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5^. ^ Mission oF5orcIsT: I Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson from j a Noble Woman's Life. | SEiF SACRIFICING WORK, j Helpful Word* For Those En- j gaged In Alleviating Human Distress. Assured cf a Rich Reward Hereafter. Dr. Tallage, who is stilitraveliig id northern Europe, has forwarded ihe following report of a sermon in -which he utters helpful words to all nho arc engaged in alleviating human di.-tr<;3tes and shows how such work wiil bs crowDed at the last; text. Acts ix, 39, l'Acd ail ihe widow? stood by him weeping and showing Limthe coacs asd garments which Dorcas made while she was with them." Joppa is 3 most absorbing city of the orient Into Lei harbor once floated the rafta of Lebanon cedar from which the temples of Jerusalem were built, Solomon's oxen drawing the logs through the town. Here Napoleon had 500 prison-1 ers massacred. 0?e of the most magniScent charities of -the centuries was J started in this seaport by Dorcas, a wo- j man with herneedle embroidering name j ineffaceably into the beneficence of the world. I see her sitting in yonder j home. In the doorway and around about the building and in the room i where she sits are the pale faces of the poor. She listens to their plaint, she pities their woe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit the bent form of this invalid woman and to the cripple that comes crawling oa his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one. she gives sandals to that one. With the gifts she mingles prayers and tear;; and Christian encouragement. Then she goes out to be greeted oa the street corners by those whom she has blessed, and all through the street the cry is heard, ".-Dorcas is coming!" The sick look up gratefully into her fase as she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the lost and the abandoned start up with hope aii they hear her gentle voice, as though aa angel had addressed them, and as she goes out the lane eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about her brow and a trail of glory ia her pathway. Ehat night a half paid shipwright climbs the hill and reaches home and seas his little boy well clad and says, "Where did these clothes com8 from?" And they tell him, 'Dorcas has been here." In another place a woman is trimming a lamp. Dorcr.s bought the oil. In another place a family that had not been at table for many weeks are cathered now, dimmed Dy tne Dnnamg mists uisi gu ap from the river of death. In every forsaken place in that town, wherever * there is a sick child and no balm, wherever there is hunger and no bread, wherever there is guilt and no commiseration, wherever there is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing looks and streaming eye. and frantic gesticulations as they cry, "Dorcas is dead!" They send for the apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of the place, stopping with a tanner of the name of Simon. Peter purges his way through the crowd around the door and btands in the presence of the dead. What demonstration of grief all about him! Here stand so-ne of the poor J people, who show the garments which { this poor womr.a had <s:_uf for them j Their grief cannot lo Tr..- j apostle Peter wants to perform a u. r j acle. He will not do it amid the <.z j cited crowd, so he orders that che who;e room be cleared. The door is shut against tne populace. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh, it is a serious moment, you Know, ween you are along with a lifeless body! The apo3tle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the life less form of this one all ready for the sepulcher, and in the strength of him who is the- resurrection he cries, "Tabitha, arise!" There is a stir in the fountains of life; the heart flutters; the nerves thrill; the cheek flashes; the eye opens; she sits upi We see in this subject Dorcas the disoiple, Dorcas the -benefactress, Dorcas th* ^.^rnted, Dorcas the resur rected. If I had not seen that word disciple in my text, I would have known this woman wa3 a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart which is net chorded and strung by divine grace. Before I show you the needlework of this woman I want to show you her regenerated heart, the source of J a pure life and of all Christian charities. I wish that the *ives and mothers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate Dorcas in her discipleship. Before you cross the threshold of the hospital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of tomorrow, I charge you in the name of God and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day, 0 women, that you attend to the first, last and greatest duty of your life?the seeking for God and being at peace with hiai. When the trumpet shall sound, there will be an uproar and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Amid the rising of the dead and amid the boiling of yonder sea and amid the live, leaping thunders of the flying heavens calm and placid will be every woman's heart who hath put her trust in Christ?calm notwithstanding all the tumult, as though the fire in the heavens were only the gildings of an autumnal suneet, as though the peal of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as though the a*ful voices of the sky were but a group of friends bursting through a gate way at cvcntime with laughter and shouting, "Dorcas the disciple!" Would God ibat e?cry Mary and Martha woulu this day sit down at the feet of Jesus! Further, we see Dorcas the benefactress. History has told the story of the crown; epic poet has sung cf the sword; the pastoral poet, with his verses full of the redolence of clover tops and arustle with the silk of the corn, his sung zbc praises of ths picv- I tell * you the praises of the need!*. From \ the iig leaf robe prepared ic the gar \ den of Elen to the last stitoh taken on j the garment for the poor the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, generosity and benefaction It adorned the girdle of the high priest, it fashioned the .v. ?.--i for Dorcas has brought bread. But there is a sudden pause in that woman's ministry. They say: "Where is Dorcas? Why, we haven't seen her for many a day. Where is Dorcas?" And one of these poor people gees up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts of wretchedness the news comes, "Dorcas is sick!" No bulletin flashing from the palace gate telling the stages of a king's disease is more anxiously waited for than the news from this benefaotress. Alas, for Joppa there is wailing, wailing! That voice which has uttered so many cheerful words is hushed; that hand which has made so many garments for the poor is cold and still; the star whici had poured light into the midnight of wretchedness is curtains m ice anciem, lauciuAuic, *?. cushioned the chariots of Kin? Solomon it provided the robes of Qaeen Elizabeth, and in high places and in low j places, by the fire of the pioneer's back log and under the flash of the chandeier, everywhere, it has clothed nakedness, it has preached the gospel, it has | overcome hosts of penury and want with the warcry of ''Stitch, stitch, stitch!" The operatives hare found a livelihood by it, and through it the mansion- of ihe employer are constructed. Amid the greatest triumphs in all ages and lands, I set down the conquests of the needle. I admit its crimes i aumit its cruelties. Ic has had more j martyrs than the fire; it has punctured I tbe eye; it lias piereea tne sice; u nas i struck weakness into the lungs; it has gent madness into the brain; it has filled the potter's field: it has pitched | whole armies of the suffering into crime and wretchedness and woe. Bat now that 1 am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor, 1 shall speak only of the charities of the needle. This woman was a representative of all j those who make garments for the destitute. who knit socks for the barefooted, j who prepare bandages for the lacerated, J who fix up boxes of clothing for misj sionaries, who go into the asylams of | the suffering and destitute, beariag . nri-iarval 14 Q1 {J ht f.ir the blind CL11U rru*vu ? ? and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man leap like a hart and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in rheir pulses. What a contrast between the practical benev' olence of this woman and a great deal j of the charity of this day! This wo| man did not spend her time idly plan! ning how the poor of the city of Jop pa were to be relieved; she took her needlft aod relieved them. She was | not like those persons who sympathize I with imaginary sorrows, and go out in | the street and laugh at the boy who has I up?et his basket of oold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the benevolent platform or?r? orrt^a <->111 to kick the beeear from I ~? ? - -ww^ I the step, crying, "Hush your miserable j howling!" Sufferers of the worid want not so much theory as practice; not so much smiles as shoes, so much tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread, not so much uG-od bless you!" as jackets and frocks. I will put one earnest Christian man, hard working, against five thousand mere theorists on the subject of charity. There are a great many who have fitie ideas about church architecture who never in their life helped to build a church. There are men who can give ! you the history of Buddhism and Mo j hammedanism who never sent a farthing for evangelization. There are wo! men who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world, who never had the courage, like Dorcas, to take the needle and assault it. I am glad that there is not a page of the world's history which is not a record oi' female ^ benevolence. Grod sajs to all lands and people, Come now aaci near tne widow s mite racue ' down into the poor box. The Princess | of Conti sold all her jewels that she ! might help the famine stricken. Qneen j Blanche, the wife of Louis VIII of | France, hearing that there were some ! persons unjustly incarcerated in the I prisons, went out amid the rabble and j took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prisoa door,- and ! /vnf noma tT>? -nriBrtriprS OrJAAn iVfjmd. I VUU V?,v/ 5 the wife of Henry I, went down amid the poor and washed their sores and adminibtered to them cordials. Mrs. lietson, at Matagorda, appeared on the battlefield while the missiles of death were flying around and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of the civil war in America who has not heard of the woman of the panitary and Christian commissions or ine fact that before the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South Mountain the women of the north met the women of the south on the battlefield, forgetting all their animosities while they bound up the wounded and closed the eyes of the slain? Dorcas, the benefactress. I come now to speak of Dorcas, the lamented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, how much sorrow there was in the town of Joppa! I suppose there were women there with larger fortunes, women, perhaps, with handsomer faces, bat there was no grief at their departure like this at the death of Porcas. There was not more turmoil and upturning in the Mediterranean sea, dashing again&t the wharfs at that seaport, than there were surging3 to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. There are a great mmy who go out of life acd are unmissed. There may be a very larg-j funeral, there may be a great many carriages and a plumed hearse, there may high sounding eulcgiums, the bell may toll at the cemetery, there may be a very fine marble shaft reared uver the resting place, but the whole thing may be a falsehood aud a sham. The church of God has lost nothing the world has lost nothing, the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated. It is only a grumbler ceasine to find fault. It is only an idler stopped yawning. It is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his %ine cellar, while on the other hand no useful Christian leaves this world without being missed. The church of God cries out like the prophet, "Howl, fir tree, for the cedar h3s fallen!" Widowhood comes and shows the garments which the departed bad made. Orphans sre lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourning?mourning because Dorcas is dead. When Josephine of France was carried out to her grave, there were a great many men and women of pomp and pride and position that went out after her, but I am mostaffected by the story of history that on that day there were ten thousand of the poor of France who followed her coffin, weeping and waning unui cue air rang again, oeuause when they lost Josephine they lost their last earthly friend. Oh, who would not rather have such obsequies than ail the tears that were ever poured in ' he lachrymals that have been exhumed from ancient cities? There may be no mas3 for the dead; there may be no oostly sarcophagus; there may be no elaborate mausoleum, but in the damp cellars of the city and throngh the lonely huts of the mountain glen there will be mourning, mourning, mourning, because Dorcas is dead. " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; thpy rest from their la* i i t 1 #11 . il . n Dors, ana tneir v-vs qo iouow mem. I speak to yon of Dorcas the resurrected. The ?pos.:j came to where she was and said, "Arise, and she sat up!" In what a short compass the great writer put that "She sat up!" Oh, what a time there must have been around --chit fthes the apostle her j out an^nsf her Old frisads' flov? the; tears t:? joy must have started! What a clappisg of hands thsre must have been! \Vhat singing: What laughter: r. 3 ?. ii a 1. 11? * i i r ? J50UD0. IC 3Ji tnrongu tii&i, laue. ju-ju a-i j Joppa hear it! Dorcas is resurrected! [ You and I have seen the same thing many a time, not a dead body resuscitated, but the deceased coming up again after death in the good accomplished. If a man labors up to 50 years of age, serving God, and then dies we are apt to think that his earthly work is doue. No. His influence on earth will continue till the world ceases Services for Christ never stop. A Christian woman toils for the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties, through many self denials, with prayers and tears, and then she oics. It is 15 years since ! the went away. Now the spirit of God descends upon that church, hundreds of sou's stand up and cosfess the faith of Christ, Has that Christian woman, who went away 15 years ago, nothing to do with these thines? 1 see the flower i r j lDg QUt Oi. li'.U IJUUiV IKUi u J. >l(a; lufc | ccho of her footsteps in all the songs j over sins forgiveD, in all the prosperity of the church. The good that seemed j to be buried has come up ag^in. Dorcas is resurrected! | After awhile all these "womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After making garments for others, some one will make a garment for them; the last rob.? we ever wear?the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You wili have witnessed thclastorphauage. You will have cotne in worn cut from your last ronnd of mercy. I do not kuow where you will &leep, nor what your epitaph will be, but there will be a lamp burning at that tcmb, and an angel of God guarding it, and through all the loug night no rude foot will disturb the da:?t. S!e?p on, sleep ou! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose! Sleep on! Asleep io Jesus! Blessed sleep From which cone ever make to weep! Then one day there will be a sky rending and a whir of wheels and the hash of a pageant, armies marching, chains clanking, banners waving, thunders booming, aud that Christian woman will rise from the du>t, and she will be suddenly surrounded?surrounded yb the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surrounded by the wounded souls to whom she had administered. Daughter of God, so ! strangely surrounded, what means this? i It mea.us that reward ha3 come, that ; the victory is won, that the crown is i ready, that the banquet is spread, i Shout it through all the crumbling ! earth. Sing it through all the flying ! neavens Dorcas is resurrected! In 1355, when some of the soldiers j came back from the Crimean was to T s -rtn?i_?j ! isaiaKiva, lnKensaQu auu i^cvaswpui. As the queen gave these to the wound[ ed men and tbe wounded efficers the bands of music struck up the national air, and the people, with streaming eyes, j.)5.nei in the song? God save our gracious quoen! L->rg live our noble queen! God save the queen! Aad then they shouted, "Huzza, huzza!" Oh, it was a proui day for those returned warriors! But a brighter, better, and gladder day will coma when Christ shall gather thc.3e who have toiled in his tt-i v:ce, good soldiers of Jpsus Christ. He shall rise before them, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven he will say, "Well done, good and faithful servant," and then he will distribute the medals of eternals victory, not inscribed with works of righteousness which we have done, but with those four great battlefields dear to earth and dear to heaven ?Sethelhem. Nazareth, (iotiiscmane, Calvary! THS CHINESE DEFEATED. The Allied Forces Capture the City of Tien Tsin. After another pitched battle the allied forces captured the city of Tien Tsin. The city was occupied by the international troops who found dead Chinese lying about the streets in hundreds. Though the taking of the city will have the cffect of discouraging the Boxers, the total loss to the foreigners is thought to be 1,200 dead and wounded. The Chinese is said to have been over 3,000. The following additional c Ci&llri O* j ? i < > . ii i- it. I tee auiea iorces stiaok oa me uau>c i city city of Tientsin reached here t-.;day from the Associated Press correspondent with the allies: "Tientsin, Friday Midnight. After a day of hard fighting and having lain for hours in the shallow, hastily dug trenches, full of water, and suffering from hunger and thirst, the two battalions of the Ninth Infantry that participated in the attack on Tientsin retired under cover of the darkness, the British sailors assisting them to withdraw by firing volleys to cover of their retirement. The Americans brought out all of their wounded under a terrific fire. The total loss of the Americans was 140. A report has been forwarded by Count von Usedom, captain of the German second clas3 cruiser Eertha, of the capture of the native city of Tientsin by the allied forces. The report says: 1'Scarcely any resistance was experienced when the Americans, British and Japanese finally stormed the walled native city on the afternoon of July 14. Fighting was still in progress on the east side of the town, where the Russians were trying to seize a Chinese camp and citadel." Wants to Fight - * ** The suggestion comes irom Jiacon t that the time is now ripe for the col- j oreu washerwomen of the South iy stitle scores, with the Chinese, who have invaded their sphere of cud avyr and largely superseded the^a is a business which had been peculiarly their own from a time whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. In Macon, a day or two ago, according to the News, a big, fat, ebon-hued 1 washerwomen with a bundle of clothes i on her head, was heard to say that if ; the United States government would f-al-rt ffrnnpi! as soldiers, she would vol- < unteer and go to fight the Chinese, and j that she knew of a number of others who would do the same thing. "We . kin git up sis cumpnic-s in Macon," i she said, "an' I know I kin whip a < whole pa3sle o' dem Chinamens; dat's i ji3twhat I kin." MURDEROUS INTENT Of Kentucky Republicans Being* orougni uui in uour: PLANS TO KILL GOV. COEBEL. Governor Taylor Furnished Some of the Money Used to Bring in the Murderers to Frankfort. In the trial of Caleb Powers charged with complicity in the murder of Gov. Goebel, which has been in progress for several days at Frankfort, Ky., John A. JBiack, a banker and Republican of prominence, was the first witness on Wednesday. He said Powers came to him in January to advise him as to the propriety of the mountain organization tnKinV> c!o!^ T^/xTxra-ra Tir/sa trnf 1i r?rr nr* ?T invu ut jaiu jl unw to nao guvviug "I asked Powers," said witness, "what sort of a crowd he was getting up and he said he was organizing an armed mob to go to Frankfort. I discouraged this and told him it would injure the Republican party, would be a stigma on our end of the State and ought to be abandoned. Powers, however, insisted that the mob should be formed. His idea wa3 that it would intimidate the legislature." Black, continuing, said: ''I saw Powers later and again remonstrated against the mountain mob going to Frankfort. Powers told me it was being formed with the approval of Governor Taylor, Finley and other Republican leaders at Frankfort. Finley also came to me and endeavored to get me to cooperate with them. I protested bitterly. Pow ers became very angry with me on account of the position I took 1 tried to dis&uade them from organizing the dirty band and told him to send good citizens, people of influence, if any." A check from Chas. Finley to the Louisville and Nashville railroad for $1,000 for transportation of the men to Frankfort was produced by Black in ren-v.se to a question from the prosecuW. H. Culton, who is under indictment as an accessory to the killing of Governor Goebel, was called next. Counsel for the defense raised a point against the competency of Culton -13 a witness, he being under indietment along with Powers and others as * conspirator and not having been tried. The jury was exoluded during the argument of the point. Judge Cantrill ruled that while at o<>mmon law Powers could not testify that rule was abrogated under the law of thi3 State and that Culton is a competent witness, the right to testify being a personal privilege The court instructed Culton that he might or might not testify as he desired and if he did so, he was not compelled to tell anything that would criminate himself. Calton replied that he was testifying of his own free will. Culton said he attended a coaferonce at Frankfort in January at which Powers and others were present and the matter of bringing mountain men to the State capital was beiDg discussed. Hamp Howard, Frank Cecil and other mountain men were asked by Powers how many they could bring from Harlan, Bell and other counties. They promised to bring from 50 to 200 from each of the counties. Powers said, according to the witness, that when the men arrived at Frankfort they would give the Democratic legislature 30 minutes in which to settle the contests, "and if they did not settle it in that time they would kill every one of Culton continued: "The mountain men arrived in Frankfort, January 25. They numbered from 1,000 to 1,200 men. Those who carried guns had them stacked in the office of the commissioner of agriculture and each man was given a tag corresponding with a number on his gun. After holding the meeting in the State house yard, the larger parr of the crowd was sent home." Culton said Henry Youtsey told him he had found a way Goebel could be killed and no one found out who did it. Youtsey said it could be done from the secretary of state's ofihe, and showed some steel bullets. Witness told Youtsey such a thing should not be done. Ex-Gov. Bradley had told witness of hearing that Goebel was to be killed, and said it mu3t not be done. Witness saw Youtsey again and the latter &aid the idea had been abandoned. Powers, the witness alleged, distributed money among the various captains who were to bring the mountaineers to Frankfort. He did not know whence the money came, tie declared Gov. Taylor furnished him(Culton) the ut-j&ey to bring the Jackson county jf.-wi Witness said Gov. Taylor did D<;t w.;ct cite -nountain men to go home. He wvDt -u H rry Howard and others, at Taylor's iasi-yce, and told them the governor wanted them to remain and not go home as Powers wished. On the day of the Van Meter-Berry contest in the legislature the witness said Taylor sent orders by him to assist Adjt. Gen. Dixon to have the troops in the arsenal ready to be called cue at a moment's notice. After the assassioation Culton said Powers came to him and told him to write to the pities who were in conference and tell them they had better V/H TTAim /lonA^nl r?A f^lt'TKT ftq UU VCAjr V/a^iUi uiiu AAV *.t?07 ?w they were liable to be connected with the murder. Witness told him it would be dangerous to write, and Powers said j he would do it himself. The prosecution produced a box of cartridges for the witness to inspect. Cultou said j the cartridges were like those Youtsey showed him when talking about killing G-oebel. Powers gave witness badges for the mountain men who remained in Frankfort, go they could distinguish their own men from others. Culton dec'.ared th-\t while in jail with Powers at Frankfurt lowers begged him loi :<_ gu uu the witness stand in :? <: heiring of his (Culton't) Uiut.ou lor bail. Witness told Powers he wanted to get bail, as his family needed him. Powers told him he would see to it that his family was provided for if witness would agree not to go on the stand. Witness refused. ;,Is it not true," asked Attorney Owens, for the defense, "that you used over $1,000 belonging to the funds in your charge while a clerk in the auditor's effije and that Auditor Stone was compelled to make your shortage ?ood?" "It is not true. I was not short, and Auditor Stone did not have to pay anything on my account. There was a question about the legality of some jlaims allowed in my department." Culton was asked if he had cot been : isdietcd ior fcrgs?? h Jaoifjs connty. j ; He answered that he wis indicted for j i the technical oSense of signing another j j man's name to a petition for the baildI irxr r,f n ro? hrmq<? '"6 v* - "w" w. Witness was asked about visiting ! Col. Campbell and others of the prosecution. He denied that he had been promised immunity. In becoming a witness in the Powers case he was following the advice of his father?Judge Culton. Mr. Owens asked how it happened that tho witness, although in jail at Frankfort, is here merely under guard. Culton said the commonwealth consented that he might remain under guard appointed. A colloquy followed, the defense attempting to show intimacy between Culton and the prosecution and that a discrimination was being made between Cultou and the other defendants. A number of questions were askud by the defense to snow that Cultou's evidence is now at variance with that given in his application for bail at Frankfort. During the severe lire of interrogatives on cross examination of Culton, the defendant, Powers, sat with his eyes riveted on the witness. Culton was asked to again relate the conversation between him and ex-Grov. Bradley regarding a report that G-oebel was to be killed. Culton said Bradley told him he understood 12 men had been picked for that purpose and said: 'That must not be done under any circumstances." Culton was a*ked if powers did not come to him after the assassination and ask him if he knew anything that would lead to the discovery of the assassin. Witness could not recall such a conversation. Culton concluded his testimony at 2:30, having been in the! witness box a total of over seven hours. | MORE DAMAGING TESTIMONY. Mias Annie Weist, of Louisville, State Auditor Sweeney's stenographer, testified that Henry Youtsev came into her office the day of the Van MetreBerry contest and told her she would better leave the state house, as trouble was likely to occur. Youtsey had a rifle in his hand at the time. Shortly after the shooting Assistant Secretary of state Matthews stationed two men with guns at the door of the building with orders to allow no one to enter or leave the building. Robert Noaks, a railroad conduotor, was called. Noaks said John and Caleb .Powers and Chas. Finley conferred with him in November after tne election relative in bringing armed men to Frankfort at the time of the meeting of t ? _i_ _ . i J tne otate eiecuon commission ooaxu. They told him they wanted him to briag as many men as he coald, and that when they reached Frankfort they shonld act in snch a manner as to give the governor a chance to call out the militia. The object was explained to the witness as an effort to intimidate the eleotion commissioners. Noaks told of being asked by Caleb Powers to get a company of militia composed of men who would fight. He also asked Noakes to get smokelss powder cartridges. He secured a company and it was mustered in. Then Powers directed him to charter two trains and bring his company to Frankfort. Chas. Finley objected and warned Noaks not to do that, and proposed to hire the trains. Noaks' next statement created a sensation. He was asked: ';Did Powers ever say anything to rnn ahnnfc (roehel?" "Yes, lie was on my train one day and said: 'The contests won't amount to anything and when Goebel is dead and in h? there is not another man in the State who can hold his party together.' " "Finley sent us a train from Louisville, Tihich carried the men on Jan. 25. At Richmond, Culton got on the train and told us when we arrived at Frankfort we should say we were going to petition the legislature. I told the boys to carry their guns as naturally as if hunting, and not in a military position. After we got to the State house John Powers told me to stand closer to the executive building, as I might get hurt. He said: 'Some of our men are are upetaira and when Goebel and those other fellows come in they are going to do the work for them.' 4T told him this must not be done. He told me to keep cool. I went back into the secretary of state's office. Caleb Powers said: 'Bob, I understand you have two men in your company who would kill a man if you wanted them to do it.' "I told him I did not believe 1 had such a man, and he mentioned Chadwell and Jones. I told him I did not believe they were men of that kind. That afternoon, when the men were being sent home, Powers again told me to keep 10 or 12 of our best men and to keep Chad well and Jones. My military company was taken with me. They wore citizens clothes with their uniforms under them. We were told by Powers to do this, so we would be ready for military service. W. H. Culton told me I must keep six of my men under arms all the time. I went to Assistant Adjt. Gen. Dixon and told biai I wanted to turn over my company as I had become satisfied they were^goiDg to seatGoebel as governor and I did not want to serve under him. ' *D;xon told me not to be discouraged, as Goebel would not be governor. I was tired and asked Powers how long this was going on. He said not much longer, as Goebal would be killed, and that would settle it. 1 saw Gov. Taylor that morning. I went into his office and took my piptols off and put them into a bookcase. I passed some words with bim at that time." Sarcasm From the Pulpit. * "? i . 1_ _ 1__ 12 "JtJruaaren ana sisiaas, steroiy saiu lood old Parson Woolimon after the collection had been taken up upon a recent Sabbath morning, "before the hat was done parsed I expounded the request dat de congregation contribute accawdin to deir means, and I sho ex pectoratei dat yo' all would chip in magnanimously. Bat now, upon ex i it , T aminin ae collection, 1 nnas teat ue concocted amount contributed by d9 whole posse ob yo'am only the significant ar d pusillanimous of sixty-free cents. Ana at dis junctson dar ain't no' casion for yo' all to look at Brudder Cromer what done circumambulated de hat around, in no such ausspicious manner, for, in de fust place, Brndder Cromer ain't dat kind of a man, and, in the socond place, I done watched him likea hawk all de time muhself. No. sixty-free cents was all dat was flung in, and I dess wants to say dat, in humble opinion, in stead ob contributin accawdin toyo' means, yo' all contributed accawdin to yo' meanness. De choir will now fayor us wid deir reg'lar melodiousness." Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptio Invizorator has viaon nspfi ir> tt?v familv ana T am Der fectly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. | P. S.?I am using it now myself, i It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all ! druggists. tf i juonaon, t,ne qaeea 01 jcuuigiauu uihuu- j uted annng them beautiful medals call- I ed Crimean medals. Galleries were ! erected for the two houses of parlia- ! meut and the royal family to sit in. ; There was was a great audience to *it ness the distribution of the medals. A colonel who had lost both feet in the battle of Inkermann was pulled in on a wheel chair; others came in limping on their cratches. Then the queen of Eagland arose bofore them in the name of her government and uttered words of commendation to the officers and men and distributed those medals, inscribed with the four great battlefields?Alma, T-? 1 ??-- T 1 J C i I THE E Grove's 1 The formula i know just what vo do not advertise th< their medicine it v< J Iron and Quinine pi torm. The Iron malaria out of the : Grove's IS the Ori Chill Tonics are in that Grove's is si are not experiment and excellence ha only Chill Cure sc the United States. HE WAS A MASON. Pathetic End oi; a Man Who Had Started for Alaska. The Atlanta Journal says Mrs. A. L. Delkin, of that city, got recently an interesting letter from her husband, "Tony" Delkin, en route to Caoe Nome, Alaska. It bore date Jtue lOth and was mailed at Unalaska which is about 1,500 miles, half way between Seattle and Cape Nome. The letter contained an incident which illustrates the brotherhood of man. Among the vessels making for Cape Nome was "The Senator." On board was a steerage passenger from Saa Diego, California, bound for the gold fields to stiujjgle for a fortune. While the ship was wrapped in a thick fog this man fell sick and died. To escape the fog the captain struck for the open sea. But meeting great blocks of Sorting ice which threatened the destruction of the veil, "The Senator" was forcod to put into Unalaska. It was at first determined to bury the body of the poor dead steerage passenger, a stranger to all on board, in the sea. But a search for his effects showed $1.63 in his pockets, every cent he had on earth, but it showed more. A solied, crumpled piece of paper proved the man to have been a Mason. On the scores of ships loaded down with passengers in the "madrace for wealth" which the ice packs forced into Unalaska there were upwards of 10,000 people among whom were many Masons. Cold iu death the poor Bteerase passenger found not a grave in the sea that's wild. He was among brothers. They raised $50 in -a twinkling and had the pailied form embalmed. Five hundred persons drew up inline before a iono grave at Unalaska. Towels, handkerchiefs, pieces of cloth, anything, were fashioned into the form of Masonic aprons. * And there on the barren coast the brothers of the dead stood in silent sorrow about the new made grave and when the mortal part of the poor steero rr/z conn crOT kad hpAn tAnderl? laid in | the cold embrace of mother earth The I brothers brought armsful of wild j flowers of the west and crooned the i humble mound. They sold the watch and other effects of the dead for $200 and sent the money to the late home of the nameless stranger at San Diego. Many a sad, wild story of the ar-1 gauants of Alaska has come out of the far and frigid northwest, but never a one which appeals so touchingly to the heart as this, the simple story of the brother who died on tho troubled deep and the brothers who-tenderly laid him to rest: and crowned his lone grave by the sea that's wild the wild flowers of the west. This affecting incident recalls the closing lines of Tom Moore, Ireland's x -t 1 T> A. mUk sweeiesi poei, ou xwuert jciiumctt, vr;wll j slight paraphrase: "They made him a grave where the sunbeams rest, Where they promise a glorious morrow? They'll shine o'er his sleep like a smile from the wast? From that lonely shore of sorrow." Smith Clayton. Deafness Cannot be Cared by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only ons way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the inaoous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rambling sound or imperfect hearing and when it is entirely closed. Deafness i3 the result, and unless the mnammauon can oe coam-1 tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases cut of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but aa inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wc will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cared by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by all Druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Makes Ohio Doubtful. It is stated that the Democrats of the Toledo district, in Ohio, have resolved to support Mayor Jones, of Toledo, f'jr congress, and in ieturn the mayor will use his influence throughout Ohio on behalf of Mr. Bryan, of he an nrrtqnnWfin advocate. It i is conceded that Mayor Jones is very strong with the men who supported him as th9 "golden rule" candidate for governor last fall. The Chinese SideThe Augusta Chronicle sajs: "So- j called Christian Americans who ciaoiorj for blood and vengence against the Chinese forget that Earopeau nations; by robbing China of territory, forcing concessions, debauching with opium for gain, and threatening dismemberment are responsible for present calamities." Too True The Augusta Chronicle says: Listening to rabfd cries for blood and vengeance, even for innocent blood, makes one wonder where the Christianity of a ch people is located. A good deal of 3purious 'Anglo-Saxon civilization' is a 3pawn of the devil." r , _ i m i ni i Vi wrr?wir'i i ntna irnri 1 *ri "r'iVlZ. * - ii ? | m,i . . i i * j^r-MT-mn?i?i if <* 'a. . s* itia, thills ^^ES^tPTi rjjcfpipQs ch a VA1J s plainly printed on every u are taking when you take ?ir formula knowing that y< )u knew what it contained. it up in correct proportions a acts as a tonic while the system. Any reliable druggis ginal and that all other litations. An analysis of oth< iperior to all others in ev :ing when you take Grov ivins: loner been establishe a o >ld throughout the entire \Ir> Pure Mft Pnv. pHCC PRACTICAL The Demand of the Times. Sn MacFeat's School ofShoi COLUMBI W. H. (acFeat, Court S Terms reasonable. m innrn mm S HL LLKULII II1ULLU. Tbe New Ball Bearing Domestic Sewing Machine It Leads in Workmanship, Beauty, Capacity, Strength, Light Running. Every Waman Wants One. Attachments, Needles and! Parts for Sewing Machines of all makes. When ordering needles send sample. Price 27c per dozen, postpaid. Agents Wanted in Unoccupied Terri- j tnrc J. L. SHULL, 1219 Taylor Street, COLUMBIA, 8. C. j tBSP fsrAOB tfAR)C tfr f )riK ~.a* OLD JfOKTH STATE OINT MENT, the Great Antiseptic Healer, cures Piles, Eczema, Sore Eyes, Giannlated Eyelids, Carbuncles, Boils, Cnts, Bruises, Old Sores, Burns, Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails, Inflammatory Rheumatism, Aches and Pains, Chapped Hands and Lips, Erysipelas. It is something everybody needs. Once used always used. For sale by all druggists and dealers. At wholesale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. Dissolution. ''phe firm of Jno 8. Reynolds & Co., Print1. era of Ready Prints to Newspapers, was dissolved by mutual consent on July 1, 1900. JNO. S. REYNOLDS, JAS. L. 8LM3. Having purchased the interest of Mr. Jno. O CM *Via AVA?A Knmnooa T will C? UCJUUiUO Ui IUC OWT? WttOAUMC* A TT &IA continue the same on my owa account at Oraugeburg, S, C., and hope by strict attention to business to merit a continuance of the patronage heretofore bestowed on the old firm. . JAS. L. SIMS. Having transferred, to Mr. Jas. L. Sims my interest in the business of Jno. 8. Beynolds & Co.. I take pleasure in asking for him a c^atinaanca of the patronage hitherto given the firm. JND. 8. REYNOLDS. Columbia, S, C., July 1, 1900. _____ ANTISEPTIC INVIGORATOR! Cures La Grppe, dyspepsia, indigestion and all stomach and bowel troubles, colic or chalera morbus, teething troubles with children, kidney troubles, bad blood and all aoru of sores, risings or felons, cuts and Vinm* Tt in on eruvl vh?n loftftllv applied, as anything on the market. Try it and yon -will praise it to other* If your druggist doean't keep it, write to THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. O MONEY 10 m On improved real estate Interest eight per cent, payable semi-annually. Time 8 to 5 years. No commissions charged Jno. B. Palmer & Son, OINTBAL NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 205 Plain St., Columbia, S. C juu. a. nsyuuius, Attorney at Law, COLUMBIA. 8. 0. For Sale. One Direct Current Electric Fan, 250 volts. For terms apply to Secretary Oraageburg Club, P. 0. Box 256, Orangeburg, S, C. M ..1.?- -,? - .-t- n- iir.?v/n;i.ii<??oo ; in II III rmiii-|-| I nr in r^' - r j--- nn', I e*er 1 ION IS 1 ill Tonic. 1 bottle?hence you Grove's. Imitators 3U would not buy V Grove's contains nd is in a Tasteless Quinine drives the t will tell vou that J so-called Tasteless ;r chill tonics shows Van i ir5S e's?its supenonty :d. Grove's is the malarial sections of y, 50c. | . EDUCATION. I ch is the Training afforded at V w rthand and Typewriting A, s/c. " tenographer, Principal. Write for catalogue. c Near Union Depot. Having formed a connection ?with? The ELLIOTT GIN REPAIR WQBKS 1 I am now prepared to repair and rebuild cotton gins as thoroughly as the various manufacturers. This branch of the business Jjf be under the personal supervision of MR. W. J. ELLIOTT, who has had fourteen years of practical experience in build- ^ ing the Elliot Gin, and who is well known to most 4 gin users in this State. Now is the Time I Bring Your Gins Before You Need Them! COMPLETE GINNING SYSTEMS, EQUIPPED ~~Jj WITH THE MOST PERFECT PNEUMATIC ELEVATING AND DISTRIBUTING SYSTEMS ON THE MABKET. 8IYTYI EIGHT COMPLETE OUTFITS IN USE IN THIS STATE, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM GIVING ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION. Highes Grade Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Brick i Machines, Wood Working Machinery, Saws, Pulleys, etc We offer: Qaick delivery, low prices and reasonable terms. f, V. C. BAD FT AM, , 1328 Main St.. Columbia. S. CWP' COMPLETE GINNIN6 I EQUIPMENTS. The Murray Improved J i Gleaning and Distributing System. The simplest and most efficient Complete Power Equipments, any horse power. i' Plain, Automatic and Corliss EnGinea Boilers, Saw Mills, Woodworking machinery Grain machinery, Threshers, Rice Hullers Grist Mills, Saws. Injectors, Machinery, appurtenances of all kinds. >W. H. fiibbes & C0., 804 Gervais Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Qrtman Pays the EXpress - Steam Dyeing of every description. Steam, Naptha, French Dry and chemical cleansing. Send for our new price list and circular. All work una* anteed or no charge. ?' Orta's Steam Dye Works J 1310 Main Street - J Columbia, S. C A. L. Ortman, Proprietor. ? Murray's Aromatic Mouth Wash Whitens the Teeth + Cleanses the Month J Sweetens the Breath J The? 1 Murray j Drug Co., [COLUMBIA, S. C.