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j PULPIT MD PSESS. DR. TALMAGE TAKES THE PRINTING j ART FOR HIS SUBJECT. j Szprctses His Gratitude to God and tbo j Jftwgpjpar? Commemorates the Two ( ThocskEdth PcbllcaUoc ol His S3: mah A o Appeal 10 Editor?. For the first time Dr. T&lmage in ? *--- +QTO in TT hat XCitT7 hlV UrIS UiSU^Uifc i" "jl*?. , sermons have ccme to a multiplicity of publication such 2 s has ne^er in any other case been known sic cs the art of printing" was invented; text, Nahum ii, 4, l'7hey shall seem like torches; they shall run like the light niegs." Express, rail train and telegraphic communication are su?gsst^d, if not foretold, in this text, aud from it I start to presch a sermon in gratitude to God and the newspaper p'-ess for the fact that I have had the opportunity of delivering through the newspaper press 2 CCO sermons or religious addresses, so that I bave for many years been allowed the privilege of preaching the gospel every we"k to every neighborhood in Christendom and in many lar ds outside of Christ- j erdom. Many have wondered at tfc? ! process by which it has come to pass, j and for the first tim;j in public place I j state the thre* causes. Many years! ago a young man who has since be-; comeemiDent in his profession "w?s ? studying law in a disixnt city. He J csme to me and said that for *ack of : funds he must stop his studying un ! less through stenography I wyuld give him sketches of sermons, thai he might by the sale of them secure - means for the completion of his edu cation. I positively declined, because it seemed to me an impossibility, but i after some months had passed, and I had reflected upon Ihd great sadness for such a'brilliant young rrraa to ba defeated in his ambition for the legal prcfession, I undertook to serve him, of course free of charge. Within three weeks there came a re quest for those stenographic reports frojn many parts of the continent Time passed or?, and some gentle- j men of my own profession, evidently ] thinking that tiiere was hardly room fat them and for myself in this conti-! nent, began to asssii me, and became i so violent in their assault that the chief newspapers of America put spec ;a1 correspondents in my church Sab bath by Sabbath to take down such reply as I might make. I never made reply, except once for about three minutes, but those correspondents could not waste their time,and so they; telegraphed the sermons to their par- j ticular papers. After awhile Dr. Louis j Klopsch of New York systematized I the work into a syndicate until, through that and other syndicates he has put the discourses week by week before more than 20 000,000 people on both sides the sea. There have been so many guesses on this subject, many of them inaccurate, that I now tell the true story. I have not improved the' opportunity as I ought, but"! feel that the time has come when as a matter of common justice to the newspaper press I should make this statement in a sermon commemorative of the two thousandth full publication of ser* \ mons and religious addresses, saying nothing or fragmentary reports,which | would run up into many thousands more. There was one incident that I might mention in this connection, shewing how an insigniheant event might influence us for a .life time. Many years ago on a Sabbath morning on my way to chiirch in Brooklyn a representa tive of a promnent newspaper me: me and said, "Are you going to sive us any points today?" I said, "What do you mean by points?" He replied, j "Anything we can remember." I; said to myself, "We ought to be mak- J ing 'points' all the time in our pulpits and not deal in platitudes and inanities." That one interrogation put to me that morning started in me the desire of making points all the time J ? -ll- * 1- ?^ ana naming oac pjiau^. And now how can I more appropri- I ately commemorate the two thous-j andth publication than by speaking j of the newspaper press as an ally of I the pulpit ana mentioning some of the j trials of newspaper men ? The newspaper is the great educator j of the nineteenth century. There is j no force compared with it. It is bDok, pulpit, platform, forum, aU in one And there is not an intei est, religious, literary, commercial, scientific, agri- ] cultural or mechanical?that is not j within its grasp. Ail our churches] and schools and colleges and asylums j and art galleries feel the quaking of j the printing press. , . _ ^ The institution of newspapers arose! in Italy. In Venice the first.newspa- j per was published, and monthly, dur- j ing the time Venice was warring] against Solyman II in Dalmaiia, it was printed for the purpose of giving militarv and commercial information to the Venetians. The first newspaper ir, T?r?rtlor>^ woe in 1 rtAft anr? called The English Mercury. Who can estimate the political, scientific, commercial and religious revolutions roused up in England for many years past by the press? The first attempt at this Institution in Francs was in 1631, by a physician, who published The Ne^s, for the amusement and health of his patients. The French nation understood fully how to appreciate this power. So early as in 1820 there were in Paris ' 169 journals. But in the United States the newspaper has come to unlimited sway. Though in 1775 there were but 37 in the whole country, the number of published journals is now counted by thousands, and today?we may as well acknowledge it as not?the religious and secular newspapers are the great educators of the country. But alas, through what struc^e the newspaper lias come to its present development. Just as soon as it bsgan . . to demonstrate its power superstition . and tyranny shackled it. There is .. nothing that despotism so msc'a fears . . . and hates, as the printing press. A great writer in the south of Europe declared that the king of Naples had < ; made it unsafe-for him to write on any subject save natural history. Austria could not bear Kossuth's journalistic pen pleading for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I, want. ing to keep his iron heel on tne neck of nations, said that the newspaper was the regent of kings and the only i safe place to keep an- editor was in prison. Bu? the great battle for the freedom.of the press was fought in the courtrooms ot England and the United States before this century began, when Hamilton made his great speech in behalf of the freedom c* J. Peter Zsneer's Gazette in America, and wKen Erskine made his great speech ia behalf of the freedom to publish Fame's "Eights of Man" in England. Tsose j were the Marathon and the Thermopylae where the battle ?ras fought which decided the fretdcm of ;hs press in England and America, and all the powers of earth and hell will j never again be able to put upon the! printing.press the nandcuffs ard thej hopples of political despotism. I find no difficulty in accounting for the world's advance. What has made the change? "Books," you say. No, sir! The vast majority of citizens do not read books. Take this audience or any othtr promiscuous assemblage, ana how many histories hare \ , : they read? How many treatises on; constitutional law or oolitic*! ecjzo j my or works of science? Ko^ many j elaborate pc^ins o~ hocks or travel?;' No4 nany. IntbeUaiccd St.-'/es t'^ej Dcople frould no; average one such ! bocx a -ear for cach individual. "Whence, tber, thi*3 ictplii&ence, this capacity to ta;k about all themes, sec ular and religious, this acquaintance with, science and art. Ibis power to j?Dpreci3t> the beautiful and grand?j to ?>! :?, ill's iicvrsua{>cx, ; swift -winged and everywhere present | fl.vice over the fence, shoved under j the door, tossed into tbe counting: j house, kid on the workbench, hawked tnrougb the cars! All read it?j while aud black, German, Iri-bm?.r\ j Swiss, Spaniard, American, old and j young1, good and bad, sick and well, before breakfast and after tea, Mon-j day morning, Saturday night, Sunday j and weekday. I cow declare that I consider the newspaper .to be thai grand ?gsrcy by which the gospel is \ to be preached, i^orarce cast out, j ooprssfl'oa detroaed, crlm^ extirpated, the world raised, heaven r- juiced at<d j Geo. glorified. In tbe clanking of the j nriaiing press as the sheets fly out I j near the voice of the Lord almighty rrcckiminf to all the dead nations of< the earth, '"Lazarus, come forth!"' and j to the retreating surges of darknes?, ; ; "Lsfc there be light!" In many of our j j ciiy newspapers professing no more j j than secular information, there have appealed during the past 30 years some of the grandest anneals; in behalf of religion and some of the most effective interpretatiocs of God's governj znent amore the nations. rtf nflmc. . I J.L'CtC ftro KJL1>\ JJUO KJ t wcr.-o I I papers?the one good, very }jood; the ' | other bad, very bad. A newspaper j may be started with an undecided! character, but after it has been going j on for years everybody finds out just j what it is, asd 11 is very good or it is ^erv good cr it is very oad. The one paper is the embodiment of news, the ally of virtue, the foe of crime, the deiectation of elevated taste, the mightiest agency on earth for making the world better. The other paper is brigand among mcrai forces; it is a beslimer of reputation, it is the right arm of death and hell, it is the mightiest agency in the universe for making the world worse and battling against the cause of God, the one an angel of intelligence and mercy the S other a fiend o? darkness. Between this archangel and this fury to be * i-J- J*- - lougnt me great uauue wxuuu iv decide the fate'of the ^orld. if you have any doubt as to which. is to be victor, | ask tbe prophecies, ask God; the cbief batieries wiih which he would vindi cate.tbe right, and thunder down the wrong are now unlimbered. Tbe great Armageddon of the nations i* not to be fought with swords, but with steel pens: not with bullets, but with type; not with cannon, but with lightning perfecting pressss, and the Sumters, and the Poultries, and the Pulaskis, and tie Gibraltars of that, conflict will be the editorial and re portorial rooms o'f our great newspaper establishments. Men of the press, God has put a mere stupendous responsibility-upon you than upon any other class of persons. "Wnat long strides your profession has made in influence and power since tjie day when Peter Saeffer invented cist me till type, and because two books were found just alike they were ascribed to the work of the devil, and books were printed on strips of bamboo, and Rev. Jesse .Glover originated the first American printing press, and the common council of- New York, in solemn resolution, offered $200 to any printer who would come there and jive,;!and when the speaker of the house of parliament in England announced with indignation that the public prints had recognized some of their doings, and until in this day when we have in this country many newspapers sending out copies *07 the billion, The press and the telegraph have pone down into the same great harvest field to reap, and the telegraph says to the newspaper, 'Til rake, while you bind," and the iron teetn ot the ielegrapa are set down at one end of the harvcsi.fiild and dra wn clean across, and the newspaper gather up the sheaves, setting down ore sheaf! I oiitne oreainast taoie in see snspe or t a morning newspaper, and putting | down another sheaf on the tea table in the shape of an evening ne-spapsr ana that man that neither cakes if or reads a newspaper would be a curiosi tv. What vast progress since the days when Cardinal Wolsay declared tna.1 either the printing press must go down or the church o? God must go down tc this time, when the printirg press and the pulpit are x in hundreds of glorious combination and alliance. One of the great trials of this newspaper profession is the fact that they are compelled to see more of the sham of the world than any other profes! sicn. Through every newspapjr office day by day, go the weakaess of the world", the vanities that ,war.t to be1 puffed, the revenges that want to be ! wreaked, all the mistakes that want to be corrected, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, ail the me'mness wants to get its wares noticed gca'.is in the editorial colums m order 10 save the tax of the adver using column, an ins men wao wans to be set right who never was right, ail the crack brained phiiophers, with stcry ss long as their hair and as gloomj as tteir fiager nail, all the itinerant bores w&o come to stay five minutes and stop an hour. From the editorial and repertorial rooms all the follies and shams of the world are seen day by day, and the temptation j is to believe neisher in God, man, nor woman. It is no surprise to me that iu your profession there are some skeptical men. I only wonder that you believe anything. Unless an editor or a reporter has in his present or in his early home a model of earnest character, or he throw himself upon the upholding grace of God, he m&v maKe tempers! and eternal shin wreck: Another great trial of the newspaper | profession is inad?qu?.te compensation i Since ihr days of Razliitand Sheridan j 3nd Jolin Milton, and tbs waiiings of j Grub street, Loi-don, iiterary toil, j with very iew exceptions, has not b.^en | properly requited. When Oliver { Goldsmith received a friend in his j house, .ho (the author) had to sit on j the window, because there was only j one chair. Linnaeus sold his splendid I work for a ducat. De Foe, the author j of so many volumes, died penniless, j The learned Johnson dined behind a screen because his clothes were too { shabby to allow him to dine with ihe j gentlemen who, on the other side of 5 the screen, were applauding his works j And so on down to the present time I literary toil is a great struggle for' bread. The "world sv-os to have a| grudge against a man who, as they } sqv. pf:ts his livinp' bv his wits, arid I the day laborer says to the man of literary toil, "You ccme down here and shove a plane and hammer, a shoe last aad break cobblestones and e-irn an honest living as I do instead of sitting there in idleness scribbling!"! Bui there are no harder worked men J in all the earth than the newspaper j people o? this country. It is not a ? mailer cf hard times; it is character j istic at all times. Men have a better | appreciation for that which appeals 'o | the stomach than for that which ap peals to the brain. Tbey have no idea of the immense financial and iatellec[ ;ual exhaustion of the newspaper. tress. Oh. men cf the press, it w;l] ! ce a grrit help to you, i' wb^n you ! yet. horne late at ni^hi, fs^rzed our ; pr.a r.prvcus with your you ' worn J jast do^a and c}r?iuier:d ; jour ease to God. who has watched j a'd the fatigue? of the day and the ni^hi. aid who h?s pro-rised to be you-' Goi snd the Gxi of your children forever Another great trial o' the new-paper pro'essio"? is the diseased appe'i e for unhealthy ir?telli;?er)ce. Yvu blame the newspaper pr'*ss for living such pronnir.erce to murcers and scan i dais. Do you supcose tbat so irany; papers wcu'd give p?orr;inence.tothese j ihin?s if ih* peopie cid not demand j there ? If I go into the meat u:arket j of a foreign cit7, asd I find that *he I | butche.-s hang op oil the most con-; spicuoue hock meat tbat is tainted, j | whiis the meat that is fresh and savory i I put away without any special care, j I come to the conclusion that the peoi t>ie of that city love tainted n.eat. j j You know very well tbat 1' tbe great i mass of people in this country get hold j I of a newspaner and th?re are in it rx , j runaway matches, no broken up fami j I lies, no defamation o* n:en in high j | position, they proncurc* that pao>-r| j ::os;p:d. They t-ay, 'It is shockingly ! ' dull .tonight." I believe it is oEe of i the trials of the newspaper press tbar. ; ! the reople of th s oouatrv derruod j I moral slush instead of healthy cr:d in j j tellectual food. Now, you are i re j j sp^ciaoie man, an intelligent man, : ' s?nd a paper comes into your hand { You open it, and there are three ol-1 i umas of splendidly written editorial. | | recomm^Edic g some moral si;n:iment } or evolving some scientific theory. In j ; the next column there is a miserable, i contemptible divorce case. Which do j you read first? You dip into the eii i torial lorg enough to say, ''Well, j that's 'very ably written," and you j read the divorce cass from the "long | primer" type at the* top to the "non pareil" type at the bottom, and the" : vou ask your wife if she' has read it I j ' ~ * ? 1 J - Ua, it is only a case or suppiy aau utnoand! Newspaper men are not foo's They know what you want, and tbey give it to you. I oelieve tnat if the church and the world brought rothirebut purti honest, healthful newspapers nothin? but pure, honest aid health-1 ful newspapers would be published, j li you should gather all the editors and the reporters of this country in one sreat convention, and ask of them what !:icd of a paper tbey would prefer to ^ablisb, I behave they woulrt unanimously siy, "We would prefer to publish an elevating paper." So Ions as there is an iniquitous demand there will be an iniquitous supply. I 5 make no apology for a debauched 5 newspaper, but I am saying these ; thiDgs in order to divide the responsibility be-ween those who print and J n _ - v j lacse who reaa. ? Another trial of this profession is the fact no cne seems to care for their souls. They feel bitterly about it, though they laugh. People sometimes laugh, the loudest when they feel the worst, They are expected to gather up religious proceedings and to dis cuss religious doctrines in iho editoral columns, but who expects them to be saved by the sermons'they stenograph or by the dcctrines they discuss in the editorial columns? The world ,looks upon them as professional. Who preaches to reporters and editors? Some of them came froir religious I homes, and when they left the' pares. | tal roof, whoever regarded or disrp| garded, they came off with a father's benediction and a mother's prayer. They never think of those good old times but tears come into their eje?, and they mcva through these great cities homesick. Oh, if thty only knew what a helpful thing it is for a msn t^ nut his we&rv head down on the bosom of a sympathetic Christ! He knows how nervous and tired you are. He has a heart large enough to take in all you? interests for this world and the next. Oh, men of the news-! paper press you sometimes get sick of this world, it seems so hollow and unsatisfying! If there are any people in all tae earth that need God, you are the men. and you shall have him if only this day you implore his mercy. A man was found at the foot of Canal street, New York. As they picked him up from the water and brought him to th? morgue they saw by the contour of his forebead that he had mental capacity. He had entered I the newspaper profession. He had | gone down in health. Ha took to i artificial s'.imulus. He went down | further a^d further, until the summer j day. ho: ard hungry and sick and in I despair, he fluag himself off the dock, j Tney found in his pocket a reporter's I pad, a lead pencil, a photograh of j soma one who had loved him long ; ago D^ath, as sometimes it v?ilJ, smoothed out all the wrinkles that, had gathered prematurely on his brow, aud as he lay there his face w*s as fair as when, seven ve^rs bsfore. ! he left his country home and they bade him good by forever. Tee world looked through the window of the j iiorgu9 ard said. v'Il's nothing but an outcast," but God said it wss a gi gantic soul tha'.parished because tie world gave him no chanc Let me ask all meu connected with the printing press th?it thsy iielo us more and mere in the effort to make the world better. I charge ycu in the name of God, before whom you must account for the tremendous iiiflance you hold in this countr,, to consecrate vour?elves to higher endeavors. You are the men to fight back this invasion of corrupt literature. Lift uo your right hand and swear new allegiance to th9 cause of philanthropy and religion. And when at last, standing on the plains of judgment, you look out upon the unnu abered ihrongs over whom you have Md influence, may it be found tiiuM wci o uuigu. ncai* i energies that lifted men upon the exalted pathway that leads to the renown of heaven. Better than to have, sat in editorial chair, from which,' with the finger of type, you decided the destinies of empires, but decided them wrong, that you had been some dungeoned exile, who, by ths lit<ht of window iron greased, on scraps of a New T. s'amsnt leaf, picked u 3 from the e*rtn, sp?lled oil the story of him | who taketh aws7 the sins of the world In eternity Dives is the bagger. We]i, my friends, we will all sooa get through writing and printing and proof reading and publishing. What then? Our life is a book. Ojr years are the chapters. Oar months are tae paragrach's. 0 ir days are the sentences. Ourdoubis are the interrogation points.. Ou** imitation of others the quotation', marks. Oar attempts a: d splay a oasn. i;ear-a ma p?noa. lutein t? the peroration. 0 G-ccl, where wii: we soetd it? Have you he?rd tt? ne*s, more startling tr.a:: any found in the journals of tie last six weeis? It is tne tidings that man is lost. Have you he3td the new?, the gladdest that was ever aanoaeed, cornice this day from the throne of &:d, lightning couriers leaning frs-m tii3 paluCJgate? The news! i'heglorious news! That tner^ is pardon for fill quilt and comfort for ail trouble. Se;. j it up in '"doubid leaded" columns and1 direct it to the whole race. And now before 1 close this sermon, j thankfully coin me mora tire of the j "T^o Thousandth" publication. Is wish more fully to 2cknowktige th^ | services rendered by the s-cular press in the matter of evangelization. Ah! the secular Be7rspsp?rs o' the dav? j for I atn not sr-rskic? this roo.-niug of ! the reliflious Eex$p,;p3rs?ail ue seculirns^sDaperi r,f day discus* aH *he qu^itio- s 0' 'xod, eternity and tfce dead ard all the qu?s'iiias of tde past, presf-iit ar d future. There is 1.0' a sir.g1^ doctrine of th^ol^y hut has bet-c discussed in the last ren years by i>:e secular r\t*r<?i>io*r.i of the country; they gather up all ih?* ne??s of all the f-arth bearing- on religious subjects. ? ? ii? .. J ano men z'-ev scau^r ;ne dkws auroac fcgain. The Christian newspaper will be :hs ri:?ht win-i- of tV; Apocalyptic angel. T^e cylinder cf the Cwn^wa;Vd "ori^ting o?*ess will be the front wheel of the Lorc'.i chariot. I take the musio of tnis day.. and I do not mark It diminuendo?I mark is crescendo. A paster on a Sabbath pre | PC-'s to r- few bunded or a few thousa d Deopie, and on Monday or durir.gr ihe week th^ printing pr?ss will lake the satm* sermon ard preach it to ! millions of people. God soeed the j pria'-in? press! Gad save the printj inr tre>s! When. I seethe prictiag press s'aad ! ing wi-.h the electric teie^^aph cn the ; one s:de fathering up material and (the iightriirsg express train on the i other sid* waiting for t^e tons of folded i sheets of newspapers, I pronounce it j ths mightiest force in our civilization | S.j I command you to pray for ali | those who manage the newspapers of j the Isnd, for ail typesetters. lor ali ' editors, for ali publishers, that, sitting I i or standing in positions of such great ' influence, tbe/ may give ail that in| flutj. ce for God and toe betterment of me human raca. An aged woman I making her living by knitting un- j | wound the yarn from the ball until j ; see found in t 'ne center of tne Daii mere j ; was sn old piece of newspaper. She cp-ned itasd read an advertisement [ which, announced that she had be I c^me heiress to a large property at d that fragment of a newspapp- lifted ! her up trom oauperism to ifflaenee. Aod I do not know bul as the thread of time unrolls a^.d unwinds a little farther through the silent yet speak ing newspaper may be found the vast inheritance of ihe world's redemption, i Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run, His kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. i [A FATAL F,R= IN CHARLESTON SAT IJRDAY MORNING. Nine Parcons Burned to Death la a Tenemeat Fire?They Perished ^elore the ' Brxvj Firemen Could Beach Them?The Names ot ths Dead. Nine Jives were lost in a fearful fire which raged for a short while in Church street, Charleston, Saturday IE oraing. At 2:10 o'clock a po]iceman on duty noticed big sparks fiving from the tenement house at No. 160 Church street. The cfficsr found that a blsze was issuirg from ore of the windows on the first fioor. The doors were broken open and the family on that floor were rushed out with^ out damage. Somebody yelled that a family of women were asleep on the third floor. Tae police rushed up stairs and when they reached the top 3tory the life saving work was stopped by th6 -flames, which seemed to b? playing over the entire buildicg from cvm<r woman wftrfl heard and Officer Bagby rjshed in and pill If d out three charred b adits. The quick work of ihe fire departmect checked tne fire and it was soon under control, but not until the live3 on tne thirl story had been lost. The dead are: Mrs. Bebecca Knickmeyer. Albert O'Neal. Caswell O'Neal. Josephine Knickmeyer, 17 years of age. Katie Knickmeyer, 16 year?. Lenor*. KGiekmeyer, 9 years. Francis K. Knickmeyer, 6 year?. A baby o? Mrs. K-ickmejer, one month old. Mrs. Knickmeyer is the wife -of Theodore E Knickmeyer, a carpenter. Lillie Kaiokmeyer, 3 years old. Exclw?ment in SXsxles. Intense excitement prevails in tie city Mexico over the probability of a war oet w een Spain and the Uaited Sia^es. A dispatch says in case of a ^sr the police would have an anxious time in preventing collisions as there are many Spanish and American residents here some of wnom srelikely to pick a quarrel. Don't Do It Farmers.?The farmers of the south will uaake a great mistake says the Atlanta Constitution, if they fail this 3ex? to increase their provision crop Tne price of all kinds of provisions is gradually advancing, The'south, especially* has on haud less corn ana cason, oats a:id provisions generally tcanit had a year pgo. tVe can understand th s wheu we look at the large acreage in cotton. Dur mg in* pasvyj&r mucn rcoe attention w paid to cotton than to prorisioas. Iiresiited ia th.3 hrge-tcrop cf cottoaever made. Another Problem ?Another problem h.us b^ea n^aded in for raatnematfeiaas to struggle with. No answers are wanted iu this office. We have problems ol cur owi. Tell the answer to tbe policeman: "A man owed $L and had bat 75 cents. He went to the pawnshop and pawned the 75 cents for 50 cents. He met a friend aad sola Mm the pawnticket calung for 75 cants for 50 cents. He thus had t*o 50 cent pieces?II in fact ?with which he paid his debt. Was anybody out, and how much?" When ft man owns a blocdsd horse he is aiwajs ( carr-ful of its health. He looks alter its diet and is particu. vr tna t the feeding shall be regular and ri^ht. Wuile he is doing this it '"s likely as not that he is himself suffering from seme disease) or disorder When the trouble gets so bad tiiat he cannot work, sip will be?in to give I himseif the car j he ga\ethe horse si j the start. Gacd pure, ncn, red blocd j is ias bsstiisurance against disease of i onn L-i' r? A 1 mnct <aii c /T?m? } iron impure or icepov3risti?d olocd Keep the olocd pure and siroag and disease can fine no foothold. That is ihe oriccioie upon which Dr. Pierce's Gr.:!den Mel:cd Discovery wor&s. I: clearsss, puri5es srd enriches the bio*;d, puts atd Keejs the whole body in perx-ct order: makes appetite gocd, d;^rs'.ioa siroae, assimilation nerfeet. It brings ruddy, virile health. It builds up s-J'd, wholesome fhsh (not fa') vhen, fro^i &uy csus^, reduced below Lnd htaithy standard. diuoo'it Iodoform Liaineat is the "nee piuultr?" of all suc'a preparations in relao^inc: soreness, and quickly healing 'resh. cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It wiil promptly h?al old sores of loig stand'i;ar. Will kill the poisou from. "'Poison Ivy" or '"Poison Oak1' and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snake? and stints of insects. It is a sure cure for scire throat. Wilb cure aij case cf sore mouth, and is a superior reruedy for ail pains and aches. :yjid by druggists and deaiers 25 cen'.s a boitie. - ass? I ' " bHOT DOWN IN His MOUSE.: . i Mr, J S.wird C ;i!fd to Hi? Door at [ I If gilt and Ktllrd. 4 I Saturday night between 7 sncl S ; o'clock Mr J W So.wfcrd, ^rhc lived j about tbrer mil. s from here on the 1 Mount Lebar^a ro.id. was foully ?s- ! einot^i 1-1 rrVl w 1 . t V? ?? m * H Cl r\ f VilC fijmi. I ] jr. which consisted of a wife and three j children The circumducts surround I 7HZ '-he das'ardly ot-t-d points <0 one i L'iwreuc* Hucse'piiier, a brother in}&~7 of Howard. tie assassin. It setms from the t< s in^nv brought out before tae coroner's jury that on Tuesday a w-ek aeo Hun^erpiller vent 'o the field of HoT^rJ and a^u*td him roundly. Howard, net wishu-g '-o have any difficulty, put HungerpilW in the road and told aim to go about his business and let him alone. Hun eerpiJier left aad m a ahor> tims re turned with his gun and threatened to i shoot H 'ward. A* soon as be could do 9 > Howard got a warrant charging Hungerpiller with assault. I He was arrestf d and brought before Magistrate Brucson, who found bin cuilty and sentenced him toth9 county cbaiogang. Ar't^r working on the chair-g ;r>g several days Hungerpiller paid up his fiae a"d 773s released on 3 ass Thursday. While in jail Hun* I gerpiller was heard to ?ay that, as soon | as he got clear he would fix Howard, I and it seems 1hit he has kept his I word. As we said above Howard was I a brother in-law of Hungerpiller, i having married his sister several years | ago. Howard lived on the plac-s for* > merlv owned bv Huneeroilier's father which be had bought. On the night I cf the assassination Howard was si1; ! t.icor down in nis hous- wish his fa^aiI ly coavers'ng, when be beard some j one came up the steps, and, suspecting no ha*-m. opened the door to see who tha visiior was. Immadiately be was fi. ed oa, the whole load of shot taking tJf?ct in his left, breast, completely riddlicg his heart. The shot utei was No. 4. sint, acd the fact that iney did not scatter much i shows that the co wardJy assassin was very near his victim when the shot was fired. Hungerpiller was suspicioned at once, and bis arrest folio ^ed. o ctatnroar?r o * i r. n iiccf iri xxts ui&uc Cm w c* ? buq lum avuu \\J the effect that he was about one hun drtd and fifty yards from Howard's house when he saw a flash find heard the report of the gun. He bailed the people in the houaefcs soon as hg could get near enough and askeu what they were crying about, and was told that Howard had oeen shot. He then ran and told his brother, who lived a short distance from the dead man. Hungerpiller says when the shot was fired he saw a ?wagon driving along the road about one hundred yards beyond Howard's "house, but he did not see any one leave the yard. No one believes Hungerpillers story and every one belives him to be the dastardly assassin. Hungerpiller is la 3 in, wnere ne will remain uc-j til nis trial, the verdict of the coroner s j iry having said he was the guilty man. The coroner's jury was composed of the following weii-kno^n J citizens: Z. E. Gramling, foreman; Joha Cart, R H. Jenrii&gs, J. T. Park';, W. A. Edwards. A. J. Inabinet, F. A. Ir-abinet, J. H. Pearson, H. B. Collier, H. J. Caanoa, J. B. Stroman and H. E. Boliver. Mr. Howard was a nativ."* of North Carolina and had lived in this county about eight years. He wss about forty-five j ears of age, and was well thought of by his neighbors A number of people went out from OruDgeburg to the scene of the murder, and never did their eyes fall upon a sadder or more gruesome spectacle. Lying on the floor, just as he fell, wt.s the murdefed-man, his wire prostrated with grief, and a number of children too young to realize the sad situation, were standing around the aesd body gazing upon it in bewildered amazement. The scene was heart-rending. The Orangeburg correspondent of of the Coiumbia Register gives the following account of the terrible crime: Lawrence, H. Hungerpilltr is a young in<in about 23 >ears of age, who ha3 figured in previous diffi cuities, having shot a negro severely orJy about two mcnihs ago. He is regarded as utterly worthless, without rvincip'e, and dangerous when aroused. Some time last summer Howard lyupbt HuDgfrpilist's interest m ihe old Hungerptlitr homestead; but the young man remained there, making tTn'c hie Virvrrio A"Kr?nt. i m/vntVi asro Howard told him that he must eilher go to work or move his kdging. Tms incensed Hucgerpilier, who swore vengeance against Howard, even going with hi$ gun to Howard's fieido^lya fe^v c^iys ago and there, threatened to kill him but did not. List niaht the poor man wss called from bis house, and brutally shot down like a dog. Hungerpiller's own story convinced the coroner's jury of his own guilt. He admitted aeiug cut with his gun late Saturday afternoon, but saiu he was hunting birds. It was finally pumped froai him ihat he nad only ten shells with him a rather small sun ply o*|amoaunititta forme sport of bird huming. He said he was coming aion? the road near Howard's and saw a fllish and immediate!7 beard the re port of a gun. He heard his mother and sister screaming and, though ne was armed, becni? ''talked briskly" towards tnem. Upon his arrival his mother lold him ,he trouble^, aud he went on to tell his brother, Sam Eungerpilier, taking his gun with him and leaviag it at his brother^ as usual. Just across the road in front of the VM ??? /) W* ?% t />A 4" ft Vtstlfk 1 VI iliA ULiui uci cu iuau o Cm t'yio m ground and a bank of sand beyond. The assassin, in escaping, ran into this hole, failing into the sardbank, leaving tiie imprint of his left hand and on the ntaer side that of a hsmmerless shot gun. This was the kind Hungemiller had. His hand fit in the imprint in t^e sa^d, and his widetoed shoes fi: the tracks precisely. There weri oiher minor points that strengthened the evidence against Husgerpiiier, who is no ,? confined in jiii. * ' Coronet- D. E Dakss conducted the inquest-, Dr. T. C. Doyle performing the post mortem examination. The neart ^as penetrated oy more tn*n j forty Nj. 4 shot. There was intense j feeling against Hungerpiiier. and some talk of lynching was indulged ia, bu: accounted to nothing. Is is 1 be'ievea by some that Hungerpilier is not of souad mind, while oihers hold to the opinion. that he is an ali-rcund villian.?Times ana Democrat. Americana L?sv's;g S?vtn? A social to tne Times Union ard I Cit:zea from E>y West says: Dir. W. F. iJru '.cer, Unitea States sanitary inspector at Havana, has sent MrsBrucner and their children here, pre sumabiy on account of the uncertain 1 state of in H:ivvna Nnihir? more is known here however, thai." tne fact thatthej have left Havana and c^ms cere. Adrift on Ice. A dispatch received here from Hel- i singfors savs that a track of ice on the coast of Finland broke adrift in a suown storm and was carried to sea with 200 fishermen and several horsu. | THE PROMOTER. |i $ ... .-.,. t j ? ?! ^ By G. B. Dunham. g v>-^s-sy?^a^QO'^>'te *<> o 3 THE SCHEME of the. California Conjsolidtited Ditch company comprised a data across a mountain stream-. l ?i/irnw rpsjprvn'r. :l (- >. nn! several miles In length curving around the base of a. granite butte. and farmers galore upon the subjacent plain. The company"" was capitalized at. Sl.00o.000. and its sole assets consisted of articles of incorporation. office furniture, and a promoter. This may seem a high inventory value for a promoter, but a. good one is worth it, and this man certainly had his work cut out for him. iWith an empty treasury, it became necessary to reverse the rule obtaining in similar engineering operations of beginning at the head of the works, and to secure lirst the land, secondly the settlers. and lastly the water. The lands included in this proposition were in: use as grain fields and sheep ranges, and as such, were valued at but a lew collars per acre. With water for irrigation, they could be subdivided into ten-acre fruit /arms and sold for 20-fold their present value. The problem before the promoter was to buy these lands r.":thou t- money, to Fell them without water, and to get rich from, a commission, of 15 per cent. The company's problem was to build the irrigation, works out of the proceeds of lard saies, and to pay -for the iand later from money received for water tolls-. The promoter's instructions were Biblical: "What thou hast to do, do quickly." But on long- time, sell for cash or good paper. The operation was to be equivalent to kiting checks on a grand scale. If they succeeded. they were financiers; if they failed, scamps. "Fail?" quoth the promoter. "Itisn't on the cards. Within two years we shall have every ten-acre tract- sold and im provea; in. nve years we saa.ii ue snipping1 fruit- by the train load. It is the chance of a. lifetime to secure, -at nomii.'il cost, a home- in the eitrus belt." In one of the hot interior valleys of California, on a still June morning-, a vast liekl of ripe barley spread out on a rolling plain, at the base of the butte. like a great- copper-colored blanket. Itwas as though the towering mountain had risen suddenly from sleep and flung aside bics covering. A harvesting machine, itself well proportioned' to the largeness of the task, moved slowly along the margin of the grain! field, n> rareling the blanket in- strips 20 feet wide. This modem evolution of the STpk-lpji-n^ ^ litthep-rain-threshed O it, put it into sacks,.and scattered the straw. Forty mule?, eight abreast, tugged and sweated at their task as they dragged the machine upon, the long slope. A cloud of protesting locusts in front, a dust amd chaff cloud following' ?these with the four men of the crew, were all the life and all the movement; within the prospect. "This is a. fine morning?I don'ti think," said theman at the water-butt,J putting his head into a, bucketful. "Is; that breeze never a-coming? I've seen] the sand-augers down the valley for an hour." "Hand, me up a can of that stuff and don't get impatient," replied the driver. "It is only about ten o'clock. You'll have a. chance to sizzle for an hour yet." The machine groaned and lumbered alnrvo" tn + Tip. i^vt. (wpriifvr n. VtnlT gave the kicker a -chance to resume.: "Say, is this place actually hotter than every other place?" "Oh. I don't know," -was the rejoinder; "but I know you will think so wherever- you happen) to be, in this world or the next one." "Xo wonder the old man has sold this ranch for just about money enough to oil the machine one season." "What do yoxi mean? I heard eight dollars an acre." "He told me himself that he got only $100 cash and gave two years' time. I reckon he will get the land back. He sold it twice before." "If lie does get the land again he ll be out two crops of grain," persisted the kicker. "'Much you know about it," said che driver. "I tell you the old man is a weather sharp. lie figures on a couple of dry seasons after this big-crop. He will save his seed and rest up the land, get a small payment or two from these fellows, and in about three years we will be cutting him the big-' gest crop he ever raised, with the mules a-sweating and you a-kicking at wery corner, just like now." "What's the lay, anyhow?" asked th.? oiler. '"Why, haven't you heard about it?" saia me driver; ~~ine game is <t uj% ditch around the side of that butte, and another garden of Eden blossoming out right-here where we are standing!" "Oh!" said the oiler. "Oh, the deuce!" said the kicker. The promoter went to a big eastern city and opened? an office on a busy street. Conspicuous signs announced cheap and fertile irrigated lands in the golden west. Few in the passing crowds noticed, but many saw, the windows dressed with tempting fruits. Some entered, the office. Basfter street methods are not available in the real estate business, but once inside his doors Our promoter asked odds of no dealer and' rarely failed of Interesting and convincing- those who crossed his threshold. His fort? was frankness. A plump and health v-lookingman, with nothing- sinister about him except a habit cf looking out at his customers from under half-closed eyelids, he received them without effusion and opened upon them in this manner: "Fruits in the window raised on our lands? Certainly not. Our lands hare no improvements whatever upon them. That's why we offer them so cheap? $150 per acre, and half on time. But look at this map. Right here' is our property. Just seven miles north is Higbgrove, the famous orange colony; i-aese specimens \\ trro grur. mtic. Land worth $1,500 an acre. Ten miles west of us is Colside?finest- deciduous land, except- ours, in the state. These cherries and apricots grew there. Come in next week and see the early peaches from that section. We com tune the advantages of both these communities. Level, "fertile land pure mountain water. We can raise anything-on earth. Why has our tract not been improved before? Because it takes I a rye capita! to bring- the water to it. We-are capitalized at one million and can. get more if we need it. Here, take a copy of our prospectus?and. hold on. just fill your fruif nr-.fl TUIIOTV vntl cr(>7 ..ill. , i o - - j home tell your wife of this chance we are offering people to secure a hom^ j and a profitable business in. the fruit j belt of California, at a nominal cost, j We raise *Jhe price to $200 per acre next j month. If you buy before: yoti -Mart j you get one-half your transportation." j Among many who heard this s?r-;i J song- was a young drug clerk, lately \ married, who was looking about for ] something better than the living af- j forded by his present employment. : After sereral visits to the land agent, * he one n^-onndec his wife with j -.ho announcement that he had-bought ' tfn acres of California land and had jriver. up his place in the store to g-o west. She cried a little?women are so deficient in'enterprisc. so fearful of the new and untried?but early autumn saw the plan carried cut. It was in the month of September that Fred Fisher and his wife first saw their California fruit farm. iue\ w ere uiuefiijc* JIIOU ciixi i the r.ew colour, and the Tjig field of j Ktubblestill had few ether set tiers than j the wary -jnckrabbit and the whistling- i quail. A row of white fines on lathe showed the "line of survey for a canal, and parallel intersecting furrows at 1 regular intervals indicated the streets I and avenues. By the aid of "the map furnisshed purchasers our clerk identified the "choice*' selection which he had made, and knew so little of the re- : quirements cf irrigation that he was rather pleased to find it upon a little knoll. Busy days followed; the cabin which was :o serve as a dwelling until a more pretentions house should be built frcm the profits of the orchard was soori put up and occupied. Many other newcomers were building r.ear them. "When I get over my Homesickness I shall like this. Fred," said the wife one day; "that is. if we can make a living nere." "There are twenty ways of doin*r that," he answered; "'and the man said the orchard would "be productive in three years." "But the water?" she questioned. "Oh. 'the superintendent is sure the ! canal will be finished before next sprir.*', ana he says that I can have work with, the -construction- force all winter." Two years later the bubble had burst and the canal company was hopeless* ly insolvent. It had furnished much work and little pay to Fred and to a hundred j oiher settlers as unsophisticated as he. The canal was incomplete: not a drop of water had ever reached the parched 1 soil upon the little knoll they called j their home. Even the ' ustomary rainy season had failed them, and the effort i to raise a crop cf grain upon their small j holding had resulted only in loss of labor and of seed. The wife had been : hopeful and helpful until the'baby came ! to the 'cabin for a little time and thence ! to a neighboring- cemetery. Now she was very ill, and Fred was impoverished. The old farmer had foreclosed on his blanket mortgage, and already with his gang plows was restoring the big field to its former aspect. The cabins ; that dotted it .here and there, if not removed by 'the settlers', were torn down | when the plows reached them, and only ragged board piles and mounds of earth where -cellars had .been dug marked their former suites. Fred took his wife to a hospital ill the^ x l j; -t. ~ county "town auu ?ic uicu inexcIn a few mouths the -winter rains will transform- all the landscape irfto fields of living- green. Then, out of the abandoned colony, the little cellar moundsat each cabin site will look like-sodded graves. Fred Is in the Highland asylum.' But the promoter fares sumptuously every day.?San Francisco Argonaut. /jfsx ii In New York f; a short while { ' . "t ':'- --' ... "cro a baby was ; -4 born in jail. Its I. . pother was bem - :n- ? med_ for v.- . - .. i-. jnurder. oivery r .-^womanly heart i "'AV i gives a mroo or I WxH&tt syn?ath y .at ! ^thought of the blight upon the .MpM ~ a baby need not V be born in jail )\||||[to ^e un^ortu" 'welcomed into ^V, this world witb ^ ^ loving: hearts J and ready hands "? ^? is unfortunate. [ * Any mother who is physically weak and incapable of bestowing a healthy constitution 'upon her baby ! may darken its future with weakness and i /itoaoca A prospective mother-ought to insure her baby's welfare by every means that Nature and' science afford to keep her physical powers up to the very highest point. ! " Every expectant mother ought to know and avail herself of the strengthening and re-enforcing properties of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It gives health and endurance to the delicate organs concerned in motherhood. Taken early during the period of expectancy, it makes the coming of baby perfectly safe and comparatively easy. It makes the mother strong and cheerful, and gives health and natural vigor to the child. j It is the only medicine of its kind devised i for weak and delicate women by an educated, experienced physician. For nearly 30 years Dr. Pierce has. been chief consulting physician to the. Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y. His thousand;page illustrated book, "The People's Common Sense Medical Ad " C1'/TOT/lC*inrC I V1MTI WUlKdilid v I which every woman ought to read. A paper-bound.copy will be sent absolutely free on receipt V>f 21 one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing' only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, X. Y. Cloth-bound for 31 stamps. A sure and permanent cure for constipation is Dr. Pierce's Pellets. One "Pellet" is a gentle laxative, two & mild cathartic. : LIQUOR, OPIUM AND TOBACCO THOKOteHLY CXK ? ft BEISOVED FBO^I COLU.^ J5JI 1 \ : => . THE \ - ' 1 ; IEELEY IfeTITUTE Q-K7"K^VILT,--R, c O. .j H C-MILLAJN 'to iy iUr.f jo COVn-rflO UK. 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