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?HE LIFE OF JOSEPH. REV. DR. TALMAGE SHOWS IT TO DE PULU OF PRACTICAL LE660N8. lt I Hunt rutes tho VAob 'i'd ut You Cannot Hoop tv (looa Binn Down ami That tho World Is Oouiiiollotl to Itouor Christian Charaotor. W> siHNoroN, April v?. - Tho sermon of ?tey. Dr. Tulmago today is full of stirring and practical lessons for all, Washington has mauy mon who, like tho hero of tho toxis, started from al most nothing and roso to high placo. Tho textsohosen were: Genesis xxxvii, 28, "Thoy drew and lifted up Joseph out of tho pit and sold Joseph to tho Ishmaolitos for 20 pieces of silvor." Genesis xiv, 20, "He is govornor o vor all tho land of Egypt." You cannot keep a good man down. God hasdeoreed for him a certain point of elevation. He will bring him to that though it cost him a thousand worlds. You sometimes lind men fear ful that they will not bo properly ap preciated. Every man comos to ho valued at just what ho is worth. You cannot write him up, and you cannot writo him down. These facts aro powerfully illustrated in my subject, lt would bo an insult to suppose that you wore not ali familiar with tho lifo of Joseph-how his jealous brothers threw him into a pit, but seeing a cara van of Arabian merchants trudging along on their camels, with spices and gums that loaded tho air with aroma, sold their brother to these merchants ; who carried him down into Egypt; Josoph there sold to Potiphar, a man of influence and oilico; how by Joa oph's integrity ho raised himself to high position in the realm until, under the false charge of a vilo wretch, ho was hurled into tho penitentiary ; how in prison ho commanded respect and confidence; how by tho interpretation of Pharaoh's dream ho was freed and became tho chief man in tho realm, the Bismarck ol'his century; how in the time of famine Joseph had tho con trol of a magnificent storehouse which ho had filled during tho sovon years of plenty; how when his brothers, who had thrown him into tho pit ana sold him into captivity, applied for corn ho sont thom homo with tho beast of burden horno down under tho heft of the corn sacks; how tho sin against their brother which had so long been hidden came out at last and was re turned/by that brother's forgiveness and kindness, tho only revengo ho took. You seo, in the first place, that tho world is compelled to honor Christian character. Potiphar was only a man of the world, yet Joseph roso in his estimation until all tho affairs of that great house were committed to his charge. Prom his servant no honor or confidence was withhold. . When Josoph was in prison ho soon won the heart of tho keeper, and, though placed thero for being a scoundrel, ho soon convinced tho jailor that ho was an innocent and trustworthy man, and, roleased from close conlinomont, ho became general superintendent of pris on affairs. Wherever Josoph was placedj whether a servant in the house of Potiphar or a prisoner in the peni tentiary, ho became the first mau ovory whore and is aa illustration of tho truth I lay down-that tho world is compolled to honor Christian charac ter. Thore are those who affect to des pise a religious lifo. They speak of it as a system of phlebotomy by which tho man is bled of all his courago and nobility. They say he has bomeaued himself. They pretend to have no moro confidence in him sinco his conversion than before his conversion. Bnt all this is hypocrisy. Thero is a groat deal of hypocrisy in the church, and there is a great deal of hypocrisy out side the church. It is impossible for any man not to admire ana confide in aman who shows that ho has really be come a child of Goil and is what ho professes to bo. You cannot despise a son of tho Lord God Almighty. Of course we havo no admiration for the sham of roligion. 1 was at a place a few hours aftor tho ruffians had gone into tho rail train and demanded that the passengers throw up their arms, and then these ruffians took tho pocketbooks, and satan comos and suggests to a man that ho throw up his arms in hypocritical prayer and ?iretonsion, and then steals his soul, for tho mere pretension of religion we have abhorrence. Red wald, the king, after baptism, had an altar of Christian sacrifico and an altar for sacrifico to devils? and thero are many men now attempting the samo thing half a heart for God and half a heart for the world-and it isa dead failuro. and it is a caricature of religion, and tho only successful assault ever made on Christianity is tho inconsistency of its professors. You may have a con tempt for pretension to roligion, but when you behold the excellency of Jesuit Christ come out in the lifo of ono of his disciples all that thorois good and noble in your soul rises up into admiration, and you cannot help it. Though that man bo far beneath you in estate as the Egyptian slave of whom we are discoursing was beneath his rulers, by an irrevocable law of your nature Potiphar and Pharaoh will al ways esteem Josoph. When Eudoxia, tho em press, threat ened Chrysostom with death, ho mado the reply, "Toll the empress I fear nothing but sin." Such a scene as that compels the admiration of the world. There was something in Agrip pa and Pelix which demanded thoir respect for Paul, tho rebel against gov ernment. I doubt not they would willingly havo yielded thoir office and dignity for a thousandth piirt of thal true heroism which ooamed in tho oyo and boat in the heart of that uncon querable apostle. Paul did not co wi r before Pelix. Pelix cowered befoiv Paul. The infidel and worlding aro compelled to honor in their hearls, al though thoy may not eulogizo with thoir lips, a Christian firm in perseon . tion, oheerful in poverty, trustful in losses^ triumphant in (loath. I find Christian men in all professions and occupations, and I find them respected and honored and successful. John Prederick Oberlin alleviating igno rance and distress; Howard passing from dungeon to lazaretto with heal ing for tho body- and soul; Elizabeth Pry going to tho profligacy of Now Sate prison to shake its obduracy as ie angel came to tho prison at Philip pi, driving open tho doors and snap ping loose tho chain, as well as the lives of thousands of followors of Jo sus who have devoted themselves to tho temporal and spiritual wolfaro of tho race aro monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the world lasts. A man said to mo in the cars: "What is roligion? Judging from tho character of many professors of roligion I do not admire religion," I said: "Now, suppose wo wont to an artist in thecity of Romo and while ia hisgallory asked him, "What is the art of painting!' Would ho take us out in a low alloy and show us a mero daub of a prontondor ot paint ing, or would ho tako us down into tho corridors and show ua tho Rubons. and tho Raphaols, and the Michaol Angelos? When wo asked him, 'What is the art of painting?" ho would point to tho works of iheso great masters and say, "That is painting.' Now, you proposo to find tho more caricaturo of jnnj^^g_?a_j. roliglon, to ?O?k nftor that willoh is ibo mero pretension of a holy lifo, and you call that religion. I point you to tho splendid men and women whom this gospel has blessed and lifted I and crowned. Look at tho mastorpiooes of divino grace if you want to Know what religion is." Wo leam also from this story of Joseph that tho result of persecution is elovation. Had it not boon for his being sold into Egyptian bondage by his mal*"icus broth AW* ?nd. hui falso imprisonment Joseph novor would have become a governor. Everybody accepts tho promise, "Blessed aro they that aro porseouted for righteousness sako, for theirs is tho kingdom of hoav en," but thoy do not realize tho faot that this pr\noiplo applies to worldly as woll ns spiritual success. It is truo in all departments. Men rise to high of ficial positions through misrepresenta tion. Public abuso is all that some of our public men have had to rely upon for their elevation. It has brought to them what talent and executive force could not havo achieved. Many of those who aro making great otfort for place and power will novor succeed, just because they aro not of enough importance to be abused. It is tho nature of men-that is, of all generous and reasonable men-to gather about those who aro porBeouteuf and defend thom, and thoy aro apt to forget tho fault of those who are the subjects of attack while attempting to drivo back tho slanderers. Porseoution is eleva tion. Helen Stirk. tho Scotch mar tyr, standing with her husband at the plaeeof execution, said: "Husband, let us rejoice today. Wo have lived together many happy years. This is the happiest time of alf our lifo. You see we aro to bo happy togethor for ever. Be bravo now-be bravo. I will not say 'Good night I' to you, for wo shall soon bo in the kingdom of our Eather together ." Persecution shows the heroes and heroines. I go into another department, and I find those great denominations of Christians which havo been most abused have ; spread tho most rapidly, j No good man was ovei more violent ly maltreated than John Wesley-be lied and caricatured and slandered, until ono day ho stood in a pulpit in Loudon, and a man aroso in tho audi ence and said, "You woro drunk last night," and John Wesley said : "Thauk God, tho whole catalogue is now com pleto 1 I have boen charged with ev erything but that." His followers woro hooted at and maligned and call ed by ovory detestable name that infer nal ingenuity could invent, but tho hotter tho persecution tho more rapid ly they spread, until you know what a great host they have become and what a tremendous forco for God and tho truth they aro wioldiug all tho world over. It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was pers?cution that gavo our land first to civil liberty and afterward to religious freedom. Yea, I might go farther back and say it was persecution that gavo the world the groat salvation of tho gospel. Tho ribald mockery, tho hungering and thirsting, the unjust charge, the ignominious death, when all tho forco of hell's fury was hurled against the cross, was tho introduction of that roligion which is yot to bo tho earth's dahvoranco and our eternal salvation. Tho fsate sometimes said to tho church, "Come, takomy hand, and I will holp you." What was the result? Tho church wont back, and it lost its estate of holiness, and it bo carno ineffective. At other times tho stato said to tho church, "I will crush you." What has been tho result? Af ter the storms have spent their fury the church, so far from having los! any of its forco, has increased and is worth infinitely moro after tho assaull than before. Read all history, and you will find that true. The church is far moro indebted to tho opposition of civil government than to its appro val. The fires of the stake have onlj been tho torches which Christ held ir his hand, hythe light of which the church has marched to her present glorious position. In the sound ol racks and implements of.torture I heai tho rumbling of the gospel chariot, Tho scaffolds of martyrdom have boon tho stairs by which the church mount od. Learn also from our subject that sin will como to exposure. Long, lons ago had those brothers sold JosepE into Egypt. They had made tho ole father believe that his favorite child was dead. They had suppressed the crime, and it was a profound secrel well kept by the brothers. But sud denly tho secret is out. Tho old fathei hears that his son is in Egypt, having boon sold thore by tho malice of hil own brothers. How their cheeks must have burned and their hearts sunk ai tho flaming out of this long suppressed crime. Tho smallest iniquity has t thousand tongues, and they will blal out exposure. Saul Was sont to destroy tho Canaanites, their sheop and theil oxen, but when he got down theft among the pastures he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so h< thought he would steal thom. No body would know it. Ho drove thesi stolen sheen and oxen toward home but stopped to report to tho prophet how ho had executed his mission when in tho distance the sheep bogar to bloat and tho oxen to hollow. Tin secret was out, and Samuel said to tin blushing and confused Saul, "Wha meanoth tho bleating of tho sheep tba I hoar and the bellowing of tho cattle?' Ah, my hoarer, you cannot keep ai iniquity still. At just tho wrong timi the sheop will bloat and the oxen wil bellow. Achan cannot steal tho Baby lonish garment without being stonec to death nor Arnold betray his count} without having his nock stretched Look over the police arrests. The* thieves, those burglars, these counter miters, those highwaymen, theseassas sins, they all thought they could burj their iniquity so elcop down it wouh never como to resurrection, but thor was some shoo that answered to th print in the soil, some fale koys foum in their possession, somo bloody knit that whispered of tho death, and th public indignation and the anathem of outragod law hurled thom into th dungeon or hoisted thom on tho ga) lows. Francis I, king of France, stooi counseling with his officers now h could take his army into Italy, whoi Ameril, the fool or tho court, leape> out from a corner of the room an said, "You had better be consul tin how you will get your array baok, and it was found that Francis I, an not Ameril, was tho fool. Instead c consulting as to the best way of gol ting into sin, you had bottor consul as to whether you will bo able to g( out of it. If the world does not OJ pose yoii, you will toll it yoursol There is an awful power in an arouse conscience. A highwayman plunge out upon Whitefield as ho rode alon on horseback, a sack of money on tl horse-money that ?ho had raised fe orphan asylums-and tho highway man put his hand on tho gold, an Whitefield turned to him and sai< "Touch that if you darol That b longs to tho Lord Jesus Christ." An tho ruffian slunk into the forest. Coi science 1 Conscience I The ruffian he a pistol, but Whitefield shook at hf tho 'linger iii doom. Do not thin you can hide any greatand protraotx sin in your heart, my brother. In c unguarded moment it will slip off tl lip, or somo sliglU action may for tl momeo t sot ajar thia door that y< wanted to koop closed. But suppo that ia thia life you hido it, and you got along with . thia transgression burning fa your, heart, as 'a ship on Aro within for days binders tho flames trotu bursting out by kooping down tho hatchets, yet at fast in tho judg mont that iniquity will blaze out bo foro God and tho univorso. Leam also from this subjoct that there is au inseparable connection be tween all events, however remote. Tho universe is only ono thought of VX?U, ?11053 X'uluKo HiinH nuuuiou fragmentary and isolated aro only diitorent parts pf that groat thought. How far apart seemed these two events -Joseph sold to tho Arabian mer chants and his rulership of Egypt, yot you soo ia what a mysterious way God conracted tho two iuto ono plun. So the events are linked togethor. You who aro aged moa look buck and group together a thousand things ia your life that once scorned isolated. Ono undivided chain of events reaches from tho gard ou of Edon to tho cross of calvary and thus up to tho King dom of heaven. There is a relation between tho smallest insect that hums in tho summer air and tho arohangel on his throne. God can trace a direct ancestral line from tire bluo jay that this spring will build its nest ia tho treo bobi nd tho houso to soino ono of tho flock of birds whioh, when Noah hoised tho ark's window, with a whir and a dash of bright wings went out to sing ovor Mount Ararat. Tho tulips that bloom in tho gardoa this spring wore nursed by tho snowflakes. Tho farthest star on ono sido of tho uni verso could not look toward tho farth est star on tho other sido of tho uni vorso aud say,' "You aro no relation ti ino," for whom that bright orb a voico of light would ring across tba heavens/ responding, "Yes, yes, we aro sisters." Nothing ia God's ual vorso swings at loose ends. Accidents aro only God's way of turning a loaf in tho book of his eternal decrees. Prom our cradle to our gravo there is a path all marked out. Each event ia our life is connected with every other event in our lifo. Our losses may bo tho most direct road to our gain. Our defeat and our victory aro twin brothers. Tho whole direction of your life was changed by something which at tho timo seemed to you trifling, while somo occurrence which seemed tre mendous affected you but littlo. God's plans aro magnificent beyond nil com prehension. Ho molds us and tui'ns and directs us and we know it not. Thousands of years aro to him as the flight of a shuttle. Tho most torriflo occurrenco does not make God trem ble. Tho most triumphant achieve ment does not lift him into rapture. That one groat thought ot* God goes out through tho centuries, aud nations riso aud fall, and oran pass, and the world changos, but God still keeps the undivided mastery, linking evout to event and century to century. To God they are all one event ono his tory, ono plan, ono development, ono system. Groat and marvelous aro thy works, Lord God Almighty 1 I was years ago in Now Orleans at tho expo sition rooms, whoa a toloeram was sont to the president of the United States at Washington, and wo waited some 15 or 20 minutes, and then thc president's answer came back, and thou tho presiding officer waved his handkerchief and tho signal was sont tc Washington that wo were ready tc havo the raaohiuery of tho cxpositiot started, aud tho president put his fla ?'fiY on tho electric button, and instant y tho great Corliss wheel bogan tc move-rumbling, rumbling, rolling rolling. It was overwhelming, anc 15,000 people clapped and shouted Just one finger at Washington startet that vast machinery, huudreds ant hundreds of miles away, and I though thea, as I think now, that mon some times touch influences that respond ir tho far distanco, 40 yoars from now 50 years from now, 1,000 years fron now-1,000,000 years from now-om touch sounding through tho ages. Wo also loara from this story th Eropriety of laying up for tho futuro turing tho sovon years of pleat: Joseph prepared for the famiue, am whoa it carno ho had a orowded store houso. Tho lifo of most moa ia i worldly respect is divided into year of plenty aud famine. It is soldon that any man passes through life with out at least sovon years of plenty Duriog those sovon years your busi ness bears a rich harvost. You soarcc ly know where all tho money come from, it comos so fast. Every bar gain you make seems to turn in t gold. You contract few bad debts You aro astonished with largo divi donds. You invest moro and mor capital. You wonder how men can b content with a small business, gathoi ing in only a few hundred dollars while you roap your thousandi Thoso are sovon years of plenty. No\ Joseph has time to prepare for th threatened famine, for to almos every man thore do como seven year of famine. You will bo sick, yo will bo unfortunate, you will bo d< frauded, there will be hard timef you will ho disappointed, and if yo nave no storehouse upon which to fal hack you may be famine struck. W have no admiration for this denyin oneself all personal comfort aud lu xi ry for tho more ploasuro of hoardin up, this grasping for tho mero plea ure of seeing how largo a pile you ca got, this always being poor because r soon as a dollar comes in it is sont oi to seo if it can find another dollar, & that it can carry it home on its baol Wo have a contempt for all thos things, but thore is an intoligont an noble minded forecast which wo lo\ to soo in moa who havo families an kindred, depending upon them for tl: blessings of education and homo. Gc sends us to the insects for a lessoi whioh, while they do not stint then selves in the present, do not forg their duty to forecast tho futuro. "G to tho ont, thou sluggard. Conoid her ways and bo wiso, which, havir no guido, overseer or ruler, pro vi del her meat in tho summor and gatherei her food in tho harvest." Now, thore are two ways of layir up money. One of thoso is to put in stock and deposit it in bank and i vost it oa boucl and mortgage. Tl other way to lay up monoy is givii it away. Ho is tho safest who mak both of thoso investments. Thore a in this houso mon who if they lo ovory dollar they havo in tho wor would bo millionaires for otornit They made tho spiritual investmer but the man who dovotoa nono of 1 gains to tho causo of Christ and loo only for his own comfort and luxu is not safo, I caro not how tho mon is invested. Ho acts as tho roso if should say, "I will hold my broat and nono shall have n snatch of fi franco from mo until next week;th will sot all tho gardon afloat wi my aroma." Of course tho roso, fusing to breathe, died. Butabovo lay up treasures in heavon. Th nevor doprcoiate in value. They ni or are at a discount. They aro alwf available. You moy fcol safe ni with your $l,U0O or $2.000or $10,OOC $20,000 income, but what will such in como bo worth after you are dei Others will get it. Perhaps some thom will quarrel about it before jp are buried. They will bo so impatii to get hold of the will they will thi you should bo buried one day sooi than you aro buried. They will right glad when you are dead. Tl aro only waiting for you to die. W thou will all your earthly acoumt tions bo worth? If you gathered it all in your bosom and walked up with it to heaven's gate, it would not purehaso your admission, or if allowed to enter It could not buy you a crown or a robe, and the poorest saint in heaven would look Uowa at you and say. "Whoro did that pauper como from?" May wo all havo troasures in heaven.1 Amen I K??QHT8~?F HONOR. Amuno aiootlnir of Gruucl r.Atlg? <>f ihn Stftto, COLUMBIA, April 17.-The grand lodge of Knights of Honor in tho State of South Carolina mot in its 20th an nual session, in the Knights of Pythias hall, on Wednesday at 8 o'olook p. m. All but two of tho 01 lodges in tho j u ri nd iel ion sont ouch ono dologato, and these, with tho cUlcers of tho grand lodge, gavo an attendance of about 80 members. Coming from all parts of the State, they might justly bo con sidered representativo mon and from their grave demeanor, if not from their vonorable looks, they might have been taken for a lot of clergymen in attendance upon a church event. There were few quite young mon in the number, the larger wart being men with silvored locks, who evident ly had loved ones depending upon them, and for whoso future support they were anxious to provide in case of tue disaster whioh soonor or later comos to ovory one. The following named officers answered to roll call: Past Grand Dictator N." W. Trump, Columbia. Grand Director J. E. Holmes, Spar tanburg. Grand Vice Dictator L. H. Wanna makor, Orangeburg. ( Grand Assistant Dictator} P. Ii\ Dunn, Charleston. . t Grand Representative L. N/Zealey, Columbia. Grand Treasurer J. L. Robertson, Abbeville. Grand Chaplain Rov. A. Buist, Blackville. Grand Guide J. W. Todd, Seneca. Grand Guardian J. J. Vernon, Welford. Grand Sentinel J. G. Lewis, Ander son. Grand Trustees J. G. Tompkins, B. M. Lobby, G. E. L. Sparkman. Committee on Finance-Louis Shor feseo, J. L. Hunter, M. Ryttonborg. Committee on Laws-M. A. Carlisle, J. C. Shepard, L. W. Perrin. Immediately after organization the annual reports of the officers wore presented to tho lodge. They were given in printed form, so that a care ful and thorough perusal could bo giv en to tho business of tho order during tho past year, not only by the mern hors prosont, but aUo by all tho mem bers of tho suborninato lodgos to whom the proceedings would bo sont. Tho reports showed earnestness and fideli ty upon tho part of tho officers, andan encouraging state of affairs through tho order. There havo boon 41 deaths in tho membership in tho State, to whose families $80.500 havo boon paid. Arnon? these were two members of tho grand lodge of long standing, whoso loss to tho order, as welles to tho State, might bo considered as al most irreparable-Dr. George Howe for 16 years the medical examiner of the State, and Rev. G. W. Holland, Ph. D., D.tD., thegrand reporter from the organization of tho grand lodee Lill his death. Touching memorials of theso doparted members wore pro: ?onted and adopted by a rising vote. A longthy and weighty report on the good of the order was presented, which elicited a discussion of hours, and whioh showed that tho interost of tho members in tho order had in no [legree abated, and that the success of the past was but tho shadow of great sr things in the future. Plans were adopted for more intense effort during tho year to como, and tho miuds of all the lodges were more deeply impress sd with the stability and strength of tho order. Very fosv changes wore made in tho officors of tho lodge, L. H. Wannamakor declining to accept re nomination, W. A. Templeton of Ab beville was elected vice dictator. . Mr. Wannamaker wat olected representa tive to tho supremo lodge. Tue other appointments were ns follows: Trustees-J. G. Tompkins,. H. C. Moses and A. C. Smith. Committeo on Laws-M. A. Carlisle, L>. W. Perrin, G. W. Pollitzer. Tho officers woro installed, P. G. D. Sheppard representing tho supreme lodge, on Thursday afternoon, and ;he lodge adjourned. Tho session of tho grand lodgo was most harmonious during tho entire rttting. Matters of groat importance ;o tho order in this grand jurisdiction wore considered ana acted upon, no ;ably preparation to place a solicitor n tho field. The election of Grand Diotator John E. Holmes was a ro-olection-tho first n tho history of tho order-which yas a tribute to his earnestness, zeal md fidelity during the first year of ris grand dictatorship. The financial condition of tho order vas never so flourishing.-State. A MurdorouB Plot Unonrtliod. Tho following, which is clipped rom tho Augusta Herald, is certainly itartling. Tho Hornld says: "Josh Tohnson, a negro detective of this dty. has just returned after having vorked up a sensational case in South karolina. Certain citizens of Lexing on, S. C., wrote here fora compo ont colored man to investigate an im ) or La nt case and Johnson was sent. Io reports that as a result of his of brts W. P. Bowers, a prominent and vell-to-do white farmer residing twon ,y miles from Lexington in Loxing on County is now in jail in default of U.000 bond to wait preliminary trial. Fohn8on says soveral houses and barns n the vicinity has been bu^.aod and ho people suspected that Bobers had n ci ted' tramps to do it; but could nev il* get satisfactory proof, Thon it bo same known that Bowers had tried to )ribe negroes to murder soveral neigh: )ors. It was to work up this chargo hat Johnson was employed. Tho Yugusta darkey turned up af the Bow ira place as a tramp. Ile asked for york and said ho know all About saw nills, having heard that Mr. Bowers ntended putting up ono. Bowers be samo very friondly and Johnson also jot confidential, saying that ho had oft Georgia bocauso of a crime com mited there. This seemed to please Sowers vory much. Finally ono night j io whispered to Johnson that if ho yould kill C. S. Matthews. John Cricks and ill Moars ho would mako lim independent for lifo. This star led Johnson, but ho koot his nervo md agreed to do it. Then Bowors ,old Johnson to go down into tho .iver swamp for a week and como bock .cady to do tho work. hon ho return jd ho sot a trap for Bowors. On a dark light Bowers unfolded lils plans in full to the supposed tramp and also *avo him the cartridges with which to ?ommit tho murdors. Lying in tho lark a few feet away five or six oiti cons overboard tho conversation, ono :>f them being Matthews. Bowers' irrest followed and Johnson carno homo. All tho men whom Bowors wished put out of tho way are related to him. Ffttnl Mino Explosion. DURHAM, April 14,r-*An explosion has taken placo in a colliery at Will? Ington noir this pince. Eight miners aro known to have boon killed and it ls believed eighteen persons in all wilt IOHO their lives through the dilator, 1 LOOK ON THE BRIGHT 8IDE. "inn Ari?" Philo? oyhUco on tho Faatarad Present* Outside of revelation, there is surely sufficient proof of original sin and mor al turpitude in human kind. If a man could bo lifted up in a balloon high enough to soo tho earth roll under him and could koop his position until it had turned a time or iwo upon its axis tiie Boone that would pass his vision would bo proof enough. What a horriblo r?volation of of war and blood shed and suffering would pass beneath him in almost every pari of tho earth I Wo boost of modern civilization, but has every ad vance to bo baptized in bloodV Sup poso a man could soo at ono timo all tho prosont misery of tho world and all thc crimo that caused it, could ho : endure the awful picture? Would it ] not paralyze his soul and obliterate his power of vision and make him a maniac? Every day .wo road of theso'l horrors and shudder, but they ure afar [ oil' and wo have become almost har dened to thom by their daily repitition. If familiarity with danger breeds con tomptj for itso docs, a daily recurrence of crime and suffering, and grief breeds indifference. Uni ess wo seo it with our own eyes wo aro not greatly affected. Tho weeping prophet exclaimed: "Oh, that my head woro waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears I" but thore is no prophet to weep nowadays. Wo have no time to weep. The poet says: ''Man's inhumanity to man Makes counties? thousands mourn," and if wo could actually seo every bat tle -field and all the blood and agony, and into all tho prisons and chain gangs, and into every hovel and gar rot and dark alloy where the poor do congregate and into tho hearts of all tho mourners at all tho funerals, we would novor smilo again. Tho mem ory of thom would haunt U?, and we would bo moro willing to quit this hor ible world and take our chances in another. But wo will let tho preachers talk about this. Wo must look on tho brighter side. Thore is no comfort in pondering and lamenting what is going on in Turkey and Abysinia and Cuba, or over tho long continued quarrels at Washington, or tho shameful broils in Kentucky, or tho daily crimes and murders aud suicides and Ivnchings that lill\Hie newspapers. Now is tho blcssod springtime, when all nature is smiling upon us. Wheu tho Howers are blooming and tho grass ia splinting and the birds aro singing. Even the beasts of tho Held and tho fowls in the yard aro happy, and every created thing savo man seems to rejoice in tho goodness of thoOroator. What is tho matter with man, anyhow? Wo man is not so, nor aro tho little chil dren who play and sport around us. The poet says : "Every prospect pleases And only man is vile." But after all, there is comfort in knowing that there aro somo good mon. Yes, lots of thom. You can pick them out in town and city and country, and a great traveler who has been all over the world and mingled with Gentiles and Jews, and Arabs and Hottentots, and tho heathen Chinese, says he found good, kind-hearted people of every tribe and nation and religion on tho globe. Ile said that a traveler would never be a sectarian or bo intolerant, Uko so many of our so-called Chris tians are. Last Sunday I wont out in ?he coun try with a friend to visit a.\ old lady wno is on her last bea. She have lived eighty-three years and I reokon never had an evil thought in her life. She was pleased to seo us and the nearnoss of death gave her no alarm. "Eor the sako of my grandchildren." she said, "I would like to live a little longer to help them and guido them in the right way." Her Bibble was printed away before tho war and had been patched and pasted and mended until it would hardly hold together, but she knew a good deal by heart and told U3 what portions of it were hor greatest com fort. These old-fashioned mothers are the best people on earth and when thoy have passed through all the perils of motherhood they seem to outlive the men. There aro three times as roany old women in this town as old men and they aro most all of them widows. I had rather insure tho life of a wo man of forty-fl ve than that of a man of thirty. 1 would get the premiums longer. Tho old-fashioned men lived longer th iva they do now. They had simple habits and limited desires. I mean tho woll-to do men who lived in comfort. But over since King David made the declaration that tho days of our years are three scoro yoars and ten that has boen tho alloted ago of man. It is still the average age of a prudent man whatever may be his oe cupation. Man is very much like a wagon. If it is kept greased and painted and under sholtor it will last twice as long as if it bo nogleoted. Of course, the mind has much to do with tho health of the body. Troublo will shorten life and bring tho gray hairs soonor to tho gravo and that is why a fanner's lifo is tho most conducive to longevity. It is tho most independent of all occupations. It is subjected to loss temptation, loss hazard, less wor ry, and ic is a httlo closer to god in its daily communion with nature The accepted tables give to laborers forty four-years, to mechanics forty-seven, to merchants forty-eight, to profes sional pion fifty-two, and to farmers sixty-four yoars. If long lifo is an index of good health and x>rospority then the farmer is blossed above all other pooplo. There is force and truth in the old maxim that "Godi made tho country and man made tho town." But af tor all tho crime and misery that wo read of, this age is a great im provement on Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham could find moro than ton good men in any town or city in this country. I bolieve ho could And fifty in Cartorsville and a hundred and Hf ty women. Tho Lord's pity and consideration for sinners is very won derful if Ile will save a whole city full for the sako of ten good men, May bo that is why Ho doesn't rain Uro and brimstone on tho wicked now. It might do harm to tho righteous. Tho ungodly ought to givo Christians oreo it for that. If tho wickod pooplo of this world were all bunched iii ono country and not a good man in it how long, I wondor, would tho storm stay ol?? How long would the wicked stay thero if thoy could possibly get out? It is a redooming trait in human na ture, howevor wicked and depraved, to respect virtue and good peoplo. There aro but few of the ungodly who would abolish tho ohurches if they could, or who would rear their chil dren in any buta Christian country. BILL ARP. Served Ulm night. NEW CASTLE, Pa., April H.-Mrs. Susan Shaofor, aged 70 yoars, and hor housokoopor, Airs. Martha Burt, wore alono at their homo, near Bossomor, last evening, when an unknown Ital ian appeared and attempted to assault Mr's, Burt. She ran to another room, ? pursued by tho man and just as ho ? was about to soizo hor, she grasped r rovolvor and shot him, the ball taklni effect in the bowols and instantly kill lng him. TILLMAN IN KENTUOKY. South Carolina Senator Makes a Snoooh at Lexington. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 18.-United States Senator Tillman had an ovation at the auditorium whore ho appeared to make a speech on the ourrenoy question and its relation to the presi dential contest. He was introduced by Rev. W. T. Bowling.. When Senator Tillman arose tho audience oheorod for sovoral minutes. He began his speech by saying that ho I was ashamed to appear before such an I audience after ho had been heralded by tho newspapers as suoh a terrible j creature. l?o paid tho usual compll j mont to the Blue Grass region, but ho said ho found tho Dornooraoy of Ken tucky much more rotten than ho thought he would. They were like a lot of sheen ' without a loader. The men who had been trusted by Ken tucky Democrats in the past had do sorted the party and stabbed Kentucky candidates in tue back. Roferring to tho defeat of Senator Blackburn ho dramatically exclaimed: "You are betrayed, bamboozled aud dobauohed by them 1" Theso same men, ho continued, now Eleaded for harmony, as ii there could o any harmony among Kentucky Democrats, They wore in same fix as those of South Carolina. They would have to repudiate old party loaders and take up silver men-'"and they must be honest, too"-and send thom to tho state convention, for it would be an everlasting disgrace if Koa tucky Democrats should instruct for Carlisle for President. Mr. Tillman denounced as untrue tho report of an interview in whioh ho was quoted as saying that all the old loaders in the silver party ought to be thrown overboard, including Joe Blackburn. He declared that Black burn was a true Kentuckian and had not betrayed his follow oitizens for a mess of pottage. He was for free sil j ver when ho was elected, said tho speaker, and he is for silver now. This elicited the wildest cheers. "1 am charged," he wont on, ''with boing no Democrat, but I have been a Democrat all my life, as my father was before mo. I havo always advo cated Democratic principles, and have never advised any desertions from the party. But if Cleveland or Garlado aro to set tho paco for Democracy, I am no Democrat." Senator Tillman scored Brcckinridgo saying that he was glad that the la dies of thu utute had given him his walking papers. He said ho pitied Henry Watterson, as a man who had done so much for true Democracy but who had to accede to tho wishes of his master and turn traitor to his party. "I had rather have taken a knife and cut ray thm-at," he exclaimed, "than to have remained longer in the employ of such scoundrels.M lie advised his heurors to organize and go to work and be true Democrats and not Sherman and Car?Blo Ropubli- ? cans. He saide that the press of coun- ! try had sold out bag and baggage to ] the money power for the purpose of keeping tho people in bondage. In referring to the silver question J ; ho denied tho statement of Secretary Carlisle that law does not affect rates. Ho denied, also, that there is more money in tho country now than over before. He said that when tho popula tion was only 31,000,000 there was as much if not more, money in tho country than tnere is today, when there are 70,000,000. In conclusion, Senator Tillman said: "If you send silver men to Chicago we'll force honest men to leave the.. Republican party, and we'll tell the J, Democrats who are against us that we'll vote for no man for president who is not for silver." At the close of his address Senator Tillman was presented with a Ken tucky cob pipe, made by M.A. Mo Murry of Niobolasvillo. Tho presenta tion speech was made by J. A. Parker, editor of The Free Republic, a free sil- | ver paper of Louisville. The pipe was made in imitation of the serpent on tho South Carolina flag and was trim med with silver. In accepting tho pipo tho senator said that for once he would like to be I a smoker, so that he could have a nice smoko of tobacco from a Kentucky cobpipe; but, ho added, the pipo of poaco could novor be smoked in Ken tuckey until the Democrats redeemed themselves by coming out solidly for free silver. Another Advance Mado. The Keelevcure has been introduced into the St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Md. The good Sisters realize that in the Keeley cure is found tho only hope for thoso addicted to tho liquor and morphino habits, and have mado a contract with tho Keely Institute of Maryland by which the Keeley treat ment shall be administered at their hos pital by regular physicians instructed by Dr. Keeley. This is another argu ment proving that the Sistors of Char ity occupy tho front place in the care of the diseased and in tho service of suffering humanity. The treatment was adopted four years ago by the United States government and is used at the National home. Proving so ef ficacious the treatment is now given at Fort Leavenworth Post, tc the ofli cors and enlisted men of the regular army. During the past two years the States of Maryland, Minnesota, Colo rado. Louisiana, North Dakota, Wis consin and others have by legislative enaotmonts provided that indigent liquor and morphine habitues begivou tho treatment. The Keeley Institute of South Caro lina continues its good work at Co lumbia, and any information desired may bo had by addressing that insti tute or drawer 27. Negroes Meant Murder, SELMA, Ala.,. April 15.-News readied tho city at ll o'clock lasl night that tho residence of Judge Alonzo Irwin, soven miles west of Selma, *was surrounded by negroes who threatened to murder tho family. Sheriff Kennedy and a posso hastoned j to tho scene. The negroes heard tho # posse approach tho liouso and dis- i persed. Tho leader, Lo wellen Os- ( borne, was found in his house, a short ( distance away. He refused to come ? out. Tho door was forced opon and \ Osborne stuck a gun through the f craok and attempted to shoot- Tho j sheriff fired into tho house and Os- t borne, who had refused to surrender, fi ran out gun in hand? The posse open- B ed Ure on him and he foll mortally t wounded. He lived 50 minutes. His \ dying statement was to tho effect that the mob around tho house intendod to Sot fire to it and murder tho family as they ran out, ' f FATJLKTON, S. D., April 16.-A tor- ? nado passed through Faulk oounty ( northeast to southwest yesterday, re- j suiting in two deaths and several in- j jared. 'Considerable damage was j done at Oresbard, Millard and Bick more. Sevoral houses and barns were blown away. Tho rosidenco of E. T, Evans, near Oresbar, was com pletely destroyed, bis two children killed and Evans and wife badly in? lured. At Burkra'ore, tho Winona Mill company's elevator WAS demol ished. At Oresbard a church was moved from its foundations. Wm ?!?ri=^R^?^?N SOU TH CARO Ll NA. ~^ rito Weekly Huile t In oT t li o Boj) mt mont ol? Agriculture. " COLUMBIA, S. C., April 14.-This oullctln covers tba weather and orop conditions for tho woek ending with Saturday, April llth. and in ita preparation woro used reporta from one or more correspondents in eaoh county of tho State. ^ ^ WEATHER. Tho general weather conditions dur ing tho week were not the best for growing crops, although more fayor ablo at the olose. Tho week opened cold and windy and light frosts ' on the Cth and 8th we're recorded aa far Eastward as Berkeley County. lt ia Eonerally reported that these frosts ad no injurious effect other, than to retard the growth of vegeta tion. Tho temperature averaged about four degrees por day below tho soaso n ab lo, and ranged from a mean of 63 to 64 degrees in the oxtreme Western counties toa mean of from 68 to 60 in the extreme Southeastern counties. The average temperature for the week for tho whole State was 56 and the normal for the same period is approximately 60. The extreme range of temperature, as reported, was from a maximum of 83 on the 10th at Grillsonvillo, (lampton County, to a minimum of 30 on the 0th at Santuo, Union County, on which morniug 'liiu ico was noted at various points in Ibo hill country. Ibero wore two days with rain. Oa .he 7th a sprinkle of rain foll at a number of places and on tho evening >f the Otb there was a general light rain over the entire State; too light to be of much benefit. Tho greatest ?mount recorded was 0.20 of au inob at Statcsburg,. Sumter ^ County, and the amounts ranged from that to k 'Trace. " The normal amount for tho -iiuno period ?3 approximately 0.90 inch. Tho delloionoy in rainfall since March 1st, 1896, is about three and one-half inches. There was moro than tho usual amount of sunshine with an average of 67 per cont, for ibo State. There was ic?.?t cloudiness in tho Western por tions of tho State and most in the East central portion. OROPS. Planting made rapid progross dur ing the week. The only unfavorable condition, against tho thorough prep aration of lands was a tendency of ground to bake, or become too hard by reason of dryness, and this condition was confined to clay lands, lt wa* too dry and cool lor tho rapid ger mi nation of soed and poor stands are, in consequence, reported at this timo. The progress of the various crops it briefly given below, averaging the re ports, so as to give the prevailing con dition, and nothing such exceptions only that aro at wide var?emeos with the geueral terror of the sports : Upland dorn about all planted apd tnuoh of it up or coming up. Perfect stands tho oxcoption. Cool weather tffected its color. Bottom lands being ulanted. Cotton planting progressing rapid ly and is drawing to a finish in thc Southeastern counties while only 'airly begun in the extremo Westorr ?ounties. Some early planting is ur >ut affected by cool weather. Soa is land cotton about all planted.. Reports indicate that tob?ceo wil .eceivo considerable attention thu ?rear. Beds did not do w?ll excepi where well protected. Some farmer) ire about ready to transplant. Tho sowing of rico has been in pro jress during tho past two wooks. Wheat is reported as looking prom sing, but making slow growth. There is a want of uniformity in th? reports on the condition of oats, som? reporting fair to good and others fail o poor stands. In somo localities fal ?own oats are doing best ; in other; spring sown. The prevailing condi .ion is no doubt promising, but oat stand in need of warm weather ant *ain. Rye is heading. . . ? - Pastures do not as yet afford graz .ng in the confiai and North weston counties. It is the general opinion of corros ?ondents that early fruit, especial! Lu Conte pears and St. John and Ai >erta varieties of peaches, are greatl; lamaged, but that late varieties aro a pet safe. Wild plums and horries ar cutting on fruit heavily. Gardens continue backward, bu gardens planted in the fall aro yield ng vegetables for use now. Shh neats of early vegetables and fruit from tho coast continue.* Strawberries asparagus and lettuce largely, peas ii small quantities. Irish potatoes mostly planted an np. The early plunting touched b frost but scarcely injured. This oro needs rain badly. J. W. BAUER, Section Director. Olve tho Little Ones Something to Do. Tho House Wife says children froi Elvo to ten years of age can open an iir the beds in the morning ; can was md wipe dishes ; can bring from tl sellar all the wood and coal to be use in other parts of the house, by renes iug the journey many times with ligl loads each time. They can wash tl inside of windows; can clean sil ve ian sew on buttons. They eua s wee the back stairs or any bare floor, not lieavy carpet; and a large room mt iv divided into sections and swept I small hands. They can tend a bal -notby lifting; no growing chi should lift a hoavy baby-and ct ake a baby to ride in its carriag Choy can out after the mothor hi nixed it, a batoh of cookies or doug ?uts, and if allowed to use their fa ;y somewhat in the figures, will co: udor this a mostdelioato omploymen Dhey can stone raisins, sort over boan >lck vegetables, pare potatoes, bret he macaroni. They can set and clei iway the dining table. They can du he livingrooms, wipe the raopboari vith a damp oloth, hang out the H mo ?ecos of washing and bring them when dry, iroh tho handkerohiol lapkins and towels. The boys ct earn to uso tho needle, the girls land le a hammer. It is eminently md desirable that boys and gil ihould understand something of ea< )thor's traditional tools. Tasks shou io made easy to the children ; wh lone in a womanlike manner it shou >o recognized and commended. Il shitd, not naturally lazy, shows a sj dal distasto for any oarlioular dut t is right to relieve him from the tas f possiblo ; something else can gen? illy be substituted. Children tl ie lp to preparo a meal might bo allo :d to suggest part of tho bill of fi omolimos. In performing a task, ihould not be considered complet intil the implements that may hp )6en required are returned to th isual shelves or hool?. .Wrecked hy Dynnittlto. SAGINAW, Mioh., April 16.^-1 lohool building* on the West Side > wrookod by dynamiters early t norning. It was tho oldest and la vst of tho big schools on that side bo river, and for'yeats has bed wno'of contention. At 2 o'olool .orriflo explosion 'occurred, whi wreoked tho building and- which \ followed by fire. A portion of the brary was also destroyed, Tho bul ins contained 27 rooms, and nmjK paoity of 800 pupils. Loss $10,0 with $27,000 insurance; A vigops fort will bo made to unearth tho dy miters. J. W. Durham, who * watching the Aro. was run down h bioyolo and fatally injured. A Wron? Atfaumptlo/i. Io discussing tho flnanciol and cur ronoy question all tho advocate?of the goldstandard assume that th? Unite? States must1 have a:. monetary eyetem ia accord with that of Kuglaud. This, as the National Bhuetalljst says, isa confounding cif all distinction?. Our intorests aro directly tho ro'.rere? of those of England; She is tho greatest creditor nation .in tho world. "Wo aro tho groatest debtor, if "dollars" eau bo doubled itt value (I. ?., purchasing power) she collects twice as much. ?. if .'dollars" bo doubted in value, wo pay twice as much. That is the difference in ? nut shell. Eaglaud is a creditor to tho extent of $10,000,000,000. Wo ?re a debtor to tho extent of iQ.OOO, 000,000, i This is about tho araouut of our foroign debt. But tho reader mast not infer that- foreigners huvo sent fO.OOO.OOp.OOO over hore and in yostod' t., Not nt all.. As shown, hy General Wumor in his Monograph on our debt abroad, published Tu Np. 8, of the National Ihinetallit<t? iii i860 Our total foreigu debt amounted to on ly H.200,000,000. Since then wo l?avo ; ; exported $000,921,720 moro gold and silver than, wo; have imported, and $1,749,895,281 moro merchandise than we have imported. This makes a total balance in our favor of $2,86p>0OC,($O. Aud yet our foreign debt has risen V ^ 1 from about $1,200,000,000 to $8,000, 000,000. How has this startling con dition orison? Simply by tho rein vestment of profits. Tho. foreign cred itor has drawn out such sums as ho needed, while tho remainder has tosen; reinvested. Of course each reinvest ment means un additional burden of interest, which the American producer must annually pay to tho foreign creditor. Tous in a groat moasuro tluv tremendous productivo capacity of tho United Stales has been used to increase cur debt, and add to tho tribute wo muataunually pay to Europe, a lyg? portion of which goes to England. Tho moro profitable these roiuvost ments, tho greater tho debt becomes. But when tho reinvestmonts ,00110 to bo profitable, they cease to be made, aud the European creditor takes ? larger and larger proportion of his American income abroad. Thon away goes our gold, as fast as "ocean grey hounds eau carry it." Ono more foot of tho momentous significance. To pay our prosont foreign dobt of $0,000, 000,000 on a gold basis, would take os in 1809 or 1873 would have paid a debt of $12,000,000,000-tho prices having fallon one half. So that without hav ing received an additional dollar, from :. abroad, ?nd after having exported $2,850,000,000 more of gold, silver and merchandise than woh?v? imported, our foroign debt has in effect increased from $1,200,000,000 to just about len times that .sum. And yet wo aro se riously told that wo must bo in accord with the financial polioy of Englaud, and Continue to pay our debts at the rate of two dollars for one, in order to be "honest."-Times and Democrat. X.OC US Suppose A OH80, The mono metal] isis high and low treat free silver coinage as if it were a new thing never heard of before, a rad ical KC homo to disturb valuos, impair, contraots and repudiate one-half of all honest debts, a (som i anarchical attack on the rioh, cunning proposition to rob creditors for the purpose of reliev ing debtors. The answer to this is that the free silver coinage causo is not to make a new and cheap metal money, but to restore an old one. It is not a proposition to defraud tho oreU ttor, but one to protect the debtor from being defrauded. It is not aech?me to in troduce something hitherto unknown and untried, but to go baok to some thing well known and tried which was surreptitiously taken from the people twenty-two'years ago, Froo silver coinage was a right of tho p?op?e from the beginning of tho. government ilown to 1873, when it was taken from them by a measure as revolutionary, radical and contlscatory as it wasouh- . ning, and the demand of tho people now is nothing more than that ihii unjust measure bo repealed and tho ? subject of coinage put back whore it. was in 1873, Suppose says the St Louis Post Dispatch, the act of 1878 suspending the freo coinage of sllvor had never been passed. Would tho country be worse off than it is now? Thoro is not a reputable banker br il-. . nanoier in tho land Whoso opinion is worth listening to who will assort it. 9o far from it, the country would bo immeasurably better off than ; it is to lay. Silver, instead of having a mar ket value of 07 cents au ounce, would . bo worth $1.29 an ounce : the mines of the mountain states would bo the con tre of thriving industries : the popula tions of those states would bo thrice as great as they are this , day ; wheat, oom, cattle, hogs, horses, wool and>:;; cotton would bo a third to. a half higher in price; farms would bo worth .;! twice as much; farmors would be.'$# prosperous, and their larger capacity for consumption would make mining and manufacturing more productive. Tho country would be full of money -not "inffated" and "cheap" money but first rate ultimate money, redomo lion money, United States money, gold and silver coin, with tho option to the debtor of using either or both in the discharge of his obligations. Tho higher prico of all products of labor for the period of twenty years would have discharged the national debt, tho state dobts and all oounty, munioipal and distriot debt, tho government would bo spared the humiliation it ii mbjeoted to at tho hands of the money lenders, and instead of needing to bor row $100,000,000 it would bo consider ing how to get rid of a surplus of half ;hat amount.-Times and Democrat.. ' Murderer Commits Sulfllile, XENIA. Ohio. April l5;--Oharlos Morris, tho confessed murderer of Mr. ind Mrs,. Douthetts, commttteed sui ?ido this morning by cutting his throat when told to get ready to go to Columbus to hang. Morris committed he murder eight years ago and was icquitted. Whilo in the penitentiary is a burglar, and thinking he was ibout to die from solf inflicted wound, 10 confessed to tho murder.; Anothor. . .rial for murder followed. . WW Six ?Ion KtttOr). " BUTTE, Mont., April ll.-Anexplo don of 100 pounds of giant powder, by wi ach six men woro blown to piecoa, occurred at tho 1,100 foot lovel of St. Lftwrono? mino to day. Tho names of the dead aro : Con. Gr. Low noy: John ?|uinland, Ed. Shields, Jas, Dwyer, no. MoVeagh, Patriok O'Kourke. Tho oauso of tho explosion is unknown, as tho six mon killed word the only cmos in tho part of tho minc whore tho dfeftstoroc^ur.ve<h ..^ ?_r. FIro >V?rks Warploao. Oil?OAao, April 15.-Ono^f ; tho main buildings of Chicago Fire Work? Company, nt Gross Point,' fourteen miles North of this city* blow Up this morning resulting in tho death of two Dmployees and tho serious injury of u'x moro. Tho dead aro : Ntohoiatts Boroo and A nnio Boroo. ThooausOof tho oxploston. is not known, but it is mpposod to have bcon oausod by some a-ralns of powder being ignited by eon ?mssionin the machinery used in mak ing Uro works. 'XHi?m ?s an ?ffvlvt hoing made itt Washington to enlist young mon for sorvlcoin Cuba, a mihi ber have a! ready onl^ted. in BaltwtQN?? ^nd ?.< Kaohsoon?,