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i ft Before It Is Too Late It If you have a gray-haired mother Id the old noma far away, 0 Sit down and wrire the letter & Yon put off day by day. j, Don't wait until her tired steps Reach heaven's pearly gate? But show her that you think of her Before it is too late. If you've a tender message v Or a loving word to say, j Don't wait till you forget it , But whisper it today. Who knows what bl-ter memories * May haunt you if you wait?? ' So make your loved ones happy c Before it is too late. i g We live but In the present. The ftiture is unknown? Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is all our ownThe chance that fortune lends to us ' May vaniah while we wait, So spend your life's rioh treasure 1 iseroro it is too late. The tender words unspoken, The letter never s> nt, The long forgotten messages. The wealth of love unspent. For these some heatra are breaking, For these some loved 01 es wait? So show them that 701 care for them Before it is too late. TALMAGES SERMON. Dr. T&lm&ge Pleads With Those Given to Quick Anger. A doliosto and difficult duty is by Dr. Talmago in this disoourso urged upon all, and espooially upon thoso giver to quick temper; text, Kphosians iv, 26, "Be yo angry and eiu not." Equipose of tomper, kindness, patience, forbearance, are extolled by most of tbo radiant pons of inspiration, but my text oontains that whioh at iirst sight is startling. A oertaiu kind of anger is approved?aye, wo aro 00m mandod to indulge in it. Tho most of us bavo uo need to oultivato high tomper, and how often we say things and do things under affronted impulse whioh we are sorry for when perhaps it J is too late to mako effective apology! j! Why, _ then, should tho apostlo Paul dip his pon in tbo ink horn and traoo J upon parchment, afterward to be printed I upon paper for all ages, tho injunction, "Be yo angry and sin not?" My text oommondB a wholesome in- 8 dignation. It discriminates between ' the offonso and tho offender, the Bin * and the Binner, tho orimc and tho oriminal. 1 To illustrate: Alcoholism has iuincd more fortunes, blasted moro homes, dc- t stroyed moro souls, than any evil that t 1 think of. It pours a river of poison t and fire through the nations. Millions r have died bccauso of it, and millions . are dying now, and others will die. k Intempcranoo is an old sin. The groat j Cyrus, writing to the Lacedemonians | of himselt, boasted of maDy of his ( qualities, among othors, that he oould , drink and bear more wine than his dis- , tinguished brother. Louis X and Al cxander the Great died drunk. The , parliament of Edinburgh in 1GG1 is t , oalled in history "tho drunken uarliament." Hugh Miller, first stonemason , and afterward a world ronowned geolo- , gist, writes of the drinking habits of his ( day, saying: "When tho foundation , was laid, they drank. When tho walls ( wero leveled for laying the joists, they ' ( drank. When tho building was tin- ( they drank. When an apprtn j m tioo joined, they drank." In teenth century the giver of an enior- j tainmont boasted that nono of tho VK Tdf f fT^'waV YaTci^'^q^ but he was wrecked with strong drink. Every man or woman rightly constructed will blush with indignation at the national and international and hemispheric and planetary ourse. It is good to be aroused against it. You come out of that oondition a bolter man o- a better woman. Bo ye angry at that abomination, and tho moro anger the moro exaltation to character. But , that aroused feeling beoomcs sinful j when it extends to the viotim of this , groat evil. Drunkenness you are to , hate with a vivid hatred; but tho drunkard you are to pity, to help to oxtri- j cato. Just take into consideration that t there are men and women who once i were as upright as yourself who have I been prostrated by alcoholism. Por- e haps it oaino of a physician's prescrip- a tion for tho relief of pain, a recurrence c of the pain oalling for aoontinuanoo of 1 tho remedy; perhaps tho grandfather a V1H an innhriatrt ?r>.l . V.? ' - OUU ?.UO WVlUJIiailUU 10 I inebriety, leaping over a generation, a has swooped on this unfortunate; per- t haps it was undor an attempt to drown c trouble that tho benumbing and naroo a tio liquid was sought aftor; perhaps it n was a very gradual chaining of tho man a with the bevcrago which was thought to be a servant, when ono day it an f nounoed itsolf master. Bo humblo now, ti and admit that there is a strong prob b ability that under tho same cirourn- si etanoos you yoursolf might have boon h captured. The two appropriate cmo- a tions for you to allow are indignation o at the intoxicant whioh enthralled and h sympathy for tho victim. Try to get tl tho sufferer out of hiB present environ- a| ment; reoommond any hygionio relief s( that you know of and, abovo all, im- 13 ploro tho divine resouo for tho struggle g< in whioh so many of tho noblest and ol grandest have been worsted. Do not h give yourself up to too many philippics ti ajjout what the man ought to havo boon w and ought to havo dono. While your (J ohoek tlushes with wrath at tho foe that hi has brought tho tuin, lot your eye be in moistened with toars of pity for tho th sufferer. In that way you will havo th fulfilled tho injunction of tho text, gi "Be ye angry and sin not." th There is another evil tho abhorronco a of whioh you are all called to, and it be is on tho inoroaso?the gambling prac- di lice. Decent developments show that of muoh of this devastation is being to; wrought in ladios' parlors. It is an oo evil which somotimes is as polite and in graoious as it is harmful. Indeed, 1I< there nevor were so many pooplo try- I'c ing to got money without earning it. bo But it is a haggard transgression that po oomes down to us from the nast. hliu-hr ing all ite way. tic 1 havo soon in tho aroliivcn of tho 1 nation in this national capital a large tcr book in whioh ono of the early prosi- agi dents of tho United States kept an ao- in ooant in his own handwriting of gains in and losses at playing cards?on ono olo pago tho gains and on tho other tho he losses, and thcro are many pages. Id to other days many of national reputation the wont from tho halls of congress and lift tho scnato ohamboi to spend tho night for in notorious gambling Baloons. Ono bat of the ablest men of tho ocnturtes, ho Charles Fox, got roady for his speech ant against "The Petition of tho Clorgy" wr< by spending 22 hours at tho gaming anj tablo. Irving's lifo of Oliver Goldsmith Thi says that tho great poet lost *210, all of i his earnings, in a short tour to sue tho gin world. Gibbon, the author of "1'hc to i Deolino and Fall of tho Roman K;a- thu pire," oame to his own deolino and bo fall through gaming practioos and in a - and 4 _ j I ?tter in 1770 said: "I have undone ly-solf, and it is to no purpose to conoal from you my abominable madness nd folly. 1 bavo never lost uuoh a 673 days as I have tonltht, and I m in debt to the house for tho whole." There is another sia that wo are oftonimes oalled to bo angry with, and that s fraud. We all liko honontv. and rhon it is eaarificod we aro vohomontin enunciation. Wo hope that tho detco ivos will soon como upon tho traoks of he absicuding bank official, of the turglar who blew up the safe, of the ilerk who bkillfully changed the tiguros u tho aooouot book, of tho falsifier who courod the loan on valueless property, if tho agent who booause of his per icntago wrongfully admits a man to the loncfit of a lifo insuraaoo policy when lis heart is ready to stop and who comes rom an anoostry charaoieristioally short ivod. Oee art of fraud told of in big headiocs in tho morning papers rightfully irousos tho nation's wrath. It is the nterost of cvory good man and good voman who reads of the orimo to havo t exposed and punished. Lot it go unloathed, and you put a premium of 'raud, you dopross publio morals, you nduoo thoso who aro on the fonoo be.wcen right and wrorg to got down on ,ho wrong side, and yuu put tho busi1089 of tho wcrld on a down grado. Tho lonstabulary and ponitontiary mo?t do ;heir work. Hut whilo tho mcroilcs9 ind the godles9 ory: 4 Good for him! [ am glad ho is within tho prison locrsl'' bo it j our work to find out if that nan is worth saving and what woro tho lauscs of his moral overthrow. Per laps ho started in business life under a rioky firm, who gave him wrong notions >t business integrity; porhapi tboro was i combination of oiroumstanocs almost inparallod for temptation; porhaps hero woro alleviation-;; perhaps he was lorn wrong and novor got over it; pcrlaps he did not roalizo what ho was do ng, and if you aro a moroiful man you vill think of other porhaps which, hough they may not excuse, will ex ocuato. Perhaps fce has already ro?nt and in in the hlood of tho Lamb and is as euro of heaven as you iro. What an opportunity you havo now or oboying my text. You woro angry it tho misdemcaor, but you aro hopeful 'or tho recovery of tho rccaloitrant dlesscd all prison roformort! Hicssed iro thoso governors and presidents who iro glad when they havo a ohanoe to laidon! Blosscd tho forgiving father vl o welcomes homo the prodigal! tloRKod thn dvimr thinf wlinm flin l.-?rd ook with hiin to glory; spying. 4 This lay shalt thou bs with mo in paridiso! ' There is another evil that wo ought 0 abhor, wbilo wo try to holp tho vio ian, and that is infidelity. It snatohes ho life preserver from the man afloat ind affords not so much as a spar or a dank as substituo. It would cxtintuish tho only light that has over been tindled for the troubled aud ihe lost. Lit tho spirit of intideiity take hold of 1 neighborhood, and in that town tho narriage relation is a faroo, and good norals give placo to all styles of tumorals. Let it take possession of ;bis earth, an i there would bo no vir.uo left in all tho world's circumference. \11 the sins rebukod in tho Ten Oomiiandmems would bo dominant. Tho oroh that shall kindle tho conflagration )f the earth in its last catastrophe will iot do as much damage as wou d infi lelity and agnosticism if they got tho ihaneo. He anary with suoh theories )f unbelief aud haired of God. Mover augh at the witticisms of those who vould belittle tho Hiblo with their joou arity. Quote to thcui the four lines of iVhittier: * ?? ?>Mi orrr To timl that all the ho*"*" said Is in the book cur tno.*-. ^ , Have a lightning in ycu oyo and t flash in your eneck aud a frown on yout brow for a dastariy that would blot out the sun and moon and stars of Chris tianily and leave all things iii an arctic night, tho ct Id equal to tho darkness. You do well to ho angry, bat how about Lltoso who have beon flung of sooptio ism, and that is more millions than you will ever know of until the judgment lay reveals everything. Ah, hero comes pour opportunity for gcnllenoss; kindloss ami sympathy. Tho probability is that if you had been plied with tho amo influences as this unbeliever thcro vould not be a Hiblo in a'l your house rout cellar to attio. Perhaps he mi in toirto important. transaction swindled by t momber of tho church whoso taking >f the sacrament was a saorilogo. I'criaps he read agnostic books and bear! ignostic lectures and mingled in agnosio eiro'cs until ho has been bofogged tad needs your Christian help moro han any ono that you know of. Do tot get into any labored argument bout the truth of Christianity. Ho eay beat you at that. IIo has a wholo rtillery of weapons ready to open firo. Remember that no ono was ever roormed for this lifo or savod for tho life o como by an argament, but in humlost and gentlest way, your voioo ubdued, ask him a few questions. Ask im if he had a Christian parentage, nd if ho says yes ask him whether tho Id folks died happy. Ask him if he as ever heard of any one going out of lis lifo in rapturos of inGdclity and {nostioisiu. Ask him if it is not a miowhat remarkable fact that tho iblo, after so many years, sticks tojthcr and that there aro more copios f it in existence than ever bofore. Ask im if ho kcows of any hotter oiviliza I on than Christian civilization and hcthor he thinks the teaching* of oufuoius ofClnist aro preferablo. Ask m if he thinks it would be a fair thing , tho Creator of all things to put in lis world tho human raoo and givo cm no dircot communication for their lidanoo and, if thoy did wrong, tell om of no way of recovery. 1 think if famous infidel of our time, instead of ling takon awav instantaneously, had ed in his bed after woeks and months ill v? uu nuuiu imvu rovoKca nis aohings and loft for his beloved family nsolations which they could not fiad obsequies at which not ono word of jly Soripturo was read, or at Froah >nd oromatory, where no Christian ccdiction was pronounced. I do not sitivcly a^y that in a prolonged illhb there would have boon a rotrao>n, but I think thero would, i'ho renowned infi lol, Mr, Hiker, af1 spending his long life in lecturing lin.st Christianity in all ouroitioHand publis'nirg largo and elaborate books depreciation of the Scriptures, in tho sing years of bis life wroto to mo that had changed and that ho would liko stand in iny pulpit and undo the evil it he had wrought for tho most of his itimo. I wroto him in congratulation his soul's sak.) that he had turnsd >k from infidelity, but that I thought could not undo the work of & lifetime 1 1 that ho had talked so long on tho I >ng side I did not think ho could do i ithing by talking on tho right side. 0 mercy of Ood is so groat that many tho mightiest antagonists of our reli n have in their last da,s been brought 'epontanoo and otcr^al lifo Lot tho { mder of yonr wholcsomo indignation 1 followed by tho kindly rain of pity 1 1 lovo. "Ho yo angry and sin not." ' But let me confess at this crisis of my sermon that there is not en in j motion in tho Bible more diffiault to oboy then the | words of the tozt. Whilo it applauds a wholesome indiznstion.it warms against sinful anger. And there is in all the roalm of pastion nothing more destrao tivo than indisoriminato hate. First of all, it frenzies the nervous gsngli. Thoso peoplo who easily flare up on little provocation go into high dudgeon, take umbrago without reason, snap you up luick, have ruined thoir nerves, and there is only ono thing worse to ruin, i that is tho brain, and wo say of one that is given tofrequont ebullitions of temper that ho is an unbalaDood man. A bust oops man of our acquaintance said: "1 1 oannot afford to got mad. It hurts mo 1 so." And if sinful anger damages tho body how muoh iuoro it rives tho disposition. Thoro aro thousands of mon i clerks in storos who would boon mombers of great business firms, and undormcuhanics who would havo been boss carpenters, and attorneys who would havo boon leading advooatos, and proaohcrs to-oongregations who ato starving them to doath who might have had appreciative surroundings, who havo been kopt back and kept down by ungovcrnablo tompors. Tho outbreak lasted only a little while, but it impodtd a lifetimo. Surpassing all other characters in tho world's biography stands Jesus Christ, wrathful against sin, merciful to the sinner. Witness his bohavior toward tbo robod ruffians who demanded capital punishment for aa offending woman?denunciation for their sinful hypoorisy. pardon for hor swoot ponitonoo. He did not spoak of Herod as '"his majesty" or ' his royal highness," but dared to oomparo him to a cunning fox, Baying, "Go ye and tell that fox " But, alert to tho arv of suffeiing, ho finds ten lepers, and to how rnauy of tho ton awful invalids did ho give oon valosoonoe and health? Ton. llebuk iog Pharisaism in tho tnoBt oomprosBod sentence in all tho vocabulary of anathema?"Yo serpents, yo goneration of vipers, how can yo esoapo tho damnation of holl?"?yot looking upon Peter with Buoh tenderness that no word was spoken?and not a word was noeded, for the look spoko louder than words. "And tho Lord looked upon Peter, and went out and wept bitterly. Oh what a look it must havo boon to break down tbo swarthy fisherman apcstle! It was suoh a hart look, suoh a loving look, suoh a forgiving look! Was thoro in any other being sinoo time began suoh a combination of wrath against wrong and compassion for tho wrongdoot? "Lion of Judah's tribe!" Hear that! "Lamb of God who takcth away tho sins of tho world!" Hoar that! Defying the mightiest government of the world, the Ujrnan government, yot rubbing his hand justbcioiv the fore head of the blind m&nd uutil the optic nervo of him who was born sightless is created, and the sunlight has two new paths to tread. Best illustration the world ever saw of anger without sin? atger against the abominations which have mauled and blastad the e:?rth from its deopost cavern to its highcet oliff, but so much pity for tho sinning and suffering nation) that ho allowed them to transfix him upon two piooes ol' wood nailed across each other on a day that was dark as the night; the windows of heaven shut because the immortals oould not bear to look down upon tho assassination of the loveliest being that ever walked the shore of tho lake) or, without pillow or blanket, slept on the in ountaios. Like him, let us hate iniquity with complete hatred; but, like him, may wo _Lb?U<_. vifco are overthrown \njLfeo Then, although at tho opening of this disoourse our text may have scorned to commiud us to do an impossible thing. 1 we will at tho oloseot this sermon, with a prayer to God for help, be more rigid > and determined than ever before against that whioh is wrong, while at > tho samo time we shall feol so kindly toward ail the erring and work so haid for their rcscuo that wo will rel zi that we have soalo tho Alpine, tho Himalayan, height of my text, which onipins, ' "Bo ye angry and sin not." What Mother Taught Me. A clergyman, who i9 stationed at one of our largest insano asylums, relates tho following inoi?l;nt: Ono Sabbath as 1 was leaving the hall in whioh I had as usual preached to a largo number of these unftrtuDatCB, for whom 1 always felt a dorp oompasjion, knowing that most "of them arc incapable of appreciating tho words I speak, ono of tho men, with a friendly grin on his expressionless faoo, stopped ma at the door and said in a whisper, ' 1 can pray too." Tho words surjrised mo, for this poor fellow was regarded as a perfeot idiot, lie had forgotton everything: his nam* his age?about none of thcBO ho oou d give tho least information. So I askod somewhat doubtfully. "What can you '>?? IT _ in ay i ue answered proudly, "What mother taught mo." "And what did mother teaon you?" 1 further asked. 1 lie folded hit hands and devoutly 1 began: , "Lord J^bus, who dost love me, <) spread 'l'tiy wings above me, And tliield ine from alarm!" 11 ) reoited tlio whole stanza without ' mistako. Then the vaguo staring ex- 1 prossion roturned into his faoe, and ho ! was again the sauio unfortunato iaibo- ' cile thai h j had always been, llo had 1 forgotten all?ho oould notrceill a sin- 2 glo ooourronoo of his wholo life, only "what mother taught him" to pray had < not been erased from his poor mind. s Oh, that all mothers would know and ( consider what powor God has jut into 1 thoir words^ c How s This! We off jr Oao Hundred Dollar Howard v for any oaso of Catarrh that oannot bo 1 cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CIIBNBY & CO., Tolodo,<? Wo the undoraigncd, have known F .1. Choney for the last 15 yoars, and bo ? iiovc him porfeotly honorablo in all business transaotions and fi'itnoially ? able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. ? wkst& Tuuax, Wholosalo Druggists, Tolodo, O. Walwvo. Kivmw.sl- maoirim uru^i. w , 141, ?? UUIO" I sale Druggists, Toledo, (J. I ^ Hall h Catarrh Curo is taken internal w ly, acting directly upon the blood and ^ inucons surfaces of tho system. Tcs timonials soot free. I'rioo Too. par hot tie. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the be it. jj Express Train Robbed. ai According to adviocH to (Jhiof of Police (r O'ooonor, at St. Paul, Minn., train No. if I on tho Great Northern leaving Sc&ttlo ol Sunday evening, was held up near Wag- a nor, Mont., about 1 o'clock Wednesday p< aftcinoon by a gang of outlaws. The ri| Groat Northern Kiprcss safo was blown uj open and f-111,001) is said to have been ac secured. bi Died of Charbon. A spooial from Vicksburg, Mis*., wt Friday, reports tho u ath of another hum an victim of ohar ^on, a negro liv- th ing near K iscdalo, Miss. It is added Hli .hat fully 1 ,000 animals have died of wi ho discaso in bolivar county alone. it AEP ON 8UICIDE8 FTbo; I an< Says Chopping Wood it a Bare r ^ Discuies Other Matters. W sto Tho increasing prcvalocoe of suioides indioaUn an unhealthy oonditiou it i of mind and body and I have thought drc that if tho man would quit thiukkg jbi about hiu (roubles and go to ohepprog wood or digging in tho garden, or ovra wm go hunting and get up a good oiro - mo tion ho would fool bettor and oonolvAo to livo on a whilo longer. Tho bo<T7 mu ii ?i - - J _i? .tii i iuouib tuo uiiuu iuu wuoa mo Diooa n the veins goto thick and sluggish a*.d vX\ the secretion bcoomo stagnant, ^te an; mind gets diseased and morbiC2^Vto Cb emotions are out of tuoe and the tAn an< actually believes he would find rost aid to pcao.- in death. It is strango that any sei man of education or refinomont wo>':lil my entertain such aa unreasonable hoi 0. A-1 What did the sohooltoaohor of Dothin thi accomplish by killing Dr. MoNoil aid wh hiuHoli? Whore is the schoolteacher So now? When two ooomicB fight a duel aw and both are killod, how do thoir sptr- tlu its moot in the other world? L)? they ale shako hands or ronow the fight, few of leg course, they are not in hoavon? W'hat for does tho young man aoocmplish by hit killing his sweetheart and thou him- yd sell? Are thoy not then forovcr separated? What does anybody gain by tui- to oide.? As Hamlot says: "Is it not better '47 to bear tho ills wo havo than ft/ to i0I o.hers that wo know not ol?'1 Why not it run away from yoursolf? Kun to tho 0h woods?keep on running?jump the Vei branches, swim sho rivers, got wot, got 00? tired?work in tho gardon, dig, hoe, mf ohop wood, mount a horse and rido fu- ool riously?anything to divert the dis- D0 eased mind from its train of thought. r0l My good old father was lilliotcd with he rheumatism and when ho foltthc aeuio, on agonizing pains oiming on ho would tio reuio up aud limp away nnd mako in for tho farm, and would walk faster hu and faster as the pains increased, and j0 would actually in?ko them ashamed H9] and they woulc leave him tor a day cr mt two. To koop tho mind in a good, nor- th< mal oonditon tho body must bo czcr- ftn oised. Sodentary occupation arc not jB hoalthy for men, and even woman orf should fly around tho houso with a C9( broom or wash tho windows oooasion, ally, or dig among tho ft iwors. It will not do for thorn to Bit and sow all the time. 1 am sorry for thcBe unmaried girls who have to run tho machine all W tho day long and got no healthy exor oiso except for tho ankle bones. When thoy got married and tho babies oomo along thoy are pretty safe, for little 0j ohildrcn give a mother division enough. A mother with a babe in her ^ arms never thinks of suioido. Even if ^ her husband is Cruel to hor or is a ?;n is ?j uiuu??iU| duv mil 1IIDUU IUU "U JUT tho take of the ohild. We note that &y moat of tho Buioidcs ooour ammgthe wj young men and are caused from intern- mt poranco or disappointed love or failure Jm to make money fast, or being oaught in cmoczzlement (\lias stealing) O.hollo ^ killed himsoh became he found out g , that he had wrongfully killed his wife, nQ and Shakespeare says "ho was great oi heart.1' 1 reckon ho was, ooub?oeriag that ho was a Moor and did not believe ic a hoarealtor. It was tho best thing gg and the most heroic thing that he joould do. It was the very intensity of jIU grief and repentanoa and has no paral- CQ iel in modern suicides, for most. all of wt them aro selfish or lovougcful.yji-t was jt] like the Harikiri of Saul, or yf the au- m| eient generals when defeated in Lattlo. tg Tho most alarming .tfMure abjut tg these feu.cidoB of our tho Christian religon-jH^^^^^ET ^ will tako his own life if o, heavju and holl and a rewards and runishment^^^^H^HRic afraid to. The infiuenoo of g tion on the youthful mind has much to .g do wiih it, for a great deal of it is j; tainted with athoism and infidelity. Even 6omo of the standard writers, euob as liume and Disraeli had left rf their bad impression. Tho latter threw tg a dark shadow over life aDd says that |ftl youth is a bluudor, manhood a strugglo and old ago a regret. Is it not far better to tako a more hopeful view of lifo and say liko tho j ' poot, Horaoo Smith: 8p 'The World is very lovely! oh, my God, tot 1 (hank ihee that 1 live. lot Or, to say like Longfellow? "Life is real?life is earnest, Aud (he grave is not its goal." ori in| It is easy to diagnose a poet's tern- ov pertinent of a philosopher's by his toi writings?some aro gloomy and sorno an arc bright and ohoerful. I was rumi- ex nating about those young meu who is i have just graduated a', my alama mater 1 and tho other homo colleges, aud won- ba< dcriog how inaDy of them would prove am a success in lifo and twonty years bai honce exclaim with the poet, * Oh, my in? God, I thank Thco that I live." Fifty- ooi our years ago 1 was at Athens, in the oti olass of 17 and of tho forty-two then in? liviDg thcro aro now but half a dozjn thr loft. Many of them lived and died and poi made no signs. Some of tlem Baw woi trouble and some made good ciiizms- tin $ood husbands and fathers; and just s!i( so history repeats itself all along tho i ^auuiauuuB. 11 grioveu me tbat 1 could ing 30t attend tho centennial and oommuno aro wiih the alumni and rtjjicowuh the Ap r'ouug and feol lonely Willi the old. gar Then thero is old oollego and new ool f1D' !go, and the chapol and tho campus l'"1 ind tho two halls that aro still un- . shai.gfd. 1 wonder how many b >ys 1C^ rave ocoupicd the old room that Hris )se and L lived in for two long years saw it in tho picture and felt like it ^ ras still my room. Tho ailantbus ^uc roes (by a misnomer called the troo ^ I h aver) grew close to our windows ? 11 ,nd extended their nauseating odors to -^rormitory where wo slept, auu tho boys 1 II aloDg tho lino oomplaincd, but tho '*ltl aeulty said it would soon pass away, l'10 nd tho treos wero importel fioin nc8' Ihina, tho Celestial Empire, and they &ev< rcro called tho troes of heaven. Ho ono aik night tho boys (not 1) got axes nd girdled thorn and they diod and "?b 'em 10 heaven in China, where they ?? 1 tmo from. For some months I roomod him 3 new college, and so did our tutor, * tr< ho was cross and never smiled, for o was an old baoholor?poaco to his ' "hcs. Ho wouldont lot mo nor Chess tha loward play oa tho fluto after btudv bee uigui,, nor joi ijou>>I iseloy nor in t iok Farmer play on iho fildl j. Said it the iuoycd biin, and ho some of tho boys sa|, lot i) got Bomo o'd cannon bails froiu rj(.j 10 armory and away in tho dead hour ( u l ' night, wlion deep Bloop falloth upon '' man or a tutor, thoy rolled a six>under along tho long hall 200 foot 'V" ght by his door, which was about nr' idway. When it got to tho other end tho lot her boy Blippod out and rolled it up 10k again, and tho rolling and ruiub- von ig was kept up for a timo until thcrj ipponod just what they thought W >uld happen. Tho tutor bad oponcd vora' orack in his door, and whon ho hoaid muo1 o ball ooming for tho fifth tiouo ho very ppod out auddonly and slopped it th his f jot and picked it up and took genu in his room. That wai just what tho ' FS (aot 1) wanted, for thoy had )ther one ia the fire gotting hot. in B timo thoy took it in tho shovel and it it slowely down tho ally, and it pped tot far fr )m his door. Cj tickly stopped ont and the !:*ht from his tn showed him the ball. Hcsoited with his right band and straightway ippod it and used some language it wis nnkooomi dk, and retreated to i room. Tho next day hiB hand was d up in a white handkerchief, which s a kind of flag of trace, for he was loh more oonsidorato to us and seem to liko music. 1 nevor porpctr?t d ich miiohiof while in ooliego, but 1 s an apt soholar to look on acd on r all the fun. Chess Howard was an pert, and oould play ball better than ybody, -especially a hot oannon ball, esr-oamo to seo us somo tim<> ago d aftor whilo asked me and my wifo give them somo tnmio. And so sho itfd horself at tho piano and I took ' fluto and askod what ho would like, id he said play that go^d old picoo it wo used to oall "'Ballio Baxter" en wo wont Beronding in Athens, wo playod it, and before we were aro of it Chess had slipped his own to out of his pocket and was toothing nig behind me Sallio was our ool ;? Bwoothoart, but wo dident got hrr, ' a Bird fljw thoro and she followed n off to Baltimore and is living there t. But we never thought of suioido. But I forbear. It is swoot and it's cad recall tho memories of '45, '40 and ', and I would havo felt lost and loly in Athens. It was oollogo then, is a great uoivorsity now, and many angos havo oomo over it, and wo old terans hava to keep up with tho pro is'on whether wo liko tho modern thods or not. They havo got intci hgiato baseball in the curriculum w and 1 rcokon it is to koop tho boy* n committing suicide. It diverts ir rnia ds from tho strain of trig omotry and oaloulu3 and conic boo ns. lVegresj is tho order of tho da? colleges as in ovorything olso. Oac ndrod and fifty yoard ago old Dr. hnson said to Bo3wcll, "in our great tools thoro is less flogging than for irly. Consequently, loss is learned sro. So what the boys get at one one d thoy loss at tho other " Now thcr< no Hogging anywhero, and tho teach i and profebsors are thankful if the) sapo it from tho boys. Bill Arp. CONDITION OF CR0P3 eekly Weather and Crop Rtpor of Director Bauer. The following is the weekly bullctii the oondition of tho weather an< o crops issued Wednesday by Direalc luer of tho South Carolina section c o United States weather bureau's oli ite and crop service: The week endiDg Monday. July 1 craged slightly warmer than usua th a maximum temperature of 10: Batosburg on tho 25.h, and a nun um of 60 at Chcraw on tho 27th 10 temperature was generally favor lo for tho growth and development o Id crops, and there was about tin rmal amount of sunshine, Iligl nds caused some damago to corn oi e 25th. ffcero wero numerous, scattorei owors throughout the week, gcLera.l ;ht, but heavy in places, with* a max lam rainiaii 01 - u lnotics in I'.clcen unty. Cultivation mado fair progrcs lore the rainfall was light, but muo nd remains too wot to cultivate, am ity fields oontinuo to bo grassy, al ougli much grass w?s killed durin o woek. Thorc arj complaints of th atu imbcrg, Barnwell, Newberry ad iluda counties, and light hail was re >rted from a few other points. Thor o numerous reports of corn and cotto dds bring abandoned on account o eir foul oond.tion and the oost am fficulty of oloaning them There was a general improvement ii e condition of cotton, greatest oi d lands that oouid bo worked, and i e sea it-land section, while on sand; nds the plants oontinuo to dio t mo extent, and generally are no riving. Cotton is unusually stual r the season, but has begua to blooa places, although yet it is fruitini arsely. The general condition of cot n continues to be unpromising Or k lying lauds is decidedly off oolor. Tho conditi on of corn varios greatly, .hough generally poor ever tho cast i half of the S.ato, whero it is be 5 laid by. Upland corn looks wol cr tho western counties, but in hot as it was almost entirely destroyer d is now being replanted to souk tent Planting stubble lands in cart ilso underway. Over tho greater portion of the to boo regions the plants are back ware i small, but in Kershaw oouniv to 300 is doing well. Cutting and cur ; mads slow progress in Florence inty, acd has not been begun in icr sections, llioo is generally thriv Wheat and oats arc being csbod, and many correspondents ro t tho yields the best in yoais. Oat-i re greatly damaged by rain afier cutg, but tho d imago to wheal waa 5 Kt. dinor crops arc goncrally ia a thriv oonditiuu, but peaohes and plums rotting extensively as they ripen, pics continue to drop. Pastures and dens, with tome exceptions, arc On the whole, there is a marked movement in tho orop prospeot?, they aro still icported disaoutagHanged Him to a Tree. Lobert White, a negro, was lynohed isday noar TallabasBe, Ml more oouuAta., Hubert White and brother, ir-ton, were tenants on the farm of a Goodwin and their ohiokens annoyi truck farmer named Thomas. Tho oi killed a;l tho fowls belonging to Whites. Monday night tho two roes atUckod Thomas and fired iral ohois at him, but doing no lagc. Thomas returned tho firo Biightly wounded Winston Whito, crt Whito was arrested and while ho i;ay to Watumpka a mob took frou tbcothoers and hangod him to 30. 'hr Charlotte Observer says t the gold minors who have n operating a hyilraulic nlant lie Catawba river have made discovery that the black d in I ho bed of the river is 1 with gold. An assay of a ntity of ih is sand recently le, shows a yield of per This is an extraordinary i yield, and if all the sand in company's workings holds to it, the result will bo a itable bonanza. oathor conditions have boon fa bio for fanning operations and K effeotivo work is being dono to a backward crop. Siubblo land* being flooded down in poan and a ino effort to tnako hay will bo gen TAFTTAKES CHARGE Jiidge Thfc Installed as Civil Oov rnor of PhilippinesPRESIDENT 8 MESSAGET?fi u : wutkimui i ail nupf? rilipinOS Wilt Soon b? Olad They a'? Not Free. 0?n. Chaffea Rsliaves M Arthur. Civil government in tho Philippines was auspioiously inaugurated Thursday. Commissioner Taft was escorted by Qcn. MaoArthur and Gen. Chaffee from tho palaoo to a great temporary trikuno on tho opposite sido of tho Plazi Piacio. Standing on a prejooting i oonlre of the tribune, Mr. Taft took tho oath of office as civil governor of tho Philippine islands. Tho oath was ad ministered by Chief Justioo Arnello. Gov. Taft was thoa introduced by Gen. Mao Arthur, tho gun of Port Santiago ' being fired by way of a salute. A feature of the inaugural address of Gov. Taft was the announcement that on Sept. 1, 1901, tho commission would bo inoroascd by tho appointment of three native members, Dr. Wardo Detavtra, Bcaito Legarda and Joso Luzi i riaga Before tho 1st of Soptember, departments will bo instituted as foli low, tho heads being members of tho Uuitcd States Philippine commission: i Interior?Woroestcr. i Commerco and Polioo?Wright. Justice and FiDaaoo ? Id3. Publio Instruotiou?Moses. Of tho 27 provinces organized, Gov. ' Taft said tho insurrection still tzists 1 in fivo. This will oauso the oontinu ance of tho miiitary government in t those sections. Sixteen additional provinces aro tcported without insur1 rcotion, but as yet they have not been I organized. Four provinoes aro not > roady for oivil govcrnmont. Gov. Taft raid that with tho concentration of t troops in largo garrisons it would bo uccoseary for tho people to assist tho police in tho preservation of order. Ficet launches will be prooured, he said, which will facilitate communication among the provinoes, as well as t aid tho postal and rcvonuo depart monts. In connection with educational of1 forts, Gov. Taft said that adults should ] bo educated by an observation of r American methods. Ho said that there f was a roasooablo hone that congress would provido a tariff, suitablo to as sist in the development of tho Philt ippines and rot a mere application of I the U oitod Statc? taiiff I Aooording to G jv. Taft there is an uncxpondeu balance in the insular . treasury of $3,700,000 and annual in . oome of J 10,000,000. f Tho ffrtunrnior a?ir) ^ %>AaaIUl? ^ w ov,,vlMV? u?iu vu?v ait J jMjaciUJC 8 friction between oivil and military nubb ordicates should bo discouraged. The 3 patriotism of the leading Filipinos was commended. In conclusion Civil Gov1 crnor Taft reiterated ahepe expressed by the president that in the future tho inhabitants would bo grateful for the 9 American Philippine victories and that s i hey would bo indis9olubly linked in 3 tics of affection with the c.nimon i country. Tho reading of President McKinley's g mcstago of congra'ulation was enthusiO abtically oh A^fcrrrTTtrtrnTTTC front of d ~6cers with their families and friends j were s ated therein. Gen. MaoArthur, o Civil Governor Taft and Military Gov n ernor Chaff :o occupied tho oontro, with f the oilier venerals on their rieht. Rear a Admiral Kcinpff and his staff were on their left. Tho United States oommisa siantrs and tho justices of the supremo a oourt were immediately ia the r?.ar with n the foreign eon'uls. The mass of tho y people stood in tho park opposite. The 0 Filipino leaders were there, but thoro t were more Americans than Filipinos 1 present. a The president's mcssago is as folg lows: "Taft, Manila: i "Upon tho assumption of your new duties as civil governor of the Phil, ippines, I have groat pleasure ia tend mg congratulations to you and your associate commissioners and my thanks 1 for the gcol work already accomplished. 1 extend to you my full oond1 denco and best wishes for still greater J success in the largo responsibilities i now devolved upon you, and the assurance not only for myself but for my countrymen of good will for the people I of the islands and tho hope that their participation in tho government which it is our purposo to develop among ) them may lead to their highest ad i vanccmcnt, happiness and prosperity. "(Signed) William McKilnley." Tho transfer of the military authority to Gen. Chaffee wa3 carried out in i tho prescnco of tho general?, in Gen. Mac Arthur's ctlico. fhore was no fori malily. Gon. MaoArthur presented the new commander to tho generals and remarked: "1 be jucath to you all mv troubles.' AM the high oivil and ariuy officers accompanied Gen. MaoArtbur to tho river front, where ho formally embarked. Gen. Chaffee thon returned to the palace and received tho public. Four Negroes Hanged. At Vernon, Fia., foar ncgroos wore haDgcd Friday mornirg for murder. Tho nauios of tho negrots wore. Helton Hamilton, John Simmons, Jim Harri- I Bon and Will Wiitiams. Williams, < Harrison and Hamilton had boon oon- i victod of killing a helpless negro and ' almost killing his wife. It was adduo- i cd in the cviacnoe that the three had i warned their victim. Jeff 'Davis, to i lcavo h certain turpentine camp. Davis l obeyed instructions at onoo but was 1 forced to return on aooount of lack of i transportation of his household goods, i Ho oamo baok on Ojt. 2 last and was at onoo spotted by his enemies who surrouadod him injliis home, and stationing themselves behind oonvenient trees proceeded to riddle tho cabin with rifia 1 balls. Davis was told to put his gun t outside, which he did and was soon r afterwards dragged from his houso and j shot to death wl.ilo in his wifo's arms n l>i.r.ugthotrial Hamilton on orossexam > iDa.iou oonfessod, saying: ' I'm guilty, p before God 1 am guilty, and 1 ought to w bo bung until dead." Hy his aonfes- t sion also tho others woro convioted. 1 John S;mmous had killed anotho negro. 0 The town of Vernon is without railroad a nnnnfoiinn ! 1 * * iv/u($ nucH 01 in miles b wore niado by all classes of people. At o least 2 503 wero present. Tho four nc- si groos wero made-to ascend the gallows oi at- ono time at 10.55 a. in., and after w ebon statements from eaeh, who claim- a cd to ho on tho road to heaven. The t\ trap was pprung and tho four woro ai plunged into space, remaining suspend- si ed for 50 minutes. Only ono neck was I( broken, and tho others having died fi from strangulation. K Presbyterian College Next Seeaion opens Sept. 2ft, 1901. Spools number ceo be aooomtnodaied In Dormitory, matriculation. and tuition, for Collegiate jet in faculty. Moral influences good. Courses M. A. Fine Commercial Course. Write for T HE HYOIEBE OF THE BIBLE- I i Scieni iflc Sanitary Regulations Antici- J pated in the Mosaic Law- 1 Tho religion taught by Moses, that " great law giver, lays greatest stress j upon proper life eonduot as the moaus a of proloneiog lifo and the enjoyment a of it. ' You shall observe these laws," t Moses taught, "that you may live ? lone." lid did not nnmmniH in Ko. liovc this or that, nor did ho point to ] reward and punishment in the lifo to ] ootuo, but he laid down ruios for oon , duet in his life and ordained punish mont for tho violation of those laws. Nor must we overlook tho faot that religion as defined by the laws of Mosob , involved all laws for the government t of man as in ividu&l and as member , and integral part of tho State. All r laws wcio promu'gated in the name of ] God, the laws of days of rest and fes- | tivity as well as sanitary regulations. The greater knowledge wo have gained , through our ability of deoiphi ring the i libraries of cuneiform tablets and luer- , oglyphio medioine books convinces us ] that many of tho sanitary laws contained in the Pcntateuoh have been observed by the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians and othor Scm;tio na lions previous to the oxistenoo of the Isratliiish nation, but no nation has itvod in suo'h oiose conformity with tbeso laws as tho Jews, and by the overwhelming majority of them are strictly observed to this day. When over wo find in tho Mosaic ojdo a law prohibiting the drinking or eating the blood of animals because blood is the ncphesb, tho life, we may assume that tho law giver know tho intrinsio essonoo and properties of blood, the rapid ohemical ohaogo whioh takes place there in after death, tho ptomaine poi soning of whioh it is tho oauso, the poison which it gathers from the do ocaeod bodily organB and whioh are transferred to human body when taken as animal food. Wn may safely astuue, therefore, that the ritual modo of slaughtering praotiood by tho Jews since time immemorial has boon fouad tho best safe guard against the transfer of disease from the meat of ani mals used for food, and whioh also accounts for their greater immunity from opidemios whioh dcoimated large populations among whom they lived. Tho faot is well established that tu berculosia, whioh is the greatest scourge of modorn times, is largely due to the transference of tho germ lrom the meat and milk of diseased animals. u .t -j 1 - u ui mctD uygionio regulation ever 1 insisted upon the introduotion of any mode of inspecting meat of animals previous to its offer in the jub.ic market for consumption the Jews had made it obligatory upon those who were au thorized to porform the slaughtering of animalB to examine closely and carefully the carcass, to see whether the lungs were sound, whether the vital organs were free from disease, so that health was not endangered by the consumption. The slaughtering and in Spooling of animals was not intrusted to the first comer, it was performed by persons trainod and educated for the office; they had to pass an exami| nation as 10 their knowledge of anatomy of animals and ja^h^itua^laws the^pJHpQ^pj^Pl tion of which has bc^gcompleted some sixteen hundred years ago, contains extensive treaties on tha suhjeot and di&closos a wonderful knowledge of the anatomy of the animal. As much stress is laid in modern da>B upon the proper observance of a proper diet for thn prcsevation of health as upon the use of drugs. The Jews who lived strictly in compliance with the dietary laws found in them protection against infection by many of the microbes acd fcjoteria wbioh generate disease. Thus was not only a thorough inspection of the carcass of tno bovine killed for the use of man required by the religious law, but oven towls wero examined and if any internal irjury was found of a character that would have produced their natural death, the animal was declared utfit for food. As a protection against deleterious effect of microbes and taoteria, ihougb not known by their technical names, it w&3 commanded to thoroughly rinso berries and all fruits, leguminous and other vegetables, in water to purify them from all parasites and the dust partiolts which made them dangerous to health before eating thorn when raw It is only in modern days that wo have discovered the triohinca in hog meat, which at least proves that somo good reason existed in those ancient days for forbidding the uso of swine flesh. \nother rule, probably cf simplo oleaoliDos?, required the washing of hands before partaking of any meal and the rinsing of the mouth after rising from the table. The legislators evidently had a shadowy idoa of tho in Quitesimal cocci, animalou^e, spirilla* and bacoiti, which float around and givo tho pathologists and biologists so much trouble. However, tho rule was part of * tho hygienio system and served well * its purposo. it may referentially bo remarked hero that "disoussion" was Q the great oharacteristio fia'.ure (f the , Jows. Tho Talmud, whioh reoords the D disputes among the various schools of t< learning from the time of the great Sanhodrim to tho year 600 of tho present era, furnishes ovidenoe of the constant flow of discussion on tho most vital questions of life, of health and licknesa, of religion and praotioes dur ~ ing that early period, and tho "discus J uon" has over flowed on to thiB day, bo .hat opinions among the Jows as to tho & oinding character of oorcmonies and -itual praotioes differ and variegate nore than evor. 1 D England's New Warships. A speoial from London says: In tho ?~ ~?" p ioiho of commons Friday, Arnold Forsor, tbo secretary of the admiralty, anlounoed that the year'a shipbuilding irogrcss included throe battleships of a iew improved olais, six oiuiscri of the lonmouth olais and ten improved tor- tii odo boat destroyers. Tbo batt'oships nil bo of 16 500 tons and 20 feet longer han tboso of tho Formidable olass. 'heir indioated horse power will bo 18,00 and their speed 18 1 2 knots. Tho rmor of tho now battleships will be a elt eight to nino inches thick. A peuliar feature of tho now ships will be A ix inoh guns not mounted in separate moments but onclosod in a battery ? ith seven inch armor. 1 ho ship's arlamcnt will oonsisi of for forward fire, *o 12 inoh guns, two 0 2 in jh guns nd two 6 inoh guns. Aft firo. of the imo ? una of tho.Formidable character, t is thought thoso ships will compare kvorably with anythingbuilding by any uropoan power. Tho now ships will of Sooth Carolina. ] il rates to boarding student*. Limited j $100.00*111 pay for boa d, room-rant ur. Fife professors and one instruotor ] of study leading to degrees of B. A. and 1 catalogue or Information of any kind to 1 A. V Bl'ESCEK,Clinton, 8. C. J >e named the King Edward, the Dcmio- i on and the (Commonwealth, to oonemo* 9 ate the great support to king and oonn- J ry by the two great branohes of the d9 Lindred rt'? The cruisers will be of j t speed of 23 knots. Their armament 1 rill be heavier than the Monmouth'#. I t is believed that the ernisers which j re aboat to bo bailt will be equal to 1 nything likely to be brought againat 9 hem. The torpedo boat deetroyeia M rill be of stronger oonstruotion. All A he now ships will be fitted with wirerss telegraphy as will also all the other I ritit-h war h'ps as they corco in for Be Ostensible H*.ad of the Family.? Maria, there was a book agent around ,o-day who wanted to sell me a work in etiquette and good behavior. icacnes it 111 six lessons, i toin mm 'd ask you if you thought we wanted Real Head?It's a humbug, John. an't be taught in six lessons. been trying to tench it to you for penrs, and haven't succeeded yet^^Hfl^^HH Chicago Tribune. ^ Achievement'* Inatnblllty. Fame Is not an honest mountain We can conquer for all time; No; It la a moving hillside? Slipping backward as *o climb. ?Detroit Free Press. SllTl'AL COMPASSION. "Ohl my poor woman! My heart bleeds for one in your condition!" "Thanks, sor; Q1 was tliinkln' the same of the loikes of you!"?Chicage Chronicle. ' Saw Mills, Corn Mills, -4 Cane Mills, Rice Hullers, Pea Hullers, . J Rip Saws)^^^^ and all other kinds of wood working machinery. My 8er geant Lost Hhjim mo? mtn j ? 'I the heaviest, strongest, and 1 most efficient mill for the j money on the Li&rket, quick, 4 accurate. State Agent for H. I B. Smith Machine Compary I wood working machinery, 1 For high grade engines, plain I slide valve?Automatic, and I Corliss, write me: Atlas, j Watertown, and Struthers 1 and Wells. I V. C. BADHAM, 1826 Main St.. Columbia. S. O J ???ssr ' y \ I compctimt \jfvs ry kx gJjLt\ I tvsiHtss j\ L fi Hf?T HAvl TmO?ouw/^7 , jA I 'f ifosl They're Wanted. J Buiinees aoUrity creates & demand It >usiness experts, and tboje who h i!d diplo- >, H diib from our college are business experts. ) ?hey hare little trouble finding places, and / to trouble keepitg them. Such diplomas re gu krantees fitness. It's not guess- 9H rork, and the possibility of disappoint- lM aent in the new employee, but a guaran- N ee from us to your anility. For full information, tend now to the n Columbia Business College, COLUMBIA, 8. c. J| W. H. NEWBBRHY, President. fl rME YOUNGBLQOD | innrr, - ? -uiyipc_n UUMPANY AUGUSTA, GA. 1 [}rriUK AID WotKI, NoBTH AuOUBTA, S. C- J 00R9, SASH, BLINDS AND B UlLDERV HARDWARE. LOOKING, 8IDIN0, CEILING asd IN- HI SIDE FINISHING LI'UHER IN ?Hg GEORGIA PINE, K All Correspondence giren prompt alien>n. July '2?ly ??|H B. W. Gbtsingkr, Bob 106, Spartanburg. S (1. 9 cC 0 UtCijF I EuslN^ .?nraiu!:5. I \ m SCHOOL SHORTHAND (Actual Business^ ^///t/act-aX fin. 8 j[Cheap Board |||