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MISSION OF DORCAS Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson from a Nobis Woman's Life. SELF SACRIFICING WORK. Helpful Words For Those En gaged in Alleviating Hurman Distress. Assured of a Rich Reward Hereafter. Dc. Talmage. wh is i northern Eu ope, has f.rwardtd the followin_ reoj'rt of a .erun in whi he utters helpful words - L :"' o a:e engaged in alleviati" . CL and shows low such wr r i' crowned at the last: t xt. "And all the widow e'd by hiu weepiog and showir.: hi:1 t?' cnts and garments which Dbrsa made vhile she was with them." Joppa is a most absorbing c:ity of the orient. Into her harbor once fi atcd the rafts of Lebanon cedar from which the temples of Jerusalem were built, Solo mon's oxen drawing the log through the town. Here Napoleon had 5uU prison ers massacred. O'e of the most magni ficent charities of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a wo man with her needle embroidering namre ineffaceably into the eneficence of the world. I see her sitting in yonder home. In the doorway and around about the building and in the room where she sits are the pale faces of the poor, She listens to their plaint, she pities their woe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufaetur-d articles to suit the bent form of this invalid woman and to the cripple that comes crawling on his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one. she gives sandals to that one. With the gifts she mingles prayers and tear. and Chris tian encouragement. Then she goes out to be greeted on the street corners by those whom she has blessed, and all through the street the cry is heard, "Dorcas is coming!" The sick look up gratefully into her face as she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the lost and the abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gentle voice, as though an angel had addressed them, and as she goes out the lane eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about her brow and a trail of glory in her pathway. That night a half paid shipwiight climbs the hill and reaches home and seas his little boy well clad and says, "Where did these clothes come from?" And they tell him, "Dorcas has been here." In another place a woman is trimming a lamp. Dorcas bought the oil. In another place a family that had not been at table for many weeks are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought bread. But there is a sudden pause in that woman's ministry. They say: "Where is Dorcas? Why, we haven't seen her for many a day. Where is Doreas?" And one of these pocor people goes up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solv'ed. All through the haunts of wretchedness the news comes, "Dorcas is sick !" No bulletin flashing from the palace gate t lling the stages of a king's disease is more anxiously waited for than the news from this benefactress. Alas, for Joppa there is wailing, waiiing! That voice which has uttered so many cheerf'ul words is hushed; that hand which has made so many garments for the poor is cold and still; the star which had poured light into the midnight of wretchedness is dimmed by the blindi'ng mists that go up from the river of death. In every forsaken place in that town, wherever there is a sick child and no balm, wher ever there is hunger and no bread, wher ever there is guilt and no commisera tion, wherever there is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing looks and streaming eyes and frantic gesticulations as they cry, "D~oroas is dead!" They send for the apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of the place, stopping with a tanner of the name of Simon. Peter nrges his way through the crowd around the door and stands in the presence of the dead. What demonstra~ton o.f grief nll about him! Here sr"d om of the poor people, who show the garmzenrts whieh this poor woman bei' ;... f 'r them Their grief cannot b~e spj s.- d. T v apostle Peter wants to perforai a acle. lHe will not do it amid the a cited crowd, so he orders that the whole room be cleared. The door is shut against the populace. The apostle stands new with the dead. Oh, it is a serious moment, you know, when you are along with a lifeless body!1 The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the life less form of this one all ready for the sepulcher, and in the strength of him who is the resurrection he cries, "Tabitha, arise!'' There is a stir in th'e fountains of life; the heart iut ters; the nerves thrill; the cheek flashes; the eye opens; she sits up! We see in this subject Dorcas t he disciple, Dorcas the benefactress, Dabreas the lamented, .Doreas the resur rected. If I had not seen that word disciple in my text, I would have known this woman was a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart which is net chorded and strung by divine grace. Before I show you the needle work of this woman I want to show you her regeneratea heart, the source of a pure life and of all Christian chari ties. I wish that the wives and meth ers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate Dorcas in her dis cipleship. Before you cross the thres hold of the hospital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of to. morrow, I charge you in the name of God and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day, ()women, that you attend to the first, last and greatest duty of your life-the seeking for God and being at peace with him. When the trumpet shall sound, there will be an uproar and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Amid the rising of the dead and amid the boiling of yonder sea and amid the live, leaping thunders of the flying heavens calm and placid will be every woman's heart who hath put her trust in Christ--calm notwithstanding all the tumult, as though the fire in the heavens were only the gildings of an autumnal suneet, as though the peal of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as though the awful voices of the sky were but a group of friends bursting through agateway at eventime with laughter and shonting,"Dra the disciple!'' Would God that every Mary and Martha wou~ a s day sit down at the feet of Jesus: Further, we see Iboreas the benefac tress. History has told the story of the crown; epic poet has sung of the sword; the pastoral poet, with his verses full of the redolence of clover tops and a r.stle with the silk of the corn, has sang t praire of the plow, I teli the praises of the needle. From the fig leaf robe prepared in the gar den of Eien to the last stitch taken on the iarmcnt for the poor the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, generosi ty and benefaction It adorned the gir dle of the high priest, it fashioned the curtains in the ancient tabernacle, it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon it provided the robes of Qaeen Eliza bet, and in high places and in low places, by the fire of the pioneer's back log and under the flash of the ehande ier. cycrwhere, it has clothed naked ness, it has preaehed the gospel, it has overeome hosts of penury and want with the warery of "Stitch, stitch, stit: The operatives hare found a ' by it, and through it, the S empKOyer are construct he greatest trunphs in all an, I Set down the con te ncodle. I admit its crimes cruelties. It has had more I etr7 than the fire; it has punctured the eye; it has piereed the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; it has sent madness into the brain; it has filled the potter's field; it has pitched whole armies of the suff'.ring into crime and wretchedness and woe. But now that I am talking -f Doreas and her minimiis to the poor, I shall speak only of the charities of the needle. This woman was a representative of all those who uIake garments for the desti tu'e, whoknit sacks f-:.r the barefooted, who pprepare banduges for the lacerated, who fix up boxes of cl thing for mis :ionaries, who go into the asylums of the sufring and destitute, bearig that gospel which is sight for the blind and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man leap like a hart and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contra-st between the practical benev o&ence of this woman and a great deal of the charity of this day! This wo ma:n did not spend her time idly plan ning how the poor of the city of Jop pa were to be relieved; she took her ne-cdie and relieved them. She was not like those persons who sympathize with imaginary sorrows, and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his basket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rous ing speech on the benevolent platform and goes out to kick the beggar from the step. crying, "Hush your miserable howling!" Sufferers of the world want not so much theory as practice; not so much smiles as shoes, so much tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread, not so much "God bless you!' as jackets and frocks. I will put one earnest Christian man hard working, against five thousand mere theorists on the subject of chari ty. There are a great many who have fine ideas about church architecture who never in their life helped to build a church. There are men who can give you the history of Buddhism and Mo hammedanism who never sent a farth ing for evangelization. There are wo men who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world, who never had the courage, like Dorcas, to take the needle and assault it. I am glad that there is not a page of the world's history which is not a reco:d of female benevolence. God says to all lands and people, Come now and hear the widow's mite rattle down into the poor box. The Princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the famine stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife of L'ouis VI1[ of France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly incarcerated in the prisons, went out amid the rabble and took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prisoa door, and out came the prisoners. Q ieen Maud, the wife of Henry I, went down amid the poor and washed their sores and administered to them cordials. Mrs. detson, at Matagords, appeared on the battlefield while the missiles of death were flying around and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of the civil war in America who has not heard of the woman of the sanitar; and Christian comm~ssions or tise fact that before the smoke had mej~ up from Gettysburg and South Miountain the women of the north met the women of the south on the battlefield, forgetting all their ani mosities while they bound up the wounded and closed the eyes of the slain? Dorcas, the benefactress. 1 come now to speak of Dorcas, the lamented. When death struck down th:e g.>od woman, oh, how much sor r;w there was in the town of Joppa! I s ppose there were women there with larger fortunes, women, perhaps, with handsemer faces, but there was no grief at their departure like this at the death of IDorcas. There was not more tur moil and upturning in the Mediterra nean sea, dashing against the wharfs at that seaport, than there were surgings to and fro of grief because Doreas was dead. There are a great miny who go out of life and are unmissed. There may be a very largu i neral, there may be a great many carriag-:s and a plumed hearse, there may be high sounding eulogiums, the bell may toll at the cemetery, there may be a very fine mar ble shaft rears '3 over the resting place, but the whole thing may be a falsehood and a sham. The church of God has lost nothing the world has lost nothing, the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated. It is only a grum bier ceasing to find fault. It is only an idler stopped yawning. It is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his wine cellar, while on the other hand no useful Christian leaves this world with out being missed. The church of God cries out like the prophet, "Howl. fir tree, for the cedar has fallen!' Widowhood comes and shows the garments which the departed had made. Orphans are lifted up~ to look into the caln face of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourning-mourning because Dorcas is dead. When Josephine of France was carried out to her grave, there were a great many men and women of pomp and pride and position that went out after her, but I am most affected by the story of history that on that day there were ten thousand of the poor of France who followed her coffin, weeping and wai-e until the air rang again, because wen they lost Josephine they lost their last earthly friend. Oh, who would not rather have such obsequies than all the tears that were ever poured in the lach ryals that have been exhumed from an cient cities? There may be no mass for the dead; there may be no costly sar cophagus; there may be no elaborate mausleum, but in the damnp cellars of the city and through the lonely huts of the mountain glen there will be mourn in, mourning, mourning, because Dor c~s is dead. " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; they rest from their la bors, an~d their works do follow them." I speak to you of Dorcas the resur rected. The apostle came to where she was and said, "Arise, and she sat up:" In what a short compass the great writer put that "She sat up!' Oh, what that town en tIe apemle b;ot_: Her out among c3: Lid friends ,c.. the tears of j4 must have started What a clapping of hands there must have been! What singinc! What laughter! Sound it all thro-gh that lane! Let all Joppa hear it! Dlreas is resurrected! You and I have seen the same thing many a time, not a dead body resusci tited, but the deecased Coming up again after death in the good accomplished. If a man labors up to 50 years of age, servieg God, and then dies we are apt to think t:at his earthly work is done. . Nis influence on earth will con tinue till the world ceases Services for Christ never stop. A Christian woman toils for the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties, through many self deuials, with prayers and tears, and then she die. It i. 15 years since the went anay. Now the spirit of God de-eends upon that church, hundreds of souls Land up and confess the faith of Christ. has that Chris:ian woman, who went away 15 years ago, nothing to do with these things? I see the tlwer ing out of her noble heart. I hear the echo of her footsteps in all the songs over sins forgiven, in all the prosperity of the church. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dor cas is resurrected! After awhile all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After making gar ments for others, some one will make a garment for them; the last robe we ever we ar-the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphan age. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy. I do not know where you will sleep, nor what your epitaph will be, but there will be a lamp burning at that tcub, and an angel of God guaroing it, and through all the long night no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep or.! Soft hbd, pleasant ahadosts, un disturbed repose! Sleep o ! Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep From which none ever make to weep! Then one day there will be a sky rending and a whir of wheels and the fi ash of a pageant. armies marching, chains clanking, banners waving, thun ders boom Dg, and that Christian wo man will rise from the dust, and she will be suddenly surrounded-sur rounded yb the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surrounded by the wounded souls to whom she had administered. Daughter of God, so strangely surrounded, what means this? It means that reward has come, that the victory is won, that the crown is ready, that the banquet is spread. Shout it through all the crumbling earth. Sing it through all the flying besvens Dorcas is resurrected! In 1855, when some of the soldiers came back from the Crimean was to London, the queen of England distrib uted am ng them beautiful medals call ed Crimean medals. Galleries were erected for the two houses of parlia ment and the royal family to sit in. There was was a great audience to wit ness the distribution of the medals. A colonel who had lost both feet in the battle of Inkerminn was pulled in on a wheel chair; others came in limping on their crutches. Then the queen of England arose bofore them in the name of her government and uttered words of commendation to the officers and men and distributed those medals, inscribed with the four great battlefields-Alma, Balakiva. Inkermann and Sevastopol. As the queen gave these to the wound ed men and the wounded efficers the bands of music struck up the national air, and the people, with streaming eyes, j iined in the song God save our gracious queen! L rog live our noble queen: God save the queen! And then they shouted, "HIuzza, huz za!' O, it was a proul day for those returned warriors! But a brighter, better, and gladder day will come when Christ shall gather those who have toiled in his serv ee, good soldiers of Jesus Christ. lie shall rise before them, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven he will say, "Well done, good and faithful servant," and then he will distribute the medals of eternals victory, not inscribed with works of righteousness which we have done, but with those four great battle fields dear to earth and dear to heaven -Bethelhem, Naz ireth, Gethsemane, Calvary! THE CHINESE DEFEA TED. The Allied Forces Capture the City of Tien Tsin. After another pitched battle the al lied forces captured the city of Tien Tsin. The city was occupied by the international troops who found dead Chinese lying about the streets in hun dreds. Though the taking of the city will have the thect of discouraging the Boxers, the total loss to the foreigners is thought to be 1,200 dead and wou-nd ed. The Chinese is said to have been over 3,000. The following additional detai:, the allied forces' attack on the native city city of Tientsin reached here to day from the Associated Press corres pondent with the allies: "Tientsin, Friday Midnight. After a day of hard fighting and having lain for hours in the shallow, hastily dug trenches, futll of water, and suffering from hunger and thirst, the two battalions of the Ninth Infantry that participated in the attack on Tientsin retired under cover of the darkness, the British sailors as sisting them to withdraw by firing vol leys to cover of their retirement. The Americans brought out all of their wounded under a terrific fire. The total loss of the Americans was 140. A report has been forwarded by Count von Usedom, captain of the German second class cruiser Hertha, of the capture of the native city of Tientsin by the allted foroes. The re port says: "Scare'.y any resistance was experienced when the Americans, British and Japanese finally stormed the walled native city on the afternoon of July 14. Fighting was still in progress on the east sidc of the town, where the Russians were trying to seize a Chinese camp and citadel." Wants to Fight. The suggestion comes from Macon that the time is now ripe for the col ored washerwomen of the So-uth t te scores with the Chir-se. who have invaded their sphere of i l and largely sup-erseded then; n a ui ness which had been peuar.ly their own from a time whence the memn ory of man runneth not to the contrary. In Macon, a day or two ago, according to the News, a big, fat, ebon-hued washerwomen pith a bundle of clothes on her head, was heard to say that if the United States government would take women as soldiers, she would vol unteer and go to fight the Chinese. and that she knew of a number of others who would do the same thing. "We kin git up six cumpnies in Macon," she said, "an' I know I kin whip a whole passle o' dem Chinamens; dat's int wha I Tkin." IMURDEROUS INTENT Of Kentucky Republicans Being B-ought Out in Court PLANS TO KILL GOV. GOEBEL. Governor Taylor Furnished Some of the Money Used to Bring { in the Murderers to Frankfort. In the trial of Caleb Powers charged with complicity in the murder of Gov. Goebel, which has been in progress for several days at Frankfort, Ky., John A. Black, a banker and Republican of prominence. was the first witness on Wednesday. He said Powers came to him in January to advise him as to the propriety of the no ,untain organization which he said Powers was getting up. "I asked Powers," said witness, "what sort of a crowd he was getting up and he said he was organizing an armed mob to go to Frankfort. I dis couraged this and told him it would in jure the Republican party, would be a stigma on our end of the State and ought to be abandoned. Powers, how ever, insisted that the mob should be formed. His idea was that it would intimidate the legislature." Back, continuing, said: "I saw Pow ers later and again remonstrated against the mountain mob going to Frankfort Powers told me it was being formed with the approval of Governor Taylor, Finley and other Republican leaders at Frankfort. Finley also came to me and endeavored to get me to cooperate with them. I protested bitterly. Pow ers became very angry with me on ac count of the position I took I tried to dissuade them from organizing the dirty band and told him to send good citizens, people of influence, if any." A check from Chas. Finley to the Louisville and Nashville railroad for $1,000 for transportation of the men to Frankfort was produced by Black in re -se to a question from the prosecu W. H. Culton, who is under indict ent as an accessory to the killing of .,vernor Goebel, was called next. Counsel for the defense raised a o'.int against the competency of Culton . a witness, he being under indiet went along with Powers and others as . conspirator and not having been tried. FUhe jury was excluded during the argu ment of the point. Judge Cantrill ruled that while at -omon law Powers could not testify tiat rule was abrogated under the law ,f this State and that Culton is a com petent witness, the right to testify be ing a personal privilege The court instructed Culton that he might or might not testify as he desired and if he did so, he was not compelled to tell anything that would criminate himself. Culton replied that he was testifying of his own free will. Culton said he attended a confrerence at Frankfort in January at which Pow ers and others were present and the matter of bringing mountain men to the State capital was being discussed. Hamp Howard, Frank Cecil and oth er mountain men were asked by Powers how many they could bring from Har Ian, Bell and other counties. They promised to bring from 50 to 200 from each of the counties. Pow ers said, according to the witness, that when the men arrived at Frankfort they would give the Democratic legislature 30 minutes in which to settle the con tests, "and if they did not settle it in that time they would kill every one of them." Culton continued: "The mountain men arrived in Frankfort, January 25. They numbered from 1,000 to 1.200 men. Those who carried guns had them etack ed in the t fli e of the commissioner of agriculture and each man was given a tag corresponding with a number on his gun. After holdiog the meeting in the State house yard, the larger parr of the crowd was sent home." Culton said Henry Youtsey told hi'. he had found a way GJoebel could be killed and no one found out who did it. Youtsey said it could be done from the secretary of state's offibe, and showed some steel bullets. Witness told Yout sey such a thing should not be done. Ex-Gov. Bradley had told witness of hearing that Goebel was to be killed, and said it must not be done. Witness saw Youtsey again and the latter said the idea had been abandoned. Powers, the witness alleged, distri buted money among the various cap tains who were to bring the mountain eers to Frankfort. He did not know whence the money came. He declared 4; .v Taylor furnished him (Culton) the inmey to bring the Jackson county -..w i Witness said GJoy. Taylor did no)t w ant thbe -nountain men to go home. He w..or ;' B rry Howard and others, at Taylor's ii~n.-, and told them the governor wanted them to remain and not go home as Powers wished. On the day of the Van Meter-Berry contest in the legislature the witness said Taylor sent orders by him to assist Adjt. Gen. Dixon to have the troops in the arsenal ready to be called cu: at a1 moment's notice. After the assassination Culton said Powers came to him at~d told him to write to the par ties who were in con ference and tell them they had better be very careful and do no talking, as they were liable to be connected with the murder. Witness told him it would be dangerous to write, and Powers said l'e would do it himself. The prosecu tion produced a box of cartridges for the witness to inspect. Culton said the cartridges were like those Youtsey showed him when talking about killingi Goebel. Powers gave witness badges for the< mountain men who remained in Frank fort, so they could distinguish their< own men from others. Culton dec'ared that while in j1il with Powers at Frankfurt bwers begged him iat i. go ou the witness sand i: u.- barn of his (Culton's) :-oton! for tbad. Witness told Powvers he wanted to get bail, as his family needed him. Powers told him he would see to it ~ that his family was provided for if wit- ~ ness would agree not to go on the stand.C Witness refused. 'is it not true," asked Attorney ~ wens, for the defense, "that you used over $1,000 belonging to the funds in your charge while a clerk in the audi tor's cffie and that Auditor Stone. was compelled to make your shortage 1 good?"f "It is not true. I was not short, and id Auditor Stone did not have to pay any thing on my account. There was a question about the legality of some I claims allowed in my department." r; CM1+on wa as1,ed if he had not been d indicted for ftcgefy in Jaekson county. He answered that he was indicted for the technical offense of signing another man's name to a petition for the build ing of a new court house. Witness was asked about visiting Col. Campbell and ethers of the prose cution. He denied that he had been promised immunity. In becoming a witness in the Powers case he was following the advice of his father-Judge Culton. Ir. Owens asked how it happened that the witness, although in jail at Frankfort, is here merely under guard. Culton said the commonwealth consented that he might remain under guard appointed. A colloquy followed, the defense at tempting to show intimicy between Culton and the prosecution and that a discrimination was being made between Culton and the other defendants. A number of questions were asked by the defense to show that Culton's evidence is now at variance with that given in his application for bail at Frankfort. During the severe fire of interroga tives on cross examination of Culton, the defendant, Powers, sat with his eyes riveted on the witness. Culton was asked to again relate the conv;rsation between him and ex Gvv. Bradley regarding a report that Goebel was to be killed. Culton said Bradley told him he understood 12 men had been picked for that purpose and said: 'That must not be done under any circumstances." Culton was asked if powers did not come to him after the assassination and ask him if he knew anything that would lead to the discovery of the as sassin. Witness could not recall such a conversation. Culton concluded his testimony at 2:30, having been in the witness box a total of over seven hours. MORE DAMAGING TESTIMONY. Miss Annie Weist, of Louisville, State Auditor Sweeney's stenographer, testified that Henry Youtsey came into her office the day of the Van Metre Berry contest and told her she would better leave the state house, as trouble was likely to occur. Youtsey had a rifle in his hand at the time. Shortly after the shooting Assistant Secretary of state Matthews stationed two men with guns at the door of the building with orders to allow no one to enter or leave the building. Robert Noaks, a railroad conductor, was called. Noaks said John and Ca leb Powers and Chas. Finley conferred with him in November after the elec tion relative in bringing armed men to Frankfort at the time of the meeting of the State election commission board. They told him they wanted him to bring as many men as he could, and that when they reached Frankfort they should act in such a manner as to give the governor a chance to call out the militia. The object was explained to the witness as an effort to intimidate the election commissioners. Noaks told of being asked by Caleb Powers to get a company of militia composed of men who would fight. He also asked Noakes to get smokeiss pow der cartridges. He secured a company and it was mustered in. Then Powers directed him to charter two trains and bring his company to Frankfort. Chas. Finley objected and warned Noaks not to do that, and proposed to hire the trains. Noaks' next statement created a sensation. He was asked: "Did Powers ever say anything to you about Goebel?" "Yes, he was on my train one day and said: 'The contests won't amount to anything and when Goebel is dead and in h- there is not another man in the State who can hold his party to gether.'" "Finley sent us a train from Louis ville, which carried the men on Jan. 25. At Richmond, Culton got on the train and told us when we arrived at Frankfort we should say we were going to petition'the legislature. I told the boys to carry their guns as naturally as if hunting, and not in a military posi tion. After we got to the State house John Powers told me to stand closer to the executive building, as I might get hurt. He said: 'Some of our men are are upstairs and when Goebel and those other fellows come in they are going to do the work for them.' &I told him this must not be done. He told me to keep cool. I went back into the secretary of state's office. Ualeb Powers said: 'Bob, I understand you have two men in your company who would kill a man if you wanted them to do it.' "I told him I did not believe I had mech a man, and he mentioned Chad well and Jenes. I told him I did not believe they were men of that kind. rhat afternoon, when the men were being sent home, Powers again told me to keep 10 or 12 of our best men and :o keep Chadwell and Jones. My mili tary company was taken with me. hey wore citizens clothes with their 2niforms under them. We were told by Lowers to do this, so we would be ready for military service. WV. H1. Cul :on told me I must keep six of my men nder arms all the time. I went to As istant Adjt. Gen. Dixon and told uim I wanted to turn over my company is I had become satisfied they wereg'go .ng to seat Goebel as governor and I did 2ot want to serve under him. "Thxun told me not to be discour iged, as Goebel would not be governor. [ was tired and asked Po wers how long his was going on. He said not much onger, as GoebAl would be killed, and hat would settle it. 1 saw Gov. Taylor hat morning. I went into his office md took my pistols off and put them oto a bookcase. I passed some words ith him at that time." Sarcasm From the Pulpit. "Bruddren and sistahs," sternly said good old Parson Wooliman after the :ollection had been taken up upon a ecent Sabbath moraing, "before the it was done parsed I expounded the equest dat de congregation contribute cadin to deir means, and I sho ex >ectorated dat yo' all would chip in nagnanimously. But now, upon ex minin de collection, I finds that de oncocted amount contributed by de rhole posse ob, yo' am only the signifi ant arti p'ililanimous of sixty-free enis. A'id at dis junctson dar ain't o' casion for yo' all to look at Brudder ~romecr what done circumambulated de at around, in no such ausspicious m mn er, for, in de fust place, Brudder romer ain't dat kind of a man, and, in he socond place, I done watched him ikea hawk all de time muhself. No. ixty-free cents was all dat was flang in, nd I dess wants to say dat. in humble pinion, in stead ob contributin accaw in toyo' means, yo' all contributed ecawdin to yo' meanness. De choir ill now fayor us wid deir reg'lar relodiousness." Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic invigorator has een used in my family and I am per etly 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. l's doing me good.-Sold by l'he Mur iy Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all HE WAS A MASON. Pathetic End of a Man Who Had Started for Alaska. The Atlanta Journal says Mrs. A. L. Delkin, of that city, got recently an interesting letter from her husband, "Tony" Delkin, en route to Cape Nome, Alaska. It bore date June 10th and was mailed at Unalaska which is about 1,500 miles, half way between Seattle and Cape Nome. The letter contained an incident which illustrates the brotherhood of man. Among the vessels making for Cape Nome was "The Senator." On board was a steerage passenger from San Diego, California, bound for the gold fields to struggle for a fortune. While the ship was wrapped in a thick fog this man fell sick and died. To escape the fog the captain struck for the open sea. But meeting great blocks of flort ing ice which threatened the destrue tion of the vell, "The Senator" was forced to put into Unalaska. It was at first determined to bury the body of the poor dead steerage passenger, a stranger to all on board, in the sea. But a search for his effects showed $1.63 in his pockets, every cent he had on earth, but it showed more. A solied, crumpled piece of paper proved the man to have been a Mason. On the scores of ships loaded down with passengers is the "madrace for wealth" which the ice packs forced into Unalaska there were upwards of 10, 000 people among whom were many Masons. Cold in death the poor steerage pas senger found not a grave in the sea that's wild. He was among brothers. They raised $50 in a twinkling and had the pallied form embalmed. Five hundred persons drew up in line before a lone grave at Unalaska. Towels, handker chiefs, pieces of cloth, anything, were fashioned into the form of Masonic aprons. And there on the barren coast the brothers of the dead stood in silent sorrow about the new made grave and when the mortal part of the poor steer age passenger had been tenderly laid in the cold embrace of mother earth. The brothers brought armsful of wild f.wers of the west and crowned the humble mound. They sold the watch and other effects of the dead for $200 and sent the money to the late home of the nameless stranger at San Diego. Many a sad, wild story of the ar gauants of Alaska has come out of the far and frigid northwest, but never a one which appeals so touchingly to the heart as this, the simple story of the brother who died on the troubled deep and the brothers who tenderly laid him to rest, and crowned his lone grave by the sea that's wild the wild flowers of the west. This affecting incident recalls the closing lines of Tom Moore, Ireland's sweetest poet, on Robert Emmett; with slight paraphrase: "They made him a grave where the sunbeams rest, Where they promise a glorious mor row They'll shine o'er his sleep like a smile from the west From that lonely shore of sorrow." SaITE CLATON. lNames of the Victims The following are the names of the foreign and attaches murdered at Pekin: United States-Edwin H Conger, Minister; H G Squires, Secretary of Legation; W E Bainbridge, Second Secretary; F D Cheshire, Interpreter; Mrs. Mi S Woodward and Miss lone Wood ward, of Chicago, were guests of Mr. and Mr . Conger. Great Britain-Sir Claude M Mc Donald, Minister; H G 0 Bax Ironside, First Secretary of Legation; H G N Dering, Second Secretary; H1 Cockburn, Chinese Secretary; (Olive Bisham, Honorary Attache; G F Browne, Mlili tary Attache; Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Bushel Germany-Baron Von Ketteler, Minister; Dr. Von Prittwitz and Dr. Von Gaifron, Seretaries of Lsgation; Baron Von der Goltz, Secretary and In preter; H. Cordes, Second Interpreter; 0 Felsenan, Chancellor. Russia-al de Giers, Minister; B Koupeoski, First Secretary of Lega tion; B Evreinow, Second Secretary; P Ponow, First Interpreter; N Kolessow, Second Interpreter. France-S Pichon, Minister; --- d'Authoard, First Secretary; H. Ledue, First InterprecteT; -- Vidal, Military Attache. Japan-Baron Nishi, Minister; Isii Kikoujiro, First Secretary. Spain-B J1 De Cologan, Minister. [taly-Mamquis Salvago Raggi, Minis ter. Austro-Hungary-Boron Czikan Von Wahlborn, M~inister, Dr. A Von Rosthorn, Secretary of Legation. 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Write for free samplebottle, which will be sent, repaid to Times readers, describe imptoms and personal free medicaf dvice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Watch Enssia. A special to New York Journal from hanghai says Russia is secretly nego tiating with Prinoe Tuan. The next step is to in vie the czar to restore order in China. It will be represented to hristendom that the empress dowager erself actually ordered the 31audar f the envoys. When Russia invades hina her forces will be joined by rince Tuan's troops. Li Hung Chang, there is little doubt, is also acting in onert with Tuan. The Chinese Side. The Augusta Chronicle says: "So ~alled Christian Americans who clamor or blood and vengence against the hinese forget that European nations; y robbing China of territory, forcing ~oncessions, debauching with opium or gain, and threatening dismember nent are responsible for present cal ABSOKLYE) Makes the food more di lOYAL SAJON PC Republican Hyprocrites. Republican newspapers and Republican conventions have expiated with fine show of in dignation upon the "outrage" perpetrated by those southern states which have so amended their constitutions that the bulk of their Negro vote will be dis qualified. Under the federal constitution, each state has the right to prescribe the qualifica tions of its voters. Massachu setts does it in her educational test. Rhode Island did it for many years in the provision that a voter must own real estate to a certain value, Connecticut has long required that the voter mast be able to read and inter pret intelligently any section of the state constitution, and recently the additional require ment that the reading must be in the English language has been imposed. The state of Oregon, over whose "first gun" in the campaign of this year there was so much jubilation. has gone much further in its' discrimination against the Negro than any southern state has ever proposed to go. The Oregon constitution recently adopted denies all the rights of citizenship to Negroes and mu lattos. This is a relic of the ante-bellum constitution of Ore gon, but the fact that it was in serted in the draft of the new constitution and endorsed at the I polls by a great majority shows how the people of Oregon feel toward the negro. Of course, says the Atlanta Journal, from which paper we get the above, it is all right for a good Republi can state like Oregon to disfran chise the Negro just as the shooting of Negro laborers in Republican Illinois was so pro per that a Republican governor practically endorsed it. The Republican idea of right and wrong to the Negro is deter mined entirely by locality and the political complexion of the community in question. Trying to Dodge It. In his speech of acceptance of the Republican nomination for president Mr. McKinley de clares the issue of the campaign is free silver, and he declares the people must again defeat the Democrats and uphold the national honor. He places the money question to the front and takes credit for prosperity. The president says the party will hold fast to its Philippine policy. He ignores imperialism and shows clearly he wants to fight on the issues of 1896, with silver to the front. This Speech shows, as the Augusta Herald says, that "the Republican party has already become desperate in its efforts to avoid being on the defensive in the political campaign that is now opening up. It is trying to hide the real issue by endeavoring to insist that money is that which is be ing fought over, and by such beautiful phrases as 'Don't let them scuttle the ship!' 'Don't let them haul down the stars and stripes!' The Democrats refuse to permit this. They will force militarism and imperialism to the forefront and will picture the fraud, greed and favoritism to which the republic is tending, and under which the people, to some extent, are now living." The Republicans know what the verdict of the people will be unless the real issue in the cam paign, which is imperialism and trusts, are side tracked and the bugaboo of free silver is made the sole issue in the campaign. But the people can not be fooled. They will hold the Republican party to strict account, which means the defeat of McKinley and his gang of artful dodgers. The Next House. The Atlanta Journal says "iti seems very probable that there will be a good working Demo-1 cratic majority in the next house of representatives to sup port the policy of the Demo cratic president, who will be elected next November. The Republican majority in the present house of representa tives, even after the arbitrary and unscrupulous unseating of a number of Democrats who were elected, is not large. There are eleven Republican members of the present house who had less than 1,000 plurality and int every one of their districts the Democratic party is in betterI shape now than it was two years ago. Forty Republican mem- I bers of this congress were elect ed by less than 1,800 plurality. When the present congress as-I sembled the roll of the house I showed a Republican majority ~ of only 1.3 over all the opposition. I In spite of the reckless use of I the ousting power the Republi- E can majority in that body now is so small that a net gain of as dozen seats will give the Demo- I crats control of the next house. T'he several elements of opposi tion to the Republican party are t better organized and more har- a nonious than they have ever 'i been before, and the prospect t ~or a Democratic house of repre- o ~entatives to start in with a ' Democratic president next L Jfarch is fine." Two people were killed by lightning iear Columnbir last week. One wasq in field and the other under a tree when tl truck. A little caution would prevent PFOWDER PURE elicious and wholesome W( Owone o. n. Trusts and the Boys. Present conditions fostered by the Republican party are caus ing alarm to mothers who are of a reflecting disposition. The keynote is struck by Harper's Bazar, a non-partisan paper, devoted specially to female in terests. Discussing monopolies and trusts, as fixers of prices, after giving a notable illustra tion, the Bazar says: "Precise ly there is where -trusts have mothers by the heartstrings. It is not so bad about prices-we may struggle and meet this but trusts impose upon our sons a future of serfdom. The in dividual enterprise that is possi ble under a reign of trusts is a resort to the economic conditions of the barbarian. The alterna tive is serfdom-a clerkship, if you will, a managerial position at a handsome salary in the trust concern, perhaps, but he is the minion of the sugar king, the coal baron-the trust that employs him. He is a creature of the trust, with no hope, no future in which he may be mas ter of himself. This is woman's cause for hating trusts for fear ing monopolistic tendencies of every sort. Her boy, yours and yours are defrauded of their American birthright-liberty and independence-while trusts operate to create a royal descent of money kings to rule the "common" people. Woman's enmity against trusts is not on economic grounds. It stands on the American principle of liberty and equal rights, and the strength of it is the force of a mother's pride in her son." The only hope for our boys and young men is the destruction of the gigantic trusts that reduces them to perpetual hewers of wood and drawers of water. He Is Sick. Mr. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, who was Secretary of Agriculture during, Presi dent Cleveland's second term, is evidently sick at heart over the mulitiplying evidences of Democratic success this fall. In the campaign of 1896 he was one of the most active assistant Re publicans in the country, and did what he could to elect Mc Kinley. Mr. Morton, like most of his kind, hates Bryan, but he is forced to admit that Nebraska, in his opinion, will be found in the Democratic column next November. He says, also, that Roosevelt is more popular in that State than McKinley. "Roosevelt,"'he adds, "outranks McKinley, mentally and mor rally; he is the bigger, braver and better man. He would make a larger and safer presi dent. McKinley is too amicable to distinguish the difference be tween the good and the bad and too reluctant to acknowledge such a distinction when made by others. I understand there is a great deal of fear of imperi alism among the foreign voters of Nebraska. If Oswald Otten dorfer and Carl Schurz actually believe there is danger from militarism in this country and make their German fellow-citi ens believe it they will increase the Bryan vote. That is the whole the thing, and it looks to me as if that would decide the lection, but I should treat the whole subject with ridicule." 'hese admissions from a man ike Morton are significant, and s the best evidence in the world hat Bryan and Stevenson are mre winners. Morton evident y thinks that the Democracy will win this fall, although he loes not like to admit it out ight. He has about given up :he fight. Republicans alarmed. The Augusta Herald says a merchant of that city, a keen bserver of events and condi ons, "who has just returned from an extended trip through he East and middle west, con 'esses that he has been surprised it the feeling and sentiment which have been made appar mt to him. During his trip, he, it one time, rode in the same rain in which were the McKin ey party, Canton bound. He ays the strength of Bryan has -apidly grown, and in what were dcKinley hotbeds, four years go, is Bryan enthusiasm that is larming the shrewdest of the epublican leaders. He admits hat he, before he left the South, hared the opinion held by so nany, that Bryan had no chance vhatever. But, since his trip, ie has become convinced that ryan has more than a fighting hance and is in better trim and n better position than Major IcKinley in the race for the hitehouse." There seems to >e no doubt of the fact that ryan is very strong in the west and that the Republicans are adly scared about it. All the igns point to the election of rvan and Stevenson Makes Ohio Doubtfuil. It is stated that the Democrats of be Toledo district, in Ohio. have re-. olved to support Mayor Jones, of 'oledo, for congress, and in seturn be mayor will use his influence through ut Ohio on behalf of Mr. Bryan, of !hom he is an outspoken advocate. It Sconceded that Mayor Jones is very :rong with the men who supported im as the "golden rule" candidate for overnor last fall. The strongest temperance lecture it a father can give his boys is to let hiskey and all other strong drink .ver1l alone.