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J !> SINS OF THE TONGUE. REV. DR. TALMAGE PLEADS FOR HONEST WORDS AND DEEDS. He Speaks of Agricoltnra), Commercial Mechanical and Ecclesiastics! Plain Flea For Telling tfce Truth?The Masquerade Ball. Dr. Talmage in this discourse gives a vivid j classification of the vices of speech and I pleads for honesty in all that is said &ud done. His text is Acts v, 1-10, "A certain man named Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession," etc. A well matched pair, alike in ambition and in falsehood, Ananias and Sapphira. They wanted a reputation for great beneficence, and they sold all their property, pretending to put the entire proceeds in the charity fund while they put much of it in their own pocket. There was no necessity 1 -L1 : ?11 ivrnnerf-v awav. but Uliil, LULCJf give ail tuvu J j / J they wanted the reputation of so doing. Ananias first lied about it and dropped down dead. Then Sapphira lied about it, and she dropped down dead. The two fatalities a warning to all age3 of the dangers of sacrificing the truth. There are thousands of ways of telling a lie. A man's whole life may be a falsehood, and yet never with his lips may he falsify once. There is a way of uttering falsehood by look, by manner, as well as by lip. Jhere are persons who are guilty of dishonesty of speeii and then afterward say "maybe," calling it a white lie when no lie is that color. The whitest lie ever told wa3 as black as perdition. There are those so given to dishonesty of speech that they do not know when they are lying. With some it is an '?3 ?-> ?if ?o a nninrol SC^UITQU SlQ) tkUU vv iujjl v/vuvao *v % * ?*?% infirmity. There are those -whom you will recognize as born liars. Their whole life, from cradle to grave, is filled up with vice of speech. Misrepresentation and prevarication are as natural to them as the infantile diseases and are a sort of moral croup or spiritual scarlatina. Then there are those who in after life have opportunities of developing -is evil, and they go from deception to deception, and from cla3s to class, until they are regularly graduated liars. At times the air in our cities is filled with falsehood, and lies cluster around the mechanic's hammer, blossom on the merchant's yardstick and sometimes sit in the doors of churches. They are called by some fabrication and they are called by some fiction. You might call them subterfuge, or deceit, or romance, or fable, or misrepresentation, or delusion, but as I know nothing to be gained by covering up a God defying sin with a lexicographer's blanket, I shall call them in plainest vernacular, lies. They may be divided into agricultural, commercial, mechanical, social and ecclesiastical. First of all, I speak of agricultural false1 J- rm_ ?r? a 1\rMATi^A ilWUH. mere aumcuini^, ui ?uV f.?w_v. of natural objects that has a tendency to make one pure. The trees never issue false stock. The wheatfields are altrays honestEye and oats never move out in the night, not paying for the place they occupy Corn shocks never make false assignment. Mountain brooks are always current. The gold of the wheats el ds^is never counterfeit. But while the tendency of agricultural life is to make one honest, honesty is not the characteristic of all who come to the city markets from the country districts. You hear the creaking of the dishonest farm wagon in \ almost every ctreet cf our great cities?a fftr-n macron in which there is not one ^ on est s*ruke, or one truthfal rivet, from tongue to I tailboard. Again and again lias domestic economy in our great cities foundered on the farmer's firkin. When New York and "Washington sit down and weep 07er their sins, let Westchester county and the neighborhoods around this capital sit down and weep oyer theirs. The tendency in all rural districts is to suppose that sins and trangressions cluster in our great cities, but citizens and mer> chants long ago learned that it is not safe to calculate from the character of the apples on the top of the farmer's barrel what is the character of tne appies an me way uuwu toward the bottom. Many of our citizens _ ? - and merchants have learned that it is always safe to see the farmer measure the barrel of beets. Milk cans are not always honest. Th w 'e are those who in country life seem to tninfr they have a right to overreach grain dealers and merchants of all stylos. They think it is more honorable to raise corn than to deal in corn. The producer sometimes pracootto +/v +Va mq-t?-?>iqt?f. trftt "vnriT OOfJ & W WAV 4MW*V??J ? ^ ~ 0-- J I money easily anyhow." Does he get it easily? While the fanner sleeps?and he j may go to sleep conscious of the fact that his j corn and rye are all the time progressing and adding to his fortune or his livelihood? the merchant tries to sleep, while conscious of the fact that at that moment the ship may be driving on the roek or a wave sweeping over the hurricane deck spoiling his goods, or the speculators may be plotting monetary revolution, or the burglars may be at that moment at his money safe, or the fire may have kindled on the very block where his store stands. fEasy, is it? Let those who get their living in the quiet farm and barn take the placa "of one of our city merchants and see whe ? *X - ? ? ? - - ?? Ti Zrt Isrt-mA +A ^ OTTft inex* it is su xo iuuu ^uvu^u uv ^?TV the hands blistered with outdoor work, but it is harder with mental anxieties to have the brain consumed. God help the merchants. And do not let those who live Lu country life come "to the conclusion that all the dishonesties belong to city life. I pass on to consider commercial lies. There are those who apologize for deviations from the right and for practical deception by b&jlug it is commercial custom. In other words, a lie by muliplication becomes a virture. There are large fortunes gathered in * which ttiere is not one drop of the sweat of unrequited toil, and nofc one spark of bad temper flashes from the bronze bracket, and there is not one drop of needlewoman's heart's blood on the crimson plosi, while there are other fortunes about which it ma/ AM 1.1 ?i AK AVI/) AW AtTA m t UU 3?klU. W-LikL Ull UYCirjr uwiauvu ouu vu figure of the carpet and on every wall there is the mark of dishonor. What if the hand wrung by toil and blistered until the skin comes off should be placed on the exquisite wall paper, leaving its mark of blood?four fingers and a thumb? Or if in the night the man should be aroused from his slumber again and again by his own conscience, getting himself up on elbc and crying out into the darkness, ' Who is there?" There are large fortunes upon which God's favor comes down, and itisjast as honest and just as Christian to be affluent as it is to be poor. In many a house there is a blessing on every pictured wall and on every scroll and on every traceried window, and the joy that flashes in the lights and that showers in the music and that dances in the r\-P + V?a \a+i&ynr\tT ^wuva AVVV Vi bUU VJUU-LVtA VUlWVl O v***v,w%fe~ the hall has in it the favor of God and the approval of man. And there are thousands and ten of thousands of merchants who, from the first' day Ihey sold a yard of cloth or firkin of butter, have maintained their integrity. They -were born honest, they will live honest and they will die honest. But you and I know that there are in commercial life those who are guilty of great dishonesties omaaaV A m onf oot?CJ <4T o vr> CftlUnr* V? xx juul^XUHQIH/ oa-^oj x a.i-u these goods at les3 than cost." Is he getting for those goods a price inferior to that which he paid for them? Then he has spoken the truth. Is he getting more? Then he lies. A merchant says, "I paid 525 for this article.'' , Is that the price he paid for it? All right. But suppose he paid for it $23 instead of ?25? Then he lies. But there are just as many falsehoods before the counter as there are behind the counter. A customer comes in and asks, "How * much is this article?" "It is ?5." "I can get that for ?4 somewhere else." Can he get it for $4. somewhere else or did he say that just for the purpose of getting it cheap by depreciating the vaiue of the goods? If so, a*3 .i_eu. .mere are just as many i&isehoods before the counter as there are behind the counter. A man unrolls upon the counter a bale of handkerchiefs. The customer says, "Are these all silk?" "Tes." "No cotton in fhom." Arft those handkerchiefs all silk? Then the merchsnt told the troth. Is there any cotton in them? Then he lied. Moreover, he defrauds himself, for this customer cominj; in will after awhile find out that he hfcs be en defrauded, and the nest time he comes to town and goes shopping he will look up at that sign and say, "No, I won't go there; that's the plac?J where I got those handkerchiefs." first, the merchant in suited God, and, secondly, he picked his own pocket. Who -would take the responsibility of saying how many falsehoods wereye;terday told by hardware men, and clothiers, and lumbermen, and tobacconists, and jewelers, and importers, and shippers, and dealers in furniture, and dealers in coal, and dealers in groceries? Lies about buckles, about saddles, about harness, about shoes, about hats, about coats, about shovels, about tongs, about forks, about chairs, about sofas, about horses, about lands, about everything. I arraign commercial falsehood as one of the crying sins of our time. I pass on to sp'ak of mechanical falsehoods. Among the artisans are those upon whriTTi we are dependent for the houses in which we live, tbe garments we wear, the cars in which we ride The vast majority of them are, so far as I know them, men who speak the truth, and they are upright, and many of them are foremost in great philanthropies and in churches, but that they all do not belong to that class every one knows. In times when there is a great demand for labor it is not so easy for such men to keep theii obligations, because they may miscalculate in regard to the weather or they may not be able to get the help they anticipated in their enterprise. I am speaking now of those who promise to do that which they know they will not be able to do. They say they will come on Monday. They do not come until Wednesday. They say they will come on Wednesday. They do not come until Saturday. They say they will have the job done in ten days. They do not get it done before 30. And when a man becomrs irritated and will not stand it any longer then they go and wcvk for him s day or two and keep the job along, and then some one else gets irritated and outraged, and they go and work for that man and get h:m pacified and then they go somewhere else. I believe they call that '-nursing the job." Ah; my friends, how much dishonor such men would save their souls if they would promise to do only that which they know they san do. "Oh," they say, "it's of no importance. iiveryDoay expecis 10 De ueceived and disappointed." There is a voice of thunder sounding among the saws and the hammers and the shears, saying, "All liars shall have their place in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone." I p.ws on to speak of social lies. How much of society is insincere? You hardly Know what to believe. They send their regirds. You do not exactly know whether it is an expression of the heart or an external cmiity. rney ass you 10 come io tueir house. You hardly know whether they really want you to come, "We are all accustomed to take a discount off what we hear. "Not at home" "^ery often means too lazy to dress. I was reading of a lady who said she had told her last fashionable lie. There was a knock at her door, and she sent word down, "Not at home." That night her husband said to her, "Mrs. So-and-so is dead." "Is it possible!" she said. "Yes, and she died in great anguish of mind. She wanted to see you so Terr much; she had something very important to disclose to you in her last ** osvv>* imoa frt^otr hnf JJLUU-L, auu OUC JCUll UiMvw tw?j y vw? found you absent evc-y time." Then this woman bethought herself that she had had a bargain with her neighbor that when the long protracted sickness was about to come to an end she would appear at her bedside and take tho secret that was to be disclosed. And she had said she was "not at home." Social life is struck through with insincerity. They apologize for the fact that the furnace is out; they have not had any fire in it all winter They apologize for the fare on their table; they never live any better. They decry their most luxuriant entertainment to win a shofrer of approval from you. They point at a picture on the wall as a work of one of the old masters. They say it is an heirloom in the family. It hung on the wall of a castle. A duke gave it to their grandfather. People that will lie about nothing else will lie about a picture. On small income we want the world to believe we are affluent, and society today is struck through with cheat and counterfeit and sham. How lew people are natural, jcngiauy sans around, iceberg grinding against iceberg. You must not laugh outright. That is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash quickly across the room. That is vulgar. 1c ou must glide. Much of society is a round of bows and grins and grimaces and oh's jihd ah's and he, he, he's and simperings and namby pambyism, a whole world of which is not worth one good honest round of laughter. From such a hollow scene the tortured guest retires at the close of the evening, assuring the host that he ha3 enjoyed himself. Society is become so contorted anu deformed in this respect that a mountain cabin where the rustics gather at a quilting or an apple paring has in it more good cheer man ail ine irescoea remgeraiors 01 uic g metropolis. I pas9 on to speak of ecclesiastical lies, those which are told for the advancement or retarding of a church or sect. It is hardly worth your while to ask an extreme Calyinist what an Arminian believes. He will tell yon that an Arminian believes that man can savt: himself. An Arminian believes no such thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask an extreme Arminian what a Calvinist believes. He will tell you that a Calvinist believes that God made some men just to damn them. A Calvinist believes no sach thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask a PedcBaptist what a Baptist believes. He will toll -rnn o "Ray..-?af holi.ivpa t.Kaf. irrnnMsnnn necessary for salvation. A Baptist does not believe any such thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask a mr?n who very much hates Presbyterians what a Presbyterian believes. He will tell you that a Presbyterian believas that there are infants in hell a span long, and that very phraseology h&3 come down from generation to generation in the Christian church. There never was a Presbyterian who believed that. "Oh," you say, ''I heard some Presbyterian minister 20 years ago say so." You did not. There never was a man who believed that. There never will be a man who will believe that. And yet from boyhood I have heard that particular slander against a Christian church going down through the community. Then, how often it is that there are misrepresentations on the part of individual churches in regard to other churches, especially if a church come to great prosperity. As long as a church is L poverty, and the singing is poor, and all the surroundings are decrepit, and the congregation * are so hardly bestead in life that their pastor goes with elbows out, then there will always be Christian people in churches who say, "What a pity; what a pity!" But let the day of prosperity come to a Christian church and let the music be triumph and, let there be -x i j ?1 iii vast, assemoiages, aau. men mere wui ue even ministers of the gospel critical and denunciatory and full of misrepresentation and falsification, giving the impression to the outside world that they do not like the corn because it is not ground in their mill. Oh, my. friends, let us in all departments of life stand back from deception. Bat some one s&ys, "The deception that I practice is so small that it doesn't amount to anything." Ah, my friends, it does amount to a great deal. You say, "When I deceive, it is oniy about a case of needles or a bos of buttons or a rovr of pins." But the article may be so snail you can put it in your vest pocket, but the sin is as big as the pyramids, and the echo of your dishonor-will reverbrate tnrougn. tne mountains oi eternity, mere is no such thing as a small sin. They are all vast and stupendous, because they will all have to come under inspection in the day of judgment. You may boast yourself of having made a nne bargain?a sharp bargain. You may carry out what the Bible says in regard to that man -pho went in to make a purchase and depreciated the value of. the goods and then after he had got away boasted of the splendid bargain he had made. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is sone his way then he boast eth." It may seem to the world a sharp bargain, "but the recording angel wrote down in the ponderous tomes of eternity, "Mr. Soand-so, doing business on Pennsylvania avenue or Broadway or Chestnut street or State street, told cne lie." 9 May God extirpate from society all the ecclesiastical lies, and all the social lies, and all the mechanical lies, and all the commercia lies, and all the agricultural lies, and make every man to speak the truth, of his neighbor. My friends, let us make our life correspond to what we arc. Let us banish all deception from our behavior. Let us remember that the time comes when God will demonstrate before an assembled universe just what we are. The secret will come out. We may hide it while vre live, but we cannot hide J. t when we die. To many life is a | masquerade ball. * s at such entertainment, gentlemen and ladies appear in garb of kings or queen3 or mountain bandits or clowns and then at the close of the dance put off their disguise, so many all through life are in m?sk. The masquerade ball goes on, and gemmed hand clasps gemmed hand, and dancing feet respond to dancing feet, and gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow, and the masquerade ball goes bravely on. But after awhile languor comes and blurs the sight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepulchral echo. Music saddens into a wail. Lights lower. j\ow the masquerade is hardly seen. The fragrance is exchanged for the sickening odor of garlands that have lain a long while in the damp of sepulchers. Lights lower. Mists filll the room. The scarf drops from the shoulder of beauty, a shoud. Lights lower. Torn leaves and withered garlands now hardly cover up the ulcered feet. Stench of lamp wicks almnet <~!finlririer 'liunrtnness. ('hill ~ O ! v nes3. Feet still. Hprtds folded. Eyes shut. Voicc hushed. Lights out. COMIM LN CROWDS. A LARGE GATHERING AT THE FAIR ALREADY ASSUREDInterest Shown In Evely Section nl ths nn to T?f?ke This Fair the B?at Sines the Wa-. Columbia, Nov. 1? Spec'al: The news that comes to President Cbilds, of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, about the interest of the people in nest week's fair. is of a very satisfactory character. The n amber of exhibits, in all tbe different departments, promises to be unusually large, and the competition for the prizes unusually sharp. The wide-spread interest of the people of the State will show itself in every feature. The success of the military encamp ment. sham battle and review is so well assured that the projectors are more than ever pleased that they determined to give it place acd prominence. There are now 14 companies of infantry and one company of cavalry enlisted for the occasion?enough to make a regiment of "regular" size. Lieutenant Stokes, U. S. A., has been detailed for duty during th9 encamp?^ Ua will rvrttq Tito men I/, auu Lie YV111 Wl\ji giTV uiu attention to the location and arrangement of the camp. The field for the sham battle has been selected. It will be a short distance northwest of the fair grounds proper so as to avoid any possibility of danger and also of alarmins: the horses which, in unusual numbers, will occupy the Society's stables. The soldiers may depend upon a time of pleasure and profit. The military feature of the fair will "take" immensely. The citizens' committee will see that the down-town features will be varied and attractive throughout. When the people leave the fair grounds they will have much, elsewhere, to afford them pleasure. Columbia means to do her part. The management of the Agricultural Society have offered half-rates of admittance to the students of the different colleges. Already it is certain that several of these will be represented by their students in a body?Wof ford, Furman, Erskine, Newberry, Patrick Military Institute, Due West Female College, Greenville Female College, Converse College. The students of the several State colleges have already been invited, and each of these institutions will be here in the person of a goodly number of students. This gathering of the young men and women who are enjoying the advantages of our different schools of higher education promises to be of especial interest. During the fair it is usual for vari ous State associations to hold meetings in this city. This year there are a number of them to do so. There will be the meeting of supervisors to organize for the purpose of getting good roads. Then there will be a meeting of ihe general commit tre of the survivors to perfect arrangements for erecting a monument to the women of the State who aided the soldiers so nobly during the war Tbe Daughters of the American Revolution are also to hold a convention.. Mr. Wilborn, as president of the TTt *111 t r armers -a.mance, uos us-icu a meeting of cotton growers to take some steps, if pcssib:e, to reduce the acreage. Besides these, the Agricultural Society is arranging for discussion of topics of interest to farmers especially, though all of the speakers have not yet been secured. According to the programme, on Tuesday evening, some one familiar with the subject will speak on "The private garaen, orchard and vineyard," after which thp.r-fi will be a general discussion of the subject and an experience meeting. On Wednesday there will be an address by Prof. Holmes, of Chapel Hill, N. C., on the subject: "The Public Read Problem ?n the South." This lecture will be illustrated by magic lantern views showine roads and how the work is done in Europe and this country. Gen. Roy Stone, director of the office of road inquiry, United States department of agricultural promised to be here. On the same day the cotton growers will have their convention. The arrangements for securing accommodations for visitors are most , excellent. Already a large number of nrirrato Tirtnaec naw ?thfiSA. WM ? ~" "7 of course, in addition to the regular hotels and boarding; houses. Colum bia will bs full, but every visitor will be comfortable. Birds a Cheek to Insects. In a recent lecture Professor Wilmer Stone of Philadelphia, cited many facts to show that birds are nature's great check on the excess of insects, and that they keep the balance between plant and insect life. Ten thousand caterpillars, it has been estimated, could destroy every blade of grass on 1 an acre of cultivated ground. Ia thir ty days from tbe time it is hatched an ; ordinary caterpillar increases 10,000 times in bulk, and the food it lives and ; grows on is vegetable. The insect : population of a single cherry tree infested -with aphides was calculated by a prominent entomolos ist at no less than 12,000,000! The bird population ; of cultivated country districts has : been estimated at from 700 to 1,000 per square mile. This is small compared with the number cf insects, yet i as each bird consumes hundreds of insects every day, the latter are prevented < from becoming the scorge they would j be but for their feathered enemies. j Murder of Miners. At Welhesbane, Pa., Thursday the ( grand jury returned a true hill against Sheriff Martin and his deputies for the Latimer shooting. The true bills included 19 for murder, one for each man killed, &Dd one for the victims considered collectively. Thirty-six true bills were found in the same way for felonious wounding against the same defendants. The likelihood is that Sheriff Martin, and his deputies will tn tried tftcftthftr. Wanted to Lynch Him. On the way frcm the pol:c9 station to the criminal court building in New Y ork Thursday a crowd of a thousand or more men followed the squad of police having Fritz Meyer in charge. Shouts of "lynch him" were raised all along the route. Wednesday morning Meyer killed a policeman who caught him robbing the poor box in tHe Church of the Redeemer. REDISTRiCTING THE STATE. A Bill that Will Likely P^sa the Ntxt S* 8H!on. Mr. E. C. Patten, o' Columbia, a SeDresentativc in tLe Legislature from Richland County, lias a bill eow 'osfor the Legislature which he thinks will pass at the next session. When asked by a Reporter of the Columbia Register if he iutended to press his bill in the sane shape it was intro duced. Mr. Patten said: "I should much p.e'er to do that. Before I int/oiuv d i+. 1 tried almost every possible con;binst:cn, and the one thai I finally iir'.tied is, upon the whole, the best and fairest. But there is another arrangement that I have made that I should be ^illin? to have substituted. I devised this to answer objections cf a number o? members who voted against the original plan, and who iiaye declared thai with thcst changes they are no?v ready to vote and work for the measure. I will give you thi3 arrangement in a minute or two. Ia the meantime, let me say that either one will suit the people of Richland. What we want- is to keep our county from being m two amereni aisiricis, ana 10 De in one district of reasonable size and composed of adjacent territory. Now, here is the bill as it stands on the house calendar: "Pee Dee District: Chesterfield, Marlboro, Marion, Darlington, Florence, Horry. Santee District: Georgetown, Williairsburer, Charleston and Berkeley. ' Tf-zlicfr* District:' Oi*?nt*f?V?iiror "Rai-n well, Bamberg, Hampton, Beaufort, Colleton, Dorchester. ''Saluda District: Aiken, Edgefield, Lexington, Saluda, Newberry, Law* rens. Greenwood. ''Kiowee District: Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens Greenville. Catawba District: Spartanburg. Union, Cherokee, York, Chester, Lancaster. " Wateree District: Richland. Fairfield, Kershaw, Somter, Clarendon. Now the other arrangement which, as I have just said, I should be willing as a representative of Richland, to have substituted, is this: Pee D9e District: Marlboro, Marion, Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Florence, Clarendon. San tee District: Berkeley, Charles ton. Dorchester, Colleton, Beaufort. Edisto District: Lexington, Aiken, Orange burg, ?5arnweii, .BamDurg, i Hampton. Saluda District: Edgefield, Saluda, Newberry, Laurens, Greenwood, Abbe-, yille. Kiowee District: Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg. Catawba District: Cherokee, Union, York, Chester, Lancaster, Chesterfield. Wateree District: Fairfield, Rich land, Kershaw, Sumter, Darlington. i?T T- " I _ T 1 A I J T "1N0W, wmie, as xnavts just saiu, x prefer my original pJan, it must be confessed that in some respects the latter is an improvement, and both are a thousand times better than the present absurd, unjust and grotesque districts. By the way, let me show you something that I accidentally stumbled upon this summer. Just glance ever that." "That" proved to be a volume of the statutes of South Carolina containing the acts of 1841, among which was an act to divide the state into sevenxongressional districts. Curiously enough, the districts established by this act were .almost exactly coincident with those proposed by Mr. Patton. "Did you have this act before you when you preposed your bin?" was asked. "No" replied Mr. Patton. I have just said. I only found that act a short time ago. The very ot?sy exnlortftfiAn r\f fha />niiq thftt then as now, uuder our new constitution gerrymandering was not neces sary. 'jChe districts were established simply with the view of securing, as my bill proposes to secure, equality of representation, with districts composed of conienious territory and hemogeneous population. As we were both aiming at the same result, and the problem not a difficult one, we naturally reached about the same conclusion. Terrible Tragedy, A special dispatch from Greenville to the Columbia Register says, Rsv. J. T. Burdine, a Baptist preacher living in Pickens County last Thursday while in a drunken frenzy, shot and killed his wife and then shot himself, it is supposed fatally. It appears that he has been on a spree for some days. Thursday, without warning, he drew his revolver and shot his wife through the brain, almost instantly killing her. Somewhat sobered by the deed, J T-- : i-- J ~ nuu realiz ing ms crirns, us piaucu wo muzzle of the pistol to his own head and fired, falling by the side of his dead wife. At last accounts he was living, but unconscious. The weapon used was was 38 calibre Smith & Wesson pistoL The cook was the only witness of the tragedy. The shooting attracted the attention of members of the family and the alarm was given and neighbors collected. The excitement and indign'ationof the community was intense, and the belief that Burdine would die saved him from lynching. Mrs. Burndine is a sister of Maj 3r Stewart, clerk of Pickens county court, a familv of the highest resnec tability. Mr. Burdine has always had the respect of the community in which he lived-. Unfortunately, he became a victim to the drink habit. When sober he was a kind affectionate man and well liked. The killing was at or near Pumpkin Town, about ten miles from Pickens Court House. From the feeling of the people of Pickens, if Burdine recovers from his wound, it will go hard with him. A Bark Wrecked. The Italian bark Francisco R. which cailoH from Philfldfllnhift O.^nhor 22 wrecked eighty mile3 below the city erne night last week in a terrific storm. The vessel's master, Captain Calivano, and eleven of the crew of twelve men reached Philadelphia one night, last week after a day and nigh*, of thrilling escapes from death. The twelfth man of the crew, Marion Castenallo, seaman, refused to .leave the ship, and in all probability is lost. Murdered at a Wake. While sitting over the body of a dead friend at Macon Ga, Thursday night Mosa G:>ode and Jerry Lewis quarreled, and L*wi3 Sred point blang at Goode with a double-barrelled shotgun. A load of shot tore away nearly one-half of Goode's face. He was taken to the hospital, where he will die. Lewis was arrested. Ban From Starvation. The schooner Noveltv has returned from St. Michaels with 23 minprs, nine of whom have been on the Yu ken several years. They all tell about scarcity of provisions at Circle City and Dawson, and give that as their reason for leaving for the winter. Thev nearly all have claims, and oring money back with them, but were very silent as to the amounts. No Sefagees Wanted. A fflm'lTT ocifn rAlofiireo Trrarit to Williston, S. C., Wednesday from ilontgomery, Ala., flesine from yellow fever, in a few hours after their arrival the board of health held a meeting and passed a resolution to h-ive them placed beyond the town limits and forbidding other fever refugees from coming. , HENRY GEORGE DEAD. STRICKEN AS A BRAVE SOLDIER ON THE BATTLEFIELD. His Country's Cause Was Foremost Jn His Thougfcte; For Ic Ho Labored, Dying at Hts Work. Henry Creole, candidate of the Jeffersonian Democracy for mayor of Greater New York, is dead. It has been a matter of questioning ressark all along how long Mr. George, an old man, could withstand the strain of his remarkable campaign against bossism. '"The harder he works, the stronger he grows," was the wonder ing comment of his friends; but the r. ?ar and tear of such a struggle as he has m*de was too much, and after a round of speeches at College Point and Flushing, L i., and a long jump to the Central opera house in New York, the man who has made possible the defeat of Tammany, who has caused Croker to ba hisstdin his own | ^cav-ciuu^ up jLiii Jj.:^ fcr the cause he espoused. Mrs George accompanied him in his round of speeches Thursday night and returned with him to his hotel. Those who met him remarked that he did not look lise the hale old man who had entered the campaign afew weeks before. A haggard and pinched face: a roving eye, with a wistful, tired look, was what they said. But the nerves were steady, the voice calm, V i_ 1 1 j. J xt 1* oui as ne usienea to me reporis 01 ine Tammany celebration, where Croker, his particular mark of attack, had been jeered, a look of satisfaction crept over his tired face and expressions of gratification escaped him. Mr. George arrived at the hotel about 1 o'clock Friday morning. He had just come from several large mass meetings in the borough of Q ae^ns and Brooklyn. The work of the night seemed to have told on him. He complained of being tired, but his friends and relatives who awaited him thought it only the natural fatigue that follows such hard campaign work as Mr. George has been doing. xiuu iuxi^ aibcr xca^uuiig tac iiuiei JU.C retired. Mrs. George awaited him in room 22 of the hotel. It was about 3 30 o'clock when Mrs. George was awakened. She found Mr. George sitting in an arm chair. "I am not feeling quite comfortable," said Mr. George to his wife. "Won't you go back to bedf' inquired Mrs. George anxiously. 4'I will sit here awhile," was the answer. Mrs. George at once grew anxious as to her husband's condition. Mr. George gradually grew incoherent and lapsed into semi unconsciousness. Mrs. George was now thoroughly alarmed and called her son, Henry n T? ~ vrsurgo, jr., iruoi au aujuimng ruoui. Frank Stevens was also called in. A call was sent to Dr. Kelly, Mr. G-aorge's family physician, and he came without delay. Mr. George was by this time unconscious. Efforts to revive him failed. Without sign of recognition to thcsa around him he passed peacefully away at 4:45 o clock. Mrs. George was prostrated and was cared for by the friends of the family at the hotel. Dr. Kelly said that he saw Mr. George a fewo-ys ago and that he was then in better condition than he had been at the opening of the campaign. When asked as to whether ! he had advised Mr. George to -enter ! the canvass, Dr. Kelly replied avasively: ilI don't think any power in Chris^ tendom could have prevented Henry George from sacrificing himself in the ! cause on which he was enlisted, and I ; knew him welL" t at j j.i_ LTi? ? -i._ rv.. T7-_n_ ia Luc usaia certxncaie ur. said: "I hereby certify that I attended the deceased from September 1881, to October 1897; that I last saw bim alive on the 29th of October, 1897, at 5 o'clock in the morning, and tbat to the best ot my knowledge and belief the cause of his deatn is hereunder vvr:t:en: " 'Chief cause, apoplexy (cerebral); contributing cause, asphyxia; duration of disease, one half hour.'" The Rev. Edward McQ-lyno reached tne Uuion Square hotel shortly before 11 o'clock. The dispatch which summoned him merely announced that a "dear friend" was dead, but bearing: in mind his own premonitions that Henry Gkorge had confided to him, he concluded rightly that his great associate in the single tax battl9 of other years had expired. When he looked upon the dead face of his friend, he burst into tears. The scene was a distressing one. Afterward Dr. McG-lycn said: "Henry G-aorge died as Abraham Lincoln died. Lincoln was assassinated just after his great work of saviag the Uaion was consummated. It was said that he was mercifully spared + ruitt-ir annrtrondoo ond VU HUV ^V?WJ UUWV MM Vfc VAVAAVA. ings of the reconstruction period. Henry George was struck down by fate in the zsnith of his powers. But the great work that he inaugurated will go on. As a man and a philosopher, it will be long before his like ?;ii ? TT:, wm uc dccu again* jlxi9 j^uuvi.xi.000 auu gentleness singled him out amoDg all men, and, with others, I almost worshipped him." When Dr. McGlynn was able to think calmly over his recent intercourse with the dead man he recalled that his friend hadfrequently expressed to him his premonitions that his end was approaching, and had U3ed language that he now saw indicated a presentment that he would not outlive his campaign. Should lis Pnnlshad. A dispatch from Sumter to the State says near Clio in that county two re s pec la, oi.o young wjiikj mea, usur y Josey and Josh Scarborough, somewhat under the influence of liquor, were driving along the public road when they overtook a negm bov and girl about 13 years of age. Alighting from their t;:ggy, they caught the boy, and, without any provocation, gave him a most unmerciful beating, and then catching the girl they forcibly put her in the baggy and drove off at a rapid rate. The girl, thoroughly frightened, began to scream, and, seaiag that her cries would attract attention, her captors pitched her headlong from the buggy and continued their rapid drive. A crowd of infuriated negroes soon gathered and set out in pursuit of the young men, who, to avoid capture, had to abandon their buggy and take to a nearby swamp They then made their way to a friend and induced him to go to the negroes and offer to pay them a sum of money if thev would s&v nr'thin? about the affair, but their offar was refused. Tne negroes declare they will push the matter to the fullest extent. A so called minister of the gospel in New York has obtained a divorce in North Dakota on the ground that his wife played golf on other than ladies' days and did not not wear her hat straight. Her walk was also in bad form, tending to the disturbance of his peace of mind and spiritual equilibrium. These appear to be somewnat novel reasons for issuing a decree of divorce, even when the most liberal ideas of marriage and its an 1 t *1 umntcnu prevail, tuov uu iil j North Dakota. I ? I ??MM??PP????jW? I REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ; As Ketnrncd by County Auditors and ] Eqaalized by Comity Boards. The abstracts of real and personal property as returned by county audi tors snd equalized by county boards for the new fiscal year have all been received at the comptroller general^ oificp. The returns show an increase of $43.,370 in real estate and $2,050,360 in personal property. The total value of all taxable real estate in 1896 was ! Q3S QDK on/} n4 oil +oxrokl= uiiu v? an ioaquau sonal property $45,507 183 while the figures for lSd7 show $100,941,676 real aDd $47,557,543 personal. The following comparative table shows the total taxable personal property as equalized for this and the preceding fiscal year: Counties. 1897. 1896. Abbeville $ 1,039 530 $ 1,861,835 Aiken 1,897,584 1,660,763 Anderson..... 2,548,253 2 450,953 Barnwell 1,271,750 ^184 710 Beaufort 1,125,340 1,206,125 Berkley 404 125 507,245 Charleston.... 6,213,176 6,706,077 Cherokee...... 907,209 Chester 971,336 928,462 Chesterfield.... 471,375 458.760 Clarendon 734 810 654,370 Colleton 693 946 1,062,694 Darlington.... 1,153,333 1.230,264 Dorchester.... 358 018 Edgefield 813,602 658.100 j Fairfield 861.217 826.164! Floresce 668 475 640,290 Georgetown... 710,940 681 350 Greenville..... 2,155,035 2,035,235 Greenwood..., 886,135 Hampton.. 545,486 538.102 Horrv......469,449 480.660 Kershaw . * 689,825 622,215 Lancaster...... 610,181 541.395 Laurens....... 1,131.925 957,206 Lexington 777,810 767,485 Marion. ....... 892.776 886,482 Marlboro 603,195 620,595 Neovbary 1,396,317 1,340,785 709 42ft 7?2K4ft Orangeburg.... 1 556 950 1,596,620 Pickens 362,144 349,571 Richland 2,066,638 J,691,625 Saluda 402.733 374.380 Spartanburg... 4,479,554 4,852 856 Sumter 1,312,740 ^1,248 530 Union. * *.. 1,180.640 722,800 Williamsburg. 647,101 594.263 York 1,857,470 2,005 220 Total $47,557,543 $45,507,183 The following shows the returns of real estate for the new fiscal year: Abbeville - $ 2,766,380 Aiken.. 3,474,895 Anderson?.............. 3,903,195 Ro^^roll S7<V7 4.ftri Beaufort. .......... *..... 1,984.885 Berkeley 1,163,765 Charleston............... .14,560,175 Cherokee... 1,433,895 Chester 2,226 905 Chesterfield. 937,515 Clarendon 1,618,180 Colleton... ............... 1.420,095 Darlington 2,386;580 Dorchester. ? ? *... 1,126 893 Edgefield 2'^7A7Ji Fairfield.....??.......... 2,112,657 Florence.......... ...... 2,186,635 />. x 1 95? (Y7Z vaeurgeiuwn.... ......... GreenvU le 4,382.300 Green wood.............. 1,966 250 Hampton.... ............ 1.085.784 Horry...... 929.585 Kershaw 1907,165 Lincsster................ 1,268,876 Laurens^..,. 2,655 255 Lexington 1,958,515 Marion . 2 801 740 Marlboro 1792,590 Newberry................. 2,84i,255 Oconee 1,562 058 Orangeburg.?........... 3,835.510 Pickens.......,...,...,,, 138.638 Richland 4 628 634 Saluda......... ' 1,468 345 Spartanburg 4 865 500 Sumter 3,915 050 Union.. 1,832 140 Williamsburg............ 1389,717 York 2.887,940 Totals $100,941,676 THE SILVER FiGHT STILL ON. 8eoatox Teller Thinks the GoMltea Will Control ths Republican Party. A letter bearing on political conditions generally, from Senator Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, has baen received by Wm. Wilhelm, representative of the Republican silver party in Pennsylvania. AmoDg other things Senator Teller says: ' I have never said I thought there was little hope of bimetallism. That is one of the many false hoods ?of,the gold press. I have said there is no hope for it under the McKinley administration, and I am confident that nothing will be done for the plain people of the country during this administration. I have no interest in the fight between Tammany and the Republicans. I do not hope ior George's election, although it "would please me greatly if he could succeed. The election of the Tammany candidate will not indicate that the Democratic party of the cauntry is going to abandon silver. The Democratic party is committed to silver, and will continue on that line, and the gold Democrats will go to the Republican party, and the influence of the gold Democrats will have the effect of so degrading and debasing the party as to make the old liberty-loving iiepubUcans leave it. I expect to see the R 3publican party in the hands of the gold Republicans and the gold Democrats, and under tbe domination and control of the worst element e?er known in American politics* "I do not care what your Pennsylvania platform says about the per capita circulation. Governor Hastings and all the Republican leaders of your +Vlof o f T*10 tfrtWH OKILC uiivmawtmu iwnv uuuw j^* ' ' v " - was made to get into office on, and I expect to see the influence of your state given and your senators and members of congress brought to bear on congress to retire the greenbacks and treasury notes and let the banks and bankers of the country issue whatever paper money they think the country needs, and that issue will then be determined by the interests of the banks ana bankers, and not in the interest of commerce or the people. ' The fight for silver is still on, and will be until we get a righteous monetary system, and we never will have this until *e get open, mints for gold and silver at a rate to be established by law. Killed by Hla Infant don, TTTjnm *vr^ _ at. ^ vviixus x. lYuroiau, a uicris. m ae employ of ;he Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway, at Chicago, was shot and instantly killed Wednesday night by his 6 year-old Walter. The boy was playing with a revolver which, just before he was killed, Norman declared was broken and also unloaded. The boy was snapping tne weapon and a cartridge exploded, the bullet striking the father in the heart. Yawned Her Jaw "one Loose. Miss Ella I/'Ily, of Montgomery, Pa., while walking along the streets yarned so hard that her jaws becsme unlocked. She thought her false teeth had wedged between the jaws, and after removing the teeth, and finding no relief the girl ran screaming through the streets. It required the combined services of a doctor and two men to get her jaws back in place. She suffered most excruciating pain. < "- '-'UJI-.-11-'. ?????? S "Jp.r-I.H In The Canard Line steamer Catalonia, Captain Stephen, from Boston on October 16 for Liverpool arrived at Qaeenstown Wednesday after having been delayed by the Heavy weather which has prevailed recently in the Atlantic. Daring a gale on Wednesday last, October 20, in lat. 41.46 N. and long, 50 5 W.. the Catalonia sighted the French fishing schooner Vague, of St. Malo, dismasted, sinking and signalling for assistance. Captain Stephens took- off the crew of the Vague, numbering, 21 men and boys. He reports that the schooner could not have floated more than a few hours longer, and that, her boats wouid have soon been swamped if the fishermen had succeeded in launching: them. Tne rescue of the crew of the Vagus was a very hszirdous proceeding. Two boats, manned by volunteers, were lowered from the Catalonia in the middle of the 2rghk The sea was running very high at the time and the sky is described as being "pitch dark" After a desperate battle with the waves, the French fishermen were taken off the sinking schooner and landed safely on board the Canard Liner, where they were profuse in their expressions 01 thanks for their deliverance. Hilton's Iodoform Liniment is the " nee plu ultra" of all such nreDarations in re moving soreness, and quickly healing fresh, cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison irom 'Poison Ivy" or *'Poison Oak" and cure "Daw Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes and sting3 of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. Will cure a ay case of sore mouth, and is a supewi aw /a* oil nn i no ov?r4 o/th/ws xicM. igmcujr iui au j^aiuo auu avuoa, sold by druggists aud dealers 25 cents a bottle. The old man who looks cut at the world with clear and healthy eyes cannot neip feeling great gratthcauon at the thought that nis children have inherited from him no weakness nor tendency to disease. The healthy'old man is the man who has througnout his life kept his digestion good and his blood pure. Not one in a thousand does do it. Germs go through the healthy body without effect. Lat them once find lodgment or let the^i find a weak spot, they will develop by the million and the blood will be full of them. Instead of giving strength to the tissuse, it will force upon them innutriiious matter, and the man will lose Hesh and the more susceptible he he is to disiase. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the only medicine that absolutely and infallibly cures all blood diseases, and aunost all diseases are blood diseases. It isn't a medicine for some one particular socalled disease. It is a medicine for the whole body. It forces out all the germs of disease, and replaces impurities with rich, red blood. FOUND DEAD. Why did he do it? He had everything to live for,?happy home, wife,- Mends, money; bat he shot himself through the heart Why? He couldn't have given a good reason himself. But everything looked gloomy to him. He was in a gloomy frame of mino. It was the way he looked at life-thai day. XIC QdU ucca living xu rnuui \jl a, uuiijt rushing- and driving- at business, hustling through his meals, cutting short his sleep. His nerves got on edge; his stomach and liver got out of order; he grew dyspeptic and melancholy. When the digestion is out of order there is little use trying to look on the bright side of things, practically there isn't any bright 6ide. This is a dangercvs condition to get into. Yet it is easy to vet into and mighty hard to get out of it, unless you go about n in the right way. There is a remedy that has pulled thousands of people right out of this depth of despair. 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