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.
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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
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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.