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Imfc the winter blasts. |lf|pv- dr. talmage shows how to silliif warm the world. A Unique Text aad a Powerful Sermon. fgasssg^ The Effect of the Cold?Warmth of the Church of God--The World's Fire)>l?ce. |jf|f Washington, March 15.?The freez- j |l||r ing blasts which have swept over the Hif country at the time we expected spring weather make this sermon especially appropriate. Dr. Talmages text was i- lATTV. 1 rjrsaim ciivn, n, >v uy t;u.u siimu ucfore his cold?" The almanac says that winter is ended and spring has come, but the winds, and the frosts, and the thermometers, in rome places down to zero, deny it. The psalmist lived in a more genial climate than this, and yet he must sometimes have been cut by the sharp weather. In this chapter he speaks of the snow like wool, sNsa*-"1"-? ihe frost like ashes, the hailstones liker'marbles and describes the concealment of lowest temperature. We have all studied the power of the heat. How few of us have studied the power of the frost? "Who can stand before his cold?" This challenge of the text has many times been accepted. Oct 19, 1S12, Napoleon's great army began its retreat from Moscow. One hundred and fifty thousand msu, 50,000 horses, 600 pieces of cannon, 40,000 sb-so-orlprc It was brio-hi weather "when they started from Moscow, but soon something wrathier than the Cossacks swooped upon their Hanks. An army of arctic blasts with icicles for bayonets and hailstones for shot, and commanded by voice of tempest, marched after them, the flying artillery of the heavens in pursuit. The troops at nightfall would gather into circles and huddle themselves together for warmth, but when the day broke they rose not, for they were dead, and the ravens came for their morning meal of corpses. The way was strewn with the rich stuffs of the east* brought ^as booty from the Russian capital.* An invisible power seized 100,000 men and hurled them |j&r dead into the snowdrifts and on the llll hard surfaces of the chili rivers and into the maws of the dogs that had gll^ followed them from Moscow. The ||||||k. freezing horror which has appallecT 1||||| history was proof to all ages that it is J a vain thing for any earthly power to : llpp^^ accept the challenge of my text, "Who 3 Hp could stand before his cold?" In the < middles of December, 1777. at Valley 1 Forge, 11,000 troops were, with frost!!|L ed ears and frosted hands and frosted 2 ||||||- feet, without shoes, without blankets, < pjf|| lying on the white pillow of the snow- I 111 As during our civil war the cry was t Sil^C>*siCttPn to Richmond!" when the troops c ere not ready to march, so in the * evolutionary war there was a demand s r wintry campaign until Washing- g >n lost his equilibrium and wrote ^ mphatically, "I assure those gentle- a ien it is easy enough seated by a good ^ .reside and in comfortable homes to 1 .raw out campaigns for the American P nay, but I tell them it is not so easy J o lie ozi a bleak hillside, without t: >lanketsand without shoes.'' Oh, the s< 'rigid horrors that gathered around s .he American army in the winter of g 1777! Valley forge was one of the a tragedies of the century. Benumbed, r. senseless, dead! "Who can stand be ,fore his cold?" "Not we," say the 2 rozen lips of Sir John Franklin and o is men," dying in arctic exploration, ti I . DSTot we," answer Schwatka and his si F /" pew, falling hack from the fortresses v I .f ice which they had tried in vain to 11 |^-a?>^japture. "Not we," say the abandon- a' faT ed and crushed decks of the Intrepid, 0 the Resistance and the Jeannettee. & 'zS&y* ?#?? ?? 1 cession of Amer- tt ^fSBuiffhome for Amer- p slfulture, DeLong and his men. ti l|lll?l. The hignest pillars of the earth are ta ||fj||r piU.ars of ice?Mont Blanc, Jungfrau, h: ll|||i| the Matterhorn. The largest galleries W0 of the world are galleries of ice. Some G of the mighty rivers much of the year Ir are in captivity of ice. The greatest [> sculptors of the ages are the glaciers, al with arm and hand and chisel and tfc hammer of ics. The cold is imperial re and has a crown of glittering crystal C and is seated on a throne of ice, with sa foot stool of ice and scepter of ice. b] "Who can tell the sufferings of the Is winter of 1433, when all the birds of bi Germany perished, or the winter of. ta 1658 in England, when the stages roll- cc ed on the Thames and temporary d< houses of merchandise were built on tfc the ice, or the winter of lS2iy in Amer- fs ica, when New York harbor was froz- ti en over and the heaviest teams crossed tc on the ice to Staten Island? Then b< come down to our own winters, when c! there have been so many wrapping tl themselves in furs, or gathering them- ti selves around fires, or thrashing their sc arms about them to revive circulation ^ ?the millions of the temperate and p{ the arctic zones who are compelled tc N confess, "None of us can stand before u] his cold." fi; One-half of the industries of our day ' '' are employod in battling inclemency w of the weather. The furs of the north, te the cotton of the south, the flax of our uj own fields, the wool of our own flocks, er the coal from our own mines, the i vr wood from our own forests, all em- j e^s ployed in battling these inclemencies, I g( ana still every -winter, -with blue lips j ai and chattering teeth, answers, "None p< of us can stand before his cold." 2xow, at this being such a cold world, God to sends out influences to warm it. I am slad that the God of the frost is the er God of the heat; that the God of the of snow is the God of the white blossoms; vr that the God of January is the God of hi June. The question as to how shall a? we 'svarm this world up is a question in of/immediate and all encompassing in Jfracticality. In this zone and weath- as er there are so many Sreless hearths, T) -VCi so many broken window panes, so cc S-silv..-v ? ? 4 n of f f- t nP TT ,iUctUJr UCiC^U.>C lwio iumu u j_t i;~p snow. Coal and wood and flannels ai and thick coat are better for warming as up such a place than tracts and Bibles m and creeds. Kindle that fire where it ox ^ has gone out; wrap something around be | those shivering limbs: shoe those bare sv 1 feet; hat that bare head: coat that bare so & back; sleeve that bare arm. S; b Nearly all the pictures of Martha fi I "Washington represent her in courtly ta | dress as bowed -to by foreign embassa- F; dors, but Mrs. Kirkland, in her inter- di esting book, gives a more inspiring so portrait of Martna Washington. She m comes forth from her husband's hut di in the encampmcnt, the hut 10 feet Ti long by 14 feel wide?she comes forth ar from that hut to nurse the sick, to sew E the patched garments, to console the ra soldiers dying of the cold. That is a bet- H ter picture of Martha Wash in ton. Hun- tl: \ dreds of garments, hundreds of tons of in coal, hundreds of glaziers at broken di window sashes, hundreds of whole to ( sould men and wemen, are necessary tt to warm the wintry weather. What ti; are we doing to alleviate the condition li of those not so fortunate as vre: Know cc ye not, my friends, there are hundreds of thousands of people who cannot w stand before his cold; li is useless to cc preach to bare feet, and to empty B stomachs, and to gaunt visages. Christ si gave the world a lesson in common u sense when, before preaching the gos- T pel to the multitude in the wilderness. he s^.ye them a good dinner. ei when I was a lad. I remember see- ai ing two rough woodcuts, but they ej made more impression upon -me than rr any pictures I nave ever seen. They tc , were" on opposite pages. The one st ljf|| | V \ s j woodcut represented the coming: o' i the snow in winter and a lad looking out at the door of a great mansion, and he was all wrapped in furs, and his cheeks were ruddy, and, with glowing countenance, he shouted: "It snows: It snows:" On the next page there was a miserable tenement, "and the door was open, and a child, wanand sick and ragged and wretched, was looking out, and he said, "Oh, my God, it snows:" The winter of gladness or of grief, according to our circumstances. But my friends, there is more than one way of warming up this cold world, for it is a cold world in more respects than one, and I am here to consult with you as to the best way of warming up the world. I want to have a great heater introduced into all your churches and all your aomes throughout the world- It is a heater of divine patent. It has many pipes ,with which 10 conduct beat, and it has a door in which to throw the fuel. Once get this heater introduced, and it will turn the arctic zone into tbe'temperate, ana the temperate into the tropics. It is the powerful heater; it is the glorous furnace of Christian sympathy. The question ought to be, instead of how much heat can we absorb. How much heat can we throw out? There are men who go through the world floating icebergs. They freeze everything with their forbidding look. The hand with which they shake yours is-as cold as the paw of a polar bear. If they float into a religious meeting, the temperature drops from SO above to 10 degrees below zero. There are icicles hanging from their eyebrows. They float into a religious meeting, and?they chill everything with their jeremiads. Cold prayers, cold songs, cold greetings, cold sermons. Christiantv on ice! The church a great refrigerator. Christians gone into winter quarters. Hibernation ! On the other hand, there are people who go through the world like the breath of a spring morning. Warm greetings, warm prayers, warm smiles, warm Christian influence. There are such persons. We bless G-od for ihem. We rejoice in their companionship. A general in the English army, the army havinghalted for the night, having lost his baggage, lay down tired and sick without any blanket. An of- , 5cer came up and said: 'Why, you : have no blanket. I'll go and get you i i blanket." He departed for a few moments and then came back and : covered the general up with a very rcarm blanket. The general said, ] vvnose olanJxet lstnisr ine officer < eplied, ''I got that from a private sol- j iier ia the Scotch regiment, Ralph ] McDonald." "Now," said the general, "you take this blanket right back to t hat soldier. He can no more do with- j >ut it than I can do without it, Never : )ring to me the blanket of a private t oldier." How many men like that t ;eneral would it take to warm the c rorld up? The vast majority of us I .re anxious to get more blankets, f whether anybody else is blanketlessor 1 lot. Look at the fellow feeling dis- ? ilayed in the rocky defile between ? Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripture c imes. Here is a man who has been e et upon by the bandits, and in the t truggie to deep his property he has r ot wounded and mauled and stabbed, , nd he lies there half dead. A priest ides aiong. ile sees him ana says: Why, what's the matter with that lan? Why, he must be hurt, lying a n the fiat of his back. Isn't it strange <-] lat he should lie there? But I can't a ;op. I am on my way to temple ser- j, ices. Go along you beast. Carry e* le up to my temple duties." After u svhile a Leviie comes up. He looks S( ver and says: l,Why, tliat man a iust be yery much hurt Gashed on q ie forehead. What a pity I Stabbed ? Eider; it! What a pity! What, they have n .ken his clothes nearly all away from im. But I haven't time to stop. _ I 5 ad the ch Jr up in the tomple service. n 0 along, you beast. Carry me up to ^ ty temple duties." tl After awhile a Samaritan comes ti ong?one who you might suppose y irough a national grudge might have is gected this poor wounded Israelite. I oming along he sees this man and tc tys: ''Why, that man must be terri- ei ly hurt. I see by his features he is an -w iraelite, but he is a man, and he is a o: other." "Whoa!" says the Samari- it m, and he gets down off the beast, and st iin-iri fVnc msn <ret<? t/ Dwn on one knee listens to see whe- si Ler the heart of the unfortuate man tl still beating, makes up his mind tl iere is a chance for resucitation, goes pi ?work at him takes out of his sack a o< 3ttle of oil and a bottle of wine, r< eanses the wound with some wine, w Len pours some of the restorative into tr te wounded man's lips, then takes tl ime oil, and with it soothes the st ound. After awhile he takes off a aJ of his garments for a bandage. aJ ow the sick and wounded man sits tl ?, pale and exhausted but very thank- lj il. Now the good Samaritan says, bi irou must get on my saddle, and I a] ill walk." The Samaritan helps and pi nderly steadies this wounded man tl atiJ he gets him on toward the tav- p; n, the wounded man holding 011 gi ith the little strength he has left, C rer and anon looking down at the ai >od Samaritan and saying: "You ir ? ? I.*** J X J >-? *4~ 4 Av I i v e very axuu. j. uau nu ngim t\^ i xjl ict this thing of a Samaritan when I n an Israelite. Yon are very kind v< ' walk and let me ride." is Now they have come up to the lav- ci n. The Samaritan, with the help S: the landlord, assists the sick and cc ounded man to dismount and puts bi .m to bed. The Bible says the Sam- n< itan staid all night. In the morn- sc g, I suppose, the Samaritan went w . to look how his patient was and tl ;k him how he passed the night- li; hen he comes out, the Samaritan ai >rnes out, and says to the landlord: ta ere is money to pay that man's board d( id, if his convalescence is not as rapid gi , I hope, charge the whole thing" to ti e. Good morning, all." He gets S. 1 the beast and says. "Go along, you w ;ast, but go slowly, for those bandits 01 reeping through the land may have ic meboayelse wounded and half dead." fa .-mpathy! Christian sympathy: ai ow many such men as that would it ju ke to warm the cold world up? si amine in Zarepthath. Everything te ied up. Tnere is a widow with a ai in and no food except a handful of eal. She is gathering sticks to kin- ai 5 firp. to r^nnk- the handful of meal. I w ien she is going to wrap her arms te ound her boy and die. Here comes ti Lijan. Kis two black servants, the yj vens, have got tired waiting on him. ta e asks that woman for food. Now b: lat handful of meal is to be divided to three parts. Before it was to be C vided into two parts. Now she says w ' Elijah, "Come in and sit down at ai lis solemn table and take a third of t? ie last morsel."' How many women fi; ke that would it take to warm the al >id world up? pi Recently an engineer in the south- ai est, on a locomotive, saw a train tl >ming with which he must collide, tr '.e resolved to stand at his post and c< ow up the train until the last min* u te, i'or there were passengers behind, ec he engineer said to the fireman: p' Jump! One man is enough on this cs 22ine! Jump!" The fireman jumped e: ad was saved. The crash came. The g; agineer died at his post. How many J] ten. like that engineer would it take b: > warm this cold world up? A vessel 0 ruck on a rocky island. Thepassen- 0 gers an*1 T 2 crew were without food, and a sailor had a shellfish under his coat. He was saving it for his last morsel. He heard a little child cry to her mother: "Oh, mother, I am so hungry* Give me something to eat. 1 am so hungry!" The sailor took the shellfish from under his coat and said, "Here, take that." How many men like that sailor would it take to warm the cold world up? Xerxes, fleeing from his enemy, got on board a boat. A great many Persians leaped into the same boat, and the boat was sinking. Some one said, "Are you not willing ( to make a sacrifice for your king?"' j .-iiiu tiic uiiijurxiv ul muse ftDO were in the boat leaped overboard and drowned to save their king. Hotf many men like that would it take to warm up this cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into the horrors of Newgate prison,and she turned the imprecation and the obscenity and the filth into prayer and repentance and a reformed life. The sisters of charity, in 1803, on the northern and southern battlefields, came to boys in blue and gray while they were bleeding to death. The black bonnet with the sides pinned back and the white bandage on the brow, may not have answered all the demands of elegant taste, but you could not persuade that soldier dying a thousand miles from home that it was anything but an angel that looked him in the face. Oh, with cheery look, with helpful word, with kind action, try to make the world warm! It was his strong sympathy that brought Christ from a warm heaven to a cold world. The land where he dwelt had a serene sky, balsamic atmosphere. tropical luxuriance; no storm blasts in heaven: no chill foun Cains. On a cold December night Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into the world s frigidity. The thermometer in Palestine never drops below zero, but December is a cheerless month, and the pasturage is very poor on the hilltops. Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into the cold world that cold December night. The world's reception was cold. The surf of be- j stormed Galilee was cold. Joseph's sepulcher was cold. Christ came, the ! great warmer to warm the earth, and 1 all Christendom today feels the glow. He will keep on warming: the earth i until the tropic will drive away the 1 arctic and the antarctic. He gave an ! intimation of what he was going to ' do when he broke up the funeral at ] the gate of Nain and turned it into a < reunion festival, and when, with his J warm lips, he melted the Galilean '< hurricane and stood on the deck and i stamped his foot, crying, ,;Silence!'' < md the waves crouched, and the tem- < pests folded their wings. s Oh, it was this Christ who warmed t ;he chilled disciples when they had no !ood by giving them plenty to eat and s .vho in the tomb of Lazarus shattered c he shackles until the broken links of t ,he cnam of death rattled into the e iarkest crypt of the mausoleum. In c lis genial presence the girl who had c alien into the fire and the water is c lealed of the catalepsy, and the t withered arm takes muscular, 2 lealthy action, and the ear that f ould not hear an avalanche catch- u s a leaf's rustle, and the tongue h hat could not articulate trills a quat- a ain, and the blind eye was reillumed, c )ouat that day not lost whose low des- ^ CCD dins: sua 0 riewsfrom tint hand to generous action ? done. n nd Christ, instead of staying three e ays and three nights in the sepulcher, c s was supposed, as soon as the worid<? curtain of observation was dropp- n d began the exploration of all the C( nderground passages of earth and s<: ja, wherever a Christians grave may ? fter awhile be, and started a light of ^ !hristianwhope, resurrection hope, P1 rri ?/>>> rit go .out - -n t 1 -^1 - 7^ ^ srement is -taken off and the last , lausoleum breaks open. Ah, I am so glad that the Sun of S righteousness dawned on the polar v ight of the nations! And if Christ is v< le great warmer, then the church is e' le great hothouse, with its plants and j} ees and fruits of righteousnes. Do ou know, my friends, that the church x. ; the institution that proposes warmth ? have been for 27 years studying how ) make the church warmer. Warm- " [ architecture, warmer hymnology, armer Christian salutation. All H utsid Siberian winter we must have CJ a prince's hothouse. The only in- ^ itution on earth today that proposes S1 > make the world warmer. Univer- S? ities and observatories, they all have w leir work. They propose to make v' le world light, but they do not pre- a' ose to make the world war en- Geol- s* ?y informs us, but it is as cold as the f-' )ck it hammers. The telescope shows here the other words are, but an as- f onomer is chilled while looking Jl lrough it. Christianity tells us of range combination and how inferior ffinity may be overcome oy superior Unity, but it cannot tell bow ail ^ lings work together for good. "World- ^ r phylosophy has a great splendor, ? it it is the splendor of moonlight on ~ i iceberg. The church of God pro- ^ Dses warmth arid hope?warmth for le expectation, warmth for the sjm- ec ithies- Oh, I am so glad that these reat altar fires have been kindled, ome in out of the cold. Come in ad have your wounds salved. Come in l and have your sins pardoned. Come jj i by the great gospel fireplace. cc Notwithstanding all the modern injntions for heating, I tell you there A nothing so full of geniality and soability as the old fashioned country replace. The neighbors were to" w >me in for a winter evening socia ce .lity. In the middle of the after- as oon, in the best room in the house, n* ime one brought in a great back log, ra ith great strain, and put it down on th ie back of the hearth. Then the fr ?hter wood was put on, armful after li] mful. Then a shovel of coals was ti .ken from another room and put un- I ir the dry pile, and the kindling be- at m, and the cracking, and it rose un- fu I it became a roaring flame, which cc Lied all the room with geniality and ds as reflected from the family pictures w i the wall. Then the neighbors came w i two by two. They sat down, their bi .ces to the fire, which ever and | ar ion was stirred with tongs and read- he isted on the andirons, and there were ly tch times of rustic repartee and story in lling and mirth as the black stove kj ad blind register never dreamed of. w 'eanwhile the table was being spread, th id so fair was the cloth and so clean fa as the cutlery they glisten and glis- pr n in our mind to day. And then re ie best luxury of orchard and farm- of ird was roasted and prepared for the fo .ble to meet the appetites sharpened I 7 thi cold ride. S. Oh. my friends, the church of Jesus hrist is the world's fireplace, and the oods are from the cedars of Lebanon, a id the fires are fires of love, and with el ie silver tongs of the altar we stir the be ime and the light is rejected from of .1 the family pictures on the wall? ar ~ * x 1 ^? i , _ ictures or those wno were cere a.nu ie e gone now. Oh. come up close to of is fireplace. Have your worn faces dc ansfigured in the light. Put your }i< )ld feet, weary of the journey, close p to the blessed conflagration. Ciailli through with trouble and aisap- pc ointment, come close up until you a: m get warm clearjthrough. Exchange $1 sperieEce, talk over the harvests S< athered, tell all the gospel news, in ieanwhile the table is spread. On it in read of life. On it grapes of Eschol. w n it new wine from the kingdom, tl 'n it a thousand luxuries celestial. di Qr t f L Hark, as a woundedn raps on tiie table and a tendyoice comes through saying: ne, for all things s.re now V. Eat, oh, friends! Drink, yea^k abundantly, oh, beloved!" : My friends, that is^vay the cold world is <?oin<r to beamed nr> bv the great gospel ficie. All nations will come in-sit down at that banquet. "Whiltwas musing the fire burned. ''Can out of the cold! Come in out oicold CHANGE IN CHASTON o ! Dispensary Convictions ast liemg Se- ] cured There in tourts. Charleston*, Marcl?Will wonders never cease- 1 the second time a Charleston pet&ry has returned a verdict of '*ty" against an illicit liquor seller Holations of the dispensary law inaintaining places where intoxicatiiliquors are sold. Heretofore mists or verdicts of acquittal have been invariably the rules that one of the results was considered a foregot conclusion whenever these cases -e -brought up, and consequently vtlittle interest was taken in or impcnce attached to them. The changeso remarkable that it calls for coukit <*nd we shall comment on it witboiV^judice and, we trust, without offers'as our motive has reference solf to the truth of current'iocal hist,"."" A revolution in our4udilsystem, beginning at the source <3^ndamental basis of it?the jury bo^-has gone On 01lifit.lv snrl i)nnnfi/>OMr + V10 n-o-n eral public although the profession and those who are o&wise intimately associated wittj v administion of justice and vision ol: her machinery weg^^^^gnizanv of the significant ^sff^^^aching character of the event, jrmerly and for a long course of yearour arcanum of justice has been ^er the supervision entirely of <igjals of a sameness of political c^jll&xion? gentlemen all and honosy men? but still of the same min^nd mold and disposition of chari&r. Without intention of retlectiowe, nevertheless, state it as a facfc^at there ^rew to be much of a samtess in the result that followed the piingin and taking out of the namesTfta the jury box. Like everything .(se which runs for long in an mnterupted lourse, things fell into air>customed :ut?what is known as the.'iorfcsSionil juror became quite a Miliar figire with us. It seemed s&age that >ut of the lettery of our entj?eligible citizenship these particu.r faces ;hould so often repeat thaselve in be jury box. Among the innovations, some good md some bad, whicft recet political :hanges have brought aboi, it is but ruth to say that the uninterrupted iven flow of the jury box has been iisturbed. The elements presiding iver its destinies are nor so harmoni' ius in character and there is a lack oi he sameness of result whist was for aerly had. Whether the change ii or the better or worse vft shall nol .ndertake to decide. Thereis a change lowever, and our purpose is simply tc ccouutfor the fact. Certain innei ircles of Charleston have been sur rised by the extraordinary charactei f recent grand and petit juries. II annot be denied that these juries ave been and are representative o: very class of tae rank and lie of oui itizenship. But in nothing have they givt*# sc inch cause for surprise as ia-the re jnt dispensary verdicts. Oui publi< sntiment is undoubtedly un&vorabi< )the dispensary law as a law. W< ave been taught to assume tliat ou: sople went so far in their ^hostility T^r> o c "l"A o >-> prvi ^ /rse~<5r~wwTse~as Tins?poxcj*=fflOT avebeen, our juries have inihe pas :emingly concurred in this1 extreme Lew by the uniform characlsr of thei: erdicts. The verdicts just nacl, how rer, are indicative of a radical varia on somewhere. Can it be th^jpub c sentiment in reference to th^ad isabilitv of enforcing the law ha; langed? Or have we been misled zi ) the real character of our pubic sen raent on that particular point? It cannot be charged that the poli cal character of the juries has bee: langed. If a glance at the personne ere not satisfactory as to this, th< mple fact that every juror who ha; it on these cases, without a single ex sption, has been examined on hi; Dir dire, accepted and empannelec :ter making, in each and every in ance, the explicit and unmistakable rowal that he did not approve of the .w. The conclusion is unavoidable, he free, untrampled and uninspirec idgment of this community, as rep :sented by our juries, is that while i&law itself is nnrnrnnlar. the defi ice of it cannot and will not longe: i countenanced or condoned. Marl te distinction and- mark the decree here is no further room for mistake, harleston puts herself on record as 2 w-abiding community to the lasi isp of the unfortunate and ill-omen I sumptuary law .?Sun. This Should >'ot Be. Columbia, March IS.?The follow g has been sent to The State b? imes L.' Strain of Eetta Jane, Unior ?unty. Pontotoc, Miss., Feb. 27, 1S%. djutant J. L. Strain, of Camp Giles. No. 70S, Union, S. C. My Dear Sir and Comrade: I hero ith most respectfully hand you i rt-i ficate from our family physici&r i to our sad, but true and unfortu ite condition. "Will you, my com de, be so sroodand kind astopresenl .e same to your camp and other iends of an old disabled comrade xe myself, raise ancL^snd a contri ition for our relief. Do please, ?.nc assure you that the kindness and nount of contribution will be great ;lly appreciated by your old disabled imrade and his invalid wife ar.c tughters, and I believe that God ill bless you and each contributor itlirn-if j? ?-]nnht Thprs* wpw fivf others of us in the Confederate my and only two of us jeturnec )me and we two were each desperate wounded. I do not write this boast gly, but that you and others mav iow who we were aad where w? ere, in the great struggle between .e States and how we sull'ered as. a miiy in defending- our rights, homes, oprty and beautiful southland. 1 fer you to Frank Sereter, president 1 the Bank of Pontotoc, Mississippi, r any further information desired, was born at Pickens Court House, C. Y our old and disabled comrade, John N. Sloan.. Tne above letter is accompanied bv certificate from Dr. Charles D. Mitch1 that Captain Sloan was shot in the title of Chickamauga, having most ills uxiucrjavv, u:i ma upjjw id his tongue sbot away and his i'ace rribly mutilated, by the explosion a shell. He is compelled to lie >wn when eating and can take onlj }uid food. It is stated that ?7,500,000 of Fed era] msion money ispaid out in the South inually, and that it is estimated 1 hal .5,000,000 will find its way to the juth next year. Old soldiers inak .g thair homes in the Southern States l hopes that our delightful climato ill prolong their lives accounts; foi Le pension money,coming in thi: section. , i M |., J:; ' -.P- ^ ' " - ': v- ^ VESTS SPICED VINEGAR. HOKE SMITH AND CLEVEL^T HUMOROUSLY ROASTED. The Secretary's Failure to Obey a Law Opeuiing a Reservation in Utah, and Cleveland's Home iVlissIon Speech, the Subjects. Washington, March IS.?The feature of today's proceedings in the senate was a short debate upon a joint resolution directing the secretary of the interior to execute the law for opening to settlement some 2,000,000 acres of land in the eastern part of Utah, which have Veen part of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation. Severe strictures upon the secretary of the interior for his attempt to nullify the act of congress were made by Senators Cannon, Wolcott and Vest. The latter inveighed with much vehemence, against the secretary declaring that the time had been when the head of a department wouldhaveto answer to the bar of the senate for such an attempt to trample upon the legislative branch of the government. Mr. Vest also caused much amusement by his witty and caustic criticism of President Cleveland's recent speech before the Home Missionary society in New York. Mr. Vest began with the remark that there was a time when a cabinet officer, who deliberately failed to exe | cute an act of congress, -would oe brought before the bar of the senate because he had trampled upon the legislative department of the government and had violated his oath of officeHe happened to knovr all the fact*; in regard to the matter. He said that some years ago a company had been organized in St. Louis for the purpose of opening up certain asphalt deposits in the Uncompaghre reservation in the eastern part of Utah and had invested a large amount of money. The St. Louis company had not gone into the reservation. It had bought land outside and wagoned the product down to the Union Pacific railway by which it was sent to the different cities. The company did not want the lands because the asphalt existed m such enormous quantities that there could be no monopoly in it. There was also, Mr. Vest said, a New York corporation which came on the , scene last summer and which made . some adjustment with the St. Louis company. The question was whether congress knew what it was doing when it passed the act to open up those lands. Congress did know it and knew very well that there were great : aspoalt deposits there. [ What sort of right, Mr. Vest de. manded angrily, had the secretary of the interior to nullify that act of con. gress. That practice had grown up until it demanded reprehension ol . congress and at once. The action ol 3 the secretary of agriculture on th< I seed question was another instance oi 4-Ua Iri n Li-L^ ociiia^/ ) "And now," said he, "comes the . secretary of the interior and says tha' 1 congress did not know anything abou - these enormous deposits; and he take; [ the responsibility of saying to th< s President of the United States that th( I proclamation opening these lands t( . settlement shall not be issued. Her* is a positive statute nullified by tin } head" of a department, with no othe: _ excuse except the paltry one that h ; assumed that congress had not the in I formation which it has had for the las "I seven years. p ' "There seems." Mr. Vest continued ^ -'to be a disposition on the part_of th < ad'TyjiigfroHnn to treat the Wester) f T"petipra ^HifiiieyBwere m a coaan-KH f of pupilage, as if they do net kno\ } their own rights or their own interests P and as if they must be informed e: . cathedra, from the east in reference t . what is best for them and what'shouli . be done for them. Even the Presiden . i of the United States, lately on a mis 3 ji sionary occasion (laughter) spoke o 5: the west as a land of immorality am . crime. He stood with the light?th ghastly light?of the hell-holes am . rum cellars of New York blazing i upon him, and cantingly, said tha j home missions must be used to civilize i to Christianize the men who have lef 5 their homes in the civilized east an< . gone out among the mountains an< 5: valley of the wild and wooly west [ j (Loud and general laughter.) .} "Our President stood with Dr._Tal 5 mags on oae side and the Eev. She! i don Jackson on the other and gave u: a new version of that beloved ol< 1 missionary hymn: . *' 'From Montana's sinful mountains ; From Utah's wicked plains, ' They call us to deliver, . Their land from errors chains.'" : ; (Continued laughter.") "We are told upon high ecclesiasti cal authority that his excellency ha' I lately laid down his honors at the fee c of Jesus. I am glad to know it. I . has been the general impression o: 2 Democrats that Mugwumps and in ' cense burners had got those honor: and intended to keep them. I hav< - great respect for the Christian religior r and for missions at home and abroad but this was a slander upon the mer 1 who, with rifle in one hand and ax< in the other, have gone out and blazec that pathway of civilization in th< > western wilds. I went to Missour: when it was a frontier State, roamec by the Indian ana Dunaio. i nav< 1 lived -with, those people nearly 5( 1 years, and I say to our president nov< that if he will pretermit hunting duck: " in North Carolina and silver Demo ^ crats in Kentucky long enough tc [ come out west, we will show him i J God-fearing, self-respecting, law-abia " ing people. We will show hiir ,L churches in which there is real anc L unaffected piety; we will show hia . happy and Christian homes, where. th< [ sons, the fathers and the husband: i pray. I- Our spires may not go as near heav , en as those eastern cities, we may no [ have organs that roll delorious tones [ along fretted aisles, but we have i people who fear God and observe th< law and the commandments. In connection with this humble, bui ! real religion, I am tempted to quot< l these beautiful lines of the Scotch poet , "Compared with this how poor reli gions pride, ; "In all the pomp of method and of art. : "When men display to cons regatiom wide, "Devotions every garb, except th< heart." "This, Mr. President, is what w( U- ?^ ^~^ Irtff 4-V>of 4-Vio jlia.\ c wjjc LKJ <3.0 i(UK wan KUVy A A?.W? dent of the United States in hisofflcia! capacity says to the people of th< ; whole world" that in one portion oj ' this country, the surroundings art such that missions?home missions | * are necessary in order to bring th< ; people to the poorer knowledge ol ; what is real and true. At this point the vice president ask ed Senator Vest to suspend his speed: , until a message could be received from the President of the Unitec \ States. Mr. Vest stopped and the mes ' sage was delivered. . Tee Judge of all the earth will d< ; right. No human being will suffe: I mors than he deserves, or more thai 3 his own conscience will recognized just. < \ V DEMON OF THE DE*^ ! % Something About the Terrible aTonsterat Port Royal. Port Royal, March 20.?While! Spanish students are burning American flags, and America's congress is undecided as to -whether the exercises of courteous magnanimity of irresistible force would be best in dealing with the effete descendants of the once allpowerful Spaniards in securing a fair fight in Cuba, must not the bones of Lucas de Ayllon, resting somewhere hereabouts, turn in their grave at the { significance of the demonstration here I for the past day or two. And the shade of that doughty Spaniard, the forerunner of all Europeans to this coast, must tremble with chagrin that the port which he first entei-ed three and three quarter centuries ago in search I of Indians to use as siaves, suuum income the scene of jollification for the people of this new nation who hold the power of his old country in so little dread. Out upon the bosom of this grand harbor lies a grim leviathan bearing aloft the colors of this newcountry and before whose angry breath the most powerful ships of Spain's navy would shrink as men of old did from the fire-breathing dragon of mythology. Within the range of vision is also the accomplishment of engineering skill backed by nature's smiles and a rich country's gold?or silver. The largest dry dock in America is on Paris island, and the astronomers tell us that on March 28 these two stars of naval architecture, the one on sea and the other ashore, will be in conjunction. By the time the keel of a great warI shin is laid the magazines of the coun try give accurate technical descriptions of the ship as she will be when completed, -with a representation of her as she will be some years' later cleaving the green waters of the Atlantic. So such a description of the Indiana would now be out of date. The ship must be seen to be realized, and it would probably require several days decoted to close inspection to enable one to fully comprehend her many wonderful parts. On approaching the Indiana I was impressed by the smallness of her exposed surface to the guns of an enemy. Lying low in the water and painted a light brown stone color, she is nol conspicuous at a mile's distance. Her , great steel military mast with fighting j tops?or round armor-protected plat i forms in which are mounted machine . guns 30 feet above the deck?is the most conspicuous part of the ship at 2 . J distance. This mast is, of course, hoi[ low, the communication with the , fighting tops being by ladders up the interior. At the deck the interior o! the mast is about 15 feet in diameter .tapering up. Its weight,, with the ~ A A A i. ^ . fighting tops, is x,uuu , On the Indiana are the largest gun: ever mounted on an American shij f and the most effective of any cannoi ? in the world. She mounts four can non that fire steel projectiles 13 inche in diameter and weighing 1,100 pound; j each. These guns protrudetheir lonj I black bodies 20 feet beyond the stee t turrets which protect them. t Thes 5 turrets look like huge brown dishpan ? turned upside down over the guns an< > with slits" cut in them through whic] 5 the muzzle may peep out, as it were 3 to sight an enemy. But they are pan a made of the hardest steel known t r man and 12 inches thick. The m( 5 chanism is so perfect that the gun an t turret revolve to the pressing of a bul \ ton which sets electrical powers i: motion. The 13-inch guns are loade by hydraulic power; all the others o g the ship are loaded by hand._ Eac j turret with its great guns weigh 50 v There are eigij^-inch and^?our"l l? inch rifles, eac^^otected by turrel t similar in construction to those of th 5 13-inch guns. Besides the machin i guns in the fighting tops, the ship als t mounts 20 3-pounder rapid fire Hotel: kiss rifles. She is also supplied wit! f six torpedo tubes for projecting int i the sea the terrible Whitehead torjx e do, loaded with 500 pounds of gu: I cotton, and supplied with a storag y battery, propeller and steering apparc | tus. They can be so adjusted as t 3 run at any desired depth under wate t and in any direction for 800 yards. 3 Steaming un between two ships o } an enemy ?and delivering simultan* ously a single fire from all her gun this demon of the deep -will hurl fort' . 11,000 pounds of steel and with a fore . that makes pale into insignificance th 5 most terrible stroke of a thunderbol i ever recorded. No other ship in th world can cause such destruction at single blast, and no other ship is s ' securely proteciod by such tremer dously thick steel armor from the as saultsof an enemy. Down in the interior there are won . ders to behold. The many uses t 5 which electricity is applied is astonish j. ing. A big room, full of dynamos o ? the most improved description, wouli j. be an hour's paradise for an electric . ian. During a battle these dynamo 5 furnish auxiliary power in many ways i All of the ammunition is brough i from the depths below and supplied t the firing squad at each gun, the tui I rets are revolved and all the mino ? machinery kept in motion by electric L ity. > The quarters of the crew and mai I ines are exceedingly neat. There ar I 430 of them,including several negroes j. I saw a couple of Chinese, but the; ) j seemed to be in the laundry business TI Each sailor has a workbox furnishe< 5 ] by the government. They alsc hav ..] a library supplied with standar* 5 ] works?many being on subjects o i j war. . | No hotel can boast of better appoint i j ed kitchens and pantries than the In | diana. I was there during the prepa l ration of dinner, which was savor 5 and substantial. In everything an* 5: everywhere cleanliness is of first im portance. The dining room of th' sailors is a spacious hall. Betweej c meals the tables are hoisted up an< ? folded on the ceiling and the mei ' have room for gymnastic sports The life of aman-o'-war's man is no " now what it was a century ago. The officers' Quarters are distinc k from that of the captain, who keeps t< ' himself. Each of the principal officer : has r. cabin 7 by 9 feet. The? * are furnished by the individual and look very cosy. True, th r j walls are of cold steel, but th ; interior is given a rough Snisl like some plastering, and is paintei j. white. Among the officers are some ver > fine looking men. Captain Evans ' "Fighting Bob," as he has been dubb [ ed, is a man of medium height an< > rather slender build, with a smootl L- shaven face, who says what he mean ? in the fewest possible words. Hesuf fers a ^ood deal at times from an ol< ? wound in his leg. Just now he think I that the Indiana has proved hersel the finest ship afloat, and that the nav? . is increasing much too slowly.?State ,l IxtheBango, Me., municipal cour a woman was put on trial for thump ing her husband very severely on th head the day befe. The husband wa complainant. The woman was fme< dollars and costs, but she declared sh ? had no money. Thereupon the meel r and loving 'husband fished out hi pocketbook, paid the money int< 5 court, and was trumphantly led awa; by his much better half. f y - - * r ft If" V"**-' % _s / 1. Expenses of The State. ~ , Colu^ibia, Men. 30.?State Treasurer i Bates in conversation with a represen- j tative ot The State, said that since the ' adjournment of the legislature he had j paid out between ?1S0,0Q0 and $L90,-j 000 for the back salaries of the State! officers ai.u for the expenses of the legislature. Last year the expenses of. the general assembly amounted to about $35,000 and this year about $60,-! 000 was paid out Treasurer Bates j said that since November the expenses i of the State government had amountedj to about $3S0,000, including the expen- j ses of the Constitutional convention,! the legislature and the salaries of State officers and that this large amount had been paid in the past few weeks. ] The State has been placed at a. great- j er expense this year owing to the long j session of the general assembly. The j State officers up to a few days ago j had not received any salaries for four j month and were not paid until ^the ; - ??-? n ^ Arl | appropriation um w <xz> yoaovu. ? ous banks, however, have cashed warrants for them and patiently awaited the passage of the bill. 1 State Treasurer Bates has handed the press the following explanation of the expenses of the State: "In giving information to the public, newspapers sometimes commit errors that are amusing. For instance, the State treasurer is reported to have paid out since the adjournment of the legislature between $130,000 and $190.000 for the back salaries of the State officers and for the expense of the legislature. If this were correct there would surely be merit in the claim that salaries of the State officers should be reduced. The amount mentioned included not only legislative expenses, but also amounts due public institutions for four months (one item of which was $3,142.84, paid to the lunatic asylum alone, certain special appropriations and the salaries of all State officers, including judges, solicitors, stenographers, auditors, etc. ''The legislative expenses for the year ending October 31st, 1895 was $33,370.27. The legislative appropria"ticn bill for the year 1S96 calls for , $5,7S57.00. I am quoted as giving the amount at $60,000. I had not the exact figures with me, but I told the ; young gentleman of the press that the amount was between $55,000 and $60,000. "Of the $3S0,C00 paid out of the general fund since November 1. 1S95, nearly $140,000 went to pay the Jan u , ary interest on the public debt. "Other amounts have been paic , than those in the general fund?an m > stance, $34,000 out of $45,497.62 of the [ privilege tax fund and large amount . on the special dispensary fund." ' Pianos for Wlnthrop. * In August last five pianos from on< t maker and one each from two othe: ? makers were purchased by the Win : throp Normal College of Eock Hill, S C., as trial instruments, .with the un 3 derstanding that if satisfactory other 5 from the same makers were to be add 1 ed. Time and test does not seem U prove them entirely satisfactory sine s rrrV.on oio-ht mnrp. t)ianos were neede< TT UVU ^*-$5 *"* w r s they "were not chosen from either o => the makes before taken on trial. Thi * time the selection was made from; e purely musical standpoint by thos | qualified to judge the actual merits o * a piano; and, as a result the Maso; 2 and ttamt.tv and mathusek were choj !> en from some twenty-two competing s makers. We shall be pleased if thos 0 who are thinking of buying piano will write the music department c " this college asking how they like th k* mason and ha3ildt and mathuse ^ pianos, and why they were chose: above all others. Ludden* & Bate ? Savannah, G-a., wholesale*agents ft n Mason and Hamlin and Mathuse '0 pianos. p ? ? Hems "Ttr-Sfflaj'?* 3~ Dastille, Ky., March 18.?Gove e nor Bradley was hung in effigy i e Danville last night The perpetrator 0 of the deed are unknown and it is in t. possible to identify them. The polic b know nothing. The figure was ver 0 skilfully made up and topped by tb ?. famous white hat which the* G-overnc q always wears. Across the breast o e a card were written the words: "Rio L_ alarm Bradley." o The Newberry Observer prophesie r that a Republican will be electe President this year, and Harper 'f Weekly, which has a wider field c J- observation and more experience i s national politics, prophesies that sue b a thing is" not very probable. i "machinery e a ENGINES, 0 BOILERS, L' SAWMILLS, CORN MILLS, ROLLER MILLS, 0 BRIGS; MACHINES, L' PLiNING MACHINES 1 and alt kinds of woodw>r*in^ nuciria-jry Also Shafting, Pallies, B >x-t, t^tc. s I am the General Atjent f >r !. TALBOTT & SONS, 1 THE LIDDELL COMPANY, 0 WATERTOWN ENGINE COMPANY, ^ H. B. SMITH MAOHINTE COMPANY r i- and can furnish full pquipmeat in tt above lines at factory prices. e V. G. Badliam, ' COLUMBIA. S. C. 1 OSBOHNE'S AJ5TB P ~ Ooliool of SHortliAnd STatert bee&a fraa <W ? j SPE I 1 A_ n n o n ] t I ^ N E W r s e i 2 CrPTT1T! BC9B I rvaillBlll HlrWII BSSflBBBMtt 1439 and 1443 ilaia Stn !> OUf. LINE Of NSW SPRING G h i AND COMPRISE A FULL a S DKY ff00VS' gL0TEISG> * gOODS g?ARPETS, j f 7 ^vth invite all closa buyers to vuit oui All goods ordeied of us amounting j. free of charge iaside of the State. and quality you may deshe I e for quotations. j "THE S OPPOSITE GRANI COLUM ^ ; I I "WITH A COMPLETE OU'ITtT T^jjZ?:. OOSTXTST $!J2.qqf^pH Delivered to your railroad desf4$"^p^^B all freight charges paid. Bead description carefully. This spleafSgs^^aH Cooking Stove is No. 8; has fo3^^^gr^H inch pot hyios; 16x16 inch, o veal:rSjk^?-v%EM inch lire box, 24 inches high; jgj inch top; nice smooth have had this stove made trade, after my own idea, combjf all the good points of all priced stoves, ahd leaving .jag objectionable features. I (Beyond' all do&pt; tne oesx Cooking Stove ma^y-for the p -? || Fitted with 2 pots,^PNLcovet;"^^p;^^H skellets, 2 griddles, 3 balc!9?\i{ ' ^^c"3 joints cf pipe, 1 elbow, 1 lifter, 1 scraper, 1 cake. tea kettle, 1 shovel. We w . . 3B8I make customers and friends in'f^: '/* ''wM part of the South, for the p^.- ' r jHJ of introducing our business ti - ?B S people, and to renew our acqi^;-V{^9 ance with old friends. We will ship this splendid Stove "and the above described vOMn i to any depot, all freight. cha^SjH | paid, for only $12,OOwm j cash comes with stove is a good one, weU mSHHHHRH \ will give entire satisfaction. illustrated catalogue of Fumljj?t I Stoves and Baby Carriages. j! 84<; ' road street, la thccc dayi of :i &t a i i ' fill 11 ALL ; ! TAMjgl > Aetna! Achievements often seem to be atcSuM i count, but after all Actual ACKrrv ixcr a^ewEMHV > the only dungs that count. sg Bali is ezsrto talk In General Terms a2* merits olPIAJi OS, but?bo Hsoi*sp?cS6?- ~ THE MATHUSHM T&b grsst geittera fsv?rits. fi Established 30 years. 30,000 caw is 'jjSS^p1 Sold by us for 25 years. Note tinea* V*ln?bto < (:ry^t&t?nte<L Impror?meat*? .gy J >V\^>; Patent Repeating Actios. -:<j v?s Patent Soundlnjr Board. "V^ Patent Toning Pin^aaEtag^feo-c Patent Improved Agraffes. cL-r-^ Patent Soft Stop. - One of the only two Pianos made comniets'! i&ijpl ferery-ptrt) to Its own Factory. One of 1S?' ?Ygp*? best macte^tn toe IT. S. Sold lower than any < >v ' other High >fisade Piano. Qneproflt only from * ?. sy? aajar to purcffihiK^^KnCB U*. LUDDEN fe-BATSS.^ e j| S AVA^HAS, s XjX F* e for the Liver an 1 Kidneys-. Laxw ^ ative, Cathartic, Diuretic and^m ? Tonic. Its action is mild^r^aW a 4- use. Sad feellr g-t from a slugjg[ ^ liver are dispell"d^^SKyfl j0 _ agreeable, easy arid certain.^B H J?. dyin Habitua1 v^n-stipation.'fl ^ kidney troubles {ts ben?fit$ bJ3 come apparent with the first dcfifflH >$ j laHn >s ?yaa - ' ' wholesale by ? ' .. '-^33 h ^.sass - The Murray _ \~ vV?2?5|j? COLUMBIA. S. C. __________________ ' .> ^ Delightful Res alts. J - :v^ ' .-vC? . . . ~'/ " -J: LETTEK jy'ROM JUDGE BAIJD- ; ;' . TO, OF MADISON, GAT ^C#c|p? Dr. W. Pitts, Thoaisnn, Dear Sir:?After h:t?l.isi *>ur'it v?Ot r; ' for various remedies for the il's of. teeth nx ^ ie I tried yoar Oarnlaative wita mo=t s:\tfa / ? factory and delightful results. If is ? w ? int to take assuages pain and prcnliic;->-?i(t-?V" without stupor. STo parent should be with- ; out it during the t^e iiin^ period wh? n*s J5 once tried it, for it is in deed 3 magic to**11- >. cine for bat ies. Ver7 respectfully, :i t JUDGE H. W. BALDWIN? ^ For sale by j THE MURRAY DRUG CO.", t_ ^0 Columbia, S. C. S-S UNGh I a c e m e nt or . H goods! A.T - i hitjb" Jet, COLUMBIA, SO. CA-, OODS ARE NOW BKIN\i OPENED , AND COMPLETE LINE OF . M ' rC> (jgE.0E5. JIURN1SH1XG ' ' JJUGS AND jj?*ATTIXGS. '-JM : large stores cr write to ui for samples.* "7rr" ' to over tea dollars will be delivered 'i:Oar stock consists of every pr ice . i ^ in our different lines. Write.us ' .|?' Ver/ respectfully, * , hob," r,r;ji ) CENTRAL HOTtL