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life : ?SV: ^HOUSEHOLD CARES ~ REV. DP.TALMAGE PRE,S CHES ON THE DUTIES OF KOMELiFE. Words oZ Chctr For All Holders Eaaghters and Sisters-Ho Reminds 3htm lliit Tfcey Ar? Deciding !he Eternal Besslog of the Race. Dr. Talmage's sermon tcc-ay goes through, home life with the tread of one who has seen all its departments and sympathizes with all he sess and has words of chec-r for all wives, wiir?+Via*c ar,ri sistWS; IfXt. Luke x, 40: "Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, lhat she help me." Yonder is a beautiful village homesteady The man of the house is dead, and his widow is taking charge of the premises. This is the -widow Martha of Bethany. Yes, I will show ycu also the pet of the household. This is Msry the younger sister, with a book under < ' her arm and her face having no ap pearance of anxiety cr care. Company ?come. stand- nitrliti tifrr door, and-of course there is a good deal of excitement insiae the door. The disarranged furniture is hastily put aside, and the hair is brushed Ko/?Tr anrt the ftrft R/HnsTftd 2S well as in so short a iims iiary and Martha can attend to these matters. They did not keep Christ star-ding at the door until they were newly ap pareled or until they had elaborately arranged their dresses, then coming out with their affccted surprise as though they had not heard tne two or three previous kncckings. saving, "Why, is that you?" No. They were ladies and were always presentable, although they may not have always had on their best, fcr none of us always has on our best. If we did our best would not be worth having on. They throw cpsn the door and greet Christ They say: "Grood morning, Master. Come in and be seated." Christ did not come alone. He had a group of friends with him, and such an influx of city visitors would throw any country home into perturbation. I suppose also the walk irom the city had been a goed appetizer. The kitchen department that day wss a very important department, and I suppose that Martha had no sooner greeted the guests than she fled to taat room. Mary had no worriment about household affairs. She had-full confidence that Martha could get up the best dinner in Bethany. She seems to say: "Now let us have a division of labor. Martha, you cook, and I'll sit down and be good." So you have often seen a great difference between two sisters. ia Mfti-tlia TiarH wrvrfciriff ! painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive of some new pastry or disco ving something in the art of cookery and housekeeping. There is Mary, also fond of conversation, literary, so ea gaged in deep questions of ethics she has no time to attend to the ques - tions "of household welfare, it is noon. Mary is in the parlor with Christ. Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better if they had divided the work,and then they could have divided the opportunity of listening to Jesus, but Mary monopolizes Christ while Martha swelters at the fire. It was a very important thing that they should have a gocd dinner that day. Christ was hungry, and he did not often have a luxurious entertainment. Alas me, if the duty had devolved upon Mary, what a repast that would have been I But something went wrong in the kitchen. Perhaps the Are would not burn, or the bread would not base, or Martha scalded her hand, or something was burned black that ought only to have beeA[|E made brown,Martha lest Js^fpa fcldlWO AllU. \ bllO oftheoccaSof^with besweated brow, and, perhaps, with pitcher in one hand and tongs in the other, she rushes out of the kitchen into the presence of Christ, saying, "Lord, dcst thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?" Christ scolded not a word. If it were scolding, I should rather have his scolding than anybody else's blessing. There was nothing acerb. Ee knew Martha had almost worked herself to death to get him something to eat, and so he throws a world of tenderness into his intonation as he seems to say: "My dear woman, do not worry. Let the dinner go. Sit down on this ottoman beside Mary, your younger sister. Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is " As \Tq>*t ha fViw>Txre r>r?o-n tnot MVUbUH WJJ?VU. UA.W* kitchen door, I look into and see a great many household perplexities and anxieties. _ First there is the trial of nonappreciatioE. That is what made Martha so mad with Mary. The younger sister had no estimate cf her older sister's fatigues. As now, men bothered with the anxieties of the store and office and shop, or, coming from the Stock Exchange, they say when they get home: "Oh, you ought to be in our factory a little while. You ought to have to man?ge 8 or 10 or 20 subordinates, and then you would know what trouble and anxiety ?re." Ob, sir, the wife and the mother has to conduct at the same time a university. a clothing establishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a library, while she is health officer, police and president of her realm. She must do a thousand things and do them well in order to keep things going smoothly, and so her brain and her nerves are taxed to the utmost. I know there are housekeepers who are so fortunate that they can sii in an armchair in the library or lie on the belated pillow and throw off all the care upon subordinates who, having large wages and great experience, can attend to all of the affairs of the household. Those are the exceptions. I am speaking now j of the great mass of housekeepers? j the women to whom life is a struggle, and who at 30 years cf age look as! though they were 40, and at 40 lock as though they were 50, and at 50 lock as though they were 60. The fallen at nhalrvns and Austerlitz and Gf&tt'S burg ana Waterloo are asmallnum ber compared with the slain in the great Armageddon of the kitchen. You go out to the cemetery, and you will see that the tombstones all read beautifully poetic, but if those tombstones would speak the truth thousands of them would say: "Here lies a woman killed by too much mending and sewing and baking and scrubbing '* . and scouring. The weapon with which she was slain was a broom or a sewing machine or a ladle." You think, 0 man of the world, that you have all thft and snxiPtiPK If tha carps and anxieties of the household should come upon jcu for one -week, you would be fit for the insane asylum. The half rested housekeeper arises in the morning. She must have the morning repast prepared at an irrevo cable hour. What if the lire will not light, what if the marketing did not ,r;-f come, what if the clock has stopped? r?rt maf+ow c>>o mticf nftvp tt. nm i n J? 4AVT AU4HVU.) wuvawm ?~ ^ ? ? ^ repast at an irrevocable hour. Then the children must be got off to school. What if their garments are torn, what if they do not know their lessons, what if they have lost a hat or sash?they must be ready. Then you have all the diet of the day, and perhaps of several days, to plan; but what if the butcher has sent meat unmastica ble cr the grocer has sent articles of feed adulterated, and what if some piece of silver be gene, or some favorite chalice be cracked, or thereof leair, cr the rlumbicg fail, orany cne of a thousand thisgs occur?you must be ready. ^ ? --- ? ? ? T? ? ? ?AM. J AwA *-v? e*4- I cprijsg weauiercuaues, &uu iuc?o uuuoi. be a revolution in the family wardrobe, cr au!umn ccmes, and you must shut cut the northern blast; but what if the moih has preceded you to the chest, what if during the year the children have outgrown the apparel of last year what if the fashions have changed. Your he use must be an apothecary's shop; it must be a dispensary; there must be medicines for sll sorts of ailments? something to loosen the croup something to cool the burn, something to poultice the inflammation, something to silence the jumping tooth, somethirg to soothe the earache. You must he in half a dczsn places at the same time, or ycu must attempt to be. T " * *? * j x e i:r^ if, unaer an mis ^earanu uaruj mo. Martha makes an impatient rush upon the library or drawing room, be patient be lenient. 0 woman, though I may fail lo stir up an appreciation in the sou's of others in regard to your household toils, let me assure you. from the w'ith" which Jesus Christ met Marta^-^^at he appreciates all your work from"g<in;et to cellar, and that the God of Debor?hLand Hannah and Abigail and Grandmother Lois and Elizabeth Fry and Hanm?b More is the God of the housekeeper. Jesus was never married, that be might be the especial friend and coe fidant of a whole world of troubled womanhood. * - * * - J mi. 1 blunder, unnss was marrieu. jlllc Bible says that the church is the Lamb's wife, ana that makes me know that all Christian women have a right to go to Christ and tell him of their annoyances and troubles, since by his oath o*conjugal fidelity he is sworn to sympathize. George Herbert, the Christian pcet, wrote two cr three verses on this subject: The servant by this clause Makes drudgery divine? "Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes this and the action fine. A young woman cf brilliant education and prosperous circumstances was called do wr s'ars to belp in tie kitcnen in the absence of tne servants. The doorbell rirgins-, she went to open it and found a gentleman friend,v?ho said ss became in: '"I thought that I heard music. Was it on this piano rr on this harp?" She answered: "No I was playing 02 a gridiron; with frying pan accompaniment. The servants are jrone. and I am learning how to d.o this work." Well done! Whan will women in all circles find out th t it is honorable to do anything that ought to b9 done? Again, there is the trial of severe economy. Nine hundred and ninetynine households out of the thousand are subjected to it?some under more and some under less stress of circumstances. Espscially if a man smoke very expensive cigars and take very ccstiy dinners at the restaurants he will ba severe in demanding domestic economies. This is what kills tens of thousands of women?attempting to, make $5 do the work of $7. A. young5 woman about to enier the married state said to her mother, "How long does the honeymoon last?" The mother arswered, "The honejmoon last until you ask your husband for money." How some men do-dole cut money to their wives! "How much do you want?" "A dollar." "Ycu are always wanting a dollar. Can't you do with 50 csnts?" If the husband has not the money, let him plainly say_sa^.4l" he has if, let him make cheerful response, remembering thafc?fs wife bas as much right to ifc'at^oe has. How I the bills corgg The wcman is the | banker ciWPEousehold, she is the the cashier, the teller, the "uiscount clerk, a id there is a panic every fe^r weeks. This 30 years' war against high prices, this perpetual study cf economics and this life long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income exhaust innumerable house keepers. Oh, my sisters, this is a part of the Divine discipline I If it were best for you, all yen would have to do would be to open the front windows, and the ravens would fly in with food, a ad after you had baked 50 times trom the barrel in the pantry, like the 01 e of Zirephath, would be full, and the shoes of tae children would last as long as the shoss of the Israelites in the wilderness?*0 years. Besides that this is going to make heaven the more attractive in the contrast. They never hunger there, and consequently 4-Ua^a Trri 11 Ko nf +ha niiiconAPC nf b.LLv;.i.C2 mil UO JJluuv Vi buw ?#-' catering for appetites, ana in the land of the -white robe they never h? va to mend anything, and the air in that hill country makes everybody well. There are no rents to pay. Every man owr.s his own house, and a mansion at that It will not be so great a change for you to have a chariot in heaven if you have been in the habit of riding in this world. It will not be so great a change for you to sit down | on the banks of the river of life if in j this world you had a county seat, but I if you have walked with tired feat in | this world what a glorious change to !mount celestial equipage! And if your life on earth was domestic martyrdom, oh, the joy of an eternity in which you shall have nothing to do except what you choose io do! Martha has bad no drudgery for 18 centuries, I quarrel with the theologians who want to distribute all the thrones of heaven among the John Knoxes and the Hugh Latimers and the Theban legion. Some of the brightest thrones of heaven will be kept for Christian housekeepsrs. Oh, what a change from here to there?frqm the time when they put down the rolling pin to when they take ur? the scepter! If Chats worth park and the Yander bilt mansion were to be lifted into the celestial city, they would be considered uninhabitable rookeries, and - !?r u T?: gionutu JLiiiaras WUUIU UC ?uau:cu to be going in. and out of either of them. There are many housekeepers who cculd get alozg with their toils if it were not for sickness and troble. The fact is, one half cf the women of the land are mere or less invalids. The mountain lass, who has never had an ache or a pain, may consider household toil inconsiderable, and toward evening she may skip away miles to the fields and drive home the cattle, and she ma7 until 10 o'clock at night fill the house with laughing racket; but, oh, to do the work of life with wornout constitution, when whooping cough has bfen raging for six weeks in the household, making the night as sleepless as the day?that is not so easy! Perhaps this comes after the' nerves have been s nattered oj some oereavement that has left desolation in every room of the house and set the crib in the gsrret because the cc:u rant has been hushed into a slazsbsr which needs no mother's lullaby. Oh, she could provide :or the whole group a great deal better than she can for a part of the group, now *he rest are *one! Though you may tell her God is taking care" of those who are gone, it is mctherlike tc breed both Seeks, and one wing she puts over the flock in the house, the other wing she puts aver me iijcK m ixie grave. There is nolhirg but the oldiashionsd religion of Jesus Ciui:t that "will take a woman happily through the trials of home life. At first there may be a romance or a novelty that will do for a substitute. The mar I I | riage hour has just passed, and the j perplexities of trie household aremore j than atoned by the joy of being together and by the fact that v?hen it is lafp tTip.v drs nrvfc ha-u-fi tn discuss the ! question as to whether it is time to go. The mishaps of the household, inj stead of being a matter of anxiety and | reprehension, are a matter of merri ment?the loaf of bread turned into a geological specimen, the slushy cus tards, the jaundiced or measly biscuits. It is a very bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery and the mantel ornaments of a new home. But after awhile the romance is all gone, and there is something to be prepared for the table that the book called "Cookery Taught In Twelve Lessees'' will not teach. The recipe for making it is not a handful of this, a cup of that and a spoonful of some thing else. It is not something sweetened with ordinary condiments or fla vored with ordinary flivors or baked inordinary ovens. It is the loaf of domestic happiness, and all the ingredients come down from heaven, and the /ruifs are plucked from the tree of li'e, and it is sweetened with the new wine of the kingdom, and it is baked in the oven of home trial. Solomon wrote out of his own experience. He had a wretched home. A mm cannot be happy with two wives, much less 6C0, sad he say?, writing out of his own experience, ' Better is a dinner of S herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." How great are the responsibilities of housekeepers! Sometimes an indiges tible article of food by its effect upon a kin^, has overthrown an empire. A distinguished statisticfo&^says of 1,C00 ! unmarried men there are'38 criminals, ^ - ? J ?' 1 AAA vmavi Aiftlrr "1 Q Gy*Ci a.LIU Ui JLjUVU LUaiiicu u>jaxjr iw miv, criminals: What a suggestion of home influences! Let the m03t b? made of them, housekeepers by the food they provide, by the couches they spread, by the books they intro duce, by the influences they bring around their home, are deciding the physical, intellectual, mora], eternal destiny of the reca. You say jour life is one of sacrifice. I know it. But, my sisters, that is the only life worth living. That was Florence Nightengale's life; that wasPayson's life; that was Christ's life. We admire it in other?, but how very hard it is; for us lo exercise it curstlves! Wfcon,inB:ook:ny, y^ungDr. Hutci mson, having spent a whole night in a diptheritic room for the relief of a patient, became saturated with the poison and died, we all felt as if we would like to put garlands on hisj grave. E7erybody appreciates that. When, in the burning hotel at St. Louis a young man on the fifth story broke open the door of the room where his mother was sleDDin? and lunged in amid smoke and fire, crying, "Moth-1 er, where are you?" and never came j out, our hearts applauded that youn^ man. But how few of us have the Christlike spirit?a willingness to suffer for others, A rough teacher in a school called upon a poor,, half starved lad who had offended agaicst the laws of the school and said. 'Take off your coat directly, sir." The boy refused to take it off, whereupon the teacher said again, "Take off your coat, sir," as he swung the whip through the air. The boy refused. It was not because he feared the lash?he was used to that at home?but it was fronL shame ?he had no undergarment?and as at the third command he pulkd'slowly off his coat there.vzeBt-S sob through the sciu?ir~They saw then why he tfeTnot want to remove his coat, and they saw the shoulder blades had almost cut through the skin, and a stout, healthy boy rose up and went to the teacher of the school and said: AU ni*i MIahpiA ^ AWH iVtlC V_/JJj iii', uicaoo auu i* uuib i>llio ywai i fellow. Whip me. See, he's nothing but a poor chap. Don't hurt him; he's poor. Whip me." "Well," said the teacher, "it's going to be a severe whipping. Iam willing to take you as a substitute." "Well" said the boy, "I don't care. You whip me, if you will let this poor fellow go." The stout, healthy boy took the scourging without an outcry. ' 'Bravo," says every man. "Bravo!" How many of us are willing to take the scourging, and the suffering and the toil, and the anxiety for other people. Beautiful things to admir?, but how little we have of thai spirit! God give us that self denying spirit," so that whether we are in humble spheres or in conspicuous spheres we may perform our whole duty?for this struggle will soon be over. Ose of the most affecting reminiscences of my mother is my remernberance Df her a3 a Christian housekeeper. She worked very hard, and when we would come in from summer play and sit down at the table at noon I re JJLLCJLiUCX U.KJW au<a LWCU y\j V^JUIU Ai-1 with bead of perspiration along: the line of gray hair, and how sometimes she would sit down at the table and put her Jiead against her wrinkled hand and say, "Well, the fact is I'm too tir.d to eat." Long after she might have delegated this duty to others she would not be satisfied unless she attended to th9 matter herself. In fact, we all preferred to have her do so, for somehow things tasted better when she prepared them. Some time ago in an ^express train I shot past that old homestead. I looked out of the window and tried to peer through the darkness. While I was doing so one of my eld schoolmates, whom I had not seen for many years, i 1 XI- _ -1 1 J J J| tappeu me on me snouiaer ana saiu, DeWi.lt, I see you are looking out at the scenes of your boyhood." "Oh, ye?," E replied, 4,1 was looking out at the old place where my mo'-her lived and died." That night in the cars the whole scene came back to me. There was the country home. There W2S the noonday table. There were the children on either side of the table, most of them gone never to come back. At one end of the table, my father, with a smile that never left hi3 countenance even when he lay in his coffin. It was an 84 years' smile?rot the smile of inanition, but of Chris-1 tian courage and of Christian hose. | At the other end of the table was a beautiful, benignant, hardworking, j aged Christian housekeper my mother. SVia -was wrv tiwd. I am clad &h? has so good a place to rest in. "Bless ed are the dead who die la the Lord; they rest from their labors and their works do follow them." The workman often eat his lunch cn the same bench where he does his work. The office man turns his desk into a dining-taole. Neither gets the out of doors exercise he needs, neither takes the proper time for eatine. It is small wonder that the digestion of both gets out of order. In such oases Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets come to their assistance by aiding nature in taking care of the food. The cause of nine tenths of the sickness of the ivorld is constipation. From this one cause come indigestion; disorders of the stomach, liver and kidneys; biliousness, headaches, flatulence, heartburn, impurity of the blood and the serious complications that fol Tf> hpcrin Tffiih. const iDalifra is a little thing, and a little thing will cure it.. The "Pleasant Pellets" are tiny, sugar coated granules. They will perfectly cure the worst case of constipation and indiges'.ion. If the druggist tries to sell you some other pill that pays him greater profit, just think of i what will best pay you. i ..i.-ujt i JB ;. a mrf.i.-.TTanttxi; jrukjj- , ? aj i rrw TILLMAN IS MAD. | ~ - i HE GIVES CUT A STATEVENT TO THE j PRE: S i Ha Telia Tfce N-.wepspws to L?t Sis F?m- J ify Affairs Alone S??s Will Sp*sk : for the Dlapsneary this Fall II >'o:d B.? | I The foHowisg from Senator Tillman j T-? J :- rr.u~ <J* 4-? 4. ^ I W.A5 puyiiaLieu in iiie ctsuc The senator in submitting it, says that ccpies o? it had teen soat to all the morning; papers in South Carolina: I have nearly always ignored the slanders and falsehoods which have from time to tims appeared in the papers in South Carolina which have opnosed me since I have been in public life. I cannot correct all of the statements or notice them, be causa it is a waste of time and most of my friends know them to be false. A* for my enemies they believa them because thty can see nothing good in me and love to feed their hafred on any food that keeps it alive. I depsrt from this rule ia the present injtanca because it involves a personal and family matter. In thft Columbia State of TrestftrdAv the following editorial anpeared: "selfish, not fiendish " ''Senator Tillman. is reported to be a very sick man, but it i; said that when the possibility of bis brother George, becoming a candidate for governor, was suggested he manned to say that he would take the fiild against him if health permitted. The evident hatred B. R- Tillnnn bears his elder brother a hatred which led him ?o oppose, if not defeat him for congress, is something fiendish. A campaign with two Tillmans as stir actors would b3 a record-breaker for fcrccity.?Spartanburg Herald. "The Herald is unjuit to Senator Tillman. He does not hate his brother George, and it was not hatred tnat influenced his course in the ccngris sional campaign of 18S2 It was merely selfishness. He was afraid that Talbert would run against him for governor and causa his defeat, so he turned him into George's preservenot to defeat George, but to get him out of his own wav, "80 now, when he threatens to run against his brother for the governorship next year it does not imply hatred. It means that he considers the perpetuity of the dispensary necessary to keep alive the factional issue on which he relies for re election co the senate in 1900. He would not object to George's election if it did not inter fere wiih his own plans. But a3 it surely would do thi?, he is prepared to sacrifice Brother George as he did before. "0" course lie has no notion of run cing for governor himself, for he will not let go the senatcrship on any chance whatever. He only means that fee will put up a proxy for the office if jljlqj v>aauuii Wmiivi. id.ui u mo ^cauo. We are not all sure that the success cf Eiterbe ozi a quasi prohibition and unity platform would not be quite as offensive to him as that of his Drother on a straight license platform. "Watch!" Both of these editorials are the double distilled essenca of falsehood and "fiendish" malignity. I have not seen Mr. J. B. Husssxthe correspendeiit ot The State in this f-'.ty, during my illness or since my re covery, except to pas3 him on the street and bow, and I have said nothing to him about South Carolina affairs, and I have not said to him or any other parson a word about oppos ing G-eo. D. Tillman for governor. What I have said I will repeat, t'aat I will stump the state,, if need b-o, next suxm?r in behalf of the dispensary law, and that without regard to who may be in the race as candidates. I propose to stand by the law in the senate and in the state; not to "keep alive the fational issue," but because I believe it is the best solution of the liquor problem. I don't "rely on factionalism" tore-elect me, should I offer for re election. I did not create factionalism in Siuth Carolina. N. G. Gorzales and J. C. Hemphili are its authors, and they fanned the embers of the fight in 1890 into flimes in 1892, and their undying hatred for me comes from their retirement as ralerj in cup state affairs. Now, in regard to my "hatred for my brother George," and my aiding Mr. Taibert to beat hiin for congress in 1892." Every leading reformer ia the s;c ond congressional district knows it is untrue. Not a scintilla of evidence, oral or written, exists or ever existed to show that I assisted Mr. Taibert. I was absolutely "hands off," and that at my Brother's request. Mr. Taibert ran for congress, as he had a right to do, and was elected. He received no advice or help from me. E 7ery wellposted man in the State knows why George Tillman was defeated, except possibly himself. The treacherous Spaniard who makes the cnarge of betrayal and unbrotherly conduct against me, only advertises his own depravity and blackness of heart. Talbsrt ccald no mora have beaten me for governor than Sheppard did, and no one knows it better than the man who makes the assertion to prove my "selfishness." If thesa editorial "pacificators" really want "peace" in South Carolina they had better leave me and my family relations alone and pursue the policy" of bamboczlement, which is their la;t trick in. state politics. If my retirement is the only condition of "psace" it cannot be [ brought about by lying. B. R. Tillman Washington, Dec. 31, 1897. A Wi-Jcw'd Eeadly D t'ia. A deplorable tragedy occurred in the outskirts of Memphis Friday afternoon. Dr. Shep Rogers, a professor of anatomy at the Memphis Medical college, ex president of the board of health and one of the most prominent physicians was shot by Mrs. Mary Sacdbrink, a widow, Friday night and 3i?s in a dying condition at St. Joseph's hospital. A'ter the shooting Ac "DTrr-miYi V/- Xs 4 TT I. LA- JLAV*VA Li-LVJ revolver to her breast and sent a bullet crashing through her heart. The cause of the tragedy is veiled in deepest mystery. The shooting occurred about saven miles from Memphis on the banks of Nonconnaes'' creek. Nobcdy saw the tragedy, nor would anybody have bsea attracted to the locality but for the noise of the two shots that -^ere fired and the cries for assistance frortgDr Rogers. Every effort has been made by the police and re porters to discover the cause for the shcoun, but up to a late hour Friday 1- A J> T L I Eigut iueiu}s.try Lias juuwiu unruveled. It is said that the woman was infatuated with the physician and on one occasion had threatened to kill herself in his presence. He Felt Mean.?The Darlington Dariingtonian says: "A certain man happened to be out in the woods hunting a short while ago and got caught i n a h ard rain. The rain poured do wn in torrants and the hunter crawled into a hollow leg. W^en- *ke ceased the leg had swelled so the man / mild n't move an inch. Whila in that unfortunate condition he began to think over ail of his meanness and remembered, that he had not paid his subscription to The Darlingtenian, -when he actually felt so small that he crawled right out of the log." . J | INNOCENT LOVER LYNCHED- | Girl He 3crppo3?d to aav3 Mcdired j ia L'.vlrg. A strarge story ccmea f rorn Flora, in Carroll county. Iudiana, for which Rsv. Daniel Parker, aDunkard minister, is credited with bring responsible. Ten year ago the comrauiiity was terribly shock-.d b^the mysterious d?s: appearirce of Miss Luella Mabbitt, whcs3 parents lived near Flora. For several months she had been receiving the addresses of A'ner Green, residing with his parents at Young America, a small village in that vi! cinity, on the night of her disappeari ance it developed that Acre: had called for her at a la'e hour, a'ter which j both disappeared. William Green, another brother, at that time -was a j fugitive for the mudrder of Amos Brumbaugh, of Young America, and "Buck" Stanly, of Logansport, in the j pursuit of William, fcund both him l and Amernn a rannh in Tfjcas. hut with the Mabbitfc girl not there. Bath of the brothers were returned to Carroll county, and Bill Greea was afterward tried for the murder of Brumbaugh, tho case going to Miami county on a change of venue, where he was convicted and given a life sentence. Amer -Green remained in jail at Dslphi until one night, when 330 farn ers from the vicinity of the Mabbitt home stormed tie bastile, overpowering Green after a desperate funt, and then returning with him to the vicinity of Flora, whsrs he was lynched with little or no attempt at secr.ecy, his body being le^t swinging from a convenient tree. He was given a chance for his life if he would tell what became of the Mahbitt girl, whom he was supposed to have murdered, but as the'rope tightened about his neck he persisted in declaring . ??. v rrt i . _ ? j mar alter reacnin? xexas sue seperaied from him, and he did not know what became of her. Several months after Miss Mabbitfs disappearance the skeleton of a woman was found in the rivtr near Lafayette, and the neighbors identified it as the bones of the missing girl by the filling in the front teeih. This was supposed to have solved the mystery of her absence until recently, when Rev. Daniel Parker, whose journey ings have carried him all over the west and in old Mexico, declared that he recently met Miss Mabbitt in the City of Mexico. He knew the Mabbitt family q-aite well during his active ministerial work in Carroll county, and was a frequent visitor to the Mabbitt homestead, where he often talked with both Lueila and her s stsr. For th's reason he could net Ka mictotfln oe Vior iHftntTT. WW uv **v? He found Miss Mabbitt the wife of a Mexican gentleman of good position. She was averse to talking of her for mer experiences, and she quickly gave Mr. Parker to understand thai; his questionings were unpleasant to her, and, as he expressed it, "ihat his room was much better than his company." Mr. Parker is confident that Atner Green was not guilty, and that in his lynching an innocent man was swung into eternity. Many, people in Carroll county, formerly very Ditter against Aaier Green, are now of a similar way of thinking. THE COLORED COLLEGE. Report at the lirat Yeai\a Work cf tho la s titration, f !riA Kfinrtu!- f\f ilio aP irto XUO u buy ix uabuvo vi ?>uv Colored Norma], Industrial and Me chanical college has been received by the superintendent of education. This is the second annual report, but of the fi;*st year of ^ork for the college. The year previous was spent in building and getting ready. The attendatcs reaches 1,100 the, trustees report. About 400 who applied for admission to the lowest elss3es were unable to stand the requisite examination ana had to be turned a^ay. Tfce trustees revie 57 their request to hava the name of the college changed to the Colored College of South Caro* lina."- They call tha attention of the legislature to the following: In our report for last Tear we saw that "/rom the president report, it is shown I ha': our available resources fcr the maintenance of the insiitution next year are $13,577, while estimated expanses cannot be less than $21,650 leaving a balance unprovided fcr of $8 073. Our present indebtedness is $2,240, making a total of $10,313 Your honorable body on 17 apprpriated $8,000, leaving us under thenece?s:ty of paying the indebtedness out of the Landscripi which we us6 as an ex- ' psnse fund, and consequently we have baen running behind and have not been able to secure the ncc?s;a?y apparatus and equipment. We also'ex- : pected your honorable body would : make tbe regular building appropria- ; tion of $5,000 fixed by legislative enactment, without the necessity of our, /??\ 1K n / * 4 IAM 4-r\ f U A ma ? ? 111L _ ? ! abkcauvu bVI IlUC Xiiib was cot done. We very much need another building of equal s:z-3 to our present main building, the apprcximate cost of which would bo $10,000. If your honorable body will make the appro priation of $5,000 for this and $5,000 for last year, wa shall be able to erect these buildings at once-" An appropriation of $15,000 is asked for from the legislature. The total receipts reported for last year, including $100 borrowed, was $26,859.93. ^ .Agaln? BIp Pocket;. Mr Joseph A. McCullough, member of the House of Representatives # si iii- - irom crreenviiiP, is gowg 10 uy 10 stop the killings in Soutn Carolina by instituting a kind of dress reform. He has prepared a bill that will doubtless be one of many on the same subject to be introduced in the Legislature, to prevent carrying concealed weapons. The bill makes it unlawful to wear what is known as a "hip pocket" in the rear of trousers or coat, and fixes the minimum penally for the violation of the law at six months imprisonment and $100 fine. The bill also provides that if for any reason a person wishes to wear a pistol he shall ! apply to the Clerk of Court, who, if [ he considers the reasons given by the i applicant sufficient, shall grant him ' 4a .iflwdw o /1ao/^lTT TTT/io i iv/ \~c?x x j a. \agciulij r* The Ckrx of the Court will also supply the said person with a badge, which shall be worn on the outside of I the lapel of the coat or in some other conspicuous place. THEcity-of Boston, which gave McKinley a majority of nsarly twenty thousand last year has just gone Democratic by nearly five thousand majority. The people of Boston do not seem to snprcciate the kind of ' prosperity McKtnley's election has brought to them. Senator Archer, of Spartanburg, it is said, will ba a candidate for Gover nor nexf year, 2nd the main plank in his platform will be apposition to appropriations for the State College?. On that issue he will never see inside of {he Governor's office. -The Republican majority in Congress has agreed "not to disturb the Dingley Tarriff act," passed at the last session. So far so good, but the great problem is to keep the Dingley bill from disturbing tha voters next Fall. mil 1 l'"lV*l??MMKMBpipaBg ! BLACK YEAR AT SEA 1897 LEAVE 5 A D^PK PAGE OF WRECKAGE Ucrcsaal L--S* ot Hf?? M11110E8 of Pre party reci Thcnsasdo cI Gallant Souls Sacrlficrd to the Ptrils of the Deep. It is a popular belief that the average travdir is safer on sea than cn land. This "nay have been true of former Tears, but not of 1897. The loss of lifr on the deep during the year just closed is a black page in the history of maritime pursuits. Thousands of lives have been sacrificed and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed. The list of craft that went away, strong ac dwell found in the . _ A J i. J * msjorny ci instances, ana lurnea into the great unknown is appalling in itself. Their names appear on the government books, either here or abroad, as "missing,''' and thst is all that is kno^n as to their fate and the gallant fellows who sounded the pi overbid thousand fathoms with them. There is something about a missing ship which the ordinary wreck does notproducs. No news is goodness ia almost every case, excspt where the fate of an overdus craft is concerned. Roughly summed up, nearly seven-tenths of the casualties at sea during 3897 were due to foundering. Submerged reeks, also caused not a few of the disasters, but the standings on otlier than hiddf i ~ocks and the destructions by fire were unusually small. One serious wreck, which appealed nvsr? 4/% fVio Amotn/tQn JUUUxO bilAiL O.JJLJT VlUWi l?W vuu avuaa public b?cause it happened at the very doors of the coast, was the less cf tne Frerch Line steamer Ville de St. Nazaire, that foundered off Cape Hatteras, on March 8, while en route to Haiti from this city. It is a matter of public record that the ship went down in a surprisingly short space of time for a well built steamer, as she un doubtedly.was. At the time, The Mail and Express insisted that her loss was primarily due to a collision with a derelict, and subseauent investigation by thej French, authorities showed this to be in all probability feue. No matter how lest, it was a most shocking tragedy. There were but twenty-four survivors, and Luese spent da."?s and nights in tu& open boats, frtzen and starved, before being snatched from a watery grave. Some of the occupants of three boat3 only were saved. The fourth lifeboat has not been heard of from that day to this. In all, fifty-seven were lost The loss of the Triton, a transport and coasting steamer, loaded down with Spanish naval und army officers and marsy soldiers, was another dreadful affair. She foundered near Mariel, on the north coast of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, October 16. Every one, with the exception of the watch officers and men, were asleep when the vessel foundered. Few were saved and, in the final fi^ht for life before consigning themselves to the open sea, sol diers and civil axis Kacc&ea one another down and many were trampled to death. The vessel was ran for the bsach and slranded, finally turning turtle altogether. In the wreck of the P. and 0. steamer Aden, eighty-six perished. This ship left Yokohama Aprtf 28, and at 2:50 a. m. on June 9 struck off the Islard cf Sccotra, and in ten minutes the fires were drowned. Of those who did not take their chances in the open boats, the captaia and six passengers were washed off of the wreck, and thirty three passengers and JLascars remained on the vessel until June 26, or seventeen days in all.' Two boats left the ship shortly after she struck and, with their occupants, must have b=en swallowed up by the sea, for they are still unheard fram. One of these boats contained twebe hands, and set cut to rescue another lifeboat, which had broken away. The second boat was manned by the third and fourth officers, two quartermasters, two engineers, three stewards, the surgeon, a wicchmar, the carpenter, seventeen Lascars and seventeen pissengers, sine of the latier bein=: children. The survivors, after being cn the wreck thirteen dajs watching their companions swept away one by one, celebrated Victoria's jubilee oh June 22 by singing "God Save the Queen." A.n Englishman is loyal, courageous and cheerful even with one foot in the grave. Another exhibition of this fearlessness was furnished by the wreck of the Tasmania, which left Auckland July 28 with 35 saloon 33 steerage pas-ODgers and a crew of 50. She was lost off the extreme northern point of the Mahal Peninsula. There was no sign of a panic when the ship took the rocks, and it was apparently with jrcod intent, though in clear bravado, that one man set himself to play the piano in order to keep up the women's spirits. The loss of life occurred in landing. St. Malo, which annually gives so many fearless sons to old Neptuue, Q ttaqv TVIA uiauc auv/Luwx 0i?vii,uvv j vma? *?*v , French, barkentime Valiant, with 74 fishermen on board, ran into an iceberg April 14. She was off the Banks of Newfoundland and under full sail at the lime. The collision stove in her bows and brought her rigging down on deck. It was the same old story. The bark foundered, the men took to the open boats, bailed them out with wooden shoes that same of them wore, lay huddled together for days and, finally from hunger, thirst and ex posure, it being intensely cold all the time, tie men droDited off one by one line so many flies from a ceiling. Then came the awful torture of famine, where the survivors had to slaughter a pet dog, and finally commit cannibalism itself. The Victor Eugene, a barkentine, and the brigantine Amedee came along at the eleventh hour and saved seven wild beasts, where had been origina ly seventy-four men!?New York Mail and Express. Hot Timet) In Ohio; A special frcm Marysville, 0 , the home of Representative Griffith, of the state legislature, who is one of the Republicans that is ODposed to Mark HT^.v>?1a oavo. 4 PAnnl* hpr? wild and threats cf violence are made against Representative Griffith. Two Kurtz men from Columbus, while here narrowly escaped violence at the hands of angry Republicans. A mass meeting of Griffith's constituents has been called for tonight to take action in the matter.Griffith refuses to be bulldczsd and ssys he is in the fight against Hanna to the finish. Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D , the j historian of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, at the 34th annual session of the conference o? that ehurch in Charleston last vest, declared that the word ''negro" was good enough for him. He dees not hacker after the title "Afro-American." Bishop Arnett is a sensible man. Hon. Wm. J,. Bryan has been elected anniversary orator cf the Eupbemiaif Sdciel^ of l?rskihe-College at Due West/ It is to be koped that the distinguished gentleman will find it convenient to accept the invitation and honor the occasion with his pres ence, I -V" .-.. v'---:-''>>j':V>";.r.'Vv'" ' ': $:v^: - aNtTnn.4 nt_ T1..11. fcj AU1 V/CBU/c A meager account of the whipping to death of Dave Hunter, a negro, by a parly of farmers, at Clinton has been published. The man had been a tenant on ;a farm ia the neighborhood aid had 'violated his contract by secretly moving cff ihe place. This morning he was caught by a party of mer, tied find given a terrible whipping, from the effects of which he died at Clinton, Laurens ounty, Thursday evening. No inquest has yet been held.' It is believed the man zave the names of his assailant to the authorities before d jiag. A Good 8oggfet'orc Gentlemen of the legislature, kindly apply yourselves to working out a solution of the problem tew to reduce taxes. One way of accomplishing that result is by holding a short session. The dispensary law cannot be overthrown at this session and the taxpayers havi no desire to foot the bills for two or three wtek's talk on that measure. There is no reason why all ncc.ssary legislation cannot be enacted withia twenty one days, if the lfgislators \>iil get right down to hard work at once.?Columbia Becord. Hilton's ioaoiorm JLiimment is lae "nee piu ultra" cf 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 Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "W ill counteract the poison from bites of snakes and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sere tin oat Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle. Congressman Norton, of Ohio, declared in the house that "Most of the men en the pension rolls are perjurers. " He wished to change "most" to "many" and the privilege wascenied him. He should have stood by his declaration. It can be proved in cold figures. There are at present over 900,000 names on the pension rolls, while the best statistfc3 obtainable make the number of living federal soldiers less than 1,000,000. Mr Norton hit the nail squarely on the head. It is a fraud and a steal in comparison with which the credit Mobelier and Panama affairs are out casts cf petty larceny. Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys is the most complete regulating mdeicine. It is mild in its operation. Is agreeable and pleasant to the stomach. It will certainly build up a weakened and broken down digestion. Has none of the harsh action of pills and other drastic purgatives. Is the best of all appetizers. Quick in its beneficial effect on the kidneys. Is purely vegetable. Can be taken at any timfi 9.Kf? K(V? anH SI Oft hnttliMj CONDEMNED. Whet: an innocent man is condemned for any crime h.~ doesn't lose hope. His lawyers appeal from one /3\ They are bound to ffcff save him, if he can be saved. It is same way with a(^il 0* good doctor when v\ 9 fltt his patient seems wft condemned to death I / Z^^Fj ^But doctor > malte mistakes some- K9B times; they lose ^raragMgSHf heart too soon. / (\ ^hMHeS^^^T After they nave /j/ ^psjjf^j^Lj nothing: more to /? be done. They / i?W don't always J get at the root vwjl of the disease. / ^ 1 f|H They frequently _ ' jStjuL give a patient up to die of con sumption, ana ^ are afterwards surprised to see him get strong and well again. Mrs. w. a. jjuncan, 01 Amnion, mops v_o.. Mo., writes: "My husband took four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery when he was (as he thought) almost into consumption, and we were very thankful that such a medicine could be found. I wish all persons troubled yrith cough would take it. Long may the' Golden Medical Discovery' and 'Favorite Prescription' be made. I shall always recommend and praise these medicines." All lung and bronchial diseases are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, because it supplies the system with, healthy blood. It puts the vital forces into action and fills the circulation with the life-giving red corpuscles which builds up solid, muscular flesh and healthy nerve-force. As a medical author, Dr. Pierce holds an eminent place in his profession. His great thousand-page illustrated book, "ThePeo rile's Common Sense Medical Adviser" is one of the standard medical works of the English language. Nearly 700,000 copies were sold at $1.50 each. A paper-bound copy will be sent absolutely free for the cost of mailing only, 21 one-cent stamps; or, cloth-bonnd for 31 stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y. Wi From Maker Direct to Purchaser. i A. Good | | _P|anoi || s?* ||j I Matbusbek I Us Is aiways Good, always ReUat)le? 2*2 always Satisfactory, always Last- ViS 5?h in?. You take no-chances in boy- ?? Mi] ft i>nstis somewhat more than fc I V?v cheap, poor -piano, but Is much the S|S 3s? cheapest in the end. a?? Nootber Hisb Grade Piano sold so fjgfi reasonable. Factory prices to retail 3S? gil buyr-rs. Easy cay meats. Wrltea*. jjg3 51 L'JDOEPi & B&TES, gj gjgj "IVii miiiilift, 6a., tnd .New York City. Address: D. A PRE3SLEY, Agent COLUMBIA, S. C. THE THOMAS li the most complete system of elevating handling, cleaning and packing cottonImproves staple, saves labor, makes yov money. Write ?cr catalogues, no other equals it. I handle the meat improved COTTON SINS, ^BESSES, XLEYATOES, ENGINES AND BCILEBt to De fennel on the market I My Sergeant Log Beam Saar Mill la, Id ilmplidty and efficiency, a wonder. ' COBy KILLS, TLANEES, GANG 3SG3BS and all wood working machlnsiry. MDD3L1 AND TALBCTT SNGlXES are t?e best, i Write to me before buying. ?rrT> -5-5 V, u? iaacmasi, ^Qflneral Agent, COLUMBIA, S. [C. [ Bargains IN PIAJNTOS. I SPECIAL J iM Announcement. w* Piano and Organ | Exhibit at 1509 Main st: Columbia, S. C. BEST GOODS ^ At Fair Prices, J Remember I I Exhibit at My store, see my bargains. M. A. MALONE. 1509 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. C., PIANO 3 AND ORG Ays LIQUOR, J OPIUM AND | TOBACCO U APTT 11 ami [THOBOH6HLT CURED* REHOTED FROM COLUMBIA ' r"M H . 'THE' ' I KEELEY INSTITUTE | 6-KEEirVTLT.E, S. C.7 H II*E FOB THE LITER AXB^H - M H KIDNEYS, as Its name imports ,1 I H is a stlmilator and regulator .to I B H th?se organs. Is t be best after ^H fl H HI meals medicine to aid digestion ^H HI Prevents Headaches. CaresH?' H| Biinoasneis' Acts on tbe Kid- H^ - " HI najrs. within Thirty minutes after H? J H taking, relieving tcbes in tteH| HI back from disorder cf thes.eor-BB HI gans. Believes all stomach I HI troubles. Is entirely vegetable, HI 250,10: and 9103 a bottle. Sold H: HI fcy dealers generally, and b/ The H' Dmjjr (jo f Colombia. S, y mm ir. E Bear, IB C. IE " M EJold by dealers generally and by. THE MORRAY DRUG CO., COLUMBIA, S.?0. llAttif*o tft Mnthorcr < IAV? J 6VV ttiU?UUAU< We teie plsaaore In calling your attea Sen to ft remedy to long ncod&J is carry an tag children safely through the critical itage of teething. It is as Incalculable Waning to mother and child. If you ars lilt artel at night with a sick, fretful, teetting child, use Pitts' Carminative it will dm instant relief, and reeulate thr benels, and nuke teething safe and etev.. It irOl core Dysentery And Diarrhea. ntti Carminative it an instant relief fo? * will! of Infants. It will prorata dlgattion give tone and energy to the nomaeii an t txmeli. The itck, pony, suffering chili will soon become the fat and frolicking 'cy of the household. It is very pleasant to he 'taste and only coat 25 acta per Mtti* ield by 6rogglsti and - ' -3 THE MURRAY DRUG CO.,, Columbia, S. C. j|j| mJ5mtllan,s grippe mm COTj&H cure. I WHJL BELIEVE THAT COUGH AND (JIVE TOU HEALTHFUL BEST. GOOD FOR 1 GOOD FOR GRANDMA. % Walteeboro. S, C. Feby. 27,1897. tDilAB bis:?Having suffered several days win "La Grippe" and getting no relief fron. many otoer cough medtctae, I tried % ::q McMillan's Grippe Cougn Care, I can St UratiLfuilv say I found it the best remedy I have ever tried, before finishing the bottle was cured. Beepectfully. <5 COL. B. STOKES. 7|| 25 cents for large bottle. For sale by al Druggists. If your .druggist doesn't keep it, send us 25 cents and we will send it by return express. W<?E W. C. MCMILLAN. Druggist, Oct.29 Columbia.- S. C.