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TH 'ItA EYE Rev. Dr. Taimage's Sermon on the System's Imperial Organ HOW GOD HONORS THE EYE. The Two Great Lights of tne Human Face. God Not a Blind Giant Stum bli!-, Through Heaven. In this discourse Dr. Talmage. in bis own way. calls attention to that part of the human body never peri.ar's a, courted 'pon in the pulpit and ch lengs us all to the stuey ti omfl" cience: text, Psalixeiv, ."i U formei the eye, shall he rut stee" 1he imperial organ of tie human system is the eye. All up and k:., the Bible God Honors it. exI 0. illustrates it or arraigus i t. hundred and thirty four tiums ;t mentionedin the Bible. Uamivrea iO ---the eyes of the Lord are IL every place." Divine care-"as the apple of the eye." The elouds-- *the eyelids of the morning." Irreverence-"the eye that mocketh at his fatLer." Pride "oh, how lofty are their eyes." Inat tention-'the fool's eye in the ends of the earth." Divine inspetion "wheels full of eyes." Suddenness "in the twinkling of an eye at the Iant trum." Olivetic sermon--the light of the body is the eye." This morn ing's text, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see? The surgeons, the doctors, the anto mists and the physiologists understand much of the glories of the two great lights of the human race, but the vast multitudes go on from cradle to grave without any appreciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Al mighty. If God had lacked aoything of infinite wisdom, he would have failed in creating the human eye We wander through the earth trying to sec wonderful sights, but the most wonder ful sight we ever see is not so wonder ful as the instruments through which we see it. I suppose my text referred to the human eye, since it excels all others in Structure and adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are very simple thi gs because they have not much to do. There are insects with a hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have less faculty than the two hu man eyes. The black beetle swim ming the summer pond has two eyes under the water and two eyes above the water, but the four insectile are not equal to the human. M-an placcd at the head of all living creatures mut have supreme equipments, while the blind fish in the Mammoth cave ol Kentucky have only an undeveloped organ of sight. an apology for the eye, which if through some crevice of the mountain they should go into the sur light might be developed into posi eyesight. In the fist chapter of Genesis we find that God vithout any cousultation cre ated the light, created the trees, cre ated the fis.:. created the fowl, but when he was about to make man he called a convention ot' divinity, as as though to imply that all the powers of Godhead were to be ealst ni in the achievenaent. "Let us wrie man. Pat a whole ton of emphasis on that word "us.' "Let us make man." And if God called a convention of divinity to create man, I think the two great questions in that conference were how to create a soul and how to make an appropriate window for that emnpcror to look out of. See how God honored the eye before he created it. Ht. cried until chasoc was irradiated with utterane. 'let there be light!" la other words, before he introduced ma~n into this temple of the world be illumined it, prepared it for the eyesight. And so after the last human eye has been destroyed in the final demolition of the world, stars are to fall and the sun is to cease its shining and the moon is to turn into blood. In other words, after the human eyes are no more to be profited by their shining the chande liers of heaven are to be turned out. God, to educate and to bless and to help the human eye, set on the mantel of heaven two lamps-a gold lamp and a silver lamp-the one for the day and the other for the night. To show how God hos is the eye, look at the two halls built for the resi dence of the eyes. Seven bones la-' ing the wall for each eye. the seven' bones curiously wrought together. Kingly palace of ivory is considered rich, but the halls for the residence of the human eyes are richer by so much as human bone is more sacred than elephantine tusk. See how God hen' ored the eyes when he made a roof for them, so that the sweat of toil should not smart them and the rain dashing against the forehead might not drip into them; the eyebrows not bending over the eye, but reaching to the right and to the left so that the rain and trne sweat should be compealed to drop upon the cheek instead of falling into this divinely protected human eyesight. See how God honored the eye in the fact presented by anatomists and physi ologists that there are 800 contriv~ioces in every eye. For win'dow shutters. the eyelids opening and closing 30.000) times a day. The eyelashes so cou structed that they have their selection as to what shall be admitted, saying to the dust, "Stay out," and saying to the light, Come in." For inside curtain. the iris or pupil of the eye, according as the light is greater of .iess, con tracting or dilating. The eye of the owl is blind in the daytime, the eyes of some creatures are blind at night, but the human eye so marvelously con structed it can see both by day and by night. Many of the other creatures of God can move the eye only from side to side, but the human eye, so marve lously constructed, has one muscle to lift the eye and another muscle to lower the eye and another muscle to roll it to the left and another rausele passing through a pulley to turn i round and rournd, an elaborate geatriug of six muscles as perfect as God couldi make them. There is also the retina gathering the rays of light and passing the visulal itn pression along the optic nerve about the thicknes of the lamp wick, pasaing the visual impression on to the sen-' sorium and on into the soul. What a delicate lens, what an erguisite screen, what soft cushions, what wo.derfu chemistry of the human eye' The eye" washed by a slow stream itar whether we sleep or wake.A roligle perceptibly over the rebole~ of th y and emptying into a tJune of thels tril, a con.trivance so wodru bti can see the sun 940, UOy' of 'lsya and the point of a pin. Teice pe am miscroscope in the same contri'.'~c 'The astronomer swings and a'e :E way and that and adjusts and readjusts f'us. The microscopist moves and that and adjusts and read umde 1-sauifi1 glass until it is to o its work, but the human a touch beholds the star d esalest inseet. The traveler ,e A.s with one glance taking n 'ut Blanc and the face of his to see whether he has time to Oh, this wonderful camera whieh you and I carry about us so Irom the top of Mount aneton we can take in New Eng Ssoat night we can sweep into one vis.on the con-tellations from horizon O z So delicate, so seni-infi n~' ite ad e the lighlt comnhg 9~Ah00 u.) o" il at tie rate of 200,000 es a ecd is obliged to halt at the ae te eve, waitig until the port uted. Something hurled - iles and striking an in , :. li s not the agitation .a Likin under the power of the Tre abo is the merciful arrange t e tear gland by which the A i wa!heS. and through which rolls ide which brings relief that comes ;1 ears when some bereavment or great l ' tkes us. The tear not an aug 'enkation of sorrow, but the breaking up of the arctic of frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of consolation. in eapacity to weep is madness or death. Thank God for the tear glands and that the crystal gates are so easily opened. Oh, the wonderful hydraulic apparatus of the human eye' Divinely construct ed vision. Two ligbthouses at the har bor of the immortal soul under the shiniu of which the world sails in and drops anchor. What an anthem of praise to God is the human eye! The tongue is speech less and a clumsy instrument of expres sion as compared with it. Have you not seen the eye flash with indignation, or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand with devotion, or melt with sympathy, or stare with fright, or leer with villainy or droop with sadness, or pale with envy, or fire with revenge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam with k 1? It is tragedy and comedy and pas-oral and lyric in turn. Have you not seen its uplifted brow of surprise, or its frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain? If the eye say one thing and the lips say another thing, you believe the eye rather than the lips. The eyes of Archibald Alexander and Charles G. Finney were the mightier part of their sermons. George Whitefield enthralled creat assemblages with his eyes, though they were crippled with strabismus. Many a military chieftain has 1with a look hurled a regiment to victory or to death. Martin Luther turned his great eye on an assassin who came to take his life, and the villain fled. Under the glance of the human eye the tiger, with five times a man's strenth, snarls back into the African jungle. How it adds to John Milton's sublim i:v of charactea when we find him at the call of duty sacrificing his eyesight. Th rugh studying at late 'hours and rig &all kinds of medicament to pre ser-e his sight he had for 12 years beer coming toward blindness, and af aw bile one eye was entirely gone. Ii.s physician warned him that if he continued reading and writing he would lose the other eye. But he kept on his I wrK aad said after sitting in total darnes "The choice lay be~ e me between dereliction of a supreme duty and loss of eyesight. In such a case I coulde not listen to the physician, not i enulaplus himself had spoken from 'is ,anictuary. I could not but obey that inwara monitor. I know not what spoke to me from heaven." Who of us would have grace enough to sacrifice our eyes at the call of duty? But. thank God, some have been enabled to see without very good eyes. IGeneral Hlavelock, the son of the more famous~ General Havelock. told me this concerning his father: In India, while ri dfatr and himself, with the army, were ec'amnped one evening time after a oa'acii, General Havelock called uphssoiaters and addressed them, sa.o n words as near as I can recol .et:"Sliers, there are two or three 'rundred 'somen, chiidren and men at C awupur at the mercy of Nana Sahib &nd his butchers. These poor people may any honer be sacrificed. How man-; of you e 'il go with me for the res cue of tho:e women and children? I know you are all worn out, and so am I, but all those who will march with me to save those women and children hold up your hand." Then Havelock said: " ~It is almost dark, and my eye-sight is very poor, and I cannot see your raised hands, but I know they are all up. Farvard to Cawnpur." That hero's eyes, though almost extinguished in the service of God and his country, could see across India and across the centuries. But let anybody who has one good eye be thankful, and all who have two good eyes be twice as thank ful. Take care of your eyes and thank God every morning when you open them for capacity to see the light. I do not wonder at the behavior of a poor man in France. He had been born blitd, but was a skillful groom in the stables. The Earl of Bridgewater, in his last will and trestament,bequeathed $40,000 for essay,3 to be written on the power adwi-domn and goodness of God as manifestedi m' creation, and Sir Charles BDll. t he Briti-sh sur. fresh from Coruna amnd Waterloo. where he had been tend ing the wounded and studying the for mation of the human body amid the amputating horrrs of the battlefield, are'ted the invitation to write one of those Bridgewater treatises, and he wrote his book on the human hand, a book that Will hiye as long as the wcrld lives. Today I have only hinted at the splendors, the glories, the wonders, the divine revelations, the apocalypses. of the huaman eye, and I stagger back fom the awful portals of the physiolo cial miracle which must have taxed the ingenuity of a God to cry out in your ears the words of my text. "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" Shali Herschel not know as much as his telescope? Shall- Fraunhofer not koow as much as his spectroscope? Shl Swammerdam not know as much as is m.icroscope? Shall Dr. Hooke not ko as much as his micrometer? Shal the thing formed know more than its makei'r? "He that formed the eye, sha eno see?' Th ecil of this questionis tremen do.~ WAe stand at the center of a va crcumference of observation. No prvc.Oa us eyes of cherubim, eysofsraphim. eyes of archangel, 'habitantd. sW ma not be able to seetheinhbitntsof other worlds, btprpsthey may be able to see us. We -av nt optical instruments strong todesv th'em. Perhaps they hae 'ia instruwents strong enough o 'esery us. The mole cannot see the eag'le 'idair, but the eagle midsky can Ce ihfmle midgrass. We are able to see- mountalis andI caverns of another w ord buierhaps the inhabitants of othe woldscan see the towers of our so h ash of our seas, the march n r rocessions, the white robes ofe :iins the black scarfs tf our a No. Ifpasses out from the as no depoitive when we are a ir 'h Bile 'nat the inhabitants they -aot all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation? But human inspection and angelic inspection and stellar inspection and lunar inspection and solar inspection are tame as compared with the thonght of divine inspection. "You converted me 20 years ago." said a colored man to my father. "How so?" said my father. "Twenty years ago," siid the other, -in the old schoolhouse prayer meet ing at Bound Brook, you said in your prayer, 'Thou God seest me,'and I had no peace under the eye of God until I became a Christian." Hear it: "The eyes of the Lord are in every place." His eyelids try the children of men." His eyes were as a flame of fire." "I will guide thee with mine eye." Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of power, so full of love, so full of in dignation, so full of compassion, so full of mercy! How it peers through the darkness! How it outshines the day! How it glares upon the offender! How it beams on the penitent soul! Talk about the human eye as being lde scribably woLderful-how much more wonderful the great. searching, over whelming eye of God! All eternity to come on that retina. The eyes with which we look into each other's face to day suggest it. It stands written twice on your face and twice on mine, unless through casualty one or both have been obliterated. "He that formed the eye shall not see?" Oh, the eye of God! It sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them sees our wants to sympathize 'vith them. If we fight him back, the eye of an antagonist. If we ask his grace, the eye of an everlasting friend. You often find in a book of manu script a star calling your attention to a footnote or explanation. That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all the stars of the night heavens are asterisks calling your attention to Gol, an all observing God. Our every nerve a divine handwriting. Our every mus le a pulley divinely swung. Our every bone sculptured with divine sug gestiveness. Oar every eye a reflec tion of the divine eye. God above us and God beneath us and God before us and God behind us and God within us. What a stupendous thing to live! What a stupendous thing to die! N. such thing as hidden trangression. A dramatic advocate in olden times at night in a courtroom, persuaded of the innocence of his client charged with murder and of the guilt of the wit ness who was trying to swear the poor man's life away-that advocate took up two bright lamps and thrust them close up to the face of the witness and cried, "May it please the court and gentle men of the jury, behold the murderer!" and the man practically under that aw ful glare confessed that he was the criminal instead of the man arraigned at the bar. Oh, my friends, our most hidden sin is under a brighter light than that! It is under the burning eye of God. He is not a blind giant stumbling through the heavens. He is no: a blind monarch feeling for the step of his chariot. Are you poor? He sees it. Have you domestic perturbation of which the world knows nothing? He sees it. "Oh," you say, "my affairs are so insignificant I can't realize that God sees me and sees my affairs!" Can you see the point of a pin? Can you see the eye of a needle? Can you see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God given you that power of minute observation and does he not possess it himself? "Hie that formed the eye, shall he not see? But you say: -'God is in one world and I am in another world. He seems so far off from me I don't really think he sees what is going on in my life." Can you see the sun 95,000,000 miles away, and do you not-think God has as prolonged vision? But you say. "There are phases of my life and there are colors, shades of color in my annoy anees and my vexations that I don't think God can understand." Does not God gather up all the colors and all the shades of color in the rainbow? And do you suppose there is any phase or any shade in your life that he has not gathered up in his own heart? Besides that, I want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle. That eye of yours so exquisitely fash ioned and strung and hinged and roofed will before long close in the last slum ber. Loving hands will smooth down the silken fringes. So he giveth his beloved sleep. A ledgend of St. Frotobert is that his mother was blind and he was so sorely pitiful for the misfcrtune that one day in sympathy he kissed her eyes and by miracle she saw everything. But it is not a legend when I tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resurrection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who wenj groping through this world under per petual obscuration or were dependent on the handi of a friend or with an un certain staff felt the way, and for the aged of dim sight, about ,whom it might be said that "they which look out of the windows be darkenii when eternal daybreak comes in! What a beautiful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European ceme tery: "Here reposes in God Katrina, a saint, 85 years of age and blind. The light was restored to her May 10, 1840." To Guard Mules. It is stated that there are British warships within easy reach of the Miississippi assigned to the duty of escorting the mule transports when they shall have been loaded with animals from New Orleans for South Africa. The presence of the warships in the gulf waters is said to have been brought about by advices received at the British war office in London to the effect that two old hulks had been fitted out by American sympathizers with the Boers, with the avowed intention of capturing and sinking the mule trans ports as soon as they had left the mouth of the river for the voyage across the Atlantic. Exposition in Charleston. At a large and representative meet ing of business men held in Charleston Tuesday night the Industrial Ehxposi tion project was launched by the ap pointment of a comnmitto3 for prelimin ary work. The plans now considered contemplate a grand state or interstate exposition to be held in Charleston in 1901. One of the most notable fea tures of the meeting was the raising of $1,500 in fifteen minutes for the ex penses of the investigation ordered. The exposition idea has already been endorsed by the governor, congressmen and leading business and professional men of South Carolina. Head Blown Off Lewis Buchansn, aged :30 years, white, working in a mica inne near Elk Park, Md., Thursday afternoon, after loading a hole and waiting the time usually allowed for it to fire, went back and was leaniug over Lhc charge, cleaning it out, when it 'exploded and blewhimt pieces, half of his head CASESOF RELAPSE. Instances of Persons Afflicted With Troublesome Habits. Question. You say that every man who takes a full course of this treat ment as prescribed by Doctor Keeley is cured. Why is it that some who take the treatment drink again? Answer. For the same reason that some men will have a second or even a third attack of pneumouia, typhoid fever, appendicitis or any ether disease. It is because the same causes or agen cies being brought into operation a see ond time will produce the same results as in the first instance. Certain causes are always followed by certain effects. It is well known that the relation be tween cause and effect is always the same. Introduce into the system suffi cieht typhoid fever germs and there will be an attack of typhoid fever. Intro duce a certain amount of arsenic and there will be arsenical poison. A cer tain amount of any poison will be fol lowed by a poisoning bearing the char acteristics of the poison introduced into the system, and alcohol is no ex ception to the rule. The chief difficul ty lies iu the fact that the general public do not look upon alcohol as one of the poisons. They all recognize that the use of strychnia in other than a certain amount produces a poisoning of the nervous system as exhibited by muscular twitching, involuntary move ments, spasms, convulsions and death, unless antidoted and removed from the system in time. There is no actual dif ference in the poisoning by alcohol and the poisoning by any other of the known poisons. Any man taking a cer tain amount of alcohol will exhibit tie signs of alcoholic poisoning varying in degree according to the susceptibility of the man and the amount of alcohol used. There is a great difference in the susceptibility of individua's to alcohol as there is in their susceptibility to other medicines. One or two grains of quinine will in some persons produce quinism or quinine poisoning, while with others 10, 15 or 20 grains would be required to produce this effect. So it is with alcohol; a half pint of whiskey will affect some persons much more than a quart will affect others, and whether the user has taken but a half a pint or a quart as the case be, alco holic poisoning ensues. Repetitions of the act create the disease known as al coholism or alcoholic poisoning, and the characteristic effects of alcoholic poisoning are manifested. Now any man taking a full course of the treat ment as prescribed by Doctor Keeley is as thoroughly cured of the alcoholic poisoning as the man who is cared of Ptrychnia poisoning, arsenical poison ing, typhoid fever or other diseases produced by poisons, and the perma nency of the cure of alcoholism is with one exception on exactly the same basis as the cure of other poisonings de pendent upon the patient's abstinence from the use of the poison, for when the victim of alcoholic poisoning is cured there is a complete disappearance of all necessity, craving or desire for alcohol in any form, and he has no more need or desire for alcohol than the strychnia poisoned patient bas for strychnia. The one exception that I refer to is that strychnia and other poisons are not the subjects of social indulgencies. In this world in the present state of so ciety, business associations and illness es, one is more or less subjected to the dangers, the poison being used as a medicine, or a part of social functions, or companionship with other alcohol users, but the cured inebriate is thor oughly and fully warned by the physi cians in a majority of the Keeley Insti tutes of the dangers of alcohol, its presence in many of the patent medi eines and so-called temperance or "soft" drinks, as well as its absolute useless ness in the treatment of diseases or as a remedy for any ill that flesh is heir to, and he leaves the Institute fully armecn on all sides for the intelligent protec tion of the cu:e, so that his return to his former practice of using alcoholic liquors is the same as would be the re turn of a man who was poisoned by ty phoid fever germs to use the water known to contain the germ, or to the use of strychnia knowing it to be such. Unfortunately we fiad many people who never appreciate the advantage of a sober life and the necessity for absti nence from alcoholic liquors.-From The Banner of Gold. Cadet Maxwell Dismissed. The resukt of the finding of the naval court of inq.uery was the dis honorable dismissal of naval Cadet J. D. Maxwell, of Anderson, S. C., from the naval academy. He was engaged, with Cadet Donaldson, of Tennessen, in a disgraceful practical joke on CThrist mas day. The case of Cadet .iaxwell was the cause of a sharp controversy be tween Admiral McNair, superinten dent of the naval academy, and Rep resentative A. C. Latimer, who was responsible for Maxwell's appointment. Admiral McNair was summoned to Washington by the secretary of the navj;y and instructed to make a full report on the case. The result was the approintmenit of a board of officers to take testimonuy. Maxwell almost im mediately made a request that he be allowed to resign, but he was not per mitted to do so. A Lost Man Found. Alexander Savage, who disappeared from his home at Bloomsburg, Pa., 3~5 years ago, and has long been mourned as dead, has turned up alive and well. His brother is in receipt of a letter from him announcing that he is an officer oi high standing in the Spanish, army, and resides at Madrid. Savage says he has acquired a large fortune. Five years af ter Sauage's disappearance he wrote to his relatives from China, stating that he had gone to the Orient to seek his fortune. Thirty years have elapsed since that letter was written. Fighting the Trust. The farmers of Greenwood county are starting a very effectual fight against the fertilizer trust. It is the same kind of a fight that was so successfully waged against the bagging trust a few years ago. In mass w-eting assembled re cently, they rest.Ned hot to use any acid phosphate or c.omnmercial fertilizer this year. If the farumers all over the south will adopt that plan they will down the trust, but of course nothing but a general movye along that line would do any good. Explosion on Steam Launch Fifteen persons ~:were seriously in jutred by a boiler explosion on the steam launch "Caperon" at Delaware City Thursday morning. Several may die. Most of the passengers jumped or were thrown overboard but were, pulled out of the water by persons attracted by the noise of the explosion. Christmas Dinner. No ill effects need follow the eating of a big Christmas dinner if, after same, you take "Hilton's Life for the Tiera ndKidelns." Encabhottle tf WHEN A-MA IS TII It Is Almost Impossible for Him to Lose Money. HERE IS PROOF OF IT. How a Turf Plunger Won $100,000 In Less Than Two Months on a Bor. rowed Capital of $200-Yel: the Moral of It Is to Avoid Speculation. William M. Barrick is the latest suc cessful turf plunger. In less than two months he has managed to win, with a borrowed capital of $200. more than $100,000 in cash and twelve good race horses. To a New York World reporter at Washington. Barrick the other day told the story of his racing career: "I had been knocking around the tracks a little, placing a few small bets on the ponies, till one day-this was years ago-I went to Clifton. Ballston was then the crack of the Jersey tracks. If a man owned a horse that could beat Ballston he had a good horse. While there I was let into the secret that a horse called Loantaka could sift sand some. "The people behind Loantaka were not content to race him against poor horses they wished to stack him up against Balston or keep him in the barn. Finally they got him into a race where they met Ballston. I placed a big bet, for me then-not quite $500 on him. There was a long price and I waited and hoped. Well, to make a long story short, Loantaka went off and never came back to Ballston. He won by fifty yards. It was my first big win nig and I was highly elated. "I soon got to betting heavily and fortune favored me. I bought a two year-old called Void and won a small fortune with him. Then Dr. Hasbrouck won a selling race at the Brooklyn track and I bought him out of it. I would never have secured Hasbrouck except that somekindfriendtoldWynd ham Walden I hadn't the money to purchase him and that it would be wise to drop the colt on me and have h!m resold in fifteen minutes when the mon ey was not forthcoming. But I fooled them; I had the money and I bought the Doctor with it. "Dr. Hasbrouck was a great horse and won me a fortune in stakes and purses. I have bet as much as $10,000 on him and won more than double that amount in one race. He was game and true. I owned several other good horses, but none was as good or true or Dr. Hasbrouck. "When Dr. Hasbrouck broke down my fortunes also went to the bad. I could not do anything right. I drifted along, going from bad to worse, till finally Dr. Rowell. a veterinary sur geon, took my last good horse from me in a selling race. This was in the West. I came back to New York badly bent financially. Old Maurice kept me going for a time, but even he finally went back on me. I would, now and then, get hold of a few thousand dollars, but I could never make three or four good bets stick together. "After many ups and downs I bor rowed $200 during the Morris Park meeting from a Canadian friend and played 'the bank'. After an all-night session I was $10,000 to the good. After an interval of a day I returned to the bank and played all night, quitting $11,000 richer. "From that time I prospered in all my speculations. I won over $16,000 at the Morris Park meeting and went to the Aqueduct track well heeled, as the boys say. There I ran Sir Guy, a colt belonging to me. I got 30. 25 and 20 to 1 against him and won nearly $40 000 on him. It was one of the biggest killings I ever made. I beat the Aque duct meeting good and then came to this city. "To show you that a man when in luck can't do anything wrong. I tele graphed to a couple of friends to place several thousand dollars on Sir Guy when he was beaten here by Royal Sterling. What was the result? That night when I had returned to the ho tel I opened a telegram I had received just as I left the track and found that my friends were unable to place my money on Sir Guy because the pool rooms had refused to take it. That's luck, ain't it? "During the fifteen days' racing here [ had only three losing days. The other twelve days have netted me a big profit on my investments. I have backed horses at all kinds -of prices and won a big majority of them. Just how long this good fortune will continue I ca say. But I can stand it as long as old Dame Fortune is willing to throw It at me. Should my good luck desert me [ suppose I will go broke again. That Is the fortune of all speculators."~ The sweet bay tree, or laurel, was sa cred to Apollo, and in both Egypt and Rome Its leaves were used to deoorate the victors in games or in war. These leaves are much used now in the culi nary. art, the practice having been bor rowed from the French. From time to time experts have no ticed certain unexplained peculiarities in magnetic instruments In various buildings. Electricians now declare, as the result of experiments and Invest gations that the vagaries are due to the presence of magnetism in bricks. Examples in Real Life. The test of the strength of every sys tem, whether in science or business is the extent to which it shows actual re suits. By this tvt the Keeley treat ment for the whiss.ey habit and the morphine habit may safely be judged. All over the country there are exam ples of its splendid results-the many oases in which it brought happiness and success where before there had been failure and misery. Science indeed has worked wonders. No grander achievement is her's than the discovery of the Keeley treatment. Full infor mation may be had by addressing The Keelcy Irstitute. Columbia. S. C. Made His Escape. Lorenzo Brown, colored, under sen tence of death with the execution set for the 26th inst., escaped from jail at Greenville, N. C., Wednesday night. He was assisted by other prisoners and by a colored man employed by the sheriff as waiting boy about the court house and jail. The other prisoners secreted Brown and fixed a dummy in the cell so that in counting up the jailor thought all were present. After night the waiting boy stood guard outside, and is believed to have helped cut a hole through the wall. Brown was convited of rape at the April court last year and sentenced to hang. Using Egyptian Cotton. It is said that Egyptian cotton has been imported in small quantities by a certain woolen mill in South Carolina for several years, but the first large shipment of the Egyptian staple for a South Carolina cotton mill was received at Clover, in York county, from Alex ander, via Boston. The new cotton mill at Clover will use Egyptian cotton exclusively, its managers claiming that the Sea Island staple has not the "strength and silkiness' necessary for the superior yarn they are to make. A Sad Accident. Joseph D. Davis, white, fireman on the Southern Railway, was killed at Westminister Wednesday by the back ing of a train. He was 32 years old an laves a wife and one child. THE PRESIDENT SCORED. He Is Charged With Murderine Our Gallant Soldiers. At the conclusion of the routine business in the United States Senate Wednesday the resolution of inquiry introduced by Mr. Hoar of Massachu setts, and amended by Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, calling for general infoimation regarding the conduct of the insurrection in the Phillippine, was laid before the senate. Mr. Pettigrew, of South DAkota, said he desired to address the senate upon the resolution before it passed. He favored the passage of the resolution, believing that the information asked for was entirely proper. He declared that he had received in formation since the introduction of his resolution that assured him of the facts he had asserted. "The blood of every soldier," he said, 'who has fallen since the warbegan is on the hEad of theMcKinley administration The blo->d of the soldier boys of South Dakota who lost their lives after being conscripted into an unwilling service after their terms had expired, lies at the door of the administration, and there is no escape for it. "I charged tihat the censorship of the press and the suppression of facts are for the purpose of advancing the political ambitions of Mr. McKinley." "If this action," said Mr. Pettigrew, "put the administration in a hole, as was stated, it was not his fault." Mr. Pettigrew reverted to the asser tion by Senator Beveridge that the ac quisition of the Philippines was brought about by the act of God, but he said the only way he could see God's hand in the work was that God must have used Mr. McKinley as a prophet or ap peared to the president in a vision. At the conclusion of Mr. Pettigrew's ipeech the resolution of Mr. Hoar was passed without division. Spanish-American War.-Veterans. The following order was'Saturday is sued from the headquarters of the de partment of South Carolina of, the Spanish-American War Veterans' asso ciation: General Order No. 1. The following appointments are hereby announced in compliance with General Order No. 2, national head quarters,-and will compose the staff of the commander of the department of South Carolina: Assistant Adjutant General-J. D. Frost, Columbia, S. C. Assistant _Quartermaster . General G. C. Sullivan, Anderson. Assistant Surgeon General-E. J Wannamaker, Orangeburg. Assitant Inspector General-Edward Anderson, Charleston. Judge Advocate General-D. 0. Her bert, Orangeburg. Chaplain-P. A. .Murray,-Charleston. AIDES TO COMMANDERS. Capt.IL. M. Haselden, Sellers. Capt. R. H. Pickney, Charleston. Capt.%Chas.!Newnham, Columbia. :Capt. W. E. Gonzales, Columbia. ,Capt. H. H. Watkins. Anderson. Capt. J. E. Hunter, Union. Capt. W. N. Kirkland, -Columbia. Capt. J. D. Lowrance, Columbia. Capt. Wm. McGowan, Spartanburg. Capt. E. R. Cox, Darlington. -Capt. F. W. Frederick, Roweeville. Capt. T. B.!Lumpkin, Rock Hill. Capt. Jas. B. Hollman, Aiken. Capt. RI. L. Croswell, Boykins. By order of Wilie Jones. Official: Commander. -.Jno. D. Frost, Ass't A.-arnd-I. Gen. An Awful Scene. A dispatch from Ladysmith says a representative of the Associated Press visited Saturday's battlefield Monday morning, and saw large Enumbers of Boer dead. The British guns seems to have worked great havoc. One Boer was.completely disemboweled,' another had his head shot clean off, and a couple of others'were killed by the-samne shell, evidently, while h eating their luncheon, as half eaten hard boiled eggs - lay bcside--them. Some Natal Dutchmen were recognized among the dC.d.4 A'number of.Boer ,bodies and carcasses of horses have been washed down a spruit which became a raging torrent during a heavy thunderstorm. The British, while digging'graves, were Ered on by the Boer artillery, and several of them were hit. Soft-nosed bullets and dumdumn cartridges have been found on wounded prisoners. Volunteers carried the Boer dead off the hill and handed the bodies over to their comrades at the 'bottom. Over ninety were carried off Wagon Hill alone. "*Good-by, Hubby.'' A divorce case heard in Cincinnati the other day was that of C. H. Ma guire against Minnie Maguire. He is a telegraph operator. She is an actress and known as Lillian Waltone. She was a singer In the musical Humpty Dump ty which was at the Walnut Street Theatre a few seasons ago. She also appeared in other productions of a mu sical character. Her husband said she was a good wife for a time. One day his employer told him he must not al low the woman who was coming to the office to see him to do so any more. He said the woman was his wife, but his employer would not believe it, and when the fact was insisted upon he was told he would better, under such conditions, watch her. One night he found her with a man named Jack Cox. He asked her to go home and she would not. Cox said if she was the wife of Maguire she must go home and he would accompany them. He did so, and they all drank some beer together in Maguire's flat. After that she said, "Jack, I will go with you. Good-by, hubby," and the two left together. She refused to live with her husband again and he sued for divorce. They were married in 1392. A decree was granted. Dead Man's Hoard Opened Nearly $7,000, mostly gold, was found in a rusty old safe of Edward Elliott, a farmer living two and a half miles from Atlanta, who died in December, aged 81 years. His wife, 70 years old, who survived him, did not know of the money and by the merest accident the safe was opened. By advice of a lawyer it was deposited n a bank for safe keeping. A Big Family. Near Boden, in Kansas, is a Russian Mennonite who has reached the age of 74 years. He came to this country in 1875 with twelve children, the prog eny of his first wife. Shortly after ar riving in Kansas he was married again and thirteen more children have come to join the family. All of the twenty five are alive and live with the old man or in the neighborhood. A Chruch Collapsed. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says a church collapsed Wed nesday during the celebration of a mass in Maloonzene township. Su mara district. Nineteen persons were killed and 68 were wounded. ,Tailbirds Kill a Keeper. While Deputy Sheriff Henry White was feeding a prisoner in the Howell county, Mo., jail Thursday he was dragged into a cell and killed. All the Greetings: Hie wish all a bright and prosperous New Year, especially those, who are the happy possessors of one of our RoyalElasticFeltMattresses We hope the success of every reader of thislpaper is as well assured as the success'of our mattress. The sale ofIsame grows steadily and the most gratifying part of it is the daily receipt of voluntary letters from new customers, expressive of great satisfaction and comfort derived from (use of same. If you are interested in good bedding, and all ought to be, call on your nearest dealer. It he does not handle then, write to us direct for descriptive pamphlet. 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Egnsadales Man's strengthSa an GstMlsI lies in his WowrigMciey stomach.RieHlr, A poor, weak'digestion debili- Mciey tates and impoverishes the body. DanDil. ~CI No need confining one's self toUDE certain simple diet, on this ac count, when with the uselofW "Hitons LfefortheLi E ngiHs. bbles, & C. Kideys an kiof~fod a a04 GeristNil. I, bottle Wholeale b ea nionls.ot THE MURRAY DRUG Co., COLUMBIA, S. C, WANTED! Mciey Every one to know that tihe KEELEY CURE for DRINK, DRUG and TOBACCO Pcigsse addictions is now re-estab-Istesmltanmotficnto lihsed at Columbia, S. C. uf8inotharla;ec Call or writ, on ivnbslt The IKeeley Institute, Bolran Egie Sdu 1109 Plain Street. yLgtadeayogemba No other in ti' state. Mlscno eejaldi ein l Pilene.V.CBaam 132 chMine y. cureeforithleseumatic SOcLOAN Olvtn Giove randat~ ntermpest andgmot pericent.,o COLUMBIA.i Sut C.arolina;t 5 ea. Noaomisionshre mo.S. eyVldslve, Ameri an onss Attoney t La, CMyALih AndIHAyL B A m BUIa CGLUMBI, s. ~1 320 6 ain St reetlubi, S