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GOOD GAME WASTED. DEPLORABLE RESULTS OF INDO- I LENCE PORTRAYED. Soloiuon's Satire and Denunciation of the Sluggard-Some Are Born Lazy, Somte Achieve Lazinejt8 and Some HaVe Lazi ness Forced on Them. BROOKLYN, J,. I., April 24. Dr. Talmage preached a sermon on a practical topic this morning giving %hrewd common sense lesfonB of inesti inable value to his hearers, especially to the young people, who make up a large part of his congregation. His text was Proverbs xii, 27, "The slothtul man roasteth not that which he took in hunting." David and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Nicai and Soloion of the text showed thaL some time they had been out on a hunting expedition. Spears, lances, swords and nets were employed in this service. A deep pitfall would be digged. In the center of it there was some raised ground with a pole on which a lamb, would be fastened, and the wild beast not seeing the pitfill, but only seein the lamb would plunge for its prey ani daish down, itself cnpture(. Birds were cau1ght in gins or pierced with areows. The hunters in olden time had two nils sions-one to clear the ]and of ferocious beasts, and the other to obtaim meat for themselves and their families. The occupation and habit of hunters are a favorite Bible simile. David said he was hunted by his enemy like a par tridge uponl the mountain. My text is a huuting scele. A sportsman arrayed in a garb appro. priate to the wild chase lets slip the blood-thirsty hounds from their kennels, and mounting his fleet horse, with a halloo andAhe yell of a greyhound pack -the are ot and away, through brake and dell, over marsh and moor, across chasms where a misstep would hurl horse and rider to death, plunging into mire up to the haunches or into swift streams up to the bit, till the game is tracked by dripping foam and blood, and the antlers crack on the rocks, and I the hunter has just time to be in at, the death. Yet, after all the haste and peril of the chase, my text represents this sportsman as being too indolent to dress the game and prepire it for food. Ile lets it lie in the dooryard of his home and become at portion for vermin and heaks of' prey. Thus by one master stroke Soloion gives a picture of lazi ness, when lie says, "The slothful man roasteth not that, which lie took in hunt. mug."' The most of hunters have the t game they shot or entrapped cooked the t,nie evening or the next day, but not mo with this lagTit'rd of the text. To,) jazy to rip oll the hide. Too lazy to kimdle the fire and put the gridiron on the coals. Now, what are the causes of laziness and what are its evil results? I knew a man who was never up to time. It seemed impossible for him to meet an engagement. When lie was to be mar rie(d he Iniss(d the traini. llis watch seemed to take on the habits of its own er, and was always too slow. lie had a constitutional lethargy for which lie did not seem responsible. So indolence often arises from the natural tempera ment. I do not know but, there is a coinstitutionail tendency to this vice in every man. Ilowevet active you muay eeneirally be, have vou not on sonic wvarm sping day felt a tou1ch of'this feel ing on yon, although you may have shi.ikeni it, ofl' as y'ou would a 'rep,tile' hut, Some are so powerfully tempted to this by thieir' bodily constitution that all the woirk of their life hiis been accom jdishcd with this lethargy hanging on their back or' treadl'ng on their heels. You somnetimes behold it in childhood. The child moping and longing within door01s while his brothers andl sisters are at play, or it lie join thenm he is behindl im every race and beaten in every game. Ibhs nerves, his muscles, his hones are smittein with this palsy, lie vegetates rather thiin lives, crcelps rat,ber' than walks, yawnus rallber than breathes. Tbcli animal in his nature is stronger than the intellectual. IIc. is generally a great eater and active only when lie eannot, digest what, lhe has eaten. It re qluires as iretuch effort for him to walk as tor' othiers to runl. Languor and dro ssi- I niess are his natural inheritance, iIe is built, for a slow sailing vessel, a heavy< hulk anti an insuflicient, cutwater. Place an active man in such a bodily structure iand the latter would he shaken to pieces in One (lay. Every law oIf phiysiohogy 1 dlemandls that lie he suipinie. Such a< 01ne is not resplonsible for tis powerful tendencfcy of his niatuire. llis great (dutyI is resistance. Furthermore, mdl(oleniec is often the result of' easy circumstaincs. Rough explerienec mn carheir life seerns to be 1 necessai y in order to make a man ac tive iand enterprising. Mountaineers anre nearly adlways swarthy, and those who have toiled among mountains of tioubile get the most nerve and muscle and brain. Those who have hecomo the dehiverers of nations, once had not where to lily their heads. Locusts and1( wild I hioney haive been the fare oftmany a John n the Bupt,ist, while t,hose who have been e fondled of fortune andl petted andh priaised li have often grown up let,bargzie. i Thcy have none of that heroism which i comes fro,m fighting one's own battles. fi 1'hie warm suimmer sun of pr'osperity hats ti wVeakened andi relaxed them. Born n~ iamong the luxuries of life exertioii hats al been unnecessary, and thieref'oie they it t'pendl their time in taking it, easy. They p anay enter mlto b)usiness, hut thcy are o "u.tted for its appilicationi, its hafrdshliips, y for its replulses, and after having lost, d the most of' that which they have invest- d etd, go back to thorou.h inaction. This ti cost.ly 3acht may (ho well enouigh oni the smooth, glassy bay, but cannot live anun hiotur aid( a chioppled sea. (1 Another cause or intdolencec Is severe A ditcouragemlent. There are those around n us who started life with the most san- c guine expectation. T1heir enterp)rise n excited the remark of all compeers. d But somec sudden and overwtielming s misfortune met them, and hienceforth c they have been inactive, Trouble, in- c stead of making them more (deter "ined, g has overthrown them. They have lost c all self reliance. They imagine that all men and all occurrences are against c them. T'hey hang their heads where la once they walked upright. They neverc look you up In thie eyes. They become i ir Isanthropic and pronounce all men t liars andl scoundrels. They go melan-< cholIc and threadbare to t,heir graves. You cannot rouse thenm to action by the most glittering offer. . .In most cases these persons have been honorable and uprighit, all thbelr lives,1 for rogues never get discouraged, as there is always some other plot they have not laid and some other trap they have not sprung. There are but few sadder sights than a man of talent and1 tact and undoubted capacity giving upi ite as a failure, like a line of magnill- in :ent steamers rotting against wharves, ht rom which'they ought to have been car- in ying the exporfations ot a nation. ec I-very great financial panic produces a )a argo crop of such men. In the great hI -tablishnents where they were I.art- 1 iers in business they are now weiahers d( )r drayinen or clerks on small salary. h1 Reverie is also a cause of in loletice. lliere are mulititdes of men who ex- te pect to achieve great success in life, who w ire entirely unwilling to put forth any in physical, moral or intellectual efl'ort. to lhey have a great many eloquent theo- cr ries of lfe. They are all the while ex- U pecting something to turn up. They oi pass their lift in dreaming. They have ai re id in lignt literature how men suddenly bj ,ind unexpectedly came to large estates, w or found a pot of buried gold at the loot tl o the rainbow of Good Luck, or had t, aome great oier made them. They N have passed their lives in reverie. d Notwithstanding lie is pinched with t poverty and any other mal would be o iowneast at the forlorn prospect, lie is fi idways cheerful and sanguine and jovial, for lie does not know but that lie may be s within a day or two of ast )undlng su- t. .ess. You connot but be entertained 1 with his cheerfulness of temper. AI I Rlie world wishes him well, for lie never tid anybody any harm. At last lie <les a in just the same condition in which lie ived, sorrowful only becau,e lie must leave the world just at the time when )is long thought of lilans where about to e )c successful. Let no young man begin ife with re- e terie. There. is nothing accomlishied c Nithout hard work. Do not i idleness i 3xpect something to turn up. It will il ,urn down. Indolence and wickedness Y ilways make bad luck. These peoplei )I reverie are always about to begiii l'hey say, "Waita little." So with the :ild who had a cage containing a beauti 'ul canary, and the door of tho caLe was )pen, and a cat was In the room. '"Bet ,er shut the door of the cage,'' Naid the , nother. "Wait aminute."' said the c >ov. While lie was waiting the feline n :reature with one spring- took the can- I try. The way that many lose the op- 'I )ortunity of a lIfetime is by the saine U, )rinciple. They say, "Wait a minute.'' t, ily advice is not to wait at aill. d Again, bad habits are a fruitul source )f indolence. Sinflul induhrences shut, a nan's shop and dull his tools and stea I" uis profits. Dissoluteness is general y% he end of industry. Tlere are t,hose Yho have the rare faculty ot devoting iccaslonally.a day or a week to loose iin- it lulgences, and at the expiration of that il ime go back withi b!eared eyes aid h remulous hands and bloated clieeki to lie faithful and successful performance a! if thelir duties. Indeed their ciployers 11 Lnd neighbors expect this aniuseieit, k ir occasional season orf rolic and waw- 1 all. I, Some of the best workmen and most killful artisans have this mode of con. lucting themselves, but as the time rolls. >a the season of dissipation becomes a nore protracted and the scason of n teaoiness and sobriety more linited, ij intil the employers become disgusted i Id the man is given up to a continual gi nd ruinous idleness. When that poiit ii ias arrived lie rushes to destruction with t I Lstonishing velocity. When a nan with St vrong proclivities of appetite has noth ng to do, no former sell respect. or noral restraint or the beseechmis of Cinidred can save him. The only siafety 'or a man who feels hiniselfI under thie " ascination of any form 01' temptation is 1. ml etnployment which affords iieither Ii Now, what ai'e the results of ini holenice? A nmarked conisv<fuenice of this rice is physical (disease. TJhe healthii- e, iess of the whole nat,ural world depends l iponl activity. The winds, t,ossedl alnd in Iriveni in endless circuits, scattering the tI nist,s fromi the mountains, and scooping S. >ut death (lamps from the caves, and v" >l'ist,ing the miasma of' swamps, and .J iur'ling back the fetid atmoephere of 3 ~reat cities, are healthy just because of heir swiftness and iucontrollableness of weep, lBut, alter aw hile, the w.iid falls tII Ltd the lint sun pours thr'oughi it, and l vbien the leaves iire still and t,be iirain ci ields bend not on1ce all daiy lonn., then a, 'est,ilence smites its victims and(l digs al renches f'or the dlead- at Theli fountain, boirn fr uo in the wil o0 voodl of the mountain, u'omes downi o >right,er for every obstacle against which t is r'iven, and singing a new song oni 1 rvery shelf' of rock over which It bounds, ill it, rolls over the wat,er wheels ini the ralley, not ashamed t > grind( corn, and 5 tins through the long gi'ass oif the elj neadow, whuete the willows reached w~ hownx to dip their br'anchies, and the un-i is poked oxen come at eventide to cool. lealthy water! Bright water! I lappy ti vater! While some str'eam, too lazy si may moi'e to run, gathers itself into a Y. vaysidle pool, whiere the swine wallow, b 11nd filthy insects hop over t,he suifa:ce,a ind repG~les crawl among the o>zur, and a rogs uitter their hideous croak, and by ~ lay andl night therie i'ise fr'oii the I oul Lre and( green scum fever andu ague and(l leath. T1here is an end(les iactivity ; uderfoot and overhead-.t Not, one( four o'clock ini the flower Y< ed, not, onie ily on the winudowu pane, l o6 one <oulirrel gat,hei'ing food fr'om the' rt ones ot' the whi.e pime, niot, oine i'abbft ledinig On clover' tolps, not, one drop fihil gin a shower, lnt, ne miiiiow glanc'.~ ig n the sea, rnot, one Iiuail wivist.ling t Omi the grass, not, oiie hawk caw ig in io sky but, is busy now aind is busv al- sh 'ays, fulfilling its mimss(on as certainly shi any mionarch on earth or anly anmgel hu I ;hieaven. You hear t,he shout of tIhe elh lowboys busy in thre field and the rattle Lh Ethe whittletrees oIn the harrow, but tai on (10 not know that, there is more in- C' List,ry in the earth tupturnedl and in the C.O rmb veget,ation tmideroot, thian iin 'ill '*~ tat you see. t.h All the healthy beauty of that which of 'o see and1 hear iln the iiatural world is eI)endent tiponi act,ivity and1( unirest, tib hen will be hiealtey-initeifectually, ph iorally andl physically-only upon1 t,he hri ondition of an active iidtustry. I know op ten (lie every day of overwork. Trhey ant rop (dowa in coal hits, and among the WV pindleos of northern f actories, andI on the th otton plantations of the south. I n ever v co ity andI town and village you find mesn roaning under buirdens as, in t,he cast.,ti amels stager uinder their loads between kleppo andl Damascuis. 4ife~ is crhished ut every day at count.ers and work- r enchies and anvihs. But t,here are hr t,ber mult!tudles who (lies fromi mere p mertia. Indulgences every dhay are coii- (flo ract,ing dIseases beyond the cat.hohcon soi >f allopathy and homeopathy and hydro- ro bathy and eclect,icism. lRather than ii york they rush upon lancets and scal. tui els. inl Nature has provided for those who an rdolate her laws by Inactivity--what, hu heum for the eyes, and what, gout, for w he feet, and what curvatore for t,he81 pine, and what strictures for the chest, ho md what tubercles for the liung~s, an<d r what rheumatlsms for the muscles, and ~ what nanrahgana for tie neres. Natur hr time arraigns every such culprit at r bar, and presents against him an dictn'C"t of one hundred counts, and >nvicts him oni () each one of them. The w& of nature Will not stop their action WeausC ine InmaY be Ignorant of ttneu. iseu, when it cOles to do its work, >es not ask whet'ier you understan(i giene or pitliology or nmterIa medica. If there were not so many lies writ i oi tombstones and iu obiluat ies you ould see what. multit,udes of the world's habitaant are slain in their attempts escape the necessity of toil. Men 08 ocean and continents, and clinab c Alps, and sit under the sky of Italy the shadow 4Af Egyptian Plyraimi'l, ]d go down Into atnient1 rin, anid ithe at Biden iBaden, and come home ith the sane shortne , ol breath, and te ute poor liiesti oi, and the same vitching of the lwlrves. when at home 'ith their own -pal!e they might have ug health oat of the 4-round, or with teir own ax hewin health out o' a log, r with their own scythe garnred health 0n tile L!rain field. Tlhere are many who estimate the re pect ability of ana occipation by the lit Il exert ion it demands, and woild not ave their children inter any eimploy iet where their hands may be soiled, orgetting that a laborer's overalls are ist as honorable as a priest's robes and ia all vil is just as resipectable as a p)iilpit. lealth tlies froin the bed of down and ays, "I cannot sleep here;" and from Ie table spread with ptarmigan and pictirean yiands, saying, "I emmiot eat vre;' and fro i 1i the vehicle of soIt ushioliq and Va1y sinllgs4, saying, "I annot l e evre;" and fiom houses lux riotisly warmed anl tiphoLstered, say ag "I citi nnot, 11 ve here;" aid some day ot tivot health, who (teclined all these axuriant iacs, walking ill tile plow's urrow, or sweltering beside the hissing l>rge, or spinning amionz the loom, or riving a dray, or I inning a roof', or arrying hod(1 of brick up the ladder of wall. ilrtht'rmIore, notice that indolence iilangers the s':mt. Satan inakes his hll(' C11i1l0ests over Ien w%,ho either ave no,thlig to dh, or if they havet rV iso Lt do it. 'here is a legend that St. homis, years after Clist's resirrec on, bgan agaiii to do bt., andi he went > the A postlics and tald then abotit his ouibts. Ea:ch Apostle looked at himin itli surprise anid t hen said he must be xcused, for he had to Lime to listen ny longer. Th1ei St.. Thonlms went to iv devoilt w1e1il oh his time and ex reiSsed his dh,uhts. They said thev 'er s a rv, I I tey Iad. ni e tIo i k -n1. Th1e1:1 t. Thomas conel1(. Id that was hevaleii h lIvy were" so busy Ihat lit A ;o,tles 11 the devolnt, wolit id ilo doubts. Idlent'vs Ilt oit nal leads a 1ln i into iMoclations Which hirm his morats, lit oltl this ilull poll him tlt' worst lild of sk'ptivisit. Loafrs are al ost alwa)s inidels, or I*ast geLting to 1'. onsininate i ilers never lead tihte ible, ad if they appear ili church van I distiliillstath4l ill an ailidienve of a loisalid by their listlessness, f'or they 'e to lazy to hevar. It Is not so ilulich nong oect pied inercharits, inidustrious echanics and professional men al ways isy that yout lear tihe religion of .1esus atigned, as in pliblic 1o11gimg places, veal tip to Ilrot"ainity and ( dissoltte ,s. T11y have no ]M HyMpatly with t IBook tiat says. "LeCit hii that stole val no more; but rather let him labor, orking w it his hand-, the thing ha lc is good, that lie ma y have to give himn that, edt. I ntI.ver knew i 1uanI 1 gie up til. to t.hoi igh idleiiess thait wats conv erted. Si 14n1 andt Autdre w wvere convertedl whlile0 hlinig, and Lydia whIIile se'liung putrple, 1(d the shltppaird of' I et hlehemn wattch Li thtei' Ihocks heard the voice o1 ani 'Is, and (Gldeoi a Is trashiingOi on lie ahiniig .Iloor, buit1 no one1 was evei' >nivert ed with hais h and~s ini his pockets. et ine t.el Ithie idleIr t hat t here is no ipe lot' hii iitheatr ~in t lahi world or in te worldl whichl is to coine. If the )i of God, whlo otwned' the wihot l ui 3rsae, w,orktd inl tihe cairpeiite'r shop of 1se'ph, 8s1rely we, who <Twni so little, et wiantL sI) iuch, ouight to be busy. he r'edeema ed ini iea ven are ne vter idle. 'hait ex :i ting sonags they'3 sinia' (O)n wh tat atcssagte ofIt ove ther' hly itrough alIt lie ii ve'rst, fuillillinag (lod's .int bt sts :an itIak inrg worb'lts itn (one rcauit; r'ushin g iiLi inaliite ierceniess taihast sin anad crtuelty arid oppraessionm, d mtatkin g thle gat es of hel-l to q uke the overttirow of' thte princi palitie's darkntess, andl in the sainie t,win,kle an eye speetding back Lio t heir throiies ith th lanaews of sinners reptentantt. Th'le iver o,f Life is everl tlowv lug, ad tIe hms everi wav ing, andi( l.he hlllu ijalhs eri I isslng, andi( the harps~t ever soitI g, anad thea templie ailway s open1, ;ant e goleni stree'tt liwatys a ruish ithLl lariots of1 salva~tioin, iad the latst pla1ce haillh you ouaght ever' to wvant to go to heaven uniess youl Want LI to tanbsy. A las, my hearers, Ithat ini tins worldl a ere shoul a d be' io bmany lotinlgers anad >tow wol ker1s. We go into the vineit ird of tite churiich aind we har' ihe ari >r gr'oan undertt'i tie hlt, tf0 thI e viinets 10i the cIlusters Ihan gin g (dowit, Ilarge iti t haik arid ripew, olhist ter againast. el us -', fat'i' than the biinichets of L-:shcol ii'n iinto ine iniore r'uiddy thlan tht L iiui' and II tlbon . I ; lt whelire e the meon t) gatiher the viintage and cad thla in e pr'tss ? Th'ere ctonili>s t) mrii car at soiintd of' a I t thosandi i that 'Iis ready) fot' Ilit' sic'klIe. 'lT' g r.an is ady. It is tall, it is f ull, it is goleiu. wav'es in thew siinlight I. I t ruta ts ini e wmiid. IL woit till te bariis. It 31uld c'rowdi thei girinets. A tIer e r'ust wvill smiht.e it.. olives. '[he eneii esii. tat (h'd are': iar ekler's. Y oan hiari Ithe piiiinig tf I hatir airgers, and idl iiaong that Iie iafa ta(L. is heard t lie shaut,r to their grea~t ('alp. ., and at. tte ariest of thea liiving tatlie-v ittil their deiance't. 'Theiy mile, no0t iln ilumbiers like the buost' tat Lra(cher ib, bui .t liheir mult1 it tide is lik e t htaeaves ofl thettora'st, anid t lie sound ral thei r v'oites ii k th le thunr of i ct the r i. Malt'td in hell's impeet'itrablt ari- ( >r', thaey adtvancet with the wiaving of Ines. Th'eir iralnaks ar n' ot,eatsily' to he >ken, for the batteiets of heill wvill e hfn tto help thlemi iatd ten thouand ri gtls o1 darkness minagte in the light. t 11e10 are the dcs e few wIho will rowv themselves into 1the jaws of' thais ( Ilut my text is descriptivte also oh'f 48e who( hunt for iapportiunitie!s, and iOen they get, them, (10 not use0 thiem.l it' rabit they iverOiniie by an tai'ly >rningC trampa lies for wveeks un cook in the dtoryatrd. Th'le deer that tht'y outghlt dlown al ter long and exhiausti ngI ral in I he A drioathacks lies on the orsill undressted anad the save.ry veal-I ai becomes a mlalodorous carcass. 'lTaey ast nt, that which tht'y took in hunt tr. O)pportuniities laboriusly caip-4 red, yet, uiseless arnd that whiceh caine invitingly, lik" a string of' plover C d lmail andl wild (luck hiung over a 1 nter's shtoulder, turns to something j >rse than noting. So with Agrippa wvhtu almost per aded 10 be a thristian.i So with the: vehy yonnP man who went, away a 3m Chirist very sorrow ful. So w Ith I ng of thousands who have whole uinds full whole skies full of winged 1 ?pportunitics which profit them noth ing at all, because they r,)ast not that which they took inl hunting. Oh, make )ut of this captured moment. a batiquet or eternity. The greatest prize' ir-, the iiverse to be won i- the love adia Par lon of Christ. Win that and you can MaYI Now .1 have found a Friend Whose love shall n.ever i nid. jelU is ]itte! fr iectrop., Iso. Why suffer with eickucss or disease Yhen you can be so easily and quickly -ured without medicine by the use of .he iElectroApoise. ni'ENViL.,. C., March 8, 1892. Mr. W. II. Witherspoon, Dear Sir: L take great pleasure in giving you my experience in the use ot the Electro poise. It. was recoieni.at-ded to me by my nephew when sutfering with a se vere case of lheumatismn. I had been dowu for some nionths with the attack. After procuring a 'Poise, I studied very closely yotir book of directions, using the 'Poise about seven hours daily at netlitun powers; some days su fering intensely, As I had votten down so weak and nervous (froti the effect of the rheutinatismn) I could in ijo way help myself; wa-i dressed and un.. dressed; food was cut ip for me; I cou ld scarcely get abotit at till without hlellp. About the fifth or sixth day Irom time of first ust. I felt. several symp tois of bting charged about live or six of those described inl tihe- book. I stopped using ati followetI directiois for persons being charged. Ji.pt, this ip l for possibly a week or Imore, at times strongly tellipt,e4 to Iluit, OI a1 Count of the paihs ing very severhw, but persevered and useda it prsibtetitly when the severe pains catme on. Afi er some little time they i-t go and the battle was over. I iIproved light aloig, aini was aIle in a short titlie to leave hotnite lor a illotilntainl trip. I c;tiped 01, with IIy li N iily lider tents, and it ralined on Its iealy every day for two wveks. I took tuy I soise With Ilo anid listd on IheII trip. Strimge as it may Seelin, I lo v, I and ainle home anot,ler 1i1an--walking and apar tially dressing muysel 1, t-L., doin_g things I had never exlwct.eI It (to lgain. The ''oise has beentv lily colstanit coi panion, tsing it at tii, s lor rest It ssine.s soline people call it i,ervous ness. A pply on going to bed aboit 10 o'clock, aid taking it oll' lit tlie im,rit ing, al 1er a night of I e fresinig sleep. I omitted to say inl its pWOpe' plae I1hat I lised Ithe SpolN,e ba;lni an.d Slept. by imyself'. I iiot "now as well 4as I eve was, alld it has bieen renlwrked by inally tHiaL I had renewest, liny youith. ~I tako reat plv:tsiire ifi recotmintnding Ilie I olse, iivillg my own tcpxpeietcI of it's use, for rhetimail in. I ati siatisfied 1 coIli selld you et'lrtificates 1'roi sever al here wio have tised the 'Poise and lound greAt betit-lit, f'rom it. Yours. -1 l'i.ll S C. 11T . Ak 411 pa._e bomk, deciiatreat mniwt al.l coi taini.g test.imonlias 1romn ll vext,ions' aid for the cure ol' ill dis NaSeS, miailed Iree ti applicati0ii. Ad Iress. ATLaANTIC ELEACTROPOISE' CW., 222 Kin.g St., Charlestoni, S. C. Kuii li it t,f lionoir. Cal-'Mul\, . C., Ap,ril 21.--Thie Arand Lodge Kniighits of lf1i.>r for -;outh Caroli na, which held a brief ses ;ion last night, was inl sessiot nearly all day a:nd adjourned sitie (lie ton ighit. The reports p)res'ete shtowi the order in this Staate to be in a most flotuishinig Tlhe followitng ollicers were elected for the ensuing year: (re.iini l)hctator--.l . W. Mloore. \'ice ( raLnd I )ictat or---.i . ('. Shep pa:rd. Assistant \'ice (1tirn I )ietator-N. WX. Trtuiip. Grand G uide- --1B. Ai. I sebby'. (ind Sentiniel---S. W . Tedd. iker. (Grand I teporter-,J. W . Il1oilaiid. G ranid Chiaplaiti N. N. ibirton. (ratid Lect.urier- -IdmInt11 liaconi. Truist.its,--.. lIitt.enbercger, ,J. .. li oozer anid ,1. L. A diihsont. C'ol. .1. W. Moore was el(ecteid to rep esentt the G randi ILodge at the Supretme ILodge. whlichi meetts iio (Charlestoni in June. G;overnioir.1ohni C. Sheppall):rd was 'lected altetrnate. Ini the award of' prizes the Colutmbia (odge received $31) for repiort.ing the arge'st;n tniteir of audditions to miiem ber ip by illiL.iation. It, was volted to grant $5tflt fromi the Srand Lodge ttreasury to the Charleston luodge to assist, in thle en (.ertainmnent of the Supreme Lodge of the( Uniited Stat es whleti it mieets it: Charleston May 13, I8'.12. As the (Grand i.,od ge's represen tat.ive-s Ott t lie Comrn it te of I tecepitioni >t the Su premne I 4odge, the fol lowinig wiere appot inted: (Git. I. W. Moore, 11lampt on; ex-GUovernior ,1 ohni C Shetp pard; ildltie'Ild; N . W. 'l'riztp, C.olum n bi;t: (G. WX. I loilandi, Newbher-ry, anid ,.. Ii Uiot'ersott, A bhle ville. A t ter a long d iscussionl it was decided to elect. a Stat e lec tt'rer, a new ollice triat.ed, anti :1t lidmiid ;aeotn, of Spar anImhurtg. wasr chioseni to fill the place at a iilitry of SlNN), with perflulites. After lig of th' G raind l,oige at. ( )ramgt-etrg, hei fio I lyiutirid Ti-N liu, ('li A' pril Si the at onventttion of 'olir;uio Niiver Leagues net4 here' yester-iday, riepresentat,Liives to lie ntil li er of atn binig pi. sent. l)ele :at.es weri' electe<if to Itihe N atiinati:ii-~f 11u( resolutions aidopted that lit the atn Natfional (''outventioiis failitig to I i(rintat e l or l'residtent, imt-t wit.h pro- I oitnced silver views, it will bi the liy ofi volters to sulpport, atny party i hat, lity proltnise s pee,ly reminstaLi'ment,e it f silver, ato I tI s Silver (ottvent ion, Ltpresenimting, as5 it, dts te pJeople of 'oloradlo, iirresptcLivye of paiirty pled(ges I ts fauithmfitIliant Iuneiti inivocal sulpport fit avor of' the political party that will I alhfulIly carry oilt1 time purpose of fr-ee ofiage of silver. I t wvas also restived, I s the sinfiiteint of thme convent ion, hat Colorado st ate Coniventions shoumld istruct their dleigates to Natioaid 'otventions to w ithidraw from coltiven - ions if t.hey do. not suctceedu in gettfing ree silver plan1ks in theiir part,y plat- I ormes. SP'AnTANi tmIa, S. C. Aril 21.- -The orner st.onie of' Converse College was aid here to-day under thet atuspices of 'ree 1\asoniry aittid mittposfig and im ressive ce're-mionies. Mij. I). It. Dun ain delivered the address or welcome, d r. WX. TI. liranch, of A bbeville, de(liv red tl.e Masoiic add(ress, and the liIon. ainmel I )ibble, or Orangebmrg, wa; ihe rater of 'he (lay. It woo:Id, of comsei(, e( limpossible3 to do the teminenit, lmen ustice by an abbre'viated report of I heir peechtes, but let It siflce to sty Ihat atch one acqiitt ed himself creilitably md sluntaini d his envietd reputation as scholar and orator. Detspit.e thme ex :AssIve inclemency of the weather, there < vere about 2,000 persomis pres,'nt, of I vhom ahbout r( wern Manans, 1 HE STATE'S CREDIT. New Y,ak Jouitaal u Fintwae in a Lad iaghat. CoLxm 01.\, S. C., April 27, 1892. Ei'ronln Oin the 11th of April I addressed the following letter to the editor of the New York Journal of Finance: "In the Charlestoi News and Courier of April the 7th there was copied an -irticle from our journal of the 7th of March which is mnjust and calculated to injure the Sate of South Carolina in the financial world. Among other things yOut say: 6'aws have been passed which throw it backward at least a century. The one dominant idea of its Legislature and its execu tive, judgmg by -what they have donle, has been to tax the wealth and business of the State to the exemption of the re mainder ot ' he people from bearing their share of the trdens ot the coi 111011 wealth.' "As a member of the pre.sent State government, who claims to have been just and conservative in his ollicial acts, let me. a k: V hat laws do you refer to as having 'Uhrown the State backward for at least a century ?' and 'what acts have the Legislature and the executive comm1111itted which go to prove their 'doiinant idea' to be to tax the wealth and tutisiness of the State to the ex emption of the remnainder of the people from bearing their sh .re of the burdens of the commonweAlth'? An answer will oblige Yosi respectfully, W. 1'. C. 1;ArI:J, State Treasiirer." Nothmlg was heard from the Journal of l'intance umitil this morning. I re. ceiv,ed a copy of the paper. Its editor did not do me the courtesy of puiblish mng my biief letter, bitt acknowledges its reception and comments on it in a polit ical iot a linancial editorial. wh icl is as uutist and l'ull of error as his first ar icle. I lere is the editorial: (;i UA No:* F lis.i DOl.:SN'' PAY. .\n editoriAl in " Ie . o lourinl of l'umice" of larch 11, entitled "South Carolina's Lesson," having been widely copied by tlie South Carolina press, has elhvited from lion. W. '1'. C. Butes, Treasurer oi the SLate, a letter of re monstrance, in which it is asserted that its statements were "unjust and cal iilated to injure the Stal . of South Carolina in the financial wo, htt." Treasurer ]Lates also calls Ior specific replies to stidry(luestions, which "The .1ourn-ial of Finace" will bE glad to inalie as soon as the ollicial data have enei received from South Carolina. .Aleaniwhile a few statistics from iitianicial records may possibly open the eyes of Treasurer Lates to the fact that. someiiing occuired as early as 18s8 "calculti( d to inijule the State of South Carolina in the financial world." The bonded debt of that State is rep resented chiely by the -Brown consols of 1874," due .1 tily 3, 1893. These bear iterest at the rate of 6 per cent., which for iuore than ten years has been paid prouptly, and constitently these secii rities at one time c. minanded a large premiitim. .)tiring the year 1887 they were sold on the uarket at f rom 10-1 to 10. 1 2, and until November, 188S, prices ranged from 104 to 1W7; bitt within a w-ek after the result of t,he State elec timi was annotmrced their prite fell oil several points and it has cont.inued to (it c!ine tntil I hiy are at pre.m,nt quoted at I rom 93 1-2 to 97. IL was in November, 188, that the agrarian party of' South (Caroli na titruinphetd and elected thie Tillmi.in a1 miniisrat ion and a L egislatuare '(1 do its behest s. If Treasuirer .lates will conlsideir calmnly the reasons for the failure of his effoi ts to induce (lie holders of t,he Birown consols to exchange t,hem for I Per i.enit. boiids ini 19134 hie will is cover thua an admninistratioin which makes war, t1ipon banks and compels thiern to apply to the courts for pro teetioni cannot comnmanid the coinfidlence f capital, however great may be thie resources of the State. This ls orecise. ly what has occurred ini South Cairo in a. lEvery intellige-nt mnan knowrs that no such laws as he refoi s to wi re passedh fby the recent Legislatuie. Indeed, I 'Jo not believe any changes have been limtde in (lie general tax laws since 1882, Y et t,his editor of a New Yor k linancial paper charges unqunalilledly (,hat "laws were passedl which have thrown the State back ward for at least a century." Shiaieful' la (lie above n dfitorlal lie says: "Bt was in November, 1888, that (he igrarian party of Sout,h Caroli na triiiiphied andi elected the Tillmnan ad miniistration and a Legislature to do its behes5ts." NOW, we all here in South Caroliina know that Governor Rlichiard 11on wias elected to his second( term of :>llice as Governor in 1888,anid it will he news to hi m that "thew agrarian party of South Carolina elected him iG,>ver nor,'' etc. no t his poh1 tt ciliuanial e'd itor makes lh imself ridiculous In hi, att(empts to iinjutre this State's cred'nit Souith Car.l inia has rno agraria pa.rty, hiough an effort has been nuude by cer Lain di(Iisposed olliciauls and1( certain i.e vs pau pers to create I hat, impJressioni aba oadl. state bonds did go (do ,ni as low ats (NIt mi Auiguist, 18tN), under Governor Ilich Sidsonil's adn iinnzistiration , andl rose toI pai ni a iuioiithi aft r Governior Tillmani's nauiiguirat ion. hi ow caii 0our ne wspapers, w'hichi pro (-ss to have the &;oodi of the State at ineart, copy such an article from such a uirnail anid senid it, out unlchialleuigedt to he ir read(ers ? '(lie trtut,h of the iiatttri. s t hat when it w as inaude ka1own by (lie Act, (.1. 188'.11 hat the Stat e in tendeud, i f uossi ble, toa ret ire her honds beanrig h .ier cont. lntecrest, andli matuiriig ini lM811, by issin b.>i) lJds b earing only -I >er' cint. init,erest, (1he price of thle it per ~ez t. bond1(s declinted ; capitalhist s and ohlers of these sec urities ini arid out (of hec State weie andl are opposed to this chee an d wliih to force (the State to sSiie a bond bearing a hiigher rate of in ernst, than -I per~ ccnt., or so to bear thie nai ket for the 41 per cents. as to aillow hei aI speculator's margin. Somie ending newsvxpapers arid some leading upponenits o1 (lie lIresenit admuini stra ion have taken atdvantage of (lie eff'orts >f lihe administration to enforce the ax laws of' (lie State, (lie laws of 1882, mdu tried to discredit the efforts and ibility of thne present admiiustration to efunda the State dlebt. Governor Tillman said in hIs speech at Greenville recently: "The charge ias been reiterat,ed that, 1 have inijutred lie State's credilt. I desire to say, and twant you to endorse it, that we are ust as determined to keep every oball Cation as our opponents-We have just us much honor and credit and integrity is thney have, and we will discharge the 'tate's obligations if the citIzens of (lie state of all classes will act with tis In utead of thr-owing obstacles in our . L,oudc applause.] { T1hough croakers contie to croak, 4 uiic prophets of' evil continue to fore >odec, aund crit,ics contiinue theIr tin >atriotic work, yet in due (time the state dhebt will be refunded10(. State Treastrec South Carolin'a. Trhe Bilhopylie Egle,~which was - liscontinued in Mar ch, will again make ta appearance (his week with the name hanged to (.he Ilishnnvliin New. Familne In TexaKo. SAN A NTONIO, Tex., A. p il 3.-'h'id. deus C. B(l, d'put y 1:Mbit (I St ais rev enuie collector, rettirnied hero tottay fromt all vVex-ded trip t hromoli n. svral of I I lower liio Gramd' border counties. lie States thit t hf .e11 11'ering anong tl .I peo ple oil account of1 the .rolong<l'd drouth is heart-rendin7, and jljt i' assistince is not. renlered them soon Iliany will actually die of starvatioiu. Ile says that hlidrrls ot- people in the country through which he passed are eking out a mere existence by feasting on the flesh of animals, such as Cows andi(l horses, whichl die of starvation. The Texas Press Association rettirned here today fro.t a jaunt through a portion of the stricken section, and issued an appeal for mney a-i-d food for the suf ferers. ''hey say that 10,000 persons are now in a stalving coiditioi. SaIll ,Jonses Work. A i'o I-isr.A, (a., A pril 23.-T---h[le Even ing Ilera'd of Clie 1th instant, piublish. ed t.'e following: "ThIat annoulnce ment, ill The li erald of Mloort- & Shew make ha cautitd a selisat i"i. The query *at every point, i, "what calised it?" T'i:v thoght thtt the preachinir of Saii .1ones had a great deal to do with it. This iorning I talked with Mr. Shewmake. lie said t hat hot I he and lr. Moore had become deeply iml pressed by the srmions of N-vv. Mr. Jones. Tihoy knlewv (of th t eItiltationl of tle young* inii in I heir store and of the harin done to otheis. Tlierefore they decidt-i to quit. 1.andling liiqiors of all kinds. Th(ir sales of Whiskeys, wines, etc., said Mir. Shewiiake, had been very large, the Prolits big, but they concluded that it was best, to give It all up. Alany people are comimend ing Aloore &. Shewniake, but, sonie if* course do not." 'itigged i like SI 41i01. Eii: A, C.l., April 27.-I tarry Ilo gers togged the i'v. Fat her O'Kanie, a Catholic clergytman, ont ie public street yesterday with a homi. w1wIip. The trouble grew ouit of asscrtiollh miado re Ilecling oil tihe hon sty of- llogers's wile from Ile altar of' tie chchct sone time 'tRo. Ilogers was lnot iarrest I d. Ilk '01 11.00 for ie anove lBed Ummi Suit. A Plush P'arlmr !iit 5 pie- $25.t:O. I I Good Flat Top Stove Sim.0. Winldow ShWade with Frilge 50 cIns. O r ;an s . ...... ............... ..... Rochking Chairs..... .......... (io. S )ay C lhcks............ ............ ' Nikle Uiiiiind C ocksO..........'Tacs Carpets ~~................... ('Ies up. R un............. ......... ......... ......i0 i s u p.p 44 l'icce 'lea Set ...................00 1(1 Iieee Chambeii i~ r Set........... ii.i S'ii d ivor Cata loguei1, "PAD GETT I TriE HOUSE FURNISHER," --.----- - -IEtOA1NT !4I' TYPEWFRITERS EX C HA NGIE D. AG(iNTS l) JD L l Aia y, Gonzales & Withers, C'OLUM!I lA, . C. CH-ILD BIRTI---I [V-- IA!DE EASVY? "MOTtOr s' 1.'airur> " i scintifc ally preparedl I.inimeint, every ingre dienit of reen:;niz/ed v;duec andt ini constant use' by the~ miedicail pro fession. ThI . ing- its are coim biinedin a omneihherto unknown -FRIEND" - it ANt) M.IR 1. 1It Shi mens I.abor, Lessens 'aitn, l)m ii ,be .mgei.r to life of .Mother in Ch(Aild. hook Sent by er in o' r' 'pt o'f irice ft .50 pr bnotl BRAt-EL) OiEGUt.AloR co., Mlar.ta. 0a. BAW MILLS 4$5O.0,0 TO $900,00, SNOINESR B0OILUJ5 TO SUIT. 100 IN STOCK. JOMBARD) & O., Aunnsta. na R P ~7 ALL 5KIN - v,a a h..a 9" l r ti, fo r lb. cures of al PP g 5cruruouf a r In, ln Swin a1g le In U ~u .llan ,v l o be t. e 0rMCulceru that have resisted all treatmieM14 Catartb, 3 CURES a p N B 100.D.,roeto Ntt" E , 1 ;1,III , 1D i"'NEE01 ACnERo .. 1 o1 -- a it1111td and Whose blood a I A,' tits e to -non aI&I ITrt Ruarl ties. &TV T Abot &M bS 1 1-C' :y t r lac t t I tn ar IENNDVlUlL FL':1CTION BR3.K Porit,g T MaloVE & ons N(A- N E'S. BlOILERS. COTTON SEET 01l, MACHINERY, 'O ACC D TMMERGUA,, -OI. AND) AVREArr 'isnu,s. 0TrUN E Aer nd WoEEdS. SAW MINa Or lyiL AND fArUrAIL, L F I-yIOyN FhuAv), IMPHLOAVjED D)OGS, AND) Slf,' NVORKS ans: and (' dra wi fry condrctoofr. Woielltighetgeo Machinery a~clIy aln n d at'its l io andices. ds iE LAet r d ST lOCK,Iao ut al( a owEST lPRI c 80.t Carl Mrl BADrA , .F. H. HY ATT , Is the behst pilaco iln South Car~olina or iithern~ Staltes to s('Otre satisfaction In . mericanI and 'Italian Marble Work. Al' Cemetery Work! TA BL ET1S, 501nd for prlIces and 111 u ll' frmti.tO. F'. H. HYATT' A.'rilx1yIi UOLUlMBA, S. C. LIPPMAN BROS., Proprietors, Drugglsts, ioman's Block. SAVANNAH. 0A. S0 A0 1 V NWAT PAI IPM d* >M MTPOSAANM