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Was Judas Ev< Mrs. Felton in . This was the question pronouaccd to a large and earnest congregation by our pastor at this morning's (Sunday) eervice. What do the readers of The Journal think shout Judas? Was he a bad man "from thc begin ning," as some insist. Or was he a good man who fell from grace and afterward sold his Master fer thirty pieces of silver? The able divine who discbsscd thc character of Judas asked theoe ques tions, and afterwards gave us his own opinion. When Judas was selected by the Master as a disciple and apos tle, he was a good man in his inten tions and o>fiircB. To be less than a good man would discount the omnis cience of tlc Master, who chose the twelve and lived ia close connection with them during His earthly minis try. But 'A a certain time, just be fore Judat concluded to betray Jesus into thc iuds of his enemies, the Master announced that one of them "is a devil." It ?B preposterous to suppose that Jesus made knowing choice of a devil when Judas was first named as a disciple. That sug gestion would reflect upon Himself. Therefore the trouble must have lain in the change which was wrought in the character of Judas during the period of his affiliation with Christ and His disciples. From being aman of good oharaoter, Judas through some debasing influence, was trans formed into a being of low inclinations and sordid motives. What influence prcscntB itself as a debasing influence on the character of Judas? The preacher declared it to be Ju das' inordinate lovo of money. Ju das was tho treasurer of the organi zation. He "carried tho bag." Ho was a business man, so to speak. Ho discovered financial possibilities in his service to the Master. When the crowds shouted "All hail," and flung T. tai branohcB before the Saviour, he ex nee ted to become a very rioh man, doubtless, as chief financier of the kingdom. But when tho chief piiests shouted "Crucify him," and the prospect for money making became much clouded, poor, miserable Judas had already forsaken God for the mammon of un righteausness. He was then eaten up with desire for gain, and never until the depth of his sordid depravity was revealed to his own mind did he fling down the betrayal money and commit suicide. Tho minister told the story of an acquaintance of his own, of a good hoy whose oharaoter for honesty, truthfulness and uprightness was the universal praise of the community, who joined the church with a happy ezperienoe. AU who heard it decided it to be a correct exposition of a good hoy's life and oharaoter. So things went out until the boy grew to be a .-e-: l __ _i _ j i_ mau miu m lauiiijr, ? cojicuiru ujr everybody. He then decided to open a business in town, namely a livory stable. They playod cards and drank liquor. After some time he began to play cards, and finally became a tip pler. He begau also to neglect his wife. He and his partner were not euooessful-lost what they had invest ed in the livery business. The father of the onoe good boy set him up in businer? again, but the had habits whioh he had acquired clung to him. At last the father and his son were seen together one day in a olump of woods not far away from their respec tive dwellings. A shot was heard in that direction by some who remember ed it afterwards. The son went home, hut the father failed to return. Some days passed, a search for the father was begun and he was found a corpse in the dump of woods with a bullet in his head. While many believed the son fired the fatal shot there was no witness to the deed who could crimi nate the son. The son had a pistol and the balls eorresponded to the bul let in the elder man's brain, but it was still a mystery, and thus forever romained a mystery. Said the minister: "That boy was a good boy when I first knew him. He was perfectly correct in his manners, his habits and his aotions. He was a good boy when he joined the ohureh. [Hump Bail ? SCOTTS EMULSION won t nuke a ? WM hump back straight, neither will lt make # ff a short Ie jj long, but it feed* soft bone J ?and heals diseased bone and is among @$ Ithe few genuine means of recovery in gs rickets and bone consumption. Si Send fdr free sample. vt SCOTT & BOWNE, CheraUt?, Rg 409-415 Pear) Street, Nsw York. ? soc.and Si.00; all drafgitta. & )AS. 3ra Good Man P Atlanta Journal. But sometime, somewhere, somehow, the change in his character took place. He was transformed from a good man to a very bad man." Thus he accounted for the lapse in Judas. He was a good mao when Jesus called him to the discipleship, but "money, the root of all evil." consumed his honor, his character and his piety. Rising to thc height of the argu i meut, thc minister cried out with tragic earnestness, "the love of mon ey is the cause of all decay in char acter." His delineation of the effect of this love of money on supposed good people was a searching exhibit of its fatal power, for ho told how the transfor mation went on, secretly and silently, until the once proud tree was laid low in its hopeless decay with inside rot tenness and thr ""im that preyed on character. "The higi . r the position the greater the fall," cr- .'J tho impas sioned speaker. Some may fall ten feet and be bruia ed and crippled, but when a minister of God's word falla through love of money and what money stands for, he drops from a height that mangles and destroys every fibre in his spiritual existence. Judas fell from a lofty height. Ho fell into an abyss that made his case a tr non y m for all that treachery rep resents in its heinous ingratitude. Judas Iscariot ia thc name that all men resent when applied to them selves, whether wicked or pious, rich or poor, bond or free. His besetting sin was an inordinate craving for money. It ate out his righteousness and left him what the Master called him, "a devil." Tho sins of his later lifo accumulated around this greed for gain. His ava rice attracted tho baser elements. With hypocrisy, there was ingratitude and base betrayal. Does anybody desire to discuss fur ther the character of Judas. If BO why should they not tell The Journal roaders how and when he became what the Saviour called him, when he said, "One of you is (not was) a devil?" No subject could be discussed which is more pertinent to this commercial age, especially in its effect on the church and its progress. Exchanging Children for the Holl liara A custom prevails in Denmark which might with advantago be gener ally copied in America. Parents all over the country exchange their chil dren during the summer holiday sea son, usually through the medium of newspaper advertisements. The youngsters from the villages go into town,' and beoome the smarter for their knowledge of oity life. The plaoe of the young "hayseeds" on the farms is taken by the little oity folks, who come baok to town, after a spell in tho fresh oountry air, with rosy cheeks and robust constitutions. In Switzerland parents exohange their children for a much longer period-sometimes for a year or two. The objeot is to improve the chil dren's eduoation. Three languages are spoken in the Swiss cantono German, Frenoh and Italian. A child born in a Frenoh eanton wi!? be sent, in due course of time, to live suooeas ively in the German and Italian con tons, and vice versa, so that practi cally every SW?BB speaks the three languages of his country perfeotly. He usually speaks English, too. Driver WOB Glad. On one occasion Daniel Webster was on his way to Washington, and was compelled to prooeed at night by stage from Baltimore, says the Roches ter Herald. He had no traveling com panion and the driver had a sort of felon look which produoed an incon siderable alarm in the senator. "I endeavored to tranquilize my self," said Mr. Webster, "and had partly suoceeded when we reached the dark woods between Bladens burg and Washington-a proper soene for murder and outrage-and here, I confess, my ccurago again, de serted me. Just then the driver turned to me, and, with a gruff voioe, inquired my name. T gave it to him. " 'Where are you goin?' said he. The reply was : "To Washington. I am a senator," Upon this the driver seized me fer vently by the hand and exolaimed : "How glad am II I took you for a highwayman!" - People read too much and learn too little. - If a man doesn't do right he ia apt to get left. - Trouble seldom fails to call on the man who expects it. * Vt llenare of the Boll Weevil. Accordiug to tbe Government re ports the boll weevil is spreading at the rate of two hundred and fifty miles a year in Texas, and unless seme sort of precautions are taken to pre vent the introduction of this pest it is sure to make its appearaoee in South Carolina, if, indeed, it has not already done so. Several days ago Mr. J. J. Lawton, of Hartsville, S. C., wrote to Gov. Heyward requesting information as to what steps, if any, have been j taken or would be taken to prevent "the importation into South Carolina thc coming fall and winter of Texas oats. A great many oats are planted in this State that are imported from Texas," and it has been pretty well established, we believe, that Texas oats is a very good medium for the transmission of the Tesas boll weevil. I'nleHB there Bhall be ample protection against this<source of infection, it as cctain as anything can bc that the cotton crop pest which has proved so destructive in Texas wili ravago tho cotton fields of South Carolina also. In reply to Mr. Lawton's letter Mr. .J. K. Normeot, Private Secretary, wrote as follows in thc absence of Gov. I icy ward : "I am advised that the statue pass ed at tho last session of thc Legisla ture prohibits the importation of oats coming from points in Texas affected by tho cotton boll weevil. This pro hibition is absolute in terms, but it leaves the material question as to what points are so affected to be de termined by the jury trying a oase brought for the prosecution of any person charged with violating the Act. In order to convict in such cases, I am also advised by the Attorney Gen eral that it would be necessary to provo what point tho oats came from; second, that such point was affeoted by the cotton boll weevil. Hearsay evidence and Government reports would not be admissible to prove these facts, and they would have to be prov ed by witnesses brought from Texas in order to testify before a magistrate. This renders the Act practically inop erative and not enforceable in thia State, as there is no process that could compel thc necessary witnesses to come from Texas in order to testify, and the expenso of bringing them would bo so considerable it is doubtful if any county would cate to incur it. There is no State fund for the pay ment of such expenses, and no State officials specially charged with the en forcement of the law." "Here'B a pretty how-do-do 1 Here's a state of things !" If the Act pass ed by the Legislature at its last ses sion "is practically inoperative aud is not enforceable in this State," why was it passed, and why was it approv ed by the Governor after it was pass ed ? Tbs danger to thc agricultural interests of the State ?B imminent, and having failed to advise the General Assembly as to the wholly inadequate means of protection provided in the tv.M weevil Act it is particularly the duty of the Governor to guard against the introduction of the boll weevil in to South Carolina through the impor I tation of Texas oats, or by any other I moana 'li Uooever. j Probably the Governor might be ablo to employ the dispensary con stables in the sp?cial work of guard ing thn Stntr? noninur. ?.h? importation of Texas oats in sheaf or grain just as we are sure these functionaries would be employed to proteotthe State of South Carolina against the importa tion of TexaB grains in its liquid form. If yellow fever or cholera or bubonio ! plague or smallpox should break out j in Texas it wonld be inoumbent npou ! the authorities in this State with or ' without any special statute defining their speoial duties in suoh oase, to provide against the introduction of any of these plagues into South Car olina. The Texas boll weevil is as destruotive to the cotton orop aa the Texas yellow fever or small poi or bubonio plague woola be to human kind, and we are sut? that the General Assembly wonld sustain the Governor in any extraordinary efforts he might make to prevent the introduction of the boll weevil into this State.-News and Courier. KILLS (JERKS OF CATARRH. Hyomei Goes to the Koot of the Dis ease and Makes Astonishing Coree. Catarrh cannot be cured by the us*, of pills, liquid medioines and so-called system tonics. Under such treatment the germs of the disease will still live in the air passages and incoase and multiply. Hyomei is the only scientific and thorough way to core catarrh. Kill ing the germs ia the air passages, it enters the blood with the oxygen, de stroys tho microbes in the blood and effectually drives from the system all traoes of oatarrhal poison. Probably the strongest evidenee that oan be offered as to the powers of Hyomei to oura catarrh i% tho faot that Evans Pharmaoy will agree to re fund the money if you tay Hyomnl has not cured you. Tho completo Hyomei outfit OOS?,B but $1.00, and consists of au inh'.ier that oan be oarriedVin the vest pocket, a medioine dropper and a bottle of Hyomei. The inhaler lasts a lifetime, and if one bottle does not cote, an ex tra bottle of Hyomei can be obtained for 50o. A Horror in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. July 28.-M. Von Plehve, minister of the interior, waa assassinated at U 50 o'clock this morn ing by a bomb thrown at his carriage while he was driving to the Baltic Sta tion tc take a train for the palace at Peterhof, where he was to make his weekly report to the Emperor. The assassination is believed to be the outoome of a widespread plot, the existence of which has been suspected for several days. Numerous arrests have already been made including that of the assassin, a young man who is believed to be a Finn named Leglo, and who is now in a hospital severely and perhaps fatally injured by the ex plosion of his own bomb. An accom plice of Leglo, also apparently a Finn, but whose name is unknown, has been arrested. He had in bis possession a bomb which he tried to throw, but he was overpowered by the police just in time to prevent great IOBB of life. The assassin wore a brown overcoat and a railroad official's cap. Pie stood on the sidewalk just as Minister Von I'lehve's carriage was about to cross thc canal bridge near the Btation. The minister was escorted by a number of detectives on bicycles and one of them jostled the assassin, who then rushed into the road and threw the bomb after the carriage. The missile struck the hind wheel and exploded w:*h fearful force, killing or wounding over a score of persona. Minister Von Plehve and his coaohman were killed outright, and an officer of the guard was fatally injured. One of the cyci'ot detectives arres ted the aseassin, who endeavored to eecape, though wounded by splinters in the face, arm and abdomen. He made no attempt at resistance, how ever, when seized by the detective, and confessed his crime, bat refused to give his name. The police immediately after the ex plosion arrested a suspicious indi vidual who took refuge in a hotel oppo site the scene of the tragedy. He oarried a bomb similar to that thrown by Leglo. AS soon as the police saw the bomb they scattered, but an em ploye of the hotel rushed up behind the accomplice and pinned his arms. The .explosive is believed to have been composed of pyroxlin, an it gave off little smoke. The force of the explosion was so terrific that it not only broke every window within a radius of half a mile, but re duced the heavy paving stones to powder, heaved up the pavement and flung a heavy piece of the iron work of the carriage across the canal, sever ing the thick mast of a barge which fell, stunning the captain of the barge. Everybody in the street was knocked down and more or less bruised. na . mt --- Font Hilled. Savannah, Ga., July 29.-A special from Statesboro says that Henry R. Rodgers, wife and his three children were killed near there last night and the house burned. The remains of the four were found in the ruins of the house. Blood Qtaino were outside the build ing, and it was discovered that the skulls of Rogers, his wife and one child were broken, apparently with an axe. There were no signs of an assault on the younger children, who were too young to proteot themselves from the fl?mes. Robbery 1B supposed to be the oause of the crime. No arrests have been made. - ''See here!"' exclaimed the angry man. "I wish you would muzzle that dog of yours at night. His barking keeps my baby awake." "J was just going to request you to muzzle your baby," rejoined the neighbor. "His nightly howling annoys my dog." His Own Brother. Thc noted soldier and historian, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, was educat ed in Berlin, and at a dinner party, apropos of German military discipline, he once said: "The German soldier must never appear in publio ezoept ia uniform. Even when he is oe furlough he must not. under any circumstances, wear civilian dress. "Well, Swats, a young lieutenant of cavalry, dorio j my residence in Ber lin, was one day engaged in some ad venture or another, and put on, to dis guise himself, a suit of black cloth. Dressed in thia suit he was passing down an unfrequented street, when he came face to face with his colonel. "Detected in so grave a misde meanor, Swatz proved himself the postessor of a resourceful mind. He said to the colonel, in a bass voice different from his own: U 'Can you tell me, sir, where Lieut. Swartz lives? I am his brother from the country, and I have come on to pay him a visit.' "The colonel readily and politely gave thc required information and passed on. "The lieutenant congratulated him self on his escape. He hurried home and put on his uniform. Duty late that afternoon called him before the colonel again. He saluted with confidence. The colonel regarded him oddly. " 'Lieutenant Swartz,' he said, 'I wish you'd tell your brother from the country, if he pays you ?nether visit, I'll put him in close confinement for ten days.' " Would Take no Chance. At one of the hotels the other night a travelling man, well known for his connection with the sale of divers wares to the merchants of North Texas, gave his views on and expe riences with the superstitious of the colored race. It appears that up in that neighbor hood east of Greenville he had occa sion to hire a buggy to go across the country and, with the buggy, there was thrown in by the livery stable a negro who, the trut oiling man says, was about the color of anthracite. The two traveled across the muddy roads for miles upon miles and all was going well, when suddenly the negro rose in the buggy. ? "Look a dah!" he shouted. The drummer looked barely in time to see an ordinary cotton tail rabbit cross the road like a streak of gray. The negro prepared to get out. "What are you doing?" demanded the drummer, catching at the lines as they fell. The negro got out. Then he carefully turned every one of his ragged pockets inside out, backed up to the place which the cotton tail had crossed and walked aoross the imagin ary line backward. Then he climbed into the buggy again. "Dab," he said. "Ain' gwine let no rabbit gib me no bad luck dis trip. No, sah!"-Galveston Tribune. - It is reported that the Charities BO ci ely of New York city, which cares for orphans, has communicated with Commissioner of Immigration Wat son telling him that a large number of boys of 17 years of age will be sent to this State to engage upon agricul tural pursuits. The eooiety sends about 200 boys to eaoh large agricul tural center where there are suitable occupations and salaries. The only condition is that they must be under the care of the State for two years, after whioh time they are supposed to be able io be their own masters. - Dead men tell no ?ales, but it's different with the writers of obitua ries. - The wide-awake ehap in the bald head row at burlesque shows always sleeps when he goes to ohureh. HEALTH AND^viTALin Tba great remedy for nervous prostration and ?ll diseases of tho generative Lost Manhood, , axcesBlve use with every APTCQ tlQItJC SS order wo Ruarantco to euro or refund tho morey. Sold r?? 8?.OO per box, iiricn Udinot o bozos rorss.oo. DB.. 5XOTT>S cH?mcajb co., cie veieua?, ?M FOR SALK BT STANS PO?BHAfT. WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. Il AMD Nashville, Chattanoona & St Louis Ry. TO ST, LOUIS and all points "West and Northwest Three Solid Trains Daily, with Pullman PolacelSleeping CaiB^j? llanta to St. Louis, without change. Only through car service, Atlanta to Chicago, without change. Close connections made at Atlanta with the Seaboard Air Line Bail way Centrai of Georgia Ballway and the Southern Railway trains. ?. Foi map folders or other information write to , Thoa. R. Jones, T. P. A., ??o. liNorth Pryor St, Atlanta, Qa, Chae."E. Harman, Gen. Pass. Agent H. F. Smith; Traffic Manager. SLEEPING VOLCANOES A thin, vapory smoke, lazily ascend ing from its crater, may be the only vis? ible sign of life in the sleeping volcano ; but within is a raging sea of fire, molten rock and sulphurous gases. Those who make their homes in the peaceful val leys below know the danger, and though frequently warned by the rumblings and quakings, these oigns of impending erup tion go unheeded. They are living sn fancied security; when the giant awakes with deafening roars.and they are lost beneath a downpour of heated rock and scalding ashes. Thousands of blood ooison sufferers are living upon a sleeping volcano, and ore taking desperate chances, for under the mercury and pot- _ mt . I nih trpqtmpnt th? ?-eternal ? ... Bow?n* Gr???. Ky., Star. ML 1009. asn treatment me external Gentlemen: Por over four years X Buffered ey mt porns of the disease dis- rreatly from ? ?ovare oase of contoirioua blood appear and the deluded vic- i^?riffinM? tim is happy in the bellet Ot alelan?, who prooorlbod Mercury. Nothing* did a complete cure; but the ^?!Z?Rftfef^t&*tf-***^jwovidmoja, _ ? ? harmful than beneficial. I mentioned my case tr. fires of contagion have only ? friend, who told me that 8. 8. S. had certainly been smothered in the 6V6- ourodhim. Iatonoecommenoed ita usa, and at? . , . ter continuing* it for aumetime eould find no trace tem, and as soon as these 0f the disease whaterer. Thia waa about two minerals are left off will v?*f? .*<>. X can truthfully aay I am entirely . , ^_?_, well. X). M. BANDEES, blaze up again. Occasional cores break out in the mouth, a red rash appears en the body, and these warning symptoms, if not heeded, are soon followed by fearful eruptions, sores, copper-colored splotches, swollen glands, loss of hair and other sickening symptoms. Mercury and potash not only fail to cure blood poison, but cause mercurial Rheumatism, necrosis of the bones, offen sive ulcers and inflammation of the stomach and bowels. The use of. S. S. S. is never followed by any such bad results. It cures without the slightest injury to the system. We offer $i,ooo for proof that it contains a mineral of any descrip-* tion. S. S. S. is an antidote for conta-j gious blood poison, it destroys everyj atom of the virus and purifies andi strengthens the blood and builds up tbd general health. tl We will mail free our special boola' on Contagious Blood Poison, with full directions for home treatments Medical advice is furnished by our physicians without charge. m? SWiFT 9P?BUF?G GO?, ATtABTA* To Stove Buyer ------^M^- , Special attention is invited to a new shipment of ACORN STOVES AND RANGES Which we have just received, and which includes the very .latest pattern* both coal or wood, adapted to the requirements of this market. If you require anything in the Stove or Hange line we solicit an oppor tunity to explain the merits of THE ACORN We also carry a complete and up-to dateline of TINWARE, WOOD ENWARE and HOUSE FURNISHINGS. ggU Guttering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring executed on short notier Yours truly, ARCHER & NORRI8. AFTER THIS DATE We Will Not Retail Fertilisers And Acid Phosphate to Any One? We do this for the reason that we are represented here by Merchants^ and it will be much better for all of the retail business to pass through theb nando, thereby saving a lot of confusion. We therefore respectfrilly'aek om friends to call on OSBORNE & PEARSON. OR DEAN & RATL.IFFE? Or any other one of our representatives here or any adjacent town. We are represented at every Town in the up-country, and hope to merit your co? inued liberal patronage. OUR GOODS ARE FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT i And the results Dhow that there is none superior in quality. * . ?HDERSON PHOSPHATE MD Oil Blood er. We are felling Armour's Guano and Acidad have a few moro cars of onr contract loft. Tf yon want high grade Blood Ammoniated Goods see ne AT OHCB. VANDIVER BROS. i?'.. N For Overhauling Carriages and Buggies so a? to have them ready for, Bei trice in pretty weather. We have a hoe lot of material and plen ty good, reliable help, and will do our beat to jplease with repairs on ?Uve?deica? PAUL ?L ?TEPHENE SITUATE? on and near North If ala Street.. tn ve minn tea? walk Court Honee Appty to J. P. ?llnkacalaa, Intelligencer O Bi OA Notice to Creditors, . A tl, persona having demands against the Katate of D. e.. Maxwell, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, properly proven, to the undersigned prescribed by law, ands -ike payan cnt LAXWTSLL, Jt?'-x. Jun* 22,1901 V 8 v