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r' I ? ??? ? . ^ V ri rrrt ; THE HUMAN ME. j ? Rev. Dr. Talmage's Sermon on the System's Imperial Organ. HOW GOD HONORS THE EYE. j { The Two Great Lights of the j Human Face. God Mot a Biind Giant Stumbling j Through Heaven. . | In this discourse Dr. Talma^e.. in his j own way, calls attention to that part j of the human body never perhaps dis- j coursed upon in the pulpit and chal- j lenges us all to the study of ornnis- ! cience; text, Psalm sciv, 9. "Ho that! formea the eye, shaii he not see?" rlhe imperial organ of the human system is the eye. All up and down the Bible God Honors it, extols it illustrates it or arraigns it. Five hundred and thirty-four times is it mentioned in the Bible. Omnipresence ?"the eyes of the Lord are in every place." Divine care?"as the apple of " """ ' > tne eye." xne ciouas? iLte?>e:iusui. i the morning." Irreverence?"the eye that mocketh at his father." Pride? "oh, how lofty are their eyes." Inattention?"the fooi's eye in the ends of the earth." Divine inspection? "wheels full of eyes."' Suddenness? "in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump." Oiivetic sermon?"the light of the body is the eye." This morning's text, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see? The surgeons, the doctors, the antomists and the physiologists understand much of the glories of the two great lights of the human race, but the vast multitudes go on from cradle to grave without any appreciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom, he would have failed in creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to see wonderful sights, but the most wonderful sight we ever see is not so wonder """v ful as the instruments through -which we see it I suppose my text referred to the human eye, since it excels all others in structure and adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats arc very simple thiugs because they have not much to do. There are insects with a hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have less faculty than the two human eyes. The black beetle swimming the summer pond has two eyes under the water and two eyes above the water, but the four insectile are not equal to the human. Man placed " _ at the head of all living creatures must have supreme equipments, while the blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky have only an undeveloped nriran nf ar> anoLiffr for t.hr* Ave. ? ??? z ? il 7 which if through some crevice of the mountain they should 50 into the sua light might be developed into positive eyesight. In the first chapter 01 Genesis we find that God without any cousultation created the light, created the trees, created the fish, created the fowl, but when he was about to make man ho called a convention of divinity, as as though to imply that all the powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the achievement. "Let us make man." Put a whole toa of emphasis on that word "us." "Let us make man." And if God cailed a convention of divinity to create man. I think the two great questions in that conference were how to create a soul and how to make an appropriate window for that emperor to ~N"?~? _ !ouk out of. See how God honored the eye before he created it. He cried until chasos s Ti AO *T IvJJL UUClAUU'w XiUl there be light!" Ia other words, before be introduced man into this temple of the world be illumined it, prepared it for the eyesight. And so after the last human eye has been destroyed in the Saal demolition of the world, stars are to fail and the sun is to cease its shining and the moon is to turn into biood. In other words, after the human eyes are no more to be profited by their shining the chandeliers of heaven are to be turned out. God, to educaie and to bless and to help the human eye, set on the mantel of heaven two lumps?a gold lamp and a silver lamp?the one for the day and the other for ihe mgiit. To show how God honois the eye, looi at me two nails ouiit tor me r?>;dence of ihe eyes. Seven bones making tbe ^all for each eye, tbe seven bones curiously wrought together. Kingly palace of ivory is considered rich, but tbe balls for tbe residence of the human eyes are richer by so much as human bone is more sacred than j elephantine tusk. See how G-od honored the eyes when he made a roof for j J"-- thai frllA RXMt r<? tr.il chmilrl I ?, ?- - *?- I not smart them and the rain dashing ; against the forehead might not drip | into them; the eyebrows not bending I over the eye, but reaching to the right I and to the left so that the rain and the j sweat should be compelled to drop upon I the cheek instead of falling into this { divinely protected human eyesight. See how God honored the eye in the j fact presented by anatomists and physi- ! ologists that there are SCO contrivinces ! in every eye. For window shutters, j the eyelids opening and closing 30,000 times a day. The eyelashes so constructed that they have their selection us to what shall be admitted, saying to the dust, "Stay out," and saying to the light, Come in." For inside curtain, the iris or pupil of the eye, according as the light is greater of less, contracting or dilating. The eye of the owl is blind in the daytime, the eyes of some creatures are blind at night, but the human eye so marvelously constructed it can see both by day ana by night. \.T _r a. . i r s* i aauy yi me otner creatures 01 uou can move the eye only from side to I side, but the human eye, so marve- I lously constructed, has one muscle to lift the eye and another muscle to lower the eye and another muscle to roll it to the left and another muscle passing through a pulley to turn it round and round, an elaborate geariDg of six muscles as perfect as God could make them. There is also the retina gathering the rays of light and passing the visual im- | r__ 1 _ t xl pression aiocg xae opuc nerve aaoui the thicknes of the lamp wick, passing the visual impression on to the seasorium and on into the soul. What a delicate lens, what an exquisite scrcen, ^rnat soft cushions, what worderfui chemistry of the human eye! The eye j washed by a slow stream of moisture ! whether we sleep or wake, rolling im- j perceptibly over the pebble of the eye I and emptying into a bone of the nos- j tril, a contrivance so wonderful tbat it i can see the sun 95,000,000 of miles away j " -v^and the point of a pin. Telescope and Bsiscroscope in the same contrivance, j Xh^ssirouoicer swings and move? this i Say aadtlTs;- an<^ a^jtists and readjusts j \&e telescope g8tS " l? 1 ' At fTKa mi^rn^dnnist moves I riilxt, 1U WrUS* J- av m*v.v?vv?? ?_ this way ana that aad adjusts and readjusts the magnifying glas3 until it is prepared to do its work, but the human eye without a touch beholds the star and the smallest insect. The traveler along the Alps with one glance taking in Mont Blanc and the face of his watch to see whether he has time to climb it. Oh, this wonderful camera obscura which yon and I carry about with us so from the top of Mount Washington we can take in New England, so at night we can sweep into one vision the constellations from horizon 10 horizen. So delicate, so semi-infinite, and yet the light coming 95,000,000 of miles at the rate of 200,000 miles a second is obliged to halt at the gate of the eye, waiting until the portcullis be lifced. Something hurled 95,000,000 of miles and striking an instrument which has not the agitation of even winking under the power of the stroke. rPi-..m-.-. olen ic rfio merciful arraTJCA merit of the tear giana by which the eje is was he?, and through which rolls the tide which brings relief that comes in tears when some bereavment or great loss strikes us. The tear not an augmentation of' sorrow, but the breaking up of the arctic of frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of consolation. Inr?anaeitv to weet) is madness or death. Thank God for the tear glands and that the crystal gates are so easily opened. Oh. the wonderful hydraulic apparatus of the human eye! Divinely constructed vision. Two lighthouses at the harbor of the immortal soul under the shining of which the world sails in and drops anchor. What an anthem of praise to God is the human eye! The tongue is speechless and a clumsy instrument of expression as compared with it. Have you not seen the eye flash with indignation, or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand with devotion, or melt with sympathy, or stare with fright, or leer with villainy or droop with sadness, or pale with envy, or Sre with revenge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam with love? It is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you not seen its uplifted brow of surprise, or its frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain? If the eye say one thing and the lips say another thing, you believe the eye rather than the lips. The eyes of Archibald Alexander aud Charles G. Finney were the mightier part of their sermons. George WhiteSeld enthralled great assemblages with his eyes, though they were crippled with strabismus. Many a military chieftain has Jwith a look hurled a regiment to viotory or to death. Martin Luther turned h;s great eye on an assassin who came to take his life, and the villain fled. Under U ^ Vit*rr?or* nro t fi crar ! Ll'U Ui. IUC uuuiau v;v (.uv with tive times 3 man's strenth, snarls back into the African juDgle. Hot it adds to John Milton's sublimity of charactea when we find him at the call of duty sacrificing his eyesight. Through studying at late hours and trying all kinds of medicament to preserve his sight he had for 12 year3 heen coming toward blindness, and after awhile one eye was entirely gone. His physician warned him that if he continued reading and writing he would lose the other eye. But he kept on his work and said after sitting in total darkness: "The choice lay before me between dereliction of a supreme cuty and loss of eyesight. In such a case I could not listen to the physician, not if JEsculaplus himself had spoken from his sanctuary. I could not but obey that ir>Tvor#l mnnitnr T knnw Tint, what spoke to me from heaven," "Who of us would have grace enough to sacrifice our eyes at the call of duty? But, thank God, some have been enabled to see without very good eyes. General Havelock, the son of the more famous General Havelock, told me this coucerniDg hi3 father: In India, while his father and himself, with the army, were encampcd one evening time after a long march, General Havelock called up his soldiers and addressed them, saying in words as near as I can recollect: ''Soldiers, there are two or three hundred women, children and men at Cawnpur at the mercy of Nana Sahib and bis butchcis. These poor people may any hour be sacrificed. How ? - r Ml / xiL mau j oi you wm go wim tue xor tue reacue of those women and children? I know you are all worn out, and so am I, but all those who will march with me to save those women and children hold up your hand." Then Havelock said: "It is almost dark, and my eye-sight is very poor, and I cannot see your raised Liiuia, but I know they are all up. Forward to Cawnpur." That hero's eyes, though almost extinguished in th* service of God and his country, ccud see across India and across -he centuries. But let anybody who has one good eye be thankful, and all who hare two good eyes be twice as thankful. Take care of your eyes and thank God every morning when you epen thern for capacity to see the iight. I do not wonder at the behavior of a poor man in France. He had been born blind, but was a skillful groom in the stables. Tiie Karl uf Bridge water, in his last will and i-estament,bequeathed $40,000 for essajs to be written on the power and wisdom aiid sroodness of God as manifested in cr-eation, and Sir Charles the British sur. fresh from Coruna and Waterloo, where he had b-jen tending the mounded and studying the formation of the human body ?.mid the amputating horrors of the battlefield, accented the invitation to write one of thosa Bridgewater treatises, and he wrote his book on the human hand, a book that will hye as long as the world Ikes. Today 1 have only hinted at the splendors, the glories, the wonders, the divine revelations, the apocalypses, of the human eye, and I stagger back f.om the awful portals of the physiolo gical miracle which must have taxed the ingenuity of a God to cry out in your ears the words of my text. "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" Shall Herschel not know as much as his tclescope? Shall* Fraunhofer not know as much as his spectroscope? Shall Swammerdam cot know as much as his microscope? Shall Dr. Hooke not know as much as his micrometer? Shall the thing formed kcow more than its maker? ''He that formed the eye, shall ne not seer The recoil of this question is tremendous. We staod at the center of a vast circumference of observation. No privacy. Oa \.s eyes of cherubim, rtrnc r\? crtror\Kim ac a? or*/*! ?<?r\ rrnl j v. a v- i oviayuim) VA eyes of God. We may not be able to see the inhabitants of other worlds, but perhaps they may be able to see us. We have not optical instruments strong enough to descr? them. Perhaps they have optical instruments strong enough to descry u?. The mole cannot see the eagle midair, but the eagle midsky can see the mole miderass. We are able to see mountains and caverns of another world, but perhaps the inhabitants of other worlds can see the towers of our cities, the flash of our seas, the marching of our processions, the white robes of >ur weddings, the black scarfsof our obsequies. It passes out from the guess into the positive when we are told in the Bible that the inhabitants of other worlds do come to this. Are t jr' b i ,I,^ ii rv they not all ministering spirits seat forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation? But human inspection and angelic inspection and stellar inspection and lunar inspection and solar inspection are tame as compared with the thonght of divine inspection. "You converted me 20 years ago," said a colored man to my father. "How so?" said my father. "Twenty years ago," Slid the other, "in the old school house prayer meeting at Bound Brook, you said in your prayer, 'Thou God seest me,'and I had no peace under the eye of God until I became a Christian." Hear it: llThe eves of the Lord are in every place." His eyelids try the children of men." His eyes were a3 a flame of fire." tCI will guide tbee with mine eye." Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of power, so full of love, so full of indignation, so full of compassion, so full of mercy! How it peers through the darkness! How it outshines the day! How it glares upon the offender! How it beams on the penitent soul! Talk about the human eje as being iodescribably wouderful?how much more wonderful the great, searching, overwhelming eye of God! All eternity to come on that retina. The eyes with which we look into each other's face to day suggest it. It stands written twice on your face and twioe on mine, unless through casualty one or both have been obliterated. "He that formed the eye shall not see?'' Oh, the eye of God! It sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them sees our wants to sympathize with them. If we fight him back, the eye of an antagonist. If we ask his grace, the eye of an everlasting friend. You often find in a book of manuscript a star calling your attention to a footnote or explanation. That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all the x fit. T siars 01 tiie mgut utavsus aic aoLCiia^o calling your attention to Goi, an all observing God. Our every nerve a divine handwriting. Our every musle a pulley divinely swung. Our every bone sculptured with divine suggestiveness. Oar every eye a reflection of the divine eye. God above us and God beneath us and God before us and God behind us and God within us. What a stupendous thing to live! What a stupendous thing to die! No such tViMM A ft ffinnrvt<AOC)i\n tiling ao 11IUUCU viau^Lgo^ivut A dramatic advocate in olden times at night in a courtroom, persuaded of the innocence of his client charged with murder and of th?s guilt of the witness who was trying to swear the pooi man's life away?that advocate took up two bright lamps and thrust them close up to the face of the witness and cried, "May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury, behold the murderer!" and the man practically under that awful glare confessed that he was the criminal instead of the man arraigned K*,. rVh mT7 au lUt/ UCki. VUj LUJ AllVUVIdj VUi hidden sin is under a brighter light than that! It is under the burning eye of God. He is not a blind giant stumbling through the heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling for the step of his chariot. Are you poor? He sees it. Have you domestic perturbation of which the world knows nothiog? He sees it. "Oh," you say, "my affairs are so insignificant I can't realize that God sees me and sees my affairs!" Can you sec the point of a pin? Can you sec the eye of a needle? Can you see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God given you that power of minute observation and does he not possess it himself? "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" But you say: "God is in one world and I am in another world. He seems so far off from me I don't really think he sees what is going on ia my life." Can you see the snn 95,000,000 miles away, and do you not think God has as prolonged vision? But you say. "There are phases of my life and there are colors, shades of color in my annoyances and my vexations that I don't think God can understand." Does not God gather up all the colors and all the shades of color in the rainbow? And do you suppose there is any phase or any shade in your life that he has not gathered up in his own heart? Besides that, I want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle. That eve of voirra so exouisitelv fash ioned and strung and hinged and roofed will before long close in the last slumber. Loving hands will smooth down the silken fringes. So he giveth his beloved sleep. A ledgend of St. Frotobert is that his mother was blind and he was so sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day io sympathy he kissed her e^es and by miracle she saw everything. But it is not a legend when L tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resurrection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who went groping through thi3 world under perpetual obscuration or were dependent on the hand of a friend or with an uncertain staff felt the way, at)d for the aged of dim sight, about *!inm ii might be said that "they which. iouk ?. -B i-i-- v, J ? Ouv oi tue vviuuuvtb ue uar&eucu, when eternal daybreak comes in! What a beautiful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery : "Here reposes in God Katrina, a saint, 85 years of age and blind. The light was restored to her May 10,1840." To Guard Mules. Lt is stated that there arc British warships within easy reach of the Mississippi assigned to the duty of escorting tlic mule transports when they shall have been loaded with animals from New Orleans for South Africa. The presence of the warships in the gulf waters is said to have been brought about by advices received at the British war office in Loudon to the effect that two old hulks had been fitted out by American sympathizers with the Boers, with the avowed intention of capturing and sinking the mule transports as soon as they had left the mouth of the river for the voyage across the Atlantic. Exposition in Charleston. At a large and representative meeting of business men held in Charleston Tuesday night the Industrial Exposition project was launched by the apnnintment' of a fnr nrAlimin ary work. The plans now considered contemplate a grand state or interstate exposition to be held in Charleston in 1901. One of the most notable features of the meeting wa3 the raising of $1,500 in fifteen minutes for the expenses of the investigation ordered. The exposition idea has already been endorsed by the governor, congressmen and leading business and professional men of South Carolina. Head Blown OffLewis Buchanan, aged 20 years, white, working in a -mica mine near Elk Park, Md., Thursday afternoon, after loading a hole and waiting the time usually allowed for it to fire, went back and was leaning over che charge, cleaning it out, when it Exploded and blew him to pieces, half of his head being blown from his shoulders. CASES RELAPSE. Instances of Persons Afflicted With Troublesome Habits. Question. You say that every man who takes a full course of this treatment as prescribed by Doctor Keeley is cured. Why is it that some who take LJJC CiCiiLLUCiiU U11UA. Answer. For the same reason that s^me men will have a second or even a ttiird attack of pneumouia, typhoid fever, appendicitis or any ?ther disease. It is because the same causes or agencies being brought into operation a second time will produce the same results as in the first instance. Certain causes are always followed by certain effects. It is well known that the relation between cause and effect ia alw&va the same. Introduce into the aystem suffioieht typhoid fever germs and there will be an attack of typhoid fever. Introduce a certain amount of arsenic and there will be arsenical poison. A certain amount of any poison will be followed by a poisoning bearing the characteristics of the poison introduced into the system, and alcohol is no exception to the rule. The chief difficulty lie3 in the fact that the general public do not look upon alcohol as one of the poisons. They all recognize that the use of strychnia in other than a amAiinf ni>AriiiAAa n tm auivuuv ^tuuuuw a ua the nervous system as exhibited by muscular twitching, involuntary movements, spasms, convulsions and death, unless antidoted and removed from the system in time. There is no actual difference in the poisoning by alcohol and the' poisoning by any other of the known poisons. Any man taking & certain amount of alcohol will exhibit the signs of alcoholic poisoning varying in degree according to the susceptibility of the man and the amount of alcohol used. There is a great difference in the susceptibility of individuals to alcohol as there is in their susceptibility to other medicines. One or two grains of quiniDe will in some persons produce quinism or quinine poisoning, while 1 fl 1 ^ a* 90 rr?*o i r\ a Vifl VTItll UbliClO iU, XV \JL M\J glOAUO TT WW required to produce this effect. So it is with aloohol; a haif pint of whiskey will affect some persons much more than a quart will affect others, and whether the user has taken but a half a pint or a quart as the case be, alooholic poisoning ensues. Repetitions of the act create the disease known as alcoholism or alcoholic poisoning, and j the characteristic effects of alcoholic poisoning are manifested. Now any ! man taking a full course of the treatment as prescribed by Doctor Keeley is as thoroughly cured of the alcoholic poisoning as the man who is cured of ptrychnia poisoning," arsenical poisonin tr tvnhnid fever or other diseases produced by poisons, and the permanency of the cure of alcoholism is with one exception on exactly the same basis as the cure of other poisonings dependent upon the patient's abstinence from the use of the poison, for when the victim of alcoholic poisoning is cured there is a complete disappearance of all necessity, craving or desire for alcohol in any form, and he has no more need or desire for alcohol than the strychnia poisoned patient has for strychnia. The one exception that I refer to is that strychnia and other poisons are not the subjects of social indulgences. f ^ A A OA JLL1 1X113 WU11U 1U IUC U1C3CUU ouai/u ui aV" ciety, business associations and illnesses, one is more or less subjected to the dangers, the poison being used as a medicine, or a part of social functions, or companionship with other alcohol users, but the cured inebriate is thoroughly and fully warned by the physicians in a majority of the Keeley Institutes of the dangers of alcohol, its presence in many of the patent medicines and so-called temperance or "soft" drinks, as well as its absolute uselessness in the treatment of diseases or as a remedy for any ill that flesh is heir to, and he leaves ths Institute fully armea on all side9 for the intelligent protection of the cure, so that his return to his former practice of using alcoholic u - u ? i Aiquura is tue pamo ? nuuiu ug a^- I turn of a man who was poisoned by typhoid fever germs to use the water known to contain the germ, or to the use of strychnia knosring it to be such. Unfortunately we find many people who never appreciate the advantage of a sober life and the necessity for abstinence from alcoholio liquors.?From The Banner of Gold. Cadet Maxwell Dismissed. The result of the finding of the Daval court of inquery was the dialinr.nrahlp ^wmiaafll nf naval t .F. D. Maxwell, of Anderson, S. C., from the naval academy. He was engaged, with Cadet Donaldson, of Tennessee, in a disgraceful practical joke on Christmas day. The case of Cadet Maxwell was the cause of a sharp controversy between Admiral McNair, superintendent of the naval academy, and Representative A. 0. Latimei', who was responsible for Maxwell's appointment. Admiral MoNair was summoned to Washington by the secretary of the navy and instructed to make a full report on the case. Theresult was the appointment of a board of officers te take testimony. Maxwell almost immediately made a request that he be allowed to resign, but he was not per mitted to do so. A Lost Man Found. Alexander Savage, who disappeared from his home at Bloomsburg, Pa., 35 years ago, aod has long been mourned as dead, has turned up alive and well. His brother is in receipt of a letter from him announcing that he is an officer oi high standing in the Spanish, army, and resides at Madrid. Savage says he has acquired a large fortune. Five years after Sauage's disappearance he wrote to hi3 relatives from China, stating that he had gone to the Orient oArilr fn-rt-ii n a HPViirf tt T7?iQ r<2 V OTTA WV UiJ i VI v u A vjr j VUJ, M V elapsed since that letter was witten. Fighting the Trust. The farmers of Greenwood county ?re starting a very effectual fight against the fertilizer trust. It is the same kind of a fight that was so successfully waged against the bagging trust a few years ago. In mass meeting assembled recently, they resolved not to use any acid phosphate or commercial fertilizer thisy-.ar. If the farmers all over the south will adopt that plan they will down the trust, but of course nothing but a general move along that line would do any good Explosion on Steam LaunchFifteen persons ^were seriously injured by a boiler explosion on the steam launch "Caperon" at Delaware City Thursday morning. Several may die. Most of the passengers jumped or were thrown overboard but were $ pulled out of the water by persons attracted by the noise of the explosion. Christmas Dinner. No ill effects need follow the eating of a big Christmas dinner if, after same, you take "Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys." 25c a bottle. tf Hi I MM.: It Is Almost Impossible for Him to Lose Money. HERE IS PROOF OF IT. How a Turf Plunger Won $100,000 In Less Than Two Month# on a Bor? rowed Capital of $200?Yet the Moral of It Is to Avoid Speculation. William M. Barrlck is the latest successful turf plunger. In less than two month3 he has managed to win, with a borrowed capital of $200, more than iAvl'.Wu m ua.su <?uu twelve juuu lauo horses. To a New York World reporter at Washing-ton. Barrick the other day told the story of his racing career: "I had been knocking around the tracks a little, placing a few small beta on the ponies, till one day?this was years ago?I went to Clifton. Ballston was then the crack of the Jersey tracks. If a man owned a horse that could beat Ballston he had a good horse. While there I was let Into the secret that a horse called Loantaka could sift sand some. "The people behind Loantaka were not content to race him against poor horses they wished to stack him up against Balston or keep him in the barn. Finally they got him into a race where they met Ballston. I placed a big bet, for me then?not quite $500? on him. There was a long price and I waited and hoped. Well, to make a Ions story short, Loantaka went off and never came back to Ballston. He won by fifty yards. It was my first big winnig and I was highly elated. "I soon got to betting heavily and fortune favored me. I bought a twoyear-old called Void and won a small fortune with him. Then Dr. Hasbrouck won a selling race at the Brooklyn track and I bought him out of it. I would never have secured Hasbrouck except that some kind friend told "Wyndham "Walden I hadn't the money tc purchase him and that it would be wise to drop the colt on me and have him resold in fifteen minutes when the mon- j ey was not forthcoming. But I fooled them: I had fhe money and I bought the Doctor with It "Dr. Hasbrouck was a great ho^e and won me a fortune In stakes and purses. I have bet as much as $10,000 on him and won more than double that amount In one race. He was game and true. 1 owned several other good horses, but none was as good or true or Dr. Hasbrouck. "When Dr. Hasbrouck broke down my fortunes also went to the bad. I could not do anything right. I drifted along, going from bad to worse, till finally Dr. Rowell, a veterinary surgeon, took my last good horse from me in a selling race. This was In the "West. I carne back to New York badly bent financially. Old Maurice kept me going for a time, but even he finally went back on me. I would, now and then, get hold of a few thousand dollars, but I could never make three or four good bets stick together. "After many ups and downs I borrowed $200 during the Morris Park meeting from a Canadian friend and slaved 'the bank'. After an all-night session I was $10,000 to the good. After an Interval of a day I returned to the bank and played all night, quitting J31.000 richer. "From that time I prospered in all my speculations. I won over $16,000 at the Morris Park meeting and -went to the Aqueduct track well heeled, as the boys say. There I ran Sir Guy, a colt belonging to me. I got 30, 25 and 20 to 1 against him and won nearly $40000 on him. It was one of the biggest killings I ever made. I beat the Aqueduct meeting good and then came to this city. "To show you that a man when In IUCK ca.uk. uo av.) LLUU& wi uiig, x icicgraphed to a couple of friends to place several thousand dollars on Sir Guy when he was beaten here by Royal Sterling. What was the result? That night when I had returned to the hotel I opened a telegram I had received Just as I left the track an* found that my friends were unable to place my money on Sir Guy because the poolrooms had refused to take it. That's luck, ain't it? "During the fifteen days' racing here E had only three losing days. The other twelve days have netted me a big profit on my investments. I have backed horses at all kinds of prices and won a big majority of them. Just how long this good fortune will continue I ca say. But I can stand it as long as old Dame Fortune is willing to throw it at me. Should my good luck desert me I suppose I will go broke again. That is the fortune of all speculators." The sweet bay tree, or laurel, was sacred to Apollo, and in both Egypt and Rome Its leaves were used to decorate the victors In games or In war. These leaves are much used now In the culinary art, the practice having been borrowed from the French. From time to time experts have noticed certain unexplained peculiarities In magnetic instruments in various buildings. Electricians now declare, as the result of experiments and investigations that the vagaries are due to the presence of magnetism in bricks. Examples in Heal Life. The test of the strength of every system, whether in science or business is the extent to which it shows actual results. By this test the Keeley treatment for the whiskey habit and the morphine habit may safely be judged. All over the countrp there are examples of its splendid results?the many cases in which it brought happiness and success where before there had been failure and misery. Science indeed has worked wonders. No grander achievement is her's&an the discovery of the Keeley treatment. Full information may be had by addressing The Keeley Institute. Columbia. S. C. Made His Escape. Lorenzo Brown, coiored. under sentence of death with the execution set i.1. - :?I ? J ?+ , IUi" LUS 4UULL lUOl.) CDUttpCU liUJ-U. jdii ou ^ Greenville, N. C., Wednesday night. He wis assisted by other prisoners and j by a colored man employed by the ] faheriff as waiting boy about the court \ house and jail. TLe other prisoners ] secreted Brown and 5xed a dummy in , the cell so thatin counting up the jailor j thought all were present. After night the waiting boy stood guard outside, and is believed to have helped cut a hole through the wall. Brown was convicted of rape at the April court last ] year and sentenced to hang. ( Using Egyptian Cotton. It is said that Eevrttian cotton has ( " "w "" " ~ " O" r # ? ? IT been imported in small quantities by a ; certain woolen mill in South Carolina ' for several years, but the first large ^ shipment of the Egyptian staple for a South Carolina cotton mill was received at Clover, in York county, from Alexander, via Boston. The new cotton mill at Clover will use Egyptian cotton ] exclusively, its managers claiming that i the Sea Island staple has not the i "strength and silkinessv necessary for i the superior yarn they are to make. I A Sad Accident Joseph D. Davis, white, fireman on the Southern Railway, was killed at * m TTT.J J? I? r Y> estmmister yreaucsuttj uj iu<; u*v&- > ing of a train. He was 32 years old I c and leaves a wife and one child. ! I TJA25 r?U5?lUjEJi X SUUJtLBi;. He Is Charged "With Murderinsr Our Gallant Soldiers. At the conclusion of the routine business in the United States Senate Wednesday the resolution of inquiry introduced by Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts, and amended by Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, calling for general infoimation regarding the conduct of the insurrection in the Philippine, was laid before the senate. Mr. Pettigrew, of South Dxkota, said he desired to address the senate upon the resolution before it passed. He favored the passage of the resolution, believing that the information asked for was entirely proper. He declared that he had reoeived inC A?m n oin/iA f k a 111 J smtg cui; luuvuutuuu sjk UIJ resolution that assured him of the facts he had asserted. "The blood of every soldier," he said, "who has fallen since the warbegan is on the hf ad of theMcKinleyadministratien The blo-)d of the soldier boys of South Dakota who lost their lives after being conscripted into an unwilling service after their terms had expired, lies at , the door of the administration, and there is no escape for it. "I charged that the censorship of the press and the suppression of facts are for the purpose of advancing the political ambitions of Mr. McKinley." "If this action," said Mr. Pettigrew, "put the administration in a hole, as was stated, it was not his fault." Mr. Pettigrew reverted to the assertion hv Senator Beveridze that the ac quisition of the Philippines was brought about by the act of God, but he said the only way he could see God's hand in the work was that God must have used Mr. McKinley as a prophet or appeared to the president in a vision. At the conclusion of Mr. Pettigrew'a speech the resolution of Mr. Hoar was passed without division. Spanish-American". War. Veterans The following order was Saturday issued from the headquarters of the department of South Carolina of the snanish-American War Veterans' asso oiation: General Order No. 1. The following appointments are hereby announced in compliance with General Order No. 2, national headquarters, and will compose the staff of the commander of the department of South Carolina: Assistant Adjutant General?J. D. Frost, Columbia, S. C. Assistant [Quartermaster General? G. C. Sullivan, Anderson. Assistant Surgeon General?E. J. Wannamaker, Orangeburg. Assitant Inspector General?Edward Anderson, Charleston. Judge Advocate General?D. 0. Herbert, Urangeburg. C haplain?P. A. -Murray, Charlesto n. AIDES TO COMMANDERS. Capt. L. M. Haselden, Sellers. Capt. R. H.'Pickney, Charleston. CaDt. Chas.^Newnham. Columbia. "jCapt. W. E. Gonzales, Columbia. Capt. H. H. Watkins. Anderson. Capt. J. E. Hunter, Union. Capt. W. N. Kirkland, Columbia. Capt. J. D. Lowrance, Columbia. Capt. Wm. McGowan, Spartanburg. Capt. E. R. Cox, Darlington. Capt. F. W. Frederick. Rowesville. QCapt. T. B. Lumpkin, -took Hill. Capt. Jas. B. Hollman, Aiken. Capt. R. L. Croswell, Boykins. By order of Wilie Jones, Official: Commander. _ Jno. D. Frost, Ass't A. and-I. Gen. An Awfrl Scene. A dispatch from Ladysmith says a reprepentative of the Associated Press visited Saturday's battlefield Monday morning, and saw large ^numbers of Boer dead. The British guns seems co have worked great havoc. One Boer ffas?completely disemboweled, another had his head shot clean off, and a couple-of others were killed by-the same shell, evidently, while v eating their luncheon,' as half eaten hard boiled eggs lay beside" them. Some Natal Dutchmen were recognized among the dead.CA number of Boer,bodies - and carcasses of horses have been washed down a spruit which became a raging i torrent during a heavy thunderstorm. The British, while digging'graves,*were fired on by the Boer artillery, and several of them were hit Soft-nosed bullets and dumdum cartridges have been found on wounded prisoners. Volunteers carried the Boer dead off the hill and handed the bodies over to their comrades at the bottom. _ Over ainety were carried off "Wagon Hill alone. "Good-by, Hubby." A. divorce case heard In Cincinnati the other day was that of C. H. Maguire against Minnie Magulre. He Is a telegraph operator. She la an actress and known a3 Lillian "Waltone. She wai a singer In the musical Humpty Dump, ty which was at the Walnut Street Theatre a few seasons ayo. She also appeared In other productions of a musical character. Her husband said she was a good wife for a time. One day his employer told him he must not al- ' low the woman who was coming to ' the office to see him to do ao any more. He said the woman was his wife, but i his employer would not believe it, and , when the fact was insisted upon he ' was told he would better, under such o/vnAlttan* TOatrh Viatv Or?*? nlfflit he found her with a man named Jack Cox. He asked her to go home and she would not. Ccx said If she was the wife of Maguire she must go home and he would accompany them. He did so, and they all drank some beer together In Magulre's flat. After that she said, "Jack, I will go with you. Good-by, hubby," and the two left together. She refused to live with her husband again and he sued for divorce. They were ] married in 1S92. A decree was granted. J Dead Man's Hoard Opened Nearly $7,000, mostly gold, was found in a rusty oW safe of Edward J Elliott, a farmer living two and a 2 half miles from Atlanta, who died in ] December, aged 81 years. His wife, ('9 year3 old, who survived him, did not know of the money and by the nerest accident the safe was opened. By advice of a lawyer it \va3 deposited n a bank for sate KeepiDg. A Big Family. Near Boden, in Kansas, is a Ilussian Vlennonite who has reached the age )f 74 yeare. He came to this country n 1875 with twelve children, the progjny of his first wife- Shortly after ar'iving in Kansas he was married again tnd thirteen more children have come ojoin the .family. All of the twentyive are alive and live with the old man ( >r in the neighborhood. A Chmch Collapsed. ( A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says a charch collapsed Wedlesday during the celebration of a nass in Maloouzene township. Sunara district. Nineteen persons were ailed and 68 were wounded. Jailbirds Sill a Keeper. J While Deputy Sheriff Henry "White pas feeding a prisoner in the Howell lounty. Mo., jail Thursday he was traggedinto a cell and killed. -All the >riflcners escaped. 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