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(| BE THOU HONEST, j Dr. Talmage Preaches on Various j Methods of Getting Money. ITS POWER IN POLITICS. | ? ? r I Its Use Is Fruitful source ot corruption. Bribery is Villainy. Violation of Solemn Trust B&.:- Unpardonable Offense. g?, Dr. Talmage in this discourse ar-j p raigns the various modes by which some fprs;' peoj^e get money that does not belong to them and commends the fair dealing that succeeds best at last; text. 1 TimO k -T<U f o f wi 11 ho n r?Vi fall Ul?U^ VI, ^7? jLiitsj iiiaw n in K/\, *. ?? 2?f?f into a temptation and a snare, and into g?\v;. many foolish and hurtful lusts, which |p?-- drown men in destruction and perdi tion." That is th e Niagara falls over which rush a multitude of souls? namely, the determination to have ??? - the money anyhow, right or wrong. X Tell me how a mau gets his money and j p. what he does with it and I will toll you his character and what will be his destiny in this world and^the next. I propose to speak today about the ruinous modes of getting money. Tn all our city, state and national elections large sums of money are used in in bribery. Politics, from being the ?-j science oi goou gu> eiLixucui-, no.o been bedraggled into the synonym for turbulency and turpitude. A monster sin, plausible, potent, pestiferous, has gone forth to <It> its dreadful work in all ages. Its two hands are rotten with leprosy. It keeps its right hand hidden in a deep pocket The left hand is clinched, and with its icherous knuckle it taps at the door of the courtoom, the legislative hall, the congress and the parliament. The door swings open and the monster enters and glides through the aisles of the couneii chamber softly as x slippered page, and thea it takes its " * - ? 1 A I right hand from its deep pocket ana 01fers it in salutation to judge or legislator. If that hand be taken and the palm of the intruder cross the palm of the official, the leprosy crosses from palm to palm in a round blotch, round as a gold eagle, and tfcs virus spreads, and the doom is fixed, and the victim perishes. Let briber}', accursed of ?rod and man, stand up for trial. The Bible arraigns it again and again. Samuel says of his two sons, who became judges; "They took bribes and perverted judgment." David says S\( a/vmsi nf 'kii, nnKnArc ?'ThAir riffbfc IV1 OVliig VI JLL&O ?Q I hand is full of bribes," Amos says of j some men in bis day, "They take a feribe and turn aside the poor in tbe : ^ gate." Eliphaz foretells the crashing fclowsof God's indignation, declaring, "'Tire shall consume the tabernacles of n bribery." The president of the American congress during the American Revolution, General Reed was offered 10,000 guineas by foreign commissioners if he would betray this country. He replied, ""Gentlemen, I am a very poor man, but >^>11 tTAnl- L-i-ntr 1C Tint. PTtflTl<?ll tO Ifcuyme." But why go so far when you and I, if we move in honorable soeiety, know men and women who by ali the forces of earth and hell could not 6e bribed. They would no more 'be bribed than you would think of tempting an angel of light to exchange heaven for the pit. To offer a bribe is villainy, but it is a very poor compliment to the man to whom it is offered. II have not much faith in those peo- j pie who go about bragging how much get if they would only sell out. Those women who complain that they are very often insulted need to understand that there is something in their carriage to invite insult. There are men at Albany and at Harrisburg and at Washington who would no more be ft approached by a bribe than a pirate hnot uMth i few wmild dare to (Attack a British man-of-war -with two banks organs on each side loaded to die touchhole. They are incorruptible men, and they are the few men who are to save the city and save the land. Meanwhile my advice is keep out of .politics unless you are invunrable to this style of temptation. Indeed if even you are naturally strong you need religious buttressing. Nothing but the .grace of God can sustain our public men And make them what we wish. I wish that there might come an old fashioned revival of religion, that it might break out in congress ana tne legislatures ana bring many of the leading Republicans .and Democrats down on the anxious seat of repentance. That day will come, or something better, for the Bible declares that kings and queens shall become nursing fathers and mothers to the church, and if the greater in authority then certainly the less. My charge also to parents is, remember that this evil of bribery often begins in the home circlc and in the nursery. Bo not bribe your children. Teach them to do that wincli is rignt, and not because of the 10 cents or the } -orange which you will give them. There is a great difference between rewarding virtue and making the profits thereof the impelling motive. That man who is honest merely because ' 'honesty is the best policy'' is already a moral bankrupt. jj*v My charge to you in all departments of life, steer clear of bribery, all of you. mon on(] Ttrnmi Tl fit. SftTTlf* tlTTlP will be tempted to do wrong for compensation. The bribe may be offered gpv; in money:"'"It may be offered in social position. Let us remember that there is a day coming when the most secret Si* transaction of private life and of public life will come up for public reprehension. We cannot bribe sickness, we cannot bribe death, we cannot bribe the grave, we cannot bribe the judgments of that God who thunders against this sin. "Fief' said Cardinal Beaufort, "nc! lvr?h(vl^ Ts rnnnfiV Xu/Ull V U V/MiVAi. k/v VAAWM _ ^ nothing? Must I die. and so rich? If ;the owning of the whole realm would save me. I could^et it by policy or by purchase?by money." No, death would not be bribed then. lie will not be bribed now. Men of the world often regret that they have to leave their money here when they go away from the world. You can tell from what they say in their last hours that ? / .1 _i_ .L.-.r <one 01 wiuir cuiei suiiu?a ia im,; have to leave their money. I break that delusion. I tell that bribe taker that he will take his money with him. <xod will wrap it up in your shroud, or put it in the palm of your hand in resurrection, and there it will lie, not the fe. cool, bright, shining gold as it was on gppr-;- the day when you sold your vote and your moral principle, but there it will lie, & hot metal, burning and consuming ycur hand forever. Or. if there be enougn of it for a chain, then it will fall over the wrist, clanking the fetters of an eternal captivity. The bribe is an everlasting possession. \ ou take it for time, you take it for eternity. Some ! day in the next world, when you are longing for sympathy, you will feel on your cheek a kiss. Looking up, you will find it to be Judas, who took 30 pieces of silvtr as a bribe ana finished the bargain by putting an infamous kiss on the pure cheek of his Divine Master, j Bite Another wrong use of money is seen j in the abuse of trust funds. Nearly i every man during the course of his life, j on a larger or smaller scale, has the j property of others committed to his j keeping. He is so far a safety deposit, j he is an administrator and holds in his j - - - " ' " -?v * ! hand the interest or tue lamnj ui ? uc ceased friend, or he is an attorney, and j through his custody goes the payment j from debtor to creditor, or he is the j collector for a business house, which i compensates hiru for the responsibility, or he is treasurer for a charitable in- j stitution, and he holds alms contributed for the suffering, or he is an official of the city or the state or the nation, and taxes aad subsidies and salaries and supplies are in his keeping. There is not a city that has not suffered from the abuse of trust funds. Where is the courthouse or the city hall Or CDC Jitii ur LUC vx vuv . pital that in the building of it has not had a political job? Long before the new courthouse in Xew York city was completed it cost $12,000,000. Five million six hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars for furniture! For plastering and repairs, #2,370,000; for plumbing and gas works. $1,231,817; for awnings, $23,553, the bills for three months coming to nice little sum of $13,151,198.39. There was not an honest brick or stone or lath or nail or i fnnt. nf nJumbinir or inkstand or door knob in the whole establishment. ! That bad example vras followed in ! many of the cities, which did not steal ! quite so much because there was not so much to steal. There ought to be a closer inspection, and there ought to be less opportunity for embezzlement. Lest a man shall take a 5 cent piece that does not belong to him, the conductor on the city horse car must sound his bell at every payment, and we ar-e very cautious about small offenses, but give plenty of opportunities for sinners on a large scaje to escape?for a boy who steals a loaf of bread from a corner grocer to keep his mother from starving to "? . ii. ~" i . /? j V ~ death, a prison, out xor afifWfii.ers \miu abscond with $500,000, a castlo qr f&e i .Bhine, or, waiting until the offense is forgotten, a castle on the Hudson. Another remark needs to be made, and that is that people ought not to go into places, into business or into positions where the temptation is mightier than their character. If there be large sums of money to be handled, and the man is not sure of his own integrity, I you have no right to run an unseaworthv j sraft in a hurricane. A man can tell by tiie sense of weakness or strength in ! the presBKGQ of a bad opportunity whe-v j ther he is in a- soie place. How many i rwrpnrst makf? an awfiii mistake when they put their boys in banking louses J and stores and shops and factories aod J places of solemn trust without once diS' j cussiug whether they can endure the temptation! You give the boy plenty of woney and have no account of it and make the way down become very easy and you may put upon him a pressure that he eaapot stand. There are men who go into positions full of temptation, considering ouiy that they are lucrative positions. An abbot wanted to buy a piece ojF, ground., &nd the owner would not sell it, but the owDxtr finally consented to let it .to him until he could raise one crop, and the abbot sowed Acosnc?a crop of > A-J T ?UU ycsrsj -3.Liu. i ttjn I that the dishonesties which you plant, in your heart and life will seem to be very insignificant, but they will grow up until they will overshadow you with horrible darkness, overshadow all time and all eternity. It will not be a crop for 200 years, but a crop for everlasting ages. You have no right to use the property of others except for their advantage, nor without consent, unless they are minors. If with their consent you invest their nroDerty as well as you can. and ifc is all lost, you are not to blame. You did the best you could, but do not come into the delusion, which has ruined so many men, of thinking because a thing is in their possession, therefore it is theirs. You have a solemn trust that God has given you. In any community there may be some who have misappropriated trust funds. Put them back or, if you have so hopelessly involved them that you cannot put them back, confess the whole thing to those whom vou have wronged, and you will sleep better nights,1 and you ^ill have the better chance for your soul. What a sad thing it would be if after you are dead your administrator should find out from the account books, or from the lack of vouchers, that you were* not only bankrupt in estate, but that you lost your soulj A blustering young man arrived at a hotel in the west, and he saw a man on the sidewalk whom he supposed to be a laborer, and in a rough way, as no man has a right to address a laborer, said to lism, "Carry this trunk up stairs." The man carried the trunk up stairs and came flio v/vrmor TrtM CfLVP UU? Uj auu uuva vuv ^ Q? v him a quarter of a dollar which was clipped, and instead of being 25 cents it was worth only 20 cents. Then the young man gave his card to the laborer and said: "You take this up to Governor Grimes. I want to see him."' "Ah," said the laborer, "I am Governor Grimes." "Oh," said the young man, "you-I-excuse me." Then thegovernor said: "I was much impressed by the letter you wrote me asking for a certain office in my gift, and I had made up my mind you should have it, but a young man who will cheat a laborer out of 5 cents would .swindle the government of the state if he got his hands on it. I don't want you. Good morning. sir.7' I do not suppose there was ever a better specimen of honesty than was found in the Duke of Wellington. He marched with his army over the French frontier.' aud the army was suffering, and lie scarcely knew how to get along. Plenty of plunder all about, but he commanded none of the plunder to be takens He writes home these remarkable word. "We are overwhelmed with debts, and I can scarcely stir out of my house on accouut of public creditors, waiting to demand what is duo to them." Yet at Via fin-in flio liVonf'li nftjisantrr were bringing their valuables to him to keep. A celebrated writer says of the transaction: "Nothing can be grander or more nobly original than this admission. This old soldier, after 30 years' service, this iron man and victorious general, established in an enemy's country at tiie neaa or an immense army, is afraid of his creditors! This is a kind of fear that has seldom troubled conquerors and invaders, and I doubt if the annals of war present anything comparable to its sublime simplicity." Oh, is it not high time that we preach the morals of the gospel right beside the faith of the gospel? Mr. Froude. the celebrated English historian, has writ ten of his own country these remarkable words: "Prom the great house in the city of London to the village grocer the commercial life of England has been saturated with fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly honest tradesman can hardly hold his ground against competition. You can no longer trust that any article you buy is the thing which it pretends to be. We have false weights, false measures, cheating and ' ' ' - ifKmmkMdSh * shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in absolute indifference. Many hundreds of sermons have I heard in England on the divine mission of the clergy, on bishops and on justification, and the theory of good works, aud verbal inspiration, and the efficacy of the sacraments, but daring all these oU wonderful years never one that I can recollect 011' common honesty." Dr. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was descended from the highlanders, and he said that one of his ancestors. .!? j.\.. one ox uic mgiiiu.uucr&, uuv uav tiuiuu his family around him. The highlander was dying. He liad his children around his deathbed. He said: "Now my lads. I have looked all through our history as far back as I can find it, and T have never found a dishonest man in all the line, and I want you to understand you inherit good blood. You have no excuse for doing wrong. My lads, be honest." I am glad some one has set to music that scene in August, 1S81, when a young girl saved from death a whole rail fain of passengers. Some of you Atif xrAcf 111 tlinf \*nnr An i ^ UUl^lJJl IJU1 UJUll'iu wuuw J Viv* vtt a stormy night a hurricanc blew down part of a railroad bridge. A freight train came along, and it crashed into the ruin, and the engineer and conductor perished. There was a girl living iit liar father's cabin, near the disaster, and *he heard the crash of the freight train, and the knew that in a few moments an express was due. She lighted a lantern and clambered up on the one 1 O .1 - 1 .1 T ! J ? 4. ^ 4.1. ^ Deam 01 uie ivrecseu uriugc uu tu wiu main bridge, which was trcstlework, and started to cross amid the thunder and the lightning of the tempest and the raging of the torrent beneath. One misstep and it would have been death. Amid all that horror the lantern went out. Crawling sometime and sometimes walking over the slippery rails and over the trestlework, she came ito the other side of the river. She wanted to get to the telegraph station where the express train did not stop, so that the danger might be telegraphed to the station wksfti the train did stop. The train [ was due in a few minutes. She was anA milft off from tha telesrranh station. but fortunately the train was fate. "With cut and bruised feet she flew like the wind. Coming up to the telegraph station panting with almost deadly exhaustion, she had only strength to shout, "The bridge is down!" when she dropped unconscious and could hardly by resuscitated. The message was sent from that station to the next station, and the train halted, and that night that brave girl saved the lives of hundreds of passengers and saved many homes from desolation. But every street is a track, and every style of business ig a track, and every day is a track, nf auu ywv ?? % *. Vtemptation come sweeping on and sweeping down toward perils raging and terrific. God help us to go out and stop the train! Let us throw some signal. Let us give some warning. By the throne of God let us flash some influence to stop the downward progress. Beware! Beware! The bridge is down, the chasm is deep, and the lightnings of God set all the night of sin on fire with this warning; "He that, being often reproved, hardeneth his ijeck shall suddenly be destroyed, an'd that without remedy." A ?00) DEED REWARDED. Advertising Seemed Altogether |oo Expensive for Backwoods Wife, t;I was running a paper down in Tennessee then," prefaced the ex-newspaper man, whose only work now is to collect what other people owe him in the way of rents and interest. "One of the few fine looking women you find in the mountains of that region walked into the office one afternoon and said: 'Be youins the editor?' "Upon being informed that I enjoyed that distinction, she looked me over as though greatly disappointed and then told a long story of petty domestic difficulties that had led to the disappearance of her husband about two weeks before. Now she wanted to put in a nice advertisement telling that he was forgiven and'that she longed to have him at home. How much would 1 charge her? " 'Two dollars an inch,' I answered. ' 'Taking a pencil and a sheet of copy paper she figured laboriously for pretty nearly an hour. At length she tore the paper into shreds and was deliberately walking out of the office when I asked her if she thought the charge was too high. " 'I don't reckon I know anything 'bout yur business, suh. But I .never ? it -x 1 1? h j bee mat uiuun xiume^, let ei IUUC utiuulin' of it. Joe's wuth it, but I couldn't nevrr buy him back at them figgers. He's six foot three in his bare feet, suh, Joe is. At $2 a inch I make it ?150. I'll just have to go oijt and' git his trail and foller.' "I didn't even smile, gentlemen. There was something noble in her resignation. I advertised 'Joe,' got other j u:~ papers to copy uuu vyu iuuiiuuu mm up. One morning there was a ten-gallon keg of moonshine whisky at my kitchen door, and I did not advertise for an owner."' The Deadly Razor. In Saluda County recently Simon Hailstock fell upon one John Payne with a razor and with one blow cut his throat from ear to ear. severing the jugular vein and killing him instantly. Both parties are negroes. It is said j ill-feeling existed between them, which arose from John Payne having thrashed Simon's uncle recently for "examining and sampling" his watermelons in the nighttime." Half Roasted; Then Drowned. Advices from the orient by the empress of Japan says: "An appalling tragedy has taken plucc at Taku Bar. A big junk laden with spirits caught lire in the midst of a storm. Twentyeight souls were first half roasted to death, and then in a frenzy jumped overboard and drowned to a man. So high a sea was running that help was impossible. *t -r*__i._i ? i: ixew rusuu -cuuing. Hereafter only letters will be returned by the postoffiee t? the sender, unless lull return postage is paid. No second, third or fourth-class matter is to be returned or forwarded to a new address without additional postage. The new law covers newspapers, books and packages of merchandise. Lost on a Steamer. Details state that there were IS perfAT\C /\f\ fiivATi cfnomnr .Tnccm tVin OvlJO V Li 1 1 ? UA OUVU1UV1 '7 CIVj V* V"V Columbia Exploration company, which foundered in the Kuskowim river, Alaska, during a severe storm on July 2Sth. It is thought all were lost. The steamer Jessie, at the time of the disaster, had in tow the barge Minerva, loaded with supplies. Hundred of Lives Lost. Violent storms and floods it is an nounced in advices just received nere from the island of Formosa, have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives at Tai I'eh. that island. Great damage was done to property there. ?I 0 ~ !* I?aaai^ I A. ROWDY MEETING, j The Candidates Curse and Draw Pistols at Greenviile. i | THE LIE PASSED FREELY. | Thomas and Cray Have a Squally Time. Other Candidates Conducted Themselves Decently and in Order. Last Thursday was campaign day at Greenville, and the old town had a hot time in consequence. "Villain!" i:Ser pent: .Liar: but 110 bones broken, no blood shod. The reproofs valiant and the counter-cheeks quarrelsome of previous campaign meetings dwindle into nothingness beside the lies direct and the balheaded dams that hurtled across the hustings Thursday. Dynamite guns were utilimbered, causing correspondents, whose fi <t thought was to live to tell the story, to execute the double shuffle to escape an enfilading fire, that somehow didn't enfilade. The vaudeville outdid itself, and there was Iladean heat in tlie atmosphere. Tantalizing Thomas, Gritty Gray and Eager Evans, alias Belligerent Barney, were the star performers. The other members of the troupe remaining in the wings during the pyrotechnics. Those who looked for a hot time during the railroadcommission tilt were not disappointed. Commissioner Thomas lampooned Gen. Gray on his native heath, ridiculing his business record, and Gen. Gray applied the lie without it's and buts, which ended in a torrent of epithets. Major Evans finally get[ ting into the breach and painting the commissioner s record in black. The story of the day is an unprecedented one. After twenty speeches had been made by conaidates for both offices Chairman Austin read the following by request: "Railroad Commissioner Thomas offers a reward of $50 to any o.f his com-.petitors who, by Monday next, will figure any just and reasonable rate of fertilizer as the law requires, based on the cost of service, over the different roads of this State. The money has been deposited in the City National Bank of Greenville, and au order for the same will be given to any one of them complying with the above." The reading had scarcely concludcd when Major Evans bounded to the front and cried. ' "There's no use to wait 1 T ill i ' 1 i until iuonaay, I want tnat money rignt now!"' He began to calculate the rate, Mr, Thomas endeavoring to stop him, telling the chairman it was not fair to let Evans speak out of his turn. Evans stood to the rack, declaring he had been challenged and would reply. After detailing the amount of investment, debt, earnings, etc, of the Southern Railway, he figured that the average rate on all money's invested, basing the rate of inte?st at4J per cent, is 27 cents per hundred or less, than carload lots for eleven classes. "Now," he cried, "Mr. xnomas, give me your money: "You haven't said a thing." declared Thomas; "that's all goose gabble." "Oh," said Evans, "so you are to be | the judge, that's where the slick scheme comes in, I leave it to the people whether I calculated a rate." (Voice: "That's what you did.'") (Laughter and .cheering,) Commissioner Thomas began his j speech, When he referred to the reward Evans declared he had a string if f!Anfir?ttir?cr Tin LiUU. VV 4.V, VVUWi.UUAUg *4Vi *M?\? fought his colleagues on the board because for four years they had robbed the farmers of Greenville of sixty cents per ton on fertilizers. Voice: "Can you calculate that rate?" Thomas: "Yes; I am trained to it. I saved the people one hundred thousand dollars by my rate." Gen. Gray interrupted with a motion that the hve minutes time of tiie seven candidates be extended to ten minutes, "for," said he, "I want to show this man up." Mr. Thomas: *'Mr. Gray is a clcver gentleman. He's a sample of the rest of my opponents. He's a lawyer in Greenville with a client, hunting a job. The rccord shows that he has not had a case in five years. I went by his office today, and the grass was growing around it. and a hole in the window was stop ped up with a pair of old breeches. He j has been a dead failure in everything he has tried. Now, is it safe to entrust such a man with this important position?" Gen. Gray sat still under-this assault When his turn came he said he had not lived in Greenville for twenty-eight years for nothing, and "the people will give the lie to this man's charges, as I now do." As he said this he stepped toward Mr. Thomas, shaking his finger. "The people don't know it, though,' declared Th<?mas with a laugh. Gray; "TLey knew it is i}Ot true." Thomas: <;Yes it is, every word of it." /~i ?- uti i.^ i 'i. iisA unty. it siiuws iiu liu.su l i,ue instincts of a gentleman when he comes here with these words against me.;' Thomas; "I'm just telling who you are."' Thomas was laughingly, sneeringly cool, and Gray was crowding on steam under his rising indignation. "This man," he said, 1'has been abusing us all and crying persecution. You know my record as a lawyer. (Voice; 'You are all right, go ahead.*) For years I have not practiced. I have held public office and my investments have given me some incomc. A school boy can ficrure his nronosition with the data be fore him. Above ail it requires a man of integrity and character for this position, which he has not got.'" Thomas: "You tell me that outside and I will show you I have some manhood." Gen. Gray's time had expired and a hot colloquy took place as he backed to i * ..r j j.?i JUS seal. i uenuuuue yuu its u iuui ui the railroads." he cpied. Thamas: "That's a lie." Gray, coming forward to this corresspondcnt's table, which with one other separated the two men. "And you are a d?d liar." Mr. Thomas kept his scat, looking imperturbable, and banteringly rejoined '"Oh, you old villain." Gen. Gray was bursting with indigna tion and he shouted: "You serpent you arc worse than a serpent, you scoundrel." Several other hot flings went back and forth. Gray gorgonizing Thomas with his gaze, and Thomas laughing scornfully. It was a dangerous moment. Several voices were heard calling on Gray to sit down, and declaring that no fighting would be allowed. Then the smoke cleared away and the first skirmish ended. Major Evcns's speech followed. It was a hot tomala. lie scorched Thomas for his reward scheme, declaring he had : unmasked him, and that he would leave ; it to any committee to decide. Even if : he got the money, he said. Thomas : would get out recovrry papers and make i a plea of gambling. What the people wanted was an honest man who would ] not trade with the railroads. (Voice? ] | Eat him up.) brans declared that Thomas* record was so black that the ! people would turn him down and elect : a man of honesty and integrity. This j broadside provoked "ho ho" from j Thomas. Kvans concluded in a capital speed), pronounced by his friends the best anti-Thomas efforts of the campaign. . The above exciting scenes was foiInmA/l rt mimV.AM />f | iu V) UU V + cl JIU11IUCI U1 other candidates, all of whom tried to show why they should each have the particular office they were seeking. Mr. Featherstone was aggressive. He considered it an insult to say that there was no sentiment to uphold prohibition. Mr. Archer appealed to the people not to be carried bv a supposed condition of society on the prohibition question. Mr. Whitman was in a trouncing humor. and made a characteristic specch. Gov. Eilerbe declared that he had tried to be governor of the whole people. He said Col. Watson's charge against him for not appointing Reformers as officers of the first regiment was un- j worthy of him. Stokes, Tillman, Jarnegan, Tomkins and Haseldcn were lieformers. but he tried to rise above partizanship, making appointments re gardless or political affiliations. Ellerbe was followed by Schumpert, who made a plea for high license as against the dispensary. Then' came Col. Geo. D. Tillman, who made a characteristic speech. He was followed by Col. "Watson, who claimed that it would be a mockery for Prohibitionists to vote for Featherstone, who had joined the ranks on piobation only five years ago, and against himself, as he had never drunk liquor. {:Is this young man," said he, to displace a temperance - 'f " .4... 1 1 ' _1l UKin ui siity years, who uas given an his life to fight whiskey, who has educated a generation not to touch it and who has made it disreputable in his neighborhood to handle it," He then went on to say that the prohibitionist did not expect to get prohibition as they were making no fight for the legislature. The other speakers were, Bellinger, Mower, McSweeney, Derham, Epton, Berry, Garris, Stansell and Sligh: The candidates were handsomely and agreertnA Kir tlii* r?ifi7onc nf vii bv;itaiuv/u vjj tuv \j* Greenville. CROPS EN" THE STATE. Too Much Rain in Many Quarters Injuring Grain and Fruit. The temperature conditions were favorable for crop development during the week, and over the central belt of counties, from the Georgia to the North Carolina borders, sunshine and rainfall were also favorable factors, but elsewhere there were i^a^y and extensive areas whe^e tfc? rainfall was excessive ai^d sunshine deficient, conditions that had a deteriorating effect on the staple crops, particularly cotton, Reports from York, Spartanburg, Union, Abbeville, Anderson, Richland and from Marlboro and Marion counties, and less extended areas in many other counties indicate that the corn and cotton crops are very promising, as are all the minor rood and forage crops, but these conditions are not uniform over the State, and are not the prevailing ones for corn, while cotton, cane, peas, sweet potatoes, tobocco and rice are making satisfactory growth and development. Crops ^re practically all layed by, biit generally in q, fery grassy condition, however, \yith numerous reports of clean, well cultivated fields. The condition of corn seems to lack uniformity, with many fields where a large yield is assured, but during the woal" mn^Ti wo? rtamsifl'Arl by heavy rains. Ears as a rule are well filled and matured. Young corn is "firing" on light soils, while much stubble corn was injured by excessive rain. Fodder pulling has progressed rapidly, and is under way over the eastern and central counties; some fodder lost by frequent rains in Berkeley and Barnwell counties. In York and Saluda counties the corn crop is reported extra fine. In localities where little or no rain fell, and where normal amount of sunt i t ,, "1 sninc prevailed, cotton maae seasonable improvement in fruitage and has put on a large July crop, but there is complaint of rust and shedding increasing rapidly, particularly from Dorchester, Beaufort. Orangeburg, Lexington, Barnwell, Colleton,-Sumter, Williamsburg and Chesterfield counties; such reDorts are not confined to those counties but, with a few exceptions, include portions of every county in the State. In Abbeville a great deal of cotton has been practically abandoned on account of grass. Cotton is turning yellow or red on certain light soils, where growth has stopped, and is scaling or firing in Pickens. It was injured by rain in Newberry. Bolls are opening slowly, and are needing dry weather and sushine. Sea Island cotton is in splendid condition and clean of grass and weeds: is blooming extremely, with some little fruitage, but sunshine greatly needed. Tobacco cutting and curing is nearing completion in Florence and Williamsburg counties and is .veil advanced elsewhere, with a continuation of favorable reports from all tobacco districts. With the exception of too wet for rice on bottom lands in Bamberg county, this crop continues to look promising. It is heading in the earliest, or kin I tUUOb UiOUllUt/Oj awu uilii ^uiviu^/iv weather, harvesting will soon begin. Grass for hay has attained a heavy growth. Cuttir.0 continues in Charleston county, but has not generally begun in "Williamsburg. Sugar cane and sorghum arc reported very fine. Sugar making will begin this week. The condition of cane is above an average over the entire State. Sweet potatoes look very promising as do field peas and peanuts. Some peavine hay has been made. In some of the western countics there is a slut of watermelons, where also peaches continue plentiful, but there is a scarcity of apples and pears. Typhoid Fever Rampant. Privates E. L. Miller, Company A, Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers: Kobt. Vaughn, Company M, Nineteenth infantry. and Daniel Fisher, troop M, Second United States cavalry, died at Atlanta Thursday of typhoid fever at Ft. McFhcrson. There are now 4UU eases of typhoid fever there of which fifty arc in a serious condition. Extra precautions to guard against infection has been taken by Maj. Bubb. the commanding officer, and the three thousand recruits will be sent to other camps as soon as possible. The Firt New Bale. A neAV bale of cotton was sold in Columbia on Tuesday. August 9. This 11 /1 T* r T T bale was raised Dy uapt. v\. jj. u. >\ nson, who lives at Pleasant, in the upper part of Richland. Capt. Wilson is sixty-eight years old, and this fact makes the honor all the greater for him in bringing the first new bale to market. The bale weighed 420 pounds, classed middling, and?fought 8 cents per pound. y \ \ I T\ i m m *r ? m w i > t t t i 15 A11 LJi A1 MM I LA. j j | The Spaniards Make Desperate Attack on the Americans. | THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. The Mettle of Our Soldiers Was Put to the Severest Test. They FoughtWell and Won. A dispatch from Hong Kong under date of Aug. 9 says advices just received from Manila show that a severe engagement took place on July 31 between the Spaniards and Americans near Manila. The latter were victorious, but had 11 men killed and 37 wounded. The battle occurred on the night of July 31. A dispatch to the World savs: Gen. Green's force, numbering 4.000 men, had been advancing and entrencliing. The arrival of the third expedition filled the Spaniards with rage and they determined to give battle before Camp Dewey could be reinforced. The trenches extended from the beach 300 yards to the left flank of the insurgents Sunday was the insurgent feast dav and their left flank withdrew, leaving the American right flank exposed. Companies A and E of the Tenth Pennsylvania and Utah battery were ordered to enforce the right flank. In the midst of a raging typhoon with a tremendous downpour of rain the enemy's forces, estimated at 3,000 men, attempted to surprise the camp. Our pickets were driven in and the trenches assaulted. Tne brave Pennsylvania men . never flinched, but stood their ground under a withering fire. The alarm spread and the First California regiment,- with two companies of the Third artillery, who fought with rifles, were sent up to reinforce the Pennsylvanians. The enemy. were on top of the trenches when these reinforcements arrived, and never was the discipline of the regulars better demonstrated than by the work of the Third artillery under Capt.v O'Hara. Nothing could be seen but flashes of Mauser rifles. Men ran right up to the attaching Spaniards and mowed them down-with regular volleys. The Utah battery, under Capt. Young, covered itself with glory. The men pulled their guns through mud axle-deep. Two guns were sent around in flank and poured in a destructive enfilading fire. The enemy was repulsed a,nd retreated in disorder. Our infantry had exhausted its ammunition and did not follow the enemy. Not an inch of ground was lost, but the scene in the trenches was one never to be forgotten. During flashes of lightning the dead and wounded could be seen lying in blood-red water, but neither the elements of heaven nor the destructive power of man- could wring a cry of protest from the wounded. They encouraged their comrades to fight, and handed over their cartridge belts. During the night the Spanish scouts were seen carrying oflt dead and wounded. of the enemy. The American dead were buried next day in the convent of Maracaban. On the night of August 1st the fighting was renewed, but the enemy had been taught a lesson and made the attack at lcng range with heavy artjljery. The Utah battery replied and the artillery duel lasted an hour. One man was killed. He was Fred. Springster, Firt Colorado, and two men were wounded. On the night of August 2d the artillery duel was renewed. Two men were badly wounded and are reported dead, bringing the total dead to 13, with 10 in hospital mortally wuuaucu. The Spanish are stunned and demoralized by the great victory won by the Americans against such odds. According to reports brought by the refugees all the advantages were so clearly on the side of the Spanish that the soldiers ' and residents of Malite expected nothing less than the driving of the Ameri- ' cans into the sea. Their hopes had : also been buoyed up by the Spanish press at Malite, which published lying ] reports as to the woeful conditions and weakness of numbers of the Americans. ; The Spanish loss is very heavy including several oncers. The Spanish 1 plan wa,a to turn sue American nank, < make a joint attack on the front and ( right with the intention of killing as ' many as possible, to demoralize the American force before the general ad- ' vance on jVlianila. They fought dog- gedly to this end, but the steady fire of the American rifles and batteries utterly unexpected, caused the Spanish to withdraw into the Malite forts and trenches. - Gen. Green issued this address to the troops: "Camp Dewey, Near Manila. 1 -The brigadier general commanding 4 desire to thank the troops engaged last I night for gallantry and skill displayed * by them in repelling such a vigorous ? attack by largely superior forces of * Spaniards. Not a a inch of ground was * yielded by the Tenth Pennsylvania in- 1 fantrv and Utah artillery stationed in J2 the trenches. A battalion of the Third * artillery and First regiment of California infantry moved forward to their . support through a galling fire with the utmost intrepedity. The courage and (, steadiness shown hv all in the encace- ^ ments is worthy of the highest commendation.'' C THE KILLED. In Sunday night's skirmish the fol- C lowing were killed: George W. E. Brown of the Tenth c Pennsylvania. ^ Private Brady of the Tenth Penn- , sylvania. Private Bowker of the First Wyom- ( ing. Privates Hull, Brinton, Xoss and 1 Dtillwagciij all unaerstooa to oe 01 tne Tenth. Pennsylvania. First Sergeant Maurice' Just of the ^ First California. < Private Dawson, Battery K, Third ( artillery. Private MeKelrath, Battery A, Third ( artillery. - C Private Winfield, Battery II. Third artillery. c On Monday night Private Springstead ^ nf tlnn First (^olnradn was killed. Last night (Tuesday) the following were killed. . C Private "William Lewis Roddy of the C Twenty-third infantry. Private li. Bowers or the signal c corps. f Private Fred. Buckland of the Thirteenth Minnesota. q Some of the wounded in Sunday night's skirmish were struck by shrap- C nel. ; c imnnci a i nniini imulJCN iiUlAmUJj lUOAtUU. c Win HOT After repeated failures I (; TTTK trying so-called cures x t- i r Jv-v and cheaP curea> be IV rjJtLi E, X CURED at O K E? v rHE KEELEY INSTITUTE, GREENVILLE n SOUTH CAROLINA. ^ (The only iteeley Inslituie in the State ) s 9 THIEF AJTD ROBBEH. That is What a Western Evangelist Turned Out to Be. Whether to lynch or to canonize tho llev. Myron llilgard, alias "Ponca Jim" Lake, alias "Montana Jack/' alias a dozen other wild Western name's, is the question now agitating the residents ot'^Gregory County S. D. For four years the Rev. Mr. Hilgard has been known as one of the ablest evangelists in that part of South Dakota. For nearly the -same period "Ponca T i T O rtl' '* OTI/3 tViA rnct tj iixi. x'xui^vuiua *J u.rw. auu tuv xv/cv have beeif hated ami feared as the most daring and successful cattle rustlers, horse thieves, highwaymen and cutthroats on the range. It wus only a few days ago that the Rev. Mr. Hilgard. "Ponca Jim," ';Montana Jack,"etal, were discovered to be one and the same person. Hilgard was captured, after a long chase and a hot fight, with a quantity of stolen property in his possession and his hands red with the blood of several members of the attacking party. Many of the ranchmen favor hanging him to the nearest tree. In the face of the overwhelming evidence against him, however, his friends maintain that there must be some mistake and swear TWMMIA VllTil. The Rev. Mr. Iiilgard located, with his wife and three children, on a farm near Bonesteel in the fall of 1894, announced himself as an evangelist, and began holding meetings in and near the town, was master of a style of oratory peculiarly suited to the rough punchers and ranchmen who formed the greater part of his audience. Soon he received invitations to hold revivals at other hamlets throughout the cattle country. His life was supposed to be exemplar}-, ins girts to charity were liberal and his neighbors idolized him. About that time a series of bold robberies commenced in the vicinity.' Cattle were run out of the country and sold at Eastern markets, horses stolen by the score, lone travellers held up and robbed and isolated farm houses entered and ransacked. Those who resisted the perpetrator of the outrages?all were committed by a single man?invariably eome out second best, Once or twice the robber was pursued by large posses and only escaped by furious riding and evident familiarity with the country. On one occasion the fugitive disappeared over a hill top, An rrto/^Tiinrr +lia nnrartorc civr Hilgard himself sitting on the ground in a draw at the foot of the hillock. His horse had stepped in a gopher hole, thrown him and inflicted serious injured. Hilgard's explanation that he was riding down the draw and received his hurts in an attempt to clear the way for the fleeing desperado was readily accepted and the pursuit actually given over that all might assist in caring for the good man. His final capture was due to an audacious attempt to rustle a bunch of fine Rtpprs rrn Xifl- TTamraill's raneh fourteen miles north of Bonesteel. Hammill appeared just as the animals were being rounded up, and, after an exchange of shots with the thief, gathered a party of cowboys and started on his trail. So hot was the pursuit that the Rev. Mr. Hilgard, as the thief afterward ? proved to be, was driven to take refuge in an abandoned dugout: Here he stood his assailants off for seven hours, and surrendered only after being wounded six times. Hammill and three of his cowboys were also seriously hurt, one of the latter so badly that Vip will nr/VhaKlv dip Ordinarily, short wdrk would have been made of such a captive, but the discovery that it was their "dear pastor" Hilgard so completely overpowered the punchers that he was brought into Bonesteel and lodged in the municipal calaboose. In the prisoner's pockets were watches, rings and other articles of jewelry, some of which- have been identified by their former owners. One of Hilgard's victims was held up while tho evangelist was on his-way from Bonesteel to hold a revival series it Willow Creek, twelve miles distant, rhe victim was himself at some of thf.se meetings, but when he claimed to see i resemblance between the speaker and :he man who robbed him he narrowly escaped mobbicg. Several mnrders; it is said, may be aid at the reverend gentleman's door. few weeks ago the corpse of a ranchnan named Graham was found hidden n an abandoned well near town. Lilians from the neighboring reservation vere at first susDected. but evidence is iow said to have developed which joints strongly toward Hilgard as the nurderer. Hilgara's jonrneys from town to town o conduct meetings have made it com>aratively easy for him to carry on his awless career without discovery. Much >f the minister's plunder must have ! >een devoted to charitable purposes, i; lis captors believe he- actually com- i uitted many of his iaost serious oflfen- | ;es to raise money with which to. re- I ieve the necessities of poor families. j BARGAINS SECOND HAND MACHINERY! 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