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| III J * K A SILENT RFXIGION. Dr. Talmage Sets Forth Its Evils ^ ^ in His Sermon. L Dq(t ?( Ckrlitlaai ? l?e?k Oil ^ U.artUy o? tk. St*. of Kl.kt. ( (Bin?Ci^tlia Oat til Uiali Spirit. tCepyrisht. 1S01. by Louts Klopach. N. T.) Washington, i'eb. 10. la this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a more demoaatatire religion aud a hearty -peaking out on the right aide of everything; text, Mark 9:25; "Thou dumb and. deaf spirit, 1 charge thee, come out 01 mm. Here wus u case of great domestic aguish. The son of the household wa? possessed of an evil spirit, which, among other thing*, paralyzed his tongue and inadohisji apeechle.se. When the Influence was cn the patient, he could not say a word?articulation was impossible. The rplrit that captured this mcirber of the household was u & dumb apirit?so called by Christ?a t f apirit abiond to-day and as liTely and p rotent as in the Mew Testament time*. Yet In all tne realms of sermondom 1 | cannot find a discourse concerning this i dun:h devil v.hich Christ charged up- j on in my text, saying: "Come out of j him." There haa been much destructive m- ; perslltion abroad in the world concerning possession by evil spirits. Under the form of belief in witchcraft, this delusion swept the continents. Person* were supposed to be po*se*?ed with gome evil spirit, which mathe them able to destroy others. In the sixteenth century in Geneva 1,600 persons were burned to death es witches. In one neighborhood of Trance 1,000 pcrEons w?ie burned. In two ecntu'ics 200.0.10 *>? raons we e slain oe witches. So mighty was the delusion that it included among its victims some of the great- j est intellects of all time, such as Chief Justices Matthew lJale und Fir Edward Coke, and such renowned ministers of religion aa Cotton Mather, one of whose books, Benjamin Fianklin said., shaped hia life?and Richard Baxter, and Archbishop Crauner and Martin I.uther; and, among writers and philosophers, * Lord Bacon. That belief, which' haa become the laughing etock of all sensible people, counted it# dlsciplee among the wisest and best people of uvicucn, vjfrmuny, i-u j* :bju C, JLiance, Spain and New England- But while we reject witchcraft, nny tuan who belieTcs the Bib'.e must believe that there re diabolical agencies abroad in the world. While there ere ministering plrita to blets there are infernal spirits to hinder, to poison and to destroy. Christ wn? speaking to a spiritual eststcnoo when, standing before the effilclcd one of the t-xt, he rtld . "Ihcu dumb and dcrf spirit, e^nie out cf him." Agulnrt this dumb deril of the text 1 put you cu yotu guard. Do not think that this kgeat of evil has j ut l.is blight on those who, hg oirinsion of the vocal . organs, have had the golden gates of speech bolted ard barred. Airorg those who have never spoken rt word ro the most gracious .and lovely and talented souls that \ ere ever incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell you enchanting stories of tlu ?e who never called the name of fathe.r or mother or child, and ( xnauy of the most devout and prayerful H I souls ?vlll never in this w orld speak the f nsTii# of God or Christ, I inlerc has been apotbeos'catiou of sile ft. Eonn one has Mud silence Is -> iV..<J^en, and sometimes the greatest tri- | is to beep your mouth shut. But silence is a the dumb devil of our i : t. 'lheie is hardly a man or woirau v.bo lias not been present en eon e occasion w nr. the Christian r. !!<- on became a target for raillery. Perhaps it was ever in the store some day wl.cn there was not much going on, and the clerk* were iu a group, or it was in the factory at the c ?;"*11? or it was out on the farm under the trees while you were resting, ^ *#. ** *? > uic .uiwiwum, wr ik wui In & social circle, cr it was in the street n the way koine from business, or it *rsi on r- re occasion which you remember .ithcrit rr y describing K. Borne one got the lowjh on the Bible and caricatured the profession of reunion as hypocrisy, or made r pun out cf something that Christ said. The laugh started, mid you ji'r.eri in, and rot one word of protect did you utter. What kept you e ' r.t? Modeatr? No. Incapacity to ruswrr? No. Lack of opportunity? No. It was k blew on both your lips by the wit rr of the dumb If evil. If tome one should realign your <atl;?"- or mother r>r wife or husband ?r n.. J, you would flush up quick ?nd either with as indignant word or j^F doubled up fist make response. And xet here la our Christian religion which cue done so much for you ard no much for the world that it will take all eter- j nity to celebrate it, and yet when it wes ; Attacked you did not so much sassy: , "I differ. 1 object. I am sorry to hear \ you say thnt. There it another side to this." You Christian people ought In such timia as th< se to go arired, not J with earthly weapons, but with the sword of the spirit. You ought to baTe four or five questions with which you eould confound any man who attack' Christianity. A man HO years o'd whs j telling me how he put to flight a scoffer. I 3My aged friend said to the skeptic, j "Did you ever read the history of Joseph in the Bible?" "Yes." said the man, Tt it s flue etoiy, and a? interesting a etory sa I ever read." ' Well. bow," ssld my old friend, "suppose that account of Joseph stopped lisif way?" "Oh," said the man. "then it w ould not be entertaining." "Well, now." eaid tn c mend, "we Lave in this world only hnl' of everything, and do you not t i that when we be r the. li st ha f thing* msy be eonaiet- t, and that then we may flad that Cod vr..> right?" <>n, iriT.fi?, r et" r , ; i vp will a lew interrogation potiitsi Yru cannot afWant a Dispensary. I The Uh&riotlo j reaohers arc hound to keeptho old town in a f^rr:i . They not only want to rogulato tho n:ayor and the city council tot only-intend u \ to break up tho euchre and run the Py pokerplaycr id but thoy Lavo begun a orusado against tho 1 arroombinordir to tubstuulo a disport nary. They have sounded tho t. coin of war in the following a; 1 : ir it 1 by themselves an i pabli. lied in tho ci y lapers: Whereas, Wo (ho m-t-hicraof CI ar lotto aro unroir i romi:on?ly opposed to the lioctiGcd col ??* , tiin by stein now in operation in this city. and. Whereas, Wo tc'icvn that tho disronsary system lc ets tho evil of drunkeur (s t and th r< by do T? a-es all tho < vih; of whinh tho ssJo >n is the fountain I n ad, ?-c t};o noder-i^ncd minutern f f : 1 , r omo of u i out : fgjjggfm '^tr Ir^'bk oifouuistan- h r tori to k? afloat wkti Ooi Bible u< tho thing* ct tt?rall7 art atballad. Your eilonao ylree coneeat to the bonebardmeat of your Fathor'e hruee. You allow a alur to bo oaat on your mothtr'a dying pillow, la babatf of tho Cbriai, wbe for you went through tho ayonina of aaaaaalaatloD ou tho rocky bluff back of Jerusalem. you dared not face a aickly joko. better load up with a few queatlona, ao that seat time you will be ready. Ray to tho acoffer: "Mr dear air, will you tell me what tnakea the difference between the condition of wooaa in China and in the United State*? What do you think of the sermon oa the mount? How do j-wu iim? tne golden rule laid down in the Scripture*? Are jeu iu favor of the Ten Commandments? In your large and extensive rending bare yeu couie across a lovelier character than Jesus Chriat? Will you please to name the triumphant deatlibeda of iutidela and atheists? How do you account for the fact that among the out and out believers in Christianity were such persons as Benjamin Franklin. John Hut kin, Thomas Carlyle. Babtngton. Macaulay, William Penu, Walter Scott, Charles Klngsley, Horace Buahnell, Jausa A. Qarfirld. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jaokcoe, Admiral Foote. Admiral Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Chief Justice Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Webster, George Washington? How do you acoount for their fondness for the Christian religion? Among the innumerable colleges and universities of the earth will you name mo three started by Infidels and new supported by Infidels? Down Id your heart ire you really happy la the position you occupy sntsgenistio to the Christian religion? When do you have the most rapturous views of the next world?" Oo at him with a few such questions, and he will get so red in the face as to suggest apoplexy, and ho will look at his watch and f?j he hs? an engagement and must go. You will put him in a sweat that will best a Turkish bath. You will put Kim on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no time at all. Arra yourself, not with srgiiments. but Interrogation points, and I promise you victory. Shall such a man as you, shall such a woman as you, surrender to one of the meanest spirits that ever smoked up 'rom the pit?ths dumb devil spoken of in tha text? But thsn thers are occasions when this particular spirit that Christ exorcised when lie sfiid: "I charge thee to come eut of him," takes people by the wholesale. In ths most responsive rdligious audience have you noticed how many people never sing at ell? They have a book, and they have a voice, end they kuow how to read. j.ucjr itBovr rcuf or tbe tuRfa and yet are silent while tbc great rapt urea o/ musio pat* by. Amoug thcaa who alng not ob# owl ef a hundred licg# loud euou.yb to hear hi* errs veioe. Thcy huia >t. They give a tort of religious giust. T hey make the lips go, htst It it inaudible. With a voice atrung aeeugh to atop a street car oca block away all they can afford In the praise of Uod Is ibout half a whisper. With enough sopranos, enough alto*, enough bassos to make a email heaven between the four walls they let the opportunity go by unimproved. T'.e volume of voice that ascends from the largest audience that over assembled ought to be multiplied two thousandfold. Ilut tbe minister rises and gives out the hyrnu, the organ begins, the choir or precentor leads, the eudience are standing so that tha lungs may have full rxpanilon, and a mighty harmony is about to ascend when the evil spirit spoken of In my text?the dumb devil?spreads his two wings, one ever the Hps of one half rbe_e.udl?i;r? sp.f i.'li.r iver tha lips of tfca other half of the audience and the voices roll back lbto the throsts from which they started, and only here and there anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the holy power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, is he flics sway, says: "I could not keep niac Watts from writing that hymn, and I could not keep Lowell .Ma ton from composing the tune to which It is aet, but I *iuote Into illrsee or half Hence the lip* from which it would have sprend sbrond to lilea* neighborhood* and cities and then mount the wide open heavan*." Gire the long meter doxolcgy the full aupport of Christendom, and thoce four line* would take the whole earth for God. That hjmn, "Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing,' wai suggested to Charles Wesley by Peter Boblcr, who, after his conversion, anid: "I had better keep silent about it." "No." said Wesley, "if you had 10,009 tongues, jou had better use them for Christ." And then that angel of bynjnology penned the words: Oh. for * thousand tongues to etc* My <ear Redeemer'* prals-a. The glcr'ee of my God *r.d King. The triumphs of H!* grace! Jesus, the same that etimi our feere, That bid* our sorrows cease: 'Tie music tn the sinner'* car*. 'TU 1U? and health and peace. While much of the modern mueio In a religious doggerel, a consecrated nonsense, a snored imbecility, I would like to see sotue great musician of our time lift the baton and marshal "Luther's Judgment Hymn," "Yarmouth," "Dundee," "Ariel," "BattleEtrret," "Uxbridge," "Pleyel'a Hymn," "Harwell," "Antloch," "Mount rfagnh" and "Coronation," with a few regiments of mighty tunes made in our own time, and storm Aala, Africa and America for the kingdom of God. But the first thing to do la to drive out tha dumb davil of the taxt from all our churches. Do not, however, let us loae ourselves in generalities. Not one of us but has bed oar lives sometimes touched by the erll spirit of the text?this awful dumb devil. We had Just one opportunity of najIng a Christina word that might have led a man or woman into a Christian lif* T? e finrnrf ttni t w ura**a falrlw **%?! -1 I J .-...J J- - before us. '1 he word of invitation ?r coDcolation or x\*rn\ag came to tke ees, do her? by call upon our people and upon all tho ministers and people of the country of Mecklenburg to aid in tlio suppression of tbo saloon by using all honorable means to liavo a dispeu sary law passed by thin legislature. 1 'ensions Qoloro. It may interest statisticians and perhaps others to know that the aggregate amount of ro^Dcy appropriated by congress for p?n-tons siDcio tho end of tho I'i.'il war in lSt?5 plus the amount oar ried by tho p ndiig pension hill for .1 fist il year 1902, h $2 821,117.426 Ar <t'!( r year will carry the total far beyond tho threo billion mark. By tho co'it-m of 1 SUt) the entire valuation of the 11 souihern States afterward com posing the Confederacy?tho true valua tion, not assessed, of all property, real and personal, in those il States?was f5 202,l(J(?,207.?New York Sun, Tired of Them. A bill boforc the Lesislaturc of Nebraska declared sunflowers and oookloburrs a pnbiio nuisance, and makes it H e duty of every cwner of land to d .troy (hum between August 15 and i? pt. 1 of oach year. 0 J* ' ' laili* f?U of Ik* BntK, bit Ik or* II haltod. lorn* hindering power | looked tho jiwi together so that they i did mot open. Tho tongue lay flat and | otlll In tho bottom of tt? mouth aa ; though struck with paralysis. We ; woro route. Though God had given | us tho physiological apparatus for I speech and our luugs were tilled with ; air which by tho command of our will could hare made tho larnygeal , muscles move and tho vocal organs vibrato, wo were wickedly und fatal, ]y silent. For nil time and eternity ; we missed our chance, or it was a prayer meeting, and the service was i thrown open for prayer and remarks, and there was a dead halt?ovory, thing silent as a graveyard at mid, night. Indeed, it was u graveyard nti nuasigm. An ?nib?rraiiin( pauae ' took place that put * wet blanket on all the meeting. Men. bold enough on business exchange or in worldly ) circles, shut their eyes as though they were praying in silence, but thry were not praying at all. They were busy hoping somebody else would do his (*nty. The women fluskeu under the awful pause and made their fans j more rapidly flutter. Borne brother, with no cold, coughed, by that sound trying to fill up the time, and the meeting was slain. But what killed It? The dumb dovil. This is the way I account for the fact that the stupidest places en earth are some prayer meetings. I do not see how a man can keep but grace if he regularly attends them. They are spiritual refrigerators. Religion kept on ice. How many of us havs lost occasions tit usefulness? In a sculptor's ! studio stood a figure rrt the god Op; portunity. The aeulptor had made the hair fall down over the fare of the statue so as to completely 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 covered because we do not recojrni/e Op- j portunity when it comes, and the j wings to the feet ahevr tnat Opportunity Is swiftly gone. But do sot let the world deride the church because of all this. for the dumb devil is just as conspicuous iu the world. The great political parties assemble at the proper time to build platforms for j the candidates to -tand on. A committee of each party is appointed to make the platform. After proper deliberation, the committees come in with a ringing report: "Whereas," end ; "Whereas," and "Whereas." Pronunciamentos all shaped with the one ' idea of getting the moat votes. All expression in regard to the great moral ! evils of the country ignored. No exj preasien In behalf of temperate living. for that would lose the vote of tho : liquor traffic. No expression In regard to the universal attempt at the demolition of the Lord's day. No recognition of Qod in the history of nations, for , thai would lose the vote of atheists. But "Whereas.'' ard " Whareaa." and , "Whereas " Nine cheers will bo given for the platform. The dumb devil of | the text puts one wing over osc platform and the other wing over the other platform. Those great conventions are opened with prayer by their chap, laina. If they avoided platitudes and told v ^ - uvucav man in lueir prayers they would say: "0 Lord, we want to be postmasters ar.d consuls and foreign ministers and LTuited States district attornrys. For that we are here, ncd for that we will strive till the election next November. Give us office, or we die. Forever and ever, amen." The world, to aay the least,ianobetter than the church on this subject of silence at the wrong- time. In other words, is It noi time for Christianity to become pronounced and aggressive as never be,.for^2. X* V ? xir!>r%':or'Vttfo tnu sfiufiety and righteousness. "If the Lord be God, follow llim." Have you opportunity of rebuking a ain? Krhukc it. Have you a chance to cheer a disheartened soul? Cheer ft. Have you a useful word to speak? Speak it. Ho out and out, up and down for righteousness. If your ship is nfloat on the Pacific ocean of God'a mercy, hang out your colors from tlia mnsthead. Show your passport, if you have one. Do not sinug-gle your soul . Into the harbor of lleuven. Speak | out for God! Close up the chapter of lost opportunities and open a new chapter. Hofore you get to tho door on your way out ahnke hands with some one and ask him to Join you on the road to Heaver.. Do not drive up to Heaven In a two-wheeled "sulky" i with room only, for one, nrd that j yourself, but get tho b!gfr-vt Gospel wagon you can find and pile it full of friends and neighbors and shout till they hear you nil up and down tho e.kiea: "Come with us, and we will d? you good, for the Lord hath promised good concerning Israel." The opportunity for good which rou may consider insignificant may he tremendous for results, ni when on the Capt. Haldane swore at tho i ahip'a crew with sn oath that wished i thern ail tn perdition, and a Scotch ' sailor touched his can and said: i "Captain, Ood hears prayer, and w# would be badly of! If your wish wero answered." Capt. Haldane was convicted by the aailor's remark and con Tsrted and became the means of the I salvation of hie brother Robert. who had beea an infidel, and then Robert became a minister of the Gospel, and anrler hia ministry the godless Felix Neff became the world-renowned tnisaloaary of the cross, and the worldly Merle d'Aubigne lycarne the anther ef "The History < *. the Reformation" mad will bo the priory of ttie church for all aires. Perhaps you mav do i as Buth as the Scotch sailor who just tipped bis csp and u?ed one broken sentence by which ho earth nnd the heavens ers atlil resounding with noi tent Influences. Do something for i God, and do it right away or you wili i nerer do it at ail. Tim* files away fart. The Phils wo never r?member; I How scon our Hfe h?ie Grows old with the year That dies with the nut L>?ceint/?rl . I A Bad Teacher. : A special from Huntsvillo, Ala , pays: j "News reached hero tonight of great . excitement in Marshall county over a case of criminal assault. A whito sthool teacher named Hall, near Guutcrsvillo, j it is said, ooinmittcd a oriminal assault ! upon a 13-Vtar olu girl. A mnh snnnwil i the country for tho teacher, bu' ho fell into tho hands of officers ardthis evening was lodged in jail at Gunter-villo i A report sa>8 hundred i of people have gone there fretn tho county intcut on hre'king into tho j til and lynching Hall. Tillman Endorsed, la the ScDato Thursday Senator A'.d: rioh offered tho following concurrent resolution, which was adopted without ! discussion or dissent, and sent to the house: Bo it resolved by tho senate, the house of representatives c mcutring, i That the atknolodgnjonts of tlo geno | rn! assembly aro hereby tendered to the lion. B. U Tillman for h<s able, pa 1 triotio and consistent cmrsi in tho United States srr.a'c, thrrughrut his service in that body, which cunec is hereby indorsed and prooounocd worof bis State and people. > IWORK OF.VANDALS.I T ne Burnng of Columbii by Q?n. SVinman i A?rny i IHiRIY FIVE YEARS AGO I i A Ptory rf Su'f'rlng, C urliy pncl Vandalism Oraphtca'ty Trld by Cap* D. A iDltk?rt. The following in the stcry of tbo burr;nk of Columbia in February, 186&, by 'Jen. Shomsu's ariry as relate a by 'Japl. D. Augustus Dickert in l.ie history of "Kcrslaws Biigadc:*' When Sherman jut bis mighty ira chit;c of war in mo'ir.n Kera^aw's brigade v as hurrie d back 10 Cbarhston 1 i . /I ? r* . acu up 'u vjrcortfi? h Mation, thcD to the hi'dgo ou the Kdisto. Raiding parties wttc out in every dircolior, des'royiog hridg 8 tt-.d railroads, and #b the nuihrrn army J alto pontoon corps m r ruy methods of crossing tie deep, sluggish HttesD H in tbrir rear I ut by Irtt'iMP, it can b'en seen that tbo cutting of one Iridce a'.one n.ieht be fatal to the army It va* disooverru early in the march that Sherman did tot intird to turn to the right or to tho left, but to oonticue on a direct lite, with Celunbia as the ventre of operations. We wire rcmovid from tho Kiis'o back to Charleston, a: d up the Northwestern railroad to St. Stephen's, on tho Sattce. It wasfeand it at a rtiding party frcm Georgetown would come up ti e Santee at.d cut the bridge, thereby so attC'g tho army Liaruco had in Oharub ou and vicinity. Slowly Sherman * diu- ecu Lis weary length along " On Gc 13th of h\l?ruary the oorpsof Gen. B1 ?'r reached Kingvillo and drove our P ok<.ts awa/ Lom tho bridgo over the C nga ec. On tho 15th (f Folrucry tho advaaoo ooli ma of tho'I wtnticth oorps ct.ni i in ighu f Columbia. All the bridges It adit g thcrero wtre birotd and the south ern troops withdrawn to the eastern side. Frank Blair's turps left tbo road leading to Columbia at Hopkins, and kept a direct lino for Camden An I other c.rrs, the Fifteenth, oTosred the Br>ad a( Columbia, while Go F< ur j i' rth ?nd Twentieth wero to on ss at Fresilej a and Alston. Ofdrrr had been given toevscueto Charleston, aad rl? the troops under Gen McL??s. | at Ftur Hole S?*rtp and alone tbo oorsr w?re to rcnditvtur at St. Stephen's on the San'ee, and cither make a j'icct:on wi'h the woitern arm? at Chester, S. C., erifnot possiblo, to con time to Ch sttrfi ld orChrraw. The p:au of G e oaaipaign ra? now to c^n cjctiato all the forces of Hood's State iirojsatd Hard* e's at some point in t p|K r S.u'h Carolina or in North Car olina, and make one more desperate stall i aid hi ucited action cru-h and o^erthiow Sleraians a;u:y, thtroby rilnving Lee. Ou ih morning of February the 16.h rl.c Lt.trny. without any warning wl a* evtr, If fiii shelling tho city of t'o uui t>ia filled viG.wou.cn aid clildien. Now it mud be ieu.enibered ti a: tbii , *as not tor the purpose of crossing tho river, fjr one of Sh'.nnao's corps had a r- ady crossed belt w the oity and two , othcie atjove. Oao shell pa-o-ed through Gto hotel iu which Gen. Branrcaard , van D L mi' 11IU0, OK orb situ.k,the I Stae hi usct while tutuy I lit the o tv J*on. Humi h 8 srr ail force of cavalry early on tl.ef ui'irnit-p of the 17;h, tr.d the ma\o~cf be city mot aa < ffii^r of the federal army u? dcr a ft ig of truco and too .lered him the rurrendir ol the c:ty, aMic'aimid protection f. r its iuhabi tants. This w a? promised. All during the day thousands cf the tDciEy i>( u cd into the city, Gen. 1 er ti an interjntr about nracay. Gens Davis" and Williams'corps crospcd the Sslulaaod continued up on the we6t oru bank of livoail river, one crofting 10, the other 25 miles abr ve Columbia The people of C lunibia had ho.ies of a peact'u1 o cupatiou of the city, but durirg the day and along towards nigb.fa'l, the ilroatecng attitude of tic soldiers, their < ruinous wordB, hrc&lsif vergcarce, wiro Ico pcron:tu i\r thepeojl to uiisuuderst ,r.d o- to tspfct inoroy. These sign*, urfnts and rruttf rings were but the prelude to that which was to folluw. KIKE ALARM. About 9 o'clock the aUrrn of fire was civi n and the arcad round of the fire be Is, mingled with the I u u and roar of ten thousand voices and the trend of as many iroopi tarrying to and from their cursed misrii-n, could be heard by the now thoroughly frightened popuieoc. The pei p!o, with blanched countiranc. s. set features, looked in nute riii nee into tho f?o s of each oth tr All kmw and felt, l.ut dartd not t v.n o themsehcH to whisper, thf m li.i tskab'c tru.h. N >w another ?l.trui, ,, ... t r.r/v i.?ti ? i? j ? i. t_ muv.uv* "it uvu uIiuuui nn ri auu Willi l! e g n ?*1 clioius of discord, sf ou'.b >f t' C- soldiery, ihe frightened cries of the j ooplc?yells o! the drunken renj a?all a seething, maddening turbulotce in the orowiud streets. A 1 a rid giaru shoots up above the housetop-, then the cakling and roaring of the dread eleuicnta told but too plainly that the bou.iful city was scon to bo wrappi d in flames. Tnc sark and i ii ago ha i begun! THE LOOT Or THE YANKEES. Few men being in the oity, tho wo men, 'Attn rare heroism, sought iu save some lutlo necessity of lite, only to hto it Biiuck to the tl)or or sn&tcbrd fiom their hands and scittercd in the streets. Here would be a iono woman huggit g an infant to her breast, with a fo.vs'ri|8 of clothing hanging en her arm* . 1 olploBB erpbana lugging an old irunit or otics\ now containing all they ciuld call thoir own?those would be snatched away, broken open, contents rifl.d by tho diuoken soldiers, or if not valuable, trampled under foot. Soldiers, with axrs and hammers, rushed from house to houso, breaking in doors, smashing trunks, boxes, bu iraus and robbing them of all that was valuable, then leaving tho house iu flames. Helpless women, screaming children, babes in tho arms, invalids in beds, jolted and jostled against the au'ging mob? none to holp, none toadvise? tlietc defenceless sufferers rush i ?d aimlessly about, their solo purpeso being to avoid the flames and Beck a placo of Hafciy. Tho fires originated principally in tho southern section of tho city, and an the firo ate its way up, the howliDg throng followed, driving the innocent and helpless ahoad. As tho night woro on, tho drunken soldiers, first tnado intoxicated by tho wino in private collars or the liquors in government buildings, now became i beastly drunk in their gl ?c at tho sight of tho do.itruction thoy had wrought. < Tho womon and children followed tho * lark background of that part of the oity i not yet in flames. Tho federal officers, i instead of offering assistance or a help- 1 % * - \ Ihr hand to th? ruined and distressed people, added icault to injury by Join ing with the private soldiers in tie ' plundering of the city, insulting the women and adding fuel to tho tiame. All night long did the flames rage, leap, and l?ck the clouds as ono block of buildings after another fell?food for i the devouring elements. This drunken crgio was kept up till their craveu ( hoarts wero fully satisfied. A few squares in tho northeastern part of tho city wero loft, also several churohe*, and into tkeso the wouion and ohil dron woro hauled and packed, and had i to remain for days and some for weeks, almost en the vergu of starvation. The fedoral commander, through tho bouadless dictates of bis sympathetic heart, 1 , ... . . t. ?i--? ? -? f ! ovmivjiimail Vlim UIU 1LU lUpiDO could reach, left the starving thousands a few rations each of the plunder 1 ho had robbed of tho planters in the country. ' UK4TITUTI0M. No vehicles or horses wcro left in tho city's limits?the bridges turned that j led aoross the river to tho west To < tho oast, Blair's dorps was laying J waste everything in its pathway, whilo , above and below the city, for a distanoe | of 50 miles, Sherman had swept the ( country as bare as if n blight had fallen ' t upon it. How tho per pie of Columbia , fub-istcd daring tho time they w< ro j Jicnnod in tho city ohurohen and tho | ew buildings left, will ever remain a ] mystery, and to nono somuihas tho J sufferers themselves. i Grains of ocrn wcro eagerly picLed | np in tl e streets as they dropped from t tho wagons, and the women and ohil , drcn of the lower olaBH and the negroes ( flecked to tho deserted camps to gather \ up the crumbs left by the Roldters or , tho grains trampled under foot of the t horses. I Each hou'-o in a plrotch of 50 miles , was entered and insults and indignities , eff-T'd tho dcfonclcss womrn whioh | woulo have shamed the aavago Turk. | Ladies were forocd to disclose at the < point - f the pistol or the sabre, tho 1 hiding place of their littlo va'uables f S >mo wcro forcod to cook meals and t wait upon tho hell hounds, whilo they j rcgahd themselves upon tho choice j viatds or medicinal wiuca of the plau , ters' wives. But be it known to their | immortal honor, that it was only on tho most raro occasions that tho prond f dames of tho South could, either by ? threat or brutal treatment, bo forced to j } ield to their imolcnt demands. With , the orders frc tu tho soldiers to "propare , a meal" or "disclose tho whereabouts | of their money or valuables,'' came tho 1 threat, "Wo will burn your house if j you do not.', But almost invariably j came the quick response, "Burn it j ourn it, you oewardly wretcho*, and | kill mo, if yon wish, and all of us, but , 1 will novcrsoil my hands by wailing ( upon a oowaidly Yankee, nor tell you ( tho place of concealment?find it if t ycu can. ' Tho soldiers would question ( the negroes to find if thtro were any j watcheH, bilvir plate, or mcney belong ing to tho hou- ihold; if so, they would ( by a sy tteui o' icquesition, attemptt) force tie women to give it up. but iu ( vain. t A SUA VIC WOMAN. J A woman, Mrs. Miller, the wife of a 1 neighbor of mine, had her husband's 3 gold watch in her bosom, ani refused 1 to gtvo it up when demanded, oven 3 wi on a cocked pistol was at her head J Tho Vandal t truck her a f-tuuaiug blow 1 wi.h tho hutt end of tho pistol?all iu $ vain. Tho bravo htroino hold to tho ' heirloom, and stoutly resisted all en- I treaties and threats. 1 Two?,Id people living near mo, broth- * or and uiudcn sisior, named Liner, * Trm II ]<?.-?? tinrf rur", w t ft" v (I to' give their ruoin y. They had nouo Bat one of the rutiimjh threw & tiro under the bed, taying: '1 will j ut it cut if yoa will tell me where you keep your money; yru have it, for I've btcu bo informed." "Lot it burn," aDswend the old wo man "Da you think to frighten or intimidate mo by limning my house tbst I will tell what 1 choose to oonccal? Do ycu think I eare so much for wy houfe and its bclongirg.? No, no; you mistake the womm of the South, you will Dover conquer her peo pie by making war upon defenceless women. Let the hcu*c go up in flames, and my ashen micgle with its ashes, but I will rcma<n true to mysolf, my country and my God." S-on all that wat lift of the onto happy houio was a heap of ashos. V\ ill God, in Ilia wisdom, ever have c?uae to attain oreate suoh women aa those of the Southland? Ur were there ever conditions in tho * Of Id's history tha* re quiied the presouee of auoh uoble martyrdom aa was displayed by the wo men of tho Sooth during tho Civil War? But a Nemesis in this case, as in many others, was lurking near. Binds of Confederates and scouts had scat tend themselves on the flanks and rctr of tho enemy ; old men and boys and disabled veterans wore lytng in wait in many thickets and out of tho way piaces. ready to pounce upon the uasuvj eating freebooters and give to them their just deserts. Was it anyw indir that an mar v Knnd rr.rl a ?i>.t iUn.nL of tneso Goths faih <i to answer toShnoman's latt roll o&ll? Boforo the bud was u,aoy hourB older, af.er the burning of tho lijaer homestead, tho dreaded "bu6hwhaokern" wore on tho trail of tho vaadah. Kor years afterwards people, from ourijsiiy, cajjo to look at a heap of b< nes in nthi.ket near, bleached by winter h rain and summer's bud, while sorno cf tho older mm, pointing to the ghostly relios, would say, "Those aro tho rcn.aioH of Sherman,8 housiburn erB." Aid euoh wero the scenes from tho Saltkahatchio to tho Capo Fear. Who wero to biam> ? Sherman now dircols hiB maroh towards WinnBboro and Chostcr, still in tho four great parolx burning and plun dering as they go. It so ni9 that iu their maroh through Qoorgia they woro only whotting their appetites for a full gorge of vandalism in South Carolina. Afto their carnival of ruin in Columbia tho Federals, liko tho tiger, which, with tho taato of blood, grownmoro rav onous, btoime moro dohtruciivo the moro destruction they saw. Great clouds of blaik smoko rose up ovor tho wholo oountrv apd darlrmnrt thn overhead, while at night tho heavens were lit up by tho glato of tho burning buildings. Tho railroad tracks wore torn up and bridgca burned, tho iron being laid across heaps of burning ties, then when at rod heat, were wrapped around trees and tolepraph posts?those last th'ough pure wantonness, as on army was in their roar that ould ever aso tho again. A Pat Response. Thero aro many ways of proposing, but for tho "pop dircot, aud for tho pat response," nothing oould well snrpasH tho specimen furnished by tho l'uruan and the girl who had won his affections. Hiding up to her father's hcuso, ho asked hor to be oallod. "Kaohell", ho **id, "tho Lord hath pent mo to marry thee." To whioh the dauisol, after a inomeut's pause, replied, meekly, "The , Lord's will be done." , V ? ? s 80*1 FLAIH TALK To Sixty-four Legislates Who Voted for Free Paste*. The following plain talk from Anderson Mail is commended to the sixtyfour morabcrs of tho Houso of Representatives who voted for freo paste* And the house by a voto of 64 to 38 repealed tho anti-free pans law! Sixty four members of tho houso want tho railrcads give them froo passes when the 8ta?e gives thorn & oentB a mile eaoh way and they make 2 cents of that clear, as the railroad fare is only 3 cents a mile, and if they I II L 1 uujr a mileage dook ll is only 'J4 cats, ?o that they can make half of it clear. Bit whatever it is the Stato pa>u it and wore loo. and jet these (JI want free passes. For what? The railroads arc willing to givo them ?and why? You plain people who work oa your farms and business uion who s?and io lour places of business day after day ask yourselves why those railroads are willing to give these free passes and then givo a plain, oommoo sentc inswer to it. Do railroads do business for the fun of the thing? Do they cot rxpeot returns of somo sort for every investment? Aod isn't the giving of 'reo passes an investment? And do lot the railroads know that these leg slators may have to pass on legislation iffeoting railroads? And don't they mow that every legislator who accep's i free pass from thorn is to that extent indor an obligation to thorn? They io uot oall it bribery or an attempt to luy a man's icflucnoo or his voto. Oh 10, they havo a nicer name for it than .hat. They call it exchanging courlclies. "Courtesies'' is a heap plcasantrr word and there is no unpleasant odor ibout it. These legislators are sent ihoro to represent the interests of tho ;ieoplo and some of them havo a heap 0 lay aboQt tho "dear peoplo" and 'my people" and the people pay them 'or thoir servioos, and not only pay ,hcm by the day but go farther and lay them a good allowanoo for travclng cxponees in the shape of mileage, ind then th*y go and ask tho railroads | 'or free passes. Why should a representative ask for 1 froo pass? Can he bo true to the rust reposed in him when an issue is joined between the peoplo and the ailroads? Admit for tho sake of tho irgumont that he can, then why should ic put himself in a position to bo sus;>coted? A true reprcsontativo ought ;i be like Carsar's wife, above bus lioion. Wo do not boliovo it is right 'or bg'slators to aoccpt free passes for ;he r.-ason as stated above that the ailroads cxioat a return of tho cour:esv and a legislator should keep birnlolf free from any sort of obligation to hem?not in any spirit of hostility to .lorn, but to maintain attitudo of airnesp and impartiality. When tho lljform movcni'-nt began core h\n 10 jears ago ono tf its battle ricH was 4,no froo passes," and when Jtv. Tillman acoeptod freo pass No. 1 .his editor exo-riated him mercilessly fjr acoi pting it; and the anti free pass aw followed and has stood for 10 rears, and we have no doubt that nino.enths of the people today endorse it ret. If, as the father of the kill, Mr spears, said the law is a reflection lpon the integrity of the publio men of .ho Htatc, what is to be said of the in 'n vho repeal the law and aooept free sasses? The anti-free pass law is no nore a r< flection upon aDy lunliomsn ly to.do right th jkti ilie law Ooon o i'z wr.o intend to do right Tho Mm! hits the nail on the hea<i with every stroke. agbevtarmy AND NAVY What Militarism and Imperialism will Costthla Country Here are figures, compil. d from the latest available Government statistics, showicg that the 1 lited States is paying a greater t rioe for militarism than any other nation on earth, and almost as mu rh as any t wo others t ir-Hl er: United S'a'es?Army . . .$175 000 000 Navy 78 696.973 Pin-iions 145 'J 15 230 $398,942 103 England ? Artrv $193 085,000 Navy ! 134 975.000 Pensions 1 4't7,8lo $239 467 840 France ?Army.. . $125 855,2o7 Pensionsinoluded in abovo . . 60,72o, 102 $186 575 309 G< rmany?Army $160,625,200 Navy 33 353 250 Pensions 16.323 900 $210,302 350 Huisia? Army ... $159,185 000 Na / 41 532 000 $200,717, t >00 Austri*?Armv $72 640 000 Na^y 9 986 000 $82 (526 000 Italy?Arm7 $52 880 000 Navy 22 207,000 $78 096,000 And for this enormous expenditure wo havo a smaller army tnan any of the Kuroprao Powers and a smaller navy than any except Austria. The fetalis ties follows: United States?Array 100 000 Navy 20 000 120,000 ICugland?Army 251 000 Navy 110 640 364 640 Franos?Army 579 519 Navy 42 605 622.124 Germany?Army.... 479 229 Navy 20,661 505 880 Russia?Army 883 148 Navy 37 164 920 310 Amtria?Araiy 265 608 Navy 12 935 278,543 Italy?Army 211 906 Navy 23 692 235 598 Hauling of ferlililors has begun and farm work will soon begin in earner t. The temptation tj plant a largo ootton orop will bo great and many will not bo able to roaist it.. -u 51 MODISH tLATSET. A Hewipsper Bays the Contract Labor 8ytUm it Much Abused "That mornbcr of tho Anderson delegation who told Mr. Wolliog, of Fairfield, that Negroes were bought acd sold hero on 'abor oontraota oan doubtless give affidavit- ?n ahuudanoe to *-i establish his statement. It is a matter J of common report here that this is ? ? A A ' A. 1 v u wuvi/ uuuc, iuu 11 is i'so ft matter uf common rumor that many of them are shaokoled and pat io stookadrs and guhrded and worked under guard like regular oo&victs. From all that wo havo heard we do not think it woa'd I b:eny trouble to establish the fact by indisputable evidence. ' The method of procedure is about this: A Negro gets into debt &nd breaks his contraot, a warrant is sworn out and he is arrcntod and brought be fore the magistrate or committed to jail to await trial. In the meantime a par ty goes to tbo landlord and says, "how muoh will it tako to got that Netro? ' a The amount boing stated, the Negro v is seen andacreisto enter into a con- g traot for sometimes a longer period ? than a year, tho amount duo the landlord is paid, the papers are signed and n tho Negro is hustled eff under guard to D a stojkado and is kept as securely as if a ho had been brought before a magis- t tra'e, tried, eonviotcd and sentenced. "And there aro plenty of similar v oases aad wo have heard at least one f man Bay "that Nigger is mine. I bought 8 him and paid for him." And it is ? said the lash is freely used on these v Negroes. How true it is we do not know, but it has been freely talked of a on tho Btrccts that thoro should be an iovestigatioQ by t^o grand jury and 1 that, ton, by some of the best citizens _ of tho county. And the grand jury ought to do it in tho interest of all conoerued. Tho public has an interest in knowing if these oharges aro true and H if thoy aro untrui, the ether parties * having a deeper interest in BhowiDg that they are untrue. We Binoerely hope that tho presiding judge at the oomirg term of oourt will order the grand jury to make a searching investigation and r to a so iiTiiro if tho costs collected in JJ cases thai have been compromised have been turned into the county treasury." ll Commenting on the above the Flnreroe Times says "the story from tbo Anderson Mail concerning the twen tieth oenturv elav? ry can. no doubt, God a para lol in a cumber of other ^ aountics and a cumber of other states than South Carolina Io fact it is a universal truth that debt enslaves, and that where the opportunity to oppress \ is given the creditor ho will use it as g far as he can The cn'y way to keep ~ fr??) is to keen out of debt. The lien law, the labur contract law and a'.l these k nd of laws that a*e intended to A protect the creditor aro abused to their utmost limit aod by nnn of whom such * ubp wi u a no nttlo exjectrd It is J the N( *ro that suffers mostly.'' We do not believe that any such a condition of affairs exists in this oountv. Gen. Floyd's history "Historical Koetor and Itinerary of ?1 South Carolina Volunteer Troops wro Served in the Lt?c War between Spain and the United Stages " Such is the title cf a well conceived and wc'l arracg d book loct-nily compiled by Gen. J. W. Fiotd, adjutant and inspector gcmral of South Carolina. Purporting to he a oomoilatioi only, the book nevertheless evidences muon work and great c-arc on the part of tho autl or rtx.m i= ? oarofullv written .\h.-t ' of ajin'.1 Ji"i.siwi iuimj-up iD'hc ihTr1 L with Sptin, and of the d ff-rent steps in the formation of the command* furnished by South Ua-olina to the volunteer army of the United States, followed with a biography of the late Governor Eilcrbo and the lato C d Joseph K. Alston. There is a readable acoount of the formation, personnel and mrva mcmtH of each of tho o^mmands meotioned?the. First a d Seoond regiments of infantry, tho heavy battery of artillery and the naval militia. The rotter of officers and men, given by ompaoies, | evidences great care in the pref a*?tion and will doubtless bo found altogether accurate. Tho book oontatos a number of portraits iuoluding those of Gover nor Kiltrbc, Gen. Floyd, and the com missioned officers in each command We clip the abovo from the Stato. The book should meet with read/ sal among the voterans of the Am jrioan-Sptoish war. A Grave Danger. Tho Commonor stye: "A Mattoon, 111., man asks for a diviorco on the grr uods that be was under bypnotio influence when ho was mtried. There will bo a grave danger to tho marriage laws if this contention is upheld by the courts. It will not bo difficult for any man to prove that he was hypnotised wnen ne was married A pair of bright i 0) o& ex iris a powerful inductee ou the | average man. Ho Is Fixed. Thomas Kearns, the new senator from Utah, has asilvir mino for whirh he has refused $12,01)1) 000. It is said to pay him and his partner $1 250,000 a year. They call it the "Silvor King " It has not been running long enough at this rate to pile up much capital for Mr. Kcarns to work on, but his orcdit , is pord. Mr. Ulaik, the senator-elect , from Montana, is rated at $7?> 000,000 so that Kcarns is comparatively a poor man. Qrtman Pays the EXpress Steam Dyeing of every description. 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