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f *"'-. / f HE REBUKED THEM, j What Was It That Christ Wrote in ?- ! the Dust. REV. DR.TALMAGE EXPLAINS. | Illustrates Story of Savior and Sinning Woman. Sympathy for Penitent. Boundless Ocean of Divine Mercy. In this discourse Dr. Talmage gives heroic treatment of a delicate subject and applies to modern society uie lesson taught by Christ on a memorable occasion: text. John viii, 6, i; Jesus stooped clown ana witn ins nnger wrote on the ground."' You must take your shoes off and put on the especial slippers provided at the door if you would enter the Mohammeden mosque which stands now where once stood Herod's temple, the scene of my text. Solomon's temple had stood there, but ^eoucnaanezzar nau. thundered it down. ZerubbabeFs temple had stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take our places in a temple that Herod built, because he was fond of great architecture, and he wanted the preceding temples to seem insignificant. Put eight or ten modern cathedrals together, and they would not equal that structure. It covcred 19 acres. There were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar and silver tables on which stood golden cups, and there were carvings exquisite and inscriptions resplendent, glittering balustrades and ornamented gateways. The building of this temple kept 10.000 workmen busy 46 years. In that stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence sat Christ, and a listening throng stood about him when a wild disturbance took place. A group of men are pulling and pushing along a woman who had committed a crime against society. When they have J.1CI Xil i-i. vat VI .kJU, Viiv; that he sentence her to death by stoning. They are a critical, merciless, disingenuous crowd. They want to get Christ into controversy and public rep( rehension. If he say, ''Let her die.'' they will charge him with cruelty. If he let her go,they will charge him with being in complicity with wickedness. Whichever way he does they would howl at him. ^ T"?OC nnf ?HCU UVJVsLLld ?? ovcug nmvu uu>w "vv been sufficiently regarded. He leaves the lounge or bench on which he was sitting and goes down on one knee or both knees, and with the forefinger of his right hand he begins to write in the dust of the floor, word after word. But they were not to be diverted or hindered. They kept on demanding that he settle this case of transgression, until he looked up and told them they might themselves begin the woman's assassination if the eomnlainant who had never done anything wrong himself would open the fire. "Go ahead, but be sure that the man who flings the first missile is immaculate." Then he resumed writing with his finger in the dust of the floor, word after word. Instead of looking over his shoulder to see what he had written,the scoundrels skulked away. Finally the whole place is clear of pursuers, antagonists and nlaintiffs and when Christ has finished this strange chirography in the dust he looks up and finds the woman all alone. The prisoner is the only one of the courtroom left, the judges, the police, the prosecuting attorney having cleared out. Christ is victor, and he says to ~fche woman: "Where are the prosecutors in this case? Are they all gone? Then I discharge you. Go and sin no more." I have wondered what Christ * i -n J 1 wrote on tne ground, ror ao you realize that is the only time that he ever wrote at all? I know that Eusebius says that Christ once wrote a letrer to Abgarus, the king of Edessa, but there is no good evidence of such a correspondence. The wisest being the world ever saw, and the one who had more to say than any one who ever lived, never writing a book or a chapter or a paragraph or a word on parchment. Nothing but the literature of the dust, and one sweep of a brush or one breath of a wind obliterated it forever. Among all the rolls of the volumes of the first library founded at Thebes there was not one scroll of Christ. Among the 700,000 books of the Alexandrian library which by the infamous decree of Calipi Omar were used as fuel to heat the 4,000 barns of the city, x i-- j m :?i ^ not one senienuc iiau \jmiso ^euucu. Among all the infinitude of volumes now standing in the libraries of Edinburg, the British museum or Berlin or Vienna or the learned repositories of all nations not one word written direct^ 1 y by the finger of Christ. All that he > 1 ever wrote he wrote in dust, uncertain, shifting dust. My text says he stooped down and wrote on the ground. Standing straight up a man might write on the ground with a staff, but if with his fingers he would write in the dust he must bend rtlaor AT*or VAVC4X VS f XJ? Aye, he must get at least on one knee or he cannot write on the ground. Be not surprised that he stooped down. His whole life was a stooping down. Stooping down from castle to barn. ^ Stooping down from celestial homage to monocrotic jeer. From residence n'k/vrr/i flia otorc K7]lPTV> ft StftT" had to Mrk/V T U V4A V vv it v ? ? fall to designate his landing place. From heaven's frontdoor to the world's back gate. From writing in round and silvered letters of constellation and galaxy on the blue scroll of heaven to writing on the ground in the dust which the feet of the crowd had left in Herod's temple. If in January you have ever stepped out of a prince's conserva atory that nact iuexican cactus uuu magnolia in full blcom into the outside air, 10 degrees below zero, you may get some idea of Christ's change of atmosphere from celestial to terrestrial. How many heaveus there are I know not, but there are at least three, for 1 " w +1,;^ raui was caugUl up miy till; uiuu heaven." The uplifted "wave of Galilee was high, but he had to come down before with his feet he could touch'it, and the whirlwind that arose above the billow was higher yet, but he had to come down before with his lip he could kiss it into quiet. Bethlehem a stooping down. Nazareth a stooping down. Death between two burglars a stooping down. Yes, it was in consonance with humiliations that went before and self abnegations that came after when on that memorable day in Herod's temple he stooped down and wrote on the ground. Whether the words he was writing were in Greek or Latin or Hebrew, 1 cannot say, for he knew ail those languages, but he is still stooping down and with his finger writing on the ground. In the winter in letters of crystals, in the spring in letter of flowers, in summer in golden letters of harvest, in autumn in letters of fire ou fallen leaves. How it would sweeten up :md enrich and emblazon thic wnrhl pmild wo see Christ s cali- I lie / w?rr {'v <aan?i wi ! i 'hi r T iii nr t t? ?. i mi i t _ ^ J grapnyaii over it: mis woriu wa- not i flung out into space thousands oi' years ago aud then left to look, out for itself. Lt is still under the divine care. Christ never for a half second takes his hand off of it. or it would soon be a shipwrecked world, a defunct world, an obsolete world, an abandoned world, a dead world. "Let there be light," was said at the beginning, and Christ stands nnrir>r tlir> tvintrv skies and SaVS. Let there be snowflakes to enrich the earth. I arid under the clouds of spring and i says. Come, ye blossoms, and make redolent the orchards and in September j dips the branches in the vat of' beautiful colors and swings them into the hazy air. No whim of mine is this. "Without him was not anthing made that was made?'' Christ writing on the ground. If you could see his hand in all the passing seasons, how it would illumine the world! All verdure and foliage would be allegoric, and again we would hear him say, as of old. "Consider the lilies of the held, liow they grow and we would not hear in the whistle of a quail or the cawing of a raven or the roundelay of a brown thrasher without saying: "Behold the fowls of the air. They gather not in barns, vet your Heavenly Fathor feedeth them," and a Dominic hen of the barn yard could not cluck for her brood but we would hear Christ saying, as of old. '"IIow often T /rnf+ li ff fn. uuiu x liO'V^ vimwivii wv gether, even as a lien gathereth her chickens under her wings," and through the redolent hedges we would hear Christ saying, <;I am the rose of Sharon." We could not dip the seasoning from the salt-cellar without thinking of the divine suggestion, "Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt hath lost its savor it is fit for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men." Let us wake from our stupidity and t'll-o thp Tvlinlo world as a narable. Then, if with gun and pack of hounds we start off before dawn and see the morning coming down off the hills to meet us we would cry out with the evangelist, ''The day spring from on high hath visited us," or, caught in a snowstorm while straggling home, eyebrows. and beard apparel all covered with the whirling flakes, we would cry out with David, Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." In a picture gallery of Europe there is on the ceiling an exquisite fresco, but the people having to look straight up, it wearied and dizzied them and bent their necks almost beyond endurance, so a great looking glass was put near the floor, and now visitors only need to look easily down into this mirror, and they see the fresco at their leet. Ana so, rnucn of the high heaven of God's truth is reflected in this world as in a mirror, and things that are above are copied by things around us. WUrtf Ttrn ffTrrnTxr oxcnv T T JlctC X l^ixu iiu ? v ?? V/ wv vti4 v/ ?? w .1 one of God's Bibles?aye, the first B\ble he ever gave the race? We talk about the Old Testament, and the !Xew Testament but the oldest testament contains the lessons of the natural world. Some people like the New Testament so well they discard the Old Testament. Shall we like the New Testament and the Old Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest?namely, that which was written Vko-Pnr<i ?ncos wa-? r>nt afloat nn the boat of leaves which was calked with asphaltum?or reject the Genesis that was written centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No. no! When Deity stoops down and writes on the ground, let us read it. Yes. I think that one word written on the ground that day by the finger of Christ was the awful word hypocrisy. "What pretensions to sanctity are the part of those hypocritical Pharasies! When the fox begins to pray, look "Aim Or>?> rvP flm UUt IVl JKJLLL VJLLivaviU. V xx\s cruel magnates of olden times was going to excommunicate one of the martyrs, and he began in the usual form? ''In the name of God. Amen." "Stop!" says the martyr, "Don't say'in the name of God!'" Yet how many outrages are practiced under the garb of religion and sanctity! When in synods and conferences ministers of the gospel about to say something unbrotherly and unkind about a member, they almost always begin by being ostentatiously pious, the venom of their assault corresponding to the heavenly flavor of the prelude. About to devour a reputation, they say grace before meal. But I am sure that there was another word in that dust. From her entire manner I am sure that arraigned woman was repentant. She made no apology, and Christ in nowise belittled her sin. But her supplicatory behavior and her tears moved him, and when he stooped down to write on the ground he wrote that mighty, that imperial word forgiveness. "When on Sinai G od wrote the law, he wrote it with finger of lightning on tables of stone, each word cut as by a chisel into the hard granite surface. But when he writes the offense of this woman he writes it in the dust so that it can be easily rubbed out, and when she repents of it, oh, he was a merciful Christ! I was reading of a legend t.Tiat. }<? t,nld in the far east about him. He was walking through the streets of a city, and he saw a crowd around a dead dog. And one man said, "What a loathsome object is thatdog!" "Yes," said another, "his ears are mauled and bleeding." "Yes,"saidanother; "even his hide would not be of any use to the tanner." "Yes," said another; "the nrlnr rvf liis Mrftflss is dreadful." Then Christ, standing there, said, "But pearls cannot equal the whiteness of his teeth." Then the people, moved by the idea that any one could find anything pleasant concerning the dead dog, said, "Why, this must be Jesus of Nazareth!'' Reproved and convicted they went away. Surely this legend of Christ is good enough to be true! Kindness in all his words and ways and habits! Forgiveness! Word of 11 letters, and some of them thrones and some of them palm Krrr>r>Tio<j Rotter hfivo Christ write close to our names that one word, though he write it in dust, than to Ijavc our name cut into monumental granite with the letters that the storms of 1,000 years cannot obliterate. Bishop Babington had a book of only three leaves. The first leaf was black, the second leaf red, the third leaf white. The black leaf suggested sin. the red leaf atonement, the white leaf purification. That is the whole story. God will abundantly pardon. I must not forget to say that as Christ, stooping down, with his finger wrote on the ground it is evident that his sympathies are with this penitent woman and that he has no sympathy with her hypocritical pursuers. Just opposite to that is the world's habit. Why didn't these unclean Pharisees bring one of their own number to Christ for excoriation and capital punishment? Yrt nn1 Thr>v overlook that in a man which they damnate in a woman, and so the world has had for offending woman scourges and objurgation, and for just one offense she becomes an outcast, while for men whose lives have been sodomic for 20 years the world swings open its doors of'brilliant welcome, and they may sit in high places. Unlike III! Till ' ' I I -* ' vra^ is in id t ui ui} WAt, Liitr :vi>xiu , u man's misdemeanor in dust, but chi*?- j els a woman's offense with great capitals upon ineffaceable marble. For foreign lords and princes, whose J names cannot even be mentioned in re- j spectablc circles abroad because they j are walking lazarettos of abomination, j some of our American princesses of fortune wait and at the first beck sail out with them into the blackness of darkness forever. And in what arc cauea mgner circles 01 society there is now not only the imitation of foreign dress and foreign manners, but an imitation of foreign dissoluteness. I like a foreigner, and I like an American, but the sickest crca- i ture on earth is an American playing the foreigner. Society needs to be reconstructed on this subjcct. Treat them alike, masculine crime and feminine crime. If you cut the one in gr; n- i ite. cut them both in granite. If you write the one in dust, write the other in dust. "Xo, no." says the world; "let woman go down and let man go up." What is that 1 hear plashing into the Hudson or Potomac at midnight? And then there is a gurgle as of stran gulation. and till is still. ^evcrnnna. It is only a woman too discouraged to live. Let the mills of the cruel world grind right on. But while I speak of Christ of the text, his stooping down writing in the dust, do not think I underrate the literature of the dust. It is the- most tremendous of all literature. It is the greatest of all libraries. When Layard exhumed Nineveh, he was only opening the door of its mighty dust. The excavations of Pompeii have only been the unclasping of the lids of a volume of a nation's dust. When Admiral Farragut and his friends visited that resurrectd city, tlie house of Balbo, who had been one of its chief citizens in its prosperous days, was opened, and a table was spead in that house which 1,810 years had been buried by volcanic eruption, and Farragut and his guests walked over the exquisite mosaics and under the beautiful fresco, and almost seemed like being entertained by those who IS centuries ago had turned to dust. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust! It is wonderful, after ail, that Christ chose instead of an inkstand the impressionable sand on the floor of an ancient temple, and instead of a hard pen put forth his forefinger with the same kind of nerve and muscle and bone and flesh as that which makes up our own forefinger, and wrote the awful doom of hypocrisy, and full and complete forgivness for repentant sinners, even the worst. "We talk about the ocean of Christ's mercy. Put four ships upon that ocean and let them sail out in opposite directions for 1,00U years and see if they can find the shore of the ocean of the divine mercy. Lgt them sail to the north and the south and the east and the west, and then after the 1,000 years of voyage let them come back and they will report, "No shore, no shore to the ocean of God's mercy!1' And now I oan believe that which I read, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window every night for ten years, and one night very late a poor waif of the street entered. The aged woman said to her, "Sit down by the fire." And the stranger said, "Why do you keep that light in the window?" The aged woman said: ' 'That is to light my wayward daughter when she returns. Since she went away, ten years ago. my hair has turned white. Folks blame me for worrying about her, but you see I am her mother, and some times half a dozen times a night I open the door and lookout into the darkness and cry, 'Lizzie! Lizzie!' But I must not tell you anymore about my trouble, for I guess from the way you cry you have trouble enough of your own. Why, hovr cold and sick you seem! Oh, my! Can it be? Yes, you are Lizzie, my own lost child! Thank God that you are home again!" And what a time of rejoicing there was in that house that 1 * i /n -i. J 2 mgnt: .ana unrist again siuupeu uuwn and in the ashes of that hearth, now lighted up, not more by the great blazing logs than by the joy of a reunited household, wrote the same liberating words that had been written more than 1,800 years ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness! A word broi.d enough and high enough to let pass through it all the armies of heaven a million abreast on white hores, nostril to nostril, flank to flank. A BES-PEKATE ElfcriiT. The City of Greenville Has a Street Duel. Within a stone's throw of Main street, and on the next most important thoroughfare of Greenville, Washington street, the most exciting pistol duel of the city's history occurred Tuesday August 2, about 5 o'clock. The partici- | pants were James B. Williams and Charlie Potts. The latter was shot through the right lung; the former was not hit. There were numerous eye witnesses, but all differ as to details. Ex-S;reet Overseer Frank Williams, Lewis Simons and a negro shoemaker were nearest. Dr. A. J. S. Thomas of the Eaptist Courier, attracted by the ' i- i in i _ _ _ _ nrst s.'aot, saw tne ena irom ins omcc. It seems that Potts and Williams had been drinkiDg together Tuesday morning and had words in Simmons' original package store or restaurant. They made friends, but this afternoon Potts, with a man named Boggs, went to Simmons' place, where Williams stays, and the altercation was renewed. Potts started off from Main street down Washington, saying he would get Williams: ftorrsrs told liini not to sro. Thev were about 15 feet apart when the shooting began and both advanced. It was a game fight. Each emptied his 32-calibre revolver, and when the shots were out they clinched and pummeled each other over the head with the Distols. Williams' weapon being knocked out of his hand. When separated by Policeman McCarroll, l^otts resisted and still fought, but Williams submitted. They both walked toward the police station around tfie corncr, but Potts staggered and it was seen lie was shot. Dr. Black was called and gave him attention at the Stoddard house nearby. Williams is in the station house and says he shot to save his life, lie exi "i i ... .1 i _ nioits uDsoiuie coomess ana mases a clear statement. "Williams, in February. 1891, over cards, shot and killed Maj. Dixie "Williams, a prominent lawyer. His trial attracted wide attention, and lie was acquitted on self defense. Potts lives al. Pott's Cove near the North Carolina line, where he merchandises and farms, lie was formerly a revenue officer and has had some encounters of note. He was shot only once, but he nnrl Wi'linms were both bruised in the last struggles. Potts' chances for recovery are slight. J. II. A:i Ovation Awaits Them. All ti e troops of cavalry with Gen. Shafter's army and eight companies of Roosevelt's Rough Riders have been ordered to proceed to Montauk Point. L. I., for encampment. Gen. Shafter has been directed to use all the transport facilities he can command and to send the troops as rapidly as possiole. | 'ti+J'jsr*mdCxV'? ^Ktriiy'viii^ r^r'j>: '.?m; naT~ i'i ? ? m ii<iui i l i/ja? made the trip As I remember, he wo.? not absent more than ten or fifteen minutes. "Wlial are you up to anyway?" 1 exclaimed us lur came out of the water in his (.living suit, surmounted by a tank of compressed air, which he wore on 1jis hack. Greatly elated at the success of his submarine trip, he exclaimed: "We arc going to makcgold. Jerncgan is to have two men here. They will stay in that hut 011 the wharf over night and watch the process. There is a fortune in it for us. It will astonish the world. These capitalist are iroing to furnish their own chemicals "SEA WATER GOLD." Ths Most Amazing Swindle Known in Modern Times. EXPOSURE OF THE FRAUD.! Rev. P. F. Jernegan Promotes a Gigantic Fraud and Lured Many Innocents to Invest in the Scheme. The most astonishing swindle of modern times has been exposed by the New York Herald. The scheme was promoted by Rev. P. F. Jernegan, a Baptist minister. The reverend gentleman "discovered ' a process for extracting gold from sea water. As his working material was unlimited, so also was it made to appear to the credulous stockholders in the Electrolytic Marine Salt company that riches beyond the dream of Aladdin awaited them. In such roseate language as this did the Rev. im J ernegan picture tiie possibility or the electrolytic process: "'One is at a loss to comprehend the enormous wealth thus floating in solution in the ocean At the lowest estimate, a cubic mile of sea water contains gold to the value of $05,000,000. it is probably nearer the mark to place it at $1J0.01)0,000. There is enough gold in the waters of Long Island Sound to pay off the national debt and leave a larger gold reserve in the treasury than the government has yet possessed. The waters that sweep in and out of New York bay daily contain enough gold to buy ail tiie snips ana merciiandise borne on their surface. Massachusetts bay holds enough of the precious metal to buy all the real aud personal property in the entire state. Acre for acre, the waters of the bay are worth more than the land of the state."' The astounding feature of the scheme was that it was eminently successful and that capitalists were induced to put their money into it. Last week the fraud was exposed, but not before Rev. Mr. -Jernegan and his confederate, C. K Fisher, had disappeared. The wily minister is now spending the thousands which he received from stockholders on the othor side ox the marine gold mine which he proposed to develop by the cubic mile. The story of the amazing swindle is told in the Herald of Sunday by Detective William Phelan, who was engaged by the conspirators to assist in operating the scheme. Detective Phelan's story in part is as follows: ''In September, 1S9G, I received a letter from C. E. Fisher, at Deland, Fla., in regard to a scheme he had on foot. He was a diver by profession, but had been a floorwalker in a Brooklyn dry goods store. "He referred to his friend Jernegan us a Baptist clergyman who had invented a process for making money out of the ocean. By the aid of electricity he could abstract the gold held in solution by ordinary sea water. This was not explained to me at the time. He would tell me nothing then, but he hinted strongly of great fortunes awaiting them all. "He soon came to Xew York, accompanied by Jernegan, and asked if I wrmlr] crivo n rnnm in mv hrm?A They were to establish themselves in a quiet piace where they could prosecute some important business connected with their experiment. But it must be with a man they could trust. UI gave them my front parlor. Although they remained a month, nothing except in the way of hints was said of the proposed scheme to make us all rich. They only reiterated that it was the biggest thing outside of bonanza gold mines for making fortunes. "Later Fisher asked me to co to Ni antic and I went. I was to do some detective work in connection with liis gold producing scheme, he said. In a cottage just outside of XianticI found Jernegan. It belonged to A. B. Kyan, afterwards president of the gold company. They were [apparently putting up some machinery. "In a day or two, on returning to New York, I received word from Fisher that the Niantic people had become suspicious and they proposed to move their works to Ilhodc Island. Following the announcement came a second letter from Fisher, dated Providence. He wanted me to join him there and assist in some important experiments about to take place connected with their great scheme for making gold. As he explained it, there was some diving to be done and a life line to be held in the water. It was so important that only a man in whom lie had implicit trust would be allowed to do the work. He offered to pay my expenses and reimburse-me for outlays, regardless of what they were, so I went to Providence. " Un reaching rrovicience r isncr iurther explained that I was to go down the bay a mile or so at a point where their experiments were to be made and begin operations. To conceal the purpose of his operations, notwithstanding all that he had hinted about their intention of producing gold, he declared they were only to make a geographical 1 survey. It would be necessary to do some diving to get the exact configuration of the bottom of the bay. i - r . n l. .1! J i.t: i- J. 1 naturally oenevsu. luis suiiemeuu 1 found that my duties were to help j him (Fisher) put on his armor and ' then hold the life line while he made his dive. He remained under from a half Lour to three quarters of an hour at a time. It should be explained that < Jernegan was also there on the scene. 1 Although he was exceedingly active in 1 flying around the country in all direc- : tions, he was still mysterious and eva- ' sive?always, hinting at great fortunes, ' but never explaining. i '"I understood that we were to get J things ready for Ryan, the Middletown : jeweler and capitalist, and also Jfierson " the florist, both of whom were to put : up money. Ilence the necessity of having things ready for making the cx- ' periments perfect. The idea was to 1 paralyze them and produce gold from sea water there before their eyes. < "One evening, after a day of experi- : mcnts, we crossed Narragansett bay ' and bftjran to make soundings from a i little rocky island to a wharf on shore 1 not far distant. The soundings showed the depth of water between the wharf and the island to be from seven to nine feet. An insulated wire or cable was laid along the bottom, connecting the wharf with the island. When we were on the island I discovered that Fisher's plan was to follow the wire under water and by the aid of his diving suit reach the wharr, where he was to manipulate 1 some of the apparatus at the bottom of ' the bay against the wharf. "I also discovered that a little SxlO < house of boards had been constructed 1 011 the end of the wharf, for Jernegan's use in making the alleged geographical survey. That is the way he explained it. Fisher was successful in following the wire to and from the bottom of the 1 wharf, under water, even without a life ' line, 1 remaining on the island until he j and place them in the water themselves while Jernegan will supply the battery connected with the submarine receptaelc for getting gold from the sea. "He further explained that platinum wires were connected with the apparaus making it easy to abstract the gold from the surrouding salt water, which held the precious metal in solution, [t all seemed marvellous. At first I could scarcely believe the thing possible bu on lurther explanation the operation appeared simple and plausible. On the following day the capitalists arrived, registered at the city hotel in Providence, and that afternoon they went to the wharf, where they remained over night in the little house. "The quicksilver which they had brought with them was deposited in the submarine tank before it was lowered into the sea. Then the current was turned on from Jernegan's battery, while the capitalists watched the operations, silently and in wonder. These men sat there all night, waiting in bitter cold in February for the gold to accumulate in the box. These confiding gentlemen?supposed to be shrewd business men?when they dropped their own honest quicksilver into the square leadlined box little dreamed that Fisher, the diver, would come around later, walking on the bottom of the sea. emptying their qucksilver into the water, replacing it with some doctored mercury of his own, well saturated with gold. "L was told subsequently by Jemegan himself that on the following morning, when the submerged box was hoisted out of the water, it was found that the mercury had eaten through the lining of the box, and some of it had disappeared into the sea. Enough, however, remained to show the value oi the alleged experiment. "To still further and the demonstration. Jernegan slipped a little California nugget, which he had been wearing as a scarf ornament, in the quicksilver, to be dissolved. This greatly added to the yield of gold from.the salt water of the sea. The contents of the box were then given to an assayer, who made his analysis while the capitalists waited in the reception room. The assayer's report made the yield n.hmifc?4.50?a fairlv srood niffht's work for a little box in the bottom of Narragansett bay, with only an ordinary battery to do the mining and abstract the gold from the sea water. The capitalists were not only satisfied, but amazed at the result, and said they were willing to put up handsomely for building machinery on a large scale that would take gold by the carload out of the sea. "As the outlook appeared Aladdin's lamp and the big diamond mines of the Arabian Xights were not in it with this little chain lightning gold mining apparatus invented by the lie v. P. ?'. Jernegan. After congratulations all around the capitalists returned to Middletown, Conn., where they lived, but we remained. In a few days along came a draft?the amount of the first installment on the payments to be made. "After staying in Providence two or three days I came to Isew York, having done what Fisher had requested in the way of aiding him in his experiments. According to instructions I sent on my bill?$50(J. Instead of paying it promptly Jernegan sent me $200 by Fisher. I protested vigorously and said that I proposed to have the full amount of my 1*11 11 _ ? -1 J 1 Dili. Alter some aeiay it was paia. From that time the success of the scheme was assured. Poor people invested their saviugs. Some of the victims went so far as to mortgage their homes, putting the proceeds into the scheme. It is not known how much money Jerncgan received, but the fund was most extensive and its victims are scattered all over the Eastern and New England states. Rev. 31r. Jernegan has justly gained the fame of being i/iiu must usluuuujuj^ ?uiu swindler of modern times." The Boss Freak. This is a great country. We have the most land, the most water and the wettest, the coldest cold and the hctest heat, the most lovely women, the bravest men, the biggest circuses and more corns on our toes than any otner. people on earth. We can raise liner babies and make better chicken pie than all the powers of Europe combined. And now, according to the Benton Standard, Illinois comes forward with the boss freak of the universe. The Standard says if he was a little freak it would not own him, but as he beats the world with hobbies on his hind legs the Standard goes into ecstaeies over him. According to the Standard he drinks a pint of embalming fluid and then sucks in a glass full of lJaris green, and calls for a lemonade of rough on rats. He drives an awl in his skull, hangs a chair on the awl and swings it around. His skull is full of awl holes. He knows no pain. Has no feeling and likes a liash of pounded glass. He can eut all lay or go without victuals for a couple at' mouths. At Muncie, Indiana, he was buried fourteen days in a grave seven feet deep, with only a small tube through which to breathe. While he was in hi:; grave lie courted a young, giddy thing, proposed to her, and after lie was dug up, married her. The girl seems to be proud of him. Just why, we do not know, unless it is for the same reason a woman is proud of an odd hat, because no other woman in the world has one like it. Why, that freak can't feel the thrill of love. He can't blush. He can't cmotionatc worth a cent. Some day that girl will make a mistake and drink out of his glass, and then she won't need an air tube in her grave. No other country could produce such a freak or a big enough fool to marry him. Cervera on a Trip. Admiral Cervera, accompanied by his son. Lieut. Cervera, who have been prisoners of war at the naval academy, Annapolis, for several weeks, passed through Baltimore Thursday en route for .Fortress Monroe. The admiral received special permission from the navy department to go to Fortress Monroe to visit Spanish officers who arc under medical treatment there. He may extend his visit to New York. "Wrecked by a Cyclone. TVio villafrA nf IVIWiimm in Snian was wrecked by a cyclone which killed many persons. Several houses at Ilornillos are engulfed by floods. XumDers of people perished. ? 3bt6?r"*-?j?i*ii<ii?^i>w wii,im i m ii iih?ihtm?'i in'i im wsaaotot I SOME OT.T) HEROES. ! I I I : Members of the Gallant Palmetto ' I . Regiment Still Living. REMNANT OF A BRAVE BAND. Their Names and Where Each of Them Live. They are Scattered Far and Wide. It will be very interesting to a great many people in South Carolina to know how many and who the survivors arc of the valiant Palmetto regiment, which went from this State to the Mexican war in 1847. and below is given a complete list of all these old soldiers who are still living. Though now scatteredover various Darts of the country, it is safe to say that these brave and gallant j veterans chfcrish as ever the same love for their old regiment as when lighting for their country on the battlefields of -Mexico. The list was carefully prepared by Mr. John L. P. Cantwcll of Wilmington, N. C., who was a member of the Palmetto regiment. The principal data was furnished him by the United States pension bureau and Col. James 1). Blanding of Sumter. The names of the survivors are as follow?, and it will be a good thing to keep for future reference: James D. Blandins. first lieutenant. Co. A, Sumter, S. C. Sebastiu Sumter, second lieutenant. Co. A, Statesburg, S. C. James Powers, private, Co. A, Columbia, S. C. John Williams, private, Co. A, Downs, Kan. Patrick Stanley, private, Co. A, Silverton, Col. 0. T. Gibbes, sergeant, Co. B, 441 Broad street, Augusta, Ga. (iilliard 11. Smith, corporal, Uo. iS, Embersou, Texas. James B. Hardwicke, private, Co. B. Elgin. Texas. Samuel Terrell, Co. B, Garret, Texas. Theodore D. Muller, private, Co. B, Gourdin, S. C. William Hollis, private, Co. B, Chester, S. C. Israel Hood, private, Co. B, Chester, S. C. Sanford Horton, sergeant, Co. C, 1120 Elm street, Macon, Ga. William R. Clanton. corporal. Co.-C, Lancaster.^ S. C. Davis C'. Phillips, private, Co. C, Camden, S. 0. Ransom L. Logan, private, Co. C, Manning, S. C. John W. Knight, private, Co. C, Fincastle, Tenn. Joseph A. Jones, Co. D. Woodford. S. C. Tlios. Anderson, private, Co. D, "Wrens, Ga. James Anderson, private, Co. D, Johnston, S. C. William H. Burrell, private, Co. D, Trenton, S. C. William P. Betsell, private, Co. D, Plum Branch, S. C. Robert Key, private, Co. D, Parks-* ville, S. C. ?_j tt j ?:?r> -auuersou xiuwaiu, yi\ivui,c, \>u. J-', Modoc, S. C. Edmund Melton, private, Co. D, Hepzibah, Ga, Wiles Simpkins, private, Co. D, Augusta. Ga. Alexander Sbarpton, private, Co. D, 1900 Broad street, Augusta, Ga. Thomas B. Norvell, private, Co. D, 1138 Broad street, Augusta, G-a. J. J. Martin, private, Co. E, Eastpoint, Ga. James A. McKee, private, Co. E, Stewart, 5. u. William A. Lomax, private, Co. E, Yerdery, S. C. John Wilkinson, private, Co. E, Bradley, S. C. William Spruel, Co. E, Hodges. S. C. Louis F. Robinson, second lieutenant Co. F, Charleston, 3. C. Constant F. Rivers, sergeant, Co. F, Charleston, S. C. Thomas F. Thayer, sergeant, Co. F, 97 Broad street, Charleston, S. C. Henry W. Weinges, private, Co. F, 41 south Bay street, Charleston, S. C. Orlando F. Levy, private, Co. F. 3 -** svi i n /^i JL'itt street, vjnarieston. o. \j. T. J. Mackey, private, Co. F, JSew York city. Minor L. Braden, private, Co. F. Stone Mountain, Ga. Charles H. Pratt, private, Co. F, Bear Creek, 0. Jonathan 11. Davis, second lieutenant, Co. G, San Francisco, Cal. Andrew J. Coffee, private, Co. G, San Francisco, Cal. Samuel F. How. second lieutenant, Co. G, Roddick, Fla. James A. Wvlie, sergeant, Co. G, j Thomson, Ala. Osmund Reynolds, private,- Co. G. West Point, Ga. liiley Clanton, private, Co. G, Ilaile's Mine, S. C. Matthew B. Stanley, private, Co. G. Centenary, S. C. Solomon A. Alexander private, /Co. G, Fort Lawn, S. C. Benoin H. Robertson. private, Co. G, Winnsboro, S. C. Thomas J. Myers, M. D., Co. G. Bowling Green, Fla. Samuel P. Newman, private, Co. G. Ridgeway, S. C. Hugh J. Reynolds, private, Co. G. New Waverly, Texas. i 4 rv_i_ _ i. ^ /i JTjnsiy juuse, private, w. vjt. Longwood, Miss. Spencer L. Percival, sergeant, Co. H, Kock Hill, S. C. Burrell B. Hutchison, private, Co. H, Columbia, S. C. John L. P. Cantwell, private, Co. H. 814 Princess street, Wilmington. n: c. John T. S. Price, private, Co. H. Macon, Ga. Edwin B. McCord, musician, Co. H. Jamaica, N. Y. Gotlieb 0. Greiner, private, Co. H. Paris, Texas. Aaron Adams, private, Co. I. Princess. S. C. Vvr. L. Bell, private, Co. I, Union county, S. C. Sam. P. Massey. private. Co. I. Fox. A In A. Moss McManus. private. Co. I. Lancaster county, S. C. | R. W. Gardner, private. Co. I. Flat Rock, S. C. Niel Hilton, sergeant, Co. K. Tennessee Colony, Texas. Jeremiah Baughman, corporal, Co. K. Archer. Fla. Henry Middleton Jackson, private. Co. K, Buck Creek-, Ga. Wiu. B. Coward, private, Co. K, 28 Harris street, Savannah, Ga. Joseph Culbreath, second lieutenant. Co. L. Johnston. S. C. Benjamin H. Mathias, corporal, Co. L. Williamsburg. S. C. John F. McClellan, private, Co. L. Newberry, S. C. John Pitts, private, Co. L, Leabetter. Texas. John Jenkins, private, Co. L, Cloud's Creek, S. C. Adam Teaile. private, Co. L. Edgefield, S. C. WORK OF KEROES. Gail. Wheeler's Eeport on the Fight at El Caney. The report of 3Iajor-Ucneral Joseph Wheeler on the~opcrations before Santiago de uba has become available. Of' the movement on El Caney. beginning July 1^ the General says: "Colonel McClernand, of Gen. Shafter's staff, directed me to give instructions to Gen. Kent, which I complied with in nerson. at thft samp time r>er sonally directing (xen. Sumner to move forward. The men were all compelled to wade the S?n Juan River to get into line. This was done under a very heavy fire of both infantry and artillery. Our balloon having been sent up by the. main road, was made a mark of by the enemy. It was evident that we were as much under fire in forming the line as we would be by an advance, and [ therefore pressed the command forward from the covering under which it was formed. It merged into open space in full view of the enemy, who occupied breastworks and batteries on the crest of the hill which overlooks Santiago, cmcers ana men iamng at every step. HARD WORK INTRENCHING. "Upon reaching the crest I ordered breastworks to be constructed, and sent to the rear for shovels, picks, spades and axes. The enemy's retreat from the ridge was precipitate, but our men were so thoroughly exhaunted that it was impossible for them to follow. Their shoes were soaked with water by wad- ' ing the San Juan River, they had become drenched with rain, and when they reached the crest they were absolutely unable to proceed further. Notwithstanding this condition, these ex hausted men labored during tne nignt to erect breastworks, furnish details to bury the dead, and carry the wounded back in improvised litters. I. sent word along the line that reinforcements would soon reach us, and that Lawton would join our right and that Gren. Bates would come up and strengthen our left. "During all the day on July 2 the cavalry division, Kent's division and Bates s brigade were engaged with the enemy, being subjected to a fierce fire and incurring many casualties, and later in the day Lawton's division also became engaged." .... L didn't wait to retreat. Accompanying the report is a copy of the dispatches which were sent to General Shafter by General Wheeler, beginning June 25 and ending July 2. On July 1, at 8:20 p. m., General "Wheeler, writing from San Juan, has the following to say about withdrawing from the position we had won: "A number of officers have appealed to me to have the line withdrawn and take up a strong position farther back-. I have positively discountenanced this," as it would cost us much prestige. The lines are very thin, as so many men have gone to the rear with wounded ana so many are exhausted, but I hope these men can be got up to-night and with our line intrenched and Lawton on our right we ought to hold to-morrow buc I fear it will be a severe day. If we can get through to-morrow all right we can make our breastworks very strong the next night. You can hardly realize the exhaused condition of the troops. The Third and Sixth Cavalry and other troops were up marching and halted on the road all last night, and have fought for twelve hours to-day, and those that are not on the line will. be digging trenches to-night. i was on the extreme front line. The men* were lying down and reported the Spaniards not more than three hundred yards in their front." Hilton's. Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison from ''Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will rt rVAlCA*! <juuiiu;iav;o tuc jjuiauu nuni jjilco \jl snakes an stings of insects. It is a' sure cure for sore throat. Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle. BARGAINS SECOND HANI) MACHINERY GINS, GINS, GINS. One 70 saw Lummus gin, feeder and condenser, good order, $90. One 40 saw Winahip gin at. d condenser, good order, $50. One 40 saw Winship gin feeder aad condenser, good order, $60. One 45 saw Winship gia, fiir order, $15. One 60 saw Van Winkle feeder, good order, $20. One 80 saw Pratt gin, feeder aod condenser, good ad new, $200. Two 60 saw Pratt gius. feeders and condens- i am rrr\ r\ /in/f a* 'ill/ lH ooaK ciD) gyvu yivv vovuOne 70 s*w Pratt gin feeder and condenser, good order, ?120- :. ' Two 60 saw Munger feederri, g-x>d order $l5 One 60 saw Winship feeder, good order, $15 Ore 50 saw Van Winkle feedt-r; gooi order $12.5?. One 70 saw Pratt feeder; good order $20 One 70 saw Pratt condenser, good order $20 ENGINES AND BOILERS One 20 H. P Atlas engine and 25 H. P. por- ' table boiler tomplete, good order, $250. v Oae 25 H. P. Liddelt rngine and 25 H. P. . Atlas returu tubular l-vii-.r complete, good' : order, $275. One 12 H. P. portable boiler, f*ir order $75-- i One 15 H P Geiaer engine and boiler on. wheels, good order, $100 One 4 H P engine and boiler on fx ds, fair order, $50. One 6 UP Vertical engine and boiler, [Farquhar], good order. $75, One 20 H P 'loztr engine and boujron skid' good order, $400. One 20 H P Ene engine a'i<! rfei urn tuKulai J boiler m good order, $2oU. r One 20 H P Lombard return tabular boiler, good order, $100 MLS ;Et LAN ECUS. One Talbott Pony s** mill, fair ord?-r. $100 I One ttoodt-ll & Water* 24 surfacer $75. Two iivss cotton pres.xuc, good order, $75 eaca The above ofiered aunjtct to prior pale Write us quirk. UnusualJy low prices on new machiaery, all kinds V. H. GIBBES & CO. 1 Near Union Depot, Columbia rt. C. S. C, Agents Liddell Co,, Charl tie. N. 0. DRUGS. ALOlMOL iUtfdUCU. ( \Vr}J[ V is OT ^tei rePeat<-'^ failures try iog so-called cures and cneap cures, be rujtli Lj B/ 1 CCUEDat J UK? ! i THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, GREENVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA.. 1 (The cnly Keeley Institute in the ) amnuii * /> In ian.fr.M St M^.k -1 the most of iift hy :>ror^^^^Bucd w PLANO OR OKG-Ail Manic has a T-cfr.inz :ttflu*ac?. at>.i *teer?? yoirr children at home. 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No other High Grade Piano soldso 2K a? reasonable.' Factory prices to retail SB* fiGS, havers. Kasv navments. Write us. MS i LUDOEN & BATES* S (?8 StTtau^t tad K?rT?rkCttr> WM Mwm m Address; I>. A. FRESSLEY, Agent, Columbia, S. C. ' "^3 Saw Mills. / If you need a saw mill, any site, writers, * " #1 me before buying elsewhere. I hare ! the most complete line of mills ef any dealer or manufacturer in tfee South. nr*ii t uorn muis. i Very highest grade Stone*, at unusual-Iv low prices. Wood-Working Machinery. | i Planers, Moulders, Bdger, Re-9s?9 Band Saw?. Laths, etc. '}? Euarines and Boilers, Talbott and Liddoll, Bngleherg Rice Holler, in stock, quick delivery, low prices. V. C. B VDHAM, iS26Mv(. Jll I HILTON'S S Wm. 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