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WITCH OF ENDOR1. A Type of the Falacies of So Called Modern Sp ritism. WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY. Dr Talmage Warns people Against What He Terms the Re ligion of Ghosts. In this di-ourse Dr. Talmage dis cusses a theme L ever a(Te under ex plO ration t, -in at this tie and warns peo )le agair-t what he cals a rc]en of ghosts; text, I Samuel xxviii, 7: hold, there is a woman that lath a fa miliar spirit at Ea-dor. An~d Saul di guised himself and put' i ther rai nt and he went, and two ii. i wi, . - and they came to t!:e wonlYan LY Trouble to the rji.t Vof lt:n anc trouble to the lc!t 'f 1,1, Saul k'-tw nOE What to (3. As a last hrt he concluded to se k out a spiritual :Dcdi um or a witoh or anything that you please to call her-a wonlau who had communication with the spirits of the eternal world. 1z was a vety diffiguk thing to do. for S-' -ul had either szetn all the witcl es or coibp-elled them lo stop busi!ess. A servant one day sa: to K:r'g Saul, "L know of a spiritua metdum down at the village of Edor.' "Do you?" said the king. Night falls. Saul, putting off his kingly robes ane. Dutting on the dress of a plain cimzen. with two servants, goes out to hunt up this medium. Saul and his servants after awhile reached the vilage, and they say, "I wonder if this i, the house," and they look in, and they see the baggard, weird and shriveled up sptiritual medi um sitting by the light and on the table sculptured images and divining rods and poisonous herbs and bottles and vases. They say, - Yes. this must be the place." Onc loud rap brings the woman t- the door, and as she stands there, holding the candle or lamp above her head and reering out into the darkness, she says, "Who is here? The tall king iin!rals her th;at he. hi come to have his fortun;e told. When she hears that, she trembles and a! most drops the light, for ,he knows tEllre is Ao ehance for a fortune teller or spiritual medium in all the land. But Saul having sworn that no harm shall come to her, she says, "Well, wh:> shall I bring up from the dead?" Saul says, "Bring up Samuel." That was the prophet who had died a little while before. 1 see her waving a wand, or stirring up some poisonous herbs in a caldron, or hear her muttering over some incaa tations, or stamping with her foot as she cries out to the realm of the dead: "Samuel, Samuel!' Lo, the freczing horror! The floor of the tenement opens and the gray hairs fi at up and the forehead, the eyes, the lips, the should ers, the arms, the fet-the entire body of the dead Sa uel-wrapp d in sepulchral robe, app'earing to the aston ished group, who stagger riack and hold fast and catch their tbreath and shiver with terror. The dead prophet, white and awful from the Lomb, begins to move his anhen lips, and he glares upon King Saul and cii s out: "What did youi bring me up for? What do you mean, King Saul?" Saul, try ing to compose and control himnself, makes this staim mering and affrighted utterance as he say a to the dead prophet: 'Tbe Lord is against me, and I have come to you for belp. What shall I do?" Phe dead prcphet stretched forth his finger to King Saul and said: "Die tomor row! Come with me into the sepul cher. I am going uow. Come, notme with me!" And, lo, the fijor again opens, and the f'ee of the dead prophet disappear and thbe artns and the should ers and the forehead! The floor closes. Oh. that ,vas an awful scene! We are surrounded by mystery-be fore and behind us, to the right of us, to the left of us, mystery. There is a vast realm unexplored that science, I have no doubt, will yet map out. lHe who explores that realm will do the world more service than did ever a Co lumbus or an Amerigo Venspucci. There are so many things that can not be ac counted for, so w'iry sounds and ap pearances whieb defy acounties and in vestigation, so many things approxi mating to t-he 5lpex.?, 'e* many i eets which do not seem to imve a ~ujl ient cause. To unlatch the door betseca the present state and the future state all the fingers of superstition have been busy. 'We have books entitled "Foot falls on the Boundaries of Other Worlds; ""The Debatable Land Be tween This World and the Next'""e searches Into the Phenomena or Spirit ualisin" and whole -libraries of hocus pocus, enough to deceive the very elect. I shall not -take time to rehearse the history of divination. D~elphie oracle, sibyl or palmistry or the whole centu ries of imposture. Modern spiritualism proposes to open the door between this world and the next-and put us into commntnea with the dead. It has never yet offered one reasonable credential. When I find Saul in my text consult ing a familiar spirit, i-arn that spir itualism is a very ohd religion. Spizitualism in America was born in the year 1847, in Hbdesville, Wayne county, N. Y. when one night therc was a loud rap heard against the door of Michael Week man; a rap a second time, a rap a third time, and all three times, when the door was opened there was nothing found there, the knocking having been made seemingly by invisi ble knuckles. In that same house there was a young woman who had a cold hand passed over her face, and, there bcing seemingly no arm at tached to it, ghostly suspicious were excited. After awhile 31r. Fox with his fami ly nioved into that house, and then they had hangings at the dour every night. One night -1r. F-a cried out. "Are you a spiritT' Two raps-an swer in the affirmative. " Arc you an injured spirit?" T wo raps-answer in the affirmative. Then they knew right away that it was the spirit of a peddler who had been murdered in that house -years before'and who had been robbed of his $500.J Whether the spirit of the peddler came back to collect his $,U or his bones I do not know. The excitement spread. There was a universal rumpus. The Hion. Judge Edmonds declared in a book that he had actually seen a bell eart from the top shelf of a closet, hecard it ring over the people that were stin, int the closet; then, bwung by in'.i-ible handis, it rang over the people in the bak p'ar lor and fioated through the fuluine doors to the-front 1'rior, rang over the people there and then dro;pped onl the floor A senator of the Uuited States. afterward governor of Wisconsin, had his head qunte turned with sp:ritua istie demonstrations. The tabkts tip ped and th bstaools tilted, and the be i steas rae an the chairs upset, it seemed as if the spirits everywhere 1:,(- gine into the furniture business! Well. the people said: "We have got ,g new in this country. It is a tew rcligiou!" Oh, no, my friend, hindsn'i of years ago, we find in our text, a '-piritualist Nothing in the spiritualistic circles of our cay has been more strange, mys terius and wonderful than things which have been seen in the past cU turies of the world. In all ages there have been; ntcromaneers, those who oensult with the spirit of the deparit d; charmers. tiose who put their subjects in a uesterie state; sorcerers, those who b. taking poisonous drugs see evryrthing and hear everything and tell ev.rviyhirx: dreawrs, people who in theirlee 5.ing tImomrents can see the utire world arid hold consulat'n with. mi yos., before he time . Christ, Ie ,.amans went through all the table morvg, all the furniture excite : ih the spirits have exploited in our day, precisely the same thing :er and over again, under the matiipu lation of the Brahuians. Now, do y ou .ay that spiritualism is different from these? I 'answer, all these delusions I iave mentioned belong to the same fatuily. They are exhumations from the unseen world. What does God think of all thcse de lusions? lie thinks so severely of them that he never speaks of them but with livid thunders of indignation. He says, "I will be a swift witness against tire sorcerer.' Ile says, "Thou sbalt jout suffer a witch to live." And lest :ou tight make some important dis tiaetioo between spiritualism and witch craft God says in so many words, "Thcre shal, not be among you a con U tr of familiar spirits, or wizard, or .romai.-r, for they that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord." The Lord God Almighty in a score Cf passages which I have not now timan to -,ite utters his indignation atainst all this great family of delu sions. After that be a spiritualist if you dare! Stl: further, we learn from this text how it is that people come to fall into spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble to kill ten men. Ile did not know where to go for relief. After awhile he resolbed to go and see the witch of Ea-lor. le expected that somehow he would.afford him relief. It was .is trouble drove him there. And I have to tcll you now that spiritualism tinds its victims in the troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the bereft. You lose your watch, and you go to the for tune teller to find where it is. You lose a friend; you want the spiritual world opened, so that you may have communication with him. In a highly wrought, nervous and diseased state of mind you go and put yourself in that communication. That is why I hate spiritualism. It takes advantage of one in a moment of weakness, which may come upon us at any time. We lo-e a friend The trial is keen, sharp, suffocating, almost maddening. If we could marthal a host and storm the ternal world and recapture our loved one, the host would soon be marshaled. The house is so lonely. The world is so dark. The separation is so insuffer able. But spiritualism says, "We will open the future world, and your loved une can come back and talk to you." Though we may not hear his voice, we may 'hear the rap of his hand. So, ear the table. Sit down. Put your hands on the table. Be very quiet. Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No motion of the table. No response from he future world. Twenty minutes Thirty tainutes. Nervous excitement all the time increasing. Forty minutes The table shivers. Two raps from the future world. The letters of the alpha bet are c-iled over. The departed friend's name is John. A t the pronun iation of the letter J two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter 0 two raps. A t tire pronunciation of the let te H two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter N two raps. There you have the whole name spelled out - J o h n, John. Now, the spirit being present, you say, "John, are you hap py?" Two rap; give an affirmative an swer. Prctt y soon the hand of the medium begins to twitch and toss and begins to write out, after paper and ink are fur nished, a message from the eternal world. What is remarkable, the de parted spirit, although it has been amid the irluminations of the heaven, cannot spell as well as it used to. It has lost ll grammatical accuracy and cannot .nite as distinctly. 1 received a letter through a medium once I sent it back. I said, "Just please to tell those ghosts they had better go to school ad get improved in their orthogriphy." Nosv, just thirnk of spirits, that the Bile represents as enthroned in glo Iry, coming down to crawl ur-der the tabe and break erockery and ring tea bells before supper is ready and rap the window shutter on a gusty night! What cons-'Ltion in such miserable stuff as cormp:.r-' 'with the consolation o our departedi !i-nd-s free from toil and sin a~d pairr are forever happy and that we will join them, not in mysteri ous andi half ut terance which makes the hair s-i~ o; end and makes cold chills creep tir': '. , but in a reunion most blessed and hrappy and glorious! And none shall murmur or misdoubt W hen God's great sunrise finds us out. I learn still further from this subject tat spiritualism and nec:omancy are atirs of darkness. Why did not Saul o in the day ? Ile was ashamed to go. Beides that, he knew that this spiri tua 'medium, like all her successors, prfored her exploits in the night. The Diavenports, the Fowlers, the Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages, have chosen the night or a dark eed room. Why? The majority of their wonders have been svindles, and deception prospers best in the night. Still futher, I learn from my text that spiritualism is doom anid death to its discipr!es. King Saul thought that he would get help from the "medium," but the first that he sees makes him s~oon away, and no sooner is he resus ciaed than hre is told he must die. Spiitua;su is doom and deathbto every 'we that yields to it it ruins the body Look in upon an audience of spirtual ists -cadaverous, we-ak. nerv ou. exhausted, hands clammy and cold. voices sepu chral and ominous, bewider d with raps. I never knew a confirmed spiritualist who had hea:.hy nervous system. It isiricipient epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your nervous system. and you might as well be dead. i have noticed that people who are hearing raps from the future world have but little strength left to bear the hard raps of this world. A man can live with only one lung or with no eyes and be happy, as men have been under such afictions, but woe beto the man whose nres are shattered! Spiritualism s~ies first of all, and mightily, against thl nervous system and so makes life mnisrabe. A man in Bellevue hospital dying from wonods matde by his own hand was aked why he tried to commit suicide, Parent3 have strangled their ciurcn, and when asked why they did it re plied, "Spiritualism demandcd it." It is the patronizer and forager for the madhouse. .Judze EdImonds.in Broad way tabernacle, New York, delivered a lecture concerning Fliritualim, admit ted in so many words, "There is a fas cination about consultation with the' spirits of the dead that has a tendency to lead people off from their right jud ment aid to instill into them a fanati cism that is revolting to the natu:al wi id." It not only ruins it3 disciples, but it ruins the mediums also, only give it time. The Gadarene swine on the banks of the lake of Galilee no soner became spiritual mediums than doa n they went in an avalanche of pork, to the consternation of all the herdsien. The office of a medium is bad for a man, bad for a woman, bad for a beast. I bring against this delusion a more fearful indictment-it ruins the soul immortal. First, it takes a man a quarter of an infidel; then it makes him half an infidel; then it makes him a whole infidel. The whole system, as I conceive it, is founded on the insuffi ciency of the word of God as a revela tion. God says the Bible is enough for ou to know about the future world You say it is not enough, and there is where you aad the Lord differ. And althaugh the Scriptures say, "Add thou not unto his words, lest he re prove thee and thou be found a liar," you risk it and say: "Come back spirit of my departed mother, of my compan ions, of my little child, and tell me some things I don't know about you and abaut the unseen world." If God is ever slapped in the face it is when a spiritul medium puts down her hand on the table, invoking spirits departed to make a revelation. God has told you all you ought to know, and how dare you be prying into that which is none of your business? You cannot keep the Bible in one hand and spiritualism in the other. One or the other will slip out of your grasp, de pend upon it. Spiritualism is adverae to the Bible, in the fact that it has in these last days called from the tuture world. Christian men to to testify against Christianity. Its mediums call back Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, and Lorerzo Dow testifies that Christians are idolators. Spirit ualism calls back Tom Paine, and he testifies that he is stopping in the same house in heaven with John Bunyan. They call back John Wesley, and he testifies against the Christian religi'-,. which he all his life gloriously preach Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest f all the spiritualists. comes to the fr'.it and declares that the New Testamcat is but "the dismal echo of a barb.!;e age" and the Bible only "one of the pen and ink relics of Christianity." I have in my house a book used in spiritualistic service. It contains a catechism and a hymn book. Tne care chism has these questions and answe:,: Q. What is our chief baptism? . Frequent ablution in water Q What is our inspiratior? A. Fresh air and sunshine. Q What is our love feast? A. Clcar conscience and sound sleep. And then it goes on to show that a great proportion of their religious ser vice is a s3 stem of calisthenies, Then when they want to arou-e the devotion of the people to the highest pitch, they give out the hyuan on the sixty-lifth page: The night bath gathered up her silken fringes. Or, on the fifteenth page: Come to the woods, heigh ho' "But," says some one, "wouldn't it be of advantage to hear from the fu ture world? Don't you think it would strengthen Christians? There are a great many materialists who do not be lieve there are souls, but if spirits frm the future world should knock and talk over to us they would be persuaid ed." To that I answer in the ringing words of the S>n of God, "1f they be lieve not Moses and the prophe's, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead " I believe these are the days of which the apostle spake when he said, "In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spir its." Audiences in this day need to have reiterated in their hearing the passages 1 quoted some minutes ago, "There shall not be among you a con sulter of familiar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer, for they that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord," and "The soul that turneth af ter such as have familiar spirite I will se myg& against them, and they shall be cnt:'otf from their people." But 1 invite you now to a Christian seance, a noonday seanee. This con eregation is only one great famile. Here is the church table. Come around the church table; take your seats for this great Chr'atian seace; put your Bible on the table, put your hands on top of the Bible and then lis.ten and hear if there are any v,-mca cain from the eternal world. I ti~ ii a e are. Listeni "Secret thiu .a unto the Lord, our God, but thizi'. tH" are revealed belong unto us and oc children." Surely that is a voie from the spirit world. But before you rise from this Christian seance I wart you to promise me you will be satisti d with the divine revelation until the light of the eternal throne breaks upon~ your vision. Do not go after the witch of En-dor. Do not sir down at table rap pines either in sport or in earnest. Teach your children there arc no ghosts to be seen or heard in this world save those which walk on two feet or four-human or bestial. Remember that spirituahiem at the best is a useless thing. for if it tells what the Bible re veals it is a superfluity, and if it tells what the Bible does not reveal it is a lie. Instead of going out to get other people to tell your fortune tell yoiur own fortune by putting your trust in God rd doing the best you can. I will tell your fortune: "All things work to gether for good to them that love Godi." nsult not your departed friends by asking them to come down and scrabb e under an extension table. R'-memiber that there is only one spirit whose die tation you have a right to invoke, and that is t he holy, blessed and omnipotent spirit of God. Hark! He is rapping now. not on a table or the floor, but rapping on the door of your heart, and every rap is an ivitation to Christ anc a warning of judgment to come. On, rieve him not awayt Qaench him no:. He has been all around you this morn ing. He was all around y ou last night. He has been around you all your lives. [ark! There comes a voice with ten der, oermastering intonation, saying, "My spirit shall not always strive." Gainesville. Ga.. Dec. 8, 1599. Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator in my amily and am perfectly that it is all, tnd will do all. You claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. IDorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself.I [t's doing me good. Sold by 1'he Mur ray Drug Co.,'Columbia, S. C-. and all THE SIEGE RAISED. 'I Ladysmith Free After Being Lock ed Up Four Months. GREAT JOY IN ENGLAND. Scenes of Wild Joy Never Before Kown in This Generation Mark Relief of Little South African Town. The British war office received the following dispatch from Gen. Buller Thursday: Lyttleton's Headquarters, March 1, Gen. Dundonald, with the Natal Car bineers and a composite regiment, entered Ladysmith last night. The county between me and Ladysmith is rcported clar of t he enemy. Moving on Nelthorpe. I have just returned from Ladysiith. Except a small guard north of Surprise Hill, the whole of the enemy lately besieging the town have retireded in haste and to the south of the town the country is quite clear of them. The garrison were on haLf a pound of meal a maa per day and sup plementing the meal ration by horses and mules. The men will want a lit tle nursing before being fit for the field. When the news of the relief of Lady smith became generally known London literally went mad with joy and throughout England the scenes wit nessed have no parallel in the memories of this. generation. The lord mayor ot London imme distely telegraphed his congratulations to Gens. White and Buller. When the queen received the news at Windsor the bells on the curfew tower of the castle were rung in honor of the event. The strain that for 118 days had kept the nation in terrible anxiety was re moved. The lord mayor showed him self at a windo4w out of which hung a huge City Imperial Volunteer flag and the crowd yelled itself hoarse. Staid magnates grabbed flaring posters from newsboys and branished "Ladysmith relived" to the roaring throng. All thought of business was forgotten Nothing could be done on the stock ex ehange but sing "God Save the Queen" and cheer Business on the Baltic wheat market for cargoes closed at 1 o'clock. No one wanted to trade on such a day as this. The stores put up their shutters and gave their employes a holiday. The lord may:r ordered a holiday for the city schools. The great bell in St. Paul's was rung this evening. The stately foreign offee so far forgot itself as to display large Unio1ij ecks from the windows A cabinet metcing was held atid as the ruem-wrs met at the entran-e to the foreign office they exchanged the warmest congratulations. Cro-Ads blocked the war office lob bies, struggling te see for themselves the announcement and cheered the Brtti~h enerals in South Africa to the echo. (Juitide Marlborough house, the London residence of the Prttce of Wales, a large and jubilant crowd as senmbled. Ate Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham Edin!burgh. atnd in fact, in all the cities, big and little figs flew everywhere, whbistles teoted, bells chimed and crowds paraded the streets, singing patriotic songs. Business was given up for the day, the schools were clost d. in the harbors all the-vessels dressed ship, and at the military and naval depots scenes of the wildest enthusiasm pre vadled. At Liv'erpool, addressing a crowd of 20,000 people assembled around the town hall, tGe lord mayor said: "1 thank the At mighty God for the glori ous news. We have awvaited it patient ly. We are satisfied that under tb~e humane laws and government of this country, the Boers in a very short time will oe loyal iiitizens of the British empire." Tne queen has telegraphed her con gratulations to Gen. Buller and Gen. White, and the Prince of Wales has telegrahed congratulation to Gen. Bal 1cr. All day long cheering thousands kept up the incessant roar before the man sion house, and all traffic in what is London's busiest concourse ceased. Patndemonium reigned. The news of the mansion house demonstration had spread to all quarters of the city and there poured in a stream of hoodlums and fakirs, laden down with flagf! wo men, boys, and all sorts and conditions of people. Silk hats flew into the air and smtall fights we re of fr. ' :- n t on. currence. T'he policemen on the spot had their hands full, but as long as the enthusiasm of the crowd was only con fned to horse play, the officers did not interfere. 'Tons of fireworks are being bought in preparation for elaborate celebrations. tt several provincial towns effigies of irsident Kruger and Gen. Croi-je a're paraded through the streets and mak:Itr v. At Glasgow an effigy of Presi.l'1i j" nwer was subjected to in aignities at tne foot of the queen's statue. Over 1,000 university and col eee students paraded the streets of Lndon eineiing "Rule Britannia" and cheeri nz. A Pitiful Gase. There is a white woman named Marie Marno. w 4, is lying almost at the oo of death i n' house of a colore-i wo man n-cu'd CTharlotte Smith, on Wf ford Street. Amid squalor and envi ronmettt of utter degradation of choice of habit. this woman, who claims that her pepole live at Graniteville, is fast approac'hinig the end of a dissipated ife. I'n tile county jil are lodged Eva Stkes, Mame Robinson and John Wood ward, all white, who arc charged with inflicting serious injuries on the prson of M1arie Martin. From the facts gleanned by the reporter from Chief of Police Vernon it rppears that sveral days ago a fight occurred at the house of Eca Stokes, in which Marie Martin, Eva Stokes and Matme Riobin son figured. in the nia lee the Marin woma'au was struck on the~ left arm sev eral iin wi'h a heer bottle. After this i--htt ii the course of a day or two, Ae c:te. that a white man named John Wood ward struck her with an iron polker. On Monday Chief of Po ice Vernon was notified that the Mar. i woman was dangerously sick at the ome of Charlotte Smith, colored, on \oford street. ie investigated the ae and summoned a physician to the sick woman. This woman now lies at the point of death from blood poison n,~and it she dies the persons above entoned will remain in jail on charge f murder and if she lives they dill be red for assault and battery with in tent to kill. 31arie Martin is a woman bout 301 years of age, of medium build, ud a brunette. She is of comely ap earance and cla'ms to come from a very ] espectable family near Charleston. ,Sambr Eaid. HOW THEY MEET. "You Made a Gallant Defence, Sir." Said Gen. Roberts. In describing the surrender of Gen. Cronje to Gen. Roberts a dispatch from Paardeberg says at 3 a. m. the British camp was awakened by the continued rattle of rifle fire at daybreak and the news arrived that the Canadians, while building a trench quite close to the en emy were fusilladed at a range of 5%) yards. The Canadians gallantly worked forward and occupied the edge of the trenehes along the river, entirely en filading the Boers. This movement was followed by a cessation of the fire, ex cept an occasional solitary shot. Suddenly a regiment stationed on the crest of a hill perceived a white flag and burst into cheers, thus first an nouncing the surrender of Gen. Cronje. Shrotly afterward a note reached Lord Roberts bringing tidings of the Boers' unconditional surrender, Gen. Prettyman was sent to ac.:ept the sur render. At about 7 o'clock the small group of men appeared in the distance crossing the plain towards headquarters. The latter being apprised of Gen. Crovje's approach, Lord Roberts went to the front in the modest cart in which he sleeps and ordered a guard of the Sea forths to line up. A group of horsemen then appeared. On Gen. Prettyman's right rode an elderly man elad in a rough short overcoat, wide-brimmed hat, ordinary tweed trousers and brown shoes. It was the redoubtable Cronje, His face was almost burned black and his curly beard was tinged with gray. Lord Roberts walked to and fro in front of the cart until the Boer general arrived, when the British commander advanced gravely and kindly saluted the Boer commander. He then mo tioned Gen. Cronje to a seat in a chair which had been brought for his accom modation and the two officers con versed through an interpreter. Gen. Cronje afterwards breakfasted with the British officers. Cronje's face was absolutely impas sive, exhibiting no sign of his inner feelirgs. Lord Roberts was surrounded by his staff when Gen. Prettyman, addressing the field marzhal, said: "Commandant Cronje, Sir." The commandant touched his hat in salute and Lord Roberts saluted in re turn. The whole group then dismount ed and Lord Roberts stepped forward and shook hands with the Boer com mader. "You male a gallant defense, sir," was the first *salutation of Lord Rob erts to the vanquished Boer leader. LESLIE E KEELEY'S MEMORY. Resolutions A 'opted by the South Carolina Institute. At a recent meeting held in the club rooms of the Keeley Institute, Colum bia, the following resolution was unani mou-ly adopted: Whereas we have heard with pro found sorrow of the sudden death of Leslie F; Keeley, N1. D., LL D , at hia winter home, Los Angles, Califor nia, and whereas we, the patients of the Ke-eley Institute in the city of Co lumbia, South Carolina. aseembled, de siring to unite with our fellow patients in this and foreign countries in paying tribute to the memory of Dr. Keeley, therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the patients of the Keeley Institute of djolumbia, South Carolina, find words inadequate to express our deep gratitude to the distingu'shed deceased for the inesti mable blessings vhich we, in common with nearly four hundred thousand, en joy in being cured from inebriety and opiumismn; that we will ever hold in love and reverence the mernory of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley as a distinguished scientist, philanthropist, Christian and scholar who, sacrificing positions of honor and trust, devoted his life in per fecting a cure for alcoholism and mor phineism, in doing good to his feliow man and the cause of suffering human ity. -________ A Terrible Scene. The greatest fire Newark, N. J., ever experienced swept through the re tail dry goods district Wednesday night, destroying a score or more buildings. The fire broke out about 6:30, p. in.. after the several hundred employes had left the building which was then taken charge of by a number of sweepers. It it thought that some of the engine room ferce and similar employes may have been in the building. The flames spread with terrible rapidity, the entire building being enveloped before the ar rival of the firemen. Only one man was seen, and he was at a window on the second flootr in a frenzy of par. The firemen raised a ladder, but before they could scale it the man swung himzelf through the broken window and on to the ladder. As he reached the ladder a rush of flame came through the window engulfing him. It receded in a moment, and the man was seen on the ladder wrapped in fire as his clothing burned. A fireman ran up the ladder on the un der side and grabbed him to prevent hm falling. Then others went up on the upper side and began tearing the burning clothing from the man. They did this with their naked hands and were themselves burned. Thousands of people witnessed the thrilling scene The burning clothing was torn from the man and with it came portions of the flesh. The man was taken to a hospital.______________ Garden Work for March. This is the active month for sowing all kinds of hardy seeds, and the sooner most of them are sown the better, if the weather is favorable. We name them in the order in which they should be sown. viz: Garden Peas in varieties for succession, Cauliflower, Early Cab bage seed, Onion, Celery, Spinach, Leek, Parsley, Lettuce, Radish, Beet, Asparagus, Carrot, Parsnip, Salsify, tc. Umler ass, sow Tomato. Pep er and lEg-Plant seed Plant Irish I Ut?.A , Agparagus an d Rhbubarb roots, nion sets. etc. Set out Cauliflower, abtag", Onions and Lettuce Plants, com hotbeads, after they have been ardened by leaving the glass open at ight. Sow Herbs in a warm barder. repare Melon, Cucumber and squash ills for later planting. Sow the hardy inds of flower seeds, as they will flow r earlier. Sow Lawn Grass Seed. For the Fat m.-Sow winter and pring oats, Canada Field Peas with ats, Clover seed. Grass seeds of all orts, Tobacco seed. Plant Artichoke or hogs. Sow Dwarf Essex Rape. ly your seeds from T. W. Wood & 1 ons, Richmond, Va. The prospects of a good fruit crop< ppear bright at present. The recent~ ad continuous cold weather, unusual s it has been for this time of the ;ear, I zas kept the trees back, so that they 1 tan probably endure any later freezet ANALYSIS OF FERTILIZERS. Text of the New Act in Regard to the Subject. Mr. Ashley failed to get the senate to pass his bill reducing the privilege tax on fertilizers to 10 cents a ton. But he was more successful with his bill to provide that a purchaser of chemical fertilizers may have the same an alh zed free of cost at Clemson college. The act, which was approved by the governor on the 19th, reads: Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the State of South Carolina: That from and after the passage of this act, any citizen of this State who shall purchase any commer cial fertliirs or manures, shall have the right to have the same analyzed by Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical college, by taking a sample of same from at least 10 per cent. of such fertilizers in the presence of at least two disinter ested wi:neeses, one to bhe chosen by the purchaser and one by the seller, who shall certify that such sample was taken from such fertilizers or manures, which certificate, with the vample, shall be sealed by a third disinterested party in the presence of said witnesses, and directed to Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical college. Sec. 2. The said college shall have the said sample anal3zed free of cost, and within three mouths after receiv ing the sample supply the purchasers of -uch fertilizers or manures with a certificate giving the per cent. of the different fertilizing ingredients of same. signed by the chemit of Clem son Agricultural and Mechanical col lege, which certificate shali be admis sible as evidene. in all suits relative to !uch fertilazers or manures, whether the same be instituted by the vendor or purchaser of same. Sec. 3. That any vendor of commer cial fertilizers or manures whose goods or wares fall short to the extent of 10 per cent. in any fertilizing ingredient guaranteed b'y the analysis on the sack or vessel holding same, when delivered to the purchaser, shall forfeit one-half the sale price thereof, to be recovered by suit or set up as a counter claim to an action for the purchase price of such fertilizers or manures. See 4. Be it further enacted: That if any seller or vendor of fertilizers or commercial manures shall refuse, de cline or neglect to cloose a witness, as provided in section 1, after having been notified or requested by the pur chaser so to do, then he or they shall have forfeited their right so to do, and the purchaser shall select two witnesses, who shall select the third witness, who shall proceed to take samples as herein before provided. All samples of fertil izers drawn under the provisions of this act shall be subject to such other rules as may be prescribed by the board of trustees of Clemson college, not incon sistent with this act. Sec. 5 All acts and parts of acts in consistent with this act be, and the bame are hereby, repealed. WINTHROP'S DOREITORY. FREE BLOOD CURE An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terribie Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Scrofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skiht Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches, Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Poison producing Esting Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B 11 B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B. B. does not con rain vegetable or mineral poison. One bottle will test it in an case. For sale by draggists everywhere. Large bottles $1, six for five $~>. Write for free samrplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. A Postmaster in Trouble. A dispatch to The State from Marion says Leonard L. Owens, postmaster at that place, was arrested Wednesday under a warrant is-sued by United States Commissioner J. W. Johnson on a charge of embezzling the funds of the postoffice. The warrant was issued at the instance of Postuffice Inspector .Moyer, who for several datys has been investigating the condition of the office and has discovered -a deficiencylin 'the postmaster's accounts iamounting to over $1,000, Mr. Owens was appointed several months ago by President Mc Kinley, to succeed Capt. Douglass Mc lnryte, whose term had expired. The catastrophe that has overtakn the new postmaster in so short a time is very surprising, in view of the fact that he performed faithful and creditable servicc as a deputy of his predecessor. Owens waived examination and gave b~nid for appearance. several responsi ble gentlemen becoming security. Two State Governments. Two state governments, completely officered and each claiming to be the reular and legal offici tls, are in Frank fort, Ky., now and will remain, each claiming the right to administer the affairs of state until the question is ad judicated in the courts. As antici pated the banks refuse to recognize either of the contending factiobs and as a result both are without money, and the state funds are as securely tied up as they could be, Legislators, coun ty as well as state officials, and all kinds of contractors .with the state will have to wait until somebody is authorized by a decision of the court to pay them and the state will have to wait on what is due it until the courts say who is au thorized to receive it. The Democratic state ofiicers have opened offices in the State hotel. The charitable and penal state institutions are among the suffer ers. The W ar Still On. A dispatch from Manila says: A hundred insurgents seven miles from San Fernando deela Union ambushed en men of the Third cavalry who were . escorting a provision train. The Amer cans scattered, and while returning to samp, one man was killed. The insur gents captured four horses and a luantity of provisions. A subsequent reconnaissance of the locality devel >ped the fact that there were entrench nents there and a force of Filipino*, istimated to number 800 men. The Chird cavalry is preparing to drive the1 surgents out. The recently purchased f aval transport Alava sent to Regay in C he Gulf of Liberate, for Spanish pri. ~ oners, has returned here, bringing 500 8 ersons, including priests, officers, sol- U iers and civilians and 10 A mericans. he navy officers being informed that j he prisoners were carelessly guardedi, urried the Alava to Ragay, manned y 20 bluejackets. Six officers from he Brooklyn and five marines accom URE icious and wholesome ER CO., 4EW YORK. HOW TO WEAR SHOES CHARACTER LEARNED BY MEANS OF THE FOOTGEAR. This Refers to Women But it Will No Doubt Apply to Men As Well-Thi Man Who Is Patiently Looking for The Ideal Girl. "It gets me," said the man, "to know why women and girls are not more Wp-ticular about the way they dress their feet. If they knew how much people noticed them, they would take more pains in buying their shoes than they do in buying their gowns. Every one knows that'the man is more par ticular about the way he keeps his boots and shoes than a wcman. As for me, the woman I marry must have pretty, well-dressed feet. I have nev er found any one yet who came up to my standard of excellence, and that's why I'm not married, I suppose. 'I did think I had found her once. I fell in love with one foot. That was where I made the mistake. It was some kind of an art exhibition. There was a screen at the door from one room to another, which was a few steps higher, and happening to look across the room, I saw below that screen the daintiest, most ladylike looking foot, slender and delicate and refined, and wearing just the right kind cf . !oe for that occasion-not a great heav7 walking boot, and not a danci ae. but just right. Of course, yu aon't expect me to tell you just what & was. I am not in the shoe business. buw i know when a girl wears' a shoe tnzt is In good taste. "This root tnat I fell in love with I saw just for an instant as the wom an to whom it belonged drew it up to the other step and the screen hid her so that I hadn't the slightest idea who she was, young or old, hideous or beautiful. But I made up. my mind I would find out. But you know how it is in a room filled with people-it is not always easy to get across it, es pecially if all your friends are there. By the tIme I reached the screen I almost gave up my foot for lost Yo1 can't see a woman's foot in these long skirts she wears unless she is on the street. I suppose my divinity must have raised her dress as she went up the steps. "I Cd find her after a time, but I had made a mistake. A man shouldn't fall in love with less than two' feet, and he should see how they walk. There is everything in the way a wom an walks. The woman whose foot I had admired-her feet were beauti ful, too-walked in a listless way. She drew one foot after the other, lan guidly. That might mean that she was selfish, indolent, delicate or a number of other things. Just notice women who walk that way and see If I am not right. "Then notice the woman who walks not exactly with a heavy step, but comes dow~n fiatfooted every time. She would make a good business man ager, and she might know how to man age a housefu~ll of servants, but she Is too aggressive to be a comfortable person to get along with. It is all right for a woman to have opinions of her own; I like to see a woman who knows her own mind, and I would rather enjoy having her look after my ideas if she cared to, but you don't like to be knocked over even with ideas. "Then there Is the woman who has rather a heavy dragging step. That woman is sure to have round shoulders and stoop when she walks. She has to take time to think when she an swers, and it takes her a long time to see a joke. She has large feet, and her shoes do not fit trimly. That Is not the kind of woman I care to know. Then there is the woman who shakes the i-oom when she walks. She may not be over plump, and she Is very likely cheerful and jo'lly. You like her, but her chubby feet-they are sure to be short and broad-are not for you. She is a nice kind of wife for some other man, and you like to go and take dinner with him occas ionally when you are in the mood for it, but she is not the Ideal woman. "The ideal always wears trim, suit able shoes, and she walks just as a woman who has the ideal feet, Ideally dressed, should. She is sure to have rather slender feet that look flexible and make you think, somehow of a pretty slender hand well gloved. Her shoes always fit her like a glove, any way. She does not wear great man nish shoes around the street all the time because they are said to be fash onable. She only wears those with a heavy, rough walking suit. For the street she has a medium weight, trim looking boot, and for the house she wears pretty, soft, thin ones or pretty slippers, anything, according to the occasion. There are times and sea sons for all kinds of boots, shoes and slippers. "I was on the Broadway car down near the Battery the other day when a plainly dressed woman was crossing ;he street. When I saw her first every >e in the car, men and women, were ,ooking at her. What was the trouble, lo you suppose? She was holding up aer skirts a little, and so exhibited a air of what do you call 'em, with high eels and a buckle in front?-Louis Quinze slippers, isn't it? "Now those are the prettiest thing L woman with a pretty foot can wear n an appropriate place, but they were >ut of place down there, and there v~as not a soul in the car that didn't otice them, and there was nothing tout the woman otherwise to attract ttention. I remember seeing a woman yearing low slippers on Fifth avenue iot long ago, and every one who assed turned to look at her. "My ideal girl wouldn't think of yearing a pair of shoes inappropriate y. Her shoes always fit her so that ihe walks easily and well, with a ather quick, light step, and moves ver the ground easily without .terki ess. You know she is a nice girl to tet along with. She goes through if e as smoothly and pleasantly as she alks. But she is not monotonous; 'ou know that by her quick lightness. she always smiles at you and has a ight answer ready whatever you say. "I am looking for her and I shall id her some day. But it is surprising iow quickly most women can be cut if the list when you have shoes and heir cvacomitants as a test. You can id girns with pretty and well-dressed eet, but they are rare. and until I find he one you may put me down for a nchelor."-N. Y. Times. T|JHShot at a President ' :Ding the carnival procession Wed esday a Venezuelan fired two shots at resident Cripiano Caracas without ef ct. The president was afterwards ae aimed by the populace. The city is iet. Gen. Castro became president Venezuela last October as a result of se succes-ful revolution against Presi ent Andrade, who fled fro~n the repub c. But, Castro was not reognized as :esidert by the Uuitesi States until ov. 20), ISJ9. He is about 36 years - ae, has been a strong supporter of ,C Lhbeel party. Makes the food more del BASED ON NOTHING. Most of the Fears That Beset Fair Maids and Matrons. The cause tl'a implants the spirit of fear in the bosom of the gentle sex Is a subject that may well puzzle the most devout student of human nature. The mouse is considered one of the harmless of creatures, and yet it has been responsible for more cases of hysteria than any animal many times its size. One woman, who all her Pfe has searched beneath her bed before .: tiring, at one time found herself in possession of a folding monstrosity, the intricacies of which she had first to solve before taking her well-earned rest. But such Is the force of habit. After pulling down the bed she would carefully look beneath it, for no other reason than that she had done so ever since she was a child. A favorite illusion is that of having one's legs seized, either from behind in going upstairs or on getting into bed. Women have been seen scuttling upstairs in the dark setting at defi ance all the laws of locomotion in a ludicrous attempt to keep their legs some distance ahead of them and be yond the reach of a mysterious clutch. Girls will also make flying leaps into bed to eliminate the same improbabil ity. Many women search diligently in closets, bureau drawers and all sorts of Impossible places before resigning themselves to sleep. An old house keeper whose table silver, in two bas kets, was always placed in her bed room after the evening meal, was one night awakened by what she consid ered suspicious sounds from the lower regions. Cautiously leaving her room laden with the silver, she pitched both baskets into the hall below, calling out as she did so, "Take it all and please go," then fled precipitately and barricaded herself in her room. Need less to add, she found both baskets and scattered contents the following morning, a little the worse for the rough handling she had given them. WORKERS AMONG COTTONSEED. New Machine Which Is Designed to Monopolized Their Business. An alvfays interesting sight to New Orleans visitors has been the large gangs of darkies unloading cotton seed from the barges at the oil mills, piling the sacks of seed on the heavy trucks and trundling them down the wharf into the mill, singing lustily the while. The picturesque side of the old-time method of unloading seed by no means appeals to the owners of the mills, however. Such labor is very expensive, and sometimes impossible to obtain. Competition in the manu facture of cottonseed products is very keen, and unnecessary handling of the raw material must be done away with wherever practicable. The big grain elevators, built right up to the leep water, have long ago solved the problem, but with the oil mills at Gretna, built back of the levee, with their wharves stretching a considera ble distance Into the river, and with these wharves sinking and twisting all the time from the action of the cur rent and the treacherous river bed, the question how to unload their barge and carry the seed back into the mills at a low cost has been until now a very difficult one to answer. The Union Mill Company has re ently ,installed at Its large Crescent mill at Gretna a plant for rapidly and economically unloading seed from barges, which seems to meet all the conditions. The main part of the sys tem Is a belt conveyor, running on trestle work along the wharf, and thence under the roof of the milL. Along this conveyor the seed Is car ried from the end of the wharf, 230 feet to a point in the mill, where it is weighed and either stored or distrib ted direct to the crushers. From the ime It Is taken from the barges until t leaves the mill as a finished product he seed Is not touched by hand . The present capacity of the plant Is aout 4,700 bushels (seventy tons) of ottonseed per hour, but this can be argely increased. It is estimated that. he construction will pay for Itself In ages saved In less than two seasons. Saved From Prison by His Ears. "I don't often see a thief or a bad an with big ears," said Judge Wof ord from the bench In commenting on the physiognomy of Gilbert Clos ser, a 15-year-old boy charged with as aulting Frederick E. Moses. "I like o see a boy with big ears." The boy carcely knew whether the Judge was arcastic or sincere, and he fumbled his cap bashfully while his ears urned red. The spectators tittered, but Judge offord continued sternly: "I am in clined to give you a chance, my boy, n the strength of your big mouth and enerous ears. You've gotr a good Lace. man with little ears, like a fox's or a squirrels, won't always do. They need watching." After warning Clos ser never to carry knive:: or revolvers, udge Wafford sentenced the boy to the reform school and then paroled him with instructions to report to the ourt January 1.-Kansas City Jour cal. _________ A Youthful Effusion. Senator Thurston, who has taken ood-naturedly the newspaper chaff ng about his poem, "The White Rose," decidedly objects to the un iuthorized announcement that It was ritten by his fiancee, Miss Purman. e says It was a youthful effusion rItten 30 or more years ago and he ;olemnly affirms that he discarded the poetical role more than a quarter of a :entry since A Dog Shed. Ida-Maud Beulah is going out to ut all the fur trimming from her May-Is it moth-eaten? Ida-No, Indeed' But -her French ,oodle shed all his fur and Maud says hell have to get rid of hers to h:ir nonize the effect when he trots byv her ;ide.-Chcago News. A Queer Place for the Bird. The eagle which originally decora ed the stern of the famous schooner ~acht America-which first won what now known as the America Cup--is Low the sign of the Royal Eagle Hotel i Ryde, Isle of Wight, overlooking he scene of the vessel's triumph over er English competitors in 1851.-Tit Killed His Mother George Williams, a young Negro man, E. lled his mother while they frere fol- 'D ,wing the corpse of the husband and I ither to the grave near Pleasent Hill, f Fa., Wednesday. The boy ordered his e iother to stop her manifestations of rief. She paid no attention to him nd then he shot and killed her. d kingdom for a eure . li You need not pay so much. P twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. ~ Will drive all ills away.t