The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 20, 1901, Image 4
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
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? HiRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO -
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s
A Seory ct sutffring, Cruelty c
and Vandalism :Graphi- d
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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