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A RIELPFUL SERMON. Dr. Talmage Talks on the Com pensations of Sickness. A DISCOURSE TO INVALIDS. The Case of Noah and the Ark. Disasters Are God's Designs for Our Betterment. This discourse of Dr. Tahniwg,. which is helpful to all who idl life a struggle, is especially addressed to a class of per sons probably never before addressed in a sermon. The text is Genesis vii, 16. "The Lord shut him in. Cosmogony has no :uore itt resting chapter than the one which speaks of that catastrophe of the ages, the sub mersion of our world in time of Noah. the first ship carpepter. Many of the nations who never saw a Bible have a food story-Egyptinn flood story, Gre cian flood story, of which Ducalion was the Noah; Hawaiian flood story, New Zealand flood story, Chinese flood story. American Indian flood story-all of which accounts agree in the immersion of the cou'inents under universal rains. and that there was a ship floating z.thi a select few of the human family and with specimens of zoological and orni thological and reptilian worlds, al though I could have wished that these last had been shut out of the ark and drowned. All of these flood stories represent the ship thus afloat as finally stranded on. mountain top. Hugh Miller in hi "Testimony of the Rocks" thinks that all these flood stories were infirm tradi tions of the Biblical account, and I be lieve him. The worst thing about tha1 great freshet was that it struck Noah% Great Eastern from above and beneath The seas broke the chain of shells an< orystal and rolled over the land, anc the heavens opened theirclouds for fall ing columns of water which roared ani thundered on the roof of the great shil for a month and ten days. There wa one door to the ship, but there wer three parts to that door, one part fo each of the three stories. The Bibb account says nothing about parts o the door belonging to two of the stories and I do not know on which floor Noal and his family voyaged, but my nex tells us that the part of the door of tha particular floor on which Noah stai was closed after he had entered. "Th Lord shut him in." So there are man: people now in the world who are a thoroughly shut in, some by sickness some by old age, some by special du ties that will not allow them to go fort some surrounded by deluges of misfor tune and trouble, and for them I oftei rceeive messages, and this sermon which I hope may do good to others. i more especially intended for them. Te day I addrers the shut in. "The Lor shut him in." Notice first of all who closed th door so that they could not get out Noah did not do it, nor his son Shen nor did Ham, nor did Japheth, nor di either of the four married women wh -were on shipboard, nor did desperadoe -who had scoffed 'at the idea of per: which Noah had been preaching clos that door. They had turned their baek on the ark and had in disgust gon away. I will tell you how it was done A hand was stretched down from heave to close that door. It was a divn hand as well as a kind hand. "Th Lord shut him in.". And the same kind and sympatheti being has shut you in, my reader or m hearer. You thought it was an ace dent, ascribable to the carelessness c misdoings of others, or a mere "happe 30." No, no! God had gracious de~ng for your betterment, for the cultivatic of your patience, for the strenghthenlin of your faith, for the advantage yc might gain by seclusion, for. your ete * al salvation. He put you in a schoc room where you could learn in si months or a year more than you coul have learned anywhere else in a lif time. He turned the lattice or pulle down thie blinds of the sickroom, or pi your swollen foot on an ottoman,< held you amid the pillows of a coue which you could not leave, for son reason that you may not now unde stand, but which he has promised I will explain to you satisfactorily, if n< in this world, then in the world to comi for he has said, "What I do thou kno' est not now, but thou shalt know her, after!" The world has no statistics as to ti number of invalids. The physiciai know something about it, and ti apothecaries and the pastors, but wI can tell us the number of blind eye and deaf ears, and diseased lungs, a! engested livers, and jangled nerve at d neuralgic temples, and rheumat: feet, or how many took no food th morning because they had no appetii to eat or digestive organs to assimilati or have lungs so delicate they can< go forth when the wind is in the eas or there is a fog rising from the river,< there is a dampness en the ground< pavement because of the frost comit out? It would be easy to count ti people who evey day go through street, or the number of passengers en ried by a railroad company in a yea er the number of those who cross ti ocean in ships. But who can give i *the statistics ef the great multudinoi who are shut in? I call the attentic of all such to their superior opportun ties of doing good. Those of us who are well, and ca see clearly, and hear distinctly, at partake of food of all sorts, and quel tions of digestion never occur to us and we can wade the snowbanks, an take an equinox in our faces, an endure the -thermometer at zero, at every breath of air is a tonie and stimulus, and sound sleep meetsI within five minutes after our hea touches the pillow, do not makee much of an impression when we tal about the consolations of religion. TI world says right away: "I guess the that man mistakes buoyancy of nature spirits for religion. What does he kno about it? He has never been tried. But when one goes out and reports t the world that that morning on his wa to business he called to see you an found you, after being kept an yot room for two months, cheerful an hopeful, and that you had not one wor ef complaint and asked all about every body and rejoiced in the success ' your business friends, although you own business had almost come to standstill through your absence frr store or office or shop, and that you set your love to all your old friends an< told them that if you did not meet ther again in this world you hoped to mee them in dominions seraphic, with ~quiet word of advice from you to th man who carried the message about imi portance of his not neglecting his owl soul, but through Christ seeking somie thing better than this world could giv, him-why, all the business men i the counting room say. "Go Now, that is religion." And thi talk it t V. ~ zc r .! eooper :nd l-ka. standi on the dorstep. ay --That is sPIen did d w. that is what I call religion. it is a good tng to preach on a Sun day miornin . the people assembled in mio-t resiectable attirte and seated on soft cushions. the preacher standing in neatly upholistered lulipit surrounded by personal friends. and after an inspir ing hymn has been sonc, and that ser tuon, Is preached in faith, will do good. but the most effective sermon is preached by one seated in dressing gown in an armchair into which tie in valid has with .ueh care been lifted. the surrouning shelves tilled witi medicine bott les. somle to prtdluce l4etip some for the :elicf o" sudden proxysi. some for stinvulent. sonei4 for 1on:. some for anedync and one for febr fuge, the pale preavhcr Otoung pro mises of the Lospel. tellin of the tlories of a : iipathel i Christ. aSSur ine the one or two or three erso whO hear it of the tnighty re-entorcenents of reigion. You say that to such a sermon there are only one or two or three hearers. Aye. but the visitor calling at that roo'n, then closing the door loftly and going away, tells tlhe story, and the whole neighborhood hears it, and it will take all eternity to r-alize the grand and uplifting influence o:' that sermon about God and the soul, t i(.uh preached to an audience of only ane man or one woman. The Lord has ordained all such invalids for a style of usefulness which athletics and men of 200 healthy avoirdupois cannot affect. It was not an enemy that fastened you in that one.room or sent you on cruthes the longest journey you hye made for many weeks being from bed to sofa and from sofa to looking glass, where you are shocked at the pallor of your own cheek and the pinchedness of your fea tures: then back again from mirror to sofa and sofa to bed, with a long sigh saying, "How good it feels to get back again to my old place on the pillow Remember who it is that appointed the day when for the first time in many years you could not go to business and who has kept a record of all the weary days and all the sleepless nights of your exile from the world. 0 weary ma' 0 feeble woman, it was the Lord who shut you in! Do you remember that some of the noblest and best of men have been prisoners? Ezekiel a pris oner, St. John a prisoner, John Bun yan a prisoner. Though human hate seemed to have all to do with them. really the Lord shut them in. t Again, notice that during that 4( days of storm which rocked that shil on that universal ocean of Noah's tim< the door which shut the captain of the ship inside and craft kept him frorr many cutside perils. How those wrath ful seas would like to have got theil wet hands on Noah and pulled him out and sunk him! And do all of you o the great army of the shut in realize though you have special temptation which you are now, how much- of th outside style of tempation you escape Do you, the merchant incarcerated i, the sickroom, realize that every hour o the day you spend looking out of th window or gazing atthe particular fig ure on the wall paper or listening t the clock's ticks men are being wrecke by the allurements and uncertaintiss o business life? How many forgeries ar Scommitted, how many trust funds ar swamped, how many public moneys ar Sbeing misappropriated, how man; ebankruptcies suffered? It may be, iti very uncomfortale for Noah inside th Sark, for the apartment is crowded an< the air is vitiated with the breathing o so much human and animal life, buti is not half as badfor him as though h .c were outside the ark. There is not as yox or a camel or an antelope, or a sheel inside the ark as badly off as the proud r est king outside. While you are o1 the pillow or lounge you will make n< a bad bargains, you will rush into-no rasl a investments, you will avoid the mis takes which thousands of men as goo< you are every day making. rNotice also that there was a limit ti - the shut in experience of those ancien x marieners. I suppose the 40 days o d the desending and uprising floods and .the 150 days before the passengers coul< go ashore must have seemed to thos t eight people in the big beat like a smnal r eternity. "Rain-, rain, rain!" said thi h wife of Noah. ':Will it never stop? e For 40 mornings they looked out an< - saw not One patch of blue sky. Floatini e around amid the peaks of mountains t Shem and Ham and Japheth had t' , hush the fears of their wives lest the: - shoulddashagainst the projecting rocks a- But after awhile it cleared off. Sun shine, glorious sunshine! The ascend e ing mists were folded up into clouds s which instead of darkening the sk; e only ornamented it. As they looke< LO out of the windows these worn passen , gers clapped their hands and rejoice d that the satorm was over, and I think1 , God could stop such a storm as that h e could stop any storm in your lifetim s experience. If he can control a vultur :e in midsky, he can stop a summer b ,that flies in at your window. At th tright time he will put the rainbow o1 . cloud and the deluge of your mnisfni itunes will dry up. I preach the rdos )r trinle of limitation, relief and diser g thralment. At just the right time th e pain will cease, the bondage will dro! a the imprisoned will be liberated, th - fires will go out, the body-and mind as - soul will be free. Patience! An ol ' English proverb referring to long cot s tinued invalidisms says, "A ereakin gate hangs long on its hinges," and thi may be a protracted case of valetudina i rianism, but you will have taken th last bitter drops you will have sufferei the last misinterpretation, you wil feel the gnawing of the last hunger -you will have fainted the last tim, from exhaustion, you will have felt th cut of the last lanicet, you will hay. wept under the last loneliness. Th last week of the Noachian delnge came a the last day, the last honir. the as s momn nt. The beating of the rmin .o the roof ceased and the dashing of thi Sbillows on the side of the ship quieted andi peacefully as a yacht moves ou .e over quiet Lake Caynga, Comno or Lu t cerne, the ark with its illustrious p~is l sengers and imiportant freight glided t< d its mountain wharfage. 'l Notice also that on the cessation o: o the deluge the shut ins cama .ot. anm they built their houses and culturei i their gardems and started a new work~ .r on the ruins of the old world that hai !been drowned out. Though Noah livei 1 ~50 years after this woridif).e accideni -and no doubt his fellow passenasz sur f vived eturies, I warrant they nere e got over taiking about that voyage, Now, I have seen Jore's pictures and mny other pictures .'f the entranci t into the ark, two and two, .of the hu. man family and the animal .c;eatioz a into that shit which sailed bewe t two worlds, antediluvian world and the postdilvian world.but I never saw a pie eture of their coming out. yet their em - barkation was not more imnportatnt that 2their disembarkation. Many a ae -has entered a ship that never landed. Witness the steameir Portland, a short ime ago, with 100 souls on 'board, going down with all its crew and p'as sners. Witness the line of sunken of azul''n across the ocean deptlm frem Amrcrica to Europe. If any ship might expect cou1 plete wreckage the ore Noah commIanded might have expected it. Bu no. Those who embarked dis embarked: ()ver th plank reaching down th Side <, t le Irk to the Arne nian clifis 6n V.hich they had been stranded the procession descended. No other wharf felt so solid or afforded such attractiveness as that height of Arnrat when the eight passengers put their feet on it. And no sooner had the last one. the invalided wife of Japh eti. heen helped down the plank unon the rock than the other apartments of th, ship n-ere op(ned. ad such a dash of bird maria never filled the air as when the entire orchestra of robin ied pre-ast. and morning lark, and chailinchi. and mocking bird, and h iuse swallow took wine into the bright sky. while the cattle began to low and the sheep to bleat and the hor-s to neizh for the pasture, which from the awful submer genee had now begun to grow green and aromatic. I tell you plainly not. ing interests more in that tragedy from the first to the last act than the "exit" and the "exeunt," than the fact that the 'shut ins" became the "go outs." And I now cheer with this story a!l the inmates of the sickrooms and hospital and those prisons where men and wo men are unjastly undungeoned. and all the thousands who are bounded on the north and south and east and west b floOds, by deluges of misfortune amid disaster. The ark of your trouble, i it does not land on some earthly height of vindication and rescue. will land on the heights celestial. Meanwhile you have all divine and angelic sympathy in your infirmities. That satan thoroughly understood poor human nature was evidenced when in plotting to make Job do wrong, the great miaster of evil, after having failed in every other way to overhrow the good man, proposed physical distress, and then the boils came which made him swear right out. The mightiest test of charazter is physical suffering. Critics are impatient at the way Thomas Carlyle scolded at everything. His 70 years of dyspepsia were enough to make auy man scold. When you see people out of patience and irascible and lach remose, inquire into the case, and be fore you get through with the explora tion your hypercriticism will turn to pity, as.d to the divine and angelic sym pathy will be added your own. The clouds of your indignation, which were full of thunderbolts will begin to rain tears of pity. By a strange Providence, for which I shall be forever grateful, circumstances with which I think you are all famil iar, I have admission through the news paper press week by week to tens ol thousands of God's dear children whc cannot enter church on the Sabbatl and hear their excellent pastors be cause of the age of the sufferers, o their illness, or the lameness of foot, o their incapacity to stay in one positiot an hour and a half, or their poverties or their troubles of some sort will no1 let them go out of doors, and to ti en as much as to those who hear me ] preach this sermon, as I preach man: of my sermons, the invisible audienc< always vaster than the visible, some o: them tossed on wilder seas than thos< that tossed the eight members o: Noah's family and instead of 40 days o: storm and 5 months of being shut in as they were, it has been with thes< invalids 5 years of "shut in," or 14 years of "shut in," or 20 years of "shu in." 0 comforting God! Help me t< comfort them! Give me two hands ful of salive for their wounds! When w< were 300 miles c't at sea, a- hurricant 1struck us, and~ the lifeboats were dash 'ed from the davits arnd all the lights ii -the cabin were put out by the .rolling o the ship and the water which througi the broken skylights had poured in 1Captain Andr~ews entered and said t< the men on duty: "Why don't yot light up and make things brighter, fo we are going to outride this storm )Passengers, cheer up! Cheer up! tAnd he struck a match and began t< light the burners. fle could not si lence either the wind or the waves, bu by the striking of that match, accom panied b~y encouraging words, we werl allihelped. And as I now find many in burri canes of :rouble, shough I cannot quie the storrt I can stcike a match to ligh up the darkness, and I strike a match "Whom the Lord loveth he chasten eth." I strike another match, "Weer ing may endure for a night, but .io; cometh in the morning.,' I strike an other match, "We have a great Hig -Priest who can be touched with th, feeling of our infirmities, and he wa in all points tempered like as we are. Are you old? One breath of heave1 -well make you everlastingly youni again. Have you aches and pains fThey ins'ure Christ's presence and syu pathy through the darkest Decembe nights, which are the longest nights c the year. Are you bereft? Here is resurrected Christ whose voice is ful of resurrectionary power. Are yol lonely ? All the angels of heaven ar ready to swoop into your companion ship. Here is the Christ of Mary an< -Martha when they had lost Lazarus and of David when he had lost his son and of Abraham when he had lost Sa rh, and of your father and mothe when in time of old- age they parte< at the gate of th.etornb. When last I wa in Savannah. at the close of th~e Sabbatl morning service I was asked to go an< see a Christian woman, for manh year: an invalid. I went. I had not ir, a] that beautiful city of splendid men an< gracious women seen a face brighte: than hers. Reaching her bedside, put out my hand, but she could .no shake bands, for her hand was palsied I said to her, "How long have you beem down on this bed? She smiled ani made no answer, for her tongue ha( been palsied, but those standing around said, "Fifteen years." I said to her "Have you been able to keep your cour. age aip all that time?" She gave a very little motion pf her head in affirmation, Ifor her whole body 'a paralytic. The sermon 1 had preachned that poring had no power on others compared witli the power that silent sermon had 0n me. What was the secret of her con quest over pain and privation and inca pacity to move? Shall I tell ycu the Isecret? I will tell you. The L~ord shut her in. i t do not think that heaven is made up of ani idiscriminate population. Some of my friende ;pe so generous in their theology that tme ivpmd Ite everybody in without reference to, ea dition er character. Do not think that libertines and blasphemers and rejiecters of God and his gospel haveo "letters of credit" that will draw anything from the bank of heaven. Pirate crafts will ot be permitted to go up that harbor' if ere are those who as to heaven are to be "sh:;t ins. there are those who will belong to. the "stut oda." Hca;' *en has 12 gates, and wihiie ?hs is gates imply wide open entrance f -i' 1hse who are properly prepared to en ter tima they imply that there are at least 12 possibilitiea that many will be shut out, because a gate is of na mse unloss it can sometimes be closed. Show your tuskets or ou :iet ;'t -tici.t3 th.t you T; 'et without money or price. tickiet; aih a vron and a crown upon then:. Let, the un repentant and the vilc and the offseour ings of earth enter heaven as they unw are. and they would depreeiate and de uoralize it so tim:t Io lne of us would want to enter, and those who are there would want to ruove out. The Bible speaks of the "withouts" as well a.s the "withius" - Revclation xxii. 15. "ithout are dlogs, a ' srcerers. and whoremongezr, and imurderers. and idol aters. and who:soever loveth and maketh a lie." Throu.:h the conve:tinz, par doning, Fanietifyinr .eraen (of God may we at last be found a:nring the :,hut ius and not among tht. shut out-' AT RIS OLD PLACE. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee On.ce More Lands on Cuban Soil. T;he Un ited S :ateS transport Panama. withnGe. Fitzhie.-h Lee and his staff on br.arI, entered the liarbhr of Havana Wednesniay mornting. General Lee was informed by a cor respondent of the Associated Press of his appointneht as governor of the province of llabaria. le said he was much gratified, but had only wished or a military command. The ceneral add ed that he is siiply in command of his soldfiers. that his duty is to pres rve life and property, and ti at he proposes to do -o with equal justice to Cubans, Spaniards and persons of all other na tionalities. Gen. Lee added that he had nothing to do with the establish lishment of any sort of government, and that his duties were confined to fi ing the fiag of peace and order. The headquarters of Gen. Lee will be established at Quemada camp, Mari anao. Many prominent personal friends called on the General when he arrived here, including Gen. Greene and Capt. Chadvick of the United States cruiser New York. Laterin the day Gen. Lee and his staff, accompan ied by Gen. Greene, in the tug Brit tania, started for Vedado, where he re ported to Gen. Wade. Thence Gen. Lee went on horsebact- to Quemado camp. A batalion of the Tenth infantry was landed from the United States trans port Saratoga Wednesday and marched with band playing and fiags flying. to Marianao. The soldiers were followed by crowds of people. At every street corner Spanish troops were stationed. There was some enthusiasm in the Cer ro suburbs. The troops which arrived here on the Michigan and Panama are all well. The transport Florida also arrived here Wednesday with the Eighth regu lar infantry, and is discharging quarter master's stores at the pier at San Jose. The Michigan and Panama will land their troops Thursday evening. They will march to the Quemado camp al Mariannao. Painting a Town Red. The town of Monek's Corner over ir Berkeley was recently painted red by s man named Jolly in true Western style. The following account of the little frolic was taken from the Berkeley Free Presg: "W. T. Jolly was arrested foi dirorderly conduct, and using profane language. After some difficulity he depsi oe up. He was released on deoi f$10, for his appearance be fore the Intendant, the same being put up by a friend. He was arraigned befori the Intendant on Tuesday, but refused to plead to the charge until the amoun1 deposited for his appearance was turnec over to him. The Intendant statei that he (the Intendant) was responsible to the party who had put up the mo'lel and therefore could not deliver it t< Jolly. Mr. Jolly thereupon refused t< be tried and walked out of the Couri room. When the Marshal attempted t< arrest him he drew asun and defied th< Marshal or anyone else to approaci him. The Intendant then swore oul a warrent before M~agistrate Lindsay 'who arrested Jolly and placed him un der bond for trial next Wednesda: for resisting arrest. Mr. Jolly the! took possession of the town antil late hour in the night, denyinig anc defying the authority of the town, an~ judging from the frequent and heav: discharges from his gun, one woukl have imagined that the town was un dergoing a bombardment from? a flee of war vessels." Times Have Been Worse. SIt would be hard to make any one to ,day believe that cotton has ever beei lower, and times harder than they ar now-but suen~ is the case. Fifty year or more a go, cctton was not only lower but the prices of goods were a great dea higher. If you doubt the above reac the following fromn the Sumter Herald Through the kindness of a gentlemat living in this county we can here repro duce the items of a bill, which it wil be interesting to study. STwo bales of cotton were sold b: estate Win. H. Peebles to H. Levy or Dec. 17, 1814, the bales weighing 302 and 283 lbs. respectively. The pric< paid was 34 cents per pound, the whol! amount being $19.94. Goods were bought from the merchant as follows 1 sack salt, $2.00; 20 lbs. sugar. $2.20 4 wool hats, 23.50; 2 gals. N. 0.. mo lases, 90 etc., and other items in pro portion. Jt will be seen by this, that when compared with by gone days we are not so badly off after all-things might be and have been wore, and yet the people survived. Christmas Presents for the Poor. In your Christmas purchasing do not be tempted to forget those who, be cause of their poverty, are unable to do any shopping either for themnselves, or for others. Let your presents to them be of a substantial character-a ton of coal, some warm clothing, some money, a box of groceries, or a basket of Christmas marketing, topped with a bunch of holly. And to the little chil dredj in whose homes Christmas is little more tian a rnei, seid smo 1f' the many bright new 'tin toys which are so inexpnsire; some candy, some fruit. bright red woolen mittens and Tam o' Shanters, and if you can afford it, some good stout shoes and warm stockings. A piece of bright-colored plaid will make a pretty gift for the little girl who has never, perhaps, had a new dress in her life. Accompany your Christmas presents with some cheery 3hate gentings and some Christ mas greens. ige v.'m gare that this thoughfulness will bring its feward. nd that in the years to come the mem ory of the Christmas when you gave most and received least will be the hap piest of all memories to you. NeQt a Lega1 Traae. Tlhat .gewark, N.~ J., woman who per mted herself to be sold by her hus band to another fellow and forthwith married the purchaser, got rid es a worthless husband bi~t alzo got into trou ble, fora i married the other fellow vithout a ,reliminary divoree, and is CONFERVNCE APPOINTENTS. The Methdist Preachers and Their Fields of Labor. iBelow is givcn the oomplete list of the appointments of the South Caroli wa Con'fcrence (if the Southera Metho dist Church: CIAR.ESTON DISTRICT. A. J. Stokes. presiding elder. Allendale-A. J. Cauthen Jr. Beaufort-A. B. Earle. Berkeley-W. i. Thrower. Black Swamp -W. C. Kirkland. Charleston-Trinity, J. W. Kilgo; .Bethel. H. W. Bays; Spring Street, S. P. H. Elwell. Cumberland-J. M. Steadman. Colleton-II. C. Mouzon. l Iardeeville-R. W. llumphries. llarleyville-E. M. McKissick. llamipton-R. L. ITolroyd. llendersonville-) luck. MeClellanville-J. F. Way. Ridgeville-J. L. Ray. Summerville-G. P. Watson. St. Gergcs Station-W. B. Dancan: St. Georges Circuit, W. T. Patrick. St. Stephen's-D. A. Patrick. Cypress-0. N. Rountree. Round O-E. K. Moore. St. l'aul's-W. R. Buchanan. Port Royal-R. E. Turnipieed. Walterboro-W. M1. Duncan, S. A. Weber. Chaplain Second regiment, S. C. V P. A. 31urray. COKESBURY DISTRICT. G. T. Harmon, presiding elder. Abbevile-J. W. Daniel. Antreville-S. W. Henry. Butler-W. C. Winn. Ckesbury-J. C. Chandler. Duunald's-W. B. Wharton. Greenwood-R. A. Child. Kinard's-J. J. Stevenson. Lowndesville-W. S, Stokes. McCormick-W. T. Duncan. Mt. Carmel-Henry Stokes. Ninety-Six-W. L. Wait. Newberry-W. I. Herbert; Newberry City Mission, J. W. Speak; Newberry circuit, D. Tiller. Parksville-J. C. Holley. Phoenix-M. M. Brabham. Princeton-E. G. Price. Prosperity-W. H. Arial. Saluda-A. S. Leslie Verdery-G. R. Shaffer. Waterloo-S. T. Blackman. Rector of Cokesbury Conference school, Peter Stokes. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. E. T. Hodges, presiding elder. Batesburg-A. C. Walker. Columbia-Washington street, W. R. Richardson; Marion street, S. H. Zim merman; Green street, and Brookland, J. E. Mahaffey, J. W, Neeley; Rich land and Granby, J. C. Abney; Edna wood, N. K. Melton; Hyatt's Park to be supplied. Edgefild--R. C. McRoy. Fairfield-M. L. Banks, Jr. Fort Motte-J. C. Welch. Graniteville-N. G. Ballenger. Johnston-Jno. Owen. Langley-J. H. Noland. Leesville--J. F. Anderson. Lewiedale-J. R. Sojourner. Lexington-W. M. Harden. Lexington Fork-J. N. Wright. Ridgeway-A. R. Phillips Upper St. Matthews-J. W. Arial. Winnsboro-J. D. Crout. President Columbia Female college, J.A. Rice. President of Paine and Lane -Insti tute, Gee. W. Walker. Editor Southern Christian Advocate, Jno. 0. Wilson. Superintendent Epworth Ophanage, G. H. Waddell. F'LOJRENCE DISTRICT. Florence District-Marion Dargan presiding elder. Cheraw Station--H. J. Cautnken. Cheraw Circuit-J. Br. Weld~on. Claussen-M. II. Pooser. Clyde-J. S. Abercronzbie. Darlington Station-C. B. Smithi Darlington Circuit, G. W. D.avia. Florence Station-?. XL. Kirton. Georgetown Statiozn-J. L. Stokes; Georgetown Circuit, J. .A. Wh~ite, Hartville--J. W. Humbert Jonsonville-G. F. Clarkson. Kingstree Cirquit--W. H. Martin. Ikake Cirewit-W, H. Kirton, Lamar--G. M. Boyd. Ljane's-0. L. Durrant. Salter's-R. C. Boulware. Soranton-J. M. Lawson. South Florence-R. M. DuBose. Timnmonsville-R. W. Barber. Union-A. E. Holler. GREENVILLE DISTRICT. J. B. (Wilson, presiding elder. Anderson-St. John's, W. W. Dan iel; West End, S. B. Harper. Easley and Bethesda-J. E. Rush ton. Fountain Inn City-J. W. Shell. Greenville-Buncombe Street, W. A. Rogers; City Mills, D. W. Relior; St: Paul's, M. 13. Kelly. Greenville Circuit-J. C. Counts. Greer Circuit-J. C. Roper. Iva Circuit-Supplied. McLure Circuit-I N. Stone. Newry Circuit-To be supplied. North Pickens Circuit--C. W. Bur gess. Pelhami and Batesville--4. 1.- BLob: erson. Pelzer--T. 1*. Henb.erL. Pickens Cirwit-J. S. Porten Piedmont--T. C. Ligon. Rliedsville-C. H. Clyde. Seneca and Walhalla-J. IL. Daniel. Starr Circuit-0. M~. Ahney. Townville-L. L, Inabinet, Traveler's Rest-J. P. Attaway. Walhalla Circuit-H. W. Whittaker. Westmiinister Circuit-R. R. Dag nail. West Piekens Circuit-J. L. Mul linax. Williamston Circuit-R. G. Martin. Williarnston and Belton-P. F. Kil go, A. W. Attaway supernumerary. Assistant Sunday School Editor-L. F. Beattey. Willianmston Female Coleg-.. Iazn der, D. D, W. C. Power, presiding older. Bayboro-L. M. Merritt. Bennettsville Station-C. W. Creigh ton. Bennettsville Circuit--A. J. Cau then. Blcnheim-R. E. Stackhouse. Brightsville-W. B. Baker. Britton's Neck-T. B. Reynolds. Bucksville-M. W. Gatlin. Centenary-G. R. Whittak. Manmng-supernumerary. Conway Circuit-W. E. Barre. Dillon Station-C. C. Herbert Latta-J. E. Beard. Little Roc J. ~. A. CampbeHl. T~d -. L. Wiggins. Marion Station-T. E. Morris. McColl Station-T. L. Helyk. North Naihoro-W. S. Geodwin. Waeeamnaw-D. A. Calhoun. North Mullins-J. F. McKin, R. N, Rodgers, supernumerary. ORtANGEBU~,Q BIGTRICT'. R. B.. Brown, presiding elder. Aiken-A. J. Stafford. Bamberg-T. C. Udel. Barnwell-W. A. Wright Branchville-W. A. Betta. Boiling Springs-J. D. Frierson. Denirark -W. W. Williams. Edisto-J. C. Younge. Lower St. 31atthew's-M. W. Hook. Orangeburg Station -E. 0. Watson. Orangeburg City Mission-E. Z. James. Orange-E. A. Wilkens; T. E. Wan namaker supernumerary. Providence-C. D. Mann. South Br.Lnchville-D. Z. Dantzler. Springfield-G. E. Stokes, M. M. Ferguson supernumerary. Swansea-J. T. McFarlane. Wagner-I. H. Smith. Williston-J. C. Davis. Orangeburg Circuit-E. P. Hutson. ROCK IIILL DISTRICT. J. 13. Campbell. presiding elder. Blacksburg Circuit--D. M. Mceod. Blackstocks Circuit-B. P. Ingra ham. Chester Station-J. E. Grier. Chester Circuit-J. B. Traywick. Chesterfield Circuit-A. F. Berry. East Chester Circuit-W. H. Miller. Fort Mill Circuit-R. A. Younge. Hickory Grove Circuit-B. M. Grier. Jefferson Circuit-L. L. I Beden baugh. Lancastar Station-J. E. Carlisle. Lancaster ireuit-G..C. Leonard. North Rock Hill Circuit-J. Barr Harris. Richburg Circuit-J. C. StAll. Rock Hill Station-J. S. Beasley. Rock Hill Circuit-J. H. Thacker. Tradesville Circuit-Allen McFar lane. Yorkville Station-A. N. Brunson York Circuit-S. H. Booth. Van Wyck Circuit--R. E. Mood. SPARTANYBRG DISTRICT. W. P. Meadows, presiding elder. Belmont-S. D. Vaughn. Cliftoh--R. W. Spigner. Cherokee-W. J. Snyder. Clinton-J. L. Harley. Campobello-A. H. Best. Enoree-J. M. Friday, Gaffney Station-W. H. Hodges. Gafiney Circuit-S. T. Creech. Jonesville- E H. Becham Kelton- Isom. Laurens Statiou-X H. Jones. North Laurens Circuit-D. P. Boyd. Pacolet Station-E. S. Jones. Pacolet Circuit-S. A. Nettles. Santue-C. B. Burns. Spartanburg-Central, M. L. Carlisle; Dancan, W. A. Fairey; Mission, E. B. Loyless. Union-Grace cburch-W. W. A. Massebau; Second church, E. H. Shu ler. Whitmire-W. B. Justus. Laurens City Mission-J. W. Shell. SUMTER DISTRICT. T. J. Clyde, presiding elder. Bethany-G. H. Pooser. Bishopville-K P. Taylor Camden Station-J - Thos. Pate. Camden Circuit-W. B. Verden. Foreston-F. Speer. Jordan-W. A. Pitts. Kershaw-J. G. Beckwith. Lynchburg-E. W. Mason. Manning-P. B. Wells. New Zion-W. E. Wiggins. Oswego-N. B. Clarkson. Richland-T. J. White. Heath Springs-D. A. Phillips. Santee-A. T. Danlap. Smithville-J. H. Graves. Sumter Station--.J, A-. Clifton; Mag nolia Street Misaion, W. A. Kelly. Sumtep Circuit-S. D). Bailey, Wateree-J. E.'Strickland. Wedgefeld-J. R. Copoliand. The Qolored College. A meeting of a sub-committee of the colored college wSieh is located ini this city was held in Columbia Fri day night. President Miller submitted his report, which makes a splendid sho.wing for the institution. The re port shows that there511 students in attendance, of both sees The report divides them up as to religious persua sion, which shows that the Methodists come first with over 200; then follows the Baptists and Presbyterians and other denominations, but none have such representation as the Methodists and Baptists. There is one Catholic and two Episcopalians. By states.there is a student from New York and three or four from North Carolina and. Geoi gia. President Miller goes into details as to what has been accomplished in improving buildings, and suggeats an appropriation to heat the buildags by steam, instead of stowe which are a constant source of datager. One steam heater of ordi~na!y espacity can heat all the buildi s, anud its establishment will mate* doorease the insurance rat~ S, e estimates that the college wal seed $26,000 to properly run it the next year and asks for an appropriation to that amount. This amount vi)] in-. elude what comes from the 1jstch and Scrip fund, which goga to the college and the appropriatica from the state treasury will not npeessarily be larger than that heretofore made. The report shows hatsplendid work has been done in~ the various industrial departments, sAnd the president says that students not o~nly 'take a great interest in this pat o the work, but are anxious and willing to learn. The students are pre pared to he able in life to have some nseful occupation by which they can make an honorable living. President Miller has accomplished great things in his management of this college, and the colored youth of the State are for tunate in having access to such an in stitution with such a competent man at the head of it. ,Tealousy Led to Kurdet. A double murder was committed Wednesday in a conu church two miles out from Mia City, Mo. Miss Della Clevea r~ was shot down mortal ly wouned and her escort to the meet ing house, George Allen, was instantly k4led. The murderer was Ernest Cle venger, ouis to the young woman who was one of his victims. The tragedy occurred immediately after the congre gation had been dismissed, as the wor shippers were leaving the church. Young Allen and Miss Clevenger were walking out together. Ernest Cleven ger slipped up oehiand them, placed a revolver close tQ, Allan's head and fired. His victing, feEi dead at his feet. The assasrin tuaaned the weapon upon his fair young tousin, shooting harin the back. She fell across th.e body of- her murdered escort. The murderer es caped. Jealoiway was the cause. Hilton s. Iodoform Liniment is the "'nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in re moving sorer~eas, and quickly healing fresh cuata and wounds, no matter how had. it will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the pois on from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes an stings of insects. It is a, sure eure for sore throat. Will cure. any case of sore mouth, and is a supe rior remedy for all pains and aches Sold by druggists and. ded.ers 25 cents a hatule FOWDER Makes the foodmore delicious and wholesome soYAL oW eWV CO., NEW YOK. IN DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE. WAYS AND MEANS. To the Friends of Our Cause-Through the action of the Democratic Nation. al Committee, the undersigned have been appointed a Committee on Ways and Means to begin work, now, for the campaign of 1900, and desire to Uue the fol lowing address upon the work we have undertaken: Money to meet expenses is as necessary in securing justice for the people In the trials of great political issues before the jury of the whole people, as ft Is necessary In the case- of a litigant securing a fair and Impartial hearing before a court and jury. In the latter instance a suitor without money Is Unable to employ counsel of ability, take needed depositIons, and make other legitimate preparations requiring the expenditure of money; and when thus situaed, if opposed by a wealthy adversary, he frequently fails in securing justice by being unable to fairly and fully present his case to the court and jury. And while this Is true of the individual In a court of justice, On a much larger scale it Is true of a great body of people contending for the cause of . truth and liberty. Money must be raised to pay the necM Y expenses, or our cause will meet with an adverse verdict in 1900. The forces opposing us have four active national committees, to whom money is supplied by those profiting by national legislation and the corrat ed ministration of affairs. One of these committees Is the so-caed Nation& Democratic Gold Standard Committee, at the head of which Is Mr. George I. kpabody, a New York banker. Another is the Indianapolis Conmittee. te outgrowth of the Indianapolis gold standard commercial convention, at t1a1 head of which is H. E Mauna, who Is Insidiously working through com bodies, seeking to frighten them into compliance with the behests of the power. The third is the banker. organization at 52 Williai street, : York, that is supplying free of expense to all willing newspapers mindU{ arguments In favor of the gold standard; and the fourth is the Natonal Se publican Committee, of which Mark Wannn is chairman, and to whom the trusts, monopolies and other combinations are furnishing the money for .... rupting the minds of the people and debauching the nation. If we are to combat the evil influences at work the necessary money be raised to defray the nadesary expense thereof. We appeal to the people the great common people-who have no interest In special legislation and rights and that of the common welfare are to be protected. All money collected will be paid to the national treasurer of the nes The Union Trust Company Bank, corner Dearborn and MNadison streetWsamlie No money will be paid out except as appropriated by the committee bX inkU V. deliberating upon Its expenditure. We have appointed Mr. W. I. Harvey the general nmrer of the work of the cosmnittee. The plan adopted and approved by the committee is to secue a' subci tion from as many persons as possible to pay one dollar per month ft month from now till October, 1900. Thus a person subscribing to the fad at Ways and Means Committee in October, 1898, will agreb to pay one do~dr month for twenty-five months, or In all, 32. One subscribing in lowing will agree to pay one dollar each month for twenty-four the last pqyment due Oct. 1, 1900. A subscription in December, 1MI,. twenty-three payments the last Oct. 11900. and so on. The nmbr t ments depends on the month and year in which the subscriptIOn is da all ending on the first day of October, 1900. Where one is wlling and able pay more than $1 per month, the subscription will be accepted for' anch. creased amount as the subscriber is willing to make. Where one is .t.i his judgment, to'subscribe one dollar per month, he will be expected to get or more-to associate themselves with him jointly in the subscription ht one dollar per month. It Is the opinion of the comnittee that It Is-on1AynI way that the money needed can be raised-that It must come from the pople whose rights and Interests are to be protected. The offices of the committee have been opened at room10KD, Unity Beimng Chicago, where a complete set of books will bekept showing the name 74a. subscribers with their postoffiee address by counties and Stat 1andt tion of each account will at all times appear upon these books :.n no will solicitors be authorised to receive money. Anyone solid 11 will receive no money from the subscriber,. but will forward the 7 papers to the national office. The national ofee will notify thee the receipt of 'his subscription and will forward blanka governing the '~ of remittances to the national treansurer. It is from the sincere advocates of our cause everywhero thatsus O to this fund for human liberty are expected, and, on the whole, asam ant may be thus raised to properly present our catse to the -A meran: eoK~ which means success for a just cause is doubly strung. To those who ap3R elate what hangs upon the Impending struggle, the payment of the on-dular) each month will assume an Importance equal to that of love for home and.~ clhildren. The fund thus collected may decide for weal or woe our own faind that of countless millions to come after us.- j The selfish system of greed that has mothered the gold standard, speciai privileges and monopoly, Is destroying the opportunities flor the enjoi et-Cfi life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! It Is cneang our mnsats ducing the people to tnantry! It is quartering among 1:s the agents of Sig lish money lenders who are coming Into the posession of the title tocr-ad and the business industries of the nation! It Is destroying bumacaci and lowering the standard of morals and religion? It-respects nm'mu or age! The babe in the mother's arms, thB aged and enfeebled, the boy $just bud ding Into manhood are, all alike, through poverty existing *or threstened, b victims of its rapacity! Honor and patriotism, a decent self respect and2OvO e of country demand Its o$'erthrowl Our future and that of posterIty 1 i. volved! Our cause appeals to the manhood and womanhood of Amerlis A blank subscription form will be found herewith. Wea *buat ehrad er cut It out, fill up the blanks and send It at once to W. E. a..dtVEZ, Gen eral Manager, Rooem 2044, Unity Building, Chicago ID. yAMES K. JONES, ~ONP LGW Chairman Democratic National E-oenro l~~~~ Committee. I .AL . WM. J. STONE, Ex-Governor of Missouri. HENRT E. TErLEIt, ,, Senator from colorado PAY NO MONEY TO SOLICITOS. All Money Is Payable to Treasurer of the Committee Only. . For the purpose of promoting the cangs' of Elmete111sm and of carry ing on the necessary work to overthirow the un-American and corrupt gold standard domination of this country, and, in consideration of the fact that others are mnaring similar suscriptions for this purpose, I hereby agree to pay to .THE WAYS AND ME ANS COMMITTrEE, com posed of Senator James K. Jones, of Areansas; ex-Governor Win. 3. Stone, of Missouri; ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of llinis- Senator Win. V. Allen, of Nebraska, and Senator Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, and their successors, the following sums, to wit: One dollsr for the pres ent month, and one dollar for the first day of each succe~ding month, to and including the first day of October, A. D. 1900; in a11l....... Pa ments of one dollar each. This money to constitute a special fund, to 4be paid out only on the approval and order of said committee. DT.................................,.. .........Sgnature) 1 OST3 TE...... ............ CORETNTMBE....,......,... COU TT........................ POIJTICS--..................--eI Name of paper this was cut out of.1 Cut-out, fill up blanks and mall to W. H. Harvey, Geersl Manager, 1044 Unity Building, Chicago, Ill On recelit of the suiberiPtion, direc tions will-be sent you how to remit. We Had No Traitors. C~onfedein generals and the Confed The Atlanta JThorual goes for the eate' soldiefs were otafraid o n which enttle the "eart ofMaryland," unfortunate figure for a scarecrow. He ciyhb as justy been produced in that was the victinm of the most colossal de ity basedrynpoor company. This play feat of the' war. No army in modern wh ate onth Confederate svar and is times ever got, a more complete licking wha ma betermed a war play. The than Hook'ri forces received at Chan Journal says it is false in its history cellorsville, and if Stonewall Jackson and has not a bright line in it. In it~ had been shot a few hours later-"Fight we see a Confederate emionei and a ing Joe" and his whole~ army would southern youth of noble birth acting as have been marched before him as pri raitors to the Confederate cause. No soners of; war. The man who wrote such characters ever existed. The "The-Heart of Maryland" should read onfederacy had no Benedict Arnoldhitrbnupislaadaooge and no decent southern boy ever be htory bun oupbi laane.oog rayed a cause for which his kinsmen toa ....d ui.. ere fighting and his mother and sister Gm. H. V. Boynton prints in the uffering. The few men in the south New York Sun a two column article worthy to be called men who. could not contrasting ChiickamagaL in 1863 with ipprove secession enlisted in the Union Chickamnauga in 1898. He recites that rmy; they did not wear the glorious T~ederal and Confederate army fought ~ray and sneak to the enemy with in- .and marched -four days without tents ornmation as to the plans and move- -with scanty ra~tions, alternately soake nants of their comrades, nor did the :and scorched and made no complaint; >lack bar of treason ever rest on the whereas ,the army of this yeari well >row of a southern boy. Another abh- tented, abundantly rationed and with urd thing in "The Heart of Maryland"' -comforts t be sold:iers of the sixties s the holding up of Joe Hooker a~s a never drea. ped of had complained of error to the Confederate army. The .hardships.