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f ffiuil?! ! OMmmi "iiihiii WWi-rxm .inim Elder brother. A Lesson From the Parable of the Prod'gal Son. RPV. DR. TALMAGE'S I Denunciation of Self Righteousness and the Lack of Sympathy for the Fallen and Unfortunate. In this discourse Dr. Talrnage pleads for a hearty reception to all those who have done wrong and want to get back, while the unsympathetic and self righteousness are excoriated; text, \ Luke xv, 28, "And he was angry and would not go in." T10170 T asked to I luauj uuivo -v . preached a sermon about the elder brother of the parable. I received a letter from Canada saying, "Is the elder son of the parable so unsympa- j thetic and so cold that he is not worthy j of recognition?" The fact is that ore ministers pursue the youoger son. You can hear the flapping of his rags in many a sermonic breeze aod the cranching of the pods for which he was 3n unsuccessful contestant. I confess that -1- 1?- 1?- fnr mA train the it usa uccu uiubuiv camera obscura upon the elder son of j the parable. I could not get a nega- J tive for a photograph. There was not enough light in the gallery, or the chemicals were too poor, er the sitter moved in the picture. Bat now I think X have him, net a side face or a threequarters or the mere bust, but a full length portrait as he appears to me. rnL - i->->roM? nf t,h<? nrodi i.lie lttfaUCi 1U UiW vr. r gal had nothing to brag of in his two sons. The one was a rake and the other a churl. I find nothing admirable in the dissoluteness of the one, and I find nothing attractive in the acid sobriety of the other. The one goes down over the larboard side, and the ether goes down over the starboard side, but they both go down. ~ " " ' ' -* iV JJ'rom ail tne wmaowo oi me um homestead bursts the ministry. The i floor quakes with the feet of the rustics, j whose dance is always vigorous and resounding. The neighbors have heard of the return of the younger son from his wanderings, and they have gathered together. The house is full of congratulators. I suppose the tables are load with luxuries, not only the one kind of meat mentioned, but its concomitants. "Clap!" go the cymbals, "Thum!" tne harps, "Click!" go the chalices, up and down go the feet inside, while outside is a most sorry spectacle. The senior son stands at the corner of the house, a frigid phlegmatic. He has just come in from the fields in very substantial apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations around the old mansion, he asks of a servant passing by with a gcatskin of wine on his snouiaer what all the fuss is about. One would have thought that, on hearing that his younger brother had got back, he would have gone into the house and rejoiced, and, if he were not conscientiously opposed to dancing, that he would have joined the oriental schottish. No, there he stands. His brow lowers; his face darkens; his lip curls with contempt. He stamps the ground with indignation; he sees nothing at all to at# ii . r t i , ;,u _ tract, lne oaors 01 me zeaat, uuunug out on the air, do not sharpen his appet;te. The live'y music does not put any spring into his step. He is in a terrible pout. He criticises the expense, the injustice and the morals of of the entertainment. The father rushes out bareheaded and coaxes him to come in. He will not go in. He bcolds the father. He goes into a pasquinade against the younger brother and he makes the most ancomly scene. He sijsi "Father, you put a premium v on vagabondism. I staid at home and worked on the farm. You never made a party for me; you didn't so much as kill a kid. That wouldn't have cost half as much aa a cait; out tms scape- i grace went of in fine clothes, and he comes back not fit to be seen, and what a time you make over him! He breaks your heart, and you pay him for it. Tint calf, to which we have beer giving extra feed during all these weeks, wouldn't be so fat and sleek if I had known to what Use } on were going to put it. That vagabood dpporves to be cowhided instead of bauque!cd. Vea> is too good for him." That evoniu* j ?ann aof. Kl> i Kmic uig owi* ... father about his adventures and asking . about what had occurred on the place sinoe his departure, the senior brother j goes to bed disgusted and slams the door after him. That senior brother j still lives. You can see him any Sun- , day, any day of the week. At a meeting of ministers in Germany some one : asked the question. "Who is that . elder son?" and Krummacher answered ] "I know him; I saw him yesterday." j And when they insisted upon knowing , whom he meant he said, "Myself; when I saw the account of the conversion of a most obnoxious m-ui I was ir- j ritated." , First, this senior brother of the text j 6tands for the self congratulatory, self satisfied, self worshipful man. With the i same breath in which he vituberates against his younger brother he utters a j panegyric for himself. The self right- j our man of my text, like every other i TXTOC ?n!l A-? ^arilfc j 2CJL1 11?U.IA>VU0 " u- TT tmn v* *MU4vw. ? Re was an ingrate, for he did not appreciate the home blessings which he had ali those years. He was disobedient for when father told him to come in he staid out. He was a liar, for he said that the recreant son had devoured his father's living, when the father, so far from being reduced to penury, had a homestead left, had instruments of musio, had jewels, had a mansion, and inotoftr? nf Koincr a runnAr a nrin?#?. This senior brother, with so many j faults of his own, was merciless in his ? criticism of the younger brother. The ? only perfect people that I have ever j hnown were utterly obnoxious. I was j never so badly cheated in my life as by a perfect man. He got so far up in his 1 devotions that he was clear up above all < the rules of common honesty. These ] men that go about prowling amoDg pray- ( x- j _i v?: er meetings anu 111 piivco iu uuaiucss, telling how good they are?look out for them; keep your hand on your pocketbook! I have noticed that just in proportion as a man gets good he gets humble. The deep Mississippi does not make as much noise as the brawling mountain rivulet. There has been many a store that had more goods in the show window than inside on the shelves. - Again, the senior brother of my text stands ior all those who are faithless about the reformation of the dissipated and the dissolute, in tne very tones s of his voice you can hear the fact that \ he has no faith that the reformation of c the younger son is genuine. His entire ( manner seems to say: "That boy has ] come back for more money. He got a ] a third of the property; now he has ] come back for another third. He will ( never be postented to ^ stay ^ oc amofig itflhors, How & farm. He will fall away. I would go poraties speaS of each < in too and rejoice with the others if 1 phon afld Plato living thought this thing were genuine; but it time, but from their writ: is a sham. That boy is a confirmed would suppose they heard inebriate and debaunchee." Alas, my Religious jealousies. T. friends, for the incredulity in the dans prayirjg for rain dur church of Christ in regard to the recla- no rain coming. Then tl A ^ ? - frt nrii? fnr rain m&tlOQ OX LQ6 r6Cr6&Ql>? JL uu ouj' a> uiAu | wv yiwj av* * has been a stroqg drinker. I say, "Yes comes. Then the Moh? but he has reformed." "Oh," you say, together to account for tl with a lugubrious faoe, "I hope you are resolved that God was sc not mistaken; I hope you are not mis- with their prayers he kej taken." You say: "Don't rejoice too on so as to keep thempra much over his conversion, for soon he the Christians began to will be unconverted, I fear. Don't make Lord was so disgusted wi too big a party for that returned prod- ers that he sent rain rig igal or strike the timbrel too loud; and, would not hear any more if you kill a calf, kill the one that is on plications. Oh, this acci the commons and not the one that has envy and jealousv! Lei been luxuriating in the paddock. That out from all our hearts, is the reason why more prodigals do not Oh, what a God we 1 0 '1 * ^AfAlAflfloa O.MTYW come iiome to tneir iataer s uouoe. it is the rank infidelity in the church of heaven, and join in the \ God on this subject. There is not a aloud. Lift the palm 1 house on the streets of heaven that has you not feel the Father not in it a prodigal that returned and your neck? Dd you not staid home. There could be unrolled breath of your Father before you a scroll of a hundred thou- chc-ek? Surrender, youia sand names?the names of prodigals render, elder son! Surre who came back forever reformed. Who in today and sit down at W3S John Bunyan? A returned prod- Take a slice of the fatte igal. Who was Richard Baxttr? A terward, when you are se returamed prodigal. Who was George hand in the hand of Whitesold, the thundrer? A returned brother and the other hai prodigal. And I could go out in all of the rejoicing father, 1 the aisles of this church to day and rejoice. It is meet that w find on either side those who, onao far merry and be glad, forth asirsy for many years, have been faith- was dead and is alive agai ful, and their eternal salvation is as and is found. sure as though they had been ten years ' " ? e TC TEITV TXTA in neaven. iina yet suuio u*. u?iv | AkJ * ***? ,, M not enough faith in their return. You do not know how to Bhake hands n T t* t> j- v with a prodigal. You do not know how 0r Is 11 Prodigious Ly to pray for him. You do net know how ton Massacr to great him. He wants to sail into the warm gulf stream of Christian sym- accounts which c pathy. You are the iceberg against nila of battles of Filipin which he strikes and shivers. You say by our troops have atirai he has been a prodigal. ! know it, bnt tioa ofotW newspapeI you are the sour, unresponsive, cen- Q e , ? , sorious, saturnine, cranky elder brother, ?tate- -*-*13 Spnnguek and if you are going to heaven one says: would think some people would be The day's news from 2 tempted to go to perdition to get away fighting in Luzon in whi from you. The hunters say that if a , , ,, , deer be shot the other dear shove him f119 Wled and the i out of their company, and the general heavily ; of fighting in rule is?away with a man that has been Samar, _in which two Ai wounded with sin. Now, I say, the wouncied and 155 native: more bones a man has broken the mora *^e field; and of fighting need he has of a hospital, and the more I^eyte, in which 125 " Viaan Xrnioo^ Ant with killed, with no American a 1UOU llOQ VWVU ?> * Miuv"* V.Mw ... ? sin the more need he has to be carried fieports of the charac into human aDd divine sympathy. Bat ^ast ^a7? ^eea hcque for snch men there ii not muoh room in weeks. Thus some da this world?the men who want to oome recorded that three detac back after wandering. Plenty of room Forty-fifth regiment i for elegant sinners, for sinners in velvet number of natives, a maj and satin and lace, for sinners high were armed only with bo salaried, for fcid glovos and patent - 1^ ?* them. There wer< leathered sinners for sinners fixed up by aiuong the Americans, hairdresser, pomatumed?and lavendered wa?. made of any wound and coloneed and frizzled and crimped natives. The inference ] ? - A-l and "banged" sinners?plenty of room I was mo wuu Sach we meet elagantly at the door of enem7 been wiped c our churches, and we invite them into certainly the case in th< the best seats with Chesterfieldian gal- counter, at about the ? lantries; we usher them into the house Lieut. Batech and 20 pen of God and put soft ottomans under ?fje, regimopt with their feet and put a gilt edged prayer The latter were cornered book in their hands and pass the ''every one of thpm'^ w contribution box before them with an bodies floating away." a it._ ii. was killed. air or apology, wane iney, me gen- -erous seuls, take out the exquisite It was further reported portemonnaie and open it, and with that .wen. Bell s men, in diamonded finger pueh down beyond clsanng the province of the $10 goldpieces and delicately nnes, met with many he pick out as an expression of gratitude bolomen and * 'killed a their offering to the Lord?of 1 cent! American casualties; For such sinners plenty of room, plen- or captured^ natives, ap ty of room. But for the man who has s^me time another been drinkiDg until his coat is thread- ported *n Albay proving bare, and his face is erysipelased, and cordon and ^ three com] his wife's wedding dress is ia the pawn- r??jf?c?6uiu rcg^iucut broker's shop, and his children, instead forcc of insurgents and of being in school, are out begging them; no casualties on t broken bread at the basement doors of si^e? an^ no mention of the city?the man, body, mind and soul captured natives. on fire with the flames that have leaped Gen. Otis reported a n from the scathing scorching, blasting, frona January 1 to April blistering, consuming cup which tne aL drunkard takes, trembling and agonized field. On Friday last b and affrighted, and presses to his during the month or Aj parched lip, and his cracked tongue piQ0S had been "killed, and his shrieking yet immortal spirit? captured. The reports i no room. la detail above given si Oh, if this younger son of the parable ^ had not gone so fir off, if he had not dropped so lo? in wassail, the protest ^ month) ^ rea),y ha eVar nvpr the nrpftinin^* a" thA connection with the fieur going clear over the preoipioe, a; the , j April were 13 1 ITSn 11 tV " 800 '9 aagry woooded; one American t D. S...A i? ?f Is this war? But If i J-H? UUt OU AUl JVSAL Vil VAVADUi WA -? , - lir Li, ^ the fallen lest thoa thyself also be Sf.'' p'ZTJnt tempted. Do jou know who that man ?f,hoj). Pott.er 8 fdescf ** was who Sabbath before last staggered Me ducassion of an ae up and down the aisle in a church, dis- t6 \ o i turbing the service until the service had ? m to stop until he was taken from the Jo.ouri room? He was a minister of the gos- -"'9 cither prodigious lj pel of Jesus Christ in a sister denomi- massaore.-^lumbia Sta nation! That man had preached the WOKK OF AN INCE gospel, that man had broken the bread 01 tne noiy communion ior tne people. ^ Double Tenement in S From what a height to what a depth! ? Oh, I was glad there was no smiling in on *ur0, the room when that man was taken out, An apparently delibe kis poor wife following him, with his was made Thursday morn: bat in her hand and his coat on her big double tenement at arm! It was as solemn to me as two corner of Madison and J a funerals?the funeral of the body and in New York. Nearly the funeral of the soul. Beware, lest were placed in peril of th thou also be tempted! twenty families were rendi An invalid went to South America by the blaze. for hisheakh and one day sat sunning Mrs. Margaret Lane, v himself on the beach when he saw her husband, the janitor - - * ? ? 1_ A. 1 xl J i something crawling up tue Deacn. wrig- mg ner two uromers anu i ?ling toward him, and he was affrighted, the second floor of 391 Mi He thought it was a wild beast or a rep- was awakened at 2 o'clc bile, and he took his pistol from hi3 in the hallway. She he pocket. Then he saw it was not a wild fling of feet and the rustii beast. It was a man, an immortal man, pers. Her husband wen i man made in God's own image, and to investigate, and found the poor wretch crawled up to the feet newspapers in the hall. }f the invalid and asked for strong some late homecomer had irink, and the invalid took his wine there carelessly, he went 1 3ask from his pocket and gave the poor Shortly before 5 o'clock ivretch something to drink, and then un- ler, the twenty-year old ler the stimulus he rose up and gave of airs, .bane, was awasen tiis history. He had been a merchant of smoke, and the noisf in Glasgow, Scotland. He had gone flames in the hall outside lown under the power of strong drink She awakened those in th until he was so reduced in poverty that ments and then made her ae was living in a boat just off the shouting a warning to the Deach, "Why," said the invalid, "I in the building, and escai inew a merchant in Glasgow once, a to the house adjoining, N merchant of such and such a name." street. A.nd the poor wretch straightened him- The wainscoating in self and said, "I am that man!" "Let along the staircase wa3 a iim that thinketh he standeth tako heed time, and through dense lest he fall." be distinguished the pur Again, I remark that the senior kerosene oil. The occuf brother of myt tex stands for the spirit time to escape by the stai >f envy and jealousy. The senior bies were thrown from the Drother thought that all the honor they window to those on the lid to the returned brother was a wrong children whose ages ran fi :o him. He said, "I have staid at twelve were tossed in aon?, and 1 ought to have had the ring, stretcbed out to catch the icd 1 ought to have had the banquet, caped with nothing more md I ought to have had the garlands." bruises, parents of the litl A.las for this spirit of envy and jeal- ing down ladders. The ] )usy coming down through the ages! vestigating. Jain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Saul ~~~ ~~~ ?nd David, Haman -and Mordecai, Cuban Editor Kl Dthello and lago, Orlando and Angel- Senor Alberti, editor ca and Torquatus, Caesar and Pompey, Claridades, published at G Columbus and the Spanish oourtiers, was shot and killed in3tar Jambvses and the brother he slew be- known Assassin at the che; :ause he was a better marksman. Diony- Alberti was an active polii sius and Philoxenius, whom he slew paper recently has ^ been c because he was a better singer. Jeal- action of the American o: >us amoiig painters. Closterman and cularly^ the elestion ordei jxeoffry Kneller, Hudson and Reynolds, who killed Capt. Smith, ?rancia, anxious to see a picture of this port, in January, was Raphael, Raphael sends him a picture. Bon Claridades. Alberti Prancia, seeing it, falls in a fit of jeal- threatening letters which jusy, from which he dies. Jealousy in his paper. :idom aitem-1 TS2 3AM3ZM KI11IXG. 3ther! XeHo- j at the same i s^.v m*T/\nn?fvrrfiiT??a'Trte ^Tcrcirtn h? m J 0JLL1 . V VUUSWU.V A V VO *A1Q V Vi 0J VU VI iDg3yott hever i of each other. the Unfortunate Affair. iDg^a?<Jrought"; p'e7- w- E- J?l on, who shot and :e Christian? killed Court Stenographer Bellinger at and the rain Bamberg last week, was bailed by Jusiimmedans met tjce p0pe at Columbia on Friday in the bis, an t ey * three thousand dollars. At the ?well pleased . -? ? -? pt the drought hearing numerous affidavits of a most ying, but that interesting character were presented on pray, and the both sides, throwing much light on this .t tneir pray- mogfc UQU3Uaj criminal case. ;nt away so he i of their sup- THE MINISTER S VERSION. arsed spirit of The following version of the killing t us stamp it ^as given by Mr. Johnson in his affidavit: have! Bring That he is 3G years old and has been earth and ordained minister of the Baptist church worship. Cry for 11 years past, and for the past three branches! Do years has been in charge of the Barn's arm around berg Baptist church at Bamberg in said foal mrm State. That the nastoral residence or i.vvi vuv n mim ? - against your parsonage in which defendant resides gerson! Sur- with his family, which aonsists of his nder, all! Go wife and four children, is situated upou , the banquet, the same part of the town with that of dcalf, and af- Mr. Bellinger, immediately adjoining ated, with one each other and separated only by a dithe returned viding fence. _ That deponent moved ad in the hand to his said residence in Ootober or Noet your heart vcmber, 1898, and up to the month of e should make June, 1899, the relations between the is, thy brother two tammes were peaceable; tnat in the in; he was lost month of June, 1899, deponent was called on professionally to perform the marriage ceremoDy between Mr, Joseph E, Brown and Miss Jennie Bellinger, the daughter of the sail Jonn R. Bellinger, Jksq., both of whom appeared to ing or Wan* bSj aEj deponent is informed, were of ft? lawful age, i. e.i above the age of 21 years. That after this marriage, which some from Ma- it seems did not meet the approval of ios engaged in Mr. John R. Bellinger and his f imily, 3ted the atten- became extremely hostile to de, m- ponent, often abusing him to his face s besides ine aQ(j ^ hearjDg 0f hjs wtfe an<i gyj. i Republican <jren in the most extreme manner, and showing this hostility towards him by tfanila tells of maQy ?* ^ose irritating unneighborly oh twn Arrpri- Wa?8 w]licll are 80 eZS? t0 d? Snd 80 hard to bear: denonent bore it all with jilipinos "lost tjia^ fortitude and resignation which the island of - kia calling required. That the manner nericans were in which he was treated by this family 3 left dead on became a matter of public notoriety, in the island 'and he was assured by many that he natives were ought to take steps to have it stopped, t casualties. as it was lessening hii influence for the tei of the two good of the community. That about nt in recent i .'x weeks ago a young man of the town ys. aeo it was I ..i, Ijimbere. in sympathy with the Bel shments of the ' iu^ers, without the slightest cause, mrrounded a j rudely accosted deponent in one of the iority of whom . ublic streets, called him a liar, and los, and killed struck him in the face, forcing him to E5 no casualties defend himself. That about two weeks No mention ?go a colored painter by the name of 3d or captured Walker, who was painting Mr. Bellineft by the dis- ger's house and fence, came to deponile body of the ent's house and asked leave to come in >ut. This was deponent's yard to paint the division 3 reported en- fence between the two lots. Deponent same time, of consented provided he would paint the t of the Thirty- bottom board of the fence as well as 50 bolo men. ihe balance. This he oromised to do. in a river and but he did not do bo: deponent called as shot, -'the his attention to it from time to time, One American each time receiving a promise that he would paint the said board before he the other day left, but he never did do it. About a i the course of week ago the said painter returned to South Cama- put on a second coat, and deponent inaall squads of formed him that he must do the work total of 125." in accordance with the agreement or it ; no wounded could not be done at all. He promised parently. At to doit, but did not, and deponent, seefight was re- ing that he did not intend to do it, or. _i n?<. t -i i ? _ i .i. 2 r\_ j, wnere vayu aerea. mm 10 leave me yaru. yn paniea of the Thnraday the man; Walker, was in the routed a large yard painting, and the deceased, Wilkilled 53 of Ham T. Bellinger, was sitting on :he American the fence at the intersection of wounded and the division fence and the front fence on the street. Deponent ordered Walkaonth apo that er to get out of his yard; he hesitated, 1, 1,426 Fili- lookiDg first at the deceased and then id left on the at deponent; Bellinger ordered the man e cabled that to paint on and deponent insisted on >ril 1.721 Fili- his going out and lie started to go and wounded and Bellinger ordered him to paint on, and af the fighting the painter would act as if he intended [iow that the to obey, when deponent peremptorily must have ordered him out and he went. softening the Mr. W. T. Bellinger then said that r progress for the fence would be painted, and oursed ,d po place in deponent for a d? long lipped ? of e given. Our a ? ^d much more of the same abuse, killed and 27 repeating that he would see that the o 132 natives, fence was painted; deponent finally t is not war, said he could not come into the road ompromise on and talk to the deponent that way, when ion. It ia a deceased iumDed off the fence to his ademic" char- father's gate, came out and stood by the post with a drawn pistol in his Massachusetts hand; deponent had not noticed before ind it is not that he had a pistol, and said "you are ring or wanton armed, eh," and turned and walked te* back into the house. Nothing more 1NDIA.RY passed that day. The next day deponent came out of his gate to go to the ___ v*rV Qof postoffice, when he met Mr. Joe Brown in his buggy, who asked him to take a seat with him, and they drove down rate attemDt town. Mr. Brown told deponent that * * * ^ i il ..li a 1 tag to burn a ^ad neara 01 cne aimcuuy 01 me i the northeast day before and that he had heard of ckson streets the^ threats made by the deceased 100 persons against deponent, and warned him to eir liv.,3 and protect himself. Mr. Brown got ont of sred homeless the bnggy at Jones' stable and told deponent to drive around to the postoffico rho lives with &cd to hitch the horse there in the rear of the build- of the pflfcu fli *e. which deponent did. ;wo sisters on Deponent got Lii mail and returned idison street, home. While at the postoffice deponent >ck by a noise was warned to look out for Mr. Belard the shuf- linger, that he had made threats to kill 3g of newspa- him. On deponent's return home he fc dowa stairs saw Mr. Joe Brown ooming towards his a quantity of home in his buggy, and deponent start*" * * ' -J 1 * * \f , W miasms ttiat tunica miu, auu otuu 5 ujli. I? . thrown them T. Bellinger across the street, he picked back to bed. up a gun which a friend had put into Mamie Law- bis possession the day before, telling sister in-law him to use it to protect himself with, ied by a smell and that he would need it to protect his ; of crackling life, and took it out with him, holding of her door, it in his hands. e Lane apart- Mr. Bellinger came walking towards way upstairs, his father's house, while deponent was other tenants walking by the buggy with his hands )ed in safety upon the shafts, the horse being resto. 10 Jackson less, moving forward a step at the fimfl. Mr. Rrnwn milliner him hack and the hall and endeavoriDg to restrain him, which .blaze by this drew deponent and deceased nearer tos smoke could gether, when suddenly Mr. Brown igent odor of pulled his horse suddenly back, and >ants had no backing some feet, left deponent and rways. Ba- Mr. Bellinger in plain view of each i second story other; immediately when without a ! streets and word from each other Mr. Bellinger rom seren to raised his pistol and fii\,d on deponent tto blankets at a distance of 10 or 15 steps; in quick m AH os- succession iie fired a second time, and serious than as he was in the act of firing the third :le ones slid- time deponent fired the gun one time police are in- and deceaaed fell; deceased fired again, making four in all; deponent raised his gun to fire again, but seeing that deLled. ceased had desisted from firing he shot of the Don no more. The deponent regrets more ribora, Cuba, than he can tell, the necessity which he ttly by aa un- was under to shoot the deceased, and atre recently, would only have done so in defense of ticianandhis his life. riticiaincr tfee I fficiais, parti- in?UmttB1U6' * < re. Hidalgo, The State presented a number of collector of strong affidavits from good people. editor of tbe Miss Lulie Bamberg, a student athas received tending the Carlisle Fitting school, and , he ridiculed a daughter of Gen. F M. Bamberg, said that last Friday morning about half "ffl ? :- - ? --Pi .1 nil... past. 10 o'clock she was on the iroat: T!7$ fRO piazza of tfco girl's boarding hall of the i 11 vH v fitting sehonl. facinz on the camm^: saw Mr. Joe Brown drive up the.street from toward Railroad avenue, turn the Weekly bulletin Issu corner, and stop his bnggy in front of t Mr. Johnson's gate. In a few minutes t'?n Director 6 Mr. Johnson came out of the house towards the buggy with a gun in his hand; the impression mdde on the de- HOW THE CROPS A ponent was that he was going hunting. The deponent then saw Willie Bellinger in the path leading diagonally Review of th Sit ii i-l r.ii?1 acruso me paiii tu ma ltuuei a uuuae. He had a paper in his hand. Mr. John- Summary of the eon did not stop at the buggy, but walked rapidly across the road that 'or *ne Y^a>\ rnns in front of his honse to the tele- w , graph pole in front of Mr. Bellinger's Weatner. lot. *? *>r; Belliuger turned into The foIlowi ia thc w, the short path leading to his house, the of the 00Dditi0'n 0j the aeponent, (earing something would hap- f th g ; d , pen from the manner in which Mr. Di tor Bauer of th g( Johnson was carrying the gun in his 8eclion f h UlW g hand toward Mr. Bellinger, went to the b . olim3teaI,d crop hali door to go into the piazza when The week eodi jj0?, she heard a loud report as of a gun, was di ktl ^ than IOUU?U PBTO1 a?U, on witi ] j ht tem looking back, saw Mr. Bellinger fa hng ths'3d ,aasi fj ht ,* with his pistol in his hand shooting. 0f Greenville and Spart The loudest report was the f.rst. Miss ti but without doi/ V erbsna Brabham was with me on tne j ^ , TTYMV C0ul,ill0t tC" sightly cheeking the gro whether the first loud report was one vegetation gunshot or two simultaneously. It was There were numerous!; as two babels discharged almost to- showers, generally eonfi.-, \i rf'ir p ? and die and lower Savanna! Mr. Bellinger fell, Mr. Joe Brown drove ,!oB_ lh(1 immediate up by Jlr. JSelliDger, looked at him., and ghcv;er3 were beneficiaIi drove on. ra-Q -3 nee<ie(i over the e Miss Verbenai Brabham, daughter of 60ften the ground, which Dr. R. 0. Braoham of Hawthorne, an- ;9 becomi?s baked and b nother student, said that last Friday the germinatio[1 ot KC( morning she was on the front piazza 3eeds, and to supply moil of the hall (upstairs), with Miss LuUe Mdo'ats whUe headi a Bamberg, a little after 10?half after- Damaging hail occurred when sue saw Mr. Brown drive up and county stop in front of Mr. Johnson's front p!antcd fields are bee( uoor. . Mr. Johnson walked out in a and sta?d in need .f nurry witn ais gun, ana Iran wbere 1 jjag begUn where corn a was standing, on the end of the piazza, , e*oa?h Bottom j. I had a sine tow of htm and he went bec'oming dry eDongh t0 near the telegraph post. It did not them for planting, seem to be exactly behind it from where CorD ;3 comi t0 He was carrying the gun in his stand and cuitiTStion j; hands and raised it m a nurry, stopped siderab!e progress. Ove a second and shot. Mr. Bellinger had tionfl of thc gtate ye] his paper in his hand, and I saw him has been ,aoted bei pnll his pistol as he was tailing and ootton i8 all planted. Ci shot twice,1 think, lam sure Mr. John- cr0w8 are Tery tronblesoi son shot him down before he drew his laod necessitating mnoh ?if "jLn?i'eT'hep^lZinSfi1 . Cotton planting made , .KU.. !.. . ; , J.; during the week, and, w Johnson came out of his yard he did Tanoed is from half to t not touoh the buggy, bat went by it in ished Ball; plantings. a hurry. The above statements are 3tands but the recent co sustained by Nathaniel M. Salley, a Tery injurious, causing s teacher of the fitting echoo1; James L. die. Landa are not all Cleckley, P. E. Dibble and L. 0. cotton. Chopping out i Hiers, particularly 33 to the loud report way> coming first. . Rust on wheat haa becc , J^Grantsaxdtliathei9 between eral and is spreading. T: """V j U1 11 u*"v? Ui many places less promisi Charleston and moved to Bamberg tof havi been. about the first of last November; that by the excessive rainfall o last Thursday afternoon he was asked have impr0ved. Both cr< by a tall white man, unknown to him, jQg who was standing by the artesian well bulk of the tobacco to go to the hardwire store and get him trangpianted, and the * a box of loaded buckshot shell, and foiled There was r gave him 50 cents to buy them and 5 lant ezcepfc a\ a few cents to get some 33 calibre, centre fire, was badly damaged, in th pistol cartridges. "I went into Mr. til till! 11 1 , UIDHAVfcaj VJ JUX?U. TTa^i. Brooker s store and told the clerk what extent cannot now be e8ti I wanted. He gave me some buckshot Apple and pear trees loose and some pistol cartridges, as re- badjy. some peaches < quested. I went and gave them to the eQ0ugh remain to make man who asked me to get them. He wild berries are abundant sent me back the second time to get gorgi^^ an(j melons hav oattia lAflnan ona a tai? t na min Tmo 1 i . ? . . ^ 5vxu. g00d staa(l3 tll0 latter time I got some loaded shells and re- run to vine> Sweet ^ turned the loose buckshot. The sales- tifd in bedgi but few hav man who waited on me was Mr. Hooten pIanted. Whifce potatoes Felder. The man told me to tell/ Mr. but baSrg ^Tq .very num< Felder a man at Mr. Counts' store truck shipments being ma wanted them. I don t know who the man talking to me wa3." Blown Up in Strest Car- ) ...non.^ A car cn the St. Louis anH Suburban > WvJuD'b H 3 0 H I Railway was blown from the track and \ twisted sideways by an explosion f "tpi HP V? n q rr QavatoI f"k n CQATi rr^ra 4 br a irt wi v a , JL LI LLi. \AC*J UU TV/ltii VI V WM # I I fl HJ were slightly injured by the flyingglass i ? |g| and broken timbers which came up \ from below. Four were taken back co T Our business in Fara tne city for treatment. There is a ^ to-day one of the larg strike on the road. _ The explosive was ^ Country. A result due nitro-glycerine, which had been spread ^ that quality alwav on the track for some distance The J feti consideration. T car was filled with persons returning f from a Dewey celebration. It was rain- i ^ Seeds required for ing hard at the time and liphtmng \ f?QA^Q & fl OVPC flashed continuously across the car. f UKAooCfc CLUVEfl Many women were among the passen- r COW rCflS, Cotto; J J :i J1 _ V i r? 1 n n 1 gers, sua tuey Bcieameu wnuiy. juvery m J5CCQ USIS S66G person was hurled from the seats and i *c?*? w? ' c. 1 fell pellmell into the aisle. At first it f ^0J8* i>avy a. was thought that a bolt of lightning r Re&flS, SOfgh had struck, but when the motorman 4 Broom CoiU K and conductor, after an examination, a rnrn Pp*nn announced that the car had been blown f vOnl, rcauU up by strikers there was more confu- r Millet See( sion, and the men prepared for an at- A Raoe etc tack. This was the signal for more a t , . screams, and many of the passengers \ Wood's Descriptive got off the car and braved the' terrible v Sill a^auXer s^dafi downpour. No attack was made, how- 4 of culture, soil best adapts ever, and the wrecked car was removed a that a^e^el^o mi to the sheds. * t0 grow. Catalogue maile ?g iC^UCBb, Will Support Bryan. 1 T ]U WHIM & "It has been said that I shall support \ 11 Hi flUUU 0& Bryan if he is the Democratic nominee f OCCftQMCN Dinhn for president," said W". Bourke Cockran, d ^LLuOmLlij - rilullll who spoke at Montgomery, Ala., Thursday night at the race conference. ? "Thatdepends, I say frankly, upon the A Strange Cas Kansas City platform and the spirit in A t(A from Hartsf; which it 13 submitted to the _ American th Colnlmbu gtate Baya t people If that p a form is only a a oo]orcd ma? wer'e foo, reiteration of the platform of 1896, I Creek abollt eiglt miles shall no support it or the nominee I m d ]asst week_ . am nnulterablv oDDoacd :o the McKm- r.... j _ .. ? a lasieueu iu a 3u?&o iu mo lay policy toward our_n(lw possessions. boi-e marks of violence. I I oppose militarism. I oppose imperial- ^ , d . , ism. I oppose trusts. If taeplatform that section, si it must b( takes a decided stand in opposing these ofastraDge;. The ease questions and the spirit is in favor of t i ^ ?h acd mailing them predominant, I shall sup- ?opcd tiat he ?m soare port H and do all I can m my State for sofve the mystery. The the tieket. Otherwise I will not. I con- taTe 00<.u.red some wce aider these questions the issues of the montj16 ae0 campaign, 'l'iie money plank, it it ' 2L must, can remain the same as in 1896, Cuban Postal Fra because it is impossible to make it ef- The thrifty Yankees f fective, and the other issues are graver Havana to show the benij and far more important from the how to manage their own standpoint of present conditions. As made a raid on the Hav3 to New York Slate, I can say nothing, and stolen several hundr for I am there only as a private citizen." dollars. The steal was en, man named Neeiey, ch: Stands at the Head. agent of the Havanna po TVio Sun savs President I has beea arrested. McK'nJrjy has in four years demonhtra-icd his capacity for changing his PTTTS' mind cftener or presenting that appearance more perfeotly of having two IllTiOrDTin IDl/iHf minds at the same time on the same J)|lj tlOCr! Ill Inllol subject, which is popularity descnoed as ''facing both ways," than any light- Cures La Grppe, dyspepsia ning-change artist in the profession. and all stomach and bowel tro . * oholera morbus, teething t Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Mldna, kidney troubles b Pitts' Antiseptie Invigerator has been used in my family and I am per- u anything on the m' fectly satisfied that it is all, and will ^ry it and you will praia< do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, If your druggist doesn't keep i A. B. 0. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself. THE MURRAY DR It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all Columbia, S. druggists. tf A. kingdom for a cure. Jno. S Reyni You need not pay so much. A. twenty-five oeni bottle of L. L. & K. Attorney at L Will drive all ills away. See ad, and try it?never fails. I COLUMBIA., I P ck ae^ sag? s5|p= gs^ led by Sec- qj auer. ' Prepare to > .RE DOING. Prices of paper and paper bs uation an yon will tell ns yonr troubles zr Columbia Sta ^Wholesalers of Bags, eekly bulletin PLUMB 1 IVednesday by PRACTICAL 1 juth. Carolina cases weatner m1 __ < , service: The Demand of the Times. Su< lay, May 7th, eitoesXr MacFeat's School ofShor its in portions anbure counly perceptible COLUMBIj wthof??endet W. H. MacFeat, Court St Terms reasonable. ?ht, scattered ' 2d to the mid- Strange Elopement. | i valley, ana jg,ta q Shamley and Miss Delia coast. These x>immick, of South Haven, Mich., deand a warm s:re<j to marry but the girl's parents ntire State to were 0pp0sed. The lovers decided to i in clay lands cross tile ;ate to Chicago Thursday tard to hasten night. Miss Dimmick went to the i jntly planted steamer Kalamazoo, which leaves at jture to wheat g.3^ aD<i} engaging a stateroom, locked nd blooming, j^eif jn. Her parents, with the poin Abbeville jjcej wenfc to the boat, and was^ordered to come out, but reiusea. snamiey I )mipg grassy,- was watched. but his friends assisted vation, which just before the boat started a nd cotton are cr0wd rushed down the pier with him, andsare just an(j wjien ^ steamer pulled out he 1 begin to pre- wag beyond the reach of arrest, "The { ,, , couple clasped -arms and waved handgenerally good kerchiefs to the angry parents and . .as aade con- baffled police, who stood upon the dock. r r.hA wocrorn * ' .1 * <? vu i&e elopers came to tne resiaence or :y litJe corn bride's sister, Mrs. Ora Stanley, I deferred until "^Vaukegan, 111., and were married. it worms and me on bottom A Mammoth Whalereplanting. ^ special dispatch from Conway, S. rapid progress q^ tjje Q0iutnbja State says: "A rnere least ad- maznmoth. whale has been washed 1 wo-thirds hn- ag^ore near the terminus of the Conir,e PP to i air way Seashore railroad, and President ml mirhtq arft t> 1 -l i - o--- --- .ourrougns nas Deen running excursions j ome cotton to to acc0mmodate the crowd wishing to prepared for gee t^e jg gg ?eet jn s well under )engtli and 24 in breadth. It has in its side a harpoon with about 30 feet of >me quite gen- rQpe attached. The supposition is that crop is in wag jacked by a whaling crew and ng than here- tjjat escaped but died from its rently injured woun(js< x0 prove to those that did Apri1' Uaj3 not see it that this was not a 'fish story' 3ps are head- 0f usaai type, several took snap , , shots of the monster." crop has been tiic icmro luncm points. Rioe "RUtn mULLU. %GatToewhat The New Ball Bearing mated. a 532 Domestic Sagar cine, ~ ^, . begianiQjf to Sewmg Machine ! to slips plen- Jt Leads in Workmanship, Beauty, ^ e been trans- Sfr^Ti(Tf}i Tiiorlif/RnTmincr. I( . ,, , k/vIvu6?M, ? O3 doing well, Every Weman Wants Ooe. srous. Large jg * J LJ Attaclmients, Needles and ? Parts for Sewing Machines ] i of ail makes. ] R R h, II r 5 When ordering needles send ] \ sample. Price 27c per dozen, ] 1 I postpaid. ^ j UviDi f Agents Wanted in Unoccupied Terri- ^ 0 . . A tory. n vao/Ic -\c v est in this ^ J. L. 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