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? g 6s peFof~c ii ristT! Dr. Talmrge's Views on the Coming Sermon. RELIGIOUS TRUTHS. How He Thinks They should Be Pres?nted. Ministers Should Preach the Living Christ. In this discourse Dr. TaJmage addresses all Christian workers and describes what he thinks will be the modes of preaching the gospel in the future; text, Romans xii, 7, "Or ministry, let as wait on our minister' i) in g. While I was seated on the piazza of a hotel at Lexington, Ky., one summer erenii g, a gentleman asked me, '"What do you think of the coming sermon?"' I apposed he was asking me in regard to *ome new discourse of Dr. Cumtning of London, who sometimes preached startling sermons, and I replied, "I have nni- a>an it " Rnt I found out after ward that he meant to ask what I thought would be the characteristics of the coming sermon of the world, the sermons of the future, the word "Cutcmii>g"'as a noun pronounced the same as the word "coming" as an adjective.' But my mistake suggested tu me a very important and practical theme, "The Coming Sermon." Before the world is converted the *yie of religious discourse will have to be converted. You might as well go io the modern Sedan or Gettysburg hh bows and arrows, instead of rifles fcnd bombshells and parks of arulierv as % -t ,? r>i <1 to expect to conquer tins worm tor ijroa by the old stales of exhortation and eermonology. Jonathan Edwards preached the sermons most adapted to the age in which he lived, but if - tho>e Eermons were preached now they would divide an audience into two classes? those sound asleep and those wanting to go home. But there is a discourri of the future. Who *ill preach it I have no idea. In what part of the earth it will be born I have no idea. In which denomination of Christians it will be delivered I cannot guess. That discourse of exhortation may be born in the cmiti'tv meeting h^use on the banks of the Sc. Lawrence or the Oregon or the Ohio or the Tombigbee or the Alabama. The person' who shall deliver it may this moment be in a cradle under the shadow of the Sierra Xevadas or in a New England farmhouse or amid the licefields of southern savannas, or this moment there may be some young man in one of our theological seminaries, in the junior or middle or senior class, shapiogthat weapon of power, or there may be coming some new baptism oi ihe Holy Ghost on the churches, so that some of u.*. who now stand in the watch-towers of Zion, waking to a realizatioD of our present inefficiency, may preach it ourselves. That coming discourse may not be 50 years off. And let us pray God that its arrival may be hastened while I announce to you what I think will be the chief characteristics of that discourse or exhortation when it does arrive, and I want to make my remarks appropriate and suggestive to oil ftUocnc c\$ ( fiction Trrvrlr^rc CfciA VJOtOOVO VI VU11JV1UU it UinviW* First of all, I lemark that that future religious discourse will be full of a living Christ in contradistinction to didactic technicalities. A discourse may be full of Christ though hardly mentioning his name, and a sermon may be empty of Christ while every sentence is repetitious of his titles. The world wants a living Christ, not a Christ star Hog at the head of a formal lystem of iheology, but a Christ who means pardon and sympathy and condolence and brotherhood and life und heaven a poor man's Christ, a rich man's Christ, an overworked man's Christ, an invalid's Christ, a farmers's Christ, a merchant's Christ, and every man's Christ. A symmetrical and fine worded system of theology is well enough for theological classes, but it has no more business in a pulpit than have the technical phrases of an anatomist or a psychologist or a physician in the sickroom of a patient. The world wants help, immediate and world uplifting, and it will come through a discourse in which Christ shall walk right down into the immortal Svui and take evc-rlaaring possession of it. fpHrg it as full of light as is tLis> * vOi.Ca.. li.'iuamct.t. That sermon or exehrtatioa of the f ture will not deal with men ia the threadbare illustrations of Jesus Christ. n . i m . : - in was coming aaaress mere win uj iuBtances of vicarious suffering taken right out of everyday life, for there is not a day when somebody is not dving for others?as the physician saving his diphtheric patient by sacrificing his own life; as the ship ca; tain going down with his ves-el while he is getting his passengers into the lifeboat; as the fireman consuming in the burning build ing while he is taking a child out of a fourth storv window; as in summer the strong swimmer at East Hampton or Long Branch or Cape May or Lake George himself perished tryiag to rescue the drowniog; as the newspaper boy one summer, supportme his mother for some years, his invalid mother, when offered by a gentleman 50 cents to get some special pa^er, and he got it, and rushed up in his anxiety to deliver it and was crushed undtr the wheels of the train and lay on the grass with only strength enough to say, "Oh, what will become of idj poor, sick mother now?" Vicarious suffering? the world is fall of it. Aa engineer said to me on a locomotive in Dakota: '*We men seem to bs coming to better appreciation than we used to. Did you eee that account the other day of an engineer who to save his pasrengers stuck to his place, and when he wis found dead in the locomotive, which was upside down, he was found still smiling, his hand on the airbrake? ' And as the engineer said to it ine he put his hand on the airbrake to illustrate his meaning, and I looked at hitn and thought. '"You would be just as much a hero in the same crisis." Oil, in that religious discourse of the future there will be living illustrations taken out from everyday life of vicarious suffering?illustrations that will bring to mind the ghastlier sacrifice of him who in the hich places of the field, on the crosi, fought our battles and endured cur struggle and died our death. A German sculptor made an image of Christ, aod he asked his little child, 2 years old, who it was, asd shesaia, that "must be some very great man." The sculptor was displeased with the criticism, so he got another block of maible and chiseled away on it two or three years, and then he brought in his little * * - * ? j ?:J cnua, -i or o years ox aa;e. auu saiu her, ''Who do you think that is'/': She said, "That must be the one who took little children in his arms and blessed them." Then the sculptor was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what the world wanes is cot a cold Christ, not an intellectual Christ, not a severely magisterial Christ j but a loving Christ, spreading out his j arms of sympathy to press the whole j I world to his loving heart. ! But I remark aaaiu that the religious uircour.-e of the future will have to be short. Condensation is demanded by j the age in which we live. No more j ! ?r.( 1/M-or Jnn-nnncririrm &T1C lon<? aD- ! I iltrCVA V?? IUV4 VMMW??VW ? - . i I'licatioTJS awd so many divisions to a i : di>course that it may be said to be hy- j ; dra headed. In other days men got ail j j their information from the pulpit. I ! There were few boo^s, and there were j no newspapers, and there was little j | travel fro-ii plac to place, and people I j would .sit aud lis.ien two and a half i j hours to a rt*lii;iuus discourse, and ''seventeenth1>" would Had them fresh | i and chipper. In those days there was j ! enough 'i:ne for a man to take an hour I 1 j - J j to w;.rm himself up to ?l>e >unject anu ' an hour ro cool off. But wi.at was a j iif-cessity then is a superfluity now. j Congregations are fail of knowledge ! from books, from newspapers, from rap:d ar.d continuous intercommunicaj tion and In-i* disquisitions of what they know-.roady will not be abided, j If a rel'gi-v-.<3 eachfr caunot compress i whnt he w;bu> a to say to tho people in ! the space of 45 minutes, better adjourn it to some other day. The trouble is we preach audiences I into a Christian frame, and then we | preach them out of it. We forget that { every auditor has so n:uch capacity ot j attention, and when that is exhausted he is restless. That accident on the Long Island railroad years ago came j from the fact that the brakes were out j of order, aud when they wanted to stopj the train they could r.otstop, and hence j the casualty was terrific. In all rciigi ! discourse we want iocomotive power I and propulsion. We want at the same ( time stout brakes to let down at the I right instant. It is a dismal thintr, | after a hearer has comprehended the I tpKnlrt to hear a man say, j "Now 10 recapitulate,'" acd ''A few ; words by way of application," and '"Once more, '"and "Finally," and 'X >w to conclude." ! Paul preached until midnight, and j Eutvchusgot sound asleep and fell out of a window and broke his neck. Some would siy, '"Good for him." I would rather be sympathetic, like Paul, and resuscitate him. That accident is cften quoted now in religious circles as a warning against somnolence in church. It is just as much a warning to ministers against prolixity. Eutychus was wrong in his somooleuce, but Paul made a mistake .fhen he kept on -until midnight. He ought to have stopped ! at 11 o'clock, and there would have ^ J ~ ~ T? IXjnl m i <7 h f h fx VA oeen liu a^viucuu n x ? j gone on to too great length, let all I those of us who aro cow preaching the I gospel remember that there is a limit {to religious discourse, or ought to be, and that in our time we have no apostolic power of miracles. Napoleon in an address of seven minutes thriiled his army and thrilled Europe. Christ's sermon on the mount, the model sermon, was less than 18 minutes long at ordinary mode of deliviry. It is not electricity scattered all over the sky that strikes, but electricity gathered into a thunderbolt and hurled, and it is not religious truth sea t?r<.d over and spread out over a vast reach of time, but religious truth projected in com pact form that Hashes Ugnt upon tne soul aod rives its indifference. When the religious discourse of the future arrives io this land and in the Christian church, the discourse n'hich is to arjuse the world and startle the nations and usher in the kingdom, it will be a brief discourse. Hear it, all theological students, all ye just entering upon religious work, all ye men and women who in Sabbath schools and other departments fire toiling for Christ and the salvation of immortals?brevity, brevity. .But 1 remark also that the religious discourse of the future of which I speak will ba a popular discourse. There are those in these times who speak of a popular serruoa a3 though there must be something wrong about it. As these critics are duli themselves the world ge*s the impression that a sermon is good in proportion as it is stupid. Chnst was the moit popular preacher the worM ever saw ana, considering th?? MUdll number of the world's popu^tion, had the largest audience cvcr gathered. He never had preached anywhere without making a great sensation. People rashed out in the wilderness to hear him reckless of their physical necessities. So great was their anxiety to hear Christ that, taking no food with them, they would hove starved had not Christ perj f ^jfed a miracle and fed them. Why I irnnir nrt.^nlo t.lie truth at Christ's haacL? Because they all understood it. He illustrated his subject by a hen and her chickens, by a b:ishel measure, by a handful of salt, b> a bird's flight and by a lily's aroma. All the people knew what he meant, and they flocked to him. And when the religious discourse of the future appears it will not be Princetonian, not Rochesterian, not Aodoverian, not Middletooian, but Oiivetic?pLin, practical, unique, earnest, comprehensive of all the woes, wants, sins and sorrows of an auditory. But when that exhortation or discourse does ome there will be a thousj s\ 1-1 ;* ana gleaming eoiuij.itr.L9 iu i/uai^ xw. There are in so inauy theological seminaries professors telling joungm^n how to t reach, themselves not knowing how, and I am told that if a youne man in some of ou. theological seminaries says anything quaint, ur thrilliug or unique faculty aoa students i.y at him and set him right and straighten him out and smooth him down and chop him off until he savs everything just as every- j body else says it. Oh, when the future religious discourse of the Christian church arrives all the churches of Christ in our great citits will be thronged! The world wants spiritual help. All who have buried their dead want comfort. All know themselves to be mortal and to be immortal, and they want to hear about the great future. I tell you, my friends, if the people of our great cities who have had trouble only thought they could get practical and sympathetic help in the Christian church, there would Dot be a street in Washington or New York or any other city which would be passable on the Sabbath day if there were a church on it, for all the people would press to that asylum of mercy, that great-house of comfort and consolation. A rriothpr with a dead babe in her arms came to the god Siva and asked to have her child restored to life. The god Siva said to her, '"You go and get a handful of mustard se^dfroma house in which there has been no sorrow and in which there has been no death, and X will restore your child to life." So the mother went out, and she went from house to house aud from home to home locking for a place where there naa been no sorrow and where there had been no death, but she found none. She went back to the god Siva and said: ;'My mission is a failure. You see, I haven't brought the mustard seed. 1 cant 2nd a place where there has been no sorrow and no death." ''Oh!''says the god Siva. ''Understand, your sorrows are no worse than the sorrows of others. We all have our griefs; aftil all have our heartbreaks." Linen, ati'l the world 'aughs with you: ami yea weep alone; For the S'-vt ol.l e>i*ih must norrow its mirth, i Bit has trouble enough of its ovrn. We bear a great deal of discussion now all over the land about why people do not go to church. Some say it is because Christianity is dying out and because peop'e do not believe in the truth of G^d's word, and all that. They are false reasons. The reasons is because our sermons and exhortations are not interesting and prao lical and helpful. Some one might " " ' 1-1 i A : u I ?s weii ten tne wnoie train on mis suui ject, and so I will tell it. The religij ons discourse of the future, the gospel sermon to come forth and .hake the naj tions asd life peuple out of darkness, ! will be a popu-ar serm-n, just for the simple reason that.it will meet the woes and the wants and the anxieties of the people. There ar<* in all our denominations ecclesiastical mummies sitting around to frown upon the fresh young pulpits ~A* A ?f A nttta fKatn riAirn f A Ui rvujcilua IU 1,11 Lu a?o uutui uui.u, cry out: "Tut, tut, tut! Sensational!" They stand today preaching in churches that hold a thousand people, and there are a'hundred persons present, and if they cannot have the world saved in their way it Feems as if they do not want it saved at all. I do not know but the old way of making ministers of the gospel is better?a collegiate education and an ap prenticeship under the care and home attention of someearnest a^ed Christian minister, the young man getting the patriarch's spirit and assisting him in his religious service. Young lawyers stud} with old lawjers, young physicians with old physicians, and I believe it would be a treat neJp n every young man studying for tae gospel ministry could put himself in the home and heart and sympathy and under the benediction and perpetual presence of' a Christian minister. But I remark again, the religious discourse of the future will be an awakening sermon. From altar rail to the front dooi step, under that sermon, an audience will get up and start for heaven. There will be in it many a I staccato passage. It will not be a Jul lab.v. It will be a battle charge. MeD will drop their sins. for they will feel the hot breath of pursuing retribution on the back of tbeir necks. It will be sympathetic with all the physical distresses as well as the spiritual distresses of the world. Christ not only preached, but he healed paralysis, and he heale epilepsy, and he healed the dumb aj< blind and the lepers. A dying Christian took out his watc1 and gave it to a friend and said. '"Take that watch. I have no more us< for it. Time is at an end for me, and eternity begins." Oh, my friends, when our watch has ticked away for utie last moment, and our clock hastruck for us the last hour, may it bfound we did our work well, that we dio it in the very best way, and whethe we preached the gospel in pulpits, o: .1 1 __ . taugnt csaODatn Classes, or aamiais tered to the sick as physicians, or bargained as merchants, or pleaded the Jaw as attorneys, or were busy as artis ans or husbandmen cr as mechanics, or were, like Martha, called to give a meal to a hungry Christ, or like Hannah, to make a coat for a prophet, or like Deborah, to rouse the courage of some timid Barak ia the Lord's conflict, we did our work ia such a way that it will stand the test of the judgment! And in the long procession of the redeemed that march around the throne may it be found that there are many there brought ^o God through our instrumentality and in whose rescue we exult. But let none of us who are still unsaved, wait for that religious dis course of the future. It may come after our obsequies. It may come after the otonecutter has chiseled our name on the slab 50 years b fore. Do not wait for a great steamer of the CuDard or White Star line to take you off the wreck, but hail the- first craft, with however low a mast and however small a hulk and however poor a rudder and I however weak a captaiu. Better a ^is abled schooner that comes up in time than a full rigged brig that com?s up after you have sunk. Instead of waiving for that religi >us discourse of the future (it may be 40, 50 years ofi), take this plain invitation of a inan vho to have given you spiritual eyesight would be glad to be called the spittle by the hand of Christ put on the eyes of a blind man and who AArvci/lav fV?V*TorV?QQf Artmnlimpnt WU1U ^UliOlUVi tUV/ u^^uvuv w v | of this service if, at the close 500 men should start from these doors saying: "Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not. This oae thing I know?whereas I was blind, lojt 1 see." Swifter than shadows over the plain, quicker than birds in their autumnal flight, hastier than eagles to their prey, hie you to a sympathetic Christ. The orchestras of heaven have strung their instruments to celebrate your rescue: And many ware the voices around the throne. Rtj jiuo, is/, tne L?rd brings bick his own. Murdered Wife and Children. The horribly mutilated bodies of a woman and ner three children were found Thursday evening at their Lome on a small farm about a mile from the I town of Montgomery, Pa. A short time ago a peddler named Hummel married the widow of a farmer and took up his residence with her on the farm. The widow had three children. For the past week neighbors passing the farm noticed that there was no signs of habitation. An investigation was made late today and the bodies of the two children were found hidden beneath a straw stack. In the house the bodies of the mother and the other child were found lying in the sleeping apartment. The bodies were horribly mutilated, the murderer evidently having used a club in committing the crime. Mrs. Hummel's name before her recent marriage was Mrs. Oliver Delaney. She was about 30 years of age, Hummel's age is between 50 and 55 yeara. The couple were married on Nov. 10. Mrs. Hummel's first husband died sis months ago. There is no trace of the murderer. The Horrors of War. Gen. Kitchener, who is in command oft he British forces in Egypt, reports to the war department at London that Gen. Wingate found Nefissa evacuate, pushed on to Abriaadil, fv.ur iu.lca further, and found Fedil's forces encamped. They were forthwith engaged by the mounted troops under Mahon, with four Maxims and two guns and the Jehadieh under Girringe. The Dervishes chareed with all their old dash to with SO yards of the guns. Wincraf-p with the infantrv. arrived in 7 ^ ? , time to support Mahon and cleared the whole camp. The Dervishes bolted through the bush, pursued by the mounted troops. Wingate estimates ? * p _ Fedil's force at z.ovu men, or wnom 400 were killed. Wingate captured many prisoners, grain, rifles and spears. The Egyptian casualties were three wounded. Tl i T ^11 III WIHL*T'?/IOu?w REELS OF BARBED WIRE. ' On? Thins That Is 2s'ev?r Handled Without Gloves When It I? Shipped. < j Barbed wire for shipment Is wound 011 reels containing about 100 pounds each. In its dimensions a reel of wire is of about the size of a half-bushel measure; innumerable barbs project iii^ iiuxu it iiii o\ ei except 101 uarruw strips of board that extend across the ends and form the end pieces of the reel. Large quantities of barbed wire are exported, and it is a common sight to see the reels going aboard ships lying at South street wharves, says the New York Sun. The wire is brought alongside the ship on the deck: of a lighter, such a load consisting; perhaps of 2,000 or 3.000 reels; some-1 times two or three lighter loads pre taken aboard .1 single ship. If it can be done the lighter is brought along-j side the vessel, in the slip, in order, as j far as possible, to avoid handling; with the lighter alongside the wire can be hoisted directly from the lighter into the ship. Sometimes it is necessary to tie the lighter to the opposite side of the wharf from that at which the vessel is' made fast, and move the wire across the wharf. In that rase more handling is required. There should be a man on the lighter to tumble the reels down from the load and roll them alongside to the rail, the rolling being done with the foot. On the deck of the Pghter, a! the rail, stands two men, ea.,h with a cotton hook. When the reel of wire has been rolled along to them and tipped over on its side, between them, [ they cach set a hoolc though strands enough of the wire to hold, and lift the reel and set it up on the stringpiece of the wharf. Thence it is tipped over onto the wharf by a man standing there to receive it, and he starts it rolling across the wharf by a push with the foot. He wears hand coverings of some sort, as every longshoreman does in handling barbed wire; these protective coverings include gloves and mittens of leather and hand leathers. The hand leathers worn are seven or eight inches in length and five or six inches in breadth and are often cut from'old boot legs Hand leathers have a slit in them across one end, through which the hand is passed, c+?*!rv r\f loifhor nhnrA slit ing on the back of the wrist. When the palm and insides of the fingers of gloves have been worn out the gloves are put on with the back of the glove on the palm side of the hand and used In that manner until that side is worn out also. The reels of wire are gathered in bunches of six at the foot of the board that rises from the wharf, resting against the ship to protect the side of the ship from being scraped in ; hoisting cargo aboard; they ?xe hoistt*il aboard with a bit of stevedores' gear made expressly for the purpose, comprising half a dozen dangling lengths of rope, each with a nooic at the end of it, which can be spread out to reach the reels. Ahook is put into each reel, under wire enough to give it a secure hold, and when they have all been hooked, the bunch is hoisted cp the side of the ship. Ups?t By an Umbrella. "Talking about stealing umbrellas," said a New Orleans man. "I had a whimsical experience last week. One afternoon, when it was raining, I happened to see a very good umbrella in the hall and?well, I annexed it, or rather, T established a protectorate, intending to return it before night to the gentleman in the adjoining office, who I supposed, of course, was the owner. "But somehow or other I didn't, and fnr suvpr.il rlivs I dndced him in and out of the building', feeling particularly uncomfortable and guilty. Finally he dropped in, and, seeing the umbrella in the front office walked off with it I witnessed the incident unobserved from the rear room, and, naturally, said nothing. Next iay we encountered in the elevator and he handed me the umbrella. " 'Here's your parachute,' he said. "I'll nave 10 own up mat a aj.?prupr.La.ied it yesterday, but It was raining and the temptation was too strong for my morals.' "I took it rather gingerly and refrained from offering any explanation. That afternoon I set it just outside my door and bad the satisfaction of seeing it disappear under the arm of an architect who is a prominent member of my church and generally regarded as a very moral man. Sinrv* then he has had pressing business whenever I hove into sight, and I infer that he Is suffering a duplicate of the pangs recently experienced by myself nnd my neighbor. The fellow who originally left it hasn't turned up, so I suppose that he, too, is a member of the robber band." Enjjine Driven T?j Bacteria. X. P. MelnikoiT, the editor of the Russian journal Technologue, has made a little model of an engine which depends for its motive power upon the fermentation of bacteria. Although the engine of itself has no practical value, it nevertheless furnishes an interesting example of the power which can be derived from fermenting bodies. Mr. Melnikoff decomposes glucose into its constituents One hundred and eighty parts glucose will giro ninety two part sof alcohol and eighty-eight parts of carbon dioxid gas. In a cop per vessel, glucose, an acid phosphate acetic acid, geletin, water (75 per cent.), ana yeast are mixea xogeuier. After twenty-four hours the gas -with in the vessel, at a temperature of 20 degreesC. (GS degrees F.). will have attained a pressure of four and onehalf atmospheres. The inventor states that if the vessel containing the yeast bacteria be large, and the engine cylinder be correspondingly proportioned, j enough power can be optained to opcr- j ate an engine uninterruptedly for j twenty or thirty hours. The fermen tation of different bacteria will give different results, the power produced depending upon the qunntltv of carbon dioxid or c-her gases generated by j each species of bacteria. PilferlDj* Gnests. After the ball given by the Pari* Municipal Council to their electors auc friends at the Hotel de Yille. it wasfound that six dozen silver snonns and 6SC> other articles, such as plates, mustard pots and flower vases, had been taken away, while many of the dancers had he^eil themselves to bottles of champa-jne for home consump tion. Found a Chest of GoldA dispatch from Santiago, Cuba, says the wreckcrs working on the sunk en Spanish armored cruiser Almirante Oquendo, "Wednesday discovered a chest containing $19,000 in Spanish gold, v/hich the Cendoya company, the firm employing the divers, will retain. * Work on the cruiser has hern iu progress for five months and many thousands of dollars worth uf treasure has ht rn sr.-u ud The safe was found i in the l?m v^bere it fell during the J t>i?r .iug'/f the ship. Only a few dajs ! ago the wreckers began on the torpedo ! hnat. dpstrnrpr Furor. Thev have! already found a service of heavy silver plate. Experts asserts, after inspecting the destroyer, that she might easily have been raised and repaired. The wrecking operations have proved a a source of large returns to the companies, estimated at $500,000. "I have used your 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and fcr Dyspepsia or any derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as be- i ing without an equal." James J. Os-; borne, Attorney at Law. Boliston. Henderson Oo., N. C. ?? .? II - i i n i I ~ A CHINAMAN'S FATE. ~ Baclared Dead by a Society, Re Wa* Tabooed and Killed Himself. In San Francisco there's a Chinese secret society, the laws of -which are as strict and unchanging as those of the Medes and Persians. One or tne members of this society told some of its secrets?an offense punishable by death. He was to be tried in the usual way before a tribunal of the society. The night of the ordeal was fixed. The culprit was represented by able counsel, but the sentence was death? as was expected. An executioner was called from an adjoining room. He was a strapping big Chinaman, and wore one of those hideous wooden masks that art critics think so beautiful. lie carried a double-edged sword fully five feet long. To rest the edge he folded a newspaper iu eight parts, and the knife went through those eiglit thicknesses of paper as if it were a bit of butter in summer time. The culprit was brought in ui. ">n his knees, and another Chinaman, aJso on his knees, faced him and caught the traitor by the cue. He drew the culprit's neck toward him. the smock was pulled over the shoulders, and with one mighty swing the double-edged sword descended. Like a flash it clove the air and then stopped. A fractional part of an inch separated the sword from the victim's neck. Very, very gently the executioner brought the weapon down until it just touched the traitor's neck. Then, as it is a crime to kill a man in San Francisco, he stopped. He brought the sword to his side again, turned to the jugdes and said: 4,Thp rrlnrit Is dead." The newly executed got on his feet and said something to the judge. The judge did not heed? for the culprit was dead. lie tried to speak to the Chinamen, who were hurrying from the hall But he spoke to deaf ears. To all intents and purpose he was a dead man. He made his way into the street and the first thing that caught his eye was a hugh poster proclaiming to all Chinatown that he had been executed that evening. No one would speak to him, no one look at him?he was a dead man?just as dead as if the executioner's sword had in reality de scended. For a whole wee!* that man wandered "bout Chinatown, the posters proclaiming his execution staring him in the face at every turn. Not a crust of bread could he beg?not a mouthful of water. His people knew him as dead?he was past, gone, buried. And so one day he wandered up into the American portion of San Francisco and stole a revolver from a messenger boy, who was showing it to some companions. Then he ran down into Chinatown, sai down on the pave ment beneath one of his own death notices and blew the addled brains out of his poor Chinese head. Baby's Tootli Set In a Kfn~. Exclusive young matrons of the smart set who are also doting mothers have just introduced into fashion a new ring, which is exciting the greatest attention. The woman who first wore one of these mysterious rings told all about it the other day to a girl friend who was admiring It and wanted to copy ** CVA coul <4TCV>TtrVn+a iU OUiU, ?f iij) Wl\, WW stone wouldn't be considered a gem to any one but me. It Is only one of my baby girl's pearly white teeth. She knocked out a little front tooth not long ago, and as it was too precious to throw away, I took it to my jewelers and asked him if it couldn't be set in a ring. And here is the result. I told him to surround the tooth with diamonds and turquoises, alternating with one another, as I think just the touch of blue adds much to the beauty of the ring. The baby tooth encir. !j.1. J: 4.^ oeu "VYl Lli uiiiuiuiiua lUUivs luu itujic. A number of my friends who have copied my idea have taken one of their baby's teeth to the jeweler's and had it surrounded with the child's birth stone." Tlie Horse in Battle. A veteran cavalry horse partakes of the hopes and fears of battle just the same as his rider. As the column swings into line and waits, the horse grows nervous over the waiting. If the wait is spun out, he will tremble and sweat and grow apprehensive. If he has been sis months in the service he knows every bugle call. As the call comes to advance the rider can feel him working at the bit with his tongue to get it between its teeth. As he moves out he will either seek to get on faster than he should or bolt. H-? cannot bolt, however. The lines will carry him forward, and after a minute lie will grip, lay back his ears, and one can feel his sudden resolve to brave the worst and have done with It as soon as possible. Small Testable* the Be*t. Epicures are developing a taste for miniature specimens of the earth's products. To supply the demand in larger cities for vegetables, such as the French consider the most delicate and appe izing, the truck farmers bring to market tiny potatoes, turnips, carrots, cai liflower and even heads of cabbage tht size of a baseball. Such vegetables an it Is said, more easily digested, theh fiber being tender and succulent, inst-ad of tough and often of a woody na *ure as the growth arrives at maturity, The K!ght? f Burial. Despite the growing difficulty of finding space for the lj.terment of public men within the waijs of Westminster Abbey at least one jotable family still enjoys a prescriptive right of burial there. These are tlU Dukes of North umberland, who hav? the exclusive use of a spacious vault In the chapel St. Nicholas. The vaul;, which was the last resting place of ihe Seymours, was opened as recently 1883 to received Itie remains of Lad? Louisa Percy, the elder sister of the present Duke. An Automaton Duck. Of all inventors of mechanical curiosities Jacques Yauca^son was certainly iir> THtit bars thp S *ipntifir? Amprir>nn. His automatic duel, was to connoisseurs an object of admiration. The bird waddltd off in search of food and picked up and swallowed the seeds that it met with. It was impossible to distinguish this dueb from a living one. It splashed about in the water and quacked at pleasure. A Fatal Accident A horrible accident o:currcd at the Mills cotton mill in Greenville on Wednesday, whijh cost the life of one of the operatives, William J. Scott, who was in charee of the elevator. He was making a trip upward at the time and wa?. looking over the side of the pl<-\ator at 3umc workmen below, when he was c-iught by the second floor and hurled down to the floor of the elevator. H:s head and shoulders were horribly mashed before the elevator could be stopped. Mr. Seott was taken to his home in the mill village and medical offonti/in traa immpdiflf-elv ffiven. but I the injuries were so severe and numerous that he was beyond the skill of the physician, and in a few hours breathed his last. A Fearful Accident. A fearful accident occurred about 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning at the quarry above the Jocks, at Augusta, Ga. The back line of the derrick broke, falling on the workmen. Hal Nabrit, colored, was killed instantly. Sam i Sullivan, colored, had his leg broken i and was otherwise severaly injuraa. < Several other workmen were more or ' less injured. v A Long Pelt Want. A large part of the press of the country, and many influential business organizations, are urging the establishment of a parcels post system in thiscoun- l try. It seems quite] probable ; that congress, at its" next session. will legislate to this effect. 4 ?. x' .r xi. . ai me meeung 01 me executive i committee of the National Association of Manufacturers held a few clays ago a resolution was adopted unanimously favoring the "enactment of a law by congress providing for ihe establishment- of a parcels post system in the United States, similar to the laws now in f >rce in England and Germany, and also the negotiation of parcels post treaties with other nations. And, "further, that the presi dent of the association is Hereby authorized to take whatever steps in his judgment may be necessary to secure the enactment of such law and the negotiation of such treaties." The Atlanta Journal says the support of the association which adopted these resolutions is sure to strengthen the advocacy of nrnrvaco/-] i\o c erC. I yivyvovu ^/VVV tern. The association is organized in nearly every state in the union; has a membership of some 1,200, comprising leading manufacturers of the country, and it is stated that an active and successful canvass has been made in furtherence of the movement The matter has been brought not only to the attention of manufacturers, but to the attention of merchants and consumers, anatne canvass has shown that the movement is exceedingly popular. Fully 90 per cent of those who have given their views to the association advocate the establishment of a "just" parcels post. The parcels post system, which will probably soon be adopted in this country will, it seems, be modelled after that of England rather than that of Germany. The limit of weight under the German system is 100 pounds, while the limit in England is 11 pounds. The English rate begins at 3 pence (6 cents) a nonnd. and increases at the rate of a penny (2 cents) a pound up to 10 pounds. The limit, as stated, is 11 pounds, and the rate for both the 10 and 11-pound packages is one shilling or 25 cents. The American rate on merchandise?parcels, post matter?is 16 cents per pound, and except as to a book, the limit of weight is four pounds. The treasurer of the National Association of Manufacturers is authority for the statement, Ud^CU UU puo otauoiiv^oj that merchandise can be carried in the mails here at about the English rate. Moreover, he presents figures to show that the American rate is 100 per cent in excess of the cost of our merchandise service, contends that it is prohibitory, and as serts that it amounts to discrimination in favor of the transportation companies?a discrimination that is largely at the expense of consumers. It is, therefore, the intention of the association to have introduced in the next congress a bill for a reduction in the present rate for fourth-class matter and an extension of the maximum weight limit to 8 or 11 pounds, so as to more nearly conform to the jhJnglisii parcels post system. The advocates of a parcels post system are enthusiastic, and believe that they 'are pushing a measure which will be of vast benefit to the country. They believe, and with good" reason, that it will increase trade, and that even at the low rate pror\Ace>i-l fn it, will Jfvuv" -- swell postal receipts so largely that the annual deficit of the postefiice department will be wiped out. We trust that the senators and members of congress from Georgia will give their hearty support to some good parcels post proposition. Boiler Explodes' The explosion of an engine at a dis tillery near Traveler's Rest Tuesday resulted in the death of one man, the serious injury of another and the wreck of the establishment. The tragedy occurred at the distillery of Robert Keeler, four miles from Tiaveler'sRest, about 8 a. in. The man killed was Nick Williams, colored, who was th?engineer. His head was blown off and he was otherwise Ji'adly mutilated. Matthew Keeler, a son of the proprietor, was severely scalded. Dr. B. F. Goodlett was called to attend him, but a report has not yet been received from the physician as to the condition of the young man. The explosion seems to nave been caused by water running too lnw in the boiler.?The State. 1109 Plain Street. >' Bet-ween Assembly and Marion Macfeafs School of SHORTHAND ?AND? TYPEWRITING r*r\t rr\rr>T A C n UUliUJlX>i-3., o. This School has tie reputation of being the beat business institution ia the State. Graduates are holding rearjraeralive positions in mercantile houses, tanking, insurance, real estate, railroad offices, &c., in this and other etates. Write to W. H. Macfeat, BtenographerComulbia,.C. for termst - V -OU Royal Elastic IS GROWING IN P( SIMPLY : 1' i- Ter in pro?.f. it will uevet n eou.f lumpy. I It is tbe o?l* Perfect Ma'tress. I. is hsoluivj u- ii-?b orbent. ()I*K <tU-\RANIKt:? >!? ey will be re I u-e. vou are noi ennrt-ly 'a'i?fi*"i. Our booklet wi'h t' .l! ip-ioo. will b If jour locai dtnlcr docs u-t te.l item, Took the Premium at Colur of $4-0.00 Hair Mattresses, he-pedfully, t> - -ii n iioyaii 6b Joor HAVE "YfJU SEEN the BEAR the BUFFALO the ELEPHANT j These and the EMPIRE SQUA1 from stock in q 1 Ann t 1,UUU 10 i Owing to early purchases w Wrapping Paper, Bags, Twines Colombia St! Wholesalers of Paper. Growth of the South. Mr. Richard H. Edmunds contributes to the current number of Harper's Weekly an article -fVici rcr-nn-fVi r\-f r>r\rr<-rrtari^ V/JJL 1/1IV giVIT UJJL VX UUU industries in the South which is full of facts and figures of a most interesting character, especially to business men and manufacturers. He relates in an easy style how the Southern States have steadily advanced during the past twenty years until they have become an added strength to the industrial power of the country. He shows that tVift wa.cres naid to factorv hands have increased from $75,900,000 in 1880 to: $360,000,000 in 1899. In 1880 the. South produced 431,000,000 bushels of grain. The crop for 1898-'99 aggregated 736,600,000 bushels. The railroad mileage, which in 1880 aggregated ;,only 20,600 miles has now reached 50,000 miles. ;The Southern cotton mills in 1880 "consumed 233,886 bales" In 1898-'99 they con sumed 1,399,000 bales. The coal I mined^in 1860 was 6,000,000 tons while in 1899 the]total of 40,000,-1 000 tons has been reached. The | capital invested in cotton mills j has increased from 821,900,000 in 1880 to 8125,000,000 at the present time. From 397,000 tons of pig iron in 18S0 the product has now grown to 2,500,000 tons. There is $40,000,000 capital in cotton seed oil manufacture now. as against $3,500,000 in 1880. The capital invested in manufacturing today aggregates 81,000,000,000 while in 18S0 it was only $257,000. The spindles in cotton mills in 1880 numbered 667,000. This year they number 5,000,000. The amount of phosphate mined has increased from 750,000 tons to 2,000,000 tons. The cotton crop has reached the aggregate of 11,275,000 bales. In 1880 it was only 5,750,000. The value of manufactured products in the South has kept pace with the increase of the output. From $457,4:00.000 in 1880 this value has reached $1,500,000,900 in 1899, MONEY TO LOAN On improved real estate. Interest eight per cent., payable semi-annually. Time 3 to 5 years. N o commissions charged Jno. 6. Palmer & Son, UJSSriiAL .N.Vl'i J.\\L B.V>K BUI LLU.W, 1205 Plain St., Columbia, S. C. KIDNEY, BLADDER, URINAR ' AND LIVER DISEASES, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION AND CONSTIPATION POSITIVELY CURED BY THE USE OF DR. 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