The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 06, 1901, Image 4

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tHR1STIAN HEROISN'L Dr. Talmage Praises It and Tel:s of Its Great Rewards. ifow the Lord Jeaus wril Rnemembt-r the Faithfui Soldier of the Cross -Heroes and Martyra of Everyday Life. [Copyright. 1901. by I.ois Klopsch.] Washington. Feb. 24. In this discour:e Dr. Talmage praises Christian heroism and tells of great rewards. The text is Galatians vi., 17, "1 bear in my body the mavlks of the Lord Jesus." We hear much about crowns, thrones, victories, but I now tell the more quiet story of scars, honorable and dishonorable. There are in al parts of the world people bearicg dishonorable scars. They went ini o the battle of sin and were worste, and to their dying day they will have a scarification of body or mird or soul. It cannot be hidden. There n::e tens of thousands of men and women now consecrated to God and living holy lives who were once corrupt; but they have been regenerated, and they are no more what they once were than rubescence is emaciation, than balm Is vitriol, than noonday is midnight. But in their depleted phys ical health or mental twist or style sf temptation they are ever and anon reminded of the obnoxious past. Whey have a memory that is deplor able. In some twinge of pain or some tendency to surrender to the wrong they have an unwholesome remin isoenee. They carry scars, deep sears, ignoble scars. But Paul in my text shows us a searifcation which Is a badge of hon orable and self-sacrificing service. $e had in his weak eyes the result of too much study and in his body, bent and worn, the signature of scourgings and shipwrecks and mal treatment by mobs. In my text he shows those scars as he declares, "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Notice that it is not wounds, but scars, and a scar is a healed wound. Before the scar is well defined upon the flesh the in 'anmation must have departed and right circulation must have been restored and new tissue must have been formed. It is a permanent in dentation of the flesh-a cicatrix. Paul did well to show those scars. They were positive and undisputable proofs that with all his body, mind and soul he believed what he said. They were his diploma, showing that he had graduated from the school of hardship for Christ. They were cre dentials proving his right to lead in the wold's evangelization. Men are not ashamed of scars got in battle for their country. No American is embarrassed when you ask him: "Where did you get that gash across your forehead?" and he can answer: "That was from a saber I cut at San Juan." When you ask some German: "Where did you lose your right arm?" he is not ashamed to say: "I lost it at Sedan." When y ou ask an Italian: "Where did you tose your eye ?" he is not annoyed when he ca~n answer: "I suffered that in the last battle under our glorious Gen. Garibaldi." But I remind you of the fact that there are scars not got in war which are just as illus trious. We had in this country years ago an eminent advocate who was called Into the presidential cabinet as attorney general. In midlife he was In a Philadelphia courtroom en gaged in an important trial. The at torney on the orposite side of the case got irritated and angry and in most brutal manner referred to the distinguished attorney's disfigured face, a face more deeply scarred than ay face I ever saw. The legal hero of whom I am speaking In his clos ing argument said: "Gentlemen of the jury, when I was a little child I weas playing with my sister in the nursery, and her clothes caught fire, and I ran to her to put out the fire. E succeeded, but I myself took fne, and before It was extinguished my taco was awfully burned and as black as the heart of the scoundrelly coun sel who on the other side of the case has referred to my misfortune." The eminent attorney of whom I speak carried all his life the honorable sear of his sister's rescue. Albert Barnes, the most distinguished of all comn 2nentators, unless it be Matthew Eenry, for years at four o'clock in the morning might have been seen going from his house In Philadelphia to his study in the church and in those early hours and before break fast to give all those wonderful com snentaries, a theological library in themselves. He said that as he was pator he felt bound to give all the jetof each day to work connected .with his pastorate. But at what a ruineus draft upon his eyesight he didl that early morning work, first by andlelight and then by gaslight! WVhen he got through these wonder tal volumes of Scriptural exposition, N4bert Barnes was a blind man. Sears, Illustrious scars, on his extin enlahedl eyesight! ?.ople think they must look for martyrs en battlefields or go through a history to find burnings at the stake and tortures on racks when there are martyrs all about us. At this time in this capital city there are ores of men wearing themselves uIn the publio service. In ten years they will not have a healthy nerve left In their body. In comn snittee rooms, in consultations that involve the welfare of the nation, un der the weight of great responsibili Lies, their' vitality is beipg subtracted. enu almost every village 'of the country ' And some broken down state or ~tonal offcial. After exhausting hself In the public service, rough $Anerean politics kicks him out of eongress or cabinet or legislative hall. Becoming Popular. The burning of negross is bzoom'ng quite a popular and common amuse ment out west. Indiana's exploit sur passed that of Colorado. Terre Haute is a city of over 30,000 inhabitants, with many schools and churches, yet a mob took fromz its jail a ;risoner who had killed a white man, dragged him throngh the streets, beat him to death and burned the lifeless body. Women and children jostled the men to get a glimpse of the burning. The negroe's toes sold for one dollar each. The Sam Hose affair was not as bod as this. Let the cranks let up on the soath. She may be barbarous, but there are others. --Columbia State. Two Killed. A building in West Nineteeth street in New York collapsed Thursday morn-1 ing and it is reported that four persons were buried under the ruins. Later it was found that two men were killed and two injured, one probably fataig. Twenty in all were beneath the toppl ing mass when it swung over but 'he1 tad be goes Into e011P1?T eb. ourity ansd comparative want, for he ,as been long enough away from toms to lose his professional oppor. unities. No man that was ever put ,o death by sword or instrument of orture was more of a martyr than hat man who has been wrung to leath by the demands of official po ition. The scars may not be visible, or these are scars on the brain, nd scars on the nerve and scars on the heart, but nevertheless are they scars, and God counts them and their reward will be abundant. In all lands there are veterans of war who may not have had their face scraped with one bullet or their foot Lamed by one bursting shell and who :ould not roll up their sleeve and show you one mark suggestive of battle, yet carry with them weak 2esses got in exposures to disease Llong malarial swamps or from nany miles of marching, and ever mnd anon they feel a twinge of pain, ,ach recurrence of which is sharper yr more lasting, until after awhile they will be captured for the tomb by disorders which started 20 or 30 )r 40 years before. And their scars are all unseen by human eyes. -Bat those people are as certainly the vic tims of war as though they had been blown up in an undermined fortress or thrust through with a cavalry man's lance. Wi at I want to make out is that there are scars which re never counted except as God counts them, and I want tb enlarge your sympathies. There are many who can, in the same sense that Paul uttered it, say: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Je sus"-tha.t is, for the sake of Christ nd His cause they carry scars which keep their indenture through all time and all eternity. Do you think that Paul was accurate when he said that? If you have studied his career, you have ao doubt of it. In his youth he learned how to fashion the hair of the Cilician goat into canvas, a quiet trade, and then went to college, the president of which was Gamaliel, an institution which scholars say could not have been very thorough because of what they all Paul's imperfect command of Greek syntax. But his history became exciting on the 'road to Damascus, where he was unhorsed and blinded. Eis conversion was a convulsion. Whether that fall from the horse may have left a mark upon him I know not, but the mob soon took after him and bogged and Imprisoned and nialtreated him until he had scars more than nough to assure the truthfulness of hiis utterance: "I tear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." All of Paul's suffering was for Christ's sake. He had intellectual powers which could have achieved for dim all worldly successes. You see what he could do in a courtroom when with extemporaneous speech he made the judicial bench tremble; when on ;iars hill he confounded the Athenian critics; Chen he preached amid the ex ritement of a tumbling penitentiary; vhea in a storm at sea he took com mand of the ship. the only one on board ol headed. With his inspired logic, ad his courage of utterance, and his power of illustration, and his capacity to move audiences. and his spirit of de ance, there was no height of worldly >wer he might. not have gained. What Hannibal was to an army, what Draco was in making laws, what omer was to poetry, what Demos :henes was In power of persuasion, yhat Socrates was to philosophy, what teschylus was to the drama, that Paul night have been to all centuries. God never before and never since made an ther human being like him. But with di his capacity and opportunity of achieving wonldly renown lie turns his >ack on home and becomes an exile, on bounteous tables and eats his hard rust by the roadside, on the pleasure racts that sailed the Mediterranean d embarked on a freightboat from Alexandria, on scholars in Athens end alks to fishermen. Instead of plaudits y aroused and enthusiastic as semblages be addressed audiences that talked back and asked insolent ques tions and broke up in a riot. Instead of garlands flung at his feet they hurled stones upon his head. Five times he was scourged, at each whipping 39 strokes, the fortieth stroke spared not. from mercy, but becaue 40 strokes were the severest punishment the lawu allowed, and thty feared, through counting wrong, they might make it Li and so themselves be punished.. Why, Paul must have been scarred al. sver, and he only tells the plain truth. without any commentary when he de lares: "I bear in my body the marks f the Lord Jesus." It was as much as to sa~y: "See those long scars? There is where they whipped me. See you. thsat ugly indenture. That is where tsey stoned me. Sel you that encir lng scar on my wrist? That is where they handcuffed me. See those ugly urves around my ankles? There is where they made my feet fast in the stocks." There are many who, like that apos loi martyr, have on them the mark: of the Lord Jesus. There is the grees army of foreign missionaries, some times maligned by dissolute American, nglish and Scotch merchants, who at Hong-Kong and Calcutta and Constan tinope have had their wickedness re proved by the pure home life of thesis missionaries. There is the great aray of the ministers of the Gospel, now in Heaven, who, on small salaries and mmid fatigues that slew them, served their day and generation. There Is an other great army of private Christians who, in Sabbath schools and in tract listribution and in humanitarian and evangelistic efforts have put their lif-s in sacrifice on the altars of God. Theres ie another army of Christian invaders who lost their life in overwork for the church and the world's redemption. People call their Illness neuralgia or nervous prostration or insomnia or paresis or premature old age. I call heir ailments soars, as my text calls ~hem scars. There may be sears on thea Slept a Year in a Coffin. For nearly a year Levi Riseling, who Iied at Joplin, Mo., a few weeks ago. ud by willing his $700,000 estate to e 0. 0. F. and Masonic lodges of hat city endeavored to deprive his even children of the benfits of hisi ea.th, elept in a coffin. About thirty ears ago he wss resident of DeSoto. Ill ight miles from here, where he con ictd a furniture and undertaking business. While in that village andi isiter three children had been born, hes and his wife parted. He continued his business at DeSoto nearly a year after te separation dunring that time made his store his home and slept in a coffin Tough Sayings. Senator Hanna declared in the Sen ite the other day that he had heard hings said there which brought the >1Ush of shame to his cheeks. If thoass 'hings" are printed in the Congres ical Record will not that 'valuable aly be exaluded from the mails, An order was issued at the war de atment Thursday placing Brig. Gens. ames H. Wilson and Fitzhugh Lee on 6asaety, soars on the spirits., sears en the courage, soars on the soul, as well as sears on the body, and thoseinvisible to the human eye are as honorable as those visible. All ye who bear in your body the marks of the Lord Jesus have you thought what use those magks will be In the heavenly world? What source of glorious reminiscence! In that world you will sit together and talk over earthly experiences. "Where did you get that soar?" saint will say to saint, and there will come back a. story of hardship and struggle and perse cution and wounds and victory through the grace of the Gospel. Another spirit will say to listening spirit: "Where did you get that hurt so plainly marked?" And the answer will be: "Oh, that was one of the worst hurts I ever had. That was a broken friend ship. We were in sweetest accord for years, together in joy and sorrow. What one thought the other thought. We were David and Jonathan. But our personal interests parted, and our friendships broke never to be renewed on earth. But we have made It all up here, and misunderstandings are gone, and we are in the same Heaven, on neighboring thrones, in neighboring oastles on the banks of the same river." "Where did you get that mark?" says another spirit to listening spirit, and the ansi. .r comes: "That is a re minder of a great bereavement, of a desolated household, of a deep grave, of all the heartstrings at one stroke snapped altogether. But you see it is no longer a laceration, for the wound has been healed, and my once bereft spirit is now in companionship with the one from whom for awhile I was separated." "Where did you gelt that long, deep scar?" says another im mortal to listening immortal, and the answer comes: "That was the awful fatigue of a lifetime struggle in at tempting amid adverse circumstances to achieve a livelihood. For 30 years I was tired-oh, so tired! But you see it is a healed wound, for I have found rest at last for body and soul, the complete rest, the everlasting rest, that remaineth for the people of God." Some one in Heaven will say to Martyr John Rtogers: "where did you get that scar on your foot?" and the an swer will come: "Oh, that was a burn I suffered when the flames of mar tyrdom were kindled beneath me!" "Ignatius, what is that mark on your cheek?" "Oh, that was made by the paw of the lion to which I was thrown by the order of Trajan!" Snme one will say to 1aulg "Great apostle, that must have been a deep -cut once, the mark which I see on your neck." And Paul says: "That was made by the sword which struck me at my behead ment en the road to Ostia." But we all have scars of some kind, and those are some of the things we will talk over in the heavenly world while we cele brate the grace that made us triumph ant over all agnosticisa. Now what is the practical use of this subject? It is the cul:ivation of Christian heroics. The most of us want tc say things and do things for God when there is no danger of get ting hurt. We are all ready for easy work, for popular work, for compen --- sating work, but we all greatly need more courage- to brave the world and brave satanic assault when there Is something aggressive and bold and dangerous to be undertaken for God and righteousness. And if we happen to get bit what an adieu we make about itl We all need more of the stuff that martyrs are made out of. We want more sanctified grit, more Christian pluck, more holy recklessness as to what the world may say and do in any crisis of our life. Be right and do right, and all earth and hell combined cannot put you down. The . same -little missionary who wrrote my text also uttered that piled up magnificence to be found in those words which ring like battle axes on splitting helmets: "In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us, for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor an gela, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." How do you like that, you cowards, who shrink back from aggressive work and if so much as a splirnter pierce your flesh cry out louder than many a one torn in aut,o da fe? Many a sol dier has gone through a long war, been In 20 battles, led a regiment up a hill mounted by cannon and swept by mus ketry and yet came home without hav ing been once hit and without a mark upon him. But it will not be so among those who pass 'n the grand review of Heaven. They Lave all in the holy wars been wounded, and all bear scars. And what would the 'ewly arrived in Heaven do with nothing to show that he had ever been struck by human or diabolic weaponry; how embarrassed and eccentrio such an ore In such a place! Surelyl he would want to be exoused awhile from thie heavenly ranks and be permitted to des -- earth, crying: "Give me chance to do something worth, ' immortal. Show me some post of dag'r to be manned, some fortress to bs stormed, some diffncult charge to make. Like Leonidas at Thermopylae, like Miltiades at Marathon, like Marl broughk at Blenheim, like Godfrey at Jerusalem, like Winkelried at Sam paeh gathering the spe*,rs of the Aus trian knights Into his bosom, giving his life for others, show me some plaee where I can do a brave thi:ag for God. I cannot go back to Heaven antil some where I bear in my body th.e marks of the Lord Jesus." My hearer, my read er, quit complaining a'bout your mis fortunes and disappointments and troubles and through ill time and all eternity thank God for sears! Thy saints in all this lorious war Bha.1 ceneuer the they die; They hee the trium~, reZ4 afar d seie it i'ith heteye. - th,9 ~at illustrious ay shall ris& 'sallThine armies shine. btoeaeof ictory thrOugh the skies, '~teglory shall beThie Runs Amuck. At Macon, Ga,, Levi Carroll, a ne gro, aged 24. Thursday morning stabbed his father, Hardy Carroll, killing him almost instantly. He next rashed to the house of his grandmother and at tempted to induce her to c, ae out. but she refused, and ordered him from the plae. He ran to the house of a woman named Diana Lookett, and found her asleep. He went to her bedside and thrust the knife into to her back. Her death ensued immediately. Carroll then gave himself up. White Man Lynched. The body of John Knox, white, is dangling from a tree at Scranton Miss. He was lynched for the murder of Bon Davis, by a mob of a hundred men fully armed, who caught and bound the sheriff and battered open the jail door. Slow in Recruiting. Ii so little interest continues to b3 shown to enlist in the army the pro bilities are that the recruiting station here will not be maintained much longer. Only about a dozen men have been enlisted and but few more have made application.-Columbia Re SOME NEW LAWS Passes a te Recent Session of a the Legislature t KEEP'THEM FOR REFERENCE. Several New Acts of the Legislature that Will be Read With Interest. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Soo. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Caro lina: Tl.at section 2500 of the general ttatutes of 1882, incorporated in section 165 of the crimhical statutes of :893, be, and the same is hereby, amended ly adding on line 3, immtediately a'ter the a word "or," the word "any" by adding on line 4, immediately preceding ti e word "tcrsona'," the words "kinds, class, article or do scriptiton of"; by changing the word "and,' on line 6. to the word 'or"; so that sa-d teecn, when amera d, shall read as follows: Sec. 165 (2500). Whoevr shall wil fully, unlawiully and maliciously cut, ,hoot, maim, wound, or o herwise in jare or destroy any horse, mule nest cattle, hog, sheep, goat, or any other kind, class, article, or detcription of personal property, the goods and chit tels of anothe-, shall be guilty of a misdeamtanor. and upon conviotion thereof, shall to fined or imprisoned at the di-ere t'on of the jndgebefore Sbom the case shall be tried. ALIEN OWNERSHIP. The fo'lowing is the text of the re centlv approved a ot to limit the num ber if acres of land which any alien, or any e rp' ration oontrolled by aliens,' coat own withio this Sta'e: S eti )L 1. That no alieD, c' czrpora tion controlled by alie s either in his <r its own right or as a trustee, ccatui que t u.t o agent, shall own or can trol, witl in the lini s of this State more than 500 acres of land: Provided, This se bhall not apply to land pur chased ureer ;roceedings, either by he ion cr power of tale, to foreclose any mer gag" I ereaf er acqu'red by any alien, or ee rgoration controlle I by aliens purchasinu the tame, but in u:h case such alien, or corporation e ,ntrollk d by aliens, shall not be en titled to hold said excess of land more than five year, without sale of same, unlees t'e comptroller general shall certify -ha a ta!e during that Lime wculd be materially detrimental to the ir tern st of tut h a'ien. or corporation controlled by aliens, in which case the said alien, er cr.rpcration controlled by aliens. may hold the land for five years longer uprn the Fame conditions. See. 2 Nothing in this act shall ap ply to lands already owned or con tiolled by the persons or corporatiors re'erred to in this rot, nor to lands at ready mortgage d to such persons or corporations Sr o 3. An sot entitled "an act to limit the amount of lard which aliens or foreign c ,rporations may own with in this State," approved March 9 1896 and all other acts atd parts of acts inco-nsistent with this tot, are hereby repea' ed. *A CHAINGANG ACr The following it the test of the new .ct "to prcvide for the cstablishment f chair gaogs in incorporated cities, towns at d villages situated in counties that I ave no county chaingangs," which s c-f considerable importare -: Section 1. Th-at the authorities gov troing any c'ty, town or village sit uated in counties where chaingangs do not exist, if they see fit s-> to d), may e tab ish and operate a chaingang for the purpose of working the streets of uih ci y. town or village, and th e pub, tic roads leading into such city, town or villas e. Sec. 2 That a'l able bodied male prsons colnvicted before the coult of mgistr-ttes in counties where no county chain gang exists, .1 all be een tenced, according to law, to work upon the chaingang established under this act, by the city, town or villege Dear est the cffice of the magistrate senten ciughiuchl ; erson See. 3. That all able bodied male per sons convicted btfore the court of gen ral tessiots of counties not having o ,unty chaingange, who are sentenced for a pericd of one year or less, shall be sentenced to work upon some one of the chaingangs es:ablished under this act St c 4 That if after the passage of this set, any county which has not already established a county chainsang, should hcreafter establibh a county ohaingang, then this act shall not ap ply to such county. And if afterthe passage of this act any county should abandon the county chaingang, then, and in that event, this act shall imme diately become operative and of full area and effect as to tuah county so abandoning the ocunty chaingang sys .em. THE PENSION ACT The force of the pension act of the l gislature of 190'1 has been questioned beause the gener'al appropriation bill provided for but $100,000 fcr this eauqe, while the special act provides $150,000 It is generdaly acciented that the special act is all right. It reads: Ste. 1. Be it enacted by th~e gencr~il assembly of the State of South Caro lina: That section 1 of the act entitled "An act to ;rovide for pensions for certain so'd'ers and sailors, now resi dents of South Carolina, who were in the serv'ce of the State or of the Con federate States, in the late war between the States," apr.roved 19th Febru ary, 1900, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words "One hundred, "and inserting in lieu thereof "one hundred and fifty" before the word ' thousand," on lines two and three of said section, and by adding at end of said section the following, to wit: Provided, further, In case the same, or such amount as shall be ap propriated, Ehall be more than 6ufil cient, then the amount as approrriated shall be distributed proportionately among all those legally entitled to re ceive the same: so that said section, when so amended, shall read as fol owa: Sec. 1 The sum of at least $150,000 shall be annually appropriated to pay the pensions provided for in this act, and in case the same, or such amount as shall be appropriated, shal.l be in sufficient, then the amount so appro priated shall be distributed ropor tionately among those legally entirled o receive the same: Provided, That those pensioners described in subdivis ion (a), section 4, herein, sasll have been first paid in full: Provided fur ther, In case the same, or such amount as shall be appropriated, shall be more than sufficient, then the amount as ap propriated shall be distributed propor tioately among all those legally en titled to receive the same. DOUBLE DAILY TRAINS The following is the text of the new ailroad OommissiOn power to require ouble daily trains on the several rail oads: Section 1. That an act entitled "An et to sm-nd an act entitled 'an sot to e ulate the schedule of passenger Tains in certain cases,' approved the b day of March, 1896," approved the d day o! May, A. D 1897, be, and the ame i- hereby, amended by inserting n line 11 of section 1, after the word 'railroads," and before the word "so," he fellowing: "and, if they deem rea onable, they may likewise require uch persons, associations or corpora ions to furnish to the traveling pub ic facilities for passage over su:h ailroads twice each way daily," so hat section 1 shall read: Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen ral assembly of the State of South Jarolina: That an act entitled "An ct to regulate the schedule of paseen er trains in certain caes,'' approved he 9-h day of March, 1896. be, and the sme is hereby, amended by adding at he tnd of section 1 thereof the follow og words, to wit: "And the better to secure etch connections, they may re hire all persons, associations or c r orations operating ary railroad or ailroads (exc-pt such as may b3 in :be bands of receivers) to run at least nre unmixed daily passenger train sach way over such railroad or rail roals, and if they deem reasonable he) may likewise rcquire such per ;cn:, associations or corporations to Furnish to the travelirg public facili ies for passage over such railroads twice each way daily," so that said section 1 shall read: It shall be the iuy of the railroad commissioners. ithin thirty dsys after the passage of this act, and from time to time, to examine into the schedules of all the railroads in this State for the carriage f persons or passengers, with a view to ascertain if said roads can reason ably make close conr eation with inter seting roads; and whenever, in their ipirion, such close connection can be made without injustice or material in jury to such road or roads, they shall make the appropriate orders to effect the same. And the better to secare such connections, they may require all persons, asscciations or corporations operating any railroad or railroads (except such as may he in the hands of riceiver:) to run at leat one un mixed daily passenger train each way over such railroad or railroads, and may likewise require such persons, as sociations or corporations to furnish to the traveling public facilities for pas sage over such railroads twice each way daily. DEMURRAGE. During the last State campaign there as a lot of talk on the part of candi datts for the office of railroad commis sioner about the hardship exacted of a rons of railroads on account of 'the heavy demurrage charges made by railroads. One of the complaints was that railroads do Lot furnish warehous' a at mall stations to store freight until it is called for, and yet it demands of the party to whom the freight is consigned that he remove it at once or pay stcr age charges for the use of the car. At the erd of a certain time the freight will be unloaded at the owner's risk In the case of soluable guano and such commodities, the weather might dam age the shipment considerably if it be unloaded without shelter, and the own er might live at Ecme distar.ce from the station and not know of the arrival f the freight. Mr. H. J Kinard of Greenwood introduced a bill which be came an act, which provide d a moder ate rate of storage. The act is entitled "An act to require the railroad cnn mission to fix rates of storage to be oharged by railrcad companies in this Stae, to-prescribe regulations for charg ing the same, and to prescribe how su shall be brought for over charges and to fix the measure for recovery, and to regulate the freight oha' g -s on melons." So much of the sct as re lates to melons was an amendment put in by the senate. The act reads: boction 1. Bc is enacted by the gen eral a simbly of the State of South Carolina, that from and after the pas sage of this ect power is hereby con t rred on the railroad commission of South Carolina, and they are rcqu'red to fir and prescribe a schedule of maxi mum rates and charges for storage of freight., made and charged by railroad companies doing busine S3 in this State, ad to fix at what time after the recep ion of freight at place of destinzation suc charges of storage shall begin, pith power to vary the s-tie aecording to the value and character of the freight stored, the nature of the ilace of des tina ion and the residence of consignee, and such other facts as in their jadge ent should be considered in fixing the same. 8:c. 2. Tlat all the provisions of the act creating said railroad commission and c's amnendatory thereof, pre seri'- ing the procedure of said commis sion in fixing freight and passenger traffic, and hearing complaints, of car rier and shipper, and of altering and amending said traffic, shall apply to the subj cot of fixing and amending rates and charges for for storage, as afore Sec 3. That DO railroad company shall make or retain, directly or indi retly any charge for storage of freight greater than that fixed by the commis sion for each particular storage, n ir shall they discriminate directly or indi reetly by means of rebates, or any other device in such charges, between persons. Sec 4. That if any railrcai company shall violate the provisins of this act, either by exceeding the rates of stor age prescribed, or by discriminating as aforesaid, the personeor persons so pay ing such overcharge, or subjected to such discrimination, shall have the rightto sue for the same in any court of this State having jurisdiction of the claim, and shall have all the remedies and be entitled to recover the same penalties and measure of damages as is prescribed in the case of overcharge of freight rates, upon making like de mand as is prescribed in such case, and after like failure to pay the same. Sec. 5 On and after the passage of tis act it shall be the duty of all rail road companies doing business in this tate to publbsh during the months of January and February of each year the rates of freight ona water melons and antelopes per ear load per twenty four thousand pounds and upwards, from the various points in this State to he different markets of the country which rates shall not be increased dur ing the cumrent year. Sec. 6 Any railroad cmpany violat Lng the provisions of this act, by chars ing rates higher thaan those published, shall forfeit te the party injured double he amount of the freight charged, :o be recovered in any court of compe ent jurisdiction. Se. 7. That all acts and parts of acts nonsistent with this act are hereby :epealed. A Bad Break. A Western Kansas editor apolog'zes or saying a bride appeared in her 'shirt sleeves." "We wrote, 'short sleeves,' " says the editor, "as plain as OVER ONE MILLION Dollars Apprepra'ed by the Recent Legislature. THE LARGEST iN YEARS. I he Varicus Sums Appropriated Each item as Provided for in the General Ap propriai i in Act. Below are given the various items carried by the general appropriation act passed by the general assembly at its recant sess'on, as taken directly from the act. It will be noted that the act carries appropriations amounting to $1,012,679.74, the greatest amount ap propriated by any legislature in recent years, and an amount considerably in excess of the comptroller's estimates. But this great sum does not cover all the appropriations made by the legisla ture at its session just closed. It only covers the items put in the general act. By means of special acts -$40 953 was appropriated fcr legislative expenses; $50,000 more for pensions, $24,000 for an electric light.plant, in ease it is to be estsblished, and $1,900 for the sal ary of the State geologist. If the elec tric plant is put in and that appropria tion is used, thi total amount of the ap propriations by the general assembly will be $1,149 532 74. Here are the items as they appear in the approt nation act: GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. Salary of governor....... $ 3,000 00 Salary of private secretary.. 1.350 00 Salary of messenger ...... 400 00 Stenegrapher .......... ..400 00 Contingent fund.... ...... 5,0(10 00 Stationery and stamps..... "300 00 $10,450 00 OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE Salary of Secretary of S.att$ 1 900 00 Salary of chief clerk...... 1350 00 Erra clerk hire...... ... 400 00 Contingent fund.......... 150 00 Stationery and stamps..... 500 00 Books and blanks......,.. 300 00 $4.600 00 OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Salary of comptroller gen..$ 1 900 00 Salary of chief c'erk.......1 400 00 Salary of bookkeeper ..... 1,400 00 Salary of auliting clerk ... 1,400 00 Contingent fund.......... 200 00 Stratione ry and stamps..... 300 00 Printing ........ ....... 500 00 Traveling expenses ....... 500 00 $7,600 00 OFFICE OF STATE TREASURER Salary of State treasurer..$ 1,900 00 Chief clerk............... 1,500 00 Bookkeeper............. ..1 350 00 Bookkeeperloan department 1,350 00 Contingent fund. ........ 200 00 Stationery and stamps..... 200 00 Printing bords and stocks.. 2,000 00 $8.500 00 SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. Salary of supt. education.. .$ 1 900) 00 Sa'ary of c era............ 1 200 00 Stenc g-apher and type write r 400 00 'Contingent fund........ ...200 00 8:ationery and stamps... . 300 00 Books blanks .ublic schools 1,319 30 Erper ses State boai-d of ed ucation....... ..... ... 300 00 Traveling expenses .... 300 00 $5 919 00 ADJUrANT AND IESPECTOR GENERAL Salary of adjutant and in spector gerneral.......$ 1,500 00 Salary of assistant adjtitant and inspector genral. 1 200 00 Back pay of assistant adia tant and inspector general 300 00 Sal. of armorer and <xpense 350 00 C'ntingernt fund ..... .500 00 8-ationery ard stamps... 150 00 Ezr ense of office, collecting arms, ect.............. 550 00 $4 550 00 OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL. Salary of auoroey general.. $ 1,900 00 Salary of asst. att'y. gen. 1,350 00 Contingent fund.. .. .... ...150 00 Stationery and stamrs... 100 00 ExperDes litigatio2 ... . 1,500 00 Extracrdinary....... ..... 500 00 Special fund............. 250 00 $8 000 00 OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARIAN. Salary of State hbrar.an.. $ 800 00 Contingent lund...........175 00 Stationery and stamps... 300 00 Pur.,hase and binding books 100 00 $1,376 00 PENSION DEPARTMENT For pensions. ....... .$00,000 00 Salary cf clerk..... .. ..... 600 00 Stamps and stationery... 120 00 $100720 00 INDEXING AND CODIFYING ACTS. Salary of code commissionez$ 500 00 PHOSPBATE INSP'.CTOR. Salary of inspector........$ 1,200 00 Expenses of board .... ......300 00 KEEPER OF STATE HOUS E AND GROUNDS. Salary of two watchmen.. .$ 960 00 Slary of Janitor. .........160 00 Salary of engieer 7 months, $75 00 per month...........525 00 alary of engineer, 5 months at $25 00 per month... . 125 00 Salary of two firemen, each $3500 per month.. ......490 00 Contingent land keeper State house ..... 200 00 Fuel State house ..........1,200 00 $3 660 00 JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. Salary chief justice...$ 2,850 00 Salary Y. J Pope, A. J... 2,850 00 Salary Ira B Jones, A. J.. 2,850 00 Salary Eugene B Gary, A J. 2.850 00 Salary of eight circuit judges at $3.000 00 each.... ..24,000 00 Salary of eight circuit solicitors ....... ...... 11,050 00 Salary of eight circuit sten ographers.... ......... 10,060 00 State repoiter.. .. ........1,500 00 Clerk of supreme court. 800 00 Librarian supreme court. 800 00 Salary messenger supreme court............ ......20000 Salary of attendant. .......200 00 Stenographer supreme court 400 00 Contingent fund supreme court .. . .............500 00 Prchase books supreme - court library.. ..........500 00 Purchase reports supreme court library... ....... 1,200 00 *62,550 00 RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. Salary of railroad commis sioners........ .. ....$ 5,70000 Secretary of railroad comn m'ssion............... 123000 For extra copies railroad commissioners' report...... 150 00 Contingent expensea, rent of office....... .... .......1,20000 $8a20n0 STATE P3NITZNTIAfrM. Watary of superin'enent....$ 1,90000 %ysleian..............,.. 1,05000 erk. .. 120000 ,aptain of guards.......... 1,05000 haplain ................... 60000 $5,800.00 HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Expense quarantine Charles ton.......... ....$ 1,00000 lalary of quarantine officers, - Charleston.............. 1,65000 !alary of quarantine cfficers, Port R yal ..... .. ....700 00 azpenses two stations, Port Royal.......... .. .. 30000 lepairs of building, Port R'yal ...... ...... 10000 Salary quarantine cfficers, St. Helena....... ........ 70000 @:penses quarantine, St. He lena.... .... ........ 20000 Repairs for building, St. He lena......... .........10000 Ba'ary quarartine officers at Georgetown............. 45000 Expenses quarantine station, Georg;town............ 15000 [nsurance, etc., Georgetown.. 7500 3Slary of keeper of Laza retto ... ............. 300 00 alary of keeper of hospital building at Port Ryal.... 17500 For establ'sting a State board of health. ......... 2,200 00 For quarantine against con tagious and infections dis eases. ......... .....15,00000 IE rk seeretary of board.... . 300 00 $23,400 00 TAX DEPARTMENT Salary of county audnors..$ 25,500 00 Printing t o Mks and blanks auditors and treasurers... 2 500 00 $28.000 00 SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE Support of -South Carolina college....... .... $ 28,10700 For erection, completion and equipment of steward's hill 11 00000 For insurance S. C college.. 3,00000 For insurance S. C. college. .. 450 00 $42 557 00 S C MILITARY ACADEMY. Support bendfioiary cadets..$ 25 00000 For laundry:... .... .....1 500 00 For reparirs.............. 75000 For laboratcry .. ........ 75000 For library............... 250 00 $28,250 00 H INTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE Support of college... ....$ 43,276 00 Scholarships.... ... ... 5,45600 Equipment of dormitory.... 20,94000 $69;672 00 STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE Salary of superintendent.... $ 3 000 00 Board <f regents, per diem and mileage..... ...... 1 20000 Support of hospital........ 100,000 00 Psyment on Wallace proper .y............ ......4.12000 Improvement and repairs.... 10,000 00 Imurance....... .... ... 11750 $118,437 50 DEAF DU3MB AND BLIND ASYLUM. Forsupport ol aavlnm...$ 20i 00000 For school building..... .. 20 000 00 Steam heating...........1 120000 Steam hea-ing repairs, et.. 800 00 Wter supi ly, etc.... .....1,500 00 $43 500 00 , COLORED NOR3MAL COLLEGE For supj o -t of co11.'ie..$ 8,000 00 CATAWBA INDIANS. For the support of the In dians............... $ 1,00000 For schcol....... ........2000 $1,200 00 PUBLIC BUILDING. Public printing 1901...$ 12,000 00 SALAIES SUPERVISORS REGISTRATION For salaries ..............$ 6.000 00 MISCELLANEOUS Columbia waterworks. $ 2,000 00 Supp:rt of ni:itia...... ... 8,000 00 Rpairs governor's mansion.. 25') 00 R-pairs arsenal at Basuort.. 3001 00 Repairs S ate house.........200 00 For completion of State house, sinking fund ccm mission.... .... .... .. 15,000 00 For heating apparatus State house................ 150 00 Exrenses militia Georgetown and Florene............ 2 536 10 Souh Carolia ex; osition, Charleston............. 50 00000 laims passed, 1901.... ...3 000 00 Lighting puble buildings, in cluding State house......6,000 00 Lgislative expense 1900.. .284 44 Pyment o!'J. B. Watson.... 1620) L M. Ragin.. ...... 8000 United Gas and Improve reent Co., 1899.. ........169 20 Equipment and furnishing room Confederate museum, Richmond........ ........ 100 00 Chikamauga monument commission. .. .... .... ...400 00 W. A. Barber........... 75000 $89,235 94 Deficiency of election ex pee................. $ 1.28980 Dfisiency enem issioners of election, 1900........... 505 $1,29485 INTEREST ON PUBLIC DEBT. Interet t public debt..$285 04545 Past due interest.........20,000 00 tate board of (qunlization 7100 0 Examining books charitable and penal institutions. ... $ 463 00 Eamin ir g books comptroller general, sinking fund com mission. etc.. .. .. ....... 550 00 Rent of cflice superinter~dent of education...... ....... 400 00 $1 41300 Grand total......1 012 679 74 A BAGGAGE CAR BUERNED -The baggage car to Southern Railway No. 6, from Columbia to Charleston, was discovered on fire Wednesday morning ist after the train had passed Riley's. Th fact that the train was in motion gave the fire admirable opportunity to gain headway, and by the time the wheels had stopped almost the entire roof to the combined car was a mass of flames. All of the baggage was thrown to the ground and the entire crew and passengera called into service. Water finally was gotton from the engine and a portion of the car saved. After a delay of about forty-five minutas the train went on to Charleston. The roof to the car was badly damaged. It is supposed that a spark from a stove within the car was the cause of the blaze. NounoRULAH, Bulgarian wres ter, who has come to this coun try in search of opponents, is six feet seven inches tall, weighs 350 pounds, has a chest meas urement of 60 inches, and his arm measures 21 3-4 inches. If you want to try your Prowess of a wrestler, this is your FEAR OF LIGHTNING. R18K GREATER IN THE COUNTRY ,.; THAN IN TOWN. j3 Advice to People Who Fear the Elem tric Bolt-Danger From Trees and From Buildings-Where Itlis Not Wise to Stand. In the Century Alexander McCabe gives encouragement and advide to peo ple who have a fear of being struck by lightning-or thunder, as some of them thing. "The keen suffering which many un dergo gust in advance of or during a thunder-storm is of a dual nature. The sense of impebding danger alarms and terrifies, but there is also a depression of spirit which is physical and real, broughtabout by some as yet unknown relation with the nervous system and conditions of air pressure, humidity and purity. The suffering due to de pression and partjal exhaustion re quires, from those who are strong, sympathy rather than ridicule. The suffering due to alarm and fright, how ever, is unnecessary.. It Is largely the work of the imagination. To the ner vous nature there is something, appall ing in the wicked, spiteful gleam of the lightning and the crash and tumult of the thunder. But such a one should remember that the flash is almost al ways far distant, and the thunder ca do no more damage than the low notes of a church organ. Counting all the deaths from all the storms during a year, we find that the chance of being killed by lightning is less. than one in a hundred thousand. The risk in the city may be said to be five times less than in the country. Dwellers in city houses may lie star tied by peals of thunder, but owing to the great spread of tin roofing and fait ground connections, if buildings are adequately protected, and the momen tum of the flash provided for, the c cupants many feel secure. A good conducted, grounded rod is necessary in all isolated and exposed buildings. Barns, especially, when lined with green crops, should have a goda light ning conductor. "The question is often aswed, 'Do trees protect? The answer is that the degree of protection will vary with the character of the tree and its distance: from a water course. An oak is more liable to lightning-stroke than a beach. The character of the wood, the area-of leafage, the extent and depth 'of root, will determine the liabliity to stroke. "Another question which Is often asked is whether there Is danger aboard a large steamship during a thunder storm.- On the contrary thert are few safer places. Sufficient metal with proper superficial area is ifnter - posed in the path of the lightning,and its electric energy converted into harm less heat and rapidly dissipated. Ac;i dents occur dhiefly because the'victins ignorantly place themselves In the line of greatest strain, and thus form of the path of discharge. For this ren son it is not wise to stand under trees,. near flag poles or masts, in doorways or porches, close to fireplaces, or near barns. Those who are not exposed in any of these ways may feel reasonabll safe. "It should be remembered, in the event of accident, that lightfnig does not always kill. It more often results. in suspended animal en than In actual death. Therefore,- case of accident, try to restore animatin, keep the body warm and send for a physician with out delay." A Novelty for Gentlemen.. Some men are as particular about their clothing as the fussiest of women.e They object to anything being folded - or presse6f down by the weight of other clothing. They do not like to have all of their clothing hung in the closet by wire hangers. Such a man rcnl had a clothes case made to order. His tailor furnished the proper measure ments of all his clothing to, the candu maker who constructed It This case had to be long enough to contain his winter coat, if he should. tae anotion to keep it in a aidlig section, and other compartments were no deep drawer-everything was a slid lng shelf, with just enough room for. one article and partitioned off to ft. The shirt slide had three partitions, as that they could not help lying in order.. This allowed of theslhirts being drawn out one at a time. The slides were all shallow, about three Inches deep. There were special places for each article of underwear, cuffs, collars. nekties and hose and jewel bexes and toilet articles compartments. There was a big front board, which opened down like the lid of a desk and formed' a shelf, on which things could be laid and sorted out preparatory to being placed in their proper receptacle. A Queer Lamp. A rather remarkable spirit lsmp has een found in the workshop of a Kin. doo watchmaker. It is in the shape of a boar and has the burner on its back.' The design is not inartistic nor is It badly executed, but the most striking feature of it all.Is that its owner re gards it as a household god. -It Is sacred to the memory of the watchmaker's father, by whom It wa' made, and some hold that there la. A RZMAEKARLE LAXP. suggestion of the transmigration of tbs souls of men into:the nial In th reverence with which this anma is regarded. It is used, nevertesfe ter the purpose for which It was oiial designed-as a spirit lamp bywhc the watchmaker heats metal or soder. As an Instance of the combinaiea of busines and piety it Is rather Interest. ing. The extreme depth of misery Is a small boy with anew pair at b'oots and ae puddle. Paid The Penalty. A crowd of nearly ten thousand peo ple saw the execution of Chi Sin and Hsu Cheng Yu, who where beheaded at Pekin Wednesday in accordance with the demands of the powers. The mem bers of the various delegations were conspicuously absent, feeling that if they were present they might seem to be gloating over their fallen adversaries. Every power, however, was legally re preenttd by military offiers and sol -it diers and also a stafE offcer from each foreign power. The coademned men met death stoically. In each case onO blow severed the head from the body. WE believe that what this country needs most today is a' soul stirring, genuine revival of true and undefiled religion. It is needed from Maine to Texas and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A revival that would take in preachers, laymen and all- We do not only believe that such a revival is needed, but we also believe that such a revival is coming in the next few years at most. God speed it.