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jSSaemt anantesaea?i?.-r.rrr.-aesa STORY OF A MARTYR. TALMAGEID1SCOURSES ON THE STONING OF STEPHEN. Fire Pictures Displayed?Stephen Gxzlng Into Heaven; Stephen X.oc?ing at Christ Stephen Stoned: Stephen in Hla Dying Prtyer and Stephen Asleep. The discourse of Dr. Talmage which we send out is a vivid story of msrtyr dom and a rapturous view of the world to come; test, Acts vii, 36 60. "Behold I see the heavens opened," etc. Stephen had been preaching a rousing sermon, and the people could not stand it. They resolved to do as men sometimes would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain Treacher of righteousness?kill him. I'he only way "to silence this man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Stephen out of the gates of the city, and with curse and whoop and bellow they brought him to the cliff, as was the custom when tbey wanted to take away life by stoning. Having brought nim to the edge of the cliff, tkev pushed him off. After T--J -?~n n-n A .'JO 1UIU. ItkllKJiL fclicj axLU. J.UUJ11.U down, and, seeing that he was not yet dead, they began to drop stones upon him, stone after stone. Amid this horrible rain of missiles Stephen clambers up on his knees and folds his hands, while the bloGd drips from his temples to his cheeks, from his cheeks to his garments, from his garments to the ground, and then, looking up, he makes two prayers?one for himself and one for his murders. "Lord Jesus receive my spirit!" That was for himself. "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge!" That was for his assailants. Then, from pain and loss blood, he swocned away and fell asleep. I want to show you today five pictures?Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen in his dying prayer and Stephen asleep.' First look at Stephen gazing into heaven. Before you take a leap you want to know where you are going to land. Before you climb a ladder you wint to know to what point the lad der reaches. And it was rigriit that! Stephen, within a few moments of heaven, should be gazing into it We would all do well to be found in the same posture. There is enough in heaven to keep us gazing. A man of large wealth may have statuary in the hall, and paintings in the sitting room and works of art in all parts of the house, but he has the chief pictures in the art gallery, and there hour after hour you walk with catalogue and glass and ever increasing admiration. Well, heaven is the gallery where God has gathered the chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe is his palace. In this lower room where we stop there are many adornmentstessellated floor of amethyst, and on the winding cloud stairs are stretched out canvases on which commingle azure and purple and saffron and gold. But heaven is the gallery in which the chief glories are gathered. There are the brightest robes. There are the richest crowns. There are the highest exhilarations, John says of it, "The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it." And I see the procession forming, and in the line come all empires, and the stars spring up into an arch for the hosts to march under. The hosts keep step to the sound of earthquake and the pitch of avalanche from the mountains, and they flag the bear is the fl ame of a consuming world, and all heaven turns out with narps and trumpets and myriad voiced acclamation of angelic dominion to welcome them in, and so the kings of the earth bring their honor and glory into it. Do you wonder that good people often stand, like Stephen, looking into heaven? We have many iriends there. There is not a man in this house today so isolated in life but there is some one in heaven with whom he once shook hands. As a man gets older the number of his celestial acquaintances very rapidly multiplies. We have not had one glimpse of them since the night we kissed them goodby, and they went away, but still we stand gazing at heaven. As when some of our friends go across the sea we stand on the dock cr on the steam tug and watch them, and after awhile the hulk of the vessel disappears, and then there is only a natch of sail on n i * r i tne asy, ana soon mat is gone, ana they are all out of sight, and yet we stand looking in the same direction, so when our friends go away from us into the future world we keeD looking down through the Narrows and gazing and gazing as though we expected hat they would come out and stand on some cloud and give us one glimpse of their blissful and transfigured faces. While you long to join their companionship, and the years and the days go with such tedium that they break your heart, and the viper of pain and sorrow and bereavement keeps gnawing at your vitals, you stand still, like Stephen, gazing into heaven. You wonder if they have changed since you saw them last You wonder if they would recognize your face now, so changed has it been with trouble. You wonder if amid the myriad delights they have the care as much for you as they used to when they gave you a helping hand and put their shoulder under your burdens. You wonder if they look any older, and sometimes in the evening tide, when the house is all quiet, you wonder ifjou should call them by their first name if they would not answer, and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one but God and yourself are there you distinctly call their names and listen and sit gazing into heaven. Pass on now anu. see Stephen looking upon Christ. My text says he saw fna Qati a? Mom of the lnoVif />-f bUO Vi m C* i i ay -t- JU.cs.UkWi VGod. Just how Christ looked in this world, just how he looks in heaven, we cannot say. A writer in the time of Christ says, describing the Saviour's personal appearance, that he had., blue eyes and light complexion and a very graceful structure, but I > * suppose it was all guesswork. The painters of the different ages have tried to imagine the features of Christ and put them upon canvas, but ttc will have to wait until with our own eyes we see him and with our own ears we can hear him. And yet there is a way of seeing and hearing him now. I have to tell you that unless you see and hear Christ on earth you will never see and hear him in heaven. Look! There he is. Behold the Lamb of God. Can you not see him? Then pray to God to take the scales off your eyes. Look that wiy?try to look that way. His voice comes down to you tins ctay?comes ao ;vn io tne blindest, to the deafest soul, saying, "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none else." Proclamation of universal emancipation for all slaves! Proclamation of universal amnesty for all rebels! Etelshaazar gathared the Babylonish, nobles to nis table, Ge orge l entertained the o rds of England at a banquet, Napoe on III welcomed toe czar of Russia ji d t he sultan of Turkey to his feast, the emperor of Germany was glad to | ha* 2 our minister, George Bancroft, J sii .own with him at nis table, but toll mo tt?? TrVir> lrr>nw most of the world's history, what other king ever asked the abandoned and the forlorn, and the outcast to come and sit besides him? Oh, wonderful invitation! You can take it today and stand at the head of the darkest alley in any city, and say; "Come! Clotnes for your rags, salve for your sores, a throne for your eternal reigning." A Christ that talks like that and acts like that and pardonr like that?do you wonder that S' .^nen stood looking at him? I hope to spend eternity doing the same tiling. I must see him; I must look upon that face once clouded with my sin, bat now radiant with my pardon. I want to touch that hand that knocked off my shackles. I want to hear that voice which pronounced my deliverance. Behold him, little children, for if you live to threescore years and .en you will see none so fair. Behold him, ye aged ones, for he only can shine through the dimness of your failing eyesight. Behold him, earlh. Behold him, heaven. What a moment when all the nations of the s&red shall rather around ! Christ! All faces that way. All thrones that way, gazing on Jesus! His worth if all the nations knew Sure the whole earth woald love him too. I pass on now to look at Stephen stoned. The world has always want! ed to get rid of good men. Their very i life is an assault upon wickedness. | Out with Stephen through the gates of the city. Down with him over the precipices. Lst every man came up and drop a stone upon his head. But these men did not so much kill Stephen as they killed themselves. Every stone rebounded upon them. While these murderers were transfixed by the scorn of ail good men Stephen lives in the admiration of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men must be pitted. All who will live godly in Christ must suffer persecution. It is no eulogy of a man to say that everybody likes him. Show me any one who is doing all his duty to state or church, and I will show you men who utterly abhor him. If all men speak well of you, it is because you are either a laggard or a dolt. If a steamer makes rapid progress through the waves the water will boil and fcam all around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the ^arhin#>K Whf?n I see a man with voice ana money and influence all on the right side and some caricature him and some sneer at him and some wink at him and some denounce him and men who pretend to be actuated by right motives conspire to cripple him, to cast him out, to destroy him, I say, "Stephen stoned!" When I see a man in some great moral or religious reform battling against grogshops, exposing wickedness in high places, by active means trying to purify the church and better the world's estate, and I find that some of the newspapers anathematize him and men?even good men?oppose him and denounce him because, though he does good, ha does not do it in their way, I say, "Stephen stoned !" The world, with infinite spite, took after Frederick Oberlin, Paul and j Stephen of the text, but you notice, I my friends, that while they assaulted him they did not succeed really in killing him. You may assault a gocd man Kiit trmi Mnnnf Trill V?5m On the day of his death Stephen spoke before a few people in the sanhedrin. Now he addresses all Christendom. Paul the apostle stood on Mars hill addresing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science as'aimodern school-girl. Today he talks to all the millions cf Christendom about the wonders of justification and the glories of resurrection. John Wesley was howled down by the mob to whom he preached, and they threw bricks at him, and they denounced him, and they jostled him, and they spat upon him, and yet today, in all lands, he is admitted, to be the gre?t father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the presidential chair, but from what spot of coagulated blood on the floor in the box of Ford's theater there sprang i?p the new life of a nation. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive! Pass on now and see Stephen in his dying prayer. His first thought was not now tne stones nurt ni? neaa, nor what would become of his body. His first thought was about his spirit., "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" The murderer standing on the trapdoor, I the black cup being drawn over his head before the execution, may grimace about the future, but you and I have no shame in confessing some anxiety about where we are going to come out. You are not all body. There is within you a soul. I see it gleam from your eyes, and I see it irradiating your countenance. Sometimes I am abashed before an audience not because I come under their physical eyesigh t, but because I realize the truth that I stand before so many immortal spirits. The probability is that your body will at last find a sepulcher in some of the cemeteries that surround your town or city. There is no doubt but that jour obsequies will be decent and respectful, and you will be able to pillow youj* head under the maple, or the Norway spruce, or the cypress, or the blossom ing fir, but this spirit about which Stephen prayed?what direction will that taVe? What ouidn will as sort it? What gate -will open to receive it? What cloud will be cleft for its pathway ? After it has got beyond the light of our sun, will there be torches lighted i'or it '.he rest of the i way? Will the soul have to travel through long deserts before it reaches the good land? If we should loose our pathway, will there be a castle at whose gate we may ask the way to the city? Oh, this mysterious spirit within us! It has two wings, but it is in a cage now. It is locked fast to keep it, but let the door of this eagre open the least, and that soul is o 1. j Eagle's wing could not catch it. T^e lightnings are not swift enough to take up with it. When the soul leaves the body, it takes 50 worlds at a bound. And have I no anxiety about it? Have you no anxiety about it? I do not care what you do with my body when my soul is gone or whether you believe in cremation or inhumation . I shall sleep just as well in a wrapping o? sackcloth as in satin lined with eagle's down. But my soul?be fore this day passes I will find out where it Trill land. Thank God for the intimation of my text, that when we die Jesus takes us. That answers all questions for me. What though there were massive bars between here and the city of light, Jesus could remore them. What though there were great Saharss of darkness, Jesus could illume them. What though I get weary on tho way, Christ (-Quid lift me on nis omnipotent shoulder. What though there were chasms to cross, his hand could transport me. Then let Stephen's. prayer be my dying liianv. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." It may be in that hour we will be too feeble to say a long prayer. It may be in that hour we will not be able to say the "Lord's Prayer," for it has seven petitions. Perhaps we may be too feeble even to say the infant prayer cur mothers taught us, which John Quincy; Adams, 7U years of age, said every night when he put :his head ujou his pillow: i nninn I J. aaaae in faa i. r ; :i-i Now I laj me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keen. We may be too feeble to employ j either of these familiar forms, but this # rii t _ _ t l. _ I prayer 01 oiepnen is so snor.-, is sj concise, is so earnest, is so comDrehcn sive, we surely will be able to say that ^Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Oh. if that prayer is answered, how sweet it will be to die! This world is clever enough to us. Perhaps it hss treated us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated, but if on the dying pillow there should break the light of that better world we shall have no more regret about leaving a small, cerk, damp house for one large, beautiful and capacious. That dying minister in Philadelphia some years ago beautifully depicted it when in the last moment he threw up his hands and cried cut. "I move into the light!" Pass on now, and I will show you one more picture, and that is Stephen asleep. .With s pathos and simplicity peculiar to the Scriptures the text says of Stephen, "He fell asleep." "Oh," you say, "what a place that was to sleep! A hard rock under him, stones falling down upon him. the blood sr 3aming, the mob howling. What a place i:: was to sleep!" And yet my text take that symbol of slumber to describe his departure, so sweet was it, so contented was it, ^o peaceful was it, Stephen had lived a very laborious life. His chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loaves of bread he distributed, how many bare feet he had sandaled, how many cots of sick ness and distress he blessed with ministeries ol kindness and love I do not know, but from the way ne uvea ana the way he preached and the way he died I know he was a laborious Christian. But that is all over now. Ee has passed the cup to the last faintiDg lip. He has taken the last insult from his enemies. The last stone to whose crushing weight he is susceptible has beeD burled. Stephen is dead! The disciples come. They take him up. They wash away the blood from tbe wounds. They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around to look upon the calm countenance of him who haa lived for the poor and died for the truth. Stephen asleep! I have seen the sea driven with the hurricane until the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and wave rising above wave seeraed as if about to storm the heavens ancl then I have seen the tempest drop and the waves crouch j and everything become smooth and burnished as though a camping place for the glories of heaven. So I have seen a ma a whose life has been tossed and driven coming down at last to an infinite calm, in which there was the hush of heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep! I saw such a one. He fought all his days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They rattled at the doorknob while he was dying with duns for debts he could not pay. yet the peace of God brooded over nis pillow, and while the world faded heaven ; dawned, and the deepening twilight of earth's night was only the opeaing twilight of heaven's morn. Not a sigh; not a tear; not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep! I have not the faculty to tell the weather. I can never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or not. I cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it will b9 fair weather or foul on the morrow, but I can prophesy, and I will proph A ? -- - -T1 TT/\1 1 esy, wnai weatner 11 wm uc wuou jvm. the Christian, come to die. You may have it very rough now, It may be this week one annoyance, the next another annoyance. It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereavement. Before this year has passed you may have to beg for breaid or ask for a scuttle of coal or a pair of shoes, but at the last Christ will come in, and darkness will go out, and, though there may be no hand to close your eyes and no breast on which to rest your dying head and no candle to lift the night, the odors of God's hanging garden will regale your soul, and at your bedside will halt the chariots of the King. No more rents to pay, no more agony because flour has gone up, no more struggle with '"the world, the flesh and the devil," but peace?long, deep, everlasting peace. Stephen asleep! Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep, I From which none ever wake to weep! A calm and undisturb ad repose, UniDjured by the last of foes. Asleep in Jesus! i'ar rrom tnee Thy kindred and their graves may be, But there is still a blessed sleep From which none ever wake to weep. You have seen enough for one morn ing. No one can successfully examine more than five pictures in a day. Therefore we stop, having seen this cluster of divine Raphaels?Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen in his dying prayer, Stephen asleep. AGAINST ADJOURNMENT. Congress Not In Favor of Leaving the President on Deck. Some of the most pronounced Cuban Sympathizers in congress are becoming very impatient. They say that tha niiftTinaitinno fni> cnlvinc f/hft rinban I DUV (#4V^VM*MVMW AW*. ? V ? ? . problem, which have been latlely put forward as engrossing the president's I attention, are similar to those suggested as long ago as the administration of President Grant, and having failed utterly, aie unworihhy of serious consideration now. Some believe that the report of the naval court of inquiry is being delayed, not for the purpose of putting the country in an adeqaate condition of defense, but in order that congress may be out of the way and the president settle the question on some basis which will satisfy the financial interests of the country and prevent war at any coat This belief has its only origin in the undoubted activity of lead in? men who are regarded as representatives of the administration," in the direction of securing a speedy adjournment of congress. Senator Hanna expressed himself as certain that nothing better could be done than to leave the whole matter in the hands of the ^resident. Senator Piatt, of New York, sings the same song. "Nothing could be b?tter," said he, "than to have congress speedily ad- j journ and allow the president to handle tins question m ms own way." Senator Elkins talks in the same strain. On the other hand, there are at least ten Republican senators, as shown by a canvass yesterday, who will not agree to adopt this programme. "Fighting Blh" Chandler. Senator Chandler seems to have worked himself up ;to the fighting point He is much more bellicose now than he was when Joe Blackburn grabbed his ears, but Joe had a pretty good hold on him and some advaut< ?"CTa -rrrrxnl/^ nnf of iJkg TT V/UXU jaiu \-v?i M v>A- v* . the way of the Spaniards. Japan's Navy. Japan has under construction four immense battleships, ten large cruisers and tw?>irty-three torpsdo boats, which will make her navy the third largest in the world. The Japanese fleets will have something to say about future affairs on the Pacific. THE ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. SOME OF THE LAWS PASSED AT THE RECENT SESSION. The 7.ez'., Jc Fnli cf Bomo ol the Principal AtldUiona to tha Statutes of South Corollas. DISTRESS FOR RENT. An Act to establish and declare th9 law as to distress for rer>t. Section 1. Be it eaactcdby the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That in case any lessee for life or lives, terms of years, at will or otherwise, of any messanses, lauds cr tenements, upon the demise wherof any rents ara or shall be reserved or made payable, shall convey cr carry off from such demised premises his goods, or chattels, it shall and may be lawful to and fcr such lessor cr landlord, or any person or persons by him for that purpose lawfully empowered, within the space of five days neit ensuing such conveying away or carrying off such goods or chattrls as aforesaid, to take anc* ?e:ze such -oods and chattels whenever same shail be found, as a distress for the said arrears of such rant, and the same to sell or otherwise dispose of, in such manner as if the said goods and chattels had actually been distrained by such lessor or landlord in and upon such de I raised premises for such arrears of rent, any law, usage or custom to the i contrary, in any wise, notwithstanding:. | Section 2. That nothing herein con[ tained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to empower such lessor or i landlord to take or seizj any goods or | chattels as a distress for arrears of rent wh:ch shall have been sold bona fide and for a valuable consideration before such seizure made, no property shall ba seized under a distress war[ rant for such, except such as belongs to the tenant in his own right: Pro Viueu, liiau uuimug ucisiu wu shall interfere with or in any manner abridge the right of such lessor or landlord to take or seize any or all of such goods and chattels whenever they may be found as distress for arrears for rent, when any tenant so in arrears shall make an assignment for the benefit of his creditors, or when any tenant after the contract of tenancy has been entered into shall mortgage said gocds and chattels. Section 3. That when tenants pur autre vie and leases for years or at will hold over the tenements to them demised after th?. determination of such leases, it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons having any rent in arrear or due upon any lease for life or lives, or for years, or at will 6nded or determined, to distrain for such drears, after the determination of je said respective leases, in the .. ^e manner as they misht have if such lease or leases had ii~\ oeon ended or determined: Provided, that such distress he made witnin the spaca of six calendar months after the determination of such lease, and during the continuance of such landlord's title or interest, and during the possession of the tenant from whom such arrears became due. Section 4. That any person or persons having any rent in arrear or due upon any lease or demise for life or lives, may bring an action or actions of HoKt ir\y cui-h nf rant in the j same manner as they might have done in case such rent were due and reserved upon a lease for years. Section 5. That every distress for rent shall be reasonable and not too ! great, and any lessor or landlord who | makes unreasonable and excessive distress shall ba liable for all damages ! sustained by the tenant whose goods are distrained by reason of such excessive distress. That such damages may be recovered by an action in any Couri of competent jurisdiction. Section 6. That when goods and t chattels have been distrained for rent reserved and due upon any lease or contract whatsoever, and the tenant whose goods have been taken shall not, within five days after such distress and notice thereof, replevy the same with sufficient security, to be given according to law, then, in such case, the person making the distress shall cause the goods distrained to be arsnraised bv two sworn appraisers, and, after such appraisement,* sell the same, in the same manner as goods taken under execution are required by law to be sold. Approved the 19th day of February, I A. L>. 1898. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEXT BOOKSi An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide the pupils attending the free public school with school text books at actual cost. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That an Act, entitled "An Act to provide the pupils attending the free public schools with text books at actual cost," approved February 17, A. D. 1897, be, and the same is hereby I amended in Section 1, line 4, by ! striking out the word "empoweredt" and by substituting in lieu thereof the word "required," so that said section when amended shall read as follows, viz: "Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That the county boards of education of the several counties of this State be, and they are hereby, ! authorized and required to set aside from the public school funds of their respective counties an amount not exceeding: five hundred dollars, for the purpose of providing the pupils attending the free public schools of their counties with school text books at actual cost, or exchange prices." Section 2. Said Act is hereby further amended, in Section 3, by adding to the end of said section the following, viz: 'And the places where said school text books are kept and sold and shall be deemed depositories, under the conr\f 4-Vv / ? Qfofo OP O/l T n Li. U1 Ui WJ-LC UbO k?) CvJ ^wnuv.u uuv seventh article or provision in the contract made in 1893 with the publishers of school text books/' so that said section when so amended shall read as follows, viz: "Section3. That the amount so sat aside by the county board of education shall be andiemaina permanent fund in the hands of the county superintendent of education, to be used in purchasing and keeping on hand school text books for sale to pupils attending the free public schools of his county, for cash, at actual cost or exchange prices, and to be used for no other purpose and in no other manner; and the places where said school text books are kept and sold shall be deemed depositories under the control of the State, as provided in the seventh article or provision in the contract made in 1S93 with the publishers of school text books." Provided, that the prevision of this Act shall not apply to the city of Sumter: Provided, that in the counties of Beaufort, Charles ion. Chesterfield, Edgefield, George town, Marlboro and Richland, the county boards of education are hereby authorized and empowered, but not required, to carry out the provisions of this Act. Section 4. That in all schools and colleges within this State which are supported in whole or in part from the free*school funds it shall be unlawful to use any text book which has beeij condemned or disapproved by the State board of education. Approved the 21st day of February, AD. 1S9S. TOWN AND COUNTY CHAIN GANGS. An Act to authorize towii authorities to exchange labor of town convicts with county authorities. Section 1, B* it ordained by the General Assembly o' the State of South Carolina: That from ana after the passage of this Act whenever any town or municipal authority in this State have not a sufficient number of t<-? wnrlr on thft public works of the town to warrant the expense of maintaining a towa chain gang, the town authorities of said town shall be authorized to place said convicts on the county chain gang for the time so sentenced, and the county authorities of the couety in which said town is situated shall be authorized and empowered to exchange labor with said town authorities and place county convicts on the public works of the town for the same number cf days that town convicts work on the public works of the county. Section 2. That this Act shall go into effect immediately upon its approval. Approved the 21st day of February, A T\ 1 COO ?X. U% DOCKETS OF MAGISTRATES. An Act to require all magistrates to submit their dockets to the county board of commissioners quarter ly, and said board to report on same to CourtSection 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That all magistrates be, a*id are hereby required to submit their dockets to the county board of commissioners at their regular quarterly meetings, and that said boards, respectively, shall make report an; nuaily, prior to fall term of Court, to i the foreman of the grand jury as to said dockets, and any irregularities shovm thereby. Section 2. That magistrates shall not hereafter be required to make reports or file transcript of their dockets in any manner and at any other time than herein prescribed, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved the 19th dav of February, A. D. 1898. Democratic Convention In May. The Columbia State has discovered that according to the constitution of the Democratic party, the only State Democratic convention to be held this year will be on the third Wednesday in May. Says the State: The present constitution provides for the holding of a convention on the third Wednes* I day in May, and for no other. It also provides for the holding of eounty conventions in the several counties in the State on the first Monday in May for the purpose of electing delegates to that convention. Of course the reorganization of the precinct and ward clubs -will take place prior to that time throughout the State. It is thus seen that State and county politics will be stirring much earlier than any one expected. When the convention meets there will doubtless be no end of political log-rolling. The convention will have to elect a new State Executive Committee, and attend to such other matters as may come before it. Those who were talking of the outlook, expressed the view that the liquor referendum plan would be laid before the convention when it meets, the legislators having declined to take action in regard to it on the ground that the proper body to consider it was the State Democratic Convention. How much of an issue this will become and the probable action of the convention in regard to it, are purely matters of conjecture at this stage. A Remarkable Gander. One of the most remarkable birds in the state is owned by Mr. James A. Kinkead, secretary of the Hardin county fair association. It is a gander, and everybody in the neighborhood is acquainted with it. The gannoma ie SilTrov " qnrl if UVI a UWJIUV 1U WViAU S/UTV Jkj HUM, A W answers to its name as quick as any hand on Mr. Kinkead's farm. The ginder acts as a watchdog would about the place, and no stranger dares enter the yard unattended by a member of the family, as those who have tried to and been forced to beat an ignominious retreat will attest. The gander has sense, like a horse, and learns new tricks almost every day in the week. This gander goes to the granary and shakes a plank when the yellow corn will roll out for its daily food. It follows its owner to and from the field just as a dog would do. When the bell is rung calling the hands to their meals his gandership sets up a quacking and continues it until all have come in, when he himj self goes to the granary and, by shaka loose plank with his bill, shakes aown corn for his dinner. If, perchance, 'Solid Silver' is in the house and any member of the family leaves the door ajar, he does not rest until he has closed it, His owner will be pre: vailed on to have 'Solid Silver' on ex?* f Ua r? ovf Anrrt i illUlWiUUL a u one xa\JjXU fair.?Louisville Post. He is Beady. Geo.. Joseph L. Stoppelben, of Siimmervilie, writes as follows to the Hon. J. "W. Stokes: "The people of South Carolina stand ready and willing to shed their blood in defense of the Stars and Stripes, and if ever our people were united, they are today. We know no factional or party lines when the honor ef the country is at stake. As you know, I command the largest body of cavalry in the United States. My command and I are at the services of the president, and, while I understand militia cannot be pressed into service for a longer period than 90 days, 1 now, through you, formally tender my services to the president in the volunteers for 90 months, if need be. The people of of South Carolina have implicit confiderce in the wisdom of the president at this critical moment, and feel that he will do the proper thing." Care of Mange on Hogs. John Cruze, of Lee county, Iowa, writes to The Rural World as follows: "Have just had some interesting experience with mange or scab on pigs. Lost 14 out of 36, from doseing them with everything I heard or read about.?Was in dispair, until common sense came to my aid. I figured it out that it was a parasite under the skin, and to cure the pig the parasite must be destroyed. So I mixed up seme turpentine and coal oil, half and haif, and added quite a bit of sulphur. Then, while the pigs were at the trough, I squirted the mixture all over them, from nose to tail, by means of a machine oil can. Have not lost a pig since, and have not been obliged to repeat the dose.:' I he Cow.-.rdly Assassin. AtC^aitman, Ga.,. Wednesday night an unknown party slipped up to the window of the house of Henry Raines, a prominent negro, and shot him and his two-year old baby to death. Eleven buckshot entered Raines' head, four lodged in the baby and twelve in the wall. Raines' wife was sitting between him and the window, and it is believed that the murderer intended to kill her also. Raines had been trotting the baby on his knee, and had the gnn been fired while thai was going on the baby would not have been killed, but at the time it was fired he was in the *.ct of kissing it. The Virginias Case If Spain ezpects the United States to ! act now as she did in the case of the ; steamship Virgisus sIt3 in sadiy mis taken. This cass should be k;;pt in ; mind now by all persons who desire to j see the honor and dignity oI thiscoun- j try sustained in the Maine affair. It shows just exactly what may be. expected by a government that handles Spain with too much consideration in diplomacy. It shows also what results can ba achieved with her by determination and prompt action. During the late war the Virginius was a blockade runner into Southern ports and in 1S70 wher. tha Cubans were trvina: to < break away from Spain, tho Virginius resumed the old occupation, only with, a change of base. For three jears it succeeded in carrying on its business without being captured. She was u;ider the command of a citizen of the < United States, Captain Fry, who bad j served with distinction first ia the } United States navy and then in the j Confederate States navy. The crew j consisted of Americans, Englishmen j and Cubans. On cue of her trips the j : Virginius was run down and cactured ; by a Spanish gunboat called the Tornado. Captain Fry pretested that his j was "an American ship, carrying \ American colors and papers, with a.-> j American captain and crew." All \ this was true, but far from beicg i;sav j ing truth." The vessel ana all cn board were taken to Santiago de Cafca. They were immediately tried by a drumhead court. The United States ^4- i ? r\ n 1A > UUilfiiUJ. a I LUC jj:eiUO ft <a?3 J.U1 44i-i.v> ?Y IV/ 1 leave the consulate or h&va any inter- j course with the prisoners until the last day. The trials, condemnation?, and executions were in squads. Inj the first batch was a gallant soldier, j who had served in tli8 Federal army during the war, but who was then a brigadier general in the Cuban army, j In the second batch the gallant Fry! himself was shot. Not a man would i have escaped the fury of the cruel | Spaniards, but before the butchery was completed a British cruiser, the i Niobe, which happened to bo in the j vicinity, steamed into Santiago. Sir i Lambert Larraine. the commander of ! J.i AT.--T 1 3 1 J ?!.> k,-.f^.V.cwrr I tiio IMUUCj iiau iicaxu Ui LU.^ uubvugi j ) J and without the slightest ceremony j demanded that the butchery seace. < He told the Spanish butchers that he I represented the United States as well j as Great Britain and that if another j man was executed he would shell the ( town. That settled it, and ninety- j three men under sentence of death were saved by the brave and humane interference of the brave commander of the British* cruiser, Sir Lambert Larraine, who should be held in high esteem by all Americans. Then followed a series of diplomatic negotiations, Secretary Fish took the seiisib[e position that the Virginius, having been registered as an American vessel carrying official documents reguo Koqwt) cr tJiA <lflr UJL/Uli bUCXX JLavOj umu vmv | United States flag, was entirely bs-; yond the jurisdiction of any other power on the high seas in the time of peace; if she had secured fraudulent entry or committed any other fraud against the laws of the United States it was for her to be turned over to the United States courts for punishment, and cot for her to be captured and punished by some other power. This was a gooa beginning to a pitiful ending:. The final result must have made all Spain chuckle with delight. The i contention of the United States was j conceded by Spain, and she agreed to j sends as far as shecould the great wrocg j she had aoce the United States. The j men who had been rescued by the Niobe were put on board the I TTi?in <-Via *onn/">fa Tiro-4" of T\ 3 n " o j V ifgmiua 1U IriiO fJ*J~ W \J*. Honda, and there, before a handful of witnesses, the Spaniards Trent through the farce of a salute. The Spaniards should at least have been compelled to take the Virginias into the harbor at Havana, and there in the presence of all the people, made to pay homage to the United State?. We agree with an exchange which says cases like that of the Virginius breed contempt and lead to outrages. No nation ever won respect of paace, that could endure, by such a course as that followed by the United States in the case of the Yirgiaius massacre. It is well to remember that fact now. | Hesitation and half measures with a nation JiJ?e Dvaiu serve uiiiy luyiio up trouble for the future. No nation has in its history such conclusive proof of this as our own. No nation has suffered such loss and provocation at Spanish hands as the North American Union. We now stand fast on the line that marks the limit. Itarca of latex est. Senator Tillman says there is no avoiding war with Spain, and we believe he is eminently correct. The Galveston Njws thinks Spanish privateers would have a line old time hunting for the American merchant flag on the high seas?"that is if they hunted for the fun of huntiEg." War with Spain, in our opinion, is inevitable. There sesms to b3 no doubt now but that the Maine was destroyed by Spanish tre?cr ry, and of course the United Slates must punish her for it. Employees over siziy years of age in the Union Pacific shops at Omahf; are being discharged, and it is said that in the future no one wiil be employed by the company who is near or above that age. Are these old and faithful servants to be turned out 10 starve? The Republican administration appropriated $50,000,000 out of the surplus left over from the proceeds of 1 v?j ? v^/iev eia.au. s uuiiu aaica w.'.ijjluu u au. | effort, The Charleston Critic, noticing this fact, says Democratic economy has always proved very timely for the grand old party when in power. Dr. L. G- Broughton, paster cf the First Baptist Church o' Atlanta, announced Sunday that he nad inaugurated a warfare against the devil, and the Charleston Ccritic says the reverend gentleman will not have to go far to find him, as nis Saianic Majesty has made that city the headquarters of his war department of the Gulf for many years past. The Greenville News makes an ex J cellent point when it says: "Depend! upon it?every Veteran who goes to I Charleston at the time of the reunion { - - ill ( will enjoy nimseu more man wiu 1 those who go to the great reunion in | Atlanta. We hope that all the Vet- j eraES who can will go to both the J Charleston and Atlanta reunions, but j if to one?let it be Charleston." A Kansas woman thought to amuse J her children by putting on some of J her husband's clothes and playing burglar. One of the kids wanted to ; make the thing very realistic and got 1 his fathers pistol. As his motber | emerged from the closet he blazed away, and though he fortunately ; missed her he came near scaring her j to death. She vri 1 never piay bucglir ' again. j ! The St. Louis Republic says the j1 question of responsibilitv and repa- {! /- -I ??<. xr?; * a ! rauon lor 1US ucsiruwiuu u: iuc j is going to be settled, and settled right, j i The question of securin * for Cuba that j: independence to which she is entitled j ; under the laws of naiions is going 10 ] be seitled, and settled right. The United States will force settlement by i Spain. War may or may not come? j that depends upon Spain?but settle* j ment will come, with or without war. S F.A P.M Fn*" D * *JGHTERS- .| Tl}-< Ia*.port:i i? i*.*: i Tli^y T&kr Jc ttc ct :he Pisco. 'Iht .? are ic?i>y fanners through Gut the country v/cio are sufficiently liberal to the boys, but who think tea: i?ir:sr wauts should be supplied as they suggest fhen^elves. and with no regard io individual pre'erenca. After harvest, t'ne son. who has driven the reaper or helped at threshing, has his share of the profits to control and ci V>o r^Lirfai-.i r-.f stock have fctsSti given bim?a pig:, a calf or coi:, which. he will eventually S;ii und pat th,e prcceedes in his pocket. The farm ctfers sll sorts cf opnortunitks for earnings great or sin iU, tn which his right is never questioned. By and by. he drives his ov^n horse, joins a club, bu;vs bocks and ?oes to college?a right which he has earned and to which he is fairly entitled. \'v ith the girl it is usually very different. It never occurs to any one that she too, would enjoy a small income which she ^culd count upon ss her very own, and invest as she' saw fit without restraint or objection. The butter and eggs are some;imes her es pecial commodity, and from their sales she has a limited supplv of socket money. But it is extremely limit eel. and frequently very uncertain. Yet h*r labor in the homs, "about ? place" has done as much toward establishing the family prosperity as the labor of her brother. She is up j at daybreak to get breakfast ready. ^' * - -~j - 1 sue prepares irequenuy uaassisiea, three meals a day for 365 days in a year. She sometimes dDes the washing and ironcnicg, the sewing and mending, and is still at work long after her brother is in bed asleep, or away visiting the neighbors. She, too, has an additional tax during harvest, and at those seasons when the work upon the farm is especially hesvy but she rarely receives any re -vard for the extra service required of her. Is is a manifest injustice. A good many overcareful fatners excuse themselves upon the plea that girls have no judgment in money matters "Well, ihey certainly will never ac quire wisdom without experience if tne means for so doing are withheld. The financial faculty in most women lies dormant for lack of exercise, but it has been marvelously developed when it has been put to the test. There are thousands of women in the country, widows, wh.o have assumed the management of affairs upon the de&tfc or tne nusoanci, wno save succeeded brilliantly, when the Detter half failed; the mortgage -paid off, stack improved, modern farming im plements have been purchased and :h2 crops cultivated according to modern and intelligent ideas. The profitsharing system shouid includs girls- ss well as boys, and there is no question but that i* will pay. EUlcon's Iodoform Liniment is .the "nee pluultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long-standing. Will kill the pois- , on 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 ail pains and aches. Sold by druggists ana dealers 25 cents a bottle. Forty hands were busy recently re moving lu'obish and Jaying the side track just across Broad river from Columbia. Inspectors have ascertained that the granite which is of superb quality, covers a space of ten or more acres.' Located as it is: near the city, this quarry will certarily be a bonanza to some one, Already large contracts for granite have been received. The Chicken Crop.---It is estimated that this country contains 550,000,000 chickens, and that they, lay nearly 14.000,000,000 eggs each year, worth $165,000,000. Tne value of the poultry meat each year in estimated at $125,000,000, the total annual poultry produce being $290,000,000, which exceeds the value of swine, wool and i sheap combined, being almost greater than the production oi oats, tobacco, potatoes, .wheat cr cotton. There Has never been a correct census of poultry and eggs, however, and the figures claimed may not be correct. A Hint to the Girls ?A bachelor philosopher remarks that "210 man ever wants to kiss a girl after he has ones seen her hold a nickel the conductor has given her for change between her te*th while she gets her purse open," and he further intimates that such a giri is only fit to kiss a pug dog. Of course bachelors are not always responsible critics. The reported sale to the United 1 States of the t.70 Brazilian cruisers, Amaz jnas and Admiral A'oreualJ,now 1 rpcsivibg their hmshiiig touches in an 1 Eoglish shipyard, was confirmed in : Washington Monday afternoon. This ;a onrttho* that, shnws th? dilfM. ! tion the war wind is blowing. ;^" Liters 3. brittle field. g~Z~^JJ Every day brings its fierce. unceasing confiict;' every nigh". leaves ? *"' its multitudes of dead and dying. The honors of war are no greater than the horrors of disease. If all the nations of the earth were at war against each other there would be no such carnage wrought within the year as that which is accomplished annually by one creau disease ?consumption. And yet this most fatal of all diseases is not without its remedy. It is no longer the irresistible destroyer that it was considered thirty years ago. An entirely new aspect is put upon the possibilities of this dreadful . malady by the astouudir'.; remedial action j of Dr. Pierce's Golde:'. ?: "<?.?.! Discovery, 1 waicn curcs conswmpiu ottnsmnjrtae lungs with an abundant :>i.ppiy of pure, highly - vitalised blocd. This stops the formation of rculons matter, and builds up fresh tisst. tscular flesh and vital energy. It give* re stive power to the stomach which is too ?.cafc to assimilate oily emulsions. Miss Lucy Klocff.cr of Anr.ada, Mich., writes: "When I was about 'Tight years of at^T^cd inflammation of the Jrand from tir:? time tin I ivas sick nenr'y : !! u.c lirno r.t: i had a doctor nearly Iw*< .' } 1: " . ifljiyit would go right to .my h:sgs. At the age 01 niujeteeu I was very bad; there was p?in in my lungs, tickling in my throat and rr.v throat was studded ivith ulcers; there washoar-;ne*sa>Kl partial suppression of voice^and dijacultyof breathing. I ioctored with one of cur best physicians and he viid he could not 1 'p meandjest prescribed cod liver oil and told nr. mother I cojfld not live longer than three months. I kept getiing weaker every a day. when at last a friend asked ir.e why I did not try Dr. Pierce's Golden McdStal Discover.'. I thought there was no use. no more hc;p for me as consumption was in o"~ family. My father and r.Iso my sis;er died with it; but after taking the Srst bottle I seemed to f?-e 1 better. My appetite was better and T kept right on taking it. with a bottle of the " Pellets' nt;~e in r. wfi51t? until I felt rer.l vrcli. licfcrr t it. I v.*?:r:-- I one hun- 3 dr<.-d and tea pounds. ::fccr takfcjjrii.osckaadred | lad thirty. I have not hnri a ccuih this winter." SHudmeM ^'<d&ae Aanita, Gft. i.etr?l basinets. 5ot?xt if fe*e&- Siart Vat, Ch??v beard- S?ad l<x o?Uic**?. ) J. ii ?we> Oar Two New Orelerw. A dispatch from London says the final contract providing for the sale of the warships Amazonas and Almirante Abrouall to the United. States has been signed. The price is $2,500,CGO for both ships. A business man is not the most patient creature in the world. He cannot wait to hear any long-drawn-out stcry of the cause of his ailment He docs't care two straws about a fine spun theory of how he should treat himself. He may be predisposed to scrofula, or consumption. ' 'Tbat," he will tell you ^has nothing to do with the case." * ne wants to be well. If he can be cures, vm:e ous a prescription ana send in jour bill. So, here's the first pari of the preposition. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is a microbe hunter and killer. Many persons of scrofulous blocd, encourage the breaking out of unsightly sores, to prevent the disease ?oin? to the lunes. There is no need of this state of dread and discomfort. Purify the blood. It can be dene. "Golden Medical Discovery" will cure 98 per cent, of all consumptive cases, also of all other lingering bronchial, throat and lung diseases. A Happy Home Is increased ten-fold by good Music. 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