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NTING THE DEER / The Chase Furnishes Or. Taimage a Timely Theme. Dpcnnp: iw nnD'S WORD. For Those Pursued by Tria!s and Misfortunes. The Oospd as a Refreshment Graphically Set Forth. The gospel as a great refreshment is here set foith by Dr. Talmaee under a figure which will be found l-articular]} graphic by those who have gone cut as hunters to find game in the mouotaics; ' "Ao ?li<i K >t* nant, ! t6Xt, JC 2><i J IU Alii, JL, cxiv UUi V efch after the water brocks.'* David, who must sotne time have seen a deer huot, points us here to a hunted st?g making for the \7ater. The fascinating animal, called in my text the hart, is the "same animal that in sacred and profane literature is called the stag, the roebuck, the hind, tbo gazelle, the reindeer. In central Syria in Bible times there were whole pasture fields of them, as Solomon suggests when he says, "I charge \ou by the hinds of the field." Tbeir antlers jut1 ? 1 ??o lav t6(X irom iqc iuii^ ??v-uvj j down. No hunter who hiss been lone in "John Brown's tract" irill wonder that in the Bible they weie clashed among clean animals, for the dews, the snowers, -5e lakes, washed them as clean as the sky. When Isaac, 'he patriarch, longed for venison, Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares thesprightliness of the restored cripple of millenial timee to the long and quick jump of the stag, saying, "The lame shall leap as the hart." Solomon expressed his disgust at a hunter who, ha^Dg shot a deer, is too lazy to cook it, saying, : 'The slothful man roasteth not that which- he took in hunting." D?i. ~TY,Tri/1 tuViilo for -frmn X>UL VUC uaj X/U11U, nuuw ~ the home from which he had been driven and setting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he had lodged and on the banks of a pond or river, heais a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the previous silence of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to Lim-elf, ?'I wonder what those dogs are after." Then there is a crackling in the brushwood and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods, and the antlers of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket, and by an in - i i n i x + stmct wmcn an nunters retuguiic it - plunges into a pond or lake or river to cool its tliirst and at the same time, by its capacity for swifter and longer swimming, to get away from the foaming harrieis. David said to himself: "Aha! That is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without numbers after me. I am chased, their bloody muzzles at mtr koala Kortirtor af. TTiV ffrtrtd IiamC. AfcAJ j c barking after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds! But look there!" says David, "That hunted deer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes the lathered flanks, and it swims away from the fiery canines, and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in the deep, wide lake of God's mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! As the hart panteth aiter the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God."' Some of you have jest come from the A.dirondacks, and the breath of the Dal ?am and spruce and pine is still on yon. The Adirondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are beiDg slain by the score. Once while there talking with a hunter I thought I thought I would like to see whether my text was accurate in its allusion, and as I lizard the dogs baying a little --? ? ? ^ ^ rrt ?A A 1% A way on aou suppuseu tuc^ vrcic uu mc track of a deer I said to the hunter in rough corduroy, uDo the deer always make for the water when they are pursued?" He said: '"Oh, yes, mister. Tou s-se, they are a hot and thirs;; animal, and they know where the water is, and when they hear danger in the distance they lift their antlers and snufi the trerze and start for Racquet or Loon or Saranac, and we get into our cedar shell boat or stacd by the runway with riSe loaded :eadv to blaze away." My friend, that is one reason w-'n i like the Bibie so uinuti. Its allu-iuDS are so true to nature. lis part .-id res aw real partridges, its ostriches r< :.l ostriches and its reindeer real rei: deer. It is a splendid appearance, that th' painter's pencil fails to sketch and otiy & hunter's dream on a nillow of hemlock at the foot of St, Regis is able to picture. When 20 miles from aDy settlement, it conies down at eventide to the lake's edge to drink among the Keypads and, with its sharp edged hoof, shatters the crystal of LoDg lake, it is very picturesque. But only when, after miles of pursuit, with heaving sides and lolling tongue and eyes swimmiDg in death, the stag leaps from the clift into Upper Saranac can you realize how much David had suffered from his troubles and How mucn ne wantea uoa wnen no expressed himself in the word?, ".As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so t panteth my soul after thee, 0 God." There are whole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from one height you can see 30 lakes, and there are said to be over 800 in the great wilderness. So near are they to each other that jour mountain guide picks up and carries the boat from lake to lake, the small distance between them for that reason called a "carry." And the realm of God's word is one long chain of bright, refreshing lakes, each pronise a lake, a very short carry between them, and, though for ages the pursued have been drinking out of them, they are full up to the top of the green banks,, and the same David describes them, and they seem so near together that in three different places he speaks of them as a continuous river, saying, "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God:" "Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasures;" "Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water." But many of you have turned your back on that supply and confront your trouble, and you are soured with your circumstances, and you are fighting society, and you are fighting a pursuing world, and troubles, instead of driving you into the cool lake of heavenly ccm fnrf fi uto rmi turn rnriTnl ) *** ' ^ J vs* VI.-V and lower your head, and it is simply antler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances I would have done worse. But you are all wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in February and March?it shells its horns. The Rabbinical writers allude to this resignation of as tiers by the stag when they say if a man who ventures his money in risky enterprises he has hunc on the stag's horns, and a proverb in the far east teils a m2n who has foolishly lost his fortune, to go and find where Lhe deer shed his herns. My brother, quit the antagonism of jour circun>> stances, qaii misanthropy, quit complaint. quit pitehinc into your pursuers. Be as wise as next spring will he " 1 ? ---C1.,J ta? <Ker ot tne Aairrnuac&s. c^cvi your horns. ; Bat very many of you who are ! wronged 01 the world?and if iu any assembly oetweeD tbe Atlantic and PaeiJjc oceans it were asked that all who had been bach treated should raise b.-ih ti eir bauds. ai>d full ;es:;onsc>iiou!d be made, there wouid be twice as many hands fitted as persons present - I say many cf \ ou would declare, "We have always done the best we could and tried to be useful, ?nd why 1 -I? ? **.i/\ n.iriTYiont' tf"C Become me wchujo ui mat. or in\a!idism ormisbap, is inscrutable." Wny, do you not know mat the fk-er a iter and the wur* elegant its proper riot:s and the more beautiful its beariug the more ansious the hunters and the bounds are to capture it? Had 1 ' 1 1- J ?* r? r rl V*TV\L"??n tnai rue duck a raugcu i m aw. hoof# and sn obliterated f-yc and a limping gait the hunttrs would have f-aid: 'Pobaw! Don't let us waste our ammunition on aiick deer." And ihe hounds would have given a few spiffs of the track and then darted off in another di'rection for better game. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky. and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the r..4. Jn/i'Aco tVio rifhe-st' r>?stnre irtt iuv?vpv vuv r?? that could be nibl led from the bank of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaveu, and the stamp of its foot defies the jack shooting lantern and the rifles, the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their cccks in the rapids. So if there we-e i>o Doble stuff in your make up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if jou were a forlorn failure, you would be allowed to co undisturbed, but the fact that the whole pack is in 0 ' - ?? - *-A?^ ia,f. rM?Anf' nnaitiv/J IlilZ IT> itH.cl j via 10 :|/tuv< ? that you are splendid game aEd worth capturing. \ Therefore sarcasm draw.i on you its finest bead;" therefore the world goes gunning for you with his best Winchester breechloader. Highest compliment is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. ^You will be assailed in proportion to jour great achievements The best and the mightiest Being the world ever saw had set aft<^ him all the hounds, terrestrial and diaanr} thvv lannA^ his blond 2fter UVIAVj aU\A ? the Calvarean massacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and a cross. Many who have done their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleasure is in anticipation of the next world, and thev would, if they could, express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness of Nairn, at the dose of her long life, when asked if she would like t? live her life over again: Would you be young again? So would not I. One tear of memory given Onward I'll hie Life's dark wave foaded o'er All but at test on shore, ??y. would yu plunge once more. With home so nigh? If you might, would you row ir'etrace jour *ay, >vanaer tnrougn stormy wuus, Fai&tand astray? Night's gloomy watches fled; IVtornhjg, all beaming red; Hope's smile- around us shed, Heavenward, aw.ij." les. ior some people in this world there seems no let up. They are pursued from youth to manhood and from manhood unto old a;:e. Very distinguished are Lord Stafford's hounds and the Earl of Yarborough's hounds and the Duke of Rutland's ' hounds, but all of them put together do not equal, in rmmW m- onood nr nntcpr t.n hunt U.Uiuiu? ? ? ? down, the great kennel of hounds of which Sin and Trouble are owner and master. But what is a relief for all those pursued of trouble and annoyance and pain and bereavement? My text gives it to you in a ? vrd of three letters, but each letter is a chariot if you would triumph, or a throne if you want to be ? i * n Till, crowned, or a late n you wou.ia siase your thirst?yea, a chain of thr^e lakts ?G o d, tlie one for whom Divid longed and tha one whom David found. You might as well meet a &tag which, after its sixth mile of running at the topmost speed through thicket and goree and with the breath of the dog* yii its heels, has come in full sight of Schroon lake and try to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from a blade of grass as to attempt t> - ^-1 1 _i to sauiy an immoriai sum, ujiug. from trouble and sin, with anything less deep and high and broad and immense and infinite and eternal than God. His confort?why, it embosoms all distress. His arm?it wrenches off all bondage. His hand?it wipes away all tears. His CLristly atonement? it makes us ail right with the past, and all right with the future, and all right with Gcd, all right with man, and all right forever. Lamartine telio us thatKine Ximrod said to his three sons: "Here are three vasts und one is of clay, another of amber a&d another of gold. Choose I rwvrr? ttvT> 1 /?V> T- An TC^Il K a X7& " ^1 AQf U V Tl Tt JU1VU ? VW ?? AAA UMIMI A uw VWU sod, haviog the first choice, chose the vase of aold, od which was writteo the word "Empire/' atd when opened it was found to contain humau blood. The second sod, makiDg the oext choice, chose the vase of amber, ioscribea -a itli the word "Glor3T," and wheo opened it ooDtaioeri the ashes of those who was oace called great. The third son took the vase of clay and, opening it, found it empty, but on the bottom of it -was inscribed the name of God. King Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase they thought weighed the most. The avaricious men of his court said the vase of gold, the poets said the one of amber, but the wisest men said the ''nipty vase because one letter of tb i name of God outweighed a universe. For him I thirst, for his grace J beg, on his promise I build my all. Without him I cannot be happy. I have tried the world, and it does well enough fic -for oa if. (rnos hnt, ?t* is f.r>n MnrtPr'?;n a world, too evanescent a world. I am not a prejudiced witness. I have nothing against this world. I have been one of the most-fortunate or, to use a more Christian word, one of the most blessed of-men?blessed in my parents, blessed in the. place of nativity, blessed in my health, blessed in my f e'.ds of work, blessed in my natural temperament, blessed in my family, blessed in my opportunities, blessed in a comfortable livelihood, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to heaven through the pardoning mercy of God, and my body, unless it be lost at sea or cremated in some conflagration, will lie down among my kindred and friends, some 11 T 1 fl already gone ana otners to coniu alter me. Life to maDy has been a disap-| pointment, but to me it has been a : pleasant surprise, aad yet 1 declare that i if I did not feel that God was now my friend and ever present help I should be wretched and terror struck. But I ! waat more of him. X have thought ! over this text and preached this sermon j io m}self until vnrh ail the aroused energies of my body, mind and sou. I ! can cry out. "As the hart panteth i after the water brooks, so panteth my i cf.nl cfrtr f Koii O fJrir] rM j Dt'UJ wl V v* VV) \y V k Through Jesus Christ make this God ! jour God, arid you cau withstand anyj ti:ing and everjthiDg, and that which j affrights others will inspire you?as in j tioje of earthquake, when an old Chrisli-i'j woman, arked whether she *as feared, answered, "So] i am glad that I have a God *ho ear. shake the world," or as ia a fiaaaciai panic, when a Christian merchant, asked if he did not fear he would break, answered, ''Yes; I i-hall break when the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth verse, 'Call up o;i me in the day of trouble; I will defhna tK.Aii cVialt rrlArifXT mp ' 19 0 Christian men and women, pursued of annoyances and exasperations, remember that this hunt, whether a ttill bunt or a hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks ashamed aud ready to sink out of sight, it is when in the Adirondacks a deer by one ? i 1 m long. tremendous plunge into Dig mppea lake gets away from him. The disappointed canine swims in a little way, but, defeated, swims out again and cringes with humiliating yawa at the feet of his master. And how abashed aud ashamed will all your eaathly troubles be when you have dashed into the river from under the throne of God and the heights and depths of heaven are between you and your pursuers-! We are told in Revelation xxii, 15, "Without are does." bv which Icon elude there is a whole kennel of hounds outside the gate of heaven, or, as when a master goes in a door, his dog lies on the steps waiting for him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the phinirg door, but they cannot get in. "Without are dogs " 1 have seen dogs and owned dogs that I would not be chagrined to see in the heavenly city. Some of the grand old watohdogs who are the constabulary of the houses e/-vli fo-rrr t\1o/?aq fnr rpfltfl Iijjvp 1 LI cyi 1 VC4.* J P'UVV J ?U\* AV* ^ w?**w ? ? W been the only protection of wife and child, some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away the flock from going too near the precipice and some of the dogs whose neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has made immortal wonld not iind me shutting them out from the gate of shiniDg pearl. Some of those old St. Berna-d dogs that have lifted perishing travel ers out of the Alpine snow; the dog thai John Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw ready to spring at the surgeon, lest, i:removing the cancer, he too much hurt the poor woman whom the dog iVlr bound to protect, and dogs that we oaI j v:ui?j j? resseu. iu uur uunuuuuu ua^D, ui mat iu later time lay down on the rug in seeming sympathy when our home? were desolated? ! I say if some soul entering heaven should happen to leave the gate ajar and these faithful creatures should quietly walk in it would not at all disturb my heavrtT. But all those human or brutal hounds that have chased and torn and lacerated the world?yea, all that cow bite or worry or tear to pieces ?shall be prohibited. kl Without are dogs." No place there for harsh critics or backbiters or despoiler? of the reputation of others. Down with you to the kennels of darkness and despair! The hart has reached the eternal water brooks, and the panting of the long chase is quieted in still pastures, and '"there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all God's holy mount." Oh when some of you get there it will be like what a hunter tells of when he was pushiDg his canoe far up north in the winter and amid the ice floes and a hundred miles, as he thought, from any other human beings. He was startled o^e day as he heard a stepping on the ice, and he cocked the rfie, ready to meet anjiimig mat csuit: near, xie found a man, barefooted and insane from long exposure, approaching him. Taking him iuto his canee and kindling fires to warm him, he restored him, found out where he had lived and took him to his home and found all the village in great excitement. A hundred men were searching for this lost man, and his family and friends rushed out to meet him, and, as had been agreed at his first appearance, bells wer? ruog, and guns were discharged, and banquets spread and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when some of you step out of this wilderness, where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the icebergs, into the warm greetings of all the villages of the glorified, and your friends rush out to give you welcoming kiss, the news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers or heaven to spread the banquet and the bellmen to lay hold of the rope in the tower, and while chalices cnck at the feast and the bells clang from the turrets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray Gnd I may be there to take part in the celestial merriment. And now do you no?" think the prayer in Solomon's Song where he compared Christ to a reindeei in the night would r:)?ke a'j exquisitely appropriate peroration to my sermon, uUntiJ the day break ai.d the shadows flee away be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether?" A Meteoric Shower. If the nights of the 14th and 15th of November shall be clear one or perhaps both of them will reveal a splendid spectacle. Astronomers have calculated that at that time the earth will pass through a meteoric belt, and that a great shower of aerolites will be seen where coaditions are favorable. There f/VT?A 1 AA?1 AO /\ Q AAM ft ? A1W <11C ocvciai LucuiicJ \ji LUCICUI^ auu tncu lall. One, which we find in the Atlanta Journal, is that they are fragments of comets which have been wrecked. They shoot through space at a speed of about twenty-five miles a second, and this great velocity causcs them to ignite, as they are not bejond the volume of air which surrounds the earth. Meteors frequently fall to the earth, in rare instances in solid mass, but usually in a fine powder which is left from combustion in the air. There is always an abundauce of meteors in our ofmncr?VioT?* flid n^mKor frottptzo flbUiV' Vj WUV U u UA v niiiVU lAMf T VAbW it being millions eveiy day. But on November 14 and 15 the meteoric procession will be far thicker than nsual, and if the astronomers have predicted correctly we shall see multitudes of them rushing and blazing ab.ve us. i This is the season for meteor* and on j anv fair nitht half a cozen or more may be seen by the hose who have the patience to watch for them. But next month we will have a gorgeous display in the heavens, and nobody should forget the dates set for it. TTnnca f5-ianf?Ba Ella Ewing. the giantess, has had built for lierst-lf a new residence near Gorin, Mo. The house was constucted on a scale proportionate to Miss EwiDg's needs. The doors are 10 feet high, and the ceilings and windows look like those of fabled giants' castles. The proprietress of this establishment is now 8 feet 4 inches tall, and is still growing. RACE TROUBLE. Armed Negroes Threaten to Burn a Georgia Town. MILITIA IS CALLED OUT. The Trouble Is Over for the Present. But It May Break Out Afresh at Any Minute. A spccial dispatch from Baraesville, Ga., to the Atlanta Journal says armed Negroes mobbed together and threatened to buru tbat.placo at nine o'clock on Tuesday uight of Jast week. The Negroes were well armed and very boisterous. although it i? now believed tbey were more bluffing than brave. All night the soldiers were on the streets of the town, and every Toad loading into Barnesville, was held by au outpost of soldiers, making it impossible for any one to enter the city without being detected. As soon as the soldiers appeared upon the scene the Negroes Hi?nprfipiri and nothinsr more has heen ' o threatened by them, although today there is little CDnfidence expressed and the feeling between the white people and the Negroes is very bitter. The trouble grew primarily out of the recent luill strike, when the Question of Negro labor served to agitate the citizens of this place. Only on the surface has the matter been smoothed over, as tbe feeling anused by the action has continued to exist and been displayed in vinous wajs. There has been considerable talking among the Negroes here, talking that did not bode well for some of the white persons. On Saturday night come of these threats and remarks of the Negroes reached the ears of some of the white people of the town. Shortly after dark one of the Negroes was given a whipping, it 13 understood that several other Negroes were summarily dealt with. FeeliDg between the races here has been approaching nearer blood heat ever since, and Tuesday night the culmination came. As early as 4 o'clock suggestive remarks could be heard that the night promised to be an unusually interesting one. Negroes could be seen | r various parts of the town talking | ..uh each other in an apparently absorbing manner, and the matter wts fully discussec by those white parsons to whom an intimation of what might come had been given. The majority of the Negroes, however, were plainly frightened well nigh out of their wits: Servants asked to be allowed to have earlier suppers than usual that they might get to their homes before anything happened, and the bettor class of Negroes employed in the business part of town sought their homes as soon as work was finish ad. Some of the less lawfu? of this dark continent, however, remained upon the streets. Veiled threats were heard,' and in several instances the stores keeping arms and amunition were visited, and some of the Negroes were seen on the streets with arms, while others are practically known to have carried arms concealed. No one can be found who saw or heard of any lawlessness or molestation on the part of the whites. Many remained in town either at their work or out of curiosity. The culmination of the matter came shortly after 9 o'clock. At about,tbis hour on the outskirts of the town in the neighborhood of one of the factories scattering volley of shots was heard. This set the people to wondering. Soon after a Dumber of the white people who live in this vicinity came into the public square and said the Negroes were ^ver in that section from whence the firing came. They said they were making threats and seemed prepared for violence ana that they came to ask for protection. Soon after this a body oc Negroes, variously estimated at from 30 to 50, were seen about the edge of the town armed with guns, pistols and clubs. The Negroes did not come into the business or residence part of the city, but remained out in the more thinly populated section. It was at this time that action was taken to insure proper protection. The mayor was notified of the state of affairs. He at once ordered out the Jocai militia ana pucea me town uncer military rule. He then telephoned Governor Candler his action and received the governer's endorsement. The BaroesvilJe Blues (the local military companj) were then picketed about the town ard no ODe could come in or go out until fully investigated The rnavor then looked fullv into the m itter and left the governing of the city to the discretion of the captain of the military. The military remained on guard until 2 o'clock a.~m., when the men were dispersed. The town, while normal outwardly this morning, beneath the surface is thoroughly stirred up j over the affair. It is not known what : the outcome will be, but there are those who prodict the affair is not ended yet. The i;t: o-r vigilance will be exercised by the cu> aurhorities, and if necessary, the mayor has expressed his determination to offer a reward for the apprehension of the offenders. Haima s Appeal. Senator Ilanna has issued an appeal to the Republicans of Ohio n>t to vote for Major Jones, of Teledo, for governor. He tells them that any d-^feci ion in the Republican vote there this fali will cast reflection upon President McKinley, and will be tak';n up by the Democratic press all over the country. Mr. Hacna's appeal cannot be construed in any other light than a3 showing Re publican weakness in Oruo, but it is McLean and not Jones that Mr. Hanna fears. The Old Confeds. Louisville is already laying plans for the entertainment of the Confederate veterans on the occasion of their annual gathering, which, next year will be hold in that city. The committee has named May 16, IT ;md 18. 1900 a< ihc time for the assembling of the vete.aos there. From the |.l?n* already u^der consideration i-y tue committee, some uni<vi n*j iuiercstiug features are promised. "I have used vour 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or any derangement of tLc Liver or Kidneys I regard it as being without an equal." James J. Osborne, Attorney at Law, BolistoD, Henderson 3o., N. C. An Unusual Death. A Pennsylvania farmer died in an unusual manner the other r?ay. fell from an apple tree and two of his ribs were broken. A splinter from one of them pierced his heart, and was found there by the doctors, who performed an autopsy. Farmers, sow plenty of oats and wheat. , HOW TO GET CENSUS JOBS | The Requirements, "Work and Pay According to the LawThe following is taken from the ciri culari retarding the couaiog ceosus. I The circular says: The acts of March 3, 1S09. under the i provisions of which the twelfth census I aF th<? rTriifp^ Sfat/ic frt Ka fol*r.n tir.i. videsfor the appointment of supervisors of censu'. to have general supervision within their respective d'strics of the enumeration t-> be nude in June 1900. One of th?: duties imposed by the census acs upon these supervisors i3 the dssiguinon of suitable persons to be employed, u-ith the consent, of the director of the census, as. enumerators within their respective districts. It U further provided that S'.ioh persons shall be residents of the enumeration districts for which they may be appointed, and that they shall be selected solely with refereuce to fittness, and without reference to their political party affiliations. Thp annoint.menfc .-if flnnmp.Tfllnrn will be made with reference to physical activity arid to aptness, neatness and accuracy in writing and in the use of figures. The census requires active, energetic persons of good address and readiness with the p.n. Each person seeking appointment a? ceusus enumerator must make a written application to the supervisor for the district of which a resident, giving the Christian name and surname in full; whether a citizen of the United States or not; present legal residence; sex and color; age; place of bir.-.h: the principal facts of education and of professional or business rxperience, including a statement of all national, State, county or municipal offices held at auy time; nature of present occupation, if any; previous experience in census work; physic.nl condition, and knowledge of English and other languages. This application must be made in the handwriting of the applicant throughout and must be certified to as such. The enumeration required by the census act will becin on the first dav of June, 1900, and must be completed within two weeks in all cities for which 8,000 inhabitants or more were reported in 1890, and in all other districts on or before the first day of July next thereafter. t It will be necessary for each enumerator, before entering upon his duties, uj receive a commission, uuuer me hand of the supervisor of the district to wh;ch he belong?, and to take and subscribe an oath er affirmation that he will faithfully discharge all the duties required of him under the law. Under the provisions of section 7 of the census act, the enumeration in June, 1900, is restricted to inquiries relating to the population, te mortality and to the products of agriculture and manufacturing and mechanical establishments, and, by the same section, the schedules or mortality and of manufacturing and mechanical establishments may be withheld from the enumerators, in the discretion of the director of the census. In no case, therefore, will the schedules of inquiries to be made by the census enumerators exceed four in number, and in this rcspect the work of the enumerators at the twelfth census will be much more simple than that required of enumerators at preceding censuses. The compessation to be paid to enumerators is fixed by section 16 of the act of March d, Ibyy, ana a minimum rate of two cents for each living inhabitant, two cents for each death, fifteen cents for each farm, and twenty cents for each establishment of productive indnstrj is provided for all subdivisions where such allowance shall be deemed sufficient. In other subdivisions where higher per capita rates are to be paid, according to the diffi culty of enumeration, the maximum rate will cot excecd three cents for eacb living inhabitant, three cents for each death, twenty cents for eacb farm, and thirty cents for each establishment of productive industry, while in subdivisions where per diem rates are established, having reference tc the nature of the region to be canvassed and the density or sparieness of settlement, or rsprtinonf. VWUV1 the compensation allowed to enumerators will bs notless than tbroe nor more than six dollars per day of ten hours actual field work each. Excspt in extreme cases, no claim for mileage or traveling expenses will be allowed to any enumerator, and then only when authority has been previously granted by the director of census. A New York Incident. Every Southern gentleman offers his seat to a lady on a street car, and the man ia good health who would not do so would rank in this section as a coarse, unmanly fellow. This is not the case in the great cities, however, where man's inhumanity to woman makes even many a weary mother with an infant in her arms suffer. These men are utterly indifferent and careless of old age and motherhood. It appears to be such a very unusal thing for acts of courtesy to be shown in the street cars in our great metropolis that the New York Hearld of the 8th seems to consider the following incident, which it relates, as a piece of rare news: Last Tuesday a party of six members of the Washington Light Infantry from CharlestoD, S. C., visited Brooklyn. Sergt. Pierce Salley was the rankirg man. They were in a Gate Avenue car. In one corner sat a slim m?j with a kindly face and a pair of rather fierce looking mustachios. Every seat was taken. A lady entered at the corner of Fiatbush Avenue. Every one of the "rebel" soldier boys stood up and looked at the sergeant. Salley pulled off his cap and started, presumably to offer the ladv his seat by virtue of his rank, but his eye fell on the man with the mustachios, and he replaced his cap. From the corner of the car this kinily faced gen.1 J i. A"L- 1 1 _ ueman ar??c ana went to tiie iauy, saying, ''Madam, will you be so very kind He ranked Sergt. Salley, for he v.as Governor McSweeney, Governor of the once almost sovereign State of Sirnth Carolina, the Governor whom tradition nd aan old story makes the opinion that it is always a long time between drinks, but who, by virtue of his office, had the delightful privilege of giving his seat to a lady, while a half dozen sturdy soldier boys had to be content to remain seated. Oat of Date. To a Philadelphia newspaper man who tried to interview hitr the other day, ex-Speaker Reed said: "There is nothing I conld talk about except the constitution, and that isn't popular." The remark has been construed into an important cxDression of Mr. Reed's views on the Philippine question. Burned to Death, At St. Ann, Miss., Thursday Mrs. J. H. Gambrell and four children lost their lives in a fire that destroyed taeir residence. ! A WALKING GALLOWS ' LIEUT. HEPENSTALL WHO HUNG MEN FROM HIS OWN NECK. ' Tl.;, v.i. r T t , Tt" .1.1115 ^uturiuus lnuiviauai was clia Apothecary in Dublin?A Man of Splendid Physique, Six Feet and Two Inches Tall?Died in 1S04. Among the examples and records of British tyranny during the terrible year of 1798 there is none more extraordinary, according to a writer in an English magazine, than that of Litut. Edward Hepenstall, known by the nickname of "The "Walking Gallows," for such he certainly was, literally and practically. This notorious individual, who had been brought up as an apothecary in Dublin, obtained a commission in the wickiow militia, m winch ne attained the rank of lieutenant in 1795. Hft was a man of splendid physique, about six feet two inches in height and strong and broad in proportion. Referring to this handsome but brutal giant, Sir John Barrington, in his "Memoris," states: "I know him well, and from his countenance should never have suspected him of cruelty, but so cold-blooded and eccentric an executioner of the human race never yet existed." "At the outbreak of the sanguinary rebellion, when the common law was suspended and the stern martial variety flourished in its stead, Lieut. Hepen stall hit upon the expedient of hanging on his own back persons whose physiognomies he considered characteristic of seditious tenets. At the present day the story seems most incredible, but it Is a notorious fact, revealed by the journalism of the period, that when rebels either suspected or caught red-handed, were brought him, Hepenstall would order the cord of a drum to be taken off, and then rigging up x running noose, would proceed to hang each in turn across his athletic shoulders until the victim had been slowly strangled to death, after which he would throw down his load and take up another. The "Walking Gallows" was clearly both a new and simple plan and a mode of execution not nearly so tedious or painful as a Tyburn or Old Bailey hanging. It answered his maiestv's servica as -well as two T>osts and a crowbar. "When a rope was not at hand, Hepenstall's own silk cravat, being softer than an ordinary halter, became a merciful substitute. In -pursuance of these benevolent in tentions, the lieutenant would frequently administer an anesthetic to ihis trembling victim?in other words, he would first knock him silly with ? blow. His garters then did the duty as handcuffs, and the cravat would be slipped over the condemned man's neck. Whenever he had an .unusually powerful victim to do with Hepenstall took a pride In showing his own strengthWith a dexterous lunge of his body the lieutenant used ito draw up the poor devil's head as high as J:is own, and then, when both were cheek to cheek by jowl, begin to trot about with his burden like a jolting cart horse, nntil the rebel had no further solicitude about sublunar, affairs. It was after one of these trotting executions, which had taken place in the barrack yard adjoining Stephen's Green, that Hepenstalj acquired the surname of "the "Walking Gallows." He was invested with it by the gallery of Crow Street theater, Dublin. At the trial of a rebel In that city the lieutenant, undergoing cross-exam ination, admitted ail the forementioned details of his method of hanging, and Lord Norbury, the presiding judge, warmly complimented him on his loyalt; and assured him that he had beeu guilty of no act which was not natural to a zealous, loyal and efficient officer. T i TTa-n/vn^oil IVi rtTT?rtTrni? Af juacuu nwncrci, vixv* JUVV long survive his hideous practice. He died in 1804. Owing to the odium in which he was universally held, the authorities arranged that his funeral should take place secretly, while a Dublin wit suggested that his tombstone would be suitably inscribed by the following epitath: Here lie the bones of Hepenstall, Judge, jury, gallows, rope and all. ?Baltimore Sun. I " A Japanese Sword Trick "I had a little party of Jap jugglers on the road in '91," said an ex-theatrical manager, "and got on to a good many of their tricks. Most of them were surprisingly simple in reality, and one that I cr.n't remember ever having seen explained was the feat of walking bare-footed up a ladder of sharp swords. The swords were of the native straight-bladed shape and were so keen that thev would easily slice a handkerchief In two In mid-air. Before sticking them through the uprights to form the ladder the head Jap always passed his thumb along the edge of each, from tip to tip. As he did so he drew out a narrow steel tape, which was coiled on a spring in the handle The tape had a hole in the end, which caught on the point and held it in place, and it completely, shielded the edge. After the walking was over it was quietly released, aa the swords were being taken out, and flew up into the handle again. The weapon could then be passed around for inspection. Most people supposed that the Jap used -t- 4.^ v:M v,,* bUUl" CUClUlWdl LU CVJUgiiCil ALIO UUi the truth was as I have stated." She Knew Something The beautiful girl had parted forever from the only man she ever really loved, and she was even eadder than was usual with iher upon" such occasions. They tried to comfort her. "There are always good fish left in the sea!" they urged. "Yes; out wnen you eaten, tnem tney turn out to be lobsters!" she exclaimed bitterly, thereby showing that after all a person's hair may curl naturally without rendering a person entirely devoid of sense.?Detroit Journal "They say that electricity Is a sure antidote for the sting of bees," said an electrical enthusiast. "Yes, I've tried it," said the 6tudent "Really? How did it work?" "Well a bee stun? me and it hurt so that I applied the electricity. After that I -went over and sat down on a hornets' nest to see if I couldn't get over the effects of the cure."?Detroit Free Press. Leaders of Men. >:1 Lord Wolseley. Commander in-Chief of the English army, whose rating of Lee as the greatest commander of the civil war made some admirers of Grant unhappy, has continued his studies of the war with an essay on Stonewal Jackson, of whom he speaks with almost equal enthusiasm. Few men, he concludes, have been more fitted by natural instincts, oy stuoy ana Dy sen discipline to become leaders of men. A Senators Pull. There isn't, we are told, any political pulls in army appointments these days, but the son of Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, has pulled a captaincy in the regular army just resigned by a son of Senator Quay. Senators' sons must be provided for, even if it does make army men fracture the decalogue. "If you--scour the world you will never find aremedy,equal to One Minute Cough Cure, ^ says Editor Fackler of the Micanopy, Fla., "Hustler." It cured his family of LaGrippe and saves thousands from pneumonia, bronchitis, group and all throat and lung troubles. * -N? I Pcmy'? Victory Over an Eagle. A tiger cat, belonging to Farmer Hazard, cf Harriet, Susquehanna ! county, was strolling out toward tie j barn some time ago, carrying in her j teeth a piece of meat for her young. A ! bald eagle, which had been hovering ! over the farm for a week, suddenly de! seended upon her and whirled her upI ?J WAl^/lol flfoKf waru m layiu tci w\.oa The path of ascent, to the eye of a spectator watching the scene, was clearly indicated by loose feathers violently tossed from the point of combat In a brief time the struggling pair came to a standstill la the sky. The eagle's wings had drooped now and then, and he had given plain evidence of pain and terror, yet not once had his awful grip appeared to relax. At length a descent was begun, with a rapidity which increased every moment, and the two animals struck the ground at the point where they had at first encountered each other, but the eagle was dead, and the cat, as soon as she felt terra firma beneath her feet, shot away for the barn, still carrying her bit of meat Investigation showed that the cat L1U.U cut UIO cagio o uuvav ated its breast that Its body was literally laid open. After the death in midair, however, the cat had been too clever to relax her hold and thus fall to the ground, but let her en-3my serve a parachute to ease her descent. The Beit Air Temperature. The conditions affecting the temperature of the body other thai those due to physiological conditions are very aumerous. First and most obvious is the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere. It is a well-established fact that an average temperature of the air or 54 degrees ^aarenneu is best adapted to the public health, for at that temperature the decomposition nt animal arid vegetable matter is slight and normal temperature Is most easily maintained. Every degree of temperature above or below that point requires a more or less effort of the heat-regulating power to maintain the proper equilibrium. Even <nore potent in elevating the bodily temperature is the introduction Into the blood, whether by -aspiration or by direct Injection of putrid fluids and the gase< of de composing matters. ir this mjecuon is repeated at short Intervals, death will occur with a high temperature. ' The air of cities contains emanations in hot weather from a vast number of sources of animal and vegetable decomposition, and the inhalation of air 50 vitiated brings in contact with the blood these deleterious products in a highly divided state which causes a Po+?il olorflHftn nf temnerjitnr*> In the foung, old and enfeebled. The same effect Is produced by the air in close and heated places, as In tenement bouses, workshops, schoolhouses, hosDital nthor ronraa whw Kerosene for Poultry. A writer in Bartow Coarier-Informant, advocates the nse of kerosene in the poultry yard. The folio wing article will, perhaps, be interesting to poultry breeders: The many uses that kerosene can be put to in the poultry yard makes it an almost indispensable article to be cnargea to tneejpense account; and do article will enhance the profit of the poultry yards aa kerosene diligently and intelligently used for painting the inside of nest boxes; for settinghen3 there is nothing equal to it as it kills all vermin and prevents other vermin from entering the nes* until it is thoroughly evaporated, which, if the crude oil is used, will give the hen ample time to hatch her brood. A few drops in the drinkiDg water occasianally has a good effect upon the general health of the n l iiocK, and ior coicis or croup mere is nothing better if carefully applied. Scaly legs may be cured by simply wetting the legs of the fowls affected occasionally, and the crude oil is bestiu this case also, as it takes a much longer time to evaporate. When the crude oil is not readily obtained some kind of heavy oil or grease should be mixed with the kerosene to stay evaporation. As a remedy for cholera it has been highlj recommended. TAt uutuc* one uni auuie ana txi? HcaaXi* "Did you ever notice that when an idea 1)?comm fixed in the mind it la v?ry diflcult to change it, especially in the case of extreswly sensitive and highly nervous persons?" asked a Brooklyn expert on nerves. "Not long ago I had a visit from a man -who was afraid h* was losing his reason because of a very simple persistence of a certain thought or idea which he could not shake off. The history of the case is one often, found in cases of hypochondriasis developed from using the telephone. My patient for about a year's time had occasion to telephone every day to a trade customer in New Yofk?Manhattan, if you like. The New Yorker had a peculiar hi?h tenor squeak to his voice, and somehow my friend get to picturing him as a little chap with a thin face. This habit grew day after day until the customer took a real shape and form in the mind of my patient, all based, of course, upon his voice. As he talked over the telephone there always was mentally pic. tured that little chap with the thin farfl *71/1 mumW Vrtt/va Wall ati? Aav ?? ' V4VV. ?*VM, VfcOJ my patient called at the office of his New York customer, and as he walked into the place and saw & tall, fat man weighing nearly 300 pounds he could icarcely believe his eyes. When the fat man opened his mouth and talked, my patient saya, the squeaky voice with which he was familiar sounded TQTl (TA XTm. +/%!/* VfcAJ-Vfc AAV CViU trUW owner of the absurd voice, in view of his size about having pictured him as a little thin person, and there was a good laugh over the odd difference of the reality. "But the next day when my friend used the telephone and the squeaky voice came to him, he had to struggle to get away from thinking of his fat patron as being little and thin. He talked the matter over with his wife and laughed about it, but eoon there came a time when he forgot all about the actual existence of his customer, and the little thin-faced chap was again talking to him over the wire. Then it was that he came to see me. He feared, he said, that his mind was giving away, because of the persistence of the odd picture of the thin man. I thought the case was easily disposed of, and told my friend to go to New York every day for a week and visit his fat customer. This he did, but every time he telephoned the squeaky voice would bring up the mental picture formed before he had set eyes on Its owner. "I -was In despair and my patient was growing gray from worrying wher> I hit upon the happy expedient of placing a photograph of the fat man on the telephone, where the eye of the patient could rest upon it as he talked. The result waa the disappearance forever of the thin chap. My patient, in looking at the picture of the owner of the squeaky voice, got his mind working upon the same lines that would have been followed had he met tne rat man iace to race tne nrst time he heard his voice. These cases are common every day. We form queerly opposite pictures of men and women we hear over the telephone and never see, but in the great majority of Instances, the impression is a momentary one, and it is seldom that the mistake is ever forced upon us in the startling way described fcy the patient x told or. "The telephone, by the way, has produced very many queer cases of neurasthenia that remain unaccountable excepting on the hypothesis that the new habit brings them into existence. 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