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pI~ ~1t ( ____ I.. a. VOL. V. MANNING. CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAT, J~J~E 26, 18~. NO. 29. CHRIST'S BOYHOOD. Dr. Talmage Preaches on "Christ as a Village Lad." Roaming the Hills and Climbing the Trees Around Nazareth-Working In His Father's Carpenter Shop, and Teaching the Doctors in the Temple. The subject of Dr. Talmage's recent ser mon was "Christ the Village Lad." He took for his text Luke ii 40: "And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon him." Following is the sermon: About Christ as a village lad I speak. There is for the most part a silence more than eighteen centuries long about Christ between infancy and manhood. What kind of a boy was he: Was he a genuine boy at all or did there settle upon him from the start all the intensities of martyrdom? We have on this subject only a little guessing, t few surmises, and here and there an un important "perhaps.' Concerning what. bounded. that boyhood on both sides we have whole libraries of books and whole galleries of canvass and sculpture. Before tho.in fant Christ in Mary's arms. or taking his first sleep in the rough outhouse, all the painters bow, and we have Paul Veronese's "Holy Family'' and Perugino's "Nativity" and Ang-elico da Fiesole's "Infant Christ" and Rubens' "Adoration of the Magi" and Tintoret's "Adoration of the Magi" and Chirlandojo's "Adoration of the Magi" and Raphael's "Madonna" and Orcagna's "Ma donna" and Murillo's "Madonna." and Ma onnas by all the schools of painting in all 1 ghts and shades and with all styles of at t active feature and impressive surround in but pen and pencil and chisel have, wi few exceptions, passed by Christ the vill -e lad. Yet by three conjoined evi den _ I think we can come to as accurate an i ea of what Christ was as a boy as we can what Christ was as a man. Fit t, we have the brief Bible account. Thet we have the prolonged account of what Christ wasat thirty years of age. Now you shave only to minify that account some wh - and you find what he was at ten years bf ge. Temperaments never change.. A s guine temperament never becomes a p legmatic temperament. A nervous tem A erament nder becomes a lymphatic tem ' perament. Religion changes one's affec tions and ambitions. but it is the same old temperament acting in a different direction. As Christ had the religious change, He was as a lad what He was as man. only on not so large a scale. When all tradition, and all art, and all history represent Him as a blonde with golden hair I know He was in boyhood a blonde. We have, beside, an uninspired book that was for the first three or four centuries after Christ's appearancereceived by many as inspired, and which gives prolonged account of Christ's boyhood. Some of it may be true, most of it may be true, none of it may be true. It may be partly built on facts, or by the passage of the ages, some real facts may have been distorted. But because a book is not divinely inspired we are pot therefore to conclude that there are not true things in it. Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" was not inspired, but we believe -it although it may contain.. mistakes. Macaulay's "History of England" was not inspired, but we believe it although it may have been marred with many errors. The so called apocryphal 'the boy h not be l yet it may p ion. Be t as per "thrown what not yell he mus eles, whether he did or dil not work them. When, having reached manhood, Christ turned water into wine that was said to be the beginning of miracles. But that may cnean that it was the beginning of that series of ianhood miracles. in a word, I think that the New Testament is only a small transcript of what Jesus did and said. Indeed, the Bible declares posi ively that if all Christ did and said were written, the world would not con tain the books. So we are at liberty to be lieve or reject those parts of the apocryphal gospel which says that when the boy Christ with His mother passed a band of thieves He told His mother .that; two of .tnem, Dui machus-'&ad-Titus- by name, would be the t'wo thieves who afterwards would expire on the cross beside Him. Was that more wonderful than some of Christ's manhood prophesies? Or the uninspired story that the boy Christ made a fountain spring from the roots of a sycamore tree so that His mother washed his coat in the stream-was that more unbelievable than the manhood miracle that changed common water into a marriage beverage? Or the uninspired story . that two sick children were recovered by . bathing in the water where Christ had 9-ashed? Was that more wonderful than ,.th4 manhood miracle by which the woman .twivlve'years a complete invalid should have been made straight by touching~ the fringe of Christ's coat? In other words, while I do not believe that any of the so-called apocryphal New r'estament is inspir'ed, I believe much of it Is true; just as I-believe a thousand books, none of whiich are divinely inspired. Much of it, was just like Christ. Just as certain asthin.~'w~~b0moot of the time men ou+ of trouble. It tink that the ~bby Christ was the most of thei time get-ting boys out of trouble. I have de lared'to you this day a boy's Christ. Ana the world wants such a one. He did not sit around moping over what was to be oir what was. From the way in which natural objects un wreathed themselves into his sermons after -he had become a man I concluded there was not a rock or a hill or a cavern or a tree for miles around that he was not familiar with, in childhood. Ho had cautiously felt bis way down into the caves and had with lithe and agile limb gained a poise on many a high tree'top. His boyhood was passed among grand scenery as most all the great uatures have passed early life among the mountains. They may live now ,tn the flats, but they passed the receptive :tays of ladhood among the hills. Among the mountains of New Hampshire or the mountains of'Virginia or the mountains of .Rentucky or the mountains of Switzerland or Italy or Austria or Scotlands or moun tains as high and ragged as they, many of - the world's thrilling biographies began. -Our Lord's boyhood was passet in i neigh -'borhood twelve hundred -'et above the level of the, sea, and surrounded: 'by mountains feorsix hundred feet still higher. Before it could shine on the'vil Iage~where this boy slept the sun had to : limb far enough up to look oroer hills- that held theii' heads far aloft. From yonder aeight his eye at one0 sweep took in the mighty icoop of the valley.s and with anothersweep atook in the Mediterrianean sea, and you hear -the grandeur of the cliffs and the surge of - the great w'aters in his mnatchllh-ss sermo~nol * gy. One day I see that airine boy, the wind fiurrying his halir over'his sun-browned foreheali. standing on a hill-top looking off - apon Lake Tiberias. on whicli at one time. secord'ng to profane history, are not four -hundred but four~ thousaud'ships. . authors have taken pains to say that Christ was not .~affected by these surroundigs, and that he lived from within,' Iived outivard and independent of circumstances. So far from that being truie- he wtas the -most sensitive being that- ever walked the earth. and if a pale invalid's weak inger coul'd not touch His robe with out strength - going out from Him, these mountans- and seas could not have touched His eve without irradiatingfHisentire nature 'with their magnificence. I 'warrant that . He mounted and explored all the hills around Nazareth, among them Hermon with its crystal coronet of perpetual snow, and Carmel and Tabor and Gilboa. and they all ad their sublime echnoin after time from the Ulivetic pulpit. And then it was not uncultivated gran deur. These hills carried in their arms or on their backs gardens, groves, orchards. ter taces, vineyards, cactus, sycamores. These outbranching foliages did not have a0 wait for the floods before their silence was bro ken, for through them and over them and in circles round them and under them were pelicans, were thrushes, were sparrows, were nightingales, were larks, were quails, were blackbirds, were partridges, were bul buls. Yonder the white flocks of sheep snowed down over the pasture lands. And yonder the brook rehearses to the pebbles its adventures down the rocky shelving. Yonder are the Oriental homes, the house wife with pitcher on the shoulder entering the door, and down the lawn in front chil dren reveling among the flaming flora. And all this spring and song and grass and sun shine and shadow woven into the most ex quisite nature that ever breathed or wept or sung or suffered. Through studying the sky between the hills Christ had noticed the weather signs, and that a crimson sky at night meant dry weather next day, and that a crimson sky in the morning meant wet weather before nig:. And how beau tifully he made use of it in after years. as he drove down upon the pestiferous Phari see and Sadducee, by crying out: When it is evening ye say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red, and in the morning it will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowering. 0 ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ve not discern the signs of the tiines." By day, as every boy has done, he watched thebarnyard fowl at sight of over-swinging hawk cluck her chickens under wing and in after years he said: "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing !" By night he had noticed his mother by the plain candle light which, as ever and anon it was snuffed and the removed wick put down on the candlestick, beamed brightly through all the family sitting-room as his mother was mending his garments that had been torn duringjhe day's wandering among the rocks or bushes, and years afterward it all came out in the smile of the greatest ser mon ever preached: "Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but in a candlestick, and it giveth light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine." Some time when his mother in the autumn took out the clothes that had been put away for the summer he .notiged how the moth miller flew out and the coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so twenty years after he enjoined: "Lay up for yourselves treasures. in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust can corrupt." His boyhood spent among birds and flowers, they all caroled and bloomed again fifteen years after as he cries out: "Behold the fowls of the air." "Consider the lilies." A great storm one day during Christ's boyhood blackened the heavens and angered the rivers. Perhaps standing in the door of the carpenter's shop he watched it gathering louder and wilder until two cyclones, one sweeping down from Mount Tabor and the other from Mount Carmel, met in the valley of Esdraelon and two houses are caught in the fury and crash goes the one and trium phant stands the other, and he noticed that one had shifting sand for a foundation and the other an eternal rock for basis; and twenty years after he built the whole scene into aperoration of flood and whirlwind that seized the audience and lifted them into the heights of sublimity with the two great arms of pathos and terror, which sublime words I render, asking you as far as possi ble to forget that you ever heard them be fore: "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them. I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it f 1 not; for it was founded u n a rock. eve that heareth , sa doeth them no foe ouse upon the e rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it." Yes, from the naturalness, the simplicity, the freshness of His parables and similes and metaphors in manhood discourse I know that He had been a boy of the fields and had bathed in the streams and heard the nightingales call, and broken through the flowery hedge and looked out of the embrasures of the fortress, and drank from the wells and chased the butterfliles, which travelerssay have always been one of the flitting beauties of that landscape, and talked with the strange people of Damascus and Egypt and Sapphoris and Syria, who in caravans or 0* foot passed through His neighborhood, the dogs barking at their ap proach at sundown. As afterwards He was a perfect man, in the time of which I speak He was a perfect boy, with the spring of a boy's foot, the sparkle of a boy's eye, the rebound of a boy's life, and just the opposite f those juveniles who sit around morbid and unelastic, old men at ten. I warrant WHe was able to take His own part and to take the part of others. In that village of Nazareth I am certain there was what is found in all the neighborhoods of the earth. that terror of children, the bully, who seems born to strike, tb punch, to bruise, to overpower the less muscular and robust. The Christ who afterward in no limited terms de nounced hypocrite and Pharisee, I warrant, never let such juvenile villain impose upon less vigorous childhood and yet go unscathed and undefended. At tea years he was in sympathy with the underlings as he was at thirty an'd three. I want no further inspired or uninspired information to persuade me that he was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, the grandast, holiest, mightiest boy of all the ages. Hence I commend him as a boy's Christ. What multitudes between ten and fifteen years have found him out as the one just suited by his own personal experience to help any boy. Let the world look out how it treads on a boy, for that very moment it treads on Christ. You strike a boy, you strike Christ; you insult a boy, you insult Christ; you cheat a bons you cheat Christ. It is 4'n awful and infinite mistake to come as far as manhood without a Christ when here is a boy Christ. That was one reason why, I supose, that Jonathan Edwards, after wards the greatest American logician and preacher oi his time, became a Christian at seven y ears of age; and Robert Hall. who afterwards shnok Christendom with his sacred eloquence, became a Christian at twelve years of age; and Isaac Watts. who divided~ with Charles Wesley the dominion of holy song, became a Christian at nine years of age; and if in any large religious assemblage it were asked that all the men aid worAen who learned to love Christ before .they were fifteen years of age wou'd please lift their right hand, there would be enough hands lifted to wave a coronation. What is true in a religious sense is true in a secular sense. Themistocles amazed his school fellows with talents which in after years made the world stare. Isaac Newton. the boy, by driving pegs in the side of a house in mark the decline of the sun,. evid'nced a disposi tion towards the experiments which after 1wrds showed the niations hows the wo)rlds swig. R beirt Stephenson, the boy. wvithi his kite onl thet commlons expeiininted with elecrie currenats and propheied work whihi sh :!d yet malke him i:mort al. "W o'.tut- if m way !"~ said a rou~rh m;:m to a boyv, "get out of my way ! what are you good for, anhowt' The boy answered: -They make men out of such things as we are." Hear it, fathers. miothers5 hear it philian throists and na;tr'iots! hear it. all the youiz: The temporal and eternal destiny of the most of the inhabitants of this earth is dcided before fourteen years of age. Be hold the Nazareth Chi-ist, the vilare Chlrist, the country Christ, the boy Christ. But having shown you the divine lad in the fields. I must" show you hinm in the me chani's shop. Joseph. his father. died very early, immediately after the famous trip to the temple. and this lad had not only to sup port himself, but support his mother, and what that is some of you know. There is a royal ratc of boys on eath now doingr the ae thng The wea no crmwn- They have no purple robe adroop from their shoulders. The plain chair on which they sit is as much unlike a throne as any thing you can imagine. But God knows what they are doing and through what sacrifices they go. and through all eternity God will keep paying them for their filial beha' ior. They shall get full measure of reward, the measure pressed down. shaken together, and running over. They have their example in this boy Christ taking care of his mother. He had been taught the carpenteris trade by his father. The boy had done the plainer work at the shop while his father had put on the finishing touches of the work. The.boy also cleared away the chips and blocks, and shavings. He helped hold the different pieces of work while the iather joined them. In our day . e haw all kinds of mechanics. and the work is divided up among them. But to be a carpenter in Christ's boyhood days meant to make plows. yokes. shovels, wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, houses and almost every thing that was made. For tunate was it that the boy had learned the trade, for when the head of the family dies it is a grand thing to have the child able to take care of himself and help take care of others. Now that Joseph, the father,. is dead, and the responsibility of the family support comes down on this boy, I hear from morning to night his hammer pound ing, his saw vacillating, his axe descending, his gimlets boring, and standing amid the dust and debris of the shop I find the pers piration gath'ering on his teaples and notice the fatigue of his arm, and as he stops a moment to rest I see him panting. his hand on his side, from the exhaustion. Now he goes forth in the morning loaded with im plements of work heavier than any modern kit of tools. Under the tropical sun ho swelters. Lifting, pulling, adjusting, cleav ing, splitting all day long. At nightfall he roes home to the plain supper provided by his mother and sits down too tired to talk. Work! work ! work' You can not tell Christ any thing now about blistered h ands or ach ing ankles or bruised fingers or stiff joints or rising in the morning as tired as when you laid down. While yet a boy he knew it all, he felt it all, he suffeied it all. The boy carpenter! The boy wagon maker! The boy house-builder! 0 Christ, we have seen Thee when full grown in Pilate's police court room, we have seen Thee when full grown thou wert assassinated on Golgotha: but 0 Christ, let all the weary artisans and mechanics of the ear . see Thee while yet undersized and arms not yet muscularizt'd. and with the undeveloped strength of juvenescence trying to take Thy father's place in gaining the livelihood for the family. But, having seen Christ, the boy of . fields and the boy of the mechanic's shop. I show you a more marvelous scene, Christ, the smooth-browed lad among the long bearded, white-haired, high fore-headed ec clesiastics of the Temple. Hundreds of thousands of strangers had come to Jerusa lem to keep a great religious festival. After the hospital homes were crowded with vis itors, the tents were spread all around the city to shelter immense throngs of strangers. It was very easy among the vast throngs coming and going to lose a child. More than two million people have been known to gather at Jerusalem for that national feast. You must not think of those regions as sparsely settled. The ancient historian Jo sephus says that there were in Galilee two hundred cities, the smallest of them containing fifteen thousand people. No wonder that amid the crowds at the time spoken of Jesus the boy was lost. His parents, knowing that he was mature enough and agile enough to take care of himself, are on their way home without any anxiety, supposing that their boy is coming with some of the groups. But after awhile they suspect he is lost and with flushed cheek and a terrorized look they rush this na tnat, saying: "rave you seen welve years of . him since we left the city?" Back they go in hot haste, in and out the streets, in and out the pri vate houses and among the surrounding hills. For three days they search and in uire, wondering if he has been trampled under foot of some of thd throngs or has ventured on the cliffs or fallen ofT a preci pice. Send through all the streets and lanes of the city and among all the surround ing hills that most dismal sound, "A lost child ! A lost child !" And lo, after three days they discover him in the great temple, saed among the mightiest religionists of all the world. The walls of noother build ig~ ever looked down on such a scene. A child twelve years Old surrounded by sep tuagenarians, he asking his own questions and answering theirs. Let me introduce you to some of these ecclesiastics. This is the great Rabbiu Simeon ! This is the ven erable Hillel ! This is the famous Shammai! ynese are the sons of the distinguished Betirah. What can this twelve-year lad teach thenm or what questions cani he ask worthy their cogitation ?Ah, the first time in all their lives these religionists have found their match and more than their match. Though so young, he kne w all abo~it that famous Temple under whose roof they held that most wonderful discussion of all history. He knew the meaning of every altar, of overy sacrifice, of every golden candlestick, of every embroidered curtain, of every crumb of shrew bread, of every drop of oil in that sacred edifice. He knew all about GodI. He knewv nll about muan. He knew all about Heaven, for He came from it. He knew all about this world, for Hei made it. He knew nil worlds, for they were only the spanrkling morning dew drops on the lawn in front of His heavenly palace. Put these seven Bible words in a wreath of emphasis: "Both hearing thiem and asking them ques tions." I am not so much interested in the ques tions they asked Him as in the questions He asked them. He asked the questions not to get inform:ationi fromf tne aato 'rus. ro- n' knew it alreaa:y, but to humble' them by showing them the~ hei;:ht, depth. and k-r.gthu, and breadth of their own ignorance. While the radiant lboy thrusts these self-conceited philosphers with the iaterr.ogatio'n point. they put the forefinger of thc ri::ht hand to the temple as though to start their t houg'hts into more vigor, and then they would wrinkle their brows and then by absolute silence or in positiv'e words confess their incapacity to answer the interrogatory. With any one of a hundred questions a4bout theology, about philosophy, about astronomy,. about time. about eternity. He may have baiked the'm, disconcerted them. flung th.-m flat. Behiold the boy Christ asking questions, and listen when your child asks questions. HeI has the right to ask them. Alas for the stupidity of the child without inquisitiveness: .It is Christlike to ask questions. A nswer them if you can. Do not say: "I can't he bothered now." It is your plac'e to be bothered with questions. If you are uot able to answer, surrender. and confess your incapacity, as I have no doubt didt Rabbin Sinmeon and Hillel and Shanmai and the sons of Betirah when that sple2dd boy, sitting or standing there with a garment reaching from neck to ankle, agl girdled at the waist, put them to their v'ery w"it's end. it is no disgrace to say. "I dont know." The learned doctors who environed Christ that day in the Templ1le did not know or they woul~i not have asked Him any questions. The only being in the universe who never needs to say. '-I do not know'' is the Lot'd Almihty. Tlhe fact that they' did not know sent Kei'>pler and Cuvier and Columubus and Humboldt and Hlersehee ani Morse and Sir William Hamziton, undl all the other of the world's nmightXest natures into their lifc long explorations. TIelescope andl mticroscope, ::nd stethoscope and electric battery, and all the scientific apparatus of all the ages are onlyquestions asked at the door of mystery. Behold this Nazarene lad asking questions, giving everlasting dignity to earnest inter rogation. Buwhile I see the old theologians stand ing around the boy Christ, I- am imapressed as never before with the fact that what the ology most wants is more of childish sim plicity. The world and the church havr built up immense systems of theology. Haii f them try to tell wvhat God thought, w~hat God planned, what God did five hundred mllion vecars befoire thme small star on ...i.ch we lie maceted. I hae had many a sound sleep under sermons about the decrees of God and the eternal genera tion of the Son, and discourses showing who Melchisedek wasn't, and I give a fair warning that. if any minister ever begins a sermon on such a subject in my presence, I will put my head down on the pew in front and go into the deepest slumber I can reach. Wicked waste of time, this trying to scale the unscalable and fathom the unfathomable while the na tions want the bread of life, and to be told how they can get rid of their sins and their, sorrows. Why should you and I perplex oursolves about the decrees of God? Mind your own business and God will take care of His. In the conduct of the universe I think He will somehow manage to get along with out us. If you want to love and serve God, and be good and useful and get to Heaven, I warrant that nothing which occurred eight hundred quintillion of years ago will hinder you a minute. It is not the decrees of God that do us any harm, it is our own decrees of sin and folly. You need not go any further back in history than about l.S56 years. You see this is the year 1S89. Christ died about thirty-three years of age. You subtract thirty-three from 15$9 and that makes it only 1,856 years. That is as far back as you need to go. Something occurred on that day under an eclipsed sun that sets us all forever free, if with our whole heart and life we accept the tremendous proffer. Do not let the Presby terian church or the Methodist church or the Lutheran church or the Baptist church or any of the other evangelical churches spend any time in trying to fix up old creeds, all of them imperfect as every thing man does is imperfect. I move a new creed for all the evangelical churches of christen dom, only three articles in the creed, and no need of any more. If I had all the consecrated people of all denominations of the earth 'on one great plain, and I had voice loud enough to put it to a vote that creed of three articles would be adopted with a unanimous vote and a thundering aye that would make the earth quake and the heavens ring with hosanna. This is the creed I propose for all christendom: Article First-"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Article Second-"This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, even the chief." Article Third-"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end. Amen." But you go to tinkering up your old creeds and patching and splicing and interlining and annexing and subtracting and -adding and- explaining and you will lose time and make yourself a target for earth and hell to shoot at. Let us have creeds not fashioned out of human ingenuities but out of scriptur al phraseology, and all the guns of bombard ment blazing from all the port holes of in fidelity and perdition will not in a thousand years knock off the church of God a splinter as big as a cambric needle. What is most needed now is that we gather all our theolo gies around the boy in the temple, the elab orations around the simplicities, and the profundities around the claritles, the octo genarian of the scholastic research, around the unwrinkled cheek of twelve-year juvenescence. "Except you become as a little child you can in no wise enter the kingdom;" and except you become as a little child you can not understand the Christian religion. The best thing that Rabbin Simeon and Ril tel and Shammai and the sons of Betirah ever did was in the Temple, to bend over the lad who, first made ruddy of cheek by the breath of the Sudear hills d ' w to the mecha ea .soon pport- o is bereaved mother, ng enough to grapple with the ,nerable dialecticians of the Orient, "both hearing them and asking them questions." Some referring to Christ have exclaimed Ecce Deus I Behold the God. Others have exclaimed Ecce homo ! Behold the man. ut to-day in conclusion of my subject I cry. cco adolescens ! Behold the boy.1 -Duty ought never to wait on feeling; but eeling ought always to wait on duty. A an ought never to pivot his duty on his felings; but every man ought to conform is feelings to the demands of duty. Kind peech is a duty, whether a man feels kind y or not. But kindly feelings are always duty, and he who lacks them ought to set himself at acquiring them. Not feeling, ut duty, must lead a man's course; but a an's right feeling is included in his very-day duty.-S. S. Times. -Life is like a harp. Childhood has its silver string tuned to joy and forgetfulness; outh adds hope, love and courage; middle ife, sympathy. devotion, friendship; but ld age, experience, that attunes each to itsI ull measure of tono; and it is the wvrinkled1 and sweeping the strings that makes life's rue harmony.-'-Christian Union. POUND HElR VOICE IN THE GARDEN Surprisinn Restoration of Sr'eech to a Young Lady *1n Illinois. MOUNT CARMEL, Ill., June 16.-Mis ue Sutton wvas devoid of the power of peech, her voice being entirely gone, and her aileition, which came on her uddenly, 'was beyond the eomprehen sion of the medical profession. Last hursday, while working in the garden, he experienced a most pecu iar sensation that shook her hole frame and left her partially para yzed. Horrified at the shock, she anaged after a eonsiderable time to rag herself to the house. She was onfronted by her mother, who asked if he had (log enough potatoes. The girl, ith great beadls of p)erspiration trick ig down her che'eks and her arms fi'htfully bent, stared wildly at her mother for several minutes and then replied in a firm voice, "Yes." That. simple word, the first she had utteredl for a long time, so astounded and bewildered t4e mother apd daugh ter that both fell upon their knees and thanked God f'rom the bottom of their earts. To-day the young lady's voice is as tir'm and1 strong as ever, and her other phiysical ailments liave disap Drowned While Drunk.( WILMINGTON, Del.. June 21.-Joseph Cochran atnd .James Downey, both f Philadelphia. Captain and (leek and of the schooner Sea man's Bride, were drowned in the D~elaware, near here, last night. The mcn, with other members of the crew. were taking on a cargo of ice, and all got under the influence . of liqtuor. Downey fell overboard, and an attempt was made to rescue him, but he was 1 drowned. The Captain, who was in a drunken stupior, came fronm the cabin to asert:in the cause of the commotion and wvaiked ov'erboatrd, and the crew weet too' drunk to renider him assistance. Nithei' body has beeni recovered, and h surviv'mjr members of the crewv are lokedt up, that they may sober tip and await the ('oroner's action. The Professors Will be Imported. WXASHINGTON, June 19.-In view oft the fact that the Attorney General hasI ref used to decide upon the hypothetical question whether or not the alien con act labor law forbids the importation of protessors of theology for 'the New Catholic University, Mr. Martin F. Morris, counsel for the trustees of the university, saidl to-day that nothing remained but to bring the men over to this country and have the matter TANNER TO BEBOUNCE HE HAS THUS FAR LROVIDED WELL F01 HIS OWN FAMIILY, And Has Done Well for Favored Clain Agents-A Congressional Investiga tion Almost Certaig if He is Not Un loaded. WASHINGTON, June 17.-Corporal Tan nor got his appointment as Commissioner of Pensions because he had been stump ing the country for years, holding tha1 the country wasn't doing half enougl for the old soldiers, and he is doing al he can now to relieve the country o the reproach that it is not doing enough for the Corporal Tanner family. By the time a few more members of his family get their names on the public pay roll: he will probably be willing to let some body else have something. Public at tention has just been called to the ap pointment of the Corporal's daughter, Ada, to a well-paid place in her father's office, but another daughter, Nettie, ih a clerk in the office of the Pension Agent in this city. There is a young man named Tanner in the Commis sioner's offic.c as private secretary ox confidential clerk, whichever one of these two offices Miss Ada Tanner does not hold, but he says be isn't any rela. tion to the Commissioner. The Com missioner gets $7.000 salary and $864 pension, and one daughter gets $1,800 a year from the government and the other gets $720. This makes a total for the Corporal Tanner family of $10,384. The two daughters hold places that might have becn given to maimed veterans, but Corporal Tanner is not a man to let any other veteran get anything until all his family are well taken care of. It was the practice under the Cleveland administration not to let more than two members of one family draw salaries from the public treasury, but the Re publicans are not so moderate. Corporal Tanner is not the only subordinate of Benjamin Harrison who imitates his chief in providing salaries for his rela tions. Col. Elliott F. Sherard says that the President has as mach right to give of fices under the govrnment to his rela tions as Mr. Pulitzer, for example, has to give his relations places on the New York World. This idea that the officials own the government and the country appears to be the accepted maxim of the Republican party. Assistant and Act ing Land Commissioner Stone has just appointed hisson to be his private sec retary at $1,800 a year. Gov. Stone will make stump speeches demanding that preference be given the old soldiers in making appoint ' ~ he finds a comfortable li disposal he find family to give it ple of Senator I coil ae false charge that it neglected old oldiers, but when he had a $2,000 pri vate secretaryship to dispose of he gave it to his son. If the administration does not unload 'anner promptly, there will be a Con 'ressional investigation of the Pension )ffice next fall, in spite of the fact that >-th branches of Congress are Repub ican. It is not unlikely that the ad ninistration will save itself this scandal y unloading the Corporal. Assistant eretary Bussey had charge of the Pen on office two days last week, and it is ~onfidently asserted that Tanner's resig ation had been called for and that he as under suspension, but succeeded in etting another chance. The office is ~imply going to pieces. The clerks are emoralized. The Boards of Review lon't dare reject an application if there s any pretense whatever of evidence in upport of it, lest Tanner should bounce ~hem. More than 500 cases in which seorge E. Lemon is attorney are ~aid to have been made special by Tanner, >sides what Squires made special. A nan whose brother is a Republican poli ician in Indiana came down here and ~ot his pension rerated, with $3,000 ar earages on the higher rate, without one ord of additional evidence. Another nan got his pension increased and $1,800 f arrearages without the most formal ompliance with the law regarding evi ience. A pension attorrney from New ork came here and got fifteen or six een of his clients rerated at an advance ithout any examination or -test inr.ony dditional to that on whiich the original >nsion was granted. Tanner has es ablished the principle in the office of e maximum pensions on the minimum vidence, and particularly for favored laim agents. WHO WAS HEP L South Carolinian Killed While Asleep on a Western Railroad Track. OFFICE OF M. 1IL MUNY, STATE's ATTORNEY, MT. CARMEL, Ill., June 18. 1889. To THE EDITOR OF THE REGIsTER: You ill pardon me for taking the liberty to rite you the following facts, which will oubtless he of interest to some parents, rothers and sisters of your State: At 2 o'clock a. m. on the 16th inst. a an with dark hair, about 25 years old, eight about 165 pounds, with a scar in he palm of his left hand tjust above the ittle finger) whose name was en Wise or Wyatt, while asleep nf the Louisville, Evansville and r. Louis Railroad, was struck by a assing engine and killed. This- oc urrd in Gibson County, Ind., and he vas brought here by the same train. I as foreman of the Coroner's jury and e evidence showed that he lived, and mad relatives in South Carolina, but his ostoffice address did not appear. He vas a nice looking young man, pretty yell dressed. Hie was buried here on e 16th. If you will publish these acts his relatives may by that means earn them. Any letters of ipquiry ireted to me in regard to him will re meive prompt replies. Very respectfully, Mt. Carmel1, Ill. The Waste'o!Coal. The Engineerinzg and .Minng Jourwdi sstimates from reliable data that at the resent rate of prod'uction and amount f waste in mining the supply- of an bracite coal in Pennsylvania will be ex austedl in seventy-five years. The ?ittsurg Commnercuid Gazette suggests :hat as the maximum in the production na consequent waste has not been yet -eached the life of the anthracite coal ~elds will likely be even less than this sstimate. State Treasurer I. S. Bamberg died of ipoplexy in Columbia on Friday after A NEW CIGAR HORROR. Elegant Wrappers for Cigars Now Made of Patent"Rye Straw Paper. ( From the P t&burg Corn 3 ercial.) Among the latest imitations which have been successfully introduced into the tobacco trade of this city and other cities are cigars, the wrappers of which arc made out of a specially perfumed paper. A gentle-nan well known in the manufacturing circles of the vicinity was the first to inform a Commercial Gazette reporter that smoking material of this kind was new in the market. He has recently 'returned from a visit to Norfolk, Va., where he met a drummer for a large tobacco factory of New York State. This gentleman informed the Pittsburger that he was then introduc ing an imitation cigar wrapper which was so deceiving in its character that experts could scarcely distinguish it from the genuine. This preparation was made from rye straw, and one portion of the process was to steep the material in a strong so lution made from tobacco stems. The grain of the straw together with the manner in which the material was dressed would lead any person to sup pose that it was a sample of the leaf used in making wrappers for cigars of a more than ordinary quality. The flavor of tobacco was also present, owing to the paper having been immersed in the solution made fron the genuine article. The gentleman subsequently examined cigars on sale in Norfolk and discovered that they were made with these patent wrappers. The samples exam ined uiere of an extra fine quality. The drummer stated that the firm he repre sented were making tons of this mate rial and shipping it to all the leading cities of the country. Paper made with rye straw is the only kind that can be successfully used for that purpose, as all other kinds of paper can easily be detected by the smoker. The new mate rial is also used for fillers in certain classes of cigars. It is very cheap and can be sold greatly below the price paid for genuine leaf. Mr. Keenan, a well-known tobacco salesman of this city, when asked yester day if cigars of that kind were sold here, replied in the affirmative. He had seen numerous samples and that they were very hard to detect. Messrs. Dellmeyer and Jen;kinson, both extensive dealers in leaf tobacco. said that the existence of a preparation of this kind was news to them. They felt that its success would be short lived, as the trade would soon discover the deceit, and then a mighty effort would be made to drive cigars made with bogus leaf out of the market. Mr. Goldsmith stated that he had heard that a bogus cigar of that kind was in existence, but he bad never seen any. He felt that the trade should begin a vigorous war against all manu facturers who used this material. Prohibition in Two Phases. The people of two States will this - vote upon the question of p'rohibi stitutional provision, but the issue from pre decide whether or not they dill attach a prohibitory clause to their Constitution, f and they are more than likely to decide in the negative. In Rhode Island the question is whether the prohibitory clause already in force shall be repealed and, although the evil effects that have t flowed from the amendment adopted i three years ago have converted the f strong majority in its favor into at strong majority-against it, the result ofC the effort to repeal it is rendered some-C what doubtful by the fact that nothing f less than a three-fifths vote can decree a te repeal. - Right here is one of the strongest ob jetions to prohibitory legislation by i onstitutional amendment. it is a per- I version of the functions of a constitu- a tion, and it takes away from the people C the right to change their laws whent they change their minds as to what the S laws should be. It deprives the ma- s jority of the right to make its will felt in the statutes.1 Constitutions are very properly made r difficult of alteration, because stability C is essential to security in the founda-t tions of government. But for that very S reason constitutions should include C nothing but thbe necessary provisions off fundamental law. They are the com- E acts of the people with each other, not ato what the laws shall be from timeC to time, but as to the manner in which f the laws shall be made and the limita-t tions that shall be set upon the law- 1 making power. When they go beyond that they cease to be charters of liberty and beciome instruments of tyranny. t The regulation and restraint of the liquor traffic is peculiarly a matter which cannot be wisely settled by any rule of thumb. It requires the constantJ exercise of judicious care. It is a problem the factors of which vary with time, place and circumstance, and the attempt of the Prohibitionists to take its< solution out of the hands of the people by fastening prohibitory amendmentst pon State Constitutions is the conscious effort of a desnotic will to make un-t hangeable law out of that which at best s only the decree of a temporary popu-t lar judgment. Six States have recently voted down proposals of prohibition by constitutional mendment, among them being some in which the majority of voters strongly I avor prohibition by statute. a fact fromrf which it is fair to infer that even among C Prohibitionists there is an awakening 3 sense of respect for the nature and fune- 1 tions of constitutional law. . In Rhode Island the sentiment in be- L half of repeal rests upon the experience V f the last three years. Observation t nd experience have show the people of that State that prohibition does not pre-t vent the sale of liquor, but increases its I evils; that it puts the business into the r ands of criminals, deprives the lawful a uthorities of the right to regulate it in e any way and robs the State of thet revenue justly due from that source. 1 They have tried prohibition and aret tired of it. But they cannot do away a with it unkss the sentiment in opposi- I0 tion can command a three-fifths ma jority in favor of repeal. If repeal is D decreed in this week's election in Rhode 12 sland it may be fairly assumed that we C are at the cud of the madness of excise legislation by constitutional amend-t nent-3ewv York World. i Of Interest to Cotton Shippers. LIVERPOOL. June 20.-A conference was bh~d to-day of persons engaged in the American and English cotton trade. An agreeinent was entered into with I ship owners'y which the ship owners 81 agreed to accept. the responsibility for '. o.ton after its deliyery on the quay for i1 shipment. The ownbes also agreed, in I eases where parcels ar&divided, to give h subsidiary bill of lading-Jor the actual t1 quantity on each'separate steam>.r; such t subsidiarv document shall not bei nego- c tiable, but shall be attached to the. orig- e nal through bill of ling.no DEATH OF WILLIAM N. TAFT. Remarkable Career of One of the Most Prominent Personages in the Post-Bel lum Political History of South Carolina. CHARLES b.N, June 21.-[Special to The Register. ]-Ex-Postmaster W. N. Taft lied at Mavesville to- day. For the last quarter of a century he has been one of the most prominent figures in Republi ,an circles in this State. He came here while yet a boy, at the close of the war, having served, it is said, in a nezro regiment from Rhode Island. Be ;inning business in a modest way, he opened a little sutler's shop on East Bay, where he sold old muskets, irmy overcoats and whiskey. He en :ered political life under the reconstruc :ion regime, as a lieutenant of police in :his city, under Gilbert Pillsbury. the irst Mayor elected here after the war, and ;ubsequently held the following offices : County Coroner, County Auditor, nembers of the Legislature, State Sena :or, Alderman. and post master. lie an for Congress in 1880, but was de 'eated by Samuel Dibble. Some years ago he married the widow >f C. C. Bowen, a well-known politician, whose first wife was Mrs. Pettigru-King, t daughter of the late James L. Petti ;ru, one of the few Union men of the >ld ante bellum South Carolina states men. Bowen's second wife (now Mrs. raft) is a daughter of Franklin J. foses. >etter known as "The Robber Gov wrnor" of this State About a year or so ago he was troubled ith a mental affliction, and had to be ;ent to the State Lunatic Asylum. L'hence be was taken North, and was upposed to have been restored to health. several days ago, however, he was sud lenly taken away, the place of his desti nation having been kept secret. He died :o-day at the residence of T. B. John ;ton, at-Mayesville. in Sumter County. General Taft was a candidate for re ippointment in the postollice here, and t is thought that political troubles night have brought on a relapse of his nental trouble. He was about the last arpetbagger of prominence left in this State. The Development of Advertising. It is very interesting to watch the de elopment of advertising as it appears n the columns of the daily newspapers. Departments of trade which formerly eglected that means of attracting at .ention are more and more learning to >rofit by its advantages. Advertisers re also becoming skillful in the literary onstructicn of their announcements, so hat now the advertising columns of a ournal really help to enliven its pages, d they piesent a mass of varied in ormation of great value to the reader. The representations of the advertise nents, too, may be taken generally as onest and truthful, for Io wise dealer seeks to draw customers by false pre :enses. He must have on his counters exactly what he advertises to sell, and l must sell it at exactly the advertised rices. Otherwise his advertisement loes him more harm than good. It may ring him in ephemeral trade, but the arger the t 'o! .00he worse will it be for him H~j~ is d ^v d a or -vwan, vil reputation for dishonesty. There ore ordinary sagacity prompts the ealer to tell the truth about his oods when he advertises them in the ewsppers. Now and again a scoundrel ud a sharper may attempt to impose on, be public by publishing swindling an ouncements, but the number of such is ew and it is growing fewer. Moreoter. he papers which such men use as a' ecy &re (pn recognized. The swin ling advertisers are after fools and gud eons, and they are shrewd enough to dvertise in the papers patronized by eople of that sort. The cheapening of the processes of ~anufacture during recent years has: wered prices greatly. The advertiser. eordingly can appeal to the great body ? purchasers who must be careful of heir money. Here in New York is the ret market for obtamning stocks of uperior goods at low cost, provided the: erchant has the cash to pay for them. herefore the reputable houses which dvertise bargains for their customers eclare no more than the fact. At auc ions or by paying cash down for am large upply where cash is imperatively re uired and of the first necessity, they equetly secute great quantities of oods at less than the current prices t the factories, perhaps less than ost; and selling for cash, they can af ord to make their own p~rofit propor ionately small. Hence when a large Louse advertises bargains, it may be ssumed that bargains they are. The nickei- their sales, the more rapidly hey turn over their money, the more uccessful such dealers are, and to get peedy sales they must tempt purchasers rith as low prices as they can offer. be larger the trade they can attract by .dvertisitg, the better it is for each ndividual purchaser, for the greater he volume of their business, the smaller an they fix their average protit. That is the great advantage of adver ising It makes the business known, .nd by multiplying the number of eus omers the dealer obtains the means of *tracting more. He has more money o expend on his stock, can improve the pportunities winch come so frequently the cash buyer, and can make his argin of profit smaller. The whole ucess of the great retail houses has ee built up in this way. There are e of themi which have not had their tire development within very recent ears, before which they were little aberdashery shops, with a neighbor ood trade only, or -they had no no ex ~tene at all. Trhere is not one of them hich dloes not owe its success to adver In the clothing trade the history is ae same. The houses which are getting e custom are those that advertise the lost liberally and the most judiciously d as their custom increases thbey are nabled to make their prices lower and us to invite a wider range of the blie. The tailors who have followed ieir example are reaping a like rewardl nd gaining the same advantages. So is also with the shoemakers, and as me goes on there will be no depart tent of business which will not p~rotit y the lesson that experience teaches so ophatially. So far from having been completedi. e development of adlvertisinlg is still iits early stages only.-Yu; Fork "Break-Bone"~ Fever. NEW YORK, June 19.-The rmor 'ent abroad to-day that Dr. R. W. 11. uncan, surgeon of the Pacific mail 'eamer Colon, which arrived from Aspin 'all June 14, wa~s lying sick at his home! Brooklyn of yellow fever. Dr. Cyrus dson of the Health Board says the case s been investigated, and it proves sat Duncan has "Chagres" or "break one fever, very common at this season f the year. A 'young lady died of it; ni the last trip of the Colon from As ;nwu.1 "COL." L. EDWIN DUDLEY. A Carpet-Bagger Who Followed the Union Army to Virginia After the Downfall of the Confederacy. EDITOR RFAISTFR: I see by the papers that Col. L. Edwin Dudley of "The New 3fassach usetts--Hend rix-McLane -Inde pendent-Republican- Party of South Caro lina" is figuring rather prominently just now before the Presiident and the people of this State, and as I happen to know some ittle of Col. Dudley's career, I thought it might he interesting to-the good people of this State to know some. thing of the gentleman. Mr. L. Edwin Dudley is a carpet-bagger, who followed the army to Virginia after the downfall of the Confederacy. A fellow from Mfa:sachusefts, by the name of l'ierpont. who claimed to have been elected Governor of Virginia by the "loyal" citizens of Alexandria, was first placed in the Governor's mansion and office by Federal bayonets, and re mained there for about two years. Dur ing his reign 2ir. Dudley succeeded in - getting himself elected chairman of the executive committee of the "National Republican Party of Virginia," which position he held until he left the State. When Pierpont's term expired, another carpet-bagger, by the name of Wells, from Michigan, was appointed by the military, who were then engaged in turn ing decent men ou of oflice and putting ignorant negroes, carpet-baggers and low, mean scalawags in their places, be cause they could not take the "iron-clad oath." This fellow Wells stated on the stump afterwards when before the peo ple as a candidate for Governor against the Denlocratic candidate. Gilbert L. Walker, that he " hved in Michigan," but that he was -dropped" in New York -"dropped" like a pig. While Wells was acting hs Governor he appointed Mr. L. Edwin Dudley on his staff with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and it was from this source that he got his title as "Col onel" Dudley, but the gallant Colonel was not hunting glory alone, he was after - the shekels,' so he get the military to give him the clerkship of the Richmond Chancery Court, which was then and. had been before filled by Mr. Pollard. a splendid officer and a gentleman. This position he held for some 'months hoping for someting to turn up. Now it so happened that the Chancery Court's office was nec ssarily what might,. termed a "credit 'office, as the fees-were"' rarely paid until the termination of the suits brought therein. This did not suit the gallant Colonel's ideas exactly (although the office was worth between three and four thousand dollars a year). and when the Demo cracy, with Gilbert C. Walker as their candidate (a New York man, by the way), swept the State by nearly twenty thou sand majority, Colonel Dudley resigned, and, in his own language. "grabbed his carpet bag and broke for Chicago," where he had some days before sent his wife. This brief page in the history of the Colonel's life he will most likely verify, as it is known of all men in Richmond. What the Colonel has been doing in alt these years since he got Mr. Pollard's place up to the time he was sent to Sou i Carolina as a or am assai or emissary, or what ever his office is, I can't say. He is a rIruggist by profession, and married, I have heard, the daughter of a wealthy man in Boston. At all events, he left Virginia, to the regret of no one; and I think it can be safely said that the de cent people of South. Carolina have no use for him here, as he is a ."dyed in the wool," unscrupulous fanatic. "OLD 'TIER." DYING TO AID SCIENCE. Au Arkansas Man Bitten By a Mad Dog as an Experiment. SEDALIA, Mo., June 19.-The offer of Dr. Ed. N. Small 4f this city to give $500 to any ofic who would be bitten by a rabid dog of Dr. Small's;, and trust to a mad stone for cure, while not in tended as a bona fide offer, has at tracted more attention than the Doctor anticipatedl. IHe has had applications from several men by mail and in per son to accept the proposition, but to all of them the Doctor' replied that the offer was.a joke, and that he would not _ stand by it. Ohe mnan, however, a stranger in the city, from Arkansas, who refused to give his name, was not to be put ofY in this waty. ie'gained access to the place w'here the r'abid (log was, boldly bared is arm, and expo'sed it to the dog. The animral immediaxteiy bit a piece of fiesh out -f the rasii man's arm. The dog died in convulsions fifteen minutes later. The man applied a mnadstone to the wound, and is still alive and well, but apprehensions are felt for his future. It is thought the man's mind is affected. Shortening the Catechism. The General Assembly of the Scott ish Free Church, which has just closed its yearly session, has displayed a disposi tion to follow the lead of American Presbyterians in subjecting the stand ards of the church to a eritical review. he Scotch Assembly, by thbe emphatic vote of 41:J to 1:30. decided to appomnt a :ommittee to "'probe the dissatisfaction with the Wstnminstr confecssion of fanth which lhas been evinced, anLt :onsidering what changes are needed for remedving it." Thus, in the stronghold of Calvinistie ortho oxy. t is recognized that wide discontent prevails and tiiat a necessity h aird ui)on the chureh to op'n the whole question of its creedI to debate. Un both sides of the water. therefore, Prsbyterxins are now studying just what it is that thecy believe. ln this .onntry a committee has already been :ni'aged on the q'iestion for more than a year, andl by the recent action of the Asembly thie local *lpresbyteries are sked to say to what extent they wish rojects of revision carried. To judge from latest reports, the church at the ery home of JIohn Knox is not far ehind the more liberal and progressive merian.--eir York Eriia'j S.'O A Great Deluge in the West. BLoomINeoN, ll|.. .June 19.-Another eluge of rain fell Monday night. It las rained every day for two weeks. Much of the contry is undecr water. Eh'le ground has beenl cold andi~ wet so ong that in lowv lace.s corn has become ellow. If the coll rain eensedu now orn may be saved, but she" d it con tiue a few days the 10.4s wili be greaZ. LEBANroN. Ind.,. Juna 10.-Owing to e long-continued rainus the last three eeks, the prospect for crops i. very liscouraging in this setion. Much corn s under water and wheat iresents a orry appearance: it wvill nut yield more an half a crop. A Failure in Plug Tobacco. RtcaMNDo Va., June 20.-L-twrence Lttier, plug tobaceo mii muatrtrr nadle a dleetd of assignmienltu- 1ea.wi iabilities of $47,000. Ass': n& st at d. ho principal creditors are' inRb nod, Philadelphia. New~ Y i ad