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" "-r : - : I JOSHUA1 S PLAN. Of Ami?usc&de Cited is a Sue- v . cessful Method ef FIGHTING SINFULNESS. Dr. Talmags 'Says in Christian Warfare There Is Much Accomplished by Waiting for h ^ _ .. Opportunities. From an old time battle scene Dr. Talmage in this discourse makes some startling suggestions as to the best styles of Christian work and points oat the reason of 10 many pious failure*; text, Joshua riii, 7, "Then shall ye rise up from the ambush and seize upon the city." One Sabbath evening, with my family around me, we were talking over the scene of the text. In the wide open eyes and the quick interrogations and the blanched cheeks I realised what a thrilling drama it was. There is the eld 'city, shorter by name than any other city in the ages, spelled with two letters A, I, Ai. Joshua and his men want to take it. How to do it is the question. On a former occasion, in a straightforward, face to face fcght, tney had been defeated, but now tiiey are going to take it by ambuscade. General Joshua has two divisions in his army. The one division the battle worn commander will lead himself, the other division he sends of to encamp in an ambush on the west side of the . ity of Ai. No torches, no lanterns,. no sound of heavy battalions, but 30,$00 swarthy warriors moviDg in silence speaking only in a whisper; ne clicking of swords against shields lest the watchmen of Ai discover it and the stratagem be a failure. If the roistering soldier in the Israelite army forgets himself, all along the line the word is "ftuhr Joshua takes the other division, the one with which he is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Ai and then speeds the night in recen aoitering in the valley. There he is, thinking over the fortunes of the com iag day with. something of tie feelings of Wellington the night before Water loo or of Meade and Lee sthte sight before Gettysburg. There he stands in the Bight and says to himself: "lender is the division in ambush on the WMttide of id. Here is the division 1 iave under ay especial command on tke north side of Ai. There is the old eity slumbering in its sin. To-morrow will bo the battle." Look! The morning already begins to tip the hills. The military officers of Ai look out in the morning very early, and, while they do not see the division in ambush, they feehold the other divisions of Joshua, and the ery "To arms I To arms!" ring through all the streets of the old town and every sword, whether hacked and bent or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pour through the gates, an infuriated torrest, and their cry is, "Come, we'll make quick work with Joshua and hii troops!" *r ??7. ^ a; XJU W?aot uau bjucac poyyio Ui some out agaiast the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave such a command as he seldom gave such a command as he seldom gave?'Fall back!" Why, they could not believe their own ears! Is Joshua's courage failing him? The retreat is beaten, and the Israelites are flying, throwing blankets and canteens on every side under this worse than Bull Bun dedeat. And you ought to hear the soldiers of ;Ai cheer and cheer and eheer. But they huzza too soon. The men lying in ambush are straining their vision to get some signal from Joshua that they may know what time to drop upon the city. Joshua takes his burnished spear glittering in the sun like a shaft of doom and points it toward the city, and wnen tfce men up yonder in the ambush 8?e it with hawlike 8 woop they drop upon id and without stroke of sword or a tab or spear take the city and put it to the toroL So much for the division that was in ambush. How about the division under Joshua's command? No sooner does Joshua step in the tight than all his men stop with him, and as he wheels they wheel, for in a voice of thunder heoried "Haiti" oce siroDg arm driv-. ing baek a torrent of flying troops. Aid then, as he points Ms spear through the golden toward that fated city, his troops know that they art to start for it. What a ec-.ne it was when the division in ambush which had taken the city marched down against the men of Ai on the one side, an: the troops under Joshua doubled i * -^1 up tneir enemies ircm tne uiaer ?iue, ud the men of Ai were canght bctwesn these two hurricanes ef Israelitieii courage, thiust before and behiad, stabto in breast and baok, ground between the upper and the nether millstones of Ch-i's ,r .gnation! Woe to the eity of ? All 'Jiwev for Israel! Lesson the first: There is such a thing as victorious retreat. Joshua's falling back was the first chapter in his successful beseigement And there are times in yeur life when the best thing yen can de is to run. Yoa were once the victim of strong drink. ' The demijohn and the deeanter were your Serce foes. They came down upon you with greater fury than the men of Ai upon the men of Joshua. Tour only safety ii te get away fram them. Tour dissipating eempanions will eome around for your overthrow. Hun for your life! Jail back! Jail back frem the drinking saloon! Jail back from the wine party! Tour fight is your advance; *?* i. jutu ixuwi i* jtui VJWIUA/* J AS a ealooa down on the next street that hasal jnost been tke ruin of your soul. Then why do yon go along that street? Why do you not pass through some other street rather than by the place of your calamity? A spoonful of brandy taken for mediainal purposes by a man who 20 years before had been reformed from drunkenness hurled into inebriety asd the grave one of the best friends I erer had. Betreat is victory! 5?, also, there is vietorieus retreat in the religious world. Thousands of tines the kingdom of Christ has seoaed to fall baek. When the blood of the Scotoh Covenantee gave a deeper dye to the heather of the highlands, when the Yandois of France ohose extermination rather than make ae unchristian surrender, when on St. Bartholomew's day mounted assassins rode through the j streets of Paris, crying "Kill! Bloodletting is good in August! Kill! Death te the Hugueoets! Kill!" when Lady Jane Grey's head rolled from the executioner's bloek, when Calvin wag imprisoned in the eastle, when John J&J3GX died. ior tne trutn, wne* Jonn ; Bunyan lay rotting in Bedford jail, sayiaj. "If God will help me and my physieal life continue#, I will stay here util the mess grows on my eyebrows - \ rather thaB gire up my faith," the days \ of retreat for the church were days of yietory. The church of Christ falling ^ feaek froat Piedmoat, falling back from ! Sue St, Jacques, falling bask from 8t Denis, falling back from Wurttember? castles, falling back from tbe Brussels market place, yet all tbe time triumphing. Notwithstanding all tbe shocking reverses wbiob tbe ohareh of Christ suffers, wbat do we see today? Twelve thousand missionaries of the eross on heathen grounds; eighty thousand ministers of Je&us Christ ia this land: at least four hundred million of Christians on tbe earth. Jailing back, yet advancing until tbe old Wesleyxn byian will prove true: The Lion of Judah shall break the ohain And give us the victory again and again 1 But there is a more marked illustration of victorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First falling back from an appalling height to an appalling depth, falling from oelestial hills to terrestrial valleys, from throne to manger; yet that did not seem to suffice him as a retreat Falling back still farther from Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Jerusalem, back from Jerusalem to Golgotha, back from Golgotha to the mausoleum in the rock, back down over the precipices of perdition until he walked amid the caverns of the eternal captives and drank of the wine of the wrath of Almighty fl-od, amid the Ahabs, and the Jezebels, and the Belshaxzars. Oh, men of the pulpit and men of the pew, Christ's descent from heaven to earth does not measure half the distance! It was from glory to tt. J perdition, xie uesucuuou uiv All the records of earthly retjeat are aa nothing compared with this falling back. Santa Anna, with the fragments of his army flying over the plateau of Mexico and Napoleon and his army retreating from Moscow, into the awful *nows of Russia are not worthy to be mentioned with this retreat, when all the powers of darkness seem to be pursuing Christ a? he fell back, until the body of him who came to do such wonderful things lay pulseless and stripped. Methinks that the city of Ai was not so emptied of its inhabitants when they went to pursue Joshua as perdition was emptied of devils when they started f )T the pursuit of Christ, and ho fell back and back, down lower, down lower, chasm below ohasm, pit below pit, until he seemed to striko the bottom of objurgation and seorn and torture. Oh, the long, loud, jubilant shout of hell *at the defeat of the Lord God Almighty! But let not the powers of darkness rejoice quite so so?n Bo you kear that disturbance in the tomb of Arimathea? I hear the sheet rending! What means that stone hurled down the side of the hill? Who is this coming out? Posh him baok! The dead must not stalk is this open sunlight. Uh, it is eur Joshua. Let him come out. He comes forth and starts for the oitj. He takes the spear of the Roman guard and points that way. Church militant marches up on one side, and the church triumphant marches dowa on the other side. And the powers of darkness being caught between these ranks of celestial and teirestrial valor nothiag is lef. of them save just enough to illustrate the direful overthrow of hell and our Joshua's eternal .victory. On his head be all the crowm. In his hands be all the seepters. At his feet be all the human hearts; and here, Lord, ia one of them. Lesson the second: The triussph of the wicked is short. Did you ever see an army in a panic? There is nothing so uncontrollable. If you had stood at Long bridge. Washington, duriag the opening of our sad civil war, you would know what it is to see an army ran. And when those men of Ai looked cut and saw those men of Joshua i* a stampede they expected easy work. They would scatter them *s the equinox the leaves. Oh, the eeful and jubilaat descent of the men of Ai upon the sen of Joshua! Bat their exhilaration was brief, for the tide of battle turned, and these quondam conquerors left their miserable carcasses in the wilderness of Bethaven. So it always is. The triumph of the wioked is short. Tou make $29,QQ0 at the famine table. Do you expeet to keep it? You will die in the poorhease. Tou made a fortune by iniquitous trafic. Do you expect to keep it? Tour money will seatter, or it will stay long enough to curse your children after you are dead. Call over the roll of bad men who prospered and cee how short was their prosperity. Por awhile, like the men of Ai, they went from eesqnest to conquest, but after awhile disaster rolled back upon them, and they were divided into three parts. Misfortune took their property, the grave took their body and the lost world took tlieir soul. I am always interested in the ^ .a ?i j: : i.: T DUUGlBg 01 paiace* OA ui?Biy?uuu. x lite to have them built of the best granite and have the rooms made large *nd to hare the pillars made very firm. God is going to conquer them, and they will be turned into asylumns and art galleries and ehurehes. The stores in whieh fraudulent men do business, the splendid banking institutions where the president and cashier put all their property in their wives' hands and then fail for $500,000, all these institutions are to become the places where honest Christian mcn do business. Lesson the third: How much may be accomplished by lying ia ambush for apportunities, Are yeu hyporcritisal of Joshua's mantuver? De ye* say that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambuseade? Was it wrong for Washington to kindle campfires on Jersey heights, giving the im pression to the opposing forea that a great army was encamped there when there was dob? at all? Ianswer, if the war was right. th?n Jeshua was /ight i* his stratagem, He violated no flag ? truee. He brake ne treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the city of Ai. Oh, that we all knew hew to lie in ambush for opportunities to serre Ged. The best of our opportunities do not lie on the surfaee, but are secreted. By taek, by stratagem, by Christian ambuscade, yen may take almest any castle of sin for Christ. Come up toward men with a regular besiegemeut of argument and you will be defeated, but just wait until the door of their hearts is set ajar, or they are of their guard, or their severe caution is away from home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuscade. There has been many a man up to his chin ia scientific portfolies whieh proved there was no Christ and ne divine revelation, his pen a soimeter lung iite the heart of theological opponents, who nevertko1 1 1 -31 j ^ j lObS J135 UCGU UlftUUZBai-eU JikUU for God by scrtre little 3-year-old child who has got ip and put her saowy arms arounc t:s sinewy neck and asked some simp.'c ; .astion about G-od. Oh, make a fiank movement! Steal a march on the devil! Cheat that ma*into heaven! A $5 treatise that will stand all the iaws of homiloties may fail to do that whioh a penny track of Christian eDtreaty may aecomplish. Oh, for more Christians in ambuscade?not lyizij in idleness, but waitiig for a^uick^pring, waiting until just the right time tomes! Do not talk to a man about the vanity of this world on the day when he has bought something at "12" asd going to sell it at "15." Sat talk to kirn about the vanity of the world on the day when he has bought something at "15" and i? compelled to tall it at "121" Do not rub a man's disposition the wrong way; do not take the imperative mood when the subjunctive mood do just as weirdo net talk in perfervid style to a phleg? frt tinlrl* a fnrrid fjimilfiTi aauu uv/i vj j w mm?.*-* ~ r ment with an icicle. Ton can take any man for Christ if you know how to get at him. Do notiend word to him that tomorrow at 10 o'elock you propose to open yeur batteries upon him, but oome on him by a skillful, pereeveriDg, God directed ambuscade. I believe that the next rear will be the most stupendous year that heaven ever taw. The nation are quaking new with the coming of God. It trill be a year of success for the men of Joshua, but of doom for the men of Ai. You put your ear to the rail track, and you can hear the train ooming miles away. 80 I put my ear to the ground, and I {hear the thundering on of the lightning train of God's mercics and judgments. The mercy of God is first to be tried upon this nation. It will be preached in the puipits, in theaters, on the streets?everywhere. People will be invited to accept the meroy of the gospel, and the story and the song and the prayer will be "merey." But supnose they do net aceept the offer of mercy?what then? Then God will eome with his judgments, and the hoppers will eat the erops,^ and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the defalcation will swallow the money markets, and the ires will bars the cities, and the earth will quake from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments; year of invitation and of warning; year of jubilee and of woe. Which tide are you going to be en? with the men of Ai or the men of Joshua? Pass over this Sabbath into the ranks of Israel. I would clap my hands at the joy of your ooming. You wili have a poor ohance for this world and the world to come without Jesus. You cannot stand what is to come upon you and upon the world unless you have the pardon and the comfort and the help of Christ. Gome over. Op this side are your happiness and safety; on the other side are disquietude and despair. Eternal defeat to the men of Ai. Eternal viotory to the men of Joshua. TUB ITALIA a- MI5JSR KILLEB. ly Sis Fallow Ctuutryaaa in SelfDefesM. Mr. G. Sottile, eonsul of hit Italian Majesty at Charles ton, who has been using his utmost endeavor to alleviate the sufferings of certain of his fellow countrymen who are reported to have been badly used iu the phosphate mines of South Carolina, has reoeived the following letter and report from Governor McSweeney: The Hon. G. Sottile, Consular Agent of Italy, Charleston, S. C.?Dear Sir: Tours of the 4th received. The matter about which you complain I will Uke up tfith the Attorney General of the n. . 5 . T_ _ J State ana see 11 any can ue u.uuu iu reliere the suffering of these men employed in the phosphate works, provided after investigation it is found that they are not properly treated. I enclose herewith copy of the report of the sheriff of Colleton aa required by you. I am yours truly, M. B. MeSweeney, Governor of South Carolina. The report referred to is as follows: Hon. M. B. MeSweeney, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, 8. C.?Dear Sir: Pursuant to your request of the 13th instant, concerning the homicide committed at the Pon-Pon Phosphate Works some time ago, I weat to the Italian camp near said works on the ISth instant, and made a full investigation. I found that on the 28th day of February last one Filippo Bonavitacolla and on* Frank Vecostria, both Ital ians, beeame involved m a quarrel at the atore kept by one Frank Pizzo, an Italian; that a personal diffioulty followed, in which the deceased, Filippo Bonavitaeolla, was shot and killed by Domenioo. I examined all the persons who saw the shooting, and from their testimony I infer that it was a clear ease of self-defense. Immediately after the shooting Domenico Viscastria escaped and has not been heard from sinee, though it seems every effort was made to capture him. I am informed that Mr. Matthew Hertz, who has charge of the mining operations at the said works, immediately after the killing, employed two detectives to eapture and bring back the said Domenico Yicastria. I would al?o report that on 27th day of February last, Magistrate C. W. Butler, aeting coroner, held an inquest over the dead body of Filippo Bonavitaeolla, (a eopy of the proceedings at said inquest, together wrth the finding ??*mr ItAHAf A on/] Ui Liic J U.J.J J 40 UWJ.VVV auu made a part of this report.) It appears that the magistrate was notified immediately after the killing aad held the inquest the next morning He also isssed at once his warrant of arrest the said Domenieo Vicastria and placed it in the hands of his constable for service. Very respeotfully, L. G Owens, Sheriff of Colleton County. The Democrats Win. Tke Kentucky Court of Appeals hai decided the gorernor?hip of that State infaror of the Democrat!. The opinion is bysix of the judges, four Democrat* and two Republican!. One Republican, Durelle, dissented. Judge Durelle was the only iudge dissenting. The other two Republican judges, Burnam and GufTey, gar* a seperate opinion from the Democratic judge*, but which agrees with the Democratic members in it# conclusion. Judge Hobson wrote the opinion of the court. The concurrence of Judges Burnam and Guffey with the four Democratic judges was a surprise generally, but to the Republicans especially, and there is much speculation now as to whether the talked-of appeal to the supreme court will be prosecuted. The opinion holds that the action of the legislature in seating Governor Beckham was final and that the courts hart no power to review it; that Governor Taylor exceeded his authority in adjourning the legislature -L - T J._ J i-L-i. ? A ? 1 ? kO -Lionuou <111U. LLLiU OUO jvui.ua.Ao of the two houses of the legislature, being regular, cannot be impeached. The Republicans may now try to get a hearing before the United State* supreme court. " A. kingdom for a eurc. You need not pay i? mu?h. A twenty ?ve cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. See ad. and tryifc?never fails. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". Interesting and Instructive Notes on the Coming Brent. Dr. Jas. E. Carlisle, of Wofford college, has seat the following notes on eclipses of the ie*n, especially the one about to take place, to the News and Courier: Louis IV of Franoe (1710-1774) asked or commanded one of the French astronomers to find out when he ceuld hope to see a total eclipse of the sun. A list of eclipses was laboriously preTf time had lired to this day in Paris he would never have had the coveted privilege. The coming eclipse will not be total in Paria. In 1847 a central eclipse passed over Paris, but the disk of the moon was too small to hide all the face of the sun, it being only an annular eclipse. Will some of the oldest residents in Charleston tell of the total eclipse in 1834, November 30? A reference to the files of the Charleston Courier might be of interest. The present generation will soon have the rare privilege of being pleased and startled, even awed, by this great object lesson. The moon's dark shadow will oross our state May 28, in a path about fifty miles wide, nearly parallel to our aeacoast and a little above the middle of the State. Take a map of South Carolina, lay a ruler touching Newberry and Winnsboro. Draw a itraight line be' fl^A tween tnesa &w? iuwud, yimuugiu^ u? line each "way to the edge of Georgia and North Carolina. The centre of the moon's shadow will move very nearly along that line, passing over Lancaster. Draw a line on each side of that line parallel to it about twentyfire miles distant. That belt will very nearly cover tke section on which the eclipse will bo total. It is striking to see how many towns will be covered. The upper lino runs very near Abbeville, Laurens, Union, Torkville; the lower to Edgefield, Lexington, Columbia, Camden, Bennettsville. This total belt will be prolonged to the old world, ending in northern Bvypt near the Red Sea. It is safe to predict that this eclipse will be honered by a more numerous company of expert g ax era than ever studied any similar /phenomenon. In the two minutes ?f the total eclipse aany questions will be asked of the sun and moon. Some will probably be answered and yet the answers will suggest lew questions, ^lBAvinr that as we I U3 xuuaviHwiu^ B . uia'-go the eircle of light we only en><trge the surrounainj; circle of darkness. Phe newspapers, our great public eduoalers, will prepare old and young to look intelligently on the wounderful spectacle. Our oSeiali in the national observatory hire issued an instructive pamphlet with maps. The following dcsoriptiou of a total eclipse of the sun, by Prof. -J. Russell Hind, of the Royal Astronomical 8o: j ciety of London, is worth quoting just i now: Daring the clipse of 1842 nearly tke whole population of some of the principal cities of Southern France and Italy, which were upon the central line, turned out to view the rare phenomenon of a total deprivation of the sun's light in the day time. At Paris Mr. Bailey says, ''there was an unusual shout, which made the welkin ring," at the conclusion of the eclipse; and M. Arago, who observed at Perpignan, says: Nearly twenty thousand persona covered the terraces, ramparts and other eminences about the place and that an astounding ** i shout from the muititued announced the extinction and reappearance of the sun's rays At Milan, Padua, etc., the excitement was eqally great. "Long live the astronomers!" was the ory whep the rose colored lames burst forth on the bright ground of the corona, during the total objuration. Two hundred years previously many of the inhabitants of Paris hid themselves in caves on the mere announcement of an eclipse of the sun, which wa9 total in that city. In July, 1842, in the south of France, horses attached to vehicles eame to a decided stand, and no exertions of the drivers, though backed by the whip, eould induce the* to proceed nntil the sun had again appeared. Cattle in the fields congregated together immediately after darkness eame on, as if in apprehension of an attack. Dogs in particular appeared to have been sensible of some unnatural event, howling piteousiy during the deprivation of the sun's rays, or hastily seeking some place of safety. * * * The birds in the trees, nearLodi, suddenly ceased sieging at the moment when the total obscuration came on. * * * At Milan the bees quitted their hives in great numbers soon after sunrise, but returned to them in haste immediately the last rays ef the sua bad vanished. The astronomers who can prediefc an eclipse a hundred years in advanc.*, cannot tell whetker a little cloud may not suddenly form a half hour before the thrilling moment hiding all the wonderful spectacle from their eyes. Man is a strange aompound of wisdom and ignoranee, of strtngth and weak; ness! "AUs the human mind's at fault, Eor Btill by turns it claims, A nobleuv-s tlut may exait, A littleness shames, Of strength &&d weakness till combined. Compounded of the mean and grand, And triies thus may shape the mind, That could a tempest stand!" Wofford College. J. H. C. A TfurJar The C?Iumbi* "Record says Bailroad Commissioner Garri-, wkilein Colum bia Saturday, reported a murder in Colleton county near the Bamberg line, which has not heretofore b?en published. Last Tuesday week John Qaskias, a white man, left BranchriJle with a load of fertilizer!. He was joined by a negro named Hampton Simmons, whom he allowed to ride with him as far as the negro's cabin. Last Wednesday evening the body of Gaskms was found in Simmons' yard, he having received a a load of buckshot in the face. Simmon's has left for parts unknown, but before going h? took hii children to his sister's house. He told h?r that Gas* kins was drunk and on arriving at Sim mons' cabin shot one of his chickens with a pistol. Simmons remonstrated with him and he alleges that Q-askins threatr-rud to ?hoot him, whereupon Simmou* went t? his house and got out his gun and let Gaskins hare a lead of buckshot in the faee. That is his story, but he has skipped away and no arrests has been made. It is a coincid?"? n?eVir>s' hrnilipr wtq aififi killed by being shot with a load of buckshot and a negro is now serviig a term in the penitentiary for the crime. Gainesville, Ga., Dee. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator hai been used is ay family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, you elaim for it. Tours truly, Jl B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it new myself. It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists. tf - l i seaBxaaeaB see aas saa naa WILL TBY HIS OLD FOXL. - -t ! Ol H_ 3 Ae?ro iiepuoiieaa ytlll .aaaeavor 19 Save Collector Tolbert. Seymour Smith, the negro deputy collector and oashier of the department of customs at Charleston, has {one to Washington in the interest of Collector of the Port Tolbert and Deputy Colleetor Ostendorff. Smith is the negro who was imported from Aiken as the successor of Mr. George Milligan shortly after Col. Tolbert succeeded Capt. George D. Bryan as collector of the port. Smith has been prominent in the councils of the Republican party in the upper part of the State, and he was one of the delegates to the contention which nominated President McKinley. He is thought by some of the Republican party workers to have a pull with the powers. It is because of this alleged pull that he has gone to Washington, according to the rumor in circulation, to save the official heads of Col. Tolbert and Capt. Ostendoiff and other subordinate officials, if the heads are really in jeopardy because of the recent violation of the customs regulations and the dispensary law, in the storing of the centraband liquors in the oustom house. The Washington cor respondent of the Uharleston evening Post telegraphed the following report Wednesday afternoon: "Gren. Spalding, assistant secretary of the treasury, in response to my inquiry, states he has just read report on custom house matter, but he has nothing to give out at present." It will be seen from this telegram that the department now has the report of Mr. Maeatee and it remains to be seen what action the department will take. A dispatch from Washington says the secretary of the treasury has rereceived a report from the special agent who has conducted the investigation of the reported use of tke entom house at Charleston for the storage of contraband liquors for illicit sales. A number of officers and employees of the oustom house were asked for an explanation of the finding of the liquor, but all diolaimed having any knowledge concerning it except one of the night men who admitted having allowed some of his friends to keep the liquor there. Other testimony disolosed information whiok led the oMcers making the investigation to believe that the liquor belonged to a eertam individual in Charlesto who has a wholesale liquor dealer's license The aonelusion of the officials is that a certain Caput} collector is respeasible for the ltoring of liquors in the custom house and thai several employees had full knowledge of it. The report is accompanied by copies of the testimony taken. The treasury officials hare taken no action in regard to the matter but there seems to be ?o doubt that the guilty parties will be immediately biought to justice. A Boomerang. Dewey'* announcement that he is a candidate for the presidency is likely to prore a boomerang to those gold-bugs who induced him to make it. According to the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal the scheme was engineered by Colonel Hugh C. Wallace, of the state of Washington, ex-Secretary William C. Whitney and Hon. Daniel Lamont. It first took shape at the Whitney dinner in New York some weeks ago. Its purpose was to disorganize the Bryan Democracy. At the time Dewey had not been AAnanH/^ Trrteo rJuln. VV/ULO 111 LvTU CLLXKJL TTCtXAOCU^ TY (A/O VIvlv gated to approach the admiral. Just before the Deweys went south Wallace called on the admiral, and stated the proposition and assured him that it would be possible to capture the Kansas City convention by keeping the scheme quiet until the proper time to spring it. Dewey discouraged the idea but frankly admitted that he would aid any movement to defeat McKinley. When the admiral and Mrs. Dewey returned from the south, Wallace approached him again and this time he took the matter under advisement. Lamont called at the Dewey home and was in conference with the admiral for an hour. M t?i DowflT wa? in r?nn for ence, and advised her husband to become a candidate. It was agreed at the time that the announcement should be made only indirectly until the effect of the suggestion .could be tested. After Lamont had returned to his hotel the admiral sent for Charles S. .Albert, the chief of The World's Washington staff, and gare to him the dictated interview. The idea of the engineers of the movement was to ascertain if the Dewey announcement would meet with such popular favor as to carry the country by storm, and at least deadlock the Kansas City convention with the possibility of either nominating him or nominating some one other than Bryan. Dewey on the other hand is bitter toward McKinley, as i? also Mrs. Dewey, largely for personal reasons, and he is willing: now to head an independent movement if he can draw enough Republican rotes to assure even Bryan's election. His candidacyhas fallen flat. His pro moters are unwilling for him to head any movement that might assist instead of detract from Bryan, and there is already a threatened split between the new candidate and. those responsible for his candidacy. All factions are now waiting for developments before making another move. If after the first wave of disapproval and resentment the reaction is in favor of Dewev he will be urged by the Lamont faction to continue his race, and go to Kansas City a candidate. If on the other hand it has been seen that there is absolutely no possibility to capture the regular Democratic nomination, the question of his heading an independent ticket will be discussed, and decided upon its possible results. In the meantime Dewey says he is a Democrat. There is not the slightest probability that he can capture the Kansas City convention, and if Dewey runs as an independent it is frankly admitted that on his platform he will poll the anti-administration Republicans and elect Brya*. 4 < ! Jut the Man They Want. j Tke New York World pretends n to believe that the nomination I; of William McKinlev for a s#c-$ ond preaidental term can be pre-1 vented. We doubt if The World r believes any such thing. If it * does, it is entitled to the medal for simplicity. William McKinley is the inevitable nominee of his party for the next presidency. He will be nominated by acclamation. Uo other name will be mentioned Jabove a whisper in the national Republican convention. The World admits that for two years past the renomination of McKinley has seemed certain, hnt aRks if the events of the last two months have not given a new aspect to the matter. The World adds: "Republicans by the tens of thousands, loyal to the party and of the intelligence and character that hare given it its strength, are moved to contempt and scorn by the base dickering and dealing of Hanna the 'fat-fryer/ are humiliated by-the wabbling and somersaulting of Mr. McKinley. Must ^hese honest, thinking Republicans confess that they are powerless? Can they not compel the selection of another candidate than this weak and vacillating and complaisant and therefore the more dangerous agent of the forces o f milita'ism and monoply? Can they not compel the selection of a true representative of historic Republicanism a free, courageous candidate: a Man?" The Atlanta Journal says that all The World says about the great and growing disaffection toward McKinley in the Republican party is true, but The w oria seems to torget mat tne Republican, party is ridden, controlled and guided by bosses, and that the bosses are for McKinley. They are for him because they can control him He is just the man they want and they will put him in the lead. Those Republicans who are sore and kicking over McKinleyism will either hare to take the medicine which the bosses prescribe or leare the party. Nearly all of them will do the former! They are used to it. WHY SHE WAS CAREFUL. Wasn't Certain That the Prisoner Was Her Daughter and the Reason. Two days go tiers was at the police matinee an old negro Woman who was a leading witness against a younger woman, who was said to be her daughter. The old woman had sworn that "Ter de best ob her tie girl was not her daughter." This puzzled the Recorder no little, and It being necessary to get more witnesses, the case n HUB i/wt/yucu uuui juworuaj. . Yesterday afternoon Miranda Johnsou was again arraigned for acting In a diaorderlyaanner and the old woman was present Several witnesses swore positively that the prisoner was the old woman's child, and the Recorder turned to the old woman and said: "Old woman, why did yon appear to be In doubt about Miranda being your daughter the other day?*' "Lawd bless yer, honey, Ise still in doubt T>out dat matter," was the reply. "Why?" asked this Recorder who felt that he had a great mystery bear? him. "Release," replied the old woman, "dar was er mlsshur oft two babies er long time ago and de matter hain't cl'ar till this day. Ton see my little baby was born en de same day dat annudder nigger 'qznaa'S baby Was er born and jest te play a Jftke on Dee? dafs my tie man?de? pu? da two babies wid me and tola him dot he war de fadder ob twins. Day got de babies kinder mixed, and day jest gib me one ob dem and glbbed de udder 'oman de udder baby.. And I doan know till dis day whedder dey gibbed m* de right baby er not Dat am de fason dat X hain't gwlne te* s?*ar rtckless like 'bout dis gal im d? cote." "i am going to fine miranda 110.75," announced the recorder "and, old woman, if 7011 think sbj> is toot daughter you can pay fib* fifco, and if you think she la not, yon e& 2it har work ta the rtoekade tor thr* veaka." the eu woman gave herself the benefit oi the doubt ?5d miraafla la working tfcrtt week* fit the stodbade. ?atlanta gohstitatioa. packets fn sfooklngs. stocking poc2i;ti are thi latest fad, a new yerk dry goota jsan tojd the other day they are siajq* to hold & rot! of bflls, jewelry ana valuables that can be stored a way ia a small Saee. the poekets aye worked into e top of tie hose, shave the knee, and are made with a fastening. ao that there ia no danger c& their contents falling dut. there are so many sneak thieves who steal from bedroofes while the family la at dinner, miriara and from other places where women are obliged, to Iftate their nonet aad jewelry when they are act la qm, tint the gafc> receptacle ahevt the clothing cf t&e ew&er is an abrwte necessity. ?edfctCB ere not generally found in women7a dresses, and the stocking pstffcet has suggested itself to some iiventive genlua. It looks u if these new pockets wonld he as safe as any that could be devised. Hie Heart Displaced. ..Dr. J. Sheldon Wright, who attended Martin Welgo, 19 years old, after he was knocked down by a Brooklyn trolley car, was a -fitness for the hoy the other day In his suit against the company to recover 125,000 in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn. The physician testified that when !? was called to attend Welga ho found his heart displaced. It was suspended by a fibre and ribrated like a pendulum, swinging fully two Inches to and fro. When Dr. Sheldon was called in he had little hepe of his patient's recovery. Since then he has somewhat improved. Mushroom Vaccination. A French scientist has found that some kinds of mushroom afford a vaccina a_r*lnaf- the re&om of The Julco of the muahreom readers a person lnuaune against the poison for a month or two. Proportion of Students. In Germavy one man In 213 goes to college; In Scotland, one In 620; in the United Seates, one In 2,000, and in Sngland, one In 5,000. PITTS' ANTISEPT10 MMM\ Cures La Grppc, dyspepsia. indigestion, and all itom&ch and bowel troubles colic or cholera morbus, teething trouble* with children, kidney troubles, bad blood and all sort* of sores, risings or felons, eats and barns. It is as good antiseptic, when locally applied, as anything on the market. Try U and yon will praise it to others. ( T/ Am*VAAVN if wm^a 4A 1 IJLi J UUA UVWM JkW\.JK TTAAW W TBS MURRAY DRUG GO., . fltolu-tabia, 8. C. I -o rt. 6* <1 Prepare to >j Prices of paper and paper b ? you will tell as 70ml trombl* i Colombia Sti ^WTiolewltrs of Bags, COIXJMB 1 PRACTICAL T& DemiHd of the Tuim. Si MlcFeat's School of Sho: **"* ? ' | ^COLTO - yM; fv . Iff. MaoFoftt, Coin ijm Tanas raasonxbls. He Is Katcfeless. ^eHhe following from, the Nerfo LsijJp*r^. we most reverently 1 afionw ! 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