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V' 'Zr :'"fw ',]t SPLENDORS OP HEAVEN, j CELESTIAL VISIONS CONTRASTED WITH DIMNESS OF EYESIGHT. The Problems of Life and tie Hysterics oi ; Providence?An Isterestiss I>lEcourse by j Dr. T aim ago on the Above Subjects. This discourse of Dr. Talma^e is one ! of mighty contrasts and the dimness of earthly eyesight,as compared with the vividness of celestial eyesight is illustrated . The text is I Corinthians xiii, 12, "For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face." The Bible is the most forceful and pungent of books. While it has the sweetness of a mother's hush for human trouble, it has all the Iressness cf a scimiter and the crusning power of a lightning bolt. It portrays with more than a painter's power, at one stroke picturing a heavenly throne and a judgment conflagration. The strings of this great harp are fingered by an the splendors of the future, now sounding with the crackle of consuming worlds, now thrilling with the joy of the everlasting emancipated- It tells how one forbidden tree in the garden t blasted the earth with sickness and death, and how another tree, though leafless and bare, yet planted on uaivary, shall yield a froit which shall more than antidote the poison of the other. It tells how the red, ripe clus' ters of God's wrath were brought to the wine pi*ess, and Jesus trod them out, and how, at last all the golden chalices of heaven sEall glow with the wine of that awful vintage- It dazzles the eye with an Ezekiel's vision of wheel and wing and fire and whirlwind, and stoops down so low that it can put its lips to the ear of a dying child and say, "Come up higher." And yet Paul, in my text, takes the responsibility of saying that it is only an indistinct mirror and that its mission shall be suspended. I think there may be one Bible in heaven fastened to the throne* Just as now, in a museum, we have a lamp exhumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look at with great interest and say, "How poor a fight it must have given compared with our modern lamps!" so I think that this Bible, which was a lamp to our feet in this world, may lie near the throne of God, exciting our interest to all eternity by the contrast between its comparatively feeble light and the illumination of heaven. The Bible, now, is the scaffolding to the rising temple, but when the building is done, there will be no use for ine scanolding. The idea I shall develop today is, that in this world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory but nevertheless is introductory to grander and more complete vision. This is eminently true in regard to our view of God. We hear so much about God that we conclude that we understand him. He is represented as having the tenderness of a father, the firmntis of a judge, the majesty of a king and the love of a mother. We hear about him. talk about him. write about him. We lisp his name in infancy, and it trembles on the tongue of the dying octogenarian. We think that we know very much about him. Take the attribute of mercy. Do we underetand it? The Bible blossoms all over with that word ?mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of the great mercies; of the mercy that enduxeth forever; of the multitude of his mercies. And yet I know that the views we have of this great Being are most indefinite, one sided and incomplete. When at death, the gates shall fly open and we shall look directly upon him, how new and surprising. We see upon canvas a pic.ure of the morning. We study the cloud in the sky, the dew upon the grass and the husbandman on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of the morning. But we rise at daybreak and go up on a hill to see for ourselves that which was represented to us. While we look the mountains are transfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let past a host of fiery splendors. The clouds are all abloom, and hang pendent from arbors of alabaster and amethyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon, and there is morning on the sea. The crags uncover their scarred visage, and there is . noraing among the mountains. Now you go home and how tame your picture of the morning seems in contrast. Greater than that shall be the contrast between this Scriptural view of God and that which we shall have when standing M ? mL* - _ . p ii . jaw tu i?ce. xnxs is a picture ox iiie morning that will be the morning itself. Again, my text is true of the Sav iour's excellency. By image and sweet rhythm of expression and startling antithesis,Christ is set forth?his love, his compassion, his work, his life, his death, ins resurrection. We are challenged to measure it, to compute it, to weigh it. Li the hour of our broken enthrallment we mount up into high experience of his love, and shout until the countenance glows, and the blood bounds, and the whole nature is exhilarated, "I have found him!" And yet it is through a glass, darkly. We see not half of that compassionate f ace. We feel not half the warmth of bat loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush, into his outspread armsThen we shall be face to face. Not shadow then, but substance. Not hope then, but the fulfilling ofallprefigurement That will be a magnificent unfolding. The rushing out in view of all bidden excellency, the coming again of & long absent Jesus, to meet lis, not in rags and in penury and death, but amidst a light and pomp and outbursting joy such as none but a glorified intelligence could experience. Oh, to gaze full upon the brow that was lacerafed, upon the side that was pierced, upon the feet that were nailed; to stand close up in the presence of him who prayed for us 021 the mountain and thought of us by the sea, and agonized for us in the garden and died for us in the horrible crucifixion; to feel of him, to embrace him, to take his hand,to kiss his feet, to run our fingers along the scars of ancient suffering, to say: "This is my Jesus!" He gave himself for me. I shall never leave his presence. I shall forever behold his glory. I shall eternal. y hear his voice. Loid Jesus, now I see thee! I behold where the blood started, where the tears coursed,where he face was distorted. I have waited for this hour. I shall never turn my back on thee. No more looking through imperfect glasses. No more studying thee in the darkness. But as long as this throne stands and this j everlasting river Sows, and those garlands bloom, and these arches of vie- j fnTU TPmain frk r>p.-?w. KooiMn'c. i ... .V / JJLWa vvu a conquerors, so long I shall see thee, Jesus of my choice, Jesus of my soag, Jesus of my .triumph, forever and forever, face to face!" The idea of the text is just as true; when applied to God's providence, who has not come to some pass in life thoroughly Inexplicable? You say: '"What, does this mean? What is God going to do with me now? He tells me that all things work together for \ good. This dees net lock like it." You [continue to study the dispensation | and after awhile guess about what I God means. "He means to teach me this. I think he means to teach me that. Perhaps it is to humble my pride. Perhaps it is to make me feel more dependent, Perhaps to teach [ me the uncertainty of life." But after all it is only a guess?a looking through the glass darkly. The Bible assures us there shall be a satisfactory unfolding. "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." You will know why God took to himself that only child. Next t * "? "t _ t door tnere was a nousenoiu ox seven children. Why not take one from that group instead of your only one? Why single out the dwelling in which there was only one heart beating responsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at all if he meant to take it away? Why fill the cup of your gladness brimming if he meant ! to dash it down? Why allow all the | tendrils of your heart to wind around that object and then, when every fiber of your own life seemed to be interlocked with the child's life, with strong hand to tair you apart, until you fall, bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do you suppose j that God will explain that?' Yea. He i will make it plainer than any matheI 1 VI 1-: | mauc&jL prvoiviu?^ yiam oa buab mv and two make four. In the light of the throne you -will see that it was right?all right. "Just and true are all thy ways, thou King of saints!" Here is a man who cannot get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and to sell at the worst disadvantage. He tries this enterprise and fails; that business and is disappointed. The man next door to him has a lucrative trade, but he lacks customers. A new prospect opens. His income is increased. But that year his family are sick, and the profits are expended in trying to cure the ailments. He gets a dircouraged look. Becomes faithless as to success, begins to expect .disasters. Others wait for something to turn up; he waits for it to turn down. Others with only half as much education and character get on twice as well. He sometimes guesses as to what it all means. He saysj_ "Perhaps riches would spoil me. Perhaps poverty is necessary to keep me humble. Perhaps I might, if things were otherwise, be tempted into dissipations." But there is no complete solution of the mystery. He sees through a glass darkly and must wait for a higher unfolding. Will there be an explanation? Yes; God will take that man in the light of the throne and say: "Child immortal, hear the explanation! You remember the failing of that great ente r prise?ycur misfortune in 1857, your disaster in 1867. This is the explanation." And you will answer, "It is all right." I see, every day, profound mysteries of Providence. There is no question we ask oftener than Why? Hospitals for the blind and lame, asylums for the idiots? and insane, almshouses for the destitute and a world of pain and misfortune that demanded more than hnmsn solution. Ah. God will clear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne, no dark mystery can live. Things now utterly inscrutable will be illumined as plainly as though "he answer were written on the jasper wall or sounded in the temple anthem. Bartemius will thank God that he was blind, and Lazarus that he was covered with sores, and Joseph that he was cast ii>to the pit, and Daniel that he denned with Hons, and Paul that he was humpbacked, and David that he was driven from Jerusalem, and that sewing woman that she could get only a few pence for making a garment, and that invalid that for 20 years he could not lift his head from the pillow, and that widow that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children. You know that in a song different voices carry different parts. The sweet and overwhelming part of the halleluiah of heaven will not be carried by those who rode in high places and gave sumptuous en tertauaments, out pauper cnuoren win sing it, redeemed'hod carriers will sing it, those who were once the offscouring of earth will sing it. The halleluiah will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes and aching hands and scourged backs and martyred ago nies. Again, the thought of the test is just when applied to the enjoyments of the righteous in heaven. I think we have but little idea of the number of the righteous in heaven. Infidels say, "Your heaven will be "a very small place compared with the world of the lost; for, according to your teachine, the majority of men will be destroyed." I deny the charge. I suppose that the multitude of the finally lost, as compared with the multitude of the finally saved, will be a handful. I suppose that the few sick ?JCUfcUC XAL wiJLw UUS^IMU. bUUAJ, V/OJULL pared with the hundreds of thousands of wall people in the city, would not be smaller than tne number of these who shall be cast out in suffering, compared with those who shall have upon them the health of heaven. For we are to remember that we are living in comparatively the beginning of the Christian dispensation and that this world is to be populated and redeemed and that ages of lignt and love are to flow on. If this be so, the multitudes. of the saved will be in vast majority. We are told that heaven is a place of happiness, but what lo we know about happiness? Happiness in this world is only a half fledged thing?a flowery path, with a serpent hissing across it; a broken pitcher, from which the water has dropped before we could drink it; a thrill of exhilaration, followed by disastrous reactions. To help us understand the j'oy of heaven, the Bible takes us to a river. We stand on the grassy bank.. Wo see the waters flow on with ceaseless wave. But the filth of the cities are emptied into it and the banks are torn, and unhealthy exhalations spring up I from it, and we fail to get an idea of the river of life in heaven. We get very imperfect ideas of the reunions of heaven, We think of some festal day on earth, when father and mother were yet living, and the children came home. A good time that! But it had this drawback?all were not there. That brother went off to sea and never was heard from. That sister?did we not lay her away in the freshness of her young life, never more in this world to look upon her ? Ah, there was a skeleton at the feast, and tears mingled with our laughter on that Christmas day. Not so with heaven's reunions. It will be an uninterrupted gladness. Many 3- Christian parent will look around and find all his children there. "Ah!" he says, "can it be possible that we are ail here?life's perils over? The Jordan passed, and not one wanting? Why, even the prodigal is here. I almost ffave him up. How Ion? he de spiseci my counsels, but grace hath triumphed. All here, all here! Tell the mighty joy through the city. Let the belis ring, and the angels mention it in their song. Wave it from the top of the walls. Ail here!" No more breaking of heartstrings, | but face to face. The orphans that were left poor and in a merciless worlds kicked and cuffed of many hardships, shall join their parents, over whose | graves they so long wept and gaze into ; their glorified countenances forever, fac<i to face. We may come up from I diff erent parts of the world, one from : the land and another from the depths ' of the sea; from lives affluent and prosperous, or from scenes of ragged distress, but we shall all meet in rapture and jubilee, face to face. Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A few days ago ihey J sai wim us studying mese guspei j themes, but they only saw through a glass, darkly?now revelation hath come. Your time will also come, j God will not leave you floundering! in the darkness. You stand wonder | struck and amazed. You feel as if all the loveliness of life were dashed out. You stand gazing into the open chasm of the grave. Wait a little. In the presence of your departed and of him who carries them in his bosom, you j shall soon stand face to face. Oh, that our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy! May we be able to say, like the Christian not long ago, departing, "Though a pilgrim, walking through the valley, the mountain tops are gleaming from peak to peak!" or like my deaf friend and brother, Alfred Cookman, who took his flight to the throne of God, saying in his last moment that which has already gone into Christian classics, "I am sweeping through the pearly gate, washed in the blood of the Lamb!" SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. An Ohio Man Who 1a Charmed With Dixio Land. Tho following is ail extract from a letter to the Dayton, 0., Evening News written by William W. Webster. a Daytonian who is sojourning in Summerville: The writer spent three days in Columbia, South Carolina's capital, on his way to Summerville and was most forcibly impressed with both tho natural beauty and the sweet spirit of fellowship of that city. It is strictly and grandly Southern, and bears that air of whole-soulded cordiality so dear to the heart. The entire world of God ssems kin to Co lumbia. The street salutation is a hearty touch of the hat while the hand shake fills you with an exquisite sense of hospitality.- "You are welcome," is the kindly motto which pervades everything. One feels like living in such a fraternal atmosphere. God s people seem united by common chords of fellowship, and the bonds of National sympathy and patriotic love are growing stronger each year The war is a thuier of historic imnortance only?it is over and the love of one country, one people and one flag is rife in every State in the Union. South Carolina has given to tbe country good and able men; she has played a conspicuous part in the annals of history. She is devoutly proud of her achievements, as well as might be, for her long list of sires and sons, statesmen and soldiers have gone to theii graves hallowed by posterity. We hear at times in the North that consummate narrow-mindedness and sectional bigotry South Carolina has no equal. How false are such accusations. The tourist in Columbia, Charleston and the larger cities, as well as the smaller towns will discover that his idea of the people has been a misrepresentation. He will find a hearty welcome wherever he goes and will avow that if such customs and manners are the outgrowth of narrowmincedness, it would be well were the arhrtlft wmwtw imhupH with a sharA of it. South Carolina is the true heart of the South. The darkey is seen in his ieal darkeyishness. He han?D about the cities and towns and wul not go into the country, where farming might yield him a living. You look at his cabin?probably a relic of the war?and wonder how he manages ti) support a large family. You hear wafted on the still night air the old melodious plantation songs, and yoni' vagrant thoughts wander back over tlie years! when those same songs were new to you. One loves the old melodies. Handed oown from generation to generation savoring of the tender recollections of days gone by, they play upon the chords of the American heart The darkey handles them as you never heard them handled before,and you are inspirsd, awed and ennobled by the sweetness of the muoia 'Prtvoa+H-nr* a finrift that AUUM&V* A' VigWHVAMg M ?.bJUL*W you are classed among those mortals "Yankees," in true Southern spirit, you exclaim: "In Dixie's land I'll take my stand and liva and die in Dixieland." THE MATTER DECIDED. There Must be Either Feeca In Cuba or War With Spain. The Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal says it is either peace in Cuba or war with Spain. This is the alternative. Peace in Cuba means the independence of Cuba. Spain has permitted the time to pass when anything short of independence would suffice. This is practically the opinion of congress, and it is more than mere speculation. No doubt is felt that the independence of Cuba is to be recognized by this government. Whether this causes war depends upon Spain. The loss of the Maine is known not to have been the result of an accident. If it is not shown to ViOTTfli hoan fV?o or*f nf SnoTiiel* nffimolc! V w WVU MUV MVM V/i kw/^<AJLLl.h3kX VJXkVIUig or by their connivance it will demonstrate the inefficiency of Spanish control of Havana. The necessity of as sistance by this government to prevent the depopulation of the island by star vation is confessed by the acceptance of the assistance, and evidences the helplessness of the Spanish government to maintain in Cuba the conditions of government The barbarities proven and confessed show inability to preserve the forms of civilization. In all incapacity and loss, of control on the island is shown. Intervention i j "u:~ UJ lilia ^UVOrJLLLUOUL LU WVC LUG pupalation from staxation is the first step towards a broader intervention to preserve life and property and to save the island from becoming a barren waste. The conditions in Cuba have compelled Spain to acknowledge the need and the propriety of this government intervening to check devastation by starvation. The right of further intervention, if necessary, naturally follows. This is a part of the situation held in congress, and intervention is certain, A. Talking Turtle. A colored brother once caught a turtle and was congratulating himi self on what a fine dinner he would have the next day. Going on his way ho met a man who was a ventriloquist The man, asked him what lie was going to do with the turtle. . "Why," said the darkey, "I'se gwine to eat him of cose." ''What's he good for?" "Why he's good fo:r most eberything. He's got beef in .him, and ne's got pork in him, and he's got chicken in him and he's got got fish in him. 'Scuse me boss my mouf waters so I can hardly talk," The ventriloquist passed on and thought it would be a fine thing to play a joke on. his colored friend. So he threw his voice so as to make it apIpear as if the turtle was talking. "What's that you said about me?" said the turtle to the darkey; "what did you say you were going to do with me?" The darkey's eyes went open several degrees wider than was usual. Said he, "I'se gwineto drap jou right here"; and away he went as fast as scare and heels could take him." SB aHfltMPB MB SBBBBOBSS T"h MflWMOPKfll 33pjR THE ACTS OF ASSEMBLY j SOME OF THE LAWS PASSED AT THE RECENT SESSION. The 7er: ia Fail of Seme of the Principal Addiiioco to tha Statutes of South Caro 11118. LIENS OX REAL ESTATE. An Act to amend an Act entitled "Ad Act to declare the law in relation to liens on real estate," approved December 24, 1879. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That an Act entitled "An Act to declare the law in relation to liens on real estate," approved December 24, 1S79, b9 amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "Provided, further, that on and after the 1st day of January, 1902, the previsions of this Act snail apply to all mortgages executed prior to the 24th day of December, 1879." So that said Act when amended shall read as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That from and after the passage of this Act no mortgage, or deed having the effect of a mortgage, no judgment, decree or other lien on real estate shall constitute a lien upon any real estate after the lapse of twenty years from the a: xi .. n? uaie ui me ureauou ui tue same: provided, that if the holder of any lien or liens as aforesaid shall at any time during the continuance of such lien cause to be recorded upon the record of such mortgage, deed having the effect of a mortgage, or shall file with the record of such judgment, decree or other lien a note of some payment on account, or some written acknowledgement of the debt secured thereby, with the date of such payment or acknowledgement, such mortgage, deed, having the effect of a mortgage, judgment, decree or other lien shall be and continue to be a lien for twenty years from the date of the record of any such payment on account or acknowledgement: Provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the duration of the li ns of judgments as prescribed by the 14th section of "An Act to altar and amend tke Code of Procedure, being Title V, Part III, of the General Statutes," approved March 8, 1875: Provided, further, that on and after the 1st day of January, 1902, the provisions of this Act shall apply to all mortgages executed prior to the 24th ^orr r\f T^o/?am Vua-n 1Q70 Approved the 21st day of February, A. D. 1898 TO SERVE ABSENT DEFENDANTS. An Act to empower magistrates to order service by publication upon absent defendants. Sec- 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina : That Section 156 of the Code of Procedure of this State, being a part of Volume 2, Revised Statutes of this State, passed in 1893, be amended by adding at the end of said section the ollowing words: ' The magistrates of this State are hereby invested, in actions brought in their courts, within their jurisdiction, to grant orders of publication against absent defendants, in the same manner and to the same extent as authorized in this section to be done by the Circuit Court or a Judge thereof, or the clerk of Common Pleas, the Master or the Probate Judge; and the iservice of any summons so made u]?n any absent defendant or defendants BJja^JL JUL A V w bUO CKlLlIg IUIOO iUIU effect as such service would have in the Court of Common Pleas." Approved the 21st day of February, A. D. 1898. RECORDS OF COUNTY AUDITOR. An Act relating to the records in the office of county auditor. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That hereafter all original :tax returns made to the county auditors of this State and all dispensers' request books shall be preserved in their re spective offices as cublic records for a period of five years from the date of such returns. Bee- 2. That after any original tax returns have been in the office of the county auditor for a period cf five years, or any dispensers' request books, the same may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the auditor should it be inconvenient to preserve the same in his office, and after such destruction the auditor's books shall be primary evidence of the contracts of such original returns. Sec. 3. That all Acts or part of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved the 21st day of February, A. D. 1898. TO CONSTRUE MORTGAGES. An Act to construe contracts secured by mortgages of real estate situate wit run tn is State. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina : All mortgages of real estate sit uate within this State shall be subject to and construed by the laws of this State regulating the rate of interest allowed and in all other respects, without regard to the place named for the performance of the same. Approved the 21st day of Februarv, A. D. 1898 PUBLIC DRAWING OF JURORS. An Act to make the drawing of jurors public. Sec. 1. Ba it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina : That from and after the approval of this Act jurors shall be drawn publicly,and the officers charged with such drawing shall not exclude any person who desires to be presentApproved the 19th day cf February, A. D. 1898. OFFENCES AS TO RAILROADS. An Act to amend Sections 1,717, 1,731 and 1,732 of the general railroad law. Chanter 51, relating: to certain offences and penalties. Sec. L Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That Section 1,731 of the Revised Statutes be amended by striking out the words "shall forfeit a sum not less than two or more than twenty dollars/' and insert in lieu thereof the words ''or employee, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or oe confined in the county jail, or be required to work on the chain gang for not more than 30 days." So that said section shall read as follows: Section 1,731 (1,515.) Whoever,withI out right, loiters or remains within ! anv station house of a railroad cor do ration, or upon the platform or grounds adjacent to such station, after being requested to leave the same by any railroad officer or employee, ; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than 50 dollars, or be confined in the county jail, or be required to work on the chain gang for not more than thirty days. Sec. 2. Amend Section 1,717 (1,516) by striking out the words "same power to make arrests that constables ! have," and insert in lieu thereof the ; i words "common law power of consia- i bles to make arrests," so that said section shall read: rv + r* si ri r* \ /i 2^ ? oec. i,/x/ UjOio.; uonu.uci.uri> ui railroad trains and station or depot agents are hereby declared to be conservators of the peace, and they and each of thern shall have the common law power of constables to mate arrests, except that the conductors shall only have such power on board of their respective trains, and the agents at their respective places of business, and said, conductors and agents may cause any person or persons so arrest ed by them" to be detained and delivered to the proper authorities for trial as scon as practicable. Sec. 3. Strike out Section j.,732 and insert in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 1,732 (1,517.) Whoever fraudu lently evades or attempts to evade t~e payment of any toll or fare, lawfully established, for the carrying of passengers, by giving a false answer to the collector of the fare, by travelling beyond the point to which fare has been paid, or otherwise attempting to ride without paying said toll or fare, or by riding without permission en trains that do not carry passeDgers, or by concealing themselves upon or about any train with intent to evade the payment <ff lawful toll or fare, oVinll hp crnilfrw nf a. rrns^p-m pnnn* arir? upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine cf not more than fifty dollars or be sentenced to imprisonment or labor on the chain gang for not more than thirty clays. Sec. 4. That the following shall be inserted to be known as Sec. 1,734a. Sec. 1,734a. Whoever wilfully discharges any kind of firearms or throws any kind of missile at or into the engine or any car of a train shall be guilty of a misdemaanor, and on conviction thereof shu'1 be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than five years. Approved the 19 th day of February, A. D. 1898. McK! nicy'a Flrtt Tear. President McKinley has now been in office one year and a few days. The comments of the press on the re, suits of his administration is certainly not very encouraging to th9 future hopes of the Republicans. The Atlanta Journal says it has been "ayear which will shed no lustre upon the Republican party. In foil and complete control of all of the departments of the government it is only recording a solemn fact known to all to say that the people are disappointed and that they have reason to be. The one "achievement" of the administration thus far has been the passage of the Dingley tariff law, a measure conspicuous by its discriminations, its unfairness, sactionally and its narrowness nationally. It is fair to assume that the Republicans themselves are disappointed in the fruits of this measure. Its apparent result has been to work an injury not only to those not directly interested, but to those for 1 -i. 11 J--1 -5 iA Wiium us aumors aesiarea 11 was especially intended to help?the workin gmen. Since the passage of this bill there have been disastrous strikes in the middle states by workingmen employed in protected industries. Bloodshed has resulted and want is more apparent than ever before in that section. In the New England states there has been, and still is, a general tie-up of all the cotton factories and thousands are idle. And there has been no compensation for others. There has been no benefit to either consumers or producers. The produc3rs get no more?in many instances less for their labor?and the consumers pay more for the necessities as well as the luxuries of life. The taxes of the whole people have been raised for the help of a few capitalists, and 4- U A-Pf 4-V? rt -rrft mi 4.JLLC12 MCXXCU.U, I1UU1 LUC YCJ.J JUabLLLC Ui things, can only be temporary. Besides this, Germany has retaliated upon us for the passage of the Dingley law by excluding the product of our farms and factories. "The great question on which McKinlev rede into office was finance. It was the issue of iasuea in the campaign. One year has passed, and apart from the fact the standard of money is definitely decided for the length of McKinlev's term, nothing in the way of financial reform has been accomplished. The business interests of the country, however, and the people engaged in other pursuits, had a right to expect that by this time some steps would have been taken in the mucn needed reformation of the banking system. Beyond the outline of a plan presented by Secretary Gage upon weich no action has been taken, nothing has been done, and it begins to look as if it were doubtful that anything would be done. However, there is still time ana opportunity leit ior the successful inauguration of a system of banking which will afford re -, lief to those remote from the great money centers of the country. During the past year the pension rolls, long since past the danger mark, haye b en visibly increased, and there are evidences that taey will continue to increase in the next three years of McKinley's incumbency. The president has won no friends for him self by his appointments. Especially is this conspicuously true in the south. The naming of negroes for high offices in the south?positions where they are continually thrown in contact with the woites?has evinced a short-sightedness and narrowness on McKinley's part not to have been expected by his past life and his protestations of affection for the southern people in the last campaign. He Has not befriended the black man by this unwise policy?and he has lost the confidence and respect of a large majority of the whites. Thfl TTo moiion On/1 riiiKon ona aAau TT UU6VU uuu. VMV(*U are the only ones of a foreign sort with which the present administration has had to deal. No language is strong enough to express the proper condemnation of the Hawaiian annexation treaty. The policy the president seeks to put through is unwise, un American and fraugnt with great danger. Luckily, there is now small prospect of the paasaga by the senate of this annexation treaty, and in this the people have cause for much congratulation. Few will withhold from McKinley the praise due him for the dignified manner with which ho has conducted L - J J.T mmsBii m regara to me ^uusxi ajj.air in the past four weeks. With the insulting DeLome letter, the awful catastrophe resulting in the destruction of the battleship Maine and the major portion of its crew, a less levelheaded' man might have gone off in a tangent and placed his country in an undignified and untenable position. So far as the president's "Cuban policy" is concerned, naught can be said either in praise or criticism, for he has not as yet proposed any definite policy. But his altitude at ihe present moment, awaiting the facts from the inquiry into the cause of the explosion of the Maine, is deserving of praise, and with few exceptions is receiving it from men and newspapers of all parties. Judged, however, by the full fruits of his first year, we end as we b9gan, by saying that the McKinley administration, taken all in all, has been a distinct disappointment to the people." IiOvc Crazed Man'a Crime. "Cure quitted love induced Chris. Schmidt, a cigarmaker, of Pittsburg, Pa., to kill his sweetheart, Annie Lsntz, and then himself. i ,l- i"iJ > r.",1 r "iw.11,,; r i esaaaweea.n?r ini Tte Cost ol War; War is a horrible thing and should be averted if possible. Bat sometimes it seems necessary that nations are compeiledto engage in it or lose prestige among other nations. If there is anv honorable way out of the present difficulty with Spain without a resort to war we hope war will be averted, but if there is no honorable way out of the difficulty without war, then we are in favor of upholding American honor at whatever cost As we are standing face to face with the ?rim spectre of war it is well to count the cost oi war. vv e recently reaa m.anteresting article on the subject in the Atlanta Journal. It was an estimate made by Mr. Camille Flammarion, a Frenchman, of the cost of war in men ana money to civilized nations during the last hundred years. The FrancoGerman war of 1370-71 caused the death, Mr. Flammarion tells us, of 250,000 men. In the Crimean war of 1854-55, 785,COO lives were lost. The brief Italian war of 1859 brought about the death of 63,000 men in battle or in hosoitals, and even the "game of chess'' between Russia and Austria, in 1866, deprived 46,000 men of their lives. Our civil war of 1861-65 meant death to 450,000 men?an enormous host. The wars waged by the great Napoleon caused the death of no less than 5,000,000 persons There is hardly any telling howmany thousand millions of dollars our civil war cost, but it entailed upon us an expense which is now $183,000,000 a year, though the - - - It am Uaaw 4-1% < ?4 M tT Aft W wju" lias uccn uvci' hihlj-ulu.cc jcaia, The effect of the war 021* the Federal debt was to increase it from $65 000,000 to $2,773,236,173. Several billions of property besides were destroyed in the south, and the paralysis of industry consequent upon the civil war destroyed billions more, delaying the full economic development of this section by over thirty years. Their Day 1* Past. We notice that the Iroquois club of Chicago, at its coming banquet, has an array 0/ Cleveland's old cuckoos as speakers. These skates are terribly out of date. The world has drifted past them. Time was when the people listened to Vilas and Don Dicker son, and the Cleveland men with admiration amounting to haw, but since they followed the false light sent up by the Palmer-Buckner gold bugs, they have simply become spots of phosphorus on the rotton logs of the old Cleveland raft, and there is no place for them in the economy of the universe. They can be feasted by the gold bugs, and they can speak to them aU 1.j <.1 ?< rpk^-. uui me pcu(jio uceu liiclu uui. j.iicjr are the enemies of the people. The allies of the gold plutocracy of the United States, and they should have their tails docked and be hitched to the gold bug chariot of old bloated M. A. Hanna. Items of Liteieit. A colored woman of Washington went to her pastor the other day to complain of the conduct of her husband, who, she said, was a "lowdown, worthless, triiles3 nigger." After listening to a long recital of the delinquences of her neglectful spouse and her efforts to correct them, the minis ter said: "Have you ever tried heap ing coals of fire upon his head?" "No," was the reply, "but I done tried hot water." Another man has invented a process for making milk by combining chemicals. He is a Chicago man; but not the same Chicago man who invented artificial egg3 which could be put on the market at half the price of genuine hen berries, and claimed that he would soon have an egg perfected that would hatch. The foolkiller sot I the egg man, and is supposed to be i after the milk maker :aow. . He might I also give some attention to the people who celieve such fakes. Public Sale Notice.?A bailiff in one of the mountain counties recently posted up the following sale notice, which he had written on brown wrapping paper with a carpenter's pencil: Notis public sail I will sell akorden to law on Sattidy next Wun bugie an wash pot dubbJe seete4 with wun Laig bruk off. Also wun red mule fur spott kash with wun eye. Justice Harlan is making reputation for vigorous English. He says, in reference to the destruction of the Maine: "But i?it should turn out not to be an accident, we will not hear any more of north, south, east or west, no more of Republicans, Democrats or Populist; we will hear only of Americans." To that sentiment all Americans will say aye. A dispatch from Havana says a special guard is ready to be called out in anticipation of an attack on General Lee. The news of the Spanish government's request for the recall of General Lee and its refusal by President McKinley has had the effect of further , evening Uio exjuutjr o^bllusl jltzc rvmtu is felt by the Weylerites. Lee keeps 00L | The Chicago Chronicle recently ; contained a scathing cartoon. In the ocean is the wreck of the Maine, with i the vultures picking the corpses of < the dead seamen. In the foreground < is the great American Eagle trying to ' go to the rescue, but Mark Hanna has 1 him tied with strong cables to Wall < street If McKinley permits this, < Congress will not The supreme court of the United States rendered an opinion that a rate of interest, charged by a national bank, in excess of the interest rate prescribed by law of the State in whici the loan is made, is usurious, and that the borrower may sue and recov er twice the amount of the loan. This decision puts national banks and tate banks on the same footing. William M. Springer, of Illinois, now Federal Judge of the Indian Territory and supporter of the Cleveland gold party, says Bryan is a sure win LlS\t *i - 1 ner. ~\ji course, xi> may ue uim wuditions might change by 1900," said Mr. Springer, "bat judging by present indications, Mr. Bryan will be nominated and elected two year? from now." The diabolical M. A. Hanna says ; war is foolish. Not one in 500 of those j clamoring for war have a dollar's i worth of business interest at Btake. : Ths United States will arbitrate. She ' can't afford to fight, says this old . money grabber. The Charleston Critic says no hall in that city would contain the popu- i lar outpouring that would greet Wm. Jennings Bryan, the tribune of the ; people, if he should favor this city with a date for an address. And yet ; two of the Charleston papers claim : that the silver craze is dead. Ex-President Cleveland suggests to the gold men not to lay the flattering unction to their souls that the silver craza is dead. The gold bug press have been proclaiming for months that the silver craze was dead, but they have not fooled Grover, who knows a corpse when he sees it. Tee South should feel proader tnan ever of the Lees. The eyes of the civilized world is now focused on the one at Havana and he will add new lustre, if that be possible, w the illustrious name he bears. Congressman Bailey says the Den I ocraxs will support any measure necessary to prepare the country to meet the impending crisis. Who expected them to do otherwise? i v Words of Wisdom* Thursday to a Washington correspondent Senator Bacon made one of the vrisest and most timely statements regarding the possibility of war that we have seen from anybody. He said in part: "If there should be war it will be popular. All wars are popular so long: as they last, nevertheless it is not to the interest of the south to have war. The people of the north, if it should be a great war, might grow rich because they manufacture arms and munition of war, clothing and other army supplies and make vast food products, all of which would be enchanced in price. On the other hand, the products of the south would in the main decrease both in demand and in price. Hence I think the southern people ought to be urged to make preparation for the most liberal food products this year." Starving Cnb?. Colonel Parker, who has just returned from a visit to Cuba in company with Senator Proctor of "Vermont says: "The famine suffering and awful destitution among the reconeentrados is something almost in descnoaoie. lne aicaae oi Matanzas told me that 55,000 persons had died of starvation in that city during the last year and that 5,600 had died during February." He also says every one in Habana now knows that the Maine was. blown up. Spaniards no longer deny it. They do not seem to be very sad over it either. Senator Proctor says could the American people see things in Cuba as he saw them the suffering, starvation and death, they would, as Whittier says, 'pour forth wine and oiL'" Bcate of Anmrchy Prevails. Advices from the Orient says that a state of anarchy prevails in the island of Hainan. Bands of outlaws said to number 6,000 men have raided 11 military camps and 28 villages, murdering and looting in their course. It is impossible to describe the triumphant march of murder and lust through peaceful pastoral towns surrounding the city of Kiochow. After a week of slaughter, the anarchists grew weary and thought of safety. They erected barricades iz> the mountains behind Kiochow and stored up provisions enough to last them a year. A greatly superior force of military is Deing mobilized for the purpose of clearing them out American Boat Seized. The Spanish gunboat Ardilla seized recently in inlet near Casilda, on the south coast of Cuba, the American schooner Esther, of Edenton, N. C., bound from Pensacola to Jamaica. The captain of the schooner was asked to give the reason for the presence of his vessel in the inlet, and claimed that his rudder was broken. No further details of the affair have been received, but if the statements of the captain of the Esther turn out to be correct, the schooner will be liberated. The captain has protested against J.-U ? l: *1 luc seizure 01 xm? vessel. Blltcvi Iodoform Liniment is the "nee pluultra" of ail such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing ! fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison from "'Poison Ivy" or "Poison . Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches: Sold by druggists and dealers ?5 cents a bottle. The Wages of Sin. At Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday, | in a fit of jealousy Lee Van Arsdale. , a young railroad man, murdered . Mary Harris, an inmate of a house of ' ill repute, by cutting her throat from 1 ear to eai. Pursued by an officer. ' Van Arsdale rushed into an adjoining room and killed himself by cutting < his throat. Van Arsdale formly lived at Parksville, Ky. Said, to be Insane, It is said that Dr. Bivings, who recently killed Mr. Trimmierin Spar- . tanburg is almost a raving maniac. At the most unseasonable hours of the night he is calling up over an imigin- 1 ary telephone the telegraph operator in whom he placed so much confidence, and recites to him his imagined wrongs. Another Warship at Havana. The United States cruiser Montgomery has arrived at Havana. Her arrival on Friday was very quiet. After firing the usual salute ana being saluted in return, the Montgomery was moored in the principal harbor near the wreck of the Maine, and in the centre of a circle of Spanish ships. The London Daily News says: Spain can expect no support moral or otherwise, from England against the United States. She has ruined Cuba, is she has ruined or lost every other colony, by the grossest corruption, cruelty and maladministration, and she must be left to settle the account for it with those whom it may con cern, without any aid or sympathy en our part H JCztex . fvryXP \Wh?w much of 8* 1 /> a basii:ess w0* f W / / \ l^Jsy man a woman 7 /' \ \ IM maybe, when f # / n f/s \ ^ _^tSa the little loveII /' // w 5?0<^ makes np his mind to V ,a& shoot, there is ? no protection I again st his arrow. Yet many a young woman whose affections are already engaged, hesi- I tates to assume the obligations of wifehood < and motherhood, because she feels unfitted j for them by some physical weakness or j disease. The special ailments tr> which the femi- 1 nine orcanism is liable, '. it onlv unfit a wo- ! dan for happy wifehood Mid motherhood, j but incapacitate her for any sphere of action. i No woman can discharge tne daily duties of J any position with comfort or satisfaction j who is constantly weighed dev. r. by head- ' aches, backaches and dragging, w eakening S drains. Troubles of this nature are not by any j means a necessity of womanhood. They j are positively and completely cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It imparts f genuine health and strength to the womanly j organs. It was devised for this one purpose j by an eminent specialist in this particular ? field of practice. " For several years I suffered with prolapsus of ? the uterus," writes Miss A. Lee Schuster, of Box S 22, Rodney, Jt. '^rson Co.. Miss. "Our family <9 physician treated me for kidney trouble, and ev- S erything else but the right thing:. I grew worse ? and worse. My body was emaciated, hands aad J feet clammy and cold, stomach weak, with great ? palpitation of the heart. I dreaded for night to j come for I would suffer with nausea all night and jj so I continued until some kind unknown friend J ? * -4 ? ? ~ ? T Vi* ri'Q w + sent me your .took wun a marKcu pest. * * taking your ' F xvorite Prescription,' contr&iy to J my family's wi- es. and I began to improve right 5 away. I have taken three bottles and now I am J very nearlv well and am very happy, and thank* J fill "to you." J // i GfflatmeM'-fQeueae Atattami. Ifetaxt W * t&satutt. Cheapb?d. 8tzd tor oilUtat. A man may dress as well as his own -j good judgment and the assistanca of an artistic tailor may elect. He may take his "tubs" but if his digestive organs are out of order, he will have an unwholesome appearance. His complexion and the white of his eyes will have a vellowish cast His tongue will be coated, appetite poor, his teeth rusty, his breath abominable. 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