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jj. DRUNKARDS' WOES. r Dr. Talmage's Strong Denunciation of Intemperance. ' ITS VICTIMS ARE COUNTLESS Worsa Than Any of the Ten Plagues That Befell Egypt. Cod's Grace the Sure Remedy. At this time, when the evils of the drink traffic are being widely discussed and the movement for the abolition of the degrading and brutalizing canteen ia our military camps is gaining many supporters, this sermon by Dr. Talmage, dealing with the broader aspects of the plague of intemperance, should cheer and inspire the friends of temperance everywhere. His text is Exodus xi, 6, "And there shall be a greac cry throughout ill the land of Egypt." This was the worst of the ten plagues. Th e dPQf rn rinrran eel at midnight flapped ?O O w his wing over the land, and there was one dead m each house. Lamentation and mourning and woe through ail Egypt. That destroying angel his fled the earth, but a far worse has come. He sweeps through those cities. It is the destroying angel of strong drink. Far-worse devastation wrought by this second than by the first The calamity in America worse than the calamity in Egypt. Thousands of the tliin, millions of the slain. No arithmetic can calculate their number. Once upon a timefour fiends met in the lost world. They resoivea max the people of our earth were too happy, and these four infernals came forth to oui earth on embassy of mischief. The one fiend said, "I'll take charge of th? vineyard." Another said, "I'll take charge of the grainfields." Another said, "I'll take charge of the dairy.'' Another, "I'll take charge of the music." The four fiends met in the great Sahara desert, with skeleton fingers clutched each other in handshake of fidelity, kissed each other goodby with lip of blue flame and parted on their mission. The fiend of the vineyard came in one bright morning amid the grapes and sat " * * ?*-x. _ J A aown on a root 01 rwistea grapevme ?u sheer discouragement. The fiend knew not how to damage the vineyard or, through it, how to damage the world. The grapes were so ripe and beautiful and luscious! They bewitched the aii with their sweetness. There seemed to be so much health in every bunch' And while the fiend sat there in uttei indignation and disappointment he Twirthfti? rm and clutched a cluster and squeezed it in perfect spite, and, lo, his hand was red with the blood of the vineyard, and the fiend said: "Thai reminds me of the blood of broker hearts. I'll strip the vineyard, and I'll sqneeze ont all the juice of the grapes, and I'll allow the juices of the grapes to stand until they rot, and I'll call the process fermentation." And there was , - a great \at prepared, and people came >>?' with their cups and their pitchers, anc they dipped up the blood of the grapes, and they drank and drank and weni away drinking, and they drank untu they fell in loDg lines of death, so thai when the fiend of the vineyard wantec to return to his home in the pit h< stepped from carcass to carcass and walked down amid a great causeway oi the dead. Then the second fiend came into th< grainfield. He waded chin deep amic the barley and the rye. He heard al! the grain talking about bread and pros peroua husbandry and thrifty homes, He thrust hi* long arms into the grain field, and he pulled up the grain anc threw it into the water, and he mad< beneath it ereat fires?fires lighted witl a spark from Ms own heart?and then was a grinding and a mashing and t stench, and the people came with thei: bottles, and they drank, and they bias phemed, and they staggered, and thej fought and they rioted, and they mur dered,and the fiend of the pit, thefienc of the grainfield, was so pleased witl their behavior that he changed his resi denoe from the pit to a whiskey barrel, and there he sat by the door of the bunghole laughing in high merrimenl ??* +lirvnr*)-it +I10T ftllf f\-f TllTUT Kf aw bug wuvu^uw v.u.<*v v?v y* ?- ? o -harmless as the grain of the field he might turn this world into a seeming pandemonium. The fiend of the dairy saw the cows come home from the pasture field ful] uddered, and as the maid milked he said: "I'll soon spoil all that mess. I'll add to it brandy, sugar and nutmeg, and I'll stir it into a milk punch, and children will drink it, and some of the temperance people will drink it, and ii I can do them no more harm I'll give them a headache, and then I'll hand uiem uver tu tuc iuuic wguivua uvuu* of the satanic delegation." And then the fiend of the dairy leaped upon the shelf and danced until the long row of shining milkpans almost quaked. The fiend of the mu*ic entered a grog shop, and there were but few custom*~v,?-?ers. Finding few customers, he swept the circuit of the city, and he gathered up the musical instruments, and after nightfall he marshaled a band, and the trombones blew, and the cymbals dapped, and the drums beat, and the buries called, and the people crowded in, and tliey swung around in merry dance, each one with a wineglass in his hand, and the dance became wilder and stronger and rougher until the room shook, and the glasses cracked, and the floor broke, and the crowd dropped into hell. But. whether bv alleeory or by ap palling statistics this subject is presented, you know as well as I that it is impossible to exaggerate the evils of strong drink. A plague! A plague! In the first place, the inebriate suffers from the loss of a good name. God has so arranged it that no man lose9 his reputation except by his own act. The world may assault a man and all the powers of darkness may assault him? they cannot capture him so long.as his heart is pure and his life is pure. All the powers of earth and hell cannot take that Gibraltar. If a man is right, all the bombardment of the world for 5, 10, 20, 40 years will only strenghthen Mm in his position. So that all you have to do is to keep yourself right. Never mind the world. Let it say what it will. It can do you no damage. But as soon as ii is wmsperea, "neannKs, and it car be proved, lie begins to go down. What clerk can get a position with such a reputation? What store wants him? "What church of God wants him for a member? "What dying man wants him for an executor? -'He . drinks;" I stand before hundreds of young men?and I say it not in fiattery ?splendid young men, who have their reputation as their only capital. Your father gave you a good education or as good an education as he could afford to give you. He started you in city life, fie could furnish you no means: but he has surrounded you with Christian influences and a good memory of the past. Now, young man, under God you are BBi6?mt&tm ?B????^aaasifia??tfjgSi i?"> ! with your own right arm W achieve you: fortune, and as your reputation is youi only capital do not bring upon it sus picion by going in and out of liquo: establishments or by an odor, of you; breath or by any glare of your eye o by any unnatural flush on your checks You lose your reputation and you los< x _ 1 ! yot'T capuai. The inebriate suffers also in the fac that he loses his self respect, and whei you destroy a man's self respect then is not much left of him. Then a mai will do things he would not do other | wise, he will sty things would not sa; otherwise. The fact is that man can not stop, or he would stop now. He i bound hand and foot by the Philistines and they have shorn his locks "and pu his eyes out and made him grind in thi mill of a great horror. After he i three-fourths gone in this slavery, thi first thing be 'will be anxious to impres you witb is that be can stop at any timi be wants to. His family become alarmei in regard to bim, and they say: "Not do stop this. After awhile it will get th< mastery of you." "Oh no," be says, " j can stop at any time. I can stop now I can stop tomorrow." His most confi dential friends say: "Why, Pm afrai< you are losing your balance with tba Vrtit orp srnine- a little furthe JUtth/AW. W %? w q t than you can afford to go. You ha< better stop." i:Ob, no," he says, can stop at anytime. I can stop now.1 He goes on further and farther. H< cannot stop. I will prove it. He love i himself and he knows nevertheles that strong diiak is depleting him ii i body, miad and soul. lie knows he i going down, that lie lias less seii con troJ, less equipoise of temper than h . used to. Why does he not stop? Be cause lie cannot stop. I will prove i by going still further. He loves hi wife and children. He sees that hi ; habits are bringing disgrace upon hi home. The probalilties are they wil > ruin his wife and disgrace his children . He sees ail this, and he loves them , Why does he not stop? He cannot stop , I had a very dear friend, generous t . a fault. He had give thousands am tens of thousands of dollars to Bibl 1 societies, tract societies, missionar societies, asylums for the poor, the halt the lame, the blind, the imbecile. I do not believe for 20 years anybod > asked him for $1 or $50 or $100 for chari ty but he gave it. I never heard c , anybody askiDg him for help but h ; gave it. But he was under the powe t of strong drink, and he went on dowc r down, down. His family implored hii saying, "You are going too far in tha habit; you had better stop." He re [ plied: "I can stop any time: I ai . my own master. I can stop." He wen , on down, down. His friends advise [ and cautioned him. He said: "Don . be afraid of me. I am my own mastei , I can stop now; I know what I am dc [ ing." He went on down until he ha [ the delirium tremens. On down unti . he had the delirium tremens twice After the second time the doctor sai<5 t "If you ever have an attack like thi [ again, you will die. You had bette stop." He said, "I can stop any tim( j I can stop now." He vent on down > He is dead. What slew him? Run i rum! Among the last thiDgs he sai j was that lie could stop any time. hi [ could not stop. , Oh, my young friends, I want to ta j you that there is a point in inebriatio I beyond which if a man go he cannc j stop. But sometimes a man will b I more frank than that. A viotim c i strong drink said to a reformer: ' :It i I impossible for me to sto?. I realize il ? But, if you should tell me I couldn have drink until tomorrow night unless i had all my fingers cat off, I would saj I 'Bring the hatchet and cut them off.' t I had a very dear friend in Philadelphi - whoso nephew came to him and ws , talking about his trouble and confesse it. He confessed he could not stoi I My friend said, "You must stop." H i said: "I can't stop. If there stood l cannon, and it was loaded, and thei i was a glass of wine on the mouth c i the cannon, and I knew you would fir r it off if I approached, I would^ start t - set that glass of wine. I must'have il r I can't get rid of this habit. I can: get away from it." I Again, the man suffers from the los i of usefulness. Do you know some c the meD who have fallen into the ditc , were once in the front rank in churche > and in the front rank in reformator t institutions? Do you know thoy one > knelt at the family altar and once cai i | ried the chalice of the holy communio j j on sacramental days? Do you knoi they .-once stood in the pulpit an j preached the gospel of the Son of God [ "We will not forget the scene witnessei s some years ago in my Brooklyn churc' , when a man rose in the midst of th audience, stepped into the aisle am [ walked up and down. Everybody sai i that he was intoxicated. The usher ! led him out, and his poor wife took hi i hat and overcoat and followed him t . the door. Who was he? He had one i been a mighty minister of the gospel o . Jesus Christ in a sister denomination : had often preached in this very city f What slew him? Strong drink! Oh wha'. must be the feeling of a man whi ; has destroyed his capacity for useful ness? Do not be angry with that man , Do not lose your patience with him Do not wonder if he says strange thing and gets irritated easily in the family He has the Pyrenees and the Ande and the Alps on him. Do not try ti persuade nim that there is no futur Dunishment. Do not eo into any arsu ment to prove to him that there is m hell. He knows there is. He is ther< row!^ But he suffers also in the loss of phy sical health. The older people in thi audience can remember Dr. Sewel going through this country electrifying great audience by demonstrating to then the effect of strong drink upon the hu man stomash. I am told he had eigh or ten diagrams which he presented t< -^^rk-rvlq c J*/vnMnor flio afd l/J-LW OUVUiUg, WUV U1M.V4VMV WVMfJVl in the progress of the disease, and Ian told tens of thousands of people turne< back from that ulcerous sketch an( swore eternal abstinence from all in toxicants. God only knows what thi drunkard suffers. Pain files on ever: nerve and travels e\ery muscle an< gnaws on every bone and stings witl poison and pulls with eyery torture What reptiles crawl over his shivering W Uaf cnaAfav _f or?/3 KttTiiq Tnif] AXkXXVJtJ TV JUtt W gb??UU XJ J M1J AMAVk night pillows? What groans tear th< air! Talk of the rack, talk of the fun eral pyre, talk of the Juggernaut. Hi suffers them all at once. See the attendants stand back fron that ward in the hospital where the in ebriates are dying. They cannot stant it. The keepers come through it anc say: "Hush up now! Stop making fchi noise! Be still! iou are disturbinj all the other patients. Keep still now., Then the keepers pass on, and afte: they get past then the poor creature: wring their hands and say: ?kOh, God Help, help! Give me rum, give mi mm! Oh, God! Help! Take the de vils off of me! Oh, God; oh, God!' And they shriek, and they blaspheme and they cry for help, and then the: ask the keepers to slay them, saying ';Stab me, strangle lie, smother me Oh, God! Help, help! Rum! Giv< me rum! Oh, God! Help!" The: r | tear out their hair by the handful, and c they bite their nails into the quick - I TH?ta ia r>rt fon^tr T\?r>frr:ro Tt icj tmn<l r piling in a hospital at this moment. It r went on last night while you slept, and r more than that, that is the death some . of you will die unless you stop. I see s it coming. God help you to stop before you go so far that you cannot t stop. ! But it plagues a man also in the loss e of home. I do not care how much he ! loves his wife and children, if this hab. it gets the mastery over him he will do y the most outrageous things. If need . be, in order to get streng drink he would 3 sell them all into everlasting captivity. There are hundreds and thousands of t homes that have been utterly blasted e of it. I am speaking of no abstraction s Is there anything so disastrous to a e man for_ this life and for the life to s come? Do you tell me that a man can 3 be happy when he knows he is breaking 1 his wife's heart and clothing his chilr dren with rags? There are little chil9 dren in the streets today barefooted unr kempt, uncombed, want written on } every patch of their faded dress and on . every wrinkle of their prematurely old 1 countenance, who would have been in t the house of God thi3 morning as well r clad as you had it not been that strong 1 drink drove their parents down into I the grave. Oh, rum, rum, thou de" spoiler of homes, thou foe of God, thou a recruiting officer of the pit, I hate s thee! s But my subject takes a deeper tone i wnen it tells you that the inebriate s suffers the loss of the soul. The Bible - intimates that if we go into the future e world unforgiven the appetites and pas sions which were regnant here will tort ment us there. I suppose when the ins ebriate wakes up ia the lost world there s will be an infinite thrist clawing upon 3 him. In this world he could get strong 1 drink. However poor he was in this - world, he could beg or he could steal 5 cents to get a drink that would for a ? little while slake his thirst, but in eter0 nity where will the rum come from? d Diyes wanted one drop of water, but e could not get it. Where will the ine7 briate get the draft he so much requires '> so much demands? No one to brew it. 1 No one to mix it. No one to pour it. 7 No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds now fnr the dresrs that were thrown on the sawdusted floor of the restaurant, o Millions of worlds now for the rind * flung cut from the punch bowl of an ij earthly banquet, Dives called for wv 11 ter. The inebriate calls for rum. t If a fiend from the lost world sli ui i come up on a mission to a grogshop i-id. 11 having finished the mission in the i-'/og& shop, should come back, taking o:; the d tip of his wing one drop of alcoholic fc beverage, what excitement it would make all through the world of the lost, >- and, if that one drop of alcoholic bevd erage should drop from the wing of the ft fiend upon the tongue of the inebriate, ' how he would spring up and cry: [' "That's it! That's it! Rum! Rum! s That's it!" And all the caverns of the ?r lost would echo with the cry: "Give it 'I to me! Rum! Rum!" Ah, my friends ' the inebriate's sorrow in the next world will not be the absence of God or tioli4 ness or light. It will be the absence e of rum. "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright 11 i- the cup, for at the last it biteth like n a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder." >t When I see this plague in the land ie and when I see this destroying angel >f sweeping across our great cities I am is sometimes indignant and sometimes b. humiliated. When a man asks me, " UT1TT..1. 0,,k t TK iiai arc jfuu IU ia>ui ui xvi iuc iiuu I jugation of this evil?" I answer, "I am r, ready for anything that is reasonable." " Yon ask me, ''Are you in favor of Sons a of Temperance?" Yes, "Are you in fals vor of good Samaritans?" Yes, "Are d yon in favor of Good Templars?" *Yes. >. "Are yon in favor of prohibitory law?" e Yes. "Are you in favor of the a pledge?" Yes. Combine all the influe ences, 0 Christian reformers and phil>f anthropists! Combine them all for the e extirpation of this evil. 0 Thirty women in one of the western states banded together, and with an esc pecial ordination from (rod they went forth to the work and shut up all the '8 grogshops of a large village. Thirty women, with their song and with their h prayer. And if 1,000 or 2,000 Chris's tian men and women with an especial y ordination from God should go forth e feeling the responsibility of their work *" and discharging their mission they Q could in any city shut up all the grogJ shops. d But I must not dwell on generalities. ? I must come to specifics. Are you 1 astray? If there is any sermon I disb like, it is a sermon on generalities. I e want T>ersnnalities. Are vou astrav? i Have you gone so far you think you v cannot get back? Did I say a few mos ments ago that a man might go to a 3 point in inebritation where he could not o stop? Yes, I said it, and I reiterate it. e But I want you also to understand that, while the man himself of his own j strength cannot stop, Grod can stop any man. You have only to lay hold of the j strong arm of the Lord God Almighty. 0 He can stop you. Many summers ago I " went over to New York one Sabbath evening, onr church not yet being opeD for the autumnal services- I went into 3 a room in the Fourth ward, New York, where a religious service was being heH 3 for reformed drunkards, and I heard a ^ revelation that night that I had never e heard before?15 or 20 men standing up - and giving testimony such as I had 3 never heard given. They not only tess tified that their hearts had been changed by the grace of Grod, but that the grace of God had extinguished their 3 thirst They went on to say that they 1 had reformed at different times before, I but immediately fallen because they - were doing the whole work in their own " strength. "But as soon as we gave our t Tioarf? fn fi-rtd " thev said, "and the love } of the Lord Jesus Christ has come into 3 oar soul the thirst has all gone. We 1 have no more disposition for strong J drink." ' It was a new revelation to me, aad I " have proclaimed it again and again in ' the hearing of those who have far gone f astray, and I stand here today to tell 1 you that the grace of the Lord Jesus 1 Christ cannot only save your soul, but save your body. I look off today upon 1 the desolation. Some of you are so far " on in this habit, although there may be 5 no outward indications of it?you never have staggered along the street?the 2 vast majority of people do not know that you stimulate, but God knows, and l you know, and by human calculation - there is not one chance out of five thou1 sand that you will ever be stopped. Be1 ware! There are some of you who are 9 my warm personal friends to whom I 5 must say that, unless you quit this evil ' habit, within ten years, as to your body, r you will lie down in a drunkard's grave 9 and as to your immortal soul, you will ! lie down in a drunkard's hell! It is a 2 hard thing to say, but it is true, and 1 utter the warning lest I have your blood ' upon my soul. Beware! As today you , open the door of your wine closet let 7 the decanter flash that word upon your : soul, "Beware!" As you pour out the . beverage let the foam at the top spell s out the word, "Beware!*' In the great 71 day of God's judgment, when a hundred million drunkards :.-hall come up io g< their doom. I want you to testify thj this day, in love of your soul and i fear of God, I gaye you -warning in r< gard to that influence which has alread been felt in your home, blowing or some of its lights?premonition of tli blackness of darkness forever. Oh, if you could only hear intempei atice with drunkards' bones drummin on the top of the wine cask the "Dea I - r * ** A -I ^ 1_n_ j>iarcn 01 imm Dnai souis, you wouia s home and kneel down and pray God thj ra'~ *r than your children should eve bewine the victims of this evil hab; you might carry them out lo the cem< tery and put them down in the last slun ber, waiting for the flowers of spring t come over the grave?sweet prophecie of the resurrection. God hath a ball for such a wound, but what flower c comfort ever grew on the blasted heat of a drunkard's sepulcher? A MYSTERIOUS CRIME. Murdered the Man His Daughter Wa to Wed. A sensational dispatch from Greer yille, S. (J., to the Atlanta Journal saj news comes from Glendale, in Spartar burg county, of a murder mystery ii voicing a pretty girl, a disappointe suitor, the father of the girl and th /I ft /WAAm a -r\r t UC?llLL ui ?i JLUV i- V pie involved are prominent in that se< tion and a sensation was produced whe the revelations came to light duriug th funeral services of the prospectiv gxom. On last Sunday afternoo Louis McAbee, Tom Smith and Rolan Black left their homes to go to Pacok river, about one mile below Clifton Nc 2, to go in bathing and they had nc bsen gone long until the news began t spread that young Black had bee "? 1 il.i .1 1 J arowuea, mai mey nail gone 111 a ver rough place where the water was ver swift aad he got strangled and sank. Kis body lay in the bottom of th river twenty-four hours before it wa recovered. Many people from bot Glendale and Clifton visited the plac and assisted in searching for the bodj but they did not find it until twentj four hours after the tragedy was r< ported. Wednesday morning prepare tions were being made for the burii without holding an inquest. When : Koorori fa Vie talked flint. frml V75 W ~w JT J suspected it "was decided to hold an ii quest. Coroner Bishop was notified an he held the inquest. 1 The post mortem examination wi made by Dr. W. A. Smith, of Glendah and Dr. Chalk, of Clifton, and to tt great surprise of everybody youn Black's neck was found to be broke and great signs of finger prints wei found on his throat and other plac< on his head and shoulder showing vei plainly that there had been a consider able struggle on his part. After ti witnesses had all been examined an the examination by the doctors, tfc jury's verdict was "murder," and tl result was tnat iiicADee ana omitn wci hustled off to jail at once. Rowland Black deceased, was to ha^ been married to McAbee's daughter c the 10th of this month, and it is sai that McAbee was opposed to the matcl and it is generally believed that th wa3 a prearranged plot to get Black 01 of the way?so the talk goes?in favi of Smith, who, it is said, wanted I marry the girl himself. THE ENGLISHMAN WINS. A Foreigner, Not Naturalized, Canm be Made to Pay Poll Tax. According to an opinion by Attorn* General Bellinger Wednesday a eitiz* of a foreign country who has not bee naturalized thrmsrh resident in th State, cannot be compelled to pay po tax. This is the result of the nov question raised in York county and r i'erred to Wednesday. Here is the d cision addressed to the comptroller gei eral: Dear Sir: 1 have just received you: enclosing letter from W. W. Boyc county auditor of York county. In h letter he says: "There is an execution in the hanc of the sheriff against H. A. Brown, a Englishman who comes to me ar makes this statement, that he is ni liable to poll tax for the following rei sons: That he has not taken out natu alization papers; that he never votei and that he was not sent to the publi schools. He has been America 13 3 years. Will you instruct me on th "L - -.x suuje?u In reply I give as my opinion tk followiug: That while, as stated i the American aDd English Encycli paedia of law, volume 25, page 10: "residence not citizenship fixes tk liability for poll tax," yet the gener; rule is recognized that the logislatur< subject to constitutional limitation: has the right to prescribe the qualificj tions of a poll tax payer. The constiti tion ok this State 1895 (article xi, se< tion t>) 3ays, "there snail oe assessed o all taxable polls in the State betwee the ages of 21 and 60 years (exceptia Confederate soldiers above the age c 50 years) an annual tax of $1.00 o each poll the proceeds of whic shall bs expended for school purpose in the several school districts in whic it is collected." The question natura Itt Oti ' orT-l O f. 7C O xj ougggoio xiooii, ?i uuu poll?1' A resort to lexicons for a deflation in this case cannot avail us, for w can expect to lind in substance that taxable poll is a poll liable to tax. A investigation of the statutes since 188 to the present time discovers as a dc finition of a taxable poll, "every mal citizen between the ages of 21 and 6 years except those incapable of earain a support from being maimed or froi other cause, and except those who ar now exempt by law, shall be deeme taxable polls." The act of 1882 adopt the definition above quoted, while th general statutes "adopted by the gev eral assembly of 1S81-82," defines a tas able poll as "every made between th ages of 21 and 50 years," etc. Excepl ing alone this last definition, a taxabl poll, sincc the constitution of 1868 dow to the present, in this State has bee and is necessarily a citizen. Then fore, unless one is a citizen of thi State, and of course necessarily a citize of the United States, he is not liable t poll tax. Citizens are either nativ born or naturalized, and anyone wh was bi>ro in a. foreign country and ha not beeu uuturuiized as an America citizen cannot be compelled to pa poll tax, however loag he may aav resided an tnis state, jl, tnereiore, cot elude that the Englishman who sti. claims allegiance to the kingdom c G-reat Britain is not liable to poll tas G-. Duncan Bellinger, Attorney General. Meeting of Insurance Agents. The insurance agents of Columbi have invited the agents of other citie and towns in the State to meet in cor vention in this city during the fireman tournament. The object of the conver tion is to discuss matters of mutual ii teiest and benefit to the agents. It i denied, however, that it means an combination of the companies whic would be unla ^ful. A large attendanc is anticipated. it HELP 2LK AUKUSSS, if AHA." it n The Last Trustful Words of a Dying: y it i Little Girl. ie j There was anguish in the face of "" those who bent over the little white | bed, for they knev? that baby Mary r0 was drifting away from them, going out it into the dark voyage where so many :r have been wrested from loving hands, ori^ fViotr in tr!>ir? fn Tmi* r\r J. even to smooth with their kind solici.0 tude her last brief sorrows, they, too, is experienced in the bitter hour of part? iDg, the pangs of death. They only ^ hoped that she did not suffer uow. The rings of golden hair lay deep and unstirred on her white forehead, the roses were turned to Jilies on her cheeks the lovely violet eyes saw them not, -s but were upturned and fixed, the breath which was on the pale, pale lips came and went, fluttered, and seemed loth to j. leave its sweet prison. Oh, the awful s and cruel strength of death, and the weakness, the helplessness of love! j. They who loved her better than life, ? could not lift a hand to avert the dee stroyer, they could only watch and wait j. until the end should come. Her merry ringing laughter would never again jj gladden their hearts; her feet would e make no more music as they ran patter e ins to meet them. Baby Mary was dyn ing, and all the house was darkened d and hushed. Then it was as the shadows fell in\ denser waves about us, that she stirred i ot7&v ga onrl ann irntta r% )? W'V/A VJV ininwj , uliu wui avaibo gaig a> 0 great bound as we thought "She is betn ter! She* will live!" Yes, she knew us; y her eyes moved from one face to another y with a dim, uncertain gaze! Oh, how good God was to give here back! How e we could praise him and bless him all s our lives! She lifted one dainty hand? ? cold?almost pulseless, but better, bet;c ter?we would have it so?and laid it j on the rough browned hand of the rugged man who sat nearest to her. His eyelids were red with weeping but now [. a smile lighted his bronzed face like a ^ rainbow as he felt the gentle pressure it of his little daughter's hand?the IS mute^ imploring touch, that meant a j. question. d :'What is it, darling?" he asked, n broken tones of joy and thanksgiv is lu6* \ She could not speak, and so we raised ^ her on the pretty lace pillow, and her tg wee white face shone in the twilight ,n like a fair star, or a sweet woodland :e flower. ;s She lifted her heavy eyes to his? 'y eyef that even then had the glory and r_ the promise of immortality in them, ie and reached out her little wasted ^ ttiiuoj oaiu IU JLICI weal), JiUic na.c Le voice: ie "Help me across, papa!" re Then she was gone! We held to our breaking hearts this frail, beautiful re shell, but she was far away, -whither we in might not follow. She had crossed the [d dark river and not alone. r> "Over the river the boatman pale Carried another, the household pet, 1 She crossed on her bosom her dimpled J11 hands "0 And fearlessly entered the phantom bark: We felt it glide over the silvery sands And all our sunshine erew straneelv dark." at Oh, Infinite Father! When we weary and disappointed ones reach out 5y pleading hands to thee, wilt thou take :n us even as the little child, and help us ;n afirnss the mnnnfcains nf defeat, and val is ley of humiliation into "the eternal rest 11 of thy presence, into the green pastures el and beside the still waters, into the e- City of the Xew Jerusalem whose builde er and maker is God! a A Eemedy for Lynchingrs Representative N. A. Morris of Cobb e, county, has prepared a bill which prois vides for speedy court trial in all cases where the defendant is charged with the Is crime of assault. The bill prepared by ^n Representative Morris will be introducid ed at the next session of the general at assembly. It is provided in this bill, i- which is intended to be an act to cover r- the specific crime of assault, that the 3 J _T 11 1.- J._ J 'i-L* ? J accuseu suaii ue irieu wiuum uve uays |c after his arrest and that within five in days after his conviction he shall be is hanged publicly. The bill further provides that in the event a new trial ie is asked and the motion overruled that n it shall be sent to the supreme court* 0- within twenty-four hours and the court 1> shall immediately stop all other business and hear the case that is being il railroaded through. The bill does -not s, contemplate any delay whatever in the 3) trial of these cases, even making ar* 1- rangement for the appointment of i- counsel by the court in the event law> yers for the defendant are ill or absent. 71 ?^Aflonfo TAni*no1 n ,g -Want Peace* >f The Filipinos seem to have come to Q the conclusion that we are too strong h for them, and they haye sued for peace. !S Several of their officers entered our line h near Manila under a flag of truce last I- week with a request from one of their e leading generals that hostilities be susi pended until the Filipino congress e could be convened and patch up terms a of peace. This request Gen. Otis den clined to grant, and the Filipinos re3 turned to their lines. We believe and hope that the wai is over, and that there e will be no more fighting in the Phili0 pines betwven the Americans and Fili^ pinos. n e Claims Approved. ^ A telegram has been received from s Judge C. P. Townsend at Washington e stating that all remaining claims on l~ account of the mustering of troops had k~ been approved and that a check would _e be sent to the governor at once. About "* $600 of these claims have been paid, e but they amount in all to $10,000. The n matter of pay for rejected volunteers is f still unsettled, but data is being gotten and the matter will be pressed with ? vigor before the war department. o Wives Cheap in Germany. e The trial of Herrmann, charged with 0 the murder of his three wives, whose 9 bodies he was said to have walled up in 11 a cellar was concluded at Berlin Thurs7 day. He was convicted of manslaugh e ter and sentenced to lo years lmpnsonment and 10 years loss of civil rights. Devoured by a Shark. :. A dispatch from Nice says that the valet of the Earle of Sirathmore and Kinghorne, while bathing at Bordighea, near Monte Carlo, was devoured by a shark. The tragedy occurred in a the presence of a crowd of onlookers :s who were unable to rescue the victim. i is A Series of Accidentsi" A Kansas man not long ago shot a i- dog by accident, and in showing the is owner how it was done he shot the laty ter. Subsequently in showing the h coroner how he hid shot the owner of :e the dog the man with the gun shot the coroner. i Mi A QUEER ADVERTISEMENTS. Some Awkwardly Worded Notice# Found In Newspapers. "No person," wrote an imaginative undertaker, "ever having tried one of these air-tight coffins of ours will ever use any other." This is supplemented by the truthful but discouraging advertisement of a dentist: "Teeth extracted with great 99 A "western farmer advertises for a woman to "wash, iron and milk two cows." An advertisement once appeared in a Washington paper for "a room for a young man 10 by 12." This is an advertisement from the columns of an English court journal: "Blankets! Blankets! Blankets! For domestic and charitable purposes of every description, quality, size and weight." The following advertisement is from an Australian paper: "Wanted, a young woman (the plainer the better) to help a small genteel family in their domestic matters; one without ringlets preferred." An American paper published in Paris recently contained the following unique advertisement: "A young man of agreeable presence, and desirous of getting married, would like to make the acquaintance of an aged and experienced gentleman who could dissuade him from taking the fatal step." Here is a sne^irnen of domestic ad vertising from the columns c? the London Times: "Mrs. George Ashton, 5 Victoria street, Westminster, takes this opportunity of thanking her numerous friends for their kind letters of sympathy on the dissolution of her marriage." The court of Schleswig-Holstein once issued the following curious notice: "At the request of Herr Peter Lohman of Altona, the seaman Dietrich Lohman, who was born in Kirchmoor in November, 1848, and was drowned on the journey from Stockton to Hamburg while sailing in the ship Bertha Jenny, is hereby called upon to appear before this court and report himself -? - ? *-!- a * AA 1 flAA on or Deiore .PTiaay, January tv, j.os.->, at 11 o'clock p. m., under pain of being declared dead." China's First RaUway. The first railroad constructed in China was a narrow-gauge line from Shanghai to Woosung, put down in 1876, and intended chiefly as an ocular demonstration to the Chinese. At the end of twelve months it was sold to a Chinese official, who straightway tore up the rails and deported them to Formosa. The single dummy engine of the line now reposes peacefully in the mud of some Formosan harbor, together with the wreck of the junk in which it was transported. During these twelve months of its existence the Shanghai-Woosung railroad, with its single dummy engine and its train of small cars, which, by the way, were of the American pattern, carried 300,000 passengers. The Chinese came from far and wide to 6ee and experiment with this new barbarian curiosity v and the people in the neighbor hood, soon finding it an institution of great practical utility, became regular patrons. The predicted uprising of the people against the construction of the road never materialized, and, as for the graves along the route, every farmer would manufacture as many graves as he could get dollars for permission to traverse them. The Hoy * Were Accommodating. A Princeton professor, being troubled by tardiness at the morning lecture, on the part of some of the students, advised them, when they complained that they bad to study so bard at night that tb6y could not arise early, to get alarm clocks. The next day nearly every student in the class came Into recitation with an alarm-clock in his pocket, which by patient and united efforts were set so that one would go off promptly at every successive minute of the hour. The effect can be imagined. Shortly after the first student was called to recite one of the clocks in the pocket of a boy at the other end of the room went off with a terrible clamor, and before it had finished a second in another part of the room made even a louder racket. There was a brief interval which the professor utilized to call up another student, but the latter was scarcely on his feet before the third clock went off. The performance was continued fnr half an hour or more, when the professor, who had a keen sense of humor, recognized the situation and cut short the fun by terminating the recitation. | HON! THIS? High Arm Sewini Fully guaranteed for ten 3 P all the latest attachments, ?j j mented wood work. Price $18,' Money refunded after 30 da is not as good as the $40.00 to sold bv agents. J* Sead for circulars and stab We are headquarter* for Fnrn Mattings, Carpets, Sevrl Baby Carriages, etc. Address " 1110 & 1212 Br iwiiiw fl'yiiiwhiwiH im mm rrji ^.V^Tro ^Sgr*?racrM^frg.'*'i m i tKMl ?^fcSfei<Eg*rt I COST OF TH2 WAB TO BATE, j j i' I Treasury Officials Put tiie Cash Expen-' j | ditures at About 8275,000,000. j1 j The monthly comparative statement I | of the govfernment receipts and expen- j ; ditures shows that the total receipts for i; i April, 1S99, were $41,611,611,587, an 't | increase, as compared with April, 1898, i t of abou; $8,600,000. The expendi-; c ures during April, 1899, were $65,949,- j n 105, an incresse over April last year of! o $21,700,000. Included in the expendi- i cures is the payment of $20,000,000 to va Spain. o The total receipts for the ten months r l-r iT i ARC AH ; oi me preseut veair were l as compared with $340,926,950 for the same period in the last fiscal year. The expenditures for the last ten months aggregate 8533,451,409, as compared with $347,673,195 for the same period last year. During last April the receipts from the several 3 /-V-P MATTATinA ? A flrtTTfltt O O ?/"*] 1/\ t?7Q L'l ltvguu^ aiy givgu t*o JV*IVU^. Customs, $17,645,943, increase over April, 1898, about $3,450,000; internal ( revenue, $22,207,099, increase, $7,- j 387,000,: miscellaneous, $1,758,551, 3 decrease, $2,242,000. j The expenditures on account of the E war department since July 1, 1898, ag- 3 zregate $210,645,536; on account of the . navy department, $55,522,894. The imount of cash payments already made " on account of the war is approximated by the treasury officials at from $273,- 000,000 to $275,000,000. Of this amount aDout $196,000,000, it is esti- ] mated, has been paid through the war department,: $54,000,000 through the aavv department; $20,000,000 under ( the treaty with Spain, and $1,009,000 on account of increased expenses in the civil establishment. jpl from [fakir 0direct to Purchaser $ ( fl S M The vexation, ^j| I I Mathushek 1 ^ Is always Good, always Reliably S| &X. always Satisfactory, always Last* 2m Sss lug. "You taka no cinnces in buy* JH 5SK Ins It. 911 it costs somewhat _iOre than a ng jgiE cheap, poor piano, but Is much the M ?5 cheapcA in the end. 5SC jfoother IIteh Grade PianoS0lfl?0 M CBS reasonable, factory prices to retail IN gff buyers. Easj' payments. Writeti*. 2m ?? & LUDDEW ? > BATES, S&i Savannah Git. and New VorbCity* ^ IWWmMMI jLaoress: 1>. A. PKEi&Lfi*, Age_^. COLUMBIA. S. C. Macfeafs School of SHORTHAND ?AND? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has the reputation of being the. bett business institution in tbe State. Grad? i ? vw-tQitinna in ufcuea arc i.uiuiu^ ic>uuuvioww -? mercantile hou9e?, binking, insurance, real estate, railroad offices, &c., in this and other tares. Write to W. H. Macfeat, Court oa-jgrapber. Columbia, 8.C , for terms, etc ' ~ -TO ^ I eOLPMBIA, S, C? , ! for eatalorrne. Free scholar- ! 0 ^ I ships on easy conditions to 'those who write soon. Ball- i I road fare paid. Cheap board. 1 ! Notes accepted. Can pay part j i of expenses by working in th J ! college office. Address, men | tioniDg conrse desired, i W. H NEWBERRY, Prest EST BARG TT Itfl rears, fitted with P beautifully orna,ys use if machine Ml y i ou macmnes w m ra a what you want. |OBf itnre, Stoves, JJfVffi ing Mae&icea, The Padgett Furn oad Street, 'V ~"'~ "" ' % ' - -rjt x :,<- y ,;*?. - - -'- Sl.2'':y,~- - : _*>>"L-'*i':L ... 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V Wi V LLCOHOL 10RPHINE )PIUM COBACCO CIGARETTE JSING ' Produce each a disease having defiute pathology. The disease yields -m_ x. a. nt r^],i 13311 y 10 LUC l/vuU1C vuiviiUb w? MV?~ Treatment as administered at the above ?eeley Institute. N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is idministered in South Carolina T/ CHARLESTON. Flour Mill Machinery. CONTRACTS TAKEN TO FURNISH COil?PLETE EQUIPMENT FOR? Roller Floor Mills. - ' I - ' ' ' ?REPRESENTED THE? ; -.. *.'C" ? i SSsSM Siebanmi City Mi! Works, 0n6 of tlij Ixex't'i* aurna ri *" Flour Mill Jl ioaiairy ia ciii cjucry and hiving eipjrieajai Jfill*rig:ic*> I am prepared to build rail Is on the most improved plana and at - prices I/O oumpcu) wiuu aujr uuc in the trade. We guarantee the products of oar mills to equal the grades cf the best Western mills. Before placing your orders write to me. 71 also handle a complete line of Wood forking Machinery: Saw Mills, Enjines and Boilera, Corn Mills and Majhinery in general. Having been established in business lere for sixteen years, I have built up ny trade by selliag the very highest \ slass of machinery, and am in a better x>sition to- serve the interest of my justomers than ever before. V. C. Badham, AINS! ? THIS ELEGANT - o. 8 COOKING STOVE Only $10.00. : - '-m las 17x17 inch oven, four 8 inch -^jj holes; large flues and guaraad a good baker. We fit this ve up with forty pieces of ware hiding the latest stove ware. :o advertise our business we 1 sell this Xo. 8 Cooking Stove, **r;+Vt Af\ wot* ftyr $10.00 CASH. : ""4 y<.y$ V'J a# ? j& | iture Co. 1 . *""V*^ Augusta, Ga. ?' ' -' ? "? ~ iSS <rt'A f -'