The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 24, 1888, Image 1

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'' f lu___ I III, I , I,, 1^1 ,11 _ l'J"_J" _ n mi nil- Jl_ II I I i III I mv i irn wn...i. mum n iranwiiHiMMin .1 ., um K TOL. XLY, WINNSBORO, S. C , WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1888. NO. 13, f . I TALMAGE OS SELF-DESTRUCTION A VERY STRIKING SERMON IN THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. t>- Suicide In Olden Time Was Considered Honorable and a Sign of Courage?Modern Apologies for This Crime?Genuine ~ " ' ??In Acrnrd. jp^ ocieoce auu - ? At the Tabernacle last Sunday morning, the &ev. T. De Witt Talmage, P.D., took for his text, Acts xvi 28 and 29. "He drew ont his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had flea. But Paul * cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." The sermon was as fol, lows: 1 V^-scsFae Here is a would be suicide arrested in r his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff and according to the Roman law, a bailifi himself must suffer the punishL znent due an escaped prisoner; and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endungeoned for three or four years, * then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years; and if the prisoner breaking jail was to have suffered ?A-1 ???oVtoriff Udpiuu pumauxucuv, uicu wu must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. ^ The government had not confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, *bout whom there seemed '* to be something strange and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, ana the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and . knowing thafr-lfiey were to die for jr preaching Christ, and realizing that he jk, must therefore die, rather than go.under W ihe executioner's ax on the morrow and ' suffer public disgrace, resolves to pre> oipitate his own decease. Bat before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the unloosened prisoners arrests ihe blade by the command: "Do thyself no harm." |. In olden time, and where Christianity had not interfered with it, suicide was considered honorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned him "*? self When told that Alexander's ambassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather than surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather than submit to Julias Csesar, took his own life, and ' after three times his wounds had been dressed tore them open and perished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the oonqueror. Hannibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a ' suicide. After the disaster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex-Emperor arise, put something in a grass and drink it, and soon after the groans aroused all the r attendants, and it was only through the utmost medical skill he was resuscitated frnm Rtnrvnr of ibfi nniatA. Times have changed, and yet_ the, PH^or^abject ol suicide. Have you ^F^seen a paper in the last month that did Ja not announce the passage out of life by R one's own behest? Defaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life preK eipitately. Men losing large fortunes go out of the world because they cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affection, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impatience, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for absconding from this life by Paris green, by lauda9r num, by belladonna, by Othello's dagK gar, by halter, by leap from the abutHe znent of a bridge, by firearms. More MW cases of felo de so in the last two years Hf than any two years of the world's existB ence, and more in the last month than in any twelve months. The evil is more Bl and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some r doubt as to whether there was really iinythirig wrong about quitting this life flf i?hen it became disagreeable, and there aire found in respectable circles people apologetic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that suicide is the -worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a framing unmistakable. But in the early _ part of this sermon I wish to admit that '' some of the best Christians that have ever lived have committed self-destruction, but always in dementia, and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in his bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While > the shock of the catastrophe is very T ^11 great, x unax&o ah tiiuoo nuu uavo i-u?u. Christian friends under cerebal aberration step off the boundaries of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demoniac of Gadara and the child lunatic, and the potency with which he hushed tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellec tual giants, had none grander than Hagh gggsgs^riler. Great for science and great for GodT Heisune of the best Highland blood, and was a descendant of Donald Boy, a man eminent for piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attainments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills the God of the Bible, and he ? struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and ?-theology aeeordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the 'Testimony of the Bocks" proclaimed the bans of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this latter book he toiled day and night through love of nature and love of God, until he could not sleep, and his brain gave away, and he was found dead with a revolver by M? 8106) ine cruei mawu-mciiu uatuig had two bullets?one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner's inquest was exsciiaiDg it and fel! dc.v<]. Have you any ik>ubt cf the beatu-cation of Hugh Mdler. after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? AmoDgthe mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of Heaven. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime, I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some parts of ihpi Bible, the nictures of the oeoDlawhn have committed, this unnatural" crime". Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of B&thshan. Here is the man who ehased little David?ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, Witch of Ender. Here is a man who, whipped ia battle, instead of surrendering his sword < T with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him; and when the servant declines, then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking npward, and he throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide. Here is Ahithopel, the Machiavelli of olden time?, betraying his best friend David in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom, and joining that fellow in his attempt at parricide. Not getting what he TT?ni-i+as? Vvtt nVianrra rtf nAliHofl Via fatftS ft nauv^u "k/j vuwu^v v* ^ ? short cut of a disgraced life into the suicide's eternity. There he is, the ingrate! Here is Abimelech, practically a suicide. He is with an army, bombarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with -what life he has left in his cracked skull he commands his armor bearer: "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me." There is his post mortem photograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Is cariot. Dr. Donne says he was a martyr, and we have in our day apologists for him. And what wonder, in this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals -C /It XI (- o/vrytA | Oi VjLlTUSL Uil ULlD ?)?U.b Ul OUiuo ui mo M i ^ tended apostles?a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of ail the ages, Judas Iecariot. All the good men and -women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to commit suicide if any man ever had?what with his destroyed property, and his body all aflame with insufferable carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except the chief course of it, a pestif rous wife, and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken potter/, yet crying out in triumph: "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my charge come." Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil, and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those who have hurled themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it, and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. "What is the cause? I charge upon infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter, be blissful without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the next? And when our existence here becomes troublesome, why not pass right over into Elysium? Jf at tins down amoung your most solemn reflections, and consider it after you go to your homes: there has never been a case of suicide where the operator was not either demented, and therefore irresponsible, or an infideL I challenge all U.- -J-- 3 T l-U. I 1 1 varse. There never has been a case of self destruction while in full appreciation oi his immortality, and of the fact that immortality would be glorious or wretched according as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected him. You say it is trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is the abdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity which practically says: "if you don't like this life get out of it, and you will land either in annihilation, where there are no notes to pay, no persecutions fco suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be everything glorious and nothing to pay for it." Infidelity always has been apologetic for self immolation. After Tom Paine's "Age - p -r> j? a oi xveason was puuusueu uuu wiutuy read there was a marked increase of self slaughter. A man in London heard Mr. Owen deliver his infidel lecture on socialism, and went home, sat down and wrote these words: "Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters in history, and the Bible is the greatest possible deception," and then shot himself. David Hume wrote these words: "It would be no crime for me to divert the Nile or the Danube fcom its natural bed. Where, then, can be the crime in my diverting a few drops of blood from their ordinary channel?" And having written the eesay he loaned it to a friend, the friend read it, wrote & letter of thanks and admiration and shot himself. Appendix to the same book. Bousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Mon uugue, uuucr cerium ujxuulllouiiiuu , y$ ciu apologetic for self immolation. Infidelity puts up no bar to people's rushing out from this world into the next. They teach us it does not make any difference how you live here or go out of this world, you will land either in an oblivious nowhere or a glorious somewhere. And infidelity holds the upper end of the rope fox the suicide, and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day and persuade the majority of people in this country that it does not make any difference how you go out of the world you will land safely, the Hudson and the East rivers would be so full of corpses the ferryboats would be impeded in tneir progress, and the crack of a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble of a street car. Would God that the coroners would bo brave in rendering the riglit verdict, and when in a case oi irresponsibility they say: "While this man was demented he too his life;" in tbe other case say: "Haying read infidel books and attended infidel lectures, which obliterated liom this man's mind all appreciation of anyting like future retribution, he committed self slaughter!" Ah! Infidelity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God and angels and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages! Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster intuieiityj .fart man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand np and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou hast. w^'Jfd, stead up ant! take thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families thou hast blasted, roll on the bed of knives which thou hast shapened for ethers, and let thy music be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self immolation lor tne lasi century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, if ever your life, through its abrasions and its molestations, should seem to be unbearable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, i do not consider yourself as worse than other. Christ himself was tempted to cast himself from the roof of the temple; but as he resisted, so rest ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on the way. Remember that God keeps the chronology of your life with as much rvrfimsinn or ha kftfvns th? chrfmolocv of X C O./ nations, your death as well as yonr cradle. And remember that this brief life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very thin but very important rim, and close up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better keep out of it until God breaks that rim and separates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm of summer insects, leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers. There is a sorrwless world, and it is so radiont that the noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep and the aurora that lights up our northern heavens, confounding astronomers as to what it can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors home from church militant to church triumphant, and you and E have ten thousand reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there by self immolation or impenitency. All our sins slain by the Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch rJivinAlv snr<?ad. and then th? rslano- of the sepulchral gates hehind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. O God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's burial, a Christian's immortality. THE SUN DANCE. A Festival Celebrated with Self-Torture by the Crows. The Crows have a sun dance of their own, writes a Cincinatti Enquirer correspondent. The dance originates in a ' spirit of revenue, and through it they seek to secure the assistance of the Supreme Being in carrying out their plans for vengeance and in prosecuting their wars and horse stealing expedia I U'UUOl Besides tlie strings by which the dancer is fastened through the sinews of the chest and back to a long pole, the brave endeavers tc produce good luck by mutilating himself with knives in many parts of the body. Some of the young men fasten buffalo heads to the muscles of the back and dance themselves free and through and about camp. Their legends say that God made them first of all human beings, the other Indians next, and the white man at the last as a punishment for some offenses. How much bodily pain one of these Crow warriors can undergo I witnessed in 1880, near this post. It was in the fall of that year, when Hon. Carl Schurz (the then secretery of the Interior) visited the captured Sioux and Cheyennes near Fort Keogh. The honorable gentleman desired to observe the natives at one of their dances and feasts, and General Miles, our commanding officer, conducted him to the neighboring encampment. T'na nmfitr fuwnni naniwi thnmrtv. went on horseback. As we neared the spot we beheld several hundred of Indians squatted down. on the grass, singing, shouting and dramming They were not dancing just then, but were enjoying a star performance by a solitary warrior?a Crow Indian?something of an excruciatingly humorous character? a highly seasoned'and palatable side dish in the feast, so to speak. The stalwart Crow stood in the center of the circle, entirely naked with the exception of the proverbial breech cloth; the blood was streaming from a hundred gashes which he was self-inflicting upon chest, shoulders, abdomen, arms and legs with sharp-edged knives, handed to him alternately by some of the Sioux and Cheyenne braves. The sight was too much for the someTcViof cotioq :iva rtrsmnkfttian nf t.ViA fojafiil I ions Secretory, and, giving his horse the spurs, he soon escaped from the disgusting spectacle. The attending Indians enjoyed the performance hugely, for they were chatting away and laughing gayly while the horrible and certainly very painful mutilation was going on. The interpreter informed me that it was an atonement ceremony on the part of the Crow, who had in the preying winter killed a Sioux. From the same source I learned afterward that the very heights of the festivity was reached by the audience when the performer finally permitted his body to be washed with vinegar, after which he indulged in fits and convulsions. Defioitious of Bible Terms. A gerak was 1 cent. A farthing was 3 cents. A shekel of gold was 38. A talent of gold was $13,800. A talent of silver was $538.33. A bin was one gallon and two pints. Ezekiel's reed was nearly eleven feet. A shekel of silver was abont 50 cents. A cnbit was nearly twenty-two inches. A mite was less than a quarter of a cent. A piece of silver, or penny, was 13 cents. A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile. An ephah, or batb, contains seven gallons and five pints. A day's journey was about twenty-three ^ x?i ana one-mtn mixes. A firkin was seven pints, an omer was six pints, a cab was three pints. A hands' breadth is equal to three and five-eights inches. A finger's breadth is equal to one inch.?Evangelist. The Sharpshooters of JIcGowan's Brigade. A number of the survivors of the Battalion of Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade have c jncladed to hold a reunion in Columbia during Fair Week. It is therefore requested that all surviving soldiers of that Battalion meet in the Richland Court House on "Wednesday, the 14th November, at 10 o'clock A. M. It is the desire of those who are arranging for this reunion to perfect a permanent arganization of the survivors of the ?sattaiion5 ana it is nopea, tneretore, that there will be a fall attendance. A telegram has been received from Capt. W. S. Dunlop, saying that he will snrel^ be present at the meeting during Fai week. The Third Circuit. The deadlock in the third circuit was broken last Friday by the nomination of Mr. John S. Wilson of Manning for Solicitor. The manner of making the choice was as follows: A secret ballot , was taken, each candidate being run against each of his competitors. The re suit of the three ballots was as follows: i Wilson 37, Gilland 28, Dargan 25. A i ballot was next had between Wilson and Gilland, resulting in a vote of 23 for Wilson and 7 for Gilland. Mr. Wilson was afterwards unanimously declared | the nominee of the Convention. | Ml Notwithstanding the large business done at the post office, there are only four letters : in town. * NO FEAR FOR NBW YORK. Cleveland to Carry the State by a Big Majority?Committeeman Entill on the I Situation. Col. J. H. Estill, who has returned from a meeting in New York of the National Democratic Executive Committee, of which he is a member, was asked Sunday by a gentleman in Savannah, what impressions his visit made upon UiUi) KAMllUg U^/VU MMWVMM* VMM*paign. In reply he said they were decidedly encouraging; in faer, he expresses no doubt of the result. He says that no fear need be entertained of New York, as the Cleveland and Thurman electoral ticket will carry the State by a very pronounced majority, running up into the thousands. Referring to the dual tickets for Mayor, he thinks that instead of injuring the National ticket it will have an opposite effect. The two local wings of the Democracy are divided only on local candidates and united and earnest in their support of Cleveland. As a result of this, it is his impression that there will bo a larger vote polled than if there were but one municipal ticket. "How about New Jersey?" Col. Estill was asked. "There is 110 doubt about New Jersey. It is safely Democratic, and while the Republicans are claiming Connecticut, Chairman Barnum says it can be included in the Democratic column and will give its electoral vote to Cleveland." "How about Indiana?" "The Republicans have a large campaign fnnd?something over $1,0^0,000? and are likely to try their same old tactics in what they consider the donbtful States, but all advices from Indiana are encouraging, and our Indiana committeeman says Indiana will go Democratic." "What about the Republicans claiming North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia and Florida?" "Nothing in it at all," said Colonel "F.oHU ' PJia Tiamnnra/yv firnpnt fn carry North Carolina by 15,000 to 20,000, and Florida will give an inoreased Democratic majority. West Virginia and Virginia are reasonably safe for the Democratic candidates. West Virginia is alwajs claimed by the Republicans, but they never carry it. Thurman is very popular there." "How about the doubtful Republican States?" "Well, our Ohio friends are claiming Ohio as a doubtful State. A friend very close to Chairman Brice, who is an Ohio man, says that Mr. Brice has looked over the field in Ohio, and thinks it can be carried for Cleveland and Thurman. Ohio is the home of Judge Thurman, where, owing to his faithful public services, broad statesmanship and rugged y -oiesty, he is very popular. The clai%"i8 made that Ohio lis often gone Democratic in the last fourteen years, and the conditions are even more favor able this year for tne .National democratic ticket with an Ohio man running on it. There is no doubt that a well directed effort will be made to carry Ohio. Then the States of Michigan, Wisconsin and California are debatable grooad, and representatives from these States express their confidence that the electoral votes of all these States will go to Cleveland and Thurman." "Then you are hopeful of the general result?'' "Yes. It is all one way in New York, and there is no lack of confidence in any direction as to the final result. There is a confidence in the stability of the Administration which is noticeable in the great trade centre of the country, New York. There is a remarkable activity in trade and all the hotels were crowded when I waj there. The bugbears which were used to deceive the people in the last Presidential election have been so thoroughly exposed by the conservative n /-} m at> a! a "Pwfteri ouiii 1111oniawivii ui a ?*. iuoi dent that a largely increased vote to retain it four years longer may be expected." Novelties In Jewelry. Among scarf-pins of recent manufacture is a kitten's head of carved moonstone, set in a collar of diamonds. The latest wrinkle is an oxidized silver stamp-box with the postal rates set forth on one side. A magnificent ornament for the hair, noted recently, consisted of a number of graduated insects covered with diamonds, rubies and sapphires and mounted upon an invisible gold wire several inches in length. An oxidized silver cigar-box lately introduced was in the form of a large volume, with the word "cigars" stamped upon the back like the^tule of a book. A tiny half-open silver match safe showing a number of turquoises to represent matches is a scarf pin that the smoker's fancy will surely "strike" upon. The tendancy toward fluted gold watch cases is apparent. New hairpins ara mounted with true lovers' knots of green gold. Thick coils of silver rope for waist belts are now being sported. Black enamel knife-edge bands, set with a large solitaire diamond, are among the most fashionable bracelets of the season. A chic scarf-pin is a tiny fish pierced through the body with a gold boat-hook. As neat and inexpensive sleeve buttons diamond-shaped blocks of mother-o'pearl bearing a small gold initial are to be commended. Miniature domino masks of blue enamel, edged with gold, now being adopted as scarf-pins, remind one forcibly of the near approach of the ball season. Pretty mournings scarf-pins are in the form of a black enamel shield, with feint gold rim and diamond centre.?Je weirs' lie view. Something on Foot. So sure as right is right and God's blessed sunshine is given alike to all, there is a revolution in the land. Agriculture is leading it. The farmers are aroused as a mass aDd denouncing the perfidious course taken by the Republican Senators as treason to every laboring man in the United States, no matter his trade, profession or calling. So, get ready. When agriculture arises in its might, and wrathfully, listen for an archangel's trumpet.?Kansas City Times. Hanged In a Cotton iVIill. Sumter, Oct. 16.?A horrible accident occurred yesterday afternoon at the picking room of the Sumter Cotton Mills. A young man named Thomas Jeffers, while charging some belting, was caught by his blouse, and his arm and head was drawn over the shafting. His shirt was wrapped around his neck so tightly as to cause his 1 vtt otT-onrrnlofir\r? UCKIUU Kfj oviaiiguiMwivu. We hear of a tailor who is too polite to refer to his non-paying customers by the opprobrious epithet of "beat." He simply calls them "dressed vegetables." "Those stockiDgs are all wool, I presume?" she said, as she requested the clerk to wrap her up a half-dozen pairs. "O yes. miss," he answered, absent-mindedly, "they're all wool and a yard wide." "Sir!" she exclaimed, iadignantly, and before he fully realized what he had said she whisked out of the store. JUDGE THCRMAK'S ACCEPTANCE Of tlie Democratic Nomination for the Vice Presidency?A Concise Statement of the Tarff Issue. The following is Judge Thru-man's letter of acceptance as given to the press. The first draft of the letter was in the Judge's handwriting, and the typewriter copies showed only a few changes in the punctuation from the original: Hon. Patrick A. Collins and others, committee. Gentlemen: In obedience to custom i. send you tins lormai acceptance of my nomination of the olhee of Vice President of the United States, ! made by the National Convention of the I Democratic party at St. Louis. When you did me the honor to call upon me at Columbus and officially notify me of my nomination, I expressed to you my sense of obligation to the convention, kid stated that although I had not sought tho nomination, I did not feel at liberty iiurfei: the circumstances to decline it. I thought then, as I still think, that whatever I could properly do to promote the re-election of President Cleveland X ought to do. His administration has been marked by such integrity, good sense, man'y courage and exalted patriotism that a just appreciation of these high qualities seems to call for his re-election. I am also strongly impressed with the belief that his re-election would powerfully tend to strengthen that feeling of fraternity among the American people tfiat is so essential lo meir weuare, peace and happiness, and to the perpetuity of the Union and its institutions. I approve the platform of the St. Louis Convention, and I cannot too strongly express my dissent from the heretical teachings of monopolists, that welfare of people can be promoted by a system of exorbitant taxation far in excess of the wants of the government The idea that the people can be enriched by heavy and unnecessary taxation, that a man's condition can be improved by taxing him on all he wears, on all his wife and ohildren wear, on all his tools and implements of industry is an obvious absurdity. To fill the vault3 of the treasury with an idle surplus, for whieh the government has no legitimate use, and to thereby deprive the people of our currency needed for their business and daily wants, and to create, a powerful and dangerous stimulus to extravagance and conuption in the expenditures of the government, seems to me to be a policy at variance with every sound principle of government and oolitical economv. The necessity of reducing taxation to prevent such accumalation of sin-pins revenue anOl Consequent depletion of the circulating medium is so apparent that no party dares to deny it; but when we come to consider the modes by which a reduction may be made, we find a wide antagonism between our party and the monopolistic leaders of our political opponents. We seek to reduce taxes upon the necessaries of life; our opponents seek to increase them. We say give to the masses of the people cheap and good clothing, cheap blankets, cheap tools and cheap lumber. The Republicans, by their platform and their leaders in the Senate, by^^ir proposed bill, say increase taxes jm clothing and blankets and thereby increase their cost, maintain high duty on the tools of the farmer and mechanic, and on the lumber which they need for the construction of their modest dwellings, shops and barns, and thereby prevent their obtaining these necessaries at reasonable prices. Can any sensible man doubt as to where he should stand in this controversy? Can any well informed man be deceived by the false pretense that a system so unreasonable and uDjust is for the benefit of the laboring men? Much is said about competition of American laborers with the pauper labor of Europe, but does not every man who looks around him, see and know that the immense majority of laborers in America are not engaged in what are called protected industries? And as to those who are employed in such industries, is it not undeniable that the duties proposed by the Democratic measure, called the Mills bill, far exceed the difference between American and European wages, and that theren /3 m 1 ftf ATI* TTT/\>?lr _ iUlO JJL At WOiO nuuiLKi^u buau i/cu TTVJiaingmen can be protected by tariffis against cheaper labor, they would be fully protected and more than protected by that bill? Docs not every well informed man know that the increase in the price of home manufactures, produced by high tariff does not go into the pockets of the laboring men, but only tends to swell the profits of others? It seems to me that, if the policy of the Democratic party is plainly presented, all must understand that wo seek to make the cost of living less, and at the same time increase the share of tho laboring man in the benefits of national prosperity and growth. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Allen G. Thurman. Is Marriage a Failure? The discussion "Is Marriage a Failure?" has called out the following piescriotion: I will trv to erive matrimo nially inclined young men a prescription which they need not get compounded in the drug store round the corner, but they can do it themselves. It is a sure antidote to failure in marriage. Take a healthy, truthful, good, common sense girl, not too tender, not too tough, not too good looking, nor too extremely ugly. Put her in a pot in the shape of a nice, pleasant home. Be sure to use only pots known as housekeeping. Avoid carelully all imitations known as boarding. Fill your pot with the pure water of true, manlv love. Salt it occasionally with de votion. Pepper it when you have just cause, with strict "no funuy bu sines-j in mine," in a quiet, dignified way. But be careful, only using the coarse but health black pepper known as "no secrets between husband and wife," and avoid the sharp Spanish cayenne pepper known as "jealousy." Put tne pot near the gate fire of your own "humble home." Be sure and watch the boiling carefully by personal presence. After you have boiled this dish for a lifetime never let it cool off the mutual affeotion and interest in each other. Serve the dish always warm with home instincts on the family table, and you will be successful in cooking your own happy marriage.?Troy Times. A Strange Penance. While I was in San Salvador I saw a strange sight in ihe street one feast day. ! A 1111111 was nuder^oing penance by crawlintr frnm nn? church to another. Both churches were in the same street, and the distance between them was about half a mile. The man Lad. on a white suit of undcrcothing, and a white cap was drawn down over his face. He crawled?not on his hands and knees?no; Ihr.se who imposed the penance knew a trick worth two of that?he crawled on his elbows aud knees, and in the middle of the street, over the irregularly laid, jajrged stones. One or two women staid with the man and spread pieces of cloth to soften somewhat the hardness of the road. What was his sin I did not learn.?Overland Monthly. Telegraph operators get a great deal of sound advice through their instruments. r J / t YOUNG LADIES' SMALL TALK. Conversation Overheard on a Hotel Piazzr>. "What on earth did you do with my needle, Lon?" "It wasn't me. I had Lillie's. Don't pnll the floss like that!" "Can I help it? Do move your chair a little so I can get my feet up*." "Jen's shoes are jast like yours!" "Jen's shoes never saw the day they'd look like mine; nor Jen's feet, neither." "Just see how my hands are tanned. The sun was blazing on the water." JLUU LltkU glUYCO Via. "I hadn't." "You had, too. I saw them." "What! Yesterday?" " Y es?yesterday." "No such thing?not yesterday." 4 'Well, I've got eyes, I hope. When we stood on the pier there, before you got into the boat you had on those long brown chamois." "That was Thursday." "It was yesterday! Maud, didn't Lil have gloves on yesterday?" "I guess you're thinking of me. I wore old dark ones." "I'm positive Lil had gloves on when we stood on the pier, anyway." "No, that's a mistake. I didn't really. My brown gloves were in my gray coat pocket. Honor bright!" "Oh, I suppose I've got to believe you. 1 must have been hallucinated then, for I certainly saw those gloves." "No; you saw mine; your brain's a!l right so far, Neil. You mistook the hands, that was all." "There goes the Maggie. Who took her ont this morning?" "That isn't the Maggie." "Will Manning took her ont." "Of Course it's the Maggie. I should think I ought to know the Maggie." "You ought to, but you don't. That's the Mystery." "Oh, listen?the Mystery! It's the Maggie." "It's the Mystery." "It's the Maggie and Will Manning. He's got those Keilly girls on board. I hope he'll steer them back to their native isle." "Will Manning couldn't sail the Maggie. He couldn't sail a tub." "He'd be a mighty clever seaman if he could, Miss Lil." "I know I'd be awfully scared to go out with him." "So would I." "I, too." "I wouldn't dare to go out with Will Manning. Would you, Laura?" ^."VYeu, mat s too oaa. ne warns ue all to go. He told me to ask my party, and he'd run us down to Cliff House for lunch." "Oh, my, he didn't. Did be really?" "Yes, he did, and it's the jolliest place for lunch?lots of Yale boys. But, of course, if you are all afraid " "Afraid?" "Who's afraid?" "There isn't any danger in the Maggie." "I'll go." "I'm going." "The idea of being afraid! I never said I was." "Well, lie's putting in now." "(Toody! sure's you live." "Let's go down to the pier. ; "Oh, let's!" Rustle, scamper, general stampede and grateful silence. Provarbs from the Talmud. The cat and the lat make peace over a carcass. Hospitality is an expression of divine worship. Rabbi Jochanan said: "He who gives becomes rich." Commit a sin twice and it will not seem to thee a sin. If thou tellest thy secret to three persons ten know it. Do not to others what you would not have others do to you. Rabbi Eliazar said: "Charity is more than sacrifices." Many a colt's skin is fastened to the saddle its mother beard. He who increaseth his flesh but multiplieth food for the worms. A simple light answers as well for a hundred men as for one. The camel desired horns, and his ears were taken from him. Two pieces of coin in one bag make more noise than a hnndred. The doctor who prescribes gratuitously gives a worthless prescription. The rose grows among the thorns. (Latin, Cepe tcepe sub sepe crescit) The place honors not the man; 'tis the man who gives honor to the place. Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet. The thief who finds no opportunity to steal considers himself an honest man. Man sees the mote in his neighbor's eye, but knows not the beam in his own. Kabbi Jose said: "I never call my wife wife,' but ,home,' for she makes my home." A Sad Story from Lexington. Kightwelg, Lexington Co., Oct. 14.? It is with sadness that we chronicle the death of Miss Carrie Miller, a very estimable young lady. About a year ago she drank some concentrated lye through mistake, tmnKing it was wine. it seems her mother had a jag of wine and one of lve in the same pantry. She poured out a glass of wine (as she thought) and tasted it, but it proved to be the lye instead. As soon as she had swallowed it she exclaimed: "Oh, mother, I have drank the lye instead of wine, and now it will kill me!" With these words she fell fainting to the floor. Everything that human hands could do was done for her. At times she would appear to be all right, then would relapse again. For the last four months nothing has entered her stomach in the natural way, as the canal that carries the food was completely closed up. Ker funeral was preached by the llev. Marks afc Mount Pilgrim church, October 10th, 1888.?Special to The World. An Unpleasant Adventure. Bamberg, Oct. 19.?Tliis morning before dayligh while Mr. Geo. A. Jennings and others were in the Edisto swamp on a deer hunt he met with a very singular occurrence, which happened abont as follows: Mr. Jennings had climed up a ?aa rt X/*f/vra> Hqtt t/\ tit a it fnr tho Aa&r tr\ 11 CC iUUg UMJ WV "U?M *V/A X?V,\,A. fcV begin to feed, hoping that he might get a shot from his hiding place at some unwary stag; but becoming very cold, he descended from the tree and went out of the immediate locality and built a fire. lie laid down by the fire to warm himself and when he got up he felt something in his clothing in the neighborhood of his pants pocket where he had some cartridges, and as something began to move down his leg he says he first thought hi? cartridges were waisting out of his pocket, but to his surprise a large snake crawiea out or Ms pants at his shoe-top, having entered at the waist band and took a through ticket.? Special to Charleston World. More than fifty thousand pianos were made in America hist year. Few were imported, because the home-made article is the best. A close call?Shouting in a deaf man's 1 ear. EVOLUTION IN THE CHUKCH. A Concise Statement of the .Action of Synod on a Troublesome Question. (From the Greenville Ne^s, October 17.) The Kev. J. M. Rose, pastor of the Washington Street Presbeterian church, of this city, who was the defeated candidate of the anti-Woodrow party of the South Carolina Synod, returned here yesterday from att._ jding the meeting of Synod at Greenwood. While a stout upholder of his side of the controversy, T> -r.^4. ~ 1 4...1 ? 1U.I. LfcUBC ID liv/u paiLIOttU itiiU UiA.CO a thoroughly good-hamored view of the matter. He says the majority of the Woodrow men steadily increased from 12, which it. was on the first test vote in the electio. of Moderator, to 25 which it had reached yesterday afternoon on the departure of the up train, the increase being caused chiefly by new arrivals. Daring night before last and yesterdiy morning there was earnest debate on a resolution disapproving the action of tbe faculty of the Theological Seminary in forbidding its students to attend Dr. Woodrow's lectures at the State University. The resolution was supported by Doctors Flinn, Adgerand Crosby and N. J. Holmes and opposed by Doctors "\fr Di i.v j mi _ juraraeau, auacb, x?iaoK.ourii ami j.uuuipson and D. S. Henderson, of Aiken, representing the trustees. The speeches were earnest and powerful. The resolution of disapproval was adopted by a decisive majority-scoring another point for Dr. Woodrow. The Synod, after another earnest debate, refused to accept the new professors elected, postponing that matter a jear. Yesterday afternoon the Synod was considering a paper ofiered by L>r. Crosby instructing the stated clerk to inform the Synods of Georgia, Alabama and Florida that the Synod of South Carolina will resist by ali lawful means any effort to remove the Theological Seminary or any part of it from Columbia. It is the judgment of many Presbyterians th*t the action of the South Carolina Synod will cause a movement by the Georgia, Alabama and Florida Synods to dissolve the copartnership by which the Seminary is maintained and withdraw their support from it. (From the Columbia Daily Keconi, Oct. If.) The session of the South Carolina Syi.od of the Presbyterian Church concluded at Greenwoood Tuesday night. The next session of the Synod will be held at Spartanburg on the Friday before the fourth Sunday in October. The Columbia delegates returned yesterday evening. The outcome of the session was a complete victory for the " Woodrow men," the antis being defeated in every instance by a majority of from 20 to ("KJ. The leaders admit mat Greenwood was their Waterloo. A proniineut leader of the antis said yesterday: "Yes, we were whipped. I suppose turn about is fair piay." In regard to the resolution passed byCharleston Presbytery forbidding rubiic contending against tbe decision of the General Assembly in Dr. Woodrow's case, the framers and advocates thereof said that the others had mistaken their meaning. It is understood, however, that Dr. Woods refused to accept their consi ruction of the meaning of the resolution, given at Greenwood, and denounced their motive severely, charging then). with having persecution at me uouum oxji,. Two of the members of the Board of Directors of thit Columbia Theological Seminary are now "out and out" Woodrow men. At first it was believed that Charleston Presbytery would appeal to the General Assembly to reverse the decision of the Synod annulling its resolution passed at Aiken. Accordingly the Synod appointed Dr. Woods and the Rev. T. S. Whaling to defend their action. But Charleston Presbytery decided not to appeal or complain, but to let the question go before the General Assembly in the records of the Synod. This, by the law of the church, precludes the Synod having representatives to defend the records. The antis have here an advantage, and have appointed the Rev. Drs. J. L. Girardeau and J. B. Mack to defend them before the General Assembly. Serious btabbiug Affray. A serious difficulty occurred at Dillion Station last Tliusday night between Wilson Conner and R. B. Webster, of this county, both white. The men were sitting in a buggy together when a dispute arose. Conner, it -a. -u :j.u ? is saiu, at trcuaucj. vrmu a nunc and the latter sprang from the buggy dragging Conner with him. In the fig tit on the ground both men used their knives freely. Conner's right leg was broken, and he was severely cut in several places. Webster was cut in several places also, but his wounds are not as seri ous those of Conner. Dr. Weatheriy derssed the latter's wounds, and he is now doing well. Webster is a constable for a Trial Justice. Too much whiskey caused the difficulty. The doctor says the breaking oi Conner's leg bone by the koife is the hrst instance ol the kind in his experience.?Marion Index. Shade* In Vogue. Here are some of the shades adopted by a syndicate of Paris manufacturers for the goods they will make for the winter trade. Emeraude?A deep, rich emerald green. Scarabee?A dark, yellowish green, j Cuoroncou?A shade lighter than scarabee. Peupliere?A shade lighter still. Nil?A light watery green. Coquelicot?A rich blood red. Bouianger?A brighter shade of red. Bonton d'Or?A golden yellow. Mais?Straw color. Yolcan?A reddish terra-cotta. Alezan?A dark reddish brown. Pactole?A light golden brown, uxiae?a aarK siate. Lionceau?A dark fawn. Heron?A grayish drab. Luciole?A gendarme blue. "Wooed by an Indian Beauty. Standard Rock, Dak., Oct. 18.?La. t week a small party of Eastern gentlemen who were scouring this section on a bunting and pleasure expedition lost tbeir bearings and wandered to the agency here, where the Indians gave them the necessary infoimation In regard to their route. Iu the company was Heuiy Ashburton, a wealthy young man of Leeds, England. While the the party was preparing dinner in tlieir tern uie iirsi oay aner meir arrival, a daughter of one of the leadiug chiefs entered, approached the astonished young Briton, threw her arms around his neck an.1 repeatedly kissed him. The young woman was very good looking. and the young man, though greatly astonished, did not attempt to check her caresses. Th':ir acquaintance ripened into love, and the wedding took place yesterday. The maiden is a half-bieed, about 18 years of age. Her face is white and delicate, and attired in civilized and fashionable garments, 110 one would ever suspect that she was of Indian parnetage. All Up a Spout. Did our Republican friends observe that the workingmen were not in their parade either day or night? Do they understand what it means'/ Look out for a landslide, i brethren. Your goose is cooked.?Evansville (Ind.) Courier, THE ZOO'S KKPTILE HOUSE. Opening: of the Finest Building of Its Kind in the World. (From the Philadelphia Times.) The new reptile house in the Zoo has been opened and hundreds of vis.tors admire the beauty of the new home of the serpents. It is far prettier than the serpent house in the London Zoo, through costing much less money. The building is built of brick and gla?p. There is a main building thirty-six feet square and on the east and west sides fnrA Ti^rtr trnn/vo Atrol cV?or\A or^.l c%iv wn v u^tr vi wax nua^/c auu twenty-eight feet long and thirty-two feet wide, making the building ninetytwo feet long. The gloss roof of the wings bulge out froaa the main building with symmetrical beauty, making the house like a grand conservatory. The main building, which was originally the aviary, is tiled with buff-tinted tiles with Jerra-cotta edging. The walls of the new wings are lined with enameled bricks, and a wainscoating of enameled britrks runs around the walls of the main building, while above it the walls are plastered and tinted a delicate cream white. Stained glass fills the double door and windows on the south front of the main building, and with the creeping vines that shade the front make a picturesque effect A fountain ghoots up its silvery spray above the neat tank of the crocodiles in the centre of the main building, aad between hanging plants and baskets of flowers sweet voiced birds mingle their melody from glittering cagee. The two* back corners of the main building are banked up with choice plants aad there vtili be flowers blooming in the serpents' home all winter. The t-ast wing is lined with cherry-wood frames and plate glass cases seven feet high and about nine feet wide, which are the homes of the three-climbing auajies. iuese Mjaues live uu uaiunu. ground, said real trees aid plants grow in the big cases. Ever^ case is reached by the sun. The heating pipes are so arranged that in blizzard -weather the snakes can lie right over the pipes, but no matter how high the temperature of the cages the temperature o! the building will never bee uisagreeable to visitors. The west wing has a curving row of plate-glass cases for the snakes that don't climb. They are the homes of the venomous and ground snakes. All their surroundings are natural and snakes can l>e seen in the new reptile house as one s '63 them ia nature. The cases in ti e west wing are not as large as in the east wiug, but around the walls of the mat a building are large case for salamander*, hell-benders and other water reptiles of their class; and gigantic man-eating crocodiles and tinv turtles aleeo together in the waters of the big tank in the centre of the building. The collection of reptiles in the Zoo is the best in the country, and Superintendent Brown hopes to make it the best in the world. The east wing is filled with a typical colic clion of boa constrictors. The great Indian python lives next door to the royal python from West Africa, while the South American constrictor hisses through the plate glass at the beautiful anaconda from Brazil and the Cuban tree boa, and the Australian boa, or carpet snake, curl themselves in adjoining cases. TUe collection of lizzards and comcaon snakes is a great one, and the new we*t wing has many attraction to draw the visitors. The gigantic salamanders from Japan are watched by the crowds, whi e everybody Btops to look at the "Gila monster." He was formerly an Arizona terror, and is thA rmlv vftnnmnns lizard known. It is the same "Gila monster" who killed a man in Tombstone, six weeks ago. Ha is slow and sluggish in bis movement, but is a regular terror when aroused. Near him is the beautiful starred tortoise from Madagascar. He is black with yellow marks that radiate like a star. This is the first attempt to keep snakes with all the surroundings of nature, and Superintendent Brown is determined to make it a striking feature of the Zoo. The work on the building was begun last June and was only completed on Saturday. The artistic home of the reptiles was designed by Superintendent Brown, who gave two years* study to the subject in order to make it the fiaest reptile house in the world. The Civilized Mosquito. 'l'iiis is tne mosquito triai; may stay Dy us during the entire month of October. This mosquito, after a short period of domestication, becomes in certain respects very unlike the wild and relatively untamed swamp mosquito. The house mosquito singe but little. It becomes mute. It becomes also more vigilai t and wary than the wild it sect. It is soon aware of the efforts made to drive it way. It learns how to avoid dust cloths and brooms in the hands of energetic chambermaids. It learn?, after a little, to hide by day?to hide behind mirrors and bureaus or in the folds of hung-up clothing. All day it so lurks in ambush, planning and meditating its night villainy, while the simple human occupants of the apartment are congratulating themselves, in the false hope that the enemy has retreated. The house mz-icnnitri Vioarfl fills and Ivirlias his timfl. When night comes and the lamps are out and bills of fare have deposited themselves in bed, he drops softly as a snowflake upon them. He knows where to drop. He needs no light. He seems in darkness to have a capacity for scentiag warm, fresh blood. The domesticated mosquito does not bite like the wild mosquito. This is h.s moat irritating characteristic. The uncultivated, rural mosquito settles upon you, and, having bored his tiny and sanguinary artesian well, sets to work and pumps until he is full. Not so the house mosquito. He simply bites. He bites industriously and promiscuously, from tile crown of the head to the soJes of feet. He bores through the sheets into the cuticle. His only aim seems to be to torment. He raises half a dozen irritating itches where the field mofquito caused but one. Reveling in this carnage, he seems to have little desire to fill himself with the food so unwilliDglv given him by a race superior to everything but a mosquito in the bedroom at night. How he sustains his miserable life is amystry. He seems to eat, or rather drink, nothing. But he will remain all winter, providing the apartment is sufficiently warmed for him, and remain nocturnally active, too, while his colleagues are hibernating in a natural and healthy torpidity. riAHUO Akl mJ UnUAilO. One thousand Pianos and Organs to close out by October 1. All Organs and Pianos sold at cash price, payable November 1?no interest?delivered to your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from $24 up; Pianos from $150 up. All instruments warranted. Send for circulars. Buy now and have the use of the instrument. .Remember we pay freight both ways if tbe instrument don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than New York. N. W. TRUMP, * LwL:. O ssviiuuum, Op Vf