The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, June 29, 1898, Image 4
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A BRIGHT RELIGION, |
REV. DR. TALMAGE TAKES PLEASURE
FOR HIS THfcME.
He Has No Sympathy With Stxsltjscketir,
Tat Points Oat tbe Dancers o* Unre tralsea
Amusement?R?creation That
Lead to Sin,
From an unusual standpoint Dr.
Talmage in this discourse discusces
amusements and applies tests by which
they may be known as good or bad.
The text is Judges xvi, 25: -And it
came to pass when their hearts were
merry that they said, Call fer Sanson,
that he may make us sport. And they
called for Sam>on out of the prison
house and he made them sport."'
There were 3,000 people assembled
in the Temple of Dagcn. They had
come to ma*e sport of eyeless Samson, i
They were all ready lor the entertain- j
ment. They began to clap and pound, j
impatient for the amusement to begin, |
and they cried: "Fetch him cut!
Fetch .him out!" Yond6r I see tne!
blind old giant coming, led by the I
hand of a child in the very midst o 1 j
the temple. A; his first appearance i
there goes up a shout of laugnter ana
derision, Tne 1'olind old giant pretends
he is tired and wants to rest iim
self agains: the pillars of the hou^e,
sohe says to the lad who leads him,
"JfcJriag me wnere tae maw pu.cxa
are." The lad does so. Then the
strong man puts his hands on one of!
the pillars and, with the mightiest j
push that mortal ever made he tnrows j
himself forward until the whole house
comes down, in thunderous crash,
grinding audience like grapes in a
wine press. ''And so it came to pass,
when their hearts were merry, that
they said, Call for Samson, that he
s may make us sport And tney called
IT?for Samson out of the prison hcu3e,
f w and he made them sport." Inotner
words, there are amusements that are
destructive and bring down disasier
and death upon the heads of these who
practice them. While they laugh and I
cheer they die. The 3,000 who per-1
ished that day in Gaza are nothing I
compared with the tens of thousands I
who have been destroyed, body, mind
and soul by bad amusements and by |
good amusements carried to excess
- x In my sermons you must have no
ticed that I have no sympathy with
ecleaiastical straitjackets or wuh that |
wholesale denudciation of amusements
to which many are pledged. I beiive ;
the church of God has made a tremendous
mistake in trying to surpress the
sportfulness of youth and drive out
from men their love of amusement.
If God ever implanted anything in
us, he implanted this desire. But instead
of providing for this demand of
our native churcn of God God has for
the main part ignored it. As in a
riot the mayor plants a batter at the
end of the street and has it fired off,
so that everything is cut down that
happens to stand in the range, the
good as well as the bad, so tnere are!
urhn tifant their
batteries of condemnation and fire
away indiscriminately. Everything
is condemned. They talk as if they
would like to have our ycuth dres3 in
bine uniforms, like the children of an
orphan asylum, and march down tte
patn of life to tne tuna of dead march
in "Saul." They hate a blue
sash, or a rosebud in the hair, or a
tasseled gaiter, and think a man almost
ready for tne lunatic asylum
who utters a conundrum.
Young Men's Christian associations
of the country are doing a glorious
- work. Tney have fine reading rooms,
and all the influences are of ihe bess
kind and are now adding gymnasiums
>v.wlinc allevs. -where without
> ^ _ any evil surroundings our young men!
may get physical as wall as spiritual
improvement. We are dwindling
away to a narrow chested, weak armed,
feeble voiced race, wnen God calls
us to work iu which ne wants physical
as well as spiritual athletes. I
would to God that the time might
soon come when in all our colleges
and theological seminaries, as at
Princeton, a gymnasium shall be established.
"We spend seven years of
hard study in preparation for ;iie ministry
and come out with broncnitis
and dyspepsia and liver complaint,
and then crawi up into the pulpit ana
the people say, "Doesn't he look
heavenly!" because he looks sickly.
Let the church of God direct rather
than attempt to suppress the desire for
amusement. The best man that the
world ever knew have had their
sports. William Wiiberforce truncQed
hoop with his children; Martin
T ViaIvno/) +V>a (I'n^ictwQc
tree. Ministers haye pitched quoits;
philanthropists have gone a skating;
prime ministers have played ball.
Our commu2iities are filled with
men and women who have in their
souls unmeasured resources for sportfulness
and frolic. Show me a man
who never lights up with sportfulness
and has no sympatny with the recreations
of others, and I will show you
a man who is a stumbling bJock to the
kingdom of God. Such men are caricatures
of religion' They laed young
people to thin* that a man is good in
proportion as he groans and frowns
and sighs and looks sallow, and that
the height of a man's Christian
stature is in proportion to she length
of his face. I would trade off SCO
such men for one bright faced radiant
Christian on whose face are the words
4'Rejoice evermore!" Every morning
by his cheerful face he preaches 50
sermons. I will go further and say
that I have no confidence in a man
who makes a religion of his gloomy
looks. That kind of a man always
turns out badly. I would not want
him for the treasury pi an crphan
asylum. The orphans would suffer.
Among 40 people whom I received
into the church at one communion,
there was only one applicant of whose
piety I was suspicious. He had the
longest story to tell, had seen the
most visons and gave an experience
so wonderful that all the other applicants
were discouraged." I was not
surprised the year after to learn that
he nad run off with the funds of the
> bani witb winch ne was connected.
Who is this black arjgle that yon call
region-wings black' feet black,
fethers black 1 Our, religion is a bright
angle?feet bright,eyes bringht,wings
bright, taking her place in the soul.
She pulls a rope that reaches to the
skies and sets all the delis of heaven s
chiming. There are some persons
who, when talking to a minister, always
feel it polite to look lugubrious.
Go forth, O people, to your lawlul
asmusment. Cod means you to be
happy. But when there are so many
sources of innocent pleasure why
tamper with anything taat is dangerous
and polluting! Wiy stop our
ears to a heaven full of songsters to
listen to the hiss of a dragon? Why
turn back from the mountain side all
a blocom with wild ilcwers and a dash
with the nimble torrents, and -with
blistered feet attemp: to climb the hot
sides of Cotopaxi I
Now, all opera houses! theaters,
bowling alleys, skating rinks and ail
styles of amusement, good and bad, I
put on trial today and judge of them
by certain cardinal principles. First,
youmusi juege oi tuiy aiiAucciXACii. cj
its hurtful result or by its baneful reaction.
If an amusement sends yen
home at night nervous so you cannot
ileep, and ycu rise in the morning not
? w-J - ..-- yvi-l ZLJLC.?*~~~ -?-^==ri--^rr
becauso you arc slept out, but because i
your duty drags you from your slumbers,
you have been where you ought
not to to have been. There arc 8musemen
ts that send a man next day to his
work bloodshot, yawning, stupid,
nauseated, and they are wrong kinds
of amusements. There are entertainments
that give a man disgust with,
drudgery of iife, with toois, because
L r. rrvyrh TrrnrLr- I
inej are col iswurua, onu ing
aprons because they are not rcbes,
with rattle because they are cot infuriated
buils c? the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling adventure,
love thai takes poison and
ahocts itself, moonlight adventures
and hairbreadth tscapes, jou may depend
upcn ii tea: ycu are suicided
| victim of unsanctined pleasure. Our
recreations are intended to build usuo
and if tney pull us down as to oar
moral or as to cur physical strength
you may come to ;he conclusion mat
they are obnoxiou?.
Still further tnose amusements are
wrong whicb lead into expenditure be
yonlyour means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. It is
all folly for us to coma from a place of
amusement leering teat we have
wasted our money ana time. You
may by it have made an investment
; worth more than the transaction thai
! yielded you $100 or $1>000. Uat how
many properties have oeen riddled by
costly amusemenis? Tile taole has
been robbed io pay the club. Tte
champagne has caeated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party has
burned up the boy's primer. Tte
tablecloth o! tie corner saloon is in
debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions
that in a day make a tour around
a whole month's wages, ladies whose
lifetime business it is to "go shoppiag"
have their couaterpart ia uneducated
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church
and that send drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet o? the
mansion and dashing into the mirror
and drowning out tne caroi of music
with the whooping of bloated sons to
came home to brers their old mother s
heart. When men go into amusements
that they cannot aft'oid, they first
borrow what they cannot earn, and
then they steal what they cannot borrow.
First they go into embarrassment
and then into theft, and when a
man gets as far on as that he does not
stop snort of the psnitentiary.- There
is not a prison in the land wnere there
are not victims of unsanctinec amusements.
How often i have had parents
come to me and as/c me to go and beg
their boy off from the const quence of
crimes tnat be had committed against
nis employer?the taking of funds out
of tiie employer's till, or the disarrangement
of the accounts. Why,
he nad salary enough to pay all lawful
expenditure, but not enough salary
to meet his sinful amusements. And
again and again I have gone and implored
for tne young men?sometimes
alas, the petition unavailing.
Again, judge of. the places of amusemeat,
by the companionship into
which tney put you. If you belong
to an organization where you have to
associate witn the intemperate, with
the uncleanj with the abandoned,
however well they may be dressed, in
the name of God quit it. They will
undermine your moral character.
They will drop you when they are destroyed.
They wili not give 1 cent to
support your children when you are
dead. Tney wili weep not one tear at
your bririaL Tney wili chuckle over
jour damnation. But the day comes
whn the men who have exerted evil
influence upon their fellows will be
brought to judgment. Scene, the
iast nay. Stage, tne rocking earth.
Enter uukes, iords, kings, beggars,
clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No
crown, b'or footlights, the kindling
iiames of a world. For orchestra,'the
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uuuupcwi uxa. wai.c ueau. rurs
gallery, the cioulds filled withacgel
spectators, For applause, the clap
ping floods of the sea. For curtains,
me neavens rolled together as a scroll.
For tragedy, the doom of the de
stroyed, For farce, the effort to servt
the world and Gcd at the same time.
For the last scene of the fifth act, the
tramp of nations across the stage, some
to tJtie Ujjhi, otners to the left.
Again, any amusement that gives
ycu a distaste for domestic life is bad.
fiow many bright domestic circles
have been broken up by sinful amusements'*
The father went cff. the
child went off. There are all around
us the fragments of blasted households.
Oh, if you have wandered away, I
would like to charm you back by the
sound of that one word, ,lHome." Do
you not know that you have but little
more time Jo give to domestic welfare?
Do you not see, father, that your children
sre soon to go out into the world
and ail the iniluerce for good you are
to have over them j ou must have now ri
Death will break in on your conjugal
relations, ana, alas if you have to
stand C7?r the grave of one who perished
from ycur neglect.
I saw a wayward husband standing
at the deathbed of his Christian wife,
and I saw her point to a ring on her
finger and heard her say to her husband,
"Do you se? that ring?'' He
replied, "Yes, I see it." "Well," said
she, '"do vou remember who put it
there-." "Yes," said he, "I put it
there." And all the past seemed to
rush upon him. By the memory of
that day when in the presence of raen
and angeis you promised to be faithful
in joy and sorrow and in sickness
and in nealth; by the memory of those
pleasant hours when you sat together
in your new house talking of a bright
future; by *lie cradle and the excited
hour when one life was spared and
another given; by that sickbed, when
the little one lifted up the hands and
called for help aaa you knew he must
die, and he put one arm around each
of jour necks and brought you very
near together in that dying kiss; by
the little grave in the cemetery that
you never think of without a rush of
tears; by the family Bible, where in
its stories of heavenly love is the brief
but expressive record of births and
deaths; by the neglects of the past and
by the agonies of the future; by a
iud^ment dav when husbands and
wives, parents and children, in immortal
groups will stand to be caught
up in shining array or to shrink down
into darkness?by ail that I beg you
to give to home and your best aifec
tions. I look in your eyes todav, and
I ask you the question that Gehazi
asked oI the Shunammiie: "Is it well
with thee? Is it well with thy husband?
is it well with thy child? God
grant that it may be everlastingly
well!
Let me ssy to all young men your
style of amusement will decide your
eternal destiny. One night X saw a
-j. ?
young man si a sT.reet,cuiner eviucuily
doubtiog as to whicn direction he
had better lake. He had his hat lifted
High enough so jtu could see he had
an inteiiigem lorehead. He had a
stout chest; he had a robust development.
Splendid young man. Cultured
young man. Honored young man.
Wby did he step there while so many
crnir-.cr in and down? The f&Ct is !
thai every man has a good angel and J
a bad angel contending for the maste- j
ry o! ills spirit. And there was a good |
angei and a bid angel struggling with \
that young man's soul at the corner!
; ot the street.
j "Come with me/' siid the good an- j
| gel. *"1 will take ycu home. I will j
< spread my wing over your pathway, I j
j will lovingly escort you all through I
life, I will bless every cap you drink !
out of, cv;;ry ccuch you rest on, every !
doorway you enter; X will consecrate
your tears when you w(eo, your
sweat when vou toil, and a: the last
I will hand over your grave into the
hand of tse bright angei of a Christian
resurrection. Ia answer to jour
fathers petition and your mother's
nFOT-cv T hatrsk rppn Q?"nf. r>f 1 Vl & TiO.Yc\
c"";-1 * ? ? ?
out cf heaven to be your guarcian
spirit. Come with me!'' said the good
angei in a voice cf unearthly symphony.
It was music like that which
drops from a J ate cf heaven when a
seraph breathes on it. "No, no.;' said
the bad an^el, "come wilh me! I have
something better to offer. The wine3
I pour are from cnnalices of bewitch
ing carousal, tne dance I lead is over
floor tessel?ted with unrestrained indulgences.
Tnere is no God to frown
on the temples cf sin where I worship
The skies are Italian. The paths I
tread are through meadows daisied
and primrosed. Come with me!''
The joung man hesitated at a time
when hesitation was ruin, and tne
bid angel smote the good angel until
it departed, spreading wings uircugh
the starlight upward and away untii |
a nnsn in the slfTT AtH I
Ck uuu; uaougu au ?uv ? ? I
forever the wings vanished. Tnat was ;
the turning point in thatycuag man's j
history, for ice go^d angel tiotfn, he |
hesitated no longer, bus. slartta on a i
pathway which is beautiful at tne
opening, but blasied at the Jast. The
bad angel,leading the way.opened gate
after gale, and at each gate the road
became rougher ana tne sky more
lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the i
gate slammed shut it came to with a
jar that indicated that it wouid never
uperi.
'Passed each portal, there was s.
grinding of locks ana a shoving of
ooit:>, and the scenery on either side
the changed from gardens to deserts,
and the J une air oecome a cutting
December blast, and the bright wing*
of the bad am>el turned to sackciotn
and thft evfis of iifht became hollow i
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witi, nopeless grief, and the fountains
that at tne start had tossed wine pour- j
ed forth bubbling tears and foaming j
blood, and on the right side cf the j
road mere was a serpent, and the man j
said to the bad angel, "What is that i
serpent?" And the answer was, "That
is tne serpent of stinging remorse."
Oil ihe left side of ihs road there iras j
a lion, and the man asked the bad an- j
gc\i, "what is that lion?" And the answer
was, "Ihat is the lion of all devouring
despair." A vulture flew
througn the sU:y, and the man asked
the bad angel, '*Wnat is that vulture?"
Ana the answer was, "Ihat is
tne wulture waiting for the carcasses
of the slain." And then the man began
to try to pull off of him the iolas
of sometning that nad wound him
round and round, and he said to the
bad angel, "What is it that twists me
in this awful convolution?" And tne
answer was, ?uat is tuo wuiux mau
never dies." And then the man said
to the bad angel: "Wbat does ail this
mean? I trusted in what ?ou said at
the corner of the street that night. I
trusted it aii, and why have jou thus
deceived me?'' Then the last deception
fell oif the cnarmer, and it said:
"I was sent forth from the pit to destroy
your souL I watched my chance
for many a long, year. WHen you
hesiiated tJaat night on the street, 1
gained my triumph. Now you are
nere. Ha, ha! You are here! Come,
now, let us fill tiiese two chalices of
fire and drinic together to darkness
and woe and deatn. Hail, hail!" O
young man, will the good angel sent
xorth oy Cnrist or the bad angel sent
fortn by sin get the victory over jour
soul? Their wings are interlocked
this moment above you, contending
Tor your destiny, as above the Apennints
eagle and candor tight midsky.
I'his hour may decide your destiny.
God help you! To hesitate is to die.
O.N TO WASHINGTON.
Annual Sleeting e( the National Edcca
tlonal Association Jaly 7-12,1S98.
T.ie National Association is now
recognized as one of the moat powerful
agencies of educational development
in America. The vital questions
concerning education are tnere dis
cussed by the ablest men and women
in the nation. Every kind of institution
is there represented ?the university,
the college, the academy, the pub- j
lie school, the kindergarten, the nor-1
ma] school, the tecnnical school.!
These meetings are attended by thousands
of teachers from every state in!
the Union and from Canada.
A visit to the '"Paris of America" is J
cne of peculiar interest. No other
city in America offers such a variety
of objects cf interest ana instruction.
The Capitol building is a magnificent
stor.e structure 750 feet long. In this
massive pile are the chambers of
United States Senate, House of Representatives,
Supreme Court and various
other rooms, such as the Presi
dent's room, the mabie rooro,t tne ladies'parlor
and siatuary hall.' Near
by is the new congressional library,
the best equipped in America.. Scattered
over tlie city of nearly 300,000
inhabitants are tiie state, war and
navy building, the tieasury, the patent
office, the agricultural building,
the bureau of engraving, the Smithsonian
institution and national museum,
the ordnance museum, the
White House, the Corcoranari gallery,
the tosanical gardens, the Washington
monument, the arsenal, the
cavy jard, the soldier's home, the
general postoffice, Fori's theatre, etc.
Just across the Potomac is the famous
Arlington, the former home Hubert E.
Lee. Fit teen miles down the river is
historic Mount Vernon.
It is probable that Congress wiil
be in session during the meeting of the
Association.
Washington has more than twenty-five
hotels. Board per day, Eu
ropean plan, ranges from 75 cents
upward. Board, per day, American
plan, ranges from $1.50 upward.
Boarding houses clfer rates from 75
cents to $1.50 per day for rooms only,
and $1 25 to $2.00 per day for rooms
and board.
The railroads will sell round-trip
tickets at one fare plus$2 membership
fee in the Association. Tickets will
be on sale July 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th,
limited to July 16 :h. If, however, the
tickets are depositen with the joint
ticket agont in Washington, at an expense
of 50 cents, cn or before July
12th, the limit will be extended to
August 31st.
I'ha S.->nth rbmlinft Stfltft Tear.hftrs'
Association meets at Harris Springs
July 1-5. A party of teachers and
their friends in company with the
State Director will leaye Harris
Springs immediately after the ad j ournmeni
of the State Association. Persons
going in this party will have
choice of ail rail to Washington, or
rail to Norfolk and beat up tne Potomac.
Ail who desire to join this party
will please notify the Director as early
as possible, that ne may make
proper arrangements for them. Arrangements
for board should be made
before July 1st- No one is required
to join any party cr to travel by any
route save thai of his own cnoice.
The Director would be glad to have
the names of all wi*o intend to take
the trip, whether ss one of his party
A" n?t_ Wrjtp fnr acv further infor
iiiation desired.
Yv. H. Hand, Chester, S. C.,
State Director N. E. A.
! A FIGHT OS FUTURES. {'
jCONGRESSMAN STCKSS TAtKsj,
ABOUT THE WAR HE IS WAGING. j<
3e strocg Si.ppcit All National As- '
(
xJcaitaril ozjgacj/.ttio?? Kadorte BJ?
: Bill? Lelte.'s Wheat Deal Barefits It.
Newspaper agents of Wall street j
and kindred interests are starring Jop ]
Lsiter as the "farmers' friend," aid
incidentally p.re sayiug much about
the alleped benefit this young mans
gambling in wheat has been to th9 '
grower. Of course these suggestions 1
will not bear analysis for the very
; good reason teat in ail such cases the '
rise in the price comes after the t tuff, .
whether it be wheat or corn or cotton,
has left the hands of tho producers.
But these claims made for Leiter have '
had the good effect of drawing the at- .
tention of the country to the evils of
the s-y?tern which makes speculation
in agricultural products ^possible, and
will, in ail likelihood, lead to action
by congress in the not for future.
stokes fights option gambling. !
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Perhaps the most active man in eith i
I er house in ODnosition to option gam- :
[ b'ing is Congressman S:okes. of the j
Seventh district of South Carolina.
Dr. Stokes enjoys the distinction of
! being the first in recent Tears to take <
up tnis light, and he is looked upon as
the leader in it. He introduced a bill i
early in December last which proposes :
to abolish this evil. His speech de- j:
livered April 12th on this subject, is j
the only one deliver* d in either body ?
of the national legislature during this j.
congress. In that speech he make3 an j i
exhaustive arraignment of the option
gambler in agricultural products with !
especial reference to gambling in cot i
ton. While the growers of wheat ana :
other products are defended his appeal i
in behalf of the cotton growers was j
particularly strong. While his work i
| has been in behalf cf all producers of
I agricultural commodities, the cotton
growers especially should rally to :
Congressman Stokes in his fight for ,
this bill.
The South Carolina congressman i
talks interestingly of thesubject which
is closest to his heart. In talking with
me about the general subject of option j
gambling, and with especial reference
to the Leiter wheat deal, he said: ;
"The Lsiter coup has given a tremendous
imDulse to the demand for j
national legislation against gambling
in the necessaries of life. Hitherto i
this demand has come principally
from the farmers who nave been the
chief sufferers from option gambling.
Now the great masses vf commoners i
are having their fuss. If the iniquity
of LeiterVmonstrous gambling deals ;
in wheat shall result in bringing the
cnnsnmprs and producers together in
an irresitible assault upon this sort of
robbery, the C3st to the country at
large will not be too great."
Replying to a suggestion that a
further explanation of the "iniquity"
and "robbery" referred towoulc, be of
interest to the Constitution's readers,
he said: "Well, I may say that all
gambling is robbery. The man who
gambles on cards roos only himself or <
his antagonist The man who gambles
in bread or clothing stuffs robs hu ,
manity. I am one .:of those who dare ,
to say that all immorality may properly
and ought to be attacked and
stamped out by law. Tnat is the pur- ,
pose of society in organizing govern- ,
ment. I have no patience with the
hypocritical dccirine that you can't
legislate morals into people. You
can't make people good by law, but <
you can make evil so costly by la*
that it pays to be decent, if not good, j
OPTION BETS ADROITLY CONDUCTED.
"The misery about tiiese option bsts
? ? - * * AO
I is iney are au auruiuj u
avoid the state statues against gambling?in
fact, they keep inside the
law, The laws now on the statute
books prohibit^ man betting on cards,
where the gambler "only robs himself i
or his autagonist They are not framed ;
so as to catch the miscreant who bets
upon the price of food and clothing
stuffs and thereby robs millions of
hone3t people. How does the option
dealer rob people?"
"I am just coming to that. It is
likathis: Take that Leiter deal for
illustration for the method is precisely ;
the same on the cotton exchange.
Leiter placed what were practically :
bets to the amount of millions that
wheat would be above 70 cents on a
certain date. He called it selling (
wheat at 70 cents, to be delivered on
the given date. His antagonists bet (
that wheat would below 70 cents on ,
that date arrived if wheat was q ioted
at 73, Leiter would be the winner by
r*r r>tc nri KusHaI 1 f thfl nuntatiou <
was oS. then Loiter would be ihe leser
by 2 cents on the bushel. ,
"But who fixes the quotations? How '
La that done? Is it fixed by the Gffer- ,
ings and talkings of actual wheat?
Not a bit of it' There is a committee ;
of expert exchange gamblers whose \
duty it is to fix the quotations.
You will see at once, then, that tha (
question o* who will win the bet resolves
itself largelyinto another ques
tion and it is this?who shall fx the
committee?'' j
"You do not mean to say that the (
quotations arefixed by the committee (
arbitrsrilj V
. "Well; they are supposed to take '
the average of the operations of each
day on the exchange. But who would
feel safe in the hands of any committee
in the gambling atmosphere of the
exchange? Given a gambling in- |
stinct, a gambling training and a ,
Mmhli'nff nnnwtn nitv flnH what
?- |
should happen? Precisely what does
happen?gambling beside which the
wildest orgies of Monte Carlo are tame
and insipid(
Well, if I understand you, that man
stands to win who can fix the committee
on quotations?" ,
"That is undoubtedly true. But I
do not say that all quotation commit- 5
tees are invariably fixed. I was pointing
out the immense power for evil ;
entrusted in the hands of a few men? J
all whose training and instinct is speculative.
The committee may be perfectlj
honest and refralD from specu '
ktion themselves, and yet the result
be a purely fictitious quotation. They ,
work it this way. Go back to Leiter:
Having placed his bets on wheat going
about 70 cents, Leiter formed a
clique to go on tne eicnange. uae
member of the clique would offer :
wheat at prices above 70 cents to another
member of the clique. They
would offer and take, back and forth,
miLions upon millions of bushels in
this way?neither of them having a
bushels of wheat; but all these tran
sactions are reported to the CDmmittee 1
on quotations ana go to make the
average for the Cay. They are called
'wash sales' on the exchange. The ,
members of the clique have a perfect '
understanding that no demand will
ce made either for margins or for
commodities sold."
"Excuse me, but you have not yet
shown how this robs the people."
"Oh, ye3. I. was coming to that :
when jou asked your other question.
Ycu see how these quotations are
'fixtd,' either by 'fixing' the committee
or by 'fixing' the average price
through 'wash sales.' For an outside
party to try to cope with the ganib- ;
! lmg ring is about like a greenhorn
! batting against the 'bank' in a faro
I game or against a 'gang' with loaded
| dice or 'stacked' cards. The outsider
I is dead sure to lose.
"Wei], the exchanges have pushed |
their ratifications throughout thpj
whoie csuntry and every pound of j
cotton or bushel of wheat or corn sold i '
=3ch day is sold absolutely by :he exchange
quotations. And hence the |
ootioa garnbters, by thimble-rigging I i
Either the committee or tsequotations i
levy a tribute upon the stomach or]
tbe back of every consumer in the i
lard at the same time that they take j
away from tbe .'armer the fruits of j
bis honest tcil." I
LE ITER'S TRANSACTIONS. j
' Bat it is claimed that Lsiter
merely bought sc:uai wheat and a./ain '
at a nrofit, as he had a r-ght to do."
"He did buy and sell nctuai wheat i
?that is true. That he only did ]
what honest tiacesmen do every day J
is disingenuous as well as false. He -j
bought actual wheat only alter it be- ,
came necessary in order >o secure the '
winnings on bis outstardiug bets and '
to multiply his winnings. After he <
bad forced the price up to 77 cents by !
'fixing' the quotations, it occurred to *
bim to buy up all the actual wheat in ,
sight and then take advantage of his ;
antagonists. Ha had a corner on *
gambling contracts. If he should get "
a corner on actual wheat and then ue
mand wheat instead of the winnings
agreed upon; he could force the price (
up indefinitely. Tnat is precisely $
what he did; and tnei cry of hungry: ]
children was heard in tbis land of t
pleniy because they couid not pay the
demands of this option gambler. The t
same is true in every respect of deals i
in cotton and other subjects of option i
gambling." i
"Don't the farmer get the benefit of i
high prices when the bulls get cDiitrol '
of the ezchangef' c
"Probably one out of a hundred 1
iocs, and he is apt to be the one who s
couid best get along without it. It is c
a fact burntd into the memory of our i
cotton growers every year that tne i
gamblers in cotton force the price
down m the faJl after tilts balk of tbe j j
farmers have sold in the spring, up gc J x
Lhe prices. Tne same is true year in | i
and year out of all the crops that are <
gambled down to suit the interest ot s
the option dealers. You noticed I j
suppose that Leitter got out of the i
wheat pit and lei the prica collapse 1
before the first carload of new wheat t
got to Chicago? ? J
' But suppose the farmers were to J
get the benefit of high prices every J
time the bulls get in control. Tbe j
history shows tnat there has no such 'i
thing occurred on the grain exchange c
since the lime oT 'Ola Hutch,1 and t
none on the cction exchance since In- )
man operated a similar deal in cot- 1
ton. All these other years tne ex- i
changes have oeen in the hands of
bears in the fail and the bulls in the
spring. The mass of the farmers have ?
to sell m me laa. rney cant noia.
"And so in this instance, the cotton
farmer Ls ground between the upper
and the nether millstone. The bears
are in control of what he has to sell,
while the bulis are in control of what
he has to buy. This is the culminating
infamy of the system, and it shoula
be stamped out utterly.
t4I introduced a bill last December
that is the result of several years'
study of this question. If all the people
interested m fair prices based upon
actual supply and actual demand will
get behind this bill it will be made ft
law. When X say people interested,
that means both consumers *nd producers,
both are robbed under thi? vicious
system.
"It is an outrage that any man or
body of men should ha7e absolute jontrol
of the prices of the product of
another. It is infamous when such
power is permitted to a gang of option
gamblers. The mere possession ol that
power is a menace to the business a?- J
fected by it. The possession of power J
is the guarantee of the exercise of that i
power. It will be so as long as water 1
runs down hill and avarice abides in 1
the human breast. The law of the 1
land should make the possession of ]
such power impossible. If both con- J
sumers and producers?the honest <
toilers of the land?will combine to i
this end it will be accomplished be i
yond a doubt. Ohl. j
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Some Now Taxes. 3
Among the many items that will be 2
taxed under the war revenue bill, there (
are a number that will affect the people
directly. Bat the classes as well I
is the masses will have to bear the -1
burdens- ]
1. There is a pretty still tax of ten J
Mats a pound on tea. (
2. A beer and tobacco tax will un- 1
icubtediy make lhese article deartr, 1
ur tne consumer must ba content witn *
less or an inferior ariicie. *
3. Life insur^cca policies will cost i *
an rta n rc o ? 1 i ion 11
J\J twUU m VijUVU.
4. Patem medicines and chewing )
gum will come in also for tneir share, 1
5. Bankers and brokers wiil pay a *
3pecial tax. \
6. Boards cf trade and the issue ef J
new securities must pay something to j
[he government. 1
7. Telegrams and long distance tel- [
ephone messages. i
8. Wine and sleeping car tickets. 1
9. Sugar and oil refiners.
10. Inheri;ances must also pay a "
tax, beginning at 3-4 cf 1 percent, on (
directs inheritances of more than $10,- 1
000 and less than $25,000; this tax 1
goes all the way up to 15 per cant, on j
legacies cl over $1,000,000 inherited ;
bv remote relatives or not connected J
with blocd. <
Besides these provisions, there ij a '
tond feature, but it is not thought 1
that it will be necessary to issue all 1
tbe bonds authorized under the exigencies
of the war. j
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How to Succeed. i
An exchange has the following ad- J
iress to business me a. If you expect <
to conquer in the battle of today you 1
will have to blow jour trumpet in a
steady way. If you toot your little *
whistle and lay aside your horn, 1
there's not a soul will know that you *
were ever bcrc. The man that owns (
bis acres is the man that plows all *
day, and the man that keeps things
ic+>ia rr.a.Ti that's hfirfl to 1
LI LLULLJOJL.J_Ug ******* ._
jtay. Bat the man who advertises <
with a sort of sudden jerk is the man J
who blames the printer because he 1
didn't work. The man who gets the ]
business uses brainy printer's ink, not '
a clatter or a sputter, but an ad, that
makes you think; ani he plans <
his advertisement as he plans a 1
well built stock, and in the future of 1
his business is as solid as a rock. 1
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Tried to Ran ths Blockade.
A two-masted vessel, the Amapala <
f Trujillo, Honduras, was brought in 1
I'm Wact mnrnins' f] vine' I
J r* ?J o
the American flag and in charge of (
EnsisnZ;en of the Vicksburg. She t
was captured Friday afternoon at i
<uaset, while leaving Habana and attempting
to run the bicckade. She 1
was quickly overhauled by the Vicks- (
burg and was found to have over 30 !
women and children and a number cf J
men on board, crew and passengers, ]
all refugees. There was no sickness
bsard the Amapala, but she is detain- 2
ed in quarantine. ?
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Oze HaadrCl sal TairCy Drowned. 1
lafcrmation has jas; reached here to
the effect that during a recent typhoon
at Port Arthur a Chinese torpedo boat
destroyer was driven ashore there and ]
130 men were drowned' The Russian 1
o: ih* <
WUrbilif v cixa-jr WWJM* ? i Great
was also damaged during the <
same storm, 11
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CONDITION OF CROPS.
'FGUL^R WEEKLY VVEAT^ ?R *ND
CROP BULLETIN sSSOED.
Yonajj rop* *ro Doing WiJ.it t'ae
Obseneera Ail Ovdt ttse itve Report tc
Be*dq'iT.r:*rs Tijf I&fortrat'.cn Consolidate.
The first three dajso? the wetk endxjj
June 20:h were warmer than
lsual, and ibe last four days hadabou!
icrmai temperature.
The highest leoiperature fcr the
freak was 100 decrees on the 14th, 15th
ird IGth, reported from Beaufort,
Dakiand, Hedges. Greenwood aca
Poverty Bill as having occurred on
3Ee or more of the above dales at each
place.
The night temperature ranged be
;ween 75 arid 01 degrees, the latter beng
the minimum for the State and
)ccurred at Greenville on the 20th.
Che weekly mean temperature for the
State was SO, and the normal for the
ame is approximately 78 degrees.
PRECIPITATION.
Showers occurred in some portions
)f the State each clay of the week,
jeneraliy light and scattered until thc
L6th, on which day showers were gen;ral,
and in places v*ry heavy.
At Wiunscoro 3 26 inches fell in
,wo and a half hours, and at Trial on
he sime date 3 92 feil in htt'e over an
lour. The drought is now thoroughy
relieved except over limited areas
n Aiken and Abbeville counties,
,vhere the need of more rain is indi:ated.
() 7er limited areas, lands were
jadlv washed by the heavy rains, and
;ome bottom land crops damaged or
lesiroyed by llcoding. The smallest
ainfaii measaremen! for the week
n&< U.t)6 inch reported from Trenton,
tfhile 19 places regorted amounis
anging from i to 2 inches, 17 places
eporlmg amounts between 2 and o
ncnes; and la places amcanis in ex;ess
c( 3 inches. Tie following execs
ive measurements were 'received;
iVlcoiu 3.00, Society Hill 3.33, Shiloh
T ^ fi Wmncnirn A. QD T?i Trprtrip w A Of)
Bamberg 3 37, Oakland 4.S7, Bowman
I 00, Eiia 4 00 Darlingtou 3 11, Little
ilountain 3.09, Trial 4.38, Cheraw
1.66, Charleston 3.01, St. Georges 3 38,
3t. Matthews 3 70. Spartanburg 3 20,
Allendale 3.14. The average cf 56
neasurements representing everj
jouniy in the State was 2.53 inches arid
,he normal tor the same period is approximately
1.00 inch. In most secions
there still remains a seasonal de
iciency cf from 1 to 10 incites.
SUNSHINE, HAIL, WIND.
There was mora than the usua]
imcunt of cloudiness during the week
although no entirely cloudy dajsoc
juried. The average percentage ol
jright sunsaine was 4S per cent, oi
i . t rr , . . .3 ii..
;ne possioie- nan accsmpaniea me
Jhunderstorms in many counties with
ocal damage to cotton and fruit.
Severe wind slorms occurred in Green
rille, Spartanburg and Berkeley coua;ie3,
damaging corn and fruit trees,
[njury by hail and high winds was
jonfined to limited areas.
CROP CONDITIONS.
Needed moisture having been sup
plied in abundance, and the soil hav
ng bean well caltivated and fields
ires 'rom weeds, staple crops all made
rapid improvement during the week,
ind with the exception of permanenl
jajury, of no considerable extent, tc
jorn and tobacco by the late drought,
;roFS are all in fice growing condition.
Early planted corn is tasseling
low, with spindling stalks, and is noi
promising, out later planting is now
Looking fine and growing fast. Up
land corn is being "laid by," and is
aearly all ready to ''lay by." Bottom
ands, as well as wheat end oats stub'
Die lands, which have heretofore been
Af-rr trt nlnnr ow> mnxxr haino nvA
|UV WAJ HV j-'-V f! J M^w -UU Jl VVA"
pared and planted to co:rn. Various
localities report serious injury to the
iorn prospects from the drought, and
i few from the effects of bud worms,
dtnough generally corn has made a
narked improvement. Some bottom
lands have been flooded by excessive
rains and the corn drowned. In many
sections it has been too wet to work
:orn during the last of the week.
Tue condition of cotion is now very
jcod over the entire State, and particuarly
line on sandy lands. Over the
vestern counties, and notably in Sauda
county, cotton seed that lias lain
lormant in the grounds since it was
jlanted in May, is nov coming up to
iae stacd?. Fields are wtll cultivated,
ilthough cultivation interrupted durag
the week by the heavy rains.
Sarly cotton is fruiting on squares
leavily, and bicoms are noted everywhere
throughput the State. Cotton,
s growing very rapidly no97. Lice
ire fast uisappaaring, except in Ciarindon
county, while in portions of
Etampton some fields are alTected, and
hat plant dying from an apparent
jlighi: otherwise cotton is in a neaithj
socdition. Saa island cotton has improved
very much during the week,
jut is very small for the season.
The general condition ot tobacco
vas greatly improved by the suppiy
)f needed moisture, and this crop is
low growing vigorously. Early
jlantec/ tobacco was materially injured
>y the drought, and cannot recover
uily, notaDly so in Williamsburg and
Marion counties; in the latter county
jutting and curing has begun. Tojacco
worms are less numerous and
.roublesome than /or a number of
past seasons.
Rice shared in the general improvenent
but not to the same extent, as
;he rivers are still salty or brackish,
which causes planters great annoyance,
and where breaks occur in the
lams, injury to the growing rice as
well as delaying planting.
Oats were practically all harvested
*nd housed before the rains set ir?, as
was wheat. Threshing continues with
iverage yields cr better, except in
Ibonee county wheat is not up to an
iverage.
Sweet potato draws are being
Dlanted over the entire State in large
5 u an ties under very favorable weathei
icd soil conditions. Ir;3h potatoes
were too nearly matured,'or the vine*
prematurely dried up, to be benefitted
oj the rains.
Peaches are ripening, but it is gen
;rally reported that the fruit is smaL
with exceptions especially in Edge
5eld, Lexington and G-reenwoodcoun
;ies, -where fruit of fine quality is be
ng shipped in large quantities.
.apples vary with the locality, ai;hough
less dropping is noticed since
;he rains.
Wild berries are more abundant anc
)f better quality, due to more mois,ure,
planted gardens look very pro
nising.
Pastures are greatly revived and
will sooa afford excellent grazing,
jxardens were too nearly ruined to be
benefitted by the rains except thai
aewly planted gardens loou verv
aromising.
for "?t?m animals is now
nore available although the largei
streams remain at low stages, and
jvelis yield but liitle more than last
ivesk. J. W. Bauer,
Section Director, Columbia, S. C.
Tse New York Herald printsa large
picture of Lieutenant Victor Blue, ol
;he fc'uwanee, the brilliant young
South Carolinian who has distiuguishUimcolf
in i-iqtto 1 comitinc rintv r?r>
the Cuban coast.
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AN ALU AROUND MIX-UP.
: Dorn-rCrit*: Fojjullato and'SU?e- Itepub
licacn of Michigan Comblnr.
f For <?ovprr>or. ex Congressman Ju3*
tin R. Whitiug of St. Clair, Deiao1
cr^t
i For Lieaterant Governor?Michael
F. McDonald o?Sault St. Marie, Dem'!
ocrat.
For Secretary of State?L E. Lockwood
of Ooldwater, Populist.
Fcr Auditor Geueral?John L. Fris
bie of Hillsdale, Silver Republican.
; For StateTreashrer?Dr. Edgar B.
Smith ol I>?troit, Democrat.
i F?r Attorney General?Royal A.
. Haw lay of Ion a, Silver Republican.
! For "Land Commissioner?Cariton
Feck of Laper, Populist.
l For Superintendent of Public In.
struction?Mis. Florence Renkes of
Barry county, Silver Republican.
For Member State Board of Education?George
E Willets of Calhoun
. county, Populist.
The above ticket was nominated
> Wednesday by the State convention
: of th* Democrats. Populists and Sil
ver Republicans of Michigan. It repy#>s#mts
nn pnual riiKtrihiitirm hetween
. the three parties. The ticket was rati
fied in joint convention.
The platforms do not conflict on
aay essential point. Tnat adopted by
the Populists is, perhaps, less radical
than heretofore; and, at the request of
the Populists a plank was inserted in
the Democratic platform favoring the
initiative and referendum. The Silver
Republicans also modified their
declaration to make it more in accordance
with the Democratic platform.
The latter closes with a message of
greeting to W. J. Bryan. A joint
convention ratified the ticket and arranged
for an aggressive plan of
' campaign.
' A THIRTY HOURS BATTLE.
Bf.'.voiiu tbe OabaD Iciarx?Dt3 *ud the
tfpasludi.
A gunboat arrived at Key West
Saturday afternoon from the blockading
squadron off Cardenas. She had
a small cat boat in tow with six Cu.
bans from Gomez, camp aboard. They
. left the camp of the insurgent leader
June 20, with dispatches and are the
first direct messengers from ms camp
; j since the beginning of the war. They
. reported that Gen, Gomez is en jojing
splendid health and spirits, and that
; the health cf the Cub%ns in the field
is excellent. Tae headquarters cf the
insurgents is someplace batween Re
medios and S&nctiSpiritus and is unmolested
by Spaniards. The messengers
are under orders Irotn Gomtz to
. ke?p secret military, movements .and
: the strength of the Cuban army, bat
they admit that ths insurgents still
' lack* arms and ammunition. The
: messengers will leave at once with
i dispatches for Gen. Thomas Estrada
i Paima in New York. On June 14 an
oviooffflmorit trwiV hat.meATi tVi a
' Cuban and Spanisa forces at Panta
Algere, lasting 30 hours. Over 200
i Spaniards were killed. The Cubans
j lost nine men. They were unable to
follow up their victory, owing to lack
of ammunition.
German Ship Held Up.
The steamer Francia Capt. Schrct|
ter, of Hamburg,bound from Samtma,
! Santo Domingto, for San Juan, with
passengers only, w#s stopped six
: miles north of the Porto Rican coas;
1 at noon on Friday bv the American.
> auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, which fired
blank and solid shots across tne Fi-ao"
cia's bows. An offiser of the St. Paul
boarded the Francia and told her captain
not to enter San Juan- Captain
Schrotter continued on his cruise,
1 whereupon the St. Paul signalled,
1 "Obey orders or I will fire into you.':
' The Francia obeyed and was followed
1 for four hours by the St. PauL Sbe
at ftt. Thnmas .Tnn? '?R Kabv.
1 ing tv70 Spanish passengers destined
1 for San Juan. A letter from Vieguez
1 states thai American warahip3 have
been s?en for the last tea days off
1 Porto Rican coast. ;
I Killed the Engineer.
Train No.49, northbound expres?, on
the Burlington was delayed at 10:30
Saturday night one mile north of
White Hall, I1L, by an attempted"
hold-up. Tne robbers crawled aboard
the engine and shot the engineer.
Tne robbers were frightened
off and secured no booty. As the
again stopped at; the C & A erasing, a
masked man climbed over tne tender
witn a leveled revolver. Fireman
George Savage jumped from the engine
jost as the robbsr fired, the bullet
taking effect in the engineer's side.
The robber then sprang from the en-;
gine and flsd. Engineer Dampsey
was carried intn the hacror&^a rar lin
conscious and died within 20 minutes.
Bloodhounds were immediately puti
on tne trail of the murderer.
Z*tiro Ordered to Le?*.
A special cable from Hon* Kong
says: 'The American supply ship'
Z-ifiro,- which was S3nt here from'Ma>.
nila by Admiral Dewey to prccore;
provisions and other necessaries for.
the fleet, and which anchored a few-'
miles from here in Chinese waters,
has baen compelled to leave by the
Chinese authorities. The Chinese
notified United States Consul Wildman,
at Hong Konj7, to take the Zifiro
out of the jurisdiction of the emperor
at once, and refused to allow
her even the customary 24 hours stay,
or a pound of coal or provisions.
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/i\ "How much doc? the baby
f]\ weigh" is only another way
Ac asking, " I? lir healthy and
if A\ strong?" When a baby is
// . V~ \ welcomed into the world with
( loving care and forethought,
h*s chances of health ana
strength are increased a hundred-fold.
A prospective mother cannot begin too
early to look after her: o-vn health and physical'condition.
This -:!re to be reflected
in the baby. Any weakness or nervous deoreasion.
or lack of visror on the mother's
! part should be overcome early during the
expectant time by the use of Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, which ;>r >raotes the
perfect health and strength of the organism
specially concerned in motherhood.
* It makes the coming of baby absolutely
safe and comparatively free from pain; renders
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transmits healthy constitutional vigor to
the child.
No other medicine in the world has been
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i their children. It is the one positive spe;
cific for all weak and diseased conditions
of the feminine organism. It is the only
medicine of its kind devised for this one
purpose by a trained and educated specialist
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CHALLENGE. 4
Anyhouse in America to beat my prices.
quality and responsibility considered.
TERM. 1
To those not prepared to pay ' cash, 1 will
give reasonable time, at a slight difference
Warranty,1 ;w
I fully guarantee my Instruments sold at
rtpnctnted.
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