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MIGHTY ANTISEPTIC j j Dr. Talmagelon Christian Re-j - figion as a Preventive of j i THE WORLD'S ILLS. It Is an Active Prir.c'ple, Which j Constantly, Works for the Welfare of 3cdy Mind and Sou!. j Dr. Taimage is now traveling in Norway, where he lias been dee>]y interested in the natural phenomena and the quaint social life of that vondcrful land. In his discourse this week he argues, contrary to the opinion of many that religion is an active principle which works constantly for the welfare of body and mind and soul. His text is Luke xiv, 34, "Salt is good." The Bible is a dictionary of the finest similes, it employs, among living creatures, storks and eagles and doves and unicorns and sheep and cat tie; among trees, sycamores and terebinths and pomegranates and almonds and apples; among jewels, pearls and amethysts ana jacinths and chrysoprases Christ uses no stale illustrations. The lilies that he plucks for his sermons are dewy fresh; the ravens in his discourses are not stuSea specimens of birds, but warm with life from wing tip to win* tip; the fish he points to are not dull about the gills, as though long captured but a-equirm in>the wet net just brought up on the beach of T;beria3. In my text, which is the peroration of one of his sermons, he picks up a crystal and holds it before his congregation as an illustration of divine grace in the heart when he says, what we all know by experiment, "Salt is good." I shall try to carry out the Saviour's idea in this text and in the first placc say to you that grace is like sait in its beauty. In Galicia there are mines of salt, with excavations and underground passages reaching. I am told, 2S0 miles. Far under ground there are chapels *nd halls of reception, the columns, the altars and the pulpits of salt. When the king and the princes come to visit these mines, the whole place is illumi ^ rtWTTf-fol WO 11a UaitXi, ail U kiiO glUijr UJ. Wjaiai naiu aad crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal columns, under the glare of the torches and the lamps, needs words of crystal to describe it. But you need not go so far as that to find the beauty of salt You live in a land which produces millions of bushels of it in a year, and you can take the morning rail train and in a few hours get to the salt mines and salt springs. And you have this article morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowflake and water foam with durability added. It is beautiful to the naked eye, but under the glass you see the stars and the diamonds and the white tree branches and the splinters and the bridges of fire as the sun glints them. There is more architectural skill in one of these crystals of salt -than human ingenuity has ever demonstrated in an Alhambra or St. Peter's. It would take all time, with an infringment upon eternity, for an angel of G-od to teli one-half the glories in a salt crystal. So with the grace of God. 1- a ? ?_1 ( 1 ic is periecuy Deauiiiui. jl nave bcbu it smooth out wrinkles of care from the biow. I have seen it make an 3ged man feel almost young again. I have seen it lift the stooping shoulders and put sparkle into the dull eye. Solomon discovered its therapeutic qualities when he said, "It is marrow to the bones." It helps to digest the food and to purify the blood ana to calm the pulses and quiet the spleen, and instead of Tjndal's prayer test of 20 years ago, putting a man in a philosophical hospital to be experimented up^n by prayer, it keeps him so well that he dees not need to be prayed for as an invalid. I am speaking now of a healthy religion?not of that morbid religion that sits for three hours on a gravestone reading Harvey's "Meditations Among the Tombs"?a religion that prospers beet in a bad state of the liver! I speak of the religion that Christ preached, 1 suppose when that religion has conquered the world that disease will be banished aiid tUat a man a huo dred years of age will c-uue in from j hn?inas<j and : "1 f?.tt iifed 1 i think it must be time for me 10 go." j and without one physical pang Leaven j will have him. Bat the chief beauty of grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard and cold and repulsive and makes it all over again. It pours upon one's nature what David calls "the beauty of holiness." It extirpates everything that is hateful and unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust and worldliaess lurk about, they are chained and have a very small sweep. Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of a summer garden as he comes in, saying, '*1 am rose of Skaron," and he submerges it with the glory of a spring morniag as he says, "I am the light." Oh, how much that grace did for the three Johns I It took John Bunyan, the foul mouthed, and made him John Bunyan, the immortal dreamer. It took John Newton, the infidel sailor, and in the midst of the hurricane made him cry out, "My mother's God, have mercy upon me!" It took John SummerSeld from a life oin }w t.ViA hand nf a (Christian maker of edge tools, led him into the pulpit that burns still with the light of that Christian eloquence which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom he once despised. Ah, you may searoh all the earth over for anything so beautiful or beautifying as the grace of God. Go all through the desp mine passages of Wieliezka and amid the underground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt, and show me anything so exquisite, so transoendently beautiful as this grace of God fashioned and hung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is like salt in the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. What are those paths across the western prairies? Whv. thevwere made there bv deer and buffalo going to and coming away from the salt "licks." Chemists and physicians all the world over tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And so with the grace of God; yon must have it or die. I know a great many speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder strap adorning a soldier, or a light, frothing ' dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life is over, or a medicine to be taken after ponders acd mustard plasters have failed to do their work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a string of bells aiound a horse's neck while he draws the load, aad in novrise helping him to draw it. So far from that I declare the grace of God to be the hrst j A. t- Tt :? ^ auu ma last iieuesanji. it is iwu r?c must take or starve into an eternity of famine. It is clothing without which we freeze to the mast of infinite terror. It is the plar?k, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is I the ladder, and the only ladder, ou | which we can climb up into the light, j It 23 a positive necessity for the sou1, j You can tell very easily what the effect would be if a person refused to j take salt into the body. The enerJ P-il tU l,in>TC irrnim c^mtr glfb WUUIU iOU, IU& HA uf,u nvi... u..w0 gle with the air, slow fevers would crawl through the brain, the heart would fiuttc-r, and the life would be gone. Salt a necessity for the life of the body; the grace of God a necessity for the life of j the soul. i Again I remark that grace is like salt j in abundance. God fcas strewn salt in j vast profusion all over the continents. I Russia seems built cn a saltcellar. There i is one region of that country that turns ! j out 90,000 ton * in a year. Eagland and Kussia and Italy have inexhaustible re sout cos in this respect. Norway and Sweden, white with snow above, white with salt beneath. Austria, yielding r?>a rtr.fw VCOTlr ,11 W\J.\JV!\J I UUfJ auu uanj. nation n rich in it?rock sal', spring salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the world, when he uttered our test, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts were sunk and the spring were bored and the pumps were worked and the crystals were gathered. So the grace of God is abundant. It is forali!and3, for all ages for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickestdaikncss. Around about the salt lakes of Saratoy there are 10,000 men toiling day and night, and yet thoy never exhaust the saline treasures And if the 1,600,000,000 of our race should now cry out to God for his mercy there would be enough for all?for those farthest gone in sia, for the murderer standing on the drop of the gallows. It is an ocean of mere?; and if Europe and Asia, Africa, North and South America and all th& islands of the sea went down in it today they would have room enough to wash and come up clean. Let no maa think that his case is too tough a one for God to act upon. Though your sin may be deep and raging, let me tell you that God's grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful chasm of your guilt, one end resting upon the rock of eternal promises and the other on the t'ounda tions of heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so incrusted with jewels that no one after him ever dared to wear it, but our King, Jesus, takes off the robe of his T?<T}>?-oAncT,ACK a rnhe blood dved and heaven impearled, and reaches it out to the worst wretch in all the earth ana says: "Put t.'iat on! Wear it now! I Wear it forever." AgaiD, the grace of God is like salt in the way we come at it. Tne salt on the ! surface is almost always impure?that which incrusts the Rocky mountains and the South American pampas and in India; but the miners go down through j the shafts and through tbe dark laby! rinths and along by galleries of rock and with torches and pickaxes, find their way under the very foundations of the earth, to where the salt lies that makes up the nation's wealth. To get to the best saline springs of the earth huge machinery goes 3own, boring depth below depth until from under the very roots of the mountains, the saline water supplies the aqueduot. This water is brought to the surface and is exposed in tanks to tbe sun for evaporation, or it is put I LI JJUA1C10 LUig.Lll.njr u&aL^u, MUU >?V water evaporates, ana the salt gathers at the bottom of the tank?the work is completed, acid the fortune is made. So with the grace of God. It is to be profoundly sought after. With all the concentered energies o: body, mind and soul we must dig for it. No man stumbles accidentally on it. We need to go down to the very lowest strata of earnestness and faith to find it. Superficial exploration will not turn it up. We must strive and implore and dig until we strikkthe spring foaming with living waters. Then the work of evapo| ration begins, and as when the saline | waters are exposed to the sun, the vaj pors float away, leaving nothing but the pure white salt at the bottom of the tank, so, when the Christian's soul is eposed to the Sun of Kighteousness, the vapors c-t pride and selfishness and worldliness Scat off, and there is chiefly left beneath cure white holiness of heart *5 q in t ho r?2co rtf t Ha oalf, thft JL w *J xtu. VfcAV, v. ?- , furnace is added. Blazing troubles, j stirred by smutted stokers of darkness, j quicken the evaporation of worldliness, and the crystallization of grace. Have you not been in enough trouble to huve that work go on? I was readiug of Aristotle, who said there was a held of flowers in Sicily so sweet that once a hound, coming on the track of game, came to that field and was bewildered by the perfumes and so lost the track. Oh, that our souls might become like "a field which the Lord hath blessed" and exhale so much of the sweetness of Christian character that the hounds of temptation, coming on our track, might lose it and go howling back with disappointment! But, I remark again, that the grace of God is like the salt ic ics preservative quality. l7ou know that salt absorbs the moisture c-f articles of food and infuses them with brine, which preserves them for a lorg while. Salt is the great anti putrefactor of the world. Experimenters in preserving food, have tried sugar and smoke and airtight jars and everything else, but as long as the world stands Christ's words will be suggestive, and men will admit that as a great preservative 4'salt is good." ? ! e A. rt-J iL. i>us ior me grace ox wuu sue eariu vrould have become a stale carcass loDg before this. That grace is the only preservative of laws and constitutions s.nd literatures. Ju3t as soon as a government loses this salt of divine grace it perishes. The philosophy of this day, so far as it is antagonistic to this religion, putrefies and sticks The great want of our schools of learning and our institutions of science today is, not more Lsyden j3rs and galvanic batteries and spectroscopes and philosphical apparatus, but more of that grace that will teach our men of science that the God of the universe is the God r>-P tVia R?r?]o TTatt fltrancrA it is that V* J-r A tUi\J? XAV II ** ?fc/ ?UM?r in ail their magnificent sweep of the telescope they have not seen the mornicg star of Jesus and that in all their experiments with light and heat they have not seen the light and felt the warmth of the Sun of righteousness' We want more of the salt of God's grace in our homes, in our schools, in our colleges, in our social life, ia our Chris- ! tianity. And that which has it will j live; that whieh has it not will die. I proclaim the tendency of everything earthly to putrefaction and death?the religion ofJDhrist the only preservative. My subject is one of great congratulation to those who have within their i souls this gospel antiseptic. This sal: I will preserve tEem through the temptaj tions and sorrows of life and through | the ages of eternity. I do not mean to j say that you will have a smooth time i because you are a Christian. On the j contrary, if you do your whole duty, I j will promise you a rough time. You I march through an enemy's country, and | they will try to double up both fianks j and to cut you off from your source of rT-T--?-r .mi?_. n n?i i i 11 urn 11 ' supplies. The war you wage will no' I I be with toy arrow.-, but with sword ! plungei to the hilt 3cd spurriog on ; I your steed over heaps of the slain. Bat : I I think that God omnipotent will see j you through. 1 think he will. Jtsut j why do I talk 3ike an atheist whei 1 ought to say I know he will? '"Kept { by the power cf God through faith unto complete salvation." When Governor Geary of Pennsylj vania died, years ago, I lost a good j friend. He impressed me mightily I with the horrors of war. In the eight hours that we roue together in the cars he recited to me the scenes through which he had posted in the civil war. He said that there c;me one battle upon which everything seemed to pivot. I Teiegram3 from Washington said that I the life of the nation depended on that I struggle. He said to me: ;'I went into I that battle, sir, with my son. His i ~T- ?- ? ^<3 I <miKf r,i riflr nf LUUCUCi auu JL U1VUS>< v v.v?^ - him. You know how a father will feel toward his son who is coming up manly ! and brave and good. Well, the bittle opened and eoaoentcred, and it was awful. Horses and riders bent and twisted and piled up together. It was awful, sir. We quit firing 3nd took to the point of tfce bsyonet. Weli, sir, I didn't feel like myself that day. 1 had prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, aod I went inlo it feeliDg that I had in my r:ght arm the strength of ten giants " And as the governor brought his arm down on the back of the seat it fairly made the car tremble. ''vVeU,^ he said, "the battle was desperate, but after awhile we gained a iiitile, atd wc marched on a lit tic. I :.u-ned round to the troops and shouted, "Come on, boys!' and I stepped across a dead soldier, and, lo, it was my son! I saw at the first glance I he was dead, and yet I did not dare to [ stop a minure, for the crisis had come j in the battle. So i jast got aown on ! my knees, and I threw my arms around him, and I gave him one good kiss and said, 'Goodby, dear,' and sprung up and shouted, 'Come on, boys!' " So it is in ths Christian conflict?it is a fierce fight. E:ernal age* seem depending on the strife. Heaven is waiting for the bulletins to announce the tremendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of saber, fall of battle-ax, groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss 01 bereavement or anything else. With one ardent embrace and one loving kiss we utter our farewells and then cry: 'Come on, boys! There are other heights to be captured; there are other ! foes to be conquered; there other j crowns to be won." Yet, as one of the Lord's surgeons, I j must bind up two or three wounds. ' ^ I JUbt illfc lilt.'Ill IiU?, HTlittlCYCi liAtjr I I have been told there is nothing like salt to stop the bleeding'of a wound, and so I take this salt of God's gospel and put it on the iaceratcd soul. It smarts a little at first, but see?the bleeding stops, and. lo, the flesh comes again as the flesli of a little child. "Salt is good." ''Comfort one another ; with these words." THE TEACHER'S CONVENTION After a Most Successful Meeting Closed Friday. The National Educational Society, which met in Charleston last week, concluded its labors on Friday night and adjourned sine die. There were many di3ting;xshed educators from all over the Uuited States present, and i * y J many vaiuao;e papers were r?;au uu school matter* at the different sessions &f the convention. The following officers were elected far the coming year: Fesidcnt?J. M. Green. Trenton, N. J. First vicc president, 0. T. Uorscn, Ohio; second, J. A. Fcshay, California; third. H. P. Archer, South Carolina; fourth, H B. Browu, Indiana; fifth, Francis W. Parker, Illinois; sixth, L. W. Bacholez, Florida; seventh, W. II. Bartholomew, Kentucky; eighth, 0. H. Cooper, T x.s; ninth, Wm. M. Davidson, Kansas; tenth. R. B. Fulton, Mississippi; eleventh, Gertrude Edmonds, Massachusetts; twelfth, II. E. Kratz, Iowa: treasurer, L. C. Greenlee, Colorado. Mr. Irving Shephard, the treasurer, holds ever. The selection of the convention city for 1901 was left to the executive committee. At the closing session the committee on resolutions made its retort. Their findings urge Lie battering and spreading of the common school and the extension of the American system into Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Congress is requested to reorganize the bureau of education upon broader line?, in order tj meet the increased requirej ments and to i stablish it as anindepenI dent department on a plane with the department of labor. The department of school administration elected the following officers: President, W. S. Ellis, Anderson, Ind.; first vice president, I. H. Peres, Memphis, Tenn.; second, John Ogren, Charleston; third, Dr. W. A. Hunt., Xorthfieid, Minn.; fourth, Graham H Harris, Chicago; fifth, R. L. Y?airer, Kansas City; secretary, Wui. George Brnce, Milwaukee. Jnmped From tlie TrainA negro was killed Thursday night on the Coast Line railroad in the Southern portion of the city. Coroner Green held an inquest this morning, butitwa3 n/if /lofirifolTT what the negro's name wan. He was variously called Smith, Davis or gome other name, so he was denominated unknown. He was stealing a ride on an incoming freight train and jumped off just as the train got under the Seaboard trestle and was killed. His head was crushed. It is said that he came from Wedgefield. The verdict was that he came to his death by jumping eff the train while stealing a ride. The railroad company buried the remains.?Columbia Record. Devoured by Cannibals. Bushmen from Cape Oxford, according to a letter received from Sydney, were killed and eaten by cannibals on the coast of New Britain. The most horrifying part was when several men ware captured alive and dragged to the " . * o -x ii i J*: ^ - 4.^ [ scene 01 me least mejr ouuies wem provide. They were clubbed and after! wards roasted and eaten. This tribe of native ghouls is one of the most notorious in the islands for man eating, who kill l?or food solely. The victims were not all killed at once, some of them witnessing the killing of their eosnrvlya j *nd the first part of the cannibal least. A Foolish Charge. The Springfield Republican says: "One of the odd things in this charge that Mr. Bryan was responsible for the ratiScation of the Paris treaty is that it leaves out of account Mr. McKinley, two-thirds of the United States senate | and the sudden outbreak of war at Maj nila the day before the vote was taken, i J If Brran had more to do with ratiQca- j I LLULi LllCklJ. WUVCV A V i-x/ - vrv-r not need to be iaaugurated as president of the United States to ran the American people. He is, in that <?ase, the biggest force in the country already, and he ought to start 16 to 1 a-going without being elected/' + "V>S ? -mmmmrnmmmi ! ??a CAMPAIGN OPENED. Thirteen Thousand People Piesent to Hear the Speeches. BRYAN AND OTHERS SPEAK. Several Very Strong Pi esentations of the Democratic Doctrine. Appeal to the Voters of the Nation. The informal opening of the Democratic presidential campaign took place at Liscota, Neb., on Tuesday of last week. In two ratification meetings, one in the afternoon, conducted by the Populists and Silver Republicans of Nebraska, and one in the evening conducted by the Democrats, Wm. Jennings Bryan, Chas. A. Towne, Gen. James B. Weaver and other leaders of the parties, outlined the work of the campaign in the interest of Bryan and Stevenson. Probably 13,000 people, a good proportion from distant points in the State, listened to the speeches and paid homage to the leaders of the parties to which they owe allegiance, nearly 3 000 people packing the auditorium in the afternoon, while 19,000 gathered in the capital grounds in the eveniDg. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Towne spoke at both meetings, although it was their intention to deliver addresses only at the evening meeting, and their remarks, forecasting as they did the fusion of the three parties on the Democratic national ticket, were received with unbounded enthusiasm. Mr. Stevenson, who is Mr. Bryan's guest, was somewhat indisposed and did not appear at the afternoon meeting. He was present at the evening meeting, however, and received an ovation. At the afternooon meeting the speakers were Mr. Bryan, Congressman Shaforth of Colorado. "Cyoione" Davis of Tesas, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior Webster Davis, Charles A. Towne, and Gen. James B. Weaver. Mr. Bryan spoke last and only in response to repeated calls. He was wildly cheered as Chairman Sdmonston intro duced him as "Mr. Bryan of North I Feel almost as if I ought to apol ^:za for not being able to call myself i 'ormerRepublican," said Mr. Bryan, amid laughter. Mr. Bryan then paid eloquent tribute to Gen. Weaver, Charles A. Towne and Webster Davis, t'ormer Republicans, saying he "wandered how the Republican who is not tied ohisDartyby office oould refuse to !eave the party and cast his lot with hose who believe in the Declaratien of independence here and in South Africa . iso 4"I simply want to say dow that the campaign is begun so far as the tickets and the platforms are concerned," Mr. liryan continued, "and from now until election day it will be the duty of every citizen to take these issues before the country and weigh them. It will be the duty of every citizen to see where his duty lies. There is a privilege in being an American citizen, and there is a responsibility commensurate with the privilege. If we lived in a laad where a king thought for us. we would feel no responsibility for the action of that king. But we live in a land where the people dete-roiiae the policy. We live in a land where the citizen impresses his own opinion upon the government, where the policy of the government may bo determined by the vote of one citizen. And I want to leave a thought with those who are to vote this fall. I want every citizen to vote as he would vote if he knew that his vote would determine this next election. (Applause.) "Remember what it means. You vote in Nebraska, and your vote may determine the vote of this State on the presidential ticket and your State may determine the result. (Applause ) "When you g,et to the polls to vote, remember that you are an American citizen. (Applause.) Remember that your vote may determine this nation's position and that this nation will, in a lar*re measure, determine the public opinion of the world on the doctrine that governments come up from the people. (Great applause.) For 124 years this nation has held before the world the light of liberty. For more ? ? Uftfl kflflfl O ?> AVOTYirklo I liiULl <A OClilUI/ IV i-?CfcO UOV/U tmu. ^AUuipiv to all the world. You tell me that we caD now be indifferent to what is going on? You tell me that a man who lifts his voice against the doctrine of imperialism is pleading the cause of the Filipino? I tell you he is pleading the cause of American citizens?yea, he is championing the rights of the strug gling masses of the world who look to America for example. (Great applause.) If every Filipino were to die the world would go on, but if this nation, the greatest republic of the world's history, put s out its light, if this republic turns r?a;-.k lo the doctrines which we loathed a oeutury and a quarter ago, then to wha' nation ?>' the world can the people look fjr hupe aii-i insipiration? So you ought to be proud that you are an American citizen and are able to say ?'If the republic goes down I am not ? ? ^ 11 n ?? /ri ? to blame lor its aowniaiu ^urreat applause.) THE EVENING MEETING. At the evening meeting Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson were given a tremendous greeting by the crowd. Both were cheered again and again as they appeared on the platform. Mr. Towne delivered the most extended speech of the evening meeting, outlining the campaign arguments on which the- Democratic party will fight the campaign of 1900. Mr, Towne gave his first attention to the [monetary question, admitting that the issue had changed in importance since 1896, but insisting that it was still a live issue; tha. the principles of bimetallism are as true now as they were in 189t>. Trusts were denounced as an inherent part of the Republican administration. Mr. Towne devoted considerable attention to imperialism, condemning the course of aammiscrauon. Mr. Towne was followed by Mr. Bryan, who was iutroduoed amid tremendous 3j'p!ause. He spoke as folio "I am deeply grateful to the good people of this city and State for their very cordial approval of my nomination. Four yeara ago the State gave me about 13,000 plurality, and on three occasions since that time the people of Nebraska hu.d declared their adherence to the political principles for which I have been contending. I am not vain enough to believe that their support is meant as a personal compliment. I accept it as an evidence of their steadfast r!<?vr.ririn to the nrinciolea to which I have been wedded. We enter this campaign under conditions far more favorable to success than those which surrounded us in 1396. Bat whether we win this year or not, the fight must be continued until organized wealth ceases to control the affairs of the cation and it becomes again a nation of the people. "[ do not cire to enter at the present time upon a discussion of the issues presented by the platform adopted at Kansas City. I can say, however, that it is, in my judgment, the greatest nUt-form adootod in recent Years, if not in the history of the country. It j is greater than the Chicago plaifoim, for it endorses the principles set forth in that platform and in addition thereto presents the party's position upon several new and vital questions. There is no evasion about the platform, no ambiguity and no double dealing. It is as clear as the tones of a bell?as clear as the tones of a liberty bell. It deals honestly with the American people. Its candidates are pledged to its maintenance. "When the convention came to the station of naming a candidate for vicepresident there was diverrity of opinion. Sams preferred an eastern cacdidate, believing that he would strengthen the ticket in the east. Some pre ferred Mr. Towne, knowing of the sacrifices which he made for principle and aP Viia tfi tiiA r*rim?in!p.s forth in the Chicago platform. Bat the choice fell upon a distinguished Illinois Democrat who once discharged with great credit the duties of the office. In the campaign of 1896, when plutocracy and democracy met face to face, Adlai E. Stevenson was an able and courage dus defender of the cause of democracy. During the campaign he spoke in seven of the close States. "I know that some of our allies felt aggrieved that they were not given the second placa upon the ticket, but I am sure that they cannot feel unkindly toward one who, like Mr. Stevenson, was loyal to the ticket nominated at Chicago and who is able to defend the magnificent party creed set forth at Kansas City. In this campaign issues are greater than men. 1 shall cot ask anyone to vote our ticket merely because it is the ticket of the party. It deserves support because it stands for the Declaration of Independence in dealing with the Philippines and foi the doctrine of equal rights for all and special privilege for" none in all domis- | tic questions. Gen. James B. Weaver spoke at some length, outliniDg the work to be done by the Democratic, Silver Republican and Populist parties and appealing for harmony for the common cause. He also paid tribute to Mr. Stevenson's record in congress. THE SIN DANCE. A Religious Rite Among the Natives of the PhilippinesThe Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Record says the almost naked body of a woman lying in a ditch ci__ r i.j near oan jjazaru suaiteu au luvccu^ation by the police recently that led to startling di&olosures as to the character of the Filipinos. Their treachery was common knowledge. Their savagery was not so well recognized uatil discoveries in connection with the finding of this quite decomposed body gave sufficient evidence to clear up any im pressions that the Tagalo was tnlightenea. The woman had died during the penitent dance on Good Friday, and in so doing had disgraced herself to the extent that her relatives had refused to have anything to do with her after death. The native priests have encouraged this relic of barbarity. Men, women and children indulge in the dance with a view of obtaining expiation for the sins of the year. The place chosen for the ceremony is always isolated. The more remote it is the more pleased are those who participate, for then there can be that abandon thrown into it which would be impossible near any town. The fanatics generally strip most of their clothing, ana are reaay ior toe aaace. They form a circle, giving their bodies a slightly swaying motion, aud all the while cut and lash each other with tough switches. It is considered a disgrace for aay of the participants to give way to fatigue until the dance is over, the only way to find favor in the eyes of the Supreme Being consisting 1 of a fortitude that makes light of the fearful switching. A dismal chant is kept up during the danoe, only ceasing when the chosen leader gives the sigaal to stop. The dead woman had participated in one of these dances, and had held out for hours. Those who were with her in the dance expreesed surprise that she held out as she did. Late in the afternoon, however she had succumbed and fallen utterly exhausted. She was dragged out of the circle and thrown into the ditch, where she had remained until the officers found her. ?" o ;_i_ i. U me opamsa government uiu m could to stop these rites, which closely approach those of the American Indians in their medicine dance, and now the United States will have something more to contend against in killing such practices. Carries a Spine. A western man man wrote to Life, clever satire weekly of New York, asking it to state its position in the national campaign. Life responded: "We are cot going to support Mr. McKinley nor Mr. Bryan. We are not going to support imperialism. The election of Mr. Bryan would not mean free silver. He could not force it upon the country if he tried. Congress is for gold, and will so remain. Mr. McKinley's reelection, especially with Mr. Roosevelt at his elbow, would promise a prolonged and bloody orgie of imperialism ?that if, of conquest, debt and dishonor. As to the two candidates personally we prefer Mr. Bryan. He has convictions?such as they are?and he carries a spine." Tha Two Issues. Senator J. K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee says: "The Democrats made free silver the issue in 1896," declared the Senator, "and they will make anti- imperialism the issue in the coming campaign. Tbe Republicans may try to make othtr questions paramount, so as to keep imperialism and trusts in the background, but we will not allow them to d*> so." No Increase of Trade. We refer our imperialists to the official report of our trade with Manila. TUa Moot Vr.rl- BVpninc Post, after ^>v. ? 0 , summing it up, says: ".Practically all the increase in our exports is caused by the presence of our army in the Philippines. Remove it, and there would be no more left of our export to those islands than there is of a soapbubble when it has burse. The Cotton Crop. The outlook for cotton is bad. The monthly report of the statistician of the department of agriculture will show the average condition of cotton on Jily 1 to have bt.u 75.S, as compared with 82.5 last month, S7.8 on July 1, 1899, 91.2 at the corresponding date in 1898, and a ten year average of S7,9. STATES HER CASE. China Defines Her Position in a Royal Decree. TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT. In it the Bcxers are Charged With Originating the Disturbances Now Going on in China A dispatch from Washington bays an imperial decree dated third day of sixth mocn was received by telegraph Wednesday by Minister Wu, from the Taotai of Shanghai, transmitted on July 1st from the treasure of the Chihli republic who received ifc by special courier on June 30 from the board of war, who in turn received it from the privy council in Pekin. This decree is as follows: "The circumstances which led to the commencement of fighting between Chinese and foreigners were of such a complex, confusing and unfortunate character as to be entirely unexpected. Oar diolomatic reDresentatives abroad. owiDg to their absence from the scene of action, have had no means of knowing the true state of things, and accordingly cannot lay the views of their government before the ministers of foreign affairs of the respective powers to which they are accredited. Now we take this opportunitv of going fully into the matter for the information of our representatives aforesaid. "In the first place, there arose ia the provinces of Chihli and Shan TuDg a band of rebellious subjects, who had been in the habit of practicing boxing and fencing in their respective villages, and at the game time clothing their doiDgs with spiritualistic and strange rites. The local authorities failed to take due notice of them at the time. Accordingly the infection spxead with astonishing rapidity. Within the space of a month it seemed to make its appearance everywhere and finally even reached, the capital itself. Every one looked upon the movement as supernatural and strange and many joined it. Then there were lawless and troaoTiArnns npMnns. who sounded the cry of 'Down with Christianity.' About the middle of the fifth moon, these persons began to create disturbances without warning. Churches were burnt and converts were killed. The whole city was in a ferment. A situation was created which could not be brought under control. At first, the foreign powers requested that foreign troops be allowed to enter the capital for the protection of the legations. The imperial government, having in view tbe comparative urgency of the occasion, granted the request, as an extraordianary mark of courtesy beyond the requirements of international inter course. Over 500 foreign troops were sent to Pekin. This shows cleady how much care China exercised in the maintenance of friendly relations with other countries. The legations at the capital never had much to do with the people. But from the time following the troops' entering the citv the euards did not de vote themselves exclusively to the protection of their respective legations. They sometimes fired their guDS on top of the city walis, and sometimes patrolled the streets everywhere. There were repeated reports of persons beiDg hit by stray bullets. Moreover, thej strolled about the city without restraint, and even attempted to enter the Tung Hua gate (the eastern gate of the palace grounds) They only desisted when admittance was positively forbidden. Oa this account both the soldiers and the people were provoked to resentment, and voiced their indignation with one accord. "Lawless pejsons then took advantage of the situation to do mischief, and became bolder than ever in burning and killing Christian converts. The powers thereupon attempted to reinforce the foreign troops in Pekin, but the reinforcements encountered resistance and defeat at the hands of the insurgents on the way and have not yet been able to proceed. The insurgents of the provinces of Chihli and Shan Tun had by this time eneccca a complete union, and could not be separated. The imperial government was by no meaDS reluctant to issue orders for the entire suppression of this insurgent element. Bat as the trouble was so near at hand, there was a great fear that due protection might not be assured to the legations, if the anarchists should be driven to extremities, thus bringing on a national calamity. There also was a fear that uprisings might occur in the provices of Ohihli and Shan Tung at the same time, with the result that both foreign missionaries and Chinese converts in the two provinces might fall victims to popular fury. It was, therefore, absolutely necessary to consider the matter from every point of view. "As a measure of precaution it was finally deoided to request the foreign ministers to retire temporarily to Tien Tsin for safety. It was while the discussion of this proposition was in progress that the German minister, Baron * i 3 l_ _ von Jietteler, was assassmazea Dy a riotious mob one morning while on his way te the tsung-li-yamen. On the previous day the German minister had written a letter appointing a time for calling at thetsung-li-yamen. But the yamen, fearing he might be molested on the way, did not consent to the appointment-. as suggested by the minister. Since this occurrence the anarchists assumed a more bold and threatening attitude and consequently it was deemed wise to carry out the project of sending the diplomatic corps to Tien Tsin under an escort, However, orders were issued to the troops detailed for the protection of the legations to keep stricter watch and take greater precaution against any emergency. "To our surprise, on the 20th day of the fifth moon (June 16,) foreign (naval) officers at Taku called upon Lo Jung Kwang, the general commanding, and demanded his surrender of the forts, notifyiBg him that failing to receive compliance they would at 2 o'clock the next day take steps to seize the forts by force. Lo Jung Kwang being bound by the duties of his office to hold the forts, how could he yield to the demand? On the day named they actually first fired upon the forts, which responded and kept up a fighting all day and then surrendered. Thus the conflict of forces began, but certainly the initiative did not come from our side. Even supposing that China were not conscious of her true condition, how mnlil cIia talcA snf>h a steD as to en gage in war with all the powers simulteneously, aod how could she, relying upon the support of an anarchistic populace, go into war with the powers? Our position in this matter ought to be clearly understood by all the powers. PRACTICAL The Demand of the Timea. Su Mac Feat's School ofSho COLTJMB] W. H. MacFeat, Court S Terms reasonable. ''The above is a statement of the' wrongs we have suffered, and how China was driven to the UBfortunate position from which she could not escape. ' Our several ministers will make known accurately and in detail the contents of this def-ee and the policy of China to the ministers of foreign affairs in their respective countries and assure tfcern that the military authorities are still er>j:>ined to afford protection to the legations as hitherto, to the utmost of their power. As for the anarchist, they will be severely dealt with as circumstances permit. "The several ministers will continue j in the discharge of the duties of their office as hitherto without heeitation or doubt. This telegraphic decree to be transmitted for their information. Reset ct this." Scholarships For Girls The South Carolina Federation of i Woman's Clubs has received from Con-1 verse college one scholarship of free tuition for each county in the State. All competitors for these scholarships will be required to pass a satisfactory examination in the following four subjects: 1. Latin, including grammar, composition;. and four books of Caesar, or an equivalent. 2. Mathematics, which will include arithmetic and algebra, covered by such text book as Olney, Wells or Wentworth. 3 English, which will include grammar, analysis, composition and elementary rhetoric, and a fair knowledge of English and American literature. 4 rr:-.. VU ?. li.iaiui'jr, vvuiuu vrxix iuuuuc cic mentary English and United States history. These examinations will be held in each county on August 1, 1900. Those desiring to enter the contest will please send their names before July 20 to Christie H. Poppenheim, ohairman education department, 31 Meeting street, Charleston, S. C. The Cotton Outlook. Except in Florida, Texas and Okla- j homa where cotton is doing perhaps as well as usual considering the vast territory aad diversity of climate and soil embraced, tBe prospects have not been bettered during the past week and cotton fields with few exceptions "are foul with grass and weeds over the entirebelt east of the Mississippi. Many fields in Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina have been abandoned. To what extent the productive acreage has been affected cannot now be deter miced, but a low estimate cf abandoned fields equals the increase in acreage planted. The plants in general are not fruiting well, and in places are sbedding, bat it is probable that the recent more favorable weather has applied natnre's remedy for those complaints. Within the past few days moderate rains have fallen over nearly the whole of Texas, supplying the rainfall needed to keep the plants in a vigorous, growing and fruiting condition. 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