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; \ A Regret. i Oh, could wv but have seen, while they were < ours, The graoe of days forever passed away ; Had we but felt the beauty of the flowers That bloomed for us?before they knew deoay; Could we have known how we should yearn in vain For looks and smiles no more to great our sight, Or how the fruitless tears would fall like rain For hours of sweet oomiuunion, vanished quite; Their worth tous?had we but better known. Then had we held them dearer, while our own. Had kept some salvage from the joys o'erthrown, And loneliness itself has found us less a'one! ?Agnes Maule Macher, in Century. TALMAGES SERMON. Dr. Talmage's Discourse on the Growth and Perfection of Christianity Although Dr. Talmago was hindcrod from attending the groat annual meeting of tho Christain Endeavor society at Oinoinnati, his sormon shows him to be in sympathy with tho groat movomont; text. Amos ix; 13, "Behold the dayB oomo, saith tho Lord, that tho plowman shall overtake tho roaper." Unable booause of other important duties to aooopt tho invitation to tiiko part in tho great convention of Christian Endeavorors at Cinoinnati, begun last wook, 1 preach a sermon of congratulation for all tho mcmbors of that magnificent association, whethor now gathered in vast assomb'.ago or busy in thoir plaoes of usefulness, transatlantic and oisatlantio, and as it is now harvest timo in tho fioldi and siokler arc hashing in the gathering of a great crop, 1 find mighty suggcstivoness in my text. It is a pioturo of a tropical elimo, with a season so prosperous that tho harvest reaches oloar ovor to tho planting time, and tho dwarthy husbandman busy outting tho grain, almost fools tho breath of tho horsoB on his shoulders, tho horso hitched to tho plow, proparing for a new orop. "Behold tho uayB come, saith tho Lord, tho plowman Bhall ovortako tho reaper." Whon is that? That is now. That is this dap whon hardly havo you dono reaping ono hart est of religious rosult than tho plowman is getting ready for another. In phraseology oharged with all venom and abusoond caricature 1 knew that infields and agnostics havo dcclarAfl tViai tlkvinf lantltr Kan or\11at\uod t Vial vw kii?v vuiiDHinuivj uno wuuaj'avu. mai tho Bible is an obsolete book; that tho Christian ohuroh is on the retreat. 1 shall answer that wholesale ohargo to day. Betweon 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 Kn deavors sworn boforo high hcavon that they will do all thoy oan to take Amcrca for God. Europe for God. Asia and Africa for God?are not tho sign most oheering? Or, to return to tho agricultural figuro of my text, more than a million reapers aro overtaken by more than a million plowmen. Besides this, there aro more people who bolicvc in the Bible than at any timo in the world's existence. An Arab guido was leadim? a Frcnoh infidel across the dosert. and ever and anon tbo Arab guido would get down in tho sand and pray to tho Lord. It disgusted tho l-'rcnoh infidel, and aftor awhilo, as tho Arab got r up from ono of his prayers, tho infidol said, "How do you know ihoro is any God?" And tho Arab guide said: do_I know that a man and a by our by the tho And you want to know how I know whether thcic is any God? lijokai the sunset. Is that the footstop of a man?" And by tho sarno process you and I havo come to understand thai this book is tho footBtep of God. , But now lot us see whether the book is a laBt year's almanae. Let us see whether tho church of God is a Bull Bun rotroat, uiuskcts, oantoens and haverraoks strewing all the way. The great English historian Sharon Turnci, a man of vast learning and great ac ouraoy, not a olergyman but an attorney as woll as a historian, gives this over wholming statistic in regard to Chris tianity and in regard to the number of Christains in tho different centuries; In the first eontury 500 00(1 Christians, in tho second century 2 000,000 Christians, in tho third oontury ft,000,0(10 Christians, in the fourth century 10,000,000 Christians, in tho fifth eontury 15,000 000 Christians, in tho sixth con tury 20,000,000 Christains, in tho Bevonth century 24.000,000 Christians, in tho eight century 30,000,000 Christians, in tho ninth century 40,000,000 Christains, in the tenth eontury 50,000,000 Christians, in the eleventh century 70,000,000 Christians, in tho twclth oontury 80,000,0000 Christians, in tho thirteenth century 75,000 000 Uhnstains, in the fourteenth century ] 80,000,000 Christians, in the fifteenth century 100,000,000 Christians, in the sixteonth oontury 125,000,000 Christains, in the seventeenth oontury 155,000,000 Christians, in tho eighteenth oontury 200,000,010 Chrlstams?a dooadonoo, as you obscrvo, in only ono oontury, and moro than made up in the following oenturios, wnilo it is the usual computation that there woro at tho closo of tho ninetoenth ocntury 470,000,000 Christians, making us to beliovo that beforo this century is closed tho millennium will havo started its boom and lifted its hosanna. Poor Christianity! What a pity it ha* no friends! How lonosomo it must be! Who will tako it out of tho poorhouso? Poor Christianity! Four hundred mil-' lions in ono century. In a few weeks of this year 2,500,000 copies of tho New Testament distributed. Why, tho earth is liko an old oastlo with 20 gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. See how heathendom is boing surrounded and honeycombed and attacked by this all oomiucring gospel. At the beginning of the nineteenth oontury 150 missionaries; at tho oloso of that oontury 81,000 missionaries and native holpers ani evangelists. At tho beginning of tho nineteenth eon-: tury thero were onlv 50.000 converts. Now there are over 1,01)6,000 converts from heathendom. You all know that an important work of an army is to plant tho batteries. It may tako many days to plant tho batterios, and they .uay do all tho work in ten minutos. These gospel batteries' are being planted all along tho scaooastx and in all nations. It may tako a good while to plant them, and they may do all their work in ono day. Thoy will. Nations aro to bo born in a day. But Just oomo baok to Christendom and reoognizo tho faot that during tho last ton years as many pooplo havo oonneotod themsolvoswith evangelical churohos as oonneotod themsolvos with tho churohos in the firBt 50 yoars of last oontury. So Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, thoy say, is boooming an obsolete book. I go into a court, and wher ever I find a judgo's bonoh or a clerk's desk i find a Hi bio. Upon what, book oould thero bo utlorod too solomnity of an oath? What book is apt to bo put, io the trunk of the young rnao as ho I leaves tor oity life/ Tho Biblo. What shall I find in nino out of ovcry ten home in this oity? The Biblo. In] ? ' . > Dine oat of ovory ten home ia Chriatoniom? Tho Bible. Voltairo wroto ih( prophooy that tho Bible in the nino toenth century would bocome extinct The oontury is gone, and I have to tol you that tbo room in which Voltairi wrote that prophooy not long ago wa crowded from flior to oeiling with Br bios from Switzerland. Suppoio tho congress of the (I oite< States should pass a law that ther should bo no more Hi bios printed ii America and no Bibles read. If ther aro 60,000.010 grown people in thi United States, there would bo 60 000, 000 people in an army to put dowi suoh a law and defond thoir right t road tho Bible. But suppose the oon gross of tho llnitod Statos should inak a law agaiast tho reading or tho publi oatiou of aDy other book, how man; people would go cut in such a orusado Could you got 60,000,000 pooplo to g out and riik their liveB iu tho dofens of Shakespeare's tragedies or Qlad stono's traots or Maoaulay's "Histor; of England?" You know that ther are a thousand men who would die li tho defense of this book whero ther is not mora than one man who wouh dio in tho defonso of any other book You try to insult my common sonse b; tolling mo tho Biblo is fading out froe tbo world. It is the most popula' bool of tho conturpoB. How do I know it? I know it jus as 1 know in regard to other books How many volumes of that history ar published? Well, you say 5,000. Hoi many copies of another book arc pub lishod? A hundred thousand. Whio is tho more popular? Why, of course tho one that has tho hundred thousam circulation. And if this book has mor copies abroad ia the world, if there ar li vo times as many Biblos abroad as an; other book among civilizod nations docs not that show you that tho mos popular book on oarth today iB tb word of God? ''Oh," say pooplo, "tho ohuroh is i collection of hypocrites, and it is los lag its power and it is fading out fron tho world." Is it? A bishop of tb Mothodist church told mo that that do nomination averages two new churoho every day. In other Words, thoy buih 730 churches in that denomination in i year, and thoro aro at loast 1,500 ncv Christian churoheB built in Amorioi every year. Docs that look as thougl tho Christian ohuroh wcro fadiDg out ,*b though it woro a defunct institution What htanda nnarnnt to tho hnarta o tho American pooplo today? 1 do ho o&ro in what village or what oity o what neighborhood you go. What i it? Is it tho postoffice? Is it th> hotel? 14 it tho lecturing hall? Ah you know it is not! You know tba that whioh stands nearest to the heart of tho American people is tho Chris tian ohuroh. Von may talk about the ohuroh bo ing a collection of hypccrites, bu when the diphtheria sweeps your ohil dron off whom do you sond for? Th postmaster, tho attorney general, th hotol keeper, aldorman? No. Yoi send for a minister of this Bible relig ion. And if you havo not a room ii your houso for tho obsequies, wha building do you solicit? i)o you Bay 'Give me the tines* room in tho ho tel?" Bo you say, ' Give mo tha theater?" Be you say, "Qivo in; tha public bniioing whero I can lay m. dead for a little white until we say prtyer over u? No. You Bay. 1 Giv us the houso of God." Yudif there i a eong to bo sung at the obsequies what do you want? What does any body want? Tno "Marseillaise Hymn? "Gjd Save the t^ioon?' Our owi grand national airf No. Tnoy wan tho hymn with which they sang thoi old Christian mother into her las sleep, or they want sung the Sabbat! school hymn whioh their little girl san the la-t Sabbath afternoon she was ou before she got that awful biokness whtol broke your heart. L appeal to you common sense. You know the rnos endearing institution on earth, th most popular institution on earth today is tho ohuroh of the L>rd <Jat>us Christ A man is a fool that does not rocoguu it. Tho infidols say; "There is groa liboriy uow for iniidols; froodom o platform. Infidelity shows its powc fiom the faot that it is everywhere tol cratod, and it oan say what it will. Why, my friends, intiiolity is notlial so blatant in our day as it was in th days of our fathers. Bo you know tha in the days of our fathers there wer pronounced lLliiols in public author! ty, and they could gel any politics position? hot a man tcdsy dooiar himself antagonistic to tho Ohriutiai religion, and what oity wants him fo mayor; what stato wants himforgover nor; wnat nation wants him for presi dent or for king? Let a man openl; proclaim himself tho oncmy of ou glorious Christianity, and ho oanno get a majority of votos in any state, ii any oity, in any cjuntry, in any wan of America. A distinguished infidol years ago rid ing in a rail c ?r in Illinois said. " VVlia has Chrietianity over done?" An oh Christian woman said: "it has don one good thing anyhow. It has kopt ai infidol from Icing governor of Illinois.' As I stood in tho side room cfthooper house of l'ooria, Ills., a prominent gon tlciuan of that oity said, 1 oan till yoi tho seorot of that tremendous bittcrnos against Christianity." Said I, "Wat i it?" "Why, said he, "in this ver; house there was a great eonvontion t nominate a governor, and thero wer throe or four candidates. At tho sam timo there was in a church in this oit; a Sabbath school oonvontion, and i happened that ono of tho tnon who wa in the Sabbath sohool oonvontion wa also a mombor of tho political oonven tion. in tho political oonvontion th namo highest on tho roll at that tim and about to bo nominated was tho nam of tho groat champion infidel. Thor was an adjournment botween ballots and in tho afternoon, whon the nomi nations woro being mado, a plain far-no got up and said: 'Mr, Chairman, tha nomination must not be mado. Th Sunday schools of Illinois will dofon him.' That oodod all prospoot of hi nomination." The Christian roligion is mightier'0 day than it over was. Do you thin that suoh a soono oould bo enaotod noi as was onacted in tho days of Robet piorre, when a Hhamoloss womau wa elovatod to tho dignity of a goidoss an carried in a golden ohair to aoathordri where inoenso was burned to hor an people howod down boforo hor as divine being, sho taking tho plaoo c the Hi bio and Cod, while in tho eu ridor of that cathedral woro onaoto suoh scenos of drunkonnoss and de bauohory as had ncvor boforo bee witnessed? Do you think such a thin oould possibly ooour in Christendom to day? No. The polioo of Washington or of Now York, or of l'aris woul swoop upon it. 1 know iofidolity make a good deal of talk in our day. Ooo in fidol oan uiako groat oxoitomcnt, hut can tell you on what prinoiplo it is. 1 is on tho prinoiplo that if a man jump overboard from au ocean linor ho mako more oxoitomcnt than all tho 500 wh stay on board. Hut tho faot that h jumps overboard doos not stop tho ehij Does that wrook the 500 passonger*? I It makoB great oxoitoment whon a man jumps from tho looturing platform or from tho pulpit into iofidolity, but does 1 that keep the Bible or tho ohuroh from 3 carrying million* of passengers to tho s shore of eternal safety? Thobo opponents say that toionoe is ovcrooming religion in our day. Thoy 1 look through tho speotaolos of tho ino fiden scientists, and thoy Bay: "It is a impossible that this book be true. Boo e pie are hading it out. The Bible has e got to go overboard, htaienoe is Roiog - to throw it overboard." Do you boliovo I a that tho Btblo account of the origin of o life will bo overthrown by inGdol soion tints who have 50 different theories o about tho origin of lifo? If thoy should - all oomo up in solid phalanx, all agrcey ingon ono sentiment and ona theory, ? perhaps Christianity might bo damagod, o but there aro not to many differences o of opinion inside tho ehuroh as outBido tho ohuroh. Oh, it rr^kos mo Biok to boo y those literary fops going along with a o copy of Darwin under ono arm and a n ease of transGxod grabjhopperd and but0 teiil.'B un'or tho other arm tolling about 1 tho "survival of tho fitto9t" and Hux loy's protoplasm and tho nebular hyy pothoein! Tho faot is that some natua ralists just as soon as thoy find out tho k difference between tho foolors of awaip and tho horns of a bootlo bogin to patt ronizo tho Almighty, whilo Agassiz, i. glorious AgasBiz, who novor made any 0 pretension to being a Christian, puts v both his foot on tho dootrino of ovolu i- tion and Bays: "I boo that many of the h naturalists cf our day aro adopting facts i. which do not bear observation, or havo 1 not pasted undor obiervation. Tneso o men warnug with oaoh othor?Darwin o warring against Lamaroh, Wallace war c ring against Cope, oven Hcrsohol dc>, nouncing Ferguson. Thoy do nut agroo t about anything. Thoy do not agroo on o tho gradation of tho spooies." What do thoy agroo on? Horsohcl a writes a whole chapter on tho tho oinrB of astronomv. L? Place dcolaros that q the moon was not put in tho right 0 pi too. lie eays if it had boon put four times farther from the earth than -it is s now thcro would be mora harmony in 1 tho universe, but L:onvillo oomos up a just in time to provo that tho moon was y put in tho right plaoo. How many a oolors woven into tho light? Ssven, i says Isaao Newton. Throe, says David , Drowsier. How high is tho aurora ? borealia? Two and a half miles, Hays f Lias. Ninety milcB, say othor soiont lists. How far ia tho sun from tho r earth? Seventy-six million miles, says s Laoallo, Eighty-two miilioD, sayB Humis boldt. Ninety million miles, Bays Hon, dcreon. Ojo hundred and four million i umos, Bays iuayor. unty a little dttters odoo of 28,000.030 miles! All split up * among thomsolves?not agreeing on anything. Hero these infidel Boiontibts.lifr' ~ iml paneled themselves as a Jc.y to deoido . this trial between '-fidelity, the plaia0 tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, 0 and after being out for oenturios they IX oouio in to render their vordiot. Gcntlemen of the jury, have you agreed on n a verdict? No, no. Then go back for t another 500 years and dehoerato and agree on Bometbing. There is not a ' poor maerablo wreioh in the oity prison t tomorrow that oould bo oondomnod by t a jury that did not agree on the verdio:, y and yet you expcot us to givo up our a glorious CariBtianity to please those 0 men who cannot agree on anything g Ah, my friends, tho church of , Jesus Oarist instead of falling baok is ! on the advanoe. I am certain it is on * the advanoe. I sec tho glittering of the q swords; I hear the trampiDg of the t troops; I hear the thundering paiks of r artillery. O G ed, I thank thee that 1 t have b.mn pcrmittcu to see this day of h try triumph, this dav of the oonfusian g ot thino ooomirB! O Bird Gcd, take t thy sword from thy thigh aud ride forth h to tho victory! . I am mightily enoourmged lecauso I t fluu, among other things that while this 0 Christianity has beeu bombarded for centuries infidelity has not destroyed one ohuroh, or crippled one minietor, or upj rooted one verse of one chapter of all the Bible. If that has been thoir magnifit cent record for tho centuries of the past, f what may wo expect for the future? r The church all tho timo getting tho victory, and their shot and shell ail ge d o. f Apd then 1 find another most eno juraging t hought in the fact that the " seoular printing pross and the pulpit seem harnessed in tho same team for 0 tho proclamation of the gospel. Every j banker in this capital *oaurrow, every VVall street banker tomorrow in New J York, every State street bankor tomorrow in Boston, every Third street bankor iii Bmladelphia, every banker in tho United States and evory mcrobant will havo in his pocket a treatise * on Christianty, It), 20 or JO passages of Scripture in tho roports of sermons preached throughout tho land today. | It will bo so in Chicago, so in Now Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, ai in l^nilaJnlnkia ?? ua a u A uiiauui|".iia, nj IU U1UU1UUA.1, B?? everywhere. I know the traot HOcioticH | are doing & grand and glorious work, but I toll you th<ra is no power on 0 earth today equal to tho fact that tho ay American printing proBS is taking up tho sermons which arc preached to a fow a huuired or a fow thousand people, and on Monday morning and Monday ovo11 ning scattering that truth to millions 9 What an encouragement to every Ohris9 tian man! 7 Tho you havo notiocd a moro sig o nifiuant fact if you havo talked with ? people on tho subjeot, that they are o gotting disgusted With worldly philosoy phy as a matter of oomfort. They say t it does not amount to anything whon 9 you havo a doad ohild in the house 9 I'hcv toll you whon thoy worj sick and * tho door of tho futuro seemed opening o tho only oomfort thoy couid find was o tho gospol. i'eoplo aro having douiooP stratoi all over tho land that aaiannn o and philosophy cannot solace tho ? troubles and woos of tho world, and thoy want some other roligioa, and thoy r arc taking Christianity, the only sympa t ihctio roligion that evor camo into the 0 world. You just take a soiontifioconso t lation into ttiat room whero a mother 9 has lost her child. Try in that osseyour splendid doctrine cf the "survival of the fittest." Toil hor that ohild died booauso k it was not worth as much as tho other v ohildren. That is your "survival of tho i- fittest." .Just try your transoondoos talism, your philosophy, yoursoiecoo, on d that widowed soul, and toll bor it was d a geological nooossity that hor ostnpand ion should he Lakon away from her, a just ai in tho oourso of tho world's his>f tory tho megatherium and tho iohty - osaurus had to pass out of oxistenoc, d and then you go on your scientific eon 1 solation until you got to the sublimo n faot that 50,000 000 yoars from now g wo ourselves may bo scientific specimens on tho goclogio shelf, potriftod i, speoimens of an oxtinot human raoo. d And after you have got all through s with your oonsolation, if tho poor alll oi ted soul is not era a id by it, wo will eond 1 forth from any of our churches tho plaint ost Christian wo havo and with ono half s horn of prayer and reading of Soripture s promisos tho tears will bo wiped away, o and tho houso from floor to cupola will e bo flooded with tho oalmnoHB of an Inp diaa summer sunsot. There is whoro 1 see the triumph of Christianity. People ! are disatisfiod with ovcryihing olso. They want God. They want Jesus Christ. Voaog man, do not be ashamed to bo a ftioad of tho Bible. Do not pat your thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swagger about talking of the glorious light of nature and of there being no need of the Bible. They havo tho light of nature in India and China and in all tho dark places of the earth. Did you ever hear that tho light of na turo gave them comfort for their troubloV Tuey have lancets to out and juggernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, iuy friends, you had better stop j your akeptioUm SuppjBo you aro put j in a crisis like that of i!ol All-.. 1 paw tho account mad at one time men-, tionod it in An address. A descendant of K:han Allen, who is sn infidel, said it never ocourred. Soon aftor I received a letter from a professor in one of our colleges, who is also a descendan. of Ethan Allen and is a Christian. lie wroio mo that tho incidont is noourato; that my statement wa9 authentic an 1 tru*. The wifo oft3olonol Ethan Allen was a vary oonseoratod woman. Tho mother instructed tho daughter in tbo truthi of -Ohristianty. Tho daughter siokeaed and was about to die, and she paid to her father: "Father, shall I tako your instruction or shall L tako mother's instruotion? 1 am going to die now; I must have this mattor decided." That man, who had boon loud in his infidelity, said to his dying daughter. "My doar, you had hotter tako your mothor's religion." My advioo is tho same to you, O young man! louknow how roiigion comforted her. You know what sho said to you whon she was dying. You had better take your mothor's religion. FRANCE'S NAVY. Will C:at 8i xy-Tw) Millions N\ xt YearTho naval expenditure of Franoi f- r 1901 is officially proposed to be $62 520,(100, which at first sight seems to bo loss thaa in 1901, but if it iB taken into aocount that the cost of maintaining tho marine infantry and artillery, amounting to about $5 400,000, has been transferred from tho navy to the minihtrios of war and tho Colonics, it is found that the money that Franco intends to spend upon tho navy during 1902 is in reality $2,900,000 in excess of the naval expenditure.* of the ourront year. 11 is a matter of serious consideration for tho Ficnch whether thoy aro not spending upon their navy more than their national resources warrant. Fraooo has now piled up a dopt involving an annual chargo for interest of neatly $200,000,000 or, in other words, every man, woman and ohild in Franco has now to pay $5. per annum for interest on tho National debt. Tho army costs tho country $132,000,000 a year and tho total expenditure for 1902 is officially proposed to be $750.000,UOO Moreover, reflections upon the Fr.nch census cause renewed uneasi 089. Last March tho population in round numbers was 38,600.000, boing an inoreaso of only 330,000 since 1806; and oven this meigro result is mostly acoturned for by Paris and its suburbs, where tho inareaao has boon 202 000, due principally to foreign immigration, so that in the rest of Franco tho popu lation has been augumontcd bv-?only 3j,000 during tho last five yeais^ Tfiat is to eay, for military e^nd nay^^perpose3 the population is almost a^Miya.?ry, and in this rospoot Franco W?:'ds alone among tho great nation^ I of Europe. lluicr those conditions, M. .Jaures, tho sooialist leader, and many advanced thinkers aiuong tho radicals and radioal socialists, hold that is it impossible for Franoc to havo at tho sarno time a navy and army of tho firs, rank, simply be* cause sho has net the rcsurcot of men and money to maintain both. Discipline of tne Wood Pile. Every human male mm who possesses even a lingering taint of temper should keep an az and a wood pile somewhere handy, that he may rash out and work eff his wrath whon it waxos fierce There is nothing in this vain old world that will Bond a man back to hts appointed work with a tuorc wilted oollar aa - a truer comprehension of himself than this minutes' wrestling with a fullflavored ax. 11a can use it so fiercely in tho wood that all the fury of his nature, all the hate that he feels for for his enemy, ho can infuso into the hi handle, and how tho chips will flyf Not very artislioally, probably, but thoy will Uy. And presently u begins to dawn upon tho man that ho is feeling moro calm. Evidently he is cxporiono lug a change of heat, tie doos not hato his enemy at all. llo changes his stroke and begins to ahop on the sys tern of Italian penmanship?the up strokes heavy and the down ones light. Ho rathor loves his enemy oow. At last he puts all his falling strength in one torrifie blow. Ho misses his tip with tho ax and smitos tho choppingblock with tho handle. A tingle, as til nil aril Kfl lia'l omallArwA^ - Iiu >m .a nnnuunuu *u miruj clock, goes from elbow to hip and baoX again, the ax drops from his powerless hands, and a weak, limp, norvoless, perspiring, trembling, gasping ho staggers to tho house, lies down on tho first thing that looks like a lounge, and is ready to dio. Thoro isn't a fear or a fault in his heat. Doatn has no terrors, and life has no temptations for him. Ho has ohoppod out all his baser nature, and ho is just as othrrcal and spiritual as ho can be on this side of Jordan. It is a groat medicine. How b Thlsl We offer One Hundred Dullar Howard for any oaso of (Jatarrh that oannot bo ourod by Hall's Catarrh Cure. V. J. CHENEY Ok CO., Toledo,O. W'e tho undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and bo liovc him porfeotly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations mado by thoir firm. W'kstvV Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Wam>in<?, Kinman& Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall s Catarrh Cure is takon internally, acting dirootly upon tho blood and mucous surfaoos of tho systom. Testimonials sont free. Prico 75o. por bottle. Sold by all Drnggists. Hall's Family 1'illn ?r? ?!>? Bi# Trust Formed. News continuing iho report of tho oouHohdatioD of all the ootton sood oil mills in tho country was reoivod Friday morning. Tticro are seven of suoh mills in Now Orleans, tho largest of which aro tho Southern Standard and Union. The oombined output of the seven is about 80,000 barrels por year. Whilo dispatches from Njw York atato tho oapital stook of tho ootton seed oil trust to bo $50,000,000, private information rooeivoi hero is $100,000,000. New Orleans manmaoturos more ootton sood oil than any othor city in tho country except Houston. Texas, whioh, by tho way, only has four mills, but they are very largo. . / BILL ABB QUOTES BEECBEB The Noted tf inister Ussd Cau Wordi and the Hat Weather Caused It. This horrid, torrid weather reminds me of what Henry Ward Doechersaid in hi* church one sweltering day in July. He took nc text. He wiped the perspiration from hii brow and looking solemnly at the large oongregatiou, said: "It it hot tod?y. It is damned hot. It is as hot as hell! Everybody was amazed and shocked until he added, "That is the language I heard two young men use at the door of the church as I passed them. My jourg friends, it is not as hot as hell." Then in a iow, earnest tone he pictured the torments of hell and Lhe certain fate of the wicked until the atmosphere of the church seemed to be cool and pleasant in comparison. The ladies ceased to move their fans and everybody was still and solemn as a funeral. It was something like Jonathan Edwards at Northampton when he got his hearers so wrought up and alarmed that they groaned in fear and grasped the posts and braces to keep from sinking into hell, and an other preacher in the pulpit begged Mr. Edwards to slop, "Stop, Mr. Edwards; stop now and tell them of tho imrcy and love o( God." What wonderful power is in tho worJs of an oloquent, earnest man. Mr. Beeeher was all of that?a gifted, eloquent man. 1 heard him preach twice before the war and was profoundly impressed. I looked upon him as the impersonation of the man of God Later on, wheu he began his vindiotive war upon the South and said that Bharp'a rifles were better than Bibles for John Brown in Kansas and it was a crime to shoot at a slave-noldcr and miss him, I wondered at my infatuation with the man and exclaimed with Isaiah, "How are the mighty fallen." And still later when Tilton charged himjwith alienating and seducing his wife and it took two months to try the oa?e and the jury two days to make up a verdict, which virtually saie, "Ho is not guilty, but he must not do so any moro," 1 was mortified at my own weaknets in becoming his idolator and risulved to worship no man while he lived A great man's character cannot bo made up until after he is dead. But I was ruminating how easy it is for a young man to say damn and pamnit, I'll be damned, and even to take the name of God in vain Damn is a more convenient and ex prossive word than dogou or dingnation or blamed, and it shows a defiance of the devil and a self conceit in the man who uses it But it is a very handy expletivo and when a young man gets in the habit of using it he rarely reforms. He knows that it is not good manners, for he does not use it in the presence of ladies or preachers or bis parents. Nevertheless there are some good people who think damn it without saying it. 1 hea d a a good story the other day on Col. Livingston our member of Congress from the Atlauia district. Lost summer he was sent ever t j West Virginia to speak and help the Demh crata in their'canvaas. He ventured into a pretty hot Republican town and wa* haranguing and electrifying a large audience, and while scarifying the Republicans and this fighting administration a soft, half done Irish potato took him kerz p right between tho PHl'U It u.- ? ??? * - - * j ? ... .uvkivu un iiio m fcim it'a una flattened into tnuih all over his classic countenance. It surprised and shocked him of course. Hecovered his glasses he wiped the sticky b ufl' from his'face and said with excited tone. "My friends, 1 have been?I hare been a consistent?a consistent member of the Presbyterian chuich?the Presby.et ian church, I say for more than?more than fifty years?yes, fifty odd years, and have tried to live?tried to liveia harmony with all men? wi h all men. but if the dirty, dogined, da l blamed puppy who threw thai. potato will stand up or raise his right hand I 1 be?dadblasted if I dont stop speaking long enough to comedown and lick the hair and hide ufl of him in two minutes by the clock." As nobody rose or raised a hand the colonel resum cd his broken remarks, but dedarea that he never ctme so near cursiug since he juincd the church. This thing of cursing is of very ancient origin. Sometimes it was dono by proxy. D&lak, the kiog of Moab, hired Balaam tc curse Israel, atiu some of us veterans retucm ber when we, too, wanted to hire a cusitc man to expend our w ath upon the Yankees. Peter cursed and swore when accused of be ing onejof the disciples, it is probable that he said "I'll be damned if 1 am." or perhapt worse. Soldiers and ssi'ors have in all ages be-.n profane?the very class that are m greatest peril and should have the ^reatcs! rcvereme for their Maker. Uncle Toby saye "Our army swore terribly in Flanders." And Unc e Toby bimse f swore an oath when hr found the sick eoidier lying and dying at his gate, "lleshal, not die, by God,' bet-aid,and the accusing spirit flow up tj heaven wtita the oath and blushed as he gave it in. Tbe recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever." That is hejitttful, iseat^it'.^ \ erily, charity bideth a multiiu le of sins. lint this is enough on this subject. It it too hot to work in tbe garden and so I get in the shade of the vines ou my verandah and ruminate. Judge Griggs, our honored mem her of Congress, tells mat story on Colonel Living-Una and he told another th >t will make the old men forget that it is hot, for they never get too old to CDjoy any story tfca*. has a pretty woman in it. One of tho last cases brought before thejudgo was a young unso phisticated country boy who was charged with an assault upon a honnie country girl in that he hail caugnt her at the spriug and hugged and ktasked her against her will. Her mother sntfr it from her piazza aud heard her scream aud saw hiut run away to the fiell wheie ho ? ?>i nIni?." . |'.?n>wg. UUO IT iVT YCT^ indigaaut, and prosecated nim. She was the witueis an t so was the girl, but the girl didont seem very \ ina ctive, the said he dident hurt her but look her by surprise. She had tilled her bucket and was about to go back wheu he caught her aud hugged her aud kissed h. r right ou her mouth. Toe solicitor closed his case Ihe rouug mail was put up to make his statement, and all ho laid was that she looked so sweet and pretty he could not help it, and he dident believe that Miss Molly was very m?d about it nohow, for she went oil singing of ahyme "What hyme was she singing? asked the judge. "1 don I know," he said. "What hyme were you'singing. Miss Molly? asked the judge. Hhe smiled and said it was "The Lord Will Provide." The judge charged thejury very mildly, and told them that an assault implied malice, etc , hut as the jury oouldnlt see waere the rualioe came in, they came back with this verdict. "We, the jury, tiod the defendant not guilty, as there was no malice or hate in it, and we Tccanimend htm to the mercy of the court." This story reminds me of John Riloy's ver diet in the Pars case. Good old John Riley the foreman of The Rome Courier's pressroon for years and ycarH aud the foreman of the juiy in the care of the Slate against Komu lus l'ass for hog stealing. Pass had beet suspected of kiliing Wains Warren's ahoati as they ran in the woods, and so Wallis laid for him and one evening about dusk, whet ne nearo a rme snot, tie slipped up and caugh Pass iu the very act of putting the shoal ia 1 sack W nliis dident go to the war and manag fl to savj his stock. Pass went, and left hit wife and three li lie children to the mercy o OoJ and thecommunity. When he returnee, he found there was nothing left to li ve on, anc one of the children had died. Judge VVrigh \ oluntecred to defend him, and introduced n< evidence, but had the last speech. I wil never forget the tender pathos of that speeel ?his picture of a poor soldier relurnini home to find detolntion and despair. il< never alluded to the evidence, hut had th< jury and the court in tears. The judgo charg ed them an fairly as he con'd; and tliey re tired. Iu a brief tiuie they came in with tlii verdict: "Wherea#, the late, unhappy wa: reduced many ofour brave soldiers and theii families to want and poverty by reason o whioh they were forced at timcoto wander it the woods for such game as they could lint n order to keep the wolf from the door ant t hoir little ones from starvation; therefore wo, the jury, find tho defendant not guilty John Kiiey, forema 1. By gracious!" sai 1 Wallis, "they fount Pass guilty and then pardoned him." Judgi Wright never lost a esse where he had thi last speoch and a woman or a poor man wa his client But it is getting a little cooler now ne tin sun uears the horizon, I must stop and turi the water loos; on my garden The city has no water metors yet, and I can steal wate with impunity, but as the nigger preache i *?r *1 THE J Grove's The formula know just what y do not advertise t their medicine if Iron and Quinine j form. The Iron malaria out o f the Grove's is the 0> Chill Tonics arc i that Grove's is arc not crtperimc] and excellence 1 only Chill Cure the United States siiil lo bit 11 ick, ''You mnseat be colchet tealio' chickens?cotchcd, I siy." Bill Am*. THE WEEKLY CHOP REPORT. Director Bauer Sey's it Was the Mos Favorable Week of the Beasou. Tho following is the weekly bullctii of tho oonditioQ of tho weather sl< crops in the State, issued Wodncsda; by Dircotor Bauer of tho South Caro lioa section of tho olimato and oro] service of tho Hailed Slates wcathc bureau: The week ending Monday, July 8 averaged slightly warmer than usua over tho wes.crn, uoithern and oontra portions, and slightly cooler over th< southeastern. Tho dailey maximun ranged between fit* and MB degrees, whil a minimum of GG was noted at Green ville on tho 1st. There was more thai the usual amount of bright sunshine. Eirly in the week, and again nca i's oloee, thero wore scattered showers heaviest in tbo central and south eastern counties, with a maximun rainfall of 1.99 inches at St. Qeorge while over tho northern and westeri counties the wock was generally rain Iocs. Those conditions of high tern peraturc abundant sunshine, and ab senco of rain, made this the most fa vor&ble week of the season for onltiva tion, nevertheless, many fields rcmaii grassy, and it will require at least an other weok of dry weather to oleai them. Itain is needed generally for ih< orops, and to soften tho soil cspeoiall; olayry land that dried out hard, am breaks oloddy under ciltivation. Hue is also needed to prevent furthor injur; . to orops that were damaged in riddini them of grass and weeds. Cotton mado a Blight and gonoral im i provement, exoept sea island, that im i proved dooidedly. The plants are an usually Bmill for tho season, and an ernwinte bljwlv. oHneoiill e nn sand soils, wnero their condition ia exocp 1 tionally poor. Blooms are coted eve tho whole Slate, but oottoo ia do bloomirg as profusoly as it should a this reason. It is reported that thi crop as a whole oanaot possibly attaii i a normal oondiiion, howtvjr favorabh 1 the weather during the remainder o 1 tho Reason may bo. Tfto corn crop can now safely b | characterized as the roirest in man , years, and over considerable areas wil approximate a failure. Corn, wit 1 soma exceptions, has slender stalks,'i tasaclling low, and not caring wcl > l'lantieg bottom and stubble lands ooc tinucs. Tobacoo shared in the general in 1 provement during tho past week, be , ia et:U very poor. Cutting and cui , iag is well under way in all districts. llioe made marked improvement but has not fully reoovercd from tho il v tf lots tf the cxcetsivo June rainfall. 1 i'eas arehoing ox.eosivoly planted ii with oern and on atubblc fi ilds. Som have come up to good stands. Apples, peaches and peara contiau to drop extensively, whilo peaohes an grapes rot as they ripon. Tho labor situation has not improved and ooutinuoa to bo a serious faotor i this year's farm economics. Big Fire in North Carolina. One of the most destructive firoo i the history of th:s town broko ot Thursday aftrraoon at 2 o'clock in tfc McDougald Furniture store and th wind was ao favorable that it sooma tho entire town was doomed. A roug estimate plaat s tho loss at $0ti.UJ0. Tb northern portion of tho town is in ruini i No ono has any adequate idea as to ho tho firo originated. The loses and ii i surance are estimated as follows: ft A. McDongald, two stores and Rtocl loss $14,000; ono half insured; R. I Lee, two store buildings, livery stabl and stook of goods, loss $10,000; Q. ft Wright, stock $400, insurance $200: E , I O. Covington, two stores, loss #3,00( insurance #1,200; 1). (1. McNeill, stool s #3,500; Sutherland v* Morgan, #00( > mfuranoo #500; W. l?. Jnuios and A 1 A dailies, tbroo stores and goods, flit 000, inturanco about #5,000, J. S. Mi Douftis, loss #13,000 stock jasurano ! #13,000; J. C. Morgan loss #2,000 stoo , J. B. Cowan $000, and W. P. Evan store and stock #1,500, insurance #'2 ? 000. . ' " \ /5> BiifiNtss l\ jji J Hlitl HAvf T- ll.ij/|J yf I ?? ??"?" IV7 /rj 't ^ i (;ci?. hct-Kiifttj - - Y YdSl They're Wanted. Business actiTity creates a demand f. business experts, and those who hold dipl mutt front our oollega are business expert ' They have little trouble finding plaoes. ati no traablo keeping them. Such diplomi I are gu trxntee* fitness. It's not guett ? work, and the possibility of disappoin ment in the new employee, but a guarai lee from us t) your ability. For full information, send now to the Columbia Business College. i COLUMBIA, 8. o. rr W. H. NEWBBRRY, President 4 I \ m i J *M^rjFffi52r V$T" I BEST PRESCRIPTION IS I T asteless Chill Tonic. I is plainly printed on every bottle?hence you I ou arc taking when you take Grove's. Imitators I heir formula knowing that you would not buy 1 you knew what it contained. Grove's contains I dut up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless B i acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the | i system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that I riglnml and that all other so-called Tasteless I imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows .? fl superior to all others in every respect. You nting when you take Grove's?its superiority flj having long been established. Grove's is the fi sold throughout the entire malarial sections of I No Cure, No Pay. Price. 50c. I Presbyterian College of South Carolina. 1 Next Session opens Sept. '2tt, 1901. Special rates to boarding students. Limited number can bo soooraraodated in Dormitory. f 100.00 will pay for boa*d, room-rent M matriculation, and tuition, for Collegiate year. Fire professors and one iustrnctor t in faculty. Moral influences good. Courses of study leading to degrees of B. A. and fl M. A. Fine Commercial Course. Write for catalogue or information of any kind to A. E. SPENCER,Clinton, 8. C. 1 1 What the Nations Owe fl f Modere Metbndi. 1 . An article summarizing the Burgl?,-Ilow >. gluln-on? I ? national debts Of the various Second Burglar-Bully! Doln' firt? I r countries of the world appears ^ rate. Bobbin* doctors now. I jus* ring 1 in a recent publication from the . th' bell late at night, an* tell 'em Mrs. I , bureau of statistics. It shows : Astorbilt is fallln' In a faint, on' they \ 1 a total of thirty-one billion, a mus'run fer her life. 1 HUTll that is Utterlv inconceiv- "Bah! You're way behind the times. 13 able, and which there is about Qulck M a P'llceman sees a man run3 as much chance of the world at night ha arrests 'im as a sua' ever paying air there in of electj inga Southern man President house."?N. Y Weekly next time. On a basis of per 1 r capita dept the following in- isterskssg. of confident. , terestillg and instructive figures "And now, my boy, don't have any i .i a as* secrets from your-father. \\ hat are - are given: In the Australasian r coll debts? Don't be afraid ? colonies the debt amounts to to trli mc the BUm the la8t > $263.90 for each individual. The cent." 3 citizens of Honduras each carry "i won't, father. The whole amount $219.60. The people of France is $5,327.50." . 1, ' Strain under a per Capita debt of "I thank you for your confidence* . $150.61. Ill Urguay it is $148.06; mJ bo7' and 1 wHl bo equally frank. in Portugal, $143.82: Argentinia ^ou D1R3" Pay those debts the best ! $128.85; Spain, $05.53; the way you can."-Chicago Tribune. - Netl erlands, $90.74; Belgium, a c?mf?, ? $75.63, and Great Britain, $74,- The carpet is bobbin* 3 83. Our burdens, much as we ti-J1 stra'wbsrfy-Tthrobbin* ? complain, are comparatively dumpim* and pie. } easy to bear, being only $! '..52 ?n. t. Herald. , per capita, tnojgli in Mexico height of cabelessxgss. ? the per capita debt is but $10.84 T The debt of the United *T~* i (pi* \N, - States in 18:55 was only ' - ?O (A>k f 000, and in 1800 was but (>4,000, ^ yjBft ' flfl - 000, hut in five years it had soarB edto$2,750,413,571.43the legacy wmW'h flfl y of our great, civil war. The j ef? r Kritish national debt is over t four billions, but like the United yv [ ^ t States, Great Britain still ex- lwP!Sj|h|a a pects to pay principal as well _ HB i as interest, or, at least, has no jj ' 'ftsJHhf _J s thought of repudiating it even I I j ?*.^$1 -^Hj t if it is never paid. France still I ! W H struggles to pay the interest on iMBffB" " " H c* her entire national debt, but at * least three-fourths of it is regarh ded as irredeemable, while e Spain, Italy, Turkey and AusI tria-Hungary are practically I bankrupt countries. Nobody "Heaven*1 Where did yow parrot j expects the debts of these na- J* *? "w#? ?? horribly, Mr.. j : tions to be paid. The only ques- x forj?ot to takc ^ from the I tion is, will the% be able to con- room v.*hiie Ifr. JonMUMlooldof to m tinue^to pay the interest."' War ^is collar button."?Chicago Ameri- fl L is a great debt builder, ami if can. ~B i{ Uncle Sam ever wants to see his _ ~ : # _ fl II . , , , , . OmpptlnK-Iron* of SncrMl. national debt wiped out he must Llfe uphm aU tha way_ r W ! se to it that the peace treaty u you eiimb, and wi?b to stay ? which sio-riAil it TIip Hairiio Where you are. you'll have to use. g 0 IIH 11 lit Sl^llt tl at 1 lit, na^u - Like all linemen, well-spiked shoes. fl hears better fruit than that ?Detroit Free pre?a. H o which has immediately follow- K-a not y?? i* i%h jM cd the peace conference. Yeast?I Just saw your wife In the ? ~ .. . other room. I, Si'-MAT HA Widows are tied 1 Crimsonbeak-Talklng? B down by an iron-clad custom. "Yesj I heard bar iav, as I passed, j When the husband dies the that she had arrived at a conclusion." | widow erects a flagstaff at lieri "Well, she hasn't Aone anything of j front door and flings a flag to the sort. She's talking yet."?Yon-| j n 4-1... i.??\ ? i --- ... . Tl Hie: uicc&u. tis me nag ""* - ??^g 'e remains untorn she must wear a nmt*. H 0 widow's weeds and keep in SO- "Well," she asked her old bachelor' d elusion. The moment a rent, no brother, &e she took the baby away B h matter how small, appears in from hlm. "*-bat do yon think of the I 10 the flag she can lay aside her dear 11M1? d?rliog. anyway?" 1 a. weeds and accept the first ofTer "5>,h' J ,^u\ino'" he BaJd* I ? that comes. ^ ~ I 1. Negroes throughout the state siimt orttteism. B i, are Said to be showing consider- "fihe is very rrice and all that; but B lj able interest in the Charleston ehe is altogether too oritieal." n exposition. "1 assure you rtie never speaks of J- ?_____?_____ ___you but in the klndlieat way." ' ' * 11 "P'rap3 so; but every time I see her I O&W i^Ll lllS* "he IT* me the impression that my I C) k_7M. ww AVJAAAO, frock doesn't fltl"-BrookIvn Life. ' I Corn Mills, the youngblooo i Cane. Mills, lumber company I $ Rice Hullers, ?uausxn.Q? 1 Jp0j^ |-| UHCrS Orrici a*d Works, North Acousta, 8. C- fl = Tpi . DOORS, SASH. BLINDS AND BUILDER S 9 Engines, HABDWARB j Boilers, i 7 FLOORING, 81DIN0, CEILING and IN 1 Iftnors and bide finishing lumber in fl Matchers, ?oeorgia pine. 1 ^ ^ ^ * All Correspond once given prompt atten i owing oaws, I lion. July 2?ly Ik Hip Saws, ~ ~ I and all other kinds of wood ^j^sV/v(/C/zA?/jm ? working machinery. My Ser yi'0?y?H geant Log Beam Saw mill is AT p a the heaviest, strongest, and H most efficient mill for the jSB ? money on the market, quiok, A(!?r6B!h. B,Q^" ?*IaiNOaR,n B P accurate. State Agent for h! *"1#1' SpartaabM,. S. q H ^ B. Smith Machine Company jH ^ wood working machinery, r/r~T ~9 l" For high grade engines, plain < */ <;??r J l^Ql l lide valve?Antomatio, and Rl|SlN Oorllss, write me: Atlas, "r.Zxr.,,. SCHOOL" SHORTWtND WB Watertown, and Strnthers Acmai Busmcssl' and Wells. <?c hcap'soard mtuations secured, j aim V. C. BADHAM, r ""**' " ' B? im Main Ste, Columbia, S. O J ^