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11IS FINAL WAIL The Surrender cf the S>a'e House by the RaCicnls to THE HAMPTON DEMOCRATS How Chamberlain and his Sla'i Officers Vl? w-d Matters When Their Lat?st Hope Was Actually Destroyed. A few weeks ago The Columbia Statt made an editorial oomuient upon a re ocnt artielo of Es Governor D. II Chamberlain's in the Atlantio Month ly, in whioh tho former ltcpublicar ohief czoouiivo of South Carolina do I nounoed tho roconstiuotion mcasurci I that wero inaugurated by his i arty in this State jutt after the war. This arI tiole of Gov. Chamberlain has aroused F no little interests in this State ou so count of the fact that tho writer w?b Ione of the prominent fi, u.-es in tho reconstruction era and although claiming to bo a conservative llopulioan ho wi> nevertheless a participant in the work whioh tho Republican party did during the 10 years following the close of tin war. In connection with that article il will bo interesting to read Gov. Cham hcrlain's farewell proclamation to the Republican party of Carolina, whiol was issued as lie was turning over the tffioo to Wado Hampton. This address was published in tho Columbia Regis ter of April 11, 1877, and is ri produced from that paper along with the article of which it was a ) art. It is as fol lows: A miserable dr;zzling rain fell vestor day morning, aud tho t-un refused tt shine, as if ashamed of tho part the national army and its gallant cihccri and men had been compelled, in ih( lino of duty, to take in depriving th< pcoplo of a sovereign State to thcii rights and liberties as guaranteed t them by tho constitution of the Uuitcc States and tho constitution of thn State. The Blicots, notwithstanding the muiky atmosphere and tho '"Ron don fog" which huDg over tho city lik< a pall, looked a triflo livily, for tlu bright green, half-matured leaves fron v the scattering shade trees whioh hert and there greet tho eyo along R eh aidson street, relieved tho sombr< landscape beyond, as each anxious cyt loosed toward tlic capitol. There shone too, from tho eyo of every honest uiat in tho community, as they passed eac\ other upon tho main thoroughfare, i peculiarly bright aLd trumphant ligli ?a light which can only gladden tin heariB and ohccr tho souls if men win feel that truth, and ju-tioe, and righ havo in thoir behalf at last tiiumphei over wrong, oppression and guilt. l'reoisely at 12 o'clock?just as thBleepy sentinel who tolls tho city hoi boll struck the bell the tenth titno ii making up his 6coro of tweiva? tL south door of tho capitol buildini opened wido, and a captain ot th United States army, coauundini about thirty men, filed out the Lu.ldtng . -As tho order ''Column left, march,' L (which order turned tho faces of tl ( ifl_bluo!!_tP^wa''d8 tho tairackH^^^^^oommand. V over tho event, for various rtasoas tin I troops had oooasion to be glad aLo. k There was no demonstration of an] kind upon tho part of tho people V About ono hundred and fifty men, W majority of whom were colored, wert F standing around tho building, who wit r, ncssed tho departure of the troops, ' Beyond this there was no iudioiiior that anything moro than the usua guard had been relieved frcui duty fci the day. ThuB ends carpet-bag reign in Soud Carolina, and the scene wo havo do rbcribed was tho closing one in the vile unnatural and ungodly state of affair* which has existed in this State for the last seven years?a stato of affair* k which has brought ruin, desolation anc k misory upon a bravo people. Later in the day tho Luncciubc faro wcIIuMkish of ex-Governor Chamber j iao^^^Houce'.ng bis abdiotioD, wai 3 Hied. ^Flowing correspondence, w BHnHP itself, was also Lad bciwcor E^^fl^H^Khamberlain and Gov. Hampton. Stato of South nH^ Executive Chamber, Columbia, S C., April 10, lh77 Sir: Havirig learned that you new j^Rj^^^purposo to turn over to nic the rxcouHHH^Btivo chamber, with the records and tW papers belonging to the excontive offio. now in your possossion, 1 beg to in form jou that I will send a piopci cfEcer to receive tho same at ar y I km jvu ujoj luuuaiu UT3 lUUit UUUVUU1CUI to yourself. I am, vcrv respcotful y, K your obedient servant, (Signed) Wade Ilam^ton, Governor. Hon. D. II. Chamberlain. State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, 1 Columbia, S. C., April 10, 1877. Sir: Replying to jcur nolo of thii date, I have to say that my privaU soeretary will meet such officer as yoi may designato at 12 meridian touior row, at tho executive chamber, for th< purpose indicated in your note. Vcrj respectfully, l (Signed) I). H. Chamberlain, I Governor of South Carolina, Hon. Wade Hampton. Following tho correspondence arc the viows of tho Radical claimants to the State offices, which arc presented in tho following document: Columbia, S. C., April 10, 1877. His Excellcnoy 1). II. Chamberlain, Governor of South Carolina, Colurn bia, S. C., Hear Sir: Recurring to the vicwf severally expressed by us during ih< porsonal conference, which wc had the honor to hold with you yesterday, in , regard to tho political complications which have grown out of tho laio canvass in this State, wo beg leave to ap prise you formally of tho conclusions wo have rorchcd, aftor rcatu-c dclib oration and tho gravest reflection whioh wo have been able to bestow upon tho subject. Whilst wc aro no loss inspiicd with admiration for tho dignified and resoInto manner in which ytu havj ncsistcnly maintained your claims to the Gubernatorial ohair, by \irtuoof tho oleotion held in November lint, than wo aro solemnly impressed with tho validity of your titlo of tho office, wo aro unanimous in tho boliof that to prolong tho contest, in tho abscnoo of that moral aid to which wo fool ourselves and our party justly entitled at tho hands of a national aJuniui. tuition, installed, in largo measure, through t tho nine agenoios whioh aro now held k to bo insufficient for our maintenance, m will be to incur tho responsibility of ? r* Mil ?ana? I 1,^ ^ I 11 JIM II? fcutLg eiito part lan pr?Ja.U<?awl Uh fl Are in the laot degree detrimental to * ihobrot interests of tho people of the Biato, and perhaps of | rcoi| itating a I physical en ti ot that oould havo but E ore robuU to our defenseless cousti tuoncy. Wo eaunot afforei to oontrib< ute, howrvtr indirectly, to suoh a oatastropho. even in tho advocacy of n whet we know to bo our right*. We aro agreed, therefore, io counsel inv you to discontiruo tho struggle for , tho ocouj a ioy of tho Gubernatorial ohair, eonvirocd as we aro that, in view of the d Hae.rout* odds to whioh its inaintccacos h?s btcu iuv j o'cd by the aoiiontf tho national adw nistra-ion, yt ur retirement will involve no but render of principle, nor its inotivo bo u uiibappr. honded by tho great body of V * lilt 1 -1- A- -tl.L I- W viitii |'?u/ iu nuiuiif iu uym* wou with ournedvoe, you are attached, and whoso fcucoess it. the past in this b Stato has b".cn cnnob'ei by your iu a tolligcnt and useful eorviocs. Wo have E the honor to bo, very respectfully, b yours, ltoberc B. Elliott, * Attorney General. ri Thomas C. Dunn, n Comptroller General. F, L. Catdozo, P Treasurer. P 11. 10. llayno, '' Secretary of Stato. a John K Tolbcrt, * Superintendent of Kiuoation. 3" James Kennedy, 11 i Ad jut&nt and Inspector General. ? The following is tho address of Mr. * ; Chamberlain: ^ ) To the Kepuhlican of South Caroliua: t By your will 1 was made govoroor of thie State in 1874 At the elcotiou on e i tho 7th of November last 1 was again 3* i by your votes, cleoted to tho same b s effico. My title to tho office, upon * s every legal and moral ground, is today ? olcar and pcrfeot. By tho rcoent tie- * i oision and action of tho pros dent of ? : the United Spates I find myself unablo 11 longer to maintain my official rights R wi h the' prospects of final suoocbs, and ? I hereby announce to you that L ?iu 11 unwilling to i r>)long a s.rugglo whijh B can ouly bring further sufforiig upon v those who engage in it. Iu announcing this oonolusiou. it is v my duty to say tor you thattho Uepub lioans of South Carolina intorod upou J1 their recent political strugglo for the maintenance of their political and oiiil ' light-. Constituting, beyond question, a large majority of the lawful votors of tho S ate, you al ied youriolvcs with that political party whose oontral and 1 inspiring principles has hitherto been ? the civil and political freedom of all men under tlio constitution and laws t of our country. By heroic efforts and sacrifices which the just verdiot of his toty will rescue from tho cowardly j, scorn now oa6t upon them by political t placemen and traders, you secured tho t electoral veto of South Carolina for t Hayes and Wheeler. In accomplishing t this ro*ult you hcoamo the victims of j every form of persecution and injury, y From authen'io cvidenoe it is shown r that not loss than ouc hundred of your number wore murdi red because they r wore faithful to their principles aud t 0 cxcroiscd r:ghts solemnly guaranteed t 1 to them by tho nation. You wcro dc t a nLd employment, driven from your r c hemes, roobed of tho earnings of years 1: e of honest industry, hunted for your C e lives liko wild beasts, your families I i outraged and scattered, for no offense t except your peaceful and firm deter ' urination to tXireis-o your political c rights. You trusted, as you had a n ) right to liu it, that if bv such iff >rts * BM|HH^Biahcd the ^ . .1 . the tiisehargc of its constitutional duty, " would project tho lawful government of ? j the S ate from overthrow at the hands ^ of your political enemies From causes, i patent to all men and questioned by *' 3 iiono who regard tr'th, you havo been u unable to evcroooio the unlawful combiu&tion aud obstacles wtiioh havo op i pocod the practiral supremacy of tho I government which ycur votes have r established. For many weary months ( you have waited for your dclivoraroe ^ i While the long struggle for tho prasi ^ denoy was in progrous you weie exhort- c , ed by every repress ntativo and organ of E i the national Republican party to keep ? 3 your allegitnoo truo to that party in ^ i order that your deliveranoo from tho y, I hands of your oppressors might be ccr ^ tain and ocmplete. Not the faintest < whisper of tho possibility of disappoint- 6 mini, iti thoso hopes and promises ever ], i reached you whilo the struggle was a pending. Today, April 10, 1877, by d i the order of the pr sident whom your a i votes alone rescued from overwhelming defeat, ll c government of tho United e States abandons you; deliberately with- r draws fr>sm ton its sunnnrt with iK? a full knowledge that the lawful govern- o tnent of tho State will he Hpeedily over- L thrown. t By a new interpretation of tho eon- a B'.itution of tho (Jnitcd Siatos, at vari o anco tliko with the previous praotioe of the government and with tho deois t ionb of the HUprumo court, tho esecu e , tivc of the l oitod States evades tho duly of ascertaining which of two rivsl " ' State eovirumcuts is tho lawful ono ' and bv the withdrawal of troops now protecting tho State from domestic " violeuoe abandons tho lawful Stato gov * crnmont to a struggle with insurrco- * tionary forces too powerful to ho re- * bistcd. Tho grounds of policy upon which such action is dofended are * startling. " J It is. ^id that the north is weary of f the long touthern troubles. It was t 1 weary, too, of the long troubles which spiuug from tho stupendous crime -of chattel ilavtri and longed for rojose. 9 It ecu. lit to cover them from sight by ^ wicked compromises with tho wrong ^ which disturbed its poaco, but (Jo 1 held t it to i s duty, until through a conflict t vhich recked and agonized the nation, ^ the great oriuii was put away and freo J, j dem was ordained for ail. ^ i It is said that if a majority of the u people of a State are unaldo by physi p cal force to maintain their rights, thoy _ must be left io political servitude. Is this a doctrine over before heard in our ,r history? If it shall prevail, its oon i kcj ienocs will not long bo cod fined to i South Carolina or Louisiana, i It is Htid that a Democratic house of 11 roprcscutativos will refuso an appro ' i priation for tho army of tho llnitod Jl Stales if tho lawful government of , South Carolina is maintained by tho a military forces. Submission to euch 111 coercion marks tho degencraoy of tho or political party or people which enduros ru it. A govcrnmmont wonh tho name, a political | arty fit to wield power, rover J11 before blanched at such a threat. Hut tho edict has gono forth. No ?" arguments or consideration which your friends cool 1 present have sufficed to avert tho diHastor. No t tfootivo in >ans hi of resistance to tho consummation of y<] the wrong arc left. Tho strugg'.o can wi bo prolonged. My strict legal rights w aro of course wholly unaffected by tho w< action of tho president. No court of y? the Slato has jurisdiction to pass upon ' i tho titlo to my offi *o. No lawful logis tif laturo can bo oonvenod except upon my call. If tho use of thceo powers promised ultimate success to our cause, pr 1 should not fehrink from any sacrifices po which might ooufront me. It is a oauso oo ?1IE JOt OF BELIGION >r. Talmage Urges All to Try Its Uplifting Power. : Churnotrrlira nrllglOB ? Ood'i Danghttr ? irrraou from th* Text, "Hop \\ Are W?y? of rica.anlncai." 1MI K? trtepx.eK W 1 1 1?IU, lJVlt Ujr bVUlO *1. ? J Washington. April 14. In this discourse Dr. Talmage sets arth religion as an exliilaration, and rges all people to try its uplifting ower; text, Proverb# 8, 17: "Her 'ays are ways of pleasantness." You havo all heard of Uod'a only egotten Son. Hare you heard of od's daughter? Sho was born la leaven? She oarae down over the Ills ol our world. 8he had queenly tep. Jn her brow was celestial adiance. Her toIcc was music. Her ame is Religion. My text introuces her. "Her ways aro ways of leaaantnesa, and all her paths are etcp." But what is religion? The act is that theological study has had different effect upon me from the fleet sometimes produced. Every car I ter.r out another leaf from ty theology, until I have only threo r four leaves left?in other words, very brief and plain statement of hristian belief. An aged Christian minister said: When I was n young man, I knew verything. When I got to b? 85 ears of uge, in my creed I had only a undred doctrines of religion. When got to be GO years of age, I had nly 60 doctrines of religion. When got to be 60 years of age I ,lind nly ten doctrines of religion, and ow I am dying at 75 years of ago, nd there is only one thing I know, nd that is that Christ Jesus o&me ato the world to save Binners." And o I have notioed In the study of God's rord and lu my contemplation of the haracter of God and of the eternal k'orld that it is necessary for ma to ,rop this part of my belief and that art of my belief as being nonessenial, while I cling to the one great doorlne that man is n sinner and Christ s his Almighty and Divine Saviour. Now I take these three or four caves of my theology, and I find that a the llrst place and dominant above 11 others is the sunshine of religion. Vhen I go into a room, I have a pusion for throwing open all the shuters. That is what I want to do this nornlnj. We are apt to throw so auoh of the aepulchral into our reIgloa and to close the shutters and o pull down the blinds that It is only hrough here and there a crevice that he light streams. The religion of he Lord Jesus Christ is a religion of oy indescribable and uuutterubla. V herever I can tlnd a bell I mean to ing It. If there are nny in this house this nornlng who are disposed to hold on o their melancholy and gloom, let hem depart this service before the airest and the brightest and the most adiant being of ull the universe comes n. God's Son has left our world, but ! )od s daughter is here. Give her room, lall, princess of Heaven I Hail, daugher of the Lord Almighty! Come in >nd maku this houit thy throneroom. in Betting fo-th tnis idea the dormant theory of religion is one of sunhine. 1 hurdly know where to begin, y^Uer^ir^^aurn^hou)fht? that neated-on the unshine and with a spoon in her hand, he said: "My darling, what are you oing there?" "Oh," replied the child, I am getting a spoonful of this sunhine." Would God that to-day I light present you with a gleaming bailee of this glorious, everlusting lospel sunshine! First of all, I find a greut deal of unshine in Christian society. I do ot know of anything more doleful ban the companionship of the mere umnakers of the world?the Thomas foods, the Charles Lambs, t. buries Mathewees of the world?the icn whose entire business it is to lake sport. They make others laugh, lit if you will examine their autoiographv or biography you will fiud but down in their soul there wus a erriflc disquietude. I.aughter is no ign of happiness. The maniso in ghs. The h yena laughs. The loon mong the Adirondacks laughs. The runkard, dashing his decanter gainst the wall, laughs. There Is a terrible reaction from all inful amusement and sinful merriiimt. Such men are cross the next ay. They snap at you on exchange r they puss you, not recognizing you. .ong ago 1 quit mere wor'dly society or the reason It was so dull, so inane ud bo stupid. My nature is voracious f joy. I must have It. I always walk on the atinny side of he street, anfl<or that reason 1 ha\e rossed over into Christian society. I ke their mode of repartee better. 1 ka their style of amusement better, 'hey lire longer. Christian people, 1 onjetiraes notice, live on when by all ntural law they ought to have died, hnre known persons who have conlnusd in their existence when the octoi said they ought to have been ead ten years. Kvery day of their xistenre was a defiance of the laws f anatomy and physiology, but they ad this supernatural vivacity of the Tospel in their soul, and that kept hem alive. Put 10 or 12 Christian people in a om for Christian conversation, snd j ou will from eight to ten o'clock j ear more resounding glee, see more | iright strokes of wit and find more j houglit and profound satisfaction | u?u in iiii.v nirrrij worldly party, row, when I say n "worldly party" I enn that to which yon are invited itemise under all the circumstances if the cane it id the l>est for yon to > invited, uiid to which you to be* i which, by tho light of reason and [ i msoicncc, a man might well lay down < is life. Bu , to my mind, my pr.'sont I !Sp?nsibility involvos tho eonHidcra j< on of tho effoot of my aotion upon i I ioso whoso representative I am. 1 I avc hitherto been willing to ask you, oj ublieans of South Carolina, to risk 1 dangers and enduro all hardships , iti! rcaef should oomo from tho govnmont of tho [Joitcd States. That liof will never come. 1 oannot ask >u to follow mo further. In my host 1 dgmont, I can no longer servo vou by j irthcr rosistanoc to Co imprndiog t lamity. t When gratitude to God f^r the mcas i o of endurance aith whioh Ho has ? thcrto inspired mo, with gratitudo to f iu for your boundless eonfu noo in mn, < ith profound admiration for your I a'.chlcss fidelity to tho causo in which a 3 havo struggled, 1 now announce to I >u and to tho pooplo of tho Stato that r shall no longer actively assert my i tht to tho offi.'O of governor of S iuth j i irolina. | o Tho motives and ; urposcs of tho J esidontofiho llnitod Siatos in tho I licy whioh compols mo to my prosont j 0 urso aro unquostionablo honorablo 0 J e*?M twdef ell drettttetenee# &t il> tin it la better that you go, anc leaving the shawls ofl the aecon floor, you go to the parlor to fire foi Dial salutation to the boat and th hostess and then move around, spent! In* the whole evening In the dlaoui eion of the weather and in apolog for treading on Ion* tralna and i effort to keep the corners of th mouth up to the eign of pleasure, an going around with an idiotic he-h about nothing until the collation i served, and then, after the collntln Is served, going back into the parlo to resume the weather, and then a the close going at a very late hour t the host and hostess and assurln them that you have had a most d* lightful evening, and then passln down off the front steps, the slam e the door the only satisfaction of th evening. I know there is a great deal of tal about the self-denials of the Chrli tlan. I have to tell you that wher the Christian has one self-denial th man of the world lias a thousan self-denials. The Christian Is nc commanded to surrender anythin that is worth keeping. But whs does a man deny himself who d< nles himself the religion of Christ Ha denies himself pardon for sli he denies himself peace of consoienc ho denies himself the Joy of the JTol Ghost, ho denies himself a corafor able dsutli pillow, he denies lilniBe the glory of Heaven. Do not tal to mo about the self-denial of th Christian life. Where there Is or In the Christian life there ia a thoi band in the life of the world. "H< ways are ways of pleasantness." Again, I find a great deal of r liglous sunshine in Christian and d vine explanation. To a greut man people life Is an inexplicable taugl Things turn out differently froi what was supposed. There Is a usi less woman io perfect health. Thei is an Industrious and consecrate wonlnn a complete invalid. Kxplal that. There Is a bad man with $3C 000 of Income. There is a good ma with $800 of income. Why Is that There is a foe of society who lives 01 doing all the damage he can, to ' years of age. nnd here is a Christia father, faithful in every departmei of life, at 33 years of age taken awo by death, his family left holpleu Explain that. Oh, there ia no sci tence that oftener drops from yoi lips thun this: "I cannot understar It. I cannot understand it." Well, new religion comes in Just < that point with its illumination ar its explanation. There is a buslnei man who has lost his entire fortun The week before he lost his fortui there wero ?0 carriages that stopp* at the door of his mansion. T1 week after ho lost his fortune o the carriages you could count on oi finger. The week before flnanci trouble began people all took c their hats to him as he passed dov the street. The week his flnanci prospects were tinder discussion pe pie just touched their hats witlio' anywise bending the rim. The we* that he was pronounced insolvei people Just Jolted their heads i they passed, not tipping their ha at all, and the week the sheriff so him out all his friends were lookti in the store windows as they wo down past him. Now, while the world goes aw* 'fom a man while he is in flnnnoi distress, the religion of Christ rora to him and Bays: "You ere sick, ai your sickness is to be moral purl pion; ^[iuVU family to Heaven, and He a-u-.\beg somewhere, and ho He took the 01 that was most beautiful and wi most ready to go." I do not e? that religion explains everything : this life, but I do say it lays doe certain principles which are grand consolatory. You know business m? often telegraph in cipher. The me chant In San Francisco telegraphs 1 the merchant in New Yorlc certa information in cipher which no oth< man in that line of business oan u: derstand, but. the merchant in Rr Francisco lias the key to the oiplic and the merchant in New York hi the key to the cipher, and on thi information transmitted there ai enterprises involving hundreds i thousands of dollars. Now, the proi dences of life sometimes seem to 1 a senseless rigmarole, a mystertoi cipher; but God lias a key to thi cipher and the Christian a key that cipher, and, though ho nu liurdly be able to spell out the mea ing, ho gets enough of the ineanli to understand that It Is for the bes Now, Is there not sunshine in tlia Is there not pleasure in that? Fi beyond laughter, it is nearer tl fopnt ain of tears than boisteroi demonstration. Have you never crli for joy? There are tears which a eternal rapture iu distillation. There ore hundreds of people wl are walking day by day in the su lime satisfaction that all is for tl best, all things working together fi good for their soul. How a man ci get along through this life wltho the explanation is to me a myster What! Is that child gone forevei Are you never to get"it back? your property gone forover? Ha you no explanation, no Christian e plnnntion, and yet not a mania* Hut when you havo the religion Jesus Christ In your soul It cxplali everything so far as It 1s best f you to understand. You look off life, and your soul Is full of thank giving to God that you are so mui better ofT than you might be. A mi passed down the street without ai shoes and said: "I havo no sho< Isn't it a hardship that 1 have i shoes? Other people have shoes until he saw a mm who had no fe? Then he learned a leason. You oug to thank God for what lie does 1 stead of crumblimr for what He do not. God arranges nil the weath in this world?the spiritual wreath* and patriotic I devoutly pray thi ivcnts may vindicato tho wisdom i iiit action, and that poaoc, justice, fro lom and prosperity may horcaftc. I tho portion of every oitizon of Sout Carolina. 1). II. Cbamperlain, Oovornor of South Carolina Klitoiially Tho Kogistcr oommentc lb follows on tho proclamation: 1110 jackt . Chamborlain published an address I lis follow Republicans, whioh is a con nuid of bitter maledictions leveled a .ho hoad of President Hayes, and < nalieious libol upon tho good people c South Carolina. It is a Parthia irrow, steeped in vonom to tho ver cathor. Happily, howevor, it oan h ormed "Chamberlain's farowoll lio! it will bo answered heroaftor by a viler pon than ours, with inoontestibl iroofn by showing up Chamborlain' miiro criminal rooord sinoo his advon n South Carolina politics, and cxpoi ng tho dark ways hy whioh thispolisl ii interloper in tho ranks of honorabl non has acquired tho vast woalth whiol to holds today, wrung during the pa? ightyiars from tho sad contribution >f tho public oalamity. - * r V * rfii uifil wstti tr, i? win as Hit ' natural weather. "What kind of d weather will It be to-4ay?" aaid p* lome one to a farmer. The farmer * replied: "It will be auch weather I", as I like." "What do you mean by that?" asked the other. "Well," said y the farmer, "It will be such weather n as pleases the I.ord, and what pleases ? the Lord pleases me." ^ Oh, the eunalilne, the sunshine of 9 Christian explanation! Here is so.ne* oni bending over the grave of the n dead. What is going to be the consols* r tlon? The flowera you strew upon the ^ tomb? Oh, no. The Services read at ? the grave? Oh.no. The chief consolatlon on that grave Is what falls from the throne of God. Sunshine, glorious sunshinel Resurrection sunshine! '' Sometimes you wish you could make ? the tour of the whole earth, going trwund as others have gone, but you k have not the means. You will make *" the tour yet, during one musical pause ? tn the eternal autliem. I any these e things for the comfort of those peopls ^ who are abridged in their epportunlties, those people to whom life Is humf drum, who toil and work and aspire after knowledge, but have no time tc s" got It. tvnd ^ay: ."If I had the oppor 1 tunitles which other people hare, how a? I would fill my mind and soul with e? grand thoughts!" Be not discouraged 7 my friends. You are facing to the uni fc" rerslty yet. Death will only matrlcu " late you into the royul college of tti? It universe. ie Besides that, we shall have all the i8 pleasures of association. We will gc a- fight up tn the front of God without tr any fright. All our sins gone, there will be nothing to be frightened about e- There our old Christian friends wil I- troop around us. Just as now one ot y your sick friends goes away to Florida e. ;he laud of flowers, or the south o m France, and you will not see him foi e- a long while, and after awhile yoi e meet him, and the hollows under thi d eyes are all filled and the appetite hai in come buck and the crutch has beer I,- thrown away, and he Is so changed yoi ,n hardly know him. You Bay: "Why, ;? never saw j-ou look so well." He says u, "I couldn't help but be well. I havi tS been sailing these rivers and climbin; ,n these mountain** and that's how I go it this elasticity. I never was so well.' Oh, my friends, your departed love< s. ones are only awuy for their health ii a. a better climate, and when you mee lr them they will be so changed, anc after awhile, when you are assurer that they are your friends, your de st parted friends, you will sayt "Why ltl where is that cough? W -re is tha ga paralysis? Where is that -euinonia e> Where is that consumption And h' ie will say: "Oh, I am entirely well There are no sick ones in this country I havo been ranging these hills, an< hence this elasticity. I have been hen 10 now 20 j ears, and not one sick one bav< aj I seen. We are all well In this cli tff mate." to And then I stand at the gate of th aj Celestial city to see the procossion 0_ come out, and I 'see a long prooessloi of little children, with their arms ful .j. of flowers, and then I see a processloi of kings and prleRts moving In Celes aa tial pageantry?a long procession, bu no black tasseled vehicle, no mournini j j group, and I say: "How strange it is Where is your Greenwood? Where i ut your Laurel Hill? Where is your Weet minster abbey?" And they shall cry "There are no graves here." And the listen for the tolling of the old belfrie of Heaven, the oltj belfries of eternltj j(l I listen to hear ttarni toll for the dea<! ^ They only strike up a eilvery chinn gate to weet gat? ln no more, nelth^l thirst any more neither shall th^rm light on thsm no any heat, for thefr.amb which Is ln th midst of the throne shall lead them ti living fountains of water, and Ooi shall wipe away all tears from thel j eyeR." Oh, unglove your hand and give It ti B me in congratulation on that scene! r" feel as if I could shout. I will shoul n--_ T J M ? t sV.i T isxrnr uciu, iui')(nr mc ( nui 1 cvortoul n plained about nnythlng. If all thia i tT before ur, who cares for uuything bn n" God and Heaven end eternal brother in hood? Take the crape off the door r' bell. Your loved ones are only awe; 18 for their health In o land ombroaiul at Come, Lowell Mason; come, Isna ro Watte. Give us your best hymn abo? Joy celestial. What is the use of postponing on 1,8 Heaven any longer? Let it begin now 18 and whosoever hath u harp let bin llt thrum !t, and whosoever hath a trum to pet let him blow it, aud whosoave hath an organ let him give us a fnl n" diapason. They crowd down the nil spirits blessed, moving In cavalcade o '* triumph. Their chariot wheels whir " in the Sabbath sunlight. They come ar Halt, armies ?f God! Halt until we ar 18 ready to join the battalion of pleas 1,8 ures that never die! !<* Oh, my friends. It would take a Mr ro mon as long as eternity to tell the joy that are coming to us. I Just set opoi 10 the sunshiny door. Come In. nil yo db k* ciplcs of the world who have found th ,e world a mockery. Come in, all ye db or elples of the dance, and see the bound ,u ing feet of this Heavenly gladnesi llt Coina in, ye disciplos of worldly amusa y- msnt, and see the stage where king r? ore the actors and burning words th ! footlights and thrones the spectnculai vc Arise, ye dead iu sin, for this is th * morning of res\irrection. Tho joys o c? naaven submerge our soul. I pull ou the trumpet stop. In thy presene n" there is a fullness of Joy; at thy righ or hand there are pleasures forevermore 'n Ulest arc the mints beloved of Ood; a- Washed are their robes In Jesus' blood, ?|j HrlKhter than angels. Is, they shine. Their glories splendid and sub'l one I My soul anticipates the day, >y Would stretch her wings and soar sway ;a. To sld the song, the palm tc bear, 3C And bow, tho cnief ef sinners, there. I? Oh, tho sunshine, the glorious sun ,t. shine, the everlasting sunshine! Cautteus Nsa. n* "What a secretive fellow your book 88 keeper is!" er | "Yes,his own wife has never lenrnei *sjjd? middle name."?Chicago Record. The Insurance Business. 0 Tho official statemont of thobusinos .1 ? u .v n 1 ? J -? io uuuu iu ouuiu oaruuna during tno yoa h 1900 by tho life insurance companio licensed to do business in tho Stato wa ^ Wodncfiday completed in tho offioo o tho comptroller goncral. Tho state moot is a very complete ono, mado u| from tho reports filed by the oompanie to required by law. Tho statcmon , shown that tho companion received ii it premiums tho sum of $1,510,419,33 >f and tho Mutual Eifo of Now York head >f tho list in this rospoot, having collootoi n $'290,323 91; tho Now York Lifo oomint y next with $219,302 01, and tho Kqnit o able taking third place with $187,172. " 98. Tho statement as to premium: a shows a surprising inoreaso in tho busi o nofs of small lifo companion. Thi B total of tho losses sustained by all thi t oompanios doing business in tho Slate , was $526,016 89. Tho heaviest lossc: wore sustained by the Equitable, the o amount being $99,371. Tho toial o h tho now polioios issuod during tho ycai it is $12,423,313 25, a..d tho total of al l3 polioies carried in this State on Deo 31 is $53,504,399.90. "' > ' ' r?E ei CIIUVC I The formula is know just what you , do not advertise thei their medicine if vol i ' i Iron and Quinine put * form. lhe Iron a 1 malaria out of the sy Grove's is the Orig \ Chill Tonics are lrni that Grove's is sup are not ex'perimentii and excellence hav ? only Chill Cure sol \ the United Stares D1VIN2 HEALING. p l f Dr Brimm Holds to His Vitwi Pre?- ? f bytery's Action. T The Cbarlcston jrc&byttry, whioh j | has been in session at Waltcrboro, has , becu having more trouble about tbo ? views of Dr. Brimm or Columbia on the V | tubjoot of divine healing. It will be recalled tba Dr Brimm resigned bis , obair at tho tl e.logical seminary ho f causo of his views on this pubjeot, and a ' there woro other proceedings in tho 0 j matter by tho |ro-b>tery. Tho cones- * i pondent of Tho News and Courier at e t Waltcrboro thus relates what took 0 1 place at tha \ rosbytery's session about 7 1 the cast : g "Tho most important matt< r whioh r< J oamo before tLc presbytery for con? side-ration was the case of Dr. Brimm, k who, on account of his peculiar views S with rcfercnoo to the doctrine of divine * hf aling, has bcoome unacceptable as a j minister to the presbytery. Dr. Brimm B announced his position last year. His ? viows not being in actord with the Presbyterian idcau, ho resigned tho b chair which he held in the thenlogiocl a 0 seminary at Colombia and addressed N ? a letter to tho fall meeting of tho pros- b a bytory asking that his name be dropped f< il from the roll of numbers of that body s a The matter was very gen- rally discussed y. at that meeting, as the readers of Tho l t News ar.d Courier will'omt mber. Th?- 1 result was that Dr. L'nxm's rcquost u ! was refused and he was crjiintd fr.tn C a promulgating his t ccu'iat views. v "Upon assembling this wcok, t'ae I a : . presbytery was put invnossesflinn of I I n mother letter addres-JTi to it by Dr a Brimm, dated AprilA jn which he n r. again slated bis 1 option and informed a I- that body that L?#^, uld refu*o after a April 12 to obey lU,0 j, j.jr,ctu.n placed s, upon him. 1 begetter :s a very warm r one, and woui'u i?V .x.j- Lr !? reading, but the presbytery refused to r r permit this ooricepondent to havo a rt * copy for publication t? 0 "Practioally, twe days were eon- d ? suwod in discussing the oaso. Finally C * tho following rcsolutfcc. offered by L>r. si Smith, was adopted: m * "Resolved, That tho presbytery *e- tl grcts very sincerely and deeply tho view that Dr. Brimm takes of the ao f< tion of tho body at its mcotiDg la*-t s, * fall; that tho presbytery rrgsris the ti terms whioh Dr. Brimm baa allowed * himself to uso ia tho letter of April 4 ri 1901, cow beforo this body, entirely 1 unwarranted by anything in the rela b c tions between the writer and this pros- b t bytcry, or in tho course pursued by ii this bedy in their dealiogs with him r "Tne prestfytcry desires to n mind n Dr. Brimm that Charleston presbytery f< j is not lr-f? sincorc in its convictions i f . truth than is bo himself, and that o r these convictions are just as decided b 11 and just as unalterable as ere his own The presbytery thircforc solemnly and f earnesily reiterates its previous do 1 liveraoco as to the uusorip ural and b ! unconstitutional oha'aoter of these > o views. Wi:h this convic'ion of tho tl i- oharoter of tho views maintained and o defended by Dr. Brimm, tho preaby- a tery, with all kindness, but with equal a s candor, informs Dr. Birmm that it can- t! n not rons: nt that a minister under its I o '* jurisdiction si al teach or publish tbom ! c e in any way; tho prcsbytiry therefore i ii repeats with ?. inphasis the iniunotion it r felt obliged to plane upon him at the I h ' fail meeting. with tho hopo and cxp-c t '* taiion that Dr B'imm will rc-tpeot tho si * conv.oiions and authority of this court % ' to long as ho remains a member of it i| id aoootdanco with scotion I of his or- u " dination vow. c "Tho section to which reference is a hero uiado is to tho i (foot that he shall tl . remain in subjection to his brethern in ? the Lord." fi GROSS CORRUPTION. The Glorious Spread of Anglo Saxon Civilizition in Manila. ' . P A dispatch from Manila says tho trial y of commissary Sergeant John Mcston K ohaiged with complicity in tho oom n raiesary frauds is finished. No vordiot c< was announced, and Meeton's con- ft fiction is nnocrtain. Other trials of p thoso implicated will follow. Capt. p 11 James 0. Koed, formerly dopot ooui d missary at Manila has been arrested. ti It is alleged that entries upon the qj books of Evans & Co., government 'I' B contractors, indioato that the oom.nis 01 sionary officers reocived tho following n r turn*: Maj. Georgo B. Povies op- p, 8 wards of $1,000; Capt. .lames C. Head, Sl s $1,00(1; Capt. Frank II. Lawton. $750; p f Mr. B. Tremaino, Col. Woodruff's 0) chief ol/rk, $700. It a'so appears that ft] Evans die Co furnished tho handsjmo f residnrmn ft ('nl Wnndrnff ' * Harold M. Pitt, manager of Evicts & Co.; who is now undor arrest was no3 toriously lavish in entertaining, oorn1 uiiseary and other officers whilo tho deJ pot commissary a frequenter of tho g, Tendorlion dislnot," occasionally spent w 1 days at Pitt's house in questionable tl society. Pitt's house is a baeohanalian w rondctvous, and prominent officors fro te 1 quontly visitod it, drinking champagne C( and playing cards. Women of doubt- m ful reputation have often been known 3 to bo there. It is always alleged that Pitt had tho inside track in scouring t; * government oontraots and it is also as- <1 j. siried that ho was prime movor in the (j sohemo to reestablish oookpits in ,, r Manila. Mrs. Laria being subsidized in . . scouring a ocokpit. It is asserted that the commissary department unsuthoriz- (' ed purchases of quantities of oham- '1 * I j 0 Chillsiy ^ rsr PRESCRIPTION IS asteiess Chill Tonic. $ plainly" printed on every bottle?hence you arc taking when you take Grove's. Imitators r formula knowing that you would not buy i knew what it contained. Grove's contains up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless cts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the stem. Any reliable druggist will^, tell you that InaB and that all other so-called Tasteless - * tations. An analysis of other ehii! tonics shows icrior to all others in every respect. You ig when you take Grove's?its superiority ? in<* lone been established. Grove's is the O O / * d throughout the entire malarial section^ ol No Cure, No Pay. Price. 50c. *4'c. Pitt sold tome. lu addition to A Young Man in Trouble, hat the transports brought, the com-1 v, , , ... 0 n . ,.i.?y imported 201) g.llorr. in! Mr. John W. Pow-ll,.t ... t.m. Vbm.-T ?-J ? lik .mount in .M.roh. "e." k.?""' "d l?r?I.Mb Hor.no., >. j .1 home m tho service 01 iho S u'.torn he c m-ni-pary and the oommisdary 6 u u ... -rgc.trt kpt pr.vi'o o.rti.gm .,.d in- Expr... corbi .D, h??beco "...ted to ulged it otl.ir 0hor,*w cii.tend with .llempltng to 6 0 wreck a Seab.aM train. He la loin* THE COLUMBIA MAY FESTIVAL- I1?1!1 ?D >300 bond. A negro man, wl o had also been airested has confessed it urrh-r Fact. About the Cont.bg * Musical Event. lions on the track. A freight traix ... .. . m o/k o -i m first hit the obstruction, a tree and a Columns, April -0?Special: 1 he 0rosstie, but no great damage was done. ' rrangt incuts tor the entertainments Xbo obt-tru tions were again placed, but t iho L/olum'.u* besiivai Association the passenger t'aia ooining on later has rouow oomp.cto in all details. lturo b0in warned by wire. Mr. Powell was ill bo thrye co-certs ono in the 4 former employe of the Seaboard. He voniog 0. .l?y t> oao in the a'tcrnoon has splendid family conn clions. and ~v Va ?a0,1(? the evening of May his arrest in Cheraw oau cd eotcetbing rue iist of soioibts has already been 0f a sensation. He has manv friends ivou in this coirespoedonor, but H who deplore the matter.?Florenoo epcated tore: Times. ,,r Sic. Guisepp? Companani, Baritone . Mr . Marie Ku-ikol Z muiorman, 1a * 1 1 ?uanrk n ? n ? I 1 Mills, 'a Miss rioIdin? 1\ i.itllc, Contralto. * . Miss Mario Nichols, bulo Violinist. PnM|? VI ? 11 Q Mr. Glenn Hail, TcDor. V^Ultl IVlIIlS, , Mr. G-vil/m Miles, Biritono TAM *11 There are o'ht r fine voioes that will V^ftllG lllS? e heard. Tho name* above are of ^ rus s eaih of whom omncs from tho |?vf??a H 11 llfiral l-.-tr >politan Opera Home, New York. kiullul o, laah ranks high in lie mu ical pro w w a a pasion, and caoh may be expected to X Oft HVlllOFS, uita'n the reputation already aobit ved. __ 9 Tho B-ston Festival Oroh- sira, e?m rillfFl flPtt "' rising 50 musicians, u >dcr Hrnil Mol- o ' jnhauer as conductor, will furuish Vlaai I? L.Ubi:of a cla s m vir yet heard in JDOllOlS, lolutnbU ? tho only baods thus far I gH isitiogour city, of sitj to oompare l lftilGTS ftllll ? v >n miu .1.1.1 g'vii. vrcLcmri iroDi lostoo, having been on tho order of \1 I riolly military bands. Of ooxtrse the lYAc* Lv^l-lv^X Sj . flBI iu ij of the orchestra will present C! ^ ltOKtlh' r different f? atires?as eDjoy > nWlllU they will bo novel. \ _I ? ? . jfl I The grarJ ohora of 200 voioes \ L)ii\ Sll WM fl B apidly approaching the sta*e k^C* i.f Piv "ye? wneeXpo-sibk' These ra, )s!dcn? of aro under the ainiog>?f P:of. Ufo. 3. Kittrcdge, geantcffl^^^n^t^^^B E ire torfof uiui*] in tho Presbyterian fi.^ ,- * rnno-Mwt^^H^^^BBBB o!l.g?> W.??, tki. city??n in- the . heiT,.e8h ^m^filB^BB i.ution. by the w*y, which has dono mo8^ ?ffirvopt mill for . iu h indeed to ouhivate and broaden money on the market, quick, ke moeidal taate of the oonuKunlty. accurate. State Agent for H. I -l he prfogMl kmoo tickets to the b. Smith Machine Company I pstivn a-o as foJowt.: Kr two per WOO(i working machinery, I ens fo.OO: for one person $3.00 Single ~ ? -m ike will be s.?!d at ti 50 each. For hi8h g?^? engines, plain | The railroads have agreed to make a slide valve?Automatic,* and a<c of one fare for the round trip. Corliss, write me: -Atlas, I 1 ho concerts will be given in Colum Watertown, and Struthers J ia'o now tboa're which is conceded to fln<i Wft]l? M 0 iq all respects one of the ve y best * _ ? . ?t-t . w 1 the entiro South. V. O. BADHAM, B I is generally expected that a large 1B26 Main St., Columbia, 8. C. ^Bj uu.bor of pecp'c will como from dif- Bfl rent parts < f South Carolina. ^Bfl Atw furih .r ii.fi rmaion may te p -tur _ _ww 9H biair e 1 on appi oaiion to tho 'Jolnn -! ItI 11111110" IHflP.tllllAnV ? Q MVtWlllAtVA J f is Fettival Association, tli? city. |H Robbers Robbed. Saw Mil Machinery, 9 Two nun, wirh drawn revolvers rob ni KJT'tT cd Hon March's gambling houso at 113.111110 IVllll lemphis A'ednesday. They spent ** B B hrce minutea in the place and secured TW<-? !MAn*r Hj H vcr 01)0 No cluo bas been secured 13Clll.ll6Fy v < mD^Bb s to their identity. Marsh and his ^B^H Baistan's were bilaooiogthe cash after _ , . . BflB| 1 e nighi s i lay when the rot b rs rush- BriCK MRCnillGPy. SBflfl d int) the room. A purse ou the tablo " Wfll oniaioed $2,500 while Marsh held $500 i-i j__ _ __ it H a his hands The four m>n in the LnglllGS, 311 lypGS, B B ooui were ordered to lie on tho floor or S^^EB c killed. Tboy quickly obeyed and Rml<*r?C ?*11 ICinHQ UHl 5o robbers s: a'.ehtd the money it) DUilOI dll rvllllld* ight. Then the robbers ordered Marsh ^^H^B nd ilij ethers to stand up and went m. a ? Bn^fl hr ugh tlciriookcls The gamblers Tlies* are ?:lr Sp^ia lU.es i&dj no resistance as they were threat- and we have the ,ltK>8t ^B B ucd with iDstar t death. Ojly a small complete and best liies ?^Rb9 uiount was foucd in tho pockets tf (0 offer. ho victims and, covcrirg the inn .tea ShBHH iih revolvers, the robbers backed SgBBBB rom tit- roe in and escaped. So far u ?| fllhhoo tm Pn H he police have found no cluo to the . Via QlDuBS Gt VU? H >bbtrs. fl B There is more Catarrh in this section MACHINERY and MILL SUPPLIES B f the oouotry than all other diseases B 8S ut together, anu until the last few OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. B B ears was supposed to bo incurable. ^Bw]w|| or a great many years doctors pro- COLUMBIA, 8. C. IfiEraSiw ouDoed it a local disease, and prcscrib- J. i looal remedies, and by constantly ???-rr?^ ?i jjMfflflfinS tiling to euro with looal treatment, P / .tj?' ( rKILLS B ronounecd it incurable. Science has fe ?>Ed Bugs RoAPHE&AnTV) B B rovou catarrh to bo a constitutional ??? <? 'CPOTON&UGS. H iseaso, and therefore requires oonetitu- <?>PIDER&, FuB&.FleaS. B BSE oral treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, AND ALL INSECT Lift. lanufacturcd by F. .1 Cheney & Co , V71^Wf|T|H.R 6^ToPtor>ti oledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutiona I) 1 |fi1111 '' Death to Insects BBhB aro on tho market It is taken inter SSiirTdl '^ali0 Df^LEWs^ ally in dosos from 10 drops to a leas- H 11 IPl ro\ fnm>c*t Ca oonfal. It acts dircotly on tho blood RAtr/MONT-, ua mucous burfaots of the system. ?? hey offer ono bundrod dollarH for any if Death Dust is not for siie ht yoar ISO it fails to euro Send for circulars dealer, we will upon receipt of 2o <enta r.d testimonials. Address, send you the large package ly mail poetK. J. CU KN KY ?fe CO , Toledo, O. M&jBaBHi old by Diusgists, 75o ^BHaBRfflgS Hail's Family Fills aro the host. - _ . . ,, reHmMHl a-AT^-:. POSITIONS! NP0?~'^H A prn*ion of a month today was W0 Pledge to secure our graduates poei-l B ranted to Mr". Jol n C Brcck.nridgo. I tione backed by (5000- Couneeuaex-^HUHfl^^H idow of the former vioo president of I celled. Good board cheap. Enter nnyfl HE to United States. Mr Breokinridgo time. Open to both sexes. Send now for^BnjfiKMm as maj r of tho Third Kentucky volun- free catalogue. Address, A H iors in tho Mexican war. Tho ponsion COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE, irriesI arrtM amounting to 11,350. columiha. a. a MmglSHi irs. Breckinridge is <0 years old. _ VT . _ W. H. Newberry, President. A New York young man was ikeil to tho asvlimi tl>?> nt.hnr x*r a aTmr^wv x ay who is Buffering from the WAWlUiUa elusion that every pretty wo- The addrem of a few INTRLl*^^^^SjB i;.n lie sees is ill love with him. (JKNT VOIJNQ TK VOHKRS ahuflH Tangoburg eounty has a few cohools have olosed for the aeaaoHiHsBmHE^ allow youtui who are suffering Addre?s, B. W. Qitbinokr, i ?| rom the same complaint. Spartanburg, s. CA pi