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A RADIANT CHRIST.! Taimage's Analysis of the Cha-ac- j ter of the Saviour. I CHRISTIANS URGED TO Emulate the Qualities Which Were Conspicuous IntheEarthly L'fe and Ministrations ct Jesus. In this sermon, which Dr. Taims^s S*nds from Paris, he analyzes the o araoter of the Saviour a^d urges all 0 instiaus to exercise the qualities which wtre conspicuous in Christ'? earthly life. The text i3 Romans v;ii. 9, *lNow, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." There is nothing more desirable than a peasant disposition. Without it we cmnot be happy ourselves or make % o'Jxers happy. When we have lost our temper or become impatient under some light cross, we suddenly awaken lo new appreciation of proper equipoii-e of na ture. We wish we ftaa oeen ooru wivu self balance. We envy those people * who bear themselves throuch life without aoy perturpation, and we flkuer ourselves that howev er little self ccn trol we may now have, the time will come, under the process of years, when we will be mellowed and softened and the wrong things whicii are in us now will then be all right, forgetful of the fact that an evil habit in cur nature will grow into larger proportions and that an iniquity not coirecied will become the grandfather of a who't eration of iniqaiues. So that peopic without the grace of God in tfce struggle and amid the annoyances and exasperations of life ara apt to become worse instead of better. Now, the trouble is that we have a theory abroad in the world that a man s disposition cannot be changed. A man say 8, "I am irascible in temper, and 1 can't help it." Another man bays, "i am revengeful naturally, and i can't help it." A man says, "1 am impulsive, and I can't help it." And he leils the truth. No man can correct his disposition. I never knew a man by force of resolution to change his lemperment, but by his grace God can ta*e away that which is wrong- and put in that * whioh i3 right, and. I know and you know people who shoe their conversion are just the opposite of what they used to be. In other words, we may, by the spirt of God have the disposition of Jesus Christ implanted iu our disposition, and we must have ic done or we will never see heaven. ''If any man has not the disposition of Jesus Christ, he is none of his." In the first piace the spirit of Christ was a spirit of gentleness. Sometimes he made wrathful utterances against Pharisees and hjpocmes, but the mcsi of his words were kind aid *entle and loving and incffensive at.d attractive. vVhen we consiaer ike fact that he was omnipotent and could have tern to pieces his assailants, the wonder is greater. We often bear the persecution c and abuse of the world because we cao nut help it, Uhrist endure (' it when he oouid save helped it. Liule children who always shy o3 at a rough man rushed into his presence and oiainberefi on him until me people begged the mother f4 take them away, iovalias so sore with wounds that they could not bear to have an-y one come near them begged (jnrist juet ::oput his hand upon the wound ana soothe it. Tr*e motncr with the sickest chiid was wiihng lo put the little one in Christ s arms. Sell righteous people rushed into his presence with a woman of debated character and said, "Now, annihilate htr, blast her, kill her." Jesus icoked at her and saw she was sorry and repentant, ana he looked at them, and he saw they were nroud and arrogant and mali^ant, and he said, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at the her." A blind man sat by the wayside making a great ado about his lack of vision. They told him to hush ap and not bother the Mister. Christ stooped to him and said, "What wilt thou that I do unto thee?" Gentleness of voice, gentleness ot manner, gentleness of life. "We all admire it whether we have any of it or not. J ast as the the mountain bln3 and the scaired crag love to look down into the calm lake at their feet and as the stormiest winter loves to merge into the sunshiny spring, so the most precipitate and impulsive and -? V1 _ ^-n.1 o f/ . i hint nr f ho IWUiUlC UftkUlC iUTto w v. %MV . gentleness of Christ. How iittie we na^e of itl How little patience in treating with enemies! We have so littie of the gentieness of Cr..st we are not fit for Christian work h'-ii ii:3 ume. "We do not know how to cornet met bereft or to encourage the disheartened or to take care of the poor. Even our voice of sympathy is on the v?ro:;g pitch. My sister had her aria put out of joint, and we were in the country and ihe neighbors came in, and ihey were ail sympathetic, and they laid hold ot the arm and puiitd mightily until the anguish was inioieraoit; but the arm did not go to its pis.ee. Then .the old eountry doctor wad sent lor, and lie came in and with one touch it was ail right. He knew just where to 'put his fines? and inst how to touch the bone. We go out to our Christian work with toa rough a hand and too unsympathetic a manner, and we fail in our work, while some Christian, in the gentleness of Christ, comes along, puts His hand of sympathy on the e spot ?the torn ligaments are healed and tne disturbed bones are rejoined. Oh. loi this gentleness of Christ. The dew of one summer night will ac 1 - t _ "ii * y i_ i compiish more gooa man ov uanooean whirlwinds, iiew important it is that in going forth to serve Christ we have some thing of his gentleness! Is that the way we bear ourselves when we are assaulted? The rule is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, retort for retort, sarcasm for sarcasm. Give him as much as he sends! After awhile c you look u: into the face of Christ, and you see his gentleness, and you say, "Well, now, 1 must do differently." Then your proud heart says: "Now you have your enemy in a corner. You will never get him in a corner again. Ghastise him, and then let him go." So we postpone the gentleness of ti?:?i u J:a: V-/Ui.i3U X/1U /VU CYUI AUUY7 Ali) Ulxxi" ealfcy to be healed by accrbity or hypercritism? About45 years ago the JPres byterian church was split into the new school and the old school. The chasm got wider and wider. ?Thc ieose outrageous personalities were indulged in. brood men on one side anathematized good men on the other side. Wider and wider the chasm got, until after awhile some good people tried another tack, and they begin to explain away the difficulties, and scon all the differA n rtAO tflAKA la*5 O TS /4 of Pit f iKllfff I W1WCD TfUC UCA4CU) OUU JL ivwwwij they shook hands and are one now to De one forever. Yon say to a man with whom you had a falling cut, "I despise you." He Faj3, ' I can't bear the sight of you." Ycu say to hiio, "I never want you to come to my bouse again." He says, 'if you eomo to my house again, I'll kick you out." You say, "I'll put you " * ()h. no." he says; 'i ll put you down!' But some day the spirit of Christ comes into you, and you go ovtrasc j-a}; "My brother, give me your hand. 'i':cr;e is shrrr, and eterniry is near, and we can't aff >rd to quarrel. Now, }e{. zygotes be bygones, and lei U3 act iik?> Christians." It is all setlied. Ho*? By the gentleness of Christ. Did you ever know a drunkard reclaiaud by mimicry of his staggering steps, his tfciek tongue or his hiccoueh? No. You only madden his brain. But >ou go to him and let him know jou appreciate what an awful struggle he has with iht? tvil habit, and you let fcim know that you have been acquanted with, people who were down i* the fame dtp.hs who by the grace of God have been rescued. He hears your vc.tc^, he responds to that sympathy, and he is saved. You cannot ecold the woild into anything better. You may - -1 - ?rk? a'tract it into somecnmn Deittr. jw ( stormiest wind comes out from its hiding ?iaoe and s-ays, l,I will aroase this sea-" And it blows upon the sea, H*if of the tea is aroused or a fourth jf' the sea is aroused, >et not the entire Atlantic. Bat after awhile the moon comes out. calm and placid. It sbioes upou the s?a. and the ocean begins tc lift. Itemoraoes all the highlands, the beach is ail covered. The heart throb of one world baatiDg acaiast the heart throb of anoiher worlo. The storm could sot rou?e the whole Atlantic; the moon lifr*d it 4'And I," said Christ, ' if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me Christ's disposition was also cue -of self sacrifice. No youDg man ever started out with so bright * prospeoi as Christ started cut with if he had been w-illirg to fyl ow a worldly ambition, [n the time that he gave to the sick he might have gathered the vastest fortnne of his time. With his power to popularize himself and maguetizo the people ho could have gained official position. No orator ever won such plaudits as he might have won from sanhedrin and synagogue and vast audiences by the seaside. No physician rv?r got such a reputation for hes?ii::g poser as he mi*hthave obtained if he had performed his wonderful cures before the Roman aristocracy. I say thfse things to let you know what meant whsn hs said, ''He pleased oct himself," and to show something of be wonders of his self sacrifice. All human power together could net have" thrown Christ iato the manger if he had not chosen to go there. All Satanic strength could not have lifted Christ upon the cross if he bad not elected himpelf to the torture. To save our race from sin and death and hell he faced all the scrrow3 of this world and the sorrows of eternity. How much of tbat self sacrifice have we? What is self sacrifice? It is my talking a losg journey to save 5 on from fatigue. It is my lifting a great cum ber of pounds to save you from the awful strain. If. is a subtraction from Djv comfort and prosperity so that t^er" may be an addition to your oom f.'-t and pro-p?rity. How much of tl.at have we? Might not [rather say, -- - - *"? rr\ A'lJ "How little Jbave we. xwo cnuureo ?brother aod sister?were passing down the read They were both very destitute The lad had hardly any garoieats at all. His sister had a coat that eh-j had oufgrown. It was a very cold day. She said, "Johnny, come under this ccat " ' Oh no," he said; "the coat. hn'c large enough!'' "Oa," she s^id, "it will stretchl'' He comes under the cont, but the coat would not streioh. So she took off the coat and pat it on him. Seif sacrifice pure and simple. Corist taking off his robe fco cio'he our takednehs. Self sacrifice. I have not acyuf it, norhave you compared with that The sacrifice of the Son of God. f!hrictfc walkfcd to E umaus, Christ waikec from Capernaum to Bethany, Christ walked from Jerusalem to Golgotha. How far have you and I walked for Christ? His head ached, his heart aehed, his back ached. How much have we ached for Christ? The disposition of Jesus was also a disposition of humility. The Lord of earth and heaven in the garb of a rustic. He who poured all the waters of the earth out of his right hand ?the Amazon and the Euphrates and the Oregon and the Ohio and the Mississippi?bending over a well to ask a Samaritan woman for a drink. He who spread the canopy of the heavens and set the earth for a footstool, adaiitiiDg that he had not where to lay his head. He whose chariots the clouds are, talking with sore feet. Hushing the tempest on Gennesaret and wiping the spray of the storm from his beard, then aitling down in the cabin beside his disciples, as though he had done no moie than wipe the sweat from his brow in Joteph's carpenter shop. Taking the foot of death of the heart of Lazarus and breaking tnc chain of the grave against the marble of the tomb and then walking out with Mary and Martha without any more pretension than a plain citizen going out in tne suourban village to spend the evening. Jostled as though he were a nobody. Nicknamed. Seated with pubiioans and with sinners. King of heaven and earth trailing his robes in the dust. How much o? that humility have we? If we get a few more dollars than other people or tain a little higher position, ob, how we strut! We go around wanting everybody to know their place and say, ''Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the nonor of my kingdom and by the might of my strength?" Who has anything of the humility of Christ? The disposition cf Christ was also the spirit of prayer. Prayer on the mountains, prayer on the sea, prayer among the sick, prayer everywhere. Prayer for little children: "Father, I thank thee that thoa hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." Prayer for his friends, "Father, I will that they be with me where I am." Prayer for his enemies, ''Father, forgive them; they know not what they do." Prayer for all nations, ''Thy kingdom come." How little of that spirit you and ) have, tlow soon our knees get tired. Where is the vial full of odors which are the prayers of all the saints? Which of us caa keep our mind ten minutes on a -.1 . 1 O XT i _ prayer witnont wandering: ixocyou, uot I. Oh, that we might have the spirit of prayer which was the spirit of Christ. Wc want more prayer in the family, more prayer in the church, more prayer in the legislative hall, more prayer among the sick, more prayer among the sged, more prayer among the youog. The great advancement of the church i3 to be in that direction yet While the council of Nuremberg was signing the edict that gave the church its freedom, Martin Luther was away off in a room by himaeif praying for that accomplisment. Though there was no line of communication between the place where the council was assem- j bled and the room ^here Mart'n Luther j was praying, Martin Luther suddenly j rose from his knees ana said, *'lci" ac- j complished; the church is Jree. \ ic- , tor.?, victory!" Oh, for this nirect | lice of communication with the throne j of God, fo that, it raav be said o( us a* | it was said of Luther, "Repot what he a?ked for!" We wvet, like Daniel, to j-rav with our face toward ihe holy city. We want, like Stephen, to pray gazing into heaven. We want, like pulican, to pray smiting on the heart of conviction. We want, like Christ, to j pray, the Christ who emptied his heart of all its lifeblood scd then filled it with the porrows, the woes, the agonies of all nations Cold mountains and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of his prayer. 'Dm anirit nf Christ. I rsmark lastly. was a spirit of hard work. Not one lazy moment in all his life. Whether he was talkiag to the fishermen on the beacS or preaching to the eaiiors on ^he dock or admiuiscering to the rus tic3 amid the mountains or spending an evening in Bethany, always busy for others. With hands, heart, head busy for others. Hewing ia the Nazareth carpenter shop, teaching the lame how to walk without crathts, caricg the ohild's fits, providing rations for the hungry host. Basy, bujy, busy! The haray rnea who pulled the net out of the a?* filled with fbuudenng treasures, the onepherds wbo hunted up grassy plots for their fi.)cks to nibble at, the shipwrights pounding away in the drydooks, the winumakers of Kngedi dipping the juices from the vat and pouriagthem into the goatskius, were not more busy tban Cnrist. Busy, busy for others. From the moment he went out of the caravansary of Bethlehem j to the moment when the cross plunged into the socket on the bloody mount, bu3y for others. Does that remind you of yourself? It does not remind me of myself. If we lift a burden, it must be light. If we do work, it must be popular If we sit in the pew, it must be soft, If we move in a sphere of usefulness, it must be brilliant. If we have to take hold of a load, give U9 t.he light end of the log. In this way to heaven fan us, rock us, sing us to sleep. Lift, us up toward heaven on the tips of your fingers under a silken sunshade. Stand out of the way, all you martyrs who breasted the fire! Staad out of the way aodlet this colony of tender foo-.ed modern Christians oome up and get their crowns! v t ._j j i r\ W nat iras } oar juyru uuue tu yvu, \j Christian, that you should betray him? Who gave yon so mush riehe3 that you can afford to despise the awards of the faithful? At this moment, when all the armies of heaven and earth and hell aro plunging into the conflict, how can you desert the standard? Oh, backslidden Christian, is it not time for you to start anew for G-od and anew for heaven? Njw, I have showD you that the disposition of Christ was a spirit of gentie ness, a spirit of self-Bacr;fi.5e, a spirit of humility, a spirit of prater, a spirit of hard work?five points. YVill you remember ihtm? Are you ready now IKJX LI_LC IJLOiuguviuud auuvuuwutvuv w* the test? "If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Are you ready for that statement? Can we stand up and say, '"Yea, we have the spirit of Christ? ' Not one of Ui can make that answer to the full question. jet I am to declare to you there is no discouragemeut in this subj .ct for Christian people. You have the seetls of this character pian-ed in your soul. 4'lt doth not yet appear wcat we shall be." - You might as well blame an acorn for not being an uak of a thousand years as to blame sourtsel? because you are not equal to Christ. You have the implaatatien within vou which will enlarge and develop into the grandest Christian character, and there is no discouragement in this te^t for you to try to love and seire the Lord. Aim high. Sneathe not your Sifora antil jou have eained the last victory. Climb higher and higher uatii you reach the celestial hills. Crowns bright and radiant for all the victors, but death to every deserter. Eanaa on Trusts. Senator Hanna took hold of a live wire when he undertook to handle the trust question and the harder he grips it the more he burns his fingers. He was quoted recently as saying that the trust iS3uo was a farce because thsre are no trusts in the couatry. This started a ho??l of derision from all quarters, and now Hanna undertakes to explain his meaning thus: '"When 1 said that there are no trusts in the meaning of the law I did not bay that there are no combinations of capital, j nor did X say that there are no combinations of capital that work injustice to the people and harm to the country. In the 3trict meaning of the iavr of this country, however, mere are no trusts. Let any one look up the commercial definition of the word 'trust' and he will sea that I am exactly right." This statement ha3 the merit of being intelligent, which the .declaration that there are no trusts lacked, but it does not help Senator Hanna's party very much, if indeed it does not put the Republicans in a very serious position. The Irony of Fate. The Convention of Spanish War Veterans continued its business meeting at Washington Wednesday, with about taro'nf.'n TriomKATQ nroaor.t Tho item of interest in connection with the election of officers was the election of Col. James H. Tiliman, of South Caro lina, as.senior vice commander-in chief. Major Harold Megrew, of Indiana, had been nomina?ed for this office, but withdiew and suostituted the name of Gen. Joe Wheeler, who received four votes in the balloting. The convention decided on a uniform of mixed blue ana gray, as typical of a union between the North and South daring the Spanish war. The following officers were elected: Commander-in-chief, Gen. Nelson A. Miles; senior vice commander-inchief, Col. James H. Tillman, South Carolina; junior vice commander-inchief, Col. Wm. H. Hubbell, New York; inspector general, Col. Frank H Harrington, United States marine corps; judge advocate general, M^jor Charles K Miller, Ohio; sargeon general, Dr. Clifford Cox, United States iiavj. Charleston's Water Supply. The special committee from the city council that has in charge the w jrk of providing Charleston with a new water supply has been in session all day. It is understood that the new enterprise has been definitely provided for. fne scheme is to bring water here from the Edisto river at a cost estimated to be $1,500,000. The supply to be guaranteed is 7,000,000 gailons per day. The committee declines to give out anything for publication be-ure its report is made to the couiic:l bat it is well J j.__J jL. C.J.: T uauerstuuu mat inn u^uuiu'ulis nave been successful aod that Charleston will be given an abundant supply of pure water within the next few months. ALL WIPED OUT, i ! ! i ; The Filipinos Kil's or Captures | one Entire Ccrnp^ry i OF UNITED STATES TROOPS. ' 1 Th? Corr.pany was Recruited ' In Atlanta, Ga. Supposed j Gunboat Viialob?s Said to , be Captured. Gen. MacArthnr Friday cabled the ! war department from Manila that on Sept. 11, Capt Devereaux Shields with ' 51 men of Co. F, Twenty ninth volun- 1 tter infantry, left Santa Crnz for TorV ktKM VIAM UAAM I'fATn | IJLJU5. llUblllU^ lirtO k/ccu ucaiu iivia him sioce and it is suppoped that tbe : entire party, including Capt. Shields, 1 has been captuped with many killed ; and wounded. The cablegram follow?: Manila, Sept. 23. Adjatant Genera!, Washington: Sept. 11, Capt. Deve-reaax Shields, 51 men. Co. F. Twenty ninth regiment, 1 U. S. V. I., one hospital corptman, ' left Santa Cruz, Marinduque, b? gun- ( boat Vilalobes for Torreyjos intending to return overland Santa Cruz. Bave 1 heard nothing since from Shields. ! Scarcely doubt cntirs party captured '' with many killed, wounded. Shields among ktter. Information sent by let- ! ter from commanding cfficerat B :ac, j dated Sept. zucn, recei/ea oept. z*, consisted of rumors through natives. > Yorktowa and two gunboats, Anderson ( (colonel Thirty-eighth infantry,) two < companies Thirty-eighth infantry, sent Mariaduque immediately. Anderson 1 confirms first report as to capture but unable Sept. 27 to give details present , whereabouts Shields and party, names | killed and wounded. This information j probably available soon. Anderson has ] orders com mence opejations immediate- < ly and move relentletsly until Shields' ' party rescucd. All troops expected < soon. Logan will be sent Marinduque ? if necessary clear up situation. Mac Arthur. ] The Twenty-ninth infantry was recruited at Fort McPerson (Atlanta, Ga ) C<*pt. Shields was lieutenant colonel of the Second Mississippi during * the Spanish war. He was made cap- i tain in the Twenty-ninth infautry July ] 5, 1899 He was a resident of Natchez,, j Miss., where his wife now resides. The 1 scene of this latest reverse is a small j island lyiDg due south of the southern coast of Luzon and ab)ut 300 miles from Manila. Marindnq ie is about 24 i miles in diameter and was garrisoned i by two small detachmenti of United S:ates troops. One of these was at j Boac on the west coast of the island * and the other wa* at Santa Cruz, the ; principal port on the north side. (Japt Shields auDears to have started from Santa Uruz on a gunboat for Toneyj )9, a email coast port and it is inferred ( that the boat as well as the b<-dy of j troops under that officer has been cap tared, for the dispatch makes no rcf- i erence to her return. ] The Anti-LynciiiiigLaw The anti-Iytching law of this state , making the county responsible for i damages to the family of the yictim, 1 has received another black eye. Oj January 4, 1897, hz&i Brown, a negro, i wa3 found hauging to the railroad cross- j icg at Stillton, Orangeburg county, his I necfc broken and his body "'idled with i b"ullet3. Brown's father Drought suit i against the county for .lamages last < year, but the jury promptly brought in < a verdict for the county. The verdict i was set aside by Judge G-age, and I another trial of the same case has been, j tad last .week, and another verdict ; rendered for the county of Orangeburg, j Tni djfense offered no testimony, rely- 1 icg upon the failure to prove a lynohing ] wh:oh they contended required the con- ] currence of a mob or a multitude of < persons. JtsaoUanan, toe presiding judge, charged the jary that a lynching might be committed by a mob or by any person or persons, but the charge appears to have ha 1 no effjet on the jury. A motion for a new trial will be made, but this second verdict shows conclusively that the anti-lynching provisions in the constitution of 189 j is a dead failure so far as it provides damages for the heirs of the victim, though it is admitted that in its primary objscc, the suppression of lyncning in this state it has been largely tuc A Fool College President, A dispatch from Jonesviile to the ( Greenville .Ne*s says Misees Etta s Hames and Lizzie Littlejohn vent to a Hickory, N. U., to enter (Jlarernont s Female college. After the two youag t ladies spent one night and looked c around they were dissatisfied. They < Houid not be matriculated and pro- c posed to return home. The president demurred and refused to let them gj. They wired home tne situation and a their parents wired them to return, a but the president still refused to let a thum irn Miss Tj'ttlfiiiihn eot awav and came home. i\ L. Hamea went ^ over to Hickory after his daughter and r President Hatton refused to give up r ner trunk or the trunk of Mies Little- j; john. Mr. Hames offered to pay the 'c expense of the girls while they were ] there, but his offer was refused and he f employed an attorney, who took out r proceedings of claim and delivery and f the trunks were released and Mr. Hames returned with Ms daughter aGd c the baggage. A damage sua may be c the result. ? Catarrh. Cannot be Cured J with LuCAL APPLICATIONS, as \ they cannot reach the seat of the disease. a Catarrh is a blood or constitutional dis- j ease, and in order to cure it you must ^ take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh ^ Cure is taken internally, and acts direct- x Iv on the blood and mucous surfaces. $ Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack c medicine. Ic was prescribed by one of t 4* V* a kft-f *vl>r qt Aiana i vi ts f*n 31 UiQUO X U IU13 WUUV1J AU1 g years, and is a regular prescription. ]? It is composed of the best tonics known, a combined with the best blood purifiers, t acting directly on the mucou3 surfaces. ] The perfect combination of the two in- p gredients is what produces such won- g dcrful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. f F. J. CHENEY & CO., v Props., Toledo, Ohio. p Sold by Druggists, 75a. v Hall's Family Pills are the best. a Goes to the Pen. s Es Policeman J. B. York, of Savan- g nah, Ga., was convictcd in the superior v court of robbing A Slater of $200. The money was taken from Slater's ? pocket by the policeman while the r former slept. Toe jury in the case, ia view of the fact that Siater had re- ^ covered his money, recommended that a Yoik be punished as for a misdemea- j nor. Judge Jb'alligaat, however, disre; j garded the recommendation and sentenced him to" the penitentiary for two E years. EILL ASP'S ElFMIffATIONS. j Three? cf the Old Philosopher's Friends j Died the Same Day. Hot like a butterfly cur thoughts fiifc fiom fl.>w(r to flower, feeding upofi the ever changing cental food?. Sometimes they ?oar to heaven or nestle among the star?, but their home is here among our people, our friends and kindred and the concerns of our daily life. Who has not wondered how he catcc to be thinking of this thing or that, &rd traccd it back to something wholly irrelevant, but leading on by bhsdowy lines. Bat a little while ago [ was gsdly thinking about the sudden death of three more of mv ?ood friends ?friends whom I loved and everybody loved whn knew th^m. Mr. Moore, of Auburn; Colonel Myaatt, cf Atlanta, and Dr Goetchius, of Rome, left us on the same day. They were* good men, and the world was made better by their presence. I was thinking especially about Dr. G-oetcbiup, the preacher, whose iouroey and destination vas eo suddenly shaneed, for ho had bought his ticket for Tallulah Falls, there to soeca his vacation, and was to take the train at 3 o'clock. He rose from his bed at 2, and at 3 he was dead and his spirit soaring heavenward. Then I thought about Mrs. Barbsuld'3 lines, that fit so well: "Lift:; we have been long together, [n pleasant and in cloudy weather; Tin hard to pari when friend* are dear, Perbap3 'twill cost a sigh or tear. rh-n steal awaj?give little warning; Choose thint own time, Say not goodnight, but ia some brighter Clime Bid me good morning." Then I ruminated about that wonlerful woman. Hsw she was tbe first to write story books for the children ind hymns for the church, and how her life was spent in tbe schoolroom among the children that she loved. And then [ recalled that beautiful hymn that she wrote: 'How Vest the righteous when he dies, When sinks the we<ry soul to rest, How mildly beatn the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast " And then I thought of the words of Balaam, upon which that hymn was Pounded: ' Oh! may I die the death of :he righteous, and may my last end be [ike His." And this reminded me of the other words of Balaam: "What bath God wrought?'' That was the 6 ret mrssage sent over a telegraph wire It was sent from Washington to Baltimore, by Miss Anna Ellsworth, the daughter of the commissioner of patents. She had been very kind to Professor Morse, and tie tiad promised that she should send the first message. This was sent on the 24th day of May, 1844 and two days later tbe second message was BeDt from Baltimore to Wasbiogton, announcing that James K. Polk had been nominated for prescient. I remember all this, for 1 was in college then. Bat stil! the? people <rerrt incredulous, and waited for the mail traio to bring the news. Then I ruminated on the hard lot of great inventors, and how Morse spent all of his small estate and received but little encouragement, being so utterly poor that be had to go without food at times for twenty-four hours, and how he pleaded with corgross for three years in vain ?or an appropriation to help him p?r feet and build a line to Baltimore?and kow at the very last, when he was in 3eepair and had given up all hope, congress did at midnight,-on tbe last day >f the session, pass the bill for $30,500. and Anna Ellsworth came running to him ia delighted haste and told aim the good news. What an agon 1 ? 1 1 1 1 11 .L zing lire ne JDaa lea caring: an tense rears, for he had been refused help at borne and had been to England and to Prance in search of it and found it not. Now just think of it. After he bad juilt his first lines and his success was ?6tablished he offered hi" patents to she United States for $100 000, and it was efused, and he was const rained to sell :o private parties an invention that ioon came to be worth one hundred Billions But he died full of years md full of honcr.s, and oven France n&de him a donation of 400,000 francs. CI'hat a w naerful man?perhaps the greatest all around man that ever ived?for he v?as a rainier of dictinciion asd renown, the pupil and the )cer of Allstoc and West, and the city >f Oharleston was his best friend and matron, and has t>ow his portraits of yionroe and LaF^yette. He was a iculpfor, an architect, a philosopher tnd a poet, and he v> ould have reached he top in all had he not beoome so ab iorbed in harnessing the lightning. As l runtipr'r.f ftonrsfl he was kent in litl :ation several years, and <nher parlies ried to steal his invention, but the suprema Court of the United States lid finally affirm everything that he ilaimed. Ha died ia 1872 in his lighty-firstyear. Here my thoughts rested for awhile, ir.d then returned to Dr. Goetohius >rtd the many other friends who have ;one before and have left me almost Jono. How fondly our minds cling to he friends of cur youth?our schoolnates and college mates?and every iow and then we bear of another who las dropped out of line, and like the larber in a barber shop old Father rime whispers "'next " My dear old riend Jim Warren still lives to greet oe when I come and so does Chess toward and Dr. Alexander and His troiher and E?an Howell. Then I replied tbe graod and beautiful worJs >f Ingalls, spoken in his eulogy on Senator Beck: "The right to live is, n human estimation, the most sacred, he most inviolable, the most inalien,ble. The joy of living is such a plendid and luminous' day as this is nconceivabie. To exist is exultation, Po live forever is our bublimest hone. Po knew, to love, to ac&icve, to tritcaph is rapture, and yet we are all un[er sentence of death. Without a trial >r opportunity of defense, with no ;nowledge of the accuser or the nature ,nd , cause of the accusation; without icing confronted with the witnesses .gainst U9, we have been summoned to he bir of life and condemned to death, "here is neither exculpation nor apieal. The tender mother cries pasionately for mercy for her first bom, :ut there is no clemency. The craven elon sullenly prays for a moment in rhich to be aneled. but there is no re- i irieve. The soul hopelessly beats its rings upon the bars, shudders and dis ppears. "Bat the death of a good man is not I u inconsolable lamentation. It is a train of triumph, and he may exclaim rith the Roman poet, lNon omnis loriar,' and turning to the silent and inknown fature can rely with just and easonable confidence upon that most mpressive assurance ever delivered to he human raoe, 'He that believeth in oe, though he were dead, yet shall he ive, and whosoever liveth and beieveth in me shall never die.'" Mr. Ingalls might have added one nore shadow to his dark picture of ,eath by saying that he not only con- ' dcmned us without trial or witnesses or an accuser, but the pitiless old rascal would not even give the date of our execution nor the manner of it. We arc to die, that is certaio, but when or how or where we know not. Think of Dr. Goetchins, dressed at 2 o'clock with pleasant anticipations of a rest at Tallulah, amid tbe sonnd of falling waters that soothe the poul, bnt within an hour he was a helplesp, lifeless corpse. Senator Ingalla was a gifted man? not a word painter, but a thought engraver. For years he was our enemy and harbored prejudices against our people, but after he had visited Texas and studied tbe negro and his race traits, he returned home and declared that he was unfit and unworthy of freedom or any political franchise. But enough of this. Now let me add that up to this date I have received one hundred an$ .seventeen copies of the poem that 1 asked for, and the number increases with every mail. They have come from every Southern state. I began to write pleasant words and thanks to those who have troubled themselves to please me, but I have had to stop, for my old eyes are weak and my hand frets tired. I can only thank them ill at once, and say how prateful I am that so manv know what I did not know. It hnmbles mv pride and takes away soTie of my vanity. Some of my scattered friends give the author?hip to Miss Flora Hastings, Qaeen Victorii'e maid of honor, and some to George D. Prentice, and one to S. S. Prentis, but the large majority are correct in naming Charles Mackay. He was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1812, and during our civil war was the American correspondent of the London Times. He easily stood first among the modem English poets, and was the author of many prose works. BILL ARP. SLY OLD LI HUNG CHANG. How the Famous Chinese Minister Proved the GnlltoS Wonld-Be Poisoners. Many residents of Chicago will remember the visit of Li Hung Chang to thta city during the aged Chinese minister's tour of the United States. His quaint observations on men and things were distinguished by -wonderful shrewdness, which shows itself in everything that the old) man says or ^ does. A characteristic story is now in circulation regarding him. He was engaged in a bitter fight with some of OUV JiiUlV ^ iiir.m Ifr- I ^ vi IUV tsung-li-yamen, -when he received as a present a magnificent but, as he had* every reason to believe, a poisoned cake. Ee put the cake aside and set all his paoBa; .Saiaq amuo sq; 'injss9oons jf^-iBd SBAV noi^SiT.saAUi sqx *}Oid sq* jo xno;;oq aq* ;b sbav oqAi. ^no put; o; ^ao.?. 0} Ajaaiqocni Tti;j3A\od to three men, of whom one at least was absolutely guilty. Li had the trio arrested and brought to him. The cake was produced, with the remark that "politeness forbade his tasting it until the three generous dbnors had had an opportunity to enjoy its excellence." Li cut the cake and one of his servitors handed] it to the unwilling guests. Each took a piece and ate, or pretendedto eat. One crumbled the pieces and let them fall to the floor, but the other two ate calmly, without manifesting any emotion. 'Ten minutes and the two men began to show symptoms of suffering. Li smiled benignantly and said to the man who had not eaten: "Your wisdom is so great that I am compelled to preserve your head as a souvenir to transcendent genius." The man was removed and! promptly decapitated. To the other two the premier remarked): "The cake that you are eating- is not the one you sent, but one which I had my ccok imitate. The poison from which you are suffering exists only in your imagination. I know of no way to cure your present pain except "by letting you share the fate of your friend who has just left the room." Not to Be Discouraged. "Polite society" is often at its wits' end to devise means of getting rid of people who are not wanted as callers or" visitors, but who will not take a hint; for polite society cannot say in so many word's: "I do not want you to come again." A French paper repeats this dialogue between two ladies: "And so you still receive that dreadful Mme. Comeaffain?" "Impossible to get her to take a hint! Do you know, the last time she called I never offered her a chair!" "And -what was the resnlt?" "Result? Why, the next time she came she brought a folded camp ! stool!"?Youth's Companion. Not One. "Young Goslin is in love with all the girls," said Wintergreen. ' ] "But what particular girl is in lore with him ?" asked Terwilliger. i "The girl who would be in lore with him would not be a particular girl."? 1 Town Topics. I Snnb* Regretted. "A man can't be too careful whom he snubs." "What do you mean?" "Why, every once in awhile I've snubbed some plain people who after- j ward came into a lot of money."? Bloomington Pantagraph. JtllfeQ Meat. 1 An excellent jellied-meat for picnics or camp is this old-fashioned stand-by of our grandmotners. uetr lour pigs' feet -with legs to the first joint and boil in a pot of water without salt until the bones fall out. Take the meat from ( the liquor, stra!n and set away to cool. In another kettle have a shank of beef sawed and cut. Boil this in unsalted water until very tender. Remove the meat and set the liqnor away to cool. The next morning remove the fat from both liquors, cnt the meat in small bits, add the liquor the pigs' feet- were cooked in (the beef liquor can be utilized in soup), salt, pepper and spice to taste, heat and pour in molds to har3a? T-f la nrT? 4A CQV this meat should be prepared at home, the day befora using-.?Washington Star. j Cherry "Water Ice. ' Strain the juice from a quart of cher- | ries through a linen bag and the juice | from two lemon* over a pound of i sugar; add a pin* of water and win*- | glassful of brandy and freeze.?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, MONEY TO LOAM =; On improved real estate Interest eight per cent. ' payable semi-annnally. Time 3 to 5 years. ?? i . 5 . JN o commissions cnargea ] E. K. Palmer, < Central National Bank Building, 205 Plain St-, Columbia, S. C. WIND PRESSURE Iff TROTTING r Secret That Hat Been of Great Benefit to Jlanr Very Shrevrd Drivers. "Not one man In a hundred even kraongprofessional drivers, seems to ap nr^fltA lTTrnortance of taking ad vantage of the wind," said an oldidriver the other day. relate* the Chicago Inter Ocean. MI have studied. It for years, and many'* the time it has been worth dollars and cents to me in driving a race or in showing a horse to a buyer under the watch. Not long ago a man came here to see a mare in my stable, with a view to buying if she could show a quarter in 35 seconds. The wind happened to tfe blowing good and strong from the west, so I raid to him as I took the mare out on the track for the trial: 'I'll just move her slow through the home stretch here so you can see her way of going, and when I get aroundi T'n -fo.+ v.tWk? KQ/?L Lii^ JL ii xaov U|/ WUV wuvut stretch.' Well, it "wasn't any trick at all for her to go that quarter with the wind in 83 seconds. Mr. Buyer never tumbled, and I got my price for the mare. Now, if I had tried to show the first quarter down the home stretch, going aga'.nst the wind, .she couldn't hare tro'.ted it in 0:38. Another time away hack in the first part of April I drove a green trotter a quarter one day in 0:30%. It caused: a big stir, and lots of people who timed the trial said I was a fool for doing it so early in the season. They didn't notice that my horse was going before a stiff wind. I didn't say anything to them, but I say to you that It was easier for that horse to trot that Quarter in 0:30^ than it would have been to drive him a quarter the other way of the track in 0:36. Yet if he had trotted over the same ground the other vray in 0:36 nobody would have thought it was worth talking about. "I learned to take advantage of the wind when I used to drive races on the kite track at Independence, la.," continued the trainer. "I remember one time I had' a little soft-hearted mare that couldn't go the last end of a mile to save her neck, and she was entered in a race against some game horses of greater speed. I thought I would be lucky to get fourth money. One of those prairie winds was sweeping over the kite almost in the faces of the horses as they went away. I happened "to get off right behind two of the good ones. They were fighting for the lead and) trotted together like a team. Pretty soon I noticed that, "while they appeared to be laboring, my mare was going easily. For a moment I fcouldn't understand Jt. Then it struck me that she was in a goo<? position where she was protected from the head wind, which the horses in front of her had to breast. I just let her trail until we got around past the turn, where the wind caught us the other way. Then I turned; her loose. The good horses were exhausted) and my little soft-hearted mare stepped! right away from them in the race home. Pre won many a race by those tactics since then. 4rRtr tpott at?r ?+rilr? rnn that the secret of Ed Geers' style of driving a race ia right there in the "way he has of protecting his horses from the -wind? Geers nearly always drops behind the pole horse, you know, and trails until he strikes the home stretch; sometimes until he is half -way down the stretch. I don't know whether he does it intentionally, but he gets his horse in a position where the atmospheric resistance is next to nothing, and there he stays while somebody else breasts the wind. To my mind it accounts for a great deal of Geers' success. Even on a still day a horse trotting a 2:10 gait has to plow through what seems like a strong windt, and a mere centle breeze seems like a gale when you're going against it, "To go back to the kite track at Independence, I remember one day when the wind wax whistling over the prairie George Starr set ont to drive Direct a mile against time. 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