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ijf"' v?" ? n MFSIC IN CHURCHES j; REV. DR. TALMAGE FAVORS HEARTY ,c i CONGREGATIONAL SINGING. r The Impertazice of Sacred Mu*ic ac-t 3orr.e ' of th?_Ob3tacIes to Its Advarceraent?A ? : Singing; Church lb Always a ScccemJuI ; Oae. ( Dr. Talmage in his discourse rallies the ] churches to more hearty congregational sing- . ing and calls upon instruments of music to ! join in the praise of God. The text is 11 1 Chronicles v, 13, "It came even to pass, as ( the trumpeters and singers "were as one, to 1 make one sound to be heard in praising and 1 thanking the Lord." The temple was done. It was the very " chorus of all magnificance and pomp, opiendor crowded against splendor. It was the diamond necklace of the earth. From the ~ huge pillars crowned with leaves and flowers ! and rows of pomegranate wrought out in burnished metal, down even to the tongs and snuffers made out of pure gold, everything was as complete as the God directed archi- J tect could make it It seemed as if a vision ! from heaven had alighted on the mountains. i The day for dedication came* Tradition ! says that there were in and around about ( the temple on that day 200,000 silver trump eta, 40,000 harps, 4U,UUU timorexs ana zw,000 singers. So that all modern demonstrations at Dusseldon\ or Boston =eem nothing compared with that. As this great sound surged up amid the precious stones of the temple, it must have seemed like the river of life dashing "against [the amethyst of the wall of heaven. The 'sound arose, *nd God, as if to show that he was well pleased with the music which his children make in all ages, dropped into the midst of the temple a cloud of glory so overpowering that the officiating prie3ts were obliged to stop in the midst of the services. The-e has been much discussion as to ?1 '* ?""i Vrtwr, T fViInV fhof at. the JVLLC1C UlUdXVs nao VV1U. A. W.V.. beginning, "when the morning stars sang ! together and all the sons of God shouted for joy,'* the earth heard the echo. The cloud on which the angels stood to celebrate the 1 creation was the birthplace of song. The stars that glitter at night are only so many keys of celestial pearl on which God's fingers play the music of spheres Inanimate xin. ll&LLLLC 1U11 UX UUU O um^V. struments. Silence itself?perfect silence? is only a musical rest in God's great anthem of worship. Wind among the leaves, insect humming in the summer air,- the rush of billow upon beach, the ocean far out sounding its everlasting psalm, the bobolink on the edge of the forest, the quail whistling up from the grass are music. While visiting T>1? T lino-Tvl ^ An in or from a JJliJAjB* f* C.U. O J. iivui. ^ j ? window of the lunatic asylum, a very sweet song. It was sung by one who had lost her reason, and I have come to believe that even the deranged and disordered elements of nature would make music to our ear if we only had acuteness enough to listen. I suppose * that even tne sounds in nature that are discordant and repulsive make harmony in ^ God's ear. You tnow that you may come so near io aa orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of pleasurable, and I think that we stand so near devastating storm and frigthful whirlwind we cannot hear that which makes to God's ear and the ear of the oWtt no a. rrmsit>. as rnmnlete as it is tremendous. I propose to speak about sacred music, first showing you its importance and then Btating some of the obstacles to its advancement. . _ I draw the first argument for the importance of sacred music from the fact that God commanded it. Through Paul he tells us to admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, through David he cries out, "Sing ye to God, all ye kingdoms of the earth." And "there are hundreds of other passages I might name, proving that it is as much a man's duty to sing as it is his duty to pray. Indeed I think there are more commands in the Bible to sing than there ?? ?? in TvraTT ftnr? nnf nnlv asks for the hu cum voice, but for the instruments of music. He asks for the cymbal and the harp and the trumpet. And I suppose that in the last days of the church the harp, the lute, the trumpet and all the instruments of music that have given their chief aid to the theater and bacchanal will be brought by their masters and laid down at. the feet of Christ and i then sounded in the church's triumph on her way from suffering into glory. "Praise ? it. _ r ?j ?? -rv__ - l: r^-u ye me .LiOra. : jrraisc hull mm yvuc rwivco. Praise him with stringed instruments and with organs. I draw another argument for the importance of this exercise from the impressiveness of the exercise. You know something of what secular music has achieved. You snow it has made its impression upon governments, upor laws, upon literature, upon whole generations. One inspiring national air is worth 30,000 men as a standing army. There comes a time in the battle when one bugle is worth 1,000 muskets. In me earner part, oi uuj. civii n?j. mezit proposed to economize in bands of music and many of them were sent home, bat the generals in the army sent word to Washington: "Yon are m&kiDg a very great miitaka. We are falling back aid falling back. We have not'enough music." I have to tell you that no nation or church can afford to severely economize in music. Why should we rob the programmes of worldly gayety "when we have so many ap propriate songs and tunes composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church psalmody which has come down fragrant with the devotions of other generations?tunes no more worn out than when our great-grandfathers cl;mbed up on them from the church pew to glorj? Dear old soul?, how they used to sicg! And in those days there "were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peace a great while, these two old people, and we have no right to divorce them. Born as we have been amid this great wealth of church music, augmented by the compositions of artists in our day, we ought not to be tempted out of the sphere of Christian harmony and try to seek unconsecrated sounds. Tt ;o oKonrrl for a millionaire to steal. Many of you are illustrations of what a sacred song can do. Through it you were brought into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. You stood out against the warning and the argument of the pulpit, but when in the sweet words of Charles Wesley, or John Newton, or Toplady, the love of Jesus was sung to your soul, then you surrendered, as an armed castle that could not be ;taken by a host lifts it? window to listen to a harp's trill. There was a Scotch soldier dying in New Orleans and a Scotch minister came in to give him the consolations of the gospel. The man turned over cn his pillow acd said, Don't talk to me about religion.'* Then the minister began to sing a familiar hymn that -was composed by David Dickenson beginning with the words: Oh, mother dear, Jerusalem, "When shall I come to thee? He sang it to the tune of Dundee, and everybody in Scotland knows that and as he began to sing the dying soldier turned over on his pillow and said to the minister, "Where did you learn that?" "Why," re plied the minister, "my mother taught me that." "So did mine," said the dying soldier, and the very foundation of hi* aeort was upturned, and then and there he yielded himself to Christ. Oh, it has an irresistible power! Luther's sermons hare been forgotten, but his Judgment Hymn sings on through the ages and will keep on singing until the Wast of the archangel's trumpet shall bring about that very day -which the nymn ceieorates. 1 -wouia to uoa war you would take these songs of salvation as messages from heaven, for just as certainly as the bird brought lood to Elijah by the brook Cherith so these ringed harmonies God sent are flying to your soul with the bread of life. Open your mouth and take it, C 1 ungry Elijah: I have also noticed the power of sacred song to sooth? perturbation. You may have come in here with a great many worrxmeuts and anxieties, yet perhaps in the singing of the first hymn you lost them all. You have read in the Bible of Saul, and how he was sad and angry, and how the boy David cume in and played the evil spirit ^ut of him. A Spanish king was melai-J.o'.y. The windows were all closed. H- in the darkdess. Nothing could brings . forth until Franell came ana discoursed music ior mree or lour U3js to him. On the fourth daj he looked up and wept and rejoiced, and the windows were thrown open, and that which all the P2;V ;pIendors of the court could not do the power j >f song accomplished. If you have anxle- J ' io* and -rcorriments. try this heavenly J i :harm upon them. Do not sit down on the j' ljrcn, but plunge in, that the devil^of 'care I' nay be brought out of you. ! It alio arouses to action. Do jou not < enow that a singiDg church is always a ] riumphant church? If a congregation is <' iileat during the exercises or panialij silent, 1 t is the silence of death. If when Ihe 1 :ymn is given out you hear the faint hum >f here and there a father and mother in Israel, while the vast majority are silent, hat minister of Christ who is presid ag needs to have a very strong constitution f he does not get the chills- He needs not >n!y the grace of God, but nerves like whalebone. It is amazing how some people with voice enough to discharge all their duies in the world, when they come into the i louse of God have no voice to discharge his ( iuty. I really believe that if the church of Christ could rise up and sing as it ought to 1 ?'l 1 iaa iing, wuere we iiavt, ivu sumo wuujuv 4mV he kingdom of Christ there would be 1,000. Sow wa3 it in olden time'.' Csjetan said, 'Luther conquered us by his songs." ? But I must now speak of some of the ob- j itacles in the way of the advancement of i )f this sacred music, and the first is that it las been impresssed into the service of sa- ( :an. I am far from believing that music jught alwajs to be positively religious. Re- . inedart has opened places where music has seen scrutinized, and lawiuuy so. xne irawiDg room, the concert by the gratification of pure taste and the rroduction of Harmless amusemc nt and the improvement )f talent, have become very forces in the adrancement of our civilization. Music has as :nuch right to laugh in Surrey gardens as it aas to pray in St. Paul's. In the kingdom )f nature we have the glad fifing of the wind as well as the long meter psalm of the ihunder, but while all this is so, every ob ?erver has noticed ihat this art, -wincn uoa intended for the imrovement of the ear, and the voice, and the head, and the heart, has jften been impressed into the service of Error. Tartini, the musical composer, dreamed one n'gnt that satan snatched from his hatjd an instrument and played upon it something very sweet?a dream that has otten been fulfilled in our day, the voice and the instruments that ought to have been devoted to Christ are captured from the church onri onnlied to the Durooses of sin. **rr - - a Another obstacle has been an inordinate fear of criticism. The vast majority of people singing in church never vant anybody else to hear them sing. Everybody is waiting for somebody else to do his duty. If we all sang, then the inaccuracies tha; are evident v/hen only a few sing would be drowned out. God asks you to do as well as you can, and then if you get the -wrong pitch or keep wrong time he will forgive any deficiency of the ear and imperfection of the voice. Angels will not laugh if you should lose your place in the musical scale or come in at the bar behind. There are three schools of sinfing, ? am told?the German school, the Italian school and the French ?u?i Vrtw T "would like to add StUWl VI a fourth school, snd that is the school of Christ. The voice of a contrite, broken heart, although it may be able to stand human criticism, makes better music to God's ear than the most artistic performance when the heart is wanting. God calls on the beasts, on the cattle, on the dragons to praise him, and we ought not to be behind the cattle and the dragons. Another obstacle in the advancement of ' 1 tDls art nas oeen we ermucuus uuuuu ww this part of the service could be conducted by delegation. Churches have said, "Oh, what an easy, time we shall have! The minister will do the preaching and the choir will do the singing, and we will have no hing to do." And you know as well as I that there are a great multitude of churches all through this land where the people are not expected to sing. The whole work is done by delegation of four or six or ten persons, and the audience are silent. In such a church in Syracuse an old elder persisted in singing, and so the choir appointed a committee to go and ask the elder if he would not stop You know that in many churches the choir are expected to do all the singing, and the great mass of the people are expected to be silent, and if you utter your voice you are interfering. In that church they stand, the four, with opera glasses dangling at their side, singing "Rock of age?; cleft for me," with the same spirit that the night before on the stage they took '1 -- ??l ii.. ,,r> j uieir part, jlxi ius --uxauu "Don Giovanni." My Christian friends, have we a right to delegate to others the discharge of this duty which God demands of us? Suppose that four wood thrushes propose to do all the singing some bright day when the woods are ringtng with bird voices. It is decided that four wood thrushes shall do all the singing of the forest. Let all other voices keep silent How beautifully the four warble! It is really fine music. But how loDg will you keep the forest still? Why, Christ would come into that forest and * i 1 - -1 1 il 1. A. -1* J 100K up as ne loo&eu uirougu uie oyvea, auu he would wave Ltis hand and say, "Let everything that, hath breath praise the Lord," and, keeping time with the stroke of innumerable wings, there would be 5,0C0 bird voices leaping into the harmony. Suppose this delegation of musical performers were tried in heaven. Suppose that firmi* srririta sTinnlrf frv tft fin the sine ing of the upper temple. Hush now, thrones and dominions and principalities! David, be still, though you were the "sweet singer of Israel-" Paul, keep quiet, though you have come to that crown of rejoicing. Richard Baxter, keep still, though this is the "Saints' Everlasting Rest." Four spirits now do all the singing, but now long would heaven be quiet? How long? "Halleluiah!" would cry some glorified Methodist from under the altar. "Praise the Lord!" would sing the martyrs from among the thrones. "Thanks be unto God who giveth us the vieir\yTr?>> o /*r?T7 rrnriQr}a nf int.rt the harmony and the 144.0C0 breaking forth into one acclamation. Stop that loud singing! Stop! Oh, no. They cannot hear me. You might as well try to drown the thunder of the sky, or beat back the roar of the sea, for every soul in heaven has resolved to do its own siging. Alas, that we should have Viott ponnAf flrt in heaven, and, instead of joining all our voices in the praise of the most high God, delegating perhaps to unconsecrated men and "women this most solemn and most delightful service Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock?clear, bright, sparkling, if all the other part of the church service is dull, do not have the music dull. With so many thrilling things to sing about, away with all drawling and stupiditj! There is nothing makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an audience with their lips almost shut, mumbling the praises of j God. L>urin<r mv recent absence I Dreached I to a large audience, and all the music they ma'e together did not equal the skylark. People do not eleep at a coronation. Do not let us sleep "when we come to a Saviour's crowning. In order to a proper discharge, of this duty let us stand up. save as age or weakness or fatigue excuses us. Seated io an easy pew we cannot do this duty half so well as when upright we throw our whole body into it. Let our song be like an acclamation of victory. You have a right to sing. Lo not surrender your prerogative. We want to rouse all our families upon this subject. We want each family of our congregation to be a singing school. Childish petulance, obducracy and intractability would be soothed if we had more singing in uie ncusenuiu, ana mea uur uiue ones would be prepared for the great congregation on Sabbath day, their voices uniting with our voices in the praises of the Lord. After a shower there are scores of streams that come down the mountain side with voices rippling and silvery, pouring into one river and then rolling in united strength to the sea. So I would naye all the families in our church send forth the voice of prayer and praise, pouring it into the great tide of put lie worship that rolls on and on to empty into the great, wide heart of God. Jfever can we have our church sing as it ought until our families sing as they ought. There will be a great revolution on this subject in all our churches. Gcd wilt come down by his spirit and rouse up the old hymns and tunes that have not been more than half awake since the time of our grandfathers. The silent pews in the church will break iorth into music, and when the conductor takes his place on the Sabbath day there will be a great host of voices rushing into the harmony. My Christian friends, if we have no taste for this service on earth, what will we do In heaven, where they all j sing, end sing forever? I would (hat our singing today might be like the Saturday aight rehearsal for the Sabbath morning in : the skies, and we might begin now, by the strength and by the help of God, to discharge a duty which none of us has fully ; performed. And now what more appropriate thing can I do than to give out the doxDlogy of the heavens, '-Unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, to him be glory forever!" WEATHER AND CROPS. Wcek'y Bulletin cf jb?? Weaib?r Burt an L.a6t Week. The foJlowirgistf-e weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather acd crops issued bj the South Carolina section of the United States climate and crop service tor last we?K: During the greater part of the past week the weather -was abnormally cool, with departures from 2 to 16 degrees below the normal, but the lsst of the week much warmer with tear ly the normal temperature The nights of the 22 23d was unusually cold with minimum temperature under 50 over all the State except near the coast, where it was between 50 and 55 The lnwpst snorted was 40 on the 24?h at Kingstree, and the highest 95 on the 19 hat Florence. The weekly mean was 65 and the normal for the tame period is approximately 73. The Jong existing and severe drought was broken by showers earJy in the week, and a genera] heavy rain on the 21st acd 22cd. The rain wasacccm panied by high winds over the eastern portion of the State. The rainfall measurements were generally heavy, only 5 places having amounts of Jess than the inch, 10 had from one to two inches and 26 had over two inches, with a maximum measurement of 6 25 ai UaKiana. me aveJiiKcoi an mcoaurenents was 2 50 and the normal for the week is about one irjch. GENERAL STATEMENT. The severe drought was brokan by the rains of the week, and the entire State is now well watered, and the ground in fine condition for plowing and sowing fall cals, rye and barley, which work has actively begun. Peas, turnips, late potatoes and pastures ? * A _ -* 1 4.1.^ I were greatly Denemieu oy me raw, and also fall vegetables, gardens and truck, but it came too late to materially benefit corn or cotton, except very late fields of the former and youug immature bolls of the latter of which there are comparatively few. Cotton reports are featureless for the week, except that much open cot ton was blown to the ground on the 21st and 22ad, and beat into the dirt and stained by the heavy rains. Cotten picking was delayed from on9 to three days Dy toe uniavoraoie weamer and the heretofore rapid openicg of immature bolJs was largely checked Otherwise the rain was of no benefit to cotton, which is now so far ad vanced as to be beyond liability of in jury by froet, there being practically no "top crop." Cotton in many places is nearly all open and over half of the crop has been gathered. The yield is reported to be smaller than expectad and generally disappointing. There are many sections which will no doubt make a full crop but such re ports are outnumbered, two to one, by reports of yields falling below an average. Sea Island cotton was not in j ired by the siorm, on the contrary the rain will materially help the "top crop" of which there is a fair promise Corn is being gathered and the crop is generally reported to be a full one and in places an extra fine one. In tne exireme nuruiwesicru uuuuuca where corn was planted late, fodder is still being puLUd but even there the ears are matured and no longer subject to weather conditions. Rice harvest was somewhat delayed early in the week but was resumed during the latter portion and is now practically completed. There are few reports indicating poor yields of rice, but generally the crop is a full average one, and has teen secured in ex cellent condition, it having been not at all damaged by the storm. Thresh ing is well underway. Peas were helped by the rain and ova nonowi 1 Itt fmitlllff TCftl! 'Kith ex aiw|EJ ; o 7 ceptioas over little areas where peas are complete failures. Sweet potatoes show improvement since the rains and look more promising. In the truck raising districts, plowing and planting winter vegetables is now under way, with the ground in excellent condition for this work. Pastures which were paiched and brown have started a new growth. Trrntow oooin waui la a^Uiu ^/ivuvii ui? Crops having completed tbeir growth except a few comparatively unimportant ones, the issue of thts3 bulletins will end, for the season of 1897, with this number. Correspondents will, therefore, please discontinue their weekly reports. Murdered for his Monry. John Harris a respected and wellto do negro of Bambridge, Ga., was murdered Saturday, and direct evidence points to Simoa Hopkins, another negro, as the assassin. Harris was a butcher, and by frugality had accumulatfd a neat little fortune. He started out Saturday to buy snrce beaves and was murdered in Griffin's pasture, about two miles from the city. He was then robbpd and bis body was thrown into Flint river No trace of him was discovered until yesterday, when a searching party found the body. Hopkins, who is charged with the crime, has been sr rested and is now in j lil at the place. Thzswi Viae- Kaon Hlf? ta 1 lr r?f V. V-l 1'KrO WVU V lynching amorg the negroes. Hutg oy Nrgr .es A special from Cohan's depot, Buckingham county, Va., sajs: News cf a ghastly discovery in the Massanutan mountains, six miles east of here has just been received. Tuesday several hunters found the bcdy of Peb Falls, a notorious wmte woman, uaofjuug ai. the end of a rope faster ed to the limb of a tree. When discovered the body was in the first stage of decomposition. It is supposed the woman was hacked by negroes, -who had been her companions lately. No effort has been made as yet to apprehend the guilty parties. She was a married woman, but for jears her reputation has been uc savory, and finally she was driven to the mountains, wnere sne slept in the fields and in the woods. Getttog Things Be dy. A newly appointed Georgia j 'istice of peace was informed that some one had stolen his horse during the night. He was not long in locating the crim ioai, who was spsedily brought to trial when the justice said: "I ain't quaii fied to sit oa this case, seein' as the horse was mine; but I'm goin'to let the bailiff preside, an' while he is a-tryin of the criminal I'll be out yander a-stretchin' of the rope an' locatin' of the tree!" Severely Shaken. A decided earthquake shock was felt at Hotel Altamoat on P*ris Mountain Wednesday morning about 1 o'clock. The proprietor and gueets or me notei were aroused oy the shaking of the building, but no trouble resulted. In a room adjoining Mr. Johns'.cne's the plastering was broken and fell with a crash, but no other damage was dene. - GONE TWENTY-TWO YEARS. A Kceb*sd Fooad by 3.ie Wife * trough th? Psusion Ottlco. Mrs. Ann Jacoby, of Fori Jervis, N. ] Y., whose busbard disappeared twen- i ty-two 3 ears ago from thei** home, in ; Greene* CheDango coun!y, N. Y., and ; from whom nothing: bad since been 5 heard, has just received information I from the pension department that her ! husband is living in Buffalo. Since < 1S90 Mrs Jacoby has bten drawing ; the pension allowance due to a sol ] dier's widow, it beics: presumed from ] ^ * i ? J ] me Viieraii s jotgavscutcauu uie itxn i are to craw his monthly pension that he was dead. A short time a?o he an plied for a renewal of his pension at Buffalo, and this was the means of learning his whereabouts by his friend?. Sanford Jacobj, of Port Jervis. a Cn hcl i v* H i CpUldUiC JUU^lsiJCtJU.41'* V UUfcJ.*. V4 xu kUU Seventieth Regiment, New York Vol ] unteers, on April 20, 1861, and re 1 raained in the service until honorably < discharged in July, 1864 Two years Jater a pension of $5 a month was " granted him, dating from the day of ( bis discharge, on account of disabili ties incurred in the Gettysburg cam ( paigc. In September, 1875, the veter- i an f>nd his wife were living at Greene, . N. Y. He was physically strong, bat i he was troubled by increasing deaf- j ness and occasional spells of despon- : dency. One day after dinner he left * home, telling his wife that he was \ 1 An Q ^77 Vl /"> 1 i bU VA1J VU ? iAAVMU. ?? UV AATVVI about a mile from the village. He i was seen by neighbors going in the i direcion indicated, and slone. He never cached the friend's house and i from that day to this, so far as is < known, be never was seen dead or alive. He disappeared from a welltraveled highway, within sight of a i considerable village and at noonday. < Jacoby was ordinarily secretive con- i cernine his intentions, and it was i suggested that he was seized with sud- ! den impulse and had gone to visit some relatives. When this theory i hsd teen dispelled, relatives of Mrs. i Jftcohv induced her to aDDlv for a ; widow'spension, previously, however, i making a search and inquiry for the missing husband tbrcugb the Grand ; Army and the polic9 authorities of . the neighboring towns. The pension department rejected tbe widow's claim. ; Then Representative Lewis Beech of Port Jervis got a special bill passed i by congress granting her a pension, i This was vetoed by President Clevelane, but another bill -was gotten through by Representative M. D. Stiv ? ers, and was signed by President Harrison. Mrs. Jacoby has opened communi cation with her husband, and, being assured of her forgiveness for his de sertion, which he attributes to mental ; derangement, he will return to Port Jervis on Wednesday. There are two children?a son who was six years of age when the father disappeared, and a daughter, who was born six months after, and who is married to Matt Perry, a prosperous young resident of Sullivan county. Death Bather than Apostacy. Gen. Barron Von Shack, of the . Russian army, Governor General of Odessa as well as commander of the great military district of which this the greatest of all Russian ports, is the center recently committed suicide< in cocsfquence of haviog been com-' ! pelled by orders from the war depart ment to abandon the Lutheran faith, in which he had been reared. The 1 in general, JIKC SU mtxuy uiucio ui uu rank in the Russian army, was of German extraction,and had been bred a Lutheran, although born in Russia. Ee greatiy distinguished himself in the Jast war ag-.inst the Turks, and subsequently obtained still greater fame in connection with the real heroism which he displayed during the subjugation of the mountain tribes of the Caucasus. Many marks of imperial forr/VM ma?fl 10 TMcVlOH llYVm Him hv A 1 JCfcVVSX TTOAV T Aguvvt w? WJ exander II and Alexander III. Governor EUerixe Than bed. For ordering the orginal package establishments closed in several of the ' dry" towns of the state, Governor Ellerhe is being thanked by theinhabi tants of such places. Many personal communications have been received by the governor from citizens, but Thursday an expression of thanks from seventy-six citizens of Woodruff came in the shape of an open letter. Following is the communication: Spartanburg Count v, Sspt 27, 1897. To H:s Excellency, Governor W. H. E lerbe: We the undersigned citizens of the town of Woodruff desire to express cur hearty thanks to your excellency for your prompt action in closing up the original package house here, and mo TJtrrmlfl mftst Aannpsll^ and resneefc fully ask that you employ every effort known to the law to prevent the sale of liquor in or around our town. Gold-Bloaded Crime, Parties from Apalachicola says there was a serious riot there Wednesday. Is appears that a white engineer on the steamer C. D. Osvens, a river beat, sent a negro boy to a shoemaker for his shoes. The shoemaker told the boy he could not f et the sheer, without the money. The boy carried the message to the engineer, who attacked him with a knife, cutting his throat. The boy died in a few minutes. The negroes became terribly excited. They crnthprpd in larp-e numbers jmd at tf rapted to lynch tbe engineer. The Franklin County Guards were ordered out, and with the assistance of cit'z ins, remonstrating with the negroes, a lynching was prevented and order restored. The murderer was safely jailed aad at 5 o'clock this morning quiet reigned in the town. Tfce Buccker Tragedy. Jobn Boecker, the murderer of his wife and five children, at Carroll, Iowa, still lives, though his recovery is impossible. Tae son Henry shows signs of returning strength, but his physicians say his wound is fatal. The bodies of the mother and children was prepared for burial at Breda , Wednesday The coroner's jury tttq c flmnQrollflH TVTnn/^ty hoc "" vu v.?t"?J ~ adjourned till ihursday. It is now known that Boecker bought a supply of chloroform at Breda last week, ostensibly to doctor hogs for cholera. < With this he threw the family into their fatal sleep and was enabled to commit the murder without resistance. ; Those who know him best say Boeck er's mind has been affected for some : time. Burned at Sea. The schooner John H. Cannon, : Captain Harrison from Jacksonville, ; Fia, for Baltimore, loaded with sbiDgles, was dismasted in a gale of . ^ a < a _ -t *fr\ _ i A. - M i tne zisi msiani, .uu mnes east or vjaarleston. She was abandoned and set ; on fire on the 24:h. The crew of the < Cannon were taken off by the schooner 1 Greenleaf Jhonson and landed today i at Fortress Monroe. A Rascally Officer. The attorney general of Iowa, who IS '<& UULLdlCbCllb IC^UUliV/OU, JO JJUTT W?b tracticg considerable attention bj the discovery that he has been drawing five cents per mile mileage money, while traveling around the state with fiiS (JUUiCta Ui aUUiJLLCU Wltn 1 i vC pttaOCO, | i which by the law of that state are pro- i hibitea to office holders. ' i mgggssSSSSSSSSSSSBSSBSSSi SOLIVING A MYSTERY. aaatlir For a Man Who Disappeared Mom ha Ago. The Columbia State says er quiries have c^en sei on loot in me i&st Jew days touDravei the mystery of the dis appearance of ?n apparently wealthy ' v(,urg Philadelphia!}, named Siegfried, who v?s Jsst feen alive in 3-eorgetown ia ihis State, about to start out with a segro acd a boat on a duck shooting expedition at the time President Cleveland was down here last dieter. Exactly ^ny ms lanmy have never instituted these irquiries Defore dees not appear unless it be that the young man v;as of a roving disposition and was in tbe habit of go ing aw ay on pleasure expeditions and jiving no account of nimself for months at a time. It is said that his trunk is now intbe depot at George town, and that all letters sent to him aya ^An1 Qir?iv\ nr "hie? romiftQ n/^PC bave been returned to bis people through the medium of the dead letter office. It appears that at the same time that President Cleveland was enjojing juck shooting at Georgetown last winter, a party of about 18 South Oarolinians were near Georgetown, also engaged in the same spcrt. A.mong them were Mr. N. W Brooker 3f the State sinking fund commission, and Mr Miller of Sumter. This young man, who is described as having a fair complexion and blond moustache, weighing about 130 pounds, and dress ing exceedingly well, joined thsm by accident at Bryan's plantation, re maining several days in their company. Then Mr. Brcoker went on to Georgetown, having to leave the party on Thursdav afternoon. The voung Piri]adelphian said that he would join Mr. Brooker in Georgetown on Friday evening. Instead of earning on the evening train he came down at midday and called to see Mr. Brooker, but that gentleman was then out hunting. In tne afternoon he came again and found Mr. Brooker. Mr. Brooker in the meantime found that he could not stay over to hunt the following day and parted with the young man. He says that Siegfried told him that he was going to get a negro and a boat and go to the bunting grounds the fol lowing morning. That was the last that has ever been heard of him so far as any one knows. He promised to send Mr. Brooker some ducks and a dog; neither ever came, but Mr. Brooker thought nothing of that. In fact he thought no more of the stranger at all until a few days ago, when Mr. Miller, of the partv wrote Mr. Brooker a letter in which he said that he had a communication from the young man's family stating that he bad never been heard of since he went to Georgetown, and asking if aDy of the South Carolina party could give any information. ' The young mail had a fine shotgun with him when last seen. If some negro kiJled him oil account of Jbis supposed we alth he probably hid the body and no one would have missed him, inasmuch as he was traveling alone. A gentleman from Georgetown, who has undertaken to institute an investigation when he gets home, said Thursday that it would have been an easy matte/ for the negro boatman to have killed the young man and no one ever miss him. The body could easily have been put out of the wav. Again, if he accidentally shot hi re self, the negro in the absence of witnesses, mollis? nlmnpt QinlTT VllfJa tllA ncylT7 VVUUIU \A,1 W1U1J U4MW -#W-J to shield himself from the charge of murder. The 8tat? Fair Booming. The State fair of 1897 is rapidly approaching and on all sides preparations are oeing made far in advance of the usual period, and every indication points to the most successful fair ever held in the State. The exhibitions are going to be large and varied. Clem' son college will have a working dairy on the fair grounds during the fair ; managed by Prof.. J. W. Mart. An exhibition in the arena in milking by students of the college would draw well, showing tbe young misses that when one of these boys is secured as a partner for life a milker also would be obtained. The agricalturl exhibit will be under the supervision of Prof. J. S. Newman, and the mechanical will be controlled by Prof. Worthington. From the interest manifested by the college professors, and members of the board as well, it can be confi ! dentlv expected that the exhibits vsil exceed by far any hitherto seen on the grounds. Secretary Holloway writes that Mr. Geo. F. Weston, manager of the Vanderbilt farms at Biltmore, N. C., expects to bring down a fine lot of Jersey cattle for exhibition only, and subsequently offer them in the annual sale of stock. This, CoL Hollo way says, win anjra a nne uppunuuny tu purchase Jerseys of fancy strains. Mr. Weston will also bring a few choicely bred Berkshire boars. I<9t It Alone. Fabulous stories are being published about a so called African variety of cotton owned by aMr..T. A Jack son, of Atlanta, Ga. A few weeks ago we published a long article about this cotton and some weeks later published a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, of Georgia, who had tested the cotton, saying the cotton was nothing extra and advised farmers ? ? ncnin tr foriott 11U I UO IU LIUUi Lru; xia VV j^nj iwg mmvj prices for it. This cotton is again being boomed in the newspapers and we would gdvise our farmers to let it alone. It is do better than any good variety of cotton and not as good as some. It is claimed by thoss who are trjing to sell the seed that the stalks are from eight to ten feet, and the yield is from two to four bales per acre that it is limbless and the bolls grow close to the stalk from the ground to the top, and a hundred and one other great things. The seed are sold at one cent a piece to any who wil bite at the bait. Again we advise our farmers to let Mr. Jackson and his so calied African cotton severely alone. Ground to Plecea. The Charleston Poet says Henry Tnrrlfln mlnrpd. was killed recentlv bj a Charleston and Savannah train near John's Island. The full particulars of the killing could not be obtained this morning from the railroad office, but from what could be learned it seems that it was a case of suicide, as the negro stor d, or rather threw his body scroes tfce track in front of the approaching train and was ground^to pieces by the ponderous wheeJs- ine act of Jordan seems to have been premeditated as no attention was paid to the blowing of the whistle. An effort was made to find out something about Jordan no one seems to know anything about him. Death of Gen. U L, Farley. G-en. Hugh L. Farley died at his home at Spartanburg on Thursday, Gren. Farley was adjutant and inspector general of the State during both of 9-0v. Tillman's administrations, and was a valiant Confederate soldier. He was about lifty-four years of age. Se^afoi Tillman's Position In a conversation recently, in Columbia, Senator Tillman reiterated the statement tbat if tbe indications were such next year as to warrant him to believe that the dispensary law was not going to be perpetuated he would resign his seat in the senate and run for governor. FIVEI MASKED ROBBERS Hold Up & Pass*i)gar Xrsxa in Inclsa ritory. Bandits robbed the south bound Reek Island r>assenper train acdaliits passengers at 11 o'clock Friday fore noon at sidicg No 1, ab^ut five miles south of Mirco, in tbe Icdian Territory. The railroad ard txpress offi cials have feared a hold-up in that section for several weeks, and armed tt-c ? <* nnt qK/miy/1 oil gu^iuo ntn; awoiuauu^ub n at El Reno and carried through to Chickshaw. It had notbeen thought that the outlaws were bold enough to attack a train in midday. This morning the trainmen were completely surprised and they were not prepared to offer any resistance when the five masked men came upon them at the lonely siding. The plsca is uninhabited, and the only persons in the vicinity at the time were four section men. T^ese men flagged the tram, the robbers having compelled them toaoso The banans were hidden at tfce time in a j brush pile, and j'imped out as scon ss the passenger train had taken the sid' irg. Under the pre:sure of Windi & I fur cinH nolc bit chru-?torc The trainmen, the express messenger, and all of the score or more of passengers were made (o climb down from the train and si and in a line, hards ud, on the pr?:rie along the railway. While three cf Ihei robbers ewer<d the bidly frightened crowd with their guss, the other two ccoly and carefully robbed them, passing frcm one passenger to another down the line. The bandits secured about $400 in cash and such other valuables, in the way of watch es, pins and jewelry, as were in sigot. The passengers and trainmen hav ing been thoroughly plucked, three of the bandits turned their attention to the express and mail coaches, the others standing guard over tbo helpless crowd on the prairies The rfgistered mail pouches were quickly rifled, but the through sife in the express car lesisfced all the force and the inge U Uil/Jf Ui LUC iWU JLXiv intosenger having convinced the bandits that he could not open the strong box, they resorted to dynamite. Several heavy charges were exploded but the safe proved bandit proof, and though it was badly battered, its contents weie saved to the express company. Having taken forcibly possesion of everything they could carry away, the bandits mounted their horses and rode off to the west. Ac finnri as t.hft trainmAn p/ml/} ml. lect their wits they got their scared passengers aboard and hurried on to the next station south, Uhickshaw, from which point the railroad officials were notified of the hold up. At Chickshaw a posse of citizens was hurriedly formed. These citizens set out in pursuit of the gang and officers have been dispatched from El Reno, and other points in this section- It is hardly possible that the bandits can be overtaken in the prairie country, and they will probably be able to reach the Wichita mountains, to the west of the scene of tne hold u p. Officers here believe the gang to be the same one that held Santa Fe trains up at Edmunds twice during last month. WHISKEY STILLS RAIDED. They are Located In Orangebarg s>nd Lfi iDgton Conn ties. If Orangeburg and Lexington Counties keep on they will soon vie with the mountain section of North and South Carolina in the manufacture of moonshine whiskey. Just a short time ago a moonshine still was seized over in Lexington County, and now comes the report that two more moonshine stills have been seized, one in Orangeburg County and one in Lex ington County. The following par ticulars of tJie raid we take from the Columbia State of Saturday: After floundering about sometimes waistdeep in mud and water in the swamps of tne North Eiisto river, for three days and nights, without sleep, Maj Hal Ricnaidson of the United States revenue service, Deputy ^Collector Holland ai d Deputy Marshal Beese, have just succeeded in making one of the most successful revenue raids ever recorded in middle Carolina. A strange feature of the matter is that the wife of one of the moonshiners unknowing ly gave away the location of the stills, which subsequent events proved her own husband had bee a running without her knowledge. The stills were in Lexington and Orangeburg counties, located on the North Edisto; one on one side of the stream and the other on the opposite side Thev were about five miles anart. The nearest was seven miles away from a railroad line and both were far off from the public roads. Djputy Holland came up from Edgefield in his buggy. The three revenue men had great difficulty in getting about, having to kill two large snakes in their path. They arrested six men, + trr/-? nf niliAm mare nenrfifio On Thursday morning at daylight four of the moonshiners were captured; they surrendered without resistance, the officers having slipped up ahead and awaited their coming. The otner t^o were caught in the same way Friday mornin?. Recently a letter was received fram a certain lafy in the neighborhood. While on the raid Me.i )r Kichaidson came came up to a bouse. A lady came out. Major R'chardson told her his busi ness. She said she was so glad cf it; she would have written to him had she known his address; recently her children had been playing down in the woods; they saw several men with blackened faces come out, frightniDg them badly; she felt sure a still was in a certain place. The next morning the raid was made and four men caDtured. The officers were not a lit tie suprised, Major Richardson says, to find that one of the moorsbiners was this lady's own husband. The two stills, both large copper ones, with their cacs and worms, together with 700 gallons of sorghum beer and 600 gallons of grape pomace, were destroyed by the raiders. A Monument to L?e'd Mother. A bazaar is to be held in Alexandria, Va., this autumn, for the purpose of securing f inds for th9 erection ?f a monument to the memory of Mary Ann Lee, tie mother of the southern chieftain- The monument will adorn the inttrHMw tinn nf twn rtf thfi nrinci pal streets in Alexandria, and will probably 'cms in the vicinity of historic old Christ Church, where both General Lee and his mother worshiped. a Golaen Cannon. A cannon made of solid gold, mounted upon a carriage of rosewood, and inlaid with costly gems, is the unique bauble of warfare that has come into the possession of the impe^ al army of Berlin. This singular^**1* was presented to the Berlin armf ?>y tbe managers 01 me namourg musec"" in whose keeping it has been for ttf? centuries. It is valued at $20,000. *~Three CMJdren boned. Near Alma, Neb., the farm house of A. L. Gordon was burned Wednesday night, consumiDg three children. The children -were left alone with the house whilo the father went to the bam. He returned in twenty minutes to find bis home in flames. Gordon j was dangerously burned in his efforts I to save his children and may die. j / ??aw????? ~ " ' ~ t xce Tt?g?dy at North's As was published last week Dp. B. H. Eootts, of North, shot Mr. J. R. La\sath, of the same place, on Tuesday morula2, the 2Sth of September. A card in tbe Columbia State, signed < "Cit'zens of North," flatly contradicts the fl'st published account of the unfortunate gffdir, which made Mr Ley sath the aggressor, and gives the following as the fae>s in the case, which the "Citizens of North" say can and will be proved: "Mr. J. R L?ey3ath held a lien oil Dr. Knotis' crop and the latter was attempting to mske away with said crop without applj ing the proceeds to lien. Mr. Leysath, hearing of same, approached Dr. Enotts here in town, kindly called him aside and asked him if he d'd not intend to piy his lien. Dr. Knot s eoifl ha nnt intend tn r?* e it that ?WW ? ??- r?j he could not se9 his family suffer and must look out for them. Mr. Lsysath replied, - "Sinca you propose looking out for your family I will have to look out" for mine." and turned to walk away, whereupon Dr. Knotts drew a revolver and fi:ed. Mr. L^ysath fell to the ground and Dr. Knotts kept fidng, drawing a second revolver. Mr. L?vsath was unarmed and was never known to cariy a revolver nor to resent an insult. Dr. Knctts is considered a good, quiet citizen. The shooting has cast a gloom over the entire community "Citizens of North." A Novel salt. A novel suit has been brou.htby H". A. Clark anc Fannie B. Clark, his wife, against James Havdon, of Tiburon, Col. They want $25,000 damages I * * ? J , m 1. iur injuries busuiumu uy mra v/iars. while riding a hobby horse at EI Campo, a summer resort The horse, which was on a merry go round owned by the defendant, became unmanage able through the collapse of the ma chinery. The lady was thrown and so badly hurt that she may be disabled for life. Hilton's Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in remo Ting soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the pois on from *'Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes'and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore.thioat. Will cure anv case of sore mouth, and is a suoe rior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle. Although, a very busy man, Dr. E. Y. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., has found time in which to write a great book of over a thousand pages entitled, The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in Plain English, or Medicine Simplified. Few books printed in the English language have reached so great a sale as this popular work, over 680,000 copies having been so'd at $L50 each. The profits on this enormous sale having repaid its author for the great amount of labor and money expended on its production he has now decided to give away, absolutely iree, 500,000 copies of this valuable book, the receipt only being required to mail to ihe World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., of which company he is president, twenty one (21) one. cent stamps, to /iattcw AAtf A# AYIITT an/3 fVtfi V/UVvi. vucwv/i ixic?bbj~u.g v/mj) auu buv book will be sent post-paid. It is a veritable medical library, complete in one volume. It contains 1008 large pages, and over 300 illustrations, some of them in colors. The Free Edition is precisely the same as that sold at $150except only that the books are bound in strong manilla paper covers, instead of cloth. Ii is not often that our readers have an opportunity to _ - 1 1.7 _ 1 1_ 1_ ~ ooiain a vaiuaDie oook on sucn generous terms, and we predict that few will miss availing themselves of the unusual and liberal offer to which we have called their attention. Cupfcr, rue Beggar. ~ treatment"! vA / KSaank How matiT I C {s8a&' V They take [ no end of I trouble over the fit of a gown or the success of a dinnef party, but think they have no time to bestow upon the health and physical soundness which are absolutely necessary to happy wifehood and motherhood. Any weakness or disease of the delicate special organs of her sex totally unfits a woman to be a wife or mother. It is a woman's primary duty to be strong and healthy in a womanly way. Careful living and judicious trMt-mcnt will rprtninlT- and MmnlctclT eradicate these delicate complaints. A complete and practical treatise on this subject with careful professional advice and suggestions for self-treatment are contained in The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," by R. V. Pierce, M. D., chief consulting physician of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. This iooo-page illustrated book will be sent paper-bound absolutely free for cost of mailing only: 21 one-cent stamps, or cloth-bound lor 31 1 tamps. Address lit. .fierce, as aDove. Dr. Pierce has given a life-time to the stndy of women's diseases, and has had as wide a practical experience in this particular field as anv livinsr nhvsician. His Favorite Prescription" is a perfect and scientific remedy for diseases of the feminine organs. It is the only medicine devised for this particular purpose by an educated and skilled physician. It is a positive and permanent cure as attested by more than ninety thousand grateful women. REMOVAL NOTICE. 3 THE KEELEY INSTITUTE OF SOUTH CAEOLINA WILL OHEB Julg 7th, 1897,' 'sv ? GrSEENYILIiE, S. C. The Liquor and Morphine Habit Thoroughly Cured "without discomfort. The Columbia Institute is closed. "Write for infor elation, etc., to GREENTILLE, S. C., the healthful Mountain City. Perfect Sewerage. Pure Water. . - ' ZmB&i ?-? ? jus jfe. WBmwmmmasBmmt^^* \ \ _ B Are you aware f That you can save from $10.00 to 20.00 on joi Organ if you bay it from me? And do you know mat yoa can save trom to $ou.w ... m if you buy your piano boa. me ? ' fl A Choice Line. ] After years of experience and extended . comparison I have adopted the best line of Pianos and Organs the market affords. No Jobber || 10 pay. : :im I represent the Builders?this is why I can save you the profits of agents who rep resent the Jobber. , Test Trial. |! To demonstrate my position, that I can save you money and supply you with the best Piano or Organ the' market affords. I will place either Piano or Organ on ten to fifteen days test trial at my expense and if the instrument is not as represented will jJM move it at my expense. -~v 5|fl Prices: Organs from $35.00, $45.00, $55.00 and upwards. Pianos from $195.00, $225.00, $295.00 and upward. The Orgau at $35 00 is "of a first-class ' -,r^| make but in an inexpensive case. The Piano at $195.00 .is. sold usually by . agents for $225.00. Noietfcer Pianos made for this price. v.' '1^ Guarantee: All the Pianos and Organs sold by me are folly guaranteed, not only by the builders, but by me?a responsible dealer. Make your own selection from catalogues . I will send you on application. Address, - vyfl M. A. M ALONE, COLUMBIA, 8. C., - pianos AND OBQ *"N~S I HILTON'S I IODOFORM LINIMENT. I the best of all appliations to^H - , quickly heal cats, wounds and old " -m I sores. It will surely counteract^? . -'M the poison from .bites of snakes. I poison ivy, stings of insects, etc i=p! I It is a positive cure-for sore^H . Mouths, Sore Throat, Erysipelas ? "-i:- >n<i best for all| B ana m Pains and Aches- 25 cents a bot- H ..;}.^gg L ] Sold by dealers generally and by . ;&JH THE MURRAY DRUG COn COLUMBIA, 8. O. M THE THOMAS f la the most complete system of eleratlng handling, cleaning and pacttu* cotton* Improves staple, eaves labor, makes yon money. Write fox catalogues, no other 1 eqoidalt I handle the most improved jjfl COTTON GINS. M PRESSES, ZLEYATORS, Jfl XNGLNE3 A HH AND BOILSSH to be found on Jlie market V_ O-?* T.m T>?._ o? _ Will to .. Ay WKOOUI uu* JMMU WWW MUi to, a Impliclty and efficiency, a wonder. COK^f HILLS, 9 KAKEB8, GANG SDGSBS 1 and all wood working machinery. LEDD3SLL AND TALBOTT ENGlKXS % are the test. 0J&? Write to me before buying. V. C. Badham, j General Agent, ||B COLUMBIA, 8, C Advice to Mothers. 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"'^^g IA Gnnrl i ?l I Hpj^nol^l m M&tB&wM (&& i p2 endless en- ?*?* " "'' ;i ^ joymenL (j^| "|| ijSC sSUira^^^j years and Ifl _'M a?$ ^SSSSBg^fl give endless a? (gB Tfie ^"^aHR cczaZion. ,<gg i Mathiieh^fr i ? lTiaiuujuvn m ^ Is always Good, always Reliably - ":B /jgfi always Satisfactory, always Last- 5^2 - .'M ing. You take no chances in buy- 3K Sfl ft costs somewhat more than a ?Sj cheap, poor piano, bat Is much the jg| ?s5 cheapest in the en<L JSC Noother High Grade Pianosoldso f&& ~ ?? reasonable. Factorv Dr ices to retail SB? W) bu^eru Easy payments. Write xuu la LUDDEN & BATES, V* Savannah, Ga., and \ew York City. '?g m Address: D. A PRE3SLEY, Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. Ainata* O*. AMtl IMImm. >iiii Burt ?M, OhMr Mri. SMAte?Mata0Mk