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' 1 , - - "v. . ' 5W* ' i - --Pi i - ~ "~ | ' DEMANDS OF TEE AGE. j DR. TALLAGE PlEADS FOR HERC;C MEN AND WOMEN. Advlca to Christians to Broaden Oat and Not Kern sir; In Old Krs-A Sermon ol Encouragement to All Christian Workers?Strong Characters Needed. Dr. TaJmage here sno^s the style cf Christian character required for the times in which we live and pleads -or more heroics. The text is Esther iv. 14, "Who kcoweth whether ihou art come to the kingdom fcr such a time as this?" Esther the beautiful vras the wife c: Ahasuerus the abominable. The time j had come for her to present a petition j to her infamous husband in behalf cf the Jewish nation, to which she had once belonged. She was afraid to undertake the work lest she should lese her own life, but her cousin, Mcrdecai, who had brought her up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably she had been raised up of God for that peculiar mission. "Who knoweth whether thou art ccme to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther had her Gcd appointed work - You and I have ours. It is my busi " ness to tell you whatstjle of men and women ycu ought to be in order that you meet the demand of the age in * " * ~ ' wiHCH U-oa nas cast your 10;. ou tius discourse -will not deal with the technicalities, but only with the practicabilities. When two armies have rushed into battle the officers of either army do not want a pnilosjophical discussion about the chemical properties of human blood or the nature of gunpowder. They want seme one to man the batteries and take out the guns. And new, when all the forces of light and darkness of heaven and hell have plunged into the fight, it is no time to give ourselves to the definitions and technicalities and conventionalities of religion. What "we want is practical, earnest, concentrated, enthusiastic and triumphant help. t? i-Kq first nlacft. in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to be an unmistakable, aggressive Christian. Of half and half Chris; lians we do not want any mora. The church of Jesus Christ will be better without them. They are the chief obstacle to the church's advancement I am speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your becoming an earnest Christian are at your hand, and there is a straight path for you into the broad daylight of God's forgiveness. You may this moment be the bondmen of the world, and the next moment you may b3 princes of the Lord God Almighty. You rememoer what excitement there was in this countrv, years ago, when ~ * "T-I- T > xne ?rnic9 01 wates tam: ucic?ju ?? the people rushed out by hundreds of thousands to see him. Why? B:cause they expected that some day he would ait upon the throne of England. Bat what was all that honor compared with the honor to which God calls you?to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty?yea, to be queens and kings unto God. 'They s?all reign with him forever and forever." But you need to be aggressive Christians, and not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Christian graces and wondsriug why they do not make progress. How: much robustness of health would a i man have if He hid himself in a dark! closet? A great deal of the piety of j today is too exclusive. It hides itself.? It needs more fresh air, more outdoor' exercise. Taere are many Christians who are giving their entire life to self examination. They are feeling their -rvnlcfxr tr> so<> what is the condition, of ! their spiritual health. How longj would a man have robust physical "" health if he kept all the day feeling Ms pulse instead of going out into active, earnest every day work ? I was once amid the wonderful, be witching cactus growths of North Carolina. I never was more bawildered with the beauty of flowers, ana yet when I would tike up one of these cactuses an^ pull the leaves apart tee beauty was all gone. You couid hard ly tell that it hid ever been a flower. And there are a great many Christian people in this day just pulling apart their Christian experiences to see what there is in them, ana there is nothing left in them. This style of self examination is a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I was a boy I used to have a small piece in the garden that I called my own, and I planted corn there, and every few days I would pull it up to see how fast it was growing. Now there are a great many Christian people in this day whose self examination merely amounts to the pulling up that which they only yesterday or the day before planted. Oh, my I needs, if you want to have a stalwart Christian character plant it right cut of doors in the great field of Christian usefulness, and though storms may coma upon it, and though the hot sun cf trial may try to consume it, it will thrive until it becomes a great tree, in which the fowls of heaven may ha^e their habitation. I have no pa tierce with these flowerpot Christians. Thsykeep themselves under shelter, and all their Christian experience in a small, exclusive circle, when they ought to plant it in the great garden of the Lord, so that the whole atmosphere could be aromatic wiih their Christian usefulness. What we want in the church of Gcd is more strength Oi piety. The century plant is wonder fully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it with out thinking of its parsimony. It lets whole generations go by bifore it puts forth one blossom. So I have really more admiration when I see the ee*y tears in the blue eyes of the violets, for they come every spring. My Christian friends, time is going by so rapidly that we c&nnc-t afford to be | idle. A recent statician says that num?n life now has an average of only 32 ' years. From these 32 years ycu must subtract all the time you take for s'eep and the taking o: icca ana recreance; that will leave you about lt> years. From these 16 you must subtract all the time that you are necessarily engaged in the earning of a livelihood. That will leave you about eight years. From these eight years you must take all the days and weeks and months? all the length of time that is passed in sickness?leaving you about one year j in which to work :or God. O my < soul, -wake up 1 Hovr darest tJiou sleep : m harvest time and with so few hours I in which to re ap? So that I state it as j a simple fact that all the time that the j vast majority of you will have the ex- j . _ _ r /-\ ^ ?n v i I ciusiye service ci oroa win oe .ess tnaii j one year. "But," says some man, "I liberally ! support the gospel, ancl ihe church is j open, and the'gospel is preached; ail { the spiritual advantages are spread be j fore men, and if tney want to be sav^a { let them come and Dc saved?I have? discharged all my responsibility.1' Ah, j is that my V. iter's spirit J is there! not an old t<* id somewhere that com | mands us .7 o out into the highways j and the hed^os and compel the peo- ] pie to come in? What would become j of you and me if Christ had not come j down off the hills of heaven, and if he naa noi coma inrouga me ui>ur ui t Bethlehem caravansary, ana if he had | not with the crushed hand of the j % ttrgagici^MagBaiM -? e - j--1-i I - , . . 1 cruciDx.cn Ksocsea st the iron gate 01 thesepulcher cf cur spiritual dea^h, eryissr, ' Lmrus, come forth!'' Ob, my Christian friend, this is co time for inertia when all the forces of darkness seem to be in full blast? when st:-am nrintirg presses are publishing inficSl tracts, wIicd ovimcc troins irfl WC'T'in!' ffi?S senders of sin, when fast dippers are I laden with opium and strong drink, when ihe night air of cur cities is polluted with the laughter that breaks un from the 10,000 saloons of dissipation and abandonment, when the lires cf the second death already are kindled In the cheeks of some who, only a little while 3gn, vrere incorrupt! Oh, nev^r sir e? the curse fell upon tbe farth has there been a time when it was such an unwise, sue a a cruel, such an awful thing for the church to sleep! The great audiences are not gathered in Christian churches. Thp ?reat audiences ait gathered in temples of sir:?tears of unutterable woe their baptism, the blood of crush- j ed hearts the awful wine of their sacrament, blasphemies their litany, and ? > ~ ^ 4 Vi A ATO-QM 1 tLlK' grUSIIS %J?1 fcJLlU JLUSU YTUIXV4 I.UV VAgM^ dirge of their worship. Asain, if you want to b9 qualified to meet the duties which this age de-1 mands of ynu, you must on toe one I band avoid reckless iconccism and on ! the other hand not slick too much to things 'oeeaus9 they are old. Tbs air is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new theologies, and I am amazed to see how so many Christians want only novelty in order to recDmmend a thing to j their confidence, and so they vacillate and swing to and fro, and they are| useless, and they era very uuhappy. New plans?secular, ethi-1 cal, philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, trans-atlantic?long enough to make a line reaching from the G-er-1 man universities to Great Salt Like city. Ah, my brother, do n-,t take hold of a things merely because it is new! Try it by the realities of the judgment day. But, on the other nand. do not adhere to anything merely because it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the cnurch or the world but has some 1 * ? ^ ? ? ?- j ? A. In AM A TTTftO O I lime oetu SCCJjLLOU r*aa 6* I time when mea derided even Bible societies, and wL^n a few young men met in Massachusetts and organized the first missionary society ever organized in this country there went laughter and ridicule all around the Christian church. They said the undertaking was preposterous. And so aJso the work 01 Jesus Christ was assailed. People cried out: "Who ever heard of such theories of ethics and government! Whoever noticed such a style of preaching ss Jesus ha.s?" Ez?kiel had talked of mysterious wings and wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum and Genesiret, ana he drew his illustrations from the iaices, irom tne sane, irom iaa xuuuutain, from the lillies, from the cornstalks. How the Pharasees scoffed! Eow Herod derided! And this Jesus ihey plucked by the beard, and they spat in his face, and they called him "this fellow." All the great enterprises in and out of the church have at times been sccffea at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of G-oa's truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut. And so there are those who have no patience with anything like improvement in church j architecture, or with anything like I good, hearty, earnest church singing, i and they deride any form of religious ' discussion which goes down walking ; among everyday men rather than that I which makes an excursion on rhetori| cal stilts. Oh, that the church of God | would wake up to an adaptability of j-r/ork! We must admit the simple j fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There are 50,000 people in Edinburgh who never hear the gospel. There are 1)000.000 people-in London who never hear the gospel. The great majority of the inhabitants of this capital come not under the immediate ministrations of Christ's I fvoifVi qua n;' in this CO J- ** buw WULMIW** w. 7 ? - day insiead of being a piace fuJl of living epistles, known and read of all men, is "more iike a dead letter postoffice. "Bat," say the people, "the world is going to b3 converted; you must be patient; the kingdoms of this world are to become the kingdoms of Christ." Never, unless the churcn of J$sus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world, the world is converting i the church. Here is a great fortress, i How shall it oe taken? An army j comes and sits around about it, cuts ! off the supplies and says, "Now we I will just wait until from exhaustion and starvation they will have to give up." Weeks and months and perhaps ! a year pass along and finally the fort! ress surrenders through that star! vation and exhaustion. But, my I friends, the fortresses of sin are never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for God, it will b9 by storm; you will have to bring up the great siege guns of the gospel to th6 very wall and wheel the flying artillery into line, and when the armed infantry of heaven shall confront the battlements you -will have to give the quick command, "Forward! Charge!" Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do and Tor me to do in order to this grand accomplishment. I hive a pulcif. I preach in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. ! Your pulpit is the editorial chair. , Ycur pulpitis the anvil. Your pui; pit is the mechanics' shop. I may j stand in my place and, through cow[ ardice or through self seeking, may i keep back the word I ought to utter, | while you, with sleeve rolled up and j brow beswea'.ei with toil, may utter the word that will jar the foundations I of heaven with the shout of a g~eat victory. Oh, that we might all feel [that the Lord Almighty is putting upon us the hands of ordination! I tell you, every one, go forth and preach this gospel. You have as much right to preach as I have cr any man j living. Healey Vicars was a wicked man in j the English army. The grace of God came to him. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. They scoffed at him and said: "You are a hypocrite. You are as bad as ever you were." Still he kept his faith in Christ, and after awhile, finding that they would cot turn him aside by calling him a hypocrite, they said to him, "Oh. you are nothing bat a Methodist!" This did not disturb biaa. He -went on performing his j Christian duty until he had form-:d ail his trcop3 into a Eiblo class, and the whole encampment was shaken with the presence of God. So Have- j lock wjent into the heathen tempJe in i India while the English army was! thc-re and put a candli into the hand of each of ine heathen gods that stood around in the heathen iemole, and 07 the light of thsse candles held up by the idols General Eavelcck preac&ed righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. And who will say on 1 ear.h or in heaven th?t Eavelcck bad not tee right to preacb! In the minister's house where I prepared for col1 ^ i : iege mere wor-stu a man uj ua^c , of Peter Croy. He could neither read ! nor wri:e, but he was a mail of Gfcd. O'ten theoiogiacs would step in the house?grave theologians;?and at family prayer i eter Crov would be called upon to lead, and all th -f' j wise men sat arr.uua. wouaer sirac-h. j at his relisious efficiency. When he J ! pr&v? d, he reached an s-.nd seeraed to ! bke hold of the very throne of the j Almighty, acd he talked with God until the very heavens were bowed down into the sittirg room. Oh, if I vrered;ving I would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and commend my immortal sp'rit to God. Go preach this gospel. You say you are not licensed. la the name of ttie Lord Almighty, I license you. Go preach this gospel, preach it in tile Sabbath schools, in the prayer meetings, in the highways, in tfce hedges. Woe be unto you if you preach it not! I remark again, that in order to b^ quaiined to meet your du-y in this particular age you want unbounded faiih in the triumph of the truth and - .? TTzxvrr luti overiiiru'v ui nikikcuucu. dare the Christian church ever get discouraged? Have we not the Lord Ai mighty on our side? How long did it take God to slay the hosts of Serma cherib or burn Sodom or-shake down i Jericao? How long will it take Gcd, when hs cnce arises in his strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity ? Between \h;s time and that there may be long seasons of darkness, and the cbariot wheels cf G-jd's gospel may seem to drag heavily, but here is the promise and jonder is the throne, and when omniscience has lost its eyesight acd omnipotence falls back impotent and Jehovah is driven from nis throne. then the church of Jesus Christ can ' t* -1 1 j 1AM?. anora io oe uesi;uaucm. Despots may plan and armies may march audihe congresses of the na-j tions may sf-em to think they are adjusting ali the affairs of the world but the mighty mea of the earth are osly the dust of the chariot wheels of God's providencs. And I think before the sun of the next century shall set the last tyranny will fail, and with a splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonish rnent of the universe God will set forth the bightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of his eternal government, Out of the starry flags and the eoablszjned insignia of this world God wil make a path for his own triumph and returning .from universal conquest he will sit down the grandest* the strongest highest throne of earth his footstool. I prepare this sermon because I want to encorage all Christian workers in every possible department. Hosts of the living God, march on, march on I His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you His sword will strike for you, March on, march on 1 Tne dispotisms will fail and paganism will burn its idols and Mohammedanism will give up its fals9 prophet and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the gospel trumpet. March cn, march on! The besiegement will soon be ended. Oaly a few more steps on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a few more battlecries; then God will put the laurels upon your bro w, and from the living foun- J tains of heaven "will bathe off the j sweat ana the heat and the dust of the conflict. March on, march on! For you the time for work will soon be Dassed, and amid the outflashings of the judgment throne and the trumpet ing of resurrectton angels and the upheaving of a world of graves and the hosanna and the groaning of the saved and the lost we shall be re warded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. CON FEDERATE DEA D. Gilla-t South Carolinians who Sleep at Ccmp Chaar, Ohio. Coi. W. H. Kcauss, a big-hearted federal soldier, has furnished to the I Confederate Veterans an honor roll of * '" - - "" ? ?U- J:~ J ~ of j vjoxneueraiea wuu uxcu m ytwu i Camp Cbase, Ohio. This roll has many thousand names oh it, ana the expense of transcribing them for publication has been paid by Col. Knauss, who also says that the graves of these dead "Americans" shall b? kept green. Judge Lyon has kindly culled from the leng list of patriotic dead the names of all South Carolinians?arranged alphabetically?and handed them to us for publication. Some ofthose whose names appear in the roll were to many of us intimate and trusted comrades in arms: Abijah Anderson, lSih S. C. Inf. A. J. Askins, 8th S. C. Inf. F. H. Barron, 4:h S. C I iff. John M. Brown, 15th S. C. Inf. Charks Bower?, 24:h S. C. Inf. C. E. Brooks, 24;b. & C. Iaf. John Buitt, 19th S? 0. Inf. D. Bird. J5.hS. C. Iaf. Ely M. Brasbatu, 8:h S. C. Iaf. H*P. Beithea, 8th. S. C. Inf. IW. W. Bagwell. 7th S. C. Inf. H. E Benton, 24th S. C. Inf. E Batson, 16th S- C. Iaf. J. Cor. 3d S. C. Cav. j Wa Carpenter, 8ih S. 0. Cav. IWm. Cooper, 10th 3. C. Cay. J. A. Carley, 15th S. C. Inf. W. Cullom, lUh S. 0 Iaf. J. D. Cesse, 15;h S. C. inf. 1 W. Coy. 8,h S. C. Iaf. A. Carter, 24:h S. C. Inf. D. Demoin, 7ih S. C. Inf. j Priazle Davis, 24th S. C. Iaf. Tnouias Drum, 19:h 8. C. Inf. F. L. Dousing, 8;h S. C- Cav. J. Drivers, 8th S. C. Iaf. Charles Dsvis, Sth S. C. Inf. Jam?s B. Earnheart, 1st S. C. Iaf. W. J. N. Gilmer. 21 S. C. Inf. Jameo Griffith, 24',h S. C. Iaf. J^Ln W. Gregg, 8*.h S. C- Iaf. W. A. Gladder, 15;h S. C. Iaf. H. E. Harmon, 3iS. C. Inf. W. M. Hamilton, 12:h S. C. Inf." Stephen Herring, 10th S. C. Inf. E. W. Hamilton, 16:h S. G. Iaf. D. P. H<*ieznan, 15:h 3. C. Iaf. J. Jackson, 8th S. C. Inf. G. E Eoon. loth S. C. Inf. | W. P. Lee, 3i S C.Cav. D. L. Lease, 15.h S. C. Inf. { T. F. Mash, 1st S. C. I of. B. J. Moore, 8th S. C. Inf. " John Monroe, 2d S. C. Iaf, W. McCraeken, 10th S. C. Icf. Charles McCoy, iGth S. C. Inf. John Myers, 8;h S C. Iaf. A. L. McG-uaritv, 24th S. C. Iaf. i E L. Moses, 27:h S. C. Inf. L. Overstreet, 24 hS. C. Inf. Daniel Price, Cif'zsn o: S. C. J. M. Pallathy, 19.h S. C. Inf. James Parker, 19:h S C. Ia?. R C. Price, 15th S. C, Inf. Samuel Peake. 24>h S. C. Inf. W. E Preacher, 24th S. C Inf. I J. W. Porter, 10?a S. 6. Iuf. John Robon, 2i:.h S. C. Inf. J. O.Saaitb, S C. Inf. Hatnptoc Shirley, 2i:h S. C. Inf. i J. S Stickney, 19th. S. C. Inf. W. F. Sanders, 15 ;ta S C. Iaf. j L. Shealey, 15:h S. C Inf. M. D. ShaatoB. 24:a S C. Iaf. W. T. Terrs, 2* a S. C. Iaf. I. D. Turner, i9:.hS. C. Iaf. G. H. Talbot, 19;ii S. C. Iaf. J. N. Taotnas, 8;'a S. C. Iaf. J. A- Vdu^h, lti.a S. C. Iaf. J. C. Wilson, S. C. Iaf. ?Abbeville Press and Banner. Fighliss Over h Shadow, i Congress was ealiveEed recently I by adtroa.'.- between a Kansas RepubJi- j caa and a Eanssc Pomiiist, as to which.! ! ceserved tne crcdi: for bringing pros- j i psrity. This new-found prcsptnty is ; one thing, we believe, tiie Democrats 1 are unaniznus in saying that they had | no part in bringing about. { THE ANTLFBEE PASS ACT j REPEALED BYTHEHOUSE CF REPRE- j SENTATIVE5. Afcer Discussion ;be Acc was K.-p'sled by ? Vote of i'lJsy-ooe to Tw?nty-nii>e-- H^w Ettcii Member V jted. On Saturday. Jan. 29, when the bill repealing tbe anti-free pass act -was reached in the House Mr. Meares moved to recommit the bill, Mr. Meares stated that the repeatirg of the Lord's Prajer on the part of tne chaplain in the morning's devotional cxercises, wherein he.-sked to "lecd us not into temptation," and the further apostolic = injuuetion to "avoid the appearance ; of evil" ought to bring the bouse to j .? 3 -V. ? iL. ? ? _ I reconsider its auuou ui ma preceding evening's ses&ioo, especially as tbe subject bad received no consideration as its importance deserved by mem-f bers wearied v?iih a long day's wcrk. \ Mr. Meares called attention to the; far reaching consequences of the bill if it passed?that the judiciary of the Sf*te, our congressmen and all State officials, from the governor down to petty magistrates and other county officials could be approached! and "tamed" by the offer of a free railroad pass. Mr. Meares deprecated the evil effect that would result. The antipass law, in his opinion, had had much to do with the present friendly relation between the people of the State and railroad corporations, be cause the suspicion that a judge or magistrate trying a case against a powerful corporation brought by some tumble individual 110 longer sat jj in judgment with a free pass warmiDg ; his pcc'set. So far as members of the assembly were cor;c?rned, their re ?ponsibilitv directly to their constituents would" be sufficient, in the case of the other rtibials, however, great harm would result. Mr. Meares wss emphatic tljat tha repeal of tbe anti pass law would be a decided backward s:ep and to led popular indignation. Mr. Rainsford wanted to know how the bill can help the people. The S:ate provided for the transportation of the members and the State officers when on public business. There was no good reason to repeal the act now rtn tho KrtftVe Mr. McCuilough of Greenville said the Lord's Prayer was not addressed to the railroads but to the great Deity. A btt'er text was: "Ye that are strong bear the burdens of ye that are weak." Mr. McCallough thought the railroads should be asked not to provide any one who voted against the bill with a pass. Mr. Winkler quoied from. St. Paul: 'if meat cause my brother to offend, then will I eat nc meat," and said it would be best not to have any temptation. Mr. Verner thought the only reason for repealing the law was to get railroad rides free of charge. Mr. Ashley?It don't compel you to riae on a iree pass. Mr. Verner defied any one to convince him that a free pass would not wrap a legislators views. He thought the act should be kept there. He said he did not wish tnem to be led into temptation. Mr. Robinson-~Did you ever ride on a free past? Mr. Verner?No sir. Mr. Robinson?Didn't you go to Cl^msoa? Mr. Verner?No. Mr. Robinson?Did you go to Charleston ? Mr. Verner said he had. Mr. Robinson?Ab, ha! (Laughter ) Mr. Verner said he had paid his way back, but he had gone down oil a ticket furnished. Mr. Ashley wished to know if he was one among tho<;e who were sea sick and got left there. (Prolonged laughter.) Tnere were a few other pleasantries about the Charleston trip that kept the house in a roar of laughter for some minutes. Mr. Crum said the act reflected on the members of the general assembly. It was passed originally just to reflect on certain public men. Mr. Meares asked if the anti free pass act had not given great confidence to the Reform movement. Mr. Crum said the effect was otherwise. He held that it was a reflection | on e~ery member. If a man could be | bought by a pass he could be bought ! by money. Mr. Mauldin said the question was why should they say that members of the general assemby were dishonest before they were tried. Eonesty was his policy. He spoke earnestly in iavor or ine repeai o: me law. j The roll was then demanded on the motion to recommit the bill. The i house refused to do so by a vote of 51 to 29. The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas?Asbill, Bedoa, Bethune, Burns, Caughman, Cushman, Foz, H. P. Goodwin, Graham. Henderson, Eoliis, T. E. Johnson, Kibbler, Lancaster, Meares, Mishoa, Moore, Me White, Price, Rainsford, Sanders, J. R. Smith, Siiliivaa, Townsand, Wilson, Win^o, Winkler, Witherspooc, Yeldell?29. Na\s?Speaker Frank B. Gary, All, Aud'crson, Ashley, Austell, Bail ey, Blythe, Breeland, Carson, Childs, Cram, W. C. Davis, DeBruhl, DeLoach, Eird, Gadsden, Har7ey, Humphrey, Ilderton, Kennedy, L?-mmon, Limehouse, Livingston, Lofton, Mapill, Mauldin, Mehrtens, J. H. Miller, Mitcaell, McCullcu'h, Mc?eo*m, Nsttbs, Perritt, Paillips, Pijer, Pollock, P.vatt, Robinson, Rigers, Seabrook, Skinner, Simkins, W. S. Smith, Sturkie, Stevenson, W. H. Thomas,Vinsent, West, Westmoreland, Williarcs, Wycbe?51. Mr. McCullough had an amendment to refuse mileage to members of the general assembly using passes. The house refused to consider it and the bill was given its final reading. Sc'iiie Crop Statistics. The final estimates of acreage, production and value of crops in the United States for 1897, made by the statistician of the department of agriculture, areas follows: Corn, 80,095.101 seres, 1,920,967,933 bushels, $501 072,952 valu*. Wheat, 39,465,066 acres, 530,140,168 bushels, $428,547,121. Oats, 25,730 375 acres, 698,767,809 bushels $147 974 719. Rye, 1.703 561 acres, 27,363,324 bus'aels, $12 239,647. Barley. 2,709 116 acres, 63,683,127 bushels, $25 142 139. Buck77neat. 717.836 acres, 14,997,451 busiels, $8 319,188. Potato*1*. 2,534 577 acres, 164,015,967 ou^hels, $59,643,059. 42 4*26 770 acres 60 664376 toes. $401 490,723.' Deiaiiea information by States will be issued in primed form in a few days. Tee revision of the estimates of the acreage of winter wheat and rye for the present season 15 Dearingr completion. No report on tobacco -vrili be made at present. The Atlanta Journal says a pleascut but forciole reminder thai the war is over that a I-^e?one of the Lees? the beau sabrcur of the Confederacy, is the maio reliance of a Republican administration in a situation so deli? catc that only a man with undaunted n ntcn noiv?iAficm could be trusetd. * S ? -1 "j'v mm """gaaBaEa* THE POLI HCAL OUTLOOK. "Wbst a K' publican Tbiiiks or iho Ch*r. czs icr Free Silver. ' William E. Curtis, the special correspond ect cf the Chicago Record, in writing from Washington to tha 3 Record does not take a very hopeful view of the future of the Republican party c r tb e gold - bu g cause. He say s: The action of the senate yesterday iD giving the precedence over all ] other business to the Teller resolution, , which declares that the bonds j of the United States may be paid in silver, shows how far from , possible it is to secure from this con- ( grtss any legislation for the currency , reform that does not include the res- ' LUlttLlUli. U1 IUC muutj OUYOI. It shows that the silver men are stroDg- ( er in the senate than they were two years ago, notwithstsndicg the elec- ] tion of a goldbug President upon a \ gold standard platform. It shows , tbat the enactment of a protectee . tariff law, the restoration of inaustria1 activity and commercial prosperity has not satisfied the advocates of free ' coin^e or eliminated the silver ques- ( tion from politics. It shows thai the wishes of the President, often de , clared iD pupMc and in private. ' and "the debasicg icllusnce of 1 patronage" are not so strong with 1 / orfair. VthVon cpnatnrs as nn'nli/> sentiment in their several States. It i shows the folly of the currency com , mission in dependin? upon support from the Democraric senators from the south. It shows, furthermore, that . the split in the Republican party on : the silver quesdon is growisg wider, and that the President will take great j risks if he forces that issue into the , cntj^ressiorial campaign next fall, j The immediate effect of the action of the senate?for it is assumed tbat the resolution will be adopted by the i same majority tbat insisted upon its consideration?is to stimulate the Re- ( publicans in the house of representa- . tives who have been ieaning toward sil- , ver to assert themselves, and to fright- ' en those whose districts are doubtful j and who want the issue postponed. The ! chief end of man, according to the congressional catechism, is to secure a j reelection; and timid members say ' that if the administration insists upon forcing Mr. Gage's bill or that of the currency commission the house of : representatives will suffer a revolution and the present Republican majority will De reversed and given to the Democrats at the fall election. It is be- ' lieved that when the yeas and nays ' are called enough Republicans in the present house will go over to the silver side to mate a majority ana seriously j embarrass the administration. When, we take into consideration 1 that Mr. Curtis is a Republican, a 1 * ^1 /5 kn / ? nvi/J A! > Wa ^UlU UUg AiiU G, pcicuuci 111QUU Wi hiiu President, thfe above utterance is very significant. We do not believe that Mr. Curtis overdraws the picture. We believe that the people real:'ze that there is nothing in the promises of the Republican party, and that they will' turn to the Democratic party for relief. The so-called prosperity of the McKinley adminis- ; tration is confined to the office-holders and the large corporations. The masses of the people have not been benefitted, and they are goiDg to hold McKinley 8i+i the Republican party rt? aponsibile. THE FARMER'S OPPORTUNITY. They Should Protec: Thsmsslves by Help Lag Each Other. It has lorg bsen advocated by the tfceorfst that all our industrial interests are closely allied, all depending for succfsi on the prosperity of the ether. There is no doubt about the correctness of this theory, and it would work cut beautifully if all would practice the golden rule. Toe theory is all right, but in practice the farmer always comes out at the little end of the horn. As is well said in an aidress before the Farmers' Institute at Rejnolds^ Illinois, by Pro?. 3. W. Heath, the farmer has tco many people to support, too many inefit-ntimnc t/^ mointain ''TV'S Wfl " on Mr. Ht&th, "realize that prac'.ically we support the whole social ana industrial fabric of our countij? The past summer practically all the coal mines of the country were tied up for several months, but caused scarcely a ripple in the business world, except among thcsa directly connected with them. Tie up the farming interests for the same length of time and the business world would be paralyzed ajid unsold suffering wjuld ba the c asequesces among all classes of society and every business in tiiecsuntry. B. other farmers, we are no: united in our efforts to better our condi t'on. We practice a kind of 'dog eat dog' policy. Tnere are in every community men who are classed as the leading farmers who are well to do; Vho combine bujing and selling farm products with the producing of ihe same, and as the trade phrase goes, a 'thing well bought is balf sold.' This policy when practiced causes the bujer to become a 'btar in the market and of course it is to his interest to have the product of other farmers as low in the market as possible. There is too much selfishness, too much '<vantit all' disposition among us. We should stand by each r.thop T.at flvprv farmer make ever? other farmer's interest his interest, as ia i&<zl it is his interest. Other lines of organized business do this, and until we do it wa will be at the mercy of every other organization, and (flzucatively speaking) destroyed in detail. Tee farmers of tfie country should combine as one man and crush out of existence all boards of trade, so called, where farm products are used as a basis for their gambling operations. How long would these places be permitted to deal in manufactured articles ? Would it not be as appropriate t} irade in cotton, or woolen goods, railroad iron, farm implements and hundreds of other manufactured articles, as in the products of the farm! Yes ?but?well ? the manufacturer places the pries on his goods himself. ! The farmer allows the other party to < fix the price on his, and that a ficti- 1 tious one in the interest of the manip < i mi ujaior. junerc i& uiuuu, uaiu common sanss in what Mr. Heath says, and if the farmers would act on it tiey would b3 banefit tsd, provided ihey prevented the politicians from capturing the new organization and using it for their own bener < fit as was unfortunately the case with : the Grange and the Alliance. i C jpid breaks his bow at the sight of J i face full of pimples. Hollo77 cheeks, j sunken eves, and a sillo v complexion will defy his bast intentions. Baauty ] is more than skin deep. The skia is ! merely the surface on which is writ- ^ ten in plain characters the condition ( of the body. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is good for the com plesion because it makes the whole \ body healthy?because it clears and 1 purifies the blocd, makes the digestion ! strong and clears out impurities cf all ! kinds. By increasing the ability ip < assimilate nutritious food. and by the < infusion cf its own ingredients it en- ( riches tbe blood and so makes solid, < healthy flesh. It cures dieases of the ; lungs, liver, stomach, bowels, skiu < ana scalp, simply because all these i diseases spring iron: ;n3 saaie cau?e? i a disordered digestion and consequent i mpure blood.. j MM WWMM?IMMBMBBIIQIIBflBMI8 TUtni HMI fflT:BLIZZARD, |* ii 30ST0N'S W03ST SNOW STORM !N j 7 WENTY-FIVc YEARS. jl Basinssa la VPeil Jifgh Stopprd -The BI'z j ^ zird'i EiTicta lti Oclisr Citlas and To-was j j i Were Llktwlse Serlots?Tho Particulars. < A northwest snow storm complete- i lyparaljzed all branches o? business i *nd street car and steam railroad traf- i 5c, and for a time shut cff Boston, 1 Mass., from communication by wire ; with all tee places outside the limits 3 Boston. The storm was themes'. 1 severe the city has experienced in 25 ' years, and caused the loss cf vera I < lives, besides doing a money damage j af hundreds of thousands o? dollars. < Between 1 and 5 o'clock Tuesday mor irg a foot of heavy wet snow drifted t j i_ . -a 1 l l _ J .11 % Dver ids city, ana levei^a wires m au i directions. The snow clua? to the i poles and wires and crossed by a 1 blowing at the rate of 50 miles an ] hour, prostrated electric light, tek- ; phone and telegraph lines in and out Df the city. \ 1 In Newton broken wires falling ; across others started a fire in the ele- < ?ant residance of Charles J. Travelli, the wealthy Pittsburg steel manufac- < tuf r, and ia two hours nothing re- ! m ined of the house bu1; ashes. Mr. ,] Travelli's family escaped in their nieht i clothes without saving anything. The H loss amounts to $100,000. j< Late Tuesday night' the big three j masted schooner Charles T. Briegs of i Bath. Me., coal laden, was dasbed to pieces on the Nahant coast, and it is ; believed her ere 77 of eight men per > ished. The body of one of the crew ] bas been recovered. ] In the business district it was near- j ly noon when many employes rescbed ;< their places of employment, all subur- j] ban trolley lines having been abaa- fj ioned, and the steam railroads being 1 unable to run more than two or three < suburban trains during the forenoon. . A.11 through trains frona New York 1 and the west as well as through from 1 the east, were from four to six hours ; late. Tonight the few trains moving 1 are running without a telegraphic ser- ; vice. ? Many horses were killed in the 1 1 A - 1 -j. . _ IV . 3 A-1 sireeis Dy sieppmg on tne enas or teie- i phone wires which had fallen across the trolley wires. Tuesday night the situation assumed j such a dangerous aspect that Mayor Q jincy ordered that none of the elec- ' trie lights be turned on except in dis- 1 tricts rvlisre the wires are under i ground. It will require weeks < to restore the telephone and telegraph service. Not a single telegraph wire out of Boston was in operation all day, and the telephone wires were in almost as bad condition- The wholesale and most of the retail business districts of the city were deserted all day. Shipping: in the barbor was damaged greatly and it is feared many disasters to coast shipping will be reported when telegraphic communication is restored. The centre of the storm appeared to be in the vicinity of New Bedford,and the brunt of it fell on Boston and territory within a rid i as of 15 or 20 miles. From meagre reports received from the middle and western parts of tha State the storm there was less severe. Hereabout 20 inches of snow fell EFFECTS IN NEW YORK. The storm which began Sunday night swept over New Y^rk State with great fury. Northern New York is snowbound. Business has been at a standstill in many of the smaller towns; wires all over the country are down; roads are blocked and ran way traffic greatly impeded. The "up tfceState" residents have suffered from the cold, which ranged as low as 20 degrees and more below zero. At Albany, Troy, Saratoga and many other places in tne State as much as two and three feet of snow has fallen ard reports are to the effect that the blizzard is still raging, the worst storm since the memorable one of 1885. Citizens of ihis city have had to battle their j way to business agaiDst a gale of wicd that at times swept along at 40 miles an hour and carried sheets ef snow with it. Much delay was caused to the railway mail service from the northern part of the S-ate which has been practically cut cff, and trains running on the New York Central railroad were from four to fire hours late. From 10,000 to 20,000 men have been at ?- ? ? /\V> +V? A wur.it wlull luuusauuj ui icauia uu uw j streets clearing away the snow, and yet there has beun no appreciable de crease in the amount that is piled up in every direction. Portions of long Island suffered al most as much from the storm as far up the State. The east end of the is land has been blocaded by the drifting snow. The uong Island railroad was completely closed today. Snow plows driven by five of the most powerful engines on the road are now bat tling with the drifts on the eastern section of the road. TYDTT3TC! HPWFVPV T^PTTT At Waterville, Me., some houses have been buried by 20 foot drifts of snow. Cotton mills have been closed, the operatives being unable to reach them. BUSEN"ES3 PARALYZED. At Lawrence, Mass., the storm has paralyzed business and traffic. Sir<:et car lines are tied up and commuaica tion with ether towns is almost suspended. AUthe mills are seriously affected by the storm. Many of the i 3 - # i.L ^ I operatives are cut ana some 01 me * mills are not running at all. THREE FEET OF SNO W. . At Providence, R. I., the storm here today was one of the worst ever known. Telegraph and ?.elephone wires are all down and the city is over whelmed by three fast cf snow which has blown into immense drift3. Swallowed Up by lb? Sea. The mail steamer Channel Queen has been totally wrecked on the rocks off the island of Guernsey. T&e Coannel Qaeen's engines were reversed when tne rocks were seen, but it was then too late. The first boat load reachei land and soupht help of the fishermen, who made gallant rescues, although the heavy sea prevented their boat from approacning the wreck. The survivors had to bs dragged by ropes through the sea to ' rescuing boats. The captain was the last to leaye the wreck. The latest report is that twenty-two were drown sd, the chief engineer, three stokers I and eighteen passengers, including t fourteen onion sellers, v?ho were ' irowned in their cabins when the sea swamped the vessel. The rescued passengers lost everything, evec their , Nothing. i fi?l?OU'S Iodoform Linioaeni is th-3 "nes plu \ altra" of all such preparations in re- , no ring soreness, and quickly healing resh cuts and wounds, no matter how 3ad. It yill promptly heal old sores )? long standing. Will kill the pois- ; m from "'Poison Ivy" or "Poison I 3ak" and cure "Dew Poison." Vv ill 1 counteract th9 poison from bites of molrpj and st.irtcrs nf Tt is a ,ure cure for sore throat. Will cure I lay esse of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and acaes. j < 3old by drugeista and dealers 25 cants j i bottlp. ! I POLITICAL POT BEGINS TO BOILMora Catidlda'es Enn?r ?b? Lira for li'g i Flams The Columbia State ssts following the announcement mad9 Friday of the jandidacy of Col R. B. Wats in of Sa-uda for governor, which bj the nay created quitet a flatter in political circles, came the announcement that ex-Solicitor Schumperihad detertniced to make the race. This makes [he fourth man to enter the race in the coming State campaign. Governor Ellerbe and Mr. Archer have an - j aounced their platforms. Nothing of this kind has" yet come from Col. Wa'.son cr Mr. S^humpert. At this r.age it looks very much as if the race i> going to tea lively cne if all the jindidates stay to' the finish. The pesitive announcement was al 30 macie jesterday of the candidacy of Mayor H. H. Evans of Newberry for fcfiA nflRr^rt of At.tfirrtAV c#?npr*l. His Friends cliim that he will make it lively for any others who enter the rac?. And still another announcement has been made. CoL Thomas; G. White of Beaufort is out for superintendent of education. It seems that there is no longer any doubt but that George D Tillman wi 1 be in the race for governor. It was positively stated on the street yesterday, by one who is in position to know, tbat Col. George Tillman has finally consented to re eater politics. The following was also given out in regard to Col. Tillman's plans: He will not make the race cn in anti dispensary platform, however, zs has heretofore been reported. His position on the whiskey question will be to allow each county to selcct for it3 'If prohibition, hieh license, or the iispensary. as each see* fit, this, in liis judgment being true loeal selfgovernment and one of the fundamen tal principles of Demccracy. He wi)l also advocate a change in the presei t system of county government ana make a determined fight for the betterment of the public school system. He will run as a candidate of no faction., but with the hope that he may be able to reunite the Democracy in 3outh Carolina. He will not only promise to reduce taxes, but will reduce them. The people are groaning under this burden. ITn* a 1 An rr Hma Hnl Tillmat* Vise * VA ^ VMUW VVI. XA^iiuau uoa hesitated to allow the use of his name, but it is said that the petitions and let ters from all parts of the State whieh have been sent asking Lira to make the race have definitely and finally, caused him to decide to do so. Some people question on account of his age, his ability to make the canvass, but all such misgivings, his friends claim, are without foundation and the next campaign will be made hot by his canvass. He enjoys the best of health and is as vigorous todaj as ever. There is no longer any dou bt whatever but that he is in the race to the finish. two planet^11 cro^ by laws. A man who studies these law3 of nature carefully and reduces them to a science, can count on exact results every time. "A doctor knows that certain remedies affect certain diseases. When a disease seems to have no remedy, the doctors pronounce it incurable. All the time Nature may have the remedy right at hand, but it will onlv be discovered by the doctor who n?s studied longer and deeper than others into this particular disease. Consumption seemed for a long time without a remedy, until- Dr. Pierce made his wonderful "Golden Mcdical Discovery" 30 w9? 9<xn Tt has -Droved to be a marvelous and almost unfailing specific for consumption an<? all forms of lung, bronchial and throat difficulties. Its effects seem almost magical but its operation is based upon simple natural laws. It ha.s the peculiar property of enabling the blood-making glands to manufacture healthy, red blood and pour it abundantly ante the circulation. This nourishing, vitalizing effect is rapidly manifested in the luags and bronchial tubes where it stops the WJWtingprocess and builds up healthy tissue. It is readily assimilated bystomachs which are too weak to digest cod liver oil, and it is far superior to malt-extracts as a permanent and scientific flesh-builder in all twisting diseases. " Twenty-five years *xgo eight different doctors told me that I would .r-e but a short time, that I bad consumption and must die." writes Geo. R_ Coope, Esq., of Myers Valley, Pottawatonxie Co., Kaas. " I finally commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and am still on the hind and among, the living. I have faith to believe that It has lengthened my life for the last itweaty-Sve vears, and I have so"much feith in all of your medicines that I want one of your' Common Sense Medical Advisers.'" Dr. Pierce's medicines are recognized as standard remedies throughout the world. 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