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THE STRONG'S DUTY. Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches on Consecrated Muscle. THE RESPONSIBILITIES. Resting Uoon Those Who Possess Physical Power to Do the Lord's Work. The Value of Health. Id this discourse Dr. Taimagc sets forth the responsibility of those who are strong and well as in a former discourse he prcachcd to the disabled and "the shut in;'' text Judges siv, 1, ''And Samson went down to Timnath." There are two sides to the charactcr of Samson. The one phase of his life, if followed into particulars, would'administer to the grotesque and the mirth ^ 1 _< L: i IUI. DUI Luere a puaae ui iiia ter fraught with lessens of solemn and eternal import. To these graver le-ssous j we devote our sermon. This giant no doubt ia early life gave evidences of what he was to be." it is almost always so. Threre were two Napoleons?the boy Napoleon and the mai Napoleon?bat both alike; tvo Howards?the boy Howard and,, the man Howard?bat bothalike; two Samsons?the boy Samson and tne man Samson?bat both alike. This giant was no doubt the hero of the playground, and nothing could stand before his ex niDitioDS ol youthlul prowess. At IS years of age he was betrothed to the daughtor of a Philistine. Going down toward Timnath, a lion came out upon him, and although this youag giant was weaponless he seized the monster by the long mane and shook him as a hungry hound shakes a Marsh hare and made his bones crack and lefc him by the wayside bleeding under the smiting of his fist and the grinding heft of his Thsre he stands looming vp above, other men, a mountain of flesh, his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate of a city, taking an attitude defiant of evarything. His- hair had never been cut, and it rolled down in scveu groat plaits over his shoulders, adding to his bulk, fierceness and terror. The Philistines want to conquer him, and therefore they must find out where the secret of his stieDgth lies. There is an evil woman Iivintr in the valley of Sorek by the name of Delilah. They appoint her the agent in the case. The Philistines are secreted in the same bailding, and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of his strength. "Well," he ; says, "if you should take seven~green i withes such as they fasten wild beasts j with and put them around me, I should , be perfectly powerless." So she binds j him with the seven green withes. Then she claps her hands and savs. "Thev ; ffliae?the Philistines!" and he walks j BaatMBB*Wgafl^BW|vas though there were" no impedi- j in wir-Bk She coaxes him again and says, j " the secret of this great t ' * replies. "If you ^ that have never \ with them, I ] men." She t s her hands t 1 N^t.i ' ' ?*. iitlAi. .^aVO> -v as be did before uot a single obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says, "Now, if you should take these seven long plaits of hair and by this house looinweave them into a web, I could not get away." So the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle flies backward and forward, and the long plaii:s of hair are woven into a web. Then she claps her hands and says. "They come?the Philistines!" He -walks out as easily 3S he aid before dragging a part of the loom wiih him. But after awhile she persuades him to tell tbe truth. He says. "If you should take a razor or shear3 and cut of this long hair, I should be powerjess and in the hands of my enemies.'' Samsou sleeps, and' that she may not -wake him up during the process of shearing help is called in. You know that the barbers of the east have such a skillful way of manipulating tbe head to this very day that instead of waking up a sleeping man they wiil put a man wide awake sound asleep. I hear the blades | of the shears grinding agaiast cach other, aad I sea die ioig locks falling off. The shears or raz^r accomplishes what green withers and new rop s and house loom could not do, Suddenly she claps her hand and says. 'The Philistines ue upon thee> Samson!-' He rouses up with a struggle, bu6 his strength is all gone. He is in the hands of bis enemies. I hear the groan of the giant as they take his eyes out, and then I see him staggering oh in his blindness, feeling wav as he eoes on toward Gaza. The prison door is open, and the giant is thrust in. He sits down and puts his hands on the mill crank, which with exhausting horizontal motion goes day after day, week after week, month after month?work, work, work! The consternation of the world in captivity, his locki shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza! - First of all, behold in this giant of the text that physical power is not always an index of moral power. He was a huge man?the lion found it out, and i.-v 5 ma mon wJinm he slew found it biig ^VVV uivu ?? ? out; yet lie was the subject of petty revenges and outgiantedby lowpassion. I am far from throwing any discredit upon physical stamina. There are those who seem to have great admiration for delicacy and sickliness of coostitution. I never could see any glory in weak nerves or sick headache.. Whatever effort in our day is made tomake the men and women more robust should have the favor of every good eitizen as well as of every Christian. -Gymnastics may be positively religi - - -~ ^0usf"^ Good people sometimes ascribe to wicked hear; what they ought to ascribe to a slow liver. The body and the soul are such near neighbors that they often catch each other's diseases. Those who never saw a sick day and who, like Hercules, show the giant in the cradle, have more to answer for than t'^ose who are the subjects of lifelong infirmities. He who can lift twice as much as you can, and walk twice as far, and work twice as long, will have a double ac^ count to meet in the judgment. How ofwn it is that you do not cna physical energy indicative of spiritual power! If a clear head is worth more than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo, if muscles with the play of health in them are worth more than those drawn up in chronic "rheumatics," if an eye quick to catch passing objects is better than one with vision dim and uncertain, then God will require of us efficiency ? just in proportion to what he has given us. Phjsical energy ought to bea type -Y* X. 1 of moral power. >ve ougat 10 nave <*3 good digestion of truth as we have capar * city to assimilate food. Oar spiritual Ejfe-.. i *V"' j hearing ought to be as gocW aa cfiir j physical hearing. Oar spiritual taste I ought to be as clear as our tongue. Samj sons in body, we ought to be giants in moral power. But while you find a great many men who realize that they ought to use their * * _ 3 _ lL _ ? A .11? money arigni ana use tneir intelligence aright how few men yen find aware of the fact that they onght to nse their physical orgonism aright. With every thump of the heart there is something saying, "Work, work!" and lest we should complain that we have no tools to woik ^ith God gives us our hands and feet, with every knuckle and with every joint and with every muscle, saying to us, "Lay hold and do something." Bat how often it is that men with physical strength do not serve Christ They are like a ship full manned and fall rigged, capable of vast tonnage, able to endure all stress of weather, yet swinging idly at the docks, when, these men ought to be crossiog and recrossing the great ocean of human suffering and sin with God's supplies of mercy. How often it is that physical strength is used in doing positive damage or in luxurious ease, when, with sleeves rolled up and broDzed bostfaj. fearless of the shafts of opposition, it ought to be laying hold with all its might and tugging a vay to lift up this sunken wreck of a world. It is a njosfc shameful fact that much of the business of the ahurch and ot the world mu*;t be don<i by those comparatively invalid, Jiicha:d Baxter, by rc.oCAn hi?a niuoq oil V?i-a rluvfl CU.. V* M w*v tiug in the door of his tomb, yei writing more than 100 volumes and sending out an influence for God that will endure as long a3 the "Saint's Everlasting Best." Edward Payson, never knowibg a well day, yet how he preached and how he wrote, helping thousands of dying souls like.himself to swim in a sea of glory. Aud Robert McCheyne, a walking skeleton, yet you know what he did in Dundee and how he shook Scotland with zeal for Q-od. Philip Doddridge, advised by his friends because of his illness not to enter the ministry, yet you know what he did for the "Rise and Progress of Religion" in the church of the world. Wilberforce was tcld by his doctors that he could not liva a fortnight, yet at that every time entering upon philanthropic enterprises that demanded the greatest endurance and perseverance. Robert Hall, suffering excruciations so that often in his pulpit while preachiue he would stop and lie down on a sofa, then getting up again to preach about heaven until the glories of the celestial city dropped, on the multitude, doing more work perhaps than almost any well manio his day. Oh, how often it is that men with greit physical endurance are not as great iu moral and spiritual stature. While there are achievements for those who are bent all their days with sickp ess?achievements of patience, achievments of Christsaa endurance?I call upon men of health, men of muscle, men of nerve, men of physical power, to ievote themselves to the Lord. Giants m body, you ought to be giants in soul. Behold also in the story of my text llustration of the fact of the damage ;hat strength can do if it be misguided. ffc spfims fcn mft that, fliis anonf. a ;reat deal of his time in doing evil? his Samson of my text. To pay a bet vhich he had lost by the guessing of lis riddle he robs and kills 30 people, le was not only gigantio in strength, 1 >ut, gigantic in mischief and a type of i hose men in all ages of the world who, J * * 4 ^ or mind or any faculty wealth, have used < powerful in t)0Uj of social position or_ . - > t Vioir fti Tv>ntfLh for iniauitous purposes. | It is not the small, weak men of the day who do the damage. These small men who go sweariDg and loafing about your stores and shops and banking houses, assailing Christ and the Bible and the church?they do not do the damage. They have no inflnencc. They are vermin that you crush with your foot- But it is the giants of the day, the misguided giants, giants in physical power, or giants in mental acuoieD; or giants in social position, or giants in wealth, WHO ao me damage? the men sharp pens that stab religion auti throw their poison all through our literature, the men who use the power of wealth to sanction iniquity and bribe justice, and make truth and honor bow te their golden scepter. Misguided giants?look out ' ' - ? JJ1 A tor ttiem: jlq me xmuuic ?uu part of the last century no doubt there were thousands of men ir* Paris and Eiinburg and London who hated God aod blasphemed the name of the Almighty; but they did but little mis chief?they were small men, insignin cant men. Yet there were giants in those days Who can calulate the soul havoc of a Kousseau, goiag on with a very enthusiasm of iniquity, with fiery imagination seizing upon all the impulsive nature of his day, or David Hume, who employed his life as a spider employs its summer, in spinning out siikcn webs to trap tne unwary, or Voltaire, the moss learned, man of his day, marshaling s great host of skeptics and leading them out in the dark land of infidelity, or Gibbon, who showed an uncontrollable grudge against religion in his history of one of the most fascinating periods of the world's existence ?"Tne Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?a book in which, with all the - - ' -1 /-vP rvon?ii<! hrt Tnftffrpfied SUICIJUUIO VJ. uu 0 the errors of Christian disciples, while with a spar3eness of notice that never can be forgiven he treated of the Christian heioes of whom the world was not worthy? Oh, men of stout physisal health, men of great mental stature men of high social position, men of great power of aDy sort, I want you to understand your power, and I want you to know that that power devoted to God will be * emitn on earth, to vou typical of a crown in heaven, but misguided, bedraggled in sin, administrative of evil, God will thunder against you with his condemnation in the day when millionaire and pauper, master and slave, king and.subject, shall stand side by side in the judgment and- money bags and judicial ermine;&nd royal robe shall be riven with the,lightnings. Behold also^ow a giant may be slain of a woman. Delilah startedvthe train of cirumstances that pulled down the temple of Bagon about'* Samson's ears. And tens of thousands of giants have I gone down to death and hell through the sa ue fascinations. It seems to me that it i9 hightime that pulpit $nd plat-form and" printing press speafc out 3gainsc the^impurities of modern society. . Fastidiousness and prudery say- "Better not speak. You .sstil rouse up adverse criticism. will make worse what you want "to "make better. Better deal in glittering generalities. The subect is too delicate fer polite ears. But there comes a voioe from heaven overpowering the mincing sentimentalities of the day, saying, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a I trumpet and show my people their I their transgressions and the house of j Jacob Sheir sins." The trouble is that when people write or speak upon this theme they are apt to cover it up with the graces of belles lettres. so that the crime is made -J "*"* " * -i i' ?i i n"i i ia~i^"" ~ niwunm'1 " ? ' . . -C I : l J -? h j,' . T -L-^ Bbiiautive iusteau ql repulsive' x/oro Byron in "Don Jaan'; adorDS thb crime until it smiles like a May queen, Michelet, the great French, writer, covers it up with bewitching rhetoric until it grows like the rising sun, when it it ought to be made ioathsome as a smallpox hospital. There are today influences abroad which it uniesistcd by the pulpit and the printing press will turn our modern cites into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, fit only for the storm of fire and brimstone that whelmed the cities of the plain. v~.. mil VTuu ate sviticu xu juur v^unstian homes, compressed by moral and religious restraints, do not realize the gulf of iniquity that bounds you on the north and the south and the east and the west. While I speak there are tens of thousands of men and women going over the awful plunge of an im pure life, and while I cry to God for mercy upon their souls I cry to you to marshal in the defense of your homes, your church and your nation. There is a banqueting hall that you have never heard described You know all about the feast of Ahasuerus, where }.00Q lords sat. You know all about Belshaazar's carousal, .where the b!o->d of the murdered king spurted iato the faces of the banqueters. You may know of the, sccne of riot and wassal where there was set before JEnopus one dish of food that cost( $iOO,UOO. But[ speak now of a different baoqucting hall. Its roof is fretted with fire Its floor is tessellated with fire. Its chalices are chased with fire. Its song is a oog of fire. It* walls are buttresses of fire Solomon refers to it when he says. "'Her guests are in the depths of hell." Our American communities are suf fering from the gospel of free lovism which 30 years ago was preached on the platform and in some of the churches of this country. I charge upen free lovisin that it has blighted innumeraill t 1. ? 1 c:e noqaes ana tn$t it nas sent mnumerable souls to ruin. Free lovism. is bestial; it is worse?it is infernal! It has furnished this land with many thousands of divorces annually. In one oounty in the state of Indiana it furnished 11 divorces in one day before dinner. It has roused up elopements north, south, east and west. You can hardly take up a paper but you read of an elopement. As far as I can understand the doctrine of free lovism, it is this?that every man ought to have somebody else's wife and every wife somebody else's husband. They do not like our Christiaa organization of society, and [ wish they would alUlope, the wretches of one sex taking i he wretches of tne other, and start tomorrow morning for the great Saharra desert until the simoom shall sweep sevon feet of sand all over them and not one passing caravan for the next 500 years bring back one miserable bone of their carea3sesl Free lovism! It is the doubie distilled extract of nux vomica, ratsbane and adder's tongue. Never until society goes back to the old JJ'tble . and hears its eulogy of purity an<i its. ; il -C 1 1 auauiems* ui uuuieauuess?never until then will this evil be extirpated. Behold slso in this giant of the 1 text and in the giant of our own century that great physical power must crumble and expire. The Samsoc of . the text long ago went away. He fought the lion. He fonghc the Philistines. ^ He could fight anything, but death was j too much for him. He may have required a longer grave and a broader j ?rave, but the tomb nevertheless was bis terminnus. If, then, we are to be compelled to \ om rvnf fVio ? /?-'J ? woxxu, wuere are we to eo to? This body and soul mnst soon , TXT 11 4-k/v AofinTT A? frVlA pan. YT BilciU UC WLLC ugottu; v* wuv former I know?dust to dust. But what shall be the destiny of the latter? Shall it rise into the companionship of the white robed, whose sins Christ has slain, or will it go down among the unbelieving, who tried to gain the world and save their sou'.3, but were swindled out of both? Blessed be God, we have a Champion! He is so styled in the Bible. A Cnampion who has conquered death and hell, and he is ready to light all our battles, from the first to the last. Win is this that coinetb up from Edom with dyed gatmentsfrom Buzrah, ' ? on re if ,ii-? ;? mighty to saver ju ?u iuuuw iu lug i wake of that Champion, death has no do fcr and^the grave no victory. The worst man trustiog in him shall have his dyiag pangs alleviated and his future illumined. In the light of this subject 1 want to call your attention to a fact which may not have been rightly considered, and that is the fact that we must be brought into judgment for the employment of our physical organism. Shoulder, brain, hand, foot?we must answer in judgment for the use we have made of them. Have they been used for the ?iaTTofirtr> nf or for its deDres giviavivu w? ? 4 sion? In-proportion a3 our arm is strong and our step elastic will oar account at last be intensified. Thousands of sermons arc pr :acUed to invalids. I preach this sermon to stout men and healthful women. Wc must give to God an account for the right use of this physical orgaai^m These, invalids have comparatively lutle to account for perhaps. They could not lift 20 pounds. They could not walk half a mile without sitting down to rest. Yet how much mauy of them accomplish. Rising up in judgment, standintr hpqidrt the men and women who had "ft ? only little physical energy, and yet consumed that energy in a conflagration of religious enthusiasm, how will we fell abashed! Oh, men of the strong arm and stout heart, what use are yen making of your physical forces? will you be able to stand the test of that day when we must answer for the use of every talent, whether it were a physical energy, or a mental acumen, or a spiritual power?. The day approaches, and I see one who in this world was an invalid, and as she stands before the .throne of God to answer she says;- "I was sick all my days. I had but little strength, but I did as well as I could in being kind. to those who were more sick and more suffering." And Christ will say, "Well done, faithful servant." And then a little child will stand before the throne, and she will say: "On earth I had a curvature of the spine, and I was very weak, and I was very ill, L ? ?. T fft nrotViar firnrcira ftllfc of the UUL J. U30U. IV .,v? _ wildwood and bring them to my sick mother, and she was comforted when she saw the sweet fiotfera out of the wildwood. I^didnot do much, but I did something." And Christ shall say, as he takes her up in his arm and ki?scs hear, "Well done, well done, faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of - thy Lord." What thenT will be said to us. we to whom the Lord gave physical strength and continuous health? Hark, if- Vinr.riora acain! The iudement, the AW ^Uuuv.~ -O w judgment! : I said to an old Scotch minister, who was one of the best friends I ever had, ''Doctor, did you ever know Robert Poliock, the Scotch poet, who wrote The Course of'"Time?" ,;Qa, yes,", he replied, UI knew him well! I was his classmate." And then the doctor , went on to tell me how that the writing of ''The Course of Time" exhausted the health of Pollock, and he expired. It sy * m * mm rma , seems as if no man could have aueh a glimpse of the day for which all other days were made as Robert Pollock had and long survive that glimpse. In the description of that day he says, among other things: Begin the woe, ye woods, and tell it to the doleful winds, And doleful winds wail to the hewling And howling hills mourn to the dismal vales, And dismal vales sigh to the sorrowing brooks, And sorrowing brooks ween to the ! weeping stream, And weeping stream awake the groaning deep; Ye heavens, great archway of the universe, put sackcloth on. And ocean, robo thyself in garb of widowhood And gather all thy waves into a groan and utter it Lonjr, loud, deep, piercing, dolorous, immense. The occasion asks it, Nature dies, and angels oome to lay her in her grave. What Robert Pollock saw in poetic I dream you and I "will see in Dositive I reality?the jadgment, the judgment! NO BIEHKIAL SESSIONS. Thirteen Senators Refuse to Allow the People to Vote On It, . It seems that thirteen of the State Senators are afraid to trust the people, aq t rAfn^ o tr o .V?vu ujjuugi SUULUJlllBg 3L | proposition for biennial sessions to them to yote on. The question came up in the Senate on Wednesday. Senate Blakeney addressed the Senate in favor of the bill. He said that all the members liked to come to Columbia, but personal considerations should be laid aside. There wer? only two considerations. ' Would this change crippie the government and would the saving be sufficient to compensate for any disadvantages. The weight of argument is for submitting the question to the people. Thirty-six of the States have this system and if they g*t along very well, so can we, .if any emergency should arise the governor could call a OAOQIAn Drt ??"* I* A ?* awiuu. uuu no uatc oiaieamen oi sufficient foresight to bok two years ahead. The constitution provided, against local legislation, yet notwithstanding that there is too much legislation; so much that it is impossible to keep up with it. There are many measures proposed of no practical utility, and it seemed that they were proposed merely to furnish matter for home consumption. Biennial sessions would save $40,000 to $60,000. The people should pass on this question. Senator Graydon agreed that this is . an important measure, but did not i agree with Senator Biakeney's conclusions. He thought it was necessary to t have frequent sessions. He had been j told the people of Georgia were sick of { biennial sessions; that Georgia does , not really have biennial sessions, as / they have adjourned sessions. The ] same is true of North Carolina. He ( thought no senator introdoced a mes- ? ire unless it was demanded by his peo- \ pie or for their good. Biennial ses- . 3ions might do if the State officers' j :erms were four years. Frequent as- , lemblages of the representative men of ( ;he State does great good in promoting larmony and good feeling among the jeople. fie was opposed to the bill >ecanse he did not think there is any I if L tooiauu xvx iv? Senator Sheppard moved that a >e taken J id media t?ip. bott . t >.- ? *f ,ac^;7? ! irla? -Ha8 done, with the result, that the resolu- j tion aid not receive a two-thirds vote, which the chair held was necessary to ( pass the resolution to the third reading. , The vote stood 26 to 13, as follows: Yeas?Aldrich, Appelt, Archer, ; Barnwell, Biakeney, Bowen, W. A. Brown, Connor, Crosson, Dean, Dennis, Donglass, Grnber, Ilderton, Love, Manning, Manldin, McDermott, Kagsdale, Sarratt, Sheppard, Stanland, Saddath, Sullivan, Walker, William s?26. Nays?Alexander, G. W. Brown, Glenn, G raj don, Hay, Henderson, Hough, Livingston, Marshall, Mayfield Mower, Talbird, Wallace?13. Ooe vote more would have carried the resolution. BRYAN IN THE EAST. What a New England Paper Says About It The reports of Bryan audiences and the impression he makes in the east that are given in the anti-Bryan and partisan goldbug press must be taken with grains of allowance for natural prejudice- A free lance correspondent of the Springfield Kepnblican says it is quite amusing to watch the antics of who bolted Bryan's SU"0?Utu nomination in 1896. Either their subserviency to the trusts, or their inoculation with the virus of imperialism, or their prejudice leads them to dodge and shun the Democratic leader, but they are all airaid of him. Continuing his own comment of Mr. Bryan in the east, ihe correspondent says: He is neither mystery nor iniquity?still less the serifaual mystery of iniquity that you might suppose, from reading the little digs of the monopolist newspapers and plutocratic dinner-speakers. He is a sturdy, youlhful, earnest American citizen?not shivering for fear "Web" Davis should tell Kruger what the people here think of him, nor standing on his dignity like Joannes Parvabraccatns, when a Boer envoy heaves in sight; not defending war for greed, like the godless parsons nor Standard Oil banking, nor administiation editors, who cannot say their souls are their own? but going from state to state and from . . . ?u city to city, just leuing mejuiuu pcupio is a plain way what he thinks, and they think, about our topsyturvy Republicans who are such cheap imitations of English tories. And while the chief priests and the pharisees turn their backs on him, the common^people hear him gladly, and are going- to vott for. him, cveD here in Massachusetts, in a way to astonish the syndicates and stock-gamblers, and boss-led politicians who believe he is a weak candidate. They will find him a very strong one; and the sooner they realize this, ?ill tkorr V-? fn infiofc tne ueiLci win iwj _? him a few months hence, when the canpiijrn really sets in. If Tammany aud the trusts flee from the cities when he appears above their horizon, so much the better for him, in a political way; he is better off without their friendship than with.it. County Officers Salaries Mr. Magill's bill to fix the salaries of county officers in the several counties passed the House Tuesday. The act does not apply to the counties of r?.???c.knT>or H-rpAnvillft. Clarendon. v-,.'-?*u6v-ww"C>? ? , Dorchester, Horry, Georgetown, Kershaw, Greenwood, Pickens,- Cherokee, Chesterfield, Darlington, Bamberg, Spartanburg, Union, Lexington, Aiken, Richlatd, Florence, Abbeville, Saluda, Chester, York, Lancaster, Williamsburg, Sumter, Barnwell and Marlboro. 9 ??mtm??a??a??dBiaw BRYAS iK.CHAELESTOH. [CONTINUED FR03I FIRST PAGE.] efforts to meet the wishes of everyone. It ia, of course, hard to estimate the size of a crowd, * specially when it is a very large one; but there could not have been far short of 7,000 people at the Auditorium last night. The seat ing capacity of ihe place is known to be 7,500, and it]is?safe -that* say that had 500 more people been put in ii last 'night standing room would have hoon at o A - It 1 wvu ?.v M pigiiiiuui* A3 lb W&3 ilUU dreds stood throughout the evening and listened with the profoundest attention to the distinguished orator. "It should be remarked that the au dience was a representative one in the fullest sense of the term. Bnad street bankers brushed elbows with laboriD? men from up-town; the dwellers on Legare street and the Battery were occupying front seats with mechanics and masons and scattered here and then about the house were several hundred ladies, some of whom wore evening toilets, the boxes, up-stairs and down, were filled to overflowing. It was, in a word, an audience which any' man in the world might have been proud ro face. ''The firse intimation that Col. Bryan ! really had arrived in the city came when the members of the Fourth Brigade Band marchei into the hall and took seats inside the orchestra rail ing. Thinking to see Col. Bryan him self follow, in a moment thousands of people jumped on their chairs and cheered. They din continued for many minutes in spite of the fact that there was no specific reanson for it. In the meantime Col. Bryan had been escorted to the back of the building. The Alderman greeted him as he stepped upon the stage, and with scarccly a moment's delay, leaning upon Mayor Smyth's arm, he marched down the centre of the stage and appeared before the people under a canopy formed by a State and national flag. The roar that greeted him shook the very rafters. It rose with a fierce wild yen, dm individual voices were soon lost in a shout in which every man and woman in the multitude seemed to join. Men stood on ohairs and waved their hats and canes; women flattered their handkerchief and the treble of their voices made a distinct note in the chorus of sound. Some people, more enthusiastic than others tossed their hats in the air and actually danced ex- '< citedly as they applauded. This sort of thing continued for several minutes. 1 The noise would subside for a moment < and then would start again with re- ! newed vigor. Mayor Smyth in the J meantime had seated himself with Col ' Brvari nn his riahf on<3 tvio a i ^ ? --c?w5 wuv Miugiiuau had found places away to eitherside of < them. > * t Mr. T. "W. Bacot was tne first to * 3peak, He said. Mr. Mayor and my , fellow citizens, never mind about free 1 silver, but let us do what we can to get . rid of Republican rule at all cost, j ^ApplsTise.) So says our hero. Wade j Sampton, in an interview with the * Columbia correspondent of The News , md Courier. To our city we have f >rought to you, Mr. Mayor, and we now ^ jresent to you, a fine patriot, a daunt- V; ess Democrat, a manly man, in the >ersr>n r?f VV i 11 io m .Tonnimiro T? ^ ? v " jMiJ-au. I Applause.) La Mayor Smyth thens^~^ljlB&J&x*? Mayor SyniA^T^g^ -oU lo Ladies and genlow ?o*3H<- Col. Bryan: There need laTwofds of mine to emphasize the wel- } ;ome which Charleston now offers to William Jennings Bryan. This large ind enthusiastic gathering, brought here at a moment's notice, testifies to ? the sincerity with which we greet yon. ( Oar voices unite in the welcome and ( we say to you that Chaleston opens to you her homes and her hearts. I now , present to you William Jennings ] Bryan, our next President. (Applause) 1 ' < " l J x i 3 ? 1 1 Uol. cryan aau l'j niauu. iur scvcm moments until the welcoming applause ' was quieted. His faoe beamed witii . satisfaction and pleasure. UI am obliged to the Chief Ezecu- | tive of the city and the Senator for the | very cordial manner in which they presented me to the good peoplecf Charleston. I had not thought it possible for me to come here, to Charleston now, but the committee told me that by dis appointing the Columbia people for an afternoon reception, that I could come here and speak, leave at midnight and thus have pleasure of making two instead nf one this dav. I am glad to speak to the people of Charleston, and when 1 excused myself from the people of Columbia I told the people there that if they knew Charleston they would know that I was more needed here than there. I am always glad to speak to those who are not in entire accord with me. I would rather speak to those who disagree with me, for my purpose is to convince. And I don't know any place in the South where ii "" rnfim tnr miwrmarv work mere is uiui& iv>u than in Charleston. (Laughter.) I am not nearly so mnch concerned in your opinion of me as in your opinion of the public questions in which I am interested. 1 would rather have you reject me and take my principles than tafce me instead of matters in which the nation's welfare are involved. Bryan then went on to discuss the publio questions of the day in an eloquent speech which was enthusiastically received by the large audience. After the speakng ?ver Mr. Bryan was entertained at the Charleston Hotel at an informal banquet. The last course was reached just in time to make a hurried exit and take the carriages for the station. At ihe Plant System Station tWfi ?were a number of people anxious to get a last glimpse of Bryan. After hasty handshakes the train was boared and pulled out amid cheeer for Florida. Those peesnt at the supper were Mayor^Smyth, Messrs James T. Johnson, A. F. * 0. Cramer, A. J. Riley, A. W. Petit. T. Allen Legare. J. f). Hemphill. J. D. Cappelmann, W. B. Wilson and Dr. Kollock. The Broad Tire Bill. rnt - 1 ^ 1*S11 rrro c no jl ne uruau luc um nu>w n by the Senate sometime ago was taken up and killed in the House on Tuesday, the vote being 44 for to 53 against the Those who voted for the bill were Messrs. Bacot, Browning, Caughman, Cosgrove, Crum, Dargan, Davis, Dowling, N. G-. Evans, Fairey, Gamble, Gantt, Hender:on, Hoffmeyer, Hydrick, Lofton, Lyles, Manning, Marion, McCoy, McCraw, McLaurin, Means, Mitchell, Montgomery, Nettles. Peurifoy, J. W. JRagsdale, C. P. Sanders, Sinkler, E, D. Smith, Stackhouse, Stevenson, Strom, Saber, W.J Thomas, Timmerman, Varn, Yerdier, Wharton, Whisonant, Winkler, Wyche, Young. McLaurin Thinking. A dispatch from Washington says Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, had a conference with the president toHav and was offered a place on the new Philippine commission. The senator assured the president thai while he fully appreciated the honor, he thought his duty to his constituents demand that he retain his place iu the Senate. He said, however, that he would" take the matter under advisement. / . - WINTHBOFS DOEMITORY. The Senate Passes the ;HGUse Bill to Build It. The Winthrop dormitory appropriation bill,'which passed the House sev eral days before was taken up in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill provides for the appropriation of $35,000 and the use of one hundred convicts. Senator G-raydon opposed the bill and aQOvcd to strike out: the enacting tfords. He thought the reports of pros perity had been exaggerated and this matter ought to wait. The appropriations and expends have been increased. The bill provides for 100 convicts to be used while a written rtate'tnent of the superintendent shows 'here are only 107 convicts available, including the lane, halt and maimed. Senator W. A. Brown said if he Hid not think the dormitories were needed, be would oppose the bill. The college U no longer an experiment and every year numbers of girls are tamed away. He proposed to vote for every measure to forward education whether in colleges or common schools. South .Carolina is not so poor that she cannot educate her girls. Millions have been spent on the boys and very little on the girls. He hoped the senate would grant at least the $3,500 for the dormitory. They <were not wedded to the provision reauirinar the use of Senator Henderson said for three years the trustees -have felt that the dormitory was necessary to complete this grand institution. He trusted there would be no hesitation in passing the resolution with the second section stricken out. Senator Kagsdale said the old cry used to be for horizontal -reduction but uow it wsslbecomiDg horizontal increase. It was getting to be considered out of place to speak for the poor man, and it was conslderedjdemagogio to talk for the taxpayer. After awhile the taxpayers won't be able to pay the taxes. All that *s necessary is to say a purposes is laudable and the appro pnation is given. This matter cau^wait and the time may come when we will be able to make this appropriation. The burden of taxation is very heavy and we should do everything to alleviate it and nothing to increase it. Senator Graydon withdrew his motion to strike out the enacting words in order that Senator Glenn might move to imend by striking out section 2, which ;ave the use of 100 convicts. The bill vas so amended and Senator Ragsdale enewed the motion to strike out the jnacting words, with the result that he motion was lost by a vote of 33 to ? us Junuws; Yeas?Alexander, Archer, Graydon, HcDermott, Ragsdale, Sarratt.?6. Nays?Aidrich, Appelt, Barnwell, Slakeney, Bowen, G. W. Brown, W. A. Srown, Connor, Crosson, Dean, Dennis, )ouglass, Glenn, Gruber, Hay, Henlerson, Hough, Ilderton, Livingston, jOve, Manning, Marshall, Mauldin, layfield, Mower, Sheppard, Stanland, luddath, Sullivan, Talbird, Wallace, Valler, Williams.-^33- ? The a" 9C6~ pif^Sa then pass 2a to tne tmra riding. A HORRIBLE CRIME. ffhole Family Mardered in Florada No Clue Obtained. A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla , lays: Oae of the most horrible crimes ;ver perpetrated in this State was dissovered at 2 o'clock this afternoon Lbout seven miles west of this city, tfhen the bodies of Mrs. Rosana . Roberts, a widow, aged 76, her sod, T. -4 Roberts, a bachelor, aged 57, and Miss -" ? ? j - ?? ? * Jennie JttcTDerts, a aaugmer, aisu uu- , married, aged 51, were found murdered | it their home. The body of the old lady was discovered in her bed, her . head split open with aQ axe. The body of her son was fouad half out of the bed, as if he hal attempted to rise; and a shotgun, broken naif in two, by the side of the bedr showed that he had attempted' to defend himself. The body of the daughter was found under the house, where she had tub from her assailants in the house. Evidences showed that she had been followed and struck two heavy blows with the axe, which killed her. The three composed the entire family, which has been *?iped out of existence, ani were well-to-do and highly respected citizens. The nearest house was one mile and a quarter from their home. The bodies were discovered this afternoon by a neighbor, who stopped to get a drink of water, and seeing no life about, made an investigation, with the result of discovering the horrible crime. There is no-trace to the perpetrators of the crime, but Dosses are ransacking the woods in the vicinity. The crime mast have been committed late Monday night. WOOD'S I SEEDS. 3 gWood's Haine-Grown | ifti'A Art j Imn ruiaioes s are unqu^ti v i:>p i.-st S??ed Pota- * toes for Sou: hr: jiiui.tin^. our Pota- | toes are ((icw.i -jMVi'aSir f??r seed pur- 5 poses In ir:c (>tt! ;xu:u.' oi^trict in tffl Maine. n:irl ;.rr- nori-.i f..ir their earll- ? ness. uniform!!y n-.-.-i i?rcr* yields pro- a duced. 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