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ETERNAL FELICITY. Dr. Talmage on the Splerdors of the New Jerusalem. THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN Surpass the Comprehension of the Finite Mind. There Will Be No Parting There. In this discourse Dr. Talmage lifts the curtain from eternal felicities and in an unusal way treats of the heavenly world; text, I Corinthians ii, 9, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of nman. the things which God bath prepared for them that love him." The city of Corinth has been called "the Paris of antiquitY." Indeed, fur splendor the world holds no such won der today. It stood on an isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bring ing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia. From her wharfs, in the construction of wbich whole kingdoms had been ab sorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern in vention cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side and transported them on trucks across the isthmus and set them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her isthmian games, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theaters, walked her porticoes and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipa tions. Column and statue and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains into which from apertures at the side there rushed wat ers everwhere known for health giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architec ture, while standing as if to guard the costly display, was a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead-vases so costly that Julius Casar was not satified until he had cap tured them for Rome. Armed officials, the Corintharii, paced up and down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no base relief touched. From the edge of the cit y a hill arose, with its magnificent burden of columns, towers and temples (1,000 slaves waiting at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnifidence Corinth stood and defied the world. Oh, it was not to rustics, who had never seen anything grand, that Paul uttered this text. They had heard the best music that had come from the best instruments in ali the world; they had heard songs floating from morningz porticoes and melting in evening greves; they had passed their whole lives among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glit tered, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the tcmple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmonies of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These statues of Baa ehus and MIercury are not exquisite. Your citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at that brazen gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city. You think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights, but I tell you eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." You see my text sets forth the idea that, however exalted our ideas of heaven, they come far- bhort of the real i ty. Some wise men have been calculat ing how many furl.>ngs loJg and wid' is the new Jerusalem, and they has calculated how many inhabitants the' are on the earth, how long the eartt will probably stand, and then they come to this estimate; That after all the nations have been gathered to heav en there will be room for each soul, a room 16 feet long and 15 feet wide. It would not be large enough for you. It would not be large enough for me. I am glad to know that no human esti mate is sufficient to take the dimen sion. "Eye bath not seen, nor ear heard," nor arithmeticians calculated. 1 first remark that we can get no idea of the health of heaven. When you were a child, and you went out in the morning, how you bounded along the road or street-you had never felt sor row or sickness. Perhaps later you felt a glow in your cheek and a spring in your step and an exuberance of spirits and a clearness of eye that made you thank God you were permitted to live. The nerves were harp strings and the sunlight was a doxology, and the rustl ing leaves were the rustling of the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the Lord. You thought that you knew what it was to be well, but there is no perfect health on earth. The diseases of past generations came down to us. The airs that now float upon the earth are not like those which floatea above paradise. They are charged with im purities and distempers. The most elastic and robust health of earth, cem pared with that which those experi ence before whom the gates have been opened, is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul stand ing before the throne. On earth she was a lifelong invalid. See her step now and hear her voice now. Catch, if you can, one breath of that celestiai air. Health in all the pulses-healdh of vision, health of spirits, immortal health. No racking cough, no sharp pleurisies, no consuming fevers, no ex hausting pains, no hospitals of wound ed men. Health swinging in the air, health flowing in all the streams, health blooming on the bank-s. No headaches, no side aches, no back aches. Thai child that died in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringing in thle an them. That old man that went boved down with the infirmities of age, see him talk now with the step of an im mortal athlete-forever young again. That night when the needlewoman fainted away in the garret, a wave of the heavenly air resuscitated her for ever. For everlating years ro have neither ache, nor pain, nor weakness, nor fatigue. "Eye hath not see it, ear hath not heard it.". - crld e oU:; idea Of the spI"dors of heaven. John tries to describe them. He says, "the 12 gates are 12 pearl," and that "the foundations of .the wall are garnished with all manner of preccous stones." As we standlooking through the telescope of St. John, we see a blaze of amethyst and pearl and emerald and sardonyx and chrysoprasus and sapphire, a mountain of light, a cataract of color, a sea of glass and a city like the sun. John bids us look again, and we see thrones-thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of Jesus-thioe of God. And we turn round to see the glory, and it is throres, thrones, thrones! John bids us look again and see the great procession of the redeemed pass inc Jess, on a white horse, leads the oareh. and all the armies of heaven fe1ow on white horses. Infinite caval Cade passing, passing; empires pressing into line, ages following ages. Dis pen-ation tramping after dispensation. 1lory in the track of glory. Europe, Asia. Africa, North and South AmericA pressing into lines. Islands of the sea shoulder to shoulder. Generations be fore the flood following generations after the flood, and as Jesus rises at the head of that great host and waves his sword in signal of victory, all crowns are lifted and all ensigns swung out and all chimes rung and all halle luiahs chanted. and some cry, "Glory to God most high!' and some, "Ho sanna to the son of David!" and Fome, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" -till all exclamations of endearment and homaze in the vocabulary of heaven are exhausted, and there comes up surge after surge of "Amen! Amen! and Amen!" "Eye bath not seen it, ear hath not heard it." Skim from the summer waters the brightest sparkles, and you will get no idea of the sheen of the everlasting sea. Pile upthesplen dors of earthly cities, and they would not make a stepping stone by which you might mount to the city of God I Every house is a palace. Every step is a triumph. Every covering" of the head a coronation. Every meal is a barquet. Every stroke from the tower is a wedding bell. Every day is a ju bilee, every hour a iapture and every moment an ecstasy. "E)e hath not seen it, ear hath not heard it." I remark further, we can get no idea of the reunions of heaven. if you have ever been across the seas and met a friend or even an acquaintance in some strange land, you remember how your blood thrilled and how glad you were to see him. Wbat will be our joy after we have passed the seas of death to meet in the bright city of the Lord those from whom we have long been separated. After we have been away from our friends 10 or 15 years and we come upon them we see how differently they look. Their hair has turned, and wrinkles have come in their faces, and we say, -How you have clangeal" But, oh, when we stand before the throne, all cares gone from the face, all marks of sorrow disappeared and feeling the joy of that bletsed land, methinks we will say to each other with an exultation we cannot now imagine, "How you have changed?" In this world we only meet to part. It is goodby, oodby. Farewells fh at ing tlie air. We hear it at the rail car window anid at t he steamnboat wharf goodbye. (nildren lisp it, and old age answers it. Sometimes we say it in a light way-"goodbye"-and some times with anguish in which the soul breaks down-goodbye! Ah, that is the word that ends the thanksgiving banquet; !hat is the word that comes in to close the Christmas chant. Good bye, gyodbyo. But not so in heaven. WXelcomes in the air, welcomes at the house of many mansions, but no good bye. That group is constantly being augmented. They are going up from our circles of earth to join it-little voices to join the anthem, little hands to take hold ini the great home circle, little feet to dance in the eternal glee, little crowns to be cast down before the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups-a group this side of the river and a group on the other side of the river. Now there goes one from this to that and aniother from this to that, and soon we will all be gene over. How many of your loved ones have already entered upon that blessed place? if I should take p-.per and pencil, do you think I could put them all down? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordan roar so hoarsely we cannot hear the joy on the other side when that group is aug mented. A little ahild's mother had died, and they comforted her. They said: "Your mother has gone to heaven. Don't cry," And the next day they went to the graveyard, and they laid the body of the mother down into the ground, and the little girl came up to the verge of the grave and, looking said, "Is this heaven?" We have no idea what heaven is. It is the grave here-it is darkness here-but there is merrymaking yonder. Methinks when a soul arrives, some angel takes it around to show it the wonders of that blessed plare. The usher angel says to the newly arrived: "These are the martyrs that perished at Piedmont; these were torn to pitees at the-inquisi tion; this is the throne of the great Jehovah; this is Jesus." "I am going to see Jesus," said a dying boy. "I am going to see Jesus." The missionary said, "You are sure you will see him?' "Oh, yes; that's what I want to go to heaven for." "But," said the missionary, "suppose Jesus should go away from heaven-what then?" I should follow him," said the dying boy. "But if Jesus went down to hell-what then?' The dying boy thought for a moment and tnen said, "Where Jesus is there can be no hell!" Oh, to stand in his presence! 'hat will be heaven! Oh, to put our hand in that hand which was wounded for us on the cross-to go around amid the groups of the redeemed and shake hands with the prophets and apostles and martyrs and with our own dear belo.'ed ones! That will be the great re'unioni. We can- at imagine it now. Ocr loved ones see so far away. When we are in trouble and lonesome, they don't seem to come to us. We go on to the banks of the Jordan and call aeross to them, but they do not seem to hoar. We say, "Is it wefl with the child? is it well with the loved ones?" ad we listen to hear if any voice come bkover the waters. None, none! Unbelief says, "They are dead, and they arc annihilated," but blessed be Gd we have a Bible that tells us dif ferent! We open it, and we find they are neither dead nor annihilated -that they never were so much alive as now that they are only waiting for our com in and that we shalijin them on the other side of the river. Oh, glorinus reunion, we cannot grasp it now! "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the thgs which God hath prepared for thetm that love him." What a place of explanation it will be! I see every day profound mysteries of providence. There is no question we ask of:euer than Why? There are hun dreds of graves in Greenwood and Lau rel 11111 that need to be explained. lums for !.he idioti Snu insane, ala- I houses for the destitute and a world of' pain and misfortune that demand more | than human solution. God vill clear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne no dark mystery can live. Things now utterly inserutable will be illumined as plainly as though the answer was written on the jasper wall or sounded in the temple anthem. Bartimeus will thank God that he was blind, and Joseph that he was east into the pit, and Daniel that he denned with the lions, and Paul that he was humpbacked, and David that he was driven from Jerusalem, and that in valid, that for 20 years he could not lift his head from the pillow, that wid ow, that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children. The song will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes and aching heads and exhausted hands and Fcourged backs and martyred agonies. But we can get no idea of that anthem her.,. We appreciate the power of secular music, but do we ap preciate the power of sar.,d song? There is nothing more inspiring to me than a whole cOnt regation lifted on thet wave of holy melody. When we sing some of those dear old pzalms and ;iunes, they rouse all the memor.ei of the past. Why, some of them were cradle songs in our father's house! Thev are all sparkling with the morning dew of a thousand Christian Sabbaths. They were sung by brothers and sistr3 gone now, by voices that were aged and broken in the music, voices none the less sweet because they did tremble and break. When I hear these ol songs sung, it seems ai if all the old country meeting houses joined in the chorus and city church and sailor's bethel and western cabins until the whole continent lifts the doxology and the scepters of eter nity beat time in the music. Away, then, with your starveling tunes that chill the devotions of the sanctuary and make the people sit silent when Jesus is marching on to vicry. When gen erals come Iack from victorious wars, do we not che r them and shout, "Huzza, huzza?' And when Jesus passed along in the conquest of the (arth, shall we not hare fhr hi one loud, ringing cbet r? All hail the powr of Jesus' name! Let ageis I r strate fall. Bring foith the ro.al diadem And erown him Lord of all. But, my friends, if music on esrth is soaseet what will it be in heaven! They all know the tune thcr.. All the best singer4 of all the ages will j.>in it choirs of white r .bed children, choirs of patrizr,:hs, choirs of apostles Morn ing stars slapping their eymbals. Harpers with their harri Great an thems of God roll on! roil on!-other <mpires join the harmrny till the thrones are all f1ll and tle nations all saved. Anthem shall touch anthem, chorus join ch(ras, and all ihe sweet sounds of eaith and heavr be po.ured into the ear of Ci.rist. David of the harp will he there. Gabriel of the trumpet will be tlere. G..rnany. re deemed, will pour its deep bass voice into the song, and Afr:ca will add to the music with her matebless zoices I wish in our closing hymn today we might catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows but that when the heavenly door opens today to let some soul through there may come forth the strain of the jubilant voices until we catch it? Oh, that as the song drops down from heaven it might meet half way a song coming up from earth. They rise for the doxology, all the multitude of the best! Let us rise with them, and so at this hour the joys of the church on earth and the joys of the church in heaven will mingle their chalices, and the dark apparel of our mourning will seem to whiten into the spotless raiment of the skies. God rant that through the mercy of our Lord Jesus we may all 2et there! The State Executive Committee. The followiDE are the names of the State Executive Committee as was annoneed in the State Convention Wed nesd i: Abbeville-A W Jones. Aiken-W WV Williams. Anderson-J Perry Glenn. Barnwell-G D Bellinger. Bamberg-S G Mayfield. Beaufort-Thos Martin. Berkeley-S J McCoy. Charleston-J F Rafferty. Clarendon-Louis Appelt. Cherokee-Jno. T Littlejoho. Chester-T J Cunningham. Chesterfield-G J Rledfearn. Colleton-J W Hill. Darlington-A J A Parrott. Dorchester-J D Bivins. Elgefield-L J Williams. Fairfield-Thos. H Ketchin. Florence-D) 11 Traxler. Greenville-M L Dmaldsen. Greenwood-D H Magill. Hampton-W HI Mauldin. Horry-Jno. A McDermott. Kershaw-C L Winkler. Lan::aster-T Y Williams. Laurens-N B Dial. Lexington-D J Griffith. Marion-S G Miles. Marlboro-W D Evans. Newberry-Cmle L Blease. Oconee-J J Keith. Orangebure-W 0 Tatum. Pickens-R F Smith. Richland- Wilie Jorcs. Spartanburg -N L Bennett. Salada-R B Watson. Sumte--Rt D Lee. jUnion-J F Pea'ke. Williamsburr- 3 El Blackwell. York-J C WVilboro. At a meeting of the Comm'ttee Col. Wilie Jones was re-elected State Chair man. Too Thia. Administration organs are boasting that if there has beea stealing in Cuba the thieves will be detected. That is too thin. The fact that the men who have been found guilty of robbing the government in Cuba were trusted em ploys, picked out by the administra tion, because of their peculiar fitness for the work in hand, as advertised, proves that imperialism means not only a departure from the true prineiples of this government but carpet-baggery and corruption.-Spartanburg ~Hrald. A Warning to Girls. An Iowa young man not long ago proposed marriage to a young woman, but hearing that her hair was false, he declined to fulfill his engagement. Snec brought suit against him for breh or promise, but she was nonsuitedI on Lhe ground that she had won the young man's affections under fale Vet tas. Gainesville, Ga.. Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has 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. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists.___________ tf A kingdom for a cure. You need not pay so much. A twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. THE DEMOCRACL [CONTINUED FrOM PAGE 1.] donnection with the penitentiary scans dal. He then compared the free bar room in the State capitol during Re publican times with the free sample rooms at the State dispensary during Tillman's administration as governor. His arraignment of Tillman in con nection with the dispensary and the penitentiary scandals was here inter rupted. Mr. Stevenson, the presiding officer ruled that the record of Tillman in the senate, not prior to that time, was now under discussion. There was mild cheering from Tillman's friends. Senator Tillman asked that "this man" be not disturbed in the enjoy ment of this luxury, it is not often he could got people to listen to him. There was more cheering and cries for "Tillman" and for "Youmans." Senator Tillman had during the first part of the excoriation sat perfectly un moved, on the seat dirce.ly in front of the cb:.ir which Col. Youmans had oc cupied, but his "fighting face" showed the return of the fire of former bouts. Mr. Youmans aciniesced in the rul ing of the chair and did not conclude his speech. Mr. A. H. Patterson of Barnwell as sured the convention that Mr. You mans did not represent the people of Barnwell county in his rem irks. Mr. Youmans-There is the record. It speaks for itself. ONLY ONE VOTE. The vote on the motion to table Mr. Youman's motion to table the resolu tions was carried. There was only one vote in the negative-that of Mr. You mans. The resolutions were then adopted by a rising vote, Mr. Youmans again being the only one voting in the negative. There were more demonstrations of applause, and the report of the com mittee on constitution and by-laws was then taken up and disposed of. A SPEECH FROM TILLM&N. This concluded the work of the con vention, and before the resolutions of thauks to presiding officer, clerks, etc., some delegate sent up a resolution re questing a speech from Senator Till mitan. This was adopted by the con vention. Senator Tillman accepted the invita tion and made a short address, which was confined almost exclusively to na tional affairs. He said that he didn't k.e to talk as he once did, because he :i heard so much talk in the senate. Four years ago there was feverish ness and uncertainty as to the policy of the national Democratic party. Mr. Cleveland and his party had scuttled the ship. The national convention at Chicag.o was inspiring in the uprising of the people. It was the first genuine Democratic convention since .the war. its action represents the revival of the party of Jefferson on the only lines of -iurability. We now face another cam paign. It has been estimated that a I uiiion Democrats left the party in 1896. We went into that campaign disorganized with the Palmer and Buckner party split off, and scared the opposition nearly to death. If a hard fight was necessary then, it is doubly so now. The Republican majrity is arrogant in the extreme and is rushing into a plutocracy which will wreck the government. Hanna had $16,00)0,000 with whteh to buy votes in 1896 We need money to carry speakers and literature into the middle west. We are still face to face with the Philippine war, which has cost us $120,000,000 (including the navy) and requires the services of 65,000 men. McKinley had brought on that war ex pecting the Filipinos to disband at the first rush. He had sat in the senate and heard them talking of using the Philippines as stepping stone to China. He declared that the Rlepublican party has great schemes of aggrandizement. He defended his position on the China open door question in China. He would stand by it, but he did not favor using the Philippines as a stepping stone. He was applauded in his reply to the statement that he was in favor of South Carolina getting her share of the steal ing in Washington. It did not imply a surrender of any principle. The south pays one-third of -the taxes and gets but a tenth in return, and he con tended it was but right for South tCaro lina to get her share of the appropri't tlons. This country is in danger. If Mr. McKinley is elected it means an alli ance with England. Inordinate greed is behind Engiand's unholy war in Af rica. The carpet-bagger will get the benefit, and we must keep a standing army of 200,000 men, and if the trena of affairs keeps up that army will be brought back to this country to shoot the people of this country into subj c tion to the will of the trusts. He had denounced the Republicans to their faces as hypocrites, and the people of this State had never heard of it. "If the conspiracy of silence among some of the newspipers to keep my constitu e-nts from knowing what I do keeps up, 1 cao't help it," he said with a consid erabic show of feeling. Poe e ervn'ion then ad journed. W~e luily agree with the Columbia State that the prevalene3 of perfect harmony in the ranks of the Democ racy of South Carolina was most strik ingly exemplfied Wednesday in the State Democratic convention when Ex Gov. John C. Shepparl arose, nomina tions for delegates-at-large to the national convention having been called for, and presented in behalf of the Elgefield delegation the name of the Hion. B. R. Tillman, and Mr. Goagrove of Charleston was first to rise and Eec ond the nomination. The convention to a mtan noted the incident. The State says this was the most represen tative body of men seen here in a long, long time. The main body was com posed of staunch citizens of all callings. More Soldiers Killed. A dispatch from Manila says the rumored engagement in Samar has been confirned by reports recently received from Maj.'r Hlenry T. Allen, 43d regi 'ment, U. S. V. I., com-nanding Samar Island. That detachment of thrity-one men, stationed at Catubig, were at tacked April 15 by six hundred men with two hundred riffe~s and one can non. Our macI 'uirt.rsd in convent, which "a neerd next day by burning e'mnp thrown from adjoining church. Detachment escaped by river. Men aztting into boat were killed; remaining uien entrenched themselves near river and held out two days longer, facing most adverse circumstances, until res cued by Lieut. Sweeney and ten men. Over two hundred of attacking party (many of them are reported having come from Luzon Island) reported killed and many wounded. Lieut. Sweeney re ports streets covered with dead insur gents. S. A. Swails, a leader of the Repub lican party in the days of Moses and Patterson, died at his home in King stree last Thursday. He was State Senator from Williamsburg county dur SUMMER SCHOOLS. Dates on Which They Will be Held in Each County. NAMES OF THE TEACHERS. A Work That Has Required Much Painstaking Effort on the Part of Mr. McMahan. Superintendent McMahan has, after several months of hard study, much travel and a very elaborate correspond ence, about completed the selection of the instructors for the summer normal schools in the various counties. Most of the selections were made from those who were in attendance at the State school at Winth rop last year. The fol lowing is a list of the schools that wi'l be held, with the instructors and the dates; that is, the instructors appointed They have not all accepted: Abbeville, June 11 to July 7-Thos. P. Harrison. professor of Eniglish at Davidson college; J E Buzhardt, prin cipal of Mullins school. Aiken, July 16 to Aug. 11-Claude C Legge, principal of Bennett school, Charleston; Elizabeth W McLean, teacher in Sumter graded school. Anderson, June 11 to July 7-Thos C Walton, superinteudent Anderson graded schools; J S McLupas, assistant professor of English at Clemson college; Virginia R Brodie, instructor in draw ing. Barnwell, July 30 to Aug. 25-W H Jones. superintendent Barnwell graded school; S W Reeves, former teacher at Marion, now at Cornell university. Berkeley, at St. Stephens, July 30 to Aug. 25-H G Sheridan, principal of Holly Hill school; Miss Aen-s Me Master, teacher in Columbia city schools. Charleston, July 16 t-> Aug. 11-W K Tate, principal Memminger Normal school. Charleston; G A Wauchope, adjunct professor of Eaglish, South Carolina college. Chester, June 11 to July 7-R M Kennedy, superintendent of Camden graded school,; Blanche O'Neale, teach er in Columbia city schools. Clarendon, at Manning, Aug. 15 to Sept. 11-W H Wannamaker, princi pal high school, Spartanburg; - Percy Inabinet, superintendent of Manning graded school. Colleton, at Walzerboro, July 16 to Aug. 11-Thos G Wilkinmoo, superin teadent Echools at Walterboro; D L Rambo, teacher in Sumter graded schools. Darlington. Jane 4 to June 30-W H Hand. superintendent Chester graded schools; L szie Alexander, icacher Wil liamston Female collere. Elgefield, July 16 to Aug. 11 Wm M Clyde, principal boys' high school, Montgomery, Ala.; D D Wal lace, professor of history, Wufford col lege. Fairfield. at Winnsboro, Aug. 6 to Sept. 1-0 A Greaser, teacher in Onar leston High school. Georgetown, Pawley's Island, Junc 11 to July 7-Thos B Hamby, superin tendent graded school at Georgetown; Jackson Hamilton, princi1 al at Fort Mill. Greenville, Aug. 27 to Sept. 22-W K Tate, principal Memminger Normal school, Charleston; HIugh Hasynes worth, principal Fountain Inn; Miss Lucas, fiom Charleston, instructor in drawing. Hampton, July 16 to Aug. 11-B IH Johnstone, former superintendent of Barnwell graded schools, now at Chicago university; Miss Penelope Mc Duffie, Narion graded schools. Hlorry, at Conway, Jusne 4 to June 30-E C CJoker, superintendent Mar graded schools; S W Carwile, superin tendent Conway graded schools. Kershaw, at Camden, June 11 to July 7-J D Rast, Darlington graded schools; WV H MlcNairy, Chester graded se'sools. Lancaster, June 11 to July 7-L T Baker, superintendent Lancaster graded schools: Sarah Chandler, Spartan burg, city schools. Laurens, June 11 to July 7-Frank Evans, superintendent Spartanburg schools; J Porter Hollis, Chester graded schools; Margaret Law, instruce tor in drawing. Lexington, July 16 to Aug. 13-P T Brodie, professor mathematics Clemson college; Jno. J George, student Colum bia university, New York. Marion, July 16 to Aug. 13-E C Coker, superintendent Marion schools; J S McLucas, assistant professor Eng lish at Clemson college; Virginia R-. Brodie, instructor in drawing. Marlboro, at Ben nettsville, June 4 to June 30-Nathan Tome, superintend ent Bennett-,ville schools; S A Cham bers, principal Gaffney High school. Newberry. Aug. 15 to Sept. 11-E C McCants, superintendent Blackville graded schools; R McC. Perrin, teacher Porter Military academy; Margaret Law, instructor in drawing. Oconee, at Walhalla, June 1.8 to July 14-S H Elmunds, superintendent Sumter school.'; Eloise Welch, New berry grade schools. Orangeburg (date not fixed) -W K Sligh, professor mathematics Newberry 3ollege; J K Owens, Yorkville graded schools. Pickens, June 11 to July 7-E L flushes, supertntendent Greenville city schoole; C E Johnson, principal Colum Richiand, at Columbia High school, Aug. ]5 to Sept. ll-Wmn. M Clyde, principal boys' high school, Mont gomery, Ala ; D D Wallace. professor history, Wriford college; Miss G;rehamt, instructor in drawing. Spartanburg. June 11 to July 7-A G R mnbert, professor at Wufford college; Sarah C. Thurston, Columbia High school. Sumter, Aug. 15 to Sept. 1-J D Rast, Darlington city schools; Fannie McCants, Coletmbia High school, F. L. Saunders, drawisng. -. Juaec 4 to 30-L W Dick, suprintendent Aiken schools; Datvis Je r os, superintendent Uaion schools. Williamsburg. at Kigstree, July 16 to Aug. 11-J WV Thomson, professor pedagogy at Winthrop college; Emnma J Roach, Rock Hill schools York, at Yorkville-J W Thomson, professor pedagogy, Winthrop college; Miss A A Dunbar, practice teacher at Winthrop: Miss F L Saund..rs, draw ing. Bamberg, July 16 to Aug. 11-J Ar thur Wiggins, principal Denmark schools. Cherokee, at Gaffney-W F McAr thur, county superintendent; L T Mills, Camden graded schools. Dorchester, at St. Georgs-J L Mann, superintendent Florence schools; Jessie McKenzte, Florence schools. Florence, Aug. 15 to Sept. 1 1-Thos. A Sharpe, superintendent Darling ton city schools; Alma Bo3 d, Spartanburg Greenwood, Aug. 6 to sept. 1 Leonard T Baker, superintcndcnt Lan caster graded schools; Sarah Chandler, Spartanburg city schools. Saluda (date not fixed) -E C Mc Cants, principal Blackville schools; J Portcr Holiis, Rock Hill graded schools. FREE BLOOD CURE An Offr 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 terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Scrofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skih Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Pois:)n producing Eating Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B. 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I wender if, when I clasp the hands Of the 1->ved of long ago Who croied the stream In the weird gone past, And, sturely, I shall know Their forms and faces and hear the souad of their voices. ne'er forg t I wonder if I shall sti-l turn back And long for what I have n t? Lutg for ihos4e who are lert behind To suffer and in'il and strive In the cold wor:d's troublous atmosphere. For the sake of b ing tl vet? I war der if, when it is over at last And I s-and in the pure new life, I shall everremember th At this old, old w ,rld. Wi-h it- sin and t4orrow and strife? Sh-.l I think of the flush on the sunset hills, Of the sta-s in the pale blue sky, of the mighty ocean, heiting the shore W.en the Tagiog tide runs big'? . ill the doubt a' d dread forever be fled, That trouble life here below? Will the love and the longing be salisfied? Ab. very soon I shall know! Good Sense. Some young girls have a good share of excellent sense, as wit ness this account from a New York paper: "At our hotel was a young girl, educated, clever, up-to-date. A handsome young fellow was paying her the most devoted attention, whenever he was sober enough to do so, and all of us felt very anxious lest attractive manners and lavish dlisplay of wealth should win the girl. One evening late she came into my room, and settling her self on the pillows of the couch, said: "John proposed tonight, went down on his knees, said I was the only power on earth that could save him. and if I didn't consent to be his wife he would fill adrunkard's grave." "What did you say?" I asked breath lessly. "Well," she replied, "I told him that I was not running a Keely cure, but if he really wanted to be saved from a drunkard's grave I could give him the address of several I had heard highly recommended'" We commend the good sense of this young woman to all young women when they feel inclined to marry a drunkard to reform him. THE house Thursday by a very narrow margin of two votes un seated Mr. Crawford of North Carolina, a Democrat, and seated in his place Mr. Pearson of North Carolina, who was a member of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth congresses. T h i s makes the third Democrat turned out of the present house. Gov. McSweeney Thursday received a long letter from a married woman in Greenwood county detailing all her troubles. She says she recently left her husband because of his cruelty to her. Then she concluded with an appeal to the governor to grant her the privilege of marrying again "as I am a orphan." THE Washington Post gives a whole chapter of fact in the fol lowing terse lines: "The south ern Republicans lay great stress on the votes of the colored brother when they are after a congressional seat to which a Democrat has been elected. But when it comes to selecting the black man as a delegate to the Philadelphia convention-well, that is another story. THE Democratic convention of Tennessee reported a platform containing a plank on expansion which did not mean anything and was a straddle as favorable to the view of McKinley as of Bryan. It was promnptly re pudiated by the convention and a straight-out plank condemn ing the position of the Republi can party and standing squarely by the position of Bryan was substituted. AT the race conference being held in Montgomery, Alabama, Hon. Bourke Cockran of New York, it is stated, scored the most brilliant success of the race conference in the closing oration. He boldly advocated the repeal of the 15th amendment to the Federal constitution. He ar gued that it was a bad limb on the tree; that it had been nulli fied by the States; that it had been lynched, so to speak, by the people of the South. A full report of the proceedingof the Democratic State Convention will be found in this issue. Reed it, and keep AB50mmTEY a Makes the food more dell ROYAL SAXING POW5l POWER OF WATER Hole '"ored in a Bluff as if by a Can non Ball. A little group of solid citizens was standing- on Baronne street, New Or leans, watching a cleaning gang at work with the hose. "That reminds me of old days in Cal Ifornia," said one of the party as the stream veered slightly and shaved off the corner of a pile of dirt. "I never realized how much force could be de livered by a jet of water," he con tinued, "until I tried hydraulic mining. It was In 1870. up on the Sacramento river. They had brought a stream down the Sierra Nevada Mountains in a big 'flume' that ended in a length of wire-wrapped hose and a six-foot noz zle with arm on the side for a couple of men to take hold of. "They played the stream on a big bluff directly opposite, and it bored out the solid, packed foundation like living fire eating into tinder. For a dozen feet from the nozzle the water seemed like a hard blue bar and there was something strange and murderous look ing in the way It drove straight out that made by flesh creep to watch It. Several laborers had been accidentally struck by the stream and In each case the man was killed as suddenly as If hit by a cannon ball. "I remember on one occasion some rival claimant came down from Shasta and took possession of a cabin not far from the end of the flume line. Our boss. who was a big Irishman named Murphy, told us to play the stream on the place. and as we were all spoiling for a row we lost no time in obeying. I never saw such a demolition in my life. The shanty flew seven ways for Sunday and one of the fellows inside was pitched bodily through the air and landed in the river. The distance was so great nobody was hurt, and after that our gang was known as 'Murphy's light artillery.' Mark Twain draws a very vivid picture of hydraulic mining in 'Roughing It,' and from personal ex perience I can assure you h8 hasn't embroidered the facts In the least." A Tornado's Freaks. John R. Musick of Kirksville, Mo., thus describes. In the Century, certain madcap pranks of a tornado which passed through tht city. "'Many strange freaks were played by the tornado. In a tree-top was found a woman's hais, supposed to have been torn from her head as she was carried through its branches, yet no person was found near it. A numan scalp was found three miles from the city limits. under a bridge. Notes, let ters, and papers were blown from the city into Iowa, and found ninety miles away. One promissory note of $400 was found in a field near Grinnell, Iowa, nearly 100 miles away, while clothin.r and papers were scattered along the entire distance. "One woman was decapitated by a tin roof, and her child was killed near her. Some persons who were outside the rotating current were killed or In .inred by riv~ing timbers, which, like bolts from the catapult of Jove, flew with deadly force for a great distance. while others in the very center of the storm escaped with little or no injury. Perhaps the most remarkble experi ences were those of MIiss Moorehouse, Mrs. Webster, and her sen. Tile three were caught up in the storm, and were carried beyond the Catholic church, nearly one-fourth of a mile, and let down on the common so gently that none were killed. Mrs. Webster had some slight cuts about the head, her son had one arm fractured, but Miss Moorehouse was uninjured. "I was conscious all the time I was flying through the air.' said Miss Moorehouse, -and It seemed a long time. I seemed to be lifted up and whirled round and round. going to a great height, at one time far above the church steeples, and seemed to be car ried a long distance. I prayed to the Lord to save me. for I believed he could save me. even on the wings of the tornado, and he did wonderfully preserve my life. As I was going through the air, being whirled about at the sport of the storm, I -saw a horse soaring and rotating about with me. It was a white horse, and had a harness on. By the way It kicked and struggled as It was hurled about I know It was alive. I prayed to God that the horse might not come in con tact with me. and it did not. I was mercifully landed upon the earth un harmed-saved by a miracle.' "Young Webster says he saw the horse in the air whiie lhe was being borne along by the storm. 'At one time It was directly over me. and I was very muc(h m.-'raid I worfl come in contact with its flying heels.' The horse. It is said, was eaught up and cat-ned one mile throngh the air, and. according to the accounts of reputable witnesses, at times was over 200 feet high, passing over a church steeple. 3any who were not in the storm say that they saw horses fir'ing In the wind. Beyond being well plastered with mud. the white horse was unin jured by his aerial flight." A Fine Job. Two park laborers eat on the~ curb stone of the Easte:n Parkway in Brooklyn eating din'2er out of their pails, for it was the noon hour. and dIscussing their sr~rroundings In a brogue which suggested that they had n't been over very long. One of them fell to admiring the Museum of Arts and Scionces, which stands back from the Parkway. "It's a foine big buildin'." lhe said; "an' solid enough put up to last for iver." "'Tis thot." agreed the other. "But what is it fer?" "To kape dead hoogs an' other crachures in." said the first. "It's a museum. It is." "An' are the'm l!g letters cut into the stone ahoe the windies the name uv --I ono what thim leter's wud he." said the li:'st speaiker. Ie fell'to spell ing out the words. andl presently a ray of imeollnae wceieded the puzzled expression on hN face. "Sure. I har it." said( be. "Thim is the namIes atv then contrt'orst." "'Tis a foinie .-ob they done. anny way." observed the ether adlmiri nily. "They'd he big men in their own line wId slathers of inflooenc'e. bhike." And Patrick made a g'ood guess, for the names gravenl in the stone were Aeshyl us. Sophoeles. Perieles. Hero dotus. Socrates. Theydides, and Demos thene3. THE New York Times eX presses its present opinion of Wmn. Jennings Bryan as fol lows: "Ilt is simpl)e jiustice to say that the leader of the Democ racy now presents a more re spectable figure than in any year since lie entered national politics. The Bryan of 1900 stands before the people as a man with the boldness of honest con victions. The sincerity and courage of such an attitude are admirable" The world moves, LDAIN6 FOWDER LUE idous and wholesome .R Co., NEW YORK A Suicide Table Where Scores Have Despaired. SOME MAD GAMBLERS. A Bridal Couple's Tragedy-Suicides Know Their Fate-Few Try to Es cape Their Goal-Incidents of the World's Most Famous Gambling Rooms. To the right of the Moorish salon, the second from the entrance in the great gambling rooms of Monte Carlo, stands the suicide table. This accursed piece of furniture has a record of causing 113 suicides in ten years. according to the count kept by C. Eonvenisti, formerly chief of the de tectives in this room. Even the chairs of this table differ in the intensity of their hoodooed state. The chair to the left of the croupier facing the entrance door has claimed seventeen victims. The twenty-third chair accommodated eleven suicides, six women and five men. The others have records of eight, five, four, three and one death. One day five years ago, writes 3. Benvenisti in the Chicago Inter-Ocean, my neighbor at the table was a young Parisian. He sat in one of the one death chairs, and won. When the doors closed be carried off 200,000 francs. Imagine my anticipations when next morning I found him installed to the left of the croupier. I felt like tearing him away or slipping a card into his hand, to warn him against the seat he had chosen, but my official character forbade me to interfere, and, besides, my advice would have been scorned, for' the fellow gambled like one mad. He lost his winnings of the day before and 200,000 francs of his own money. When his last 1,000 franc note was gone he rose, and swaying to and fro like a drunkard, stumbled out of the hall, laughing immoderately. Two of my men led a merry chase for this unfortunate, and when they caught up with him he jumped off the railway bridge, knocking out hisbralns. Another case that haunts my dreams! One day an elderly gentleman, Signor Antonio Cesare, who knew my connection with the Casino compelled me to give him the seat I was occupy ing. next to the croupier. I did so with a bleeding heart, for this old man was the very picture of health, and I was an intimate friend of his cousin, the Mayor of Bentimigli. Well, this gentleman lost nearly a hundred thousand francs in the day and evening. When he got up, his own mother wouldn't have known him. He looked ten years older; his flesh had falic away; madness stared out of his eyes. Next day they fished his body from the lake at Mentone. Then there were the Parlingtons, re fined English people. They were on their wedding trip. I never forgot the look of delight with which young Mrs. Parlington pocketed her first small gain. The pretty bride fairly coaxed her husband to stake 10 francs. When night came they had a couple of thousand francs in their pockets. Next morning they took chairs Nos. 23 and 24. No, 23 brought them the usu al 1'uck. They gained 30,000 francs. But on the following day came the inevita ble change. The 30,000 francs went back to us, and the couple's little fortune followed. They walked from the room deathly pale, hand In hand. My detectives informed me that they took the train for Nice withourt troub Iin~g about their baggage. They shot ar.d killed themselves in the Windsor H -otel there. Everybody can see that the cloth on the suicide table is of more recent make than the rest. Yet the Casino company is only 318 francs the poorer on that account. Here are the figures: Cloth for double table, 250 francs, painting of yellow fig ures, 50 francs; nailing down, 18 francs; total, 318 francs. Against these'figures there Is an off set 'f 600 francs, which the Casino company would have been obliged to pay the young Russian for traveling expenses. This Muscovite Prince re fused to become a pensioner of M. Blanc's heirs, an-d blew out his brains over the table where he had dropped his all,-400,00J0 francs. It happened two years ago, and it nearly cost me my job. The circum stances that one of the directors of the company drew me Into a corner to talk about the same Russian's per sistent ill-l'2ck just a minute before the shot rang out-that alone saved me from disgrace. The incident itself was soon forgotten and had no bearing on the game. It has nothing to do with the supersti tions attaching to the suicide table. The ill reputation of that piece of fur niture was of many years' standing when the Russian commn.tted his flag rant breach of Casino etiquette. He was No. 85 on my list of unfortunates. When I saw a man or woman ap proach the suicide state, my first care was to prevent him or her from spoil ing more cloth. I signalled my men to press around the party, and prevent him or her from putting a hand in the pocket or from striking the croupier. Many desperate cases I approached as a fellow gambler, offering to assist them and pay their homeward journey. I dare say my intervention--which cost me nothing, as the company re co'iped rne-has saved many a poor devil's life. Whether suicide candidates have a foreboding of evil when they come to our table, I don't know, but a few try to escape their goal. They come flanked by prayers or holding a piece of hang man's rope. Others try to insure their fortune by paying the croupier 100 francs before the day's work begins. Of course he accepts the bribe. He isn't tampering with his employer's profits. Robert B. Jennings, was held up on. a street car near the corner of Wash ington avenue and Broadway, Et. Louis, Mo., Oct. 30, and robbed of $1,043 in cash and $48,247 in negotiable paper. Harry Wallace Struck and Instantly killed his wife with a hammer at their home near Deakyenville, Del., after .hilch he fled. The couple had not 'een living happi-y for some time. T HE postoffice authorities have discovered that somebody in Washington has been sending mail sacks full of clothing and other personal property from the Capitol to St. Louis, under the postal frank of a congressman. That's a small matter. The late Gen. B. F. Butler used to frank all of his laundry home every Week and frank it back to Wash ~ington, thus protecting himself against the extortions of the aundrymen at the national capi al1