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FOR YOUNG MEN, ! i Or. Talmage on the Temptations of College Life. PRACTICAL SUGGESTION r-- WKn At-o Pdntiirefl to rui i iiujo >inv < w ... ^? ? Leave Their Homes?Helpfulness of tirly Christian Teaching. Dr. Talmage staid in London to occupy the famous Wesley pulpit in the . City Road chapel, where he has preached several times before, always receiving a hearty welcome. Thence he went to Ireland, preaching in Belfast and Dublin. The discourse he has sent this week describes the behavio of a young man away from home and acggests practical lessons for people of every age and class. The text is Dan* * * - * < > ' lei 1, o: Ana cue sicg appuimcu a daily provision of the king's meal, and of the wine which he drank; so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king." My tezt opens the door of a college in Babylon and introduces you to a young student 17 years of age, t)aniel by name. Be not surprised if in the ~ T?_i. college you find many nmanues. rui a hundred young men together and they sure to have a good time. There is no are harm in that. God does not write out the trees and the grass and the blossoms in dull prose. The old robin does not sit moping in the nest because of the chirpings and the lively adventures of the fledgelings that have just begun to fly. Do not come into an orchard looking for winter apples on a May morning. But Daniel of the test is far from being gay. What oppressive thoughts must have come over him as he remembered that he was a oaptive in a strange land! The music that oame into his study window was not the song of Zion, but the sound of flute, sacsdue ana ; dulcimer in the worship of the heatbeD j god. Moreover, he had no hope of ever getting back home again and meeting those who had missed him long and I missed him bitterly, wondering if he were still alive and finding many a luxury tasteless because they did not know but Daniel might be lacking bread. When you and I were in school or college and the vacation approached, we were full of bright anticipation, and we could not study the last day, and we ?ould not study the last night. The lexicon and the philosophical apparatus were transparent, so we could see right through them into the meadows and *2jhards. Not so with poor Dan"~iel. He did not know that he should ever escape from captivity, or esoaping, ke did not know but when he got home the loved ones would be dead, and he would go wandering and weeping among the sepulchers of his fathers. Besides that the king tried to make him forget his home and forget his country; for that purpose actually changed his name. The king wanted him to be a prodigy in persoDal appearance, and so he ordered meat and wine sent from his own table to Daniel, but Daniel refuses all this and puts himself upon the humblest diet, the poorest of all herbs, called pulse, and plain water. His attendants ory out against this and 'tell him he will perish under eueh a diet. "No," he says, "you try us for ten dayi, and if at the end of that time * we are not full cheeked and robust as any, it will be surprising. '' Ten days I pass aioDg and the students come up j -for examination, and all declare that none are so ruddy aud robust ss Dan. : idi and his fellow captives. The days of iDdustrious pupilage and the years pass by, and the day of graduation bas eome, and Daniel gets bi3 diploma, aigned by the king and reading as follows: "In all matters of wisdom and understanding chat the king inquired of them he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm." And so Daniel took the first honor, and here the story ends, for Daniel the student hereafter will be Danial the prime minister. The first thought suggested to me by this 8ubjeot is that young men may be earried into captivity by their enemies. There is a captivity more galling than the one in which Daniel was transported; it is the captivity of evil habit. Men do not go into that wittingly. Siyly and imperceptibly are the chains forged upon them, and one day they wake up to find themselves away down in Babylon. Cyrus afterward consented that some of his captives should return, and 50,000 of them accepted the opportunity, but tell me what evil lia.Kik fiVflr nnnsented to let a man eo. Ten plagues made Pharaoh consent to the departure of God's people, but tell me what Pharaoh of evil habit ever cheeerfully oonsented to let any of its victims go. Men talk of evil habits as though they were light and * vivial, but they are scorpion whips that tear the flesh; they are spikes more bloody than ihe path of a Brahmam; tbey make the poisonous robe of Nessus; they are the sepulohers in which millions are buried live. The young are in more peril be eause they are unsuspecting. The lions are asleep in their soul, and their power is not suspected. The time when a ship's company makes mutiny is when the watchman is of his guard. When a spider meets a fly, it does not say, "Go down with me to the plaoe where I murder insects." No; it says, "Come and take a bright morning walk with me on this suspension bridge of glittering gossamer." Oh, there is a difference between the sparkle of a serpent's eye and the crush of its sliray folds. There i3 a difference between the bear's paw toying with a kid and *1 f i.L. \ sne cr&c&ung oi me uunes m tuc cei rific hug. Pike'i peak looks beautiful in the distance, but ask the starved travelers by tn3 roadside what they think o? Pike's peak.' Are tk9re those around whom suspicious companions are gathered? Do their jests and their enter tainments make ihe hours go blithely by when you are with them? Have you taken a sip from their cup of sin or gone with them in one path of unrighteonsoess? Turn back. From Ba&y.'oc: they came and to Babylon they would carry you. If so many piague stricken men would like to enter jour companionship, before any one is allowed to pass into the intimacy of. your heart put on them severest quarantine. My subject 3lso impresses me with the fact that early impressions arc al most inefiaceable. Daniel liad a religious bringing up. From the good meaning of his name I know he had pions parentage. But as soon as he comes into the possession of the king his name is changed, all his surroundings are changed, and now, you say, will be. gin tie demoralization of his character. Ssfsfs Pa&iSh fthishl taeans "Gtotl, my judge.;1'ecw{ kiBn&ze . is to be Bsltesha2zar, "nhicli means "the treasurer oi the god Bel.'' Now you expect to see him overthrown amid all these changed circumstances. Oh, eo! Daniel started right, and he keeps on right. When I Una wnac Daniel is in Jerusalem, I am not surprised to find what he is in Babylon. I wish I could write upon all parents' hearts the fact that early impressions are well nigh ineffaceable. WHen I see Joseph, a pious Jad in the house of his father Jacob, I am not surprised to see him acting so nobly down in Egypt. When I 2nd Samuel, a pious lad, in the house of his mother Hannah, I am not surprised that he gives terrible smiting to '.dolatry as soon as he comes to manhood. David planned the temple at Jerusalem and gathered the materials for it building, but Solomon, the son, came and put up the structure, and that goes in all ages. The father plans the character of the child and its destiny for time and. eternity, then the son completes the structure. You might as well put down a foundation ten feet by five and expeot to rear on it a grest cathedral as to put down a contracted character in a child's soul and ' "* ? ? ? -s ils C rv AvfaT>C1T7alt7 yet rear upon it aumeimu* grand and extensively usefal. Let me say to those Christian parents who are doing their best in the education of their children: Take good heart; your sons this morning may be far away from you and in a distant city, but God, to whom you dedicated them, will look after them. The God of Daniel will take care of them far avray in Babylon. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when h6 is old he will not depart from it." He may wander away for awhile and fall into sin and break your heart, but before he is done with this life, you having com?"Is-J liim fn will finme back UAt/JUlfcWVl UiM wv vx ?j ?~ ?? again, for I put the emphasis in the right place and on the word "old" when I repeat that passage and say, "Train up a child in the way he should go, ani when he is old he willDOt depart from it." May you all have the glorious satisfaction of seeing your children walk in paths of rigteoujne6S and psace! One with them on earth, may you be one with them in heaven! But I learn also from this subject the beauty of Christian sobriety. The meat and the wine that were to cotne to Diniel's table were to coaa9 from the king's table. Well, Daniel had no right to take that food. The king was a heathen and, like all the heathen, was accustomed to ask a blessing before he partook of food, and in that blessing they always dedica;ed the food to the gods. So that if Daniel had taken this food he would have broken the law which forbade the taking of food dedicated to idols. He ohose pulse. It was a miracle that he did not dwindle away. There is nothing in pulse, such a poor herb, to make a man ruddy and healthful Some peo talV ?? thnnoh that were a kind of diet which would make a man swarthy and competent to do the duties of this life. That is not the lesson at ail. Bat for a positive miracle Daniel would have dwitdled away, and when God for his self denial puts upon him this benediction he puts a benediction upon all Christian sobrietv. I would not have you class your preacher among those who would put unnecessary restraints upon lawful appetites. There are those in this day who dispute the grant which God gave to man for animal food, and they make a religion of their hunger as the Pharisees expected heav?n for their fasting Daniel did not always li ?e on pulse. He was not a Grahamite; he was not a vegetarian. He went through that self denial because the food offered him was idolatrnrm fond. When I see God filline the earth with all varieties of food, I have not much confidence in the teaching of tho3e who wonld put us on severe regimen. There are parents who, with a wrong theory in this aspect, deny their children all harmless luxuries and without sufficient inquiry send tbem out to boarding schools where their intellects are cultured to the disadvantage of their starved bodies, so that from many a boardiDg school a clase of 20 will graduate, 19 of them ghosts. Now when I see the three argels eating the calf which Abraham slew and when I find Christ eating broiled fish even after his resurrection I come to the concluson that the theories of the vegetarian are not from a religious standpoint well found?d. But, oh, how many temptations to dissination! With so manv thices to tempt the appetite, how many tempations to gluttony! With so many sparkling beverages, how much tempation9 to arackennes&I Could I bring before this morning the mothers and wives and sisters who have wept at the graves of the inebriate,-jour soul would be overpowered with the spectacle. Could I show you the manly form3 robbed of their beauty, the eye flashings quenched in the wine cup, the rnddy cheek from which rum has wormed the rose, your souls would recoil with horror, and you would rise up and cry, "Begone, thou dream of hell!'' Aro ycu fond of piotures? Here is one drawn by Solomon: "Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Wlin TiatTi wif-Tmrjfc nmsp? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wiae. Look thou not upon the wiDe when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup. At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingetb like an adder." "Do you know what you are doing?" said a mother who had broken into a restaurant, the door locked against her, her son inside. She Same up to the oounter and saw the man of the restaurant mingling the intoxicating onp for her own son. She said to the man behind the counter, "Do you know what you are doing?" "No," said he, "I don't." Says she, "You are fattening graveyards" ' i ? 11 _I* i tains tne moss innuing passage 01 a young msm's life is when he leaves home to make his fortune. The novelty and the romance of the thing may keep him from any keen sorrow, but the old people who have seen the destruction of so many who started with high hope cannot help but be anxious. As long as he was in his father's house his waywardness vas kindly chided, and although sometimes he thought the restraint rather bitter and rather severe in his calmer moments he acknowledged it was salutary aad righteous. Through the influence of metropolitan friends the father has obtained a position for hi3 son in the city. The comrades of the young man come the night before his departure to bid farewell to the adventurer. The mornicR of his going aw3y iie walks arouad the place to take a last look at things?perhaps comes upon some object that starts a tear, some old familiar place, but no one sees the tear. The trunk is put upon the wagon, the youn? man is off for the city, fie is set down amid excitements and amid associates that are not overcareful about their words their thoughts and actions. Morning comes. No family al-ar. Sabbath come3. No im > > I g-m >? *rM0(h - W J"-" rWi * ??' ?. . i" ? rur^I quiet. The sssotjUfy cok?5, | but all the faces ale strange, snd no ; one cares nhether he com;s tO church j or Goes not come. ()a his wsy home frSic the store he 9ecs a placard ao nouncing a rare ana vivacious amusement. He has no greeting at the door of the boarding house. He has no appetite for the food. No one cares whether he eats or does not eat?rather he would not?it is cheaper' After the tea he goes into the parlor, tafces up a book, finds it dull, no sister to look over it with him. Groen up stairs to his room in the third story, fiads it cold and uninviting, and in despair he rushes out, caring for nothing but to get something to make him stop thinking. He is caught in the first whirl of sin. He has started out on the dark sea where the gleam of the joy is the flashing of the pit and the laughter is the creaking of the gate of the lost. On, how many graves in the oountry churchyard which, if they could speak, would tell of young men who went off with high hopes and came back blastei and orushed to disgrace the sepulcherof their fathers! And yet this exodus must go on. As from distant hills the rivers are poured down through tunnels to slake the thirst of our great cities, so from distant country places the streams of incorrapt population must pour down to purify our great cities. To morrow morning on all the thoroughfares, in ' * 1 n AtTAltfT OTOOOQI* DLCaiJLlUUaiJ auu ?U vij lai: rr <xj uai will be young men going forth to seek their fortunes in our great towns. 0 Lord God of Daniel, help them to be as faithful in Babylon as they were in Jerusalem! Forget not, 0 my young friend, in the great seaports the moral and religious principles inculcated by parental solicitude, and if today seated in the house of God you feel the advantage of early Christian culture forget not those to whom you are most indebted and pray God that as old age comes upon, them and the shadow of death, the hope -of heaven may beam through the darkness. God forbid that any of us through our misconduct | should bring disgrace upon a father's ' name or prove reoreant to the love of ' i i i i a motner. ?ne dramatist matte do ex aggeration when he exolaimed, l,How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" Oh, that God would help yon as parents and as youDj? people to take to heart the lessons of thi* important subject, and if we shall learn ihat there is danger of being carried into capitivty, and that early impressions are almost ineffioeable, aud that ther-- is something beauj tiful in Christian sobriety, and that I there is great attractiveness in piety I away from home?then it will be to I you and to me a matter of everlastiDg congratulation that we considered ho* | Daniel behaved when he became a col| lege student at Babylon. A GREAT LOSS Texas Crops Damaged Five Million Dollars by Storm. Tne statistician 01 tae department of agriculture has completed his inves dgation of the agricultural situation in those counties in Texas which were visited by the West India hurrioane of September 8 Reports have been received from the department's correspondents and from many-other prominent citizens identified with the agricultural and commercial interests of southern Texa?. The special agents have personaliy visited the storm swept region and carefully investigated the existing situation. Much valuable as sistance has been rendered the department by the census office in determining the acreage of crops prior to the storm. The area under cotton in the counties which serious damage resulted from the storm was approximately 1,300,000 acres with a promise on September 1 of a crop of about 640,000 bales The reduct'on of the or >p iB estimated at about 63,000 bales or 10 6 per cent. Oq a basis of $50 per bale the amount destroyed would represent a va?ue of $3,400,000. The area under corn is estimated at about 925,000 acres with an estimated production of 17,500,000 bushels This loss, to the crop is estimated at about a million bushels or 5 7 per cent., rep resenting a value of about $500 000 The loss o? rice is estimated at 73,000 barrels of four bushels each, rep resenting a value of about $219,000 Of pecans, there is an estimated loss of 2,500,000 pounds valued at $100,000. Three thousand trees valued at $75,000 are reported destroyed. The loss of farm animals is estimated at 300 horses, 150 mules, 20,000 cattle, 2,800 sheep and 900 swine, lepresenting a total value of about $190,000. The loss of sugarcane, sorghum and other minor crops has not been a3cer tained with sufficient definitensss to warrant the publication of an estimate Exclusive of the damage to farm pro ducts, machinery, etc., ihe total loss ii estimated at $5,000,000. It should be stated that all the counties visited by the storm were iocluded ia the crop report issued October 10. THE INDIAN FAKINE. The Viceroy's Report Shows the Terrible Extent of Plague. The Viceroy of India, Lord Carson, in a speech Friday, said the famine had affected s quarter of the population of India and that even now two millions of people were receiving relief. He ex J 1.1- - T V ? iL.i. _ pre-ibeu tue uup-;, liuirevei, tint in a month these would return to their homes. His lordship further said that half a million deaths were traceable to the famine and that the loss of the crops involved the loss of fifty millions sterling, plus some millions for the loss of cattle. It will never be known how many were affected by the calamity among the hill people and wandering tribes, while the alms distributed were unprecedented. At the end of Augast 854 lakhs of rupees ($42,500,000) had been expended and the government further expected to spend 150 lakhs ($7,500,000) up to March next. Besides this, 258 lakhs ($11,900,000) of landtsxss had been advanced to cultivators, many lakhs of land taxes had been remitted, 3$ crores (35,000,000 rupees) had been ient to tbe native States, and nearly a million sterling had been contributed by private charity. Tne viceroy complimented the relief committees, alluding to many instances of native chivalry and devotion and to iSoglish military aad civil servants dying at their posts. He said the cotton crop wa3 worth 13.009,000 pounds sterling on the ground. Alluding to the shocking mortality in the native States, Lord Curson said that, broadly speaking, no relief system in the world could counteract the eSects of reduced food, the cessation of wage3, high prices and the breaking up of the homes of millions, or prevent pestilence following famine. EXPECTS TO WIN. Srysn Believes That Hs Wiil ^ C!A^a.: v^arry i nis cietxion. NEVER TOO TIRED TO SPEAK. Description of His Special Car, His Daily Life, Wardrobe, Diet-, Companions and Habits. Mr. Bryan thinks lie will be the next president. He has perfect faith in himself and his theories. He knows he is fighting his last battle. If he does not i *ii .i i win tms time ne never win attain nis ambition. He realizas that his personality has more to do with the result than any other faotor in the campaign, and his plan is to get in personal touch with as many people as possible and make them friends. He is never too tired to make a speech. He never keeps the people waiting. When his train get3 into a town Bryan is on the back platform, and he insists that the local chairman shall waste no time in introducing him. A few words is all he will permit. Then he does the rest of the talking himself. His hand never aches too much to keep him from shaking hands with every one who can get near him. He submits to the rudest prattling with a smile and laughs when the people shouts, "Hsllo, Billy!" and uHowde do HMH ? TT !_L! A. join: CL3 is campaigumg iur 1113 people and the people can have their way. MR BRYAN'S SPECIAL CAR Mr. Bryan's friends prevaiied on him to take a private oar for the last great swing around the circle he is now mak ing. He protested, but they prevaiied They told him he was killing himself with work, and he owed it to his pirty and himself to make himself as comfortable as possible. So three weeks ago the oombiufttion dining -and sleep icg car '"Himbler" was sent to Sioux City, la , and Bryan acd his party went into it to stay until election day. The '"Rambler"' is the ordinary type of the Pullman comb: aation car. It has a kitchen at one end, And then a living room into which at night eight berths oan be let down, From the dining room a narrow hallway leads tc the observation room at the rear and the wide rear platform. Mr. Bryan's stateroom is the first off the hall from the dinning room. It has a wide bed, that is always down, and a little table. There is on6 camp stool in the room. If there are two visitors one of them has to sit on the bed. B.*yan always sits there. There is a little toilet - ? - ? ? J ? ?*1 AnAf nrlt ava Rrn? n Lfiano lUUUi liUU a U1U3SV, nusic uijau a small steamer trunk, and next is another compartment, where hid secretary, Rjbsrt E. Ross, a Western news paper man and brother of Mayor David R ?se, of Milwaukee, has his typewr.t r Secretary lt>se and Mr. Bryan's personal representa ive, National ?'ommio teeman James C. Dahlman of Nebraska sleep in their room. Tnen there a-e a couple of iockers, and that, bssides the observation-rcom at the rear of the car, where there are several ea?y chairs and a louoge, is all. Dahlman is an old friend of Bryan's. He is a small wiry, smooth-shaven, keen-lookiag man, who [ stands between Bryan and the ou side. The newspaper correspondents use the dining room for a working room and sleep there at night. HIS DEMOCRATIC MANNER Aside fromBryen, Dahlman andR)se *nd the newspaper man, the only other persons on the c?r are the negro cook, porter and waiter. Bryan is very food of these three men, who are the pick of the Ptillman employees. The other day the spccia! train was stopped out in the country in Ohio to let a photographer get a group picture of the party for the Dartv's own us<*. The people were posed alongside of the car. Just as the photographer was about to make his exposure Bryan shouted: "Here! wait a minute. Where is the cook?" Aid he insisted that the cook, the porter and the waites should be in the picture. Bryan is a good travelling companion, His mos". noticeable habit is his universal good humor. He never seems to be out of sorts. Sometimes he is tired and looks it, but he is always pleasant. The State and local committees, thinking only of their own advantage, work him unoeasingly. They Etop the train at places hot on the schedule and say. "Just a few words here, Mr. Bryan, ' or ' C<">me out on the platfor here, Mr Bryan;"' and he never refuses. One day's life on the Rambler is much -i t ^ 1. _ use anotner. rne speasiDg always oj gins early, generally at 7 o'clock, and before that time everybody mu^t be up Bryan gees to bed as soon as possible after his eveniag speech and never has to be called. He has a suit of gray mixed cloth he uses for day meetings, and he jumps into that in an instant. His shirts are all of madras cloth, most of them blue striped and all with soft I bosoms. He wears turn-down collars and small string ties. Bryan has a small, well-shaped foot for so large a man, and has several pairs of fine calf shoes with him. Sho83 seem to ba his only extravagance, so far as apparel goes. His stateroom looks like the show window of a haberdashery store, for he wears many shirts in a day and has them hung around the room on lines stretched along the walls. Usuall tho first speeeh comes before breakfast. Mr. Bryan always goes out to the kitchen and drinks a cup of coffee. Then he step3 out on the platform and talk fives, ten, fifteen or twenty minutes as the case may be After that cornea oreaKiast. joryan nas a s^at as the head of the table. If there are any guests they sit next to him. If not the parly consists of the candidate, Dahlman and Rose and the correspondents. The man at the foot of the tables serves Bryan talks with everybody about everything, some3times about politics, bat generally not. EATS MUCH? DELINKS NONE. The people who wonder how he can stand the great strain he is under should sec him eat. That is the secret of it. He has the appetite of a growing boy. The man who serves sometimes asks the others what they will have, for there is always a choics of meats, but he never a=ks Bryan. He takes a liberal portion of everything there is and generally comes back for more. Bryan likes coffce and drinks it at every meal. He also likes milk and drinks that sometimes. He never drinks any liquor or beer and does not smoke. He does not try to force his i -1 i 2 _:A_ ideas on omen?, uawever, aau bus iur a fe* minutes after the cigars are lighted. Mora likely than not the train stops in the middle of crowd of yelling enthusiasts while breakfast is on. Bryan does not stop to finish his ceffee or his ecgs. "Here we are," he say3, and sprints for the rear platform and makes j his spsesk Then ho eoaies back asd j finishes his loeai. It ia the sane at luncheon, but dinosr is always sc planI as to give Mr. Bryan time to eat 1 >_ f in comiort. ATTENDING To HIS MAIL. G-reat bunches of letters are banded on the train at each stop almost. Bryan li=s on his back on his bed, reads them and dictates the answers to the secretary, who psrches on the edge of the bed and uses his knee for a desk. When Bryan gets a telegram he reads it and puts it in his trousers pocket. Sometimes the pooket bulges with thirty or forty messages. Bryan spends most of his time in his stateroom. Two or three times a day he comes out into the newspaper men's room and talks with them or comments on some features of the day. He sees the local dignitaries in bis stateroom, but he is alone for a g?od many half hours. Those on the train know he needs all the rest he can get and keep aw&v, and the others have to. He reads every newspaper that comes on the car, and is as throughly interested in the news of the day as in the political news. A favorite habit of his is to bring a newspaper to the table and comment on the news as he reads it aloud. Yesterday he had a copy of Friday's World at the dinner table. He laughed at an item and then said: 'Here's a story about a hen laying a glass egg. I suppose the Republicans will claim that is a Denrocrtic scheme to break the Glass Trust," After Bryan makes a long speech he takes off all his clothes and is rubbed down. Then he grabs another suit of underwear and another blue striped shirt and is ready for the fray again. His speeches are necessarily on the same topics every day, but with an eye keen to the advantages of publicity, he taizes on anything new that there may be and uses it in such a way as to in terest the newspapers. Bryan never has any difficulty in making himself heard, no matter how big the crowd is. He can talk to 40,000 or to 500, and there does not seem to be an effort about it. He is a marvelous judge of distance, and uses only enough voice for his crowd. His constant outdoor work has made him brown aj a be:rv. His hinds are tanned like a sail.r's. They are generally scratched on the back also, for the thousands that grab at him sometimes have long finger-nails. The gray sack suit does business through the day. At night, however, Mr. Bryan sometimes puts on a black cutaway coat and gray trousers, and wears a white shirt. Ho has a silk hat with him, but generally wears his blask reaora. iie aoes not tase any cnances with cold, but wears his overcoat whenever he is driven from the car to a stand. GETS A HAIR CUT. Mr. Brjan's beard is black and heavy Generally Le shaves himself with a safety razor, bat some days the shave is noglected, especially if there are many speec'\e^ to be made Bis hair has been pretty Ion;? for a couple of week^ atd at various piaces along the line irreverent youngsters have advised him to get it cut. He took their advice yesterday. Bryaa's only dissipation is peanuts. He eats them whenever he oan get ihern. At night before he goes to sleep he has two slices of uobuttered bread and a glass of milk. Tiic magnetic personalty of the man is nowhere more apparent than in the Rambler. Even the autocratic oook admits "He's a mighty fine gemman, Mr, Bryan is; 'deed he is." He is wholesouled, j >lly, considerate and democratic. Every man who has been in his company for any length of time comes away saying "Bryan's a good fellow." Politics aside, that's it.?New York World. Merely an Incident. What a revelation to the readers of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at would bave been to have witnessed a little occurrence at a momentous gathering in an old Southern homo on Bianding street las: Wednesday morning. The occasion was a wedding?a happy, joyful home wedding?the incident was when just before leaving the house for the train, the handsome, youthful bride slipped away from all the gathering of merry joyous sympathetic friends aid sought one of the back parlors where were gathered the old family servants. Some of them had held her in their faithful old arms, and guided her baby steps, soothed her little troubles, as only a souvhern child's black mamma could? tended her so faithfully, loved her so fondly and now as she stands on the threshold of her new life their faithful old hearts are glad for her happiness, and no more fervent good wishes are spoken than is expre-s jc ia their "God blees you honey." 'God watch over my baby always." "May de gudLawd keep hold ob your hand honey, for de gud cle mas;y and missy sake, and hole it tight now de old mamma can't reach it no mo'." Who would crave a richer, sweeter blessing, what more was needed to crown the happiness of- this wedding da}! So with words of warm appre -3 . t. ? J . 1_ - ? _ ciatxon aca a nana sasse ior eauu one this Southern bride will always have em of the warmest places in the remembrances of her girl life ?Columbia State. Row's This? VVs offer Oae Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO. Props., Toledo, 0 We, the undersigned, haye known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believes him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made \ ?1 uy lueir uriu. West & Fruax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding. Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druzgists, Toledo, 0. Hail's Catarrh Care is taken internally, asting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Still a Democrat. Regarding the statement made in a recent speech by Gov. Rooseyelt that he aras glad to see such men as Gen. Wheeler supporting President McKinlcy in the present campaign, Gen. Wheeler faid Friday: ' Gov. Roosevelt is honestly mistaken. He made the stanement on the strength or a publication made by a man in a New Yors district unfriendly to me, that I had deliver a Republican speech at Florence, in congress there is only one member who has so long and so consistently as I have supported the Democratic mssures. There is no need for me to deny tkese statements. The people of Alarms do not doubt my fealty to the Democratic pany." Why She KickedA Georgia woman sued for divorce from her husbsnd because he insisted on her reading some verses in the Bi* ble before meals and several aicer. is* I ^a| THE Bi Grove's 1 The formula is know just what voi do not advertise the their medicine it yo irorr and Quinine put form. The Iron ; malaria out of the S] Grove's is the Or/g Chill Tonics are imi that Grove's is su] are not experimenti and excellence hav only Chill Cure sol the United States. BISHOP IRELAND ] Gives Out Interview Calculated to LLL Ck \J f \/ WV 0 ill iUVII HI t THE VIEWS OF THE POPE * c Will Have Weight in American Elee j tion- Anxious for TJs to Pro- I t tect Church Property a a in Philippines. a Archbishop Ireland, in conversation in New York Friday touching the send- ^ ment at Home towards the Catholic t church in the Philippines and in Cuba, ^ remarked that he felt quite willing to repeat what was reoe'ntly said to him , in Rome on this subjeot. { He said he did so the more readily a beoause the eminent personages with a whom he had the honor* of conversing c on the matter showed themselves to { be in no way unwilling to have the statements made by them become pub- j Jic. The archbishop said: c "In one of the audiences which he ^ graciously granted me, the pope said: a "We are well pleased with tne rela- v tions of the American government to t the church in Cuba and in the Philippines. The American government gives r proof of good will and exhibits in its r acts a spirit of justice and of respect I for the liberty and rights of the i ohurch. The representations to bishops E and others indioate this. Difficulties r of detail occur as a conse^uencc of war i and of newness of complexions. Bat I we understand saoh things. We have e confidence in the intelligence and the f spirit of justice of the American gov- i ernment and people and believe that g the future will not lead us to change t the sentiments towards it. Under the s American government there will be o due respects for rights of property and [ of conscience. You will thank in my a name the pee9ident of the republic for g what is beiDg done.' i The cardinal secretary of State, Rampolla, on my telling him of my I conversation with the pope, said that I the statements made to me by the e pope were such as He, trom his own I personal knowledge and belief, was a ready to repeat, and that I was at lib- 1 erty to make them known to the American people at large. The cardinal said n furthermore tbat on no less than three different occasions petitions were sent s to the Vatican, in the name of Philippine leaders, to have opened between f them and the Vatican direct official relations, but that the Vatican always re s fused to listen to such petitions out of u consideration for the American govern- f meut. t "Thechuroh, said the cardinal needs " iD Cuba and the Philippines the cooperation of the American government : for its rights aEd liber vies, as indeed r the American government needs the ' oooperatioD of the church for the paci/> . - . .. ? ii .- )f t notion 01 "josee countries. "Cardinal Gotti, before his elevation to the cardinalate, had been superior general of the Carmelite monks and ( had established in Cuba antecedently K to the American occupation, three j houses of tbe order. He said to me: 'I received a few days ago letters fro m the several Carmelite houses in Cuba. The fathers tell ma that they enjoy, under the present administration of the ^ island, full liberty; chat they have undisturbed possession of all their properties, and that they were never in bet- t ter position to labor for the progress of religion and the salvation of souls.' ? ' The authorities of Rome," added J archbishop Ireland, "are informed to a degree that both astonished and pleas- 4 ed me about matters religious and political in the Philippines and in Cuba; and as they have the interest of the J aIiumIi in those countries most deeolv at heart, and know far better than we in America could know what the rights of the church are and how best such rights may be defended, Americans, 1 Catholics and others, may safely accept i their judgment of things and not give themselves further and needless trou- .1 ble about the religious conditions of he Philippines or of Cuba. As a j plain matter of fact, the only safety ** which the Catholic church at the pres- ^ ent time has in the Philippines for the possession of ber properties and for the lives of her priests, js the protection afforded by the Amerioan flag, and all this is fully understood and recognized in Rome." ________________________________ r A LynchingErastus Warfield, a negro, was "? lynched at Elktown, Ky., Thursday, * by a mob who took him from the ooun- -? ty jail where he had been plaoed for J attempting to break into a farm house where the farmer's wife and little child were the only occupants. mm 19 m Ob improved real estate Interest eight per cent. aj payable semi-annually. ?| Time 3 to 5 years. ^ No commissions charged bi E. K. Palmer, I Central National Bank Bttilding, 205 Plain St-, Colnmbia, S. C. .v?r-'Tivri -^~TTPjS=aa.gaAi ifSg CMlfe jF?! asteless Chi plainly printed on every i are taking when you take ir formula knowing that y< u knew what it contained, c up in correct proportions a acts as a tonic while the astern. Any reliable druggis final and that all other itations. An analysis of othe perior to all others in ev ng when you take Grovi ang long been establishe .d throughout the entire : No Cure, No Pay. Price REPUBLICAN BLUFFERS. Jryaii Supporters Fail to Get Them to Put UpNew York Democrats willing to back heir political opinions ' with their noney are beginning to tire of the jhase after Republicans whose confidence, according to National Commitr .ee press agents, is such that they will 1 1 . 1 0 ay enormoas ocas on tne success 01 ftcKinley. They have searched for hese liberal layers at home and abroad, md the result has been uniformly the ame. Everywhere there appears to be i vocal willingness, but the money is lot forthcoming. Comes a rumor from Wall Street hat Black, of Blank and Dash, is ofering 4 to 1 and 5 to 1 that McKinley rill carry the country. "Just left" "or all" taken is the rord when Democratic money appears, >ut next day in the Republican papfrs appears a record of a bet, coupled with , statement the a: .ount of the bet lould not be ascertained, but it is supposed to run into thousands." According to men who bet from udgement on the elections, 2 1 2 to 1 in McKinley is the top betting, and rery little big money is being offered ill XT-J. j.1 dkl AAA ii tcose ouub. iimsre tuaa j.jVuu pas actually wagered od Saturday, and hat was at the office of Bell & Co. "There are other bets," said a.pooknaker yesterday, "ana the odds antounced may reach as high as 3 to 1, >ut those bets are not looked on serously. They are regarded as in the latnre of complimentary bets for the mrpose of influencing opinion. That a as much a part of the work of the lepublican Committee as anything lse now. They have an enormous und, as every one knows, and by anlouncing these bets they hope to do ;ood. As a matter of fact, I have not teard of aDy sum of money, large or mall, offered by a bona fied bettor at idds of 2 i to 1 or bettor which has not leen taken. The Republicans have .anouacea mac me saorcesc prices tney ;ive is 2 ? to 1, bat at that we see no aoney m eight." As an example of the hesitancy of lepublican bettors on last night at the lofE&au House a Republican announcd that he had $10,090 to bet on Mckinley at 2$ to 1, Fialey Peter Dunne, .uthor of the "Dooley stories." heard iim. "I will take a thousand o? that," reoarked Mr. Donne quickly. "Very well," answered the first psaker; "I will see my principal." "Suppose we pat up a hundred as a orfeit?" suggested Mr. Danne. . "Um?a ao," was the hesitating anwer. "I don't see why I should put ;p a hundred " Then with a burst of rankness, ''How do I know I can get he $10.000?" 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