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Dr. Talmage's Tirne:y Disccurse on Religious Doctrines. WOULD FREE HUMANITY From the Graveclothes of Old Ec clesiastical Dogmas. Simple Faith In Christ the Test of Christianity. At a time when the old discussion of creeds is being vigorously and some what bitterly revived this discourse of Dr. Talmage has a special interest. The text is John xi, 44: "Loose him and let him go." My Bible is at the place !f this tcxt written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the ruirs of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead sea Bethany was the summer evening re treat of Jesus. After spending the day in the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his three friends. I think the occupants of that house were orphans, fcr the father and mother are not mentioned. But the ;on and two daughters must have inherited pro perty, for it niust have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, the brother, was now at the head of the household, and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular, and everybody liked him, and these gir. were splendid girls-Martha a first rate housekeeper and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy, but affectionate and as good a girl as could be found in all Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in consterna tion. Father gone, and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over his pillow! Not much sleep about that house-no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise developed, I judge that Martha pre pared the medicines and made tempt ing dishes of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sis ters were being led by sympathizers into the adjoining room all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there as he often had been? Far away in the country districts, preaching, healing other sick, how unfortunate that this omnipotent Doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Betbany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany, Tazarus had been buried four days and dissolution had taken place. In that climate the breathless body disinte grates more rapidly than in ours. If, immediately after decease, the body had been awakened into life, unbeliev era might have said he was cnly in a comatose state or in a sort of trance and by some vigorous manipulation or powerful stimulant vitality had been renewed. No! Four days dead. At the door of the sepulcher is a crow4. of people, but the three most memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sis aers. We .went into the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our vi:-it. but the day spoken of in the Bible there was pres ent an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave removed. and then he begins to descend the steps, Mary and Martha close after hiin, and the crowd after them. Deeper down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks and plash upon the back of his--hands. Were ever so many sorrows compressed into so small a space as in that group press ing on down after Christ, all the time bemoaning tha: he had not come be fore? ~, Now all the whispering and all the crying and all the sounds of shufiine feet are stopped. It i. the silence of expectancy. Death had conqutered, but now the vanquisher of death c"e fronted the scene. Amid the~ aul i hush of the tomb, the familiar na which Christ had often ,,his lips in the * ites of the village h e back to his tongue, and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrection of the last day shall only be an echo he cries, "Laza rus, come forth!" The eyes of the slumberer open, and he rises and comes to the foot of the Pteps and with great difficulty begins to ascend, for the cere ments of tomb are yet on him, and his feet are fast and his hands are fast and the impediments to all his movements are so great that Jesus commands: "Take off these cerements! Remove these hindrances! Unfasten these graveclothes! Loose him, and let him go!" Oh, I am so glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus he went on and com manded the loosening of the cords that bound his feet so that he. could walk and the breaking off of the cerement that bound his hands so that he could stretch out his arms in salutation and the tearing off of the bandage from around his jaws so that he could speak. What would resurrected life have been to Lazarus if he had not been freed from all -those cripplements of his body? I am glad that Christ com manded his complete emancipation, saying, "Loose him, and let him co." The unfortunate thing now is that so. many Christians are only half liberated. They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but they yet have the graveclothes on them. They are, like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their souls, and I shall try to obey the Mast er's com mand that comes to me and comes to every minister of religion, "Loose him, and let him go!" Many are bound hand and foot by re ligious creeds. Let no man misinter pret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them-a creed about re ligion, a creed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about government, and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian church is now agitated about its creed. Somne good men in it are for keeping it be cause it was framed from the belief of John Calvin. Other good men in it want revision. I am with neither par ty. Instead of revision I want substi tution. I was sorry to have the ques tion disturbed at all. The creed did not hinder us from offering the pardon Sanh omfort of the gaoie to all nathe Wttiinsta Confelioh a -notinterferred with me one miiute. But now that the electric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed-and everything that man fashions is imperfect-let us put the old creed respectfully aside and get a brand new one. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died 336 years ago. The best centuries of Bible study have come since then, and explorers have done their work, and you might as well have the world go back and stick to what Robert Fulton knew about stelm boats and reject the subsequent im provements in navigation, and go back to John Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, and reject all modern newsparer presses, and go back to the tiue when telegraphy was the elevatirg of signals or the burning of bonfires on the hilltops and reject the magnetic wire which is the tongue of nations as to ignore all the exegetes and the phil ologists and the theologians of the last 33 ears and put your Lhead under the sleeve of the gown of a sixteenth cen tury doctor. I could call the names of 20 living Presbyterian ministers of re licion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. "But," you, "it is the same old Bi ble, and John Calvin had that as well as the prefent student of the Scrip tures." ies; so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It ii the same old water; but in our century it has gone to run ning steam engines. It is the same old electricity; but in our time it has become a lightning footed errand boy. So it is the old Bible, but new applica tions, new uses, new interpretations. You must remember that during the last 300 years words have changed their meaning, and come of them now mean more and some less. I do not think that John Calvin believed, as some say he did, in the damnation of infants, although some of the recent hot disputes would seem to imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants. A man who believes in the damnation of infants himself de serves to loose heaven. I do not :.hink any good man could admit such a pos sibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I ecnclude from what he did with the babies in Palestine when he bugged them and kissed them. When some you grown people go out of this world, your doubt ful destiny will be an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obse quies, who will have to be cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no "ifs" or "buts" or guesses. We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a metaphysi cian, and by the proclivities of his na ture put some things in an unfortunate way. Logic has its use and metaphys ics has its use, but they are not good at making creeds. A gardener hands you a blooming rose, dewy, fresh, but a se vere botanist comes to you with a rose and says, "I will show you -the struc ture of the rose," and he proceeds to take it apart and pulls off the leaves and he says, "There are the petale," and he takes cut the anthers, and he says, "Just look at the wonderful structure of these floral pillars!" and then he cuts the stem to show you the juices of the plant. So logic or meta physics takes the aromatic rose of the Christian religion and says, "I will just show you how this rose of religion was fashioned," and it pulls off of it a piece and says, "That is the human will," and another piece and says, "This is God's will," and another piece and says, "This is sovereignty," and another piece arnd says, "This is free sency," this is this, and that is that. nd while I stand looking at the frag ments of the rose pulled apart, one whom the Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents me with a crinm sn rose, red as blood, and says, "In hale the sweetnies of this; wear it on your heart, ar.d wear it forever." I must confess that I prefer the rose in full bloom~ to the rose pulled apart. Again, there are Christians who are under sepulchral shadows and fears and hoppled by doubts and fears and sins long ago repented of. What they need is to understand the liberty of the sons of God. They spend more time under the shadow of Sinai than at the base of Calvary. They have been singing the only poor hymn that Newton ever wrote: 'Tis a point I long to know; -AMt-it causes-anxious thought: Do I love the Lord or no? Am I his or am I not? Long to know, do you? Why do you not find out? Go to work for God, and you will very soon find out. The man who is all the time feeling his pulse and looking at his tongue to see whether it is coated or not is morbid and cannot be physically well. The doctor will say, "Go out into the fresh air and into ac tive life and stop tihinking of yourself, and you will get well and strong." So there are j ee.pie who are watching their spiritua' symptoms, and they call it self examination, and they get weaker and sicklier in their faith all the time. o out and do something nobly Chris tian. Take holy exercise and then ex amine yourself, and instead of Newton's saturnine and bilious hymn that I first uoted you will sing Newton's othcr hymn: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found: Was blind, but now I see. A man who was on-se called Saul, but afterward Paul, declared, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all ac eptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chif." Mark that-"of whom I am chief." "Put down your overcoats and hats, and I will take care of them while you kill Sephen." So Saul said to the stonersiof the first martyr. "I do not care to exert myself much, but I will guard your surplus appearel while you do the murder." The New Testament count says, The witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." No wonder he said, "Sinners, of whom I am the chief." Again, my text has good advice con cerning any Christian hampered and bothered and bound by fear of his own dissolution. To such the book refers when it speaks of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime sub ject to bondage. The most of us, even if we have the Christian hope, are cow ards about death. If a plank fall from a scaffolding and jast grazes our hat, how pale we look! If the Atlantic ocean plays with the steamship, pitch ing it toward the heavens and letting it suddenly drop, how even the Chrts tian passengers rester the stewa.rd or or stewardess as to whether there is any danger and the captain, who has been all night on the bridge and chilled through, coming in for a cup of coffee, tionz as tc. w to of thc weather. a nd i 'b of the best peo ple are. a3 Paul say2 throughout their lifetime in bondage by fear of death. My brothers and sisters, if we made full use of vur religion we would soon get over this. Backed up by the teachings of your Bible, just look through the telescope some bright night and see how many worlds there are and reflect that all you have seen, compared with the number of worlds in existence, are less than the fingers of your right hand as compared with all the fingers of the human race. Haw foolish, then, for us to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay in. I think that all the stars are in habited and by beings like the human race in feelings and sentiments and the difference is in lung respiration and heart beat and physical conformation, their physical conformation fit for the climate of their world, and our physical conformation fit for the climate of our world. So we shall feel at home in any of the stellar neighborhoods, our physi cal limitation having ceased. Heaven is 95 per cent better than this world, a thousand per cent better, a million per cent better. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jabilant days you ever had on earth and compress them all into one hour, and that hour would be a rtquicm, a fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since its tower was built or its first gates swung or its first song caroled. "Uh." you say, that may be true, but I am so af raid of crossing over from this world to the next, and I fear the snapping ot the cord between soul and body. Well all the surgeons and physicians and si(ntists declare that there is no pang at the parting of the body and soul, and all the r stlessness at the closing hour of life is involuntary and no distress at all. And [ agree with the doctors, for what they say is conimed by the fact that persons who were drowned or were submerged until all consciousness de parted and were afterward resuscitated declare that the sensation of passing into unconsciousness was pleasurable rather than distressful. The cage of the body has a door on easy hinges, and when that door of the physical cage opens the soul simply puts out its wings and soars. "But," you say, "I fear to go because the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell yo how to treat the mys teries. The mysteries have oeased bothering me, for I do as the judges of you courts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case and they say, 'I will take these papers and give you my decision next week." So I have heard all the arguments in regard to the nrxt world, and some things are uncer tat and full of mystery, and so [ fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. I can there study all the mysteries to better advantage, for the light will be better and my faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christian philosphers, who have had all the advantages of heav!n for centuries, to help me, and I may be permitted myself humbly to ask the Lord, and I think there will be only one mystery left; that will be how one so unworthy as myself got into such an enraptured place. Come up out of the sepulchral shadows. If you are not Christians by faith in Christ, come up into the light; and if you are already like Lazarus, reanimated, but still have your grave clothes on, get rid of them. The command is, "Loose him, and let him go." The only part of the journey I made years ago to Palestine that I really dreaded was the landing at .Joppa. That is the port of entrance for the Holy Land, and there are many reks, and in rough weather people cannot-land at all The boats taking the people from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about 50 feet apart, and one misstroke of an oarsman or an unexpected wave has sometimes been fatal and hundieds of souls have perish along those reefs. Be sides that, as we- kft Port Said the even ing before, an old traveler said: "The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa: indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water weas as still as though it had been sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed as easily as I entered this pulpit. Well, your fear have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that the breakers will swallow your up, or that if you reach Canaan at all, it will be a very rough hnding, The very opposite will be true if you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarka-. tion for the promised land will be as smooth as ours at Palestine. Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you into complete safety; and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a halleluiah on the other. "Land ahead!" Its fruits are wavirg Oer the hill of fadeless green And the living waters laying Shores where heavenly forms are seena. Rocks and storms I'll fear no more When on that eternal shore. Drop the anchor, furli the sail! I am safe within the veil! A Crazy Printer. A dispatch from Yorkville to the Co lumbia State says at noon Thursday while all others were out of the office, H. H. Gallaher, a printer, temporarily raz, tried to cut the throat of Miller Drakeford, the 7-year-old son of the eiitor of The Yeoman. The child was playing in the composing room. His mother heard a scream and ran to the door in time to see an uplifted knife ver her boy. She snatched him from the man and ran into an adjoining room, fastening the door. The little boy has a gash on his neck an inch long, barely missing the jugular vein. allaher is in jail, and said if he had known they were going to imprison him he would have cut off the child's head. Hangs Himself. Theo Troutman, a traveling salesman for John E. Burst & Co., of Baltimore, ianged himself in a room in the Dun :an hotel in Nashville, Tenn., Wednes lay night. He took a leather strap from his valise, fastened one end to the op hinge of the door and the other iround his neck, and in this way hoked himself to death. I a a letter bo his wife, who lives in Baiumoere, he apressed great despondency because >f his inability to make sales. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and 1 am per fetly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. [t's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists. tf A. kingdom for a cure. You need not pay so much. A twenty five cent bottle of L. L & K. Will drive all ills away. A Good Opporttiiuty For Some of Oir Bright Young Men. The United States Civil Service Com mission that on May 17-18-19, 1900; examination will be held in any city in the United States where it has a board of examiners, for the position of cadet in the Revenue-Cutter Service. The examination will consist of the subjects mentioned below, which will be weighted as follows: Subject. 1. Spelling (first grade)........ 4 2. Geography of the United States................. ... 8 3 History and constitution of the United States............ 12 4. Grammar, composition, and rhetoric. ................ 8 5 Arithmetic (first grade)...... 12 6. Algebra ........ .......... 12 7. Geometry................... 12 8. Trigonometry ............... 1: 9. P hysics .................... 8 10. Chemistry (inorganic only) . 8 11. General informatiou......... 4 Total .... .... .......... 100 T bree days of seven consecutive hours each will be allowed for this examina tion, as follows: The first five subjects will be given on the first day, the 6th 7th, and 8th subjects on the second day, and the renaining subjects on the third day. Under the regulations of the Treasury Department, applicants must be not less than 18 nor more than 25 years of age, of vigorous constitution, physically sound and well formed, not less than 5 feet 3 inches in height, of good moral character, and unmarried. While it is not a prerequisite to eligibility. all appliiants for the posi tion of cadet who have served at sea, or who have served as deck officers of seagoing vessels of the United States merchant marine, should file with their applications a certificate or certificates showing such service from the master of the vessel with whom they have served, or from the Ship Masters' As sociation. It is proposed to gire ap plicants credit for such service when satisfactorily shown. Applicants are advised that cadets may be commissioned by the President as lieutenants after two years' satisfac tory service. The salary of a cadet is $500 per annum and one ration per day. There are in the Reveue Cutter Service commiasioned officers as follows: Cap tains, about 36, at a salary of $2,500 per annum; first lieutenants, about 36, at a salary of $1,800 per an num; second lieutenants, about 36, at a salary of $1,500 per annum; third lieu tanants, abont 12. at a salary of $1,200 per annum. It will thus be seen that this examination offers to young men pos sessing the requisite qualification a most excellent opportunity for entrance to a very desireable part of the service. As a result of this examination, it is expected that about five appointments will be made, in the early part of June next, to the position of cadet. It may be state4 that the Comrission has hteretofore experienced difficulty in securing a sufficient unmber of eligibles for this position, all persons who have passed thus far having received ap pointment. It will thus be seen, judg ing from the past, that for those who pass the examination the opportunity for appointment is most excellent. OThis examination is open to all citi lens of the United States who comply with the requirements and who desire to enter the service. All such persons are invited to apply. Applicants will be examined, graded, and certified with entire impartiality and wholly without regard to.any consideration save their ability as shown by the grade they at tain in the examination. Persons who desire to enter this ex amination should at once apply to the United States Civil Service Commis sion, Washington, D. C., for applica tion form-304, the medical certincate of which must be executed by a regularly commissioned surgeon or assistant sur geon of the U. S. Marine.-Hospital Service, which should be properly executed and promptly filed with the Commission. Applicants are advised that if they will communicate with the Commission, either by letter or telegraph, in suf ficient time to ship examination papers, arrangements will he made to e xamine them conditioned upon the subsequent filing of thcir applications in proper form. April 18, 1900. JUMPED TO FIERY DEATH. Suicide Leaps Into a Coke Oven and Literally Destroys Himself. A dispatch from Conneleville, Pa., says leaping high into the air as an ex pert diver would in taking a fancy plunge into the water, an unknown man committed 'muicide Wednesday morning at tlie foundry works of the HI. C. Priok Coke company. by diving into a coke oven. In less than a minute what had been a man apparent ly in the hill vigor of life had mingled with the curling smoke of the ovens, distinguishable only by its bluish brown color and nauseating odor from the gas smoke of the burning coal. A more tragic death never occurred in this region. The coke workers saw him only for an instant as he prepared for the leap. He was well dressed, of medium height and weight and smooth shaven. For the slightest possible space of time he seemed to pause on the sloping ground behind the ovens, then quick as a flash he ran down the: slope, taking the quick short steps of a trained athlete, who gauges them pre isely for the jump he intends taking. Eight feet from the oven-tops the man shot into the air, his hands poised1 above his head in the fashion of a diver,: and descending swiftly, dropped head first into the tunnel hiead of an oven. that had burned to the sizzling white eat of coke, just before it is drawn. For an instant the body clogged the tunnel head and the legs were wriggled s though a desperate effort was being - ade to equirm through and meet eath quickly in the blazing oven. A ush was made for the oven door by the horrified coke drawers. All there was to show for the man, who but a1 few seconds before had been in life, as a charred mass of flesh not three feet in length. There is no means of dentification. A Good Work. The Columbia Record says "Col. John D. Frost is about finishing a very important work which he undertook on is own responsibility to preserve a aluable historical record. Enclosed n a glass frame there has been fori rears in the adjutant general's office a f nanuscript list of the members of the famous Palmetto regiment. It -was ade years ago and the ink was so old< nd dim that in some cases the namne t ould barely be deciphered. Colonel1 rost took out the manuscript and has pent some time in retracing the names REPU~BYACAN ?ANA TICS, Govijior Csidler's Plain Talk to Old Confederates.1 The observance or Memorial day in Atlanta was made notable by a speech delivsred by the governor of Georaia in which he scored Republican "fana tics" and criticised the war in the Philippines, the speech was made at the presentation of crosses of honor to the veterans and was loudly cheered. Gov. Candler said in part: "You fought not to promote the am bition of a crowned head, not for con quest, not to force your government upon an unwilling people, but f.r the God-given right of local self-govern ment. You rebelled against the domi nation of a sectional political party, led by fanatics who did not and do not be lieve in this cardinal doctrine and who were the sworn enemies of you and your interests and your institutions. Blinded by fanaticism the leaders of this party either could or would not do you and your seation justice. You were maligned and abused and reviled and slandered. ' It is a singular fact, as has been justly said by a distinguished Repub lican senator a few years ago, that the northern conscience was never quick ened to a full realization of the enor mity of slavery until their own slaves had been converted into gold and the gold had found a safe lodgment deep down in their pockets. The sout hern people were goaded into secession in spite of their love for the constitution and the union. "Perhaps both sides sinned as the con fict prew fiercer. Let the question rest where the legend on the beautiful badge you are to wear places it. Deo vindice, let God judge between us. I do not mean to disparage nor impugn the motives of the gallant men who con fronted us on a hundred battlefields, nor of the great mass of the people of the non- seceding States. [am denouncing the fanatics who presided at the birth of the Republican party, and nursed the bantling into vig->roui manhood and ta4ght it the dQctrine of a higher law and to disregard the limitations of the constitution, reverse the precedents of a hundred years, and who. disregard ing the golden rule, pregched from the pulpit the doctrine of hate instead of 'peace on earth and good will to man.' " "This breed of fanatics has not run i. None of them were ever killed in 6.Lttle, for they didn't go. They are still in congress and in the pulpit, and 4re preaohing the same unholy gospel. Chey still dominate the party of Lin coln ard Seward and Chase, which de nied to you in 1860 the blood-bought right of local self government, and who are today waging a war of conquest against an unoffending people 10,000 miles away, and denying to them the rights for which Washington and Mar ion and Sumter and the L-es fought on tbe field of Camden and Yorktown and Compens and King's Mountain, and for which you fought as no men have fought in twothousand years at Manassas sad Shiloh, Gettyburg and Chicka mauga. The same party, drunk with its excesses of usurpation, are in viola tion of the spirit of the constitution, holding a million people on the island of Puerto Rico in a state of vassalage and taxing them without representation as they held you and taked you in the days of reconstruction. It is a healthy sign however, that some of the ablest and most patriotic men of this party arc protesting against this usurpation of power and this abandonment of the teachings of the fathers and the tradi tions of the republic." - THE COLONIAL EECORDS. Congre samau Stokes Has Presented a Bill in Regard to Them. For quite a long time Congressman Stokes has been engaged in the laud able effort of having the United States government make some provision for the printing in permanent form of the valuable colonial records on file in the office of the secretary of state in the capitol. ~No State has a more valuable or interesting collection of such docu ments than South Carolina. Students of American history come to Columbia time and again and spend days and even weeks going -through th'ese re cords. All express the greatest surprise that such documents have never been printed and made accessible. Congresman Stokes writes from Washington to Mr. D. H. Means stating that he has hit upon the proper plan for accomplishing the desired purpose. The following is the bill he has intro duced in congress, which was on April 25 referred to the committee on library: To provide for the investigation of the historical archives and public re crds of the several States and Terri tories and of the United States, with a view to their preservation and publica tion. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assem bled. That the American Hlistoroical association he, and itis hereby, directed to irmst ita-e the character and condi tion of the histurical archives and pub lic records of the several States and Territories, and of the United States, and the provisions which have been made by law for the preservation and publication of the same, and to report to congress, through the secretary of the Smithsonisn Institution, the re suts of such investigation, together with suggestions of such legislation as the said American Historical associa tion may deem neceessary and proper; and that the sum of $5,000 be. and the same is hereby, appropriated to the said American Historical association, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for defraying the expenses of such investigation and report: Provided, That no member of the said American Historical associa tion shall receive any compensation for his services in connection with the said investigation and report other than the reimbursement of such expenses, including clerical assistance, as shall be necessarily incurred in the prosecu tion of the work. No One Cares Little Joe Biblh-y, of Pennsylvania, says that nobody has a right to ask why he changed from a free silver Democrat to a gold standard Republican. The Atlanta Journal says "we have never heard of anybody who cared about the why and wherefore of this gyration." Where to Find Out. Grosvenor says the president bowed to the will of congress in changing his mind on the Porto Rican question. If any one desires to know to whose .will congress bowed let him inquire of the sugar and tobacco trust people. Will Be a Winner. The Spartanburg Herald says "there seems to be a wonderful unanimity of opinion among the State papers that Governor McSweeney ought to have a full term. Unless all signs fail he is ne iuippine War. The war now in progress in the Philippines seems to be a kind of now you see it and now you don't affair. Several months ago President McKinley issued a proclamation that the insur rection was over, and that in a very short time every thing would be tranquil in the archa pelago. Nothwithstanding this declaration of the President fresh troops were sent right on to the Philippines. Since the President's remarkable state ment several other high officials have assured the country that the insurrection was over, but fresh troops were still being sent to the front. Now comes the Republicans of the State of New York, in convention assembled, with a platform which declares that the insurrection in the Philippines has been suppressed and that organized resistance to the authority of the United States no longer existed. The newspapers which contained this declaration of this conven tion contained also the follow ing item of news: Twelve hundred Tagals at tacked Case's battalion head quarters of the Fortieth regi ment at Cagayan, Island of Min danao, on the 7th. The Ameri cans had fifteen casualties, while of the attacking force fifty were killed and thirty wounded or taken prisoners. The enemy, numbering 150 riflemen, the re mainder being bolomen, archers and mounted spearmen, swooped down in a howling mass at day light, surprising and killing three Af the sentries- They swarmed the streets in small parties, some wearing scaling ladders, by meansof which they attempted to enter the houses. The Republican idea of a sup pressed insurrection appears to be rather a curious one. It is an expensive one, as well, for only a day or two before the New York Republicans had suppressed the insurrection, the adjutant-general of the army issued a statement saying that the troops now in the Philippines numbered 63,585, an increase since March 1 of 308. Trans ports bearing some 3,000 men are now on the way thither, these figures do not include, of course, the navy forces in the islands. If a suppressed insurrection re quires the active service of so many soldiers, we may wellcon template with some apprehen sion the size of the army which would be necessitated should the insurrection really gain in force. Up to date and since the happy establishment of "peace,'' the American casualties in the Philippines as reported from Washington are as follows, the last report being dated April 18: Killed.................... 473 Died of wounds, disease and ac cidents.................1,205 Total deaths................l.678 Wounded.................2,092 Total loss................3,770 Schley Win. The Philadelphia Record says, that the Sampson Sohley controversy is offi cially ended, and that Scihley wins. It appears that the way the settlement~ was brought abcut was this, in brief: Gen. Felix Agnus, owner of the Balti more American, had an eight page sup plement prepared for his newspaper which dealt wholly with the feud. In detail it exploited the causes of the animosity of the naval clique against Schley. [t contained two sensational exposures. One was a direct and dam aging charge against Admiral Sampson, and the other showed that in 1896 Schley had recommended the court martial of Crowninshield for incompe tency. Official papers and records were quoted in support of every state ment made. General Agnus printed one copy of the supplement and lent it to Washington, where of course, it got into the hands he intended it should. The plates were removed from the press and locked up "for future use." The powers at Washington were informed that unless the attacks upon Schley were stopped and he was permitted to take liis proper rank in the navy, 1,000 copies of the supplement would be printed and disturbed. The adminis Lration gave in, and Schley will get his reward. Arrangements are now being made whereby he will rank next to Dewey in the lists. 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A Big Landslide. A landslide of remarkable propor ions followed the recent earthquake n San Jacinto county, in Southern Jalifornia. A tract covering 600 acres n San Jacinto mountain and 4,000 feet ibove the sea level slid 150 feet down he mountain and filled the small val ey with debris. Great masses of ~ranite were split by crevices four feet ride and seventy-five feet deep. The alling mass was upheaved as it fell, ~iving the earth the appearance of a nighty convulsion. The theory of lo al geologists is that a vacum under he mountain, caused by drawing off rater for irrigation, became filled with ;assis tore through the crust of the nountain and produced the earthquake) Makes the food more de ROYAL MAN PO GRANULATED SUGAR CHEAPER. Why the Old-Fashioned Brown Va riety Is Seldom Seen. "When I was running a boarding house for gangs at work on new rail roads in the West a few years ago." said the tall man, "brown sugar cost 5 cents a pound when Iboughtitbythe hogshead, and granulated sugar cost 12 cents a pound when purchased in equally large amounts. Now, if you had 200 men to board, all of whom used sugar in their coffee, what kind of su gar would you buy?" "I suppose I'd make a mistake, but as far as I know now, I would buy brown sugar, for that would be the cheapest," was the reply. "And that's where you've made a mistake," said the tall man. "I'll prove it to you in a minute. When you go home to-night, you take a teaspoon and experiment with both kinds of su gar. You'll see that with granulated su gar you can pick up only as much as the bowl of the spoon will hold. But it's different with brown sugar. If you dig your spoon deep into it, when you lift the spoon, you bring nearly three spoonfuls of sugar along with it, as it packs closely. That is what house wives call a 'heaping teaspoonful.' Now the average railroader Is used to put ting three to four spoonfuls of sugar In his coffee and he never looks to see whether they are heaping ones or not Therefore, the brown sugar is the more expensive. I tried both ways, and I found that using granulated sugar saved me over $15 a month over what it cost to serve brown sugar. There's even more difference now than then, too. The big sugar concerns have beat en down the price of granulated sugar until it costs but a penny a pound more than brown sugar. "That's why you see granulated sugar in all the cheap boarding-houses to-day."-New York Sun. STORM-TOSSED CREW. They Went Ashore and Found Canni bals Devouring a Human Body. The crew of the British steamer Kur distan, Captain Littlehales, now taking on a cargo of coal at Lambert's Point, tell of an experience at once strange and horrifying. The vessel is from Icuique, Chile, and when off the Pata gonian Coast. near Tera del Fuego, was caught in a storm and fog and came to anchor. A boat's crew went ashore, and hearing a strange noise proceeding from a cavern near their hiding place inspected it. A party of savages were in the cave, engaged in eating what seemed to be the dismembered body of a human being. The savages attacked them, the seamen say, whereupon they fired upon them, killing one savage. His companions carried the dead body away, and, the sailors believe, devoured it. In the cavern was a Danish flag and much wreckage. On the shore near the cavern lay the wreck of a wooden brig. -Norfolk, Va., Cor. Baltimore Sun. New President of the Senate. By the death of Vice President Ho bart, the presidency of the senate wll (Senator Wmn. P. Frye.) fall' upon Senator Wmn. P. Frye, of Maine. Senator Frye is 70 years 01': but looks younger. His term as senator will expire in 1901. Threw Away Fifty Thousand Dollars. There died in the City Hospital at Philadelphia last week a woman, prac tically a pauper, who by inscribing a few lines upon a paper would have been put in possession of $50,000. For many years Dr. Isabel Mitchell was a physician of some prominence in the Quaker City. While practicing her profession she became interested In the pure food movement, and spent much of her time in perfecting a process for the preservation of meats and vegeta bles where Ice was not obtainable. Her experiments resulted In a formula which was declared practically perfect by chemists and phySicians of Philadel phia and vicinity. It was a preparation which answgd the purposes desired and was at tife same time harmless to health, being the forcing of medicated ozone Into the articles to be perserved. Dr. Mitchell received many offers for her process, but none of the terms was satisfactory to her, though one of them was for $50,000. While working on her food preservative, she neglected her practice, and gradually lost It all. From a comfortable home she went by gradual changes to a garret, where she was taken ill with a lingering 81 sease, and finally removed to the hos pital. She persistently refused to re veal her secret to the few friends who had stood by her, and with her death the formula Is lost to science. Enoch Arden in Real Life. After an absence of thirty years James Edwards, whose home is now in Denver, Col., returned to Philadelphia, and found that his wife had been di orced from him and married to an ther man. Thirty-five years ago Ed wards married Miss Belle Hickman whose parents were wealthy. Edwards was in poor circumstances and his wife's mother opposed the marriage. The couple lived together for five ears, but at the end of that time Mrs. ickman is alleged to have brought. bout a separation. Edwards went West and became wealthy. Edwards says he repeatedly wrote to is wife, but she failed to get the let ers. Not hearing from her husband for fifteen years Mrs. Edwards adver ised and received a letter from Den er informing her that a man answer ng her husband's description had been illed. Mrs. Edwards, not certain that er husband was dead, obtained a di orce and remarried. Edwards succeeded in meeting his former wife upon his return. There were explanations all around and he ade her farewell and went back to enver. The Candidate. This is the season when the political andidate is abroad in the land. Of ourse he is a proper subject for jest, ut he is apt to take it with rare good umor. The fact is, the candidate is iuseful animal. He forces the man rho has held office for a generation to emember his friends when they come round. He is always friendly and ordial, and he tends to keep alive the olitloal situation. We like the candli ates.-Spartanburg Herald. It Takes money. Seven hundred and fifty dollars a inute is said to be the cost to Eng and of the South African war. Kra DANO PowDER 1URE licious and wholesome MR Co., NEW VOR. BATTLES IN THE SEA COMBATS BETWEEN BLUE CRABS . AND MINNOWS. The Crab Balls Its Claw and Walls for a Bite-Little Cannibals and Their Ways as Practised in the j Brimy Deep-Soft Shell Crabs. The blue crab is a pretty fair hand at catching fish. It will lie in shallow water motionless, with its pincer claws extended and its pincers open, waiting for a chance to nip a minnow. If one, coming swimming along through the water, should happen to pass between those open jaws, suddenly the jaws close and that is the last of the min now. But the blue crab can do better than this; sometimes it will hold mo tionless in one claw a shred of some thing on which it has been feeding as a bait for minnows, holding at the same time its other big claw ,with the pincer open, waiting. The minnow comes up, charging for the food held in the closed claw. but there are likely to be enough of them to spread. and they may come from various directions. so that more than likely one will come within the waiting pincers of the open claw, and when one does the proceed ngs are closed for the time being. But sometimes the minnows get the blue crab, as they do when the crab is shedding. The crah knows when that time is coming. and then It makes for a place where it can shed its shell and stay In safety until its new shell is suf ficiently hard to protect it The crab comes in with the tide and makes for some place on the bottom. in shallow water, perhaps along the edge of the eel grass, or under some protecting patch of ulva, and then proceeds to di- a hole In which it can stay after it has shed its shell until it is strong enough to go about. It digs the sand or mud up around from under itself. and, as likely as not leaves its discard ed shell, in a most lifelike form, up on the sand on the edge of the hole in front of it. This shell would frighten away some small fishes that would not dare to tackle a crab in its ordinary condition. The discarded shell is a help to fishermen who are hunting crabs. be cause it shows where a crab may be found. and weakfish. which come in shore in shallow water to feed. hunt up soft crabs by searching the neighbor hood of the spot where they find, a shell, just as a tisherman woulil do. Sometimes a fisherman discovers a soft crab by the splashing that the min nows kick up around it. If undis turbed the minnows swarming around the helpless crab kill it and eat it But sometimes another blue crab will ap pear nd break up the minnow's feast. This is a blue crab that has not shed its shell, but has its armor on. -It comes stalking in among the minnows. perhaps nipping one of them in one of Its pincer claws as it comes up and dis persing the rest. The blue crab is a cannibal; it will eat its own kInd. If when this crab comes up there Is any of the soft crab left, the newcomer will very likely eat. that first. with one (claw, holding mean while in its other. the wriggling min now which it had seized at the outset, keepIng that to top off with. A Dog and the Elephant. Visitors to the New York Zoo recent ly have been surprised to find a New foundland dog chained in one of the elephant cages living in apparent peace and contentment. DOG AND EL.EPHANtT. Every one expects to see the great elephant kill his companion with a single sweep of her trunk, and crowds ferquently gather at the cage expect ing ai battle, but the dog eats -and sleeps without being molested. The secret of this strange compan ionship, which no one ever guesses, is that the dog Prince is really the mas-. ter of the household and the elephant lives in constant fear of him. On more than one occasion Prince has succeeded in quieting the great beasts when the keepers were power less to master them. Elephants are naturally nervous and easily excited. and when once a1roused are difficult to ~ontrol. The keepers have found that when everything else fails they need merely sendl Prince into the cage and the furious monsters wiill back 'to their corners and remamin quiet. Peter Rt. McNally. one of the assist ants at the' zoo. who v-ouched for Princ's ability, has observed several similar cases of this curious power in The keepers do not know that Prince ever engaged. in batttle with one of the elephants. thoturh there is not the least doubt that they :are all afraid of him. .Jack's Eyec .ack-Doesn't that vein aiffect your Bess-No. I think not. Why do yet' Jack-Becaus.e it trouhh-~is mzine.-Chi cago News. Not What He Wanted. Nu~rse-t's time for your nourish ment now. Mr. l'eppetry. Mr. Peppery (who is convalescent) H:ng nourishment. What I want is somethinzg t'o eat.-Lonidon Jutdy. Carter Arrives at Prison. Oberlin M. Carter, lato captain U. S. A., arrived at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas., Friday night un der guard of Lieut. Thomas Hlarker, F'ifteenth infantry, a corporal and three soldiers. The prisoner was im mediately dressed in the prison garb ad assigned to a cell Who Can Tell? There comes from New York a kind af faraway hint that Roosevelt is ere long going to be a wedge to, split the epublican party in twatn, which mauses the Newport News Herald to aredict that Roosey will do this coun ry some good yet.