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A DISTURBIN FOR REV. DR. TALMAGE'S ELO'ZUENT SER MON ON THE CONSCIENCE. Christ Before Vilate--Ih' i't tof the StlI snialil vo:ce--Tie True Converiozl A Wash In tite (;Ioriuu Go-pt.i Liaer. 'ardoning 31ercy. NEW YORK. May 5.-Rlarely does any discourse hold an audience with such intense iaterest as did that which Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered this after noon in the Academy of Music. He chose for his subject "Conscience. the text selected being Matthew xxvii. 24: "He took water and washed his hands before the multitude. saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye to it. At about 7 o'clock in the morning, up the marble -stairs of a palace, and across the floors of richest mosaic, and under ceilings dyed with all the splen dors of color, and between snowbanis of white and glistening sculpture. passes'a pooi-, p'ale, sick young man of 33, already. condemned to death. on his way to be condemned agaii. Jesus of Nazareth is his name. Coming out to meet him on this tes sellated pavement is an unscrupulous, compromising, timeserving, cowardly man, with a'few traces of sympathy and fair dealing left in his composition -Governor Pontius Pilate. Did ever such opposites meet? Luxury and pain, selfishness and generosity, arro gance and humility, sin and 'holiness, midnioht and midnoon. The;bloated lipped governor takes the cushioned seat, but the prisoner stands, his wrists manacled. In asemi circle around the prisoner are the san hedrists, with flashing eyes and bran dishedfists. prosecutino this case in the name of religion, for the bitterest per secutions have been religious persecu tions, and when satan takes hold of a V man he makesupby intensity for vity of occupation. If you have never seen an ecclesiastical court try ing a man, then you have no idea of the foaming infernalism of these old religious sanhedrists. Governor Pilate cross questions the prisoner and finds right away he is innocent and wants to let him go. His caution is also in creased by some one who comes to the governor and whispers in his ear. The governor puts his hand behind his ear, so as to catch the words almost inau dible. It is a message from Claudia Procula, his wife, who has had a dream about the innocence of this prisoner and about the danger of executing him and she awakens from this morning dreamin timeto send the message to 'her husband, then on the jud'cial bench. And what with the protest of his wife, and the voice of his own con science, and the entire failure of the sanhedrists to make out their case, Governor Pilate resolves to discharge the prisoner from custody. But the intimation of such a thing brings upon the governor an equinoc tial storm of indignation. They will report him to the emperor at Rome. They will have him recalled. They wil send him up home, and he will be -hung for treason, for the emperor at Rome has alreadya suspicion in regard to Pilate and that suspicion does not cease until Pilate is banished and com mits suicide. So Governor Pontius -?ilate compromises the matter and pro poses that Christ be whipped instead of assasswinnad So the prisoner is fas tened to alow pillar, and on his bent and bared back come the thongs of "leather with pieces of lead and bone intertwisted so that every stroke shall be the more awful. Christ lifts him self from the scourging, with flushed cheek and torn and quivering and mangled flesh, presenting a spectacle *of suffering in which Rubens, the painter, found the theme for his great est masterpiece. But the sanhedrists are not yet satis fied.~ They have had some of his nerves lacerated-they wantthemnall lacerated. They have had some of his blood; they want all of it, down to the last corpus cle. So Governor Pontius Pilate, af ter all this mercifui hesitation, surren ders to the demoniacal cry of "Crucify him !" But the governor sends for something. He sends a slave out to get something. Athough the consta bles are in haste to take the prisoner totexecution and the mob outside are *impatient to glare upon their victim, a pause is necessitated. Yonder it comes, a wash basin. Some pure, bright water is poured into it, and then Gov *ernor Pilate puts his white, delicate hands into the water and rubs them tether and then lifts them, dripping, r6 the towel fastened at the slave's girdle, while he practically says: "I -wash my hands of this whole homicid al transaction. I wash my hands of this entire respnsibility. You will have to bear it." - That is the meanino of my text when it says: "He toot water and washed his hands before the mrultitude, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye toit." Behold in this that ceremony amounts to nothing, if there are not in it correspondencies of heart and life. It is agood thing to wash the hands. God created three-quarters of the world water, and in that commanded clean liess, and when the ancients did not take the hint he plung'ed the whole world under water and' kept it there for some time. Hand washing was a -religious ceremony among the Jews. The Jewis'h Mishna gave particular di rection how that the hands must be thrust three times u'p to the wrists in water, and the palm of the hand must be rubbed with the closed fist of the other,.- All that well enough for a symbol, but here in the text is a man who proposes to wash away the guilt of a sin which he does not quit and of -which he does not make any repent ance. Pilate's wash basin was a dead failure. - Ceremonies, however beautiful and appropriate, may be no more than this hypocritical ablution. In infancy we may be sprinkled from the baptismal font, and in manhood we may wade -into deep -immersions and yet never come to moral purification. We may kneel without prayer, and bow witbh out reverence, and sing without any acceptance. All your creeds and litur gies and sacraments and genutlections and religious convocations amount to nothing unless your heart life go into them. Wen tat bronzed slave took from the presence of Pilate that wash basin, he carried away none of Pilate's cruelty, or Pilate's wickedness, or Pi late's guilt. Nothing against creeds; we all have them, either written or implied. Noth ing against ceremonies: they are of in finite importance. Nothing against sacraments; they are divinely com mianded. Nothing against a rosary, if there be as many heartfelt prayers as beads counted. Nothing against incense floating up from censer amid Gothic arches, if the prayers be as genuine as the aroma is sweet. Noth m .ig agint Epiphany or Lent Or Ash Wednesday or Easter or Good Friday or Whitsuntide or Palnm Sunday, if these symbols have be hind them genuine re entance and -holy reminiscence and Christian con *cratfn. But emony is nlyr the sheath to tie sword. it is only the shell to tih. krnel, it is only the lamp to the iaime. it is only the body to the spirit. The outward must be symboli cal of the inward. Wash the hands y all mtans. but, more than all. wash the heart. Behold, also, as you see Governor Pontius Pilate thrust his hand into this wash basin the power of conscience. He had an idea there was blood on his hands-the blood of an innocent per son, whom he might have acquitted if he only had the courage. Poor Pilate: His conscience was after him. and he knew the stain would never be washed from the right hand or the left hand, a nd until ,he day of his death, though he mizhit wash in the all the lavers of the Roram empire, there would be still eight fingers and two thumbs red at tie tips. Oh, the power of conscience when it Is fully aroused: With whip of scorp ions over a bed of spikes in the pitch of mldnight it chases guilt. Are there ghosts' 'yes, not of the graveyard. but of one's mind not at rest. Ad thus, Biutut, amid his s"unibering host. !tart:ed with cesar's s!a!wait ghost. Macbeth looked at his hand after the midilnight assassination, he says: Wiji aU igeat Neptune's ofean wash this hc od Clean from my band? No; this m3 hand v II rat,.er Tbe i ultitudineus seas incarnadine, Maki.r the green ore red. For every sin, great or small, con science. which is the voice of God, has a reproof, more or less emphatic. Charles IX, responsible for St. Bartho lomew massacre, was chased by the bitter memories, and in his dying mo ment said to his doctor. Ambrose Par ry: "Doctor, Idon't know what's the matter with me; I am in a fever of body and mind and have been for a long while. Oh, if I had only spared the innocent, and the imbecile, and the cripple:" Roussean declared in old age that a sin he committed in his youth still gave him sleepless nights. Charles II of Spain could not sleep unless he had in the room a confessor. and two friars. Catiline had such bitter memo ries he was startled at the least sound. Cardinal .Beaufort, having slain the Duke of Gloucester, often in the night would say: "Away. away.! Why do you look at me" Richar III, having slain his two nephews, would some times in the night shout from his couch and cluth his sword, fighting apparitions. Dr. Webster, having slain Parkman in Boston, and while wait ing for his doom, complained to the jailer that prisoners on the other side of the wall all night long kept charg ing him with his crime when there were no prisoners on the other side of the wall. It was the voice of his own conscience. From what did Adam and Eve try to hide when they had all the world to themselves From their own con science. What made Cain's punish ment grater than he could bear? His conscience. What made Ahabcry out to the prophet, "Hast thou found me, O mine enemv f" What made the great Felix tremble before the little missionary? Conscience. What made Belshazzar's teeth chatter with a chill when he saw a finger come out of the black sleeve of the midnght and write on the plastering? Conscience, con science: Why is it that man in this audience, with all the marks of worldly pros perity upon him, is agitated while I spealk and is now flushed and is-now pale, and then the breath is un even, and then beads of perspiration on the forehead, and then the look of unrest comes to look of horror and despair? I know not. But heknows, and God knows. It may be that he despoiled a fair young life and turned innocence into a waif, and the smile of hope' into the brazen laughter of despair. Or it may be that lie has in his nossession the property of others, and by some strategem he keeps it ac cording to law, and~ yet he knows it is not his own, and that if his heart should stop beating this moment he would be in hell forever. Or it may be he is responsible for a great mys tery, the disappearance of some one who was never heard of, and the de tectives were baffled, and the tracks were all covered up, and the swift horse or the rail train took him out of reach, and there are only two persons in the universe who know of it-God and himself. God present at the time of the tragedy and present at the re trospection and conscience-conscience with stings, conscience pinchers, con science with flails, conscience with furnace-is upon him, and until a man's conscience rouses him he does not repent. What made that farmer converted to God go to his infidel neighbor and say: "Neighbor, I have four of your sheep. They came over into my fold six yearsago. They had your mark upon them, and I changed it to my mark, I want you to have those sheep, and I want you to have the interest on the money, and I want you to have the increase of the fold. If you want to send me to prison, I shall make no complaint?"' The infi del heard of the man's conversion and he said: "Now, now, if you have got them sheep, you are welcome to them. I don't want nothing of those things at all. You just go away from me. Something has got hold of you that I don't understand. I heard you were. down at those religious meetings." But the converted man would not al low thing's to stand in that way, and so the infidel said: "Well, now, you can pay me the value of the sheep, and 6 per cent interest from that time to this, and I shan't say anything more about'it. Just go m'tay from me.'' What was the matter with the two far mers? In the one casda convated con science leading him to honesty, and in the other case a convicted consicence warning against infidelity. Thomas Oliver was one of John Wesley'spreachers. The early part of his life had been full of recklessness, and he had made debts wherever he could borrow. He was converted to God, and then he went forth to preach and pay his debts. He had a small amount of property left'him and im mediately set out to pay his debts, and everybody knew he was in earnest, and to consummate the last payment he had to sell his horse and saddle and bridle. That was conscience. That is converted conscience. That is religion. Frank Tiebout, a converted rumseller, had a large amount of liquor on hand at the time of his conversion, and he put all the kegs and barrels and demi johns in a wagon and took them down in front of the old church where lie had been converted and had every thing emptied into the street. That'is religion. Why the thousands of dcl lars sent every year to the United States treasury at Washington as "conscience money ?' Why, it simply means there are postmasters, and there are attor neys, and there are officials who some times retain that which does not be long to them, and these men are con verted or under powerful pressure of conscience and make restitution. If all the moneys out of which the state and the United . States treasuries have been defrauded should come back to their rightful' ex chequers, there . would be money enough to pay all the state debts and all the United States debt by day after tomorrow. Conversion amounts to nothing un less the heart is converted, and the pocketbook is converted, and the cash converted, and the fireproof safe is converted, and the pigeonhole contain ing the correspondence is coinverted. and his improvemeit is noticed even by the c'anarv bird that sings in the parlor. and the cat that licks the plat ter after the meal. and the dog that comes bounding from the kennel to greet him. A man half converted, or quarter converted, or a thousandth part converted is not converted at all. What will be the great book in the day of judgmet? Conscience. Consci ence recalling nisimproved opportun ities. Conscience recalling unforgiv en sins. Conscience bringing up all the past. Alas, for this governor, Pontius Pilate: That night after the court had adjourned and the sanhedr ists had gone home and nothing was heard outside the room but the step of the sentinel, I see Pontius Pilate arise from his tapestried and sleepless couch and go to the laver and begin to wash his hands. crying: "Out, out, crimson spot: Tellest thou to me and to God and to the night, my crime? Is there no alkali to remove these dreadful stains? Is there no chemistry to dis solve this change ? Must I to the day of my death carry the blood of this innocent man on my heart and hand? Out,. thou crimson spot!" The worst thing a man can have is an evil con science and the best thing a man can have is what Paul calls a good con science. But is there no such thing as moral purification? If a man is a sinner once, must he always be a sinner and an unforgiven sinner? We have all had conscience after us. Or do you tell me that all the words of your life have been just right, and all the thoughts of your heart have been just right, Then you do not know yourself, and I take~ the responsibility of saying you are a hypocrite, you are a Pontius Pilate and do not know it. You com mit the very same sin that Pilate com mitted. You have crucified the Lord of Glory. But if nine-tenths of this audience are made up of thoughtful and earnest people, then nine-tenths of this audience are saying within themsalves: "Is there no such thing as moral -purification? Is there no laver in which the soul may wash and be clean?" Yes, yes, yes. Tell it in song, tell it in sermon, tell it in prayer tell it to the -hemispheres. That is what ]David cried out for when he said. "Wash me thoroughly from my sin, and cleanse me from miae iniquities." And that is what in another lace he cried, out for when he said, "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." Behold the layer of the gospel, filled with living fountains. Did you ever see the picture of the laver in the an cient tabernacle or in the ancient tem ple? The laver in the ancient taber nacle was made out of the women's metallic looking glasses. It was a great basin, standing on a beautiful pedestal, but when the temple was built then the laver was an immense affair, called the brazen sea, and oh, how deep were the floods there gather ed! And there were ten layers bides -five at the right and five at the left -and each laver had 300 gallons of water. And the outside of these lavers was carved and chased with palm trees so delicate cut you could almost see the leaves tremble and lions so true to life that you could imagine you saw the nostril throb, and the cheru bim with outspread wings. That mag nificent laver of the old dispensation is a feeble type of the more glorious layer of dispensation-our sunlit dis pensation. Here is the layer holding rivers of salvation, having for its pedestal .the Rock of Ages, carved with the figure of the lion of Judah's tribe and having palm branches for victory and wings sugoestive of the soul's flight toward Go in prayer and the soul's flight heavenward when we die. Come, ye auditory, and wash away all your sins, however aggravated, and all your sorrows, however agonizing. Come to this fountain, open for all sin and uncleanness, the furthest, the worst. You need not carry your sins half a second. Come and wash in this glori ous gospel layer. Why that is an opportunity enough to swallow up all nations. That is ani opportunity that will yet stand on the Alps and beckon to Italy, and yet stand on the Pyre nees and beckon to Spain, and it will yet stand on the Ura and beckon to Russia, and it will stand at the gate of heaven and beckon to all nations Par don for all sin, and pardon right away, through the blood of the Son of God. A little child that had been blind, but through skillful surgery brought to sight, said: "Why, mother, why didn't you tell me the earth and sky are so beautiful? Why didn't you tell me? "Oh," replied the mother, "my child, I did tell you often. I of ten told you how beautiful they are, but you were blind, and you couldn't see:" "Oh, if we could have our eyes opened to see the Glories in Jesus Christ, we would feel that the half had not been told us, and you would goto some Christain man and say, "Why didnt you tell me before of the glories in the Lord Jesus Christ?" and that friend would say, "I did tell you but you were blind and could not see, you were deaf and could not hear.' History says that a great army came to capture ancient Jerusalem, and when this army got on the hills so that they saw the turrents and the towers of Jerusalem, they gave a shout that made the earth tremble, and tradi tion, whether true or false, says that, so great was the shout, eagles flying in the ear dropped under the atmos pheric percussion. Oh, if we could only catch a glimpse of the towers of this gospel temple into which you are all invited to come and wash, there would be a song jubilant and wide resound ing, at New Jerusalem seen, at New Jersualem taken, the hosannas of ot her worlds flying midair would fold their wings and drop into our closing doxology! Against the disappointing and insufficient layer of Pilate's vice and Pilate's cowardice and Pilate's sin, I place the brazen sea of a Sa viour pardoning mercy. - Children's Rights. If a child has any sensibility scold ing either kills it or makes it vicious. Children have rights which ought to be respected as much as with their el ders. They can reason as well as old er and wiser heads. They are as quick to see an injustice and know as well as any one else when parents are mak ingr fools of themselves. The house hold of a noted dramatist in New York is said to be a democracy. The voice of the youngest child in it is as potent as that of a parent. This is a rare in cident of the recognition of children's rights, and while it might not prove successful if generally applied, owing to parental incapacity, who can say that it is not a plan of wisdom and one that in many cases might work wonders of domestic harmony? While often times children have been ruined by indulgence, they have frequently been spoiled with "discipline." Chil dren were never designed for noneni ties, a fact in proof of which the onm nipresent small boy stands out with monumental prominence. While children can be allowed to become a nuisance by the laxity of parents, they can, on the other hand, be op pressed until they become atropied in mind and heart and soul. THlE easiest and best way to draw trade from the surrounding country is to develop within the town industries -then trade will flow in as naturally ,ae the needle to the pole. CONSTABLES ENJOINED. NOT TO SEIZE LIQUOR BROUGHT IN FOR PRIVA rE USE. DeciSion Of the United States Court inl the Cases Heard Last Week-An Inj1itioni4il Against All the State Constabulary. CoLt:.mA, S. C.. M1ay 8.-Special: There was the usual crowd in the Fed eral court room yesterday and today. Unusual interest was taken in the ar gument yesterday-being the speech of Mr. J. P. K. Bryan of Charleston. in support of the motion to enjoin the dispensary officers and agents from interfering with liquors brought into this State. for private consumption. There were other details in the case, but this was the main question to which the argument was directed. A case having the same object as Mr. Bryan's was also brought by M1essrs. Pope and Caldwell. In these cases Judges Goff and Simonton sat to gether. On behalf of the State. Assistant Attorney General Townsend read the return of the dispensary officers, set ting up, in substance, that the dispen sary law is a police regulation of the State of South Carolina, and that it does not at all interfere with interstate commerce. There were other points made on this side also, but the state ment just given covers the ground. The different lawyers spoke in the following order: Mr. Townsend, Dr. Pope, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Barber. The positions taken by either side are intelligibly stated in the opin ion of Judge bimonton, which was delivered this morning. It is as fol lows: James Donald vs. J. M. Scott, M. T. Holley, Sr., et al. This is a bill against the defendants, State constables of the State of South Carolina. The bill states that complainant who is a citizen of the United States, and of the State of South Carolina, was the owner of certain packages of alcoholic liquor, to wit: One barrel of Rochester beer, made in the State of New York, and shipped to him by ocean gnd land routes to the city of Charleston, his place of residence. One package of Pickwick club whis key, containing six quart bottles pur chased in Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, and shipped to him by steamer and railroad to Charleston, South Carolina, his residence, and one case of domestic California claret, containing one dozen quart bottles, shipped to him from the place of pur chase, Savannah, in the State of Geor gia, to Charleston by rail. That these packages contained liquors for his own personal use and consumption, and not for sale in any way. That none of them contained any product of the State of South Carolina, but their contents were products of other States of the Union. That each pack age was openly marked in his name. That upon the arrival of each of the said packages at Charleston, its desti nation, it was forcibly seized by the defendants, claiming to act as State constables, and taken and carried by them by pretense of authority of the act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, approved 2d January, 1895, commonly known as the dispensary law. That before the arrival of each shipment the complainant had given notice to the defendants of his inten tion to import the same for his own personal use, from points without this State, and that the defendants, when they male their several seizures, had knowledge of all the facts connected with the importation. shipment and proposed use of the packages. That upon each seizure, and after demand and refusal, he brought his action for the unlawful trespass on his rights by the defendants, and that notwithistand ing this, they persist therein,and man ifestly propose to drive him to a mul tiplicity of suits. That he had no ad equate remedy at law, for these re peated violations of his rights, as de fendants are notoriously insolvent, and pecuniarily irresponsible. He avers that so much of the dispensary law as is set up in justification of these acts of the defendants, in preventing him from importing, for his own use and consumption, alcoholic liquors, the products of other States, into this State, violates the interstate commerce law, as established by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and is null and void. His bill filed as well in his own behalf, as in that of other citizens of this State, in like plight with himself, prays an injunction against the defendants, forbiddino them to continue their unla wful search and seizuire of packages import ed as these were. U on filing the bill a rule was is. sue requiring the defendants to ap pear and show cause why an injunc tion should not be issued as prayed for in the bill. The defendants have appeared, and have filed their return. After denying the 3urisdiction of the court, because this suit is in fact one against the State, and because it pre sents no question arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, and because the allegations of the bill show no ground of equity ju risdiction, they answer in detail the allegations of the bill, excusing and ustifying their conduct in the prem ses under the provisions of the dispen sary law. The arguments at the hearing on both sides have been able and exhaus tive. The time at the command of the court forbids for the present any ex tended discussion, of the important points raised and'elaborately discuss ed. This must be reserved for a fu ture occasion. Conclusions can only at this time be given. It is not a suit against the State of South Carolina. nor is she in any way a party thereto. Certain persons claim to act in the name of the State, basing 'their claim on the dispensary law. Their justification depends on the va lidity of that law, and if it or that part~ of it which authorizes them to seizAe and carry away the property of the complainant under the circum stances charged in the bill be in con flict with the Constitution of the Uni ted States, or any law made thereun der, it is null and void, is as if it never existed, and they are left without jus tification. The questions made in the bill are Federal questions. Are the acts com plained ot in violation of the Consti tution of the United States or of any law passed thereunder! This court, sitting in equity, has ju risdiction over the matters stated in the bill, to prevent a multiplicity of suits, and because the complainant has no plain, adequate or complete remedy at law. We come then to the all-important question on the merits of the bill. Is the provision of the dispensary law, which forbids a citizen of the State himself to import for his own use from the other States alcoholic li uors sustainable under the act of Oongress commonly known as the Wilson bille It is, if these provisions of the dispensary law are the lawful exercise of the police power- of the State. The dispensary law nowhere de clares that use and consumption of alcoholic liquors in themselves are in jurious to the morals, good health and fty of the Sitae orf her ponle. On lie contrary the dispnerav I.%, miakes the Imiost anole urovision for the purchiar- of alcoholic liquors In this State. an 1d elsewlere. for th.r distribution in conveniint polc s within the reach of necarlv every pC.r son tiroug lout all portionis of Ihe State. for use and consuniption: by tle people of the State, and in eve-ry w.v it encourages such use and consurop tion. Even in localities in which !he majority of the inhabitants refuse to have a dispensary, provision is imade for the procurement of alcoholic li quor by those persons within the lo cality who desire to use it. Alcoholic liquor is declared to be contraband and against morals, good health and safety of the State. only when it is not imported by the dispenser, or is not in his hands, or in the hands of some one with his permission. Alcoholic li quors imported into this State and de clared contraband, and so subject to seizure, just as soon as they are seized and passed into the hands of the dis penser. lose their injurious qualities, are put into the channels of distribu tion and are sold to the people of the State for their use and consumption. It is not necessary to go into a min ute and detailed examination of all the provisions of the dispensary law, nor to determine whether all these provisions are, or are not in the exer cise of the police power. It is suffici ent f2r the purposes of this case to say that in so far as the dispensary law for bids a citizen to purchase in other State, and to import into this State al coholic liquors for his own use and consumption, the products of other State, it discriminates against the pro ducts of other states. Such discrimina tion cannot be made under the guise of the police power. Walling vs. Michigan, 116 U. S., 446, cited and ap proved in Plubley vs, Massachusetts, 155 U. 5., 471. Ernest vs. Missouri 156 U. S., 296. And further in so far as this act permits the chief dispenser to purchase in other States alcoholic liquor, and to import them into this State for the purpose of selling tlem, for use and consumption, at retail within the State, and forbids all other persons from so purchasing and im porting for their individual use and consumption, it discriminates against all other citizens of the State. It also makes a discrimination against all per sons in the trade in other States who are not patronized by the State dispen ser, folbidding them to seek customers within the State, and to enjoy a coin mercial intercourse secured to others in this State. These conclusions rest on this dis crimination. If it did not exist, and if all alcoholic liquors were excluded from the State, or if all persons were forbidden to import alcoholic liquors, or if the laws of South Carolina had declared that all alcoholic liquors were of such poisonous and detriment al character, and that their use and consumption as a beverage were against the morals g-ood health and safety of the State, other and different questions would arise. Let an injunction issue as prayed for in the bill. THE INJUNCTION. On motion of J. P. K. Bryan, etc., it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that a writ of injunction be awarded and do issue out of this court, command ing and enjoining and restraining the defendants, M. T. Holley., Sr., as chief constable of the State of South Caro lina, and all other State constables of the State of South Carolina, and odi cers and others persons acting under him, and their successors in office, and also the defendents. J. M1.Scott. R. M. Gardner and E. C. Beach and all other State constables of the State of South Carolina and all county sheriffs and their deputies and all municipal offi cers chiefs of police and all other ofli cers of the State of South Carolina, or of any county, city or town of the said State of South Carolina, and all per sons whomsoever acting or claiming to act under the authority of the act of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, approved January 2, 1895, or under any warrant issued by or under authority thereof from seiz ing or attempting to seize in transit or otherwise, both before and after arri val in the State of South Carolina, and at any place in the State of South Car olina, and from taking, carry away or confiscating any packages whatsoe~er of ales wines, beers or spirituous li quors, or any intoxicating liquours, the product of any other State or foreign country, imported into, or brought into the State of South Caro lina by any means of transportation whatsoever, by the complainant James Donald, or any other person whomso ever, for his own use and consumption, and from entering focibly or search ing or attempinc- to seach the premises or dwelling of the complainaint, James Donald, or any other person in the State of South Caroia, or any railroad depot, railroad car or steam boat, or sailing vessel, or other vehicle of intersate commerce or any vehicle whatsoever within this State for such intoxicating liquors as aforesaid im ported or brought into this State for his use or consumption or from hinder ing and preventing by any means whatsoever the complainant. James Donald. or any other person in the State of South Carolina as importer and consumer of the ales, beers, wines and spirituous liquors of other States and foreign counties from importing, holding. possessing, using and con suming the said intoxcating liquors as aforesaid, so imported for his.use and consumption. CHARLES H. SIMoNTON, May 8th, 1895. Circuit Judge. THE DUNBAR CASE. In the case broug'ht by one Dunbar, through Messrs. Pop and Caldwell, Judge Simonton alsg deivered the judgment of the court. In substance ie held that Dunbar's complaint does not entitle him to the injunctiolmpray ed for, chiefly because, as shown by the return of the State officials, the party who made the seizure was not before the court and because his act had not be commanded or induced by any of.such officials. The temporary injunction heretofore issued was ac cordingly dissolved. A Remedy for Chicken Cholera. This is the time of year when own ers of poultry are fearing and trem bling about chicken cholera. A gen tleman came into the ollice recently and mentioned that lie had r-ecently been visiting in a neighboring town and noticed that a merchant had a barrel of venetian red. He asked him what was the object in keeping so much of the red on hand. The reply was that the people in that section used it to prevent and cure chicken cholera. The curiosity of the visitor was excited and lie ascertained that it. wat the custom to mix a tablespoonful of the red in a pint of corn nmeal and give it to tihe fowls two or three times a week and when so used there was no cholera.--Greenville News. YOUR horse can pull a plow, wagon or buggy as well as it ever did: your cow gives as nmuch milk as she ever did: your land is the same place and will yield as much as it ever did: your products of every name and kind are as healthful, nutritious and necessary as they ever were, but your horse is not worth in money 50) per cent. of his cost three years ago, nor is your cow, your land or your products, because oney is high, and not because your' WHEN 31Y ROU-ND EARtTH WAS YOU, I wr.tch the l ightS' siow (oning, Wh 1-. wif: grav sliadowi rise That touch ie v ith i our lertle !'ands, A ud nock me vith yo :r - es haitows froca day, Iu)t distant, Of ni ioi ie- sweet an I true, \Vhen I was yor worId, i)Ve, And Imv round ear th was you. I hear the latlbo:'3 waters ru:-h Athwart our steamer's bow, As. leaning on its trrsty rail, Y, ur voice cam" soit and low. There first you told the -tory, 6o old. so sweet, so new, Of love that made me all ycur world, And all n y round earth you. Each joyous bird is singing clear A song more sweet to heaven, And Tuesday morn will ever be The fairest o t he seven. I sucell the pansies' perfume As they shone that morn with dew, When I becatie your world, my dear, And all my round earth you. Once more the wave is kissing The seaweed on the sand, While only dancing lanterns Illuminate the land. Out, just beyond their radiance, I he upon your breast, And all life's turmoil seemed to end On that dear pillow's rest. Grim shadows of all shadows, haste To hide the past from me! Let Leathen waters sweep away Each rapturous memory! Yet never may my heart forget, The ;ook in eyes of blue, When I was all your world, dear love, And my round earth was you Cora Stuart Wheeler in Boston Transcript. DOROTHY PRESTON'S PRIDE. Pride is an unpardonable thing in some people, and then there are others whom it tits with the appropriateness of a natural garment. Among the latter class the Preston family might have been justly placed, and as an exponent of uncompromis ing, stately pride, one might have cited the only daughter, Dorothy. And why should she not have been proud? She was young and beautiful and wealthy, and knew that there coursed through her veins some of the bluest blood of the Old Dominion. The men, self-complacent and con ceited as they are ever reported to be, said that they felt like manikins in her presence. And the women-well, she was too good and pure for them to hate and too proud and distant for them to love, for, say what you will, we may reverence, but we can never really love a being who is greatly above us. It is selfisl but it is human. So the women contented themselves with loving her a little, envying her a; great deal and copying her very much. But the men loved her, proposed to her, were rejected and grew desperate. There never was a social function but she had her coterie of admirers about her. each anxious for a word or a smile, and always in that number might be found the handsome and strong, but hopeless, face of Ned Cul bertson. A man of brilliant intellect ual attainments, society was kind to him on account of his talents. His character, his manners, his social po sition were above reproach. But when that's said all's said. For, as the worlds looks at it, Ned Culbertson was a poor man. Of course he had a profession, and there was a'n income from that. But in the circles in which he moved the yearly earnings of even so excellent an architect as himself were hardly a very weighty matrimo nial consideration. But the heart knows no distinctions of wealth or condition, and it soon became an open secret, a secret shared by all the immediate circle who knew the two, that Ned Culbertson had pre sumed to fall in love with Dorothy Preston. It caused no extraordinary comment, for society recognized the right which every man has to be a fool if he chooses,and then there were so many others in exactly the same position. But despite his fine qualities, Cul bertson was a very modest fellow, and no word of his love for Dorothy had ever passed his lips. He was no cox comb, and though he was conscious of his ability to hold his own among the men he saw in himself no quality to attract women. So when the proud Miss Preston treated him with even less consideration than she bestowed on her other admirers, he accepted it all as only what was due him and went his way in silence. Meanwhile, Dorothy Preston chafed and groaned in spirit under the sting of wounded pride. She refused to see what was patent to every one else that Ned Culbertson loved her-and only knew that she had, after a strug gle, given her heart to a man who had never spoken an affectionate word to her. -- It was after a ball one night that her position first came so strongly home to her mind. She had long tried to deny to herself this passion of her heart, but now it rose a strong. full blown love and clamored to be heard. She clasped her hands and, with flush ed face, admitted to herself that she loved Ned Culbertson. "Shame, shame upon me !" she cried. "I love him and lie has never iven me a word-and they call me roud, too:"' Her lip curled and she half laughed. "WVell. I will be proud. I will be too proud to let it be known that I have given my heart unsought to a man who-" She did not finish the sentence, but the blood flamed up into her cheeks and over her forehead, the tears came into her eyes and she clinched her hnids sharply together. From that time on if Ned Culbert son had any faint gleams of hope, they must have been entirely extin gushed, for Dorothy Preston's man ners toward himi were a revelation of frigid disdain. Did she touch his hnd in the darnce, it was shrinkingly, as if she abhorred the slight contact. D..d she speak to him it was with such distant hiauteur that his blood froze. And so it continued until he was in dspair'. Alone in his ofhice one evening dur ing a busy week. he was trying-to inish some complicated designs for the interior of a church which was soon to be erected. Could one have peped at him as he sat with bent head over his work. drawiing hard at a eigar. one would h'ave said that he was all absorbed in the labor before him. But any such thought would have been efficiently routed when be suddenly sprang to his feet and, dash ino his pencil into a corner, exclaim ed~ '-I can't do it, confound it: I can't. With that girl's face before my ees constantly I am getting as inca pable of thought or performance as an imbecile. And what does it all amount to: She looks at ime as if she would i e to walk over me,. and when she speaks it's like pouring ice wateir over my head. I can't do anything this way. Rlather than endure this sus pense I would tell her' and have her freeze me with a glance or show me t e door. Mavbe that would putt me on me feet anyhow and infuse a little spirit' into mie, if itwere only the spiit of resentmrent. In his lucid inonments MIr. Edward Culbetson was a quick thinking and p'ompt acting man, and in ten mm ues he had determiined on a plan of, action. A note left on the desk of his first assistant told that gentleman that hs sup~erioi' was su~ddenly called away and might not be back for a month and left the work of the ollice in his hads. He wold se Miss Pireston tell his story and then go away f 'r a mnth tO forgeut. W hen the piall Was (nct d upon it was but short work t, hextcn home. pack a satchel and thn (ii dr for the proposedi call. When he entered the Prestoi draw iug roomii lie thought that Dorothy had never looked so lovely to 16u11 be fore in all his life. Ie could hardly follow the com mon-places that introduced the con versation for looking at her. And then, more like the rude swain than the polished beau, almost before the greetings were over he had plunged "in medias res." The girl listened to him, speechless with surprise, as lie poured out his story of love. She coula not check him, nor did lie give her time to say a word. "Miss Dorothy," he concluded, af ter telling his story, "I cannot suffi ciently thank you for listening to me. I was a madman to think that you would, but I felt I must tell you how I loved you. I do not ask for your answer, for I am too sure what it will be. I suppose I'm a fool, but-" and there was a tremor in his voice-"I can't help it, you know. And now goodby, I've got to catch that 10.05 for-ah-I'm going away for a little while for change of scene and forget fulness, as the novelists put it." He smiled mirthlessly as mechanic ally she gave him her hand, and be fore she had recovered from the shock he had gone. To a woman a sofa pil low is a very sympathetic article, and a certain flowered silk one in ..Miss Dorothy Preston's room received her tears, laughter and incoherent words of joy. Then the same sofa pillow was dashed back into its place in a rather unfriendly manner, hardly con sistent with the confidences it had just received, as the proud Miss Pres ton rose to her feet exclaiming: "He said the 10.05; I have time yet!" It was just three minutes past ten when a woman approached Ned Cul bertson at the Grand Central station, where he was pacing back and forth impatiently awaiting his train. She touched his shoulder. "Dorothy !" he cried. "Ned, don't go; I-I want you," and then her voice broke. He led her quickly away, for people were begin ning to observe them. And once without the station he kissed her and then put off her clinging hands to tear up his ticket-extravagant fellow! He went home with Dorothy in blissful dreams. Then he sought his office, took the note off the desk of his first assistant and tore that up too.-Chicago News. STOPPED THE -DUEL. The Cool Man,Objected to Being Riddled with One Bullet. "Down in my neighborhood,once upon a time," said Congressman John Allen, of Mississippi, recently, "there was bad feeling between two lawyers. A chal lenge was sent and duly acknowledged. The hour was appointed and the two men met in a secluded spot. One of them was a great sufferer from St. Vitus' dance, the other was cool and collected. As they faced each other, the afflicted man began to tremble from head to foot, while his pistol de scribed an are with varying up and down strokes. His opponent stood firm as a rock, waiting for the .gnal to fire. Before it .:ame, however, lhe laid his pis tol on th e ground,walked into thewoods and cut a limb of a tree, with a fork in the end of it. This he brought back and stuck in the ground in front of his antagonist. Then, turning to the see ond, he said: 'I must request you to ask your principal to rest his pistol in that fork.' 'What for?' asked his op ponent's second. 'Well,' replied the other, 'I have no objection to running the risk of one shot, but I certainly do aecline having one bullet make a hon eycomb of me. If that man was to shoot while his hand is shaking the way it is now, he would fill me full of holes at his first shot.' This was too much for the seconds, and, by mutual agreement, a truce was patched up and n~ashots were exchanged." SLEEPLESS LARVAE. Voracity or the Young of Some of the Vegetable Feeders. Prof. Lintner, New York's state en tomologist, is of the opinion that -the larvae stage of many species of in sects is one of the sleepless activity, the grub feeding incessantly from the "moment of its birth." ie says that it is doubtful if some species ever sleep or take a moment's rest. The vora ciousness and rapid growth of these creatures may be better understood by making a statement of two - facts: -A certain .flesh-feeding larvae, (which simply means the infant state of a carrion beetle whose scientific naine would be of nc particular interest, says the St. Louis -Republic) will consume in twenty-four hours two hundred times his own weight-a parallel to ivhich, in the human race, would be an infant consuming one thousand five hundred pounds of nutriment on the first day of its existence! There are vegetable feeders-caterpillars-which. during their progress to maturity, in crease in size ten thousand during the first thirty days of their lives. To equal this remarkable growth a ma ture man would weigh scarcely less than fifty tons! The People Want Light. The Washington correspondent of The New York Herald says that the agents of the eastern money sharks are making arrangement to carry on a campaign of education in the south in behalf of "sound money." The Atlanta Constitution says that they certainly have an arduous task before them and in order to carry it out thoroughly they should begin in the simplest way. They should begin at the A B C of the mjatter. First and foremost they should explain to the Democrats of the south how they ex pect to cain votes for the goldbugs by going a out declaring that those who favor the free coinage of silver are for dishonest money. This explanation having been madeto the staisfaction of the Democrats of the south, the agents of the eastern Shylocks should inform the people fairly, squarely and with out evasion, what they mean by "sound"-money and a "safe" currency. If they mean the British gold standard they should stand up and say so. in stead of taking shelter like a parcel of cowards and hypocrites behind argu ments in favor of an impossible inter national agreement. If they mean that the British gold standard supplies the only basis for a "safe" and "sound" currency, and that the gold dollar is the only "honest" dollar they should explain, fully and simply. why the old basis furnishes a "sjtfe" and sound" currency and why the gold dollar is the only "honest" dollar. The producers of the south would like to know what constitutes a "safe' cur rency. and an "honest" dollar. The business men have an eqjual interest in the matter. All classes, except the Shlocks, have an interest in knowing wy a dollar that constantly buys more and more of everything that is for sale-land, produce, and all arti cles of merchandise-should be called an "honiest" dollar instead of a dishon est dollar. The goldbugs will have to come to time on this or their campaign won't amount to a row of picked-up POWDER. Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar narmg powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.-LA' test United States Government lFood Re port. Royal BakiRg Powder C ompany, 106 Wall St., N. Y. CAROLINA'S CROPS. A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE FARMING OUTLOOK. Progress of All Crops Throughout the State - The Effect of the Weather Condi tions on Them-Observer Bauer's Bule till. COLUMBIA, S. C., May S.-The fol lowing weekly bulletin of the condi tion of the weather and" the"drops throughout the State was issued yes terday by Observer Bauer: The reports received indicate that the weather during the past week -was not generally favorable for farming operations, although the latter por tion of the week was extremely so. The heavy rains of the week previ ous and of the first part of the past week made the ground too wet for preparing the soil or for planting, es pecially bottom'lands, so that th~re yet remains a considerable acreage of land to olant in cotton and corn in the western counties, and some in other portions of the State. The conditions were very favorable for transplanting tobacco, sweet pota toes and cabbages, which work prc gressed rapidly. Early in the week the nights were rather too cool for cotton which is up and which in places deteriated slight ly; but, generally, growing crops are doing well; however, they stand in need of more sunshine. Cut worms did some damage to melons and corn in places, but reports indicate less damage by them than' on former years. The temperature during the first of the week ranged slightly belqw, and during the latter part of the .week above the normal; the departures in both instances being small: the great est departure was about five degrees on.the 4th, Saturday, which was the warmest day of the week. The highest temperature reported was 95 degrees on the 4th at Central and the lowest wasf1 degreeson April 30th, also at Central. The mean.tem perature of the week for the State was about 68.5, and the normal tempera ture for the same period is approxi mately 6S. On April 30th, Tuesday, there-were scattered showers over the entire State, quite heavy in' Ilaces, especially on the immediate coast- lig-ht shbowers - in various portions of the State on May 1st, Wednesday, and in a few southern counties on- the-. 2d, Thurs day. Friday and Sahfrday were with out rain over the entire State, but on the 5th, Sunday, and the 6th, Mon day, there were numerous showers, some quite heavy, in the interior coun ties, but the reports do not fully cover the last date. Although the number of days with rain was greater than usual, over the greater portion of the State there was some Tha' less than the usual amount of rainfall, but in a number of places there was a consid erable excess. There was fully twenty per cent. less than a seasonable amount of sun shine, which was the most serious ad verse features of the week's weather. Cotton planting made but little pro gress, and from one-fourth to one half yet remains unplanted in the north-central and .western counties while in other portions of the State planting is nearly completed. The stand of that that is up is generally good, but in some pliiees it has deteri orated, some even dying out and ne cessitating replanting. "Choping out" to a staid-has begun in-the lower counties. 'Germination of late plant ino quick and satisfactory.-: Uplaind corn planting ~virtually fin ished, but much bottom land corn yet to plant. Cut worms have damaged the stand to some extent in theoupper counties; otherwise the stand of corn is generally excellent. Early plant ing has about all received its first working, and in instances its second. More sunshine would be highly bene ficial. Grains continue to grow well, and it is said to be the exception -rather than the rule to see poor fields of wheat, oats, or rye. In Fairfield, Greenville, and Pick~ens Counties o are exceptionally promising, in e~ Pee Dee section less's-U;and in'the Georgia border counties the stand varies greatly in condition, but would average fair. Melons were injured to a limited ex tent by cut worms, but are gr-owing well. The reports indicate a slighly less acreage than last year. Early ric-e planting is about complet ed in the coast counties, except small. areas whlere it has been too wet to pre pare the ground. Where u-p it has attained a fair and satisfactory stand. Germinationi has been rapid. In the interior counties planting is progress ing favorably with a- somewhat in creased acreage probable. Transplantingtobacco was favored by the wet soil and generally cloudy conditions that prevailed. This wvork is well under way. Sugar cane planting continues, and that which is up has made a fine - growth. Some peas have been planted, but the reports do not indicate that this work has become general as yet. Irish potatoes have a good : stand. Potato bugs have become numerous on the coast truck farms but have as yet not materially injured the crop. Ac tive measures are being taken to pre vent their doing so. Complaint is quite general that sweet Potato slips are rotting in beds. Transplantino' "sets or " cuttings' has begun. ana was favored by the wet, cloudy weath er. Gardens continue to grow well, and in the lower-portionsof the State vege tables are plentiful for table use. In the interior- and western portions they are about two weeks later than usual. Fruit reports continue favorable. The P'resent conditions indicate an excptionally large peach crop. Ap pes not so promising at tis time. Grasses for pasturage and hay, making rapid growth: the weather conditions having beeni all that could