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Straps and |act$. ? Says a Topeka telegram to the Chicago Inter-Ocean: The Rev. C. M. Sheldon received $5000 from the Christian Daily Capital. He has given $1, 000 to the India famine sufferers. The rest of it was distributed a9 follows: City Detention Hospital, $1000 ; for the contagious disease ward, Christ Hospital, $1,000; Washburn College, $600 ; Topeka Y. M. C. A. $500; for a pub lie drinking fountain, $300; Kindergarten association, $100 ; Y. W. C. A., $150; W. C. T. UM $100; Ingjeside Home, $100 ; State Temperance Union, $100 ; Anti-Cigarette League, $50. ? Secretary Hester's weekly statement of the world's visible supply of cotton shows a decrease for the week just closed of 121,620 bales agaiust a decrease of 93,056 last year. The total visible is 2,583,909, against 2,705,529 last week, aod 4,645,235 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 1,928,909, against 2,047,529 last week, and 3,489,235 last year; and of all the other kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc., 655,000, against 568,000 last week, and 1,154,000 last year. Of the world's visible supply, there is afloat and held in Great Britain and Continental Europe, 1,608,000 bales against 2,683,000 last year. In Egypt, 132,000 against 165,000; in India, 325,000 aguinst 662,000; in the United States, 519,000, against 1,135,000. ? For the first time since the Civil war the house, on last Friday, passed a measuie to pay Confederate soldiers for losses growing out of the Civil war. It was a bill introduced by Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, to pay the Confederate soldiers who surrendered at Appomattox, for the loss of horses and other personal effects taken from them in violation of Lee's capitulation to Grant, by which officers and men of Lee's army were,allowed to retain their baggage, side arms and horses. The bill originally carried $200,000 ; but the specific sum was stricken out and the appropriation was made indefinite. The bill was taken up aud passed out of its order as a special compliment to Mr. Cox, who after 10 years' service in the house is to retire at the end of his present term. ? A proclamation purporting to have been issued by Aguinaldo, and dated May 4, from Polillo Island, one of the Phillippine group east of Luzon, is circulating in Manilla. It says the commission appointed by President McKinley was appointed without the authorization of congress and that hence it cannot treat officially. It urges the Filipinos not to surrender their arms at the instigation of the commission, and on promises which congress may not ratify, and he also urges the Filipinos to enthusiastically welcome the commission when it arrives in the towns and provinces, asking them boldly for the form of government they most desire, as the Americans permit freedom of speech. The proclamation closes with asking the Filipinos to still strive for liberty aud independence and again warns the commission against deception. ? The conviction is steadily growing upon intelligent observers of conditions in South Africa that the war is nearing its close, and that the Boers cannot much longer hold out against the overwhelming odds which Great Britain has sent against them. The New WawM Koo nnmnila/^ tKn frvl 1 Ui IV TT U1 1U UOO WUi^/1 IVU VUV 1VIIVTT' ing figures: Cost to England of the Boer war to date, about $100,000,000 ; total British force in the field, 222,057 men, 55,064 horses, 164 machine guns and 455 guus of all calibres. Of these have gone from England, 166,116 men, 27,075 horses, 103 machine guns and 294 field and other guns; number of English killed, made prisoners or permanently invalided, 18,383. Against this great opposing army the best estimate of the Boer forces places them at 35,000. They have made a gallaut struggle ; but it is beyond all reasonable expectations that they can much longer resist the overwhelming numbers with which they are confronted. ? Chicago Record : "Hawaii and Porto Rico will send delegates to the national Democratic convention. Each island will be accorded six delegates if the wish of the leaders of the Democratic party be carried out. Senator J. K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, recently received a letter from some Hawaiian islander, who said they were Democrats, asking him if the convention would seat a Hawaiian delegation should one come to Kansas City July 4. Senator Jones replied that the convention itself would have to pass on that question ; but it is said he advised the Sandwich islanders to send along their delegation and it might be seated. Democratic managers say there is some pretty politics in the idea of giving seats in the convention to the Porto Rican delegation. They think it will be a good play in view of the fact that the Democratic platform will contain an anti-imperialistic plank. By seating a delegation from Porto Rico the Democrats, in convention as sembled, according to the views held by Democratic managers, would demonstrate in a practical way their contention that Porto Rico is a part of the United States, and is a territory coequal in things political with the Indian Territory, Alaska, or the District of Columbia, which are unorganized territories." ? Governor Smith, of Montana, does nrvt nrmint!i> tn rest llndfir the trif*k that was put upou hiua by LieutenantGovernor Spriggs, acting governor, during his absence from the state, by the appointment of W. A. Clark to the United States senate. The governor, on last Friday, wrote Clark advising him that he had revoked the Spriggs appointment on the ground of collusion and fraud and appointed instead the Hon. Martin Maginnis. The governor also wrote to several senators ou the subject, addressing to Senator Chandler the following: "I desire to present iu as forcible a rnauner as possible my protest against the course pursued by the Hon W. A, Clark iu attempting to defeat the action of the seuate of the Uuited States upou the resolution presented by the committee on priveleges and electious, affecting his title to a seat, and tc protest against the methods pursued by lnm iu securing an appointment at the hands of the lieutenant governor during my absence from the state under circumstances and conditions which to my miud indicnte collusion and fraud. His conduct in attempting a resignation and procuriug a reappointment under the conditions as he did, if the matter was before a court of justice, would have been considered a contempt of court on his | part. I therefore trust that the com-1 I?will nrn/?PpH to 1 luiuce nuu mc ocuaw ????. wVVM ? a proper and complete consideration of the question, so that the rights, not only of Mr. Clark, but of the state of Montana, in the premises, may be determined, and that upon the presentation of his credentials of appointment by the lieutenant governor the same be transferred to the committee on privileges and elections for investiga tion, and that I be permitted to make a more complete and detailed statement of facts concerning the resignation and appointment of Mr. Clark." ?hc ||orkviUc (Enquirer. YOItKVILLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23,1900. ? The determination to discontinue the naval station at Port ltoyal has excited the Savannah people to the extent that they have begun to urge their claims as against those of Charleston. From all indications, however, it appears that the case is closed and that Charleston is going to carry off the prize. ? As the result of the recent mur- ' der of a white man by an insolent Ne- j gro, on a street car in Augusta, the r Augusta city council has passed an or- ' dinance providing that hereafter white 1 passengers seat themselves in the front J seats of street cars and colored passengers in the rear seats, and that con- ? ductors refuse to take on other passen- ^ gers after all the seats are full. ? The Boer peace envoys?Fischer, Wolmorans and Wessels?were accord- , ed a rousing reception in the grand opera house, Washington, last Satur- r day. Quite a number of senators and . representatives participated, and there were speeches by Congressman Sulzer, j Senator Wellington and Bourke Cockran. After the speakiug a collection was asked for the widows and orphans of Boer soldiers, and upward of $800 r was raised. ' f ? The State Prohibition conference 1 meets in Columbia today, Weduesday. 1 The outlook is that most of the coun- ^ ties of the state will be represented, ; and the probability is that candidates J. will be "suggested" for governor and ^ lieutenant governor. There seems to t be no disposition to suggest a full state 1 ticket; but it is quite likely that all 1 the counties will be urged to send pro- * hibition representatives to the general 1 assembly. j g ? The United States supreme court s has decided the Kentucky contested election case in favor of Governor Beckham. That is the effect of an j opinion handed down on Monday. The Kentucky supreme court decided in favor of the Democrats and the United States supreme court decides that it has no jurisdiction in the matter. Beckham is now governor ; but under the law he can only serve until the election of his successor at the next election. It is expected that he and Taylor will be the candidates and that there will bean exciting time of it. ? Although not a great deal is now being said in the United States about our American claims against Turkey, the matter is still being discussed in the European press. A Russian paper says that if the United States should attempt to collect mouey from Turkey by force, Russia, Austria and other , European countries would promptly ( take a hand. The indications are that i although Europe generally was quite friendly to the United States previous ( to the outbreak of the Spanish war, almost every continental government , is now extremely distrustful of this ; country, and the disposition to com- i bine against us is strong. ? Although there does not seem to be much excitement over the matter, s it is an uudisputed fact that there have been several deaths from bubonic plague in San Francisco. It is claimed that there are not at this time any new cases of the plague; but the health authorities are doing all they can to prevent further developments, ( devoting their attention especially to , the Chinese and Japanese quarters. Inoculation with a substance called 1 balTkine is considered to be a preventive ; but' several inoculated patients , have died from the effects of the operation and the people threatened are resisting the remedy. They say they would rather die of the plague than be poisoned. ? So called expert testimony should be accepted, if at all, only with the greatest care. There beiug uo way to determine whether the expert is really 1 what he claims to be, it is not iufre' queut that undue weight is attached J to his testimony. The president has re[ cently pardoned Win. lirougbton, who i was convicted in March and seuteuced| 'rom the Northern district of Georgia 'or sending obscene matter through F he mails. He was convicted on the ^ estimouy of so called handwriting exaerts. The obscene letters continued ( ifter Brougbton's conviction, and this d act proved the man's innocence. As n i rule, the greatest difficulty with so- l' jailed expert testimony lies in the act that the experts are geuerally nore faithful to their reputation for D deverness than they are to the truth, a ? ? tl ? The promoters of the South Caro- f< iua Inter-State and West Indian Ex- a >osition evidently mean business. Al- j? hough the proposition has been under vay only about three months, the D vays and means committee is already t eporting subscriptions aggregating d >110,000 and over.. These subscrip- P ions have been mostly by citizens of p Charleston, with the railroads and >tber large corporations which are ex- ,| >ected to subscribe liberally still to f( tear from. The financial plan calls 0 or a capital stock of $250,000, no part n )f which is to be called for until the a >ona fide subscriptions amount to at a east $150,000, when subscribers will P )e asked for an assessment of 20 per ^ ;ent., to be followed by other payments t ?s they may be needed. The Charles- b on people hope that the entire state, ?! >r rather people in all sections, will 1 issist in the undertaking, assuring ^ ,hem that they are not to regard their c subscriptions as donations; but as in- p /estmeuts. The shares are to be of fi he par value of $5 each, and subscrip- d ions will be accepted for any number )f shares from one up. There is every eason to believe that this exposition j, novement is a movement that is going p o move. It is going to be of great i )enefit not only to Charleston, but to ,he entire state ; and those who lend l' heir assistance from the outset, finan- ? :ial and otherwise, are qot likely to a lave occasion to regret such action. e The present situation gives promise of v be organization of the exposition com- t lany within a few weeks from now ; 3 >ut in the meantime letters of inquiry E iddressed to the Executive committee, >3 Broad street, will receive prompt e ittention. c a MERE-MENTION. i St. Mary's monastery, at Belmont, s JC. C., was destroyed by fire last Sat- a lrday morning at about 4 o'clock. The origin of the fire is unknown ; but t is supposed to have caught from 'j iparrow nests in the eaves of the h juilding. The loss is about $30,000, q vith some $15,000 of insurance. [ lueen Victoria celebrates her 84th . 1| lirthday on May 24, tomorrow. j The Cunard Liue steamer Carintha, h 'rom New Orleans, loaded with 1,500 1; nules for the British army in South 1 Africa, was wrecked off the coast of a layti last Friday. There have * >een six deaths from bubonic plague n San Francisco during the past three 0 nonths. Bob Fitzsimmons, the 1 irize fighter, has had his right hand t>adly lacerated by the bite of a pet 3 ion. A statue of General Grant, 0 iresented by the Grand Army of the u Republic, was unveiled in Washing- c on last Sunday A large com>any of British astronomers arrived in 1 "sew York last Saturday on their way '( outh to witness the total eclipse of the t iun on May 28. The town of ffafeking was relieved on May 16 by F i body of 2,000 picked men, sent by 1 jord Roberts on May 4. There has 0 iince been great rejoicing throughout 3 he British empire, and in England c specially. Seventy-three Chris- e ian converts in the Chinese town of 0 Lai-Shun, near Pekin, were murdered a i few days ago by the anti-loreign so- v jiety called the boxers. The gov?rnment observatory for the eclipse cas been completed at Barnesville, 3a. The Boer peace delegates >aid in Baltimore, Saturday, that if 3reat Britain conquers the Transvaal, :housandsof Boers will emigrate to the United States. A Berne, Switzerland, dispatch says that the committee cf the International Peace Bureau tiave decided to make a final appeal to the twenty-five powers that signed the Hague agreement, asking them to juite to put a stop to the South African war. W. It. Hearst, proprietor of the New York Journal, has heen fleeted president of the Democratic clubs of the United States, vice Governor Benton McMillen, of Tennessee, resigned The Democrats of the Eighth Alabama district will hold a convention on June 3 for the purpose of nominating Joe Wheeler's successor. By a vote of 3G to 21, the senate, on Monday, tabled a motion to admit the Boers to the lloor of the seuate. The president will go to Norfolk next Saturday on the Dolphin and remain over until Monday to view the eclipse. The house, on Monday, passed, by a vote of 151 to 24, a bill providing that * government employees be required to work only 8 hours a day. Puyue, the Republican leader of the house, has offered a resolution for adjournment on June 0. The resolution is now in the bands of the ways and means committee. Quay has announced himself as a candidate for re-election to the senate. The senate expects to take up the Clark case tomorrow Among the overtures presented to the Southern Presbyterian general assembly, now in session in Atlanta, was one from the Brazos, Texas, Presbytery, asking a change in the confessiou of faith regarding the death of infants. I.m-khart Railroad. News and Courier: Chairman W. I). Evans and Commissioner Garris, on Thursday, inspected and received the Lockhart railroad, which is a new line, 13.86 miles long, connecting the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia road with Lockhart Mills. The inspecting party was accompanied by Superintendent 1'. I. Welles, of the Southern, and President Carey, of the mills -ami railroad. The road was found in line I coudition and authority was given for s its operation. i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. 'ossibte Appropriation For Charleston. Washington correspondent News and Courier: The chances for the Charleson exposition receiving an appropriaion of two hundred and fifty thousand ollars for the United States government exhibit, the early part of the winer session of congress, are very good, ccording to the opinion of the South 'arolina delegatiou in congress. The bairman of the appropriations com- , littee, Mr. Cannon, is opposed to any ppropriations of this kind because he binks the more money appropriated >r this purpose the more there will be sked for; but the majority of the aembers of the committee are very riendly toward these appropriations, /hich they consider of an educational ature. At present there are before be house quite a number of bills from ifferent cities for projects, such as exositions, museums, etc. 'reachern on the Jury. Greenville Mountaineer : The jury ommissioners are making inroads upon he professions when selecting jurors jr the criminal courts. It has been bserved this year that the names of ainisters and other professional men re drawn at each terra of the court, nd with one exception, so fur, the ireachers have been serving on the uries, thereby gaining a practical exierience as to how justice is adminisered. At the coming term we are to iave a college president and four minsters, (one of them an editor,) while he newspaper fraternity is not ncgleced, and one of the local reporters will iave the advantage of making up the ourt proceedings from actual particitation in the work of the court. The requency with which preachers are Irawn upon the juries is accounted for iy the fact that there are a large number of them in this county, and the aho A..A nt n rr Kolipi/pfS UUJUJ199ISOIUIICIO aiC ovivug uvuv. v.w a "equal rights to all and special irivileges to none." Unprovoked Murder. Says a Greenville special of the 19th o The News and Courier: Tom Odom hot James Israel through the head at lalloway's meat market., at Mill's Mill, t noon to-day. The 32 calibre bullet ntered just above the right eye and ras taken out of the fractured skull at he top of the back part of the head, lightly to the left. Dr. Smith, the ill physician, said at 3 o'clock that hough Israel was still breathing, there vas no hope of his recovery and he xpected his patient to die at any monent, though he might hold out sever.1 hours. Odom claims that the shootng was accidental, but eyewitnesses ay that the shot was fired deliberately ud without provocation. Both men vere perfectly sober, they say, and he mill people are unable to see a Qotive for or account for Odom's act. The men had been playing ball just efore the shooting and had a slight [uarrel over a trival matter ; but after he game they appeared perfectly riendly. When Odom was .lodged in ail he was not in condition to talk, le seemed to be in a stupor, and when ie was turned into a cell he promptly ay down and fell asleep apparently. The young men are about 18 years old nd neither is married. ort Royal Dry Dock Failure. Baltimore Sun : The abandonment f Port Royal as a naval station, under he terms of the naval bill adopted in be senate last week, removing the ame to Charleston, means a clear loss f $1,000,000 to the government, for io return has beeu received and none an be. This sum has been dumped to one of the largest dry docks in he country, which is practically useess, the dredging out of a harbor eurance and the erection of several costy repair shops and a large naval hos>ital, besides other buildings necessary o a complete plant for docking and iverhauling the largest type of warTt io nnur inoYnllpohlp t.fl t.hft laval officials why Port Royal should ver have beeu selected for the site of >ne of the largest dor,*s in the country iud the scene of a big naval station vhich it was proposed to locate there n connection with the dock. Port loyal, under the policy of previous idministratious, was intended to be he most important naval station south ?f Norfolk. It was to be the depot of upplies also for ships operating in the A'est Indes during the winter season. The history of Port Royal is brief, be;inuing with Secretary Tracy's time 11 the navy department. After conidering ull the various ports and har>ors along the South Atlantic and on he Gulf, a board composed of emilent officers reported in favor of this dace and an appropriation was se:ured for the dock and later for buildngs. Its advantages of locality were hown to be superior to those of other :ities, and its harbor was believed to be irotected and have greater draft than ilmost any other on the seaboard. )ver $500,000 was expended on a dock instructed by a house builder, whose ixperience in such matters soon proved hat the department had made a misake in awarding the contract. After aying out this money and $400,000 idditioual in buildings, the departneut ordered the Indiana to be taken n the new dock, and the work was iccomplished with much difficulty and ?ome danger, owing to lack of water >ver the sill and at the entrance to the lock. After that experience the delartment became skeptical and refused o allow any but two small snips to be aken in. It will cost another half nillion to make the dock of any use. The British and The Boers.?With he exception that Mafekiog has been elieved, there is no important news Vom South Africa during the past few lays. It was reported on Monday hat Lord Saulisbury had received a nessage direct from President Kruger iroposing terms of surreuder; but aferward .the truth of this report was delied. There has been no such message, md although the British appear to have he advantage everywhere, still there is eason to beiieve that the Boers intend o put up at least one more good fight lefore they allow the British to enter 'retoria. The Boers are now thought ,o be concentrating on Johannesburg, vhere they will be able to give lots of rouble before they can be driven out. Bad Times.?"He has always run lis business like clockwork." "Yes, ind now his creditors have wound it lp."?Philadelphia Bulletin. locax* affairs. INDKX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. B. de Loach?Is announced as a candidate for the house of representatives. York Drug Store, Registered Pharmacist?Gives an illustration of the benefit to be secured by using Longman & Martinez paints. D. B. Johhson, President of Winthrop College?Gives information with regard to the examination lor vacant scholarships in Winthop college. John F. Gordon?Announcement as a candidate for county supervisor. WITHIN THE TOWN. Last Saturday was another unusually good day with the dry goods 9tores. The rain having put a stop to farm work, quit6 a number of people came in from the couutry, keeping the merchants bus^. The onntpat. fr?r annoint.ment, to t.he A"v VVMVVWV **rrv' ? office of magistrate in York township this year promises to be more interesting than usual. In the presence of the reporter yesterday, a gentleman who has been giving more or less attention to the situation, mentioned the names of eleven prospective candidates. The Jasper Light Infantry prides itself on having the best drum corps ol any military company in the state, The corps consists of John Wheeler, Will Adams, Bob Adams and Coot McKnight, all colored ; but thoroughgoing experts. The proficiency and precision with which they perform their duties are highly creditable. At the general municipal election to be held soon, graded school trustees are to be elected to succeed Messrs. S, L. Miller and J. J. Hunter, whose terms expire. It develops that W. W, Lewis, Esq., is no longer eligible tc serve as a trustee of the graded school, on account of his disqualification as a member of the board of visitors to the Citadel academy. On account of the fact, however, that there is no provision in the special school district act for the tilling of vacancies, Mr. Lewis finds himself unable to resign from the board. His term of office as trustee ol the graded school does not expire un til next year, and unless relieved by at amendment to the graded school acl at the next session of the general as sembly, he must continue as a membei of the board, in name, without the right to participate in the board's de liberations. T? tiirnoH nnf thnf. t.hp hnsp.hflll nine which Lowrysvillc sent to Yorkvilh last Friday was not so formidable as ii looked. The game was called ai about 5 o'clock ; hut owing to th< threatening appearance of the weather only a few of the more enthusiasti< baseball lovers went out to the grounds The attendance was not at all general Within a few minutes after the game started, it developed that the visitors were no match for the home team which was itself ,made up in part o such material as could be scraped to gether on the spur of the moment Several errors made by the best met on the home team gave the visitors three runs ; but, taken altogether, tin playing of the home team was verj good. The game was quite an inter esting one, and would have no doubi proven much more so had there beet present a larger crowd to enjoy it The score, at the close of the game stood 11 to 3 in favor of Yorkville Rev. J. C. Johnes acted as umpire The best of good temper prevailed throughout the contest. SERMON TO THE SOLDIERS. The occasion of the annual serraot to the Jasper Light Infantry last Sun day, proved, as was generally antici pated, one of unusual interest. Churcl members of all denominations partici pated, and the congregation which was gathered, not only from Yorkville, hui also largely from the surrounding country, numbered close in tbe neigh borhood of six hundred people. I was such a congregation as gathers ii Yorkville only at rare intervals anc which is seldom seen elsewhere. The Jasper Light Infantry numbered about GO men, rank and file, undei command of Captain W. B. Moore The original Jaspers present were Capt. W. B. Smith, W. B. Williams A. F. McConnell, J. J. Smith, T. D Harris, R. N. McElwee, John D. Mc Connell, J. R. Witherspoon. With ou< or two exceptions, all wore the regu lation uniform, ou the left sleeve of tb< coat of which was a broad band o black and white, indicating forty yean of service. The head of each old sol dier was abundantly sprinkled wit! gray, and altogether the venerabh little squad made an impressive ap pearance. Forming at the armory shortly be fore II o'clock, preceded by the drun corps and followed by tbe honorary squad of ex-Confederate Jaspers, will the chaplain in uniform, bringing uj 't-- ;r me rear, me culujjuuj waivuvu ? fours to the door of the church. Hen was formed a lane with double rauk: on either side, and all heads were un covered as the honorary squad marcher through. Then followed the company all the military occupying the from seats on either side of the pulpit, anc a few moments after the services wert commenced with a voluntary from the choir. Kev. W. G. Neville assisted in the services. In appropriate terms he extended a cordial welcome to the large congregation composed of all denominations, and expressed his gratification at the fact that ull these people could meet on such occasions on the common ground of love. He then introduced Kev. J. C. Johues, the chaplain of the company, who made a fitting reply to Kev. Mr. Neville's welcome, endorsing the kindly sentiments uttered. With that Mr. Johnes entered upon the delivery of his sermon, which proved to be a most interesting discourse, unusually full of meat. The following syuopsis will give a very satisfactory idea of what the chapluiu had to say : St. John xiv, 19. "Because I live ye shall live also." Individuality is the glorious gospel of the achievement of personality, of the attainment of independence of life, of self mastery ; the glorious gospel that every man, by the slow, long and tedious process of individuation may build in the fullness of assertion and soul life. Personalty is common to all individuals. It is as widely diffused as humanity. It is the particular and appropriate essence 01 eacn. n is me , common property of every single individual. Hence its peculiar aptitude for this morning's discussion. It has been a problem that has deeply interested ethnic writers?the woui derful powers of assimilation found in this country. The subtle influences at . work are difficult to trace satisfactorily, but the results are plainly evident and visible. There is a comprehensive difference, admitted by ethnological ! students, between Continental Europe i and America. The race elements are , clearly defined, but iu some inexplicable manner, the amalgamation of races is almost immediately consolidated on this side, and the personality of the individual soon becomes characteristic of what is known as the "American i spirit." There is freedom, liberality, cosmopolitan brotherhood on the other , side; but these elements find their ultimate expression in a king, &c. Here everybody is king, and equality, lib' erty and fraternity are concrete rather ! thai} abstract terms. England is the ouly type of a demoi cralic government, as democracy is understood by us today. It appears a god-given right to the Anglo-Saxon race to preach, teach and promulgate true liberty, iu the proper estimate of ! individual personality. The personality of the individual i crops up continually. Especially so , in Americanism. The English mil, ilary attache emphasized this fact ' in his remarks on the American soldier during the Cuban war. Of ' essential strength was it in the > Confederate army. Maguificently t commanded generally; fighting for . home and hearthstones an undoubted strength ; but the morale of the southern army was conspicuously great as ' its strength of personality, of individ" ualism of leaders, of rank and file was developed. ; Now, you are not ouly members of ; a military organization, owing allel giauce to state and country, ready and willing to sacrifice selves upon the alter of nationality ; but are also citi; zeus of a heavenly organization with ? Christ as chief commander. The deep ; principles underlying the text, viz : personality, are applicable to you as a military organization and as soldiers [ of God. These principles are com < ?nnncnluinru ?nd edifvinn. IVII iiU^I VVMOWi?%w. J ? y 0 ' The same reasons, fundamentals, i grounds, foundations, basis underlying I God's life, and Christ's life underlie . yours too. Your life should not be a reflected imitable, limitable one. The marvelous truth, that every human soul has within it, the possibility of 3 life, personal, individual life, the en: tire freedom of the perfect life of God, ! of Christ. Personality is the highest . achievement in human life. To be ^ yourself is the highest possible conceivable attainment. Christ is the great exaraplar?the pattern man?the great life. Christ's > greatness consists in living his own . life, because the realization, the completeness, the fullness, the finality I of personality was in him. His life was not an imitation, not a reflection even of God's; but the full expression of what God had implanted there. He lived bim1 self?the highest achievement?the deepest personality, the grandest and - more exalted individuality. Nothing i in the realms of scientific or physical research can compare in work or significance with this comprehensive attainment of personality. "Man be1 hind the guns" today emphasizes the ' individual's personality. The Civil war abounded in leaders ol t great personality. We have thus the , unique spectacle of a country and peoj pie celebrating with love and enthusiasm the greatest disaster that could happen to them. Countries and peo1 pie do not celebrate defeats. England r does not celebrate her Majuba Hill; . France, Sedan ; Prussia, Jena; Aus. tria, Austerlitz; Russia, Moscow. But the Southland celebrates with growing > aniVmciuem on her memorial davs, her greatest disaster, ber severe defeats, * aud why ? Because she believes in 2 the justuess and justice of the princi. pies underlying ber cause. Individ; uality, personality is constantly apparent. In its absolute condition, found 3 without limitation in God only ; but - man's personality is not without reali) ty. Man, not a backboneless verte3 brate?a spongy amoeba, a coutrolless bunch or collection of hereditary traits and tendencies, a product of environment, marble played upon by the chisel. Man's personality geuerally im1 puired by outside influences. Mutar tations exist necessarily iu the world's ! processes and the influence of these un) doubtedly weak or strong upon man. But each man has his own ground of personality, because he is a free spirit? 5 a conception of the entire and complete ' realization of the forces within him? iu fact an individualism. | The glorious prospect Christianity offers in personality. Right coucepJ tions of God. The fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man-, 1 kind. The sublime height held up i before a Christian view, the richness, 5 glory, sweetness, the possibilities accruing to each individual in the at, tainmeut of personality. To be himself?every force within him?aud all ' - - U UUUIJ LCI Jitll b Ul UUU nut ot |/ui utvu ? s not imitatious, not reflections of the Godhead ; but the same iu all esseni tials, the same motives, essence. Is it possible? Christ answers "For the same reason that I live, ye shall live also." Here enters the personal element? the true meaning of life. It is a slruggle with self?an effort for self mastery, self victory, to live the individual life. It is an answer to Christ's glorious invitation, "Come up here and be a man. Declare yourself. Stand with me upon this height in your own life and in your own way." Standing there fear is impossible. He is above the clouds of man's ambition and invectives. Absolute independence must be the Christian aim. To be like God is to be yourself and no other. To live your owu life?to take hold of your own portion of the eternal?your own segment of the circle of eternal life. To be like God we must enter into the freedom of His spirit?love as He loves, think as He tkinks, act as He acts. To be helped to this great consummation take the outstretched hand of your brother Jesus, whom you have seen, that He may lead you into the eternal presence of Him whom you have not seen. After the sermon, the congregation was dismissed with a benediction, and the soldiers marched out of the church as they had marched in, continuing back to the armory, where they broke ranks. The veteran members named above were, in accordance with an arrangement previously announced, entertained at dinner by Captain Moore at his resideuce. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Jos. F. Wallace is visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Dixon, at Union, S. C. Mrs. H. K. Steele, and Misses Mary Scborb and Sadie Dunlap are visiting in Charlotte this week. Mrs. Hanahan, accompanied by her granddaughter, Miss Rita Beard, leaves today for a visit to relatives and friends in Columbia. Mr. Lee Nevins, of Fort Mill township, was in Yorkville Monday, representing the opposition to the levy of the special tax in School District No. 26. Mrs. W. F. Robertson, of Wilmington, N. C., and Mrs. Fannie Robertson, of Alexandria, Va., are visiting in Yorkville, the guests of Mrs. G. W. 8. Hart. Miss R. Emma Kennedy, who has been teaching a school at Hardeeville, S. C., since last September, returned to her home in this place on last Saturday. Mr. Jno. C. McClain, who came over from Charlotte recently to take charge of Mr. H. T. Grist's repair shop, refnrnort tn OhnrlnttA rhia wpaIc nn ae. cod nt of failure of bis eyesight. Lieutenant W. W. Boyce, of the Jasper Light Infantry, was unable to go to Charlotte with his company on account of aD attack of dysentery. He was quite sick all day Monday. Messrs. C. T. Crook and B. M. Faris, of the Gold Hill neighborhood of Fort Mill township, were in Yorkville on Monday, having come over to bring the returns from the recent special school tax election. Miss Edith McCollum, of Pleasant Valley, Texas, who has been visiting in Yorkville, the guest of Mi*. L. R. Williams's family, left last week for Meckleuburg couDty, N. C., for a visit to relatives, on her way to her home in Texas. Sumter Herald: Another newspaper change has been made. Col. T. ^ Stobo Farrow, of Gaffney, who founded and edited the Spartanburg Herald ' for many years, and who is well known to journalism, has taken charge of the Cheraw Chronicle, and hereafter will be editor and proprietor of that paper. Mr. J. N. Stricklin, who has hqd editorial charge of the paper heretofore, will look after the mechanical part of i the work and devote bis time and eni ergy to the printing and publishing department. We wish for the new management a large measure of success. Lieutenant James B. Allison is now : located at Valdey, Alaska, a point well up within the arctic circle; but not laid down upon any map that is at nrpHpnt. Available. He reached there about the first of May, aod bis mother received a letter from him last week. Id the letter was enclosed a number of ; kodak views of the few dreary scenes in the locality that were considered to be of the most interest. One showed a number of apparently half-frozen soldiers standing on the deck of the i transport just after land had been sighted. Another showed a wooden : shack that had been erected on short i notice for temporary quarters, and still another showed an infinite waste of snow that is described as beiDg seven feet deep. The town of Valdey, to which Lieutenant Allison had not been up to the time of writing the let; ter, is several miles from the spot selected for the quartering of the troops. . At this season of the year the nights ; are only a few hours long, and when ' bedtime comes at 9 o'clock, it is still , several hours until dark. From what Lieutenant Allison said before he left here, The Enquirer almost feels at liberty to promise its readers a long letter from him some time soon, and if the letter comes, it is likely to be interesting. LOCAL LACONICS. Until January 1st, 1001. The Twice-a-Week-Enquirer, filli ed with the latest and most reliable news, will be furnished from the date of this issue until January 1, 1901, for $1.24. Cotton Coining. Although the rains of last week helped wonderfully to sprout cotton seed that had not already sprouted, growth has not been so rapid as it would have been had the weather been warmer. Special School District. Tho uninrs of School District No. 26, in which Gold Hill academy is situated, held an election last Saturday on the question of levying a special tax of three mills for school purposes, in addition to the regular school tax. In all 26 votes were cast, and of these only one was against the tax. There was some opposition to the tax; but most of those who would have so voted were not registered. It is quite probable, however, that there will be an effort to contest the election. Totality of the Ecllpne. As to whether Yorkville will be in the line of totality of the coming eclipse, has not been specifically stated by any authority that is to be regard