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' -. V* :. &***' -r THREE CROSSES. Dr. Ta'rriage Discourses on tba | Redemption cf the Race. A TOPIC 5UCEG3TED BY i I The Famous Paintings ct Mun ch Typas cf Humirify Represented by the Two Malefactors. The famous paintings in the picture galleries of Munich seem to have suggested the topic of ihis discourse, which Dr. Talmage sends from the quaint Bavarian town, but the' theme which inspired the painters awakens in the great preacher thoughts of the redemp tioa of the human race, which was the supreme design of that scene of suffering and death. The text is Luke xsiii, 33, "There they crucified him and tbe malefactors, one on the right har-d and the other on the lefc." Ju3t outside of Jerusalem is a swell of ground, toward which a crowd aie asoecding. for it is the day of execution. What a mighty assemblage! Some for ouriosity to hear what the malefactors will say and to see bow they will act. The three persons to be executed are already there Some or the spectators are vile of lip and bloated of cheek. Some look up with revenge, hardW able to keep their hands off the sufferers Some tear their own hair in a frenzy of grief. Some stand in silent horror. Some break out into uncontrollable weeping. Some clap their hands ia delight that the offenders are to be punished at last. The soldiers, with *? ? * ' -! drawn swords, drive Dacs tne moo wmcu Dresses on so hard. There is fear that the proceedings may be interrupted. Let the legion, now stationed at Jerusalem, on horseback dash along the line and force back the surging multitude. "Back wiiSi you!" is theory. "Have you never before seen a man die?" Three crosses in a row?an upright piece, and two transverse pieces one on the top, on which the hands are nailed, and one at the middle, on which the victim sat. Three trees just planted, vet beaming fruit? the one at the right bearing poison and the one at the left bitter aloes, the one in the middle apples of love. Norway pine and tropical orange and Lebanon cedar would not make so strecge a grove as this orchard of Calvary. Stand and give a look at the three crosses. Just look at the cross on the right. . Its victim dies scoffing. More awful than his physical anguish is his scorn and hatred of him on the middle cross. This wretched man turns half around on the spikes to hiss at the One in the middle. If the scoffei could get one hand loose and he were wittun reacn, he would smite the middle sufferer in the face. He hates him with a perfect hatred. I think he wishes he were down on the ground that he might spear him. He envies the mechanics who with their nails have nailed him fast. Amid the settling darkness and louder than the crash of the rocks hear nim jeer out these words: "Ah, sou poor wretch! I knew you were an impostor! You pretended to be a God, and yet you let these legions master you!" It was in some such hate that Voltaire I in his death hour, because lie thought he saw Christ in his bedroom, got up on his elbow and cried out, "Crush that wretch!" What had the middle cross done to arouse up this right hand cross? Nothing. Oh, the enmity of the natural heart against Christ! The world likes a sentimental Christ or a phi] an>. tropic Christ, but a Christ who comes to snatch men awsy from their sios ? away with him! On his right hand cross today I see typified the unbelief of the world. Men sav: "Back with him from the heart! I will not let him take my sins. If he will die, let him t? ? T'Ko-a I UiC XU1 UliUDVU, UVU -IVI Ul^? a.v has always been a war between this right hand cross and the middle cress, and wherever there is an unbelieving heart there the light goes on. Oh, i: when that dying malefactor perish'.d tb? faithlessness of man had perished, then that tree which yields poison would have budded and blossomed with life for all the world! Look up into that disturbed countenance of the sufferer a^d see what a ghastly thing it is to reject Christ. Be ? 1** . 1 . /? 1 A\ - A noia m tnai awxui iace, la taai pmiui leok, in that unblessed dea'.h hour, the stings of the sinner's departure. What a plnng8 into darkness! Standing high upon the cross on the top of the hill, so that all the world may look at him, he says, "Here 1 go out of a miserable life into a wretched eternity!" Oae! Two! Three! Listen to the crash of the fail, all ye ages! So Hobbes, dying after he had 70 year in which to prepare for eternity, said, "Were I master of all the world, I would give it ail to live ODe day longer." SirFrancis Newport, hovering over the brink, cried out: "Wretch that I am, whither shall I Hy from this breast? What will become ef me Oh, that I were to lie upon I the fire that never is quenched a thousand years to pu:v.Aase the favor of God and to be reconciled to him again! Oh, eternity! Oh, eternity! Who can discover the abyss of eternity? Who can paraphrase these words, "Forever and forever?'" That right hand cross?thousands have perished on it in worse agonies. For what is physical pain compared to remorse at the last that life has been W&St-ea ana omy a usetrng luumcut stands between the soul and its everlasting overthrow? 0 God, let me die anywhere rather ttnn at the foot of that right hand cross! Let not one drop of that blood fali upon my cheek. Rend not my ear fcith that cry. I see it now as never before?the loathsomeness and horror of my unbelief. That dying malefactor was not so much to blame as I. Christianity was not established, and peraaps not until that day had that man beard tte Ubnst. 15ut after Christ has stood almost 19 centuries, working the wonders of his grace, you reject him. That right hand cross, with its long ! beam, overshadows all the earth. It is planted in the heart of the race. When will the time come when the spirit of God shall, with its ax, hew down that right hand cross until it shall fall at tne loot ot mat middle cross, and unDelief, the railing malefactor of the world, ahall perish from all our hearts? Away from me thou spirit of unbelief! I hate thee! With this sword of God 1 thrust thee ba^k and tbrust thee through. Down to hell; down, most accursed monster of the earth, and talk to those thou hast already damned! Talk no longer to these sons of God, j these heirs of heaven. "If thou be the Son of God/' Was there any "if" about it? Tell mc, thou star, that in robe of light did run to point out his birthplace. Tell me, thou sea, that didst put thy haod over thy lip when he bade thee be still. Teli ! M- yc dssd $bv gsfc up ti? ttiP s?3? I Tell 2:5, ihvtt stsc in tridhesvbn. ^fco forbid cidfct psli dctfn o7or thy ?a~s Ihy reil of darkness. Tell ce, ye Itp ers ?Lo were cleansed, ye dead who were raised, is he the Son of God'/ Aye, aye, responds tte universe. The fbwers breathe it; the btars ch:'me ii; the redeemed celebrate i'; the aogels rise on their throats to announce it. Asa yet on that miserable malefactor's "it" how many shall be wrecked for /all eternity ! That little' if" his ca >ugb venom in its sting to cause the death of the soul. No "if" about it. I know J it. Eoce D us! I feel it thoroughly ?through every muscle of trie body, aad through every faculty of my miiid, and through every energy uf my soui. Liviog. I will preach it; dyiag, I will pillow my head up<jn its consolations ? Je~ui the God Away then, from this right hand crois The red berries of the forest are ape to be poisonous, acd around this tree of carnage grow the red, poisonous berrie3 of which many have tasted and died. I can ses no use for this right hand cross, except it be used as a lever with which to upturn the unbelief of the world. Here from the right hand cross J go to the left hand cross. Pass clear to the other side. That victim also twists himself upon the nails to look at the center cross, yet not to scoff. It is to worship. He, too, would like to get hi.s hand loose, not to smite, but to de liver the sufferer of the middle cross. He cries to the railer cursing on the other side: '"Siience! Between us is innocence in agony. We suffer for our crimes. Siience!" Gather round this left hand cross, 0 yc people! Bat not afraid. Bitter herbs are sometimes a toaic for the body, and the bitter aloes that ?row on this tree shall give strength acu life to thy soul. This left haad cross is a repenucg cross. As men who have been nearly drowned tell us that in one moment, while they were under che water, their whole life passed before them, so L suppose in one moment tne dying malefactor thought over all his past life?of that night when he went into an unguarded door and to 5k all the siiver, the gold the jewels, and as the sleeper stirred he put a knife through his heart; of that day when, ia the lonely pass, he met the wayfarer, and, regardless of the cries aco prayers and tears and struggles of his victim, he flang the mangled corpse into the dust of the highway or heaped upon it the stones. He 6ays: "I am a guilty wretch. I rtaservA this. There is no need of my cursing. That will not stop the pain. There is no need of blaspheming Christ, for he has done me no wrong. And yet I cannot die so. The tortares of my body are undone by the tortures of my soul. The past is a sen3e of misdoing, the present a crucifixion the future, an everlasting undoing Come back, thou hid ing midday sun! Kiss my chsek with cne bright ray of comfort. What, no help from above?no help from beneath? Then I must turn to my companions in sorrow, the One on the middle cross. 1 have heard that he knows how to help a> man when he is in trouble. I have heard that he can cure the wounded. I have heard that he can pardon the sinner. Sarelyiu all his wanderings up and aosrn toe eartn ne never saw one more in need of his forgivenebs. Blessed Oce, I turn to thee. Wilt thou turn for ine moment away from thy own pangs to pity me? Lord, it is not to have my haods relieved or my feet taken from the torture?I can stand ail this?but, oh, my sins, my sins, my sins! They pierce me through aad through. They tell me I must die forever. They will push me cut into the darkneo.- unless thou wilt Kelp me. I confess it all. Hear the cry of the dying thief, 'Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.' I ask no great things I seek for no throne in heaven, no chariot to take me to the skies, bu: just think of me when this day's horrors have passed. Think of me a little?of me, the one now hanging at thy side, when the shout of heavenlv welcome takes thse back into thy glory. Thou will not forget me, wilt thou? 'Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.' Only just remember me." Likewise must we repent You say, "I have stole nothing." I reply, ''We have all boea guilty of the mightiest felony of ike universe, for we have robbed God?robbed hita of our time, robbed him of our talent,' robbed him of our services." Suppose you send a man out as an agcDt of your firm, and every month ycu pay him his salary, and as the end of ten years yo'i find out that he has been serving another firm, but taking your salary, would you not at once condemn him as dishonest? (rod .-.i-i-.v:. ij SKUl US iiiiu lino wuiiu lu :cnc mu. He has given us wages all tbe time. Yet bow many of us have been serving another master! When a man is convicted of treason, he is brought out; a regimem surrounds him, and the command is givan: ''Attention, company! Take aim! Fire!'' And the man falis with a hundred bullets throughis heart. There comes a time in a man's history when the Lord ealls up the troop of his iniquities, and at God's command they pour into him a concentrated volley of tArtnra UV1VUAV* I have bhovn you f ^ right handcros3 and the left hand cross; now come to the middle cross. We stood at the one and found it yielded poison; we stood at the other and found it yielded bitter aloes. Come now to the middle cross and shake down apples of love. Uncover yoar head. You never saw so tender a scene as this. You may have seen father or mother or companion or child die, _but never so afieoting a scene as this. The railing thiel iooKea irom one way and saw only the right side of Christ's face; the penitent thief lookedfrom the other way and saw the left side of Christ's face. Bat today, in the full blaze of gospel light, you see Christ's full face. It was a suffering crcs3. If the weapons of torture had gone only through the fatty portions of the body, the torture would not have been sc great, but they went through the hands and feet and temples, the most sensitive portions. It was not ? iL.x i. j_ oniy cue Epear mat wem mtu ms oiuc, but the sins of all the race?a thousand spears?plunge after plunge, deeper and deeper, until the silence and composure that before characterised him gave way io a groan, through which rumbled the sorrows of time and the woes of eternity, Human hate had done its worst, and hell had buried its sharpest javelin, and devils had vented their hottest rase when, with every nerve of his body i in torture and every fiber of his heart in excruciation, he cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thcu forsaken me?'' It was a vicarious cross. The right hand cross suffered for itself, the left hand cross for itself, but the middle cross for you. When a king was dying, a young man cried, '"Pour mv blood into his veins, that he di?i not." The veins of the young man were tapped and vi aa/3 oa tkof f ha tirifr LU.C U1UUU Udll^iClX^U) DV kuuv VJLLV aiuj lived, but the youtgman died. Christ saw the race perishing. He cried, "Four my blood into their veins, that they die not." My hand is free now because Christ's was crashed; my brow xU uvv. v.i/iiijv J TT?C tcfn; si? soul etiipos h<?csusc Christ'? s?as bosnd; 1 isia Lc-aves becausc Chris: for i^e etidurcd the horror* of hell When the S?i?s were many years r.co eunieoding iheir enemies. they saw these eritnici iirrajed i.'.* solid {'ha laox aad kne* cm bow to b-eak ihe;r jaclcs but coc of ihtir heroes, Arnold voa Winkelried. rushed out io front of his regiment anu sheafed, "make way for liberu!' The weapons of ti:s eceauy w?.re plunged i&ro his heart, bat wiiilr thr-y wt-rc sU>iog him uf eou^e their r*\ ks were broken, a?:d ihr<-unn thai gip io the ranks ihe S-viss dashed to victory. Christ saw &ii tno p -W'Ts 01 clarknci-s assailing men He o:i^d out, "Make way for tLe rtdeaiption of the tforlu!' All the weapons of inferaal wrath otruuk hiai. but th<y struck him our race marched cut free. To this middle cr >ss look, that >our souls may live. 1 tho-veu ycu the right hand cross in order that jou might see what an awful thing it is to be unbelieving. I showed you the left hand cross that you might fee what it is to iepent. Now I show you the middle cross that you m*y see what Christ has done to save your soul. Poets have sua? its praise, ecaipioro have attempted to commemorate it in amble, martyrs have eiutg to it in the Are. aud Christians dying quietly in their bids have leaned their heads ag?iu*t it This hour may all our souls embrace it with an ecstasy of affection. Lay hold of that cross! Everything else vrili fail you. Without a strong grip on that you perish. Pat your haou oa that and you are safe, though a world ssvir g from beneath \ our feet. Oh, that I might engrave on your souls inefdeeably the three crosses, so that if in your waking moments you will not heed, then in your dreams at night you may see on the hill- back of Jerusalem the three spectacles?the right ha^d orosi showing unbelief, dying without Christ; the left hand showing what it is to be pardoned, while the central cross pours upon your soul the sunburnt of heaven as it says: "By all these wounds I plead for thy heart. I ha*ve loved thee with an everlasting love. Rivers cannot quench it. Fioods cannot drown it." And while you look the right hand cross will fade out of sight, and then the left will be gone, and nothing will remain but the middle cross, and even that in your dream will oegin to ohange until it becomes a throne, and the worn face of Calvary will become radiant with gladness, ind instead of the mad mob at the foot of the cross will ba a worshipful multitude kneeling. And you and I will be among them. Bat, no; we will not wait tor suca a dream, la this our most aroused mood we throw down at the foot of that middle cross sia, sorrow, life, death?everything. We are slaves; Christ gives deliverance to the captive. We are thirsty; Christ is the nver of salvation to slake oar thirst. We are fcuogry; Jesus says, '*1 am the bread cf life." We are coademued to die; Chiist says, "Save that man from fcoin? down to the pit; [ am the ransom " We are tossed on the sea of trouhle; Jesus comes over it, saying, '"It is [, be not afraid " We are in darkness; Jesus says, "I am the A r\ '1 TwAwr.inr* Cfen ' ' W Cx orA Q 1 rt U UllglXb AUU lUUlUiUJ O < ? 'T V tJiWOk, Jesu3 i3 the "balm of Gilead." We are dead; bear the bhrouds reed and the ftrave hillocks heave as he cries, "I am the re=urrecfion acd the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." We want justification; ''Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." We wait ;o exercise faith; ''Believe ia the Lord Jesus Christ, acd thou shalt be saved." I want to get from under condemnation; "There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them who are are in Christ Jesus." The cross; he carried it. The flames of hell; he suffered them. The shame; he ir TIia (iwisn- ttftn ifc. Heights of heaven sing it, and worlds of light to worlds of light all round the heavens cry: ' Glory! Glory!'' Let us go forth and gather the trophies for Jesus. From Golconda ruioea we gather the diinionds, from Ceylon shores wo gather the pearls, form all lands and kingdoms we gather precious stones, and we bring the glittering burdens and put them down at the feet of Jesus and say: "xV;l these are ihine. Thou art worthy." We go forth again for siore trophic?, and into one stiesf we gather all the scepters of the Caesars, and the Alexanders, and the czars, and the sultans, and of ail royalties and dominions, and then we bring the sheaf of ssepters and put it down at the feet of Jesus and say: "Thou art King of kir.gs. All these thou bast J eosqaored." And then we go forth I again to gather more trophies, and we j bid the redeemed of ages, the sons 3Dd J daughter* of the Lord Almighty, to come. And the hosts of heaven bring ' crown and palm and scspter and here by these bleeding feet and this riven side and by this wounded heart cry, I "Blessing and honor and glory and I power utito the Lamb for ever and j ever." Bodies on the Prarie. Appended is a list of the dead at Hitchcock, Texas, so far as is known. Some of these are Galveston people who were floated to Hitchcock by the waters of the bayou: Harvey Johnson and wife, killed under house. Wm. Robinson. Mrs. Pietz and throe children. The family of C. W. Young, wife, two sons aad two daughters. Mary Montelona. ?Palmero. wffe and seven chil dren. T. W. O'Connor. Members of two families of Alvin, who were visiting the Young family. Seven unidentified found on prarie, supposed to be from Galveston. Scores of the dead from Galveston are yet unburied, as the bodies are too badly decomposed to baul and there is too much water on the prarie to adiait of diggiog grave3. The Dispensary Sustained TViotais no use trying to diseuise the fact that the people of this State have voted fairly and squarely to sustain the dispensary law. The new Legislature is more strongly in favor of the dispens*ry than any since the law was enacted. While the over^ehlming sentiment in favor or the la* as shown ia the campaign for Governor as well as legislator?, does not change our opinion of the law, we believe the emphatic expression of the people this time is intended as far as possible to take the liquor question out of politics.? Spartanburg Herald. n J- * 1 nau.iiii ouunus maim. The Hamiliton CJlub of Chicago Wednesday night tendered a dinner in honor of Senator William E Mason, who shared the honors with Senator Hanna. Senator Hanna ta'ikfd frankly of the danger of over cocfiituce on the part of Keupblicans and declared that everything Republicans and patriotic Democrats fought for four years ago was at stake in the present campaign. Innn^iiinPTtlB ; i/ V v /,Jk xs \s ** a *JC 1/ c j ; For Use in the Public Schools cf the Statf. j j BY 30ARJ OF EDUCATION. i Krc-s Hi vvircri books Are to De Fu-nishefrt to D^ale'S and ! Exch^ng d for F?vs i Y <iJif S. The following ia tbe list of books adopted by the State Bjard of Education for us? in tbe public schools of South Carolica for tbe next five years. The first price quoted is the price to dealers and the second the exchange price: READERS Johnson's Readers?B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va. Price to Exchange Prirfi. First reader S 16 $ 07 Secoud reader 24 .10 Third reader 27 .12 Fourth reader 36 .15 Fifth reader 48 .20 Total 81.51 $64 HISTORIES Lcp's Historic??B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Ya. New Primary, cloth $40 S 17 New school, cloth 60 .25 New school, cloth 68 .28 GRAMMARS. I. WheelerVi Graded Studies in Eng hsh?W. H. Wheeler & Co , Chicago Ills.?$ 32; $.20. II. Kuehler's, "A Modern English Grammar?Newson & Co , New iork, (Provided ind^x be made)?$ 45; $ 25 III. Reed & Kelloggs High Sohool Grammar?Mavuard. Merrill & Co., New Ycrk? $ 48; $ 25. GEOGRAPHIES Frye's Geographies?Ginn & Co., New York. I. Introductory?$ 34, boards; $ 17. II. Advanced, $ 75, boards; .37. Tarr's First Book of Physical Geography, (special edition for South CaroJio?) ? Macmillan & Co., New York? $ 87, cloth; $.55. ARITHMETICS. Wentworth's?Ginn & Co., New York. I. Elementary, $ 19; $ 10. II. Practical, $.36; $ 18. Brook's Mental Arithmetic?Christopher Sower & Go , Philadelphia, $.22; $ 14. ALGEBRA. Wontwcrth'8 Algebras? G-inn & Co. I. First Steps in Algebra, $ 48: $ 24 II. New School Algebra, $ 90; $.45 GEOMETRY. Brook's?Christopher So^er & Co., Philadelphia. 1 Y11 X _ A ?A A OO fsrocK s iijiemeniary, $ au: ? Ow. PHYSIOLOGY. Hafchin'on's?Maynard, Merrill & Co., New York. I Oar Wonderfal Bodies, $ 22; $.11. II. Oar Wonderful Bodies, $.38; $.19. III. Physiology and Hygiene, $.80; $45 NATURE STUDY AND AGRICULTURE. Wilson's Nature Study in Elementary Schools?Macmillan Co., New York. I First Evader, $ 28; $ 21. It. Second Reader, $ 28; $ 21. A Manual for Teachers, $ 72 Bailey's Fir3t Lesions with Plants? Macmillan & Co., $ 32 Bailey's Principles of Agriculture, nn-4 7^ MUSIC. The Normal Musio Course?Silver Burdette & Co., New York. F;rst reader, $ 24; $ 19 Second reader, $ 45; $ 36. Third reader. $ 30;-$ 24 SoDga of the Nations, $.45; $ 36 DRAWING. Normal Course in Drawing?Silver, Burdette & Co. Books No. 1 to 2, $.72 per dozen; $.58 per cozen. Books No. 4 to 9, $1 35 per dozen; SI.08 Der dozen. Blank Drawing Books, $.54 per dozen; $ 43 per dozen. COPY BOOKS The Natural System of Vertical Writing?D. C. Heath & Co., New York. Numbers 1 to 6, 5 cents eaoh; $,60 per dozen. Numbers 7 to 8, 6 3-4 cents eaoh; $.S0 per dozen. The Graphic System of Practical Penmanship (slant writing) A. Lovell & Co. Numbers 1 to 6, large size, $.48 per dozen. Number 7, $ 60 per dozen. * * -1 A OO jNumoers i toa ana tracing s.ou. CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Peterman's Elements of Civil Government?American Book Co., New York?$ 45; $ 30. COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC. William's Composi.ion and Rhetoric by Practice?$ 54; $ 30. GENERAL HISTORY. Myers' General History?Ginn & Co., New York?$1.20; $.72. SUPPLEMENTARY READERS. CjT3, Ginn & Co. T7I- . A OO & 11 nm v f.n Second 29 .15 ! Third- 40 .20 i Fourth ... 48 .24 Fifth *6 .28 The following were adopted for libraries and for literature study: Eaglish Classic Series?Maynard, Merril & Co. The Riverside Literature Series? Houghton, Miflin & Co. Star Series?Globe School Book Co. Macmillan's Pooket English Classics ?\Tp.mil1aTi Do. Historical Tales?J. B. Lippinoott & Co. The following were adopted for a teachers' course: White's School Management?American Book Co. WKifa'o Tniomonffl nf PfidacfiffV? American Book Co. 1 London's School and Class Manage ment?Macmillan Co. ^ SPELLING BOOKS. ( I. English Words as Spoken and Written?GISbe School Book Co., New York. , II. Benson and Glenn's Speller and J Definer?D. C. Heath & Co.?$.25; ' - -- < S.lD. SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY. Chapaan's History of South Carolina. Everett. Waddey Co., R;ck- j mond, Va. $.60. tJlwfiOK-iiiV. i }Veb=.iar a Dictionaries. A. i3. C. Hacdy Dictionary, $15; $ 03. Primary Dictionary, $ 36; $ 24 ('oraaion Schooi Dictionary, $ 54; ! $36 ' | High School Dictionary $ 74; $ 48. j Academic Dictionary, $1 13; $.75. MAPS South Carolina msp-Rand, McNaily Series cf Maps?Hand McX-tlly. The governor and Superintendent cf education have b.^en empowered and directed to lis the bonds of the companies. THE CONTRACT. Superintendent McMahan prepared i tl e followicg, which points out the main features of the contract msda by the State with the publishers: 1 The sd-ption is to expire July 1st. 19oG. after ail schools are closed and just before they are ojeiud. The pres ent date of expiration is Nov. 1st. after most or all of' the schools have begun and when therefore a change cannot be generally effected. A change in the new books wili not be forced until July l3t, 1901. Hence the present school sessions may continue with the old books. Exchange pricts for new books sold to pupils that have the old books will continue till Nov. 15th. 1901, aft(r wHich time ail tfce schools having opened and every pupil having had a chance to get rid of his old book, entire uniformity in books will prevail in the schools. 2. Price to dealer is to be printed en each book. The county superintendent in the counties where there are couaty depositories (nearly all the counties) will retail the books at this price. The private dealer will add his profit. 3 During the period of adoption an adopted book is sold or even offered for eqIo at ft Inwpr nric.fl &nvwher? in thf world, that lowest price ia to become the contract price in South Carolina, This was not in the old contract, bat is required in most States that have re ceatly made adoptions. Many of the books adopted in this State in 1893 for seven years are now sold elsewhere at lower prices, though we have been held to our contract price. By this clause in the new contract this State is at once assured of as low a rate as now prevails anywhere else. For instance, we are offered the prices lately accepted by Tennessee and Washington in x 1. rii__ j .?i.: meir oiate auopuuuo. 4 Books in the county depositeries (sold at actual cost by the county su perintendents) are to be taken up at cost by the publishers whose books are substituted. This is a protection of the school fund which by act of the legislature has been invested in books for sale at cost. 5. Publishers pay freight and drayace on all books where as much as $25 worth is ordered at a time, and pay such transportation charges where the orders are as small as $10 worth, if ordered by county superintendents. This smali limit was put because if the only books used from one publisher should be copy boots or algebras, the dealer might have to order a small quantity and should not be required to pay the freight. It would not be just to the publisher, however, to allow a dealer to harass him with a $5 order on which the freight might more than equal the profit. The limit in the old contract was $100 and many county superintendents have been compelled to pay the freight and add a few cents to the price of eac'a book. 6. The affidavit and contract clause that the bidder is not in a trust constitutes a striking feature. This was sugon? Kqq I gCDtCU UJ iW Tf HAIAVU UHVJ attracted considerable attention, but the affidavit here required goes much further in that it requires after the private holdings of stockholders and their belongings as trustees or beneficiaries, and further binds the publisher to show his private records if the truth of the affidavit is questioned. Moreover, the contract is void ab initio if any untrue statement enters into this affidavit or clause. This is a practical way to fight trust3. Mud Volcanoes With roariEg as of thunder and a great spouting of a mass of bluish-black lionpfiftd earthv matter, the remarkable mud volcanoes of Mendocino county, Cal., again became active Friday. It is stated that Fpouticg of mod from its craters is contemporaneous with tide3 of the ocean, and it is thought that they are either connected with the ocean by some subterranean channel or acted upon directly by the influence of the moon or whatever causes the ebb and flow of the tides of the sea. There are about 25 volcanoes in the group. The muddy craters are filled with bluish mud of about the consistency of boiling mortar, and when active steam and bubble like boiling water and make a thunderous roar that can be heard for miles around. The disturbance is so violent that the mud belches forth over the rims of the craters, flowing down the mountain side. A warm vapor shoots high into the air, accompanied by the spouting mud. Serious in England. A dispatoh from Liverpool says the ootton market was feverish Wednesday and prices were irregular but they soon strengthened under the influence of the advance in prices in New York and unfavorable American crop reports. The spinners and manufacturers have been buoyed with hopes that a good crop would insure prosperous business in 1901, but the diminished crop prospects and the delay in exportation from G-alveston have aroused grave anxiety and are likely to lead to serious finanoial difficulties among the trade. Good Eiddance The Atlanta Journal says "if Corbett in his recent fight to England had taken along all the other ruffians who have bftftn fakincr the American Dublic in alleged prize fights for several years past lie would have won an even larger measure of our gratitude. But to be rid of Corbett alone is something to be profoundly thankful for. A Peculiar AccidentA dispatce from New York says during the prevalence of a high wind Wednesday a mast sustaining one end of a political banner suspended over Broadway was blown down, killing Charles Duofield of Birmingham, Ala., who was passing with his brother and a friend. Both Killed. Minister Conger in answer to an enquiry about the fate of Rev. C. R. Hodge and wife, missionaries in China e/i r?n VvAfVi /\P itulu x illirtucijjuia, oo,) o l'ucjll \jl tu^ui were killed at Pooting Fa by the Boxers. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptio Invigorator has been used in my family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am u^ing it now myself, [fs doing me good.?-Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists, if GOVERNOR MILES WHO HAS BEEN' NOMINATED TO SC XAJO THE COTTON GROWERS ' Of South Carolint Have Peifected i their Organization. The cotton growers convention met' at Greenwood on last Thursday Mr. j Wiiborn, after reading the call for the I convention issued by him several weeks j ago, made a talk setting fcrth the objccts of the organization it was pro-, posed to form and the benefits to be de- J rived. All classes are interested in the prosperity of the farmer, he said, and for that reason men of all lines of business and professions in the State had been invited to attend the convention and participate in its deliberations. Pz-mfinninor caiH if, is a shame the way the cotton crop of the south has been marketed for ihe past 30 years. As a general thing the cotton has been thrown on the market as soon as ginned, without regard to price. The uninformed or innifferent men always suffer. The time is more opportune now than for 20 years to perfect an organization and remedy this evil. last year there was an unprecedented short crop and the surplus was exhausted, and the crop this year is even less than that of last year. Today the cotton planter has a corner on the crop because the surplus has been exhausted. We are now in a positon we have never occupied before?the world wants more cotton than we have to sel[. If ??ill ? ?*i*1 aitt in on /iorrj^cf in.'] we Will UlgauiAC uun 1U QU VX1UVU. intelligent manner we can not only control the price nosy bat in the future. He said it was proposed to devise a scheme by which the cotton crop of the south could be marketed throughout th? twelve months of the year instead of thrown upon the market at one time and sold within two or three months. This movement is intended to fight the speculators and not the legitimate buyers and the manufacturers. A wellknown cotton mill man said a few days ago that he hoped this movement would succeed, as it would be better for the mills to able to be buy tiieir cotton as needed. Under the present system ef marketing the crop the mills of the south are forctd into the market in the fall as speculators. No man can tell what will be the price of cotton goods six, eight or ten months ahead, aid when the mills are forccd to buy a n'ne or twelve months' supply at one time they are forced to allow a margin to protect themselves against unfavorable fluctuations in the price cf cotton goods. This association is not intended to fight or injure the cotton mills; onj rtnntrarr ftTfi asked tO CO bilU VVU } ? ?v - ?? ?. ? operate with us. The prosperity of all classes depends on the prosperity of the farmers, and it is only proposed now to enable the farmers to secure a fair prioe for their crop. The value of the cotton crop regulates the value of evesthing in the south. There should not and will not be any conflcit between tbe southern cotton grower and the southern cotton manufacturer. There 105,000,000 cotton spinalis in the world, and of these only 5,000,000 are in the south. The southern mills cannot wholly regulate the price of cotton if tJioo tn Stored, because thev are not strong enough. At the conclusion of Mr. Wilborn's speebh the convention was formally organized by the election of J. U. Wilborn, of Columbia, as president; J. A. Peterkin, of OraDgeburg, as vice president, and J. K. Blake, of Abbeville, as secretary. Hon. 0. H. Jordan, president of the Georgia association, was present, and by request gave tbt details and plan of the organization in Georgia. Air. Jordan was the originator of the movement in his l^tate and has recently organized a similar association in Alabama. He outlined the plan of the organization in much the same manner as given in his speech of Tnurday, as reported in The State Friday. Oa motion, the president was author ized to appoint an executive committee consisting of three from each congressional district, to push the work of oreanizine the different counties. The convention adopted the constitution and by-laws of Georgia association, these to be in effect until the next meeting of the association. The convention then adjourned to meet in Columbia during fair week, the hour and place of meeting to be announced later by the president. President Wilborn Friday afternoon announced the appointment of the following executive committee as Author UCU uJ LUC wuu Tguuvu. first district ?T. M. Talbird, Beaufort; Geo. A. Wagner, Charleston; M. R. Cooper, Colleton. Second District?L. W. Youmans, Fairfax; T. H. Rainsford, Edgefield; VV. H. Mauldin, Hampton. Third district?J. Malcolm Johnson, Newberry; C. P. Roberts, Ninety-Six; J. R. Vandiver, Anderson, Fourth district?J. D. M. Shaw, High Point; J. B. Steppe, Spartanburg; Wilie Jones, Columbia. Fifth district?R. A. Love, Chester;; W. J. Roddey, Rock Hill; J. F. Nes-! bitt, Lancaster. Sixth district?P. L. Breeden, Bsnnettsville; J. JE. Edwards, Marion; D. H. Traxler, Timmonsville. Seventh district?D. F. Efird, Lexington; J. W. H. Dukes, Orangeburg; Harvey Wilson, Sumter. Immediately after the adjournment i of the convention the farmers of Green- j wood county held a meeting and per-' " jl ^ \ B. M'SWEENEY, CCEKI) HIMSELF BY ABOUT 14 000 RITY feoted organization. Mr. Wilborn accepted an invitation from the farmers of Anderson county who were present to go to tbat county Dext Monday and assist in the organization tv are. Mr. Wilborn Thursday sfternoon expressed himself as very much gratified at the attendance on the convention and the interest shown, and expressed tlio (?AnpT/?f-,io7i that tf.p n riff, mint wrm'i3 be successful aDd the method of marketing the cotton crop in the south would be revolutionized. It will take some time to get a perfect organization, he said, but the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible. He wili issue a circular letter in a few days, giviDg full details with a constitution and bylaws suitable for county associations. He is very'much enthused over the movement-, as are the other farmers who attended the convention. Mr. Wilborn requests the statement that all letters of inquiry on the subject, addressed to him at Columbia, will receive prompt attention. Some Plain Talk. The Grand Army of the Republic is becoming interested in the matter of history. At its recent convention in Chicago strong resolutions were passed condemning the school histories used in the South and looking to the abolisament of all such books and the intro duction of histories written by Godfearing and truth-telling historians from the North. We appreciate this delicate consideration shown by the pension drawers of the Grand Army. But we'll attend to our own affairs a little while longer?until our State shall have ceased to furnish the money to educate our children acd until imperialism shall have been completely established over the country and Euperor McKiniey or somebody else shall been enthroned at Washington and shall issue an edict that truth is mighty otimnof T^rnrriti THhar/iMl avn'o 1 n CkUU 1UU3V J.U^U 11 il how it wa3 that six hundred thousand men overwhelmed with numbers on many a bloody field fought two millions eight hundred thousand porehearted patriots, and how those same six hundred thousand put one million out of the combat and one million more on the pension roll forever! We'll show further that we went to war in defence of a right which the N.rth itself had always claimed and that we fought for principles which will yet be triumphant or this whole Republic will tumble into ruins.?Gaffney Ledger. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LuOAL APPLICATIONS, as /inTtvtAi* *AA/tV) A Ofllif LXIKuJ KJc*U. 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Patrick Patterson, the only man killed, was the cook. He was burled from the car and struck the switch stand. A special train was hurried from this city to the scene, with Dr. W. W. Cransiead, the company'8 physician, and a corps of nurses on board. IOIET 10 LOAN On improved real estate. Interest eight per cent, payable semi-annually. Time 3 to 5 years. N o commissions charged E. K. Palmer. CJNTBAL NATIONAL EA2?K BUILDING, 205 Plain St.. Columbia, S. C PITTS' MISEPTIC HVKOUTOII Cures La Gr'ppe, dyspepsia, indigestion and all stomach and bowel troubles colic or cholera morbus, teething troubles with children, kidney troubles, bad blood and all sorts of sores, risings or felons, cuts and burns. It is as good antiseptic, when locally applied, as anything on the market. Try it and you will praise it to others. If your druggist doesn't keep it, write to MURRY DRUG COMPANY, COLUMBIA, S. C. For Sale. One Direct Current Electric Fan, 260 volts. 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