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A SERVICE 0F SONG. Rev. Dr. Talmage's Sermon on Music in Religion. MUSIC OF BIBLE TIMES, The Best Music Rendered Un der Trouble, God Meant Ail to Sing. The Proper Music For a Church. Dr. Talmage discussed a most attrac tive department of religious worship the serv:ce of song. His ideas will be received with interest by all who love to lift their voices in praise in the Lord's house. The text is Nehemiah vii, 67, "And they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women." The best music has been rendered under trouble. The first duet that I know anything of was given by Paul and Silas when they sang praises to God and the prisoners heard them. The Scotch Covenanters, hounded by the dogs of persecution, sang the psalms of David with more spirit than they have ever since been rendered. The captives in the text had music left in them. and I declare that if they could find, amid all their trials, two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing wo men then in this day of gospel sunlight and free from all persecution there ought to be a great multitude of men and women willing to sing the praises of God. All our churches need arousal on this subject. Those who can sing must throw their souls into the exercise and those who cannot sing must learn how, and it shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to anthem, and the music shall swell jubilant with thanksgiving and tremu lous with pardon. Have you ever noticed the construc tion of the human throat as indicative of what God means us to do with it? In only an ordinary throat and lungs there are 14 direct muscles and 30 in direct muscles that can produce a very great variety of sounds. What does :hat mean? It means that you should sing! Do you suppose that God, who gives us such a musical instrument as that, intends us to keep it shut? Sup pose some great tyrant should get pos session of the musical instruments of the world and should lock up the organ of Westminster abbey, and the organ of Lucerne, and the organ at Haarlem, and the organ at Freiburg, and all the other great musical instruments of the world. You would call such a man as that a monster, and yet you are more wicked if, with the human voice, a musical instrument of more wonderful adaptation than all the musical instru ments that man ever created, you shut it against the praise of God. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly King Should speak their joys abroad. Music seems to have been born in the soul of the natural world. The omnipotent voice with which God com manded the world into being seems to linger yet with its majesty and sweet ness, and you hear it in the grainfield, in the swoop of the wind amid the mountain fastnesses, in the canary's warble and the thunder shock, in the brook's tinkle and thz ocean's paean. There are soft cadences in nature and loud notes, some of which we cannot hear at all and others that are so terri fie that we cannot appreciate them. Thn animalculac have their music, and the spicula of hay and the globule of water are u certainly resonant with the voice of God as the highest heavens in which the armies of the redeemed celebrate their victories. When the breath of the flower strikes the air, and wing of the firefly cleaves it, there is sound and there is melody; and as to those utterances of nature which seem harsh and overwhelming, it is as when you stand in the midst of a great or chestra, and the sound almost rends your ear because you are too near to catch the blending of the music. So, my friends, we stand too near the deso lating storm and the frightful whirl wind to catch the blending of the music but when that music rises to where God is, and the it~visib'e beings who fioat above us, then I suppose the harmior y is as sweet as it is tr eem n dous. In tM> judgment day, that day of tumult a.:d terror, there will be no dissonance to those who can appreciate the music. It will be as when sometimes a great or ganist; in executing some great piece, breaks down the instrument uponwhich he is playing the music. So, when the great march of the judgment day is played under the hand of earth quake, and storm and conflagration, the world itself will break down with the music that is played on it. The fact is, we are all deaf, or we should understand that the whole uni verse is but one harmony-the stars of the night only the ivory keys of a great instrument on which God's fingers play the music of the spheres. Music seems dependent on the law of acoustics and mathematics, and yet where these laws are net understood at all the art is practiced. There are to day 500 musical journals in China. Two thousand years before Christ the Egyptians practiced this art. Pytha goras learned it. Lasus of Hermione' wrote essays on it. Plato and Aristotle introduced into their scools, but I have not much interest in that. My chief interest is in the music of the Bible. The Bible, like a great harp with in - numberable string, swept by the fingers of inspiration, trembles with it. So far back as the fourth chapter of Genesis you find the first organist and harper Jubal. So far back as the thirty-first chapter of Genesis you find the first choir. All up and down the Bible you find sacred music-at wedding, at inau gurations, at the treading of the wine press. The Hebrews understood how t> make musical signs above the musical text. When the Jews came from their distant homes to great festivals at Jerusalem, they brought harp and tim brel and trumpet and poured along the great Judaean highways a river of har mony until in and around the temple the wealth of a nation's song and glad ness had accumulated. In our day we have a division of labor in music, and we have one man to make the hymn, another man to make the tune, another man to play it on the piano and another man to sing it. Not so in Bible times. Miriam, the sister of Moses. after the passage of the Red sea, composed a doxology, set it to music, clalled it on a cymbal and at the same time sang it. David, the psalmist, was at the same time poet, musical composer, harpist and singer, and the majority of his rhythm goes vibrating through all the ages. There were in Bible times strioned instruments-a harp of three strings played by fret and bow, a harp of ten strings resounding only to the lingers of crocked trumpet, fashioned out of the horn of the ox or the ram. Then there were the sistrum and the cymbals, clapped in the dance or beaten in the march. There were 4,001- Levites, the best men of the country, whose only business it was to look after the music of the temple. These 4,000 Levites were divided into two classes and officiated on dif fierent days. Can you imagine the harmony when these white robed Levi tes, before the symbols of God's pres ence and by the smoking altars and the candlesticks that sprang upward and branched cut like trees of gold and un der the wines of the cherubim. chanted the One liundred and Thirty-sixth Psalm of David? Do you know how it was done. One part of that great choir stood up and chanted. "Oh. give thanks unto the Lord. for he is good!" Then the other part of the choir, standing in ,ae other part of the tem ple. would come in with the response, "For hii mercy endureth forever." Then the first part would take up the son, again and ay "Unto him who only doeth great wonders." The other part of the choir would come in with overwhelming response, "For his mercy endureth forever," until in the latter part of the song; the music floating backward and forvard, harmony grap pling with harmony, every trumpet sounding. every bosom heaving, one part of this great white robed choir would lift the anthem, "Oh. give thanks unto the God of heaven!" and the other part of the Levite choir would come in with the response, "For his mercy en dureth forever." But I am glad to know that all through the ages there has been great attention paid to sacred music. Am brosius. Augustine, Gregory the Gre't, Gharlemagne, gave it their mighty in fluence. and in our day the best musi cal genius is throwing itself on the al tars of God. Ha:del and Mozart and Bach and Darante and Wolf and scores of other men and women have given the best part of their genius to church mu sic. A truth in words is not half so mighty as a truth in song. Luther's sermons have been forgotten, but the "Judgment Hymn" he composed is re sounding yet all through Christendom. I congratulate the world and the church on the advancement made in this art-the Edinburgh societies for the improvement of music, the Swiss singing societies, the Exeter hall con certs, the triennial musical convoca tion at Dusseldorf, Germany, and Birmingham, Eagland the controversies of music at Munch and Leipsic, the Handel and Haydn and Harmonic and Mozart societies of this country, the academies of music in New York Brook lyn, Boston, Charleston, New Orleans. Chicago and every city which has any enterprise. Now, my friends, how are we to de cide what is appropriate, especially for church music? There may be a great many differences of opinion. in some of the churches they prefer a trained choir, in others they prefer the mel odeon, the harp, the cornet, the organ; in other places they think these things are the invention of the devil. Some would have a musical instrument Ilay ed so loud you cannot stand it, and others would have it played so soft you cannot hear it. Some think a musical instrument ought to be played only in the interstices of worship and then with indescribable sostness, while others are not satisfied unless there be startling contrasts and staccato pas sages that make the audience jump, with great eyes and hair on end, as from a vision of the witch of Endor. But, while there may be great varieties of opinion in regard to music, it seems to me that the general spirit of the word of God indicates what ought to be the great characteristics of church music. And I remark, in the first place, a prominent characteristic ought to be adaptiveness to devotion. Music that may be appropriate for a concert hall, or the opera house, or the drawing room, may be inappropriate in church. Glees, madrigals, ballads, may be as innocent as psalms in their places. But church music has only one design, and that is devotion, and that which comes with the toss, the swing and the display of an opera house is a hindrance to the worship. From such perfor mances we go away saying: ''What splendid executior.! Did you ever hear such a soprano? Which of those solos did you like the better?" When, if we had been rightly wrought upon, we would have gone away saying: "Oh, how my soul was lifted up in the pres ence of God while they were singing that first hymn! I never had such rapturous views of Jesus Christ as my Savior as when they were singing that last doxology." My friends, there is an everlasting distinction between music as an art and music as a help to devotion. Though a Schumann composed it, though a Mozart played it, though a Sontag sang it, away with it if jit does not make the heart better and honor Christ. Why should we rob the pro grammes of woridiy grayety when we have so many appropriate songs and tunes composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church psalmiody which has come down fragrant with the devotions of other generations-tunes no more worn out than they were when our great-grandfa thers climbed up on them from the church pew to gloroy Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When they were cheerful.- grandfathers and grand mothers used to sing "Colchester." When they were very meditative, then the boarded meeting house rang with "South Street" and "St. Edmund's. Were they struck th:ough with great tenderness, they sang "~Woodstock." Were they wrapped in visions of the glory of the church, they sang "Zion," Were they overborne with the love and glory of Christ, they sang "Ariel." And in those days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peac a great while, these two old people. and we have no right to divorce them. "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." Born as we have been, amid the great wealth of church music, augment by the compositions of artists in our day, we ought not to be tempt ed out of the sphere of Christian har mony and try to seek unconsecratcd sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire to steal. I remark also that correctness ought to be a characteristic of church music. While we all ought to take part in this service, with p'erhaps a few exceptions, we ought at the same time to cultivate ourselves in this sacred art. God loves harmony, and we ought to love it. There is no devotion in a howl or a yelp. In this day. wh n there are so many opportuniti-es of high culture in this sacred art. I declare that those parents are guilty of neglect who let their sons and daughters grow up know ing nothing about music. In some of European cathedrals the choir assem bles every morning and every afternoon of every day the whole year to perfect themselves in this art, and shall we be grudge the half hor' we spend Friday nights in the reheirsal of sacred song Another characterrstic must be spirit and life. Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock-clear, bright, sparkling. If all the other part of the church service is dull, do not have the musiL au!!. With so many thrii'ing thinz to sing about, away with all drawling and stupidity. There is nothingt that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an au dience with their eyes three-fourths closed, and their lips almost shut mum bling the praises of God. Daring 'one of my journeys I preached to an audi ence of 2,000 or 3,000 people, and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark. People do not sleep at a coronation; do not let us sleep when we come to a Saviour's crowning. In order to a proper discharge of this duty, let us stand up, save as age or weakuess or fatigue excuses us. Seated in an easy pew we cannot do this duty half so well as -hen upright we throw our whole body into it. Let our song be like an acclamation of victory. You have a right to sing-do not surrender your prerogative. If in the perform ances of your duty, or the attempt at it you should lose your place in the musi cal scale and be one C below when you ought to be one C above, or you should come in a half a bar behind, we will ex cuse you! Still it is better to do as Paul says and sing "with the spirit and the understanding also." Again, I remark, church music must be congregational. This opportunity must be brought down within the range of the whole audience. A song that the worshipers cannot sing is of no more use to them than a sermon in Chock taw. What an easy kind of church it must be where the minister does all the preachirg and the elders all the pray ing and the choir all the singing! There are but very few churches where there are "two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women." In some churches it is almost considered a disturbance if a man let out his voice to full compass and the people get up on tiptoe and look over between the spring hats and wonder what that man is making all that noise about. In Sy racuse in a Presbyterian church there was one member who came to me when I was the pastor of another church in that city and told me his trouble, how that as he persisted in singing on the Sabbath day a committee, made up of the session of the choir, had come to ask him if he would not just please to krn still! You have a right to sing. Jot:' than Edwards used to set apart whc :e days for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing in our families, sing in our schools, siig in our churches. I want to arouse you to a unanimity in Christian song that has never yet been exhibited. Come, now; clear your throats and get ready for this duty, or you will never hear the end of this. I never shall forget hearing a French man sing the "Marseillaise" on the Champs Elysees, Paris, just before the battle of Sedan in 1S70. I never saw such enthusiasm before or since. As he sang that national air, oh, how the Frenchmen shouted! Have you ever in an English assemblage heard a band play "God Save the Queen?" If you have, you know something about the enthusiasm of a national air. Now, I tell you that these songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath are the nation al airs of the kingdom of heaven, and if you do not learn to sing them here how do you ever expect to sing the song of Moses and the lamb? I should not be surprised at all if some of the best an thems of heaven were made up of some of the best songs of earth. May God increase our reverence for Christian psalmody and keep us from disgracing it by our indifference and frivolity. When Cromwell's army went into b;attle, he stood at the head of it one day and gave out the long meter doxol ogy to the tune of the "Old Hun dredth," and that great host, company by company, regiment by regiment, di visi.n by division, joined in the doxol ogy: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heavenly host, Praise f'ather, Son and Iholy Ghost. And while they sang they marched, and while they marched they fought, and while they fought they got the victory. Oh, men and women of Jesus Christ, let us go into all our con flicts singing the praises of God, and' then, instead of falling back, as we of ten do, from defeat to defeat, we will be marching on from victory to victory. "Gloria In Excelsis" is written over many organs. Would that by our ap preciation of the goodness of God, and the mercy of Christ, and the grandeur of heaven, we could have "Gloria In Excelsis" written over all our souls. "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever sh allI b, world without end. Amen!" Accidents at Sea. The annual report of Gen. Dumont. the supervising inspector geueral of steamboat inspection, shows that the total number of accidents to steam ves sels during the year was 4S, of which seven were breaking steam pipes and mud drums, two explosions and eigh teen from snags, wrecks and sinking. The loss of life was 404. an increase over the previous year of 123. Of this number the cause of death in 86 eases was accidental drowning, 213 from wrecks, etc., 13 from fire. 31 from colli sons, 24 from explosions or accidental escape of steam, and 37 from miscellane ous causes. Of the whole number 15S were passengers and 246 belong to crews of vessels. The increase in the loss of life this year over the year 1897 was due to the loss of the steamer Port land off the M issachusetts coast during a gale on the night of Nov. 27, 1S98, wherein every soul on board, 127 per ished A Wreck in Virginia. One of the most serious accidents in the history of the Norfolk and Western occurred Wednesday morning near Narrows, a station on the Radford divi sion. Two coaches of an eastbound passenger train jumped the track and rolled down a 30-foot embankment. Two persons were killed and 2S more or less injured. All the injured will re cover. Their wounds are mostly cuts and bruises. They were able to be moved, and some continued on their journey. A party of eight were brought to Rloanoke Wednesday night :nd re eived the necessary medical attention. It is said the spreading of a rail caused the accident. A wrecking train with physicians from Roanoke was sent to the scene of the wreck Wednesday oon. Traffic was delayed only a few ours on account of the wreck. Great Heat Wave. The Weather, Bureau issued a bulle tin Thursday in which it says the severe Western heat wave covers the lower Missouri, the central M1ississip pi and Ohio valleys, and the Southwest ern maximum temperatures range be tween 96i to 106 degrees; record breakers of 6 to 10 degrees for the past forty DISPENSARY ROW. Charges Made Against Commis sioner Douthit and Mr. Bryant. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS. The Charges Thoroughly investi gated by the State Board of Control. A Pclitical Sen sation Developed. The Columbia Record of last Wed nesday says it had been reported for some days that something sensational would develop as to the ccndu%:t of the business of the State Dispensary when the board of control met. So when the board met Wednesday the sensation developed and a large portion of the morning session was devoted to hearing charges against Commissioner Douthit and Superintendent Bryant. Charges against Mr. Douthit were preferred by Shipping Clerk Black, while those against the superintendent seems to have originated in general rumor. When the board met Chairman Miles stated that irregularities as to shipping goods from the dispensary and as to the sale of liquor to employees had been reported to him. While these reports were in the nature of rumors, he thought they demanded an investiga tion. Mr. Williams suggested that the parties against whom charges had been made be sent for. Mr. Miles then stat ed that the charges were that conmis sioner Douthit had shipped goods from the dispensary which had not been en tered on the (hipping clerk's books. It had also been reported that Mr. Bryant had also been selling employees whis key, which was contrary to the rules of the board. Messrs. Djuthit, Black and Bryant were sent for and an investiga tion of the charges was begun. Mr. Miles made a statement of the charges to Mr. Douthit and asked him what ex planation he had to make. Shipping clerk Black stated that on several occasions goods had been dump ed in the building and hauled off, about which he knew nothing. He mention ed the seizure of beer recently made in .llumbia as an instance. No record vas given him of its receipt or of its disposition. On another occasion Mr. Douthit in structed workmen to put some beer in Dispenser Bookman's buggy about which there is no entry in his books. He said that he always tried to do his full duty, and that's why he reported these irregularities. He said that he did not mean to make "charges" against Mr. Douthit but simply to state facts. Another instance mentioned was the shipment of beer to Dispensers Kirk land and Bokman last Friday, as to which no report had been made to him. He further stated that there were other instances where ne had refused to ship out goods on a verbal order or where the order was not in the handwriting of the commissioner. His records could not be complete unless all goods ship ped were recorded on his books and he desired to protect himself. Mr. Douthit being called upon to re ply raid that a month after the board had passed a resolution about shipping out goods, he had brought up his petty cash book and called to the attention of the board that it was er~sier to keep track of all contraband through icn than through the shipping clerk's books. The board in his judgment had acqui esced and thought his idea satisfactory. He said there were times in the after noon about 5.30 .or thereabouts, after the whistle had blown and Mr. Black was absent that somebody came along, wanted a jug of whiskey or something else and he would sell it, afterwards giving a slip concerning the tronsaction to Mr. Black for entry on his books. Generally speaking he had thus dispos ed of old hotel returned stock, which dispensaries did not seem able to sell. In connection with the resolution re feried to by Mr. Douthit, Mr. Williams remarked that he did not remember whether a formal resolution endorsing the idea had been passed or not, but he thought the board had acquiesced. Mr. Hazelden stated that his recollection was that no action whatever was taken Mr. Bryant refeiring to beer seized in Columbia last week said it arrived at the dispensary in a dray and was cold. It was about 1.30 o'c'ock and he knew if the beer was stored it would be spoil ed. He went with the wagon, walking himself, and delivered it to Dispensers Kirkland and Bookman. lie got a re ceipt for it. The next morning he de livered the receipts to Mr. Black, who refused to accept them, saying he knew nothing about the beer, its quantity, or anything else about it. He then laid the receipts on Mr. Douthit's desk. Mr. Douthit said he had found them the next morning. Mr. Boy kin asked Mr. Bryant whether he had sent out the goods, because as next in charge af ter Douthit'and Black he had the au thority so to do. The reply was that he supposed so. lie said Mr. Black had gone to dinner at this time. Mr. Boykin wanted to know from Mr. Black whether the receipts were not all right and he replied that they might be, but he had received no order to send out the beer. Mr. Williams said he could see no objection to the acceptance of the receipts. Mr. Douthit was asked to explain some further instances why goods were not shipped out through Mr. Black. He referred in reply to a lot of cider which had been seized. lie said it had been stored in the dispensary and was unsalable. H~e determined to try and sell it and sent some of it to Dispenser Kirkland. It was sold and the balance was sent him. Bills were regularly made out, but he simply forgot to tell Bryant to report to Black. This may have baen somewhat irregular, but con ditions were such that he thought it ought to be disposed of if possible. No requisition was made by any dispenser for it, but he simply wanted to sell it and save the State from loss. Mr. Haselden rem:ad LI th:e he thought all shipme2nts .Tould be record ed on the shipp'ii el crVe bo,,k, not only as a m.jtv of business but as a prot, etiuz to the bainess. He said there had already been scandals in the same connection. Mr. Boykin asked Mr. D)outhit whether the selling of this stuff was not an experiment. Mr. Douthit replied that it was, and Mr. Boykin contended that while the transaction was a little irregular. still there was no requisition made for it and Mr. Douthit was trying to save the State fronm loss. Mr. Black then presented to the board a number of requisitions from dispensers for certain goods, showing that Mr. D'outhit had passed a blue pencil mark through certain of the or ers and had written some times in pencil and other timies in red ink cer tain substitutes. Mr. D~outhit explained this by saying that when dispensers ordered a certain ABs-mmwl Makes the food moare d ROYA BAKING POV sions the stock was not on hand. ie substituted a brand which was of a price nearly the same as ordered by the dispensers. Sometimes a fresh ship ment was received at the dispensary just as the order came in, and as a rule it is the custom to send out new goods as early as possible. Some of the re quisitions showed that the product of the Acme Brewing company had been substituted forothers, and that "Wind sor Rye" had been substituted for "White Seal," and so on. Bat, as Mr. Douthit explained, he never made a substitution, except when he had no stock of the goods ordered, or except where he had goods unfit for use, or when he was carrying out orders of the board to ship out all new stuff as soon as possible. Mr. Douthit referred to the fact that some beer had been stored away back in the storage room a year or two. Every new shipment was piled u-. in front of it. It was good business principles, he thought, to sell out such goods, and where they were of equal quality and price he had sent them out to dispen sers. Chairman Miles then asked Captain Webb, the clerk, whether he had any knowledge of goods going out of the dispensary which did not appear on the books. Captain Webb in answer said that all charges were regularly en tered on his books as reports came from down stairs. He only knew of one in stance when walking up stairs to his office he saw a case of wine put in Mr. Bookman's buggy. Mr. Douthit was absent and he asked Mr. Black wheth er he had a record of it. Mr. Black re plied that he did not. That was the only instance that ever came under his observance. He atten,.,d to his own business, he said, and didn't interfere with other people's business. Mr. Douthit then explained that two cases of wine had been shipped to Dispensers Bookman and Lynch and that was why that particular case of wine went out of the dispensar Mr. Hazeiden: "What's that? Two cases of wine shipped to two dispen saries? Why was that?" Mr. Douthit: "I understood it was to be given to their friends and their ptrons." Mr. Hazelden: "To introduce it?" Mr. Douthit: "I suppose so." Mr. Williams then began some cross examining of Mr. Black, which devel oped some very interesting political schemes. le began by asking Mr. Black whether any of the employers in the office below had made any effort to have him discharged. Mr, Black said that he hid every rea son to believe that his presence and official position was disagreeable to some of the employes. Mr. Douthit then asked Mr. Black whether he had not corrected mistakes in his bookkeeping at various times. This was acknowledged, but Mr. Black said the times were few and often were the faults of other departments, men tioning the marking department. He admitted that he made errors, saying that there was no man living wvho didn't but they were not constant nor more frequent than could be expected from a fallible man. Mr. Douthit explained that he did not bring up the matter of Mr. Black's errors to make charges against him. and went on to say that it was his policy t o watch for the proper conduct of the bu siness and when he found errors, he told the employees of them and had them corrected. If Mr. Black had told him of irregularities harmony would have prevailed and the whole matter would not occupy the attention of the board, though so far as that is concerned he could stand any investigation of his con duct as an official. Without action at once the board called upon Mr. Bryant to explaia the charge against him for selling liquor to employees. He acknowledged that he had done so. The money he meceived was turned over to the comnmissioner or his bookkee per. The employees were named to whom he sold liquor. This is contrary to the rules, but the superin tendent ack':owledged that he had not porperly informed himself as to the law or the resolutions of the board. The state board of control Thursday afternoon passed the following resolu tions in reference to charges against Mr. D~outhit an-1 Mr. Bryant: Whereas after careful investigation of the charges of irregularity preferred by Captain Black, the shipping clerk, against Mr. Douthit, the commissioner, and Mr. Bryant. the superintendent, the board finds that the explanations given by Commissioner Douthit are entirely sat isfactory to the board except in that he failed to have recorded on the book of the shipping clerk the sale of certain contraband cider which h~e was ordered by the board to make disposition of. This sale being properly charged to the account of the local dispenser through whom the sale was made, no harm could come from such error except the viola tion of a rule of the board requiring all shipments to go on the books of the shipping clerk. In regard to the irreg ularities charged to Mr. Bryant, the superintendent, we find that he erred in makir~g sales of any articles of any description from the dispensary Though such sales were very limited, and the proceeds of same being turned over to the state, we find that lie was over zeal ous in prosecuting his duties. A Sad Accident. While Martha Johnson was driving to Leland, Miss. Wednesday in a wagon. accompanied by two half-grown chil dren, in quest of a coflin for her deceas ed niece, an accident occerred that re sulted in her own and both of her chil dren's deaths. The big bridge over Deer ercc k at Leland was being repair s, the guard rails having been removed. The mules drawing the wagon in which the woman and children were driving became frightened while crossing the bridge, falling over thirty feet. All were killed and four coffins were need ed for the family instead of one. Gaining in N~ew York. "Bryan clubs are being organized in ~ every election precinct in Kings coun ty," said Mr. Win. Bryan, of New t York. To my mind that is a very sig- t ificant matter, for while it may not be lone by the express wish of Hugh Mc Laughlin, the Democratic leadcr of Kings, it must be with his sanction and approval. Beyond this it goes to show that the rank and file of thc party in hat county are for the Nebraskan, .iust as the mass of Democrats all over New Eork state are for him. lHe is stronger in New York by far than he was in~ 8S9G, and that he will get he electoral -ote in 1L)00 I have not the slightest ionht." PURE hlicious and wholesome rDER CO.. NEW YORK. TILLMAN INXHODE ISLAND. Talks on Our Foreign Policy, the Ne gro Question and Free.Silver. The second meeting of the New Eng land Bi-Metalihe league at Cresent was largely attended and representa tive members from all the States occu pied the rostrum. Resolutions declar ing for free silver against militarism and urging the nomination W. J. Bryan for president were unanimously adopted. Senator Benj. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, was then introduced and his address was punctuated with cheers throughout. He stated that the Spanish war was worth all it cost, if it has proven nothing else than that the South will fight for the Stars and Stripes as eagerly as will the North. le declared that unles3 the policy of the govzrnment is changed soon the Re public is doomed and will become a government of oppression of the many by the few. He praised New England for what it had done for the country but called attention to the fact that there were people enough south and west of the Potomac and the Mississip pi to elect a president without the aid of New England. He said that while he believed, and always would, that the Negro is not the equal of the white man, still he be lieved in giving him his legal rights, barring the political side. He said the Negroes did not know enough to vote and in South Carolina the white peo ple had succeeded in disfranchising them until they can read and write. Mr. Tillman asked: "If it was right to free Cuba because Spain was shooting Cubans to death, how is it to be reconciled with the fac that the United States, which now owned the Philippines shoot the Filit pinos to death! He said that he believed the presi dent is honest in his behalf that he is doing his duty, but claimed that he on ly looked at the one fact that the Unit ed States bought the islands from Spain. He asked where the honor was in the Phillippine war. The South and South Carolina will at any time send as many men in proportion to its populatioa as any State to any war of decency and honor, but it will not send a regiment to the Philippines. Leaped to His Death. A dispatch from Lancaster to The State says Wednesday night as the train on the Lancaster and Chester railroad was approaching the tressle over Fish ing creek. in Chester county, a horse attached to a top buggy suddenly took the track in front of the engine and ran ,vith the speed of the wind. Engineer Wall, who was at the throttle, brought the train to a stand still. The horse by this time could not be seen, having pursued his break-neck speed down the track. The engineer then cautiously proceeded on his journey with the train. On nearing the trestle he discovered the horse and buggy about 70 feet from the bank in the trestle. The train was stopped again. The crew and passen gers went to see the strange sight. While trying to extricate the horse from his perilous position, he made a plunge and tumbled over the trestle, a distance of 40 feet, to the ground below, carrying the buggy with him. He fell on his head with the buggy top over him. The horse was killed in stantly. When found his head was doubled up under the foreshoulders. The buggy, of course, was utterly wrecked. The horse belonged to Dr. Jesse A. Clifton of the Fort Lawn sec tion of Chester county. The doctor was calling on a patient and left his horse unhitched in the yard. He be same freightened at the approaching train and dashed on the track, in front of the ergine, and the result was as above stated. A Shrewd Trick. The res-dents of one of the suburbs of Paterson, N. J., seem to have been victimized very adroitly by a Swedish laborer, who prophesied a caterpillar crop of unusual dimensions and offer ed to keep them away for a consider ation. His prophecies were at first received with incredulity and his pros pects for doing business looked bad until the caterpillars began to arrive in large numbers. and then he rapidly made contracts with many household ers to remove themi, and commenced to acquire a bank account. Now a boy whom he employed and failed to pay says the Swede hired him and others to go into the woods and gather cat erpillars at 5 cents a quart, and that at night these were sprinkled around where they would be most effective in terrifying the inhabitants. Killed in a Sham Battle. During the sham battle in the Pain spectacle "The Battle of San Juan" at the Sells' grounds Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, Charles Krag, aged 15 years, a spectator, was killed; R. R avetta, pri vate of the Fourth Ohio, engaged in the sham battle, was fatally wounded, and Max Guggenheim, a spectator, was se riously wounded. It was supposed loaded shells were accidentally mixedj with blanks furnished the soldiers inI the sham battle. Two Little Victims. The two s-nall children of Charles Diggs were burned to death in their pa rents' home in Burlington, N. J., Thursday. The father had gone to work in the carriage manufactory of J. H. Birsch, and 31rs. Diggs went out leaving the children locked in the house. The house took fire from the kitchen stove and two older children saved their lives by jumping out of a window, The charred bodies of the two younger children were found among the debuis. A Close Call. On Thursday afternoon, while Capt. Dave Switzer was returning from the Baptist Association at Campobello, Spartanburg county. the heavy storm overtook him before he could take shel ter. Hie was driving a fine young horse to a buggy, in which, with him, was Sr. Jordan, his son-in-law. Suddenly .he lightning flashed and the bolt struck he horse, killing the animal instantly. ['he two gentlemen were shocked. This r appened near M1t. Zion church. Times arc getting better. Six Pianos old in the last three weeks. Four for ash. Those in want of Pianos and rgans have found the place to get the est makes for the least money. A iice Mathushek Piano now completes he furnishing of thc new Odd Fellows all, for the use of societies that meet 1 n hall. Call at my office or write ne for circulars and price. D. A. ?resley, Man olmbinma, S. C. ff DREYFUS CONVICTED. A Sad Miscarriage' of Justice in France. After a short deliberation Saturday morning, the courtmartial which has been trying Dreyfus at Rennes, France, reached that decision, which was an nounced by its president, Colonel Jou aust. The court stood five to two against Dreyfus. He is sentenced to ten years imprisonment in a military fortress. He gets credit for four years already served on Devil's island and suffers the same degredation subsequent to his first trial, when his uniform was taken from him. The wholo tenor of the proceedings at the trial for the last few days has indicated that Dreyfus would again be convicted. Du Paty de Clam's escape from cross-questioning by Maitre Labori and the failure to get before the court the testimony of Major Paniz zardi and Colonel Schwartzkoppen, the Italian and German military at taches at Paris, to whom it is alleged Dreyfus sold French military secrets, weakened the defense, though promi nent Dreyfusards and foreign journal. ists reporting the trial believe his convic tion was a foregone conclusion. The anti Dreyfusards are highly elated over the conviction and have made demon strations in many cities in France. The Dreyfusards are depressed by the ver dict and have little hope of anything favorable to the prisoner resulting from the appeal his lawyers will make. A heavy force of troops is massed in Ren nes and all attempts at disorder will be promptly suppressed. Dispensary Profits. The State board of control has or dered another $25,000 in dispensary profits turned over to the State Trea3 arer to the credit of the school fund. 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