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^^ v---yr, JElN RETROSPECT . Dr. Talmage Caiis the Roll of Stirring Memories. i DRAWING HELPFUL LESSONS From Past Experiences and Vicissitude. Advantages of Early Home Teachings and Surroundings. This sermon of Dr. Talmage calls the 11 ? wAWftAWAO or>/1 IT) ? rOii'Or many sumuj ucuvnw , terpretsthe meaning of life's vicissitudes. The test is Psalms xxxix, 3, "While I was musing the fire burned." Here is David, the psalmist, with the forefinger of his right hand against his temple and the door shut against the ! world, engaged in contemplation. And would be well for us to take the same j posture often while we sit down in i sweet solitude to contemplate. In a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia I once passed a Sabbath in delightful solitude, for I had resolved - * ? ? j f tnat i wotua nave oue ua; ^ quiet before I entered upon autumnal work. I thought to have spent the day in laying out plans for Christian work, but instead of thai :t became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my pastorate: I shook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when the curtains of life are V" ^ - 3 TU*_ J. /vP mi? V?/?r}>r>/v3 MTT1P Illveu. -LUC U4?0 VJ. mj uu; back and I was 10 years of age, and 1 was 8, and I was 5. There was but one house on the island, and yet from Sabbath daybreak, when the bird chant woke me, until the evening melted into the bay of Fundy, from shore to shore there were ten thousand memories, and the groves were a-hum with voics that had long ago ceased. _ Youth is apt to? much to spend all its time in looking forward. Old age is apt too much to spend all its time in looking backward. People in midine and on the apex look both ways. It would be well for us, I think, however, to spend more time in reminiscence. By the constitution of our nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast majority of people live not so much in the present as in the future. I find that you mean to make a reputation, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect to achieve absorb a great deal of your time. But I see no harm in this, if it does not raake you discontented with the present or disqualify you for existing duties. It is a useful thing sometimes i to look back and to see the dangers we have escaped and to see the sorrows ma Tiotra onfforrtrl ftTld thft tH&ls and Wan derings of our earthly pilgrimage and to sum up our enjoyments. I mean, so far asiQaAagdy telp^Sie, to stir up yourwiaory of the past, so that in the jssaejg'flew you may be encouraged and humbled and urged to pray. There is a chapel la Florence wiin a fresco "by Guido. It was covered up with two inches of stucco until our American and European artists went there, and after long toil removed thi covering and retraced the fresco. And I am aware that the memory of the past with many of you, is all covered up with obliterations, and I now propose, so far as the Lord may help me, to take away the covering, that the old picture may shine out again. I want to bind in one she^f all your past advantages, and I want to bind in another sheaf all your past adversities, it is a precious sanest, and I must be cautious how I swing the scythe. Among the greatest advantages of your past life were an early home and its surroundings. The bad men of the, day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy home. We are not surprised to find that Byron s neart was a concentration of sin when we hear his mother was abandoned and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat." He who has vicious praent3 has to fight every inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity and at last reach the home of the good in heaven. Perhaps your early home was in a city. It may have been when Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, was residential, as now it is commercial, and Canal street, New York was far up town. Thai old house ? v? j? in tne city may nave ueeu ucmvusucu or changed into stores- and it.seemed like sacrilege to you, for iters ^as more meaning in that small house than there is in a granite mansion or a turreted cathedral. Looking back, you see it as though it were yesterday?the sitting room, where the loved one sat by the plain lamp light, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters, TvsvkoTKj I/in** into th ft skies ?gvg?v.v.v ? then plotting mischief on the flsor or under the table, your father with firm voice commanding a silence that lasted half a minute. Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged in the street, your father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round ot irgnc ana mum. Your greatest trouble was an April shower, more sunshine than shower. The heart had not been ransacked by trouble, nor had sickness broken it, and no lamb had a warmer sheepfola than the home in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were brought up in the country. You stand now today in memory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe, because you could'nt wait any longer. You hear the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You step again intc the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You Jwlk4Vnm fT>o TO"Pf<iT<2 WC onorlivna UVUi wuv .*.%?* wwam of tiie barn and take just one egg and silence your conscience by saying they will not miss it. You take a drink again out of the very bucket that the old well fetched up. You go for the cows at night and find them pushing their heads through the bars. Ofttimes in the dusty and busy streets you wish yo*- were home again on that cool grass or in tiie rag capeted. nan 01 tne iarmhouse, through which there came the breath of new mown hay or the blossom of buckwheat. You may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the sea3, but not one of them stirs in your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yelgeh sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk and the forget-me-not3 Haying hide and seek mid the long orass. The father who use to come in sunburned from the field and sit down on the doorsill and wipe tne sweat from his brow may have gone to his everlasting rest. The mother who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles on, her face mellowing with "* " vicissitudes of many years, may put down her gray head en the w in the valley, but forget that s you never will. Have you thanked k for it? Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminiscences? Ohj thank God for a Christian father! Thank God for a Christian mother! m -l i? 1_ J.nanK vxuu. xur an amy vmiouiau uwu at which you wero taught to kne-l! Thank God for an early Christian home! I bring to mind another passage m the history of your life. The day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificent affair in your life became'the subject of mutual consultation and advisement. You '.vere so happy you felt you never could be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and darker, but eut of that cioud the shining mes senger of God descended to incarnate ! an immortal spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and you were to lead thsm, a gem to flash in heaven's coronet, and you to polish it. Eternal ages of light and darkness watching the stertins; out of a newly "? - J created creature. 1 on rejoiueu ?uu you trembled at the responsibility that iu your possession an immortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered. You were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was a double interest about that home. There was an additional interest why you should stay there and be faithful, and wt?n in .- few months your house was filled witn the music of "? * o i l t_ _ i i tne cniias laugnter you were sutuun through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. Have you kept that vow? Have you neglected any of these duties? Is your home as much to you as it used to be? Have those anticipations been gratified? God help you in your solemn reminiscence, and let his mercy fall upon your soul, if your kindness has bftftn ill reanited. God. have mercy cn the parent on the wrinkles of whose face is written the story of a child's sin. G-od have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pang of a child's iniquity. Oh, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound chat is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart' I find another point in your life history. You found one day you were in the wrong road; you could not sleep at night; there was just one word that OAIN WNYHTVI T7A111* <T IV Ot'U VUIVU^U ;viu house or through your office or your shop or your bedroom, and that word was "eternity." You said: "I am not ready for it. Oh, God have mercy!" The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. In the breath of the hill and in the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of God's love; the clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness; you came into the house of God. You remember how your hand trembled as you took up the cup of the communion. You remember the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand in theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say, "Welcome home, you i?j. 1 >> j v J.1 i ( IU31) yXWig&i, (UIU, LUUUgU tuusc XJU&UU9 be all withered away, that communion Sabbath is resurrected today. It is resurrected with all its prayers and songs and tears and sermons and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mprftv and start, a pain for heave*. Start now as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. But 1 must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I just put them in one great sheaf, and I call them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals on earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven! But some of you have not always had ? ?1:<L. <2 <* oiuv/t/wu inc. kjuiuc uijuu cue nun IU the shadow. Others had their troubles ye*s ago. lou are a mere wreck of of what you once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your past life. But how shall I do it? You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles and adversities. Then I will just take two?the first trouble and the last trouble. As when you are walking along the street asd there has been music in the distance you unconsciously find yourselves keeping step to the music, so, when you started life, your very life was a musical time beat. The air was -frill /vP iatt Viilarif.tf WifVi the bright clear oar yon made the boat skip. Yon went on, and life grew brighter, until after awhile suddenly a voice from heaven said, "Halt!" and quick as the sunshine you halted, you grew pale-, you confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child's cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it cannot be anything ssrious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. You did not hear the tread. But after awhile the truth flashed on you. You walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with vnnr strooc. stont hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer! You went to your room and you said: "God, save my child! God, save my child!" The world seemed going out in darkness. You said, "I can't bear it; I can't bear it." You felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright eyes, never to see them again sparkle. If you could have taken that little one in your a:rms and with it leaped the grave, how gladly you would have done it! If you could let your TvriiTwnfTT rtr\ ttattt Tuvncon rrn Trmrr loTir) O 3 j vwu. mvmwvu O ) ^ and your storehouse go, how gladly you would have allowed them to depart if you could only have kept that one treasure! But one day there came up a chill blast that swept through the bedroom, and instantly all th<5 lights went out, and there was darkness?thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. But God did not lej.ve you there, Mercy spoke.' As you took up the bitter cup to put it to your lips God said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put into your hands. It was the cup of God's consolation. And as ycu have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldier and poured wine into his lips, so God puts his left arm-under your head and with his right hand he pours into your lips the wine of his comfort and his consolation, and you looked at the empty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord s chastisement, and you said, "Even so, Father, for so it seemetb. good in thy sight!" Ah, it was your first trouble. How did you get over it? God comforted you, You haze been a better man ever since; You have been a better woman ever since. In the jar of the closing gate of the sepulcheryou heard the clanging of the opening gate of heaven, and you felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. You have been spiritually better ever since that night when the little one for the last time put its arms around* your neck and said: "Good night, papa; good night' I i SSkSk3aa^amani*i**6e*iau^-&m3?!ama *t ? inamma. Meet me in heaven." But I must come to your latest sorrow. What was it? Perhaps it was sickness. The child's tread on the stair er the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers in the wall paper. Oh, the weariness of exhaustion! Oh, the burning pangs! "Would God it were morning, would God it were night, was your frequent cry. But you are better, or perhaps even well. Have you thanked God that today you can come out in the ~ ^ \ wl n/?A ^ A JLl/UBli ttliTj luai JVU (lie 1U jvvli yiav>c *.\J hear Cod's Dame and to sing God's praise and to implore God's help and to ask God's forgiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our diseases and redee meth our lives from destruction. D?1 ??? ? jl cixiapa j\jiLL last ouixvvr yta.o a. uuau~ cial embarrassment. I congratulate some of you on your recrative profession occupation, on ornate apparel, on a commodious residence?everything you put your hands on seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you who are like the ship on which Paul sailed where two seas met, and you are broken by the yiolence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement, or by a conjunction of unforeseen events, or by fire cr storm, or a senseless panic, you have been flung headlong, and where you once dispensed great charities now you have hard work to win your daily bread. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity and that through your trials some of you have made investments which will continue after the last bank of this world has exploded and the silver and gold are molten in the fires of a burning world? Have you, amid all your losses and discouragements, lorget tnat mere was bread on your table' this morning and that there shall be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs and blood for your eye and a glad and glorious and triumphant religion for your soul? Perhaps your last trouble was a bereavement. That heart which in childTinnrt xxroa unnr rpfncrp flip TlflTATltal J ~ ? ?~J X heart, and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever in sudden annoyance and without deliberation you say, "I will go and tell mother," the thought flashes on you, k'I have no mother.1' Or the father, with voice * * 1 i *.1 1 I 1 ? less tender, duc witn neart as icmug, watchful of all your ways, exu' a ? over your success without saying 1. u-.-L although the old people do talk it over by themselves, his trembling hai. l on that staS which you now keep as a family relic, his memory embalmed in grateful hearts?is taken away forever. Or there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like the garden of G-od. And Ab raham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Machpelah. As you were moving along your path in life, suddenly, right before you, was an open grave. People looked down, and thev saw it was only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to you it was a cavern, down which went all your hopes and all your expectations. But cheer up, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not going to forsake you. Bid the Lord take that child out of youi arms? Why, he is going to shelter it better than you could. He is goi Jg to arrav it in a white robe and nalm branch and have it all ready to greet yon at yonr coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals! Blessed the importunate cry that Jesns compassionates! Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft hand of Jesns wipes away the tear! Some years ago I was sailing down the St John river, which is the Rhine and the Hndson commingled, and while I was on the deck of the steamer a gentleman pointed out to me the places of interest, and he said, "All this is interval land, and it is the richest land in all the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." "What," said I, "do you mean by 'interval land?' " "Well," he said, "this land is submerged for a part of the year. Spring freshets come down, and all these plains are overflowed with the water, and the water leaves a deposit, and when the waters are gone the harvest springs up, and there is a richer harvest than I know of elsewhere." And I instantly thought, "It is not the heights ftf flip and it is not the heichts v* w V~J * " ?~ ??? <_? ? of this world that are the scene of the greatest prosperity, but the soul over which the floods of sorrow have gone? the soul over which the freshets of tribulation have torn their way?that yields the greatest fruits of righteous-^ ness and the largest harvest for time and the richest harvest for etonity." Bless God that your soul is interval land i There is one more point of absorbing reminiscence, and that is the last hour of life, when we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will be! 1 place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena, the same island, 20 years after. Napoleon's dying reminiscence was one of delirium?"Tete d'armee"?"Head of the army." Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toil and her life of self sacrifice for G-od, dy ing in the cabin of the ship in the harbor cf St. Helena, was, "I always did love the LorC Jesus Christ." And then, the historian says, she fell into a sound sleep for an hour and woke amid the songs of angek. I place the dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar against f.Tm dvinc reminiscence of the aDQStle Paul. The dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar was, addressing his attendants, "Have I played my part well on the stage of life?" and they answered in the affirmative, and he said, "Why, then; don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the apostle was, "I have foughi a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing." Augustus Caesar died amid pomp and great surroundings. Paul uttered his dying reminiscence looting up through the wall of a dunneon. God grant that our dying pillow may be the closing of a useful life and the opening of a glorious eternity. Praying Againt Caterpillars. A remarkable demonstration took place at St. Hilaire, Que., Tuesday, Caterpillars, which, last year played havoc with apple orchards, seemed to be more numerous and vigorous than before. A crusade against them was formally opened in the parish church here, where massvras solemnized, after which a religious procession, headed by the priest, M. Laflame, and the choir boy?, followed by 150 or more parishioners, marched through the infected region with fervent prayers asking divine assistance in their battle against the plague. 'the old veterans (Continued from First Page.) was carried by S B Scott, rn. . ooj a 1.1 : j. t j ^ j. ue -ou .n-iauauia remanent nau a very large battle flag. It was much torn and burned. It was carried by W D Campbell. Ha! 7immA-rmon TiiTrio'c /\l/3 na^*nAn_ VVi uiwuiviuiau x/uiid a \JX\JL igglUiGU' tal flag, that of the 5th cavalry, was in line, and was carried by N B E'son, of Jonesville. There is not much of the old flag left to tell the glorious story of its fighting. The 6th Georgia regiment was under a special escort of four old soldiers in full Confederate uniform. The flag was carried by Mr. Steel. The 3d South Carolina cavalry regiment, which was commanded by Col Colcock, had its flag in line. The banner was borne by J W Meggett. Then came in a bunch the flags of the following regiments; 21st North Carolina, H B Hauser, bearer; 8th xt ll n ? ortn l/arouaa, jxc minster, Dearer; 51st North Carolina, McKethan, bearer; 12th South Carolina, Dannovant's old regiment, S W Ru2, bearer. Lucas's Battery had its old battle flag in line, and it was borne by Capt Lucas himself. The flag of the 2d Tennessee was carried by Guss Walker, of that State. Col Zabel, of the 14th Louisiana, has a battle flag that has a record. Eleven men were killed or wounded while carrying that flag to the front. The 3d Georgia has a rather pecularly shaped battle flag. It started on its memorable record at the battle of Malvern Hill, and was never known to lead in a retreat. The flag of the privateer "Jefferson Davis" was displayed, and excited considerable attraction. REVIEWED BY GEN. GORDON. _ At Marion square Gen Gordon stationed himself to review the magnificent procession that, as it passed looked eveiy man of five thousand or more. As Gen Hampton, Gen Lee and Gen Cabell joined Gen Gordon they lined themselves up with him antf joined in the reviewing of the splendid line of soldiers. The officers of the Memorial Association, the sponsors and quite a large party of Veterans and others went directly up to the Cemetery, where the tribute was to be paid to the memory of the dead soldiers, while the body of the Veterans went-to the Auditorium build i ing, where exercises were to be held in honor of the dead soldiers and those who were carrying"on-the work. The idea wss to have the salute fired on Marion square, the ode reading and the decoration of the graves oecur simultaneously at the different places. AT MAGNOLIA. At the cemetery the exercises were simple, but beautiful. They were con ducted by Col James G- Holmes, who knows so well how to attend to suoh tender affairs. The opening prayer was delivered by Bishop Capers. The Rev Dr A Toomer Porter read an ode for the occasion, and the benediction was delivered by Bishop Stevens, of Orangeburg. The graves were then decorated by the young ladies of the Confederate Home, and by the ladies of the Memorial Association and the la dies of the Daughters of the Confederacy. AT THE AUDITORIUM. The main body of the Veterans went , cO the Auditorium, where they participated in the Memorial exercies at that place, and heard the splendid address of General George Moorman, of Louisiana. Before the exercises were formally opened the band played "Dixie," and it would be difficult to realize a more exultant gathering. The pent-feelings of the "old rebs," as they call themselves, had for the first time opportunity of escaping. The scenes along the line of march had been too much for the old grey-haired soldiers, and when they heard "Dixie" the cheering was intense, and up went flags and banners and hats to join in the chorus of applause, as it were. Wollroi* invito fi-an flnriinn \*4 VU? ? | HAAV4 AUfAVVV* VI VU? V? V* V*VM ww take charge of the memorial exercises, which Gen Gordon graciously consented to do. Gen Gordon said that he was not present to make a speech, as another had been selected for that honor. He then paid a glowing tribute to the noble women of the South, who had done so much for the men and for the history of the country. He said that some Frenchman had said that a Frenchman was to be counted upon for bringing -1 1 it- .X T. " -1. J auuut mat wiiioii was great auu new, but if he viewed things' correctly that which had changed things for the Scuth, and those who had cast the minds of the S .rath'and made of it all that was great and true were the noble women. Before the address of the day was delivered he called on Chaplain Jones to deliver a prayer. Ceaplain Jones, in the course of his prayer, blessed the noble women for the devotion they had paid to the heroes of the South, and in speaking of the custom of decorating the graves he prayed that God forbid that the custom should ever be allowed to die out. He prayed that the noble women of the South continue to give the South such men as they had had, and that the good women of the Southland keep up the noble work they had so earnestly undertaken. Dr Jones said that the women of the Sonth had started the custom of deco rating the graves; the custom had been followed, and.he was willing to grant that others follow, but not that they take away from the Southern women this noble privilege. Gen George Moorman, of Louisiana, was then presented and delivered the memorial address of the day. Be Careful, Mothers. Mothers, in training their little ones to walk, seem never to think of how the bones grow: that the bones in a child's leg are soft, half castilaginous, and that it is an easy thing to bend them. Hence the need of being careful about having their children walk too soon, or of keeping them on their feet too long when they are first learnir>rr+rt molt TVia eonQOIOQC of -"6 W fT MWUWVIV^ wmany parents in urging their children to walk prematurely is productive of lasting injury. Long before soft bones ought to have any strain put upon, them, you will see these poor infanis made to stand, and even to walk, and by the time they are 14 or 16 months old their legs are bent very considerably. Pitiful and permanent deformities produced in this way are seen on every hand. Indeed, a person whose legs have not been bent, more or less, either outward or inward, by fond parental ambition, is almost an exception among us. Under a year let the child creep; but do not let it walk, seldom, indeed, stand, ana tnen oniy ior a moment, ana irom a year to 18 or 20 months do not encourage it to walk much, still less set it up on its feet to make it walk. Ie it the best? Taste and see. Sest in taste, best in results. No nauseating dose, but so pleasant and natural in effects that you forget you have taken medicine. if ffbm nrWtlfKm jjgg in I " 1 II !! ! I I I 11 1'IIIM i'i " m\U II ? Ml II II ? "The killed him." A Deceiver Shot by the Woman He Had Fooled. A bAUi oAU $5 I UKY. Lawyer Wile, of Chicago, Deceived Miss Burke and She Killed Him While He Sang. Because she learned that she had been deceived, Mabel Burke, a young woman of 24, recently shot and fatally wounded David J. Wile, a lawyer of prominence, as he sat at a piano in a room in a house at 2753 Washington avenue, Chicago, and was singing a love song. After shooting Wile Mias Burke sent a bullet into her own heart and fell dead at the man's feet. Wile is an attorney with a large practice, having a suite of offices in the Hartford building, Madison and Dearborn streets. He resides with his wife and fourteen year-old daughter at 3749 Indiana avenue. Wilii flia ttahr><rr rrrr?moti fa believe that he was a single man and had promised to make her his wife. Last Monday Miss Burke, who lived with friends at 6339 Champlain avenue, learned that Wile was married and the shock was such that it is believed her mind became unbalanced. Daring the past year Wile had paid Miss Burke attention, calling frequently at the house where she boarded. He brought her flowers and other presents. His apparent devotion won her love. Miss Burke had for some time been in poor health. Recently she decided, after an unsuccessful operation, to try flnin a mATTO/1 tA fl">0 uiuiobicbu owicuwc auu ajuuruu kv vuv Hotel Norwood, on Michigan avenue, in order to be near the scientist who was treating her. Wile visited her there, he was recognized by some of the residents of the hotel, and Miss Burke was informed that he was married. On Monday she consulted the city directory and went to Wile's home where she told Mrs.. Wile of her husband's perfidy. Mrs. Wile said tonight that Miss Burke appeared nearly distracted when she left after an hour's interview, and that she was not surprised when the news of the tragedy reached her. Tuesday Miss Burke went to a friend aDd borrowed $10. With that money she bought a revolver. Developments show that the shooting was premeditated, for in the woman's trunk was found a letter addressed to a friend, in which she said that her earthly struggles would soon be' ended. She made a few reqaests regarding her funeral. In the letter she did not mention Wile's name. She requested that no wo*d be spoken for her :vt her funeral, but asked for music. She also asked that her burial should not be at Coloma, Mich., where her father, Richard Burke, lives, be ' cause of some family misunderstanding. This afternoon Miss Burke met Wile and they went together to the house on Wabash avenue kept by Mrs. A. E. Fitzgerald. Wile asked for a room in which there was a piano. They were shown into a room, where Wile at once seated himself at the piano and began ^ ? 1-J- - i lO uuiu a mummy, a, IUYC suug iriubu uc had often sung to his companion. She had said nothing to him of her discovery of his deception, and he had no reason to fear that she might do him harm. Wile had run his fingers ever the piano keys several times, Miss Burke standing silently behind him. A revolver shot rang out and three more following in rapid succession. Wile swayed on the piano stool, but did not faU. As he turned he saw Miss Burke fall lifeless at his feet. A colored maid rushed into the room and found Wile with blood pouring from his wounds.. Later he was taken to the Post Graduate hospital, where it was found that all three of Miss Burke's shots had taken effect. One bullet had penetrated th'j skull just back of the left ear; one entered the neck at the base of the b'iin, and the third penetrated the UdUIV ugoi UliV iivui V* The attendant physicians said that there was no possibility of Wile's recovery. Miss Burke's body was taken to the morgue. Policemen carried the news of the tragedy to Mrs. Wile. "I have expected this," she said. "Only Monday Miss Burke came to me and asked me if Mr. Wile was my husband. I told her he was. We had a lone talk, during which she told me the story of the whole affair." Mrs. Wile went to the hospital, where she found her husband still con SC10US. "I have much to explain to you," he said as his wife bent over him. "No explanations are necessary/'she replied. "I know all and freely forgive yon." Wile told the officers and physicians that his relations with Miss Burke had never been improper: that he met her " * 1 J iV?i. in a proiessionai way, ami uiau one uccame infatuated with him. She met him today, he said and asked him to play and sing for her. He consented, and they went to the house together, where she shot him as he was playing and singing. Mrs. Boane, with whom Miss Bcrke had lived for several years, said tonight that Wile's story is a tissue of falsehoods. She declared that he had met with his just deserts, Miss Burke was a stenographer in the offices of the iEtna Insurance company until some months ago, when she was compelled by ill health to give tit) her t>lace. She was an attractive girl. , Wile is 40 years old. He was still alire at midnight, but his death is regarded as a question of a few hours. Titled Swindlers. Baron Edgar de Bara, who is charged with using the mails to defraud a number of persons in England, went before Judge Kohlsaat in the United States district court in Chicago Thursday afternoon with a petition to have his bail reduced from $10,000, but when he left a few minutes later his bond had been ?? r\r\r\ mi _ L J J ^ raised to $11, WU. xne court mueicu a bond of $10,000 in each of the 11 indictments, wiiich were returned against the titled prisoner and his wife by tile last federal grand jury. .The Baroness Fanny de JBara, who is at liberty o>. $500 bail, will also appear in court ts plead Monday. The de Baras are add to have represented themselves ;as agents of the Edison Phonograph company in Chicago, and to have swindl^ their victims out of. sums aggregating $50,000. m V : -""-p ' r" ' ii i t i in'i SEVEtf TEOUSAST) ?03E. Wade Hampton Given a Grand Ovatioi in Charleston. Wade Hampton was given one of th< grandest ovation of his life in Charles ton Tuesday night. He * as the centra figure of the exercises at the dedication of the auditorium. Hampton was hon ored to the fullest measure, and whes he was introduced and rose the mor* than 7,000 people in the audience ros< en masse. The cheering was deafening and IB en, women and children wavcc their handkerchiefs and hats in the air the old soldiers making the occasioi more thrilling with their genuine rebe' yells. The ovation, was fully eqnal to thai memorable one at Richmond a fe* years ago, and the old hero appreciated it. He had but a few words to saj when ne addressed tne audience, Mayor Smythe in introducing hin made use of the words of Shakespeare ' I do not think a braver gentleman * * is now alive." He referred to Gen. Hampton as the noble citizen of Charleston who honored his people Tuesda} night?the man firs: in the hearts oi Charleston people. Gen. Hampton said he had not gone to Charleston to make a speech. H< referred to the welcome always giver him there, and said that this one re called to his mind the scenes of ?7( and the men he had commanded. It was Charleston that had given him th< means to accomplish what was done ii 1876. He referred to his childhooc memories of St. Michael's clnmes, There were no people he loved and valued more than che people of Charleston, A Great Battle Pending. The greatest political convention oi this century will he that of the Demo cratic party next year to nominate th( -man who will succeed McKinley as president. It will either be the hottest and most fiercely contested battle oi the century between the people and the plutocrats, or it will be all one sided, and for the people?let us work for th< latter. The gold clique will use everj means in their power to capture th< convention, for well they know thej can never again fool or coerce th* masses into voting into office anothe] Republican to be simply a man Fridaj for the billionaire trusts to command. It will be well, even now, for silver mer to be on their guard against sending rirprjnr.t o.nwntv nr statf uv*va?wv --7 ?r conventions, who are not known to b< trne blue. This precaution is neces sary in order to keep the silver forces in command. One hears a great dea about the "silver craze" being over anc such other rot, but it all emenate: from the gold-bug Republicans or thei: active allies, the gold-bug Democrats 0: Assistant Republicans as they are some times more properly called, who try t fool themselves into the notion tha what they claim is true. The silve: issue will be ike most prominent on< in next year's "battle, and ail friends o: the white metal should do all they cai to gain a glorious victory for the peopl< over the Mark Hanna's and their pup pets of the McKinley stripe. Death of a Prominent Negro. Frank W. McCarthy; one of themos nrominent Negroes in southwest Geor gia, died at his home in Albany, Ga. Tuesday. His funeral occurred fron the A. M. E. church Wednesday after noon and was attended by an immens< concourse of both whites - and blacks For the first time in the history of A1 baay, a town of 8,000 inhabitants every store and office was closed ii honor of a Negro, no business beiiu transacted while the funeral was ii progress. McCarthy never dabbled ii politics, but was probably the most in fluential Negro in the county. Hi; death is deplored alike by white anc colored people. A Bold Hold Up Six masked burglars early Wednes day held up Emmett Meyer, nighi watchman at Bengal's Bavarian brewery, Wilmington, Del., and engineei Festing, and blew open the -safe anc nff fivft hnndred dollars in cast and three hundred dollars in cash, and nine hundred dollars in checks. Meyer, twenty minutes later telephoned the police, who expect to catch the burglars during the day. Meyer was held up by four masked men as he approach - - ' * * i ? e*, ed the building and was Douna. iiicti the explosion the men ran off and Meyer got loose and started to hunt Festing, who he found tied to the engine room. N ggggjjgji i - i unrui I I I w I ^ j THIS? | High Arm Sewin Fully guaranteed for tea all the latest attachments, mented -wood work. I Price $18, Money refunded after 30 d is not as good as the $40.00 t I sold l>r areata. I Send for eirotian and *tai We are headquarters for Pari Mattings, Carpets, Sea Baby Carriages, etc. Address IIIO & II12 Bi p ' V -V. - ' * ... What Changed Them? Every high ofacia] and great light formerly- in the ranks of the Republi1 can party were bimettalists 2nd favored the free coinage of silver by the United States?after 1873, when British gold had purchased its demonetization, ' without the knowledge of those who * voted for it, every statesman in the 1 then Republican party favored its re- c j monetization, and every national Republican platform done likewise until the bosses of the party sold it out, bag, 1 baggage, brains and boodlers to the J money changers at St Louis, in 1896, ? and put Marcus Hanna in posses?ion as -i* _ i- 3_ t .f r master 01 cue nounas ana Jteeper ox I President McKinley. These are facts, and are substantiated by the records. ( Why, at the national convention of the i g. o. p. in 1888, when this same Wil[ liam McKinley was chairman of the committee on platform, he wrote in t that document these words; "The Rer publican party ia in favor of the use of [ both gold and silver as money, and conr demns the policy of the Democratic administration inj-is efforts to demone l tize silver." What a change seems to ; have come over William since that time f- ?but that was before Mark became his ' master. At that time also, every } . metropolitan paper of any prominence j r was in favor of the free coinage of < f silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Will some or all of the Assistant Republican pa- } , pers in South Carolina, who pretend to j j know everything about the money ( [ question, explain why the g. o. p. de- j . serted tree silver at tne bidding 01 ( 5 Hanna and the other boodlers. 5 Doctor and Family Cremated. t The residence of Dr. L. C. Bagwell, . [ 10 miles east of Dalton, Ga., was burned early Wednesday. Dr. Bagwell, his . three children and their negro house, keeper were burned to death. It is supposed a lamp which Dr. Bagwell had on a table near his bed exploded. f j =Keeley i 126 SMITH STREET, f| ~ , COE. YANDEBHOBST, 11111 O r CHARLESTON. S. G. V ' ALCOHOL J MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO ' j CIGARETTE J USING.: : Prndnrte ea^h a disease havine defin r ite pathology. Tie disease yields r easily to tlie Double Chloride of Gold Treatment as administered at the above t Keelev Institute. r N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is a f administered in South Carolina ; gg CHARLESTON. COTTON ELEVATING - / ?AND? : GINNING MACHINERY We make a specialty of equipping , improved and modern ginneries with J the Murray Air Distributing System, ; the simplest, most efficient and practii cal cotton handling apparatus on the i market. No spike belt distributor, no overflow, no time lost between bales; 3 improved sample of cotton, most dnr1 able machinery, nothing to get out of order or break down. 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