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THE STRONG P11T av. Dr. Talmage Preaches on Consecrated Muscle. THE RESPONSIBILITIES. Resting Uoon Those Who Pos sess Physical Power to Do the Loid's Work. The Value of Health. In this discourse Dr. Talmage sets forth the responsibility of those w ho arc strong and well as in a former discourse he preached to tl.e disabled al "the shut in;" text Judges xiv, 1 *'And Samson went down to Tiniuanth." There are two sides to the character of Samson. The one phase of hii life, if followed into parieulars, would a-' minister to the grotcsque and the wirth ful. Buc there is a pibasc of his charac ter fraught with lessanl of solemn and eternal import. To these graver le'ons we devote our sermon. This giant no doubt in early liie gave evidences of what he was to be. It is almost always so. There were two Napoleons-the boy Napoleon and the ma-IA Napoleon-but both alike; two Howards-the boy Howard and tile man Howard-but both alike; two Saw sols-the boy Samson and tie man Samson-but both alike. This giant was no doubt the hero of the playground, and nothing could stand before his ex hibitions of youthful prowess. At 18 years of age he was betrothed to the daughtor of a Philistine. Going down toward Timnath, a lion came out upon him, and althotgh this young giant was weaponless he seized the monster by the long mane and shook him as a hun; gry hound shakes a March hare and made his bones crack and left him by the wayside blee ling under the smiting of his fist and tte grinding heft of his heel. Thare he stands looming tp above other men, a mountain of flesh, his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate of a city, taking an attitude defiant of everything. His hair had never been cut, and it rollei down in zveven gr.:aL plaits over his shoulders. adding to his bulk, fiereeness and ter ror. The Philistines want to conquer him, and therefore they must find out where the secret of his stiength lies. There is an evil woman living in the valley of Sorek by the name of Delilah. 'They appoint her the agent in the case. The Phil'stines are secreted in the same buildiog, and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of his strength. "Well," he says, "if you should take seven green withes such as they fasten wild beasts with and put then around me, I should be perfectly powerless." So she binds him with the seven green withes. Then she claps her haads and says, "They come-the Philistines!" and he walks out as though there were no impedi ment. She coaxes him again and says. "Now tell me the secret of this great strength?" and he replies. "*If you should take some ropes that have never been used and tie me with them, I should be just like other men." She ties him with the ropes, claps her hands and shouts. "They come-Philistines!' He walks out as easily as lhe did before -not a single obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says, "Now, if you should take these seven long plaits of hair and by this house loom weave them into a web, I could not get away." So the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle flies backward~ and forward, and the long plaits of hair are woven into a web. The-n she elaps her hands and says. "They coa'e--the Philistines!' He walks out as easily as he did before dragging a part of the loom with him. But after awhile she persuades him to tell the truth. He says. "If you should take a razor or shears and cat off this long hair, I should be powerles, and in the hands of my enemies." Sam son sleeps, and that she may not 'wake him up during the process of shearing help is called in. You know that the barbers of the east have such a skillfui way of manipulating the head to this very day that instead of waking up a sleeping man they will put a man wide awake sound asleep. I hear the blades of the shears grindinz against otc, other, anad I see ui we locks falhnug off. The shears or razar acconf ishes what green withers and now r'- and house loom could not do. Sudde- ly she claps her hand and says. "The P'hilis tines be upon thee, Samson!' Hie rouses up with a struggle, but his strength is all gone. He is in the hands of his enemies. I hear the groan zsf the giant as they take his eyes out, and theu [ see himi staggering on in his blindness, feelinN his way as he goes on towar d Gaza. T be prison door is open, and the giant i thrust in. He sits down and puts hie -hands on the mill crank, whicb wit b exhausting horizontal moiion goes day after day, wpek after week, month at ter month-work, work, work! The consternation of the world in capivi'ty his locks shorn, his eyves punctured, grinding corn in Gaza! First of all, behold in this giant of the text that phynical power is notal ways an index of moral power. He was a huge nman -the hiou found it out, anu the 3,000) men whom he slew found ii out; yet he was the subject of pett revenges and outgianted by low passion I am far from throwing any discredt upon physical stamina. There are those who seem to have great admira tion for delicacy and sickliness of con stitution. I never could see any glory in weak nerves or sick headache Whatever effort in our day is made to make the men and women more robust should have the favor of every goon citizen as well as of every Christian Gymnastics may be positively religi ous. Good people sometimes ascribe to a wicked hears what they ought to ascribe to a slow liver. The body and the soul are such near neighbors that they often catch each other's diseases. Those who never saw a sick day and who, like Hercules, show the giant in the cradle, have more to answer for than those who are the saib~ects of lifelong infirmities. He who car lift twice as much as you can, and walk twice as far, and work twice as long, will have a double ac count to meet in the judgment. How often it is that you do not find physical energy indicative of spiritual power! If a clear head is worth more than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo, if muscles with the play of health in them are worth more than those drawn up in chronic "rheumatics," if an eye quick to catch pa~sing objects is better than one with vision dim and uncert ain, then God will require of us effiiency just in proportion to what he has given us. Phy sical energy ought to be a ty pe of moral power. We ought to have as good digestion of truth as we have capa hearing ought to be as good as our physical heari3g. Our spiritual taste ought to be as clear as our tongue. Sam sons in body, we ought to be giants in. moral power. But while you find a great many met iho realize that they ought to use their money aright and use their intelligence aright how few men you find aware of the fact that they ought to use their physical orgonism aright. With every thump of the heart there is something saying, "Work, work!" and lest we should complain that we have no tools to work with God gives us our hands and feet, with every knuckle and with every joint and with every muscle. saying to us, "Lay hold and do something." But how often it is that men with physical strength do not serve Christ. They are like a ship full manned and full rigged, caplable of vast tonnage, able to'endure all stress of weather, vet swinging idly at the docks, when. tihese men ought to be crossing and recrassing the great ocean of human cutiering and sin with God's supplies of mercy. How often it is that physical strength is used in doing positive dam age or in luxurious case, when, with sleeves rolled up and bronzed bosom. fearless of the shafts of opposition, it ought to be Ilaying hold with all its might and tugging avay to lift up this sunken wreck of a world. It is a most shameful fact that much I of the business of the church and ot the world must be done by those compara tively invalid, Richaid Baxter. by reason of his diseases, all his days sit ting in the door of his tomb, yet writ ing more than 100 volumes and sending out an influence for God that will endure as long as the "Saint's Ever lasting Rest." Edward Payson, never kn.wihg a well day, yet how he preached and how he wrote, helping thousands I of dying souls like himself to swim in a sea of glory. Aud R.bert McCheyno, a walking skeleton, yet you know what he did in Dundee and how he shook Scotland with zeal for God. Philip Doddridge, advised by his friends because of his illness not to enter the ministry, yet you know what he did for tbe "Rise and Progress of Religion" in the church of the world. Wilberforce was told by his doctors that he could not live a fortnight, yet at that every time entering upon philan thropie enterprises that demanded the greatest endurance and perseverance. Robert Hall, suffering excruciations so that often in his pulpit while preachinr he would stop and lie down on a sofa, then getting up again to preach about heaven until the glories of the celestial city dropped on the multitude, doing I more work perhaps than almost any well man in his day. Oh, how often it is that men with greAt physical endurance are not as great in moral and spiritual stature. While there are achievements for those who are bent all their days with sick ness-achievements of patience, achiev ments of Christsan endurance-I call upon men of health, men of muscle, men of nerve, men of physical power, to devote themselves to the Lord. Giants in body, you ought to be giants in soul. Behold also in the story of iny text illustration of the fact of the damage that strength can do if it be misguided. It seems to me that this man spent a great deal of his time in doing evil this Samson of my text. To pay a bet which he had lost by the guessing of his riddle he robs and kills 30 people. He was not only gigantic in strength, but, gigantic in mischief and a type of those men in all ages of the world who, powerful in body or mind or any faculty of social position or wealth, have used their strength for iniquitous purposes. It is not the small, weak men of the day who do the damage. These small men who go swearing and loafing about your stores and shops and banking houses. assailing Christ and the Bible and the church-they do not do the darzige. They have no influence. They are vermin that you crush with your foot- But it is the giants of the day, the misguided giants, giants in physical power, or giants in mental acumen; or giants in social position, or giants in wealth, who do the damage the men wtt sharp pens that stab religon auid throw their poison all throup.t our literature, the men who use te power of wealth to sanction iniquity and bribe justice, and make truth and honor bow to their golden scepter. Misguided giants-look out fr them! In the middle and latter part of the last century no doubt there were thousands of men in Paris and Einburg and London who hated God and blasphemed the name of the Almighty; but they did but little mis chief-they were small men, insignifi cant men. Yet there were giants in those days. Who can calulate the soul havoc of a Rousseau, going on with a very enthusiasm of iniquity, with fiery imagination seizing upon all the imnpul sive nature of his day. or David Hiume, who employed his life as a spider em ploys its summer, in spinning out ailken weba to trap the unwary, or Voltaire, the moost learned man of his day, marshaliug .? great host of skeptics and leading thtea out in the dark land of infidelity, ocr bbon, who showed an uncontrollable grudge against religion in his history of one of the most fasci iating peri ds of the world's existence --The Deeline and Fall of the Rtoman Epire"-a book in which, with all the splendors of his genius, he magnified the errors of Christian disciples, while with a sparseness of notice that never can be forgiven he treated of the Christian heroes of whom the world was not worthy?' Oh, men of stout physi ral health, men cf great mental -stature men of high social position, men of great power of any sort, I want you to understand your power, and I want you to know sat that power devoted to God will be a crown on earth, to you typical of a crown in heaven, but misguided, bed raggled in sin, administrative of evil, God will thunder against you with his condemnation in the day when million aire and pauper, master and slave, king and subject, shall stand side by side in the judgment and money bags and judicial ermine and royal robe shall be riven with the lighitnings. Behold also how a giant may be slain of a woman. Delilah started the train of cirumstances that pulled down the temple of DLagon about Samson's ears. And tens of thousands of giants have gone down to death and hell through the sa no fascinations. It seems to me that it is high time that pulpit and plat-form and printing press speak out against the impurities of modern society. Fastidiousness and prudery say~ -'Bet ter not speak. You will rouse up adverse criticism. You will make worse what you want to make better. Better deal in glittering generalities. The subect is too delicate for polite ears. But there comes a voice from heaven overpowering the mincing sentimenta lities of the day, saying, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like .a trumpet and show my people their their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins." The trouble is that when people write or speak upon this theme they are apt to cover it up with the gra-es of belles Byron iD 1on ju a" r ri , - m until it smiles like a May qteen.. Michelet, the great French writer, covers it up with bewitching rhetoric until it grows like the rising sun, when it it ought to be made loathsome as a smallpox hospital. There are today influences abroad which it uniesisted by the pulpit and the printing press will turn our modern cites into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, fit only for the storm of fire and brimstone that whelmed the cities of the plain. You who are seated in your Chris tian homes, compressed by moral and religious restraints, do not realize the gulf of iniquity that bounds you on the north and the south and the east and the west. While I speak there are tens of thousands of men and women going over the awful plunge of an in pure life, and while I cry to God for mercy upon their souls I cry to you to marshal in the defeise of your houes, your church and your nation. There is a banqueting hall that you have never heard described You know all about the feast of Ahasuerus, liere 1.000 lords sat. You know all about Belshazzar's carousal, where the blo->d of the nurdered king spurted into the faces of the lanqueters. You may know of the scenc of riot :nd wassa'l where there was set before Eopu, one dish of food that cost 1,100.000. But I speak now of a difthrent banqueting hall. Its roof is fretted with fire Its floor is tessellated with fire. Its chali ces are chased with fire. Its song is a ong of fire. It walls are buttresses of fire Solomon refers to it when he says, "Hler guests are in the depths of hell." Our American communities are auf fering from the gospel of free lovism which 30 years ago was preached on the platform and in some of the churches of this country. I charge upon free lovismn that it has blighted innumera ble homes and that it has sent innu merable souls to ruin. Free lovism is bestial; it is worse-it is infernal! It has furnished this land with many thousands of divorces annually. In one county in the state of Indiana it furnished 11 divorces in one day before dinner. It has roused up elopements north, south, cast and west. You can hardly take up a paper but you read of an elopement. As far as I can under stand the doctrine of free lovism, it is this-that every man ought to have somebody else's wife and every wife somebody else's husband. They do not like our Christian organizmi a .4 society, and I wish they would all : e, the wretches of one sex taking the wretches of tne other, and start t:mor row morning for the great Saharra de sert until the simooni shall sweep seven feet of sand all over them and not one passing caravan for the next 500 .,ears bring back one miserable bone of their carcasses! Free lovism! It is the double distilled extract of nux yomica, ratsbane and adder's tongue. Never until society goes back to the old ible and hears its eulogy of purity a11i its anathema of unclean ness-never until then will this evil be extirpated. Behold also in this giant of the text and in the giant of our own cen tury that great physical power must cruable and expire. The Samsor of the text long ago went away. le fought the lion, ie fought the Philistines. Het could fight anything, but death was too much for him. He may have re quired a longer grave and a broader grave, but the tomb nevertheless was his terminnus. If, then, we are to be compelled to go out of this world, where are we to go to? This body and soul must soon part. What shall be the destiny of the former I know-dust to dust. But what shall be the destiny of the :atter? Shall it rise into the companionship of the white robed, whose sins Christ has slain, or will it go down amoug the un. believing, who tried to gain the world and save their souls, but were swindled 'out of both? Blessed be God, we have a Champion! lie is so styled in the Bible. A C:nampion who has conquered death and hell, and he is ready to fight all our battles, from the first to the last. Wh-> is this that comecth up from Edomn with dyed gatments from Bozrah, mighty to save?" If we follow in the wake of that Champion, death has no o icr and~the grave no victory. The worst man trusting in him shall have his dying pangs alleviated and his fu tre illumined. In the light of this subject I want to call your attention to a fact which may not have been rightly considered, and that is the fact that we must be brought into judgment for the employment of our p.hysical organism. Shoulder, brain, hand, foot-we must answer in judgment for the use we have made of them. Have they been used for the elevation of society or for its depres sion? In proportioni as our arm is strong and our step elastic will our ac count at last be intensitied. Thou sands of sermons are p'reached to in valids. I preach this sermon to stout men and healthful women. We' mu~t give to God an account f'r the right use of this phbysical organ.- lTr:ee invalids have comparatively lati to a. count for perhaps. They could iai hni 20 pounds. TIhey could not walk h.tci a mile without sitting down to rest. Yet how much many of them accom plih. Rising up in judgment, stand ing beside the men and women whoe had only little physical energy, and yet consumed that energy in a conflagra tion of religious eut busiasm, how will we fell abashed! On, men of the strong arm and stout heart, what use are yeu making of your physical forces? will you be able to stand the test of that day when we must answer for the use of every talent, whether it were a physical energy, or a mental acumen, or a spiritual power? The day approatches, and I see one who in this world was an invalid, and a she stands before the throne of God to answer she says: "I was sick all my days. I had but little strength. but I did as well as I could in being kind to those who were more sick and more suffering." And Christ will say, "W~ell done, faithful servant." And then a litt le child will stand he fore the throne, and she will say : "On earth I had a curvature of the spine, and I was very weak, and I was very ill, but I used to gather flowers out of the wildwood and bring them to my sick mother, and she was comforted when she saw the sweet fiowecrs out of the wild wood. I did not do much, buit I did smething." And Christ shall say, as he takes her up in his em-n and kism~ hear, "Well done, well done', faithful servant; enter thou izso the joy of thy Lord." What then, will be saidi to us, we to whom the Lord rave physical strength and continuous health? Hark, it thunders again! The judgment, the judgment! I said to an old Scotch minister, who was one of the best friends I ever had, "Doctor, did you ever know Robert Pollock, the Scotch poet, who wrote The Course of Time?" 'Oh, yes,", e replied, "I knew him well! I was his classmate." And then the doctor went on to tell me how that the writing of "The Course of Time" exhausted the helt of Polocknand o emired. It| sCeem. as If aC inan could have auoh glimpse of the day for which all other days were inade as Robert Pollock had and long survive that glimpse. In the description of that day he says, among other things: Begin the woe, ye woods, and tell it to the doleful winds, And doleful winds wail to the hewling And bowling hills mourn to the dismal vales, And dismal vales sigh to the sorrowing brooks, And sorrowing brooks weep to the weeping stream, And weeping stream awake the groan ing deep; Ye heavens, great archway of the uni verse, put sackcloth on. And ocean, robe thyself in garb of widowhood And gather all thy waves into a groan and utter it Long, loud, deep, piercing, dolorous, immenSC. The occasion asks it, Nature dies, and angels come to lay her in her grave. What Robert Pollock saw in poetic dream you and I will see in positive reality-the judgment, the judgment! NO BIENNIAL SESSIONS. Thirteen Senators Refuse to Allow the People to Vote On It. IL seems that thirteen of the State Senators are arraid t, trust the ptople, as they voted against submitting a proposition for biennial sessions to them to vote on. The question came up in the Senate on Wednesday. Sen ate Blakeney addressed the Senate in favor of the bill. He said that all the members liked to come to Columbia, but personal considerations should be laid aside. The.re were only two con siderations. Would this change crip pie the government and would the sav ing be sufficient to compensate for any disadvantages. The weibht of argu ment is for submitting the question to the people. Thirty-bix of the States have this system and if they git along very well, so can we, if any emergency should arise the governor could call a session. But we have statesmen of sufficient foresight to bolk two years ahead. The constitution provided against local legislation, yet notwith standing that there is too much legisla tion; so much that it is impossible to keep up with it. There are many measures proposed of no practical utili ty, and it seemed that they were pro posed merely to furnish matter for home consumption. Biennial sessions would save $40,000 to $60,000. The people should pass on this question. Senator Graydon agreed that this is an important measure, but did not agree with Senator B:akeney's conclu sions. He thcught it was necessary to have frequent sessions. He had been told the people of Georgia were sick of biennial sessions; that Georgia does not really have biennial sessions, as they have adjourned sessions. The same is true of North Carolina. He thought no senator introdoeed a mes ure unless it was demanded by his peo ple or for their good. Biennial ses sions might do if the State officers' terms were four years. Frequent as semblages of the representative men of the State does great good in promoting harmony and good feeling among the people. He was oppsed to the bill because he did not think there is any demand for it. Senator Sheppard moved that a vote be taken immediately, which was done, with the result that the resolu tion aid not receive a two-thirds vote, which the chair held was necessary to pass the resolution to the third reading. The vote stood 26 to 13, as follows: Yeas-Aldrich, Appelt, Archer, Barnwell, Bakeney, Bowen, W. A. Brown, Connor, Crosson, Dean, Den nis, Douglass, Gruber, Ilderton, Love, Manning, Mauldin, McDermott, Rags dale, Sarratt, Sheppard, Stan land, Stud dath, Sullivan, Waiker, William s-26. Nays-Alexander, G. WV. Brown, Glenn, Graydon, Hay, Henderson, H{.ugh, Livingston, Marshall, Mayfield Mower, Talbird, Wallace-13. Oue vote more would have carried the resolution. BRYAN IN THE EAST. What a New England Paper Says About It The reports of Bryan audiences and the impression he makes in the east that are given in the-anti-Bryan and partisan goldbug press must be taken with grains of allowance for natural prejudice. A free lance correspondent of the Springfield Recpublican says it is quite amusing to watch the a'ties of so-called Democrats who bolted Bryan's nomination in 1896. Either their sub serviency to the trusts, or theirinocula tion with the virus of imperialism, or their prejudice leads them to dodge and shun the Democratic leader, but they arc all airaid of him. Continuing his own cotument of M~r. Bryan in the east, he correspondent says: He is neither opytery nor iniquity-still less the seret.J.: mystery of iniquity that you might sup1.i-e, from reading the little digs of the monopolist newspapers and Putocratic dinner-speakers. He is a sturdy, youthful, earnest American citi zen-not shiverinr for fear "Web" Davis should tell Kruger what the peo ple here thing of him, n'or standing on his dignity like Joannes Parvabraccatus, when a Boer envoy heaves in sight; not defending war for greed, like the god less parso)us nor Standard Oil banking, nor administiation editors, who can not say their souls are their own but going from state to state and from city to city, just telling the plain people in a plaia way what he thinks, and they think, about our topsyturvy Republi cans who are such cheap imitations of English tories. And while the chief priests and the pharisees turn their backs on him, the common people hear him gladly, and are going to vote for him, even here in Massachusetts, in a way to astonish tlie syndicates and stock-gamblers, and boss-led politi cians who believe he is a weak candi date. They will find him a very sirang one; and the sooner they realize this, the better will they be able to meet him a f. w m'onths hence, when the en-vokow really sets i. If Tammany a Lthe trus -s flee from the cities when he appears above their hoizon, so much the better for him, in a political way; e is better off without their friendship than with it. County Officers Salaries. Mr. Magill's bill to fix the salaries of county officers in the several counties passed the House Tuesday. T'he act does not apply to the counties of Orangeburg, Greenville, Clarendon, Dorchester, Hlorry, Georgetown, Ker shaw, Greenwood, Pickens, Chero kee, Chesterfield, Darlington, Bam berg, Spartanburg. Union, Lexington, Aiken, Richlat~d, Florence, Abbeville, Saluda, Chester, York, Lancaster, Wil liamburg, Sumter, Baruwell and Mail BRYAN INNUEARaLSTON. (COTINU ED FROM FIRST PAGE.J efforts to meet the wishes of everyone. It is, of course, hard to estimate the size of a crowd, , specially when it is a very large one; but there could not have been far short of 7,000 people at the Auditorium last night. The seat ing capacity of the place is known to be 7,500, and it is-safe -that say that had 500 more people been put in it last night standing room would have been at a premium. As it was hun dreds stood throughout the evening and listened with the profoundest attention to the distinguished orator. "It should be remarked that the au dience was a representative one in the fullest sense of the term. Br ad street bankers brushed-elbows with laborin-g men from up-town; the dwellers on Legatre street and the Battery were oc cupying front seats with mechanics and masons and scattered here and there about the house were several hundred ladies, some of whom wore evening toi lets, the boxes, up-stairs and down, were filled to overflowing. It was, in a word, an audience which any man in the world might have been proud to face. "The firs; intimation that Col. Bryan really had arrived in the city came when the members of the Fourth Brigade 15and marchei into the hall and took seats inside the orchestra rail ing. Thinking to see Col. Bryan him self follow, in a moment thousands of people jumped on their chairs and cheered. They din continued for many minutes in spite of the fact that there was no specific reanson for it. In the meantime Col. Bryan had been escorted to the back of the building. The Al derman greeted him as he stepped upon the stage, and with scarcely a moment's delay, leaning upon Mayor Smyth's arm, be marched down the centre of the stage and appeared before the peo ple under a canopy formed by a State and national flag. The roar that greeted him shook the very rafters. It rose with a fierce wild yell, but individual voices were soon lost in a shout in which every man and woman in the multitude seemed to join. Men stood on chairs and waved their hats and canes; women flattered their handkerchief and the treble of their voices made a distinct note in the chorus of sound. Some people, more enthusiastic than others tossed their hats in the air and actually danced ex citedly as they applauded. This sort of thing continued for several minutes. The noise would subiide for. a mnment and then would start again with re newed vigor. Mayor Smyth in the meantime had seated himself with Col. Bryan on his right, and the A.derman had found places away to either side of them. Mr. T. W. Bacot was the first to speak, He said. Mr. Mayor and my fellow citizens, never mind about free silver, but let us do what we can to get rid of Republican rule at all cost. (Applause.) So says our hero, Wade Hampton, in an interview with the Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier. To our city we have brought to you, Mr. Mayor, and we now present to you, a fine patriot, a daunt less Democrat, a manly man, in the person of William Jennings Bryan. (Applause.) Mayor Smyth then spoke as follows: Mayor Synith said: Ladies and gen tle men and Col.- Bryan: There need no words of mine to emphasize the wel come which Charleston now offers to William Jennings Bryan. This large and enthusiastic gathering, brought here at a moment's notice, testifies to the sincerity with which we greet you. Our voices unite in the welcome and we say to you that Chaleston opens to you her homes and her hearts. I now present to you William Jennings Bryan. our next President. (A pplause ) Col. Bryan had to stand for several moments uutil the welcoming applause was quieted. flis faie beamed withn satisfaction and pleasure. "I am obliged to the Chief Execu tive of the city and the Senator for the very cordial manner in which they pre sented me to the good people of Charles ton. I had not thought it possible for me to come here, to Charleston now, but the committee told me that by dis appointing the Columbia people for an afternoon reception, that I could come here and speak, leave at midnight and thus have pleasure of making two speeches instead of one this day. I am glad to speak to the people of Charles ton, and when 1 excused myself from the people of Columbia I told the peo ple there that if they knew Charleston they would know that I-was more needed here than there. I am always glad to speak to those who are not in entire ac -cord with me. I would rather speak to those who disagree with me. for my purpose is to convince. And I don't know any place in the So-uth where there is more room for missionary work than in Charleston. (Laughter.) I am not nearly so much concernedI in your opinion of me as in your opinion of the public questions in which I am interested. 1 would rather have you reject me and take my principles than take me instead of matters in which the nation's welfare are involved. Bryan then lent on to discuss the public questions of the day in an elo qutent speech which was enthusiastically recived by the large audience. After the speakng ever Mr. Bryan was enter tained at the Charleston Hotel at an informal banquet- The last course was reached just in time to make a hurried exit and take the carriage. for the station. At ihe Plant System Station there .were a number of people anxious to get a last glimpse of Bryan. Arter hasty handshakes The train was boared and pulled out amid checer for Florida. Those peesnt at the supper were Mayor-Smyth, Messrs James T. Johnson, A. F. a. Cramer, A. J. Riley, A. W. Petit. T. Allen Legare. J. 0. Hemphill. J. D. Cappelmann, W. 3. Wilson and Dr. Kollock. FREE BLOOD CURE. 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Address Blocd Bal., Atanta.Ga The Senate Passes the Honae Bill to Build It. The Winthrop dormitory appropria tion bill which passed the House sev eral days before was taken up in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill pro vides for the appropriation of $35,000 and the use of one hundred conviets. Senator Graydon opposed the bill and moved to strike out the enactirg words. le thought the reports of pros perity had been exaggerated and this matter ought to wait. The appropria tions and expenes have been in creased. The bill provides for 100 con victs to be used while a written state ment of the superintendent shows there are only 107 convicts available, including the lame, halt and maimed. Senator W. A. Brown said if he did not think the dormitories were needed, he would oppose the bill. The college is no longer an experiment and every year nunbers of girls are tarned away. Ile proposcd to vote for every measure to forward education whether in col leges or common schools. South*Caro lina is not so poor that she cannot ed ucate her girls. MZillions have been spint on the boys and verylittle on the girls. He bored the senate would grant at least the $3 500 for the dormi tory. They -were not wedded to the provision requiring the use of convicts. Senator Henderson said for three years the trustees have felt that the dormitory was neces-ary to complete this grand institution. He trusted there would be no hesitation in passing the resolution with the second section stricken out. Senator Ragsdaie said the old cry used to be for horizontal reduction but now it w-s becoming horizontal in crease. It was gettiug to be consider ed out of place to speak for the poor man. and it was considereddemagogic to talk for the taxpayer. After awhile the taxpayers won't be able to pay the taxes. All that ;s -necesary is to say a purposes is laudable and the appro priation is given. This matter caa wait and the time may come when we will be able to make this appropriation. The burden of taxation is very heavy and we should do everything to alleviate it and nothing to increase it. Senator Graydon withdrew his motion to strike out the enacting words in or der that Senator Glenn might move to amend by striking out section 2, which gave the use of 100 convTets. The bill was so amended and Senator Ragsdale renewed the motion to strike out the enacting words, with the result that the motion was lost by a vote of 33 to 6, as follows: Yeas-Alexander, Archer, Gray don, McDermott, Ragsdale, Sarratt.-6. Naya-Aidrich, Appelt, Barnwell, Blakeney, Bowen, G. W. Brown, W. A. Brown, Connor, Crosson, Dean, Dennis, Douglass, Glenn, Gruber, Hay, Hen derson. Hough, Ilderton, Livingston, Love, Manning, Marshall, Mauldin, Mayfield, Mower, Sheppard, Stanland, Suddath, Sullivan. Talbird, Wallace, Waller, Williams.-33. The bill was then passed to the third reading. NEW MACHINE. To Run a Locomotive and Furnish Fresh Air at the Same Time. If all is true that August Peters, re cently of Chicago, claims for a ma chine he has invented, he can not only run a locomotive or a steamship but can supply the steamer or the tra.'n with fresh air-with cold air for the furnace rooms and Ice for the storage departments-and, to cap it all, it runs itself, he says. Mfr. Peters to-day showed his machine in working order. To outward appearance the apparatus look-s like an immen~lce chest, but as soon as the doors are opened a mass of piping is revealed. At the back of the chest is a cylinder and a fore pump. By means of an electric motor air Is forced through the cylinder and force pump Into a storage chamber, and thence through a series of pipes surrounded with ice. To start the ma chine in action to its fullest power, it must be loaded with 00 pounds of ice. After that It makes its own Ice. Mr. P'eters, says the machine is the nearest thing to perpetual motion ev er invented; that It will furnish motive power to ocean steamships? that the one he now has working at 113 Bed ford avenue, Brooklyn, will easily run a 2,500 horse power marine engine; that It will at the same time provide fresh, dry air for a ship at the rate of 1,000 square feet per minute and simultaneously manufacture Ice at the rate of 1,800 pounds an hour. Slightly modified, Mr. Peters says, his machine, as it now stands in his Brooklyn workshop, could be fitted in to the Holland submarine boat and enable the crew of that boat to re main under water indefinitely. When Mr. Peters started the ma chine In action a strong current of air was expelled from the escape vent so cold that in a few minutes the temper ature of the shop was greatly reduced. He said it was an easy matter to bring the temperature of the surrounding at mosphere down to 50 degrees below zero, and that he could get it down to 200 degrees below zero inside the ice hox. There was no ice in the ma chine at the time of the exhibition. By means of an air tank placed above the machine a sufficient amount of compressed air was constantly be ing stored, which would keep the ap. paratus running Indefinitely, said Mr. Peters. Peters moved to Brooklyn three months ago from Chicago, where he said he had lived for 27 years.-N. Y. Special 1fr Chicago Tribune. TERRIBLE POISON. With Which African Savages Dip Their Arrows. During his last visit to East Africa. Prof. Robert Koch of Berlin. procured some of the poisoned arrows and the, poison used therewith by the Wakam ba people, a primitive race settled be tween Kenia and Kilimanjaro. Prof. Briceger, the head of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, has been making experiments with Wakamba poison, which is extracted from plants, and has come to the conclusion that it iS a heart poison. In cold-blooded animals it causes a gradual diminution of the~ heart's pulsations, and finally heart failure. In warm-blooded animals s., mp toms of poisoning appear within 10 or 15 minutes af-er absorption of the poi son, breathing becomes difficult. cies of pain are provoked, cramps occur. and death speedily ensues. Prof. Brie ger has found that the active principle of the poison is a crystalline body ef which so infinitesimal a quantity as 0.00005 gram causes the death of a guinea pig weighing 300 grams within 20 minutes. It is believed in scientific circles here that the investigation of the Wakamba poison is of the highest medical impor tance, as it will probably prove valua ble as a drug having a specific action on the heart. It Is hoped that the ex periments will ultimately show the Wakamba poison is of the highest med ical importance, as it will probably prove valuable as a drug having a - ABSOLUTELY P Makes the food more del ROYAL BAKSMG POWD HIS BLACK RECORD A Pious Criminal Whose Skill and Daring Were Boundless. Within the walls of the Philadelphia Hospital the curtain is slowly falling on the life drama of a man who for niore than half a century has figured in The police annals of the country as a criminal whose skill and daring knew no bounds. At sixty-two, bent, bowed an crippled, -Jimmy" Logue, who In the heyday of his career count ed his money by the thousands and drove his coach and pair like a gentle man, has come back to his native city to die. His ill-gotten wealth has taken winzs. and only the kindness of Phil adelphia's Mayor has saved him from ending his days in the Almshouse. As it is, there is but a shade of difference between the hospital and the Alms house. Both are under one roof, but as an inmate of the hospital Logue is able to escape the stigma of the city pauper. When the old man first came back to his former haunts, about two weeks ano, penniless and sick, he threw him self on the mercy of his former enem ies-tlie police-who sent him to the Almshouse. His pride rebelled, and the first day he was able to get out he tottered downtown and Into the May or's office. Mayor Ashbridge, who knew him In other days, was moved by his pitiful plea, and' he ordered that the old man should be given a cot and medical treatment. Sobbing his thanks "Jimmy" Logue went back to the insti tution. which he will probably never leave alive. Logue's life story is a wild romance of crime, and one who sees the old man to-day will hardly believe the things the police records tell about him. His personal character has been as odd as his career. Down in h's breast he had the Instincts of a pious man, who never forgot the lessons he had learned at the knees of a Christian mother. True, he did not heed them, but the maternal teachings lived In his memory. To-day he speaks reverently of his mother as a God-fearing woman, and to-day this crime-stained veteran never closes his eyes in sleep without a fervent prayer to the Almighty. It has been his life's custom, and the de tectives used to say of him that "Jim my" Logue would never set about to crack a safe without first asking Prov idence to guide him in his work. Logue himself, speaking of his devotions. says epigrammatically: "When I am awake I can look. after myself; when I am asleep I need God's protec'ion." Logue, too, has been a good husband and father-a good husband to three successive wives; a father to a son who is to-day a respected. hard-work ing, law-abiding citizen. Of his sixty J_1Y LOGI. two years thirty-four have been spent behind prison bars In .various parts of the country. His criminal career must have begun early, for at the age of ten he was sent as an incorrigible to the House of Refuge. Much of the romance of Logue's life lies about his marriage to his third wife. JTohanna Gans, with whose mur der he was once charged. Logue had previously been married twice, his last wife being a sister of Johanna. The third wedding was one of the most ro mantic in local history. Logue had just been sentenced to seven years' hard labor for one of his many misde~eds when he asked permis sion to be wedded before he went to jail. .Tohanna Logue, his sister-in-law, was In court, and the law soon made he- and the convict man and wife. She was a faithful wife and waited pa tiently until her new husband stepped from the doors of Cherry Hill in 1878. Fought For a Young Women. George Russman and Roy Lewis, two emnployes in a lumber camp near Mdidletown, Md., have long been des perate rivals for the affections of a pretty young woman who lives near the camp. She was unable to choose between them. and fi'nally told them they could fight it out, she agreeing to become the wife of the victor. The combatants, after going through the forma lities of selecting a refer-ee and time-keper, went at each other. In the third and last round Russman cae up much refreshed and made a (ive for Lewis. The latter, finding his strength failing, he called on the sec-i onds to take Russmanl away and he would give up. Hence the referee was obliged to de clare Lewis knocked out and to award the championship and the young lady to Russman. How She Disposed of Her Legacy. Some time ago a woman died at Den dermonde, near Ghient. leaving the whole of her property to her neice. Ro salie V. The hitter was constantly worried b~y the other members of the family, who had been excluded from the Inheritance. Recentv the young woman received the amount of the legacy, consisting of twenty-five 1.000-franc notes ($5.000) und the dieed of a house. In the after noon the disappointed relatives again visited her, and worried her to such an extent, that, losing all control over her self, she picked up the deed and the whole of the bank notes and threw them into the fire. In a few momeknt' nothing remained of the little fortune but a few ashes. In Norway the average length of life is greater than In any other countr-y on the glohM. McLaurin Thinking. A dispatch from Washington saysI Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, had a conference with the president to day and was offeredl a place on the new Philippine commission. The sen ator assured the president that while he fully appreciated the honor, he thought his duty to his constituents demnan d that he retain huis place in the Senat e.I HeI sid, however, that he would takec the matter under advisement. One of the boys of the Oraugeburg College has a ease of small-pos. The case has been isolated which will pre URE icious and wholesome R CO.. NEW YOR. He Would Wed the Mature Lady Randolph Churchill. SHE IS TWICE HIS AGE Prefers Not to Marry Him in the Face of the Opposition of His Irate Son and Young West's Family-Now All Are Interested in the Boer War. The infatuation of young Cornwaltli West for Lady Randolph Churchill, a. one of the most extraordinary o f rece. t episodes in English society ugh she is almost old eno to be his mother, her youthf ess and physical atractions are universally acknowl edged. Lieutenant Cornwallis West is twen ty-five years old and an officer in the' Scots Guards. He is a good looking, well built young fellow, and has always been credited with an ordinary amount of intelligence. In spite of all the pro tests of his family, he has persisted in his devotion to the mature Lady Ran dolph. His social position is high. He is the oldest son of Colonel Cornwallis West, a great land owner, whose wealth b3 Is destined to inherit, unless his father follows the example of the late Corne. (Cornwallis West.) lius Vanderbilt. Lieutenant West's mother was the most famous beauty of her day In England and Is still a hand some womhn, of about the same age as Lady Randolph. His sister is the Prin cess Henry of Pless, who is as famous for her beauty now as her mother was in her youth. For the past six months young West's attachment to Lady. Randolph has been known in society. On several occasions their engagement was roe ported, but it was averted by the ef- - forts of the young man's family. Lady Randolph herself is said to be , in love with young West, but does not wish to enter Into a hasty marriage with'him. Sfie would prefer not to mar-. ry him in face of the violent opposition of his and her own family. He has urged her to elope with him, but she has steadily refused to do this. In con sequence, the youth has had fits of melancholy and grief. These gave rise a few weeks ago to . the report thzt the' two had quarreled and that Lady Randolph had cast oft her young adorer. The report was soon afterward clearly proved to be untrue, for they were seen everywhere enjoying one another's society. Lady Randolph accepted an invitation to a great party at Iwerne Minster, the house of Lord Wolverton, where the Prince of Wales was to be present. At the last moment she sent a telegram of excuse, and on the day she should have been at the party she was observed shopping Ina company with Lieutenant West. One night they witnessed a comedy called, "The Elixir of Youth." They dined to ether at the Hotel Cecil and were seen at all sorts of public 'places of amusement. The proposed marriage was opposed with especial violence, by Mrs. Corn wallis West, the young man's mother. She and Lady Randolph were at one time rival court beauties, and she was horrified at the Idea that her old rival should captivate her son. Hardly less opposed to the marriage was Lady Randolph's older son, Lieu tenant Winston'Churchill. She is ex tremely proud of him, and her ambi tion Is to see him hold as great a po sition in English politics as his father, whose success was largely due to his efforts. Young Churchill began his ca reer as a soldier, but she was anxious to see him out of that dangerous pro fession, and as a great inducement to that end she founded the sumptuous Anglo-Saxon Review, of which she made him editor. When Lieutenant Churchill observed the growing attachment of his mother and young West he protested warmly and Insisted that she should promise not to make a ridiculous marriage. She said that she did not contemplate such a thing. Her friendship with West re mainedl as warm as ever. Then her son demanded that she should drop her ad mirer altogether. This she refused to Winston Churchill was Irritated and disgusted. The war In South Africa broke out and he hastened to drop the Anglo-Saxon Review and go out with the army. While her son left, her lover, Lieuten ant Cornwallls West, was prep-.i.ng to go. His regiment' the Scots Guards, was part of the .army corps forwarded after the outbreak of. war and was one of the first to sail. The departure of the Scots Guards was a great event in society. Every body of importance, from the Prin of WVales downward, was interested. Lady Randolph assisted Lieutenant West to purchase his kit and supplied ims with no end of luxuries, so thir as long as he is not shot by the Eloers he will have a pleasant time. Baron Alfred .de Rothschild sent an unlimited supply of charmpagne and cigars to the officers. Lady Randolph Churchill, nec Jer ome, is the most brilliant American woman In English society. A numther of Welsh tinworkers who were induced to immigrate to this country a few years ago and who now find themselves out of employment by reason of the tin mills being closed by the trust are returning to Wales. Re ports state th'at the tin industry Is booming in Wa'es, and that skiled workmen are In demand. The Broad Tire Bill The broad tire bill which was papsed by the Senate sometime ago was taken up and killed in the House on Tues day. the vote being 44 for to 53 aainst the bill. Thone who voted for the bill were 1eyrs. Ibent, Browning, (Cauth man. Cose'rove. (Crum, TDargan, Davis, Dowling. N. G1. Evans. Fairey. G amble, Gantt, Hlender:on. Hoffmeyer. Hy riek. Lofton. Lyles. MIanning, Marion, McCoy. McCr~sw. MT~murin. Means, litchell. Montgomery. Nottles Peuri Fy. J. W. Rnesdale. C. P. Sanders, inkler, E. D. Smith, Stackhouse, tevenson, Strom, Suhor. W. J Thomas, Timmerman, Varn, Verdier, Wharton, Wh:soan+, Wnt-1r, W-ch, Yonng.