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/a>rn inm <a-. DRAMATIC ARr./ - &?v. Dr. Talmage Gives His Views of the Theater i GOOD AND BAD PLAYSThe Drama, Rightly Directed, He Says. Is a Source of Goed. ItShouId Be Purified Not Suppressed. At a time when the whole country is in controversy as never before coa erning the theater and some plays are being arrested by the police, and others are being patronized by Christian people, this sermon of Dr. Talmage is of much interest. The text is 1 Corinthians vii, SI, "They that *se this world as not abusing it." My reason for preaching thi3 dis- I eonree is that I have been kindly invited by two of the leading newspaper* of this country to inspect and report en two of the popular plays of the day ?t# go some weeks a20 to Chicago and see the drama 4'Quo Vaais" and criti tise ii with respect to its moral eneot and to go to New York and see the drama "Ben-Hur" and write my opinion of it for public rise. Instead of. doing that I propose in a sermon to discuss vrhat we shall do with tho dramatic element which God has implanted in many of our natures, not in 19 or 100 or 1,000, but in the vast majority of the human race. Some people speak f the drama as though it were somethins built up outside of ourselves by the Congretes and the Goldsmiths and ike Shakespeares and the Sheridans of literature and that then we attune our tastes to eorrespood with human intentions. Not at all. The drama is an echo from the feeling which God has implanted in our immortal souls. It Is seen first in the domestic circle among the children 3 or 4 years of age playing with their dolls and their cradles and their carts, seen ten years after in the playhouse of wood, ten years after in the parlor charades, after that in the elaborate impersonations in the academies of music. Thespis and jBtthylus and Sophocles and Euripides merely dramatized what was in the Greek heart. Terence and Plautus and Seneca merely dramatized what was in tho Roman heart. Congreve and Farquhar merely dramatized what was in the .English heart. Kacine, Corneille and Allien only dramatized. wnat was i in the French and Italian heart. Shakespeare only dramatized what was in the great world's heart. The dithyrambic and classic drama, the sentimental drama, the romantic drama, were merely echoes of the hnman soul. 1 do not speak of the drama on the poetic shelf, nor of the drama in the playhouse, but I speak of the dramatic element in your soul and mine. We make men responsible for it. They are not responsible. They are responsible for the perversion of it, but not for the original implanation. God did that work, and 1 suppose he knew what he was about when he made us. We are nearly all moved by the spectecular. When on Thanksgiving day we decorate our churches with the cotton and the ? fiee and the apples and the wheat and the rye and the oats, our gratitude to j k>d is stirred. When on faster morning we see nitten in letters of flowers the inscription. "He Is Risen," our motions are stirred. Every parent likes to go to the school exhibition witfc its recitations ana its dialogues and its droll costumes. The torchlight procession ef the political campaign is merely the dramatisation of principles involved. No intelligent man can look iu tny secular or religious direction -without finding this dramatic element revealing, unrolling, demonstrating ifcMlf. What shall we do with it? Shall we-suppress it? Tou can as * easily suppress its Creator. You may direct it, you may educate it, you may purify it, you may harness it to multipotent usefulness, and that it is your cuty to do. Just as cultivate the taste for the beautiful and the sublime by bird haunfcei glen and roistering stream and cataracts let down in uproar ever the mossed rocks, and the day lifting its banner of victery in the east, and then setting everything on Sre as it retreats through the sites of the 1 ^ 1 il i V ? \TT wen, ana mo ^uaienuz aau ? atcnoo ?f an August thunderstona blazing their batteries into a sultry after coor-, and theround, glittering tear of a world wet on the cheek of the night?as in this way we cultivate our taste for the beautiful and sublime, so in every lawful way we are to cultivate the dramatic element in our nature, by every staccato passage in literature, by antithesis and synthesis, by every tragic passage i& human life. Now, I have to tell you not only that dod has implanted this uramatic element in our natures, but I have to tell you in the Scriptures he cultivates it, he appeals to it, he develops it. I do not care where you open the Bible, your eye will fall upon a drama. Here it is in the book of Judges, the fir tree, the vine, the ?live tree, the bramble? mey ail mase speecnea. ice a at tne lose 9? the scone there is a ooronation, aid the bramble is proclaimed king. That is a political drama. Here it is is the book of Job: Enter Eliphaz, Bildad, Zoph&r, Elihu and Job. The opening act of the drama, all darkness; the closing act of the drama, all sunshine. Magnificent drama is the book of Job! Here it is Solomon's Song: The region, an oriental region?vineyards, pomegranates, mountain of myrrh, toek of sheep, garden of spices, a woosag, a bride, a bride groom, dialogue after dialogue?intense, gorgeous, all suggestive drama is the book of Solomon's Song. Here it is in the book of Luke: Cosily mansion in the night! All the windows bright with illumination! The floor a-qnake with the dance. Returned son in costly garments which sot very well fit him perhaps, for they were net made for him, but he must swiftly leave off his old garb and prepare for this extemporized levee! Pouting son at the back door, too mad te go in, because they are making such a fn?cT Voor* rtf cvmnofhtr rnnninn' down tire old man's cheek at the story of Lis son'* wandering and suffering and tears of joy at his return! Whsa you heard Murdock ricite "The Prodigal Son" in one of his readings, you did not know whether to sob or about. Revivals of religion have started just under the reading of that soul revolutionizing drama of "The Prodigal Sob." Her? it is in the book of Revelation: Crystalline sea, pearly gate, opaline river, amethystine capstone, showeriog eoronets, one vial poured out inoarnadisg the waters, oavalrymen of heaven falioping on white horse, nations in oxology, halleluiahs to the right of them halleluiahs to the left of them. As the Bible opens with the drama of the / r irst paradise, so it closes Trltk the j drssa of the second paradise. Fifty essays about the sorrows of the j poor could not aSect me as a little j J ??r>P On^AriTX? T UftW ! Vi 6V/UiUwUS auu "Q "* VM " oce slippery moming in the streets of Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was a lad wretched in apparel, his limb amputated at the knee; from the pallor of the boy's cheek, the amputation not long before. He had a package of broken food under hi3 arm?food he had begged, I suppose, at the doors. As he passed on over the slippery pavement, cautiously and carefully, I steadied him until his crutch slipped and he fell. I helped him up as well as I couldl gathered up the fragments of tie package as well as I ceuid, put them under one arm and the crutch under the other arm. But when I saw the blood run down his pale cheek [ bnrst into tears Fifty essays about the sufferings of the poor could not touch one like that little drama of accident and suffering. Oh, we want in all our different de* ?i?_i partments 01 uaeimitess wuio ui ?uC dramatic elements and 3ess of the didactic. Tho tendency in this day is to drone religion, to whine religion, to cant religion, to moan religion, to croak religion, to sepuloharixe religion, when we ought to present it in animated and spectacular manner. Let me say to all youag ministers of the gospel: If yon Lave this dramatic element in your nature, use it for God and heaven. If you will go home and look over the history of the churoh, you will find that those men have brought mors souls to Christ who have been .dramatio. Rowland Hill, dramatic; Tiiouir.s Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, dramatic; John Knox, dramatic; Robert McCheyne, dramatic; George Whitefield, dramatic; Robert Hall, dramatic. Robert South, dramatic; Bonrdalono, dramatic; Fenelon, dramatio; John Mason, dramatic. When you get into the ministry, if you attempt to cultivate that element and try to wield it for God, you will meet * - * ~ "i J with saigaty reoan ana caricature, buu ecclesiastic*! counsel will take your case in charge, aud they will try to put j you down- But the God who starts you I will help you through, and great will be i the eternal rewards for the aisiduous ! and the plucky. I What we want, ministers and laymen, ! is to get our.sermons and our exhortaI tions and our prayers out of the old rut. | The old hackneyed religious phrases | that comc snoring down throagh the ' centuries will never arrest the masses. What we want today, you in your sphere and I in my sphere, is to freshen up. People do not want in their sermons the sbam flowers bought at the millinery shop, but the japonicaa wet with the moming dew: not the heavy bones ot extinct megatherium of past ages, but the livingreindeer caught last August at the edge of Schroon lake. We want to drive out the drowsy, and the prosaic, and the tedious, and the hamdrum, and introduce the brightness, and the vivacity, and the holy earcasm, and the sanctified wit, and the ' epigrammatic pqwer, and the blood* red j earnestness, and the fire of religious zeal, and I do not know of any way of doing it as well as through the dramatic. Bat now let as turn to the drama as an amusement and entertainment. Kev. Dr. Bellows of New York many years ago, in a very brilliant but much criticised sermon, took the position j that the theater might be renovated and made auxiliary to the church. Many Christian people are of the same opinion. I do not agree with thew. I have no idea that success is in that direction. What I have said heretofore on this subject, as far as I remember, is my sentiment now. Bat today I take a stept in advance of my former theory. Christianity is going to take full possession of this world and control its science I ^s maxims, its laws, its literature, its amusements. Shut out from the realm ; of Christianity anvthiag. and you give it up to sin and death. If Christianity is mighty enough to manage everything but t\e amusements of the world, then it is a very defective Christianity. Is it capable of keeking account of the fears of the world and inconpetent te m&se record of its chiles? Is it good tco follow the funeral, but ot tliA ttlsiw? Hitn it, *???? trol all the other elements of onr nature but the dramatic nature? My idea of Christianity is that ii. can and will conquer everything. In the good time coming, which the world calls the golden age *,nd the poet the elysian age and the Christian the millennium, we hare positive announcement that the amusement of the world are to be under Christian sways. "Holiness shall be upon the bells of the horses," says one prophet. 8?, you see, it will controleven the sleigh rides. ' The city shall be fall of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof," says acether prophet. So, you see, it is to control the hoop rolling and the kite flying and the ball playing. Now, what we want is to hasten that time. How will it be done? By the church going over to the theater? It will not go. By the theai -I. Ti ill i. ser coming to ine cnurca; xe wui nos come. What we mailt is a reformed amusement association in every eity and town of the United States. Once announced and explained and illustrated the Christian and philanthropic capitalist will come forward to established it, and there will be public spirited men everywhere who will do this work for the dramatic element of our natures. We need a new institution te meet and recognizc and develop and defend the dramatic element of our mature. It needs to ba distinct from everything that is or has been. I would have this reformed amusement association baring in oharge this new institution of the tpectacular take possession of some hall or academy. It might take a smaller buildiag at the start, but it would soon need the largest hall, and even that would not hold the peopb; for he who opens before the dramatic element in the human nature an opportunity of gratification without compromise and without dangar does the mightiest thing oi ;his century, and the tides of such an institution would rise as the Atlantic rises at Liverpool docks. There are tens of thousands of Christian homes where the sons and daughters are held back from dramatio entertainment for reasons which some of you would say are good reasons and others would say are poor reasons, but still held back. But on the establishment of such an institution they would feel the arrest of their anxieties and would say on the establishment of this new institution which I have called the spectacular, "Thank God, this is what we have all been waiting fer." Now, as I believe that I make suggestion of an institution which wiser men will develop, I want to gire some characteristics of this new institution, this spectacular, if it is to be a grand social and moral sucsess. Ia the first place, its entertainments must be compressed within an hour and threequarters. What kills sermons, prayers and lectures and entertainments of all sorts is prolixity. At a reasonable hour every night every curtain of- publie entertainment ?sght to drop, every wmmmtamm rfj |~ 11 iMiVij iui /.'iomioi.^u ekur?h service slight t# ?esss. the instruments of orcherfcras ought to be unstrung. What comes s^re than this comes too late. On the platform of this new institution there will bo u drama which before rendering has been read, etpurrated. abbreviated and passed upon by a board of trustees connected with this reformed amusement association. If there be in a drama a sentence susreesting evil, it wilt be stricken out. If there be in a Shakespearean play a word with two meanings, a good meaning and a bad me^n. another word will be substituted, an honest word looking only ono way. The caterers to public taste will have to learn that Shakespearean nastiness is bo better than Congrevean nastiness. Ton say, "Who will dare to change by expurgation or abbreviation a Shakespearean play?" I dare. The board of trustees of this reformed amusement association will dare. It is no depreciation of a drama, the abbreviation of it. I would like to hear 30 or 40 pages of Milton's "Paradise Lost" read at ono time, but I should be very sorry to hear the whole book read at one sitting. Abbreviation is not depreciation. On the platform of this now institution this speotacular, under the care of the very best men and women in the community there shall be nothing witnessed that would be unfit for a parlor. Any attitude, any look, any word that would offend you seated at your own fireside in your family circle will be prohibited from that platform. By what law of common sense or of morality does that which is not fit to be , seen or heard by five people become fit to be seen or heard by 1,500 people? ! Oq the platform of that spectacular all ! the soeies of the dram* will be as chaste 1 ? ? - ~ Unfnra Kr ^4* n TT7 * rA | &B WS3 A 4^UVUi Ml I I or a sermon by F. W. Robertson. Oq i the platform shall come enly such men and women at you would welcome to your homes. I do not make the requisition that they be professors of religion. There aro professors of religion that I would not want in my parlor or kitchen or eoal cellar. It is not what we profess, bat what we are. All who come on that platform of the spectacn Jar will be gentlemen and ladies in the ordinary acceptation of those terms, persons whom you would invite to sit at your table and whom you would introduce to your children and with whom you would not be compromised if you were seen passing down Pennsylvania avenuo or Broadway with tfcem. On that platform there Bhail be no oar'juser, no inebriate, no cyprian, no foe of good morals, mascnline or feminine. It is often said we have no right to criticise the private morals of public entertainers. Well, do as you please with other institutions, on the platform of this new institution we shall have only good men and good women in the ordinary social sense of goodness. Jast as soon as the platform of the spectacular is fally and fairly established many a genius who hitherto has suppressed the dramatic element in his natnre because he could not find the realm in which to exercise it will step over o? the platform, and giants of the drama, their name known the world over, whe hare been toiling for the elevation of the drama, will step over on that platform?such women a3 Charlotte Cushman of tbe past, such men as Joseph Jefferson of the present. The platiorm of that new institution, of that expurgated drama, occupied only by these purest of men and women, will draw to itself millions of people who have never been to see the drama more than once or twice in their lives, or never saw it at all. That institution will eombine the best architecture, the best music, the best genius six nights in the week on the side of intelligence and good morals. Do you tell me this plan is chimerical? I answer, it only requires one man somewhere between here and San Francisco or between .Bangor and Galveston to see it and appreciate it?one 'man of largo individual means and great heart and with $100,000 he could I do more good than all the Lenoxes and f the LaTTreuces and the Peabodys ever accomplished. He would settlo for all nations and for all times the stupendous question of amusement which foreenturies has been under angry and vituperative discussion and whieh is no nearer being settled today, by all appearances, than is was at the start. Such an institution would have to be supported at the start by a donation of oapital, but very soon, in a year or two, it would become self supporting, and the board of trustees of the reformed amusement association would find that the idea paid not only in morals and. the elevation of the people, but in dividends and hard cash. The amusements of life are beauti ful and tbey are valnabi6, but they cannot pay you for the loss of your soul. I could not tell your character, I could not tell your prospects for this world or the next by the particular church you attend, but if you will tell me where you were last night and where you were the night before and where you haye been the nights of the last month, I think I could guess where you will spend eternity. As to the drama of your life and mine, it will soon end. There will be no encore to bring us back. At the beginning of that drama of life stood a cradle, at the end of it will stand a grave. The first act, weleome. The last aat, farewell. The intermediate acts, banquet and battle, processions bridal and funeral, song? and tears, laughter and groans. It was not original with Shakespeare when he said, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." He got it from St Paul, who 15 centuries before that had written, "Wsare made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and men." A spectacle in a coliseum fighting with wild beasts in an amphitheater, the galleries fall, looking down. Here we destroy a lion. Here wo grapple with a gladiator. When we fall, devils shout. [ When-we rise, angels sing. A spectacle j before gallery above gallery, gallcrv } above gallery. Gallery of our departed kindred looking down to see if we are faithful and worthy of our Christian ancestry, hoping for our victory, wanting to throw us a garland, glorified children and parents, with cheer on eheer urging us on. Gallery of the martyrs looking down?the Polyeraps and the Ridleys and the MoKails and the Theban legion and the Scotch Covenanters and they of the Brussels market place and of Piedmont?crying down from the galleries, ' God gave us the victory, and he will give it you." Gallery of angels looking down?cherubic, seraphic, archangelio?clapping their wings at every advantage we gain. Gallery of the King from which thero waves a scarred hand and from which there oomes a sympathetic voice sayines "Be thou faithful unto death, and I willgivo thee a crown of life." Oh, the spectacle in which you and I are the actors! Oh, the pijed up galleries looking down! Scene: The last day., Stage: The rocking earth. Eater: Dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No, - orown. For footlights: The kindling flames ef a world. For orckestea: The tramp?t< tiat wak? ! the dead. For applraa#: The clappic 5 floods of the sea. For curtain: The heavens rolled together as a soroll. For tragedy: ''The Doom of the Profligate." For the last scene of the *ifch act- The tramp of nations across the stage, some to the right, others to the left. Then tte Deli ?t tne last tnunder will ring, and the curtain will drop! THE WORK OF FIENDS. Cassie Boan, a White Woman, Out With Knives and Burned. A dispatch from Chesterfield to the Columbia State says on Monday night," 12th instant, Cassie Boan, a white woman of questionable character, was eut and burned te death in the woods in the upper part of Chesterfield county, fler body was cut in five different places?each cut being a deep flesh wound. The gashes ranged from foui to twelve inches in length. This not satisfying the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed, the poor woman was set on fire and all clothing burned from her body. This crime is shocking in every detail. A helpless woman out and burned to death in the dead hours of the night in the woods, nearly a mile f ?nr rmo'c Tiorao FTot* inrAami iiVUi VMV W HVV>?V? MVA v?V?u*w for meroy sounding in the night air only led to the discovery of the deed. The unfortunate woman lingered in her misery until Tuesday, the 13th inst, when death o&me. A murder most fouli A blacker orime cannot be conceived. The very thought of it sickens a civilized people. Oar civilisation demands that the guilty be brought to speedy justice. The blood of Cassie Boan cries to God from the ground. The fiends who took a woman's life in the dead of night in the lonely woods must not escape. Let jutice be done and the majesty e? the law vindicated. Henry Jackson, Ben Jackson, Jehn Jackson and Tom Steen, all white, were brought to Chesterfield on Thurday, the 15th inst., and lodged in jail. They are oharged with the murder of Cassie Boan. The murder of this woman is by far the most atrocious crime that has ever been committed in Chesterfield county. It is said that Cassie Boan left home on Sunday afternooo, the 11th inst, and that nothing was seen or heard of h?r until her mutilated body was found in the woods. Let the law say whether the men no* ia jail are guilty of the crime or not. We learn that the evidence against them is strong. The case wiil come up before Judge Klugh at the April term of court. Cassie Boan was single, aged 20. She was part Indian, the daughter of Q-eorge Boan. The poor creature was set on fire; all the olothing burnt from her body, and when found was screaming and crying for help. Skin would slip oS when touohed. There was a bloody trail of about half a mile along where she had erawled over logs and tried to escape. Doss Jackson, John Jackson, one of the accused!, Abb Kirkley and Jim Tiner went to her after first going to each other's house A rmA QKd T/iKr> a vivnu. vu9 miavvk vvmm Jackson to take her hand, bat be re fused. The others asked her name and she told it They threw an overcoat over her and went away for help. Sam Woodward carried her from her father's house Sunday afternoon to the house of Yinca Meltons, about two milesaway. Trom that place she went away with Steen and James Jaokson. Nothing more was heard of her vntil found in the woods. Herbert Elected. Adjutant General Floyd Wednesday gave the following as the official returns frem the recent election for a lieutenant colonel of the Second South Carolina regiment; Capt. Herbert has been elected by a handsome majority. He was a captain in the Second South Carolina regiment, U. S. V., that served in Cuba: Herbert. Eaves. Company E, Sumter 16 10 Company E, Timmonsrilld. 0 50 Company D, Columbia 23 16 Company B, Bamberg . 1 71 Company F, Orangeburg B2 5 Company C, Oranceburg... 67 0 Company I, 0eorgeto*n... 43 i Company A, Camden 8d 0 Company r, Tort Motte 35 % 3 Totals 303 159 Gen. Floyd will shortly issue a formal order declaring the election. Beturns reeeired from the eleotion for lieutenant eolonel of the regiment of cavalry indicate the election of Dr. Kollock. Troeps 2, Gr, K, B, and I voted unanimously for him. Col. Boyd of the the Fir3t regiment of infantry has issued an order taking command of his regiment and detailing Lieut. R. J. McCorrigan of Company A (G-reenviile) to aot as reyimentai adjutant until further orders. Suicide at Batetyille. The self destruction a few days ago at Reedy River of Mrs. Susan Thirlkild had a ctuious repetition Wednesday afternoon at Batesville in the suicide of her son-in-law," Perry Glenn, a prominent and well known farmer of that section. The circumstances surrounding Mr. Glenn's suicide are remarkably similar to those attending the suioide of his mother-in-law. He had threatened to kill himself and was being elosely watched. About 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon hi* wife could restrain him no longer. When she attempted to prevent his getting out of the house, he knocked her down, injuring her so severely that she was not ablo to give the alarm for neaijy an >? ?j - ? x.? i.? nour, ami jli> was iueu tuu miu iu aavc i her husband. He fled toward the rirer immediately after striking her.?Greenville News. To Buy Tip "Voteri. The Now York World says the Republican leaders had only $18,000,000 | to elect McKinley in 1896, but hare started this year to raise a campaign fund of $30,000,000. Yek the World did what it eould for McKinley in 1896. Gainesville, Ga., Dee. 8, 188$ Pitts' Antiseptic Iniirorator has been used in ay family and I am perfectly satisfied thai it is all. and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. O. Dorsey. P. 8.?I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, 8. C., and all druggists. t/ After Secretary Xoct. Ronntnrs hava a resolution calling upon Secretary Root to explain Ms action in granting an exclusive concession to G-. W. Esterly, deputy auditor in the state department, to mine the gold bed of the sea of Uape Nonae. A kingdom for a cure . You need not pay bo much. A. twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. See ad. and try h?never fiuls. r* i J in r.P.1'8 A Sad &ang0 In the United Statos District Court at Savannah Wednesday D. A. Tyson and ten otheis pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to defraud through the nee of the mails. Thus collapsed a case that has engaged the court for the better pirt of two weeks and which Judge Speer characterizes is "one of the most notable cases ever tried in the federal court of this country." The conspiracy had ramifications through half a dozen of the country oounties of this State, most cf them prohibition counties. The conspirators would send orders by mail to-wholesale merchants out of the State for all manner of goods, principally beer and liquors, whieh they would dispense in blind tigers and tho shippers would never hear of their money. But while liquors for sale in "dry" counties were a specialty, many other kinds of goods were embraced in tho orders of tho gang; Indeed the confessed leader of the conspirators, D. A. Tjmon, built and equipped a long distance telephone line connecting Savannah with a dozen neighboring towns with materials fraudulently ordered on elegantly engraved letter paper of fictitious firms. Tyson made use of a num ber of small country mercnsnts wnom he persuaded io permit the use of their names for the fraudulent ordering of goods. Many pianes, organs, reapers, oases of wine and other articles were found in depots in the territory of the gang, consigned to the various members of it. The gang victimiied wholesale merchants in Mongomery, Chattanooga, Richmond, Charleston, Baltimore, Cincinnati and elsewhere. The trial had gone on nearly two weeks and nearly 100 witnesses had been examined when it was suddenly terminated by the plea of guilty. A Bad Negro KilledA dispateh from Norfolk, Ta., says the indications are that the Negro who has broken into several residences assaulted and robbed helpless women oently and weUnigh terrorised the town was shot and killed Tuesday morning by Policeman Salyer. He was Brooks Ramsey, a deck hand on the Chesapeake and Ohio steamer Louise, who about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning entered the home of Mrs. Virginia Pruitt, an aged dressmaker on Charlotte street, and brutally assaulted her with a piece of iron grate. Shortly after fleeing from the house he was arrested by Offioer Caffe, from whom he escaped, to ran into the arms of Salyer, who, after a desperate struggle, shot Ramsey to avoid being killed by him. In the hip pocket of the Negro, to which he had reached before Salyer shot, was found a 38-calibre revolver. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, who were murderously assaulted in their home the night of March 4, identified the shoes the Negro had on as having been taken from their house. Miss Cotton, who was subsequently assaulted in her home identified the rings found in possession of Ramsey's wife as the same torn frem her fingers, and Mrs. Jones, another aged victim, identified him as the man who attacked her. Several overcoats found in his house have been returned to their owners, fie is no doubt the man the police ha>e been looking for. - Paying for the PhilippinesThe war department officials deny recently published statement* that Gen Otis' campaign is costing upwards of 1,000 men every month. According to the official record?, since the American occupation of the Philippines, Jane 1, 1898, np to February IT, 1900, the date of the last official compilation, the actual mortality in the army in the Philippines was 65 officers and 1,460 men, a total of 1,525, or at the rate of 74 deaths a month. More details are contained in the report of Col. Woodhull, chief surgeon of the Philippine army. His ieport, however does not extend beyond the end of the last calendar year. It shows that from the time ? i i *i _ Amene&n troops lanaea m wanua up to Deeember 1, 1899, the total number of deaths were 58 of&eeri and 1,263 men. Of this number 42 officeri and 570 men died of violence and 16 officers and 693 men died of disease. Most of the deaths by violence occurred in battle. There., were, however, 137 deaths from violence outside of actual hostilities. It is a singular faet that more than one-half ef the latter class of deaths were caused by drowning. The total number of wounded without fatal result during the period covered by the report was 1,767. Murdered by Tramps. Information was received at Norfolk, Va., Thursday of a double murder near that place by two tramps. Two well known citizens of Emporia, J. N. Welton and J. M. Saunders, left that place for Trego, the station on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, about noon. Walk ? -i a. ?:i j v. lug BiUUg tuc lAllJL'UttU CU icawu bucxi destination they met two tramps, one white and the other a negro, who, it is supposed, held them up for the purpose of robbery. On showing resistence the two gentlemen were brutally shot down and the robbery was committed by foree. When found Mr. Saunders was dead and Mr. Welton barely living, but having sufficient strength to tell about the murder and give a description of i the murderers. Intense indignation was caused when the affair became known and as soon as possible a posse 1 was organised for pursuit, and the ?urderers arrested. A Former County Official. On last Tuesday a prisoner wac received at the State penitentiary whose oareer has been an interesting one. His name is Allen and he came from a rrnnA f.miliT TT a mam o frnr.A BrtllOrtl ftWU iBUJJi;# XLU n wu ?* -v.?W-. commissioaer of hig county?Dorchester?up to the time he got into the trouble which has nade him a convict. He was convicted ef forgery and has entered upon the service of a sentence of 10 years. The fellow is a man of intelligence, but is one of the "fell-by- 1 the-wayside" class. He has been pufc ; to woik in the hosiery mill, and seems disposed to make a good prisoner.? The 8tate. ~ THE SESI OF ILL ~ ! IS THE j Hsw Ball Bearing : Domestic ; Sewing Machine 4 ix-"XTna/1 ]A?I ? mii OtEiaU-UIUCUl/S, X1VOU1V* auu Parts for Se'wing Machine* of all makes. When ordering needles send ! sample. Price 27c per dozen. ? t Agemta Wanted in Unoccupied Terri- { tory. J. L. SHTJLL, ' 1219 Taylor Street, COLUMBIA, 3. C. : MEDICINES VS. ffOSTRUMS. | Proprietary Semedies from tha Viewpoint of Modem Medical Science. (JAMBS X. THOMPSON IN AMXEICAS JOURNAL OF HEALTH.) fie time is past when members of the medical fraternity, who would speak with authority on matters pertaining to their profession, can deny that curative agents of real efficacy are to be found among proprietary remedies. Physicians belonging to what maybe most aptly termed the "old fogy type" have been repeatedly chagrined at viewing the wonderful cure? effected 1 j. J/I oy a proprietary rceaiciae, alter mey had, in sweeping terms, denounced the use of all specifics of the class under discussion as fraught with the gravest menaces to physical welfare. As a natural consequence of this fact the number of those among the medical profession who still administer universal and unqualified condemnation to proprietary remedies as a class is very small and is constantly on the wane, both as regards numerical strength and in respect to i character and ability. The Journal of Health in this matter, as in all others which belong to the field it occupies, has always endeavored to bring its views ; into complete harmony with the facts that presented themselves to its judgment; and it has never attempted to warp facts in such a wap as to make them fit into its preconceived views. For while the former spirit is indicative of an enlightened and reasoning progress, the latter is an unmistakable sign of intellectural stagnancy. Applying these remarks to the subject of proprietary medicines, we 'would indicate our attitude in this regard about as follows: While dealing out to the impostures so extensively prevalent in this line the most unequivocal and outspoken censure, we do not hesitate to bestow words of commendation on such specifics as have shown by actual trial before our hygienio staff that they are remedies of undoubted therapeutic vir tad. A medicine which, has fulfilled our most exacting demands in this respect, and one which therefore we feel justified in recommending to our readers, is "Life for the Liver and Kidneys," offered by the Life Medicine Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina. It has demonstrated to us, so conclusively as to leave no reom for doubt even I on the part of the most skeptical, that it is a thorough curative agent in all oases of dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, biliousness, Bright's disease, dropsy, gravel, rheumatism and all disorders arising from a diseased condition of the liver, kidneys and urinary orgons. In order to ihow how completely free from every non-judicial consideration our investigations are, we shall indicate brieflly the manner in which the examination of the remedy under discussion was conducted. A representative was sent from our office to collect testimony in regard to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys." He was himself an entirely disinterested party, and the inquiry which he pursued was conducted in such a secret manner that no one commercially connected with the article in question had any means of knowing that its merits were being made the subject of investigation by a hygienic authority. Those who had used the remedy far the maladies in which it claims to bring relief were interrogated in regard to the effect it had exercised in their own cases. The j answers which were received were j characterized by an astonishing unanimity. Every person who was visited and questioned with respect to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys" replied that he had found in it a most efficacious cure. This fact was ascertained to be trac not only in cases of ordinary severity, but even in those instances which had succeifolly withstood the skill of physicians as well as the curative powers of other proprietary remedies. Having proseeuted our examination of the medicine in question in a manner that could not fail to detect any harmful attributes that might belong to it?for our examination extended to all classes and to almost all ages?we feel that a simple regard for the precepts of equity, as well as the health-demands of our readers, calls for an editorial resognition of the genuine therapeutic virtues of "Life for the Liver and Kid*1 neys." l^oyTieTaeyri Farm Seeds, s v Our business in Farm Seeds is v (to-day one of the largest in this $ Country. A result %due to the fact p ^ that quality haa always been our 4A first consideration. .We supply A i all Seeds required for the Fann. a i GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, \ i Cow Peas, Cotton Seed, i 0 Seed Oats, Seed Cora, r # Soja, Navy & Velvet # $ Beans, Sorghums, f 0 Broom Cora, Kaffir $ # Corn, Peanuts, f 9 Millet Seed, e ? 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Wharton Golden, of the Larbonrsville eompany of State militia, and the attorneys who are managitg the investigation of the assassination of Goebel, have caused a sensation throughout the State. Golden will be placed on the stand by th? prosecution in the trial of persons already arrested for alleged complicity, in the assassination, but information as to the exact nature of the testimony he is expected to give is lacking. ' Specials from Winchester say Golden is still at that place in company with his attorney. "I will do all I can for my friends all the time," Golden is reported as saying, "but I must first be true to myself. When the time comes I will tell all I know. Whatever else may be said about me I do not think I can be accused of being a liar, a coward or a Democrat, and I want it distinctly understood that I am not here under guard." . 1 The story is published that Golden i has divulged to the attorneys the name of the man who fired the shots that killed Goebel. The person mentioned is a mulatto who formerly lived at Winchester, was prominent in the FrenchEversole feud and is known as a dead shot. This man is now supposed to be in the wilds of one of the mountain counties. Evidence that he was in Frankfort at the time of the assassination was found among papers taken from W. H. Culton, a clerk in the auditor's office, when the latter was ar- < rested a week or so ago, on a warrant . charging him with being an accessory to the murder. Among these papers ! were receipts for board bills , amounting to about $300, incurred ' by eighteen men who were in Frankfort for some time before and at | the time Governor Goebel was shot. In one of these receipts the name of the mulatto mentioned is given. The receipt in this case is for money received ; from John Perkins by Bettina Pittman ! for the board of three men.- Perkins . is & porter about the State House. Lives in Memory. No name among great Americans is likely to live longer than that of Leslie E. 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