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"Let Not the Sun.0 Dwoc Your Wrath HATE BRINGS UNHAPPiNESS Dr- Talmage Reccommends M41re of the Saccharine and L.s of Sour in Human Dispositions. In this discourse Dr. Talmage cates the world's reveuges and rccom mends more of the saccharine and ie s of the sour in human dispositions: text. Ephesians iv, 'L2 Lt n-et the sun o down upon your wrali What a jillow, embrioder d of all colcrs, hath the dying day! The crad!. of clouds from which the sun rises beautiful enough, but it is surpassed by the many colored iausoleum ill whIn at evening it is buried. Sunset among the mountain. it a most takes one's breath away to recali the scene. The long shadows s.rgtefh ing over the plain make the glory of tne departing light on the tiptop crag. aid struck aslant through t-, foliage the more conspicuous. S.ffron and gold, purple and crimson comtwingled. All the castles of cloud in confhratioa. Btrning Moscows on the sky. lang ing gurdens of roses a. their deepest blush. Banners of vapor, red as if from carnage, in the battle of the ele ments. The hunter ameng the Adiron dacks and the Swiss villager among the Alps know what is a sunset anong the mountains. After a storr: at sea the rolling grandeur into wLich the sun goes down to bathe at nightfall is some thing to make weird and -splendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexan der Smith in his poem compares the sunset to "the barren beach of hell.' but this wonderful spectacle of nature makes me think of the buanished wall of heaven. Paul in prison, writing my text, remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets among the mountains of Asia Minor and how he had often seen the towers of Damascus blaze in the close of the oriental days. and he dashes out that memory in the text when he says, "Let not the sun go down upon your wrai Sublime, all suggestive duty for peo ple then and people now! Forgiveness before sundown! He who never feels the throb of indignation is imbecile. He who can walk among the injustices of the world inflicted upon himseif and others without flush of cheek, or flash of eye, or agitation of nature, is either in sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic When Ananias, the hgh priest, ordered the constables of the courtroom to smite Paul on the mouth, Paul fired up and said, "God shall smite thee. thou whited wall!" In the sentence immediately before my text Paul com mands the Ephesians, "Be ye angry and sin not." It all depends on what you are mad at and how long the feel ing lasts whether anger is right or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. Saul after David, Suecoth after Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ, and every one has had his pursuers, and we are swindled or belied or mis represented or persecuted or in some way wronged, and the danger is that healthful indignation shall become baleful spite and that our feelings set tie down in a prolonged outpouring of temper displeasing to God and ruinou< to ourselves, and hence the important injunction of the text. "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." Why that limitation to One's anger? Why that period of fhiming vapor set to punctuate a flaming disrosition? What has the sunset got to do with one's re sentful emotions? Was it a haphaza-rd sentiment written by Paul without spe ial significance? No, no; I think of five reasons why we should not let the sun set before our temper. First, because 12 hours is long enough to be eross about any wrong inflicted upon us. Nothing is so exhausting to physical health or mental facult y as a protracted indulgence of ill humor. It racks the nervous system. It hurts the digestion. It heats the blood in brain and heart until the whole body is first overheated and then depre~ssed. Besides that, it s ours the disposition, turns one aside f.uw his legitimat work, expends eneec' th-'t ought to be better employted awd d .a us un re harm than it does our antacor't. Paul gives us a good, wide allo .vee c of time for legitimate denunciation, from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock, but says. "Stop there!" Watch the descending orb of day, and when it reaches the horizon take a reef in your dispolition. Unloose your collar and cool off. Change the subjiect to something de lightfully pleasant. Unroll your tight fist and shake hands with some one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive the growling dog of enmity back to its kennel. The hours of this morn ing will pass by, and the afternoon will arrive and the sun will begin to set, and, f beg you, on its brszing hearth throw all your feuds, invectives and satires. O:her things being equal, the man who preserves good temper will come out ahead. An old writer says that the celebrated John Henderson of Bristol, England, was at a dining party where political excitement ran high and the debate got angry, and while Henderson was spe-:king his opponent, unable to ans'er his argument, dashed a glass of wine in his face, when the speaker de libe:ately wiped the liquid from his face edl said: "This, sir, is a digres sion. Now, if you please, for the main argument."' While worldly philosophy could help but very few to such eqijn oise of spirit, the aiace of G3od could help any man to sunh a triumroh. "Im possible," you say. "I would have either left the table in anger or have knocked the man down." But I have come to believe that nothing is impos sible if God help. Aye, you will not postpone till sun down forgiveness of enemies if you can realize that their behavior toward you may be put into the catalogue of the "all things" that "work together for good to these that love God " have had multitudes of friends. but I have found in my own experienee that Cod so arranged it that the greatest o;ppur tunities of usefulness that have been opened before me were opened by ene mies. So you may harness your .antag onists to your best inttrests and con pel them to draw you on to bet a work and higher character. suppose instead of waiting until .2 mieutes after 4 this evening, when the sun wil: s, you transact this !cribus work of forgiveness at meridiau. Again, we ought not t. xt lt:e sun g'O down on our wrath, because we wu sleep better if we are at poec with everybody. Insom:& e s yettda t'o b one of the most prevale-znt of isorder5. ani' ~ uph dem ea ~i ecants are used, a nineis orein!It"tant than a 'low i'a mi ing;! to ::leep when- he is1 in ind ]pu1isuing an c( es V wth wha rerou titch hie rt .u o t ecam ThaI newI '~~~ I I;,' .' *nU W e awakr hil . fe thc k k 1 p 1. 2. i eve yon, an utlln PrIW 2. Mf ir-' t~I.' b*II -t .way of a(enging th. j i our" ilar *'or o4E.e at S 1r1 ' .. Coe the exemnr 'or wrtnrl a bitter letter exi.-'iinl your sent r nI-. Take f4rom t dIl t er [iicon. - hoe the i apers i1] t caze to rfre-I wur . ind Ili 12u r e y m - neT" Th en lie dwn and wait for the C' 'f the day, and it wiil coIc be fore -l p comes, or your sieep will be ..ried V i eCenCe and. if vou take the ian to l1. it Un your back. a Sfrizhtul ntnar. Why not put a b'ud 1r 1. or aInos vitX? Why let your fots come into the Sa-nt- i f your dormi tory? Why let lerers wh have already torn your. r.p1. uation to pieces or inj tred your t.u'lcess bend over your midnilit pilow and drive from In (ou on1 (f the Ireatest blessins that God can offer sweet. reft rshing. all invigoralin:Z sleep? Why not fence out your enonies by the gtOld'en bars of the suSer? Why not stand behind the barrlia.!e of evening coid and say to them. "Thus far and no farther." Many a man and nny 'a woman is iavinz the health of body as well as the health of soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. I have in time of iclijious awakening had persons iight after night come into the inquiry room and get no peace of soul. After awhile I have bluntly asked them, "Is there not some one against whom you hive a hatred that you are not willing to give up?- After a little confusion they slightly whispercd. "Ycs." Then 1 have said. "You will never find peace with God as long as you retain that virulence." A boy in Sparta having stolen a fox kept him under his coat and, though the fox was gnawing his vitals, he sub titted to it rather than expose his n.isdeed. Many a man with a smiling face has under his j icket an animosity that is gnawing away the strenth of his body and the integrity of his soul. Bet ter ct rid of that hidden fox as soon as possible. There are hundreds of domes tic circles where that which most is needed is the spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart and sisters apart and parents and children apart. Solomou says a brother offended is hirder to be won than a strong city. Are there not enough sacred memories of your child hood to bring you together? The rabbins recount how that Nebu chadnezzar's son had such a spite against his father that after he was dead he had his father burned to ashes and then put the ashes into four sacks and tied them to four eagles' necks, which flew %way in opposite directions. And there are now domestic antipathies that seem forever to haye scattered all pa rental memories to the four winds of heaven. How far the eagles fly with those sacred ashes! The hour of sun down makes to that family no practical suggstion. T homas Carlyle in his bio graphy of Frederick the Great says the old king was told by the confessor he must be at peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven. Then he said to his wife, the queen, "Wvrite to your brother after I anm dead that I forgive him." Roloff, the confessor, saidJ, "Her majesty had better write him im mediately." 'No," said the king; " after I am dead. That will be safer." So) he let the sun of h~s earthly exis tence go down upon his wrath. Again, we ought not to allow the sun to set before forgiveness takes place, because we might not live to see an other day. And what if we should be usherei into the presence of our M1aker with a grudae upon our soul? The 'majority of people depart this life in the night. Between 11 o'clock p. in. and 3 o'clock n ru, there is something in the atmtt1here which relaxes the grip which the body has on the soul, and most people enter the next world throuh the shadows of this world. Perhaps God may have arranged it in that way so as to make the contrast the more glorious. I have seen sunshiny days in this world that must have been almost like the radincee of heaven. Bt as most people le. -e the earth be 'cenl sundown and sunrise they quit this world at its darkest, and heaven, always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Oat of darkness into irradiation. Shall we then leap over the roseate bakt of sunset into the favorite hunt ing greund ot' disease and death, carry ing our animosities with us? Who would want to confront his God, against whom we have all done meaner things than anybody his ever done against us, carrying old gru e? How can we ex pet his forgivenn-s for the greater when we arc not wih'bg to forgive oth ers for thie les? Napoleon was encour age to inderteke the cro'sing of the Alps bee s;* ''harlemagne had previ ously crossed the~n. And all this rug ed path of forgiveness bears the bleed ing footsteps of him who conquered through suffering, and we ought to be willing to follow. On the night of our departure from this life into ths next our one plea wvi' have to be for mercy, and it will have to be offered in the presence of him who has said, "if' you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive your tresasses. -Wnat a sorry plight if we stand there hating this one and hati' hat one and wishing that one a damiage anti wishing sonic one else a calamiity, a::d w-" our selves needing forgiveness for 10,000) obluites of heart and life. When our last hour c oims, we want it to find us all riiht. Hardly anything affects mieso much in the uncovering of Pompeii as the account of the soldier who, after the city had for many centuries been cov ered with the ashes and scorhe of Yesu vius, w'as found standing in his place on guard, hand ou spear and helmet on head. Others tied at the awful sub mergeent, but the explooyer, 1 00 Iyears after, found the body of that brave fellow in right position .And it will be a grand thing7 if, when our last moment comes, we arc found in :igh z position toward God, on gard' and uuaffrigted by the descendin:; ashes 'em the mountain of deth. I do not upose that I am any mere of a coward thn mst pleople, but I declare to yoa tat I vould not dear to sleep tonight if hre were any being i" all th ecarth wi. h whom I would not "ladly shake ia~ 13-ast durng the igh h' us m -prtdimsed to other realms I should Ibecause tof my unforgjjii' spirit, b~e deni'd dittine forgiveness. "Bt tays -come woaten, 'there is a orid ceature that has in jur.d mei ctr theaan mtake up; with her I w 1l die rt." Well, Ai'e, yo'u may it wn- be-your eonr.piete padca of bet er (.&s eternal y;nishment of you. savs some ma-i. "that fellow who cheated ic out of those goods or d:ingeed my business credit or started that lie about me in the newspapers of by his perfidy broke up my domestic happinless. forgive him I cannot, for dive him I will not." Well, brother, I.,e yoar choice. You will never be at Peace wIth God till you are at peace wit h man. Feeling as y-u now do, you would not get so near the harbor of heaven as to see the lighthip. Better leave that man with the God who said, -Venenee is mine, I will repay. You may say. "I will make him aweat forth at yet; I will make him squirm; I mean to pursue him to the death," but you are damaging yourself more than -ou damage him, and you are xaaking Iaven f-r your soul an impossibility. If he will not be reconciled to you, be reconciled to him. In five or six hours ii will be sundown. The dahlias will bloom against the western sky. Somewhere between this and that take .I hovel and bury the old quarrel at least six feet deep "Let not the ,un go down upon your wrath." "But ." you say, "I have niore than I etn bcar: too much is put upon me, atd I am rot to blame if I am some what revengeful and unielenting." Then I think of the little child at the moving of some goods from a store. The father was putting sime solls of goods on te child's arm. package after package, and some one said. "That child is being overlo.ded, and so much ouuht not to be put upon her," when the child resounded, "Father knows iov much I can carry." and God, our Father, will not allow to much im position on his children. In the day of eternity it will be found you had not one annoyance it will be found you had not one annoyance too many; not one exasperation too many; not one outrage too many. You Heavenly Father knows how much you can carry. Again, we oaght not allow the pas sage of the sunset hour before the dis missal of all our affronts, becaus we nay associate the sublimest action of the soul with the sublimest spectacle in nature. It is a most delightsome thing to have our personal experience allied ,with certain subjects. There is a tree or river band where God first answered . our prayer. You will never pass that place or think of that place without thisking- of the glorious communion. There was some gate or some rorm or some garden wall where yon were affianced with the companion who has ehief joy in lise. You never spead ( f tha place but with a smile. Some ( you have pleasant memories connecte with the evening star, or the moon I its first quarter, or with the sunrise. because you saw it just as you wern i riving at harbor after a tem pestuou-s voyage. Forever and forever, 0 hearer, associate the sunset with your magnani m1ou, out aad out, unlimited renuncia of all tatred and forgiveness of all foes I admit it is the most difficult of all graces to.practice, and at the start yon may make a complete failure, but ke: on in the attempt to practic! it. Shakespeare wrote ten plays before he reached "Hamlet" and 17 plays before he reached "Merchant of Venice" and 20 plays before he reached "Macbeth." and gradually you will come from the easier graces to the most difficult. Besides that, it is not a matter of ersonal determination so much as the laying hold of the almighty arm of God, who will help us to do any thing we ought to do. Remember that in all controverfies the one least to blame will have to take the firrt step at paci fication if it is ever effectee. The contest between ..aEchines and Aris tippus resounds through history, but Aristippus, who was least to blame, went to Mechines and said, "Shall we not agree to be friends fefore we make ourselves the laughing stock of the whole country?" And ?schines said, "Thou art a far better man than I, for I began the anarrel, but thou hast been the first in hiealing the breach," and they were always friends afrerwards. So let the ore oa y, that is least to blame take the tirst step toward recon ciliation. The one mast in the wrong will never take it. Oh, it makes one feel spelndid to be able by God's help to practice unlimit ed forgiveness. It improves one's body and soul. My brother, it will make you measure three or four more inches around the chest and improve your respiration so that you can take a deeper and longer breath. It improves the countenance by scattering the glom and makes you somewhat like God himself. He is omnipotent of all the universe, and we cannot copp that. He is creative, and we cannot copy that. 11L is omnipresent, and we can not copy thLt. But he forgives with a broad s weep all faults, and all neglects. and all insults, and all wrong-doings, and in that we may copy Mim with mighty success. Go harness that sublimne action of your soul to the sun set-the hour when the gate of heaven opens to let the day pass into the eternities, and some of the glories escape this way through the brief open ing. We talk about the Italiatn nuis~ sets and sunset amid the Avemtae and sunset amid the condille:as, but I will tell you how you may see a grander sunset than any mere lover of nature ever beheld; that is by flinging into it all your hatreds and animosities, and let the horses of fire trample them, and the spearmnen of fire stab them, and the chariots of the fire roll over them, and the spearmen of fire stab them, and the beach of fire consume them, and the billows of fire overwhelm them. Mohammed said, "The sword is the key of heaven and hell." But, my hearers, in the last day we will find just the opposite of that to be true, and that the sword never unlocks heaven, and that he who heals wounds 's greater than he who makes them, and that on the same ring are two keys -G od's forgiveness of us and our for eivnss of enemies-and these two keys unlock paradise And now I wish for all of you a beau tiful sunset to your earthly existence. With some of you it has been a long day of trouble, and with others of you it will be far from calm. WXhen the sun rose at 6 o'clock, it was the morn iig of youth, and a fair day was prophesied, but by the time the noon day or middle life had come, and the clock of your earthly existence had sru'k 12, cloud racks gathered, and tempest bellowed in the track of tempest. But as the eveninr of o' i age approached. I pray God the e nmay brighten and the elouds be pil.ed up into pillars as of celestial reiu;'Y> which you go, or move as with nuunted cohorts come to take you htome. And a you sink cut of sight below the h~oronl, may there be a radiance of Cr"stian examiple lingering long after oI are uo-ne. and on the heavens be wrtten 'iu letters of sapphire and on thut ates in letters of opal and on the hils in letters of emerald, "Thy sun saal no more go down, neither ahall ty moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shal tbe thine everlast'ng light, and the day of thy mouruing shall be ended." So shall the sunset of earth CONFERECEE. Methodist Ministers Make Many Moves. WHERE THE PREACHERS GO. The Appointments of the South Carolina Methodist Confer ence. More Changes I han Last Year. The South Carolina Confereuce of the Methodist Episcopal Chur:h, South, convened in the Methodist Church at Orangeburg last Wednesday morning. The Conference transacted much busi ness of importance, and Monday the names of the mninisters and the ebarges to which they were appointed was made public. Below will be found a list of Sthe appointments: C I .\RLESTo.5 10SiTRICT. A J Stokes, Presiding Eder. Allendaie- I .1 Cauthen, Jr Beaufort-,A B Earl. P1inopoli--W T Patrick. D-ack ,wamp-W G Kirkland. Char eston- Irinity, J W Kilgo; Bethel, E 0 Watson: Spring sreet, Jno Owen: Cum berlind, .1 L larler. Etrhardt-tl C Nlruzon. Cypress-J L Muiliuix. Ri g-land-W R Burthanan. Hlampton-E K Moore. liarle)ville-E M MKissick Hendersonville-- 0 N Rountree. McCellaavdl'e-J F Way. Port Royal-Il E Turnipseed. Ridgeviie-Rt W uwphries Round 0 and St. Pau -J C Davis. Fumm rville-G P Watson. St. George's station-W B Duncan Grover-) A Calhour. C,>rdesville-D A Patrick. Walterboro-J E Carliile Secretary E tucation -J W Kilgo. Assis ant Edi~or S. C. Advocate-S A Weber. Chaplain Port Society-P A Murray. Mt Pieasant-To b- -upplied. COKESBCRY DIsTRicT. R k Child, Pcesiding Elder. Abbcvill -J W Dauiel. Antreville -S T Blackman. Butler-li W Whitaker. 'okesbury-J L Daniel. Dona'ds-W B Wharton. Greenwood-P L Ktrton. Greenwood City Mission-Supp'ied. Kinardls-J J Stevenson Lowndesville-Peter Stokes. WloCormick-W T Duncan. \b. Carmel-Henry Stokes. Ninety-six-W L Wait. Newberry-Johnston Street, W I Herbert; 'YNeal Street, J W Speake. Newberry circuit-D P Boyd. Pa'ksville-F E Hedges. 1henix-M M Braboam. Princeton-4 W Henry Prostoerity-W H Ariail. 4aluda-A S LeAlie. Verde y-S J Bethea. I Waterloo-W C Winn Coice:bury Conference Szhool -W S Stokes. CO.L'BIA DISTRICT. E T 11 dges, Presiding Eider. Biteshurg, A C Walter. Columbia, Washington sareet, W R Rich ar son; Main street, S d Zimmerman; Green street, Granby and Richland, J E Mahaffey; Brookiaud aLnd Heiron, C D Mann; Edge wood, kt S Treadale; Hyatt's Park, to be bup plied. Edgefield, G W Davis. Faireeld, R WV Spisener. Fort Motte, J C Welch. Graenitevilre, E P Hutson. Johnston, 8 P 1? Et Bwnll. Lengley, R C Bout ware. Lesvi le', J F Anderson. Lewiedale, J M Lawson. Lexington, J N Wright. Lexington Fork, J S Abercrombie. Rlidgeway, W S Good win. Upper St. Mi'tbews, J W Ariail. Winisboro, J D) Crout. Southern Christian Advocate, Jno. 0. Will son. Colombia Female College, W W Daniel. Epworth Orphanage, G R Waddell. Paine Institute, Geoc. WV Walker Warrenville, Rt E Mood. FLoRENCE DIsTRICT. M Dargan, Presiding Elden. Cheraw station, E G Price. Cheraw circu.ii', A B Weldon.. Caeussen, J L Roy. C.yde, W M Harden. Darlington, C B Smith. Darlington circuit, A R Phillips. Florence, J T Pate. Georgetown, J L~ Stokes. Georgetown circuit,.] A White. Hartsville circuit. 3 W Humbert. Johnsonville. J R S jouirner. Kingstree circ it, WV S Martin. Laae City, J E Rushtonz. Lamar, G .'1 B tyd. Lanes, Rt M DoBose. Rome A E Holler. S~lters, WV H Thrower. Scran-on. W C Kelley. South Fiorence, 0 1 Durant. Tnmonsvi he, H J Cauthen. Cartersville, Win. huff. GRtFEvIL.LE DisTRICT. J B Wilson, Presiding E der. Anderson, St. John's, J B Campbilell: West End, S B Harper. Easley and Bethesda, W E Wiggius? Fountain Inn circuit, G C Leonard. Greenville, Butncombe street, G T Har mon; City Mills, B G Murphy; St. Paul's, M B Keley. G-eenville circuit, T J White. Greer's, J C Roper. Mo Lure circuit, C W Burgess. Nrth lPickens circuit, J N Stone. Bz, sville, 83 M Robertson. Pc zer T GI herbert. P - 's r'rtit. RL E Sta~khouse. PIckens cuc... h Rt Dagnall. Pedmont, 12 C Lison. Reidviile, J WV Shelhl. Seneca at d Walhal a, G F Clarkson. Starr and Ira. t) M ahney. Town'lie, John W Bailey. Travellers' Rest, J P Attaway Waihalla and Newry. To be supplied. Westminster, D) W Keller. West Pickens, L L Inabinet; A M itta way, superounerary. Wiiamuaton and Belton, P F Kilgo. Willumneton circuit, A W Attaway. Asitant S S Editor, L F Beaty. Wiiiamaton Female College, S Lan ler. SIAlt ON DIsTRICr. W C Power, Presiding Elder. Bayboro-tE M Merritt. Bennettsvil'e station-C W Creighton. Bennetsville circuit-A J Cauthen. Blenheim-D Tiller. Bightsville-W B Bakter. Briton's Neck-W E Barre. Bucksville-M F Dukes. Centenary-J S Porter. Clio- l' M Dent. Conway station-J W Elkins. Cool Springs Crcui-E FScoggins. Conway Circuit, T B R.-ynolds. Dillon Station-C C Herbert. Ltta-3] E Beard. little Rock-J A~ (mzn hell. Little hRive- !an .\i :,,u treuit a d \i'tls-II- La Singleton. McColl Circui and Mit s-T L Belv'n. Mulin-A B Waetsn North MsnrlbooJ H Noland. North Mulis-G~ R Shaffer. Waccamaw--G WI Gatlin. cRANtto DISTRIor. H1 B Browne, PresIding Elder. Aken, A J SrMif.d. Bambherg, T Ct)'dell. Barnwell, .J G eek with. Ba'ncheille. W A Wright. Biling sprintgs, E Z James. Denmark, G E Stokes. Edito, .1 C Yongue, Lower St. Matthews, M W Hook, Orangeburg Staetiorn, WV A Rogers. Orangeburg Circuit, W W Williams. Providenc3, B M Grier. Roweaville Station, JC Chandler. South Branchville, J D Frierson. Springfield, R C McRoy. Swansea, W C Gleaton. Waener, To he supplie 1. Willistcn, T T Macfarlane. ROCK HILL DI5LTRICT. H W Brys, Presiding Elder. Blacksburg, D M .ilcLeod. B ackstock, P B Ingrahm. Chester, J E Grier. Chester Circuit, J B Traywick. ( hestrfteld, A F Berry. E4Ast Chester, W H \liller. Fort 1ill, R A Yongne ffickory Grove, R W BIrber. .eff-rson, L. L. 5edenbaugh. Lancaster-R N Brunson. Lancaster Circuit and City Mission, %1 H Pooser. North Rock Hill. J 0 SJoll. Richburg, N B Clarkaon. Rock Hili, J 6 Bealey. Rock Hill Circuit, J B Harris. Tradesville, C Li Clyde. Yorkville, J N1 Steadman. Yr-rk Circuit. 8 I Buoth. Van Wyck, J I Spin ks. SPARTANBUYo DI-TRICT. W P Mcadors, Prsidtng Fleder. Belmont, M L Banks Jr. Clifton and Cowpens, 8 D Vaughn. Cher kee, W J Snyder. Clinton, J M Friday. Campobello, A H Best. Enoree-D Hucks Gaffney, w H Hodges. Gaffney Circuit, 6 T Creech. Jonesville Beckham. Kelton, J N Isom. Laturens, it H Jones. Laurens City Mission, J 11 Shell. No- th Laurens Circuits. J K McCain. Pacolet Mills btatio3, E S Jones. Paculet ( ircuit, 8 A Nettles. Santuc, C B Burns. Spartanburg, Centril, '% L rarlisle; Duncan, W A Fairey; Bethel and Glendale, R. T. Hobrayd. Union, Grace Church, W A Massebeau; Union Mills, F H Shuler: Whitmire, W B Jestus SUMTER DISTRICT. T J Clyde, Presidiog Elder. Betbauy. J R. Copeland. Bishopville, E P Taylor. Camden, W M Duncan. Camden Circtit. To be supplied Foreston, F Speer. Heath Springs Station, D A Phillips. Jordan, W A Pitts. Kershaw. W -t Betts. Lynchburg. E W Mason. Man-ing Station. P W Wells. New Z:on, 0 R Whittaker. OswA'o, J H Thacker. iichland, J C Counts. Santee, A T Dunlap. Smithville, J H Graves. Sumter, Sumter Sotion, .1 A Clifton; Magnolia St. Mission, W A Kelly; cumter ircuit, 8 D Bai'ey. Wate ee. J E Strickland. Wedgefield, G H Pooser. Best Place to Be Robbed. Of all cities In the world, if a person must be robbed, Vienna is the town In which to have the performance enact ed. Some time ago a Boston gentle man had his watch, a valuable gold one, and a sum of money stolen from him while in that city. He offered $50 reward for the recovery of the property. The watch did not appear, and on returning to America he left his name and address sAd the number of his watch, together with the amount of the reward. with the police. A short time ago the gentleman received is watch, together with the reward ntact, and a polite note from the Dl rector saying that It was against the rules for ptolicemlen to recive money re wards; of course if a civilian had re covered the watch the reward would have been paid. The only charge was 50 cents. the expense of transporting the watch from New York to Boston. The thief bad been arrested in Vienna, the watch had been found upon him and forwairded by the City Govern ment ot' Vienna free of charge to New York. There Is a degree of Innocence about the Vienna police that suggests odious comparisons. struck thae Rtaht Attorney. Owing to good crops and other causes, the prosperity of Kansas has been very great during the last year or two, and thousands of farmers have ben enabled to remove the financial encumbrances that rested upon their broad acres. A man In one of the interior coun ties, having disposed of his crop to good advantage and finding himself possessed of several thousand dollars In cash. went to the county seat one day, and while on his way to the court house stepped Into an attorney's offie to obtain a little legal advice. "You're a lawyer, ain't you?" he said, addressing the only occupant of the room. "Yes, sir,"' answered the other, "What can I do for you?" "'What's your name?" "My name is Derrick." "You'll do." rejoined the farmer. nodding his head. "I want your help. Mr. Derrick in liftin a mortgage off my farm.''-Youlths' Companion. Turkeys Tracked By Dogs. The wild turkey In the Ozarks is now hunted with a slow-tracking dog, and whole flocks are often killed in this way. Till the trained dog was cem ployed to follow up the wary bird this game fowl could baffle the most skill ful hunter. Now when a flock of tur keys is found the sportsman has little difficulty. A good dog will follow a turkey track that is three or four hours old, and set the birds when overtaken, just as the pointer does the quail. After the turkey had been chased awhile It hides in a tree or under a log, and stays there until the hunter, guided by his dog, comes within close range. It is astonIshing what fine instinct a good turkey dog will develop after a few months of training in the woods. He will follow a fiock of turkeys for hours just ahead of the hunter. tdd in dcate by unmistakable signs when the game is near. After a turkey has re ceived a fatal shot it may fly for a half a mile or more. A trained dog will go straight to a wounded or dead turkey with the same precision with which he tracks the game. Andersonville Prison. A recent visitor to Andersonville. where the Union soldiers wereipris oned years ago, says that the earth works and stockade are still preserved and that the wells dlug by the prison ers are In as good condition as if they had just been completed. "Providence spring," so named because it seemed' to have suddenly burst from the ground just at a time when the sol diers were suffering for water Is still the same, having kept up a constant low of pure, clear water ever since. "I t'-0-:-e.nd Gregory's wife Is er., iingofa poet." ' How do you know?" "I was down in Jersey with them and drove by a meadow where a lot of lambs were frisking, and she said sometin;; hout mint sauce and green peas."-Detroit Journl. Fireworks for Christmas. The Columbia Stationery Cominny in its new advertisement, would call the attention of dealers to its stock of fire works-ready for shipment in full time for the Christmas holidays. Read what they have to say. Buchu. Gin and Juniper is a com bination of curatives to which The Murray IDrug Company, of Columbia call attention in their new advertise ment TReadl it. EARN $10,000 A YEAR THIS IS THE RECORD OF THREE ELE PHANTS IN THE LONDON ZOO. These Hugo Beasts Earn Their 3Ioney By Carrying on Their B1acks Patrons of the Gardens-They Are As Jealous Hearted As Actresses. Three elephants earn $10,000 a year. This is $2,000 more than the salary of a member of the President's Cabinet, and $3,000 less than the income of an admiral in the navy, a rank done away with because Congress thought the salary too high. These elephants are at the London Zoo, and they earn their money by carrying on their backs the patrons of the gardens. Every 'Arry takes his 'Arriet and hies him to the Zoo on bank holidays, and for five cents they can jog about the ring on the back of one of the elephants. The elephants are stationed in differ ent parts of the Zoo, and there seems to be a bit of professional jealousy be tween them. Apparently they are on very good terms between hours, but when business is brisk, and the largest one is coining money, for he is the fav orite, the other two try to lash him with their trunks as he passes. The largest elephant is a financial record breaker. He is the senior member of the firm, so to speak. On one holiday he carried 1,600 persons. There are camels which are sought after by those left out in the scramble for the elephants. but the old patrons of the Zoo say the uneven motion of a camel is only appreciated by an old salt, who is most at home on an ex ceedingly choppy sea. The camels are too cultivated a taste for the ordin ary mortal to affect. Three camels earn about $1,200 a year, but they cost less to keep than their more successful brothers. The elephants eat up most of their profits. The greatest number of visitors to the Zoo in one day was 44,000, and an av erage of 500 pounds of dainties were fed to the brothers of the royal execu tioner of India. The Migration of Robins. For many years naturalists like Au dubon and Wilson studied and wrote of this bird before it was known that there were "robin roosts," as well as pigeon roosts. Only within the last few years was the fact brought out that a bird more familiarly known thau the passenger pigeon followed this mode of spending the night, although it adopted spring instead of fall for massing by hundreds in a high shel tered wood for a night's protection from cold, or because it is the period before pairing time, or for some other reason at present beyond man's ken. With what stealth must this well-known and much-observed bird have found its way in such numbers to the same patch of timber night after night in the early months of the year, according to lo cality coming from all directions so swiftly that a secreted observer could not count, keeping up a chatter that could be heard for a long distance, un til the last bird, somewhat belated, perhaps, found shelter In the darken ing grove, when all became silent as thousands of wings were folded to rest. Another peculiar trait of the robin, unnoted except by so keen an ob server of bird ways as Maurice Thompson, is that, with all its friendly and confiding relations with the human family during the time of nesting and rearing its young, in the fall of the year, it becomes a wild bird, betaking itself largely to the woods and even the secluded parts of mountains, at this season showing little disposition to be on famillar terms with man, giving a note of alarm and flying high and swiftly when surprised at his approach. At this time they range over extensive tracts of country, but nearly always evince a tendency to seclusion. The writer has seen them in small ficeks flying over a wide valley at such an ele vation that only by the wefl known sharp squeak, rather than by the eye, could he surely determine that they were robins. Even in its migratory habits this bird is somewhat peculiar. They seem to move southward in the fall with more tardiness than most other birds, al lowing the increased severnties of the cold season to push them off the win ter's edge. Or are these late goers the birds inured to cold by a residence in the States further north, which. coming southward, take the place of others that have gone earlier in the season? The question of Identity, al ways a difficult one. almost precludes argument on this point. Novel U'se for Japanese Newspapers. A Lewiston man, a chemist, went into a well-known Lisbon street variety store the other day and began to pick out things of interest and tell where they were made and what they were made of. He found several things made in Japan, where he supposed that the newspapers, which he especially has no liking for, have no pull with the public. It so happened that the storekeeper knew something about the forcefulness of Japanese newspapers, and he took up a little white skeleton, made in the exact shape of the human one, and a good specimen of Japanese art. This the Lewiston chemist thought was odd, and he couldn't guess what it was made f but said that he would like to see what it was made of. He went away saying that Japan was destined to be a great country because it was not over riddea by newspapers. When the chemist got home he put the little Japanese plaything into the water and soaked It out. Gradually it unrolled till it peeled off, bone by bone, and the little rolls were found to be closely printed paper, evidently old Japanese newspapers, used by the makers of the little playthings. The chemist took the rolls to a friend of his who has been studying Japanese ai little, and he picked out sentences here and there such as: "The Chinese army was cornered at Port Arthur." and "Fearful slaughter of the Orientals-On both sides." The next time he went Into the variety store, says the Lewiston Journal, he found his friend, the store keeper grinning out of his eyes at him. "What were the Japanese skeletons made ofy' asked the store man. "Ne wsprpers." ad the chemist. A soul occupiod with grent idens nest performs smell -dutie: the divin st views oft life p,'rotrat. miost rienrly nto the mannel('t eme,~renies&.-Mair FREE BLOOD CURE. AnOff.r Proving Faith to Safferers. Eating Sores, Tumuors. Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Srofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skih Eruptions. Pim pes, Red. 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