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Dr. TaImage's Reasons For Be lief in the Bible. THE GOOD ACCOMPLISHED In the World by the Scriptures as an Eviderce of Divine Origin. An Answer to Agnosticism. In the great conflict now raging in Eur~pe as in this country between Christianity and agnosticism Dr. Tal mage has taken a decided stand and in this sermon declares his unwavering belief in the divine origin of the Scrip tures; text, Matthew vii. 11, -P, men gather grapes of thorns?" Not in this country. Not in any country. Thorns stick, thoras lacerate, but all the thorns put together never yielded one cluster of Catawba or Isa bella grapcs. Christ. who was the mas ter of apt and potent illustration, is thus setting forth what you and I well know, that you cannot get that which is p!easant and healthful and good from that which is bad. If you find round, large, beautiful cluster of grapes, you know that it was produced by a good grapevine and not from a tangle of Canada thistle. Now, if I can show you that this howly Bible yields good fruit, healthful fruit, grand fruit, you will come to the conclusion it is a good Bible, and all the arguments of the skeptic against it when he tries to show it is a bad book will go overboard. "Do men gather grapes of thorns?" Can a bad book yibld good results? Skeptics with great vehemence declare that the Bible is a cruel book. They read the story of the extermination of the Canaanites and of all the ancient wars and of the history of David and Joshua, and they come to the conclu sion that the Bible is in favor of lacera tion and manslaughter and'massacre. Now, a bad book will vroduce a bad re sult; a cruel book will produce a cruel result. You have friends who have been in the habit of res ding the Bible a great many years. Have you noticed a ten dency to cruelty on their part? Have you ever heard any of them come out and practically say, "I have been read ing the story about the ctermination of the Canaanities, and I am seized upon with a disposition to cut and slash and maul and pinch and murder and knock to pieces everything I can lay my hands on?" Have your friends in proportion : they become diligent Bible students ano zisciples of the Christ of the Bible shown a 'endency toward massacre and murder ant manslaughter? Has that been your obse.vation? What has been the effect upon your children of this cruel book? Or if you do not allow the book to be read in your household, what has been the ef fect upon the children of other house holds where the word of God is hon ored? Have they as a result of read ing this cruel book gone forth with a cruel spirit to pull the wings off flies and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob birds' nests? A cruel beok ought to make cruel people. If they diligently' read it and get absorbed with its princi ples that cause must produce that ef fect. Again, infidels go on and most vehe mently charge that this Bible is an im pure book produces impure results. No amoant of money could hire you to allow your child to read an unclean book. Now, if this Bible be an im pure book, where are the victims? Your father read it-did it make him a bad man? Your mother read it-did it make her a bad woman? Your sister 15 years in heaven died in the faith of this gospel-did it despoil her nature? Some say there are 2.00,000,000 copies of the Bible in existence, some say there are 400,000,000 copies of the Bi - ble. It is impossible to get the accur ate statistics, but suppose there are 200,000,000 copies of the Bible abroad, this one book read more than any 20 books that the world ever printed, this book abroad for ages, for centuries where are the victims? Show me 1,000. Show 500 victinms of an impure book. Show me 100 despoiled of the Bible. Show me 50. Sh'ow ire N) Show me~ wo. Show me onre! T.wo hundre.1 illion copies of an impure book a nt one victim of the impuriu !0 he contrary, you know very- well ti t is where the Bible has the most power that the family institution is ost respected. You must remember also that the authors of the Bible came from differ et lands, from different ages and from ifferent centuries. They had no com unication with each other; they did not have an idea as to what was the hief design of the Bible, and yet their writings, got up from all thee? differ nt lands all these different ages and all these different centuries, coming ogether make a perfect harmony in the pinion of the very best scholars of all ands. Is not that a most remarkable act? Again, infidels vehemently charge hat the Bible is an unscientitie book. n a 'ormer discourse I showed you hat there was no collision between science and revelation, and I went from oint to point in the discussion, but ow let us have authority in this mat ter. You and I cannot give 40 or 50 or 0 years exclusively to the study or ience that some men give. Let us iave authority in this matter. Who says there is a collsion between cience and revelation? Well, Herbert pencer, Tyndall, Darwin. They say there is a discord between science and evelation; but I will bring you names fmen who have found a perfect ac-t ord between science and revelation en as much higher in intellectual haracter above those whom I havet entioned as the Aips and Mount ashington and the Himalayas are iher than the hill back of your house. Eerschel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Ross, Isaac ewton. My friends, we are in re ipetable company when we believe in he word of God-very respectable ompany. In the temple of nature there are ro orchestras, the orchestra of revela ion and the orchestra of science. The rehestra of revelation has all the mu cal instruments full strung, and it is eady for the bu:st of eternal accord.< [he orchestra of sece is only just tringing the instruments. If you will 21y wait long enough you will findi hat it is as in the oldI German cathe Irals where they 1:ave an organ at one 1 nd of the building and an organ at the I ~ther end of the building, both respond-a g to each other and making mighty nusic. So it will be in the temple of d e universe-the orchestra of revela- s ion and the orchestra of science wili spond to each other after awhile, and will be found that the roar of the th the enrth s only the pcdals of a great organ, of which the heavens are the keyboard. Now, I might, as infidels have failed to prove that the Bible is a cruel book, that the Bible is an impure book, that the Bible is a contradictory book, that the Bible is an unscientific book-I might move nonsuit in this case of In fidelity, the plaintiff, against Chris tianity, the defendant, but I will not take advantage of the circumstances, for when the skeptic goes on to say that we are a gullible people, when he goes on to say, as he often does., that the greater the improbability the more we like to believe it when he goeF on to say that the Bible is made up of a lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another there and another from some other place and that the whole thing is an imposition on the credulity of the human race. I must reply to that charge. The l;ible is made up of the Old Tes tanient and the New Testament. Let us take the New Testament first. Why do I believe it? Why do I take it to my heart? It is because it can be traced back to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle can be traced to that door, and that aisle to that door. Jerome and Ewsebius in the first cen tury and Origin ia the second century and other writers in the third and fourth centuries gave a list of the New Testament writers just exactly corres ponding with our list, showing that the same New Testament which we have they had in the fourth century and the third century and the second century and first century. But where did they get New Testament? They got it from Iren:uus Where did Irenxus get it? He got it from Polyearp. Where did Polycarp get it? He got it from St. John, who was the personal ascociate of the Lord Jesus Christ. My grand father gave a book to my father, my father gave it to me, I give it to my child. Is there any difficulty in tra cing this line? On communion day I will start the chalice at that end of the aisle, and the chalice will pass along to the other end of the aisle. Will it be difficult to trace the line of that holy chalice? No difficulty at all. This one will say, "I gave it to that one," and this one will say. "I gave it to that one." But it will not be so long a line as this to trace the New Testament. It is easier to get at the fact. But you say. "Al though this was handed right down in that way, who knows but they were ly ing imposters? How can you take their testimony?" They died for the truth of that book. Men never die for a lie cheerfully and triumphantly. They were not lying imposters. They died in triumph for the truth of that New Testament. "Well," says some one, "now I am ready to believe that the New Testa ment is from the heart of Christ, but how about the O~d Testament? Why do you believe that?" I believe the Old Testament because the prophesies foretold events hundreds and thousands of years ahead-events which after ward took place. How far can you see ahead? Two thousand years? Can you see ahead a hundred yeers? Can you see ahead five minutes? No, no! Human prophecy amounts to nothing. Here these old prophets stood thou sands of years back, and they foretold events which came accurately true far on in the future centuries. Suppose I should stand here and say to you, "Twenty-five hundred and sixty years from now, three miles and a half from" the city of Moscow, there will be an advent, and it will be in a certain fami ly, and it will be amid certain sur roundings." It would make no impres sion upon you because you know I can not forsee a thousand years or one year or one minute, and I cannot tell what is going to transpire in a land far away. But that is what these old prophets did. You must remember that Tyre and Babylon and Nineveh were in full pomp and splendor when these prophe cies, these old prophesies, said they would be destroyed. Those cities had architecture that make the houses of modern cities perfectly insignificant. Yet these old prophets walked right through th'we magnificent streets and said: "This has all got to come down. l'his is all going to be leveled." Suppose a man should stand up in hese cities today and say, "There ill be harvests of wheat and corn here these cities now stand, and these treets will be pasture for cattle." uch a man would be sent to the in ane asylum. Yet the old prophets lid that very thing. Where is Baby on today? You go and walk over the uins of Babylon and you will not find leaf or a grass blade of those splendid anging gardens, and in the summer im'e the ground actually blisters the fet of the traveler. Babylon destroyed cording to the prophecy. Where is Tyre? In the day of its omp the prophet said, "The fisher en will dry their nets where this city tands." If you should go to that lace today, you would find that literal aly. The fishermenn are drying their ets on the rocks where the city of [yre once stood. Tartar and Turk and aracen drying their nets on the rocks. Go up Chat ham street, New York, nd find the futtillment of a prophecy ade thousands of years ago. Why is t the Israelite is always distinguish ble, whether you see him in New Y'ork r Peking or Vienna or Stockholm or Lndon or Paris? The Englishman ~oes to America and after awile he loses is nationality. The American goes >o England and after awhile he loses bis nationality. The norwegian his, he Rtussian his, the Italian his, the ~paiard his, the Israelities never. hy? Because this book provided housands of years ago that the Israe tes should be scattered in all lands d that they should be kept separate, eparate, until the Lord toot them back : Jerusalem. And ye who persecute he Israelites had better look out. ['hey are God's people, and according >o the prophecy made thousands of ears ago they are distinguishable, they er kept separate until the Lord takes em to their native home. How could those old prophets foretell at? How could they know that thou uds of years ago? Was it mere hu an skil"? Could you have seen so far. aad? Could you have predicted any ine like it? Those old prophets o~ looking down in the great future ad said a M1essiah would be born in a rtain nation, in a certain tribe, in a mily, in a certain place, at a certain me, thousands of years ahead. Ages led on, ageson ages, and after awhile brist, the only one who has been lled Messiah by any great number of eople-Christ- was born, is that very ation predicted, in that very tribe, in that very family, in that very place, that very time. Could human skill ave predicted it? Does not that prov~e yond all controversions and beyond i doubt that those prophets were in ired of the Lord Almighty, looking wn in the future and seeing thou nds of years ahead occurrences to ake place, just as plainly as I see your ices this morning. "el"says some one, "now I am from the heart - Ch:ist and :t-i ready tc believe the prcphecies. The evidence is beyond all dispute. But you must remember," says my friend, "that the prophecies are only a small part of theold book. You don't expect us to believe all the old book." If you found one of your good, honest letters in an envelope with I() or 20 cruel, lying, filthy letters, how long would you allow that honest letter to stay there? In a half minute you would either snatch it out of the envelope or you destroy the whole envelope. Now, do you suppose the Lord God would allow these pure prophecies, these prophecies which you admit must have come from the hand of God, from divine inspiration-do you suppose God would allow these pure prophecies to be bound up and put in the same envelope with the book of Job, and the books of Psalms, and the book of Deutero..iomy, and the other books. if those books were not good books? Besides all this, you must remember that the most of the writers of this book were uneducated men. How can you account for the fae: that when Thomas Babington Macaular, standing in the house of parliament in London, w.Lnted to finish off a mag-nificent sentence he quoted from the fisherman of Galilee, o(r, sitting in his house, wanting to finish one of his great paragraphs of history, he quoted the wordis of the fi-hermen of Galilee.? Why is it that those unedu cated men have more iclaerce on modern times than all the scholars of antiquity*! Because they were divinely inspired, bceause God stood back of them. They were not educated and scholarly. It wi not by force of rheto ric that they triumphed, but today those humble fishermen, those unedu cated fishermen, wield more influence in all our modern cities than any 25 men living in this generation and day. They must have been inspired. There must have been a divine influence be hind them and before them, and above them. and within them. Besides that. you must remember that this book has been under fire fer centuries, and after all the bombard ment of the skeptics of all the centu ries, they have not knocked-out of this Bible a piece as large as the small end of a sharp needle. Oh. how the old book stieks together. Uusanctified geologists try to pull away the book of Genesis. They say they do not be lieve it; it cannot be there was light before ttie sun shone; it cinnot be all this story about Adam and Eve; and they pull at the book of Genesis, and they have been pulling a great while. yet where is the book of Genesis? Standing just where it stood all the time. There is not a man on earth who has ever erased it from his Bible. I think we will want the Bible in heave a I think we shall have the Bible in heaven. Oh, I want to hear David with his own voice read, "The Lord is my shep herd." I want to hear Paul with his own voice read, "Thanks be unto God that giveth us the victory." I want to hear the archangel play Paul's marsh of the ressurrection with the same tram pet with which he awoke the dead. 0 blessed book, good enough for earth, good enough for heaven. Dear old book-book bespattered with the blood of martyrs who died for its defense - book sprinkled all over with the tears of those who by it were comforted. Put it in the hand of your children on their birthday. Put it on the table in the sitting room when you begin to keep house. Put it under your head when you die. Dear old book! I press it t-> my heart, I press it to my lips. "Where shall I go?" said a dying Hindoo to the Brahmitic priest to whom he had given money to pray for his salvation. "Where shall I go after I die?" The Brahimitic priest said, "You will first of all go into a holy quadruped." "Bat," said the dying Hindoo, "where shall I go then?" "Then you shall go into a singing bird." "But," said the dlying Ilindoo, "where then shall [ go?" "Then," said the Brabmitic. "yat will go into a beau tiful flower." Tne dying Hindoo threw up his arms in an agony of solicitation as he said, "Bat where shall I go last of all?'' Thank God, this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you, tells mc, not where I shall go today, not where I shall go tomorrow, not where I shall go next year, but where I shall go last of all! ! _ _ _ _ __ _ _ Gen. Chaffee to Command. The president has assigned General Adna R. Chaffee to the command of the American military forces operating in China. General Chaffee was at the war department Wednesday receiving nstructions and will leave for San Francisco in time to sasil on the 1st of July with the sixth cavalry. This de achment sails on the Grant which has een ordered to touch at Nagrasaki for further orders. It is probable that he ship will then sail direct for Che l'oo, with General Chaffee and the ixth cavalry. G eneral MacArthur was abled Wednesday an order directing the commandingr officer of the ninth in fantry and such other forces as may be perating in China by the timre of the rant's arrival to report to General haffee on his arrival. Unless present lans change headquarters will be es ablished at Che Foo. General Mac rthur was also directed to send Cap ain Russell, of the signal corps with a etachment to Che Foo. Captain Rus ell, during the Spanish war worked in onjuction with the naval officers and e has been selected to have charge of he signal operations because of his familiarity with that work in both the rmy and navy. Dewey Predicts Victory Admiral Dewey, who has just re urned from an extended Western our, held an infromal at the war col ege at Newport, R. I., on Thursday. he admiral good naturedly discussed ational polities with the newspaper en present. When asked if he was till a presidential candidate he said e stood where he has stood all along; hat is, if the American people wanted im he was ready to accept, but he was ~iving himself no concern on the sub ct. Asked whether he would take econd place on the ticket, he said cm hatically that he would not. Speak .g of the general outlook, Admiral ewey said that William J. Bryan was articularly strong in the west, and at he believed he would be elected. Not Very Strone - The Philadelphia Record re-it'r-s at now that the liepublican vice~ residntial candidate has born on ex ibition on a larger stage thaLa his en ronment has heretofore afforded, ere is the usual outcry of disappoint ent among the idealists in politics. his nervous, grimmacing, jerking per nality, so far from being imposing,2 enches closely at times upon the ri iulous: nor could the most sanguine; vocate of the "strenuous life" find ini e candidate a suggestion of that re red power which marks all men of re statesmanlike and heroic mold-. It kingdom for a eare. You need not pay so much. ~. twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. IE IS A W INNEI New Yor k Will Go for Bryan Thiz Year. SO SAY A SCORE OF SIGNS. Alfred Henry Lewis Also Says So, and Gives His Reasons for Believing it Is True. Alfred Henry Lewis, writing from New York to the Atlanta Journal, pre diets that Bryan will carry New Y ork next fall. He says Bryan will insist on a demand being made in the plat form for free silver at 1t to I in specific terms, and that the very words of the Chicago document be given place in the coming platform, and he thinks Bryan's vishes will be carried out. Lewis says: I have made diligent search among all classes and sorts of business folk, from the day laborer and artisan to the merchant, the banker and the stock speculator of Wall street in his lair, with the one purpose of discovering their sentiment in that matter, and learn the probable effect of a reitera tion of silver at 16 to 1 on the New York vote in November To be entire ly frank, I do not believe, from all I listened to, that it will have any mal effect or indeed any effect at all. Fi nance cannot, of course, even by word tricksters, be called as Hancock called tariff, "a local issue." There is no ques tion of its general character. But in terest in finance as a topic of politics shifts with the region investigated. In some states it burns: in others it is dull and dim. This litter is the condition in New York. B3ryan's argument is at fault so far as this state is concerned. The delegation was "instructed" to vote for him at the convention, and it is blithe to obey that command, But neither the "instruction" nor its cheer ful acceptance by delegates depended or denends on his silver pose. His New York endorsement was a compli ment to his matchless genius for lead ership, and came to him because of his popularity with the people, and for that the party leaders here believe him b , in general terms and for general ja her than for specific reasons, capable of polling the most votes on election day. Interest in finance as a subject was never so warm nor so cogent in New York as in the west and south. It wasn't in 1S96; it isn't now. There are two sorts of original silver folk; the man (west) who has silver to sell and aims to promote a price, and the man (south) who, pinched for cir culating medium, seeks to expand the volume of money with free silver. New York never had silver to sell, and always had money enough. When money was scarce in the we3t and south the New York banks-and for that very reason-were stuffed with it. When the west was borrowing at 14 per cent, and her mine enterprises lagging through the low price of silver; when the south was paying 10 per cent for loans, New York was borrowing money at 3~ and 4 and at most 5 per cent. To day it would employ the day and night ailigence of the best business man to keep $1,00000 loaned on fair local se curities at 4 per cent. I cite these facts of a money condition, past and present, as the reasons why New York has not warmed and does not warm to finance as a subject. She has never been pricked by the bayonet of a money or a silver need. In 1896 the New York gold man was red faced with fear. The silver man, or he who for his Democracy should have been called so, was listless and full of sluggishness. The gold man's excitement did not rest because of any apprehension of local silver triumph. The New York gold man was afraid that the general, national silvcr sentiment might avalanche itself upon him by carrying the rest of the country. For that he trembled four years and con tributed his treasures to Hanna and fought tooth and nail. Today one finds that a change has come over the New York gold man; today he is as cold and indifferent to finance as a topic, as is that thick and thin Deomocrat, who, al ways voting the ticket. was perforce a silver man four years ago, and will be again if silver 16 to 1 is the platform. And the cause of the gold man's indif ference to finance is this: He no longer fears; he believes today that if silver 16 to 1 is put in the Democratic platform a Bryan elected thereon still there can come no change. Silver, he be ieves, come what may, is out of reach of its adherents for at least four years. And so his apprehension goes to sleep. As I east the search-light of inquiry into this concern and that of New ork's bustling humanity, I found, as 't'ited, that here at least the ques ton of silver and the platform utter aree on it would cut no great figure. i'he labor folk, those who work for day wages with their hands, arc, I found, lamost to a m tn for Bryan. And they are highly enthusiastic; they regard im as certain of victory. But neither their loyalty to Bryan nor their hopes of his coming success, base themselves on silver. They care nothing about ilver and one couldn't hold their at ention a moment while discussing it. T'hey are for Bryan because they re ard him as the poor man's candidate, nd look upon him as a fashion of labor oses with a mission to lead them into apromised land of shorter hours, steady ork and better pay. Among those not strictly of the la or class, but who may be called mer hants and other handlers of money in arge amounts, I found many Bryan en. They were McKinley men four ears ago. Now they have left him. As stated, they are not deterred by sil er, and have no longer a fear of finance efore their eyes, regarding the money jestion as settled for four years at east. And they are on other subjects and issues, decidedly against McKinley na the Republicans. Investigation ~howed three sorts or kinds of votes, rhich is one more than existed four ears ago. In 1896 there were Bryan otes and Mclxiicy votes in New York.1 \ow. as wa:s stated in a former letter, .rere are Bryan votes, McKinley votes nd anti-M1cKinley votes. This last is: ae growing vote, and each day sees it< tten and swell at the expense of the ~epublicans. The McKinley vote is ecoming decisively lean and haggard Ld pale in the face because of the leding it receives to augment and t dden the veins of the Anti-McKinley >ntingent. These last will vote for ryan in voting against McKinley. It's t that they love Bryan more, but 1 ecKinley less. These Anti-KeKinley- f es hate and fear the present adnminis-i ation to a degree not dreamed of by y normal Democrat. As I moved among the McKinley alcontcnts with intent to discover I eir objections to McKinley, when I r hatred of - dminisatioi3, I discov ered sundry matters. The Germans, Frencn, Austrians and Italians turn from McKinley because of Militarism. They are against an army, or an army increase, rather. They look on it as the beginning of what will end in that system of compulsory enlistment in the army from which they fled. Thous ands of native Americans, men of best and purest American stock, and who voted for McKinley, are now his most acrid and determined foes, because of Imperialism. I found no end of these. They regard our present antics in the Orient as little less than treason to the very spirit of American institutions as founded by the fathers. Of all issues, so called, howcver, it was plain that the subject of trusts ex cited widest concern. This wag pecu liarly truce of young men of ambition and force. "Why," as one man said to me, "Trusts in their last legitimate ex pression shut the final door on any thing like individual success. The best that a man can get out cf it is to work all his lifefor wages. It, the trust system, senteDees him to be a servant all his days. No matter how good you may become at whatever art or trade you follow, you can never grow to be an employer-never be anything but one of the employed. It is a killer to indi vidual independence, and puts shackles on one's spirt of enterprise. ILt's the feudal sy stem restored; or the padrone peon system of Mexico. The worst feature of the trust system as I look at it, is'nt the elevation of prices of goods; the worst feature of trusts is that they lower the standard of man hood." As this man talked, so do nine of ten of the young men of New York, not born to ease and riehes, feel. They are against trusts, and ther look on the Republican party and McKinley as the promoters and . ampions of trusts. For which reason, avoiding McKinley, they will vote for Bryan. ',1y search for facts, confirmed in twenty fashions, that the Democracy and Bryan are to carry this state. It is in the air, and will soon gain general advertisement by being in the general mouth. The state taken as a whole is no longer afraid of silver nor any platform of it; the state is afraid of trusts, militarism and im perialism. Also, it is aroused over the frauds and venal iniquities which have marched through the present adminis tration toe or heel, one pressing on an other in a very lockstep of corruption. '1o add to the above, and in favor of the Democracy, is the certainty of Plitt's intended treason to McKinley which each sun makes more plain. The knife is a terrible weapon of politics iE a machine state like New York. Platt can, if he will, drive it to the heart of full 50,000 votes which had else lived and voted for McKinley. And fear not but he'll do it. Revenge for the senate taking off of Quay; his own safety in the future; and his natural and jealous resentment of the apoplectic Hanna in that chair of party control which he himself should fill, will set Platt to the knife this fall with as eager a heart, and as warm a grace as ever a Bargia went a-poisoning with. This state, silver in or silver out of the platform, will go for Bryan in November, and so on every hillptop of politics say a score of signs and omens. THREW THEM OUT. The Charleston Grand Jury, as Usual, Make IFo Dispensary Cases One of the charges made against Gov. Me-Sweeney is that he does not enforce the dispensary law in Charles ton. The following from the Charles ,ton Post, of Thursday, shows that the grand jury is to blame and not Gov. McSweeney. The Post says: The throwing out by the grand jury of a number of indictments against parties charged with violating the dis pensary law by the greand jury is caus ing much comment. When the Court of General Sessions convened Solicitor Jervey handed out to the grand jury 40 cases, made out by the police depart ment against parties charged with vio lating the dispensary law. Out of the entire number not a single trae bill was returned. Because the grand jury failed to present true bills they are be ing severely criticised by some, while others are upholding them. Just what evidence was offered to the jury is not positively known, but it is said that Special Offcer Dear of the police department offered very strong testimony against several of the accused parties. It is stated that when Offier Doar concluded his testimony certain members of the grand jury congratu lated him on the straightforward state ment he had made. One of the grand jurors, it is understood, made a speech to the jury, saying that it was their duty as sworn jurors to bring in true bills on the testimony of Offcer Dear. Bat the majority ruled and "no bills" were found in every case.. While Offier Dear was being exam ined by the grand jury, it is said that one of the grand jurors asked him what he thought of the dispensary law. He replied that he was not there to express his private opinion, but to state facts, and it is said that he further stated that he had seen members of the grand jury in blind tigers. The grand juries of this county have not found a true bill in a dispensary case for two years and yet hundreds of indictments have been handed out to them. Most peo ple consider it a waste of time and money to bring up cases for violations of the dispensary law. Reed's Sarcasms. A dispsteh from New York says much comment has been caused among Re publican leaders by the attitude assumed by former Speaker Thomas B. Reed who is now a resident of that city, toward the McKmnley and Roosevelt ticket and the platform adopted by the Phila delphia convention. Not only has Mr. :Reed refrained from expressing approval >f the action of the convention, but -eports have gained currency that his3 :austicecriticism of it in conversation ith his friends have had the effect oft :urning against the ticket men who nicht other,visc have been enthtusiastici ii its sup'port. In one instane. at least, tmin who gave;$10.000O to the Rtepubli-1 ~an campaign fund four years ago has old his friends that he will give noth ng this year, attributing his change oft ieart to Mr. Rteed's influence. Mr.t iced's keen wit and biting sarcasm be ~ame famous while he occupied the peaker's chair, and the McKinley Re.. ublicans who are now finding fault s ith him assert that he is turning these I owers in private with chilling effect I tpan the administration enthusiasts. C Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 1 Pitts' Antiseptic invigorator has e een used in my family and I am per- i yetly satisfied that it is all, and will 1 .o all, you clairm for it. Yours truly, p A. B. C. Dorsey. t P. S.-I am using it now myself. r t's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur- iJ ay Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all It1 nristsa tf I sEYIFOUR's OVICIAL REPORT. He Describea the Hard Fighting of the Allied Forces. A dispatch from London says the ad venturers of the hard fighting allies ur der Admiral Seymore, their reaching Anting, 12 miles from Pekin, the de cision to retreat, the capture of rice and immense stores of modern arms and ammunition, affording material for a strenuous defense until relieved-all this is told in a dispatch from Admiral Seymour received by the admirality at midnight, which runs as follows: "Tien Tsin, June 27., via Cheefoo, June 29, 10:05 p. m.-lave returned to Tien Ttin with the forces, having been unable to reach Pekin by rail. On Jule 1: two attacks on the advanced guard were made by Boxers who were re pulsed with considerable loss to them and none on our side. Oa June 14 the Boxers attacked the train at Lang Yang in large numbers and with great determination. We repulsed them with a loss of about 100 killed. Our loss was f ve Italians. The same afternoon the Boxers attacked the British guard left to protect Lofa station. Reenforce ments were sent back and the enemy were driven off with 100 killed Two of our seamen were wounded. "We pushed forward to Anting and engaged the enemy on June 13 and June 14 infletinga loss of 175. There were no casualties on our side. Exten sive destruction of the railroad in our front having made farther advanced by r..il impossible, I decided on June 16 to return to Yank Tsun, where it was pro. posed to organize an advance by the river to Pekin. After my departure from Lang Yang two trains left to fol low on were attacked on June 18 by Boxers and imperial troops from Pekin, who lest from 400 to 500 killed. Our casualties six killed and 48 wounded. These trains joined me at Yang Tsun the same evening. "The railway at Yang Tsan was found entirely demolished and the trains could not be moved. The force being short of provisions and hamper ed with wounded compelled us to with draw on Tien Tsin with which we had not been in communication for six days and our supplies had been cut off. On June 19 the wounded; with necessaries, started by boat, the forces marching along the river. Opposition was ex perienced during the whole course of the river from nearly every village, the Boxers, when defeated in one village retiring to the next and skilfully re tarding our advance by occupying well selected positions from which they had to be forced, often at the point of the bayonet and in face of a galling fire difficult to locate. "On June 23 we made a night march; arriving at daybreak opposite the im perial armory, above Tien Tsin, where, after friendly advances, a treacherous heavy fire was opened, while our men were exposed on the opposite river bank. The enemy were kept in check by rifle fire in front, while their posi tion was turned by a party of marines and seamen under Maj. Johnson, who rushed and occupied one of the salient points, seizing theguns. The Germans, lower down, silenced two guns and then crossed the river and captured them. The armory was next occupied by the combined forces. Determined attempts to retake the armory were made on the following day but unsuc cessfully. 'Found immense stores of guns, arms and amimunition of the latest pat tern. Several guns were mounted in our defense and shelled the Chinese forts lower down. Having found am munition and rice we could have held out for some days; but being hampered with large numbers of wounded, I sent to Tien Tsin for the relieving force which arrived on the morning of June 25. The armory was evacuated and the forces arrived at Tien Tsin on June 26. We burned the armory. Casualties to date: British, killed 27; wounded 73; American, killed 4; wounded 25; F'rench, killed 1; wounded 10; Germans, killed 12; wounded 62; Italian, killed 3; wounded 3; Japanese, killed 2; wounded 3; Austrian, killed 1; wound ed 1; and Russians, killed 10; wounded Charged With Ugly Crime. Sanford Jacobi, a scion of the most prominent Jewish families ef Mont gomery, Ala., has been arrested and is in jail at New Orleans, charged with attempted rape. It is charged that Jacobi enticed an innocent girl named Lizzie Parker, to a disreptntable house and was prevented from accomplishing his purpose by the timejy arrival of the police. The girl was passing through Montgomery en route to her home at Clanton, Ala., in response to a tele gram stating that her mother was criti cally ill. She missed connection and had to remain in Montgomery over night. Jacobi found her at the depot it is said and on pretext of showing-her to a respectable boarding house, at tempted to lead her astray. When the news became known great indignation was manifested. The police did not arrest Jacobi because of the girl's re quest for fear of publicity. Mob talk was heard and Jacobi skipped town in a private conveyance, caught a freight train and went to Greenville, where he took a passenger train for New Orleans. In the meantime a mob had formed and went to Jacobi's house, but he had gone. Jacobi's arrest was demanded and a telegram was sent to New Orleans, where he was nabbed just as he stepped >ff the train. Requisition papers were ~ranted by Governor Johnston and tne ~fficer has left for New Orleans after :he man. Result Not In Doubt. Mr. Elliot Danforth a prominent Demoeratic politician of New York, in Sletter to the Atlanta Journal says: 'The outlook for Democratic success in he state and nation is excellent. The sssues so ably advocated by Mr. Bryan tre bringing to our party the support of housands who were opposed to us four 'ears ago. The conscience of the nation s with us and the people are fully roused to the dangers of a government >ased upon mnonoply and militaryismi. ?he voters are not to be misled by the ry of prosperity. We were assured by he leader of the Republican party that he establishment of the gold standard r'ould result in permanent and unparal eled prosperity, but the record shows hat since the enactment of the gold tandard law by the present congress usiness failures in the United (tates ave been larger in number and amount f liabilities than during any similar eriod since the Republican panic of S73. The paramount question of the ampaign upon which we are entering whether this nation shall be a repub .c or an empire. fhe Democratic arty takes its stand upon the declara on of independence and the constitu on. The result is not in doubt. The cople will deciare for tbo principles of efferson and for the mlaintainance of 1e republie by the eiection of Mr. PRACTICAL The Demand of the Times. St MacFeat's School of Sho: COLUMB: W. H. MacFeat, Court E Terms reasonable. The Bubbling Caldron. The Chicago actress, seized by the Cannibal horde, struggled appallingly. "Unhand me, villains!" she shrieked. "Not on your life!" observed the royal presence. "Chop off her toot sies. They would only keep the cover off, anyhow." From which It appears that the vo cabulary of the footlights Is not un susceptible of unsophisticated miscon struction.-New York Press. The Charge Denied. First Passenger-That Is what you might call a musical conductor, eh? Second Passenger-Naw. He's whistling ragtime. In the meantime the car whirled merrily on, bearing Its human freight toward home and hot sausages, joy ous greetings of happy little ones and complaints about the delinquencies of the grocer and the cook.-Indianapolis Press. One Thing in Their Favor. "I'll give the Boers credit for one thing," remarked the engineer of the armored train, as several more shells banged against the armor, "their gun ners would make ideal suburban citi zens." "How's that?" inquired the fireman. "Why, they never miss a train!" re torted the engineer, as the baggage car left the track.-Puck. Had Lived In the City. Conductor-"Your ticket is for Lawnville, and we don't stop until we get to Trenton. This is the lightning express." Surburban Resident--"All right. When we get to Lawnville I'll Jump. I've got off of street cars many a time when the driver was homeward bound on his last trip."-New York Weekly. Terrible to Contemplate. 'Tate has drawn us together!" he cried passionately. "Then it is not so bad," she said, with a sigh of relief. "I thought you were going to say some amateur cray on artist had drawn us together." Chicago News. Hence the Expression. The Cliff Dweller had returned home intoxicated, and, making a mis step, slipped off the crags and been dashed to pieces on the rocks, hun dreds of feet below. "Alas!" said a neighbor, "he has fallen from his high estate!" So fie Did. "Did you hear the verdict that fool jury gave on the death of that man who was drowned?" "No; what was it?" "They said they had come to the conclusion that he had died with water on the brain."-Phladelphia Bulletin. A Feminine Exception. 'Well, 'ignorance is bliss,' you know." "Indeed it isn't. When I want to know something about somebody, and can't find out about it, I nearly lose my mind."-Chicago Record. Suspiciously Docile. "Is the little Jones boy bright?" "I don't think so; he minds every word his father and mother say to him."-Detroit Free Press. Specific. "I wonder how he was cured of the political fever?" "By the mud-bath treatment, I be lieve! "-Detroit Journal. THE L.EADER lIDEED. 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