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TATE SpR1NGs TENN. Tuly

TATE SPRINGS, TENN, July 4, 1ooe The Swift Specific Co.,, Atlanta, Ga; - During the spring of working in the field at my Morgan county, Ca, I pulled of 5es to give my feet rest. Unfor y, walked into clunp of poisopss "A, and in a few days my feet were in terrible condition, and l could not put on a shoa because of the soreness and swelling. was treated as poison oak cases usually are, and everything was healed up. About the same tine the following spring, 1872, my feet became sore again, as at first, and every succeeding spring for five yce-s brought back the same condition Of the dis ease, only each time it became more dis tressing, because began to think it was lifetime trouble. Finally, was induced to try Swift's Specific took six bottles, and to-day am entirely welt. My improvement was gradual from the first, and no evidence of the disease remains. l shall take pleas ure in testifying as to its curative proper ties. It is the greatest blood purifier in ex- istence. Yours truly, J. L, MORGAN.
 The foregoing certificate is taken at random from thousands of letters in possess sion of the Swift Specific Co.,, and presented simply as a sample. Ii is a voluntary statement, giving facts and results of the case. Its accuracy and genuineness are beyond question.
 A valuable Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free Address
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Take me back to tue land where first saw the light.
 9ny Arkansas home, take me back, Where the eotton md ilie corn and the
 Oh, why was ! ts:lEptel to loenss sa2
 The above refrain wiIl bb slss,.z b} Tom Bunch at the "EyeOpenerss grave on Wednesday next.
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Vote tue straight Democratic ticket.
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ST. JOHNS HERALD

Entered in the Post office ct St. Johns as second
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LOCAL NEWS.

ist. Johne, Thurs ay. Nov l.
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"FREE-AGENOY. 80

While admiring the general tenor and
spirit Of the Rev. Elisha Dicks article
upon the above-named subject in THE
UNIyERsALIsT of February Is, 1 think
some of his structures upon the atti-
tude of theologians in discussing this
subject, are not well founded.
The writer ambiguously says, "Free-
Agency, as question, properly belongs
to the science of anthrOpology, and
then he hastens to discuss it from a
theological standpoint. Now, however
much the religionists may desire to
give scientific names to their investiga-
tions, and however valuable the results
Of anthropological, and, in this case
more properly, psychological studies
may be in determining the nature and
condition of volition, there certainly
can be no doubt that Teligionists are
obliged to meet this question from a
theological standpoint, and especially
is this true of those who believe in a
revealed religion.
The Bible certainly embraces this
subject and those who accept it as a
revelation of God made for mans guild
ance and salvation, cannot consistently
Danish this perpleXing subject from the
realms of theological Investigation.
Neither can we regard these words
"free-agency" when applied to the
science of man as contradictory, fer
the word agency is here used in its pri-
mary sense and signifies mans power
to act for himself and not for princi
pal. The upbuilding of the kingdom
of God within US is a personal, not
delegated work.
But Br. Dick says, "a poor man with
a hungry, starving family, if presented
with ten dollar gold piece and nickel,
and assured that he could have either
one he wished, will readily take the ten
dollar piece, the intrinsic value causing
the choice" Would it not be more ex-
act and nearer the truth to say that he
would take the ten dollar piece on ac-
count of its greater utility or purehas-
ing power, for he looks beyond what
political economists and Gnanciers are
pleased to call its intrinsic value, and
sees only the provision it can be ex-
changed for.
There are other untenable positions
taken and incorrect assertions made by
Br. Dick in his attempt to throw light
upon this subject, but the object Of this
article is not review of his, nor dis
cussion of the subject, but rather to
point out a few fundamental errors,
by too hasty plunge into a deep and
intricate subject, immovably fixed with
in the lawful confines of theological in
yestigatiOn. II, LEWELLEN.
Carthage, Dakota, Feb. p, lsSs.
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DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED.

Do not be discouraged because there
seems so much to be done. If there is
great deal given us to do, there is
plenty of time given us wherein to do
it. In the story of 1.-The Discontinued
Pendulum" Mrs. Barbauld tells us
that one night the pendulum of the
kitchen clock began to calculate how
often it would have to swing back
ward and forward, and found that it
must oscillate 3 600 times every hour,
and Sc, 100 times every day. This dis
couraged it, and it had concluded to
stand still. Then it reflected, that
though it had to tick once every sec
ond, railways had second in which to
tick. How often people say in look
ing back on their past trials, eff | had
known beforehand what have had to
bear, | should have despaired. |
could not have borne it." No. And
therefore we do not know beforehand.
Happy for us that we do not. With
each new trial comes new strength;
and we are gently lifted over our
struggles and sorrows by an ever-pres
ent providence Of wisdom and love.
Do not be discouraged in doing good.
1t may often seem as if you accom-
plished very little; as if, with all your
efforts, you cannot effectually help
those whom you wish to serve. When
you lift them up, they fall again. You
may even sometimes find that your
very help seems TO do them harm.
They relax their own efforts and lean
on you. Then comes the danger of
thinking that all effort is useless, that
to endeavor to aid the inefficient is al
ways to discourage the labOriOus, and
that the stern laws of retributiOn
should be left to work out their own
remedy. The Apostle Paul in his let
ter to the COlOssians advises parents
not to discourage their children. You
would say beforehand, that there was
not much need of that recommends
tion. Why should parents discourage
their children? You might think that
it is the parents who are apt to be dis
couraged by their children. Parents
do everything they can for their child
ren, provide them with all the means
of progress, give them the best educa-
tion, put them into good business,
open to them a career of usefulness,
and then the children sometimes throw
away these advantages by idleness,
choosing bad companions, by getting
into needless and foolish difficulties,
wasting their time, neglecting their op-
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portunities, and so becoming discred-
it to themselves and their friends. In
such cases it is the children who dis
courage the parents, not the parents
who discourage the children. And
yet Paul spoke from profound insight
and keen observation. Parents do not
intend to discourage their children.
But they sometimes do so uninten-
tionally, by not being able to put
themselves in the place of the child
ren. Parents and teachers often i'm
agine that all children are alike, and
think that what one is able to do anOth-
er ought to do. But children differ in
their organization, and some find it
hard to accomplish what is to others
easy. Nor do the children themselves
understand what the difficulty is. Par
ents and teachers are too apt to as
sumo that when a child does not do
as he is told or as he ought to do, he is
wilfully disobedient. So they think
hat they ought to punish the child, Or,
at any rate, they show that they are Of
Tended and hurt by the child's be-
haviOur. But when the mysterious
and complex chords of a child's mind
are tangled and out of tune, he does
not know why, but he cannot do the
thing he would. There is temporary
moral arrangement of his faculties.
our watch will occasionally stop for
no good reason that you can perceive.
Then it begins to go again as well as
before. But the machinery of watch
is far less intricate and delicate than
the motor forces of the human soul. ]
think great many children have been
discouraged because they could not
learn their lessons, and were called
stupid and thought themselves so
when perhaps little pains taken by
parents or friends would have tided
them over the difficulty. And many
have been thought obstinate and per-
verse when all they needed was sym
pathy, patience and kindness to help
them out of the transient mood of bad
temper into which they had fallen.
When they are discouraged, they give
up all attempt to do better. Do we
not all remember having had just such
feelings when we were children? We
needed to be encouraged, not blamed.
Jesus comes to us all to say, ''Do not
be discouraged. Never be discouraged. "
Though evil may abound, and the
love of many grow cold, though we see
no way out of surrounding difficult
ties, though even our brethren dis
courage our heart by their gloomy fore
boding, and abandon the good cause,
leaving US alone, still, let us never be
discouraged.-Rev. j. Freeman Clarke.
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correspondence
UNIVERSALIsT CHIEF JUSTICES.

To the Editor of The UniuerSaHst.
1 notice that the Iowans are not alone,
nor by any means singular in choosing
Universalists to fill places OF responsible
ity and trust.
In the township of South Grimsby,
Canada, where religious bigotry exists to
a degree seldom surpassed, the Reeve !"
which is the chief officer in the township,
has been for the last ten years a leading
Univerealist, as was also the warden of
the county, which is also the chief county
official elected each year, with but one
exception, by acclam alton.
The present Reeve Of South Grimsby is
also Universalist, elected in oppo sition
to a Methodist after that, to a limited ex
tent, was made an issue.
The Reeve Of Port Dover is also an out
spoken Universalist, and is prominent
pillar of the Universalist church .here.
He, too, was elected by gcclBmstion, no
orthodox choosing to run against him.
There is no doubt good climber out
side of the UniversRlist church," but the
people generally know whom they can
trust. A READER.
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already appropriated. Gehenna was
once smiling, verdurous Dddi or val
ley, near jerusalem; afterward place
of idolatrous worship, later realm of
filth and corruption; then a burning
waste of fire and flame, but now it is
once more peaceful valley, with no
trace of former desolation. And surely
should God ever create a place of end
less torture, he will not take name
already appropriated, and whose tem-
poral duration is already established in
the worlds history. To have two Ge-
hennas, one already purified and abolish
ed, and another to last forever is to sad
ly confuse things. No,-if Bishop Mer-
rill's Tophet shall everbe created it will
have a new name. SUI generiS itself, its
name must be unique. The infinite
vocabulary is copious enc Ugh to
describeit. Confessedly human speech
has no term, and must forever remain
incapable of a word sufficiently cram
med with horror to suiG and match the
internal idea. But meanwhile, to keep
the brilliant invention Of Bishop Merrill
from being lost to sight, and held in
memory dear, by all who would still
hang on to this figment Of horror, this
theological nightmare, u name must be
had, Sheol, Hades, Taftarus, Gehenna,
He'll, not one nor all wall answer, and
nothing can be more fitting than that
the name of discovefer shall accom-
pany his discovery. TIE author should
have the credit of his p9oduction. The
obsolete Gehenna was named for one
IIinnom, who once owned the valley,
and in order to keep ttis brilliant in
vention from fading away among "the
glimmering dream of things that were, ="
let us name this fgment of distress
ed theOlogian.
This article has been written with a
twofold purpose: D To supply DR..
Safford's want of word, and (2) topre,
vent Bishop Merrill from introducing
confusion among his net too theologi-
cal brethren, by having two Gehennas
in his creed-one temporal and the
other eternal. To kill. hese two birds
with one stone, suppose we drop all
other words that are or have been used,
and that are more GENERALLY admitted
not to contain the idea sof. endless tor
ment, and endow this aa yet uncreated
limbo with the name of its inventor.
Can any word be more appropriate than
MERRILLVILLE? a.
Let this word stand tAen as the fit
ting tribute of admiring contempor-
aries to an original geniq who confess
es that as yet there Is n0'hell, as pur-
tialist creeds interpret the word, and
who charges the Almighty with pur-
posing to build one, after having SO long
governed his universe without it. Did
exegetical exigency ever exegete itself
so out of the skillet on to the embers,
as Bishop Merrill has done in his efforts
to rescue hell2
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HARD NAMES.i

To the Editor of The UnirerSoLiSt:
Will Rev. J. J. Austin please give us the
pronunciation Of Chihuahua, which he
would call "English?"
Iquite agree with him in the propriety
OF keeping the English language pure,
but the language to-day is in itself just
what he fears it is coming to in the future
1t, the English language, is not Ian
guage after all, but is a mixture of the
languages Of all nations.
Now, in the matter of those proper
names; which was first, the name or its
photography? l take it that the name
preceded the spelling. The name Wa
keen, for instance, or Hosa. The name
exists, and we try to spell it. We are
Spanish, and use that language and spell
the names very naturally, Joaq uin and
Jose. Had we been English We would
have used the English letters to make the
name and spelled it Wa-keen and Hosa.
To pronounce these names Joaquin and
Jose would be baroarism indeed.
Gan Br. Austin give us the pronuncia-
ton of chihuahua, Xingo, and a score Of
other names in that locality?
New Workers find no difficulty in pro-
nouncing Chemount or ChateauguRy, and
yet they both retain their correct names
though represented by their French or
biography, Il any change is made, let it
be in the spelling, as was the case in
Ouiskonsin ;" such at least would be
the opinion of \ TEACHER.
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member that that which becomes COM
mon ceases, at least to the large multi
tude, to be any longer a disgrace.
And it may yet become not uncommon
for gentlemen moving in 'good society"
to refer to the time " when | was serv-
ing my sentence down at Joliet" in a
very nOnchalant and matter of fact
way! To the rich man it may be some
what inconvenient to be sequestered
for a time from the pursuits of active
business life; but to many, couple of
years in the penitentiary with regular
habits, wholesome food and sweet
sleep and abstinence of dissipation,
may even be regarded as godsend to
enable them to recuperate the wasted
energies of constitution shattered by
too close attention to business or fast
life. And if the present tendency,
which seems quite apparent, of allow
ing prisoners all the accommodation
possible continues, great financie1s
sitting in their prison cells with their
private secretaries and mes engers,
with private telephone and te' egraph
wires may yet bear and bull Il g mar
kets, control railroad and wheat deals,
and hold the financial fate of the ma
tion in their power. 1t only needs the
logical carrying out of principles in
prison management already acted uptn
to accomplish this.
Already men who do not like to work
or who do not find work commit crime,
for the sake of the good food and warm
lodging through the cold weather that
conviction and Imprisonment insures
them. The deterrent purpose Of pun
ishment seems to be lost sight of and
an inducement to crime held out.
Something must be radically wrong
when such condition of things pre-
walls. Neither the refOrmatory idea
nor the deterrent idea, nor the restrain
ing idea by the safe-keeping Of the
criminal should be lost sight Of in pun
ishments. Nor do we advocate any re-
turn to cruel and inhuman treatments,
but we believe that punishments
should be adapted to the crime; that
the law should be speedily and impair
italy enforced, and that so-called pun
ishments should indeed be penitOry and
not inducements to the commission of
crime.
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LEWISTON IDAHO.

To the Editor Of The UairersatSt:
1 wish to emphasize the words Of Rev.
A. A. Thayer. when he states what a
promising field an able consecrated min
lister would find here in Oregon, Wash,
ington and Idaho. The Unitarians have
a man establishing churches in the lead
ing cities - Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle,
etc Let us do likewise.
Lewiston is an old mining town, and
is now at its lowest ebb; but it beauti-
full site for q large city. We have the
climate of Southern France here. For
ten days past we have had May days and
April showers. Already the buttercups
have uufolded their petals and jeweled
their golden hearts with silver stars of
dew.
We expect railroad OF two this year
and anticipate a great future for our lit
tie city. This is why l think We had bet.
ter hold the fort here; We have gained !;
but our building material is limited.
1 preach occasionally at Almota, little
town forty miles below here on the Snake
river. Last Friday evening we went
down on the steamer that lays over at
Almota. The crew, deck hands, mate,
captain ~ went to church, and when
We asked for collection (as preachers
sometimes do the captain took my hat
and brought it back equivalent to several
such hats. Mrs. Ringer, the wife Of
Hon. Mr.. Ringer q man well known
throughout the Northwest, Is a staunch
Universalist. Mrs. Ringer owes her faith
to our literature, as she has heard little
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The Jewish Messenger thinks that " Is
raehtes do not need any new creed, but a
genuine faith in the old one. No new
departure is requisite, but a deeper reali-
zation Of the power Of old truths. Fresh
ness in the presentation OF divine truth,
force in it's application, feeling and feryOr
in its ministration, can not be manufact-
ured. They must spring from the spirit
OF preacher and teacher"
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preaching Of our faith. If DR.. Demsrest
calls Jon us we shall be glad to see him
II he don't we won't; SO there.
LEE FAIRCHILD.
Feb. 21, 1883.
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DURING 1887 railroads in Michigan
earned SsO8l9 6O9, an increase over 1886
of 80, 9,33S,O57.
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Iron and Stone Houses.

There is nothing so marked in the
most elegant buildings put up in the
fashionable quarters during the past
year as the prominence given to stone
and iron, says the Philadelphia Times.
The use of wrought iron for doors,
showing the vestibule through glass
within, has become so general that hun
dreds of householders have either had
new doors made introducing it, or had
panels taken out of their front doors,
and iron work inserted. So with win.
dows, Not only are ornamental iron
grilles upon cellar windows a feature in
new houses. but regular barred upper
windows, such as seen in old Spanish
houses, have begun to make their ap-
pearance, and are quite in keeping with
the present medieval tendencies of
domestic architecture.
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BuffalO's Negro Ball Player.

Grant, the colored second baseman Of
the Buffalos, is the only negro playing
professionally with any club in the diff
ferent associations. He is q fine ball
tosser, all the same, and hasn't many
superiors among players either white or
black. l think he gets 5000 year for
his services, while, if he had white
skin, he could easily demand $1,000.
Grant is very popular in Buffalo, and
for that reason the management is forced
to hold him, although the players of the
club are said to feel keenly having to
play with colored man. In the East
Grant goes with the other members of
the club, stops at the same hotels, eats
at the same table and possibly occupies
the same room. While in this city he
is registered at the Gulf House, but is
roomed with the colored help and takes
his meals with them. In this club is
found two of the oldest ball-tossers be-
fore the public. Nelson, who has been
playing ball for thirty years. is holding
down short field, while Jack Remson,
at one time the great centre-felder of
the old Mutuals of New York, of which
Bobby Matthews was the star pitcher,
is playing the same position for the Buf-
"a los Il Louisville Post
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number Of shoes consumed may be seen
from the number made last year, when
II, 700 pairs of boots and G5, 421 pairs OF
shoes were turned out. A pair of cav
airy boots costs the government about
So 20, and pair of brass screwed calf
skin shoes S272.
Next in order comes the harness shop,
where Uncle Sans ambulances, riding
saddles, wagon saddles, and incidentals
are made. The tin shop turns out tin
plates, cups and all the ware needed by
the army, including copper boilers and
kettles. 1t is all hand work, except
power cutting and stamping machine.
The broom shop manufactures these use
full articles, and no less than 30, 900
brooms are turned out per annum. The
prison carpenters manufacture barrack
chairs, mess tables, benches, company
desks, cart saddles, supporting sticks
and battens of aparejos. The black
smith shop irons the wood work from
the carpenters, makes bolts and such
other iron work as may be necessary
about the prison and post. In the tailor
shop is made the prison clothing.
Besides these modes of disposing Of
their labor the prisoners quarry rock,
burn lime, erect the prison building,
and are loaned to the depot quarter
master for work on the roads, being
charged up to that department at so
much per day.
Prisoners do the cooking, baking and
washing, all done with special and new
style machinery. The dining room will
accommodate half the prisoners at one
time and everything moves like clock
work. At signal the prIs oners seat
themselves and rise after eating. The
diet is the army ration, supplemented
by the prison farm products-more than
two-thirds of the vegetables consumed
coming from this source. The time al
lowed for each meal is twenty five min
utes, and the prison records show that
the Authorization of prisoners is adequate
to maintain the m in their normal status
throughout their Imprisonment. Work.
ing hours range from seven and a half
to nine hours per day, varying with the
season, and there seems to be no es pecial
tendency on the part Of the men to
shirk their tasks.-LGlobe- Democrat.