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THE ONE RIGHT 80AI). REV. DR. TALMAGE POINTS IT OUT TO LIFE'S TRAVELERS. He 8hows the Road of. Righteousness to be Safe- -Plain, Pleasant, Hroad, Smooth and With a Glorious Terminus at Last. Washington, Feb. 2.?fie v. Dr. Talma^e's sermon for today was a pic ture of the road that many have trav eled ana otners are trying to get on and is no more appropriate for the capital of the nation than for all places. The text chosen was Isaiah xxxy, 8, 9, 10: "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The .unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." There are hundreds of people in this' 1 1 4 uuuse wiiu. wttut lu 11 Liu luc ngui road. You sometimes see a person halting at crossroads, and you can tell ^ _ by his looks that he wishes to ask a ~ question as to what direction he had better take. And I stand in your presence conscious of the fact that there are many of you here who realize that there are a thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have come, in to ask which one it is. Here is one road that r opens widely, but I have not much faith in it. There are a great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that way. Indeed at every rod you must pay in tears, or pay in genuflexions, or pay in flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all, you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so much from what I have heard in regard to the right way, I believe it is the wrong way. Here is another road." On either side of it are houses of sinful entertainment and invitations to come in and dine and rest, but from the looks . of the people who stand on the piazza I am certain it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It is very beautiful and macadamized. The horses' hoofs clatter and ring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway, until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try- to halt, and they see the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry: "Ho! Ho!" But it is too late, and, crash! they go over the embankment. We shall turn and see if we cannot find a different kind of road. You have heard of the Appian way. It was 350 miles long. It was 24 feet wide, and on either siae of the road was a path foot passengers. It was made out of rocks cut in hexagonal shape and fitted together. What a road it must have been! Made of smooth, hard rock, 350 miles long. No wonder that in the construction of it the treasures of a whole empire were exhausted. Because of invaders, and the elements, and time?the old conqueror who tears up a road as he goes over it?there is nothing left of that structure but a ruin. But I have to tell you of a road built before the Appian way, and yet it is as good as N when first constructed. Millions of aouls have gone over it. Millions more will come. The prophets and apostles, too, Pursued this road while here below, We therefore will without dismay, CMII ?.|1r |n (IKJcf /-J/I mnrr u?ut ttam lu viuuu) kuogwuvm tt?j? First, this road of the text is the king's highway. In the diligence you dash on over the Bernard pass of the Alps, mile after mile, and there is not so much as a pebble to jar the wheels. You go over bridges which cross chasms that make you hold your breath, under projecting rock, along by dangerous precipices, through tunnels adrip with the meltings of the J glaciers, and perhaps for the first time earn the majesty of a road built and supported bv governmental authority. Well, my Lord the King decided to build a highway from earth to heaven. It should span all the chasms of hu man wretcneaness. it sriouia tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty. It should be wide enough and strong enough to hold 50,000,000,000,000 of the human race, if so many of them should ever be born. It should be blasted out of the "Rock of Ages," and cemented with the blood of tne cross, and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The King sent his son to build that road. He put head and hand and heart to it, and after the road was completed waved his blistered hand over the way, crying, "It is finished!" Napoleon paid 15,000,000 francs for the building of the SimpIon road that his cannon might go over for the devastation of Italy, but our King at a greater expense has built a road for a different purpose that the banners of heavenly dominion might come down over it. Being a king's highway, of course it is well Hnilt Ri-Mfww cnlor flifllir on/I abuttressed have given way and crushed the passengers who attempted to cross them. But Christ the King would build no such thing as that. That work pone, he mounts the chariot of his love and multitudes mount with him, and he drives on and up the steep of heaven amid the plaudits of gazing worlds! The work is donewell done?gloriously done magnificently done, Still further, this road spoken of is a clean road. Many a fine road has become miry and foul because it has not been properly cared for, but my text says the unclean shall not walk ' on the one. Room on either side to throw away your sins. Indeed, if you want to carry them along, you are not on the right road. That bridge will break, those overhanging rocks will fell, tne night will come down, leaving you at the mercy of the mountain bandits, and at the very next turn of the road you will perish. But if you are really on this clean road of which 1 have been speaking, then you will stop ever and anon to wash in the water that stands in the basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the journey you will be crying out, "Create within me a clean heart!" If you have no such aspirations as that, it proves that you have mistaken your wav. and if vmi will onlv look un and seethe fingerboard above your head you may read upon it the words, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death." Without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you any idea that you can carry a your sins, your lusts, your woi ness, and yet get at the end of Christian race, you are so awfully taken, the name of God, I shatte delusion. Still further, the road spoken o plain road. "Tin wayfaring 1 though fools, shall riot err therei that is, if a man is three-fourth idiot, he can find this road just as as if he were a philosoper. The becile boy, the laughing stock o street, and followed by a mob ho< at him, has only just to knock on the gate of heaven, and it swings while there has been many a man could lecture about pneumatics chemistry and tell the story of 1 day's theory of electrical polariz; ? '1 -*^4- Kop Koon cV*nf nnf". nf Vipji UUU J CI 1AC40 WWII ^ - ? There has been many a man who i in an observatory and swept the 1 tns with his telescope and yet ha been and yet has not been able t the morning star. Many amai been familiar with all the higher 1 ches of mathematics and vet couli do the simple sum. "What sh profit a man if he gain the -w world and lose his own soul?" 1 a man has been a fine reader of t dies and poems and yet could "read his title clear to mansior the skies." Many a man has botanized a< the continent, and yet not know. Rose of Sharon, and the Lily o Valley. But if one shall come ii right spirit, asking the way to hea he will find it a plain way. The don is plain. The peace is p Everything is plain. He who tri eet on the road to heaven throuerl New Testament teaching will ge beautifully. He who goes thn philosophical discussion will no on at all. Christ says, "Come ti and I will take all your sins away, I will take all your troubles aw Now what is the use of my discu; it any more? Is not that plain? you wanted to go to some city, ? pointed you out a highway thoro ly laid out, would I be wise in de ing you by a geological discus about the gravel you will pass ove a ^physiological discussion about muscles you will have to bring play? No. Af testis Bible has po: you the way to heaven, is it wis me to detain you with any discus about the nature of the human wi. whfithAr t.hp ah-mpmpnt: is limitf unlimited? There is the road?g it. It is a plain way. "This is a f ful saying and worthy of all acc tion that Christ Jesus came into world to save sinners." And tl you and that is me. Any little < here can understand this as well can. "Unless you become as a child you cannot se the kingdoi God." If you are saved, it will be as a philosopher; it will be as tie child. "Or such is the kingdo heaven." Unless you get the spi; little children you will never < out at their glorious destiny. Still further, this road to heav a safe road. Sometimes the tra in those ancient highways would t himself perfectly secure, not kno mere was a non dy me way, dui his head deep between his paws, then, when the right moment c under the fearful spring the man' was gone, and there was a maulec cass by the roadside. But, sayi text, "No lion shall be there." I I could make you feel your enti curity. I tell you plainly that minute afte*.* a man has become a < of God he is as safe as though he been 10,000 years in heaven. He slip, he may slide, he may stur but he cannot be destroyed; kej the power of God, through faith, complete salvation, everlasting The severest trial to which yoi subject a Christian man is to kill and that is glory. In other words worst thing that can happen a < of God is heaven. The body is the old slippers that he throws : just before putting on the sands light. His soul, you cannot hu No fires can consume it; no floods drown it; no devils can capture i! Firm and unmoved at e they w do rests meir sums uu cruu; Fixed as the ground where David sto< Or where the ark abode. His soul is safe. His reputati safe. Everything is safe. "But," say, "suppose his store burns Why, then it will be only a chan investments from earthly to hea\ securities. "But," you say, "sui his name goes down under the of scorn and contempt?" The ] will be so much brighter in g "Suppose his physical health fj God will pour into him the tioo everlasting health, and it wil make any difference. Earthly traction is heavenly addition, tears of earth are the crystais of ] en. As they take rags and tatter* put them through the paper mill they come out beautiful white s of paper, so often the rags of ea destitution, under the cylinde; death, come out a white scroll which shall be written eternal e cipation. There was one passag Scripture the force of which 11 understood until one day at Una nix, with Mont Blanc on one sid< Montanvert on the other, I op my Bible and read, "As the vc tains are around about Jerusalei the Lord is around about about that fear him." The surrouni were an omnipotent commentary Though troubles 'assail and dangei light, Though friends should all fail and fc unite, Yet one thing secures uh, whatever b The Scripture assures us the Lord wil vide. Still further, the road spoken o pleasant road. God gives a bon indemnity against all evil to e man that treads it. "All things * together for good to those who God." No weapon formed ag them can prosper. That is the 1 signed, sealed and delivered bj president or tne whole urni What is the use of your frettini child of God, about food? "B< the fowls of the air, for they sow neither do they reap, nor gather barns. Yet your Heavenly F feedeth them." And will he take of the sparrow, will he take ca the hawk and let vou die? Wt the use of your fretting about clo i "Consider the lilies of the field. I he not much more clothe you, O little faith?" What is the use of rying for fear something will ha to your home? "He blesseth the . itation of the just." What is the . of your fretting lest you will be come of temptations? "God is: ; ful, who will not suffer you i templed above that ye are able . will with the temptation also have 'a way to escape that ye may be a Ions: I to bear it." Oh, this King's highws rldli-1 Trees of life on either side, bendi the ; over until their branches interlc mis- and drop midway their fruit a r the shade. Houses of entertainment either side the road for poor pilgrir f is a ; Tables spread with a feast of ec men, j things, and walls adorned with app n"? J of gold in pictures of silver. I st s au out on this King's highway, an well hud a harper, and I say, "Wha im- your name?" The harper makes f the response, but leaves me to guess, jting with his eyes toward heaven and ce at hand upon the trembling strings t open tune comes rippling on the air: "1 who Lord is my light and my salvati< and Whom shall I fear? The Lord is I ^ara- strength of my life. Of whom sh ition I be afraid?" ven. I go a little farther on the same rc stood *nd meet a trumpeter of heaven, an leav- say, "Haven't you got some music ] s not >\ tired pilgrim?" And, wiping . 0 see lip and taking a long breath, he pi 1 has his mouth to the trumpet and poi jrau- forth this strain, "They shall hunf i not bo more, next tier snail tney tnirst a all it more, neither shall the sun light 'hole them, nor any heat, for the Lai lany which is in the midst of the thrc rage- shall lead them to living fountains . not water, and God, shall wipe away is in tears from their eyes." I go a lit distance farther on the same road, a jross I meet "a maiden of Israel. "She 1 q the no harP> but she has cymbals. Th f the ^ if they had rusted from s a the SDray? anc* I say t? the maiden of A rael, "Have you no song for a tit rjarl pilgrim?" And, like the clang of v 1afn tors' shields, the symbals clap as M ^ iam began to discourse: "Sing ye ti the Lord, for he hath triumphed g t on 1 iously. The horse and the rider ht ouffh he thrown into the sea." And thei t ? t see a white robed group. They coi o me hounding toward me, and I say, " W an(j are they? The happiest, and t ,av n brightest, and the fairest in all heav ?who are they?" And the ansv comes, "These are they who came c indl ?reat tribulations^ and had th liwh. robes washed and made white in t blood of the Lamb." sicn * Pursue this subject only one si ,r or farther. What is the terminus? I the n0*care k?w ^ne a roac* y?u Put 1 on, I want to know where it comes o\ inted ^ text declares it. "The redeemed e for the Lord come to Zion." You km ision what Zion was. That was the kin q or palace. It was a mountain fastne ? or It was impregnable. And so heav 'O on 's fewness the universe, ] howitzer has long enough range shell those towers. Let all the batt ies of earth and hell blaze away. Th lat is cann?t break in those gates. Gibr "hild tar was taken, Sevastopol was tak< a ~ j .Babylon fell, but these wail or nea-v little ska^ never surrender either to hum n 0f or satanic besiegement. The Lc no|. God Almighty is the defense of a lit- G"rea* capital of the universe! Terr m of nu* of ,Kin?s highway! rit 0f Dr. Dick said that, among otl jome ^ings, he thought in heaven we woi study chemistry and geometry a . conic sections. Southey thought tl en is jn heaven he would have the pleasi Te. ? of seeing Chaucer and Shakespa ,hink Now, Dr. Dick may have his mat! matics for all eternity, and South 7mS his Shakespare. Give me Christ a ' and my old friends?that is all the heav a???> I want. Christ and his people tha s life knew on earth?that is heaven enou I car- for me Qh) garden of light, wh< 5 leaves neverjwither, and whose fru wlstl never fail! Oh, Banqnet of G< re se" whose sweetness never palls the ta and whose guests are kings forev oh, city of light, whose walls are 8 j had vation, and whose gates are prai Oh, palace of rest, where God is 1 monarch and everlasting ages 1 by length of his reign I Oh, song louc ur*to than the surf beat of many wate safe. yet soft as the whisper of cherubim l,?an Oh, glorious heaven? When 1 b1?1* last wound is healed, when the 1 1y*? heartbreak is ended, when the last t< clu1ia of earthly sorrow is wiped away, a when the redeemed of the Lord sh ^ ? come to Zion, then let all the harp 9 take dewn their harps, and all 1 rt " trumpeters take down their trumpe 5 can and all across heaven let there be cl t# rus of morning stars, chorus of wh robed victors, chorous of martyrs fr< under the throne, chorous of ag )d? chorous of worlds, and there is I one song sung, and but one nai on is spoken, and but one throne bono] 1 you ?that of Jesus only, up?" ge Qf Murderer and Bigamist. 'enly Roanoke, Va., Feb. 3?Jasper >pose Hale was married on Sunday eveni hoof to Elvina Adams, aged 16 years, a lame this morning left the city. Shor lory, after he left an elderly woman co lils?" plained to the police that Hale 1 ds of been married to her a number of yea 1 not She also stated to the police auth( sub- ties here that he was the murderer The Thomas G. Massie, who was crue leav- killed on a cold wintry night in 1 j and cember, 1890, on one of the princi , and streets in this city. This muri has always been a mystery to the p rthly of this city and now it seems tl rs of a solution of it is near at hand. . upon officer was put on Hale's track and man- was overtaken at Radford and arr< je of ed just as he was lifting his bride c lever day from the train, she having folic mou- ed him to that city. He was brouj 5 and back to Roanoke on the midnif ?ened train and lodged in jail. loun^ gQ The Farmers' Alliance. Ih'em Washington Feb. G.?The Nati< lings Farmers' Alliance and Industi Union which has been in session h three days, adjourned this afterno* rs af- Important action was taken during >es all closing session. Among these, i "subtreasury plan," to which the A etide, ance has been committed for a nu li pro- ber of years and the demand for an crease of the circulating medium f is a Per capita, were eliminated fr< id of the platform. Resolutions were ado ivery e(* opposing the refunding of the ] work cific Railroad debt and agreeing , Jove meet next year at Dallas, Texas if tl ainst city will make suitable offers. jond, r the Had Blues and Suicided. "TVTmtir "Vnntr Q I^a] rerse. iuna,i.cu.u.-rwulwi>,i gr5 O Commissioner Stephen B. Free ihold committed suicide today by sliooti r not, himself through the heart." For so into time Mr. French has been moody a ather despondent. His friends have i care served that both in appeoranqe a re of conversation Mr. French was i lat is quite himself. So far as known th ithes? was no adequate cause for his suici Shall ye of Free Sliver In Texau. wor- Austin, Tex., Feb. 5.?The St ippen Democratic executive committee \ hab- in session here again today. The > use ver caucus was attended by 14 me hona r\f fVi? rnmTnit.tflft. Silver "V WW mvam v* WW faith- victorius on the one convention sche to be in the caucus. It is likely the maj >, but ity of the delegates to the natioi make convention -will be free silver men. HOUSE AND SENATE. ng i >ck | CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. J ^ a run aggregating more than thirteen ns hours in twenty-four hours, or had )0(j gone on duty after a thirteen hours' a ]es run, or runs aggregating thirteen $ art hours, before ten hours' rest. j I Sec. 2. That any railroad violating S1 ^ jg any of the provisions of section 1 of ? no this act shall be subject to a forfeiture ^ as of not less than $500 nor more than ai yg $500. That one-half of all for- qi hig feitures collected under the provi- ^ Hjg sions of this act shall be paid into jr )n the State treasury, to the credit of the n school fund, and the other half to the' ajl informer. TIIE ENGROSSING DEPARTMENT. e: >ad The senate bill to provide for the or- tl d I ganization of the engrossing depart- sc for ment was taken up. tc his Judge Townsend said that the only b< ats object of the bill was to relieve the ta /-< . J /* 1 A ttrt AAA . 1 Ml irs state ox aooui $z,uuu annual expense, g' rer He said last year the engrossing de- w ny partmentcost $3,700 and under this ft on bill it would cost about $1,500. The nb bill proposes a saving, of $2,000. The ol >ne attorney general has this year receiv- C( of ed about 500 applications for positions P all in the department and clerks are now B tie employed who cannot spell correctly. ^ nd This bill restricts the number of clerks u; las to one for each solicitor and lhatnum- i? ey ber cannot be increased. The reply- ti ;ea ing to applications and entertaining Is- visitors urging the claims of applicants a ed consumes one third of the attorney u ic- general's time. It is an outrage as P1 !ir- to the money spent in this department, ei to The attorney general favors this bill ? lo- and will overlook the work. It is to bJ ith be presumed that the solictors will le ll bring competent men. a> lie Here, too, there was much debate? ? ho chiefly on the question whether wo- c< ,he men only should be employed. The b; en bill finally went through in the folrer lowing shape: ? >ut Section 1. That the engrossing de- tr eir partment of the general assembly shall a: hp ho nnilpr t'hp> Hirpnlinn nnrl snnfvrvision tfl of the attorney general, and shall con- b< ap sist of the attorney general and a chief ti do clerk to be appointed by him, and of ^ ne the solicitors of the State and of one b< it* female clerk resident in each judicial b of circuit. )w Sec. 2. The attorney general shall 0( g's notify such number of solicitors and e; ss. clerks so appointed to attend upon the k en meetings of the general assembly as he tl No may deem necessary from time to u to time to properly perform the work of ci er- the department. ? ev Sec. 4. The solicitors, the chief u al- clerk and the clerks of the engrossing ? mi, department shall receive for their comen pensation the same per diem and milean age as the members of the general as- u >rd sembly for the time they are actually a it. employed in the work of the depart- u ni- ment. tl Subsequently an effort was made to s> ier reconsider the vote passing the bill, ?. "d but the House refused choosing school f at* teachers. . r lat When Mr. Sturkie's bill to allow 11 ire patrons of the different public shools a of the State to select their teachers was h?' taken up, Mr. Whitmire moved to iey strike out the enacting words. f n" Mr. Sturkie defended his bill. He ** en could see no rational reason why there u & I should be any objection to the bill. a gh He said it was of the greatest impor- ri Jse tance to allow the patrons to select the iits teachers of their children. The ma- 6 jority should rule in this matter, ste Mr. Hough said that this thing of se- e e^! lecting teachei*s was one thing in ^ which intelligence should rule. The se! intelligent board should have charge v he of this important matter. Pass this the bill and you will mark the downfall h of the public schools in South Caroli- * rs, na. b ! After further debate the bill was re r the jected. c ocf J y a51 ABOUT FREE TUITION. o aar . . ? \fw TT/%1 l/\t*roTr'o "Kill MnriilafinD* frpA Vi nd AU-1* " "J " b ? u aj[ tuition in the institutions for higher g ers education within this State was taken o up and Mr. Watson moved to strike 5ts out the enacting words. o ao'. Mr. Hollow&y said he had hoped the fi bill would have passed without o- b 3m sition. The argument had been made E gg that the State was not able to carry so b )Uj; many beneficiary institutions. t! me Mr. J. W. Mitchell said he was no f re(j enemy to higher education, but he e wanted the poor people's children to l get the benefit of the State's school \ funds. They were not there to educate \ jt rich men's sons. He did not know c ng that Clemson would do what they nd were expected here to do. tly The provisions of the bill are as fol- v im- lows: t! iad Section 1. That no charges for tui- u ,rS- iion shall be made against or collect- b >ri'. ed from any of the youth of this State a m nviTT cr>V*/-*rvlc Al* r?r*l 1 POrAQ X QJ VJJ auj KJL bliu OV/uwitf v* wAovgvM A Hy higher education supported and con- fc )e- trolled by the State unless the parents t pal of such youth shall have a gross annu- p 5er al income of at least $1,000, or shall r eo- own property of the value of at least E hat $2,000, or unless in the case of no par- B A.n ents living the youth has held in trust he for him or her an estate or income of ? jst- like value. >f a Sec. 2. No youth shall become a b ,V7- beneficiary in any way whatever in A ht any of said schools or colleges unless o jht entitled as above to free tuition and n qualiQed otherwise as may be required p by law or the rules and* regulations a prescribed by the boards controlling s on- said institutions. ti ial Sec. 3. That this act shall take ef- I ere feet immediately upon its approval. a an. Subsequently the bill was rejected, d the s the Appalling Disaster. a Hi- Bristol, Conn., Feb. 6.?A most u :m- appalling disaster occurred here short- s in- ly after 9 o'clock tonight, in which 20 v to workmen were precipitated into Pe- I om quaback river from the East Bristol S' pt- bridge and from 10 to 12 of them are g Pa- probably lost. This afternoon the ti to structure was found to be shaky and f liat the 4:42 train on the New England r road had a narrow escape from wreck g as it crossed on the way to Hartford, a For some time the bridge has been 1 ice looked upon with suspicion and at ich present the new bridge was in process ing of re-erection and was almost complete, me It was close alongside the bridge which L nd was tonight carried away. After the n ob- eastbound passenger train had passed 1 md tonight, one side of the old bridge gave c not way to the current and with a crash f< ere went boiling down stream. p de. d A Fatal Boiler ICxplosion. ti TT- i > - T? on A? f. LIULiIjIUAXSUUKU, X it., UiiU. OV. ate 7 o'clock this morning a large boiler o ras in the works of the Hollidaysburg a sil- Iron and Nail Company exploded, m- killing five yersons and injuring vas twenty-three, three of whom will die. me The boiler was blown through the roof s or- three hundred feet into midair and t rial came crashing down through the roof c into another portion of the works. b TREMENDOUS BOND OFFERINGS. 'reasury Official* Regard the T.oan as a * Complete Success. Washington, Feb. 5.?Four thous- * nd six hundred and forty bids for j 558,260,850 worth of bonds. Such is the tremendous total of the < ibscriptions opened at the Treasury s epartment today, in accordance with < le terms of the call, issued a month 1 ?o, inviting proposals for $100,000,30 of United States four per cent, onds to run for thirty years from 'ebruary 1, 1895. These figures do \ ot include about $120,000,000 of ' crank" bids, rejected as bogus. 1 The immense offerings astounded ( Kperts. The bids literally swamped 1 le Treasury Department, which was ' ) taken by surprise that at 6 o'clock 2 might, although extra clerks had * een hurriedly drafted, the work of n ibulating the bids was still 'in pro- 6 ress, and it was impossible to tell : ith definiteness how many bids and >r what aggregate had been received ? ; figures in advance of the upset price \ I $110.68.7.7 at which at a syndicate, i imposed of J. P. Morgan & Co., ? liny Fiske & Co. and the Deutsche p ank of Berlin offered to take the I hole loan. The bids ranged from par \ p to a single $50 bid at $150. It is I npossible, therefore, to say at this f me how the awards will be made. Treasury officials regard the loan as complete success, both as to the poplar subscription feature and the rices obtained. Bids came from sev al thousand individuals and from undreds of national banks and other inking institutions. Nearly all the ading New York bankers and insurace companies were represented in le list or bidders, but, with few exjptions. they were outmanoeuvered y. the Morgan syndicate. Owing to the confusion caused by ie magnitude of the offerings and j le consequent delay in classifying ad scheduling the bids, any authoriitive statement of the policy that will 3 pursued cannot be made at this ; me. As the great bulk of offerings ere below the Morgan figure, it is slieved that the bid of the syndicate eaded by the great New York bankrs will be accepted for at least $50, )0,000, and possibly more. In any stent, no bid below the syndicate ite of $110.68.7.7 will be accepted, as lat rate covers the entire loan. It is ncierstood mat Mr. morgan win proire a part of the gold from abroad, ad will not.need to deplete the Treas* ry to furnish any part of the gold illed for under his bid. There were a vast number of bids >r figures fractionally rising $110 but nder the Morgan figures, and for mounts aggregating sufficient to take p the entire loan. iLmong them were le offers of the Stewart and McCall indicates, including the big insur- ; nee, banking and trust companies of Tew York city, which stood ready to i ike huge blocks of bonds at figures > 1 excess of prices named a week ago , s high mark for large lots. Secretary Carlisle was greatly pleasi at the success of the bond offerings, i [e said no definite statement could e made as yet concerning the awards > successful bidders, nor how far, if t all, he would exercise his option of meeting any of the bids. Secretary Carlisle was greatly pleasd at the brilliantly conspicuous sucess of the loan, and said that it showd what the people of this country rould do when appealed to. He aought, too, that the effect abroad rould be very marked in our favor. The first announcement from Mr. Jckles made it known that bond bids pproaching the $400,000,000 mark had een made, with enough unopened to epresent another $75,000,000; then amo an announcement that the total ras the stupendous figure of $684,269,50, which was subsequently reduced y throwing out three bogus bids of 1100,000,000; $16,000,000 and $6,000, 00. It would be impossible, with any rdinary telegraphic or typographical acilities, to give a complete list of all ids, and save as a matter of history 10 importance attaches now to any f ids naming below 110.68.7.7. From he list of bidders at and above that igure the successful bidders undoubtaly will. Some of the bidders in this ^ x t-? 8, isuare: ?j. jr. murgauavu., uanoj, i"isk & Co., and the Deutsche Bank of Jerlin, $100,000,000 at 110.68.7.7, Merhants National Bank of Richmond, r&., $25,000 at 111. 1 The Secretary said that it probably ] could be three or four days yet before he bids could all be verified, sched- ' ded and classfied, and until that time i ie could give no definite information s to how low bids would be accepted. Ie had the impression, however, from ( learing the names and amounts read, < hat it would be necessary, in all j irobability, to accept some bids at a ate slightly lower than 111, but how lany or in what amount he could not i low tell. , Golden Resolutions. How many good resolutions are roken during these January days! is the midnight bells ring out the Id and ring in the new year, how lany thousands of penitent inebriates romise themselves to lead better lives nd for weeks and days thereafter truggle manfully against the tyrant hat runs riot through their veins! inf flpcl-i i? w#?Alr<vnd alrnhnl is stron?? nd as the days go by the craving for rink becomes so great that few of the truggling thousands can resist it, nd, one by one, they fall hopelessly a to the old ways until another miletone shall give them pause. To the ?eak but willing among us the Keeley nstitute of South Carolina is a godend. The gold cure is "not gold that jitters," but it shines like a benedicion in the faces of the liberated?the ree! Make, by all means, vour good esolutions, but back yourself with the old to be had only in South Carolina t the Keeley Institute in this city.? .'he State. Collapso of ? Church. Paris, February 2.?A church colipsed today at Manlevrier, a village iear Angiers, in the departnent of laine et Loire, while Mass was being elebrated. The structure was comortably filled, most of the worshipers being women and children. Sullenly and with very little warning be walls began to sway, and fell beoro all the congregation could get utside. Eight persons were killed, nd thirty were wounded. A riiin/>n of T.st 11 <1 mi 11111. Augusta, Feb. 4.?J. Booker Blackton, 40 years of age, an employee of lie Augusta Electric Street railway, ommilted suicide here this afternoon ?y drinking an ounce of laudanum. Father and Son Slain, Q El Paso, Tex., Feb. 4.?Col. Albert ^ r. Fountain'of Las Cruces, N. M., a jrominent lawyer and speaker of the ;erritorial house of representatives, las been murdered, with nis 9-year-old >oy, by cattle rustlers on the desert between Tulurus and Las Cruces, N. M. The cause was Ms activity in prosscuting the cattle thieves. Posses are Jd scouring the country. Fountain was in route home from Lincoln, where ae had been attending court. A Great Big Find. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 4.1-J. H. *bJ Parkes of High Point learned some ;ime ago that a large amount of gold join was buried near Sunbury station, >n the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley ailroad. In some way he located the .reasure, and news reaches here that at yesterday he unearthed it. There is so' >18,000. The man who buried it is th< ot known. The find has caused great ra xcitement in all that section. re: - < ne "":r.7T7 IA S25 Cooking Stove * j TTITJI A. COMPLETE OUTFIT FOB 1 i 3 03STX/Z" $1200., ! | Delivered to your railroad depot, j 3 all freight charges paid. Read this 1 3 description carefully. This splendid 1 5 Cooking Stove is No. 8"; has four 8 ] 3 inch pot holes; 10x16 inch oven; 18 | inch lire box, 24 inches high; 21x26 j ? inch top; nice smooth casting. I ' havo had this stove made for my 1 trade, after my own idea, combining 1 all the good points of all medium J priced stoves, and leaving out the 1 objectionable features. j Ueyond all doubt the best No. 8 ( Cooking Stove made, for the price. 1 Fitted with 2 pots, 2 pot covers, 2 | skellets, 2 griddles, 3 baking pans, ( 3 joints of pipe, 1 elbow, 1 collar, 1 ' lifter, 1 scraper, 1 cake polish, 1 iron J tea kettle, 1 shovel. We want to 1 make customers and friends in every < part of the South, for the purpose ] of introducing our business to new 1 people, and to renew our acquaint- 1 ance with old friends. ] I We will ship this splendid Cooking < Stove awl the above described war? ? to arty depot, all freight charges- Y" paid,' for only $12.00 when the * cash comcs with the order. This stove is a good one, well made, and svill give entire satisfaction. Our illustrated catalogue of Furniture, Stoves and Baby Carriages mailed I free. Address v ?j 5 t~i jt\ e'-a.idgkeyxi' 4 7 ? t .v: licoAn Street, Augusta, Ga. LIFE ? foi II for the Liver and Kidneys. Lax* ative, Cathartic, Diuretic anil an L Tonic. Its action Is mild and ou pleasant. Dyspepsia and Indi- on gestlon are at once relieved bj its use. Bad feelings from a sluggish liver are dispelled. It Is a mosi agreeable, easy and certain retne dy In Habitual Constipation. In kidney troubles its benefits become apparent with the first dose or two. Try it. ^ wj sp Sold wholesale by ne nli The Murray Drug Co. sS * mi St COLUMBIA, S. C. Ti DO YOU NEFD A. CORN MILL? ? If so buy the MOORE COUNTr GRIT, [J lie best stone for grinding corn. Requires pli less dressing. Gives less trouble- Makes u - fin Better meai. uosrs less muuey uuu ?uj mill in th<5 world. PI Next is our Engleberg. Rice Mill, the ^ >nly mill In the world that will, in ?ae op i jration, take rough rice, hall, clean and ( polish it ready for market or table. W Plantation and other sawmills. Talbott, ilso Liddell engines. Boilers and woodworking machinery at bottom factor y ^ prices. V. C. Badliam, ? GENERAL AGENT, aj COLUMBIA. S. C. 'C BE C DON'T GET EXUIT3D ! ' KEffiP 003 IT IS ALL RIGB "rpTTTP. 1439 and 1443 Miin Strest, C Aro still djing bmlaess at the >1.1 s..ui 1, o where we are prepirad to cater to your ever CLO'l'tUNGr, SHOSi, 11 Hi, IRUSKS, INGS, CARPETS, DRY G0( AND ALLSJIALl iTou can buy your domestic-goo Is of u t?nded the most successful year ia all of our to thank our patrons generally.throughout t ronago, and ask for a continuance of the sac a dollar's worth of gaods for a do'Ur. On attention to all. Write for wbat you want, i "THE ] OPPOSITE GRAND CE COLUMBI Itrawberry Plants And id fact *11 kinds of plants can be SET OUT by rising the LcSHEKRY AUTOMATIC. * TRANSPLANTER. &. good.drlvar and two children a*e ill 3 force necoasary to set from three to e acres of plants in ida^, and ' tl TT UT)V or < ATP TO I' T J'JIX L < I J.K7 WATEREO the time It te set out, and some dry 11 is drawn around the plants so that 3 ground will not bake. No waiting f.jr 'n Set out your plants wh3n they aw ndy iet a machine and plant (or year l-*hbors. You can earn enough in one won to pay (or the machine. Baay terms. nd for circulars, prices and tgstlmoaiila. JUTHKRN FARM IMPLBMBNT UO., 249 Meeting St., Charleston, 8. 0. Mention this paper. la these Amjra of X TALL TALK Actual Ac&lerementii often aeem to be at a die-1 ' count, bat after all Actual Aonxvzifxm ara i toe only things toat oouat. i. It la easy to taliin GeneralTerm* about the i i merita of PiANOi, but?to more ipedflo? TIB HiTHUSM Til |rt?t Siilliri pnirlt*. Istabliabed 90 year*. NfiOO now In uae. i lojd by na for 85 yean. Note tbeaa TaliaUa i fatwU4 Improvement*? Patent Repeating ietlon. Patent Sounding Boar& Patent Toning Pin Bailing. I Patent Improred Agraffes. < Patent Soft Stop. ' One of the only two Planoa made compete 1 (erery pert) in ita own factory. One of fee beat made In toe 17.3. Bold lower than any1 other Higb Grade Piano. Ofieproot only from maker to parcbaaer. WKITK US* LUDDEN &. BATES, AVAVIlAff. OA. ooooooooooooooooooooooooi )elightfal Results. ' r&ga ? (^ STTEl. iTBOM JUDGE BALD# WIN, OP MADISON, GA. f. W. Pitts, Thomson, Ga. Dear Str:?After having sought la ' Tain p varlnna rama^laa fnr'Hw Ilia nf fAAthlnff irlfjd your Carmlnatli e with most satisstory and delightful results. It is pleast to take assuages pain and produces rest thout stupor. No parent should be with* t it during the teething period who has ce tried It, for it is Indeed a magto mediae for babies. Very respectfully, ' , JUDGE H. W. BALDWIN. For sale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. hmANTEDW \A/ ANTED! VV ANTED ? What do we want? We want every hoi, Bestaurant, College and private house the South to send us their worn Silver* ire to replate In triple silver. Old Dons, forks. &c., can be made equal to w. We plate anything In gold, silver, sbel or copper. We plate pistols, itches, chains, rings badges and swords, abbards and other military accoutre jnta cleaned and plated equal to new. iggy Balls and Trimmings, Harness lmmlng?, fcc., plated In nickel or silver. 1 kinds tarnished brass such as fenders, ovel and tongs, lamps, chandeliers, Ac., S dished equal to new. Busted stove lis, trimmings, &c., re-nickeled. Surgical itruments of all kinds polished and ited. WE WANT all bicycle owners to seaa their old wheel to repair. We can reish in nickel and baked enamel equal to w. We have latest Improved KlecL-oatlng Plant, with comolete pollshln*, fflnt? and engine lathes and guarantee >rk to be first class. Correspondence solicited. Address, CAROLINA ELECT BO PLATING WORKS, . M. Garvin, Mamger, Blaekvi lie, S.C OSBORNXPS An V lohool pf ahorth^nd is? tsc1 J^1 ffSrjr.*' 1 XTM. L! STEA.D? TOUR NBBVBS! [T NOW ! HUB'l JMJMBtA, SO. 01, ppultd t'u Grin I Cj ltfiil Hotel, y wiit *Ve are Q^aaquactara iw ^ VlLWSi, | JOS AND NOTIONS, WAKB3. " u at fa j ory * prices. We hara jo?t business career, for which we wish he State for tbeir mist liberal P*t na. Oar rule Invariably 19 to give IL. i . i? ...?it* ivm lj onrl iviiltA C III )*VJ 13 lliUJ3b Ell t (lO.l't forget tilt) p 1.436. HUB," >|| :ntral hotel A., S. C. | ' - i-M