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NATURE PRAISES. Christ is the Theme of Nature's Joyful Song. HYMNS HEARD IN INFANGY Have a Strong influence in After Life, Says Dr. Talmage-ln finite Music in the Name of Jasus. In this ei-course Dr. Talmage ahow how Christ brings harmony and uelod) into every life that he enters; text, Psalm cxviii, 14, "The Lord is mY strength& 'id song." The mois fascinating theme for a heart properly attuned is the Saviour There is something in the rorning light to suggest him and somethiog in the evenit:g shadow to speak his praise. The lower bre athes him, the stars shine h , e caioaute proaimiWs him, all the viles of nature chant him Whatever is grand, bright and beautiful if you haten to it will speak his p-raise. So when in the summer time I pluck a lower I think of him who is "tbe Rose of Saaron and the lily of the Valley." When I see in the fields a lamb, I say, "Behold the LAmb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." When in very hut weather I came under a pro jecting chif, I say: Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in theel Over the old fashioned pulpits there was a sounding board. The voice of the misister robe to the sounding board and then was struck back again upon the ears of the people. And so the 1), 000 voices of earth rising up find the heavens a sounding board which strikes back to. the ear of all nations the praises of Christ. The heavens tell his glory, and the earth shows his handiwork, The Bible thrills with one great story of redemptioa. Uijon a blasted and faded paradise it poured a light of glorious restoration. It look ed upon Abraham from the ram caught in the thicket. It spoke in the bleat ing of the herds driven down to Je rusalem for sacrifie. It put infinite jathos into the speech of uncouth Lhermen. It lifted Paulinto the third heaven, and it broke upon the ear of St. John with the brasen trumpets and the doxology of the elders and the rushing wings of the seraphim. The old Greek orators, when they saw their audiences i*ttentive and slumbering, had one word with which they would rouse them up to the great est enthusiasm. In the midst of their orations they would stop and cry out "Marathon! ' and the peopie's enthus iasm would be unboanded. My hearers, though you may have been borne down with sin, and though trouble and trials and temptation may have come upon upon you, and )ou feel today hardly hke looking up, methinks there is one grand, royai, imperial word that ought to rouse s our soul to infinite rejoicing, 'and that word is "Jesusl" Taking the suggestion of the text, I shall speak to you of Christ our Song. 1. remark, in the first place, that Christ ought to be the craale song. What our mothers sang to us when they put us to sleep is singing yet. We may have forgotten the wertis; but they went into the liber of our soul and will forever be a part of it. It is not so much what you formally teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn has wings and can fly every whither. One hunared and fity years after you are dead and 'Ojld Mortality" has worn out his chisel reeutting your name on the tombstone y our great granochildren will be singing the songt which last kight you sang to your little ones gatherec about your knee. There is a place in 8,itsland where, if you disuinctly uiter your voice, there come back 10i or 15i distinct echoes, and every Chrisuian song sung by a mother in the car of her child shall have 10,0001 echoes coming back from all the gates of heaven. Oh, if mothers only knew the power of this sacred spell, how much of toner the little ones would be gsthered and all our homes would chime with the songs oi Jes3U6l We want some eountcracting influence upon your chilcren. The very moment your child steps into the street he steps into the path of temiptna. There are foul mouthed children who would hiki to besoil ',our littde ones. it wdll not do to keep your boy s and girls in thez house and make them house plant. They must have fresh air and recres tion. God saye your children from the scathing, blasting, damning influence of the street! I know of no counteract ing influence but the power of Chris tian culture and examp1'e. Hold be fore your little ones the pure life of Jesus. Let that name be the word that shall exercise evil from their hearis. Give to your instruct~ions all the fascination of music morning, noon and night. Let it be Jesus, the cradle song. This is important if your chil dren grow up, but perhaps they may not. Their pathway may be short. Jesus may be wantirng that child. Then there will be a sonless step in the dwelling, and the youthful pulse will begin to flutter, and little hands will be Li ted for help. You cannot help. And a great agony will pinch at your heart, and theecradle will be empty, and the nusery will be empty, and the world will be empty, and your soul will be empty. No little feet standing on the stairs.. Nio toys scattered on the earpet. No quick following from room to room. No strange and wondering questions. No upturned face with laughing blue eyes come for a kiss, but only a grave and a wreath of white blossoms on the top of it and bitter desolation and a sighing at iiightfall with no one to put to bed. The heavenly Shepherd will take that lamb safely anyhowv, whether you have been faitful or unfaithful, but would it not have been pleasanter if you -could have beard from those lips the praises of Christ? I never read anything more beautiful than this about a child's' departure. The account said, "She folded her hands, kissed her mother goodby, sang her hymn, turned her face to the wall, said her little prayer and then died." I speak to you again of Jesus as the night song. Job speaks of him who giveth songs in the night. John Weish, the old Scotch minister, used to our. a plaid across his bed on cold night, and sorme one asked him why he put that there. He said, 'iOh, some times in the night I want to sing the praise of Jesus and to get down arnd to get down and party. Then 1 just take that plaid and wrap it around me to keep my self from the cold." Songs in toe night! ight of trouble has come down upon many of you. Coin mercial losses p'ut out one star slander ous abuse puts out another star, do mestic bereavement has put out 1,000 bights, and gloom has been added to sting. &Ed one midnight has seemed to borrow the fold from another midnight to wrap itself in more unbearable dark ness, but Christ has spoken peace to your heart. and you sing: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high. Hide sue, 0 my Savioni! Hide Till the storm of life is past, Safe into the haven guide; Oh, receive my soul at last. Songs in the night! Songs in the night! For the sick, who have no one to turn the hot pillow. no one to put the taper on tbe star-d, noone to put ice on the eaplseor py.)r out the soothing arodynre or urrer onea cheertal word Yet soig< in the night! For the poor. who freeze in the winter's cold and ,welter in the summer's heat anti ',unch the hard cru-,ts that bleed the sore gums and shiver under blanket. that cannot any longer be patched and tremble because rent day is come and that they may be set out on the idewalk and looking into the starved face of the child and seeing famine there ani death there, coming home from the bakery and Laying in the p:es ence of the little famished owes. -Oh. my God, four has gone upl Yet songs in the night! Songs in the night! For the widow who goes to get the back pay of her husband, slain by the --.hagshooters," and knows it is the last help she will have, moving out of a comfortable home in desolation, death turning back from the exhaust ing cough and the pale cheek and the lusterless eye and refusing all relief. Yet songs in the night! Sons in the night! For the soldier in the field hos pital, no surgeon to bind up the gun shot fracture, no water for the hot lips, no kind hand to brush away the fites from the fresh wound, no one to take the loving farewell, the groaning of others poured into his own groan, tha blashpltemy of others plowing up his own spirit, the condensed bitterness of dy iog away from home among strangers. Yet song-i in the night! Songs in the night! "Ah," said one dying soldier, "tell my mother that last night there was not one cloud between my soul and Jesus." Songs in the nightl Songs in the night! This Sabbath day came. From the altars of 10 000 churches has smoked up the savor of sacrifice. Ministers of the gospel preached in plain English, in broad Scotch, in flowing Italian, in harsh Choctaw. God's people assem bled in Hindoo temple and Moravian church and Qaaker meeting house and sailors' bethel and king's chapel and high towered cathedral. They sang, and the song floated off amid the spice groves or struck the icebergs or floated off into the western pines or was drown ed in the clamor of the great cities. Lumbermen sang it and the factory girls and the children in the Sabbath class and the trained choirs in great assemblages. Trappers, with the same voice with which they shouted yester day in the stag hunt, and Mariners with throats that only a few days ago sound ei in the hoarse blast of the sea hurri car.e, they sang it. Oue theme for the sermons. One burden for the song Jesus for the invocation. Jesus for ths Scripture lesson. Jesus for the baptisma! font. Jesus for the sacra mental cup. Jesus for the benediction. But the day has gone. It rolled away on swift wheels of light and love. Again the churches are lhghted. Tides of people again setting down the-streets Whole families coming up the church aisle. We must have one more service. What shall we pre'ach? What shall we read? Let it be Jesus, every body say s; let it be Jesus We mtist have one more song. What shall it be, children? Aged nmet and women, what shall it be? Yung men and maidens, what shall it be? If you dared to break the silence of this auditory, there would come uap thousands of quaick and jubilant voices crying out, 'Let it be Jtsual Jeauo! Jesui'' We sing his birth-the barn that shelter. d him, the mother that nursed him, the cattle that fed beside him, the angels -that woke uap the sheph-rds, shaking light over the uiidnighit hills We sing his ministry-the tears he wiped away from the eyes of the or phans, the lame men that forgot their erutehes, tho damsel who from the bier bounded out into the sunlight, her loks shaking down over the insbed cheek, die hungry thousands who broke the broad as it blossomed into larger loaves-that miracle by which a boy with five loaves and two fishes be came the sutler of a whole army. We sing his sorrows-his stone bruised feet, his aching heart, his mountain loneliness, his desert hunger, his storm pelted body, the eternity of anguish that shot through his last monsents, and the immeasurable ocean of tor ment that heaved up against his cross in one foaming, wrathful, omnipotent surge, the sun dashed out, and the dead, shroud wrapped, bieaking open their sepulchers and rushing out to see what was the matter. We sing his resurrection-the guard that could not help him, the sorrow of his disciples, the clouds piling up on either side in pillared splendors as he went through, treading the pathless air, higher and higher, until he came to the foot of the throne, and all heaven kept jubilee at the return of the conqueror. Oh, is there any song more appropriate for a Sabbath night than this song of Jesus? Let the passers by in the street hear it, let the angels of God carry it amidst the thrones. Sound it out through the darkness. Jesus the night song, appro priate for any hour, but espe cially sweet and beautiful and blessed on a Sabbath night. I say once mo-e Christ is the ever lasting song, The very best singers sometimes get tired, the strongest throats sometimes get weary, and many who sang very sweetly do not sing now, but I hope by the grace of God we will after awhile go up and sing the praises of Christ where we will never be weary. You know there are some songs that aie epeially approriate for the home circle. They stir the soul, they start the tears, they turn the heart in on it self and keep sounding after the tune has stopped, like some cathedral bell which, long after the tsp of the brazen tonaue has ceased, keeps throbbing on the air. Well, it will be a home song in heaven, all the sweeter because those who sang with us in the domes tic circle on earth shall join that groat harmony. Jerusalem, my happy home, Name ever dear to me; When shall my labors have san end In joy and peace in thes? On earth we sang harvest songs as the wheat came into the barn and the barracks were filled. You know there is no such time on a farm as when they get the crops in, and so in heaven it will be a harvest song on the part of those who on earth sowed in tears and reaped in joy. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let the sheaves coe in! Angels shout all through the heavens, andi multitudes come down the hills cening: "Marvest home! gayvant homer' I There is nothing more bewithiug to on's ear than the song of sailors far out at sea, whether in day or night, as they pull away at the ropes-not much sense often in the words they utter, but tl music is thrilling. So the song in heav en will be a sailor's song. They were voyagers once and thought they could never get to shore, and before they could get things snug and trim the cyclone struck them. But now they are safe. One he went with damazed ri'ging, guns of distress booming throuxh the storm, but the pilot came aboard, and he brought them into the habor. Now they sine of the breakers past, the lighthouses that showed them where to sail, the pilot that took them through the atraits, the eternal shore on which they landed. i1e, it will be tie children's song. You know very weil that the vast ma jority of our race die in infancy. and it is estimated that sixteen thousand mil lions of the little ,nes are stauding be fore G.d When they shall rise up about the throne to sing, the millions and the millions of the little onez-ah, that will be music for you! These played in the streets of Babylon and Thebes; the-.e placked lilies from the foot of Olivet while Christ was preach ing about them; these waded in Siloam; these wt re victims of Herod's massacre; these were thrown to crocodiles or into the fire; these came up from Christian homes, and these were foundlings on the city commons-children Pver) where in all that lana. children in the towers, children on the seas of glass, children on the battlements. Ah, if you do not like bildren, do not go there! They are in vast majority. And what a song when they lift it around about the thronel The Christian singers and composers of all ages will be there to join in that song. Thomas Hastings will be there. Lowell Mason will be there. Beethoven and Mozart will be there. They who sounded the cymbals and the trumpets in the ancient temples will be there. The 40 000 harpers that stood at the ancient dedication will be there. The 200 singers that assited on that day will be there. Patriarchs who lived amid thrashing floors, shepherds who watched amid Chaldean hills, prophets who walked, with long beards and coarse apparel, pronouncing woe against ancient abominations, will meet the more recent martyrs who went up with leaping cohorts of fire; and some will speak of the Jesus of whom they pro phesied, and others of the Jesus for whom they died. Oh, what a song! It came to John upon Patmos, it came to Calvin in the prison, it dropped to Rid ley in the fire, and sometimes that song has come to your ear, perhaps, for I really do think'it sometimes breaks over the battlements of heaven. A Christian woman, the wife of a minister of the gospel, was d) ing in the parsonage near the old church, where on Saturday night the choir used to assemble and rehearse for the following Sabbath, and she said: "How strange ly sweet the choir rehearres tonight. Theg have been rehearsing there for an hour." "No," said some one about her. "the choir is not rehearsing to niahlt." "Yes," she said, "I know they are. I hear them singing. How very sweetly they sid' Now, it was not a choir of earth that she heard. but. the choir of heaven I think that Jesus sometimes sets .jar the door of heaven, and a pas-age of that rapture greets our ears The mini-trels of heaven strike such a tremend. us straio the Walls of jasper cannot hold it 1 wonder-and this is a question I have been asktog myself all the service -will y ou sing that soung? Will I sing it? Not unless our sius are par doned and we learn now to sing the praise of Christ will we ever sing it there. The first great concert that I ever attended was in New York when Julien in the Crystal palace stood be fore huedied" of singers and huncreds of ilay er- upon ins'ruwents. S-.me of you may remen.ber that eucasion It was Eirst one of the kind at. which I wa present, and I sh~all never forget it I saw that one man standinga and with the band and foot imeli that. great harmifnry, beating the time. It was to me over whelmiung. But, oh, the grander scene when they shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south, 'a great multitude that no man can number," into the temple of the skies, host beyond host, rank beyond rank, gallery above gallery, and Jesus will stand before that great host to conduct the harmony with his wounded hands and wounded feet! Like the voice of many waters, like the voice of mighty thunderings, they shall cry, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world with out end Amen and amem!" Oh, if my ear shall hear no other meet sounds may I hear that! If I join no other glad assemblage, may I join in that. I was reading of the battle of Agin court, in which Henry V figured, and t is said after the battle was won, glori ously won, the king wanted to acknow ledge the divine interposi'ion, and he ordered the chaplain to read the Phabi of David, and when he came to thLe words "Not unto us 0 Lord, but to thy name be the praise," the king dis mounted, and all the cavalry dismount ed, and all the great host, officers and men, threw themselves on their faces Oh, at the story of the Saviour'" love and the Saviour's deliverance shall we not prostrate ourselves before him to day, hosts of earth and hosts of heaven, falling apon our faces and cry ing, "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory!" "Until the day break and the shadows flee away turn our beloved and be thou hike a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether." Tried to Kill Themselves. Dr. Viners Vaccari and his wife, of San Francisco, attempt d suieide at New Orleans Thursday. The woman's corset saved her lhfe, the knife barely penetrating and the man cut his throat with a scalpel. They are being guard ed and will be taken to an insane asy lum. Dr. Vicarri broke down from overwork and he and his wife left for a long trip to [taly and Paris, taking along firteen thou-and dollars in money and jewels. The doctor's mind became unbalanced on the trap and the wile's constant vigil dethroned her reason. Both will likely recover. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitta' Antiseptic Invigorator ha~s been used in my family and I am per fectly satisfied that it is all. and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Done~y. P. .--I am u'sing it now myself. It's doing me good.-Sold by l'he Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all drggists. tf Col. Win. F. Wickman, who in somne way unknon shot himself several days ago, dit d at his home in Powhattan eunty; Va , Thursday niuht. HeI was a son of the late Gien. Wickman, the Confederate cavalry general. a id for many yea president of the Chesa peake and Ohio railroad, and had been prominent in Rtepublican pelities in Vnwii. MORMONISM. Facts That Will Be of Interest at This Time. THE CREED OF THE CHURCH A Story of Mormonism Published by Rev. Sheldon While Editing a Newspaper as He Sup posed J-asus Would. While managing the Tepeka Capital as he considered Jesi would run a newspaper tho Rev. Sheldon pinted a great deal of stuff about the Mormons and he had a man at Salt Lake City write a Etory about the Mormona at home. In this article it was said that few converts to the faith were being maie and many were being lost. The religion. it was said, was losing ground. In the Topeka Capital the writer says: Mormonism is the conundrum of the century. Such a medley of supersti tion and shrewdness, of absurdity and sagacity, of religious fAnaticism and worldly wisdom, the world has never seen. - Recent events have so brought this strange faith and peculiar people into the focus of public attention that cor rect informatien concerning the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" cannot be inopportune. Inquiries concerning Mormonism cluster around three points-creed, re ligious life and ethical results. 1. The creed. Mormonism profes ses to be a restored form of the gospel. It claims that universal Christendom had departed from apostolic doctrine and practice, and hence God called Jo seph Smith to be the Prophet and Gieat High Priest of a new dispensation. Through him has been re-established the Melchisedek and Aaronic priest hoods. As no sacrifices are offered, not even the sacrifice of the Mass as in the Catholic Church, the functions of the priesthood are to exercise authority and to be the channel through which alone saving grace can flow to the people. There can be no salvation without im mersion, administered by one of the ! .%Lly order, and complete obedience .ns commax-ds in all things. The doctrine of "Immediate Revela "on' is the corner-stone of the system. fhe Bible is but one of several of many rt.velations. Itrevealed the Divine will of rod's ancient people in the Eastern hem isphere, while the Book of Mormon was a revelation to the early inhabitants of the Western Continent. But more im portant than either is the Book of Doc trines and Covenants. containing reve .ations to Joseph Smith and other mod ern seers. Each succeeding bead -f the Church receives revelations from time to time, and the later revelation supersedes those previously given if in any partic ular they disagree. Hence, polyzarmy, though forbidden by the B 'sik of M-r mon, was commanded to Josseph Smith, then "suspended" through President Woodruff, and may be at any time re eablishe-1 by a later communication to some inspired head of the church. Baptism fo'r the dead is a prominent doctrine of the sect As there can he no salvation but by imm-rsion, admin isterred by a priest, the generat'ons who have died without this rite are held in a ethostly prison until some friendly solan earth shall undergo vicarious b .ptism in their name. President Woodruff, shortly before his death, stated in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that forty year- agco he had been baptised in one of the Utah temples in the na nlea of George Washinagton, Thomas J. ifer sonI and many other of the tathers of the country, and that there-upon these worthiea bad beenu freed from their im prisonsment and introduied into the h. avenly state. Trhis superstition gives the priesthood a fearful power over the people, for they are muade to believe that not only their own salvation, but that of their departed kindred, depends upon their obedience to the Church. Thbey believe in many Gods; that God the Father was once a man and still has a body of flesh and bones. They teach thtt we have a Beavenly Mother as well as a Heavenly Father. for how otherEise could God be ihe "Father of Spirit4' They believe that Adam was the "Ancient of Days;" that he is our Father and God; that Eve was a celes tial wife whom he brought with him from Heaven. They also believe that all faithful saints will ultimately be come gods. Polygamy may be correctly described as an essential feature of Mormonism. The degree of glory to which a saint may attain in Heaven will be deter mined by the number of his children, as these will form the family or tribe rver which he will reign. Hence it is important thiat every facility be allowed himu to secure a numerous off'pring. As he warriage relation will continue in eaven with same privileges and re suhts as attac:. to it here the much-mar ried saint will er~j-.,y a perpetual advan age over his poor monogamous brother. To sustain the doctrine and practice f polygamy it is taught and generally believed that Jesus Christ was the poly gamous husbanid of the Bethany sisters and of Mary Magdalene and probably f others. As salvation depends upon sn.eh hingsas baptism, the laying on ofhands, bedience to the priesthood, payment of ithes and "d oing of temple work," out wrd observances of all, there is no de and for those in~ward changes on which the Christian faith insists. As egards religious emotion the Mormon hurch is a veritable Desert of Sahara for dryness and barrenness. The true test of a religion is its ef fect upin character and conduct. udged by this btandard Mormonism ust be pronounced a conspicuous fail re. T'he moral tone of Mormonism is far below that which prevails in aver ge Protestant communities. Profani y is a prevalent vice and indulgence in. he habit is no bar to official position in he Church. The editor of Living Is ues, a highly respected citizen of Salt ake City. n h'j Ias recently withdrawn ronm tl.e M'ruton 2bureuh, signalizes is withdrawal by publ.ishing an open etter to President Angus M. Cannon, in which he bays: "You could lay our fingers on high priests. seventies nd elders who are to be found in gain og heils; who let their premtises for su of ill fame and for saloons rinking, swearing and bad language are to comumon that when a good orotheer urns up who abatains from all these e is a curiohity and a mnarvel ", "When wenty-one metubers of y our State ar ang-d to furniah a grand brothel on ommercial street we never heard your rotest. Sixteen years ago, when the ditor of Living Issues came to S .lt ake, L~e found the saloon, the gaming ell and the brothel in lull swing. At hat time no Non-Morumon had ever mon bad ever been eleoted to the Leg islature." The inherent weakness of Mormonism is shown by its inability to secure con verts in Utah, where it is best known and by the large number of defections from its ranks. The editor of Living Is sues, in the letter above referred to, asks President Cannon: "In the twenty-three years of your presidency how many of the resilents of this fair city have joined your Church? You could almost count them on your fingers. Holw many have left it? Why. tens of thousands. Among those who left you were some or the best men and %tomen who ever joined you Did %.on ver 'top to think of that and of he wful gaps made in the Church? Of the - lrre tpecial witnesses to the Book of Mtrion all apo!tatizt-d Of the first quorum of the first presidency tw.. ai o-t.siz,-d. Of the fir-t twelv. Apostles seven apostarized. Of the first seven presidents of st-venties four avostatized. Of the high priests. Bishoi s. seventies, elders an d members A ho have been excommunicated or have withdrawn there must have been hun dreds of thou-ands." Or forty evangelical churches report ing as to losaes and g.ins to and from ilormonism fiaures show that durine the history of these churches they have lost but nine members perverted to the dominant Church, while their gains from that Church equal 44 per cent of their present membership. The indis putable fact that where Mormonism is best known it has the least success is eloquent in condemnation of the system. The rejection of Congressman-elect Roberts has been a serious blow to the polygamic hierarchy controlling the Church, and if now a constitutional amendment disfranchising polygamists shall be adopted it will have a crushing effect upon the most obnoious feature of this strange anomaly in nipeteenth century civilization, which insists upon calling itself a religion. To secure the adoption of such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States we invoke the aid of all friends of virtue and true religion. IMPBESSiONS OF CUBA. What a Man Who Ought to Know Says of the Island. Lieut. Marcus B. Stokes. U. S. A., who is now detailed as coll, ctor of the port at Cardenas, Cuba, while in Co lumbia recently talked interestingly to a representative of The State about Cuba and the Cubans. Among other things he said: "I went to the island a year and a half ago and have opportuni ties to observe the people and their characteristics. The popular idea is that the Cubans are a very excitable people. I have not observed anything specially of this character among them The typical Cuban countryman is just the very opposite. They are good, steady workers both on their planta tions and on the public roads and works that are being constructed. They are the most temperate people I have ever seen, and that as a people, too. It is the policy to give every position availa ble in the island to native Cubans, pr.ference always beinir given to Cuban ufficers and soldiers. They are taking the places in the telegraph and postal and other service,, and seem to be fill ingc them satisfactorily. In all eases it i, impossible to r-eeure. of course. the be-.t men on first effort, but those obtained are, as a rule, doing their work most satisfactorily. "The color line among the better classes, as far as I cana jidge. ir just as sharp as it is in this country. Socially the people are on a par with those found in our own country. "There is at present a clamoring and discon'ent-d e'eusent in Cuba. buL thi, el.-ment is not a piart of the class of people I h sve j 1st referred to -the so ber. trinkinc p.woole -Crime is almost unknown, and this appi. a to all classes upojn the island; inc udong the Spaniards. A nd as to the Spaniards there is a large proportion of the population of the cities made up of them. They are in fact the merchant class. They are apparently contented with the way things are going, at least accepting conditions. Ouly a short time ago I noticed one of the newly ap pointed Spanish consuls apparently perfectly at home at a reception and dance at the house of a leading Cuban family " "D. you think the Cuban white peo ple will ever allow the negroes to govern "'I cortainly do not think so; if any political color question ever arrises it will never come up in the western half of the island. "The maases of the people are anx ious for work. On all public works all the laborers needed can be secured." "Is there muoh hatred for Americans in Cuba?' - "never find any hatred expressed. In Habana we hear of it. that is all." "Is business reviving?" "A great many sugar plantations are beir'g built up. Iam in the sugar belt of the island. The destruction has been fearful; the great need is capital. Absen tee land lordism and foreign ownership of lands seem to be the trouble. It is a case of indefinate lease. and it is holding a great deal of the progress of the island back. " rhe winter climate in Cuba is sim ply ideal-most delightful. In the sum mer I found that it is more pleasant than here in South Carolina. provided vou keep out of the sun in the middle1 of the dey. A white man can work in1 the fields all the year, morning and evening. "The United States government is turning over all the offices in anticipa lion of transferring the governmnet of the island to the Cubans as soon as it is practicable. It is a necessarily slow pro.cess. I am, for instance, the only' American who is in out custom depart nient at C2ardenas. The force consists t of about 3') men. All the chiefs are e Cubans, and they are giving satisfac- c tion. c "It is a plessure to see the streets g alive with school children now attend- e ing the public schools. The children are bright and keen."f A Good List f The Nashville American proposes this list for Miss Helen Gould's Temple of Fame: 'Georce Washington, father ~ of his country; Thomas Jefferson. au thor of the Delaration; James Madi- g on, father of the Constitution; Au- f re-w J4-kson, soldier and statesman; c John Mlarshall, jurist; .James Marion i ims. surgeomn; Kdgar Allen Poe, poet; j Lee. Jackson, Forest, soldiers; ~Iatthew Eontainet .1 ury, scientist and sailor,; Benry Clay, statesman." cA kingdom for a cure . You need not pay so much. C & twenty-live cen. bottle of L. L. & K. a Will drive all ills away.r Bee a a n ti....ver fail.. a Predicts Republican Defeat. Mr. John Temple Graves, of Georgia, who is a close observer of men and events, predicts the defeat of the Repubdieans in the coming presidential election. Writing from Rochester, N. Y., he says: "In the midst of much that justifies pessimism in the forecast it is as refreshing as a west wind-this protest of the ilhole country against the treat ment of Porto Rico. I have never seen anything to equal the scope of the protest or the extent of the revolution it has wrought in public sentiment. For these four veans gone, and up to six weeks ago, to mention the name of Mr. McKinley in a public audience in the Northern or Middle States was to create a whirlwind. Now it means si lence-absolute silence every where-broken only by the lonesome clatter of some blind and expectant partisan who sees nothing but the office he hopes to get. "From a proud and happy position of a popular idol the president has fallen, for a time at least, into desuetude and dis trust. Bryan has risen as high as his rival has fallen deep, and discounts the president in the favor of every popular audience that I have seen from Minnesota to Rhode Island. When the state of Iowa, which, in the memory of living men, has never been anything but radi cally Republican and has for seven years followed the for tunes of McKinley with a devo tion that was almost blind and servile-when Iowa boldly rises up in the might of a strong con viction and expresses, through her legislature, a free trade resolution that contains an al most passionate rebuke to the Porto Rican iniquity of its party it is indeed, a matter of amaze ment and alarm. "But when a conference of northern Methodist ministers the most fanatical partisans that the 'president has in the coun try-holding session in the state of Pennsylvania, with its 200. 000 Republican majority, delib erately and repeatedly hisses the name of McKinley, it is time to look for the falling of the stars or the collapse the Repub lican party. It may be that 'the gods do not design to de stroy' the Republican party, but they have certainly com pleted the preliminary of 'mak ing it mad.' With the single exception of three colossal trusts, the whole green country, from Colorado to Maine, is up in arms against this Porto Rican infamy. Men who have been life long friends of the president like Kohlsatt, of Chicago, and a score of others in journalism and public life, have openly pro tested against the recent action. "One of the most signiticant straws in the whirling tempest is the ease andgrace with which the Democrats here in northern and western New York have re versed long-standing majorities in municipal and county elec tions and swept the field clear for November. I think the hope of the country rests in just such a spirit as has moved this insur rection. I believe in parties just as I believe in churches. It is impossible to carry principles forward without organization and co-operation but somehow I always thank God when I see, in a crisis of national honor or national danger, men by the thousands, rising up to declare that truth, towers mountains high above all parties, and that by comparison, parties are noth ing and our country and right, everything. "Party ties are resting very lightly on the great body of the people these days, and the or ganization that thinks it can command iniquity in the name of loyalty is going to realize the real calibre of a great and noble people. Of course the plain idea of the trusts is that their money an buy back in November the confidence their selfishness has outraged in March. It is the same brutal estimate of the peo ple on which Mark Hana-in aarnate spirit of arrogant and Liscrupulous politics--nas pre icated his whole career. When ~hat man falls-as he surely will ~all-te deumas should be sung n the churches, and the day hould be made a national holi lay. No figure more monstru >us and baneful has obscured ~he political sky in this genera ion. I should blush for my ~ountry if I permitted myself to elieve that the money of the rusts couldbuy another endorse nent of this man at the badlot >ox. "In spite of all this fatal er or, I am not willing to believe vil things of the president. I ordially like the man. I think e is misled and mistaken, but ot untrue. He has done much hat is good and kind and wise nd conservative to be con emned for a single sin. His riginal impulses and his ori inal judgment are nearly ways right. It is evident to ny observant man that the evil orces which, holding the strong d noble cord of his gratitude or services past requital, have quired a leadership in his ad iinistrati n, are leading and iisleading him here. He has een made to believe that the eat issue on which lie has >ught and won his political arer is vitally at stake in this iatter, and to let go now is to nperil the structure that is roven with his convictions ith his fame and his position. Le has been persuaded that to reaken in the front of this lamor is to invite destruction, nd that he must go forward ssolutely and retrace his steps fterward by another way. R DSCAEr Makes the food more d . . ......... ..... m I will riskmy whole judgment on the prophecy that he will spare no effort in the future to redeem the injustice of the pres ent. I believe this and I believe still in the high character and good purpose of the president, and I believe, most of all, that, while this incident is fresh, the friends who really love N illiam McKinley and are close enough reach him should take hold of him, and even on the horns of the altar, divorce him by a sur gical'operation from the throned iniquity called Hanna, who has shadowed 'his administration and debilitated his place in his tory. I think the recent stir has done more to weaken the cause of expansion than any other thing that has been said or done against it. "I am an expansoinist my self-an out and out, six days in the week, material, commercial, sentimental,missionary, Presby terian expansionist, but I am not now and never will be an imperialist, and Porto Rico make an 'example sufficiently horri ble' to turn the country from the idea; of committing the real policy of expansion to hands as ruthless and unjust as those which are driving the president and congress at the presenttime. I do not see how public opinion can re-act-if it does re-act-in time to save the Republican party. - It seems to me that all along the skies are brightening> for the cause that Bryan will lead to victory in November. The is sues which he represents are so far above party, or spoils, or money, or expansion, that no true man can hesitate where to stand and where to fight. I said it ten months ago, and I say it now that the issue of this presi dential pear is a yeath grapple, fateful and final, between the old-fashioned 'power of the peo ple' and the throned and bloated insolence of the colossal trusts. It is acrisis in which men should go from their knees to the ballot box, and ift need be, from the ballot box to the battlefield." PEE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terribie Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Scrofala, that resist other treatments are quickly cared by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carbancles, Blotches. Catarrni, Rheumatism, ete , are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B Blood Pois n producin E iting Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, S >re Throat etc., cured by B. f8 B. 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One wa~s to accumulate money, far he was a perfect miser, and a handy man at all games -of cards, and the other was a watchful and tender solicitude for the welfare of his daughter, the only being for whom he ever showed any respect or affection. She was a beautiful girl, bright and intelligent, andI apparently she loved the crooked old miser. The story went that she was his on. ly child, and that he had come West to make a fortune in order that when she grew to womanhood she might live like a lady In the States. The girl was about seventeen, and was so carefully guarded that she was discontented, and used to have sly flirtations with cowboys and other hangers-on at the camp, which would have~ ended in murder had the old man discovered them. While he was at the card table she. was chattering at the rear of her tent with one of her many lovers. And one night she eloped. 'The old man used to gamble all night a~nd sleep all day, and when he awoke one afternoon from his slumbers he dletected her absence. A cowboy named "Bunny" was also missing, and the rild man. by making Inquiries, discov ered that they had been seen togeth er during the previous evening. He crawled through the town like a wild ,at, and borrowing a horse, buckled bis revolver belt around him and started across the prairie toward the saneh where "Bunny" was employed. The next day he returned to New on. but sold out his traps and disap >eared forever. Two days later travelers along the oad reported that they had found in in abandoned mud hut. near the riv ~r two corpses, those of a beautiul ilrl and a stalwart young man. They vere on their knees, their right hands vere clasped, and a prayer book, coy-I bred with blood, lay on the floor be ide them. The old man had discov' red the betrayal of his daughter by 'Bunny," had married them himself nud then shot them both through the eart. Mounted policeman Matt Fanids et Iighbrldge Station, New York, was. hrown from his horse and instatly P'OWDER Ious and whoesoml - I TEXTS ON GOLD LW Why Geld Leat is PaCked ' Betwe leaveS of the Bible. outde of regular dealers in am occasionaily surprised when th urchas books of the ma* tria t s that the paper leaves be tween the sheets of gold have texts et Scripture printed on them. Looking doser they find that the paper leaves ar actually cut from the Bible. Speaking of this, the head of a Chi eago irms which deals in gold leaf maid: "The gold leaf which is put up M books made from paper leaves cut from the Bible comes from Englaud. There is ne intention to be Irreverent In packing the gold leaf In this way. Most er It goes to the stores where they sell artist's materials, and Is packed between printed sheets because the $light Indentations in the paper made by the printing serve to hold the delicate Alm of gold in Place "Why Is it that the Bible Is gen erally used? Simply for the reason that the Bible is usually printed In small type and is always very evenly set, and the impression of the type oU the paper is very light, but- enough to hold the gold leaf In place withoutJn juring It. Another book that Is use for the same purpose Is the Book Of Common Prayer, the small type ed tions, of course. The paper is always very n and smooth and when print ed the leaves are just adapted for the purpose of holding the gold leat. "The rst time I was asked for ia explanation en this point was when I had a store for the sale of artist's m9 .terials. A gentleman who bought sel eral books of English-made gold leaf came to me and asked me if paper ws so scarce where the gold leaf was made that they had to cut UP_ Bibles for the purposexof packing the leaf. He had noticed that the sheets of gold leaf were packed between aieets ef printed paper, but paid no attention to it estil his caught a Scriptuzl: text that often puzzled him. t was the passage 'Iron sharpeneth lron; so a man sharpeneth- the countenance of his friend.' Then be saw that tho'W gold les was placed between cut-up pages of the Bible. He seemed, ''I think that the sheets of the Bible were used by some religious manufactuarel who thought some oR* might be cob verted by reading a stray text. He aid he was almost startled when be. read the text he was pung over and looked disappointed when I e. planed in a matter-of-fact way why pages of the Bible were used "Once or twice very excellent peope who bought this gold leaf from me were Indignant when they found that the 'Bible was cut up to -bold It, and told me I should not encourage the Profanation by selling that hind of lef Others who were of a different temperament said they were glad to<. see it, as it might lead to some peo* reading texts of Scripture. by glancuig with curiosity at the shee who never took a Bible in their bands They held that no matter what form ft took It was a good thing to dreulstO texts of Scripture." - gondon's Mees. Lttie mare than a half of the . that Inndon settles every year goes into the pocket of the English farmer, From the ends of the earth comes this vast supply. 'This-great ogre of a cityv of OUrS, before whose gastronomic ef canes, has taken his toil of the wild ranchers from boundless..Western pral. ries, of the beautiful chestnut-colored herds of the Andalusian Mountains of the piebald-coated cattle that the hon eat Dutch tend as their own 'children, and of the sturdy oxen of 'the North German plaijis, says Cassell's Mag sine. Canada and Australia send as lambs and sheep, the River Platte our as tongues, Hamburg and Rotterdam our pig - Wat an advertisement for the Navy League? What an objent leson for those who declare our fleet Is overgrown? it passes human comprehension to think what would become of London If our command of the sea were lost and the foreign supplies failed! If the IZ,000 live cattle from America thet swell the metropolitan cattle herd dur-. lg the year sever reached their dees tnaton; If Holland's half million of - sheep were forced to remain .on the. home pasturee-in short, if the 140,006. tos of meat, neither bred nor fed In ths Islands, that London *anull. cnenmes, ceased to appear in the huta chers' shops of the metropolis. A FREAK OF JUISTICE Tring to Solve a Queston et blaMe or Murder. There was an odd freak If court jus tis out in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a. few days ago. It was in a pussling ease of suicide or murder. The point to be decided was whether the dead man, Fred Merril, had comn mitted suicide by shooting himself or had been shot by Walter Locke, his brother-n-law, wh. had been suspect ed ef murder. A note was found in the dead man's room purporting to give reasons for committing suicide. This note, the prosecution claims, was a forgery. The4 friends of Locke, the prisoe, insted n the suicide theory. The court and jury went to the cem etery. The pistol which was found in MferrilH's hand was placed against the bead of a lately-deceased pauper, dug up for the purpose, and pointed in the direction that It is alleged the bullet went through Merrill's head.. The skull was cracked to splinters and torn apart In much the same man e as was Merrill's head. The wounds were, however, different in character, and no clean cuts appeared. Hie face was powder burned Immediately around the bullet wound and pieces of skull on the left side were thrown out ward, one piece being blown thirty feet against the wind. The recoil of the revolver was such that had It -been In the hands of a man committing suicide it would have been thrown thirty-five feet er 'clutehed so tightly that force' would hace been necessary in remov tagt fro te dead man's handl. It is claimed there were no powder burns ,n the dead man's face. Heard a couple qf good ones on this trip," announced one of Detroit's tray. cing men. "At a little town in Okla, horn court was in session and [ dropped in while waiting for the train. The procution had taken the testi mony of a stationary engineer and the attorney for 'the defense took hold. 'Where were you the day. this thing happened? he Inquired. "'Running' a Injun." "'What tribe did he belong to? "The day before a case had been tried in which a man had climbed to the top of a freight car, laid- up on a siding. He had no business there, but loosened the brake. The car started down grade, gained speed rapidly for ~ Le miles, and then turned a summet. snult over an embankment. His cola-C' bone was broken and be got 'a vedc> for $!00 because a smalt lawyer com.'n vieed the jury that the railroad ; guilty of contributory ngi~e Proesinonal etiquette -pretenthe