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DIVINE S13M PAT111Y Dr. Talmage's Prescription For Anxiety and Worriment. HE ADVISES THOSE IN Trouble to Follow the Example of the Disciples, Who "Went and Told Jesus." Dr. Talrage who has finishcd his tour in England and Scotland, where thousands thronged to hear him where soever he preached, is now on his way to Norway and Russia, in which coun tries he is already well known through the publication of translations of his sermOn3. In the following discourse, which he has'scnt for publication this week, he gives a prescription for all anxiety and worriment and illustrates the ;vine sympathy for all who are ;n any kint ',f struggle. The text is Mat thew xiv, 1., "And his disciples went and told Jesus." An outrageous assassination had just taken place. To appease a revengeful woman King Herod ordered the death of that noble, sacriacing prophet, John the Baptist. The group of the dises ples were thrown into grief and dismay. They felt themselves utterly defense less. There was no authority to which they could appeal, and yet grief must always find expression. If there be no human ear to hear it, then the agonized soul will cry it aloud to the winds and the woods and the waters. But there was an ear that was willing to listen. There is a tender pathos and at the same time a most admirable picture in the words of my text. "They went and told Jesus." He could understand all their grief, and he immediately soothed it. Our burdens are not more than half so heavy to carry if another shoulder is put under the other end of them. Here we find Christ, his brow shadowed with grief, standing amid the group of disciples, who, with tears and violent gesticulations and wringing of hands and outcry of bereavement, are expressing their woe. Raphael. with his bkilllul brush putting upon the wall of a palace some scene of sacred story, gave not so skillful a stroke as when the plain hand of the evangeiist writes, "They went and told Jesus." I feel that I bring to you a most ap propriate message. I mean to bind up all your griefs into a bundle and set them on fire with a spark from God's altar. The prescription that cured the sorrow of the disciples will cure all your heartaches. I have read that when Godfrey and his army marched out to capture Jerusalem, as they came over the hills, at the first lash of the pinnacles of that beautiful city, the army thathad marched in silence liftei a shout that made the earth tremble. Oh, you, soldiers of Jesus Christ, marching on toward heaven, I would that today, by some gleam from the palace of God's mercy and God's strength, you might be lifted into great rejoicing, and that as the prospect of its peace breaks on your e'nraiptured gaze you might raise one 6!ad hosanna to the Lord! .in the first place, I recommend the behavior of these disciples to all bur dened souls who are unpardoned. There comes a time in almost every man's history when he feels from some source that he has an erring nature. The thought may not have such heft as to fell him. It may be only like the flash i an evening cloud just after a very het summer day. One man to get rid of that impression will go to prayer, another will stimulate himself by ar dent spirits, and another man will dive deeper in secularities. But sometimes a man cannot get rid of these impres sions. The fact is, when a man finds out that his eternity is poised upon a perfect uncertainty and that the next moment his foot may slip, he must do comething violent to make himself for. get where he stands or else fly for refuge. Some of you creuch under a yoke, and you bite the dust, when this mo ment you mniht. iise up a crowned con queror. Driven and perplexed as you have been by sin, go and tell Jesus. To relax the grip or death from your soul and plant 3uar unsckled feet upon the golden throne, Cair?t let t he tortures of the bloody mount tran: ;x him. With the beam of his own eres he will break down the door of your dungeon. From the thorns of his own crown he will pick enough gems to make your brow blaze with eternal vic tory. In every tear on his wet cheek, in every gash of his side, in every long, blackening mark of laceration from shoulder to shoulder, in the grave shattering, heaven storming a eath groan, I heir nim say, "Him that cometh unto me I1 will in nowise cast out." Lou will never get rid of your sins in any other way. And remember that the broad invitation which I extended to you will not always be extended. King Alfred, before modern timepieces were invented, used to divide the day into three parts, eight hours each, and then had three wax candles. By the time the first candle had burned to the socket eight hours had gone, and when the second candle had burned to the socket another eight hours had gone, and when all the three candles were gone out then the day had passsed. Oh! that some of us instead of calculating our days and nights and years by any earthly timepiece, might calculate them by the number of opportunities and mercies which are burning down and burning out, never to be relighted, lest at last we be amid the foolish virgins who cried, "Our lamps have gone out!" Again, I commend the behavior of the disciples to all who are tempted. I heard men in midlife say they had never been led into temptation. If you have not felt temptation, it is because you have not tried to do right. A man hoppled and handcuffed, as long as he lies quietly, does not test the power of the chain, but when he rises up and with determination resolves to snap the handcuff or break the hopple, then he finds the power of the iron. It is all folly for you to say to some one. "I could not be tempted as you are." The lion thinks it is so strange that the fish should be caught with a hook. The fish thinks it is so strange that the lion should be caught with a trap. You see some nn with a cold, phlegmatic temperament, and you say, "I suppose that man has not any tcmp tation." Yes, as much as you have. In his phlegmatic nature he has a tempta tion to indolence atil eensorieusness overeating and drioking, a temptation to ignere the great work of life, a temp tation to lay down an obstacle in the way of all good enterprises. The temperament decides the styles of temptation, but sanguine or lymphatie, ou will haeemptationn_ atan has a grplf&hook juast fitted for your sou A man never lives beyond the reach ofi temptation. YA1u say when a man gets to be 70 or S0 years of age he is safe from sataniC assault. You are very much mistaken. A man at 85 years of age has as many temptations as a man at 25. They are only different styles of temptation. Ask the aged Christian whether he is never assaulted of the powers of darkness, If you think you have conquered the power of tempta tion, you are very much mistaken. A man who wanted a throne pretend - ed he was very weak and sickly, and if he was elected he would soon be gone. le crawled upon his crutches to the throne, and having attained it he was strong again. le said. "It was well for me while I was looking for the scep ter of another that I should stoop, but now that I have found it, why should I stoop any longer?" and he threw away his crutches and was well again. How illustrative of the power of temptation! You think it is a weak and cripple in iluence. but give it a chance and it will be a tyrant in your soul; it will grind you to atoms. No man has finally and forever overcome temptation until he has left the world. But what are you to do with these temptations? Tell everybody about them? Ah, what a silly man you would be! As well might a commander in a fort send word to the enemy which gate of the -castle is least barred as for Nou co go and tell what all your frailties are and what your temptations are. The world will only caricature you, will only scoff at you. What, then, must a man do? When the wave strikes him with terrific dash shall he have nothing to. hold onto? In this contest with "the world, the flesh and the devil," shall a man have no help. no counsel? Our text intimates some thing different. In those eyes that wept with the Bethany sisters I see shining hope. In that voice which spake until the grave broke and the widow of Nain had back her lost son and the sea slept and sorrow stupendous woke up in the arms of rapture-in that voice I hear the comunnd and the promise, "Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he will sustain thee." Why should you carry your burdens any longer? Oh, you weary soul, Christ has been in this conflict. He says: "My grace shall be sufficient for you. You shall not be tempted above that you are able to bear." Therefore with all your temptations, go, as these disciples did, and tell Jesus. Again. I commend the behavior of the disciples to all the bereaved. How many in garb of mourning? How many emblms of sorrow you behold every where? God has his own way of tak ing apart a family. We must get out of the way for coming generations. We must get off the stage that others may come on, and for this reason there is a long procession reaching down all the time into the valley of shadows. This emigration from time into eternity is so vast an enterprise that we cannot understand it. Every hour we hear the clang of the sepulchral gate. The sod must be broken. The ground must be plowed for resurrection har vest. Eternity must be peopled. The dust must press our eyelids. "It is appointed into all men once to die." This emirration from time into eter nity keeps three-fourths of the families of the earth in desolation. The air is rent with farewells, and the black tas seled vehicles of death rumble through every street. The body of the child that was folded so closely to the moth er's heart is put away in the cold and the darkness. The laughter freezes to the girl's lip, and the rose scatters. The boy in the harvest field >f Shumem says: "My head! My head!'' And they carry him home to die on the lap of his mother. .Widowhood stands with tragedies of woe struck into the pallor of the cheek. Orphanage cries in vain for father and mother. Oh, the grave is cruel! With teeth of stone it clutches for its prey. Between the closing gates of the sepulcher cur hearts are mangled .Lnd crushed. Is there any earthly solace? None. We come to the obsequies, we sit with the grief stricken, we talk pathetically to their soul; but soon the obsequies have passed. the carriages have left us at the door, the friends who staid for a few days are gone, and the heart sits in desolation listening for the little feet that will never again patter through the hall, or looking for the entrance of those who will never come again-sigh ing into the darkness-ever and anon coming across some book or garment or little shoe or picture that arouscs for uer association, almost killing the heart. Long days and nights of suffer ing that wear out the spirit and ex punge the bright lines of life and give haggardness to the face and draw the flesh tight down over the cheek bone and draw dark lines under the sunken eye, and the hand is tremulous, and the voice is husky and uncertain., and the grief is wearing, grindi ng, accumulating, exhausting. Now, what are such to do? Are they merely to look up into a brazen and un pitying sky? Are they to walk a blast. ed heath unfed of stream, unsheltered by overarching trees? Has God turned us out on the barren common to die? Oh, no! no' no! He has not. He has not. Hec comes with sympathy and kindness and love. He understands all our grief. He sees the height and the depth and the length and the breadth of it. He is the only one that can ful ly sympathize. Go and tell Jesus. Sometimes when we have trouble we go to our friends and we explain it, and they try to sympathize; but they do not understand it. They cannot under stand it. Bu~t Christ sees all over it and all through it. He not only counts the tears and records the groans, but before the tears started, before the groans began Christ saw the inmost hiding place of your sorrow, and he takes it, and he weighs it, and aie meas ures it, and he pities it with an all ab sorbing pity. Bone of our bone. Flesh of our flesh. Heart of our heart. Sor row of our sorrow. As long as he re members Lazarus' grave he will stand by you in the cemetery. As long as he remembers his own hcartbreak he will stand by you in the laceration of your affections. When he forgets the footsore way, the sleepless nights, the weary body, the exhausted mind, the awful cross, the solemn grave, then he will forget you, but not until then. Isent for our friends, but they were far away; they could not get to us. We wrote to them, "Come right away." or telegraphed, "Take the next train." They came at last, yet were a ereat while in coming or perhaps were too late. But Christ is always near-be fore you, behind you, within you. No mother ever threw her arms around her child with such warmth and ecstasy of affection as Christ has shown toward you. Close at hand -nearer than the staff upon which you lean, nearer than the cup you put to your lip, nearer than the handkerchief with which you wipe away your tears-I preach him an ever preent, all sympatbizing, compassion ate Jesus. Ihow can you stay away one moment from him with your griefs? Go now. Go and tell Jesus. pathy, s:l is well. Everything will brighten up and joy will come to the heart and sorrow will depart: your sins will be forgiven and your foot will touch the upward path, and the shining messengers that report above what is done here will tell it until the great arches of God resounnd with the glad tidi:gs, if now. witih contrition and full truthfulness of !oul, you will only go and tell JEsus. But I ai oppressed as I think of those who may not take this counsel and mlay remain unblessed. I cannot help asking what will be the destiny of these people? Xerxes look off on his army. There were 2,00o0oU men perhaps the finest army ever marshaled. Xerxes rode along the lines, reviewed them, came back, stood on some high point, looked off upon the 2 000,000 men and burst into tears. At that mo ment, when every one supposed he would be in the greatest Pxhultation, he broke down in grief. They asked him why he wept. "Ah," he said, "I weep at the thought that so soen all this host will be dead" So I think of these vast populations of immortal men and women and realize the fact that soon the places which know thcm now will know them no more, and they will be zone-whither? whither? There is a sirring idea which the poet put in very peculiar verse when he said: 'Tis not for man to trifle: life is brief. And sin is here: Oar age is but the falling of a leaf, A droppiun tear. Not many lives, bat only one have we One, only onc; Ho v sacred should that one life ever bc That narrow span! BEAT AT HIS OWN GAME. How a Governor Tried to Get a Senatorship and Failed. When the senate committee on elec tions begins to investigate the charges of collusion or conspiracy which they are now talking about bringing against Senator Clark for the manner in which ke secured that last appoin!ment which has given rise to so much discussion, the prospects are that there will be a bit of a side issue in the coilusion or conspiracy line to attract their atten tion elsewhere. According to the stories told by those who profess to be on the inside of the Daly end of this Montana feud there was more than one reason why Governor Smith of that state was surprised when he learned that his lieutenant governor had ap pointed Mr. Clark. Gov. Smith, it iz said, went away from Helena firm ir the oelief that should a vacancy in the senate arise the appointment would go to him and to nobody else. This it is claimed, is a contingency possible un der the constitution of Montana which makes a full fledged governor of the lieutenant governor the minute the governor proper gets across the state line. Now, according to this particu. lar piece of gossip, the governor's ab sence from the state was by no means unpremeditated, but it had as its pur pose the elevation not of some other Daly man, but of himself--of course had he remained at Helena he could not :ave appointed himself. The bur den would have been on him then to send some other anti-Clark man, and his own ambitions to shine in the sen ate would have been forever dimmed. The tip that Clark proposed to resign reached Helena seome days before the resignation, and then it was that the governor discovered he had business ,vhich would take him out of the state. When the news was flashed to him that his faithful lieutenant had given him a glittering expample of what sporting men knew as "the double cross," his feelings can be better im agined than described. It appears that the governor's claim is that Clark's at torney lured him out of the state by means of a trick, and that the lieuten ant governor exceeded his authority. He wlli contest t he seating of Clark and it is more than lakely that the new hole that will be punened in the body poli tic of Montana will let out a vast quan tity of corruption that was not thought of before. NeSweeney Was Right. It is charged in some quarters that Mr. Patterson is brought out and sup ported by Col. Robert Aldrich to beat McSweeney because of the governor's refusal to pardon the white bigamist Pons, (Col. Aldrich's client. It is not credible that so small a matter as a re fusal to pardon a convict should have so great a result as this is alleged to have, it is probable, though, that there is some opposition to McSweeney on this account. There have been several determined and strong efforts to get the governor to pardon Pons, and strong influences have been brought to bear on him to this end; but he has persistently refused, and we under stand has said positively that Pons must serve out his sentence, which was really very light, considering his offense. The News is not advo'atir.; Mr. McSweeney for governor, but cheerfully commends him for his course in the Pons matter. It certain ly ought not to lose him any votes in South Carolina. In that respect he has undoubtedly done his duty. Col. Hoyt's Story Dlenied. To the Editor of the News and Courier: I note in the report of the Beaufort campaign meeting published in your paper of this date Col. Hoyt says that there is a lad in this town when 18 -years old forged his fathers name to an order and obtained whiskey at the dispensary, and who, now at 17 years of age, is a drunkard. There is no such case known to our citizens here. It ill becomes one who is an as pirant for the highest position in the gift of our people, and who has but lately been a guest of our town, to give publicity to so cruel and baseless a slander against those upon whom the future of our town is dependent. Our boys are an exceptionally manly and upright set, and properly resent this imputation upon their moral integrity. A Friend of the Boys. St. Gesorge, June 20. That Is the Rub. The Philadelphia Record says: "Much complaint is made that the dele gates from the Southern States to the Republican National Conventioni ar. nearly all office holders, not withstand ing President McKinley's dasire that his offiee holders should not manifest a pernicious activity in political matters. But how are the Southern delegates to be chosen if office holders and ofice ex petants from that region are to be bar red out of Republican National Con ventions?' Killed by Lighting. Mrs. Mark Swanson, of Flat Creek, Fayette G~a. county, was struck by light ning and instantly killed Wednesday about 11 o'clock, while in her yard at tending to h~ r young turkeys. 11cr uaughter, a grown up' young lady, was with her and received a severe shock, HIANNAS MEETIG. He Called It to Order on Tuesday Week AND TOLD IT WHAT TO DO. And It Did It Without Asking Why or Wherefore. McKinley and Roosevelt Named. At a few minutes past 12 o'clock on Tuesday of last week the twelfth na tional Republican convention was called to order in the great Auditoium at Philadelphia by Boss Hanna. There was a lavish display of national colors and an immense crowd thronged the exterior of the building while the inside was filled to suffocatiou. Immediately after order had been obtained Secretary of the Committee Chas. Dick. of Akror, Ohio, announced Senator E. 0. Wol cott, of Colorado, as the committee choice for temporary chairman. Mr. Wolcott took the chair, and after the adoption of temporary rules of order he announced the committees on rules, credentials, permanent organizations and resolutions. Each member of the Republican na tional committee received 25 tickets to the convention, and in all 50,0)0 tick ets have been issued, 4,01)0 of which were distributed to local parties by the mayor of Philadelphia. The conven tion consists of a number of delegates at-large from each state equal to double the number of the United S:ates Sena tors to which each state is entitled, and for each Representative at-large in con gress two delegates-at large: from each congress district and the District of Co lumbia, two delegates; from each of the territories of Alaska, Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mexico and Oklahoma, two delegates, making a total of 906 delegates. Necessary for nomination 454 No provision has been made for a delegate from Hawaii, as in the Democratic convention to be held at Kansas City. McKinley and Roosevelt were nomi nated by acclamation on Thursday. When the nomination of president was in order, Mr. Foraker .was recognized. II, began his speech nominating Me Kinley amid great cheers, concluding at 11:15. The audience went wild for '1eKinley. Banners were caught up and waved, the band played and the crowd wildly cheered. The demon stration lasted fifteen minutes. When Roosevelt ascended the plat form, the uproar was renewed and lasted five minutes longer. He said he rose to second the nomination of M1cKinley. Somebody applauded every word he spoke. Thurston followed. Yerks, of Kentucky, also seconded. Delegates howled for a vote, but Lodge recognized Knight, of California, who also seconded. McKinley was nomi nated by acclamation. There was wild cheering and a great demonstration. Lodge ordered a call of the roll for nomination of vice president. Ala bama yielded to Young, of Desmoines, who withdrew Dolliver and nominated Roosevelt. Murray of Massachusetts, withdrew Long and seconded Roosevelt, whose nomination was made by accla mation. Hanna did all he could to work up great enthusiasm, but he only partially succeeded, the cheering lasting only a few minutes. An Old Custom The Abbeville Medum says A. How ard Patterson, is making the canvass for Governor and of course is opposing the recelection of Gov. McSw-eeney. Among other charges brought against Gov. McSweener is the fact that he has subscribed for a number of news papers and has paid for them cut of the Governor's contingent fund. So far as we know there is no law requiring the Governor to subscribe for news papers. As a matter of fact Governor Johnson Hagood subscribed for such newspapers as lhe wished and paid for for them out of his contingent fuad. His purpose was to keep informed about what happened in the State and he always knew what course to take in any emergency. Tne Medium has been sent to every Governor of South Caro lina since the time of Gov. Hagood and has been paid for out of the contingent fund except by Gov. Ellerbe who died while in offiae. If we are not mistak en one of the Sumter papers was not paid. The editor made out a bill and brought it before the General Assem bly. It was referred to the comnmittee on claims in each House unanirmusly approved and both the Hiouse and Senate ordered the claim to be paid. There was not a solit are vote, so far as we know against paying the claim. This showed that the G eneral Assembly believed the claim was a just one. M1r. Patterson also complains that Gov. McSweeney bought a picture of the Governors of the State since and icuding G en. Hampton and paid for it out of the contingent fund. The cost was t2I. Tii. re is a precedent for such purchases. We have always understood that Gov. Ellerbe bought a photograph of the members of the Con stitutional Convention of 1895 and paid $60 for it out of the contingent fund of the Governor. The picture now stands in the State library and is an object of great interest. Mr. Patterson will not make his election sure" by such means. Happy With Two Wives A census enumerator has found a man in Newark, N. J., living happily with two wives and two sets of chil dren. In answer to cquestions of the numerator the man said he was born in Germany and married there 20 years ago. He became tired of married life, ad leaving his wife and four children behind he came to this country and found wife No. 2 on the vessel in which he crossed and fell in love with her. After landing at New York he went to Pennsylvania and the girl set ted in Newark. That was ten years ago. The man did not like P us.,1 vania and he went to Newark, where he married the girl he met on the ship. Two years ago the man's first wife came to this coutntry and found her husband living with wife No. 2. There was no trouble, the man said, and wife No. I took up her residence with her husband and wife No. 2. The husband sent to Germany for the children by his first wife. fHe has had three children by his second wife. The man told the enumerator that he got along amicably with his two wives by dividing his pay between them every Saturday night. Should Retract. Tlhe Columbia Record says: "Editor Verner's witnesses do. not sustain his blind tiger ease against Governor Mc Sweeney. lHe should now withdraw his charge as he can not prove it by the men he cited as witnesses." He could hardly do less. prove his slanders by the mythical "a Mr. Jones" or admit that he circulated a vile slander against the Governor of the State. "SENSATIONAL TOMMYROT." That Is What the Florence Times Calls Patterson's Charges. The irjection of personalities in the campaign by Hon. Howard Patterson at Orangeburg was the most unpleasant feature of the occasion. This feature was very much discassed on the street corners and in the cars. It was gen erally conceded that Gov. McSweeney stood the attack very well, and on all sides, except among the friends of Mr. Patterson, were heard regrets that such should have been injected in the campaign. His friends held that it was right and proper that a man should be called to account for his short com ings, and that the charges made were of short comings. Briefly summed up they were that the governor bad taken a drink in one of the clubs in Colum bia, which liquor was blind tiger stuff. As Mr. Patterson himself said that nine-tenths of the men in the world drank liquor, and as the crowd prompt ly replied, some that the other tenth did too, and others that they wanted to, the taking of the drink was hardly to be construed as the offense, and it is not very plain how a guest is to satisfy himself as to where his bolt's liquor comes from, the offense is at least not of such magnitude as to warrant a great dramatic display which was in tended to magnify the offense into a seriuus noral and civil crime against decency and the laws of the state, and to put the accused in the light of a so cial leper. The other crimes were in regard to the dibursements of the gov crn:,r's contingent fund, a fund intend ed to be used for the benefit of'the governor's office as the governor saw fit. It has always been considered necessary for the governcr's office to keep posted on the local affsirs of the various communities in the state, that is part of the governor's duty, and the duty of those around hAm. There is but one way to do this, and that is to read the papers from the different towns. The taking of these papers was inaugurated in the time of John scn Ragood, and has enabled the gover nors of the. state to keep themselves better informed than any other means ever employed, and understanding the people bettes, they have been enabled to administer their affairs with more justice and satisfaction. McSweeney has simply increased the number of pa pers used by that office because there were many communities not represent ed. His own paper had been on the list for years and he considered it en titled to the pay from the office. If these were crimes they were crimes of a very peculiar nature and seriously lack the element of malice against the people. 'he other accusation was that no attempt was made to stop the blind tiger business in Charleston because McSweeney wanted the vote of the blind tiger element in that city. The facts on record are against Mr. Patter son in this matter and the assumption of the cause was purely gratuitous. These charges were made in t.he same manner as if the g ,vernor had embez z~ed all the funds that had come his way, made all kinds of nefarious bar gains with the blind tiger element and was altogether the most corrupt and shameless character in the state, and to the unthinking in the audience the im pression left was that such charges had been made. There was great confusion at this stage of the proceedings to which the resentment of the soft at tacks of hypocracy and duplicity and calumniation of a pure and virtueus people, leveled at Col. Hoyt, was but a zypher. 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Large bottles $1, six for five $5. Write for free samplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Back in Stripes The Columbia Record says quite an interesting story has been developed by the return to the r,.aitentiary of .John Stuckey, a white convict, from the Scarborough farm in Sumter county. Stuckey was convicted in Spartanburg about a year ago of killing J. C. Ser vier, who was a clerk in his store, and owing to the prominence of the pirties the c ise was in many respects a sensa tional one. Stuckey was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Hie is said to be quite well "fixed" in this world's goods. According to the story as related by the pen itentiary authorities, Mr. Scarborough is a man who contracts for laborers on his farm. It appears that he was also a relative of Stuckey, and when he got his last batch of convicts he asked that Stuckey be included. Not knowing of any relationship existing between the two men he was turned over to Mr. Scarborough. It was later reported to the authorities that Stuckey was not being used as a convict, but was really having a pretty good time. It is alleg ed that he was actually boarding with Mr. Scarborough and paying for it. Acting upon these reports the superin tendent and the board of directors or dered Stuckey to be brought hick to the penitentiary. He is now in that institution, again in stripes, and at work in the commissary department. A Bark Lost. The vice consul at Trieste reports that hie has received notice from the local imperial royal maritime govern ment that nothing having been heard from the Austrian bark Palmier since it sailed from Pensacola, Dec. 19, last, it is presumed that the crew of the ves sel are lost. Among the crew were two American citizens, Cicero Akens of Washington, and William Woodall of DUNCAN AND BARNWELL. They Give a Black Eye to Ebsnezer Verner's Slander. At the campaign meeting held at Orangeburg, Mr. A. Howard Patterson, candidate for Governor, read the fol lowing from the 0.onee News, of which M1r. Ebenezer Verner, is the edi tor: "The editor of this newspaper has had letters from iifferent parts of this State asking that an editorial published in the Oconee News some time back, accusing Mr. McS-eney of drinking blind tiger liquor, be republished. That does not appear to be necessary. When Mr. McSwceney denies the charge we will give the names of those who in formed us that he did frequent the blind tigers and drink liquor Sunday night at the Mlerchants' and Manufac tufers' Club." Governor McSweeney immediately arose and branded the statement as false. Monday morning the Columbia State published the following card from Mr. Verner, which reads very much like the three black crows tale: To The Editor of The State: The names of those who told me about Gov. McSweeney drinking liquor Sunday night at the club in Columbia and patronizing blind tigers are, T. C. Dancan of Union. William Barnwell of Columbia, and a Mr. Jones of Green wood, (now of Alabani.) It came about this way: I met Mlr. Jones on the ears near Greenwood la-st fall. He impressed me as being a gentleman and a man of character. We talked of the dispensary law and he said that it was a common report in Columbia that Gov. MeSweeney not only did not trv to enforce the law in Columbia and in other largc towns, but that he had been known to patronize the blind tigers himself, and that frequently. Last November I met Mr. Barnwell in this county in company with half a dozen other gentlemen. We were discussing the dispensary law. I reported what Mr Jones had told me. Mr. Barnwell laughed and said: "Why that is noto rious in Columbia, and I do not sup pose any one would deny it." I said: "Remember you are talking to a news paper man and I mean to publish what you have said." He did not object to that, only said that I need not give his name. I replied that I would not un less my word was questioned, Again last January as I was going to Columbia to the legislature I met Mr. Duncan at Spartanourg. There were several other gentlenen present and some one remarked that I had accused the governor of drinking blind tiger liquor. Mr. Duncan said he did not doubt it in the least, and said that a gentleman had that day (Monday) shown. him a copy of the governor's message to the general assembly, which the governor had given him the night before at the Merchants and Manufacturers club. This was on Mon day before the legislature met on Tues day, and this man told Mr. Duncan that he had "set the gevernor up" to several drinks the night before-Sunday night -that they staid at the club until mid night; that the governor got to feeling mighty good and gave him the message. Mr. Duncan said he saw the message, and this was two days before any Inem ber of the legislature got to see it. In the first article [ wrote I said twice "If this be true-that is if the governor did have such conduct. I never said he did do it. only that I had been so informed. In the last piece I said I would give the nawes of those who told me, and you find them above. I did not say that [ would prove it, but would give the name of those who told me. E benezer Verner. Richland, S. C., June 13, 1900. DUNCAN D)ENIES IT. To the Editor of The State. I have just read your editorial in to dey's paper in which is incorporated the letter of Mr. Verner in which my name app~ears. Coming down on the train last De eember from Spartanburg, I met Mr. Verner and several other members of the legislature en route to Columbia, and in the course of a general conver sation, which was of a very pleasant character, the q-iestion came up as to what position the governor would take in the matter of the dispensary. I re marked that I had seen a printed copy of the governor's message, which the governor had given to a gentleman on Sunday at one of the Columbia clubs. I attached no importance to the matter, and do not at this-time, as the entire company of gentlemen were in a jocu lar mood and no one, I am satisfied, gave the matter a serious thought. As to my making any statement with reference to Gov. McSweeney patron izing "blind tigers," I have no definite recollection, because I have never met Gov. MeSweeney and only know of him in a most pleasant way, but as there were several getlemen in the party on the trrin, all of them but one being members of the legislature, something might have been said in a genaral way, buit not in a reflective manner with re ference to the governor. 1 sincerely regret that I have been tr..ught into this controversy, and I beg to take the position at once that I am not an opponent of Governor Mc Sween'y, and in mentioning the fact that I bad seen a copy of his message on Monday before the legislature met, I had no idea that it would have been referred to as in the least detrimental to the interest of Gov. McSweeney. T. C. Duncan. Union, S. C., June 1S, 1%lt. B.ARNWELL DENIES IT. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Dourier says: Mr. Barnwell was seen today and he feels very much chagrined at the men tion of his name in this connecti~n. He has never had anything to do with politics and does not want to have any thing to do with such matters, and said that he would not have anything to say for publication, and he certainly never expected what he said in a gentleman's library would get into print, correctly or incorrectly. He did not care to have anything to say for publication, but it may be stated in justice to Mr. Barn weli that he stated most emphatically that he never in all his life patronized, nor has he been in a "blind tiger," and he could not of his own knowledge say where there was one in Columbia or elsewhere. He most emphatically never has told Mr. Verner or anyone else, be says, that Governor McSweeney patronize d a "blind tiger," because he does not know asytihg about it. Hs did tell Mr. Verner that Governor Me Sweeney in common with other gentle men visited the Merchants' and Mann facturers' Club, and that he met him there, and he told Mr. Verner that if the G overnor took a drink thcrc he did not suppose he would deny it, but he certainly does not look upon a club room where gentlemen meet and talk as a "blind tiger." The testimony of the above gentle men should most effectaally dispose of the vile slanders that Patterson has been using. Xrrner will now haen to Makes the food more del RtOYAL BAKING POWOD HIS SOLEMN VOW. It Was Made Early in Life and He Wouldn't Break it. "NO. I will not violate my oath," ex 6lhdmeod the Capitol Hill man, strid in4 1up antd down the room. "It was in my extreme youth, but an oath mad" at any stage of life is sacred. a I cannot, will not disregard it!" His distressed wife clasped her hands in supplication. "But Johnnie needs it," she almost wailed. "This is the spring of the year. when the blood of children is thick and needs to be thinned, and. besides. every child ought to have some kind of spring medicine as a tonic and-" "That end of it is all right, Eucli dia," said the Capitol Hill man in a relentless tone, "but my oath goes. When, at the age of 9 years my moth er used to corral me and the rest of the kids every morning before break fast around this time of year and force down our throats a big pewter table spoonful of thick, gritty, yallery, evil tasting sulphur and molasses, and club us with fence pickets if we tried to duck and sidestep that regular morning ceremony, I made a solemn. heaven-hear-me vow that if ever I had any young ones of my own, the sulphur-and-molasses game 'ud be cut out, and that vow's going to stick! T don't care a hoot in Jackson City If Johnnie's blood's as thick as the mayonnaise dressing In a baseball magnate's head, I don't stand for no sulphur and molasses, and I have spoke!" Thus brutality shorn of one of the hereditary privileges of motherhood, the wife of the Capitol Hill buried her face in her hands and sobbed dismally. -Washington Post. Tales of the Orient. The Cadi was jogging along the highway when he met a peasant, who thought to work the gum-game on him. Forcing the tears to his eyes, the man cried out: "Alas! but I have met with a griev / . ous loss, and am Uo longer myself. My ass is dead." "So? Did he expire of old age?" "It was not so. He was still young." "Then he was overfed.". "Nor that either, 0 Ruler of Men! He fell into the water." "But didst not pull him out again?" "I did not. My wife and I got Into a dispute as to whether we should pull him out by the head or the tall, and before we could settle It the poor ass was drowned." "Just so." smiled the Cadi, "just so. Well, my friend, thou hast cause for rejoicing instead of complaint. Where thou hast lost one ass there has been a gain in two In his place, and 100 per cent profit is enough for any hon est maa." The Same Effect. "It is very odd," remarked Mr. Hub bub, -'that in Africa there Is a tribe which cannot wear clothes at all. Clothes make them sick. Isn't it strage, dear?" "Not at all," replied Mrs. Hubbub. "The same thing happens In this coun try also." "Oh, surely not. I never heard of such a thing in civilized countries." "Well, Mr. Hubbub, I can tell you that even in this great and glorious land the same phenomenon Is by no means unknown. When I see Mrs. Poindexter coming out every month or so with a fine new outfit from head to foot, her clothes make me sick make me sick;i I say, Mr. Hubbub when I reflect that you are just as able to buy me new clothes as Mr. Poindexter is to buy them for his wife, and don't." And Mrs. Hubbub dissolved in tears. -Smart Set. The Clock and the Car. "Is that clock right?" he asked after It had struck 11. "Why?" she answered. "Because if it is, I shall have plenty of time to catch the 1-1:30 car." "I remember now," she said, "that the clock Is about 20 minutes slow. If you hurry you will just about catch the car." During the 20 minutes that he stood on the corner he arrived at the painful conclusion that she didn't really love him as he longed to be loved.-Chi cago Times-Herald. Truly Rural. A truly rural lover, with a truly rural cot, Wooed a truly rural maiden all the May; Said the truly rural lover, "Truly rur al is our lot Let us marry in a truly rural way!" So a truly rural wedding and a truly rural feast Made two true truly rurals truly one: For naught truly rural truly cared they in the least, Oh, two truer truly rurals there are none! 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. See ad. and try it-never fails. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic invigorator has een used in my family andlI am per ectly satisfied that it is all, and will o all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. .-I am using it now myself. t's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ry Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all L FoWDER LRE icious and wholesomie R CO., NEW YORK. VAUDEVILLANY. How Fido Supplied the Three Missing Rolls. Orchestra gives an imitation Of an earthquake dancing rag-time in a tin shop. Enter the man with the green whiskers and the man with the bald wig and blue face, and the following conversation ensues: "Know that little dog of mine?" "The one that looks like your sis ter?" "Yes; the one-no, he doesn't look like my sister! Well, every morning I send him to the baker-" "Anti have him baked." "-And have him baked-no-I don't have him baked! I send him to the baker to get a dozen rolls for break fast. Well, day before yesterday I , sent him, and when he came back three rolls were gone. So I beat him." "To the rolls." "I beat him to the rolls-no, I didn't beat him to the rolls! I beat him with a bedslat. So I thought I would give him another trial. I thought since his licking I could trust him." "Though the baker wouldn't." "Though the baker wouldn't-of course the baker would trust him! And when he got home yesterday morning three rolls were missing again. I reached for the bedslat again-" "And the bed broke down and cried." "And the bed broke down-no, the bed didn't break down! What do you think that dog did?" "I give it up." "He laid down and rolled over three times."-Indianapolis Press. As Others See Him. She-Mr. Murkleton always agrees to everything his wife says. I hate a man like that. Why doesn't he show some spirit and try to have a mind of his own sometimes? I don't believe the man knows beans. He-You wrong him. By adhering to his system, as he does, he some times makes It impossible for her to think of anything else to try to argue about.-Chicago Times-Herald. The Small-Minded Man. . "Well," said the Small-Minded Man, "I have found out another woman's age." "How did you do it?" asked the lis tener. "Why, I asked her suddenly how many years It was since 1873." "But how did you find out her age?" "She figured it up by subtracting five from thirty-two before she thought."'-Indianapolis Press. Which Make It Best. Beanwear-The British may be hav ing the best of it just now, but I no tice the Boers captured 200 wagons, just the same. Brittan-True, and I bet that's part of Roberts's strategy. Wouldn't be surprised If those wagons were full of bicycles of different makes, which the Boers were allowed to capture so as to create dissensions in their ranks.-Philadelphia Press. Misptaced. The girl In the golf cape turned partly around to scrutinize the attire of the girl In the fur jacket, and In consequence she slipped and fell on the muddy crossing. Meanwhile the girl in the fur jacket passed on. "That wouldn't have happened If she'd had a little more rubber on her heels and a little less in her neck," she said.-Chicago Tribune. A LImit "But," we assured him solemnly, "to receive proper consideration, you do not owe enough." "1 owe," he retorted, "all that any of my friends can afford." We saw that there was Inevitable limits even to popularity, and, with drawing, wept coplously.-New York Press. Growing Cordiality. Mesheck-You must come up to my place some evening and try one of my cigars. Yawner-Thanks, but I don't smoke. "Well, come up on Thursday and have a glass of wine with me." "Thanks, I never drink." "Himmel! Then come up and see me every evening."-Life. Again the Worm Turns. "I suppose," said Mrs. Vick-Senn, her voice rising to a shrill falsetto, "you would justify the use of the dum dum bullets in that war down there in Africa. It would be just like you!" "I'd as lief be dumdumbed to death," replied her long-suffering hus band, "as to be talk-talked to death-" -Chicago Tribune. Likely to be an Acquisition. "Who are these new people that are moving into the house next door?" "I don't know, but I am sure we shall get along splendidly with them. They have just unloaded a wheelbar row and a lawn mower-Chicago Tri bune. On a Large Scale. First Foreigner-To get in with the Americans one has merely to join a church. Second Foreigner-Did you do that? "Did I? Why, I belonged to a doz en."-Life. An Unknown Tongue. The Optimist-A pure woman's heart Is like an open book. The Old One-Yes. I've often won dered what the language is it is Writ ten in--New York Press Missionaries Mreed. Rev. Dr. Leonard, secretary of the Methodist foriegn missionary society in New York, received ths followiog cablegram Friday: Uhefoo, June 15. Tien Tsin bombarded. Pekin very serious. Hopkins, Brown and King saved, gunboat. . Brown. The three men mentioned are mis ionaries. Dr. Leonard infers from the act that only those who were saved are abed, the remaining 24 missionaries in Lien Tfsin have been murdered by the B~oxers. Among them are many women, .ncluding five in the woman's foreign nissionary society and the members of :he Haynor, Pike, Hopkins and Brown