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GLORIOUS DELUSION
Dr. Talmage Satirizes the Antagonists
of Christianity.
THE CEEAT PREACHER
Depicts in a Very Unusual Way
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the 1 riumpns ot xnc
A Delusion Which Overpowers
the'iStrong
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est inieneci.s.
* The antagonists of the Christian religion
are in this sermon of Dr. Talmage
met in a very ucusual way, and
the triumphs of the gospel are depicted.
The text is Ezekiel xxxi, 21, "He made
his arrows bright, he consulted with
images, he looked in the liver."
Two modes of r.iviniation by which
the king of B?.bylon proposed to find
out the will of God. He took a bundle
?farrows, put them together,, mixed
them up, then pulled forth one and by
the inscription on it decided what city
he should first assault. Then an animal
was slain, and by the lighter "r
darker color of the liver the brighter or
darker prospect of success was inferred.
That is the meaning of the text, '"He
made his arrows bright; he consulted
?: ? v.A in the liver."
Wl'jii Jiuagca, a\ ?
Stupid delusions. And yet all the ages
have been filled with delusions.
feeufs as if the world loves to be hoodwinked,
the delusion of the text only a
specimen of a vast number of deceits
practiced upon the human race. In the
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latter part of tJae last cemury uuuauua
Southcote came forth pretending to have
divine power, made prophecies, had
chapels built in her honor, and lOO,
000 diciples came forward to f&llow her.
Abeut five years before the birth oi
Christ Apollonius was born, and he
came forth, and after five years being
speechless, according to the tradition,
he healed the sick and raised the dead
and preached viitue and, according tc
the myth, having deceased, was brought
to resurrection.
vast
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multitudes of people; the Pythoness,
seated in the temple of Apollo, uttering
a crazy jargon from which the people
guessed their individual or national
fortunes or misfortunes. The utterances
were of such a nature that you
could read them any way you wanted
to read them. A general coming forth
to battle consulted the Delphic oracle,
and he wanted to find out whether he
was going to be safe in the battle*or
killed in battle, and the answer came
forth from the Delphic oracle in such
words that if you put the comma before
the word "never" it means cne tiling
and if you put the comma after the
word "never" it means another thing
just opposite. The messages from the
Delphic oracle to the general was, "Go
forth, return never in battle shalt thou
perish." If he was killed, that was according
to the Delphic oracle; if he
came home safely, that was according
to the Delphic oracle.
So the ancient auguries deceived the
people. The priests of those aucuries,
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Dy tne mgnt ox Dixus ur uy liio xjawMM
tion of thunder or by the inside appearance
of slain animals, told the fortunes
or misfortunes of individuals or nations.
The sibyls deceived the people. The
sibyls were supposed to be inspired women
who lived in caves and who wrote
the sibylline books afterwards purchased
by Tarquin the Proud, So late as
the year 1829 a man arose in New York,
pretending to be a divine being, and
played his . part so well that wealthy
merchants became his diciples and threw
their fortunes into his keeping. And
so in all ages there have been necromancies,
incantations, witchcrafts, sorceries,
magical arts, enchantments, di
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vmauuus auu uciusiuu^ auv ^j-h*
the text was only a specimen of that
which has been occurring in all ages of
the world. None of these delusions
accomplished any good. They deceived,
they pauperized the people, they
were as cruel as they were absurd.
They opened no hospitals, they healed
no wounds, they wiped awsy no tears,
they emancipated no serfdom.
But there are those who say that all
these delusions combined are as noth
mg compared with tne ceiusicz cow
. abroad in the world, the delusion 01 cl.c
Cliristian religion. That delusion has
today 400,000,000 dupes. Ic proposes
to encircle the earth with its girdle.
That which has been called a delusion
has already overshadowed the Appalachain
range on this side the sea, and it
has overshadowed the Balkan and Cau
casion ranges, on the other side the sea.
It has conquered England and the United
States. This champion delusion,
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tins noax, tms swmaie 01 tne ages, as iihas
been called, has gone forth to con
quer the islands of the Pacific, and
Melanesia and Micronesia and Walayan
Polynesia have already surrendered to
the delusion. ^Tea, it has conquered
the Indian archipelago and Borneo, and
Sumatra and Celebes and Java have
fallen under its wiles. In the Fiji islands,
where there arc 120,000 jeople,
102,000 have already becomc the dupes
of this Christian religion, and if things
go on as they are now going on and if
the influence of this great hallucination
of the ages cannot be stopped, it will
swallow the globe. Supposing then
that Christianity is the delusion of the
centuries, as some have pronounced it,
I propose to show you what has been
accomplished by this chimera, this fallacy,
this hoax, this swindle of ages.
Admiral Farragut, one of the most
admired men of the American navy,
early became a victim of this Christian
delusion, and, seated not long before
his death at Long Branch, he was giving
some friends an account of his early
life. He said: "My father "went down
in behalf of the United Statss government
to put an end to Aaron Burr's rebellion.
I was a cabin boy and went
along with him. I could swear like an
old salt. I could gamble in every style
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01 gamDUL0. i Knew an me Tvisseaness
there was at that time abroad.
One day my father cleared everybody
out of the cabin except myself and
locked the door. He said: 'David,
what are yon geing to do? What are
you going to be?' 'Well,' I said, father,
I am going to follow the sea.'
'Follow the sea and be a poor miserable,
drunken sailor, kicked and cuf ed about
the world and die of a fever in a foreign
hospital! 'Oh, no!" I said. 'Father, I
will not be that. I will tread the quarter
deck and command as you do." *No,
David/ my father said. 'Xo. David.
A person that has your principles and
your bad habits will never tiead the
quarter deck or command.' My father
went out and shut the door after him,
and I said to him: 'I will changc. I
will never swear again. I will never
drink again. I will never gamble
again, and, gentlemen, by the help of
God, I have kept those three vows to
this time. I soon after that became a
Christian, and that decided my fate for
time and for eternity."
j Another captive of this gre^i. Chri?j
tian delusion. There goes 5^til of
m -- of fnll Gallon.
; JL2ir$US UU liyiocwava. V.V 0 sr_
I Where Is he going? To destroy Chris|
tians. lie wants no better p?ay spell
j than to stand and watch the hats and
j coats of the murderers who are massacring
God"s children. There goes
I the same man. This time he is afoot.
! Where is he going now? Going on the
j road to Ostia to die for Christ. They
tried to whip it out of him, they tried
| to scare it out of him, they thought
i they ^ould give him enough of it by putj
tin-^ him into a windowless dungeon,
| and keeping him on small diet, and
; denying him a cloak and condemning
j him as a criminal, and howling at him
! tnrnifrli the street but they could not
j sweat it out of him, and they could not
i pound it out of him. so they tried the
; surgery of the sword, and one summer
| day in <J6 he was decapitated?perhaps
'1 c.f tlip 000
| me xiiigitucsw luiciitvfc ?uV -?
! years of the world's existence hoodwicked.
cheated, cajoled, duped by the
Christian religion.
Ah, that is the remarkable thing
about this delusion of Christianity; it
overpowers the strongest intellects.
Gather the critics, secular and religious,
of this century together and put a
vote to them as to which is the greatest
book ever written, and by large majority
they will say "Paradise Lost." Who
wrote t;Paradise Lost?" One of the
fcols who believed in this Bible, .John
Milton. Benjamin Franklin suriondered
to this delusion, if you may
judge from the letter that he wrote to
Thomas Paine begging him to destrov
the '"Age of lleason" in manuscript and
' never let it go into type and writing afterward
in his old days, "Of this Jesus
of Xazareth I have to say that the sys'
tem of morals he left and the religion
1 he has given us are the best things the
^ s\-rr/\y pflATl Ar 1Q llkp.lv tO '
wuuu Lias tn,i pv^ii vj. ?^ f
Patrick Henry, the electric 'champion
: of iberty. enslaved by this delusion, so
iltat he say?, "The hook worth all other
books put together is the Bible."
, Benjamin liush, the leading physiologist
and anatomist of his day, the great
1 medical scientist, what did he say?
"The only true and perfect religion is
Christianity." Isaac Newton, the lead
L-1 ^ nt kio firno wViat 1 fl
lHg punu&upuui U1 IXU nmv,
* he say? That man, surrendering to
this delusion of the Christian religion,
crying out, "The sublimest philosophy
i on earth i^ the philosophy of the gospel."
David Brewster, at the pronunciation
of whose name every scientist
the world over uncovers his head, Da.
vid Brewster saying, ''Oh, this religion
has. been a great light to me, a very
. great light all my days." President
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Tillers, tne great rrencn siawiuau,
. knowledging that lie prayed when he
said, "I invoke the Lord God, in whom
I am glad to believe." David Livings
tone, able to conquer the lion, able to
conquer the -panther, able to conquer
. the savage, yet conquered by this delusion,
this hallucination, this great swin;
die of of the ages, so when they find
him dead thev find him on his knees.
William E. Gladstone, the strongest
intellect in England, unable to resist
this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion
of the Christian religion, went to the
house of God every Sabbath and often
at the Cavitation of the rector read the
prayers to the people. If those mighty
intellects are ovorborne by this delusion,
what chance is there for you and
for me?
Besides that, I have noticed that
first rate infidels cannot be depended
nn frw cfAadfa<?+Tip<?s in the Droclamation
of their sentiments. Goethe, a leading
sceptic, "was so wrought upon by this
Christianity that in a weak moment he
cried out. "My belief in the Biple has
saved me in my literary and moral life."
Rousseau, one of tlie most eloquent
champions of infidelity, spending nis
whole life warring against Christianitycries
out, ''The majesty of the Scriptures
amazes me." Altemont, the notorious
infidel, one would think he
would have been safe against this delusion
of tha Christian religion. Oh, no!
After talking against Christianity all
his days, in his last hours he cried out,
"Oh, thou blasphemed but most indulgent
Lord God, hell itself is a refuge
if it hide me from thy frown." Voltaire.
the most talented infidel the world
ever saw, writing 250 publications, and
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tne most 01 tnem spitenu agamst
Christianity, himself the most notorious
libertine of the century, one would
have thought he could have been depended
upon for steadfastness in the
advocacy of infidelity and in the war
against this terrible chimera, this dej
lusion of the Gospel. But no. In his
I last hour he asks for Christian burial
and asks that they give him the sacrament
of the Lord Jesua Christ. Why,
you cannot depend upon these *rst
rate infidels: you cannot depend upon
their power to resist this great delusion
of Christianity. Thomas Pain, the
god of modern skeptics, his birthday
celebrated in New York and Boston
with great enthusiasm?Thomss Paine,
the paragon of Bible haters; Thomas
Pain, about whom his brother infidel,
William Carver, wrote in a letter which
I have at my h;use, saying that he
drank a quart of rum a day and was too
mean aad too dishonest tc pay for it;
Thomas Paine, the adored of modern
infidelity: Thomas Paine, who stole
another man's wife in Kngland and
brought her to this country: Thomas
Paine, who was so squalid and so loathesorae
and so drunken, and so profligate,
and so beastly in his habits,
sometimes picked out of the ditch,
sometimes too filthy to be picked out:
Thomas Paine, one would have thought
that he conld have been depended on
fnr aorninst-. this jrrrwt f?f>
iusion. But no. In his dying hour
he begs the Lord Jesus Christ for merc7
Yes, this chimera of the gospel is
not satislied until it goes :>n and builds
itself into the most permanent architecture,
so it seems as if the world is
never to get rid of it. What are some of
the finest buildings in the world? St.
Paul's, St. Peter's, churches, cathedrals
of all Christendom. Yes, this impertinence
of the gospel, this vast delusion,
is not satisfied until it projects itself
and in one year gives, contributes,
$0,250,000 to foreign missions, the
work of which is to make dunces and
fools on the othe. side of the world?
people we have never seen. Deluded
doctors?220 physicians meeting week
by week in Lonaonin the union ALiaical
Prayer circle to worship God.
Deluded lawyers?Lord Cairns, the
highest legal authority in England, the
ex-adviser of the throne spending his
j vacation in preaching the gospel of
Jesus Christ to the poor people of
Scotland. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
of New Jersey, once secretary of
state, an old fashioned Evangelical
Christian, on elder in the Reformed
j church: John Bright, a deluded Quaker;
Henry Wilson, ?the vice president
of the United States, dying a deluded
Methodist or Congregationalism Earl of
Kintore dying a < deluded Presbyterian.
And to show the immensity of this
delusion, this awful swindler of the gosi
pel of Jesus Chrsst., I open a hospital
j and I bring into that hospital the
i death beds of a great many Christian
j people, and I take you by the h?nd and
i I walk' up iL"l dotfn tlic'.vraras of Jhat I
! hospital an?, i ask a .?sw questions. j
f I ask. ' Dying Stephen. Trhat have you j
i to say?'1 "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit." "Dying John Wesley, what!
I have you to say?'' "The best of all is !
J God is with us." "Dying Edward Pay- j
| son, what have you to say?" "Ifioat
i in a sea of dory." Dying John Brad- j
ford, what have you to say?" "If
there be any way of going to heaven on
horseback or in a liery chariot, it is
this." "Dying Xeander, what have
you to say?'. "I am going to sleep
now, good night." "Dying Mrs.
Florence Foster, what have you to
say?'' "A pilgrim in the valley, but
! tne mountain tops are <tn agxeaui nuui
! peak to peak." "Dying Alexander
Mathew, what have to say?" "The
Lord who has taken care or me 50
years will Dot cast me off now;
glory he to God and 10 the Lamb:
Amen. amen, aiucn, amen!" "Dying
Jonn Powsoa, after preaching the gospel
so many years, what have you to
eov*>" ';Mv rtant-h is a bed of roses.'
Dying Dr. Thomas Scott, what have
you to say? This is heaven begun. Dying
soldier in the last war, what have
you to say? Boys, I am going to the
front. '"Dying telegraph operator on a
battlefield of Virginia, what have you
to say? The wires are all laid and the
poles are up from Stony Point to headquarters.
Dying Paul, vrhat have you
to say? *'I am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at
i hand; I have fought th^ good fight, I
have finished my course, 1 have kept the
faith, 0 death, where is thy sting? 0
grave, where is thy victory? Thanks
nntn ftnd who siveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Oruy Lord, my God, what a delusion,
what a glorious delusion! Sub*
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merge Die witn it, nil my eyes ami ears
with it. put it under my head for a pillow,
this delusion; spread it over me
for a canopy, put it underneath me for
an outspreading wing, roll U over me in
ocean surges 10,000 fathoms deep. If
infidelity and if atheism and if annihilation
are a reality and the Christian
religion is a delusion, give me the delusion.
The strong confirmation of every reasonable
man and woman is that Christianity
producing such grand results
cannot be a delusion. A lie, a cheat, a
swindle, a hallucination, cannot launch
such a glory of the centuries. Your
logic and your common sense convince
you that a bad cause cannot produce nn
illustrious result, Out of the womb o (
such a monster no such angel can 1~.
born. There are many who began wi a
thinking that the Christian religi .1
was a stupid farce who have come to
the conclusion that it is a reality. Why
are you in the Lord's house toda;. ?
I Why did you sing this song? Why did
you bow your neaas in tne opening
prayer? Why did you bring your family
with you? Why, when I tell you of
the ending of all trials in the bosom of
God, do there stand tears in -your eyes,
not tears of grief, but tears of joy, such
as stand in the eyes of homesick children
faraway at school when some one
talks to them about going home? Why
is it that you can be so calmly submissive
to the death of your loved one
ab^ut whose departure vou once were
so angry and so rebellious? There is
something the matter with you. All
your friends have found out there is a
great change, and if some of you would
give it in scholarly style, and others,
giving their experience, would give it
in broken style, but the one experience
would be just as good as the other.
Some of you have read everything. You
are scientific and you are scholarly and
yet if 1 should osk you, "what is the
most sensible thing you ever did?" you
? * Lt-i ' *1-1. .*.1.: T
wotuci say, " tne most seosioie tuiug j.
ever did was to give my heart to God."
But there may be others who have
not had early advantages, and if they
were asked to give their experience
thev might rise and give such testimo
ny as the mac gave in a prayer meeting
when he said: ' 'On my way here tonight
I met a man who asked me where I was
going. I said, 'I am going to prayer
meeting.' He said, 'there are a good
many religions, and I think the most of
them are delnsions. As to the Christian
religion, that is only a notion, that
is a mere notion, the Christian religion."
I said to him, 'Stranger, you see
that tavern over there?' 'Yes,' he said,
'I see it.' 'Don't you see me?' Yes, of
course I see you.' 'Xow, the time was
when everybody in this town knows if
I had a quarter of a dollar in my pocket
I could not pass that tavern without
going in and getting a drink, all the
people of Jefferson could not keep me
out of that place. But God has chang
ed my heart, and the Lord Jesus Uhnst
has destroyed my thirst for strong
drink, and there is my whole week's
wages and I have no temptation to go in
there. And stranger, if this is a notion
I want to tell you it is a mighty
i nowerful notion. It is a notion that
has put clothes on my children's back
and it it a notion that has put good food
on our table, and it is a notion that has
filled my mouth with thanksgiving to
God. And, stranger, you had better
go along wich me; you might get religion,
too; lots of people are getting religion
now."
Well, we will soon understand it all.
Your life and mine will soon be over.
"VVe will soon come to the last bar of the
music, to the last act of the tragedy, to
the last page of the book?yea, to the
last line and to the last word?and to
you and to me it will either be midnoon
or mid night.
A Murderer Wanted.
A reward of 1,000 marks is offered
for the capture of a murderer named
Gocnezi. who murdered a widow and
her stepdaughter two years ago. He
is wanted not merely for punishment,
but in order that he may give information
as to which woman he killed first.
Each had made a will leaving everything
she owned to the other, and it
turns out that the property amounts to
more than a million marks and should
go to one of the two unrelated sets of
heirs. The German courts have been
unwilling to solve the puzzle by any
presumption of law when the real facts
may be ascertained at any time by the
capture of the murderer, and are holding
the money, a proceeding whose
legality seems to be considered doubt p.,1
1 Ul.
May Ask to be Annexed.
A mail dispatch from Santo Domingo,
dated August 3d, via Haiti, c^nfinus
the cable intelligence telling of the
speed and significance of the revolution
throughout the Dominican republic.
Prominent men in civil and military
circles, (it appears, are taking the field
with the understanding that Jiminez
is the prime mover and that ho will
shortly arrive. Undoubtedly the popularity
of the revolution is due to the
use of the name of Gomez, and should
he decline the presidency of oppose
Jiminez, prominent leaders are already
considering the alternative of calling a
plebescite in order to ascertain whether
the- country would not prefer to renew
the vote of 1ST1 for American annexation
or an American protectorate rather
than elect another dictator.
THE PENITENTIARY^!
[CoTTtiuucd from First Page.]
being generous with the State's assets
and especially to himself. We hold
that both W. A. Neal and J. B. "Wat
son are liable for the convict hire for
convicts to be worked on Meal's planta- ]
tionfor the years 1S96. 1897 and 1898, i
for the reason that Watson contracted J
to pay for them and Neai got the bene- <
fit of the labor and violated his duty ia
procuring them to be worked for his 1
benefit and deceiving the board of directors.
Their labor was an asset of
the penitentiary as much as the pro- c
ducts of the labor on t he State farm, i
and Kf cannot tase either und refuse c
to pay for it. A conversion of one is c
the same as a conversation of the other t
We also condemD the practice of the I
bupcriULUUUCut a cjjuuiaiu& payor ?superintendent
and thereby pledging I
the credit of the penitentiary without t
express authority from the board of di- v
rectors in each instance. "We especially 1
condemn Mr. Neal's action in endors- I
ing the $850 note for J. B. Watson and r
thus making the penitentiary borrow *
that amount of money merely for Wat- ?
son's accommodation. We also con- t
demn its use in the Ragsdale notes and a
W. W. Russell note.
The following are the amounts now t
admitted by Mr. Neal to be due from
him to the penitentiary, it being ac- ?
knowledged that there is a shortage to f
that extent (
Amount collected of J S Fo>v
ler, Dec 1SD5 $ 500 00
Amount collected of W Q
Hammond. Nov 1S95 500 00 1
Amount collected Fowler
Hammond & Kent Feb'97. 539 95 I
W. W. Russell note GOO 00
Collected from W. T. Magill t
for hrif.lr snld at D^Sassurfi 1
farm 4000 J
5 book cases at $12.00 each.. 60 00 s
1 hat rack 10 00 1
(i small tables, at $2 each... 12 00 J
1 bedstead 10 00 ^
Painting furniture at home.. 10 00 E
700 bushels cotton seed at 15
cents 105 00 e
Commissary account (5 years.. 638 29 e
Check unpaid and [carried by a
Burriss 172 00 f
Collected of J J Fretwell for 1
Oats. April 1898 387 17 s
r
$3,5S4 41 o
We fiad that he is liable in addition t
the following amounts, which are 1
ill- o
oOQtestea Dy mm:
Convict hire on the Watson t
contract for the years 189G, '
1897 and 1898 $ 7,400 00 P
We think he should refund $
stable rent which should
never have been paid 740 00 I
s
$11,724 41 1
There appears to be due the reniten- J
tiary the following items which have
not been properly charged on the books
or collected, being found on an old J
brickyard book and commissary book f
and which the parties are no doubt 1
ready to settb on presentation of bills: E
Hon "W H Ellerbe, commissary c
account $154 11 a
Hon John Gary Evans, commissary
accoant 1S1 14 f
Hon B 11 Tlilman, commissary 11
account 57 06 s
Hon B R Tillman, carload of *
72 00 d
Hon B B Tillman, oats, no v
amount giyen; he simply informs
us that he owes for a
them and we do not lind any 0
record of it.
We append as Exhibit A a statement *
ocod lmrirAtTP
UA ti-LC yi> Upti VJ I/U1VUAOVU) W T ^
ments made and labor furnished to
public institutions by the penitentiary
during Mr. Neal's administration, aggregating
in all $175,845 17, being the
value placed upon the sane in the re- s
ports of the board for the six ye^r3. *
The evidence taken is herewith subon,?
wAncr cfono < <-> Hp fn Vpn I ?
as a result of this report and the evi- ?
dence will be determined no doubt by ?
yourself and the attorney general.
Respectfully submitted, s,
"W F Stevenson,
J T Hay, \
Knox Livingstone,
Thos F McDow, ,
H Cowper Patton.
exhibit a. 1,
Report 1893. r
p. 7. Clemson College con- *
victs, for guards, etc..* 3,115 }
p. 6. 2 electric motors, etc. 2.000 00 ?
p. 7. Convicts Clemson col- *
lege and guard hire... 14,580 00 *
p. 7. Convicts, guard hire,
etc.. for Winthrop... 10.9S0 00 ?
>0,(578 40
Report 1804.
p, 6. Old hosiery mill (over a
hauling) S 4,000 00 a
p. G. New hosiery mill re- j
built io,uuu uu i a
p. G. Improvements in the o
yard. inclusive of d
above items 30,000 00 a
p. 7. 7 head mules and n
horses .* 700 00 ?
I?. 7. Labor and cash to col- i
lfgi s 22,852 32 a
fi
?53.552 32 >
lieport 1895. a
p. 7. OS mules for ^tatc f
farm, engines, gins, h
wagons, tools, farm- t
ing implements $12,000 00 o
p. 8. To colleges, labor, n
cash, etc 17,114 3(> o
829,114 3d
Keport 1S!?U.
p. 17. Improvements peni- }
tentiary proper, barns 1<
stables, sheds, etc ...$ 5,000 00 g
Prison building and ^
other improvements 0
inside yard 1,000 00 p
Buildings at lleeds t
farm 2.500 00 t'
Ueijaussure piace quar t.
ters for guards, dining e
room, smoke house, I
hay sheds, grist mill, n
engine boilers, guano
house on railroad, etc. 2,100 00 h
li
SlO.liuU UO t
Report 1S97. . y
p. 19. New laundry com- t:
rl.-te $ S00 00 h
Reed farm, new barn s
for mules, hospital e
building, lot fencing, p
fencing 400 acres pasture
land 5,000 00
8 5.800 00 r<
Report 189S. o
Report of board of directors on pages 1
5 and G. k
Paid purchase real estate o
with interest accruing on n
rmrnhasft monev S36.000 00 t:
Buildiog dykes, clearing c
land, etc 10,000 00 t:
Is
$4(1,000 00 n
n
A dispatch from Santo Domingo says 1
two of the assassins of President Hen- 1<
reaux have been captured and shot. a
'tiliman and 2vans.
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write Letters to the Penitentiary In-1
yestigating Committee.
Senator Tillman and Ex-Governor
Evans never did appear before the pententiary
investigating committee.
Sat each of them wrote a letter to the
:ommittee.
Senator Tillman's letter was as folows:
Trenton, S. C., Aug. 1.
Dear Sir: Your letter of juue 24 en:losing
copy of the account on the comnissary
book at the penitentiary re"?
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iexved. i nave no recouecuon 01 aay
if these matters, and an morally ceiain
that I paid everything I owed the
>enitentiary when I left Columbia at
he expiration of my term as governor.
Besides, I left all the corn and hay I
lad on hand at the executive mansion
rith the understanding that Governor
Svans would take it and pay for it, but
te told me that Col. Neal used it." The
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oansion was unoccupied ior several
reeks after I left, undergoing some reittingand
overhauldin^r, and Xeal protably
do not feel that I owe the State
.aything on that score.
The brick I am willing to pay for at he
price I could have bought them in
Augusta at the time, $4 at the kiln, or
delivered at Trenton. I paid the
reight on the carload of brick which
hi Xeal shipped me.
.Respectfully.
B. R. Tillman.
Ex-Governor Evans writes as folows:
Waterbury, Conn., July 30, 1899.
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1ULI. >V . X. orvuusuu, VllCiiXVY, o. \j.
My Dear Sir: Your letter iu reference
o the penitentiary investigation was
landed me by my brother while in
Sdgelield, and the reason I had not anwered
before is that I fully intended
o be with you at the next session of
'our committee. Circumstances over
rhich I have no control will prevent
ay being with you as anticipated.
So far as the statement that "I workid
convicts upon my farm" is concernid,
I am satisfied that you have had
.mole proof of its absurdity. I Had no
arm upon my occupancy of the govertor's
mansion. I was informed by the
uperintendent of the penitentiary that
oy predecessor had rented a small plat
if ground, about five acres, in or near
he city limits, and that he (the superntendent)
had sown for the governor
.ndmade rough forage for his horse and
hat he would make the same terms
fitn me if I desired. I did so, and
aid the owner, Mr. Geo. H. Newman,
i30 rent and have his receipt. So far
s the harvest was concerned, it was
>retty expensive, as my share was not
ufficient to reimburse mc for the rent,
["he property being city lots, however,
. suppose we got out- as light as most
'Belgian block farmers."
As to the account I owe the managenent
of the penitentiary, I will state
or the information of your committee
hat the articles I purchased were at
i * r . _ j:
aarKet prices, sucn as any ordinary
itizen could buy, and it was no especi.1
favor to me.
The account will be paid when a corect
bill is rendered, and not before. It
s no fault of mine that it has not been
ettled before. I am sorry that I cantot
be with you, as I would gladly renLer
you any assistance in my power. I
rould respectfully call your attention
o my message to the general assembly
,nd their references to the management
f the penitentiary.
With assarance of my high esteem
orjrou and your committee, 1 am
Respectfully yours,
John Gary Evans.
Like American Tobacco.
Minister Buck has reported to the
tate department that the Japanese govrnment
has concluded arrangements
or the purchase of tobacco through
gents and will obtain supplies generaly
from the United States. This result
ollows inquiries set on foot after conerences
between Secretary Hay and
ome of the members of the Virginia
delegation in congress, including Senaor
Martin and Representative Swanson
?he latter were desirous of having the
obacco interests protected aeainst any
.iscnminations which might follow the
r^anization of a government monoDQ
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7 of the tobacco business. Japan has
ecently established this monopoly, as
. means of increasing her revenues, and
he American tobacco interests have
eared this might cut off the trade they
lave heretofore enjoyed with that counry.
But Minister Buck's report seems
o a?sure the continuance of the trade,'
s the government agents will purchase
upplies as heretofore in this country.
"Touched" the Ex-Slaves.
An order forbidding the delivery of
ii mail matter was Friday issued
gainst Isaac L, "Walton, the cx-slaye
>etitioners assembly and the ex-slave
sscmbly, Madison, Ark., on the charge
P /%v\ay*o f i n cr fVirAnorh fho mftllfi n
.evised for obtaining money under false
,nd fraudulent pretenses.. The departaent
states that "Walton is an ex-slave
>ho is at the head of an alleged imagnary
organization having for its pass
law granting ex-slaves pensions. The
!rst remittance required of the memicrs
of this organization was 25 cents,
nd it appears that 12.331 Negroes,
rom the southern States principally,
ia?e remitted that amountr Although
his money was to start a fund for the
bject above noted, not one cent can
ow be accounted for by the managers
f the scheme."
Exhibiting the Bakers.
A Miss Jewett, a sharp Boston
.'ankce, who has made herself ridicuinc
nvor flif* cn-r>nllf>r5 Trrnncs fif thft
outhern negro, went to Charleston last
reek and carried the wife and children
f .Baker. who was assassinated while
ostmaster of Lake City, S. C., to Boson.
On arriving at that city she put
he Baker family on exhibition and
hree thousand people paid ten cents
ach to see them. A dispatch from
Boston says the Baker woman furished
the sensation of the evening.
\Thile J. W. Hutchinson, the whiteairod
abolitionist singer, was singing
is soag, "The Fatherhood of God and
lie Brotherhood of Man," the Baker
roman experienced religious exhilaraion.
Shs dropped her little son, who
ad been sleeping in her arms, and
troie around the platform, rolling her
yes and waving her arms. A dozen
eople conducted her to a seat.
One by One They Come.
Arrangements are being made for the
emoval of the Springvale cotton mills
f Springvale, Me., to Fort Valley, Ga.
'he removal will be the second of the
ind from York county. Me. About
ne year ago the Portsmouth cotton
lill of South Berwick, a small corporaion
went South. The Springvale conem
has been running only part of the
i:ne during the past year owing to a
ick of orders. High taxes and too
luch competition are among the chief
easons given for the change in location,
'he plant has 10,500 spindles and 300
)oms and manufactures light twills
nd sateens.
THE CONVICT'S STORY.
Strange Connection .? a White Cat With
a Uurglar's Life,
"It's no secret that I've been in the
penitential-}-," said the old man. "It :
was a white cat that took me there,
and a white cat that saved me and
made me a better man.
"One winter, a good many years ago,
I was In Houston, sick and dead broke.
An old pal of mine meeting me on the
street took pity on me and soon helped
me out of my troubles. But not for
nothing. As soon as I recovered he
wanted me to join him in some burglaries
that he had planned. At first
I refused indignantly, for I had some
rough notions ot honesty; but a little
talking?he was a fine talker?and a
few drinks did the work and I agreed
to go in with him.
"Conscience makes cowards of us
all, and I guess that was why Ed
trembled like a leaf when he saw a
white cat flash past us as we stood
shivering in the garden of a house on
Harris street that night. It was an
easy matter to break in, and we soon
had all there was worth taking. In a
little room at the end of the hall a
child was sleeping. The dim light of
a lamp showed the pretty cot, the fair
iiuaucu idle Ul ct UILIC s^lii, iici ?UiUCil
hair streaming over tue snowy pillow,
and crouching by her side a white cat,
whose pink eyes glittered like stars.
We had to pass through this room, and
I could not for the life of me help bending
down and touching that beautiful
hair with my lips?it looked so like
the hair of my darling who died only
the year before. It was her death that
drove me to drink and trouble," and
the old man wiped away a tear.
"Well, I don't know exactly how it
happened, but the cat gave a terrific
squall, and I had only just time to
seize it and stuff it in my bag when a
bullet came whistling by my head. I
got out of the house somehow, still
cunning xij> uug oi piunaer, anu rau
dawn the road, out of town, finally taking
refuge in an old barn. I was badly
wounded, and, to make a long story
short, they arrested me and took me to
jail. My partner was dead.
"They told me afterwards that in
my delirium I cried continually for the
white cat, and when they brought the
animal into my cell?for they found it
unhurt in my bag?I nursed it and was
quiet. It was a strange fancy of a sick
man, but it led me back to health. The
story was told at the house which we
had robbed, and the little girl and her
father came to see me. He was a
good man, and she was an angel?God
bless her for her innocent prattle and
sweet eyes of pity.
"The penitentiary was a rough
place in those days, and I believe I
would have died in a few months if
the child had not sent me a tiny white
kitten, which I was allowed to keep,
on/1 c rr> Ck f rorvi A rtmo J ?-> -?iA
Uio iWUi Vl^OpctlJL aiiu
death. Every time I looked at it I
thought of the little angel that gave
it, and of that other little angel?my
dead child?and made a new resolve
to be a better man.
"Two frail atoms of life?a kitten
and a child?"but they were strong
enough to raise me out of the very
depths of hell."
An Unfortunate Linguist.
John was an ambitious Chinaman.
He had made money in Chinatown,
San Francisco, but had devoted himself
to business so thoroughly that he
remained totally ignorant of English.
He came to New York determined to
avoid his fellow-Chinamen, so that he
might learn to speak English during
his six months' stay in the metropolis.
He took a room in an East Side
house, paid promptly, made himself
agreeable to his landlord, who allowed
him to wait on customers in his little
grocery store, and he never went near
Pell or Mott street. After several
months' residence in N7ew York and
many hours of study, the Chinaman
ventured forth among his people,
where he proceeded to give an exhibition
of his proficiency in the English
language. What he said sounded
ctrGnco in tlin ntVior ^ ^
wi,iv4^0v wy vv,iiv.i VJLiAUUlugU, O.JJLU CUC
ambitious one nearly swooned when be
discovered that he had learned German
by mistake.
His New York home was in the German
part of the city where English is
an unknown tongue, and the poor fellow
had to begin his linguistic work
over again.
Taper Floors in Germany.
Pinpr flnnrc <irs nri-frct-inf* o
~ ?jr? ? ^ a, otcu.unj
increasing popularity in Germany,
which is readily explained by the
many advantages they possess over
wooden flooring. An important advantage
consists in the absence of
joints, whereby accumulations of dust,
vermin, and fungi, dangerous to
health, are done away with. The new
paper floors are bad conductors of
heat and sound, and in spite of their
hardness have a linoleum-like, soft
feel to the foot. The costs are con
siderably lower than those of floors
made of hard wood. The paper mass
receives a small addition of cement
as binder, and is shipped In bags, in
powder form. The mass is stirred Into
a stiff paste, spread out on the floor,
pressed down by means of rollers, and
painted with oakwood, nutwood, or
mahogany color, after drying.
Notable Centennial.*! of the Year,
The following centennial celebrations
will be lield this year: The
4G0th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's
discovery of the way to India by way
of the Cape of Good Hope, at Lisbon,
in May; the burning of Savonarola, at
Florence, in May; the birth of Holbein,
at Basle, in June; Montpelier will
celebrate the 100th birthday of Auguste
Comte; Ancona that of Leopardi,
and Paris that of Michelet, the historian.
Keep Up the Pace.
The Anderson Intelligencer remarks: .
'"IPcotton mill c wupanics continue to
be organized in Sj'utb Carolina, as at
the rate during tin past six months, .
this Stare will not only soon distance
all her sister States in cotton manufacturing,
but will soon compctc with Massachusetts.
Let the good work go on.
We have room for many more. Anderson
must have another big mill." We
showed sis mouths ago that South Carolina
was sec 'nd t*> Massachusetts in
looms and was only exceeded in spindles
by that State and Rhode Island. Th;;
pending additions will give her second
place in spindles as well as looias. We
u :11 :
rougmy estimate mat cue \ win luuiuaoc
the present totals 33 per cent, at least.
Let every totq work for a new mill.
We must keep up the pace.
In Boston it is regarded as almost a
crime to lie down on the sacred gras3
of the Common and twenty-one unfortunates
who slept there on a recent liot
night were wakened early in the morning
by a squad of vigilant policemen
and marched off to a magistrate. Each
of the victims was fined S3?the price
of a night's lodging in a first class
hotel. *
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I
j UP PER REGIONS OF THE AIR. I'
Unexplored Space More Interesting Tlian
the Xorth Pole. ^
Above there extends a vast unex- ;
plored space far more interesting from
a scientific point of view than the icy
regions around tho north pole. No one (
can reach the limit of the upper regions
of the air and live, unless he carries
with him air to breathe and fuel
to warm him, for at the paltry distance ,
of ten miles above the earth the air ]
Is too thill to support respiration, and I (
the thermometer "would register far '
below zero. It would be a region of I
perpetual snow on a peak of the earth
if it should rise to such a height. A
person in a balloon could not bear a
friend in a neighboring balloon, even
if tbey were near enough to shake '
hands. There would be no medium
for the propagation of sound waves.
There would, however, still be a medium
for the conduction of electricity
?a medium in fact of great conducti- '<
bility?almost as good as a metal, and
it is this medium at even a less height
which Tesla proposes to use in his ,
methods of transmitting power hundreds
of miles through the air without
wires.
We live under a blanket of air which
protects us from the extreme cold of
outer space. This low temperature be- .
comes evident fourteen or fifteen .
thousand feet above the surface of the
earth, and would, as I have said, reach j
a point far below zero at a height of
ten miles. At this height we should
no longer observe the twinkling of |
the stars, for this scintillation is due
to the movements of our atmosphere,
"which at the height I have mentioned
would be extremely rarified. If one
could photograph the sun's spectrum
at this altitude we could greatly extend
our knowledge of the shortest I
wave lengths of light; for the atmos- I
phere completely absorbs such wave
lengths as are concerned in the X-ray
phenomena. That this absorption
really takes place can be proved in a 1
laboratory. 1
The heat and light which ye receive i
from the sun are greatly modified by i
this blanketing layer of air. The long <
waves of the energy from the sun are ,
called heat waves. The intermediate (
waves are termed light waves, and we
receive these in full measure. The very
short waves, however, are stopped by
our atmosphere and are transformed
into?what? (
The Worth of a Match.
How much may depend on a seeming
trifle is shown in the incident on the
lumber schooner, Johanna Swan,
which was abandoned in a gale off
Hatteras. The cabins -were flooded*
and the water supply had given out.
In four days the sailors had not tasted '
water." To drink the brine of the sea
was to induce tortures and endure a
more deadly thirst than ever. There
was a tank holding three gallons that
could be fashioned into a condenser
and the mate and a sailor so converted
it. A piece of the schooner's rail,
dry and full of resin, was chopped off
for fuel, and now all that was necessary
was a match. A' search revealed
just one matcn, tnax me captain na.u
stowed in a dry pocket. If that went
ont, woe be to them. But after sputtering
for a moment, it blazed up, the
shavings caught, the fire was set, the
water boiled and the drip from the
steam was enough to provide a drink
for every man?pretty smoky water,
but as welcome as cocktails, under the
circumstances. A German bark heard
their bell and took off the crew before
its perils and sufferings became more
serious. A condensing apparatus of a
simple sort would not be a bad thing
to take on all craft, considering the
possibilities of ill fortune that follow
the toilers of the sea.
Ears Beat Eyes.
Most people would no doubt be in- I
dined to fancy that the eye was the
gateway of quite the most delicate of '
all our senses. But this is not so. The
sense of hearing has been proved to be
far the most delicate of all the senses.
And the sense of touch appears to be
perhaps the keenest of all. The tests
are very simple.
For testing sight a disc half black,
half white is revolved quickly before T.
the eyes. When it reaches a speed of
twenty-four revolutions a second the
colors cease to appear distinctly any .
longer to the eye, and the result is
gray. For sound a revolving toothed
wheel makes a series of clicks, and
these to the average man appear distinct
sounds up to sixty a second. Af
ter that they cannot be distinguished ]
apart. The sense of touch is tried by ^
rapid blows of a tiny electric hammer
on the skin. Up to 1,000 a second
these blows have been felt separate ^
and distinct. ?
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How a Gold Field Was Discovered.
A novel way of discovering a gold
field was recounted by the agent general
for western Australia. In 188$
the Mallina gold field was discovered
by a lad in this wise: The boy, in picking
up a stone to throw at a crow,
observed a speck of gold in it, and re- ported
it to the nearest resident magis
trate. The magistrate was so excited
at the news that he telegraphed to the
then governor, and 6tated that a lad
picked up a stone to throw at a crow,
in his excitement omitting to say "and
saw gold in it." So the governor wired
tack these words, "What happened to
the crow?"
I
Odorless Flowers.
Most people will be surprised to learn
that the majority of flowers have no
perfume whatever. An Austrian chemist,
who has been making researches
into the subject, declared that out of
4,110 varieties known and cultivated
in Europe, scarcely 400 have any odor;
and of these nearly fifty have an odor
which is, if anything, disagreeable. ^
Maefeafs
School of
SHORTHAND
?AND?
TYPEWRITING b
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Tate School has tbe reputation of being the
best business institution in tbe State. Graduates
are hoidinsr remunerative po?i?ioas io
mercantile house*. banking, icsuranc^, real
estate, railroad offices. &c., in this and other
etfttes. Write to W H. Macfeat. Court
fjtenoerapber Cotnulbia, S C for terms, etc
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To get strong s
and healthy use
one bottle Mur- *
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ture. Price 50c s
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N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is
administered in South Carolina
?SY CHARLESTON.
Ill Hiii B
Custom^
Bat i very poor one, to wait until the ginning
season is on before locking to see
what fix the gin is in fl
Now is the time to
.HURRY M
YOUR GIN TO TIE
IIIAAirA V
ELLIOT GIN HtFAIH WUHKS. H
Do not delay and then ask as to let yer
iave it at once, for thorough work can-oi
>e done in a hurry. The attention giver
his matter now will more than repay you .
fhen the cotton is white in the fields
ind the gin house crowded. Tbe work is
:oming in already, so ship at once to the
wdersigned, located at the old electric light
mgine house y*
11r? i cJ3 by parji'muj:?T. K r
fe Co , V. C. Badham, Jno. A.. Willis.
figfM^rk your name and shipping paint
ra -work sent and prepay the freight.
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me tiiiiii gib nipsir norss,
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No. 1314 Gates Street,
COLUMBIA, S. 0.
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