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s&-< sLs3* ,f g^iV" ' ' iioUNPEMSADEER.T Where tha Troubled of Earth May ; Quench their Thirst. FROM THE LIFE OF DAVID. Dr. TaJmasre Sees in the Forest an V w O Example of Hope for the Unfortunate and Harrassed of the World. Dr. Talmage, drawing his illustrations from a deer hunt, in this diicourse calls all the pursued and troubled of the earth to come and slake their thirst at the deep river of divine comfort; text, Psalms xiii, 1. ;;As the ' hart panteth after the water brooks, bo , panteth my soul after thee, 0 God." David, who must some time have seen a deer hunt, points us here to a hunted stag making for the water. The fascinating animal called in my text the hart is the same animal that in sacred and profane liteiature is called the stag, the roebuck, the hind, the gazelle, the reindeer. In central Syria in Bible times there were whole pasture fields of them, as Solomon suggests when he says, "I charge you by the ? : hinds of the field.'" Their antlers jutted from the long grass as they lay down. Xo hunter who has been long in "John Brown's tract" will wonder that in the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes washed them as clean as the sky. When Isaac, the patriarch, longed for venison, Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprightliness of the restored cripple of millennial times to the long and quick jump of the stag, saying. "The lame shall leap as the " ~ ? 1 1- * - 22 4 hart. Solomon expressea nis u sgust i at a hunter -who, having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook it, saying, "The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting." But one day David, while far from the home from which he had been driven, and sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he had lodged, and on the banks of a pond or river, heard a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the previous silence of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to himself, ';I wonder what those dogs are after." Then there is a crackling in the brushwood, and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods and the antlers of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket and by an instinct which all hunters recognize the creature plunges into a pool or lake or river to cool its thirst and at the same time by its capacity for swifter and longer swimming to get away from the foaming harriers. David says to himself: '"Aha, that is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after me; I am chased; their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, barking after my boay, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds! But look there," says David to himself; "that reindeer has splashed * into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes its lathered flanks and it swims away from the fiery canines and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in the deep, wide lake of God's mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! 'As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God.'" The Adirondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being 1 ' * -I m.n_: siam dj tne score, jLaiaaug uue summer with a hunter, I thought I would like to see whether my text was accurate in its allusion, and as I heard the dogs baying a little way off and supposed they were on the track of a deer, I said to one of the hunters in rough corduroy, :;Do the deer always make fnr water when thev are pursued?" He said: "Oh, yes, mistei. You see they are a hot and thirsty animal and they know where the water is, and when they hear danger in the distance they lift their antlers and snifi the breeez and start for the Raquet or Loon or Saranac. and we get into our cedar shell boat or stand by the 'runaway' with rifle loaded and ready to blaze away." M-cr frionds fViat is nn#? reason \rhv I like the Bible so much?its allusions are so true to nature. Its partridges are real partridges, its ostriches are real ostriches and its reindeer real reindeer. I do not wonder that this antlered-glory of the text makes the hunter's eye sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of its usefulness, although it is the ? most useful of all game, its flesh delicious, its skin turned into human apparel, its sinews fashioned into bowstrinsrs. its antlers Duttinsr handles on cutlery and the shavings of its horn used as a pungent restorative, the name ^ taken from the hart and called hartshorn. But putting aside its usefulness this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasticitv. What an eve. wi^b. a liquid brightness as if gathered up from a hundred lakes at sunset. The horns, a coronal branching into every possible curve, and after it seems complete ascending into other projections of exquisiteness, a tree of polished bone, uplifted in pride or swung down for awful combat. The hart is velocity embodied; timidity impersonated; tho enchantment of the woods. Its eye lustrous in life and pathetic in death. The splendid animal a complete rhythm of muscle ant" bone and color and attitude and locomo-. tion, whether couched in the,grass among the shadows, or a living bolt shot through the forest, or turning at bav to attack the hounds, or rearing for its last fall under the buckshot of the trapper. It is a splendid appearance that the painter's pencil fails to sketch, and only a hunter's dream on a pillow of hemlock "t the foot of St. Regis is able to picture. When 20 miles from any settlement it comes down at eventide to the lake's edge to drink among the lily pods and with its sharp edged hoofs shatters the crystal of Long Lake it is very picturesque. But only when, after miles of pursuit, with heaving sides and lolling tongue and eyes swimming in death the stag leaps from the cliff into upper Saranae, can you realize how much David had suffered from his troubles and how much he wanted God when he expressr ed himself in the words of the test. - i;As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so paateth my soul after thee, OGod." , Well, now, let all those who have coming'after them the lean hounds of poverty, or the black houuds of persecutiefo, or the spotted hounds of vicissitude, or the pale hounds of death, or wi?o are in any wise pursued, run to t^'e wide, deep, glorious lake of divine ablace and rescue. The most of the men and women whom I happened to ttnow at different times, if not now, hiave had trouble after them, sharp ?? sLuzzlcd troubles, swift troubles, all j Jfievouring troubles. Many of you have i the mistake of trying to light Somebody meanly attacked' you. Vv ? ?- 1 *" *. ******* &nd you attacked the?. They dupre. i , stated yo'4, pu deprecj^cii thee*, j? they oyeirtiiched you iq ji Wg&ta, and j 1 you tried, ia "Wall street p&rlanco. to j i <ict a corner on them, or you have had j j a bereavement, anil, instead of being j submissive, you are fighting that be- i reavement. l ou cnarge on mc uuuujft who failed to effect a cure, or you 1 charge on the carelessness' of the rail- ] road company through which the acci- 1 dent occurred, or you are a chronic in- i valid, and you fret and worry and scold ! and wonder why you cannot be well i like other people, and you angrily ' blame the neuralgia, or the laryngitis, i or the ague, or the sick headache The fact is you are a djecr at bay. Instead of running to the waters of divine con- : solation and slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the good < cheer of the gospel and swimming away into the mighty deeps of (ioii s Jove ; you are fighting a whole kennel of harriers. But very many of you who are wronged of the world?and if in any assembly between here and Golden Gate, San Francisco, it wer? asked that all those that had been sometimes badly treated should raise both their hands and fall response should be made, there would be twice as many hands lifted as persons present?I say many of you would declare, "We have always done the best we could and tried to be usefnl and whv we should become the vie tirns of malignment or invalidism or mishap is inscrutable." Why, do you know the finer a deer and the more elegant its proportions and the more beautiful its bearing the more anxious the hunters and the hounds are to capture it? Had the roebuck a ragged fuc and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and a limping gait the hunters would have said, "Pshaw, don't let us waste our ammunition on a sick deer." And the hounds would have given a few sniffs of the scent-, and then darted off in another crorr\o ]^nf I UHCUL1UU 1U1 gauiv ?v they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky. and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides inclose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the banks of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaven, and the stamp of its foot defies the jack shooting lantern and the rifle, the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their neck in the rapids. So if there were no noble stuff in your make up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you were a forlorn failure, you would be allowed to go undistuibed. but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after you is proof positive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm draws on you its 'finest bead." Therefore the world goes gunning for you with its best Maynard breechloader. Highest compliment is it to your talent, or your virtue, or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest being the worlJ ever saw had set alter mm an tne nounas, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapped his blood after the Calvarean massacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and a cross. Many who have done their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their* pleasure is in anticipation of the next world, and they could express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness cf Nairn at the clese of her long life, w.uen asked if she would like to live her life over again: Would j ou be young again? Sd would not I;' One tear of memory given, Onward I'll hie; Life's dirk wave forded o'er, All but at rest oii shore, Say, would you plunge once more, Vfith home so nigh? If you might, would you now Retrace your wsy? Wander through stormy wilds, Faint and aatraj? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red Hope's smile .".round us shed, Heavenward, away! Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can withstand anything and everything, and that which affrights others will inspire you. As in time of an earthquake when an old Christian woman was asked whether she was scared, answered, "No; I am glad that I have a God who can shake the world;" or, as in a financial panic, when a Christian merchant was asked if he did not fear he would break, answered: "Yes, I shall break when the < Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth : verse: "Call upon me in the day of i trouble. I will deliver thee and thou < shalt glorify me.'" Oh, Christian men 1 J J anc women, pursueu ui auuu^auccs emu j exasperations, remember that this hunt, whether a still hunt or a hunt in full < cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp 1 looks ashamed and ready to slink out of s sight, it is when in the Adirondacks a < deer by one tremendous plunge into ] Big Tupper lake gets away from him. i The disappointed canine swims in a lit- i tie way, but, defeated, swims out again aid cringes with humiliated yawn at 1 the feet of his master. And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when you i llave dashed into the river from under the throne of God, and the heights and depths of heaven are between your pursurers. We are told in Kevelation'xxii, j Jo, "\\ ltbout are aogs, Dy wnicn i conclude there is a whole kennel of hounds outside the gate of heaven, or, as when a master goes in through a door his dog lies on the steps waiting for him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but they cannot get in. "Without are dog's!" I have seen dogs and owned dogs that I would not be chagrined to see in the heavenly city. Some of the grand old watchdogs who are the constabulary of the homes in solitary places, and for ; years have been the only protection fur wife and child; some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the "Wolves and bark away the flocks from going too near the precipice, and some of the dogs whose neck and paw Lanaseer, the painter, has made immortal, would not find me shutting them out from the ] gate of shining pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard dogs that have lifted , perishing travelers out of the Alpine ' snow, the dog that John Brown, the . Scotch essayist saw ready to spring at ] the surgeon lest in removing the cancer , he too much hurt the poor woman , whom the dogfeli bound to protect, and : dogs that we caressed in our childhood . days, or that in later time lay down on ] the rug in seeming sympathy when ] our homes were desolated. I say if J some soul entering heaven should hap- , pen to leave the gate ajar and those ] faithful creatures should quietly walk in it would not at all disturb my heaven. But all those human or brutal ] hounds that have chased and torn and i lacerated the world, yea. all that now i bite or worry or tear to pices, shall be prohibited. 1 "Without are dogs!" No 1 place therefor harsh critics or backbit- i ers or despoilers of the reputation of ] :t!.hc?S; Down -with jrpa to the j^DOe'la j' ana despair. The h^pf rras j :ea.";n,e4 tht: otcrnaj \vatpf brooks, an4 i Lhf; of the ijjfig phjtue is 'luietej] j in fbr ^fi!l pasture.;-, and '"there shall ; Qochio^ hurt or destroy in all God'z holy j Mountain.'1 Oh. when soip,; of you get thero it will be like what & hunter tells of when pushing his canoe far up north in the trinter and amid the ice floes and 100 "? l -1 - - T- ^ i? .ilA. mues. as ne uiougni. irom uuv uluci j human beings. He was started one j iay he heard a stepping on the ice. and | he cocked the rifle ready to meet any- j thing that came near. He found a man barefooted and insane from long exposure. approaching him. Taking him into his canoe and kindling fires to warm him, he restored him and found out where he ^had live and took him to hfs home and found all the village in great excitement. A hundred men were searching for this lost man, and and his family and friends rushed out L ~ o c Vt o oorroo/] IU 1IICCL JillU, U.11U, CIO UUU wvu WJ.XWVA, at his first appearance bells were rung and guns were fired and banquets spread, and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when some of you step out of this wilderness, where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the icebergs, into the warm greetings of all the villages of the glorified, and your friends rush out to give you welcoming kiss, the news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread knnnnat onrt fVio IiaI 1 mPtt fcrt laV cuts uuu vuv wo* v hold of the rope in the tower, and while the chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from the turrets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I may be there to take part in the celestial merriment. ''Until the day break and the shadows flee away, be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether." GEN. WHEELER TESTIFIES. As To the Operations of the Army Around Santiago. The war investigating committee began the examination of witnesses to-day by placing General Joseph Wheeler on the stand. Chairman Dodge stated the scope of the commission's duties and asked Wheeler whether he had any objections to being sworn. He replied that he had none, and Maj. Mills, recorder for the commission, administered the oath. ExGov. Beaver conducted the examination, developing the essential facts as to Wheeler's rank and commands. Wheeler stated that he left Tampa for Cuba on the 14th of June, but had no knowledge of the plan of campaign before going aboard the transport. On June 21st Shafter ordered him to disembark the next day which he did with a portion of his command. lie rode into the country four miles that day and on the next day moved his troops to Jaguracita. Then he began reconnoitering, arranging with Gen. Castillo of the Cuban army to send troops with his men for the reconnoitre but the Cubans did not keep the engagement. He told of the first battle of La Guanimas, stopping to compliment especially the regular troops, and also to speak of tbeir excellent firing. They soon learned to distrust reports and estimates of the Spaniards. Gen. Wheeler had not been able on his own account to secure any accurate estimate of the Spanish loss during the American approach upon Santiago. Speaking of the proceeding after the " ' l 1 - .3 I.. 1 3 nrsi Datue ne explained mat ue uau been reported sick, and that there were some movements just prior to the battle of El Caney with which he was not familiar. SICK BUT OX DUTY. "I was not sick,' "but had been on the 29th and 30th, still had not gone to the sick list. I had fever but I appreciated the situation, took medicine and came out all right." He was in the battle of El Caney, on/1 avnr/isooil tllA ATYlTlirm tTlftt. TnnrA W**V - ??v. v men were killed in the formation of the line than afterwards. i!I ought to say, "said the general in the course of his testimony, ''that it was magnificent to see officers of high rank go across rivers with packs on their backs, accepting all the fortunes of war with their men. They slept on the ground with the soldiers. None of us were mounted and we were without tents for several days." GLAD TO SUFFER. "Wheeler took up the -common report that the Cubans stole the goods thus discarded. It was not fair to accu se the ? ~ L- ? c e<A fliic LiatiVeSj 1UX liliCIC DM ou iuuvu vj. vuu flotsam and jetsam, that, hungry and poorly fed as the Cubans were, they cannot be blamed for helping themselves. He had seen among the twenty-two thousand people who came out of Santiago many ladies of refihement who were emaciated and evidently hungry. He steted that h> never had heard of any shortage in commissary or ordnance supplies at Santiago,-but he been told that medical supplies were short. He had no personal knowledge on this point. As a rule the quality of hardtack was good. The spirit of the ?? "" Irrnci /-.Vl Vl/? coir? that f.VliirA was ZIULIJ V* AO O UV>Xi j AAV w vuv. v >r v.w tto disposition to complain. "They were all proud to be there and were willing to undergo hardships.1' SPOKENHKE A SOUTHERNER. Bliss Hill | and the Title That Miss Winnie Davis Bore. A special from Richmond, Ya., says: Miss Lucy Lee Hill, daughter of Gen. A.. P. Hill, whose nomination as the i^T?T ' "TionrrVito-r nf tVio n<-?nfA^<vr?RV:' stirred up a tumult throughout the south, upon the ground that there ;ould never be a successor to that title, ias written a letter to a friend here, n which she says: "It has given me nuch pleasure to know how many :riends I have in this matter of the succession to the title of the 'Daughter of ;he confederacy.' It is an honor unsought by me, and with Gen. Gordo n f sav the title should die with the )rigi?al possessor, WinnieDavis. There jannot always be a Daughter of the Confederacy,' for I am the last one of 1 general's daughters to be born a-t that lime, and with me it would end. I im content as I am. a Confederate solliers daughter. You can understand bow I feel in regard to this matter. The notoriety of it has worried me jreatly. If I could only write you as I feel, you would see how keenly this iffair of the 'Daughter of the Confederacy' has distressed mo. I appreciate the fact that my friends sought thus to honor my father through me, but it was a mistaken kindness. X want rou, and through you, the K. E. Lee Camp, to know that the whole affair has distressed me immeasurably, and to that heart-broken mother I extend my regret that the controversy should have arisen.-' It is sweet to know in time of sorrow that God's love changes not. It is the same in the brightness and when the brightness changes into gloom. It is the same in joy and when the joy turns to grief. It is the same when blessings are given and when they are recalled. \ ' "* * " * A SERIOUS CHARGE?! ?v Col, Tillman Prosecuted for CriK ! elty to Little Negroes. THEY STOLE A.PISTOL. And Were Severely Beaten to Extnrt a Confession. Preliminary- I _w.- ~ - J Hearing Was Held in Columbia Wednesday Afternoon. Wild rumors were afloat Wednesday. The city was filled with stories of Lieut. Col. James H. Tillman's cruelty in whipping three little negroes. Arthur Fair, Jrm Smith and another named "Wiley, aged about 14 years, for stealing a pistol from "Uncle George," a trncfpd faithful old nft<rro servant I V4 MWVVM O - _ who accompanied the First regiment on its travels. Capt. 0. K. Mauldin of Company H, and Lieuts. Walter M. Dunlap, Company G, and AVa^de H. Ligon, Company H. were very active in preferring charges against Col. Tillman and swore out a warrant for a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Clarkson. The affair occurred Monday afternoon from 5 until 7 o'clock, and the cries of the negroes were pitiful at the time, although they seem quite satisfied now. The hearing was to have been held at 4 o'clock. Col. Tillman and his counsel, B. L. Abney, Esq., appeared promptly at that hour and asked for 30 , minutes in which to confer. At 4:30 the trial was commenced in the court house, the magistrate's office being too small to accommodate the crowd. Before tbe testimony was taken Col. Tillman made a short statement. lie very much retrretted this whole occurrence. The officers were ignorant of the fact that he could not thus be arraignd, but lie waived all such technicalities. All that he asked was that the matter be sifted to the bottom. Then it would appear as it is?persecution not prosecution. Capt. 0. K. Mauldin, the first witness sworn, said that he was captain of Company H, First. South Carolina Volunteer infantry. He was sitting in his tent on the afternoon of October 4. His attention was attracted by the srmnrl ;?<? nf fliA r><rr>r>in?r of a whin. Stepped out of his tent and saw a crowd gathered around the examining tent near the spring. To satisfy his curiosity he walked down and saw them whipping a negro. Col. Tillman, who seemed to be directing the affair, told them "to lay it on him until he tells where that pistol is." Later another negro was brought from the First battalion. This negro was Arthur Fair. Under direction and by order of Col.Tillman some of the privates took the negro's pants off and turned him acros3 a barrel. Then a private named Robison by Col. Tillman's order took a strap. He was told to whip the negro until he told where the pistol was. ^CAT'iO fliwfcl* JL ??\*J J1 mui AV/A 0VM.V ?? ? ?. When one would get tired another took a strap. Under the pain negro screamed at different times and writhed off the barrel. Col. Tillman ordered the privates to put him on the barrel and hold him there and to choke down his screams. The? grabbed the negro by the hands to hold him on the barrel, but he would rear up his feet to protect his body. Col. Tillman then put his feet on the negro's feet, holding the negro's dofrn. Then a private volunteered to hold one of the negro's feet down. Col. Tillman holding the other, and TT-V. tiroc TfiA tip V/iX^ " gro applied a vile epithet to some one in the crowd. There was some confusion and he could not see everything. Col. Tillman said: "Who are you cursing, you black scoundrel." He then told the men to "give him hell", and to hit him even if he did move his arms and legs. The negro screamed that he was cursing* at a negro and not the colonel. A little bit afterward the boy exclaimed, "Colonel don't whip me any more. I will tell where I, or we, or he. (didn't catch the pronoun) "hid the pistol." The crowd then went tt? some place in the First battalion, near Col. Tillman's tent, but soon came with the nesro and besan whip ping hiin again. I left about that time. I had gotten enough of it. Lieut, J. H. Grant of Co. C, was the second witness. He said that on the afternoon of October 4, about 5 o'clock he went down to Col. Tillman's tent and found quite a crowd assembled, attracted, as he ascertained, because Col. Tillman had had two pistols stolen from him. Asked Col. Tillman and he said that some one had stolen his servant's pistols. As different soldiers would come ud Tillman would say that he was glad that they had come, for he wanted two negroes "whipped. He told the two negroes present. Wiley and Jim, that if they didn't produce the pistols he would frail them. After some time Col. Tillman said. ';A11 right, boys, let's take them out here and see if we can't make them tell where the pistols are." Jim's pants were taken down, he was thrown across a barrel and given a good whipping. During that time he implicated Arthur Fair. As soon as Fair's name Was mentioned, he ran. the crowd pursuing and overtaking him. As tney were struggling to put jjur over the barrel he outrageously cursed the soldiers grapping him. Each soldier began to beat the negro, asking at the same time if he had reference to them. Col,. Tillman then asked them to let up on'the negro. About this time the negro was sent to find the pistol which be had hidden. "Witness went along with them. The pistol could not be found and they started back to the place of whipping. Lieut Grant then went to supper and knew nothing of the siih-sprm^nt proceedings. When he came back from supper they were still there and the negro Jim claimed that he had pawned the pistol down town. Lieut. Grant then turned him over to a man in his company, and told him to keep him until this morning when he came down town with the negro and found that he had not pawned the pistol. P. H. Hendrick, quartermaster sergeant of Co. H, testified that he was attracted to the spot where the whip ping was in progress. A negro was stretched across a barrel, being whipr ped, as stated, for stealing a pistol. Finally Col. Tillman ordered the whipping stopped, in order to let the negro find tbe pistol, as he promised to do. They went to the colonel's tent and they couldn't find the pistol. The nerrV* + i n rl t7T?1 I UlU VY tiO L/iVU-jUv wuvrt ? V* w^v* to lie across the barrel, protesting that he knew nothing of the pistol. When the flogging commenced, he would rear up his feet and Col. Tillman walked deliberately around and stood on the negro's ankles. After awhile they let up on the negro. In reply to questions Col. Tillman never touched the boy except when he held his feet still. J. Walter Gray, Jr.. first lieutenant of Co. F, testified as follows: About supper time yesterday I heard some licks and screams and upon inquiring was told that they were whipping a ? wymmm ? m . I j ,mr^t ?njfflg Ddgro, At i)?it I thought it was ;w a j slight whipping for some trivial offeaise. j I aftcr*>rd? y.'yiu 4iiwu and found them ! unmercifully whipping a cross-eyed ' negro'who told (jol. Tilirban that the pistol was sewed up in a matting in I'ncle George's tent. The crowd took the negro to. the tent and came back without the pistol. Fie told Col. Till Ill till Ulia.li ILCJ ?UU1UU L lt-l 11XIU X\JU?k. iU the right tent. . They kept on-whipping all three of the negroes in turn. After some lime the' crowd threw a rope around the neck of the cross-eyed negro, and attempted to hang him. Upon being a.uestioned ?aid that Col. Tillman had nothing to do with that part of it. lie was then in his tent, 25 yards away." After further crossexamination Col. Tillman asked Lieut. Gray if he had ever been under arrest investigsted. Was satisfied that Col. Tillman had reference to Arthur Fair since coming to Columbia. Lieut. Gray replied that he had, under telegram from the provd'st" marshal at Jacksonville. Col. Tillman asked him point blank if he knew on what grounds, if not for drunkenness. Lieut. Gray said that no 'specific charges had been .-made; but he had" proof that he had been drugged. Col. Tillman asked if Gray had been dragged since. Arthur Fair said that he lives in "Winnsboro. Went to Jacksonville with the Second regiment and came back with the First. Tuesday afternoon Col. Tillman accused him of knowing something of the stolen pistol and said that he would beat him until he (Arthur) would never see "sun-up" anymore if he didn't tell where it was. They put him down across the barrel 'and after Col. Tillman got off his feet Sergt. McFadden, of Co. D. stood on tnem. Cross questioned, he said he was 13 years old. Left the Second- regiment because they had too many servants in the regiment. Joined the First regi.ment at Jacksonville. Was whipped by Capt. Hardin, of Co. D, for giving bread to men in another company. He then attached himself to Co. B. Has been 011 changang four times in Chester couaty for stealing chickens. Admitted that the pistol was stolen from Col. Tillman's tent,,but didn't steal.it himself. When Jim said a "boy on the other side of the hill stole the pistol he went back to the kitchen and they came and got him. Begged Col. Tillman to let him loose and he would give him a quarter. (Laughter in court room.) Then got down across the barrel and they began to whip him. Hadn't any desire to prosecute Col. Tillman. Came to town with some officers, waited for them at the street car gangway. Paid his own way. Accompanied by officers, went to Col. Alston's house and" showed him where be had been whipped. He then showed the court the effects of his punishment. W. M. Dunlap, first lieutenant Co. (x. 'testified that he was sitting in his tent when it was to !d him that Col. Tillman was giving some negroes the devil." Walked over to where the whipping was going on. At the time they had just brought up Arthur Fair whom they began to whip. Col. Tillmail telling him that he would never seen sunrise unless he told where that' pistol was. He presently promised to tell'where it was and they went with him to get it. When they came back, without pistol, they whipped him n rm i fK/in rvn r?rAQa. agaiu* 4.0XWJ vuvu wiomvuvvu vu VAVMW eyed negro and he (Bunlap) left. This ended the taking or evidence for the. prosecution. ?/Ir. Abney stated that he had a number of witnesses whom he could produce showing discrepancies in the evidence brought forward by prosecution. It was npt legal to perAit the defense in a preliminary hearing to produce witness, but he thought such technicalities might be waived, as this was merely a case of "humanity." Upon this being denied him, he said that he would let the case rest with a statement from Col. Tillman. Col. Tillman stated in the outset that he was willing to make his statement under oath. He had hoped that it would not be necessary for him to make a statement. But as this prosecution seems to have been brought up more in order to give newspaper notoriety to the prosecutors, who could gain notoriety in no other way. he was forced to make a statement, as they refused to waive technicalities and let him refute evidence with evidence. It was untrue that he had ordered this particular negro whipped. But he had ordered the, whipping of this negro stopped. And now he had been pa raded up Here today as a mppoarome, to prosecute himself. Two of his own serveants he had ordered whipped, and these two had told him today that they deserved their whipping. This is a long story and "will be continued in our next." He had stood persecution long enough. He had tried to conduct himself as a gentleman in this war. He had tried to treat every officers with utmost respect; and not being men enough tbey were now trying to strike him over this poor negro's shoulders. All of these officers at the | first muster-in had been his friends, and he had hoped that as they were so soon to be mustered out. all little differences of the past would be forgotten. But he would neither court their friendship nor fear their frown. There was only one "great crime" with which they could charge him? being responsible for having the regiment mustered out. Threats of courtmartial had been made until he was sick and tired of it. When the courtsmartial started, the mills Jof the gods would crrind slowlv. but they would grind exceedingly well. He would meet court-martial with court-martial. He had been charged with carrying a forged petition to Washington. That statement was untrue. He had nothing to do with it except to keep it in his tent at night as others had been stolen. He knew not whose name were or were not on the petition. He suggested that if the regiment had gone to Cuba during active hostilities he would have fallen, if fall he must, with his face to to the front, leading not following. He concluded saying: "If nothing I can do ean appease you, if nothing I can say can please you. then do your worst, and by the eternal gods you will meet a foeman worthy of your steel/' v The case against Lieut. Col. Tillman was dismissed. The opinion of Magistrate Clarkson, as duly rendered, is that the evidence did not show the matter to be of enengh import to warrant him in sending it up to court. TILLMAN AERESTED. A Military Court Will Now Try the Lieu tenant-Colonel. sensations are coming taics. uuu last r\ in military circles, and the end, in all probability, is not. No sooner had Lt. Col. Tillman been discharged by the civil court this morning than he was arrested at the Columbia hotel by the military authorities and is now confined to the limits of the camp at Geiger's Spring. There is no guard over Colonel Tillman, the order for his arrest *staled that he must act leave camp, j ? Ths charges and specifications were ; ? presented by Lieut. Wade Hampton j p Ligou, ;>(' the Butler Guards of (1 rneu j i< villa, and ;;u them Colonel Alston is.sued an order fcr the arrest and confine- n ment in camp of Lt. Col. Tillman. The d arrest wa.s made by Adjutant Johnr c Frost and Lt. Col. Tillman immediately reported to camp in a carriage and is there now. The charges are very severe, if pro- ^ ven. and the specifications are based on the same grounds as was. the civil trial. The first charge accuses Lieut. Col. Tillman of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and is back- a ed by the specification that while tem- b porarily in charge of the camp he or- ^ dered enlisted men to beat, cruelly, a negro boy named Arthur Fair. The second charge is that Lieut. Col. Tillman has acted in a manner prejudicial n to the guard of the service. The charge t is followed by the specification that r Lieut. Col. Tillman not only superin- j tended the whipping, but actually took ' part in it. * THE COUNTRY EDITOR. 1 o Satoo P.liormincr T'/vnoi-ioncec in TTic 1* Checkered Career. J k We do not know who made the fol- ^ lowing graphic statement, but he was d evidently some one who had "been w there"'himself. Moreover, he was the c editor of a ;'country newspaper," as fi we are assured by the New York Tri- k bune, and if he had written for a year r he could not have stated the case more f: clearly, and with such a wealth of d philosophy: - n i;The editor has a charter from the b State to act as doormat'for the com- n munitv. He will get trie paper out ii somehow, and stand up for the town, u and whoop it up for you when j'ou run n for office,' and be about your bigfooted u son when he gets a four-dollar-a week job, and weep over your shrivelled soul b when it is released from its grasping 1< body, and smile at your wife's socond S marriage. Don't worry about the edi- f< tor, he'll get along. The Lord only u knows how?but some how." ^ The News and Courier says that coy- d ers the case, and covers it all over. The J country newspapers in this State do w more hard and thankless service for v their respective communities than all w the officeholders and professional sharps and gentlemen of leisure who were c created for some purpose, we suppose, u They work early and late, and ninety n per cent of their work goes without re- ir ward. It is a strange thing about the o the newspaper business generally that f] most people do not regard it as ' 'busi- d ness'' at all. Customers go into a store tj and pay for what they get. . They do r< not ask for a. pound of crackers, a w bunch of ciagars. a box of candy, a bolt of cloth, or any of the many thousand things which are sold, but they ask the price of the articles which they ti think they would like, and if the articles ri suit and the price is about what they ^ pan afford fn nav for them, thev nav for 0 them in cash, or 'iiave it charged." It ii is not so with newspapers'.. If John t< Jones make a great speech, and it is re- C ported at length by a man who is paid a for doing the work, and is printed in a Q newspaper which has to pay for putting t< the story in type, Jones would like to b get half dozen copies of the paper for ti distribution among his friends, aad a Jones generally tries to get them for o nothing. s< If the lovely Mrs. Brown Robinson I has a tea and her parlors are crowded fi with the elite of the land, and the li society reporter writes a charming 1* account of the delightful social func- d t.inn Mrs. Rrnwn-Robinson would like n to have ten or twenty copies of the pa- E per to mail to her out-of-town friends, d and she would be shocked if anything i' should be said by the young man at the ? desk about so common a thing as money t] in exchange for the papers, which she ^ would obtain for the gratification of her d own amiable wish to let her friends e know how she figures in the great serial ^ swim. . ? Si Several years ago, as we have been r< told, a newspaper printed a long story d about the celebration of a military com- ^ pany. It filled a great deal of space, a' and cost a good deal of money to put it 0: in shape for the entertainment of the T reading public. It would seem that ? the newspaper had done its full share in writting up the celebration, but the P next morning, all the same, a request ^ was made for a hundred and fifty copies of the paper containing the story for " general distribution, and a hundred a; and fifty copies were worth, according c< to the prices prevailing at that time, exactly $7 50. Besides the expense of j, writing up the celebration, the newspa- a per was asked and expected to contribute ^ $7.50 to the admiration fund of the fj company. ^ When men die who have occupied & 0prominent place in the community, 0; and who have done good work for the q State or Church or Society in their C( day and generatiou, it is the invariable s, ? ? j ...... 1 11 _ rule 01 newspapers to speas wen 01 S1 them, and to give an account of their a] lives. It would seem that in doing rj this the newspaper had discharged its g full duty to the public and to the de- b, ceased; but there are societies and or- c ders and organizations that would also a like to make some public announcement 1 touching the esteem in which the de- j parted had been he'd by his associates, I and of how deeply they wonder at the I inscrutable decree of Providence which j had removed their friend and associate, | and their words of appreciation and sorrow are strung out in tributes of respect which the newspapers are expect; ed to print, for nothing. We have known persons almost prostrated bysurprise and indignation when they have found that the newspaper attaches money value to such eulogies. It is in the religious press that the obituary writer finds the amplest scope for his talents, and his work of 'Embalming'' the memory of the dead has j been pursued with such activity that ! the religious papers have been compell- a ed for self protection to publish such I reminders as the following which we 9 take from the Southern Presbyterian: % "Obituary notices cot exceeding five lines inserted without charge. Excess ? over five lines, five cents per line." And it is a remarkable thing how j" many obituaries are published that do not exceed five lines. Otherwise our Church contemporaries would doubtless ? be compelled to double the size of their papers in order to hold such wordy ! manifestations of grief, than which' I there in nothing cheaper even in these ^ days of five-cents cotton. We would like to suggest to our weekly and daily contemporaries that possibly they are to blame for the value which the general public places upon their work. Xewspaper3 are bupiness in enterprises just as mills and factories. F< and stores, and their stock in trade is va t a .i-i- it j.i tne paper which txje> sun iu uien tus- -v tomcrs, and such space as they offer to *jj advertisers. Newspapers are not sup- v ported by public appropriations, they are not endowed institutions, they have to live on the busines tha. they do. and they should agree among themselves 0 as the method of doing business. Fvery agsatss- aasggssigggags 'eokl>' p^wapaper in South C^roliBa. 'e vectare tp sav, would be able to ay all ir$ 4ebts and declare a gpod d;vlend the first of every year oil the price which is given to the public- for otliing. and fur which the newspapers o net receive so cheap a reward as siuere thanks! ONLY SEVENTEEN KILLED. Lineriean Naval Record of Casualties in the Recent War. Seventeen sailors killed and 84 casulties all told was the total loss suffered y the United Stated navy during the ar. The figures have just been eomiled at the navy department. In Dewey's great fight in Manila bay, ot a man was killed and every one of he nine men wounded was able and did etnrn to duty. In the battle of uly third off Santiago, one man was illed and there were 11 .casualties alocether. In that fieht also every one f tht wounded returned to duty. The 3ss suffered in the attack upon the orts at the entrance to Santiago by the Lmerican fleet June 22d was one sailor illed and 11 men were wounded of rhom only seven were able to return to uty. The heaviest loss of the navy ras at Guantanamo. There were 22 asualtiesin that one hundred hour ght and of the list six mariners were illed. Of the sixteen wounded nine eturned to duty, three were invalided rom the service and four continue uner treatment. Next after Guantana10, the battle with the forts and gunoats off Cienfuegos caused the greatest umber of casualties, the list aggregatag 12 with one man killed. Another lan died subsequently from wounds, ine returned to duty and one continues nder treatment. More fatal in its results was the fierce attle between the torpedo boat Wins>w and revenue cutter Hudson with the panish land batteries and artiltery srces at Cardenas. Of the eight cas alties five were deaths, though three rounded men afterwards returned to uty. In the bombardment of San uan, the casualties numbered eight rith one man killed. One of the -ounded men was invalided home, hile six returned to duty. ^ There were four other casualties ocarring in as many separate engagexents, and that completes the list of aval losses. Of the 67 men wounded i the war. 54 were returned to duty, ne died of wounds, six were invalided rom the service and six continue uner treatment. Considering results oblined this list is said to be the most imarkable in the naval history of tlie orld. Encouraging Statements. In his annual report just issued, Na: 1 n : ; p rj XT looai lyomniissiuuer ui jnuuua,tiuu uatis makes same encouraging statelents. Among them is the increase of ver a quarter of a million pupils dutr. ag the past year in excess of the atsndanee during the previous one. >ther notable features in his report re; that the-total enrollment in elelentary schools amounted to about fifzen and one-half million and the numer of students in colleges, universiies, academies and high schools w:s bout 750,000 more; that, at the n.te bserved in 1897, the total average of ihooling per individual for the whole j [niter! States amounts to verv nearlv ! ve years of 200 days each., and that a ttleover one-fifth of the entire popuition attended school at some time uring the year. Perhaps the most otewcrthy section in Commissioner [arris' report is that in which he wells upon the marked increase durQg the past few years in the number f scientific and technical schools in lie country. In the six years, he says, rom 1890 to 1896 the number of stuents in engineering and applied scince increased from 14,869 to 23,598. 'his shows the wide-awake practical snse prevalent among American paints. They are equipping their chilren to meet the multiplied demands* iat are beinsr made daily UDon the etivities of our population in the field f material development Twenty-five ears ago parents, whenever able to ive their sons the benefit of a college aining, had them educated to be reachers, lawyers or doctors. Now ley are opening new avenues of infraction in the higher mathematics, 1 scientific farming in engineering ad in the wide and expanding field of immerce. Hilton s. Ddoform Liniment is the "nee plus It.ra" nf all srirdi nrennrations in re Loving soreness, and quickly healing esh cuts and wounds, no matter how ad. Tt will promptly heal old sores I long standing. Will kill the poisq from ''Poison Ivy" or "Poison >ak" and cure "Dew Poison." 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