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. j ' A HAPPY HOME. ; Domestic Life the Subject of Dr. J - Talmage's Sermon. i ~ < KEEP GOD AT THE FIRESIDE. : Every Member of the Household j Should Strive to Make It , . ii . ' ( Happy, start in me Right Way. j * Dr. Talmage in this discourse sets ' forth radical theories, which, if adopt- i ed, would brighten many domestic cir- 1 cles; text, John xx, 10, "The disciples < went away again unto their own 1 homes." A church within a church, a repub- : - lie within a republic, a world within a j world, is spelled by four letters?home! If things go right there, they s*o right everywhere; if things go wrong there, : fchey go wro*g everywhere. The door* 1 1 ?1 f^Ann. sill 01 tne Qwemug it-mac ?o dation of church aud stat?. A man never gets higher than his own garret or lower than'his own cellar. Domestic life overarches ana undergirdles all other life. The highest house of congress in the domestic circle; the rocking chair in the nursery is higher than a throne. George Washington commanded the forces of the United States but Mary Washington commanded George. Chrysostom's mother made bis nen for him. If a man should start out and ran 70 years in a straight line, | --- ? lie could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantelpiece. I therefore talk to you about a matter of infinite and eternal moment when I speak of your home. As individuals we aru fragments. ? God makes the race in parts, and then lie gradually puts us together. What I lack you make up; what you lack I make up; our deficits and surpluses of ? ciiaracter oeing me cugwuccio xu vuv t great social mechanism. One person has the patience, another has the courage, another has the placidity, another has the enthusiasm. That which is lacking in one is made'up by another or made up by all. Buffaloes in herds, grouse in broods, quails in flocks, the human race in circles. God has most beautifully arranged this. It is in this way that he balances society ; this conservative and that radical keeping things even. Every ship must have its V mast, cutwater, taffrail, ballast. Thank God, then, for Princeton and Andover, for the opposites. I have no more right to blame a man ?? frnvm ttip t.nan n driv lUi UClUg UUIU^UU ing wheel has a right to blame the iron shaft that holds it to the center. John ^ Wesley balances Calvin's "Institutes." A cold thinker gives to Scotland the! . - strong bones of theology. Dr. Guthrie clothes them with a throbbing heart and warm flesh. The difficulty is that ^ we are not satisfied with just the work that God has given us to do. The water B wheel wants to come inside the mill < 2 and grind the grist, and the hopper /^oVkKlp in flip wa- , FWailtS WJ gU UUi> auu vu*w ter. Our usefulness and the welfare of . society depend upon our staying in just : the place that God has put us, or in- i tended we should occupy. For more compactness and that we 1 may be more useful we are gathered in still smaller circles in the home group, i And there you have the same variety < N again?brothers, sisters, husband and 1 wifp all different in temperaments- ana < < * tastes. It is fortunate that it should p be so. If the husband be all impulse, the wife'must be all prudence. If one sister be sanguine in her temperament, i the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are necessities. There will j, ; be no dinner for Christ if there be no _ ^ Martha, there will be no audience for ; m Jesus if there be no Mary. The home 1 fttvanizatinn is most beautifully con- 1 stracted. Eden has gone, the bowers I, are all broken down, the animals that ] Adam stroked with his hand that mcr-1 ] ning when they came np to get their < names have since shot forth tusk and j I . _ sting and growled panther at panther, i and midair iron beaks plunge till with j clotted wing and eyeless sockets the i twain come whirling down from under j the sun in blood and fire. Eden has ( gone, but there is just one little frag- i A 1 ^ ^ ? ~ J An TTOT* I 1 HieDt leit. x.fc uu<iw;u uunu uu wv 4.4.. j Hiddekel out of paradise. It is the ; :V v marriage institution. It does not, as i x at the beginning, take away from man j . a rib. Now it is an addition of ribs. ] This institution of marriage has been 1 defamed in our day. Socialism and ^ polgyamy and the most damnable of all t things, free lovism, have been trying to j turn this earth into a Turkish harem. < While the pulpits have been compara- i tivfilv silent novels, their cheapness t only equalled by their nastiness, are i trying to educate, have taken upon ' themselves to educate, this nation in i regard to holy marriage, which makes ( or breaks for time and eternity. Oh, t ^ this is not a mere question of residence or wardrobs! It is a question charged j with gigantic joy or sorrow, with heav- t en or heli. Alas for this new dispen- g safcion of Greorge Sands! Alas lor tms i mingling of the nightshade with the s marriage garlands. Alas for the venom 1 of adders spit into the tankards. Alas t for the white frosts of eternal death J _ that kill the orange blossoms! The a gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what s 13 right and to assail what is wrong. 1 Attempt ha3 been made to take the i ? . - marriage institution, which was intend- t ed for the happiness and elevation of i the race and make it a mere commer- t cial enterprise, an exchange of houses i and lands and equipage, a business v rrr- . partnership of two stuffed up with the c stories of romance and knight errantry c and unfaithfulness and femine angel- 1 \ hood. The two after awhile have [ t roused up to find that instead of the t paradise they dreamed of they have got \ nothing but a Van Amburgh's menag- \ erie, filled with tigers and wild cats, a Eighty thousand divorces in Paris in a one year preceded the worst revolution that France ever saw. And I tell you e what you know as well as I do, that t wrong notions on the subject of Chris- i tian marriage are the cause at this day c or more moral outrage before God and ' man than any other cause. "! My first counsel to you is, have God 1 in your new home, if it be a new home, t and let him who was a guest at Bethany ? be in your household, let the divine ] blessing drop upon your every hope and ^ plan and expectation. Those young ] people who begin with God end with ; heaven. Have on your right hand the J engagement ring of the divine affection. < of you be a Christian. I ^fe?nat one take the Bible and i Rp a few verses in the even- 1 Br time, and then kneel down and 1 Hhmend yourselves to him who setteth < jye solitary in families. I want to tell 1 Byou that the destroying angel passes by 1 g| Bjgfchout touching or entering the door [^^3?nkled with blood of the ever- i ^gMMHBHS^MBBBB|^^enant. Why is it that in never get along and < Lget along well? 1 [: teto^dhave comeJ j^fc^stance | B^and 1 ? tfter a while there came a devastation, j mo lomestio disaster, or estrangement, j be] iVhy? They started wrong. In the ! ha: )thencase, although there were hard- th< ships and trials and some things that th( lad to be explained, still things went of >n pleasantly until the very last. Why? bai 1'hey started right. i aD( My second advice to you in your no' some is to exercise to the very last pos- dri jibility of your nature the law of for- thj bearance. Prayers in the household ma will not make up for everything. Some wii }f the best people in the world are the tra hardest to get along with. There are Th people who stand up in prayer meetings ho and pray like angels who at home are frc uncompromising and cranky. You vei may not have everything just as you mc want it. Sometimes it wiil be the duty cti :>f the husband and sometimes of the a wife 10 yield, but both stand punctili- wa Dusly on your rights, and you will have ex i Waterloo with no Blucher coming up de at nightfall to decide the conflict. nu Xever be ashamed to apologize when thi you have done wrong in domestic of affairs. Let that be a law of your house- int hold. The best thing I ever heard of ba my grandfather, whom I never saw, a s was this. That once, having unrighte- ch ously rebuked one of his children, he fir himself having lost his patience and se< perhaps having been misinformed of do the child's doings, found out his mis- do take, and in the evening of the same gr day gathered all h;s family together ho and said: "Now, I have one explana- W tiou to make and one thing to say. cii Thomas, this morning I rebaked you lal very unfairly. I am very sorry for it. mi I rebuked you in the presence of the th whole family, and now I asked your sti forgiveness in their presence." It must th have taken some courage to do that, ho It was right, was it not? Never he nc ashamed to apologize for domestic in- te; accuracy. Find out the points, what ha are the weak points, if I may call them G< so, of your companion and then stand pr aloof from them. . Do not carry the lire he of your temper too near the gunpowder, sh If the wife be easily fretted by disorder fe< in the household, let the husband be th careful where he throws his slippers, bl; If the husband come home from the lej store with patience exhusted, do not fo: let the wife unnecessarily cross his temper, but both stand up for your rights, ag and I will promise the everlastng sound th of the warwhoop. Your life will be a! spent in making up, and marriage will if be to you an unmitigated curse. Cow- ho per said: ~ th ,co The kindest and the happiest pair 'pe Will find occision to forbear cu And something every day they live, sg To pity and perhaps forgive. I advise also that you make your ^ chief pleasure circle arouna aooui oq that home. It is unfortunate when it ? is otherwise. If the husband spend wj the most of his nights away from home, ^ of choice and n.'t of necessity, he is not gn the head of the household; he is only the cashier. If the wife throw the gn cares of the household into the servant's j-a lap and then spend five nights of the g, week at the opera or theater, -she may clothe her children with satins and jqj laces and ribbons that would confound ^ a French milliner, but they are orpnans. It is sad when a child has no one to say ^ its prayers to because mother has gone off to the evening entertainment! Id India they bring children and throw them to the crocodiles, and it seems ^ rery cruel, but the jaws j^social dis- ey sipation are swallowing-down more little ' children today all the monsters that ever craisAed upon the banks of the ? jangesl ~ ba Fhave seen the sorrow of a godless thi mother on the death of a child she had afc neglected. It was not so much grief ha that she felt from the fact that the child co was dead as the fact that she had ne- jn! dected it. She said, "If I had only sjt watched over and cared for the child, wj [ know God would not have taken it." as] The tears came not. It was a dry, blistering tempest?a scorching simoon ye af the desert. When she wrung her fl0 tiands, it seemed as if she would twist rir herfingers from their sockets; when she fl0 seized her hair, it seemed as if she had in wild terror grasped a coiling serpent Te irith her right hand. No tears! Com- th; rades of the little one came in and wept over the coffin, neighbors come in, th< md the moment they saw the still face jn )f the child the shower brofce. iNo tears frc :or her. God gives tears as the sum - th< ner rain to the parched soul, but in Ai ill the universe the driest and hottest, us' :he most scorching and consuming thing mt is a mother's heart if she has neglected an: ier child, when once it is dead. God th< nay forgive her, but she will never for- an, jive herself. The memory will sink erg ;he eyes deeper into the sockets and ail( tinch the face and whiten the hair and ' jat up the heart with vultures that will 0f lot be satisfied forever plunging deeper hj? fceir iron beaks. Oh, you wanderers aft ?rom your home, go back to your duty! rhe brightest flowers in all the earth th< ire those which grow in the garden of a th< aIotvi net nror _/LLi JLdLiCLLL liV/UC^IiVIU, vtv* IC?J :he porch of a Christian home. sa\ 1 advise you also to cultivate sym- ar ?athy of occupation. Sir James Mcln- on ;osh, one of the most eminent and ele- bu: ;ant men that ever lived, while stand- p61 ng at the very height of his eminence, lan aid to a great company of scholars, ^r, 'My wife made me." The wife ought the o be the advising partner in every firm. Q0 >he ought to be interested in p6J ill the losses and gains of shop and ^it ;i rvrA She niicht to have arierht?she las a right?to know everything. If a An nan goes into a business transaction an( hat he dare not tell his wife of, you sh? nay depend that he is on the way either ne? o bankruptcy or moral ruin. There cel nay be some things which he does not pa? rish to trouble his wife with, but if he the lare not tell her he is on the road to fel< liscomfiture. On the other hand, the cal tusband ought to be sympathetic with an( he wife's occupation. It is no easy an( hing to keep house. Many a woman rho could have endured martyrdom as eell as Margaret, the Scotch girl, has sin .ctually been worn out by house man- me gement. roa, t AAA i _JP xl _ mere are l.uuu martyrs 01 tne kilcu- ln in. It is very annoying after the vexaions of the day around the stove or the egister or the table, or in the nursery ( >r parlor to have the husband say: spc 'You know nothing about trouble. Ev fou ought to be in the store half an the lour." Sympathy of occupation! If dm ;he husband's work cover him with the liv ;oot of the furnace, or the odors of rit; eather, or soap factories, let not the its vife be easily disgusted at the begrimed gal lands or unsavory aroma. Your gains wil ire one. your interests are one, your pei osses are one. Lay hold of the work ed >f life with both hands. Four hands ed do fight the battles; four eyes to watch am for the danger; four shoulders on which we to carry Cthe trials. It is a very sad lik thing when the painter has a wife who pa: ioes not like pictures. It is a very sad res thing for a pianist when she has a hus- pic band who does not like music. It is a of rery sad thing when a wife is not suited fac unless her husband has what is called a gn ' genteel business." So far as I un- wa ierstand a "genteel business," it is bu something to which a man goes at 1U wfi a'clock in the morning and from which Li he comes home at 2 or 3 o'clock in the up ifternoon and gets a large amount of we noy f'or doing nothing. That is, ] ieve. a "genteel business." and then 5 been many 8 wife who has mad< ; mistake of not being satisfied unti ; husband has given up the tannin; the hides, or the turning of th< alters or the building of the wall i put himself in circles where he ha: thin? to do but smoke cigars an( nk wine and get himself into "habit it upset him, going do?/n in thi .elstrom. taking his wife andchildrei th him. There are a good man; .ins running from earth to destructioi iey start ail hours of the day and al ars of the night. There are th< light trains they go very slowly an< ry heavily, and there are the accom >dation trains going on toward destru on. they stop very often and le man get out. and on when hi .nts to. ?Jut genteel idleness is ai press train. Satan is the stoker an( ath is the engineer, and, though on ly come out in front of it and swin, sred flag of "danger" or the lanteri God's word, it makes just one sho :o perdition, coming down the em nkment with a shout and a wail am shriek?crash! crash! There are tw tsses oiJ people sure of destructionst. those who have nothing to do ;ondly.. those who have something t , but who are too lazy or too proud t it. I have one more word of advice t re to those who would have a happ, me, and that is, let love preside in il hen ycur behavior in the domesti cle becomes a mere matter of calcu Aon, when the caress you give i srely the result of deliberate study c e position yon occupy, happiness lie irk dead on the hearthstone. Whe e husband's position as head of th usehold is maintained by loudness c ice, by strength of arm, by fire c mper, r,he republic of domestic blis ,s became a despotism that neithe >d nor man will abide. Oh, ye wh omisec. to love each other at the alta >w daro you commit perjury? Let n adow of suspicion come on your ai stion. It is easier to kill that flowe an it is to make it live again. Th ast from hell that puts out that ligh ives you in the blackness or darknes rever. Here are a man and wife. The ree in nothing else, bat they agre ey will have a home. They will hav splendid house, and they think tha they have a house they will have me. Architects make the plan, an e mechanics execute it, the house t st $100,000. It is done. The cai ts are spread, lights are hoistec rtains are hung, cards of invitatio nt out. The horses in gold plate rness prance at the gate, guests com and take their places, the flute soun e dancers go up and down, and wit e grand whirl the wealth and th sfiinn and the mirth of the srre&ttOWl leel amid the pictured walls. Hi is is happiness. Float it on th loking viands, sound it in the music lirl it in the dance, cast it in th ow of sculpture, sound it up the bri] >nt stairway, flash it in chandeliers ippiness indeed! Let us build on the center of the pai : floor a throne to happiness, let a] e guests, when come in, bring thei wers r.nd pearls and diamonds, an row them on this pyramid, and let i a throne and let happiness, th een, -aountthe throne, andwewii md around, and all chalices lifted, w 11 say. "Drink, 0 queen, live foi er!" But the guests depart, the flute ^-breathless. the last clash of the inj tient hoofs is heard in the distance d the twain of the household com ck to see the queen of happiness o e throne amid the parlor floor. But is, as they come back, the flower ve faded, the sweet odors have be me the smell of a charnel house, ?n< stead of the queen of happiness ther s there the gaunt form of anguish th bitten lip and sunken eye an ' * i ? i- -i- m_ c 4.v Lies m ner nair. jljub rump <jx i>u ncers who have left seems rumblin t, like jarring thunders that quake th or anc. rattle the glasses of the feas a to rim. The spilled wine on th or turns into blood. The wreath's o ish hsve become wriggling reptiles rrors catch tangled in the canop; it overhangs the couch. A stron, st of wind comes through the hall am 3 drawing room and the bedchamber which all the lights go out. An< im the lips of the wine beakers com i words, "Happiness is not in us!: id the arches respond, "It is not ii !" And the silenced instruments o isic, thrummed on by invisible finger swer, "Happiness is not in us!" An< 5 frozen lips of anguish break open i seated on the throne of wilted flow i, she strikes her bony hands togethe i groans, "It is not in me!" rhat very night a clerk with a salar $1,000 a year?only $1,000?goes U i home, set up three months ago jus er the marriage day. J^ove meet: n at the door, love sits with him a } table, love talks over the work o; i day, love takes down the Bible anc ids of him who came oar souls t< re; and they kneel, and while the} : kneeling, right- in that plain room the plain carpet, the angels of Goc ild a throne not out of flowers thai :ish and fade away, but out of gar ids of heaven, wreath on top o: Bath, amaranth on amaranth, unti ! throne is done. Then the harps o: d sounded, and suddenly there apired one who mounted the throne ;h eye so bright and brow so fair thai : twain knew it was Christian love, id they knelt at the foot of the throne 1. putting one hand on each head, i blessed them and said, "Happi ;s it with me!" And that throne oi estial bloom withered not with th( ;sing years, and the queen left nol : throne till one day the married paii i stricken in years?felt themselves led away and knew not which way gc i the queen bounded irom tne tnront 1 said, uFoilow me, and I will sho'w x the way up to the realm of ever ting love.1' And so they went up tc g songs of love and walk on pare ntf of love, and to live together ir nsions of love, and to rejoice forevei the truth that God is love. Terrific Storm in Chicago. Chicago's lake front is bespattered ir >ts from Indiana state line to Easi anston and beyond, as the result o'. ! storm which found a center then ring the last two days. While n< es have been reported lost, the seve y of the blow?48 miles an hour ai worst?was the greatest since th< e of 1894, when the shore was strewr ;h wrecks and when maDy sailor; ished. The tolal damage is estimat at?Sl,500. The objects that suffer most was the lake shore promenade: 1 walls, whose huge rocks and flags re battered- down and tossed abou e chips by the waves. The Lincoli rk board has suffered most in thi: ipect. It will require $35,000 to re ice its wrecked ways. An indicatioi the fury of the storm is shown by th< :t that the official clock in the hydro tphic office in the Masonic Tempi* s stopped by the vibration of the bij ilding. The hands pointed to 6.5. ien the pendulum ceased to swing eutenant Wilson says'all clocks in th per floors of high office building re similarly affected. si HILL ON THE WAR. I a I He Exposes Republican Duplicity I and Hypocricy. S) J IT WAS A DEMOCRATIC WAR. s s He Shows Very Plainly that Had 1 It Not Been For the Dem7 i ocrats Spain Would Still g Own Cuba. i In his speech at the Brooklyn Acad emy of Music on Friday night David - B. Hill made so clear and ableapret sentment of the hypocrisy, the duplice ity of the Republicans in their effort to fl artin ttir infa y\/\1 i I - wxu wxv> " i.i lutv paiuoau puiJ-noai i capital that we are moved to quote him e fully on this point. He said: g The achievements and glories of the a recent war with Spain belong not to t any political part}-, but the whole coun - try. This fact should be everywhere a conceded; but if there is a disposition o to inject partianship in the considera tion of the inception or results of that >; war, we need not shrink from a com o parison with our opponents. We may o recall the plain facts of history. o The people have not forgotten the 7 great struggle in the halls of congress less than a year ago, which preceded c the declaration of war?the fact that, i_ *!. - ?_j t vi. j.: i wuu a, itjw una uuiiurauie exceptions, s all the earnest pleas for intervention in f behalf of Cuban liberty were uttered by !S Democratic leaders, the arbitrary ren fusal for months of a Republican speake er, backed by the dominant majority, to even consider the Cuban question at >f all; the steady, persistent and deter>s mined efforts of the Democratic minori'r ty to force the Cuban question to the o front, aided by the powerful Democrat tr ic press of the country and backed by o the patriotic sentiment of the people. until at last their efforts were crowned sr with succcss and a halting and reluctant e administration was forced to inaugurate a war in behalf of humanity and civ>s ilization to which it was at heart opnnspd. y You have not forgotten the cold and 'e unsympathetic message of President e McKinley in December last opposing Cuban intervention of any kind, exag * gerating the difficulties in the way, and a unnecessarily reminding congress and 0 the people of our neutral obligations. [" You have not forgotten the attitude > of Senator Hanna, the Warwick of the ^ present administration as well as the head of its financial syndicate?fre:h ? from his senatorial triumph at Colum? bus, purchased by bribery and corruption, who sent to the president in ane swer to his congratulatory telegram the 1 famous, or rather, infamous, message. l; <:God reigns and the Republican party f still lives," and who with tears in his eyes, was pleading at Washington for ,e peace at any price, and lamenting the threatened disturbance of the business '' interests of the country by i?so unnecessary a war." II ^ Cil/ilCX 11CCU JL J.L1U1UU JUU UX CJUV, dire predictions and lamentations of T other Republicans high in the councils ^ of the party, who in those momentous days were seeking to stem the tide of ? popular enthusiasm which was sweeping over the land, and protesting that te their party was being ' 'dragged" into an unholy foreign war by their unscrupuls ous opponents. J" But now that "this cruel war is over" and American valor has easily triumphe ed on both sea and land, and the AmerQ can flag proudly floats over cur newly '' acquired territory?never, as it is fond^ s iy hoped, to be lowered again?these j post-war patriots who never lifted their voices in behalf of Cuban liberty when e the causc was iD dire distress and need'i ed friends, come forward with unbecoming baste, not simply to share, but e to monopolize all the glories of the war. & Their perennial and moss-covered ? orators, from Mr. Depew down to ihe village oracle, are perambulating the ? State fighting over again with their tongues the few battles of the war, " giving vivid descriptions of war scenes ^ which they did not witness and detail? ing warlike events which never occurred. seeking vague and imaginary issues 3 rather than confronting those actually existing. ?, Even the distinguished Republican candidate for governor in one of his rej ent speeches went so far as to say th; t * the war would be regarded as having a been fought in vain if a Democratic victory should now occur. This is the ' first suggestion - which I have heard from so high a source that the late war r was a Republican war, or that it was nrzcrorl in the interestor fnr the benefit " ? -7 of any political party, official or individual. Democratic soldiers as well as civilians will resent the offensive and . untimely suggestion. ! It was the nation's war, undertaken not for political effect but for liberty's sake?for the sake of humanity?for the defense of the national honor; a just and righteous war which over shadowed all political considerations, i -mi 1. 1 ? i_i ana it will not nave oeeu lougut m vain, nor will its glorious results be P obscured, dimmed or affected by the I success or defeat in this State camP paign of any political party?much less of that party which is held in public [ estimation largely responsible for coml pelling the inauguration of that very war. ^ It is said that the president must ' be sustained. This is a silly plea at [ this stage of events. The conflict has . ceased; no armed forces confront us k anywhere, and we are virtuallv dictai ting our own terms of peace. No dan" gers confront the country except those ' which may be occasioned by our own ) selfishness or incapacity, and under such appeals to our patriotism to sus ' tain an adverse administration with which we do not agree must be regard) ed as unwarrantable and childish. During the continuance of the struggle the appeal was pertinent and was most * patriotically answered. Never in the history of the nation was a president more loyally supported by an opposition party and by the peo! pie generally than during the recent I conflict. Men, supplies and money j f were voted ad libitum. Democrats vied ? with -Republicans in the endeavor to j give the administration everything it . desired; and while differences of opini ion necessarily arose as to methods and ? details, there was but one common purj pose manifested, which was to assist 3 the president in every legitimate way . in a vigorous prosecutian of the war. That duty having been abundantly dis3 charged, there is now no obligation . resting upon anybody so sustain the I national administration, unless we j really approve its policy. 5 While a blind approval of an administration, whether it is right or wrong, rnov Ka pT&fitfid in times of war. no 2 such rule prevails in tinns of peace I It is no impeachment of the loyalty or e patriotism of the people that they decline to condone the incompetency, the I negligence, the favoritism and the corruption which characterized the cong duct of some of the departments of s the government especially since the close of the war, resulting in much priM vation, suffering and death, saddening | TH. the glorious memories of the eon- i j fliet, and demanding an official investi- | par gation. j They naturally distrust an adminis- j p] tration which desires to investigate it- ^ self, and they insist with much propri- . ety that the people's representatives in 1]?=. congress assembled constitute the prop- =* p er tribunal for the conduct of such an ? investigation. A wise statesmanship ^ * will satisfactorily solve the new and in- f} terestmg proDJems arising out 01 tne terms of settlement with Spain, will de- P3113 termine what governments shall be _ formed; what territory, if any, shall be saCl actually annexed; what relations shall exist between our own and the newly , acquired countries: what shall be done in reference to the solemn promise ? contained in our declaration of war; these question cannot be said to be j; [oliticd "issues'' in the ordinary sense ?aa of that term, because they have not | bccome a certainty; parties have not divided on them; they have not been stre appropriately or legitimately presented, moJ and their discussion seems premature. a. Neither does the proposed i.jcrease tl0J: of our army; the farther strengthening of the navy; the duty which we owe ene to our volumteers; the greatness of our ^er common country, or the necessity for t"e i . a - i tn r tne preservation 01 its nonor, iurnisn . issues of any importance, because they are subjects on which the people are . substantially united. It may gratify the vanity of idle men and flippant ?nS orators to seriously discuss such topics in a brief political campaign, but basy and thoughtful men, intent on practi- ^ cal results, prefer the consideration of tl0r contested questions and actual issues. and Eights of the Newspaper. war [the following from the Newspaper- _ I Maker, so nearly voices our views on citi the subject treated, that in reproduc- tho ing it, we do not care to change a word in f nr o riViroco- The rxi'araTVJ'nor Viae Vippn Sen established long and many of its limit- ber ations and presc) iptions are so set that to < the wayfaring man, though a fool, sees of ^ and understands them. Yet in many tha essentials there is cross and utter dark- ble: ness in the general public mind as to of the relation between the public and the the newspaper. It is hard for people to the understand that the newspaper is a of c business enterprise like shopkeeping, vicl or the manufacture of tobacco. A man pea engages in it for the money making, or dan for reputation. The right of the sub- to s scriber begins and ends with his sub- con ovixyixvu* xxg li^vu uv iiiviu uuuoviAwv ? for'a paper if he has no use for it, than 0 he has to buy a cigar if he be no smo- I ker. The paper has no claim upon his tarj support, and if he believes he is not getting the worth of his money he owes ^ it to himself to stop it. So of the advertiser. He is a fool if he pays out Suj good money for what will bring him no returns. He is free to insert an advertisement, or decline to do so, accordiDg . as he think it is profitable to him or slor otherwise. Because he advertises that P?r is no reason why he should feel the paper owes him something else than the space for which he pays. Yetsubscri- S bers anc. advertisers are too prone to think that they have peculiar claims e<^ 4-Vi / ? HPV?/*YT O ro f A O cL* C3.ll upuu guiuvi. ?*. 11VJ WIV UV4Vi UV for the gratuitous insertion of notices ltsf concerning themselves or their friends, ^ and for i;he suppression of news which ^r01 may militate against them or their business. In this instance they are To bold, aggressive, exorbitant and often- ? times im pertinent. These men would ?^3 scarcely attempt to interfere in such ac,j' manner with their butcher. grocer or tailor. In their dealings with all busi- era ness hou ses except the newspaper, they Car recognize the right of the dealer to con- * duct his affairs in his own way. Why *rii not the editor? He is a purveyor of news. Such is his business. It lies ??< with him to select, cull and arrange ex? what comes his way. If he does this ?uc to the distaste of individuals they are 1IDI free to reject it. No law can compel P|? them to buy or advertise in a paper not P?j of their taste. Equally it is none of an" their business as to the direction of it. The responsibility begins and ends with *75 the editor . I Desperate Fight With Indians sch A special from Canyon City Oregon, <jay states that a young man who was a 0f t member of the sheriff's posse, has just 1 returned to Canyon City, with the re- nov port of a desperate fight which occurred I between the whites and a renegade band of Indians. The 19 white men hav and five buck warriors were about 40 x I feet apart when the battle began, gta; George Cuttings, son of David Cuttings, Stai received a ball in the left arm, the mis- fl0^ sel passing through his lungs. One of th'e the Indiuns who was ?.hot and killed ch0 fought with desperate courage. " After resi beine reneatedlv shot, he continued <jMi< fighting with his rifle until it was empty, e^u then fired his revolver until the muzzel 0f 1 dropped so low that the bullets struck SUp the ground near the dying redskin's tabi side. George Cuttings, after receiving nou a wound, started in company with M. Moiser, for Izee, near the scene of the S trouble. The wounded man became so weak that he was left near the trail j propped up again3t a tree. "When a searching party went to look for Cuttings they found his dead body near a Mai spring where he had crawled. The posse continued pursuit and after a running battle killed all five Indians. S< Settlers have been sent to Canyon City Qrl< for more ammunition, stating tnat tne suec Indians are gathering around Izee in m0v large numbers. The trouble arose over seve the Indians accusing the whites of steal- 2,80 ing horses^ day; Sank With Help At Hand. tiie. The Three-masted schooner St. Yin- an* cent, sank Wednesday about five miles northwest of Sodus, on Lake Ontario, with all on board save Capt. John . ? Griffin, who was rescued in an uncon scious condition. The tug Cornelia 0?0> started for the rescue, but the great sey,e J seas nearly swamped the boat and the anc^ Cornelia was compelled to return to "eei I the harbor. Word was sent to Charlotte that the distressed vessel had ~ ^ been sighted near Pultneyville, and the tug ;Proctor started with the an? life saving crew. "When within a mile of the St. Peter the crew of the Proctor were horrified to see the distressed rship sink. , In ten minutes the tug int^ was cruising about the spot where she | went down. Capt. Griffin was picked uo.^ up in an unconscious condition. After F11" spending half an hour looking for the *as*; other members of the ill-fated crew, ? the tug started for Sodus where medical assistance was secured for the captain. He is still unconscious, but will recover. The wife bf the captain. wa3 lost. |eac* ? mcr Hilton Si Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus p0Q( ultra" of all such preparations in re- and moving soreness, and quickly healing (Jatf fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores " ' t irrrn i_:n ii I \1 01 long Standing. YTiii juii wits yuia- i'j on from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison seer Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will ecul counteract the poison from bites of C. 3 snakes an stings of insects. It is a Gen sure cure for sore throat. "Will cure agre any case of sore mouth, and is a supe- ter rior remedy for all pains and aches. Jud Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a ton, bottle. Sen AUTXSGIVING PROCLAMATION ticular Reason Why American Peo.e Should be Thankfal This Year. he President after the cabinet meetFriday issued the following thanksng proclamation: !y the President of the United ;es: 1 proclamation. he approaching November brings to d the custom of our ancestors, haled by time and rooted in our most ed traditions, of giving thanks to aighty God for all the blessings he vouchsafed to us during the past r. 'ew years in our history have afled such cause for thanksgiving as >. We have been blessed by abunt harvests, our trade and commerce e been wonderfully increased, our ilic credit has been improved and sngthened, all sections of our com2 country have been brought together 1 x- -1 1 __ Kniweu lmu moser oouus 01 ualal purpose and unity. 'he skies have been for a time darkd by the cloud of war, but as we e compelled to take up the sword in cause of humanity, we are permitted ejoice that the coniiict has been of if duration and the losses we have . to mourn, though grevious and >ortant, have been so few, considerthe great results accomplished, as to aire us with gratitnde and praise to Lord of Hosts. We may laud and jnif'y His holy name that the cessa1 of hostilities canie so soon as to re both sides the countless sorrows . disasters that attend protracted do. therefore, invite all my fellow zens. as well as those at home, as se who may be at sea or sojourning oreign lands, to set apart and obre Thursday, the 24th day of Novem, as a day of national thanksgiving, :ome together in their several places worship, for a service of praise and nks to Almighty God for all the ssings of -the year; for the mildness the seasons and the fruitfulness of soil, for the continued prosperity of people, for the devotion and valor >ur countrymen, for the glory of our :ory and the hope of a righteous ce, and to pray that the divine guiice which has brought us heretofore lafety and honor may be graciously tinued in the years to come, a witnesses whereof, etc. Signed) William McKinley. Jy the pesident, Jofcn May, secie7 of State. )BSER VANCE OF ARBOR DAY. lerintendent Mayfield calls Teachers' Attention to the Law. 'he general assembly, at its last ses1, passed an act authorizing the proobservance of the third Friday iit' rember as Arbor day by the free pubschools of the State. uperintendent Mayfield has sent a er to the county superintendents of cation and the teachers of the State ing their attention to the law and provisions. 'he following is the letter sent out n the superintendent office: Columbia, S. C., Oct. 28, 1898. the School Officers and Teachers; ^all to your attention, that you may erve its provisions, the following 'Section 1. Be it enacted by the genl assembly of the State of South olina, That the free public schools his State shall observe the third day in November of each year as >or day, and on that day the school jers and teachers shall conduct such rcises and engage in the planting of h shrubs, plants and trees as will >ress on the minds of the pupils the per value and appreciation to be :ed on flowers, ornamental shrubbery shade trees. 'Approved tfte J.btn aay 01 JceDruaA. D., 1898." f for any good reason the day named he act cannot be observed by a . ool, the observance of some other will be a compliance with the spirit he law. 'hirty-nine States and territories j observe Arbor day. leave it to you to decide what you I plant, and what exercises you will e. call attention to the fact that this te has no State flower. /Most of the bes have one. On Arbor day a State rer may be adopted by permitting pupils to vote for the flower of theii ice. Teachers should report the ilt of the vote in their respective. x>ls to the county superintendent of cation, who will tabulate the vote LL2> UUULLLJ aUU XGJJKJ1V uv UAJLW erintendent of education, who will llate the vote of the State and annce the result. W. D. Mayfield, tate Superintendent of Education. lESTEE'S COTIOJT FIGURES. " :ked Increase in the Movement Into Sight for the Week. ecretary Hester's , weekly New ians cotton exchange statement is- ' 1 Friday shoWs an increase in the into oicVif. flrvrrmarftd with the sn days ending this date last year of i0 bales, an increase over the same 3 year before last of 132,000. For 28 days of October the totals show ncrease over last year of 338,000, for the 58 days of the season the ' egate is ahead of the 5S days of year 224,000. The amount brought sight during the past week has been 375 bales against 515,660 for the n days ending this date last year, for the 28 days of October it has i 2,077,619 against 1,739,390 last 1 '. These make the total -movemnt le 58 days from Sept. 1 to date /-* nnn onn T _ iZ,yby agamsc z.o\jo,omj lass year 2,963,971 the year before, he movement since Sept. 1 shows ipts at all United States ports 2.814 against 2,071,453 last year; rior stocks in excess of those held ie close of the commercial year 415,against 317,346 last year; southern takings 222,617 against 215,831 year. oreign exports for week have been 555 agaiast2249,245 last year, makthe total thus far for the season '8,415. ?* COQV?/vjtv3 anrj tViA 5Q jUI-bo at iuv/ ? ing southern interior centres have eased during the week 128,924 ' nst an increase during the corresiing period last season of 177,496, are now 371.719 larger than at this ! in 1S97. Gunter Succeeds Townsend. TT Y ftnnt^r nf Snartanbnrcr. * v* *i**' vw" '7r"z *?07 etary of the Democratic State Ex ;ive Committee, will succeed Judge 5. Town send as assistant Attorney , eral. This matter was finally ted on Thursday and Mr. Gunwill assume his new duties when ge Townsend leaves for "Washingwhere he will practice law with ator McLaurin. ? : "1"_'!,V - ' ."VV VV;-;-* ' - ~ V- *' \ THE BA25XEUPT LAW. A Valuable Information as to the 'W orkings of the New Law. Maj. James F. Hart, a careful and ^' accurate lawyer, has furnished the Yorkville Enquirer with timelvand important information as to the .significance and operation of the new bankrupt law. This article will prove intsresting to the public generally, and especially to individuals and firms who are in debt. Here is what Maj. Hart says: The bankrupt laWj recently enictcd by Congress, is now in full effect, and available to all who may seek its benefits. Its provisions seem to be but little understood, as the press geneially has not given much attention to its le- JToi gal features. The main purpose of the law is to provide the way to close up the business of sucli persons as are hopelessly insolvent, give their creditors a ratable distribution of the assets in hand, (reserving the State homestead exemptions to the bankrupt,) and then grant abso- Ad lution for the balance of the indebtedness. "When there has been no dishonesty or fraud, the mode of obtaining the benefit of the act is SDeedv and :inT expensive. A secondary purpose of the act is to force into bankruptcy, and thereby compel a distribution of the assets of any persons, who, being insolvent, is 8* misusing o* fraudulently applying his means. Insolvency, in the present act, has a new and more liberal definition than has usually been given it, and no person is to be adjudged insolvent who has sufficient property, at a fair valuation, to pay his debts, exclusive of j f such property as he may have conveyed away. The effect of the law is the feature that will attract the widest attention. How far it supercedes State insolvent laws, such as assignments for benefit of creditors and releases by such means, does not seem to be fully agreed upon. But as to partnerships, an assignment j0 would be ascribed as an act of bankruptcy, and the assignors forced to settle their indebtedness under the terms of the bankrupt act, for a most / wlwinTja raosnn SZ Under the decisions of our supreme court, all partnership assets are given exclusively to the partnership creditors; and these creditors, if not fully paid then come in ratably with the individual creditors to share the individual as- jjs sets. The bankrupt law provides, how ever, a different lule for distribution, ^ and gives partnership assets to partner-, {S ship creditors, and individual assets to ? individual creditors, with the right to ? each class to participate in any surplus. & Individual creditors of a partnership, ^ of course, would not stand by and per- ts mit a distribution under the State^^jS ciprnmon^. -Try, * ail beiter provision under the bankrupt- ^ Taw. " ' m But aside from this, it seems to be the better legal opinion that, as under ? the Federal constitution (Art. 1., Sec. ^ 10) "No State shall pass any law itn-- m pairing the obligation of contracts," but ? the right to establish "an uniform sys- m tern of bankruptcy." (Art 1., Sec. 8) is ^ reserved for the United States Congress ? this remedy, when enacted, must supercede and displace all State insolvent m laws. < ^ So long as Congress failed to exer- ias j.x. a.-j J. i/L. it ze~ ? 9E uise me power co auupt me uimurm =; system for the whole Union, each State Si exercised the right of providing its own ^ system of relief for insolvents. Bnt x the constitutional system having been 2s provided, the State systems are super- n cedel, This view seems to be the log- ? ical one, and, if correct, the enactment of the bankrupt law has produced an A< unexpected and startling influence on. State laws. How to obtain the benefits of the o bankrupt law can better be ascertained by interested persons consulting their lawyers. But, briefly stated, proceed? J 1 i. AT. _ logs, are commeuceu uy peuuvu ou uiu United States district court; and after this most of the proceedings are before f local "referees" appointed by the district judge, one or more for each coun- / ty. Trustees are appointed to take charge of the assets and convert into ^ money. The fees - allowed are so ex- 1 ceedingly small that there will be found difficulty in securing suitable persons to fill appointments of referees and trustees. mi.. i? 1L? j: A: JLlie l<iW IS iliii lu its uucuuuueas w the minor details of the process of bank- T ruptcy, and these will not interest the JL public. But altogether, it presents a wise, liberal and humane method by which the stifled business^ energy of many who went to the wall under the grinding depression of the last ten years, may be released and given opportunity for new expression in the busi- \ ness world. And in this view, it is not ' only a blessing to the unfortunate, but " AA?y, ill A a UUULLL IU bUC VTUVi^ wuuu;. Senator Ben Tillman has just spoken ?in Richmond, and the^dispatch of that Mj city says: ''The high water mark of Ey the present campaign was reached last H night. Senator Tillman, of South Gar- B olina, addressed an immense audience, fl and from first to last, swayed them at will, and at times carried his audience M to a high pitch of enthusiasm." flfc Take Care of I Your Property. 1 Save money by keeping your I Gins in thorough repair. Yon get better results please the public and save your 9 OWN TIME AND LABOR. Fourteen years practical ex- ^ ' ? J-1- - TTtT T TAm'm f!TW TT penence m me iiijuuxv/j.x vxxxi SHOPS at Winnsboro, S. C., is a guarantee of good work. Send your giiis at once to the undersigned, -yy W. J, ELLIOTT, COLUMBIA, S. C. ( If/ Located adjacent to the To zer Engine Work. .Tulv27 THE CITY BY THE SEA. bu The Keeley Institute, l0l N". E. Corner Vanderhorst and Smith ty c Streets, Gin CHARLESTON, SO. CA, Atlantic Ocean Surf Bathing, Yatch- W ing, Boating and Fishing. Trolley and Ferry Rides, 1, 18 and 23 miles. Sulli- Ma van Island and The Isle of Palms all to be enjoyed while under treatment for Whiskey or Morphine Addle- tion. A Opens 3rd October and lill be the only Keeley Institute in the State. J .1 . ; V il**' '"^1; "* ' ;, * ;'" S-lf$ i Happy Home j ,aor?nci Ma-foil by ?oxi VI.n>. A?ak the mott of life by proearing & gc< d .. P:A>tO OK <Ht6 A I'4 * I isio has a refining influence, an<i keep* your children t home. R:. VlF.MP.Rli a only invest omce ui a ive-nme. iiot d* ed yoa select a gooa instrumer . ::~ -2 ' ~y" I CHALLENGE | yhouse in America to beat axy prices term. cs tboee not prepared to pay eosli, J #il, re reasonable time, at a flight.difference 'KM Warranty,' bUj guarantee my Initroment* *c!d m - ^ represented. DON'T FAIL, lM write for price* and terms, and for illos l|| trated catalogue*. |^H YOUB8 FOB V 1* *0* a Sh ORG S3 13 M. A, MALONE, ; M i*na "M A TNT STOTJITCT OOLr\JB!>. v G w"|j| S From Maker Direct to Purchaser. SI S A Good | | | ^ k i|fflMfe?fip?f8fifl and gjvo <Wi | W *** gj* ? SbbS t fl-A, DUBM 3B iVlTTnlffim SHi " rOOf rtJBO grtalM'wllaWlSi wlillaatafew SI id BtBsSSSI years and mt : The vczcuio7u jmx i Matiiushek ? > I Is always Good, always Rellabla? mm (always satisfactory, always Last- Mtlag. Yon take no chasces In buy- V I somewhat more than a B ? cheap, poor piano, but is much the ML S cheapest In the end. W+ l No other High Gradegaaa apldso SB. * reasonable, factory prices to l*t&U *| buyers. Easy paymants. Writsu. A| ?^ LU06EM A BATE1\S J Idress: D. A. PKESSLEY, Agent? iaiT Mlllfi ?i? vt i.uuuui -/ V If you need & mill, any rise, writ* me before buying elsewhere. I k*W the most Complete line ef mills ef u; dealer or msnufocturar in the South. torn Mills. Very highest gx?d? Stones at unusualIt low pricee. ^od-Working ? Machinery. mnera, Moulders, taster, Ke-flc*? Bud 8*?a, Laths, etc. - Engines and ' Boilers, Talbott and LiddeU, Engleberg Rioe Holler, in ?tock, qokfc delrrery, 1aw prioea.. U\ RADIUM, <M **V i. 1326 Main ^ree TTVBIA. 8. C. i ?J*K W<>ti r-t* u? v *. _ j KIDNEYS, ?8 its nameimpart*, aft? * j i* agtimilator %nd rprai^ ^r u jA I tb>? organs. Is com best a ?'B j meals medicine to *:a digestsv WM 7 I Prevents tie *?*&?&, Cure.- fPf I Bllltoarafc** Acta on u>p K-'o-Sl y? I ncy? witWn Thirty minutes sf:erV - 'V :~^?: I taitag, reileriDx! 4C<*t? to I back from disorder J Uwseo- .^B ? ^ I guts. Kelieves mii worn*- 9r ; trooMn. Is entirety v?5#rt?fcU>, 9B v^f f iftC l i Mid fl 0i> * C*xu>i. >ri: Wf "ri B y rietitj's goaer*iJj, :?a- i? i t; ^ -^jf I Mr.rr>y rrtifc C-o . Coit Jib;-*. iv5|fe M C r ? B^*r Ch*rte ^ d by desIers generally and by IB MURRAY DRUG CO^^gj Columbia, S. C. COME AND SEE II! " 4 e will exhibit at the State - S Fair to be held here Nov, 13th to 19th, in operation a )MPLETE |1URRAY WINNING J )MPLETE IflURRAY WINNING _ System! ^ ' * *';i iltby Liddell Co., Char;te, N. C. , -3 lis will kfford all integted au opportuni- , .-3j if seeing the most modern ahd simp est of ntng Machinery, You caa't afford to it cmntvq s, rn I u? uumuiu ? we . rh ichintry and Mill tupply Headquarter* - ^ |1 Columbia, 6. C., " Near Union Depot, Colombia. S. C. A-M ), Agent* Liddell Co? Charlotte, N. C. .;9 rva.'KLVar*3si?^ _|| w