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SPLENMRS OF HEAVEN i CELESTiAL VISIONS CONTRASTED WITH DIMNESS OF EYESIGHT. The Problema o' Lire and the Mystertes of Providence-An Interectilrg D?Ecourse by Dr. Talmage on the Above Sub ' c. Thisdiscourse of Dr. Tair g is on of mighty contrasts and Lie nsI-'s c earthly eyesight.as compared w:t. the vividness of celestial ey c is trated. The text is I Crmars m 12, "For now we see thrc. e: a glass darkly, but then face to face. The Bible is the most o c d pungent of books. While it has th-I sweetness c a mothers hush for ha man trouble, it bas ali the 'oe tss of a scimiter and the crusir g Nor of a lightning bolt. It portrays with more than a painier's po er, at one stroke picturing a heavenly throne and a judgment contiagtation. The strings of this great harp are fiangred by all the splendors of the future, ;ow sounding with the crackle of corsap ingworlds, now thrilling with the py of the everlasting emancipated It tells how one forbidden tree in the garden blasted the earth with sickness and death, and how another tree, thcugr I leafless and bare, yet planted on Ca vary, shall yield a fruit whica shat more than antidote the poiscu of the other. It tells how the red. ripe clus ters of God's wrath were brought to th3 wine piess, and Jesus trod them fut, and how, at last all the golden chalices of heaven shall glow with the wine of that awful vintage. It daz zles the eye with an Ezekiei s vision of wheel and wing and fire and whirl wind, and stoops down so los that it can put its lips to the ear of a dying child and say, "Come up higher." And yet Paul, in my text, takes the responsibility of saying that it is only an indistinct mirror and that its mis sion shall be suspended. I th iak there may be one Bible in heaven fastened to the throne. Just as now, in a mu - seum, we have a lamp exhumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look at with great interest and say, "How poor a light it must have given compared with our modern lamps.' so I think that this Bible, which was a lamp to our feet in this world, may lie near the throne of God, exciting our interest to all eternity by the con trast between its comparatively feeble light and the illumination of heaven. The Bible, now, is the scaffoldir g to the rising temple, but when the build ing is done, there will be no use for the scaffolding. The idea I shall develop today is, that in this world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory but nevertheless is introductory to g der and more complete vision. ' is eminently true in regard to our view of God. We hear so much about God that we conclude that we understand him. He is represented as having the tenderness of a father, the firmness of a judge, the majesty of a king and the love of a mother. We hear about him, talk about him. write about him. We lisp his name in infancy, and it trembles on the tongue of the dying octogenarian. We think that we know very much about him, Take the attribute of mercy. Do we underetand it? The Bible blossoms all over with that word -mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of the great mercies; of the mercy that endureth forever; of the multitude of his mercies. And yet I know that the views we have of this great Being are most indefinite, one sided and incomplete. When at death, the gates shall fiy open and we shall look directly upon him, how new and surprising. We see upon canvas a piesure of the morning. We study the cloud in the sky, the dew upon the grass and the husbandman on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of the morning. Biut we rise at daybreak and go up on a hill to see for our selves that which was represented to us. While we look the mountains are transfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let past a host of fiery splendors. The clouds are all abloom, and bang pen dent from arbors of alabaster and am ethyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon, and there is morning on the sea. The crags uncover their scarred visage, and there is morning among the mountains. Now you go home and how tame your picture of the morning seems in contrast. Greater than th at shall be tbe contrast between this Scriptural view of God and that which we shall have when standing face to face. This is a picture of the morning that will be the morning it self. Again, my text is true of the Say iour's excellency. By image and sweet rhythm of expression and startling antithesis,Christ is set forth-his love, his compassion, his work, his life, his death, his resurrection. We are chal lenged to measure it, to compute it, to weigh it. In the hour of our broken enthrallment we mount up into high experience of his love, and shout un til the countenance glows, and the blood bounds, and the whole nature is exhilarated, "I have found him:" And yet it is through a glass, darkly. We see not half of that comnassionate f ace. We feel not half the warmth of hat loving heart. We wait for death to let u~s rush into his outsnread arms. Then we shall be face to face. Not shadow then, but substance. Not hope then, but the fulfilling of all prefig urement. That will be a magnficent unfolding.. The rushing out in view of all hidden excellency, the coming again of a long absent Jesus, to meet us, not in rags and in penury andI death, but amidst a light and pomp and outbursting joy such as none but a glorified intelligence could exoeri ence. Oh, to gaze full upon the brow v that was lacerated, upon the side that was pierced, upon the feet that were nailed; to stand close up in the pres ence of him who prayed for us on the mountain and thought off us by the sea, and agonized for us in the garden and died for us in the horrible cruci fixion; to feel of him, to emrbrace him, to take his hand,to kiss his feet, to rarn our fingers along the scars of ancient suffering, to say: "This is my Jesusi He gave himself for me. I shall never leave his presence. I shall for ever behold his glory. I shall eternoal ly hear his voice. LImd Jesus, now I see thee! 1 behold where the blood started, where the tears coursed, where he face was distorted. I have waited for this hour. I shall never turn m back on thee. No mnore icoin through imperfect glasses. No mosre studying thee in the darkness. Biutas long as this throne stands andi this! everlasting river flows, and those gar lands bloom, and these arches of vic tory remain to greet norme hevn conque:ors, so long I small se -h Jesus of my choice, Jesus of my songt,: Jesus of my triumph, forever and ic:' ever, face to face:" The idea of the text is instastu when applied to God's "providenceI who has not come to some passi.n' thoroughly inexplicable? Yousy "What does this mean? What is God going to do with me now I Hie tells! me that all things work together for conLnUiit to F - .ic di pcrisation and aftc a-i pujss about what GeJ mea~s. "is n :zars to teach me his. I thic t^ mears to teach me that. Perhaps it s to humble my nrie. P' rhp i to make me feel incre c-pendent, Perhaps to teach Me the uncertainty of life." But after all it is only a guess-a looking through the glass darkly. The Bible as ures us there shall be a satisfactory unfolding. "What I do thou know est not now. but thou shalt know hereafter." You will know why God took to himself that only child. Next door there was a household of ,even children. Why not take one from that group instead of sur only one: Why single out t-e dweing in which there was cn l one heart beating re sronsive to ~yours Why did God dive you a child at al if he meant to rake it away ? Why fill the cup of :our gladness brimrning if he meant to dash it dow'n Why allow all the tendizs Cf our heart to wind around that objit and then, when every fiber of your own lire seemed to te :ntericcked with the child's life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall, bleeding and crushed, your dwe ling desolate, y our hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do you suppose that God will explain that: Yea He will make it plainer than any mathe matical problem-as plain as that two and two make .our. In the light of the throne 3 eu will see that it was right-all right. "Just and true are all thy ways, thou King of saints!" Here is a man who cannot get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and to sell at the worst disadvantage. He tries this en terprise and fails; that business and is disappointed. The man next door to him has a lucrative trade, but he lacks customers. A new prospect opens. His income is increased. But that year his family are sick, and the gronts are expended in trying to cure he ailments. He gets a dircouraged look. Becomes faithless as to success. tegios to expect disasters. Others wait for something to turn up; he waits for it to turn down. Others with only half as much education and character get on twice as well. He sometimes guesses as to what it all means. He says: "Perhaps riches would spoil me. Perhaps poverty is necessary to keep me humble. Per haps I might, if things were other wise, be tempted into dissipations." But there is no complete solut;n of the mystery. He sees througl. a glass darkly and must wait for a hither un folding. Will there be an explana tion? Yes; Goi will take that man in the light of the throne and say: "Child 'mmortal, hear the explana tion : You remember the failing of that g-reat enterprise-your misfor tune inlS57, your disaster in 1S67. This is the explanation." And you will answer, "It is all right." I see, every day, profound myster ies of Providence. There is no ques tion we ask oftener than Why? Hos pitals for the blind and lame, asylums for the idiotic and insane, almshouses for the destitute and a world of pain and misfortune that demanded more than human solution. Ah, God will clear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne, no dark mystery can live. Things now utterly inscrutable will be illumined as plainly as though the answer were written on the jasper wall or sounded in the temple anthem. Bartemius will thank God that he was blind, and Lazarus that he was cover ed with sores, and Joseph that he was cast ipto the p it, and Daniel that he denined with lions, and Paul that he was humpbacked, and David that he was driven from Jerusalem, and that sewing woman that she could get only a few pence for making a gar ment, and that invalid that for 20 years he could not lift his head from the pillow, and that widow that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children. You know that in a song different voices carry different arts. The sweet an d over whelming part of the halleluiah of heaven will not be carried by those who rcde in high pJ.aces and gave sumptuous en tertainments, but pauper children will sing it, redeemed hod carriers will sing it, those who were once the off scouring of earth will sing it. The halleluiah will be all the a rander for earth's weeping eyes and aching hands and scourged backs and martyred ago nes. Again, the thought of the text is just when applied to the enjoyments of the righteous in heaven. I think we have but little idea of the number of the righteous in heaven. Infidels say, "Your P eaven will be :a very small place compared with the world of the lost; for, according to your techine, the majority of men will be destroyed," I deny the charge. I supose that the multitude of the fin ally lost, as compared with the multi tude of the finally saved, will be a handful.- I suppose that the few sick people in the hospital today, as comn pared with the hundreds of thous ands of well people in the city, would not be smaller thau tue number of those who shall be cart out in suffer ing, compared with those who shall have upon them the health of heaven. For we are to remember that we are living in comnparatively the beginning of the Christian dispensation and that this world is to be populated and re deemed and that ages of light and love are to ilow on. If this be so, the mal tit-des. of the saved will be in vast majority. We are told that heaven is a place of happiness, but what do we know sbouit happiness? Happiness in this wol is only a haltfiledged thing-a neeypath, with a serpent hissing a-ess t a broken pitcher, from which te wsater' has dropped before we could dr-nk it; a thrill of exhilaration, fol lowed by disastrcus reactions. To hepus understend thre joy of heaven, te Bible takes us to a river. We stan~d on itre gr-assy bank. We see the waters flow on with ceaseless wave. But the filth of the c;ties are eptiedi into it and the banks are torn, ad unhealtay exhalations spring up from it, and we fail to get an idea of te river of ife in he-;en. We got very impertct ideas of the reunons of herven, We think of so e festali day 0n earth, when father sud mtherwere yet living, and the chidre cne home. A gol time ha: B' it had this drawback-all were no-- thlere. That brother went o' t sa n never was heard from. Tat s- e'-did we no: lay her away in te feshessof er yong life, never mor in this world to lock upon -er: A- th'ere was a skele:on at the feast, andters mingled. with our laughte c~ that - Chrcmeday. Not so with heven' ranous. It will bea nntru: d ides Many Ch--i--ta- pae llo around Jcdnpasd -n o on .antinw: med J2y cml bt~ grce h-at l- nyyhrue city.- ~Lt o moe umkigof heartstrings. at Ie t fa.T orphans that wer J: pa and in a m-erciiess world, acked and ectfed ofmany hardships, shl on ther parent over whose ~raves the7 so long 'gep-t and gaze into face to face. We may cme up:o diiferent parts of thc w , one fron the land and another from the depths of the sea; from lives aliuent a prosperous, or from scenes of raggda distress, but we shall all meet in rp ture and jubilee, face to face. Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A fe, days ago they sat with us studyin these gospe themes, but they only saw through a glass, darkly-now revelation hath come. Your time will also came. (od will not leave you -.'nderirg in the da-rness. You stand wir'der strock and amazed. You fee! 1a l the loveliness of life were cashe o. You stard gazing into the pen cpae of the grave. Wait a little. presence of your departed and o: who carries them in his bosom, y ou shall soon stand face to 'ace. U, that our last hour ma- kindle :jith this promised j)y : May we be able to say, like the Christian not ..ng a:o. departing, "Though a pilrimn. a ing through the valley, ine mcuntain tops are gleaming from pak to peak or like my deaf friend and brothr, Alfred Cookman, vh took his fight to the throne o' God, saying in his last moment that which has already gone into Christian c19ssics, "I am sweeping through the pearly gate, washed in the blood of the Lamb? SOUTHERN HOSPTALITY. An Ohio Man Who is charred With D;xio Land. The following is an extract from a letter to the Dayton, 0., 1 ering News written by William W. Web ster. a Daytonian who is sojourning in Summerville: The writer spent three days in Columbia, South Caro lina's capital. on his way to Sammer ville and was most forcibly impressed with both the natural beauty and the sweet spirit of fellowship c. that city. It is strictly and gratdly Scuthern, and bears that air of whoic- soulded cordiality so dear to the heart. The entire world of God seems kin to Co lumbia. The street salutation is a hearty touch of the hat while the hand shake fills you with an exquisite sense of hospitality. "You are wel come," is the kindly motto which per vades everything. One feels hke liv ing in such a fraternal atmosphere. God's people seem united by common chords of fellowship, and the bonds of National sympathy and patriotic love are growing stronger each year The war is a thing of historic importance only-it is over and the love of one country, one people and one flag is rife in every State in the Union. South Carolina has given to tbe coun try good and able men; she has play ed a conspicuous part in the annals of history. She is devoutly proud of her achievements, as well as might be, for her long list of sires and sons, statesmen and soldiers have gone to their graves hallowed by posterity. We hear at times in the North that consummate narrow-mindedness and sectional bigotry South Carolina has no equal. How false are such accusa tions. The tourist in Columbia, Char leston and the larger cities, as well as the smaller'towns will discover that his idea of the people has been a mis representation. He will find a hearty welcome wherever he goes and wi il avow that if such customs and man ners are the outgrowth of narrow mindedness, it would be well were the whole country imbued with a share of it. South Carolina is the true heart of the South. The darkey is seen in his real darkeyishness. He hans0 about the cities and towns and will not go into the country, where farmn ing might yield him a living. You look at his cabin-probably a relic of the war-and wonder how he m-ana ges to support a large family. You hear wafted on the still night air the old melodious olantation songs, and your vagrant thoughts wander back over the years when those same songs were new to you. One loves the old melodies. Handed acwn from gener ation to generation savoring of the tender recollections of days gone by, they play upon the choras of the American heart. The darkey handles them as you never heard them hand led before,and you are inspired, awed and ennobled by the sweetness of the musie. Forgetting for a time that you are classed among those mortals "Yankees," in true Southern spirit, you exclaim: "In Dixie's land Ili take my stand and Jiv and die in Dixie land." THE MATTER DECIDED. There Must be Either Fernca in Cuba cr War With spain. The Washington correspondent ol the Atlanta Journal says it is either peace in Cuba or war with Spain. This is the alternative. Peace in Cuba means the independence of Cuba Spain has permitted the time to pass when anything short of independence would suffice. This is practically the opinion of congress, and it is more than mere speculation. No doubt is felt that the independence of Cuba is to be recognized by this governmen-t. Whether this c auses war depends up on Spain. The loss of the Main' is known not to have been the result of an accident. If it is not shown to have been the act of Spanish culicials or by their connivance it will demon strate the inefficiency of Spanish cen trol of Havana. The necessity of as sistance by this government to prevent the depopulation of the island by star vation is confessed by the acceptance of the assistance, and evidernces the helplessness of the Spanish govern ment to maintain in Cuba the condi tions of government. The barbarities proven and confessed show inability to preserve the forms of civilization. In all incapacity and loss of control on the island is shown. Intervention by this government to save the popu lation from starvation is the :irst ster, towards a broader intervention to pre serve lire and property aul to site the island from becoming a barren waste. The conditions in Caba have compe!! ed Spain to acknowledge the need cr d the propriety of this government in tervening to check devastation by starvation. The rigt of further in tervention, if necessary, naturall~y fol lOWS. This is a part of the situation held in congress, and intervention is certain. A Tanu~ng rre. A colored brother once caught a turtle and was congra tulatin~ him' self on what a fine diner ne wuld have the next day. Goi ng on his way he met a man wh~o was aven trloquist. The man, asedhi what he was going to dowa th turv~e. "Why" said the daky "I'se gwine to a: im. of cos. "Whats he good for: 2.. hya gcood for mcst eborythin* i~e ot befin him, and re's ot rin : and Le's get cce inhi ndh got got rish in him. 3::us me boss my mouf waters so I can "ud'-Li, The ventriicuais pasdo n thought it won~ bt oa -- hi: to~ play a jcke c~a his colored irie cd. So he threw his voice so as to rake it a pear as if the turtle was :a::ing. "What's that you said abou-t me sai the turtle to the daikev; "wvhat didu you say you were going to co wit mei' The darkey's eyes went open several degrees wider than was usual Said he, "I'se gwine to drap >ou right here"; and away he went as fast as I care- onrd heels could taei m 7 i sACTS OF AS 1 I tY S E OF THE LAWS PASSED AT TNE RECENT SESSION. The T:2 in Fan of Some o! the i'riccipal A;dtlons to the St ntee os South Coo IENS vN RE.'W ESTATE. An At to amend an Act entitled "Ad ee. to' en elawi elation to iens cn rl estte," approved De cemboer2418. see 1. B i enacted by the General Assembly of toe State of South Caro :ira: That an Act entil ed "An Act to declare the law in reiation to liens on real estate," approved December 24 1 b? amended by adding at the end thereof the foilowi;ng words: Provided, further, that on and after 1 st day of January. l%2, the pro. wiA' ns a his Act snall apply to all mortcages executed prior to the 24th day of December, 1S79i." So that said Act when amended shall read as fol lows: Bc it enacted by the Senate and &l-use of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sit ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That from and after the passage of this Act no mort gage, or deed having the effect of a mortgage, no judgment, decree or other lien on real estate shall consti ute a lien upon any real estate after the lapse of twenty years from the date of the creation of the same: Pro v ded, that if the holder of any lien or liens as aforesaid shall at any time daring the continuance of such lien cause to be recorded upon the record of such mortgage, deed having the ef fect of a mortgsge, or shall file with the record of such judgment, decree or other lien a note of some payment on account, or some written acknowl edgement of the debt secured thereby, with the date of such payment or ac knowledgement, such mortgage, deed, having the effect of a mortgage, judg ment, decree or other lien shall be and continue to be a lien for twenty years from the date of the record of any such payment on account or acknowl edgement: Provided, further, that nothing hereia contained shall be construed to affect the duration of the li ns of judgments as prescribed by the 14th section of "An Act to altar and amend the C de of Procedure, being Title V, Part III, of the General Statutes," approved March S, 1675: Provided, further, that on and after the 1st day of January, 1902, the pro visions of this Act shall apply to all mortgages executed prior to the 24th day of December, 1879. Approved the 2ist day of February, A. D. 1898 TO SERVE ABSENT DEFENDANTS. An Act to empower magistrates to or der service by publication upon ab sent defendants. Sec- 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Caro lina: That Section 156 of the Code of Procedure of this State, being a part of Volume 2, Revised Statutes of this State. passed in 1893. be a'nnded by Iadding at the end of said section the ollowing words: "The magistrates of th's State are hereby invested, in acticuis brought in their courts, within their jurisdiction, to grant orders of publication against absent defendants, in the same man ner and to the same extent as author ized in this section to be done by the Circuit Court or a Judge thereof, cr the clerk of Common Pleas, the Mas ter or the Probate Judge: and the ser vice of any summons so made upon any absent defendant or defendants shall have the same binding force and effect as such service would have in the Co art of Common Pleas" Approved the 21st day of February, A. D. 1898. RECORDS OF COUNTY AUDITOR. An Act relating to the records in the office of county auditor. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Caro lina: That hereaf ter all original tax returns made to the county auditors of this State and all dispensers' request books shall be preserved in their re soective oilices as public records for a period of nlye years from the date of sucb. returns Sec. 2 That after any original tax returns f a ve been in the office of the county aditor for a period cf five years, or- any dispensers' request books, the same may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the auditor should it be inconvenient to preserve the same in his oflice, and af ter such destruction the auditor's books shall be primary evidence of the contracts of such original returns. Sec. 3. That all Acts or part of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved the 21st day of February, A. D. 1S9S. TO CONSTRUE3IORTGAGES. An Act to construe contracts secured by mortgages of real estate situate witnin tnis State. Scc 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Caro lina: All mortgages of real estate sit uate within this State shall be subject to and construed by the laws of this State regulating the rate of interest allowed and in all other respects, without retard to the p'ace named for the performance of the same. A oproved the 21st day of Fe bruary, A D. 189S PUtBLIC DRAwINi3 OF JURoRtS. An Act to make the drawing of jurors pubirc. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the G-eneral Assembly of the StLue of South Caro lina- That from ano safter the approv al of this Act jurors shall be drawn publcly and the oiflcers charged with su c- drang shall not exclude any person who diesires to be present. Approved the 19th day cf February, A. D. 189 oFENAC'Ks AS TO RAILROADS. An Act to amend Sections 1,717, 1.731 a'd 1,732 of the general railroad law, Chap:er 31, relating to certain ur:ences a' d penalties. Sec. 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Caro lina: That Se.:tion 1,731 of the Revis ed Statutes be amended by striking out the v,-rds "shall forfeit a sum not ess than two or more than twenty dollars," and insert in lieu therecf the wo d or employce, shall be guilty :~a misduemeancr, and on conviction inereof shall Day n une ci not more than df'y dolr or econtined in the county j SIt, or be require.1 to work on teeain gan for nmre than ,J days. So tha sad s.ection salal read Scin.1 (1.515 Whoever--rith aa sui"' a hocuse ofa railroadi corno raticn, or upon the platform or ruds ad jtcent to such station, af te: being requested to leave the same by any railroad otlicer cr emapioyee, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and: on conviction thereof shahl pay a fine of not more than 50 dcliars, or be~ conuned in the county jiil, or be re o ired to work on the c::ain gang for no mretan thirty days. Sec. 2. Amend See~ioi i.717 (i1) by striking out the words "-same row er to make arrests that constables have," and insert in lieu taereof the. bles t; mae arrests, so that sai sec tion shall read : Sec. 1.717 X1,510. Conduc.ors of railroad trains and station or depot agents are hereby declared to be con servatorsof the peace, and they and each of them shall have the common law power of constable to make ar rests, except that the conductors shall only have such power on board of their respective trains, and the agents at their respective places of business, and said conductors and agents may cause any person cr persons so arrest ed by them to be detained and deli ered to the proner authorities for trial as soon as practicable. Sec. 3. Strike out Section 1 732 and insert in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 1.732 (1.517.) Whoever fraudu lently evades or attempts to evade t e payment of any toil or fare, lawfully established, for the carrying of pas sengers, by giving a false answer to the collector of the fare, by travelling beyond the point to which fare has been paid, or otherwise attempting to ride without paying said toll or fare, or by riding without permission cn trains that do not carry passengers, or by corcealirg themselves upon or about any train with intent to evade the payn:eat of lawful toll or fare, shall be guilty of a mislemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or be sentenced to imprisonment or labor on the chain gang for not more than thirty days. Sic 4. That the following shall be inserted to be known as Sec. 1.7341. Sec. 1,7341. Whoever wilfully dis charges any kind of firearms or throws any kind of missile at or into the en gine or any car of a train shall be guilty of a misdemaanor, and on con viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than five years. Approved the 19th day of February, A . D. 1898. McK n2y' Fire t e ir. President McKinley has now been in office one year and a few days. The comments of the press cn the re suits of his administration is certainly not very encouraging to the future hones of the Republicans. The At lanta Journal says it has been "ayear which will shed no lustra upon the Republican party. In full and com plete control of all of the departments of the government it is only recording a solemn fact known to all to say that the people are disappointed and that they lave reason to be. The one "achievement" of the administration thus far has been the passage of the Dingley tariff law, a measure con spicuous by its discriminations, its un fairness, sectionally and its narrow ness nationally. It is fair to assume that the Republicans themselves are disappointed in the fruits of this meas ure. Its apparent result has been to work an injury not only to those not directly interested, but to those for whom its authors de::lared it was es pecially intended to help-the work ingmen. Since the passage of this bill there have been disastrous strikes in the middle states by workingmen em ployed in protected industries. Blocd shed has resuted and want is more apparent than ever before in that section. In the New England states there has been, and still is, a general tie-up of all the cotton factcries and thousands are idle. And there has been no compensation for others There has been no benefit to either consumers or producers. The pro duocers get no more-in many instan ces less for their labor-and the con sumers pay more for the necessities as well as the luxuries of life. The taxes of the whole people have been raised for the help of a few capitalists, and their benefit, from the very nature of things, can only be temperary. Be sides this, Germany has retaliated upon us for the passage of the -Dingley law by excluding the prcduct of our farms and factories. "Thegreat q-uestion on which Mc Kinlev rede into office was finance. It was the issue of issuer, in the cam paign. One year has passed, and apart from the fact the standarc'. of money is definitely decided for the length of McKinley's term, nothing in the way of financial rOorma has been accomplished. The business in terests of the country, however, and the people engaged in other pursui's, had a right to expect that by this time some steps would have been tahm in the much needed reformation of the banking system. Beyond the outline of a plan presented by Secretary Gage upon weich no action has been taker, nothing has been done. and it begins to look as if it were doubtful that any thing would be done. However, there is still time and opportunity left for the successful inauguration of a sys tem of banking which will afford re lief to those remote from the great money centers of the country. During the past year the pension rolls, long since past the danger mark, haye been visibly increased, and there are evidences tnat tney will continue to increase in the next three years of McKinle's incumbenrg. The president has won no friends f cr himself by his appointments. Espec ilally is this conspicuously true in the south.- The naming of negroes for high offices in the south-positions where they are continually thrown in contact with the whites-has evinced short-sightedness and narrowrnsi on McKinley's part not to have been expecte-i by his past life and his pro testations of affection for the southern people in the last campaign. He nas not befriended the black man by this unwise pol:cy-and he has lost the confidence and respect o: a large ma jority of the whites. The Hawaiian and Cuban questions are the only ones of a foreign sort Iwith whicn the present adninistra Ition hash had to deal. No language is Istrong enough to express the proper Icondemnation of the Hawaiian annex ation treaty. Tne policy the presi 'dent seeks to put through is unwise. un American and fra~ugnt with great danger. Luckily, there is now small prospect of the passage by the senate of this annexation treaty, and in this the people have cause for msszh con gratulation. Few will withhold from McKinley the praise due him for the digniied manner with which he has cornducted himsdf in regard to the Cuban atfair in the past four weeks. With the in sulting DeLome letter, the awful catastrophe resulting in the destruc tion of the battleship Maine and the major portion of its cre w, a less level headtd man might have gone off in a tangent and placed his country in an undignified and untenable position. So far as tbe president's "Cuban poli cy' is concerned, naught can besaid~ either in praise or criticism, for he has not as yet propose d any definite policy. iat his atitude at the pres ent moment, awaiting the facts from tne inquiry into the cause of the ex plosion of the Maine, is deserving of praise, and with few exceptions is re ceiving is from men and newspapers of all parties. Judged, however, by the full fruits of his first year, we endt as we began, by saying that the Mc Kinley administration, taken all inj all, has boen a distinct disappointment to the people. nove Cr::'d Man's Crime. - Unrequitted love induced Chris. Schmidt, a cigarmiaker, of .Pittsburg, Pa., to kill his sweetheart. Annie Tantz, ond then himself. 1 1: 00 of War. War is a horrible thing and shoild be averted if possible. But sometimes it seems necessary that nations are compelled to engage in it or lose pres tige among other nations. If there is any honorable way out of the present ditlicuity with Spain without a resort to war we hope war will be averted. but if there is no honorable way out of the dimcuity without war, then we are in favor of upholding American honor at whatever coat As we are standing face to face with the grim spectre of war it is vell to count the cost of war. We recently read in'an teresting article on the subject in the Atlanta Journal. It was an estimate made by Mr. Camille Fiammarion. a Frenchman, of the cost of war in men ana money to civilized nations during the last hundred years. The Franco German war of 1570 71 caused the death, Mr. Fiammarion tells us, of 230.000 men. In the Crimean war of 1854-55, 785,CuJlives were lost. The brief Italian war of 1859 brought about the death of 63,000 men in battle or in hosnitais, and even the "game of chess' between Russia and Austria, in 1S60, deprived 46,000 men of their lives. Cur civil war of 1361-65 meant death to 450,000 men-an enormous host. Tne wars waged by the great Napoleon caused the death of no less than 5,000,000 persons Tnere is hardly any telling howmany thousand mil lions of dollars our civil war cost, but it entailed upon us an expense which is now $153.000,000 a year, though the war has been over thirty-three years. The effect of the war on the Federal debt was to increase it from $65 000,000 to $2,773,23i,173. Several billions of property besides were destroyed in the south, and the paralysis of industry consequent upon the civil war de stroyed billions more, delaying the full economic development of this section by over thirty years. Their Day is Past. We notice that the Iroquois club of Chicago, at its coming banquet, has an array of Cleveland's old cuckoos as speakers. These skates are terribly cut of date. The world has drifted past them. Time was when the peo ple listened to 'ilas and Don Dicker son, and the Cleveland men with ad. miration amounting to haw. but since they followed the false light sent up by the Palmer-Buckner gold bugs, they have simply become spots of phosphorus on the rotton logs of the old Cleveland raft, and there is no place for them in the economy of the universe. They can be feasted by the gold bugs, and they can speak to them but the people heed them not. They are the enemies of the people. The allies of the gold plutccracy of the United States, and they should have their tails docked and be hitched to the gold bug chariot of old bloated M. A. Hanna. Items of Intezest. A colored woman of Washington went to her pastor the other day tc complain of the conduct of her hus bans, who, she said, was a "lowdo Fn, worthiess, trifles3 nigger." After listening to a long recital of the de lir quences of her neglectful spouse and her efforts to correct them, the minis ter said: "Have you ever tried heap ing coals of fire upon his head?' "No," was the reply, "but I done tried hot water." ANoTHER man has invented a pro cess for making milk by combining chemicals. He is a Chicago man; bui not the same Chicago man who in vented artificial eggs which could bi put on the market at half the price os genuine hen berries, and claimed tha1 he would soon have an egg perfected that would hatch. The f oolkiller go1 the egg man, and is supposed to be after the milk maker now. He might also give some attention to the people who telieve such fakes. Pt-nLc SALE NoTIcE-A baillif iD one of the mountain counties recently posted up the following sale notice, which he had written on brown wrap ping paper with a carpenter's pencil: Notis public sail I will sell akorden tc law on Sattidy next Wun bugie at wash pot dubbie seetE4 with wun Laig bruk off. Also wun red mule fur spott kash with wun eye. JUSTICE Harlan is making reputa tion fcr- vigorous English. He says, in reference to the destruction of the Maine: "But if~it should turn out not to be an accident, we will not hear any more of north, south, east or west, no more of Republicans, Demo crats or Popul'st; we will hear only of Americans." To that sentiment all Americans will say aye. A dispatch from Havana says a special guard is ready to be called out in anticipation of an attack on General Lee. The news of the Spanish go gern ment's request for the recall oi Ge.r. eral Lee and its refusal by Preident McKinley has had the eneect of funcher exciting the enmity against Lee which is felt by the Weylerites. Lee keeps cool. THE Chicago Chronicle recently contained a scathing cartoon. In the ocean is the wreck of the Maine, with the vultures picking the corpses of the dead seamen. In the foreground is the great American Eagle trying to go to the rescue, but Mark Hanna has him tied with strong cables to Wall street. If McKinley permits this, Congress will not. THE supreme court of the United States rendered an opiniou that a rate of interest, charged by a national bank, in excess of the interest rate prescribed by law of the State in which the loan is made, is usurious, and that the borrower may sue and recov er t wice the amount of the loan. This decision puts national 1;anks and tate banks on the same footing. WILLIAM M. Bpringer, of Illinois, now Federal Judge of the Indian Ter ritory and supporter of the Cleveland gold part~y, says Bryan is a sure win ner. "Of course, it may be that con ditions might change by 1900," said Mr. Springer, "but judging by pres ent indications, Mr. Bryan will be nominated and elected two yearz from now." THE diabolical M. A. Hanna says war is foolish. Not one iQ 500 of those clamoring for war nave a dollar's worth of tbusiness interest at stake. The LUnited States wil! arbitrate. She cant atford to fight, says this old money grabber. THLE Charleston Critic says no hall in that city would coutain the popu lar coutpouring that would greet Wmn. Jennings Bryan, the tribune of the people, if he should favor this city with a date for an address. And yet two of the Charleston papers claim that the silver craze is dead. Ex-PREsIDENT Cleveland suggests to the gold men not to Iby the flhttering unction to their souls that thte Eilver rze is dead. The gold bug press have been proclaiming for months hat the silver craze w-as dead, but they have not fooled Grover, who knows a corpse when he sees it. ThE South should feel prouder inan ever of the Le~s. The eyes ofte civilized wcorld is now focuised o the2 one at llavana and he will uad ne'v lustre, if that be possible, to the illW trous name ne bears. CoNGRtEssMI.iN Bailey sars the De~n1 ocrats wifi support any measure neces sary to prepare the country to meet the impending crisis. Who expected them to do otherwise? IT LOMk L k.E WAR. IA C, C LCT NOW REGARDED AS AL MOST CERTAIN. A Fifty Million DoUar E amergercy Fand Voted by Congre3 -War Ships to bs Bought From Oter Nation-More Sc1d!ers Dispatches from Washingfoa say that there were no less than five im portant events Monday having a bear ing more or less direct upon the trou bled rdations between the United States and Spain, viz: The introduc tion in Congress, by Mr. Cannon, of a resolution carrying $50,000,OCO for the public defense. The withdrawal by the Spanish government of its inti mated objection of Consul General L ;e. The order to the Cruiser Mont gomer.v to proceed to Havana instead of the Ferne. The passage of ihe bill through the house iacreasing the ar tillery arm by two regiments. The institution of negotiations looking to the purchase of warships for our navy. Mr. Cannon's resolution is as fol lows: "That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the na tionsI defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be en pended at the discretion of the pres 'ident and to :e nain available until June 30, 1S99 $50,000 000." A naval officer, whose name was not obtainable, left Washington Tues day on his way to Earone to inspect naval vessels that are building there with a view of purchasing them for the United States. Without dt 1 by t officers of the ad jutant general's =apartment Monday gave the nec:ssary orders for the re cruiting of the two new artillery regi men's authorized by congress. The decision of the navy department concerning the sending of ships to Cuba, was made known at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, when the follow ing brief statement was posted by the bureau of navigation: "Montgomery will relieve the Ferne at Havana. Ferne will carry provisions to Matanz as and Sagua la Grande." BAILEY SAYS IT IS WAR. Repsesentative Bailey, the Demo cratic leader in the house has written a statement which closes as follows: "I believe that this country is on the verge o" a war, certainly it is nearer a foreign war than it has been since our war with Mexico, and perhaps nearer than any nation ever was to escape it." BACON SAYS IT IS WAR. Senator Bacon. of Georgia, dictat ed the following to the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal: "'I have never said it before, but I believe now that there will be war. At least there is a very strong proba bility of it. I believe it is very great ly to be deprecated, but I. am of the opinion that political interests both in this country and in Spain will exert a a powerful influence to force a war upon us." Words of Wisdom. Thursday to a Washington corres pondent Seniator Bacon made one of the 'wisest and most timely statements regarding the possibility of war that -we have seen from anybody. He said in part: "If there should be war it will be popular. All wars are popu lar so long as they last, nevertheless it is not to the interest of the south to have war. The people of the north, if it should be a great war, might grow rich because they manufacture arms and munition of war, clothing and other army supplies and make vast food products, all of which would be enchanced in price. On the other hand, the products ofJ the south would in the main decrease both in demand and in price. Hence I think the southern people ought te be urged to make preparation for the most liberal food prcducts tflis year." Starving Cnba, Coylonel Parker, who has just re turned ftrom a visit to Cuba in com pany with Senator Proctor of Ver mont says: "The famine suffering and awful destitution among the re concentrados is something almost in describable. The al-de of Matanzis told me that 55,000 persons had died of starvaticn in that city during the last year and that 5,600 had die~d dur ing February." He also says every one in Habana now knows that the Maine wa-s blown up. Spaniards no longer deny it. They do not seem to be very sad over it either. Senator Proctor says could the American peo ple see things in Cuba as he saw them the suffering, starvation and death, they would, as Whittier says, 'pour forth wine and oil.'" s :ste of Anarchy Prevauls. Advices from the Orient says that a state of anarchy prevails in the lsland of Hainan. Bands of outlaws said to number t,000 men have raided 11 military camps and 28 villages, murdering and looting in their course. It is impossi ble to describe the triumphant march of murder and lust through peaceful pastoral towns surrounding the city of iochow. After a week of slaugh ter, the anarchists grew weary and thought of safety. Tney erected barri cades in tt c mountains behind Kio ch )W and stored up provisions enough to last them a year. A greatly super ior fo'rce of military is oeing mobilized for the purpose of clearing them out. American Boat Su~zsd. Tne Spanish gunboa A -dilla seized recently in inlet near Casilda, on the south coast of Cuba, the Am-erican schoonier Esther, of Edenton. N. C., bcuad from Pensacola to J -naica. The csptain o-f the schooner w s 'sked to give the reasor. for the presa~es of his vessel in the inlet, atnd claimed that his rudder w as broken. No fur ther details of the affair have been re ceived, bait if the stat:ments of the captain of the Esther turn out to be correct, the schooner will be liberat ed. Toe captain has protested against the seizre of his vessel. A Horribie Accident. Sam Bishop, a c~A' ei train hand on the A tlantic Cca K n e, and a col ored woman by the namne cf Maggie Daval, were run over by a s vitch en Igine at Columbia Friday , et. The latter was killed instantly the for mer was badly injured. It seews that Bishop was waiting for his train to pull out when the woman camne by and he wa~1ed down ik't tr-k witui when a eite engiue caane duwnl on thm a the resa!t a'tove stated. A Po~ rutF TH E GmLuS.-There Iare -e thicgs better for the comnlex ion in wte than corn meal. It is very cleana and makes the skin 3:sth ndwaite. Rub in the face .ndlo with lukewarm water for se d:iutes. inse in c~ld wa THEpeparation for war is being pused l'or ward as rapidly as posible y the goernment, and things now loon as i a crisis is at hand. IT"E 'atest news from Washiagton Sidcates that war with Spain is in Royal makes the food pre; wholesome and delicious. OVA 4AKiN0 POWDER Absolutely Pure '.4 ROYAL BAKING POWDER C., NEW YORK. Gen Fitzhugh Lee. One of the most prominent figures in the world to day is Gen. Fi'z. hugh Lee, the brave and pst-iotic United States Consul General at Ha vana. Fitzhugh Lee is a son of Sid ney Smith L-e, who, at the breaking out of the war, was a captain in the U nited States navy ; but who, along with his brother, Robert E. Lee, quitthe service of the United States t serve his native state of Virginia. Fitzhugh Lee was a West Point grad uate and was also serving in the U ait ed States army as a lieutenant at the time of the bi-eaking out of the war. He accompanied his father and uncle in their change from the U sited States to the Confederate service. Short ly after graduation from West Point, Fitzhugh Lee, in 18-9, went west with the Second United States cavalry to fight Commanche Indians and it is said that he was a fighter of the right kind of stuff. Several thrilling incidents of bis career are told. Once, when scouting in a ravine, a Commanche chief dropped on his back fron above . and tried to stab him. He caught the knife arm of the Indian, but was rather too much engaged to be able to draw his revolver. After a brief struggle he managed to pound the Indian a few blows in the face, as the result of which he succeeded in get ting his pistol and putting an end to the fight. At another time he was shot in the breast with an arrow. He continued to handle his men until the fight was about over, and then re ques'ed a brother cfficer to pull the arrow out. A hard pull was without success, and at the request of the suffer er, the officer put his foot against Lee's breast and pulled with all his might - until the shaft came loose, leaving the steel arrow head in his body. Unless this arrow head has been absorbed by the blood, it is in Lee's breast to this day. During the late war Lee served as a general under Jeb Stuart, arnd with the exception of Stuart was the most popular offi::er in that famous cavalry corps. Brave as a~ lion and full of enterprise and dash, Lee won the highest esteem of Stuart, and the men under his command looked upon him as the infericr of no officer in the army. During his stay in Havana, General Lee has been on good terms with all classes. He had the highest respect of General Campos, anid even the "Butcher" Weyler, and is also treated with the greatest consideration by General Blaneo. He is not only prudent, but is also bold, and is gen erally believed to act pretty much on his own judgment, especially in mat ters of emergency, rather than seek too explicit instructions from Wash ington. He has been kept in Cuba since the change in sdministration, largely for the reason that the whole country realizes that it w ould be~ im pcssible to find a man more thorough y qualified to deal with the delicate situation. The Wages of ain. At Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday, in a fit of jealousy Lee Van Arsdale. a young railroad man, murdered Mary Harris, an inmate of a house of ill repute, by cutting her throat from ear to ear. Pursued by an officer. Van Arsdale rushed into an ad joining room and killed himself by cutting his throat. Van Arsdale formly lived at Parksville, Ky. said to ba Icsane, It is ra'd that D:. Bivings, who re :ently killed Mr. Trimmier in Sgar tanburg is almost a raving maniac. At the most unseasonable hours of the night he is calling up over an imagin ary telephone the telegraph operator in whom he placed so much confi :ece, and recites to him his imagined wrongs. Another warship as Hravana. The United States cruiser Montgom ery has arrived at Havana. Her arri al on Friday was very gqaiet. Atler iring the usual salute aziu being sa. u ted in return, the Montgome:y was moored in the princioal harbor near the wreck of the Maine, and in the entre of a circle of Spanish ships. HEAVY SALES OF FE RTILIZE RS --ThIe olumbia Record ays judgt d by the receipts from the privilege tar, the amount of fertilizers sold up to this ime of the present season is far in in excess of that of any recent yeir. For the months of January arnd Feb ruary, 1897, the tax netted $10.9)0, while for the same period this year the receipts amount to $46,379, an increase f $5.479. The opening days of March, show no evidence of decrease n the sales of fertilizers, so that the privilege tax will probably give an xcess cf $1.8.0G0 over the rcrv ues derived from the sane source last year. The receip's amounted to $59 352, an increase of nearly $5,00.0 over those of the previou. y a-, so 1; looks as if the fertilizer industry is getting on its feet once more. THE London Daily Neuvs saiyS: Spain can expe::t no support moral or terwise, from Eegland agait si the nited Statt s She has ruined Cuba, as she has ruined or lost every other olony, by the grossest ccrcuotlion, cruelty and maladministration, and she must be left to settle the account for it with those whom it may c~n ern, without any aid or sympathy on Our part.________ THE Saluda Sentinel issued an eight page anniversary number last Wed. eday, which was a credit to the Sentinel and the county in which it is pihed.