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HOW TO LIVE LOG.I The Rev. Dr- T. DeWitt Talmage's Prescriptiors for LongevitV PEACE NOW AND HEREAFTEP. His Text Was, "ith Long Life Will I Satisfy Him." Help in Practical Religion- A Protest Against Dis sipation. In this discourse Dr. Talmage gives prescriptions for the prolongation of and preaches the gospel o; phySi al health. The text is Psalaw xei, 10. With long life will I satisfy him." Through tle m's:ake of its frienls re liaion has been chidfly assec'ated with sick beds and gravey:_rds. The whde subject to many puope is odorous wid chlorine and carb..lie ceid. T re ar people who cannot pro ti.tne w(Y r "religion" -without h. ariig in it t' elipping chisel of the tomublrtone cutL tr. It is high time that this tiing v-re changed and that religin, instsad ! being represented as a lcar-c t. carr: out the dead, should be r, prescuteda! a chariot in which the liviuz are to tri umph. Religion, so far from subtracting .:om one's vitality, is a glerious addiion. Ii is sanative, curative, hN ien-e. It is good for the eves, good for the ears. good for the spleen, good for the dige. tion, good for the r.erves, good for the muscles. When David in anotner p:,r of the psalm prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of it as a mild sickness or an emaciation or an at tack of moral and spiritual cramp. lie speaks of it as "the saving health of all nations," while God in the text promises longevity to the pious, saying. "With long life will I -atlsfy him.'" The fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of melieal scienec in attempting to improve human longevity. Adam lived 930 years; Me: huselah lived 996 years. As late in the history of the world as Vespasian there were at one time in his empire 45 people 135 years old. So far down as the six teenth century Peter Zartan died at 1S.> years of age. I do nut say that relig ion will ever take the race back to au tediluvian longevity, but I do say the length of life will be increased. It is said in Isaiah, "The child shall die a hundred years old." Now, if, ae cording to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred years old. may not the men and women reach to 300 and 400? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations that-are to come. Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give the' a chance, and they develop a Fredtriek Douglass or a Toussaint L'Oaver:ur-' And, if the white race shall be brought from under the serfdom of sin, what shall be the body, what shall be the soul? Religion has only jxst i ouent a our world. 'Give it full power for a few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of mats and the beauty of women and the longevity of all? Mv design is to show that practicai religion is the friend of long life. I prove it first from the fact that it makes the care of our health a posi~ive Chris tian duty. Whether we shall keep ear ly or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or incomplete mastication, are questions very often deferred to the realm of whimsicality. But the Christian man lifts this whole problem of health into the accountable and the disine. He says, "God ha~ given me this body, and be has called it the temple of the H oly Ghost, and to deface its altars or mar its walls or erumble its pillars is a God defying sacrilege." He sees God's caligraphy in every page, anatouaisal a~d phy siol ogical. He says, "God has given me a wonderful body for noble purposes" that arm with 33 curious bones- wield ed by 46 curious muscles and all uude' the brain's telegraphy, 360 pounds vi blood rushing through the [ceart every hour, the heart in 24 hours bea'ing 100,000 times, d'ninig the 24 hours the lungs taking'in 57 ih.pheads of air. ''i all this mechardsm rot more ni.::v than delicate aud eaaily disturbA and demolibhed. The Christian man 'a S to himself, 'If I hurt my aerve~, if I hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my h sical faculties, I insult God and call f,.r dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites not to offer to him in sacri ice animals imperfect and di-eased? He -meant to tell us in all the ages thei we are to offer to God our very best pnysi eal condition, and a man who thbrough irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health is not offering to G od such a s~e rifice. Why aid Paul .write for his cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul be a'nious about a thing so insignideant as an overcoat. It was because he knew that with pneu monia and rheumatism he would not be worth half as much to God and the church as with respiration easy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to kneel do. at night and pray and ask God's protec tion while at the same time he kept then windows of his bredroom tight shu: against fresh air. He wouli just as soon think of going out on the bridge between New York and Brooklyn, leap ing off and then praying to God to kee p him from getting hurt. Just as lona as you refer this whole subject of physi eal health to the realm of whi:esimality or to the pastry cook or to the butcher or to the baker or to the apothccary or to the olothier you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your phy sical forces-nervous, mnus cul ar, bone. brain, cellular tissue-for all you must be brought to judmnent. Smoking your nervous system into fidgets, burn ing out the coating of your stomach with wine logwooded and stry chnited, walking withi thin shoes to make your feet look deli -ate, pinched at the wa~s~ until you are nigh cut in two andH neither part worth anything, greanlnz about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, which you think came fro:m God, when they came from your owi folly! What right has any man or womns: to deface tihe temple of the Holy Ghvs': What is the ear? It is the whisecri' gallery of the soul. What is the eye? It is the observatory God costrl" its telescope sweeping the baeeas What is the hand'o An instrum :nt so wonderful that, when the FEr of Bridgewater bequeathed in hiis will $40,000 for treatises to be written on the wisdom, power and goodness (o God, Sir Charles Bell, the great Englisi anatomist and surgeon, found his great est illustration in the consmraetion of the human hand. devoting his whll book to that subject. So won deifut are these bodies that Go-1 names his own ms s. eubir *e-4 is. Gott. es : his - i lGod's car; his 1 n e'-e-: G 's arm; the up r " 2i thta\ers-itis G ' fingers hi life giving S is th- breath of thu Almwigh o - the goernment il be uvon his shoulder. boy 'divinely honored and so di vinely con-rueted, let us be careful -1)t to abuse it. When it becomes a Chri"ian duty to take care of our healt . iS not the whole tendency to wardu onavity? If I toss my watch ab) Ut r;cklealy aT d drop it on the pavenut and wind it un any time of day or night I happen to think of it and often letit run down. while you are careful with your watch and Lever abuae it and wind it up just at the same hour every .ight and put it in a place where it will not suffer from the violent char ges of atimo.phi re, which watch wili last thi longer? Cotumor. sense answers. Now, the human body is God's wateh. Ye.u see the hands of the watch. you !ee the face of the wvateh. b-t :he bvating of the heart i, Cb tr(ekitg of the watch. Be careful and do uet let it run down. Ag in. I renark that practical rcig 0u Is a .fl.-ity in the fact - itis a prot st agai, nst i-ip to s .hieh iijure anda d-,troy the health. iku men and wouen lice a very short lifo. Their Fins kill th ni. I know hutndreds of wo >d old men, but I do no N o.v half a dozen nad old men. Why? ri' do not get old. Lord Byron diea at 'iis'ologhi at .t years of age, him ',lj ,is own MA "azeppa, his unbridled passiors the horse tat dashed him into the desert. Ediear A. Poe died at Bal titmore at SS yt ari of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his door was dlirium tremens Only 1his a::d r.othing more. Napoleon Bonaparte livcd only just be void midlife. then died at St. Helena, and one of his docors said that his dis ease was induced by excessive snuffing. The 1ero of Au:terlitz, the man who by one step of his foot in the center of Europe shook the earth, killed by a suuffbo7 ! How many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their dissipations and indulgerneeS! No.". practical religion is a protest against all dissipations of anv kind. But," yiu say, "professors of relig 'on have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have tuisappropriated trust funds, pro fess rs of religion have absconded." Yes, but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer, bound for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps ovorboard and is drovnd. is that anythin, against the White S-ar line's capcity to take the man across the oceau? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes dowL, never to rise, is that any reason for -our blieving that religion has no cipacity to take the man clear through? l the one case. if he had kept to the steamer, hbi bdy would have been saved; in the other case. if he had kept to his religion, his morals would have ben saved. There are aged pccple who would have been dead 25 ears aqo butfor the de frases and the cquiioise of religi-n. Yoa have no nwre natural resistance dan hundreds of jeop;le who lie in the cmeteries today slain by their owiu vices. Tie doctors to-de their case as kind and p'va-ant as they could, and it wa called c ,.ustion of the 'brain or sore'hing elhe, but the snakes and the biut thes thiat ee-med to c'rawvl over the odila in the sight of the delirious pat int showed whtat was the natter with him. You, the aged Chri~'ian man, walked along by that unha ppy o'e util you camie to the golden pillar of a Chrs t life. You went to the right; he wnt to the left. That is all thec d fi' r nee bensten you. Jf this re Ic is a protst against all forms of di s pation, th~en it is an illustrious frind of longevity. "With long life wi I I sati-fshi. XA'in, reliaion is a friend of Ion ge vify in the faict that it tak'es the worry out or ou- temporalities. It is not wrk that kills men; it is worry. When a man becom-s a genuine Christian, he makes over to God not only his atf-ec tions, but his faumily, his business, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul. everhing. Indu~trious he will be. but never worr.ing, because God is manaiutr his affaird. How can he worry about busit.es's when in answerto his prayer God tells him when to buy and when to sell. And if he gain, that is beat, and if he lo:-e, that is best. Suppose you bad a su~serne ural neigh bor who came in and said: "Sir, I want ou to ec'l on me in every exigency. I am 'our fast friend. I could fall back o $20),0;0.000 I can foresee a panic ten sears. 'I hold the controlling stock in 30 o0f the best mnanetary institutions of New York. W'heuever you are in trouble call on me, and I will help you. You can have my money, and you can have my it-fiuence. Here is my hand n pe.e for it ' Ud6.v much woula vuwryabout business? Why, you would s ty, 'LDi do the best I can, and then LiI d-gpend on my friend's gen erosity for th~e rest." Now. u.ore than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him:: "I own New York and London and St. Petersburg and Peking, and Australia ad California are miac. I can forese:e a panic a hundred years. I h ve all the resources of the universe. anl I am your fast iriendi. When you et in business trouble or any other trule, call on me, and I will help Heeis my hand in pledge of omnipo tsut deliversace." liow much should that maa worry? Not mu,:h. What lion wil dare to put his paw on ta Dnil I1 there not rest in this? I, here not an eternal vacation in thi,? * h"sou s-y, "here is a mtan who ased Gjod toc a bie.,sing in a certain entepiie .ad he lost $G,000 in it. pain tant." I will. Yonder is a factory, and one wheel is ging north, amt d the otrhe whe s going south, and one wheci pa s laterally, and the other plays5 ver tievy I go to the manufacturer, and I say "O in nufacturer, your machi i ery is a coutradiction' Why do you 't mak all the wheels go one way?' 'Well," e a. s. "I made them to go in opposite din' e-tos on purpose, and tey produc- the' riget result. You go a stirs amtI eXminUe e car; ets twe ,re turnr' out in this establishment. and you wAli ee. 1 go down on the he r or a~a 'I ce the carpets. and I i olige to cot fess that, though the wheel-, in t at 'actory go in opposite airr'ins mhe tur out a beautttl reru', and while I am standinr there loit' at the exq niie fabric an old criptinurep1aa-' comnes into my mind. ll thit gs wrk tog'ther for good to the wh~lo love G.d. ' Is there not a tii in tha? is there not longevity ?i at. S wse a man is all the time worried bou' his rtpu-a-ion? One man says ?e ies. anot her says he is stupid. an *. ber sEys r e is dishonr, and halt' a :t..zen pi tir g cs:ab'ishments attrack jim ar d he is in a great state of ex citeent and worry and fume and can .1ot dep u reigion comes to him and says: "Man, God ic on your side. H e will take carc oaf your reputation. If God be for you, who can be against You?" Bow much should that man worry about hisreputation? Not much. If that broker who some years ago in Wall street, after he had lost money, I sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his brains out I -if, instead of taking out of his pock -t a pistol, he had taken out a well read New Testament, there would have been one less suicide. O nervous and feverish people of the world. try this almighty sedative! You will live 25 years longer under its soothing power. It is not choloral that Sou want or morphine that you want. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With long life will I satisfy him." Again, practical religion is a friend of lo' gevity in the fact that it removes all corroding care about a future exis tence. Every man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot it is going to stop. If you get on board a ship, you want to know into what harbor it is going to run. And if you should tell me you have no in terest ia what is to be your future des tiny I would, in as polite a t'ay as I know how, tell you 1 did not believe you. Before I had this matter settled with reference to my future existence the question almost worried me into ruined health. Th anxieties men have upon this subject put together would make a martyrdom. This is a state of awful unhealthiness. There are people who fret themselves to death for fear (f dying. I wont to take the strain off your nerves and the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experi ments. Experiment first: When you go out of this world, it does not make any difference whether you have been good or bad, whether you believed truth or error, you will go straight to glory. "Impossible," you say. "My common sense as well as my religion teaches that the bad and the good cannot live to gether forever. You give me no com fort in that experiment." Experiment the second: When you l2ave this world you will go into an intermediate state, where you can get converted and pre pared for heaven. "Itopossible," you say. "As the tree falleth, so must it lie, and I cannot postpone to an intermediate state refor mation which ought to have been ef fected in this state." Experiment the third: There is no future world. N a man dies, that i. the last of him. not worry about what you are to do another state of being. You will do anything. "Impossible," you s ty. "There is something that tells me t:at death is not the appendix, but the I-e face, to life. There is something that tells mne that on this side of the grave I only get started and that I shall go on forever. My power to think says 'for evt r,' my affections say 'forever,' my cap-teity to enjoy or suffer, 'forever.'" Well, you defeat me in my three ex perimcnts. I have only one more to make, and if you defeat me in that I am exhausted. A mighty One on a kvoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skits filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic distur bances, turned his pale and agoniz.d face towaid the heavens and said: "I take the sins~ and sorrows of the ages into my ow'a !eart. I am the expiation Witniess, carth and heaven and hlcl. I am the expiation." And the hammer struck him, and the spears punctur.-u him, and heaven thundered. "The wages of sini is death!" "The soul that sinnetb, it shall die!" "I wdll by no mear~sclear the guilty!'' Then there was silence for nalf an hour, and the lightrda~gs were drawn back into the scboard of the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, and all the colors of the sky began to shift into a rainbow woven out of the fallinie tears of Jesus, and there was red as of the bloodsheti ding, and there was blue as of the bruising, and there was green as of the heavenly foliage, and there was orange as of the day dawn, and along the line of the blue I saw the words, "I was bruised for their iniqities," and alone the line of red I saw the words, "Tb.' blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from al sin," and along the line of the g--een I saw the words, "The leaves of the Tr' of L-fe for the healing of the nations," and aloeg the line of the orange I saw the words, "The day spring from on hgh bath visited us," and then I saw the storm was over, and the rainbow rose higher and higher until it seemed retreating to another heaven, and plaut one column of its colors on one side' the eternal hill, and planting the other column of its colors on the other side the eternal hill, it rose upward and upward, "and, behold, there was a rain bow about the throne," Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying. Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longevity, of this truth. Resligmion is sunshine; that is health. Religi n is fresh air and pure water- they are healthy. Religrion is warmth- that is healthy. A-k all the doctors, and they will tell au' that a quiet conscience and pleni:;r a'ii pations are hygienic. I 'iff yx . ou 'e feet pease now and hereafter. What do you want int the futu-c world? Tell me, and you shall have it Oreards? There are the trees with. twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the river of Life from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of' glass minaled with fire, D> you want musie? There is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and th' ortorio o'f the Rhd sea led on by .\oses ad the oratorio of the Messiah led or' y St Paul, while the archangel witn swiging baton controls the 144.0001 who made up the orchestra. Do 3 ou want reunmou? There are your childrer. waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you, waiting to twist garlands in your hair. You have been accustomed i oon the door on this side of the sepul e'r. I open the deor on the other side of the sepulcher. You have beec accustomed to walk in the wet grass or the top of the grave. I show you tht' under side of the grave. The bottarr a fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pallbearers let doe. a y,.ur dead let then. clear through into heti Glory be to God for this robust, healthy religion! It will have a ten dency to make you live long in this world, and in the world to camc yn will have eternal life. ''With .. life wtill I satisfy him." MIurdered by Moconshiurs. Jhn L. THanna, chief of police (o Dalton, Gat., was shot and kile&d Wed nes3ay by three moonshiers whon, hb was tryiia to arrest. A p)osse of 125 mrn wa's organized arnd started in pur. .uit of the mnoonshiners. A spe.i.l train car ry ig a party of detectives, ac empanied by bloodhounds, have left Chatano' ga for Dalten to aid in the capture of th." mu-'lrors "I have used your 'Life for the Liver md Kidneys' with greoat benefit, and 'r Dyspepsia or any derangement of. the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as b.- - ing without an equal." James J. Os one, Attorney at Law, Boliston, p. ABSOLUTELY) Makes the food more dt ROYAL. BAKrMG POI A BOLD FORGER. He Hails Ftom Barnwell County, This State. OLD HAND AT THE BUSINESS. Committed by Hirn in Augusta. Tried to Pass Draft at Georgia Railroad Bank and Was Detected. A bold fo-ger, who hails from Barnwell County, in this State, has recently at tempted to ply his trade iu the city of Augusta, Ga. His name is Blackwell and when arrested the police recognized him as an old offender. About fiftcen years ago he passed a payed check on an Augumta firm for which h- was ar rested on this side the Savannah river by an oficer of the police force of Au gusta. lie was captured at his ho~me in Barnwell and c.rried back to Augus ta without requisition papers. Gover nor Richardson was Governor at the time and he had the Georgia officer prosecuted for kidnapping. The case was tried in Augusta and the state of South Carolina was represented by At torney General Earle, now dead, and tie state of Georgia by Attorney Datc i er. Matters were finally adjusted. and the prisoner being wanted in South Carolina for a similar offense, was brought here and imprisoned. He af tervards was impriaon~d in the peni tentiary of the .tate of Georgia. T Ais was for the same charge'and he receiv ed a penalty of nine )ears He only served four years. for in December, 1892, he was pardoned by Governor Nort hen. Blackwell is a man of about 50 years of age and of medium height. To &e him in a crowd bc-'would not be no ticed, for he is far from prepossessing, b-it his blue eyes are searebiog and as trong as those of a panther. lie wore a short mustache, black and stubby anjd his e implexion was s.llow. When arrested ou his perso)n was foun~d sav etal checks, a stawpicg outfit. $1.50 in change, a pipe and tobteLo etc. The following account of his methods is tat en from the Augusta Chroui lc: About thrce we--ks a f a mn' at tempted to ;.ass a chek o 'iSu of H. J. Portcr bpariog the :t''iare of the Perkius )._;u~autur.: e .i. The autempt was utU!Ce:stLi 1ar ;n fortuuau.ly the fcorger wapid Thi 'sas one of the f *is 'r'e .D V~ hree months a~'" the a::soa a~ a eh ek on D.1 & Va * .-hK: i M igned by the Lombaro' Iron -vorkS. A s Art time. before taat he pa-h d o. e on th> 1 As Ame-ricas Sav:o b e k for S1 0. These are the cames kno) en. far There no dontV art ohe rs vho have be -n'akin in by tJ.is se;indat r. but up to .his e.m. the-c arc th - nly ca-.. re pored in Aug ai U1 n.w was a smoo0th one and1 cal. *a -it f so '1 e average perse *, Aou' en' O noil would watit u*' il a f rhn. .:E~s as ne did a' P 1a'( p-c y c ~nc- h cheek with'a leer fr .nh M og as a rer-o atf - ra.1 mnony be adra=.ee A h e a ar: s me mca ive hati ja~t e. pe a excuse rah ov rsigr t in edin afn r bauik iig hours. etc.,c. when arreste he . 't e-<p. cin to net $55r), becau' .a a p ra'n n:ts fund a draft for 150 and s. ehuek for $100. B:eide t-. s w-r" found a enc ek dra.cn iaj favir f F. M. Kinsg ( he forg-r). d.decd 8.*pt. 1'h .xind sini d by the Perkins '.1f3. Co. a o a draft payable to A M1 Ki:: (: other noom ie plumi), dra'. ou .M r-. D..i-on" & Fa?rg> of Auua by W ie x: & Gibes, cf Wayc~eshore. b. aringt the date of Se'pt. 21. This drAt was f->r e am runt oIf $25)0 and was endorsed by Dasvison & Fargo ar~d .o:wersigned by A N1 Kunc ,nd was lue 0 -t 1st. The fiust draft referrsi o was the one he was caught on. ' LI- ;rsteSttd w'th this draft a later, which read a< fol lows: An.;usta. Ga .S-pt 22 To Whom it Mtu Conrcer a: We take pleasure in e'atin.' tha. v~ are ipersonally acjuticted w \\' B. Willex, hec being a relative by ma: riage. We arc alho faniar waho his signature. We are wpc-:ttd'd. m-.. with J. WV. McPhcrson. Both parti..: nre perfectly responsible for any am.mat. We will vouch for thero. You 'unyhe us responsible for draft if you r fr Very truly. PERKINS MFG Co On the back of the . Caveo. Ia t ten iia pencil the nam of ':. i.h.rvo. shile the face of the en'.: pa I bhe words written with a bu: peun. 'o whom it may conecr." Th.: draft re' d as follov .J:I r~ er& CL. S.c;.nnah, Ga. Pay to A. C. W\aik r.: be:.rer. 530. Cha.e to .ccount of .J. . WXILCox & Co The draft bore four r.verue: am a'-lkd wi th ruin' lk Iyth i >y fi -c b-in'-- '.eL t-f kut . Whenpres a d:s d G-ra Rt 1 :ad 1I~k itdd tek u eaier a seonid to :elitade:rawsd and Blackwell was the sx"ier ther-by fe cheekl, dateu Sept. 22d, was en o i- cevelope hearinr eon its . - fo. . reiant who ';ill oblige is, wrintn it. re samne hesitating :.jd wth a blue pencil. In the c:.r nr enel ed in brackets, were the words 1B3 hand.'' The check was made out as follows: Augusta. Ga.. Sept. 22d. 1S00. Georgia Railroad Ba..k. Pay to F. . King, or od.r $100. Charge to an ount of Frtunately he didn't have a chiao-e L try his hand with thle c::eek. Thev [ettr accompanying this check wai miar to the one he tired on Hi. J. Porter, and was signed as the former e by Mr George E. Toole. A per on, in lookincg at the cheeks, is struck with the difikreat celors of ink used tnd, in fact, the general get up would end one to believe them g.:nnine. O.ae f the most proteinent businecss men in the city looke~d at the forged signa n-e of Mr. lTe Mr. Toa'e said hat it couldn't be told from the genu licous and wholesome CDER CO., NEW YORK. bly 1. Day. 'f Day & 'lancabill. ant %ir. Porer. The forver's full name i! Fred A. Blackweli. To say that he is , .liek article w.,uld be putting the thini light. le is mercly a polished forge: of the latter day sort and the people a large can compliment themselves o the riddance of such a shark. A repor ter for The Chronicle had a talk witi the man while he was confined at polic barracks. He had nothing to say ex cept that he was caught and admitte his racality. FERTILIZER TRUST Three Large Charleston Factorie Sell Out To It. LARGE PROFITS MADE. Factorias Bought 8 Years Ago fo $150,000, Purchased by Virginia-Carolina Com pany for $400,000. The Charleston correspondent of Th State says the deal which has beei pending for several weeks between th Virginia-Carolina company and th Standard and the Imperial Fertilize companies for the purchase of the lat ter by the former was definitely con eluded last week, and the money wa: paid over and the stock delivered. Th< Oakland Mining company, waich has lbase on the St. Andrew's property oi Stono river, was also includid in tho deal and was sold along with the manu faicturing companies to the Virginia Carolina company. The Staadard brought $195 pA share, maki g in rounid numbers i purchase price of $400,000 for the com panty. The Imperial brought $140 per share or $245,000 total. Tne Oakliard, with a capital sto-k o: $16. 000. was bought for $36 000. The companies were bought outright except the Oetklaid. the profits of whicd tip to date are retaiit d by the old oxn ers The stock. plaus. products, asset: and good wili of the Stadard and the impetial pass into the possession of th Virginia-Car..-ii aCheiuical company. 31r. G Walter Mc~vtr, manager o the Impcrial. is er-gaged by the Vir giuia-Carolira conpariy as genera rtanager of the sales dep.riaent fo Souevh Caroliua. Mr. A. W. Rhetr. eu pinte..dCo!t of the Stan3ard andj thi 1mpcrial works becomas gcne:al super i:oam:ent of a1 :he VIraiiia-Carolii co.rpan 's .rk.- about Charleston, Mr I'. .\. W'ri's. mia .a..er .*i the Stanid arwas offered at engageaient wi; heVirgix .ie aruina cnmpyny, buti is uade:r-tood bec w! n: mke othercengage men~ts. 0.-hers of the forcs of the~ ab I orbed compaiehs are enzaird. and a m:my as p'eible area providedi for. The Virgiti.Ca~olina compaeny no' ovus all the fer'til z -r mnufactorie about Clharleston, with the exceptio of' .Xv: Ase ithe E iisto, the Rea andii the E es:ml. It is sa id that ntegoti: :ois are perding for the P tr hase j6:: *ira nued of~ uthlee: e 'o'asi- 1 ircese are clsed the Ehs at~I ~d th ricve ome ies i u t'hark~ as vth E i-.an h's not been operated for ses Ti.e Oikiam.; .Ii.,fln efl-m.:m p; che'. ii Tau'isy ha- a'capacity ofb :25 000II t:'rs of roek a ve-?r, whbich mi I.e it erra;ed o i3~>t;' t:s The Vi. ei:i.-Car2lia co:np.iay. with this a;. the e ulract : it h.'!ds wi~h ohr coas pVaS at.d tlbe e ufr.:city. of its ow rock -qual to its great demandl. The deael wei chsd at a gra t advar ta.:e to the Char:eaton owrirs Tb S40J0.t 00. wae. h. ugz~t in about eig t years ago for $150.00i The lImperi; comlp'.i myho w an e ahauaed value a] most as great. The Virgini tCarolina comp any's fac tories nowv comiprise the folo ringi Charlest on: Berkeley, Aslley, Chicora Atlantic, Wappcoo. Stone, Wanido, Im perial and Standard. e~asy to Study His Face When Uniy 35,000,000 Miles Away. All the monster glasses with which the late rapid advance has been made in knowledge of our celestial neighbors have come into being since the civil war, says Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd in the St. Nicholas. Until then, in this ::ountry, the Harvard telescope of fif teen inches was the largest. IAbout 1860 one of eighteen and a half inches was ordered for the University af Mississippi, but with the breaking aut of the war telescopes had to wait, and these lenses are now at the North. western University in Evanston, Ill. It is only since 1870 that really huge in struments have multiplied and are nightly turned upon the starry skies to ask the questions which seem to our :mpatience so slowly answered. But many answers have come, after 311, and some things are clear which efore could only be surmised. For in stance, we feel quite sure now that MIars has an atmosphere, though not :nore than half as dense as our own; aut far better than none, as we can :ell by looking at our bright though lead and desolated moon, from which air and water has long since disap peared. And if Mars has air, the polar caps alone would seem to show that he has ilso ice and snow; and there appear to be, as well, areas of water or marsh, :hough less in extent than the land. l'ho northern hemisphere looks bright 3r through the telescope, eveu showing :ints of red and yellow, which astrono :ers are inclined to think are chiefly fry land, probabsly desert, while the southern is dark, the "seas" brown or lull gray, quite as water might appear. I'hese spots were first called seas, like :he smooth regions of the moon, and :he name continues in both, whatever :hcy may be. In 1877 Mars was at his nearest to us; near, that is, from an astronomer's point of viewv, though really at the enormious distance of 35,000,000 miles. Yet a great deal was learned about this 2eighbor in the sky-among other :hings, that be is attended by two tiny satellites, or moons, never seen before. And the same year an Italian astrono :er, Signor Schiaparelli (pronounced keea-parel-ly) made careful sttudies and drawings of the strange markings n Mars, completing, I'ith the fine tel escope at Milan, a series of elaborate ketches afterward combined into an accurate detail map. Again, in 1892 and 1S94, the earth and Mars came near each other ..n their Sight throutgh space. though somewhat ALASKA SIAKh-A". i Preacher Tells the Hottest Earthquake Story Extant. AOUNTAINS THROWN DOWN. Fhe Sea Swallowed by Yawn ing Earth. Islands Sank, and Lakes Thrown On Mountains. Concerning the recent earthquake long the coast of Alaska, the Rev. 'heldon Jackson, educatiocal agent fot klaska, writes as follows from Yaqutat, inder date of Sept. 17: "The first shock was experienced on aturday, .Sept. 3. but being slight -au~ed no alarm. Daring the follow ng five hours there were 52 distinct hocks, culminating at 3 p. m., in a hoek so severe that people of Yaqutat vere hurled violently across their -ooms, or if outside, they were throwi o the ground, while pictures fell fromL :he walls and dishes and crocker' ,rashed on the shelves, and houie ocked and swaved and whirled while :he mission bell rang violently in the shaking church tower. "Panic-stricken the inhabitants re rained their feet and attempted to flee o the hills, only to be again and agai'i hrown to the earth; all the while hrieking, rolling and running they ought safety. G iining the hills and looking seaward. they were transfixed with horror as they saw a great tidal wave, apparently a wall of water 30 feet high. approaching with the speed )f a race horse, that would engulf their illage and sweep away their homes. Before the shore was reached the Barth opened in the bottom of the har bor and into this chasm the tidal wave spent its force and around it the sea iwirled like a great maelstrom. This saved the village from destruction. The tide would rise 10 feet in the space )f four or five ninutes and in an equal ly short time go down again. The udden fluctuations were frequently re peated. "Tents were pitched on the hills back >f the village and nearly the whole pop Ilation is camping out, fearing that b her tidal wave may come. From Liie 10th to the present there have been r-quent shocks, one having occurred his forenoon. 'Near Hubbard Glacier, on Disen hantment bay, were encamped three miners, A. Fleur, W. R.ck and J. W. Johnson, and a mile from them at a, levation of 64 feet above the sea. \essrs. T. Smith, Cox and sons, J. Falls and D. Stevens. When the heavy shoek on Saturday, the 16th, waA ex perienced, the Fleur party had rigeed a machine and were taking the oscilla ion of the earthquake's waves, when without a moment's warairg they were thrown violently across the tent. At the same moment a large fresh water lake back of their camp and about 40 Feet from it, was split open ani the water: were thrown upon the camp, and before the miners could re~gain their feet they were beinz swept out to sea. Then at almost the same~ time they were met by a tidal wave which ;eaed theme up and not only wash.-d them ashore but over a hill 40 feet high, .anding them on the crest of a divide. "R1eraining their feet they ran alor.g the crest with the tidal wave boillas and seething at their feet alongside the hill Afterwards one of the party four d his b4agage and clothes ,one and one half miles up on, a mountain site. he re the wave had left thzem. Great spruuce forest for miles along the shor. were uprooted. broken into pieces and massed into great piles. L-rrge rocks, weighi-g 40 tons or mioro, were rob~ne over one another down the mountain like so mans pebbles. "Hlubbardi G-'ae~er. with its tuvo and a half miles of .,ea front, thousands of feet thiek. extending for miles back to he su-mwit '.f the mountain. brok from its moorings and with a grit dine roar that shook the surrounding hius moved bodily from a half to three qu.rtcrs of a mile. into the sea. A large reek, 15 feet wide, down whose bed ctaracts acere rushiag, was S~oded s> that miners were unable to cross over co the camp on the opposite side. A few miutes later it had sunk back to its forner bed and later was again an irre istable, ragitig torrent Mountain were thrown down, the sea opened and portions of islands disappeared. The earth opened in many places. "After the great shock had paesed and the miners commenced prepara tions to get away a boat with oars was ound a mile up the n ountain side. where it had been carried by the war.-s With this another boat was secured th .t was floating on the bay. "In the:-e two .small boats they sert d for Yaqutat bay, f >rty-five niks nway. The first night they mAde camtn Sa large moraine, one ar.d a half miles ~o.i the monain, but an etrthqu~ke lui:6- :nicht loosened a landslide mUt c-..i-c - ::' only the one and a alf miles of pinio. but also their tent. D~igging Out the tent and provisions hey again took to their boe O' the ;ecnd night they w' r-: t. rrifi d l.5 trane noises that i~sue-d fima thei arth'and their teit w:,' ien to breds by the strange wies tho eemed to b~ow from e:ery tin-r tie com;xss as clouds were Jr-' 'r di . a t-rrents of water they fil d t heir boats. "Forcioiz their hoa's for 12 niles rouah fields of~ fresh forming ice, and 3 mailes 'f rougsh sea, they at length eahe-d Yakuitat in r-afety. Ruw~rs re afloat that a portion of Cape St. lias and Kuantak island have di.sp wared in the sea. Without doubt ehen scientifie ex ploration of the moun . Eli is reuion is mado there will b.e ound many physical caves." Burglh s Burna the i.OWnl The to.v of M-aisen witt o:n. 5i in the Illinois Central. was a mi t a royed by tire at aai early hlur F- i norng. Nearly a~I touss and sa-ver--. Saw ~mih Boib-r .zXpioe.S A spca.1 to Tin- N..el 0jOserver r- i Rus ero itoa N. , -y.:~ the ier of a..c rml necar to..xpod d at 12 o-lck todia, fat~t.tly: sceudiug wo whit.e and one colcr d m~ u and ee i.u.dy injuni.g a white uma' rmmned onl Pieces of the boiler were blown 00 yards as ay. Lynched in Cuba. A dispatch froin Havana says Sen-r anchez, wuo was secretary of the uniipal cou:t in Uuion de Reyes, rovice of Santa Clara. and f ormnerly a ~uenila, was 1;,nehed Thursday. The erptrators are nlot known to tae autho t. Sebe.hz, who was shot to death -d the reputation of having committed. aaycie uring the war. Purely a Crank. For the last thrceears Mis Sarah Cunningh!im of Iancouver. British Col-' umbPia, has blind'ed her ey-s wneer;r she steps outside the d .orof the cotase in w hieb he lives all alone. She is a woman abiut 40 3ears old. For years her con-cience was tro~bed by the sights of sin and immorality every wherp visible as she walked the strests of Yaneouver. Finally ,he decidrd that the could stand it no longer. If shc could not put a stop to the wicked ness which oppres-ed ler she could a leaAt shut out themutsidc world. Con-: sequiently sh2 bandaged her eyea. Siuce that day, in 1S96, her eyes have never looked upon the earth. As a re suit she reports that she is becoming cheerful. The bright side of life now occupies her mind, and, though she is aware of the fact that there is still sin in the world. it does not trouble her as it formerly did. Killed in the Ring. As a result of a prize fight held at Valley Grass, Cal., Thurs.dav night be tween Jim Pendereast of Sacramento and Chas. Hoskins of that place, the latter is dead. Hoskins was knocked out in the 10th round and although physicians worked upon the prostrate man all night they could not save his life. The referee, Pendergast and all the seconds were placed under arrest. Knocking Down. Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company say they have been r robbed of nearly $50,000 in the last six weeks by the new conductors who have taken the place of the strikers last July. The new men are said to have been "knocking down" fares industri ously, but the leakage has at last been stopped. To Consumers of Lager Beer, The Germania Brewing Company, of Charleston, S. C., have made arrangements with the South Carolina State authorities by which they are enabled to fill orcers from consumers for shipments of beer in anly qnantity at the following prices : Pints, patent stopper, 60c. per dozen. Four dozen pints in crate, $2.80 percrate. Eighth-kea, $1.25. Quarter-keg. $2 25. Half-barrel, $4.50. Exports, pints, ten dozen in barrel, $9. L It will be necessary for consumers or .arties ordering,to state that the beer is for private consumption. We offer special rates for these shipments. 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