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r FORGIVING SPIRIT. ' "Let Not the Sun Go Down on Your Wrath " HATE BRINGS UNHAPPINESS, Dr- Talmage Reccommends More of the Saccharine and Less | of Sour in Kunrai I Dispositions. In this discourse Dr. Talmage placates the world's revenges and recommends more of the saccharine and less of the sour in human dispositions; text, Ephesians iv, 8l>, "Let not the sun go down upou your wrath " What a jillow, embrioaer<.d of all colcrs, hath the dying day! The cradle of clouds from which the sua rises is beautiful enough, but it is surpassed by the many colored mausoleum in which at evening it is buried. Sunset among the mountains! It almost takes one's breath away to recall the scene. The long shadows stretching over the plain make tLc glory of the departing light on the tiptop crags and struck aslant through the foliage the more conspicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson commingled. All the castles of cloud in conflagration. Buraine Moscows on the sky. Rang ing gardens of roses at their deepest blush. Banners of vapor, red as if from carnage, in the battle of the elements. The hunter among the Adirondacks and the Swiss villager among the Alps know what is a sunset among the mountains. After a storm at sea the rolling grandeur into which the sun goes down to bathe at nightfall is something to make weird and jsplendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexander Smith in his poem compares the sunset to "the barren beach of hell," but this wonderful spectacle of nature makes me think of the buanished wall l*lwr - of heaven. Paul in prison, writing my text, remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets among the mountains of Asia Minor and how he had often seen the towers of Damascus blaze in the close of the oriental days, and he flashes out - - that memory in the text when he says, "Let not the sun go down upon your ^ wrah." f Sublime, all suggestive duty for people then and people now! Forgiveness before sundown! He who never feels the throb of indignation is imbecile. He nho can walk amoDg the injustices of the world inflicted upon himself and others without flush of cheek, or flash """ of eye, or agitation of nature, is either in sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic. When Ananias, the high priest, ordered the constables of the courtroom to smite Paul on the mcuLh, Paul fired |^; up and said, "God shall smite thee, IIP* Tr? ? LliUU VY Ui?wU n<1114 JLU liiv ovuivu vv ? A immediately before my text Paul commands the Ephesians, '\Be ye angry and sin not." It all depends on -what you are mad at and how Iodc the feeling lasts whether anger is right or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. Saul after David, Succoth after Gideon, Korah aftur Moses, the Pasquins after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ, and every one has had his pursuers, and we are swindled or belied or misrepresented or persecuted or in some way wronged, and the danger is that healthful indignation shall become ^ baleful spite and that our feelings settli down in a prolonged outpouring of ^ temper displeasing to God and ruinou-* t? ourselves, and^hence tbc fe, ?T0 down upon your wrath/' *2??-? ?that ng vapor set to - Way that penodffV ^;^, What punctuate a flaming dl' . , 03C'S w. has the sunset got to ??. baptard sentful emotions: \V a^. sentiment written by Pai5|. j- "^ink of cial significance? No, nc?j ^ ^ ^he five reasons why we shouIjF sun set before our temper*., enough First, because 12 hours fT giQflicted to be eross about any *?vif,nstine to upon us. Nothing is so** fa??itv ?. physical Wit* ^ +a protracted indulgence humor. It racks^ the nep&i-rvvo- system. It hurts tae It heats the blood in prain heart until the whole body overheated and then depressed. AjS^BesideQ.that, it sours the disposition, turns one aside from his legitimate work, expends energi??> tHst ought to be better employed a ad d^es us m >re harm than it doe3 our antagou^t. Paul gives us a good, wide aiIowa;:ue 01 lime iur legitimate ucuuuvrauuu, from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock, but says, "'Stop there!" Watch the descending orb of day, and when it reaches the horizon take a reef in your disposition. Unloose your collar and cool off. Change the subject to something delightfully pleasant. Unroll your tight fist and shake hands with some one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive the growling dog of enmity back to its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by, and the afternoon will arrive, and the sun will begin to set, and, I beg you, ou its brazing hearth throw all your feuds, invectives and ! satires. _0;her things being equal, the man who preserves good temper will come out ahead. An old writer says that the celebrated John Henderson of Bristol, England, was at a dining party where political excitement ran high and the debate got angry, and while Henderson was speaking his opponent, unable to answer his argument, dashed a glass of wine in his face, when the speaker deliberately wiped the liquid from his face and said: "This, sir, is a digression. Now, it you please, for the main argument." "While worldly philosophy could help but very few to such equi- j poise of spirit, the grace of God could ! help any man to such a triumph. ' 'Impossible, " you say. 4iI would have either left the table in anger or have knocked the man down/' But I have come to believe that nothing is impossible if God help. Aye, you will not postpone till sundown forgiveness of enemies if you can realize that their behavior toward you may be put into the catalogue of the 4 'all things'' that "work together for good to these that love God." I have had multitudes of friends, but I have found in my own experience that God so arranged it that the greatest opportunities of usefulness that have been opened before me were opened by enemies. So jou may harness your antag onists to your best interests and com pel them to draw you on to bette work and nigher character, suppose instead of waiting until 32 minutes after 4 this eveniDg, when the sun will set, you transact this glorious work of forgiveness at meridian. Again, we ought not to let the sun go down on our wrath, because we will sleep better if we are at peace with ^ eve*yhody. insomnia is getting to be i or# o: the most prevalent of disorders. 1 ' Bcw few people retire at 10 o'clock at 1 night ard clear through to G in the moraiDg! To relieve this disorder all narcotics and sedatives and morphine and chloral and bromide of potassium and cocaine and intoxicants are used, but nothing is more important than a quiet spirit if we would wia somnolence. How is a man going to sleep when he is in mi id pursuing an enemy? vYith what nervous twitch he will start out or a cream: That new plan of cornering his foe will keep him wide awake while the clock strikes 11, ? - T o Mr lli, 1, I give you an unianmg prescription for wakefulness: Spend the evenicg hours rehearsing your wrongs and the best way of aveDging them. Hold a convention of friends on this subject in your parlor or office at 3 or 9 o'clock. Close the evening by writing a bitter letter expressing your seot.i meuts. Take from the desk or pieeotiho'e the papers in the case to refresh \our mind with your enemy's meanness. Then lie down and wait for the coming of the day, ani it will come before sleep comes, or your sleep will be worried quiescence and, if you t ike the precaution to lie flat on your back, a Why not put a bound to your animosity? Why let your foos come into the sanctities of your dormitory? Whv let those slanderers who have already torn your reputation to pieces or injured your business bend over your midnight pillow and drive from you one of the greatest blessings that God can offer? sweet, refershing, all invigorating sleep? Why not fence out your enpmies by the golden bars of the sunset? Why not * % ? ? i i P stand bet.ind the Darneaae 01 evening cloud and ?ay to them. "Thus far and no farther." Many a man and many a woman is havin? the health of body as well as the health of soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. T have in time of leligious awakening had persons night after night come into the inquiry room and get no peace of soul. After awhile I have bluntly asked them, "Is there not some one against whom you hive a hatred that you are not willing to give up?'' After a little confusion they slightly whispered, "Yes." Then I have said, "You will never find peace with (j-od as long as you retain tnai virulence." A boy in Sparta having stolen a fox kept him under his coat and, though the fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted to it rather than expose his misdeed. Many a man with a smiliog face has under his jacket an animosity that is gnawing away the strenth of his body and the integrity of his soul. Better get rid of that hidden fox as soon as possible. There are t.uudreds of domestic circles where that which most is needed is the spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart and sisters apart and parents and children apart. Solomon says a brother offended is harder to be won tna" a strong city. --\re mere uui t enough sacred memories of your childhood to briDg you together? The rabbins rccuunt how that Nebuchadnezzar's son had such a spite against his father that after he was dead he had his father burned to ashes and then put the ashes into four sacks and tied them to four eagles' necks, which flew <iwav in opposite directions. And there are now domestic antipathies that seem forever to haye scattered all parental memories to the four winds of heaven. How far the eagles fly with those sacrcd ashes! The hour of sundown makes to that family no practical suggestion. Thomas Uariyie in his biography of Frederick the Great says the old king was told by the confessor he must be at peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven. Then he said to his wife, the queen, "Write to your brother after I am dead that 1 forgive him." Roloff, the confessor, said, j "Her majesty had better write him immediately." "Xo," said the king; "after I am dead. That will be safer." So he let the sun of h:s earthly exis-, tence go down upon his wrath. .11 il I Agam, we OUgm uoi to aiiy-v me suu to set before forgiveness takes place, ' because we might not live to see another day. And what if we should be .-ushe*ei into 4he -presence of-our .Maker with a grudge upon our soul? The majority of people depart this life in the nizht. Between 11 o'clock p. m., and 3 o'clock a m., there is something in the atmo-phero which relaxes the grip whicli the body has on the soul, and most people enter the next world through the shadows of this world. Perhaps Grod may have arranged it in that way so as to make the contrast the more glorious. I have seen sunshiny days in this world that must have been almost like the radiance of heaven. T* it as most people leave the earth between sundown and sunrise they quit this world at its darkest, ana heaven, always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Oat of darknes3 into irradiation. Shall we then leap over the roseate bank of sunset into the favorite hunting greund of disease and death, carrying our animosities with us? Who would want to confront- his God, against whom we have all done meaner things than anybody In* ever done against us, carrying old gru iges? How can we expect his forgive n-<s for the greater when we arc doi williog to forgive others for the less? Napoleon was encourage to u^dertoke the crossing of the Alps bec.iu-r Charlemagne had previously crossed the ui. And all this rugged path of forgiveness bears the bleeding footsteps of him who conquered through suffering, and we ought to be willing to follow. On the night of our departure from this life into ths next our one plea wiU have to be for mercy, and it will have to be offered in the presence of him who has said, "If you forgiye not men their trespasses, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive your trespasses." What a sorry plight if we stand there hating this one and hating that one and wishing that one a damage and wishing some one else a calamity, and ourselves needing forgiveness for 10,000 obliquities of heart :in<i life. "When our last hour comes, we want it to find us all right. Hardly anything a?ects me so much in the uncovering of "Pompeii as the account of the soldier who, after the city had for many centuries been covered with the ashes and scoria: of Vesuvius, vas found standing in his place on fruard. hand on soear and helmet on head. Others fled at the awful submergement, but the explorer, 1,700 years after, found the body of that brave fellow in right position. And it will be a grand thiiig if, when our last moment comes, we are found in right position toward Gcd, on guard and unaffrighted by the descending ashes from the mountain of death. 1 do not suppose that I am any mtreof a coward than most people, but I declare to you that I would not dear to sleep tonight if there were any being in all the earth Tc-Vimn T tcTmld not shaktf hands-last during the night hours my spirit dismissed to other realms, I should because of my unforgiving spirit, be denied divine forgiveness. {iBut'* say some women, ''there is a horrid creature that has injured me : that rather than make up with her I would die first." Well, sister, you may i take your choice, for one or the other : r I. I r - it will be?your complete paidon of her or God's eternal punishment of you. "But," savs some mai, "that fellow who cheated me out of those goods or da-naeed my business credit or started that lie about me in the newspapers of by his perfidy broke up my domestic happiness, forgive him I cannot, forgive him I will not " Well, brother, ta?e your cnoice. iou wm never uc i at peace with God till you are at peace { with man. FeeliDg as yiu now do, you j would not get so near the harbor of i heaven as to see ihe lightship. Be-ter i leave that man with the God who r-a-'d, 'Vcngence is mine, I will repay." You may say. "I will make him sweat i'urth at yet; [ will make him squirm; I j moan to pursue him to the death," but j you are damaging yourself more than you damage him, and you are leaking h.-svpn for vnur soul an impossibility. If he will not be reconciled to you, be reconciled to him In fiive or six hoars ii will be rundown. The dahlias will blooui against the western sky. Somewhere between this and that take a ' hovel and bury the old quarrel at least six feet deep. "Let not the sun go do*L apon ycur wrath."' *'Buc," you say, 1;I have more than I cm bear; too much is put up^n me, and I am not to blame if I am somewhat revengeful and umelenting." Then I think of the little child at the moving of some goods from a store. Ttroa r\n f-f i n rr Q^mA QnllQ ftf JL lairU^i nao w wgoods on the child's arm, package after package, and some one said, "That child is being overloaded, and so much ought not to be put upon her," when the child responded, "Father knows how much I can carry." and God, our Father, will not allow to much imposition on his children. In the day of eternity it will be found you had not one annoyance it will be found you had not one annoyance too many; not one ovosncrah'rtn tni mmv: not one on trace too many. You Heavenly Father knows how much you can carry. Again, we ought not allow the passage of the sunset hour before the dismissal of all our affronts, becaus we may associate the subliinest action of the soul with the sublimest spectacle in nature. It is a most delightsome thing to have our personal experience allied with certain subjects. There is a tree or river band where God first answered jour prayer. You will never pass that place or think of that place without thinking of the glorious communion. There was some gate or some rorm or some garden wall where yon were affianced with the companion who has chief joy in lise. You never' spead t? tha place but with a smile. Some < ! you have pleasant memories connecte i j with the evening star, or the moon i I its first quarter, or with the sunrise, j because jou saw it just as you wenirrivingat harbor after a tempestuous voyage. Forever and forever, 0 hearer, associate the sunset with your magoani j mous, OUC aoa out, uuiiuuieu reuuntw of all tatred and forgiveness of all foes I admit it is the most difficult of all graces to practice, and at the start you may make a complete failure, but keep on in the attempt to practice it Shakespeare wrote ten plays before he reached "Hamlet" and 17 plays before he reached "Merchant of Venice'' and 20 plays before he reached ".Macbeth." * ?* ?ii i? . and gradually you win come i^om me easier graces to the most difficult. Besides that, it is Dot a matter of personal determination so much as the layiDg hold of the almighty arm of God, who will help us to do anything we ought to do. Remember that in all controverfies the one least to blame will have to take the firrt step at pacification if it is ever effectee. The contest between JEschines and Aristippus resounds through history, but Anstippus, who was least to blame, went to ^Eschines and said, "Shall we cot agree to be iriends terore we mase ourfclves the laughiDg stock of the whole country?*' And JE^chines said, "Thou art a far better man than I, for I began the quarrel, but thou hast been the first in healing the breach,'' and they were abrav? friends afrerwards. ^o^rtnTo'e of you that' is "least eft' blame take the first step toward reconciliation. The one most in the wrong will never take it. Oh, it makes one feel spelndid to be able by God's kelp to practiee unlimited forgiveness. It improves one's body and sou!. My brother, it will make you measure three or four more inches around the chest and improve your respiratioQ so that you can take a deeper and longer breath. It improves the countenance by scattering the glnom and makes you somewhat like God himself. He is omnipotent of all the universe, and we cannot copp that. He is creative, and we cannot copy that, lie is omnipresent, and we cannot copy that. But he forgives with a broad sweep all faults, and all neglects, on/1 oil insnlto and all \rrr>ncr.f]nin and in.that we may copy him with mighty success, Gro harness that sublime action of your soul to the sunset?the hour when the gate of heaven opens to let the day pass into the eternities, and some of the glories escape this way through the brief opening. We talk about the ItaHm mi isets and sunset amid the Aucuu-ucs a AATi rKIl* oa knt T auu auiiu buu vwuuiuvam>;J u A. will tell you how you may see a grander sunset than any mere lover of nature ever beheld; that is by flinging into it all your hatreds a".d animosities, and let the horses of fire trample them, and the spearmen of fire stab them, and the chariots of the fire roll over them, and the spearmen of fire stab them, and the beach of fire consume them, and the billows of fire overwhelm them. Mohammed said, "The sword is the key of heaven and hell." But, my hearers, in the last day we will find just the opposite of that to be true, and that the sword never unlocks heaven, and that he who heals wounds ?s greater than he who makes them, and that on the same-ring are two keys ?God's forgiveness of us aDd our forgiveness of enemies?and these two I'ore -m n 1 rvo to rlico J UU1VVO, uuiLiV/ And now I wish for ali of you a beautiful sunset to your earthly existence. With some of you it ha3 been a long day of trouble, arid with others of you it will be far from calm. When the sun rose at 6 o'clock, it was the morning of youth, and a fair day was prophesied, but by the time the noon day or middle life had come, and the r>1nr>L- nf vi-mr f>'7i<5t'pnr'f> harl struck 12, cloud racks gathered, and tempest bellowed in the traek of tempest. But as the cv^nins of <>M age approached. I pray God iho t-kies may brighten and the clouds he piled up into pillars as of celestial tutu pics to which you go, or move as with mounted cohorts come to take you home. And as you sink out of sight below the horizon, may there be a radiance of Cnristian example lingering long after you are gone, and on the heavens be written in letters of sapphire and on thn waters in letters of opal and on the hills in letters of emerald, "Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlasting lig'.it, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." So shall the sunset of earth become the sunrise of heaven. CONFERENCE. I j Methodist Ministers Make Many Moves. WHERE THE PREACHERS GO. The Appointments of the South Carolina Methodist Conference. More Changes T han Last Year. The South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Chur.-h, South, convened in the Methodist Church at Orangeburg last Wednesday morning. rrm/>Ti Vmai JL UC VUUlClUU^g C/i auouviuu ness of importance, and Monday tbe names of the ministers and the charges to which they were appointed was made public. Below will bs found a list of the appointments: CHARLESTON* DJ9TBICT. A J Stokes, Presiding E:der. Allendale?A. J Cauthen, Jr. Beaufort?nA B Earl. Pino potts?W T Patrick. Biack hwamp?W C Kirkland. Ciiar eston?Trinity, J W Kilgo; Bethel, E 0 Watson; Spring s:reet, Jno Owen: Cumberland, .1 L Hirlef. Ebrhardl?& C Mouzon. Cypress?J L Mulliaix. Bi Jgeland?'V R Buchanan. Hampton?E K Moore. Harlejville?E M McKissick Hendereonville? 0 N fiountree. McCleUaavilte?J F VVay. Tore Koyal?K. t, lurmpseea. Ridge al!e?'A W Humphries Round O aad St. Pau?J C Davis. S'umm rville?G P Watson. St. George's station?W B Duncan. Grover?D A Calhouo. Cardesville?D A Patrick. Walterboro?J E Carlisle Secretary E lucation?J W Kilgo. As-isiant Edi:or S. C. Advocate?S A Weber. Chaplain Port Society?P A Murray. Mt. Pieagant?To b* supplied. COKESDURY DISTRICT. R V Chi'd, Presiding Elder. A ViKoxrill 1 W 1)Auipl Antreville ?S T Biackman. Butler?H W VVhitaker. C'okesbury?J L Daniel. Dona'ds?W B Wharton. Greenwood?P L Kirton. Greenwood City Mission?Supplied. Ktnards?J J Stevrnson. Lowndesville?Peter Siokes. MoCormick?W T Duncan. Mi. Cirmel?Henry Stokes. Ninety-Six?W L Wait. Xewbcrrv?Johnston Street, W 1 Herbert; 0">Teal Street, J W Speake. Newberry circuit?D P Boyd. Pa'ksville?F E Hedges. Phoenix?M M Brabaam. Princeton?3 W Henry Prosuerity?W H Ariail. b'aluda?A S Leslie. Verde-y?S J Bethea. Waterloo?\V C Winn Coiesbury Coaferenca School?W S Stakes. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. E T II d^es, Presiding Elder. Bitesburg, A. C Walter. Columbia, Washington street, W R Richar. son; Main street, S tf Zimmerman; Green street, Granby and Richland, J E Mahaffey; Brookiaad and Hebron, C D Ma*n; Edgewood, K S Tresdale; Hjatt's Park, to be bup pnea. Edgefield, G W Davis. Fa.irljeld, R W Spigener. Fort Motte, J C Welch. Graniteville, E P Hutson. Johnston, S P H El well. Lmgley, R C Bouiware. Leesvi le, J F Anderson. Lewiedale, J M Lawson. Lexington, J N Wright. Lexington Foik, J S Abercrombie. Kidgeway, W S Goodwin. Upper St. Mitthews, J W Ariail. WinosboTO, J D Grout. Southern Christian Advocate, Jao. 0. Will son. Columbia Female College, W W Daniel. Epwjrtb Orphanage, G K WadJell. Paine Institute, Geo. W Walker Warrenville, R E Mood. FLORZNCS DISTaiCT. ? pii"gan. Presiding Elder. _ Cberaw station, & (ijprice* C.heraw circuit, A B Weldon. Ciaussen, J L Roy. C.yde, W M Harden. Darlington, C B Smith. Darlington circuit, A ft Phillips. Florence, J T Pate. Georgetown, J L Stokes. Georgetown circuit, J A White. Hartavilie circuit, J W Humbert. Johnsonville, J R S journer. Ivingstree circ it, W S Martin. LaKe City, J E Rushton. Lamar, G M Boyd. Lanes, R M DuBuae. Rome A E Holler. Silters, W H Thrower. Scran*on. W C Kellej. South Florence, 0 L Durant. TimmAwott? la W T PantKon JL 1LULUVUO T X iV, U V VMMWVVt Cartersville, Wm. Buff. GREENVILLE DISTRICT. J B Wilson, Presiding Eider. Andereoa, St. Joha's, J B Campbell; West End, 55 B Harper. Ei3ley and Bethesda, W E Wiggins. Fountain Inn circuit, Q C Leonard. Greenville, Buacombe street, G T Harmon; City Mills, B G Murphy; St. Paul's, M B Ke ley. G-eenville circuit, T J White! fireer's. J C Rone'r. McLure circuit, C W Burgees. North. Pickeus circuit, J N Stone. Baws'ille, B M Robertson. PcVt T it Herbert. j'cujie^u ir^uit, R E S'aikhouse. Pickens cncui., a R Dagnall. P.edmout, T C Ligou. Reidviile, J W Shell. Seneca atd Walhala, G F Clarkson. Starr and 17a, 0 M \bney. Town^iHe, John W Bailey. Travellers' Rest, J P A'.taway "\Vaiha:la aud Newry. To beeupplied. Westminster, D w Keller. | West Pickens, L L Inabinet; A M A.ttaway, superauoierary. William3toa and Belton. P F Kilgo. Williamston circuit, A W Attaway. Assistant S S Editor, L F Beaty. "Williamston Female College. S Lander. MAR OX DISTRICT. W C Power, Presiding Elder. Bayborc?E >1 Merritt. Benretumlle staiion?C W Creighton. EpnTisitsville oirruit?A .1 fiauthen. Blenheim?D Tiller. Bnghtsville?W B Baker. Briiton's Npck?W EBarre. Backsville?M F Dukes. Centenary?J S Porter. Clio? r M DenL Conway station?J W Elkins. Cool Springs Circuit?E F Scoggins. Conway Circuit, T B Reynolds, Dillon Station?C C Herbert. Latta?J E Beard. little Rock?J A fampMl. Little R:vtr -S '1 :o?w. I ori ?N I, j jiios. M ii u Mau-jii?1.' K Morris. .\idriun Circuit aad Miils?H L Singleton. McOoll Circuit and Mills?T L Belvin. Mullins?A B Watson. North Mwlbcro?J H Noland. North Mullins?G R Shaffer. Waccamaw?G W Gatlin. oeasgeburg district. K B Browne, Presiding Eld#r. Aiken, A J Stafford. Bamberg, T CO'dell. Barnwell, J G Beckwitb. B'anchville, W A Wright. Boiling Springs, E Z Jame3, Denmark, G E Stokes. Editto, J C Yongue. Lower St. Matthews, M W Hook, Orangeburg Station, W A Rogers. . Orangeburg Circuit, W W Williams. A/& '' '' Providence, B M Grier. Rowesville Station, J C Chandler. South Branchville, J D Frierson. Springfield. R G McRoy. Swansea, W 0 Gleaton. Wazner To he supplie I. Willistcn, T T Macfar'ane. ROCK HILL D1SLTRJCT. H W Bays, Presiding Eider. Biacksburg, D M McLeod. B ackstock, P B Ingrahm. Chester, J E Grier. Chester Circuit, J B Traywick. ( hesttrbeld, A F Berry. East Chester, W H Miller. Fort Mill, R A Yoag'ie Hickory Grove, R W Barber. Jeff'.rson, L. L. b'edenbaugh. Lancaster?R X Bruuson. Lancaster Circuit and City Mission, M H Pooser. North Rock Hi'l. J C Si oil. Rictiburg, N B Clarkson. Rock Hill, J 8 Beasley. Rock Hill Circuit, J B Harris. Tridesville, C H Clyde. Yorkville, J M Steadman. York Circuit, d i Bjoth. Van Wyck, J I Spinks. SPARTANBITG DISTRICT. W P Mcadors, Praiding Eleder. Belmont, ML Banka, Jr. Clifton and Cowpena, SD Vaughn. Cherjkee, W J Snyder. Clinton, J M Friday. Cainpobello, A. H Best. Enoree?D Hucks Gaffaey, W H Hodges. Gaffaey Circuit, ?> X Crecch. Jonesvil'eH Beckham. Kelton, J N Isom. Liurena, R H Jones. Laurens City Mission, J M Shell. No.th Laurens Circuits, J K McCain. Pacoiet Mills btatioa, ES Jones. Pacolet Circuit, S A Nettles. C! _ _ A n Z> 13....no \j x* yuiuo. Spartanburg, Central,. M L Carlisle; Duncan, W A Fairey; Bethel and Glendale, R. T. Hobrojd. Union, Graco Church, W A Massebeau; Union Mills, F H Shuler; Whitmire, W B Jestus. SUMTER DISTRICT. T J Clyde, Presiding Elder. Bethany. J R Copeland. Bishopville, E P Taylor. Camden, W M Duncan. (Maiden Circuit. To be suppliedForeston, F Speer. 1 .u "H A Phillirw Jieaiii OJJllUg? oi-au-vu, v ?? A Jordan, VV A Pitts. Kershaw, W A Betts. Lynchburg. E W Mason. Mini ing Station, P W Wells. New Zion, (i R Wnittaker. Oiw^'o, J H Thacker. Kichland, J C Counts, Sintee, A T Dunlap. Smithviile. J H Graves. Sumter, Sumter Su>tion, J A Ciifton; Magnolia St. Mission, W A Kelly; cumter ircuit, S D Bai'ej. Watcee. J E Strickland. Wedetfield. Q H Pooser. Best Place to Be Robbed. Of all cities in the world, If a person must be robbed, Vienna is the town in which to have the performance enacted. Some time ago a Boston gentleman had his watch, a valuable gold one, and a sum of money stolen from him while in that city. He offered $50 reward for the recovery of the property. The watch did not appear, and on returning to America he left Iiis name and address a-Ad the number of his watch, together with the amount of the reward, with rhe police. A short time ago the gentleman received his watch, together with the reward intact, and a polite note from the Di rector saying that it was against tne rales for policemen to recive money rewards: of course if a civilian bad recovered the -watch the reward would have been paid. The only charge was r.0 cents, the expense of transporting the watch from New York to Boston. The thief had been arrested in Vienna, the watch had been found upon him and forwarded by the City Government of Vienna free of charge to New York. There is a decree of innocence about tlio Vienna police tliat suggests odious comparisons. Struck tli? Klght Attorney. Owing to good crops and other causes, the prosperity of Kansas has been very great during the last year or two. and thousands of farmers have ben enabled to remove the financial encumbrances that rested upon their ties, "having^^ good advantage and finding himself possessed of several thousand dollar? In cash, weut to the county seat one day, and while on his Tray to the courthouse stepped into an attorney's office to obtain a little legal acmce. "You're a lawyer, ain't you?" lie paid, addressing the ouly occupant of the room. 'Yes, sir." answered the other, "What can 1 do for you?'' "What's your name?" "My name is Derrick." "You'll do." rejoined the farmer, noddiup: his head. "I want your help. Mr,?Derrick jnjnftin JL~nw?tgS?S'--5#""'' my farm."?Youtlis' Companion/ Turkeys Tracked By Dos*. The wild turkey In the Ozarks is now hunted with a slow-tracking dog. and whole flocks are often killed in this way. Till the trained dog was employed to follow up the wary bird this game fowl could baffle the most skillful hunter. Now when a flock of turkeys Is found the sportsman has little difficulty. A good dog will follow a turkey track that is three or four hours old, and set the birds when overtaken, just as the pointer does the quail. After the turkey had been chased awhile it hides in a tree or under a lop:, and stays there until the hunter, guided by his dog. comes within close range. It is astonishing what fine instinct a good turkey dog will develop after a few months of training in the woods. He will follow a flock of turkeys for hours just ahead of the hunter, and in dicate by unmistakable signs when the game is near. After a turkey has received a fatal shot it may fly for a half n mile rvr mnrf A trainpfl flnfr Trill <rr> straight to a "wounded or dead turkey avjtii the same precision with which he -tracks the game. AndersonvUIe Prison. A recent visitor to Andersonville, where the Union soldiers wereimprisoned years ago, says that the earthworks and stockade arc still preserved and that the wells dug by the prisoners are in as good condition as if they had just been completed. "Providence spring," so named because it seemed to- have suddenly burst from the ground just at a time when the soldiers were suffering for water is still the same, having kept up a constant Sow of pure, clear water ever since. *i uirlorsiand Gregory's wife is soiiii'ihing of a poet." -No truth in it." How do you know?" "I was down in Jersey with them . and drove by a meadow where a lot f of lambs woro frisking, and she saidRoni^thir.tr :ibont mint sauce anfls T?ica peas."?Detroit Journal. / t Fireworks for Christmas. / The Columbia Stationery Corfy t>i ,,/tcc Jt>0 in its new advertisement, woulckgre yg tattention of dealers to its time A works?ready for shipm^f^/ Kcad' Mi"j for the Christm^^^ 7 gcje eajt lQipeiis a com- ^ \ which The 'new?atlum^ia' EARN $10,000 A YEAE THIS IS THE RECORD OF THREE ELEPHANTS !N THE LONDON ZOO. These Huge Becsts Jiarn Their Money By Carrying on Their Backs Pa irons of the Gardens?They Are As .Jealous Hearted As Actresses. Three elephants earn $10,000 a year. This is ?2,000 more than the salary of a member of the President's Cabinet, and ?3,000 less than the income of an * admiral in the navy, a rank done away with because Congress thought the salary too high. These elephants are at the London Zoo, and they earn their money by carrying on their backs the patrons of the gardens. Every 'Arry taxes nis amec ana niss nim to me Zoo on bank holidays, and for five cents they can jog about the ring on the back of one of the elephants. The elephants are stationed in different parts of the Zoo, and there seems to be a bit of professional jealousy between them. Apparently they are on very good terms between hours, but when business is brisk, and the largest one is coining money, for he is the favorite, the other two try to lash him with their trunks as he passes. The largest elephant is a financial record breaker. He is the senior member of the firm, so to speak. On one holiday he carried 1.600 persons. There are camels which are sought after by those left out in the scramble for the elephants, but the old patrons of the Zoo say the uneven motion of a camel is only appreciated by an old salt, who is most at home on an exceedingly choppy sea. The camels are too cultivated a taste for the ordinary mortal to affect. Three camels earn about $1,200 a year, but they cost less to keep than + m r\ya / iirtnarefiil arc Til O JJiXUig tlUV/^uOCiUl uiutuu 1^1 J. XAV elephants eat up most of their profits. The greatest number of visitors to the Zoo in one day was 44,000, and an average of 500 pounds of dainties were fed to the brothers of the royal executioner of India. The Migration ot Robins. For many years naturalists like Audubon and Wilson studied and wrote of this bird before it was known that there were "robin roosts," as well as _2 ? -J.- +v,A Incr pigeuu ruuais. \juxj vyiculxul cuc iu^i. few years was the fact brought out that a bird more familiarly known than the passenger pigeon followed this mode of spending the night, although it adopted spring instead of fall for massing by hundreds in a high sheltered wood for a night's protection from cold, or because it is the period before pairing time, or for some other reason at present beyond man's ken. With what stealth must this well-known and much-observed bird have found its "way m such numoers iu me same p<an-u. of timber night after night in the early months of the year, according to locality coming from all directions so swiftly that a secreted observer could not count, keeping up a chatter that could be heard for a long distance, until the last bird, somewhat belated, perhaps, found shelter in the darkening grove, when all became silent as thousands of wings were folded to rest. Another peculiar trait of the robin, unnoted except by so keen an observer of bird ways as Maurice Thompson, Is that, with all its friendly and confiding relations with the human family during the time of nesting and rearing its young, in the fall of the year, it becomes a wild bird, betaking itself largely to the woods and even - - ? ? ^ Ai 4-v the seciuaea parts 01 mountains, m ima season showing little disposition to be on familiar terms with man, giving a note of alarm and flying high and swiftly when surprised at his approach. At this time they range over extensive tracts of country, but nearly always evince a tendency to seclusion. The writer has seen them in small flocks flying over a wide valley at such an elevation that only by the well known sharp squeak, rather than by the eye, could he surely determine that they were robins. Even in its migratory habits this bird is somewhat peculiar. They seem to move southward In the fall with more tardiness than most other birds, allowing the increased severities of the ",J -???/??? +/1 rmoVi +>iom off thA win UUIU k>C<!OUlL tU puou WUV?M ter's edge. Or are these late goers the birds Inured to cold by a residence in the States further north, which, coining southward, take the place of others that have gone earlier in the season The question of identity, alwaTT"a^^ui^^oneJ.-almost precludes argument on tnispoisir m Novel U?e for Japanese Xewipaper*. A Lewiston man, a chemist, went Into a well-known Lisbon street variety store the other day and began to pick out things of interest and tell where they were made and what they were made of. He found several things made in Japan, where he supposed that the newspapers, which he especially has no liking for, have no pull with the public. fcipw something: about the forcefulness j of Japanese newspapers, and lie took I up a little white skeleton, made in the exact shape of the human one, and a good specimen of Japanese art. This the Lewiston chemist thought was odd, and he couldn't guess what it was made of, but said that he .vould like to see , what it was me.de of. He went away saying that Japan was destined to be a great country because it was not overridden by newspapers. / When the chemist got home *APut the little Japanese plaything l^o. water and soaked it out. Grac^iiy it unrolled till it peeled off, boneJy bone, and the little rolls were *ouna to* j be closely printed paper, evdently old < Japanese newspapers, uf,J by the ] makers of the little pla.-'hmss. Th* chemist took the rolls to> friend of Jvs ( who has been studyii? Japanese a little, and he picked out sentences | ? here and there such ?s: j \ "The Chinese army was cornered at c Port Arthur," and "Fear/il slaughter ^ nt Orientals?on bothfi'dss." The | next time he -went into the variety ? store, says the Lewistq/ Journal, hi? found his friend, the/store keeper grinning out of his eye&t kim. "Wh.*it were the Japanese skeins made of?" asked the store np.a-' "XeK'spspers," said the chemist. / ' ? XL A soul occupied Sroat idfns j oest performs sro* (U,,'PS: *Iio divin?st vlows of most r-7r?;it*Iv f !nto the nr?:in? enier.-('"<*ies.?I( tinea a. a< Ms; Machinery. g ?. """""" Smith Pneumatic Suction P Elevating, Ginning and racking System Sj the simplest and most efficient on ;he market. Forty-eight complete J ' outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfaction. ilers and Engines; Slide j , .lve, Automatic and Corliss. lv] Iv Light and Heavy Lou Beam Saw Is cannot be equalled in design, ef- I ' ;ncy or price by any dealer or manu urer in the South. ,'rite for prices and catalogues. V. G. Badham, 1326"Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. ?( mm LictDiiu IS GROWING IN SIMPLY It is ver'i'iii pmot. It will ntmi !>?-coii'c uii>py. It is the ocl.* 1'crfVct Mi ire** It is hr-olute ,> u u-ah-orbciit. Ol'H '.>11 \ RAN iEK:?VI" ey wtll b u-e. \<-u nre rtct eo'irely (-a'i^fic'i 0?r bo->kl?-t. with full desc'ip'i >n. w It'vour local <i a'.er Joes u t r-e I tht Took the Premium at Co of $40.00 Hair Mattresses, Kt?- nf-cifuliv. Royall & B T De HAVE YOU FIREV Drop us a postal and the next jpBest Goods a Columbia ! ^Wholesalers of Ba J. Wilson Gibbes/Manager, ""AN'AUCTIONEER'S RUSE Whicli He Employed to Interest Slnsrsriali Andience. An auctioneer on East Washing! street?one of those redoubtable in viduals commonly termed "slick"?'* the cause of a farcial scene the otl afternoon that would have done ere to a burlesque show. He had b talking industriously for a long ti: to a crowd of interested but unentl siastic listeners. His audience v largely made up of that class of re who find the Court House and 1 liquid establishments opposite a co bination loafing grounds not to be sisted. The affable auctioneer conscientio ly went through his repertoire from ginning to end, says the Indianapc Journal, but somehow the cro did not "warm up" to him?to qui his own language. Finally, with a d? look that bordered on despair, grabbed up a well-worn pastebo? hat box containing about fifty spo of silk thread of different colors. W the grace of a conjurer he extrac five of the 6pools, and, arraying th in a tempting semi-circle on the coi ter, announced that they were "to at any price." But the audience, while admitti with nods of approval that they w good spools of thread, displayed marked inclination to become exci over them. Not a bid was offered. "I'll sell 'em for 10 cents," sugges the auctioneer, timidly. It was pla from the tone of hfs voice, that he * losing faith in himself and in all 1 world. There were no takers. 1 man-of-the-red-fiag added three m spools to the semi-circle. "All for cents," he declared. But thread st< was far below par. The auction _caught up all the spools from the coi teh-.and flung them into the box w an impressajrg gesture. The light of spiration eyes. "The whole d? boxfor^jjj^^nt he cried. "I'll take It," was the pr<| sponse, and a little man in a#mpt out overcoat and wearer of^wasfa whiskers stepped out iromjr?cu tlJ with a dirty 10-cent ptejj raised hand. The aucj^^ia fis 1 the money fevcri^UMj^J??'clutcl box upside down^l^ ^d, turning 1 that all the spo TKppeoint^aDasket on the count he handed the ^worthless piece of s cient pasteboard to the anxious c tomer. A roar of hilarious laugh' rose from the crowd that was hea throughout that neighborhood. "I don't want your darned old box wailed the unfortunate purchaser. "You said you'd take it," replied t auctioneer. "I'll leave it to the cro^ ?flff.n'f he'" "Yw," came in a strong chorus fro the delighted audience. "I bought the spools!" "No, you didn't?you bought the b< ?I'll leave it to the crowd?didn't he' "Yes," came , the answer agai stronger than ever. The red-whiske id man stalked indignantly from tl place with the box under his arm. "What you goin' to do with it?" yel ;d the crowd. "That's what!" cried the speculato is he held the pasteboard box in bot rinds, football fashion, and then kicl d it vigorously into the middle c vasnmgxon street. WANTED! iverv one to know that t'h< KEELEY CURE >r Drink, Drug and Toeaccc ** luicuons is now re-estafished at Columbia, S. C. Call or writ:?. The Keeley Institute, 1100 Plain Street. JMo other in the state. uchn, rin and i ? I uiiiper Keeps the idneys clean, ry it 75c a bottle. T!ir unnniu nniiA fin lit niMMV UliUliUU-, COLUMBIA, s. c. JUR? fl Felt Mattre^H POPULARITY DAILY M W r BECAUSE | it i? ?he nrna' ela*'ic mattrwH maJe. j It ix heit.-r th?n toe best hair maurti's. | I' 11> ??v?-rjihi<g ?r?r.te< IU H p.rf??c' | It i.? >fCoQiUkeiid-<l h> leading pbjsicians. re:un<l<ri. wnoout <j'i -oti ?u, it' *t'?r u w;-: >1 I* m.:i ed i> Jioi?!ict:ion. 'iu wr:t? m direct. lumbia State Fair over an exhibit m W& orden, manufacturers, OOLT>8B0R0. N. C. * jalers! J BOUGHT YOUR I VORKS ? | mail will bring you a price list of the I JUUWtfSL I I1UC3. Stationery Co., I gs, Paper, Twines, etc. COLUMBIA, S. C. J . "Machinery 1 1 :-M | Mill Supplies" J S. If you need anything in the above line write us. Prices are steadily advancing, and there is every indication of 'Iff -fnvtlittr an vano.M. TCnV "SOW 1U1 tuvi MM r w* " fc ^ and savz moxky. Prices and Ss estimates cheerfully submit- H JJJj ted. Now is the time to buy. ins? Engines and Boilers, j ?. -J i Saw and Srist Mills, | tort 111 i I bi | ? ; IHE "jg sooiiworiting Biacmnery, i >.<?r ^ 3* fiicc Hullers, j -^k | Brick Machinery, I i- Grain Drills. yj* * | ? W. H. liiuues ? _ | GCLtin 804 Gervais Stieet, * COLUMBIA, s. c. m ied 2s ear Union Depot. liODNEYj | ir(j BLADDER, I-.INaK AM> % Z LIVER 1 KT(I D1SKVES, DVSFEPSU. 1\DIO*PTION 111 A So K >NsT: PaTIO < Fo.^ln VhLV i UBH> BY THE Us- ??F M DR. HILTOVS Hi 5X ; LIFE ' 1 LIVEB ^N'Q KIDNEYS. | ^ A vf^fUi.'e pr^^.arati n w never known tilt in M p pillar Ot hi' tltc* h^C-U8elb? \ f r ' - inoet eSeoni'il. ^ Sold whole>a)? by ? -9 The Murray LJrujr Co Columbia Vr'JB Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S. C. MacieaPs NlB o t ? - ocnooi of Wl ; SHORTHAND J TYPiwRITING A COLUMBIA, S. C. Tim School ti 4.- toe reput&tt -a o*bring the 4 rx t busiuea* iotilra?ioa inthe3bt>?. Qt-*d- ? u&ted are holding re aanerative puHri-ms ia JQ aarcanti;e hou*e#, banking, insor^n*; r*?l Jg estate, raiir^d &c., in 'bi??nl o>h?r jH StiiieH Write to H \l *- ?? ?- ? i Stenographer, Columbia, S.C. 'or term**, e;c j MNET Tfl tSW - "IB On improved real estate. Interest eight per cent.. payable semi-annually. Time 3 to 5 years. "v \ :U - i i\ A r\ A>v> ^ ? - xavj vuiumissions cnarged. Jno. B. Palmer & Son, jtk CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, ' I 1205 Plain St., Columbia, S. C. Jno. S. Reynolds, Attorney at Law, S Columbia, S. Cs jS|