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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1889. CHAPLAIN TAMAIGE Preaches to the Thirteenth Reg. ment at Peekskill, N. Y., On "Uses of Stratagem"--Four Lessons which He Learns From Joshua's As sault on the City of Al-A Via- . torious Retreat. Chaplain T. DeWitt Talmare opreached last Sunday to the Thirteenth Regiment of the New York State National Guards, en eamped at Peekskill, N. Y. The subject of his sermon was "Uses of Stratagem," and it was based on Joshua, chapter viii, vese 7: "Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, upon the city." He said: Men of the Thirteenth Regiment and their u. m 0a1Uet,, m aL uccupafns,. and professions, men of the city, and men of the fields, here is a theme It for all of us. One Sabbath evening, with my family around me, we were talking over the scene of the text. In the wide open eyes and the quick interrogations and the blanched dheus, I realized what a thrilling drama * it was. There is the old city, shorter by name than any other city in the es, spelled with two letters-AI-Ai. Joshua and his men want to take it. How to do it is the question. On a former ossasion, in a' straightforward, face to face fight, they had been defeated; but now they are going to take it by ambuscade. General Joshua has two divisions in his army-the one division the battle-worn commander wiEulad himself, the other division he sends aff to encamp in an ambush o the west side of the city of Ai. No torchesno lanterns, no sound of heavy battalions but 30,000 swarthy warriors moving in silence, speak .ag only in a whisper; no citiong of swords against shields, lest the watchmen of Ai dis sever it and the stratagem be a failure. If a roystering soldier in the Israelitish army forgets himself, all alongthe line the word is "Hush!" Joshua takes the other division, te one with which he isto march, and puts it an the north side of the city of Ai, and then -spends the night in reconnoitering in the valley. There he is, thinking over the for tanes of the coming day, with something of the feelings of Wellington the night before Waterloo, or of Meade and Lee the night be iSee Gettysburg. There he stands in the night, and says to himself, "Yonder is the in ambush on the west side of Ai. Bare the division I have under my -especial command on the north side of AL There is the old city slumbering in its sin. To-morrow will be the battle. Look! the -drning already begins to tip the hills. The -mfmtary oficers of Al look out in the morn ing very early, and while they do not see the diqjsion in ambush, they behold the other -. vision of Joshna and the cry, "To arms! to arms!" rings through all the streets of th old town, and every sword, whether 'backed and bent or newly welded, isbrought eut and an the inhabitants of the city of Al pour through the gates, an infuriated tor . rent, and the cry is: "Come, we'll make aniakwrkn with Inohnai -w&r ePo " 3op sooner had these people of Ai come out against the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave such a command as he seldom gave: Wall back I"- Why, they could not believe their own ears. Is Joshua's courage failing h.mi The retreat is beaten and the Israelites are flying, throwing blankets and canteens on every side under this worse than Bull Hen -defeat. And you ought to hear the soldiers of Al cheer and cheer and cheer. But they huzza too soon. The men lying tn ambush are straining their vision k get some signal from Joshua that they may know what time 'to drop qo the city. Joshua takes his bur spear, glittering in the sun like a shaft of doom, and points ittoward the city; and when the men up yonder in the ambush se it, with hawk-like swoop they drop upon A , and without ssroke of sword or stab of spear take the city and put it to the torch. ao much for the division that was 2a ambush. How about the divis ion under Joshua's command? No inar does Joshua stop in the flight ean alibis men stop with him, and as he whel they wheel, forin a voice of thunder be erled, "Halt!" One strong arm driving back a torrent of flying troops. And then, -ss he points his spear through the golden 11ghttoward that fatal oity, his troops know '|bat they are to start for it. What a scene it was when the division in ambush which had tiaken the city marched down-sgainst the men of Al on one side, and the troops of Joshua doubled up their enemies from the other side, and the men of Ai were caught between these two hurricanes of Israelitish sourage, thrust before and behind, stabbed in breast ad back, ground between the up per and the nether millstones of God's in dignation. Wee to the city of Al! Cheer Mr the triumphs of Israel! Lesson the fret: There is such athing as viotorlous retreat. Joshua's falling back was the first chapter in his successful be dlegament. And there are times in your 1j2swhenthe best thing you can do is to run. You were onee the victim of strong drink. The demljoha and the decantor were your jere. foes. They came down upon you with greater fury than the men of Al npon the mn of Joshua. Your only safety is to get away from them. Your dissipating eamnanlinnaf will come around you for yoroverthrow. Run for your lIfer Fall bak Failback from the drinking saloon. F'aU back from the wine party. Your flight is your advance. Your retreat is your vic tory. There is a saloon down on the next street that has almost been the ruin of your soul. Then why do you go along that street? 'Why do you not pass through some other street rather than by the place of your alamity? A spoonful of brandy taken for edical purposes by a man who, twenty yasbefore, had been reformed from amenness, hurled into inebriety~ and the grave one of the best friends I ever had. :Tour retreat is your victory. Here is a - converted Infidel. He Is so strong now in 'his faith in the Gospel he says he can read any thing. What are you reading? Boling broke? Andrew Jackson Davis' tracts? tndaU's Glasgow University address? Drop them and run. You will be an infidel 'before you die unless you quit that. These men of Al willibe too much for you. Turn : our back on the rank anid file of unbelief. mybefore they cut you with their swords and transfe you with their javelins. There are people who have been well tigh ruined because they risked a fool .hardy expedition in the presence of mighty 'and overwhelming temptationls, and the men ;et Al made a morning meal of them. So also there Is such a thing as victorious re treat In the religious world. Thousands3 of itbns the kingdom of Christ has seemed to Ifa1 back. When the blood of the Scotch Covenanters gave a deeper dye to the 1heather of the Highlands, when the Vaudois Me France chose extermination rather than .mnake unchristian surrender, when on St. MartholomeW's day mounted assassins rode through the streets of Paris, crying: "Kiin! Bl3ood-letting is good in Augu.st! Kill! Death to the Hugenots! Killi" When Lady Jane h~ys ead rolled frem the executionerT bloek; when Calvin was Imprisoned In ths :instle; when John Knox died for the truth; hen John Bunyan lay rotting in Bedford sayings "If Ged will help me and my lif anie-Oiw, I'willstsy bere n - -aa.aeaamaa than give up my faith" the days ?f retreat for the church were days of victory. The Pilgrim fathers fell back from tae other sid of the sea to Plymouth Rock, but now are marshaling a continent for the Christianization of the world. The Church of Christ, falling back from Piedmont, fall ing bac: from Rue St. Jacques, falling back from St. Denis, falling back from Wurtem burg castle, falling back from the Brussels market place. yet all the time triumphing. Notwithstanding all the sbocking reverses which the Church of Christ suffers, what do we see to-day? Three thousand mission aries of the cross on heathen ground; sixty thousand ministers of Jesus Christ in this land; at least two hundred millions of Christians on the earth. A ll nations to-day kindling in a blaze of revival. Falling back, yet advancing until the old Wesleyan hymn will prove true: 1 give us the victory again andaen" i But there is a more marked illustration of victorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the Ages. First falling back from an appalling height to an appalling depth, falling from celestial hills to ter restrial valleys, from throne to manger, yet that did not seem to suffice him as a re treat. Falling back still further from Beth lehem to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Jeru salem, back from Jerusalem to Golgotha, back from Golgotha to the mausoleum in the rock, back down over the precipices of perdition until he walked amid the caverns of the eternal captives and drank of the wine of the wrath of Almighty God amid the Ahabs, and the Jezebels, and the Bel shazzars. 0 men of the pulpit and men of the pew, Christ's descent from Heaven to earth does not measure half the distance. It was from glory to perdition. He de scended into hell. All the records of earthly retreat are as nothing compared with this falling bacl. Santa Anna with the fragments of his army flying over the plateaus of Mexico, and Napoleon and his army retreating from Moscow into the awful snows of Russia are not worthy to be mentioned with this retreat, when all the powers of darkness seem to be pursuing Christ as he fell back, until the body of Him who came to do such wonderful things lay pulseless and stripped. Methinks that the city of Ai was not so emptied of its inhabi tants when they went to pursue Joshua, as perdition was emptied of devils when they started for the pursuit of Christ and He fell back and back, down lower, down lower. chasm below chasm, pit below pit, until He seemed to strike the bottom of objurgation and scorn and torture. O. the long, loud. jubilant shout of hell aWbbe defeat of the Lord God Almighty! But let notthe powers of darkness 19JP3 quite so soon. Do you hear that disturb ance in the tomb of Arimatheal I hear the. sheet rending! What means that stone hurled down the side of the hill? Who is this coming out! Push him back! the dead must not stalk in this open sunlight. 0, it Is our Joshua. Let him come out. He comes forth and starts for the city. He takes the spear of the Roman guard and points that way. Church militant marches up on one side and the church triumphant marches dlown on the other side. And the powers of dark ness being caught between thetse ranks of celdstial and terrestrial valor, nothing is left of them save just enough to illustrate the direful overthrow of hell and our Joshua's eternal victory. On His head be all the crowns. In His hand be all the scepters. At His feet be all the human hearts; and here. Lord. is one of them. Lesson the second: The triumph of the wicked is short. Did you ever see an army in a panic? There is nothing so uncontrol lable. If you had stood at Long Bridge, Washington, during the opening of our sad civil war, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those men of Ai looked out and saw those men of Joshua in a stampede, they expected easy work. They would scatterthem as the equinox the leaves. 0, the gleefulkand jubilant descent of the men of Ai upon the men of Joshua! But their exhilaration was brief, for the tide of battle turned and these quondam conquer rs left their miserable carcasses in the wil derness of Bethaven. So it always is. The triumph of the wicked is short. You make 32,000 at the gaming table. Do you ex pect to keep it? You will die in the poor house. You made a fortune by iniquitous tra~c. Do you expect to keen it? Your, money will scatter, or It will stay long enough to curse your child~ after you are dead. Call over the roll orbad men who prospered and see how short was their pros perity. For a while. like the men of Ai, they wenit from conquest to conquest, but after a while disaster rolled back uponthem and they were divided into three parts; misfortune took their prosperity, the grave took their body, and the lost world took their souLl.Iam always Interested in the building of dissipating saloons. I like to have them built of the best granite and have the rooms made large and to have the pillars made very firm. God is going to conquer them and they will be turned into asylums and art galleries and churches. The stores in which fraudulent men do busi ness, the splendid banking institutions where the president and cashier put all their property In their wives' hands and then fail for E200,000-a11 these institutions are to become the places where honest Christian men do business. How long will it take your boys to get through your ill-gotten gains ? The wicked do not live out half their days. For a while they swagger and strut,' and make a great splash in the newspapers, but after a while it all dwindles down into a brief paragraph: "Died suddenly, July 22, 1888, at thirty-tive years of age. Relatives and friends of t be family are invited to attend the funesal on Wednesday, at two o'clock, from his late residence on MJadison Square. Interment at Greenwood." Some of them jumped off 4he docks. Some of them took prussic acid. Some of them fell under the snap of a Derringer pistoL Some of thenm spent their last days in a lunatic asylum. Where are William Tweed and his associates? Where are Ketcham and Swartwout, ab sconding swindlers? Where is James Fisk, the libertine? Where is John Wilke s Booth, the assassin? and all the ether misdemuean: ants? The wicked do not live out half their days. Disembogue, 0 world of darkness! Come up, Hildebrand, and Henry II., and Robespierre, and with blistering, and blas pheming, and ashen lips hiss out; "The triumph of the wi1cked is short." Alas for the men of Al when Joshua stretched out his spear toward the city! Lesson third: How much may be acca".: plishedhby lying in ambush for opportuni ties. Are you hyper'dec'i of -Whuias maneuver? Do sou say that it was cheatime for him to take that elty by amrbusea-uie? Was it wror;g for Wa:ington to kindie camp-fires on New Jersey Heights, giving the impression to the opposing force that a great army was encamped there when there was none at all I I answer, if the war was right then Joshua was right in his strata gem. He violated no flag of truce. He broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade cap tured the city of Ai. 0, that we all knew how to lie in ambush for opportunities to sere God. The best of our opportunities do not lie on the surface, but are se creted; by tact, by stratagem, by Christ ian ambuscu.de, you may take almost any castle of sin for Christ. Come up toward men with a regnlar besiegement of argu met and you will be defeated; but iust ..atil tha door af thair haailsasb adar. or they are off their guard, or their severe caution is away from home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuscade. There has been many a man up to his chin in scientitic portfolios which proved there way no Christ and no Divine revelation, his pen a scimetar flung into the heart of theo logical opponents, who, nevertheless, has been discomfitted and captured for God by some little three-year-old child who has got up and put her snowy arms around his sinewy neck, and asked some simple ques tion about God and Heaven. 0. make a flank movement; steal a march on the devil; cheat that man into Heaven. A five-dollar treatise that will stand all the laws of homiletics may fail to do that which a penny tract of Christian entreaty may no complish. 0. for more Christians in am buscade, r.ot lying in idleness. but waiting for a quick spring, waiting untii just the right time comes. Do not talk to a man ab,-t the vanity of this world on the day when he has bought something at "twelve" and is going to sell it at "fifteen." But talk to him aboutthe vanity of the world on the day when he has bought something at "fifteen" and is compelled to sell it at "twelve." Do not rub a man's disposition the wrong way. Do not take the imperative mood when the subjunctive mood will do just as well, Do not talk in perfervid style to a phlegmatic, nor try to tickle a torrid temperament with an ioicle. You can take any man for Christ if you know how to get at him. Do not send word to him that to morrow at ten o'clock you propose to open your batteries upon him, but come on by a skillful, persevering, God-directed ambus cade. Lesson the fourth: The importance of taking good aim. There is Joshua, but how are those people in ambush up yonder to know when they are to drop on the city, and how are these men around Joshua to know when they are to stop their flight and advance? There must be some signal-a signal to stop the one division and to start the other. Joshua, with a spear on which were ordi narily hung the colors of battle.points toward the city. He stands in such a conspicuous position, and tiyre is so much of the morn ing light dripping from the speartip, that all around the horizon they see it. It was as much as to say: "There is the city. Take it. Take itnow. Roll down from the west. Surge up from the north. It is ours, the city of Ai. God knows and we know that a great deal of Chfristian attack amounts to nothing simply because we do not take good aim. Nobody knows, and we do not know our sdves, which point we want to take when we ought to make up our minds what God will have us to do, and point our spear in that direction and then hurl our body, mind, soul, time, eternity, at that one target. In our pulpits, and pews, and Sunday-schools, and prayer meetings, we want to get a reputation for saying pretty things, and so we point our spear toward the flowers; or we want a reputa for saying sublime things, and we point our spears toward the stars; or we want to get a reputation for historical knowledge, and we point our spear toward the past; or we want to get a reputation for great liberality, so we swing our spear all around; and it strikes all points of the horizon, and you can make out of it whatever you please; while there is the old world, proud, rebellious, and armed against all righteousness: and instead of rnnning any further away from its pursuit. we ought to turn. around. plant our foot in the strength of the eternal God, lift t'hc old cross :nl poitft it in the direction of the world's conquest, till the redeemed of earth. march ing up from one side and the glorited of Heaven marching down from the other side, the last battlement of sin is compelled to swing out the streamers of Emmanuel. 0, Church of God. take aim and conquer! I have heard it said: "Look out for a man who has only one idea; he is irresisti ble." I say, look out for the man who has one idea, and that a determination for sonl saving. I believe God would strike me dead if I dared to point the spear in any other direction. 0, for some of the courage and enthusiasm of Joshua! He flung two armies from the tip of that spear. It is sin ful for us to rest, unless it is to get stronger muscle and fresher brain and purer heart for God's work. I feel on my head the hands of Christ in a new ordination. Do you not feel the same omnipotent pressure? There is a work for all of us. 0, that we might stand up side by side and point the spear toward the city! It ought to be taken. It will be taken. Our cities are drifting ofn toward loose religion, or what is called "liberal Christianity," whichi is so liberal that it gives up all 'the cardinal doctrines of the Bible, so liberal that It surrenders the rec titude of the throne of the Almighty. That ls liberality with a vengeance. Let us de cide upon the work which we, as Christian men, have to do, and, in the strength of God, go to work and do it. It is comparatively easy to keep on a a parade amid a shower of bouquets and handelapping, and the whole street full of enthusiastic huzzahs; but it is not so easy to stand up in the day of battle, the face blackened with smoke, the uniform covered with the earth plowed up by whizzing bullets and bursting shells, half the regiment cut to pieces, and yet the commander crying "For ward march!1" Then it requires old-f ash oned valor. My friends, the great trouble of the kingdom of God in this day is the cowards. They do splenididly on a parade day, and at the comimunion, when they have on their best clothes of Christian profes son; but put them out in the great battle of life, at the first sharp-shooting of skep ticism they dodge, they fall back, they break ranks. We confront the enemy, we opsen the battle against fraud, and lo I we find on our side a great many people that do not try to pay their debts. And we open the battle against intemperance, and we find on our own side a great many people who drink too much. And we open the battle against profanity, and we find on our own side a great many men who make hard speeches. And we open the battle against infidelity, and 1o1 we find on our own side a great many men who are not quite sure about the Book of Jonah. And while we ought to be massing our troops. and bringing forth more than the united courage of Austerlitz, and Waterloo, and Gettys burg, we have to be spending our time in hunting up ambuscades. There are a great many in the Lord's army whg would like to go out on a campaign with satin slippers and holding um'oreilas over theie heads to keep off the heavy dew, and having rations of canvas-back ducks and lemon custards. IfI they can not have them they want to go home. They think it is unhealthy among so many bullets!i I believe that the next twelve month's will be the most stupcndous year that heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coming of God. It will be a year of successes for the teen of Joshua. but of doom for the men of Ai. You put your ear to the rail track and you can hear the train oming miles away. So I put my ear to tlie ground and I hear the thuuderig on of the lightning train of God's mercIes and judg mnts. The merey of God is first to be tried upon this nationi. It will bet preached in the pulpits, in theaters, on the streets, everywhere. People wlll be invited to ac sept'the mercy of tho GJosuel and the story and the soog and the prayer will be "mor cy." But supnose ther- do' not accept tne offer of merv--what tht? Then God w-ill come with hi. judemaus, and the grsshopors will eat tthe crops. and the freshets 'will dev'astate the valleys, and the defalcations will swallow the money mar kets, and the fires will burn the cities, and the earth will ake from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments. Year of invitation and of warning, Year of jubilee and of woe. Which side are you going to be on? With the men of Al or the men of Joshual Pass over this Sabbhath into the ranks of Israel. 1 would etap my hands at the jov of your coming. You will have a poor chance for this world and tihe world to come wthout Jesus. You can not starnd what is to come uponi you and upon them world un.eg vou have the pardon and the comfort an. i~the help of Chris:. Comae ov.er. On this sidt is yoir r..inss a.nd safe:y, on the other side is disie2t'Ie and despair. Eternal defeat to the men of All Eral T}E LAWS OF TLHE STATE. RECENT WORK OF THE SOUTH CARO LINA LECISLATURE. Some Statutes of Interest to the Pcople Generally Among the important Acts passed at the recent session of the General Assem b!y were the following: Pensions for the Soldlers. An Act to provide for the relief of certain soldiers, sailors and widows of soldiers or sailors of the late War between the States, approved December 24, 1887, as amended by the Act approved De ce ml. er 24, 1S8. Section 1. That the folkv.wing persons, soldiers and sailors, now citizens of South Carolina, who were in the service of the S:ate or of the Confederate States, in the late war between the States, shall be en titled to receive from the treasurer of the State a monthly payment of $5, to be paid in the manner and on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Section 2. In order to obtain the bene fit of this Act such soldier or sailor Iust show, first, that he was a bona fide soldier or sailor in the service of the tate of South Carolina or of the Con federate States in the war between the St'rtes. Second, that while in such Nervice he lost a leg or arm, or received any wound causing a permanent disabil ity incapacitating him for earning a a livelihood. Third, that neither humself nor his wife is receiving an income ex ceeding the amount of $250 per annum: Provided, that the word income shall be held to include any amount received as wages, salary, or from any other source. Section 3. Before any soidier or sailor shall receive agy part of the payment provided in this Act, he shall make an aplecation in writing, address -A to a euity examining board of pensions, to be appointed as hereinater dirc-ted for eiL county of the State setting forth in detail the nature of the disabling wouud, the company and regiment or battalion in which he served and the time and piace of receiving the wound, and show wg that neither he ncr his wife is in re ceipt of the income as hereinbefore !pecified; such application shall be veri ied by the oath of the applicant, made bfcre any officerin the State auihorized to administer oaths, and shall be accom panied by the aflidavit of one or more credible witnesses, stating that they know the applicant was a soldier or sailor, eud believe the alkgation made in the application to be true. Secion 4. Such application shall be v.-nified b. a certificate of the auditor of the county in which the applicant re sides, showing that his income does not t xc:ed two hundred and fifty dollars per auinm, and that he is not tpossessed of .liient property t.> produce sucn in come, and it shall be tho duty of the .ditor to furnish such certificate, if he sali so find the facts, without fee or charge. motion 5. That the said applications shall be submitted in each county of the State to a board composed of two repu table citizens thereof and a physician, aho shall be appointed by the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, ana Comptroller General, who are hereby created a State board of pensions, and the said three persons shall be known as the county examining board of pensions. The said board shall meet on the third Monday in January, and on the sam day in each suceeding year thereafter, for the purpose of consideringthe appli cations for pensions provided in this Act. It shall be their duty to examine each appant for pension under rules and rg~utions presenbed by the ~sid Slate oomrd of pensions, and they shall certify their approval to said State board, giving n dietifs the rea2son which influenceu themi to grant o-r oppose each application, acipanied by all the evidence upon wich they made their decision. Section 6. 'Bhat each applicat.on ap proved by said county board, with .a1 papers unon which they act, sal be led in tie Comptroller General's office y the first day oX February of each year, to be by him submitted to the State board of pension for their review. Section Ca. That s-aid county boar d in the examination of each soldier or sailor n appbhcation for the benefit of tis a.t shall describe to the State board of pensions the disability of each soldier or sailor in concise and plain latnguage, giving in detail, with their approval of he application, every fact that mn llaencci them ini arriving at their con clusion;anithe physician of eseaicounty oai s..all give a minute description oi the wounds of each soldier or bailor, freed, as far as possible, from technic aities of his profession. In the exami nation of the appuacation of cach widow for pensions, the said board &hali inquire particlarly into all the iacts set torthi in ncr appication as to whether they arc tre are nut, and shall have the right to e~nute such witnesses and take such. vidnce ai to sanisfy them of the right i sa: tpplicant to a pension; and for the arposes of this Act the cehaumnan of each ounty board of psions shall hav the ight to administer oaths. Section 6b. Each of the said county ozrds shali keep a book, in which they saiai make a list of the applicants for pen ions, setting forth the approval andi 6i: jpprovi, which book shadl be ie~d in .h ofic of the Ciern of Court of Coin men Pas for each county; and said arkt shriil, from said book, certify to se Coptroller General, on or before he Lt of Februaiy of each year, the au~br of pensioners who are still alive amnd enttkd to the pensions5. tiee on 6c. The said State board of pensons shadl have tue-authority, and it -hall be their duty, to revise the liA 01 pension oicaims allowed by each county rosr, :;.a to conhrni or rj-et any pen sjioC esi allowed by such county board as c they ntt deem proper and right upon ie facts presented by the said county oard, or upon such additional facits connected therewith as they may pro Section 6d. The members of each uuit examining board of pensions shall receive for their services under this Act re sum of three dollars per day: Pro vided, That the number of days on which they arc engaged in such work shall not excede eight days, and such per dienm 5hall be paid by the State Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Comptrollerj General, out of the appropriationd fori the pensions provided for herein. Section 7. If the State board of pen o~ s -r -n tw of them, .hall apmrove any application, they shall so endorse thereon and shall notify the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which such applicants shall reside, and such clerk shall keep alist of sich applicants whose claims have be:en so approved, and like wise a list of all applicants under Section 8 hereof, whose claims shall be so ap proved, which said list shall be records or his uflice, aid shall likewise contain a brief statement of the facts upon which each appication is approved. These facts shall be furnished to such clerk by the Secretary of State, and shall be entered upon a book to be furnished by the County Commissioners of each county, which shall be denominated "pension roll," for their respective counties. Section 7a. That the State of South Carolina shall annually appropriate the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which said rum shall be apportioned among the several counties in this State in the pro portion of the claims approved in such couuties, and shall be distributed as hereinafter provided. Section 7h. Tat on the second Mon day is i'ebruvry, 1889, and on every salesday in O. obcr thereafter, :he sur viving cw.rs and sailors who wero 'n the servie. of the Cjnfi:derate States or of this at: t in the late war bet geen the State', re:dicg in ally cuunt' in this Statt, shal io authorized to meet iu eonventro'n in t:, omt flou.e of such o ry St 11 'er:ct; A. M., or such hour there.df.er, n:: :uet day as will procure as lar;i. ru attendac as may be had, and oe:atize :y ei ncnr g a chairman and ad veer rary, fter wb e i they ma>y elect by ball:; ticM of their numb'r who ahatl r"ceive a m:j.rity of the ballots cet in such el ction!, to compose a board or pen ion cumminiioners for s ch county until tae next ensuing eleet'on bare under, who .hail, after tirst being daly eorsi, fairly and impartially to discharge the uties hereinr prescribed for them to the bust of t-iir ability, and fllng iuchi oaths in the clerk's office in such county, omett as soon as practicable with tbh county ex.nniing board of penions erein provided for, ana with them ex amine ihe p'nsion roll for such county and seect therefrom such numbers of the :>st reedy applicauts as will be suf*ie;it to consume the appropriation for suchi county, allowing to eactL appli eant co belected the sum of three dullars per month from sa:ch appropriation. In selecting such a ppiiaats for pensions the said board aba i have regard to the physical coiidition and financial means of succh applicants, and also to the financial condition of the near relatives of the several applicants, and shall in every instance select the most helpless and needy applicants for aid that can, in their judgment, be found upon the pensioneril. A majority of the mem bers present composing the two said boarde shall be necessary to determine any matter presented to them, and a majority of each board shall be necessary to form said joint board. As soon as such board completes its list, as above, they shall certify the same to the Clerk of Court fo: such county, who shall re cord the : ame in a list to be designated "Approved Pension Roll for 18-," and shah certify such list to the Secretary of State, and such persons shall constitute the pension roll entitled to receive the :id herein provided for the ensuing sc year. If, from any cause, the meeting herein provided for should not be held on salesday in October in any year, the same may be held on salesday t November following, and the action. f such meetingshall be asvalid as if held in October. The action o F the meeting directed herein for February shall only be valid for the remainder of the present iscal year. Section 7c. In counties where such sur vivors fail or refuse to comply with the povisionshereof the State board herein provided for shall make such regulations for distribution of the fund for such counties as they deem best. Section 7d. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller General to issue the party entitled to receive a pension hereunder ts warrant for the sum of three dollars at the end of each month, (or if the same is paid under the provisions of Section e hereot, for such sum and at such times as may be thereunder prescribed) so long~ as such name shall remain on the said pension roll as above prescribed, or until iformed of the death or removal from the State of such pensioner. Section 8. The widow of any soldier: or sador from the State of Scenth Care linaa r tiny of the Confederate States now residing in this~ State who lost his ie: while in the service of the State or Cen fedeite States in the war be tween the States, while she remains unmarriei and esides in this State, shall be entitled to receive the benenits of this Act, subject to the same conditions as to properly ad income as hereinbef ore provied, md may make her application to said ounty examining board of pensions, :etting forth in detail the facts which stitle her to make such claim and vern Eed by the afidav'its and certificates aereinbefore provided, and upon the pprovat of hien claim such wido v shall be entitled to receive the same amount is hereinbefore provided. Sc: ion 9. It shall be the duty of the tuptroler General to prepare and :auso to be printed forms in blank on wh~ch such applications, certificates and ffiavits may be conveniently made, md he shall cause the same to be dis ;ibuted in the several counties of thel Ste in such numbers and in such man - :ier as in his jadgment may be neces Section 10. Any person who shall dis ourt, shave, or in any manner speculate .n the claim or application of any soldier, 5ailor or widow, made under this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and apon conviction shall be punished by1 Ine not exceding one hundred dollars,' >~r imeonment not exceeding thirty iay, "of both, at the dieretion of the Section 11. Any person who shall rnuduently pe'rsoate any soldier, sailor > widow for the purpiose of obtaining te benefits of this Act, or who shall nowingly make or cause to be made my false or frandulent application or stagnent, or by any false or fraudulent stait~eents procure such application to made, approved or paid, shall be ;uilty of a misdemneanor, and upon coo 'etion shall be punished by fine not ex edig two hundred dollars or imprison nent not exceeding six months, or both, Section 12. All Acts or parts of Acts iacnsise heewith are hereby re 'I he Stock Law. An Act to provide for the protection of fields and crops in those counties and parts of counties where the stock law is not in force. Section 1. That all fences closely and strongly made of rails, boards, or posts and rails, or of in embankment of earth capped with rail or timber of any sort, or live hedges fiwe feet in height, neap ured from the level o surface of the esith, shall be taten an deemed to be lawful fences; and every planter shall be bound to keep sech lawial fence around his cultivoted grounds, except where some navigated grounds, except where some navigable btream or deep water courses shall be a boandry of such culti vated grounds, in which case such navr gable stream or water course shall be deemed a sufiient fence: Provided, always, that before he avails himself of the provisions of this section he shali applv to a ral jae of the county, ho saii Irom the i mee of seven freeholders of the veinage draw, by lot, three, who are hereby re quired to view the premises aad pronounce upon the sufliiency of the .aid waer us an enclosure according to Ine rue mnet -nd meaning of this see tis. Section 2. If any hors"s, mules, cstt'e, hogs, sheep or goats ,hall break into or be round i_ aun delfd in which shall be growing, or una;thered, any grain, Cm:on or vegetabie production raised for in rut or doaeEne conbumption, the sata ledl t..1ug enclosed with a law)i tece acoordie.g to the proviions of this Act, it saan bet. lawtui for the owner or pos essor of sucai field to teize such ies, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep or goats and impound them; after which apt the prov~sions of the general stock lav of this ;t ete as to notice to owner 0! stck, release of same, and disposition tuereof in case the owner doesnot obtain such release, and all provisions and penal t.es of the same as to pound breach shall Section 3. If any person whose fields are Lot enclosed by a lawal fence shall kill, wound, maim, chase, worry, or in insuer iajare any cattle, horses, miules, bogs, sheep or goats whichauliil befound in such field, whet er euitivated or nor, or sha: cause or procure the same t: be done by anay other person, sach perooa so offending shall be hable to au action, avid tue plaintiff shall recover full satts action for the injary, with cost.s; and in addition thereto tue said oifending party shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction tnereof, punished by a flue not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days. ection 4. h''is Act shall not apply to those counties and parts of counties where the law commonly known as the stock law is now of force, and shall not take effect until one year after its pas s.ige. Prutecting Fish and Game. An Act to amend an Act entitled an "An Act to prohibit non-residents from hunting, ducking, fishing and gather ing oysters and terrapins within the limits of the'counties of Georgetown, Cnarleston, Beaufort, Colleton and Berkeley, except upon certain con ditions." Section 1. That Section 2 of "An Act to promibit non-residents from hunting, ducking, fishing and gathering oysters and terrapins within the counties of Georgetown, Charleston, BeaufortColle ton and Berkeley, except upon certain conditions," approved December 23, 1884, be, and thesame is hereby, amend ed by striki.g out the word "'ifty" in line three of said section of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the words "five hundred," and by striking out the word "twenty-five" in line four of said section of aid Act, and inserting in lieu thereof the olowing words: "One hundred;" and by striing out the words "thirty days" in line five of said section of said Act, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: "Six months:" and by striking out the words "ten days" in ime tour cf said section of said Act, and in serting in lieu thereof the words "thirty da" so that the said section, when asended, shall read as follows: "Section 2. That every person who sha offend against the provisious of ttns Act shall be deemed gudty of a misde mesor, and on conviction thereof siuiu be liable to a penalty nor exceeding fie hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred doliars, or impcisonment not exceeding six months, nor less tian thirty dys, for eeh and every violation of sny of the provisions of this Act." The Oidest Bride Dead. Ms. J. G-. Chann diedl in Lexington, Ky. ict Wednesday, of pneumonia, at tue gre-T age of 10~2 yet~rs. Not only wa., she remarkable for her age, nut also tur the tact that she was married at a time of life wh:ch but few people attain. Her mar rig took place just thirteen years to a day beore her death. Her husbaud, Dr. China was only seven years youuger, their ages bing S9 and 82 years respeciively a?. thie time of their nuptials. Dr. Chinn had one; be~u Mavor of the city, and both camec ul old families. Their hedhi~ was excellent sd both appeared youoge~r by many yeiars Lthan tneir actual acze. Mrs. China pre served her mental zaculities to a remnarka ble degree. She was a liue c:onversation ist, and ha~d an almost~unimpaired memo ry. Dr. Chiun survives his nged ,vife, and s sil in good health. A Medal to the Champion Shot. Mr. James McAlister, who is well kuao vu in Unar!eston as a fine mnarusman, was the recipient yesterday of a very app-opriate reconition of his skill, ie -vas presented withi a handsome medal by the New York Gun Club. Te inscriptionl on the medal is as fol ows; "Pcesented by the New York Gun Club to Mr. James MeAiis:.cr, the chidm picai shot of Sou:h Carolina, he haviug shot the first snipe of the aealsou on u The medoal is made of bronze, and c-m be worn appropriately as a watch chain >rnament. From alppearanfces it was evideutly made for that purpose, buat Mr. McAlister prefers to place it on exhibition for awhile at his place of business in St. hilio street, where cau it now be sceu ews and Courier, Jan. 10. Cloth muffs in bright colors are thc very ewcet things, and very pretty they are wide band of fur or of leathers matching :he boa is placed in the centre, and two :right cloth hmig is turned outward in tw~o roits, fastened witht loops Oi- ribbon on ach side of this cerntral band. While we have time let us do good unto sl mn, WHY NOT PLAY "TUCKER"? i GOOD JOKE ON PRESIDENT-ELECT H tRKISON. If they Call the Inauauration Ball Some-' thing Else Harrison Wou't Know they're Dancing. [From the Philade phia Evening Telegraph.] The inaugural ball is worrying the Methodints of Indianapolis, too. Since' the ministers of Columbus, Ohio, adopt ed their resolutions denoucing the ball. as an imitation of the "follies, displays, pageantry and etravagance of Earopeaul cities," the Methodist -ministers of Gen. Harrison's city have been discussing the maitsr also, and they have decided - take a voto upon similar resolutions at their meeting next Monday. The Rev. S. E. Keen,- of the Roberts Park Church, is outspoken in his support o: the Columbus resolutions. He says: "I have talked with nearly allthe miu isrers of oar meeting- they number sout twenty-five -and Ihaveyet to find one who is not in accord with the action of the Columbus clergymen. Indeed, they cannot well be otherwise in accord awcae with the book of discipline of Stue Unurch. I take the stand that dancing and theatre-going are wrong, and if I lied any members of my floeg erring in iese respects I would reprove them )mee or twice. If the offender doesn't mend his ways he may at the 'third offence be tried and expelled. We are uecoming more rigid as a church in the enforcement of our objections to dancing. At one time there was considerable of it ittin the limit of church membership. Some were in favor of tearing up tae tares at once, but otuers argued that in sto doing good wheat would be torn up also, and that more low and moderate means should be used." Perhaps the whole matter, so far as Gen. Harrison's connection with the ball is concerned, may be compromised, if there is any truth in the story told of how a clever young sister-in-lav of the President-elect once had a daoee right. before his eyes without his finding is out. The story is -told by a lady .oW residing in Indianapolis, and this is how it goes: "At the close of the war I was one of a c.ub composed of about twelve couples. of young people, and Mollie 'Soott, the: youngest sister of Mrs. Harrison, was alo a member. The girls were- all the. daughters of strict Presbyterians, and. the boys young fellows who had just returned fro u the war. At that tune the la'cers was high in favor. It caused many a heartache among the girls bc cause dancing by church. people. was not considered the proper thing. By dint of ardent pleading most of them secured the consent of their parents to learn the dance, but some failed. The club at different meetings was entertained by the different young lady members.' Gen. Harrison's opposition t, dancing was well known and discussed, but de sp to this Molhe Scott' and her brother Henry enjoyed the dance as thoroughly. as any of the club members. When it became Molie's turn to ent 3rtain at her sister's home, she said sadly: " I'm afraid we won't have a pleasant time. I won't dare ask brother Ben, for Iknow it would do no good, and heumight not let me go out any more. I could' manage Carry all right, but Ben is so strict.' "The evening came, aid a strain of the favorite quardrille set every foot tip ping, and the question of dancing was put under discussion, but there was~the General and his wife sitting across the hall. One of the boys proposed that they fool Ben by making him think'the dance was a game. The unholy scheme immediately jamped into favor, and Molie, with t~vo others, went tiidly across the halt and said: "'Ben, do you care if we play Tack er?' " 'Tucker,' said Ben, 'what's Tucker?' "'Oh, it's a sort of play where the boys and girls get around in a ring, with an odd one in the centrie, called Tucker, and when they promenade he steals some' one's partner and the left is Tucker,' was the unblushing reply. "The General said he didn't care what they played, when Mollie said she didn't know bat what he might, as t icy stepped arond t>~ music, andl one champion chirnd in with 'something like the old fashioned weevily wheat.' "The girls fiew back across the hall with beaming facor, and it didu't take many minates for the dance to be going, with the additionalfeature of 'Tacker' in te centre. The plan worked fineiy, and Gken. Harrison and his wife Iooked on and laughed with the rest, and it's just possible that he doesn't know yet* that he was so wickedly taken in. He didn't know a dance when he sa~w it, as much as he was opposed to it." Tru CmrcAco Tnmnca says that tie nono:r of leg'tl executinoss during: the yea 1:8s showed a decided increase over the prevous year, during which it was much smaller than it b id been for mary years before. The entire number was 87, as cmaared with 79 in 1887, 883 in 1886, and 1083 in 1885. The executions in the several States were as follove: Alabama, 5; Ar kanmas, 5; California, 5; Connecticut, I; Dehraare. 1; Georgia, 3; Illinois, 2; Indi a, 1; Iowa, 1; Kansas, 2; Kentucky. 1; L-jiiana,. 3; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, : Minnesota, 1; Mississippi. 4; Missouri, 4; New York, 9; New Jersey, 4; North Carolna, 2; Oio, 3; Ore.gn. 1; Pennsyl vania,. 5; Sou~h Car->lina,. 5; Tennessee, 2: Texas, 6: Arizona, 1; Idaho, 2; Moutana, 2- Washington. 1; Wyoming, 1; lndian i'errory, 1 Of this nmner all were maes lbut .jne, 5Z were whit.es; 29 negroes, x 1 Ciiiuaman. The police have found beer and whiskey concealed in the leg of a piano. These tiings wvill go to tue Iegs sometimes. A Boston young lady defines love as 'an inexpessiblity accompanied with outward a llorishness." New names of imaginary localities are drven to oysters this season to hnmo~ug the unsophisticted. May the New Year be a bappy one to ou happy to many more whose happiness depenis on you. Dsea es pecaliar t >women, esp- ci illy o;.uthly diaordcrs:, are cared by the in'ely use of Bradiield's Female Begu at. Sold by all Drnggists.