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A STRONG SERMON, I 7 Dr. Talmage Says We Musi Strive to Overthrow Evil. i IV/C (N QTDFNHTH OFGOD. 1>I V b M? V* I V > - - V. ? ggv ' Dr. Talmage Says We Must, as the Wrestlers of Old, be Polite in Warfare Against Sm. In this discourse Dr. Talmage selects one of the boldest figures of the Bible to present most practical and encouraging truths; text, Ephesians vi, 12, t:We wrestle not against flesh and blood. but asrainst principalities, against powers, against the rulers oi the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." "r Squeamishness and fastidiousness were never charged against Paul's rhetoric. In the war against evil he took the first weapon he could lay his hand > on. For illustration, he employed the theater, the arena, the foot race, and there was nothing in the Isthmian eaine. with its wreath of pine leaves. or Pythian game, with its wreath oi laurel and palm, or Xemeangaine with, its wreath of parsley, or any Romar circus, but he felt he had a right tc put it in sermon or epistle, and are you not surprised tliat in my text he calls upon a wrestling bout for suggestiveness? Plutarch says that wrestling is the most artistic and cunning of athletic games. We must make a wide difference between pugilism, the lowesi of spectacles, and wrestling, which is , an effort in sbort to put down anothei on floor or ground, and we?ail of us? -L . _1 J J indulged in it in our Doyuouu u?>: if we were healthful and plucky. Th( ancient wrestlers were first bathed ir oil and then sprinkled with sand. Th< third throw decided the victory, anc many a man who went down in th< first throw or second throw in the th;rc throw was on top, and his opponem under. The Remans did not like thi: ...; game very much, for it was not savagf B enough, no blows or kicks being allow ed in the game. They preferred th< foot of hungry panther on the breas: of fallen martyr. In wrestling, the opponents woulc ? ^ - bow in apparent suavity, advance fac< to face, put down both feet solidly ^ Vtt fVia orme onr? Tvns} u*a.c cavil \j uici L/j IIU? uiuio ??< ^ each other backward and forward unti the work began in real earnest, andther< were contortions and strangulation: and violent strokes of the foot of one contestant against the foot of the other tripping him np, or, with struggle tha> threatened apoplexy or death, the de feated fell and the shouts of the specta tors greeted the victor. I guess Pau had seen some such contest and it re minded him of the struggle of the' sou with temptation and the struggle o: truth with error and the struggle o heavenly forces against Appollyoni* ? powers, and he dictates my text to ai amanuensis, for all his letters, sav< the one to Philemon, seem to hav< ~ been dictated, and as the amanuensi; goes on, with his work I hear the groai I and laugh afld shout of earthly an( celestial belliggerents. "We wrestii " * 1 T I . J T ? not against nesn ana diocki, dui> ag??uo principalities, against powers, again s p? the rulers of the darkness ofjiue-^rld against spiritual Tjipkethress in higl ^-"RT5^ce^that as these wrestlers ad -^"ranced to throw each other they bowe< one to th* other. It was a civility not only in Grecian and Roman games but in later day, in all the wrestlinj 'bouts at Clerkenwell, England, and h the famous wrestling match during th v reign of Henry HE, in St Giles, Field between men of Westminster and peo pie. of London. However rough a twis and hard a pull each wrestler contem plated giving his opponent, they ap . proached each other with politenes and suavity. The genuflexions, th affability, the courtesy in 110 wise hin dered the decissiveness of the contest "Well, Paul, I see what you mean. Ii this awful struggle between right am wrong, we must not forget to be gen tlemen and ladies. Affability neve hinders, but always helps. You ar< powerless as soon as you get mad. D< not call rumsellers murderers. Do no call infidels fools. Do not call highe critics re* " abates. Do not call all can players and theater goers children o the devil. Do not say that the danc - breaks through into hell. Do not dea in vituperation and billingsgate an< contempt and adjectives dynamitic *" ? i. ii,,! xne otner siae can oeat us au win Their dictionaries have more objurga tion and brimstone. We are in the strength of God t throw flat on its back every abomina tion that curses the earth, but let u: approach our mighty antagonist witl suavity. Hercules, son of Jupiter anc Alcmena, will by a precursor of smile: be helped rather than damaged for th< performance of his "12 labors/' Le us be as wisely strategic in religious cir cles as attorneys in court-rooms, wh< are complimentary to each other in th< V.AtA'M fV? ATT iTif/ UJLJClLLLIg lClliai XLJ Wt-iUig uxavj *- > legal struggle such as that which lefi Rufus Choate or David Paul Browi triumphant or defeated. People whc get into a rage in reformatory work ac complish nothing but the depletion oi their own nervctas system. There is such a thing as having a gun so hot ai the touchhole that it explodes, killing the one that sets it off. There are somf reformatory meetings to which I always decline to go and take part, because they are apt to become demonstrations of bad temper. < I never like to hear a man swear, even though he swear or the right side. The very Paul who ic my text employed in illustration the .wrestling match behaved on a memorable occasion as we ought to behave. The translators of the Bible made ar v. unintentional mistake when they represented Paul as insulting the people of Athens by speaking of "the unknown god whom ye ignorantly worship." Instead of charging them with ignorance the original indicates he complimented them by suggesting that they were very v- religions, but as they confessed thai there were some things they did not understand about God he proposed tc say some things concerning him, begin ning where they had left off. The same Paul who said in one place, <:Be courteous," and who had noticed the bow preceding the wrestling match, here . exercises suavities before he proceeds practically to throw down the rocky side of the Acropolis the whole ParthBe enon of idolatries, Minerva and Jupiter ? .1 x il. T_ smashed up witii IM 01 lllUM.?IT mj this holy war polished rifles will do more execution than blunderbusses. Let oui wrestlers bow as they go into the strugBgle which will leave all perdition undei and all heaven on top. Notice also that in this science ol Hkrestling, to which Paul refers in mj K it was the third throw that deHi the caMdt. A wrestler might frown oi^^ftritthrown twice, but recover himseli &a?.?. 4a Hko of arm 01 j is broad, sailing, unmistakable gospel. 1 j Some whom i address through ear or I eye, by - voice or printed page, have g been thrown in their wrestle with evil t hab't. J ye, you have been thrown twice, but t tl at does not mean, oh, worsted soul, p that you are throwu forever! I have t no authority for saying how many times t i c-i-n nr\A fnrtri van nr finw f ti HiiXLl ilid^ oxu auu -* vi? ^4-j v* ?v .. | ~ many times he may fall and yet rise j t ; again, but I have^authority for saying j c that he may fall 490 times, and i s 490 times get up. The Bible j declares that God will forgive i 70 times 7, and if you will employ the e rule of multiplication you will find ; that 70 times 7 is 490. Blessed be God t , for such a gospel of high hope and s thrilling encouragement and magnifi- a cent rescue. A goppel of lost sheep r brought home on shepherd's shoulder, 1 and the prodigals who got into the low t ? work of putting husks into swines' i ! troughs brought home to jewelry and t banqueting and hilarity that made the j . rafters ring t Three sketches of the same man: A } . happy home, of which he and a lassie takeL from a neighbor's house are the [ united head. Years of happiness roll on after years of happiness. Stars [ pointing down to. nativities. And whether announced in greeting or not ? every morning was a "Good morning" and every night a ' 'Good night." Christ[ mas trees and May queens and birthday ( festivities and Thanksgiving gatherL ings around loaded tables. But tha husband and father forms an unfortunate acquaintance who leads him in circles too convivial, too late houred, too scandalous. After awhile, his money gone and not able to bear his part of the expense, he is gradually shoved out and ignored and pushed away. Now, what ] r a dilapidated home is his! A dissipated } J life always shows itself in faded window ] . curtains, and impoverished wardrobe, ( > and dejected surroundings, and in < I broken palings of the garden fence, and , ; the unhinged gate, and the dislocated | [ doorbell, and the disappearance of wife ] ; and children from scenes among which j j they shone the brightest, and laughed , t the gladdest. If any man was ever . , down, that husband and father is down. , i The fact is he got into a wrestle with ( * evil that pushed and pulled and con, torted and exhausted him worse than ( I any Olympian game ever treated a Gre- . cian, and he was thrown?thrown out , I of prosperity into gloom, thrown out. of , j good association into bad, thrown out , of health into invalidism, thrown out ! of happiness into misery. But one day ; ?A?\A lvO/?lr I | YVilJLLC SllUJQklllg t>LLlUUgU V/UC XJX cxxw vuva , i streets, not wishing to be recognized, a 5 good thought crosses his, mind, for he k has heard of men flung flat rising again. , Arriving at his house he calls his wife , [. in and shuts the door and says: "Mary, . I am going to do differently. This is . not what I premised you when we were j married. Yen have been very patient j with me and have borne everything, al [ though X would have had no right to . p complain if you had left me and gone , j? home to your father's house. It seems , ? to me that once or twice when I was ; ^ not myself I struck you, and several j 3 times, I know, I called you hard names, g Now I want you to forgive me. I am g going to do better, and I want you to j help me." "Help you?" she says. ^ ' 'Blessyour soul, of-course I will help ; ~ you. I knew you didn't mean it when ? you treated "me roughly. All that is in t the past. Never refer to it again. Today let us begin anew." , j ' Sympathizing friends come around , and kind business people help the man to something to do, so that he can again j earn a living. The children soon have clothing so that they can go to school. ' The old songs which the wife sang years ' ago come back to her memory and she ? sings them over again at the cradle or e while preparing the noonday meal. Do- , mestic resurrection! He comes home ' earlier than he used to, and he is glad J ^ to spend the eveoing playing games with the children or helping them with ( arithmetic or grammar lessons which g are a little too hard. Time passes on, and some outsider suggests to him that he is not getting as much out of life as he ought and proposes an occasional j visit to scenes of worldliness and dissi^ pation. He consents to go once, and, after much solicitation, twice. Then his old habit comes back. He says he has been belated and could.not get back a until midnight. He had to see some t western merchant that had arrived and talk of business with him before he got J out of town. Kindliness and geniality ? again quit the disposition of that husband and father. The wife's heart I breaks in a new place. That man goes j into a second wrestle with evil habit and is flung and all hell cackles at the moral defeat. "I told you so," say ' many good people who have no faith in the reformation of a fallen man. ' ;I told % you so! You made a great fuss about ViAWO Knf T I-r>0"07 if. WATll^ not last. You can't trust these fellows who have once gone wrong." So with . this unfortunate, things get worse and worse, and his family have to give up ! the house, and the last valuable goes to . the pawnbroker's shop. But that un- ; fortunate man is sauntering along the j street one Sunday night, and he goes , up to a church door, and the congrega- j tion are singing the second hymn, the , one just before sermon, and it is Wil- j liam Cowpers glonous hymn: There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emanuel's veins, p And sinners planged beneath that flo>d , . Lose all their guilty stains. j i He goes into the vestibule of the ; chnrch and stops there, not feeling well ^ i enough dressed to go among the wor- , s shippers, and he hears the minister say, ! "You will find the words of my text in > Luke, the nineteenth chapter and tenth i verse. 'The Son of Man is come to seek i and save that which was lost." The t listener in the vestibule says: "If any s man was ever lost, I am lost, and the Son of Man came 1:0 save that which is lost, and he has found me, and he will i take me out of this lost condition. Oh, Christ, have mercy on me." The poor > man has courage now to enter the main ( 1 audience room, and he sits down on the c first seat by the door, and when at the s TV* miff AT? /?r\moc ! | UiUSC Ui LilC SCi i HJC wc iixxuiobci t/urnvg c i down the aisle the poor man tells his g ' story, and he is encouraged and invited r ; to come again, and the way is cleared c , for him for membership in a Christian ], i, church, and he feels the omnipotence of what Peter the apostle said when he spoke of those "kept by the power of G.od through faith unto complete salva- 1 tion.*' Yet he is to have one more t wrestle before he is free from eril habits, and he goes into it not in hte i own strength, for that has failed him a twice, but in the strength of the Lord t God Almighty. The old habit seizes 1 him, and he seizes it, and the wrest- f lers bend backward and forward and 3 from side to .side in awful struggle, until the moment comes for his liberation, and with both arms infused with strength from God he lifts that habit, s f swings it in air and hurls it into the c -nerdition from which it came and from v which it never again will rise. Vie- t ; tory, victory, through our Lord Jesus g Christ! Hear it, all ye wrestlers! It t : threw him twice, but the third time he 1 threw it, and by the grace of God a . threw it so hard he is as safe now as if s le been ten years ir, heaven, Qh. am so glad that Paul in my text sug :ests the wrestler and the power of the laird throw. But notice that my text suggests that he wrestlers on the other side in the ?eat struggle for the world's redempion have all the forces of demonoiogy < o help them, "We wrestle not against iesh and blood, but against principals . ies, against powers, against the rulers >f the darkness of this world, against piritual wickedness in high places." All military men will tell that there s nothing more unwise than to underistimate an army. In estimating what re have to contend with the most of he reformers do not recognize the big- i ;est opposers. They talk about the j ' LgnoSUUlSiU, ituu tue aoiiciam, auu lh^ Materialism, and the Nihilism, and the 1 Pantheism, and the Brahmanism, and 1 ,he Mohammedanism, as well as the 1 nore agile and organized and endowed wickedness of our day. j But these are only a part of the hosilities arrayed against (rod and the >est interests of humanity. The ijjvis- i hi#, hosts are far more numerous than ; lie visible. It is not so much the bot;le; it is the demon of the bottle. It is lot so much the roulette table; it is ? ;he demon of the roulette table. It is lot so much the act of stock gambling ts it is the demon of stock gambling, [t is the great host of spiritual antagolists led on by Aziel or Lucifer or Beel:ebub or Asmodeus or Ahrimanes or .IbaddeD, just as you please to call the eader infemalistic. Can you doubt ,Lat the human agencies of evil are tiacked up by Plutonic agencies? If it vere only a co mmon war steed, with panting nostril and flaunting mane and Mattering hoof, rushing upon us, perhaps we might clutch him by the bit md hurl him back upon his haunches, jut it is the black horse cavalry of perlition who dash down, and their riders swing swords which, though invisible, jleave individuals and homes and nations. I tell you Paul was right when hie suggested that we wrestie not with pygmies, but with giants that will down as unless the Lord Almighty is out cold jutor. Blessed be God that we have now and further on will have in mightier iegree that divine help! The time is coming?I know it will quicken your pulses when I mention it ?when the last mighty evil of the world will be grappled by rignteousaess and thrown. Which of the great svils will survive all the others I know not, whether war or revenge or fraud or lust or imtemperance or gambling 01 Sabbath desecration. It will not be "survival of the fittest," but the survival of the worst. It will be the evil the most thoroughly intrenched, most completely reinforced, most patronized by wealth aud fashion and pomp, most applauded by all the principalities and powers and*rulers of darkness. It will stand, with grim visage, locking down upon the graves of all the other slain abominations?graves dug by the hot shovels of despair and surmounted by such epitaphiology as this: "It biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." "The wages of sin is death." :'Her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead." "There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof is death." Yes! I imagine we have arrived at the time when we may say, Yonder stands the last and only great evil of all the world to be wrestled down, it stands not only looking upon the graves of all the entombed and epitaphed iniquities of the world, but ever and anon gazing upward in defiance of the heavens and shaking its fist at the Almighty, saying: "Nothing can put me down. I have seen all the other enemies of the human race westled down and destroyed, but there is no arm or foot, human or angelic or deific that can throw me. I have ruined whole generations, and I swear by all the thrones of diabolism that I will ruin this generation. Come on, all ye churches and all ye reformatory institutions and all ye legislatures and all ye thrones! I challenge you! I plant my feet on this redhot rock of - <- TJ> T TV1TT tuts wunu a WUU. A DI/ICIjUUL AV/IIUA ??jJ areas for the mightiest wrestle any world has ever seen. Come on, come 15? on: Then righteousness will accept the challenge, and the two mighty wrestlers will grapple, while all the galleries of earth and heaven look down from one side, and all the fiery chasms of perdition look up from the other side. The two wrestlers sway to and fro and turn this way and that, and now the monster ?-i - -i-.:?c 4-^ evu seems me 1111*11 lici mu cttu. clu.\* now righteousness seems about to triumph. The prize is worth a struggle, for it is not a chaplet of laurel or palm, but the rescue of a world and a wreath put oa the brow by him who promised, "Be thou faithful unto' death, and I will give thee a crown." Three worlds ?earch, heaven and hell?hold their breath while waiting for the result of this struggle, when, with one mighty swing of an arm muscled with omnipotence.. righteousness huris the last evil fifcf nn ifc Irnooe ar>f} tl\AYl fm its fafip. U10II VU AW AAUVV/K/ MUMi ?uv? .. -?7 and t'aen rolling off and down with a 3rash wilder than that with which Samson harled the temple of Dagon when be got hold of its two chief pillars, but more like the throwing of satan out of heaven, as described by John Milton: Him the Almighty power flung Headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combcustion, down ro bottomless perdition there to dwell [n adamantine chains and penal Are Who durst defy the Omnipotent to.arms. tfine times the SDace that measures day and night To mortal man, he. with hi3 horrid crew. Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal. Hilton s. 1 [odoform Liniment is the "nee plus ' lltra" of all such preparations in re- , noving soreness, and quickly healing ( 'resh cuts and wounds, no matter how )ad. It will promptly heal old sores )f long standing. Will kill the pois>n from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison 1 )ak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will ' jounteract the poison from bites of ^ ;nakes an stings ot insects, it is a i ure cure for sore throat. "Will cure , my case of sore mouth, and is a supeior remedy for all pains and aches. { >old by druggists and dealers 25 cents a >ottle < A South Carolina Tree. < Mrs. Jefferson Davis, in a personal I etter to a gentleman friend in Charles on, writes: "The palmetto tree that ras sent to be planted near my "Win- ( tie's grave I did see through my tears, * ,nd it was a distinct gratification to me o have a South Carolina tree sent to :eep watch over her resting place. Her ? ather's family came from there, and he .lways loved the State." ' c A Handsome Sword. ( It is said that the sword to be preented to Admiral Schley by the people if Pennsylvania will cost $3,500 and ( rill Ka the finest sword ever presented ] o a military or naval officer of this ;overnment. With the exception of he blade, all the metal work will be 1 8k gold, and botb hilt and scabbard ] re richly ornamented with precious tones. REPUBLICANS WIN^ E rhey Will Have a Small Majority ^ in the House. SENATE ALSO REPUBLICAN. & rhe South Once More Solidly n? nomnnratjo. The West and East Stands by the Republicans. The election last week resulted in a victory for the Republican party. Several of the "Western and Eastern States which have heretofore been Democratic bave gone over to the Republicans, but ;he South has again become solidly ^ Democratic. The following is the vote by States: ALABAMA. The Democrats made a clean sweep, sleeting all the congressmen, which is a gain of two congressmen. ' ARKANSAS. As in Alabama, the Democrats car- " ried the State by a large majority, elect- P< ing all the congressmen. " CALIFORNIA. The Republicans carried this State by a good majority, making a clean ^ sweep of all the congressmen. "J CONNECTICUT. f1 The Republican candidates for Gov- ? ernor and Congress were elected by hi good majorities. DELAWARE. _ _ " Delaware goes Republican, electing ^ 1 j ^ai me oniy cougressuiaii auu <x ui -? the Legislature, which will elect a Re publican Senator in place of Senator C( Gray. e] FLORIDA. SI The Democrats carries the State by a ai large majority, electing both congress- ^ men and a large majority of the legisla ture. GEORGIA. S] Every congressional district in this State was carried by the Democracy by r< large majorities. ?' IDAHO. 11 This fir off "Western State went, Domocratic, electing a Democrat to n congress. \ s* ILLINOIS. "R atmt Vkl l no n a oo tti Ad StA'te. I 81 -LUV jikj VUU??V?* ?? ? 7 but the Democrats gained six or seven congressmen. INDIANA. ?' The Republicans elect their State P: ticket and a majority of the Legisla- n ture, which will enable them to elect a C! Republican Senator in place of Senator P' Turpie. The Democrats gained one or two congressmen. " IOWA. a< The Republicans made a clean sweep, electing ail the congressmen and State w officers. b KANSAS. cl This State has gone back to her Re- ^ publican moorings. Ail tne congress- u men elected are members of that party ti except one. T kentucky. ^ & In this State the Democrats uarried " ten out of the eleven congressior al dis- u tricts, which is a Democratic j;ain of P: several congressmen. S1 Louisiana; The Democrats in Louisiana made a " clean sweep, electing six congressmen, three railroad commissioners and. three ai indfTAS in thp -narish of Orleans. tl O" x- ? , MARYLAND. The Republicans elect three aid the e Democrats "two congressmen from this h State. This is a gain for the Demo- f* crats. al MASSACHUSETTS. *>! This State went Republican as usual, 11 but the Democrats gained two congress- b< men. Among the Republicans defeat- ?j ed was Congressman Walker, chair- " man of the banking and currency com- ai mittee in the present congress. ei MICHIGAN. - t The Republicans made a clean sweep p: in this State, electing all the congress- p men and everything else. is MINNESOTA. c< The result in this State is somewhat al peculiar. The Republican candidate u for governor is defeated, but that party aj elects all the congressmen and the bal- ai ance of the State ticket. si MISSOURI. si The Democrats carried the State by P a large majority, electing twelve con- r< gressmen out of fourteen, which is a c< gain of several. a: MONTANA. tl The Democrats made a clean sweep, w electing the congressman and Legisla- a; fare. b NEBRASKA. f< This State elects a Republican gover- d rtnr hv a small mainritv. The COnereS- C< sional delegation will stand two Repub- ai licans and four Fusionists. NEVADA. ' 01 This State elects a free silver Repub- ^ lican to Congress. oj NEW HAMPSHIRE. t( The Republicans make a clean sweep, tl and captures everything in sight. m NEW JERSEY. si The Republicans carry this State, g< electing the governor, the Legislature ir and six congressmen out of eight. This w will give the Republicans a senator in ai place of Smith. The Democrats gained tl two congressmen. N NEW YORK. qi New York gave Roosevelt a plurality pi of 20,000, and elected a Republican Legislature, which will elect a succes- il: sor to Murphy. The Democrats gained ti ten or twelve congressmen. ti NORTH CAROLINA. in The Demorcrats gaiaed a glorious ce victory in this State, carrying all the tt congressional districts except one. Al- ei so the Legislature and nearly all the tli county officers have been elected by so them. The election was very quiet. bi The Democratic majority is about 40,- in 000. P< OHIO. th The Republicans carry this State by gi i large majority. The congressional at delegation will stand about as in the br present congress. ec PENNSYLVANIA. th The Republican majority is very th large, but the Democrats gained several uj congressional districts. an RHODE ISLAND. n The voting was light throughout the th State, as the election of both Republi- ha jan candidates for congress was a fore- ye jone conclusion. st; SOUTH CAROLINA. JlC As a matter of course the Democrats to jarried South Carolina, electing every- ha ;hing in sight. th SOUTH DAKOTA. th The Republicans elected both con- ex pressmen from this State. " wc TENNESSEE. pi The Democrats carried the State by i loro-p Tnm'nritv. Minin? one or two tri / 7 o?; o :ongressional districts. du texas. en This State gives her old time Demo- It :ratic majority, electing ten or twelve of democrats to congress out of thirteen, th utah. T1 This State went Democratic, and her be one congressman is a member of that lo: )arty. . pe VIRGINIA. Sil The Democrats made a clean sweep j si( <his State, electing every congress- J a?. WEST VIRGINIA. v The Republicans elect a majority of J b congressmen in this State. WISCONSIN. J The Republicans carry every con- ' essional district in the State. 1 WASHINGTON. ( This Slate goes Republican by the ? i T mai majority. SLOW TO MOVE; | ( ome Gold Standard Testimony 1 on Prosperity. s ( RGUMENT FOR FREE SILVER. ] i aw and Declining Prices Not ( Productive of Prosperity or [ Industrial Activity. i According to the Xew York Journal ( Commerce. Southern bankers think < tat five-cent cotton is a fairly good ^ ting for the planters. It has been 1 )lling the bankers and announces ' lese unique conclusions: ' The uniformity of the replies is rearkable. With scarcely an exception, \ ley give satisfactory assurances that ] re-cent cotton does not mean any se- * ous injury to the South, chiefly for e se reasons: The cost of production as been greatly reduced by various leans, especially m tne new regions; le reduction in some cases amounting i ) about one-half the cost of ten years ; 50. It is generally conceded that , lere is a small profit to the grower in )tton even at present prices. Consid- 1 rable relief is reported from the diver- < fication of crops and industries, while ' a increased number of planters have ! tised supplies themselves, for which < ley formerly paid exorbitant prices. - xT.. ? :?i , LI Iaci?j tilt; LLU<1LI<J1<11 UUUUlliUU Ui tug rowers'seems much improved in spite < P cheap c.otton. They are universally jported as getting out of debt, and this i f itself should have an important bearlg on Southern prosperity. But the Springfield Republican is ot convinced; and it puts the case nrongly as follows: Whether the banks are the best posble source of information on this subset we cannot tell. They certainly lould know if the planters are getting 1 it of debt at the hands of a lower riced product than ever before expe- : enced. But if low-priced cotton were ilculated seriously to affect the proserity and financial strength of that iction, it is to be questioned whether le banks would be among the first to ; imit it. Meanwhile we may say that II the petty considerations and offsets, hich may be advanced or invented to elittle the consequences of low and delining commodity prices, cannot set side the fact that such conditions are : ot productive of prosperity or indusial activity and enterpnse and profit, lie particular producer whose product :>es down and down in the market can ideed partially recoup himself in time nder conditions of a general fall in rices, through ability to purchase his lpplies at a lower rate. But not a iw of his charges, such as wages, taxes, isurance, and interest on longtime otes, remain substantially the same, ad the margin of profit declines, while le investment in the business remains eyond recall at the higher level of forter higher values. The low and fall- j ig price extends its depressing influence , ir beyond the plantation. It deprecites the value of the raw material held 7 the mills and of the goods made and , taking therefrom which have not yet , sen sold or have not reached the hands I the final consumer. Thus every link 1 this chain of production is weakened, ad the chain itself is necessarily slaekaed in consequence, producing esitancy, contraction of effort and de ression. jcurtnermore it is simjjij ot true tliat the general fall of prices i commensurate with the decline in )tton, or that the planter has been enbled to offset the shrinkage in his gross icome through a corresponding shrinkge in his expenses. While cotton is t the lowest price ever known, Brad- i ireet's table oi averages for over 100 < :aple commodities shows that general rices are considerably above the low jcord of 1896. The planters cannot jmbine to advance their prices. They re too numerous and scattered. But i lose who supply the planter with hat he has to buy can, and do, in an i itonishing number of instances, com- 1 ine to dictate terms to the planter, i >r the time being, at least. It is fol- i e-rol to say that five-cent cotton is in- ; ^sequential in its industrial and finncial effect. The Columbia State, in commenting n the above, savs ''our friend, Col. ! oumans, ef the cotton reduction ' rganization, couldn't put the case bet- 1 ;r than The Republican?and we take 1 le liberty of adding that he couldn't take in as many lines a stronger free f lver argument than our Massachusetts ^ jldbug contemporary has done in argu- ' ig against the theory of prosperity ith low and falling prices." Here is 1 lother witness?no less a paper than ' le chief gold organ in this country the 1 ew Yonrk Evening Post. The Post < lotes Chauncey Depew's prosperity 1 rtrtlomo+irtn ir> PliipMrn anrl savs: 1 ^VVAWUJIMVAVU AU V*** VV?Q v j ^ , The Tribune happens to be m a simar state of exuberance. It declares tat the business of the country is in , Le most prosperous condition known i t years, that it is from 10 to 15 per . ;nt. larger than it was last year at . lis time, that the number of hands ployed has increased greatly?"in j ie iron business about a quarter, in . me others more, and in others less, 1 it on the whole so largely that earn- ' gs and expenditures of the working iople have everywhere expanded more ian was expected by the most sanline." Other paeans of prosperity ound in the Republican newswspapers, , .X A ^ onrf Taannnciro it YYC UU lift liuu c*ulj ivq|/vuu*?v hoes in the trade journals. One of * ese, The Dry Goods Chronicle, says 1 at merchants who are heavily stocked ) with goods read these articles with aazement; that everything is in readi- c ,'ss for the procession to move, but s at the much-vaunted prosperity is as j ilting as a street parade. It has not e t started. Talk as you will about the t itistics of pig-iron and the clearing- y >use returns, the men who have goods e Vnnw thafchnsinessis bad. There I t :ve not been many failures as yet, but p ere have been some bad ones, and 1 ey have come where they were not b pected by the Republican party. The ?ol and woolen industries are in a deorable condition. The Evening Post then goes on to at- ? ;bute the condition of the woolen injstry to the Dingley law and the genli had state of business to the war. ? also takes occasion to whack those c its contemporaries who predicted at uie war wuuiu inipiuvc uuam^oo. ie State says "that would really hrve en the case, however, if it had lasted i< g enough to force a new issue of pa- y r currency or iiad brought us to the j' vcr basis as so many on the other h le warned us that it would. The war 2 vat; not big eripugn or long enough to >reak our financial bonds. We have var taxes and war interest with no more ^ noney to pay thorn with," Continuing rhe State says: "Business is bad." 1 [t is worse in the south than it ought to 1 lave been even on a gold basis, because t ;he south has thrown an excessive crop , >n a country unable to consume its due share of an average crop; but even a | noderate crop would have yielded un- ' emunerative prices. The war demand j ?or products has helped industries in \ spots, but in the country as a whole j ;the men who have goods to f 11 know , ;hat business is bad." "The much raunted prosperity is as halting as a i street parade," says The Dry Good i Chronicle, endorsed by The Evening , Post, a paper which promised at the ;ime of the repeal of the Sherman act ( ;he quickest recovery of prosperity the 1 iountry had ever known. That was i ive years ago and we have had the gold , standard ever since. "Low and declin- ng commodity prices," says theSpripg ield Republican, are not productive 1 )t prospenty or industrial activity ana 1 jnterprise and profit." Ana what causes i low and declining prices but the gold . standard, which enables the dollar to , ouy more and more of commodities because it is progressively scarcer and * scarcer in comparison vrith the v0lume i of commodities? Are the people think- i ing of these tings and the false promises , of 1896? We shall know netx week. Hard Times Everywhere. j Some folks seem to be under the im- \ pression that the South is th6 only sec- j fcion of the country now experiencing hard times, but such is not the case. The wail of hard times goes up from one end of this country to the other, and the South is about as srell off as any other section. The Benton, '111., Standard, in its issue of last week, says- ''The McKinley prosperity has proved to be a bitter dose. Times are harder now than they ever have been. Prices are down lower than ever. And the farmers understand that this is due to the gold stand ard, and the contraction of the currency thereunder. The people must have re lief, and it must come through a party that has not sold itself body, soul and breeches to the organized greed of the nation. The Democratic party had the nerve and honesty to-kick out the trusts and combines and the Cleveland wiag of its party and stands for the people. And in full confidence that we are right, we say vote for the party of the people." The farmers of Illinois plant wheat principally as a market crop, and as it is very low they are experiencing the same hard times that our farmers are experiencing with four cent cotton. Two Mules Drowned. The Greenville News says while attempting to cross a ford near Batesville recently with a wagon and two mules, Lewis Kennedy, cdoied, experienced a runaway in mid stream that resulted in the drowning of his* mules, and he himself narrowly escaped death. He started out with the team from M. L. Marchbank's place, about two miles from Batesville, to go- to that town. At the ford near Batesville the mules became frightened and ran down the stream into deep water and were drowned. After a hard struggle Kennedy got ashore. A Terrible Record. A special from Gloucester, Mass., mi i 1 __ says: xne past season nas Deen very severe on the fisting fleet. The reckoning for the year is 14 vessels a total loss, 82 men drowned in the pursuit of the fisheries, 23 wives widowed and 55 children maae orphans. The loss will approximate $100,000. The terrible gales which raged on the banks during October, 1897, are undoubtedly responsible for the loss of three vessels and their entire crew, while the series of gales which prevailed during the winter also brought the fate of many a brioucester nsnerman. A Noble Gift. . Superintendent Waddell, of the Epworth orphanage, in Columbia, has just been informed by a gentleman in 1 this State that he has made a bequest : of over $50,000 to the institution. The devisor, whose name the trustees will not divulge, is 67 years of age and has no children. His wife is still living. At his death the entire property, both 1 real and personal, -passes directly to the orphanage and its disposition and investment of the proceeds are left entirely to the discretion of the trustees. The will has already been made in ac- , cordance with the rules governing bequests to the institution, and has been properly recorded. Help Each Otter. Life is too short and full of care and sorrows for one to be the cause of idding one feather's weight of trouble ! bo another's load. Kind words have j the same effect the world over. They lift a fellow out of the slough of de- : 3pond they break the stiffened, set \ features of the worried into a pleasant, hopeful smile. And how much better it is to cultivate the habit of treat- 1 ing eVery one as though a time would 1 jome when we should lay down the mortal form; and that to leave behind i character and reputation of fairness, truth and honor is the most enduring riches. I Want No More of It. A number of "leading bankers" of the South, says the New Orleans Times rv t ... ,1 XT uemocrat, nave written to tne i>ew fork Journal of Commerce in response ;o its inqairy addressed to them con- ? :erning the efiect of 5 cent cotton on ;his section. The consensus of opinon among them seemed to be that low prices bring prosperity, "because they mforce economy," which the Times egardsas''excellentfoolery." It says vith much pith:. "The same prosperi;y accompanies 50 cent wheat, 19 cent ;orn and $4 pork and the like. The 'armer has had enoneh of that kind of >rosperity, and wants no more of it, no natter what the bankers may say-" They Must Move. Now that white men have regained :ontrol of North Carolina they intend triking at the root of all their evil and >ut themselves on a sound footing forver. Negro editors and agitators have teen notified ;;o leave certain localities fithin twenty-four hours and the genral opinion in other localities is to tell hese outcasts to "move on." This is ossibly a more humane method than temp, and it is to be hoped that it will I ?e as effectual and lasting. Putting on Airs. The Columbia Record says: "G-eoria leads in Federal appointments. Lugusta has a negro woman in charge f the revenue stamp agency, and is utting on airs because Atlanta's ageny is looked after by an ordinary male . n 0011. A Pension Fraud. A soldier's widow, a resident of Phil- I lelphia, died there in 1877. For 13 1 ears she had been a pensioner. It has | list been discovered that her daughter 1 as been impersonating her for the past 1 1 years, and drawing her pension. \ The Next Congress. The Republican party will control ;he next House of Representatives by i small majority which no doubt they vill increase by their usual method of j ;nrniog out Democrats. So far as we ire concerned we are glad that the Republicans have now a majority in both tranches of Congress. As the "Wash nscton Post says the Democrats are to je congratulated on the fact that the Republicans have control of the House, rhey would not be benefitted by having a narrow majority in that body, lecessitating a compact with Populists ind silver Republicans for purpose of )rganization. They would be unable :o broach any policies or dictate any ac inr> TV,A wnnld be asrainst them in purely party matters, and behind that would be the president with the veto power. Under any imaginable jircumstances they could do no more, thandispense a very unim portant patronage and sit in at a Barmecide banquet of authority. A powerless majority is not especially impressive, and the failure to accomplish results is always injurious bo the party of which results are expected. The Post is right. The Republicans now having full charge of the government must bring the prosperity they promised or Suffer defeat in the nATt ^residential election. This is the way it looks to us. Uncrowned HeroinesIn the 'Home duties and pleasures" department of that useful and entertaining monthly, Good Housekeeping, we find an article that is so much to my liking we are going to give it to our readers this/ week. The title, "Uncrowned Heroines," is appropriate and o flffinor fTiknto nf linnnp. ''Time Was. in our country, when the unmarried j woman of marriageable age was looked upon with the feeling that in some way unaccountable, she had fallen far below her inherent duty and so not entitled to the high respect shown to her married sister. The term 'old maid' seemed ^to be o^g of disparagement; if not of reproach, and was freely employed by some when s reference-was made to an unmarried woman of mature years. Fortunately we have learned better and there is a mere intelligent and general recognition of the truths which a recent writer thus tersely and forcible stats: 'There are hundreds of women today who have never married because of some special mission in life, either in their own families or the world at large, which they felt they r>nnld hotter afifinmr>Iish if untrammeled by domestic cares. B7 their self-sacrifice they are heroines, and the very last persons on God's footstool of whom jest should be made." Good Advice. An agricultural exchange gives this advice to farmers: ' 'The low price of cotton surely suggests to your mind the importance of growing that which will pay the producer more for his labor. It is an evident fact that as long as we ? rrm<Vh ftnftnn as we have been doing, in the past six years, the price of cotton will remain so low that those who produce it, will lose money thereby. Then what is to be done? "We believe the best thing to do is to raise less cotton and more wheat, and com. oats, sweet and Irish potatoes, hogs'ana cattle. Produce a living at Lome, be more independent. Raise half as much cotton as you have been doing and command better prices, and we will surely get them." Have Good Seed. There is no doubt about the fact that there will be much more wheat sowed in this couaty than usual. We have reports from all sections of the county, and the story is the same. Indeed, much wheat has already been sowed. And there is another encouraging circumstance connected with the matter. As a rule, the farmers have chosen the best lands that have heretofore been devoted to cotton and corn, and they are preparing it well. This is all right and proper. The quality of seed used 3hould be carefully looked after, and oone but the very used. He Gut Left The Benton, HI Standard says 'With wheat lower-? than it ever was with hogs at $3.10, sweet potatoes at 26 cents per bushel, Risley comes and balks to the Republican farmers and assures them that McKinley prosperity is at hand. Many Republican farmers - - > ? t? a.:. ?i.? ? rp win snow vy tucir votes uu j.ucbua; what they think of it. We heard one say this week, that times were harder than they ever have been, and McKinley was a fraud." Risley is the Republican candidate for Congress in that district, and we hope he has been badly beaten. Saw Mills. ~ If you need a saw mill, any size, write me before baying elsewhere. I hare the most complete line of mfllw ef asj dealer or manufacturer in the Booth. Corn Mills. Very highest grade Stone*, at uatuu*]It? Inw nrinpfl W ood-Working Machinery. Planers, Mouldec*. Edger, fit-Saw> Band Sawa, Laths, etc. Engines and ftmlArs. Talboti and Liddell, Epgleberg Rice Holler, in.etock, quick delivery, lew prices. V,C. BAD HAM, Np*r*l Atifti 1326 M&^n Siwei * . i t v vi Hi a. .* 0, , _ i i^HIUXWS^W: I urn FOR THE Livsa , andJR ! S KIDNEYS, as its nameiapartp, n is a stiEoilawor and regulator to^B tb?*seorgans. Is the best &;ter|B ; mesis medlclca tc ?,!<3 digestion |H^ Frcveiits Headaches. CaresBT/ SiiUousn?is* Acta ce toe Kid- Sk/ B a*j? ?r?tltf3 Thirty miDtttec afiei HI j flj ta&Bg, relieving icies ia the^E j M back from disorder of tfces eor-B| j ^ n gacs. Jieiievee aii stomach H| I f r> (mtireiy vegetable, H I trouuico. ? ? m iSc 50c and |100 a bottle. Sold R i Kj y -Scalers generally, and by 'J'b? Et H| Sisr:sy iirugCo, Colusabi% S.B 1 Vr_V : '; ^ .. - .*?w A Happy Home U inerwei tea-foil W l 4a?c M : Vlj the moti of life by prccarinjt a go*d P. A NO OU ' UG*h N >1 U tsic haa a reficiog influence, ?n'?J keep* your children ? V-o**. 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