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?! ~l"M~ ? I?ar I THE MISSION OF ART A Potent Factor in Uplifting the Human Race. REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE Preaches on the Influence of "Pleasant Pictures" In the Development of Christian Char Dr. Talmage shows in this discourse how art may become one of the mightiest agencies for the elevation and salvation of the human race. The test is Isaiah, ii, 12, 16, 'The day of the Lord of hosts shall be * * * upon all pleasant pictures." Pictures are by some relegated to the realm of the trivial, accidental, sentimental or worldly, but my text shows " ~ 1 -:-i. tuat UrOQ. scruumzes pictures, auu. whether they are good or bad, whether used for right or wrong purposes, is a matter of divine observation and arraignment. The divine mission of pictures is my subject. Ihat the artist's pencil and the engraver's knife have sometimes been made subservient to the kingdom of the bad is frankly admitted. After the ashes and scoria were removed from Herculaneum and Pompeii, the walls of those cities discovered to the explorers a degradation in art which cannot be exaggerated. Satan and all his imps have always wanted the fingering of the easel. They Trould rather have possession of that than the art of printing, for types are not so potent ana vuick for evil as pictures. The powers of darkness think they have gained a triumpp, and they have when in some respectable parlor or public art gallery they can hang a canvas embarrassing, to the good, but fascinating to the evil. It is not in a spirit of prudery, but backed ud bv God's eternal truth, when I say that you have no right to hang in ^ - your art rooms or your dwelling houses that which would be offensive to good people if the figures pictured were alive in your parlor and the guests of your household. A picture that you have to hang in a somewhat secluded place, or that in a public hall you cannot with a fc/oup of friends deliberately stand before and discuss ought to have a knife ' * * 1 * *- -i-1- ? A. J X staDDea m"co m at cne cop aau cui ciear through to the bottom and a stout finger thrust in on the right side, ripping clear through to the left. Pliny the elder lost his life by going near enough to see the inside of Vesuvius, and the farther you can stand off from the burning crater of sin the better. Never till the books of the last day are opened shall we know what has been the dire harvest of evil pictorials and unbecoming art galleries. Despoil a man's imagination, and he becomes a mere carcass. The show win aows ot .ttngiisn ana American ciues, in which the low theaters have sometimes hung long lines of brazen actors and actresses in style insulting to all propriety, have made a broad path to death for multitudes of people. But so have all the other arts been at times suborned of evil. How has music been bedraggled? Is there any place so low down in dissoluteness that into it has not been carried David's harp and Han-?~ del's organ, and Gottschalk's piano, and Ole Bull's violin, and the flute, which, though named cfter so insignificant a tiling as the Sicilian eel, which has seven spots on the side, like flute holes, vet for thousands of vears has had an exalted mission? Architecture, bom in the heart of him who made the worlds nnder its arches and across its floors, what bacchanalian revelries have been enacted! It is not against any of these arts that they have been so led into captivity. What a poor world this would be if it were not for what my text calls 1 'pleasant pictures!" I refer to your memory and mine when I ask if your knowledge of the Holy Scriptures has not been mightily augumented by the woodcuts or engravings in the old family Bible which father and mother read out of and laid on the table in the old homestead when you were boys and girls. The Bible scenes which we all carry in our minds were not got from the Bible typology, but from the Bible pictures. To prove the truth of it in my o^n caw tTiP nfTipr T tnnV nn fil^ family Bible which I inherited. Sure enough, what I have carried in my mind of Jacob's ladder was exactly the Bible engravings of Jacob's ladder, and so with Samson carrying off the gates of Gaza, Elisha restoring the Shunammite's son, the massacre of the innocents. Christ blessing little children, the crucifixion and the last judgment. My idea of all these is that of the old Bible engravings, which I scanned before I could read a word. That is true with nine-tenths of you. If I could swing open the door of your foreheads, I would find that you are walking pic ture galleries. The great intelligence abroad abont the Bible did not come ^ _ from the general reading of the book, for the majority of the people read it but little, if they read it at at all, but ail the sacred scenes have been put before the great masses, and not printer's ink, Dut the pictorial art, must have the credit of the achievement. First, painter's pencil for the favored few and then engraver's plate or woedcut for millions on millions! "What overwhelming commentary on the Bible, what re-enforcement for patriarchs, prophets, apostles and Christ, what distribution of Scriptural knowledge of ail nations in the paintings and engravings therefrom of Holman Hunt's "Christ In the Temple," Paul Veronese's "Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ," Raphael's "Michael the Archangel," Albert Durer's "Dragon of the Apocalypse," Michael Angelo's "Plague of the Fiery Serpents," Tintoretto's "Flight Into Egypt," Rubens' "Descent From the Cross," Leonardo P- Vinci's "Last Snpper," Claude's "Queen of Sheba," Bellini's "Madonna," at Milan; Orcagna's "Last Judgment" and hundreds of miles of Trietmres. if thev were out in line, illus Z ~ 7 * ^ 7 " trating, displaying, dramatising, irradiating Bible truthf until the Scriptures are not today so much on paper as on canvas, not so much in ink as in all the colors of the spectrum. In 1833 forth from Strasburg, Germany, there came a child that was to eclipse in speed and boldness anything and everything that the world had ever seen since the first f?nlnr nn tlia qL-v nt tfia f>roa tion, Paul Gustave Dore. At 11 years of age he published marvelous lithographs of his own. Saying nothing of ^ what he did for Milton's "Paradise a Lost," emblazoning it on the attention of the world, he takes up the book of books, the monarch of literature, the Bible, and in his pictures, "The Creation of Light,1' "The Trial of Abraham's Faith," "The burial of Sarah," "Joseph Sold by His Brethren," "Thei Brazen Serpent," "Boaz and Ruth," nr.-- ii i ~r?- in "David and Goliath/' "The Trassfigu- ; ration,"' "The Marriage In Cana," : "Babylon Fallen" and 205 scriptural scenes in all, with a boldness and a grasp and almost supernatural afflatus that make the heart throb and the brain reel and the tears start and the i cheeks blanch and the entire nature I quake with the tremendous things of | God and eternity and the dead. I ! actually staggered down the steps of the j London Art gallery under the power of Dore's "Christ Leaving the Prsetorium." Profess you to be a Christian man or woman, and see no divine mission in art, and acknowledge you no obligation either in thanks to God or man? It is no more the word of God when rmt-. hpfnre ns in nrintei's ink than by skillful laying on of colors or designs on metal through incision or corrosion. What a lesson in morals was presented by Hogarth, the painter, in his two pictures, "The Rake's Progress'- and "The Misers Feast," and by Thomas Cole's engravings of the "Voyage of Human Life" and the "Course of Empire" and by Turner's "Slave Ship!" God in art Christ in ait! Patriarchs, prophets and apostles in art! Angels in art! Heaven in art. The world and the church ought to come to tne mgner appreciation 01 xne divine mission of pictures, yet the authors of them have generally been left to semistarvation. "West, the great painter, toiled in unappreciation till, being a great skater, while on the ice he formed the acquaintance of General Howe of the English army who through coming to admire West as a clever skater, gradually came to appreciate as much that which h? accomplished by his hand as by h*s heel. Poussin, the mighty painter, was pursued and had nothing with which to defend himself against the mob but the artist's portfolio, which he held over his head to keep off the stones hurled at him. The pic. ires of Richj.rd Wilson of England were sold for fabulous sums of money after his death, but the living painter was glad to get for his "Alcyone" a piece of Stilton cheese. From 1640 to 1643 there were 4.600 pictures willfully destroyed. In the reign of Queen if rttoo vi o vnf n-p qhttia r^pa JLlillZiCb UCLU XU n aj buv UUWAV V* MVWUV fc/wv pie to spend much of their time in knocking pictures to pieces. In the reign of Charles I it was ordered by parliament that all pictures of Christ be burned. Painters were so badly treated and humiliated in the beginning of the eighteenth century that they were lowered clear down out of the sublimity of their art and obliged to give accounts of i ? .1 _ j A.: i wnas iney cuu wim men wiuis. The oldest picture in England, a por- I trait of Chaucer, though now of great j value, was picked out of a lumber garret. Great were the trials of Quentin Matsys, who toiled on from blacksmith anvil till, as a painter, he won wide recognition. The first missionaries to Mexico made the fatal mistake of destroying pictures, for the loss of which art and religion must ever lament. JBut why go so far back when in this year of our Lord to be a painter, except in aTwntirtnc rnpans r>nv<?rfcv and ne gleet, poorly fed, poorly clad, poorly housed, because poorly appreciated? When I hear a man is a paiijter, I have two feelings?one of admiration for the greatness of his soul, and the other of commiseration for the needs of his body But so it has been in all departments of noble work. Some of the mightiest have been hardly bestead. Oliver Goldsmith had such a big patch on the coat over his left breast Cthat when he went anywhere he kept his hat in his hand closely pressed over the patch. The world renowned Bishop Asbury ha da salary of $54 a year. Painters are not the only ones who have endured the lack of appreciation. Let men of wealth take under their patroiage the suffering men of art. They lift no complaint, they make no strike for higher wages. Bat with a keenness of nervous organization which almost always characterizes genius these artists suffer more than any one but God can realize. There needs to be a concerted effort for the suffering artist of America, not sentimental discourse about what we owe to artists, bat contracts that will give them a livelihood, for I am in full sympathy with the Christian farmer who was very busy gat lering his fall apples and some one asked him to pray for a poor family, the father of which had broken his leg, and the busy farmer said: "I cannot stop now to pray, but you can go down into the cellar and erof c/vm<? odmor Vioof orwl Vintf/vr ond J ^VV W1UVM- WVA VfMVfc I'MWVVA eggs and potatoes; that is all I can do now." Artists may wish for our prayers, but they also want practical help from men who can give them work. You have heard, scores of sermons for all other kinds of suffering men and women, but we need sermons that make pleas for the suffering men and women of American art. Their work is more true to nature and life than some of the masterpieces that have become immortal on the other side of the sea, but it is the fashion of Americans to mention foreign artists and to know little or nothing about our own Copley and Aiiston ana JLnman and Ureenougn ana Kensett. Let the affluent fling out of their windows and into the back yard valueless daubs on canvass and call in these splendid but unrewarded men and tell them to adorn your wails not only with that which shall please the taste, but enlarge the minds and improve the morals and save the souls of thos<* who gaze upon them. All American cities need great galleries of art, not only open annually for a few days on exhi Dition, but -which shall stana open all the year round, and from early morning until 10 o'clock at night, and free to all who would come and go. What a preparation for the wear and tear of the day a five minutes look in the morning at some picture that will open a door into some larger realm than that in which our population daily drudges. Or what a good thing the half hour of artistic opportunity on the way home in the evening from exhaustion that demands recuperation for mind and soul as well as body! Who will do xor the euy whsre you live what W. Vv. Corcora. did for Washington and what others have done for Philadelphia and Boston and New York? Men of wealth, if you are too modest to build and endow such a place during your lifetime, why not go to your iron safe and take out your last will and testament and make a codicil that shall build for the city of your residence a throne for American art? Take some of that money that would otherwise spoil your chrildren and build an art gallery that shall associate your name forever not only with the great masters of painting 1 who are gone, but with the great masters who are trying to live, and also : win the admiration and love of tens of ' thousands of people, who, unable to ; have fine pictures of their own, would be advantaged. By your benefactions build your own monuments and not leave it to the whim of others. Some of the best people sleeping in Greenwood have no monuments at all or some crumbling stones that in a few years will let the rain wash out name and eptaph, while some men, whose death was the abatement of a nuisance, have a pile of Aberdeen granite high enough for a king and eulogies enough to embarrass a seraph. Oh, man of large wealth, instead of leaving to the whim of others your monumental commemoration and epitaphology, to be looked at when people are going to and fn at the burial of others, build right down in the heart of our great city, or the city where you live, an immense free reading room, or a free musical conservatory or a free art gallery, the niches for sculpture and the walls abloom with the rise and fall of nations, and lessons of courage for the disheartened and rest for the weary, and life for the dead; and 150 years from now you will be wielding influences in this world fur good. How much better than white marble, that chills you if you put your hand on it when you touch it in the cemetery, would be a monument in colors, in beaming eyes, in living possession, in splendors which under the chandelier would be glowing add warm, and looked at by strolling groups with catalogue in hand on the January night when the necropolis where the body sleeps is al) snowed under! The tower of David was hung with 1,000 dented shields of battle, but you, oh man of wealth, may have a grander tower named after you, one that shall be hung not with the symbols of carnage, but with the victories of that art which was so long ago recognized in my text as "pleasant pictures." Oh, the power of pictures! I cannot deride, as some have done, Cardinal Mazarin who, when told that he must die, took his last walk through the art gallery of his palace saying: "Must I quit all this? Look at that Titian! Look at that Corroggio! Look at that deluge of Caracei! Farewell, dear pictures!"' As the day of the lord of hosts, according to this text, will scrutinize the pictures. I implore all parents to see that in their households they have neither in book nor newspaper nor on canvas anything that will deprave. Pictures are no longer the exclusive possession of the affluent. There is not a respectable home in these cities that has not specimens or woodcut or steel engraving, if not of painting, and your whole family will feel the moral uplifting or depression. Have nothing on your wall or in books that will familiarize the young with scenes of cruelty and was sail; have only those sketches made by artists in elevated moods and none of tlnse scenes that seem the product of artistic delirium tremens. Pictures are not only a strong buta uni^rsal language. The human race ib ..i vided into almost as many language-as there are nations, but the pictures n;ay speak to people of all tongues. Tola. uk many have hoped, with little reason, * ^ * n i would Decome a wonawiue language; but tlie pictorial is always a worldwide language, and printers' types have no emphasis compared with it. We say that children are fond of pictures; but notice any man when he takes up a book, and you will see that the first thing that he looks at is the pictures. Have only those in your house that appeal to the better nature. One engraving has sometimes decided an eternal destiny. Under the title of fine arts there have come here from France a class of pictures which elaborate argument has tried to prove irreproachable. They would disgrace a barroom, and they need to be confiscated. Your children will can^ the pictures of their VlAinflA TT7-* f h ATM a1/\Q1I f A 1 <?\jJULd O UUUDC TYXblX lUl^LlX Wt/CfcX \JU> W Wjav grave, and, passing that marble pillar, will take them through eternity. Furthermore, let all reformers and all Sabbath school teachers and all Christian workers realize that, if they would be effective for good, they must make pictures, if not by chalk on blackboards or kindergarten designs or by pencil on canvas, then by words. Arguments are soon forgotten, but pictures, whether in language or in colors, are what produce stronger effects. Christ was always tell ing what a thing was like, and his sermon on the mount was a great picture gallery, beginning with a sketch of a "city on a hill that cannot be hid," and ending with a tempest beating against two houses, one on the rock and the other on the sand. The parable of the prodigol son, a picture; parable of the sower, who went forth to sow, a picture; parable of the unmerciful servant, a picture; parable of the ten virgins, a picture; parable of the talents, a picture. The world wants pictures, and the appetite begins with the child, who consents to go early to bed if the mother will sit beside him and rehearse a story, which is only a picture. "When we see how much has been accomplished in secular directions by pic<-> ? i i J f _ lures?anasespeare s tragedies, a picture; Victor Hugo's writings, all pictures; John Ruskin's and Tennyson's and Longfellow's works, all pictures? why not enlist, as far as possible, for our churches and schools and reformatory work and evangelistic endeavor the power of thought that can be put into word pictures, if not pictures in color? Yea, why not aL young men draw for themselves on paper, with pen or pencil, their coming career, of virtue if they prefer that, of vice if they prefer that? After making the picture, put it on the wall or paste it on the fly leaf of some favorite book, that you may Vl OTT^i if Ko-pATfl T7AT1 T TOO O TYl C T? uavg iV W^iViV/ J VU. JL X vuu VA ?- AW*" who had been executed for murder, and the jailer found afterwaad a picture made on the wail of the cell by the assassin's own hand, a picture of a flight of stairs. On the lowest step he had written, "Disobedience to parents;" ou the second, "Sabbath breaking;" on the third, "Drunkenness and gambling;" on tbe fourth, "Murder," and on the fifth and top step, "A gallows." If that man had made that picture before he took the first step, he never would have taken any of them! Oh, man, make another picture, a bright picture, an evangelical picture, and I will help you make it! I suggest six steps for this flighr of stairs. On the first step write the words, "A nature changed by the Holy Ghost and washed in the blood of the Lamb;" on the secound step, "Industry and good companionship;" on the third step, "A Charistian home with a family altar;" on the fourth step, "Ever widening usefulness;" on the fifth step. "A glorious departure from this world;" on the sixth step, "Heaven, heaven!" "Write it three time"? and let the letters of the one word be made up of banners, the second of coronets and the third of thrones! Promise me that you will do that, and I will promise to meet you on the sixth step, if the Lord will, through his pardoning grace, i bring me there too. And here I am goiDg to say a word of cheer to people who have never had a word of consolation on that subject. There are men and women in this world by hundreds of thousands who have a fine natural taste, and yet all their lives that taste has been suppressed, and, although they could appreciate the galleries of Dresden and Vienna and Naples far more than nine hundred and ninety-nine people out of a thousand who visit them, they may never go, for they must support their households, and bread and schooling for their children are of more importance than pictures. 1 nough toBd ol music, they are compelled to live amid discord, and, though fond of architecture, they dwell in clumsy abodes, and, though appreciative of all that engravings arid paintings can do, they are in perpetual deprivation. You are going, after you get on the sixth step of that stair, just spoken 1 of, to find yourselves in the royal gallery of the universe, the concentered splendors of all worlds before your frcmsnnrfpfi vifiinn. In some wav all the thrilling scenes through which *e and the church of God have passed in our earthly state will be pictured or brought to mind. At a cyclorama of Gettysburg a blind man who lost his sight in that battle was with his child heard talking while standing before that picture. The blind man said to the daughter, "Are there at the right of the picture some regiments marching up a hill?" "Yes." she said. "Well," said the blind man, "is there a general on horseback leading them on?" "Yes," she said. "Well, is there rushing down on these men a cavalry charge?" "Yes," was the reply. "And do there seem to be many dying and dead?" "Yes,"' was the answer. "Well, now, do you see a shell from the woods bursting near the wheel of a cannon?" "Yes," she said. fluvrot" mflT> IkJ IV Xlguu WAAUVk MAMM. "That is the last thing I ever saw on earth! What a time it was, Jenny, when I lost my eyesight!" But when you, who have found life a hard battle, a very Gettysburg, shall stand in the royal gallery of heaven and with your new vision begin to see and understand that which in your earthly blindness you could not see at all, you will point out to your celestial comrades, perhaps to your own dear children who have gone before, the scenes of the earthly conflicts in which you participated, saying: "There from that hill of prosperity I was driven back, in that valley of humiliation I was wounded. There I lost my eyesight. That was the way the world looked when I last saw it. But what a grand thing to get celestial vision and stand here before the cyclorama of all worlds while the rider on 4.V a Trrlti^/v *k swn/*v r\r\ o nr? LLLC VYU.1CO iiUigVCO vu vvuv^u^xAug uu\a to conquer,' the moon under his feet and the stars of heaven for his tiara!" WHO ARE THE SWINDLEES? What the Government has Lost on the Ships that it Bought. Last year the American people showed their generosity and their confidence in Mr. McKinley by voting an emergency appropriation of fifty million dol* "I fl . 1 . _1 j.! i! lars, in advance 01 a declaration 01 war. Then, when war came, they furnished its financial sinews without stint. In fact, without the slightest hesitation, they opened the national treasury and gave the administration "the privilege of the till", expecting, however, that due economy would be observed in expenditures. How was this trust administered? For the purposes of our military differences with Spain the Government bought about a hundred vessels of various descriptions, and paid for them handsomely. There was not an owner )f a fine old steam yacht in the East who did not have a chance to sell it to the nation at a fair price, usually amounting to at least cost, or who has not not since been amused to observe the difference between the net selling price and that charged to the treasury. Proprietors of second-class ocean tramps, cattle boats and scows, also had their day ?in Court, and it may be said with truth that there are many worthy citizens who have, to a greater or less extent, enriched themselves, acting as middlemen in the numerous transactions. They are not of the class known as "rank outsiders." They are all "good Administration men." The President has learned of this and weeps One such is described as a person who "milked every contract during the Spanish war, as a dairy maid milks a cow," and is said to be a million and a half financially the better for it. If Mr. McKinlev ever had had a suspicion oi such, things while they were going on he would have stopped them. It is now too late. Following will be found the price paid for six bottoms just before the Spanish war,-together with the appraisment of'their present value. On the 19th of July bids will be opened for the sale of these vessels. They cost $844,269. They are valued at $270,000 after a few months' service, during which they were liberally repaired and kept in excellent order, except as to their capacity to carry troops comfortably. This is the roster: What AppraiseVessel U. S. paid. ment. Loss Vulcan... .$350,000 $100,000 $250,000 Niagara 200.000 60.000 140.000 East Boston 57,500 30,000 27,500 Enquirer... 80,000 20,000 60,000 Scipio 85,769 25,000 60,769 Gov Russell 71,000 35,000 36,000 Totai loss $574,269 Probably it is reasonable to lump these oix vessels together as representing a fair average of the hundred bought from the various private parsons or corporations and sold to the Government at a handsome profit, in the way of "mmmiwinn " Tf en if. will hp rpati that the average purchase price wis $144,744. The loss of value, as shown in the above statement of appraisements is 68 per cent. Taking these facts as a basis, the hundred vessels should have cost $14,474,400, and the loss on them now at the ascertained ratio would be stated at $9,S42.520. This is a nice sum for the treasury to lose, but there is perhaps comfort in the thought that the public loss covers and conceals a great deal of private gain. Id other words, the corruption rascality and thipvinf whir>h flip acquisition of a great many things necessary for the Government to buy to equip itself for the struggle with Spain have not been fully exposed as yet. fhey will not be while the relatives, friends and copartners of the criminals control the party in power.?Washington Times. For Young Mothers?Fretting is a fault in which a child never should be [ allowed to peisist. If there is a real ] sen?e uf discomfort it should be discovered and removed; if it is simply from waywardness and peevishness the cVirtnlfl fn nnrJ that fretting is unprofitable. A child's ] reasoning powers can very soon be ap- ] pealed to. If the mother says, "Fretting again! you cannot be well, you must go to bed until you feel better," the child will learn to restrain himself. Unfortunately some mothers have a bad habit of yielding to a fretful child a favor that they have at first refused to grant. This places a premium on fretting. No child will waste time in fretting when he knows he will gain nothing by it. A very little attention on the mother's part will show her whether there is anything physically wrong to excuse the fretfulness; if not, it should be promptly^discountenanced. THE COST OP "GLOEY." Sidnay Smith's "Warning to Brothe Jonathan Seventy-Nine Years Ago. The New York World has dug up r it? -u T> irULU LUC -Liuiuuui^u JLVCVICVYJ ujuugj Smith's Essay on America. It has rather greater pertinence and significance now than it had in 1S20, the year of its original publication: "We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory?taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth or covers the back or is placed under the foot; taxes upon everything which is pleasant to see. hear, feel, smell or taste; t^.xes upon warmth, light and locomotion; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the ear.h, on everything that comes from abroad or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers ry.or> 'c oifort/^ TP V?."i ro. UiCfcU. J ?>uu tuv uiu^ IT stores him to health; nn the ermine which decorates the judge?and the rope which hangs the criminal, on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice, on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribbons of the bride, at -bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a tax bridle on a taxed road, and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, wnich has pa^'d 7 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent, flings himself upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., aad expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immedi ately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble, and he is then gathered to his fathers?to be taxed no more. In addition to all this the habit of dealing with large sums will make the government avaricious and profuse, and the system itself will infallibly (ronoToto tTiA Tr^nrnn ivf sr>i^s and e>vuw4uwv .v.*?.-? v, iHformers and a still more pestilent race of political tools and retainers of the meanest and most cdius description, while the prodigious patronage which the collecting of this splendid revenue will throw into the hands of government will invest it with so vast an influence and hold out such means and temptations to corruption as all the virtue and public spirit, even of Republicans, will be unable to resist. WHAT THINK YE OF CHEIST ? Leading Men of the Nation Interviewed on This Important Subject. "The charge is pretty frequently made by agnostics, free thinkers and atheists that this is a Godless nation and a large proportion of the leading public men are either infidels or rapidly becoming so," says The Christian Herald, and in order to "test the truth of this charge," that paper re cently sent to the president, members of the cabinet, supreme court, United States senate, commanders of the army and navy and governors of the various states, the following questions: I. Are you a friend of Cristianity? 31. Do you believe that Christianity is tha friend of mankind? III. Does your belief extend to the recognition of the Supreme Being, tc the Divinity of Christ, to the surpassing potency of Christianity as a civilizing influence? Hundreds of replies were received and all were in the affirmative. JVIanj of them have the positive ring of th< true metal and many are of a heaitat ing natnre. Some of the senators failedto Answer- and some of the governors failed to answer. This failure, if intentional, can only be taken tc mean that they dare not say no to anj of the questions, and this, more thar anything else, goes to prove what s force they recognize the Christian religion to be. PrAsidpnt. MoTCinlpv belief embraces the Diyinity of Christ and the recognition of Christianity as the mightiest factor in the world's civilization." It is the custom of the members ol the supreme court to decline to answei questions of any kind; but all the same Chief Justice Fuller declared^ "I am a friend to Christianity. Hon. George Shiras said, "I am a Christian, of course." The other members of the court refused to be interviewed; but The Christian Herald thinks that all of them are Christians. Senator John L. McLaurin said: "To all-your questions, I answer, Yes." Senator B. R. Tillman said: "True m :-A: :i~ VuriBiiittniby is a veiy lmiu& cvcu in the churches, and he would be a fool who denies the beneficient influence of the Christian religion upon men as taught by Christ. It is the best code of morals to live by that has ever been formulated." Profit oil Eggs. "We have fremientlv asserted that a farmer, having the ordinary outbuildings, which can be cheaply transformed into comfortable hen houses, can add from $100 upwards to his cash receipts annually by keeping fowls. It is somewhat difficult to get proof of this fact, owing to the neglect of statistics by farmers. We are glad to find, in Jbarm-roultry, a detailed statement in confirmation of our declaration. Our Boston contemporary gives a letter from a man in Maine, who modestly withholds his name and address. Four years ago this farmer took an abandoned farm in that State, and-went into the hen business. He knew nothing about the care of fowls and had to learn some hard lessons. But he started right. With only 25 common scrubs he practiced the art. His first shelters were an old outbuilding and a barn. Fie wasted nothing on fancy buildings. The second year his stock increased to 175 head; the third year he kept 400. Then he built a hen house, 12x50 feet. The next year he had 550 head, and built two houses, 13x60 and 13x50 respectively. His flock now numbers i-iO head. He lives twelve miles from i roilroad and has to pay twenty-five ;ents expressage on every crate of eggs marketed. His fowls are mostly Leghorns. During the year ending last December his sale of eggs alone averiged $66.52 a month or $798.31 for the year. The net, after expressage, was 5773. The price of eggs ranged from 31 to 11 cents; an average of a fraction under 16 cents a dozen. Thirtj-four f\Y> f C TTIncc fTmn f Vi i a nn SULipillC'il to ndUH iUi UXJO.IA VJLIJ.O ?Ji. IKJKsj and from the middle of March to the middle of June the price was steady at 11 cents. We compile this showing tc demonstrate that the eggs pay at the price obtainable in the South. No account is made of the increase in flock to the credit. The cost of feed is less in the South than in Maine. SOMET ?;NG ABOUT GOYEENO] ! Only Two of Them. Have Died WJi: ] Holding OiEc?. I Sin^e the ratification of the constit , tion of the State, June 3, 1790. oe two Governors have died in offi< , Charles Pinckney was governor at ih . time. In 183S Patrick Noble, of A bevilie, was elected governor-. T legiilature up to the civil war elect the governor. That was done early Ti-. 1 J iU ? fn, JL/eeemutu' a.uu liic iunu^iuauuu. tv place a few days after the election. 1S40 Patrick Noble died and was su ceeded by B. K. Henagan, Lieutena Governor. That was the first time the history of the State when a Lie tenant Governor was called on to f the executive office. No other govern died while in office until the death ^ till 1 n 0 1 (jovernor .Ciiierae. co iar as we *.iu every governor after Noble's time ser ed his full term until Hampton's tim He was elected governor in 187G ai again iD 1878. Soon after bis secoi election be was elected to tbe Senate tbe United States and Lieutenant-go crnor, Simpson, succeeded him. Befo his term expired be was elected Chi Justice and J. B. Jeter, president p tem. of tbe Senate, took tbe oath of c fice and was governor for a few montl In 1S80 General Johnson Hagood w elected governor. When the electii of 1S82 came be announced that he w DUt a U&LlUiUiltC JlUI scramble for office followed and wh< the convention seemed to be tendi: towards a deadlock. Hugh S. Thorn son's name was put forward and he w elected, with John C. Sheppard Lieutenant-governor. In 1SS4 Hu: S. Thompson and his entire ticket we re-elected. In July, 1886, Govern Thompson resigned the governorship accept the office of Assistant Secreta nf the Treasurv under President Cle\ land. Mr. Sheppard then became go ernor and served until end of the ten In 1886 John Peter Richardson and 1 L. Mauldin as running mate were elei , ed, and re-elected in 188S. In 18 the Tillman regime came in and ea 1 J V,.-? ^,,11 guveruiji bcji vcu ma xuix u.u the death of Governor Ellerbe.?Cai lina Spartan. A Simple Bemedy. A writer in one of our exchang ! says: "To exterminate bed bugs, fle and chicken lice: Take of cedar leav and twigs- a sufficient quantity. If t '.yei rtn rtrortl- nnon tcirVl Q Tiamm* axv vu viuvu w|/v?* i &?? * i ' Place in water to boil gently until tw , thirds has evaporated. The strong : the tea is made the more effective : execution. For bed bugs, take a feat 1 er and apply liberally into all hauni including mattresses and around ba boards, crevices, in walls, etc. thoroughly done every six months w be sufficient; and I'll guarantee not bug or egg can be found about the prei ises. For fleas sprinkle liberally abo their haunts; and if on a dog take cupful and with one hand rub the h; , the reverse way, dropping on the liqn as the skin is exposed. It will amnsinsr to see the fleas evacuate. i will kill every one it touches. I ! chicken lice, sprinkle liberally o\ roosts in all corners and crevices a , especially among the nest straw. . good addition would be to mix ce<3 i leaves among the nest straw. JSo! louse will corae near it and your chic will come off perfectly free from t ; pest. If lice are already on the fow better dilute tin tea a little and liftt feathers and sprinkle on the bare ski I have experimented with this ago for four years and it has given u , bounded satisfaction, a inorougn j , ing over the chicken house every . days will be amply sufficient. It w . kill every louse it touches, and th will flee from it as from a pestilen* [ Have tried it on roaches but it has.l , tie effect. I believe it will kill lice ; stock. Will some of our stock own< ' test it an1 report for the general goo ; Believe it will also kill cabbage wori . and perhaps some other garden pests. I ; To get stronj 1 and heal th v us one bottle Mm : ray's Iron Mrs ture. Price 50 ; THE MINT Dlllli GO, rr "v nr r > r i , >sj J J J -X > - V JBB8? I I ^ H nus^ THIS High Arm Sewi Firily gaaxaarteed far to I- ireed vwk. Price $1 lleaey refoaded arfter SC ifl aoi as geod as t be $48-0 I Maftifess, etfptts, & AMtea ? WO & 11121 / ^ { t -Tv " It is the-?j Lie ==Gustom :ar 'ly Bat a ver? poor one, to wait until the gin- ~ ;e- ning season is on before looking to see what fix the gin is in. ed Now is the time to ? HURRY fri YOU IS UiiN 1U Tut j i ELLIOT QiN REPAIR WORKS.v .j| i Do not delay and then ask us to let yon j Qr have it at once, for thorough work cannot j q? be drne in a hurry. Ihe attention giveD this matter now will more than repay you v- when the cotton is white in the fields e. and the gin house crowded. Tl-e work is j c comiog in already, so ship at once to the uudersigned, located at IhcoM electric light engine house vReferences by permission:?W. II. Gilbes AC e? & Co, V. C. Badham, Jno. A. Willis ro JBSfMark your Dame and shipping point )f- on work sent and prepay the freight. lS* ??? 11 n ill < E ? I he ttfiott tiin Hepair worKS, s as W. J. ELLIOTr, Proprietor, No 1314 Gales Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. , P- 1 as as s2*C> IZl ? W&m * gb &c.~";/r ~.v** '* j--- _ TA _ zl i or $ r " a 1: to \ . v'X"01 ( fy p c v- S 8 . n. 81 * (V. ov ' '&%* v:i! 1!'st a -'SSL ? [>t- a-Ur; ' 3".- j ;i?etime ?s ^ 90 ?s JSi.^o ch |p i?sr>aaa* ?l T PI Matliushek; 11 ^ Is always Good, always RdBSSM S 5r. alwavs Satte&dibry, 2East* 8H o- lug. "You take no cbances ta M a 5r<* ins it. Hi JGr Sfw Tf /-.Arfn c/<it! etrti a fc flV#CW A 9 its ijjv cheap^poor ptencr, but IB i&Qcb jfij r ags chetip&t in fhe end, SSS gragfeer Hightftopaawgto n ts, j?? reastmaWft Factoryertceats?8mtt W ' jSf, buyers. JS^i?ya?#t&^ttiei3i Ml tf Si 9 LUMEN & UT?S> 5 .j| tefaimg6) Cfc,g m* address: D. A. Agent, i ut COLUMBIA. S. C. I lir " :or be w I B A If! s L, L ? n A 7 lar _ a J S NOTHING- LIKE IT ne PAIR Is, I he in. ?- Constipation, | Indigestion, ] ti RgplatsrttKidneys. it- 2 on Wholesale by? . I >rs THE MURRAY DRUG CO., f 9 Columbia, S. C. nS DB. H. BAER, Charleston. S. C. Macfeafs?? p School of ( SHORTHAND t" SD^-Ayp? ' -r % - .nw?ww?imTn<nTfi TirEWttlTIflCr i COLUMBIA, S. C. I '0 This School has tie reputation of being the g best business institution in tie State. Graduates are holding resmneralire positions in mercantile houses, banking, insurance, real estate, Tailraad offices, &c., in this and other etstes. Write to W. H. M&efiat, Court ngrapher Ccmulbia, 8. Cfortenn*, ets lEST^BARG Lnq Machine JlS em yean, fitted -wiHk 2Is, beamtifuDy ) days wte if machine ^w||s b|| 9 to $60.00 Machines ^ F0B ebdc vfea* m vant. Mir ^ arnltare, Stoves, nrisg JSseMaes, WBg The Padgett Furu 3r$ad Street, r-i n mi in i 1 ill We Ask of I i^YOU 1 52?$?anything Qthe Machinery Mill Supply Line To fW. fnr? crivA T?fi an rinnrtrfntnfcv to submit our prices and make I comparisons. "We ask this because we believe we can make it to YOUR advantage. TRY US. V re make a specialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN GIN- 1 NERIES OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND J MOST EFFICIENT COTTON fl HANDLING APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending purfa asers solicited. W. H. fiibbes & Co.. I COLUMBIA, S. C. CriTTTn C A UAT.TW A k (3PVPV H Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. fl A, B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, Pa. lagle Cotton Gin Co., Bridge water, Mass. traub Machinery Co., Cincinnati, 0. = K eeley 26 SMITH STKEET, 1 Joa. Vandeshobst, |||ll"0 j haeleston, s. c v llcohol | [orphine iPHFM OBACCO ..... IG-AKETTE rsiffG Produce each, a disease having defin :e pathology. The disease yieldi asily to tlie Double Chloride of Gold 'rcatment as administered at the above Leeley Institute. N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is dministered in South Carolina ?8T CHARLESTON, f ." -K Ginning j Machinery. 0 Che Smifch Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing Sfyste? s the simplest and most efficient on the market- Fo^y-eight complete ^ cutfitsTa South Carolina; each one giving absolute ' satisfaction. 17<r? t* ao Qliila ' JU11C13 dUU JLiUglU^Oj KJjLlv**? H Talve, Automatic and Corliss. M My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw I dills cannot be equalled in design, eficiencv or price by any dealer or manuacturer in the South. 3^5 Write for prices and catalogues. . |.i V. 6. Baaiam & Co., 1 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. ,| ?LITE? I ^ vegetable - for Mild, uret'orLiv- the Pleasant, r, Kidney & LIVES Sure. tomach troubles, and 25,50.$!. ?KIDNEYS? lold wholesale by? :? The Murray Drug Co., Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S C iAINS! , THIS ELSGAJTT to. 8 COOKING STOVE j Only $10.00. j flag 17x17 inch oven, iomx 9 bNk__^ it holes; large line* and fwmam- >s. d a good baker. W? H tkfe UTC U.p AVI 5.J yil. H ? W MUV eluding the latest stora van. To advertise oor bmtbmm w ill sell this No. 8 Cooktaf Stan, n ted with 40 pieces of ware for ,-v $10.00 CASH. - "8 II ^ '-^^1 sqp ) Aagssta, 6a. 1 I i , . fl