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THE WEEKLY, KENTUCKY; DANVILLE. PAPER IS KING. LANCASTER. Contiguous Cities. Jesus, we do not want to drink our own and Jesus said: wanderer, come home.

I have seen all thy sorrows. In this, the hour of thy extremity, I offor thee pardon and everlasting life Trouble came. You were almost torn to pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself up against It. You said: "I will be a Stoic and will not care;" but before you had got through making the resolution it broke down under you.

You felt that all your resources were gone, and then Josus came. "In the fourth watch of the night," the Bible says, "Jesus came walking on the sea." Why did he not come in the first watch? or in the second watch or in the third watch? I do not know. He came in the fourth, and gave deliverance to his disciples. Jesus in the last extremity! I wonder if it will bo so in our very lost extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and doctors will come, but in vain.

We will try the anodynes, and the stimulants, and the bathings, but all in vain. Something will say: "You must go." No one to hold us back, but the hands of eternity stretched out to pull us on. What then? Jesus will coma to us, and as we say "Lord Jesus, I am afraid of that water, I cannot wade through to the other side," he will say: "Take hold of my arm;" and we will take hold of his arm, and then he will put his foot in the surf of the wave, taking us on down deeper, deeper, deeper, and our soul will cry: "All thy waves and billows have gone over me." They cover the feet, come to the knee, pass the girdle, and come to the head, and our soul cries out: "Lord Jesus Christ, I cannot hold thine arm any longer Then Jesus will turn around, throw both his arms about us, and sot us on the beach, far beyond the tossing of the billow. Jesus in the last extremity! A GRANDER WEDDING. That wedding scene is gone now.

The wedding ring has been lost, the tankards have been broken, the house is down; but Jesus invites us to a grander wedding. You know the Bible says that the church is the Lamb's wife; aud the Lord will after awhilo come to fetch her home. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky, and the trumpets of God will ravish the air with their music; and Jesus will stretch out his hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord tho king, and the bridegroom will say to the bride: "Thou hast been faithful through all these years! The mansion is read 31 Come home! Thou art fair, my love!" and then ho shall put upon her brow tho crown of dominion, and tho table will be spread and it will reach across the skies, and tho mighty- ones of heaven will come in, garlanded with beauty and striking their c-rnbals; and tho bridegroom and bride will stand at tho head of tho table, and tho baunuetors, looking up, will wonder and admire, ami say: "That is Jesus, tho bridegroom! Hut the scar on his brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in his side is covered with a and "That is the bride! tho weariness of earthly woo lost in the flush of this wedding riuniph There will l.o wine oisi.ugh at that wedding; not coming up the poisoned vals of earth, 1 the vineyards -f God will press their clusters, and Hiccups and the tankards will to the brim wit the heavenly vintage, and then ail the l-anqti. -tors ill drink i.l.-iuding. having come up from the bacchanalian velry of Aha- n- rus, where thou-and lords foe-ted, ill be there.

And tho queen of Hicb.i, from banquet of Solomon, will be there. And til -m her of Jesus, from the wedding in Caua. will be A MARRIAGE. FEAST. THE REV.

DR. TALMAGE PREACHES NEAR CANA, IN GALILEE. Cliriat' First Manhood Miracle "The Uncqnicious Water Saw Its God, and Blushed" Religion and napplnesft Go Hand In Hand ilia Power to Save. Near Cana, Dec. 22.

The T. De Witt Taliuage, D. preached here today on "A Marriage Feast," taking for his text John ii, 10: "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." He said: Stunding not far off from the demolished town of what was once called Cana of Galilee, I bethink myself of our Ldrd's first man-'hood miracle which has been the astonish-pient of the ages. My visit last week to that place makes vivid in my mind that beautiful occurrence in Christ's ministry. My text brings us to a wedding in that village.

It is a wedding in common life, two plain people having pledged each other, hand and heart, and their friends having come in for congratulation. The joy is not the less because there is no pretension. In each other they find all the future they want. The daisy in the cup cn the table may mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hothouse. When a daughter goes off from home with nothing but a plain father's blessing and a plain mother's love, she is missed as much as though she were a princess.

It seems hard, after the parents have sheltered her for eighteen years, that in a few short months her affections should have been carried off by another; but mother remembers how it was in her own case when she was young, and so she braces up until the wedding has passed, and the banqueters are gone, and she has a good cry all alone. "Well, we are today at the wedding in Cana, of Galilee. Jesus and his mother have been invited. It is evident that there aro more people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not invited or more invitations have been sent out than it was supposed would be accepted.

Of course, there is not enough supply of wine. You know that there is nothing more embar rassing to a housekeeper than a scant supply. Jesus sees the embarrassment, and ho comes up immediately to relieve it. He sees stand ing six water pots. He orders the servants to fill them with water, then waves his hand over the water, and immediately it is wine-real wine.

Tnsto of it, and see for yourselves; no logwood in it, no strychnine in it, but first rato wine. I will not now be diverted to the question so often discussed iu my own country, whether it is right to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When Cod makes wine, he j. akes tho very best wine, and ono hundred and thirty gallons of it standing around iu these water pots; wine so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than anything wo have had Thou liast kept the good wine until now." Beautiful miracle 1 A prize was offered to tho person who should write the best essay about tho uiiracio in Cana.

Long manuscripts were presented in tho competition, but a poet won the- prize by just this one line descriptive of the miracle: The unconscious water saw its God, mid blushed. V. II AT TUB MIRACLE TEACHES. Wo learn from this miracle, in the first place, that Christ lias sympathy with housekeepers. You might havo thought that Jesus would have said: "I cannot be bothered with this household deficiency of wine.

It is not for me, Lord of heaven and earth, to become caterer to this feast. I havo vaster things than this to attend to." Not so said Jesus. Tho wine gave out, and Jesus, by miraculous power, came to the rescue. Does there over come a scant supply in your household? Have you to make a very closo calculation? Is it hard work for you to carry on tilings decently ami respectably? If so, don't sit down and cry. Uon't go out and fret; but go to him who stood in tho house in Cana of G-allilee.

Tray in tho parlor 1 Fray in the kitchen! Let there be no room in all your house unconseercttcd by tho voice of prayer. If you have a microscope, put under it ono drop of water, and see tho insects floating about; and lion you see that God makes them, and cares for them, and feeds them, come to the conclusion that he will take care of you and feed you, oh, ye of little faith. A boy asked if be might sweep the snow from the steps of a house. The lady of the household said: "Yes. You seem very poor." He says: "I am very poor." She says: "Don't -ou sometimes get discouraged, and feel that God is going to let you starve!" The lad looked up in tho woman's face and said: "Do you think God will let mo starve when I trust him, and then do the best I can?" Enough theology for older people! Trust iu God, and do the best you can.

Amidst all the worriments of housekeeping go to him; ho will help you control your temper, and supervise your domestics, and entertain jour guests, ind ninuago your me economies. There aro hundreds of women nervous, and exhausted with the cares of housekeeping. I commend you to the Lord Jesus Christ as the best adviser and the most efficient aid the Lord Jesus who performed his first miracle to relievo a housekeeper. I learn also from this miracle that Christ does things iu abundance. I think a small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency.

I think certainly they must have bad enough for half of the guests. One gallon of wine will do; certainly five gallons will be enough; certainly ten. But Jesus goes on, and he gives them thirty gallons, and forty gallons, and fifty gallons, and seventy gallons, and one hundred gallons, and one hundred and thirty gallons of the very best wine. THE CREATOR'S GENEROSITY. It is just like him! Doing everything on the largest and most generous scale.

Does Christ, our creator, go forth to make leaves, he makes them by the whole forest full; notched like the fern, or silvered like the 'aspen, or broad like the palm; thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests. Does he go forth to make flowers, he makes plenty of them they flame from the hedge, they h'ang from the 'top of the grapevine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets, they toss their white surf Into the spirsBa enough for every 'child's hand a flower, enough to make for every brow a chaplet, enough with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of all the graves. Dees be go forth to create water, he pours it lout, not by the cupful, but by a river full, a lake full, an ocean full, pouring it out until 'all the earth has enough to drink and enough with which to wash. I Does Jesus, our lord, provide redemption, I it is not a little salvation for this one, a little for that, and a little for the other; but 'enough for all "Whosoever will, let him come." Each man an ocean full for himself. Promises for the young, promises for the old, promises for the lowly, promises for the blind, for the' halt, for the ouctcast, for the 'abandoned.

Pardon for all, comfort for all, 'merer for all, heaven for all; not merely a cupful of Gospel supply, but one hundred: and thirty gallons. Ay, the tears of godly repentance are all gathered up into Ood'f bottle, and some- day, itanding before the throne, we will lift bur cup of delight and ask tha(; it be filled with the wine of heaven; and Jesus, from that bottle ot tears, will be gin to pour in the cap, and we will cry: "Stop, tears;" and will say: "Know ye not that the tears of earth are the wine of heaven Sorrow may endure but joy someth In tho morning. I remark further, Jesus does not shadow the joys of others with his own griefs. He might have sat down in that wedding and said: "I have so much trouble, so much poverty, so much persecution, and the cross is coming; I shall not rejoice, and the gloom of my face and of my sorrows shall be cast over all this group." So said not Jesus. He said to himself: "Here are two persons starting out in married life.

Let it be a joyful occasion. I will hide my own griefs. I will kindle their joy." There are many not so wise as that. I know a household where there are many little children, where for two years the musical instrument has been kept shut because there has been trouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: "We will have no Christmas tree this coming holiday because there has been trouble in the house.

Hush that laughing upstairs! How can there be any joy when there has been so much trouble?" And so they make everything consistently doleful, and send their sons and daughters to ruin with the gloom they throw around them. Oh, my dear friends, do you know not those children will have trouble enough of their own after a while? Be glad they cannot appreciate all yours. Keep back the cup of bitterness from your daughter's lips. When your head is down in the grass of the tomb, poverty may come to her, betrayal to her, bereavement to hor. Keep back the sorrows as long as you can.

Do you not know that son may, after a while, have his heart broken! Stand between him and all harm. You may not fight his battles long; fight them while you may. Throw not the chill of your own despondency over his soul; rather be like Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding his own grief and kindling the joys of others. So I have seen the sun, on a dark day, struggling amidst the clouds, black, ragged and portentous, but after a while tho sun, with golden pry, heaved back the blackness, and the sun laughed to the lake, and tho lake laughed to the sun, and from horizon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. HE WANTS US TO BE COMFORTABLE.

I learn from this miracle that Christ is not impationt with the luxuries of life: It was not necessary that they should have that wine. Hundreds of people have been married without any wine. We do not read that any of tho other provisions fell short. When Christ made Hie wino it was not a necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that he w-ants us to eat hard bread, and sleep on hard mattresses, unless wo liko them tho best.

I think, if circumstances will allow, wo have a right to the luxuries of dress, tho luxuries of diet and the luxuries of residence. Tliero is no moro religion in an old coat than in a new one. Wo can servo God drawn ly golden plated harness as certainly as when wo go afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as under a thatched ot'; and when you can get wino made out of wafer, drink as imu-li of it as you can. What is tho difference between a Chinese mud hovel and an American What ii tho dilfereuce between tho rough ar skins of the llusian hour and tho out lit of an American gentleman? Jfo dillVrein except that which the Compel of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused.

When Christ shall have vanquished all the world, I suppose every house will be a mansion, and every garment a robe, and every horse an arch nocked courser, and every carriage a glittering vehicle, and every man a king, nndevcry woman a queen, and tho whole earth a paradise; the glories of the natural world harmonizing ith the glories of the material world, until the very bells of Ilia horses shall jingle' the praises of tho Lord. I learn, further, from this miracle, that Christ has no impatience- wit festal jov, otherwise he would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. Ho certainly would not have dono that which iu avised tho hilarity. Tliero may have been ma. in that room who were happy, but there was not one of them that did so much for tho joy of the wedding party as Christ himself.

Ho was the chief of tho banqueters. When the wino gavo out he supplied it; and so, I tako it, ho will not deny us the joys that aro positively festal. I think the children of God have moro right to laugh than any other people, and to clap their hands as loudly. There is not a singlo joy denied them that is given to any other people. Christianity does not clip the wings of tho soul.

Ueligion docs not frost the flowers. What is Christianity I tako it to bo, simply, a proclamation from the throno of God of emancipation for all tho enslaved; and if a man accepts tho terms of that proc lamation, and becomes free, has no Hot aright to bo merry? Suppose a father has an elegant mansion and large grounds. To whom will ho give the first privilege of theso grounds? ill ho say: "Jiy children, you must not walk through theso paths, or sit down under theso trees, or pluck this fruit. Theso aro for outsiders. They may walk in them." No father would say anything like that.

IIo would say: "Tho lirst privileges in all the grounds, and all of my house, shall bo for my own children." And yet men try to make us believe that God's children aro on the limits, and tho chief refreshments and enjoyments of life are for outsiders, and not for his own children. It is stark atheism. There is no innocent beverage too rich for God's child to drink, there is no robe too costly for him to wear. There is no hilarity too great for him to indulge in, and no house too splendid for him to live in. He has a right to the joys of earth he shall have a right to the joys of heaven.

Though tribulation, and trial, and hardship may come unto him, let him rejoice. "Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and again I say, rejoice." HE COMES IN THE HOUR OF EXTREMITY. I remark again that Christ comes to us in the hour of our extremity. He knew the wine was giving out before there was any embarrassment or mortification. Why did he not perform the miracle sooner? Why wait until it was all gone, and no help could come from any source, and then come In and perform the miracle? This is Christ's way; and when he did come in, at the hour of extremity, he made first rate wine, so that they cried out: "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Jesus in the hour of extremity! He seems to prefer that hour.

In a Christian home in Poland great poverty had come, and on the week day the man was obliged to move out of the house with his whole family. That night he knelt with his family and prayed to God. While they were kneeling in prayer there was a tap on the window pane. They opened the window, and there was a raven that the family had fed and trained, and it had in its bill a ring all set with precious stones, which was found out to be a ring belonging to the royal family. It was taken up to the king's residence, and for the honesty of the man in bringing it back he had a house given to him, and a garden, and a farm.

Who waa it that sent the raven tapping on the window? The same God that sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Cherith. Christ in the hour of ex tremity! i. You mourned over your sins. You 'could not find the way out. You sat down and aid: "God will not be merciful.

'He has cast me off;" but in that, the darkest hour of yoir historr. light broke from the throne The loss of W. H. Taylor's distillery is said to.be $10,000. F.

Robinson" bought of $ilas Anderson 10 head of cattle at 3 cents and 0 pi John Pepples at 2 George McQuery, of this county, was married last week to Miss Sarah Green, of Crab Miss Altib Maeksbtjhy gives a Lemon Party on the 26th, and Miss Bessie Bush one on the 31st. T( Miss Amanda Anderson's school closed Friday and she is at rest for the holidays. Garrard College has also closed for the Christmas holidays. Capt. Dillon had the misfortune a week ago to dislocate his ankle quite severely.

He has not been able to place his foot upon the ground or walk since the accident. The three week's series of meetings at the Presbyterian church, under the guidance of Dr. J. L. McKee and son, have The meeting -was interesting throughout and of much spiritual benefit to all.

His sermon Sunday afternoon upon "dancing" was a splendid one. On Thursday, the 26th, at Mr. Ashley Gulley's, Mr. William Swope will be united in marriage to Mr. Gulley's handsome daughter, Miss Mollie.

It has been known for some time that Mr. Swope had quite an admiration for a certain "gulley but it was not known that he would so soon claim one for his wife. On the day of the banquet (that is today) Mr. William Gulley will lead to the hymenial altar, at her, father's residence, Miss Sallie Woolfolk. The groom is engaged in business at McCreary, and the soou-to-be bride is a very successful school mistress.

They will take a bridal trip to the North and return home by the New Year. May their's be a blissful union. Mr Randall Bettis, whose condition we have before noted, died Friday night at his home at the toll-gate on the Dan ville pike. Mr. Bettis has been in de clining health for some time past.

He wi b. accident recently, and sinre that time his health gave way. A long procession followed his remains to the cemetery. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. Personal.

Faulkner- Lusk is at home from Whitley county, his school bein ont Mr. James Burnsido is at home from the city ef Louisville Messrs. Kennedy and James and Messrs. Zillers and Eb. Higgins, of Crab Orchard, were here last week Miss Ellen Owsley is at home from her school in air.

liaison mother is here now on a visit to himself and family Mr. Sam. Anderson, wife and baby have returned to Gallatin, Tenn Mr. Joe andifer was at home with his family on Saturday. Mrs.

Waller Chcnault (nee Miss Mary Hudson) is in the county the guest of her father, r. organ Hudson iss Maggie Polk, of Louisville, is visiting her friend and schoolmate, Mattie Elkin Dr. Louis McMurtry was up Sunday to see Mr. John Woodcock Lucieu Noel is reported quite sick, in Harrodsburg, ot tvphoid fever A younger son of Mr. Joe Petty is ill and it is probably that he has the fever Mr.

H. T. Noel and sister, Miss Sallie, have gone to Harrodsburg to attend the bedside of Lucien Miss Mable Burnside, who has been attending Garrard College, has gone to her home at Barbourville to spend the holidays W. S. Beazley is at home from the Dental College in Indianapolis W.

G. Dunlap is in the mountains destroying illicit still houses Vivou and Webb have returned to their homes for the Christmas holidays. OUR NEIGHBOES. Pulaski. Mrs.

Perry, wife of the la, mented Elder II. J. Perry, of the M. E. Church, died very suddenly at her home in Danville last Saturday at 5 o'clock, p.

m. She was in aged and much-loved Christian, and amidst the sorrows and deepest afflictions of life she had been fitted for the joys and bliss of the beauti ful Home of the soul Mrs. Rhoda Woodcock, of Danville, has presented the congregation of the M. E. Church, at this place, with a handsome silver communion service.

The new building for this con gregation is nearly complete, and will be a neat, comfortable and ornamental struct ure Elder J. L. Allen will preach at the Christain Church next Sunday morning and night, which will close his en gagement with the congregation here for this year. They are contemplating an other call for him "to preach" here again next year Coomer Rankin', of Wayne county, bought a number of mules and horses here Monday. They paid $70 to $75 per head for small mules, and 65 to 0 for the Catron have sold the last week a horse to Marsh Coomer for (80, "and "one to Charlie Kellogg, Wintield, for $150.

They shipped a car-load of mules Tuesday to Charles Held caught a regular centipede crawling on his porch last Glass will hold a pro tracted meeting at Kings Mountain the last of next Henry Mills, of Danville, is visiting relatives in this city Rhoda Woodeockj of is here visiting her brother, Mr. Wm. Reporter. The towboat Kate Waters sunk in the Ohio, below Portsmouth, Thursday night, by colliding with the Annie L. The wreck lies in eighteen feet of water, and.

is a total loss, with $4,000 insurance in t-in-1 cimiuti agencies. v- Facts that Show the Approach of a Paper Age. We live in papef houses, wear paper clothing and sit oh paper cushions in pa per cars," rolling on i paper wheels. We do a paper business over a paper counter, buying paper goods, paying with paper money or charging them up in paper books, and deal in paper stocks on paper margins. We row races in paper boats for paper prizes.

We go to paper thea ters, where pajjer actors play to paper audiences. As the age develops, the coming man will be more deeply inmeshed in the paper net. He will wake in the morning and creep from under his paper clothing on his paper bed, and put on his paper dressing gown and paper slippers. He will walk over paper carpets, down pa per stairs, and seating himself in a paper chair, read the paper news in the morn- ing paper. A paper bell will call him to his breakfast, cooked in a paper oven, served on paper dishes, laid on a paper cloth on a paper table.

He will wipe his lips with a paper napkin, and having put on his paper shoes, paper hat and paper coat and taken his paper cane, he will walk on a paper pavement or ride in a paper carriage to his paper office. He will organize paper enterprises and make paper profits. He will go to Eu rope on paper steamships and navigate the air in paper balloons. He will smoke paper tobacco in a pipe, lighted with a paper match. He will write with a pa per pencil, whittle paper sticks with a paper knife, go fishing with a paper fishing rod, a paper line and a paper hook, and put his fish in a paper basket.

He will go shooting with a paper gun, load ed with paper cartridges, and defend his country with paper forts, with paper cannon and paper bombs. Having lived his paper life and achieved a paper fame and a paper wealth, he will retire to paper leisure and die in paper peace. There will be a paper funeral, at which the mourners, dressed in paper crape, will wine their eyes with paper handkerchiefs, and a paper preacher will preach a paper sermon in a paper pulpit from a paper text. He will lie in a paper coffin wrapped in a pa per shroud, his name will be engraved on a paper plate, and a paper hearse, adorned with paper plumes, will carry him to a paper-lined grave, over which will be raised a paper monument. THE RIGHT OF THE WORLD TO THACKERAY'S LIFE.

For convenience' sake a man is permitted, within certain limitations which vary in various countries, to say who shall have his property when he dies. He can bequeath his houses and lands, his stocks, bonds, money, books, cattle, and bric-a-brac. But he cannot bequeath his wife or his grown children! for they belong not to him but themselves. No more cau he bequeath the story of his life to auyone's exclusive use, or to disuse, for that is not his either. Thatispart of history, and belongs to any son of Adam who cares to investigate and use it.

The notion, that the world's acquaintance with the mau Thackeray is to be only so intimate as Thackeray might have chosen to permit, is not sound. What is told or said of a man while he is alive he is permitted to resent, if lie dosen't like it, but if he tries to bind posterity not to explore his record after he is dead, he tries to control what is no longer his. What he did in the world he left iu the world, and it belongs to the world; and, if it is worth while exploring, the world is perfectly at liberty to look it up at its convenience. History is the record of human lives and theif Considering what Thack eray got out of history, he was the last man who should have objected that history should get its own from him. From The Point of View," the New Denart- ment, in the January Scribner.

as will ue seen nom tne lollowiug paragraph "charivari" parties are at a discount. "The decision of an Iowa Court that a riot is a riot, even when the rioters call it a "Charivari party," and that a man has a right to defend his home against a mob is bearing fruit. A young woman is now on trial in that State for having caused the death of a man by shooting into a crowd of persons who had assembled to inflict public censure, in the form of a serenade, upon her grandfather, who had lately married again. According to the recent decision of the Supreme Court the young woman was within her rights. It is unlikely that even the most hilarious serenader will continue his cheerful sport when his victim is in possession of a license to kill him; and henceforth among the rights of the Iowa man will be numbered the right to marry to please himself and not the loafers of his neighborhood.

New York Times. f' Hardin County Democrats, who are opposed to the election of "Brice to the Senate, undertook to indifcc their Rep resentative hot to vote for" Brice. and tried to get the cooperation of the Coun ty Committee to that They were refused a hearing by the committee, which indorsed Eggerman'g action, in, declaring ior The breath of a chronic catarrh na- tient is often so offensive that he becomes an object of disgust. After a time ulceration sets in, the spoDgy bones are attacked and frequently entirely de stroyed. A constant source or discom fort is the dripping of he purulent sec re.

tions into the throat, sometimes produc ts inveterate bronchitis, which -in, its turn has been the exciting cause of pul-- mnnnrr riiaonape Thfi hrillianf raauha which have attended its UHfl or venra past properly designate Ely's i NEWS ITEMS GATHERED BY AD- VOCATE REPORTERS. HARRODSBTJRQ." I the vote published In Friday's issue, Judge Hughes' should have been 1601, instead of 1598. It was our mistake. A merry Christmas to one and all who havabeen readers." of the AdvocatB for the past year, and especially to those who have exorcised their patience on the Har rodsburg column. Mr.

Ranb Bohon, of and Miss Sue Cecil were married Monday af ternoon at tne bride a home. una is the wedding the gossips had for January. We wjll give a fuller notice later. Rev. B.

A. Dawes, pastor of the Bap tist church at Salvisa, and Miss Mollie Smith, of Garrard county, will be mar-ried on New, Years Day. The bride is said to be one of Garrard's handsomest belles, while the groom is a prominent young divine of the church mentioned, jThb junior set will be alive with parties thecoming week. On the 24th, Miss Florence Wilson -entertains; on the 27th, Miss Etta Jones, and Miss Annie Card well on the-SOth, and the returns are not all in. Dr.

C. H. Spilman will give an -elegant reception to Prof, and Mrs. the 25th, Mrs. Minnick being his granddaughter.

The schools will close as follows: Daughters College one day only; city school, one week, beginning on Christ mas day; Hogsett Academy, the same time. Bo.th Banks anc! Postefflcc will close as usual on Christmas day. Christ-ma's services will be held at St. Philip's Episcopal church at 10:30 in the morning and on through the week at the same hour. Dr.

Hai.l, a lecturer from New York, lectured at the Christian church on Friday night, and liis lecture is said by all who heard it to be one of the best ever delivered here. He has consented to return again in March. His subject was "Happy Homes" and ho combined wit, and humor in such a way that one minute the tears were running down your cheek, and another you would be convulsed with laughter. The lecture of Rev. H.

Allin Tupper, the former pastor of the Baptist church, now of Louisville, on Thursday night, was well attended. His subject on "Active Mountain and Dead City" was full of interest and was delivered in a manner that has made the lecturer famous. The proceeds went to the church. He carried you to Milan, Florence, Koine, Vesuvius arfll Pompeii, and when his talk had closed one was surprised to find themselves hack in prosaic Harrodsburg. Tnu Louisville and Cincinnati papers of recent date contained accounts of the sad death of a former citizen of this city.

Last June, Dr. Thos. J. Marlin lef Ur-bana, for Louisville, where he was to join a friend and accompany him south with a lot of race horses, going as veterinary surgeon. He arrived at Louisville and was taken ill with paralysis and sent to the hospital.

He never recovered suf ficiently to give an account of himself, the only clue to his identity being a note book in his possession with the name "Marlin" on it; so when he died -his re mains were given to the medical college. His Wife in this city could hear nothing of him, until a friend in Louisville wrote her that a man by the name of Marlin had died in that city. Mrs. Marlin went to Louisville, and from the information she could gather knew it was, indeed, her husband, and the poor woman was nearly cttsiraciea wnen sue learnea mat tne re mains could not be recovered. Marlin very frequently stayed from home for weeks, but he generally turned up all right.

His wife has the sympathy of our people. Personal. Morgan Chinn is at home from Cornell Ifniversity, and Tully With-erspoon from Chicago School of Apniet Elmore has returned from Richmond. Minnie Bohon is at homo, from Staunton, Va. Sam Owens, of Stanford, was Here last week "with relatives.T.Misses Sudie and Jennie Stevenson, of Covington, are guests of T.

S. Marimon and Mrs. Anna Pitzger and daughter, of Columbia, are visiting relatives in this Moran and Nellie Redmond, of Paris, are expected to-day, to spend the holidays at Mrs. N. L.

Priests' Walter Wilkcrson, of Ne1StaskaLwa8 with his relative, J. H. Grimes, this week; on his way to Florida in search of John M. Overstreet and wife and Robt. Overstreet, of St.

Louis, Will of Frankfort, and Joseph Overstreet, of Lexington, are parties to. a family" re-union and guests of their sister, Mrs. J. P. Stagg.

Miss Ruth High Bridge, is with Messrs. CTharlie and Ben Spilman, of Illinois, are here to attend the Harvey Young is home from Missouri. He says he has Miss Lena Voris is at home from Nicholasville, and Miss Lizzie Hardin from Lancaster, where they have been Carrie Vanarsdall is home from a pleasant visit to Frankfort lriends. Miss Mary" Davis is home from Bayre Institute, Lexington. Travelers should be prepared for the changes of weather and the effects of ex- Sosure by providing themselves with Dr.

ull'g Cough A Nashvileb doctor's prescription for a lady Buffering with neuralgia: A new bonneta cashmere shawl, a pair of gaiter boots and a bottle of Salvation Oil. The lady recovered immediately of -course, j. I there. And they all will agree that the earthly feasting was with that. Then, lifting their chalices in Unit holy light, they shall cry to the lord of the fea-t: "Thou ha: kept the good wine until now." A' Carnivorous IMaal.

A remarkable plant has been under discussion at the London moms of the llritish As sociation I'm- the Advancement of Science. It was exhibited by Dr. 1 looker, who gavo the inaugural ad.h-ess as president of the section of biology. The address was upon tho subject of flesh eating plants, in the course of which l)r. Hooker explained and demonstrated by experiment some of tho remarkable discoveries of the late Mr.

Darwin. Among other botanical rarities he showed a plant called "Dionial," the leaves at that moment being wide open. A. fly was captured and put upon fine of the leaves. Instantly tho plant closed like a thing animal life.

After a few moments tho plant slowly opened and disclosed the fact that tho fly had been completely dissolved eaten, as it were. A bit of beef was afterwards consumed in the same way. Pieces of chalk and cheese wore in-tantly rejected by tho plant. Professor Huxley, who was present, said that these phenomena formed a wonderful problem, and that tho plant, certainly bad a stomach and a nervous system of its own. St.

Louis Republic. Astronomy. "Oh; what's the us: of having one word sound so much like another?" exclaimed a little girl, who hail innocently stated that a man stood on a parallel, instead of a parapet. "It mixes you up so!" It does indeed, and the results of such mixing aro every day a--parent, iu forms more or less amusing. "You will always be prettier than said the same littlo girl to her sister, "because your hair grows so even, and mine turns up in a cow catcher." One day the conversation turned on astronomy, and ono and another member of the family pleaded ignorance of all but the most elementary knowledge of the science.

"I know the Pleiades when I see them," said one, "but I've forgotten how many stars there ought to be." "I recognize the Dipper," said some one else, and at this point tho youngest member of the family broke in: "Aud O'Brien cried sho. "Don't you know O'Brien, with his sword and belt?" Some of them thought they did, though under a slightly modified name. Youth's Companion. Where Government Clerks Smoke. The government has at last found a use for that vast inclosed court in the pension build ing.

No one has ever known what it was designed for except to look spacious, and once in four years to givo room for the inaugural ball. But it is now converted into a national smoking room. For one hour each 1qt. .1, 1 41 great columns, and the scent of tobacco permeates the air. Gen.

Raum has prohibited smoking in the pension office during working hours, and to make up to the clerks for the privation has granted them the privilege of this great court as a smoking room during-the lunch hour. At midday they march about this tiled hall and mingle the odor ot the "two-fors" with the fragrance of the quarter Havanas. The penny cigarette mingles its paper smell with the rest. The rules of the departments have been steadily run ning the cigar smokers out, and this is the first concession they have had. Washington Letter.

The Russian empire had at the last census a population of 108,787,235 souls, or 4,500,001 more than in 1SS4, when no exact census wat taken in the newly annexed countries pi Central Asia. The population is densest in Poland, where there are 81.4 inhabitants to the square verst equal to about 2.8 squars miles..