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"Where sunless iIvers weep Their w- vesz iuto the de'p, zhe s'eeps a cha-Imed sleep; Awake her iot, Led by a single star. She cam- fromi very far To qsek whlere hadows ate rier pleasant lot. "She left the rosy worn She left the fi-lds of corn For twilight cold. and 101, And water sprmnrzs ThrcuAh slee', as throu zh a veil, She sees the skv lo-k pale, And bears the nhtiugale Tnat sad1y sings. "est, rest, a per-ect rest Shed over brow and breast. Her face Is towards thi-' west. 'Ihe purple land. fhe cannot see the grain RipeE inz on hull and plain; Sie cannot feel the iai-n Upon her hand -Rest, rest for evermore; Upon a mossy share; Rest, ri st, at the heart's co e Till time shall cease. Sleep that no pain shall wale: Night that no morn shall break, Till joy shall overtake Her perfect reace." OUR FRIENDS THE WYDESWARTHS. We were very plain pec.ple. Mrs. Crumplehorn and I-I'm Mr. Crum plehorn-when the death of a distant relative made us uaexpectedly rich. Now I'm not going to be mneanl enough to put the blame of what fol lows on Mrs. Crunplehorn. That dodge of husbands laying their sins at their wive's doors began at a very early stage of the world's history, and small good it did the man that tried it first. We had hardly come into possession of our fortune-certainly hadn't begun to feel at home in it-when the season at Saratoga opened, and Mrs. Crun plehorn said we must go there, as everybody that was anybody did: that it was expected of us-by whom. I don't remember that she stated: in short, that there was "rio getting out of it." I really didn't see that there was, and so we went. We found a crowd of people there. none of whom we knew. You can't think how unsociable they were. Why, when Mrs. Crumplehorn, just to be civilasked a lady where she had bought the stuff in her dress, and how much it had cost a yard, she received for answer such a stare as- made the cold chills run over her, and, to use her own expression, "came near girv ing her a turn." Hops" to people that don't dance, games to people that can't play them, and jostling people one doesn't know, are. very tiresome modes of- killing time. In two days I had enough of it, and Mrs. Crumplehorn expressed herself satisfied in three. We had just concluded to set fash ionable opinion at defiance and go home and take things comfortable, when, as luck would have it, we made the acquaintance of General and Mrs. Wydeswarth; and so agreeable did it prove, that our puftpose of speedy de parture was at once reconsidered, and promptly dismissed. During our stay, which was pro longed several weeks, the General and myself, similarly his lady, and Mrs. Crumplehorn, were inseparable. They were a very entertaining and agreea ble couple, quite up to the highest notch of fashion, but not in the least proud. Why, bless you, the General made no more of walking arm and arm with me, and thought it no more a liberty to b'e invited to drinik cham pagne at my expense than his aristo cratic wife did to be offered-and to accept, too-Mrs. Crumplehorn's fin est diamond ring as a marriage anni versary present, of the event of which happy occasion she took care to give Mrs. C. private and confidential no tice. When the time came for going we had become so attached to our new friends that we gave them a cordial invitation to pay us an early visit, which they promised to do. While the two ladies were taking an affectionate leave, crying and kiss ing one another by turns, the Genera] took me aside' and disclosed the fact that, owing to the miscarriage of an expected remittance he found himself a little short of fund.s. If I could ac commodate him with-say $500-it would relieve him from present embar rassment and he would return it the following week when he and Mrs. W. came to pay their promised visit. I was deeply affected at this mark of confidence, and at once handed over the amount, and after another pathet ic scene between Mrs. W. and Mrs. 0. we tore ourselves away. Punctual tothe day our distinguish ed~guests arrived, and right glad we were to see-them. Our country home had seemed dull since our return, mainly owing, no doubt, to the absence of the dear friends to whose society we had grown accustomed. The General was captivated witht our ruralabode. He thought of build 'ing just such a house himself: and 'nothing would do but I must show~ /him over the premises-which I did, pointing out every nook, corner and apartment, with a conscious pride which my friend's praises served in no way to abate. The first flurry over, we were-just getting cleverly settled down, and be ginning to enjoy ourselves in earnest, when an event occurred to mar our pleasure. The house was entered by burglars one night, ransacked from top to bot tom.Our own loss,though by no means trifling-consisting of all'the plate. and over a thousand dollars in mnoney we could have grinned and borne: but Mrs. Wydeswarth's diamonds-we had never seen them, but they must have been slendid-and the General's ktok, fat with untold green ~ks, that was what crushed us. "Never mind, my dear fellow," said the General with the fortitude of a hero; "my chief regret is on your ac count. It wvill compel me to defer pay ment of that little loan a few days lon rOn the whole, I'm rather glad]I 'idn't tink of returning- it sooner though, as the loss would then have been yours." I begged him not to think of such a trifle; and when I offered to replenish his purse till another remittance came, hesadme " the back, and called which followed close upon the burg lary, Mrs. Wydeswarth insisted on lher acceptance of a magnificent breastpim, which had somehow escaped the vigil ance of the robbers. Mrs. C. would declined the gift, could she have done so without wounding her friend's fcol ings; but it was manifest she couldn't, so she took it. Just then the General put a letter in his wife's hand. "How provoking:" the latter ex claimed when she had read it. "What: my lifer" "Why, that Fannie Fitz Blodgitt should," just at this time, take it inte her head to get married and insist on my being present, in fulilment of promise we made each other at school.' "It is a little inconvenient," said th< General, gravely. "There's no help for it: I must givi it up :" sighed Mr-s. Wy-deswarthr, - . couldn't think of appearing on suci an occasion without jewels. "Of course not,'" the General as sented. "My dear Aspasia," interrupted 3Irs Oru1mmr-she had 1rown ver, e ith h-r friend by this time vj.wels art at your service. T b . me verV plain, no doubt. in com Swith tho.se you have been ac cu1stomeitd to wear: but such as they are you're w'elcoime to their use." -M v dear--'but Mrs. W.'s feelings were too iany for her. The siation was extremely deli cate. I scarcely knew how to'act. I managed, however, to tip the General a wink, and he followed mne out. I'm afraid I did it very awkwardly: but I somehow succeeded in making him comprehend that if his wife could make out with '-Mrs. C.'s diamonds they had cost seven thousand dollars -tie want of ready money for travel ing expenses needn't stand in the way. He grasped iy hand, and pocketed the money. Mrs. Wvdesw'artli packed up lier things, Poliv's diamonds included. commended her husband to our care. promised to he back in a week, and was waiting for the carriage in which we were all to ride to the station to gether, when her husband came in. fooking a good deal concerned. Hetoo had received a letter, sum moning hin away on important busi ness. It was necessary he should leave at once--by the same train witn his wife, in fact. Loath as we were to part with both our friends at once, it was, after all, -ratifying to think that Mrs. W. would be saved the annoyance of traveling unattended. At the station I succeeded in pressing a couple of hundred more on the Gen eral, to meet his own expenses. As lie was only to be gone a couple of days. that sui, he said, would be aniple. The kissing of the ladies, and the handshaking of the General and my self, were interrupted by the cry of "All aboard:" and in anothermoment the train was lumbering oil', Mrs. Wvdeswarth waving her handkerchief from the window at Mrs. Crumplehorn standing weeping on the platformi. We were just getting back into the carriage. when another train stopped, out of which three men rushed, in one of whon we recognized the husband of the unsociable lady that had given Mrs. Crumplehorn the "turn." "Here's a couple of them:" shouted the latter gentleman, making a dash toward us; "and, by Jove ! that's my wife's breastpin that woman has on now!" "What do you mean ?you villains!" I roared, aiming a blow at one of the m~n, who had laid his hands some what rudely on Mrs. Crumplehorn's shoulder. "Come: none of that, my covey:" exclaimed another of the men: and before I knew it, a pair of handcuffs were snapped on my wrists. We were about being hustled off, and Heavens knows what would have come of it, if some of our neighbors hadn't interfered and demanded an explanation. Everything was soon made plain enough. The General and his wife so called-were a couple of notorious thieves, in league with goodness knows how many others. They had been plying their vocation at Saratoga under the guise of a pair of fashiona bles. Among their victims had been the unsociable lady. And Mrs. Crum plehorn and myself, whom nobody knew, having constantly been seen in the Wydeswarth's company were, nat urally enough, suspected as accom plices-a suspicion materially strength ened, I may add, by one of the stolen articles being found in Mrs. C's. pos session. My own statement. however, and the testimony of our neighbors, com pletely satisfied the strange gentle man and the two detectives, and Mrs. C. and myself were at once released. I was willine to say no more about it, but Mrs. C.%eing a woman of spirit as she handed back the breastpin, couldn't refrain from sending her compliments to the gentleman's wife. "And tell her,"~ she said. "if Ilever shouldthink of stealing, it'll not be a trumpery piece of pinchbeck like that!" She had called it a "love of a thing" that very morning; but circumstances alter cases. Polly and I are not going to .Sara toga next season. To say nothing of the water, we've had quite enough of fashionable society for one while. A BLOW AT THE DISPENSARY. Judge Gofr Grants an Isnjunction Against the Law. CoUixxIA, S. C. April 22.-Judge Goff's gaff is getting in its work again. He made another lunge with it yes terday and it penetrated dee p into the fabrics of the South Carolina State dispensary law. The dropping of bombs into South-'Carolina from the long range guns on the turrets of Judoe Gotf's court room in Clark-sburg, \Nest Ya., seems to be the order now. Before the public has recovered from the first shock another and more severe one comes. The State mentioned a few days ago the fact that Dr. Sampson Pope and J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., of Newberryv, had gone on to Washington to apply for an injunction against the dispeni-. sary authorities. It now appears that theyv went to Clarksburg, and applied for'the injunction befoi'e Judge Goff yesterday. the case being that of "Dumbar vs. the Statc Board of Con trol and F. M. Mixon, Commission er." Judge Goff granted an order provid First. That on motion of Messrs. Caldwell and Pope. it is ordered that the bill for injunction be filed in the clerk's otlice at Charleston. Second. That it is ordered that the defendants be required to show cause at Columbia, S. C., on May 2, why the prayer of the petitioners for a per manent injunction shall not be grAnt ed. Third. That it is further ordered that the defendants herein. their age'nts, officers and employes, and the sheriffs, and ptolice officers of the State of South Carolina or ofany municipal itv therein be enjoined and restrained ijtil the further order of this court from interfering in any manner what soever with the commerce between the States. aiid, to that end, that they are hereby restrained from interfering with the agents or employees of the c-mmon carriers in said State in aniy man nei' whatsoever whilst transpot img. hioldin g, or delivering articles of commerce brought by said common carriers in the State: or interfering in any- manner whatsoever with articles of 'commerce so) broughlt into the State whilst in the hands of the consignees thereof. Fourth. That the bill and this order shall be served on the defendants on or before the 25th day of April, 19J'5. Fifth. That the defendants. the State Board of Control, and Mixson, comi missioner, shall answer the interr-ogat oies filed therewith by the 25th day of April, 189~5. Sixth. That the subpoena resp)ond enunm do issue. In acco-dance with this order, it ap pears that anybody who wants to get any liquor, in no matter what quantity from an adjoining State, can order it shipled in : that it can be delivered to him. and further that no authority can touch or molest it after it is on the consignees premiuses, All this to hold goodI till 31a~y 2. But if this is done, and the injunc tion is not made pernmanent, all parties AFTER THE BATTLE. REV. DR. TALMAGES SERMON AT T HE ACADEMY IN NEW YORK. The Eloquent I rteIer on 111ec'ee. Temptation and the Wiles of the World Story of the Good Anmel and the Bad. NEW Youx. April 21.-There is no dimiinution in the vast numbers that asseible froin Suziday to Sunday to iistein to the elo1n4-t sermons of Rev. Dr. Tlmage. Today lie chose for his subject -After the Battle," the text seleited being I samuel xxxi. 8, "And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines caie to strip the slain. that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in 'Mount Gilboa." Sonie of you were at South Moui.. ur or Shiloh, or Ball's Bluff, or Gettvs burg, on northern or southern side, and I ask you if there is any sadder sight than a battlefield after the guns have stopped firing? I walked across the field of Antietam just after the conflict. The scene was so sickening I shall not describe it. Ever v valuable thing had been taken frn the bodies of the dead, for there are always vul tures hovering; over and around about an army, and they pick up the watches and the mei )randum books. and the letters. and tne daguerreotypes. and the hats and the coats, applying them to their own uses The dead raake no resistance. So there are always camp followers going on and after an army, as wh ? Scott went down into Mexico, as wh -n Napoleon marched up toward 3Moscow, as when Von MIoltke went to Sedan. There is a similar scene in my text. Saul and his army had been horribly cut to pieces. Mount Gilboa was ghast ly with the dead. On the morrow the stragglers came on to the field, and they lifted the latchet of the helmet fron under the chin of the, dead, and they picked up the swords and bent them on their knee to test the temper of the metal, and they opened the wal lets and counted the coin. Saul lay dead along the ground, eight or nine feet in length, and I suppose the cow ardly Philistines, to show their brav ery, leaped upon the trunk of his car cass and jeEred at the fallen slain and whistled through the mouth of his hel met. Before night those cormorants had taken everything valuable from the field. "And it came to pass on the morrow when the Philistines came to strip theslain that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gil boa. Before I get through today I will show you that the same process is go ing on all the world over and every day, and that when men have fallen satan and the world, so far from pity ing them or helping them, go to work remorselessly to take what little there is left, thus stripping the slain. There are tens of thousands of young men evervyear coming from the coun try to otir great cities. They come with brave hearts and grand expecta tions. The country las sit down in the village grocery, with their feet on the iron rod around the redhot stove in the evening, talking over the pros pects of the young man who has gone off to the city. Two or three of them think that perhaps he may get along very well and succeed, but the most of them prophesy failure, for it is very hard to think that those whom we knew in boyhood will every make any reat success in the world. *But our young man has a fine posi tion in the dry goods store. The month is over. He wets his wages. He is not accustomecitohave so much money belonging to himself. He is a little excited and does not know exactly what to do with it, and he spends it in some places where he ought not. Soon there come up new companions and acquaintances from the barrooms and the saloons of the city. Soon that young man begins to waver in the bat tle of temptation, and soon his soul goes down. In a few months or few years he has fallen. He is morally dead. He is a mere corpse of what he once was. The harpies of sin snuff up the taint and come on the field. His arments gradually give out. He has pawned his watch. EIis health is fail ig him. His credit perishes. He is too poor to stay in the city, and he is too poor to pay his way home to the country. Down, down! Why do the low fell ows of the city now stick to him so closely? Is it to help him back toa moral an~d spiritual life? Oh, no; I will tell you why they stay ; they are Philistines stripping the slain.. Do not look where I point, but yon der stands a man who once had a beautiful homne in this city. His house had elegant furniture, his children were beautifully clad, his name was synonymous with honor and useful ness, but evil habit knocked at his front door, knocked at his back door, knocked at his parlor door. knock at his bedroom door. Where is the piano? Sold to pay the rent. Where [is th~e hatrack ? Sold to meet the butcher's bill. Where are the carpets ? Sold to 0-et bread. Where is the wardrobe? Sold to get rum. Where are the daughters? Woring their fingers otf try ing to keep the family together. Worse and worse until everythitng is gone. Who is that going up the front steps of that house? Thal is a creditor, hop ing to find some chair or bed that has not been levied upon. -Who are those two gentlemen nowgoing up the front steps? The one is a constable; the other is the sheriflf. Why do they go there? The unfortunate is morally dead, socially dead, financially dead. Why do they go there ?I will tell you whyv the credlitors, and, the constables, and the sheriffs go there. They are some on their own account, and some on account of the law stripping the slain. An ex-member of congress, one of the most eloquent men that ever- stood in the house of representatives, said in his last mooments: '"This is the end. I am dying-dying on a borrowed bed. covered byv a borrowed sheet, in a house built by public charity. Bury me under that tree in the middle o~f the f ield. wher-eI shall not be cr-owded, for I have been crowded all my life." Where were the jolly politicians and the dissipating comrades who had been with him laughing at his jokes, ap plauding his eloquence and plunging him into sin Thiey have left. Why His money is gone, his reputation is gone, his wit is gone, his clothes are gone. everything is gone. Why should they stay any longer-? They have completed their work. They have stripped the slain. There is another way, however, of doing that same work. Here is a man who, through his sin, is prostrate. He a-knowledges that he has done wrong. Now is the time for you to go to that man and sav, " Thousands of people have been asfar astray as you are and got back." Now is the time for you to go to th-at man and tell him of the om nipotent grace of God-that is sufhici ent for- any poor soul. Now is the tne to go to^ tell hinm how swearing ihon Bunyan. through the grace of God, after-ward came to the celestial city. Now is the time to go to' that man and tell him how protligate Newton came, through conversion, to a wornld -e nowned preacher of righteousness. Now is the time to tell that man that multitudes who have been pounded with all the lails of sin and dragged through all the sewers of pollutioni at last have risen to positivc dominion of You do not tell him that do you? No. You say to him: "Loan you money No. You are down. You will have to go to the dogs. Lend you a dollar. I would not lend you 5 cents to keep you from the gallows. You are debauched. Get out of my sight now. Down. You will have to stay down." And thus those bruised and battered men are sometimes ac costed by those who ought to to lilt them up. Thus the last vestige of houe is taken from them. Thus those who ought to go and lift and save them are guilty of stripping the slain. The point I want to make is this: Sin is hard. cruel and merciless. In stead of helping a man up it helps him down, and when. like Saul and his comrades, you lie on the field, it will come and steal your sword and helmet and shield, leaving you to the jackal and crow. But the world and satan do not do all their work with the outcast and abandoned. A respectable impenitent man comes to die. He is flat on his back. He could not get up if the nouse was on fire. Adroitest medical skill and gentlest nursing have been a fail ure. He has come to his last hour. What does satan do for such a man? Why. he fetches up all the inapt, dis agreeable and harrowing things in his life. He says: "Do you remember those chances you had for heaven and missed them. Do you remember all those lapses in conduct? Do you re member all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions? Don't re member them, eh? I'll make you re member them." And then he takes all the past and empties it on that death bed as the mail bags are emptied on the postoffice floor. The man is sick. He cannot get away from them. Then the man says to satan: "You have deceived me. You told me that all would be well. You said there would be no trouble at the last. You told me if I did so and so you would do so and so. Now you corner me and hedge me up, and submerge me in ev erything evil." "Ha. ha!" says satan. "I was only fooling you. It is mirth for me to see you suffer. I have been for 30 years plotting to get you just where you are. It is hard for you now. It will be worse for you after awhile. It pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don't flinch or shudder. Come, now, I will tear off from you the last rag of expec tation. I will rend away from your soul the last hope. I will leave you bare for the beating of the storm. It is my business to strip the slain." 'While men are in robust health, and their digestion is good, and their nerves are strong, they think their physical strength will get them safely through the last exigency. They say it is only cowardly women who are afraid at the last and cry out for God. "Wait till I come to die, I will show you. You won't hear me pray, nor call for a minister, nor want a chapter read me from the Bible." But after the man has been three weeks in a sick roomhis nerves are not so steady, and his worldly companions are not anywhere near to cheer him up, and he is per suaded that he must quit life. His physical courage is all gone. He jumps at the fall of a teaspoon in a saucer. He shivers at the idea of going away. He says: "Wife, I don't think my infidelity is going to take me through. For God's sake, don't bring up the children to do as I have done. If you feel like it, I wish you would reaa a verse or two out of Fan nie's Sabbath school hymnbook oI New Testament." But satan breaks in and says: "You have always thought religion trash and a lie. Don't give up at the last. Besides that you cannot in the hour you have to live get off on that track. Die as you lived. With my great black wings I shut out that light. Die in darkness. I rend away from you that last vestige of hepe. It is my business to strip the slain." A'man who had rejected Christiani ty and thought it all trash came to die. He was in the sweat of a great agony, and his wife said, "We had better have some prayer." "Mary, not a breath of that," hie said. "The lightest word of prayer would roll back on me like rocks on a drowning man. I have come to the hour of test. I had a chance, but I forfeited it. I believed in a liar, and he has left me in the lurch. Mary, bring me Tom Paine, that book that I lived by and sworeby and pitch it into the fire, and let it burn as I myself shall soon burn.' And then with the foam on his lip and his hands tossino wildly in the air, he cried out :I"Blaciness of darkness! Oh my God, too late:" And the spirits of darkness whistled up from the depth and wheeled around him, stripping the slain. Sin is a luxury now. It is exhilia ration now. It is a victory now. But after awhile it is collision. It is defeat. It is extermina tion. It is jackalism. It is robbing the dead. It is stripping the slain. Give it up today-give itup. Oh, how you have been cheated on my brozher, from one thing to another: All these years you have been under an evil mastery that you understand not. What have your companions done for you? What have they done for your health ? Nearly ruined it by carousal. What have they done for your forttune Almost scatterred it by spendthrift be havior. What have they done for your reputation? Almost ruined it with good men. What have they done for your immortal soul? Almost in sured its overthrow. You are hastening on toward the consummation of all that is sad. Today you stop and think, but it is only for a moment, and then you will tramp on, and at the close of this service you will go out. and the question will be, "How did you like the sermon ?" And one man will say, 'I liked it very well," and another man will say, "I didn't like it at all," but neither of the answers will touch the tremendous fact, that, if impenitent, you are going at 30 knots an hour toward shipwreck. Yea, you are in a battle where you will fall, and while your surviving rela tives will take your remaining estate, and the cemetery will take your body, the messengers of darkness will take your soul and come and go about you strippjing the slain. Many are crying out, "I admit I am slain-I admit it." On what battlefield my brothers? By what weapon? "Polluted imagination,"-says one man. "Intoxicating liquor," says another mani. 'My own hard heart," says an other man. Do you realize this? Then I come to tell you that the omnipotent Christ is ready to walk across this bat tlefield and revive and resuscitate and and resurrect your dead soul. Let him take your hand and rub away the numbness: your head and bathe off the aching: your heart and stop its wild throb. He brought Lazarus to life: he brought Jairus' daughter to life; he brought the young man of Nain to life, these are three proofs anyhow that lie can bring you to life. 'When the Phillistines came dowvn on the field, they stepped between the corpses. any they rollcd over the dead, and they took away everything that was vatuable. and so it was wvith the people that followed after the armies at Chancellorsville, and at Pittsburg Landing. and at Stone River-. and at Atlanta. stripping the slain, but the northern and southern women -God bless them :-came on the field with basins and rads and towels and lint and cordials and Christian encouragement, and the poor' fellows that lay there lifted up that does feel since vou dressed it:" and others looked up and said. Oh, how von make me think of iiv moli er!" and otiers saidl. -Tell the, folks at hoiniie I died thinking aha tIhm. and another looked up aiid idis. won't Vou sing m1fe a verse o 1f ,w Sweet Honw,' before I die And hen the tattoo was souided, and the bats weite of. and the service was read. -I am the resurrection and the life.* and in honor of the departed the nnski~ts were loaded and the command given: "Present: Fire: And there was a shingle set up at the head of the grave. with~ the epitaph of Lieutenent-in the Fourteenth Massachusetts regulars." or "Ciptain -in the Fifteenth regiment of South Carolina volunteers. And so now across this great field of moral and spiritual battle the angles of God come walking among the slain, and there arevoices of comfort and voices of hope and voices of resurrection, and voices of heaven. One night I saw a tragedy on the corner of Broadway and Houston street. A young man, evidently doubt ing as to which direction lie had better take. his hat lifted high enough so that you could see he had an intelli gent forehead, stout chest: he had a ro bus development. Spiendid young man. Cultured young man. Honor ed young man. Why did he stop there while so many were going up and down? The fact is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contend ing for the mastery of his spirit, and there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of Broadway and Hous ton street. Come with me," said the good angel "I will take you home. I will spread my wings over your pillow. I will lovingly escort you all through life un der supernatural protection. I will bless every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter. I will consecrate your tears when you weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last I will hand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. In answer to your father's petition and your mother's prayer I have been sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your guardian spirit. Come with me," said the good angel in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of heaven a seraph breathes on it. "No, no." said the bad angel. "Come with me. I have something better to offer. The wines I pour are from chalices of be witchino' carousal. The dance I lead is over floor tessellated with unrestra ined indulgences. There is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows, daisied and primrosed. Come with me." The young man hesitated at a time when hesita tion was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed, spread ing wings through the starlight up ward and away until a door flashed open in the sky, and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man's history, for, the good anoel flown, he hesitated no longer, 'but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the opening, but blasted at the last. The bad angel, leading the way, op ened gate after gate, and iteach gate the road became rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was peculiar as the gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it would never open. Passed each portal, there was a otrinding' of locks and a shoving of bots, andethe scenery on either side of the road changed from gardens to deserts, and the June air became a cutting December blast, and the bright wings or t he bad angel turned to sack cloth, and the eyes of light became hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains that at the start had tossed with wine poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was a serpent. and the man said to the bad angel, "What is that serpent?" and the an swer was, "That is the serpent of stinging remorse." On the left side the roadi there was a lion, and the man asked the bad angel. "What is that lion?" and the answer was, "That is the lion of all devouring despair." A vulure flew throuo' the sky. and the man asked te bad angel, "What is~ that vulture?" and the an swer was, "That is the vulture waitino for the carcasses of the slain." Ana then the man began to try to pull off him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and lie said to the bad angel,, "What is it that twist me in the this awful convo lution ?" and the answer was, "That is the worm that nevr dies." And then the man said to the bad angel: "What does all this mean: I trusted in what you said at the corner of Broadway and Houston street. I trusted it all, and whyvhave you thus deceived me?" Then the last'deception fell off the charmer, and it said: "I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your soul. I watched my chance for many a long year. When you hesitated that night on Broadway I gained my triumph. Now you are here. Ha, ha! You are here. Come. now, let us fill these two chialices of fire and and'drink too'ether to darkness and woe and deatTi. Hail: Hail: Oh, young man, will the good angel sent forth by christ or the .bad angel sent forth by sin get the victory over your souli Their wings are irnterlocked this moment above you, contendmng above you. cendinig for your destiny. as above the Apeninines eagle and con dor fight mid-sky. This hour may de cide your destiny. Bloody Work in Edgefield. EDGEFIELD, April 24 -This morn ing at 9 o'clock in the store of 1Ham mond & Co.. at this place. B. L. Jones shot and killed John C. Swearingen. About three months ago Jones indicted Swearingen for obstructing a public road that led through the former's place, and Swearingen was tried and convicted at the last term of.- Court of the offence. It seems that soon after the obstruction of the road the rails used in forming the obstruction were burned, and Swearingen claimed that Jones' son did' the burning, while Jones alleged that Swearingen was the uilty party. This among other causes brought on bad blood between the par'ties. A few days ago Swearim en caused the arrest of a negro and oded him in jail, claiming that lhe could substantiate the charge agaimst young Jones by the negro's testimony. Jones bailed ~the negro out. This morning Swearingen came to town to see about the matter, anid, as the testi mony of the coroner's investigation discloses, on entering the store was asked by young Jones if lie Swearin gent hadl said lie bur'nt the rails and if ie did it was false. Other words pass ed between young .Jones and the de ceased, during which time Mr'. B. L. Jones came in and told Swearingen if ie desired to talk to any one to talk to him. Swearingen thr'ew his hands on his hip pockets, at wich both piarties drew pistols and commenced lirmng. The witnesses could not say who shot first. Immediately after the firing Swea ringen fell to thie Iloor and (lied in twenty minutes. The ball that killedpj~r Sw~earingen entered at the upper mar gin of the right ear. penetrating tihe posterior por'tion of the brain. Jones was not hit. The verdict of the jury was in accordance with the above~ facts. Mr. Jones surrendered aiid is now in jal h parie were brothers-i n-Ia w. hAKI POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar DaRng powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. F oyal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. DRUNKENNESS A DISEASE An Important and Interesting Decision of the Maryland Courts. In 1894 the Legislature of Maryland passed what is known as the "Avirett Inebriate Act," which provides for the cure of inebriates by the Keeley treat ment-this. in the cases prescribed in the Act, at the public expense. Public opinion very strongly sustained the new law, but there were, in the minds of some persons, doubts as to its constitutionality. To settle this question a case was made up. to be de cided by the Superior Court of the city of Baltimore. That tribunal sus tained the constitutionality of the law. An appeal was taken, and the Court of Appeals, in a well considered opin ion, aflirms the decision of the lower court. The following is a synopsis of the opiw.on. delivered by Judge Rob erts. Afterstating that the principle in voked br the act has the same force in its application to the condition of an habitual drunkard as to a lunatic pau per, and that the law is general in its application is intended alike for city and county. the opinion continues: "Whilst it is not claimed that the Legislature has absolute and unlimit ed control over the applicant, there can be no doubt as to the power of the Legislature to require the payment by the city of a sum requisite to defray the expenses of maintenance and med ical treatment of habitual drunkards residing within the corporate limits and committed under the provisions of the law now under consideration. If the Legislature has authority,which we do not question, to treat habitual drunkards as a class of citizens who are entitled to be restrained or medi cally cared for by placing them in in stitutions for treatment, it would nat urally follow that in so far as the law applies to the citizens of Baltimore the expense of the treatment of its habit ual drunkards ought reasonably be borne by it." It had been contended that the act is in conflict with the constitution, and that the Legislature had no power to compel the city of Baltimore, without its consent, to tax its citizens for the treatment of habitual drunkards at an inebriate asylum. Continuing, the opinion says: "It is one of the gravest conditions of the century in which we live, and of which legislators .have been compelled to make observation, that the victims of the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, narcotics, &c., have grown to be legion; not of heal thy, robust manhood, but of bioken, debauched and decrepit men, against whom and for whom, as a class, pub lic sentiment has a right'to appeal to the Legislature for protection. Lord Baconchas said that 'all the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so munch roperty as drunkenness.' Mr. Justice Halin in delivering an opinion said: 'There is no justification for holding that the State under the guise merely of police regulations, were aiming to deprive the citizen of his constitution al right, for we cannot shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that the public health, the pub1 lic morals and the public safety may be endangered by the use of intoxicat ing drinks; nor the fact, establshed by statistics accessible to every one, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism and crime existing in the country are in some degree at least traceable to this evil.'" After quoting other au thorities Judge Roberts concludes: "There is nothing in the contention that the title to the act violates article 3, section 29, of the constitution, which provides that every law enacted by the General Assembly shall em b-ace but one subject, which shall be described in its title. The title pro vides for the treatment and cure of habitual drunkards, and it is claim ed that th.is contains more than one subject. and that in the provisions of the act nothing is said about 'cure,' but reference alone is made to the treatment of habitual drunkards. But we think the Legislature must have been iniluenced by the conviction that the cure would in some instances at least follow the 'treatment,' and that cure and treatment constitute but one subject. Thus. by the judgment of the high est court of the State of Maryland it is held that drunkenness is indeed a dis ease. to be treated by proper scientiac methods. It is also seen that the methods of Dr. K'eeley are recognized and directed to be employed. The Keelev treatment is successfully administered at the Keeley Institute, Columbia, S. C. Five Fegroes Lynched. ATL.XTA, Ga., April 21.-A dis patch to The Constitution from Green vile, Ala., says: Five persons were arrested vesterday near' Butler Sprinrgs. this countv. charged withr thre murder of Watts 'Murphy. a splendid young man andl neprhew of our fornmer Gover nor, Tom Watts. Of threse~ two were men anid thr'ee were women, all col ored. Th ei rnames were Johmn Rattler, Zeb Colley. Martha G'reene, Alice Greene and Mary Deane. Another negro man, who was also implicated. made his esicape. A posse of biave and determin ed men who had charge of the live prisoniers started from Butler Sprns distance~ of about sixteen miles wes of G4reeunville, with tihe live prisonersN at abotut If0 or 11 o'clock lst nighit, put them all in tire county al for tr'-'. At :1 o'clock this morn Ing, at a Onely place en route, the a'ty, which was slowly wending its '.vav to tire Greenville jail, was halted a-.id commfandeld up)on pain of instant death to be still. A hundr(11ed probably, of br'ave and despe'rately de'terumined men. with arms ini the.ir' hands. took the live pr'isoneirs fromi theguar'ds and huLng themr to thre limibs of treland left their bodies dangling in ihat positiorrn. Last week Watts Mur phy, thne mutrdered mn was waylaid, kilk'd and his boudy er'emated. Noth jug of his whecreabouts was kniown and iris family becaetr alarmed and imsti trted a search fo r him. One of the old 'arilv ser'vants. Zeb. finally tol what ie kmrew of the mnissig man. His confesson inivol ved fouir others and it was repor'ted that all of themr confessed TH lE covernuor of Nebraska hras ve ted a bill recently passed by the leg isat ure arid which p~ermnits inter-mar ..-g between white and blacks. r HE BROKE THE CHA\%J. Bill Arp Will Not Hell) Build a Mo1nent to Gen. Sherman. The fo]lowing letter froni Bill Arp. the famous Georgia humorous. ex plains itself: Mr. Slickman-Sir: I received your letter asking for 25 cents to help build a monument to Gencral Sherman, the hero of the march to the sea. and wanting me to send three other names and warning me not to break the chain. etc. I wllI go as far as any rebel so-called to keel) the peace and bury the past and be friendly: but you must excuse me. I have lived all my life in the path of that march to the sea, and for thirty years I have been strain ing my mind to see the heroism ini it, and I can't do it. It just shows how blinded we poor mortals are. All the heroism I see is in the retreat of Joe Johnston, who, with 40,000 men, re sisted that march of Sherman with three times that number and killed more, man for man. than he had sol diers. There is where the heroism comes. But we will make a fair compromise with you. If you and your boys will contribute 25 cents each for a monument to Joe Johnston. the real hero of the march to the sea, we will let you build one to Sherman and say nothing about it. We thought that the time was about out for brag ging, but if you are determined to keep it up let's tote fair. It seems to us that it requires a good deal of cheek to brag about an army of near three millions of men whipping an army of three-quarters - of a milhon in four years' time. I wouldn't mention it if I vere you. We are very tired of all this ridiculous gush about the Grand Army of the Republic, especailly when you know or ought . to know that you have on the pension rolls more men than we had in our army during the war. You can't knock the truth out with monuments. We will help you build a monument to all the brave soldiers whafought on either side and we will bury the toma hawk and say hurrah for Americans, but we take no stock in Tecumseh Sherman, nor any other Sherman that is kin to him. We would if we could. but somehow or other we can't. So you will please excuse me for breaking the chain. Some of these days, when this everlasting panic is over, we, will build a monument to old Joe Johnston that will tell the truth and commemo rate the heroism of that march to the sea. This reminds me of old John Sher man, the statesman, so-called, and of a little paper-covered book that is called "Coin's Financial School" and is go ing the grand rounds on its silver mis sion. It did not come from our side of the country, but it is capturing the peo ple. I don't know who is behind it. but do know that it is the brightest, clear est and most attractive book on the sil ver side that has been placed before the American people, and if not an swered in an effective, convincing way will sweep this Western country as fires sweep the praries. It will-not do for the gold standard folks to say, "Oh, itis all bosh andispaid for by the silverites." The book must be an swered. Maybe it can't be. I don't know. I can't answer a position in it and I am an average man. The truth is, I am afraid to believe all that is in it for fear somebody will call me a fool. I asked Joe Chandler Harris about it yesterday and what he knew about W. H. Harvey, who wrote it.. He smiled and said: "Harvey is a silver crank, ,just like I am. They call me a crank, but nobd y can answer the argument on the silver side, and hence their only xeply is that the bcok is a hum bug-a deceitful snare and all that, bit the book is taking the Western and Southern country. They cannot print them as fast as they are called for. You will find them on all the railroads, but as yet they have not got in the book stores. It is said that 250, 000 copies have already been sold. The simple colloquial style of questions and answers and the illustrations cap ture the common people." Now, there are a whole lot of us who have been reading both sides of the newspapers for a yesar or so, and we have got all mixed up and come to the eenclusion that nobody knows much about it. But this little book has tbold us more than all the newspa pers, and if somebody don't publis a reply to it I'm afraid we will all slide down the silver tobogg-an and stay there. Corn says that thie value of all the property in the United States is $25,000,000,000 and the indebtedness of the nation is $17,000,000,000, and he gives all the figures in detail. Well, f that's so, we are busted and the ap pointment of a national receiver is in order. He says the railroads aloue owe $5,000,000,000 to Europe- and the annual interest is$240,000,000, payable in gold. He says that every kind of property has been shrinking in value sine the crime of 1873 that old John Sherman was the author of. The crime of demonetizing silver by an act passed between midnight and day, when everybody was drunk or asleep and even General Grant said he didn't know that he had signed any such an act. It takes twice as much property now to pay a debt as it did five years ago, and as we all owe nearly as much as we don't owe, the country is about bankrupt, and a few thousand million aires will own the whole concern. This is the picture he draws, and to read it and believe it makes a man feel like taking his double barrel shotgun and joining the army, of bread winners. The masses of the people are in debt and while property shrinks, the debts swell and taxes increase until they are a burden. The people realize this. Not long ago Isol a piece of property for $800 that I refused $1,500 for three years ago. I was forced to sell to pay debts and taxes. Some so-called states men say the wheat and other things have come downi from overproduction or fronm cheaper methlods of growing and harvesting. But Coin says how about wool that has not increased in quantity. -but has decreased 60 per cent, in price? How ab)out horses t at have been selling in Colorado for $5 a head ? The fact is that Coin's book is either a dangerous fallacy or an alarming trth. Clevelanid is not in it. nor the taritY, anid neither will cut any figures in the presidential election. The shlib boleth will be, 'Give us back the dol la' of our daddies, and coin it free!' Tte old alignment of parties will not be ill it, but the cry f'roum the West and tile South will be: "Silver and gold: Onte and inseparable, now and !orever''-' BILL ARP. Stables Blurned. CousmuL, S. C., April 25.-Thte penitentiary stables just south of the walls were burned to thte ground this afternoon. A frame house just east of it was also co'nsumed. Loss $5.000. No insurance. T wo reels lost a wheel eact going to thte fire. 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