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TALMAGB S 8K&H0N. y< Br. Talmage Arraign'* People Who Live Beyond Their Means. w ol la this disoourso Dr. Talmago shows g< the oaases of tho great financial die* m turbanoos which tako plaoe every few *' years and arraigns tho people who livo * beyond their means; text, Jeremiah ? xvii, 11, "As the partridgo sitteth on eggs and hatohoth thorn not, so ho that "getteth riohes, and not by right, shall V loavo thorn in tho midst of bis days and at hiR nncl nliall Via ?. fnnl " Allusion is hero made to a well known ,, faot in natural history. If a partridgo or a quail or a robin brood tho eggs of ' auothor speoies, tho young will not ^ stay with tho ono that happened to brood them, but at tho first opportuni- ^ ty will assort with thoir own spooicB. ^ Thoso of us who havo boon brought up w in the oountry havo soon tho dismay w of the farmyard hen, having brooded aquatic fowls, when after awhilo thoy (, tumble into thoir natural elomont, tho wator. So my text suggests that a man may gather undor his wings the property of others, but it will after awhilo esoapo. It will leavo tho man , in a sorry prodioamont and wako him feel very silly. What has caused all tho black days D of finanoial disasters of tbo last GO years? Somo say it is tho orodit bjb- , torn. Somothing back of that. Somo say it is tho spirit of gambling ovor and , anon becoming opidemio. Somothing v baokofthat. Some say it is tho suddon shrinkage in tho valuo of seouritics, whioh ovon tho most honost end intol- ' ligont mon could not havo forosccn. ? Something back of that. I will give . you tho primal oauso of all theso dis- . turbanoos. It is tho extravagance of 1 modern Booioty whioh impols a man to 0 spend more money than ho can hon- 2 estly make, and ho goas into wild ( speculation in order to got tho moans a for inordinate display, and somotimcs s' tho man is to blamo and sometimes his * wifo and oftonor both. Five thousand dollars inoomo, 110,000, $20,000 inoome, is not enough for a man to keop up tho stylo of living ho proposes, and J1 theroforo ho stoors his bark toward tho 1 maelstrom. Othor men havo suddenly Kj] snatched up $50,000 or $100,000. Why \l not he? Tho present incamo of tho man not being largo enough, ho must l: movo oarth and hell to catoh up with his neighbors. Others havo a oountry nntt' nn mnut Vio (lllinra ti.i.n ?? ^ travagant oatoror; so must lie. Others havo a palatial residence; so must ho. ,, Extravaganoo is tho oauso of all tho defalcations of tho last 60 years, and, if you will go through tho history of all the great panics and tho great financial 1 disturbances, no sooner havo you found 5 the story than right baok of it you will ^ find tho story of how many horsos tho man had, how many carriages tho man \ had, how many residences in tho ooun , try tho man had, how many banquets j tho man gavo?always, and not one ex- ! eeption for the last 60 years, either direotly or indirectly extravagance the oauBC. j Now for tho elegances and the refine- e ments and the decorations of life. 1 g oast my voto.. While I am considering {I subjeot c baskot of flowers is hand- M in?rioters paradisiacal \_^ito oalla with a green B ^background of begonia. A cluster of heliotropes nert'^^^in sorno goraniuy^Sepal and porianm^y^ing I tho marks of God's fingttr^'wlion 1 e see that basket of flowers, they per- a suado mo that God loves beauty and c adornment and decoration. God might tl havo made tho earth so as to supply the j, gross domands of sense, but left it with j, out adornment or atiraotion. Instead 0 of tho variegated oolors of the sea- | Bons tho earth might havo worn an un- c ohanging dull brown. Tho ireo might n havo put forth its fruit without tho r propheoy of leaf or blossom. Niagara c might havo oomo down in gradual des- 0 oont without thunder and winged spray. r Look out of your window any morn- ? ing after there has been a dew and sco y whether God lovos jewels Put a oiya- u tal of snow under a microscope and see what God thinks of arohitccturc. G yd commanded the priest of olden time to 0 havo hiB robe adorned with a wreath ll of gold and tho hem of his garment to 0 bo embroidered in pomegranates. The ? earth sleeps, and God blankets it with tho brilliants of tho night sky. Tho * world wakos, and God washes it from tho burnished lavcr of tho Bunriso. Ho b I have not muoli paticneo with a man ^ who talks as though dcooration and t' adornment and tho olcganocs of lifo aro a sin whon thoy aro divinely rcoom 1 1 i? i .1 ? ? ? mcnacu. i>ui mero IB a lino to Oc U1 drawn betwoen adornment and dooorations that wo oan afford and thoso wo " oannot afford, and when a man crosses 1' that lino ho bccomoB oulpablo. 1 can Si not toll you what is extravagant for you. You oannot toll mo what is ex ^ travagant for me. What is right for a A quoon may he squandering for a duchess. 11 What may bo eoonomioal for you, a man with larger inoomo, will ho wicked wasto for mo, with smallor income. 01 Thoro is no iron rulo on this subject. c* Every man boforo God and and on his G kneos must judgowhat is extravagance, ol ana when a man go^s into expenditures 1 beyond his moans ho is extravagant. ai When a man buys anything he cannot pay for, ho is extravagant. Ul Thoro aro families in all our oities who oan hardly pay their rent and who I" owe all tho merchant s in tho neighbor- w hood and yet have an apparol uufit for thoir circumstances and aro all the time I'' sailing eo near shoro that business mis- tl fortune or an attack of 6iokncHs pro- m pares them for pauperism. You know very well there aro thousands of farni- w lies in our groat oitios who stay in a! neighborhoods until they have exhaust- w cd all thoir capacity to got trusted m They stay in tho neighborhoods until 01 tho druggists will let them have no tb more medicines, and the butohcrs will S' soil them no more moat, and tho bak di ers will soil thom no more bread, and o' tho grocorymcn will soil them no more sugar. Then they find tho region uti- sv healthy, and thoy hire acatmau, whom "r they never pay, to tako th' ra to some new quarters whero tho morchants, tho druggists, the butchers, the bakerH and fu tho grocerymen como and givo them the best rounds of beof and tbo best bi sugars and tho best mcrohandit o of all gc sorts until they fiad out that tho only Nt oompensation they aro going to got is ar r Ai . M.L : iuu au^uaHrnuuuu1 iilO |Y?iruUH ? flCTO 1 aro thousands of such thieves in all our to big oitioa. 1 ou aoo I call them by the It' right name, for if a man buys anything hc he doea not mean to pay for hc ia a thiol , w Of oourao aometimoa mon aro Hung of o? miafortunea and they cannot pay, I he know mon who aro juat as honcat in A having failed aa other men aro lumen la in auooeeding. 1 suppose there ia hard- <|U ly a man who haa gono through life but ah there havo boon aomo times when ho or has boon bo hurt of misfortune ho oould of not meet his obligations, but all that I !'< put atido. There aro a multitude of or people who buy that whioh thoy never W intend to pay for, for whioh there is no aa ^^M^^MM^^rcBsona'alo expectation th y will ' ver pay. Now if you havo bocoiuo ga honesty and mean to do- th W" l^? naoroh^^a tnuoha* 9a oan? Why cot go aomo day to his oro sod when ncboly is looking Jast louldor tho hsm or the sparerib sad i modest silence steal away? That ould bo less criminal, boans) in tho tber way yoa take not only the man's 9ods, but you take the time of the lorohant and tirno of his aojouutant, [jd you tako tin time of the mepsongor ho brought you the goods. Now, if ou must stoal, stoal in a way to do as ttlo damage to the trader as possiblo. John Randolph aroso in tho Amorioau Mint n whnn t nurati.in nf nntinntl nance was being discussed, and, trotohing himself to his full height, ? a shrill voioo ho oried out, '"Mr. hai Jian, 1 have diBooverd tbo philosohor'B stone, which turns everything lto gold?pay aB you go!" Socoty as got to bo reconstructed on this sub ot or tho seasons of defalcation will ontinuo to report them solves. You avo no right to rido in a oarriago for hioh you arc hopelessly in dobt to tho boolnright who furnishod tho landau, nd totho horse dealer who provided 10 bloodol span, and to tho harness laker who caparisoned tho gay stoeds, nd to tho liveryman who has provided 10 stabling, and to tho driver who, ith roscttod hat, sits on tho ooaoh ox. Oh, I am so glad it is not the absolute ecossities of lifo whioh send people ut into dishonestiosand fling them in> misfortunes, it is almost always 10 superfluities. God has promised s a house but not a palaoo; raimont, ut not chinchilla; food, but not oanasback duck. I am yot to soo one of loco great dofaliationB whioh is not mncctcd in somo way with cxtravaDoo. Extravagance accounts for tho dislrbacoo of national finances. Aggregaons arc made up of units, and when no half of the pcoplo of this country wo the other half how can wo expect nanciil prosperity? Again and sgam t tho national election wo have had a pasrn of virtuo, and wo said, "Out ith ono administration and in with anther and let us have a now deal of lings and thon wo will get all over our orturbation." I do not oaro who is residont or who is secretary of the casury or how inuoh breadstuff*! go nt of tho oountry or how inuoh gold is nportcd until wo lenrn to pay our obts and it becomes a general theory l this ocuntry that men must buy no lore than they can pay for. Until lat time comes there will be no perlancnt prosperity. Look at tho porniious extravagance. Take the one faot ^iat Now York every year pays $3,000,00 for theatrical amusement. Whilo nco in awhile a Honry Irving or an Idwin Booth or a .Joseph Jtlfjreon Liril!9 a great audionoo with tragedy, ou know as well as I do that the vast lajonty of theaters aro as debased as chased they oan bo, as unclean as unlean they can bo and as damnable as amnablo they can be. Throe million ollars, the vast majority of those dolirs going in the wrong direotion. Over a hundrpd millions paid in this cuntry for ciagats and tobacco a year, tbout f-,000,000,000 paid for strong rink in onoyear in this country. With uch extravaganoo, pernicious extravaanoe, csd there be anv permanent rospority? Husinesa ineo, cool headd business men, is such a thing a pos ibilit> t Theso extravagances also coount, as I have already hinted, for he positive crimes, the forgeries, the bseondings of the officers of the banks, 'he store on the business street swampd by the rcsidcnco on the fa-thionablo venue. The father's iho husband's raft eapized by carrying too much doacstio tail. That is what springs tho eak in tho merchant's money till. That b what cracks tho pistols of tho suiides. That is what tears down the anks. That is what stops ia6uranoe ompanies. That is what halts this ation again and again in its triumhal maroh of prosperity. In the presnco of tho American people 60 far as 1 an get their attention I want to araign this monster curso of extravaaneo, and 1 want you to pelt it with our scorn and hurl at it your anatheta. IIow many fortunes overy year wreokd on the wa.drobo. Things have got o such a pass that whon we cry ovtr ur sins in church wc wipe the tears way with a $ 1 .">0 pocket bandkerohicf! show you a domcstio tragedy in five ots: Act tho first?A homo, plain and cautiful. K iter newly married pair. Inter contonment. Enter as much hap Act the second?Enter disoontont. Intor desiro lor largo expenditure. Eanvy. Enter jealousy. Aot tho third?Enter tho quconly ressmakers. Eater the Frenoh milnors. Eater ail oostly plato and all reat cxtravagaaoes. Aot tho fourth?Tiptop of society, rinces and princesses of upper tendon eating in and out. Everything on a irgc and magnificent soalo. Eoter conimpt for other people. Aet the fifth and last?Entor the asgnec. Eotor the sheriff. Eater tho -editors. Eater humiliation. Eater 10 wrath of God. Eater tho contempt f sooicty. Enter rum and death. Now rop tho curtain. The play it) ended, id tho lights are out. 1 called ii a tragedy. That is a misDiner. It is a farce. Extravaganoo counts formuoh of the luperisn. Who are theto people horn you have to help? Many of thorn 0 tho children of paronts who had cnty, lived in luxury, had moro than icy needed, spent ali they had, spent ore, too; then died and left thoir milies in provcrty. Some of thoso bo call on you now for aid had an roostry that supped on burgundy and oodirock. I could namo a score of en who have every luxury. They uoko the best cigars, and they driuk ic finest wires, and they havo tho andest surroundings, and when they e thoir families will go on tho cold larity of tho world. Now, the death suoii a man is a grand larceny. He kind'os the world as ho goes mto his ffin, and bo doicrvcs to havo his >uos sold to the medical museum for latomioal spco.mens, tho proceeds to irnibh brrai for hir. children. 1 know it outs olosc. I did not know it some of you in hivli dudgeon would it nn mill cr\ oni 1 it ?lit - ? I v. V/.41. I KJXA OlilUU IV WCII >mo of i oil main a great swash in life, ul after awhilo you will dio, and mm Urs wiil he sent for to oomu and staad 7 your oclhn and lio about your excel noes. Hut they will not oomc. If you nd for m<\ I will tell you what my t< xt ill bo: "Ho that providoth uoi forh.s rn, and especially for those of his own mschold, 's worse than an laftdcl." r.d yet we find Christian men, men of 'go mcaus, who somotiinos talk eloicntly about tho Christian churoh and louteivilizttion, expending everything i themsclvc-: and nothing on tho cause God, and they crack tho back of th ir tlais lioyai ylovo in trying to hidothc 10 cent thoy pat in the Cord's troasury. hat an apportionment! Twenty thou nd dollars for ourselves and ono cent r God. Ah, my friends, this extrsvanco aooou its for a groat deal of what o cause of God suffers. >d tho dosooration goos on, oven to ? -i .. - i .... . i . i. m. . the funeral day. You know very well that thore ere mon whodio solvent, but the exponaee are so great before they got underground ihoy are insolvent. There are families the* go into penury in wioked response to tho demands of this day. They put in casket and loaibstoue that which they ought to put in bread. They wanted bread; you gavo them a tombstone. Ono would think that tho Wst two obligations people wculd be particular about would be to tho physician and tho undertaker. Booauso they aro the two last obligations thoso two professions are almost always oheated. They send for the dootor in great haste, and ho mast oome day a id night. They Fend for tho undertaker amid tho great solemnities, and ofton those two iuon are the vory last to bo mot with compensation. Merchants soli goods, and tho goods aro not paid for. They tako back the goods, 1 am told. Bat thero is no reliof in this esse. The man spent all bo had in laxuriesand extravagance while ho lived., and then ho goes out of tho word and has left nothing for his family, nothing for the obsoquios, and as ho goos out of the world he stoals tho doctor's pills and tho undortakor's slippers. 1 was reading in a Now York paper an aooounl of tho obsoquios in a family of very moderate ostato, and tho aggregato was $-'1,000. A man in Now York of mouurato ostato dies. Ho has livod in extromo luxury. Ho doparts this life. The family, desirous of keopiDg up tho magniGconoo, orders tho following things; they wore produced and never paid for to this day: Casket, covered with Lyons velvet, silver moldings $ 850 Heavy plaited handles l>0 Solid silver plate, engraved in Roman letters 75 Ten linen scarfs 150 Floral decorations 225 Muaio and quartet choir at tho house... 40 Twenty carnages 140 Then 15 other important expenditures amounting to 33G Making an aggregate of $1,870 And all ihat to get one poor mortal to his last homo and never paid fot! 1*5 win died his family! Swindled tho world! ilo is swindling it now. It is one of the great oursts of this day, the oxtrava ganco, the wicked extravagance, of tho country. And then look how tho oauso of God is impoverished. Men givo so muoh sometimes for thoir indulgences they havo nothing for tho oauso of God and religion. Twonty-two million dollars expended in this country a year for religious purposes! But what aro thotweu ly-two millions expended for religion compared with the hundred millions ox ponded on oigars and tobacco and then two thousand millions of dollars spent for rum? So a man who had a fortuno of $750,(100, cr what amounted to that, iu London spent it all in indulgences, chiefly in gluttonies, and sont hither and you for all tho delicacies and often nan a meat tnat would 0081*1 DO or *200 for himself. Then ho was reduced to a guinoa, with which ho bought a rare bird, had it eeoked iu best style, a'e it, took two hours for digestion, walked out on Westminster bridgo and jumped into tho Thames?on a largo scaie what men aro doing on a small soalo. Oh, my friends, let us take our stand against tho extravagances of society. Do not pay for things which are frivolous whou you may lack too necessities. Do not put ono month's wagos or salary i mo a triokot, just ono triukot. Keep your orodit good by seldom asking for any. Pay! Do not starve a whole year to af ford ono lielshazlar's oaroiv&l. Dj not buy a ooat of many oolors and then in six months be out at the elbows. Flour ish not, as some people 1 bavo known, who took apartments at a fashionable hotel and had elegant drawing rooms at taohed and then vanishod iu the night, not even leaving their oompliments for tho iaodloid 1 toll you my friends, in the day of God's judgment wo will not only have to give an account for the way wo made our monoy, but for tho way wo spont it. Wo have got to leave all the things that surround us now. Alas, if any of you in tho dying hour felt like the dying actress who asked that tho casket of jewels bo brought to hor and then turned thorn over with her pale bar.)l and said, "A<.a\ that 1 have to leavo you bo boou! ' Better in that hour have ono iroasuro of heaven than tho bridal trousseau of a Maiie Antoi notto or to have been seated with Caligula at a banquet which oost its thousands of dollars or to have boon carriod to our last resting placo with senators and princos as pallbearers. They that eonseorato their wealth, their time, their all, to God shall bo held in ovcrlasting remembrance, while 1 have tho authority of this book for announoing that the name of tho wicked shall rot. DISPENSES AND CLERKS Have Their Salariea Raised By the State Board. Tho dirootors of the State disponeary recently rearranged tho salaries of dis pcnsers. Id many oases thero wore uo ohaDges, aud in no caso was there a reduction. The increases wero based upon the increase of busincHs during the fiscal year 1000 and the first half of 11)01. Tho following aro tho dispensers whoso salaries arc to bo inoreaucd with the amount of monthly salary stipulated in eaoh case: Adam's Hun., $10 to $50; Anderson, $75 to $80; litshopvillo, $05 to $70; Hiaoksburg, $50 to $55;Chcraw, $05 to $70; Charleston (Peroival), $05 to $75; Darlington, $75 to $80; Eutawville, $50 to $00; Fort Motto, $85 to $10; Gaftuoy, $05 to $70; Georgetown, $75 10 $83 33; Hampton $37.50 to $10; Korshaw $00 to $05; Lancaster, $00 to $05, Lexington, $45 to $50; Livington, $85 to $10; Luray, $25 to $80; Manning, $70 to $75 Marion, $05 to $70; Mavcsvtho, $81 to $50; Moncks' Corner, $ 10 to $50; Mount Pleasant, $50 to $55; Olar, $80 to $85; Pickens, $88 38 to $87 50; ltidgcland, $85 to $87 50; Saluda, $50 to $55; Scncoa, $50 to $55; St. Goorgos, $ 10 to $15; St Stephens $25 to $80; Summer villo, $00 to $05; l'oddviilu, $85 to $15; Laioa, $70 to $75; Varnville, $80 to $85; VVagngor, $85 to $87.50; Walt.alia. $10 to $13; Williston. $4<)to $P2 50; Winnsboro, $60 to $05. The di^pcnsus' cleiks who get raisos aro: And'.rson, $40 to $30; Bamberg, $40 to $.'50; Btmwoil, $15 ) to $45, Caaitlen, $45 10 $40; Jharkblon (Peroival), $ 10 to $ 11 06; Darlington, $40 to $50; GatTaoy, $:'.0 to $155, Orooaville (Hill), $ 10 to 45; K rthaw. $4) to .'15; L*hcrh tor, $40 to $45 .Manning $40 to $45 Orangoburg, $40 to $50 Suiuiiierville, $40 to $43; WiODtiboro, $40 to $45. From the statement of tho board tho dispensary at Georgoaown doos more business than any other single institution Tho Anderson dispensary cuios olosj to that at Georgetown. A Noble Charity. Lowifl K kin, a 1'hiladelphiiu, has bequeathed two million dollars to establish a homo for disabled female school Dashers. Mr. E kin setvod for twonty yoars on tho board of eduoation, and 'sas thus brought in sympathetic touch with tlu^HlM^^Dxl! COTTON HAS IMPROVED Bat the Catlook for a Corn Crop it Gloomy. Tho following is tho weekly bulletin of tho condition of the weather and the orops issued Wednesday by Director Bauer of tho South Carolina sco tion of the olimat? and orop service of tho United States woathcr bureau: Tho week ending 8 a. m., Monday, July 15th, had ooarly normal temperature, bat was slightly cooler than usual over tho southeastern portion, whero there was also a defioiecoy in sunshine. Tho week's maximum was 100 at Blaokvilln on tho 12ih, and tho minimum was (15 at Greenville and "ipartauburg on thoh, 10 hand lUh. Thero was one severe local storm in Piokons aouaty, and thero woro high, drying winds daring the middle of tho week throughout tho State. Showers wore frequent, and somo quite heavy, along tho southeastern coast and over tho northeastern oouuties, and thero were light scattered showers elsowhore, but gonorally throughout tho State thero was no rain until tho 14th, when showery oondi tioas provailed over tho wholo State Pain was badly needed for all arops, although tho absonce of rain was favorablo for oloaning orops and giving them muoh needed cultivation. Some holds aro still grassy, and will either bo abandoned or allowed to mako what they will in thoir foul oonditiou. Cotton improvod under cultivation, and, although still vory small, looks hoalthy and is fruiting better than last week. Most of the fields have been oleaned of grass, and tho plants aro growing slowly. Ia plr.coa cotton continues to havo a yellow oolor, and there aro reports of shedding loavos and squares. Soa island is thriving, but the plantB aro dwarfed, and blight is present in spots. Old oorn iB extremely poor and will soarcely mako half an avorago orop, while later plantings are more promising. Bottom land oorn is praatioally a failure. In oortain widoly separated sfc'iona tho oorn crop is exoollont, but its avorago condition is low. Tobaoco cutting and outing made rapid progress. In looalitios an improvement in oondition is noted, whilo generally tho orop remains poor and inforior. Rice is thriving and responds to out tivation, but in Colleton county caterpillars aro doing great damago. Mel ons arc only beginning to ripen and will have pior yields. Sugaroano, sorghum and peas are doing nicely. Sweet potatoes look promising. Tho dry weather caused pastures to tail rapidly, l'eaohos and grapeH aro still rotting, but not so extensively as heretofore. Apples oantinno to drop. Coining This Way. Tho Atlanta .Journal cava: Slnnhtr. t ?f ~ ? J lomt, a cattle disease, -which has formerly bei n confined to Texas and other western ctates, has mado its appear anoo in north Georgia in tho neighborhood of Lost Mountain, and a large number of cattle areatfccted by it. The first symptoms of tho disease are a sweliiDg of tho animals oyes, whioh turn whito. The pupil oontre^ts into a small ball and the eyes hava a tendency to bulgo from their sockets. Tho animals appear to be cryitig, and the il >w of acqueous humor seems to scald the hair trom tho faoo. Tho animal finally becomes totally blind nod it is not ablo to feed or water itself. It is then considered a kindness to kill it and not allow it to wander around tho fields enable to take oaro of i'self. The rcuiody of tho diseaso is to isolato the ease and uso antiseptic washes. Also to keep tho animal from tho light as that aggravates the diseaso. Dr. flonry G. Uaraea, of Atlanta, was sent for several days ago to visit tho section where the diseaso was discovered and ho has returned bringing with him a head of a calf that was affected. Lightning's Terrible work. At 3:30 o'olcck Tuesday afternoon, during a sevoro elootrio svorm, Henry Davenport and Ei?11 Harvey, two industrious farmers living three miles abovo Wiliiamston, who wero at work in the field, took shelter from tho rain under somo pines, whou they were nlruok by lightning and both killed instantly. Tho bodies wore removed to Mr. Davenport's residoneo an hour later and Dr. Frank M. Lander did everything possible to rosusoilate them but their livos wore extinct. Mr. Davenport was 11 years of age and leaves a wifo and eight small ohildren, tho oldost being but 11 years old. Mr. Harvey was 20 years of ago and leavos a wifo with three nhildr.in the rnnn??a? , uu?uft a babo two months old. By that fatal bolt 11 ohildrco are fathorloss, two wives aro widows and two homes aro wreoked. How a Thisl Wo offer Ono Hundred Dollar Howard for any oaso of Catarrh that cannot bo ourud by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Tolodo.O Wo the undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney for tho last lb years, and beliovo him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially ablo to carry out any obligations undo by thoir firm. West & Thuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldinu, KinmanAc Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall s Catarrh Cure in takon internally, aoting dirootly upon tho blood and muoous surfaces of tho systom. Tes tiinonia'.s sont free. Frioe T5o. per bottlo. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Fills are tho boat. Filipiuos Offer. In a statomont for tho press Thursday Wm, J. Bryan gives his version of the story tint Aguioaldo promised him financial assistance in his campaign of a year ago. Mr. Brvan says it was while ho was in Now York that two Filipinos sent a request to confer with hiiu. Ho dcelinod to meet them and sont a friend toexplain that lie did not think it pro por to hold a oonfcrcnco. Tho Filipinos said that Aguinaldo was willing to i-isuo a proclamation promising to 1 i - ' * isj uuyvii nrius, iu o*so oi iTir. n:j?n s oiootioo, and also wan willing to contribute to the Djiuocr.it campaign fund, but Mr. Dryan refused to conbidor either propos tion and did not requiro them to furnish any evidonuo of their right to represent Aguinaldo. Attacked by Strikers. Tuesday afternoon three of tho nonunion men who havo taken tho plaoos in the So'ithero Railway machine shops at Columoia made vacant by tho strikers were attaoked white returning homo by six men, three of whom wore strikers. The nainos of tho non-union men are EJgar Marshall, E. X. Altinan and tho lattcr's brother. E X. Altinan is in bed ard is thought to hs badly burl internally. lie wan felled to tho ground by a brickbat and then kioked. Tho othor two insn wore struck in tho faocs by thoir assailants and knocked down.' ARC LIGHT RAYS TREATMENT. . Physicians in New York are Using ' the Method Tho iiuooess aohicvcd in the treat iucut of some duoascj by the high fie quenoy, or ohcmioai, rays of tho eleo trio light is atlrao.ing the attention of in toy persons in yarioai pir.s of the w >rld Experiments bsvo domonstatci, it is ssid, that tho rays destroy, nmocg other things, tubercle bacilli, and cause dilation of tho oapiii tries, with corresponding circulatory changes at d increased nutritive activity, domo of these experiments in phototherapy, especially thoso made by Dr. Neils K Fiasco of Coponhagon, have aroused wide-spread oewmont. lie is the in vontor of tho tubo which boars his namo. In this oity a number of physicians are using the Ficsen tubo and othor apparatus for similar purposes in troatiug oertain affoouons. O .e of those physioianss is Dr. Margaret A. Cleaves. According to a roport Dr. loosen had effected up to December 31, 1899, 311 ourea out of 462 oases of lupus vulgaris la tho Fiasco light department of the London Hospital tho numbt r of oases of lupus vulgaris treated each day iB about one hundred. Queen Alozandra was instrumental, it is said, in having this method of treating oertain diseases tested in the London Hospital. Not only has tho lupus vulgaris boon successfully troated by tho use of tho Finson tube, but redout uloor and cancer. It is said that the most oonolusivo tosult in tho use of tho Finsen tube has boon aohiovod in thotroatment of lupus vulgaris. In tho trcatmont of tuberoolosis, of pulmonary tuberoolosis, asthma, bronchitis, anaomia, neuritis, rhoumatism and suoh skin diseases as aono and psoriasis, Dr. Cleaves uses a cabinet. Tho oabinot contains an ordinary wiro mattress oot, whioh is mado up as a bod, and on whioh tho patient reolinos. Tho current is taken from tho Edison inoandosoont mains at 120 volts prossure, and each lamp takes about 10 amperes at 50 volts, the remainder be ing consumed in tho rheostat. The zinc lining is painted white to faoili tato tho reflection of light, and as tho patient lies at rest in tho hath ho is bathod, it is said, iu a flood of light from sourots of 4,000 total nominal oandlopower. Tho eyes of tho patient aro protected by means of oolorad. glasses. Lortot and Gonoud of Lyons, Franco, aro two of the leading photothorapeu lists of that country.?Now York Tribune. SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. Important Order Issued by Postmaster GeneralA special from Washington Wednesday says Postmaster General Smith to day signed thrco ordors amending id important particulars thrco postal regulations effecting second class mail matter. Tho changes will effect sweep ing and radioal reforms in tho department practices and methods of treating thia class of matter. Tho fitst order amends Section 276, whioh is tho general definition, so as to czcludo from tho scoond e'ass publi cations which have the oharacteribtios of books. This amendment is in thote words: Periodical publications herein referred to aro heli not to include those having the characteristics of books, but only such as consist of current news or miscollanoous literary matter, or both, (not excluding advertising) and conform to the statutory charac tcristcs of Bcoond class matter." rr i v ~ i no second oraer amends Section 281 in several particulars the princi pal one hoing that publications, the subscriptions to which arc notfoundod on their value as news or literary journals, and which by tho general use of premium or other considerations in the form of chanocs to win prizes, etc., to induce subscriptions, in effect circulate at apparently a nominal rate, will bo excluded from tho second class. Tho essential paragraph of this is as follows: "Tho subscription price must bo shown by tho publicatibn, and whon it appears from tho contents, or from tho extrinsic inducements offered in oom b:uation with it, that tho circulation of the publication is not founded on its valuo as a news or literary journal, and thai subscriptions aro not made because of such va'.uo, but bccauso its offers of morchandios or other oonsidcr ation result, in cffut, in its circulation at apparently a nominal rate, suoh publication does not come within tho requirements of tho law for acceptance as socond class matter.' Tho third ordor amends Section 301, so that insold oopios of sooond class publications may not bo roturnod at tho pound rate to news agents or to publishers. Au explanatory c.. ^cnt givon out at tho department regarding tho ordor says: The action of 1'oai.mastor General Smith is regarded as highly important. It is ovidonoo of tho purpose of the dopartmont to administor tho law as it is strictly and properly and that abuses wborovcr found will bo eradicated. Loose and inditforont interpretation herotoforo is responsible for tho loss of many millions to tho government. It is boliovod that whon tho < il jot oi the changes is thoroughly established many postal improvements will follow, and ono cent letter Dost agj will bo made possiblo." Behaved Badly. G jv. MoSwccdot roocived a letter Friday from Sheriff Jno. It. Logan of York county tolling him of tho very pcouliar action of a North Carolina sheriff. Somo time ago Sheriff Logan askod tho North Carolina sheriff to arrest for him ono James L'ndsay, a negro, wanted in York oounty for murder. Tho sheriff at Xowton, N. CM did arrest Lindsay and notified Sheriff Logan, stating that the fellow was willing to oue without a requisition. Tho South Carolina sheriff had already informed tho North Carolit a offijer that thcro was no reward for tho negro. Sheriff L >gao sent a deputy on to bring tho negto luck. Tho North Carolina sheriff refused to givo him up, saying that ho would not do so without a reward and threatened even to turn tho negro looso. Tho deputy oarno back without his man. Then Sheriff L )?an informed Gov. McS^ocnoy and Friday requisition papers were issued upon the governor of North Carolina and Sheriff Liganistogo on to Njwton himself. Gov. McSwceney will probably report tho very reprehensible oondaot of tho North Caroliaa ofBcor to tho governor of North Carolina for such action as he umy coeni | roper. Freight Trains Collide. A head end collision between two looal freight trails on the Missouri, KanHan and Texan road near Wymark, 1. T., killed five mon, and threo others were fatally injured. The doad aro: .loo Morris, l'anons, J amen Lovillo, brakoman, I'arsonr,'Frank Fasgorald, brakoman; two unknown tramps. IHL . WHBN CON8IGNE8 MUST MOVE The State R ilrond Commission Adopts New Storage Rults. Tbe State rrilroad oommissionir Fri day made public its new storago rules. Tuo oommission has been working on the matter for some time and has gono over all tho rulos of tho southern StaUs. There have been several conferences with the railrcad officials and the offi >ers of tho oar servioe association. Tho new rules are cm bodii d in tho following aotion of tho board: Whereas an act was passed by the general assembly of South Carolina at 11... .....I : r mm -_J ? ius 1C&UIBI OCBD1UU ui idq mcroaftor Approved by the governor on tho 15th day of February, A. D. 1901, au thorising and requiring tho board of railroad commissioners, ' to fix and presoribe a schedule of maximum rates and charges for storage made and oharged by tho railroads doing business in this State, and to fix what time after the reception of freight at place of destination suoh charges of storage shall begin" and for othir purposes. Now be it Resolved, That wo tho board of railroad commissioners do by virtue of tho authority conferred by said act, fix the following ralos and maximum rates for storage oharges to apply to all freights stored by tho railroads doing business in this State: 1. All freight roooived for delivery is subjoot to storage regulations. 2 All paokago freight not removed by owners from the custody of tho railway company, within seventy two (72) hoars after legal notioe of tho arrival theroof has boon given to consigneo, oomputed from 12 o'olook of the day following tho date of such notice of arrival, shall thorcafter bo suljoot to a charge for Btoragc, as set forth in lute 4 of these regulations. 3 Prompt notioo shall bo given to consignees of the arrival of freights, and tho said notice must show dato of its issue, and tho limo allowed for re moval without ohargo for storage. 4 Tho maximum oharges for tho storago of freight by tho railroads when stored in the w&rohouses of tho said railroads in this 8tate, shall bo as follows: For fivo days and under, 1 oent per hundred pounds per day. For 10 days and over 5 days, G conts per hundred pounds. For 20 days and over 10 days, 8 conts per hundred pounds. For 30 days and over 20 days 10 oonts per hundred pounds. For 40 days and over 30 days 13 cents per hundacd pounds For 50 da^ s and over 40 days, 15 conts per hundred pounds. Kaoh additional week and fraotion thereof thereafter, 1 cent por hundred pounds Tho minimum charge for any ono shipment shall be five oonts. Not inoro than $1 per day shall bo charged for any ono consignment not in exoesa of a oar load. 5. A consign? living four miles or over from the depot, and, whose freight in destined to his residence or plaoc of business to located, shall not bo snbjeot to storage charges allowed in the above rules nntil a sufficient tim. has elapsed after notice for said consignee to romove said goods by the exercise of or dioary diligenoo G. Shipment'* detained beoauso billed to order and awaiting bills of lading of instructions as to disposition, shipments hold for want of billing instructions, shipments held for inspection, change of billing or for any other purposo, by owner or his agent are subject to storago oharges, and if suoh freights aro forwarded to any other point accrued storage will be added to the billing as back charges. 7?_ Tho rates heroin proscribed are maximum rates, but these regulations will not be held to be violated, if lower rates made by the roads provided that all shippers at tho samo pcint are assessed similar rates without discrimination. 8. Legal holiday and Sundays shall not be takon into aooount, in reckoning the 72 hours herein allowed for re movai 01 iroignt without charges. J Dae diligence on the part of tho shipper or consignee to remove freight promptly shall be doemod by the railroads a sufficient ground upou whioh to remit storagos ohargos acoruiog by reason of bad weather or impassible roads. 10. Freight and storage charges must bo billed in seporato items though they may bo billed on the same sheet. J. C. Wilborn, Chairman. 0. W. G arris, J. H. Wharton, Commissioners. D P. Duncan, Scoretary. In speaking of tho new storage rules Commissioner Garris, who has given tho maltor much study, Friday Baid: "The new rules practically doublo the froo timo heretofore allowed by tho roads, investigation disoloses that tho freights removed, upon whioh storage has heretoforo boon assessed, havo remained from ono to t>0 days of the storago period within the oustody of tho roads, making it very fair to estimate 20 days as an average period upon whioh storago has been charged on freights. For this average period tho commissioners soalo shows a 50 per cent, tcduotion. "The interest of shippors who live at a distaooo is duly cared for in rule 5, while rule 0 makes inclement weather and bad roads an element of oondsidoration in reckoning timo. "Tho oommissioa had beforo it tho railroad storago regulations in forco throughout tho south and west, thus enabling it to give South Carolina a sot of rules carved from tho best practices of tfio whole country." After H Desperado. Sheriff Martin has font a posse to tho wild country abovo Charleston to search the swamps fcr William Johnson, a colored dosporado. who has thn snntinn in ft wild state of icrror. Johnson is wanted for murder. A day or two ago ho kuicd William Barns without provoufttion, and threatened to kill any of the Utter s frietdi if thoy interfered. The naaao morning ha shot another negro r.nniod Smith. Sj ith and a orowd were playing tbo gamo of ikin. Johnson said that if his card ?ho wad somebody would bo killed, and a few m*nuiwa later when hu was forced to drop out of tho gains ho drew Lis pistol and bored a hoio through Smith's body. After tho shooting ho tossed his hat on the ground, drew another pistol aud ordered all tho players to doposit their cash in tho hat. Thoy did so in quiok order. As soon as he had pocketed tho uionoy, Johnson tired a volley to provo to tho nogroes that ho meant business, and then walkod away. VVlit u ho killed Burns tho omstablos in tho neighborhood stated on his trail, but they thought it wiser to lot him go. The posso from the oity is making a careful scaroh for the desperado. [I Presbyterian College of South Carolina. Next Session opens Sept. 26, 1901. Special rate* to boarding student*. Limited number can be accommodated In Dormitory. f 100.00 will per for boe'd, room-rent luatrioalnion. and tuition, for Collegiate year. Five profeesor* and one instructor In facultr. Moral iuflueooe* good. Courses of study leading to degrees of B. A and M. A. Fine Commercial Course. Write for catalogue or lnfonmation of any kind to A. K 81'KMCER, Clinton, 8. C. NEARLY SUNK BY A RIVET. I~ . ? -wEn JSS Little Thing Nearly Caused the Loss c*irereN*"^rr nTsLJ* CriSSVSZF* Li nfaltasmsbin - Tho strangest Btory I ever heard of the boa relates to a oonnor rivet whioh I ce*PtTaTT \/f, was accidentally lift in the bilge on tho ' V ^ /U.lXjf ^ bottom of tho Bhip by the builders, be- ewntsj \/ twcon two ribf, whero it rolled baok MevTJ^t and forth with the motion of tho vessel '' ytf until it had worn a hole through the ~ ~~ "I \ pl?to3, says tho Chioago Keoord Herald. \-^ ' \\^ JP This remarkable event took place off | '\ the coast of Jcru. Some years ago a | af vessel loaded with guano worth several thousand dollars oaught fire in the south YcSl They're Wanted. Paoifio, and was abandoned by the-, Bu?lue? aotlTity creates a demand f>r oiptiii and orcw, who 011x10 ishoro id biuinew experts, aad thcie wbo hold diplotho small boats and reported the disss- mas from our oollege are business experts, ter. "Jacx" E/re, of the firm of W. K. They hare little trouble finding places, and Grace & Co , Now York, to whom the no trouble keeping them. Hich diplomas guano was consigned, ia a daring fellow, are gu trwitees fitness It's not gueesand determined to save that cargo if wor*', tt?d the Polity of disappointpo.diblo He be,;, th.t 8?.?o would " }?< not bur*. *nd was his opinion p01 fmi information, bend now to the that tho hulk of tho ship might be found floating somewhere at soa and Columbia Business College, tho valuable cargo recovered. He, pot ttmri a r p tberoforc, oharterod a small Eiglish tramp that happened to be at Callao, W. H. NEWBERRY, President, and Btarted out to searoh for tho doro- __________ Aflor oruisiog for two or three weeks Slf) \ur 1VT Ilia he found her, just aa he had expeoUd, ** X J llfiOy tho woodwork burned to the water's TVTIllia edge, but tho hull sound as a dollar and VyOril iu. lllo^ the cargo all right. Thoy towed her iaw*vi into Callao, but tho day before reach- I ,UTip \1 1 I I fa ing that harbor the tramp tboy had V*U.IiX3 .TlllitS, charter, d bf gin to fill very rapidly and f T 111 lorq the pumps could scarcely keep her JLVI.vy" XX li. 1 l"l ?5$ afloat. Thoy narrowly escaped sinking r-^ p? a with all on board The leak was a l*ea llullCrS, mystery. They bad met with no acoi- * dent and thero was no reason te Buspeot IV Y119*1 tipc anything wrong with the plates, for the ship had been in dry dook shortly be- -pa * foro sho loft Liverpool, and was rated xSOllCFSa Al, being only between two and throe yoars old. They managed to got he: to XM q fx OT*u Q Tlfl Callao only by tho greatest exertion, tXlliJ. and many a time they feared thoy layr a. . 1 could not keep her afloat so long. iYI ft LCll0FSa When tho ship went into the dock ' m and was examined, it was found that ^XVITIUP Kil WW oro of her plates about tho center had o worn through. Further investigation f-Ji-ra Crinra demonstrated that tho damage had boon JLYlT) iOttW Sj done by a little copper rivet whioh had u , . , been accidentally left in the bottom and in a.^ Other kindtj of wood had rolled back and forth over the same working machinery. My 8erbpot bo often and so long that the iron geant Log Beam Saw mill is plate bad been worn through. The mis- the heaviest, strongest, and e^e!?y_y_et5? ukcD most efficient mill for th? vv?w MUW pawowa *ou m uu t ?UDI Vjr . i i . , Shipbuilder! tell me that this is not money on the market, quick, au unoommoD thing. It ia always cus- accurate. State Agent for H. tomary, as a i reoaution to make a B. Smith Machine Company through scaroh of the bottom of a now wood working machinery, ship for rivets and copper fillings and ^ other loose metal. Copper fillings are gh grade engines, plain especially dangerous, because under Slide valve?Automatic, and cortain conditions they are apt to set Corliss, write me: Atlas, up a little galvacio battery and do an Watertown, and Struthera immense amount of damage. and Wells Got Stuck. V^C^BADHAM, ?At KiDgmao, Km., one of the 1336 Main 8t- Q. C ^ ohurches has just been refurnished and ??????????? one of the pews oovcrod with a fi jo coat THE YOL!NGRl_OOD of varnish, ' says the Kansas C.ty Journal. /Th? varnish was suppoied to be LUMBER COMPANY dry, but cn buaday the whole oongre- ~~ gation found itself glued to the scats. augusta. ga. When the people arose it sounded like 0rFICB ABD WoaKfli NoBTH AlGBatA> a. c. a bunoh of oattlo pulliag their seat out of stiff mud, and on eaoh scat there DOORS, SASH, BLINDS AND BUILDER'S was left a lot of lint pulled from the ' garment!. Ho muoh of this lint was HARDWARE. left that it is easy to distinguish the _ sitting place of eaoh person, and all FLOORING. SIDING, CEILING amd INof the pews mu9t be sandpapered and SIDE FINISHING LUMBER IN varniahad over." GEORGIA PINE. An Infernal Machine. All Correspondence given prompt atten Sj John J. Kleek, employed as a olerk tion. July 2?ly B in the offioe of the Brooklyn board of B public works, Thursday reoeivod a queer ?? H looking obj jot through the mail. Whilo A0 I he and Edward Schroedrr, a draught!- B mxn, wero opening the package, it sud- f,S~. if?r t,/* r'/Yr I denly exploded. Sohrocder'a right B hand was blown off by tho blast. Tho y MB paokage was found to be an infernal A-. |B machine. Benjamin E Kosenbloom a |H draughtsman, employed in tho same ^B. W. Gitsinqer, BH offioe, was arrested charged with hav- box 106, Spartanburg, 8. 0. Bj ing soot tho maohine. ????????????????????? A Foolish Story. Q0LLE^l^ B A story sent out from Washington OniiiiU f H tho othor day, and printed in several DUSI ^ IB ucwapMporB, was to me tnoot mat the *** ounyua- an vmnwnu Kepubliaan party was getting ready to .Actual Businessj ir/ie/C?/S'rA^ Gd. RH "abandon its old time pension polioy at ^theap"Board I^sihiations secured. h no distant day and repeal^ all of the ? ? ?? ^ M existing pension laws." There never was a more foolish hot weather story. mi n n t 9HI Tho Republican party stands in too The Epworth League. H doadly feax of the Grand Army of tho The International Epworth League Republic and tho pension attornoys to convention woioh a?sembled in San make any radioal ohange in the pension Fraooisot Thursday for a sosftioa that Hfl laws. oontinucd through to Ja'y 21 represented a mighty religious organization IHj "You ask for my daughter's hand, and ono that hat had a rccaarkablo hiseh? You'll find it a pretty heavy one, tory. It was attended by delegates 9fl young man. She's just broken a plate from every state and territory of the . over her mother's headl" ? Ally Union and from all parts of tho world. !? Sloper. The loaguo takoa its name from the n?__M villago and restory whers the fa'.her of SB Bald he: "Wife, you're crowned with your J?hn ?nd OharlcJ Wesley lived and. Hj beauty; labored and whore the great founder of Mi No one can dispute me in that." Methodism passed his you h. Ths Hp- ffim ?'< th8: if y<iUid b.lil do o1."r <,",Vk ... worth leagus has attained its present g I it he crowned besides with a new hat. . - , , , And that night when they both slept upon 8fC*t propor.ions in a remarkan.y Bhort it. time. It was not founded until Mty ffipg What visions their light slumbers mil 15 1889. whon its fi *8t Olgauizzion aHi She bad a sweet "dream of a bonnet" ' 1 . ?..l xHbB And i.e a i-ad dream of tho bin. w?9 10 CJentralLl"uroh, Cleveland, ?Leslie's Weekly. O. The modest church in whioh the j-jglg _ ? original Epworth league meeting was M neat for All Concerned held has tneu replaced by one t f the fig Con,edy-I noticed you in the au- u t and m0Jt boaulifu, houses of WB dienoe Inst night. What did you think wor6hip in Americz, called the Ep- ?9 r .? ^"r ' . . . worth Minimal. contributions for ES '' a<\ ,v*11 ej.f?11" this straoture wcra mado bv M thodists Bj Comrdy-Whst did you think the j ? f United Stales. The f& beat thin*/ I cot ofT ? - 9 r .. .... first meeting of thn representatives of Qriteek -The stage.- Philadelphia tho pre8ont\r^njzztion was held in St. Louis in May, 1891, and delegates MB Heroic Treataeat, from 5,572 chapters attenied. That %flB Marjorie?She is one of the hardest convention prepared a me moral to the |j||3| worked girls in the city. goneral cocfercco;* of the Mothodist SUBg Madge?Why, what does the do? church, north and south, asking the H| Marjorie?Follows the directions In recognition of the Rpwcrth league a? 2?8S the Sunday papers showing how to part of the regularohurch organizition. H make her faco beautiful.?Town Top- This was granted readily and the league rsgH hs. has grown matvelonUy. It has exAn Kiprri Opinion. teilded ft?008 Methodists in every Kg "Our new cook is way up in Ms- country of thn world, has enlarged toricul novels. Yesterday she had a "d dm raided the ecopo cf Its work, warm discussion with my wife over *8 onl18t?d * vast army of members tb? fate of Joan of Arc." whose ,s Unions and has beoorae a -Knew nil about it, did she?'* mighty power for goou ? Atlanta Jour"Yes. She's something- of a ateak n&1- j|3B8 burner herself."?Cleveland Plain ? J9B9 Dealer. _____ Goes Up for Life. one w*r ?o oet hi?i of i?. \ dispatch from Manila says Gen. "You say my wife has swallowed Aquino, who hss been proved to be some foreign substance, and you can't responsible for the murdor of five oap cei.i to .reach it, doctor?" tive soldiers of the Twelfth United "J hat a it, exactly." States infantry, has besn setenced to ' Well, what can we do, doctor?" imprisonment for life. Many native|^^B||? I would recommend aix days on an murderers have been hanged or im^HQM?lga ocean liner,"?Yonkerw Statesman prisoned. ^K?kJ|M?1