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IT SHOULD RULE. ' An Especially Timely Discourse By Rev. Dr. Talmage, THE MAN FAITHFUL TO CCD Is the Most Faithful to His Country and to His Fellow Men. An Example From the Life of Daniel. THs discourse of Dr, Talmage is appropriate for all seasons, but especially A-?~~ atrifa JLQ IJL1656 tllUCO V/l yvA*wiv? ? tion. The text is, Daniel vi, 16, "Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions." Darius was king of Babylon, and the joung man Daniel wa2 so much a favorite with him that he made him prime minister, or secretary of state. But * > man oould gain tuoh a high position without exciting the envy and jealousy of the people. There were demagogues in Babylon who were so appreciative of taeir own abilities that they were affronted at the elevation of this young man. Old Babylon was afraid of young Babylon. The taller the cedar the *. ?i. v_ c more sp& us tu ue uvcu vi mo ^uv- j ning. Demagogues asked the kirig to make a decree that anybody that made t petition to any one except the king during a period of 30 days should be . put to death, jvicg Darius, not suspecting any foul play, makes, that decree. The demagogues have accomplished all they want, because they know that no one can keep Daniel from sending petitions before Grod for 30 days. So far from being afraid, Daniel goes on with his supplications three times a day and is found on bis housetop making prayer. He is caught in the act. He is condemned to be devoured by the lions. Rough executioners of the law seize him and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the growl of the wild beasts, and I see them pawiog the dust, and as they put their mouths to the ground the solid earth quakes with their bellowing. I see their eyes roll, and I almost hear the fiery eyeballs snap in the darkness. These monsters approach Daniel. They have an appetite keen with huoger. With one stroke of their paw or one snatcn 01 their teeth they may leave him dead at the bottom of the cavern. Bat what a strange welcome Daniel receives from these hungry monsters! They fawn ?-- around him; they lick his hand; they bury his feet in their long manes. That night he has calm sleep with his head pillowed on the warm necks of the tamed lions. But not so well does Dariu3, the sing, sleep. He has an attack of terrific insomnia. He loves Daniel and hates this stratagem by wnich he has been condemned. All night long the king walks the floor. He cannot sleep. Ac, the least sound he starts, and his fiesh creeps with horror. Ee is impatient for the dawning of the morning. At the first streak of the daylight Darius hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and clang shut long before the people of the city waken. Darius goes to the den of the lions. He looks in. All is silent. His heart stops. He feels that the very woist has happened; but, gathering all * ? ? ? .1 1 xL. Jus strengtn, ne buoucs inrouen tae rock, "O Daniel, is thy God whom thou lervest continually able to deliver thee?" There comes rolling up from the deep darkness a voice which says: * 0 king, live forever. My Grod has Bent his angel to shut the iions' mouths that they hav9 not hurt me." Then Daniel is- brought out from the den. The demagogues are hurled into it, and no sooner have they struck the bottom of the den than their flash was rent, and their bones cracked, and their blood spurted through the rifts of the rock, and as the lions, make the rocks tremble with their roar they announce to all aires that while God will defend his people the way of the ungodly shali - perish. Leara first from this subject that the greatest crime that you commit ia the eyes of many is the crime -of success. What had Daniel done that he should be fiung to the Hons? He had become prime minister. They could not forgive him for that, and behold in that a touch of unsanctified human nature as seen in all ages of the world. So long as you are pinched in proverty, o long as you are running the gantlet between landlord and tixgatherar, so long as you find it hard worK to educate your children, there are people who will Bay: "Poor man, I am sorry for him. Be ought to succeed, poor man." Bat after awhile the tide turns in his favor. That was a profitable investment you made. You bought just at the right time. Fortune becomes good humored and smiles upon you. Now you are in some department successful, and your success chills some one. Those mer who used to sympathize with you stand along the street, and they scowi at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money or more influence than they have, and you ought to be scowled at from under the rim of their hats. You catch a word or two as you pass by them. "Stuck up." says one. "Got it dishonestly," says another. "Will burst soon," says a third. Evary stone in ycur new house is laid on their hearts. Your horses' hoofs went over their nerves. Erery item of your suoeess has been to them an item of discomfiture and despair. Jast as soon as in any respect you rise above your fellows, if you are more virtuous, if you are more wise if you are more influential, you cast a shadow on the prospects of others. The road to honor and success is within reach of the enemy's guns. Jealousy says. "Stay down or III knock you down." "I do not like you," gays the snowflake to the snowbird. "Why don't you like me?" said the snowbird, "Oh," said the snowflake, "you are going up and I am coming down." Young merchants, young lawyers, young doctors, young mechanics, young artists, young farmers, at certain times there are those to symprthize with you, but now that you are becoming a master of your particular occupation or profession, how is it now, young lawyers, young doctors, young artists, young farmers?how is it no*? The nrimo TTATI Mn frtmmit IS the crime of success. Again, my subject impresses me with the value of decision of character in any department. Daniel knew that if he continued his adherence to the religion of the Lord he would be hurled to the lions; but, having set his compass well, he sailed right on. For the lack of that element of decision of character so eminent in Daniel many men are ruined for this world and rained for the world to come. A great many at 40 years of age are not settled 1 A* 1 L. id any respect, Decause tney cave nut i (wen able to make up their minds. Per-1 haps ihey w'll g} west; perhaps they will go east; perhaps they will not; perhaps they will go Nortb; perhaps they may go south; perhaps they will not; perhaps they may make that investment in real estate or in railroads; perhaps they will not. They are like a steamer that 3hould go out ot JNew xors narDor, starting for Glasgow, and the next day should change for Havre de Grace, and the next for Charleston, and the next for Eoston, and the next for Liverpool. These m?u on the sea of life everlast ingly tacking ship and making no headway. Or they are like a man who starts to build a house in the Corinthian style and changes it to Doric and then completes it in the Ionic, the curse of all styles of architecture. Foang man, start right and keep on. Have decision of character.- Character is like the goldfinch of Tonquin. It is magnificent while standing firm, but loses :.il bsauty in flight. How much decision of character in order that these young men . may be Christina! Their old associates make sarcastio flings at them. They go on excursions, and they do not invite ' .1 . i _?11 them. They prophesy tnat ne win ( give out. They wonder if he is not getting wings. As he passes they grimace and wink and chuckle and say, "There goes a saint." 0 youm? man, have decision of character! You can afford in this matter of religion to be laughed at. What do you care for th8 scuff* of these men, who are affronted bsciuse you will not go to ruin with them? When the grave cracks open under their feet, and grim messengers push them in into it, and eternity comes down hard upon their spirit, and conscience stings, and hopeless ruin lifts up to hurl them down, xill they laugh then? Iharn also from mysurjjct that men may take religion into tneir worldly business. This is a most appropriate thought at thi's^ason of the year, when 90 many a n arj si;?r:icg uuv m ub? enterprises Paiiei had enough work to do to occupy eix mea._ All the affairs of state we-fc iu his haads; questions of fiaancp, questions of war, of peace; all intern *tional questions were for his settlement or adjustment. He must have had a correspondence vast beyond ail computation. There was not a ms.o in all the earth who had more to do than Daniel, secretary of state, and yet we find him three times a day bowing before God in prayer. There are men in our day who haye not a hundredth part of Daniel's engagements who say they are too busy to ba relig ious, Tbey have an idea somshov that religon will spoil their worldly occupaif twill ffirt pen or dull the carpenter's 6aw or confuse the lawyer's brief or disarrange the merchant's store shelf. They thitk religion is impertinent. They would like to have it very well seated beside them in chureh on the Sabbath^ to find the place in the psalmbook or to nudge them awake when they get sleepy under the didactic discourse, or they would like to le?ive it in the pew on Sabbath evening us they go out, closing the door, saying, "Good night, religion; I'll be back next Sunday!" But to have religion go right along by them all through life, to have religion looking over their shoulder when they are making a bargain, to have religion take up a bag of dishonest gold and shake it and say, "Where did you get that!" They think that is an impertinent religion. They would like to have a religion to help them when, they are sick, and when the shadow of death comes over then, they would like to have religion as a sort of nightkey with which to open the door of heaven, but religion under other cir cumstances they take to ba impertinence. Now, my friends, religion never jobbed a man of a dollar. CKher things being equal, a mason will build a bet ter wall, a cabinet maker will make a better chair, 3 plumber will make a bet ter pipe, a lawyer will make a better plea, a merchant will sell & better bill of goods. X say, other things being equal. Of course when religion gives a man a new heart, it does not propose to give him a new heid or to intellectuals him or to change a m*n's condition when his ordinary state is an overthrow of the philosophical theory that, a total vacuum is impossible, but the more letters you have to write, the more burdens you have to carry, the more miles you havo to travel, the more burdens you have to lift, the more engagements vuu have to meet, the more dis putes you have to settle, the more opportuciiy you have of being a Christian. If you have a thousand irons in the fire, you have a thousand more opportunities of serving God than if you only had one iron in the fire. Who so busy as Christ? And yet who a millionth part as holy? The busiest met the best men. All the persons converted in scripture busy at the time of their being converted. Matthew attending to his custom house duties; the prodigal son feeding swine; Lydia selling purple; Simon Peter hauling in the ntt from the sea; Saul spurring his horse toward Damascus, going down on his law business, Busy, busy! Diniel with all the aSairs of state weighing down upon his soul, and yet three times a day worshiping the Grod of heaven. Again I learn from this subject that a man may take religion into his politics. Diniel had all the affairs of state on hand, yet a servant of Q-od. He conld not have kept his elevated position unless he had been a thorough politician, and yet all the thrusts of officials and all the danger of disgrace did not make him yield one iota of his high toned religious principle. He stood before that age, a specimen of a godly politician. So there have been in our day and in the days of our fathers men as eminent in the service of God as they have been eminent in the service of state. Such was Biniarnin F. Batler. attomev ppneral of New York in the time of your fathers. Such was John McLean of the supreme court of the United States. Such was George Briggs of Massachusetts. Such was Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey?men faithful to the state, at the same time faithful to God. It is absurd to expect that men who have been- imersed in political wickedness for 30 or 40 years shall come to reformation, and our hope i3 in the young men who are coming up, that they have patriotic principle and Christian principle side by side when they oome to the ballot box and cast their first vote and that they swear allegiance to the government of heaven as well as the jrovernment of the United States. We would have Bunker Hill mean less to them than Calvary, and Lexington mean less tkaa Bethlehem, but because there are bad men around the ballot box is no reason why Christian men should re .reat from the arena. The last time you ought to give up your child or forsake your child is when it is surrounded by a company of Choctaws, and tne last time to surrender the ballot box is when it i3 surruunded by impurity and dishonesty and all sorts of wickedness. Daniel stood on a most nnpopular platform. Ke stood firmly, though the demagogues of the day hissed at him and tried to overthrow him. We must carry our religion-into our politics. But there are a great many men who are in favor of taking religion into na tional politics who do not see the importance of taking it into city politics as though aman were intell'gent about the welfare ef his neighborhood at d had no concern about his own home My subject also impress jae with the fact that lions cannot hu t a good min. No man_ever got it.to worsu company than Daniel got into when lie was thrown into the den What a rare morsel that fair young man wou'd have been for the hungry monsters! If they had plunged at him, he coali not have climbed into a nitche beyond the reach of their paw or the snatch of their tooth. They came, pleased, ill about him, as hunters' hounds at the well known whistle come the hounds to his feet. You need not go to Nammidia to get many Hods. You all have them after you?the lion of financial distress, the lion of sickness, the lion of persecution. You saw that lion of finanoial panic putting his miuth do^n to the earth, and he roared until all the banks and all the insurance com paniea quaked. With his nostril he scattered the ashes on the domestic hearth. You have had trial after trial, misfortune after misfortune, lion after lion, and yet they have never hurt you i i ,i if you put your trust ia lioa, ana iney never will hurt you. They did not hurt Daniel, and they cannot hurt you The Persians used to think that rain falling into seashells would turn into pearls, and I have to tell you that the tears of sorrow turn into praoious gems when they drop iDto God's bottle. You need be afraid of nothing, putting your trust in God. Even death, that monster lion whose den is the world's sepulcher, and who puts his paw down amid thousands of m.liionsof the dead, cannot affright you. When in olden times a man was togetths honors of knighthood, he wa9 compelled to go fully armed the night before among the tombs of the dead, carrying a sort of spear, and then when the day broke he would come forth, and, amid, the sound of cornet and great parade, he would get the honors of knighthood. And so it will be with the Christian in the night before heaven, as; fully armed with spear and helmet of salvation, he will watch and wait through the dark nesa until the morning dawns, and then he will take the honors of heaven amid that great throng with snowy robes, streaming over seas of sapphire. THE MANY SHARKS HAPPY. Thousands cf Them Parade in Honor of McKinley. More than 3 000 brokers, members of the Stock, Produce and Maritime Cotton exchanges, paraded in New York Wednesday afternoon ia celebration vf the election of McKinley. After the close of the produce exchange the mem ? ? ' ?V TT71. Ii. Ders gatnerea at tne corner 01 wmiehall and Beaver streets where the Sixty-ninth regiment band was stationed. A line was formed, and headed by a platoon o? police the brokers marched into the exchange. They marched around the fljcr r/aviDg banners and flags and cheering for McKinley and Roosevelt. An immense American flag suspended as the brokers made advent was the sigoal for a continuous cheer that was taken up by the throngs | that crowded the galleries and corriders. The rendition of the "Star Spangled { Banner" by the band was another sigI na! for long cheers, lasting Tor several minutes. Ladies in the galleries franI tically waved handkerchiefs and the long din of cheers drowned the music. Afcer twice marching around the floor Marshall Brainard led the long oolumn out of the exchange and the marc was begun down Beaver Btreet. The paraders were greeted with cheers from all the buildings along the line of march i ?r><3 frnm tliA that thronffcd the ! sidewalks. When passing the cotton exchange the cotton brokers rushed out, giving cheer after cheer and then formed in line after the produce brokers. When opposite the custom house the custom house brokers, after giviDg a rousing cheer, f jrmed in line behiud the ootton brokers. The parade continued to the stock excbaoge. Wild, tumultuous scenes reigned for several minutes on the stock exchange floor.' Many of the stock exchange members formed in line and marched with the happy and excited brokers up the street as far as Maiden Lane. A reception was accorded on Broadway, where the pirade was partia'ly disbanded The produce exchange members marched again into their exchange and another outburst of approval of the election of Mckinley occurred. That Pull Dinner PailIt cannot be denied that the victory of President McKiniey and Republicanism was the triumph of commercialism in politics. It was the full dinner paii for the workingman and prosperity for everybody that was the watchword of the Republican campaign and its slogan of victory. It was the appeal of the loaves and fishes, and the belief of the people that a Republican administration promised greater security for wealth already accumulated and better opportunities for making more. While we have not been a subscriber to this belief during the campaign, we are glad, since Brvan had to be defeated, that the triumph of Republicanism is complete. For four years more it is to have control of both branches of Congress as well as the presidency and the various governmental departments. There is no Democratic majority in either house tocneck the wheels of Republican legislation, and if Republican rule means prosperity for the country there is absolutely nothing to prevent the fullest demonstration of the fact.? Augusta Chronicle. On His TombstoneB. H. Morris, a life-Ion? Democrat, recently died in Mexico Mo., &nd over his gravo was ereotei a slab of marble which is inscribed this remarkable epitah: To the Memory of B. H. Morris Died April 9, 1900, Kind friends I've T,affc RoVnTld. Cast your vote for Jennings Bryan. Morris was an ardent supporter of Bryan and the ideas which he represented, and it was his wish that if death should prevent him from taking part in the 1900 campaign he might still help in the work by this "voice from the tomb." The tombstone is three feet, by one mounted on two stone bases, the second smaller than the first. The above inscription, three oak leaves on a stem and a single acorn, are on the stone. J A Fighting PreacherA York coaaty preacher attacked a certain business block in the town of Hickory Grove from the pulpit, characterising it a3 disreputable. A young man doing business there went to to the preacher on the streets and told him to apologize or fight. The precher was game and fought but ha was licked and hereafter he will be less speoific in his charges. 1 THE TRUTH OUT. England R-jo'cing Over McKinl-ay's Electirn. CONFESSION FROM CHOATE Who Congratulates the English Premier that He Did Not M-ke His Speech Before the Election. The Lord Mayor show in London Friday was witnessed by large crowds. It consisted of the usual gilt and ermiDe features. The procession moved on through admiring throngs to the law courts, where the ancient ceremony of taking the oath was carried out. The new and old Lord Mayors were heartily cheered. There were no emblematic cars, but there were mounted men clad in British uniforms in use from 1800 to 1870 A model of tke gan of the British cruiser Powerful used at the siege of Ladysmith was much cheered, as were also mounted men representing [ndia, Canada, Austral*"* and SuutL. Africa What is probably tb'i most brilliant of all functions in England?the Lord Mayor's b-nquet?took place Friday evening It will be memorable even to Amerijans by reason of the following remarkable utterance of Lord Salisbury, who, in the presence of 900 guests, IUU;UU1U? UUUCU uiaico ULUuagoauui Choate, the members of the British cabinet and many of the leading men of England, spoke as follows of the American election: "We believe that cause which has won is the cause of civilization and commercial honor. We believe those principles to be at the root of all prosperity and all progress in the world. Therefore, we claim that we have as much right to rejoice in what has taken place as the distinguished gentleman (referring to Mr. Choate) who sits at my side." This was followed by loud and prolonged cheering which made the gold -vl -. ? A* fV?A aoITAA O VI TToQ a Vl 1XTG* on^l yiatC UU mo uaaou bu?4tvb , V.* the great rafters of the guild hall ring and ring again. Lords Salisbury's incursion into the international politics of the United States was then preceded by an apology, in the course of which he said: 4 One of the circumstances which has gratified me most during the last year is the very hearty, friendly feeling dis nlftrpH hfitwfip.n this oountrv and the r "~J v ? ? ?r .United States. I hope Mr. Choate will forgive me if there is any irregularity in my expression. It is quite wrong for a Sfcerary of state to make observations with respect to the internal po'i tics of another country; but I am soon to give op my office, and in view of this abandonment, which is close at haad, I hope Mr. Choate will forgive me for expressing the supreme satisfaction with which all of us have heard of what has recently taken place in the Uni'ed Staies." Mr. Choate, replying a few minutes later to the toast of the diplomatic corps, declared that Lord Salisbury had stated with such tiuth, simplicity and earnestness the result of the election that he (Mr. Choatf) would cot attempt to add to it, although he would venture to congratulate the noble lord rnnr>orlrfl ha/3 U^'UU IUC lawk tuau U1D iVUimau "WW been made after instead of before election. (Laughter.) WITCH KILLING IN 1900' Stories Told After the Misterious Murder of Old Woman A few lays ago, on Big O.ter Creek, in West Virgina, Mrs. Boggs, over 70 years old, was mysteriously murdered. She lived by herself, and was sitting at a window when a shotgun charged entered her body, killing her instatnly. The mystery sarrounding the murder, it is claimed, has been partially cleared away by the arrest of a man Darned Cot> til l who is dow ill me uuumy j-?n uu suspicion of havicg been implicated in the murder. It brings to light a genuine case of witchcraft saperstition. Cottrill is under the impression that he has &uf fered jm supernatural powers exercised by Mrs. Boggs. He claims that at times during the last three months he has been ridden by h9r ail over Clay and Calhoun counties, in witoh fashion. On one occasion the old lady's house appeared to him to be a blacksmith shop, and he was shoeing his horse there at night, when the witch appeared and told him that that would be the last night he would ever shoe the horse. Within a day or two the * "* "r 3 .1 . _i_ norse aiea. it 13 saia mat oiner neignbors of the old lady were affected with the same hallucination, and chat threats were previously made to kill her. Cottrill refused to talk about the murder, but talks freely en the wrongs he thinks he suffered at the hands of the aged woman. Many case of sickness in the neighborhood were attribute to her 8uprenatrual influence, and on several occasions it is claimed a lynching was threatened, but no one could be found with sufficient courage to lead those who fancied th<?y had been wronged. A CUBAN" GRAB. Capitalists to Secure Control of Street Car Lines in Cuba. Following a meeting of New York, Philadelphia and Canadian capitalists in Philadelphia Thursday night, Sir Wm. C. Van Horn, chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian Pacfio railroad, and his son, R. B. Van Horn, of Montreal, sailed from Friday on steamer -Admiral Sampson for Santiago, where they will make an effort to secure options on all horses and trolley lines in Cuba and also on all sugar plantations in the island. The departure of the men was the result of the permanent organization at last night's meeting of the Cuba company, with a capital of $20,000,000. ci-? rrr-lir : J - J -4. oir VYiiixam jyreoiueu at, iuo uiccbiu^, and the others present, besides his son, were William L. Elkins and Thomas Dolam, of this city; R. A. Smith, president of the Cuba Mail Steamship company, and Percival Farquhar, of New York, and Dr. T. W. Shephard and M. L. Erans, of Montreal. The purpose cf the company, it is announced, is to secure control of all electrio light and trolley franchises in Cuba * - ? i * v l _ ^ - J a. ana to ejtaDiisn pianis aau systems m every city. The purpose, it is said, will not be confined to the control of these frnchises alone, but will ultimately takes in steam roads and also sugar plantations. The entire capital stock of the company it is said by those interested, has been subscribed. TBE TOP CROP GONEThe Freeze and Frost Last Week Finished It. The Augusta Chronicle says what effect the cold snap will have od the top crop of cotton was the paramount issue in this part of tbe world Friday. This top crop has been tbe Eubj^ct of much speculation of rccent weeks and and all sorts <-f estimates as to what it would amount to have been indulged in quite lavishly by those who watch the fluctuations of the market with anxious care. The farmers who grow the cotton have been unanimous in the opinion that the top crop would amount to very little. It has been a case of the spinner hoping for a big top crop in order to reduce the price and the farmer endeavoring to m;nim:ze the top crop in order to keep up the price. Which one has succeeded is yet to be learned by the development of the crop in question. There is one tbifcg certain about the freeze and frost of Thursday night and iVaf it Tioa noncart tViA fn. ture growth of cotton to sea its finish in plain unmistakable terms. What cotton has reached a certain stage of maturity, it is thought, will not be injared if the weather continues dry and cold. The effect of such weather conditions i? to make the partly matured bolls dry up and crack open, furnishing some cotton that will be worth the picking. But there is an end to all cotton that was too young to have this effect produced upon it. It was expected Friday moroing that the prise of cotton would go up on aocount of the freeze and the frost, v..! ?L ?. _-i. Tk? , L)UL bUCU VY33 JJU L LUC Utt3C. JL UC yilW remained the same as the day before. Many samples of the top crop were brought to the city Friday and in some oases the cffeofc had been very disastrous to the bales. Inside the bolls were a complete mush, which must certainly result in rottenness. The Manufacturers' .Review figuring on the cotton situation says: "A bale in weight has become two days in value, for a bale that once brought $25 is now worth at least $50. The small farmer who planted and cultivated ten acres, hoping to get from the fleecy product enough money to pay the merchant, the tax gatherer, and the doctor, finds a surplus in his pocket equal to all he had expected. When this is applied to the cotton belt, it means over $200, 000. It means at any rate^a clear surplus of $100,000,000. "Such a surplus is as gratifying as it J H k a mAwlJ'fl ADC3 n r? A 19 SUUUCJLU iuc rrujlxu a uaacuucoo auu muoh unfavorsble weather did it, although 'be truth is, the wcrld is coming to want more cotton than can be picked out. But we need not stop to consider the world's sipply. We have to deal with a $100 000,000 of surplus cotton money. This cotton money does not go tbis year wholly into the pockcts of the middlemen, but in great part it will be plac.-d where it belongs, in the pockets of the producers. It wiil fill the cotton bell with prosper ty rnd happinefs It will fill southern shops and factoriesand stores wiih orders, and it will pun on foot many new enterprises. Tte farmer will subscribe for cotton mill shares, or invert in a nfw neighboorl ood bank, or Oujld a jurist n-ill, or a better home for his family, or plan some other im. i -ill ^ # T 1 _ pr .vemcnt tnat win D3 iraiiuiwre teD cent cotton dees not bless and t>r.kh en the land. The year is to be a prompt rous and harpy jear? that much we know, and that id qiite enough to know at present." ARP'S GOOD ADVICE ThePhiloaepher Says be Reconciled to What You Can't Help "Nil desperandum." "Carpe diem " D m't despair. Eo joy the day. Ba reconciled to what you can Lot help. That's good advice and 1 wish that we could all take it. I try to, but some times it is hard work. When it rained all the month of Jane and we had a Huming sun all the month of September, I couldn't "carpe diem " When I ponder upon the oruel and useless Philippine war and the Porto Rico steal and the Chinese muddle and all the other devilment that this administration has IfOOjcht about, 1 cau't ic reconciled. When 1 hear these McKintn*? men cKniifincr nrnar^'ritT7 it- makes me hct under the collar. They remind me of a gang of highway robbers who murder helples3 travelers and rob them and then go off and cry prosperity. Manufacturers of army and navy supplies are getting rich oa contract and armo officers in Manila *and Pekin are taking in the loot and cry prosperity. War alwajs brings a show of prosperity but it is at the eost of blood and tears. But still we live in hope that there will come a change. If Bryan is elects d I know there will. And if he is not we will be no worse off than we are now. We can't be worsted, and so we will try to be reconciled. When I was a young man I was a Democrat because my father was but I cast my first vote for W. W. Clayton, who was a Whig. I was a college boy at Athens and Mr. C!ayfca was so kind to us and we all l l? 1? a. T vote a lor Dim ior oiate Benaigr. j. knew Mr. Clajton for many years and always respected him, for he had a kind heart and was a gentleman. After his election he gave the college bsysa party one night and fspecia'ly kind to me, and I have never forgotten it. 'How far that little candle throws its beams So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Before the war, when I was in my prime of manhood and had more vitality than sense, I was a strong paitisan and really believed that if my party didn't succeed the country would be ruined. My father used to laugh at my zeal and say "Oh, no my son, the country is safe; don't let the politicians and the newspapers alarm you." What a pity it is that when a man has treasured up a lot of wisdom and experience he is old enough to diesl What a pity it is that we pass the best portion of our lives in looking afar off for happiness when really it is near by and within our grasp. Of course, I get excited now and then about politics, but I fight it off, for I realize that "domestic is the only bliss that has survived the fall." The best things on earth are the cheapest and most abundant. The joys and eomforts of home and the fireside the showers and fruits, the air and water and sunshine, the garden, the birds and the welcome visits of kind friends and nabors. Neither wealth nor fame nor office will compare with these. In most cases office means spoils; rewards from the public crib. Judge Underwood said that one time when he was a candidate and was making a stump speech and had closed an eloquent paragraph, a long, lank countryman, who was again him, exclaimed: Boys, he's jest 6idewipin' around huntin' the orthrgrahy of a little office." The judge studied politics as a science and under stood it. Une day when we were dig-1 cussing the great steal ot Boss Tweed] & Co., in New York, a preacher who was presentr? mirked: ''Why all these charges aea n-t Twoed mu?t be politi- j cal lies and slanders, for tfiey are L>em ocrats." '"My innocent friend," said the judge, ' ves, Tweed & Co. are all Democrats, bat my observation has been that it is within the range of possibility for a Democrat to steal." Politics is most demoralizing business and has been so in all governm- nts. Sheridan said, ''There is no conscience in gallantry or politics," and Hamle said, "A politician is one who wonld circumvent God." Still there are some honest politicians, but 'they don't go about in droves. The main reason why I admire Bryan so much is because of his honesty, his sincerity. His political enemies admit that, and everybody admits that he is a very wonderful man, both mentally and physicially. If all the people could see him faca to face and hear him he would be elected by a million or two majority. When a politican speaks has to be very csre'ul what he cays, but when a statesman like Bryan speaks, the truth comes gushing forth sponteneous. Hurrah for Bryan! I'm getting excited now, Let aoe walk about and cool iff. My wife is calling me; wants me to build a little house for the Muscovy ducks. That will cool me (B. Yesterday-she kept me busy all the evening sif'tng" earth and ashes and fertile for Ih > plants that are to go in the pit. Sue has the (arth changed every fall, acd my back nearly broken today. has some of those sharp pointed, stickeiy cactus plants that Carl sent her from Mexico, and I got my old hi n's s u k up setting them out of the pots and tubs Oh, my country, is mere no restiortne w ciear Now bore i* a letter from another Mississippi girl giving a poetic answer to that scriptural enegma. Sue writes as follows: ''Haz^hurst, Miss.?I am a school girl. Cao't work cut your bible, pcz z'es, but my dad can. My mam* is a Presbyterian and my dad is a Baptist. They are taking both chances aid the that gets to heaven will pull the other in, for you know the Bible says, 'They twain shall be one flesh,' sorter like the Siamese twins. "My name is Tellie, and here is the answer to pour puzzle: Yes, God made Adam out of dust The truth of this admit we mus-. Some time before by His own wishes He made some small and some great fishes. They had no souls or immortality. "Now Jonah for his great rascality Was swallowed by a whale one day, And in its belly had to stay 'Till he repented. Then he fonnd The Lord's will he must not question, Then was he thrown upon the ground By the fish's indigestion. The whale doth live in all the zooes, In pleasure or in toil, And, in dying, gives to woman bones A ad yields to man his oil." The Mississippi girl is now ahead. Next! I am getting poetry cow, wcrli without end.?Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution LEFT BY FRANKLIN. Bequest Which Boston Will Sp?nd la Building a Public Hall. The Franklin fund, which now, amounts to about $400,000, and which represents, with interest, the result of a bequest of ?1,000 which was left to, the city of Boston by Benjamin Frank-! iln in 1791, is to be expended. The full vote of the Aldermen is needed as yet, but a plan has been broached and ao! cepted by the subcommittee to use one half of the sum for the erection of aj public building which shall have a.' halli to be used as a public fornm. Thej other half of the fund Is to be spenti for the extension of Mayor Quincy'g bath and gymnasium schemes. The public building is to be known as the Franklin Building, and It will be built in the south end. It is planned to have various meeting rooms In It,, and to carry on courses of lectures on trade subjects. The original idea ot the fund as left by Dr. Franklin was for the erection of a trade schooL When this proposition was advanced! by tbfc committee two years ago all the labor bodies protested, and the Aldermen were forced to retreat, having gone so far as to secure a plot of land for the building. The trades union men objected to boys receiving instruction at trades unless under their direct tuition, as apprentices?Exchange. Used His Brains. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company a few days ago sent a brake*; ~ cm a a f/YT "fr,r using his brai*s," as one of the official* expressed it. A freight train while coming down the grade between Cranberry Summit and Rowlesburg stopped Tery suddenly, making a horrible racket. The brakeman, who was on the. front of the train, knew something was wrong, and, realizing that the westbound Chicago express No. 7 was, about to pass, without investigating the trouble he rushed a bead and flagged No. 7. Had he gone ?sack to investigate it would have been too late and No.' 7 would have dashe>l into four or five derailed cars and tuwbled over into the river. For his good judgment the company made him a present "of $50, and has posted a bulletin so that those "who run may read." Morsel of Land for $5,000. A triangular slip land, containing about 16 square feet, In the Wall street district in New York, was sold the other day for $5,000, or more than $300 a square foot The morsel of real estate about as large as au ordinary kitchen table, if it were square, has been in dispute between the Stock Exchange Building Committee and the Commercial Cable Company for years. The difficulty wus settled by the cable company buyinjr it of the Stock Exchanfe people. Bow's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can? a V- j i rT-i?>_ rt . /-y out ue eurea Dy asu s uacarra uure. 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 by their firm. West & Fbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. W alding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. . 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Trouble started with the second act, when Miss Arthur swept on the stage gowned in her Cleopatra costume, a vision of perfect loveliness. The au dience gasped Its admiration and the only male creature that had been engaged since Eden -whispered to the cotton-locked damsel beside him: "That's Just as yon looked last night, Evangeline." Then followed the scene when Josephine, with all the seductive power of her voice, her beauty, her love and her womanliness, coaxes the sulky Napoleon from his room. The house was scarcely breathing. The two young worshippers were living on Miss Arthur's pleading. The voice of the girl, who had bitten off more love than sh? ?culd digest secretly, rasped them to I ortti a<rain "Henry," she grated, "that's just ax I begged you after we quarreled to night" Again came comparative peace until Napoleon began to urge the divorce. Josephine sinks on a sofa overcome. Her husband offers her water. She shrinks from him. "That water Is poisoned, Junot. Drink!" thunders tha emperor, and Junot drains the glass. "Would you do that, Evangeline," grunted Henry, turning calf s eyes on her. "I'd do It If I lored him. I'd drink poison for you, Henry," ihe whimper* ed, sentimentally. That was past all patience. One of the men whirled In his seat "For heaven's sake, young woman, drink It, and drink it quick," he said. The voice from the stage was heard alone after that?Louisville CourierJournal. He Guessed Wrong. Brown?7 ju seem to be a hustler. I saw tl life insurance agent go into yonr hjuse this morning, and in less than '^alf an hour after him came the doctjr. Smith?Well, what do you gather from that? Brown?Merely that you were in & great hurry to undergo the physical examination and hare it over with. Smith?You're wrong. The doctor came to examine the insurance man's wounds.?Philadelphia Press. Outlandish. The tramp entered the private office of a South Water street cheese mercnzat. '"Boss," began the knight of the tincan tribe, "Tee a Boer, an' I wants yer to help me to land In South Africa." "I'll help you to land on the outside!" blurted the busy cheese merchant. "Den, boss, HI be an outlander." And the tourist vanished before the bombardment of ripe cheese,?Chi? cago News. ____________ Rapid Development. "You are In business in Montana?" asked the passenger in the skull cap. "Tea," said the passenger in the smoking jacket. "Is business good out there?" "Yes. In the last two years-our plant has increased in size more than 1.Q00 per cent" "Great Scott! What was the size of your plant originally?" "It consisted ef a pair of Belgian rabbits."?Chicago Tribune. The Farewell. "Good-bye," said the pale, determined sum, as his wife flung her arms wildly about his neck, and gave way to a flood of weeping. "Do not ge into unnecessary das* ger," she cried. **I know you will be brave and return with honors." And he was gone. He was not off the war. No; he was a baseball umpire, and he was leaving home for UJLP uvcllui5 ? jruuauuiyuia North American. Following Instructions. "Young Sammie Spender is carrying out his Governor's wishes faith* fully, Isn't he?" "How's that?" "Why the old gentleman left instructions in his will that after his death his dust was to be scattered to the winds."?Life. Mother, Sisters and Wife. "Man spends twenty years of his life In sleep." "You are mistaken; he spends at least five of the twenty years In battling with his women relatives who want to make him get up."?Chicago Record. Connubial Caloric*. York?I see they have a new cure for rheumatism. They roast the patient Towson?My wife must think I have It?Baltimore American. Explanation of Her Penchant "X notice that she has her portrait painted hut never has hfcr photograph taken." 'Tea. You see the camera Is so exact" P-?x MARK. I ? 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