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REoASroE, Miss, Ju

REoANToE, Miss, July o. 1890.
"1'he dispensations of Providence arc
truly wonderful" exclaiins my friend,
as he stands in his door and sees re-
freshing showers fall upon his neigh
bor's fields day after day, while his
own arc parching from protractcd dry
ness. Such IL The condition up here.
All the plantations north of us are in
danger of being overrun with grass,
caused by excessive rains; those peo-
pie on the south and west are much
concerned for the safety of their corn,
as a lack of rain has caused much of it
TO Sire" up to the shoot"
This entire end of Claiborne went
to Cayuga on the 4th inst, to the
church picnic, and report having had
splendid time. Miss Patton, of Har-
riston, delivered a temperance address,
which attracted much attention. Over
500 persons were present. The man.
ayers of the picnic realized over $500
for the church, on the sales of re-
frcshments.
A fishing party from Midway COM
munity went to Cane Lake near the
Big Sand creek, last week, and caught
over 400 nice fish.
Rev. Y. Westerfeld, at his regular
services here, ON Sunday, received five
additions to his church membership.
Steps are now being taken to erect a
church here at once, for that denomi-
nation.
Rev. II. Siddon, of the Christian
church, has an appointment to preach
at Midway on Sunday, the 18th inst,
at 3 p. m.
Major Barksdalc at Rocky Springs
on the 5th inst, delivered the most
powerful piece of oratory 1t has been
our pleasure to hear. Ii occupied one
huu tnTcc-quaFleT nOuTs IN lls uellN-
cry; but he kept the attention OF his
audience throughout. He is sanguine
of nomination, and on good grounds
too.
Mr.. Barton Robinson, of Vicksburg,
came out to Rocky Springs yesterday,
on a visit to his mother. Mrs. boyle.
Prof G. X. Regan closes his private
school to-day.
Mr.. j. X. llighlender lost his fine
buggy-horsc on Monday; his death
being caused by a peculiar disease un-
known to anyone here.
EE1sRERTfg
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Liberty of G ,nscience.

X Nj. Kings of Obion county, Ten
nessee, belongs TO n sect which
holds Saturday and not Sunday To
be the Sabbath. He observes Sat
urday with great strictness, and on
Sunday quietly proceeds with the
labor on his farm.
For doing so. Mr. King was tried,
convicted and fined last March.
The National Religious Liberty As
sociation--an organization composed
entirely of believers in the Christ
ian religion-has undertaken Kings
defense, and the case has been APP
pealed to the supreme court Of the
United States for the purpose Of
testing there the c0nstitutionality of
state laws enforcing the religious
observance of Sunday rs n Sabbath.
Whatever the judicial ruling may
be as to the power Of a state to en-
force such laws, there can be no
doubt that their enforcement in such
cases as that of Mr. King is a gross
violation ofnatural rights and rights
of conscience.
1t is not cOntcnded that Mr.. King
disturbed any neighbor in the en-
joyment OF a quiet Sunday. but
merely that his working ON Sunday
and his observance of Saturday as
his Sabbath instead, was an offensc
t0 the moral sense of the communi-
ty, and violation of the law of the
state.
II it was so, it is high time for the
community in which Mr.. King lives
to discipline its moral sense, and
for his state to rearrange its laws in
conformity with that principle of
individual liberty which lies at the
foundation of ofAmerican institutions.
The principle involved is simple
and its application plain. The state
has nothing to do with religion ex-
cept to protect every citizen in his
religious liberty. IL has no more
right to prescribe the religious OBJ
servancc of Sabbaths and holy days
than to order sacramcnts and ordain
creedS.
In recognition OF the general Gus
tom of the people, the state right
fully makes Sunday legal holiday,
in order that no man whose con-
science or convenience forbids may
be compelled to work on that day.
The law also properly protects cit
liens against unnecessary disturb
ance of their quictude on that day,
but beyond that it has no right t.
go, in a country where church and
state are totally separated by furdl-
mental law. To go further is for
the state 10 assume powers incon-
sistent with its being and very DIN.
gerous to religious liberty.
And this doctrine is held by all
enlightened men of all crceds, not
in antagonism to any but in defense
of all. 1t is the doctrine of perfect
religious liberty in purely secular
state as opposed to the doctrine of
state absolutism and intolerance in
religion. .-NsiC York World.
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What may we take into the vast Forever2
That marble door
Admits no fruit Of all our long endeavor,
No faun-wreathed crown we wore,
No garnered lore.
What can we bear beyond the unknown portal
No gold, no gains
or all our toiling in the life immortal
No boarded wealth remains,
Nor guilt, nor stains.
Naked from ont the far abyss behind us
We entered here;
No word came with our coming, to remind US
What wondrous world was near,
No hope, no fear.
Into the silent, stArIess night before ms
Naked we glide.
No hand has mapped the consultations DER us,
No chart, no guide,
No comrade at our side.
Yet fearless toward the midnight black and hol-
low
0ur footsteps fare;
The beckoning Of e Fathers hand we follow
His love alone Ii there:
No curse, no care.
e. n. SW.
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"In all Points Like as We Are"

Thou with strong prayer and very much entreat
willest be asked, and thou shalt answer then
Show the bid heart beneath creation beating,
Smile with kind eyes and be man with men
Were it not thus, o King OF my salvation.
Many would curse 10 thee, and for one;
Fling thee thy bliss and snatch at thy damnation
Scorn and abhor the shining Of the suns
Ring with reckless shivering OF laughter,
wroth at the woe which thou hast seen 50 long,
Question II any recompense hereafter
Waits 10 atone the intolerable wrong.
Can IL be true, the grace He Is declaring7
Oh let us trust Him, for his words are fair
Man, what is this, and why arr thou despairingi
God shall forgive thee all but thy despair.
Truly he can not, after such assurance,
Truly he can not and he shall not fail;
Nay, they are known, the hours OF thine endnr-
anca,
Daily thy tears are added 10 the tale:
Never sigh OF passion or OF pity,
Never wall for weakness or for wrong,
Has not it's archive in the angels city,
Finds not it's echo In the endless song.
Not as one blind and deaf TO our beseeching,
Neither forgetful that we are but dust;
Not as from heavens too high for our up-reach-
ing,
Coldly sublime, intolerably just:--
Nay, but thou knewest us, Lord Christ, thou
knowest,
Well thou rememberest our feeble frame,
Thnn canst conceive our highest and our lowest,
Pulses Of nobeness and aches Of shame.
Therefore have pity mot that we accuse thee,
Curse thee and die aud charge thee with our
woe:
Not through thy fault o Holy One. we lose thee,
Nay, but our own,-yet hast Thou made pa 20 |!
Then though our foul and limiiless liansgres-
sion
Grows with our growing, with our breath be-
gan,
Raise thou the arms OF endless intercession,
Jesus, divinest when thou most art man
-Rsg. Frederick W. H. Myers.
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in the last two years. And the growth
of production has more than kept pace
with that of population. IL has really
been marvelous-thc most notable
being that of pine apples. The increase
in that product has been from 400 Il
500 per cent, and this years prices
have been unprecedented. Eight hun.
dred TO ten thousand pines is consid.
cred an average marketable yield per
acre, and $50 per 1000 a fair price
This year the average Is $50 per 1000
net. You will be astonishcd, and per.
haps incredulous, at the mention oi
but two instances of very profitable
gardening. Near Titusyille a young
man squatted on a piece of unoccupied
land, containing less than half an acre
planted it in egg plants, shipped them
north, and put $500, the net returns
in the Titusvillc bank. Mr.. Olds, who
has homestead on the southern part
of Hutchinson's island, netted S40t
from half acre of snap beans. In
deed | could fill an entire page of your
paper with similar facts but as In
dian river needs no more "booming,
what | have said will suffice.
All the land on the mainland is dis
posed of except tract of "a acres, for
which the owner refuses S24 per acre
and a small tract which cannot be sold
at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. B. Hutchinson have
been here for about year. The lat
ter is one of the most accomplished
and devoted disciples of old lack
Walton, and gets down to Florida life
as If she was born acracker."
Mr.. and Mrs. K. 4. fischer arc
housed on the mainland and will so
continue until there is partition of
the Hutchinson grant. AID" takes
quite kindly to the row boat and fish,
ing tackle, and expects, ono of these
days to take sole command of a ten
foot "dinky." lie cannot, however, be
said to be fully domiciliated, for he
still keeps his shoes on.
On our arrival we met a grand re-
ception from-the mosquitoes. whose
music aud warm salutations cngrossed
our undivided attention.
wen out into the river the other
day fishing and landed two sharks.
We did not eat them. Ny companion
hauled in an cight-pound bass which
we did eat.
| have not yet taken up my residence
on the island, as my palmetto villa is
somewhat out of repairs, and the mos
quitocs have entered formal protest
against its present repair.
My present postoffice address is An
kona, Brcvard county, Fla, where
shall be happy to receive any commu-
nications except dunning letters.
A. J.L.
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What will reflective readers say Of a
governing class, such as ours, address
ing its workers with an indictment of
''over-production"l 0ver-production
runs it not so? "Ye ignoble manufac-
turing individuals, We have produced
too much We accuse you of making
over two hundred thousand shirts for
the bare backs of mankind. Your
trousers, too, which you have made, are
they not manifold? You have pro-
duced, produced; he that seeks your
indictment, let him look around. Mil
lions Of shirts, and empty pairs Of
breeches hang there in judgment against
you. We accuse you of over-producing
you are criminally guilty of producing
shirts, breeches, hats, shoes, commodi-
ties, in frightful over-abundance. And
now there is a glut and your operatives
cannot be fec"
Never, surely, was there brought q
stranger accusation since this world be-
gan. These poor shirt-spinners were
set to make shirts. The community
with all its voices commanded them,
saying, Make shirts"-and there the
shirts are. Too many shirts /? Well,
that is novelty, in this earth with its
nine hundred millions Of bare backs
-Cufigle.
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Danger in Oyer-Exsrcising.

The heart is almost certain to be
weakened by the way in which any kind
of gymnastic advice is adopted by all
sorts Of people regardless Of its fitness
for their individual requirements, says
A. b. Kardin in the Epoch. When
Sullivan's trainer was getting the pugi-
list into trim for his meeting with Kill
rain he made excellent use Of the Jump
ing rope for reducing the flesh and
hardening the muscles Of his brawny
patient.
This got into the newspapers, and
straightway every crossroads editorial
writer in the country pronounced it the
perfection OF physical training. Yet
for person suffering from any weak
ness of the heart, no treatment more
likely to shorten life could be prescrib-
ed. Jumping the rope to excess has
killed many a healthy little child-it
killed one in this city only the other
day, and another in st. Louis. 1t
would be interesting toknow how many
people have done permanent injury to
their hearts by following this pernicious
method of exercise. A similar danger
turks in fast running.
DR.. Lagrange recommends running
to all persons ofsedentary habits-brain
workers, specially-because it improves
the mind, strengthens the legs, and
does not call for the mental activity me-
cessary to other kinds Of athletic work
involving the use Of more skill. But
a sharp run to a man not in training
for it, or TO anyone whose heart or kid
neys may be weak, is sure to prove
harmful. 1t would be as bad in its eff
fects as attempting to strengthen a
weak heart by running upstairs at full
speed, as DR.. Hammond was once al
legged to have advised. 1t is akin to
the delusion that still obtains among
many people of taking long walks before
breakfast, or swinging Indian clubs and
dumb bells just after getting out of bed
in the morning, when the stomach is
entirely empty.
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AsKoSA, Fla, July 8. 1890.
Friend Austin:
Or perhaps should say sIr. Editor
for forms sake. BE that rs il may,
arrived nj Jacksonville on the evening
of juno 21st, stopping in the live little
city couple of days. To see her
crowded streets, her busy marts and
splendid buildings, one would hardly
realize that she was so very recently
the scene of a devastating epidemic
that threatened, not only defamation
but annihilation. Yet, notwithstand-
ing her 5000 cases ofyelIow fever and
500 deaths from that fell disease, she
has not only recovered but increased
her population and business. Since
the yellow fever she has added to her
population some 5000 or 5000. She
has now population of $4,000. Dur
ing the winter months there is an adj
dition of some $4,000 strangers, and
then Jacksonville shines forth in all
her glory. During the visiting season
the trade in natural and artificial Curl
osities Is immense, every store being q
sort of museum. OF course, every Wis
itor must carry homo some mcmcnto
of bis or her visit, which, makes that
particular trade very profitable one.
Jacksonville is the home of the gift
ed senator Call, whose father was gov
crnor of the territory of Florida, when
your correspondent, inspired by an all
consuming patriotism, came to Florida
to be shot at by indians he could not
see. ! have always been glad that the
red skins did not see me. find here
the same old story that has been, and
may be heard in some other localities.
Senator Call fills an honorable scat in
the United States senate, and some
body else wants it. Ii is not denied
that Mr.. Call has ever been a faithful
public servant, but somebody else
wants his place. IL is not denied that
he Is able, eloquent and true to his
state aud party, but somebody elso
wants his place. Not because that
somebody would, or could serve
the state with more fidelity or
ability, but he wants Calls place; and
If palaver, soft soap and dcmagogism
can win, he will have IT, IL is true
that the senator does not pose MS the
only friend of any particular calling.
He is poor hand at kissing babies,
telling men how well they look and
women how pretty they are. lie is q
poor distributor of flower seeds TO
alovely" friends, but he is every inch n
q senator. But that don't count when
somebody else wants his seat.
From Jacksonville the next point
point reached was TitusviIle,on Indian
river, ani there the evidences of rapid
growth were abundant. When Ipass-
cd through the place years ago on my
way to Port Gibson, 1t had no church,
no public school house, two compara-
lively insignificant hotels and about
800 inhabitants. Now 1t has three
handsome churches, Episcopalian, Pres
byterian and Methodist, and n Catho-
lie church about TO be built; finc
public school house, two first-class ho-
tells Tone containing 100 rooms). and
from 800 to 1000 people. And that il
the rate of growth of the entire river,
An idea of the rapid increase OF popa-
lation In this (Brevard) county, may be
drawn from the fact that the register
ed voters have increased 33 per cent
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on the contrary, they do not tend 10
lepreciate a calling which should be
the highest Of all, and which perhaps
might continue to be so, and to be
esteemed so in spite OF divergcncies
of standards. shifting of modern opiu-
ion, anil changes OF temporal relation
IL the members OF il were chosen on
ly by the rule OF natural selection.
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Eat Before Sleep.

Man, by long practice. will train
himself to sleep on an empty stomach,
but it is more the sleep of exhaustion
than the sleep of refreshment. lie
wakes up after such a troubled sleep,
feeling utterly miserable until he has
had a cup of coffee or some other stim-
ulant, and he has SO injured tho tone
of his stomach that he has little appe-
tito for breakfast. Whereas, ono who
allows himself TO sleep after comfor-
table meal awakcs strengthened. and
his appetite has been quickered by
that preceding indulgence.
The difficulty i'm recovery comes
from the fact thai VIC are such crea-
lures of our habits ID Is impossible to
break away from them without per-
sistcnt effort. In this case the man
who has eaten nothing after 6 o'clock,
aud retires al 10 or IL, takes to bed an
empty stomach upon which the action
of the gastric juices makes him uncom-
Portable all the night III he proposes
to try our experiment he will sit down
and eat toIcrably hearty meal lie
is unaccustomed to this MT that hour
and has sense of discomfort with IL.
lie may try it once, or even longer.
and then he gives 1t mp, satisfied that
for him II is n failure.
Tho true course is to begin with just
one or two mouthfuls the last thing
before going to bed. And this should
be light food. easily digestcd. No
cake or pastry should be tolerated.
One mouthful of cold roast beef, cold
lamb. cold chicken. aud littlc crust of
bread will do to begin with, or, what
is better yet, "a spoonful or Two of con-
densed milk (not swcetened that comes
in cans) in three times as much warm
water. Into this put half of q pared
peach aud two or three little squares
of bread. the whole to be onc-fourih
or one-sixth of what would be light
lunch.
Increase this very gradually, until at
tho end ofa month ar six weeks the
patient may indulge in bowl ofmilk,
two peaches, with half of hard roll or
crust OF homemade bread. When
peaches are gone take baked apples
with the milk ill strawberries come.
and cal the latter TN peaches return ~
gain.--1nerican AndIysf.
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Poots, looking out of the window Of
his sitting room, saw a man ascend the
steps of his residence whom he didn't
wish TO receive. To be candid, he was
a bill collector. Ca ling the servant, he
babe him tell the man that he was not
at home.
did you tell him / was out ?" said
Poots, when the servant returned from
answering the bell.
II did, sir"
did he appear to be in doubt about
it w
mot at all, sir; he said it was lie. :
-1erds oiff,ngs.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-26
Ornaments of the Swell Esouimaux.

At any time from 16 to % years of age
the male natives have their lower lips
pierced under each corner of the mouth for
labrets. When the incision is first made
sharp pointed pieces of ivory are put in.
After the wound heals the hole is gradu-
ally stretched to half an inch in diameter.
Some of the poorer natives wear labrets
made from camel coal, ivory, common
gravel and glass shoppers obtained from
ships, which they shape for the purpose.
All who can obtain them have agate ones.
Some of the girls have their ears pierced
just back of the lobe, where it is thinnest.
They wear ivory earrings, some of which
are carved with plain figures, while others
have setting of turquois. Some of them
have string of beads, extending from one
earring to the other, suspended under the
throat. Tattooing the chin among the
women is general, and it is kept up, so
they say, because it has always been the
custom. AT the age of one narrow per-
pendicular line is drawn down the center
of the chin, powdered charcoal being used
in coloring. At about 10 years of age the
line is broadened to half an inch, and a
narrow line drawn parallel to it on each
side.-Sitka (Alaska) Letter.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-26
PERSONAL.

Theo. Rimpau, of Anaheim. came into
the. city yesterday evening. He is at
the Hollenbeck.
R. w. Damon of Glendora was in
the city Yesterday, looking like happy
and prosperous granger.
j. w. Hart, of Anaheim, was in Los
Angeles yesterday. He says things are
solid as bricks at old Anaheim.
Henry G. Roberts, OF Azusa, was in
the city yesterday, probably looking
after Republican politics little.
Miss May E. McGregor, of Chicago,
sister OF w Bert McGregor, of the Times,
is spending several months in Los
Angeles.
Geo. NJ. Holton Esq. left last night
for Fresno, to be gone a few days. He is
delegate to the Republican congress
sional convention.
Mr.. j. w. G. Cofran is visiting the
Southern California agencies of the
Hartford Insurance company, OF which
he is the San Francisco manager.
Mrs w. S. Livengood and child, Miss
May Eisbeller and Miss Annie Liven-
good were among the overland passen-
gers yesterday, from Chicago.
N. @. Carter goes to the east today to
secure immigrants for Southern Cali
fornia. He will travel with stereopti-
con and several lectures, combination
which ought to draw any quantity OF
immigrants.
Mr.. G. A. Rice, of New Jerusalem,
Ventura county, is at the Hollenbeck.
Mr.. Rice is the Democratic nominee for
the assembly from Ventura and Kern
counties, and has walk over contest
before him.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-26
One of the Meanest,

One of the most remarkable cases of
close listed stinginess ever known has just
been brought to light in Salem, Ills. 1t is
unnecessary to name the parties, but the
story as vouched for by several citizens of
this place is as follows:
A farmer residing near here worth from
5000 to $4,000, not long since had broth
er in the neighborhood who was very sick.
The attending physician requested that the
sick man be given small quantities of lem
onade. The wealthy brother was dis
patched to town to get some lemons. He
went to leading grocery store and pur-
chesed three for ten cents. That night the
sick brother died, and only one of the lem
ons had been used.
The day after the funeral the wealthy
brother took the two remaining lemons
back to the merchant and said as his
brother had died before using all of them
he had no further use for them and he de-
manded six cents for the two returned.
The merchant refused to take the lemons
back and the miserly old fellow went away
mad.-St. Louis Republic.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-26
CalinO'S Trick.

M. Calino, the French wiseacre, has at
last said an eminently wise and witty
thing.
One night at the Tomnoddy club, Of
which NJ Calino is an honored member, a
group of men were discussing the question,
"What is the best trick man can play on
his mother-in-law?"
The matter came to M. Calino for his de-
cision. He thought it over gravely for a
minute or two and then responded:
Gentlemen, the best trick that I can
think of for man to play on his mother
in-law is not to marry her daughterp'-
Youths Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-26
SUMMER RESORTS.

WHERE TO SPEND THE SUMNER. HOTEL
y! Metropole, Avalon, Santa Catalina island.
new management. The house has been put in
perfect order, and we are prepared to insure
the comfort and pleasure of all guests The
island is too well known for its own unparal-
leled attractions in the way of climate fishing,
bathing, scenery, ETC., to call for extended COM
ment here. The culinary department will
have special care, and good cooking will be the
prime object of the new management. The
dining room is large, well ventilated and will
be Kept in perfect order. Terms reasonable.
Address, CRAIG & BLINN, Avalon, Catalina
island je1