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"" ' ~ V- ' ?wrrrrnr<... , .... m??ai ? a ~ " HELPFFL RELIGION. DR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT THE| CHURCH OUGHT TO BE. Aid Religion In Sarctcary?Broadside Flee ol Seng?Sore Freahntsa >*eededL-B?lJg:oua Homdrcai the Worst 0! All Humdram-Old Style C~ or<3. If people understood religion to be the practical re enforcement that Dr. Talmage says it is in.tkis sermon, the j aumberof Christian disciples vrculd be w> til tmlied: text. Psalms xx, 2, j "Send thee help from.the sanctuary." If you should ask 50 men what the church is, they would give you 50 different answers. One man would say, "It is a convention cf hypccriies." i Another, "It is an assembly of people who feel themselves a great deal better than others." Another, "It is a place for gossip, where wolverene dispositions devour each other." Another, "It is a place for the cultivation of superstition and cant." Another, "It is an arsenal where theologians go to get pikes and muskets and shot.:? Another, "It is an art gallery, where men go to admire grand archeD and exquisite fresco and musical marble and the Dantesqua in gloomy imagery." Another man wsuld say: "It is the best place on earth except my own home. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." Now, whatever the church is, my text tells you what it ought to be?a great, practical, homely, omnipotent j help. "Send thee help from the sane-1 tuary." The pew ought to yield rest-! f1 r>f f Via ! iUiH6ss iur mo wuj ^ w* ? upholstery ought to yield pleasure to j the eye, the entire service ought tc j yield strength for the moil and struggle of everyday life, the Sabbath ought to be harnessed to all the six days of the week, drawing them in the right direction; the church ought to be a magnet, visibly and mightily affecting ail the homts of the worshipers. Every man gets roughly jostled, gets abused, gets cut, gets insulted, gets slighted, gets exasperated. By the time the Sabbath comes he has an accumulation of six days of ancoyance, and that is a starveling church service which has not strength en-ugh to take that accumulated annoyacce and hurl it into perdition. The busi* - ? T J ness man siis aown m cuurcu ncauachey from the week's engagements. Perhaps he wishes he had tarried at home on the lounge with the newspapers and the slippers. That man j wants to be cooled off and graciously . diverted. The first waye of the religious service ought to dash clear over the hurriance decks and leave nim dripping with holy and glad and heavenly emotion. 4'Send thee help : from the sanctuary." In the first place, sanctuary help ought to come from the music. A wo- j man dying in England persisted in , singing to the last moment The atA'? ?* ** Vio* id cfmv , mnusiimsf mcu u# uw w saying it would exhaust her and make i her disease worse. She answered: UI must sing. I am only practicing for ; the heayenly choir." Music on earth , Is a rehearsal for music in heaven. If you and I are going to take part in : that great orchestra, it is high time ; that we were stringing and thrumming ' our harps. They tell us that Thalherg , and Gottschalk never would- go into , a concert until th ey had, 'iirst in priv- : ate rehearsed. siucugJi tney were such i : masters of the : sirumenfc. And,can H it be that we expect to take part In the j great oratorio of heaven if we do not , rehearse here. But I am not speaking of the next . world. Sabbath "sorg ought to set all , the week to music. We want not j " ?~ more harmony, not more artistic ex- , pression, but more volume in our church music. The English dissent- , ing churches far surpass our Ameri- J can churches, in this respect. An , English audience of 1,000 people will j give more volume of sacred song than an American audience of 2,000 peo- j pie. I do not know what the reason j is. Dh, you ought to have heard them i sing in Surrey chapel! I had the op- ^ portunity of preaching the anni versa- , ry?i mmk uie uiucucui auuiiciaw; , ?sermon ;in Rowland Hill's old cha- I pel, and when they lifted their voices j in sacred song it was simply over- i whelming, and then in the tvening 1 of the same day in Agricultural hail * many thousand voices lifted in dox- { ology. It was like the voice of many ] waters, like the voice of many thun- ( derings, iu*d lik.e the voice of heaven. < The blessing thrilled through all the laboring 1 throng, ( And heaven -was won by violence of song. ' Now, I am no worshiper of noise, 1 but I believe that if'our American ] churches would with full hartiness of ~ - ? ( soul and full emnJaasis 01 voice sing the songs of Zion this part of s sacred worship would have ( tenfold more power than it j has now. Why not take this part of the sacred service and lift it to where ] it ought to be? All the annoyances ' of life might be drowned out bv that c sacred song. Do you tell me that 1 it is not fashionable to sing very loud- ! ly? Then. I say, away with the fash- } ion. We dam back the great Missis- ' sippi of congregational singing and \ let a few drops of melody trickle j: through the dam. I say take away J the dam and let the billows roar oil}1 their way to the oceanic heart oI God. ) Whether it is fashionable to sing 1 loudly or not, let us sing with all pos- ! sible emphasis. 1 We hear a great deal of the art of 1 singing, of music as ah entertainment s of music as a recreation. It is high time we heard something of music as ' a help, a practical help, ^n oider to ! do this we must have only a 1 few hymns. New tunes and new hymns every Sunday make 1 ooor congregational singing." Fifty ; hymns are enough for 50 years. < The Episcopal church prays the same i prayers every Sabbath, and year after J year and century after century. For 3 that reason . they have the hearty re- 1 sponses, Let us take a hint from that : fact and let us sing the same songs < Sabbath after Sabbath. Only in that ] way can we can come to the full force i of this exercise. Twenty thousand years will not wear out the hymns of < William Cowper, Charles Weslej and Isaac Watts. Suppose, now, each i person in ail audience has brought sll ; of the last 365 davs. FiU the room to the ceiling with ~sa- < cred song, and you would drown out : all those annoyances of the last 365 days, and you would drown them out t forever. Organ and cornet are only < to marshal the voice. Let the voice fall into line, and in companies and in ; battalions by storm take the obduracy i and sin of the world. If you cannot sing for yourself, sing for others. By trying to give others good cheer you will bring good cheer to your own heart. * When Londonderry, Ireland, was besieged many years i?go, the people inside the city were famishing, and a vessel came up with provisions, but the vessel ran on me river utun awui. fast The enemy went down with laughter and derision to board the vessel, when the vessel gave a broadside fire against the enemy and by the shock was turned back into the stream, and all was well. Oh, ye who are high and dry on the rocks of melancholy, give broxdside fire of song against your spiritual eremifs. anu m mbe ..iff111 a>-.. ,i mbbot a"j iia ?..holy robcurd yc u will come cut into | the Coirn waters. If we wait to make j ourselves hapny. we must m2ke others ; happy, Kyihoiogr tells us of Arcphicn, who played his lyre until the mountains w?re moved *and the wails cf Thebes arose, but religion has a mightier story tc teli^f how Christian j sonz may build wiioia tempies 01 eternal joy and lift the round earth into sympathy -with the skies. I tarried many tfights in London, and I used to hear the bells, the small belis of the city, strike the hour of nighc? I, 2, 3. 4?aid amoDg them the great St. Paui'<s cathedral would come in to mark the hours, making all the other sounds seem utterly insignificant as with mighty tongue it announced the hour of the night, every stroke an overmastering boom. My friends it was intended tbat all the lessersounds of the world should be drowned out in the mighty tongue of congregational song beating ssainst L? - f TAii 1'nnm me gitiw ui licavcii. i/u auwi. bow they mark the hours ia heaven? They have no clocks, as they have so cardies but a great pendulum of halleluian swinging across heaven from eternity to eternity. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the Heavenly King Should speak their joy abroad. Again, I remark that sanctuary help ought to come from the sermon. Of 1,000 people in any audience, how many want sympathetic help? Do vou guess 100? Do you ?uess 500? You have guessed wrong. I will* tell you just the proportion. Oat of 1,000 people in 3ny audience there are just 1,0C0 who need sympathetic help. These young people * want it just as much as the old. The old people sometimes seem to think they have a monopoly of the rheumatisms, and n^uraloia?. and the headaches, and the physical disorders of the world, but I tell ycu there are no worse heartaches than are felt by some of the young people. Do ycu know thai much of the work is done by the youn^? Raphael died at 37, Richlieu at 31, Gustavus Adolphus died at 38, Innocent III came to his mightiest influence at 37. Cortes conquered Mexico at 30, Don John won Lepanto j at 25, Grolius was attorney general at 24 ;-nd I have noticed amid all classes of men thai some of the severest battles and the toughest work comes before 30. Therefore we must have our sermons and our exhortations in prajer meeting all sympathetic with the young. And so with these people further on in life. What do these doctors and lawyers and merchants and mechanics care aDout me adstractions of religion? What they want is help to bear the whimsicalities of patients, the browbeating of legal opponents, the unfairness of customers who have plenty of fault finding for every imperfection of handiwork, but no praise for 20 excellence. What does the brain racked, hand blisiered man 3&re for Zwingii's "Doctrine of Original Sin," or Augustine's "Bstraclionsf' Ycu might as well go to a man who has the pleurisy and put on his side a plaster made out of Dr. Parr's "Treatise cn Medical Jurisprudence." While all of a sermon may not be helpful alike to all, if it be a Christian sermon preached by a Christian man there will be help for every one some where. We go into an apothecary's store. We see others being waited on. We do not complain because we do not immediately get the medicine. We inow our turn will come after awhile. And so while all parts of a sermon may not be appropriate to our case if we wait prayerfully before the sermon is through we shall have the divine prescription. I say to young * men who are going to preach the gos j pel, we want in cur sermons not more metaphysics, nor more logic, nor more profundity. What we want in Dur. sermona and Christian exhortations is more sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in the Sailors' Bethel at Boston, the Jack Tars felt they had help for their duties among the ratlines and the forecastles. WTien Richard Weaver preached to ihe operatives in OMharo, "England, ill the workmen felt they had more 2?ace for the spindles. When Dr. South preached to kings, and princes oil fkn ry?i/ylifT7 mftY> UIU CkJ~L wu UUX^J-lvj uavm md women who heard him felt preparation for their high station. People will go to church merely as i matter of duty. There will not aext Sabbath be 100 people in this :ity who will get up in the morning ind say: '*The Bible sajs I must go ;o church. It is my duty to go to ihurch, therefore I will go to church." Che vast multitude of people who go io church go because they like it, and nultitade of people who stay away from the church stay away oeauie they do not like it. I am not speaking about the way the world jught to be. I am speaking about the !7ay the world is. Taking things as ;hey are, we must make the centripe;al force of the church mightier than ;he centrifugal. We must make our jhurches magnets to draw the people .hreunto, so that a man will feel un;asy if he does not go to church, sayng: "I wish I had gone this mornng. I wonder if I can't dress yet and ?et there ia time? It is 11 o'clock. Sow they are sieging. It is half past LI. Now they are preaching. I wonder when the folks will bs home x> tell us what was said, what has seen going on." When the impresic /innfifmAfl that mir f?hnrr?hes ay architecture, by music, by sociali;y and by sermon, shall be the most ittractive places on earth, then we will want twice as many churches as we have now, twice as large, and then ;hey will not half accommodate the people. I spy to the young men who are entering the ministry, we must put on mo*e force, more energy, and into 3ur religious services more vivacity if we want the people to come. You looking into a church court of any de domination of Christians. First, you will find the men of large common ense and earnest look. The education if their minds, the piety of their Exeat's, the holiness of their Jives qualify them for their work. Then you will find in every church court of ?wrv dencmin&tion a stout) of men who utterly amaze you with the fact that such semi-imbecility can get any pulpits to preach in. T? cse are the men who give forlorn statistics about church decadence. Frogs never croak in running water;always in stagnant. But I say to all Christian workers, to all Sunday school teachers, to fill evangelists, to all ministers of the gospel, if we want our Sunday Schools and cur prayermeeetings and our churches to gather the peecple we must freshen up. The simple fact is the people are tired of the humdrum cf religionists. Religious humdrum is the worst sort of all humdrum. You say over and over again, ^uuio uu MUUi I the phrase means absolutely nothing, j Why do you not tell them a story J which will make them come to Jesus I in Sve minute? You say ihatali Sunday school teachers;, and ail eveagelisis, and all ministers must bring their illustrations from the Bible. Christ did not when he preached. The most cf the Bible was written before Christ's time, but where did he gst his illustrations? He drew them from the lilies?, from the ravens, from salt, from a candle, from a bushel, I from long faced hypocrites from grals, from moths, from large gates and smaii gat/s, frcrn a camel, from the needle's eye. from yeast in the dough of bjead. from a mustered seed, from a fishing Kef, from debtors and : creditors. That ;s ihe rea=OD multi; tides followed Christ. His illustrai r'.ons were so easy acdso understandj ab:e. Therefore, my brother Chris I nan worker, n you ana I nna two illustration for a reli^iou's subject, and the one is a Bible illustration and the other is outside the Bible, I will take the latter because I want to be like my Master. Loosing across to a hill, i Christ saw the city cf Jerusalem. I Talking to the people about the conS spicuity of Christian example, he i said: "The world is looking at you. J Be careful. A city that is set on a hill ! cannot be hid." While he was speaki ing of the divine care of God's children a bird Hew past. He said, "Be| hold the ravens." Then looking [ down into the vallev, all covered at that season with flowers, he" said, j "Consider the lilies." Oh, my brother Christian workers, what is j the use cf our going away off in some obscure part cf history or on the ether side the earth to get an illustration when the earth and tbe heavens are full of illustrations? Why should we go av?ay off to get an illustration of I the vicarious suffering of Jesus Christ when as near us as Bloomfield, N. J., two littie children were walking on the rail track and a train was coming, but.thsv were on a bridge of trestle work, and the little girl took her brother and let him down through the trestlework as gently as she could toward the water, very carefully and lovingly and cautiously, so that he might not be hurt in the fall and might b9 picked up by those who were standing near by ? While doing that the train struck her and hardly enough of her body was left to gather into a funaral r.aslrftt. What was that? Vicarious suffering. Lik9 Christ. Pang for others. Suffering for others. Death for others. What is the use for our going away off to find an illustration in past age when during the great forest fires in Michigan a mail carrier on horseback, riding on pursued by those flames which had swept over 100 miles, ssw an old man by the roadside, dismounted, helped the old man on the hers?, saying, * "Now, whip up and get away." The old man got away, but the mail carrier perished. Just like Christ dismounting from the glories of heaven to put us on the way of de1: ~ ?7. iivcraiiuc, Liiuii lvunug uauix xuiu wuc flames of sacrifice for others. Pang for others. Woe for others. Death for others. Vicarious suffering. Again, I remark that sanctuary help ougnt to come through the prayers Qf all the people. The door of the eternal storehouse is hung on one hinge, a gold hinge, the hinge of prayer, and wnen the whole audience lay hold of that door it must come open. There are many people spending their first Sabbath after some great bereavement. What will your prayer do for themS How will it help the tomb in tbat man's heart? Here are people who have not been in church before foi ten years. What wiil jour prayer do for thvim. by roiling over their soul holy memories? Here are people in crises of awful temptation. They are on the verge of despair or wild blun dering or theft or suicide. What wili your prayer do for them in the way ol giving them strength tG resist? Will you be chiefly anxious about tn9 fit of ?1 .4.1 X. ? i. ~ 1 uae giove soai you put to your lore head while you prayed? Will you be chiefly criticsti of the rhetoric of the pastor's petition? No. No. A thous' and people -will feel, 4'That prayer is for me," and at every step of the prayer chains ought to drop off, and temples of sin ought to crash intc " .st,and jubilees of deliverance oughl to brandish their trumpets. In most o^t our churches we have three prayera ?the opening prayer, what is called the "long prayer'" and the closing prayer. There are many people who cr?on/1 frTiAi*" firof nvaTra* QrrKmorino their apparel after entrance and spend the second prayer, the "long prayer,1'in wishing it were through and spend the last ^prayer in preparing to start for home. Tne most insignificant part of every religious service is the sermon. The more important parts are the Scripture lesson and the prayer. The sermon is only a man talking to a man. The Scripture lesson is God talking to man. Prayer is man talking to God. Oh, if we understood the grandeur and the pathos of this or* Af Katr* A o C-VCJLUUC ui yi ajfCi, ixAObcau kjl uz,iug a dull exercise we would imagine mat the room was full of divine and angelic appearances. But, my friends, the old style of church will not do the work. We might as well now try to take all the passengers from Washington to New York by stagecoach or all the passengers from Albany to Buffalo by canal boat or do all the battling of the world with bow and arrow as with the old style of church to meat the exigencies of this day. Unless the church in our day will adapt itself to the time it wiU become exiinct. The people reading newspapers and books all the week, in alert, picturesque and resounding style, will have no patience with Sab bath humdrum. We have no objec tion to bands and surplice and all th? paraphenalia of clerical life, but these things make impression?make no more impression on the great masses of the people than the ordinary busi nes3 suit that you wear on Jfennsyivania awenue or Wall street. A tailor cannot make a minister. Some of the poorest preachers wear the best clothes and many a backwoodsman has dismounted from the saddlebags, and in his linen duster preached a sermon that shook earth and heaven with its Christian eloquence. No ne^v gospel, only the old gospel in a way suited to the time. No new church, but a church to be the asylum, the iaspiration, the practical sympathy and the eternal help of the people. But while haif of the doors of the church are to be set open toward this world the other half o* the doors of the church must be set open toward the next. You and I tarry here only a brief space. We want somebody to teach us hoTT to get out of this life at the right time and in the right way. Some fall out of life, some go stumbling out of life, SDme go groaning out of life, some go cursing out of life. We want to go singing, rising, rejoicing, triumphing. We want hair the doors of the church set in that direction. We want half the prsjers that w2 j, half the sermons that way. We want to know how to get ashore from the tumult of this world into the land of everlasting peace. We do not want 10 stana aouotmg aau siuvcuug v< ucu we go away from this world. We want our anticpations aroused to the h^hest pitch. We want to ha7e the e^hiliration cf a dying child in England, the father telling me the story. When he said to her, "Is the path narrow?" she answered, "The path is narrow; it is so narrow that I cannot waik arm in arm with Christ,so Jesus gees ahead, and he sajs, 'Mary, foi1 * V-in r?ot^jc ( IUW. wo ?w? heavenward how many of jour friends and mine have gone The las: time they were out of the house they came to cnurch. The earihiy piJgrimage endei at the pillar of public worship, and then they marched out to * "bigger and brighter assemblage. Some of them were so old t.iey could not walk without a I ' cane or two crutenes. .Nor tney have i eiernal javeutscence. < >r they were j sojoucg they could r.ot walk except 8S tbe maternal hand guided them ) Now they bound with the hilarities celestial. The last time we saw them they were wasted ??ith malarial cr pulmonic disorder, but now they have no fatigue and no difficulty of respiration in the pure air of heaven. How I wonder when you and I will crcss over. Some of you have had about enough of the thumping and flailing of this life. A dr^t from the fountains of heaven would do you good. Complete release you could stand very well. If yc.u got on the otner side and had permission to com back, you would not com*! Tnough you were invited to come bick and join your friends on earth, you would say: "No let me tarry here until they come. I shall not risk going back. If a man reaches heaven, he had better stay there." Oh, I join hands 7. iih you in that uplifted spianaor: When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past. Ia Freyburg, Switzerland, there is the trunk of a tree 400 years olcl. That tree was planted *o commemorate an event. About ten miles from the city the Swiss conquered the Burgundians, and a young man wanted to take the tidings to the city. He took a tree branch and ran with such speed the ttn miles that when he resched the city waving the tree branch he had only strength to cry 4 Victory!" and dropped dead. The tree branch that he carried was planted, and it grew to tea great tree ?0 feet in circumfer ence, and th9 remains of it are there to this day. My hearer, when you have fought your last battle with sin and death and hell and they have bjen routed in the conil:cf, it will bs a joy worthy of celebration. You will liy to the ciiy and cry "Vicfcsry !nana jdrcp at the feet of the great King. | men me paim oraacn oi me eartmy race will be planted, to become the j outbranchiDg iree of everlasting rejoicing. When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates behold, I Thy bulwarks with salvation strong And streets of shiniug gold? THE CAMPAIGN OPfifflT" [CONTINUED FROM PAGE OXE.J people by false statements. Mr. N. H. Stansell of Barnwell, the well-known ssrgeant-at arms of the house, said that if elected he would stand bet ween, the people and the railroads, endeavoring to be just to both. Th9 last candidate announced was Mr. T. F. Brantley of Orangeburg, who annunced that as his competitor for congress was not present he would refrain from speaking.. A letter was read from Congressman Stokes stating tha^ duty required his presence at Washington, and that he would appear before the people latrr. * "J. Wilson Gibbes. t $ BRU3H WITH SPANISH TROOPS. | K;co acolte rlnj; Party From 3i?w Toik a&d Massaclmeeits Was Attacked. A hot brush between some Spanish troops and a reconnoitering party, in steam cutter, occurred at daylight Saturday morning in a small cove west of Morro castle, at Santiago. The Massachusetts' steam cutter m charge of Lieutenant Harlow, entered the cove to take sounding and reconnoitre. - When well inside the inlet a detachment of Spanish infantry opened fire upon ihe cutter from a block housa. The fire was vigorously returned bv the marines in the Massa chusetts' boat, and also by marines who were in the New York's cutter, which was in charge of Naval Cadet Powell, and which had followed in. The New York's cutter was hit 10 times and a marine in the cutter of the Massachusetts had the stock of his rifle shattered, but by good luck no one was hit. The Tezas opened fire with her 6-pounder on the hill side and the Vixen steamed right into the cove and nsnoered the block house with her rapid fire guns. Eventually, the Spaniards retreated to the woods and the two steam cutters withdrew. The Yankee arrived off Santiago harbor Saturday, and Captain Brownson reported that, on Monday before, while off Cienfuegos, a Spanish gunboat came out to meet the Yankee, evidently mistaking her for a merch ant vessel.' The Spaniard, however, SDon saw his mistake, turned tail and opened fire, which was hotly returned bj the Yankee. The latter boat chased the gunboat until the Spaniard tcok refuge in the harbor, whose forts opened fire on the American vessel, Thereupon the Yankee engaged the eastern and western batteries. .But, seeing no chance of catching the gunboat, Captain Brownson withdrew. During the engagement a r* ' f - >?i ?A __ xl. -\r i epanisn snen Dursi oyer me xanKee and a falliDg fragment struck a landsman named Kennedy, formerly an insurance clerk in New York city, inflicting a severe flesh wound on his right shoulder. He is expected to recover. The Spanish gunboat chased by the Yankee was of about 500 tons, and 200 feet long. The naval reserves wbo man the Yankee fought well. H? WONT RUN. The- P< oMbltlcn Candidate Withdraws from til5 Race, TI19 State Wednesday evening received the following for publication from Mr. Brucson who was suggested as a candidate for governor by the Prohibition convention. After the adoption of the resolution by the Prohibition committee, many expected to hear from Mr. Brunson again: To the Prohibition voters of the State: Oar Prohibition State executive committee have deemed it necessary ;o withdraw ths nominations as suggested, by the convention for State cf Seers. Although I believe this was J done in order to permit candidates to pledge themselves as individuals, still I cannot participate in the subterfuge; for I am just as much the nominee of the Prohibition convention today as when first suggested as their candidate. Therefore, I accept Ihe withdrawal in gocd faith (as it should have been made, cr not at all) and will take no part in the campaign other than to work for the election of a legislaure favoring prohibition. i deeply appreciate me nocor you have be'stowed upon rae and in order that those Prohioitionists who cannot conscientiously vote for an advocate of liquor selling may have some one to vote for, I will 'eave my pledge as made in full forca. Joel E. Brunson, Greenville, 3. U., June 14, 189S. Were -> o: ma;u>;ea. Stephen Crane telegraphs to the Evening World from Guantanamc Bay a positive denial of statements that the bodies of marines killed ir the fighting on Saturday were mutilated after the men fell. The appear ance of mutilation, it is asserted, was caused by Mauser bullets fired at clos<range, the Spaniards having ambush ed the marines, one cf whom wai pierced by eight bullets. Surgeor Edgar is quoted as authority for con ! tradiction of the story of mutilation. GOV. FlMiBBK ATTAHKF1)! BY .CNE O- THE GUSERNATOR'AL t AN: I DATES. Tie Go*erx or U aoar cea 3l> Accateraad. B?pel? tte Acccsa ij.tis W:tb Groat Vehemence, to V e Ee !?bt of H!s F/lcudp. Last Friday, -which was Dorchester day on the political program, was signalized by one of the most scathing and remarkable attacks upon a Gov ernor and candidate ever known upon the stump in rfcent years. Governor Ellerbe was 1 ha ta^et ard Col. Watson the marksman. The occurrencs was as unexpected as it was remarkable. The man from Saluda came down upon him like a thousand of bricks, spurning the language cf diplomacy and roasting him upon a bare spit. He denounced the Governor as a political trickster and trader in whom the people nad no confidence. When Col. Watson concluded it was plain that it was a crucial time for the Governor. His manhocd was at stake, his political existence was trembling ia the balance, and should he fail to rise to the supreme importance of the occasion by some masterful effort, he would be swept aside by the mighty tid?. And the Governor realized it. He summoned up all the vigor of his nature into his reply, repelling the .accu sations and denouncing the accuser with a vehemence that delighted his friends. During his remarks he got into a tilt with Uncle George, who wanted to force the fighting and state his case on the spot. After a brief passage at-arms, amid the din of ap plaase from the adherents of cacb, the Governor turned his attention to Col. fnr_/. J u:. ? :ii vv kiauju, axiu uus remarks teiuw w*n show the character of his reply. HOT SHOT FOR ELLERBE Col. Watson said it "was an unprecedented thing that there were seven candidates for the office of Governor. Eilerbe had been backed by a United States Senator and a Governor and got the lagest vote ever given to a candidate for Governor. Why, then, was he opposed ? Col. Watson then proceeded to at Lack in the plainest words Governor Ellerbe's record. The reason for the opposition to him was patent. Before hehadbeenin office a year he was neartny aespisea. ^ueroes ;riena3 were ashamed of him and his enemies were disgusted with him. He has been untrue to his friends and unfair to his enemies- He has sought by patronage to buy his enemies ana has never remembered his friends. But for his connection with the reform faction he never would have been heaid of. He was elected with a promise that he wold remove the metropolitan police from Charleston. He delayed its removal for one master, removed it for another and received the just contempt of those who elected him. I believe it was a trade when he appointed Epton as Comotroller General. The Legislature rebuked him. In all his appointments it isbslieved he has traded from first to last. If he had been content to bs W. H. Ellerbe and had not condescended to political trickstering, we would not be bere today to oppose him. / WT n fc An r* r\ rv? ?n anrl. WI? H aK.vu vuuiLugiiued the gallant cfficars at the head of South Carolina's volunteer troops, but said he, to help himself Governor Eilerbe ignored all the colonels, the Confederate veterans and sons of veterans m his appointments. He appointed only one officer from his own faction to a high office,, and that man could not drill a squad. I do not know but one man in my county who will4 vote for him, and that one sajs it is because Eilerbe is going to pardon a man sentenced to be Y anged. Gentlemen, you may go all over the State and you will find a concensus of opinion tnat he is an utter failure. ELLERBE'S MANLY DEFENCE. '"Now we are going to hear it," was the remark as the Governor came forward. He srd he had been slandered and miarepievented and he challenged his opponents to prove one j r?c ~ ? . cnar^e mauo agsuusk ma ammn.a iation. He welcomed criticism that was honest. He had always advocated i the dispensary as the best solution of the liquor problem. When Col. Tillman said the dispensary had not made any profit he misrepresented the facts. Ttiis elicited a re nark from U .tele Gsorgb who said that he had great respect for Governor Ellerbe personally, bat when he in his messige to the rtol ur c'anr? rroc ICgiaiaLUXU OA1U tUUVJUUiifli UJ g(oiu U ** * without headship, without order and full of reduplication and followed that with tne statement that its improvement was not practicable, then he showed lack of backbone. Gov, Ellerbe con batted this and called upon Co]. Tillman to prove his statement that some men got their fertilizer witnout paying for tne tags. Col. Tillman: I'll show it bsyonaa reasonable doubt from the facts, if you'll let ma speak. Governor Ellerba replied that he had no time to spare, but if the proof was subaiitted he would retire from 1 the rrce. Then ensued almost indescrible con fusion, UOi. Tinman was enueavuring to get in a reply, with the governor tailing simultaneously. Friends 1 of both disputanis crowded ua metaphoriaJIy patting each game chicken on the back and urging him on, The governor refused to relinquish the stand and turned towards Ool. Watson. It was a supreme moment, for the Governor bad to stand or ..fall according to his defence of the Saiuda Senator's merciless excoriation. To his credit be i; said that he repelled the accusations with vigor. I dare Watson, said he, to furnish one scintalla of proof that I ever made a political deal. If his baseless charge were true T tn ha nut of office, but the man who robs another of his good name is worse than the thief who sieais his horse from the locked stable Aye, he is unworthy of the name of man or gentleman and is no gentleman. It is absolutely false that I went into a contract with Charleston. I told them that whenever they gave me assurance that they would enforce the Jaw I would remove the metropolitan police. I made that statement publicly, but I nevar promised any man that I would unconditionally remove it. I had more appointments than any other governor had to make, but for every friend I made I gained a dozen ~ ~ enemies, yet S>ULUS UX IJ-ICOO pirates bave tried to misrepresent me by sarins thai I traded appointments for popularity. You may defeat me, but no man under heaven shall misrepresent me to the people. I intend to run the government -without fear or favor and not according to the dictate of bob tailed politicians. The governor's defence was roundly applauded, ami his speech ended the meeting. The New York Sun says that the country is proud of Richmond Pearson Hobson as an American and the North is particularly glad that the hero of the Memmac happens to 03 a Southerner. { coN^rroN cr crops IisgtHr VF>*ibe>* ?r<l <"rop Bcl'e* j tin T?tn'd. me io;;o^:c2 weekly ouiieua 01 the cDadilion of the weather aud crops of the Stale was issued by Section Directcr Bauer cf the United States bureau last week: The temperature duiing tbe week continued above the nerval with msx irnums early in the week r2ngiDg be tween 78 ard SS degree?; there was a steady rise in temperature during the week with' maximums cf ICO to 102 degrees quite general over the western and centra! counties on the 10th and the 11th. There were a few ccmpara tively ccoi nights for the s22son early in the week with a minimum of 55 decrees at Ranter, en the 7'h asd at Spencer on the Sib. The mean for the week wss 81 degrees and the rormsl for the same period is about 77. There was an entire absenca of rain during the week ever the greater portion of the State. On the 12th and 13th thunderstorms cccuired over the central and vestern countiss, buiat a few place3 only was the rainfall copious enough to be of material relief from the prevailing severe and dis trassing drought. Some additional measurements were received of the rainfall of June 4 on which date Walnalia bad 1.C0 inch, Barksdale 1 25, Longshore 1 26, and a number of other places had amounts either too small to measuie or less than one tenth of an inch. The nor mal rainfali for the current week is l.Oi inch, the State average is abcut .01. The deficiency in rainfall since Jan u%ry i:>1 ^uiuuuis i,u ajmcy* uvci 50 per csni. of tha normal for the State. Ia Charleston the- actual deficiency for the above period is 15.56 inches. In the former locality the drought nas about reached the stage of a water famine; cattle are dying for want of water, as spricgs, brooks and streams ar^ dry while the tides have salted the rivers for miles inlaad. Streams all over the State are either dry or xheir ^ater gathered in stagpant pools. Few ponds in she lower ccuntie3 but wnat have dried up and fish are djing by thcusauds. The drought is, however, not confined to the lower counties, but ina1ii/)a9 f Ka CkY\slfofo on/1 icf ?xcv\ar*. LiUUOJ gubliv VI iO ially severe in Anderson, Abbeville and portions of contiguous or nearby counties where correspondents report either no rain or Jess than beneficial amounts for pericds of from 20 to 50 days, while during tbis time the tern perature has keen abnormally high, with but little cloudiness. While most of the staple crops have as yei suffer ed no irreparable injury, a continuation of the dry weather for a week or two longer would irifiLct severe damage to all crops and especially on corn. The sunshine was practically uninterrupted during the veek at many places, with an average estimated per centage of 87 of the possible, for the State. The winds were light easterly during tte first of the wesk, changing to light and dry westerly and southerly durihg the latter portion. A severe wind'storm on the 12th in Spartanburg county damaged wheat, j oats, fruit trees and buildings severe-J lyThere ramaias considerable land, intended for corn, yet to plant, estimated at 20 rer cent, in Saluda county, and consisting generally of bottom land that early bicama too dry and nard to plow^ Early corn is dying in places for want of moisture. Corn wilts badly during the day time and is firing. Corn is being slowly laid by. Cotton has apparently not been injured by the dry weather, except that replanted cotton died for want of moisture, and that late planted and replanted cotton was slow to germinate ana came up to irregular stands. Cotton made very slow growth, but otherwise is in a vigorous, healthy condi tion. It is infested with lice in Orange burg, Sumter, Clarendon, Bamberg, Barnwell, where, in spots, it is dying, T? mVim aH?q era mnro nnmhor. ous than ever before observed, snd in poriioiis or stver^I other cjuntits. Cotton fields are generally well cultivated, except that clay soils are too dry and hard to work, and that in upper Berkeley and portions of Williamsburg counties it was too wet during May, but it is aU right now. Cotton is patting on squares rapidly in Chesterfield and Darlingloa, but slowly elsewhere. Cut worms still damaging the stand in places. "First blooms" have been noted in various sections durinsr the week. Sea island cotton is not thriving. Tobacco fsiied during the vteek ex cept in portions of Florence, where it grew vigorously. Tobacco needs rain urgently. Worms not unusally numerous and are easily kept from inflicting serious damage. Wheat harvest is about completed and threshicg is well under way. Yields at threshing are very satisfactory although, Oconee and Spartanburg report yields below last year. Early oats are harvested ana housed. In Horry the crop was ravli8r ii*ht but elsewhere from fair to very good. Spring sown oats are a failure in most pk-c2S and at best a poor crop. Is has been too dry to sow peas and where previously sown they have not come up to stands. Few potato slips were set cubing ike week and the draw3 are dying in the beds, Irish potatoes are very poor, yielding less than a third of the usual returns, while the individual potatoes are small and generally inferior. Melons about holding their condition, but are late and irregular thereby reducing the commercial value of the crc-p. In the Charleston truck raising districts muskmelons and cucumbers are yielding about one fifth of a crop. Peaches are ripsning and shipments will begin this week. There are numerous reports of inferior fruit, but in the principal peach district the fruit A' ATJolifrr io VJI gt.uu \?u.ctixvjr* Apples and other deciduous fruits are dropping freely and. are not pro raising. Blackberries are drying up on the vines, although there is any'quantity of them to pick. Cane doing well on moist land but cn other lands is making no growth while in Hampton it i3 dcing. Chufas are doing well in Williamsburg. The weather has beeu excellent lor cutting and curing hay, although the stand of grass is light. Pastures and gardens are sear; in a few places it has become necessary to feed all farm stock dry fodder. ric-Ai* fhft western sections 'of the State the conditions are now more toi erable?due to the showers of the 12th and 13:h, but nowhere has sufficient rain fallen to relieve the drought. The New York Journal has plajed a clever trick and caught the World red-handed in theft. The Journal printed a decoy telegram stating that Col. Refiico W. Thenuz a noted Austrian artillerist, had been killed at Santiago. Tbe World bit, and what was its amiz;ment to read that the Colonel's name was mercy an anagram for "we piifer the news." And now the World is the laughiag stock of New York, [ THREW SHELLS INTO GUANTANAMO. Tfcc *m?-z!cia Ship* *r? New In Fall Pof???tjlon of th? Bay. News facm Guantanamo bay up to Saturday morning sTjows that naval operations there continue most active, and with the advantage on the side of the Americans. Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock lha American vessels resumed the bombardment of Guantanarao town and, for one and one-half hours, threw shells into the town, a great msivity of which appear to have | been effective. - *-*" Six of these shells were 13 inch projectiles, ejtebt 8 inch, and the re a smaller. The men in the tops coulo see many cf 'he shells shine in th* very midst of the town, while other fell among the shipping and commer eial buildings near the water's edge. Smoke arose in dense clouds from the places where the shells fell, and it is believed that the damage, both by the impact cf the missiles and consequent cor II agration was great On Thursday evening lite ships had thrown /our 10-inch and nine 8 inch shells into the town. This bombardment began at 4 o'clock and ended at 5. Much smoke and confusion were discerned in Guantanamo during its prcgres3. Crowds of people and troops of soldiers were seen moving about, and the vessels in port hurriedly changed their anchorage. Oa Wednesday night the Teias penetrated into the bay of Santiago passed Morro castle and poured a well directed fire both upon that stronghold and the castle 7, acapa. This battle began about 11 o'clock and ended about midnight. There was little response from the Spaniards, and such as there was did nardly any aamage. JNoooay was killed in any of these actions on the American ships. Two Spanish officers, who were captured on Wednesday io Guantanamo bay. are reported to bs on board the Marblehead. The news of the work on Wednesday night by the Vesuvius and New Orleans in Santiago bay is eonfirmed. Vesuvius threw shells into the water to explode the mines, while the New Orleans engaged the fortifications along the shore. The Marblehead has captured a Spanish sloop in Guantanamo harbor, and made eight soldiers, who were on board, prisoners. The Americans are new practically in full possession of Guantanamo bay. and the white tents of the land force present a rather imposing spectacle. There is occasional firing from tha Spanish land forces, but it is always ineffectual and of no importance. Thursday our soldiers captured, at Guantanamo, a Cuban with dispatches which he was carrying to the Spanish general. Ee was turned over to the Cuban commander and shot. Another Cuban was captured tbe sams day under s:mi'ar circumstances His fate is under consideration. MANY KILLED. Teritble Destruction Was W/onxbtb/ our WarahJpi at faitiafo. A careful inspection of the fortifications along the crest of the hills de fending Santiago harbcr since the bombardment Thursday morning shows that the American gunners spread wreck and ruin everywhere, 3ome of the batteries were demolished beyond repair. The vultures, which circles on level wings over the hills as thick ss swallows around a chimney, for hours after the firing ceased, furnished gruesome evidence of the fatality among the Spanish soldiers. Hundreds cf troops could bi seen from the ships digging in mounds of earth piled up by the explosion of the projectiles from the heavy guns for bodies, while their heads were fanned by the wings of the black scavengers of the battlefield. There were t*o spots, one on the east and the other on the west of the harbor entrance, which were denuded of the foliage. The hilltops seem literally blown away. These marked the places where , the 200-pound charge of gun cotton blown from the Vesuvius landed. But the most ominous token of death flew from Morro castle. The ; saffron flag of Spain was halfmasted on the keep for several hours. The significanc9 of this is not known. It is not customary to half mast flags, but possibly some Spanish leader was killed by the heavy fire of our guns, 4.\ L - nr> _ ? xi - J I tncuga soins crncars 01 me squadron Diiiitve the flag was ball-masted as a notification to the Americans that Lieutenant Hobson and his brave men were dead. If such is the case they must have been wantonly murdered. The Spanish mignt seek to lay their death to the bombardment, but not a -.1 1 9 yl _ A - - 1 -1 3ii05 irom ine American snips strucjc tin fortress. Killed by Lightning. When about to go in bathing at Pablo Beach, Fia., Sunday afternoon, > James T. Gatewocd, private stenographer to General Lee, Seventh army corps, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Gatewood was from Richmond, Va., and had been here about a week. The lightning came from a clear sky,..hitting Gatewood at the base of the brain and passing down the spinal column. Chris Robertson, of Jacksonville, was walking oesiae umewooa ana was tnrown xo the ground, the large part of his body being paralyzad. He recovered after a time, however, and is now all right. Haemal Vigilance. " F:< rn;%! v u .:sre is the price of liberty.'? It is ili-. ;,r. oi v . ? ?h;ag worth having. k uia.ii needn't be BS&jsS&Jggr }| for danger, //lson..-:hin|f will ? hap;> n to him; i -s ?(./*& ? but a u ise man vr?0.\ res" will form a habit Kfy.rf ?f care about the important things of ^7// care of yourself as it S is not to. 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