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A SU.EN .MLTIUN Dr. Talmage Sets Forth Its Evils in His Serncn. Duty ef Chrtittana to Speak Oat geartily on the Side of Rtgbt eoamens-Ca sting Out t e : Dazub Spirit (Cptyrat. , by t5Q s Ka sch. N. T.) Washag ten. Feb.10. In this discourse Dr. Talsmage calls for a more demonstative re'igicn and a hearty speaking out on the right s:de of everything- te, Mark 2:25: "Thou dumb and. deaf epirit, I charge thee.: come out of him." Here was a case of great dowes anguish. The son of the . ni:o = possessed of an crV s among other thi'., - L tongue an d masd bra ~e -,C ,S. the infl'jee was C- the patan , ne could not say a worc-'= cu::.?o0n as imposs.ble. The th: at. c'pture. t-6 mt per of L6e h.steho.d was a ej:t - caU.d by Chst-2 s;.rit abwac. to-day Fnd as 1i:1y ant otent as in the \N' T-::n.em ;cnes' Xet in all the reabrs of tr~mor :m I cannot find a discors.e ,.cerrv :z.s dumb devil whch Ches el hargedi up- I on in my text, saying: "Come out of him." There has bean much destructive su perstition abroad in the world concern ing possession by evil spirits. Under the form of belief in witchcraft, this de lusion sw<pt the continents. Persons were supposed to be possessed with some evil spirit, which made them able to destroy others. In the sixteentk een tury in Geneva 1,500 persons were burned to death as witches. In one neigh borhood of France 1,000 persons were burned. In two centuries 200,000 persons we e slain as wiches. S3 mighty was the delusicn that itinc'ud ed among its victims some of the great Ees ist.ellects of al time. s'ch as Chief Justice Matthew ale and Sir Edward Coke, and such r;nowned ministers of religion as Cotton .s:her, cue of whose books, Benjamin Franklin said, shaped his life-and Richard Baxter. and Arch bishop Cranner and Martin Luther; and, among writers and philosophers, Lord Bacon. That belief, whie' has become the laughing stock of all sen sible people, counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Germany. England, France, Spain and New England. But while we reject witchcraft, any man who be Beres the Bible must balicve that there are diabolical agencies &broad in the world. While there are ministering spirits to bless there are infernal spirits to Mader, to poison and to destroy. Christ was speaking to a spiritual ex Istence when, standing before the af ficted one of the text, he said: "Thou Uumb and deaf spirit. ctne out of him." Againat this dumb devil of the text I put you on your gi:rrc. Do no thihk that this -gent of eri has put his biught on those who, 14 omission of the vocal organs, have had the golden gates of inpeech bolted and barred. Amorng those who have never spoken a word are the most gracious and levely and talented souls that were ever incarnat ed. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell you enchanting stories of those who never ca:lcd the name of father or mother or child, and many of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this world speak the name of God or Christ, There has. been apotheoslsation of i hee. Some one has said gilence is golden, and sometimes the greatest tri umph is to keep your mouth shut. But sometimes silence is a crime and the ?iredt result of the baleful infuence of the dumb devil of our text. There is hardly a man or womnan who has not been present on some occasion when the Christian religion became a target for raillery. Perhaps it was over in the store some Cay v:hen there was not mauch going on, and the cLerka were in a group, or it was in the factory at the aeon spell, or it was out on the farm under the trees while you wure resting, er it was in th-e dubrcum, or it was in a social circle, or it was in th e street on the way home from business, or it was on some occasion which you re member without mey describing it.I Some one got the laugh en the Bible and caricatured the profession of re igion as hypocrisy, or made a pun out of something that Christ said. The laugh started, and you joined in, and not 'vr "rd of protest did yrou utter. Fi gt iept you silent? Modesty? No. Incuaaity to answer? No. Lack of opportunity? No. It was a blow o:: both your lip, by the wing of the d um:, 'levil. If scme one should malign y our father or mother or wife or huslh.ndi o? child, you would flesh up quick arni either with an indignarnt word or doubled up fist make response. And y'et here 1s our Christian religion which has done so much for you an d so much for the world that it will take all eter nity tie celebrate it, and yet when it was attacked you did not so much an say: mI difet'. I object, I am sorry to hear y'ou say that. There is another side to this." You Christian people ought in such times as these to go armed, not rith earthly weapons, but with the sword of the spirit. You ought to have four or Ave questions with which you menld confound any man who attacks Christianity. A man 90 years old was telling me how he put to night a scoffer. a!y aged friend sAd to the skeptic: "Did you ever reae the biatory of loseph in the Bib'.e?" "Yes," sid the man, "i1t is a fine story, and as interest hga story as I ever read." "Wel-l, now," said my old friend, "suppose that acco~mt of Joseph stopped half way?" "Oh," said the man, "then it would not be entertaining." "Well, now," said my friend, "we have in this world only haa! of everything, and do you not think that when we herar the last half things may be consistent, and that then we may find that God was right?" Oh, friends, better load up with a few interrogation boints! You cannot af Want a Dispensary. The Chariotte pecers are bound: to keep the old town in a ferment. They not only want to rcgulate thc mayor and the city council; rot only intend to break up the cu&e:e and rua the pokerplayer imo his hole, but they have begun a crueade against the har rooms in order to tubosti.ute a dispen sary. They have sounded the tcesin of war in the foilowing arnd signed by themselves and published i2 the city papers: Wherear, We th'e mristers of Char lotte are unacornmi. oppodi to the liectsca uls, the 'rt m nowj in overadon'f i' 'sciy a'd. Wheres.s, We ceiv tha th-~e dis pensary eysiezm b.er-s the tvil of drunktuness and meac tearcaces ali the tvils of wih the saloon is the fcuntain head, ye the undersigned ministers of C'ratlod, scm" of uS out and out prohibitiori ts and reserving - the right to oppose the disrensry h re after, some of us b; ieving that the, dirpenbay is the hbsi siuden of tie~ liquo ei under trasnt~ cenmSafl frd to be siest whaen 0e aed the 31 ble and the things of eternity are as saied. Your silence gives consent to the bambardment of your Father's house. You allow a slur to be cast on your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of the Christ, who for you went through the agonies of assassination on the rocky blue back of Jerusalem, you dared not face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few questions. so that next time you will be ready. Say to the scoffer: "My dear sir, will you tell me what mates the di:erence between the condition of woman in China and in the U itod States? What do you think of the sermon on the mount? now do you like the golden ru~e laid down in the Scriptures? Are youin favor of the Ten Commandmcnts? in your large std cx:ensive reading have you come across a lc e:ier character than Jesus Christ? Will you please to name the triumphans deathbeds of infdels and a:hcists? How do you account for the fact that among the out and out be lievers in Christianity were such per eons as Benjamin Franklin, John Rus kin, Thomas Carlyle, Babingten, Mao aulay, William Penn. Walter Scott. Charles Kingsley, Herace Bushnell, James A. Garfield, Ree ert E. Lee. Stone wall Jackson, Admiral Foote, Admiral Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant, John Mi! ton, Wiliam Shakespeare, Chief Jus tice Marshal. .Tohn Adams, Daniel Web ster, George Washington? Howdoyou account for their fiondness for the Christian religion? Amog the in numerable colleges and universities of the earth will you name me three started by infidels and now supported by Infidels? Down in your heart are you really happy In the position y'ou occupy antagonistic to the Christian religion? When do you have the most rapturous views of the next world?" Go at him with a few such questions. and he will get so red in the faee as to suggest spoplexy, and he will look at his watch and say he has an engage mont and must go. You will put him in a sweat that will beat a Turidsh bath. You will put him on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no tine at all. Arm yourself, not with arguments, but interrogation points, and I promiseyou tietory. Shall such a man as you, shall such a weman as you, surrender to one of the mean est spirits that ever smoked up from the pi-the dumb devil spoken of in the text? But then there are occasions when this particular spirit that Chrest exor cised when Be said: "I charge thee to come out of him," takes people by the wholesale. In the most responsive religious audience have you noticed how many people never sing at all? They have a book, and they have a voice, and they knew ho* to read. They know many of the times, and yet are silent while the great raptures of muzie pass by. Amosu those who sing not one out of a hundred sings loud enoug-h to hear his own vulee. They hum it. They give a sort of religious gun t. They make the lips go, but it is t.audible. With a voice strong enough to stop a street car one bleck away all they can afford in the praise of God is about half a whisper. With enough sopranos, enough aitoa, enough bassos to make a smaHl heaven between the feur wall. they let the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of voice that ascends from the largest audiene that ever assembled ought to be multi plied two thousandfold. But the min ister rises and gives out the hymn, the organ beg-ins, the choir or preeentor leads, the audience are standing so that the lungs may have fuRl expaa sien, and a mighty harmony is about to ascend when the evil spirit spoken of in my tart-the dumb devil--apreads his two wings, one over the lips of one half the audi.eae and the ether wing ver the lips of the ether hal of the audienee, ad the voiees roll back lae the throats from which they started, swd only her'e ad there anything is heard, and nine-tenthe of the hcly power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, as he Sle. away, says: "I could not keep Isae Watts from writing that hymn, and .Icould not keep Lowell Ma son from composing the tune to which It is set, but I smote into silet ee or half silence the lips from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighbor hoods ad cities sad thon mount the wide open heavens." Give the long meter doxology the full support of Chritedom, and those four lines would take the whole earth for God. That hymn, "Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing," was suggested to Charles Wesley by Peter Bohior, who, after his conversion, said: "I had better keep silent about it." "N, said Wesley, "if you had 10,000 tongues, you had better use thcm for Christ." And then that angel of hymology penned the words: Qh. for a thonsand tongues to sta My dear Rtedeevmer' praise. The glor!es of my God and King, The triumphs ot Hlisgraeei J'esus, the name that calms our fears, That btds our sorrows cease; 'Tis musie Ia the sinner's sars; -Tc iJ ue and health and peao. 'Whfle much of the modern wusfe is a religious doggerel, a gonseorated nonsense, a sacred imbecility, I would Like to see some great musician of our time lift the baton and marshal "Luther's ,Tudgment Hymn," "Yar mouth," "Dundee," "Ari," "Eattle street," "Uzbridge," "P'leyel's Hymn," "Harwen," "Antioch," "Mount Pfs ah" and "Coronation," with a few regiments of mighty toes made in our own time, and storm Ada, Af rica and America for the kingdom of God. Bu the first thing to do isto drive out the duanb devN of the text from all our churuhes Do not, however, let un lose our slves in generalities. Not one of us but has had our lives sometimes touched by the evil spirit of the tert-4bIs awful dumb deril We had just one opportunity of sy ig a. Christian word that might have led a than or wmn into a Christian life. The opportunity was fairly put before us. The werd of invitation or consolation er warning came o t he ces, do hereby call upon our people and upon all the ministers and people of the country of Mecklenburg to aid in' the suppression of the salcon by using all honorable means to have a dispen sary law passed by this legislature. Pensions Golore. It may interest 8iatisticians and per haps others to know that the aggregate ~mont of money appropriated by cn gress for pensions since the end of the Ciil war in 1865. plus the amount ear-I riad by the p-naig pencion bill for the fiecsi year 19f'2, is $2,821,117,426 Another year will etry; the total far beyond the three billion mark. By the cerut of 1860 th'e entire valuation of the 11 er'uthern States aftcrward corn posing the Confeder'ey-the true valua tion, not ases~ed, of all property, real atd per'onil. in those 11 States-was $5,202,166,207.-New .York Sun. Tired of Them. A bill bofore the Lesislature of Ne brasi a declared sunflowers and cockle urrs a public nuisance, and makes it the duty of every owner of land to. destroy them between August 15 and a 1 of wah le.' Mside gate ef la mouth, bu there it halted. Some hindering power looked the jaws together so that they did not open. The tongue lay fat and still in the bottom of tne mouth as though struck with paralysis. We were mute. Though God had given us the physiological apparatus for speech and our lungs were filled with air which by the command of our will could have made the larnygeal muscles move and the vocal organs vibrate, we were wickedly and fatal ly silent. For all time and eternity we missed our chance, or it was a prayer meeting, and the service was thrown open for prayer and remarks, and there was a dead halt-every thing silent as a graveyard at mid night. Indeed, it was a graveyard and midnight. An embarrassing pause took place that put a wet blanket en all the meeting. Men, bold enough on business exchange or in worldly eireles, shut their eyes as though they were praying in silence, but they were not praying at all. They were busy hoping somebody else would do b;s duty. The women fushec under the awful pause and made their fans mee rapidly flutter. Some brother, with no cold. oughed, by that sound trying to ill up the time, and the meeting was sla'n. But what killed it? The dumb devil. This is the way I account for the fact that the stu pidest places on earth are some prayer meetings. I do not see how a man can keep any grace if he regu larly attends them. They are spirit tal refrigerators. Religion kept on ice. How many of us have lost occa sions of usefulness? In a sculptor's studio stood a figure of the god Op portunity. The sculptor had made the hair fall down over the face of the statue so as to cempletely cover it, and there were wings to the feet. When asked why he so represented Opportunity, the sculptor answered: "The face of the statue is thus cov ered because we do not recognize Op pertuaity when it comes, and the wings to the feet show teat Opportu nity is swiftly gene. But do not let the world deride the church because of all this, for the dumb devil is juat- as conspieous in the world. The great political parties assemble at the proper time to build platforms for the candidates to stand on. A commit tee of each party is appointed to make the platform. After proper delibera tion, the committees come in with a ringing report: "Whereas," and "Whereas," and "Whereas." Pro nonei amentos all shaped with the ene idea. of getting the most votes. All ex presaL.n in regard to the great moral evils of the eeuntry Ignored. No ex pressien in behalf of temperate liv ing, fbr that would lose the vote of the liquor traffic. No expression in regard to the universal attempt at the demoli tion of the Lord's day. No recognition of God in the history of nations, for that would lose the vote of atheists. But "Whereas," and " Whereas." and "Whereas." Nhne cheers will be given for the platform. The dumb devil of the text puts one wing ever one plat form and the other wing over the other platform. Those great conventions are opened with prayer by t.heir chap lains. If they avoided platitudes and told the honest truth in their prayers they would say: "0 Lord, we want to be postmasters and consuls arnd foreign ministers and United State.. district attorneys. For that we are here, arnd for that we will strive till the election next lNovember. Give us osiee, or we die. Forever and ever', amen." The world, to sy the least, is no bett-er than the church on this mubjeet of silence at the wrong time. In ether words, Is it not time for Christianity to become pronounced and aggressive as never be fore? Take aides for God and sobriety ad rIghteousness. "If the Lord be God, follow Him." Have you oppor tunity of rebuking a sin? Rebuke it. Haye you a chance to cheer a disheart ened soul? Cheer i't. Have you a use ful word to speak? Spoak it. Do out and out, up and down for sighteousness. If your ship is afloat en the Pacifie ocean of God's mercy, hang out your colors from the mast head. Show your passport, ifr you have one. Do not smugglo your soul into the harbor of Heaven. Speak out for God! Close up the chapter of lost opportunities and open a new chapter. Before you get to the door on your way c-ut shake hands with some o:2e and ak him to jcin you on the road to Heaven. Do not drive up to Heaven in a two-wheeled "sulky" with room only for one, and that yrourself, but get the biggest Gospel '5agon you can find and pile it full of frie-ads and neighbors and shout till they hear you all up and down the skies: "Come with us, and we will do you good, for the Lord hath promised good concerning Israel." The opportunity for good which you may consider insignificant may be tremendous for results, as when on tho sea' Capt. Haldano swore at the ship's crew with an oath that wished them all in perdItion, and a Scotch nailor touched his cap and said: "Captain, God henars prayer, and we would be badly off if your wish were answered." Capt. Haldane was con victed by the sailor's rema-k and con verted and became the means of the salvation of his brother Robert, who had been an iniidel, and then Robert became a minister of the Gospel, and under his ministry the godless Felix neff became the world-renowned mis sionaryr of the cross, and the worldly Merle d'Auine yteamo the author of "'The History V the Reformation" and wmf be the glory of tke church for all ages. Perhaps you may do as much as the Sectch sailor who just tlppnd his cap and used one broken tentelee by which the earth and the heavenS are still resounding with pa tent inntuences. D~o something for God, and do it right away or you will never do it at all. Timse mies away fast. Them thSne e never reeeto; How soon our life here Grows old wi'.h the year Tmnt dIes with the next Decembeft A Bad Teacher. A erecial from Hunttville, Ala., Esys: "News reached here tonight of great excitemeent in Marshall county over a ase of crimninal assault. A white school teacher named Hell, near Qauntersville., it is said, committed a criminal aseaul: upon a 13-year old girl. A mob scoured the country for tho teacher, but he fell into the hands of officers ard dhis even ing was lodged in jail at Guntersville A report says hundreds of people have gone there frem the county intent on bre-king into the j~il ar.d lynching Hll. Tillman Endorsed. In the Senate Thursday Senator Ald rich offered the following concurrent resolution, which was adopted without iscussion or dissent, and sent to the ouse: Be it resolved by the senate, the house of representatives c >ncurrig, hat the acknoledgments of t're gene al asuemLly are hereby tendered to the Hon. B. R. Tillman for his able, pa riotic and consistent course in the [nited States senate, throughout his evice in that body, which c .urse is iereby indorsed and pronounced wor of hi itate and people. WORK OF VANDALS.' The Burning of Coiumbi- by Gen. v Sherman's Army f t ? HiRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO - } s A Seory ct sutffring, Cruelty c and Vandalism :Graphi- d t caiy T( Id by Capt a D. A -Dkkert. The fellowing is the story of the a a burr ing of Columbia in February, 1865> a by Gen. Shcrman's army as relatea by | -,apt. D. Augustus Dickert in his his- e tory of "Kersiaws Brigade:" When Sherman 1 ut his mighty ma cine of war in motion Kershaw's bri- c gadc was hurritd back to Charleston l and up to George's Station, then to the t bridge en the Edisto. Raiding parties v were out in every direction, destroyirg a bridg s and railroads, and as the o tc'ut e'rn army a-i no pontoon corps c ner any methods of crossing the deep, .n s!u-ish st:ean.s in their rear l ut by E I r.cgrs, it can b-en seen that the cut- p tirg of cne bridge alone might be fatal f to tlbe army It wal discovered early r in the mach that Sherman did trot in- s tend to turn to the right or to the left, but to continue on a direct line, with n Celuu bia as the centre of operations. t We wcre removed from the Edisto back d to Charleston, ard up the Northwest- f era railroad to St. Stephen's, on the t Saliec. It was feared that a raiding t party from Georgetown would come up I the Sir tee aid cut 'he bridge, thereby .soat:ng the army Hardee had in Char- o . s on and vicinity. Siewly Sherman c drazced his weary length along." On v I e l-h of Ft bruary the corps of Gen. ] Bl.r reached Kingville and drove our 1 p akets away from the bridge over the I U', nga ee. On the 15th cf February the advance 1 ocolmn of the Twentieth corps came in r sightof Columbia. All the bridges lead- 3 irg thereto were burned and the south- t eta troops withdrawn to the eastern i side. Frank Biair's co-ps kft the road I leading to Columbia at Hopkins, and c kept a direct line for Camden. An M her o :rps, the Fifteenth, crossed the Broad at Columbia, while the Feur- t tcent i and Twentieth were to cross at a Freshley's and Alston. Order4 had c been given to evacuate Charleston, and t 1! the troops under Gen. McLaws 3 at Four Hole Swamp. and along the < coast were to rendesv sui at S. Steph- t en's on the Santee, and either make a I junction with the western army at ] Uhceser, S. C., or if not possible, to con. t tirue to Chesterfield or Cheraw. The t plan of t e ca.npaign was now to on- 3 cmntr ate .ali the forces of Hood's State t tr"ea s and Hardee's at some point in upper South Carolina orin North Car- i olina, and make one more desperate I stand, ard by united action erush and f overthrow Sherman's army, thereby 1 rc lieving Lee. On the mcrn'ng of February the 16th 1i.e e:.emy, without any warning wiat ever, bcase slellir~g the city of ''olum ia, filled vwith women atd children-. Now it must be re3.embered t a'; thi a Sas tnt lor the T u-pose of crossing the rver, f~r ore of Sherman's corps had area crossed beluw tbe city and two ohers ateve. One shal passed through he hotel in which Gen. Beauregardt was at the time, others struck the Sta e ht-use, while nmany fell threugh out the ca;y Gen. Hampton withdrew his sa ali force of eavalry early on the morning oi the 17th, and the ma',or of d'e city met ant i(ficer of the federal army under a fihg of truce and ten dered him the surrendcr of the city, and claimt d protection for its inhabi tants. This w as promised. All during the day thousands of thre enemy pen-ed into the city, Gen. Sher5 a an. enterinr about.- midcay. Gens. Davis' and Walliams' corps crossed the Sluia and continued up on the west ira bac k of Broad river, one orossing 2 10, the other 25 miles abrve Columbia i he people of C. lumbia ha d khopes of a peace'u' eupation of the city, but during the day and along towards ~ nihtfall, the ti reatenirg attitude of td e Eoldiers, their ominous words, g breas cf vergearce, were too peri en a uc-r the peo;le to njiaunderstand ~ or to exprect mercy. These signs, ( threats and mutterings were but the prelude to that which was to follow. FIEE ALARM.IC About 9 o'clock the alarm of fire was 'c iv1 n and the dread sound of the fire t iels, mingled with the }'in and roar x of ten ttousand voices and the tread ofl as many troops Lurrying to and fro on their cersed mission, could be heardI by the now thoroughly frightened pop- < ulsce. The peeple, with blanchedt countDances, set features, looked in< uute Eilence into the fae a of each oth- c r. All knew and felt, but dared not I evn to themnselves to whisper, the ji 1 mistakable truth. Now another alarm, S other fire bell mingles its sound with the g' neral chorus of discord, shouts t ,f the soldiery, the frightened cries < of the reuple-yells of the drunken I roris-ali a seething, maddening tur- r bulence in the crowdd streets. A larid t giare shoots up above the house cps, then the crackling and roaring t of the dread elements told but too painty that the be~auful city was soon C o be wratppe d in fiames. The sack and I p.illagc ha: begun! s THE LOOT OF THU TANKIUs. Few men being in ths city, the wo- t meD, with rare heroism, sought to save e some little necessity of life, only to t see it struck to the floor or snatched \ fom their hands and soittered in the streets. Here would be a lone woman " huggir g an infant to her breast, with a t few strips of clothing hanging en her d rmt; tepless crphans lugging an old t trnK or chest, now containing all they a culd call their own-these would be g snatched away, breken open, contents rifld by the drunken soldiers, or if t: not valuable, trampled under foot. w Soldiers, with axes and hammers, e rushed from house to house, breaking n in doors, smashing trunks, boxes, bu- a ieaus and robbing them of all that eas 1a valuable, then leaving the house in 0 lames. Helpless women, screaming 1u children, babes in the arms, invalids in b beds, jolted and jastled against the ti suging mob-none to help, none to ad- b vise-these defenceless sufferers rush- tL ed aimlessly about, their sole purpose a being to avoid the flames and seek a la plae of safety. The fires originated ai principally in the southern section of al the city, and as the fire ate its way up, the howling throng followed, driving the innocent and helpless ahead. As the night wore on, the drunken bl soldiers, first made intoxicated by the re wine in private cellars or the liquors ti in government buildings, now became al beastly drunk in their glse at the sight R cf the destruction they had wrought. a! The women and children followed the s clark background of that part of the city ti not yet in flames. The federal officers, us Dg band to the ruined and distressed eople, added insult to injury by join ig with the private soldiers in t-e lundering of the city, insulting the rumen and adding fuel to the flame. All night long did the flames rage, ?ap, and lick the clouds as one block f buildings after another fell-food for he devouring elements. This drunk n orgie was kept up till their craven earts were fully satisfied. A few qnares in the northeastern part of the ity were left, also several churches, nd into these the women and chil ren were hauled and packed, and had D remain for days and some for weeks, Imost en the verge of starvation. The deral commander, throu;h the bouned ,ss dictates of his sympathetic heart, ter destroying all that fire and rapine onld reaeb, left the starving thous nds a few rations each o, the plunder e had robbcd of the ;lanters in the ountry. DESTITUTION. No vehicles or horses were left in the ity's limits-the bridges burned that d across the river to the west. To he east, Blair's Corps was laying raste everytbing in its pathway, while bove and below the city, for a distance f 50 miles, Sherman had swept the ountry as bare as if a blight had fallen pon it. How the perp'.e of Columbia ab-isted during the time they were enned in the city churches and the tw buildings left, will ever remain a iystery, and to none so much as the afferers themselves. Grains of corn were eagerly picked p in tle streets as they dropped from he wagons, and the women and chil ren of the lower class and the negroes ccked to the deserted camps to gather .p the crumbs left by the soldiers or he grains trampled under foot of the .ores. Each houe in a stretch of 50 miles ras entered and insults and indignities ffered the defeccless women which roula have shamed the savage Turk. adies were forced to disclose at the oint of the pistol or the sabre, the iding place of their little valuables. ime were forced to cook meals and rait upon the hell hounds, while they egaled themselves upon the choice iands or medicinal wines of the plan er' wives. But be it known to their mortal honor, that it was only on he mcst rare occasions that the prond ames of the South could, either by breat or brutal treatment, be forced to ield to their insolent demands. With he orders from the soldiers to "prepare meal" or "disclose the whereabouts f their money or valuables," came the hreat, "We will burn your house if ou do not.', But almost invariably ame the quick response, "Barn it mun it, you cowardly wretches, and ill. me, if you wish, and all of us, but will never soil my hands by waiting pon a cowardly Yankee, nor tell you he place of concealment-fi'rid it if ou can." The soldiers would question he negroes to fled if there were any ratches, silver plate, or money belong og: to the household; if -so, they wou'd y a system of inquesition, attempt t> orce the women to give it up, but in an. A ERAVE WOMAN. A woman, Mrs. Miller, the wife ef a eighbor of mine, had her husband's o.d watch in her bosom, and refused o give it up when demanded, even rhen a cocked pistol was at her bead be vandal btruok her a ,stunning blow rish the butt end of the pistol-all io a. The brave heroine held to the eirloom, and stoutly resisted all en reaties and threats. Two old people living near me, broth r and miiden sister, named Loner, oh past three score, were asked to ive their money. They had none. But ne of the ruffians threw a fire under he bed, taying: 'I will put it out if you will tell me rhere you keep your money; you have t, for 1Use been so informed." "Let it burn," answerd the old wo an. "Do you think to frighten or otimidate me by buining my house hbt I will tell what I choose to con al? Do you think I care so much for ny houce and its belongirg,? No, o; you mistake the womtn of the louth, you will never conquer her peo ie by making war upon. defenceless omen. Let the house go up in flames, ud my ashes mingle with its ashes, t I will remain true to myself, my ountry and my God." Soni all that was lefttof the onie appy home was a heap of ashes. Will d, in His wisdom, ever have cause to gain create such women as those of he Southlag'? Or were there ever eon itions in the world's history that re nired the presence of such noble mar yrdom as was displayed by the wo sen of the South during the Civil Var? But a Nemesis in this case, as in any others, was lurking near. Bands f Confederates and scouts had scat ered themselves on the flanks and roir f the enemy; old men and boys and ibled veterans were lying in wait in iany thickets and out of the way laces, ready to pounce upon the un uspecting freeboo ters and give to them heir just deserts. Was it any wonder hat so many hundreds and thou'ands, f tese Goths failed to answer to Shne ian's last roil call? Before the snn was 2any hours older. after the burning of ho Loner homestead, the dreaded 'bushwhackers" were on the trail of h' vandals. For years afterwards people, from riosity, came to Icok at a heap of ones in -a thicket near, bleached by rinte's rain and summer's suo, while nne of the older men, poirting to the hoetly relics, would say, "Those are e remains of Sherman,s hiouseburn r." Aid such were the scenes from he Saltkahatchie to thu Cape lear. Vho were to blame? Sherman now directs his march to 'arda Winnsboro and Ch ester, still in be four great parols burning and plun ering as they go. Ii s ms that in seir march through Georgia they were oly whetting their appetites for a full rge of vandalism in South Carolina. Lte their carnival of ruin in Columbia 1 Federals, like the tiger, which, ith the taste of blood, grows more ray ons, beesme more destructive the Lore destruction they saw. Great oudsof black smoke rose up over the hole country and darkened the sky erhead, while at night the heavens ere lit up by the glate of the burning ildings. The railroad tracks were rn up and bridges burned, the iron sing laid across heaps of burning ties, ten when at red heat, were wrapped -ound trees and telepraph posts-these at th'ough pure wantonness, as on my was in their rear that could over e the again. A Pat Response. There are many ways of proposing, it for the "pop direct, and for the pat sponse,". nothing could well surpass e specimen farnished by the Paritan id the girl who had won his affections. iding up to her father's house, he ked her to be called. "Bachell", he id, "the Lord hath sent me to marry e." To which the damsel, after a nment's pause, repliod,jmeekly, "The )rd's will be done." SOXI PLAIN TALK To Sixty-four Legislators Who Voted! for Free Passes. The following plain talk from Ander son Mail is commended to the sixty four member3 of the House of Repre sentatives who voted for free passes: And the house by a vote of 64 to 38 repealed the anti-free pass lawl Sixty-four members of the house want the railreals to give them free passes when the State gives them 5 cents a mile each way and they make 2 cents of that clear, as the railroad fare is only 3 cents a mile, and if they buy a mileage book it is only 21 cents, so that they can make half of t clear. But whatever it is the State pays it and more too, and yet these 61 want free pasees. For what? The railroads are willing to give them-and why? You plain people who work on your farms and busiLess men who stand in your places of business day after day ask yourselves why these railroads are willing to give these free passes and then give a plain, common sense answer to it. Do railroads do business for the fun of the thing? Do they not expect returns of some sort for every investment? And isn't the giving of free passes an investment? And do not the railroads know that these leg islators may lave to pass on legislation affecting railroads? And don't they know that every legislator who accepts a free pass from them is to that extent under an obligation to them? They do not call it bribery or an attempt to buy a man's influence or his vote. Oh no, they have a nicer name for it than that. They call it exchanging courte sies. "Courtesies" is a heap pleasanter word and there is no unpleasant odor about it. These legislators are sent there to represent the interests of the people and some of them have a heap to ray about the "dear people" and "my people" and the people pay them for their services, and not only pay them by the day but go farther and pay them a good allowance for travel ing expenses in the shape of mileage, and then they go and ask the railroads for free passes. Why should a representative ask for a free pass? Can he be true to the trust reposed in him when an issue is joined between the people and the railroads? Admit for the sake of the argument that he can, then why should he put himself in a position to be rus peoted? A true representative ought t) be like Caesar's wife, above sus picion. We do not believe it is right for legislators to accept free passes for the reason as stated above that the railroads expect a return of the cour tesy and a legislator should keep him self free from any cort of obligation to them-not in any spirit of hostility to them, but to maintain attitude of fairness and impartiality. When the Reform movement began more han 10 years ago one of its battle tries was "no free passes," and when (icv. Tillman accepted free pass No. 1 this editor exZCriated him mercilessly fer accepting it; and the anti free pass law followed and has stood for 10 years, and we have no doubt that nine tenths of the people today endorse it yet. If, as the father of the bill, Mr hpears, said the law is a reflection upon the integrity of the public men of the State, what is to be said of the m n who repeal the law and accept free passes? The and-free pass law is no more a reflection upon any ; ublic man who proposes to do right than the law againet larceny is a r i tction upon good oilds -ns who intend to do right The Mail hits the nail oavhe head with every stroke. A GEEAT ARMY AND NAVY What Militarism andImmerialism will Cost this Country. Here are figures, compilkd from the latest available Gnvernment statistics, shiowirg that the Usitel States is pay ing a greater yrioe for militaiism than any other nation oi earth, and ailmost as muih as any two others t-'g'ter: United 8.ates-Army..- .$175 000 000 Nasvy..............78696.973 Pen~ions...........145 245 230 $398,942,103 England-Army........$19)3085,000 Navy........-.....134 975,000 .Pensions......-.....1,4i7,840 $239 467 840 Franee-Army... ....$125 855,207 Pensions inoluded in above.. 6 0,720,102 $186 575 309 Ge rmany-Army..-....-.$160.625,200 Navy......-.......33353,250 Pensions..-..-.-.....16,323,900 $210,302.350 R assia-- Army ...........$159,185.000 ---...............-41,532,000 . $200,717,000 Austria-Army-.....-...$72.640,000 Navy...-.......... 9,986 000 -$82,626,000 Italy-Aruy..........$52 889,000 NavY-..-.......... 22 207,000 $78,096,000 And for this enormous expenditure we have a smaller army than any of the European Powers and a smaller navy than any except Austria. The statis tic3 follows: United Siates-Army.... ..100 000 Navy................20,000 120,000 England-Army.. .... ... ..254 000 Navy.. ..... . ... . ....110640 $64 640 Frans-Army .... .... .....579.519 Navy. .............. 42605 622, 124 *erir any-Army-....-.-......479 229 N'avy7.. . .... ... ........ 26,651 505 880 Eussia-Army.-...........883 146 Navy...... ...-.. ......37,164 920,310 Austria-Army...-.-..-.-....-263 608 Navy.. .. . ...... .. ... 12,935 278,543 [taly-Army....-.....-..-.211 906 Navy....-....... ......23,692 235.598 Hauling of fertilisers has begun and farm work will soon begin in earnest. rhe temptation to plant a large cotton srop will be great and many will not be A MODERN SLAVERY. A Newspaper Says the Contract Labor System is Much Abused "That member of the Anderson delegation who told Mr. Wolling, of Fairfield, that Negroes were bought and cold here on labor contracts can doubt less give affidavits in abundance to establish his statement. It is a matter of common report here that this is o n:tantly done, and it is also smatter of common rum)r that many of them are shackeled and put in stookades and guarded and worked under guard like regular convicts. From all that we have heard we do not think it wou'd be any trouble to establish the fact by indisputable evidero . "The method of procedure is about this: A Negro gets into debt and breaks his contract, a warrant is swarm out and he is arrested and brought be fore the magistrate or com'nitted to jail to await trial. In the meantime a par ty goes to the landlord and says, 'how much will it take to get that Negro?' The amount being stated, the Negro is seen and agrees to enter into a con tract for sometimes a longer period than a year, the amount due the land lord is paid, the papers are signed and the Negro is husued off under guard to a stoakade and is kept as securely as if he had been brought before a magis trate, tried, convicted and sentenced. "And there are plenty of similar cases and we have heard at least one man say "that Niggeris mine, I bought him and paid for him." And it is said the lash is freely used on these Negroes. How true it is we do not know, but it has been freely talked of on the streets that there should be an investigation by the grand jury and that, too, by some of the best citizen of the county. And the grand jury ought to do it in the interest of all con cerned. The public has an interest in knowing if these charges are true and if they are untrue, the other parties having a deeper interestin showing that they are untrue. We sincerely hope that the presiding judge at the coming term of court will order the grand jury to make a searching investigation and to a so irquire if the costs collected in cases that have been compromised have been turned into the county treasury." Conmenting on the above the Flor ence Times says "the story from the Anderson Mail coDcerning the twen tieth century slavery can, no doubt, find a para'lel in a number ~ of other counties and a number of other states than South Carolina. In fact it is a universal truth that debt enslaves, and that where the opportunity to oppress is given the reditor he will use it as far as he can The only way to keep free is to keep out of debt. The lien law, the labor contract law and all these kind of laws that are intended to protect the creditor ere abused to their utmost limit and by man of whom such a use we u.d be little exiected. Is is the Negro that suffers mostly." We do not believe that any buch a condition of afEairs exists in this county. Wht the oyster Crep Pansa. It is pointed out that partial -fail are of the oyster crop in certain year., the diminution in size of oyster. on the market and the extinction of many oyster lbed. that formerly were famous-the Saddle Rocks, for in stanee-have been due to want of ma terial for the production of the oyster shelL. The beds throughout the oyster belt have steadily deteriorated in late years, and in many cases become ab solutely worthless, in spite of the fact that food has been supplied artifi cially at great expense and trouble, and wire fences have been used to protect the 'oysters from the star fish. For this trouble the defilement of the water by sewage and waste of various manufacturing establishments have usually been blamed, sometimes justly, sometimes without cause. What the oyster plant must have, or It will perish, is a full supply of car bonate of lime with which to build Its shell. Near the mouths of rivers, where carbonate of lime in mechan ical solution, as It is expressed, comes down from the hills and plens of the Interior in drainage, the oyster has all the material It needs for building Its house, and at the same time the inflowing tide brings it ample food. -Boston Transcrirt. ermany Crowds England on the s. The naval weakness of Britain is no toriously the subject of earnest pro test by some of our most efficient ad mirals afloat, says a London corre spondent. German efficiency has al ready secured a formidable and home geneous fleet. Already Germany holds the Atlantic record for speed. Her system of mail subsidies has secured a large portion of Asiatic and Australian trade. Her rate of increase in ship building, for the first time in history, has exoeedd that of Great Britain. Germany has already stretched out her hands for the trident. Neither France nor Russia is Impatient to assist us to reeover the supremacy which we have listlessly allowed to slip from our hands.-,Detroit Free Press. Dritish Like Our Census Methods. Inquiries have been received from the British governmentconeerning the methods of taking the American cen sus, because it has never been able to secure such comprehensive data, or even as complete a count of population, in ten years of continuous work as the American system has secured in 12 montha. With 24 potential facta eon erning each individual accessible, the soclologica~l end psychological prob lems of the present time, growing out of the assimilatIon of large masses of foreigners with the American people, become a fascinating study.-National Magazine._____ New Prance Got rato rnde-China. The connection of France with Indo China dates back to 1748, when a ware house and a trading station were eo tablished In Anam. The oldecustomsa of China still prevailed, the whole coun try having been under China for many eaturies, until a native vioe king led a suecessful revolt about thie year 1430. During one of the internecine conflicta which broke out with due regularity among claimants and pretenders the aid of Louis XVI. of France wan so licited, and a treaty of alliance was ea tered into in 1787. Thus originated the first claim of France upon Indo~hia. -<Veanal Joka C. Covert. He Is Fixed. Thomas Kearns, the new senator from Utah, has a silver mine for which he has refused $12,000,000. It is said to pay him and his partner 1,5,00 a year. They call it the "Silver King " It has not been running long enough at this rate to pile up much capital for Mr. Kearns to work on, but his credit is good. Mr. Clark, the senator-elect from Montana, is rated at $75 000,000 so that Kearns is comparatively a poor IN WASHINGTON ONUMENT. Memorial Tablets and Inscriptions That Line the Interior of the Great Shaft. Few of the thousands of visitors to the Washington monument have the disposition to climb its 900 steps. It is much easier to ride on the eleva tor, which makes the ascent of the tall column in about eight minutes. But visitors who walk one way, either up or down, are well rewarded by a near view of the inscriptions on the memorial tablets, says Youth's Com panion. One hundred and seventy-six of these tablets .were contributed by various societies, lodges, cities, states, foreign countris and private individ na Is. The variety of their inscrip tions attest the wide reach of the in fluence of Washington. The Association of Journeymen Stonecutters of Philadelphia, under the emblems of their trade, inscribe on their tablet: "United We Stand." Westmoreland county, Va., describe. Itself simply as "The Birthplace of Washington." Greece, the "Mother of Ancient Liberty," sends from the Parthenon "This Ancient Stone as a Testimony of Honor and Admiration." The Turkish inscription, it is said, was written by the court poet, and bears a date in a "year of the He gira." One of the longest inscrip tions appears on a stone presented by some Chinese Christians of Che Heang, China, in 1853. It declares George Washington to have been braver than Tsau-Tsau or Lin-Pi. A likeness of Shakespeare stands out on a stone at the twenty-sixth landing, as the short level spaces be tween the fights of stairs are called, bearing these words above: "All that live must die," and below: "A trib ute of respect from the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dramatic Profee- = dlon of America." SLEEP IN THE CIGARETTE. Lethean Compound Used by an Expert spanish Thief on Pas sensers. Prof. de Gubernatis, the well-knows ' Italian orientalist, has been the vietlni y of- a crime often read of in lurid tales, but seldom experienced in real life. The other day he was traveling in first-class carriage In which there was one other individual. He went tosleep?; and on arriving at Parna found himself without his purse, containing l,=; francs. He immediatelycomplained ta the station authorities and - not long after a certain Spaniard, Alfreddo'Gar- . eia, of Barcelona, who described him self as a silk merchant, was arreste says a London paper. In spite of his protestations of inn eence his baggage was examined ad was found to contain, besides- a knife, money and scissors used by thieves for eutting out pockets, a case with some sigarettes. This last object in the poe._ dssionof a Spaniard'isnota suspicious circumstance, but one of the police thought he would try them, and-to his -," astonishment the room full of people were soon all soundly and peacefully sleeping. An examination proved thu j the cigarettes contained a substace the smoke of which acts as a narcoticeI while the smoker experiences .no in- - conveilience after having become se customed to it. The arrest of the pro. fessor's traveling companion was soon effected, but Prof. die Gubernatla has not recovered a penny of his lost money. _______ THEY WERSt ALWAYS HERE. Accordina' to This Account Coek. reaches and Bedbusa Are et .Very Ancient Lineage. In the very oldest fossil-bearing rocks 'no insects are found. The very oldest fossil is a kind of polyp, making reefs of limestone, wrhen as yet the in sects had not appeared, and it "flour ished" in Canada, says the Londoni Spee ta tor. The first insect known to have existed, a creature of such vast and tiquity that It deserves all the respect which the parvenu man can summon and offer to It, was-a cockroach. This, the father of all black beetles, prob ably walked the earth in solitary mag alicence when not only kitchens, bas even kitchen maidens were undreamed of, possibly millions of years before neolithic man had even a back cave to offer with the remains of last night's supper for the cockroach of the period to enjoy. His discovery established the fact that In the uilurian period there were Insects, though, as the only piece of his remains found was a wing, there has been room for dispute as to the exact species. Mr. Gross in his preface to the second edition of his book notes says that what is probably a still older Insect has been found -in the lower ilurian In Sweden. This was not a' cockroach, but apparently something worse. If the Latin name, Protocimen ilurius, be literally translated, it means the original silurian bug. All Were Safe. An earthquake, lately, in Caracas, Venezuela, borught ruin and terror. The city wa in astate of chaos for days. The keeper of the jail, which always has inmates confined there for political offenses, issued the following notice, which ought to have amused as well as reassured those who iread It: "To the public: I have the st isfaction -to inform the families of those who are detained here that this enorning's earthquake has happily caused no accident within this .-e tablabment" Swallow. as Carriers. The question of employing swl lows instead of pigeons to carry di.. patches has been seriously consid eed in France. The aptitude of,the swallow for the work is by many held to be even,. greater than that of the pigeon.___ ___ A Grave Danger. The Oommoner asys: 'A MattooD, ll, man asks for a diviorce on the grounds that be was under hypuotis infiaenee when he was mied. There will be a grave danger to the usrriage - laws if this contention is upheld by the courts. It will not be dimeiult for any ' man to prove that he was hypnotised when he was married A pair of bright e es exerts a owerful iniaer cc on the average man. THlE VERY MAN~ Bi WAS LoDNG Fo.-A South (jarolina edi-o ~ono ig away, left his paper in charge of a minist er. During the minitter's stay in the sanctum the following letter came from a mountain subscriber: "You know very well that I raid my subscription to your psp'r the last time I was in your blasted town. If I get any more letters from you like the last one [ will come down to s our offie and maul the devil out of you '' The minister answered: "I have been try ing to maul that thing out, of the editor for fifteen years past. and if you will ome down and do it for me, I have twenty more members of my con gregation that I will get you to work