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? BYCLtNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1896. VOLUME XXX.?NO 43. N WE ARE NOT BRAGGING WHEN" we tell you our trade is increasing ; that the sales-book shows it has more than doubled the sales of last year up to this time ; that our Easter trade was beyond our expectations. It only shows what fair deal ing, coupled with good Goods, superb fits and low prices will do. It proves beyond ques tion that this Store is the place to buy your New Suit, if you want to be dressed strictly up to date. We are showing some splendid values in Suits from $5.00 to $20.00. The same care taken in the cheaper as the higher priced Goods when WE dress you up?that is, to give you value received and a good fit. Straw Hats and Men's Furnishings in great abundance! the best line you can find and prices right. You know our way of doing business?your money back if you want it. . 0. EVANS & CO. A HIGH GRADE SHOE ONLY can claim the honors of the foot To gain this rank takes a combi. aiation of qualities such es SHOES WE SELL invariably possess. They liave the right ferai because it's that of the foot, to which the foot takes as ikindly as a child does to a pic. That's our idea, and we fully realize it in our stock. A poor Shoe is no sooner worn than worn out. Footwear can't present too many good points. Ours have them ail. THE YATES SHOE CO. Masonic Building, Anderson, S. C. OUR IDEAL BICYCLE Is a High Grade Wheel at Low Grade Price. There is nothing Cheap about them hut the Price I THE IDEAL is thoroughly up to date in every respect, Narrow Tread, etc. Fitted with the Great G. & J. Tire. The Best Wheel on the Market for the Money. Don't take our word for it?come and see for yourself. Yours truly, BROOK BROS. P. S.?We have on hand a few Second-hand Wheels at a Bargain. FRESH AND PURE GARDEN SEED ! OUR New Stock of Seed have arrived, and we are selling them at ex tremely low prices. White Onion Setts...15c. quart?2 for 25c. Yellow or Red Onion Setts. 10c. quart?3 for 25c. All Paper Seed. 3 for 5c. The largest papers?twice as many Seed as you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON, PEAS, BEANS, &c, At correspondingly low prices. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and we have been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to plant your garden come and see us and we will eave you money. ORB & SLOAN, BENSON H<?USE CORNER. Bed Bug Destroyer, For Spring House Cleaning. Get a Bottle. GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS, ALL KII\r>S, AT EVANS' PHARMACY. NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN M. HUBB?RD, IN HIS NEW STORE.IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OP NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT Y01T WANT. ?- ONE CENT TO $100.00. ^ No chanre Tor Engraving. ffly*Tbe Prettiest Goods in the Town, ann" it's a pleasure to show thorn. P. 8.?If yon have Accounts with J. J?. HU?B ARD & BRO. make settlement with me ai above place. _ JOHN ?S. HUBBARDr HOT SHOT FOR PREACHERS. The Rev. John G. V/lll'ams Joins the Scrimmage. To the Editor of the Neics and Cou rier: I claim a place on your "roll of honor" with Brethren Whitman and Bomar, as another preacher that preaches against lynching. I read every word of Mr. Whitman's sermon in the News and Courier, and, like an old-time Methodist, said amen to it. It is true I have not devoted a whole sermon to the lynching business, for the reason that I am'preaching against lynching and all other forms of law lessness all the time, as lawlessness is the order of the day and lynching sim ply one of its outgrowths. Like a faithful old chanticleer, for a great many years I have been crowing loud and long, trying to wake up our peo ple to fight the sins and wickedness that are destroying us. You will re member that some months ago in an article on the Bamberg Cotton Mill, and on the Bamberg "brain mills," I touched on South Carolina's "crime mills," and put the responsibility for the lively business that they were doing upon the crime-condoning and crime-approving public seDtiment, to a very great extent, of the people of the country. That the comparative ly few men that did the lynching were not any more criminal than aie those who approve and encourage ?ynchings; that the wickedness of a community, like an atmosphere overcharged with electricity, frequently gathers itself up into a few bad men, that do the terrible deeds, just like the subtle diffused electricity in a thunder storm gathers itself up into angry thunder bolts that strike down man and beast and tear into splinters the giants of the forest. It is not enough for the pulpit to thunder out when some great, great wickedness is committed, it ought to be thundering out its de nunciations all the time against all kinds of wickedness and crimes, of which there are many more, and that arc hurting the country worse than lynching. The whiskey traffic in the once li censed bar rooms, in the blind tigers and in the present revenue dispensary system is a greater curse and blight on South Carolina to-day than lynching is. There are horrors in whiskey selling and whiskey-drinking that out horror Broxton's Bridge's horror, bad as that was. The State of South Car olina selling whiskey for revenue, the blood-money of her people, is a worse horror than that, and a more lawless thing, and a greater disgrace to the State. I have it on undoubted au thority that, when Governor Tillman was appealed to to allow a wealthy club to run a sort of ba- room just for its own members, he said that the only trouble he saw about their request was that the "damned preachers" would make such a howling over it. But he need not to have been so hard on the preachers, for I am afraid that if the preachers of all denominations in the State should come together and one of the Governor's hand primaries be taken in that large congregation of several thousand preachers the right hands that would go up signifying that they had been faithful in preaching against this great sin of the age?the destroyer of the country and of souls, the fruitful mother of crime?would be a small minority. You are right, Mr. Editor of the Neics and Courier, to get after preachers for not speak ing out against lynching from their pulpits, and I hope before you are done with them you'll raise a big blister on every preacher in the State from whose pulpit there comes no bat tle cry against the "accursed thing" of whiskey, and no shout of encour agement to those that are "faint but still pursuing." Glad I am that our Saul, the Neics and Courier, with its great influence and power for good, is now among the prophets, and I hope that it will give the prophets no rest until they proph esy faithfully and boldly aud the things that are for the good and peace and prosperity of our dear old State. We welcome you among us, Brother News and Courier, and we assure you that you will have the warm support and thanks of all the good women in South Carolina in your fight for law, order and morality. Make the preach ers preach against lynching and don't forget to make them preach against whiskey. That's the "wild boar of the forest" that's destroying the vine yard of South Carolina, whose depre dations are going on every day and hour, causing murder, lynching, pov erty, suffering and woes innumerable whereas occasional lynching is hardly more in comparison than rabbits which get into to the orchard and bark and kill a few fruit trees. We'll never stop lynching until we lynch the old lyncher, whiskey, who lynches home, churches, purity, happiness, souls, country and everything that is good and stands in its way. And now since you are after the preachers, Mr. Editor, I sincerely hope you'll give them a regular In diana broadside?I mean the war ship ?for not preaching to the peuple, more than they do, their duty to vote for none but men of integrity and high moral character to fill the offices of the country, and especially the high offices of power and influence. It is a piece of wickedness and acrime against the country to honor bad men?drunk ards, blasphemers, gamblers, noto riously immoral and profane men, by putting them up in the public offices, and this wickedness is one of South Carolina's "woes" to-day. It was one of God's charges against Israel of old, that they honored bad men. His ene mies, by putting them in exalted pla cet-. In the Book of Malachi, the last of the Prophets, God says : "Yea, they that work wickedness are set up" ?men that were pre-eminent for wickedness and corrupters of the peo ple. A bad man in high office is like a rotten old pine tree afire, that the higher the fire climbs the more dan gerous it is, because the further it sends its sparks. A bad man out of office is like an old stump in the ground afire that can't do so much damage. I repeat it that it is a wickedness to put men in high of fices of honor and influence to whom the boys and young men of the coun try cannot be pointed as examples of high moral character, and gentlemen in their moral worth as well as in their pedigrees, and worthy of imita tion. It is to be presumed that all Christian men and true patriots pray to God that our lawmakers and those in authority over us be God-fearing men and men of upright lives, but thus to pray and go right straight and vote for men who do not know what the fear of God is?God-defiant men ?is to do something very much "like the sin of Ananias, to tell God that you are going to do a thing and then not do it. Such praying is trifling with Grod. I have several times been told, when I have been urging the duty of Chris tian voters to vote only for good men, that religion and politics have noth ing to do with each other. It is for preachers to teach them better, and I do hope that the' News and Courier will touch them up on this point and encourage them to be faithful in this duty. I have been preaching to the preachers and people for many years along this line, but the devil and the politicians and the newspapers scare them off by telling them this is "preaching politics." And I want the News and Courier to tell the preach ers that this not "preachingpolitics," but religion in politics, and you'll thereby strengthen their moral back bones wonderfully. When you oome down hard on the preachers for not preaching against lynching, don't forget to give them a lick or two for their remissness in not preaching more than they do against corrupt politios, and corrupt and wicked men in poli tics, which is a greater evil than lyching. And lastly, and above all, I want you, Mr. Editor, to come down like a hail storm upon those preachers who do not thunder out the denunciations of God's wrath in this world, and par ticularly in the world to come, against all evil doers. I cannot but believe that the wickedness, lawlessness and terrible crimes of these times are largely owing to the fact that a great many people do not really believe ia the doctrine of a hell, or that there is any awful punishment in the future world for wickedness and crimes com mitted in this. There is a subth skepticism and irreligion in the world to-day that is as deadly to all law and order and civilization as "the pesti lence that wasteth at noonday," and destroys health and life. The belief and conviction that there is a hell seems to be fast' fading out of the hearts any consciences of men, and wo ful are the consequences. Burns, in his "Epistle to a young friend," says: \ "The fear of hell's a hangman's whip, To hold the wretch in order; And when vou feel your memory grip, Aye, let that be your border." "Honor" is well enough, - but hon or's "grip is greatly strengthened by the fear of hell." * But alas! how many there are are to whom honor is a thing unknown. When people come to believe that there is no longer a hell and laugh at the doctrine of fu ture punishment, society, like a tub whose hoops have become slack and fallen off, falls to pieces, and then comes anarchy, which means bell on earth. The only true sanction for hu man law is the Divine law extending over time and eternity, and as infinite and eternal as God himself, and whenever Divine law and its penalty upon transgressors no longer bind the consciences of men and hold them in awe, then the ship of State has lost her rudder, and is rushing fast upon the breakers. This infidelity about hell and future punishment is at the bottom of all our troubles to-day. Hence comes lynchings, murders, law lessness in all its forms, Sabbath desecration, the accursed whiskey traffic, whose sin of blood-guiltiness is on the land, and all the other giant sins that are trampling down ourState to-day. . What makes our Courts of justice "farces," as Judge Pressley said in a letter to the Nexcs and Courier some years ago ? Because, as he said, oathii are no longer sacred with witnesses and juries in South Carolina. Would any man. either witness or juryman, if he really believed that there was a hell, kiss God's Holy Book and then mount the witness stand, and swear knowingly to a lie? Why the oath is administered and he is required to kiss the Bible simply in token of his belief that there is a hell. What is his oath worth if he doesn't believe that there is a hell for all liars and perjured persons ? Why so corrupli have our courts become that if it were that a witness really believed that there was a hell, and that he was afraid to swear to a lie that would send him there, he would hardly be allowed to give his evidence, and would certainly be rejected as a jury man. I wish this was exaggeration, but, alas, it is simply the truth. Do these lynchers and lawbreakers gener ally believe there is a hell. Surely if ihey did they would never exp ^e themselves to such awful peril. And whence has come about this paralyz ing skepticism as to the doctrine of hell and future punishment? Why largely, I believe, through the fear of preachers to preach Ihe doctrine. It is not a popular thing to preach. The old-time preachers thundered the doc trine to the guilty, and perhaps went too far, but this generation of preach ers have gone to the other extreme and handle the doctrine very gingerly. We are getting too nice to say "hell" and too careful of the feelings of peo ple to tell them that they are going there unless they repent and amend their ways. The Gospel of Sinai and Calvary is giving way to the Gospel of humanity that has no hell in it. I saw in Mon day's issue of the News and Courier, during the month of Semptember last, the report of a sermon preached in one of the Evangelical churches in Charleston the Sunday before, in which the preacher said we must not preach hell, but the love of God, or words to that effect, which I know was very comforting to every rascal in Charleston that read it. But why, I wculd like to ask that preacher, did God love the world and give His Son to die for it, if it was that the world might not perish?that is, be saved from hell ? In the same grand Scrip ture that declares so gloriously the love of God is also set forth the wrath do, as God against the unbelieving sinner. Now, dear Brother News and Courier, and give us your influ ence and help in stiffening out. our preachers to declare in no meas ured and honeyed phrases the wrath of God against all evil doers from the highest to the lowest. And what is our duty to preach, do you preach from your editorial pulpit, that your preaching may be heard all over the State, not only against lynching, bur, against alll the other wickedness and crimes that are just as bad. Why should not the press thunder the wrath of God as well as the pul pit? Jno. G. Williams. Allendah, S. C. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the cense of smell, and completely dera?pe thewh.-lo system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Puch articles hboul-i t nvrr be us d except on prescrip tions from reputable physician*, as the damaga tbt'V will do Is ten fold to the Rf od you can possi bly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manu factured by F J Cheney 4 Co., Tob-d", 0., con tains I o mercury, 6"d is taken internally nctln? directly upon tn? h,o >d and mucous surfaces of t o system. In buying Hall's fatarrh ('>ir? ba sure you pet the genuine. It is t<ken interna1)!1' and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testimonials free. ?Sr-Eold by DrtrgglsW, vrioo 75c. per bottle. SAUGE PL?NKETT. > *?~ A Look at the Piotures of thb War in Cuba. Atlanta Oomtitution. When I look upon the pictures of cruelties in Cuba it makes me shud der, for old folks in Georgia know just how it is themselves. When I look upon these piotures I cannot help but think of the times we had right here in Georgia when old Sherman oaine, and as 1 study upon it, somehow, the echoes of the songs that were sung around the dying bed of a good old woman seem ir tingle in my ears. There is no harm in telling the story, that the young generation may know that the cruelties of war are not peculiar to the island of Cuba, nor entirely attached to the Spaniards alone. There used to lire between Atlanta and the Chattahoochee?a little to the right of where Westview cemetery now stands?a family of people that I can give as a sample of the cruelties of those days. They were a well-to-do family?a widow with three sons and two daughters. When the war broke out the three sons volunteered at once and they remained with the army all the way down to Atlanta, and not one of them was ever hurt nor siok in the whole four years? a remarkable history of one family, when it is well known that the whole three were faithful and gallant to a marked degree. * The mother of this family, a widow for years, was past eighty, and when the armies arrived around Atlanta she could do nothing more than remain at her home out by Westview._ When Hardee went to Jonesboro all three of her boys were with him and they were terribly distressed-about the condition that their family might he in, never having visited their home, as olose to it as they were. Just at the time that Hardee moved down to Jonesboro there was much - depression among the sol diers and there was much speculation as to what was going to be done. The boys knew that their mother and sis ters were obliged to be in* a suffering condition and often it was that they had discussed it among themselves. At last they decided that these loved ones at the old home must he attended to, let it cost what it would. They well knew there was no use trying to get a furlough at that time and so they decided that one of them should desert. All three of them being faithful Con federates, they decided to draw straws to see which should be the deserter. The youngest of the three drew the shortest straw, and so it was that Charlie, as he was named, took the risk and the odium of being a deserter. There was no time to be lost, so when night came on Charley bravely walked forth from the Confederate lines and was soon on his way back to the old home, to his mother and sisters. He went clear around Alan ta, clear around his home and came up from the other side. He found his people in a suffer ing condition, and told me afterwards that had it not been for some scraps of potatoes that he gathered from Judge Wilson's patch they would have starved. After the fight at Jonesboro Hood's army took the back track and went to Tennessee again, while old Sherman pitched out toward the sea, after mak ing way with everything that he could passibly lay handc upon. Before Sherman left Atlanta he issued orders for everybody to leave for a certain distance around the city. They could take their choice of going South or back across the Ohio river. No more cruel thing has ever happened in Cuba than this, and I said right then that the back of my hand was against old Sherman, and it is to this day, dead though he be. These circumstances put Charlie, the youngest deserter, iu the most trying condition. His poor old mother was past eighty?too feeble to go back across the Ohio?he was a deserter in the Confederacy and so he knew not what to do. At last he decided that the best thing he could do would be to go to Atlanta, let the yankee com mander know the circumstances and throw himself upon their mercy. There Tas no mercy in those days, not a whit more than there is in Cuba at this time. Anyhow, Charlie went into Atlanta, huu'o<l up old man Markham, who sto( , ell with the yankees fo. his unioi. proclivities and together they went to the headquarters of one Lea..'ct, who was the quartermaster general of the yankees at that time. Be it said, to the credit of Mr. Markham, that although a unionist, he never tired in doing good turns for the Southerners and worked hard in relieving the suf fering all around at that time. He went with Charlie to Leduct and he plead for him and told of the feeble condition of the old mother, but it done no good. With a flourish of his hand he called a subordinate and ordered the family moved outside of what was then designated as the "limit"?the line around Atlanta in which no citizen was allowed to re main. Charlie had nothing left him but to go back across the Ohio, while his poor old mother and sisters were put in an army wagon, taken beyond EaBt Point and dumped right out in the big road without anything on earth to shelter or to feed upon. Nothing in Cuba surpasses this in cruelty. From where they were'dumped like garbage this poor family went on their way toward Jonesboro. Of course, they could not get far before the old mother must sink. At night the girls gathered some leaves and made a bed the best they could for the mother. Away in the night Brown and I heard the girls crying and we went to their camp. The most pitiful scene I ever saw was there as that poor old mother passed away. Poor old soul, she looked upon her daughters with such a pitiful gaze and yet she strove to the last to cheer them. She begged them not to cry and asked us to sing a song. Brown opened up on the old "Ship of Zion" and it soothed them all, but before the song had ended she wandered in her mind and would hold to her children's hands as she mut tered : "Oh, einp; me a song that will take me Backward on memory's swift wing To the home and scenes of mv girlhood And the jovs and comforts these bring: Ob. sing me the snngs that I sang you In the years that have long been past, For around them memories cluster That is sweet to my soul to the last." While Brown and me sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" the good old mother passed beyond the cruelties of war, and I think it was for the best, but I can't help but think of such things when I hear so much of the cruelties in Cuba. Saroe Plunkett. ? Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwelle upon, and tho deeper it sinks into, the mind. A Shock to Greenville, Gbrenville, April 14.?This morn ing at 7 o'clock ex-Mayor W. W. Gil reath was found in his business office in a dying condition, with a bullet hole passing through the head from above the right ear and coming out above the left ear. For some weeks he has been suffering from nervous prostratiop, attended with liver trouble, which produced a serous case of melancholia His friends and rela tives have been very uneasy about his mental and physical condition, and efforts had been made-to get him to take a rest. His business partner has been away from the city for several weeks at the bedside of his wife who is oritioally ill. JMr. Gil reath expected to leave the oity to day. About half past G this morning he bought a revolver and went to the Btore of the Gilreath-Durham oom* pany, closed the dcor, and that was the last time he was seen alive. At 7 o'clock the clerk, who opens the store went to the door and and found it unlocked. He went to the rear of the store and heard moans in the busi ness office. Opening the door of the office he saw Mr. Gilreath lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He summon ed Dr. Earle and Sergeant Hall of the police force, and when they arrived found Gilreath dead. Mr. Gilreath has been a prominent man in business, polities and the church. He was appointed county I treasurer by Governor Hampton and was elected to succeed himself. At the expiration of his term ho turn ed his attention to business, with great success, having amassed a snug fortune. He was elected mayor of the city by a handsome majority. During his administration many valu able improvements were complete, the greatest being the ma.cadamizing of Main street. At the expiration of his term he retired from politios, giving his time and enegy to the business of the Gilreath-Durham company, of which he was president. He was a prominent and active member of the Methodist church, probably the most liberal contributor to the work of the church in the city. He served during the war in the famous Butler Guards, and was a gal lant soldier. He leaves a widow, but no children. He was a member of the Gilreath family, one of the most prominent and widely connected fam ilies in this part of the State. His death has cast a gloom over the city.? The State. General Kennedy Dead. Camdem, April 14.?Gen. John D. Kennedy died here this morning at 1 o'clock from apoplexy. He had had a serous attack of congestion of the lungs, but had apparently recovered and attended to his profesional duties prior to the day of his death. The deceased enjoyed excellent health all of his life, having hardly ever been sick, except from hifi wounds received in the late war. The whole city mourns as a body over the loss of this distinguished gentleman, soldier and lawyer. He was a true type of the ante-bellum southern gentleman. The remains will be interred to morrow morning in the Quaker ceme tery in the family plot. The following brief sketch of his life is from the Wateree Messenger. "General John D. Kennedy was born in Camden, S. C, January 5, 1849, the soi of Anthony M. Kennedy and Sarah Doby Kennedy. His moth er was the granddaughter of Abraham Belton, a pioneer settle of Camden, and a patriot soldier in the Revolu tion. His father ws.s born in Scot land, having emigrated to the United States about the year 1830, at which time he settle in Kershaw county, S. C-, where he married. General Ken nedy obtained his early scholastic training in the Camden schools, and in 1855, at the age of 15, entered the South Carolina college at Columbia. He entered the law office of Maj. W. Z. Leitner soon after, and was ad mitted to pratice in January 1861, and in April of that year joined the Con federate army as captain of Company E, Second South Carolina regiment, under the oommand of Col. J. B. Ker shaw. In 1864 was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and held that position at the close of the war, hav ing surrendered at Greensboro with General Johnstone in 1865. General Kennedy was six times wounded and 15 times hit by spent balls. At the close of the war he resumed his pro fession at Camden, but abandoned it soon after and turned his attention to planting. In 1877 he once more re turned to the bar and has since been active and prominently engaged in his practice. In 1876 he was a member of the State executive committee and was its chairman in 1378. In Decem ber 1865, he was elected to congress, defeating Col. C. W. Dudley, but did not take bis seat, as he refused to take the "iron clad oath." In 1878 79 he represented his county in the legislature, and was chairman of the committee on privileges and elections. He was elected lieutenant governor of the State in 1880, and in 1882 was a promient candidate for governor, but Col. Hugh S. Thompson received the nomination over General Bratton and himself. He was elected grand mas ter of the grand lodge A. F. M. of South Carolina in 1881, and served two terms. As a member of the na tional Democratic convention in 1876, he cast his vote for Tilden and Hen dricks, and in 1884 was presidential elector at large on the Democratic ticket. President Cleveland sent him as consul general to Chandhia, China, in 1886. In 1890 he was chairman of the State advisory committee of the "Slraightout" Democratic party. In early life he was married to Miss Elizabeth Cunningham, who died in 1876. In 1882 Miss Harriet A. Boy kiu became his wif?.?The State. ? The bridge to be built over the Tennessee Rirfer at Knoxville is to be a remarkable structure in many re respects. It is to be entirely of pink marble from near quarries, 1,600 feet long, with one arch of 240 feet, twenty feet longer than any other arch in the world. At its highest point it is to be 105 feet above the water, and it is to have a roadway fifty feet wide. An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to Melick's drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for in flammatory rheumatism which had crippled me up. After using three bottles I am completely cured. lean cheerfully recommend it.?Chr.ilesH. Wetzel, Sunbury. Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on Au0ust 10, 1894.?Walter Ship man, J. P. For sale at fifty oentsper buttle by HiM Brun, OPEN WINDOWS, BY REV. EDWARD A. IIORTON. "Windows open toward Jerusalem." ?Dan. vi., 10. A pupil in the public schools wrote an essay whioh began with the quota tion from one of our great American thinkers, "Hitch your wagon to a star." The teacher, to whom the composition was submitted, severely criticised the writer for using this ex pression, claiming that it ws.s slang. This error of judgment showed not only a deficiency on the part of the educator with regard to his reading, but also disolosed his laok of good sense. There is no better watchword than that injunction. The lad who used it was on the right track. He was in touch with the noble man of old who is described as keeping the windows of his room open toward Jeru salem even while in exile. What does this mean .for us who are meeting everyday duties? Can we hitch the wagon of our ordinary enterprise to the star of some high purpose? In other words, are there certain windows that we ought to keep open, doing which we are helped to ways most practical? I am very confident that the great need for us all at the present time is the open window condition of mind and heart. Let me specify what I mean. In the first place, we get what I may call "horizon." Any toiler in the city who takes his. summer outing will un derstand what this expression means at once. He passes out of the narrow streets and high walls of brick to up lands and hills and far-reaching fields. There is a seme of largeness, space for thought and action, and a feeling that one is not hemmed in and crowded. Horizon is a word that means for peo ple at large a long look and an inspir ing one. The worker in the world without sky and horizon in his thoughts becomes a mere slave. There are vari ous kinds of bondage, of whioh the physical is not the worst. The slav ery of habits and mind, whereby we become fettered, in dull, dreary.ways of performing things, is about the direst calamity that can b if all human beings. We were made n grow. No oue can grow without norizon. He must have incentive and see things ahead. This brings to such a person a largeness-of spirit which is helpful of the best results. * * * * Another benefit from open :ndow condition of character is the .a- .pt of courage thereby. I mean by this, that looking uquarely at things as they are, one gels a valor which oannot come in any other way. Little fires are built by small ships. If you want sustained vigor in life you must draw from a large source. The dynamo that run the every-day activity to its fullest and best must be one of no mean kind. Courage is closely related to hope. "We are saved by hope." If we take little views, surface views, shut-in-views, then we lack the inspi ration that comes from seeing all things together. He who has an open win dow over history, and sees how man kind has struggled and conquered, receives a fresh installment of courage for his own personal battle. The open window of biography is one of the finest, surest sources of fortitude and endurance. Biography liells us what our fellow human beings have been doing who stood on the peaks. They are greater than we, but of the same family. Their achievements lift ours. In other words, if we close the windows of our observation and darken ourselves, we shut out the sunshine which comes from heroes, reformers and saints. This thought about cour age through the open window can be applied in many ways, and each one who is immersed in the vicisitudes of life can understand perfectly what this means. The simple matter is, we forget to forecast some daily use of this advan tage. Let ris renew our courage con stantly by grand outlooks of this kind. There is another gain by hitching our wagon to a star; it comes in an increase of confidence. The usual pulpit name for this is faith. What I mean is well understood in the world at large, namely, a sense of security and a willingness to go forward. As when we trust a bridge for the first time or lean on friendship's pledges. We believe and act accordingly. No man can maintain steadiness of thought and action in the world to-day, whether in business or the professions, without the habit of open-window outlook. He must be able to look through ap pearances into realities. He must have the faculty of comparing things. The infant or the child-man in history, goes simply by disconnected facts. The man of to-day threads together an immense variety of transactions by some one guiding principle. For in stance, to illustrate: The patriot who fails to look through battlefields to the great principles of our government, slowly getting into power, is easily discouraged. The reformer who takes only a few years as the guage of what can be done will speedily throw aside his faith in man. * * * * Common sense tells us to-day to have insight, and insight means the habit of accepting this law and letting it rule our couduct. The law is that progress comes surely, though slowly. That evolution is traceable all over the affairs of this world. That good will conquer evil when man and wo men band together to accomplish it. Truth is steadily on the gain, ^nd the conditions of life are improving. This cannot be enthusiastically accepted with shut windowe of the mind. Neither can enthusiam for humanity be kept up to its proper pitch with the shut windows of the heart. There must be the constant outlook over humanity as a whole and events in the mass. There are losses and setbacks in certian quarters, while to the wide guaze there appear signifi cant marches of advance. * * * * The whole application of this topic brings up at last to spell out the word "religion." When we look at it soberly, that is what ?;he open-window view means. Religion is, in its purest form, a way of looking at existence in its large, truest aspects. Whenever any rf its forms are sincerely used, there is an oudook into the broader thought of life and destiny. We see ourselves as pirts of a grand whole, filled with a plan and governed by a divine design. We cannot see all this piece by piece. This reminds me to say, that patchwork no doubt is valu able for certain purposes. It may be useful or n subject of curiosity. But the thing to be admired is a web, wo ven of sustained texture aud prepared with intelligent care. The looms made it and the ingenuity of man devised it. So with thfis problem of'life, is it wWbh living, and what ara the issues out of it ? No proper answer can be given in the shut up conditions were we to look only at a few facts; or when we see things in the din! light of superstition and ignorance. The more truth we can get, the grander is our temple of the universe, in which we worship the Supreme Being. We are very confident that as far as we can see, we shall find tokens of a rul ing power. All this brings back the psalmist to sing again his song of praise and trust; it places the prophet on the mountain top to speak a mes sage of oheer and hope, and it sets on the weary lips of the world the muBic of contentment and victory. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. President Jeffersou Davis said to me on more than one occasion : "I re gard Stephen D. Lee as one of the very best all-round soldiers which the war produced. I tried him in artillery, and he handled his guns so superbly that I did not think I could spare him from that branch of the service. But I put him in command of cavalry, and he led his troopers with a skill, dash and gallantry that made me feel that he was a born cavalry leader, and ought to permanently command cav alry. And when I put him in command of infantry he was equally at home there, and showed the very highest qualities of aoommander." When the war closed he was unques tionably one of our ablest generals, and he has proved himself since a high-toned, Christian gentleman, an able educator, and one of the first citizens of Mississippi. No one can study the career of Gen. Lee without being convinced of the justness of Mr. Davis's tribute. As the brilliant young artillery officer at the capture of Fort Sumter, as the commander of the guns which did such splendid service, and contributed so materially to our great victory at Second Manassas, and as, the heroic and skilful artillerist who* fought his guns" to the very muzzle at Sharpsburg, where 33,000 Confederates withstood nearly 100,000 Federals under Mc Clellan, Stephen D. Lee "won his spurs" as one of the most brilliant of that galaxy of Confederate artillery officers, who, with inferior gans, in ferior ammunition, and inferior equip ments of every description, were al ways more than a match for the artil lery opposed to them. His service during the siege of Yicksburg, his service in command of all of the cavalry of Alabama, Missis sippi and *">8t Tennessee; his able command oi all of the troops in that department; his brilliant defeat of Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou ; his command of a corps in Johnston's and Hood's Army of the Tennessee ; his services in Hood's ill-fated Tennessee campaign, and the skill and daring with which he commanded the rear guard and saved the remnant of Hood's army on the retreat from Nashville all combine to make a record of which any soldier might be proud, and there can be but little doubt that had the war lasted longer and Gen. Lee lived he would have had higher command and still more brilliant career. Having been captured by a beauti ful and accomplished Columbus wo man, and his vocation as an officer in the United States army being now gone, he left his native and loved South Carolina and settled in Colum bus, Miss. He was for several terms a member of the Mississippi Senate, was a leader in the State Constitutional Convention, and might have attained any political position within the gift of the people of Mississippi. But some years ago he became pres ident of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of the State, and has shown such rare wisdom and success in the management of the affairs of the college that he has made it a most conspicous success, and the people have said with one voice : "We can not afford to make Gen. Lee Governor or Senator. We cannot spare him from our college." He is an admirable writer?his re ports as chairman of the history com mittee of the United Confederate Veterans have been able, clear and ornate?and a graceful speaker, and his selection for the post of honor at the laying of the corner-stone of the monument to "our President" is eminently wise and appropriate. He will give us an address worthy of the great occasion and the great theme. Allow me to add that as it has been my privilege to share his graceful hospitality upon several occasions, and to see a good deal of him at our reunions, and elsewhere. I may say without impropriety that Gen. Lee is a modest, high-toned, Christian gen? tleman, whom we honor ourselves in honoring.?Rev. J. William Jones, in the Richmond Dispatch. "Kiss the Fool and Let Him go Home." The story goes that a certain society young man, man, noted for his hand some bearing and winning voice, ac companied a young lady to her home, and, as all true lovers do, linger yet a little while at the gate to have a lover's tete-a-tete with his fair com panion. The night was beautiful, no one was near to intrude, above all, he loved her! Why shouldn't she kiss her ? With true maidenly modesty, she refused. He implored. She still held from him that which would fill his cup of happiness. The request was repeated several times, and so en grossed did the young man become in wooing, he failed to notice the ap proach of the paternal step. The old gentleman had been there himself and did not care to intrude upon the happiness of the young couple, so stepping behind a convenient rose bush, ..aited, thinking the young man would soon leave. In this he was mistaken. The lover tarried over the request until the patience of the old gentleman was exhausted. A voice the couple well knew, aroused them from their happiness, in a tone of im patient anger, by saying : "Daughter, kiss that fool and let him go home 1" It is reported that the young man only hit the ground in high places in his endeavor to comply with the old gen tleman's command. ? During the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin, of Long Beach, West Va., contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it he says: "I used sev eral kinds of cough syrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved me almost instantly, and in a short time brought about a complete cure." When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not find it necessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It has been in the market for over twenty years and constantly growu in favor and popularity. For sale at 25 and 50 cents ptrr bottle by Hill Bktb. All Sorts of Paragraph*. , ? The yolk of an egg is said to be a very good substitute for cream in coffee, aod will answer for three cups. ? "Scientists say now that hand shaking conveys disease." "Of course: that's the way the grip got started. ? Many a man dreads throwing away his life at once, who shrinks not from throwing it away by piece-meal. ? Rev. Parsons?I hope there was something about my sermon whioh in terested you ? Mr. Knapp?Yes, sir; it was long to be remembered. ? I doubt whether there is any popular idea of heaven now prevalent among the people. I know scarcely^ two persons that have the same con ception of heaven.?Rev. B. Fay Mills. ? "How jaded your horse looks, oabman I" remarked an old lady, as she dismounted from the cab. Is not the bit uncomfortably large for his mouth?" "It ain't the big bit in his mouth, mum. It's the small hit in his stomach." ? Patient (who has just had his eyes operated upon)?Doctor, it seems to me fifty ^dollars is a high price to charge for that job. It didn't take you ten seconds. Eminent Oculist? My dear friend, in learning to perform this operation, in ben seconds I have spoiled more than two bushels of eyes as yours. - ? Potatoes in New York State are so cheap that farmers are throwing them away. One man is burning them in his stove and says they make a ve?y hot and steady fire. At some auctions of farm property held lately tubers sold at two and one-half cents a bushel and in many instances no bids coul?"-? be secured. 4 ? It will be an agreeable surprise to persons subject to attacks of bilious colic to learn that prompt relief may be had by taking Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In many instances the attack may bo prevented by taking this remedy as soon as the first symptoms of the dis ease appear. 25 and 50 cent bottles, for sale by Hill Bros. ? Forty yeara or more ago I sat in the Indiana logistature next to an old fellow who always voted 'no' on every hill that was presented. One day I said to him : 'What's the matter with you ? Can't you say 'aye ?' Why you havn't voted for anything since you've been in the honse." "Well," said hfl, "if a good law passes all right. You never hear anything from that, hut if you pass a bad law, I want to be on the record right." ? Experiments in crossing riversvj^ have recently been made by the Austrian cavalry with water-tight haversacks filled with straw. Four of these were foxmed into a sort of raft, held together by three sabres; on these five men got astride, the fore most steering with a pole, and the horses were led, swimming. It took jb eight minutes to prepare, eight min utes more to cross a river 650 feet wide and twelve feet deep, and two minutes ~ to resaddle on the opposite bank. ? One reason men overestimate thems'' es and underestimate their neighbors is that they give themselves credit for all their good desires and purposes. They- know of the good 'they -wish were done, and they take to themselves credit for wishing it. But they cannot see the desires and purposes of their neighbors ; but only their deeds, and hence this credit fails. Judging themselves by their desires and others by their deeds, men. think of themselves more highly and of their neighbors less highly than they ought to think. ? A little romance of ' the war was appropriately rounded out at Harlem Court House, Ky., a f ew days ago. In 1862 a fine young fellow of 17, named Jesse Baker, a Confederate, was wounded in a skirmish near that place, and wa3 left by his command at a mountain cabin owned by John Cal leen. a bushwacker, who wa& helping the Yankees. John and his wife-were absent, and only their 13-year-old daughter, Nannie, was at home. She cared for the wounded boy, nursed him through a three months' sickness and fell in love with him dur?nirtha^ V time. But Baker went away, forgot Nannie, and at the close of the war married another girl. His wife died. A little whiie ago he moved to Har lem County, where he discovered his ?~ benefactress, Nannie, and found she was a widow. A few days aeo they were married.?Philadelphia Times. Just the Difference. A boy will climb up a big^bloak cherry tree and sit on a big limb for two hours, eating cherries just as fast as he can. He doesn't take the trouble to pit the cherries, he swallows stones and all and soon has a bushel stored away somewhere inside him. Then he will get down and go off with, a lot of boys and play baseball in the hot sun all day, eat three terrific meals, go to bed right after supper and sleep soundly all night long, says the Chu rubusco, Ind., Truth. The next morning he will be up bright .*nd early ready to go through another . performance of the same kind, with some frills added. Now, just let a man play that kind of a game, a, "fair, fat and forty" man, for instance. In the first place he'd have to be hoisted into the tree with a block and tackle, or dropped into it from a balloon, or shot into it from out of a cannon. In the next place, after he'd eaten the cherries he'd want to go to bed right off, and the next day he'd be stretched out on a slab, with a couple of doctors ex ploring his inwards for appendicitis. When it comes to having fan, a man is not in it a little bit with a bare footed lusty boy. A boy can start out in the morning with a lot of other boyB for a ramble through the country, and if they don't have a good time, I don't knew what: a good time is. They will scramble over the first orchard fence they coma^-^~ to and fill themselves plumb full of green apples, green pears, green plttoSj||| green everything 1 Then they will go into swim with the sun shining straight down on them, stay in until they arc blue with cold and when they come out they'll hunt up another orchard and eat another lot of green fruit. And it won't hurt them one solitary bit. But just let a full grown man try it and what will be the result ? Why, he will be groaning all the way back home, and when he gets there all the physicians in the neighborhood will be called in. But they won't be able to do him a bit of good, and in an hour or so he will be lying out straighter than he ever was before, "grinning at nothing and waiting for the undertaker to come along with the latest style in wooden dress suits. Why, a boy is ten timBB as tr/cgh as a ma*, isn't he ? i