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GLU0IUS R DEL i Dr. Talmage Satirizes the Antag onists of Christianity. THE GEEAT PREACHER Depicts in a Very Unusual Way the Triumphs of the Gospel. A Delusion Which Over powers the Strong est Intellects. The antagonists of the Christian re ligion are in this sermon of Dr. Tal mage met in a very urus-al way, and the triumphs of the gospel are depicted. The text is Ezekiel xxxi, 21. "lle made his arrows bright, he consultcd with images, he looked in the liver." Two modes of 7' iviniation by which the king of Babylon proposed to find out the will of God. lI took a bundle of arrows, put them togacber, nixu them up, then pulled forth one and by the inscription on it decided what eity he should first assault. Then an ani mal was slain, and by the iliter or darker color of the liver the brigh tcr or darker prospect of success was inf erred. That is the meaning of the text. 11l made his arrows bright: _he consulted with images, he hoked in the liver.' Stupid delusions. And yet all the ages have been filled with delusions. It FeeLx's as if the world loves to be hooc winked, the delusion of the text only a specimen of a vast number of deceits practiced upon the human race. In the latter part of the last century Johanna Southcote came forth poretending to have divine power, made prophceies, had chapels built in her honor, and 100, 000 diciples came forward to f.llow her. About five years before the birth of Christ Apollonius was born, and he came forth, and after five years being speechless, according to the tradition. he healed the sick and raised the dead and preached viitue and, according to the myth, having deceased, was brought to resurrection. The Delphic oracle deceived vast multitudes of people: the Pythoness, seated in the temple of Apollo, utter ing a crazy jargon from which the peo ple guc -sed their individual or national fortune., or misfortunes. The utter ances were of such a nature that yoiu could read them any way you wanted to read them. A general coming forth to battle consulted the Pelphic oracle, and he wanted to find o. whether he was going to be safe in the battle or killed in battle, and the answer came forth from the Delphic oracle in such words that if you put the conima before the word "never" it means cne thing and if you put the comma af::er the word "never" it means another thing just opposite. The messages from the Delphic oracle to the general was, "Go forth, return never in battle shalt thou perish." If he was killed, that was ac cording to the Delphic oracle; if he came home safely, that was according to the Delphic oracle. So the ancient auguries deceived the people. The priests of those auguries, by the flight of birds or by the intona tion of thunder or by the inside appear ance of slain animals, told the fortunes or misfortunes of individuals or nations. The sibyls deceived the people. The sibyls were supposed to be inspired wo men who lived in eaves and who wrote the sibylline books afterwards purchas ed by Tarquin the Proud, So late as the year 1829 a man arose in New York, pretending to be a divine being, and payed his part so well that wealthy mercha.nts became his diciples and threw their fortunes into his keeping. And so in all ages there have been necro mancies, incantations, witcrafts, sor ceries, magical arts, enchantments, di vinations and delusions. The one of the text was only a specimen of that which has been occurring in all ages of the world. None of these delusion~s accomplished any good. They deceiv ed, they pauperized the people, they were as cruel as they were absurd. They opened no hospitals, they healed no wounds, they wiped away no tears, they emancipated no serfdom. But there are those who say that all these delusions combined are as noth ing compared with the delusion now abroad in the world, the delusion of the' Christian religion. Thatt delusion has today 400,000,000 dupes. It proposes to encircle the earth with its gOrd'e. That which has been called a delusKa. has already overshadowed the Appala chain range on this side the sea, and it has overshadowed the Balkan and Caut casion ranges, on the other side the sea. It has conquered England and the I n ited States. This champion delusion, this hoax, this swindle of the ages. as it has been called, has gone forth to con quer the islands of the Pacific, and Melanesia and Micronesia and Walayan Polynesia have already surrendered to the delusion. Yea, it has conquered the Indian archipelago and Borneo; and Sumatra and Celeb'es and -Java have fallen under its wiles. In the Fiji is lands, where there are 120,000I reople. 102,000 have already become the dupes of this Christian religion, and if things go on as they are now going on and if the influence of this great hallucination of the ages cannot be stopped, it will swallow the globe. Supposing then that Christianity is the delusion of the centuries, as some have pronounced it. I propose to show you what has been accomplished by this chimera. this fall acy, this hoax, this swindle of ages. Admiral Farragut, one of the most admired men of the American navy. early became a victim of this Christian delusion, and, seated not long before his death at Long Branch, he was giv ing some friends an account of his early life. He said: "My father went down in behalf of the United States govern ment to put an end to Aaron Burr's re bellion. I was a cabin boy and went along with him. I could swear like an old salt. I could gamble in every style of gambling. I knew all the wicked ness there was at that time abroad. One day my father cleared everybody out of the cabin except myself and locked the door. Ie said: 'David, what are you going to do? What arc you going to be?' 'Well,' I said, 'fa ther, I am going to follow the sea. 'Follow the sea and be a poor miserable, drunken sailor, kicked and cutfed about the world and die of a fever in a foreign hospital: 'Oh, no I said. 'Father. I will not be that. I will tread the guar ter deck and command as you do.' *N0. David' my father said. 'No. David A person that has your principles and your bad habits will never t:ead the quarter deck or command.' My father went out and shut the door after him. and I said to him: 'I will change. I will never swear again. I will never drink again. 1 will never gamble again, and, gentlemen, by the help of' God, I have kept those three vows to this time. I soon after that became a Christian, and that decided my fate for tians. lieI wants no btter play spell than stad and w ath the hats and coats'f the "urderers who are mas eringod'sChildren. There goes the :-ane mlau. This time he is afoot. WIhere is hie "oiug now? Going on the roat to ( tia to dlie for Christ. They tried to vIp it out of him. they tricd t) eate it out Of him, they thought tvx would give Lim enough of it by put n- hini into a vindowless urgeon. and keep"g hi on small diet, and denying him a cloak and condemnng him as' a criminal, and howling at him throuagi the strcet but they- could not sweat it out of hii. and they coulu nt noud'1 it out of him, so theV tried the o" the worl. and one Z'ummer dav in 0; he was d:apizatedi --perhaps the mighticst intelleet the G ' 060 years of te world's existenc hood vcinked. chacte- e ed. dupeud by the Christian religion A sthat i the remarkable thinr about this delus:on of Christianity; t overpowers the strong.est intellects. Sither the crities. secular and rehei o - of this cen,tury together and put a vote to th'ell as to whie is the greatest book ever written. and I., large majori ty ther will say "Paradise Lost.' Who wrote "Paradise host' one of the f-ols who believed in this Bible. .John Mlilton. Berjamin Franklin ;urren deredl to this delusion, if you may judge fronm the letter that he wrote to Thomas Paine bezzing him to de.trov the "Age of Reason" iu manuscript and never let it go into type and writing af terward in his old days, "Of this -Jesus of Nazareth I have to say that the sys tem of morals he left and the religion he has given us are the best things the world has ever seen or is likely to sec" Patrick ienry, the electric -champion of liberty, enslaved by this delusion, so that he says, "The book worth all oth ei books put together is the Bible." Benjamin Rush. the leading physiolog ist and anatomist of his day, the great medical scientist, what did he say? **The only true and perfect religion is Christianity." Isaac Newton, the lead ing philosopher of his time. what did he say' That man. surrendering to this delusion of the Christian religion, crying out, "The sublimest philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the gos pel." David Brewster, at the pronup ciation of whose name every scientist the world over uncovers his head, Da vid Brewster saying, "Oh, ' 3 religion has been a great light to ue, a very great light all my days." President Thiers, the great French stateman, ac knoledging that he prayed when he said, "I invoke the Lord God, in who:n I am glad to believe." David Livings tone, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this delu sion, this hallucination, this great swin dle of of the ages. so when they find him dead they find him on his knees. William E. Gladstone, the strongest intellect in England, unable to resist this chimera. this fallacy, this delusion of the Christian religion, went to the house of God every Sabbath and often at the invitation of the rector read the prayers :o the people. If those mighty intellects are ovorborne by this delu sion, what chance is there for you and for rae? Besides that, I have noticed that ihst rate infidels cannot be depended n for sted 'fastness in the proclamation of their sentiments- Goethe. a leading sceptic, was sa wrought upon by this Christianity that in a weak moment lie cried out. " My belief in the Biple has saved me in my literary and moral life." Rousseau, one of the most eloqnent champions of infidelity, spendirng his whole life warring against Christianity ries out, "The majesty of the Scrip tures amazes me." Altemont, the no torious infidel, one would think he would have been safe against this delu sion of tha Christian religion. Oh, no' After talking against Christianity all his days, in his last hours he cried out, "Oh, thou blasphemed but most in dulgent Lord God, hell itself is a refuge if it hide me from thy frown." Yol taire. the most talented infidel the world ever saw, writing 230 publications, and the most of them spiteful against Christianity, himself the most notori ous libertine of the century. one would have thought he could have been de pended upon for steadfastness in the advocacy of infidelity and in the war against this terrible chimera, this de lusion of the Gospel. But no. In his last hour he asks for Christian burial and asks that they give him the sacra ment of the Lord Jesua Christ. 'Why, you cannot depend upon these first rate infidels: you cannot depend upon their power t'o resist this great delusion of' Christianity. Thomas Pain, the god of modern skeptics. his birthday celebrated in New York and Boston with great enthusiasim-Thomss Paine, the paragon of Bible haters; Thomas P~ain. about whom his brother infidel, William Carver, wrote in a letter which I have at my house, saying that he drank a quart of rum a day and was too mean and too dishonest to pay for it; Thomas Paine. the adored of modern infidelity: Tfhomas Paine. who stole another man's wife in England and brought her to this country: Thomas Paine. who was so s ualid and so loath esome and so drunken, and so profli gate, and so beastly in his habits, oetimes picked out of the ditch, :ometimes too filth~y to be pi 'ked out: Thomas Paine. one would have thought that he conld have been depended on for steadfastness against this great de lusion. But no. in his dying hour ie begs the Lord Jesus Christ for mer Y e. this chimera of the gospel is not satisiled until it goes on and builds tself into the imost permanent archi teture, so it seems as if the world is ne er to get rid of it. What are some of the inest buildings in the world? St. Paul's t. Peter's, churches. cathedrals Iof all Christendom. Yes, this imperti nene of the go.-pei, this vast delusion, is not satislied until it projects itself and in one year giv'es, contributes. 5. U.00 to foreign missions, the work of which is to make dunces and fools on the othe. side of the world people we have never seen. Deluded doctors -2ti physicians mueetinig week by week in London in the Union Mlidi al Prayer circle to worship God. Deluded lawyers-Lord Cairns, the highest legal authority in England, the ex-adviser of the throne spenig his vacation in preaching the gospel of -Jesus C hrist to the poor people of cotlad. Frederick T. Frelinghuy en of New Jersey, once se-retary of t t an old fashioned E-vangelical hisnar, on elder in the Rleformned cucrh John Bright, a deluded Quak er: Henry Wilson, . the vice president o tie United States, dying a deluded Mthodis or C'ongregationalist: Earl of Kinore dying a .deluded Presbyteri And to shotw the~ immensity of this deuson, this awful swindler of' the gos pel of ,Jesus Chrsst.. I open a hospital and I bring into that hospital the death beds of a great many Christian I walk tv. and dljn watrdl of that hospital 'nI s a few iueuions. I ask, B'.in:: Stcphen what have you to say?"' Lord Jcsus receive my spirit." "yin John Wesley, what have you to say"' "The best of all is G od is with us.~~ * Dying Edward Pay son, what have you to say?" "Ifloat in a sea of glory." Dying John Brad ford. what have you to say?' "If there be any way of going to heaven on horseback or in a tiery chariot, it is this." -lyin Neander. what have you to say T. am going to sleep now. good night. Dying Mrs. Florence Foster. what have you to say:* --*A pilgrim in the valley, but the mountain tops are all agleam from peak to peak.- "Dying Alexander Mathew. what have - say?' "The Lord who has taken care o- me 50 years will not cast me off now: glory Ic to God and to the Lib' Amen. amen, amen. amen'" "lying Joan Powson, after preaching the gos pel so many years. what have you to say?" -My death bed is a bed of roses.' D ing Dr. Thomas Scott, what have you to say? This is heaven begun. Dy inz soldier in the last war. what have you to say? Boys, I am going to the front. *Dying telegraph operator on a battlefield of Virginia, what have you to sav? The wires are all laid and the poles are up from Stony Point to head quarters. Dying Paul. what have you to say? -1 a-n, now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand: I haVe fought tli. good tight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, 0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 6) my Lotd, my God, what a delu sion, what a glorious delusion! Sub merge me with it, fill my eyes and ears with it. put it under my head for a pil low, this delusion; spread it over me for a canopy, put it underneath me for an outsprea4ing wing. roll 't over me in ocean surges 10,000 fathoms deep. If infidelity and if atheism and if annihi lation are a reality and the Christian religion is a delusion, give me the de lusion. The strong confirmation of every rea sonable man and woman is that Chris tianity producing such grand results cannot be a delusion. A lie, a cheat, a swindle, a hallucination, cannot launch such a glory of the centuries. Your logic and your common sense convince you that a bad cause cannot produce n illustrious result, Out of the womb such a monster no such angel can . born. There are many who began wi n thinking that the Christian religi ! was a stupid farce who have come to the conclusion that it is a reality. Wby are you in the Lord's house toda, ? Why did you sing this song? Why did you bow your heads in the opening prayer? Why did you bring your fam ily with you? Why, when I tell you of the ending of all trials in the bosom of God, do there stand tears in -your eyes, not tears of grief, but tears of joy, such as stand in the eyes of homesick chil dren far away at school when some one talks to them about going home? Why is it that you can be so calmly submis sive to the death of your loved one abmut whose departure you once were so angry and so rebellious? There is something the matter with you. All your friends have found out there is a great change, and if some of you would give it in scholarly style, and others, giving their experience, would give it in broken style, but the one experieice would be just as good as the other. Some of you have read everything. You are scientific and you are scholarly and yet if 1 should osk you, "what is the most sensible thing you ever did?" you would say, "the most sensible thing I ever did was to give my heart to God." But there may be others who have not had early advantages, and if they were asked to give their experience they might rise and give such testimo ny as theman gave in a prayer mecaing when he said: "On my way here tonight I met a man who asked me where I was going. I said, 'I am going to prayer meeting.? lIe said, 'there are a good many religious, and I think the most of them are delusions. As to the Chris tian religion, that is only a notion, that is a mere notion, the Christian reli gion.' I said to him, 'Stranger, you see that tavern over there?' 'Yes,' he said, 'I see it.' 'Don't you see me?' Yes, of ourse I see you.' 'Now, the time was when everybody in this town knows if I had a quarter of a dollar in my pocket I could not pass that tavern without going in and getting a drink, all the people of Jefferson could not keep me out of that place. But God has ebang ed my heart, and the Lord Jesus Christ has destroyed my thirst for strong drink, and there is my whole week's wages and I have no temptation to go in there. And stra'nger. if this is a no tion I want to tell you it is a mighty powerful notion. It is a notion that has put clothes on my children's back and it it a notion that has put good food on our table, and it is a notion that has filled my mouth with thanksgiv'ng to God. And, stranger, you had bletter go along with mc; you might get :'eli gion, too; lots of people arc getting re ligion now." Well, we will sooc understand it all. Your life and mine will soon be over. "We will soon come to the last bar of the music, to the last net of the tragedy, to the last page of the book-yea, t: the last line and to the last word-and to you and to me it will either be midnoon or midnigrht. A Murderer Wanted. A reward of 1.000Q marks is offered for the capture of a murderer named Goenezi. who murdered a widow and her stepdaughter two years ago. lie is wanted not merely for punishment, but in order that he may give informa tion as to which woman he killed first. E'ach had made a will leaving every thing she owned to the other, and it turns out that the property amounts to more than a million marks and should go to one of the two unrelated sets of heirs. The German courts have been unwilling to solve the puzzle by any presumption of law when the real facts may be ascertained at any time by the cature of the murderer, arnd are hold in the money, a proceeding whose legality seems to be considered doubt May Ask to be Annexed. A mail dispatch from Santo Domingo, dated August 8d, via llaiti. confirms the c'able intelligence telling of the speed and significance of the revolution throughout the Dominican republic. P~roinent men in civil and military circles,:it appears, arc taking the field with the understanding that Jiminez is the prime mover and that he will shortly arrive. Undoubtedly the popu larity of the revolution is due to the use of the name of Gomez, and should he decline thc presidency of oppose .Jiminez, prominent leaders are already considering the alternative of calling a plebesite in order to ascertain whether the country would not prefer to renew the vote of 1871 for American annexa tion or an American protectorate rather THE PENITENTIARY. Cornainucd froi First Pagc. being generous with the State's assets and especially to bimself. We hold that both W. A. Neal and J. B. Wat son are liable for the convict hire for convicts to be worked on Neal's planta tion for the years 189, 1897 and 1S98, for the reason that Watson contracted to pay .for them and Neal got the bene fit of the labor .ind violated his duty ia procuring them to be worked for his benefit and deceiving the board of di rectors. Their labor was an asset of the penitentiary as much a the pro ducts of the labor on the State farm, and he cannr-t tage either -nd refuse to pay for it. A conversion of one is the same as a conversation of the other We also condemn the practice of the superintendent's endorsing paper as superintendeat and thereby pledging the credit of the penitentiary without express authority from the board of di rcetors in each instance. We especially condemn Mr. Neal's action in endors ing the $50 note for J. B. Watson and thus making the penitentiary borrow that amount of money merely fr Wat son's accommodation. We also coo demn its use in the Ragsdale notes and W. W. Russell note. The following are the amounts now admitted by Mr. Neal to be due from him to the penitentiary, it being ac knowledged that there is a shortage to that extent Amount collected of J S Fov ler, Dec 1895......... 500 00 Amount collected of W Q Hammoud, -Nov 1895..... 500 00 Amouat collected Fowler & Hammond & Kent Feb '97. 539 95 W. W. Russell note. .. .. .. 600 00 Collected from V. T. Magill for brick sold at DeSassurc farm.................. 4000 5 book cases at $12.00 each.. 60 00 1 hat rack...... .........1000 6 small tables, at ,2 each... 12 00 1bedstead...... ..........1000 Painting furniture at home.. 10 00 700 bushels cotton seed at 15 cents.................... 105 00 Commissary account 6 years.. 638 29 Check unpaid and:carried by Burriss.................. 17200 Collected of J J Fretwell for Oats. April 189S......... 387 17 $3,5S4 41 We find that he is liable in addition ithe following amounts, which are c.ontested by him: Convict hire on the Watson contract for the years 1896, 1S97 and 189S.. .. .. .. .. .$ 7,40000 We think he should refund stable rent which should never have been paid.. . . . 740 00 $11,724 41 There appears to be due the peniten tiary the following items which have not been properly charged on the books or collected, being found on an old brickyard book and commissary book and which the parties are no doubt ready to settl2 on presentation of bills: Hon W H Elerbe, commissary aceount.. ............. .$134 11 Hon John Gary Evans, commis sary account... .. ........ 18114 Hon B R( Tillman. commissary account..................~ 506 Hon B R Tillman, carload of brick................... 7200 Hon B B Tillman, oats, no amiount giyen; he simply in forms us that he owes for them and we do not find any record of it. We append as Exhibit A a statement of the property purchased, improve ments made and labor furnished to public institutions by the penitentiary during Mr. Neal's administration, ag gregating in all $173,845 17, being the value placed upon the sa-ne in the re ports of the board for the six years. The evidence taken is herewith sub mitted. The proper steps to be taken as a result of this report and the evi dence will be determined no doubt by yourself and the attorney general. Respectfully submitted, WV F Stevenson, J T Hay, Knox Livingstone, Thos F Mclow, H Cowper Patton. E.XIIIlUT A. Report 1893. p. 7. Clemson College con victs, for guards, etc. .$ 3i,11 49 p. 6. 2 electric motors. etc. 2,000 00 p. 7. Convicts Clemson col lege and guard hire... 14,580 00 p. 7. Convicts, guard hire, etc., for Winthrop... 10.980 00 $:30. 78 49 Report 1894. p, 6. Old hosiery mill (over hauling)...........$ 4,000 00 p. 6. New hosiery mill re built.............. 15,000 00 p. 6. Improvements in the yard. inclusive of above items.. .... ..:30,000 00 p. 7. 7 head mules and horses.............. 700 (00 p. 7. Labor and cash to col Report 1S95. p. 7. 6M mules for State farm, engines, gins. wagons, tools, farm ing implements... .,00(0 00 p. S. To colleges, labor. cash, etc............ 17,114 :3; $29, 114 26 Report 1896. p. 17. Improvements peni tentiary proper, barns stables, sheds, etc . . .S 5,000 00 Prison building and other improvements inside yard.........1,000 00 Buidings at Reeds farm... .......... 2.00 00 1)eSaussure place quar ters for guards, dining room, smoke house. hay sheds, grist mill, engine boilers, guano house on railroad. etc. 2,100 00 Report 1897. p. 19. Nv wland:- comi ...h..................$SO80 00 lReed hfro, new barn for mules, hospital building. lot fencing, fencing 400 acres past ure land.......... 5000 00 $ 5.800 00 Report 189S. Report of board of directors on pages 5 and h. Paid purchase real estate with interest accruing on purchase money. ... .. .. .62I,000 00 Building dykes. clearing land, etc....... ..... 10,000 00 $46,000 00 A dispatch from Santo Domingo says two of the assassins of IPresident H~en .eau hae been capt.:rcd and shot. TILLMAN AND EVANS. Write Letter5 to the Penitentiary In vestigating Committee. Senator Tillman and Ex-Governor Evans never did appear before the pen itentiary investigating committee. But each of them wrote a letter to the committee. Senator Tillman's letter was as fol lows: Trenton, S. C., Aug. 1. Dear Sir: Your letter of June 24 en closing copy of the account on the com missary book at the penitentiary re eceived. I have no recollection of any of these matters, and a-i morally cei tain that i paid everything I owed the penitentiary when I left Columbia at the expiration of my term as governor. Besides, I left all the corn and hay I had on hand at the executive mansion with the understanding that Governor Evans would take it and pay for it. but he told me that Col. Neal used it. The mansion was unoccupied for several weeks after I left, undergoing some re fitting and overhaulding, and Neal pre bably do not feel that I owe the State anything on that score. The brick I am willing to pay for at the price I could have bought them in Augusta at the time, *I at the kiln, or s; delivered at Trenton. I paid the ireiaht on the carload of brick which Col. Neal shipped me. lespectfully. B. R1. Tillman. Ex-Governor Evans writes as fol lows: Waterbury, Conn., July 30, 1899. Hon. W. F. St-venson, Cheraw, S. C. My Dear Sir: Your letter in reference to the penitentiary investigation was handed me by my brother while in Edgetield, and the reason I had not an swered before is that I fully intended to be with you at the next session of your committee. Circumstances over which I have no control will prevent my being with you as anticipated. So far as the statement that "I wo-k ed convicts upon my farm"* is concern ed, I am satisfied that you have had ample proof of its absurdity. I had no farm upon my eccupancy of the gover nor's mansion. I was informed by the superintendent of the penitentiary that my predecessor had rented a small plat of ground, about five acres, in or near the city limits, and that he (the super intendent) had sown for the governor and made rough forage for his horse and that he would make the same terms with me if I desired. I did so, and paid the owner, Mr. Geo. H. Newman, $30 rent and have his receipt. So far as the harvest was concerned, it was pretty exptm3ive, as my share was not tuficient to reimburse me for the rent. The property being city lots, however, I suppose we got out as light as most "Belgian block farmers." As t.) the account I owe the manage ment of the penitentiary, I will state for the information of your committee that the articles I purchased were at market prices, such as any ordinary citizen could buy, and it was no especi al favor to me. The account will be paid when a cor rect bill is rendered, and not before. It is no fault of mine that it has not been settled before. I am sorry that I can - not be with you, as I would gladly ren der you any assistance in my power. I would respectfully call your attention to my message to the general assembly and their references to the management of the penitentiary. With assarance of miy high esteem for you and your committee, I am Respectfully yours, John Gary Evans. GOOD IF NEGROES GO. Pope Brown, of Georgia, Says Races Have Come to Parting of Ways. At the meeting of the Geogia State Agricultural society at Quitman, Ga., Wednsday, the race problem came prominently to the front as a topic of discussion. Hon. Pope Brown. presi dent of the society, an extensive and prosperous planter of the State, assert ed that the white man and the negro arc at the parting of the ways and said the former should assist the latter in his efforts to leave this country. That portion of his annual address on the negro question was loudly applauded. In this connect.>n he was also bold and unequivocal in declaring that the south should stop toadying to the north. -Mr. Brown said in part: "It is be lieved the white people of the south and the negroes of the south can get along if let alone. The south haters of the north are at the bottom of all the trouble and we need not flatter ourselves that those south haters are few and far between. There are plenty of them. In my opionion the majority of them have no use for us except when they think they arc making something out of us. Mr. Thurber of New York rendered us a great service a few days ago by telling us exactly what he and his people think of us. I think it is time we were letting them alone. Quit running after them. Then quit toady ins to them. The small politican also auses friction between the races. By submitting every quesiion, county, municipal and State, to a white prima ry this trouble could be averted and better gevrnment would be secured in all cases, "The leaders of the r egro race arc preaching discontent and whether the scheme of colonization is practical or not 1 am not prep~ared to say, but I do believe that it is to the interest of the peole of the south to aid and abet the negro in his efforts to leave us. A few days ago when certain prominent citi zens were called on by the press to say how we should protect our families against certain crimes there was a re sponse that seemed to meet the appro val of the press. It was this. 'make a miniature arsenal of every country home.' I say if it has come to that it is time for the parting of the ways. Shall we part in peace or strife? I would say peace and let us stand not upon ti~e cost" Among the other we'akers was Ion. Iloke Smith of At lanta who discussed "practical educa tin.." "Touched" the Ex-Slaves. An order forbidding the delivery of all mail matter was Frid.sy issued against Isaac L. Walton, the ex-slave petitioners assembly and the ex-slave assembly, Madison, Ark., on the charge of operating through the mails a scheme devised for obtaining money under false and fraudulent pretenses. The depart ment states that "~Walton is an~ ex-slave who is at the head of an alleged imag inary organization having for its pass a law granting es-slaves pensions. The first remittance required of the memi bers of this organization was 25 cents. and it appears that 12,381 Negroes, from the southern States principally, hae remitted that amountr AlthoughI this money was to start a fund for t he object above noted, not one cent can now be accounted for by the managers A UGUST K0B9, JOURNALIST, What His Old Teacher, imself a Newspaper Man, Thinks of Him. To the Editor of The News and Cour ier: I desire to express concurrence in the sentiments of "X" as to August Kohn's ability, which. as a "former" newspaper man myself, I can heartily appi;einte. Back in the seventies it was easy enough to sit on the "editorial tripod" and grind out opinions, for opinions were cheap. and during (rant's second Administration espec ially exceedingly abundant. But to get the news: that was the rub. The local column was the journalistic bugbear. We old boys all remember with envy the lo cals of the Abbeville Medium about three coliumns of which were woven weekly by the lemphill aggregation. Th' ma terial was often exceedingly tenuous. but the web was most artistically fabri cated. In those days most reporters suffered from too great modesty; (I do not charge this sin to the collaborateurs of the Medium.) Nowadays most of them care too little. The question is no longer what shall go into the paper, but what shall be kept out of it. He that is able to make this discrimination is worthy of all praise and becomes a model for imitation. So far as my experience goes, August Kohn comes ns near treading the straight path as anyone in contemporary ournalism; and it is but a just tribute that "X" has asked for an exposition of his methods. No doubt Mr. Kohn's paper was quite instructive, and it ought to be published. But there are some things that are at the bottom of successful news gathering, in its best sense, which Mr. Kohn's modesty will not permit him to mention, because they are among his personal qualities. These qualities are decency, honesty and truth, without which brilliancy, in ustry and perseverance are of no ac -ount, and may even becmes instru ments of evil. The tendency of report 3rs today is to spring "sensations" upon the public without any thought of truth and decency. Street gossip, vague in sinuations, social scandals ard revolting rimes are published ad nauseum, until it becomes a serious question with heads of families what newspapers shall be suf fered to enter their doors. When it is realizd tiat much of this revolting stuff is pure falsehood, one's indignation al most exceeds bounds. Mr. Kohn does n-it serve this kind of literature. Un pleasant facts must be given sometimes, but nakedness is veiled as much as pos sible. Again, in order to discuss public matters intelligently one must know what is going on. A reckless news gatherer that rushes into print with everything he hears is shunned by men who have political or business secrets. He must, therefore, resort to guesswork or be silent, and as his guesses prove as often wrong as right, he loses the con fidence and respect of the mass of read ers, as well as of the leaders. No man is in a more pitable state than a journalist who is contemned. But the man of truth and honor, who recogniz es that his engagement with a newspap er does not relieve him of his ethical responsiility as a man, can be intrust ed implicitly with public or private secrets. Being en rapport with any movement, he knows when to speak and what to say. On his promise to pub lish nothing until the time for publica tion is ripe he is taken into confidence. It is this confidence reposed in Mr. Kohn and men like him that enables "X and others to place confidence in what they see in the Colnmbia column of The News and Courier. Another important I ualification pos sessed by Mr. Kohn is hon hommie. Not that he is not outspoken. He can be exceedingly "candid" in his remarks and criticismns. lHe does not tear off shams with a tender hand, but he is pleasant in disposition, exceedingly obliging and public spirited, and al ways ready to do a favor. These qualities go a long way towards warm ing the cockles of the heart of the per son from whom Mr. Kohn desires to extract information. Men have been on friendly terms with him while .at daggers' points with his paper. Not thathe is not a stanch supporter of his paper, but his personal quali'ies smooth '.sperities. Again, Mr. Koha has a natural aptitude for collecting facts. In his tory and eennomies in the South Caro lina College August Kahn was known to his classmates as the "statistical fend." I have had many bright men in my classes, but never one who so loved to collect statistics on any sub ject, whether water power in South Carolina. railroad freight charges, ex ports and imports, gold dollars in cir culation. or what not. When he en tered journalism he was specially well equipped in these lines, and he has done admirable work since. I might go further, but I think what las been said will suffice to bring cut some of the oualities essential to a sue cssful news gatherer. I do not mean to say that there are not other newspa per men possessing similar good quali ties in~ a marked degree. Inded I think that as a body our South Carolina men of the' press arc worthy of all coax. mendation, from our Prin ter-G overnor down, but M1r. Kohn is one of the best types. ie is a young man yet, and I t~rust has many years of usefnlness be fore him, but even now younger men who are starting out in journalism will do well to keep him in view in shaping their lives and work. RI. Means Davis. Saluda, N. C., July 31, 1899. Keep Up the Pace. The Anderson Intelligencer remarks: 'If cotton mill companies continue to be organized in South Carolina, as at the rate during the past six months, this State will not only soon distance ll her sister States in cotton manufac turin, but will soon competc with Mas sachu'setts. Let the good work go on. We have room for many more. Ander son must have another big mill." We showed six months ago that South Car lina was second to Massachusetts in !ooms and was only exceeded in spindles by that State and Rhode Island. Th3 pending additions will give her second place in spindles as well as looms. We roughly estimate that they will increase he present totals ;;3 per cent, at least. Let every town work for a new mill. We must keep up the pace. One by One They Come. Arrangements are being made for the rennval of the Springvale cotton mills >f Springvale, Me., to Fort Valley, Ga. 'he removal will be the second of the kind from York county. Me. About ae year ago the Portsmouth cotton mill o South Berwick. a small corpora tion went South. The Springvale con cern has bee'n running only part of the time during thc past year owing to a lack of orders. High taxes and too much competi'ion are among the chief reasons given for the change in locatiou. The plant has 10,500 spindles and 300 looms and mauufactures light twills and ateens. Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAKING0 POWD62 GO., NIW Y0O. THE CONVICT'S STORY. Strange Connection of a White Cat With a Burglar's Life. "It's no secret tLat I've been in the penitentiary," said the old man. "It was a white cat tiat took me there, and a white cat that saved me and made me a better man. "One winter, a good many years ago, I was in Houston, sick and dead broke. An old pal of mine meeting me on the street took pity on me and soon helped me out of my troubles. But not for nothing. As soon as I recovered he wanted me to join him IL some bur glaries that he- had planned. At first I refused indignantly, for I had some rough notions of honesty; but a little talking-he was a fine talker-and a few drinks did the work and I agreed to go in with him. "Conscience makes cowards of us all, and I guess that was why Ed trembled like a leaf when he saw a white cat flash past us as we stood shivering in the garden of a house on Harris street that night. It was an I easy matter to break in, and we soon had all there was worth taking. In a little room at the end of the hall a child was sleeping. The dim light of a lamp showed the pretty cot, the fair flushed face of a little girl, her golden hair streaming over the snowy pillow, and crouching by her side a white cat, whose pink eyes glittered like stars. We had to pass through this room, and I could not for the life of me help bend ing down and touching that beautiful hair with my lips-it looked so like the hair of my darling who died only the year before. It was her death that drove me to drink and trouble," and the old man wiped away a tear. "Well, I don't know exactly how it happened, but the cat gave a terrific squall, and I had only just time to seize it and stuff it in my bag when a bullet came whistling by my h'ead. I got out of the house somehow, still carrying my bag of plunder, and ran down the road, out of town, finray - ing refuge in an old barn. I was badly wounded, and, to make a long story short, they arrested me and took me to jail. My partner was dead. "They told me afterwards that in my delirium I cried continually for the white cat, and when they brought the animal into my cell-for they found it unhurt in my bag-I nursed it and was quiet. It was a strange fancy of a sick man, but it led me back to health. The story was told at the house which we had robbed, and the little girl and her father came to see me. He was a good man, and she was an angel-God bless her for her innocent prattle and sweet eyes of pity. "The penitentiary was a rough place in those days, and I believe I would have died in a few months If the child had not sent me a tiny white kitten, which I was allowed to keep, and it saved me from despair and death. Every time I looked at it I thought of the little angel that gave It, and of that other little angel-my dead child-and made a new resolve to be a better man. "Two frail atoms of life-a kitten and a child-but they were strong enough to raise me out of the very depths of hell." An Unfortunate Linguist. John was an ambitious Chinaman. He had made money in Chinatown, San Francisco, but had devoted him self to business so thorolighly that he remained totally ignorant of English. He came to New York determined to avoid his fellow-Chinamen, so that he might learn to speak English during his six months' stay in the metropolis. ,He took a room In an East Side house, paid promptly, made himself agreeable to his landlord, who allowed him to wait on customers in his little grocery store, and he never went near Fell or Mott street. After several months' residence in New York and many hours of study, the Chinaman ventured forth among his people, where he proceeded to give an exhibi tion of his proficiency in the English language. What he said sounded strange to the other Chinamen, and the ambitious one nearly swooned when he discovered that he had learned G-er man by mistake. His New York home was In the Ger man part of the city where English is an unknown tongue, and the poor fel low had to begin his linguistic work over again. Paper Floors In Germany. Paper floors are enjoying a steadily increasing popularity in Germany, which Is readily explained by the many advantages they possess over wooden flooring. An important ad vantage consists in the absence of joints, whereby accumulations of dust, vermin, and fungi, dangerous to health, are done away with. The new paper floors are bad conductors of heat and sound, and in spite of their hardness have a linoleum-like, soft feel to the foot. The costs are con siderably lower than those of floors made of hard wvood. The paper mass receives a small addition of cement as binder, and is shipped In bags, in powder form. The mass Is stirred into a stiff paste, spread out on the floor, pressed down by means of rollers, and painted with oi.ksvood, nutwood, or mahogany color, after drying. Notable Centennials of the Year. The following centennial celebra tions will be held this year: The 40th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's discovery of the way to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, at Lisbon, In May; the burning of Savonarola, at Florence, in May; the birth of Hol bein, at Basle, in June; Montpelier will celebrate the 100th birthday of Augus te Comte; Ancona that of Leopard!, and Paris that of Michelet, the histor ian. Killed by Lightning. A dispatch from~ Ridge Spring to The State says Wednesday t wo young sons of Mr. ,John Black drove home from the postoflice through the storm, and on reachiing the re one went into the house while the other, Ira, stopped to fasten the miule. Ie was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The mule was killkd also. 'The young muan was about 18 years old and a worthy, upright son of a good father. A scientist say s that a wasp may be picked up in the bare hand if it is done gently. Of course it can; it's when the wasp is laid down again that the trouble begins. UPPER REGIONS OF THE AIR. Unexplored Space More Interesting Than the North Pole. Above there extends a vast unex plored space far more interesting from a scientific point of view than the Icy regions around the north pole. No one can reach the limit of the upper re gions of the air and live, unless he car ries with him air to breathe and fuel to warm him, for at the paltry distance of ten miles above the earth the air is too thin to support respiration, and the thermometer would register far below zero. It would be a region of perpetual snow on a peak of the earth if it should rise to such a height. A person in a balloon could not hear a friend in a neighboring balloon, even if they were near enough to shake hands. There would be no medium for the propagation of sound waves. There would, however, still be a me dium for the conduction of electricity -a medium in fact of great conducti bility-almost as good as a metal, and It is this medium at even a less height which Tesla proposes to use in his methods of transmitting power hun dreds of miles through the air without wires. We live under a blanket of air which protects us from the extreme cold of outer space. This low temperature be comes evident fourteen or fifteen thousand feet above the surface of the earth, and would, as I have said, reach a point far below zero at a height of ten miles. At this height we should no longer observe the twinkling of the stars, for this scintillation is due to the movements of our atmosphere, which at the height I have mentioned would be extremely rarified. If one - could photograph the sun's spectrum at this altitude we could greatly ex tend our -knowledge of the shortest wave lengths of light; for the atmos phere completely absorbs such wave lengths as are concerned in the X-ray phenomena. That this absorption really takes place can be proved in a :aboratory. The heat and light which we'receive from the sun are greatly modified by this blanketing layer of air. The Ieng waves of the energy from the sun are called heat waves. The intermediate waves are termed light waves, and we receive these in full measure. The very short waves, however, are stopped by our atmosphere and are transformed into-what? The Worth of a Match. How much may depend on a seeming trife is shown in the incident on the lumber schooner, Johanna Swan, which was abandoned in a gale off Hatteras. The cabins were flooded and the water supply had given ou). In four days the sailors had not tasted water. To drink the brine of the sea was to induce tortures and endure a more deadly thirst than ever. There was a tank holding three gallons that could be fashioned into a condenser and the mate and a sailor so convert ed it. A piece of the schooner's rail, dry and full of resin, was chopped off for fuel, and now all that was neces sary was a match. A search revealed just one match, that the captain had stowed in a dry pocket. If that went out, woe be to them. But after sput tering for a moment, it blazed up, the shavings caught, the fire was set, the water boiled and the drip from the steam was enough to provide a drink for every man-pretty smoky water, but as welcome as cocktails, under the circumstances. A German bark heard their bell and took off the crewr before ts perils and sufferings became more serious. A condensing apparatus of a simple sort would not be a bad thing to take on all craft, considering the possibilities of Ill fortune that follow the toilers of the sea. Ears Beat Eyes. Most people would no doubt be in lined to fancy that the eye was the gateway of quite the most delicate of all our senses. But this is not so. The sense of hearing has been proved to be far the most delicate of all the senses. And the sense of touch appears to be perhaps the keenest of all. The tests are very simple. For testing sight a disc half black, half white Is revolved quickly before the eyes. When it reaches a speed of twenty-four revolutions a second the colors cease to appear .distinctly any longer to the eye, and the result is gray. For sound a revolving toothed wheel makes a series of clicks, and these to the average man appear dis tinct sounds up to sixty a second. Al ter that they cannot be distinguished apart. The sense of touch is tried by rapid blows of a tiny electric hammer on the skin. Up to 1,000 a second these blows have been felt separate and distinct. How a Gol Field Was Discovered. A novel way of discovering a gold feld was recounted by the agent gen ral for western Australia. In 188S the Mallina gold field was discovered by a lad in this wise: The boy, in picking up a stone to throw at a crow, bserved a speck of gold in It, and re ported it to the nearest resident magis :rate. The magistrate was so excited at the news that he telegraphed to the hen governor, and stated that a lad picked up a stone to throw at a crow, in his excitement omitting to say "and aw gold in it." So the governor wired back these words, "What happened to he crow?" Odorless Flowers. Most people will be surprised to learn :hat the majority of flowers have no erfume whatever. An Austrian chem st, who has been making researches nto the subject, declared that out of 6110 varieties known and cultivated n Europe, scarcely 400 have any odor: ~nd of these nearly fifty have an odor which s, if anything, disagreeable. In Boston it is regarded as altno- ak rime to lie dowa ou the sacred g' a if the Commou and twenty-one unfo"r unates who slept there on a recnt h..t iight were wakened early in the ' -r" ng by a squad of vigilant rolli""' .nd marched ogf to:a uiagistrate. E'tchi if the vietim zn s fiued $3-the price >fa inight's lodgin~g in a first class 'fill: Washington. corre~l)p adent of The News and Courier r. ports that onmau~ster General S-uith is incliied o0 re establish lhe Lake City post ifle and to remove it from polities by he appointment of a woman postmas . nhi ie a-good solution of the