The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 22, 1899, Image 4
SETTLED IN H EAE
Dr Talmage on Divine lr.terposi
tion in Human Affairs.
GOD GOVERNS UNIVERSE.
The Fate of All Nations as Well as
of Individua's in the
Haods of God.
The idea that things in this world
are at loose ends .rd going at haphaz
ard is in this discourse combated Iv
Dr. Talmage. The tcxt is Palms
cxix, 89. "Forever. 0 Lurd, thy word
is settled in heaven.
This world has been in process of
charge ever since it was created
mountain: born, mouvtais dying. ana
they have both cradle and gave. Once
this planet was all fluid, and no beirg
such as you or I hve ever seen could
have lived on it a irinute. Our hemis
phere turns its face to the sun and then
surms its back. The axis of the earth's
revolution has shifted. The earth's
centre of gravity has charged. Once
flowers grew in the a-ctic and there
was snow in the tropic. There has
been a redistribution of land a t.d ea.
the land crumbling into the sea.
the sea swallowing the laud. ice and
Ire have fought for the pos ession of
this planet. The chemical compsItIwn
of it is diffrrent now from what it once
was. Volcanoes once terribly alive are
dead, not one throt> of fiery pulse, not
one breath of vapor-the ocean chang
ing its amount of saline qualities. The
internal fires of the earth are gradually
eating their way to the surfaces-up
heaval and subsidence of vast realms of
entinent.
Moravians in Greenland have re
moved their boat poles because the ad
vancing sea submerged Jhem. Lin
naeeus records that in -7 scars a great
stone was 100 feet nearer the water
than when he wrote. Forests have
been buried by the sea, and land that
was cultured by farmer's hoe can be
touched only by sailor's anchor. Loch
Nevis of Scotland and 1)ingle bay of
Ireland and floods of Norway. where
pleasure boats now float, were once
valleys and glens. Many of the islands
of the sea are the tops of sunken moun
tains. Six thousand mile:< of the "a
eific a:e &: i The diameter of the
earth, according to sciertitie announce
ment, is 1S9 miles less than It was.
The entire configuation of the earth is
altered. Hills are denuded of their
forests. The frosts and the waters and
the air bombard the earth till it suiren
ders to the assault. The so-called
"everlasting hills" do not last. Many
railroad companies cease to build iron
bridges because the iron has a life of its
own, not a vegetable life or an animal
life, but a metallic life, and when that
life dies the bridge goes down. Oxida
tion of minerals is only another term
for describing their death. Mosses and
seaweeds help destroy the rocks they
decorate.
The changes of the inanimate earth
only symbolize the moral changes. So
oiety ever becomes differe'it for better
or worse. Boundary lines between na
tions are settled until the next war un
settles them. Uncertainty strikes
through laws and customs and legisla
tion. The characteristic of this world
is that nothing in it is settled. At a
time when we hoped that the arbitra
tration planned last summer at The
Hague, Holland, would forever sheathe
the sword and spike the gun and dis
mantle the fortress the warld has on
hand two wars which are digging gravzs
for the flower of English and Arnerican
soldiery. From the presence of such
geological and social and national and
international unrest we turn with
thanksgiving and exultation to my text
and find that there are things forever
settled, but in higher latitudes than we~
have ever trod. "Forever, O Lord,
thy word is settled in heaven."
High up in the palace of the sun
at least five things are settled-that
nations whieh go continuously and per
sistently wrong perish; that happiness
is the result of spiritual condition and
not of earthly envircument; that this
world is a schoolhouse for splendid or
diugraeeful gradation; that with or with
out us the world is te be made over into
a scene of aborescence and purity, that
all who are adjoined to the unparrelled
One of Bethlehem and Nazareth and
Golgotha will be the subjects of super
nal felicity with'out wn: Tko off.
Do you doubt no ti.at . .peition
that nations which go wrong p ri- ;
We have in this American naaiva a;
the elements of permanence and de
struction. We need not borrow from
others any trowels for upbuilding or
torches for demolition. Elements of
ruin-nihiliam, infidelity, agnosticism,
Sabbath desecration, inebriety, sensu
ality, extravagance, fraud; they are all
here. Elements of safety-God wor
shipping men and women by the scores
of millions, honesty, benevolence,
truthfulness, self sacrifice, industry,
sobriety and more religion than has
characterized any nation that has ever
existed; they are all here. The only
question is as to which of the forces
will gain dominaney-the one closs as
cendant, and this United States cove-rn
ment, I think, will continue as ior g as
tije world exists; the other class as
eendant, and the United States goes
into such small pieces that other gov
ernments would hardly thick them
worth picking up.
Have you ever notie d the sizo of the
cemetery of dead nations, the vast
Greenwood and Pere le Chase, where
mighty kingdoms were buried? Open
the gate and walk through this ceme
tery and read the epitaphs. Here lies
Carthage, born 100 years before Riome,
great commercial metropolis on the bay
of Tunis, a part of an empire that gave
the a!phabet to the Greeks and their
great language to the Hebrews; her
arms the terror of nations, commanding
at one time 16,000 miles of coast; her
Hamilcar leading forth 30 miyriads, or
300,000 troops; her Hannibal carrying
out in manhood the oath he had taken
in boyhood to preserve eternal enmity
to Rome, leaving costiy arnd imnposing
monuments at Agrigentum a ghastly
heap of ruins; Carthare. her colonies
on every coast, her ships plowing every
sea; Carthage-where are her splendors
now? All extinguished. Where e
her swords? The last one broken.
Where are her towers and long ranges
of magnificent architecture? Buried
under the sands of Bagradas. As bal
last of foreign ships much of her radi
ant marble has been carried away to
build the walls of transmiediterranean
cathedrals, while other bleeks have
been blasted in modern time byth
makers of the Tunis railwa. And. al
of that great and nighty city an kin;:
dom that the tourist fnds today' is. here
and there a broken arch of wh--.t was
once a 50 mile aqueduct. Kir talented
and genial friend, Ihenry M.1 Feld, in
one of his matchless books of travel,
labors hard to prove that the shight
ruins of that city are really worth 'visit
ci doadnation' N~ t ta-. to the
true G.d did he rear. Not one of the
Tel Conananduients but she conspicu
ouIh vll.a:ed. Her doom was settled
in heaven wheh it was decided far back
in the eternities that the naiion and
kingdomn that will not serve God shall
Walk on in the e.metery c-f natins
and see the lon lines of tombs-Thebes
and Tyre and l'ypt and Babylon and
Mcdo Prsian and Macedonian and Ro
man and Saxon heptarchy, great na
ti..r's, small nations, nations that lived
a year and nations that lived 500 y(.ars.
Our ow n nation will be judg d by the
same mTeta"l laws by which all other na
ti)rs have been judged. The judgment
day for individuals will probably come
far on in the future. Judgment day
natiors is every da'., every day weighed.
every day a ppiover tr every day c.u
demned. Never before in the bistory
of this country has the American nation
been more surely in the balance than
it is this minu-e. Do right, and we go
ol. Do wrong. and we go down. I
ani not so axions to know what this
statesman or that warrior thinks we had
better do with Cuba and Porto Rico
and the Ihilippines as I am anxious to
know what God thinks we bad better
do. Te -etiny of this nation v.ill
not be decided on yonder eapitoliue
hill Or at M.ai!a or at the presdential
ballot: b .x. for it will be s-ttled in
heaven.
Ano:her thing decided in the saime
hieh place is that happiness is the re
sult of spiritual conaition. and not of
earthly ervironment. If we who may
sonUetirTes have a thousand dllars to
iven fund it such a perplexity to know
what to do with it and soon after find
that we invested it where principal and
interest have gone do.wn through
roguery or panic, what must the worri
ment of those having millions to invest
and whose losses correspond in magni
tude with their resources! People
who have their three er four dol
lars a day wages are just as happy
as tthoe who have aa in ome Of
$5,00'1 a car. S)m;a ius hIappiness is
seated on a footstool and sometimes
misery ou the throne. All the gold of
earth in one cbunk eannot purchase five
minutes of complete satisfaction.
Worldly success is an atmosphere that
breeds the maggots of envy and jeal
ousy and hate. There are those who
will never forgive you if you have more
emoluments or honor or ease than they
have. To take you down is the domi
nant wish of most of those who are not
as h-:h as you are. They Nill spend
hours and days and ycers to entrap you
They 16tki hover around newspaper ffi
ces to get one mean line printed de
preciating you. Your heaven is their
hell.
Oh, that day of the world s perfec
tion! The earth will be so changed
that the sermonology will be changed.
There will be no more calls to rerpent
ance, for all will have repented; no
more gathering of alms for the poor,
for the poor will have been enriched;
no hospital Sunday, for disjointed bones
will have been set and the wounds all
healed, and the incurable diseases of
other times will have been overcome by
a materia medica and a pharmacy and
a dentistry and a therapeuties that have
conquerei everything that afflicted
nerve or lung or tooth or eye or limb
healthology complete and universal.
The poultice and the ointment and the
panacea and the catholicon and the sur
geon's knife an'd the dentist s forceps
and the acientist's X ray will have ful
filled their mission. The social life of
the world will be perfected. In that
millennial age I imagine ourselves
standing in front of a house lighted for
levee. 'We enter among groups filled
with gladness and talking gond sense
an~d rallying ceh other in pleasantkries
and in every pos'ible way forwarding
good neighborhood; no looking askance,
no whispered backbitings, no strut of
pretensioni, no oblivion of some one's
pres-nce bccause you do not want to
know him; each one happy, determoted
oa making some one else happy; words
of honest appreciation instead of hol
lew ithtery; suatvities and genialities
instead of inaiations and pomposites;
equipage and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for; two hours of
mental and mexi improvement; all the
guests able ,walk as steadily down
the steps ot that mansion as when they
asended them; no awaking next morn
ing with aching head and bloodshot eye
and incompetent for the day's duties;
the social life as perfect as refinement
and common sense and culture and
prosperity and religion can make it; the
earth made better than it was at the
et', and all through gospelizing in
uiences, directly or indirectly.
I suppose the greatest tidal wave
that ever rolled the seas was that which
in 1868 was started by the Peruvian
earthquake. At Arica. Peru, the vave
was 50 feet high and sw'ung wat
ships a mile forward on the land. At
San Pedro, Cal., the wave was 60 feet
high. It moved on to the Sandwich
Islands and submerged some of them
and beat against the shores of New
Zealand and rolled up the beach of Ja
pan and stopped not until it had encir
led the entire gk-be. Oh, what a
wave! But the earuake that shook
the mountain where our Lord died
started a higher and swifter and
mightier tiatl w.ave that will roll round
and round tL.: earth until all its rebel.
lifnS and abominati~ns have gone un
uer.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle of Bosworth, which was feught
between Richard III and the Earl of
RIchmond, the king falling and the
earl, triumphing, when Lord Stanley
brought the crown and handed it to the
eal seated on horschd'k, while the dy
ing and the dead of the battle were ly
ing all around. But it is a more thrill
ing spectacle as we look forward
through the centuries and see the last
arncd and impe.ial iniquity of the
world slain and the crown of universal
victory put upon the conqueror ae the
white Lorse of the Apcealypse and all
nations ''hail the p~wer of Jesus'
nae." That the whole earth will be
redeemed is one of the things long ago
settled in heaven.
Auother thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjoined to the
unparalekd One of Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Golkotha will be the sub
jects of a su pernl felicity without any'
taking off. The old adage says that
"beggars must not be choosers," and
the human race in its depleted state
had better cot be critical of the mode
y which God would empalace all of us.
could easily think of a plan more
coplimentary to our fallen humanity
than that which is called the "hla of
salvation." if God had allowed us to
do part of the work of recovery and he
do the rest, if we could do three-quar
ters of it and he do the last ouarter, if
we could accomplish most of it and he
ust put on the finishing touches. many
could look with more complaceney upon
te projected reinstatement of the hu
man family. No, no: We must have
our pride subjugated, our stubborn will
made flxible and a supernatural power
demonstrated in us at every step. A
pretty plani of salvation that would be,
of human draftinc and manufacturing!
It would be a doxology sung t> our
aot ieni atep of our lbavenly throne
mae% by earthly carpentry; not one
strin ;;,Uld we twist of the harp of our
ete:nal rejoicing. Accept all as an un
merited donation from the skies, or we
will ne'ver have it at all.
"Now," says some one, "if Christ is
the oily way what about the heathen,
who have never heard of him?" But
you are not heathen, and why divert
us from the question of our personal
salvation?" Satan is always introduc
ing somethirg irrelevant. He wants to
take it out ot a personality into an ab
straction. Get our own salvation Let
tiod, and then we will discuss the sal
vation of other people. "But," says
some one, "what percentage of the
human race will be saved? What will
be the cowparative number saved and
lost?" There satan thrusts in the math
eniatics of redemption. He suggests
that you find out the mathematical pro
portion of the redeemed. But be not
deceived. I am now discussing the
eternal welfare of nily two persons,
yourself and nsyself. Get ourselves
right before we bother ourselves about
others rigbts. 0 Christ, come hither
and inasL(r our case. Here are our
sins-pardon them; our wounds-heal
them; our burdens-lifL them; our sor
rows-comfort them. Wt, want the
Christ of Bartimeus to open our blind
eyes, the Christ of Martha to help us
in our domestic cares, the Christ of
Olivet to help us preach our sermons,
the Christ of Lake Galilee to still our
tempests, the Christ of Lazarus to raise
our dead. Not too tired is he to come,
though he has on his whipped shoulders
so long carried the world's woe and on
his licerated feet walked this way to
accept our salvation.
By the bloody throes of the moun
tain on which Jesus died, and by the
sepulcher where his mutilated body
was inclsed in darkened crypt and
by the Olivet from which he arose,
while astonished disciples elutchei for
his robes to detain him in their com
panionship, and by the radiant
td omnipotent throne on which he
sits waiting for the coming of all those
whcse redemption was settled in
heaven, I implore you bow your head
in immediate and final submission.
Once exercise sorrow for what you have
done and exercise trust in him for what
he is willing to do, a!. d all is well for
both worlds, Then you can swing out
defiance to all opposition, human and
diabulic. In conquering his foes he
conquered yours. And have you no
ticed that passage in Colossians that
represents him "having despoiled prin
cpalities and powers, he made a shot
of them, openly triumphing," so briny
ing before us that overwhelming speL
tacle oi Roman triumph?
When Pompey landed at Brindisi
Italy, returned from his victories, h
:disbanded the brave men who ha4
fought under him and sent them rejoic
ing to their homes, and, entering Rome
his imblazoned chariot was followed b
princes in chains from kingdoms he
had conquered, and flowers such ah
only grew under those Italian skies
strewed the way, and he came under
arches inscribed with the names of bat
tlefields on which he had triumphed
and rode by columns whien told of
the 1.500 cities he had destroyed and
the 12,000,000 people he had conquered
or slain. Then the banquet was spread,
and out of the chalices filled to the brim
they drank to the health of the con
queror. Belisarius, the great soldier,
returned from his military achieve
iments and was robed in purple, aud in
the procession were brought golden
thrones and pillars of precious stones
and tbe furnituire of royal feasts, and
amid the splendors of kingdoms over
come he was hailed to the hippodrome
by shouts such as had seldom rung
through the capital. Then also came
the conviviahities. In the year 374 Aure
liac made his entrance to Rome in tri
umphal car, in which he stood while a
winged figure of Victory heli a wreath
above lhis head. Zenobia, captive
queen of Palwyra, walked behind his
chariot, her person encircled with fet
ters of gold, under the weight of which
she nearly fainted, but still a captive.
And there were in the procession 200
lions and tigers and beasts of many
lands and 1,600 gladiators excused
from the crunel amphitheater that they
might decorate the day, and Persian
and Arabian and Ethiopian embassa
dors were in the procession and the
long lines of captives, Egyptians, Syri
ans, Gauls, Goths and Vandals.
It was to such scenes that the New
Testament refers when it spoke of
Christ "having despoiled printipalities
and powers, he made a show of them,
openly triumphing." But, oh, the dif
ference in those triumphs! The Roman
triumph represented arrogance, cruelty,
oppression and wrong, but Christ's
triumph mt ant emancipation and holi
ness and joy. The former was a pro
cession of groans accompanied by a
clank of chains, the other a procession
of hosannas by millions set forever free.
The only shackled ones of Christ's
triumph will be satan and his cohorts
tied to our Lord's chariot wheel, with
all the abominations of all the earth
bound for in eternal captivity. Then
will come a feast in which the eaie'-s
will be filled "with the new wiue .f 'iLe
kingdom."! U.nder arches comewra
tive of all the battles in which the ban
nered armies of the church militant
through thousands of years of struggle
have at last won the day Jesus will
ride, Conqueror of earth and hell and
heaven. Those armies disbanded, will
take palaces and thrones. "And they
shall come from the east and the west
and the north and the south and sit
down in the kingdom of God.'' And
may you and I, through the pardoning
and sanctifying grace of Christ, be
guests at that royal banquet!
McKinley Appoints McSweeney.
Governor McSweeney has received
an appointment from President Mc
Kinley as a member of the committee
on the national celebration of the
establishment of the seat of government
in Washington. The appointment was
nude in a formal document, just as if
the governor was being commissioned
to some office of high grade. The first
meeting of the committee will be held
in Washington on Dececmber 21.
Honestly the Best Policy.
Our dairy exports amounted in 1890
to $13,U81,856. Last year they had
fallen to $9,095,570, a loss of about
4,000, 000 the result of dishonest pra
tices, and palming off fraudulent com
pounds. By honest dealing the Cana
dian dairymen have built up their
foreign trade in twenty years i.OLL
in0,0 te 317,000,000 a.striking proof
taintelong run honestly is ihe &
policy. The dishonest mann not y
destroys his own business but also that
of the honest dealer who wants to do
business straight.
Home Enterprise.
The advertisement of the Columbia
Stationery Company is called to the
especial attention of dealers in the
goods which are therein mentioned.
With ample facilities for supplying the
trade,the company assures low prices.
prempt shipments, and satisfaction
in every resp~ect. Merchants wishing
goods in its lines will do well to write
A SHORT COTTON CROP.
It Will Hardly Reach Nine Million
Bales.
On the heels of the government eati
mate of a 9,000.000-bale crop The
State has received from Latham, Alex
ander & Co. of New York a circular
letter, bearing date November 15,
which indicates a crop of S,709,690
bales. This firm is one of the oldest
and most responsible in the ctton
trade and its anlual statistical review
is a standard book of reference. 1- its
circular it says that havirg received
many letters of inquiry as to the prob
able total cotton crop of the United
States it mailed 4,200 letters to select
ed and reliable correspondents covering
every cotton-growing country in the
south-banks, bankers, cotton commis
sion merchants, broker-, proprietors of
public gins, railroad officials and plant
ers-and received 2.S00 replies of aver
age dat- November 7. These Latham,
Alexander & Co. consider "as reliable
as any information that cn be ob
tained." Tabulated they show the fol
lowing results:
The average of 297 letters makes tle
decrease in Alabama 17 per cent., indi
cating a crop of 961.970 bales as com
pared with 1,159,000 bales for the last
crop year.
Arkansas, 240 letters; -Lverage esti
mated decrease 30 per cent., or a crop
of 5S3,800 bales. Last year, S34.000
bales.
Florida, 23 letters; average estimated
decrease 10 per cent., or a crop of
63.000 bales. Last year, 70,000 bales.
Georgia, 566 lette's; average esui
mated decrease 19 per cent., or a crop
of 1,244.160 bales. Last year. 1,536,
000 bales.
Louisiana, 116 letters; average esti
mated decrease 14 per cent., or a crop
of 507,400 bales. Last year, 590,000
bale<.
Mississippi, 293 letters; average esti
mated decrease 12 per cent., or a crop
of 1,339,360 bales. Last year, 1.522.
000 bales.
Nrth Carolina. 2:33 letters; average
estimated decrease 23 per cent . or a
crop of 448,910 bales. Lxst year,
5S3,000 bales.
South Carolina, 2(; letters: average
estimated decrease 22 per cent., or a
crop of 7S9.3G0 bales. Last year,
1,012,000 bales.
Tennessee, 135 letters; average csti
mated drerease 23 per cent , or a crop
-a 918,7S0 bales. Last year, 414,000
exas, etc, 623 letters; average esti
:ated decrease 31 per cent., or a crop
t 2.452,950 bales. Last year, 3,555,
000 bales.
The sum o-' these averages for the
whole south indicates a crop of 8,709,690
bales against 11,275.000 for the last
crop year.
Latham. Alexander & Co. add that
2,140 of the 2,800 correspondents re
port that the crop has been more rapid
ly markettd, or shipped to marret as
quickly as in former years, and 442 cor
respondents report that from 5 to 15
per cent. more than last year has been
held on plantations, town and cities
for higher prices.
"Our special agents." they say, "who
have been traveling through the south
for the past month to ascertain the true
condition of the cotton crop fully con
firm the foregoing estimate?.
If the replies from other states aver
age as conservatively as those from
South Carolina we think that the crop
in the south as a whole will be below
rather than above the estimate of
8,700,000 bales, for our own guess at
the crop of this State would be between
700,000 and 750,000 bales.
It is only a matter of time when Eu
rope will begin to buy eagerly and
heavily at advancing rprices. For those
who can hold cotton it is still the best
thiug to hold.--Columbia State.
A FEATURE OF THE FAIR.
Interesting Ixhibitit of a Standard
Ginning Outfi'.
A feature of the Faiir last week was
the splendid ginning exhibit of WV. HI.
Gibbes & Co., of this city. Crowds of
interested visitors watched the opera
tion. A few years ago the basket ele
vator was used only. Tfhea came the
spike belt, and today this is still used.
But with the advent of the Murray
this is all changed. T2.he hand and bas
ket system, the spike belt system arc
done away with. Handling cotton in
baskets was superseded by the spike
belt system, and the spike belt system
included a cluster of parts and comnpli
cations, such as the revolving separator,
or vacuum box, and its driving belts
and pulleys--the spike belt and its driv
ing belts, shafts, etc. This whole cluns
ter of compjlications and par .
tirely absent in the Murray elev.,t-r.
It is elevator and distributor in one.
It has no moving parts. Air suction
alone does the work of elevating and
distributing the cotton. it cannot
choke. it has no oreifio-. 1: has no
spikes to comec off and get into the gies.
:t ha~s na distributor belt to wear out
Ia I to be replaced at cornsiderable ex
peis.:. It does the work perfectly, in a
mine~ir so rior to any spike belt sy5.
tew. a-. v . any loss of time be
tween Oales. u sille one bale is going
out in the Feeders, a supply fro:n the
next bile is coming in at the top of the
elevator. The separation betwmen the
two is perfect, and when the on~e bale
is all out of the feeders. ii.tu.ly the
next bale is started by the mi o - pilY
of cotton dropping at once ist., a:oi
the feeders.
I' u. exhibit are the New 31urers.
The- were introduced in 1S97, in
Texas. The cotton is thoroughly clean
ed the dirt falls on a small screw con
veyor and is conveyed throu.4h the line
of feeders to the end of the line of
gins. In this way the dirt is kept off
the gins and journal boxes. Easy ac
cess is had to every party of the gin,
even the brash can be taken out with
out removing the feeder. All of the
hard lucks go into thc gins, fi:st being
beaten up.
This Cleaning Feeder and Murray
Lint Fiue is made only by I iddell Co.,
of Charlotte, who control these special
features east of Mississipi river. If
you contemplate erectine -.
season, write WX. II. :, &C Uo.,
Colurabia. If your .straint ti.e cive
trouble. wri .:i Tae one gin out
fit is :- I' -h Me as the full system.
A- -)t.ia aveial machine exhibited
by W. 11. Gibbes & Co., was the
Ihrnard Plantation Rice Huller. This
Huller is superior to any on the market.
Costs less. Cleans the riee better and
polishes perfactly. Quite a number of
sales have been made this season-t wo
of them in Florida.
This whole rig was run by an S$x9
Liddell Automatic Engine. It is com
pact and a beautiful piece of work. It
pulled easily this 3-gin outfit and the
llice IIullr.-The State.
A dispatch from Manila announces
the death of Captain 1Magnus C. IIollis,
Fourth infantry, who died of dysentery
in the hospital. lie was appointed
TAKING THE OATH:
VARiOUS METHODS THAT PREVAiL IN
CERTAIN COUNTRIES.
In Some Instancet Solemn and In Others
Laughable-Substitutes for the Bible
Used In India-Tbe Terrible Norwegian
Oath-Reverence of the Mohainmedans.
There is more than a touch of the
grotesque, as well as of the solenm, in
the modes of administering oaths in
certain countries. When a Chinaman
swears to tell the truth he kneels down
and a china saucer is given to him.
This he proceeds to break in pieces,
and the following oath is then admin
istered: "You shall tell the truth and
the whole truth. The saucer is cracked
and if you do not tell the truth your
soul will be cracked like the saucer."
Other symbolic variations of the
Chinese oath are the extinguishing of
a candle, or cutting off of a cock's
head. the light of the candle repre
senting the witness's soul and the fate
of the cock symbolizing the fate of a
perjurer.
In certain parts of India tigers' and
lizards' skins take the place of the
Bible of Christian countries, and the
penalty of breaking the oath is that in
one case the witness will become the
prey of a tiger, and in the other that
his body will be covered with scales
like a lizard's.
One of the most terrible of European
oaths is that administered in Norweg
ian courts of law. The pre!ude to the
oath proper Is a long homily on the
sanctity of the oath and the terrible
consequences of not keeping it. Part
of this lengthy sermon takes this form:
"If you swear a false oath the good
ness and mercy of God will not avail
you, but you will be punished etern
ally in hell as a perverse and hardened
sinner. If you swear falsely all your
possessions will be cursed; your land
and meadows, so that they will yield
you no fruit; your cattle and sheep
will be barren, and all that you enjoy
in this world will become a curse to
you."
When the witness is duly crushed by
the sense of his fearful responsibility,
the oath is administered, while he
holds aloft his thumb and fore and
middle fingers, as an emblem of the
Trinity.
It is a little curious that the expres
sion, "the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth," in very slightly
varied forms, runs through almost all
the oaths administered in European
courts.
In an Italian court the witness, with
his right hand resting on an open
Bible, declares. "I will swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth."
The Mohammedan takes the oath
with his forehead reverently resting
on the open Koran. He takes his
"bible" in his hand:;. and. stooping
low, as if in the presence of a higher
power, slowly bows his head until it
touches the book, which to him is in
spired. In the reverence of his acts
and the unswerving loyalty to an oath
many Europeans have much to learn
from a follower of Mohammed. ,
In certain parts of Spain the witness
when taking an oath crosses the
thumb of one hand over the forefinger
of the other, and kissing this symbolic,
If primitive, cross, says, "By this cross
I swear to tell the truth."
In the more usual form of adminis
tering the oath in Spain, the witness
kneels solemnly before the Bible and
places his right hand revenently upon
it. The Judge then asks him, "Will
you swear, in the name of God and
His holy Book, to speak the truth in
answer to all questions that may be
asked you?" The witness answers, "I
swear." The Judge then concludes,
"If you do this God will reward you."
An Austrian takes his oath in front
of a crucifix, flanked by lighted can
dies. With upraised right hand he
says, "I swear by the all powerful and
all wise God that I will speak the
whole and clean truth, and nothing
but tihe truth. ini answer to any ques
tions that muay ne asked In this court."
No Cohis in the Arctics.
Nansen and his men during the three
years which they spent in the Arctic
regions never caught a cold. Yet they
were exposed to cold, fatigue and wet
to a degree which we at home can
hardly realize, says a writer in the
Spectator. Especially one remembers
how Nansen and his conmtale Johan
sen during their wonderful expedition
on foot over the polar lce went on, day
after day, clad in clothes which were
so saturated with perspiration that
they froze by day Into one mass of
solid ice, and even cut Into the flesh;
how every night, when they tucked
themselves up in their sleeping bags,
the first hour was spenft in thawing;
how they lay shivering, their frozen
socks spread across their chests, until
their clothes actually became wet and
soft, and eventually comfortable and
warm. Yet they never caught a cold
and, mark this, for it Is vecy import
ant, with the exception of Nansen's
brief attack of lumbago, their health
did net suffer in any way from the ex
posure. Directly they reached civiliza
tion they all caught cold. Nansen's
own statement to the writer was:
"There Is, of course, no coubt that
cold Is an infectious disease. We had
none during our journey, and we all
got it (very badly, too.) at the very
moment we reached Norway."
The Emigrant's Fortune.
An estimate has been made of the
average amount of money which Eu
ropean emigrants take with them to
America. From this it appears that the
first place is held by the German, who
takes over just ten guineas with him,
while the second place belongs to the
Englishman, with about six shillings
less. The third Is the Frenettman, who
has nine guineas, and he is followed
by the Belgian with just over ?0, while
the Irishman's capital is ?3, the Rus
sian's ?2 10s., and the Itali'in's barely
2. Ie is, therefore. the poorest, but
it is believed that when he returns tai
his own land he probably carries away
more money than any of the others.
"This makes the tenth morning
mlaam. that I have tried to collect thi
milk bill."
.-1 have tried more mornings that
sir, to collect a little cream from you
milk, and I have never had any bette
success than you-re going to have thi
time. Don't step on the cat when yot
go out please."
Reinstated Him.
A short time ago Gov. M!cS ecrey,
upon reports made to him, ummarily
dismissed from the constabulary for.ce
James Altom, of Greenville, upon the
charce of drunkenness. Yecsterday MIr.
Altoin arrived in the city. Ie camei
armed ~wt atdidavits from a nunmber of
ae i citizens and one from the
,'a who preferred the original charge.
in which the man stated that he may
possibly have been mistaken and that
MIr. Altom might have been sick and
not intoxicated. The affidavits satisfied
the Governor that the charges were
without foundation, and he immediately
reinstated 31r. Altom as a miember of the
cons abulary force.-Greenville 31oun
taineer'.
The Cost of War.
The statistics show that of those
federal officers and soldiers who per
ished in the war of the 1'nited States
from Mhy 1, 1898. to June 301, 1S:3
a total of QIlS-about 83 per cent.
or 550 died of disease, while less than
11 p'er cent. or tJUS were killed in battle
or died of wounds received in action.
The fearful mortality due to camp dis
eases has been far more costly than the
tribute exacted by the bullets of the
nemy,
SOME QUEER FRIENUSHIPS.
DInerent Animaa That Get Along Very
Well With Each Other.
An intimate connection subsisting
between different animals is known
as commensalism, commesals being
creatures which may be said to sit at
the same table, but which do not prey
upon one another. Of late years nat
uralists have become acquainted with
numerous examples of this form of
animal partnership. In one of the
Chicken Islands, off the coast of New
Zealand, a curious lizard, known as
the tuatura, and certain species of the
petrels were found inhabiting the
same burrows, apparently on the best
of terir s. In rare cases the burrow,
which consists of a passage two or
three feet long, one foot broad and six
inches high, is the work of the bird.
As a rule, however, the lizard is the
excavator. Each builds its nest on
opposite sides of the chamber, the
lizard almost invariably choosing the
left and the petrel the right side. The
lizard feeds partly on worms and bee
ties and partly on the remnants of
fishes brought to their common table
by the petrel, both animals being thus
benefited by the partnership. This is
probably more than can be said of the
prairie dog, whose underground home
is frequently shared by the rattle
snake and the burrowing owl. These
were at one time supposed to form a
"happy family," but considerable
doubt has been cast on the point by
the discovery of young prairie dogs in
the stomach of the rattlesnake, which
seems to indicate that commensalism
in this particular case has been a one
sided affair, so far as the benefits
were concerned.
It is among marine animals, how
ever, that the most striking examples
of commensalism have been observed.
A feeble fish called the remora owes
its success in life to the powerful alli
ances it forms. One of its fins have
been transformed into a sucker placed
right on top of its head, by means of
which it attaches itself firmly to any
passing shark, whale, or even ship, no
doubt mistaking the latter for some
huge sea monster. By these it is
transported without any exertion on
its own part over great distances,
meanwhile picking up such food as
may come in its way.
Several small fishes have been found
also to habitually lodge in the mouth
cavity of a Brazilian catfish, sharing
such food as the latter succeeds in
capturing.
Other .instances might be given,
such as that of the little pea crab,
found in mussels and other bivalve
shells, which, in return for the pro
tection given them by the malluocan
shell, gives its host a share of the food
it captures.
The Trooper Stuttered.
Howard K. Brown of Syracuse, N.
Y., who was in Porto Rico with Troop
A, First Cavalry, tells some clever
yarns about a fellow trooper who
stuttered very badly.
One night while in the mountainous
district it was very cold. This trooper
could not find any of his outer clothes.
So he went from one place to another,
asking if anyone knew where they
were.
"H-h- has a-a-ny one s-s-seen m-my
blanket?"
He was told that no one had.
"Has a-a-ny one s-s-seen m-my p-p
poncho?"
"No."
The trooper scratched his head for a
moment
"W-w-well, I'm g-glad th-th-that I
h-h-have g-g-got a w-w-warm p-p-pair
of s-s-susp-p-penders on."
Again he lost his carbine. He hunt
ed high and low for it, but could not
find it. He put in his application for
a new one, but could not get it in time
for the inspection that followed
When the troop lined up he was the
only one who had no carbine. The
lieutenant saw the lack and glared at
him, making up his mind to make an
example of him, tainking that he had
been too late to catch up his gun.
"Where the blankety-blank-blank is
your carbine? How dare you come
this way? What has become of your
gun?"
"Lieut-t-tenant," said the trooper
tranquilly, 'th-h-that i-i-is th-th-the q-q
question."
Guard-mount must always be on the
minute or there is a howl from those
who have been on duty. One morning
the trooper was two mInutes late and
the sergeant called him down.
"N-n-never m-in-mind, s-s-ergeant,"
was the reply. "W-we are h-here- f-f
for t-t-two y-years, n-not t-t-two in-in
minutes."
Coming home on the transport it
was terribly hot. The boys were
swearing and howling. The trooper
looked reflective-y at the swirling
waters.
"B-b-boys, I'll n-n-never 1- 1-love an
n-nother c-c-country!"
A Touch or Blarney.
Nobody can pay a prettier compli
ment than the Irishman, when he
chooses. His tongue and wit are never
nimler than when he employs them
in the service of "blarney."
A young professor from Dublin was
entertained over night by an American
professor at his summer home on the
coast of Maine.
At breakfast the next morning, the
little daughter of the house, who sat
next the young Irishman, saw with
amazement that he put no sugar in
his tea.
"Wouldn't you like even one lump of
sugar in your tea?" she asked, solicit
ously. My papa likes three lumps."
"Since you have looked into the cup,
my little, maid, the tea is quite sweet
enough," responded the young profes
sor, gallantly.
No More, Sleep- Walking.
A device to prevent sleep-walking~ is
to lay upon the floor, by the side of
the somnambulist's bed, a sheet of iron
zinc, or other metal, wide enough to
ensure that he will step upon it. When
the sleep-walking fits comes upon him,
his foot touches the cold surface of the
metal, and he instinctively draws that
leg into the bed again. After two or
three attempts the somnambulist gives
it up and settles down in bed.
Can't Be "'Downed."
Ropes that will not sink when
thrown into the water are proving very
useful. They are made of~ a core com
posed of pieces of c:>rk, covered with
cotton.
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all terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent
Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes,
Scrofuala, that resist other treatmoents,
are quickly~cured by B. B. B. (Botanic
Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim
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ROYAL SAXMGM POWC
Ee:-vens Fali.in.ussia.
jIl L: th!. " ouidi d spascaused (
a pi.. r . may pihei s. It was believed
that -i e: (, f th world had coui.
Chuel.( : .-re -pc. all nigaht lg and
hur;d.c Js tinou&-ads spent thre
nig-. '. *pen air, fearing carth
quakes a:d .t. gcueral eawulysm. There
are ruimois that in some villages
Ru~ss: ;areats murdered their chil
dren to relieve them From an xpected
worse fate. rhere was rather a bril
liant meteoric display between 2 and 5
o'clock Thursday morning at Berlin.
A .Queer Request.
The ashes of Mrs P. Karhl, who died
recently in New York, are to be taken
by her husband to the top of the Statue
of Liberty and from there scattered to
the winds. This is in accordance with
her dying reQuest.
To Consumers of Lager Beer
The Germania Brewing Company, of
Charleston, 6. C., have made arrangements
with the South Carolina State authorities
by which they are enabled to fill orders
from consumers for shipments, of beer in
any qnantity at the following prices :
lPints, patent stopper, 60c. per dozen.
Four dozen pints in crate, $2.80 per crate.
&Eighth-keg, $1.25.
g.Quarter-keg, S2.25.
UHalf-barrel, $.50.
CExports, pints, ten dozen in- barrel, $9.
kIt will be necessary for consamers or
parties ordering,to state that the beer is for
private consumption. We offer special
rates for these shipments. This beer is
guaranteed pure, tuade of the choicest hops
and malt, and is recommended by the
medical fraternity. Send to us for a trial
order.
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Charleston, S. C.
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