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? NEGRO MURDERERS." InfjamastheMcband the Streets of New Orleans IRRTAJNFn WITH BLOOD A Desperate Negro Kills Two Police Officers and Wounds a Third Which Causes ? B'g Row A trifling jacident atNew Orlans ha3 begun & seric* of tragedies which may culminate ia a popular uprising similar to the Italia; lynching some years ago. Two susp*3jo^s Negrces were hanging around t quiet neighborhood and somebody tcok the precaution to inform the police. Several officers went to the soene md instead of making explanations or going to jail, the Negroes showed fight. Pistol3 wer,j soon in play and Officer VIora wa3 seriously shot. One of the KV rroes was arrested, but the Negro?Egbert Charles?who did the shooting, i:;nce said to be a desper ate burglar a:>l ex convict, got away, although wcu^aed. The police organized a pursuing party and succeeded in locating the fugitive. Capt. John T. Day, com mantling the precinct, Jed a po3se 01 police to his shanty and tried to reach the refagee by a dark alley leading to :t. They carried lanterns and were easily distinguished, and when they got olcse enough Charles opened fire with a Winchester, killing Capt. Diy and keeping up the fusillade until the captain had five wounds in him. A Negress opened the door of an adjoining rcorn and told the police to jump in, as Charles had rifles and ammunition and an impregnable position. They obeyed, thinking to hold Charles in his quarters until help or daylight came. Officer Lamb was the last of the three survivors to attempt to reach shelter, after emptying his revolver in the direction of the Negro, aod Charles reached out and dropped him with a bullet behind the ear. Nearly an hour elapsed before resnforc9ments .same, and these were placed around the block to prevent escape It was then discovered that Charles had already lefc the room, though a shot at the pickets told that he was in the neighborhood. The two dead policemen were removed and a systematic search organized, but no trace of the fugitive was found. Jfolice, armed with rifles, and citizens similarly equipped, and a borrowed bloodhound kept up the quest; and had Charles been sighted he would have been shot to pieces. Mayor Capdevielle ofibred a reward of $100 and Gov. Heard has added $250 for the State. Parties are out in ali directions, even miles away from the oity, and all trains and cars are being searched. Suspects were arrested in the suburbs but the right man was not c?ught. In the meantime the police had work to do and the whole force was kept busy. Thousands of people gathered around the scene of the shooting and, lacking a victim or other excitement, proposed venguance on the property and on the Negroes in the hovels around. The police promptly quelled the disturbers and jailed a Eumber, but the guard had to be increased. A committee from the respectable calored element called on Chief Gsster Wednesday and offered aid ia running down the murderer, and as some of them know the mm by sight their services were accepted. The excitement has not yet died out, and the capture ?f the Negro, who is litAITT Viilin.* Aifrt man ofavf VIA JJLaCJjr U14 1U5 ILL UilC U1AJ OUU ?**v mob going. THE MOB IN CHARGE. New Orleans was in the hands of a mob Wednesday and Wednesday night. The murder of the two poheo officers caused the .Lole trouble. Throughout the da, were made by irrespon sible mobs of whites upon the blacks, and the negroes before nightfall had been effectually chased from the streets. The effect of the disorders was to pat a practical stop to business in the whole- , sale districos aad on tne levee lont. As tiiis meant a serious crippling of the | trade of the pjrt the business element , rallied in force aod handreds of the most prominent men oC th> city re- ! sponded to the app6il of the inayjr f 1 assistance in preserving order. The police have been practically ( helpless throughout the disturbances. The force consists cf some 300 men, in- ' eluding clerks and telegraph operators, : and this is manifestly a force inade- ( quat8tothe pieservation of the peacj , of a city of 310,000 people. Bat aside } fvr\m r.Ma ih* fiAPrtft ini^icnahiftn amnrtc the members of the department over J the ruthless murders of Capt. Diy and ( Policeman Lamb and the serious wound- , ing of-Officer Mora by the.negro Robert \ Charles, to some extent made the police j sympathetic with the mobs in their , pretended eff orts to avenge the murders. : The fact that there has been a strong resentment on the part of the working J peeple against steamship agents and ( contractors in the employment of negro ? labor to the exclusion of whites on ; public worfcs aal oa tne ievae, also coa- , tributed somewhat, it is believed, to the , disinclination of the police to do their . fall duty. Mayor Capdevielle was at 0*sean < Springs last night when the mobs i swept over the city. When he arrived | at his ofiae Wednesday hefoand awaiting him a delegation of the leading mer- : chants of the cicy, who said the interests of the comrauaity and its commercial welfare demanded prompt and vigorous action. About the same time Lieut. Gov. Estopinel, who had witnessed a scene of outrage upon negroes on Canal street, joined the conference at the hotel. He at once advised a con^ . - * t /I . _ TT 1 i T* i _ _ ierence wiin uov. tieara at, jskod Kouge. The losg distance 'phone was used and the governor said he would order. Without delay he sent messages to Col. Hodgson in the absence of Gen. Glynn and had him immediately order out the Washington artillery, the Louisiana field and the First regiment. At twilight there were 1,500 ra?n con gregated in the armories. At the same time the mayor, in a proclamation, appealed for 500 special police. Before 4 p. m., *uy 01 tne representative citizens of the community had been sworn in. The mayor made requisition on the leading hardware and ammunition es. tablishments of the city and the specials were heavily armed and seat to Virions section of the city. Hoodlums prowled the streets throughout the diy, and whenever they spied a negro, assaulted him. In some c. ie3 citizens rallied to the police and with their assistance beat off the attackers. Just after daylight the remnants of one of the mobs gathered at *he Spanish Fort railway station whence a large ttamber of negro laborers daily leave for % * Thasr saw i ! crowd of darkies approaching and started to chase them. Louis Lapuyard got in their way and received a bullet in the leg. Later in the forenoon a negro emptied his pistol into a down town house and wounded a child. * - - - ' * * * 11 iT- 1. At II o clocK a moD marcneu. mruugu Lafayette square, which is opposite the city hall, aod discovering some negroes in the park, jamped on and beat them until they made their escape. An hour afterward a white man saw a negro named Ross at the corner of Lafayette and Dryades streets and fired his gan at him. Those on the street fled in every direction and the negro made his escape. Shortly after 1 o'clock Josephine Wild, a child, while seated ia froBt of her home, caught astray bullet in the knee. Oae of the most sensations 1 incidents of the day was the discovery of two T^PtrrAAq wminded in a box car on the levee front. They were desperately hart and only one was consaious. He was so frightened that he declined to give any account of how the shooting occurred. Mayor CJapdevielle and his assistants made arrangements this afternoon for transportation facilities which would assist in the quick dispatch both of the militia and of the special police from one section of the city to another. All the trolley lines sent representatives to his honor to say that they wjuIq place special cars at his disposal throughout the night so that armed forces could be moved quickly. ' The express companies also assured the mayjr that TTTO rrnrta UTrtnlr} Ka roo^v tft TP - I spond to any call which might be made upon them. Late this afternoon Mayor Capedevielle issued a proclamation which had an excellent effect. It called upon all good citizens not enrolled in the special police to go to their homes or p^ces of business and remain there They were also warned and advised not to assemble or idle about the streets. The police, general and special, were ordered and directed to dis perse all crowds and to arrest all oosteperous and disorderly persons They were especially ordered, after 7 p. m., to arrest all persons found loafing or idling about the streets. As a result of the proclamation tonight few people were upon the streets. At the various exchanges this afterno )n the wish was expressed that The Associated Press might make it public to the world that the present emeute was one sincerely deprecated, and having the support of none of the conservative elements of the community. The local business bodies are much opposed to the importation here of large numbers of negroes by plantations to work on the levees or the public works, i but while they are of that opinion, they are very much opposed to violent methods in dealing with the negro population. On1/ the worst elements have participated in the disor3 acxs. THE DESPERADO KILLED. After a desperate battle lasting for several hours in which he succeeded in killing Sergt. Gabriel Porteus, Andy Van Karem, keeper of the poliee jail, and Alfred J. HloomSeld, a young boy, fatally wounding Corporal John F. Lilly, John Banvills, ex-Poiiceman Frank H. Evan3, A. S. Lociere, one of the leading confectioners of the city, and more or less seriously shooting several citizens, the negro desperado, r!h*rloa to Tin lrill<?f1 flanf Dav and Patrolman Lamb and badly wounded Officer More, was smoked out of his biding place in the heart of the residence section of' the city and literally shot to pieces. The tragedy was the most remarkable in the history of the city, and 20,000 people, soldiers, pjlicemen and citizens were gathered around the square in which Charles was finally put to death. Sergt. Gaberorteus, one of the best known officers on the force, and Sergt John F. Lally, who has a fine record for bravery, were informed during the day by a negro that Charles was in hiding in a house on Clio, near Saratoga street. Determining to take him alive if possible, the officers summoned a number of patrolmen to their assistance and went to the house where Charles was supposed to be in concealment. The negro informant of the policemen accompanied the officers. They entered the side alley of the house and were surprised in practically the same way as were Day and Linn. Before the officers were aware of their danger nj->arl.aa orri/i woo Kohinil a VilQl TVUV 7IUJ U.VIVkWU VWUAUU w screen on the second floor of the building, raised his Winchester and began a . Carious but accuiate fire. Lally fell with a bullet ia the right ride of the abdomen. Porteus was shot through the bc*d and dropped dead across the body ; af Lilly. The other offioers and the aegro fled from the scene. The reports Df Charles' Winchester and the fact that 1 two officers lay bleeding in the yard, raised tremendous excitement. Hurry sails were sent to the mayor, the chief Df police and Col. Wood, in command of 1 l-.Vio niVIJffA and as fast, as nns rible arm.d help was rushed to the 1 scsns. In a little while there was an immense armed crowd encircling the 3quare in which Charles was located. 1 [n the meantime Father Fitzgerald of 3fc. John's church was summoned to ad- J minister extrems unction to the police officers, who were lying in the alley. ] rhe priest responded promptly and he was annointing the body of Proteus, with Alfred J, Bloomfield, a young boy 3tanding by his side, when Charles . again appeared at the window. The , tad saw him at once and begged , the desperado not to shoot him. . Charles immediately fired his Winches- , ter again and Bloorcaeld fell dead. The priest, unhurt, !cu the scene after i i -I m ' . 1 1 * pmcsuy perromm' tae last omce ior i the dead officer. 'i~is time the ambulance arrived aad two citizens volunteered to go in the alleyway and bring one the body of Lally. They entered, aad while they were attempting to take the body of the dead officer from that of his colleague, Charles fired again. The citizens, nevertheless, got Laily's body out of the alley and afterward succeeded in taking Porteus' body out also. In the meantime an immense throng had gathered in the vioinity and schemes were set on foot to get Charles out of the building. Charles, however, r?irt r>nf nrnnnsA fr> hft r??nfrnred without selling his life dearly. Time after time he came to th6 window and as citizens, one by one, entered the alley, he blazed away at them. 1q this manner Confectioner Lsclere, who was one of the special police squad, ex-Policeman Evins, John Banville and George H. Lyons, son of the bead ef the biggest drag establishment ia the south, were wounded. At this time the extra Police began to fire indiscriminately at the Negro. Who shot hi^ will probably never be i known. Just at the time Andy Van Kurem, keeper of the police jail, got a < bullet in the body and fell dead. Jast : afterward H. H. Batt, an old man, 1 aged 65, working for the mutual bene- 1 volent association, doing business in i the vicinity, was hit and mortally i wounded. About the same time, with ] Charles firing his Winchester indis- i I I HI, ' I TJU-V' i i -- rs i- Ty t : ? oridiuiteiy, r riwas xnsztuuyi *cu. n shot in the left shoulder ac? J. W. ] Bofil got a hot bullet ia the right hand, j Ultimately it was concluded by those | who were handling the situation that i the only way to get at Charles was to ! burn the building in which he was en- j trenched. There were, however, some i sftninles about resorting to this method | of getting him, owing to the exertmely thickly populated section in which the hou9e was situated. Nevertheless, it wa3 determined that the fire department should bs called out, in order to | protect surrounding property, in case it should be resolved to barn the building. At the moment of apparent indecision some one went to a neighboring grocery, purchased a can of oil, and, pouring it over the rear steps of the building, applied a in itch and soon had the building in flames. So fiercely did the fire burn that it became evident that no human being could live in the building and picked men from the police, squards and members of the militia stationed themselves about the build* ^ a A A log in oruer iu pica. uu. iuc a3 he attempted to leave the house. A young soldier named Adolph Anderson, a member of the Thirteenth company of the State militia, was one of the first to sec Charles as he ran down the steps leading to the second 3tory. Charles ran across the yard and entered the second room. He fired several times at Aoderson and the lattrr, who was armed with ?. Winchester riflshot the Negro in the breast and he fell and died soon after. As soon as the Negro fell numbers of people armed with Winchesters and re vol vers rushed ia and fired into tfie bocy. Charles was literally shot to pieies. After it was certain that he waji dead a nn& entered the yard and dragged the body into the street. There the police and the mob emptied their revolvers into it while a son of one of the murdered men rushed up and j stamped the face beyond recognition There were then loud howls that the I body should be taken to a vacant square in the vicinity and publicly burned. At this instant, however, a big squad of police dashed up in a patrol wagon. There were thousinds of people congregated in the vicinity and it seemed as if there might be a clash between the officers and the mob. But the police took the body and carried it to police headquarters. Shortly after th? hndv of Charles had been taken from the scene a report spread that there were still some negroes in the burning building. The square was again quickly surrounded by picked men and under guard of men with Winchesters a special squad made its way into the building. In a room which the fire had not yet reached three negroes were found dressed in female attire. They were hustled out and immediitely sent to prison in a patrol wagon. Subsequently a fourth negro, a mulatto, was discovered in the buildiri2. He made a desperate resistance against being arrested and while io the hands of the polica was killed by a shot fired from a pistol in the hands of one of the disorderly mob that had congregated in the vicinity. Just about the time that Charles' body reached the morgue the body of an unknown negro, who had been shot and stabbed to death on Gallatin street-, was carried in. This darkey was passing through the French market when he was seen by a crowd of whites. The latter were intensely excited by the news of the slaughter of Porteus and others up rr*~s An/4 V? AT7 1 TV? 1 0 f ol T7 7T1 tu vy u ouu tuv j iuiwvuiwwv*^ him. The unknown negro ran for his life and the angry mob kept at his heels, the crowd increasing in nambers every minute. The negro finally succeeded in entering a house in Gallatin street. He ran up stairs and jumped from the gallery to the ground. Before he could arise the mob shot and stabbed him to death. August Thomas was identified today as the negro who had met a violent death at the hands of hoodlums Wed nesday night at the corner of Castom House and Viiliers streets. Louis ^ ^ - ? ? ? a tttVi rt tttrt fl * !> rtf .iciyii.tr uuc ui me uc^iuco nuu nu cuuu and clubbed at the French market Wednesday night succumbed today to his rounds. Late this afternoon Harry Mabry called at the Central police station and identified two men under arrest, George Flanagan and Mike Foley, as members of the mob who murdered Anna Mabry, his mother, while she was asleep in her home on Rousseau street this morning. The mob broke into the house and firing recklessly around the room, wounded the' old woman. She died on her way tc the hospital. At a late hour tonight a mob which had evaded the militia and the citizsns' police attacked the Thorny L ifo school hou?e, Sixth and Rampart streets, upon the supposition that negroes had stored arms and ammunition in the building. They quickly gained possession and fired the structure, destroying it completely. The school building was erected a few years ago by the city, and was devoted exclusively to the educatinn rtkiMran Vn r>pi>r ips kXVU Ui VVAVAVVi VU.A1VIAVU* 'VV were ;'ouad in the school, but a Lumber who emerged from houses in the vicini ty were pursued for quite a distance. A. strong force was dispatched to the scene as soon as the alarm was given, but too late to save the school. The mob was quickly dispersed. A Sample Placardlaflimatory placards are posted all over China. The following is a fair sample of them: "We, the Chinese children of the Sages, are _faithful and filial, as well as modest. How does it come to pass then that any of us can so far forget himself as to become the proselyte of a barbarian's religion. Tens of thousands of native converts have been killed in North China, and their houses and possessions destroyed. Because of this all the countries of the woild have sent soldiers to Tien Tsin to protect the converts. This they have failed to do. The mission the churches, foreign consuls and all the barbarian troops Have beea siaugnterea just as you kill chickens and dogs, "You converts have involved the barbarians ia this calamity. We look upon you as rebels and soon your doom will overtake you. Uahappy is your condition, for all men hate aad dispise you. Great is your distress. Your hands hang helpless by your sides. Despair has seized your minds. Death alone will relieve you. By follotfiug the doctrines of these reoecades and | foreigners you have forfeited your rights as men. We warn you at once to fly to safe hiding places while yet there is opportunity." Three Hundred Killed. Another steamer with Russian troops aboard was bombarded by Chinese from the river bank July 24. Securing reenforcements, the Hussian commander returned to the scene and landed on the Chinese side of Yalu Iliver. Some i.i : UQineee pickets were lu&eu pnsuuers. Three magazines were set 011 fire wd exploded. The Chinese loBt 300 killed, while the Russian loss was only seven. I ? iTsciT- crcprnxfT \A miJUAi uiii'ut ? Rev. Dr. Talmage on one of the Missions of Christ. THE EFFICACY OF THE Divine Power in Healing the I World's Wounds and Deformities, Relations of Surgery and Theology. Ia this discourse Dr. Talmage (who is now traveling iu Earope) pats in an uiiusal light the mission of Christ and shows divine power will yet make the illness of the world fall back; text, Matthew si, 5, "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the leperi are cleansed and the deaf hear." "Doctor," I said to a distinguished surgeon, "do you not get worn out with constantly seeing so many wounds and broken bones and distortions of the human body?" "Oh, no," he answered; "all that is overcoma by my joy in curing them." A sublimer and more merciful art never came down from heaven than that of surgery. Catastrophe and disease entered the earth so early that one of the first wants of the world was a doctor. Oar crippled and agonized human race called for surgeon and family physician for many years before they came. The first surgeons who ass wered this call were ministers of religion? namely, the Egyptian priests. And what a grand thing if clergymen were also doctors, all D. D's were M. D's, for there are so many cases where body and soul need treatment at the same time, consolation and medicine, theology and therapeutics. As the first surgeons of the world were also ministers of religion, may these two professions always be in fall sympathy! Bat ander what disadvantages the early surgeons worked, from the fact that the dissection of the human body wa3 forbidden, first by the pagans and then by the early Christians! Apes, being the brutes most like the human race, were dissected, but no human body might be unfolded for physiological and anatomical exploration, and the surgeons had to guess what was inside the temple by ' l<> kiag at the outside of it. If they ; failed in any surgical operation, they i wsre persecuted and driven out of the | city, as was Archagathus because of | his bold bnt unsuccessful attempt to save a patient. Bat the world from the very beginninc Icent calling for sureeons. and ""o jr ~ o-- I their first skill is spoken of in Genesis, where they employed their art for the incisions of a sacred rite, God making surgery the predecessor of baptism, and ve set it again in 11 Kings, where Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped on some cracked latticework in the palace, and it broke, and he fell from the upper to the lower floor, and he was so hurt that he sent to the village of Ekron for aid, and JE-culapius, who wrought such 1 f .ll A. 1 J - - J wonders 01 Burgery mat ne was uemeu. and temples were built for his worship at Pergamos; and Epidaurus and PedcHrius introduced for the relief of the world phlebatomy, and Damocedes cured the dislocated ankle of King Dariasand the cancer of his queen, and Hippocrates put successful hand on fractures ana introduced amputation, and Praxagoras removed obstructions, and Herophilus began dissection, and Erasistratus removed tumors, and Celsus, the Roman surgeon, removed cataract from the eye and used the Spanish fly; and Heliodorus arrested I * <? .V il L _ _ J A 1 J - ? j Disease 01 cue laroat, aau ^.leiauuer oi Tralles treated the eye, and Rbazas cauterized for the prevention of hydrophobia, and Percivai Pott came to combat diseases of the spine. I But the world wanted a surgery without pain. Drs. Parre and Hickman and Simpson and Warner and Jackson, < with their amazing genius, came for- 1 ward and with their anaesthetics be- < mimhed ths natient with, narcotics and ethers as the ancients did with hasheesh and mandrake and qnieted him for i awhile, but at the return of consoioun- 1 ness distress returned. The world has i never seen but one surgeon who could ' straighten the crooked limb, cure the blind eye or reconstruct the drum of a ] soundless ear or reduce a dropsy with- i out any pain at the time or any pain t after, and that surgeon was Jesus i Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gent- j laaf mncf nrmnatli At.frt smraenTi thf* world ever saw or ever will see, and lie i deserves the confidence and love and 1 worship and hosanna of all the earth ( and halleluiahs of all heaven. 4'The i blind received their sight and the lame \ walk; the lepers arc cleaosed, and the 1 deaf hear." < I notice this surgeon had a fondness < for chionic cises. Many a surgeon, i when he has had a patient brought to < him, has said: {,Why was not this at- i tpndod tn five ve&rp aco? Yon brine i him to me after all power of recupera- < lion is gone. Yon have waited until < there is a complete contraction of the i mu^c'ee, and false ligatures are fonned, < and ossification has taken place. It 1 ought to have been attended to long 1 ago." Bat Christ the Surgeon seemed 1 to prefer inveterate cases. One was a 1 hemorrhage of 12 years, and he stopped i it. Another was a curvature of 18 < years, and he straightened it Another I was a cripple of 38 years, and he walked 1 out well. The 18 year patient was a i woman bent almost double. If you 1 could call a convention of all the surgeons of ail the centuries, their com- j biaed skill could not cure that body so < drawn out of shape. Perhaps they y might stop it from getting any worse, 1 perhaps they might contrive braces by 1 which she might be made more com- < fortable, but it is, humbly speaking, in- i curable. Yet this divine surgeon put f both his hands on her, and from that 1 doubled up posture she began to rise, i and the empurpled face began to take i on a healthier hue, and the muscles be- i gan to relax from their rigidity, and the ? spinal column began to adjust itself, 1 and the cords of the neck began to be 1 more supple, and the eyes, that could t see only the ground before, now looked 1 into the face of Christ with gratitude J and up toward heave a in transport, i Straigh'! After 18 weary and exhaust- 1 ing }e*rj, straight! Tiie poise, tne i gracefulness, the beauty of healthy wo- < manhood reinstated. The 38 years' 1 case was a man who lay on a mattress < near the mineral baths at Jerusalem. ' There were five apartments where lame f people were brought, so that they could 1 get the advantage of these mineral ? baths. The stone basin of the bath is ? still visible, although the waters have ? disappeared, probably througtt some ? convulsion of nature. The bath, 12U j feet long, 40 feet wide and 8 feet deep, t Ah poor man. if you have been lame ? and helpless 38 years, that mineral 1: bath cannot restore you Why, 38 i years is more than the average of hu- c man life Nothing bui the grave will 1 cure you. But Christ the Surgeon 4 walks along these baths and I have no 1 J / /?/\*iSvr r^aaoc. yiw a-\tr,.i naH&rs^s. erfirtTiftVA f been only months disordered or a year or five years and comes to the mattress of the man who had been neaily four decades helpless and to this 38 years'invalid said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The question asked not because the surgeon did not understand the protractedness, the desperateness, of the case, but to evoke the man's pathetic narrative. "Wilt thou be made whole?" "Would you like to get well?" "Oh, WAO '' mflrt ' 'T^of TQ Trlldf T Jr CDj iO?jr O VUV XUCaiA* J.UUU AW IIUHO ? came to these mineral bath3 for. I have tried everything. All the surgeons have failed, and all the prescriptions have proved valueless, and I got worse and worse, and I can neithermove hand nor foot nor head. Oh, if I could only be free from this pain of 38 years 1" Christ the Surgeon could not stand that. Bending over the man on the mattress, and in a voice tender with all sympathy, but strong with all omnipotence, he says, "Rise!" And the invalid instantly scrambles to his knees and tben puis out ins rigbt loot, tnen his left foot, and then stood upright as though he had never been prostrated. While he stands looking at the doctor, with a joy too much to hold, the doctor says: ''Shoulder this mattre?, for you are not only well enough to walk, but well enough to work, and start out from these mineral baths. Take up thy bed and walk!" Ob, what a surgeon for chronic cases then and chronic cases now! This is not applicable so much to a aha an!rr o Kffla ^nrf aP qi n WilUOC vtilv axg uuij a jxvww jjviau v*. mam and only for a short time, but to those prostrated o? sin 12 years, 18 years, 38 years. Eore is a surgeon able to give ( immortal health. "Oh," you say, 'i ( am so completely overthrown and tram- \ pled down of 3;.n that I cannot rise." ^ A.re you flatter down than this patient ? at the mineral baths? No. Then rise. 1 In the name of Jesus of Nazweth, the ? surgeon who offers you his right hand * of help, I bid thee rise. Not cases of ; acute sin, but of chroDic sin?those . who have not prayed for 33 years, those J who have not been to ohurch for 38 years, those who have been gamblers, [ or libertines, or thieves, or outlaws, or blamphemers, or infidels, or atheists, or all these together, for 38 years, A Christ for exigencies! A Christ for a j dead lift! A surgeon who nsver loses j a case! , In speaking of Christ as a surgeon I ] must consider him as an oculist or eye ? doctor, and an aurist or ear doctor. Was S there ever such another oculist? That ] he was particularly sorry for the blind i ?rt1lra T faVo fmm tlio fViaf.t.llA mrtfif ? of his works were with the diseased optic nerves. I have not time to count tip the number of blind people mentioned who got his cure. Two blind men in one house; also one who was born blind; so that it was not removal of a visual obstruction, but the creation of the cornea and ciliary muscle and crystalline lens and retina and optic nerve and tear gland; also the blind man of Bethsaida, cured by the saliva which the Surgeon took from the tip of his own togue and put upon the eyelids; also two blind men who sat by the wayside. In our civilized lands we have blindness enough, the ratio fearfully increasing, according to the statement of European and American oculists, because of the readiog of morning and evening newspapers on the jolting cars by the multitudes who live out of the city ind come in to business. But in the lands where this divin6 surgeon operated the cases of blindness were multiplied beyond everything by the particles of an<3 floal.inc in air and uuuvt "" ? O 1 ? ? ? ? O ?dews falling on the eyelids of those a who slept on the top of their houses, and in some of these lands it is estimated that 20 out of 100 people are totally blind. Amid ail that crowd of visionless people, what work for an oculist! And I do not believe that more than one out of a hundred of that sur- e eeon's cures were reported. He went 3 ap and down among those people who were feeling slowly their way by stafE. * or led by the hand af man or rope of 1 AM/) .lAinrf tliATVl fA "PoAAO C UUg? auu ILIUUUU^1^5 luvw w uug lavvd , of their own household, to the sunrise J and the sunset and the evening star. He jast ran his hand over the expres 1 3ionless faoe, *nd the shutters of both 8 windows were swnng open, and the restored went home crying, "J seel 1 see! 3 Thank Gad, I see!'' ! That is the oculist we all need. Till J tie touohes our eyes we are blind. Yea, we were born blind. By nature we see things wrong, if we see them at all. j Oar best eternal interests are put be- r tore us, and we cannot see tnem. xne t glories of a loving and pardoning . Christ are projected, and we do not j behold them. Or we have a defective sight which makes the things of this . world larger than the things of the fatare, time bigger than eternity. Or, 5 we are color "blind and cannot see the k iifference between the blackness of r iarkness forever and the roseate morn- c ing of an everlasting day. Bat Christ j :he Surgeon comes in, and though we ^ shrink back afraid to have him touch is, yet he put his fingers on the closed , jyelids of the soul and midnight be- ^ jomes midnoon, and we understand something of the joy of the young man )f the Bible who, though he had never 5 Defore been able to see his hand before ? bis face, now by the touch of Christ fciad two headlights kindled under his ^ i>row, cried out in language that con- g 'ounded the jeering crowd who were ieriding the Christ that had effected he cure and wanted to make him out a , Dad man. "Whether he be a sinner or ~ . r ao 1 know not. Uoe tiling l Know, tnat ? whereas I was blind, now I see." What a grand thing for our poor hu- ? nan iace when this surgeon shall have j jompleted the treatment of the world's 5 (rounds! The day will come when there r will be no more hospitals, for ihere will I De no more sick, and no more eye and j jar infirmaries, for there will be no more blind or deaf, and no more de- J1 serts, for the round earth shall be wrought under arboriculture, and no 5 - i # _ il . I aore blizzards or sunstroKes, ior cne fl itmosphere will be expurgated of scorch ? md chill, and no more war, for the swords shall come out of the foundry , Dent into pruning hooks, while in the leavenly c >untry we shall see the vie- 5 irns of accident or malformation or ^ lereditary ills on earth become the ithletea ia Elysian fields. Who is that nan with such brilliant eyes close before the throne? Why, that is the nan who, near Jericho, wa3 blind and jur surgeon cared his ophthalmia! Who is that erect and gracefal and r lueenly woman before the throne? ii Chat was the one whom our surgeon r ound bent almost double and oould in ii lowise lift up herself, and he made her & itraight. Who is that listening with c inch rapture to the music of heaven, into nliftma f?T7mhal TP IU1C iUVV VMW* MWJ . v ipondiBg to trumpet, and then himself oining in the rvithem? Why, that is b he man who our surgeon found deaf fi md dumb on the beach of Galilee and d >y two touches opened ear gate and nouth. Who is that around whom the irowds are gathering with admiring ooks and thanksgiving and cries of * 'Oh, what he did for we! Oh! what J le did for my family! Oh,, what he ^ tot tWjj *c THE ? Grove's' 1 he formula : know just what yc do not advertise th their medicine if y< Iron and Quinine pi fnrm The Irnn malaria out of the Grove's IS the On Chill Tonics are in that Grove's is si are not experimeni and excellence h< only Chill Cure s< the United States. lid for the world! That is the surgeon all flip r?oT?fni<i?a t.Vio flip mrist, the emancipation the Saviour. So pay he took on earth. Come, now, ind let all heaven pay his with worship .hat shall never end and a love that iball never die. On his head be all the :rowns, in his hands be all the fcepters md at his feet be all the worlds! KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. Che Whole Truth as to the Rural Hail Delivery. The Orangeburg correspondent of .he News and Courier says there has )een some recent comments hereabouts ipon the statement of Congressman Norton, as reported in his Bennettviile ipeech to the effect that Congressman Stokes had not worked for free rural deivery of mail. Congressman Stokes las jast returned home after some days' ibsence and your correspondent asked rim what he had to say about this mat?r. The people of this section have >een giving Dr. Stokes the credit for eadership in the movement, as they ire satisfied that he deserves the honor ind in j ustice to him the people think le should receive proper recognition for lis valuable seances. Mr. Stokes replied as follows: "I thought my attitude and relations o the subject of free rural delivery was ;oo well understood to.require explanaiion anywhere in the State. I am inslined to think that Mr. Norton was nisquoted, for I do not think he would nisrepresent me. The fact is that I if as the first to secure an adequate appropriation for this purpose?enough to put it on a fair basis. As a resuit it mmediately went forward by leaps and rounds. Efforts had been mide to la/invA on n rl na no fn ?i ofinn c/stt_ igvuiv au augvjaaiig arrx vrlia,b<luu oyj f sral limes before, bafc they had failed, md it was only after a persistent and )rotracted fight in both Senate and louse that I succeeded. "In the Atlanta'Journal of July 11 appeared a very comprehensive and acsurate history of the whole movement or rural delivery, by Congressman 3-riggs, of Georgia, who stands high on he roll of Democratic members of the jostoffice committee, and hence lias ? i _ x _ ? I i. >een in posujoa 10 snow waat iqqumces wero most potential in bringing ibont the service as it now exists. "It is true, as stated by Friend Noron, that I have gotten free delivery of nail aloDg all star routes in South Carolina?the service beginning July 1, >ut my first fight wa? for the rurel deivery, as stated above aDd the star oute delivery is aaamplificjtion of that ystem. "But all this is such recent history tnci so generally understood tnat it eems superfluous to restate it. Stiil a view of this and of some very exravagant claims upon the same subject ecently appearing in the State papers iver the signature lOae Who Knows,' t may be as well to refresh the public Hind on the facts, so as to keep before he public corrcctly the work of the bngressman from the 7th district. Icre is the paragrrph from Congressman Grigg's history of rural delivery in he Atlanta Journal of the 11th infant, which refers to Congressman Stokes. 44 Thn nPTf. vpir HfiQS savs Mr. J-riggs, "Congress gave $300,000 to ontinue experiments in this direction, ly recollection is that the department ,sked for only $150,000, and the committee recommended that amount on he floor of the House. The Hon. J. Villiam Stokes, of Sonth Carolina, a ast friend of the farmer, moved to make b $300,000 and it passed in that shape, lo great was the pressure for these outesfrom all parts of the country fter this we were called upon by the .epartment to supply a prospective deiciency of $150,000. Deafness Cannot be Cured. ?y local applications as they cannot each the diseased portion of the car. ?here is only one way to cure deafness, nd that is by constitutional remedies. )eafness is caused by an iciflimed conition of the muoou* lining of the eustachian Tube. When this tube is flamed you have a rumbling sound or mpeifeot hearing and when it is entire7 closed. Deafness is the result, and mless the inflammation can be condiion, hearing will be destroyed forever; line cases cut of ten are caused by Jatarrh, which is nothing but an inamei condition of the mucous suraces. We will give Oce Hundred Dollars < "TV * . . . / . J 1 or any case ot l/eainesa ^causea Dy atarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Jatarrh Care. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by all Druggists 75o. Rail's Family Pills are the best. To be Sent from PekinThe Chinese Minister at Washington eceived a dispatch Wednesday mornDg from Sheng. the direotor of rail? oadsand telegraphs at Shanghai, statag that the foreign ministers are to be ent from Pekin to Tien Tsin under esort. Gainesville, Ga., Deo. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptio Invigorator ha= een used in my family and I am persctly satisfied that it is all, and will o all, Ton claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself, t's doing me good.?Sold by The Mur TV?Ha OAI?rwVila Q fl *11 %y jyiug vv*) vvnAiuwio, v.j * *?*? ? * . ruggiats. , tf ' r asteless Chi is plainly printed on every iu are taking when you take eir formula knowing that y< ou knew what it contained, jt up in correct proportions a acts as a tonic while the ? t* - L i _ j system, /iny rename uruggi* iginai and that all other litations. An analysis of othe jperior to all others in ev ting when you take Grov< iving long been establishe Did throughout the entire i No Cure, No Pay. Price Pekin in AnarchyGen. Li, commanding the Pei Tang forts near Takti, reports to the British officer commanding at Tong Ka that a rannerwho left Pekin on Jaly 14 reports that Pekin was in a state of absolute anarchy, that the regular troops were fighting the Boxers, and that the latter were getting the better of the struggle; that the Maxim ammunition of the legation guards was exhausted, and that they were using their rifl?8 sparingly; that the guards reoently rushed the walls and silenced tie Chinese guns, and that a few Chinese princes were desirous of protecting the foreigners, but were in a minority. Confessed. S. P. Dahlman confessed at Burling-, ton, la., Wednesday night that he killed his wife three years ago in St Louis. He surrendered himself to the sheriff and made a voluntary confession, saying that he could no longer endure the remorse ef conscience. He says he * * * ' * ?.t Ml _1_ | smotnerea nis wire witn a puiow as sne lay on her bed ill with consumption. He got the benefit of $500 life insurance carried by his wife. In Buffalo, N. Y., a church is trying to get out of paying its organist his salary on the ground that the work which he performed was done on Sunday, and that since Sunday labor is contrary to law the organist cannot enforce payment through the courts. One would hate to have to depend upon that church as a guide to heaven. Bel ffiUNCES. Ginning Systems Equipped With The Murray Cleaning and Distributing System. Power Equipments Saw Mill Machinery Farm and Mill Machinery IN GENERAL' S. n AtrflTits for Steele's "New South. Brick Machinery. Write ns fcr prices on anything in onr line. W. H. Sibbes & Co., 804 Gervais Street, . COLUMBIA, 8. C. IKE LEADER INDEED. The New Ball Bearing n ? uomesTic Sewing Machine It Leads in Workmanship, Beauty, Capaoily, Strength, Light Running. Every We man Wants One. Attachments, * Needles and Parts for Sewing Machines of all makes. When ordering reedles send sample. Price 27c per dozen, postpaid. Agents Wanted in Unoccupied Territory. J. L. SHELL, 1219 Taylor Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Mnrrav's Aromatic Mouth Wash Whitens the Teeth Cleanses the Month Sweetens the Breath The?' Murray * Drug Co., COLUMBIA, S. C. MONEY TO LOAN On improved real estate. Interest eight per cent. payaDie semi-annually. Time 3 to 5 years. No commissions charged E, S. Palmer. CJXNTBAL NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 205 Plain St., Columbia, 8.0 ?(/ ^ ^ SON IS ** % ill Tonic. t bottle?hence you Grove's. Imitators >if/mi1/1 rirtf V*11V J U WUUJU tivv -* J Grove's contains ~|M nd is in a Tasteless Quinine drives the fl t will tell you that so-called Tasteless ,t chill tonics shows ery respect. You e's?its superiority d. Grove's is the Tialarial sections of Near Union Depot. Having formed a connection Jg Tbe ElliOTTfinREPIIfi WORKS 1 I am now prepared to repair and rebnild cotton gins as thoroughly as the vari- ? ons manufacturers. This branch of the business j| be under the personal supervision of MR. W. J. ELLIOTT, r |?|j who has had fourteen years of lgB practical experience in buHd- ^IgS ing the Elliot Gin, and who ' | is well Jknown to most gin nsers in this State. - -5 Now is the Time I Bring- Your Gins Before Yon Need Them! COMPLETE GINNING SYSTEM'S, EQUIPPED | WITH THE MOST PEBFECT PNEUMATIC J ELEVATING AND DISTRIBUTING SYS- ^fi TEMS ON THE MARKET. SIYTTEIGHT COMPLETE OUTFITS IN USE IN THIS STATE, AND ? EVERT ONE OP THEM GIVING ABSOLUTE SATS-. PACTION. Hignes uraae engines, couers, -mm Saw Mills, Coni Mills, Brick I Machines, Wood Working* Machinery, Saws, Pulleys, etc We offer: Quick delivery, low prices ? and reasonable terms. V. C. BADHAM, \ 1356 Main St., Columbia, S. C. 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SIMi Having purchased the interest of Mr. Jno. 8. Reynolds in the above basinest I will ^ continue the same on my own account at Orangeburg, 8, C., and hope,by strict atten* tion to business to merit a continuance of the ..: patronage heretofore bestowed on the old - ^?f?g firm. J AS. L. SIMS. ' Ha?ing transferred, to Mr. Jas. L. Sims --"4 my interest in the business of Jno. 8. Beyn- ^ olds & Co., I take pleasure in taking for him - - Jfc a continuance of the patronage hitherto --Zgfffif given the firm. JNO. 8. REYNOLDS. ?0w^|j Columbia, 8, C., July 1,1900. ~~ PITTS' "mm ANTiSEPTIG miTOfii m Cures La Grippe, dyspepsia, indigestion ana au stomaon ana Dowel troubles oolicor - % chelera morbtui, teething troubles with children, kidney troubles, bad blood and all sorts of sores, risings or felons, oats and ^ barns. It is as goodaotiseptio, when locally applied, as anything on the market. Try it and yon will praise it to others. " \y/ia If your druggist doesn't keep it, write to - :% THE MURRAY DRUG CO., | Columbia, 8. ?. Jbo. s. Reynolds, Attorney at Law COLUMBIA, . 8. 0.