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WINDS TEAT HINDER, j i REV. DR. TALMAGE TO THE WEARY AND DISCOURAGED. Ke Gives Words o" Comfort to All who T.s??tt?oirmicitaacs?, I.otft our iuvi.'Oi. ?hu?v?sv ? ? Physical and Mental?The Overburdened and Overworked. Dr. Talmage's sermon Sunday Tras one of good cheer. It will give encouragement to many struggling souls. The subject is "Contrary Winds," and the text Matthew xiv, *24, "The wind was contrary." As I well know by experience cn Lake Galilee, one hour all may be calm and the next hour the winds and j waves will be so boisterous that you i are in doubt as to whether you will land on the shore or on the bottom of the deep. The disciples in the text | were caught in suck a stress 01 westuer and the sails bent and the ship plunged, for ''the wind was contrary," There is in one of the European straits a place, where, whichever way you sail, the winds are opposing. There are people who all their life seem sailing in "the teeth of the wind. Ail things seem against them. It may be said of their condition as of that of the disciples of the the text, "the wind was contrary." A great multitude of people are under seeming disadvantage, and I will today, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that I can manage, treat their cases; not as a nurse counts out eight or ten drops of a prescription and stirs them in a half glass of water, but as when a man has by mistake taken a large amount of strychnine or paris green or belladonna, and the patient is walked rapidly round the "room and shaken up until he gets wide awake. J Many of you have taken a large draft of the poison of discouragement, and I come out by the order of the divine Physician to rouse you out of thai lethargy. > ? ?j? .blrst, many peopie are uiiuer tu.c disadvantage of an unfortunate name given them by parents vrho thought they were doing a good thing. Sometimes at the baptism of children -while I have held up one hand in prayer I j have held up the other in amazement | that parents should have weighted the babe with such s dissonant and repulsive nomenclature. I have not so much wondered that some children should cry out at the christening iom as that others with such smiling face should take a title that will be the ! 1 1 ? " ---- ~ tv { our&en 01 meir liieiiiitc. xa uLio-.a- j geeus to afflict children with an unde- S sirable nam9 because it happened to ! be possessed by a parent or a rich un^ cle from whom favors are expected or ! some prominent man of the day vrho j may end his life in disgrace. It is no) excuse, because they are Scripture *<-> /*Q>1 o .To'nnialHm or I u, vn i iv, w ? Tiglath-Pileser. I baptised one by the j name Bathsheba! Why, under alij the circumambient heaven, any parent should want to give to a child the name of that loose creature of Scripture times I cannot imagine. I have often felt at the baptismal altar, when names were announced to me, like saying, as did the Rev. Dr. Richards of Morristown, N, J., when a child was handed him for baptism and the name given, "Hadn't you better call it something else?" Impose not upon that babe a name suggestive of flippancy or meanness. There is no excuse for such assault and battery on the cradle when our lan guage is opulent; witn names musical \ and suggestive in meaning, such as I John, meaning "the gracious gift of j God," or Henry, meaning "the chief of a household," or Alfred, meaning j "sood counselor," or Joshua, meaning "God, our salvation," or Ambrose, j meaning "immortal," or Andrew, | meaning "manly," or Esther, mean- \ ing "star," or Abigail, meaning "my | " A>? An?o mAdnimo' ! latugi o j Kjjr% w . "grace," or Victoria, meaning "victory," or Rosalie, meaning "beautiful as I a rose," or Margaret, meaning "a ] pearl," or Ida, meaning "godiike," or Clara, meaning "illustrious," cr Amelia, meaning "busy," or Bertha, meaning "beautiful," and hundreds of other names just as good that are a help rather than a hindrance. - But sometimes the great hindrance in life is not in the given name, but in thft familv aamp. While legislatures I are willing to lift such incubuses, there are families that keep a name Tvhich mortgages all the generations with a great disadvantage. You say, "I wonder if he is any relation to Soand-so," meaning some family celebrated for crime or deception. It is a wonder to me that in all such families some spirited young man does not rise, saying to his brothers and sisters, "If you want to keep this nuisance or scandilizationof a name, I will keep it no longer than until by quickest course of law I can slough "of this gangreno." The city directory has hundreds of names the mere pronunciation of widen has been a life long obstacle. If you have started life un der a name which, either through ridiculous orthography or vicious suggestion, has been an incumbrance, resolve that the nest veneration shall not be so weighted. It is not demeaning to change a name. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Kad: assah, "the myrtle," became Esther," t 4*the star." We have in America, and I suppose it is so in all countries, names which, ought to be abolished, and can be and -will be abolished for the reason that they are a libel and a slander. But if for any reason you are submerged either by a given name or by a family name that you must bear, God will help you to over corns the outrage by a life consecrated to the good ana useful. You may erase the curse from the name. If it cnce stood for meanness, you can make it stand for generosity. If once it stood for pride, you can make it stand for humility, "if it once stood for fraud, you can make it stand for honesty. If once it stood for wickedness, you can make it stand for nuritv. There have been multitudes of instances There i men and -women have magnificently conquered the disasters of the names j inflicted upon them. Again, many people labor under the ! misfortune of incomplete physical j equipment. We are by our Creator J so economically built that we cannot j afford the obliteration of any physical j faculty. We want our two eyes, our j two ears, our two hands, our two feet, I ou:?\ eight ringers and two thumbs, j xet wnai rciu.Lnuic.es 01 people nave: but one eye, or but one fo:>t! The ordinary essujlies ot life have been j quadrupled, quintupled, septupled, j aye, centupled, in our time by the civ- i il war, and at the north and south a j great multitude are fighting the battle of life with half, or less than half, the . needed physical armaments. I do: not wonder at the pathos of a soldier : during the war, who, when told thai \ he must have his hand amputated, j said, "Doctor, can't you save it:" and j when told that n was impossible, j said, with tears rolling down his! cheeks: "Well, then, goodby, old! hand. 1 hate to part -with you." You have done me a good service for many years, but it seems you must go. j Good'ov.'' ^ ^ \ A celebrated surgeon told me of a j scene in the clinical department of one j of the New York hospitals, when a i poor man with a wounded leg was brought in before the students :o be j operated 01. Tiae surgeon was point lag out this aad that io the students and handling the wounded log and was about to proceed ro amputation when the poor rnau leaped from the ! table aod hobbled to tne door, and said. "Gentlemen, I am sor-cy to disappoint you, but by iae help of Grod I will die with my leg on." What a { terrif&c loss is the loss of our physical 1 Fortiilrit-c' i HlviV ? . Tne way the battle cf Orecy was decided agains: the French was by the Welshmen killing the French horses, and that brought their riders to the ground. And when you cripple this body, -whien is merely the animal on whicn the soul rides, you may sometimes defeat the soul. Yet how Diiay suffer from (his physical taking oSGood cheer, my orother! God will make it up to you somehow. The grace, the sympathy of God will be more to you than any- j thing you have lost. If God allows j part of your resources to be cut otf ia one place, he will add it on somewhere else/ As Augustus, the emperor, took o riatr from F.-hruarv. raasina: it I S* ^**^7 - - ? m, , the shortest month in the year, and [ added it to August, the month named after himself so advantages taken from one psrt of your nature will oe added on to another. But it is amazing how much of the world's work has been done bj men of subtracted physical organization. S. S. Preston, the great orator of the southwest, went limping all his life, but there was no foot put down upon any platform of his day that resounded so far as his club foot. Beethoven was so deaf that he could not hear the crash of the orchestra i rendering his oratorios. Thomas Cariyle, the dyspeptic martyr, was given i the commission to drive cant out of! the -world's literature. Tne Rev. { Thomas Stockton of Pailadeiphia with one lung raised his audience nearer heaven than most ministers can raise them with two lungs. In the banks, { the insurance companies, the commsr* ocTahlishmerits, the reformatory j ? j _ associations, tiie carches, there arej teas of thousands of men and women j today doubled up with rheumatism, j or subject to the neuralgias, or with only 1 raiments of limbs, tne rest of which they left at Chattanooga, or South Mountain, or the Wilderness, ana they are worth more to the world and more to the church and more to God than those of us who havs ne~er so much as had a finger joint stiiTined by a felon. Put to full use all the faculties that remain and charge on all opposing circumstances wim the determination j - 1 ' i- i 01 jonn 01 oonmiiiii, wulu w?u> wwujf j blind and .yet at a battle cried out, "I pray and beseech you to lead me so far into the fight that I may strike one good blow with this sword of mine." Do ROt-think so mush of what faculties you have lost as of what faculties remain, You have enough left to make yourself felt in three worlds, while you help the earth and balk heli and win heaven. Arise from your discouragements, 0 men and women of depleted or crippled physical faculties, and see what, by the special help o? God, you can accomplish! m,. _ Ml.J 1 5 XX19 SKiiitHJ. iJUrsCLUCii a:\iuuu Bucephalus, unable to mount or manage him, so wild was the steed. But Alexander noticed that the sight of his own shadow seemed to disturb the horse. So Alexander clutched him by the bridle and turned his head away from the shadow and toward the sun, and the horse's agitation was o-on A !uv<sr>f'ov< "him CwUU. ?kIW-UW,IJlVtVi. ? and rode off, to the astonishment of all vrho stood by. And what you people need is to have your sight turned away from the shadows of your earthly lot, over which you have so long pondered, and your head turned to ward the sun?the glorious sun of gospel consolation, and Christian hope, i and spiritual triumph. * And then remember that all physi- j cal disadvantages will after a'while j vanish. Let those who have been rheumatismed out of a foot, or caiaracted out of an eye, or by the perpetual roar of our cities thundered out j of an ear, look forward to the day j wben tins old tenement nouse 01 nesa will come down and a better one shall be builded. The resurrection morning: will provide you with a better outfit Either the unstrung, wornout, blunted aad crippled organs will be so reconstructed that you will not know them, or an entire new set of eyes and ears and feet will be given you. Just what it means by corrup tion putting on incorruption we do | not know, save that it will be glory ineffable. No limping in heaven, no straining of the eye sight to see things a little way off no putting of the hand behind the ear to double the capacity of the tympanum, bat faculties perfect, all the keys of the instrument attuned \ for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy, i But until that day of resumption comes let us bear each other's burdens} and so fulfill the law of U&rist. Another form of disadvantage under | which many labor is Isck of early j education. There will be no excuse { for ignorance in the next generation. I Free schools and illimitable oppcrtuni- j ty of education' will make ignorance a | crime. I believe in compulsory educa-1, ticn, and those parents who neglect to put their children under educational j, advantages have but one right lef t, I j and that is the penitentiary. But there are multitudes of men and wo iixeii Ili liUUiiiC Y/LUj AiiiVC Jiau JJ.1J U_H ( poriunity. Free schools had not jet . been established, and vast multitudes had little or no school at all. They , feel it when as Christian men they ; come to speak or pray in religious as ssmblies or public occasions, patriotic, : or politital, or educational. Ttiey are ] silent because they do not feel com- ' peient. They owe nothing: to Eag J lish grammar, orgeorgrapby, or belles lettres. They would not know a par- . ticiple from a pronoun if they met it J \ many times a day. Many of the most j, successful merchants o? America and 1 rvldrtoc ^o?riAf I UJLCAJL 1J-L kllgu. Uivai. \s<*~?*U.KS* f ^ write an accurate letter on any theme, j They are completely dependent j ( upon clerks and deputies and j stenographers to make things {, right. I knew a literary man ' who in other yesrs in this city made i his fortune by writing speeches for < n i.y e ! congressmen or nxiag icem up iur j, The Congressional Record after they i ] were delivered. The millionaire illiter- , acy of this country is beyond measurement. j Now, suppose a man finds himself ; in midlife without education, what is < he to do? Do the best he can. The j most effective layman in a former < pastoral charge that I ever heard speak < on religious themes could within five j; minutes of exhortation break: all the j lav^s of English srrammar. and if he 1 left any law unfractured he would j ( complete the work of lingual devssta- j; ticn in the prayer with which he fol-j < lowed it. But I would rather have* him pray for me i? I were sick or in 1i trouble than any Chritian man I know : of and in that church all the people 1 preferred him in exhortation and I j prayer to all others. Why? Because 1 he was sc thoroughly pious and had < such power with G-od he was irresistible, and as he went on in his nrayer 1 - X _ 1 S -? - ? A.? J sinners repented an^, ssiais suuuieu j for joy. ' ArA when he had. stop-1: ped praying and as soon as I could j < wipe out o: my eyes enough tears to i! see the closing hymn I ended the I: meeting, fearful "that some long j' winded prayer meeting bore would ;; pull us down from the seventh heay-l en. Not a word bare I to say aginst accuracy of speech or fine elocution or j w? av. frt I a> Mi^r <-? 1 ! + Vmr>a j XlVJ^LL LLL^LL IfC, I uci CCJLJ. buvog i 70U can. But I do say to those who j were brought up in the day of poor I school houses and ignorant schoolmasters aud no opportunity: You may have so much o: good in your soul snd so much of heaven in your ever;/- j day life that you will be mightier for | gocd than any who went through the i curriculu-n of Harvard or Zale or Oxford, yet never graduated in the j school of Christ. When you get up j to the gate of heaven no one will ask you whether you can parse the first chapter of (janesis, Das waei:ner you have learned the 'ear of the Lord, -which is the beginning of wisdom, nor whether you kno.v how to square the circle, but whether you have iived a square life in a round world. Mount Ziod is higher than Mount Parnassus. But what other multitudes there are under ether disadvantages' Here is a Christian worn in whose husband thinks religion a sham, and while the wife prays the children one way the hn.'Kinri cocpijys: ?rirsthp.?* Or1 here is a Carisliao man who is trying to do his best for God and the church, ! and his wife holds him back and says i on the way home from prayer meet- j ing where he gave testimony for Christ: "'What a fool you made of yourself! I hope hereafter you will keep still." And when he would be benevolent and give $50 she criiicises him for not giving 50 cents. I must do justice and publicly thank God that [ never proposed at home to give anything for any cause of humanity of religion but the other partner in the domestic firm approved it. And when it seemed beyond my ability, and faith in God was necessary, she had threefourths. Bat I know men who when they contribute to charitable objects are afraid that the wire shall hnd it out. What a withering curse such a woman must be to a good man! Then there are others under the great disadvantage of poverty. Who ouofht to get thiugs cheapest? You say those who hare lit tie means. Bat they pay mor-j. You buy coal by the ion; they buy it by the bucket. You buy jour nour by the barrel; they buy it by the pound. You get apparel cheap, beeause you piy cash; they pay dear, because they get trusted. And the Bible was right when it said, "The destruction of the poor is their poverty." Then there are those who made a mistake in early life, and that over shadows all their days. "Do you not know that that man was once in prison?" is whispered. Or, "Do you know that that man once attempted suicide?" Or, "Dj you know that that man once absconded?" Or, "Do you know that that man was once discharged for dishonesty?" Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in the man's life, and that one act haunts the subsequent half century of his existence. Others have unfortunate predominance of some mental faculty, and their rashness throws them into wild enterprises, or their trepidation makes them decline great opportunity, or j LUCIC jjb a. VCAXO. VI uiuau^uvij i.u. disposition that defeats thera, o:- they have an endowment of overmirth that causes the impression of insincerity. Others have a mighty obstacle in their personal appearance, for which they are not responsible. They forget that God fashioned their features and their complexion and their stature, the size of their nose, and mouth, and hands, and feet, and gave them their gait and their general appearance, and i they forget that much of the world's best work and the church's best work has been done by homely people, and that Paul the apostle is said to have been humpbacked and bis eyesight weakened by opthalmia, while many of the finest in appearance have passed their time before flattering looking glasses, or in studying killing attitudes, and in displaying the richness of wardrobes?not one ribbon, o:r vest, or sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring of which they have had brains to earn for themselves. Others had wrong proclivities from the start. They were born wrong, and that sticks to one even alter he is born again. They have a natural crankiness that is 275 years old. It "came over with tneir great grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. I was born on the banks of the Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the "Rhine, "and has survived all the plagues arsd epidemics of many generations, and is living today on the banis of the Potomac, or Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the Savan-?-?aVi ax T.o Plato A r>r\ tt"'on o iiau, \jl JL u man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on a rock in the rapids of Niagara, holding on with a grip from which the swift current^ are trying to sweep--hi;:n into the abyss beyond. Oh, this world is an overburdened world, an overworked world! It is an awfully 1ired world. It is u dreadfully unfortunate world. Sj^entiats are trying to find out the cause of these earthquakes in all lands, cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some say this and some say thai. I have taken the diagnosis of what is the matter with the earth. It has so many burdens on it and so many fires within it, it has a fit. It cannot stand such a circumference and such a diameter. Some new Co topaxi or Stromboli or Vesuvius will 3pen, and then all will be ax peace for the natural world. But what about the moral woes of the world that have packed ail nations, and for 6,000 years science proposes nothing but knowledge, and many people vrho know the most are the most uncomforted? In the way of practical relief for all disadvantage and all woes, the Dmy voice mat is worta listening to del this subject is the voice of Almigh- : Ly Gcd. Whether I have mentioned tte particular disadvantage under ; which you labor'or not, I distinctly declare, in the name of my God, that ; there is a tvav out and away up for all ; if you. You cannot be any worse off . than that Christian young vroman ; who was in the Pemberton mills when ' they fell some years ago, and from under the fallen timbers she was ! h.oo ci v? rri r> rr 4CT am cr ."Trior V?ivmo fr? lie no more." Take good courage from that Bible, all of whose promises are for those in bad predicament. There are better days !or you, either on earth or in heaven. I put my hand under your ;hin and lift your face into the light }f the coming dawn. Have Gcd on your side, and then you have for reserve troops all the armies of heaven, Lhe smallest company of which is 20,300 chariots and the smallest brigade Li4,C00, the lightnings of heaven their lrawn swuiu. j , An ancient warrior saw an over- ( powering host come down upon his ( small company armed men., and, mounting his house, he threw a handful of sand in the air, crying, "L9t it. _ * . : 1 r._ I Lueir races oe cuvereu wua cuniusioul1' And both armies heard his roice, and history says it seemed as ' though the dust thrown in the air had become so many angels of supernatu- ; ral deliverance, and the weas over- ; came the mighty, and the immense : host fell back, and the small number ; marched on. Have faith in God, aad ; though all the allied forces of discour- i agement seem 10 come against you in battle array, and their laugh of deil- * - -lin1 t i??? firrr-?eaasa? ance ivsd contempt resourd? through j all the valleys and mountains, you I might by faith in God and importunate prayer pick up a handful of the | very dast of your humiliation and j throw it into the air, and it shall be-1 come angels of victory over aii the ; armies of earth and nell. The voices of your adversaries, human and Satanic, shall be covered with confusion, while you shall be not only conqueror, but more than conqueror, through that grace which has so often made the failen helmet of an overthrown antagonist the footstool of a Christian victory. THE STATE TEACHERS. I Interesting Information inK?2&rd to the ' Snmmar Xeeilng. It looks as if a great many of the | members of the State Teachers association are to attend the annua; meet-j ing oa Paris Mountain, which begins the end of this month. ?ae following circular has just been issusd signed by Prof. E. L. Hughes of Green viJle, the local member of the executive committee, and Proprietor W. E. John-j stone of the Hotel Aitamont: To Teachers and School Officers: The executive committe of the State j Teachers association have arranged to hold the next meeting of the association on Paris Mountain, near Greenville, June 30 to July 5, We take j this method of urging you to be present to take part in the benefit and enjoyment as well as the duties of the occasion. Our State association has not had the attention it should have from the rank and hie of our teachers. We should have a large, representative, inilaentiai gathering every jear and a strong, compact, working organization. Both professional and physical benefit should result from the meeting, and the programme has been arranged and the place selected witn this in vie77. The place, Paris Mountain, is five miles from G-reenviile, and a pleasant drive of seven miles from the laiiroad station over good roads brings the visitor to the summit and the Altamont Hotel, where preparations have been made to entertain 300 or more guests. A comfortable audito- ; rium with seating capacity of 500, j with a roof garden above has been built for the place c? Meeting; there is aii unobstructed view in e^rery direction from, an altitude of 2,300 feet above sea level; delightful breezes wander continually among- the glistening leaves of the chestaucs and oaks, 'reighted with health-giving C2">ne; everything tends to inspire, invigorate and renew the energies of tired teaehers. It is an ideal place for rest or work. The fare at the hotel will be excellent, well prepared and well served. An experienced hotelist, who has had charge of the A! tamo at for ! the past three seasons, wi:h a weli ! trained corps of assistants, will do their utmost for the comfort of the guests. The ladies will be domiciled in the hotel and the gentlemen in cottages and tents near by. There will be a freedom and ease, an open air camp meeting element which will add greatly to the enjoyment of all. Open air concerts by a good band, Vio of lntovrolc auu JWiV/VUVU.J MW 4.?I. 1*?-/A FHAW during the daily sessions will enliven the routine of work, and the broad balconies, the wide lawn, the pavilion, sunset rock and numerous beautiful nooks near the top will furnish place and opportunity for those delightful, social ana conversational groups of j two or more which are sucn a pie?s- j ant feature of qur gatherings. RATES. We have secured tbe lowest railroad rates ever given to our association? one fare for round trip. See that vour railroad asrent has his instructions ! and tickets in time. Board will be $5 for five days. June 30 to July 5, inclusive. The meeting will begin on Wednesday evening, 30th, atS:30p. m. and close Sunday, July 4, at same < hour. A rate of $1.50 per day will be made those who come later or go ear- ' lier than above dates. Transporta- ! lion, including baggage from station . to Altamont, will not be over 75 cents lor round trip. ?ne citizens committee expect to furnish free transports- : tion to those who come on the 30th : and remain until the 5th. In order to perfect arrangements it < is absolutely necessary for us to know < by June 10 the number and names of : those who expect to attend. As soon 11 as you receive this decide whether J1 you will come and write at once to! 1 Supt. E. L. Hughes, iocal member of I? executive committee, or Mr. W. E. I: Johnetone, Hotel Altamont, Green-! ] ville, ar d state that you expect to come I { and when. We will then have a defi- J i nite basis for the work of preparation 1 and can secure better results' Don't i v./v?1aa4- 4-V* ^ rs ^lrr Af I 1 Lie^icuu tuia. xi \jbi?j ua tai.LLijr uuv s later than Jane 15. i There will be no dress parade? ] bring comfortable clothing1, and in 1 addition to your necessary toilet arti- 1 cles brine:, if possible, a sheet, pillow i case and. light blanket. This will in- j sure your comfort in case of over- < crowding. You may find a heavy t dress or light overcoat an advantage > at night. > ] me matter 01 a permanent ncme lor n the association will come up at this ( meeting and a large attendance is es- i pecially desirable. Come to see if t Paris Mountain is the best place or to 1 suggest a better. l t Getting T?orae and Worse- { Mr. James N. Veazey. represent- i ios Frank G. Tullidge & Co., distill- t ers, Cincinnati, is in Columbia at the ] Grand Central. Mr. Veazey has a i national retmtation as a gentleman i of authority on all matters pertain- s ing to "trusts"?especially the late c whiskey trust, having been callei 1 upon by the United States court to s c;ive expert testimony as to the validi- t ty of its character and other matters of t importance. Mr. Veazey has just c made s, trip throughout Pennsylvania t and, being a student of the political t situation, tells a Record reporter that a the laboring element of that state is al- a most on the verge of desperation, t rt: \/r 1 u ! OiQCtJ iiiUixiaiBj s cicutiuju, wages u;*\ = bsea reduced, mills shut down in ail f directions, and a general uprisin? is r imminent unless times improve. la ] many instances laborers are paid in s scrip, ^vhich is sold to different storekeepers at a reduction of five to fifteen percent. Mr. Veazey took occasion to investigate the deplorable state of a if airs and found the distress so pro- {, nounced that he is almost willing to A promise a positive overthrow of Republicanism in that state. He states j 3 Further that John R. McLean will f ;ucceed Mark Eanna as United States 1 senator in Ohio. Mr. McLean has ^ itbacdoned his summer home at Bar ^ Harbor, Maine, and will remain in ^ Cincinnati and personally conduct the campaign, as well as the editoral j columns of the Cincinnati Enquirer. A, ?Columbia Record. ~ * Speedy .) ustico in ueor,~la. | t The court's record for swift justice j r was broken Thursday at Atlanta, G-a. lorn Kirus shot Annie Johnson (both r colored) three days ago and she died this morning. The coroner held an j a inquest and the verdict said death vras i i the result of gunshot wound. The j t grand jury found a true bill and the j I orisoner vras arraigned in criminal I court this afternoon for murder and r wanted to plead guilty. He was given j e counsel and will be tried ilondaj. i S aaa?accsnG? ' i i i asa ^ GEN^AIIS'" VERSION ~ Or THE UNFORTUNATE CLASH ON THE CAMPUS. t He 5S?k?>M a Statement And the PubJJc j Now Has the Whole Case in Its Hands-- j What'li the Verdict Be? Although the dispensary situation is occupying the attention of Dearly ev^ry ore in South Carolina just at tliis nftv-firulpr tlwp.is st.il) miifih speculation as to what will be the outcome of the receat clash on the South Carolina college athletic grounds. After waiting for several cla.TS Adjutant General Watts gave to tue public his version of ihe affair. It is as fcl- i lows: I had hoped that it would not be j necessary for me to mate a statement j as to the unfortunate occurrence that took place on the college grounds last Friday, the 2SLh uit.. but as there has been so much said and written about the affair, I deem it my duty to the militia aid myself to give the facts in I the case, and let the public psss its | own iiidorittfinl: Thfi fol Irtwino- nr.-'pr i was issued May 10, 1997: Special Order No. 12. Adutautana Inspector General's Offlc0 Columbia, S. 0., May 10, 1S97. j The annual inspection of the following companies is hereby ordered: Governors Guards, Capt. J. M. Bateman, commanding, Columbia, May 26, 1897; Richland" Volunteers, Capt. J. D. Frost, commanding, Columbia, May 26, 1SS7. By order of the commander-in-chief. J. Gary Watts, A. & I. Gecerai. Owing to a death in my family, the ab'jve order was revoked, and Friday, the 2S:h, was appointed for the inspection of the above commands. I saw Col. Wilie Jones, who was the colonel of the Second regiment of infantry, and who would be in command on this occasion, the morning of the 2Sth at the Carolina National bank. He told me that the inspection would be held at the usual place, the grounds in charge ol the college, which are used by the students for atnletic purposes (ine time ana place of any inspection is generally left to the commanding otiicdr.) Col. Jones told me to take my position in front of the stand wiieh was erected for ladies to occupy in order that they couid witness the games that are usually played on these grounds. Tne battalion was foiled and the usual line of march was taken. As I reached the college grounds I proceeded to take my position, indicated by Col. Jones, but was informed by Mr. Hagood, one of the students, that a match game of bsll was in progress, and hoped that I would not interfere, or words to that effect. I then rode from the ball grounds and was spoken to by Prof. Sloan. He informed me that the boys had permission to play bail on the grounds and that a match game was in progress. I replied to turn that I had no desire to interfere -with the game, but that I had been informed by Col. Jones that he had permission from the president to have the inspection on the grounds. I then took my position on the left of the ball grounds and did not think that I was in any way interfering wiih the game of ball, as no opposition was raised to my position. The review and inspection was then started, ana everything was goingon very smoothly until the battalion was passing in V _ - V _ _ ? , J review, wnen a oa.ii was saucaeu aaa as one of the players was running after it he ran into Capt. Bateman and knocked off nis cap, the crowd then began to cheer, the battallion moved on and nothing was thought of this incident. The batallion then proceedwith their field mo^ 3ments, and as they were marching /ast the inspecting officer I requested a policeman to move oack some of the parties who were in the line of march, which he did without any trouble. At this time I was stationed to the . left of the ball grounds, and as far as I thought was not in any way con- < liisting wit a tne game or oau. it nas . been stated that at this time a ball was ! knocked over in that direction and . struck a horse of a member of my < staff. I knew nothing of the incident. about this time the marshal of the ! college came to me, followed Dy a :rowd of students and ball players, ind stated that the boys had permission to play on the ball grounds. I told him I had nothing to say as to that, but only Know that Colonel Jones told me that he had written per- j mission from the president cf the col- J lege to have the inspection on the I j grounds. I then requested the police-1. nan to keep the crowd back and he ] ;riedtodoso. The crowd refused to ?0 back and began to defy and abuse 1 ;he policeman, who blew his whistle ; 'or his colleague who was on another part of the grounds, but still the crowd J svould not move back and continued j ;o defy the policeman. I turned ! round and spose to the crowd and ^ isked them to move back, but my re I juest was treated in the same manner * is that of the policemen. I saw there I ?ras going to be trouble between the ? Dolicemen ana me crowa, ior oy ims ,ime they had become very much ex- ( sited, and, seeing that a conflict was ! cevitable, I considered the best solu- 1 ,ion of the difficulty would be to \ mr-ft t.nA battalion marched forward. I c ;ress back the crowd to the street, I hereby rendering any further con- i lict possible between the students r icd the policemen. At this time a here was no game of ball going on. c ! then gave Colonel Jones the order I o move bis command forward, which e le did. The men advanced "at right s ;houlder arms," and there was no or i ier to "charge." as has been stated, j i Cne troops advanced very steadily, 1 md the majority of the crowd moved t jack, but three or four students broke ( hrough the line, near where the col- t >rs were, and tnepjlicemen attemp:ed i o interfere. The battalion moved on t o me irom, ieaviug iuc jjuuueuucu i ^ md those students in the rear. Then j c . general encounter took place between i he students and the policemen. c These are the plain, untarnished a acts in the case, notwithstanding the c epeatea rumors that have been circu- C ated, many of which have bsen ab- t urd in tne extreme. J. Gary Watts, a Adjutant and Inspector General. t . i Federal Appointments. ^ The President Friday sent the folowing nominations to the Senate: State?Lawrence Tcwnsend of Fennylvania, to be Envoy Extraordinary c .nd Minister Plenipotentiary of the ? Jnited States to Portugal. j r Treasury?Eilis H. Roberts of New ? fork, to be Treasurer of the United j1 kates; Conrad N. Jordan of New s fork, to bs Assistant Treasurer of the a TQffl+cc- cf Yonr \ /->t f tt Vt/i 7 . t J LLX KJ ?a <* l* v-r*. xx wi. k. J j f ? Ji. t * iain E. Andrews of INeoraska, to be r Auditor of the Treasury Department; t /Villiara F. Brown of Pennsylvania, ? o be Auditor for the vYar Dapart- e cent. * r Postmasters: North Carolina?Le- t oy L. Brinkiey, Edentoc. t Mr. Townsend, is a resident of Phil- j v delphia. He was appointed by Pres-1 i: dent Cleveland secretarv of the lesra-" v ion at Vienna. He is a brother of a )r. Townsend, superintendent of the v -hiladelphia mint. The selection is ii Lot a political one,although he had the c ndorsement of the Pennsylvania c Senators. c ttttmi n r rvvr.-nrv*-; nnTATTAAT I J UiAia 5IJXUIN IUi\ >5 UriiUUiN CONTINUED FROM PA?:E ONE ] the mode of inspection be not reasonable and be futile, it is a burden on intestate commerce and in itself makes the provisions void. (Railroad Co. vs. Husen. 05 l\ S.. 405. Walling vs. Michigan, 110 l". S., 440. Minnesota vs. Barber. 130 U. S.. 313. Brimmer vs. Robman, 138 U. S., 78.) It is manifest therefore that the same con elusion must he reached with regard to the dispensary act of 1S97, which was reached by the supreme court of the United Suites, as to the act of 1JS05, that it is not within the ?cope and operation of tbe Wilson act. This being the case, tbe law laid down in Leisy vs. Hardin controls this case and the attempt to forbid the importation and sale of spirituous liquors in original packages must fail. The decision of the supreme court of the United States must coatrol all circuit courts. By this decision it is clear that so long as the State herself engages in the business of importing and selling alcoholic liquors for the purposes of profit. So long as she recognizes that the u?e jf alcoholic liquors as a beverage is lawful and can be encouraged. So long as sue seess a monopoly in supplying these liquors for that use, and in this way jooks to an increase ir. her revenue, she cannot under her constitutional obligations to the other States of this Union, forbid, control, hinder and burden commerce in such articles between their citizcns and her own. Let a temporary injunction issue as prayed for in thiii bill. Charles II. Simoxtos, Circuit Judge. May 31,1897. A S "RONG ORGANIZATION. j Tho United Confederate Vaterans Have ManyCsmps. The growth of the United Confederate Veterans has been very rapid. Some figures concerning that growth cm be obtained fioaa the following circular letter which we have been requested to publish: Dear Sir:?Gen. J. B. Gordon, Commanding United Confederate Veterans, respectfully requests the press, both daily and weekly, of the whole country to can atter-.uon to tne patriotic purposes of the United Confederate Veterans by publishing date of the Reunion which is to tak^ place at Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 22d, 23rd and 2ith, 1S97, by publication of this letter, wilh editorial notice. The interest and enthusiasm in the Reunion is unabated, and Veterans will mingle at Nashville with more of their comrades than thsy will probably ever see assembled again. Urge Ex-Con federate soldiers and sailors everywhere to form local asso " ? j j ??t:~,4.: al?* l ciail0iis,aca seuu applied uous iu mese headquarters for papers to organizs camps immediately,so as to be in time to participate in the great Reunion at Nashville, and thus unite with their comrades in carrying out the laudable and philanthropic objects of the organization ; as only veterans who belong to organized U. C. V. Camps can participate in the business meeting at Nashville. All Confederate soldiers and sailors and their families are invited to attend. Total number of camps now admitted 973, V7ith applications in for about 100 more. Following is num!ser of camps by States: Northeast Texas Division 81; West Texas Division 59; Southwest Texas Division 33; Southeast Texas 31; Northwest Texas Division 17: Total Texas .....221 Alabama 91 Smith riArnlirifl ..... 9l Missouri.... 72 Mississippi 66 Arkansas. 62 Louisiana 53 Tennessee......... 52 Kentucky 42 Nerth Carolina 3? Virginia 38 tn l J ~ r lunua. % ovj West Virginia..... .... 17 Indian Territory 13 Maryland..... 6 Oklahoma...... 6 New Mexico 3 Illinois 2 Montana 2 California..... 1 District of Columbia 1 Indiana '1 1 Total 973 j Very respectfully, Geo. Moorman, i Adjutant and Chief of Staff. j ? i Saved by To&accu. When G-eo. Mason, a young white j nan 01 tne county, began to caew tobacco he never imagined the vile ha'o t would be a means of savin? his life, jut that was his experience Sunday sight near Greers when in a shooting ;crape he was shot in the left breast. Che bullet, a 32, spent its fores in two ilugs of tobacso and lodged in the lesh over the heart. Bit for the tcjacco he would have been instantly rilled, for he w. s wounded at close ange and the bullet started in dirccty. The row was engaged in by him:elf and Tom Davis witn B)b Styles md SbflHv Rsllincfiiv ftnms twelve >r fifteen shots were fired, bat only | )ne took effect. Styles and Billiager \ ?ere bound over to court.?Grreenviile ; News. \ When thsy put a man in jail, he \ sannotfollow his natural inclinations. > 2e cannot eat what he wants to?he s limited to a very frugal diet. Is it lot equally true of a dyspeptic? For dl of the real enjoyment he gets out jf life, he might as well be in jail. ' 3e cannot eat' what he likes, nor sough. He suffers much, gets little ympathy. At first, perhaps a little ! leaviness in the stomach, a little sourless, windy belchings and heartburn; leadaches and billiousness and a foul aste in the mouth ia the morning. * Chronic constipation is almost iaevia'ole. and means that the body is rolding poisonous, impure matter f v _ i i j mi t oat snouia ce guusz r:u 01. jliis j >oison is being reabsorbed into the >Iood and the whole bod^. Impurity n the blood may lead to almost any 'issase. Constipation is the start of it ill. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure :onstipation, care it so it stays cured, io other remedy in the world will do hat. Send 2L cents in one cent stamps to World's Dispensary Medical Asscciaion, Buffalo, N. Y., and receive Dr. a Jierce s lwuo page common cense dedlcal Adviser, illustrated. HnslilDg It L'p. The Senate co nmittee to audit and onlrol the contingent expenses of the Senate, to which was referred the Tillaan resolution providing for an investigation of the charges that Senaors have been speculating in sugar tacks, held a meeting Wednesday j r* /I d rlcri : to Ire. tima ir* 1 /vilr inirt I . lUU UvVlUVU yj tiAJLkV- IAUUU bV iUbU | he charges to a certain extent before j eporting back. The fact that Senaor Smith, tue only member of the Senate mentioned by name as having ngaged in such speculation, "Wedlesday made denial in the Senate of he charge, was noted in the commitee meeting, and this fact, coupied , vith Senator Aldrich's general denial , a behalf of the finance committee, fas taken into consideration ia con lecuoa wim me resolution, ana mere ras some talk in the committee of an ! ade6.nlte postponment as the wisest j ourse. The committee therefore conluded to postpone making any re- J ommendation for the present. i Make Home Happy. This is an injunction that will be j heeded by all who look to the promo-1 tica 01 me pleasures or others. A i happy home is indeed the happiest of | places. One source of happiness in : the home circle is good music. A | sure source of good music is a good piano?such as may be from M. A. M alone, Columbia, S. C. Read what he has to say in his new advertisement Indigestion. From which springs, directly Gr indirectly. nearlv everv form of head ache, and sick headache never soperated therefrom, is surely and speedily relieved and cured by the use of "Hilton's Life for the Liver ana Kidneys." One 25c bottle will convince. of its merit. Try it Sold by dealers generally. The Fountain of Youth. /^~7\ We ail remember i ^ the story of Ponce (a, % i\ de Leon seeking the fountain of (el el r eternal youth; and we sympathize with him in his SfffSMasgli search. Youth gsega ii\ A means so muciu It j jR?M\\\ means mose than "Ssa^ w WJ life?for sometimes j life becomes a! > O^Wrm' weariness. Bat! ^y\ youth?with WT^& >alt9 abounding \>% E health and vigor, ^WWx^X ^B^Selaatic step fij glowing cheeks, =*f 3?s 2/% JW aa<^ sparkling eyes?we all covet genu^3SS??eS!><=>=?^S2?K3^=2teta. in^ wwith before their jtitae. is aot the result of accumulated years; it ie toe etfwtof wrong end. unhealthy ;biood. "W^su the blood k pure and fresh ;Ui? body will be full of youth. Thousands of ixsoole who seemed to have jl09t their vo??h by disease and suffering have ioshg it again through tie use of Dr. !?ierc?'s Golden Medical Discovery, the moat perfectly natural and scientific rejuvenator of tie physical forces ever known to medical science. It gives the blood-making- organs power to Tmake nsw blood, fall of the life-giving' red corpuscles which drive out disease, build ;up fresh tieaue, soiid muscular flesh and Stealthy nerve force. It gives constitutional (power, deep and full and strong: rounds 'o*t hollow cheek* &&d emaciated forms; gives-plumpness, oolor and animation.^ It doea not maze flabby fat like cod liver >6iL On thi6 account, it is a perfect tonic for esculent people. ii ?c? Qigwnoa ana me naxnrai acuon 01 the liver, aad by feeding tie nerves With Irig-ixiy vitalised blood baciahes servous'ness. aearalgia and insomnia. i Waerc a constipated condition exists, the !" Dieccnrery " should be wsed in conjunction wiib Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, -which are most perfect mild and natural lazative j rn the world. There nothing: else "just as good.** "There is nothing that will do the Vrozk so thoroughly, surely and comfortably. Mfice to Mothers. We taie pleasure in calling year attec tion to a remedy so long needed in carrying children safely through the critical stage of teething. It 1b an incalculable blftsainc to mother and child. If yon are disturbed at night with a sick, fretfn], teething child, axe Pitts' Carminative, it vTill gi?e instant relief, and regnlats tie bowels, and mate teething sa'e and easy. it Till cnra Dysentery and Diarrhosa, )?itts Carminative is an instant relief fcr colic of infanta. It will proino.e digestior, give tone and energy to the stomach and bowels. Tha sick, puny, suffering cnil? trill soon become tbe fat and frolicking joy j of the household. It is vary pleasant to | Vne taste and only cost 2? cents per bottle '&ld by cSrugciats and by TEE MUBBAY D3UG CO.s Columbia, ?. O j I The Piano for a lifetime, lj The Piano of tie Soutli, | Tie Piano Scld Kosi Reasonably. jj 5 The old, original Maihnshek, sold by us | for over a quarter of a century and the | | delight of thousands of Southern homes, n | More Mathasbeks used South than of I | any other one make. I Lovely New Styles at Reduced Prices, a cheaper than ever before known. Styles once $435, now $325. $100 saved every luyer W now, UCV?.U30 >VC i?C lllLClcatCU JU M 1 the great Mathushek factory, supply 5 | purchasers direct, and save them ail in- 3 pi termediate preflts. Wsite trs. I LUEOEX <fc BATES, | Savannah, Ga-, and New York City, j I0T MIAMI}. o So Daxgeb, in Cueing One Habit, o? FORMING ANOTHER. 3PIUM (Morphine, Laudanum) Etc., Cured is ?"rom Form to Six Weeks. LIQUOR DISEASE }ured Usually in Four Weeks. Also Tobacco Habit and Nervous Diseases, The Cure has been endorsed by the Legis ature of six States and one Territory; by he National Government in the Soldiers' Homes and in the regular army; by many ocal authorities in the cure of indigent Irunkards (morphine and liquor); by Miss iVallard, the W. C. T. U.; Francis Murphy, Sea! Dow and the I. 0. G. T.; by prominent aen ail over the land; by 300,000 cared pa ients, more than 20,000 of these being phyicians. The Leslie E. Keeley Company and the leeley Institute of S. C. are responsible cor)orations which coulu not afford to put forth my claim that thej are unaMe to prove. For printed matter and tei* n<. addres3, TEE KEELEY INSTITUTE, >? Draper 27. Columbia, S. C. Mention this paper. ENGINES, BOILERS, ^ A W M1TT.& UX.SL. V 9 -A.VJa.JLJ ASLAKSy GRISTMILLS . AX FACTORY PRIG E?. E. W. SCREVEN, ' COLUMBIA, S. C. HAPPY HOME IS TVnPU-.ASIT.n TF.Y-F.">T.n BV GOOD MUSIC. i Mate tfce most of life by procuring a good *-?| PIANO or ORGAN. Music has a refining influence and Seeps yonr children at home. |] REMEMBER You only inveet once in a life time provil- A ed you select a nood instrument. Jsk ICHALLSN3S any house to b^at my prices?QUALITY and SESfONSIBlLITY considered. TERMS: To tho e not prepared to p^y cash I will A give reasonable time at a slight JS difference in price. jgfij mum. I fully guarantee Pianos and Organs as xep.esented, placing them on test trial. I Represent tie Balers ^ Hence CAN and WILL save you money. Prices Raie as fim: 1 Organs from ?45.00 up. Pianos from ?185.00 up DON'T FaIL to write for catalogue. jig Tnnrsfnr Pfartna and Onrans. JSI M. A. M ALONE, 1 COLUMBIA, S. C. : : : To ihe Public- : : : WE WILL OFFER FOR j \ I sale during the next sis- .* : : : : : ty days, as we will have to : : : : : iinow witain trie ume aoove : : . : : : stated in order to arrange our : : : : : : business for another year, : : : : : : whether or not we wili be able : : : gj : : : to dispose of this valuable real : : : .Jjfl : : estate. Having decided to go : : j Jos : : : more extensively into the mer- : : : JK : : : cantile and rice mill business, : : : -4a$ : : : and to ?-educe our farming in- : : : " wafiajj : : : terest, we have decided to place : : : : : : upon the market one of the fin- : : : : : : est plantations for general pur- : : : ; : : poses in Orangeburg County. : : : : : : This property is situated in : : : : : : Pine Grove Township, one mile : : : : : : from the town of Lone Star, a sta- : : : : : : tion on the Manchester and Au- : : : : : : s^usta R. R.. and containing : : : : : : twenty-five hundred (2500)-: j : i : : : acres, more or less, with a good : j : k : : : part of same under a high state ! i i M : : : of cultivation. On the place is a : : : A : : : good saw mill, gristmill, gin and : : : jH : : : cotton press, a fine pasture, 8 or : : j " || : : : 10 good tenant houses, and ev- : : : J| : : : ery other convenience a good : : : _jg| j : : farmer would want. We o&er : j : : : : also for sale two lots and the : : : : : : best store house in Lone Star, j j : : : : This is undoubtedly a fine open- : : : j : j ing for anyone wishing to mer- : : : : : : chandise and farm in connection : : : j : : with eacu other. All of which : : : j : : we offer you very cheap and on : : : easy terms. Of course we won't : : : ( -1.1 _ x. x ? A ot? auie w turn uvcr iaj luc puj. ] | chaser the farm before first of : t : - M [ : Jan., 1898. The store we can j : j ?s& : : : turn over for the fall business. : I For further particulars address : j : Jjlm : : j TAYLOR & BULL, Lyons, S.C. j \ \ ^jS April 21-3mos *58 THE THOMAS ^ : is the most complet9 system of elevating handling, cleaning and packing cotton* Improves staple, saves labor, makes you money. Write for catalogaes, no other equals it. ^ I handle the most improved M COTTON GINS, M PRESSES, ELEVATORS, ENGINES ^ AND BOILERS to be found on the market. My Sergeant Log Beam Saw Mill is, in simplicity and efficiency, a wonder. CORN MILLS, PLA.NEES. GANG EDGEBS, ? and all wood working machinery. i LIDDELL AND TALBOTT ENG1NB3 J are the best. JS Write to me hsfore baying. ~Jh ?. O. Badham, ^ General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. SEE HERE. M IS Y33? U/a* \'.l< SI 3 tf ? - ^ Axe yoar Sidneys ia a^healthy condition If so, iditon's Life tor the Liver and Kidneys will keep them sc. If not, Hilton's life for the L'ver ^ and Kidneys will make ' them so. A 25c fcottla j vrill convince M yen of this Jit Taken regularly after meals It Is an aid to "j?| digestion, cures habitual constipation, gfl and thus refreshes and clears both body and mind. |f| SOLD WHOLESALE BY The Murray Drug Cdf COLUMBIA, S. 0. AND Dr. H. BAHB, Char'eiton, 8. C. A be mr M bjss J AND GET J| YOUNG'S M irarrr T? %- r m &1Li?IU 1 M RSVEALER and CONFIDENTIAL ADYICE TO BEGINNERS J Or How to Start In the Mall Order Basi- ?| ness with very small capital. jjjfi ilake Money at Yoar Horn*. 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