Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE FOES WE FACE. I; TUo cine +l-?ci+ Rocpt thp Pnrt of ! ( the Century. < ] COD COMES BEFORE MAN, ] 1 gg?\-? t Says Dr. Talmage. The Preva- < lence of Blasphemy. The Sins J of City Life. And the ] Final Judgment. t u <"? rAiici rt cr A 1CAAT1 Kr T)r T-il- ! < i. Illi7 ai VMOIUq uiuvvut^v wj jls A .*.*%? | . mage will excite interest by the man- j 1 ner in which it assails some of the great j . " evils now abroad. The subject is ; < "Enemies Overthrown." and the text, j < Psalms lxviii, 1, ';Let God arise, let j J his enemies be scattered." j1 A procession was formed to carry the i '< ark, or sacred box, which, though only 1 3 feet 9 inches in length and 4 feet 3 1 inches in height and depth, was the a\-mk/\l nf flnrTs As the I 1 UJUIW* ^ ~ - leaders of the procession lifted this or- ] namented and brilliant box by two golden poles run through four golden j rings and started for Mount Zion all i the people chanted the battle hymn of ( my text, "Let God arise, let his one- : mies be scattered." i The CameroDians of Scotland, outraged by James I, who forced upon them religious forms that were offenS*-.:. sive, and by the terrible persecution of Drummond, Dulziel and Turner, and by the oppressive laws of Charles I and ; Charles II, were driven to proclaim war onFoincf f-57i~>ntc ivnri Wfinfr, forth to fiffht < y ... for their religious liberty, and the < mountain heather became red with carnage and at Bothwell bridge and Aird's : Moss and Drumclog the battle hymn i and the battle shout of those glorious : old Scotchmen was the text I have ! '? - - CUUSCIJ, J-iCU UUU auov., ivx roies be scattered." What a whirlwind of power-was Oli- : ver Cromwell, and how with his soldiers i named the "Ironsides," he went from i victory to victory. Opposing enemies : melted as he looked at them. He dis- , missed parliament as easily as a school- i master a school. He pointed his finger < at Berkeley castle, and it was taken, i iS . He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton, the gen eral, to dismount, and he dismounted. (See Cromwell marching on with his ! army and hear the battlecry of the 1 "Ironsides/' loud as a storm and sol- < emn as a deathknell, standards reeling before it and cavalry horses going back ; on their haunches, and armies flying at 1 Marston, at Winceby Field, at Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dartmouth?''Let j God arise, let his enemies be scat- 1 * tered." ] ; .; So you see my text is not like a complimentary and tasseled sword "you sometimes see hung up in a parlor, a sword that was never in battle and . only to be used on general training day, but more like some weapon carefully hung up in your home, telling its story of battles, for my text hangs in the Scripture armory, telling of the holy wars of 3,000 years in which it has been carried, but still as keen and mighty as when David first unsheathed 0 it. It seems to me that in the church of God, and in all styles of reformatory work, what we most need now is a bat w. ?: c|nri^^ wecry. ty e ULU ouauuaiu | | aid put on it the name of some man who only a few years ago began to live acd in a few years will cease to live. We go into contest against the armies of iniquity, depending too much on "" human agencies. We use for a battle- 1 cry the name of some brave Christian i >. " reformer, but after awhile that reformer dies or gets old or loses his courage, and then we take another battlecry? an d this time perhaps we put tlie-name of some one who betrays CEe cause and sells out to the enemy. What we want for a Battlecry is the name of some . -'leader who will never betray us and will. % ' ^ never surrender, and will never die. The Methodists have gone in triumph " across nation after nation with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Wesley." The Presbyterians have gone frrmt nVt^rv in vioi.nrv with the CrV. "The sword of the Lord and of John Knox." The Baptists have conquered millions after millions for Christ with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Judson." The American Episcopalians have won their mighty way with the. j cry, "The sword of the Lord and of i Bishop M'llvaine." The victory is to < Ca/1 fircf ~Rnf aq xcp 1 uuudc nuv yuw u vu mwv. .. w want a battleery suited to all sects of 1 religionists and to all lands, I nominate i as the battleery of Christendom in the I approaching Armageddon the words of j my text, sounded before the ark as it < was carried to Mount Zion, "Let God ] arise; let his enemies be scattered." ] As far as our finite mind can judge, ; it seems about time for God to rise, c Does it not seem to you that the abom- ( _ inations of this earth have gone far 1 jlS-?~ enough? "Was there ever a time when sin was so defiant? Were there ever c before so many fists lifted toward trod, c telling him to come on if he dare? t 'Look at the blasphemy abroad! What i towering, profanity! "Would it bepos- ] sible for any one to calculate the num- a bers of times that the name of the Al- i mighty God and of Jesus Christ are t f every day taken irreverently on the a lips? Profane swearing is as much for- \ bidden bv the law as theft or arson or s murder, yet who executes it? Profan- s ity is worse than theft or arson or s murder, tor tftese crimes are attacks 011 r ^ humanity; that is an attack on God. ? Years ago in a Pittsburg prison two o men were taking about the Bible and d Christianity, and one of them. Thomp- v son by name, applied to Jesus Christ a s very low and villainous epithet, and as t he was uttering it he fell. A physician t was called, but no help could be given. After a day lying with distended pupils q palsied tongue he passed out of this o * * world. In a cemetery in Sullivan s county, in New York state, are eight n headstones in a line and all alike, and fi these are the facts: In 1SS1 diphtheria f raged in the village, and a physician b was remarkably successful in curing i: his patients. So confident did he be- f] come that he boasted that 110 case of C diphtheria could stand before him and j; finally defied Almighty God to produce t a case of diphtheria that he could not e cure. His youngest child soon after took the disease and died and one t child after another untill all the eight o had died of diphtheria. The blasphe- o - mer challenged Almighty God and God a accepted the challenge. Do not think 1 that because God has been silent in t ? your case, 0 profane swearer, that he t is~tte^d. Is there nothing now in the c fifekt T^nnlibn rAnr fnnoma r\T n Atli - I n j ^"'7 Vi ; VUJ. WU^UV/ Vi uv/vaa u in the^ftabness of your brain that f fc^cates^tnSc&od may come to avenge s MWssphemies or is already aveng- f Rn? But these cases I have no- I II believe, are only a few cases Be there are hundreds.* Families s them quiet to avoid the horrible t Krspicuity. Physicians suppress them j Bough professional confidence. It is I Bte^^ery, very long roll that con- t BtotMos of ihosewho died with a |^ne evil r ssss asssssssss^ssi )i' Cincinnati ct Savanaah or Bosron j >r in any of the cities of this land: iount up the saloons on that street as j iompared with the saloons five years j igo, and see they are growing far out j >f proportion to the increase of the copulation. You people who are so precise and particular lest there should 3e some imprudence and rashness in ittackin^ the rum traffic will have your ;on some night pitched into your front loor dead drunk, or your daughter will ;ome home with her children because aer husband has by strong drink been turned into a demoniac. The drink lend has despoiled whole streets of ;ood homes in all our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on the fuaeral pyre of strong drink! Fasten tighter the victims. Stir up the flames. Pile on the corpses. More men, women and child en t'c-r the sacrifice. Let us nave ivhole generations on fire of evil habit, ind at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer let all the people fall down and worship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast into the fiery furnace under some political platform! I indict this evil as the regicide, the fratricide, the patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide, of the century. Yet under what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives the people! It is a "cordial.'" It is "bitters."' It is an "eye opener." It is an "appetizer."' It is a "digester." It is an "invigorator." It is a "settler." It is a "nightcap." Why don't they put on the right labels?"Essence of Perdition,"' "Conscience Stupefier," "Five Drams of Heartache," "Tears of Orphanage," "Blood of Souls," "Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy," "Venom of the Worm That Never Dies?" Only once in awhile is there anything in the title of liquors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case of "sour mash." That I see advertised all over. It is an honest name and any one can understand it. "Sour mash!" That is, it makes a man's disposition sour, and his associations sour, and his* prospects sour, and h Cc ~r>.r\A 4"s\ mocli LJICil il? lO l/V jjuuoii ww wvwj j wmv. mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash his family. ':Sour mash!" One honest name at last for an intoxicant! But through lying labels of many of the apothecaries' shops, good people, who are only a little under tone in health and wanting some invigoration, have unwittingly -got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra that stings to death so large a ratio of the human race. Other are ruined by the common and all destructive habit of ti eating customers. And it is a treat on their coming to town, and a treat while the bargaining progresses, and a treat when the purchase is made, and a treat as he leaves town. Others, drown their troubles, submerge themselves with this worse trouble. Oh, the world is battered and bruised and blasted with this growing evil! It is more and more intrenched and fortified. They Save millions of dollars subscribed to marshal O.JUU. cLu.vau.uc aiwuvuv aominate and elect and govern the vast majority of the office holders of this country. On their side they have enlisted the mightiest political power of the centuries, and behind them stand ali the myrmidons of the nether world, satanic, Apollyonic and diabolic. It is beyond all human effort to overthrow this Bastille of decanters or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while I approve of all human agencies of reForm I would utterly despair if we had nothing else. But what cheers me is j that our best troops are yet to come. Our chief artillery is in reserve. Oar greatest commander has not yet fully taken the field. If all hell is on their side, all heaven is on our side. Xow "Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered."-^ Then look at tlT'e4^urjlies^of these great cities. Ever and anoiTtEere^re in the newspapers explosions of sociarP life that make the story of Sodom quite respectable, "for such things," Christ says, "were more tolerable for Sodom tTisn fnr t.lip. Chorazins and Bethsaidas of greater light. It is o unusual thing in our cities to see men in high positions with two or three families, or refined ladies willing solemnly to marry the very swine of society if they be wealthy. The Bible ill aflame with denunciation against an impure life, but many of the American ministry uttering not one point blank word against this iniquity lest some )ld libertine throw up his church pew. Machinery organized in all the cities of the United States and Canada by which co put yearly in the grinding mill of ;his iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting of the country farmhouses, one procuress confessing in the courts that she snnnlied the infernal market with 150 victims in sis months. Oh, for >00 newspapers in America to swing >pen the door of this lazar house of social corruption! Exposure must come >efore extirpation. While the city van carries the scum >f this sin from the prison to the police ; :ourt morning by morning it is full . ime, if we do not want high American . ffe to become like that of the court of jouis XV, to put millionaire Lotharios -lT--T> J C 1 I LI1U uie i:uiiip<iuuur& Ul^UUl UJLUW Lid Win; )alaces into a van of popular indigna- . ion and drive them out of respectable .ssociations. "What prospect of social >urification can there be as long as at summer watering-places it is usual to 1 ee as young woman of excellent rearing ] tand and simper and giggle and roll up 1 ter eyes -side ways before one of those ! irst class satyrs of fashionable life and \ >n the ballroom floor join him in the ] lance, the maternal chaperon mean- ] chile beaming from the window on the < cene? Matches are made in heaven, < hey say. Not such matches, for the ^ >rimstone indicates the opposite region. J Bat is this all? Then it is only a < uestion of time when the last vestige < f purity and home will vanish out of < ight. Human arms, human pens, hu- * aan voices, human talents, are not suf- ] icient. I begin to look up. I listen ] or artillery rambling down the sapphire ! ioulevards of heaven. 1 watch to see 1 f in the morning light there be not the 1 ash of descending scimiters. Oh, for < rod! Does it not seem time for his ap- 1 earance? Ts it not time for all lands ^ o cry out, :;Let God arise, and let his 1 nemies be scattered?" 5 I <rot a letter askine me if I did not ] hink that the earthquake in one of J ur cities was the Divine chastisement ( n that city for its sins. That letter I 1 .nswered by saying that if all our * American cities got all the punishment ( hey deserve for their horrible impuri- < ies the earth would long ago have 1 racked, opening crevices transcontin- J lental and taken down all our cities so s ar under that the tip of our church 1 Dires would be 500 feet below the sur- 5 ace. It is of the Lord's mercies that we 1 lave not been consumed. < Not only are the affairs of this world < 0 a-twist, a-jangle and racked that < here seems a need of the Divine ap- ^ >earance, but there is another reason. < lave you not noticed that in the his- * ory of this planet God turns a leaf < .bout every 2.000 years? God turned ] 1 /"ko -P or\/l f ic tt*o c ? t-f -Pr\y Vm_ ? ivaA. auvi c-uxc n viiu rr ao xvi uu can residence. About 2.000 more ] ears^a^01* alonS* an(^ God turned an- ] 2.00C moro ysjrs p-=?ed i>xi, and it vrq.z the Nativity. Almost 2,000 more years passed by, and he will probably soon turn another leaf. What it shall be I cannot say. It may be the demolition of all these monstrosities of turpitude and the establishment of righteousness in all the earth. lie can do it. and he will do it. I am as confident as if it were already accomplished. How easily he can do it my text suggests. It does not ask God to hurl a great thunderbolt of his power, but just to rise from the throne on which he sits. Only that will be necessary. It will be no exertion oi'Omnipotence. It will be no beuding or bracing for a mighty lift. It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heaven or rumbling war chariots. He will only rise. Now he is sitting in ' j ? me majesty auu juantmuc ui ms icigu. He is from his throne watching the mustering of all the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness and impurity and fraud ana Sabbath breaking, and when they have done their worst and are most surely organized he will bestir himself and say: ;'My enemies have denied me long enough, and their cup of iniquity i? frill T have <?iven them all ODDOr tunity for repentance. This dispensation of patience is ended, and the faith of the pood shall be tried no longer."' And now God begins to rise, and what mountains giveaway under his right foot I know not: but, standing in the full radiance and grandeur of his nature, he looks, this way and that, and how his enemies are scattered! Blasphemers, white and dumb, reel down to their doc-m. and those who hr.ve trafficked in that which destroys the bodies and souls of men and families will fly with cut foot on the down grade of broken decanters, and the polluters of society that did their bad work with large fortunes and big social sphere will overtake in their descent the degraded rabble of underground city life as they tumble over the eternal precipices, aud the world shall be left clear and clean for the friends of humanity and the worshipers of Almighty God. The last thorn plucked off, the world will be left a blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to gardenize it. The earth that stood snarling with its tigerish passion, thrusting out its raging claws, shall lie down a lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. And now the best thing I can wish for vou. and the best thing I can wish of tt*o mov frmnrl IVi lUJO&llj 1 J VUUV ?? V AA-A V*J W ?. V ?-~ warm and undisguised and enthusiastic friends in that hour when God shall rise and his enemies shall be scattered. YARN OF THE NEW YOEK'S CAT. Was Shaken Overboard by the Jar of a Big Gun. This is a war story going the rounds which, however strange it may seem, is vouched for by every jacky and several officers on the cruiser Xew York, and then the cat is exhibited as convincing proof. The cat is a black one called Xieeer. He is vounsr and is active in this northern climate, but on the blockade he spent much time sleeping. His favorite resting place was the forecastle, and he was often to be seen stretched out on the cool side of a hatch coaming or at the base of the forward turret On the night of June 4, the one after that on which the Merrimac was \tattt an aqctam bUL i\, lilic JLH5W Viicau-'j Vil buu vmwvv*m end of the blockading line;, opened fhe at about 9:30 on what was supposed to be a Spanish torpedo boat. The New York headed in the direction of the firi ag immediately and also opened fire. Tho first shot was from one of the 8inch guns in the forward, turret, aimed pretty well forward and with but slight elevation. Of course the concussion hgavv. More than that, the shot wal:"unex'pe several men stand iug uuuul i/liv iuiuvujviv/ -vawztwmm,.' ? from their feet by the force of the 7fos-=charge. Now the chief beauty of the story is that no one saw just what happened to the cat at the time the gun was made to explain the matter, simply a hiatus left., and the story told when the men engaged in washing down the decks heard the plaintive cry of a cat from over the ships side. It was finally located at the foot of the port forward sea ladder. Beside this ladder liung two hand ropes, just reaching to the surface of the water. "With his claws firmly imbedded in the very end of one of them clung Nigger, the black cat. One of the sailors climbed down 3nd lifted him out of the water and* brought him up to the forecastle, where he was rubbed dry, fed. petted and wondered over until the officer of the deck hailed the forcastle from the bridge and wanted to know why the washing down of the deck had ' * rm , . fl? _ ? Deen stopped, mat. omcer is one ui those who vouch for the fact that Nigger was blown overboard by ihe discharge of the gun and spent eight hours in the waters of the Carribean sea hanging at the end of a rope. LEE REDISCOVERED. A Northern Paper Scares Secretary of War Alger. Since Alger went to grow up with the country the war department has made a number of discoveries. One of these is that there is a person in the service named Fizthugh Lee, who holds ihe commission of major general and is in command of a corps of volunteers in Florida, and that this corps is in excellent condition, well-organized, wellIrilled, well-fed and generally in good health ana reaay lor tne ne;a. >\ nue ill this rumpus has been gping on General Lee has been saying nothing, but luietly attending to his business. Jacksonville is not the most agreeable summer resort. Compared with Chickaaiauga. for example: in might be supposed unhealthy. But Fitzhugh Lee ienms fco have had the old West Point prejudice in favor of educated military nen for staff position, and lie got an ifficient staff assigned to him at the beginning. As a result we have heard so little complaint from his corps that nost people had forgotten its existence is completely as Alger had. though the material he had to work with included some of the worst and the volunteer officers had as much to learn there as iny where else. It will be remembered ;hat before Alger left he issued an orler for the mustering out of one-half of ;he volunteers, selected upon no ascertained system. It is this order that aas brought the Seventh corps to mind, since it takes from it a number of regi- i ments just as they had been got into ;ood serviceable condition for the expedition to Cuba on which they were expecting to embark with the approach )f cool weather. Alger is not much on in nrcanizatinTi. but for disorffanizinsr lie is the greatest secretary of "war that iver has been known, and Lee could not jspect to escape his devastating hand entirely. It is not a part cf the Alger plan that any man as competent as Fitzhugh Lee should be given an opportunity for effective service that cvould further overwhelm t;he pets of Michigan.?Philadelphia Times. I THE SILVER BATTLE.' j j Under Consumption Rather Than Overproduction. ITHE CAUSE GF HARD TIMES Among the Cotton Mills of the United States. Such is the Opinion of Two Gold Papers. I They are getting down to the facts bv degrees. Here we find the Financial Chronicle aud the Springfield Republican arguing just like The State or any other "Bryanitev newspaper in accounting for the discouraging condition of the cotton manufacturing industry. Keviewing the Financial Chronicle's annual statement of the cotton growing and manufacturing industries The Republican says: It is from underconsumption rather + V??v* AT?. rM?Arl 11 /?t i/MI flm inrliic+i*ty j Liia 11 \J v ti^iuuu^wuu vuau mv* iuuuoti j i has been so deeply depressed. The j Chronicle undertakes to prove this by showing that the consumption of cotton by the American mills during the past five years has been considerably below the per capita rate of the previous half decade, which was a period of greater prosperity and more normal consumption. And this lower per capita use of cotton has proceeded simultaneously with declining imports of cotton goods and increasing exports of fabrics of our own manufacture. If consumption were at the normal rate there womld be ^ork for practically all the existing cotton machinery, and the approach of better times is regarded by The Chronicle as assuring the speedy restoration of prosperity to this great industry. Meanwhile we may pertinently ask how the reduction of wages in the cotton mills is calculated to help on the restoration or increase the consumption whose present low state is the cause of depression. "What The Republican now so readily admits when the argument is made by the Financial Chronicle is precisely what it would not admit when the same argument was made by The State a few months ago. It is under-consumption that depresses the cotton manufacturing business and most other great industries in this country. They are not producing more than the people would buy at fair prices if the people were prosperous, but they are producing more than the people can afford to buy at this time. And that is conclusive rvrAA^ f ! ?. ?+ fVtn r\/-k/\rvl n o rn n nf o c tlir* gold organs claim, in a prosperous condition. All suggestions of ';under-consuniption" as a reason for the paralysis of industries have been for this reason either ignored or scouted by the gold press. And wisely; because under-consumption implies inability to buy, and inability to buy?in the face of -the abounding yields from fields, mines and forests?implies the lack of money and the cruelty of our financial system. Admit general under-ccnsumption and you admit general hard time; admit hard times and you admit the failure of ? 11 * 1 1 _ -1 - T_ _ j. tne goia sianaara to ao wnat was promised for it. Of course the gold men will now declear, as the Financial Chronicle does, that we are on the border of better times and that the gold staidard is to be vindicated at last. But they have been busily engaged in making that same declaration ever since the repeal of the Sherman law in 1893, excepting such occasions only as they were pro testing that the good times had already come. ':Wait another week on the gold standard!'' "Give the gold standard a chance!" "Gold standard prosperity is due to arrive punctually at 12 m. on the day after election!" "Don't monkey with the gold standard when it's just about to hatch out riches ' liorjeverybody!"^ And so on. i5ut ttas^G* or tiling can't go on in-j definitely. The people can't be fooled " much longer with promises. Five years is a long time. The gold standard has had five years to prove its character and its effects and it has proved that they are evil. That the evil will ever turn into good the people who were de- . luded in 1896 do not now believe. At ' the close of a successful war and with every advantage of position, the party which upholds the gold standard finds itself confronted with popular dissatisfaction. distrust and the demand for ^something better." Even so optimistic a Republican organ as the New York Tribune sounds the alarm, it asks the question, "Is there any dan- . ger?" and answers itself thus: '*We say frankly, yes. Unless the supporters of the administration throughout the country bestir them- . selves and work from this time until the night of election day as they have , not worked before in the last 10 years, there is grave danger that their repre- ( sentatives will not be in 'the majority , in the next congress, and tjiat the sen- , ate will be controlled by a coalition ( opposed to the administiation and j sound money. This is the plain truth, and it may better be told now than when it is too late.*' , iNot even a loreign war lias sumcea . to divert the people from their domes- ! tic grievance. Not even in the hour of victory do they forget that they have a battle yet to fight a thousandfold more momentous to them than El Canoy or San Juan. They are arming for it. The gold standard must surrender and evacuate its entrenchment.?Columbia State. Fatality in Pittsburg. Capt. Geo. Adams, aged 23, and ( Capt. Chas. Miller, aged 22, were in- ( stantly killed while conducting a fireworks display and reproduction of the ] Manila battle at Allegheny river in ] front of the exposition building at j Pittsburg. Pa., Thursday night. Capt. j Adams was a native of New Orleans and had been engaged all summer at ( Atlantic city giving fireworks displays j and exhibitions of deep sea diving, < from Young's pier. Capt. Miller was j a native of Ashevillc, N. C., where his , father and mother still reside. , Hilton s. J Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus <! ultra" of all such preparations in re- , moving soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores ' of long standing. Will kill the pois- j on from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison , Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will -r 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 supe- ' rior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a * bottle. Gen. Toral Insulted. A dispatch from Madrid says when < the train conveying Gen. Toral arrived ( at the station at Bojar a crowd which < had gathered insisted that the general i cliniiU cTinxv TTnrm liic < so the gathering loaded him with in- ] suits. Gen. Toral, who is ill with fe- s \er, uttered a few excuses and beat a ? retreat in order to avoid being struck/' t mi III- It -sr.A *f,^-*.-rfTa*St**<-,t?.Ta-.;4, U3 BiSEE, ALIAS BATES. | C j ^ Member of a Wealthy New York Family Who Drifted to Brunswick. The Atlanta, Constitution says news readied Brunswick Thursday from Mo ti,^ ?uuvnfw;i. JLJ.UU CO V J.A1K., V11UV VUV ?yv/v*j VA If il ^ laim Baker, alias Bates, a private of the First regiment, who died seven V\ days ago, had been exhumed at the request of the father and that the distracted old man had discovered in the buried man the remains of his only son. The story went on to tell how Baker, alias Bates, had left home years r ago and come to the South. His father ^ was a Wall street capitalist and the . home that Baker, alias Bates, left was J<j! one of sumptuous luxury, situated on fashionaole J? if th avenue. . For a long, time the father searched ni for his unfortunate son and finally =r gave him up in despair. When the war vl broke out he watched the enlistment Ul rolls, and one day in some manner had o r* infimofiAn fViof liic cn?? liorl Ct 11 XlltlUIUblUU HUUb lilJ UUU A1UU JVAUV/U the First Regiment. He started South *? on receipt of this information, but on arriving at camp discovered that the only man to lit his description had died seven days before. The body was ex- J humed and found to be that of his long .. long lost son. What was left of him was carefully removed from its resting place and the remains carried to New York, where they will be given a burial i?1, suited to the wealth and tastes of the M . 1 . . ? V 1 11 - -1 4 11 j_T_ " _ iamny to wmcn ne oeiongea. iut mis read like a romance to the people of ? Brunswick, and especially to the news- ^ paper fraternity, of which Baker, alias i Bates, was one for months previous to cr his enlistment. He was a man of mag- . nificent physique and splendid address. When he came to Brunswick his . charming manner won him a place in ? ' the hearts of the boys at once and he ? was given a place on the Morning Call. 0 There he was seen nightly by the Con- ia stitution correspondent and to the correspondent became known, as far as the tfrunswick end was concerned, tne ro- . mance of his life. It seems that Baker ln alias Bates, was more attractive to wo- w< men even than he was to men. One of , the fair sex became captivated with . him. Unfortunately for her, she was 1. married. Bates knew what the result c*j would be if he remained in the city, so ? when Capt. Hopkins was getting up re- r' cruits he decided to leave. He threw ., away all his chances that might follow from his talents given the right direc- J1' tion and enlisted as a private in the , ' ranks of Uncle Sam's great army. There was genuine regret around The ca Call office when Bates left, and of him the Messrs. Leavys, his former employ- ,/ ers, said: "He was one of the best 0 men The Call ever had and one of the most perfect gentlemen in the world." w< The sad ending of 13ates' life in the m camp at Huntsville brings sorrow to those who knew him, but they are glad ^ 1 that his loved ones have his body and ,a will give it a burial befitting the man. l SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEAD. /%T VI Inquiry Concerning Volunteers Who cj, Have Died Since Enlistment. en It seems that pension attorneys in- la: tend to lose no time in getting data in te: readiness to "pull Uncle Sam's legs." ca Already they are making inquiries of the authorities concerning those who have died since they enlisted into the TJ volunteer service for the war with Spain. Adjutant and Inspector Gen. "Watts has received the following letter from wi an attorney in regard to the matter: by We understand that the following in named soldiers in the Spanish-Ameri- of can war who enlisted from the State ve of South Carolina are dead. Will you de kindly tell us the name of the town or cd city from which they enlisted. to L,.,J3es^.oompany L, First regi- pr menu ?~i mj i ? ^iv H. A. Gilbert company ?, First re- th giment. fir J. M. Kinard, company B, First re- be giment. ar, McLeod, company ?, First regiment. Ci "W. L. Mathews, company II. First an regiment. * ur \V. D. Owens, company I, First \v< regiment. co T. Shine, company ?, First regi- so ment. th T. J. Stincs, company H. First regi- m; ment. iai J. S. Stukes, company ?, First regi- an oient. 31 G. B. Vaughn, company F, First re- m; giment. sa S. W. Mathews, company H. First mi regiment. th G. K. Vaughn, company ?, First re- in, sjiment. pe If you know of any others who have iied we will esteem it a favor if you pr svill give us the names and service and ge tell us from what ,town or city they re: snlisted. We desire this information pa For the possible use and benefit of the a 1 heirs of said soldiers. th Gen. Watts would be glad to receive is my information from the relatives to md friends of the names mentioned pr with the facts as to their death. wi ob DISEASE IS RIPE. f0! f he Spanish Soldiers in the Philipines Suffering. en As a result of the meetings of the national assembly of Filipinos, thus far CQ held in Malolos, there is now entire ta] confidence in the American government ^ }n the part of the insurgent leaders. s^' :V11 the members of the assembly ex[libit an earnest desire that future re- ga lations of the Filipinos with the Amrr- 0g scans may bo of the most friendly charac- SQ. j:, . ui; The condition of the Spanish prison- t]x jrs is beginning to excite anxiety among ga. :he military officers here. Eleven thou- t0 sand of these prisoners are quartered, ^ in churches and other public buildings f0] within the narrow confines of the 0f vailed city, where most of the Spanish ^ :>cople also live, where the American garrison necessarily is quartered, and vhere Gen. Otis has located his army leadquarters. ha The members of the sanitary corps a s ire kept constantly at work clearing co: )ut the filth that constantly accumu- p0 ates. The Spaniards have not the least tei cnowledge of the laws of sanitation, ed rhe result is a condition threatening a na reneral outbreak of some seymotic dis- dis jases at any moment. Typhoid fever f0i s also increasing at an alarming rate, an *" <> _i _T I Lne auuioriues ieei it a.usuiuLeiy ea- rg? >ential to the health of the city to get gjr ;he Spanish prisoners out of Manila at atj ;he earliest possible date. Similar conditions are reported from 2avite. where the Spanish in the hands )f the rebels are suffering from a lack ou; >f the necessaries of life. To make ful natters worse the sailing of the hospital to^ ;>iin "Rin has been raDeatcdlv delayed, wo [t is now stated positively that she will pai sail Thursday. Probably by that time am she will have a considerable accession ler ;o her invalid passenger list. roi iMW Wi-?-a ITARVED TO DEATH. be hat Was the Fate of Some of 1>I Our Sick Soldiers. ar 01 LEFT TO DIE LIKE RATS. yi m /hat Surgeon Ward, of the United t!1 ti< States Army, says of the gr or Horrors at Camp in Thomas. A Kansas City special to the Boston lobe says: ro Wearing his uniform. Surgeon. Ma- ex ATM. T> 1. ' ! ' .1 r iuuo i>. ? arc, who was in cnarge ^ ' the field hospital at Chickamauga, to mounced the war department last in ght in an address at Beacon Hill Con- cr esational church, for the horrors at ei: imp Thomas. to ;:Some one is to blame," he said, fa For keeping an army of 45,000 men at ti< camp where all the water was unfit hi r a dog to drink; where there was no ainage, no proper food or medicne. ^ id where the conditions were so un- fr ialthy that every man oi tne 4o,UUU si: id intestinal trouble. '"Three-fourths of the army slept in m ttle 'dog' tents, as we called them, br liey were five feet long and four feet an gh. There were no cots. The men te ept on the ground, and it rained near- so all the time for six weeks. P? ';Our division hospital was arranged pr hold 200 men, but we had over 500 in ck men in it. Each tent was arranged a 1 hold six men, but we had 10 and 12 to owded in. th "There were not cots enough, and je< ck men had to lie on litters en the an et ground sometimes for a week. The ck came in. 50 and 75 at a time, and iere were no cots, no medicines, no na od for them, except the regular army tions issued to well men. 0? "We had so little medicinesand of so >or a variety that we actually could >t prescribe for the sick men crowded ja there so close that you could not ' ilk between the cots. y "The nurses were detailed for nurses ge :cause they were the poorest soldiers the camp. They nursed the sick ^ glit hours in the day and then work- ^ I three hours digging sinks and enches and cleanins ud the camp. "Under these conditions, what could e doctors do? The government made W? ) provision at all to feed the sick at gr imp Thomas. I make this statement p( >ldly. I know it will be denied, but I -t n prove what I say. The sick would tually have starved to death if they rQ id depended upon the government for ' Od- OT "Some did stan-e to death. Others 2re fed by the Red Cross socictv. The oment a man became sick he was re- Qn oved to the hospital, his rations opped, and he was allowed zo cents a t ty for commutation of rations. But i could not draw that money for a ^ onth. The consequence was that the ivernment gave no food to hundreds Qn sick and d> ing soldiers. oe ''We appealed to the Red Cross so- ca ety and it fed the men." ^ Dr. Ward praised the Red Cross soety, the woman nurses, and the chapins. He said that when he is mus- m( red out he will tell of abuses at the W mp which he must not tell now. pe THE SPANIARDS MUST GO. tir ley Must Get Out of Cuba by Decern ber 31. a Officials at Washington are watching nij th interest the progress being made Ci the military commission at Habana elc securing the evacuation of the island lat Cuba. The commission has been N( ry slow in making reports to the war bn partment, but from the latest receiv- gr: . it appears that the body would like ga have more definite instructions as to dr: ocedure. It seems that the Spanish we le has said that they could not begin ini e evacuation of the island until the ba st of November, and that it could not he completed before the 28th of Febru- Ca y next. ov In view of the alarming state of the CI zbans who are suffering from hunger co^ d the inability, under the present th< ir>prtm*n nnndit.inns n? obtaining an )rk, the President decided that he H< uld not assent to the consumption of dr< much time. Therefore he caused bu e commission to be instructed to de- on and that the evacuation by the Span- an rds begin not later than October 15. an: d that it be completed by December wl st next. What the result of this de- fai ind will be is not yet known, but it is yo id that the administration is deterined to tolerate no dilatory tactics on e part of the Spanish forces m leav- at g the island, although disposed to I iiiib Icuauuauiv; xuuuiij^u^g. j0-j Notice has also been taken of the ex- wa essed purpose of the Spanish captain j ] neral to remove from the island the ^ mains of Christopher Columbus, with ? rt of the surmounting monument. If monument is not a permanent fixture en it is hard to decide what is, and it ~, possible that attention will be called O! the infraction of the terms of the otocol, although this must be done On th haste in o-ider to succeed in its < ject, as the removal is said to be fixed On r next Tuesday. ^ Taken from the Colon. ! The most beautiful of all of the souv- q? irs of the great naval battle of July ^ Dff Santiago reached the navy depart- On jnt Saturday from Capt. Converse, $ mmanding the Montgomery at Guan- Tw namo. It is a bronze bust of Chris- < pher Columbus taken from the flagip Cristobal Colon which lie;i below J e surface of the ocean 20 miles off 0" ntiago. The navy department has qx> 'ered to place in charge of the Smith- ? nian museum until some permanent On sposition can be made of them, all of On e relics recovered from the wrecks vc the captured flags which must go 0? the naval academy at Annapolis, so *1 is bust will be sent to make a nucleus , r what probably will prove to be one ~ the most interesting collections in On e museum. On Murder Mystery Solved. On Superintendent of Police Birming- c m of Bridgeport. Conn., has issued Od itatement in which he announces the I tnplete unraveling of the Yellow Mill nd murder mystery. The superinidcnt says Dr. Xancy Guilford caus- t the death of Emma Gill by a crimi- on 1 operation, asserts that the body was j smembered in a bath tub at the Guil d house, and names Harry Oxley as accomplice to the extent of being sponsible for the condition of the Tw 1 and consenting to a criminal oper- ^ on- Wr The English Sparrow. j An Alabama paper gives the pestifers Knglish sparrow a certificate of use ness. It says: "A planter near vn told us last week that the boll S. ( rra was simply ruining his cotton tch, when the sparrow fund them out, A d in three days there was not a'mil- Q nor worm to be seen, while the sparvs were there by the thousands.-3 wihiiM??iTi'aa ?- ^iTiii o.wtijmwfc?? Wheat as a Begular Crop. Wheat farming is not a business to L ! taken up one year and abandoned e next. The crop has a legitimate ace in the rotation of mixed farming, j, id it should be grown every year withit reference to the selling price or 'en without regard to the :probable eld of the crop. This is true in al ost every portion of the country, and e Southern States are not an excep- VJ Dn. for there are suitable lands to ovy wheat iu every State, to a greater less extent. Forty or fifty years ago a large part of^South Carolina wheat is raised to meet the home consump)n entirely, aDd we do not read of the lportation of flour until after the rail- ?< ads were built. This year has been :ceptioual for the wheat crop, both as yield and acreage, and we are glad learn that the farmers are considerg the policy of making wheat a regular op on their farms. This is a most 3 icouraging sign of the times, and be tens the achievements or aiversmea rming as the rule and not the excepon in this section of the State. It is irdly necessary to argue with farmers hose tables in the last few months 1 ive been supplied with biscuits made g om home grown wheat as to the derability of the bread or the economy household expenses. Imported flour ay be whiter and doubtless there are +V?of oro lncf oc rmro Vknf lfio HUVAO LUU U M? A JUJU 4*w v*AV? VUv xv a?j l open secret that flour is often adui- ?1 rated with difl&erent substances, and me of them, such as white clay, are tsitively deleterious to health. This actice has become so common, accordg to the Birmingham Age Herald that barrel of absolutely pure flour is said t be the exception, notwithstanding e legislation of Congress on this subct. The remedy is home-grown wheat :d home-ground flour. Stnrm in the "Northwest. A spccial dispatch to the State Jour.1 from Lima, 0., says: A tornado sited this city Saturday. The path the storm was short aud narrow, but > force was terrific. It came from e northeast, first leveling the barn of ^ icob Boze and burying a number of rsons in the debris. Mr. Boze had s s shoulder broken and George Had- 9 11, seventy years of age was badly in- ^ red. A number of horses were killed, /g new house was lifted from its founda- ? >n and deposited in the street. The a lilna hrewerv. Limaeerer case factorv. Si d a number of adjacent buildings a ;rc unroofed. The High school building 2 is demolished, letting the roof and a st and second floors into the cellar. >rtunately school was not in session, ft being Saturday. A portion of the ? ncinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail- a ad shop was unroofed and Henry Caz- (j? ill was buried in the ruins, being seri.sly injured. ^ ? The Detroit, Lima and Northern re- .a ,ir shops were wrecked and the men ily escaped by taking refuge under an Si gine. In the western part of the b wn a house occupied by Willis Mc- jS ibbon was carried 20 feet off the (? undation and Mrs. McKibbon was fa dly injured by a stove toppling over ?j her. The six year old son of Syd- w y Walthy, playing in the yard, -was f rried away by the wind and flying 9 bris and has not been found. The ga ;y water works buildings were un- H ofed and the occupants escaped al>st by a miracle. Over 50 residences sre more or less damaged and the pro- ^ rty loss will be very great. No esti- fl ites of losses has been made at this I "Killed His Brother. I News reached Greenville Saturday of . horrible homicide on Wednesday ght beyond Caesar's Head, when 1 pAkinC-AM cli nf o ViiO LCI J. AA*i XlUWXliOVU QUVV ?UVI AU1VU ler brother. Berry Robinson, at the iter's home in Transylvanie county, >rth Carolina. The fratricide was ought on by a quarrel over a nutmeg iter. Charlie Robinson, who is toll te keeper, aod this summer has been iving for the Caesar's Head hotel, mt to his brother's house under the luence of whiskey and emptied one rrel of his shotgun into lis brother's art. The shootine was in North 1 rolina, in sight of the State line, \ | er three miles from Caesar's Head. H larlie Robinson lives in Greenville 13 anty, South Carolina. He is now in ? g Transvlvanie county jail at Brevard, c a is prostrate over his rash deed, -p ; is a married man, with nine chilsn. Berry Robinson leaves a wife t no child. They were known to be ~ good terms the day of the shooting, ? d the affair has caused ereat re ere t ^ long the mountain people, among torn the Robinsons were a prominent nily, Charlie being an industrious ung man. - Twelve Hundred Sick. V Nearly 1,200 of the American troops Santiago are on the sick list and m. Lawton reports 88 new cases of w ;ex today. His report sent to the ^ ,r department is as follows: Sick, LST; fever, 679; new cases, 88; rerned to duty, 290; deaths, 7. ' BARGAINS x iCONI) BAND MACHINE RY 1 GINS, GINS, GINS. e 70 saw Lummus gin, feeder and conienser, good order, $90. e 40 saw Winship gin and condenser, good )rder, $50 e 40 saw Winbhip gin feeder and conden?er, good order, $60. * e 45 saw Wiusb'p gio, fair order, $15. e 60 saw Van Win & lc feeder, good order, 520. e 80 saw Pratt gin, feeder and condenser, ;ood as new, $!?00. ? o 60 saw Pratt gins, feeders and condens- fl :n?, good order, $100 each J e 70 siw Pratt $rin feeder and condenser, rood order, $120 o 60 saw Manger feeders. g'^od oHer $ 5 e60 saw 'Winship feeder, good order, $15 e 50 saw Van Winkle feeder; gool order 312.50. ~ e 70 saw Pratt feeder; good rid r $20. e 70 saw Pratt condenser, go?.d order $20 ENGINES AND BOILERS. e 20 H. P. Atlas engine and 25 H. P. porable boiler complete, good order, $260. e 25 H. P. Liddell engine and 25 H. P. 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