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DRA.MATICl Ari Rev. Dr. Talmage Oives His Views of the Theater GOOD AND BAD PLAYS The Drama, Rightly Directed. He Says. Is a Scurce of Goed. It Should Be Purified Not Suppressed. At a time when the whole country is in controversy as never before con cerning the theater and some plays are being arrested by the police, and others are being patronized by Christian peo ple, this sermon of Dr. Talmage is of much interest. The text is 1 Corin thians vii, 31, "rhey that -:se this world as not abusing it." My reason for rreaching this "is course is that I have bceU kixidly in vited by two of the leading newspape.rs of this country to inspect and report on two of the popular plays of the day -to go some weeks ago to Chicag and see the drama ' Quo Vadis" and eriti eise it with respect to its moral effect and to go to New York and see the drama "Ben-Hur" and write my opin ion of it for public use. Instead of doing that I prorose in a sermon to discuss what we shall do with the dra matic element which God has implant ed in many of our nDtures, not in 10 or 100 or 1,000, but in the vast majority of the human race. Some people speak 0 the drama as though it were some thingbuilt up outside of ourselves by the Congreves and the Goldsmiths and the Shakespeares and the Sheridans of literature and that then we attune our tastes to correspond with human in ventions. Not at all. The drama is an echo from the feeling which God has implanted in our immortal souls. It is seen first in the domestic circle among the children 3 or 4 years of age playing with their dolls and their cra dles and their carts, seen ten years after in the playhouse of wood, ten years after in the parlor charades, after that in the elaborate impersonations in the academies of music. Thespis and .Bschylus and Sophoeles and Euripides merely dramatized what was in the Greek heart. Terence and Plautus and Seneca merely dramatized rhat was in the Roman heart. Congreve and Far quhar merely dramatized what was in the English heart. Racine, Corneille and Alfieri only dramatized what was in the French and Italian heart. Shakespeare only dramatized what was in the great world's heart. Th'e dithy rambic and classic drama, the senti mental drama. the romantic drama, were merely echoes of the human soul. I do not speak of the drama on the poetia shelf, nor of the drama in the playhouse, but I speak of the dramatic element in your soul and mine. We make men responsible for it. They are not responsible. They are respon sible for the perversion of it, but not for the original implanation. God did that work, and 1 suppose he knew what he was about when he made us. We are nearly all moved by the spectecular. When on Thanksgiving day we decorate our churches with the cotton and the rice and the apples and the wheat and the rye and the oats, our gratitude to God ia stirred. When on Easter morn ing we see written in letters of flowers the inscrption. "He Is Risen,'' our emotions are stirred. Every parent likes to go to the school exhibition with its recitations and its dialogues and its droll costumes. The torchlight procession of the political campaign is merely the dramatization of principles involved. No intelligent man can look in any secular or religious direction without finding this dramatic element revealing, unrolling, demonstrating it self. What shall we do with it? Shall we'-suppress it? You can as easily suppress its Creator. You may direct it, you may educate it, you may purify it, you may harness it to multi tent usefulness, and that it is your *t o do. Just as we cultivate the taste for the beautiful and the sublime by bird haunte-i glen and roistering stream and cataracts let down in uproar over the miossed rocks, and the day lift ing its banner of vietory in the east, and then setting everyth ing on fire as at retreats through the rotes of the west, and the Aua.:rie z .a i Waterloo ef an August thunderstormi tlazi; their batteries into a sultry aft' -: and theround, glitterine: tear of a w wet on the cheek of the night-as ia this way we cultivate our taste for the beautiful and sublime, so in every law fal way we are to cultivate the dram at ic element in our nature, by every stac cato passage in literature, by antithesis and synthesis, by every tragic passage in human life. Now, I have to tell you not only that God has implanted this dramatie ele ment in ouar natures, but I have to tell you in the Scriptures he cultivates it, he appeals; to it, he develops it. I do not care where you open the Bible, your eye will fall upon a drama. Here it is in the book of Judges, the fir tree, the vine, the olive tres, the bramble they all 31ake speeches. Then at the close of the scene there is a coronation, and the bramble is proclaimed king. That is a political drama. Here it is in the book of Job: Enter Eliphas, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu and Job. The opening act of the drama, all darkness; the closing act of the drama, all sun shine. Magnificent drama is the book of Job! Here it is Solomon's Song: The re gion, an oriental region-vineyards, pomegranates, mountain of myrrh, Sock of sheep, garden of spices, a woo ing, a bride, a bride groom, dialogue af -ter dialogue-intense, gorgeous, all suggestive drama is the b'-ok of Solo mon's Song. Hero it is in the book of Luke: Costly mansion in the night! All the windows bright with illumina tion! The floor a-quake with the dance. Returned son in costly garments whicTh not very well fit him perhaps, for they were not made for him, but he must swiftly leave off his old garb and pre pare for this extemporized levee! *Pouting son at the back door, too mad to go in, because they are making such a fussi Tears of sympathy run ning down the old man's cheek at the story of his son's wandering and suffer ing and tears of joy at his return! When you heard M~urdock ricite "The Prodigal Son" in one of his readings, you did not know whether to sob or Ehout. Revivals of religion have start ed just under the reading of that soul revolutionizing drama of " The Prodi gal Son." Here it is in the book of Revelation: Crystalline sea, pearly gate, opaline river, amethystine capstone, sho wernog coronets, one vial poured out incarnad - ing the waters, cavalrymen of heaven galloping on white horse, nations in doxology, halleluiahs to the right of them halleluiahis to the lef t of them. As firt s it closes ait the drama of ths second paradise. Fifty essays about the sorrows of the poor could not aftcet me as a little drama of accident and suffering I saw one slippery morning in the streets of Philadelphi: Just ahead of me was a lad wretched in apparel, his limb am putated at the knee; from the pallor of the boy's cheek, the amputation not long before. He had a package of broken food under his arm-food he bad begged, I suppose, at the doors. As he passed on over the slippery pavement, cautiously and carefully, I steadied him until his crutch slipped and he foll. I belped him up as well as I couldl gathered up the fragments of the pack age as well as I could. put them under one arm and the crutch under the other arm. But when I saw the blood run down his pale check L hurst into tears Fifty essays about the sufferings of the poor could not touch one like that little drani of accident and suffering. OF, we want in all our different de ,artmenits of usefulness more of the dramatic elements and less of the didactic. The tendency in this day is to drone religio,:, to whine religion, to cant religion, to moan religion, to croak religion, to sepulteharize religion, when we ought to present it in animated and spectacular manner. Let me say to all yourg ministers of the gospel: If you Lave thi dramtie element in your nature, usc it for God and heaven. If you vill g) home and look over the history of the church, you will tnd that those men have brought more souls to Christ who have been dramatic. Rowland Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, dramatic; John Knox, dra matic; Robert McCheyne, dramatic; George Whitefield. dramatic; Robert Hall, dramatic. Robert South, dra matic; Bourdalone, dramatic; Fenelon, dramatic; John Mason, diamatic. When you get into the ministry, if you attempt to cultivate that element and try to wield it for God, you will meet with mighty rebuff and caricature, and ecclesiastical counsel will take your case in charge, and they will try to put you down. But the God who starts you will help you through, and great will be the eternal rewards for the assiduous and the plucky. What we want, ministers and laymen, is to get our sermons and our exhorta tions and our prayers out of the old rut. The old hackneyed religious phrases that come snoring down through the centuries will never arrest the masses. What we want today, you in your sphere and I in my sphere, is to freshen up. People do not want in their ser mons the sham flowers bought at the millinery shop, but the japonicas wet with the morning dew; not the heavy bones o extinct magatherium of past ages, but the livingreindeer caught last August at the edge of Schroon lake. We want to drive out the drowsy, and the prosaic, and the tedious, and the hamdrum, and introduce the bright ness, and the vivacity, and the holy sarcasm, and the sanctified wit, and the epigrammatic power, and the blood red earnestness, and the fire of religious zeal, and I do not know of any way of doing it as well as thro.igh the dra matic. But now let us turn to the drama as an amusement and entertainment. Itev. Dr. Bellows of New York many years ago, in a very brilliant but much criticised sermon, took the position that the theater might be renovated and made auxiliary to the church. Many Christian people are of the same opinion. I do not agree with them. I have no idea that success is in that direction. What I have said heretofore on this subject, as far as I remember, is my sentiment now. But today I take a stept in advance of my former theory. Christianity is going to take full posses sion of this world and control its science its maxims, its laws, its literature, its amusements Shut out from the realm of Christianity anything, and you give it up to sin and death. If Christianity is mighty enough to manage everything but the amusements of the world, then it is a very defective Christianity. Is it capable of keeking account of the fears of the world and in olspetent to n'a.e record of it s smiles? Is it good to follow the funeral, but dumb at tiie world's play? Can it con trol all the other elements of our nature but the dramatic nature? My idea of Christianity is that it can and will conquer everything. In the good time comong, whicih the world calls the golden age and the poet the elysian age and the Christian the millennium, we hV:. positive announcement that the ausment of the world are to be under Christiau sways. "Holiness shall be upon the bells of the horses." says one prophet. So, you see, it will control een the sleigh rides. *The city shall be fil of b.oys and girls pliaying in the streets thereof," says another prophet. So. you see. it is to control the hoop roling and the kite 6ying and the ball playing Now, what we want is to) hasten that tim". How will it be done?~ By the church going over to the thater' it will not go. By the thea ter coaiing to the char.:b? It will not come. What we n-ant is a reformed amusement association in every city and town of the United States. Once announced a' d1 e x plained and illustrated the Christian and philanthropic capi talist will come forward to established it, and there will be public spirited men everywhere who will do this work for the dramatic element of our natures. We need a new institution to meet and recognize and de-elop and defend the dramatic element of our nature. It needs to be distinct from everything that is or has been. I would have this reformed amuse ment association having in charge this new institution of the spectacular take possession of some hall or academiy. It might take a smaller buildin-g at the start, but it would soon need the lhrg est hall. and even that would not hold the people; for he who opens before the dramatic element in the human nature an opportunity of gratification without copromise and without danger does the mightiest thing of this century, and the tides of such an institution would rice as the Atlantic rises at Liverpool docks. There are tens of thousands of Chris tian homes where the sons and daughters are held back from dramatic entertainment for reasons which some of you would say are good reasons and others would say are poor reasons, but still held back. But on the establish ment of such an institution they would feel the arrest of their anxieties and would say on the establishment of this new institution which I have called the spectacular, "Thank God, this is what we have all been waiting for." Now, as I believe that I make sug gestion of an institution which wiser men will develop, I want to give some characteristics of this new institution, this spectacular, if it is to be a grand social and moral success. In the first place, its entertainments must be com pressed within an hour and three quarters. What kills sermens, prayers and lectures and entertainments of all sorts is prolixity. At a reasonable hour every night every curtain of pub enbon 3::rviea ought tc cecs th instruments of crherto ought to be unstrung. What comes more than this comes too late. On the platform of this new institu tion there will be a drama which beforc rendering has been read, expurgated. abbrevia'ted and passed upon by a board of trustees connected with this ref ormed amusement association. If there be in a drama a sentence suezesting evil, it will be stricken out. If there be in a Shakespearean play a word with two meanings, a good meaning and a bad mean, another word will be substituted, an honest word looking only one way. The caterers to public taste will have to learn triat Shakespearean nastiness is no better than Congrevean nastiness. You say. "Who will dare to chanze by expurgation or abbreviation a Shake spearean play?" I dare. The board of trustees of this reforimed amusement association will dare. It is no deprecia tion of a drama, the abbreviation of it. I would like to hear 30 or 40 pagcs of Milton's "Paradise Lost" real at one time, but I should be very sorry to hear the whole book read at one sitting. Abbreviation is not deprceiation. On the platform of this new institu tion this spcctaeu!ar, under the care of the very best men and women in the community there sh di b nothing wit ressed that would be unfit for a parlor. Any atitude, any lonk, any Word that would effetid you secd at your own fireside in your family circle will be prohibited from that platform. By what law of common sense or of mor ality does that which is not fit to be seen or heard by five people become fit to be seen or heard by 1.500 people? On the platformi of that spectacular all the scenes of the dram i will'be as chaste as was ever a lecture by Edward Everett or a sermon by F. W. Robertson. On the platform shall cme only such men and women as you would welcome to your homes. I do not make the re quisition that they be profess)rs of re ligion. There are professors of religion that I would not want in my parlor or kitchen or coal cellar. It is not what we profess, but what we are. All who come on that platform of the spectacu lar will be gentlemen and ladies in the ordinary acceptation of those terms, persons whom you would invite to sit at your table and whow you would in troduce to your children and with whom you would not be compromised if you were seen passing down Pennsylvania avenue or Broadway with them. On that platform there shail be no car-,u-cr, no inebriate, no cyprian, no foe of good morals, masculine or femin ine. It is often said we have no right to criticise the private morals of public entertainers. Well, do as you please with other institutions, on the platform of this new institution we shall have only good men and good women in the ordinary social sense of goodness. Just as soon as the platform of the spectacu lar is fully and fairly established many a genius who hitherto has suppressed the dramatic element in his nature be cause he could not find the realm ia which to exercise it will step over on the platform, and giants of the drama, their name known the world over, who have been toiling for the elevation of the drama, will step over on that plat form-such women as Charlotte Cush man of the past, such men as Joseph Jefferson of the present. The plattorm of that new institution, of that expurgated drama, occupied only by these purest of men and women, will draw sto itself millions of people who have never been to see the drama more than once or twice in their lives, or never saw it at all. That institu tion will combine the best architecture, the best music, the best genius six nights in the week on the side of intel ligence and good morals. D~o you tell me this pan is chimeri cal? I answer, it only requires one man somewhere between here and San Francisco or between Bangor and Gal veston to see it and appreciate it-one man of large individual means and grat heart and with $100,000 he could do more good than all the Lenoxes and the Lawrcnces andi the Peabodys ever accomplished. IIe would settle for all nations and for all times the stupe'ndous question of amusement which for cen turies has been under angry and vitupe rative discussion and which is no near er being settled today, by all appear anes, than it was at the start. Such an institut ion would have to be support ed at the start by a donation of capital, but very soo.n. in a year or t wo, it would become self supporting, and the boarl of trustees of the reformed amusement association would aind that the idea paid not only in morals and the elevation of the peoplo, but in dividends and hard cash. The amust nents of lire are beauti ful and they arc valuablk, but they cannot pay you for the lossof your soul. ! could not tell your character, I could not tell youir pr.wpcets for this world or the next by thc particular chareh you at tend, but if yoiu will tell ue where you werc l..t night an~d where you were the night before arnd where you have been the nights~ of ther la month, I think I c:.uld gu'ess w i--re you will spend eternity. As to the drama of your life ard mine, it will soon end. There will be no encore to bring us back. At the beginning of that drama of life stood a cradle, at the end of it will stand a grave. The first act, welcome. The last act, farewell. The intermediate acts. banquet and battle. processions bridal and fatneral, song and tears, laughter and groans. It was not original with Shakespeare when he said. 'All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." Hie got it from St Paul. who 15 centuries before that had written, "Ware made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and men." A spectacle in a coliseum fighting with wild beasts in an amphitheater, the galleries full, looking down. Here we destroy a lion. Here we grapple with a gladiator. When we fail, devils shout. When we rise, angels sing. A spectacle before gallery above gallery, gallery above gallery. Gallery of our departed kindred looking down to see if we are faithful and worthy of our Christian ancestry, hoping for our victory, want ing to throw us a garland, glorified children and parents, with cheer on cheer urging us on. Gallery of the martyrs looking down-the Polycraps and the Ridleys and the McKails and the Theban legion and the Scotch Covenanters and they of the B'ums market place and of Piedmot,-rains own from the galleries, 'God gave us the vitory, and he will give it S ou. Gallery of angels looking do su-cheru bic, seraphie, archangelielapping their wings at every advantage we gain. Gallery of the King from which there waves a scarred hand and from which there comes a sympathetic voice saying, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Oh, the spectacle in which you and I are the actors! Oh, the piled up galleries looking down! Scene: The last day. Stage: The rocking earth. Eater: Dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No crown. For footlights: orchestri The trumpets that wake the dead, For applause: The elap ping floods of the sea. For curtain: The heavens rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy: "The Doom of the Profli gate." For the last scene of the fifth act- The tramp of nations across the stage, some to the right, others to the left. Then the bell of the last thunder will ring, and the curtain will drop! THE WORK OF FIENDS. Cassie Boan, a White Woman, Cut With Knives and Burned. A dispatch from Chesterfield to the Columbia State says on Monday night, 12th instant, Cassie Boan, a white woman of questionable character, was cut and burned to death in the woods in the upper part of Chesterfield county. Her body was cut in five dif ferent places-each cut being a deep flesh wound. The gashes ranged from four to twelve inches in length. This not Eatisfying the perpetrator or perpe trators of the deed, the poor woman was set on fire and all clothing burned from her body. This crime is shocking in every de tail. A helpless woman cut and burned todeatiin the dead hours of the night in the woods, nearly a mile from any one's house. Her screams for 'inercy sounding in the night air only led to the discovery of the deed. The unfortunate woman lingered in her miscry until Tuesday, the 13th inst., when death came. A murder most foul! A blacker crime cannot be conceived. The very thought of it sickens a civilized people. Our civilization demands that the guil ty be brought to speedy justice. The b!ood of Cassie Boan cries to God from the ground. The fiends who took a woman's life in the dead of night in the lonely woods must not escape. Let justice be done and the majesty of the law vindicated. Henry Jackson, Ben Jackson, John Jackson and Tom Steen, all white, were brought to Chesterfield on Thurday, the 15th inst., andlodged in jail. They are charged with the murder of Cassie Boan. The murder of this woman is by far the most atrocious crime that has ever been committed in Ohester field county. It is said that Cassie Boan left home on Sunday afternoon, the 11th inst , and that nothing was seen or heard of her until her muti lated body was found in the woods. L-t the law say whether the men now m. j l are guilty of the crime or not. We learn that the evidence against them is strong. The case will come up before Judge Klugh at the April term of court. Cassie Boan was single, aged 20. She was part Indian, the daughter of George Boan. The poor creature was set on fire; all the clothing burnt from her body, and when found was scream ing and crying for help. Skin would slip off when touched. There was a bloody trail of about half a mile along shere she had crawled over logs and tried to eseape. Doss Jackson, John Jackson, one of the aceased, Abb Kirkley and Jim Viner wEnt to her after first going to each cther's house collecting a crowd. She asked John Jackson to take her hand, but e re fused. The others asked her name and she told it. They threw an overcoat over her and went away for help. Sam Woodward carried her from her father's house Sunday afternoon to the house of Vince Meltons, about two miles away. From that place she went away with Steen and James Jackson. Nothing more was heard of her until found in the woods. FREE BLOOD CUR.E. An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. 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Ad jutant G eneral Floyd Wednesday gave the following as the official re turnis from the recent election for a I eutenant colonel of the Second South (Crlina regiment; Capt. Herbert has Yc eeted by a handsome majority. i a captain in the Second South Car .li', r not U. S. Y., that served ink Cub.t. Iherbert. Eaves. Company H, Sumter.. .. ..1t 10 Company E, Timmonsville. " 50 Company D, Columbia... 16 Company B, Bamnberg.. 1 71 Company F, Orangeburg. 52 5 Company C, Orangeburg.. . 67 ii Company I, Georgeto a.. 43 4 Company A. Camden. .60 o Company G, F..rt Motte. 35 3 Trotaih..............303 159 Gen. Floyd will shortly issue a formal order declaring the election. Returns received from the election for lieutenant colonel of the regiment of cavalry indicate the election of Dr. Kollock. Troops E. G, K, B, and I oted unanimously for him. Col. Boyd of the the First regiment of infantry has issued an order taking ommand of his regiment and detailing Lieut. RI. J. McCorrigan of Company A Greenville) to act as regimental adju ant until further orders. Suicide at Batesy~lle The self demtu-i -n a fe.w days ago t Reeds Rzier uf 31rs. Susan Thirl -i!d h c u iaus repetition Wednes day afternoon at Batesville in the sui cide of her son-in-law, Perry Glenn, a rominent and well known farmer of hat section. The sircumstances sur ounding Mr. Glenn's suicide are re arkably similar to those attending the uicide of his mother-in-law. He had hreatened to kill himself and was be ng closely watched. About 3:30 o'clock WVednesday afternoon his wife ould restrain him no longer. When she attempted to prevent his getting out of the house, he knocked her down, njuring her so severely that she was not able to give the alarm for nearly an our, and it was tnen too late to save her husband, He fled toward the river mmediately af ter striking her. -Green lle News A .ad Gang. In the United States District Court at Savannah Wednesday D. A. Tyson and ten otheis pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to defraud through the'use of the mails. Thus collapsed a case that has engaged the court for the better part of two weeks and which Judge Specr characterizes as "one of the most notable cases ever tried in the federal court of this country." The conspiracy had ramifications through half a dozen of the country counties of this State, most of them prohibition counties. The conspirators would send ordeis by mail'to wholesale merchants out of the State for all manner of goods, principally beer and liquors, which they would dispense in blind tigers and the shippers would never hear of their money. But while liquors for sale in "dry' counties were a iqpecialty, many other kinds of goods were embraced in the orders of the gang; Indeed the confessed leader of the conspirators, D. A. Tyson, built and equipped a long distance telephone line connecting Sa vannah with a dozen neighboring towns with materials fraudulently ordered on elegantly engraved letter paper of feti tious firms. Tyson made use of a num ber of small country merchants whom he persuaded to permit the use of their names for the fraudulent ordering of goods. Many pianes, organs, reapers. cases of wine aud other articles were found in depots in the territory of the gang, consigned to the various metubers of it. The gang victimized wholesale merchants in 31ongonery. Chattanooga, Richmond, Charleston, Baltimore, Cin cinnati and elsewhere. The trial had gone on nearly two weeks and nearly 100 witnes-es had been examined when it was suddenly terminated by the plea of guilty. A Bad Negro Killed A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says the indications .are that the Negro who has broken into several residences, as saulted and robbed helpless women re cently and wellnigh terroriz'd the town was shot and killed Tuesday morning by Policeman Salyer. He was Brooks Ramsey, a deck hand on the Chesapeake and Ohio stcamer Louise, who about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning entered the home of lri. Virginia Pruiat, an aged dressmaker on Charlotte street, and brutally assaulted her with a piece of iron grate. Shortly after fleeing from the house he was arrested by Officar Caffe, from whom he escaped, to run into the arms of Salycr, who, after a desperate struggle, shot Ramsey to avoid being killed by him. in the hip pocket of the Negro, to which he had reached before Salyer shot, was found a 38 calibre revolver. Mr. and Mrs. Mil ler, who were murderously assaulted in their home the night of March 4, identi fied the shoes the Negro had on as hav ing been taken from their house. Miss Cotton, who was subsequently assaulted in her home identified the rings found in possession of Ramsey's wife as the same torn from her fingers, and Mrs. Jones, another aged victim. identified him as the man who attacked her. Sev eral overcoats found in his house have been returned to their owners. He is no doubt the man the.police have been looking for. Paying for the Philippines The war department officials deny recently published statements that Gen Otis' campaigni is costing upwards of 1,000 men every month. According to the official records, since the American occupation of the Philippines, June 1, 1898, up. to February 17, 1900, the date of the last official compilation, the act ual mortality in the army in the Philip pines was 65 officers and 1,460 men, a total of 1,525, or at the rate of 74 deaths a month. More details are con tained in the report of Co1. Woodhull, chief surgeon of the Philippine army. His report, howevetr does not extend beyond the end of the last calcndar Tear. It shows that from the time American troops landed in Manila uip to Deeember 1, 1899. the total number of deaths were 58 officers had 1,263 men. Of this number 42 officers and 570 men died of violence and 16 officerd and 693 men died of disease. Most of the deaths by violence occurred in bat tle. There were, however, 137 deaths from violence ottide of a-;tual hostilities. It is a singular fact that more than one half of the latter class of deaths were caused by drowning. The total number of wounded withe-it fatal result during the period eovered by the report was 1,767. Murdered by Tramps. Information was received at Norfolk, Va , Thursday of a double murder near that p-lace by t wo tramps. Trwo well known citizeros of Emnporia, .1 N. Wel ton and J. M1 Saunders, left triat place for Trgo, the station on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. about noon. Walk ing along the railroad to reach their destination they met tw~o tramps, one white and the other a negro, who, it is supposed, held them up for the purpose of robbery-. On showing resistenee the two gentlemen were brutally shot down and the robbery was committed by foree. When found Mr. Saunders was dead and Mr. Welton barely living, but having sufficient strength to teli about the murder and give a description of the mnurderers. Intense indi:gnation was eaused whe~n the affair became known and as soon as possible a posse was organized for rursuit, ac-d the mur derers arrested. A Former County Official. Oa last Tuesday a prisoner was re cired at the State peritentiary whose erer has been an interesting one. His unime is Allen and he came from a good fau~iy. He was a good school commissioner of his county-Dorches ter-up to the time he got into the trouble which has made hint a convict. lie was con ieted of forgery and has ertered upon the service of a scrntence of 10 years. The fellow is a man of intelligence, but is one of the "fell-b the-wayside" class. He has been put to work in the hosiery miii, and seemis disposed to make a good prisoner. The State. Lives in Memory. No n:tt' am~ong great Americans is iseyto live longer than that of Leslie E. Keeley, the discoverer of the gold ure for alcoholism. Remembered gratefully by the thousands who hare been rescued from ruin or misery by the use of that cure, his fame will continue because of the eontinued benefits of the use of his treatment. It is admin istered at one place only in South Car lina-the Keeley Institute, Columbia, . C. "A Thing of Beauty." Such indeed is the New Domestic ewing Machine. Not only is it hand some in appearance, easy in movement, oiseless in operation. It does all lasses of work in a manner unequaled y any other machine on the market. Write for particulars to J. L. Skull, 219 Taylor St, Columbia, S. C. Agents wanted in unassigned territory. See advertisement in anothe; part of his par. MEDICINES VS. NOISTRUMS. Proprietary Remedies from the View point of Modern Medical Science. (JAMEs R. THOMPSON IN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF IHEA LTUH) The time is past when members of the medical fraternity, who would speak with authority on matters per taining to their profession, can deny that curative agents of real efficacy are to be found among proprietary reme dies. Physicians belonging to what may be most aptly termed the "old fogy type" have been repeatedly chagrined at viewing the wonderful cures effected by a proprietary medicine, after they had, in sweeping terms, denounced the use of all specifies of the class under discussion as fraught with the gravest menaces to physical welfare. As a na tural consequence of this fact the n-um ber of those among the medical profes sion who still administer universal and unqualified condemnation to proprietary remedies as a class is very small and is constantly on the wane, both as regards numerical strength and in respect to character and ability. The Journal of Ilealth in this matter, as in all others which belong to the field it occupies, has always endeavored to bring its views into complete harmony with the facts that presented themselves to its judg ment; and it has never attempted to warp facts in such a way as to make them fit into its preconceived views. For while the former spirit is indica tive of an enlightened and reasoning progress, the latter is an unmistakable sian of intellectural stagnancy. Ap plying these remarks to the subject of proprietary medicines, we would indi cate our attitude in this regard about as follows: While dealing out to the impostures so extensively prevalent in this line the most unequivocal and out spoken censure, we do not hesitate to bestow words of commendation on such specifies as have shown by actual trial before our hygienic staff that they are remedies of undoubted therapeutic vir tue. A medicine which has fulfilled our most exacting demands in this respect, and one which therefore we feel justi fled in recommending to our readers, is "Life for the Liver and Kidneys," offered by the Life Medicine Company of Spartanbarg, South Carolina. It has demonstrated to us, so conclusive ly as to leave no room for doubt even on the part of the most skeptical, that it is a thorough eirative agent in all cases of dyspepsia, indigestion, constipa tion, biliousness, Bright's disease, dropsy, gravel, rheumatism and all dis orders arising from a diseased condition of the liver, kidneys and urinary orgons. In order to show how completely free from every non-judicial considera tion our investigations are, we shall indicate briefily the manner in which the examination of the remedy under discussion was conducted. A repre sentative was sent from our office to collect testimony in regard to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys." le was himself an entirely disinterested party, and the inquiry which he pursued was conducted in such a secret manner that no one commercially connected with the article in question had any means of knowing that its merits were being made the subject of investigation by a hygienic authority. Those who had uscd the remedy fer the maladies in which it claims to bring relief were in terrogated in regard to the effect it had exercised in their own cases. The answers which were received were characterized by an astonishing unani mity. .Every person who was visited and questioned with respect to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys" replied that he had found in it a most efficaci ens cure. This fact was ascertained to bc true not only in cases of ordinary severity, but even in those instances which had suecesfully withstood the skill of physicians as well as the cura tive powers of other proprietary reme dies. Having proseeuted our examination of thbe medicine in quxestion in a man ner that could not fail to dktcet any harmnful attributes that might belong to it -fo~r our examination extended to all classes and to almost all ages-we feel that a simple regard for the precepts of equity, as well as the health-demnands of our readers, calls for an editorial rebog nition of the genuine therapeutic vir tues of "Life for the Liver and Kid neys." T HE PLOT TO MURIDER. GOEBEL. Some Hope of Getting at the Truth About It. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says the stories growing out of the eon ference between Sergt. F. Wharton Golden, of the Barboursville company of State militia, and the attorneys who are managit~g the investigation of the assassination of Goebel, have caused a sensation throughout the State. Gol den will he placed on the stand by the prosecution in the trial of persons al ready arrested for alleged complicity in the assassination, but information as to the exact nature of the testimony he is expected to give is lacking. Specials from Winchester say Golden is still at that place in company with his attorney. "I will do all I can for my friends all the time," Golden is reported as say ing, "but I must first be true to myself. When the time comes I will tell all I know. Whatever else may be said about me I do n~t think I can be accused of being a liar, a coward or a D~emocrat, and I want it distinetly understood that I[am not here under guard." The story is published that Golden has divulged to the attorneys the name of the man who fired the shots that killed Goebel. The person mentioned is a mulatto who formcrly lived at Win chester, was prominent in the French Eversole feud and is known as a dead shot. This man is now supposed to be in the wilds of one of the mountain counties. Evidence that he was in Frankfort at the time of the assassina tion was found among papers taken fcom WV. HI. Culton, a clerk in the au ditor's office, when the latter was ar rested a week or so ago, on a warrant charging him with being an accessory to the murder. Among these papers weie receipts for board bills amounting to about $300, incurred by eighteen men who were in Frankfort for some time before and at the time Governor Goebel was shot. In one of these receipts the name of the mulatto mentioned is given. The re eeipt in this ease is for money received from John Perkins by Bettina Pittman for the board of three men. Perkins is a porter about the State House. REMEMBER TIlE ECLIPSE.-There will be a total eclipse of the sun on M1ay 28. The government will have >bservatories :ierected in this state, where there is a greater probability of ilear weather than anywhere else on ,he line ini which the eclipse will be risible. This will be a rare sight to nany of the younger generations. A. kingdom for a cure You need not pay so much. A. twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. A B59EWELY IW Makes the food more del ROYAL SAKINO POWC CURE FOR INSOMNIA. New York Physician Finds a Way to induca Sleep. A v-Hi known New York physician w rd from Insomnia for many Irhs found out a brand new z "ilc whereby sleep can be instantly o *"u*l The doctor has tried it On limelf .al on his patients, and has never knvjwfn it to fail. It is essential ly self-a-sphyxiation, and yet there is no ptos- bility of danger. A lou breath is first taken and the air is kept in until positive discomfort Is felt. which Is slowly exhaled. This is repeated a second and a third time, and in a minute or so the patient will be asleep. The theory of slee that finds the widest acceptance Is hat sleep is oc casioned by exhaustion of the nutrition of the brain, due to its functional ac tivity when awake. During sleep there Is a flow of nuitrition to the brain, con sequently an Increase of blood to sup ply its deficiencies. By holding the breath the head and brain become In tensely congested with venous blood loaded with carbonic acid. The car bonic acid and the other chemical prod ucts which venous blood contains act on the nerve tissues, producing sleep, and the same as ether and chloroform pro duce artificial sleep. If you are truly brain weary do not try to replace the thoughts with others, but make the mind a blank as far as possible. If the brain Is excited turn it to monotonous thoughts, recite poems or verses, or go over a journey which you very much enjoyed, recall ing even the most trifling incidents. Physicians are more and more arriving at the conclusion that the way-of treat ing insomnia is not by means of drugs. There is always the danger of forming the drug habit, and in most cases drugs are not necessary. If noises inside the house or outside distirb one, putting cotton in the ears will e found to give relief. Those who are troubled with sleeplessness should retire at a regular hour each night. If there Is a fear of not being able to sleep that keeps one awake one shovld feign not to want it, and one will be surprised to find how quickly sleep comes. Always take a slight meal before retiring to rest. A vast number of cases of in somnia are caused by empty stomachs. WHY SHE WAS CAREFUL. Wasn't Certain That the Prisoner Was Her Daughter and the Reason. Two days go there was at the police matinee an old negro woman who was a leading witness against a younger woman, who was said to be her daugh ter. The old woman had sworn that "Ter de best ob her b'lief the girl was not her daughter." This-puzzled the Recorder no little, and it being neces sary to get more witnesses, the case was postponed until yesterday. Yesterday afternoon Miranda John son was again arraigned for acting In a disorderly manner and the old woman was present Several witnesses swore positively that the prisoner was the old woman's child, and the Recorder turned to the old woman and said: "Old woman, why did you appear to be In doubt about Miranda being your daughter the other day?" "Lawd bless yer, honey, Ise still in doubt 'bout dat matter," was the re ply. "Why?" asked the Recorder who Ilt that he had a great mystery be bre him. "Bekase," replied the old woman, "dar wus er misshiur ob two babies er long time ago and de matter hain't cl'ar till this day. You see my little baby was born on do same day dat annudder nigger 'oman's baby was er born and jest to play a joke on Ike dat's my ole man-dey put de two babies wid me and tole him dat he war de fadder ob twins. Dey got de babies kinder mixed, and dey jest gib me one ob dem and gibbed do udder 'oman de udder baby. And I doan know till dis day whedder dey gibbed me do right baby er not Dat am do r'ason dat I hain't gwlne ter sw'ar reckless like 'bout dis gal In de cote." "I am going to fine Miranda $10.75." announced the recorder "and, old woman, If you thik she is your daugh ter you can pay the flue, and if you think she is not, you can let her work In the stockade for three weeks." The old woman gave herself the benefit of the -doubt and Miranda Is working three weeks in the stockade. -Atlanta Constitution. Pockets in Stockings. Stocking pockets are the latest fad, a New York dry goods man said the other day They are made to hold a roll of bills, jewelry and valuables that can be stored away in a small space. The pockets are worked into the top of the hose, above the knee, and are made with a fastening, so that there is no danger of their con tents falling out There are so many sneak thieves who steal from bed rooms while the family is at dinner, from carriages and from other places where women are obliged to leave their money and jewelry when they are not In use, that the safe receptacle about the clothing of the owner is an absoute necessity. Pockets are not generally found in women's dresses', and the stocking pocket has suggested Itself to some inventive genius. It looks as if these new pockets would be as safe as any that could be~de vised. His Heart Displaced. .Dr. 3. Sheldon Wright, who attend ed Martin Welge, 19 years old, after he was knocked dov;n by a Brooklyn trolley car, was a witness for the boy the other day in his suit against the company to recover $25,000 in the Su preme Court, Brooklyn. The physician testified that when he was called to attend Welge he found his heart dis placed. It was suspended by a fibre and vibrated like a pendulum, swing ing fully two Inches to and fro. When Dr. Sheldon was called in he had little hope of his patient's recovery. Since then he has somewhat improved. Mushroom Vaccination. A French scientist has found that some kinds of mushroom afford a vac cine against the venom of snakes. The juice of the mushroom renders a per son immune against the poison for a month or two. Proportion of Students. In Germany one man in 213 goes to college; in Scotland, one in 520; In the United States, one In 2,000, and in England, one in 5,000. After Secretary Root. Senators have passed a resolution calling upon Secretary Root to explain his action in granting an exclusive con eession to G-. WV. Esterly, deputy au litor in the state department, to mine the gold bed of the sea off Cape Nomne. To Bay Up Voters. The New York World says the Re publican leaders had only $18,000,000 :o elect McKinley in 1896, but have ;tarted this year to raise a campaign 'und of $30,000,000. Yet the World I URE . icious and wholesome ER 00.. 9W YORK. This Man Says He Was Trick ed Into An Insane Asylum. WiLD RACE FOR LIBERTY. Through Tennessee Swamps, Cut By Barbed Wire Fences, In a Strange Country. Story Told By a Man Who Says He Was Put Out of the Way For His Little Fortune-His Escape From Louisville-The Utmost Limit of, Endurance. Moses D. Morris tells a thrilling tale of his escape from the Great Western Insane Asylum, in Bolivar, Tenn., in which he was incarcerated for several weeks, although, he declares, he -was perfectly sane. He was tricked into the asylum, he says, and the object of those who had him placed there was his little fortune of $35,000. Mr. Morris's favorite among the un fortunate inmates with whom he was locked up was "Mike" McDermott, who had been educated for the priesthood, tind who was at times entirely rational. The two talked over plans to escape from the asylum, and finally consulted with another patient, Dr. B., who had become insane through drink. "To-night." said the Doctor to them one day, "there is a ball In the North Hall. You will file over from here, and on the way will traverse a long narrow cor-idor. At the left of it and midway there is a winding stair down to the ground floor. At the ena of the lower corridor is a door. For an hour every evening It is unlocked, but you must pass the watchman's door. If he sees you all is lost. If you reach the door you may succeed. Try it, and God save you." Mr. Morris and "Mike" decided to adopt the Doctor's suggestion. When night came Mr. Morris put on his even ing dress suit, even to patent leather shoes, in order not to excite suspicion, though it was storming hard and he knew he ought to have heavier cloth Ing if is plan to escape succeeded. "When the warder marched us over to the hall," said Mr Morris, "I was walking as in a dream. Down the long, dimly lighted corridor we snafled like a company of flagellants. I looked ahead with blurring eyes. There was the spiral stairway-my heaven of es cape. I slunk behind the unfortunate in front of me, trying to make myself smaller. I reached the head of the strairway, gave a glance around, and then down it I dashed like a madman in reality--down, down, down, reach ing the ground floor with my head in a* whirl. "I looked forward. A flood of light poured through the opening of the watchman's door. How could I ever get by It? My blood froze with the thought of capture now. I tip-toed along, then made a sudden dash through the blaze of light like a spec tre. I reached the door unseen. My brain was on fire. I seized tfle great latch and threw my strength into the last strokle for liberty and home. Thank God, the door yielded. That gust of wind-swept rain enveloped me like a thousand angels sent for my deliver ance. Into the darkness I plunged, not knowing, not caring, possessed only with the conviction that I was free, free, free! "On and on I raced. I was hundreds of miles from home, in a strange, coun try. The December -rain pelted me in torrents, the mud was almost to my knees. I did not know a single road, but plunged on and on, with the hope of finding some sort of a path-any where on earth, so long as It was out of sight of that accursed place. I dared not look back, still breathlessly I paused, and, from a distant hill, I saw the bleak turrets illuminated by the lightning's flash, and then tley fad #d from my sight forever. "I found that in tearing through a barbed wire fence in my flight I had torn one of my fingers almost from my band. It bled profusely, but, bind ing it up as best!I could, I set my face from the scene of my miseries, scan ning the darkness for one evidence of the habitat of civilized man. Knowing Ithat t hey would soon bee after me, I dared not lapse into a walk, but kept up a fierce gait, over rIdges, through creeks, surmounting every obstacle, the mud of the Tennessee valleys often to my knees, falling Into ponds whose thin ice cut me as I plunged."' Finally when almost totally exhaust ed, Mr. Morris heard dogs barking In the distance, and, following up the sound, came to a little cabin. The negro who owned It took him in and cared for him for two days. lHe was fourteen miles from the asylum and a hundred miles from home. "Afterward I offered my watch for are to Nashville, but the young man of the house said, "The lightning ex press~ stops for water just a half min ute down here about a mile. Conceal yourself nearby and board th'e blind Taggage car. You are safe till you'get to Louisville.' I thanked him, bade these good people adieu with tears of gratitude, and, with the help of my friend, an hour later boarded the blind baange car of the mid-night express. I'God bless you all!' I screamed out as I sped away through the darkness toward home and my dear people, pelt ed with cinders, stifled and strangled with smoke, but with my heart beat ing fast with triumph. I arrived at Louisville at daybreak to face my ac cusers, who saw the miracle of my es cape from the prison asylum with con sternation and terror. How I ever sur vived it I do not know, but here I am, safe, sane and sound, proving that where there is a will to break from un just bondage, with right on your side. there is no limit to human endurance." They gently child the poet in that he a?ways took the gloomy view of things. "Do you ever write on an empty stomach?" he asked. The poet glared up at them with glassy eyes. "Often there is no stationary in the house," he moaned, for hehad now be came delirious. came delirious.-Detroit .Tournal. Dropped Dead in Church. Rev. 0. C. Horton, a Baptist minis ter, dropped dcad at the close of his ser mon Sunday evening in the church at Piny Grove, N. C. Hie was bctween 50 and 60 years of ago. Gainesville, Ga.. Dee. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and I am per fectly satisfied that it is all. and wi 1 do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. I. C. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all