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THEI1OUSE OF DAVID Saved From Ex inction by J - hosheba's Her;ic Deed. THE SAVING OF SOUL Rev. Dr. Talmage Draws a Use ful Lesson From the Res cue of J )ash From the Murderous Athaliah. In this discourse on a neglected inci dent of the Bible Dr. Talmage draws some comrforting lessons and shows that all around us are loyal natures that we may help deliver. The text is II Kings xi, 2, 3: "Jehosheba. the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, ann stole him from among the kings sons wrich were slain, and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah. so that he was not slain And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years." Grandmothers are more lenient with their children's children than they were with their own. At 40 years of age if discipline be necessa'y chastise ment is used, but at 70 the grand mother, looking upon the misbehavior of the grandchild, is apologetic and dis posed to substitute conrectionery for whip. There is nothing more beauti ful than childhood. Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief and wipes her spectacles and puts them on and loots down into the face of her mischievous and rebellious d -scendent and says: "I don't think he meant to do it. Let him off this time. I'll be responsible for his behavior in the fu; ture." My mother, with the second generation around her, a boisterous crew, said one day: "I suppose they ought to be disciplined, but I can't do it. Grandmothers are not fit to bring up grandchildren." But here in my text we have a grandmother of a differ ent type. I have been at Jerusalem, where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers of the king's palace. He:e in the text it is old Athaliah, the royal murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her husband was a king. Her son was a king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the entire royal family, including her own grand children. The executioners' knives are sharpened. Tae palace is red with the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides are shrieks and hands thrown up and struggle and death groan No mercy! Kill k:l1: But while the ivory floors of the palace run with car nage and the whole land is under the shadow of a great horror a fleet footed woman, a clergyman's wife. Jehosheba by name, stealthily appraches the im perial nursery, seizes upon the grand child that had somehow as yet escapea massacre, wraps ~t up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it agains~t her, tres down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this compassionate abduction. Get her out of Uhe way as quick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a young king. With this youthful prize she presses into the ro~m of the ancient ,emple the church of olden time, un wre.s the young king and pu:s him down, sound asleep as he is and un conscioe.s of the peril that has been threatene3. and there for :-ix years he is secreted in that church apartment Meanwhile old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction and thinks that all the royal family are dead. But the six years expire, and it is time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne and to push back into dis grace and death old Athaliah. The arrangements are all made for political revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense. See the sharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything is ready. Now Joash, half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought orth in full regalia. The scroll of authority is put in his hands, the coro net of government is put on his brow, and the people clapped and waved and huzzaed and trumpeted. "What is that?" said Athalaik. "What is that sound over in the temple?" And she flies to see, and on her way they meet here and say: "Why, haven't 5ou heard? You thought you had slain all the ryoal family, but Joash has come to light." Then the roy al murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tatters and cried until she foamedat the mouth: "You have no right to crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason, treason!' While she stood there crying that the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran through the royal stables, but the battleaxes of the military fell on her in the barnyard, and for many a day when the horses were being unloosened from the chariot after drawing out young Joash the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place as they smell the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that the extermination of righteousness is an impossibility. When a woman is good, she is apt to be very good, and when she is had she is apt to be very bad, and this Athaliah was one of the latter sort. She would exterminate the last scion of the house of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of work for embalmers and undertakers. She would clear the land of all (God fearing and God loving people. She would jut an end to everything that could in any wise interfere with her imperial crimin alty. She folds her hands and says: "The work is done. It is completely done." Is it? in the swaddling clothes of that church apartment are wrapped the cause of God and the cause of good government. That is the scion of the house of David. It is Joash,. the God worshiping re former. It is Joash, the friend of Giod. It is Joash, the demoralizer of Baalitish idolatry. Rock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah, y ou may kill all th~e other children, but you ca-:not kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, arnd this clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the palace nursery and will run down with him into the house of the Lard, and there she will hide hin:z for six y ears, and at the end of that tiLCne e will come torth for our detezrunement and obliteration. Well, my friends, just as por a botch does the world always mne of extin guishing nrghteousness. Spers ition end to pure religion." Dm uan slew 40 000 Christians, Diocletian slew S44, 00U Christians. Aid the scythe of pir -ecution has been swung through all the ages, and the fi Ames hissed, and the ui:laine chopp d, and the Bsstilie reaci but did the foes of Christianity x.crminatc i.' Did they exterminate \iban. the first B;itinh saerifice, or Z virgli, the Ssiss rLfornmer. or J ha 'Jdcastle, the Christian nobleman. or Xkdallab, the Arabian martyr, or Anne A-kew or Sanders or Cran:ntr? Great work of ex ermination they made of it. .Just at the time w::en they thought :hey had slain all the royal family of .Jesus s.,me Jea; woul'i spingT up and out an-d take the throne of po)er and wield a very scepter of ChristiaP domin ion lificelity says. "I will exterminate :he Bible." "Od the Scriptures were thrown into tI.e street fur the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in the public squares and set on fire, and 7nountaies of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universi ties dccreed the Bible out of existence Tnomas Pain said: In my 'Age of Reason' I -have annihilated the Scrip tures. Your Washington is a pusil lanimous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and of churches.' Oh, how many assaults upon that word' A'l the hostilities that have ever beeu created on earth are nht to be compar'd with the hostilities against that one book Said one man in his izfidel desperation to his wife. "Y au mutt to: be reading that Bible," and he snatched it away from her. And though in that Bible ws a leek of l air of the dear child the only child that God had ever given them-he pitchedthe book with its contents into the fire a-d stired it with the tongs and srat on it and cursed it and said, "Susan, never have any more of that damnable stuff here." How many individual and organiz :d attewpts have been made to exterminate that Bible? Have its enemies done it? Hive they exterminated the American Bible society? Have they exterminated the B:itish and Foreign Bible society? Have they exterminated the thousands of Christian institution3 whos; only ob jeet it is to multiply copies of the Scriptures ani spread them broadcast around the world? They have exter minated until instead of one or two copies of the Bible in our houses we have eight or ten, and we rile them up in the corners of our Sabbath schoul rooms and send great boxes of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now going on in the work of extermination, I do not know but that our children may live to see the millen nium. Yea, i? there should come a time of persecution in which all the known Bibles of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of hf s that blaze in our pulpits and in our families extinguished, in the very day that ina delity and sin should be holding jubi lee over the universal extinction there would be in some clo-e. of a ba: kwoods church a secreted copy of the Bible. and this Joash of eternal literature would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infideli ty and persecution would fly out the back door of the palace and drop her miserable carcass under the hoops of the horses of the king's stables. You can not exterminate Cnristianity' You ein not kill Joash? The second thought I hand you from my subject is that there arc opportuni ties in which we may save royal life. You know that pr~fane history is re plete with stories of strangled monarchs and of young princes who have been put out of the way. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Jehosheba. the clergyman's wife, must have trem bled as she rushed into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joasb! How she hushed him lest by his cry he hin der the escape! Fly with him Jehosh eba! You hold in your arms the cause of God and good government. Fail, and he is slain. Succeed, and you turn the tides of the world's history in the right direction. It seems as if between that young king and his assassins there is nothing but the frail arm of a woman. But why should we spend our time in praising this bravery of expedition when God asks the same thing of you and me? All around us the imperiled children of a great king. They are born of Almighty parentage and will come to a throne or a crown if permit ted. But sia, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massocre. Murderous temptations are out for the aessassina tion. Valens, the emperor, was told that there was some body in his realm who would usurp his throne and that the name of the man who should be the usurper would begin with the letters T, H, E, 0, 1D, and the edict went forth from the emperor's throne, "Kill everybody whose name begirns with T, B, E, 0, D." And hundreds and theusands were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin is more terrific in its denuu niation. It matters not how you spell ycur name, you come uder its knife, under its sword, under its doom, uless there be some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is such a thing as delivering a royal soul. Who will snatch away Joaslt? This afternoon in your Sabbath school class there will be a prince of God, some one who may yet reign as king forever before the .throne; there will be some one in your class who has a corrupt physical inheritance; there will be some in your class who has a father and mother who do not know how to pray; there will be some one in your class who is destined to command in church or state, some Cromwell to dissolve a parliment, some Beethoven to touch the world's harp strings, some John Howard to pour fresh air in the azretto, some Fiorence Nightingale to ban iage the battle wounds, some Miss Dix to soothe the crazed brain, some John Frederick Oberlin to ed ucate the besotted, some David Brain erd to change the Indian's warwhoop to a sabboth song, some John Wesley to marshall three-fourths of Christen dom, some John Knox to make queens turn pale, some Joash to demolish idol atry and strike for the kingdom of heaven. There are sleeping in your cradles by night, there are playing in your nuseries by day, imperial souls waiting for dominion, and whichever side the cradle they get out will de ide the destiny of empires. For each one of those children sin and holiness contend-Athaliah on the one side, Johosheba on the other. But I hear people say: "What's the use of both ering children with religious instruc tion? Let them grow up and choose for themselves. Don't interfere with their volition." Suppose some one had said to Jehosheba: "Don't inter fere with that young Joash. Let him grow up and decide whether he likes the palace or not; whether he wants to be king or not. Don't disturb his volition." Johesheba knew right well that unless that day the young king was rescue~d he would never be reecued at all. I tell you, my friends, the reason we dn't reclaim all our child ren from worldiness is because we be gin too late. Parents wait until their the value of truth. They wat until their children swer befre they t"ach them the imoortance of ritceo 4 t" ;j versatio2. Tney a a u it children are all wra, t before they tell th, .f } Too la'e with >our ; r: '-. ioO la e with your discipli?."" ['e lot Wdh your benedic:i-Oo. \ u u all cee upon y ,ur ciidren heWsee 12 And 1S Why do You not 1 9 tv ei sare b tween 4 aud y? It i, too late to re pair a ve-sel when it has got out of the drydocks. h is too late to save Joash after the executioners have broken in. May God arm us all for ti, work of snatching royal souls from dta:h to coronatln. Can you imagine any sublimer work than this soul saving? That was what flushed Paul's check with enthusiasm; that was what led Muason to risk his life amid Birnrsian cannibals; that was what sent Dr. Abeel to preach un der the consuming skies of China; that was what gave courage to Pnocas in the third century. When the military officers came to put him to death for Christ's sake, he put them to bed that they might rest, while he himself went out and in his own garde dug his grave and then cam;, back and said, I am ready." But they w, re shock ed at the idea of taking the life of their host. He Said. "it is the will of God that I should die," and he stood on the mar in of his n.su grave, and they beheaded him. Y .u ay it is a mania, a foolhardir:e-, a fanat cism. Rather would I call it a glorious self abnegation. the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash from death and raising him to corona tion. The third thought I hand to y.)u is that the church of God is a good hid ing place. When Jehosheba rushes into the nursery of the king and picks up .Ioash, what shall she do with him? Shall she take him to some room in the palace? No, for the off ial des peradoes will hunt through every nook and corcer of that building. Shall she take him in the residence of same wealthy citizen? N P; that citizen would not dare to ha:b)r the fugitive. But she has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry of the mob in the streets; she hears the shriek of the dy ing nobility; so she rushes with Jeash unto the room of the temple, into the house of Gd. and there she puts him down. She knows that A-haliah and her wicked assassins will not bother the temple a great deal. They are not apt to go very much to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be hearing the songs of the worshipers year after year; there he will breathe the ordor of the golden censer:; in that sacred spot he will tarry, secreted until the six years have passed and he come to enthronement. Would God that we were all as wise as Jeho~eba and knew that the church of God is the best hiding place! Per haps our parents took us there in our early days. They Fratched us away from the world and hid us behind the baptismal fints and amid the Bibles and psalmbooks. O glorious enclosure! We have been breathing the breath of the golden censers all thie time, and we have seen the Lamb on :he altar, and we have handled the vials in which are the prayers of all saints, and we have d.welt under the wings of the ehcribim. Glorious inclosure' When my father and mother died and the property was settled up, ther.: was hardly anything left. But they endowed us with a property wo'rth more than any earthly possession be cause they hid usin the temple. A~nd when days of temptation have come upon my soul I have gone there for shelter, and when assaulted of sorrows I have gone there for comfort, and there I mean to Jive. I waut, like Joash, to stay until coronation. 0 men of the world outside thcre, be traye-d, caricatured and cheated of the world, why do you not come in through the broad, wide open door of Christian communion? I wish I could act the part of Jehosheba today and steal you away from your perils and hide y ou in the tem ple. How few of us appreciate the fact that the church of God is a hiding place! There are many people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrudge it everything, even the few dollars they give to ward it. They make no sacrifices. They dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butch er's bill, and they pay thir does or's bill, and they pay their landlord, and they pay every body but the Lord, and they come in at the last to, pay the Lord in his church and frown as they say: "l'here, Lord, it is. Send me a receipt in full and don't bother me soon again.' rhere is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what the church is. Where are the souls ithat put aside one-tenth for Christian institu tions-one-tenth of their income? Where are those who, having put aside that one tenth dra v upon it cobeerfully? Why, it is pull and drag and hold on and grab and clutch, and giving is an aiion to most people who it ought to be an exhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that Ged would remodel our souls on this subject and that we might ap preciate Lhe house of God as the great refuge! If your children arc to come up to lives of virtue and happiness, they will como up under the shad-ow of the church. If the church does not get them, the world will. Ah, when you pass away-and it will not be long before you do-when you pass away, it will be a satisfsction to see your children in Christian society. You want to have thrm sitting at the holy sacraments. You want them mingling in Christian associations. You would like to have them die in the sacred pre eincts. When you are on your dying bed and take yo~ir little ones come up to take your last word and you look into their bewildered faces, you will want to leave them under the church's ben ediction. I do not care how hard you are; that is so. I said to a man of the world: "Your son and daughter are going to j in our church next Sunday. Have you any objections? ' "Bless you!' he said. "0 ajactions? I wish all my children belonged to the church- 1 don't attend to those matters myself I know I am very wicked--bout I am very glad they are going, and I shall be there to see them. I am very glad. sir; I am very glad. I want them there." And so, though you m-ay have been wan derers from God and though you may have sometimes caricatured the church of Jesus, it is your great desire that your sans and daught~ers should be standing all their lives within this sacred inch. sure. More than that, you yourself will want the church for a hiding place when the mortgage is foreclosed; when your daughter, just blooming into woman hood, suddenly clasps her hands in a slumber that konws no waking; when gaunt trouble walks through the parlor and the sitting room and the ainiog hall and the nursery, you will want some shelter fro n the tempest. A i, somec of you have been run upon by msfortune and tral Why do you not come into the shelter? Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people: Give them a seat wher w the cari their weary souls. Fl;as somelight from your chandeliers upon their darkness With some sooth iog hymn hush their griefs. Oh, church of G d, gate of heaven, let uw go througi it! All other i isitu-.ions are going to fail, but the church of God its f.judation is the Rock of Ages. its charter is to., everlasting sears, its keys ar -nh bd by the universal Pr irrietor, i s d vidt.ui is heavtn its prsident is G A! S-iro a: thy truth sl.al last, To Z on shall b: given The hige-t glories earth can yield And brighter bliss of heaven. (d grat that all this audience, the youogUet, the cad-st, the w.rst, the nest, may find their safe and glorious hiding piace where Joash found it-in the temple! An Important City. The Newport News Herald figures out the election down to New York city, and says t e vote of that city wi I decide the ihse e'ween Bryan aud McKinley. The Herald says the night of November 6th will find nalf the peo ple of the United States watching the bulletin boards to lean the news from the election. Tt se p'ole will closely scan every report that is flashed over the elcric wires and srmeof them will en tertain thcms-Ives comparing the re tures from same precinct in Oregon with the fienres made by the same pre nt in 1S96 The same figureing will be nade with oth ' pre nta here, the, e aud every neru all uvr this broa.. lane. Bat all this will be useless and idle words To find out who shall be the nex. 'resident of the United States. the man who watches the bulletin board has only to ,atch the returns from Ne'w York city. No matter how many other states Mr. Bryan or Mr. M1eK:nley may carry <ash of them necs the vote of New Yolk. rhe great State that casts 36 eiee oral votes is absolutely pivatal. It will make one candidateand unmake the other. It will dictate the policy of th. n-tvernnent thr. ugh the coming four years. ite Herald goes on to say that "Mr Bryan's chance for carrying the State jies in the power of Tammany Hall to roli up a majority of 100.000 for him in the city of Nw York-in Greater N.:w York. Mr. Croker says it can he done. He says it shall be done. Republicans on the other hand are loudly proclaiming that Mr. Bryan's majority in N.w York city will fall a long way under 100,000. Some claim ing that it will a:arcely reach 25.000. The difference between 25,000 and 100 000 is great, great enough to change the electoral vote of the State and the electoral vote of the Empire State is great enough to say who saall be P;esi cent. The Republican vote in the Sta e above the Bronx cannot over come 100,000 Democratic plurality in the city, while it caa really overcome 25,000 plurality. It thus comes to pass that New York city is the pivot. If Mr. Croker and his co workers correct ly estimate the v.lue of the grea. town Mr. Bryan will occupy the Whi:e House after March 4, and the trusts and combines will have to raue as At torney General that knows not New Jersey. We do not agree with The Herald. If Bryan is elhted, and we bdi ia he wi 1 be unless Ha-na can suezted in bay ing the election, le will go in oc a tidal wave that will make the vote of New York State unneccessary for lhis success. New York will be in Bryan's column, but it will not be necessary to secure his election. Tne Republicans hope to buy up the small farmer in the doubtful States and thus save them to 3LKialey. As we said above, this is the only chance they have of winning. We hope and trust that they. will not succeed in carrying out their debanch ing process. If they do not Bryan will go in on the biggest tilal wave ever known in our political history. A Boston Post View. The Boston Post says the political situation now closely resembles that of 1892. "Nothing was more positive," it uelares, "than the conviction of the R spublicau managers in 1892 that Har rison would be re elected. The coun try was highly 'prosperous' and the 'full dinner pail' was strongly in evi dence. Industrial trusts were boom ing all over thle land under the stimu las of the McKinley tariff. All the machinery of the government was in the hands of the Republicans and was worked for the advantege of the Re jublican candidate. All the 'pro tected' industries and the monopolies receiving favors through Republican legislation in Congress were liberal con tributors to the party campaign fund. fhere was money in plently for politi cal use, there was apparent prosperity tnroughout the land, and there was the prestige of being 'in.' At this period of the campaign, two weeks before elec tion, Harrison was declared the winner by almost any majority, h ardly short of unanimity. But Cleveland s wept the country. Tue result of the coatest this year turns upon five states which are doubtful, althouge claimed by each side respectively. These are Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and New York. All of these states were carr~ed for McKinley in 1896, Keniueky alone giving one of its electoral votes to Brian. if half of their votes aan be held for McKinley this year he will be re-elect ed; if Bryan can win back a little more than half of their combined electoral vote, in addition to the states which he carried four years ago, he will win. It is not even necessary that Bryan shoubi carry New York in order to oar ry the election, lilinois, Indiana and Keutucky will give him enough." Brethren who have been demralized oy the New' York Herald and other .'nect3 might find encouragement in this. Rot, Pure and Simple. The New York Sun says Henry Voorce Brandenburg, senior member of the nirm of Henry Vooree Brandenburg & Co., of Wall street, said on Saturday toat while the public was informed in a greneral way of the fact that capital was walting before investing to see the out come of the P'residential contest, there was no conception among mos: people of the tremendous amounts which waited only the assurance of continued iRepublican control to begin the develop ment of new industries. "I do not be lieve that the people realize the extent of this condition.' said Mr. Branden burg. "Millions of dollars are being held back until the election is over. When the money is put into these en terprises that are now standing still. thousands of workingmen will be em ployed. So you see that the capitalist and the laborer are both affected by the present c~nflition." This is rot, pure and simple, put out for the purpose of helping the Republicans. If we mis take not, the Sun, and most other .tte public in papers, claim that there is no chance whatever of Bryan's election. If this is true, why should these alleged gigantic financial schemes he held back In publishing such stuff ras the above the Sun and other Republican newspa pers discredit their own claims that McKinley will a veep the country next APPAL OF THE M&YOS Of Csrtain Cities to Voters of the State The mayors of the several cities in rerested h.ve issued the following j 'mt a? tress to the people of the e i' r gard to the proposed con stitu ."al amendment to be voted upon at the coming general election. To thl: Vters of South Carolina: At the last session of our general assembly, through the dffrts of our respective senators and representatives, the following amendment to the con stitution of our State was passed by the requisite majority of b th the sen ate and the house of representatives, and will be sub xnitted to you at the General election on the 6th day of November next: "A Joint Resolution Proposing to amend section 7. article V111, of the constitution, relating to municipal bonded indebtedness: "Section 1 Bo it enacted by the general a-senibly of the State of South Carolina, that the following amend ment to section 7, of article Vlli, of the constitution, be agreed to: Add at the end thereof the following words: Provided, that the limitation imposed by this section and by section 5. article IV, of this constitution, shall not apply to bonded indebtedness in curred by the cities of Colutabia, Rock 11:11, Charleston and Florence, where the proceeds of the said bonds are ap plied solely for the purchase, estab lishment, maintenance or iuerease of water-works plant or scwerage system; and by the city of Georgetown, when the prceeds of said bonds are applied solely for the purchase, establishments main:enanee or iocrease of water work, plant, sewerage s, stem, gas, and eiec trie light plants, where the entire rev enue arising from the operation of such plants or syst. m, shall be devoted sole ly and exclusively to the maintenance and operation of the stme, and where the question of incurring such indebt edness is submitted to the freeholders and q.ialified voters of such municipal ity. as provided in the constitution, upon the question of other bonded in debtedness. Approved the 19th day of February, A. D 1900. We believe if the vital importance of this amendment to our cities was understood by you, there would be no doubt of its being ad >pted by an ovcr whelmoing majority. Fearing that you may not appreciate the imperative necessity of giving our municipalitics the opportunity of de ciding, each one for itself, whether we should increase cur respective debts for the sole purposes named, we appeal to you to give us this right of choice All mu:t realize that without an abundant supply of good water, suit able for all purposes, and without a proper system of sewerage, which can not be made cffiaient without this water supply, the growth and the health of any muntoipality must be seriously impaired. We believe there is no other meas ure or proj.ect possible, for the alvanne ment of our cities, that can compare in importance with an abundant water .upply ar.d a proper system of sewer age, a~id without these, in our opinion, they eaunot advance in prosperity or populatiou as they should do. Section 13, of article 2, of the con stitution of South Carolina, adopted December 3 1893, provides: Section 13. in authorizing a special election in any incorporated city or town in the State for the purpose of bonding the samne, the general assem bly shall precribe as a condition pre oedent to the holding of said election a petition from a majority of the free holders of said city or town rs shown by its tax books, and at such elections all electors of such city or town who are duly qualified for voting under see tion 12 of this article, and who have paid taxes, Scate, county and munsci pal, for the previous year shall be al lowed to vote; and a vote of the msj r ity of those voting in said election snal be necessary to authoriza the issue of said bonds. And setions V and VII of article VIII of the constitution confirm and and reiterate the same provisions. You will see therefore that the adoption of this amend-nent will not commit at~y of our communities to an issuance of bonds, or to municipal ownership, but will only confer upon us a power in these respects that we do not now possess. And the conferring of this authority, in the event that other plans prove impractical or undersirable for procur ing for us these vital essentials to our very life and growth, will be under these most ample safe guards provided by the~ constitution of the State. The constitution as quoted above now wisely surrounds this question of increasing the debt of any municipality with such provisions and limitations, as require the consent of a majority of both the real estate owners and of the qualified voters in each place to any issuance of additional municipal bonds. The amendment submitted to your votes recognizas and repeats the con stittution provision. Should this lamendment be adopted by the voters of the State, and approv ed by our next general assembly, neither of our cities can issue a single bond nor increase their bonded debt a single dollar, by any action whatever of our municipal authorities, unless and until in each city, first, ''a major ity.- of the freeholders" petition those authorities to order a special election, and at that special election a "majo)rity of the qualified electors" vote to issue these bonds for the special purpases named in the amendment, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Unless this constimiional amend ment is adopted, "the freeholders and qualified voters" in neither of our cities can have the privilege or option of issuing bonds for the purpose of acquiring these necessities, so essential to health, life and prosperity, even if all "the freeholders and all the qual ified voters" were unanimous in their desire to do so. We~? therefore appeal to you, our fel low citizens, to help us secure by your votes for the adoption of this amend ment, the iight to decide for ourselves, subject to the limitation of the consti tution of South Carolina, above set forth, these blessings so essential to our health and prosperity, which our own people arc praying for, and a pray er which we feel sure our fellow South Carolinians will not suffer to pass un heeded. Yours respetfully, F. S. Earle, Mayor of Columbia. J. J. Waters, Mayor of Rock Hill. W. D). Morgan. Mayor of Georgetown. WV. H. Malloy, Mayor of Fiorence. J. Adger Smythe, PAID THE PENALTY. Warby Wine, thi Murderer of Mr H. H Paulling, Hung Warby Wise, the murderer of Mr H H. Paulliie was huog in the cor ridor of the () angeburg county j .il en last F.iday in the presence of ab'ut seventy witnesses A3,u^ one thou a.d people were on the ousile, but the; could not sce the execution, The pris o :er was baptizied by Rev. Jones, the pastor of the colored Baptist church, on tast Saturday and professed ocnversion Sheriff Dukes was very liberal in his time allo wanoe to the prisoner. Shortly before 1 o'clock the march frem the cell to the gallons was commenced, the cul prit joinicg with his spiritual adviser in singing a hymn, which lasted some time after the place of execution was reached. Rev. Jones made a few ap propriate remarks, after which the prisoner was given an opportunity to speak. He was perf etly cool and in possession of all his faculties. He said that he realized that he had only about if ye minutes longer to live and would soon be before his Maker, whom he felt had pardoned him and would re co-7e him in have'i. He was gu:lty iut had repented and had no fear of the hereafter. After this a feeling and earnest prayer was offiered by the minister Just as the preacher said "amen" the trap was sprung and sinmultaneou.ly the prison clock struck the noar of 1. the only hitch in the whole affair ac purred just as the trap was sprung Ose of the man's feet caught in the rope which supported the trap and for cearly a minute he lay suspended by his feet and neck. This circumstance probably prevented his neck from being broken, as there was no "drop." Deati was caused by strangulation. In 14 minutes he was pronounced dead by Ors. Dby:e and Jetfords, avd in 25 the body was cut down. The remains were interred by the county. It will be remembered that on the night of Decembar 17, 1898, Mr. H. H Pauling was found woundea in an old field near Fort Motte. He did not live long after being found, and died with out saying who had shot him. By ac cident almost Warby Wine, Major Green and two other negroes were as sociated with the crime. They were arrested. At the trial Wine and Green were convicted, and the other two were discharged. They left for parts un known as they have not been seen or heard-of since The evidence produced on the trial was quite strong. Finally Wine confessed tbat on the night of the murder he and Green were going'along the road and that he ha tired at an oblect lying en the side of the road, supposing it to be some animal. He claimed that he and Green passed on without stopping. This, of course, was not true, as Paulling's watch was in Green's possession, prov.ing conclu sively that the deceas:d had been rob bed, as stated by h-i before his death. Green tesitied that the watch had oeen given him by Wise, but the evi dence clearly showed that both were concerned in the robbery. Wine and Green were both conv'ot-d and se:.tenc.a to be hung. The caae was appealed to the tuirt me court, but the verdict was sastanted. The gover nor was then appealed to in behalf of tile criminals, but he also refused to interfere until TJ.hursday, when Wine made a confession, in which he stated that he alone kiiied Paulling and Green had nothing to do with it. Upon the -strength of this confession Gov. Mc Sweeney commuted Green's scutence to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. He is now in that institution. Wine's was about thirty years old and Green about twenty five. New York Herald's Forecast According to the New York Herald's forecast of the election, published ten days agO, M~cKinley is as good as elect ed. 'Ine derald gives McKinley 282 electorial votes and Bryan only 165. It gives Onio, Indiana, Maryiand and West Virginia to McKinley. It also gives him K bnaas and four of the ex treme Western States that Bryan car ried in 1896. It gives Bryan eleven less votes than he received in 1896. The only gain it gives Bryan is the vote of Kentucky. If there is a tidal wave for McKinley the Herald's forecast may prove true, otherwise Bryan will be elected. The New York correspondent of the Louisville Courier Journal has dissected this forecast and his conclusions are interesting. He says: "How the Herald can concede a Re publican loss of 150,000 in New York state and still give McKinley States that Bryan carried in the West in 1896 is perplexing. Is Bryan stronger Est now and weaker in the West than in 1896? if so, why would he not carry Marryland, Delaware and West Virginia? If Bryan, according to the Heralds forecast, has gained 150,000 votes in New York and 40,000 votes in New Jersey in four years, would not the same percentage of gains give him Maryland, Indiana, West Virginia and Delaware? Certainly it would. "In 1896 McKinley carried Ohio by 47,498; now the Herald gives him but 35, Jou, or a loss of 12,500. If Bryan is going to gain 12 500 votes in Ohio, why enould he loss 12.300 votes in Kansas? The Herald forecast is all rot and a bundle of inconsistencies. Bryan has as much chance of carrying Ouiio, In aiana and Illinois as McLinley. The electorial vote of these three states is sixty- two. Added to that which the Herald gives him, 165, makes 227, or three more than required to elsect. "If the Democrats of Indianapolis cut the McKinley maj )rity of 1896 down from 7,000 to 2.5u0, s they say they will, Bryan will carry Indiana. "If the Democrats of Caicago carry Cook county, as they say they will, by 30,.000, Bryan will carry Illinois, feor Cook County gave McKinley 71 000 in 1896. "-If the Democrats of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbgs and Dayton do one-half of what John R. McLean and Tom L. Johnsn say they will, Bryan will carry Ohio. L W. Hlab eman, one of the most intelligent Ger man-American citizens in the country, who has made a thorough canvass of Ohio, told 'me this morning that 65 per cent, of the German vote and all the Q iaker vote of Ohio would go for Bryan. Haberman says that Bryan will ::arry Ohio by .30,000. 'Gold en Rule' Jones, of Toledo, who re eived 100,000 votes for Governor a year ago, tells me that Bryan will get two-thirds of that vOte." A New Rice Huller. Patents have been taken out for a rice-h u'ling machine, invented by a cit izen of Cincinnati. The working part f the machine is a carborundum wheel, r cylinder. There are corrugations n the surface and these are deep and harp enough to cut the hull without ijuring the kernel. The rice will be fed upon the roll from the hopper above and a stiff brush will hold the grain to the wheel while the hull is being taken ff. A fan will then separate the husk ABSOmLU Y Makes the food more deli ROYAL BAKING POWOE November Weather. The foiowing data covering a per icd of 29 years, have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Charleston for the month of November for the past 29 years: TEM PERATURE Mean or normal temperature, 58 de grees. The warmest month was that of 1896, with an average of 63 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1872, with an average of 54 dcgress. The highest temperature was 83 de grees on November 23 1899. The lowest temperature was 23 de grecs on November 30. 1872. Average date on which first "killing" frost occured in autumn, November 30. Average date on which last "kiiiing' frost occurred in spring, March 3 PRECIPITATION. Average for the month, 2 99 inches. Average number of days with 01 of an inch or more, 8 The greatest monthly precipitation was 7 54 inches in 1888. The least monthly precipitation was 0.33 inches in 1886. The gr: arest amount of pre:ipi'ation recorded in any 24 cansecutive hours -was 5 94 inches on Novenber 16 and 17, 1899. CLOUDS kXD WEATUIER. Average number of clear days, 13; partly cloudy days, 10; cloudy days, 7 WINDS. The prevailing winds have been from the northeast, 22 per centum. The highest velocity of the wind was 46 mil-s from the east, on Nvember 14, 1888. L. N. Jesunofhky, Local Forecast Official, Weather Bureau. Teddy Grows Tiresome. The Baltimore News, which is sup porting McKinley is not so well pleastd with 1ooevelt and his methods in this campaign. The News takes a shot at him thus: Governor Roosevelt does not appear to be very comprehensive of the impatience of the American people with a man who harps too much on one string, especially when that string strikes a jarring and unnecessary note. It has been the habit of Governor Roosevelt for several weekes past to answer those who attend his meetings to cheer for Bryan with the injunction: "Why don't you cheer for Aguinaldo?' and 'Why don't you cheer for Alt. geld?" Of course, this silences the enthusiasm some solitary ir.dividual here and there might have been bcld. enough to manifest for Bryan; but it has become tiresome. Governor Roose velt is not hard up for artu nents in this campaign that he is c mpelied to resort this kind of clap trap." 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The rebels who lost 400 killed, burned two villages con taining 3,000 houses. A force of 2,000 troops went to the assistance of the villagers and engaged the rebels on October 22nd. No details of the re suit have been received. Gen. Ho, with 2,000 troops has returned to Hong Kong, having burned the villages of Shan Chautin and Malantau. Nothing In It. The Mobille Register says "much is made by the republican j ,urnatls of the betting on the election in New York, but a correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispat ch writes that there is noth ing in it. There is not, he says, $100, 000 wagered in New York on the elec tion, and the talk about betting is a bluff for election purposes." Where Girls Are Cheap. A Kansas fellow got the consent of a man to marry his daughter on condi tion that he would vote for McKinley. That is a some what novel kind of brib ery. Girls must be cheap in that State hen they can be bought with a vote. Tracing a Thought. Prof. Trigg, of the University of hicago, thinks that Rockefeller is a greater genius than Shakespeare was. Prof. Trigg's salary is paid from the in ome of a fund donated by Rockefeller. The Savannah Press remarks that "a ome man is about to lose his leg from a mosquito bite. When a Rome mos uito assails a man the victim has to L AKINO FOWDER JRE cious and wholesome HIS SOLEMN VOW. It Was Made Early in Life and He Wouldn't Break it. "No, I will not violate my oath," ex claimed the Capitol Hill man, strid ing up and down the room. "It was in my extreme youth, but an oath made at any stage of life is sacred, and 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! I 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 t? his eyes, the man cried out: "Alas! but I have met with a griev il' ous loss, and am mo 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 cut again?" "I did not. My wfe and Igot 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 hiast cause for rejoicing instead of complaint. Where thou hast lost one ass there has been a gain in two in his plaee, and 100 per cent profit is enough for any hon est man." 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. Hubbuti. "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 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! Wouldn't Do in Politics. Because a bar-keeper put an nyer ripe egg in his gin fizz. a St. Louis man broke all the furniture in the sa loon. Such a person would not make a patient campaign orator. He would be apt to lose his temper the moment the audience began to ask questions. Hanna is Right. Senator Hanna may be right in say ing that a panic would follow the elec tion of Bryan. Suppose now, it was a panic of the trut. A Warning. A Kalamazoo, Mick., woman has actually talked herself to death. Now, gils wil you be quiet?