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AN EASii l0TER Dr. Talmage Draws Inspiratior from the Field. ANGELS OF THE GRASS. Lessons Whicth the Flowers Bring to the Anxious. the Dispiritd and the Be reaved. In this Easter Derreo. D-. Tah.ac interpretb the message which :he ow ers bring to the anxious, the dispirit(u and the Lereaved; tex:, Luk- xii, 2S "If then God so clothe the grass, is today in the field, and tomorrow is east into the oven. how n:ueh mor, will he clothe you, 0 ye of littl~ faith?" The lily is the que'en of Bible flow ers. The rose may have disputed her throne in modern times and won it, but the rose originally had only fye petals. It was under the long contmuea and intense gaze of the world that the- 1oSe blushed into its present beau:y. In the Bible train, cassia anid hysop and frankinecense and myrrh anud Spikenard and camphor and the rose follow the lily. Fourteen times in the Bible is the lily mentioned, oly twice the rose. -The rose may now have wider empire, but the liv reigned in the tim.e of V-4 ther, in the time of Solomon, in the time -f Christ. Caesar had his throne on the hills. The liY had her throne in the valley. In the greatest sermon that was ever preached there was only one flower, and that a lily. The Bed ford dreamer, John Bunyan. entered the house of the interpreter and was shown a cluster of flowers and was told to "consider the lilies." We may study or reject other sciences at our option-it is so with astronomy, it is so with chemistry, it is so with jurisprudence, it is so with physiology, it is so with geology-but the science of botany Christ commands us to study when he says, "Consider the lilies." Measure them. from root to tip of petal. Inhale their breath. Notice the grace fulness of their poise. Hear the whis per of the white lips of the eastern and the red lips of the American lily. Belonging to this royal family of lilies are the li:y of the Nile. the Japan lily, the Lady Washington of the sier ras, the Golden band lily, the Giant ily of Nepaul, the Turk's cap lily, the African lily from the Care of Go~d Hope. All these lilies have the royal blood in their veins. But I take the lilies of my text this morning as typi sal of all flowers, and their voice of floral beauty seems to address us saying "Consider the lilies, consider the aza leas, consider the fuchsias, consider the geraniums, consider the ivies, consider the hyacinths, consider the heliotropes, consider the oleanders." With defer ential and grateful and intelligent ana worshipful souls, consider them. Not with insipid sentimentalism or with sophomoric vaporing, but for grand and practical and everyday, and, if need be, homely uses, consider them. The flowers are the angels of the grass. They all have voices. When the clouds speak they thunder, when the whirlwinds speak they scream, when the cataracts speak they roar, but when the flowers speak they always whisper. I stand here to interpret their message. What have you to say to us, 0 ye angels of the grass? 'Ihis morning I mean to discuss what flowers are good for. .fhat is my subject, What are flowers good for? I remark in the first place, they are good for lessons of God's providential eare. That was Christ's first thought. All these flowers seem to address us to-' day, saying: "God will give you apparel and foo~d. We have no wheel with which to spin, no loom with which to weave, no sickle with which to harvest no well sweep with which to draw water but God slakes our thirst with the dew, and God feeds us with the bread of the sunshine, aud God has appareled us with more than Solomonic regality. We are prophetesses of adequate wardrobe. "If God so clothed us, the grass of the field, will he not much more clothe you, o ye of little faith?' Men and women of worldly anxieties, take this message home with you! How long has God taken care of you? Quarter of the journey of life? Half the journey of life? Three-quarters the journey of life? Can you not trust him the rest of jhbe.way? God does not promise you -anything like that which the IRoman emperor had on his table at vast. ex pense-500 nightingales' tongues--but She has promised to take care of you. He has promised you the necessities, not the luxuries-bread, not cake. If God so luxuriantly clothes the grass of the field, will he not provide fer you, his living and immortal children? He will. No wonder Martin Luther always had a flowex on his writing desk for inspira tion! Through the cracks of the prison floor a flower grew up to cheer Picciola. Mungo Park, the great traveler and ex plorer, had his life saved by a flower. He sank down in the desert to die, but, seeing a flower near by, it suggested Ged's merciful care, and he got up with new courage and traveled on to safety. I said the flowers are the angels of the grass. I add now they are the evangels of the sky. If you ask me the question. '"What are flowers good for?" I respond, they are good for the bridal day. The bride must have them on her brow, and she must have them in her hand. The marriage altar must be covered with them. A wedding without flowers would be as inappropriate as a wedding without wusie. At such a time they are for congratulation and prophecies of good. So much of the pathway of life is covered up with thorns, we ought to cover the beginning with orange blos SODS. Flowers are appropriate on such Oc casions, for in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases it is the very best thing that could have happened. The world may criticise and pronounce it an in aptitude and may lift its eyebrows in surprise and think it might suggest something better, but the God who sees the 20, 40. 50 years of wedded life be fore they have begun arranges for the best. So that flowers in almost all cases are appropriate for the marriage day. The divergences of disposition will become correspondences, rockless ness will become prudence. frivolity will be turned into practicality. There has been many an aged wid owed soul who had a carefully locked bureau, and in the bureau a box, and, in the box a folded paper, and in the folded paper a half blown rose, slightly agrant, discolored, carefully pressed. She put it there 40 or 50 years ago. On the anniversary day of her wedding she will go to the bureau, she will lift the box, she will unfol'd the paper. andu to her eyes will be exposed the half blown bud, and the memories of the past will -h upo her a a tea wil drop POU the iewer. :-l -Udiy t i tautLieured, and thcre is a stir in the dust of the autLer. and it rounds out. td it i, full of life, and it begins -o treiuble in the procession up the church aisle, and the dead music of a half cen tury ago cone:. throbbing through the :i), and vanlished faces reappear and riaht hands ate joined. and a manly -voice pronises. -I will, for better or fur worse. ana i e wedding march auuders a salvo of joy at the depart ai crow. but a si'gh on that anniver - dav scatters the scene. Under the deep retoned brcath the alt. Ahe er the calv'ratulatin- groups arc ,eat t , ada tlbere is nothing left but a tremblinzi hand ho.lin.g a faded rae Iud, ' liC is put into the paler anti hen into the box, ana thme 1,ox carefal y p iaced n the ureau. mid with a harp, sudden click of tle lock the scne is over. Ahm frnd';, let not the prophe iesk of the SOwerSon your wedding day * e raise proi Be blind to each .her's fault. )Make the most of each it h . excellerce-s. Remember the vows, the ring on the third finger of the ieft hand, and the benedietion of the I calla lil'es. I you ask me the question, "What arc flowers good for?" I answer, they ,Are good -o honorand cornfort the obse 'muiCS. The worst gash ever made into the side of our poor earth is the gabh of the grav(. It is so deep. it is so cruel, is e miurable, that it needs some thing to cove it up. Flowers for the ca-Ke, flowers fur the hearse, flowers for the cemetery. What a contrast be tween a grave in a country churehyard, withti the fence br'-ken down and the tomb.tone aslant and the neighboring eattle browing amid the tiuleiu stalks and the Canada thistles, and a June MUorniing in Greenwood. the waxe of roseate bloom rolling to the top of the mounds and then breaking into foam in: crests of white flowers all around the pillows of dust. It is the differ ence between sleeping under rags and sleeping under an embroidered blanket. We want old Mortality with his chisel to go through all the graveyards in Christendom, and while he carries a chisel in one hand we want old Mortality to have some flower seed in the palm of the other hand. "Oh." you say, "the dead don't know: it makes no difference to them." I think you are mistaken. There are not so many steamers and trains coming to any living city as there convoys com ing from heaven to earth, and if there be instantaneous and constant com munication between this world and the better world, do you not suppose your departed friends know what you do with their bodies? Why has God planted goldenrod and wild flowers in the forest and on prairie, where no hu man eye ever sees them? He planted them there for invisible intelligences to look at and admire, and when invisi b!e intelligences come to look at the wild flowers of the woods and the table lands, will they not make excursion and see the flowers which you have planted in affectionate remembrance of them" When I am dead, I would like to have a handful of violets-any one could pluck them out of the grass, or some one could lift from the edge of the pond a water lily-nothing rarely expensive, no insane display, as sometimes at funeral rites. where the display takes the bread from the chil drens' mouths and the clothes from their backs, but something from the great democracy of flowers. Rather than imperial catafalque of Russian czar, I ask some one whom I may have helped by gospel sermon or Christian deed; to bring a sprig of arbutus or a handful of China asters. It was left for modern times to spell respect for the departed and comfort for the living in letters of floral gospel. Pillow of flowers, meaning rest for the pilgrim who has got to the end of his journey. Anchor of flowers, suggesting the Christian hepe which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast. Cross of fl1'wers, suggesting the tree on which our sins were slain. If I had my way, I would cover up all the dreamless sleepers, whether in golden handled casket or pine box, whether a king's mausoleum or potter's field, with radiant or aromatic arborescence. The Bible says, "In the midst of the garden there was a sepulcher." I wish that every sepulcher might be in the midst of a garden. lIfyou asked me the question, "What are flowers good for?" I answer, 'For religious symbolism." Have you ever studied Scriptural flora? The Bible is an arboretum, it is a divine conserva tory, it is a herbarium of exquisite beauty. If you want to illustrate the brevity of the brightest human life, yout will quote from Job, "Man cometh forth as a flower and is cut down." Or you will quote from the psalmist, "As the flower of the field, so he perisheth; the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." Or you will quote from Isaiah, "All flesh is grass, and the goodliness there of is as the flower of the field." Or you will quote from James the apostle,.. "As the flower of the grass. so rhe passeth away." What graphic Bible symbolism: All the cut flowers will soon be dead, whatever care you take of them. Though m'orning and night you baptize them in the name of the shower, the baptism will not be to them a saving ordinance. They havme been fatally wounded with the knife that cut them. They are bleeding their life away: they are dying now. The fragrance in the air is their departing and ascending spirits Oh, yes: Flowers are almost human. Bot anists tell us that flowers breathe, they take nourishmeaIt. they eat, they drink. They are sensitive. They have their likes and dislikes. They sleep, they wake. They live in families. They have their ancestors and their decend ants, their birth, their burial, their cra die, their grave. The zephyr rocks the one. and the storm digs the trench for the other. The cowslip must leave its gold, the lily must leave its silver, the rose must leave its diamond necklace of morning dew. Dust to dust. So we come up, we prosper, we spread abroad. we die, as the flower-as the flower! Chageand decay in a'.1 around 1 see; O hu h changest not, abide with me: Flowers also afford mighty symbolism of Christ, who compared himself to the ancient queen, the lily, and the modern queen, the rose, when he said, "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valler." Redolent like the one, hum ble like the other. Like both, appro priate for the sad who want sympathi zers and for the rejoicing who want aqueters. Hovering over the mar riage cerem ony like a wedding bell or folded like a chalet on the pulseless heart of the dead, () Christ, le-. the perfume of thy name be wafted all around the earth-lily and rose, lily and rose-until the wilderness crimson it-to a garden and the round earth turn into one great bud of immortal beauty laid against the warm heart of God Snatch down from the world's banners egeand lion aad put on lily and rose, lily and rose Uut, my frieu4ir, 1we1 have no zrauder use than when Cin Easter iorn ing we celebrate the 7canimation .f Ch ist froi the caracombs. The tiv ers spell resurretin... There is not f k or corner iU 11 the building 1-ut is tou1ched with the ncn! The mn carrier spes it) the tonb If Christ, and they dropped spidce all arouand abi-u:- the tombh and fromii tlhese spices have grown al! the tlowers of Eas ter imoiru. The two white robed ange-s that hurled the stone away fromu the door of the toib liurled it With such violence down the hill that it rushed in the door of the worhi's :epulcher. and uil Hions of fi agments came forth. 1lowever labvrinthine the nmuso!i ium. however costly the sarc'phagus, however architecturally arand the :c erololis, however beautifully p-arterred the family grounds, we vant them all broken up by the Lord of the resurree in. The forms that we laid away with our broken hearts tault rise again. Father and mother. the!y mius, eiONe out. 1usband and wife, they IIItt come out. Brothers and I-s , they must come out. Our darling children. they must come out. The eyes that with trembling fingers we closcd must open in the luster of resurrection morn. The artus that we folded i ndeath must join ours in ermbrace of reunion. The be loved voice that was hushed mlust bo returned. The beloved form iui it corme up without its infirmities, with out its fatigues. It must comne up. Oh, how long it seems for soie of you! Waiting, waiting for the resurrection. IHow loug. how long! I make your bro ken hearts today a cool, soft bandage of lilies. : comifort you this day withi the thought of resurrection. When Lord Nelson was burid in Nt. Pail's cathedral in Londot, the he:trt of all England was stirred. The pro cession passed on amid the sobbina of a nation. There-were 30 trunipeters sta tioned at the door of t he cathedral, with instruments of music in hand., waiting for the signal, and, when the illustrious dead arrived at the gates of St. Paul's cathedral, these 30 trumpeters gave one united blast, and then all was silent. Yet the trumpets did not wake the dead. He slept right on, But i have to tell you, what 30 trumpeters could not do for one man, one trumpeters will do for all nations. The ages have roll ed on, and the clock of the world's des tiny strikes 9, 10, 11. 12. and time shall be no longer! Behold the archangel hoyer:ng! TT takes the trumpet, points it this puts its lips to his lips and then I one long, loud, terrific, thunderou - verberating and resurrectionary Look. look! They rise! The de the dead! some coming forth fron :he family vault, some from the city , - tery, some from the country grave., trd. Here a spirit is joined to its body. and there another spirit is joined to anD ier body, and millions of departed spirits are assorting the bodies, and then re clothing themselves in forms ra int for ascension. The earth begins to burn-the bonfire of a great victory. All ready now for the procession of reconstrueted human ity! Upward and away! Christ leads, and all the Christian dead follow, ba talion after battalion, nation after na tion. Up. up! On, on! Forward, ve ranks of God Almighty! Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates and let the conquerors come in! Resurrection! Resurrection! And so I twist all the festal flowers of the chapels and cathedrals of all Christendom into one great chain, and with that chain I bind the Easter morn ing of 1899 with the closing Easter of the world's history-resurreotion! May the God of peace that brought again fro.m the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will. Beauties of Divorce Law. The more we see of the workings of divorce laws in other states the proud er we feel that South Carolina has no such law on her statute books. Re cently over in Savannah a divorce ease was tried that shows this law up in its most disgusting and degrading aspect. The case was brought against Judge H. D. D. Twiggs by his wife. Mrs Twiggs was a Miss Cornelia Dennis, of Char leston, S. C., and married a man in Greenville by the name of Harrison, from whom she got a divorce. Accord ing to the facts as we find them in the Charleston Evening Post the story of the marriage and after life of Judge and Mrs. Twiggs is as sensational and romantic as Rider Haggard could have imagined. Judge fwiggs was a prom inent lawyer in Augusta, with a large and happy family. His fame as a crim inal lawyer permeated the entire coun try. Mrs. Twiggs was then a resident of Charleston, S. C. She wanted a di vorce from her first husband and en gaged the judge as council. Ie was successful and the divorce wt e iante~d: but, Cupid had been at work and .-ui-' Twiggs emerged from the suit to fird himself in love with his fair clhent. He at once set about freeing h'mself fromt his first union; he went to Dakota and secured a divorce. Then he and his new love were at once united. Thcy moved to Americus, G a., then located there, remaining two or three years. Mrs. Twigg3 was the social queen of the toiwn. 1Her beauty, her brilliant intellect and many accomplishments gave to her the admiration of all ac quaintances. Then came sensations. challenges, talked of duels, internal strife, and so on, until Judge Twiagr decided to change his residence to Sa vannah. It was thought that they were living happily together and that peace and tranquility reigned supreme in their home. But it transpires that they have been separted since last fall, and Mrs. Twiggs seeks a total separa tion with alimony, allegiug as her grounds eruel treatment and brutal abuse. But behind this divorce suit there is a story that Mrs. Twiggs has found a "new love" in the person of a distant relative-a young man of prom inence and wealth. We can not vouch fr4 its truth, but we know that it is ao ing the rounds and is credited by many. Could anything be worse than this! How any man who believes in the sanctity of the home and marriage re lations can favor a divorce lhw U, K s face of such facts as above set i. rd is beyond our comprehen-i-n. TuE navy depaitment is beuding forth every energy to the hurrying of ships and sailors to Manila. It is in answer to a telegram that was received last week from Admiral Dewey. The admiral explains that with the force at hand, it is impossible for him to patrol the Philippine islands, or even those on which the war is being waged with suc-h vigor, sufficiently close to keep out arms and ammunition. It seems that the Filipinos have ilenty of money and the conditions are such as to make the proposition of sellingr enn traband of war an inviting one. The probability is that all the avalable na val force that can be spared from this oa-itry will be sent to Mauila. Butia! of t'e Heroes Who Died for their Country. AN EVEN 7~ AT ARLINGTON. Thre2 Hundred and Thirty.Six Forms Laid to Rest. The Pre.sident and Other High Officials There. Whih fulli Imiu:or-s of wa;:r. Upon the Ciest of tof southern slope of Ar ingtoc cemetery 'Thursday af t'rnoon, t natkioi. represcoted by P'ra~ident vvKiley. :is cabinet and tler inhdmaianes (f the govern ten, the cmaiiig general of the army and other distinguished officers, all the regular and militia organizations of the i triat and a vast concourse of 15i,00 people. paid the last tribute of honor and rcspcct to the bodies of 336 oiliccrs and men who gave their lives C-n dis:at batefilds for their country during the Spanish-Auiericau war and who were Thursday imustered into the aile nt armly that slceps in the last biv onac 6f the brave. The spot selected ii tle newr additioni to the cemetery looking out upon the broad sweeping PO tom:e. Ii this burial lot, which covered two cares in extent. in parallel rows the wouden to'xs containing the caskets were ranged, st parated by great munt0:ids of etrth. Over each box an American tiag, was draped. There was NO particular order in the disposition of reniaiu:.. thougi. an exception was made inl the caset of oTicers. The boxes con ta.icin the boiies of Capt. Edgar Hu bert. of the Eighth U. S. infantry: ie. L 1. Darnett, Ninth U. S. in aUtry; Lieut. Wi. Wood, Twelfth U. S. infantry: Lieut. R. S. Turman, Sixth U. S. infautry, and Lieut. Fran cis Creighton. U. S. volunteer signal corps, were placed at the head of the line of graves, immediately under the eye of the presidential party. Of the others fully 70 per cent. are ide':tified. kbout 2U per cent. are wholly unknown .#r known by the regirrant to which they belonged. A platform had been erected, enclosed with flags and draped in mourning to accommodate the dis tinguished personages in case of incle meut weather, but the day was an ideal one, and the platform was practically unoccupied. Long before the arrival of the military thousands of people had surrounded the enclosure where the dead soldiers lay. At 2:30 the presidential party, which had been caught in a jam at the Poto mae bridge, from which it required a dozen mounted police to extricate them, reached the enclosure. They were fol lowed by Gen. Miles and his staff, the military escort. As they arrived the solemn strains of the Dead March in Saul silenced the vast assemblage, and with heads bared the crowd stood at the graveside while the presidential party advanced and the military dispositions were made. The military was under the comm-and of Col. Francis L. Guen ther, antd consisted of the District Na tional Guard, the light battery with two Hotchkiss guns, a battalion of naval militia and the regular troops from the arsenal at Fort My ..r. The troop's were formed upon three sides of a rectangle and files of soldiers were march'.d into the ranks of the dead. F'iankin'r the open space at the head of the grass were the red-coated artillery men who were to fire the last salute and on the left was stationed the Fourth artilknoy band. The presidient, accompanied by Sec retary Gage. Secretary Long, Postmas ter General Smith, Secretaries Hay, Hitchcock and Wilson, Assistant Sec retary Taylor, G-en. Corbin, C-en. John M. Wilson and Col. Bingham, came forward with uncovered head and took his place in the open space facing the graves. Hie was followed by Gen. Miles and his staff ini full uniform and other distinguished guests, including some of the representatives of fereign countries. Just as the president arrived a pa thetic incident occurred when aged Mr. and Mrs. O'Dowd pressed through the lines and placed a bunch of roses on the casket of their son, John O'Dowd, of the Seventh infantry. The parents of' Lient. Wood also came forward and deposited a beautiful wreath of flowers and the sword of that gallant officer upon his casket. lImmedliately the band broke out in the sweet strains of "Nearer My God to Thee." and Post Chaplain C. WV. Freehand of Fort Monroe. in the eccle siastical robes of his office, with Rev. Fathier McGee of St. Patrick's church, followed by three purple gowned aco lytes. advanced to the graves and the :uileral services began. They were '.er: sim ple butt very impressive. 11-. F-reeand read the military com mnitty ser- - of the Episcopal church beginning wih \Ian' that is born of womain" and ce-elding with the prom ise of heaven ecined in the words "'I a:n the resurci,,. and the life." As he pronounee the'ic~ w ld/at to dust, earth to earth," the sodirs at the side of each grave eruabl-d a ehod of earth upon each easkt. The vast coneourse bared their heads to thle solemn w.,rds and scene and thousands joined in the Lord's prayer. Rev. Father McGee then consecrated with the churchly power invested in him the earth into which the bodies of thle Catholic s.ldiers were pclaced. Moantinme from Fort Myer, booming down the wind. caine the dull crack of a gun every half hour and the national ensirns on the staffs there and at the Lee mansion wore run down to half mast. As soon as the religious services had been conlcltuded flanking detach ments of the Fourth and Fifth artillery fired three ear-smashing, soul-uplift ing volleys and in the solemn hush that "taps. Thle last ri ous and military rite~s to the del- her s .cere over andi the '-ni t adie military d . a the- work of actual in tement t f \ . each of the cas kets we gh ome .~MO pounds and re quirecs eigh-t mien to handile it. it will be two or three days before all the bodies are in their graves. Wircless Telegraphy. The United States war department is to make a test of Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy over a six mile space within a few day!. One instrument will be located on top of the depart merit building in Washington, and the other at Fort Myer. a near-by military port. Should the exp~eriment prove successful. it is understood that the systemU will be at oncce adopted by the signal service ot the army. In that event, t isc>ssible that the new nmeth od of sinlig will be employed in the Philippines before the end of the eamn paign ther-. PROMISES TO FILIPINO. The American Commissioners Issues a Proclamation. The Nc-s York Journal's Manila cor respondeut says the cardinal prinei Ples of the Pliilip:.ine conm::ssaoners proclamation are: First-The supremacy of the United States must and will be enforced throughout every part of the archipela go. and those who resist it can accom plish no end other than their own ruin. Second--To the Philippine people will be granted the most ample liberty and self-government reconcilanie with the maintenance of a wise, just, sta ble. effective and econoIical adminis tration of public affairs. and compati bit with the sovreign and international rights and obligations of the United States. Third-The civil rights of the Phil ippine people will be guaranteed and protected to the fullest extent; relig Lous freedom will be assured and all persons shall be equal in the eyes of the law. Fourth-Honor, justice and friend ship forbid the use of Philippine people or the island they inhabit as an object or means of explbitation. The purpose of the American government is the wei fare and advancement of the Philippine people. Fifth-There shall be guaranteed to the Philippine people an honest and ef fective civil service in which, to the fullest extent to which it is practical. natives shall be employed. Sixth-The collection and applica tion of all taxes and other revenues will be pleed upon a sound, ecnnomical ba sis, and the public funds will be applied only to defray the regular and proper expenses incurred by and for the estab lishment and maintenance of the Phil ippine government, and such general im. provements as the public may demand. Local funds will be used for local pur poses. Seventh-A pure, speedy and effect ive administration of justice will be es tablished, whereby may be eradicated the evils arising from delays, corrup tions and exploitation. Eighth-The construction of roads, railroads and similar means of commu nication and transportation and of othr public works, mAnifestly to the ad vantage of the Phili, nine people will be promoted. Ninth-Domestic and foreign trade and commerce, agriculture and other in dustrial pursuits, tending toward the general development of the country, in the interest of the inhabitants, shell be the objects of constant solicitude and fostering care. Tenth-Effective provision will be made for the establishment of schools. Eleventh-Reforms in all depart ments of the government, all branches of the public service and all corpora tions closely touching the common life of the people will be untertaken with out delay, and effected conformably with right and justice in a way to sat isfy the well founded demands and the highest sentiments and aspirations of the people. An Arrant Humbug. A special diopatch to the Chicago Tri bune from Omaha, Neb., credits J. Sterling Morton, formerly a member of Cleveland's cabinet, with the intention of forming a new political party, which he declares will be the greatest politi cal organization since the formation of the Republican party. Discussing the proposed new party and the sidelights likely to develop therefrom, Mr. Morton says: "I have the utmost faith in the plan. A party will be organized July 4 that will stand for conservatism pre eminently. No doubt the platform will contain some elements common to all parties; but the .keynote will be conser-. vatism. There is a vast field for the new party's operations. The late war and its monotonous issues, the struggle of the two great parties over bimetallism, the rise, the decline and absolute decay of Populism, all these elements contri bute to a situation as pregnant as those which gave birth to the Republican par ty on the approach of our civil strife." If J. Sterling thinks he can humbug anybody with his new fangled mana gerie he is mistaken. He was one of the most active of the Assistant Re publicans in 1896, but he sees that the dodge that was used then will not work~ again, so he gets up a new scheme to humbug the people in the next election with the hope that it will aid as did the gold bug Democratic movement in 1896 in the election of a Republican President. Of all the political quacks and humbugs that have come to the sur face in the last few years J. Sterling takes the cake. But his race is run, and he ought to try and reconcile him self to the fact. Like his old political boss who dicovered him and imposed him on the Democracy he is a back number. He may quack occasionally as above, but he is a back number all the same. The Christian Endeavor. The following reduced rates have been fixed for those who wish to attend the meeting of the Christian Endeavor at Union April 19, from junctional and principal points named: Abbeville.....-. ....-. ......$4.30 Anderson.......... .-........ 465 Augusta...-..-. ........ ...... .50 BAn nettsville......--......-2.95 Blacksburg..-.-...-........-.-..3.00 Calhoun Falls.... .. ........ 4.90 Camden....... ....... ...- .-. 6.50 Carlisle ........... ........... 65 Catawba Junction. ..... .... .2.65 Charleston.................. 9.10 Charlotte....-.. ....... ......4.S5 Cheraw....- ... ..- .... ...... .70 Chester....... ....... ....... 1.50 Clinton........ ......- ..- ....2.15 Columbia....... ....... ...... 3.25 Darlington....... ...... ......6.70 Denmark.......... .......... 6 00 Fairfax........ ....... ....... 710 Greenville....... ...... ....-. 3.00 Greenwood.....- ... ......... 3 6 Lancaster.......... .......... 3.00 Laurens....... ....... ....... 2 85 Newberry............... ..32 Orangeburg...... ...... ...... 6.00 Prosperity......... ......... . 2.75 Rock Hill.................. 2.45 Spartanburg......... ......... 1.50 Sumter........... ......... 5.50 Yorkville...b.........-.....,.2.65 Tickets to bsodA pril 17, 18. 19 and 20, with final limit April 24, 1899. Ironclad forms not required. Ex-MaYR Strong of New York, told the Credit Men's Association of that ity the other day that he had lost less money dealing wita firms that were not worth anything than with those that were reported to have large capital. This is but another illustration that after all, honor and not money is the safest thing to bank on and that in al loting credit it is the man rather than th money which should be looked a NOTED SURRENDERS. THEY HAVE BEEN A FEATURE OF ALL GREAT WARS. The Two Fanions Ones That Occuvred During the Revolution-Evon the Great Washington Was Forced to Surrender Once-Some Other Instances. The surrender of tht- Spanish army under General 'Toral at Santiago was one of the biggest events of the kiad, as regards nuibers, that nr.ve ever occurred on this continent. Siall de tachients of troops cooped up in a fortitied lae are often comapelled to surrender during a war. lnlt whel whole arnies give up the (nil is gen (rally in sight. There are miauy imOs sut.renders in our national history. Thimre werC two notable on-s durin"g the 'evolution, one in the middl of the war -md one at the end. At Saratoga, on October 17, 1777. Ihurgoyne surrendered to Gates 0,01) men. 5.i00 muskets and a large (uanliltity of amnnunition aml ennol. le began his invasion of th" colon'es from Canada in . iune. intit ing to go down the IlIds.mi ani spar:te New England from New York. On October 1.), 1781. Cornwallis sur rendered 7._.00 men to Washington, which ended the war. The shins and 3.501) seamen were turnel over to the French. There was a surrender in this war which is fit to be ranked with .he Ala mo and rL ort Pillow. Fort ;riswold, defending New London. Conn.. was surrendered to Arnold. thr traitor, by Colonel LedIyard. Th he commandant and his sixty men were put to the sword after they had given up their arns. This was in September. 1781. The raid on the New England coast had been undertal:en by tlhe British with the hope of diverting Washing ton's attention from Cornwallis. Even the great Washington was forced to surrender once, thougn not in this war. It was in the French and Indian war, and Washington was com mandant at Fort Necessity. His forces had shed the first blood of the war. having defeated Jumonville at Great Meadows, forty-five miles from Fort Duquesne. Two months later Wash ington himself was defeated by De Vil iers at Fort Necessity, which h.e had built at Great Meadows. At the end of ten hours' hard fighting Washing ton yielded upon condition that his troops should get the honors of war. Our war of 1812 was marked by two notable surrenders, one of which was not at all to our credit. This latter one was Hull's surrender of Detroit. and with it all of 'Michigan territory. Hull's soldiers were hot with indig nation, as they were anxious to ;ighr, and did not get the chance. Hull w:s exchanged later for thirty British sol diers .and tried by court-martial for treason and cowardice. He was con victed of cowardice and sentenced to be shot. but was pardoned by tha President. The surrender of Barclay's fleet on lake Erie to Perry partly atoned for Hull's deed and gave the Americans a chance to get back what they had lost through Hull. Perry's message to the president, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," is a classic among military despaches. The 'Mexican was was marked by the surrender of no large armies. Am pudia gave up 3Mopterey in September. 184. Tampico surrendered to Captain Connor, of the navy, in November, 1847. The Castle of San Juan de Ulloa. which defended Santa Cruz. surrendered to Scott and Connor Mfarch 27. 1847. At this time 5.000 prisoners and 500 can non were taken by our army. The City of M1exico, having been evacuated by Santa Anna. was occupied by the Am erican troops September 14. 1S47. The M1exican war was preceeded by the Texan war for independence, in the course of which the Alnmo, at Bexar, garrisioned by Texans. was surrender ed to Santa Anna. No sooner had the Americans laid down their arms than they were murdered by the treacherous MIexicans and those of Spanish de scent. The civil war was terminated by the surrender of Lee at Appamatox Court House on April 9. 180.>. Twenty-six thousand men laid dowvn their arms. This was soon followed by the surren der of ,Tohnston, with 29.924 muen; Tay lor. with 10.000: JTeff Thompson. with 7,454, and Kirby Smith with 20.000. FIGHTING BOB'S TITLE. An Incident in His Career While at An napolis. ".Fighiting Bob" Evans earned his title the first year at Annapolis. lHe has made good his claim to it since ears before lie became skinner of the Iowa, but "-Fighting Bob" vwas tacked to him as a cadet. At the time he was sent to the naval academy there was a rtule of the institution which forbade the decoration o-f the walls of the ca det's headquarters by hanging pictures ter'eon or in any way improving upon the fureisl~ing of the cells. The objiect was wise andl twotold. It sought to prevent t e boys from becoming soft and luxurious and to head off any ex pensive riv.ilry in the way of outfitting. In a word, the end dcsired was to pro duce hardy and democratic naval of ficers. Young Evans' fond mother. like all good women, was a christian. and with her sorn's academy equip ment pancked a framed motto-a quo tation from the scriptures, so the le gend runs. The first act of Rtobby D. upon his assignment to quarters was to nail his motto to the wall. Hie was told to re move it, but declined. The 'contumae ius younster was reported from one officer to another. but resisted argu ment and command alike. The nar row martinets of tile academy resolved to expel him, and orders were at once issued to that effect. The story of the war spread and at last an officer in Lincoln's cabinet intimated very strong ly to the faculty that they would do well to overlook tue effence. Preach rs were beginning to predicate sermons upon the noble cadet wht perferred expulsion to taking down the scripturail text, and, as the politician said. .the chances were that if the young man were dropped the authories of the academy would not last long afterwards,. as public symt pathy was with the hoy. it was in this war that FEvans became known as T HE XWisconsin legial' ture ? hae adot ed a queer sort of bill.c evi-itly for the pur pose of luirrying~ up justicL.Thie bill provides that no judg shall re eive his s;Jary until lie has nae an ath that no cae' submitted for decis ion has remained undecided for a periodl of three months. The Wisconin leg islature evidently thinks more of the quantity of justice than mnality. Rev. Sam Jones writing to the At lanta Journal says he has found the sa loon man's paradise in Tfoledo. Ohio. It is very little larger than Atlaa and yet has 8410 saloons. By the way. one Sanm M. Jones is mayor of that de letable city, but it was not upon his solicitation the I~-r. am went to work upon the miayor's constituents. It seems that all the preachers are op posed to the mayor and his methods -and the saloons are for him. ITHE rovernmect's otnicial dea:throll of the Spanish war shows tat in the armyx the killed and mortally wa aied num bered only 451, while no less than ~. 7 7, cr nearly twelve tis asamany. died of disease. In the navy seventeen men were killed and one died of wounds, IAIN P0WIDER ] A530LUTELY E Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL SAVm POwCEq Co., 4EW YORK. THE AWFUL PANIC AT CANEY AMERICAN HEROISM. The Frenzied Inhabitants Thought They BRAVE ACTS THAT WON FAME, RANK, Were to be Butchered. PRAISE AND MEDALS. The sc;-nes and actions in Caney aftc'r the battle are in a measure ex- Soie Gallat Deeds of Days Gone by ilaied by the impression that. fot- Generail of To-day Who Dstinguished lowing the taking of the town, the in. Theselves on Former Battlefields vading force would loot. commit mur- I Conspicuo-ug Acts of Many officer der and rapine. Immediately after oc- Rtcnond P. boson sank the Merri cupation of the hill upon which the mac and won plaudits and promotion. fort is situated by our forces, the fren- I both. It Is a curious fact zied inhabitants began rushing up the hill to make peace with the victors. forgc'ts a bo th ac I went down into the town with a heroe bo tit oo ts sergeant and eight men, with instruc- have grown gray-hend(d. tions from Capt. Allen of the calvary There are wen of high rank who to turn out all the Spanish Soldiers wr t the front in the late war with could find and break up their arms and Sl ain who v 'o send the soldiers up to the fort. !nd niedais of honor by deeds hailed General orders had been issued for- in taci way with as ieh acclaim as bidding anyone except this small gtard was the act of 1lobson and his mates. to enter the town. as there was thought et who to-day ottside of a few griz to he a great amount of fever. and al- zled veterans reneibers anything so because it was still occupied by the about what tie specific act was? defeated Spanish under arms.As we I y clinldng a tree General Shafter, went down the trail across the river :11. 1 1;7, won a medal of honor. we met a procession such as I never He was badly wounded. nad to avoid expect to see again. Hysterical won- b - a passing surgeon, who en. paralyzed with the fright of the ht feared wotl' order him to the rear, whole long day; children of all sizes ho climbed a tree. Then he came screaming with terror and clutching down. and with hardly a leg to stand their mothers' skirts for protection on he fought all day, and Congress from men who had killed their fathers gave him his medal. or brotners, as far as they knew with- General Nelson A. Miles, May 3.1803; out cause. Some little ones, witn eyes was in command of skirmishers as wide open in mute wonderment of it Colonel of the Sixty-first New York all; men of all classes; soldiers who Volunteers. They were holding a line walked indefinately with no excuse, of abattis against a horde of the ene while others declared they were forced my. is a big man and makes a into the Spanish ranks. fair mark. Yet to encourage his men One poor frightened woman of about he kept jumping on an eminence and' fifty years was carrying another, evi- exposing himself, inspiring his follow dently her mother-a woman who must ers by hisvoice. He fell, tipaliy, badly have been eighty or more. She was wounded. le wears a medal of honor. in her nightclothes, having just been Brigadier-General Guy V. Henry, taken helpless from her bed. The whom te soldiers love, led his brigade younger woman was carrying, or real- in an awful charge at Cold Harbor ly dragging her, by holding her on her One horse went down under him. He back, having the arms over her shoul- mounted another and led on. Th6 ene ders. The older woman was much tall- my's brea 3Lworks were reached and er and her bare feet dragged upon the General Henry spin I his horse at jagged rocks in the path while she the obstruction and with its ridr fel moaned and cried incoherently. These in the enemey's lines. The place was people were not of the poorest class, carried. Henry was promoted and vot but evidently well to do. I stopped a ed a medal. couple of Spanish soldiers and had the General Lloyd Whoaton's act at Fort women carried to their houses, and Blakely, Alabama. April % 1S65, was assurred them that no harm would officially called "distinguished gaflan come to them. try." He was leading the right wing One young woman rushed frantically of his regiment across the open to up to me, as I came into the town, and ward the fort in the face of a terrific. thrust a jewel box into my hands, and fire of musketry and artillery. Reach as she did so she lifted the lid and ing the* place, le sprang through an showed me that the contents was ambrasure from which bullets were really valuable, begging all the while raining. He was the first man to enter that I spare her life. When I closed the fort. He wears his medal of honor te box and handed it back to her, modestly. saying that I did not want it, she look- General Arthur MacArthur received ed at me in an inquiring way to see if a medal of honor when he was a subal she could make it out. She did not tern in a Wisconsin regiment The understand that sort of soldiering, and troops were charging ill) the bullet-. she fully expected to purchase her swept slope of Missionary Ridge. Tbe. safety. It all would have been im- color bearers were being picked off mensely funny had it not been so ex- one after another. At a critical mom tremely pitiful. One woman came up ent the flag fell from the hands of very mysteriously, and after looking wounded sergeant. MacArthuk grasP about her most carefully, produced a ed the staff and in a few moments murderous looking sheath knife from planted it with his own hands on the under the folds of her skirts, telling c T e in the f f th me that it belonged to a Spanish sol-reeaignmy dier who had concealed himself in her GeeaHeyC.MrimatFt house, to which she led us. lkyAam.wsConeofc I started up a side street, over some oe ros ihhsmnh a m trenches filled with Spanish dead,painl witgfo tte rdro when a beautiful woman came rush-chreFialheskdpmiio Ing down moaning, and now and then t 't:g'aedo res n a muttering a frenzied prayer as she tl og i i atdt ~~l lasped a little crucifix. Hecr long 'h" eldhingrsonnef black hair was falling loosely about 'tems eoccagsee ae her shoulders and she presented a piti-Hewsroodanwaginoe ful picture of despair. I tried to conm- h easwiheeyam fie fort her thinking that like the rest, :oesacac own she was merely hysterical, but little Gnrl0 .Hwr' ihigdy by little I made out her story, and rovbulewsathefntee it was sad indeed. Her husband, a he's edigr1io~ evcsfr Spanish soldier, had been killed while teslir.H er ~a n defending her honor from ai drunken a'i'an mpy lev.H lda aflicer, and she begged me to go with cag Tu ,ldars h hl her, and so I followed. I found a icofte nmysle. blt pretty room. but in great disorde", src i r bv h lo.H showing a terrible struggle, the tabeledo.Te'arewsscssu overturned and the clothes pulled off tisenHwad aldtoheh he bed; on the floor, clutching a cornerpiaanhdhiaractof of a blanket, was the dead body of a Gn onR ~okwo ne Spanish soldier, who, from the dirt and ilswsaPotRcnerrce t'rime, had been in the trenches dur- ~ tmdlo oo.Teeaecm ng the (day. At his head was a single ~rt~eyfwofcr hhv.Gn candle burning, placed there by his rlrokhwvwstretms devoted wife, and on his breast lay a avne nrn o aln odc, :rucitix. The moment we entered the adseii cso esnlcuae room the woman dropped at the side of H ~na ak tGtybrasa the body. moaning and praying. It ~Sotyvaaadti tr tCl was pitiful.-James F. J. Archibald Habr in Leslie's Weekly. Gnia elyMrinwo h MAN A FIGHTING ANIMAL. fecBor.hsnmdabter Prince Albert's Dream of .teace Has Xny hyit rmCpant a Been a Bloody Or~e. irGnrl idwr e'ie o p Man is a fighting anina.l. After ~a cso alnr tGtybr 4,000 years, according to Biblical dathdifrrtbtlswchoo eronology, two highly civilized na- lcuptth tieotefalo tions have just oeen flying at one an- ch nd other's throats. The most enlightened nations in the world, the United StatesHEGTALH. of America, has been engaged in war, variously stated to be for "the paci- ~dWsSrrs' otanWoG fiato o Cb,""tefredm o meGaiat Dedsof DaysGonby Cuba."al"the annexatWhn DfsCuba."a"a Spmn ot o ta Weter Heispere" tllsofnp in nt on Ofticerp. bee eherve both.rItof th curioous fact and ~war t revngetteeMaie." . standrrinsnthe Univrsa eae i a reamofhe forget alf the u Tthea speiy hotel one even persn, Abert th Price cnsor- eroesg befor. twheroes taemselres who as iportd fom Grmanint hboed rivat romy-he ith ary Etigandto otiinu th roalTaheen re een odupt hihiandh veri~wnrline-belieredtinnpeace.aAe the watd bitionn.whoayearsalfta wontadyancement nerldd te awnofpeae:tha tere lanid iedals ockt honr out aeeshiler after ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i theirg fwrwoidnvrbe z to way match fro much strckairea let o Ths ws in183. Ye in ad thned ct oitelyson the sis aer, 1S nglad waed wr aginst Yets who tnkdhandoutigde fia ciwgr.z sia;in Gshewagd wr aaintzTe ecter swmese anythen Peisia i 1S he adeblod unlik caout watdsi the speihe actdies? wate in ndi, crshin thmutny y "Who n w as tt manerha Satero thete inH183asFrance, talydand,'aid'toatcoid ~tt~rlbecae egagd inwar beIn slot now, eptin thatge, ah t~1the nite Staes etere u he earledi, rtuornd hm toMherlad thea~il in1S rusiavaquihe "ecllmbe a'l te. when lie s"caid 4Luttl in ~o Enlanllegn hr tedor. aidt hardu wo' feeg o bign wir'm~ii'~tAbsinir; i iT~lFrtw' weneral XNelon tA e. Miles.3183 iti G"may ngaedinther loy 'Thw dvs in com ad was tkrhersons ~tru~he n 174 Eglad we~'u Voluastee~o~rs.Te were oling cagrin. w'iin theAshatees in S77 usoi abaitt'is gainstnayorde thepede lan~lmbegan hes'iZuaubwar'ainand makes a land ombaded lexadriaand air mark. het to aoloura e forme at war ineTonkingumpnngfion('nieaiaencePtn& Japa wet towar in ~fi Grece exposing himself, iCnspiring his foldi ers y hi vo ifll, excusey meador Theseed.re a wewrof mthalwarshtnor have takeniplacer-neheeralsGuy V.fHenry, centuy. nt to entinoth aeesoldier yo, aid brgae. minr arsinhal-cvily-d cnu: t: in ' an:awful chreate soldie onceo OneothAeic ~ hos et onude i.H Sociey~W tia mounitedirotrs and te pnThene-r woma canotgetintosocetyiny's~ b re theirk duwtere woulhd nd tas Cv- aaic~the ecofeme f th obostcadlionancd withsha rin-fl eo'~ ~a .is dwn t tie tird ino sthe'to em'sh lines fThesae mas re"tr'-d~ne.Whmc Sc s nt ~w~carried.~" ' Her spcromte nd tot-o ~o th sixh kno. T~ is Ge'neral PLly Wheaon'shy ato akrt perta'J ~ trte.." He w-as ading- the ifrmghemin heknw -..of-- hi reimn across traopnsao oward the fort ' in they cenof a ti - - IS~i5 i tctfire1 of muske:.tr and~s atllery tReyh lit the"bhcd oerna the'tmplcoce, h , sprand accepteda m raining. He was the first manetouenter ii-" theeforhreeedroassmiiedmedalofhonor an qua amun ci sut ubbd Oc"~Gener'ia-- Arthur Macthr recid bab chstities nsantrelefin te'rnv in-'' -a Wsoni week. imentTh cas o a ol oaIh lugsor cugh-tr ops were ching up thembllet