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r . CHRIST'S LAST HOUR. I t t Dr. Talmage Finds Lessons of 1 s c Comfort in a Sad Scene. s 2 i HEAVEN'S BRIGHT CROWNS < j The Great Divine Says Shall Adorn the Brows of Those Who Bear Life's Burdens With , Christian Fortitude. From the pathetic seece of Christ's last hour of suffering Dr. Talmage in j this sermon draws lessons of comfort I - - xix_ | lor people id iryuuic, ?. 30, "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar." The brigands of Jerusalem had done their work. It was almost sundown, and Jesus was dying Persons in crucifixion often lingered on from day to 1 day, crying, begging, cursing, but Christ had been exhausted by years of maltreatment. Pillowiess, poorly fed, flogged, as bent over and tied to a low J post his bare back was infiamed with j the scourges interstice*! with pieces of j onr! V,nr>f> and now for whole Lours | the weight of his body hung on deli-. eate tendons, and. according to custom, a violent stroke under the armpits had been given by the executioner. Dizzy, nauseated, feverish, a world of agony is compressed in the two words' "I thirst!" L>h, skies of Judea, let a drop of rain strike on his burning tongue! Ob, world, with rolling rivers and sparkling lakes and spraying fountains, give Jesus something to drink! J ? ? ?* ^ V, /"vo I II tnere dc any pity iu eaxtu w aviATvu i or hell, let it now be demonstrated in behalf of this royal sufferer The wealthy women of Jerusalem used to have a fund of money with which they provided wine for those people who died in crucifixion?a powerful opiate to deaden the pain?but Christ would not take it. He wanted to die sober, and so he refused the wine. But afterward they go to a cup of vinegar and soak a sponge in it and put it on a stick of hyssop and then press it against tne Hot lips 01 unrisi. j. uu the wine was an anaesthetic ana intend ed to relieve or deaden the pain. But the vinegar was an insult. In some lives to saccharine seems to predominate. Life is sunshine on a bank of flowers. A thousand handt < o clap approval. In December or in January, looking across their table, the}' see all their family present. Health rubicund, skies flamboyant, days resilient. But in a great many cases there are not so many sugars as acids. The annoyances, and the vexations, and the disappointments of life overpower the successes. There is a gravel in almost every shoe. An Arabian legend says that there was a worm in Solomon's stafiE knawing its strength away, and there is a weak spot in every earthly support that a mac leans on. King George of England forgot all the grandeurs of his throne because one day in an interview Beau Brummel called him by his first name and addressed ? him as a servant, crying, ''.George, ring the bell !'J Miss Laagdon, honored all the world over for her poetic genius, is so worried over the evil reports set aaoatregaruiug ner tjia^auc ia iu^?r "?^ dead with an empty Jrt>ttle of?pfussic acid in her hand. GcUd?lncE said that liis life was a wr^bed being, and that all thai--want and contempt could bring to it had been brought, and cries out, '"What, then, is there formidable in a jail?" Correggio's fine paiBtiasgs hung up for a tavern' sisn. Hogarth cannot seli his best painting except through a raffle. Andrei del Sarto makes the great fresco in the Church of the Annunciata at Floreoce and gets for pay a sack of corn, and there are annoyances and vexations in high -1 71 ? 1? uiaues as ACXI MIU IUW inatta, oi.uning that in a great many lives are the sours greater than the sweets. ''When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar. It is absurd to suppose that a man who has always been well can sympathize with those who are sick, or that one who has always been honored can appreciate the sorrow of those who are despised, or that one who has been born to a great fortune eau understand the distress and the straits of those who are destitute. The fact that Christ himself took the vinegar makes him able to sympathize tiday and fv>rever with all those whose cup is Siled with the sharp acids of this life. lie took the yinegar. In the first place, there was the sourness of betrayal. 'ihe treachery of Judas hurt Christ's feelings more than all the friendship of his disciples did him good. You have had many friends. : but there was one friend upon whom t . v. . P j 1 you put especial stress, i ou leastea him. You loanded him money. You befriended him in the dark passes of life, when he especially needed a friend. Afterward, he turned upon you, and he took advantage of ycui: past : || He wrote against you. He in talked against you. He microscopized 1 your faults. He fiung contempt at you. 1 when you ought to have received noth- 1 ing but gratitude. At first you could ; uot sleep at night. Then you went about with a sense of having been : stung. That difficulty will never be ' healed,'for though mutual friends may arbitrate in the matter until you shall ; shake hands, the old cordiality will : never come back. 2sow I commend to ail sucn tne sympatny ox a oetrayea Christ. Why, they sold him for less ^ than our $20! Theu all forsook him and 1 fled. They cut him to the quick. He 1 drank that cup to the dregs. He took 1 the vinegar. j There is also the sourness of pain. There are some of you who have not ' seen a well day for many years. By * keeping out of drafts, and by carefully ( studying dietetics, you continue to this 1 time, but oh, the headaches, and the ' side aches, and the backaches, and the ( heartaches which h?ve been your ac- ( companimtnt all the way through! You j have struggled under z. heavy mortgage ] ! ! -_1 - J * _ J O 7 oi pnysicai aisaomues, aact lnsieaa 01 1 the placidity that once characterized 5 yon it is now only with great effort that x you keep away from irritability and 1 sharp retort. Difficulties of respira- 1 tion, of digestion, of locomotion, make * up the great obstacle in your life, and ? you tug and sweat along the pathway c and wonder when the exhauston will end. My friends, the brightest crowns s in heaven will not be giyen to those, s in stirrups, dashed to the cavalry ^wWarge, while the general applauded, i "'and the sound of clashing sabers raug s through the lacu, but the birghtest t crowns in heaven, I believe, will be t given to those who trudged on amid t chronic ailments which uunerved their z strength, yet all the time maintaining i 1 their faith in God, It is comparative- j 1 ly easy to fight in a regimen* of a thou- j e sand men, charging up the parapets to i the sound of martial music, but it is | 1 hoc so easy to endure when no one but j c the nurse and the doctorarc the witnesses i j (f the Christian fortitude. Besides hat, you never had any y*ains worse han Christ's. The sharpness that stung hrough his brain, through his hands, hrough his feet, through his heart, were is great as yours certainly. He was as j siclc ana as weary. a. ucnc ui i nuscle v>r ligament escaped. All the angs of all the nations of ail the ages .-ompressea into one sour cup. He took :he vinegar! There is also tie sourness of poverty. Your income does not meet your outgoings, <*nd that always gives an honest man anxiety. There is no sign of destitution about you?pleasant appearance and a cheerful ho?:;e for you?but LJod only knows what a time you have had to manaee your private finances. Just as the bills run up the wages seem to run down. You may sap nothing, but life to you is a hard push, and wrifcn you sit dowt. with vour wife and talk over the expenses you both rise up discouraged. You abridge here, and you abridge there and your get things snug for smooth sailing, and, lo, suddenly there is a large doctor s bill to pay, or you have loi-t your pocketbook, or some debtor has failed, ?nd you are thrown abeam end. Well, brother, you are in glorious compar.y. Christ owned not the house in \vhi3h he stop ped or the coJt on wfcicft be rcae or me boat ia which he sailed. He lived in a borrowed house; he was buried in a bor rowed grave. Exposed to all kinds of weather, vet he had only one tuit of clothes. He breakfasted in the morning, and no one' could possihly tell where he could got anything to eat before night. He would have been pronounced a financial failure. He had to perform a miracle to get money to pay, a tax bill. Not a dollar did he own. Privation of domesticity, privation of A AAm^Arf. UUiriLIU U5 iUUU, piiViiLiuu Kji. a, wujiui vable couch on which to sleep, privation of all worldly resources! The kings of the earth had chased chalices out of which to drink, but Christ had nothing but a plain cup set before him, and it was very sharp, and it was very sour. He took the vinegar. There were years that passed along before your family circle was invaded by death, but the moment the charmed circle was broken everything seemed to dissolve. Hardly have you put the black apparel in the wardrobe before vnu have asain to take it out. Great and rapid changes in your family record. You got the house and rejoiced in it, but the charm was gone as soon as the crape hung on the doorbell. The one upon whom you most depended was taken away from you. A cold marble stab lies on your heart today. Once, as the childen romped through the house, you put your hand over your aching head and said, "Oh, if I could only have it still!'' Oh. it is too still now! You lost your patience when the tops and the strings and the shells were left amid the floor, but, oh, you would be willing to have the trinkets scattered all nvor tKp finar uerair> if hhev were scattered by the same hands. "With what a ruthless plowshare bereavement rips the heart! But Jesus knows all about that. You cannot tell him anything new in regard to bereavement. He had only ajew friends, and when he lost onei'fbrought tears to bis eyes. Lazarus bad often entertained him at his _home. Now Lazarus is dead and buried, and Christ breaks down with'emotion, the convulsion of grief shuddering through all the ages of bereavement. Christ knows what it is to go through the bouse missing a familiar inmate. Christ knows what it is to see an unoccupied place at the table. Were there not lour of them? Mary and Martha and Christ and Lazarus? Four of them. But where is Lazarus? Lonely and afflicted Christ, his great-loving eyes filled with tears! Oh, yes, yes! He knows all about the loneliness and the heartbreak. He took the vinegar! Then there is the sourness of the death hour. Whatever else we mav escape, that acid sponge will be pressed to our lips. I sometimes have a curiosity to know how I will behave when I come to die. Whether I will be calm or excited, whether 1 will b<; filled with reminiscence or with. anticipation, I carmot say. But come to the point I must and you must. An officer from the future world will knock at the door of our hearts and serve on us the writ <vF pioctmpnf nnrl wp will ViavA tri siir render. And we will wake up after these autumnal and wintry and vernal and summery glories have vanished from our vision. We will wake up into a realm which has only one season and that the season of everlasting love. But you say: "I don't want to break out from my present associations. It is so chilly and so damp to go down the stairs of that va^lt. I don't want any thing drawn so tightly over my eyes. If there were only .some way of breaking through the partition between worlds without tearing this body all to shred! I wonder if the surgeons and tie doctors cannot compound a mixture by which this body and soul can all the time be kept together? Is there no escape from this separation?" None, absolutely none. A great many men tumble through the gates of the future, as it were, and we do not know where they have- gone, and they only add gloom and mystery to the passage, but Jesus Christ so mightily stormed the gates of that future world that they haye never since been closely shut. Christ knows what it is to leave this world, of hT-> ^ VvAon^rr XT'V?ili l-i rt rroc WAra orv. I ii v vtau.j vi n a.o mui v a. p preciative than we ever could be. He knows the exquisiteness of the phosphorescence of the sea. He trod it. He knows the glories of the midnight heavens, for they were the spangled canopy of his wilderness pillow. He knows about the lilies. He twisted them into his sermon. He knows about the fowls of the air. They whirred their way through his discourse. He knows about the sorrows of leaving this beautiful world. Xot a taper was kindled in the darkness. He died phy:ir>?onloca ir> crcAof and ;iviuuiv?.v? AAV Aki WAV* U " VU.V UiAVfc lizziness and hemorrhage and agony, :hat have put him in sympathy "with all :he dying. He goes through Christenlom, and he gathers up the stings out )f ail the death pillows, and he puts :hem under his own neck and head. He gathers cn his own tongue the burn.ng thirst of many generations. The >ponge is soaked in the sorrows of all ;hose who have died in their beds, as veil as soaked in the sorrows of all ;hose who perished in icy or fiery maryrdom. While heaven was pitying, tnd earth was mockiDg, and hell was lending, he took the vinegar! To all those to whom life has been m acerbity?a dose they could not swallow, a draft that set their teeth on :dge and a-rasping?I preach the omnipotent sympathy of Jesus Christ. The sister of Herschel. the astronomer, used ;o spend much of her time polishing the :elescopes through which he brought ,he distant worlds nigh, and it is* my tmbition now this hour to clear the ens of your spiritual vision, so that, ookiDg through the dark night of 2.'0ur sarthly troubles, you may behold the ;loriou? constellation of a Saviour's ove. Oh, my friends, do not try to :arry all your ills alone. Do not put ,-our poor shoulder under the Apne/ - mm i i r i in mi n [ niDes, ^hen the Almighty Christ is ready t>c lift up all your burdens. Wkfcn you have a trouble of any kind, you rush this way and that way, and you . wonder whai this man will say about it and what that man will say about it, and you try this prescriptioi and that prescription and the other prescription. Oh, why do you not go straight to the heart of Christ, knowing that for our own sinning and suffering race he took the vinegar? - 1 There was a vessel that had been 1 tossed on the seas for a great many e weeks and been disabled, and the supply of water gave out, and the crew ? were dying of thirst. After many days they saw a sail against the sky. They signaled it. Wbn tVift varspI nearer, the people on the suffering ship s cried to the captain of the other vessel: ''Send us some water. We are dying for lack of water." And the captain on the vessel that was hailed responded: ( "Dip your buckets where you are. You are in the mouth of the Amazon, and 1 there are scores of miles of fresh water all around about you and hundreds of feet deep.'' Aad then they dropped their buckets over the side of the vessel ^ ! 11 r\ 4 V* rrV? V* auu uiuugui u\j mc j iitou water and put out .the fire ef their * thirst. So I hail you today, after a long and perilous voyage, <hirsting as ^ you are for pardou acd thirsting for comfort ana thirsting for eternal life, ^ and I ask you what is the use of your going in that death struck state while all around you is the deep, clear, wide, * sparkling flood of God's sympathetic mercy. Ob, dip your buckets and drink and live forever. ; 'Whosoever will, C let him come and take of the water of . e i? ? ( ijiiic iiecijr. Yet there are people who refuse this v divine sympathy, and they try to fight their own battles, and drink their own vinegar, - and carry their own burdens, ] and their life, instead ef being a triumphil march from victory to victory, will be a hobbling on from defeat to de- g feat, until they make final surrender to retributive distaster. Oh, I wish I could today gather up in my arms all the woes of men and women, all their heart- j aches, all their disappointments, all tneir cnagrms, ana just take tnem rignt ^ to the feet of a sympathizing Jesus. He took the vinegar. Nana Sahib, af- x ter he had lost his last battle in India, fell back into the jungles of Iheri?jungles so full of malaria that no mortal ] can live there. He carried with him also a ruby of great luster and of .*' < value. He died in those jungles i*;> \ body was never found, and the ru'-j has npwr vpf, Kapti . Ann I f?ar c that today there are some who v. 11 fall back from this subject into the tokening, killing jungles of their sin carry- 1 ing a gem of infinite value?a piiceless soul?to be lost forever. Oh, that that ] vuby might flash in the eternal coronation! But, no! There are some, 1 fear, who turn away from this offered mercy and comfort and divine sympathy, notwithstanding that Christ, for all who would accept his grace, trudged the long way, ana sunerea tne lacerating tnongs, and received in his face the expectorations of the filthy mob, and for the guilty, and the discouraged and the discomforted of the race, took the vinegar. May God Almight break the infatuation and lead jou out into the 'strorig hope, and the good cheer, and the glori1 f? ,1 ? 1! ous sunsnine 01 tnis mumpani gospei: TEE CHICAGO PLATFORM. ( i Bryan Stands by Its Principals- A * < Party Conference. j A Democratic conference has been ? called under the auspices of the Demo- j cratic Siate committee was held in To- ] peka Thursday evening. Prominent , speakers, including Col. W. J. Bryan i of Nebraska; Champ Clark of Missouri; ? Allen D. Myers of Ohio and Sidney s Clark of Oklahoma were present. More t than a thousand persons were invited. | The meeting was in the nature of a con- i ference of Democratic leaders, the pol- 1 : a. : < ivy \ji tuc iu me cam^aigu ui 1899 being touched on. Mr. Bryan himself was given the most prominent place, his subject being '"Democracy." Mr. Bryan stood out squarely for the Chicago platform, and said that there had been no retreat from the positions taken iu 1896. "We are only holding our own,'* he declared, but we are gaining back those Democrats who left us without fully understanding the nature of the struggle. "Sometime; we hear plea^ for harmony from those who opposed the party in 1896/' continued Mr. Brvan. "but harmony, (instead of 'being a thing hoped for, is at least, a thing j realized; not a pretended harmony be- , tween those entertaining antagonistic , principles, but an actual harmony between those who are uuited in a common purpose against a common enemy. The Democratic party was never more ] harmonious, and its harmony cau ouly be disturbed Dy admitting within the ] fold those who are at variance with its ' principles and aspirations. T "The Democratic platform of 1900 1 will be written by those who stood upon $ the platform of 1896, not by those who . tried to overthrow the Democratic par- 3 ty in that campaign." Mr. Bryan declared that events have s been vindicating the policies proposed 1 by the Democratic party in 1896. He then passed on to the subject of } trusts and characterized them as the products of Republican methods. c Mr. Bryan closed with a denunciation of militarism and what he termed the v tendency of the present administration s toward iDsperialism. 0 Champ Clark of BowliDg Green, Mo., ? had for his subject "Prosperity, past, * present and future." QfAT>/\ Ap A! ifOAimi /\n ^ vvuuvi uuv/uc; vi jiidsuuii uu the future of the Democratic party. He was followed by Allen 0. Myers of Columbus, 0., whose toast was "The a East and the West." ? The toast responded to by Sidney | _ Clark was "Oklahoma, the next star in " the flag of the Union."' ^ Three Lives Crushed Out. The bodies of three white minors now T lie 125 feet under ground b<;uearh great volume of water and tons of dirt and debris in a manganese miue niue miles from Cartersville, Ga., where they j] met death by being mashed and smother- t] de b> the great mass above where they b ttoic Udviij^ iu v/u tiicui. JLUC p dead men are Frank McEver, a son of f, one of the lessees, and the Messrs. h Chastain. McEver leaves a wife and two children. He was 26 years of age. The mine is on the Canton road and is I known as the Clumber Hill mine. It t< has recently been leased by Messrs. tl White & McEver and worked with a w force of from three to five hands. It t< may take several days to recover the n bodies of the men, as the water in the s< shaft is 80 feet deep and will have to s< be pumped out before other work to- t< ward rescuing them can picceed. w PENSION MANAGERS, Che List of Chairmen &f the Varion Comity Boards. Followirg is the list of chairmen o he county boards of pensions. Salud; s the only county which has not com Dunicated with the comptroller gen ral's office: Abb^villA?.T T? TTnllntrar Potti ;rew. Aiken?J. R. iSidron, Vaucluse. Anderson?J. J. Gilmer. Anderson Bamberg ?W. F. Stokes, Farrell' tore. Barnwell?A. B. Connor, Ailendale Beaufort?Dr. R. R. Sams, Beaufort Berkeley?1). M. Breaker, Monck Corner. CkarlesteD?Dr. B. M. Lebby, Cbar eston. Cherokee?J. Gr. Sarratt, Gaffney. Chester?V>T. H. Hardin, Chester. Chesterfield?W. J. Hanna, Chester ield. Clarendon?C. S. Land, Sr., Fores on. Darlington?Capt. W. E. James ^alraetto. Dorchester?D. M. Horn, St xeorge's. Edgefield?J. N. Fair, Edgefield. Fairfield?G. H. McMaster. Winns >oro. Florence?E. W. Lloyd, Florence. Georgetown?J. Harleston Rea< JeorgetowD. Greenyille?Col. S. S. Crittenden Jreenville. Greenwood?TV. P. McKeller, Green rood. Horry?B. L. Beaty, Bncksville. Hampton?J. H. Steinmeyer, Earl: branch. Kershaw?W. F. Russell, "Westville Lanr-aster?W. K. Btccp. H^atl >priogs. Laurens?B. W. Ball, Laurens. Lexington?S. M. Roof, Lexington. Marion?Dr. G. A. Mclntyre, Mar on. Marlboro?J. H Hudson, Bennetts rille. Newberry?M. A. Carlisle, Xewber 'V J Oconec?J. C. Neville, West Union Orangeburg?G. W. Dan nelly S'orth. Pickens?N. A. Cristopher, Pickens Richland?Capt. W. D. Starling, Co umbia. Spartanburg?Capt. J. W. Hawkins Spartanburg. Sumter?E. E. Gaillard, Sumter. Union?Godfrey B. Fowler, Jones rille. "Williamsburg?H. H. Kindei Kingstree. York-J. F. Wallace Yorkville. An Act. A.n act to amend Section 4 of an act en titled "An act to provide a system o county government for the seven counties of this State, so far as it re lates to the maintaining and workin of the roads and highways in thi State," approved March 23, 189C amended and approved February 22 1897, and amended and approved Fet ruary 21, 1898, by inserting Cheroke County. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Get ;ral Assembly of the State of Sout Carolina, that an act entitled "An ac ;o amend an act entitled an act to pre ride a syst.em of county government fc ihe several counties of this State, so fa is it relates to the working and main L_ * * _ O il. _ J _ J 1_ ? * ;ainmg oi one roaas ana nignways i ;his State," approved March 23, 1896 imeuded and approved February 2z 1897, and also amended and approve February 21, 1898, be, and the same i iereby. further amended by insertin :he name Cherokee, on line 4 of Sectio I. after the name Spartanburg, so tha raid section when amended shall rea is follows: Section 4. That all male prisons abl :o perform, or cause to be performed :he labor herein required, between th iges of 18 and 50 .\ears, except in Hoi r? Q?iOfronktn?i* CZ- rftnnni 11 n j J uuyu.j;, viccuviucj vuwvai; ma Union counties, where the age shall be from 21 to 50, and also excep uinisters of the Gospel in actual charg jf a congregation, and persons permat intly disabled in the military service c ;his State, and persons who served i :he late war between the States, sha! )e required annually to perform, c jause to be performed, four days' labc >n the highways, under the direction c ;he overseer of the road district i vhich he shall reside; except in th ;ounties of Spartanburg, Anderson jrreenville, Pickens and DarhngtoE therein the number of working day shall be three; and in Pickens county ;he commutation tax shall be one do! ar; and in Greenville county ten hour shall constitute a day's work for al lired hands; and in Pickens county te lours shall constititute a day's wor 'or all hands; and the counties of Oi mgeburg, Saluda, Edgefield, Colleton Chester, Barnwell, Newberry, Green vood, Williamsburg, Dorchester, Sum er and York, wherein the number o vorkitig days shall be four as to York iud the counties of Berkeley, Charles .on, Georgetown, Hampton, Beaufort tfarion and Florence, where the numbe >f working days shall be eight; and ii Samberg county, the number of work ng days shall be six: and in Clarendon jouHty, where the number of work day ihall be changed to four, and the com nutation tax shall be one dollar: Pro dded, that the county board of com nissioners of any county may cause t >e levied an additional tax, not to ex aa/3 r>n a mill An oil fli a f a nrAn 'Vi^VA vug AJLI1AJ.} \JLL CLIX lAAOUlt piV^J irty of any township in their county ?hen so required by a written petitio] igned by two-thirds of the freeholder if such township, except in Picken ;ounty, where it shali not be necessar o have said written petition. Sue! ax to be collected as the other taxe ,nd to be expended on the roads ant lighways of such township: Provided hat the provisions of this act shall no ,pply to the county of Fairfield. Th< >rovisions of this act shall not apply t< ^ckens, Cherokee and Union counties _ i.n il. T> J P A.1 :uin sue year jrroviaea, luruier hat in Oconee couDfy the number o; ays' work to be performed be four 'ithout any commutition. Approved the 2nd dav of March. A. ). ISM. A Brain-Twister for Robert. A discouraged editor asks the follow3g question: "If Bob Ingersoll insists hat there is no hell, will he state what ecomes of the man who takes the paer three of four years without paying )r it and then tells the postmaster that e does not want it. When the hour came for the Kansas legislature to close the other dav de ictives were stationed at every exit of ae State house to see that no property as carried away. It has been thecus)m for a vast number of articles, inging from typewriters down to ink:ands, to disappear at the end of every sssioo. The detectives found plenty > do. and dozens of wonld-bp thieves ere forced to disgorge. , THE LAKE CITY CASE. ^ The Trial Will Begin Sometime Next Week in Charleston. I The News and Courier says over eighty witnesses have been summoned * to appear for the Government in the a case against the alleged lynchers from - Lake City, which will be tried next i_ mi t . / wees, inere win oe a great array 01 witnesses for the defence, and it is not believed that the trial can be finished in less than two weeks. Mr. E W. Bell, the special agent who was sent to South Carolina by the department of justice to gather evis dence in the lynching case, has returned to Charleston from Cuba, wheie ' he went to interview certain members " of the 2d South Carolina regiment. 8 Marion Clark, who enlisted in the regiment, and who was formerly editor of a newspaper at Lake City, is named as one of the defendants. Mr. Bell wanted to see Clark and others connected with the case. At present there ar.e fifteen defendants. They were all arrested at different times, and were released from jail on bend. The "fifteen alleged members * of the mob are: Ezra McKnight, W. A. Webster, M. V. Ward, Moultrie * Epps, H. C. Goodwin, C. J. Joyner, Oscar Kelly, Edwin Bodgers, Alonzo Hodgers, Henry S. Stokes, Allen Belk, Van Somerford, Early P. Lee, John P. Newham and Marion Clark. It is , hinted that other arrests will be made before the case is taken up for trial. Much interest is being taken in the ' make-up of the jury which will have to sit on the trial. The names of the men are or particular interest just at this time. The grand jurors are: A. S. Dukes, Branchville, Orange7 burg. S. P. Reid, Spartanburg. Spartan burg. G. C. Singleton. Conway, Horry. W. S. Wilkerson, Hickory Grove. York. A. C. Izard. Walterboro, Colleton. John K. Ragsdale, Jenkinsville, Fairfield. D. P. Lide, Darlington, Darlington. Fred "Walker, (colored.) Chester, Chester. H. H. Gooche, Lancaster, Lancaster. J. A. Thompson, Lindsay, Lancaster. , T /1 1? TXT vt:II_ o. v. riucujau, travel ly jjuiia, Georgetown. S. E. Owons. St. Matthews. Orangeburg. M. T. Simpson. Cross Hill, Laurens. ? John R. Gossett, Easley, Pickens. S. F. Flowers. Sumter, Sumter. J. J. Thompson, Camden. Kershaw. John C. Sevier, Spartanburg, Spar tanburg. '? Adam Cook, "Winnsboro, Fairfield. Tom Johnson, (colored,) Camden, Kershaw. L. B. Carson, Union, Union. Thomas Addison, Branson, Hampf ton* S. M. Snider. Greenville, Greenville. H. H. Cannon, Spartanburg, Spartan bur*. ?0 S The petit jury are: ? Alfred Sevans, (colored,) Aiken, Ai'> ken. '' J. J. Lawton, Hartsville, Darlington. J. A. Gibson, Newberry, Newberry. e C. A. Bowman, Newberry, Newberry. John W. McCullough, Alba, Greenh ville. !t J. H. Clarkson, Columbia, Pti?hland. S. A. Durham, Marion, Marion. ,r E. P. Ricker, Sumter, Sumter. ir B. F. Davis, Marion, Marion. l" Joel B. Garrison, Sterling Grove, ? Greenville. R. M. Marshall, Charleston, Charles's ton. d ^ W. P. McGill, Camp Ridge, Wil13 liamsburg. S Arthur L. Kerne, Clinton, Laurens. d. Adams vjiartson, Weston, lucnJ land. ^ J. B. Stepp, Switzer, Spartanburg. William Alexander, (colored,) Chese ter, Chester. '> J. C. Elliott, Lancaster, Lancaster. e W. R. Price. Suanydale, Pickens. r" Robert P. Evans, Charleston, Char6 lpornn !S W. R. Doty, "Winnsboro, Fairfield. U. A. Calhoun, Appleton, Barnwell. e Morgan Boylston, Wagener, Aiken. l" T. P. Horger, Jamison, Orangeburg. J. D. Humphries, Union, Union. Fred C G-ibbs, Cordesville, Berkeley. " McCloud Hutson, Beaufort, Beau11 fort. ,r W. H. Tuten, Hampton, Hampton. * T. H. Reane, Graniteville, Aiken. n Samuel T. Waddell, (colored,) Dovese ville, Darlington. C. H. Carlisle, Spartanburg, Spar 'j tanburg. 3 R. J. Poole, Anderson, Anderson. '> J. S. Cantey, Summerton, Clarendon. A. J. Stringer, Belton, Anderson. "S Turpin Earle, Greenville, Greenville. Edward DeReef, "Waverly Mills, D Georgetown. k C. 31. Mills, (colored,) Laurens, Lau " rens. ' Prosperity--Eow It Propers. t. The McKinley wave of prosperity is ,f still sweeping on. Around the gates of : the factories in the cities every morn(1 ing are found scores and hundreds of men begging for employment, who are _ tnrnpf? awav with tVip sfprpnt.vnpd PV a pression, "No work." One-fourth of the population of New Ycrk city are a subjects of charity! This last winter s women disguised themselves in men's . clothing and sought work on the streets i_ of New York in shoveling snow, and . when discharged by the foreman when 0 their sex was discovered, they cried bit_ terly and begged to be allowed to re : J i. c :i: lllciiU <1UU nrUIft., UCLldliU^ lUCli laUllIICO were -starving. In Cincinnati over 4,3 900 persons applied for aid in Decems ber and January. In Nashville, Tenn., s children are working in cotton factories y for five cents a day of twelve or thirteen j Hours. One child received fifty-five s cents for three weeks' work, and one I family one of eight workers average scarcely $30 a month. Talk of McKinl ley prosperity! In Ohio?McKinley's s home*?the head center of prosperity, j there are 65,950 people being fed by 3 charity. "No longer the man hunts the job, but the job now hants the p man," is a sentence coined by McKinley, and yet in the face of it the Wash' ington Post recently contained au appeal in behalf of 'discharged yolunteers of the District regiment now out of employment and destitute! This, under the shadow of the dome of the na tion's capital?at the portals of the White House! Prosperity of this kind 1 is found all around the country, but it ' is of a kind that requires a great deal ' of nursing by the followers of McKin> ley. "Ben Hut," Gen. Lew Wallace's masterpiece, was first dedicated ikTo i the wife of my youth." When the book began to make its way Gen. Wal1 lace was flooded wjth letters of condolence on the supposed death of his tri^A f VIA AM fottym no ^ r?iic? iuc niiicio uaoiuj wugix oj uipathy on the dedication. Mrs. Wallace herself had written the words, but for the nest edition altered them to the following, which has ever since been ; used: "To the wife of my youth who still abides with me .1 * ?i "I iTfci tfrrnar f"nri iT"i11rk mh'iii mi mm in | HQNI Ii I High Rrm Sewinc Fully guaranteed for ten y ; all the latest attachments, 1 mented wood work. Price $i8.( Money refunded after 30 da I is not as good as the $40. T?0 to sold by agents. Send for circulars and state "We are headquarters for Farn Mattings, Carpets, Sewi Baby Carriages, etc. 1 I Address IIIO & II12 Br School Bocks. Ia connection with Superintendent McMahan's statement that it is' 'claimed that many children are prevented from attending sehool because of the inability of their parents to provide them with the necessary books" and that ''some even say that the schools are beyond the reach of the poorer classes unless the State supplies text books to the children," this article from the Nash ville American will be found of interest: The table following will show the difference between the prices of school books in Tennessee and Indiana. The Indiana law was passed ten years ago and any attempt to rescind it would not find a corporal's guard in the State. The table is: Ind. Tenn. First Reader $ .15 $ .20 n i t? i r>~ o; oecona .neaaer &o .00 Third Reader 35 .45 Fourth Reader 45 .60 Fifth Reader 60 .SO Third Part Arithmetic.. .45 .60 Elementary Geography.. .30 .50 Complete Georeraphy... .75 1.25 Intermediate Geography. .20 .35 Spelling Books 10 .20 English Grammar 40 .75 TT..;*. J ? en 1 9. u iJiieu oiiices jjLiacuij'.. . .uv x.~v Physiology 60 1.25 Copy Book No. 1 05 .10 Copy Book No. 2 05 .10 Copy Book No. 3 05 .12* Copy Book No. 4 05 .12i Copy Book No. 5 05 .12? Copy Book No. 6 05 .12* 54.60 ?y ID. We called attention to the fact the other day that under the Iudiana law . every school book concern of import- J ancein the country was competing for the State contract. This knocks into a cocked hat the argument that cheap ; and inferior books would be furnished , the Tennessee children if we had such j a law as prevails in Indiana. In commenting on the above the ; n ^ ? r?i . * i l i LOiumDia oiaie says it aoes not krow ; the prices paid for school books in j South Carolina but they are dobutless ! higher than those paid in Indiana. The State is right. The price of school books in South Carelinaare higher than they are in Indiana, which should not be the case. There is no reason why South Carolina should not get school Venire fie as Indiana or anv nt.her State. The State reports Superintendent McMahan as saying that the sums expended for the luxury of school charts have reached the astounding total of ?*?A AAA * % A CirtlA AWA f Vv A AO TT1 Acf ??)UU,UUV iu a uoacc yvagic cjug uwav^ou i taxation bearable is insufficient to keep the schools open six months in the year. It passes understanding how this folly could have been permitted by those who have been charged with the economical- and effective management of our public school system. "VTe agree with The State, that Mr. McMahan "did not take charge of the office of superintendent of education a day too soon His statement shows that he appreciates the obligations of his position an 3 the necessity for radical reforms in the system, and we hope that he will continue unflinchingly in the path he has entered. This State, as a State, cannot give more money to ^ its public schools than it does now, 'but the effectiveness of what it does give can be greatly increased by wise administration. This the people now hope for." A Biff Farmer. David llankin, of Tarkio, Anchinson county, Missouri, who owns and manages 23,000 acres of land in Atchinson county, scattered over an area of forty miles, is described in the Indianapolis News as an all-round farmer who farms all the year round. To work his farms, which average from 600 to 3.000 acres, requires 140 employes, 700 horses, more than 100 wagons and many plows, harrows, cultivators, etc. Half of his land goes under the plow year ly. About 2,000 acres are sown to TT- U /\A ^ A n /I i A ?\ i A J AAMM YVllCUL dUU LilC lot ID yidUlCU xu uuiu. Other land is laid do./n in clover, timothy and bluegrall pasture?. Every year Mr. Rankin buys and fattens from 8,000 to 10,000 head of cattle. Ho keeps 12,000 head of hogs at all times, and sells about $80,000 worth yearly. He began to buy his land in 187(5. In addition to his duties as a farmer he is the president of the First National Bank, of the Electric Light and Power company of the Water company and of a brick and tile company. He has been liberal in his support of the church and education. Eleven persous, including Tax As sessor Lewis Uonee and nine msmoer of his family, were killed by a cyclone ' at Edwardsville, Ala., Saturday night. ? The ^torm spread throughout the So^'g^ut was especially severe ni Bk and Alabama. 323 - ^1 *.A^'^^^r 'vt^,''V>.ateL A I Machine j?? ears, lit ted with Lrc-aiitifully rm $50.00 machines : what you want. iture, Stoves, ng Machines, The Padgett Furi oad Street, The School Charts. The school chart business se?ms to ! be dividing the honors with the peni-1 tentiary investigation. Assistant At-; torney-'General Gunter has had for! sometime under advisement the matter! j of paying for these charts. The ques- j cion submitted to him is whether trus- i tees are permitted legally to pay for the j charts by warrants on the coming year's 1 school fund. This has been done in a number of instances. Mr.-G-unter had not written out his decision but he said that he would hold that trustees could not do so. The question whether they j had a right to expend school money for such a purpose has not been submitted to him. His ruling on the first point will go a long way in stopping *1 ?? ?1 i.? ? J? ?1 1 me puiuiia.se ui uuans, IUI lew acuuui districts have anv money to spare for the purpose. It will be hard on the chart men, even if thej wait until nest year's money is available, as conditions will be about the same then as they are now?no money to spend upon such luxuries. Trustees will have to make some arrangements about them or the chart company will have to take back their goods as second hand. We hop iL __ 1 * 1 Ml 1_ . xl _ _ . 1 1 tnis cnart Dusmesswm maKeme scnooi authorities more carefuliu future about making illegal contracts. The chsrr peopie sold their charts in good faith, and it isc<rtainly harden them to be knocked out in this way. If they had been told in the beginning that their goods were too high, instead of being encouraged as they were in many instances by the school authorities to sell them on urns the case would be different. Will Pay for It. Gov. Eilerbe Thursday gave out the following statement in regard to his name being brought into the penitentiary scandal: *'In the testimony of Capt. Westfield the public would think I have been getting my laundering aone free at the penitentiary. Some time ago our washwoman left the city and we could not get one to do our work satisfactorily. I told Col. Xeal about the matter and he told me he had a good laundry at the penitentiary and that he could do my laundering for me. I sent a part of it only, and am to pay $3 per month. About a month ago I succeeded in getting a washwoman and have not had any laundering done at the penitentiary since." We are State Agents for and make SPECIALTY of equipping improvec Hurray Ginning System, the simplest and best. Cotton ginned on this system commands a higher market price than any other, and the machinery itself is a marvel of simplicity We control for this State the improved Murray Cleaning Feeder, which is unquestionably the best gin feeder eve _ -n . * i . yet invented, rarnes contemplating a purchase of machinery of this kind are invited to correspond with us. Machinery and Mill Supplies of all kinds at lowest manufacturers prices. Now is the time to place your order for a threshing machine; buy the best, we sell it?the FARQUHAR. W. H. SIBBES & CO., COLUMBIA, S. C. a t :j ji n~ utiles IUI .?JJIUUCII v>u., xuagit; Cotton Gin Co.. A. B. Fargnhar CoWrite Quick ?TO THfa I COLUMBIA, S. C., for catalogue. Free scholarships on easy conditi >ns to those who write soon. Railroad fare paid. Cheap board. Notes accepted. Can pay part 1 of expenses by working in the college office. Address, mentioning conrse d-sired, W. H NEWBERRY, Prest rM N. s \ \ sAlNSl !| No. 0 COCKING STOVE i Orsly $'h0.>00. 1 II::s 17x17 inch oven, four S incli I i>t holes; large Hues and guaran- ? A >ed a good baker. We lit this j M tove up with forty pieces of ware . | fl icludiu.ii: the latest stove ware. To sitlveitiso uiir business we 3' ill sell this No. Cooking Stove, 9 ? tied with -JO pieces of ware for n " SrG.CC CASH. 1 [ liture Co. Augusta, Ga. ? ^ g? Frca faker Direct'to Purchaser ^ 8 A Good | i a | Piano |r. m V:J J?st * <?5 SE lifetime J?* Si ei^.j1!6 $| ^ ii sSSlydiiApMrpiaM i ^?1 give endless ^?1 The "^43235* vexation. jg f Matbushek I .:" Is always Good, always Reliable? '^8 isf always Satisfactory, always Last- MS ?? ing. Yoa take no chances in boy- a* ft costs somewhat _.iore than a ifi Sj? cheap, poor piano, but is much t&d jHf 3Bs cheapest in the encL a? ?NootherHiffhGradePlanosoldio ffl? reasonable. Factory prices toretali aH buyers. Easy payments. Write u*. ?gi ?g LUOOEN & BATES, jjj1 Savannah. Ga., and New York City. 1^ wmmwmmmsm \udii-?3. L>. A. Jr'liiiSSL u i . ^ COLUMBIA. S. 0. Charleston. South Carolina. 1 ?THE? Keelsy institute, Corner Vandsrhorst a Smith Sts. Charleston, SouthOarolina THE ONLY KEELEY INSTITUTE IN THE STATE. Flour Mill Machinery. CONTRACTS TAKEN TO FURNISH C03I?PLETE EQUIPMENT FOR? Roller Floor Mills. ?REPRESENTING THE? Richmond City ill Works, I One of tli i ii . i i' i: . t ; M Flour Mill Mwhiasr/ ia t'\; on:rr , ^ and hiving espsrieac^ 1 VliU^figlvv I am prepared to build mills on the most improved plans and atprices to compete with any one in the trade. We guarantee the products of our mills to equal the grades of the best Western mills. Before placing your orders write to me. I also handle a complete line of Wood- A vr:n? i?_ gines and Boilera, Com Mills and Maehinery in general. V Having been established in business ^ here for sixteen years, I have built up j my trade by selling the very highest class of matthinftrv_ and am in ? position to serve the interest of my sustomers than ever before. V. C. Badham, J