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b I * AT THE TABERNACLE. REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE HUMAN FACE. ' >S f,A Man's Wittlom Maketh KIjs Faca to Shine."?The Great Prei?fcer Atalii DIscoanes I'pon a Un!qafrSul>j c',?A Map of the Mind. Brooklyn, Feb. 25.?In tie Brook1 iKift frtrcm/VMl TL+x? t)r 1YU xaucruaujc buio iwouuvu uv.. Talmaee chose for the 8abject of his sermon 4,The Human Face;> and held his great audience fascinated with the charm of his jeloquence as he discoursed on a subject of universal interest. The text was Ecclesiaates viii, 1. "A man's wisdom maketh bis face to shine, and the boldness of oi? face shall be changed," or, as it may be rendered, "the scurness cf his face shall be sweutened." Tbus a little cbango in our English translation brings out the better meaning of the text, which sets forth that the ^ character of the face ie decided by the ^ character of the soul. The main features of our couQtenance were decided by the Almighty, and we cannot change them, bat under God we decide whether we ohoii Kot7a onnnfrmnn^ftA benignant or baleful, scur or sweet, wrathful or genial benevolent or mean, honest or scoun drelly, impudent or modest, courageou or cowardly, frank or sneaking. In all the works of God there is nothing more wonderful than the human countenance. Though the longest face is less than 12 inches from the hair line of the forehead to the l>ottom of the chin and the broadest face ;s less than eight inchs from cheek bone :o cheek bone, yet in that small compass 'Sod hath wrought finch differences that the 1,600,000,000 of tbe human race may be distinguished from each ether by their facial appearances. The face is ordinarily the index of cbarecter. It is ;he throne of the emotions. It is the battlefield of the passions. It is the catalogue of character. It is the map of the mind. It is the geography of the sou). And while the Lord decides before our birth whether we shall be handsome or homely, we are by tbe character we form deciding whetner our counten ances shall be pleasant or disagreeable, j This is so much so that some of the i ?^ moct beautiful faces are unattractive be- | ^ cause of their arrogance or meir aeceisfulness, and some of the most rugged and irregular features are attractive because of the kindness that shines through them. Accident or sickness or scarification may veil the face so that it shall not express the soul, but in the majority of cases give me a de aberate look at a man's countenance, and I will tell yo;i whether he is a cynic or an optimist, whether he is a miser or a philanthrope j - ist, whether he is noble or ignominious, whether he is gofed or bad. Oar first im-j " pression of a man or woman is generally tbe accurate impression. Yoa at the first glance make up your mind that some man is unworthy ol your friendship, but afterward by circumstances being put into Intimate association with him you come to like him and trust him. Yet, stay with him long enough, and you will be compelled to return to your original estimate of his character, bat it will be after he has cheated you out of everything he could lay his hands on. It is of God's mercy that we have these outside indexes ot character. Phrenology is one index, and while it may be carried to an absurd extent there is no doubt thatvou can judge somewhat of a man's charcater by the shape of his head. Palmistry is another index, and while it may be carried into the fanciful and necromantic there is no doubt that certain lines in the palm of the hand are indicative ot mental and moral traits. ' ??- :-Ja_ irnysiogaomy us suuuict iuuca, auu while the contour of the human face may i sometimes mislead r,s we can generally, \ after looking into the eye and noticing - the carve of the lip., and the spread of the nostril, and the correlation of all the features, come to a right estimate of a man's character. If it were not so, how would we know whom to trust and whom to avoid? Whether we will or not, physiognomy decides a thosand things commercial and financial and social and religious domains. From one lid ol the Bible to the other there is no science so 1 recognized as that of physiognomy and nothing more thoroughly taken for granted than the power oi the soul to transfigCaaa uio bur ia^t The Bible spea&s of the "face of God," the face of Jesus Christ," the face of Esau," the "face of Israel," the face of Job," the "face of the old man," the shining "face of Moses," the wrathful "face oi Pbaroah," the ashes on the face of humiliation, the resnrrectionary staff on the face of ihe dead child, the hypocrites disfiguring foeir face, and in my text the Bible declares, "A man's wisdom m&keth his face to shine, and the sourness of his face shall be sweetened." If the Bible has so much to say about physiognomy, we do not wonder that the world has made it a study from the >,. early age. l? yain the English parliament in the time of Geor^if^TuerS^SMiiA^whip-" ped and imprisoned those who studied physiognomy. Intelligent people always "have studied it and always will study it. The pens of Moses and Joshua and Job and John and Paul, as well as of Hosmer and Hippocrates and Galen and Aristotle and Socrates and Piato and Lavater, have been dipped into it and whole libraries of wheat and chaff have been garnered on this theme. _ Now, what practical, religious and eternal use would I make of this subject? I^am going to show that while we are not responsible for our features, the Lord Almighty having decided what they ~L_u oim?i uc yicuaiuuy, ao uio poaumon uoClares when he write?. "In my book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them," yet the character which under God we from will chisel the face most mightily. Every man would like to have been made inappear, , ance an Alcibiadea, and every woman would like to have been made a Jose pnine. __ We all want to be agreeable. Our usefulness depends so much,upon it that I consider It important and Christian for every man ana woman to be as agreeable as possible. The slouch, the sloven the man who does not care how he looks, all such people lack equipment for usefulness. A minister who has to throw a quid of^tobacco out of his mouth before he begins to preach, or Christians with beacd uatrimmed, making them to look like wild beast3 come out of the lair? yea, unkempt, uncombed, unwashed, disagreeable men or women?are a hin drance to religion snore than a recommendation. .Now, my text suggests how we may, independent of features, make jurselves agreeable, "A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine the sourness of his face shall be sweetened." What I say may come too late for many. Their countenance may by long >ears of hardness have been frozen into [stolidity, or by Inner Vftoro r\f Am a I ??? a -w v* ivi ouvjj uiaj have Herodized all the machiaery of expression, or by long years of avarice they may have been shylocked until their face is as hard as the precious metal they are hoarding, bu> I an in time to help multitudes if the Lord will. That it is possiclo to overcome disadvantages ot physiognomy was in this country mightily illustrated by one wiiose life recently closed after bavins served in the presidential cabinet at Washington. By accldeu; of fire in childhood his face had been more piteously scarred : * %'' ... . - than any human visage kaat I ever saw. By bard study he rose from being a poor boy to the very fceight of legal profes sion, and when an a'torney general of the United StateB wasceeaed he entered the, presidential cabinet. What a triumph over destroyed hnman countenance! t -vai on nnnAft. 1 i UU UUb CTUUUd liuaw rw uvu vj/j/w ing attorney in a Philadelphia courtroom cruelly referred to this per30DaI disfis: nrement Benjamin F. Brewster replied in these wor3s: "When I was a babe I was a beautifal bine eyed child. I know this because my dear dead mother told me m>. Bat I was one day playing with my sister wben her clothes took fire, and I ran to her relief and Saved her but in doin? so my clothes took fire, and the fire was not put oui uotil my face was as black as the heart of the scouudrel who has just now referred to mj : a fi on r* rr> An f." Heroism cooqueriog physical dwabili* ties* That scholarly, regular features are not necessary lor making powerful impression, witness Palu, who photographs himself as in "bodily presence weak;'' and George Whitefield, whose eyes was struck with strabismus; and Alexander H. Stephens, who sat pale and sick in invalid's chair while he thrilled the American congress with his elcqaence, and thousands of invalid preachers and Sabbath school teachers and Christian workers. Aye, the most glonou3 beiDg the world ever saw was foreseen bv Isaiah, who described his face bruised and gashed and sacrificed, ana saia 01 uihj, -ni? vibbkc who ou marred more than any man.'7 So you see ttat the loveliest face in the universe was a scarred face. And now I am going to tell you of some of the chisels that work for the dis[ figuration or irradiation of the human countenance. One of the sharpest and most destructive of those chisels of the countenance is cynicism. That sours the disposition and then sours the face. It gives a contemptuous curl to the hp. It draws down the corners of the mouth and inflates the nostrils as with a malodor. What David said in haste they say id tneir aen aeration, -au mcu tw.o liars." Everything is going to ruin.'All men and women are bad or are *oh<: to be. Society and the church are on the down grade. Tell them of an act of benevolence, and thev say he gave that to advertise himself. Thev do not like the present lashion of hats for women or of coats for men. They are opposed'to the administration, municipal and state and national. Somehow food does not taste as it used to, and they wonder why there are no poets or orators or preachers as when they were boys. Even Solomon, one of the wisest and at one time one of the worst of men falls into the pessimistic mcod and cries out in the twenty-first chaptsr of Provems, "Who can find a virtuous woman?" It he had behaved himselt oeiter, and kept " - J I-iS V- -AnlJ 1U gUUU aBBWUWUUB, UO yyuuiu uub ua-ro written that interrogation point implying the scarcity ot good womanhood. Cynicism, if a habit, as it is with tens of thousands of people, writes itself all over the features; hence so many sour visages all up and down the street, all up and down the church and the world. One good way to make the world worse is to say it is worse. Let a depressed and iorebodmsr opinion of every thing take possession of yon lor 20 years and you will bo a sight to behold. It is the chastisement of God that when a man allows his heart to be cursed with cynicism his face becomes gloomed and scowled and lachrymosed and blasted with the same midnight. Bat let Christian cheerfulness try its chisel upon a nan's countenance. Feeling that ail things are for his good, and that God rules, and the Bible being true the world's floralization is rapidly approaching, and the day when beer mug and demijohn and distillery and bombshell and rifle pit and 74 pounders {and roulette tables and corrupt book and satanic printing press will have quit work, | the brightness that comes from anticipation not only gives zest to his work, but -i L: J -u-,. uu suiacs iu ins e_yes auu ^iuwd iu uu? uucoa ; and kindles a morning in his entire countenance. Those are the faces I look for in an audience. Those countenances are sections of millennial glory. They are heaven impersonated. They are the sculpturing of God's right hand. They are hosanas in human "flesh. They are halleluiahs aiighted. They are Christ reincarnated. I do not care what your features are or whether you look like your father or j your mother or look like no one under the heavens?to God and man you are [ beautiful. Mtcheal Angelo, the sculp tor, visiting Florence, some one showed Saim in a back yard a piece of marble that was so shapeless It seemed of no use, and Angelo was asked if he could make anything out of it, and it so be was told he could own it. The artist took the marble and for nine months shut himself up to work, first trying fx> make of it a statue of David, with bis foot on Goliath, but the marble was not quite long enough at the base to make the prostrate form of the giant, and so the artist lashioned ths marble into another figure that is famous_ for jUl time becau3ej2?i?s*xpre5Bife^s7* Xcntic came in and was asked by ADgelo for his criticism, ana ne saia is was beautifal, but the nose of the statae was not of the right shape. Augelo picked up from the floor some sand and tossed it about the face of the statue, pretending he was using his chisel to make the improvement suggested by the critic. "What do you think of it now?" said the artist." "Wonderfully improved," said the critic. "Well," said the artist, "I have not changed it at all" My friends, the grace of God comes to the heart of a man or woman and then attempts to change a forbidding ard pre* judicial fece into attractiveness. Perhaps the iace is most unpromising for the divine sculptor. But, having changed the heart, it begins to work on the countenance with celestial chisel, and into all the lineaments of the face pat; a gladness and an expectation that change it from glory to glory, and, though earthly criticism may disapprove of this or that in the appearance of the face, Christ says of the newly created coun tenance that which Pilate said of him, "Behold the man!" Here is another mighty chisel for the countenance, and you may call it re venge or hate or malevolence. This spirit having taken possession of the heart, it encamps seven devils under the eyebrows. It puts cruelty Into the compression of the lips. You can tell from the man's looks that he is pursuing some one and trying to get even with him. There are suggestions of Ne ro and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumbscrews and racks all up and down the features. Infernal artists, with murders' daggers, bave been cutting away at that visage. The revengeful heart has built its perdition in the revengeful countenance. Disfiguration of diabolic passion! But here comes another chisel to shape the countenance and its kindness. There came a moving day, and into her soul moved tba whole family of Christian graces, with all the children and graDd children, and the command nas come forth from the heavens that that worn an's face shall be made to correspond with her suberb soul. Her entire face from ear to ear becomes the canvas upon which all the best artists of heaven begin to put their finest strokes,aLd on the small compass of that face are put pictures of sunrise over the sea. and angels of mercy going up and down ladders all afiash, and!mountains of transfiguration and noonday in heaven. Kindness! It is the most magnificent sculptor that ever touched human countenance. No one could wonder at the unusual geniality in *he face of William Windom, secretary of the treasury of the United States, after seeing him at the New York banquet just before he dropped dead, turning his wineglass upside down, saying, "I may by doing this offend some, but by not doing it I ?? - ?*- WN..WT? " PA f A LLLlJ^Uli UciLUagC uuaujr. xj c o.iuu your friends. Be kind to your enemies. Be kind to the young. Be kind to iheold. Be kind to your rulers. Be kind to your servants. Be kind to your superiors. Ba kind to your inferiors. Be kind to your horse. Be kind to your dog. Be kind to your c?t. Mo'rnmg, noon *nd night be kind, and the effects of it will be written in the language of your face. That is the gospel of physiognomy. A Bayonne merchant was in the south of Europe for his health, and sitting on the terrace one morning in his invalidism he saw a rider flung from a horse into the river, and without thinkiDg of his own weakness the merchant flung off his invalid's gown, leaped into the stream and swam to the drowning man, ana ciutcning mm as he was about to go down tbe last time bore bicn in safety to tbe bank, wben glancing into tbe face of tbe rescued man he cried: "My God! i have saved my own son!" Ail kindness comes back to us in one way or another; if not in one way,then in your own face. Kindness! Show it to others, for the time may come when you will need it your3jlf. People laughed at the lion because he spared the mouse that ran over him, wben by one motion of his paw CQ.6 monster cuiuu nave u u?ucu iuc ?usignificant disturber. But it was well that the lion had mercy on the mouse, for one day the lion was caught in a trap and roared fearfully because he was held fast by ropes. Then the I mouse gnawed off the ropes and let the lion go free. You may consider yourself a lion, but you cannot afford to depise a mouse. When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a young soldier at the request of his mother, the mother went down the stairs of the White House saying: "They have lied about the president's TTa ih t.hfi handsomest UUU5 uvuivij man I ever saw." All over that presi dent's rugged face was written the kindness which he so well illustrated when he said, "Some of onr generals complain that I impair discipline and subordination in the army by my pardons and respites, but it makes me rested after a hard day's worK if I can find some good excuse for saving a man's life, and I go to bed happier as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family." Kindness! It makes the face shine while life lasts, and after death it puts a summer, sunset between the still lips and the smoothed hair, that makes me say something at obsequies, -'She seems too beautiful to bury." But here comes another chisel, and its name is hypocrisy. . Christ, with on a territic stroke in Ms sermon on the mount, described this character," When ye fast, be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast." Hypocrisy having taken possession of the soul, it immediately appears in the countenance. Hypocrites are always solemn. They cari7 several country graveyards in their faces. They are tearful when there i3 nothing to cry about, and in their prayers they catch for their breath and have such general dolefulne3S that they disgust youDg people with religion. We had one of them in one of my churches. When he exhorted, he always deplored the low state of religion ?J * J* in otner peopie, &uu wueu uo ^ia/cu u. was an attack of hysteria, and he went into a paroxysm of ohs and ahs that seemed to demand resuscitation. He went on in that way until we had to expel him from church for stealing the property intrusted to him as administrator and for other vices that I will not mention, and he wrote me several letters not ail complimentary from the west saying that he was daily praying for my everlasting destruction. A. man cannot have hyprocitv in his heart without somehow showing it in his face. All intelligent people who witness it know it is nothing but a dramatization. Here comes another chisel and that belongs to the old fashioned religion. It first takes possession of the whole soul, washing out its sins by the blood or the Liamo ana starting uouvvu unm there and then. This done deep down in the heart, religion says: "How let me go up to the windows and front gate of the face and set up same signal that I have taken possession of this castle. I will celebrate the victory by an illumination that no one can mistake. I have made this nan tnppy, and now I will make him look happy. I will draw the corners of his mouth as far up as they were drawn down. I will take the contemptuous curl away from the lip and nostril. I will make his eyes flash and his cheeks glow at every mention of Christ and heaven. I mill matro btoti t.h? wrinkles of his face look like farrows plowed for the harvests of joy. I will make what we call the 'crow's feet' around his temples suggestive that the dove of peace has been alightiag there." There may bej signs of trouble on that face, but trouble sanctified. There may be scars of battle on-that face, but they will bb -8ea*sj&ia_c?ifipatefr??B.- ?. "2fow," says some one, "I know very good people who have no such religion on their faces." My friend, the reason probably is that they were not converted until late in life. Worldliness and sin had been at work with their chisels in that face for 30 or 40 years, and Grace, the divine sculptress, has been busy with her chisel only five or ten years. Do not be surprise that Phidias and Greenough, with their fine chisels, cannot in a short while remove all the marks of the stone mason s crowoar, which has been busy there for a long while. I say to all the young, if you would have sympathetic face, hopeful face, courageous face, cheerful face, kind face, at the earliest possible moment, by the grace of God, have planted in your soul sympathy and hope and courage and good cheer and kindness. No man ever indulged a gracious feeling, or was moved by a righteous indignation, or was stirred by a benevolent impulse, but its effect was more or less indicated in the countenance, while David noticed the physiognomic effect of a bad disposition when he said, "A wicked man hardeneth his face," and Jeremiah must have noticed it when he said of the cruel, "l'ney have made their faces harder than a rock." Oh, the power of the human face I I warrant that you have known faces so magnetic and impressive that though they vanished long ago they still hold you with a holy spell. How long since your child went? 'Well," you say, "if she had lived, she would have been 10 years old now or 20 or 30." But does not that infant face still have tender supremacy over you entire nature? During many an eventide does it not look at yoa? In your dream do you not see it ? What a sanctifying, hallowing influence it has been in your life! You can say in the words of the poet, "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Or it may have been a sister's face. Perhaps she was the invalid of the family. Perhaps she never went out except on every clear days, and then KO/1 fft Kck r? n 07r? t"ho st.flifft OUO uau UV Vw UV?A* wwv to the piazza, or for a short ride, but sbe was so patient and cheerful uDder it all. As that face looks at you through the years with what an elevated and heavenly emotion you are filled! Or was it a father's face? The storms of life had somewhat roughened it. A good deal of the brightness of the eye had been quenched and the ear was turned with the hand Dehtnd it in order to hear at all. But you remember that face so vividly that if you were an artist you could put it on "canyas, and it would- mean to you more than any face that Rembrandt ever sketched. ??r?i* That face, through long ago viled from human 3i&ht,is as plain in yout memory as though you this moment saw it moving gently forward and backward ( in the rocking chair by the stove In the old farmhouse. Or was it your mother's face ? A good mothers face is never homely to . her bojs and girls. Ic is a Maddonna in the picture gallery of the memory. What a sympathetic face it was! Did vou aver have a iov. and that face did not respond to it? Did you ever have a grief, and no tears trickled down that maternal cheek? Did you ever do a bad tning, and a shadow did not cross , it? 'Oh, it wa3 a sweet face! The 1 spectacles, with large, round glasses through which she looked at you, how sacredly'tbey have been kept in bureau ' or closet! Your mother's your mother's smile, your mother's tears! What an, 1 overpowering memory! Through you have come on to midlife or old age, how i you would like just once more to bury your face in her lap and have a good cry! , But I can tell you of a more sympathetic, and more tender, and more loving-face than any of the faces I have mentioned. ".No, you cannot," says sume one. I can, and I will. It is the face of Jesus Christ as he was on earth and is now in heaven. When preparing my life of Christ, entitled "From Manger to Throne," I ransacked the art galleries and portfolios of the world to find a picture of our Saviour's face that mighty be most expressive, and I saw it as ?"rancescoi!'rancia painiea it iu the sixteenth century, and a3 the emerald intaglio of the sixth century presented it, and as a fresco in the catacombs near Rome preserved it, and as Leonardo da Vinci showed it in "The Last Supper," and I looked in the Louver, and the Lexembourg, and the Vatican, and the Dresden, and the Berlin and Neapolitan and London galleries for the most inspiring face of Christ, and many of the presentations were wonderful for pathos and majesty and power and execution; but, although I selected that by Ary SchefEer as in some respects the mo3t expressive I felt as we all feel, that our Christ has never yet been presented either in sculpture or paintings and that we will V>ottc. fn molt- nntll ITArl^A t.n f.hfl n?nflr palace, where we shall see him as he is. What a gentle face it must have been to induce the babes to struggle out of their mothers' arms into his arms What an expressive face it must have been when one reproving look t)f it threw stalwart Peter into a fit to tears! What a pleading face it must have beento lead the psalmists in prayer to 3ay of it, "Look upon.the face of thine anointed!" What a sympathetic face it must have been to encourage the sick wo man who was Deyona any amp nuiu uie doctors to touch the hem of his gar, meat! What a suffering face it must have been when suspended on the perpendicular and horizontal pieces of the wood of martyrdom, and his an: tagonists slapped the pallid cheek with their rough hands and befouled it with the saliya of their blasphemous lips! What a tremendous face it must have been to lead St John to describe it in the coming judgement as scattering the universe when he says, "From whose face the earth and the heav fled away." 0 Christ! Once the Nazarene, but now the celestal! Once of cross, now /vP t-V>rtr>a? nrs/>a with Hf.incinff bramble, but uow coronetedwith tne jewels of ransomed empires! Tarn on us thy pardoning face and forgive us; thy sympathetic face and console us; thy suffering face and have thy atonement avail tor us; thy omfcipocent face aod roscue us. Oh, what a face! So scarred, so lacerared, so reeplendent, so . overwhelmingly glourlous that the seraphim put wing to wing, and with their conjoined pinions keep off some of the luster that is too mightly even for eyes cherubic or. archangelic, and yet this morning turning upon us with a sneathed spledor like that with which he appeared when he said to the mothers bashful about presenting their children, "Suffer tbem to come," and to the poor waif of the street, ' Neither do I condemn thee" and to the eyes of the bling beggar of the wayside, "Be opened." I think my brother John, the returned foreign missionary, dying summer before last at Bound Brook, caught a glimpse of that face of Christ when in hi3 dying hour my brother said, '! shall besatisfied when I awake in his liefcness And now unto him that loved us and washed us from om1 sins in his own blood and.bath made u* kings and priests unto God and his Farther, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen and amen! Amen and amen! W1U Not Bun. Washington, Feb. 28.?There is an attempt being made to force Capt. Shell into the field for governor, but he is presistent in his refusal to enter the . maj/j ^/v tkc hkitanirtla'a ar.anifft' UgJLib. JLXU BCttU LV J.UC vuiviuvie s uy^yi(u i correspondent, today: "I have saidfall along that I would not enter the gubernatorial fight, and I intend to adhere to my decision. There is plenty of good material in the reform ranks,?and when the fight opens there will be plenty of good candidates to choose from. /One thing is very certain, I have no idea of making the race." Capt. Shell, la the strongest man inthe-fi6use from South CjiTdliiisrand if hie could be prevailed upon to become a candidate it would settle the problem, so the majority of the delegation here think. Then, there is McLaurin. He is available timber, and through lying pretty low now, stanfls in a fair wav finmfl Ollfc as & candidate. He is brainy, and a shrewd politician. He is one of the best stump speakers the State has and should he enter the race, could control one of the wings of the reform faction. His quarrel with Senator Irby has not injured him, though It would throw the State machine against him. Such is the smell of the battle as it comes her? from the Palmetto State, and the nose of the delegation is high on the scent, and the trial will be followed close from this end of the line.?Augusta Chronicle. The Fertilizer Tax. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 28.?There are no records kept by the State govern ment which are more Interesting, perhaps, that the figures showing the amount of the ferteriizer tar tags sold each year. In the first place these statistics indicate the condition of the most important industries in the State and then they show what money goes to Clemson College from this particular tax. The money from the sale of the tags goes to the college for carrying on what work is necessary there. Secretary of State Tindal, being considerable inerested in the matter, has gone to the trouble to make up a statement giving the aggregate sales of the past four oo Onn/IOM Krr tho f"QGKf fnmfflhAH J^CkLOj <*0 KJJ vuu vmqw bv the-State. This statement shows: 1890,130,280 tons; 1891,227,278 tons; 1892 144,435;. 1893,200,975; 1894, (to date), 91000. - Mr. Tindal, taking the amount of fertilizers sold after the present date In previous years as a basis, has made up an estimate of the amount of fertilizers which should be sold tbis year, and he estimates it at about 170,000 or 180,000 tons. There is a great deal of the fertilizers manufactured in this State which finds other markets.?State. Jack Was Shot. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 28.?Arthur Jack was shot three times, but not fatally, by Ed aod Si Spencer. brothers. Jack has been carrying on a flirtation fnrsnmft time with Mrs. Ed SDencer. and yesterday the pair were riding on Missionary Ridge, when the two Spencers waylaid them and opened fire on Jack, who after beiDg wounded three times, jumped from his baggy and ran a distance of two miles, closely followed by the Spencers, but managed to escape. Mre. Spencer is 33 years of age, has 1 been married nineteen years, aod is the mother of seven children. The Spec- -| cers are merchants, and about the best known men of this city. < TilE PHOSPHATE RULES ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION ON THURSDAY. Regulations Governing the Phoapfcate industry in This State?Interesting Beading for Persons Connected.In J Any Way With this Important Business k nfYLTniBiA. S. C.. Feb. 24.?The Board of Phosphate Commissioners held a meeting yesterday at the State House. The object wa3 to condsider the new rules for the mining, shipment and sale of phosphate rock in this State and for the guidance ot the Phosphate Commissioner. In addition to these rules, whuh were prepared by Phosphate Commissioner Jones, there was a * report from the officer. Every person dealing in phosphates . 11 iL Ml i. or mteresieu in toem wm want wj icau tiie following rale3 ana regulations, which will in the future govern this large business of South Carolina: Rale 1. All persons or companies hoding licenses from the Board of Phosphate Commissioners to mine phosphate rock and phospbatic deposits ,ia the navigable streams of this State and the marshes thereof are forbidden to sublet said licenses. Bale 2. All persons or companies or firms anDlviner for license shall designate the stream or streams or portion of stream or streams in which they propose to mine, and after beginning work in a stream shall not change their location without a permit from the Phosphate Inspector. Rule 3. Persons or companies holding licenses as aforesaid shall not be allowed to traffic or ;barter in phosphate rock other than that mined by themselves, re8pectia??T while holding such licenses. Bale 4. During the first week in each calendar month each company shall far' nish the Phosphate Inspector a sworn statement of all shipments oi phosphate rock, and shall within ten days thereafter pay into the State Treasury the royalty of 50 cents per ton on ijach ton so oViirtnnd* cnr>Vi r/VDfllf.V In hfi r>?id BtK)U ouijjyvuj U^VU r - the weight as ascertained by the sworn weighers at the point ot shipment. Rale 5. On or before the tenth day ot each calendar month each company shall exhibit to the Phosphate Inspector aH account sales received by it during the calendar month proceeding aad shall make aod dellyer to him a certified copy of such account sale under oath of the president and secretary of said com* pan, that the said account sales are bona iide and the only account sales upon which they have settled. They shall at the same time exhibit to the Phosphate Inspector the analyses ot the rock so shipped upon which a settlement has been made, and iurnish to him a certified copy of same, Upon examination or such account sales bv the Phosphate Inspector the settlement made for the shipments shall be corrected-by the additional payment of any increase in royalty, as provided in the Act, tor any excess of value, "free on board," of the said rock over $4 per ton. The action of the Inspector in fixing the royalty shall be subiect to appeal to the Board. Rule 6. The original account sales, charter-party, selling contract and ana* lyses of rock, sworn to as above to remain on file in the office of said com pany, subject to the inspection at any time of the Board of Phosphate Commissioners, or of any agent delegated by them for that purpose. Rule 7. The Phosphate Inspector shall be authorized and empowered to examine all contract sales when made for either immediate or future delivery, all bills lading, charter-party, or other .records connected with the shipment and sale 01 phosphate rock, tor the purpose of verifying the charges and items in sach account sales. Rule 8. Each and every fiat engaged in the work of mining or conveying phosphate rock shall be clearly and legibly ^ ? 1? nfiiVk +Viftr?omo aDd conspiguuuary umr&ou mw mc uuu? of the person. corporation., company or firm working it, and shall be numbered in regular and continuing sequence with the other fiats worked by the said persons, corporations, companies or firms. Each dredge and lighter or orther vessel thus engaged shall be likewise marked and numbered In a separate series of its class. Bule 9. All persons or companies licensed as aforesaid shall report monthly to the Phosphate Inspector the nuow' her af dredges, lighters, fiats.--eirocSer vessels employed by thegi^i phosphate mining, giving the naeiSa of the captaics thereo^M^-theiocation in which they are af work. , -Kuie 10. It shall be unlawful for any person or,company engaged in phosphate mining to make use of any dredges, lighters, flats or other vessels other than their own in mining without the permission ef the Phosphate Inspector. Bule 11. Whenever parties licensed by this Board shall have commenced mining operations, it shall be unlawfal for all other parties to mine within 100 yards of the location where such mining operations shall be in progress. All dis - ? 1 T a. pates arising under tnis luiesnau ua uecided by the Phosphate Iaspector: Provided. That an "appeal may be taken from his decision to the Board of Phosphate Commissioners within five days. Bale 12. Each person, corporation, company or firm licensed as asforesaid, shall employ some competent person to weigh the phosphate rock before it is removed or shipped or otherwise sent to market; he shall be regularly sworn before a Notary Public or Trial Justice before entering upon has duties, and he shall be known as Swnrn Weisrher. Each weigher I shall keep a weigher's book, in which shall be entered in detail each working day the weight of all rock weighed by him for shipment. All such whighers' books shall always be open and-accessible to the Inspector. Each jelurn by law required of the amount of the phosphate rock removed or shipped, or otherwise sent to market, shall be ac- : companied by the certificate, under oath* of such Sworn Weigher, that he actually weighed the rock so removed, shipped " or otherwise sent to market, and that the amount stated in such return is correct. and that no other phospeate rock has been removed or shipped or otherwise sent to market, from, the works in which he is employed during the timd for which said return is made. Rule 13. It shall not be lawful for the persons or companies licensed as aforeside to load any ship, steamer or other vessel with phosphate rock for foreign or coastwise shipment, until they shall have informed the Phosphate Inspector -t4' :?' ui Uic amvtti ui ouuu oroctiuoL vi vuuvj.vessel. Bule 14. It shall not frs lawful for the person, corporations, tympanies or firms, licensed as aforesaid, to remove or ship or otherwise send to market any phosphate rock, in any manner whatsoever, by land or water., without first notifying the Phosphate 3Inspector. Role 15. A copy of the foregoing rulesand regulations, whin furnished by the Fhospbate inspector, snan De constantly exhibited in a conspicuous place in the respective offices o: the persons or companies licensed as aforesaid; and a copy of the same when furnished by the Phosphate Inspector shall be constantly kept by the captain of a dredge, lighter, flat or other vessel engaged in mining phosphate rock while he is at work. Rule 16. The penalty for the violation r>f anv of the forezoinz rules and resrula tioos shall work a forfeiture ot the license. Role 17. The Board of Phosphate Commissioners reserve the right to al ter or amen# tbe said rules a?d regula- i tions at any iims without notice. It shall tea condition precedent to | the granting of & license to dig, mine or , remove phosphate deposits, that the | person or company applying for such li- , cense shall subscribe to the fbregoinsr < rules and regulations, and shall bind j himaelt or themselves faithfully to ob * serve, obey and comply with the same. 1 THE BLAND BILL PASSED. i < The Sllverliee Score a Victory In the Ho ate. * Washington, March 1.?In the 1 House toda ? after re aline business was ( disposed of the Bland Seisniorage BJ1 " r* j i ?\ was taKen up, ana aiter a iwu uuuj. ? debate, pasned. The fight over the bill j was quite hot. When the Speaker annoume'i thi.t the bill spould be taken up | discussed, and a vote had on it or upon j the adoption of any amendments that may be pending with the intervention ( only of a mot 10a to reconsider and lay on , the table. Outhwaite asked the yeas and aays, when Reed suzgested that the I last vote disclosed the presence of no j quorum, and asked if the House ought not first to inform itself that a quorum is nresent. "Or may be," he continued ' with asmils, "the Speaker has informed himself on that point." . The Speaker replied that he had not, 1 but that tfce practice of the House had * been, after adjournment, 01 even recess to assume that a quorum was present. < The roll was then called on the adoption i of the orde:.*, resulting yeas 166, nay3 13. i Before the vote was announced, Kilcore i and Everest of Massachusetts changed . their votet., having voted aye, to no. 1 The vote reached just a quorum, Speak- i er Crisp having voted to make the re* < quired number. _ A ;wave of applause I swept over the Democratic ana ropuiist j seats when the Speaker stated that the bill wM.beiore the House for considera- < tion, and amendment and ordered it to j be read. When this had been completed, Bland . the author of the bill, offered a substitute , lor the pending measure, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to coin the seigniorago of the silver bullion in the " Treasury to the amount of $55,156.681, and issue certificates thereon as fast as i coined; sr.ch coin or certificates to be used in the ordinary expenditures of the Treasury, and the Secretary is author- , lzed to issue certificates in excess of such coinage if he deems it necessary, j but not to exceed the amount named. , The second section provides for the coin age of the remaining bullion in the j Treasury and the destruction of certifi cate3 issuitd against it. The Act shall j not be construed to make any change in the legal tender or redemption quality j of the notos of the Act ot-1890. Oathwsite moved to strike cut the , second section of the substitute. J ?hnsou (Rep.) of North Dakota offered an amendment to the bill giving to the holders of the silver dollars the same rights as to exchange and redemption as 1 are possessed by the holders of subsidia- 1 ry coin. < Straus (Dem.) of New York offered ' an amendment to J )hnson's amendment 5 autnorizirg the Sscretary of the Treas- 1 ory to issae and sell live year 3 per cent bonds in denominations of $20 and multiples thereof, principal and interest payable in coin, the receipts from tne J bonds to be held in the Treasury for the ! ordinary., purposes of the government, j Reed made the point of order that the ] amendment was out of order. The Speaker s ustained the point. ' Cannon (Rep.) of Illinois offered a long amendment to the Johnson amend- \ ment, proposing to buy silver bullion- ] J?1 '1 - " ? ?-? A1 Ort AM AnnAA l until tae price reauucs vl.a? au uuuw , and'providiog for coinage under the Acs ] of 1827, when silver reaches that price. 1 Bland made a point of order against < the amendment; and afcer brief argu- < ment by Cannon and Stockdale (Dem.) ' of Mississippi that it was germane, pro* ) vidin? for extended purchase and coin- k age of 8L'.verv the Speaker ruled it out of ' order. Abbott (Dem.) oi Texas offered as an amendmmt his bill introduced last \ month, directing the coinage every ] month of 2,000,000 ounces of the 3ilver j bullion; the redemption of the notes is- ] sued uncer the Sherman Act of 1890 m ; silver or gold as the amount of coin of l each km! may exceed inac 01 me otoer; < that notfcs equal in amount to the seign- > bullion in the treasury be ! Issued, but none of less denomination ' than $5; that Treasury coin notes be issued upon deposits of gold or silver coin and repealing all laws authorizing iKe issue of gold and silver certificates. The introduction of these various j amendments occupied a half hour of two i K/-.n>.o nVrtaror? fni? d*h&tA_ and the Sneak I ( UVUiO (U IVIIVU 4V* ? ? , er announced that but one and a half < hoars remained. * Blanc" explained the difference in hia 1 substitute from the original bill. They i were but two of Importance, the first di- ' rects tli) coinage to be made as rapidly ] as "possible," instead of 'practicable" the second was the proviso that no change should be made respscting the legal teader quality of notes issued for ( the purchase of silver bullion or of the 1 manner of their redemption. j The members participating in the de- , ?I-*" aca* HnfV?trroifa . _ DHL? WHICH iUUUWCU, nCLC. v/uwinom, g Johnson of North Dakota, Simpson, C. j W. Sfcone (Rap.) ot Pennsylvania, Dnnn j of New Jersey, Abbott of Texas, John- t sod of Indiana, Hartman of y rontana. i Swauson, Newlands. Wbeeler of Alaba- t I- SELL PLLIOS, Reliable, Durable, Musically Perfe< because best. We can save you xnon times. Write us. Mention this pape LTJDDEN & Southern Music Hoi ?JHjrs ojj "THE WORLD'S GREAT. - - r- THE MACHINE The O n 1 j FOB TrPEWBITERS AT THE STi "NO MACHINE COULD. HpSjll BE ANY BETTER. IT.tt PEBF;2CT." privav(i statement of one j^qjgflp||p of the Judges. Responsible Oouuty J. W. Gribl GENERAL AGBNTS.C V f s aa, Tra ly, Cummings and Dingley. * By this time, it wa* 2:50 p. m., and ihe two hoars allowed for debate had jxpired. Unanitnoas consent was apked .hat. debate might be expended till three j'clock, bat Bailey demanded the regular Drder. Abbott's amendment was rejected without division, and that of Johnson of Xorth Dakota by a vote of 71 ayes to 156 noes. Outhwaite's amendment to strike out section two of the substitute received, sn division, 64 ayes and 139 noes and the yeas and nays were ordered. Od the yea and nay call, the Republicans voted and the result was announced to be yeas 129, nays 144, thus sustaining the vote Dn division. The announcement was greeted with a siizht rippie ot applause. The Republicans refrained from vot .Dg on toe question or adopting toe bqoJtitute offered by Bland for the pending bill, but an exact quorun was announced, by the speaker?ayes 165, noes 14 Tracy asked for tellers, and Bland 3emaDded the yeas and nays which were ordered. The call resulted (Republicans voting) yeas 171, nays 96. Fracy moved to recommit the hilt to she Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, without instructions. Lost? 12 to 160. The motion, on division received 72 rotes in the affirmative, and 160 in the negative. The yeas and nays were : ailed, resulting: Yeas 132, nays 167. At 4:40 the Speaker said: "The juestion is shall the bill pass?" In response thereto a mighty volume of sound rolled out "aje." Some one demanded i division which was had, resulting: &yes 154. noes 54. Tracy called for the yeas and nays, and the request was supported by a sufficient number tose* jure them. The roil was called, and at 5:15, the vote was announced: Teas 168 nays 129. " ; "So the bill is' passed," said the Speaker, following which there was applau3fifrom its friends. The following Republicans voted with the Dam'ocrats and Popnhsts in lavor of the passage of the bill: Aitken, Bowers, Broderick, Curtis of Kansas, Doolittle, tiiiis ot uregon, fans ton, mrimao, Eepburn, Hermann, Lncas, Marsh, Murray, Picker, Post, Settle; Sweet, White, and Wilson of Washington?19. And the following Democrats voted with the balk ot the Bspablicans against the bill: Barnes, Earwig, Beltzhoover, Bricker, Cadmus. Camp sell, Causey, Clancy, Cobb of Missouri, Comptoo, Doombs, Covert, Cummings, DeForest, Dunphy, Edmana, Everett, Fielder, 3-eissenhainer, Griffin, Haines, flarter, Hayes, Johnson of Ohio, Lapham, Lockwood, Lynch, Magner, McAleer, McEctrick, McKaig, Meyer, Mutchler, 0'Neil, Outhwaite, Ryao, Schermerlorn, Waite, Pigott, Somers, Sperry, Straus, Sseven3, Talbott, Tracey, Warier. Wells, Goldzier, Page, and Sickles ?50. The bill appropriating $45,000 forraising the wreck of the Kearsage was ;hea called up by Mr. Cummings [Dam.) of New York, and passed by inanltnou? consent. Th9 House then, it 5:20, adjourned until tomorrow "at aoon. Honoring tbe Bnre, Beaufort, Feb. 27.?Today, by Collector Smalls, In behalf of the United j States government in the presence of a j u /kiHsAfia art A JULUUCr Ul piULLLLUCUU UVUIUIO rmu friends of the gallant men who were specially honored, a gold life-saving medal was presented to Capt. G. W. P. Jenkins of the tug Giiero, and a silver cnedal to each of the following persons, lis associates, who. it will be remembered, on the 11th of April last, at the risk of great peril, rescued the crew of ?e Norwegian bark Riga, foundered' )n Bay Point The roll of honor, so listinguished by association - with Japt. Jenkins in his heroic conduct on? ^e occasion, were: Engineerli.ather. Syke3. colored cook, Fr^' Lightbum, colored deck hands, Henry Ported and Wm. Tompkins, also colored fireman, Lawrence Lawton, and volunteers W. B. Sberer, Cap Sams, Aglpito Zabaljanregui, James Mapalto and Robert Miller, pilots.- The medals are beautiful and massive in the., extreme, xne Drave fellows who received them have last cause to feel proud at this distinction, which was well earned and well leservefi. The letters of transmittal accompanyihg each are' most graphic md eloquent, and are as valuable as ;he medals themselves.?State. Starving:. San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 28.?The starving people of Starr County have AnAlafoMAA LCUCIVCU i^fxiipaiAbivcijr uguu USIOW^IW in response to their appeal to the world for help. Their condition cannot be described. Many ranches haye been leserted, and a number of deaths from, starvation have occurred. Cattle and >ther live stock have died by the thoasmds. The county is literally buried ip, and water for domestic purposes nust be hauled long distances. A Bow* AsrrF.YH.LE, aST.;C., Feb. 28.?On Spill-, sorn Crees, during a frolic Sanday lfcrhf- rj-AAroo H pnqlav fv^lrl hia "wiffl try ro home. JtJiley Shelton, Jr., told Mrs. lensley she coald stay .as long as she wanted. The men got into a fight. A jullet from Hensley's fcistol went hrough Shelton's heart. As he fell shelton fired at Hensley, who took to he woods. It is believed that Hensley vas wounded and is probably dead- in he woods. I PANS ONLY $150 I PIJUXOS?So-CalledL p TIN PANS" INTONES/QUALI- iffi ND MUSICALLY VALUELESS. |5 lean the Pianos so glaringly advernder "Grand - Offers," "Eactory m ' "Agents' Profits Saved," for $150, |g> 190, and misrepresented as "Mag- tSg ," "Best Made," "Same as Sold at 5jS Regular Dealers." kat nrvrv it?Only $225, $260. ?300?Cheapest |g? ey. Specially easy terms for close Ssl j BATES 1 ise, Sarannah, Ga. ?ORE. EST TYPEWRITER." \ ^ THAT TOOK -. - . ?? - /? / r -A ward . .-5 LTE FAIR, NOVEMBER 8, 1893. * ?# tHlfff ?THE _ ONLY AWARD ALSO LMADJ? TO US FOR TYPEWRITER'S SUPPLIES.Agents]Waated. bes ^ue., '; OLUMBIA, c; S.. -r ' - Hardly Tree. Washington, Feb-. 28.?Governor Tillman's schemes are penetrating the ears of Carolina Congressmen here and causing fright. It is whispered about . -now that he is arranging "his hands so as to tase every trick in the game. He Jfelfi will not be content to* be Senate unlets ' 1 ? ? t?.ww? Anatt Pirona /vattah. . V/^^n lie cau uia&e uuuuuiajr uiauo jviw- -*zm ! nor, and to accomplish this he is contemplating the coup which Wade *-1? Hampton made and which resulted in -5-f* his election to the Senate and placed Tiilman in the governor's seat.. This is the plan as it comes to Carolina's re- a presentatives here. Governor Tillman will head the State ticket for governor, with John Gray Evans as his candid- fl ate for lieutenant governor. Then with the whip in hand, Tillman will have himself elected to the Senate and the governorship falls to Evans. ^A?A norr Ka AannAf J JLIHIIlttll a 11XQUU9 UC1C Daj UV vciimvw . re-elect himself governor if he cirries ijM Evans 'with him on the tickef, for his scheme will be palpable to the densest "i-p Carolinian in the darkest district of the State. His friends are fearing the move and his opponents are anxious - ; for it to be made, as they believe it would result in Butler's election for Senator and Tillman's defeat for gov- ' :;>%; ernor?Augusta Chronicle. Jv Fatal Explosion. ->s New Orleans, Feb. 25.?A dispatch I from Compte, La, says: Five men were killed and several others In jared by the . explosion of a boiler in the oil mill of Messrs Freeman & Hayne here last night. - n AiK H'T PATS THE FREifii ?;l V'kj >aj ijfrejM Pricw ft* Goods! ~end forj atalogue acd See What Yta Cu Sflii S1 5 Eirc-AKT CAI -fj&l F*59ri? :T?%lste*u! & Wash- ? >('*nd? worth $25; (c - * ." \T~* ?- z'JU price now $15 rvtartf'??a gpi ltX) other Hodr.jom j tr j)Vpki ^nits, all prices. ?S9 , $69~sf~$37 1 JEmsCvg* Just to intnxluce them. No freight paid on thwOrgan. Uuar^teed to be ? , pod ore*o- or taoney r? Elegant Plnsh PARLOR SUITS, conaietlnt oI Sofa, Arm Chair, Rocking Chair, Divan and2 Bide Chairs?wrth $45. Willdelly? it to your depot for $88< _ , "?~ _ 5. This No.1 CUtllt ^ SStoyo5 | a Aoo szwiH& mciflti with all attachment for :> *~* ' Tn^H delfrerecTto yonr depot. " . ^ VTbe regular price of thl? flnj^B?sS? BUGGY is ? to 75 dollars. Ml II The manufacturer pays all wyJW m? expenses ana i ?eii tuna m r to too for ft-4 2.73? jy . jfl| ^ and guarantee every one .a terrain. No freight paid c this Boggy A ^e?0 delivered ai .-ourdvDo; ? p freight paid for #90 "Nlft?~ Bend for catalogues of Pnrnlnire, Cooktef Stoves, B*by Carriages, Bicycles, Organs, Pi not, Tea Sets, Dinner Sets, Lamp*, &c? aad SAVE MONEY. Address L.F.PADQETT'IS^grMachinery m Commission ._J| -Agents, With a view to mutual advantage, we - ^ safe I i Invite slliparttes who intend baying Ima- "'^3*11 chinery to correspond with us before placing their orders. We. are confident or our ability to save money to our customers, and only ask the opportunity; of proving the Betides machinery or 'all kinds, we deal largely in Baggies, Wagons, soft otter J veGToles.aWrue to as. W. H. Gibfces Jr., & Go. ^ COLUMBIA. 81 C. ^ICE ? QULLBB& Jl fl Rice Planters and .Rice Mlliera_can ' buy a single machine that wiu uoan, - _... ...-.J hull and polish "rice ready for market saB (or $360.00. 7 ' ' ^ TT^Wm Corn Millers can bay the best French borr mill, m iron frame, folly gaaran- teed, capacity ten bushels meal per. ^35 near, for $115.00. Saw Millers caii bay the variable friction feed DeLoach Mill from V $190.00 up to the largest sizs. * *s' Also G^og -Sip Saws, Edgers,~Swiajr Saws, Planing Maphines, and all kinds ..... .) m of wood working machinery. Mr- i-M "Talbott" Engines and Boilers. - i'-m Special discounts made for-cash: - $3* ?. C. BIDEAM, COLUMBIA. S/C, H