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"r" ?p5$? 0^'-" S$?~i7V ' - ' FAVORSEXPANSION. Dr. Talmage Discusses an Absorbing Theme. POINTS OUT THE WAY For the American People to Perform a Mighty Work. They Hold the Key to the World's Redemption. In this discourse Dr. Talmage steers clear of the political entanglements of our time and recommends that which ?Ill ? ?T\TvrrtT7ol nf a]] xrlin }lCiOft WU1 i-uv VA ?... .. ?. ?, for the perpetuity of our republic and the welfare of other lands; text, Genesis xrviii, 14, Thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east." Since the Americano-Hispanic war is concluded and the United States embassador is on the way to Madrid and the Spanish embassador is on the way to Washington the people of our country are divided into expansionists and antiexpansionists. From a difierent standpoint from that usually taken I discuss this all absorbing theme. I leave the political aspect of this subject to statesmen and warriors and pray Almighty God that tliey may be enabled to rightly settle the question whether the islands in controversy shall be finally an "U-.U ? AT* B62L6U, Or iltJ.'.U. uuuc; yxvi/wwiuwv, v* resigned to themselves, while I call attention to the fact that a campaign of moral and religious expansion ought to be immediately opened on widest :md grandest scale. At the close of this war God has put into the hands of this country the key tr> the -world's redemntion. Heretofore the religious movement in pagan lands had to precede the educational. After in China and India and the islands of the sea the missionaries have labored over 50 or 75 years the printing press and the secular school came in. Now to better advantage than ever before religious and secular enlightenment may go side by side, and so the work be accomplished in short time and more thoroughly. Starting with the fact that in Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands at least three-fourths of the people can neither read nor write, what an opportunity for school ? J ? fixra TT/iorci 3QU prmtiug piCSS. miuiu JJ. TV j vuw every man in those islands may be taught to read not only the Bible, but the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States and the biography of George Washington and of Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that the government ~ ^ 1"VTT /Yp 01 me UlUtCU VJU&bCO VUguu UJ ivn. Vi. congress afford common schools. and printing presses to those benighted regions. Oar national legislature by one vote appropriated $50,000,000 to give bread and medicine to Cuba. Why not by a similar generosity give $50,000,000 for feeding and healing the minds and souls of those ignorant and besotted archipelagoes. In the name of God, I nominate a school for every neighborhood of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. As soon as the gavel falls at 12 o'clock of next l>ec. 4 on tne taDie of senate and house of representatives tand the roll has been called and the preliminaries observed let some memMfrfif our national legislature, with iSOs and soul and voice strong enough to be heard not only through those halls, x -but through Christendom, propose a measure for the mental and moral disenthrallment of the islands in contro vc ioj. What has made American civilization the highest civilization the world has ever seen? Next to the Bible and the church, schools, common schools, schools reaching from the Atlantic to Pacific, and from British America to the gulf of Mexico. Five years under such educational advantages and the whole subject that keeps our public men agitated, some of them to frothing at the mouth; will settle itself. Give those islands readers, spellers, arithmetics, histories, blackboards, maps, geographies, globes. Let the state legislatures at their next meeting, some of them assembling in early autumn, take parts of those islands under their especial educational patronage. What is needed is state and national action in this matter of schools. Then let the editorial associations of the United States, as many of such organizations as there are states, resolve at the next convocation to establish in every region of those islands a printing press, to be supported by people of this country until it can become self supporting. Each of these state editorial associations sending out to those islands it least one editor and two reporters and eough typesetters, down will go the ignorance and superstition of those isloT?/3a na 1 r> 1T7 flip Smnlsh ACkUUQ 4*0 uw V?v under Cervera sank under the pounding of our American battleships, and into their every port will go intelligence and lo7e olfree institutions as certainly as into the harbor of Manila went Admiral Dewey on that famous night when he was not expected. Hoe's printing press! Nothing can stand before its bombardment. Editors of American newspapers and publishers of Ameri*? * rr* i ? i _ "> j_z can DOOKSi lase me ormoauon ior such a magnificent service. Eloquence on yonder Capitol hill cannot meet the exigency. Epigrams of political platforms or in state legislatures will not hasten the desired consummation one week or one hour or one moment. When Cubans and Porto Ricans and Filipinos see the morning and evening newspapers thrown into the doorways and hawked alone the streets Havana and Santiago and Manila. thcie trio cannot read by the force of curiosity will learn to read so that they may know what information is being scattered, and that which may be missionary effort at the start and carried on by Americans sent forth to do the work will soon be done by educated natives. Porto Rican editors! Porto Rican reporters! Porto Rican typesetters! Porto Rican publishers! It was a great mercy to take those islands from under the heels of despotism, but it will be a mightier mercy to emancipate them from ignorance and degradation. The expansion of the knowledge and intellec trial qualification of all those islandy regions is the desire of all intelligent Americans. Awake all you schools and universities and printing presses to our opportunity! Still further, here is a wide open door for Christianity. First of all, we have the attention of those people. The heathen nations are for the most part soporific. The American missionaries heretofore had great difficulty in getting heatl.endom to listen. They excited some comment by their attire, so different was the parting of the ^ hair, and the shape of the hat, and the cut of the coat, and the formation of the shoe of the evangelizers, but the questions constantly arose in re- j gard to the missionary: "Who is he?" ""What is he here for?" And then the interrogator would relax into the previous stupid indifference. But I'Iir* ii n mil S&Mi^q '* "" i i that condition of things has passed The guns of our American navy have awakened those populations. They dc not ask vrho we are. They have found out. They are now listening to what American civilization and our Christian religion have to say on any subject. Now is the time. "While their ears and eyes are wide open, to tell them of the rescuing and salvable and inspiriting power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. the Savior oi' the world. The stean printing press which secular education plants there may be used and will be used to print religious newspapers and tracts and sermons and mighty discussions of questions temporal and eternal. The comfortable homes of those populations, when Christianized, standing side by side with degraded huts oi those who remain pagans, will be revolutionary for good. The Porto Kicari and the Filipino will come out from his uncleansed and low roofed and uninviting kennel and say to his neighboi of beautiful household. "Why cannot I have things as you have them?" And when he finds that it is the Bible, with its teachings on family life and personal purity and exalted principle, * ? P rr *i ii .1 ana tne cnurcn 01 uoa mat proposes the rectification of all evil and the implantation of all good, he will cry out, "Give me the Bible, and the church, and the earthly alleviations, and the eternal hope which have wrought foi you such transfiguration." Now, church of God, now all Chris nan pnuaomropiscs, is yuur uppurtuuity. Nothing like it lias occurred since Christ came. Perhaps there may be nothing like it till his sceond coming. Here is a definiteness of aim that is most helpful atd inspiring. The millions of dollars given for the redemption of the T^rld and the thousands oi glorious missionaries who have as volunteers gone forth among barbaric nations, were given and enlisted undei a great and immeasurable idea. Bui when they come to add to the great and immeasurable idea the idea of definiteness we will infinitely -augment the work. More than 300,000,000 of heathen in India, more than 300,000,00C of people in China, and more thsu millions of heathen than can be guessed " J . /?AnnfwAO CAWflfimOC -JUi-SlUe UX IUU3C V/UUUIUW, auiuvvi^v. stagger and confoiiDd and defeat oui faith. But here in these islands oi present controversy we can farm out the work among the churches, and in five years, under the blessing of God, not only fit the people for the right of suffrage, but prepare them for usefulness and heaven. The difference between the general idea of the world's evangelization and some particularized field of evangelization is the difference between the improvement of agriculture I among all nations and the improvement I " X j?>? 01 i D acres put uiiuer uuc s ! care and industry. By all means let '.he general work go on. But here is the specific field for religious concentration and development. This is not chimeical or impractical. I read this morning that the American Missionary nf f'n<s flfinPTAffRfclOTia] j UOiVVA?fc*V?. V-. ?w >-r ? ?0? Church has already begun the work at San Juan, Utuado and Albonito, and all denominations of Christians, in six months, will be in those islandy fields, and we all need with our prayers and contributions to cheer them on to take for God and righteousness those regions which our American navy has captured from Spanish perfidy. It has been estimated that this Americo-Spanish war cost us $300,000, 000. It would not cost half of that tc proclaim and carry on and consummate a holy war that will rescue those archi pelagoes from Sitanic domination. Who will volunteer? I beat the drum of a recruiting station. Who will enlist under the one starred, blood striped banner of Immanuel? Cuba and 'Porte Rico and the Philippines are stepping stones for our American Christianity to cross over and take the round world for God. We need a new evangelical alliance organized for this one purpose. In all denominations there are those with large enough hearts and who have been thoroughly enough converted tc join in such an advanced movement; UltJU vvxiu, pubLiug aaiuc an uiiuui differences of opinion, "believe in God the Father-Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,, his only begottyn Son,'' and who would march shoulder to shoulder in such a gospel campaign. The result would be that those islands, after a scene of gospelization, would assort themselves into denominations to suit themselves, and some would be sprinkled in holy baptism, and others would be immers ea in those warm rivers, and some would worship in religious assemblage silent as the Quaker meeting house, and others would have as many jubilant ejaculations as a backwoods camp meeting, and some of those who preached would be gowned and -urpliced for the work, and other; would stand in * 1 - T T _*_ .1 citizen s apparel or in'cneir sniri sieeves preaching that gospel which is to save the world. Mark you well that statesmanship, however grand it is, aad wise men of the world, however noble, cannot do this work. Mere secular education does not moralize. Some of the most thoroughly educated men in all the world have been the worst men. Quicken a man's intellect, while at the same time you do not make his morals good, and you only augment his powers for evil. Geography and mathematics and metaphysics and philosophy will never qualifv a dgodie to eo^ern themselves. A currupt printing press, is worse than no printing press at all, hut let loose an open Bible upon those islands and let the apocalyptic angel once fly over them and you will prepare them to become either colonies of the United States government or, as I hope will be the case, independent republic. God did not exhaust himself when he built this nation. Those islands will yet have their Thomas Jeffersons, qualified to write for them declarations n i i in or independence: ana ueorge vvasmagtons, capable of achieving their liberties; and Abraham Lincolns, stroBg enough to emancipate their serfdoms; and Loagfellows and Bryants, capable cf putting their hills and their rivers and their landscapes into poems; and their Bancrofts and Prescotts to make their histories; and their Irvings to write their sketchbooks: and their Charles O'Conors and Rufus Choates to plead in their courtrooms; and their Daniel Websters and John J. Crittendens to move their senates.') The day cometh?hear it all ye whc have no hope for those islands of beJ ?? J ArtCA/5 tUlf AVrtf AO UYYiUiCU ttUU UllCdSCU wv day cometh when those regions will have a Christian civilization equal to that which this country now enjoys, while I hope by that time this country will be as superior to what it now is as today Washington and New York are better than Manila and Santiago. Do you see by this process of gospelized intelligence those archipelagoes will as a nation be protected from the two woes prophesied in regard to this country", the one woe prophesied by the expansionists? The other woe prophe, siea by the anti-expansionist? It is said by those who would have 1 us take all we can lay our hands mirt i'nm riiTri*^ii n r 11n in ?nr r i i ??f m'VT on as 2, nation that unless we enter the i : door now open for the enlargement of < i our national domain we will decline the \ l mission which God in his providence 1 : has assigned us. But surely no woe 1 l will come upon us or upon them if we 1 Christianize tnem. as we now have the 1 I opportunity of doing. The political i ; technicalities are nothing as compared 1 j witn tfce importance er tms movement. < I implore all political expansionists to 1 t augment us in this work of moral and < t religious expansion, for unless those islands are moralized and elevated in i [ intelligence and nabits we do not want < them,'and their annexation would be s political damnation. On the other 1 hand, I implore all antiexpansionists to ] take a hand in the gospelization of < ' Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine < T J" HPUa AVtlr? TTTATT f A r>TAr\OfA fVlAYVl t JL&XU.U X UC ULIljr *T tt > W |;ic|vaic to take care of themselves is to give 1 them the Ten Commandments that were i . published on Mount Sinai and let them ' hear the groan of sacrifice that was i . breathed out on the heights of Gol. gotha. What they most want is the 1 gospel, the pure gospel, the omnipotent 1 gospel, the gospel that helps heal the i I wounds of the body, and irradiates the < darkness ol tne mina ana acnieves tne i , ransom of the soul. ( But on this platform the so called 1 , expansionists and so called antiexpan- 1 sionists will yet stand side by side. 1 Though 1 am not a prophet or the son \ of \ prophet, within five years, if this religio-educational work is properly at- ] tended to, there will be a Cuban 3 republic, a Porto Rican republic s and a Philippine republic, none of ( ; them on a large scale, but they will all ? have their schools and printing presses J i4 and evangelical churches, their presi- '< dents, their senates and house of repre- ] sentives. their mayors and their con- s : stabularies, and as good order will be ? > observed in their cities as now reigns ( ! on Pennsylvania avenue, "Washington, 1 ? /\y l^rnor? mo vr "Motct VArt t Wi. LTiUttUI * ** J } AIV/II Jh V*4hl Christ has started for the conquest ? ; of the nations, and nothing on earth or in hell can stop it. The continents s are rapidly rolling into his dominion, and why not these islands, which for I the most part are only fragments brok en off from continents, the interval I lands having been sunk by earthquakes, s allowing the ocean to take mastery over them? Each mother continent has ! around it a whole family of little con. tinents. If the continents are being so i rapidly evangelized, why not the TP A YVt/M*?/*/* TTTV?TT T>Af i5ia.uua. jlx JI iiniiiw, n JUL J uvv I and the Bahamas? If Asia, why the Philippines and the Moluccas? 15 J Africa, why not Madagascar and Si. s \ Helena? The same power that b= t?'<e 1 . them off tho mainland can lift tltoi ? s into evangelization. In the old book, which has become a t ' new book by reason of modern discov- . 1 eries, especial attention is called to ihe ( islands. "Declare the Lord's praise j ' in the islands," commands Isaiah. ''Let } the multitudes of the islands be glad , * 1 . (Mil .1 * thereof," says tne rsaimist. \a.ii me : ' islands of the heathen shall worship ( him." writes Zephaniah. "He shall ( 1 turn his face to the islands,': prophesies | Daniel. "The ihabitants of the isles < ' shall be astonished at thee," fortells 1 Ezekiel. "Hear it and declare it to { the islands afar off," exclaims J ere- ^ " miah. You see from this the islands | are not to be neglected. Perhaps they j 1 are the Lord's favorites, as in house- j ' holds if there is any favoritism at all it ] nrAftl-Acf Tlia iclo'n/^a frtA JLt3 IVI LiXC TT^aa^OUi xuu miwuuu ww / > small to take care of themselves have j the eternal God to take care of them. ) Let nations look out how they tread on i the islands, however small and weak, for they are omnipotently defended. They may not be able to marshal large i armies or to send out navies to sweep the sea, but better than that, they have 1 the chariots of heaven on their side > and the drawn swords of the Almighty. ; I have as much faith in the salvation of the smallest island of the Falklands, . of the Canaries, of the Ladrones, of the [ Carolines, of the Fijis, of the Barbodoes, of the Cape Verdes, of the Socie- ] i ty islands as I have in the salvation of ] America. , ? The continents themselves are only < i larger islands, and the world in which ] ' we live is only a still larger island, and ] the solar system is a group of islands, s 1 and the universe is an archipelago \ 1 studded with islands of worlds surrounded by the great ocean of infinitude and immensity. So you see when God : planned the universe he diagrammed it into islands, and lie will look after tne [ interest of each of those islands, however small, and England and Holland and France and Germany and America must not treat the smallest and weakest island that comes under their sway ( any different from the way they treat tha strongest nation of all the earth. J '< God may chiefly deal with individuals * in the next world, but he deals with ? nations only in this world, and when Tiai-ffioton+ln o rv.ifirm TYrar>}vir?<sQ ininsHp.p -J ( against other people it is only a question of time when the offender will find 5 his doom. The path of time is strewn 1 with the carcasses of nations that be- i cause of their maltreatment of other c nations perishei. The higher such offending empires rise the harder will be ] their fall. . t It required the pen of an Edward Gib- f bon, through four great volumes of more ( than 500 pages each, to tiell the story of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman f Empire," concluding his monumental 1 work with the words: "It was among i /\-P +1-^ fliof T -fircf. pnn. f ceived the idea of a work which has c amused and exercised nearly 20 years c of my life, and which, however inadequate to my own wishes, I finally de- ? 1 L^ i."U A AnmArUr? or>/l non/lni" fT-tn \ JtiVCi LU LJLLC v^uiivoxby auu. u^uuv/i vuu public," What, the Roman empire t dead! Did she lack warriors? No. t Behold her Pompey and her Julius Cse- s sar. Did she lack lawmakers and lawgivers? No. Think of the masters of I Roman jurisprudence, our American t attorneys today quoting these laws in our courtrooms more than 15 centuries after they were enacted. In poetry did she not have her Virgil and Ovid? In history did she not have herSallustand her Livy? In eloquence did she not have her Scipio and Cicero? In satire did she not have a Juvenal and a Horace? What pens were wielded by her Cato, and her Terence, and her Pliny! All nations heard the cry of her war eagles, the voices of her oratory and the chime of her cantos. But the day of judgment come for that nation, and Hannibal crossed the Appcnnine?, and the Goths and Vandals s./ooptd, and t the Carthaginian fleet~ assailed, and c Numidian horsemen galloped, and na- J tions combined, and Rome sank. The 'J tourist now on the banks of the Tiber I - ? - ilia wiino rvP n sees me rums ui uci ivi ulu, mu i uiuj u her Coliseum, the ruins of her ait, the t ruins of her aqueducts, the ruins of her 1 catacombs, the ruins of her palaces. t If our nation forgets its duty to other c nations and practice? injustice against g other people, however insignificant, it I will not take another Edward Gibbon 20 ? years and through four great volumes i | to tell the story of the decline and fall v j of American institutions. By so much 5 | as our opportunities bave been greater 1 than any nation that ever lived, and the 1: mission to which she has been ordained 1 is more stupendous than any bestowed by the almighty upon any people, if we 1 . . torget our God and enact wickedness Dur overthrow will be quicker and more tremendous, and yonder capitoline hill, irith its architectural magnificence, will become a heap of gigantic ruins, Lo be visited by the people of other :imes and other nations, who will read in letters of crushed and crumbled marrliaf wTiiftb David wrote manv bun ired years ago upon parchment, "The fray of the wicked he turneth upside lown.:' We concluded a few days ago the annual decoration of northern and south:m graves. Three years ago, at this season, in memorial sermon I proposed ;he twisting of two garlands, one to be aut unon the erave of the northern sol lier and the other to be put on'the grave )f the southern soldier, but this year ire need three garlands, the third :o be put upon the graves of those who ?ell in this Americo-IIispanic conflict, rhe third garland needs to be quite as fragrant and as radiant as the otlxer two. rhese last heroe0 braved more than Dayonets and bombshell, they braved ;he pestiferous breath of the tropics, tfhole battalions, whole regiments, .vhole brigades, whole armies of death?ul malaria. They confronted those jppositions of the torrid climes which 10 sword can pierce, no agility climb, ao stratagem flank, no torpedo explode, 10 couraee conquer. Under the awful iharge of visible and invisible hosts ibout (5,000 men went down, some to nstant death and others through lingerng pangs in hospital. If in this third wreath you twist the irimson rose, suggestive of sanguinary jacrifice. and nhe white ealla lily, suggestive of glorious ressurrection, put in ilso a few forgetmenots, suggestive of t. ?j _ s :ememDram;e, auu <t iev* j^itssiuu nuncio suggestive of the love that mourns the slain, and a few heliotropes, suggestive )f the fragrance of their memory. Then et the night's dew put the tears into ;he blue eyes of the violets and all the soldiers' cemeteries be so many censers turning incense before the throne of :hat God who has been the friend of ;his nation from the time of Lexington :o the time of San Juan hill, from .the juns of the United States warships Jonstitution and Constellation, at the Deginning of the century, to the guns )f the United States warships Olympia, Oregon, Brooklyn and other loaded ;hunders, at the close of tnis century. Remember here and now that those 3rave boys opened up the way for a kind )f expansion we all believe in. They wung open the gates for the speedy :ospelization of islands stupid with the superstition of ages. They cleared the yay for missionaries and Bibles. They set those islands free. Leaving to the United States government to decide ffhat shall be the political destiny 01 ;hose peoples, let ns all join in a campaign of religious expansion, expansion )f affection that can take all the world !n, expansion of our theologies until lone shall reject their broad invitation expansion of hope that embraces eter ntv as well as time, expansion of eff >rt that will not cease till the whole jarth is saved and the time arrives when :he prophecy shall be fulfilled and ;'they shill come from the north and the south and the east and the west uid sit down ia the kingdom of God and ;he last shall be first and the first last." Week before last, in this capital of ;he nation, we set three nights on fire :n celebration of naval and soldierly heroics, and there were rockets of fire, md spouting fountains of fire, and bomDardments of fire, and ships of lire sank billows of fire and those three nights were three garlands of fire; but now we ire in softer and quieter mood, and the ;hree garlands of today are woven of alossoms and corollas of all colors and ill pugencies of aroma, and we bethink jurselves that this third garland was needed to chain together the northern jafland of other decorative times to the southern garland of other decorative :imes. Floral chain of three links! For the first time in 60 years the north md south stand in complete brotherlood. Heroes of Vermont and Alabama. of Massachusetts and South Car)lina, of Maine and Lovisiana, shouller to shoulder! May that alliance renain until the last oppression is extir pated from the earth and all nations stand in the liberty with which Christ tfould make all people free. . IN MEMORY OF ELLERBE. Che State House Officials Pass Resolutions. * ' r. P ii . Oi.i. TT At a meeting ei tne state xxuuse um;ials, held Monday in the office of the Attorney General, at Columbia, thefolowmg resolutions were unanimously idopted: Whereas, under the inscrutable provilence of God, the hand of death has itricken from our midst Governor Wiliam H. Ellerbe; and whereas, we bow n humble submission to the decree of mr Great Creator, be it resolved: First. That in the death of Governor ( Sllerbe the State of South Carolina susains the sad loss of a conscientious and 'earless Christian gentleman as her }hicf Magistrate. Second. That as citizen, husband, ather, friend and public officer he exlibited qualities of the true man, and n his devotion to the duties of his ofice during his long struggle against leath had the sympathy and admiration if the whole State. Third. That as his official associates re remember his friendship and deplore lis death, and in deepest sorrow extend o those who where nearest and dearest | o his heart our profoundest regret and ympathy. Fourth. That these resolutions be >ublished in the daily papers and a copy >e engrossed and sent to Mrs. Ellerbe. W. H. Timmerman, State Treasurer. M. R. Cooper, Secretary of State. J. P. Derham, Comptroller General. J. W. Fioyd, Adjutant General. C. D. Bellinger, Attorney General. John J. McMahan. Superintendent of Education. One Priend Siioots Another. Mr. TLomaa "Watson, bookkeeper in he bank at Greenwood, S. C., was acidentally shot Thursday afternoon by Jr. Allie Williams, in the City bank. ?he shooting took place in the bank milding. Mr. Williams had two pistols ine loaded and one unloaded, and hinking he had the unloaded pistol in lis hand snapped it and it proved to be he loaded one, and a Dan was ois :harged and entered Mr. Watson'sbody ;oing into the bowels on the right side '.t was at first thought to be a very dan;erous wound, but Mr. Wat?on was dong very well Friday morning, and the round is not thought so serious. The oung men are very close friends and dr. Wi '.liams was prostrated with grief jecause of the accident. Both Mr. iVilliams and Mr. Watson are employid in the City bank and are very popilar. r "MY LITTLE DAUGHTER." A Pearl from the Facile Pen of Livins stcn Hunt. She is-sunshine -when sne^'takes m hand: she is my blue sky without cloud when she lifts her little arms t me. When I rest my finger tips upo her little shoulder and walk by h? side, she needs no telling to make h? feel that it is her strength which is suj porting mine, for a grown man is weak thing, and there is no prop lik a child. I know that her little heai beats faster when I lean thus upon hei for one day she told me so: and he pride in the telling was a gallant bit c iuss and parade, fcuch perturbatioi such a pother with small arms, such robustiousness of small actions, wa never seen before in such a small bodj I gazed in wonder until I was forced t feld her in my arms to quiet her. This little child, this little peai from heaven, this daughter of he mother's gray eyes, is as free of huma sin as is a ray of nature's moonlight o the water, or as are the little beams c the little break-o'day which issues frox the leaves of every white rose. M voice grows soft and sweet when i mingles with hers in speech. I am cei tain then that I am a good man. I remember many years ago?a! though it was only last summer?tha my soul was sunk in doubt, save tha it.believed itself a clod.. But whatde: pondcncy could stand against the refu tation in her crystal eyes? For the are the windows into sinless skies wher dwell the angeh and God. She is m answer to every hope which wings it way heavenward. She is my altar, an at night my once stubborn knees ar glad to bend before the sweet pictur of her slumber. As I watch her, the some fairy's hand drops dew upon th white leaf of her lip, and she lies flower in flesh and blood, the breathin rAcfArofiAT) AP f V> a kVn 1/3 Vi Anrl n-f iv/ovviawiuu v/a wu.v \j aaaav4 aavv/va vi mother?that childhood which true lov must ever long to know. Her face i then a veritable Easter chalice, froi which my love of God can drink^its fi! of adoration. Ah. me! my praise of her is sweet t speak, and yet I fear to let it flow an thicken, for there are those who are nc so happy as I, and they might think babbled. But it is only true, and I mus tell it, that she is my dream of life' beauty, without sleep to clog the dreaa She is sweet music without the unres that sweet music brings. She is lov f V? rwt 4- Iai'a'c tvoty> Tf to Ka/*onan r\ n nuyu u xv?g o ya.x u. v xo vher that I can look upon the gatherin haze of distant hills at twilight, an yet feel no answering mist o'ercloud m eye. She is my north star in the sk of duty. She is my gentleness, in simple joy, nay faith, my worship. Sh is my peace of God which passeth a understanding. A Big Event, The 9th International Convention c the Baptist Young People's Union c America will be held in Richmond, Yi Juyl 13-T6 next. A rate of one fare fc theronnd trip has been made by all rail roads traversing this State. Ticket will be on sale July 11,12 and 13, wit final limit to July 31, 1899. An ei tension of the final limit may be obtaii ed, enabling one to leave Richmon not later than Aueust 15, "provide tickets are deposited with the joiE agent at Richmond prior to July 28, an 09 payment of a fee of 50 cents. Th fare for the round trip from Charlesto will be $13 15. Special tickets will b sold from Richmond to any point of th Chesapeake and Ohio Railway within radius of 250 miles at a rate of on fare for the round trip. The final limi of side trip tickets will be July 31 0 tickets not deposited for extension, an August 15 on tickets which have bee deposited for extension. All parties, whether members of th Baptist Young People's Union of Ame] ir>? rtr nnt and nf whatever denomins tion, can avail themselves of thea rates and can have arrangements fc board while in Richmond made fo them by applying to John B. "White, 3 Broad street, who is transportation leac er for South Carolina. The following side trips can be mad from Richmond: Washington and re turn, (via rail.) $2 50; Virginia Beac! and return. $1 75: Old Point Comfoi and Norfolk ana return, ?1 25; James town and return, $1; Natural Bridge including transfer, and return, $5 S Luray Caves, including admission an transfer, and return, $6 70. Quite nnrf-.v is heinc made ut> to co from Cha] leston. Dewey Leayes Hong Kong. The United States cruiser Olympi with Admiral Dewey on board lef Hong Kong at 4 o'clock Tuesday aftei noon. There was no demonstration The weather was wretched. It wa blowing and raining hard at the time o .1 3 i. -nru:i^ tne departure. r? june vu British cruiser Powerful, the band o the Olympia played the British aa tional anthem and gave a salute. Tb.er was no firing. The Powerful replie* with a similar salute and her ban* flayed "Hail Columbia." As th Olympia passed the Italian admiral' ship, the Olympia's band played thi Italian national anthem and gave ai admiral's salute, which compliment were returned. Then the Olympia' band played "Auld Lang Syne," am the band of the Powerful played "Home Sweet Home." Consul Wildman remained on th Olympia until the last minute with ! few friends of the admiral, who wen aboarJ to bid him farewell. At * o'clock sharp the ensign was run up t< " * i u a the peak ana a large aamirai s nag wa hoisted at the main. The Olympi moved oft with a marine guard drawi up on her poop. The Eight Man Killed. Joe W. Harris shot and instantl; killed H. R. Bennett near Odum, Ga. Friday. Both are white. Bennet wa3 a well-to-do farmer and churcl member. Ten days ago, it appears, Ben nett went to the house of Harris in hi anrl madfi inmroDer DrODesal to his wife. Upon his return home th matter was reported to Harris. Th men met Friday morning and Bennet was shot dead. Military Prisoners Escape. Four general military prisoners es caped from Governor's island, jS'e^ York. Thursday night. They sawed th window bars of the cell and reache< the ground by a rope. They left a let ter stating that fellow prisoners kne1! " J ' 1 notning ox tu.6ir picnj^. jluch uamv are Frank Harvey, Michael T. McCai thy, Frederick Simonds, Carl Deckel Is it the best? Taste and see. Bes in taste, best in results. No nanseat ing dose, but so pleasant and natural i: effects that you forget you have take medicine?Life for the Liver and Kid neye. See ad. tf Lime is very cheap, so there is no es cuse for not using the white wash brus freely. gm.m "nil".' T'' I I II- "?|?1 rjr .. ?|I~ . W* I PlGHTiNG \ti THE MAST. ! ( ?" How the Rapid Fir? Guns in the Fight- i in<r Ton art Onerated* Fighting in tlxe military mast of the big battleships in our navy will prob- i y ably be the most dangerous duty our a seamen -will be called upon to perform j o in the war with Spain, says the Kansas i City Journal. Exposed to the full fury of the en- j ir emy's fire, with scarcely any protecsr tion, and with the possibility of having )- the entire mast shot away, the man on O ^'? + V ^ winr.^ J? ? a f inr> nar_ UULV ILL LUC Hiaoc lO ILL ?L pwOiUUu e haps the most dangerous in all modern naval warfare. The steel barbettes of the present time-, save in certain battleships, where * an overhead shiela is carried, give a '5 protection more apparent than real, a more picturesque than practical. And while the military top crews have the ' advantage of seeing something of the 0 scrimmage, yet they present too in viting a mark to the enemy, and have r* stations which in battle are pretty sure !r to be untenable from the heat and n smoke. The small arms men have frequent 1 practice aboard ship, and considering ? the difficulties of the environment, are 7 good marksmen. It is no easy task to fire from a platform placed at the fob end of a pendulum, swinging irreguj larly. and the results attained testify to ^ the value of the drill and to the phy^ sique of the individual. On the larger battleships the militorv mocfc Sri! Tirtnnw and tn J """"" ? w - ~ " the fighting tops is gained through the e interior. The ammunition is also passed up inside. In the smoke and grime of battle one can well realize "what a ^ hell these places would he. Another thing that must be considered is the fact that this will be the United States navy's first practical test of the modern warship. The last ten years have brought about a greater v and more sudden change in the outT ward appearance of men-of-war. than e has ever been recorded in the history g ox navai auairs. jluis is ill cue mam n due to the almost complete banish[j x ment of sails, yards, and the more or less intricate rigging necessitated by 0 their use, in favor of military masts, d or, in some cases, mere signal poles. The military mast of to-day is conj structed primarily to carry guns, and secondarily for signalling purposes, s for it must be remembered that in all . "aces in tp-ViiaVi chinc Viovo heen Min'n. it ped with fighting tops since their very e first inception, the primary duty of the if mast which upheld it was to carry g , sail for the propulsion of the ship, d Some of the masts are supplied with y an upper top for the electric light, a y peculiarly shaped edifice below to eny able three quick-firing guns to be dise charged right ahead, and a species of 11 conning tower below, from which the captain can overlook the smoke clouds and see to direct his ship in action. The later types are all constructed -with miich the samp ideas. jf Some have a lookout, or conning i. tower, others have not, but all have ir three or six pounder quick-firing guns [- and electric light projectors, and one ;s or-iwo lighter machine guns in addih tion. The small caliber ram"d-firk:5nd ma i- chine guns employed in tops are supd ported by riflemen, and in every fight <1 their work of clearing tlie guns, sweepit ing the decks and superstructures, and (3 of picking off the officers and leading e men is, to say the least, hazardous. In n the galley days the military tops were a Po $ t?1 rr ttaII t\ t* o f ^ /">+ rl T^nf *" icux xj n^u jJiwttvitu, wuu UUAIIIQ CJJL^ e sail era the topmen handling the swi-~ a- vel pieces and deck rakers, and form6 ing a special corps of musketeers, had ^ no protection, except what was given 11 by a .network of mattress-filled ham^ mocks.^ n t*. /} ^1-a o ?:i? a. ? lc wuuiu caAc a U15 AJiujcCUie LU bring a mast down, but tben, if it did, e great would be the fall thereof. And r" think of the poor devils that would l" come crashing down with it! And e think of them even if the mast doesn't ,r come down, perched up there, living '5 targets for shot and shell! The thin p plating is of no avail against anything larger than a rifle bullet, and a small shell might pass harmlessly over the e heads of the men in an open top which ?" in a closed one would have been burst by the iron sides and scatter death and ; destruction within. r ? The fight next year will be on the ~ currency issue. The Republicans will declare for the gold standard, pure and a simple, and the Democrats will stick to r" silver and nominate Bryan. This is the way it looks to us at this time. i HOME e ! t 8 thjs High Hrm Sewing s H Fmllj gujtfanteed for tea y? all the latest ai$aeka??it*, b? j. M raeated wood work. Price ?18.0 Money refunded after SO day e Ij is not as good as the $40.00 to ! I sold by afeati. 7 9 V ^or *Bca&M3 **d state M W? arc headquarters for Farnil Mattings, Carpets, SewiB : g Btby <5arri*??a, etc, L1 jf1 Address H IilO & II12 Brc --?.v a II r ?Mass "ill I nin;-n'.i? .11 11 rr mi Disaster in Japan. The steamer Kinship Marau brings news from the Orient of a large fire at Yamagata, Japan. Sis hundred houses and eleven shrines and temples were destroyed. * A number of livo." were i 1 mi . i. 2 lost, i mrty nouses were Durnea in cae Abohisa theatre fire at Kobe. April 30. One ruan perished. Help Youe Newspapers.?The folIewing is taken from the pen of Dr. Talmage: "A newspaper whose columns overflow with advertisements of business men has more influence in attracting attention to the building up of a citv or town than anv other acrencv that can be employed. The people go where there is business. Capital and labor -will locate where there is an en| terprising community. Xo power is so strong to build up a town as a newspaper properly patronized. It will always return more than it receives.'' K nnlnv si vvivj 126 SMITH STREET, A Cok. Vandeehoest, 11111 m CHARLESTON, S. C. 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