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HO)t jN; D AS A IDEER. Where the Troubled of Earth May Quench their Thirst. FROM THE LIFE OF DAVID. Dr. Talmage Sees in the Forest an Example of Hope for the Un fortunate and Harrassed of the World. Dr. Talmage. drawing his ilslutra tions from a deer hunt. in this dis course calls all the pursued and trou bled of the earth to colmc and slake their thirst at the dep river of divine comfort: text. Psalms xiii. 1. *-As the hart panteth after the water brooks. So panteth my soul after thee. 0 God. David. who must some time ha-ve seen a deer hunt. points us here to a hunted stag making for the water. The fascinating animal called in my text the hart is the same animal that in sacred and profauc lite:ature is called the stag, the roebuck. the hind. the gazelle. the reindeer. In central Syria in Bible times there were whole past ure fields of them, as &olomon suggests when he says, I char'-e you by the hinds of the field.- Their antlers jut ted from the long grass as they lay down. No hunter who has been long in "John Brown's tract" will wonder that in the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes washed them as clean as the sky. When Isaac. the pa triarch. longed for venison. Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprightliness of the re- I stored cripple of millennial times to the long and quick jump of the stag. saying. 'The lame shall leap as the harL" Solomon expressed his d:sgust at a hunter who, having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook it, saying, "The sloth ful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting." But one day David. while far from the home from which he had been driven, and sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he had lodged. and on the banks of a pond or river, heard -a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Be cause of the previous silence of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to himself, "I wonder what those dogs are after." Then there is a crack ling in the brushwood, and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods and the antlers of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket and by an instinct which all hunters recognize the reature plunges into a pool or iake or river to cool its thirst and at the same time by its capacity for swifter and longer swimming to get away from the foaming harriers. David says to himself: "Aha, that is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after me; I am chased; their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, barking after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds! But look there," says David to himself; "that reindeer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes its lathered fanks and it swims away from the fiery canines and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in the deep, wide lake of God's mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! 'As the hart pant eth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God.'~ The Adirondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Talking one sum mer with i hunter, I thought I would like to see whether my text was accu rate in its allusion, and as I heard the dogs baying a little way off and sup posed they were on the track of a deer, I said to one of the hunters in rough corduroy, "Do the deer always make for water when they are pursued?" H~e said: "Oh, yes, mistei. You see they are a hot and thirsty animal and they know where the water is, and when 'they hear danger in the distance they lift their antlers and sniff the breeez and start for the Raquet or Loon or Saranac, and we get into our cedar shell boat or stand by the 'runaway' with rifle loaded and ready to blaze away." My friends, that is one reason why I like the Bible so much-its allusions are so true to nature. Its-partridges av real partridges, its ostriches are real ostriches and its reindeer real rein deer. I do not wonder that this ant leredglory of the text makes the hunt er's eye sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say noth ing of its usefulness, although it is the most useful of all game, its flesh deli ious, its skin turned into human ap parel, its sinews fashioned into bow 'frings, its antlers putting handles on cutlery and the shavings of its horn used as a pungent restorative, the name taken from the hart and called harts horn. But putting aside its usefulness this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasticity. What an eye, with a liquid brightness as if gathered up from a hundred lakes at sunset. The horns, a coronal branch ing into every possible curve, and after it seems complete ascending into other projections of -exquisiteness,. a tree of polished bone, uplifted in pride or swung down for awful combat. The hart is velocity embodied; timidity im personated; the enchantment of the woods. Its eye lustrous in life and pathetic in death. The splendid ani mal a complete rhythm of muscle and bone and color and attitude and locomo tion, whether couched in the grass among the shadows, or a living bolt, shot through the forest, or turning at bay to attack the hounds, or rearing for its last fall under the buckshot of' the trapper. It is a splendid appear ance that the painter's pencil fails to sketch, and only a hunter's dream on a pillow of hemlock at the foot of St. Regis is able to picture. When 20. miles from any settlement it comes down at eventide to the lake's edge to drink among the lily pods and with its sharp edged hoofs shatters the crystal of Long Late it is very picturesque. But only when. after miles of pursuit. with heaving sides and lolling tongue and eyes swimming in death the stag leaps from the cliff into upper Saranae, can you realize how much David had suffered from his troubles and how much he wanted God when he express ed himself in the words of the text. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee. O God." Well. now, let all those who have coming after them the lean hounds of poverty; or the black hounds of perse cution, or the spotted hounds of vicis situde, or the pale hounds of death, or who are in any wise pursued, run to the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace and rescue. The most of the mnen and women whom I happened to know at different times, if not now. have had trc.:ble after' them, sharp muzzled troubles. swift troubles, all devouring troubles. Many of you have made the mistake of trying te fight e. Somebody meanly attacked you, md vou attacked thie. The ueir :iated vou. vou delllciited t he N. or hey oxverrealii vou in a Iaraiin. andl Vol trid n \'i stn'tA ' I.,: ' Ito t bCrOainc!, anoil I i! yubmi.,si e. you arc iighti t I lw - reavemnilt. You charge on the doctors I who failed to efeet a cure. or You charge on the carelesses of the ral road conpany through which the ace; delit i.-urred. or vou are a chrome' 1 valid. and you fret and worry and cola and wonder why You can not bC Well like other p-ole, and you angrily blame the neuralgia. or the larynaitis. or the ague. or the sick headache The fact is you are a deer at bay. Instead of running to the watcrs of divine con solation and slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the good cheer of the _,ospel and swiilnt away into the mighty deeps of Goids love you are fighting a whole kenicl ti har riers. But very many of you who are wronged of the world- -and if in any as senibly between here and Golden Gate. San Francisco. it wer- asked that all those that had teen sometines badly treated should raise both their hands and full response should be made. there would be twice as -:.mny ihanls lifted as petrsons present-I say many of you woul:1 declare. "We have always done the best we could and tried to he use ful. and why we shou'd become the vie tinis of m1alignmIent or invalidism or mishap is inscrutable." Why, do you know hle fiier a deer and the more cle gant its proportions and the more beauti ful its bearing the more anxious the hunters and the hounds are to capture it? Had the roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and a limping gait the hunters would have said. -Pshaw, don't let us waste our ammunition on a sick deer." And the hounds would have given a few sniffs of the scent. and then darted off in another direction for better gam. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky. and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides inelose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the banks of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaven. and the stamp of its foot defies the jack shooting lan tern and the rifle. the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their neck in the rapids. So if there were no noble stuff in your make up, if you were a bifur cated nothing, if you were a forlorn failure, you would be allowed to go un distuibed. but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after you is proof positive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore sar casm draws on you its 'finest bead." Therefore the world goes gunning for you with its best Maynard breechloader. Highest compliment is it to your tal ent, or your virtue, or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest being the worl' ever saw had set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lap ped his blood after the Calvarean mas sacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and a cross. Many who have done their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleasure is in anticipation of the next world, and they could express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness of Nairn at the elese of her long life, when asked if she would like to live her life over again: Would you be young again? So~ would not I; One tear of memory given, Onward I'll hie; Life's dark wave forded o'er, All but at rest on shore, Say, would you plunge once more, With home so nigh? If you might, would you now Rl.trace your way? Wander through stormy wilds, Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming ied Hope's smile around us shed, Heavenward, away! Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can withstand any ting and everything, and that which affrights others will inspire you. As in time of an earthquake when an old Christian woman was asked whether she was scared, answered, "No; I am glad that I have a God who can shake the world;" or, as in a financial panic. when a Christian merchant was asked if he did not fear he would break. an swered: "Yes, I shall break when the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth verse: 'Call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorif y me.' " Oh, Christian men and women, pursued of annoyances anti exasperations, remember that this hunt. whether a still hunt or a hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks ashamed and ready to slink out of sight, it is when in the Adirondacks a deer by one tremendous plunge into Big Tupper lake gets away from him. The disappointed canine swims in a lit tie way. but. defeated, swims out again a~d cringes with humiliated yawn at the feet of his master. And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when you have dashed into the river from under the throne of God, and the heights and depths of heaven are between your pur surers. We are told in Revelation~xxii. 15. 'Without are dogs," by which 1 conclude there is a whole kennel of' hounds outside the gate of heaven, or, as when a mastergoes in through a door his dog lies on the steps waiting for him to come out. so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but they cannot get in. "Without are dog's!" I have seen dogs and owned dogs that I would not be chagrined to see in the heavenly city. Some of the grand old watchdogs who are the constabulary of the homes in solitary places, and for years have beeni the only protection for wife and child: sonie ot' the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away the flocks from going too near the ptrecipiee, and sonic of the dogs whose neck and paw Landseer. the paintr, has made immortal. wonuld not find mii shutting themi out from thet gate of shining pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard ddgs that have lifted perishing travelers out of the Alpine snow. the dog that -John Brown. the Scotch essayist saw ready to spring at Fthe surgeon lest in removing the cancer he too much hurt tile poor woman whom the dog felt bound to protect, and dogs that we caressed in our childhood days, or that in later time lay down on the rug in seeming sympathy when our hiomies were desolated. I say if some soul entering hicaveni should hap pen to leave the gate ajar and these faithful creatures should quietly walk in it would not at all disturb my heav en. But all those human or brutal hounds that have chased and torn aid lacerated the worhl. yea. all that now bite or worry ojr tear to piees shall be prohibited. ''Without arc dogsV' No p~ace there for harsh critics or backbit others. Down na h'ou w~ meo~ k..num otf darknes-s :iiil desptir. Th hart~d I ha o eN Ith i t tern tl I - r : 0unttitain. Oh. wvhcil you "et there it will be like what a hunter tellsof when pushin iII1: canoe far -up northI ill tile winter and aii the ice tioes and 100 mniles. as he thouhit. frot any ther liilian b'ie. lit, Wlia-z 4artel otiC day he heard a <te'jaig n tI he ice. anu lie cocked theI, r ready to illeet anv thilg tliat camie lnar. l e founiid a mian iarefooted and . inalit froi long ex poue.apoachint. himn. Taking hi;:n. into huis canoe and kindling tires to warm himii. lie restored hii and found out where he tliad live and took him to his lom'te and found all the village in reat excitemnent. A hundred men were scarching, for this lost mali. and and his family and friends rushed out to :meet him. and. as had been agreed. at his first appearance bells were ruIg and iuns were fired and banouets spread. and the reseuer loaded with presents. Well, when sonic of you step out of this wilderness. where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the icebergs, ilto the warm greetings of all the villages of the glori fied. and your friends rush iit to 1i\e vou welcoming kiss. the news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread the banquet. and the bellen to lay hold of the role in the tower. and while the chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from the turrets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I I may be there to take part in the celes tial merriment. "Until the day break and the shadows flee away. be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mouu tains of Bether. GEN.WHEELER TESTIFIES. As To the Operations of the Army Around Santiago. The war investigating committee beg'an the examination of witnesses to-day by placing General Joseph Wheeler on the stand. Chairman Dodge stated the scope of the commis sion's duties and asked Wheeler whether lie had any objections to being sworn. le replied that he had none. and Maj. Mills. recorder for the com ission, administered the oath. Ex Gov. Beaver conducted the examina tion, developing the essential facts as to Wheeler's rank and commands. Wheeler stated that lie left Tampa for Cuba on the 14th of June. but had no knowledge of the plan of eanpaign Ibefore g-oing aboard the transport. On .June 2lst Shafter ordered him to dis embark the next day which lie did with a portion of his command. He rode into the country four miles that day and on the next day moved his troops to Jaguracita. Then lie began recon noitering. arranging with Gen. Castillo of the Cuban army to send troops with his men for the reconnoitre but the Cubans did not keep the engagement. le told of the first battle of La Guan imas, stopping to compliment especial ly the regular troops. and also to speak of their excellent firing. They soon learned to distrust reports and esti mates of the Spaniards. Gen. Wheeler had not been able on his own account to secure any accurate estimate of the Spanish loss during the American ap proach upon Santiago. Speaking of the proceeding after the first battle he explained that he had been reported siek. a! d that there were some nmovements just prior to the bat tle of El Caney with which he was not familiar. siCK BUT ON DUTY. "Iwas not sick,' "but had been on the 29th and 30th, still had not gone to the sick list. I 'had fever but I ap preciated the situation. took medicine and came out all right." lie was in the battle of El Caney, and expressed the opinion that more men were killed in the formation of the line than afterwards. "I ought to say, "said the general in the course of his testimony, "that it was magnificent to see officers of high rank go across rivers with packs on their backs, accepting all the fortunes of war with their men. They slept on the ground with the soldiers. None of us were mounted and we were without tents for several days." O L.D To sU FFER. Wheeler took up the common report that the Cubans stole the goods thus dis carded. It was not fair to accuse the natives, for there was so much of this flotsam and jetsam, that, hungry an~d p~oorly fed as the Cubatns were. they cannot be blamed for helping them selves. He had seen among the twen ty-two thousand People who came out of Santiago many ladies of refihement who were enmaciated and evidently hun gry, lie steted that lie never had heard of any shortage in commissary or ordnance supplies at Santiago. but lie been told that medical supplies were short. He had no personial knowledge on this point. As a rule the quality of hardtack was good. Th'le spirit of the army was such. lie said, that there was no disposition to complain. "They were all proud to be there and were willing to undergo hardships." SOKGN TIK A SOUTHERNER. Miss Hilli and the Title That Miss Winnie Davis Bore. A special from Richmond. Va., says: Miss Lucy Lee lill, daughter of Gen. A. P. Hill, whose nomination as the new '"Dauhte of the Confederacy" stirred up a tumult throughout the south. uponi the ground that there could never be a successor to that title. has written a letter to a frieiid here. in which she says: ''It has given me much pleasure to know how many friends I have in this matter of the sue ession to the title of the '1 aughiter of the confederacy.' It is an honor un sought by me, and with Geni. G ordt n I say the title should die with the original possessor. Winnie Davis. There cannot always be a D~aughiter of the Confederacy,' for I am the last one of a general's daughters to be born at that time. and with tme it would end. I am content as I am. a Confederate sol dier's daughter. You canl uiiderstand how I feel in regard to this matter. The notoriety of it has worrieu lilt greatly. If I could only wirite you as I feel. ~you would see how keenly this affair of' the 'Daugzhter of the (Confed rac' has distressed mie. I appreciate the fact that my friends sought thus to honor my father through me. but it was a miistaken kindness. I want you and through you. the 1R. E. Lee Camp. to kiiow that the whole affair has distressed me immneasurab'ly. and Ito that hieart-broken mother I extend my regret that the contro;ersy should have arisen." It is sweet to know in timie of' sor' ro that God's love changes not. I t is the samec in the brightne's an'd wh'en Ithe brightiiess changes into sloonm. It istht'm in jt y and wthien thle joy' turs t gref.It is .the~ -same when bessigs are givenl and when they are A SERIOUS CHARGE. Cet Tilma-n Prscu h or Cro-_ eity to Little NegrosC. THEY STOLE A PISTOL. And Were Severely Beaten to Ex tort a Confession. Preliminary Hearing Was Held in Co lumbia Wednesday Afternoon. Wild rumors were aflat Wediieday. The city was filled with stories of Lieut. Col. James 11. Tillman's crueltv in whipping three little negroes. Arthur Fair. .Jim Smith and an ther named Wiley. aued about 14 years. for steal ing a pistol from --l'ncle George. a trusted and faithful old negro servant who accompanied the First regiment on its travels. Capt. 0. K. Mauldin of Company 11, and Ieuts. Walter I. Dunlai. Company G, and Wade II. Ligon. Compaiy 11, were very active in preferring charges against Col. Tillman and swore out a warrant for a prelini nary hearing before Magistrate Clark The affair occurred Monday afternoon froim 5 until 7 o'clock. and the cries of the negroes were pitiful at the time, although they seem quite satisfied now. The'hcarinz waz to have been held at 4 o'clock. Col. Tillman and his coun:-el. B. L. Abney. Esq., appeared promptly at that hour and asked for '0 minutes in which to confer. At 4:30 the trial was commeneed in the court house. the magistrate's office being too small to accommodate the crowd. le fore the testimony was taken Col. Till man made a short statement. lie very much regretted this whole occurrence. The officers were ignorant of the fact that he could not thus be arraignd, but he waived all such technicalities. All that he asked was that the matter be sifted to the bottom. Then it would appear as it is-persecution not prose cution. Capt. 0. K. Mauldin. the first wit ness sworn, said that he was captain of Company 11. First South Carolina Volunteer infantry. He was sitting in his tent on the afternoon of October 4. His attention was attracted by the sound as of the popping of a whip. Stepped out of his tent and saw a crowd gathered around the examinimng tent near the spring. To satisfy his curiosity he walked down and saw them whipping a negro. Col. Tillman. who seemed to be directing the affair. told them 'to lay it on him until he tells where that pistol is.* Later another i negro was brought from the First bat talion. This negro was Arthur Fair. Under direction and by order of Col. Tillman some of the privates took the negro's I a-ts off and turned him across a barrel. Then a private named Rob ison by Col. Tillman's order took a strap. Ile was told to whip the negro until he told where the pistol was. They whipped him for some time. When one would get tired another took a strap. Under the pain negro screamed at different times and writhed off the barrel. Col. Tillman ordered the pri vates to put him on the barrel and hold him there and to choke down his screams. They grabbed the negro by the hands to hold him on the barrel. but he would rear up his feet to protect his body. Col. Tillman then put his feet on'the negro's feet. holding the ne gros down. Then a private volunteer ed to hold one of the negro's feet down. Col. Tillman holding the other. and the whipping was continued. The ne gro applied a vile epithet to some one in the crowd. There was some confu sion and he could not see everything. Col. Tilhnan said: "Who are you curs ing. you black scoundrel."~ He then told the men to "give him hell". and to hit him even if he did move his arms and legs. The negro screamed that he was cursing at a negro and not the colonel. A little bit afterward the boy exclaimed. "Colonel don't whip me any more. I will tell where I, or we, or~ he. (didn't catch the pronoun) "hid the pistol." The crowd then went to some place in the First battalion. near Col. Tillman's tent, but soon camne back with the negro and began whip ping him again. I left about that time. I had gotten enough of it. Lieut. J. HI. Grant of Co. C. was the second witness. lie said that on the afternoon of October 4, about 5 o'clock he went down to Col. Tillman's tent and found quite a crowd assembled, at tracted, as he ascertained, because Col. Tillman had had two pistols stolen from him. Asked Col. Tillman and he said that some one had stolen his servant's pistols. As different soldiers would come up Tillman would say that lie was glad that they had come, for lhe wanted two negroes whipped. lie told the two negres present. Wiley anid Jim. that if they didn't produce the pistols he would frail them. After sonme time Col. Tilhnan said. --All right, boys, lets take them out here and see if we cant make them tell where the pistols ar." .Jim's pants were taken down, le was thrown across a barrel and given a good whipping. During that time lhe implicated Arthur Fair. As soon as Fairs name was mentioned. he ran. the crowd pursuing and overtaking him. As they were struggling to put Fair over the barrel he outrageously cursed the soldiers grapping him. Each sol dier began to beat the negro. asking at the same time if he had reference to them. Col. Tillmian then asked them to let up on the negro. About this time the negro was sent to find the pistol which he had hidden. Witness went along with them. The pistol could not be found and they started back to the place of whipping. Lieut Grant then went to supper and knew nothing of the subsequent proceedings. When lie came Iback from supper they were still there and the negr~o J1im claimed that lie had pawned th'e pistol down town. Lieut. Grant then turned himi over to a man in his company. and told him to keep him until this morning when lhe came down town with the negro and fouud that he had not pawned the pistol. P. II. Hendrick. quartermaster ser eant of Co. II, testified that lie was attracted to the spot where the whip ping was in progress. A negro was stretched across a barrel, being whip ped. as stated. for stealing a pistol. Finally (Col. Tillman ordered the whip ping stopped. in order to let the negro id thle i stol. as lhe promised to do. They went to the colonel's tent and they couldn't find the pisttol. The ne gro was brought back and volunteered to lie across the barrel, protesting that lie knew nothing of the pistol. When the flogging commenced, he would rear up his feet and Col. Tilhuan walked deliberately around and stood on the necgro' ankles. After awhile they let upon the negro. In reply to questions C. Tillman never touched the boy er cpt when lie held his feet still. J.i Wa lter (ray. .Jr.. first lieutenant of C. F. testified as fdllows: About upper timen yesterday I heard some lick -an' screams and upon inquiring ... told that they were whipping a negro. At urst I thou It it was a. a I atenti-:m;.iwN~t.I down :001(; t~l t-IIm -wI Ip illre tant TIh tr wd ,t o tenrotthe tenlt ndcailne back., with u the pitl. ( lie tl d CoIl. a Till m a that they wouldn't let him look in tihe right tent. They kept on whippilgl all thilce (Of the neraes ill turn. After SIle tlilie the crowd threw *.a rolpe arouni the neck of the cross-eyed nle 11r1a attempted to hang hili. I pan beillg questiaole . id that Col. Tillman had nothing01) tit io with that part of it. Ile was then ill his tent. 25 vards a way. After further cross examnination Col. Tillman asked Lieut. Grav if he had ever been under arrest in vesi _tisted. Was satistied that Col. Tillman hald reference to Arthur Fair Since coming to Columbia. LiCut. Gray replied that he had. under telegram from the provost marshal az -Jackson ville. Col. Tillmuan asked him point blank if lie knew on what grounds, if not for drunkenness. Licut. Gray said that no specific charzes had been made. but lie had proof that he had been drugged. Col. Tillman asked if Grav had been drugged since. Arthur Fair said that lie lives in Vinnsboro. Went to Jacksonville with the Second regiment and came back with the First. Tuesday afternoon Col. Tilhman accused him of knowing! something of the stolen pistol and said that he would beat Iii until ie (Arthur) would never ;ee "sun-up" any more if lie didn't tell where it was. They put him down across the barrel and after Col. Tillman got off his feet Sergt. McFadden. of Co. D. stood on them. Cross questioned. lie said lie was 13 ears old. Left the Second regiment because they had too many servants in the reginient. Jloined the First regi mient at Jacksonville. Was whipped by Capt. Hardin. of Co. D, for giving bread to men in another company. le then attached himself to Co. B. Has been on changang four timhes in Ches ter county for stealing chickens. Ad mitted that the pistol was stolen from Col. Tillman's tent, but didn't steal it himself. When Jim said a boy on the other side of the hill stole the pistol Ile went back to the kitchen and they came and got him. Begged Col. Till man to let him loose and he would give him,, a quarter. (Laughter in court room.) Then got down across the bar rel and they began to whip him. Hadn't any desire to prosecute Col. Tillman. Came to town with some officers, waited for them at the street car gangway. Paid his own way. Ac companied by officers. went to Col. Alston's house and showed him where be had been whipped. He then showed the court the effects of his punishment. W. 1. Dunla p, first lieutenant Co. G, testified that lie was sitting in his tent when it was to!d him that Col. Tillman was giving some negrocs the devil." Walked over to where the whipping was going on. At the time they had just brought up Arthur Fair whom they began to whip. Col. Till man telling him that he would never seen sunrise unless he told where that pistol was. le presently promised to tell where it was and they went with him to get it. When they came back without pistol, they whipped him again. They then commeneed on cross eyed negro and lie (Dunlap) left. This ended~ the taking or evidence for the prosecution. Mr. Abncy stated that he had a number of 'witnesses whom he could produce showing dis Icrpancies in the evidence brought for ward.by prosecution. It was not legal to permit the'defense in a preliminary hearing to produce witness. but he thought such technicalities might be waived, as this was merely a case of humanity." Upon this being denied him. he said that he would let the ease rest with a statement from Col. Till Col. Tillman stated in the outset that he was willing to make his statement under oath. He had hoped that it would not be necessary for him to mke a statement. But as this prose ution seems to have been brought up more in order to give newspaper no toriety to the prosecutors. who could gain notoriety in no other way. he was forced to make a statement. as they refused to waive technicalities and let hini refute evidence with evidence. It was untrue that he had ordered this particular negro whipped. But he had ordered the whipping of this negro stopped. And now he had been pa raded up here today as a hippodrome. to prosecute himself. Two of his own serveants he had ordered whipped, and these two had told him today that they deserved their whipping, This is a long story and "will be continued in our next." He had stood persecution long enough. Hie had tried to conduct hiimsclf as a gentleman in this war. He had tried to treat every officers with utmost respect. and not being men enough they were now try in to strike huim over this poor negro's shoulders. All of these officers at the first muster-in had been his friends, and lie had hoped that as they were so soon to be mustered out. all little dif ferences of the past would be forgot ten. But lie would neither court their friendship nor fear their frown. There was only one "great crime" with which they could charge him beig responsible for having the regi ment mustered out. Threats of court martial had been made until lie was sick and tired of it. Wmhenl the courts niartial started, tile mills of the gods would grind slowly, but they would zrind exceedingly well. H~e would meet court-martial with court-martial. ie hlad been charged withi carrying a forged petition to Washington. That statement was untrue. lie had nothing to do with it except to keep it in his tert at night as others had been stolen. lie knew not whose name were or were no on the petition, lie suggested that if the regimient had gone to Cuba during active hostilities he would have fallen, if fall he must. with his face to to the front. leading not following. ie concluded salying: 'If nothirng I can do can appease you, if nothing I Ican say can please you. then do your worst, and by the eternal gods you will meet a foemnan worthy of your T Ihe case againist Lieut. Col. Tillman was dismissed. The opinion of Mlagis rate C'larksoni. as duly rendered. is that the evidence did not shiow the matter to be of enough import to war rmn hIm in sending it up to court. TILLMAN ARRESTED. AM~iitary Court Will Now Try the Lieutenant-Colonel. S-ensations are coming thick and fast in military circles, and the enad. in all prbblity, is not. No sooner had Lt. alTilman been discharged by tihe ai vil court this morning than lhe was arrested at thle Columbia hotel by thle military authorities and is nlaw contineiad o tle 'limits aoft the ciap at Geiger's Sprig. There is til guard olver Colon l iltm..th ai.rar for his arrest stated that h*- ,ut not I ea ctamp. pre-te.1by bent W:;ielhln ikid n !I, s 1 :ntI' !' rni",G n - :m-ut !n11 p f t ('-d.T h:. T arrest was :nadie by Aliuliai .Mm reported ti iI inI a carriagev and is there now. The chares are very severe. it pr ven. and the specification.s are based Oi the same grounds as wa.- the ciil trial. The first charge accuses Lieut. Col. Tilhuan i L con rduct unbecoming an olicer and a gentleman and is back ed by the specification that while tei porarily in charge of the camp he or dered enlisted men to beat, cruelly. a negro hoy named Arthur Fair. The second charge is that Lieut. Col. Till man has actel in a manner prejudicial to the g-uard of the service. The charge is fdlowed by the specification that Lieut. Col. Tillman not only superin tended the whipping. but actually took part in it. THE COUNTRY EDITOR. Some Charming Experiences in His Checkered Career. We do not know who made the fol lowing graphic statement. but he was evidently some one who had '-been there" himself. Moreover. he was the editor of a --country newspaper." as we are assured by the New York Tri bune. and if lie had written for a year lie could not have stated the case more clearly, and with such a wealth of philosophy: "The editor has a charter from the State to act as doormat for the com munity. iBe will get the paper out somehow. and stand up for the town. and whoop it up for you when you run for office, and be about your bigfooted son when lie gets a four-dollar-a week job. and weep over your shrivelled soul when it is released from its grasping body. and smile at your wife's so.ond marriage. Don't worry about the edi tor. he'll get along. The Lord only knows how-but some how." The News and Courier says that cov ers the case. and covers it all over. The country newspapers in this State do more hard and thankless service for their respective communities than all the offieeholders and professional sharps and gentlemen of leisure who were created for some purpose. we suppose. They work early and late. and ninety per cent of their work goes without re ward. It is a strange thing about the the newspaper business generally that most people do not regard it as 'busi ness" at all. Customers go into a store and pay for what they get. They do not ask for a pound of crackers, a bunch of ciagars. a box of candy. a bolt of cloth, or any of the many thousand things which are sold. but they ask the irice of the articles which they think they would like, and if the articles suit and the price is about what they can afford to pay for them. they pay for thei in cash. or "have it charged." It is not so with newspapers. If John Jones make a great speech, and it is re ported at length by a man who is paid for doing the work, and is printed in a newspaper which has to pay for putting the story in type, Jones would like to get half dozen copies of the paper for distribution among his friends. and Jones generally tries to get them for nothing. If the lovely Mrs. Brown Robinson has a tea and her parlors are crowded with the elite of the land, and the society re porter writes a charming account of the delightful social func tion. Mrs. Brown-Robinson would like to have ten or twenty copies of the pa per to mail to her out-of-town friends, and she would be shocked if anything should be said by the young man at the desk about so common athing as money in exchange for the par-ers, which she would obtain for the gratification of her own amiable wish to let her friends know how she figures in the great seeial swim. Several years ago, as we have been told, a newspaper printed a long story about the celebration of a military comn pany. It filled a great deal of space. and cost a good deal of money to put it in shape for the entertainme: of the reading public. It would seem that the newspaper had done its~full share in writting up the celebration, but the next morning, all the same. a request was made for a hundred and fifty copies of the paper containing the story for general distribution, and a hundred and fifty copies were worth, according to the prices prevailing at that time. exactly $7 50. Besides the expense of writing up the celebration, the newspa per was asked and expected to contribute 7.30 to the admiration fund of the company. When men die wvho have occupied a prominent place in the community. and who have done good work for tihe State or Church or Society in their day and generatiou. it is the invariable rule of newspapers to speak well of them. and to give an account of their lives. It would seem that in doing this the newspaper had discharged its full duty to the public and to the de eeased: but there are societies and or ders and organizations that would also like to make some public announcement touching the esteem in which the de parted had been held by his associates, and of how deeply they wonder at the insrtable decree of Providence which had removed their friend and associate, and their words of appreciation and sorrow arc strung out in tributes of re set which the newspapers are expect ed to print for nothing. We have known persons almost prostrated by surprise and inidignation when they have found that the newspaper attach es money value to such eulogies. It is in the religious press that the obituary writer finds the amnplest scope for his talents. and his work of ''emi bauing" the memory of (lie dead has been pursued with such activity that the religious papers hiave been compell ed for self protection to publish~ such reiders as the following which we tlke from the~ Sotuthern Presbyterian: 'Obituary notices not exceeding five lines inserted without charge. Excess over five lines, five cents per line." And it is a remarkable thing how many obituaries are published that do not exceed five lines. Otherwise our Church contemporaries would doubtless be compelled to double the size of their papers in order to hold such wordy' manifestations of grietf. than which there in nothing cheaper even in these days if five-cents cotton. We would like to suggzest to our weekly and daily contemplor'aries that possibly they are to blame for the value which the general public places upon their work. Newspapers are business enterprises just as mills and factor'ies. and stores. anld their stock in tr'ade is the paper which they sell to their eus toweirs, and such space as they offer t' advertisers. Newspapers are not:.niy torte4 by public appropriatlion5, thney are not endowed institutionis, thley hlave to live on the btusineS thait they do. and they should agi'ee among themselves -a .niii 4r ofding business. 1-very weekly ncwspaper in >outh Iarouva. we vonturte t. ay ianli I)' able It ctu: ti : a Ieii. ad H ENFORCING THE LAW. Chairman Haselden Gives Dispensers a Severe Warning. The action of the State board of con trol in closing the dispensary at Ches ter has been a subject of considerable comment. The action of the board sim ply sustained Chairman Ilaselden. who had previously ordered the dispen sary closed. In justice to himself, in view of the criticism. Mr. Haselden makes the fol lowing statement of the causes which prompted him to take such steps: The first monthly stock taking after 3r. McDaniel was elected dispenser. there occurred a shortage of 739.34. This happened under F. M. Mixson's administration and a suit for this amount was instituted against Dispen ser 1. Mel). Ifood' The trial resulted in their favor last summer. The citi zens of Chester who heard and are familiar with the case know that the suit was lost on account of the county board not doing its duty properly. In April, 1S98, Inspector H. A. Ed wards found Mr. J. 31. McDaniel dis penser at Chsster behind in his accounts to the amount of $46.60. which amount the dispenser paid. Having had a law suit there about a ,hortage of -739.34 and wishing to avoid another one, the following letter was sent Mr. McDaniel: Columbia. S. C.. May 12, 189S. J. 1. McDaniel. Chester, S. C. Dear Sir: I am instructed by the board of control to write you in refer ence to your shortage as dispenser at Chester. The board regrets very much to speak so plainly about this matter, but duty forces them to be plain with you and say that they cannot allow any further shortage. To say the least of it, with a faithful discharge of duty in a business-like way, there is no rea son for a shortage to occur, unless by tire or robbery, and let me beg that you guard against anything of the kind in the future, for forbearance will cease to be a virtue of the board. Very respectfully yours, (Signed) J. Dudley Haselden. Chairman. L. B. (From Letter Book "5." page In -June, the very next month, In spector W. .1. Hill found him short or behind $43.41, which amount the dis penser paid. It seems that kindly warning given him profited him noth ing, and in September, 189S. Inspector H1. A. Edwards again found him short or behind $90.34. which amount was paid. We do not know whether the county's profits on these shortages have been paid to the county or not. The inspectors who checked up Me Daniel reported that they do not be lieve him dishonest, but incompetent. careless or indifferent as to conduct of the dispensary in a business-like man ner. We do not charge him with dis honesty, but he has not conducted the business as it should be done and the board got tired of it. lie is not the first one to be dis charged and perhaps will not be the last. It is my intention to see to it that every dispenser shall do his whole duty, and if he fails to do so it matters not who he is. I shall ask for his re moval and. judging by the board's ac tion in sustaining me in ordering Mr. McDaniel's removal, I believe they will back me in this. I would not give this statement were it not for the article of the correspondent from Ches ter to The State a fews days ago. I want the people in Chester to know that Mr. . McDaniel was warned and begged to keep his dispensary business strait, but it seems he profited not by it and lie must take the consequences. ONLY SEVENTEEN KILLE. American Naval Record of Casualties in the Recent War. Seventeen sailors killed and S4 casu alties all told was the total loss suffered by the United States navy during the war. The figures have just been com piled at the navy department In Dewey's great fight in Manila bay, not a man was killed and every one of the nine men wounded was able and did return to duty. In the battle of July third off Santiago. one man was killed and there were 11 casualties al together. In that fight also every one of the wounded returned to duty. The loss suffered in the attack upon the forts at the entrance to Santiago by the American fleet June 22d was one sailor killedend 11 men were wounded of whom only seven were able to return to duty. The heaviest loss of the navy was at Guantanamo. There were 22 asualties in that one hundred hour fiiht and of the list six niariners were killed. Of the sixteen wounded nine returned to duty, three were invalided from the service and four continue un der treatment. Next after Guantana mo, the battle with the forts and gun boats otf Cienfuegos caused the greatest number of casualties. the list aggregat ing 12 with one man killed. Another man died subsequently from wounds, nine returned to duty and one continues under treatment. MIore fatal in its results was the fieree battle between the torpedo boat Wins low and revenue cutter lludson wit h the Spanish land batteries and artilterv forces at Cardenas. Of the eight cas ualties five were deaths. though three wou nded men afterwards retu rned to duty. In the bombardment ot San Juan. the casualties numbered eight with one man killed. One of the wounded men was in valided honme. while six returned to duty. There were four other casualties Oe eurrinig in as nmany a-parate engage ments. and that eompletes the list of naval losses. 0f the t; men wounded in the war. 54 were retui nd to duty. one died of wounds, six were invalided fronm the service and six continiue un der treatment. Considering results ob tained this list is said to be~ the most remarkable in the naval history of the world. Confederates Invited. Adjt. Gen. Mloorman. by order of Gen. John 1P ;ordon, commnending th. United Confederate Veterans, Wednes~dayn issued ant order stating tht an cordial fraternal letter had been recived 'at these hieadquarters from en. T. (.Clarkson. post commander o the (. \. Ri.. now manaiger of the ' rans-31i issippi international expo tin at Omaha. Neb.. inviting all Cof~edertes to attend that en position during "peace jubilee week." from October 1) to 15. and desires that this generous iinvitation be made known to all l'nited Confederate Vet 1eran camps. The Royal is the highest f,. ade bakiag powde' 4 knowe. Actual Item s how it goes oto third further than any -it;,r brand. POWDER Asolutcly Pure NOvAL. SAKftI POwDER CO., NEW YOM. The Tyranny of Trusts. In an address to the workingmen of Galveston on Labor Day Hon. J. W. Blake said: -I dislike very much to iiscuss this subject, because of all ien. I despise the demagogue who Anders to the prejudices of the poor Jy the abuse of the rich. 3it no n.an can note the encroachment of the imon ey power in this country --n the rights ol the individual without feeling that the time is approaching when the issue between plutocracy and the people will be forced to a trial. The world has never seen nor has the mind of man conceived such mirntulous wealth gathering as are every day tales to us. I do not denounce the rich. In most cases their money came and was acquir ed under forms of law. It is the abuse of this amazing power of consolidated wealth which brings the pressing dan ger. When a dozen men get together in the morning and fix the price of a dozen articles of common use with no standard but their arbitrary will and no limit but their greed or daring. and then notify the sovereign people of this free republic how much in the mer cy of their masters they shall pay for the necessaries of life. then the point of intolerable shame has been reached. Any syndicate or trust can arbitrarily add 25 per cent. to the cost of a single article of necessity and safely gather forced tribute from the people. Econ omists have held that wheat grown everywhere could never be cornered by :apital. and yet a man in Chicago by the name of Leiter, tied the wheat crop up in his handkerchief and held it until a laboring man in this city had to pay him 50 cents tax on the sack of flour which he bore home to his family at the end of his week's work. The Czar of Russia would not dare to do the things which are openly dene by th trusts of this free government of ours. My countrymen, no argument can de fend them and no plea excuse them when they fall on the men who toiling, yet suffer, who hunger at their work and who c "ten cannot get food for their wives with which to feed the infants that lies famishing at their breasts. Mr. -Jefferson foresaw the danger of this federal tendency and sought to avert it, but it has again been revived by the conditions of our times and has been aided by the government with its grant of enormous powers and its amazing class legislation. But what are you going to do about it? Let me urge you to protest with all the earnestness of your souls against the policy, the laws and methods that make these evils pos sible and instruct your representatives to work for the repeal of this vicious legislation.". This is strong language, but will any intelligent and unpreju diced man who has watched the opera tion of the great trusts say it is too strong?___________ Encouraging Statements. In his annual report just issued, Na tional Commissroner of Education Har ris makes some encouraging state ments. Among them is the increase of over a quarter of a million pupils dur ing the past year in excess of the at tendance during the previous one. Other notable features in his report are; that the total enrollment in ele mentary schools amounted to about fif teen and one-half million and the num br of studente in colleges, universi ties, academies and high schools was a'out 750,000 more; that, at the rate observed in 1897. the total average of schooling per individual for the whole United States amounts to very nearly five years of 201) days each. and that a little over one-fifth of the entire popu lation attended school at some time during the year. Perhaps the most noteworthy section in Commissioner Harris' report is that ini which he dwells upon the marked increase dur ing the past few years in the number of scientific and technical schools in the country. In the six years, he says, from 1890 to 1896 the number of stu dents in engineering and applied sci ence increased from 14.869 to 235% This shows the wide-awake practical sese prevalent among American pa rents. They arc equipping their chil dren to meet the multiplied demands that are being made daily upon the activities of our population in the field of material developmnen t. T wenty-fiv~e years ago parents. whenever able to give their sons the benefit of a colleire training, had them educated to be preachers. lawyers or doctors. Now they are opening new avenues of in struction in the higher mathematics. in scientific farming in enginceeris and in the wide and expanding field of commerce. ____ Surplus Revenue. The war taxes have yieldedi quite as much revenue as the conservative e'sti mates predicted. At the rate of re ceipts since these taxes went into ef fet they will yield at least $144.400,00I a year. The $200.000.00)0 borrowed by the government will give the treasure $344. 000.000 this vyear from extraordinary sources. It is believed that after all the expenses of the war hav'e been paid there will be an unexpended balance of $100.00.000 in the treasury. The war has giv en a most impressive illustra tion of' the financial lower of' our gov ernment. Nobody has felt the addi tional Federal taxation. which will bring in 8144.04)0.001) a year and there are many of' the war taxes which should be retained permanently. Certhinly the new taxes on beer and tobacco should be kept up. and there are sonie of the stamp taxes which should be kept up. We are, however, raising more revenue than is needed for the legitimate ex penses of the government and how to reduce taxation to the proper point will be the most important nuestion that congress will h-'ve to consider ait its next sesson. By all means the reduetion should be made in tariff taxat in. Tlhere arc many of the ncess aries of. life heavily r-axed now which should be free of duty., and many others which are made to pay an outrageous tariff. Another Hold Up. A special from Elyria. Ohi. says: Another l'old-upi occurred on the Lake Shore road west of' lucre. One g'ang of' tramps held up the oflcialis on a freight trai," .and ti.o- nevrythin in1 sigh1t.