The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, May 02, 1900, Image 4
Dr. Talmage's Tirne:y Disccurse
on Religious Doctrines.
WOULD FREE HUMANITY
From the Graveclothes of Old Ec
clesiastical Dogmas. Simple
Faith In Christ the Test of
Christianity.
At a time when the old discussion of
creeds is being vigorously and some
what bitterly revived this discourse of
Dr. Talmage has a special interest.
The text is John xi, 44: "Loose him
and let him go."
My Bible is at the place !f this tcxt
written all over with lead pencil marks
made at Bethany on the ruirs of the
house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus.
We dismounted from our horses on the
way up from Jordan to the Dead sea
Bethany was the summer evening re
treat of Jesus. After spending the
day in the hot city of Jerusalem he
would come out there almost every
evening to the house of his three friends.
I think the occupants of that house
were orphans, fcr the father and mother
are not mentioned. But the ;on and
two daughters must have inherited pro
perty, for it niust have been, judging
from what I saw of the foundations and
the size of the rooms, an opulent home.
Lazarus, the brother, was now at the
head of the household, and his sisters
depended on him and were proud of
him, for he was very popular, and
everybody liked him, and these gir.
were splendid girls-Martha a first rate
housekeeper and Mary a spirituelle,
somewhat dreamy, but affectionate and
as good a girl as could be found in all
Palestine. But one day Lazarus got
sick. The sisters were in consterna
tion. Father gone, and mother gone,
they feel very nervous lest they lose
their brother also. Disease did its
quick work. How the girls hung over
his pillow! Not much sleep about that
house-no sleep at all.
From the characteristics otherwise
developed, I judge that Martha pre
pared the medicines and made tempt
ing dishes of food for the poor appetite
of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and
sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus
until the doctor announces that he can
do no more. The shriek that went up
from that household when the last
breath had been drawn and the two sis
ters were being led by sympathizers
into the adjoining room all those of us
can imagine who have had our own
hearts broken. But why was not Jesus
there as he often had been? Far away
in the country districts, preaching,
healing other sick, how unfortunate
that this omnipotent Doctor had not
been at that domestic crisis in Betbany.
When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany,
Tazarus had been buried four days and
dissolution had taken place. In that
climate the breathless body disinte
grates more rapidly than in ours. If,
immediately after decease, the body
had been awakened into life, unbeliev
era might have said he was cnly in a
comatose state or in a sort of trance
and by some vigorous manipulation or
powerful stimulant vitality had been
renewed. No! Four days dead.
At the door of the sepulcher is a
crow4. of people, but the three most
memorable are Jesus, who was the
family friend, and the two bereft sis
aers. We .went into the traditional
tomb one December day, and it is deep
down and dark, and with torches we
explored it. We found it all quiet
that afternoon of our vi:-it. but the day
spoken of in the Bible there was pres
ent an excited multitude. I wonder
what Jesus will do? He orders the
door of the grave removed. and then he
begins to descend the steps, Mary and
Martha close after hiin, and the crowd
after them. Deeper down into the
shadows and deeper! The hot tears of
Jesus roll over his cheeks and plash
upon the back of his--hands. Were
ever so many sorrows compressed into
so small a space as in that group press
ing on down after Christ, all the time
bemoaning tha: he had not come be
fore?
~, Now all the whispering and all the
crying and all the sounds of shufiine
feet are stopped. It i. the silence of
expectancy. Death had conqutered,
but now the vanquisher of death c"e
fronted the scene. Amid the~ aul i
hush of the tomb, the familiar na
which Christ had often ,,his
lips in the * ites of the village
h e back to his tongue, and
with a pathos and an almightiness of
which the resurrection of the last day
shall only be an echo he cries, "Laza
rus, come forth!" The eyes of the
slumberer open, and he rises and comes
to the foot of the Pteps and with great
difficulty begins to ascend, for the cere
ments of tomb are yet on him, and his
feet are fast and his hands are fast and
the impediments to all his movements
are so great that Jesus commands:
"Take off these cerements! Remove
these hindrances! Unfasten these
graveclothes! Loose him, and let him
go!"
Oh, I am so glad that after the Lord
raised Lazarus he went on and com
manded the loosening of the cords that
bound his feet so that he. could walk
and the breaking off of the cerement
that bound his hands so that he could
stretch out his arms in salutation and
the tearing off of the bandage from
around his jaws so that he could speak.
What would resurrected life have been
to Lazarus if he had not been freed
from all -those cripplements of his
body? I am glad that Christ com
manded his complete emancipation,
saying, "Loose him, and let him co."
The unfortunate thing now is that so.
many Christians are only half liberated.
They have been raised from the death
and burial of sin into spiritual life, but
they yet have the graveclothes on them.
They are, like Lazarus, hobbling up the
stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot,
and the object of this sermon is to help
free their body and free their souls, and
I shall try to obey the Mast er's com
mand that comes to me and comes to
every minister of religion, "Loose him,
and let him go!"
Many are bound hand and foot by re
ligious creeds. Let no man misinter
pret me as antagonizing creeds. I have
eight or ten of them-a creed about re
ligion, a creed about art, a creed about
social life, a creed about government,
and so on. A creed is something that
a man believes, whether it be written
or unwritten. The Presbyterian church
is now agitated about its creed. Somne
good men in it are for keeping it be
cause it was framed from the belief of
John Calvin. Other good men in it
want revision. I am with neither par
ty. Instead of revision I want substi
tution. I was sorry to have the ques
tion disturbed at all. The creed did
not hinder us from offering the pardon
Sanh omfort of the gaoie to all
nathe Wttiinsta Confelioh
a -notinterferred with me one miiute.
But now that the electric lights have
been turned on the imperfections of
that creed-and everything that man
fashions is imperfect-let us put the
old creed respectfully aside and get a
brand new one.
It is impossible that people who
lived hundreds of years ago should
fashion an appropriate creed for our
times. John Calvin was a great and
good man, but he died 336 years ago.
The best centuries of Bible study have
come since then, and explorers have
done their work, and you might as well
have the world go back and stick to
what Robert Fulton knew about stelm
boats and reject the subsequent im
provements in navigation, and go back
to John Gutenberg, the inventor of the
art of printing, and reject all modern
newsparer presses, and go back to the
tiue when telegraphy was the elevatirg
of signals or the burning of bonfires on
the hilltops and reject the magnetic
wire which is the tongue of nations as
to ignore all the exegetes and the phil
ologists and the theologians of the last
33 ears and put your Lhead under the
sleeve of the gown of a sixteenth cen
tury doctor. I could call the names of
20 living Presbyterian ministers of re
licion who could make a better creed
than John Calvin. The nineteenth
century ought not to be called to sit at
the feet of the sixteenth.
"But," you, "it is the same old Bi
ble, and John Calvin had that as well
as the prefent student of the Scrip
tures." ies; so it is the same old sun
in the heavens, but in our time it has
gone to making daguerreotypes and
photographs. It ii the same old water;
but in our century it has gone to run
ning steam engines. It is the same
old electricity; but in our time it has
become a lightning footed errand boy.
So it is the old Bible, but new applica
tions, new uses, new interpretations.
You must remember that during the
last 300 years words have changed
their meaning, and come of them now
mean more and some less. I do not
think that John Calvin believed, as
some say he did, in the damnation of
infants, although some of the recent
hot disputes would seem to imply that
there is such a thing as the damnation
of infants. A man who believes in
the damnation of infants himself de
serves to loose heaven. I do not :.hink
any good man could admit such a pos
sibility. What Christ will do with all
the babies in the next world I ecnclude
from what he did with the babies in
Palestine when he bugged them and
kissed them. When some you grown
people go out of this world, your doubt
ful destiny will be an embarrassment
to ministers officiating at your obse
quies, who will have to be cautious so
as not to hurt surviving friends. But
when the darling children go there are
no "ifs" or "buts" or guesses.
We must remember that good John
Calvin was a logician and a metaphysi
cian, and by the proclivities of his na
ture put some things in an unfortunate
way. Logic has its use and metaphys
ics has its use, but they are not good at
making creeds. A gardener hands you
a blooming rose, dewy, fresh, but a se
vere botanist comes to you with a rose
and says, "I will show you -the struc
ture of the rose," and he proceeds to
take it apart and pulls off the leaves
and he says, "There are the petale,"
and he takes cut the anthers, and he
says, "Just look at the wonderful
structure of these floral pillars!" and
then he cuts the stem to show you the
juices of the plant. So logic or meta
physics takes the aromatic rose of the
Christian religion and says, "I will
just show you how this rose of religion
was fashioned," and it pulls off of it a
piece and says, "That is the human
will," and another piece and says,
"This is God's will," and another piece
and says, "This is sovereignty," and
another piece arnd says, "This is free
sency," this is this, and that is that.
nd while I stand looking at the frag
ments of the rose pulled apart, one
whom the Marys took for a gardener
comes in and presents me with a crinm
sn rose, red as blood, and says, "In
hale the sweetnies of this; wear it on
your heart, ar.d wear it forever." I
must confess that I prefer the rose in
full bloom~ to the rose pulled apart.
Again, there are Christians who are
under sepulchral shadows and fears and
hoppled by doubts and fears and sins
long ago repented of. What they need
is to understand the liberty of the sons
of God. They spend more time under
the shadow of Sinai than at the base of
Calvary. They have been singing the
only poor hymn that Newton ever
wrote:
'Tis a point I long to know;
-AMt-it causes-anxious thought:
Do I love the Lord or no?
Am I his or am I not?
Long to know, do you? Why do you
not find out? Go to work for God, and
you will very soon find out. The man
who is all the time feeling his pulse
and looking at his tongue to see whether
it is coated or not is morbid and cannot
be physically well. The doctor will say,
"Go out into the fresh air and into ac
tive life and stop tihinking of yourself,
and you will get well and strong." So
there are j ee.pie who are watching their
spiritua' symptoms, and they call it
self examination, and they get weaker
and sicklier in their faith all the time.
o out and do something nobly Chris
tian. Take holy exercise and then ex
amine yourself, and instead of Newton's
saturnine and bilious hymn that I first
uoted you will sing Newton's othcr
hymn:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found:
Was blind, but now I see.
A man who was on-se called Saul, but
afterward Paul, declared, "This is a
faithful saying and worthy of all ac
eptation that Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners, of whom I am
chif." Mark that-"of whom I am
chief." "Put down your overcoats and
hats, and I will take care of them
while you kill Sephen." So Saul said to
the stonersiof the first martyr. "I do not
care to exert myself much, but I will
guard your surplus appearel while you
do the murder." The New Testament
count says, The witnesses laid down
their clothes at a young man's feet,
whose name was Saul." No wonder he
said, "Sinners, of whom I am the
chief."
Again, my text has good advice con
cerning any Christian hampered and
bothered and bound by fear of his own
dissolution. To such the book refers
when it speaks of those who through
fear of death were all their lifetime sub
ject to bondage. The most of us, even
if we have the Christian hope, are cow
ards about death. If a plank fall from
a scaffolding and jast grazes our hat,
how pale we look! If the Atlantic
ocean plays with the steamship, pitch
ing it toward the heavens and letting
it suddenly drop, how even the Chrts
tian passengers rester the stewa.rd or
or stewardess as to whether there is any
danger and the captain, who has been
all night on the bridge and chilled
through, coming in for a cup of coffee,
tionz as tc. w to of thc
weather. a nd i 'b of the best peo
ple are. a3 Paul say2 throughout their
lifetime in bondage by fear of death.
My brothers and sisters, if we made
full use of vur religion we would soon
get over this.
Backed up by the teachings of your
Bible, just look through the telescope
some bright night and see how many
worlds there are and reflect that all you
have seen, compared with the number
of worlds in existence, are less than the
fingers of your right hand as compared
with all the fingers of the human race.
Haw foolish, then, for us to think that
ours is the only world fit for us to stay
in. I think that all the stars are in
habited and by beings like the human
race in feelings and sentiments and the
difference is in lung respiration and
heart beat and physical conformation,
their physical conformation fit for the
climate of their world, and our physical
conformation fit for the climate of our
world. So we shall feel at home in any
of the stellar neighborhoods, our physi
cal limitation having ceased.
Heaven is 95 per cent better than
this world, a thousand per cent better,
a million per cent better. Take the
gladdest, brightest, most jabilant days
you ever had on earth and compress
them all into one hour, and that hour
would be a rtquicm, a fast day, a gloom,
a horror, as compared with the poorest
hour they have had in heaven since its
tower was built or its first gates swung
or its first song caroled. "Uh." you
say, that may be true, but I am so
af raid of crossing over from this world
to the next, and I fear the snapping ot
the cord between soul and body. Well
all the surgeons and physicians and
si(ntists declare that there is no pang
at the parting of the body and soul, and
all the r stlessness at the closing hour of
life is involuntary and no distress at
all. And [ agree with the doctors, for
what they say is conimed by the fact
that persons who were drowned or were
submerged until all consciousness de
parted and were afterward resuscitated
declare that the sensation of passing
into unconsciousness was pleasurable
rather than distressful. The cage of
the body has a door on easy hinges, and
when that door of the physical cage
opens the soul simply puts out its
wings and soars.
"But," you say, "I fear to go because
the future is so full of mystery." Well,
I will tell yo how to treat the mys
teries. The mysteries have oeased
bothering me, for I do as the judges of
you courts often do. They hear all
the arguments in the case and they say,
'I will take these papers and give you
my decision next week." So I have
heard all the arguments in regard to the
nrxt world, and some things are uncer
tat and full of mystery, and so [ fold
up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them.
I can there study all the mysteries to
better advantage, for the light will be
better and my faculties stronger, and I
will ask the Christian philosphers, who
have had all the advantages of heav!n
for centuries, to help me, and I may
be permitted myself humbly to ask the
Lord, and I think there will be only one
mystery left; that will be how one so
unworthy as myself got into such an
enraptured place. Come up out of the
sepulchral shadows. If you are not
Christians by faith in Christ, come up
into the light; and if you are already
like Lazarus, reanimated, but still have
your grave clothes on, get rid of them.
The command is, "Loose him, and let
him go."
The only part of the journey I made
years ago to Palestine that I really
dreaded was the landing at .Joppa. That
is the port of entrance for the Holy
Land, and there are many reks, and in
rough weather people cannot-land at all
The boats taking the people from the
steamer to the docks must run between
reefs that looked to me to be about 50
feet apart, and one misstroke of an
oarsman or an unexpected wave has
sometimes been fatal and hundieds of
souls have perish along those reefs. Be
sides that, as we- kft Port Said the even
ing before, an old traveler said: "The
wind is just right to give you a rough
landing at Joppa: indeed I think you
will not be able to land at all." The
fact was that when our Mediterranean
steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and
we put out for shore in the small boat,
the water weas as still as though it had
been sound asleep a hundred years, and
we landed as easily as I entered this
pulpit. Well, your fear have pictured
for you an appalling arrival at the end
of your voyage of life, and they say
that the seas will run high and that the
breakers will swallow your up, or that
if you reach Canaan at all, it will be a
very rough hnding, The very opposite
will be true if you have the eternal God
for your portion. Your disembarka-.
tion for the promised land will be as
smooth as ours at Palestine. Christ
will meet you far out at sea and pilot
you into complete safety; and you will
land with a hosanna on one side of you
and a halleluiah on the other.
"Land ahead!" Its fruits are wavirg
Oer the hill of fadeless green
And the living waters laying
Shores where heavenly forms are seena.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no more
When on that eternal shore.
Drop the anchor, furli the sail!
I am safe within the veil!
A Crazy Printer.
A dispatch from Yorkville to the Co
lumbia State says at noon Thursday
while all others were out of the office,
H. H. Gallaher, a printer, temporarily
raz, tried to cut the throat of Miller
Drakeford, the 7-year-old son of the
eiitor of The Yeoman. The child was
playing in the composing room. His
mother heard a scream and ran to the
door in time to see an uplifted knife
ver her boy. She snatched him from
the man and ran into an adjoining
room, fastening the door. The little
boy has a gash on his neck an inch
long, barely missing the jugular vein.
allaher is in jail, and said if he had
known they were going to imprison him
he would have cut off the child's head.
Hangs Himself.
Theo Troutman, a traveling salesman
for John E. Burst & Co., of Baltimore,
ianged himself in a room in the Dun
:an hotel in Nashville, Tenn., Wednes
lay night. He took a leather strap
from his valise, fastened one end to the
op hinge of the door and the other
iround his neck, and in this way
hoked himself to death. I a a letter
bo his wife, who lives in Baiumoere, he
apressed great despondency because
>f his inability to make sales.
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899
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A Good Opporttiiuty For Some of Oir
Bright Young Men.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission that on May 17-18-19, 1900;
examination will be held in any city in
the United States where it has a board
of examiners, for the position of cadet
in the Revenue-Cutter Service.
The examination will consist of the
subjects mentioned below, which will
be weighted as follows:
Subject.
1. Spelling (first grade)........ 4
2. Geography of the United
States................. ... 8
3 History and constitution of the
United States............ 12
4. Grammar, composition, and
rhetoric. ................ 8
5 Arithmetic (first grade)...... 12
6. Algebra ........ .......... 12
7. Geometry................... 12
8. Trigonometry ............... 1:
9. P hysics .................... 8
10. Chemistry (inorganic only) . 8
11. General informatiou......... 4
Total .... .... .......... 100
T bree days of seven consecutive hours
each will be allowed for this examina
tion, as follows: The first five subjects
will be given on the first day, the 6th
7th, and 8th subjects on the second
day, and the renaining subjects on the
third day.
Under the regulations of the Treasury
Department, applicants must be not less
than 18 nor more than 25 years of age,
of vigorous constitution, physically
sound and well formed, not less than 5
feet 3 inches in height, of good moral
character, and unmarried.
While it is not a prerequisite to
eligibility. all appliiants for the posi
tion of cadet who have served at sea,
or who have served as deck officers of
seagoing vessels of the United States
merchant marine, should file with their
applications a certificate or certificates
showing such service from the master
of the vessel with whom they have
served, or from the Ship Masters' As
sociation. It is proposed to gire ap
plicants credit for such service when
satisfactorily shown.
Applicants are advised that cadets
may be commissioned by the President
as lieutenants after two years' satisfac
tory service. The salary of a cadet is
$500 per annum and one ration per day.
There are in the Reveue Cutter Service
commiasioned officers as follows: Cap
tains, about 36, at a salary of
$2,500 per annum; first lieutenants,
about 36, at a salary of $1,800 per an
num; second lieutenants, about 36, at a
salary of $1,500 per annum; third lieu
tanants, abont 12. at a salary of $1,200
per annum. It will thus be seen that this
examination offers to young men pos
sessing the requisite qualification a
most excellent opportunity for entrance
to a very desireable part of the service.
As a result of this examination, it is
expected that about five appointments
will be made, in the early part of June
next, to the position of cadet. It may
be state4 that the Comrission has
hteretofore experienced difficulty in
securing a sufficient unmber of eligibles
for this position, all persons who have
passed thus far having received ap
pointment. It will thus be seen, judg
ing from the past, that for those who
pass the examination the opportunity
for appointment is most excellent.
OThis examination is open to all citi
lens of the United States who comply
with the requirements and who desire
to enter the service. All such persons
are invited to apply. Applicants will
be examined, graded, and certified with
entire impartiality and wholly without
regard to.any consideration save their
ability as shown by the grade they at
tain in the examination.
Persons who desire to enter this ex
amination should at once apply to the
United States Civil Service Commis
sion, Washington, D. C., for applica
tion form-304, the medical certincate of
which must be executed by a regularly
commissioned surgeon or assistant sur
geon of the U. S. Marine.-Hospital
Service, which should be properly
executed and promptly filed with the
Commission.
Applicants are advised that if they
will communicate with the Commission,
either by letter or telegraph, in suf
ficient time to ship examination papers,
arrangements will he made to e xamine
them conditioned upon the subsequent
filing of thcir applications in proper
form.
April 18, 1900.
JUMPED TO FIERY DEATH.
Suicide Leaps Into a Coke Oven and
Literally Destroys Himself.
A dispatch from Conneleville, Pa.,
says leaping high into the air as an ex
pert diver would in taking a fancy
plunge into the water, an unknown
man committed 'muicide Wednesday
morning at tlie foundry works of the
HI. C. Priok Coke company. by diving
into a coke oven. In less than a
minute what had been a man apparent
ly in the hill vigor of life had mingled
with the curling smoke of the ovens,
distinguishable only by its bluish
brown color and nauseating odor from
the gas smoke of the burning coal.
A more tragic death never occurred
in this region. The coke workers saw
him only for an instant as he prepared
for the leap. He was well dressed, of
medium height and weight and smooth
shaven. For the slightest possible
space of time he seemed to pause on
the sloping ground behind the ovens,
then quick as a flash he ran down the:
slope, taking the quick short steps of a
trained athlete, who gauges them pre
isely for the jump he intends taking.
Eight feet from the oven-tops the man
shot into the air, his hands poised1
above his head in the fashion of a diver,:
and descending swiftly, dropped head
first into the tunnel hiead of an oven.
that had burned to the sizzling white
eat of coke, just before it is drawn.
For an instant the body clogged the
tunnel head and the legs were wriggled
s though a desperate effort was being -
ade to equirm through and meet
eath quickly in the blazing oven. A
ush was made for the oven door by
the horrified coke drawers. All there
was to show for the man, who but a1
few seconds before had been in life,
as a charred mass of flesh not three
feet in length. There is no means of
dentification.
A Good Work.
The Columbia Record says "Col.
John D. Frost is about finishing a very
important work which he undertook on
is own responsibility to preserve a
aluable historical record. Enclosed
n a glass frame there has been fori
rears in the adjutant general's office a f
nanuscript list of the members of the
famous Palmetto regiment. It -was
ade years ago and the ink was so old<
nd dim that in some cases the namne t
ould barely be deciphered. Colonel1
rost took out the manuscript and has
pent some time in retracing the names
REPU~BYACAN ?ANA TICS,
Govijior Csidler's Plain Talk to Old
Confederates.1
The observance or Memorial day in
Atlanta was made notable by a speech
delivsred by the governor of Georaia
in which he scored Republican "fana
tics" and criticised the war in the
Philippines, the speech was made at the
presentation of crosses of honor to the
veterans and was loudly cheered. Gov.
Candler said in part:
"You fought not to promote the am
bition of a crowned head, not for con
quest, not to force your government
upon an unwilling people, but f.r the
God-given right of local self-govern
ment. You rebelled against the domi
nation of a sectional political party, led
by fanatics who did not and do not be
lieve in this cardinal doctrine and who
were the sworn enemies of you and your
interests and your institutions.
Blinded by fanaticism the leaders of
this party either could or would not do
you and your seation justice. You
were maligned and abused and reviled
and slandered.
' It is a singular fact, as has been
justly said by a distinguished Repub
lican senator a few years ago, that the
northern conscience was never quick
ened to a full realization of the enor
mity of slavery until their own slaves
had been converted into gold and the
gold had found a safe lodgment deep
down in their pockets. The sout hern
people were goaded into secession in
spite of their love for the constitution
and the union.
"Perhaps both sides sinned as the
con fict prew fiercer. Let the question
rest where the legend on the beautiful
badge you are to wear places it. Deo
vindice, let God judge between us. I
do not mean to disparage nor impugn
the motives of the gallant men who con
fronted us on a hundred battlefields, nor
of the great mass of the people of the
non- seceding States. [am denouncing
the fanatics who presided at the birth
of the Republican party, and nursed
the bantling into vig->roui manhood
and ta4ght it the dQctrine of a higher
law and to disregard the limitations of
the constitution, reverse the precedents
of a hundred years, and who. disregard
ing the golden rule, pregched from the
pulpit the doctrine of hate instead of
'peace on earth and good will to man.' "
"This breed of fanatics has not run
i. None of them were ever killed in
6.Lttle, for they didn't go. They are
still in congress and in the pulpit, and
4re preaohing the same unholy gospel.
Chey still dominate the party of Lin
coln ard Seward and Chase, which de
nied to you in 1860 the blood-bought
right of local self government, and who
are today waging a war of conquest
against an unoffending people 10,000
miles away, and denying to them the
rights for which Washington and Mar
ion and Sumter and the L-es fought on
tbe field of Camden and Yorktown and
Compens and King's Mountain, and for
which you fought as no men have
fought in twothousand years at Manassas
sad Shiloh, Gettyburg and Chicka
mauga. The same party, drunk with
its excesses of usurpation, are in viola
tion of the spirit of the constitution,
holding a million people on the island
of Puerto Rico in a state of vassalage
and taxing them without representation
as they held you and taked you in the
days of reconstruction. It is a healthy
sign however, that some of the ablest
and most patriotic men of this party
arc protesting against this usurpation
of power and this abandonment of the
teachings of the fathers and the tradi
tions of the republic." -
THE COLONIAL EECORDS.
Congre samau Stokes Has Presented a
Bill in Regard to Them.
For quite a long time Congressman
Stokes has been engaged in the laud
able effort of having the United States
government make some provision for
the printing in permanent form of the
valuable colonial records on file in the
office of the secretary of state in the
capitol. ~No State has a more valuable
or interesting collection of such docu
ments than South Carolina. Students
of American history come to Columbia
time and again and spend days and
even weeks going -through th'ese re
cords. All express the greatest surprise
that such documents have never been
printed and made accessible.
Congresman Stokes writes from
Washington to Mr. D. H. Means stating
that he has hit upon the proper plan
for accomplishing the desired purpose.
The following is the bill he has intro
duced in congress, which was on April
25 referred to the committee on library:
To provide for the investigation of
the historical archives and public re
crds of the several States and Terri
tories and of the United States, with a
view to their preservation and publica
tion.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem
bled. That the American Hlistoroical
association he, and itis hereby, directed
to irmst ita-e the character and condi
tion of the histurical archives and pub
lic records of the several States and
Territories, and of the United States,
and the provisions which have been
made by law for the preservation and
publication of the same, and to report
to congress, through the secretary of
the Smithsonisn Institution, the re
suts of such investigation, together
with suggestions of such legislation as
the said American Historical associa
tion may deem neceessary and proper;
and that the sum of $5,000 be. and the
same is hereby, appropriated to the
said American Historical association,
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for defraying
the expenses of such investigation and
report: Provided, That no member of
the said American Historical associa
tion shall receive any compensation for
his services in connection with the
said investigation and report other than
the reimbursement of such expenses,
including clerical assistance, as shall
be necessarily incurred in the prosecu
tion of the work.
No One Cares
Little Joe Biblh-y, of Pennsylvania,
says that nobody has a right to ask why
he changed from a free silver Democrat
to a gold standard Republican. The
Atlanta Journal says "we have never
heard of anybody who cared about the
why and wherefore of this gyration."
Where to Find Out.
Grosvenor says the president bowed
to the will of congress in changing his
mind on the Porto Rican question. If
any one desires to know to whose .will
congress bowed let him inquire of the
sugar and tobacco trust people.
Will Be a Winner.
The Spartanburg Herald says "there
seems to be a wonderful unanimity of
opinion among the State papers that
Governor McSweeney ought to have a
full term. Unless all signs fail he is
ne iuippine War.
The war now in progress in
the Philippines seems to be a
kind of now you see it and now
you don't affair. Several months
ago President McKinley issued
a proclamation that the insur
rection was over, and that in a
very short time every thing
would be tranquil in the archa
pelago. Nothwithstanding this
declaration of the President
fresh troops were sent right on
to the Philippines. Since the
President's remarkable state
ment several other high officials
have assured the country that
the insurrection was over, but
fresh troops were still being sent
to the front. Now comes the
Republicans of the State of New
York, in convention assembled,
with a platform which declares
that the insurrection in the
Philippines has been suppressed
and that organized resistance to
the authority of the United
States no longer existed. The
newspapers which contained
this declaration of this conven
tion contained also the follow
ing item of news:
Twelve hundred Tagals at
tacked Case's battalion head
quarters of the Fortieth regi
ment at Cagayan, Island of Min
danao, on the 7th. The Ameri
cans had fifteen casualties, while
of the attacking force fifty
were killed and thirty wounded
or taken prisoners. The enemy,
numbering 150 riflemen, the re
mainder being bolomen, archers
and mounted spearmen, swooped
down in a howling mass at day
light, surprising and killing
three Af the sentries- They
swarmed the streets in small
parties, some wearing scaling
ladders, by meansof which they
attempted to enter the houses.
The Republican idea of a sup
pressed insurrection appears to
be rather a curious one. It is
an expensive one, as well, for
only a day or two before the
New York Republicans had
suppressed the insurrection, the
adjutant-general of the army
issued a statement saying that
the troops now in the Philippines
numbered 63,585, an increase
since March 1 of 308. Trans
ports bearing some 3,000 men
are now on the way thither, these
figures do not include, of course,
the navy forces in the islands.
If a suppressed insurrection re
quires the active service of so
many soldiers, we may wellcon
template with some apprehen
sion the size of the army which
would be necessitated should the
insurrection really gain in force.
Up to date and since the happy
establishment of "peace,'' the
American casualties in the
Philippines as reported from
Washington are as follows, the
last report being dated April 18:
Killed.................... 473
Died of wounds, disease and ac
cidents.................1,205
Total deaths................l.678
Wounded.................2,092
Total loss................3,770
Schley Win.
The Philadelphia Record says, that
the Sampson Sohley controversy is offi
cially ended, and that Scihley wins. It
appears that the way the settlement~
was brought abcut was this, in brief:
Gen. Felix Agnus, owner of the Balti
more American, had an eight page sup
plement prepared for his newspaper
which dealt wholly with the feud. In
detail it exploited the causes of the
animosity of the naval clique against
Schley. [t contained two sensational
exposures. One was a direct and dam
aging charge against Admiral Sampson,
and the other showed that in 1896
Schley had recommended the court
martial of Crowninshield for incompe
tency. Official papers and records
were quoted in support of every state
ment made. General Agnus printed
one copy of the supplement and lent it
to Washington, where of course, it got
into the hands he intended it should.
The plates were removed from the press
and locked up "for future use." The
powers at Washington were informed
that unless the attacks upon Schley
were stopped and he was permitted to
take liis proper rank in the navy, 1,000
copies of the supplement would be
printed and disturbed. The adminis
Lration gave in, and Schley will get his
reward. Arrangements are now being
made whereby he will rank next to
Dewey in the lists.
FEE BLOOD CURE.
&n Offr Pcari ding Faith to Sufferers
Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are
til curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood
Balm,) which is made especially to cure
ill terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent
3ores, Blood and Skin Blemishes,
Scrofula, that resist other treatments,
ire quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic
Blood Balm). Skh Eruptions, Pim
yles, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales
Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches,
Jatarrnt, Rheumatism, ete., are all due
~o bad blood, and hence easily cured
y B. B. B. Blood Poison producing
Eating Sores, Eruptions, Swollen
~lands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B.
B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to
ive months. B3. B. B. does not con
;sin vegetable or mineral poison.
)ne bottle will test it in an case. For
iale by druggists everywhere. Large
>ottles $1, six for five $5. Write for
're samplebottle, which will be sent,
)repaid to Times readers, describe
iimptoms and personal free medicaf
idvice will be given. Address Blood
Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.
A Big Landslide.
A landslide of remarkable propor
ions followed the recent earthquake
n San Jacinto county, in Southern
Jalifornia. A tract covering 600 acres
n San Jacinto mountain and 4,000 feet
ibove the sea level slid 150 feet down
he mountain and filled the small val
ey with debris. Great masses of
~ranite were split by crevices four feet
ride and seventy-five feet deep. The
alling mass was upheaved as it fell,
~iving the earth the appearance of a
nighty convulsion. The theory of lo
al geologists is that a vacum under
he mountain, caused by drawing off
rater for irrigation, became filled with
;assis tore through the crust of the
nountain and produced the earthquake)
Makes the food more de
ROYAL MAN PO
GRANULATED SUGAR CHEAPER.
Why the Old-Fashioned Brown Va
riety Is Seldom Seen.
"When I was running a boarding
house for gangs at work on new rail
roads in the West a few years ago."
said the tall man, "brown sugar cost
5 cents a pound when Iboughtitbythe
hogshead, and granulated sugar cost
12 cents a pound when purchased in
equally large amounts. Now, if you
had 200 men to board, all of whom used
sugar in their coffee, what kind of su
gar would you buy?"
"I suppose I'd make a mistake, but
as far as I know now, I would buy
brown sugar, for that would be the
cheapest," was the reply.
"And that's where you've made a
mistake," said the tall man. "I'll prove
it to you in a minute. When you go
home to-night, you take a teaspoon
and experiment with both kinds of su
gar. You'll see that with granulated su
gar you can pick up only as much as
the bowl of the spoon will hold. But
it's different with brown sugar. If
you dig your spoon deep into it, when
you lift the spoon, you bring nearly
three spoonfuls of sugar along with it,
as it packs closely. That is what house
wives call a 'heaping teaspoonful.' Now
the average railroader Is used to put
ting three to four spoonfuls of sugar
In his coffee and he never looks to see
whether they are heaping ones or not
Therefore, the brown sugar is the more
expensive. I tried both ways, and I
found that using granulated sugar
saved me over $15 a month over what
it cost to serve brown sugar. There's
even more difference now than then,
too. The big sugar concerns have beat
en down the price of granulated sugar
until it costs but a penny a pound more
than brown sugar. "That's why you
see granulated sugar in all the cheap
boarding-houses to-day."-New York
Sun.
STORM-TOSSED CREW.
They Went Ashore and Found Canni
bals Devouring a Human Body.
The crew of the British steamer Kur
distan, Captain Littlehales, now taking
on a cargo of coal at Lambert's Point,
tell of an experience at once strange
and horrifying. The vessel is from
Icuique, Chile, and when off the Pata
gonian Coast. near Tera del Fuego, was
caught in a storm and fog and came
to anchor. A boat's crew went ashore,
and hearing a strange noise proceeding
from a cavern near their hiding place
inspected it. A party of savages were
in the cave, engaged in eating what
seemed to be the dismembered body of
a human being. The savages attacked
them, the seamen say, whereupon they
fired upon them, killing one savage.
His companions carried the dead body
away, and, the sailors believe, devoured
it. In the cavern was a Danish flag and
much wreckage. On the shore near the
cavern lay the wreck of a wooden brig.
-Norfolk, Va., Cor. Baltimore Sun.
New President of the Senate.
By the death of Vice President Ho
bart, the presidency of the senate wll
(Senator Wmn. P. Frye.)
fall' upon Senator Wmn. P. Frye, of
Maine. Senator Frye is 70 years 01': but
looks younger. His term as senator will
expire in 1901.
Threw Away Fifty Thousand Dollars.
There died in the City Hospital at
Philadelphia last week a woman, prac
tically a pauper, who by inscribing a
few lines upon a paper would have
been put in possession of $50,000.
For many years Dr. Isabel Mitchell
was a physician of some prominence in
the Quaker City. While practicing her
profession she became interested In the
pure food movement, and spent much
of her time in perfecting a process for
the preservation of meats and vegeta
bles where Ice was not obtainable. Her
experiments resulted In a formula
which was declared practically perfect
by chemists and phySicians of Philadel
phia and vicinity. It was a preparation
which answgd the purposes desired
and was at tife same time harmless to
health, being the forcing of medicated
ozone Into the articles to be perserved.
Dr. Mitchell received many offers for
her process, but none of the terms was
satisfactory to her, though one of them
was for $50,000. While working on her
food preservative, she neglected her
practice, and gradually lost It all.
From a comfortable home she went by
gradual changes to a garret, where
she was taken ill with a lingering 81
sease, and finally removed to the hos
pital. She persistently refused to re
veal her secret to the few friends who
had stood by her, and with her death
the formula Is lost to science.
Enoch Arden in Real Life.
After an absence of thirty years
James Edwards, whose home is now in
Denver, Col., returned to Philadelphia,
and found that his wife had been di
orced from him and married to an
ther man. Thirty-five years ago Ed
wards married Miss Belle Hickman
whose parents were wealthy. Edwards
was in poor circumstances and his
wife's mother opposed the marriage.
The couple lived together for five
ears, but at the end of that time Mrs.
ickman is alleged to have brought.
bout a separation. Edwards went
West and became wealthy.
Edwards says he repeatedly wrote to
is wife, but she failed to get the let
ers. Not hearing from her husband
for fifteen years Mrs. Edwards adver
ised and received a letter from Den
er informing her that a man answer
ng her husband's description had been
illed. Mrs. Edwards, not certain that
er husband was dead, obtained a di
orce and remarried.
Edwards succeeded in meeting his
former wife upon his return. There
were explanations all around and he
ade her farewell and went back to
enver.
The Candidate.
This is the season when the political
andidate is abroad in the land. Of
ourse he is a proper subject for jest,
ut he is apt to take it with rare good
umor. The fact is, the candidate is
iuseful animal. He forces the man
rho has held office for a generation to
emember his friends when they come
round. He is always friendly and
ordial, and he tends to keep alive the
olitloal situation. We like the candli
ates.-Spartanburg Herald.
It Takes money.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars a
inute is said to be the cost to Eng
and of the South African war. Kra
DANO
PowDER
1URE
licious and wholesome
MR Co., NEW VOR.
BATTLES IN THE SEA
COMBATS BETWEEN BLUE CRABS
. AND MINNOWS.
The Crab Balls Its Claw and Walls
for a Bite-Little Cannibals and
Their Ways as Practised in the
j Brimy Deep-Soft Shell Crabs.
The blue crab is a pretty fair hand
at catching fish. It will lie in shallow
water motionless, with its pincer claws
extended and its pincers open, waiting
for a chance to nip a minnow. If one,
coming swimming along through the
water, should happen to pass between
those open jaws, suddenly the jaws
close and that is the last of the min
now. But the blue crab can do better
than this; sometimes it will hold mo
tionless in one claw a shred of some
thing on which it has been feeding as
a bait for minnows, holding at the
same time its other big claw ,with the
pincer open, waiting. The minnow
comes up, charging for the food held
in the closed claw. but there are likely
to be enough of them to spread. and
they may come from various directions.
so that more than likely one will come
within the waiting pincers of the open
claw, and when one does the proceed
ngs are closed for the time being.
But sometimes the minnows get the
blue crab, as they do when the crab is
shedding. The crah knows when that
time is coming. and then It makes for
a place where it can shed its shell and
stay In safety until its new shell is suf
ficiently hard to protect it The crab
comes in with the tide and makes for
some place on the bottom. in shallow
water, perhaps along the edge of the
eel grass, or under some protecting
patch of ulva, and then proceeds to
di- a hole In which it can stay after it
has shed its shell until it is strong
enough to go about. It digs the sand
or mud up around from under itself.
and, as likely as not leaves its discard
ed shell, in a most lifelike form, up on
the sand on the edge of the hole in
front of it. This shell would frighten
away some small fishes that would not
dare to tackle a crab in its ordinary
condition. The discarded shell is a help
to fishermen who are hunting crabs. be
cause it shows where a crab may be
found. and weakfish. which come in
shore in shallow water to feed. hunt up
soft crabs by searching the neighbor
hood of the spot where they find, a
shell, just as a tisherman woulil do.
Sometimes a fisherman discovers a
soft crab by the splashing that the min
nows kick up around it. If undis
turbed the minnows swarming around
the helpless crab kill it and eat it But
sometimes another blue crab will ap
pear nd break up the minnow's feast.
This is a blue crab that has not shed
its shell, but has its armor on. -It
comes stalking in among the minnows.
perhaps nipping one of them in one of
Its pincer claws as it comes up and dis
persing the rest.
The blue crab is a cannibal; it will
eat its own kInd. If when this crab
comes up there Is any of the soft crab
left, the newcomer will very likely eat.
that first. with one (claw, holding mean
while in its other. the wriggling min
now which it had seized at the outset,
keepIng that to top off with.
A Dog and the Elephant.
Visitors to the New York Zoo recent
ly have been surprised to find a New
foundland dog chained in one of the
elephant cages living in apparent peace
and contentment.
DOG AND EL.EPHANtT.
Every one expects to see the great
elephant kill his companion with a
single sweep of her trunk, and crowds
ferquently gather at the cage expect
ing ai battle, but the dog eats -and
sleeps without being molested.
The secret of this strange compan
ionship, which no one ever guesses, is
that the dog Prince is really the mas-.
ter of the household and the elephant
lives in constant fear of him.
On more than one occasion Prince
has succeeded in quieting the great
beasts when the keepers were power
less to master them. Elephants are
naturally nervous and easily excited.
and when once a1roused are difficult to
~ontrol. The keepers have found that
when everything else fails they need
merely sendl Prince into the cage and
the furious monsters wiill back 'to their
corners and remamin quiet.
Peter Rt. McNally. one of the assist
ants at the' zoo. who v-ouched for
Princ's ability, has observed several
similar cases of this curious power in
The keepers do not know that Prince
ever engaged. in batttle with one of the
elephants. thoturh there is not the least
doubt that they :are all afraid of him.
.Jack's Eyec
.ack-Doesn't that vein aiffect your
Bess-No. I think not. Why do yet'
Jack-Becaus.e it trouhh-~is mzine.-Chi
cago News.
Not What He Wanted.
Nu~rse-t's time for your nourish
ment now. Mr. l'eppetry.
Mr. Peppery (who is convalescent)
H:ng nourishment. What I want is
somethinzg t'o eat.-Lonidon Jutdy.
Carter Arrives at Prison.
Oberlin M. Carter, lato captain U.
S. A., arrived at the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kas., Friday night un
der guard of Lieut. Thomas Hlarker,
F'ifteenth infantry, a corporal and
three soldiers. The prisoner was im
mediately dressed in the prison garb
ad assigned to a cell
Who Can Tell?
There comes from New York a kind
af faraway hint that Roosevelt is ere
long going to be a wedge to, split the
epublican party in twatn, which
mauses the Newport News Herald to
aredict that Roosey will do this coun
ry some good yet.