am thy
friend, better than | love myself. O
Lord, give to me, thy child, what is
proper, whatsoever it may be. l dare
not ask either crosses or comforts. |
only present myself before thee.
open my heart to thee. Behold my
wants, which l myself am ignorant of;
but do thou behold and do according
to thy mercy-smite or heal, depress OF
raise me up. l adore all thy purposes
without knowing them. / am silent;
offer myself in sacrifice. | abandon
myself to thee. | have no more any
desire but to accomplish thy will. Lord
teach me how to pray. Dwell thou
myself in me by thy Holy Spirit
FenelOn.
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Unseliislincss.

There is no better way of promoting
ones own interests than by being I'M
selfish. He who is always looking out
for the welfare of others will be sure to
have others looking out for his welfare,
while he who is always looking out for
himself will be left by others to take
care of himself. In this sense there is
wisdom as we'll as grace in unselfish-
ness. Says the Son of Sirach: He
that requiteth good turns is mindful of
that which may come hereafter, and
when he falleth he shall find a stay"
But, as a practical matter, one will not
be unselfish in order to promote his own
interests, for so long as he has himself
in mind unselfshness is impossible to
him. -Smddy-SchoOl Times.
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Mloral ann Religious.
Mother and Home.

A little child in the busy street
A child with shy face, flower sweet,
And brown eyes, troubled and half afraid,
by the noise and hurry quite dismayed
I lifted the baby hand and said
Smoothing the curs on the golden head
Where Is your home, my little one?'
For the summers day was nearly done.
And the swift tears came at her reply,
As she, trusting, answered, sweetly shy
Home is where mamma is, you know;
Won't you take me there? want to GO"
Where mother isl o the world of love
No matter how far our fee may rove,
When weary and worn in constant strife
Mother and home are the best of life.
Blessed Is he who may smiling say,
" I'm going home to mother to-day"
Gods mercy hallows that home so dear
Where mother our footsteps waits to hear.
Bless the busy hands and CHEEKY smile
That brighten and comfort all the while;
Nothing on earth can with home compare
When loving mother waits us there
Selected
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THE CAUSE OF WEAKNESS.
Why So Many People Feel Weak, Tired
and Nervous in the Spring.
Exhausted Nervous Vitality
the Real Cause.
HOW THIS CONDITION MAY BE
EASILY OVERCOME.

TINHE most prevalent complaint at this season of
l. the year is weakness and debility. People have
a less constant sense of exhaustion or pros
tration, getting tired at physical or mental work
which formerly could be done with With this
weakness there is condition of nervousness or
irriability, accompanied by anguid and enervated
feeling.
The cause is that there is an exhaustion of the
nerve powers and prostraon of the vitality
This will be readily understood when 1t is considered
that the nervous system is the handspring, so to
speak of the body that it controls the action of all
our organs well as all our movements and is the
force by which live. 1t is plain, therefore, that
when, for any cause, the nervous power energy and
strength is weakened or exhausted, physical pros
tration, with wrong action of all the organs must
inevitably follow.
ilnnl lie end hon snlrna
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face danger untlinchingly
but To watch the hairs
whiten, the lines Of pain
and care grow deep in
the face, to feel the
strength and activity go
ing and death coming on,
we're more than he could
bear. Alas how many
others feel the same to-
day. Pains loss Of sleep,
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advertisements.
A Frishtful Skin Disease
Sufferings Intense. Head nearly Raw.
Body covered with Sores. Cured by
the Cuticura Remedies.

MEssRs STEVENS BRUYER, Monroe NC:
Dear Sirs .-About two months ago ON your
recommendation, bought bottle Of CUTICtrRA
REsoLvENT, one box of CUT1CURA SALvE and one
cake of CUTICURA SOAP for my son, aged thirteen
years who has beer afflicted with eczema for a long
time, and | am pleased to say that believe the
remedies have cured him. HIS suderings were in
tense his head being nearly raw, his ears being
gone except the griste, and his body was covered
with sores. His condition frightful to behold
The sores have now all disappeared, his skin is
healthy, eyes bright. cheerful In disposition and is
working every day. My neghbors are wtnesse to
this remarkable cure, and the doubling re-
quested to call on or write me, or any of my neigh
bOrs. WIN. S. STEPHENSON.
Winchester =. o., Union Co., n. C.
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Selctteo Storp.
q" Me and Bob and jim"

Yes sir. we're sailors children,
We live there by the sea,
And father went off with the fleet
A month ago, may be,
And mother feels so badly
To have him gone away
II twasn't for us children here
think she'd cry all day.
You see there's me and Bobby,
And then here's little Jim,
He always hangs back cause he's 'fraid
That folks won't speak to him.
He never knew his mother,
She died so long ago,
And then his father, too, was lost
In last years awful blow.
And father said as long as he'd
A sailors heart in him
Thered always surely he place
To shelter little Jim.
He thinks he's ours for truly,
And laughs and acts so glad
When father comes; you ought to see
Him hug and call him Dad"
But often in the summer
We children like to go
To where the little church-yard lies
The sailors church, you know
His mothers there, so always
We put some flowers from Jim,
We want him to remember her,
Cause she remembered him.
When father sailed he told us
To watch for the new moon,
For when it hung there in the west
The fleet would be back soon.
Last night we saw it shining
As bright as bright could he.
And mother says the " Lively Jane"
VIII soon get in from sea.
You see it's named for mother.
And father says he'd "think
A boat that had name like that
Would never want to sink
He'll come back to get some flowers,
He loves the violets so,
The posies amt of much account
Down by the sea, you know.
So If youll come and see us
The place amt hard to find,
That little brewn house by the rocks,
The cliff is just behind
And If the Lively Jane" is in
with father you'll see him,
But, anyway, you always can
Find me and Bob and Jim.
-Add .Stecdu shelton
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MONROE, N. G., October %, 1887
THE POTTER DRI

THE POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Coz
Gentlemen Mr.. WIN. S. Stephenson of this county
brought his to town today to let us see him and
to show us what CuT1CuRA REMEDIES had done for
him. This is the case referred to in letter to
you some time ago. To look at the boy now one
would suppose that there had never been anything
the matter with him. He seems to be in perfect
health. We have written and herewith enclose
what his father has to say about the matter. We
wrote 1t just as he dictated.
We are selling quite quantity of CUTICURA
REMEDIES and hear nothing but praises for them
We regard the CUTICURA REM the best in
the market, and shall do all we can to promote their
sale. Yours truly
STEVENS q BRUNER,
Druggists and Pharmacists,
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KEEP YOUR TEMPER.-Many one
loses both fortune and friends by a
rash outburst of temper. Paine's Gel
cry Compound will help any one to
keep his temper, for it is usually the
nervous and sick who get angry. This
medicine strengthens the nerves and
restores kidneys and bowels to health.
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Sold everywhere. Price: CUTICURA, 80 cents
SOAP, % cents REsoLvENT, 81 Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., Boston, Mass.
~ Send for " How to Cure Skin Diseases" "a
pages 50 illustrations and 100 testimonials.
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"a GREEN OLD ACE"

Few Men or Women Reach IL, But Near.
Iy All Might-The Remarkable Ex-
perience of an Octogenarian.
"There is only one thing dread" said the
late Charles Sumner, "and that is the coming
on of old age"
Mr. Sumner was q brave man. and could
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-09
|EE Elj|I|III; ] /! Best
Land for Sale in Michigan.

DR.. f. d. Sargent of Eastlake, Michigan,
dealer in Timber, Fruit, Farming and Stump
Lands in Michigan. From fifty cents to ten
dollars per acre. Correspondence invited
now at Washington, VT.
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STEVENS q BRUNER,
Druggists and Pharmacists

CUTIcURA, the great skin cure, and CUTICURA
SOAP prepared from it, externally, and CUT1CURA
REsoLvENT, the new blood purifier, internally, are
positive cure for every form of skin and blood
disease, from pimpes to scrofua.
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DIM PIES. Black-heads, Red Rough Chapped
] itU and oily Skin prevented by CUTICURA SOAP.
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Weak, Languid and Tired,

Weak, Languid and Tired,
with more less nervousness, they may be certain
that it is account of exhausted nervous vitality
the nerves have become weak and the generation of
nerve force has become lessened arrested. If
this condition is allowed to continue the disease
to progress, utter physical and prosration
will certainly follow.
Persons thus affected often nervous sleepless,
Respondent and mentally depressed; there will be
in many dull, cloudy sensation in the head,
with bad feelings in the eyes and tired feeling on
arising in the morning. There is often dyspepsia,
Indigestion biliousness constipation kidney dis
ease
1t is an obvious fact that If cure is he obtained
in these cases 1t can be effected only by the use of
some remedy which builds up force in the
system, strengthens the nerves, restores lost en-
ergy and power and creates healthy action of all
the organs.
A Sure and Positive Cure
will he found in DR.. Greenes Nervura Nerve Tonic
and promise our readers that, If they will use
this wonderful remedy they will be restored to per
feet health, strength and vigor.
This we know is high praise to bestow upon
remedy, but facts will warrant all that has been
said, and in affirming that it is the greatest tonic
and restorer ever discovered we are simply saying
what every one who has used it knows to he a truth
for its wonderful effects in restoring health strength
and vgor to the weakened nerves and debilitated
system without parallel in the history of medi
cine. Sufferers from any form of nervous disease
physical debility, dyspepsia, Indigestion constipa
ton or kidney complaint may easily demonstrate for
themselves its great curative power and be restored
to health by its use, as the remedy may be had al
any druggists at 81 per bottle.
! DR.. Greene of "a Temple Place Boston, Mass, the
dscoverer of this great remedy is the most eminent
of the specialists in the Of nervous and chronic
diseases, and may be consulted, free of charge per
| sonay or by mail
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
WIDE AWAKE
SUNDAY-SCHOOLS

are not satisfied with singing as 1t happens" but
take pains by classes and rehearsals, to prepare
their young singers for solos and choruses for sun
day and for festival singing For such schools
Dtson 4 Co. provide the best music by the best of
composers.
Chldrens Diadem 80 St g u Psr qo7 Ths
newest book. full of very sweet songs and well fitted
to succeed their other successful books.
Uo,ooo oP Dro,co 20 cts, 81 20 per dozen. Rev.
voices OF fralSo Charles l.. Hutchins
handsome book of great merit and highly recon-
mended. Dignihed yet brilliant, hymns and tunes
New Spiritual Songs Re S' E. g. m6 @fnS%
and j. II. Tenney. More than 10000 sold. New edi-
ton condensed and improved.
Song Worship Emerson eg S' and a' w. iGt snerw H.
both distinguished Sunday -school composers"
Singing on the Ways cts. $3.50 per dozen
Jewett and Hobrook,
Songs of Promises cts, 80 80 per dozen.
Hoffman and Tenney.
Why not send for specimen copies (maed for re-
tail price, or for specimen pages (freeH
oliver Ditson g. Co., Boston.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
-Wetting gray hair to crimp 1t will

-Wetting gray hair to crimp it will
turn it yellow.
In using baking powder, one level
teaspoonful is the proper proportion fol
each cup of flour.
A bread-and-water poultice is made
by dipping a piece of bread, after the
crust has been removed, into warm
water. Lift it out at once and apply
hot.
old china needs the greatess care.
both in washing and drying. Too hot
water may crack it. Luke-warm water
and soap are the best things for china,
and it should also be rinsed in luke.
warm water.
For Reaches Sprinkle borax fol
the large reaches or put phosphoru:
paste about on bits of glass for the
small red ones, at night only. The
borax is perfectly safe and can remain
all day where there are children.
-Molasses Drops. One cup of mo-
lasses, one cup of brown sugar, one
cup Of lard, three eggs, one teaspoon.
full of soda, dissolved in boiling water,
five cups Of flour, and ginger to flavor.
Mix well, and drop on buttered paper
in pans.
A correspondent writes in the
Scientific Amerie an that the worst
toothache or neuralgia, coming from
the teeth, may be speedily and de,
lightfully ended by the application of a
small bit of cotton, saturated in strong
solution of ammonia, to the defective
tooth.
-Tapioca Cream.-Soak two table
spoonfuls of tapioca in little milk all
night; add one quart of boiling milk,
yclks of three eggs, and one-hali
cupful of sugar. Boil together;
add one teaspoonful of vanilla. and
bake. Make meringue of the whites
of three eggs.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
THE FUNNY OLD CLOWN.

Dear century plant, 1 love thy bismuthed face,
Thy peaked hat and grotesque painted smiles,
Thy dear old jokes that with q tender grace
Make plaintive music for thy antic wiles;
love thy sQralling songs, roared out of tune,
Thy bearded old conundrums, bald and blind,
The mellow beauty of the afternoon
That years untold through all thy wit hath
shined.
Friend Of my childhood. thou art never old;
He hath no heart who says thy jokes are
stale;
Warm is the soul that loves the Jest thrice told
And dear the friend who loves the twice-told
tale.
What though the title page tells all the rest,
Must all our mirth be shiny with veneers
Are not the Oldest songs OF all the best?
Are not the Oldest friends Of all most dear!
What then? The little ones are pleased with
thee,
And in their childish plaudits, sweet and
clear,
The old dead laughter of my boyhood's glee,
Called back again to life, seem to hear.
laughed, with echoes of old laughter blent,
To think how new and bright thy Jokes were
then;
So every circus day seek thy tent,
And shout to hear thy Here we are again!'
Robert J. Burdette. in Brooklyn Eagle.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
A Remarkable Jumper.

William Byrd Page, of the Manhattan
Athletic Club, has at last achieved the
height of his ambition. At the recent
annual games of the Stourbridge England
Athletic Club in the running high jump
he made record Of feet 31a inches,
clearing the bar easily in his first trial at
that height The previous highest amateur
record in the world was feet 23l inches,
made by P. DAWN, at Carrick-on- -Suer, Ire
land, July 5, $780, and the best English anna
teur record was feet 214 inches, by NJ. J.
Brooks, of Oxford University, at Little
Bridge Grounds, London, April z, 1876.
DAWN is a man of more than average height,
while Brooks was Titan of 6 feet 2 inches,
and both were of mature age and growth.
Page is lad of 140 pounds weight, 2115
years of age, and 5 feet 81 inches in height.
That so small and young lad should
achieve worlds record in a game requir-
ing such combined strength and skill is lit
tie short of marvellous.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
FLED IN MALE ATTIRE.
Experience OF Two Young English Wom
en- Converts in Mormondom.

Experience OF Two Young English Wom-
en- Converts in Mormondom.
A woman about twenty years old was
Accosted by policeman In the Pennsyl-
vania depot at Jersey City the other after
noon because she appeared to be in men,
tai distress. To New York Tribune re-
porter she told the following story:
Her name was Eleanor Pastor and she
had Just arrived from Salt Lake City.
About a month ago. she, in company with
seventeen other converts who had been
secured in Cornwall, Eng, were taken to
Salt Lake City by Elder Bascom. Bascom
already had three wives, the principal of
whom was one named Hannah. a gray
haired woman. Whom the elder announced
his intention of taking to Miss Pastor and
Miss Clegg, her companion, Hannah be.
came jealous and angry. Both the con.
verts objected to remaining in the
elders household and one night they
tied together some clothing and low
cred themselves from a window Of the
house. They were discovered in an alley
near the tabernacle by Elder Junius T.
Wells, Mormon, who, Miss PASTOR says,
sides with the Government. He took the
two women to stable and provided them
each with suit of male attire, in order to
facilitate their escape from tho city. On
the following morning he took them to tho
railroad station and put them on the train.
While they were standing on the plat
form Elder Bascom came up and asked Ell.
der Wells if he had seen any thing of the
two missing women, not recognizing them
in their new garb. On the train they re-
lated their story to the women passengers,
who provided them with suitable clothing,
while the gentlemen made up a purse for
them. At Omaha Miss Clegg left the train
with lady who had promised her situa-
ton. Miss PASTOR is of bright intellect,
and says she had no idea until she reached
Salt Lake City that Bascom intended to
marry her