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' J.' ' r~???? - - ???aa? aa . PRACTICAL WISDOM- j DR. TALMAGE CALLS FOR WORE OF ! IT IN DOING GOOD. Wanta More Common Serae la Scatters cl Religion?Absurdities o 1 Church A:chlttcture and Ma33gcraect--Tfco Great Need ol thsW rid, Dr, Talmage in this discourse advocates more practical wisdom in efforts at doing good and assails some of the absurdities in church architecture and management The text is juuke xvi, "me cnnaren or xms worza are izo. their generation wiser than the children of light." That is another way of saying that Christians are not so skillful in the manipulation of spiritual affairs as worldlings are skillful in the rcanage ment of fempoi'alities. I see all arcund me people who'are alert, earnest, concentrated ana skillful in monetary matters, who in the affairs of the soul are laggards, inane, inert. The great want of the world is mere common sense in matters of religion- If onehalf of the skill and forcefulness employed in financial affairs was employed in disseminating the truths of Christ and trying to make the wcila better, within ten years the last Juggernaut would fall, the last throne of oppression upset, the last iniquity ' "* -ay turn Die, ana me anmem iiiai w?s chanted over Bethlehem on Christmas night would be echoed ana and re *?choed from all naiions ana kindred people, "Glory to Gcd in th* highest and on earth peace, good will to men." Some years ago, on a train going toward the southwest, as the porter of the sleeping car was making up the berths at the evening tide, I saw a'man kneel down to pray. Worldly people looked on as much as to say, "What j does this mean V I suppose the most of the people in the car thought that the man was either insane or that he was a fanatic, but he disturbed no one when he knelt, and he disturbed no one when he arose. In after .conversation with him I found out that he was a member of a church in a northern city, that he was a seafaring man and that he was on his way to New Orleans to" take command of a vessel. I thouf^t then, as I think now, that ten such men?men with such courage lor God as that man had?ten such men would bring the whole city to Christ; 1,000 such men would bring this whole land to God; 10,000 such men, in a short time, would bring the whole earth into the kingdom of Jesus. That he was successful in worldly affairs I found out. That he was skillful in spiritual affairs you are well persuad ed. If men had the courage, the pluck, the alertness, the acumen, the . industry, the common sense in matters of the soul that they have in matters of the world, this would be a very different kind of earth in which to live. In the first place my friends, we want more common sense in the building and conduct of churches. The j idea of adapt!veness is always para- j mount in any other kind of structure. If bankers meet together, and they resolve upon nutting up a bank, the bank is especially adapted to banking purposes; if a manufacturing company puts up 9 building, it is to be adapted to manufacturing purposes, but adaptiveness is not always the quesiion in the rearing of churches. In many of our churches we want more light, more room, more ventilation, more comfort. Vast sums of money are expended on ecclesiastical structures, and men sit down in them, and you ask a man how he likes the church. He says, "Hike it very we-l, but I can't hear." As though a shawl fac ______ tory were good for everything but / ~ making shawls! The voice of the preacher dashes against th9 pillars. Men sit down under the shadows of the Gothic arches and shiver and feel they must be getting religion or something else, they feel so uncomfortable. Oh, my friend?, we -want more common sense in the rearing of churches. There is no excuse for lack of light -when the heavens are full of it, no excuse for lack of fresh air when the world swims in ifc. It ought to be an expression not only of our spiritural happiness but of our physical comfort when we say: '*How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord God of hosts! A day in thy courts is batter than a thousand." Again, I remark we want more com_ mon sense in the obtaining of religi oushope. All men understand that in order to succeed in worldly directions they must concentrate. They think on that one object, on that one subject, until their mind takes fire witli the velocity of their own thoughts. AH their acumen, all their - strategy, all their wisdom, all their ' mirn tfiPT? nut in that nrp direction, and they succeed. But how seldom it is true in the matter of seeking after God. While no man expects to accomplish anything for this world without concentration and en ihusiasm, how many there are expecting after awhile to get into the kingdom of God without the use cf any such means! A miller in California many jears ago picked up a sparkle of gold from the bsd of a stream which turned his mill. He held up that sparkle of gold until it bewitched nations. Tens of thousands of people left their homes. They took their blankets, and their pickaxes, and their pistols and went to the wilds of California. Cities sprang j us suddenly on the Pacific coast.* Merchants put aside their elegant apparel and put on the miner's garb. Ail the land was full cf the taik about gold. mai iney nave discovered tnai gcia and ha-ve it in thair possession. Notwithstandine all this, what is the circumstance? One would suppose that the announcement would send people in great exci* maent up and gdo^rn our streets, ti:-at at midnight men *2 would knock at your dcor asking how they may get those treasures. Instead ^jflgsgS of that many of us put our hands be hind cur back and walk up and down in front of the mine of eternal riches and say, "Weil, if I am to be saved, 1 in T 3 -LJ :M . ? * ? t.? > - t win uc ssveu, aizuit x am io oe icsi I will be lest, and there is nothing to do sbout it." Why, my brother, do you not do that way in luslness matters? Why do you not tomorrow, go :oycur store and sit down and fold jour arms and say: "If these geeds are to fce sold, they will be, sold- There is nothing for me to dc about it" No, you ais patch your agents, you print your ad vertisements, you adorn four show,, , windows, you push these gocds. you ; use the instrumentality. Oo, that men were as wise in. the matter of the : sou] as they are wise in the mat'e? cf : dollars and cents! i This ccctrine of Gcd's sovereignty, how it is misquoted and spoken cf as 1 - - i - L:.L i*oia m me eyes, gc:a in me ears, gOiG in the wake of ships, gold in the streets ?gold, geld, gold! Word comes to ns that the incim tain af God's love is full of gold; thai men have been digging there and have Drought up gald, and amethyst, and carbuncle, and jasper, and saronyx, and chrysopra&us, and all the precious stones out of which the walls of heaven were builded. Word comes of a man who, digging in that mine for one hour, has brought up treasures worth more than all the stars that keep vigil over our sick and dying world. Is it a bogus company that is formed? Is it undeveloped territory? Oh, no; the story is true. There are hundred and thousands of people who would be willing to rise and testify though it were an iron cnain -wiiicu ; bound us hand and fool 'or time and : for eternity, when, so fir from tbar, in every Sbtr of your body, in every faculty of your mind, in every passion of 3 o' r scui, you are a free man?a free man?and it will no more tomorrow be a matter or cboice whether ycu shall go to business through Pennsylvania 'avenue or some other street, it will be no more a matter of choice with you tomorrow whether vou shali gc to .fnilaueJpaia or Aew j York cr stay at heme, than it is jour a matter of free choice whether ycu | will accept Christ or reject him. Ia all the army of banners there is ! net one cor soript- Men are no*, to be dragooned ir.to heaven. Ainon^ all the tens of thousands of the Lord's soldiery there is not one man tut ;11 tell ycu, "I chose Christ; I -wanted him; I desired to be in his service; 1 am not a conscript?I am a volunteer. 0'a, that men had the same common sense in the matters of religion thct tVia-rr Viot.ii in fro A* fh#? TT'Orll ?the same cor centratior, the same push, the same enthusiasm! In the f one case, a secular enthusiasm; in the cthe.-, a consecrated, enthusiasm. Again. I remark we want mere common sense in the building up and enlarging of cur Christian character. There are men who have for 40 years been running the Christian rsce. and they have not run a quarter of a mile. No business man would be willing to have his investments unaccumulative. If you invest a dollar, you expect that dollar to come home bringing another dollar on its back. What would you ; think of a nsan who should invest $10000 in a monetary institution, then go off for five years and make no inquiry in regard*to the investment, then come back, j;tep up to the cashier o? the institution and say, ,lHave you tV.cf iin r:P.,0 cofpic trsr.f. T Irdi-ed with you?" out asking no question about interest or about dividend? Why, you say, 'That is not common sense." Neither is it, but thai is the way we act in matters of the soul. We make far more .important investment tban $10,GOO. We invest our soul. Is it accumulative? Are we growing in grace? Arc we getting better? Are we getting worse? God declares many dividends, but we do not collect them. We dot ask about itnem. We do not want them. Ob, I that in this mattsr of accumulation | we were as wise in the matters of the ! soul as we are in the matters of the world I How little common ssnse ia the reading of the Scripture! We get any other book and we open it, and we say: ''Now what does this bock moan to teach me? It is a book on astronomy. It will teach me astronomy. It is a book on political econo| my. It will teach me political econo* I ray." Taking up this Jt>ibie, co wei j ask ourselves what it insans to teach? j It means to do jasi one thing. Get I the world converted and get us all to j leaven. That is what it proposes to i do. Bat instead of that we ?o into j the B;ble as botanists to pick flowers, | or we go as pugilists ro get something | to fight other Christians with, or we ' go as logicians trying to sharpen our mental faculties icra oeuer argument and we do not like this about the Bible, and 778 do not lise that, asd we do not like the'other thing. What would ycu you think of a man lost on the mountains? Night has come down. He cannof find his way home and he sses a light in a ^mountain cabin. He goes to it, he knocks at the door. The mountaineer comes cut finds the trav eleraudsavs: 4,Weil, here I have a lantern. You can take it, and it will guide you on the way home." A.nd suppose that traveler should say: '*1 don't like that lantern.. I don't like j the handle c! it. There are 10 or 15 j things about it I don'c like. If you i can't give me a better lantern than that, I won't have any ?"' Now, God sajs this Bible is to be a lamp to our feet and a lantern to our path, to guide us thiough the midnight of thi3 world to the gates of the celestial city. We stop and say we do not like this about "it, and we do not like that, and we do not like the other thing. Ob, how much wiser we would be if by its holy light we found our way to our everlasting home. Then, we co not read tne xsioie as we read other books. We read it perhaps four or five minutes just before we retire at night. We are weary and sleepy, so somnolent we hardly know Which end of the bock is up. We drop cur eye perhaps on the story cf Season and the foxes or upon some genealogical table, important in its place, but stirring no more reiigious emotion than the announcement that somebody bejjat somebody else and he begat somebody els3, instead of ' opening the book and saying, ';Nov71 must read for my-iramcrtal life; rcy eternity-is involved in this book." , How little re uss common sense in prajer. We say, "0 Lord, sire me this, and 0 Lord, give me that," ~.nd ' O Lord, give rce something elsa," i and we do net expect to get it, or, get- < ting it, we do not know we have it. j We ba78 no asx'ety about it. We ( do not watch, snd wait for its coxnisg. j As a merchant; you telegraph or \ou : write to some cthfr city for a bill of ( goods. You say, 4 "Send me by such , express or by such a steamer or by ; such a rail tra-n." Tbe day arrives Ycu send your wagon to the depot or *o the wharf. The go^ds do not come, j You immediately telegraph: "What is the nutter with, those goods? We $ haven': received ihem. Ssnd them sight away. We want them now or ; we do not want them at all." And * ycu jecep writing ana you keeo tele- \ graphiag and keep sending your wa- ' gon to the depot or to the express of ' See or to the wharf until you get the \ goods. la matters of religion we are J net so wise as that. We ask certain * things to be sent from heaven. We < do not know whether they cDme or not. We have not any special anxiety 1 as to whether they come or not. We c may get them and may not get them. 1 Instead of at 7 o'clock in the morning ? saying, ;'Have I got that blessing?" j at 12 o'clock, noonday, asking, "Have 1 I got that blessingS" at 7 o'clock in ] the evening saving, 4'Have I received : that blessing?" and not getting it, pleading, pleading?begging, begging : ?asking, asking until ycu get it. i New, my brethren, is not that com ] mon sense? If we ask a thing from i God, who has sworn by his eternal ? t ?"?< * *<& he TV"! i T <?n f b. 9 } trKl^Vr TTTA I 1 ask, is it not common sense that we * should watch and wait, until we get 1 u? - " ] But I remark, again, vrant more j common sense in doing gocd. Ob, ' how many people there are who "want > to do good and they are dead failures. ' Why is it? They do not exercise ;he s?.me tact, the same ingenuity, the j some stratagem, the same common : sense in the "vrcvk of Christ mat they do in worldly things. Otherwise they s would suceeei in this direction as T^eli as they succeed in any other. < There are many men io have an ar- ( rogani way with them, although they < msy not feel arrogant in their sou). : Or they have a natronizlng wav. 1 4.^!:. * - it. u ~ 1 iliCY mux IKJ a jJAJ.ll Ui wlIC WviiU 1U ? I i manner vrhich seems to say: ''Don't j s ?gfc-vr-r?n-r iml ycu vrish you were as gacd 2s I am? v\ hy. I have to look clear down before I can s.ee ycu, jou are so far l2- 1 neath me." That manner aiwajs discus!, always drives men away from the kingdom ot' Jesus Christ ltslead ? ?f briagiue them iu. When I was a lad, I was one dsy in a village store and there was a large group or young men there full cf rol licking and fun, and a Chrisiian man came in, a very gocd Christiaa man, and without any introduction cf the < subject ar.d while they were in ?raat hilarity said to one cf them, "George, what is ths first step of wisdom? George lcokfd up and said, "Every man io mind his own business.'' WelJ, it was a very rough answer, but it was provoked. Religion hai been hurled in there as though it were a bombshell. We must be natural in the presentation cf religion to the world. Do you suppose that Mary in her conversation with Christ lost her sim plicity, or that Paul, thundering from Mars Hill, took the pulpit tone? Whv is it people cannot talk as na'u*a:ly in prayer meetings and cd religious subjects fs they do in worldly circles? For no one ever succceds in any kind of Christian work u iless he words ! naturally. Wa want to imitate tbe Lord Jesust Christ, who plucked a poem from the grass of ihe field We all wint to imitate him who talked . ith farmers about the man who went forth to sow, and talked with the fishermen about the drawn net that brought in fish of all sorts, and talked. with the vine dresser about the idler in the vineyard, and talked with those newly affianced about the marriage supper,and talked with Ihe man cramped in money matters about tbe two debtors, and talked with the woman abeut the yeast that leavened the whole lump, and talked with the j O^CUtiU CUUU b LJLL^ i V/J b y. O.i, we might gai&er even the stars of the sky and twist them like forgeiirenois in the garland cf Jesus! We must bring everything to him?the Wealth cf language, the tenderness of sentiment, the delicacy of morning daw, the saffron of Hmting cloud, the tingled suif of the tossing se?, the bursting thunder guns of the storm's bombardment, Yes, every star must point down to him, every heliotrope must breathe his praise, every drop in the summer must Hash his glory, all the tree branches of the forest must thrum their music in the grand march which shall celebrate a world redeemed. Now, all this being so, what is the common sense thing for you and for me to do? What we do I think will depend upon tnree tacts?mree great facts: Tie first fact, thatsia has ruined us. It has bla^d body, mind and soul. We want no Bible to prove that we are sinners. Any man who is not willing to acknowledge himself an imperfect and a sinful bejag is simply a fool and not to be argued with. We all feel that sin has disorgan:zed cur entire nature. That is one fact. Another fact is that Christ came to reconstruct, to restore, to revise, to correct, to redeem. That is a second fact. Thet^ird f^ct is thst t e only lime "fire are sure Christ will pardon is the present Now, what is the common sense thing f jr us to do ia view of these xi r -\r ... -n _n inrea iscis iou wili a:i agree who. me?to quit sin, take Christ, and take him now. Suppose seme business man in whose skill you had perfect confidence should tell you that tomorrow, Monday morning, between 11 and 12 o'clock, you could by a certain financial transaction make $5,000, but that on Tuesday perhaps you might make it, but tnere would not be any postiveness about it, and on Wednesday there would not be so much, and Thursday less, Friday less, and so on less and less?when would you attend to the matter? Why, your common sense would dictate: "Immediately I wiJl attend to that matter, between 11 and 12 o'clock tomorrow, Monday morning, for then I can surely accomolish it. but on Tuesday I mav not. ar-d on Wednesday there is less pros peet and less and less. I will attend to it tomorrow." Now, Jet us bring our common sense in this matter of religion. Here are the hopes of the I gospel. We may get them now, To-J morrow we may get them, and we may not. Nest day we may and we may not, the prospect less and less ar. d less and less, the only sure time? now. I would not talk to you in this way if I did not know that Christ was able to saye all the people. I would not go into a hospital and tear off the bandages from the wounds if I had no balm to apply. 1 would not have the face to tell a man he is a sinner unless I had at the same time the authority for saying he may be saved. Suppose in Venice there is a Raphael, a faded picture, great in its time, beariug some marks of its greatness. History describes that picture. It is nearly faded away, ' 'Oho, what a pity that so wonderful a picture by Raphael should be nearly defaced!'' After awhile a man comes up, very i unskillful in art, and he proposes to retouch it. You say: "Standoff! I ! would rather have it j jst ?s it i?. You i will only make it worse." After ; awhile there comes an artist who is the \ ?qual of Raphael. He savs, I "will re- < iouch that picture and bring out aii its ; . i -x, i e jriojtai power; jcounaveiuu con- ; idence in his ability. Ha touches it < iere and there. Feature after feature i ;omes fonh, and when he is done i ^ith the picture it is complete in all ] .ts original power. \ Not?. God impresses his imsge on ' )ur race, but the imsge has bean de- J actd for hundred and for thousands ] >f years, getting fainter and fainter. 1 3erc comes up a divine Raphael. I ' shall call him a divine Raphael He ' ;ays,''I Can restore that picture." Ee j :as all power in heaven and on earth ' Eie is the equal of the one who made he picture the equal cf the one who \ irew the image of God in cur soul. * is touches this sin, and it is gone; 1 ,h';t transgresssion, and it is gone, and ill the defacement disappears, and 'where sin abounded grace doth much 1 nore abound." Will you have the iefacsment or will you have the restc- j alion? I am well persuaded that if I i :ouid by a touch of heavenly pathos j a two minutes put before you what ; iss been done to save yourscul, there ] vould bs an emotional tide overwhel- ] ning. 1 ' Msmms,"'' said a little child to her = nether, when she was being put to < osd at night; "mamma, what makes ( rour hand so scarred and twisted and '< inlike other people's hands?" "Well," 1 ;?.:d the mother, "my child, when you . i 3re youngerthsn tou are no;v, years { ?go, one night afier I bad put you to j aed I heard a cry, a shriek up stairs. * [ came up and found the bed was on j \ are, and you wtre on fire, and I tcok j' V/l J vU JL ivig Ul lilC rarmenis, and while I was tearing I .hem off and trying io gst you away I burned my hand, and it has bten ! scarred and twisted ever sine?, and j aardly loots any more like a hand. But I got that, my child, in trying to j ?ave jou.'' 0 man, 0 woman, I wish iodsv I :ould show ycu the burned hanu of 1 Jbrist?burned in plucking ynu out! 1 Df the fire, burned in snatching you ! ] iway from the flame. Aye, also the < ourned fcot, and the burned brow,and } ] heart? ourned for ycu. '"By his j j stripes ye are healed." j < THE HORRIBLE CONFESSION fa V7cm?n Wlio sitsw ? ilf.o Wiio Wrong- : tdKcr. / Miss Dilila'a F.Jes has confessed hev share in the tT-ie death rf Jarornr ! Kern. Th? msn 7.1 r frund desd . in a lone! j n* -c Waverly. Eovra, cn the23*d of J<?ii August arc t':e yourg wort a u r-ow confesses she &red the bullets that killed him. She ?:as indicted today and it is said her alleged accomplice before the fact. Kern, a sonof ihr; vic ijS, wi'l be in dieted tomcr/ov. ] Miss Fales cha'ges tha'. ^ hen she was ' a mere child of 13 }ear?, tLee'derKern ] bstrayed ber ai d that c.vor after he , harrassed her with Ms attentions, j More reputation, she states, to keep , ethers than thar, he sought by black enicg her reputation, she states, to 3 keep others from payingcourt to her. ' Twice before she became attached to 1 the murcerfd mir>$ sen, >he h-d been 1 in a fair way to become happiiv* mar ried, but as many time h2d Jerome Kern, she declared, poisoned her ! lovers against her. i At last when by the same method he sought to prevent his son frcrn marry ing her, the pent up hatred of years vented itself in the commission of the crime. 'i killed him with premeditation and deliberation," she said. "I prayed God to gice me strength to do it with all the earnestness I could command, as I have prayed him for for- 1 giveness. I have sulfered no pangs of conscience. On the contrary a rest 1 ful calm seemed to come into my life from the moment that I knew be was dead. I never slept so well as I did the night after I fired the fatal shot/' Miss Faies1 confession starls by telling of the love affairs of herself and young Kern and the opposition of the father. They disscussed the question of putting him out of the way and they agreed tbat was me best way oui 01 tne difficulty. One day the elder Kern suggested to the jour-g woman that she meet biaj. She saw here the opportunity that she had'been waiting for a ad she assented, making an appointment for the following morning in the wosds near her home. They met and he assisted her to alight frcm her vehicle. ,;Hewas on his knees," says her confession, "before I saw my chance to kill him. I had the revolver just inside my coat, which was buttoned up. As he was kneeling there I pulled out the revolver and shot him quickly in the chest. He whirled round on his knees a little way, and as he fell forward I shot him in the back. I don't know whether his clothes caught fire or not, I h urried away." Then follows the detail of the plotting of the two to lay the crime at the door of John Lswis. a former lover of Delilah's. They even prov ea a leuer purporting 10 cave cees written by the deceased on the 1 day cf his murder and which was J left where it would be readily found, as it was a few dsys ago. This letter said that if harm came to Kern, Lewis must be held responsible. William Kern's confession corroborates that of M's5 Fale's in almost every detail. THE TALE OF WOE. Southern Mills Pushing New England 21 ills to ths Wail. Although Boston is the centre of the cotton mill ousiness of Xew England, the men prominently connected with the trade would have little to say concerning the action of the Fall River manufacturers in voting to reduce wages beginning January 1. The treasurer of one of the Pall lliver , mills who was willing to discuss the matter said he regarded this cut as the beginning of a serious time, not only riv, -CT.n T>: ? iur me Edii i^ivcr yruui. lluus*, uul lur all tbe cotton mills in New England. The key to the whole situation, he said, is the relative cheapness cf southern labov, which cculd not be better shown than by the fact that it J cost the same mili in Georgia or North Carolina 3? cents to produce a . pound of material and in New Eag- < land 6 cents. With this fact in mind ! it is evident that the cut of 10 per cent j is not going to help matters much and , the only thing that will do any good , at present will be a radical cut of say ] 20 or 25 per cent. This would inevi- ( tably bring on a strike, but, with a cut of 10 or 11 per cent., he says there would be little likelihood of a strike, as the operatives are well acquainted j with the conditions and know that a ] reduction of some kind is necessary., ( Even this would still leave a differ- j ence of about 25 per cent on the cost } of the labor in favor cf southern mills i too great a difference to struggle j against successfully. In the first place \ says the treasurer, the southern mills j have every natural advantage; they j have cheaper cotton and less burden- j some taxation. Some of the big mills s in Fall River, for instance, have a' j yearly payment of $10,000, $15,000 j and even ?20,000 in taxes to make, < _ V .3 *VT il- /N B wnerras in ueorgia anu in aria oaro- \ lina tbe mills are in many instances c exempted from. taxation for 10 or 12 t years? It is in labor, however, the a great difference lies, according to the t official quoted, for the labor in the j south is as good as it is here and taken r 3s a wnole is about 33 per cent, cheap- j gr. The southern laborers have had a about 10 years training in mills start- ^ jc by experienced cotton manufactu- t rers and attend as many machines and t turn out just as good ^ork as opera- f Lives in tfie best N*w England mills. Another great advantage the southern j. tills have is not being hampered by r legislation. In Massachusetts the \ tiours of laborers are limited to 58 a f sveek, while in the south they are un j limited. The only hope for the New r England mills, according to the spea t ier, is either in the improvement ia , ,he print cloth market, or in a general j =vening-up of conditions between the scrth and the south. r The Anderson Intelligencer sajs the * feeling is gaining ground among hu- j mane people of the State that the Leg- t islature should pass a bill authorizing v the establishment of seperate white z md colored juvenile reformatories. ^ For the reason that it is a pity to im- ^ arisen children among hardened cr:mi- { nals, almost every other State in the Union except this is provided with f ?uch reformatories. Rev. R:chsrd i Carroll, a prominent colored minister . >f Columbia, has recently contributed 1 i very sensible article to the Columbia ^ ispers on this sur j-:ct, which deserves ; le attention of our law-makers. c Hilton's Li's for the Live? and Kid- e ievs is the most complete regulating ndeicine. It is mild in its operation, [s agreeable and pleasant to the stomich. It will certainly build up a ^ weakened and broken down digestion. v 5as nons of the harsh action of pills * iod other drastic purgatives. Is the s jest of all appetizers. Qaick in its a jeneSciai effect on the kidneys. Is ^ T7?OrofQMp fofolran of oyitt ->*Ai V.*J TN.^w.s.?w-A.w? vv*** V Mb MO-Ljr .ime. 25c, 50c and $1.C0 bottles. ^ a Though the _ state of New York ? Trent Democratic by 60,COO votes at s :be last election, theassembly remains t Republican, because the greater city c if Ntw York, although it has half the 1 copulation of the state, is allowed to v jlect only fifty-nine assemblymen out p jf a totai of 150. c r"*wi "ft * pmbmpi ? s-yrBLOWN TO ATOMS. j ^ TERRIFIC DYNAMITE EXPLOSION NEAR COLUMBIA. flii Magszlns at the Blcijla-.d Qnary Blown Ui -21r. Brsn% Its Kecpsr, Keels a End?The ShocJi JFalt in The Cl'y. About ere o'clock Thursday afternoon many houses in ibe city of Columbia vrera shaken until the window pines rattled and many citizens on the streets stopped fcr a moment puzzled by the loar of a terrific explosion, Many wondered v?bat it was. It was not long uatil they knew that 125 pounds of djnamite had fcaen accidentally exploded a mile from the city and that a man had been blown to "niece; by the dynamite. Quarryn an Jno. Brant, kno?cn among his associates as "Jerry,1'had gone to the dynamite magazine over which he held s^ay. Ia a :"ew moments the fearful explosion followed and when the workmen 100 yards away recoverd from the shock, they had hard work huntiDg through the fields for the bloody particles of what was but a fev minutes before, their fellow workman. If any man ever met an instant death Jerry must have done so. Exactly how it ocnured no one will ever know. The only possible cause a-si^ned is that Brant was smoking his pipe when he went to the maga zine, knowing that there is no danger of dynamite exploding without concussion; that there was 1cd?3 powder in the magazine and upon this a spark from the pipe was dropped causing the necessary concussion to explcde dynamite sticks. When the county "macatiam quarry" was established on Smith'o brarch about a quarter of a mile from the main road, Capt. Sligh built awccden m8gaz;ne on the side of the road which j runs from the main road to the quar ry, on the hill side. Ic was about 40 yards from the tool house further on and 1G0 yards from the quarry. Capt. Sligh placed the keys of this magazine, which was eight feet long, four wide and three deep, in thepos session of Brant, who was an experienced quarryman. He was 51 years of age ?.nd had been handling Dynamite for mamr years in quarrying. Capt. Sligh said he wrs careful, expert, al*ajs pleasant and faUhful in. carrying cut all orders given him. He "^as one of tbe first men to be em ployed at this quarry. He lived in the city on Plain street near Wayne. Thursday the blasting was ail done early as usual. In the maga2.iEe there were two and one-half boxes of dynamite sticks, 125 pounds in all. Two of the boxes had never been opened. The ot^er had been opened and half its contents used. The electric battery, fuses and caps and other appliances were also in the box. About half past 12 o'clock Engineer Taylor Marsh, who by the way -was the conductor who stooped the runavray electric car on the incline last summer, returned from the city bringing with him a roll of new fuses. He handed the fuses to his eolored firsman, Jnc. BDwers, who carried them to the magazine box and laid them down, going back and telling Brant to go put them away, Brand, who, so one of tbe workmen, had but' a few moments before lighted Irs pipe, went in the direction of the b:x. No one paid any attention to what he was doing. Mr. Marsh was standing in the door of the tool house and his fireman was inside. In an instant there was a blinding Hash, a roar ard an explosion that knocked some of the men down and stunned them for a lew moments. Mr. Marsh was hit on the forehead by some fiying objcctand had his scalp cut open. He staggered inside the door and leaned against the wall. His fireman was knocked down by the shock; he sa:d he crawled out of the back of the shanty. Mr. Wray, the well known liveryman, who was standing: on the Smith's branch bridge and was possibly the only one who saw the ex plosion, though from a distance of a quarter of a mile. He saw something fly through the air at . the time he noted thefhsh, this prov- ; id to be a bundle of fuses found later LCO yards away. When the smoke cleared away there ?:as a fresh hole in the hillside wheia the magazine had stood. When a ; representative 0: The State arrived the ouik of the remains of Brant were :ound 32 yards from the hole in the 1 middle of the road leading towards the ( nain road. The man had been blown j ;hrough three clusters of chinaberry | ,rees by the roadside, the bsaj break- ^ ng eft' limbs in its passage. On the ' :rte limbs could be sesn mangled por;ions of the body, the trees were bespattered with blood and here and \ ncrc atriua ux iuau. o ciuliang were seen. Oae of the man's Sneers was taken from a tree- The mass n the road was so mangled that no me could tell what portion of the ;cdv it represented without close examination. The head was blown off; he trunk was disemboweled, both egs were missing. It wa3 a msre nass. Search about the fields resulted * n the finding of first one foot then ^ mother, the shoes blown off of escb. : ^nd so it was that portions of 'r he remains were found in alldiuc- 1 ions. Pieces of skull bone were found . ar a^ay. Strangely enough one of the man's A ;1ds was found in the opposite direction e tear the quarry. All the pieces of toard, remains of the electric battery, * uses, etc., were found in the dnec- ? r\f r?f ?7rofTc noVlr a ivrrtfir\n of ^ Ui Ul i-JL jabt O C% Uil v.\s ?*fc i^bt angles to that taken by the vie- s ini?far away. One coil of fuse? v 7as found fully 100 yards uo the hill. ; t bad not baen injured at all. s Capt Sligh was up the road. He f ealized what had happened as soon as ^ ie heard the explosion and wts scon ? m the scpne. He said he bad been told * bat all the powder, which had been . (ought for grading blasts, bad besn c issd. If there was any in the maga- f ine he did not know it. All work 8 vas suspended at the quarry and the c workmen began a s?3?ch for the f ?at- } ered remains of the dead man. Capt. 1 )iign sent engineer marsn 10 tne city i o Dr. G-ibbes, who dressed the wound e n his head. * Coroner Green w?s notified and an | nquest was held resulting in a ver- * iict in accordance with the fasts. J The county authorities sent a cssket ^ >ut and the mangled y :>rtions of \ Jrant's tody were collected ana pb3- K d therein.?State. 3 Sfca Unloaded Gur, g Thursday morning, at Dut 10 o'clock t 'oe B;rry, aged 16, while nlaying r rith an "unloaded musket" ki'lcd his c en year old brother, Brantley. He t r.ys that one of the neighbors parsed c ,nd gave him some gur;c*ps ar-d 1 vhile trying to see if the gun would i pop" them it Jired. The lead, which 7as a big one, struck Brani;ley just ,bove the right ear, blowing ctf the rhole top of his head. Aoout the omo Virtni. ( "'.In O-! ] OT7- Rc-rTT hl'rtthAT- ! aaju uvMXf vijAVJ j V^.VH^VJ v* he two above named, had his threat c ut by Edie Mixon, at White i oiid. I .'he knife being dull, E^rry escape! I vitb his life. All of the above named \ arties Jive in the lower edge of A'ken p ounty.?Columbia Register. a CUR FARMERS MUST COMBINE. i i Gtiserpl Planto Fat the Piiceoi] CoUoij r5 Fair Figures. To the Editor of The Stale: pejievin2 ss I do lb at ihi cc-lumcs of ycur valuable pacsr an oj:s2 to the disscussicn of any and ail subject which is to relieve t' e farmers a fur c/vrtnlsrr? iY& r vc?i fi nor./>*ol ei>o>r- J und^r which thty are now p^ssiDg, 11 secuyoua private letter from tbeHon. M. C. Butler in which ire expresses his viers ar some length. I would be glad if ycu v-ouia publish this letter as I am sure it would be appreciate by ma^y of your sub-.cribsu. W. T. Bradley, Troy, S. 0., Dec. 2. Kel.'oig Bui'diog. Washington, D. 0., Nov. 26. MyDearSjr: I am .. receipt of yours of the 23i icstaiit. It is very much to bs regretted I oat a Isrge number cf -sen th: o '.^bcu: the scuih do not puvi.ie such a course as you are adopting ard cont'ibute, if in ever so small a degi;e, to the emancipa;ion cf cotton rai?eij, from the state cf tbraildom in which they voluntarily j>lace i Vic.rrico] rrc Tnrr^ioVn n rr o /roi net k4Woll T V -J ? ? Uki Street speculators" and reviling: every man who handles cotton after it pass-is out < f iha hands o' the producers, wilt not mend matters. Those who are the oadest in their denuncia'ions of speculators would speculate themselves if they had the opportunity. The only way to bea:; the sDicuiators, dealers in futures, is to make ourselves absolutely independent of them This can only br-, done by becoming self-sustaining on the farm. Debt1'? on-:- ftrm of slavery, and .no loan can c3n.rol what he earns or produces so ' loj* as another has a claim on it, Lut lei this slave of debt once get a yeai's supply o food forhirr<?elf and faijwe thereby bresk the first iitk of his chains and emancipation is in sight. Now I know how difficult it is to g?t ir.en engsjed in farming to coopcra. i i-bout anything, men-accustomed;o iiviEg 10 memseives, lumKing ana actieg for themsslvfs, acquire a habis of independencs and self relianee not found in any other calling, besides they live far apart as a rule, and it is always difficult to get Ihemtoturn cut and meet for consultation. They may for awhile, but interest scon fsgs and finally nothing sho-t of a iue, famine cr cpidemic can get them together. Vv e all 3amit the truth cf this: we aii deplore it. We all ?';e the necessity for unity and conceit of action, and yet it is not d:-ce. The original idea and purpose cf the Alliance was to bring about this very concert of action, but the politicians got hold cf it and made it the lac tier by wh;ch they could clinib in'o of fioe. Mr. Joan T. R^ddey, formerly of B^k Kill, S. C., new in tkeoUm exchange of New York, proposfs to effect an organization of cottonra'-:ers, and insists he is going to do it whether we help him or not. I do not know what his plan is, but I do know he can have my assistance on whatever line be may ador)1-. Every-'ru;t in the iJhited Statfs 'he su?ar trust, the tobacco trust, the beet trust, each snd erery one of them have tne best business talent in the world employed in tbeir organizUions and management. What -we want is'an organize! i jr. call it what you will, 'Trust,' 'Piant er'sTJ^icn,'or what not, of tha b- . busin./s talent vre can get to hsi-ale this cotton question. Taey can organize something that we can support ard play one c]?~s o' businen men against the others. The first step is to t.y and limit tbe acreage and production. Next is to &.it control of s million and a half or two m;,lion ba'os of'cott )n and corner them so the scecu'ator can'; reacii tbem without paying for the n. This w-uid not ba a trust in che leg; I ace-jj/talion of the term, it wculd roi be in re .tra:ot of-rade or commerce, and Ihere'ore, not obnoxious to the rule which denounces whatever d;2S restrain. trade or competition. Suppose for icslanc? every man who makes lour bales or upwards agrees to withhold ftjm market every Uftln o-n/3 nlf r* l if ivi V*Q*n/^C nf iOUl ILL an u picis? miu luu ax<?JU.U? ui a bcdv cf shrewd faithful busiress men barred by sufficient capital to beheld urdl remunerative pi":!3 could 12 realized. This would z:.irs two or three million bales. How could the tsars deln ;? if they soM short. The visible supply wcuid be in our hands and Mr. EeV wci>ld have to pay 'or his cotton cr go to the wall. He would go to the wall and stop hammering dosrn the market. The bears are the feilows that depress themarkei when a m11 crop is made. They caa sell short fiTty or a hundred million ba1:3 and by having an uridestandiGg withtha spiarers, who want to buy >pot cotton cheap, keep the market iown, the producer is tbe victim. But, if the producer, through an jr^anizjoicn of b;,3 oxn creation, can io;d back the v ib)e supply, the spin- 1 rerand spscuk. 3r must pay for it. I :2l:8ve saca sn organization can be jfftcied, ?nd we may as well let the 1 vc.'.d kiov? we have sense enough ; tau pil e 5 enough f) do for co :>n , v 1a: h? i been done for alircst eviry ; )lher ccnmuiitv. I kro;v that I \ lave net that kind of business experi- j ioce which would enable ire to iaske j rch an crgac'zUicn, but I hepa Hr. : 3:ddey he?, and that he will b3 abla i ) associate vfith him other businers j nea. ; Now, theie io ro great rajshiy or \ egerdemain abDUt. this ro cslled ;'busi- J less." It requires some training and xperience, Sat at last, like every i ither C3ll:rg, is a'so requires its cuadation principle, gcod c^mocon \ 3, her.e^Ly and fidelity, good exe- \ sut've abiiiiVi to krowhow t3 man- jj igemenr^a take c~r3 of money is \ Ttiatis wnted. The Grit thing- we * vlll all have to learn is to surrender c lomethicg of cur own opinions and jrecoicsived judgments and cxsrac; vhdom h om a multitude of counsels tnd experience*. We will have to rust sometDdy if we expect to win. Lll the best of us can <?g is to exercise lue caution ard judgment in soliciting t mr ageats and tnen give them faithful i md cordial supneri. Onethicg is very ? ler-ain; we caa't be much wcrsUd r vhatevsr may hao;;er, and may be mtnediately cer e'ltted. I hopa soijcethirg practical will be ivoivcd at the Atlauti convention on ' he second Tur.dsy in December, aud hat we way be put in a p 3si:ion 'o lave something to say about what >rice our cotton sv all bring. As it is, ve have no more voice in ihat matter ban ?n inhabitant of the C'oc^o Free i Jtate. I trust jou w?H ccntize to ktcrest , rourself in this all important question, iid let us see by kcc ;kit:? our he-ds osetber if we can't open she door to a nore satisfactory corcition for Ihcr? >f us who are e2fa<?ed in the cultiva ! ion of cotton. vVe certaiuiy will not lo so by si-.iing down shearing ai 7Jail street speculators anugamb'ers ^ ~ ^ 4 A I ~ n uu.'.uu i jiures Very truly you:?, M. C. Futler A Gaca i >b Sl&ry. It is said that ccdfiisli are ?3 ntimer> is that they are being washed upou . jong Island by the surf, and caught iy the inhabitants, on ;he c^ach. vitfcoui tackle of aLy L'.Ld. Th-iiisa { >retty good f?<h storv for as far north ,s Lcn? Island lound. |i V :.2~ ^r'' 1" Ths a F. ot. i Evidence of astartlicg aalure which I indicates that a murdsr bfpn committed somewhere between Chicago ard Denver, was fcucd j Thursday ] mgnt on ir.e xruc&s or tne i'uiicrro. sleeping car Miiliades shortly after ' arrival in Chicago. Itwrsabumsn foot, apparency that of a iran. and ?* Ion?, slender spike penetrated the large toe. The foct, which bad been torn cfr above tne ptkle, was bare and muiilai:d. Ligaments which had t:en tern from the upp:-r portion of the limb and remained attached to the frot in dismemberment w<rj twisted around the bleed stained trucks of the sleeper. The police believe a man has been tied to ihe railic^dl'-ack. his ftet spiked to the ties and thai be had b :en left to meet cert^n death under the train. On this theory inquiries a^enow being made at every point on the read between Chicp^o atd Denver. The spike which was in the centre of the toe was about five inches lone and of ths kind ur:d in certain parts of railroad obstruction where a delicate, yet strong, piec? of metsl ?s ussd to hold wc:5 together. There was nob.cjd on the engine, which, the railroad men ssy, proves that the accident or murder as the case may t2, cccuwed west cf Bieomington, rs a change cf engines was made at that pcint. H.'lzon ?s Iodoform Liniment is ths "n33 plu ultra" of all such preparations in removing 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 from *'Poison fvy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract tha -nnisnn frnm Kihec nf snakes and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. WiU cure a ay case of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Bold by druegisis and dealers 25 cents a bottle. "Let parents not live fcr their chil cren, but -vuth them." The mother slicuid alicw no false modesty to stand in the way of her daughter's knowledge of herself, cf her possibilities, of her perils. For over thirty years Dr. Pierce has used his klFavori"te Prescrip tion" as a strengthener, a purifisr, a reg ulator. It works directly upon the delicate, distinctly feminine organs, in a natural, sjothing way. It searches out the weak spots and builds them up. A woman who would jun c'erstand herself should send 21 cents to the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N- Y., for Dr. Pierce's Mrdical Adviser, a bock of 1G08 pages. but if their credit depended on getting at it in a hurry iaey wouiu oe oanKxupi, simplvbecav.se the combination won't work. A sick man is in vc-ry much the same fix about getting at the nourishment he needs to keep iiim alive. There is plenty of good food at hand, but his digestive organism is out of order; the nutritive "combination" of his system won't work. He can't possibly get at the nourishment contained m the food. Ke takes it into his stomach, but it does him no good. It isn't made into good blood. He is just as badly off as if the food was locked up where he couldn't touch it. He gets no strength or health out of.it All these mal-nutritive conditions have a perfect and scientific remedy in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It puts the nutritive "combination" of the system into perfect working order. It gives the digestive and blood - making organs power to make pure, red. healthy blood, and pour it into the circulation abundantly and rapidly. It drives out all bilious poisons and scrofulous germs, cures indigestion, liver com piaiiit, uwi V Qliu cwu builds up solid fiesh, active power and nerve force. Mrs. Rebecca F. Gardner.of Grafton, York Co., Va., -writes: " I was so sick with dyspepsia that I could not eat anything: for over four months. I had to starve myself, as nothing would stay on my stomach. I was' so badly off I could not eat even a cracker. I thought I was ?oing to die. I weighed only So pounds. I tried almost everything:, and nothing did me any good, until I took two bottles of the ' Golden Medical Discovery.' I am now as well as I ever was, and weigh 125 pounds." Front Maker Direct to Purchaser. ^ | A Good i | ^ Piano | S latliushek 1 ^ Is always Good, always Reliable. ^ jgv always Satisfactory, always Last- ?ffl >Ii in?. You tako 110 chances in buy- 9S? in? it. faS s>J? It costs somewhat more than a xsa ft*. cheap, poor piano, but is much the ffifB cheapest in the end. s?? gv No other fciish Grade Piano sold so sis reasonable. Factory prices to retail ?? ?S, buyers. Easy payment*. Writers. M LtfBDEN & BATES, M Pcrannah, Gs-t un<l Sen York City. Lddress: D. A PRE3SLEY. Agent COLUMBIA, 8. C. ' TE! THOMAS 3 th3 most complete system ot elevating landling, cleaning and packing cottonjnprcvea staple, eaves labor, makes yen sonsy. Write for catalogues, no oilier jqnals it. I handle tie most improved :OT"iON GINS, 1 rEsssss, J &LSYA7CBS. ENGINES AND S0IL33 ^ Sc D8 found cn the rnsrket. !?y Sergeant Log Beam 3a -? Mill 1?, ?u simplicity and efficiency. a wonder. JO?.y MILLS, A PLAISEBS, ' GA3G 3DS5?- ( ini all wood wording m^hiaery. jIDDrLL *NB TALSO XT jJXGlXBS are the best. >YrI'-e to me beTore cnylng. v f ?? 0. B-adham. ' j G:ncril^s-:^i, COLUMBIA, B. O. jgrMMuva ' >, , ^ ^ - t Linitti ?a. AjUnal kuSaaa, Xa text ^ ? &. Zb*n fcse, Case? tart- in< fm | Bargains ,v. - UM PI^lISTOS. 1 ' -ssgjg ,-< SPECIAL "i9 vy^r Announcement. Piano jf and . ;|? Organ || Exhibit at 1509 Main st: tffl Columbia, S. C. I BEST GOODS At Fair Prices, Remember ^ I Exhibit _ A- It IT 1 at my store, see my bargains. M. A. MALONE, | 1509 MAIN STKEET, COLUMBIA, s. ft, PIAKOS AST) ORG A NS LIQUOR, 1 OPIUM AND TOBACCO ' HABIT J THOROUGHLY CURED# REMOTED FR091 COLUMBIA _ - J KEELEY INSTITUTE 1 6-BEESTTLTijE!, s7<Kgr,y"^ idfioe to Mothers. Jgik ? H r We teie pleasure In calling your attei % Hon to a remedy ao long needed in cany* 'ng children safely through the critical stage of teething. It is an incalculable blessing to mother and child. If you are lirturbed at night with a sick, fretful, teething child, use Hits' Carminative, it "jSg vili give instant relief, and regulate the j bowels, and make tee tiling safe and etsy. 4M It will cms Dysentery and Diarrhea, Fltts Carminatftre Is an instant rellef to J idle of infants. It will promote digestion give tone and energy to the stomach an! | J fcoweli. The sick, puny, suffering chin will soon become the fat and frolic Wag cj M of the household. It is rery pleasant t: be taste and only oost 25 esuts per bittr Sold b/ drcgrtsts and W THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. :|p.|| 9 I I"E FOR THE LIY ER AND jM ' <" SB KIDNEYS, as its Dam^imparts, S is a stimilator and re dilator .to^K^l >>?* H thise oralis. Es t ie.b33t after ^K'*' meals medicine to aid dig-st'on H Prevents Headaches. CiresH! Bj BiUioasne:S Acts cn tfieEid-KBHj neya.withln 'fairty minutes after Hd 9 talcing, relieving sc'ies in the^H back from disorder if tbcS.eor-^H H gans. Relieves alJ stomach |H PI tropes. Is entirely vegit able. H gfl 250, I0:and flO 3 bottle. Sold .4 H ty.oeaiers generally, and b/ TteH j9H Mcrray Drug Co , Columbia, S. H 3BB ^ 'It- H Bear, Chaile ton, V Said by deaieis gsrsrally and by THE MORRAY DR(JG CO., COLUMBIA, 8. C. MCMILLAN'S GEIPP23 COUGH CUBE. VILL RELIEVE THAT COUGH AND ^ GIVE rOU HEALTHFUL REST. GK)OD FOR ?AiMA- ^ 3rOOD FOR GRAND ill H ;? Waltebbobo. S, C, Feby. 27,1897. Deak Sib:?Having suffered several days rttb "La Grippe" and getting ns relief rom many otner coagh medicine, I tried i icMlllan's Grippe Cougb. Care, I can rathfuiiy say I found It the beat remedy I * tave ever tried, before finishing the bottle ,>^ yas cured. Eesoertfully. 9 COL. B. STOKES. 25 cents for largo bottle. For sale by all Jrugglsts. If your "druggist doesn't ice?p % send us 25 centu and we will send it by oturn express. W. C. MCMILLAN. Druggist, _ w UoiuinblajS^i/t m "