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Mim’smDns i mu in m ciiiuiijiiicxi CIUr.Ka M. BSE LDOV. “TH* OikCMm 4 < CHAPTER X. Mr. Hardy began In a low, clear tone: "Men and Women of Barton—To night I am not the man you have known me these 25 years I have been among you. I am, by the grace of God, a new creature.' As I stand here 1 have no greater desire In my heart than to say what may prove to' he a blessing to all my old townspeople and to my employees and to these strong young men and boys. Within a few short days God has shown me the self ishness of a human being's heart, and that heart was my own, and it is wltb- feellngs none of you can ever know that I look .Into your faces and say these words.” Robert paused a moment as If gath ering himself up for the effort that fol lowed, and the audience, startled with an unexpected emotion by the strange beginning, thrilled with excitement, at, lifting his arm and raising his voice, the once cold and proud man contin ued, bis face and form glowing with the transfiguration of a new manhood; "There Is but one supreme law In this world, and |t Is this: Ix>ve God and your neighbor with heart, mind, soul, strength. And there are but two things worth living for: The glory of God and the salvation of man. Tonight I, who look Into eternity In a sense which I will not stop to explain, feel the bit terness which comes from the knowl edge that I have broken that law and have not lived for those things which alone are worth living for. "But God has sent me here tonight with a message to the pe<^>le which my heart must deliver. It is a duty even more sacred In some ways than what I owe to my own kindred. I am aware that the hearts of the (ample are shock ed Into numbness by the recent horror., 1 know that more than one bleeding heart Is In this house, and the shadow of the last enemy has fallen over many thresholds In our town. What! Did I not enter Into the valley of (be sbftd ow of death myself as 1 stumbled over the ghastly ruins of that w^eck, my aoul torn In twain for the love of three of my own dear children? Do I not sympathise In full with all those who bitterly weep and lament and %R lu blackness of horror this night? Yea, bnt, men of Barton, why Is It that We are so moved, so stirred, so shocked, by the event of death when the far more awful event of life does Qot disturb us lu the least? "We shudder with terror, we lose our accustomed pride or Indifference, we speak In whlspera, and we tread ■oftly In the (►reaenee of the vishor who smites but once and then smites the body only, but In the awful pres ence of the living Image of God we go our ways careless, Indifferent, cold passionless, selfish. "I know whereof I speak, for I have walked through the world like that my •elf. And yet dea'lb cannot be com pared for one moment with life for majeaty, for solemnity, for meaning, for power. There were 75 persons kill ed In the accident. But In the (tapers . this morning I read lu the column next to that In which the accident was paraded In small type and In the brief est of paragraphs the statement that a certain young man In this very town of ours had been arrested for -fprglng his father's name on a check and waa In the grasp of the law. “And every day In this town and In every town all over the world events like that and worse than that are of frequent occurrence. Nay, In this very town of ours more than 75 souls are at this very moment going down Into a far blacker hell of destruction than the one down there under that fated bridge, and the community Is not hor rified over It. How many mass meet ings have been held In this town wlth- ‘u- character, the death of purity, the de struction of honesty? Yet they have outnumbered the victims of this late physical disaster a thousandfold. “And what^oes mere death do? It releases the spirit from Its bouse of earth, hut aside from that death doe's nothing to the person. But what does life do? Life does everything. It pre pares for heaven or for hell. It starts Impulses, molds character, fixes char acter. Death has no kingdom without end. Death Is only the last enemy of the many enemies that life knows. Death la a second; life 4s an eternity. O men, brothers, If, as I solemuly and truly believe, this Is the last opportu nity I shall have to speak to you iu such large numbers, 1 desire, you to remember, when 1 have vanished from your sight, that l spent dearly my last breath In an appeal to you to make the most of dally life, to glorify God and save men. "The greatest enemy of man is not death; It is selfishness, lie sit>tm the throne of the entire World, ^fliis very disaster which lias filled the town with sorrow was-due to selfishness. Let us see if that is not so. It lias been prov ed by Investigation already made that the drunkenness of u track Inspector was the cause of the accident. What was the cause of that drunkenness? The drinking liabHs of that Inspector. How did he acquire them? In a sa loon which we taxpayers allow to run on payment of a certain sum of money Into our own treasury. “So, then, It wda the greed or selfish ness of the «un of this town which lies at the hot turn of this dreadful dis aster. Who was to blame for tbf dis aster? The track Inspector? No. The aidoon keeper who sold him tire liquor? No. Who then? We ourselves, my brothers; we who licensed the selling »f the stuff Which turned a man’s brain Into liquid fire and smote bia Judg ment and reason with* a brand from out the burning pit “If I had stumbled upon the three corpeea of my own children night be fore last. 1 could have exclaimed In Justice before the face of God, *1 bare murdered my own children,’ for I was wne of the men of Barton to vote for tte license which made possible the drunkenness of the men In whose care Were placetT hundreds of lives. ^“For what Is the history of thjs case? Who was this wretched track In ■pector? A man who, to my oWn knowledge, trembled before tempta tion; who, on the testimony of the fore man at the shops, was and always had been a sober man up to the time when we as a municipality voted to replace the system of no license with the sa loon for the sake of what we thought was s necessary revenue. This man bad no great temptation to drink while tbs saloon was out of the way. Its very absence was bis salvation. But Ita public open return confronted bis appetite once more, and be yielded and fell. "Who says he was to blan^e? Who are the real criminals In the case? We otiraelves, citizens; we who, for greed' of gain, for the saving of that which has destroyed more souls In hell than any other one thing, made possi ble the causes which led to the grief and trouble of this hour. Would we not shrink in terror from the thought of lying In wait to kill a man? Would we not repel with holy horror the Idea of murdering and maiming 75 people? We would say impossible!’ Yet when l am ushered at la^t into the majestic presence of Almighty God I feel con vinced I shall sec In Ids righteous countenance the sentence of our con demnation just as certainly as If we had gone-out in a body and by wicked craft had torn out the supporting tim bers of that bridge Just before the train thuudorCd''tffilffr*If,'“'fp£ did We not sanction by law a business which we know Tempts men to break all the which fills our Jails and poor- houses, our reformatories and asylums, which breaks women's hearts and beg gars blessed homes and sends Innocent children to thread the paths of shams and vagrancy, which brings pallor into the face of the wife and tosses with the devil’s owb glee a thousand vic tims Into perdition with every revolu tion of this great planet about Its greater sun? «, “Men of Itartou, say what we will, we are the authors of this dreadful dis aster. And If we sorrow as a com munity We sorrow lu reality for our qwu selfish act. And, oh, the selfish ness oMU That clamoring greed for money! That burning thirst for more and more and more at the expense of every godlike quality, at the ruin of all that our mothers once prayed might belong to us us men and womeu! "What Is It, ye merchants, ye busi ness men, here tonight that ye struggle moet over? The one great aim .of your lives Is to buy fur as little as possible and sell for as much as possible. What care bkve ye for the poor, wbo work at worse than starvation wages, so long as ye can buy cheap and sell at large profits? What Is the‘highest aim of us railroad men In the great whirl of commercial competition which aetftbea and bolls and surges about this earth like another atmosphere, plainly visi ble to the devils of other worlds? “What Is our aim but to make money our god and (tower our throne? How much care or love Is there for flesh and blood at times when there la danger of mighty Baviour. It was not for this that we were made! We know It jras not “To whom am I speaking? To my self. God forbid that I should stand here to condemn you, being myself the chief of sinners for these 25 years. What have I done to bless this com munity? How much have I cared for the men In my employ? What differ ence did It make to me that my exam ple drove men away from the church of Christ and caused anguish to those few souls who were trying to redeem humanity? To my Just shame I make answer that no one thing has driven the engine of my existence over the track of Its destiny except self. And, oh, for that church of Christ that 1 professed to believe In! How mnch have I done for that? How much, O fellow members (and I see many of you here tonight), how much have we done In the best cause ever known and the greatest organization ever found ed? We go to church after that par** MtliBMrtStf through and through with the same things we have had poured Into us ev- try day of the w«p>k, us if wexT>egrudg- •d the whole of one day out of seven. We criticise prayer and hymn and ser mon, drop Into the contribution J^ox half the amount we paid during the week for a theater or concert ticket and then when anything goes wrong In the community or our clrthlreu^fnll Into vice scorn the church for weakness and the preacher for Isc.k of ability. "Hhame on us. men of Hnrtou, mem bers of tbe cbur>h of Christ, that we have so neglected our own church prayer meeting that out of a resident membership of more than 40U, living In easy distance of the church, only 00 have attended regularly, and over 200 have been tothat service occasionally. Yet we ertil ourselves disciples of ChristL^We say we believe In his bless- eth-ieachiugs; we say we believe in prayer, and lu the face of all these professions we turn our backs with In difference on the very means of spir itual growth and power which the church places within our reach. If Christ were to come to the earth today, he would say unto us, ‘Woe un to you, church members, hypocrites!’ He would say unto us, ‘Woe unto you, young disciples In name, who have promised to love and serve mp and then, ashamed of testifying before me, have broken promise and praygr and ridicule those who have kept their vows sacredly!’ He would say to us men who have made money and kept It to ourSfeltes: ‘Woe unto you, ye rich men, who dress softly and dine lux uriously and live in palaces, while tbe poor cry aloud for Judgment and the laborer* sweats for the luxury of the Idle! Woe unto you who speculate In flesh and blood and call no mao broth er unless be Uvea In as fine a bouse and has as much money In tbe bankl Therefore ye shall receive tbe greater condemnation!’ "O self, god of tbe earth yet! With 1.000 yean of the Son of God written Into Its history, still goes up tbe cry of those who perish with hunger, who break Into the sanctuary of their souls because they cannot get work to do and are weary of the struggle sf exist- Self, thou art_klD&_ jot Jjpus Christ Rut, oh. for the ahamt of it, the shame of It! Were It not for tbe belief' In -the mighty forgiveness of alna I would stand here tonight with no hope of ever seeing the paradise of God. But, resting In that hppe, I wish to say to you wbo have beheld, the ex ample of my selfish life I repudiate It all. In the wotfd I have passed aa a moral cltlsen and a good business man; In society there has been no objection to my presence on account of my wealth and position; In tbe chorcb X have been tolerated because I gaye it financial support, but, In the sight of that perfect and crucified Lamb of God I hare broken the two greatest law* which be ever announced. I have been a sinner of tbe deepest dye;. 1 have been everything except a disciple of^Jesus Christ I have prayed for mercy. I belleve oil prSyer haa heen _ answered. ‘‘1,0m conscious that some here pres ent may think that what I have said has been In poor taste; that It haa been an affront to tbe object of tbe meeting or an Insult to the feelings of those who have called the audience together. In order that the people may know that I am sincere In all I have said I will say that I have placed In tbe bank the sum of $10,000 to be used as the committee may deem wisest and beat In the education of children In be reaved homes or In any way that shall be for tbe best good of those In neod. This money Is God’s. 1 have robbed him and my brother man all these years. Whatever restitution I can make In the next few days 1 desire to make. "But -the great question with us all, my friends. Is not this particular dlsas-. ter. That will lu time take Its place as one event out of thousands In tbe dally, life of this world* The great event of existence Is not death; It Is life. And the great question of the wotld Is not the tariff nor the silver question nor tbe labor question nor temperance nor this nor that nor the other. The great question of the whole world !■( selfish ness In tbe heart of man. The great command Is, ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God.’ If we had done that In this town, 1 believe sucb a physical disaster as the one we lament would never have happened. That Is our great need. "If we go home from this meeting resolved to rebuke our selfishness In whatever form It Is displeasing to God. and If we begin tomorrow to act out that resolution In word and deed, we shall revolutionize this town in Its business. Its politics. Its church. Its schools. Its homes. If we simply allow our emotions to be stirred, our sympa thies to be excltAl to the giving of a little money on this occasion, Jt will do na and the commnnlty little permanent good. God wants a complete trans formation In tbe people of this nation. Nothing less than a complete regenera tion ran save us from destruction. Un consecrated, selfish moftcy and selflab education, selfish political power and selfish genius In art. letters and diplo macy will sink uy as a |>eople Into a gulf of .annihilation. There ls"uo salva tion for us except In Jesus Christ. Let us believe In him and live lu him. I have said my iiieHsage. I trust mysterious condition In which It bad been lying for three (lays, but all In vain. The eyes were-closed; the form was rigid. The others, George and Will sud Hess, gretv pale, and Hess cried, almost for the first time since the strange week began. Robert waa the first to break the grief with a quiet word. He raised his head, saylng: —‘‘4 do- oot -believe CHara tr going to die when I do.” "Why, father, what makes you think that?” cried Alice. ' "I don’t £now. I can't give any ex act reason. 1 only know that I don’t believe It will happen.” "God grant that site may be spared to ns!” said Mrs. Hardy. “Oh, Rol> ert, ft Is more than I can bear: Only today and tomorrow left! It can’t i)e real. I have battled against your dream all the week,__JLt jBraa.a.dr«ni losiug almighty dollnra? But, O Al- bave understood it. 1 would not say otherwise If 1 knew that I should •tep off this platform now and stand before the Judgment seat of 'Christ God help us all to do odr duty! Time la Abort; eternity Is long. Death Is nothing; life Is everythifig.” Flve years after this speech of Rob •rt Hardy to the people of Barton lu the town hall pne who was present lu the audience descrllMHl the sensation that passed through It when the speak er sat down to be like a distinct elec trie shook which passed from seat to sent and held the people fixed and breathless as if they had been smitten into Images of stone. Tbe effect on the chairman of the meeting was the same. He sat motion less. Then a wave of emotion gradual ly stirred the audience, and without a word of dismissal they poured out of the building and scattered to tbeir homes. ' . . Robert found George waiting for him. The father was almost faint with the reaction from his address. Srtff K ill 1 *. *'1^ g* agatt. ammmmmm ID oTT&UCO. ——— » mnat iinrllavrii e !ft AllCuce. We must ((ass over hastily the events of the next day iu Robert Hardy's life. Tbe whole town was talking about his surprising address of the night before.' Borne thought he was crazy. Others regarded him as sincere, but after the first effect of his speech had worn off they criticised him severely for pre suming to “preach” on such an occa sion. Still others were puzzled to ac- eouut for the change in the man, for that a change had taken place could not he denied. How slow men are to acknowledge the power of God In the human heart! Mr. Hardy went about hfs business very little moved by all this discussion. He realized ^hat only two more days remained. He H(>ent the afternoon and evening at home, but was luterrupted *by sev eral calls. After tea tbe entire family gathered to Jhe room where Clara lay. She still remained unconscious, bnt liv ing.*' As Mrs. Hardy was saying some thing to her husband about his dream and the everits of the day before Clara suddenly opened her eyes and distinct ly called out the words; “Father, what day is It?” It was like a voice out of the long dead past. Mr. Hardy, sitting by tbe side of the bed, replied quietly, while bis heart beat quickly: “TJjls is Friday night, dear child.” Another question came, uttered In the same strange voice: “Father, how many more days are left for you?” “Tomorrow and Sunday.” The voice came again: “I shall go with you then.” The eyes closed, and the form be came motionless, as before. It was very quiet In the room at the close of Robert Hardy’s fifth day. . CHAPTER XL Those words of Clara, “I shall go with you then," filled the family with dismay. Mr. Hardy bowed hla head and groaned. Mrs. Hardy, almost be side herself with grief and terror, flew to the aide of the girl and, with be seeching cries and caresses, tried to bring back to consciousness tbe mind that for a moment or two bad gleamed oply. 1 will not believe It to be any thing else. You are not 111. There is no Indication that you are going to die. I will not, 1 cannot, believe It! God Is too good. And we need you now, Robert Let tis pray God for mercy." Robert shook his bead sadly, but firmly. No, Mary; I cannot resist an Im pression so strong that I cannot call It anything but a conviction of reality; that somehow, lu some way, I shall be called away from, you Sunday night l have struggled agalust It, but it grows upon me even more firmly. God is merciful. I do not question his good ness. How much did I deserve even this week of'prepnratlon after tbe life I have lived? Aud the time will not be long before we shall all meet there. God grant that It may be an unbroken cotnpn ny!" Mr. Hardy' spoke as any one In his condition could The children drew about him lovingly. Bess climbed Into, his lap. She laid tier face against her father's face, and the strong man sob- Ited a* be thought of aJI tbe ytsr* of -neglected affectipp lu that family cir cle. Tin* rest of the evening was spent In talking over the probable future. George, who seemed thoroughly hum bled now. listened resi>ectfully and even tearfully to his father’s counsel concerning the ’direction of bdslness and family matters. The l>oy was going through a strag gle wilh himself which was apparent to all In the house. Ever since hla mother had seen him kneeling down In the night watch he had shown a differ ent spirit It remained to la- seen whether ha had really changed or whether he hail l*eeu for the time be ing frightened into a litthtfoodiiesn. Saturday worulug fotnmthe Hardys weary with the agitation of the week, but bearing alniut a strange excite ment which only the prospect of the father's approaching death or removal rould have produced. ItolKTt could not realize that hla week was almost at an end. Why. It • seemed -but yestehlay that he had .dreamed after th? Sunday evening ’•eVvIoe: As on every other flay, he asked him self the question. "What shall 1 do?” Only until he had prayed conld he answer the question. Then the light came. Who says prayer la merely a form? H Is going to for wisdom and getting It. It Is crying but for light, and, lo! the darkness flees. It la spreading out our troubles and our joys and our (>erplexlties aud our needs and finding God himself the best pos slide answer to them all. Rol*rt Hardy was finding this Out lately, and It was the one thing that made possible to him tbe calmness of the last two days allotted him. Tbe day'was spent In much the same way that the other days had been spent. He went down to Ids office about 10 O'clock and after coming home to lunch went down again with the Intention of getting through all tbe business and returning home to s(>end the rest of the time with the family. Along toward 3 o'clock, when tbe rou tine work of the shops ^ ns disposed of, tbe manager felt an Irresistible de sire to s(>cak to the men In his employ. They numbered about BOO In his de partment, and be knew bow Impossible It would be "for him to speak to them Individually. He thought a minute and then called Burns in and gave an men at work in these shops except as their names wore on the pay roll of the company.' "It never made any~BHrerenee lo me when your wives and children (few sick and died. I never knew what tort of houses you lived in except to know that in comparison with mine they must have been very crowded and uncomfortable. For all these 25 years I have !>een as Indifferent to you aa one man possibly could be to men who work for him. It has not occurred to me during this time that I could be anything else. 1 have been too selfish to see my relation tb'you and act up- * % “Now, -I do not eall'you in here today to apologize for 25 years of selfishness —not that alone. But 1 do want you to know that I have been touched by the hoad of Qodjlu auL’Ii ■ way that before It Is too late 1 want to say to you all, ‘Brothers,’ aud say to you that when you think of me hereafter It may be as 1 am now today, not as I bawe been Id all the years past. “It la not for me to say how‘far or In what manner I have trampled on tbe brotherhood of the race. I have called myself a Christian. I have been a member of a church. Yet I w^ll con fess here today that under the author ity granted me by the company I have more than once dismissed good, honest, faithful workmen In large -bodies aud cut down wages unnecessarily to In crease dividends., and lu general 1 have thought of tbe human flesh and blood iu these shops as T have thought of the iron and steel here. I confess all that aud more. Whatever has been un-Christlan 1 hope will be forgiven. “There are many things we do to our fellow men lu this world which abide—, the sting of them, 1 mean. The lm : press of my selfishness Is stamped on this place. It will take years to re move It. I might have been far more to you. 1 might have ralsedemy voice as a Christian aud an Infiueutlal di rector of this road against the Sunday work and traffic; 1 never di*. 1 might have relieved unnecessary discomfort la different departments; 1 refused to do it. 1 might have helped the cause of temperance lu this town by trying to banish tiie saloon; instead of that 1 voted to license a cringe and |>overty and disease ^establishment. “I might have used my Influence aud my wealth to build, healthy, comforts ble homes for the men who work on this road: 1 never rnts»*d my finger In the matter. .1 might have helped to make life a happier, sweeter thing to the nearly l.iasi souls lu this estab lisliment. and 1 went my selfish way. coatent with my ewu luxurious borne and the ambition for self culture add the pride of self accomplishments. And yet there Is not a man here today who Isn't happier than I am. ( "1 wish you all. In the name of the g<*»d God, who forgives - our sins for Jesus’ sake, the wish of a man who looks into the other World aud sees | things as they really an*. I do not I wlqb you to think of my life ns a Chns- j tlau.llfe. It has not Iteeu such, but as I you hope to. Ue forgiven at last forgive all wrongs at my hands I ''Ton are living iu the dawn of a hap ! pier day for lale»r. There are ChrlMIau Oieu iu business in this town aud some i few connected witH railroads who are Bl Ever have them? Then we can’t tett you any thing about ^them. You :know^ how dark everything looks and how you are about ready to give upv" Some how, you can’t throw off the terrible depression. Are things really so blue? if vAtir rii»rv#*8 osa%aw*c soil t 1% j VSU1 llvl YVo| after all? That’s where the trouble is. Your nerves are being poisoned from the impurities in your blood.* u £0TT0N Culture” the name . ,u<J IS of a va able illustrat- r . ' • V r~- cd pamphlet which should be in the hands of every planter who f raises; Cotton* The book is sent Free. Avers sinawin purifies the blood and gives power and stability to the nerves. It makes health and strength, activ ity and cheerfulness. This is what “Ayer’s” will do for you. It’s the oldest Sarsaparilla in the land, the kind that .was old before other Sarsa- parillas were known. This also accou.its for the saying, “One bottle of Ayer’s is worth three bottles of the* ordinary kind.” $141 a to it to. wwr* thm K you have any complaint whawver and daairu tba beat inadleal adnoa you cau poMlbly racalvc. *ma tba doctor traaly. Tou will raralve a prompt ra- uly, without coat Addraaa. Da. J. C. AYEK, LuwaU, Maaa. $ *n r - > Scad name and address to GERMAN KALI WORKS* S3 Nassau St., New York. PITT’S Inimtor! I’urea dyspepsia. Indigestion, aud all stomach or bowel troubles, colic or cholera - morbus, (pething troubles with children kidney troubles, bad blood and all sorte o ■ores, risings or feioos, cute and burnt. It is at good antiseptic, when locally apniiel as any thing on the market. Try It and vou will praito it to others It your druggist doesn’t keep it, write to Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator Co. THOMSON, QA- tt t A KPKNTKK BKO&, ti-eenville. 8 ('•. with reason and then bad gon* back Into the obscurity and oblivion of that 'glaca without any thought c* tbe 800 the most undisguised wonder. "Shut dovv u the works for a little while and ask the men to get together In tbe big machine shop. 1 want to speak to them.” •, ' , f . Burns had been (tatonlshed *o*«lten this week that, although be opeued jjls mouth to say somethlug, he did not seem able to pronounce the words, and after staring blaukly at his employer a minute he turued tfnd went out to execute the order. The great engine was stopped. The men from the casting roonys and the carpenter shops aud the storerooms aud the repairing departments came trooping Into the hlg machine shop aud sat or leaued on the great,, grim pieces of machinery, aud as the shop filled the place begau to take bn a strauge aspect never seen there before. Mr. Hardy crossed the yard from the office, followed by the clerks aud as sistant officers of the road, all curious to hear what was coming. Mr. Hardy mounted one of the planers aud looked about him. The air was still full of gas and smoke aud that mixture of fine Iron filings ami pH which Is char acteristic of such places. The men were quiet aud respectful enough. Many of them had heard the man ager’s speech of Thursday night at the town hall. Most of them were aware that some' change had taken* place in tbe man. Jt had been whispered about that he had arranged matters for the men Injured lu the Sunday accident so that they would not come to want to any way. And now that grimy, hard muscled, hard featured crowd of 800 men all turned their eyes upon the figure standing very erect and pale faced on the great planer, and he In turn looked out through tbe blue, murky atmos phere at them with an Intensity of ex pression which none In that audience understood. As Mr. H&rdy went on with his speech they began to under stand what that look meant. "My brothers,” began tbe manager, .With a slight trembling of the sylla bles so new to him, “as this may- be the last time I shall ever apeak to yoa I want to say what Is true to pie-and what I feel I owe to you. For 25 yean I have carried on tbe .work In tblg trying to apply the principles of Chris tianity tu the business ami traffic of (lie world. My probable successor iu tliese .shops Is such a man iu spirit. , “God is love. •! hate forgotten that myself. I have walked through life forgetful of him. But I know today that he is drawing the nations and the There is no police man to, enforce the laws of health and to call “stop!” when you are in danger from dis ease. But Nature has her' own dan ger signals. When min shoots like a lightning r flash along the nerves,, when the heart, lieats feebly or irregularly, when there is unnatural fullness after eating, sour risings, head ache, coated tongue or irritable temper, then Nature is plucking you by .the sleeve and calling “ stop ! ” To neglect these warnings is danger ous. , Derangement of the stomach and its allied or gans is but the lieginning of trouble for the whole body. As a complete cure for disease of the stomach and the. organs of - digestion and nu- trition Doctor Pierce’s Golden Metical Discovery stands without an equal. It purifies the blood' cleanses the system of poisonous accumulations, nourishes the starved nerves and builds up the entire body, blood and Ixme, muscle and nerve. “Il is with pleasure that I tell you what Dr. Ptetce v (Vohten Medical Discovery and ‘Pellets’ have done for me." write* Mr* M Palmer, of 1‘eede, Kaufman Co . Texas. “ Two years S fo I wn* taken with stomach and bowel trouble. very thing 1 ate would put me in distreaH. 1 Hved two week, on milk and even that gave me pain.''.! felt a* though I would starve'lo death Three doctors attended me —oue said I had dyipepaia. two auid catarrh of the stomach and bowels. They attended lue lone at <cdime) for one year. I stopped .taking their^nedicine and tried patent medicine, got no better, and I‘ grew to weak aud nervoua my heart would flutter 1 could not do any kind tit work. Now loan do my. house work very well, am gaining in flesh and strength, and can cat anything ” witrhl logt-lhcr iu true sympathy. The nations that ttauil ih-fiaut aud disobe- dU-ut to God nhttll perish. The rulers whrr haughtily take Gtwl's place and opjirrss the |M-«i|de shall l»e destroyed The men of power and intelligence aud money who upe these three great ad vantages merely to Ides* theuiselvi*s and add to their own selfish pleasure and •■asc shall very soon be dethroned I Would give ail I possesa to lie able to live and see a part of It come to (>u»*. Men. brothers, some of you younger ones wdl live to M*e that day. “Iaim* G<m1 aud obey him. Envy not the rich. They art; more miserable than you sometimes dream. True hap pi ness consist* In a conwiem-e at pea<*e with God ami a heart free from selfish desires and hablta. 1 thank you for Jour attentioig You will know Urtter why I have said all tbia to you when you come iu here to work again next Monday. My brothers, God bless you! God bless us all!" Wbeu Robert *tep|ied <U>vAi from tht planer and started toward the dodr. more than one Mark hand was, thrust Into Ids wllb the word*. “God pleas you. sir!” He f^it a strange desire to VMs-p. Never before had he felt that thrill ah«>oi through him at the grasp of the hand of hia brother man. Ilia speech hod made at profound liupres alou on the men. Many of them did not understand the meaning of ceftkiu sentences, but tbe spirit of the man was unmistakable, and the men re sponded id a manner that touched. Mr. Hardy very strongly. He finally vtcut Into his office. 1 Tbe big engine started up again, aud the whir aud dust and clangor of the shops went on. But men bent over their w btui l throb at the recollection of the pale face aud sincere word of the man who ba<l broken a selfish silence of a quar ter of a centurjr to call them brothers. Oh. Robert Hardy, w hat glorious op portunities you missed to love and be loved! With all your wealth you have been a very poor mau all your life un til now, on tbe next.to tbe last day of It! There Is little need to describe the rest x>f this day. Robert went home. Every one greeted him tenderly. His first Inquiry wits for Clara. Still In that trancelike sleep. Would she nev er wake?/"The wife shuddered with fear. Mrs v Hardy had spent much of the time Iu' prayer aud tears. The evening sped by without special Inci dent. James Caxton came and Joined tbe family circle. Ills presence reminded Mr. Hardy of the old quarrel with the young man's father. He spoke.to James and said if anything should pre vent his seeing his father the next day James might tell his father how completely aud sincerely he wished the foolish quarrel forgotten and, his own share In it forgiven. So that day came to a close In fami ly conference, in tears. In fear and bope and anxiety and prayer. But Mrs. Hardy would not lose all hope. It did uot seem to her possible that her husband could be called away tbe next night. WKAIHt-.K AND CROP REPORT. Wet kly Bulletin of tbe Wenlhtr Bu reau for South Carolina. The week ending 8 a. m. Monday, May 14ib r hod a range t f temperature from a maximum of 8J degrees on the f''" 8in lo a minimum of 40 degrees on tbe / 11 lb. Ua the KRb and lllb there wye l 4 light frosts in Cherokee. Colleton, UreeovHle and,Spartanburg counties. Tcere were numerous 1 , and in places beneficial, showers on the k.b, over the Cintra! portions of the State Along tbe immediate coast tbe rainfall was vtry light, and the extreme western porticos bad no rain. Following tbe *t owers came cooler weather and high, drying winds ; both conditions proved harmful to crops. Clayey lands are oalied aou hard, aud break up cloddy. ICsias are needed over tbe entire-Stale and for all crops except rice ; It U es pecially needed to germinate recently planted corn and cotton. Damaging hall Cccurrcd in -portione of Orange burg County, where in places stands of coin and cotton were destroyed. The wtalher conditions during tbe week were very favorable for farm work. Cotton suffered from tbe recent coto nigbu wbicb caused it to turn red, aol on sandy lands tbe plants are dying In places- Early planted cotton bos good staode and is being plowed and chop ped. iUoently planted cotton need* rain to bring it up. Planting Is not finitbed over tbe western portions. Some complaints of gra»sy fields con tinue, but to a lest extent tban last week. Some fields bave beep plowed up and replanted on account of tbe grass. Sea island cotton bos excellent •lands, but needs rain and warmer -weather. * Todocco is practically ail planted, and very good stands have been se cured. K ce was severely injured by tbe freshet in tbeCombabee river, but re ceived toes Itjut'y Irom high water in tbe Georgetown district than bad been eoilcipfcto'L The cool nights were in jur out. Planting continues \\ beat bos not been seriously injured by bust, wbicb U decreasing, it Is heading weii, but the crop as a whole is not as promising as It was a month sgo. Ott» are ripening in Hampton County. This crop needs rain badly. White potatoes bave poor stands In places, but generally are doing wej r except that bugs are very numertj Large ehlpmenl* are being made ~ the Uhartoabufl ditlricw, where, avi UB ID ^7- sweet potato draws are plentiful and -ome bars set out. Gardens need rain. Melons and sugarcane look well. Fruit proapeett continue promising, except that apples and pears continue 11 Might. Berries of all kinds promise to be very pl^^lful. [to be coxtinuid.I —Tbe stone house at Tappan, N. where Major Andre was imprisoned un til hie execution, at the time of tbe Re volutionary war, is just entering a new phase in its checkered history. For two years past it was run as a hotel, but recently tba license of the pro prietor; Charles A. Pike, was revoked, and now tbe historic house aud grounds have been leased to parties from New York city, who will turn the place into a soap factory. The building stands within sight of the spot where Andre was executed, and for more than half a century no visitor was per* mitted to enter it. A few years ago a part of the house was blown down by a severe gale, -and the property was then purchased by Mr. Pike, who re stored it to its former condition A New Book For Men Special Arrangements Whereby a free Copy Can Be Obtained by Every Reader of This Paper. For week* the presses have been trtlsy turning out the enormous edit ion of Dr. J. Newton Hathaway's u**w book— “Mautlness, Vigor, Health" - necessary to satisfy the public de mand. Dr. Hathaway has reserved a limited numticr of these books, am) fltesehe liasspOCially arranged to send free by mall to all readers of this paper who send names ana full address to him. For M years Dr. Hathaway lias routined his practice almost exclusively to diseases of men, and durliiK that time he'has restored more men to health, vigor, usefulness and happiness than any ten other doctors hi the country combined. Dr. Hathaway treat' aud cures by a method / / ' ly lit* ow n. discovered and perfected by himself aud used exclusively by him. Loss of Vitality. Varicocele, Stricture, Itlood Poisoning in Its different stages. Rheumatism. Weak Back, all manner of urinary eomnlamts, llk-ei*. Bores , and .Skin Diseases. Bright'niseH'e and all forms of Kidney Troubles. His treatment for under toned men restores lost vitality and makes the patient a strong, well, vigorous man. < Dr. Hathaway's success in Uie treatment of Varicocele and stricture without tile aid of knife or cautery is phenomenal. The patient {(.treat- tliod at Ills own home Withe 'i* pain ed by this method at his own home withi or loss of time from nusiness. This is Uvriy PUB _ ■■HBHIHBaMi'ji atioo. Dr. Hathaway calls the particular atten tion of sufferers from Varicocele aud Stricture to pages J7, 2K, 29,30 and 31 ot tils new book. ^ . Every case taken by Dr. Hathaway is specUQly Its nature, all under Ills gen J treated according to eral personalsiipervislon.and all reinedlesu e °y w V tlon or advice, either at his office or by mall, and when a case is taken the one low fee covers ail cost of medicines aud professional services, Dr. Hathaway always prefers, wliro it is 1 bte, to have his patients call on him lor at one interview, out this is not essential, as h_ cured scores of thousands of patients in all Lec tions of the world whom lie lias never seen. System of Home Treatment is so perfected he can bring about a cure as surely and si U though the [latieut called daily at his 0! J- HBWTOtf HATHAWAY, M. D. • Dr. Hathaway 4 Co., •BK tonth Brood street, A tlon to, Qo, MurTiONTBisrartR when wkitui* v .:' " T"' •- ' “* aw V > S '