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-%k. ' jra-""' fTwn i mu fair ft w r 5 T ' ? AGAINST BIGOTRY. Rev. Dr. Tairr.ags Discusses a Delicate Subject. SECTARIAN DIFFERENCES. Cautions Parents as to Its Et fects cn Their Children's Religious Prospects. Ia this sermon Dr. Talmage discusses a topic which wili Interest domestic circles everywhere. The text is Genesis xiii, 8: "Let there be no strife, pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land before thee?" Uncle and nephew, Abram and Lot, both, pious, both millionaires, and with such large flocks of bleating sheep and lowing cattle that their herdmen got into a fight, perhaps about the best pasture, or about the best water privilege, or because the cow of one jrot hooked by the horns of the other. Xot their poverty of opportunity, but tueir wealth, was the cause of controversy between these two men. To Abram, the glorious old Mesopotamian sheik, such controversy seemed absurd. It was like two ships quarreling for sea room in the middle of the Atlanticocean. There was a vast reach of country, cornfields, vineyards, harvests and plenty of room in illimitable acreage. "Now," says Abram, "let us agree to difer. Here are the mountain districts swept by the tonic of sea breeze and with wide reaching prospect, and there is the plain of Jordan, with tropical luxuriance. You may have either." Af< A vn on^ JjUL, WliU ?as liUL us il.Mli ao uuiam ?uu might have been expected to take the second choice, made the first selection, and with a modesty that must have made Abram smile said to him: "You may have the rocks and the fine prospect, I will take the valley of the Jordan, with all its luxuriance of cornfields, and the river to water the flocks, and the genial climate, and the wealth immeasurable." So the controversy was forever settled, and great souled Abram carried out the suggestion of the text: "Let there be no scnie, jl pray tuee, ueiweeu mc auu. thee, and between my lierdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land before thee?" Well, in this, the last decade of the nineteenth century, and in this beautiful land, which was called America, after Americus Vespucius, but shuuld have been called Columbia, after its discoverer, Columbus, we have a wealth of religious privilege and opportunity that is positively bewildering?churches of all sorts of creeds, and of all kinds of government, and all forms of worship, ard all styles of architecture. What opulence of ecclesiastical opportunity! Now, while in desolate regions there may be only one church, in the opulent districts of this country there is sucn a promsion tnai mere ougnt 10 De no difficulty in making a selection. No fight about vestments, or between liturgical or noniiturgical adherents, or as to baptismal modes, or a handful of water as compared with a riverful. If , . Abram prefers to dwell on the heights, where he can only get a sprinkling from the cloui^eniim consent that Lot have all tSBSj|fen in which to immerse hifflBwHr'Let * there be no strife, I p^|between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land before thee?" Especially is it fortunate when families ^llow angry discussion at the breakfast or dinner or tea table as to which is the best church or denomination, one at one end of the table saying he could never endure the rigid doctrines of Presbyterianism, one at the other end responding that sle never could stand the forms of Episcopacy, and one at one side of the table saying he did not understand how anybody could bear the noise in the Methodist church, and another declaring all the Baptist bigots. There are hundreds of families hopelessiy split on ecclesiasticism, and in the middle of every discussion on cr?r?V? k o L-ir?/31iT>or n*P in dignation, and it needs some old father Abram to come and put his foot on the loaded fuse before the explosion takos place and say; "Let there be no strife I pray thee, between me and t:-.ee, and between my herdmen aud thy herdmen. Is not the whole land before thee?" I undertake a subject never undertaken by any other pulpit, for it is an exceedingly delicate subject, and if not rightly handled might give serious offense, but I approach it without the slightest trepidation, for I am sure I i have the divine direction in the matters 1 propose to present, it is a tremendous question, asked all over Christendom, often asked with tears and sobs and heart breaks and involving the peace of families, the eternal happiness of many souls. In matters of church attendance should the wife go with the husband or the husband go with the wife? tirst, remember that all the evangelical churches have enough truth in them to save the soul and prepare us for happiness on earth and in heaven. I will go with you into any well selected theological library, and I will show you sermons from ministers in all denominations that set forth man as a sinner and Christ as a aeliverer from sin and sorrow. That is the whole gospel. Get that into your soul, and yon are fitted for the here and the hereafter. There arc differences, we admit, and some denominations we like better than others. But suppose three or four of us make solemn agreement to meet each on important business, and one goes by the New York Central railroad, another by the Erie railroad, another by the Pennsylvania railroad, another by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. One goe? this way because the mountains are grander, another takes this because the cars are more luxurious, another th a because the speed is greater, another takes the other because he has long been accustomed to that route and all the employees are familiar. So far as our engagement to meet is concerned it makes no difference if we only get there. Now, any one of the innumerable evangelical denominations, if you practice its teaching although some of their from* rr?T> on a hrnan cranes A VAA WW tt^U c'VIUV/ on a narrow gauge, will bring you out at the city of the New Jerusalem. It being evident that yoxi will be safe in any of the evangelical denominations, 1 proceed to remark, first, if one of the married couple be a Christian and the other not, the one a Christian is bound to go anywhere to a church where the unconverted companion is willing to go, if he or she will go to no other. You of the connubial partnership are a Christian. You are safe for the skies, j Then it is your first duty to secure the eternal safety of your lifetime associate. Is not the everlasting welfare of your | vrife impenitent of your husband impen i itent more importaa than your church re| lationship? Is not tfce condition of J your companion for the nest quadrillion j of yeais a mightier consideration to I vnn fhsi t'np irrari fixation of Your eccle siastical taste for forty or 50 years. A man or a woman who would stop half a 1 minute to weigh preferences as to | whether he or she had better go with i the unconverted companion to this or I that church or denomination has no re ! ligion at all and never has had, and I j fear never will have. You are loaded up with what you suppose to De religion. out you are like Captain Frobisher, who brought back from hi* voyage of discovery a shipload of what he supposed valuable minerals, yet instead of being silver or gold, were nothing but common stones <f the field, to be hurl ' ed out as finally useless. Mighty God, in all thy realm is there one man or woman professing religign, vet so stolid, so unfitted, so far gone ! unto death that there would be any I hesitancy in surrenderee all preferI u uuivie ?uv;u an u?'uvi iuuh; ui oaivation and heavenly reunion? If you, a Christian wife, are an attendant upon any church and your unconverted husband does not go there because he does not like its preacher, or its music, or its architecture, or its uncomfortable crowding, and goes not to any house of worship, but would go if you would accompany him somewhere else, change your church relations, 'lake your hymnbook home with you today. Say f r\ t ^Anrio in tViA orTi V?AT | ijVVU V J 11XWUUO I u. tlXV UVl^awu* ing pews ami go with him to any one of a hundred churches till his soul is saved and he joins you in the ruarch to heaven. More important than that ring on the third ficger of your left hand it is that your Heavenly Father command the angel of mercy concerning your husband at his conversion, as in the pyrable of old, "Put a ring on his hand/' No letter of more importance ever came to the great city of Corinth, situated on what was called the "Bridge of the Sea," and glistening with sculpture, and gated with a style o: brass the magnificence of which the following ages V?OTTA r?Af V\ / ?/ * T-? A f A C V. A AAO 1 ] t? 1 m 1 _ lid. Yt UVt k/^^LL avig C<\J lUii tate, and overshadowed by tlie AcroCorinthus, a fortress of rock 2,COO feet high?I say no letter ever came to that great city of more importance than that letter in which Paul pu*s the two startling questions: ;'What knowest thou, 0 wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, 0 man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" The dearest sacrifice on the part of the one is cheap :^f it rescue the other- Better ero to the smallest. weakest, most insignificant church on earth and be copartners in eternal bliss than pass your earthly membership in most gorgeously attractive church while your companion stays outside of evangelical privilege, Better have the drowning saved by a scow or a sloop than let him or her go down while you sail by in the gilded cabins of a Majestic or Campania. Second remark: If both of the married counles be Christians, but one is so naturally constructed that it is impossible to eDjoy the services of a particular denomination and the other is not so sectarian or punctilious, let the one less particular go vrith the other who is very particular. As for myself, I feel as much at home in one denomination ef evangelical Christians as another, and I think I must have been born very near the line. I like the solemn roll of the Episcopal liturgy, and I like the spontaneity of the Methodists, and I like the importance given to the ordinance of baptism by the Baptists, and I like the freedom of the Congregationalists, and I like the government and the sublime doctrine of the Presbyterians, and I like many of the others just as much as any I h*ve mentioned, and 1 could happily live and preach and die and be buried from any of them. But others are born with a liking so stout, so unbending, so inexorable for some denomination that it is a positive necessity thev have the advantage of that one. What they were intended to be in ecclesiasticism was written in the sides of their cradle, if the father and mother had eyes keen enough to see it. They would not stop cryiDg until they had put in their hands as a plaything a Westminster catechism of the Thirtynine Article. The whole current of their temperament and thought and character runs into one sect of religionists as naturally as the James river into the Chesapeake. It would be a torture I to such persons to be anywhere outside of that one church. Now, let the wife or husband who is not so constructed sacrifice the milder preference for the one more inflexible or**3 ricrArATio T.df f no orror.a ^nllntxr uuvi kuv i iuv iyiiv ?r the rugosities and the sinuosities of the oak or hickory. Abrarn, the richer in flocks of Christian graee; should say to Lot, who is built on a smaller scale: "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and' between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen. Is not the whole land before thee?"' As vou I can be edified and happy anywhere, go with your companion to the church to | which he cr she must go or be miser' able. Remark the third: If both the married couple are very strong in their sectarianism let them attend the different churches preferred. It is not necessary that you attend the same church. Religion is between your conscience and your Goi. Like Abram and Lot, agree to differ. When on Sabbath morning you come out of your home together and one goes one way and the other the other, heartily wish each other a good sermon and a time of profitable devottion, and when you meet again at the | nooDday repast, let it be evident, each to each and to your children and to the hired help, that you have both been on the Mount of Transfiguration, although you went up by different paths, and that you have both been fed by the bread of life, though kneaded by differ ent hands in different trays and baked in ctitterent ovens. "i5ut now about the children?" I am often asked by scores of parents. Let them also make their own choice. They will grow up with reverence for both the denominations represented by father and mother if you by holy lives commend those denominations. If the father liAes the better life, they will have the more favorable opinion of his denomination. If the mother lives the better life, they will have the more favorable opinion of her denomination. And some day both parents will, for at least one service; go to the same church. The neighbors will say, ' 1 wonder what is going on today, for I saw our neighbor and his wife, who always go to different churches, going arm in arm to the same sanctuary."' Well, I will tell you what has brought them together arm in arm to the same altar. Something very important has happened. Their son is today uniting with the church. He is j standing in the aisle, taking the vows J of a Christian. He had been somewhat j wayward, cave father and mother a good deal of anxiety, but their prayers have been answered in his conversion, and as he stands in the aisle and the minister of religion says, '"Do you consecrate yourself to the God who made and redeemed you. and do you promise to is an April shower in the pew where father and mother sit and a rainbow of joy which arches both their souls tnat make3 ail differences of creed infinitesimal. And the daughter, who had been very worldly and gay and thoughtless, puts her life on the altar of consecra tion, and as the sunlight of that Sabbath streams through the church winan/3 folic nnrm l-*rnTr />VippIt she iock3 like their other daughter, whose face was illuminated with the brightness of another world on the day when the Lord took her into his heav: enly keeping years ago. I should not wonder if, after all. these parents pass the evening of their life in i the same church, all differences of church preference overcome by the joy of being in the house of God where their children were prepared for usefulness and heaven. But I can give you a recipe for ruining your children. Ansrilv contend in the household that your church is right and the church of your companion is wrong. Bring sneer and caricature to emphasize your opinioDS, and your children will makeup their minds that religion is a sham, and they will have none of it. In the northeast storm of domestic controversy the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley will not grow. Fight about apostolic succession, fight about election and free agency, fight about baptism, fight about the bishopric, fight about gown and surplice, and the religious prospects of your children wiil be left dead on the field. Ycu will be as unfortunate as Chaarles, duke of Bureundv. who in battle lost a dia mond the value of a kingdom, for in your tight you will lose the jewel of salvation for your entire household. This is nothing against the advocacy of your own religious theories. Use all forcible argument, bring all telling illustration, array all demonstrative facts, but let there be no acerbity, no stinging retort, no mean insinuation, nc superciliousness, as though all others were wroDR and you infallibly right. Take a hint from astronomy. The Ptolemaic system made the earth the center of the solar system, and every^1 J.-L i. J tniBg was uuuugut 10 turn ruuuu tuc earth. But the Copernican system came and made the sua the center around which the planets revolved. The bigot makes his little belief the center of everything, but the large souled Christian makes the sun of righteousness the center and all denominations without any clashing a- -t j each in its own sphere revolving aro it. Over the tomb of Dean Stanlo in Westminster abbey is the passag of Scripture, "Thy commandments an exceeding broad." Let no man crowd us on to a path like the bridge A1 Si rat, wViioh tliA Mohammedan thinks L adS from this world over the abyss of hell into paradise, the breadth of the bridge less than the web of a starved spider or the edge of a sword or razor, off the edges of which many fall. No. While the way is not wide enough to take with us any of our sins, it is wide enough for all Christian believers to pass without peril into everlasting safety. But do not any of you depend upon what vrm call a "sound creed" for salvation. A man may own all the statutes of the state of New York and yet not be a lawyer, and a man may own all the best medical treatise and not be a physician, and a man may own all the best, works Non painting and architecture and not be either painter or architect, and a man may own all the sound creeds in the world and yet not be a Christian. Not what you have in your head and oh your tongue, but in your heart and kt your life, will decide everything. In olden times in England before the modern street lamps were invented every householder was expected to have a lantern suspended in front of his house, and the cry of the watchmen in London oe tTiiw icprif ;?lnric at pvftntidft was. "Hang out your lights!" Instead of disputing in your home about the different kinds of lanters, as a watchman on the walls of Zion I cry, "Let your light so shine before men that they, seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in heaven!" Haog out your lights! You may have a thousand ideas about religion and yet not the great idea of pardoning mercy. It is not the number of ideas, but the greatness of them. A mouse hath ten offspring in her nest, while the lioness hath one in her lair. All ideas about forms and ceremonies and ciiurch government put together are not worth the one idea of getting to heaven yourself and taking your family with you. But do not reject Christianity, as many do, because there are so many sects. Standing in Westminster hotel, London, I looked out of the window and saw three clocks, as near as I can remember?one on the parliament house, another on St. Margaret's chapel, another on Westminster abbey?and they were all different. One said 12 o'clock at noon, another said five minutes before 12, another said five minutes after 12. I might as well have concluded that there is no such thing as time because the three timepieces were different as for you to conclude that there is no such thing as pure Christianity because the churches differ in their statement of it. But let us all rejoice that, although part of our family may worship on earth in one church and part in another church or bowed at the same altar in a compromise of preferences, we are, if redeemed, on the way to a perfect church, where all our preferences will be fully gratified. Great cathedral of eternity, with arches of amethysts and pillars of sapphire, floors of emerald and windows aglow with the sunrise of heaven! What stupendous towers, with T . 1 3 ... 3 ...... 1 I cmmes angci noistea ana angei rung: What myriads of worshipers, white } robed and coroneted! What an officiator at the altar, even "the great High Priest of our profession!" What walls, hung with the captured shield and flags, by the church militant passed up to be church triumphant! What doxologies of all nations! Coronet to coronet, cyrubal to cymbal, harp to harp, organ to organ! Pull out the tremulant stop to recall the sufferings past! Pull out the trumpet stop to celebrate the victor?! When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates behold, Thy bulwarks, with salvation ptroog, And streets of shining gold? Spinish Treat With Aguinaldo. As a result of the understanding re cently arrived at between the Spanish minister, Duke D'Arcos, and the president, it is expected that the Madrid officials will at an early day select a commissioner to reopen negotiations with Aguinaldo for the release of the Spanish prisoners held by the insurgents. The efforts of the United States authorities have been futile, not only as to releasing the Spaniards, but also as co Lieut. Gil more and the other American prisoners. It is for this reason that the Spanish authorities will be given all necessary facilities for securing the release of their prisoners. J THE OLD SOUTH CABOHNA Was the First Bailroad Built in the United States. In this railway age the acquisition of the old South Carolina railroad by the Southern, which again makes that roaa the most important to the city of Charleston, gives the early history of the pioneer road, -where once the motive power was the wind, an especial interest. TTTi M ii n .in ? nne t e soutn Carolina was not the first railroad in the world, and possibly not the first in the Unitid States, it was conspicuously first in many particulars. It was the first road ever constructed with a definite plan of operating exclu siveiy &y locomotive power: it was the first railroad to use an American built locomotive; it was the first te use loco-., motives that were purely the product of American invention; it was the first road in the world to use an eightwheeled engine, and that engine was il _ P. * _1_ i. _1 1 . i I luu urst cigut-v.aeuierever coDStruciea, and was devised by this same road's chief engineer. Although there were tram reads in America that are said to have ante-dated the South Carolina, still it is doubtful if even that is the case, for the South Carolina company ante-dated by some years the genuine railroad that was opened by that company January 15, 1S30, and several circumstances indicate that the company operated a tramway by horses and sails before the locotive steam power was inaugurated in 1S30. Certain it is that the work on this, the lirst real railroad in America, was commenced in 1828. Although tramways had been in use in England for a century or two nothing much was accomplished until Stephenson opened up the Manchester and Liverpool railway in 1S29, introducing thereon the steam locomotive. In his wo:k entitled <:Railroads? Their Origins and Problems," Mr. Charlc3 Francis Adams says there ':is some reason for believing that the South Carolina railroad was the first constructed in any country with a definite plan of operating it exclusively by locomotive steam power." There is corroborative evidence on this point in the memoirs of Horatio Allen: "In September of 1820 Mr. Allen became the chief engineer of the South Carolina railroad the construction of which had then been determined upon. On his recommendation the gauge of the r^ad : .%as made five feet. This road was completed and the cost was within his originial estimates, and when finished it was the longest railroad in the world. At that early date the South Carolina Railroad company had to decide whether the motive power of the road should be horses or locomotives. In a report made to the company in November, 1829, Mr. Allen presented an estimate of the cost of transportation by horse power and by the locomotive power. The estimate of cost of locomotive power was based on facts obtained on the Stockton and Darlington railroad, (England). The result of that comparison was in favor of locomotive poweT and the South Carolina company adopted the engineer's recommendation to use that powei. But that action was based not on the experience of the English road, but on the report of the engineer who held that in the future there was "no reason to expect any material improvement in the breed of horses, while in my judgement the man is not living who knows what the breed of locomotives will place at command." This report was made to a full meeti it-- u J __J it- - J--*-*? p? lug ujl luc uuaiu <?uu me decision ior losomotives was unanimous. Engineer Allen says: "It was the first action of this kind by any corporate body in the world." Mr. Adams is authority for the statement that the South Carolina road was opened January 15, 1830, for says he; "On the 15th of January, 1S31, exactly four months after the final opening of the Manchester and Liverpool road, the first anniversary of the South Carolina railroad was celehratpd wifTl Krvnnr " A a +/i fifcfr ~ ~ V ? II V?V?V UVUVK AAg l>V VUU UlU'l engine used on this road, Mr. Adams pays: "A queer looking machine, the outline of which was sufficient to prove that the inventor owed nothing to Stephenson, had been constructed at the West Point foundry works in New York during the summer of 1830 ?a first attempt to supply that locomotive with the boird had with a sublime confidence in possibilities, unanimously voted on the 14th of the preceding January should alone be used on the roas." The name of "Best Friend" was given to this very simple product of native genius. In June, 1831, another locomotive, the "West Point," arrived at Charleston. Nicholas W. Darrell, of Charleston, machinist, was the firt man to open the throttle and run in the '"Best Friend." This engine later exploded her boiler. The third engine built was an eightwheeler constructed on the plans furnished by Horatio Allen, chief engineer, "and was the first eight-wheel engine in the world." It was named the "South Carolina." According to Mr. Allen's memoirs, the road at first constructed consisted of strinjrers 6x12 inches, on which iron bira2i.\^ inches were spiked. Newspapers of the period were not eager for railroad news, but in The Charleston Mercury, July 6,1S31, is an account of an enthusiastic meeting of citizens of Tfnrtrvillp Tvarm and Trir>ini+A7 IipM June 10th, at which resolutions were adopted recognizing the value to commerce of the South Carolina road and urging continuance of the line ^ to the west, and committees were appointed to agitate the subject in territory between Knoxville and Columbia. This railroad advertisement appeared in The Mercury July 15, 1831: "The locomotive engine runs every day for passengers at half past 4 p. m. Parties 1_* * 'i. -i. 1 t _ _ _ wisnmg xi ai any oiner nour can De accommodated by applying to the engineer." November 19,1832, the railroad advertised that the locomotive would commence on that day to make regular trips from Charleston to Branchville (sixty-five miles) and passenger ! aDd freight rates were fixed. The railroad regulations, as printed in The Charleston Almanac, are quite curious. AH baggage was at owners risk and not over seventy-five pounds allowed; no servants were admitted unless in chargt of children excepc uy ouusent of passengers; snn.kii:g .vas prohibited, and "no gun ur fowling piece shall be permitted to | enter the cars unless examined by the ftVic rin crin cr r\$ fTic VVUUUVVVXl Wiiv W* S/V** passengers will be allowed one minute to take their seats. Seats must be engaged and paid for fifteen minutes previous to the hour of departure." A Requisition Issued. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday issued a requisition upon the governor of Georgia for Spencer Johnson, colored, who is wanted in Aiken county, this State, upon the charge of assault with intent to rape, his intended victim being Gussie Home. The offense was committed the 29th of November la?t. The Ne gro has recently been located in Georgia. Gov. McSweeney appointed Sheriff Owen Alderman of Aiken county to go after the man. C>. .imu-J.*? ? \%m\ ' Ofitlfc. Sn?^w*? r. ' '? >". > ~TE2; CROPS AffD WEATHER, What the Department of Agriculture Says About Them. The following is the weekly bulletin rtf tl-io ifinn nf xr^af-Ti<vr ani^ I crops of the State as issued Wednesday by Section Director Bauer of the United States Weather and Crop Service bureau: The week ending June 12th, 1S99, was one of torrid heat, with the average temperature about 7 degrees per day above the normal, and with an extreme maximum of 105 degreees on the 8th at Greenwood. There was almost an entire absence of rain during the week until Saturday evening, when general showers began that continued throughout Sunday, and in places on Monday. The week closed with cooler, threatening weather prevailing. The hot, dry weather of the greater part of the week was very injurious to crops generally, and some, such as tobacco, rice, corn and truck, were seriously damaged in places, *vhile cotton T a. ~ ..a,. ~ J wdb uui liiue aueuieu. Cotton of early planting is doing well everywhere and some is putting on squares freely; late planted is not all up, and some fields have been replowed and planted to corn. The stands of cotton are generally fair, but the plants are smaller than usual to the season. Sea Island cotton is in splendid condition, and some blooms have been noted. Corn was suffering everywhere for rain, and in many places turned yel low and wilted; old com in tassel is seriously damaged by drought?in places practically ruined. There is much land yet to plant to corn in the north central and south central counties, on red lands. Old corn is being laid by. Insects continue to injure this crop. Tobacco suffered serious impairment especially late settings, many of which died, leaving stands much broken; early tobacco is blooming low. Rice is doing well on low lands, but upland rice withered and died out in piav^co. juatg v/i fJ uuu jjiauuu^ 10 ugaiij finished, Wheat and oats harvest is nearing completion and threshing has begun, with quite satisfactory yields of wheat, while oats are turning out poor ly, with some exceptions. Spring oats are too low to cut, and are c. crop failure. Maturing truck crops were cut short about one-third by the drought. Pastures and gardens were parched. Much complaint of blight on apple and pear trees. Melons being laid by, but suffering for rain. The conditions as stated by correspondents in this bulletin, have been materially modified by the recent rains, but to what extent is not now known. Pardoned by the Governor. After a laps', of 10 years the story of the famous Yonce murder case in Edgefield r?mint.v is iY>r?all*rl hv thfi nardnn Wednesday of "Whitfield Murrell one of the young men convicted of the murder with a recommendation to mercy. At the time of the crime and for some time afterwards the whole State was astir. The capture of Murrell was only affected after the most extensive search had been made. He was brought to Columbia finally securely tied with roDes. then seemiaelv a mere boy. He lias been serving a life sentence. Gov. McSweeney granted the petition for pardon Wednesday on a statement of the physicians that the young man had developed consumption, on the confessions of Carpenter, convicted along with him, that Murrell, though with him at the time, hid taken no part in the killing of Yonce; and on petitions of the strongest character. Murrell was set free "Wednesday evening and goes to his home with friends and relatives today. During Gov. Tillman's administration strong petitions were presented, but the governor refused the pardon. Senator Tillman's name, however, appears on the petition which aided in getting the pardon. New Lieutenant Governor. Thursday morning the Hon. R. B. Scarborough of Horry county, who by virtue of his position as president pro tern of the State senate, and the elevation of the former lieutenant governor to the office of governor, becomes lieutenant governor, arrived in the city. He had not up to that time taken the oath as required by the constitution. At 10 o'clock Senator Scarborough went to the State capitol and protake the nath of office before Col. U. R. Brooks, clerk of the State supreme court. Having done so he signed it in duplicate, one copy being left in the office of the secretary of state. _Upon taking the oath Mr. Scarborough vacated the office of senator of Horry county; the duty therefore devolves upon him of issuing a writ of election for the election of his successor as senator. He also has to issue a writ for an election in Lexington county to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Senator Griffith as superintendent of the Statu penitentiary.?State. An Assassin Lynched. A special from Newbern says: At Bogue, 26 miles from here, on the night of the Sth of June, the store of Elijah B. Weeks was burglarized. Weeks was brutally murdered. Detectives traced and arrested Lewis Patrick, colored, as he was about to take a steamer at Newbern for Elizabeth City. They found in his possession a razor, shoes and clothes and other personal property belonging to Weeks. He was brought here and jailed Sunday night. About 11 o'clock last night a body of masked men came here ic. boats with pistols and pick axes, forced the jailor to deliver Patrick to them and disappeared with him. The sheriff, with a posse, has been pursuing the mob since 12 o'clock, and returned tonight without finding any trace of them. Opinion prevails that he will be lynched tonight if i i - _ j_ T J: j ne nas hoc aireauy ueeu uiapuscu in. Did Not Change His Mind. Mr. McKinley has a nice way of promising what he thinks will please the particular audience he happens to be addressing, and an anything but nice way ef breaking his promise when partisan interests and his party bosses demand that he should do so. Our own belief is he never changed his mind at all. because he never had a mind not to ? ~ ?4-^A on/1 TT& fllinlr gu UVCi LU LUC 0?/Uj.jajjuou, auu nv he story of Ohio state Republican contention readily explains why he "went rver" formally just when he did. McKinley's Latest Flip-Flap. That President McKinley shamefully belied his own pledges and convictions in granting his recent orders giving 4,000 or more offices over to the spoils system just in time to help Hanna out at the Ohio state convention is proven by his record. To his honor be it said he was a friend of the reform he now so viciously stabs when in congress. In the face of his past record, his clear words and his solemn pledges, how can he defend his present course without hanging his head in shame? Disease sn costly stones. Opals, Turquoises and Tearls Are Suscepti ble to a Sort of Consumption. "When. I bough;; this stone a fefi mourns ago, saia a young womaa, ; drawing from lier tapering finger a1 large opal ring and handing it to a. fashionable jeweller, "it was remarkably brilliant and translucent and glit-; tered with a dozen beautiful lights, i but now its fires are gone and it is nearly opaque." The jeweller scrutinized the stone I uiruugu. a puweriui glass, xie xuuiju i?. ] lifeless, cloudy and void of refulgence. "The stone is sick," he replied. "Sick!" repeated tlie young woman, dismayed and astonished. "Yes, madame," continued the jeweller. "Your opal is afflicted by a disease common to its kind, as well as to various precious stones. Unfortunately no one understands the nature of the disease, so your stone is incurable. It will never regain, its iridescence. "Opals, turquoises and pearls are ex tremely susceptible to a sort of mineral consumption, which impairs their vitality and value," explained the jeweller, as the young woman sadly departed. "The development of this disease is independent of external influences or neglect. The germs of destruction are bom within the stones. Topazes, garnets and amethysts are frequent sufferers from the attacks of the mysterious sickness, and even the magnifi- j cent pigeon blood ruby, the fiery sap- I phire and the costly emerald are occasional victims. The diamond is the I only known immune. "It is easy to detect sickness in stones. In some the lustre 'begins to wane slowly, and imperfect scintillax 3 - ? ~i. J TrtfVAff 4"n ic Q I liULl IS Huieu. ALL Ullluo wuv V. distinct alteration in color, many stones becoming dark and hazy, a few gaining in transparency, yet plainly revealing loss of sparkle and those prismatic qualities which add so much to the value of many gems. ""We do not know positively that this disease is contagious. Nevertheless it is a substantiated fact that apparently healthy stones placed in constant juxtaposition to diseased gems often 'fall sick' without any explainable ? nf mntaeion." UU1CCO JLW * ? tuwv One "Way to Get a Wife. The editor of the Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat has adopted a novel means to procure a wife. He advertises thus: The Democrat offers a special premium of $50 for the handsomest and most charming old maid between the ages of thirty and forty-five years, who appears at the street fair. The winner is to become the bride of the editor and promptly return the ?50. The entries o+ +V10. Stor pTn^prv on O.JL C ILf (XiOCUiUiV/ civ ?.mv 0- ~ y Friday morning at 11 o'clock, where they will be entertained by Messrs. Bush, Walker, Blair and Monson until the editor arrives to make his selection. No biting and scratching allowed. A Fit Subject. The artist stopped suddenly in his walk and sthdied with interest the abject, misshapen creature who -was begging for alms at a street corner. The poor man's legs were hent outward at right angles at the knees, he had a great hump in his hack, one arm was only half the length of the other, his lower jaw projected nearly an inch beyond the upper, his hair was fiery red, and his eyes were at cross purposes. "My friend," said the artist, with a glow of enthusiasm in his pale face, "here is a sovereign. Come with me to my studio; I want a model for an art poster." Wavei Faster Than Wind. We have it on the authority of Mr. W. H. Wheeler, who has devoted many years to the study of such matters, that in the bay of Biscay frequently during the autumn and winter in calm weather a heavy sea gets up and rolls in on the coast 24 hours before the gale which causes it arrives, and of which it is the prelude. In -this case the wave action, generated on the other side of the Atlantic by the wind travels at a much greater rate than that of the body of disturbed air, and thus gives warning of the coming storm. Italy 1* Growing. Italy lias had 294 square miles of land added to its territory in the last 70 years by the advance of the delta of the Po into the Adriatic sea. The measurement has been made by Prof. Marinelli, "who carefully compared the Austrian surveys to 1823 with the Italian surveys of 1893. The addition amounts to one six-hundredth of the total area of Italy at the earlier date. ja HON THIS? I High Hrm Sewin; Fully jUjUfUiteed for tea ; all the latest attach meats, meated wood vork. Price $18. I Money refunded after 30 ds is not as good as the $40.00 tc soM fcy areata. Sead for eiradm wmd stat Wo are h?*d<p?rfeera for Furs fflaitiass, Carpets, Sew Baby Carriegaa. *tc L Address 111Q&U12 Sr * ?ji.-i -n,h- r. .? o..nn S<.i.T The Jacksonville Times- tin ion says. "The present governor South Caro- ' lina was a printer, and then a country 1 editor, v bile wc suppose he is also an i Irishman, since his name is MeSweeney. Now ill these furnish a combinatinn tint i? siita tn tr> frnnt. i i May his course be always onward and I upward." To which The State adds: ' "Yes, the governor is an editor, and his private secretary is an editor, and all the editors of the State are members of his advisory board, and the headquarf ters of the State Press association is in ! the executive office. Altogether it is a ?reat up-shoot for a patient and longsuffering class, who have been trying to run the government by prosy for a long time but with indifferent success. Now , that they have coupled on directly to the driving wheel you will see the old machine hum/' The Augusta Chronicle, like many other?, is mystified. It says: "The more we read of the Philippine opera tiocs which Uncle Sam is now pursuing, the more we wonder what Uncle Sam paid that twenty million dollars for." * Ginning Machinery. o The Smith Pneumatic Suction gl; Elevating, Ginning and *:' Packing b'ysteru Is the simplest and most efficient oil the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw Mills cacnot be equalled in design, efficiency or price by any dealer or manufacturer in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. 0. iadham & Co., 1326 Main Street, r<AT TT-\rr?T A ci n UUijUJ>IJD?il, o. V. 0; f'?-'' c"r::.v:v Jw.v-r' i.> Purctesat ^ | A CSoodi J j| II" iiiidiifcO || f& ^'s ??>! ? @L ?i ;i< lifetime ? > fS iii'i giv? ^ ?? - ; ' ^-:V^5 e;nll?ss ?* ?* if A Poor Piano ? P wiUlastafcw If | ? gf^e eadleJ i ! n^j? ? /.-. />'.VIM <ves 1 ? ? ? , :? ? ss I Mathuskk i < & 2$ ^ ?? Aiv.ayc a;vrays KfJiacie. ?v? iivray, SstilsJaciory, always Last A* 32 :ag. Von lake no cbnuce-s i? bny aS? , fef ?s s> Li cost8 s-otue^.viiJtf _,o<v Tifi-t. 6 a? <frl iVd/i. piano, uui i.< taueia t*? X9 *i 'Mupt.1 jo the end. 58 g\ NOuiiier II 5ffh Grade Pi&oc so.d *s reasoaHhle. factory prices to retak O'if^rs Easy payments \Vrltr?. ft. p. ' tX'SSEfS & SATES, J* Jj5 ?!n?r.if.!> f'l i;n3 New Vo.-cOl;j ^ Vddress: D. A. PHESSLEI, Agent, COLUMBIA. S. C. Macfeat's School of SHORTHAND ?AJSD? TYPEWRITING! COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has tbe reputation of being the I bett business institution in the State. Grad-1 uates are holding remunerative positions in ' mercantile house.", banking, iasurance, real estate, railroad offices, &c., m this and ether eutes. Write to W. H. Jlaofeat, Court cgrapher Cotnnlbia, S.C forternw, et-j | | | ? , -^aa gssi^ ^ ^ ST ?MhCj g Machine ?? pears, fitted witk ?&' beastifallj oraatys use if macbin* >^p|g ?Jj > 160.00 machines ^ HHSS ./%_ s what jok ^ajjt. ^1 iture, Stoves, g lag J&aeiiises, ^^^?^|Ps?il? The Padgett Furr <?ad Street, MMM I ***** L.L&K NOTHING LIKE IT FOR Constipation, j ^ indigestion, j ^ i"l Regulator & Kidneys, f < i WTinlpcal^ hv? ' i ' THE MURRAY DRUG CO., I Columbia, S. C. Da. H. BAER, Charleston. S. C. All We Ask of &TY0U Si"?ANYTHING In the Machinery or Mill Supply Lice_j Is that you give us an opportunity to submit our prices and make I 1 comparisons. We ask this be cause we Deiieve we can mate 1110 YOUR advantage. TRY US. We make a specialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN GINNERIES OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING [APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending purchasers solicited^ III U JP. On TT. n. UIUUCO w. VUli COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENCY Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. Farqnhar Co., Ltd., York, Pa. Eagle Cotton Gin Co., Bridge water, Mass. Straub Machinery Co., Cincinnati, 0. Ta cfrntior XV gV/U OtlVUg ' and healthy use j one bottle Mur- ! ray's Iron Mix- i ture. Price 50c TIE MIT M CO, ~ coujubcsl 5. ; --LffE? A vegetable for Mild, . cure for Liv- the Pleasant, er, Kidney & LIVER Sore. stomach troubles, and 25, 50. $L ?KIDNEYS? Sold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co., Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S C ? = Keeley 126 SM.TH STREET, f| i Coa, VANDEEHOaST, III 1| O CHARLESTON, S. C. V ALCOHOL MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO.. CIGARETTE USLNG Produce each a disease haying defin ite pathology. The disease yields i _ i ii TV i.i mi . J . J? A .1J easily to tne l^ouDie unionae 01 wua. Treatment as administered at the above Keeley Institute. N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is administered in South Carolina "S1 CHARLESTON. I Tins Ef.EGAXT ' No. 8 COOKING STOVE || ? tj"? t |9 unty ils* 17x17 in?:h ?>v?-:i, foux 8 inch !? j? ot ho!<-s: Krg? flues and gu4r*nce<3 a good bafcer. We fit this j a u?ve uj> with forty pieces of ware j H icluding the latest stove ware. To adverts uur buuneai vc j 8 rill sell this No. 8 Cooking Store, ;8 tted with 40 jiece* of ware for ; a &IG.CG &A&H. || B liture Co. I ftagasta, Ga. I