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NEGRO MURDERERS, inflamesthe Mob and the Streets of New Orleans IS STAINED WITH BLOOD A Desperate Negro Kilts Two Police Officers and Wounds a Third Which Causes a B g Row A trifling incident at New 0:Sans has begun a series of tragedies which may culminate in a popular upris.ing similar to the Italian lynching somi year: ago. Two suspicious Negrees were hang ing around a quiet neighb rhood and somebody took the precaution to in form the police. Several odeiers went to the scene and instead of making ex planations or going to jail, the Negroes showed fight. Pistols werc soon in play and Officer Mora was seriously shot. One of the Negroes was arrested, but the Negro-R )bert Charles-who did the shooting, since said to be a desper ate burglar and ex convict, got away, although wounded. The police organized a pursuing party and. succeeded in locating the fugitive. Capt. John T Day, com manding the precinct, led a posse of police to his shanty and tried to reach the refugee by a dark alley leading to it. They carried lanterns and were easily distinguished, and when they got close enough Charles opened fire with a Winchester, killing Capt. Day and keeping up the fusillade until the cap tain had five wounds in him. A Negress opened the door of an ad joining room and told the police to jump in, as Charles had rifles and am munition and an impregnable position. They obeyed, thinking to hold Charles in his quarters until help or daylight came. Officer Lamb was the last of the three survivors to attempt to reach shelter, after emptying his revolver in the direction of the Negro, aod Charles reached ou and dropped him with a bullet behind the ear. Nearly an hour elapsed before reen forceLments came, and these were placed around the block to prevent es cape. It we then discovered that Charles had already left the room, though a shot at the pickets told that he was in the neighbr:nood. The two dead policemen were removed and a systematic search organized, but no trace of the fugitive was found. Po lice, armed with rifles, and citizens similarly equipped, and a borc.owed bloodhound kept up the quest; and had Charles been sighted he would have been shot to pieces. Mayor Capdevielle off :red a reward of $104 and Gov. Heard has added $5O for the State Parties are out in :ll di rections, even miles a way from the city, and all trains and cars are being searched. Suspects were arrested in the suburbs but the right man wa rot caught. In the meantime the police had work to do and the whole force was kept busy. Thousands of people gathered around the scene of the shooting and, lacking a victim or other excitement, proposed vengeance on the property and on the Negroes in the hovels arouad. The police promptly quelled the disturbers and jailed a number, but the guard had to be increased. A committee from the respectable colored element called on Chief Gaster Wednesday and offered aid in running down the murderer, and as some of them know the mm a by sight their services were accepted. The excitement has not yet died out, and the capture ef the Negro, who is likely hiding in th~e city, may start the mob going. THE MOB IN CHARGIE. New Orleans was in the hands of a mob Wednesday and Wednesday night. The murder of the two pohc: officers caused the whole trouble. Throughout the day attacks were made by irrespon sible mobs of whites upon the blacks, and the negroes before nightfall had been effectually chased from the streets. lhe effect of the disorders was to put a practical stop to business in the whole sale districts and on the levee frnt. As this meant a serious crippling of the trade of the port the basiness element rallied in force a'nd huindre is of the most prominent maen of thc city r-e sponded to the appeal of the may or f -a assistance in preserving order. The police have been practically helpless throughout the disturbances. The force consists of some '300' men, in cluding clerks and telegraph operators, and this is manifestly a force inade quate to the preservation of the peace of a city of 310,000 people. But aside from this the fierce indignation among the members of tha department over the ruthless murders of Capt. Dasy and Policeman Lamb and the serious wound ing of Officer Mora by the negro Robert Charles, to some extent made the police sympathetic with the mobs in their pretended efforts to aveng, the murders. The fact that there has been a strong resentment on the part of the working peeple against steamship agents and contractors in the employment of negro labor to the exclusion of whites on public works and on the levce, also con tributed some what, it is believed, to the disinclination of the police to do their fall duty. Mayor Capdevielle was at Ocean Springs last night when the mobs swept over the city. When he arrived at his office Wednesday he found await ing him a delegation of the leading mer chants of the city, who said the inter ests of the community and its commer cial welfare demanded promapt and vigorous action. A bout the same time Lieut. Gov. Estopinel, who had wit. nessed a scene of outrage upon negroes on Canal street, joined the conference at the hotel. Hie at once advised a con ference with Gov. Heard at Baton Rouge. The long distance 'phone was used and the governor said he would order. Without delay he sent messages to Col. Hodgson in the absence of Gen. Glynn and had him immediately order out the Washington artillery, the Louisiana field and the First regiment. At twilight there were 1,500 men con gregated in the armories. At the same time the mayor, in a proclamation, ap pealed for 500 special police. Before -4 p. in., 400 of the representative citi zens of tne community had been sworn in. The mayor made revuisition on the leading hardware and ammunition es tablishments of the city and the spe otals were heavily armed and sert to various section of the cty. Hlcodlucss prowled the streets throughtout thec day, and wheneter they sidied a negro, assaulted him. In some eases citizens rallied to the police and with their assistance beat off the attackers. Just after daylight the remnants of one o' the mobs gathered at the Spanisl Fort railway station whence a lr t~riwora~hameiThe aw ~a crow of darkies approacnaig and started to chase them. Louis Lapu yard got in their way and received a built in the leg. Later in the fore noon a negro emptied his pistol into a down town house and wounded a child. At 11 o'clock a mob marched through Lafayette square, which is opposite the city hall, and discovering soue negroes in the park, jamped on and beat them until they wade their escape. An hour afterward a white man saw a negro named Ross at the corner of Lafayette and Dryades streets and fired his gin at him. Those on the street fled in every direction and the negro made his escape. Shortly after 1 o'clock Jose phine Wild n child, while seated in front of her home, caught astray bullet in the knee. Ose of the mast senational incidents of the day was the discovery of two negroes badly wouided in a bnx car on the levee front. They were desperately hurt and only one was conscious. He was so frightened that he declined to give any account of how the shooting cecurred. Mayor Oapdevielle and his assistants made arrangements this afternoon for transportation facilitie. which would assist in the quick dispatch both of the militia and of the special police from one section of the city to another. All the trolley lines sent representatives to his honor to say that they w )uld place speial cars at his disposal throughout the niatht so that armed forces could be moved quickly. ' Tae express com panies also assured the mayor that their wagons would be ready to re pynd to any call which might be made upon them. Late this afternoon Mayor Capede vielle issued a proclamation which had an excellent effect. It called upon all good citizens not enrolled in the spe cial police to go to their homes or paecs of business and remain there They were also warned and advised not to assemble or idle about the str. ets. The police, general and spe cial, were ordered and directed to dis perse all crowds and to arrest all ob steperous and disorderly persons They were especially ordered, after 7 p. in., to arrest all persons found loaf ing or idling absu: the streets. As a result of the proclamation tonight few people were upon the streets. At the various exchanges this after non the wish was expressed that The Associated Press might mail - it public to the world that the pr,- .nt emeute was one sincerely deprecated, and hav ing the support of none of the conser vative elements of the community. The local business bodies are much op posed to the importation here of large numbers of negroes by plantations to work on the levees or the public works, but while they are of that opinion, they are very much opposed to violent methods in dealing with the ne gro population. Only the worst ele ments have participated in the disor ders. THE DESPERADO KILLED. After a desperate battle lasting far severd hours in which he succeeded in killing tergt. Gabriel Porteus, Andy Van Kutem, keeper of the police jiil, and Aifred J. Bioomfield, a young boy, fatahy wounding Corporal John F. Lilly, .John Banville, ex-Policeman Frank H. Evans, A. S. Lociere, one of the leading confectioners of the city, and more er less seriously shooting sev eral citizens, the negro desperado, Robert Charles, who killed Capt. Day and Patrolman Lamb and badly wound ed Officer More, was smoked out of his hiding place in the heart of the resi dence section of the city and literally shot to pieces. The tragedy was the most remarkable in the history of the city, and -20,000 people, soldiers. plice men and citizens were gathered around the square in which Cbarles was finally put to death. Sergt. Gabe Porteus, one of the best known officers on the force, and Sergt. John F. Lilly, who has a fine recojd for bravery, were informed during the day by a negro that Charles was in hiding in a house en Cho,-near Saratoga street. Determining to take him alive if pos sible, the officers summoned a number of patrolmen to their assistance and went to the house where Charles was supposed to be in concealment. The negro informant of the policemen ac companied the officers. They entered the side alley of the house and were surprised in practically the same way as were Day and Lamb. Before the officers were aware of their danger Cuaries, who was hidden behind a screen on the second fioor of the build iag, raised his Winchester and began a farious but accurate fire. Lally fell with a bullet in the right ride of the ab domen. Porteus was shot through the head and dropped dead across the body of Laity. The other officers and the negro ti d from the scene. The reports of Charles' Winchester and the fact that two officers lay bleeding in the yard, raised tremendous excitement. Haurry calls were sent to the mayor, the chief of police and Col. Wood, in c~mtnand of the special police. and as fast as pos sible armed help was rushed to the scene. In a little while there was an immense armed c:-owd encircling the square in wai.h Charles was located. In the meantime Father Fitzgerald of St. John's church was summoned to ad minister extreime uinction to the police officers, who were lying in the alley The priest responded promptly and he was annointing the body of Proteus, with Alfred J, Bloomfield, a young boy standing by his side. when Charles again appeared at the window. The ladi saw him at once and begged the desperado not to shoot him. Charles immediately fired his Winches ter again and Bloomfield fell dead. The priest, unhurt, left the scene after pluckily performing the last office for the dead otlicer. Tfhis time the am?bu lance arrived and two citizens volun teered to go in the alleyway and bring out the body of Lilly. They entered, and while they were attempting to take the body of the dead officer from that of his colleague, Charles fired again. The citizans, nevertheless, got Lally's body out of the alley and afterward succeeded in taking Porteus' body out also. in the meantime an immense throng had gathered in the vicinity and schemes were set on foot to get Charles out of the building. Charles, however, did not propose to be captured without selling his life dearly. Time after time he came to the window and as citizens, one by one. entered the alley, he blazed away at them. in this manner Confec - tioner Leclere, who was one of the special police squad, ex-Policeman Evans, John Banville and George HI. Lyons, son of the head of the biggest drug establishment in the south, were wounded. teetaPle ea At this ti he etaPlc ea to !!re indiscriminately at the Negro. W~ho shot hin. will probably never be known, Just at the time Andy Van Kurem, keeper of the police jail, got a blet in the body and fell dead. Jest aterw'ard HI. H. Batt, an old man, aed G. working for the mutual bene volent as-ociation, doing business in tevieluity, was hit and mortally wounded. About the same time, with Grunt.tcly, ?r k Bert? zi r c1yeQ shot in the 'eft shoulder and } Bofil got a hot bullet in thr right band. Ultimately it was concluded by those who were handling the situation that the only way tc get at Charles was to burn the building in which he was en trenched. There were, however, some scruples about resorting to this method of getting him, owing to the exertmely thickly populated section in which the house was situated. :.evertheless, it was determined that the fire depart ment should be called out, in order to protect surrounding proparty, in case it should be resolved to burn the build ing. At the moment of appareet indecision some one went to a neighboring gro cery, purchased a can of oil, and, pour ing it over the rear steps of the build ing, applied a in itch and soon had the building in flames. So fiercely did the fire burn that it became evident that no human being could live in the build ing and picked men from the police, squards and members of the militia stationed themseivcs about the build ing in order to pick off the desperado, as he attempted to leave the house. A young soldier named Adolph Ander son, a member of the Thirteenth cim pany of the State militia, was one of the first to see Charles as he ran down the steps leading to the secnd story. Charles ran across the yard and entered the second room. He fired several times at Anderson and the latt-r, who was armed with a Winchester rlfl -. shot the Negro in the breast and he fell and died soon after. As soon as the Negro fell nu nb'rs of people armed with Winchesters and re volvers rushed in and fired into the body. Charles was literally shot to pieces. Alter it was certain that he was dead a in o entered the yard and dragged the body into the street. There the police and the mob emptied their revolvers into it while a son of one of the murdered men ru-hed up and stamped the face beyond recognition there were then loud howls that the body should be taken to a vacant square in the vicinity and publicly burned At this instant, however, a big squad of police dashed up in a pa trol wagon. There were thous Inds of people congregated in the vicinity and it seemed as if there might be a clash between the officers and the mob. But the police took the body and car ried it to police headquarters. Shortly after the body of Charles had been taken from the scene a report spread that there were still some negroes in the burning building. The square was again quickly surrounded by picked men and under guard of men with Win chesters a special squad made its way into the building. In a room which the fire had not yet reached three ne groes were found dressed in female at tire. They were hustled out and im medi itely sent to prison in a patrol wagon. Subsequently a fourth negro, a mulatto, was discovered in the build ing. He made a desperate resistance against being arrested and while in the hands of the police was killed by a shot fired from a pistol in the hands of one of the disorderly mob that had congre gated in the vicinity Just about the time that Charles' body reached the morgue the body of an unknown negro, who had been shot and stabbed to death on Gallatin str~es. was carried in. This darkey was passing through the French market when he was seen by a crowd of whites. The latter were intensely excited by the news of the slaughter of Porteus and others up town and they immediately mobbed him. The unknown negro ran for his life and the angry mob kept at his heels, the crowd increasing in numb~ers every minute. The negro finally sucaeeded in entering a house in Gallatin street. He ran up stairs and jumped from the gallery to the ground. Before he could arise the mo b shot and stabbed him to death. August Thoma; was identified today as the negro who had met a violent death at the hands of hoodlums Wed nesday night at the corner of Custom House and Villiers streets. Louis Taylor one of the negroes who was shot and clubbed at the French market Wednesday night succumbed today to his wounds. Late this afternoon Har ry Mabry called at the Central police station and identified two men under arrest, George Fianagan and Mike Fo ley, as members of the mob who mur dered Anna Mabry, his mother, while she was asleep in her home on Rous seau street this morning. The mob broke into the house and firing reck lessly around the room, wounded the old woman. She died on her way tc the hospital. At a late hour tonight a mob which bad evaded the militia and the citizans' police attacked the Thomy L sfo school house, Sixth and Rampart streets, upon the supposition that negroes had stored arms and ammunition in the building. They quickly gained possession and ired the stuuature, destroying it com pletely. The school building was erected a few years ago by the city, and was devoted exclusively to the: eduxca tion of colored children. No niur.es were found in the school, but a numnber who emerged from houses in the vicini ty were pursued for quite a distance. A strong force was dispatched to the scene as soon as the alarm was given, but too late to save the school. The mob was quickly dispersed. A Sample Placard Inlamatory placards are posted all over China. The following is a fair sample of them: "We, the Chinese children of the Sages, are faithful and filial, as well as modest. Ihow does it come to pass then that any of us can su far forget himself as to become the proselyte of a barbarian's religion. Tens of thousands of native converts have been killed in North China, and their houses and possessions destroyed Because of this all the countries of the wold have sent soldiers to Tien Tsin to protect the converts. This they have failed to do. The mission the churches, foreign ecnsuls and all the barbarian troops have been slaughtered just as you kill chickens and dogs. " You converts have involved the bar barians ia this calami:y. We look upon you as rebels and soon your doom will overtake you. Unhappy is your condition, for all men hate and dispise you. Great is your distress. Your hands hang helpless by your sides. D)e spair has seized your minds. I) ath alone will relieve you. !?; fClam the doctrines of these re oe & and foreigners you have forfce co - ur rights as men. We warn '.u at once to fly to safe hiding pilaes while yet there is opp ortunity." Three Hundred Killed. Another steamer with Russian troops aboard was bombarded by Chinese from the river bank July :4. Securing re enforcements, the Russian comm!uander returned to the scene and landed on the Chinese side of Yaln River. Some Chinese pickets were taken prison ers. Three magazines were set on fire and exploded. 'The Chinese lost sot A GREAT SRGEN Rey, Dr. Talmage on one of the Missions of Christ. THE EFFICACY OF THE Oivine Po.wer in Healing the World's Wounds and Dsforr.i ties, Relations of Surgery and Theolcgy. In this discourse Dr. Talmage (who is now traveling in E irope) pits in an uLusal light the mission of Christ and shows divine power will yet nmake the illness of the world fall back; text, Matthew xi, 5, "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear." "Doctor," I said to a distinguished surgeon, "do you not get worn out with constantly seeing so many wounds and broken bones and distortions of the hu man body?" "Oh, no," he answered; "all that is overcom : by my joy in cur ing them." A sublimer and more mer ciful art never came down from heaven than that of surgery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of the world was a doctor. Our crippled and agonizd hu man race called for surgeon and family physician for many years before they came. The first surgeons who answered this call were ministers of religion namely, the Egyptian priests. And what a grand thing if clergymen were also doctors, all D. D 's were M. D 's, for there are so many cases where body and soul need treatment at the same time, consolation and medicine, the ology and therapeutics. As the first surgeons of the world were also minis ters of religion, may these two profes sions always be in full sympathy! But under what disadvantages the early sur geons worked, from the fact that the dissection of the hunan body was for bidden, first by the pagans and then by the early Christians! Apes, being the brutes most like the human race, were dissected, but no human body might be unfolded for physiological and anatom cal exploration, and the surgeons had o ss what was inside the temple by kiag at the outside of it. If they railed in any surgical operation, they A:re persecuted and driven out of the .ty, as was Archagathus because of .ls bold but unsuccessful attempt to s ve a patient. Bat the world from the very begin ing kept calling for surgeons, and their first skill is spoken of in Genesis, where they employed their art for the incisions of a sacred rite, God making urgery the predecessor of baptism, and ses it again in 11 Kings, where thaziah, the monarch, stepped on some cracked latticework in the palace, and it broke, and he fell from the upper to the lower floor, and he was so hurt that he sent to the village of E ron for aid, and .E culapis, who wrought such wonders of surgery that he was deified and temples were built for his worship at Pergami s; and Epidaurus and Pede lirius introduced for the relief of the world phlebatomy, and Damn Codes cured the dislocated ankle of King Darius and the cancer of his queen. and HIppocrates put successful hand on fractures and introduced amputation, and Praxagoras removed obstructions, and Herophilus began dissection, and Erasistratus removed tumors, and Celsus, the Roman surgeon, removed cataract from the eye and used the -Spanish fly; and Heliadorus arrested disease of the throat, and Alexander of Tralles treated the eye, and Rbazis eauterized for the prevention of hydro phobia, and Percival Pott came to comn bat diseases of the spine. But the world wanted a surgrery with out pain. Dlrs. Parre and Hickman and Simpson and Warner aind Jackson, with their amazing genius, came for ward and with their ananthteties be numbed the patient with narcaties and ethers as the ancients did with hasheesh and mandrake and quieted him for awhile, but at the return of conscioun ness distress returned. The world has never seen but one surgeon who could straighten the crooked limb, cure the blind eye or reconstruct the drum of a soundless ear or reduce a dropsy with out any pain at the time or any pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gent lest and most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw or ever will see, and he deserves the confidence and love and worship and hosanna of all the earth and halleluiahs of all heaven. ' The blind received their sight and the lame walk; the lepers aret cleansed, and the deaf hear." I notice this surgeon had a fondness for chionic cases. Many a surgeon, when he has had a patient brought to bin, has said: "Why was not this at t-ied to five years ago? You bring hi-nu to me after all power of recupera at. n is gone. You have waited until there is a conlete contraction of the muse es, and Ie-ligatures are formed. and os?ification has taken place. It ought to have been attended to long ago." Bat Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. One was a hemorrhage of 12 years, and he stopped it. Another was a cnrvature of 18 ears, and he straightened it Another was a cripple of 38 years, and he walked out well. The 18 year patient was a woman bent ahi'u st double. If you could call a convention of all the sur geons of all the centuries, their com bined skill could not cure that body so drawn cut of shape. Perhaps they might stop it from getting any worse, perhaps they, might contrive braces by which she might be made more coim fortable, but it is, humbly speaking, in curable. Yet this divine surgeon put both his hands on her, and from that doubled up ptosture she began to rise, and the empurpled face began to take on a healthier hue, and the muscles be gan to relax from their rigidity, and the spinal column began to adjust itself, and the cords of the neck began to be more supple, and the eyes. that couMl see only the ground before, no.v looked into the face of CThrist with Lrjstitude and up toaard br*avn in transport. Strain ! MAf r IS weary and exhaust in tar4, straight! The poise, the grcefuness, the beauty of healthy wo maruhood reinstated. The 38 years' case was a man who lay on a mattress near the mincral baths at Jerusalem. There were five apartments where lame people were brought, so that they could get the advantage of these mineral baths. The stone basin of the bath is still visible, although the waters have disappeared, probably througni some convulion of nature. The bath, 120 feet long, 40 feet wide and S feet deep. Ah~ poor man if you have been lame and helpless 33 years, that mineral bath cannot restore you Why, :38 years is more than the average of htu man life Nothing bu: the grave will cure you. But Christ the Surgeon unt pasmbz by some ptict Lro haye b n only six months disordered or a year or five years and comesto the mat tress of the tnan who had been nearly four decades helpless and to this 38 years'invalid said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The question asked not because the surgeon did not understand the pro tractedness, the desperateness, of the case, but to evoke the man's pathetic narrative "Wilt thou be made whole?' "Would you like to get well?" "Oh, yes," says the man. "That is what T came to these mineral baths for. I have tried everything. All the surgeons have failed, and all the prescriptions have proved valueless. and I got worse and worse, and I can neither move hand nor foot nor head. Oh, if I could only be free from this pain of 38 years!" Christ the Surgeon could not stand that. Rending over the man on the mattress, and in a voice tender with all sympathy, but strong with all omnipot ence, he says, "Rise!" And the in valid instantly scrambles to his knees and then puts out his right foot, then his left foot. and then stood upright as though he had never been pros trated. While he stands looking at the doctor, with a joy too much to hold, the doctor says: "Shoulder this mattre0. for you are not only well enough to walk, but well enough to work, and start out from those mineral baths. Take up thy bed and walk!" Oh, what a surgeon for chronic cases then and chronic cases now! This is not applicable so much to those who are only a little hurt of sin and only for a short time, but to those prostrated of sin 12 years, 18 years, 38 years. Here is a surreon able to give immortal health. "Oh," you say, 'I am so completely overthrown and tram pled down of sin that I cannot rise." Are you flatter down than this patient at the mineral bath:? No. Then rise. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the surg.-on who offers you his right hand of help, I bid thee rise. Not cases of acute sin, but of chronic sin-those who have not prayed for .38 years, those who have not been to church for 38 years, those who have been gamblers, or libertines, or thieves, or outlaws, or blamphemers, or infilels. or atheists, or all these together. for 38 years, A Christ for exigencies! A Christ for a dead lift! A surgeon who never loses a case! In speaking of Christ as a surgeon I must consider him as an oculist or eye doctor, and an aurist or ear doctor. Was there ever such another oculist? That he was particularly sorry for the blind folks I take from the fact that the most of his works were with the diseased op tic nerves. I have not time to count up the number of blind people mentioned who got his cure. Two blind men in one house; also one who was born blind; so that it was not removal of a visual obstruction, but the creation of the cornea and ciliary muscle and crystal line lens and retina and optic nerve and tear gland; also the blind man of Bethsaida, cured by the saliva which the Surgeon took from the tip of his own togue and put upon the eyelids; also two blind men who sat by the way side. In our civilized lands we have blind ness enough, the ratio fearfully increas ing, according to the statement of Eu ropean and American oculists, because of the reading of morning and evening newspapers on the jolting cars by the multitudes who live out of the city mnd come in to business. But in the lands where thi-s divine surgeon operated the cases of blindncss were multiplied be yond everything by the particles of sand floating in the air, and the night dews falling on the eyelids of those who slept on the top of their houses, and in some of these lands it is esti mated that 2 out of 100 people are totally blind. Amid all that crowd of visionless people, what work for an cc ulist! And I do not believe that more than one out of a hundred of that sur geon's cures were rejported. lie went up and down among those people who were feeling slowly their way by staff. or led by the hand af man or rope of dog. and introduzcing them to the faces of their own household, to the sunrise and the sunset and the evening star. He just ran his hand over the expres siontess face, and the shutters of both windows were swung open, and the re stored went home crying, "I see! I see! Thank God, I see!' That is the oculist we all need. Till he touches our eyes we are blind. Yea, we were born brind. By nature we see things wrong, if we see them at all. Our best eternal interests are, put be fore us, and we cannot see them. The glories of a loving and pardoning Christ are projected, and we do not behold them. Or we have a defective sight which makes the things of this world larger than the things of the fu ture, time bigger than eternity. Or, we are color blind and cannot see the difference between the blackness of darkness forever and the roseate morn ing of an everlasting day. But Christ the Surgeon comes in, and though we shrink back afraid to have him touch s, yet he put his fingers on the closed eyelids of the soul and midnight be omes midnoon, and we understand somethinf of the joy of the young man f the Bible who, though he had never before been able to see his hani before his face, now by the touch of Christ had two headlights kindled under his brow, cried out in language that con founded the jeering erowd who were eriding the Christ that had effected the cure and wanted to make him out a bad man. "Whether he be a sinner or o I know not. One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see." What a g'rand thing for our poor hu man race whben this surgeon shall have ompleted the treatment of the world's wounds! The day will come when there will be no more hospitals, for there will be no more sick, and no more eye and ear infirmaries, for there will be no aore blind or deaf, and no more de srts, for the round earth shall be rought under arboriculture, and no more~ blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will be expurgated of scorch and chill, and no more war, for the swords shall come out of the foundry ent into pruning hooks, while in the eaven e .uatry we shall see the ve tis? of accident or malformation or eredit ary ills on earth become the chetes in Elysian fields. Who is that an with such brilliant eyes close be fore the throne? Why, that is the an who, near Jericho, was blind and our surgeon cured his oph:halmia! Who is that erect and graceful and ueenly woman before the throne? 'hat was the one whoa our surgeon found bent almost double and could in owise lift up herself, and he made her straight. Who is that listening with such rapture to the music of heaven, sole melting into chorus, cymbal re ponding to trumpet, and then himself joining in the anthem? Why, that is the man who our surgeon found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee and y two touches opened ear gate and outh. Who is that around whom the rowds are gathering with admiring oks and thanksgiving and cries of Oh, what he did for me! Oh! what did for tha world! That is the surgeon of all the centuries the oculist, the aurist, the emancipation the Saviour. No pay he took on earth. Come, now, and let all heaven pay his with worship that shall never end and a love that shall never die. On his head be all the crowns, in his bands be all the scepters and at his feet be all the worlds! KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. The Whole Truth as to the Rural Mail Delivery. The Orangeburg correspondent of the Newa and Courier says there has been some recent comments hereabouts upon the statement of Congressman Norton, as reported in his Bennettville speech to the effect that Congressman Stokes had not worked for free rural de livery of mail. Congressman Stokes has just returned home after sone days' absence and your correspondent asked him what he had to say about this mat ter. The people of this section have been giving Dr. Stokes the credit for leadership in the movement, as they are satisfied that he deserves the honor and in justice to him the people think he should receive proper recognition for his valuable searices. Mr. Stokes re plied as follows: "I thought my attitude and relations to the subject of free rural delivery was too well understood to require explana tion anywhere in the State. I am in clined to think that Mr. Norton was misquoted, for I do not think he would misrepresent me. The fact is that I was the first to secure an adequate ap propriation for this purpose-enough to put it on a fair basis. As a result it immediately went forward by leaps and bounds. Efforts had been m de to secure an adequate appr)priation sev eral times before, but they had failed. and it was only after a persistent and protracted fight in both Senate and Houle that I succeeded. "In the Atlanta Journal of Ju1y 11 appeared a very comprehensive and ac curate history of the whole movement for rural delivery, by Congressman Griggs, of Georgia, who stands high on the roll of Democratic members of the postoffice committee, and hence has been in position to know what influ ences wero most potential in bringing about the service as it now exists. "It is true, as stated by Friend Nor ton, that I have gotten free delivery of mail along all star routes in South Car olina- the service beginning July 1, but my first fight was for the rurel de livery, as stated above and the star route delivery is an amplification of that system. "But all this is such recent history and so generally understood that it seems superfluous to restate it. Still in view of this and of some very ex travagant claims upon the same subject recently appearing in the State papers over the signature 'OUe Who Knows,' it may be as well to refresh the public mind on the facts, so as to keep before the public correctly the work of the Congressman from the 7th district. Here is the paragrrph from Congress man Grigg's history of rural delivery in the Atlanta Journal of the 11th in stant, which refers to Congressman Stokes. "'['he next year (1898,") says Mr. Griggs, "Congress gave $300,000 to continue experiments in this direction. My recollection is that the department asked for only $150,000, and the com mittee recommnended that amount on the floor of the House. The H1 ,. J. William Stokes, of South Carolina, a fast friend of the farmer, moved to make it $300,000 and it passed in that shape. So great was the pressure for these routes from all parts of the csuntry after this we were called upon by the department to supply a prospective de ficiency of $150,000. 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 terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Scrofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botani, Blood Balm). Skiht Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carbuincles, Blotches, Catarrli, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. 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He surrendered himself to the sheriff and made a volunt ary confession, saSing that he could no louger endure the remorse of conscience, ie says he smothered his wire with a pillow as she lay on her bed ill with eineumption. He got the benetit of $500) life iesur ance carried by his wife. First Bale New Crop. TIhe first bale of cotton of the new >rop of 1900 was sold at the cjtton cx change in Ne York Wednesday to Fernie Wilson & Co. The price paid was 16; 1.2 cents a pound and the bale weighed M41 pounds. The proceeds ef the sale, $S9. 26, the firm will give to some non-sectarian Tharitable institu tion in this city. The cotton was from a plantation in Texas. Gainesville. Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic invigorator has ben used in my family and I am pe'r feetly satisfied that it is all, aed wvill o all, you claim for it. Yours truly. A. B. U. Dorseyv. P. S.-I am using it now myself. t's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ay rug Co., Columbia, S. C.. and all iruggists tf In Buihlo, N. Y., a church is trying o get out of paying its organist his alary on the ground that the work hich he perfoi ued was done on Sun lay, and that since Sunday labor is ~ontrary to law the organist cannot en orce payment through the courts. One tould hate to have to depend upon that ASOUTELY Makes the food more del ROYAL BMOWO POWC The Chinese Question. Hon. Charles Denby, who was minister to China during Presi dent Cleveland's last term, has given his Ni ;ws on the Chinese question. He writes that "after the navy was annihilated-in the Japanese war-and the army what there was left of it, had taken its lances home, it was apparent that all the world could insult, ravage and loot China with impunity. It was the old story of the traveller tied to a tree and robbed bya passer by who had been asked to assist him. So the merry round com menced, and without explana tion, argument or reason Ger many, Russia, England and France demanded and received concessions of territory." It is well, for the sake of knowledge and justice, as well as Christi anity, to keep these facts in view. Col. Denby does not over look business advantages, but he loves truth and principal more'than self so he adds: "Now see the result of all the robbery that has:.been going on. The empress, who from 1861 to 1889 had maintained a considerable degree of peace and order has becomd a tigress; a great people has been lashed into fury, and a movement rivalling in magni tude the taiping rebellion in which 20,000,000 lives were lost is afoot." Col. Denby is a stal wart thinker and declares that this country should have found out initially if occupation of the Philippines was a commercially profitable adventure and if not he was in favor of leaving the Filipinos to their own devices. He is not qualmish about "The Yellow Terror, and race issues, but he clearly percei v why China, is roused to fury. He says: "Can it reasonably be expected that the Chinese should love the white man while he is plundering them? Fancy what would happen if Russia seized Fortress Monroe and a slice of Virginia; Germany Governor's Island and a part of New York; England Mare Is land and a half dozen counties in California, and France New Orleans and a hundred miles up the ,Mississippi! Then suppose that Italy asked for Charleston. It is to be imagined that such events would be taken as all be ing for our good, and that we ought to feel rather proud than otherwise that the great nations acted so handsomely toward us? Yet this is exactly what has happened in China, with the addition that Japan took for herself the island of For mosa. And so the Chinese people are hostile to the foreign ers, and they show it by riotous demonstrations." We agree with the August a Chronicle that "Americans should con sider these things. It may be inevitable that the powers must suppress disturbance in China get guarantees of protection of life for their subjects in that country, and keep the commer cial door open; but it is plain as noonday that, but for their rapacity and injustice, their un Christian greed and reversal of the Golden Rule there would have been no serious Chinese up rising against foreigners. So, when any Christian American is disposed to clamor for ven geance against China and bloody reprisal, let such a man face the facts and fix the ,responsibility where it belongs." The Fight on McSweeney. The Abbeville Medium, which is published in a town were one of McSweeney's opponents hail from, says "the State Campaign is now in progress but is not exciting much interest. The meetings have not been largely attended and the candidates do not put much fire in their decla mations. They are all after McSweeney seeming to think that he is the man they have to beat. He has not said an un kind word about any of them but 'Tray, Blanche and Sweet heart,' are all after him. In all that has been said there has not been the slightest intimationi that the State has lost a dollar by him nor that he is corrupt in any respect. No one has charged that the cause of education has lost by any act of his own that the public institutions have suf fered by any of his mistakes. N o one can say that any line of business has suffered from any thing that he has done or that the laws of the State have not been enforced with wisdom and firmness. The only exception to this general approval is where the candidates for his place say that he has not enforced the dis pensary law as well as they would. "Promises are like pie crusts easily broken." We ven ture to say that not one of these promnisinxg candidates could do any better. Neither one of them has told how he: could enforce the law any better than Me~swe- 1 ney has. Just after he became Governor, he called upon the Mayors of all the cities and towns in the State to give hini assistance.- They all promised that they would do so and wei presume that they were sincere.t In fact, we know that many of themi have done the best they could and, no candidate has laid any blame upon the municipal r, authorities who are as much re- i sponsible as Governor McSwee- r< ney. Suppose the people i' houl elct oe o thee l p IBAKEuo 4 POWDER URE icious and wholesome ER o., EW YORK. candidates, how could he do more? Not one has told how he would go about fulfilling his promise. Not one of them would . do any better. All such prom ises are vain and empty. If there was any way to do better than McSweeney has done, some of his opponents would have ex plained it before this time." AT THE SHOW. What Was Heard During a Most Ab sorbing Scene. Macauley's Theatre was-so crowded the last night of the Julia Arthur en gagement that there was no room for the Fool Killer who came late. Down in the parquet was a couple in need of his services. They had been engaged probably twenty hours, and within five minutes everybody in their vicinity knew it. Two young men who think Miss Arthur the greatest as well as the most beautiful English-speaking actress were in front of the loving pair. Trouble started with the second act, when Miss Arthur swept on the stage gowned in her Cleopatra costume, a vision of perfect loveliness. The au dience gasped its admiration and the only male creature that had been en gaged since Eden whispered to the cot ton-locked damsel beside him: "That's just as you looked last night, Evange line." Then followed the scene when Jose phine, with all the seductive power of her voice, her beauty, her love and her womanliness, coaxes the sulky Napo leon from his room. The house was scarcely breathing. The two young worshippers were living on Miss Ar thur's pleading. The voice of the girl, who had bitten off more love than she could digest secretly, rasped them to earth again. "Henry," she gratei, "that's just as I begged you after we quarreled to night." Again came comparative peace until Napoleon began to urge the divorce. Josephine sinks on a sofa overcome. Her husband offers her water. She shrinks from him. "That water is poisoned, Junot. Drink!" thunders the emperor, and Junot drains the glass. "Would you do that, Evangeline," grunted Henry, turning calf's eyes on her. "I'd do it if I loved him. I'd drink poison for you, Henry," she whimper ed, sentimentally. That was past all patience. One of the men whirled in his seat. "For heaven's sake, young woman, drink it, and drink it quick," he said. The voice from the stage was heard alone after that.-Louisville Courier Journal. He Guessed Wrong. Brown-You seem to be a hustler. I saw that life insurance agent go into your house this morning, and in less than half an hour after him came the doctor. Smith-Well, what do you gather from that? Brown-Merely that you were in a great hurry to undergo the physical examination and have it over with. Smith-You're -wrong. The docto~r came to examine the'insurance mans wounds.-Philadelphia Press. Outlandish. The tramp entered the private of fiee of a South Water street cheese merchant. "Boss." began the knight of the tin ean tribe, "I'se a Boer,' an' I wants yer to help me to land in South Al "I'll help you to land on the out side!"~ blurted the -busy cheese mer chant. "Den, boss, TIll be an outlander." And the tourist vanished before the bombardment of ripe cheese.-Chl cago News. Rapid Development. "You are in business in Montana?" asked the passenger In the skull cap. "Yes," said the passenger in the smoking jacket. "Is business good out there?" "Yes. In the last two years our - plant has Increased in size more than 1,000 per cent." "Great Scott! What was the size of your plant originally?" "It consisted of a pair of Belgian rabbits."-Chicago Tribune. The Farewell. "Good-bye," said the pale, determin ed man, as his wife flung her arms wildly about his neck, and gave way to a flood of weeping. "Do not go Into unnecessary dan ger," she cried. "I know you will be brave and return with honors." And he was gone. He was not off to the war. No; he was a baseball umpire, and he was leaving home for the opening game. - Pliladelphia North American. Following Instructions. "Young Sammie Spender Is carry ng out his Governor's wishes faith fully, isn't he?" "How's that?" "Why the old gentleman left instruc tions in his will that after his death bls dust was to be scattered to the inds."-Life. Mother, Sisters and Wife, "Man spends twenty years of his ife in sleep." "You are mistaken; he spends at east five of the twenty years in bat ling with his women relatives who want to make him get up."-Chicago Record. Connubial Caloric:. York-I see they have a new cure or rheumatism. They roast the pa lent. Towson-My wife must think I have t.-Baltimore American. Explanation of Her Penchant "I notice that she has her portrait >ainted but never has her photograph aken." "Yes. You see the camera is so zact." The Chinese Minister at Washington ceived a dispatch Wednesday morn ifrom Sheng. the director of rail ~adsand telegraphs at Shanghai, sta g that thie foreign ministers are to be nt from Pekin to Tien Tsin under es