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A SERVICE OF SONG. Rev. Dr. Taimage's Sermon on M ncir in R^liorion. MUSiC OF BIBLE TIMES, The Best Music Rendered Under Trouble. God Meant Ai! to Sing. The Proper Music For a Church, Dr. Talmage discussed a most attrac tive department of religious worship? the service of song. His ideas will be received with interest by ail who love to lift their voices in praise in the Lord's house. The text is Xehemiah vii, 67, "And they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women." Tie Dest music nas Deeu rcuuacu under trouble. The first duet that I know anything of was given by Paul and Silas when they sans praises to God and the prisoners heard them. The Scotch Covenanters, hounded by the dogs of persecution, sang the psalms of David with more spirit than they have ever since been rendered. The captives in the text had music left in them, and I declare that if they could find, amid all their trials, two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women then in this day of gospel sunlight and free from all persecution there ought to be a great multitude of men and women willing to sing the praises Ui Vjryu. .am VUl buuivugu ? on this subject. Those who can sing must throw their souls into the exercise and those who cannot sing must learn how, and it shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to anthem, and the music shall swell jubilant with thanksgiving and tremulous with pardon. Have you ever noticed the construction of the human throat as indicative of what God means us to do witn it : In only an ordinary throat and lungs there are 14 direct muscles and 30 indirect muscles that can produce a very great variety of sounds. What dees iatmean? It means that you should sing! Do you suppose that God, who gives us such a musical instrument as that, intends us to keep it shut? Suppose some great tyrant should get possession of the musical instruments of the world and should lock up the organ of Westminster abbey, and the organ of Lucerne, and the organ at Haarlem, and the organ at Freiburg, and all the * 1 5?X i ? otner great musical instruments ui tue world. You would call such a man as that a monster, and yet you are more wicked if, with the human voice, a musical instrument of more wonderful adaptation than all the musical instruments that man ever created, you shut it against the praise of (rod. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly King Should speak their joys abroad. Music seems tojiave been born in the soul -of the natural world. The omnipotent voice with which God commanded the world into being seems to nager yet wiui its majesty auu sweetness, and you hear it in the gramfield, in the swoop of the wind amid the mountain fastnesses, in the canary's warble and the thunder shock, in the brook's tinkle and ths ocean's paean. There are soft cadences in nature and loud notes, some of which we cannot hear at all and others that are so terrific that we cannot appreciate them. Thn animalculac have their music, and the spicula of hay and the globule of water are ^3 certainly resonant with the voice of God as the highest heavens in which the armies of the redeemed celebrate their victories. When the breath of the flower strikes the air, and wing of the firefly cleaves it, there is sound and there is melody; and as to those utterances of nature which seem * V 3 1- .1 'i. * 1 narsn ana overwhelming, it is as wueu you stand in the midst of a great orchestra, and the sound almost rends your ear because you are too near to catch the blending of the music. So, my friends, we stand too near the desolating storm and the frightful whirlwind to catch the blending of the music but when that music rises to where God is, and the iLvisible beings who float above us, then 1 suppose the harmory is as sweet as it is ire ntDdous. In tbe judgment day, that day of tumult a^d terror, there will be no dissonance to those who can appreciate the music. It will be as when sometimes a greac organist; in executing some great piece, breaks down the instrument upon which he is playing the music. So, when the great march of the judgment day is played under the hand of earthquake, and storm and conflagration, the world itself will break down with the music that is played on it. The fact is, we are all deaf, or we should understand that the whole universe is but one harmony?the stars of the night only the ivory keys of a great instrument on which God's fingers play the music of the spheres. Music seems dependent on the law of acoustics and mathematics, and yet where these laws are not understood at all the art is practiced. There are today 500 musical journals in China. Two thousand years before Christ the Egyptians practiced this art. Pythagoras learned it. Lasus of Hermione wrote essays on it. Plato and Aristotle introduced into their scools, but I have not muca interest in tnat. ALy cniei interest is in the music of the Bible. The Bible, like a great harp with innumberable string, swept by the fingers of inspiration, trembles with it. So far back as the fourth chapter of Genesis you find the first organist and harper? Jubal. So far back as the t" irty-first chapter of Genesis you find ! ae first choir. All up and down the Bible you iiuu jjiuoiv u.o ft ^ u. u. 1 ij ^, a t iuau gurations, at the treading of the wine press. The Hebrews understood how to make musical signs above the musical text. "When the Jews came from their distant homes to great festivals at Jerusalem, they brought harp and timbrel and trumpet and poured along the great Judaean highways a river of harmony until in and around the temple the wealth of a nation's song and gladness had accumulated. In our day we have a division of labor in music, and we have one man to make the hymn, another man to make the tune, another man to play it on the piano and another man to sing it. Not so in Bible times. Miriam, the sister of Moses, after the passage of the l\ed sea, composed a doxology, set it to music, clapped it on a cymbal and at the same time sang it. David, the psalmist, was at the same time poet, musical composer, harpist and singer, and the majority of his rhythm goes vibrating through all the ages. There were in Bible times stringed instruments?a harp of three strings played by fret and bow, a harp of ten strings resounding only to the fingers of the performer. Then there was the crocked trumpet, fashioned out of the - - ~ * mi .1 horn of the ox or tne ram. ji nen mere were the sistrum and the cymbals, clapped in the dance or beaten in the march. There were 4,000 Levites, the best men of the country, whose only business it was to look after the music of the temple. These 4,000 Levites were divided into two classes and officiated on diffierent days. Can you imagine the harmony when these white robed Levites, before the symbols of God's presence and by the smoking altars and the candlesticks that sprang upward and branched out like trees of gold and un der the wines of the cneruoim, cnantea. the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Psalm of David? Do you know how it was done? One part of that great choir stood up and chanted. "Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good!" Then the other part of the choir, standing in some other part of the temple. would come in with the response, "For his mercy endureth forever." Then the first part would take up the song again and say, "Unto him who only doeth great wonders." The other part ot' the choir would come m witn oyerwhelmingrespon.se, ''For his mercy enaureth forever," until in the latter part of the song; the music floating backward and forward, harmony grap pling with harmony, every trumpet sounding, every bosom heaving, one part of this great white robed choir would lift the anthem, ' :0h, give thanks unto the God of heaven!"' and the other part of the Levite choir would come in with the response, ''For his mercy endure tb. forever." But I am glad to know that all through the ages there has been great attention paid to sacreu music. Ambrosius, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Charlemagne, gave it their mighty ini fluftnfie. and in our dav the best musi ca! genius is throwing itself oil the altars of God. Handel and Mozart and Bach and Durante and Wolf and scores of other men and women have given the best part of their geni as to church music. A truth in words is not half so mighty as a truth in song. Luther's sermons have been forgotten, but the "Judgment Hymn" he composed is resounding yet all through Christendom. I congratulate the world and the church on the advancement made in this art?the Edinburgh societies for the improvement of music, the Swiss sinsrinc societies, the Exeter hail con certs, the triennial musical convocation at Dusseidorf, Germany, and Birmingham, England the controversies of music at Munch and Leipsic, the Handel and Haydn and Haimonic and Mozart societies of this country, the academies of music in Xew York Brooklyn, Boston, Charleston, Xew Orleans. Chicago and every city which has any enterprise. Xow, my friends, how are we to decide what is appropriate, especially for church music? There may be a great | many differences of opinion. In some I of the churches they prefer a trained J choir, in others they prefer the ni2lodeon, the harp, the cornet, the organ; in other places they think these things are the invention of the devil. Some would have a musical instrument played so loud you cannot stand it, and others would have it played so soft you cannot hear it. Some think a musical instrument ought to be played only in the interstices of worship and then with indescribable sostness, while others are not satisfied unless there be startling contrasts and staccato passages that make the audience jump, with great eyes and hair on end, as from a vision of the witch of Endor. But, while there may be great varieties of opinion in regard to music, it seems to me that the general spirit of the word of God indicates what ought to be the great characteristics of church music. Anrl T ro-morlr in tlnp firsfc r>lar?f>. a prominent characteristic ought to be adaptiveness to devotion. Music that may be appropriate for a concert hall, or the opera house, or the drawing room, may be inappropriate in church. Glees, madrigals, ballads, may be as innocent as psalms in their places. But church music has only cue design, and that is devotion, and that which comes wick the toss, the swing and the display of an opera house is a hindrance to the worship. From such performances we go away saying: ':What splendid execution! Did you ever hear such a soprano? Which of those solos did you like the better?" When, if we had been rightly wrought upon, we would have gone away saying: "Oh, how my soul was lifted up in the presence of God while they were singing that first hymn! I never had such rapturous views of Jesus Christ as my Savior as when they were singing that last doxology." My friends, there is an everlasting distinction between music as an art and music as a help to devotion. Though a Schumann composed it, though a Mozart played it, though a Sontag sang it, away with it if Jit does not make tne neart oetter ana nonor Christ. "Why should we rob the programmes of worldly grayety when we have so many appropriate songs and tunes composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church psalmody which has come down fragrant with the devotions of other generations?tunes no more worn out than they were when our great-grandfathers climbed up on them from the church pew to gloroy Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When they were cheerful, grandfathers and grandmothers used to sing "Colchester." When they were very meditative, then the boarded meeting house rang with "South Street" and "St. Edmund's. Were they struck th.:ough with great tenderness, they sang "Woodstock." Were they wrapped in visions of the glory of the church, thev sang "Zion," Were they overborne with the love and glory of Christ, they sang "Ariel." And in those days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peac a great while, these two old people, and we have no right to divorce them. "What God iiacu. jviutu xv/O uv yu.u asunder." Born as we have been, amid the great wealth of church music, augment by the compositions of artists in our day, we ought not to be tempted out of the sphere of Christian harmony and try to seek unconsecrated sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire to steal. I remark also that correctness ought to be a characteristic of church music. While we all ought to take part in this service, with perhaps a few exceptions, we ought at the same time to cultivate ourselves in this sacred art. God loves harmony, and we ought to love it. There is no devotion in a howl or a yelp. In this day, whc n there are so many opportunities of high culture in this sacred art, I declare that those parents are guilty of neglect who let their sons and daughters grow up knowing nothing about music. In some of European cathedrals the choir assemI bles every morning and every afternoon j of every day the whole year to perfect | themselves in this art. and shall we bej grudge the half hour we spend Friday nights in the rehersal of sacred song |for the Sabbath? Another characteristic must be j spirit and life. Music cught to rush j from the audience like the water from j a rock?clear, bright, sparkling. If all the other part of the church j service is dull, do not have the i music dull. With so many i +T-, ^ T, rrc einrr oKnilt QWflV I I Li 1 l?UliC IXlXUga IV ? .. ?J with all drawling and stupidity. There is nothing that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit-and look off on an audience with their eyes three-fourths closed, and their lips almost shut mumbling the praises of God. During one of my journeys I preached to an audience of 2,000 or 3,000 people, and ali the music they made together did not equal one skylark. People do not sleep at a coronation; do not let us sleep when we come to a Saviour's crowning, j In order to a proper discharge of this duty, let us stand up, save as age or weakness or fatigue excuses us. Seated in an easy pew we cannot do this duty half so well as ' fhen upright we throw our whole body into it. Let our song be like an acclamation of victory. You have a right to sing?do not surrender your prerogative. If in the performances of your duty, or the attempt at it you should lose your place in the musical scale and be one C below when you ought to be one C above, or you should come in a half a bar behind, we will excuse you! Still it is better to do as Paul says and sing "with the spirit and the understanding also." Again, I remark, church music must be congregational. This opportunity miici- Vio KmntrVif dnwn wifhin the range of the whole audience. A song that the worshipers cannot sing is of no more use to them than a sermon in Chocktaw. What an easy kind of church it mast be where the minister does all the preaching and the elders all the praying and the choir all the singing! There are but very few churches where there are "two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women." In some churches it is almost considered a disturbance if a man let out his voice to full compass and the people get up J 1?1_ +V,? | on tiptoe auu lout*. uvci ucmccu spring hats and -wonder what that man is making all that noise about. In Syracuse in a Presbyterian church there was one member who came to me when I was the pastor of another church in that city and told me his trouble, how that as he persisted in singing on the Sabbath day a committee, made up of 4.1. a ????, aw, s-vltli/v l-i/>amn f a oclr I Lie SCdSlUU U1 CUC lsUU.1.1, Ja?IA ? I him if he would not just please to keep | still! You have a right to sing. Joij.i ; than Edwards U3ed to set apart wh?. ie days for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sine in our families, sing in our schools, si ig in our churches. I want to arouse you to a unanimity in Christian song that has never yet been exhibited. Come, now; clear your throats and get ready for this duty, or you will never hear the end of this. I never shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing the "Marseillaise" on the Champs Elysees, Paris, just before the battle of Sedan in 1870. I never saw such enthusiasm before or since. As he sang that national air, oh, how the Frenchmen shouted! Have you ever in an English assemblage heard a band play uGod Save the Queen?" If ycu have, you know something about the enthusiasm of a national air. Now, I tell you that these songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath are the national airs of the kingdom of heaven, and if you do not learn to sing them here how do you ever expect to sing the song of Moses and the lamb? I should not be surprised at all if some of the best anthems of heaven were made up of some of the best songs of earth. May God increase our reverence for Christian psalmody and keep us from disgracing it by our indifference and frivolity. When Cromwell's armv went into battle, he stood at the head of it one day and gave out the long meter doxology to the tune of the "Old Hundredth,"'and that great host, company by company, regiment by regiment, divisi.n by division, joined in the doxology: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heavenly host, . | Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And while they sang they marched, and while they marched they fought, and while they fought they got the victory. Oh, men and women of Jesus Christ, let us go into all our conflicts singing the praises of God, and then, instead of falling back, as we often do, from defeat to defeat, we will be marching on from victory to victory. "Gloria In Excelsis" is written over many organs. "Would that by our appreciation of the goodness of God, and the mercy of Christ, and the grandeur of heaven, we could have "Gloria In Ti7ri + fo? ATror all nnr cnnls. TI1AUVVU V I VA MA* VM4 w V ?.w. "GJory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen!" Arwidfints at Sea. The annual report of Gen. Dumont, the supervising inspector general of steamboat inspection, shows that the total number of accidents to steam vessels during the year was 48, of which seven were breaking steam pipes and mud drums, two explosions and eighteen from snags, wrecks and sinking. The loss of life was 404, an increase over the previous year of 123. Of this number the cause of death in 86 cases was accidental drowning, 213 from wrecks, etc., 13 from fire, 31 from collisons, 24 from explosions or accidental ' * J- .3 ? 11 escape ox steam, ana o< irom uiisceuaueous causes. Of the whole number 158 were passengers and 24U belong to crews of vessels. The increase in the loss of life this year over the year 1897 was due to the loss of the steamer Portland off the Massachusetts coast during a gale on the night of Nov. 27, 1S9S, wherein every soul on board, 127 perished A "Wreck in Virginia. One of the most serious accidents in the history of the Norfolk and Western occurred Wednesday morning near Narrows, a station on the Radford division. Two coaches of an eastbound passenger train jumped the track and rolled down a 30-foot embankment. Two persons were killed and 28 more or i JI *n aT_ _ J ;n _ less injured. ah tne injureu win recover. Their wounds are mostly cuts and bruises. They were able to be moved, and some continued on their journey. A party of eight were brought toKoanoke Wednesday nitrht and received the necessary medical aitcuiion. It is said the spreading of a rail caused the accident. A wrecking train with physicians from Koanoke was sent to the scene of the wreck Wednesday nnnn Troffi.-i trsc <3r>lavf>d flTllv a f7?W hours on account of the wreck. Great Heat Wave. The Weather Bureau issued a bulle- < tin Thursday in which it says the severe Western heat wave covers the lower Missouri, the central Mississippi and Ohio valleys, and the Southwestern maximum temperatures range be- i tween 06 to 10f> degrees; record breakers of 6 to 10 degrees for the past forty 1 years over those districts. ?^ i ri?w? "dispensary row/ Charges Made Against Commissioner Douthitand Mr. Bryant. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS. The Charges Thoroughly investigated by the State Board of Control. A Political Sensation Developed. The Columbia llecord of last Wednesday says it had been reported for some days that something sensational would develop as to the conduct of the business of the State Dispensary when the board of control met. So when the board met Wednesday the sensation developed and a large portion of the morning session was devoted to hearing charges against Commissioner Douthit and Superintendent Bryant. Charges against Mr. Douthit were preferred by ShiDDine Clerk Black, while those against tbe superintendent seems to have originated in general rumor. When the board met Chairman Miles stated that irregularities as to shipping goods from tbe dispensary and as to the sale of liquor to employees had been reported to him. While these reports were in the nature of rumors, he thought they demanded an investigation. Mr. Williams suggested that the parties against whom charges had been made be sent for. Mr. Mil^s then stated that the charges were that commissioner Douthit had shipped goods from tne dispensary wnica naa not oeen entered on the shipping clerk's books. It had also been reported that Mr. Bryant had also been selling employees whiskey, which was contrary to the rules of the board. Messrs. Douthit, Black and Bryant were sent for and an investigation of the charges was begun. Mr. Miles made a statement of the charges to Mr. Douthit and asked him what ex planatiou lie had to make. Shipping clerk Black stated that on several occasions goods had been dumped in the building and hauled off, about which he knew nothing. He mentioned the seizure of beer recently made in ?olumbia as an instance. No record v.is gi?en him of its receipt or of its disposition. On another occasion Mr. Douthit instructed workmen to put some beer in Dispenser Bookman's buggy about which there is no entry in his books. He said that he always tried to do his full duty, and that's why he resorted irrnnniUr'fiflC TT ? CiJIfl tVlfl.f, Vl A did not mean to make "charges" against Mr. Douthit but simply to state facts. Another instance mentioned was the shipment of beer to Dispensers Kirkland and Bookman last Friday, as to which no report had been made to him. He further stated that there were other instances where ne had refused to ship out goods on a verbal order or where the order was not in the handwriting of the commissioner. Ilis records could not be complete unless.all goods shipped were recorded on his books and he desired to protect himself. Mr. Douthit being called upon to reply said that a month after the board had passed a resolution about shipping out goods, he had brought up his petty cash book and called to the attention of the board that it was er-sier to keep track of all contraband through ic than through the shipping clerk's books. The board in his judgment had aeyuinnri f.hmicrht his idea satisfactory. He said there were times in the afternoon about 5.30 or thereabouts, after the whistle had blown and Mr. Black was absent that somebody came along, wanted a jug of whiskey or something else and he would sell it, afterwards giving a slip concerning the tronsaction to Mr. Black for entry on his books. Generally speaking he had thus disposed of old hotel returned stock, which dispensaries did not seem able to sell. In connection with the resolution referred to by Mr. Do.uthit, Mr. Williams remarked that he did not remember whether a formal resolution endorsing the idea had been passed or not, but he thought the board had acquiesced. Mr. Hazelden stated that his recollection was that no action whatever was taken. Mr. Bryant refeiring to beer seized in Columbia last week said it arrived at the dispensary in a dray and was cold. It was about 1.30 o'clock and he knew if the beer was stored it would be spoiled. He went with the wagon, walking himself, and delivered it to Dispensers Kirkland and Bookman. He got a receipt for it. The nest morning he delivered the receipts to Mr. Black, who refused to accept them, saying he knew nothing about the beer, its quantity, or anything else about it. He then laid the receipts on Mr. Douthit's desk. Mr. Douthit said he had found them the nest morning. Mr. Bodkin - - - * i i-: J i. asked .Air. Jttryant wnccner ne naa seut out the goods, because as next in charge after Douthit and Black he had the authority so to do. The reply was that he supt,y-orl so. He said Mr. Black had gone to dinner at this time. Mr. Boykin wanted to know from Mr. Black whether the receipts were not all right and he replied that they might be, but he had received no order to send out the beer. Mr. Williams said he could see no objection to the acceptance "of the Mr. Douthit was asked to explain some further instances why good? vrerc not shipped out through Mr. Black. He referred in reply to a lot of cider which had been seized. He said it had been stored in the dispensary and was unsalable. He determined to try and sell it and sent some of it to Dispenser Kirkland. It was sold and the balance was sent him. Bills were regularly made out, but he simply forgot to tell Bryant to report to Black. This may have bacn somewhat irregular, but conditions were such that he thought it ought to be dispo?ed of if possible. No requisition was made by any dispenser for it, nut he sun ply wanted to sell it and save the State from loss. Mr. Hasclden remarked thaf he thought all shipments should be recorded on the shipping clcrk's bo.k, not only as a matter of business but as a profi'-fi"M to the business. He said t'itie hdd already been scandals in the same connection. Mr. Boykin a-jked Mr. Douthit whether the selling of this stuff was not an experiment. Mr. Douthit replied that it was, and Mr. Boykin contended that while the transaction was a little irregular, still there was no requisition made for it and Mr. Douthit was trying to save the State from loss. Mr. Black then presented to the board a number of requisitions from dispensers for certain goods, showing that Mr. Douthit had passed a blue pencil mark through certain of the orders and had written some times in pencil and other times in red ink certain substitutes. Mr. Douthit explained this by saying that when dispensers ordered a certain brand of liquor or beer or wine on occa | sicms the stock was cot on hand. He ! j substituted a brand which was of a price nearly the same as ordered by the dispensers. Sometimes a fresh shipment was received at the dispensary ju?t as the order came in. and as a rule it is the custom to send out new goods as early as possible, borne oi the requisitions showed that the product of the Acme Brewing company had been substituted for others, and that "Windsor Rye" had been substituted for "White Seal," and so on. But, as Mr. Douthit explained, be never made a substitution, except when he had no stock of the goods ordered, or except where he had goods unfit for use, or when he was carrying out orders of the board to ship out all new stuff as soon as possible. Mr. TVmfTiit- roTorror? tn fVin foot tliot snm/i beer had been stored away back in the storage room a year or two. Every new shipment was piled up in front of it. It was good business principles, he thought, to sell out such goods, and where they were of equal quality and price he had sent tnem out to dispensers. Chairman Miles then asked Captain Webb, the clerk, whether hs had any knowledge of goods going out of the dispensary which did not appear on the books. Captain Webb in answer said that ail charges were regularly entered on his books as reports came from down stairs. He only knew of one in^ ! 11 j. _ T-* stance wnen waising up stairs to ins office he saw a case of wine put in Mr. Bookman's buggy. Mr. Douthit was absent and he asked Mr. Black whether he had a record of it. Mr. Black replied that He did not. That was the only instance that ever came under his observance. He attended to his own business, he said, and didn't interfere with other people's business. Mr. Douthit then explained that two cases ' of wine had been shipped to Dispensers Bookman and Lynch and that was whv that particular case of wine went out ' of the dispansar^ Mr. Hazelden: "What's that? Two j cases of wine phipped to two dispen- , saries? Why was that?" AT* AA/1 if TT AC! X'JLl i/UULUil. X UUUC10 LUUU It VT CLO to be given to their friends and their ' patrons." ' Mr. Hazelden: "To introduce it?" j Mr. Douthit: "I suppose so." Mr. Williams then began some crossexamining of Mr. Bhck, which developed some very interesting political schemes. He began by asking Mr. Black whether any of the employers in J the office below had made any effort to have him discharged. Mr, Black said that he had every reason to believe that his presence and J official position was disagreeable to 1 some of the employes. j *r_ r\ -.u.j \f_ , xur. x/uuLiiit tueu a.3a.eu iui. jjiaufc. ' whether he had not corrected mistakes in his bookkeeping at various times. This was acknowledged, but Mr. Black said the times were few and often were the faults of other departments, mentioning the marking department. He admitted that he made errors, saying that there was no man living who didn't but they were not constant nor more frequent than could be expected from a fallible man. Mr. Douthit explained that he did not bring up the matter of Mr. Black's errors to make charges against him, and went on to say that it was his policy to watch for the proper conduct of the business and when he found errors, be told the employees of them and had them ] corrected. If Mr. Black had told him 1 of irregularities harmony would have i prevailed and the whole matter would i not occupy the attention efthe board, I though so far as that is concerned he < could stand any investigation of his con- 1 duct as an official. J Without action at once the board J called upon Mr. Bryant to explain the < charge against him for selling liquor to i FTCl A *W. ! ! ^lu?J?\JJ av&uvu ivu^v,u vuuv had done so. The money he received 1 was turned over to the commissioner or i his bookkeeper. The employees were ] named to whom he sold liquor. This is contrary to the rules, but the superintendent acknowledged that he had cot porperly informed himself as to the law ! or the resolutions of the board. < The state board of control Thursday 1 afternoon passed the following resolu- i tions in reference to charges against Mr. ; Douthit and Mr. Bryant: Whereas 1 after careful investigation of the charges of irregularity preferred by Captain Black, the shipping clerk, against Mr. I Douthit, the commissioner, and Mr. 1 Bryant, the superintendent, the board ] finds that the explanations given by i Commissioner Douthit are entirely sat- ; isfactory to the board except in that he < failed to have recorded on the book of : the shippiDg clerk the sale of certain 1 contraband cider which he was ordered ! by the board to make disposition of. j This sale being properly charged to the account of the local dispenser through J whom the sale was made, no harm could ] come from such error except the viola- ; tion of a rule of the board requiring all 1 shipments to go on the books of the ' shipping clerk, la regard to tne irreg- < ulariiies charged to Mr. Bryant, the ! superintendent, we find that he erred < in making sales of any articles of any ' description from the dispensary Though such sales were very limited, and the ? proceeds of same being turned over to 1 the state, we find that he was over zeal- 1 ous in prosecuting his duties. ] A Sad Accident. i While Martha JohDSori was driving to ' Leland, Miss. Wednesday in a wagon, ' accompanied by two half-grown children, in quest of a coffin for her deceased niece, an accident occurred that resulted in her own and both of her chil^notVic TVio J-ucr Kri^orp nvAr Ui vu O UV^UVJUkJt Jl AJ.V V&AVQV -w ? ? Deer creek at Leland was being repaired, the guard rails having been removed. The mules drawing the wagon in which the woman and children were driving becace frightened while crossing the bridge, falling over thirty feet. All were killed and four coffins were needed for the family instead of one. Gaining: in New Yorker. -1-1 I ?>ryaa uiuus are uciug uigam^u m ( every election precinct in Kings county," siid Mr. Win. Bryan, of New Yi rk. To my mind that is a very significant matter, for while it may not be done by the express wish of Hugh McLaughlin, the Democratic leader of ] Kings, it must be with his sanction and approval. Beyond this it goes to show that the rank and file of the party in that county are for the Nebraskan, just as the mass of Democrats all over New York state are for him. He is stronger in New York by far than he was in 1 ISOfi, and that he will get he electoral 1 vote in 1900 I have not the slightest doubt." i f Times are getting better. Sis Pianos c sold in the last three weeks. Four for cash. Those in want of Pianos and Organs have found the place to get the best makes for the least money. A nice Mathushek Piano now completes the furnishing: of the new Odd Fellows hall, for the use of societies that meet in hall. Call at my office or write me for circulars and price. D. A. Pressley, Manager Columbia, S. C. tf i! TILLMAN INjJHODE ISLAND. Talks on Oar Foreign Policy, the Negro Question and Free Silver. Thf* secoud meeting of the New England Bi-Metallic league at Cresent was largely attended and representative members from all the States occupied the rostruru. Resolutions declaring for free silver against militarism and urging the nomination Yv. J. Bryan JY?r president were unanimously adooted. Senator Benj. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, was then introduced and his address was punctuated with cheers throughout. He stated that the Spanish war was worth all it cost, if it has proven nothing else than that the bouth will tight for the Stars and Stripes as eagerly as will the North. He declared that unless the policy of the government is changed soon the Republic is doomed and will become a government of oppression of the many by the few. He praised New England for what it had done for the country but called attention to the fact that there were people enough south and west of the Potomac and the Mississip pi to elect a president without the aid of New England. He said that while he believed, and always would, that the Negro is not the equal of the white man, still he believed in giving him his legal rights, barring the political side. He 3aid the Negroes did not know enough to vote and in South Carolina the white people had succeeded in disfranchising them until they can read and write. Mr Tillman aslrpd "If it was right to free Cuba because Spain was shooting Cubans to death, how is it to be reconciled with the facthat the United States, which now owned the Philippines shoot the Filit pinos to death! He said that he believed the president is honest in his behalf that he is doing his duty, but claimed that he only looked at the one fact that the United States bought the islands from Spain. He asked where the honor was in the Phillippine war. The South and South Carolina will at any time ,?A ,* -I-;? 3uuu as xiiauy men ill yiuyux tiuu cv jlc^ population as any State to any war of decency and honor, but it will not send a regiment to the Philippines. DREYFUS CONVICTED. A Sad Miscarriage of Justice in France. After a short deliberation Saturday xl- _ X i* 1 "L "L 1 morning, we courtmaruai wmuu. uas been trying Dreyfus at llennes, France, reached that decision, which was anaounced by its president, Colonel Joulust. The court stood five to two igainst Dreyfus. He is sentenced to oen years imprisonment in a military fortress. He gets credit for four years ilready served on Devil's island and suffers the same degredatfon subsequent ;o his first trial, when his uniform was :aken from him. The whol? tenor of the proceedings at the trial for the last few lays has indicated that Dreyfus would leain be convicted. Da Pajy de Clam's ;scape from cross-questioning by Maitre Labori and the failure to get before the ;ourt the testimony of Major Paniz- J iardi and Colonel Schwartzkoppen, :hc Italian and German military attaches at Paris, to whom it i3 alleged r\ a u t? LTeyiUS SUIU IICUUU JULU.II tax j weakened the defense, though promilent Dreyfusards and foreign journalists reporting the trial believe his convic:ion was a foregone conclusion. Th? mti Dreyfusards arc highly elated over Reconviction and have mace demonstrations in many cities in France. The Dreyfusards are depressed by the veriict and have little hope of anything :avorable to the prisoner resulting from :he appeal his lawyers v/ill make. A neavy force of troops is massed in Rentes and all attempts at disorder will be promptly suppressed. Leaped to His Death. A dispatch from Lancaster to The State say? Wednesday night as the train .1 r J :i j on inc Lancaster ana unester ramuau svas approaching the tressle over Fishing creek, in Chester county, a horse ittached to a top buggy suddenly took the track in front of the engine and ran .mh the speed of the wind. Engineer Wall, who was at the throttle, brought the train to a stand still. The horse by this time could not be seen, having pursued his break-neck speed down the track. The engineer then cautiously proceeded on his journey with the train. On nearing the trestle he discovered the horse and buggy about TO feet from the bank in the trestle. The train was stopped again. The crew and passengers went to see the strange sight. VVhile tryiug to extricate the horse from his perilous position, he made & plunge and tumbled over the trestle, i distance of 40 feet, to the ground below, carrying the buggy with him. He feli on his head with the buggy top 3ver him. The horse was killed instantly. When found his head was ioubledup under the foreshoulders. rhe buggy, of course, was utterly wrecked. The horse belonged to Dr. Jesse A. Clifton of the Fort Lawn section of Chester county. The doctor I /?o!lin<r nn a naH/jnf and Iffft his i noo vaiiAug vw w ?.? horse unhitched in the yard. Be be3ame freightened at the approaching train and dashed on the track, in front Df the er.gine, and the result was as ibove stated. Binning Machinery. o I The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System fc cimnlocf onfl mnct nn I L fcj tuv VM*ViV"V Vi-I the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfaction. Boiler3 and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw Hills cannot be equalled in design, eficiency or price by any dealer or manu tajturer in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. 0. Badham, 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Morphine I ?AND? Whiskey HABITS CURED. Hox. VV. H. CLOUGH, Governor of Minnesota. "I hare always said that the Keeley Institute of '.his country bad done more good, in my judgment, than any other institutions or organizations in the country. I have said it many times, and I want to repeat it here, that Dr. Keelej has doae more for the conn try, has safed more unfortunate men. than any one man in the United States." (Extract from an address delivered in Minneapolis, August, 1837.) Address Communications to The Keeley Institute, 126 Smith Street, Corner Vanderhorst, CHARLESTON, S. C. All Wp A sir of U.X.XJL 1 ? V_/ O. -M. wTAJL VA iryou E'S?ANYTHING Machinery or Mill Supply Line Is that you give us an opportunity to submit our prices and make comparisons. We ask this because we believe "we cau make it to VHTTP rt A tt* -r? o era tp v rrs x v U jljb aurauiagv* jlx? a vk/* ! We make a specialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN GIN1.J1RIE5 OF ANT CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING- {APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. ; 'Correspondence with intending pur, ixaisers solicited. Wl U 0(VUam P. HA ot. n. aimucd a nu?. COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA A05NCY Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. ; A- B. Farquhar Co., Ltd., York, Pa. ; Eagle Cotton G-in Co., Bridgewater, Mass. Straub Macidnery Co., Cincinnati, 0. To get strong 1 t i 1 ! and nealtny use one bottle Murray's TronMtx TlJRE. Price 50c IH M&YfllfiCQ., WEMDEFY M [ in'our BUSINESS COURSE, bee, jj practical; in our SHORTHAND CO and easiest tlearned;] in the SUC 5 rjjnsfi thftv better and more t Ask any one who knows any thirg of tl > we teach, and see if they .do not gay it is the 1 i We eecure positions for our graduates. \ supply. f Our catalogue gives full information as t< ; curicg positions and other inducements. Sen Address Colombia W. H. Xev Merits of the WINTHROP NORMAL AN! Mr. D. A. Pressley, Colu two Mathnshek pianos which \ Music House last year for our satisfaction. The Mathnshek piano is a which I can cheerfully recomm "Vrmrs trnlv Director Departme MUSIC D] Mr. D: A. Pressley-?Havi both in concert and in teaching strument; thoroughly well mad in tune. And do not hesitate i piano to those wishing a high ^ Very truly, Director Music Dep I COLUMBIA FM To Mr. D. A. Pressley.?II thushek piano in use at the < The instrument has a pleasing sive touch, and is in all respec pacity for staving in tune is passed by none. Very respe S@~Three more Mathusheks : Address, D. A. I Manager Ludden & Bate: f COLUMB rm M j,, ? - , 1 , KIDNEY, BLADDER, U8INAR AND ! LIVER 1 ] ^ DISEASES, DYSPEPSIA. INDIGESTION AND CONSTIPATION POSITIVELY CURED BY THE USB OF BR. HILTON'S ^ T TTITl liirij v FOR THE LIVER m KIDNEYS. A vegetable preparation, wherever known the ER8t popular of all remedies, because the moat effectual. Sold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co. Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S. C. It is thfi= =Custom I S I j Bat a very poor one, to wait until the gin- J nujg season 13 on oeiore losKiug w occ what fix the gin is in. :5? Now is the time to HURRY YOUR GIN iOTIIE ELLIOT SIN REPAIR WORKS. Tin T?rt rlolav und then ask ns to let TOD ? ? have it at once, for thorough work canto) be done in a harry. Ihe attention given his matter now will more than repay yotr when the eotton is white in the field* and the gin house crowded. Toe worki# coming in already, so ?hip at once to tb? undersigned, located at the old electric light engine house. RsCs'it ess ?i ? 7. I ? ? & Co, V. C. Badham, Jno. A.. Willis. jjgT'ilark your name and shipping point j on work sent and prepay the freight. | The Elliott Gin Repair W. J. ELLIOTr, Proprietor, No. 1314'Gates Street, 7 . COLUMBIA, S. C. MacfeaPs School of SHORTHAND ?A3D? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has the reputation of being the i beet business institution inUe State. Grad| ostes are holding re nnnerative positions in j mercantile umkiajc, wsumw, i estate, railroad offices, &c., in this and other etatea. Write to W. H. Macfeat, j .? , . . x * 9 . ' rl . s IMPETITION -J ause it is the most thorough and IURSE, because it is the simplest CESS OF OUR GRADUATES, behoroughly qualified. ie PERSIN S fSTEM of shorthand, which best system published. The demand for them often exceeds the ) coarse of study, rates of tuition, toard, S3id for it,^aad name tlic course wanted. , Business College, rberry, Prest., COLUMBIA, S. C. ! Mathushek. D INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE -d^tt tJttt O n XWVA. i-LlXiJu, O. V. V imbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: The ve bought of Ludden & Bates College have given excellent ___ .11 n . A. i ' * wen maae instrument ana one end for hard and constant use. Wade R. Brown, nt of Music Winthrop College. "RECTOR. ( Columbia, S. C. ng used the Mathushek piano j, I find it a most excellent inle, wearing well, and staying to recommend the Mathushek ^rade instrument. jj G. P. McCoy, t. of S. C. College for Women. fALE COLLEGE. Columbia, S. C. A ear Sir: We have had a^,Majollege during the past year. tone, an eves, light, responts a well made piano. Its cavery great and, I believe, surctfully, Ernest Brockman, Director Music Department. sold to this college." . m 'ressley, 3 Southern Music House, IA S. C,.