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V- " ' ' ' THE NUMERAL S EVEN Dr. Taimage Discourses on Bible Mathematics. A FAVORITE NUMBER WITH The Divine Mind. Take Care ci the Present, Says the Great Divine; God Will I aKe of the Fut ure. Many of the important doctrines oi the Bible are by Dr. Talmage presentee in this sermon in a very unusual way. Genesis ii, 3. "God blessed the seventh day." The mathematics of the Bible are noiceable;the geometry and the arithme tic, t e square m .hzekiel, the circle spoken j)f in Isaiah, the curve alludec to iii Job, the rule of fractions men tioned in Daniel, the rule of loss anc gain in Mark, wheie Christ asks the people to cipher ont by that rule what it would ''profit a man if he gain th< whole world and lose his soul." Bui there is one mathematical figure that if crowned above all others in the Bible. It is the numeral seven, which the Ara bi&ns got from India and all following ages have taken from the Arabians. Ii stands between the figure six and the figure eight. In the Bible all the othei numerals bow to it. Over 300 times ii is mentioned in the Scriptures, eithei alone or compounded with other word*. In Genesis the week is rounded intc seven days, and I use my text because there this numeral is for the first time introduced in a journey which halts nol undl in the close of the book of Reveta tion its monument is built into the wal! of heaven in chrysolite, which in the strata of nrecious stones is the seventh. In the Bible we find that Jacob hac to serve seven years to get Rachel, but she was well worth it, and, foretelling the years of prosperity and famine ir Pharaoh's time, the seven fat oxen were eaten up of the seven lean oxen, anc wisdom is said to be built on seven pillars, and the ark was left with the Philistines seven years, and Naaman, foi the cure of his leprosy, plunged in the Jordan seven times; to the house thai Ezekiel saw in vision there we sever steps; the walls of Jericho, before thej fell down, were compassed seven days zecneanan aescnoes a scouc wnu bcvcl eyes; to cleanse a leprous house the door must be sprinkled -with pigeons blood seven times: in Canaan were overthrown seven nations; on one occasior Christ cast out seven devils; on a moun* tain he fed a multitude of pf ,'ole witi seven loaves, the fragments L?:t filling seven baskets, and the closing passages k J.-L _ 1 * ox tiie x>ioie are iiictgumucui auu whelming with the imagery made up oi seven churches, seven stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals, seven angels and seven heads and seven crowns anc seven horns and seven spirits and sever phials and seven plagues and sever thundersYea, the numeral seven seems a favorite with the divine mind outside a; well as inside the Bible, for are then not seven prismatic colors? And whei God with the lainbow wrote the comforting thought that the world woulc never have another deluge he wrote il on the scroll of the sky in ink of sever colors. He grouped into the Pleiades ^ 2.1. - seven stars, iu>me, tne capital ui tut world, sat on seven hills. When G-oc would make the most intelligent thing on earth, the human countenance, h( fashioned it with seven features?the two ears, the two eyes, the two nostrils and the mouth. Yea, our body lasts only seven years, and we gradually shec it for another body after another sever years, and so on, for we are as to oui bodies septennial animals. So the numeral seven ranees through nature and through revelation. It is the number of perfection, and so I use it while I speak of the seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the seven seals and the seven thunders. The seven golden candlesticks were and are the churches. Mark you, the churches never were and never can be candles. They are only candlesticks. They are not the light, but they are to hold the light. A room in the night might have in it 500 candlesticks and yet you could not see your hand before your face. The only use of a candlestick, and the only use of a church is to hold up the light, You see it is a dark world, the night ox sin, the night of ^T-1 . ? ? ^ o*ir\a*?cH H Afi f truuui^j llic \jl ouj^:ouiivu, uuv night of persecution, the night of poverty, the night of sickness, the night of death; aye, about 50 nights have interlocked their shadows. The whole race goes stumbling over prostrated hopes and fallen fortunes and empty flour barrels and desolated cradles and deathbeds. How much we have use for all the seven candlesticks, with lights olazing from the top of each one of them! Light of pardon for all sin! Light of comfort for all trouble! Light of encouragement for all despondency! Light of eternal riches for all poverty! Light of rescue for all persecution! . Light of reunion for all the bereft' .Ligiit of fceaven lor all tne dying: ahq that light is Christ, who is the light that shall yet irradiate the hemispheres. But mark you. when I say churches are not candles, but candlesticks, I cast no siur on candlesticks. I believe in beautiful candlesticks. The candlesticks that God ordered for the ancient tabernacle were something exquisite. They were a dream of beauty carved out of loveliness. They were made of ham xcered gold, stood in a foot of gold and had six branches of gold blooming all along in six lilies of gold each, and lips of gold, from which the candles lifted their holy fire. And the best houses in any city oughc to be the churches? the best built, the best ventilated, the best swept, the best windowed, and the best chandeliered. Log cabins may do in neighborhoods where most of the peopla live in log cabins, but let there be palatial churches for regions where many of the people live in palaces. Do not have a better place for yourself than for your Lord and King. Do not live in a parlor and put your unnst in a kitchen. These seven candlesticks of which I speak were not made of pewter or iron. They were golden candlesticks, and gold is not only a valuable, but a bright metal. Have everything about your church bright?your ushers with smiling faces, your music jubilant, your handshaking cordial, your entire service attractive. Many people feel that in church they must look dull, in order to be reverential, and many whose faces in other kinds of assemblage show all the different phases of emotion have in church no more expression than the \ back wheel of a hearse. Brighten up and be responsive. If you feel like wefeping, weep. If you feel like smiling, smile. If you feel indgnant at some wrong assailed from tha pulpit, frown. Do not leave your naturalness and resiliency home because it is Sunmorning. If as officers of a church k you meet people at the church door with a black look, and hare the music black and the minister in black preach a black sermon, and from invocation to ( benediction have the impression black, few will come, and those who do come ! will wish that they had not come at I all. Golden candlesticks! Scour up the six lilies on each branch and know that 1 ~ 1 tt A V\t?i rrVi f 7 O T*i^ flip I lue JLLHJ1C iytci^ auu uuguu j more fit they are to hold the light. But r I Constantine, but transformed to basy j uses by Mohammed the second. Buile out of colored marble, a cupola -with 24 | windows soariDg to a height of ISO feet. | the- ceiling uue great; bewilderment of | mosaic, galleries supported by eight columns of porphyry and 67 columns of , green jasper, nine bronze doors with ' alto relievo work, fascinating to the eye ^ of any artist, vases and vestments in crusted with ah manner of precious 1 stones. Four v, alls on fire with indescribable splendor. Though labor was cheap, the building cost ?1,500,000. Ecclesiastical | structure, almost supernatural in pomp ' and majesty. But Mohammedanism " tore down from the walls of that buildl ing all the saintly and Christly images, * viyv in f'nmn f.VlA of duu w ?Q ^ ?? ^ the cross was rubbed out that the cres'' cent of the barbarous Turk might be ' substituted. A great church, but no 5 Christ! A gorgeous candlestick, but no candle! Ten thousand such churches " would not give the world as much light as one homemade tallow candle by which last night some grandmother in the eighties put on her spectacles and read the Psalms of David in large type. : Up with the churches by aJI means! * Hundreds of them, thousands of them, and the more the better. But let each > one be a blaze of heavenly light, making 5 the world brighter and brighter, till the 5 last shadow has disappeared and the k last of the suffering children of God " shall have reached the land where they ' have no need of candlestick or ';of can' die, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they ! shall reign forever and ever." Seven ; candlesticks the complete number of > lights! Let your light shine before 1 men, that they, seeing your good works > may glorify your Father which is in ^ heaven. Turn now in your Bible to the seven " stars. We are distinctly told that they : are the ministers of religion. Some are 5 large stars, some of them small stars, ' some of them sweep a wide circuit and 1 some of them a small circuit, but so fa: r as they are genuine they get their light ! from the great central sun around whom 1 they make revolution. Let each one ; keep in his sphere. The solar system would be soon wrecked if the stars, in" stead of keeping their own orbits should 1 2t> to huntinc down other stars. Minis i~> - w " ters ol' religion should never clash. But 1 in all the centuries of the Christian ' church some of these stars have been 5 hunting an Edward Irving or a Horace ' Bushnell or an Albert Barnes, and the c stars that were in pursuit of the other " stars lost their own orbit, and some of * them could never again find it. Alas L for the heresy hunters! The best way ' to destroy error is to preach the truth. 1 The best way to scatter darkness is to strike a light. There is in immensity " room enough for all the stars and in the 3 church room enough for all the minis 5 ters. The ministers who give up righte1 ousness and the truth will get punish ment enough anyhow, for they are "'the t wandering stars for whom is reserved k the blackness of darkness forever." 1 I should like, as a minister, when I 5 am dying to be able truthfully to say 5 what a captain of the English army, l fallen at the head of his column and > dying on the Egyptian battlefield, said 5 to General Wolseley, who came to con dole with him: "I led them straight. 3 Didn't I lead them straight, general?" > God has put us ministers as captains in I this battlefield of truth against error. 1 Great at last will be our chagrin if we : fall leading the people the wrong way, ! | but great will be our gladness if when 5 I the battle is over we can hand our sword ' J back to our great commander, saying: | "'jLora Jesus: we iea tne peopie ! straight. Didn't we lead them straight? * Those ministers who go off at a tangent and preach some other gospel are not ! stars, but comets, and they flash across ! the heavens a little while and make : people stare and throw down a few meteoric stones, and then go out of 1 sight if not out of existence. Brethren : in the ministry, lot us remember that God calls us stars, and our business is to shine and to keep our own sphere, and then when we get done trying to light up the darkness of this world we will wheel into higher spheres, and in us shall be fulfilled the promise. "They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever." The ministers are not all Pecksniffs and canting hypocrites, as some would have you think! Forgive me if, having at other times glorified the medical profession and the legal profession and the literary profession, I glorify my own. I have seen them in their homes and he;trd theic in their pulpits, and a grandei array of men never breathed, and thfi Rihlfi figure is not strained - ? ' - ~ ? < when it calls them stars. And whole ' constellations of glorious ministers have already taken their places on high, ; where they shine even brighter than ; they shone on earth. Edward X. Kirk of the Congregational church, Stephen , H. Tying of the Episcopal church, Mat- , chew Simpson of the Methodist church, John Dowling of the Baptist chuch, j Samuel K. Talmage of the Presbyte rian church, Thomas DeWitt of the ; Reformed church, John Chambers of ' the Independent church, and there 1 ( stop, for it so happens that I have men- , tioned the seven stars of the seven churches. ( I pass on to another mighty Bible i ? ? t i seven, ana tney are :ne seven seais. : St. John in vision saw a scroll with sev- < en seals, and he heard an angel cry: 1 '; Who is worthy to loose the seals there- j of?,: Take eight or ten sheets of fool- i scap paper, paste them together and i roll them into a scroll and have the < scroll at seven different places sealed 1 with sealing wax. You unroll the scroll till you come to one of these i seals and then you can go no farther i until you break that seal. Then un- s roll again until you come to another i seal, and you can go no farther until ] you break that seal. Then you go on 1 until all the seven seals are broken and i the contents of the entire scroll are re- ; vealed. Now, that scroll with seven seais held by the angel was the proph- ; ecy of what was to come on the earth. ! It meant that the knowledge of the fu- 1 ture was with God, and no man and no i angel was worthy to open it, but the 1 Bible says Christ opened it and broke i all the seven seals. He broke the first seal and unrolled the scroll, and there was a picture of a white horse, and that meant prosperity and triumph for the Roman empire, and so it really came to to pass that for 90 years virtuous emperors succeeded each other?Xerva Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the vision broke the second seal and unroll ed again, and there was a picture of a i red horse, and that neant bloodshed, and so it really came to pass, and the l nest 90 years were red with assassina -r "?*. - ,;r :y ^ ^ - !?l M..^- ^ " " 0. , ,. n ? Mt hi i i i ri i i m i t imrnm i 1 acai tions and war*, Then Christ broke the third seal and unrolled it, and there was a picture of a black horse, which in all literature means famine, oppression and taxation, and so it really came to pass. Christ went on until he broke all the seven seals and opened all the scroll. Well, the future of all of us is a sealed scroll, and I am glad that no one but Christ can open it. Do not let ns inin thatnlasa of Chritians in our day who are trying to break the seven seals of the future. They are trying to peep into things they have no business with. Do not go to some necromancer or spiritualist or soothsayer or fortune teller to find out what is going to happen to yourself or your family or your friends. "Wait till Christ breaks the seal to find out whether in your own personal life or the life of the nation or the life of the world it is going to be the white horse of prosperity or the red horse of war or the black horse of fam ine. You will soon enough see him paw and hear him neigh. Take care of the present, and the future will take care of itself. If a man live 70 years, his biography is in a scroll having at least seven seals. And let him not during the first ten years of his life try to look into the twenties, nor the twenties into the thirties, nor the thirties into the forties, nor the forties into the fifties, nor the fifties into the sixties, nor the^sixties into the seventies. From the way the years have got the habit of racing along I guess you will not have to wait a great while before all the seals of the future are broken. I would not give 2 cents to know how long I am going to live or in what day of what year the world is going to be demolished. I would rather give $1,000 not to know. Suppose some one could break the next seal in the scroll of your personal hisx? _t?u tory auu SI1UIUU ten )UU mal uu ujuc next 4th of July, 1901, you were to die, the summer after next, how much would you be rood for between this and that? It would from now until then be a prolonged funeral. You would be counting the months and the days, and your family and friends would De counting them, and next 4th of July you would rub your hands together and whine: "One year from today I am to go, Dear me! I wish no one had told me so long before. I wish that necromancer had not broken the seal of the future.And meeting some undertaker. vou would say: "I hope you will keep yourself free for an engagement the 4th of July, 1901. That day you will be needed at my house. To time yeu might as well take my n < ^ ure now, 5 feet 11 inches." I amjs.fi that Christ dropped a thick veil over the hour of our demise and of the hour of the world's destruction when he s-aid: "Of that day and hour kno^eth no man; no, not the angels, but my Father only." Keep your hands off the seven seals. There is another mighty seven of the Bible?namely, the seven thunders. "What those thunders meant we are not told, and there has been much guessing about them. But they are to come, we are told, before the end of all things, and the world cannot get along without them. Thunder is the speech of lightning. There are evils in our world which must be thundered down and which will require at least seven volleys to prostrate them. We are all doing nice, delicate, soft handed work in churches and reformatory institutions, against the evils of the world, and much of it amounts to a teaspoon dipping out the Atlantic ocean, or a clam shell digging away at a mountain, or a tack hammer smiting the G-ibraitar. What is needed is thunderbolts, and at least seven of them. There is the long line of fraudulent commercial establishments, every stone in the foundation and every brick in the wall, and every nail in the rafter made out of dishonesty, skeletons of poorly paid sewing girls' arms in every beam of that establishment, human nerves worked into every figure of that embroidery, blood in the deep dye of that refulgent upholstery, billions of dollars of accumulated fraud intrenched in massive storehouses and stock companies manipulated by unscrupulous men, until the monopoly is defiant of all earth and heaven. How shall the evil be overcome? By treatises on the maxim, ''Honesty is the best policy?" Or by soft repetition of the golden rule that we must "Do unto others as we would have them do to us?" No. it will not be done that way. "What is needed and will corae is the seven thunders. There is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightier than in any other business. Intoxicating liquors enough in this country to float a navy. G-ood grain to the amount of 67,950,000 bushels annually destroyed to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associations, our nation spending annually $740,000,000 for rum, resulting in bankruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth, assassination, death, illimitable woe. What will stop them? High license? No. Prohibition laws? No. Churches? No. Moral suasion? No. Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else will. Seven thunders! Yonder are intrenched infidelity and atheism, with their magazines of literature scoffing at our Christianity, their Li-UC pjLllitiLlg jj icwto uuoj \xaj auj night. Thera are their blaspheming apostles, their drunken Tom Paines and tibertime Voltaires of the present as well as the past, re-enforced by all the powers of darkness, from highest demon to lowest imp. What will extirpate those monsters of infidelity and atheism? John Brown's shorter catechism ibout "Who made you" or Westminster catechism about "What is the chief snd of man?" No. Thunderbolts! The seven thunders! For the impureLies of the world, empalaced as well as sellared, epauleted as well as ragged, enthroned as well as ditched; for corrupt legislation which at times makes Dur state and national capitals a hemispheric stench; for superstitions that Iceep whole nations in squalor century virrrrArnonfcj XllCX UtiilU.1 J , CLX^IJL ju^v/iuauto viu^uing, their knives lacerating, their waters irowning, their funeral pyres burning, the seven theunders! Oh, men ana women, disheartened at the bad way things often go, hear you QOt a rumbling down the sky of heavy artillery, coming in on our side, the seven thunders of the Almighty? Do not let us try to wield them ourselves. Phey are too heavy and too fiery for us to handle, but God can and God will, and when all mercy has failed and all milder means are exhausted, then judgement will begin. Thunderbolt*! Depend upoQ it, that what is not done under the flash of the seven candlesticks will be done by the trampling of the seven thunders. But I leave this imperial and multipotent numeral seven, where the Bible leaves it, imbedded in the finest wall that was ever built or will be constructed, the wall of heaven. It is the seven strata of precious stones that make up that wall. After naming six of the precious stones in that wall the Bible cries out, "IHe seventn chrysolite is an exquisite green, and in that. seventh layer of the heavenly wall shall be preserved forever the dominant color of the earth we once inhabited. I tare sometimes been saddened at the thought that this world, according to science and revelation, is to be blotted out of existence, for it is such a beautiful world. But here in this layer of the heavenly wall, where the numeral seven is to be imbedded, this stratum of green is to be photographed and embalmed and perpetuated, the color of the grass that covers the earth, the color of the foliage that fills the forest, the color of the deep sea. One glance at that green chrysolite, 1,000,000 years after this planet has been ex tinguished, will bring to mind just how it looked in summer and spring, and we will say to those who were bom blind on earth and never saw at all in this i world after this they have obtained full eyesight in heaven, "If you would know how the earth appeared in June and August, look at the seventh layer of the heavenly wall, the green of the chrysolite." And while we stand there and talk, spirit with spirit, that old color of the earth, which had more sway than all the other colors put together, will bring back to us our earthly experience?, and, noticing that this green chrysolite is the seventh layer of crystallized magnificence, we may bethink ourselves of the domination of that numeral seven over all other numerals and thank God that in the dark earth we left behind us we so long enjoyed the light of the seven golden candlesticks and were all of us permitted to shine among the seven stars of more or less magnitude, and that all the seven seals of the mysterious future have been broken wide open for us by a loving Christ, and that the seven thunders, having done their work, have ceased reverberation, and that the numeral seven, which did such tremendous work .1--' 1U I LLC iiiaiUiJ' Ui Liatiuiio uu guitu, iiac been given such a high place in that Niagara of colors, the wall of heaven, "the fisrt foundation of which is Jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite." The Money Question. The thing of fundamental importance -rr.r\nn.TT io ofo Vli 11+V rtf OTC Vl 9 n Cr<? VO 1 11 0 1 LI Xi-i. \J <U \sj AO (JUOtUiiiVJ V* T VWA MN/ or purchasing power. Any system of finance that fails to give us a unit of value, which, during long periods of time, measures off approximately the same quantity of staple commodities as its equivalent, is essentially a dishonest and unsound system. "We hear much about "money that is sound, safe, hon- J est, the best, at a parity with gold, that j .vill stand the lire and hammer test, worth 100 cents on the dollar," etc., and also much about "depreciated, debased dishonest fifty-cent dollars," but those who prate loud and long on this matter utterly fail to grasp the true and complete conception of money, viz., that it is not merely a medium of exchange, but also it is a standard of value for deferred payments. In the 1 P T-> - .1 J!_ WOrQS 01 ?J gicau DLai^oJJLicuaj Mr. Balfour, ;'money has to serve not merely as a medium of exchange, bu also as a fair and permanent record of obligations extending over long periods of time. This is the great and fundametal requirement." And he further says here the gold standard totally and lamentably fails." If monev was simply a medium by which products were j exchanged, and there was no such thing as credit in the business world, it might fluctuate in purchasing power without working any great havoc, but it so happens that the great bulk of business is done on credit, that progress, industrial development and civilization are impossible without it. By means of it the seas have been covered with commerce, the continent cobwebbed with transportation lines, and the wilderness turned into mighty cities, fruitful farms and happy homes. ! They who have built up the world, been the pioneers of civilization, cleared up the prairies and founded our workshops, churches and schools have done it with borrowed funds! They are the ones who, above ail otner3, saouia j be appreciated, upheld and encouraged. J It ought to be evident to the dullest mind that any system of money that I compels these borrowers to return a bet- I ter dollar, one that requires more labor to get, than the one borrowed, if an unjust and dishonest one, and strikes a fatal blow at the very foundation of the social and business world. Judged by the supreme, rational and righteous tests of stability of purchasing power, the gold dollar has grown to be a 200cent dollar measured by the honest 100I cent dollar of t?enty-six years ago. It * " ? v | j was sucn a aonar tneu ucvauac uau ' kept comparatively stable for many years in exchange value over commodities, owing to the fact that silver had equal rights at the world's mints, and shared with it equally the world's demand for redemption money. Every man who has entered into any time contract to pay dollars since the world's mints were shut to the unlimited coinage of silver has been forced to pay dollars worth from 1 to 100 per cent more, according to the age of the debt, than the ones he borrowed, and chat he ought to pay. This is a fact, ' " * 1 AA I because the dollar nas grown ?vv percent. since in command over stable commodities. To the extent that dollars have thus grown, the unfortunate debtors a ad all others subject to fixed charges have been robbed. Since 1873 the governments of the world have been in league with bond and mortgage holders and the receivers of fixed incomes to plunder the world's toilers without redress. Through the efforts of the scheming villains, who have tried to coil the contra3ting folds of the gold standard around the necks of lok . fho rtntnut nf the mints has been iftWUi J UUJ VUV|JV.? x, lessened till it requires double the labor and products of labor to earn the dollars due on the mortgaged homes of millions of poor men that it would have required had the world's output of dollars been allowed to keep apace with it soutput of products. Corn Stalk Trust. And now it is said that a corn stalk trust will be organized. The cornstalk is used in the manufacture of cellulose. Only a few thousand tons of stalks are now used, but it is said the trust will build other factories in the great com belt, and it is the expectation that the stalks will sell f )r $5 or $6 a ton. Negro Robber Lynched. Henry Stuart, the neero whc robbed and soriuusiy shot Gail Hamilton, a no:;ru, aud robbed M. Choate, a section foieman, Sunday morning, at Fulton, Ky., his taken out at midnight Tuesday and lynched by a supposed negro and white mob. The excitement is high among the negroes. He Was Lucky. The northern newspapers are making a big fuss over the fact that a young woman ran away and married a man who was to be an usher at her wedding to another man. The man who was left is certainly lucky. The other ellow's case has not yet been settled. Five Drowned. Five men were drowned Thursday in the Mississippi a mile above Clerksviile, Mo., by the overturning of a skiff. ; They were government labore s engaged n the river improvement work. "THE WIDOWS GHAUT." ' I A Gift to the Epworth Orphanage' and Its Effects. 1 The following is from the last issue of the Southern Christian Advocate: We are pleased to publish the correspondence and appeal below. Such self-sacrifice as this woman shows should be known and recognized. South Carolina Methodists can contribute the thousand dollars called for by Brother Waddell, and the sum should be placed where in all time to come men may learn of the "Widow's Chain." We give Brother Waddell's letter entire: Dear Dr. Wilson: On the 8th of June I received an express package in which there was a valuable gold chain. . It was from an unknowu donor to the Epworth orphanage. The following letter was enclosed in the same package | with the chain: Dear Brother: As I listened to your talk how I wished for money; but I had none to give. I enclose a chain placed around my neck when a bride by my dear husband, long since gone to rest. You can imagine the remembrances that cluster around it. I will say no more. The chain is worth $20, sold as old gold valued by a jeweler. At least you can get something for it. It is all I have to give. May the Lord bless you in your work and open up the way to greater things is the -humble prayer of A Widow. Of course the chain must go back to % * * ! /? tUe unknown giver, wnen sneis iouna, but the men and women of" this State, of good impulses and noble sentiments, should put up at least $1,000 as redemption money for the chain. As the widow who contributed her two mites and the woman who broke the box of ointment over the head of the Master are perpetuated in history because of the noble inspiration that comes to us through their deeds, so should this noble act of self-denial inspire us to sacrifices for the Master's sake. This woman gives, possibly, one of her dearest possessions to bless and to help others. Soa wTiat "RrnfliAr Mr>Lpnd savs about it: Dear Brother Waddell: Find my check for $50 on the ''Widow's Chain" as my part. I hope to raise as much more in a day or two and send it. Yovr brother. J. W. McLeod. Manning, S. C. See what Brother Strauss has to say: Dear Sir and Brother: Enclosed find my check for $20 sent by Trinity Sun'VnrlnrillA S P! fnT 1 TlA VAO.JT JV.iVVAj AViU>mvj 1 -w* -~v gold chain sent to you by the unknown widow. When you find her please return the chain to her with the compliments of Trinity Sunday School, Yorkville. Yours fraternally. H. C. Strauss. If this noble, self-sacrificing deed is worth anything to you, send us the amount and let the chain be redeemed, not by its intrinsic value in dollars and cents, but according to the greatness of the sacrifice. Such a deed as this is worth something. Yours truly, G. H. Waddell, Columbia, S. C., June 19 1899. Mob Law in New England. While the overly good people of New England have been holding up their hands in holy horror because of an occassional lynching in the South that most brutal of all mob law punishment, tarring and feathering, seems to bave become a favorite pastime among our Yankee brethren. A few days ^go a New Hampshire sheriff was the victim in a performance similar to that in which the Maine preachor had starred a week or two before, with the exception that the sheriff was not rid(lan nn a Mil as if is said the Dreacher I was. The sheriff?Frank Yatter, of Haverhill?it seems had arrested a a citizen named Clark for drunkenness. Clark pleaded guilty and was fined. Two days later the sheriff was summoned to quell an alleged drunken disturbance, when he was enticed into a basement and tarred and feathered by a mob. After his escape from the mob | he started in to have his tormentors borught to justice, but the citizens ' "made it so warm for him'' that he fled the state into Vermont. A Hanover, N. H., dispatch to the New York Press telling of the affair excuses it on the ground that Yatter's "neighbors found him none too pleasant a man to get along with, and certain insults which he is alleged to have offered to a woman in Haverhill only served to make matters worse." That justifies the whole proceeding. The overly pious, good people of Haverhill did not like the Sheriff, and therefore they tarred and feathered him. There is no mob law in this when it is done in New England, but it is decidedly so when done in the South. Oh, ye hypocrites! Chicago Ahead. The Greenville News says "it was supposed that Chicago had discounted New York and Atlanta, when one of her citizens stole his neighbors well. Chicago added to her laurels a few years ago by gobbling a railway ireignt train with contents. Another incident has come to light showing the superiority of Chicago experts over the two rival cities. About a year ago fifty hospital ambulances billed for Tampa, Florida, were loaded on seventeen freight cars at Chicago, and from that day to this nothing has been heard from cars or ambulances. Something like a ton of red cape, enough to reach from Chicago to Tampa has been used to ascertain the location of the missing train and ambulances, but the department can get no clue either as to start or finish of the transportation. The railway company is clamoring for the missing ' - ? - xl. . T cars, claimed to nave oeen in tue muus of the government and the government is demanding return of the ambulances or twenty thousand dollars, invoice of same. All that can be learned is that train and ambulances melted away in Chicago and indication? are that they will remain melted." Massacre by Filipinos Captain Johnson Spicer, of the British ship George T. Hay, recently from Manila, has received a letter from bis brother, Capt. George Spicer, of the British ship Glooscap, saying that all the adult male Spanish residents of Balabac, the extreme southwest island of the Philipines, had been massacred by the natives. The letter was given zo J. F. Whitney & Co., shipping agents of 81 New street, and they sent it to the maritime exchange, where it was posted on the bulletin board. Chicago has gone to bragging again about her population. The Atlanta Journal thinks that if the Windy City continues to brag New York will have to find somthing else to annex, the chops and lathee. \ What the Department of Agriculture | Says About Them. The following is the weekly bulletin of the South Carolina scction of the climate and crop service of the United States weather bureau issued last week by director jsauer: The temperature during the week ending June 26th, averaged nearly normal, with cool nights early in the week, but not cold enough to check the growth of crops. The rainfall was confined to small! areas in the southeastern portion of j the State, where light to heavy show- i ers occurred on the 21st, accompanied j in places by damaging hail and high i winds. A light shower occurred in other portions of the State on the same date. It is very dry. over the north central and northwestern counties, where crops of all kinds, except possibly early cotton, are suffering for rain. The weather was favorable for culti vatmg field crops, and but lew reports of grassy fields were received. Bud worms continue to devastate corn and bacco, catterpillars to destroy rice, and lice have appeared on young cotton in a single county. Cotton continues to do well, with a rapid growth except in the "up-country," where the soil lacks moisture, but the crop as a whole is very promising. Blooms are reported from nearly every section of the State. Sea Island cotton is in excellent condition and blooming freely. Corn improved generally, but is not promising except over limited areas. Wnrmo tlrrooton ifc min OTI hflttom lands in Pickens county, and have injured it severely elsewhere. Laying by is general. Tobacco varies greatly throughout the district. Reports of damage by worms are numerous, 3nd many report very poor stands. Cutting and curing has begun, but this work will not be general until the first week in July. Rice planting is finished. Young rice is being injured by catterpillars. F.-esh water flooding is needed in some sections and is not available. Wheat aDd oats threshing is nearly finished; yields of wheat fall below the average, and of oats are generally poor. Melons are poor in places, and gen1? ^ t rvAr rAff/snincr anmp KZL&Liy xvuvvuau^ wv? *?. Apples generally plentiful, but are dropping badly. Slow progress is being made in setting sweet potato slips. Irish potatoes are a failure. Pastures improving slowly. Peas being sown on stubble and in with com where the soil will admit. The Venerable Senate. The senate of the United States that will meet at the opening of the fiftysixth congress will be a body of mature men. The average age of its 86 members is 56 years and 6 months, or a little more. The aggregate years of these Of* ? A O H '1* A A! J OAMAf A1* co men are i, out. xut; uiucsn ncuawi is Edmund Winston Pettus, of Alabama, who is 78, and the youngest senator is Marion Butler, of North Carolina who is 36. The 86 senators may be classified by ages as follows: 75 and 80 2 70 and 75 9 65 and 70 8 60 and 65 17 55 and 60 11 50 and 55 18 45 and 50 12 40 and 45. 5 35 and 40 4 Luther F. Perry committed suicide at Augusta by taking morphine. He was a member of the First South Caro lina volunteer infantry, and when the regiment was mustered out lie staid in Augusta. A letter found in bis pocket was directed to Mr. John Perry, Wingate, N. 0., and said that he intended to end his life on account of ill health. About the time a man gets ready to lay up something for a rainy day i: begins to rain. To get strong and healthy use one bottle Murray's Iron Mixture. Price 50c THE MM DRDfi GO-, jjaaSajjagagSas HON! this High Arm Sewinc Fmlly pureatMd for tern, j afl fiu Tilnft afetM&EMtcte, 1 naltd wood n&. Price $18.( Maoiy pofnadwd sfter 30 da 0 Iteaot as s?o4 as the $48.Cd to atskaaft^NtotiEsfor Fwni flattttip, Carjrta, Sewi Address I HIS & II12 Bri 9 jgyfc I , ?? ' ':r*m%zsimm y- r,. J.-.-.-;,' furehaser || A Cr'ooct js I _J?is2io 11 {& / ; iast a ! .x i?- <v - :i; jSsre jiietime se ffc fb-'t-f. ri> and give ?? * =>-".' % yv-^igl endless en- ?g S fi i A Poor Piane ?? ^ will last a few *53 1 r .w >r%.: 3#rs and?/ give endless aw ' gg TUc vexatMu 1 Mathoshek 11 :? always Good, always RellaJ^Bj a* ^ ?jf always Satisfactory, alwSys L?$> Jnv b $ ?' ing. Yoa take no chances ih 5oy? 9H ft 1 it costs somewhat ^ore that & sgl XW cheap, poor ptilno, but is much the BJ ?2 cheapest in the end. _ * A sS? No other Hisrh Grade Piairo sdldse M ?S* reasonable, i^actotypi'itfesterfitag lgl c A? buyers. Easy payments. Write a*, fffi 25 * L'JDDfcW & fiAtESV jgj Sa-foffMb* Gc>, and $ xr ttofeCTfr. jg} e idfiress: D. A. PRE36LES, Ajent, 4 COLUMBIA. S. C. 0 Sinning Machinery. _ 0 o The Smith Pnenmatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System Is the simplest and most efficient on the market: Forty-eight complete ^ outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfactionBoilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw Mills cannot be equalled in design, efficiencv or mice bv anv dealer or manu- * facturer in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. G. lattam & Co., 1326 Main Street,. COLUMBIA, S. C. 1 i - L.L&K ; ( NO THLS'G LIKE IT T*/\T> ?\JJA i k Constipation^ j indigestion, 1 fsl Rffgiiter Kiiagys. i i TVholesaL' by? ? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. J Da. H. BAER, > Charleston, S C g Macfeat's. , School of SHORTHAND ?AND? J TYPEWRITING I COLUMBIA, S. C. Thia School has tie reputation of being the best busitoeaa institution in tie State. Grad- ? uates are noiuing remunerative positions m mercantile house?, banking, Insuraace, real estate, railroad offices, ic., m this and other etates. Write to W. H. Masfeat, Court nzrapher Comulbia, 8. C forteras, etc j Machine . fp van, fitted iritk |p scaatifnlly ora? 560.00 zaaehizM* gra /V yoa TFaai. Ppa^ ^ [tare, St?YC3, as JSagftiwcs, The Padgett Furr sad Street, It is the== -?Custom 1 Jut a very pocr one, to wait until the ginning season is on before locking to see what fix the gin is in. Now is the time to ?ErHURRY^r* YOUR GIN TO TEE 9i!WM ILIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS. 1 Do not delay and then ask ns to let you . ave it at once, for thorough work cannot e d:ne in a hurry. Ihe attention given ' kto ty>of cr T>i-kW rrtrtPO iVi<Ln TflnftV VOll "i ?u( - ?? '^.j rhen the cotton is white in ihe fields nd the gin house crowded. The work is ] oming in already, so fhip at once to the .odersigned, located at the old electric light '1 ngine house. References by permission:?W. H. Gibbes i Co , V C. Ba-Jham, Jno. .1 Willi*. ggT'Mark your Dame and shipping point n work sent and prepay the freight. 4 The Elliott Gin Repair Works, -J W. J. ELLIOTr, Proprietor, . - | All We Ask of I ?henD{?ANYTHING 1 n tle Machinery or Mill Supply Line _ Is that you give us au opportunity 1 to submit our prices and make... comparisoBS. We ask this be cause we believe we can make it to YOUR advantage. TRY US. Ye make a specialty of equipping LMPRuVED MODERN GIN- 1 NERIES OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND HOST EFFICIENT COTTON TI A\Tnr.T\Tfi. *APPAT?ATnS TV EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending puricasers solicited. 'A W. H. fiibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAKOLINA AGENCY Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. FarqnharCo., Ltd., York, Pa. Sagle Cotton Gin Co., Bridgewater, Mass. Jtranb Machinery Co., Cincinnati, 0. Lhe If afilnv 1 IIVVIVJ .26 SMITH STREET, f| Cos. Vaxdebhorst, |ltl| f{ 1 CHARLESTON. g. C. V _J 1LCOHOL '-! MORPHINE )PIUM COBACCO 3IG-ABETTE A urns m Produce each a disease having defin fl te pathology. The disease yields easily to the Doable Chloride of Gold Crcatmeat as administered at the above ^ ieeley Institute. -j N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is idministered in South Carolina *3V CHARLESTON. I m ? 1 ?LIFE? | i vegetable for Mild, :uret'or Liv- the Pleasant, :r, Kidney & LIVER Sure. itomach troubles, and 25, 50, $1. -KIDNEYS* Sold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co., Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S C 8 . w-. ~^f]y iAINS! | ;r THIS ELEGAJfT 1o. 8 COOKING STOVE Only $10.00. I ?as 17x17 inch oven, four 8 inch -I >t holes; large fines and guaam?d a good baker. We ft* this ?ove np with forty pieces at -ware eluding the latest store wars. To advertise oar business wo j ill sell this No. 8 Cooking Stove, 4 tted with 40 pieces of ware for ~ 1 $70. OO CASH. : -j j 1 $L S^^mra ^K litare Co. I Augusta, Ga. I J H5B5H5BHei:|p