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HELUFPIL REL I~ DP. TALMAGE TELLS CHURCH OUGHT TO SE Aid Be ligon in Sat ctalv-~rw et Songz-More F-.et-z:Pm Net P(*P, ons Humdrum the wer c drum- Old Style Chorn. If oeople undlerstaca to aM the practical re enforcem:; I Talmagesaysit is i:n': s&n numberof Christin &,A " greatly muitinlCe'. x 1a , "Send thee help frem h ctary. If you should a '. wnat tne church is, they woud , ive you 50 adf ferent answers. OIne L' v'culd ay. "It is a convention of nypccritES. Another, "It is an assemtv of pecpie who feel themselves a gxe. & deal bet ter than others." Anoaer, "It is place for gcssip, where wolverene (-s positions devour each other." Another, "It is a place for the cultivatiCn of superstition and cant." Another, "It is an arsenal where theolozians go to get pikes and muske's and she." Another, "It is an art gallery, where men go to admire grand arche. cnd exquisite fresco and mnia.al warble and the Dantesque in gloomy re-1 agery." Another man w~uld saY: "It is the best place on esrh exc' t my own home. If I forget t ) Jerusalem, let my right hand .frget her cunning." Now, whatever the church is,: text tells you what it ought --o b-a great, practical. homely, o- L:pot eLt help. -Send thee help from the samc tuary." The pew ought to yleid rest fulness for the bcdy, the color of the upholstery ought to yield pleasure to the eye, the entire service ought to yield strength for the moil ar d strug gle of everyday life, the Sabbath ought to be harnessed to all the six days of the week, drawing them in the right direction; the church ougnt to be a magnet, visibly and mightily affecting au the homes of the worship ers. Every man gets roughly jastled, gets abused, gets cut, gets insulted, gets slighted, gets exasperated. By thetimetheSabbath comes he has an accumulation of six days of annoy ance, and that is a starveling church service which has not strength enough to take that accumulated annoyance and hurl it into perdition. The busi new man sits down in church head achey from the week's engagements. Perhaps he wishes he had tarried at home on the lounge with the newspa pers and the slippers. I That man wants to be cooled off and graciously diverted. The first wave of the religi ous service ought to dash clear over the hurriance decks and leave him dripping with holy and glad and heavenly emotion. "Sand thee help from the sanctuary." In the first place, sanctuayv help ought to come from the music. A wo. man dying in England persisted in sin ig to the last moment. The at tendts tried to persuade her to stop, saying it would exhaust her and make her disease worse. She answered: "I must sing. I am only practicing for the heavenly choir." Music on earth is a rehearsal for music in heaven. If you and I are going to take part in that great orchestra, it is high time that we were stringing and thrumming our harps. They tell us that Thalberg and Gottchalk never would go into a concert until they had first in priv ate rehearsed, although they were such masters of the instrument. And can it be that we expect to take part in the great oratorio of heaven if we do not rehearse here. But I am not speaking of the ne'rt world. Sabbath song oug.ht ic set all the week to music. We want not more harmony, not more artistic ex presinn, but more volume in our church music. The English dissent ing churches .far surpass our Ameri can churches, in this respect. An English audience of 1,000 people will give more volume of sacred song than an American audience of 2,000 peo ple. I do not know what the -reason is. 3h, you ought to nave heard them sing in Surrey chapel! 1 had the op portunity of preaching the anriversa ry-I think the ninetieth anniversary -sermon :in Rowland Hill's old cha pel, and when they lif ted their voices in sacred song it was simply over whelming, and then in the eLvenng of the same day in Agricultural hal many thousand voices lifted in dox ology. It was like -the voice of many waters, like the voice of many thun derings, and lke the voice of heaven. The blessing thrilled through all the laboring throng, And neaven was won by violence of song. Now, I am no worshiper of noise, but I believe that if our American churches would with full hartiness of soul and full emu'hasis of voice sing the songs of Zion this ,part of sacred worship would have tenfold more power than it has now. Why not take this part of the sacred service and lift it to where it ought to be? All the annoyances of life might be drowned out by that sacred song. Do you tell me that it is not fashionable to sing very loud lyi Then, I say, away with the fash ion. We dam back the great Misss aippi of congregational singing .and let a few drops of melody trick1~le through the dam. I say take away the dam and let the billows ran' on. their way to the oceanic heart of Go?.. Whether it is fashionable to sic~g loudly or not, let us sing with all pos sible emphasis We hear a great deal of the, art of~ singing, of music as an entertainmer-a of music as a recreation. It is high time we heard something of music as a help, a practical help. 'n order to do this we must have only a few hymns. New tunes and new hymns every Sunday make poor congregationai singing. Fifty hynsare enough for 50 years. Te Episcopal church prays the sanme prayers every Sabbath and year after year and century after century . For that reason they have the hearty re sponses. Let us take a hint from that fact and let us sing the same Eongs Sabbath after Sabbath. Only in that way can we can come to the full force of this exercise. Twenty thousand~ years will not wear out the hym-ins o: William Co'vper, Charles WVesley and Isaac Watts Suppose, now. .ea person in an s.ai~ence has brous:.t Sr. the annoyances of the last 365 as. Fill the room to the ceiling with sa cred song, and you would drcwn out all those annoyances of the last M5 days, and you would drown them out forever. Organ and cornet are only to marshal the voice. Let the voice fall into line, and in companies andi battalions by storm take the obDuracy and sin of the world. If you canuct sing for yourself, sing for otber.B trying to give others good cheer rQoa will bring good cheer to youc w heart. When Londonderry, Irelan,~ V'sr besieged many years - g;.ne pep inside the city were f aniisutg. n a vessel came up with provisions, but.h vessel ran on the river bank ana ue fast. The enemy went down wiei laughter and derision to board the '.-E sel, when the vessel gave a broadside fire against the enemy and by the shock was turned back into the streacn, and all was well Oh, ye who are high and dry on the rocks of melan choly, give broadside fire of smnz e :e ries it l S'Y an.nc-rced tv-e every siurs ' " drownEd cu: t.e gates i etern:ay toeterm1.. (2 T L- F ~ ff ';3 .C." Ih' I- r !e1:er.!o bod A 1: I r that sanctuary help ouzcntto 'ne from the sermon. O 1, e eple any audience, how mnv~ want sympathetic he:p? Do voll g'ucs ICO D.) you guess 500? You have guessed wrong. I will tell yo" st the p).roportion. Oat of 1,000 peolein any %udience ithere are pist 1,C0 who need sympatetic help. These young people want it jast as much as the o:d. Tie old peoa.l' sometimes seem to think they have a monopoly of the rheumatisms, and ueuraiias, and the headaches, and the r~bsical discrders of the wcrid. but I tell you tLere are no worse heartaches than are felt by some of the yourg people. D. y cu know that much of the work is done by the young I Raph ael died at 37, Richlieu at 31, Gustavus Adoiphus died at 3S, Innocent III came to his mightiest influence at 37. Cortes corcuered Mexico at 30, Don John won Lepanto at 25, Grotius was attorney general at 24 and I have noticed amid all classes of men that some of the severest baL Liesand the toughest work comes be fore 30. Therefore we must have our sermons and our exhortations in pra3er meeting all sympathetic with the young. And so with these people further on in life. What do these doctors and lawyers and merchants and mechanics care about the abstrac tions of religion? What they want is helu to bear the whimsicalities of pa tients, the browbeating of legal oppo nens, the unfairness of customers who have plenty of fault finding for every imperfection of handiwork, but no praise for 20 excuilencr. What does the brain racked, hand hlissered man care for Z ;ingli's "Doctrine of Origi nal Sin," or Augustine's "Retrac ions,' Ycu might as well go to a man who has the pleurisy and put on his side a plaster made out of Dr. Parr's "Treatise on Medical Jurispra ence." While all of a sermon may not be helpful alike to al, if it be a Chr istian sermon preached by a Christian man there wili be help for every one some where. We go into an auothecary's stre. We see others being waited on. We do not compiain because we do not mmediately get the medicine. We now our turn will come after awhile. And so while all parts of a sermon ay not be appropriate to our case if we wait prayerfully befcre the ser on is through we shall have the di ine prescription. I say to young en who are going to preach the gos el, we want in cur sermons not more metaphysics, nor more logie, nor ore profundity. What we want in ur sermons and Christian exhorta ions is more sympathy. When Fa her Taylor preached in the Sailors' Bethel at Boston, the Jack Tars felt hey had help for their dtuies among he ratlines and the forecastlee. When Richard Weaver preached to he operatives in O!dham, England, all the workmen felt they had more race for the spindles. When Dr. South preached to kings, and princes ad princesses, all the mighty men and women who heard him felt pre aration for their high station. People will go to church merely as a matter of duty. There will not ext Sabbath be 100 people in this ity who will get up in the morning ad say : "The Bible say s I must go o church. It is my duty to go to hurch, therefore I will go to church." 'he vast multitude of people who go o church go because they like it, and ultiude of people who stay away rom the church stay away oe ause they do not like it. I am not peaking about the way the world ught to be. I am speaking about the way the world is. Taking things as hey are, we must make the centripe al force of the church mightier than he centrifugal. We must make our hurches magnets to draw the people hreunto, so that a man will feel un asy if he does not go to church, say ng: "I wish I had gone this morn ing. I wonder if I can't dress yet and get there in time? It is 11 .,clcck. Now they are singing. It is half past !L. Now they are preaching. I wonder when the folks will be home o tell us what was said, what has een goir.g on." When the impres iio:: is confirmed that our churches, 'aruhitecture, by music, by sociali y and by sermon, shall be the most attractive places on earth, then we will want t wice as many churches as we have now, t wice as large, and, then they will not hal: accommodate the people. I say to the y oung men who are en tering the ministry, we must put, on :ore force, more energy, and into :ur religious services more vivacity f we want the people to come. You ocing into a church court of any de omination of Christians. First, you will find the men of large common sense and earnest lock. The education >f their minds, the piety of their hears, the holiness of their lives qual if them for their work. Then yo'u will find in evary church court of eery de~c mination a group of men who utter>y amaze yo'u with the f'act; that. such sea imbeciit can get any pupints ito p:each in. 2 ose are the n runn'ing wate-r 'ab sys in stig~nan But Isay iLO al C::rsan wocr;.ers, to 'l ad.y 'elo0' teacn:rs, to a' pe:, if we wan ca r Sqaday :hol and c:r prayeroe~eencs and our churchesi 0o ga'iher - the ecep'! w of~ al humdum.n 1c" say over :rwac ove agi, Cmet Js ''.''i ''e phae en aP' ael a>"1 . Wh- -ovo t el them-ae r Ti~e mes: c:- me Dee wa v tn "'eI Crisa 11= ,: &hreddh Be cirfu'. Acity t at is rei n ahi r- ap s r: r~ ~ I:( ~r A-! theri isec. Ti _*.n loo i .~ e CarC~ 0ai ', t e wit s. he s I d, :2 n to !c a ' e a, c L O a, "Cor sid-ler th-,e lI 1ies." 0 a, - mvY brother Christian woriers. what is the use of our goinjg aav off in some obscure par, of history or on the other sid e the earth to get an illustration w'en:the errth and the heavers E.re full of illustrations? Why should we g> away cff to get an illustration of the vicarious suffering of Jesus Christ when as near us as Bicomfield, N. J., two little childen were walk ir g on the rail treck an:! a train was comirg. but.they were on a bridge of trestle1or= and the little girl took her brother and let him down through tres~ework as gen:.ly as she could toward the water, very carefully and lovingly and cau.iosly. so that he mnih not be hart in the fall and right be picked up by those who were standing near by? While doing that the train struck her and hardly encugh of her body was left to gather into a funeral ca.ket. What was that? Vicarious suffering. Like Christ. Pang for others. Suffering for others. Death for others. What is the use for our going away off to find an illustration in past age when during the great forest fires in Michigan a mail carrier on horseback, riding on pursued by those flames which had swept over 100 miles, ssw an old man by the roadside, dismoun tcd. helped the old man on the horse, saying, "Now, whip up and get away." The old man got away, but the mail carrier perished. Just like Christ dismounting from the glories of heaven to put us on the way of de liverance, then faling back into the flames of sacrince for others. Pang for others. Woe fcr others. Death for others. Vicarious suffering. Again, I remark that sanctuary help ougat to come through the prayers of all the people. Tne door of the eter nal storehouse is hung on one hinge, a gold hinge, the hinge of prayer, and wnen the whole audience lay hold of that door it must come open. There are many people spending their tirt Sabbath after some great bereavement. What will your prayer do for themi How will it help the tomb in that man's heart f Here are people who have not been in church before for ten years. What wiil your prayer do for them by rolling over their soul holy memories? Here are people in crises of awful temptation. They are on the verge of despair or wild blun dering or theft or suicide. What wili )cur prayer do for them in the way ol giving them strength to resist ?Will you be chiefly anxious about the it of the glove that you put to your fore head while you prayed? Will you be chiefly critical of the rhetoric of the pastor's petition ? N o. No. A thous arnd people will feel, "That prayer is for me," and at every step or the prayer chains cught to drop oif, and temples of sin ought to crash inte dust,and jubilees of deliverance oughi to brandish their trumpets. In most of our churches we have three prayers -the orsening prayer, what is called the "long prayer" and the closing prayer. There are many people who spend their first prayer arranging their apparel after entrance and spend the second prayer, the "long prayer," in wishing it were through and spend the last .prayer in preparing to start for home. The most insignificant part of every religious service is the ser mon. The more important parts are the Scripture lesson and the prayer. The sermon is only a man talking to a man. The Scripture lesson is God talking to man. Prayer is man talk ing to God. Oh, it we understood the grandeur and the pathos of this exercise of prayer, instead of being a :dull exercise we would imagine tm-t the room was full of divine and an gelic appearances. But, my friends, the old style of ::hurch will not do the work. We might as well now try to take all the passengers from Washington to Ne w York by stagecoach or all the passen gers from Albany to Buffalo by canal boat or do all the battling of the world with bow and arrow as with the old style of church to meet the exigencies c f this day. Unless the church in our day will adapt itself to the time it will become extinct. The people reading newspapers and books all the week. in alert, pictuiesque and resournding style, will hava no patience with Sab bath humdrum. We have no objec tion to bands an-d surplice and all the paraphenalia of clerical life, but these things make no impression-make no more impression on the great masses cf the people than the ordinary busi ness stit that you wear on Pennsyl vania awenue or Wall street. A tailor cannot make a minister. Some of the poorest preachers wear the best clothes and many a backwoodsman has dis mounted from the saddle bags, and in his linen duster preached a sermon that shook earth and heaven with its Christian elcq aence. No ne w gospel, only th6 old gospel in a way suite,. to the time. No new church, but a church to be the asylum, the inspira tion, the practical sympathy and the eternal help of the peopie. But whue half of the doors of the church are to be set open toward tuis world the other half of the dJoors of the church must be set open toward the next. You and I tarry Lere only a brief space. We want somebady to teach us how to get out of thi's lif at the right tim~e and in the r-ght way Some i9.i1 out of li'e, so e ;-o stm ling out of life, eme go groa'ng cut of life, some go ctursaug out ofli. We-want to go singinte, r'ising, rr ie log triauphing. We want nait t do-:rs of the church set m tlat. direc tion. We want half the pers t-at wahalf the sermons that 'a'. .W wa to now~lO h )w to get aw r ci everlastin pece W e nGt to stud doubting an hiran -s.a we- wa from thsw.r p wat u antieation arm:i o hImgst1- ple. t e ont4 to ts:ri assemlage. Amn M them were so o 1. amy ('mUbl not i- o nt a Arind on iaymani~ N O S I::aE svI uint Of h. w :-r e 1 : I C F 1,.:: jin 'u. - t. l C r -z 'V--, re wahine tocvmmoaea .lrl....... OnAtl, I I o.ot e. ie f T th-~ t-uC~' old. ..at w ras D~anled 'o comavemorate zan the S .its Abu ao-r'e e Bruia:s, and a yc-un :nan wVand to t-ske the tidia to th cit. Het to k a tree branch and ran wi.h such speed the tn miles that when he resched the cliv waving t-e tree b-:nch h3 had oily streng th to cry Victor !" and dropped dead. The tree branch that he carried w-s planted, ad it grew to te a great tree ) feet in circumer ence, and the rcmains o it are there tc tis day. My hearer, when ycu have fougi. your )ast battle with sin and death and, hel and they have been routed in the conil.ct, it will be a j->y worthy of celebration. You will fly to the city and cry 'Viet:ry !"aa drcp at the feet o' the great King. Then the palm branch of the earthly race will be planted, to become the outbranching tree of everlasting re pleinfg. When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates behold, Thy bulwarks with salvation strong And streets of shiniug goll 5RUSH WITH SPANISH TRCOPS. Etco nroite rJng Party Ftcim New Yoi k as~ Maesrchure ts Was Attac-k d. A hot brush be'ween some Spanish troops and a reconnoitering party, in steam cuiter, occurred at daylight Saturday morning in a small cove west of Morro castle, at Santiago. The Massachusetts' s'cam cutter in charge of Lieutenant Hsrlcw, en tered the cove to take sounding and reconnoitre. When well inside the inlet a de tachment of Spanish infantry opened fire upon the cutter from a block house. The fire was vigorously re turned by the marines in the Massa chusetts' boat, and also by marines who were in the New York's cutter, which wss in charge of Naval Cadet Powell, and which had followed in. The New York's catter was hit 10 times and a marice in the cutter of the Massachusetts had the stock of his ruile shattered, but by good luck no one was hit. The Texas opened fire with her G-pounder on the hill side and the Vixen steamed right into the cove and peppered the block house with her rapid lire guns. Eventually, the Spaniards retreated to the woods and the two steam cutters withdrew. The Yankee arrived off Santiago harbor Saturday, and Captain Brown son reported that, on Monday before, boate offeCienfuegos, a Spanin? gun ootcm ut to mEet the Yankee, evidently mistaking her for a maerch ant ves:el. The Spaniard. however, soon saw his mistake, turned tail and opened fire, which was hotly returned by the Yankee. Tade latter boat chased the gunboat until the Spaniard tcok reuge in the harbor, whose forts onened fire on the American vessel. Thereupon the Yankee engaged the eastern and western batteries. But, seeirng no chance of catching the gunboat, Captain Brownson with drew. During the engagement a Spanish shell borst over the Yankee and a falling fragment struck a lands man named Kennedy, formerly an in surance clerk in New York city, in flicting a severe flesh wound on his right shoulder. He is expected to re cover. The Spanish gunboat chased by the ankee was of about 500 tons, and 200 feet long. The naval reserves who man the Yankee fought well Hr.WOW'r RUN~ Te F. Oiibition Candidate w\ith:draws from :ha Race. Thin State Wednesday evening re ceived the following for publication from Mr. Bruason who was suggested as a candidate for governor by the Prohibition convention. After the adoption of the resolution by the Pro hibition committee, many ex-pected to hear from Mr. Brunson again: To the Prohibition voters of the State: Our Prohibition State executive committee have deemed it necessary to withdraw the nominations as sug gescd by the convention for State of fceers. Although I believe this was done in order to permit cAndi dates to pledge themselves as individuals, still I cannot participate in the subterfuge; for I am just as much the nominee of the Prohioition convention today as when first suggested as their candi date. Therefore, I accept 1he with drawal ini gocd faith (as it should have been made, or not at all) and will take no part in the campaign other than to work for the election off a leg islalu :e favoring prohibition. I dteeply appreciate the honor you have bestowed upon me and in order that those Prohibitionists who cannot conscietieudy Mote for an advocate of liquor selliug may have some one to vote for, I will leave my pledge as made ia full fore. Joel E. Brunson, Greenville, S. (2., .June 14, 16.: Were N. Mala taed. fi ephen' Crane telegraphs t> the Evenng World from Guantana:nc Bay a posiiv'e denil of .a'.eznents that ite bodies0 of marlies killed it th fihtn on S' -uday w-ere mui hidater t me -ell The appear.: ed )~ s r . tlo who..ex pIte by''~ 'igh bull's. - urgeor t~Ic oftei.:yf mui ic a e r ti : nd a d 6:e ol R o .Tre e. avt u Un'sident Herw, -3.:.n Doningo. But Jimn:ies failedi. He w..as rraiy V/:, KLY WE A THE A ND r1i- er-- ' t)Ix g t t'v . . Ov-r the :re lep rn a~ foloine evl bulein ofi th endtianr cf tv weather and crops of the i-ai. was in.ued by c~mtio D irerwr '13auer of i U ed Etates C - d. oe l'e n r r.-ral with n x inms il erl in I . e ek ranging b tween 7S at L 6S drees: there was a si i en.perature duririr 12: -e- Vith meaximun:s cf 10) to 102 dtrees Ouite greneral over the westorn and c'mr) counties on the 1th ard be 11ih. There were a few compara tivly cool r.ights for the sesson early iI. the week with a -niniwrim of 55 de grees a, Santuc C a the 7:h and at Soene~r on the S.1. The mesn for tEie wek was S1 dee-ces and the ror mal for the same pericd is abcut 77. There was an entire absence of rain during the week over the greater por tion of the State. On the 12th at:d 13th thunderstorms cccurred over the central and western counties, but at a few pieces only was the rainfall copi ous enough to be of material relief from the prevailing severe and dis tressing drought. So:e additional messurements were received of the rainfall of June 4. on whtcha date Walhalla had 1.00 inch, Barksdale 1.25, Lngshore 1 26, and a number of other places had amounts either too small to measure or less than one tenth of an inch. The nor mal rainfall for the current week is 1.01 inch, the State average is abcut .01. The defiency in rainfall since Jan u iry lit amounts to somewhat cver 50 per cent. of the normal for the State. In Charleston the actual defi ciercy for the above period is 15.56 inches. In the former locality the drought uas about reached the stage of a water famine; cattle are dying for want of water, as springs, brooks and streams are dry while the tides have salted the rivers for miles in land. Streams all over the State are either dry or their water gathered in stag nant pools. Few ponds in the lower ccunties but wnat have dried up and fish are dying by thousands. The drought is, however, not con fined to the lower counties, but in cludes the entire State, and is espec ially severe in Anderson, Abbeville and portions of contiguous or nearby counties where correspondents report either no rain or less than beneficial amounts for pericds of from 20 to 50 days, while during this time the tem perature has been abnormally high, with but little cloudiness. While moat of the staple crops have as yet suffer ed no irreparable injury, a c ntinua ion of the dry weather for a week or two longer would inflict severe dam sge to all crops and especially on cora. The sunshine was practically unin terrupted during the week at many places, with an average estimated per centage of 87 of the possible, for the State. The winds were light easterly dur ing the [lest of the week, changing to light and dry westerly and sutherly during the latter portion. A severe wind storm on the 12th in Spartanburg county damagEd wheat, Oats, fruit trees and tut~ldings severe Iv. There remains considerable land, intended for corn, yet to plant, esti mated at 20 per cent. in daluda coun ty, and consisting gene-rally of bo;tom land that early became too dry and nard to plow. Early corn is dying in placzs for want of moisture. Corn wilts badly during the day time and is fring. Corn is being slowly laid by. Cotton has apparently not been ini jured by the dry weather, except that replanted cotton died for want of mois ture, and that late planted and re planted cotton was slow to germinate and came up to irregusar stands. Cot ton made very slow growth, but other wise is in a vigorous, healthy condi tion. It is infested with lice in Orange burg, Sumter, Clarendon, Bamberg, Barawell, where, in spots, it is dying, Riand where lice are more number ous than ever before observed, and in portions of several other c ounties. Cot ton fields are generally well cultivatedi, txce~t that clay so-ls are too dry and hard to work, arnd that la upper Ber keley and portions of Williamsburg counties it was too wet during May. but it is all right now. Cotton is putting on squares rapidly in Chesterfield and Darlington, but slowly elsewhere. Cut worms still damaging the stand in places. "First blooms" nave been noted in various sections during the week. Sea island cotton is not thriving. Tobacco failed during the week cx cepi in portions of Florence, where it grew vigcrously. Tobacco needs ramn urgently. Worms not unusaliy nu mercus and are easily kept from in flicting serious damage. Wheat harvest is about completed and threshing is well under way. Yieds at threshing are very satisfac tory although, Oconee and Spartan burg report yields below last year. Early oats are harvested anc housc d., In Horry the crop was rather light but elsewhere from fair to very good. Spring sown oats are a failure in most places and at best a poor crop. It has been too dry to sow peas and where previously sown they have not come up to stands. Few potato slips were set during the week and the draws are dying in the beds. Irish pctatoes a:ec very poor, yield ing less than a third of the usual re turns, while the individual potatoes are small and generally inferior. Melons about holding their condi tin, but are late and irregular ther-eby reducing the commercial value of the crop. In the Charleston truck raising districts muskmaelons and cucumbers arei yielding about one lfth of a crop. Peaches are ripening and shipments wil begin this week. There are nru mrous reports of inerior fruit, bat is the principal peach district thie f ruit Acules andi othevr -.cid):n fruits areC drppn fr- - d are not Dro liac-ri are dryl utg up oni the vines, alhhough thecre. z- say <uali:-y of then: to pik (j'..e doirOg well o :n mos land but on. other lnds i:, ming no grow th C -fa ae dair.g wel in WViimns Th e wr hias beni xcelent for ' a.und cunrig h iy, Ethiouigu the Pastua and gardens are0 sear; in ai pl aes it has bec mne necessary to al~ far .st ock dry fcdder. he 'w'-ester-n sections of the Sta' th 'e conditions are now more tcjl -r ,'- ue to the showvers of the 12,h ad1., but nouwLere has suiticient -ai' falle- to relievethe droughL. (~: i s to day the scene of the raes land grabbling raids that the woldas ever wuimeased.- A tuie present rate i be only a little while until titere is nothing left of the ancien empir-e except its gretit wall Land ai jab let of musty sus.per.suitions. T H P IN S T. ith~e '-r N %v !'F I Pr rA!iu 0 .wst. sav';cB, ard i idvantaco en te sde or the. i y;r'esis. Saturday- mri ircr z -c t h.- A\ wrica~n res -, re j cts 1 ig t h i c' and t'e re st SmeIVr. The inen in the eops s.: mny f*he '-,ils st-ike ir th,_ em4 8, ofte tow~n, w: zle o:bers e r sr ppT;L a-d con'mer c bul arth Water's edee. ! Sokear' 'i rse cloua: frcm !he places Vh-ee -h ,hEs f ei1. :nd it is behered Thct ire ca n- beth by the im zc 111h,2 ssle andcr-qen cot :1 ~ra'.on was g-~est. On Thursday eveorg the ships had thrown fcur 10-rnch and nice 8 inc shelis into tne tor n. This bombard reent beian at 41 o'cleck and ended at1 5. Much smoke and confusion were discerned in Guantanamo during its progrEss. Crowds of people and trcops o' soldiers were seen moving about, and the vessels in fort huriiedly charged their anchcra-ze. On *Wednesday night the TExas penetrated into the bay of Santiago passed Yorro castle and pcured a well directed Ere both upon that stronghold. and the castle Z 1capa. This battle be gan about 11 o'ckcek and ended about midnig'ht. There was little response from the Spaniards, and such as there was did hardly any damage. Nobody was killed in any of 'hese Sctions on the American ships. Two Spanish oflice;s, who were cap Iured on Wedoesday in Guantanimo bay. are reported to be on board the Marblebead. The news of the work on Wt dnesday night by the Vesuvius and New Orleats in Santiago bay is eonfirmed. Vesuvius threw shells int3 the water to explode the mines, while the New Odleans engaged the fortifications along the shore. The Marblehead has captured a Spanish sloop in Guantanamo harbor, and made eight soldiers, who were on board, prisoners. The Americans are now practically in full possession of Guantanamo bay. and the white tents of the land force present a rather im posing spectacle. Tnere is occasional firing from the Spanish land forces, bat it is always ineffectual and of no importance. Thursday our soldiers captu-red, at Guantanamo, a Cuban with dispatches which he was carrying to the Spanish general. He was turned over to the Cuban commander and shot. A'nother Cuban was captured the same day un der simi!ar circumstances. His fate is under consideration. PRIZE MNEY FOR 3 .EL'J kCK~TS Captnrrmd spanihii vamea a-:i c,-" #I b i ~l at Aucuion The foliowing is a list of the prize v(tsels and their cargo which are to ie sod at auction in the city of Key West on Mond.y, June 27, at 11a. mi., to the highest bidder for cash: :lme. eIt Sie:Uiler Arzeu:ta:........... '' I' Sleame~r Ambire.ia UJ lir. .....1 [II i BU rtr Crlo.- F.I e........ 11> IBarkeraine Lorenzo......... Br'g i-ris uita....... ... ...2.' I S' coor-r 4 niiditi9.---G ew w r 1a id.............. i Schooner Pinero.............. I1i Schooner T r'. iIrmans.....'1 Schoone-r .\L.-cota...........1' 1 Schooner Enrracia............. 4 a Schooner Lo l.......... :', 4 Schooner Antonio y P'ac..... 4 0 Schooner Quadrreze~emb~re... c Schooner Orient ............. > -> dehooner Anatonio &uarez...... : 1 Schooner i'otier de Dios.......51 6 Schooner Espana.......... 1 5 Schooner Fernandito......2> T Schooner Sontiaze Apsile.... Schooner Severit........... -1I > Sloop Par .u>...................... I 4 Ai-2. :... ':.e ausei m :a.d~ ske will ne sold the cargoes of saia vessels consisting cf 3.500 sacks oi rce, 1,468 sacks of flour, 373 sacks of beans, 100 cases o& cod?ish, 1,943 sacks of sugar, GS cases of sardines, 1,750 boxes of vermicllei at d macarroni, 47 cases of cer 81 b-.ndies of steel, 51 esses of mineral water, 170 ca-es and barrels of beer, 1,260 cases of canned gods, 418 bales of paper, s aven cases of paper bsgs. 10 hogsheads of wine, 3) barrels of wine, 50 cases of wine and 282 cases of chocolate. These are to be sold by John F. Horr United States marshal for the South ern cistrict of Florida. MANY K1LLE-. Ter ib-e D)e--tccti ,1 E i w n~h: lyy our A careful inspection of the scr'.itica tiocs along the crest of the hills 'de fending Santiago harbor since the bombar-dment Thairsday morning shows that the American gunners spread wreck and ruin everywhere. Some of the batteries were demolished beyoand repair. The vultures, which circles on level wings over the hills as thick as swallcws around a chimney, for hours after the firing ceased, fa: nished gruesome evidence of the fatal ity among the Spanish soldiers. Hun dreds of troops could be seen from the ships digging in mounds of earth piled up by the explosion of the pro jectiles from the heavy guns for bodies, while their heads were fanned by the -w~ings of the black scavengers of the battlfetid. There were two spois, 0ne on the cant and the other on the west of the harbor entrance, which were denuded of the foliage. The ll!tops seem literally blown away. These marked the places where the 20u-pouusl charge of gun cotton blown from the Vesuvius landed. B3ut the miot ominous token of deat'h tis from~ Moro .0C stle. The sa ?aniag of Spaia was nal mtise on O~ en .'or . u::Veral hours The sig--~-cane c 'hs is nt koosn v. but psul s ame So3Coish leader v-as idbythe he~av fir--e:0 Cofor guns, thug sm c~er '--o' the squadron as a~ noi t:ion to the A~mereans that were de .Ifsuc a ae they muthv" e n waatotsly rt.urderedJ. The t anish migtst see5k to lay their death to tes- bombardmen'., bar. tt a ,ho:. from the Americaa snips sruck Whenat to go in bathing nt Sabo cecch. Fla., S-auday as ternoOu, James T .roic , prkzate stenog rapher ao S~ea E. Seventh,' army Iintanti '-il .. . --. o w f rom a cla i y. tu besideh Gatew w an o the groutd. & s Cio his b2dy being pira-:. . 1-rcoee afte?r oam o, w-r, and is niow all right Gol' LARBE ATTACKED THE GUBERNATCRiAL CANC IDATES. i e om *i ,: I) -our~ces His Accoter a-d . jIel, t1e Accusa lis With oreat V-berce.e. to t e u1etght of His F Iu-ed~. Ls, ridsy, whicn was Darchester Car - n :h- political progra, was sig nc'zed by one of the most scathing a mark ab'e attacks upon a Gav :1-r:r -d esndidate ever known upon s-amp * n r, cent vears. Governor E rbE ;s h tege. and Coi Wat sa ie ma'-k-man. e occurrenc was as unexpected as i% was reixarkable. Tie man from Saluda ca-Tp down. upon him like a thcus&r d of bricks, spurning the ]an anag cf diplorrac7 and roasting him upon a bare rpit. He denounced the Governor as a o'itical trickster and t ade-r in whom the people had no confidence. When Col. Watson concluded it was nain that it was a crucial time for the Governor. His manhood was a'. stake, his yolitical existence was trembling ia the balance, and should he fail to rise to the supreme impor tance of the occasion by some master ful effort, he would be swept aside by the mighty tide. A'd the Governor realized it. He summoned up all the vigor of his na ture into his reply, repelling the accu sations and denouncing the accuser with a vehemence that delighted his friends. Durirg his remarks he got it to a tilt with Uncle George, who wanted to force the fighting and state his case cn the spot. After a brief pzssage at-arms, amid the din of ap plause from the adherents of each, the Governor turned his attention to Col. Watson, and his remarks below will show the character of his reply. HOT SHOT FOR ELLERBE. Col. Watson said it was an -unprece dented thing that there were seven candidates for the office of Governor. Ellerbe had been backed by a United States Senator and a Governor and got the lagest vote ever given to a cardidate for Governor. Why, then, was he opposed? Col. Watson then proceeded to at tack in the plainest words Governor Ellerbe's record. The reason for the opposition to him was patent. Before he had been in office a year he was heartily despised. Ellerbe's friends were ashamed of him and his enemies were disgusted with him. He has been untrue to his friends and unfair to his enemies. He has sought by patronage to buy his enemies and has never remembered his friends. But for his cornection with the reform faction Le never would have been heatd of. He was eitct-d with a promtse that he wold remove the metropolitan po lice from Charleston. He delaytd its removal for one master, removed it for another and received the j ast con tempt of these who elected ham. I believe it was a trade when he ap pointed Epton as Comntroller General. The Legislature rebuked him. In all his appointments it is believed he has traded from first to last. If he had been content to be W. H. Ellerbe and had not condescended to political trickstering, we would not be flere to day to oppose him. Col. WatsOn eloquently commend ed the gallant officars at the head of South Carolina's volunteer troops, but said he, to help himself Governor ELierbe ignored all the colonels, the cnfederate veterans and sons of vete ca~ns in hs appointments. He ap 1ooied only one officer from his own f6.c.icai t o a high office, and that man could not drill a squad. I do not know tut one man in my county who will vote f or him, and that one says it is oecauee Ellerbe is going to pardon a man sentenrced to be 1-anged. Gentle :nen, you may go all over, the State '.nd you will find a concensus of opin ion tnat he is an utter failure. ELLERBE'S MXANLY DEFENCE. "Now we are going to hear it," was the remnark as the Governor came forward. He said he had been slan & ered and misrepresented and he chal lenged his opponents to prove one charge made against his adminisra tion. He welcomed criticism that was honest. He had always advocatedt the dis pensary as the best solution of the liquor problem. When Col. Till man said the dispensary had- not made any profit he misrepresentedi trie facts. Tuia elictedi a renark from U~icle George who said that he had great re spect f or Governor Ellerbe pereonally, bat when he mn his message to the legislature said educational system was wnthout headship, without order and full of reduplication and followed that with thie statement that its im proyement was not practicable, then Le show ed lack of b'ackbene. Gay, Ellerbe conbatted this and called upon Col. Tiilman to prove his statement that some men got their fertilizer without paying for tae tags. Cal. Tillman: 11l show it bayonas a reasonable doubt from the facts, if you'll let ine speak. Governor Ellerba replied that he had no time to spare, but if the proof was submnitted lie would retire from the rrce . Then ensued almost indescrible con fusion, Col. Tillman was endeavor ing to get in a reply, with the gover nor talking simultaneously. Friends of both disputants crowded up meta uhorially patting each game chicken i the back and urging him on. The governor refused to relinquish the stand and turned towards (. Wat son. It was a supreme wrrment, for the Governor had to stantu os .tall accord ing to his defence of the Saluda Sena tor'is merciless excoriation. To his credit be it said that he rey-iled thes accusations wita. vigor. 1 ..a -e Wat son, said he, to furnisa ane .intalla of proof that I ever madt a poliical deal. If his baseless enlarge were tiute I cught to be kicited out of <i m e, bvut the man who robs anu ...r o, . g name is worse than slit tiei who sheals his horse from the locked stable aye, he is unworthy of the name of mnau or gentleman and is no gentle maa-. It is absolutely faae that I went into a contract with C acieston. I told them that whenev - -y gave me as sari ace that they wuol enforce the aw I would remove the r- tropolitan police. I made that statrn 'i t public y, but I nevar promist .ny man that 1 would unconditional , remove li. Ilhad more appointmeni'c thaan any othecr gont rnor nad t-> h ut for eveny te.. I ni.dJ I ,.'-. d1 a d.zen enemties, yet some of thesae pulhtical pirates have tried to misrepresent me bty say ira that I tr-aded appointments for popularity. You may defeat me, but no mao under heaven shall mis represset me to the pr-ople. I intend to y un re governmnent without feareor ay audnt according to the dictate ofba :iled politicians. Te goi'vernor's defence was roundly deand his speech ended the Tm:~ New York Sun says that the count'ry is proud of Richmond Pear o H Ebon as an American and the North is particularly glad that the hero of the Merrimtac ha~ppeuis to be a The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one third further than any other bread. 1100 AKIN POWDER Absolutely Pure THE CAMPAIGN OPENS, LCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. people by false statements. Mr. N. H. SLarrsel of Rarnwell, the well-known s- %' - L arms of the hcuse. said tat if eleted 're would stand betwor. 1h&e oI- ->- A the railroads, ende, v ' : to both. The last candidate announced was Mr. T. F. Brantley of Orangeburg, who annunced that as his competitor for congress was not present he would refrain from speaking. A letter was read frcm Concress man Stokes statiag that duty required his presence at Washington, and that he would appear before the people later. J. Wilson Gibbes. The Uotton Situation. Mr. Hester, secretary of the Nev: Orleans cotton exchar.ge, is z-rog nized as one of the best cotton author. ities, and his reports are always read with interest not only by those en gaged in the cotton business, -but by the general public Mr. Hester gave out recently a statement in which he placed the world's visible supply of American cotton on that day at 2,712, 833 bales, ss against 3,301,353 at the corresponding date in 1895. The visi ble supply of all kinds is now 3,000, 833 bales, as against 3,674.553 at tne corresponding date in 1895. But while there is a deficit of supply of 673.720 bales, as compared with the last big crop year, the deficit in the price is much more striking still. At this date three years ago the quotation fur middling on the spot was 6 The future market was quoted as follows: June 6.97, July 7.03, August 7.08, September 7.06, October 7.04, Novem ber 7.07, December 7. 10. It will thus be seen that with a visible supply of nearly 700,000 bales less than that of the last big crop year at this sessen the price of cotton is nearly a cent lower than it was in May, 1895. Another curious fact noted by Mr. Hester is that while July contracts are selling slightly over 6 cents, 0:to er deliveries are being done at about 10 points less. We find jutt this con dition of things in the wheat mark- t, in a more acute form, for September contracts are selling for about one haif the price of the May position. The New Orleans Picayune notes a remarkable change in the speculative spirit of the South so far as cotton is concerned. It says: "The 'bear' selm's to have things all .iis o wn way, jist as the 'bull' used to have in the ays of yore. This change is the legitimate result of bitter experience. In 1895 this section went wild on the 'buli' side of cotton, and prices were forced steadily upward, until O.tober con - tracts crossed 9 40. as the result proved the 'bulls' were very right about the crop, but horribly wrong about the price. Tne consequence was a disaster to the specutauve public which can only be comparel to the wreck of the Spanish armada or the 'Sauve qui peut' at Water 100. Men were taught in an hour lessons which they k n~v v iJl last them througn this lue. But it would be weil not to jump at con clusions. Many a time and oft have the 'bulls' s worn off. In the future, as in the past, there may be occasion to verify the old adae.e "'When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; When the devil was well, the devil a saint Spain.'a Reewe flee'. Spain had one fleet destroyed at Ma nila and has another bottled up at antiago. The third Spanish fleet has beea made the subject of almost in 'smerable fakes and canards. One day we are told that it has sailed for Santigo to relieve Cervera and the next day comes the ne ws that it is on its way to Manila via the Suez canal to attack Dawey. It is almost certain that this fleet is still hovering about Cadiz, and there is little probability of its leaving Spanish waters. Tne strength of the Spanish reserva fleet has been greatly exaggerated. One of its battleships, the Carlos V, is unfit for service, and the only other vessels in the fleet are the Pelayo, Alfots> XIII, the transformea cruisers R apiuo and Patriota, a fe w smail auxiiary cruisers arnd two torf~edo boats, it will be seen that Spain has no power ful fleet at home. The fleet or either Sampson cr 2chley could ananihilate it and there would be untle doubt of Dawey's victory over it it it should go against him. The big monitor Mun terey will reach Manila long before the Cadiz fleet could possibly get there, even through the Suez canal, and with that reinforcement Dew ey could more than hold his own. Luere is ittle to fear from Spain's reserve fleet wner ever it may be seut. A Good Idea. In the Civil War hundreds of brave soldiers who fell upon the tield o! bat tle were cons'gned to unkno wn graves for the simple reason that ia their sad cases identification was imposlible. But the war department has adopted measures by which soldiers will fare better in the confl::ts of the future. We quote in this connection frcm tue Philadelphia North A anerica a. In outling the measures ad jpte-d by the war department, this i-ewspaper auW thority observes: "This unniappy fate will be guarded against in the f uture by having the soldiers when they go into action wear around their n. cus smarl u~gs made of alumomm.m up4.n which sirall be stamped tne numerat assigned each man on thermuster rolls, with the letter of his comnpasurh bat tery or troop and his regiment. B3y this pl'an the men who die for their country may be easily identlite I and will thus be saved from the late of being consiguedi to an unmnarred grave. It is a meritu a plaa ana trne war departwent is deserving of com mendation for trie foretnoagut and consideration w ich prtomlpted it. While the idea or wearinzg tags m~y be somewhat revolting to t iUsaiLts of chivalry, stili the preci iln seems to be wise and proper. REAm Admiral Dewc w..ir ot t th only hero of ic:e bae t n Bay to wear a haudsome pat s -n ~f sord. The commion e Aui.ci of tinore has appropriated ga n.r a sword for Capt. M- N. D ui"M of the cruiser Bltiimore, and y: )l>he subscription will raiSe thi~s sum 2 t.UO.