University of South Carolina Libraries
\ inw>ojwa*'? HOW TO LIVE LONG." The Rev. Dr- T. DsWitt Talrriage's Prescriptions for Longevity. PEACE NOW AND HEREAFTER. His Text Was, "With Long Lite Will 1 Satisfy Him." Help ? in Practical Religion- A Protest Against Dissipation. Ia this discourse Dr. Talmage gives prescriptions for the prolongation of and preaches the gospel of physial health. The text is Psalm? xci, 16. wii-Vv irtner Kfp toi'iI I satisfr him." VV iVU "... _ Through the mistake of irs friends religion has been chiefly associated wiih sick beds and graveyards. The whole subject to many people is odorous with chlorine and carbolic acid. Thtrc ar<r people who cannot pronounce the word "religion" without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is high time mat tnis iuiug changed and that religion, instead of being represented as a hearse to carr^ out the dead, should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eve:?, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When David in anotner part no?im WTO that Tfclicrion mav be VA m dominant, he does not speak of it'as a mild sickness or an emaciation or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp. He speaks of it as "the saving health of all nations," while-God in the text promises longevity to the pious, saying, "With long life will I satisfy him." The fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion ioined the hand of meiical science in attempting to improve human longevity. Adam lived 930 years; Methuselah lived 996 years. As late in the history of the world as Vespasian there were at one time in his empire 45 people 135 years old. So far down as tl-.e sixteenth century Peter Zartan died at 185 years of age. I do not say that religion will ever take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say the length of life will be increased. It is said in Isaiah, "The child shall die a hundred years old." Now, if, ac cording to Scripture, tne cnna is ic ue a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to 300 and 400? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and keletons compared with some of the generations that-are to come. Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give them a ehance, and they develop a Frederick Douglass or a Toussaint L'Ouverture. And, if the white race shall be brought ' AP cm rrrVvof irom aoatr uue senuuiu v/a uu, ?? shall be the body, what shall be the sool? Religion has only just touched our world. Give it full power for a few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty of women and the longevity of all? My design is to show that practical religion is the friend of long life. I prove it first from the fact that it makes the care of our health a positive Christian dnty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or incomplete ~? mastication, are questions very often deferred to the realm o? whimsicality. But the Christian man lifts this whole problem of health into the accountable and the diyine. He says, "God has given me this body, and be nas caiiea it the tetople of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars or mar its walls or ernmble its pillars is a God defying sacrilege." He sees God's caligraphy in every page, anatomical and physiological. He says, "God has given me a wonderfnl body for noble purposes"? that arm with 32 carious bones? wielded by 46 curious muscles and all under the brain's telegraphy, 360 pounds of blood-rushing* through the heart every hour, the heart in 24 hoars beating 100,000 times, during thu 24 hours the lungs taking-in 57 hogsheads of air. and all tins mecnamsm not more u-igoiy than delicate atid easily disturb-, d and demolished. The Christian man j-a} s to himself, "If I hurt my nerve.-, if I hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my physical faculties, I insult God and call for dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites not to offer to him in sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages tha* we are to offer to God our very best physical condition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health is not offering to God such a sacrifice. Why did Paul - write for his eloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul be anxious about a thing 90 insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew that with pneumonia and rheumatism he would not be worth half as much to God and the church as with respiration easy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to kneel down at night and pray and ask God's protection while at the same time he kept the windows of hi;? bredroom tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of goiog out on the bridge between New York and Brooklyn, leaping off and then praying to'God to keep him from getting hurt. Just as long as vou refer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality or to the pastry cook or to the butcher or to the baker or to the apothecary or to the clothier you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your physical forces?nervous, muscular, bone, brain, cellular tissue?for all you must be brought to judgment. SmokiDg your nervous system into fidgets, burning out the coating of your stomach with wine legwooded and strychnined, walking with thin shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinched at the waist until you are nigh cut in two .nnd neither part worth anything, groaning about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God, when they came from your own folly! YJ JUcfcU iias auv mau vx to deface the temple of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? It is the whispering, gallery of the soul. "What is the eye? It is the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens "What is the hand? An instrument so wonderful that, when the Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $40,000 for treatises to be written on the wisdom, power and goodness of God, Sir Charles Bell, the gr<?at English anatomist aud surgeon, fouudhis greatest illustration iu the construction of the human hand, devoting his whule book to that subject. So wonderful arc these bodies that God names his own attributes after different parts of them. | IT In ?.-. ; Kis omniscience?it is God's eje; Ms ; 1 omoipregcnce?it is God's ear; his j omnipotence?it is G' l's arm; the 'aphoistfry of ibe a:rrbt hr-avecs?it is the ^o:k r.f G' d's fin-rershis life giving .r l :T. .v. A i?;?u povre??it is me cream 91 ius anuigu- f. t\; his dominion?"'the government shall be upon his shoulder." : A body divinely honored and so divinely constructed, let us be careful not to abuse it. When it becomes a i Chri*tian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency toward lon^' vity? If I toss my watch about rcckJe>*ly and drop it on the pavement and vrind it up any time of day or night 1 happen to think of it and often let it ruu down, while you are careful with jour watch and never abu.-e it and wind it up just at the sam^ hrnir every ni^ht and put it in a place where it will not suffer from the violent charges of atmoj-phtre, which watch will last the longt-r? Common sense answers. Now. the human body is (jrod'tt watch. You see the hands of the watch, you see the face of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Be careful and do uot let it run down. Again. I remark that practical relig( ton is a friend of longevity in the fact chat it is a protest ag&ms^aissipauuus, which injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their ?ins kill th m. I know hundreds of good old men, but I do not know half a dozen Dad old men. Why? Thev do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at 36 years of age, himself his own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions the horse that dashed him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 33 yt ars of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his door was delirium tremens? On'y this a^d nothing more. Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just bevAnd midlife, then died at St. Helena, and one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. The Lero of Au^terlitz, the man who by one step of his fooD in the center of Europe shook the earth, killed by a snuffbox! How many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their dissipations and indulgences! Now, practical religion is a protest against all dissipations of anv kind. ' 'But," you say, * 'professors of religion have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have misappropriated trust funds, professors of religion have absconded." Yes, but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer, ^ T 4WA*.nAAl n TVI1/1. A flonflA UUUUU iUX" 1U miu-^umuviu jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything against the White Siar line's capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise, is that any reason for your believing that religion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In the one case, if he had kept to the steamer, his body would have been aivorl- in f~h*? fi&se. if he had kent to his religion, his morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would have been dead 25 } ears ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people who lie in the cemeteries today slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, and it i.:? .4 a. v was canea uuugesuuu ui me mam ui something else, but the snakes and the blucflies that seemed to crawl over the pillow in the sight of the delirious patient showed what was ,he matter with him. You, the aged Christian man, walked along by that unhappy one until ycu came to the golden pillar of a Christian life. You went to the right; he went to the left. That is all the difference between you. Jf this religion is a protest against all forms of di.-sipation, then it is an illustrious friend of loogevity. "With Ion# life will I satisfy him." Again, religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. When a man bvComes a genuine Christian, he makes over to God not only his affections, but his family, his business, his | reputation, his body, his mind, his soul, everything. Industrious he will be, buG never worrying, because God is managing his affairs. How can he worry about business when in answer to J ..1i ; l _ 1 ! nis prayers vrou leus uim wueu lu uu> and when to sell. And if he gain, that is best, and if he lose, that is best. Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: "Sir, I want you to call on me in every exigency. I am your fast friend. I could fall back on $20,000,000. I can foresee a panic ten vears. I held the controlling stock in 30 of the best monetary institutions of New York. Whenever you are in trouble call on me, and I will help you. You can have my money, and you can have my influence. Here is my hand in pledge for it." How mach would , you worry about business? Why, joa ' would say, '"I'll do the best I can, and then I'll depend on my friend's generosity for the rest." .. Now, more than that is promised to | every Christian business man. God says , to tin:; "lown-\ew Iori? ana .bonaon ( and St. Petersburg and Peking, and Australia and California are miae. I i can foresee a panic a hundred years. I , have all the resources of the universe, and I am your fa3t friend. When you . get in business trouble or any other ( trouble, call on me, and I will help. . Here is my hand in pledge of omnipo- ; tent deliverance." How much should , that man worry? Not much. What , lion will dare to put his paw on that , Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is , there not an eternal vacation in this? , ' Oh," you say, k'here is a man who ' asked God for a blessing in a certain ( enterprise, and he lost $5,000 in it. ( | Explain mat. 1 will. Yonder is a factory, and one , ! wheel is going north, and the othe ! f wheel is going south, and one wheel , plays laterally, and the other plays vertically. I go to the manufacturer, and ! I say: "0 manufacturer, your machinery is a contradiction! Why do you . not make all the wheels go one way?" "Well," he says, "I made them to go in opposite directions on purpose, and ( they produce the riget result. You go . down stairs and examine the carpets we . ire turning out in this establishment, and you will see.-' I go down on the other floor, and I see the carpets, and I am oblige to confess that, though the wheels in that factory go in opposite directions, they turn out a beautiful result, and while I am standing there looking at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind. "All things work together for good to them who love God." Is there not a tonic in that? is there not longevity in that. Suppose a man is all the time worried about his reputation? One man says ~ 1 ^ ~ ~ ~ ? U oora ^ a i J Cfnnl^ 9T1- i JUC iIUZ>, auutucx OCfcj- O UV/ m* ?** I other says he is dishonest, and half' a dozen printing establishments atttack him. aca he is in a great state of excitement and worry and fume and cannot deep, but religion comes to him itid ssjs: "}h?, God is on you? siae. He will take caro of your reputation. If G-od be for you, who can be against 7cu?" How much should that man worry about hisreputatiou? Not much. If that broker who some years ago in \\ ail street, alter ne Had Jost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew hi3 brains out ?if, instead of taking out of his pocket a pistol, he had taken out a well read New Testament, there would have been one less suicide. 0 nervous and feverish people of the worid. try this almighty scdai.ive! You will live 25 years lunger under its soothiog po>ver. It is not choloral that \ou wantor morphine that you want. it is the gospel of Jesus jurist. "With long life will I satisfy him." Again, practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it removes all corroding care about a future exis tence. E^ery man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot it is going to stop. If yon get on board a ship, you want to know into what harbor it is going to run. And if you should tell me you have no in terest ia what is to be your future destiny I would, ia as polite a way as ] know ho*, tell you 1 did not believe you. Before I had this matter settled with reference to my future existence the que^ion almost worried me intc ruined health. Th'.j anxieties men have upon this subject put together woulc make a martyrdom. This is a state oi awful unhealthiaess. There are people who fret themselves to death for feai of dying. I wont to take the strain of vour nerves and the depression o3. youi soul, and I make two or three experi ments. Experiment first: When yot go out of this world, it does not mak( any difference whether you have beei good or bad, whether you believed trutl or error, you will go straight to glory ''Impossible," you say. "My commor sense as well as my religion teaches tha the bad and the good cannot live to gether forever. You give me no com o . _ ii - i : i. >? x? lore in tnat experiment. xuxpenux^u the second: When you have this work you will go into an intermediate state where you can get converted and pre pared for heaven. "Impossible," you say. "As th< tree falleth, so must it lie, and I canno postpone to an intermediate state refor mation which ought to have been ef fected in this state." Experiment th< third: There is no future world. Wi " a man dies, that isi the last of him. i' not worry about what you ire to do it another state of being. You will redo anything. "Impossible," you say. "There is something that tells me lha death is not the appendix, but the ] re lace, to lire, xnere is somommg ma tells me that on this side of the grave I only get started and that I shall go 01 forever. Mv Dower to think says 'for ever,'my affections say 'forever,' inj capacity to enjoy or suffer, 'forever.'' Well, you defeat me in my three ex periments. I have only one more t< make, and if you defeat me in that ] am exhausted. A mighty One on i knoll back of Jerusalem one day, th< skies filled with forked lightnings anc the earth filled with volcanic distur fcances, turned his pale and agonizec face toward the heavens and said: "J take the sins and sorrows of the age: into mv own heart. I am the expiation Witness, earth and heaven and hell, ] am the expiation." And the hammei struck him, and the spears puncturec him, and heaven thundered. ';Th< wages of sin is death!" "The soul tha: sinneth, it shall die!" UI will by n( means clearthe guilty!" Then then was silence for naif an hour, and th< lightnings were drawn back into th< <.\,a 0l-rr a?A Aorf} cvauu0.1V4 VX VJU^ kjaj, U.UV* VMV ?. ceased to quiver, and all the colors o the sky beg?a to shift into a rainbov woven out of the falling tears of Jesus, and there was red as of the bloodshed diug, and there was blue as of th< bruising, and there was green as of th< heavenly foliage, and there was orang< as of the day dawr., and along the lint of the blue I saw the words, "I was bruised for their iniquities," and alonj the line of red I saw the wotds, "Thi blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from al s>iD," and along the line of the green ] covr t-Vio urnrrla ''TIia lpavp? flf thf! TtV# of Life for the healing of the nations,' and along the line of the orange I the words, "The day spring from or high hath visited us," and then I saw the storm was over, and the rainbow rose higher and higher until it seemed retreating to another heaven, and plantone column of its colors on one sidt t.hp ptprnal hilL and nlantiner the othei column of its colors on the other side the eternal hill, it rose upward and upward, "and, behold, there was a rain bow about the throDe," Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying. Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longevity, ol this truth. Religion is sunshine; that is health. Religian is fresh air and pure water- they are healthy. Religion is warmth- that is healthy. Ask all the doctors, and they will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasant antici pations are hygienic. Iofferjou ;>er Pect peace now and hereafter. What do you want in the future world? Tell me, and you shall have it. Orchards? There are the trees with twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit svery month. Water scenery? There is the river of Life from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do you want music? There is the oratorio oi the Creation led on by Adam, and the oratorio of the Red sea led on by Moses and the oratorio of the Messiah led on uct. t>.?i O T*o r? flrol XT 7 f Vl VJJ X AUi) nuuv VUV aiiuuuu^vi n ivu swinging baton controls the 144,000 who made up the orchestra. Do you want reunion? There are your children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace 70U, waiting to twist garlands in your hair. You have been accustomcd to Dpen the door on this side of thesepulsher. I open the door 011 the other side of the sepulcher. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave. I show you the under side of the grave. The bottom has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pallbearers let do^n youi dead let them clear through into hearen. Glory be to God for tins rooust, healthy religion! It will have a tendency to make you live long in this world, and in the world to come yon rciil have eternal life. "With Ions life will I satisfy him." Murdered by Moonshiners. John L. Hanna, chicf of police of Dalton, Ga., was shot and killed Wednesday by three moonshiners whom he was trying to arrest. A posse of 125 men was organized and started in pursuit of the moonshiners. A speoia] train carrying a party ef detectives, accompanied by bloodhounds, have left Chattanooga for Dalten to aid in the capture of the murderers. ' I have used your 'Life for the Live: and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or any derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as being without an equal." James J. Osborne, Attorney at Law, Boliston, Henderson Jo., N. C. * ****?> o*'-I i n m I gjmr i ! ALASKA"SHAKEN; f | |A Preacher Tells the HottesF Earthquake Story Extant MOUNTAINS THROWN DOWN The Sea Swallowed by Yawn* ing Earth. Islands Sank, and Lakes Thrown On Mountains. Concerning the recent earthquaki along the coast of Alaska, the Rev Shfltlnn Jackson. educational acent f<? I Alaska, writes as follows frosi iraqutat under date of Sept. 17: "The first shock was experienced oi Saturday, Sept. 3, but being slight ; cau-ed no alarm. During the follow L ing five hours there were 52 distinc shocks, culminating at 3 p. m., in shock so srvere that people of Yaquta ' were hurled violently across thei ; rooms, or if outside, they were throw to the eround. while pictures fell frot * the vralls and' dishes and crocker crashed on the shelves, and house ! rocked and swayed and whirled whil ) the mission bell rang violently in th ' 9hakiDg church tower. ! "Panic-stricken the inhabitants r? ^ gained t.heir feet and attempted to fie 5 to the hills, only to be again and agai r thrown to the earth; all the whil ^ shrieking, rolling and running the r sought safety. Giiningthe hills an looking seaward, they were transfixe 1 with horror as they siw a great tids 2 wave, apparently a wall of water 3 1 feet high, approaching with the spee 1 nf a rflc.p horse that wnnld enculf thei village and sweep away their homes 1 Before the shore was reached th t earth opened in the bottom of the ha] " bor and into this chasm the tidal wav spent its force and around it the se 1 swirled like a great maelstrom. Thi 1 saved the village from destructior > The tide would rise 10 feet in the spac " of four or five minutes and in an equa ly short time go down again. Tb i sudden fluctuations were frequently r< t peated. ' 'Tents were pitched or: the hills bac - of the village and nearly the whole poj i ulation is camping out, fearing ths : -mother tidal wave may come. Froi . ] '?;ie 10th to the present there have bee i i frequent shocks, one having occurre t J this forenoon. ! l'\p?r TTnhhard (rlaftiftr. on Disei t C'lantment bay, were encamped thre - miners, A. Fieur, W. Rock and J. t Johnson, and a mile from them at a i elevation of 64 feet above the sej 1 Messrs. T. Smith, Cox and sons, c - Falls and D. Stevens. When the heav r shock on Saturday, the 16th, was e: ' perienced, the Fleur party had rigee - a machine and were taking the oscilh ) tion of the earthquake's waycs, whe [ without a moment's warniDg they wer i thrown violently across the tent. A ? the same moment a large fresh watf I lake back of their camp and about 4 ? t ^ ?!i- ?j *-u - ieei xrom it, was spin upeu <ma iu i waters were thrown upon the cami [ and before the miners could regai 3 their feet they were bsing swept out t . sea. Then at almost the same tim [ they were m3t by a tidal wave whic r picked them up and not only washe 1 them ashore but over a hill 40 fe( ; high, sanding them on the crest of c divide. ) "Regaining their feet they ran alon i the crest with the tidal wave boilin i and seething at their feet alongside th } hill Afterwards one of the part i found his baggage and clothes one an f one half miles up on a mountain sid? 7 where the wave had left them. Grea spruce forest for miles along the shor - were uprooted, broken into pieces an 5 massed into great piles.' Large rock< i weighieg 40 tons or more, were rollin s over one another down the mountai ill ; Uh.e su many pvuuics. i "Hubbard G-.'acier, with its two and I half miles of sea front, thousands c i feet thick, extending for miles back t 1 thesurrmit of the mountain, brok [ from its moorings and with a grindin ; roar that shook the surrounding hill ' moved bodily from a half to three j quartern of a mile, into the sea. A larg i reek, 15 feet wide, down whose be ' cataracts were rushiotr, was ffooded s r that miners were unable to cross ove co the camp on the opposite side. A fei minures later it had sunk back to it : former bed and later was again an irre sistable, raging torrent. Mountain rrra-ra fVii-narn (Inirn frhp <5f?a ftnftTlpd an< [ portions of islands disappeared. Th i earth opened in many places. ; "After the great shock had passe< i and the miners commenced prepara ! tions to get away a boat with oars wa ; fotfnd a mile up the uountain side . where it had been carried by the waves . With this another boat was secured tha n a. T I was noaung on tue uay. ; "Iq these two small boats they start ed for Yaqutat bay, forty-five mile away. The first night they made cam on a large moraine, one and a half mile ! fro.n the mountain, but an earthquak during the night loosened a landslid . that co /er^ not only the one and , ; half miles of plains, but also their tent i Digging out the tent and provision i they again took to their boats. On th : second night they were terrified b; strange noises that issued from th earth and their tent was blown t shreds by the strange winds tha i seemed to blow from every poin of the compass as clouds were pour . ing down torrents of water they fled t their boats. "Forcing their boats for mile through fields of fresh forming ice, am 13 miles of rough sea, they at lengtl reached Yakutat in safety. Humor ' are afloat that a portion of Cape St Elias and Khantak island have disap peared in the sea. Without doubt i when scientific exploration of the moun t St. Elhs region is made there will b : found many physical changes." Burglars Burn the Town. The town ol Madison station, Mis?, on the Illinois Central, was almost de stroyed by fire at an early hour Firda; morning. .Nearly all th^ Wi?*e . houses and several dwel'irnr Ik. use i were destroyed. Loss ab .uc l Ti;e fire was .-.t.a~ud by burglars wh< ' had looted t:ie safe in one of the stores Saw Mill Boiler Explodes. A snecial to The News and Observe: . from Rutherford ton, X. C.. says: Th< boiler of a saw mill near town explod ed at 12 o'clock today, fatally scaidinj 1 two white and one colored m^n and se 1 riously iujuring a white man name* Pool. Pieces of the boiler were blowi 300 yards away. Lynched in Cnba. A dispatch from Havana says Seno Sanchez, who was secretary of th< municipal court in Union de Reyes I province of Santa Clara, and formerly i ! a guerilla, was lynched Thursday. Th< perpe..*tors are not known to the autho ritics. Sacchez, who was shot to deatl had the reputation of having committet many crimes during the war. i A BOLD FORGES, " I i ! ,! 11 He Haiis From Barnwsil County, j This State. TTT_ ... ! OLD HAND AT THE BUSlNtbS. | * j Committed by Him in Augusta. Tried to Pass Draft at Georgia Railroad Bank and Was Detected. e A boUI forger, who hails from Barnwell 'T County, in this State, has recently at , tempted to ply his trade in the city of Augusta, Ga. His name is Blackwell D and when arrested the police recognized him as an old offender. About fifteen t years ago lie passed a payed check on a an Au*usia firm for which he was ar,fc rested on this sice the Savannah river p n by an ofncc-r of the police force of Au a gusta. He was captured at Lis home y in Barnwell and Carried back to Auguss ta without requisition papers. Gover6 nor Richardson was Governor at the e time and he had the Georgia officer ! prosecuted for kidnapping. The case 8 was tried in Augusta and the state of Q South Carolina was represented by A?^ e torney General Earle, now dead, and t he state of Georgia by Attorney I! utchj er. Matters were finally adjusted, and ^ the prisoner being wanted in South Carolina for a similar offense, was V brought here and imprisoned. He afterwards was imprisoned in the peni11 tentiary of the state of Georgia. T lis was for the same charge and he receive ed a penalty of nine 3 ears. He only r~ served four years, for in December, e 1892, he was pardoned by Governor a Northen. 's Blackweil is a man 0? about 50 years u of age and ef medium height. To see ,e him in a crowd he would not be no^ Va io fn * ?r*/\m ri-,*??noconcai n cr LHJCU^ XUi 10 ia: uvut f but his blue eyes are searching and as strong as those of a panther. He wore , a short mustache, black and stubby and his complexion was sallow. When arrested on his person was found sevI eral checks, a stamping outfit. $1.50 II in. change, a pipe and tobacco etc. The j? following account of his methods is taken from the Augusta Chronicle: About three we'ks ago a man atl' tempted to pass a check on the firm of f H. J. Porter bearing the signature of " the Perkins Manufacturing company. n The attempt was unsuccessful, but unr' fortunately the forger escaped. This .* was one of the fellow's tricks. About 7 three months ago the same man passed j a check on Day & Taanahili for $125, u signed by the Lombard Iron worics. A Q short time before that he passed one on the Irish-Americaa Savings bank for t $100. These are the cases known so ' far. There no doabt are others who have q been taken in by this swindler, buc up to this time these are the only cases rs' ported in Augusta. H^s 'scheme was a ^ smooth one and calculate! to fjol tbe average person. In some cases he would wait until af er banking hours, ? f 1 T? ? .1 _ A 4 ^ ^ ^ as He did at i'Oriers, at:u preij'iUi me ^ check with a letter from the siguer ask. ing as a personal favor that the money be advanced the n ai, that some relative had jait died, please excuse the oversight in sending Lafterbanking 2 hours,-etc., etc. | When arrested he was out expecting to net $550, because on his person was j found a draft for $150 and a chcck for 4 $100. Besides these two w^r* i'juud a ^ check dra*n in*favor of F. M King (the forgor), dated Sept. 14th, and sign ^ ed by the Perkins Mfg. Co., al o a draft - payable to A 31. Kiog (another com j ' deplume), drawa on Mcs>rs. Dan-Of ? & Farg) of A-;gus:a by Willcox & Gribbes, of Waynesboro, bearing th?date of Sopt. 21. This draft was fo; ? the amount of $250 an I was endorsed by Davison & Fargo and counfc-rjigneo 0 ' ' * * Xy" "? - - J - i\ Am e by A. i>i ivng ana w..s cue isl The first draft refotri'i to was the onf | he was caught on. He [ r -seuted with this draft a letter, which read as fol' lows: i Augu-ta, G i , Sept 22 To Whom it May Concert.-: ' We tak? pleasure in mating that we ' are personally acquainted with Wm. B. Willcwr, he beirga relative by mar riage. We are also familiar with his ' sigoature. Wt* are acquainted, too, j wit'i J W. MePher-oa. Both parties are e perfectly ;espoi?ible for my amount. Wc \sill a o uh for them. You may hold ^ us responsible f >r draft if you prefer. Verv trulv. '* Perkins Mfg Co George E Icale. On the ba k of the envelope was writj ten in pencil the name of McPhersen. ffhile the face of the envelope bore the words written with a blue ; pencil, 'To ' whcra it may concern.'' * The draft reid as foljo.v.-: g Waynesboro, Ga., Sept. 2nd, 1S99. John Flannery& (Jo., Savannab, Ga. Thirty dajs after date. ~ Pay to A. C. Walker, or bearer, $450. Oarsre to account of "s " J. W. Willcox & Co e The drafwbore four revenue stamps, cancelled with writing ink by the iaitials J. W. & Co., atd was endorsed r> I by fi?e business men of Augusta. t When presented to the Georgia Jtiailroad Bank it didn't take the cashier a second to tell that the draft was bogus and Blackwell was the sufferer thereby. The check, dated Sept. 22d, was enc!o3eJ i:i an envelope bearing on its j face, 'To any merchant who will oblige k us," written in the same hesitating hand, with a blue pencil. In the corner, enclosed in brackets, were the words 41By hand," The check was made out as follows: Augusta, Ga., Sept. 22d, 1S99. 0 Georgia Railroad Back. Pay to F. M. King, or order $100. Charge to account of "n? JffcKivOS .'ifn. Vvw., George E. Toale. I FortUT?2t.-.]y he didn't have a chance r to t.-r 5ns i?ar:d with the check. The a j it lit r accompanying this check was s j similar to the one he tired on H. J. Puvter, and was signed as the former 0 one, by Mr. George E. Toale. A per son, in looking at the checks, is struck with the different colors of ink used and, in fact, the general get-up would r lead one to believe them genuine. One ? of the most prominent business men - in the city looked at the forged signar ture of Mr. Toaie Mr. Toale said - that it couldn't be told from the genu1 ine. The man was indentified further - - on i_ 11 j i j by Mr. Uay. ol Uay cz lannamu. ana i Mr. Porter. The former's fall name is Fred A. Blackwell. To say that he is a slick article would be putting the thing r light. He is merely a polished forger s of the latter day sort and the people at , large can compliment themselves on i the riddance of such a shark. A repor s terfor The Chronicle had a talk with - the man while he was confined at police i barracks. He had nothiDgto say exi cept that he was caught and admitted his rascality. FERTILIZER TRUST. I I Three Large Charleston Factories j. UUt I 0 ir, J LARGE PROFITS MADE. I 2 Factoriss Bought 8 Years Ago for $150,000, Purchased by t Virginia-Carolina Com- T I pany for $400,000 The Charleston correspondent of The 1 State says the deal which has been e 0 pending for several weeks between the c Virginia-Caroliua company and the t Standard and the Imperial Fertilizer * companies for the purchase of the lat- e tcr by the former was definitely con- t eluded last week, and the money was c paid over and the stock delivered. The 0 Oakland Mioing company, which has a c l'iase on the St. Andrew's property on 1 Stono river, was also included in the ( deal and was sold along with the maun- ] f tCturiDg companies to the Virginia- { Carolina company. j The Standard brought $195 per share, makicg in rouud numbers a > nnrr?h;?Ro nf ?400 000 fr~- the com , XT ? * pany. ] Thpi Imperial brought $140 per share, *or $245,000 total. Tbe Oaklaud, with a capital stock of $10,000, was bought for$36,000. The companies were bought outright, except the Oakland, the profits of which up to date are retained by the old owners. The stock, plans, products, assets 3 ^ ?;ii ./ .t . J ? J ? J i.l_ - ana gooa win 01 cne oiauuaru auu me Imperial pass into the possession of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company. Mr. G. Walter Mclver, manager of the Imperial, is engaged by the Virginia-Carolina company as general xnanager of the sales department for South Carolina. Mr. A. W. Rhett, superintendent of the Standard and the Imperial works becomes general superintendent of all the Virginia-Carolina company's works about Charleston, Mr. o vr nr iU ? l. iu. vvanug, njttuagei ui tuc umuuard, was offered an engagement with the Virgicia-Carolina company, but it is understood he will make other engagements. Ochers of the forces of the absorbed companies are engaged, and as many as possible are provided for. The Virginia-Carolina company now owns all the fertilizer manufactories about Charleston, with the exception of the Ashepoo, the Edisto, the Re*d and the Eciwan. It is said that negotiations are pending for the purchase of the first named of these companies. If these are closed, the Eiisto and the Read wili be the only independent active companies in Charleston, as the Etiwan has not been operated for several years. The Oikland Mining company purchased Tuesday has a capacity of about 25.000 tons of rock a year, which may i.-e increased to 35.000 tons. The Virginia-Carolina company, with this and the p.nritraets it h >lds .with other com panics and the cipacity of its own Cherokee mines, will have a supply of rock equal to its great demand. The -leal was closed at a great advantage to the Charleston owners. The Standard company, which sold for over $400,COO, was bought in about eight years ago for $150,000. T&e Imperial , company shows an enhanced value almost as great. The Virginia-Carolina company's fac- . tories now comprise the following in Charleston: Berkeley, Ashley, Chicora. Arlantic, Wappoo, Stono, Wando, Inn- , perial and Standard. . STANLEY'SjNEW ANECDOTES | He Illustrates the Ignorance About : Africa 21 Years Asro. ~ I It Is twenty-one years since Henry M. Stanley's celebrated book "Through i the Dark Continent" was printed. It i told the thrilling story of his Journey through Africa, in which he made his boat survey of Victoria Nyanza and followed the Congo from its upper waters to the sea. A new edition of the book is about to appear and Stanley has written a long preface for it, in which he tells of the remarkable changes that have taken place in the regions described in tho book. He has sent the preface to the geographer, Warners, of I Brussels, and the first installment of it has appeared in Le Mouvement Gecj graphique in advance of the appearI ance of the book. A few extracts from . this part of the preface are reproduced 1 here. Obviously, Mr. Stanley's exact language cannot be given, as the extracts are translated from the French. ' "As a striking Instance of the general j indifference in Great Britain to all I had written about Africa in the year 1878 (when this book appeared) I re | member ail interview Detween wo members of the council of the Royal Geographical Society and myself. The 1 gentlemen were calling on me, and one of them, observing my manuscript map 1 of the Congo hanging on the wall and 1 the annotation I had made along the ' river's course, turned to me with the ' remark: ! "How long do you think it will be 1 before a white man sees Stanley Falls 1 again?" ( " 'Perhaps two or three years,' I re pneu. " "Two or three years!' lie exclaimed. ' "Why, I expected to hear you say fifty years at least.' 1 "'Fifty years!' said I. 'I em ready ' to wager that within twenty years ' there will be no part of the continent < 100 miles square that will not have been explored.' ' " 'I accept the wager, and will make the sum $50, if agreeable to you/ said 1 my caller. 1 "The bet was made, the twenty years i have at last expired, and, though I do not pretend to say that I have won the bet, I do assert that my prediction has , been almost completely confirmed by the facts. . ( "The same year Sir Rutherford AIcock, president of the Royal Geograph- ] ical society, remarked in his annual address that I had expressed the opln- '< ion to him that if sufficient money were expended Africa could not only be ex- J nlored but also Dacified and civilized. , I did not think there was anything surprising in the statement, but Sir Rutherford mu3t have thought it worthy of reproduction or he would not hay? mentioned it. I speak of the matter f only to show the prevailing ignorance In all circles at that time of matters relating to Africa. "Seven years later I was Introduced hy a canon of Weatir \~isr to a well known bishop, and 6* ) vaa talking to him about the Congo he smilingly remarked: " 'This is all very interesting, but, to tell the truth, I do not know that I snouiu ue iioie lu uuu cue \juu5u uu. the map.' "You may imagine my surprise. All the newspapers of the country had been printing every day for a year . news of one sort or another about the Berlin conference and its results, and I certainly supposed that a prince of the church would know something , rbout it. But his indifference to the J large events '.hat were passing In Afri- ' ca was so great that he did not even. < know the name of the Congo!"?New 1 York Sun. { < I JUHiefcJUUUUg awui a H C fV nsurance Contract "W ritten >7 the Mutual Life nsurance Company of ?ew York, Richard A. tlcCurdy, President, vhich is Attracting Much attention Among business Men. 'he geaer al putlie attention which has n cm cent rated upon the new policy of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New ' i rk has d? monstrated the fact that as a i eral ai-d attractive contract its equal has 7 i ver bren offered to the public; it is pcsie ?hat tome of its advantages may have >e n overlooked by jou, and it is to this end latwe desire to call your attention to the illowing comparisons with the guarantees if other companies, which will prove conilusively (hat tiiis policy is not equalled by har. of any other company. 1 prtw /*rtm va will nao a. 810 (TOO I ? -imi'ed 20-Psyment Life Policy, 20-Year 8 5i?tribution, at 8ge 35, which is the kind of s jolicy use ally illustrated by different ?om- c Janice: ** t WUTUAL LIF3. ** | Premiums $368.70. Guaranteed k Cash Value at end of 20 years, $6,310 00 S'EW YORK LIFE. Premium $383.40. Guaranteed Cash Value at end of 20 years 6,090.00 Mutual Life returns orer New York Life. $220 00 I Mutual Life saving in premium - $14.70 for 20 years compoun ded at 4 per cent 454.97 I Net eavbg in favor of Mutual Life $674.97 | MUTUAL LIFE. Premium $368.70. Guaranteed ' Cash Value at end of 20 years $6,31000 ( EQUrrAB;JJ. ] Prtmium 5383.40. Guaranteed ( J Cash Value at ?nd of 20 years 6,100.00 Mutual Life returns oxer Equitable .. 5210.00 Mutaal Life savicg in premium $14 ^0 for 20 years compound- ( ed at 4 per cent? 454.97 ] Net sating in f*ror of Mutual < Life ?5 664.97 ] MUTUAL LIFE. Premium $368.70. Gaarantsed. Caan Value at end of 20 yea~-<$b, 310 CO MUrUA.li BJ5NEFIT. Premium $339.70. Guaranteed .^j^Cash. ;V?lue at end of 20 years $4,809.20 ^Mutual Life return^ oyer Mu tnalJJenefit ." $ ,500.80 Mumal^Benefit eaving -in premium $29.00 for 2i) year* ^SSfcomDounded at 4 oer cent? 867.20 tNet saving in favor of Mutual Life $633.60 MUTUAL LIFE. Premium $868.70. Guaranteed l ash. Value at end of 20 jears-$6,310 00 &.ETNA.. Premium $318.70 Guaranteed Cash Value at end of 20 years.$4,044.82 Mutual Life returns7?'over ) OH IO f ^Aetnafaving in premium* $49,00 for 20 years compounded at 4 per cenu 1,487.48 * Net saviog in favor of Mutual Life $777 70 All of the above figures *re taken at the end < f a ?0 year period, although the guartntees given by this Company all through be diflerent years are larger than [those of ] Dther companies. * , It sbou.'d be remembered that the surplus retui s are noti*ken into contideration in thei-e comparisons. which, "with the fact thai I the * utoal Life dividends on distribution f policies are very large, proves conclusively ( ihat tbere is no policy like this new contract, THE MUTUAL LIFE POLICY PROVIDES FOR Loans a: 5 per cent, per annum at any time after three yeara. fash value after three years. Autcm&uc paid up insurance. Extended insurance rhirfy dajs' grace in the payment of premiums. The New Toik Life and Equitable policies provide for loans only on the anniversary of he policy *nd within thirty days thereafter while loans will be granted at'any time dar Lug the year on the Mutual Life policy. To loan on a policy only one month cut of twelve w uM be something like a bank making loattB to its customers oaly once & month out oi the year a limitation which would offer ' out little accommodation to the depositor. Neither loau nor cash value is *iven on the AfetYiQ. Tin til fv fun -warn-vm avi A ?. ihe expiration of any policy 3 ear thereafter; while The Mutual life gives both at any time ifter three years. IntheN?w fork Life and the Equ table :ash dividends cannot, be applied to pur :hase additional insaraace thus making the amount more than the face of the policy, unless the insured famishes a certificate of good health The Mutual Life will make ( the dividend additions without re ejamina- E ion, if so elected two years before the end g >f ihe distribution period. The severest criticism which rival compa ties and agents have made on the new policy A the Mutual Life is that "it U too liberal," which is really the highest indorsement that I my pol:cy has ever received, and one that I will obtain for it the preference over any jther offered by any company. With such a ( contract, issued by the Great Mutual Life, | wiih assets of $277 000,000.00, and a sarf.lu9 >1 ?44.000,000.00. with an incon in 1898 ..f >ver $55 000 OUO.OO, there can Ss nothing surer, fa'er or better either as a financial in vestment or as a protection for the family igainet the possibil.ties of future disaster. _a??~ t B [ was born on the 11 e lay of. and year 18 ? o Vly full name i? SJy address is Amount of ioburance desired $ Married or single T ^ ...i ror luixncr psrucuiar? mi vuw mw ^yupvu ind send to F. H. HYATT, GENEBAl AGENT j FOR THE CAROLINAS COLUMBIA, S. C. j surgeon mils nimieu Si The following was received at the ! war department Wednesday morning: ! Ut. John Henry Jouass, acting assis- j :ant surgeon, U. S. A., committed sui- j ;ide by shooting himself at sea on 5 :>oard transport Burnside at 1:45 p. m.; ] Sept. 26th. Body on board. 3 J. C. Dougherty, j SurgeonU. S. A., traaiport Burnside. j ^ ?3 h Ew- IS u3 What Would the Business -i World Do Without Us? -. J H We know our business and we always hare imployment. We secured our trai&ir gatthe COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE, Columbia, S. C., >nd would advice you to do liiewise if you [ sire the b st in the cuntry No other chool has a more thorough business course. ? k simpler or easier learned shorthand cour^ >r more successful graduates. Their catalogue gives fuli iaforoaifon as o courses of study, rates of tuition. Wrd, ecuriog positions, and other inducements. Jend for it and tame the course wanted. , Address, W. B. NEWBERRY, 4t President. * . m . sa -A MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES OF 1 EVERY DESCRIPTION. J It is now unseasonable to 'Talk" Cotton Ginning Machinery, but it is the time for you to place your orders for? ELI'!? BULLEPS, RICE THRKSERS, GRIST MIL A % 8 4.W MILLS, WOOD WORKING MACHINERY, ENGINES iND BOILERS, And many otaer usefai and ne;esaary ma- shines we might mention. If yon want the best value for your noney, consult your ir t*r?st by writing or sailing on us for prices and estimates before placing your orders. Large Stocks. Prompt Shipments. Lowest Prices Consistent With ^ . "Honest Goods." m W. H. Gibhas & So.. COLUMBIA, S. C. I ^ 'M ' " I '< K Ginning Machinery. J rhe Smith Pneumatic Suction m Elevating, Ginning and . rac&ing tystero [s the simplest, and most efficient oo^H the market. Forty-eight complete fl outfits in South Carolina; each one giviDg absolute satisfaction. fl Boilers and Engines; ^Talve, Automatic and Corlissr My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw t Mills cannot be equalled in design, eficiency or price by any dealer or manu ~ :ajturer in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. ><| V. C. Badham, | 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. KIDNEY, I BLADDER,.CttlSAR' AND ^ LIVER J )I8EA.f*ES, DTSPEPSU, INDIGESTION AND C ?N3rJPAT10N" P( WlflV?Lr LUB*D BT THE <>F Db. HILTON'S 1 LIFE FOR TSE Lira inn pro. | A vegetable preparation, wherever kaowa be m, etyp^puUc of all remedies b_c*08? ?he Qost effeoni *1. Sold wholesale by? ' The Murray Drug Co. Columbia. Dr. H. Baer. Charleston, 8. C. Hacfeafs Siubooi of SHDRT1ARD -h ?A.TD? ^ TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. ? r " This Sclicol fc^s tac reputation of being the basinet m-jtituzroQ. in Sist?. GrsdLatfea iTo boldrog re^tmoratrve positions in nercantiie aoesea, biuking, insurance, real state., raf r*ad offices, &c., in this anS other itetes. Write to W. H. Mtcfeat, igrapberG^-nMl'Ti*. 3 iv To get strong | and healthy use I one bottle Murray's Iron Mix- gl rUBE. Price 50c M I mv m jnt business cocdceted for Moderate fees. <1 Ou* Office is Opposite u. 8. patent Office ' and we old secure patent in lacs line than those; | remote from Washington. ,i Send model, drawing or yb'rto., with deserip- j Hon. We advise, if patentable or not, free ofj . charge. Our fee not due till pate.it is secured. , i A Pamphlet, **How to Obtain i'atecus," with'! v cost of same in the U. S. and fan ign cobs tries | sent firae. Address, . < J C.A.SNOW&CO. Opp. Patent Office, Washington, O. S. ' v