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BMiiMM THE SUBJECT OF DR. T.MI.Wg QCDMfiM I nwmnuu v VI-I tm w * BP' Fhysicju %rd Moral Giants Shculd Us* SP^ Shall ]Powor In Doing Good?Mis^alded StrcBgth May Wo:k Great Kvll?Christ Oar Champion. Taking the exciting story of Sam son's fail as a suggestion, Dr. Tal mage in this discourse shows how gi ants in body and mind or soul ought to be consecrated to good and great purposes. His text is Judges xiv, 1, 4'And Samson went down to Tim nath." There are two sides to the character of Samson. The one phase of his life, if followed into the particulars, would administer to the grotesque and mirthful. But there is a phasa of his character fraught with lessons of soie:r?E - and eternal import. To these graver lessons we devote our sermon. This giant no doubt in early life gave evi dences of what he was to be Is is almost alwajr so. There were two Napoieoss?the boy NapoJem and the man Napoleon?but both alike; two Howards?the boy Howard ana thsman Howard but both alike; t wo San ?ons?the boy Samson and the mac Samson?but both alike. This giant was no doubt the hero of the play ground, and nothing could stand before his exhibitions of youthiui prow ess. At 18 years of age he was be trothed to the daughter of a Philistine. Going down towa.d Timnath s lioncameupon him, and,although this young giant was weaponless, he seiz ed the monster by the long mane and -i 1. ? I u j _i 3UUU?L HIU-L cio a nuugry uuuuu a March hare and made bis bones crack, and left him by the wayside bleeding under the smiting of his fist and the grinding heft of his heel. There ne stands, 1 coming up abovsother men, a mountain of Sesb, Jbis arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate cf a city,takiBg an attitude defiant of everything. His hair had never been cut, and it rolled down m seven great plaits over bis shoulders, adding to his bulk, fierceness and ter ror. The Philistines want to couquer him, and therefore they must find cui ~x where the secret of his streegt'ilies. There is a dissolute woman living in the valley a Sore& cf the. same of Delilah. They appoint her the agent in the case. The Philistines are se crfltpd in thft s?m? hm Minor arM tVipt* Delilah goes to work and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of his strength. "Well," he says, "if you should take seven green withes, such as they fasten wild beasts with, and put them around me, I should be per fectly powerless." So she binds him with the seven green -wishes. Then she claps her hands and sajs, "They come?the Philistines!" and he walks out sjs though they were no impedi ment. She coaxes him again ant gays,4 4Now tell me the secret of this great strength," and he replies, uIr you should take some ropes that have never been used and tie me with them, I should be just like other men." Sht ties him with the ropes, claps her hands and shouts, "They come?the Philistines 1" He walk out as easily as he did before?not a single obstruc uoa. one coaxes mm again, and he says, "Now, if you should taks these ! seyen long plaits of hair and by this j house loom weave them into a web, 1 could not get away." So the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle flies backward, and the long plaits of hair are woven into a web. Then she claps her hands and says, "They come ?the Philistines!" He walks out as as easily as he did before, dragging a part of the loom with him. But^after awhiie^she persuaceed him to tell the truth. He says, "If you should take a razor or shears and cut off this long hair, I should b9 power less and in the hands of my enemies." Samson sleeps, and that she may not wake him up during the nrccess of shearing help is called in. You know that the barbers of the east have such a etrilltr.1 ? - '1 iii Xilttiiipcuaiiilg' ilic I head to this very day that instead of \ waking up a sleeping man they put a man wide awake sound asleep. I hear the blades of the shears grinding against each other, and I see the long locks falling off. The shears or razor accomplishes what green withes and new ropes and house loom could not do. Suddenly she claps her hands and says, "the Philistines be upon thee, Samson I" He rouses up with a struggle, but his strength is all gone. He is in the hands of his enemies. I hear the groan of the giant as they take his eyes out, and then I see him staggering in his blindness; feeling his way as he goes on towards Gazi. The prison door is open, and the giant is thrust in. He sits down and puts his hand on the mill crank, which, TTXioi LAnau^L'ii^ ilWXi 4UL1UU. LUUL1UU. e^-?goes day after day, week after week, month after month?work, work, work. The consternation of the world in captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza. First of all, behold in this giant of the text that physical power is not al ways an index of moral power. He was a huge roan. The lion found ii out, and the 3,000 men whom he slew found it out. Yet he was the subjec of petty revenges and out gianttd by low passion. I am far from throwing any discredit upon pnysfc.U stamiua. There are thosa who stem to have great administration for delicacy and j sickliness of constitution. I never could see any glory in weak nerves or sick headache. Whatever effort id our day is made to make the men and women more robust should have the favor of every good citiz-n as well as of every Christian. Gymnastics aaj be positively religious. (Joed people sometimes ascribe to a wicked heart what they ought to as caibe to a slow liver. The bedy and the soul are such near neighbors they often catch each other's diseases. Those who never saw a sick day, and who, l^ke Hercules, show the giant in s-- xne cr*cie, nave more to answer lor than those who are tbe subjects of li e long infirmities. He who can lift twice as much as you can and wait twice as far acd work twice as Jong will have a double account to meet in the judgment. How often is it that you do not find physical energy indicative of spiritual power? If a clear head is wortn more than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo, if mojcles witn the play of health ia them are worth more than' these drawn nn iri rViPTsmfltirvs if S.n eye quick to catch passing objects is better than one with vision dim ?nd uncertain, then God will require of us efficiency just in proportion to what he has given us. Physical energy ought to be a type of moral power. We ought tn have as good digestion of truth as we have capacity to assimilate food. Oar spiritual hearing ought io be as goot! as our physical hearing. Oar spiritual taste ought to be as clear as our tongue- Samsons in body, we j ought to be giants in mora? power. | But while you Sxd a great many j in6n who realize that they, ought to use { their money aright and use their intel-1 lipenpft aright, how few men tou fiad aware of the fact that they ought to use their physical organism aright! "With every thump of the heart there issomeihirg saying, "Work, work!" and lest we should complain that we have 210 tools to work with. God gives us cur hands and "est, with ev 1 ery knuckle, and -with every joint, ! and with every muscle, saying 10 us, 5 i "my hold and do something." _ 3 But how often it is that men with ( physical strength do ret serve Christ! 1 They are like a ship full manned and ; *?11 ?: J ? ? ?*?? Vo nr irocf- tonr>afp 1 m;i rjygeu, tajisujo able to ecdure all stress of weather, < ye* swinging id]y at the dccks, when ; these men ought to be crossing and recrossiag the great ocean of hum**n 1 jutiericg arid sin with Gca'd supplies of mercy. How oftin it is that phjsi- j cal strength is u=ed doing positive damage or in luxurious ease when, with sleeves rolled up and broniz a bosom, fearless of the shafts of opposition, it, oug-1 to be laying hold with all its might and tugging away to lift up this sunken wreck of a world. It is a most shameless fact teat arc ch of the business of the church and of tbe world must be dons by those comj paratively invalid. R'c'rard Bixt^r, oy reason cf &:s disease?, aunis cays sitting in the doer of tha tomb, jet vriticg mere than a hundred volumes and sending out an influence for G:d nat will endure as longasthe "Saints' Everlasting Rest." Eiward Pajson, never knowing a well day, yet how ae preached, and hovr he wrote, helping thousands of dying souls like him >elf to "swim in a sea of glory." Ana Robert M'Cheyns, a walking skeleton, yc-t you know what he did Dundee, and how lie shook Scotland with zeal fcr G-cd. Piilio Doddridge, advised by his friends, because of his illncs:, aot to enter the ministry, yet you know what he did for the "risa 2nd orogress of religion'' in the church and in the world. Wilberforcs was told by his doctors rVitii ho rwnlr? nnt jive a fortnight. vet at that very time entering upon philanthrcpis enterprises that demanded T,he greatest endurance aad persistence. Rjbert Hall, suffering excruciations, >o that often in his pulpit while ^reaching he would step and lie down on a sofa, then getting up again to prcach about heaven, until the glories of the celestial city dropped on ih^ multitude, doing more work perhaps cfcaa almost any well man in his da^. Oh, how often it is that men with grrat physical endurance sre not so j-reat in moral am* spiritual stature: While there are achievements for those who are bent all their dajs with sickness?achievements of patience, achievements of Christian endurance ?I call upon men of health today, men of muscle, men of nerve men of j physical power, to devols themselves j to the Lord. Giants in body, you ! ought to be giants in soul. Behold also in the story of my text illustration of the damage that stecgth can dc if it b= misguided. It seems to me that this man spent a great deal of his time in doing evil, this Samson of my text. To pay a bet which he had lost by guessing of ais riddle he robs and kills 30 people Se was not only gigantic in strength, but gigantic in mischief and a tvpa of those men in all ages of the "world who, pcweriul in bcdy or mind or any faculty of social positron or wealth, have used their strength for iniqitous purposes. s It is r ot the small, weals: men 01 tne day who do the damage. These small men who go swearing and loafing about your stores and shops and banking; houses assailing Christ and the Bible and t&e church. They do not do the damsge. They have no influence. They are vermin ihsit you crush with your foot. But it is the giants of the day, the misguided giants, giants in physical power, or giants in mental acumcn, or giants i 3 social position, or giants in wealth, who do' the damage. The men with sharp pens that stab religion and throw their poison all through our literature; the men who use the power of wealth to sanction iniquity, and bribe justice, and make truth and honor bow to their golden scep'er. Misguided eiants. Look out for them. r ? ? J I,..* ill 1113 LLliUUie ttuu iauicr ^ari? \jl lul^ i last century no doubt there -were thou- j sands of men in Paris and Edinburgh j and London who hated G:d and bias | phemed the name of the Almighty, cut they aid but little mischief. They were small men, insignificant men. Yet there were giants in those dajs. Who can calculate the soul havoc of a Rousseau, going on with a very enthusiasm of iniquity, with fiery imaination seizing upon all the implu sive natures of his day, or David Hume, who employed his life as a spi der employs its summer in spinning out silken webs to trap the unwarj, or Voltaire, the most learned man of hi3 day, marshaling a great host of skeptics, and leading them out in the dark land of infidelity, or Gibbon, who : showed an uncontrollable grudge 1 against religion in his history of one J of the most fascinating periods of the world's existence?the "Decline and . i Fall of the Roman Emnire,"a book in ! which with all the splendors o? his genius, he magnified the errors of Christian disciples, while ?:ith a sparseness of notic9 that never can be i forgiven he treated of the Christian heroes of whom the world was not worthy ? Oh, men of stout physical health, J men of gre^t mental stature, men of , high social position, men of great 1 power of any sort, I want you to un ' derstand ycur po^-er, and I want you 1 to know that that power devoted to * Grcd wi 1 be a crown on earth, to you . typical of a cro^vn in heaven, but mis -uided, bedraegled in sin. adisinist'a ; ;ive of evil, &;>d will thuoder ayaicst you wiih his condemnation in the day ' when millionaire ar,d pauter, master acd slave, kins' and subjt-cJ, shall *tand side by side in the judgm- nt, aud money bags and judicial s- ratine and royal robe shall be riven with the liehtniogs! Behold aiso now a giant may be . s'ain! Delilah started the train of cifcumitajicss thst puiied down the ' >mpie cf Dagon about Samson's ears, ^na tens of tbcus-.nds of giants have = one dows to death at,d h-11 through che same impure fascinations. It setms to me that it is high time that puloit and platform and printing pres.- J speak out against the impurities o' , modern society. Fastidiousness and j o^udery say: "Better not epeak. You will rousi up adverse criticism. You will mak-3 worse what you want ] lo make better. Better deal in glittering generalities. The subject is too J delicate for polite ears." But there comes a voice from heaven overpow ering the mincing sentimentalities of ^ the day, sajing, "Cry alcud, spare ? not, lift up thy voice like a trumpat x and show my people their transgres ( sion and the house of Jzc^o their , sins." c The trouble is that when people j write or speak upon this tseme they j are apt to cover it up with the gracss of belles letter?, so that ttie crime is < made attractive iastead cf repulsive. t Lord Byron in1 "Don Juan" adorns this s crime until it smiles like a May queen. s iiichelet. the great French writer, . covers it up with bewitching rhetoric I until it glows like: the rising sun, when it ought to be made loathsome as a smallpox hospital. There are to day influences abroad which, if un c resisted by the pulpit and the printing i press, will turn cur modern ciiies in- e ;o Scdom and Gomorrah, lit only for (, lie storm or nre ana Drimstone mat i whelmed the citisof the plain. c You are seated ia your Christian \ homes, compassed by moral and re- i lit ious restraints, do not reaiizs the c gulf of iniquity that bounds you on ] .he north and the south and the east isd the west. While I speak there ire teas of thousands of me a and konen eroin? ever the awful plunge Df sn impure ard sinful life, and, while I cry to G-od for mercy upon ;heir sculs, I call upon ?ou to marshal in the defease of your homes, your church asd your cation. There is a banqueting hall that you have never heard described. You know all about the feast of Atasuerss, where a thousand lords sat. You know all about Belsh;zz\r'scarousal, where the blood of the murdered Msg spurted into the faces of the banqueters. You may kno?7 of the scene of riot and wassail when there was set before Esc- { * "* - * -"? ^ a Ar. i pus one dish or :ooc mat cost esw,000. Bat I speak now of a different j banqueting hall Its roof is fretted with fire. Its floor is tessalated with flowing fire. Its chalices are chased with fire. I?s song is a song of fire. Its walls are buttereses of fire. Solomon refers !;o it when he says. "Her quests are in the depths of hell.'" Behold also in this giant cf the text and in the giant cf our own century that great physical power must crum bie and expire. The Samson of the iexc long ago went away. He fought the lien. He fought thr- Philistines. He cculd Szht anything, but e'eath was too much fcr him. He may have required a longer grave and a broad er grave, but the tomb nevertheless was his terminus. If, then, we ars to b3 compelled to go cut of this world, where are we to go? This "body and soul must soon part. What shall be the destiny of the former I know?dust to dust?but what shall ba the destiny of the latser? Shall it rise into the companion ship of the white robed, who3e sins Christ has slaia, or will it go down among the unbelieving, who tried to gain the world and save their sr>ul?, but were swindled out of both? Blessed be God, we have a champion 1 He is so stjled in the Bible?a chaa pion who has C3nqu?red death and hell, and he is ready to fi?ht all our battles from the fi:^t to the last. "Who is ihis that cometh from Elcm with djed garments from Bczrah, mighty :o save5" If we follow in the wake of that champion, deith has no power ard the j>rave no victory. The worst man trusting in him shall have his djicg pangs alleviated and his future illumined. In the light of this subject I want to call jour attention to a fact which mav net have been rightly considered 67 live men in all the world, and that is tbe fact that we mu-t ba brought into judgment for the employment of our physical organism- Shoulder, brain, hand, foot?we must answer in judgment for the use we have made of them. Have they been used for the elevation of society or for its depression? In proportion as cur arm is strong and our step elastic will our ac count at iast be intensified. Tnousands of sermon? are preached to invalids. I preach this morning to stout men and healthful women. We must give to God an account for the right use of this physical organism. These invalids have comparatively little to account for perhaps. They could not lift 20 pounds. They could not walk half a mile without sitting down to rest. In preparation of this subject I have said to myself. How shall I account to God in judgment for the use of a body which never knew one moment of real sickness? Rising up in judgment, standing bs side men and women who had only little physical energy, and vet con sumed that energy in a conflagration of religious enthusiasm, how will we feel abashed! Oh, men of the strong arm and the stout heart, what use are you making of your physical force? Wiil you be able to stand the test of that day when we must answer for the use of every talent, whether it were a physical energy, or a mental acumen, or a spiritual power? The day approaches and I see one who in this ?/orid was an invalid, and as she stands before the throne of Q-od to answer she says: "I was sick all my days. I had but very little strenght ? . T > -s n ? t u out X aia ss won as x uju;u m uciug kind to those who were more sick and mere suffering." And Christ -will say, ' Well done, faithful servant " And then a littl? child will stand before the throne, and she will say: "On. earth I had a curvature of the spine and I was very weak and I was very sick, but I used to gather flowers out of the wild wood ana bring them to my sick mother, and she was com forted wnen she saw the sweet flowers oat of the woods. I didn't do much, but I did something." And chriit shall say, as he takes her up in his arms and kisses her, "Well done, well done, faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." What, then, will be said to us?we to whom the Lord gave physical strength and con^mnnne vioaltv* 2 I said to an old Scotch minister who was one of the best friends I euer had, ''Doctor, did you ever know Robert Pollock, the Scotch po*t who wrote 'The Course of Time?'" -'Ob, yes,"! he replied. "I knew him well, I was bis classmate.'1' And then the doctor went on to tell me now that the writ in? of "'The Course of Time" exhaustid the health of Robert Pollock, and he expired. It seems as if no man could have such a glimpse of the day For which otner days were made as j Robert Pollock had and locg survive Lfaat gli<np3^. In the description of :'oat d^y he says, aTiong otner trial's: Begin the woe, ye woods, and tell it to the dol* ful winds, \nd doleful winds wail to the howling hills, ind howling hills mourn to the bisrnal Tales, ind dismal vaies sigh to the sorrowing brooks, \nd sorrowing brooks weep to the weeping stream, ^nd weeping stream awake the groaning deep. i"e heavens, creat archway of tho universe. put sackcloth on. :!n<l, ocern robe thyself in garb of vridowhood ind gather all thy Trave3 into a groan and u'ter it [/ong, loud, deep, piercing, dolorous, immense. fhe occasion asks it?nature dies, and angels come to lay her in h?r grave. WnatRotert Pollcok saw in pro phetic dream you and I will see in Dositive reality?the judgment, the judgment! Wiothrop College Closed. The Winthrop college girls have relumed to their homes owing to the idcption by the board of trustees of a ccommendation of the physicians' ;ommission that the college be closed lown for the present- All over the ariTirms -narents will ba reioieed 0 get their daughters home again eve n f they run the risk of taking the ;mal] pox. Thursday afternoon quite 1 number of the "girls in blue" passed hrough the city bound for their reipsctive homes, to remain there until ill danger of the spreading of snali)ox in Rock Hill has passed.?The state. Ex-Governoi Evans Married, Miss Emily Mansfield Plume, laughter of JLXivid S. Plume, was narried Wednesday night to Ex Govsrnor John Gary E^ans, of Aiken, 8. 3., at the residence of the bride's parents, Waterbury, Conn. The weda!??/3a J MAAMA VlAwn /N f +1* A IJLiJg i-UUi UUCU illCUiUCIO ui tuc groom's family from Edgefield, 8. C., md relatives and friends of the bridal :ouple from New York, New Haven, Philadelphia and Houston, Texas. i WHY. KILL EACB OTHER! ! THE PREVALENCE OF HOMICIDE IN 1 tuconnru A Calm DlscTisaloa of a Gr< a1; Evil?Time Now for Oar Purple to JSmfcLcpaie Th*msa,vc8 from. tbc Tyrascy ol a Bloody Casio m Ererv law abiding citizen must stand appalled at the frequency of homicide in the Stale. There is scarcely an is sue of a paper Trhich dees not chrcni c!e or comment upon soma affray or "difficulty," as it is euphemistically termed, involving the life of some cit iz?n. It is veiily true that our brothers' blcod cries out from lha ground against us. Some 3 ears ago, 1880, there appearI A 4 A IT A\?l? A VI 4^^ A/3 ' * I?T A VVl TVl AW4 VV CU a vvuik cuu.icu xiytaiuur, nUJtli and Soulh," in. which Mr. Rtdaeld. the author, in no uskiadiy spirit ex amined and discu^sc-d this suhj-ct. The result of his investigation wai fearful. First. He found that from the reports of cur own newspapers it ap p?an d that the number of homicidej in our Southern S'ates were prcpor tionaiely greater than in any country on earth the population of which s rated as civil'zai. Secord. Ha found that tha number of homicides in the Southern States in the fifteen year3 before he wrote reached the enormous aggregate o/ 40.000. Ia these investigations J?r. Redfif-ld selected the States of Texss, Kentucky and South Carolina for figures upon whish to basa his estimates, because in each of these States there was pub jisced a newspaper covering Iccil af fairs in the entire State with a degree of thoroughness that enabled at less! an approximate collection of eases of ! bcinicid<=s for a given period. The year 1S7S was taken as an average I year. Tie result presented some amizj ing contrasts a ad brought cut the dif { ferences in this respect between South ern and Northdrn civilization in fe5rful colors It is pzinful a&d mortify ing for a Southern rcan?for a South Carolinian?;o tell even to his own people what was tbus shown. But a | recognition o? evil must'come before any effectual effort to amendment. If with shame, at least with frankness, let us look at the condemning facts. In Texas during the year there were more homicides than in the t*n States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachuset s, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota, with an aggre gats population of nearly, if not qxti seventeen millions. In Kentucky that year there were more homicides than in the ei??ht States of Maine, NeW.Hampshire, Ver mont, Massachusetts, Rnode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, with an aggregate population of nearly ten millions. In South Carolina that year there were more homicides than in the eight States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver-1 mont, Massacnusetts, iitiode island, Connecticut, Michigan and Minnesota, witn an aggregate population of about six millions. In this eld State cf South Carolina, with a civilization dating back two centuries, there are more than twice as many men killed annually than in all the six New England States, with more than four millions of inhabitants. Manslaughter in the old State of South Carolina was twelve or fourteen times more frequent than in the old State of MassachusEtts. Mr. Red field's work was published in 1SS0, seventeen jears ago. Is it net a fact that the crimes of homicide has rather increased than decreased since he wro'.e? We fear that it has. Texas was long a frontier State. It had had but a loese Government, as an independent Republic, and its immense area rendered it "but a sparsely populated community. It sun retains mucn 01 jronuer me. Kentucky, :oo, had borne the same relation to the colonies and the old thirteen States, and the bloody impression of those early times it seems impossible to efface. But, as Mr. Red field points out, there is nothing in the early history cf our community to have given such a turn to the people of South Carolina. It is an old community, with conservative manners and way?, and, as between the whites, withi-u: tne friction of varying nation alities, and without the lower foreign population, in wich most cf the crime of violecce in ihe Northern States is found. There is no reason wh-^ homicide among the whites o? South Caro Ji aa should b9 more frequent than iL. a ! -Ji: t 5 amoD2 lae J^mziuizu uurci ciuzsusui New England. And yet. measured by r- Jative population, Mr. Redfield finds manslaughter among; the white people of South Carolina to be more than ten times more frequent than among American born cit'zsns of New Eng land. Is is true, 1 believe, that this terrible proportion is confined to homicide, and aces not include murder. Our people do not kill from malice cr for piuoder, tut in bot blood for fan ' cied wrongs. Murder is everywhere, but the fact that homicides are so much more 'request in the Southern States thanelsewhtre should put the South err. people upon inquiry as to the cause aLd it>e remedy. Now what is the cause of this? These figures show that we are a bloodguilty people Are we a blooci thirsty psopk ? I do not telieve that we are O^e cau<e which is commonly alleged Mr R;c field demonstrates to te unfouided. v;z that the whites o: South Carolina carry pistols because c f apprehension of danger from negro??. For if this were true we would surelv fi d that tre whiles use their pistols race frequently against blacks than against tho-e of their ov^n color. Tne reverse is tee case. Mr R- dfield fcu;.d in South Carolina 109 css9sof homicide during the year 1877, in which the color of the perpetrators was ascertained. Of these 45 whites tell by tre hands of whites and 24 blacks by the hands of whites, making 69 homicides committed by whites out of an ascertained total of 109. The blacks ki'lrd 35 cf their own color and 5 white. The proportion is indeed, greater than at first appears by these figures, for if we take luto consideration the relative cumber of the t o races, ss Mr. Redtield argues, the i homicides by whites of whites is much greater ia proportion than tfce number of homicides of blacks by blacks. < We may keep arms, guns and pis- ; tols, at home for the protection of our ; property and of our families, though this'cf itself argues a deplorable con- : dition of society. We carry then upon < oar persons not for fear of negroes, . but to nsent insults by cur equals? white men. We go armed not for fea'5 but for resentment. Another poia* to which Mr. Rsdfield ] calls attention is the fact tnat while m t the Northern States tbe highest homi- ? cidai rate is found in the cities where i it is furnished by the lowest for- i eign population which congregate 1 there, in the S-:uth generally, and in < South Carolina particularly, where i there are no' Urge cities, no violent t clashmgs of interests between labor 1 and capital, no large importation of ] foreigners, with their often peculiar i hflhifs and associations, hut instead nf l these, all the conditions for an idea], 11 law-abiding community it is the rural j s districts in ^rbica the rcanslajer rsest j abounds. And this he fcund to be j psptci&llj' the ease in the upper tier of j L/JUJUU^>. Again ha pointed cut that while j there had not been as many political fatal encounters in South Carolina! since the reconstruction Government j were overthrown, the number of hem- i icides growing out of '"personal diin C'llties" and street affrajs has continued?indeed, has increased. There was | a> much or more crime against the j pers:n in South Carolina under Harnp-; ton and Sincnson as there had been under Chamberlain aid Scott. If Mr. Redfield were writing today he would add that they have so continued under Hagood. Thompson, Richardson, Tillman, Evans and Elkrbe. For alas! so far from improving in the seventeen yesri s.nce air. Kscniid wrcta, 111 lfcb'J ! in this res;ect matters have grown worse. This homicidal mania of ^cur people is due altogether, therefore, to neither race cr political cause. To what is it thendut? Mr. Rc;dfhld, like most Northern writers, attempts to connect it with the habits engendered by the institution of slavery. The short and decisive answer to this, at least as far a? this State is concerned, is that there was no snch homicidal habit during tha existence of that institution. Our genilemen then fought duels; but as many men are killed in personal ei counters in almost any single year sltce the war as were killed in duels i-i all the previous^history of the State. indeed, so tju? is tins that there are not wanting these who attribute tie ic crease of homicide in the State to ifce suppression of the duelling code. 1 cannot myself doubt that all the manifestations of this crime have their origin in the one great cause, towit: !o habits ergendered by cur late war, and mere especially with us by the actual, if suppressed war of recDnstruction which followed. Wfiat are the manifestations of this homicidal spirit? Are they not these: 1. The habitual disregard cf the sacredness of human life. 2 The military impress upon civQ ^overrmant. 3. The contempt cf civil govern mens. 4. Ana growing out of ihese the habit of carrying weapons on the person.?Col. Edward McCrady in the s Sunday News. AC3EA3E MUST BE REDUCEDOo tin at Present Piic s Mords BankrapEcy to ibe South. The following extremely interesting circular letter has been received by the Charlotte Observer from Atwood Violeti & Co., NJw York, brokers in stocks, cotton and grain and is com mended to the consideration of readers: Great Britain, without a pound of native raw cotton, spins and weaves 77 per cent, of the cotton goods pur chased by otter nations. The United States, producing over half of all the A.L 1 11 J M coiion grown in me wor;u, supplies less than 5 per cent, cf the manufsctared cotton which - ether count/ies buy. 07er 95 per cent of the world's trade in cotton gocds is in the hands of Great Britain, Gerrr aoy &rd France, neither of whicn raises a pound of cotton at home. In 1896 the British con sumed 4,160,000 bales of cotton, and 83 per cent, of the product of this cotton was exported. This represented a consumption of about 3,412,000 bales cf raw cotton, cr about 2C0,000 bales more than the entire quantity consumed by the United States' mills during the same period. THp dailv snnt salps at Tiiwrnnnl tnr the last 18 months show that 90 per cent of such, sales are of American cotton, and the cheaper the fries of American, the more does itguaran tee a continuance of this large escess of consumption, because prices are now down to a point to which the East Indesand other countries cannot suceets'ully compete with that of American production, while even at the same price, American cotton would t>3 given th3 pre'ererc*, on account of the bstter staple. It would, there fere, seem that present prices will largely stimulate the world's consumption of cotton grown in the United S:atcs. It costs on sn average of 40 cents per hundred to pick cotton, and it requires an average of 1,600 pounds of seed cotton to make one bale of 500 pounds of lint. It costs 70 cents per bale of bagging and ties, netting, therefore, but $1.8 to the producer out of one bale of 500 pounds of lint at 5 cents. Cotton at its present price means bankruptcy, literally, for tbe South, and insures absolutely a redaction of acreage tbat will prevent a recurrence of what is disastrous to Southern interests. It can be seen how largely depend ent the manufacturing world is upon cotton of American growth, and how greatly it lies within the power of the American producer to regulate the price, by avoiding large crops and planting for those of moderate size, with resulting rapid increase in the price all of which we think will come about some time during the next six months The cotton seed, it is now estimated, is worth $30,000,000 a year. It has recently been discovered that otton seed oil, with the addition of 18 per cent, of crude India ruober. makes an imitation that cannot be distinguished from genuine rubber. Yours verv truly, AT WOOD VlOLETTj& CO. A Calendar Free. The Atlanta Weekly Journal is a large paper, containing ten pages of seven columns tacb. It is filled with the latest nercs of the day, both domestic ana foreign. Owning its o*n leased telegraphic wires, which are used for no other purpose but to brirg the latest news to its editoral rooms, The Journal is prepared to get ail the news up to the latest moneot. In addinon to the news, it contains more special features than any other Southern weekly Among other things it has a weekly letter or sermon from Rev. Sam Jones, a contribution from Hon. John Temple Graves, letters of travel, br'ograpnies of dbt'n^uished men, ard many ottier attractive feat ures. The Weekly Journal is beauti fully illustrated by its own artist. In fact neither energy nor money is spared to maka it the Great Southern Weekly. Calendar free. And the price is only Fifty Cents a year. To every subscriber sending fifty cents for & year's subscription and a two-cent postage stamp extra (to pay postage) a beautiful lithographed calendar for 1893 will be sent free, Specimen 3opies free. Acid res?, The Journal, Atlanta, Ga. JBarned to ueaih. One, and possibly two, lives were A nnn nrnnprtr f? p. LUOb ftUU (piv^wv nuAku Vi vrv?v stroyed in a disastrous fire which started about midnight Wednesday ai?ht at Duryea Pa., and almost uined the business portion of the ;own. William H. Lowell, mine supirintendent, entered the store buildngs to save some stocks and papers ind was burned to death. The body *as recovered this morningr. John Pleasantine, township clerk, is missng and there is little doubt that he Derished in tue names, rune siore juiidings and four dwellings were deinroyed. PADKIMG ROUND SALES. A. Fa?! Dgfc.-lpcioa o* ths Process 43 Seen la Barnwell. Mr. August Kohn has beeD to se-^ 4W axIIM Jo. ? . i . i: - 1 L-C 'vV;mor C U UillUg pjSE!, UI vaiC?3fc>. iliks Browa in operation in Barnwell county, and describes wbat he saw as follows: There is no mystery about the round balr, and any one ciii readily understand the process. The cotton r.t tne Barnwell plant is gioned by four Winship 70 saw gins. The material difference from other plants is in the press. The cotton is taken in at any other gin, only that C>1ol31 3?o-n hss introduced innovations, and cotton can be taken as readily by saction pire from a car on the siae track, or a wagon on the scales, as fi-om a bin where tbe cDt'.ca has accumulated. After tbe cotton passes through the gin^ it is blo wn into a condenser, where the trash is elimina-1 ted. In the condenser o? this plant tbe j purpose is to separate the air from the j cotron, and also as much of the cotioi:; and also as much of the dirt and trash as possible; then the cotton goes to the bat-former, which consists of two aprons, which carry the cotton downward and which gradually compress I L: 1 Zt. ?. ^4. i. .^.4. . / ! it uuui ii turnes t ur; as me u ?uuui o: ] the bat-former, in the form cf a thick > uniform bat. The bat parses down the ! chu'.e between the stationary roil and the compression roll, which gets the cotton into shape for the bale. This cotton bat is simply woucd around an iron core, and by the pressure in the cylinder and hydraulic force a c:m ] pact b.ile is made. The bale is wound j between two large cylinders, which j are covered with rubb3r, which pro tec;s th8 cotton from damage. All of the bales, of course, are of usiform i'za?fcur feet long: and about two feet ia diameter. The weight of the bale, of course, depends upon the cotton j that is c ifarcd to be pat in a Dale, and ] at Birr, well 1 saw two turned out-l from 333 to 529 pounds. After the | cotton to go into the bale has been wound into a round or cylindrical j j form it is ready for its cover, and a ! | jute or cotton cover is relied neatly j around it and the salens completed, j j and by a Jever i? is then thrown from i I between the t^o iron rollers, and is! i relied over to have the covering sew- j I cd. Tbe iron red which is put ia as a j ! core is then driven out and the pack-! ! age is ecmplete. The marketable balej i contains nothicg exespt the covering ] of light bagging-, which has been roll- j ed around it before it is taken out of i the press, and the heads, which have been sewed on. After beiag weighed the package is then ready for market The bale could as readiiy be wrapped ii paper, 'or Ike baggiag is simply used to protect She cotton against dirt ,in handling; if the bagging were removed the bale would retsia its shape as it comes out of the press, all the air having been pressed out oi it. CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS TIDETheir Joy and Mirth Should be Unrestrained on TAis Day ol Pays. "If there is one day in the year which lightly belongs to the young it is Christmas day," write3 El ward W. Be kin The Christmas Ladies'Home Journal. "It should b5 given over to them, therefore, without stint or reservation. And I think somtimes that parents do not always understand this. It is right and all essential that restrictions upon the amusements cf the vounsr should 'prevail in everv home. But Christmas day is the one day when these barriers ought to oe lifted, and the young given free play. No wholesome liberty, nor indulgecce should be withheld from a boy "or girl on that day. What of it, my dear friend, if such liberties do mean a tear here, or a broken chair there? Suppose the boy is particularly noisy ov Christmas. What of it? Tell me, if you can, a better sign of strong, young health than the noise from a boy's iungi! Suppose he does throw himself, or even jump or ssand, on your best lounge. and soil or rumple your pet tidy! Pass over it, don't notice it, but let the boy have his Ohristm^s dav. And if the little eirl dees icsist upon pattiag her sticky candy ficgers on your dress, what of it? Lit her romp and tear all over the house. Give her the joy of feeling that for one day the house is hers in every nook and corner of it. L^t her put her smutchy little hands en the j white paint of door or wall. I know | a home, my dear woman, where the | marks of four little smutchy fiagers | may be seen any day cn the white paint of a door, and they are treasurj ed above the costliest ornaments in that house. Nothing could indues the : mother of that home to ^ipe off thc:e | hnger marks, asd gavly would her heart sing if the little fiagers that put them there could make others all over the doors and windows of that house. L:t each one of us who car, give freedom and zest to the dearest treasure of the Ohiistmaitide: thevoung barbari ans cf cur homes. God bless them, I say. May each child ia this land cf ours have a Christmas day this year fashioned after its o^n ieart." An Expensive Body. The expenditures under the contingent fund of the United States senate, which have jist been muie known in a report of tne secretary of the senate, contain some interesting items For instance, it is shown that Mr. QenjaI min Durfee, who used to be the clerk 1 o" finance cc-mmit'ee, made numerous! trips to New York on various matters, notably in connection with the coin j mittee which is investigating the use of alcohol in the arts, and he rendered an account of $17 for e^e^y "time he! traveled to New York and returned. ! Vr. Eugene Davis, who went over o New York for anct'ier committee, | contented himself with bujing a $10 round trip ticket. Mr. Renrv Dalle-y, j jr., a iMew xorK pen umtr, seems to have hid two very delightful trips to j Earops for the alcohol committee, j visiting Liverpool, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Ber lia, Geneva, and ether charming cities, at government expense Mr. Charles G Phelps accompanied on one trip'and together they spent over $2,000. On Mr. Dalley s other excursion he spent over $1,0G0. Mr. 8. N. D. North drew $5 a daj as "statistician1' for the senate fiaancecommittee and all bis expenses while iraveling, while James P Vorhees aot $S00 for a bust of Vice President Breckinridge. Mr. Durfee also got from $206 to $210 a month for 'compiling a history of revenue ana gererai sppropriauon bills," while it cost $218 10 feed with ' meals and lurches"tte "senators and attendants while going to ard returning from the Grant memorial exercises in New York." The other exjjeasfs of this excursion to Ne w York amouo ted to $782. It cost a little over $800 to bury the late Senator Earle, of South Carclina. A Gruesome Scons. That wss a gruesome sc:ne in Darlington on list Friday when a colored man named John Wright was hanged for lie murder of Clarence Boyd, a white man. Wr:ght was pronounced dead by attending phjsi cians, and the bcdy was placed m the | j lil. More than an hour later the I unfortunate man was&Jiveand breathing, and was carried to the galiows ! again, and this time he was hanged! by the neck until he was dead. v ^ 'V ; THE CURRENT LAPSED. I Bus the JSJdcr'y 'piaster ibccght xlie j Yiinrg ISan Wse Trjloj; to K:aa Ber, : I A vouejt Cleveland mac, a-ser's j The Plain Dealer, claims to have been [placed m * very embarrassing predicaj rnent last Saturday evenirg. He says j he was calling oil a certain young lady | wco resides in a fashionable down j towh apartment house, and as she hap-j j pened to have gone cut with he? molb- i j er, but was expected to return shortly ! ; he said he would wait in their parlor, j j The servant ushered him in, acd he! | was surprised to find that sncther cal i ler was also wailing. I: was a lady | califr, a tall, somewhat angular per-; ; s^-n, of questionable age, with while j j gioves and a very large black hat. ! L-ft alone with this lady, the jour g man felt a little uneasy. He hadn't j contracted for a silent tete tete with a \ lone female in * strange house. For a j time he sat stiffly quiet. Then, as the ! silence grew oppressive, he arose and ! I busied himself inspecting the pictures J I and brie a trie.' As be moved along j j one sida of the apartment, keeping at' i a safe istancs from the stranger in ! tbe big hat, he happened to approach ! | the electric button tbat controlled the i I liaht in the room. He had his aves : | glued to a water color hangiDg on the 1 wall close by, wht-n to bis amazement, i ' the lights suddenly went out, leaving j tl e apartment in total darkness. [ Of course ic was owing to an - acci-1 dent at the power house, butthevcung man didi?'c know that, 2nd naturally j expected the lights would immediately j flash up agaiD. An instant after the eclipsa set in r there was a sharp gasp from the direc- \ tion of the lady with the big hat. j "You?you did :bat a purpose," she j ' shrilly remarked. "I saw you standingj : bv the button." -3 il :? ' .LAIC jtuug iutiu vriptu mc pr-i&pirit-? tlon from bis brow. I ''I assure you, madam," he said,! |' that I had nothing to do with it. It j | must be some?som? lapse in the cur I j rert. or something." . I | "You did it," continued the shrill j j voice,* "because you wanted to kiss: | me." i "No, no, madam!'' cried the young j | man; "no, no! I wouldn't kiss you for \ S the world | Then in his desire to escape he star-1 ! ted towards the supposed location of j I the dcor. ; "Don't movp," cried the lady, "or; j I'll scream." ! He halted for a moment, then softly ; | crept along the wall again. "I hear you, cried the lady. "Don't; ; you dare to come near me!" j "Madam," said the exasperated \ \ youth, "nobedy wants to harm a hair! I of your head." v ; j "That's just what the burglar said | j lae m?Qi our nouse was roDDea, i : moaned the lady. i ''But I must find the door," said the | youth. "We can't stay in here indtfi nitely in the dark." "I should thick not," snapped the lady. "Bjtdon'cyou dare to come this way. If you do, I'll stab your face with a hatpin! And don't ycu thiak you can fool me I hear your miserable sqaeaky. shoes every step you take." "Perhaps," said the youth, f&r fcrs sense of bumor was beginning to re tn-", "it would b9 well to take them off?" -ife;cy, no," cricd the lady;' don't you dare to." "Then the ycuin felt his way forward, guided as to the lady's location irsTr eiiT?rJ*T? qn rJ ctotc r f o lo rm vjv ^auuijr vx . ?IMI UAJ and after he had run squarely into the mantle, and bangecl against a screen, and tumbled over a footstool and sev eral chairs, he finally found the doorknob and bounced into the hall. It vrtis pitch dark, but almost immediately he saw a servan; coming up the stairs with a 'amp. "Shr.w metnejjws.y out of tMs,"saii the youth, and the servant escorted him to the front door. A.s he stepped on the sidewalk he drew a long and refreshing breath. He insists upon calling it a nairow escap?. Murdered and Robbsd. Wednesday morning a littfe girl going to the store of Mrs. M. Hogar, on the comer of Clay and Congress streets, Mobile, Ala., to make a small purchase, found the store onen asd'tfce lamps burning, but no ore ?ttendinr. G 102 into the rear room she discovered Mr?. Hcgan lying on the fl^or dead, with her hands tied behind her fcsck and a pi# C8 of braid wrapped tightly around her throa\ Giving the alarm, a i investigation followed, wtichsbowj. ed that the place had been roboed jt money and gcocs. The robbers had probably forced the woman, who was 65 years of age, to give up her small ho rd which she kept in her back room of the store. Then they strangled her with the braid, but finding her slow in dying-, brained her with s me bluai instrument. Her bmos had oozed cut upon the floor. Prom the fact the lamps were still burn me acd the ?oxan fully dressed, it is thought the murder occurred some time last night, perhaps at an early hour in the evening. No noiss was beard at any time, and there is-no Alt?A 4 /\ 1 /N f ik A vj;uc lu tac iucjuiitj ui i Bryan inlklcx!c3. \ Bryan is having a royal good time in Mexico, where he has gone on a visit. Oq Wednesday he called to pay his respects to the American minister, Gen. Powell Clayton, as 10 o'clock, and was cordially greeted, and. after passing an hour with the minister, he drove ia the forest of Chspultepec wic'a Thomas Braniff, president of the Bank of London and Mexico; Ex-Governor Crittenden and Gen John B Frisbie, and in the afternoon he was a visitor, with Mrs. Bryan, at the Chamber of Deputies, ,and was admitted to the floor, the* Congressmen all rising out of resoect to the leader of tbe Democratic party in the United States. "He was invited to speak and talked of parliamentary institutions. and of the progress which Mexico is making on all hands. His rtception in the Cnambtr was enthusiastic. Oae More Day. The Columbia Register says tha Attorney General has received several app.ications to know whether or not the county supervisors of registration should keep their offices open on the first day of January or the first Monday in January, for the registration -of voters. Mr. Barber has decided that according to the terms of the act the ? * ill - - -V _ A. I DOCKS muse oe sepi open on ine ursi day of the New Year for all who wish tc register. After the next registration in January there wili only be one registration .officer, appointed by the governor, for each of the counties. The undersianditg clause will be a thing of the past, when the single commissioner of registration takts hold of affairs. Srate Printer Changed. It has been agitated for some time who would do the public printing. Monday after Mr. Chas. A. Calvo, Jr., was examined and adjudged insane. The printing committee declared tie cfiles of Public Printer vacaut. Therefore they proceeded to elect another, whereby Mr. Charles B. Calvo, a sen of Chas. A., was tie lucky man. Tne state printing will this year be done at the State office. L ? J | Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. ' ^55 I I - aniamrp ruffuui Absolutely Puro ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., KEW YORK. PIS 'OLS IN A PARLOR. _ A. Sloody lj?gedy at a Social Oathf rlog In m Georgia. The ciuzsns of Jeffersonville, Ga., were startled la4e Wednesday night by a fusilade of pistol shots at the residence of R. L Califf. The scream 9M ing of the women aroused the town. and the wh^le population gathered :0 about the scene of the shooting, when ,;:g| it was discovered that three men were v?p lying dead on the parlor floor and a woman and girl were fatally shot Mr, Ca- 'IWi Jiff and bis wife had invited a number of friends to their home to spawLjJjj* ^ evenine: in a socialentercdnmea?. Toe parlor was a scene of gayety, youag folks dancing and singing al- % :-i ternately, and amusement was at its v-r | height hen bfcaw Griffia, a yourg man under the influence of liquor be- , ^ came too offensive in his manner to- ward the young ladies. Mr. Califf remonstrated with him and advised him to go home. This enraged Griffia and he drew a pistol and began to rave and make threats against his . ^ host. Califf,. knowing Griffin to be a :\M2g dangerous man, prepared himself and .:l*^ ordered the offender to leave the house. This made matters wcrse. Wssk Griffin began to fight He drew bis 3||g pistol and just as he raised itCaliff <%? was ready for a battle and the firing t*gan. Seven shots were ezcbangeo. ' Both principals dropped dead, and . -yA Clarence Jones, a joung man, w*s also killed, the three"men falling wi Ik '^?1 in a radius of seven feet. As soon as the first shot rang oat the young ladies began to flee for their 1 lives, and before the room was claredtwo of them were fatally wounded. < Califf fired three shots, all of which took t ffect?one striking Griffin in the -"-^w rleht temple and two in tne breast. . Griffin fired four times. One shot entered Califf's breast, killing him in- ^ stantly, another struck Clarence Jones in the head, and death ensued an hour later. Mrs. CalifE was shot in the abdomen and her 7 year-old- .-'JslE daughter in the neck. When the firing n&d commenced the young people bee an to flee from danger, msary of : -=?1 j them getting into buggies and driving away. During the present year there i was almost a similar occurrence here . ;\p ! when Newby and Defore fell in a street duel. Just before that two negrces were taken from jail and lynch- 1?| ed. And ? few years ago Mrs. Noblea ;and Gus Fambles committed a most J?||? horrible murder, for which they are " : ~mk now under sentence of death. TAKEN OUT OF GOVERNOR'S HANDS-^J Bond of Control Will Look After Bnfornl mont ot D!cp?xuaiy Liw. The enforcement of the dispensary law has taken a new tack. The gov- J ernor's office has, up to this time been attending to the enforcement of the ^ law, and all derelictions have been reported through thai cffice and he > has appointed such constables as havfe \ ' % been necessary. In October he dis charged tue entre iorce 01 constables ill the state ard hss appointed consta- %j| bles wherever.they may be necessary 9 or are requested. In this-way the 9 fo>-ce has been increased to about six jH or eight men, but now the state board or control has sent out a circular letter asking all of the cc untry boards to report whether the Jaw is being enforced in their counties and whether they -J want constables sent there. In this f m way the state will, if constables axe f&M appointed, get out of the payment of || the constables and they will ba paid out of the profits going to such towns as the county boards report are not en- / forcing the law. In this method, if J9 the counties reoort a faiiure'.to enforce j?fl the law, the force will be increased to?| its old standard. Governor EIlerb/B will be helpless, and he has alre^d*A said that he will appoint coxxstab^jj wherever they are tsked for by ^rjj H state boa-d of control cr local ainPfl rities-j upon a statement that the cot being enforced The posi/^B the state board o control in takR^ I ^.itiatory is calculated to tak^Bfl f rcement of the law out of thMpM o the governor and place it .i haac s of the county .and state bosRS^ The circular, which is l:fcdy to raise a U great stir, reads as follows: "Gentlemen -Please ? ;d below the following resolution adopted attbe regular monthly meeting of ibis board for December, 1897; Tnat a circular < S 1 tier ba addressed to the various county boards of control, to wit: If, in their -Z-fitjM j id^ment, a constable is re-ded in. v jj[ iheir county to prevent; tbe jH'clt sale of liquor, we lecommetd that they ask .^'<'4 the governor to appointore or more -Mi*, for their county." _ ; Governor E)l<rbe tocay announced f. >: officially that there wou'd positively - ^ be no extension for the psyaaent of taxes. The comptroller general and 'Wa governor can, according to law, ez " Jajfl tend the time. There is no other way in which there can be an ex'ensioj^ and so this annoucement settles tnH matter beyond question. Ail taxes^^H will have to be paid by Dec* mber 31. sazita Clkus. Once upon a midnight dreary, ss I pondered weak and weary over all the ->. \r Christmas presents that a boyish -r francy draws, wbi?e witb s!e?p I tried % 1o tussle, tried with all my might and . 5 ^ muscle, suddenly I heard a rustle, like tbe noise of Santa Claus. Though with fright I fairly shuddered; for fright I nad no cause?it was only . a Santa CJauF. Then I listened more : |ij8 intently to the sound that crept up g^Ltly to my cnamber, where my .-.Jm wonder almcst caused my heart to WU pause, and I neard lha candy spilling, ||| as the stocking he was filling, and I <~m wished I'd left a shilling there for -&wk dear old Santa Claua, And the noise ill I heard so plainly in the room a?- s| joining paV was only Santa Claus. JH Anxious now to get a pe?p, down the stairway did I creep, all impatient for a glanc?, although against the laws, and it filltd my Heart with dread, as .|S with sudden tear he fled and jump d into mamma's bed?naughty, naugh- Ja ty Santa Claus! And the stories tnat we hear each year areas thin as sum- m mereauzj. Fraud stupendous?Santa m Claus! jm