The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, August 31, 1898, Image 4
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r ORIGIN OF MANKIND.!
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Dr. Talmage Pins His Faith to the ;
Divine Account.
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Attemptto Galvanize an Old Heathen
Doctrine Into Life. Scientific
Absurdities to Drive
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Cod and the Bible.
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The question of human origin, so
prominent now in scientific and religious
circles, is discussed in characteristic
style by Dr. Talmage in this discourse,
in which he also advocates the
theory that all the world's progress has
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come through Christianity; text, I Timothy
vi, 20, "0 Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
oppositions of science falsely, so
called!"
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. . The same God
who by the hand of prophet wrote on
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on the rock. The best teiescopcs and microscopes
and electric batteries and
philosophical apparatus belong to Christian
universities. "Who gave us magnetic
telegraphpy? Professor Morse, a
Christian. Who swung the lightnings
under the sea, cabling the continents
together? Cyrus W. Field, the Christtian.
Who discovered the anaesthetical
properties of chloroform, doing
more for the relief of human pain than
snv man that ever lived, drivinc back
nine-tenths of the horrors of surgery? j
James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, as j
eminent for piety as for science, on j
weekdays in the university lecturing |
on profoundest scientific subjects and j
on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of i
Jesus Christ to the masses of Edin- j
T sin fho rmiversitiAS of that
city * draped in mourning for his death.
and I heard his eulogy pronounced by
the destitute populations of the Cowgate.
Science' and revelation are the
bass and soprano of the same tune.
The whole world will yec acknowledge
the complete harmony, but between
what my text describes as science,
falsely so called, and revelation there
is an uncompromising war, and one or
the other must go under.
At the present time the air is filled
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and it is high
time that the people who have not time
to make investigation for themselves
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understand that evolution, in the first
place, is up and down, out and out infidelity;
in the second place, it is contrary
to the facts of science and, in the
third place, that it is brutalizing in its
tendencies. I do not argue that this
is a genuine book, I do not say that the
Bible is worthy of any kind of credence?those
are subiects for other Sab
baths?but I want you to understand
. that Thomas Paine and Hume and
Voltaire no more thoroughly disbe
lieved the Holy Scriptures than do all
the leading scientists who believe in
evolution. And when I say scientists
of course I do not mean literary men
or theologians who in essay or in sermon
and without giving their life to
scientific investigation look at the subject
on this side or that. By scientists
I mean those who have a specialty in
that direction and who through zoologi
cal garden and aquarium and astronomical
observatory give their life to the
study of the physical earth, its plants
- and its animals and the regions beyond
so far as optical instruments have explored
them.
I put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists?
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley,
Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, ye men of science, living
and dead, answer these questions:
Do you believe the Holy Scriptures?
No. And so they say all. Do you believe
the Bible story of Adam and Eve
in the garden of Eden? No. And so
they say all. Do you believe the mira
cles of the Uld and JNew Testaments:
No. And so they say all. Do you believe
that Jesus Christ died to save the
nations? No. And so they say all.
Do you believe in the regenerating
power of the Holy Ghost? No. And
so they say all. Do you believe that
human supplication direeted heavenward
ever makes any difference? No.
And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical ailments
to fate, and the authorized report
of that address begins the word
fate with a big "F." Professor Heckel,
| in the very first page of his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as a so
called revelation. Tyndall in his famous
prayer test, defied the whole of
Christendom to show that human supplication
made any difference in the result
of things. John Stuart Mill wrote
elaborately against Christianity, and to
show that his rejection of it was complete
ordered this epitaph for his tombstone,
"Most Unhappy." Huxley said
that at the first reading of Darwin's
book he was convinced of the fact that
teleology had received its death blow
at the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the
jfi leading scientists who believe in evoluW..
tion, without one exception, the world
over, are infidel. I say nothing against
: infidelity, mind you. I only wish to
define the belief and the meaning of
the rejection.
Now, I put opposite to each other, to
show that evolution is infidelity, the
Bible account of how the human race
started and the evolutionist account of
how the human race started. Bible
account: "God said let us make man
[Iti in our image. God created man in his
own image, male and temaie created ne
them." He breathed into him the
breath of life, the whole story setting
forth the idea that it was not a perfect
kangaroo or a perfect orang outang, but
a perfect man. That is the Bible account.
The evolutionist account: Away
back in the ages there were four or five
primal germs or seminal spores from
which all the living creatures . have
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you will find a vegetable stuff that
j|;'- might be called a mushroom. This
mushroom by innate force develops a
tadpole, the tadpole by innate force develops
a polliwog, the polliwog develops
a fish, the fish by natural force
.: X, develops into a reptile, the reptile de
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- develops into a baboon, the baboon develops
into a man.
Darwin says that the human hand i
only a fish's fin developed. He says
that the human lungs are only a swim
bladder, showing that wc once floated
or were amphibious. He says the human
car could once have been moved
by force or will just as a horse lifts its
ear at a frightful object. He says the
human -wftre ori<rinallv webfooted.
From primal germ to tadpole, from tadpole
to fish, from tish to reptile, from
reptile to wolf, from wolf to chimpanzee
and from chimpanzee to man. Now.
if anybody says that the Bible account
of the starting of the human race and ;
the evolutienist accoijijLoi-t^starting j
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counts, lie makes an appalling misrepresentation.
Prefer, if you will, Darwin's "Origin
of the Species" to the book of Genesis,
but know you are an infidel. As for
myself, as Herbert Spencer was not
present at the creation and the Lord
Almighty was present. I prefer to take
the divine account as to what really
occurred on that occasion. To show j
that this evolution is only an attempt j
to eject God and to postpone him. and
to put him clear out of reach I ask a
question or two. The baboon made the
man. and the wolf made the baboon,
and the reptile made the quadruped,
and the fish made the reptile, and the
tadpole made the iish, and the primal
germ made the tadpole. Who made the
primal germ? Most of the evolutionists
say. '!\Vc don't know." Others say it
made itself. Others say it was spontaneous
jreneration. There is not one of
them who will fairly and openly and
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made it.'?
The nearest to a direct answer is that
made by Herbert Spenccr in which he
says it was made by the great "unknowable
mystery." But here comes
Huxley with a cup of protoplasm to explain
the thing. This protoplasm, he
says, is primal life giving quality with
which the race away back in the ages
was started. With his protoplasm he
proposes to explain everything. Dear
Mr. Huxley, who made the protoplasm?
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I place the Bibie account of how the
brute creation was started opposite to
the .evolutionists aceount of the way
the brute creation was started. Bible
account: You know the Bible tells how
that the birds we: t made at one time,
and the cattle made at another time,
and the fish made at another time, ai;d
that each brought forth after its kind.
Evolutionist's account: From four or
live primal germs or seminal spores all
the living creatures evolved. Hundreds
of thousands of species of insects, of
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germs?a statement flatly contradicting
not only the Bible, but the very A
B C of scicnce. A species never develops
into anything but its own species.
In all the ages ond in all the
world there has never been an exception
to it. The shark never comes of a
whale., nor the pigeon of a vulture, nor
the butterfly of a wasp. Species never
cross ever. If there be an attempt at
it, it is hybrid, and the hybrid is always
sterile and has no descendants.
These men of science tell us that
100,000 species eame from four when
the law all through the universe is that,
starting in one species, it keeps on that
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now if there had been four at starting.
If I should say to you that the world is
Sat, and that a circle and a square are
the same, and that twice two make 15,
I would come just as near the truth as
when these evolationists tell you that
100,000 species came from four. Svolutiou
would have been left out of question
with its theory flatly contradicting
all observation and all science had not
its authors and their disciples been so
set on ejecting God from the universe
and destroying the Bible that they will
go to any length, though it lead them
into idiotic absurdity. You see what
the Bible teaches in regard to it. I have
shown you also what evolution teaches
in regard to it.
Agassiz says that he found in a reef
of Florida the remains of insects 30,000
years old?not 3,000 but o0,000 years
old?and that they were just like the
insects now. There has been no change.
All the facts of ornithology ana zoology
and ichthyology and conchology but an
echo of Genesis first and twenty-first.
"Every winged fowl after his kind.v '
Every creature after its kind. When
common observation and science corroborate
the Bible, I will no't stultify j
myself by surrendering to the elaborated
suesses of evolutionists.
ToJjshow that evolution is infidel I
place also the Bible account of howworlds
were made o pposite the evolutionist's
account of how worlds were
made. Bible account: God made two
great lights?the one to rule the day,
the other to rule the night; he made
the stars also. Evolutionist account:
Away back in the ages there was a fire
mist r* star dust, and this fire mist
coole off into granite, and then this
granite by earthquake and by srorm
and by light was shaped into mountains
and vallevs and seas, and so what wss
originally fire mist became what we call
the earth.
Who made the fire mist? Who set
the fire mist to worldmaking? Who
cooled off the first mist into granite?
You have pushed God some 60,000,000
or 70,000,000 miles from the earth, but
he is too near yet for the health of
evolution. For a great while the evolutioni^
coasted that they had found
the very stuff out of which this world
and all worlds were made. They lifted
the telescope ana they saw it, the very
materal out of which worlds made themselves.
Nebula of simple gas. They
laughed in triumph because they had
found the factory where the worlds
were manufactured, and there was no
God anywhere around the factory. But
in an unlucky hour for infidel evolutionists
the spectroscopes of Fraunhofer
and KirchoS were invented, by which
they saw into that nebula and found it
was not a simple gas, but was a com
pound, and hence had to fc"j supplied
from some other source, and that implied
a Gold. ;md away went their theory
shattered into everlasting demolition.
So these infidel evolutionists go wandering
up and down guessing through
the universe. Anything to push away
back Jehovah from his empire andmakc
the one book which is his great communication
to the soul of the human
race appear obsolete and delusive. But
I am glad to know that while some of
these scientists have gone into evolution
,irf> manv that do not believe it.
among them the man who by most is
considered the greatest scientist we
ever had this side of the water?Agassiz,
a name that makes every intelligent
man[i he earth over uncover.
Agassiz says: "The manner in
which the evolution theory in zoology
is treated would lead those who are not
special zoologists to suppose that ob
serrations have been made by which it
can be inferred that there is in nature
such a thing as change among organized
beings actually taking place. There is
no such thing|on record. It is shifting
the ground of observation from one field
of ?bservation to another to make this
statement, and when the assertions go
so far as to exclude from the domain of
scisence those who will not be dragged
into this mire of mere assertion then it
is time to protest."
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doctrine of evolution Hugh Miller.
Farraday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson and
hundreds of scientists in this country j
and other countries have raade protest.
I know that the few men who have
adopted the theory make more noise
thau the thousands who have rejected
it. The Bothnia of the Cunard line
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New York to Liverpool. Not one of
the 500 made any excitement. But after
we had been four days out. one
morning, we found on deck a man's hat
and coat and vest and boots, implying
that some one had jumped overbeadr. !
Forthwith We all began to talk about j
that ona man. There was more talk i
about that one man overboard than all j
the 500 passenger? that rode on in safe- j
ty. "Why did he jump overborad?" j
"I wonder when he jumped overboard?" i
;,I wonder if when he jumped overboard
he would liked to have jumped
back again?" "[wonder if a fish caught
him or whether he weut clear down to
the bottom of "he sea?" And for three
of four days af texward we talked about
that poor man
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riere is uie glorious unuiiiu-u^uiucyui.
theory that God by his omnipotent
power made man and by his omnipotent
power made the brute creation and by
his omnipotent power made all worlds,
and 500 scientists have taken passage on
board that magnificent theory, but 10
or 15 have jumped overboard. They
make more talk than ail the 500 that
did not jump. I aw politely asked to
jump with them. Thank you gentlemen.
I am very much obliged to you!
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arder. If you want to jump overboard,
j jump and test for yourselves whether
your hand was really a fish's fin and
whether you were webfooted originally
and whether your lun^s are a swim
bladder, and, as in every experiment
there must be a division of labor, some
who experiment and some who observe,
you make the experiment, and. I will
observe!
There is one tenet of evolution which
it is demanded we adopt?that which
Darwin calls "natural selection" and
that which Wallace calls the "survival
of the fittest." By this they mean that
the human race and the brute creation
are all the time improving because the
weak die and the strong live. Those
who do not die survive because they are
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sheep and cattle and dogs and men is
all the time improving, naturally improving.
No need of God or any Bible
or any religion, but just natural progress.
There is <yilv one thing worse than
English snobbery, and that is American
snobbery. I like democracy and I like
aristocracy, but there is one kind of
ocracy in this country that excites my
contempt, and that is what Charles
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himself, called snobocracy. Now, I
say it is a gigantic dishonesty when
they ascribe this old heathen doctrine
of evolution to any modern gentleman!
I am not a pessimist, but an optimist.
I don't believe everything going to destruction.
I believe everything is going
on to redemption. But it will not be
through the infidel doctrine of evoluton,
but through our glorious ChristianiX?
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has ever been wrought and which is yet
to reconstruct all the nations.
"What is that in the offing? A ship
gone on the rocks at Cape Hatteras.
The hulk is breaking up, crew and passengers
are drowning. The storm is in
full blast and the barometer is -ull sinking.
What does that ship want? Development.
Develop her broken
masts. Develop her broken rudder.
Develop her drowning crew.
Develop her freezing passengers.
Develop the whole ship. That is all it
wants. Development. Oh, I make a
mistake. "What that ship wants is a
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you men of the life station! Pull away
to the wreck! Steady there! Bring
the 'women and children first to the
shore! Now the stout men! Wrap
them up in flannels, and between their
chattering teeth you can pour re storation.
Well, my friends, our world is on
the rocks. God launched it well enough,
but through mispilotage and storms of
6,000 years it lias gone into the breakers.
What does this old ship of a -world
want? Development? There is enough
old evolution in the hulk to evolve another
mast and another rudder and to
evolve all the passengers and evolve the
ship out of the breakers. Development?
Ah, no, my friends, what this old shipwreck
of a world wants is a lifeboat from
the shore. And it is coming. Cheer,
my lads, cheer! It, is coming from the
shining shore of Ibaven, taking the
crests of ten waves with one sweep of
the shining paddles. Christ is in the
lifeboat. Many wounds on hands ana
feet and side and brow, showing he
has been long engaged in the work of
rescue, but yet mighty to save?to save
j one, to save all, to save forever. My
Lord and my God, get us into the
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ceptive, infidel and blasphemous evolution
and give us the Bible, salvation
through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Salvation! Let the echo fly
The spacious earh around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sonnd.
Dont's For Mothers.
An infant should be given no food
containing starch until it cuts its teeth.
Starchy foods include biscuits, corn
flour, tapioca, sago, rice, potato, etc.
An infant cannot digest any of these
until its teeth are cut.
Violent noises and rough shakings !
or tossings are hurtful to a baby, and
should be avoided as much as possible.
Infants should never be put into a
sitting posture until they are at least
three months old, when they will prob
ably sit up of their own accord. They
should be carried flat in the nurse's
arms, as if the little back is at all
curved it may lead to curvature of the
spine or chest disease.
Until children are six or seven years
old they should have 12 hours' sleep
every night. In addition to this a nap
of two hours, either in the mornrtT
offovnAATI ASnflfM ft] ] V in bf>t
weather?will do a great deal toward
keeping tliem bright and well.
He Will Res ign.
The Savannah Morning News, a
steady advocate of the single gold standard,
is moved to say: ?ilt -seems to be
virtually settled that the Seventh Army
corps, under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
will be sent to Cuba before a great
while, to do garrison duty. The Third
Nebraska regiment, Col. W. J. Bryan,
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nothing to indicate that this regiment
will be mustered out- for at least several
months, hence it is very probably that
when the approaching political campaign
is at its height, Col. Bryan will
be doing soldier duty in Cuba, unless
he should resign."
Deadly Ice Cream.
Ice cream prepared with lemon ex1
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tract purcnasea irom a iraveuug sm vsman
caused the death of three persons
at Middletown, X. Y., Thursday, and
a score of others are sick. Mrs. Herman
Michaels, of New York; Mrs. Wm,
Serder, of Mount Vernon, and Kobt.
Jones, of Greenfield, are dead. All
summer guests at Arthur Jones' cotta}
ges at Greenfield are sick. The ice
cream was eaten at Sunday's dinner.
Sixteen. "Went Down.
The Thingvalla line steamer -\orge.
which arrived at New York Thursday
reports that she sunk the Frencli fishing
schooner La Coquette of France,
on Saturday last on Grand Banks. The
fiantain and eisht seamen were saved.
Sixteen went down with the unfortunate
vessel.
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GEN. JOE WHEELER.!
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Two Opinions of Him by a North* ;
ern Correspondent.
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BEFORE AND AFTER BATTLE.
The Old Confederate Hero Was
the Man Who Realiy Won
the Battle of Santiago
de Cuba.
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I ''There is one thing in this war that
! gets me, and that is how they ever
came to make Joe Wheeler a major
general."
The speaker was one of several correspondents
who were lying in the
trenches of Camp McCalia. at Guantanamo
bay.
''What's the matter with Joe?" I
asked
"Nothing as a man; and I know his
record as a soldier in the rebellion was
of the finest, but he is too old now?he
has not the physical strength or the endurance
for active campaigning. I really
feel sorry for him, for in my opinion,
he will injure his record as a soldier
and of course kill himself politically^' |
Three weeks came and went and that
same correspondent and myself were in
the - trenches one more, but now they
were on the summit of' the San Juan
hill, one thousand yards from the rear
of Santiago, it was the 2d of July; the
fighting was hot. and over where we lay
behind a little mound of sand, the
Mauser bullets sang in swarms. To
lift your head above the embankment
was a thing of peril, to stand upright
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ardous risk for a life insurance company,
ana to remain standing was to offer
a premium for wounds and death.
Just then, entirely alone, along the
rear of the trenches, came walking a
small man, rather stooped in the shoulders
and clad in the uniform of a general
officer. A broad army hat was drawn
close to his arched eyebrows, which
gave him the look of a man in an eternal
state of mild surprise. Under the
gray brows his eyes glanced quickly up
and down the trenches, and then traveled
to and from the Spanish lines,
taking in all the points of attack and
detense. Across the pretty green valley
that lay between us and Santiago the
ugly little bullets still hissed as viciously
and as thickly as ever. Occasionally
a shrapnel shell would burst
above the ridge, but the little man
moved calmly along. He walked with
the air of a man who wanted something
and knew how and where to find it. It
was General Joseph Wheeler inspecting
his lines. I poked the man next to me,
pointed out to him the slight form, of
the general as he moved away, still infant
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himself, and still calmly indifferent to
the fire, and asked him the question of
three weeks before; "What's the matter
wkh Joe?"
It was known to us both then the
conduct of Gen. Wheeler during the
battle of San Juan, the indomitable
courage he had shown on that day and
the day preceding when he crawled
from a sick bed to lead his men to
battle, and. better than all. how it was
due to him that the American army
had not after the victory abandoned the
hill of San Juan which it had won at
the cost of so much blood. These things
were known to the other man as well as
to me, and his acknowledgement was
brief and to the point.
'"He knows more than I thought I
knew, and I can't put it stronger than
that."
There has not been a man in the
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fighting record than this small, slender
graybearded, kindly gentleman, Joseph
Wheeler, of Alabama. On the night of
June 29 he was ill with fever?so ill
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to raise his head. On the morning of
the 30th he was no better. On the
morning of the fight the general announced
his intention of going to the
front line, and the members of his staff
after some argument, managed to get
him into an ambulance, and in this,
sorely against his will for he wanted to
be astride his horse, he started to the
front. A half mile of ambulance riding
was enough, and then came loud
calls for General Wheeler's horse. In,
a little time the old soldier was riding
down the road towards San Juan hill.
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ill as he was, kept his saddle, and at
night he was better than he had been
for days. The work that had caused
the death of many a brave fellow had
been his cure.
It was Napoleon's saying that'in war
was the moral part is to the physical
part as five to three. General "Wheeler
on the day of the battle of San Juan
had shown himself possessed of the
physical three parts, and when night
Aomo Tin tn sVinw himself thf> owner
of the more valuable traits of a com'mander.
It is a story not ripe just yet for publication,
but it is a fact that' on the
night after our men had swept so gloriously
up the San Juan hill a feeling
pervaded the American army that we
had in many respects grabbed a bear by
! the tail. We might hold to ths uudoing
of the bear, and our grasp mig'-t
loosen to our own destruction. This
feeling was so strong that some of the
leading otticers 111 tne army went to
General Wheeler and proposed that he
fall back from the position we had cap-,
tured. In other words we should abandon
all we had gained at such a fearful
cost and assume tlae position we had
taken before the battle. The men who
made this proposition were no weaklings.
Thev had demonstrated their
couragc a hundred times and nevermore
brilliantly than on that very day, but
the fury of the light was over for thcin
?the moral side of the soldier was
called for, and they were wanting.
General Wheeler listened to them, and
said:
"We cannot fall back, gentlemen and
we would no.t if we could. If we cannot
hold this place we can hold nothing
in rear of it. We stay here, gem1'
men.
And he stayed.
During the rebellion sixteen horses
at various times were shot under General
"Wheeler. His record as a fighting
man?an# what is far better, as an able
I leader of fighting men?was firmly established
then, and he has added, in
both respects to his reputation during
the short Cuban campaign. There was
in the army no more courteous gentleman,
as there was no better or braver
soldier.?Chicago Times-Herald.
Wants Justice.
Capt. Taylor of the Indiana writes a
letter to Sampson complaining that due
credit has not been done his ship for
her part in the battle of July 3. Admiral
Sampson thanks him and regretting
the apparent injustice, promises to
have Taylor's letter describing the Indiana's
part in the action sent to the department
with the request that it may
be attached to and form part of the
original report.
\
SIXTY-TWO THOUSAND
Confederate Soldiers Went from South j
Carolina.
The question of how many men !
South Carolina furnished to the Confederate
army is one that for various
reasons cannot be answered with absolute
accuracy, and owing to the fact
that the muster rolls of several regiments
have been destroyed, and that
there were South Carolinians in every
regiment that went to the front from
States west of here, there is no probability
that it ever will be answered to
a man. or to within a few hundreds of
the correct figure. In response to the
request of a correspondent a reporter
undertook to secure the figures recently,
and by applying to the best available
sources arrived at as close an estimate,.
perhaps, as can be had; fixing
the total at 62.500. of which 30,007
volunteered prior to the passage of the
Conscript Act.
According to the figures furnished by
oninfffrn
UlUJ rt ai uv/|'ui iixivsU i> at ti aouiUQVv.a
South Carolina furnished 40 regiments,
13 battalions and (i independent companies
of infantry; 0 regiments, 12 battalions
and 6 independent companies
of cavalry; 3 regiments, 4 battalions
and 17 independent companies of artillery.
and 9 regiments and 7 battalions
of reserves?home guards; making a
total of 62 regiments, 35 battalions and
20 independent companies. Estimating
that a regiment in the civil war had
about 1,000 men on its rolls, a battalion
about 600, and a company of 100,
this would make it appear that there
were 86,000 men or more in grey from
South Carolina. The fact, however, is
that there were not nearly so many
South Carolina regiments, the mistake
having arisen by reason of several of
the regiments being renumbered at the
time of their reorganization, and in
that way counted twice, a fact which
very readily accounts for the error into
which the war department has fallen.
It would be a most remarkable fact if
these figures were true, when it is recalled
that at the beginning of the war
the total arms-bearing population of
the State between the ages of 18 and
45 was 55.046, and that under the
Conscript Act of 1863 there were only
69,880 men in the State liable between
the ages of 15 and 50. Therefore, as
will be seen,. the figures of the war department
are ruled out of Court by the
census figures of the year I860, which
cannot be gone behind and bear out
the 62,500 estimate, which may be regarded
as nearly correct as can ever be
made.?News and Courier.
Conductor Cason Murdered.
A special to the Macon Telegraph
from Dupont, Ga., says that Conductor
Cason, of the Plant system, was shot
i and killed at that placc Friday by
Mark Graham, a negro. Cason had
taken a month's vacation and was on
his way to South Carolina, where he
was to have been married. T?Vhen the
train reached Dupont, Graham and a
white boy boarded the train to get a
drink of water. They got into a fuss
and in the absence of the regular con
auctor uason unaertooK to stop it. ^.s
he approached the negro drew a pistol
and shot him, inflicting a wound from
which he died almost immediately.
The body was taken to "Waycross, Gra.,
where a crowd was formed and started
after the murderer. Hounds were procured
from McRee's lumber camp and
started on the trail. The chase led toward
the Florida line. If the negro is
caaght he will be lynched.
Hobson's Promotion.
Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson,
was to have been examined for promo
tion last week, but owing to his duties,
he could not go before the board.
It was ordered that his record be examined
to see if that would entitle him to the
highest rank. The board says:
"The board join with all the world in
admiring the skill, courage and gallant
conduct of Assistant Naval Constructor
Hobson in connection' with the
Merrimac, as set forth in the letter of
the commanding officer of the North
Atlantic station." The report then refers
to the various papers submitted in
connection with Mr. Hobson's record
and closes with a recommendation that
lie be promoted to naval constructor.
Row at Allendale.
A dispatch from Allendale to The
State says a personal encounter occurred
there Thursday night between Chief
of Police Dunbar and Mr. Hamp Brabham,
which resulted in the serious and
perhaps fatal wounding of the former.
Mr. Dunbar was shot twice, once iu
each side. The doctors report his recovery
very doubtful. Sheriff Creech
ranifi over from T?nruwf>11 and soon can
tured Mr. Brabham, returning Thursday
afternoon. The affair is greatly
deplored by the community. The difficulty,
as reported to your correspondent.
grew out of an effort by Mr. Dunbar
to arrest Mr. Brabham for cursing
on the street.
Loves Him Too Much.
Albert J. Deldine, of Toledo, Okio,
has brought an action for divorce against
his wife because she loves him too dearly.
He asserts in his petition that she
is so jealous of him that she will not
permit him to leave her sight. He says
this prevents him from securing work
and as he has to earn a living he cannot
be in her sight all the time. He prays
to be released from a woman who loves
him too dearly. They were married on
March 21, 1897. and lie asserts she has
kept him under her eyes day and night
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ever suiuu, ituu uu u.iuuui/ amuu it nuj
longer.
His Last Fight.
Alex Scott, the lightweight pugilist
who fought with Tommy Butler at the
Green Athletic club, Brooklyn, Thursday
night and was taken from the ring
unconscious, died at the Norwegian
hospital Friday morning. He never re
UUil^V/iUUSUUSa. uiuit o
was peculiar. He was not trained and
was in no condition to enter the ring,
but put up a good fight until the last
few rounds, when he utterly collapsed.
The principals were arrested, pending
an investigation.
The Crops.
Estimates for the crops this year
show a wonderful yield of the fruits of
the Seld, Cotton 11.500,000 bales;
wheat, 700,000,000 bushels: corn,
1.900,000.000bushels; oats. <510,000.000
bushel:; and hay 60,000.000 tons. This
is unprecedented, and shows that blessings
have been showered upon the people
of this great republic, which call for
a full measure of gratitude and thankfulness.
It is to be regretted that ex
cessive rains are injuring the crops in
many places.
A Righteous Verdict
The conviction of Capt. Duncan of
Kansas for having desecrated Confederate
graves, and his sentence to five
years in a penitentiary, arc creditable
to the court that tried him. And so
may it be with all south-haters: "Ana
such as he was let all that hate her
be."
THE REAL HERO.
Rear Admiral Schley's "Warm Wei-1
come to Washington.
i
11obssOii had his ovation, the Rough !
ruder* had theirs, uud \\ heeler nis,
but all three combined would not begin
to equal the demonstration at the
war, state and navy departments Saturday
morning in honor of Kear Admiral
Schley. There has been nothing
like it in Washington before. If the
officials of the navy department had
any doubt as to who was the popular
hero of Santiago their doubt was entirely
dispelled. The magnitude of the
ovation given to Schley Friday night
about Washington and in front of his
hotel was of a most remarkable character.
But owing to the sentiments that
exist among the heads of the navy departments.
it was believed that the
popular sentiment there could be held
in check. Such was i-ot the case.
Crowds had been waiting all morning
in front of the great navy department
building, and the shout they
raised upon his appearanae was a signal
for those inside that the gallant admiral
had anived. As if by mutual
consent, all business was suspended.
Not only did the clerks and minor
clerks and minor officers of the war and
navy departments leave their desks,
but the heads of bureaus joined in the
wild rush to welcome the admiral. The
corridors could not begin to hold the
throngs that pushed around him.
General Wilson, head of the engineer
department, threw his arms around the
admiral's neck and kissed him. For the
next ten minutes he was bombarded
with embraces and kisses from men and
women alike. There must have been
forty women who thus displayed their
love and admiration for the gallant ofTTo
urnnrl flin* Vio lmmt
have stood the firing from the Spanish
fieet.
While lie remained in the department,
which was nearly an hour, there
was little work done in any bureau.
He finally escaped into Capt. Crowninschield's
office, where the door was
locked. From here he worked his way
to various bureaus until he emerged
from the building. He was to have
taken the 11:45 train, but it was ima
4- r\ lr flirAnnr Vi fV.fl linrnori !
<-u uitan. vuwugu mv
barricade which had been thrown up
around him.
Ovei at the white house there was
one man who realized he had not done
the wrong thing in heaping every honor
upon this naval hero. He received
every ovation with modesty, almost
shrinking at times from the popular exhibition
of approval. He is a small,
spare man, not as large as his picture
would indicate, but one cannot come
within forty yards of him without feeling
his personal magnetism. He will
leave this afternoon for Maryland, the
state of his birth, winch is waiting
with open arms to welcome him.
CSMTNTAL BLTTHDERS.
Who is Responsible for the Condition
of the Troops?
At Montauk Point, within a few
hours of New York city, in touch with
all the comforts and delicacies of life,
sick heroes from Santiago are forced to |
sleep on the soaked ground -without
proper clothes or covering, and to stand
guard duty when they ase fainting
from the debilitating effects of fever.
But the suffering at Montauk is not
the only fearful tale. At Camp Thomas,
Chickamauga, 600 deaths have been
reported since the camp" was established,
and 92 since August 1, and there
are 2,294 sick men in the hospitals.
These men have not been battling in a
.tropical feversmitten land. They have
been right in the United Stated .'11 the
time, and certainly a hea'thy location
for their camp was the leas . that should
have been provided for thpm.
TT? 0 A1 1 1
.oeiore camp .aager wr > Drosen up
250 men had died there. That is more
than the Spaniards killed at Santiago,
and camp Alger is just outside of
"Washington. The presidnnt almost
hear the funeral marches from the white
house.
Fernandina and Tampa and other
camps have also sent up pitiful tales of
neglect, sickness, suffering and death.
The report of Surgeon-General Terry.
regarding the condition of the Aew
York troops in the several camps showed
such a dreadful condition of affairs
that Governor Black did not dare to
publish it.
The condition of the "President's
own regiment/' the eighth Ohio, should
appeal directly to Mr. McKinley.
Surely some one is criminally at fault
when transports come into Montauk in
oc? fTia jVTfli\nrlr woe Ar?
olavli. vylvuuluj.uu c*0 vuv htt ?t vwkj v"
her arrival. The repetition of these
transport outrages has beeome sickening,
and the appeal cf the men of his
own state will surely reach the president.
SEAY USED HIS KNIFE.
Bloody Affray Follows Campaign Meeting
at Lexington.
A special to the State from Lexington,
where the last meeting but one of
the State campaign was held Friday,
says:
After the campaign meeting here yesterday,
which passed off pleasantly
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1, UJ1V IVIIU TT UkJ VU 1 V >1 IX JUVU
foment by a disturbance among the police
authorities and a few country
cousins. QThe result was Mr. M. C.
Johnson, a policeman was stabbed in
the breast, penetrating the left lung,
and Mr. Quitman Roberts, an inoffensive
bystander, was accidentally shot in
the thigh, and Mr. Tom Seay was shot
through the bowels. Young Roberts is
only slightly wounded, while both Johnson
and Seay are in a very critical condition.
Mr. Seay is hardly expected to
live.
Policeman Johnson, it is said, was
endeavoring to arrest Seay for disturbing
the peace, when the latter overpowered
Johnson and. after beating
him, stabbed him with a knife. The
policemen used his weapon in the melee
with the above results.
Drs, Hendrix and Wingard are giving
the wounded men all possible surgical
attention.
Eight Mi lions Dollars.
Eight million dollars in cash was car_-_J
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neu tnruugii 111c suuclj aich x vin.
in a handbag last Thursday by Arthur
P. Leach, of a bond buying firm, and a
guard. The getting together of the
money was a task accomplished after
half a day's work, in which the banks
helped with bills a big denomination.
The package containing the money was
about the size of eight bricks. It was
tendered to the city controller for bonds,
but owing to the dispute the sale was
refused.
The President Coming South.
The President expects to be in Jacksonville.
Fla., on September 15 and
review the soldiers of the 7th corps.
Gen. Lee's command. It is likely that
Secretary Alger will accompany the
President.
I 11 1 1-1 I I III. ,1 I U
Give" Us the Proof.
At the recent meeting of the Munici
pal League, held in Detroit. Mich..
Mayor Smyth of Charleston, quoted iu i
a dispatch to the News and Courier as
say i ug thai thore has been more drunkenness
in South Carolina under the dispensary
law than prior to its enacement.
Col. A. Howard Patterson, who takes
the reverse position, has replied to
Mayor Smyth and calls upon him to
produce the facts to bear out his declaration.
The Barnwell Sentinal says in
making the statcsiuent he did, Charleston's
mayor lias given the lie to the
ministers of^South Carolina, for it was
their opinion, expressed some time
back, that intemperance was largely on
the decrease. Whether or not there is
less whiskey sold in this county now
than under the old system we are not in
a position to say. but we do say, and
without fear of contradicton, that there
has been less drunkness seen on our.
streets since the dispensary law has
been in force than formerly. We believe
that a majority of those opposed
to the law will admit this. Mayor
Smyth must prove the correctness of
his assertion or he will stand convicted
before the public. It strikes us Col.
Patterson has put him ;nto a deep hole
and shoved the hole in after him.
Porto Rico Already Crowded.
Young men out of a job, who think
it will be a good plan to move to Porto
Rico and grow up with the country,
will be interested in some facts regarding
the island, which are stated by the
Springfield Republican. It says:
"Porto Rico is much more densely
populated than Connecticut?the figures
being 234 persons to the square
mile in one case and 134 in the other;
and there are only three States of the
Union more densely populated than
Connecticut. The island is almost as
thickly settled as Massachusetts, the
vn Acf rvnnn 1 Anc Qfof/i in
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United States. No agricultural section
in the United States begins to be
so densely populated as that, island.
Compare its 236 persons to the square
mile with Kansas's 17, or Nebraska's
13, or the 68 of Illinois, including the
great city of Chicago. Florida has
most of the physical characteristics of
Porto Rico, but its population average
only 7 to the square mile of land area.
J i. j_ i-i T> L
anu we ziiusi neeus uis.e on xorto xuuo
witli nearly forty times the density of
population to give us room.
Lost in a Hotel Fire.
A fire which resulted in the loss of
two hotels, a livery stable and several
private residences and at least three human
lives, started in the National hotel
at Hot Springs 3o'clock Saturday morning.
A dozen or more were more or less
injured, and it is believed by some of
the guests and employes of the hotel that
more lives were lost, and that when
search is made in the ruins several bodies
will be found. A number of guests
escaped down the stairway, while other*
jumped from the windows of the secoi d
and third stories in their nieht clothes.
barely getting out with their lives. Several
who leaped were severely injured,
and one unknown man is expected to
die.
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 wiH promptly heal old sores
of long standing. Will kill the poison
from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison
OnL-" nr>f} mre> ''Dpot Pnisnn." Will
counteract the poison from bites of
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. ~
The Second Regiment.
Senator McLaurin has secured still
another important concession for the
Second regiment. It allows 80 men to
the company instead of 106. There is i
nothing further now that can be asked
by those who are trying to organize the
Second regiment, and if they fail they
certainly have no right to blame either
Senator McLaurin or the war department.
In the quiet hours of life we learn to
hold communion with our G-od. to know
that he *s our best Friend, to whom we
can take our every care. If we listen
to his dear voice, with the world shut
from our senses, he will teach his children,
in this school of silent separation
and communion with himself the secret
oif ther life work.
BARGAINS
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onui/uv amiu iiLrtuoiwr.ni
GINS, GINS, GINS,
One 70 saw Lammas gin, feeder and condenser,
good order, $90.
One 40 saw Win&hip gina&d condenser, good
order, $50
One 40 saw Winsliip gin feeder and condenser.
eood order. $00. \
One 4o s*w Wiush'p gin, fair order, $15.
One 6C saw Van Win&le feeder, goad order,
$20.
One 80 saw Pratt gin, feeder and condenser,
good as new, $200.
Two 60 saw Pratt gins, feeders and condensers,
good order, $100 each.
One 70 s*w Pratt gin feeder and condenser,
good order, ?120Two
60 saw Munger feeders, good order $'.5
One 60 saw Wiushio feeder, good order, $15
Of:e 50 saw Van Winkle feeder; goo i order
$12. "A
One 7?? taw Pratt feeder; ?rood order $20
One To saw l'ratt condenser, good ordeT $20
ENGINES AND liuiLtHS
flno P P AjIqh onoino ar?H 'A?* PT P
t ibie bqiler complete, good order. $250
O.if 25 H. P. Liddelt engine an<1 *25 H. P.
Atlas return tubular boiler complete, good
order, ?275.
One 12 H. P pnrta'nle boiler, fair order $76
One 15 H P Geiser engine aud boiler on
wheels, sood order, $! 00
One 4 H P engine and bciler on sktd;-, fair
oroer,
One 6 fl P Vertical engine and boiler,
[Farquhar], good order, $75,
One 20 tl P lozer engine and boiler on skid?
good crder, $400.
One 20 H P Erie engine and return tubular
boiior in good order, $250:>
One 20 H P Lombard reuiru tubular boiler,
good order, ?100.
MI3;?LLANE0US,
Oae TalbottPony saw mill, fair order, $100.
OneGoodell& Waters 24 surfrcer $75.
Two Bobs Cotton pres3ea, gooi order, ?75
each. .
The above ofiered subject to prior eul?
Write us quick. Unusually low prices on
new machinery, all kinds
W. E CrIBBES & CO.
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DRUGS. ALfOHOL TOBACCO.
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ures trying so-called
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CUKE? be cured at
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Saw Mills. j
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me before buying elsewhere. I have
the most complete line of mills ef any
aealer or manufacturer in the South.
Corn Mills.
Very highest grade Stooe*, at unusually
low prices.
Wood-Working
Machinery. JA
P'a.ner?, M.oalrter*. &i?er,
Sand S?w?, Laths, etc. -f^|H
Engines and }
Boilers,
IWbott ..ud Liddeil, '
Engleberg Rice Hulier, ia stock, quick
delivery, low prices.
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