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Pq 4|' S h 4 ____ 'VUL. XXI 1'ICKENS, S. C., TH URSDAY, SEPTEM BER 24, 1891.NO THE POWE1R OF KINDNESS. LESSIONS FROM PAUL'S RECEPTION ON THE ISLAND OF MELITA. 'The IDarbarous Peoloe (it the biltand Were nas Yet Uncorreupted, amid So the 'ronpt longs tof Natue Iilt d Thean-Kintincs % ioval Flower of God's Gooduess. looKi,YN, Stpt. 13.-Brooklyn 'TIabernacle toiiay contamed many stran gers on their way home friom the water mg places and foreign lauids. Many of the members absent from the city dur ing the summer were li their places. The church building and the organ, which have been almost continually under brush and hammer sice the dedication last spring, art- now about completed. The sermons today were full of congra tulation and were atte-ded by the usual throngs. Dr Talniage's morning ser mon was on "Kinduess," from the text, Acts xxviii, 2: "The harlarous people showed us no little kindness."' My text puts us on the Island of Malta, another name for Melita. This Island, which has always been an imi portant conmercial center, belo,iging at dlierent times to Ph(enicia, to (reece, to Rome, to Artbia, to Spain. to France, now belongs to EniOland. The area of the islal( is about one hundred square miles. It is in the lMediternean sea, and of such clarity of atmosphere that Mount Etna, one hundred and thirty miles away, can be di.itme(tly seen. The island is soriously memorable, because the Knights of Malta f,or a long while ruled there, but mot faitnous because of the apostolic bhipwreck. r The bestortied vessel on which Paul sailed had "laid to" oil the starboard lack, and the wvind was blowing east northeast. and the vessel drifting prob ab lille and a half an hour ere she struck at what is niow called St. Paul's bay. Practicait sailors have taken up the Bible acc-unt and decided beyond controversy the. pIce of tile shipwreck. ]lut the island which has so rough a coast is for tbc most part a garden. Richest fruit and a profusion of honey characterized it ia Paul's time as well as now. The finet oranges, figs and o-ives grow there. When Paul and his comrades craw leI up on the beach, sat urated with salt water and hungry from loug abstinence fro'n food and chilled to the bone, the islanders though called bar barians becaufe they could not speak Greek, opened their doors to the ship 'wrecked unfortunates. Everything had gone to the bottom of the deep, and the hare'ooted, barehead ed apostle and shi-'s crew were in con dition to appre,iate ho,;pitallty. About twenty-live su-hi miien a few seasons ago .1 tound in the hre station near Easthiamp ton, Long Islaud. They had got ashore in the night frm Jie sea, and not a hat nor shoe had they left. They found out, as Paul and his fellow voyagers found out., tha: thw sea is the roughest of all robbers. My Lext finds the ship's crew ashore on Malta, and around a hot Jire drying themselves, and with the best provialfn the islanders can oler them. And they go ilto governmen t quarters f>r three days to recuperate, Publius, the ruler, invit.iig them, although lie had severe slcknes in time house at that tiie-his father down with dysentery and typhoid fever. Yea, for three months they staid on the is:and watch ing for it ship and putting the hospitali ties of the islanders to a severe test. 33ut they endured the test satisfactorily, and it is recorded' for all the ages of time and eterimity to read and hear in regard to the inhabitamnts of Malta. "The bar barous peCopIc showedl us no little kind niess.* IBLE EXAMPLES OF I1NDNEs8. Kindness! Wha t a great word that is. It would take a reed as long ais that which thme apocal'ptic angel used to measure heaven to tell the length, the br'eadth, tihe hieigl,t of that mumifIcent word1. It is a favorite Bible word, and( it is early lanchled m thme book of Gen ? esis, caught up m the book of Joshua, cemibraced in thet book of Samuel, crowned in the book of Psalms, and enthironed in maiiy pilaces in the New Testament. Kinidness! A word no more gentle than mighty. I expect it will wrestle ale down bEfore I get throughl with it. It is strong enough to throw an archangel. ihut it wIll be well for us to stand around it, and1( warm ourselves by its glow as Pl'aul andl his fellow voyagers stoodl aroung the lire oni the Island (of Malta, w here the M.iltese made themselves im mortal in my text by the way they treat ed these victims of' the sea. "The bar barous people shiowed 1us no0 little kind K'iiindess! All definitions of' that multltipotent wyord bureak dlown half way. Y ou say it, is clemency, benignity, gen e rosity; it is niade up of' good wishies, It is an expression of beneficence, it is a contribution t-o the happiness of' others. Some one else says: "Why, I cani give 3 ou a definitioni of' kindness: 1t is sun-i shine of the soul, it is affection perennial, it, is a crowning gramce, it is the coim bimation oftall graces, it is compjassion, it Is thc perfection of' gentle manliness anmd wofmanlinss'" Are vou all throuah? lYou h ave made a deaid'iallure in your dlefinition. It, cannot be (detined. But we all know what it is, for we all telt its power. Some of you may have felt it as l 'aul felt it, oa some coast of' rock as the ship went to picces, but more of us have again anid again In some awful stress of' lire hiad either Irom earth or hieaven hands st'trechedn out, which "'showed us no little kindness." There is kindness ofi disposition, kind .ness of' word, kindness of act, mind there is Jesus ChrIst, the imnpersonation of all <f' them. Kindness! You cannot aflect it, you cannot play it as a part, you can not enact It. you cannot dramatize it. .Hy the gi'ace of God you must have It insidoe you, an everlasting summer. or rather a combiniation of'June and Octo her, the geniality of' thme one andI tihe tonic of the ot,ber. It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or revenge or malevo lence. At its first, appearanco in tile soul al lithese A malekites and GJergishmites and Hfittites. and Jebusites must quit, -andi quit forever. Kindness wishies overyb~ody well, every man well, every woman well, every child well. every bir welt every horse well, every dog well, every cat well. Give this spirit full swing, and you would have no more need of socie ties for prevention of cruelty to animals, no more need of protective sewing wo man's association, andi it would dull every sword until it would not cut skin deep, and unwheel every battery till it could not roll, and make gunpowder of no more use in the world except for rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebra tion. Kindness is a spirit divinely implanted, and im answer to prayer, and then to be se9dulously cultivated until It tills all the nature with a perfume richer and more pungent than migninette, and, as li vou put a tuft of that aromatic beauty behind the clock oa the mantel or in some cor ner where nobody can see it, you find peo DWe walki-g about your room looking this way and that, and you ask them, "What are you looking for?" And they answer, "Where is that Blower?" So if one has in his soul this infinite sweet ness of disposition its perfume will whelm everything. THE EV- 1,S OF REVENGEFUL FEELING. But if you are waiting and hoping for some one to be bankrupted or exposed or discomfited, or in any way over thrown, 4hen kindness has not taken possession of your nature. You .%re wrecked on a Malta where there are no oranges. You are entertaining a guest so unlike kindness thatkinkness will not come and dwell under the same roof. The most exhausting and unhealthy and ruinous feeling on earth is a revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as I know by experience, for I have tried it five or ten minutes at a time. When some meen thing has been done me or said about me I have felt "I will pay him in his own coin. I will show him up. The ingrated! The traitor! The liar! The villain!' But five or ten minutes o! the feeling has been so unnerving and exhausting that I have abandoned it, and I cannot understand how people can go about torturing themselves five or ten or twen ty years, trying to get even with some body. The only way you will ever triumph over your enemies is by forgiv ing them and wishing them all good and no evil. As malevolence is the most uneasy and profitless and dangerous feel ing, kindness is the most acalthful and delightful. And this is not an abstrac. tion. As I have tried a little of the re taliation, so I have tried a little of the forgiving. I do not want to leave this world un til I have taken vengeance upon every man that ever did me a wrong by doing him a kindness. In most of such cases I have already succeeded, but there are a few malignants whom I am yet pur suing, and I shall not be content until I have in some wise helped them or bene fited them or blessed them. Let us all pray for this spirit of kindness. It will settle a thousand questions. It will change the phase of everything. It will mellow through and through our entire nature. It will transform a lifetime. It is not a feeling gotten up fcr occasions, but perennial. That is the reason I like petunias bet ter than morning glories. They look very much alike, and if I should put In your hand a petunia and a morning glory you could hardly tell which is the petuniN and which the morning glory; but the morn!ng glory blooms only a few hours and then shuts up for the day, while the petunia is in as widespread a glow at twelve o'clock at noon and six o'clock in the evening as at sunrise. And this grace of kindness is not spas modic, is not intermittent, is not for a little while, but it irradiates the whole nature, all through and clear on till the sunset of our earthly existence. Kindness! I am resolved to get it. Are you resolvedl to get it? It does not come by haphazard, but through culture undler the divine help. Thistles grow without culture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without culture. Mullen stalki; grow without culture. But that great red rose in the conservatory, its leaves packed on leaves,- deep dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for it,s beaut,y andl it were still reeking with the carnage of the battle, that rose need c(d to lie cultured, and through long years its floral ascentors were culturedl. 0 God, impl)ant~ kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to wvatch it, to enrich It, to develop it,! The king of Prussia had presenuted to him by the empress of Russia the root of a rare flower, and it was put in the royal gardens on an island, aiid the head gardJener, IIerr Finteimann, was told to watch it. And one day it p)ut forth its glory. Tfree days of every week the people1 were admitted to these gardens, and a young man, probably not realiz ng what a wrong thing lie was doing, p)lucked this flower and put it In his but. tonhole, and the gardener arrested him as lie was crossing at the ferry, and asked the king to throw open no more his gardlens to the pubhic. The king re plied: "Shalh I deny the thousands of goodl people of iny country the privilege of seeing this garden because one visitor has done wrong? No, let them come and see the beautiful grounds." And when the gardener wished to give the kingz the name of the offenider who had taken the royal flower, he said, "No, my memory is very tenacious and I (10 not want to have in my mind the name of the offender, leat It should hin der me granting him a favor some other time." Now, I want you 1o know that kindness Is a royal flower, and blessed be God, the King of mercy aiid grace, that by a divine gift andI not by purloin mgk, we may pluck this royal flower and not Wear it on the outside of our nature, but wear It In our soul and wear it for ever, its radiaiice and aroma not more wonderful for time than wonderful for eternity. "KIND WORDS CAN NEvER DIE." Still further, I must speak of kindness of word. Whei you meet any one do you say a pleasant thing or an unpleas ant? Do3Sou tell him of agreeable things you have heard about him, or the disa greeable? Wben .be leaves you does he feel better or (hoes he feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the produc tion of happiness or misery! One would think from the way the tongue Is caged in we might take the bint ta It has a dangerous power. First, It is chained to the back of the mouth b st g nn. cles. Then It is surrounded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars, and then by the teeth of the upper jaw, more ivory bars. Then outside of all are the two lips with the power of com prQplon and arrest, and yet notwith stanilIng these four imprisonments or limitations, how many take no hint in regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are iaceration, sacrification and damnation. There are thoae If they know a good thing about you and a bad thing, will mention the bad thing and act as though they had never heard the good thing. Now there are two sideb to almost every one's character, and we have the choice of overhaulinp the virtue or the vice. We can greet Paul and the ship'a crew as they come up the beach of Malta with the words: "What a sorry 1ooking set you are! How little of navigation you must know to run on these rocks! Didn'. you know better than to put out on the Mediterranean this wintry month? It was not much of a ship anyhow, or it would not have gone to pieces so soon as that. Well, wh it do you want? We have hard enough work to make a living for ourselves, without having thrust on us two hundred and seventy-six raga muffins." Not so said the Maltese. I think they said: "Come in! Sit (own by the lire and warm yourselves! Glad that you all got off with your lives. Make yotir selves at home. You are welcome to all we have until some ship comes in sight and you resume your voyage. Here, let me put a bandage on your forehead, for that is an ugly gash you got from the floatIng timbers, and here is a man with a broken arm. We will have a doctor come to attend to this fracture." And though for three months the kindness went on, we have but little more than this brief record, "The barbarous people showed us no little kindness." Oh! say the cordial thing! Say the useful thing! Say the hospitable thing! Say the helpful thing! Say the Christ like thing! Say the kind thing! I ad mit that this is easier for 3oie tempera ments than for others. Some are born pessimists, and some are born optimists, and that demonstrates itself all through everything. It Is a cloudy moining. You meet a pessimist and you say, "What weather today?" le answers, "it's going to storm." and umbrella under arm and a waterproof overcoat show that he is honest in that utter ance. On the same block, a minute af ter, you meet an optimist, and you say, "What weather today?" "Good weath er; this is only a fog and will soon scat. ter." The absence of umbrella and ab sence of waterproof overcoat show it is an honest utterance. On your way at noon to luncheon you meet an optimistic merchant and you say, "What, do you think of tne com mercial prospects?" and lie says: "Glorious. Great crops must bring great business. We are going to have such an autumn and winter of prosperity as we have never seen." On your way back to your store you meet a pessimis tic merchant. "What do you think of the commercial prospects?" you ask. And lie answers: "Well, I don't know. So much grain will surfeit the country. Farmers have more bushels but less prices, and the grain gamblers will ;ct their list in. There is the McKinley hill, and the hay crop is short in some places, and in the southern parl. of Wisconsin they had a hailstorm, and our business is as dull as It ever was." You will find the same difference in judgment of character. A man of good repu-1tation is assailed and charged with some evil deed. At the first story the pessimist will believe in guilt. "The papers said so, and that's enouzh. Down with him!" 0iPTIMIST AND) PESSIMIST. The opt,imist will say: "I don't be lieve a word of it. I don't think that a man that has been es useful and seem ingly honest for twenty years could have got off the track like that. There are two sides5 to this story, and I will wait to hear the other side before I condemn him." My hearer, if you are by nature a pessimist, make a si.ecial ell'ort by the grace of God to extirpate the (dolorous and the hypercritical from your disposi tion. Believe nothing against anybody unt,il the wrong is established by at least two wit,nesses of integrity. And if guilt be proved, find out, the extenuating cir cumstances if there are any. And then commit to memory so t,hal, you can (quote for yourself and qjuote for others that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians about charity that suffers long and is kind, andt hopeth all things an(i cndureth all things. By pen, by voice, in public and In private, say all igood about p)eople you can think of, and if there be nothing trood, then tighten the chain of muscle oii the back end of' your tongue, and keel) the ivory bars of teeth on the lower jaw and the ivory bars of teeth on LIhec upper iaw locked and the gate o. your lips tightly closed and your t.oiusue shut un. What a plIace Brooklyn would be to live in, and( all t,he other cit,ies and neighborhoodls t,o live in, if charity (lom inatedl! What if all the young and old gossipers were dead! The Lord hasten their funeraf a! What if little-t,at,tle and whispering were out of fashion! What if in ciphering out the value of other p)eople's .:haracter, in our moral arit,h metic, we struck to addition instead of' subistaction! Kindness! Let us morn ing, noon and night pray for it until we get it. When you can speak ai good word for some one speak it. If you can conscientiously give letter or commen (dation, give it. Watch for opportunities for doing good fifty years atter you are dead. All my life has been affected by the letter of introduction that the Rev. Dr. Van Vranken, of New Brunswick The ological seminary, wrote for me, a boy undler him, when I was seeking a set tlement In which to preach the Gospel. 'Tho letter gave me my first pulpit. Dr. Van Vranken has been dead more than thirty yeanu, yet I feel the touch of that magnificent old proiessor. Srang,e sen sation was it when I received a kina message from Rev. Thomas Guard, of Baltimore, the great Methodist orator, six weeks after his deat,h. By way of thsesternal world? Oh, no, by way of this world. I did not meet the friend to whom he gave the message until nearly two months after Thomas Guard hitd as cended. So you van start a word about some one that will be oil its travels and vigorous long after the funeral psalm has been sung at your obsejuies. Kind ness! Why, if fif.y men all aglow %% idh it should walk through the !ost world, meihinks they would almost abolish perdition. TOUCH INO ANECI)oTE OF A RRAH1AM LI NCoLN. Furthermore, there is kinduess of ac tion. That is what .Joseph bhowed to his outrageous brothers. That Is what David showed to Mephibosheti for his father Jonathan's sake. That is what Cnesiphorus showed to Paul in the Ro. mian penitentiary. That is what Wil liam Cowper recognied %w lien lie said lie would not trust a man who would with ia foot needlessly crush a worm. That 1s what our assassinated President Lincoln demonstrated when his private secretary found him in (he Capitol urounds trying to get a bird back to thie nest from which it had fallen, and which quality the illustrious mai exhibited years before, when haviu. with some lawyers in the carriage on the way to court passed on the road a swine fast in the mire, after awhile cried to his horses, "4llo!" and said to the gentlemen, -I must go back and help that hog out of' the mire." And lie did go back and put oil solid ground that most unintei estiug quadruped. That was the spirit that was manifest ed by my departed friend, Honorable Alexander II. Stehien;, of Georgia (and lovelier man never exchanged earth for heaven), when at Vashington. A sen ator's wife who told my wife of the cir cumstances, said to hIn, "Mr. .Stephens, come and see my dead canary bird.'" And he answered, "No, I could not look at the poor thing without crying." That is the spirit Chat Grant showed when at the surrender at Apponiattox lie said to Gen3ral Lee, "As many of your soldiers are farmers and will need the horses and imulet to raise the crops to keep their fatnilies from sullfring next winter, let each Conlederate who can claim a horse or a unile take it alolig with him." That is the spirit which, last night, ten thousand mothers fshowed to their sick children coming to give the drink at the twentieth call as cheerhilly and as tenderly as at the first call. Suppose all this assemblage, and all to whom these words shall come ly printer's type, should resolve to make kindness an overarching, undergirdiiig and all pervading principle of their life, and then carry out the resolution-why. in six months the whole earth would feel it. People would sa): "What is the matter? It reems to me that the world is gettintg to be a het ter place to live in. Why, hVe. alter all is worth living. Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclosure agaiLat that uan. and he cause lie has had so much sickness in his family he is going to have the house for one year rent fIee. There is an old lawyer in that young lawver's olli,e and do you know what lie has gone in there for? Why, lie is helping fix upi a case which is too big for the youn.' 1111111 to handle, and the wite haired attorney is hunting up previous decisions an(d making out a brief for the boy. Down at the bank I heard 3esterday a note was due, and the young merchant could not meet it, alind an old merchant went in and got for him ithree ionthis' extein sion, which for the vomig merchant is the difference between bankruptcy and success in business. And Im our street is an artist who had a line pic',ure of tlie 'Rapids of Niagara,' and lie could not self it, andl his fiuily were suiiferingr, and they themselves were in the rapids; and a la~dy heard of it and said, '1 (10 not need the p)icture, but for the entco'urage ment of art, and helping you out ol .your distress I will take it,' and on the draw ing room wvall are t,he 'Rapiids ol' Niatg ara.' THiE A(IE 0OF ilEid'F-TLNE-SS. "Do you know that a stranige thing has taken place ini the pulpit, and all t.he 01(d ministers are htelp)ing the young~ ministers, and all the old doct.ors are'i helping the young do-.:tors, andh the fee. mers are assist,ing each iothier in gather lng the harvesf and for that, frmner whIo is sick the neighbors have made a 'bee,' as they call it, and they have all tuirned in to help) him get his crops hitto the garner? And1 they tell mue that, the older and more skillful repotrters who have permanent, posit,oins (in papijers are hlpinig the y'oung fellows wino aire just, beginning to try and don't kitow exactly how to (10 it. And after a few erasuries and interpolationts on the reporter's pad t,bey Ba.): 'Now here is ai readable ac count, of that tragedy, niand it, mn a nd I am sure the managIng editor will take it.' "'And I heard this Imoriting of a poor old man whose three children were in hot debat,e as to who shtouhd take care of him in his declining dajs. Thle ol est son declared it was his right, because lie was the oldest, aiid the 3 oungest sont said It, was his right becauise lhe was thte youngest, and Mary s&id it wvas her right b>ecause she better uind ers tood fat.hI er*'s vertigo and( rheumatism anid poor spl'ts andl( knew bettor how to nurse hint, andit the only way the dillicnut could be set tledl was by the old mn's piIrontise that lie would divide the s ear into lth-e. parts, and sptend a third o'.hiis timte wit.h each one of them. "Andi neighboring stores in the same line of goodls on the .same block are act ing kindly t,o each other, anid when onie is a litt1le short of a certaini kmd( oh ;goods his neighbor says, 'I will bueh> you uni til you can rep)lentihh your shelves,' It. seems to me that those words of Isaiah~ are being fulfilled whi-i lie sa3s, The carpenter encouraged the g.obfsmnth and lhe that smoot,hs wit,h the ha ummier, hint that smote the anvil, sitying it, is read(y for the soldering.' What is the matter? It seems to me our old world is p)ickinig up. Why, the millettnniu must he coming In. Kindness hias got,t,en the victory." My hearers, y'ou kinitv and I know We are far from that st,ate of tIhings. B~ut why not mnaugurat.e a ntew dispensa t.t06o0 geniality. I f we cannot. yet, have a millennium on a hulge scale, let us have It on a small scale, ai'uuder our own vestment,s. Kindness! If tia world Ia ever brought to God that, is thie thiing that will do it. You cannot fret the world up although you may fret the world down. You cannot scold it it,to excellence or reformation or godliness. FABLE OF TIEK WVINDS. The east wind and the west wind wert one day talkiug with each other, and the east wind sai ti o the west, Wiid: "DOn% You Wish you 1111d my pOWer? Why. when I sirt, they hail me by storn slizils all atlong the coast. I can twis: Off a ship's mast, as easily as a cow's hoot cracks an alder. With one sweel, of my wiling I have strewn the coast irom Newfoumdland tolKey West with parted ship timber. I can lift, and hiAvo lifted the Atlantiz ocean. I am the terror ol all invalidism, and to li,-!l.t te back I'. estS IIust he Cut (low for fires, and the iines 0 conlltIeIts are cal1d (In to Ueed tle furnaces. U nder my brent,h the till tions crouch intosepulchres. Don't yon wish you had lly power?'' stid the east wind. The west, wind made no answer. bu started on its mission coming soiewiert. out of the rosy bowers of tle sky, tni all the ri era and lakes andi seas smiled at its colilg". The gi-dens bloomed, and the orchards ripned, and the wheat fields turnied their silver into gold, tind health clapped its lantids, and.-joy sliouted from the hill tops, and the nttioils lilte<. their foreheads into the light, ind th, earth had a doxology fur the sky, ini. tile sky an anthem for the earth, ami the warth anml the sparkle, anlI the toli aire, and tilhe flowers, land the Fruilts.. au the beauty, and the Ille, wl-r-e the olil answer the west wind made to the in slence ol the eatist wid's interro-atioin. Kindtess to all. Surely it, uight not t, be a ditficult grace to (1ultire when wv see toweriig above the centuries such an example that one -limpse out-it t. melt, il( transform all tinttois. Kind ness brought our ILord from heaven. Kindness to miscreants, kindne-s to pur sccutors, kindness to the crippled and the blind, and the lataleptic, atild th leprous, and the dropical, and the demoniacal characterized him al tihe way, and on the cros4, kindness to the bandits sull'ering on the side of' him, and kindness to the (xccutioners Whilt, yet they pitisled the spear, and hanuneicrd the spikes, atml howled the blasphenies Al the stories of the John lloward, and 1th0 Florence Nizhtiingsles and tI1 Grave Darlings atl the Ida L.ewiser pale belore thistransoundanit example w him whose biirth aid life and death ar( tie gieatest storV that the worl evet heard, and the theme of' the might.iest hosauna that, heaven ever lifted. Yet the very kindness tLh .t allo ved boti hands to be nailed to the horizontl tim her ot the cross with that -cruel thumpi' t uip! now stretches down from ti ikles those .same iatui tilled witL halit, lor all our wounds, forgiveness Imar al our (imes. r(-t-cue for all outr serlmis. A-id while we take this matciles klidaess from (rod. may it be found thal we have uttered our last hitter word. written Our 1t UtisL ci ttiWg iararaph0, dOnt our last retaliatory actiotn, It, our las revengeful heart throb. At(d it wout, not be a bad epitaph I>r any of is if' h* the -race of God fromn this ,ime forthi wl lived sich beneicent lives that the tomb mtoine's chisel could appropriately cu-, upoit the plain slab that marks our giravr a suggestion from the text: "lIe shI we us n little kindness."' But nlot until tht. last child o God his got ashore from the earthly storn. that drove him on the rocks like Med iterranean Euroelydons, not uit,il all th. t,hronem of heaven are moutnted, and all t.he voqlluer8rs crownled, and till hLia harpi and trum pets attd orgais of heavei are Ithauimmed or blown or souided, at! the tansomedl otl'all climes uami ages airs in full chtotrus unider the Iubuilatnt s win of atngelie batont, and wve shtal fo r thouiii ane;s of' 3ears have seen the river h-oin under the thronte rollinig into the "'seni o gh.sz min.led with lire,'' and this worl.d weC now inhabit shall be so far in Lthe Punt, that, only a stretch of celestial me tmoiry can recall that it, ever ex isLe I at all, not, unthil then will we undi(ei stan. l whaut Nehiemiahl calls "the great, kin. nleas. and D avid callIs "thle mtarvel. uis kiidutees,"' andl Isaiah calls "th e e vet lasiitg kindnltess'' o1 (jod(! I)riven, te I)espernthie.. IAi a iN, Seplt. 9.-From Keiief comte. the account of a hiorriblhe t raged y. A Jew nlamed KapLan. driven t Ld espera tion by amn ordecr to leave ltissiat. lie huav mne been depiri ved of a comfotabiIle butsi. ness by formier decrees, first shoit hits wife andio thien oine by (one his live children. lie afterwards killed himsel f. Kapitana left, a note st at.ini th Ito 1v1e for the crime, which was hits desire to save lisi lamnily from othiwise inevitable ntiserv. Ftomi (ot,ber' paritts of' Ruissiat 'oumes net'w' oh' tragedies attenudan I- on th e filr it t t,he hi irvest andto the consStiiuentt suffrer. intg aind struitgle for ex isteutce. Whihb nto caSe's of cantibai 5lism hae been re potied, there have been sevetral :ases of' mtysteious dlisappetOaranice that are ait tritmted~ to supposed canibal)11isni. andl il Bessaraibia the liche tre carefutll-, watchding for ev idenice iaga inist pIersonI utnderi suispici. A l any seti. i's an-4 Stat,ed to have occutrred amnitg thle pI: aintry, who, owintg to a strn. rehlim't ei-litg, have been, asn a rul', slow to comilmit, this act. '1There Is notIthig te assuring ini Iitssiani adOvices, andi the pirospect for thle wVint'r is(1( to eribh 10*t c:mntempihlate. 8'htos,mn.r Cai'uizo.i aot s5. tLado), who arrivel' here to-day on th schtooner' Seagull. replorts that his ves sel, the scooneir P'olar Star, fromi o. b ze to P'ensacola, was capsizedl ,1 uty 2 1. in lomnitudIe 8 1.50, latitudtoe 19.7, at, I I o'clo ck a . t night,, ini a squtallI. TIhte cat tamu and cr-ew were thrown into the~ watter, but mnaigedl to cut (lie boats: adrit, andl made the best, ot t,hieir way Lto the Alexican cojast,, hieing tour (lays' en route. Jteac-hintg P'oin t TIaillow, they f'ed on green co coanut,a for three days, these hemng the only food or dirink thlev haud tromt the time of t,he wreck. They were thien rescued by tishiermen an,i takeni t,o Ituaitan, whence Capt, Flatadi caime t,o this p)ort. 'The Importance of purifying ithe without pure blood you cannot tenjov gocod heailh. P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Pok e lRoot and P'ottassuta) is a irai ulouis blood puiriflr, performing umore tures in six meaths than aill the sarsu parmllas anud so-caulled liood puiritiers nut. toneth. SENJ IN ALL THE ARMY RECORDS. Un1c4 9:'A var Department Must Ifmye Then at Once. col.ummA, .%, Sept, I I.-It liceills that, notwitlistaldifig all belief to the contrary, the gallant soldiers who laid down tWeir lives for the lost cause, and who fought bravely for it are to get their just diles. ltecently thi'eState published a nimber of requests from tho war re cords' otlie of tue War Oopartment of the govornuint, and nuch information wts conseqluently obtained. Y esterday the assistant adj utant gein eral received a circttlar from the "War Departinent ptiblication oflice, war recor.Is 1861-65." It recoutivi the pro visions of the act of J tine 23, 187.1, pro viding for the publication and collec tion of the Conferiderate records. The signer alnnioit1ces his appointment in 1878, and his success so far. ili circular concludes tihus: From Ihese papers, alid a large nuam ber of others previottsly in the posses siol of Lhe departinent, forty volumis have, up to this date (Novernder, 188t1) ueen pImblishied by hut,hority of Congr.s. and others will soon be issied, and the coitIpilation alid piblication will con tinue until all are published. It is, therefore, important that the War Ihe part ment, should be placed in pos, ession of all Confederate military papers, books and recris which are ext,it and which may D> valuable in illustrating the nalitre ol the great struggle from which the country las emnerged so as to put them inl print, inl order to preserve them precisely as they are for uiistorical use. It will, of couirz, be iUipossibile to miake this Imtblicationl complete if aiy of uI . recor is aro witiell from the govern ment; besides, such action would be unjust, to the actors in this great strug gle by depriving thei of their proper place ii history. While t,he most important large col lections of Con federate papers have been ooained, it is known that many very valuable papers are still in the hanlds of persons who nave not yet been reached; and as these are Imuportain, to a i till aid complete history of tho Coll federate armies, it is hoped that none will be withield but, that all parties having custoty of sulich papers will smbint them for the examination of theI olicer chargett with thi public:tion of the Oflicual Records of the War of the Iebellion. To persons i.iving such records and not desiruig to part with their owner silp, bit who are willIrig to have their contents preserved and mire public, I an authorized to say t hat, if delivered to this ollice for ihe purpose above indi cated, they will be duIrly returned to the owners. 'ackIag s of papers too large Lo send conV einit,iti y by muail inay be seit by ex press at the expense of thm (iepart munt. A ll packages of lettels should be add resseul to nie as indicated at the lt-head of this circul ir. M.A icus.). Witumi-r, Agent, of 0ie War I)epartment, atc It. g. GeI. C. S. A. Ap proved: G].o. It. IkI-, Nlaj. and Judge Advocate U. S. A., in cnarge. The following letter, which is of in tererst, accompanies the circular: MY I)EAR Sin: I have seen by the paper that Col. Zr1i rinerninai 1)avis has sent to you a roster of I lie field ollicers of the Fifth South Carolina Cavalry. I worild like to have a copy of it,. I wai a i brigadivr general in the Conrfd erate arniy itid am collecting records lor publicaJon in the War liecords plliblicatloll. I refer t (en. Wade I laipAon and (;n. M. C lii Itler. both of whom know me. I 'lease give ie t,Ie add ress of' Col. Z. i)vi.. Very truly yoirs, MAiaCs .1. WRnir. Ti'hi adujurtant genreral yesterday re e'(ive aIII let ter fromt Mrs. Ciemnenti na L-. Legge, oif Charleston, retuirnling a buriel sket,eh of tire recordl of her hate( hursbandi LAit. Col. George WV. 11. lgge, of thre Frift,h Ilegi menit of Souith Caroli mt liiianitry Voluinteers. All tire records of Soth Carolhna's brave hieroe shioulid lie ini tis p'blicar tion. -l'hie -t,ate. lie 1i.imt for iuvo. C;IIA iJsT5ioN, S. C., Sept, 8..-loses l laumruairter, a well knowno nirrewspar r marn, killed hitinseli this tafteirnoon by taiking. ai d1se o( f nil(anide of potassiuu. The1 de Ied wa'is i''very 3 i dl'it(. Alte Ir diinI. at Is boardling house, lie trse Irot thi ie tab1 le iithn an excunse, wen t t,o hris roomr amn! atn hialf liir later wans found dlead in bed, undressedn, with hris clothing' maid On at chiri beside( t1(heied I aum ir.airtern, who wvas onl I ye2~~'ars old,1 camre here f romn (Charlotte , N orthr Ca'rodlina, his fiathrer r'esid ing. there now, andll hiad a po(sitlion on thre Chiarheston Worii as proo101) readler. lIe also ocea bO "rOll.y' ass5isted a 1Kinig street photo ~raphiler in his bursiness are I thus c'amne ii poslsession ofI the deadilly dri-r. It is sarid ihi it the i uia'lde wvas caursed by desC po(iilenricy, caused partly hy not-ce of' lh chan're fromi Ihis position arid pritici Ipally by disapplloinntmnrt in love. It is s..idI Ire wats enrgageid se3:ctly to a youngi3 liny ini (:hestto.n ')i t y, adi' thai,L the t,wo wveie ti be pr*livatrely V'arLriedl on rnex l"ri<h1ty niht. A lay ort two ago' he( re e''ived au it ,ter Iromr hi lit anrce si ltig that thre rnrarria,.c woi' riot take gjl1'g,3 Th'lis. if is -upplosi'd, 1(ed 1(1 thel sit.le, 11(3 left lii expilaintin behlirral im. A jury' compiIo%Oed of his friends reride:ed' a ver'dlet, ofi dlealb firom unkniown'r enuses, irtunville News. A (Jhey m .urero,r. AlsI tns, Seput. Ii .- lie rem arkable speactacele ol a mrith rer sit,ting on ai corinr' juryv hin rg ani ien-lst,3~ over tihi.e ldy of hris v Ii r wa',s wvitnessed in li rst Pickering yesterdaiy. Laevi 11'l1, a butrly negro, beait a womanll to (death, andil in the hiopei of hiding hris cr1 ime, iniforrrmed tire coronier tirhat he ha.1 i ound( i, woiinan diead. 1I11 ilwas on tIhe coro)n(ri"sjuiry, blut tire in vestigation had riot p)roceeded far before the real mur derir w as discovered, and IIilli was sont to jail without bail. Ithetamratism..-.Jamnes Paixtoa, of .da vanrnah, GIa., sa.ys he had Rhteumai'tism so had thai he courld not move from~ Sie lbed or dIress wIthout help, andl that lie tried iany rerinedies, but recelivedl no relief until hei betganf tire use of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas sium andi two b,ott,les restore-d him to he*alth lthetrmatism is curedt by P. 1F. P. I amns ad achres ta the back, shovldlers knees, ankles, hips, and wrIsts are all attacked andi conquered by P. F. P, l'his great medicine, by its blood cleansing properties, builds tip and strenarthens t.hu wha bole -ed THE rAKING OF TASCOif. HOW A SENSATION WAS CREATED IN BAMBERG. Onoo Tramp, hai. Anioth-or Tr;.i,p Arrentedl ot tho Clastraoi Ihat Ima I.s a Ctahcmgo MlirdteroEr fopr wiasr 1 .50,0001 Rewaard iu Oftercd. Ininu:i-:, S. C., Sept. 13-Charles W. Stewart, a rather idi,tic-lookling indi vidual, andI J. V. Ilardill, made their appearance on the streets of Bamnberg yesterday morning. They had not been in towli long before Stewart approach ed l'oliceman Cave and introduced him ueI as ai member of tie Washington, Iowa, detect,ive agency, sIowing his badge and other eredetntiatls. Ile said that for a considterabr, length of time he h!ad been shattowilrg and tramping with a man whorm ie had every reason Lo believe to bt3 Wi IS. Tascott, the inurderer of Amuos.J.ineil, if Chicago, Ill., and for wlhosie arresi. anid delivery a reward of 5W,On) is of fered. lardin was iimtediately arrest ed and still conined inl the station house at this place. Ti dii-scription 01 Wil lam . T;scott, aliai '. A. Gathright, atiai -cott, alias Clark. ala I)ixon, theu slipposed murkluier ot A. ,. Snell, who was killed in Chicago. Ill., on the nigh:. of F.ebruary 8, V is is tollows: "About 2un or 22 years of agu, 5 1 ect, 8 or U inles high, 1.~> poitlds inl weight, slim built, very erect, ftill romid lace, heavy evebrow,, very lair complexion, light brown hair, ti-11a on top of tlil he<id, prominent hii l or dar blue (n.3 s, small dark uittstache, iinay e ityut. 1L" is quite young looking. llii up per front teeth S. -w gold 11.1111. , a lite or surface of gold exten.!ing along (lie tdge of the two ripper Iroa ' teeti; (tIe tillnig Seems to be I rom tie iiterior stir ice, extending out to the ends ot thi tuel, showing the line os' silfl e aug tie edge as -i,ated, ant is il: v pmromli limnt, tuie ripper lip b, ing ur,iwn Lmuk slowinig t Ie teeth quite plainly, lower jaw receedmng. lIe geter-tlly ita. his liands ini his pokts, i,l has uie air of a loafer or a p .rspi withol, any p irtle ubar bitsiness or o:jedcr. in vit "V. Itv is ratier woodt I.wkiig, hii efniceks are red, aitd there is nould ig abtmt itis appear alice wlici wohlid croiato -IspicIo'I ef ol his beiig a crimiinma. Snot c Ii IIhe ligh'., hip. scai oi ight loiz, kli-e kliiee anid both elbows. Claims to be a niewspaper reporter, is anI expert pool player, anit will te(lniit p.aoI rooilis." lie above is alm3ost a ptrI,et desurip Lioa of the iiai miow itler arrv.s, I he markson his body being allinost exactly a- cleseribed. ()ne of his i ront Letlai nai been pitiled oit, but the othier sho ws the gold filling as describel. 1 lis ir is not, thilner oi the top ol his head than elsen\ here, but by soieit is argiud that, this amounts to noling, as ttWere are nany preparat ions for .ue hair thit will protirice an eliiely l W ad ftll growi,h. It tie nia arre et is not W illian l . Tascott it i tiust .e s;l id that le iJersareiInirkable;Icuniin rit y to 1nm. lie weara neat, black ,liit. 0ut both Iuis body and clothinlg shoW deCnIed signs of his long tranil ;. Ile e l-iiis to be a harn-Ider by proluessicn, alni says iuird dritiking caused hini to loose his job arId lie is in search of another. lie clainis to be 23 years oirl, bit looks to be art least 25. 5iys h% e is trried and that his wifi! is no vi in lensacola, Fla. Was born ic lI)allas, Texas, reared in Aiburu, Ali., and went to college ini Tuskegee. for four years, leaving there wien 1.1. Says he Ic It has 01.1 ho1e one year ago this ilroil fi, alid hais requested that I)r. C. I. Iloward, of TI'lrskegee, Ala., he written1 to to iterntify hr1i1. At times hel speaks as it le is lineduicaterl, and at other tinies his coiversaltion bears iarksi of education and relinement. lie seemus to ha foni Iof poet ry aind. friotes L oinfll )w arid ot,hier poets free ly. As aii evia letnce of his 'idiucationi it iniay he' *%d thact wvl rle (uottig p)oetry lie somnetimrens fails t,o rise tihe wor- is of thle arit,ior, blri'. fieyerr fails to coaiplete thn iiietre arnd irymte co)rrect.y. lie 'Mys lie hiuis recently v isited Char le?-toni ainnti Savannrah andi th at lie meit rp wi lli his <tetetive lriendt antd t,ramp only hist Thuirsdaiy at the Charleston aunt S:ivairniah it:iway j niaitionr. 11 e persistanithy denrits ever having beeui in Chicrago), whitli StrewaVrt, the tietective, says hias chief con versation xilrice lie mst, him a has I oen conceernring Chi cago, its st:reets an*d plaIces of ainusemrnti, anid Uis high style (It living whlile thuere. Sinrce his arr s- t lie lhis ad initte I bel ing in St, Lofiis t,o soine, while to othirs lie denies ever having bieen ther-ue. Pl'i1 c op iiin is very evenly dIivide:l Ihe!re. Somei ihin k thiere is ao doub1 tt that Tueuott has haen er1;catuired, wil te othiers tinnkl t,hr wrong~, i:in is ini the toils. Whlen iiirst arrestedt he b -emn e very lich e'xcited. buat riow hit seems comI - )osed~( andli talIk5 fr-tee|y, :niutI nor, often (c:>nltradrictoriFfly. tele3grnap)hid tor, and ht is ireply im''rel ask nd that Ilu a rin's phto gi'raph he sen on I ior tintient.iorn. Ti will proba - bhy", dnet to-maorrow, arid the prison - n-i will le lie d until the ait hiorit ies are haeard trom. Stewart, thle detective le'ft town this ate(rnoit, arir by somen it is tha irghlt that hei will riot r'eturun. 11ie cert ainily seems If) be in earnest and evidtent ly berl ieves II ar-din is Tasctott. - T his rriorninrg while waisbinig his I'aco in a honrse troughz hen rem i kedt to a parssn'r-by tha .t when-hle got hiIs $5ti )Jl Ire wouldt live in a pralace'~. TPhe c-hie0' of pi hlie of' A tnustam tel . grtaphed'( here thiis a1 frinoonm that Stew.. art hiant beeni on the cli gang in Au. guistat, ariul this rio (doubt l largety to do( with IIs depairtre. It is b etieved thi lie is a bogu.- tet.eetivye. ~Cha~rles ton World NIAOA~RAm F"Af.,s, Sept. 1(. ' sti'rnger comimitted suichle by juiana mnto thre ivers Il-nm ILuina I shaind this ateoiraooni. lI I aet nst udi b wn gen .lemen saymtu. "I Ilooks. as tuoi' f one (11 coul inever irnt ouit."' andI icr a l>w numinutes saidn, " I amr goinig tn try it.' T1,hey at, tempted to seize him, bt beore they coul reauch him, lie dliberately j;uimped int.o) the river, and1( waus soon1 Oai'idn ov'er the~ halls, Two hours lalcer an elegantly ndresseid young woman about, 20 years old, jumiped into the iiver at Prosp)ect, park. A Mr'. IrIln of' Philadelphia, aged 70, jumpedn in to rescue her, andi suce dlen In gruaspmrg her hanid; she resisted, ardd it was only by the etUorts otf a police man that .he was saved. The woman smiled ias the current caught lher, andt was soon carried over the Americ mt halls, It is rumored that tovo met in boat from Chippews, Were dIrawn into j the currenit and carriedi over the Can adlan f-il ahont 0 oo( ,o