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>-C*K * . > m I a.-. PARDON OF NEAL 'J b'l roi Calls Forth a Statement trom At- vo to tornsy-Qanaral Bellinger. cd bo WHAT HE HAS TO BAY. th pa to Protsst Most Vigorously Against f* 00 Ccr.aln Statements That br th Hsve Baan Made About cd the Cat-. th fa Attorney General Bollinger protests of moat vigorously against oortain statements that havo been mado in ojnncc- et tion with tho pardon of Col. Ncal. lie 0( dovo so beoauso of his boing tho ohiof it officer in ohargo of tho prosooution of bi Colonel JNoal. llcro is Lis statement: | ' "While the case of the state vs W. ^ A. Neal was still within tho control of fc the courts I folt that proprioty, if tot justice, diotatcd that tho proseoutiug c' officer should remain silent as to certain p; statements made iu bohalf of tho do- it fondant through tho publio prints, tl oritici*ing tho motives of tho prosccu si tion, impugning the impartiality of tho h presiding judge aud tending to mislead ti the uniiiforinod publio a- to tho facts at of tho oaao; but inatmuoh as the governor has grantod a full, unconditional pardon to the defendant, justice to tho c< people of the state, whose sorvants pub- tl lio officials aro to tho oauso of truth and c to the integrity and ability of ono of li MiBP iff* i' ' ermine, impels mo to speak, whiio tho Joi propriety of my oourso tho future must hii decide. tit "For tho past few day numerous loc statements and predictions havo been mi made in tho daily press, as to the prime k<. responsibility for whioh it is not nooos- sti sary to inquire. It has been said, 'the foi attorney general, it is sa.d, gave tri Ooloaol Noal's bond jmen a rcooipt, for on the amount duo by him to tho stato.' oo No such rooeipt over was given, for to tho reason that it had been hold all eti along by this offioo that tho bondsmon wero liable for only a part of what Neal wi was duo tho stato, aud only for this part tn was any reoeipi given or any money sa paid. Communioation was bogun with an Naal immediately upon tho rcoeipt of hi the report of the committee, early iD th August, 1899, and continuod from timo di to time unptofitabiy until August 29, ch when warrants wore sworn out against on him and his arrost followed. he "Demand was made on hiB bondsxon to on Septcmbur, 4, 1899, and tho sum of So 2.812 41 finally paid by thom on the he 29th day of tho same month, after com- ne plaints wore prepared, ready to lo Tl served in the suit against tho bonds- in men. Tho rooeipt given distinctly states di the items of tho Bhortago included in oo the sum. hi "It was also Baid iu Wednesday's "i State, by one apparently 'speaking with se knowledge:' 'During tho hearing (in oi petition for pardon) tho governor abk- je cd Mr. Nelson souio questions as to ic what amount Colonel Neal still owed te the state, or whether by hiH aots tho state stood in danger of losing any thing, as * * * Offhand replies wcro given to ai the questions asked by the governor, hi but later on written explanations will al probably ho filed,' and 'the governor ai will first refer tho petition to tho trial b judge and tho solioitor before going tl iurthor iu the matter.' 1 am justified I in Baying do reforodoo^f thaji^^j w^aj^ I^^^BJB^^^^B^iaU^mdoouiequontly tho proeocu pait iion now has tho first opportunity to bo int< hoard-, and did no ono now speak in bo boo half of tho stato it might reasonably bo mci inferred that tho statomonts o! faot imt contained in the petition remain un oon ehallongid. law "Inasmuch as tho governor, on the ( 15lh of August, 181W, iu transmitting the tho report of tho investigating commit- tur too, said in his official loiter to tno at- jur tirnoy general. 'I aek that you tike ty.' such aotion as tho law requires and pro- ego toot the interests of tho state to secure tris rtho administration of juetico. I would 1 io ask also that you advise mo what further dea steps aro necessary to bo taken by me gro to carry out tho lindings of tho com cot mitteo, as contained iu tho rcpori.' gar (lleport, p. 4), and as he further said to dei tho legislature: 'Tho whole matter was then placod in tho hands of the attor fu? ney gonoral with full powor to act and Se< protect as far as possible tho interests of tho state,' (Report, p. 0), it is roa th< sonablo to suppose that that officer an hnow hotter to what extent tho state we was to be aflectod than defendant's at- ri? torneys. liad ho honored mo with a request for information 1 shoul 1 have kc shown him, from tho copy of tho re- an port which his office had printed and sent to the general ansembly, that tho -IC joint investigating Committee (Report, . p. 10) reported to him officially tha. iu ni addition to tho itorns for wtiioli the W1 bondsmen subsequently paid tho state, Noal was liable for oonvict hire lor three years, amounting to *7,1U(), aau *e that tho attorney general report-.d, in J addition to tho amount for which the 5 bondsmen were chargeable, that "on "h I KA A A/iam n 4 A f # V>/* Iaas i ( i* 1 iuu nguuuuv vaw aftno ui uun> ?? '. i f . three years the slato has lost J-600,' (lioport, p. 7,) aud I shotld have shown him, by tho testimony printed in said report that (pages 68-107) N'cal acknowledged that tho notes which ho had taken from tho Kagsdalos were / disoountei at tho bank in order to raise ,u money to pay his personal debts duo the penitentiary on acoount of convict 1 hire; that tho Uagbdalcs woro not oven ' ( morally responsible for tho amount; that he received the benefits arising ' ^ from tho leaso of the convicts and that tho penitentiary authorities now hold '.V oco of theso notes, amounting to $2,000 ,, for tho hiro of eonviots for tho yoar ( "18117. And 1 should have reminded him that in hiB report to the general asscm- w bly ho used this language 'It wul *' not bo improper for mo iu thin eonncc * tion to oommond tho thoroughness and efficiency with which this committee has discharged tho dilhjult duties they j had in hand, as you will see from the | report horowith tuuiitted.' "1'no attor- ' noy gonoral has disoharged his duties in this mattor faithfully and 1 recommend his diligonoo.' " . Having been confined, as a source of information, to common rumors and to Hl tho articles published m the nowspa t( pors as to the facts prescntod on behalf of tho defendant, 1 am not informed of }( any ovidenoo laid hoforc his ezoollenoy ( to mako him ohaDge his conclusions as I1 to tho faets established by tho oommittoo's report and 1 roitcrato that after taking advantage of tho law to save g< tho loss of $2,600, which tho bank now 11 sustains, and aftor collodion from J. ai B. Watson for tho benefit of tho bank it that amount duo for oonviot hiro for ig another yoar, tho state has lost on ao- d oount of the official mieoonduot of W. ie A. Neal at least $2,600, as formorly ro N ported. tl 1 notioo in today's Stato a statement it of what, by way of ouphomism, we tl may o?!l his exapllonoy'a reasons for tl granting tho pditicft^of pardon. Thoso e' appoar, generally speaking, to bo thrso: t< Pint. That the potitions were num>usly signed "by gentlemen of the J sheet reputation and standing." This ison is forceful possibly booauso "the ioo of tho peoplo is tho roioo of God*' j the auditor whoso worship is dirootin a oertain direotion. Second. Tho sureties of the effi rial nd of Nea\ urged the pardon upon e ground that tho defendant had reid thorn what they wero oompollcd pay tho stato on aooount of his doloation. TbiB reason would i'.solf be noluaivo if tho proseoutions had boon { ought by tho state for tho boncfit of eso bondstnon. Third. It seems to bo taken for grant- J i that humiliation and rcpentauoo for } c deeds dono in tho body arc satis- < otion before tho law for the violation i tho orioiinal statutes of tho Btato. Wore tho governor, uodor our oon- ? itution, olothed with the priestly pow t of absolution on account of a ohaugo 1 heart and a promise of a better life, 1 lis reason wou.d perhaps havo weight, ut one can scarcely throw elf tho con- | olion that had this penitent boon ' icndlesB and weak ho would ha70 sen left to tho ohain gang to "bring ' irth fruits meet for ropoutanoa." Aa it would be an iojustico to con udo that the reasons for graotiag tbc ardon aro fully set out in the stato icat above analjz.'d, 1 shall look to ic allegations of tho politico and the atcmonta contained in tho letters anded out by tho governor for publioaon and mate such ruanirg comment s appcrs to me portincnt. Tho petition st&tca that: (<) "Tho effonso of which N;al was anvioted was a toohnioal violation of he iaw." In addition to saying that all rimes under Btatutoe aro technical vioilions ol tbo law L call attention to tho ?J-1? lh.1 nt investigating ooinuntteo and upon i trial iu court, in whioh ho con- ^ >sed that at the tjiuo of the edition of tho funds in <|uoslion ho ido false statements to tho bookcper as to the amounts oolleoted, itcd that he had expended tbo fundB r his personal use aud finally, iu oonidiction those confessions, sworo the Btand that ho had properly ao unled for them, and this is referred in the potiticn as a "full and frank iteuiout." (b) "At a former term of court ho ih tried urd acquitted of Ircaoh of nst with fraudulent intont as to the mo fur.ds for whioh he was indicted d oonvictcu for not turning over to Hsuooossor." 1 have before mc all of 030 indi.-tuients in the oases. Tho inctmeiii upon which ho was acquitted argci the fauculent conversion of ily $244. Tho indiotmcnt under whioh i was convicted charged tho failure tura over sums aggregating $1,5 41. i that for three separate sums, whioh i has converted to his own uie, has vor boon acquitted of, oven triod. lero isfltill undisposed of against him tho oourt of gsncral sessions an iuctunnt for breaoh of tiust for tho nversion of $300, but inasmuch as his imitation and ronentaces is exneoied to redeem hit* life and reinntato him If ir the good opimou of his fellow < tizjns," it would probably bo an un I ihtitiablc expenditure of public funds i press this proseoutiou at the next roi of oourt. (3) "This turn of money was paid, i > hereinbefore stated, prior to trial id with no idea of compromise." As ofore stated, the money was paid only Iter tho dofcndt.nl had boon arrested ud had givon bail, and then by the ondBmen, against whom suit was ireatonod. (d) "As tho law has boon vindicated 1. * " * > jf tlljB BtaleQ10nt iH not ut jnded to imply that tho stato has 111 n hold harmless in full by this pay- * at, then it doos moan that tho to- 41 mrscment of the bondsmon should be " Bidered full satisfaction before the 1 for Naal's misdeeds. l') "Such being the statute and ni faois showing that ho had not nod it over within thirty days, the .c y could not but lied a verdict of gull" Suroly his Kxeolloney could not so el 0 forgot that ou the motion for a now ^ tl before .Judge Gary on .July 1 his nor was sufcjootel to iho painful ord of having stated before him as uads for a now trial: "Bacauio tho n irt refused to charge tho jury in fo ? d to the authority of the buperinten- ^ it of the penitentiary. j Bjcsusc tho court failed and ro- ? led to charge the law as set forth in * 3tionf)51. t "Because your honer'6 ruling* during p 3 progress of tho trial wore uot a fair p d impartial exposition of the law and v ro prejudicial to tho ocnsiitutional i ,hts of the defendant." e At last the amondo honorable has en mado to lua Honor, Judge Gary, * 1 tho petition bears ovidouoo to tho * partiality of the judgo atd to tho * iformauco of duty bj iho jury. Alas, li.UU ..HI UUU1U UJ IIUI'U Wlli^a HuU [aadoaa generosity is tinctured 1 ih r suspicion of expedicnoy. * Among tho lottora which hi-> Excel- ' ooy hi?j Loon c.msideraio enough to vo to thu |'R| era for publication, t oDg Wi^a his risaoos, and presumably meeting with his apj roval in semi em, are uomo charging that "the poo- ( c believa that theiproBeoution against i >1. Neal was actuated by political pro- , dice and was simply persecution." , jw if aoyono doumn the propriety of , y oonduot in appealing in this mat r before ?.Lo public, let hnn read oarolly tho Words <{Ujled, let hioi romem>r that thoy roier to officers of tho ate, aod that publication of this slanr was made with the approval of tho hocr to whom these loiters wcro ad-eased. So general in itscharaour is 10 ohargc thai oomtnon fairness would jinanU specifioations. Who wore actuated by political prejudice'/ ' 'as it tho general assembly who ap )inted tho committee, the committee ho investigated tho charges and romc-d to tho governor, the governor iio , *u led tho attorney general to ?gin proe ndings and reported thofiudigs of 11 com .iiii tee to tho general as uibly, tiio judgo who presided over j 10 trial, the jury who passed upon iho iot8, or the attorney general and solioi- \ >r who conducted the prosecution in to facts of tho ease'/ If the governor WR-1 A n*rtn In Ihn nn. t ?V -w -..w -V irious conspiracy ho has mado amends ad will douotlcss have that inoroy ex- 1 mdcd to him that ho ban so frcoly bo 1 owed. If all tho others rcmaiD nub set to tho charge 1 deem it fortunnto >r myself to to found in suoh oouifcuy. urn.iks to tilk i.krtku whitens. In roply to those letter writers to tho jvemer who say that "tho state has ot lost one cent by Ncal, ho paid tho aaouut ho was ascertained to bo owing i full," I say thoy speak from absolute ;norauoo and 1 oha'lcngo them to prouoo tho evidence to Hustain tho statoinnt, and to thoso who say that "Col. eal did not turn over his money whilo ic matter was still in tho hands of tho lvoatigaling committee, but an soon an 10 easo was eettlod ho did so," and int "thorn was not ono sointilla of iridenoc showing any criminal intent ) dofraud tho state," 1 would put tho PAUL" IN A BASKET. )r. Talmage Draws His Sermon from This Bible Incident. Itory of the lllactple'a I'roTidrnttel Kacape frout the Infuriated Mob ant the I.eaaon It 1'enchee. Copyrlghtad. 1801. by Louis Klopsch, N. T.] Washington, Aug. 26. A llible incident not of ten noticed It icre used by Dr. Talmage to set forth iractical and beautiful truth; text, II. Jorinthiausll:33: "Through a window n a basket was 1 let down by tbc wall." Sermons on Paul in jsfil, Paul on dart hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul jefore the sanhedrln. Pttul before "elix, arc plentiful, but in my text we nave Paul iu a basket. Damascus is a city of white and glistening architecture, sometimes called "the eye of the east," sometimes called "u pearl surrounded by emeralds," at >ne time distinguished for swords of the best mat'.rixsl, called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric called damask. A horseman of the name of Saul, ridiyg toward this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a flash from the sky, which at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many days, and, 1 think, so permanently injured his eyesight that his defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. lie started for Dnmascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse lie was n changed man and preached Christ, in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. in i ml r.' s-f. r b lamest, and tho popular cry i"Kill dm! Kill him!" The city is surroundd by n high wall aud tlio gates are ^ vatehed by the police lest the Ciliclan ^ irencher escape. Many of the houses ire built on the wall, and tlieir balcolies projected clear over and hovered ibove the garden outside. It was cusotnnry to lower baskets out of these \ valconies and pull up fruits and ilow(rs from the gardens. To this day vistors at the monastery of Mount Sinnl ire lifted and let down in baskets. Deactives prowled around from house o house looking for Paul, but lilt 'riends hid hiin, now in one place, now n ouotlier, lie Is no coward, us SO in idents in his life demonstrate, but be feels his work is not done yet, and so ie evades assassination. "Is that preacher here?" tho foaming mob shout at one house door. "Is that fa 4juic . \ i i c jjy.iic tuuu^ ui nuuiu:r house door. Sometimes on the street Incognito he passes through a cloud of clinched fists and sometimes he secretes himself on the house top. Atlasttbeinfurluted populace geton sure track of him. They hnve positive tvlderce that he Is in the house of one Df the Christians, the balcony of whose home reaches over the wall. "Here he isl Here he is!" The vociferation and1 blasphemy nnd howling of the pursuers are at the front d<?or. They break In. "Fetch out that gevpelizer and let us hang his head on the city gate. Where is he?" The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good stout basket iu the house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the basket. Paul steps into it. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then, while Paul holds the rope with both hands his friends lower away, carefully nnd cautiously, slowly but surely, farther down and farther down, until the basket strikes the m'tuu t." I .iLftU .-<1 I loot and alone starts out. on that fa- 1 oua missionary tour the story of ? hich hus astonished earth and Bust- 13 i. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary ^ ! travels; "Through a window in a isket was I 1st down by tbo walL" t I observe first on what a slender ten- I re great results hang- The rope- C .uker who twisted that cord fastened I > that lowering basket never knew 'J ow much would depend upon the I ;rength of it. How if it had been brok- t a and the apostle's life had been f ashed out? What would have become i f the Christian church? Allthatuiag- s iflcent missionary workiu Pamphylla, e appadocis, Galatia, Macedonia would ? ever Lave been accomplished. All his 1 rritlngs that make up so indispensa- 1 le end enchanting a part of the New < 'estiuient would never have been 1 ritten. The story of the resurrection 1 rpuld never have been eo gloriously < old ? he told it That cxniupleof hero- f d and triumphant endurance at Philip- I > i, in the Mediterranean Euroclydon, j 1 iftder flagellation, and at his beheadng would not have kindled the courage : i if 10,000 martyrdoms. Rut that rope I 1 i r.g i?ni uj'ac i,iiun wucu ucpeuu* ' d on it! So again ttud again great re- i ulta have bung on slender circum- i dances. Did ever sL'p of many thousand toes jrosaing the ecu hove auch an iinpor:?nl poksenger as had once a boat of eaves, from taffrail to stern only three jr four feet, the vessel being waterproof by a coat of bitumen and flouting L)? the Nils with the infant lawgiverof the Jews on board? What if some crocidlle should crunoh it? Whet if some ?f the cattle wading in for a drink ihould aink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry 4i> guns looking through the portholes ready to open battle,but the tiny oraft on the Nile seems to be trmod with all ths guns of thunder that bombarded Hlnai at thu law giving. On bow fragile craft sailed how much of historical importance! The parsonage at Epworth, England, la on fire in the night, and the father rushed through tho hallway for the j rescue of his children. Seven children ! nro out and sate on the ground, but one remains is the consuming building. That ooc awnkes. and, finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulder of the other, and don n the human ladder i lueetioD Did you hear tho trial, havo you read tha report of tho iovoatigating Bommitteo, aro you prornrcd to say thai you havo any knowledge whatever of tho oaso. 1 am awaro tho pardoning power ia the prerogativo of tho chief executive, but 1 am mindful that it is a dologatod and roprcsontativo power, to bo oxoroiaod for and on behalf of tho people. It ia not to be a personal forgiveness, made full and bounteous by an offioial act. M.croy ia of many kinds, we often hear: "The quality of merry Is not strain'*!. It droppith hi the gentle rain from Heaven I'pon the place beneath It ii twioo bless'd: " Ab, yes, "It blcsstth him that gifCB, ami him that takes, Tie mightiest la the mightiest, it becomes The throns I monarch totter than hii Crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth eit the dread aud fear of kingi." It would at leant be a wise precaution for tho criminal who ootnes upon tho -> I . I ? yhs boy descends?Jobr Wesley. Tf you would know bow mi h depended pn that ladder of peasant u sk the mil* bona of Methodists on bkh sides of the sea. Ask their missio^stationa all around the world. Ask thlr hundreds of thousands already u&cjided to Join their founder, who woul/liuve i>erished but for the living t>u4r of peasants' shoulders. An Kngiisb ship atoppednt I'ltcairn island, and right in the uiijst of surrounding cannibalism and tqualor the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful homes and highest style of religion and civilisation. Fir 60 years no missionary and no Chrlstiiui influence had landed there. Why this oasia of light uinld a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship hod met disaster, and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out # Bible which his mother had placed there and swatii ashore, the> - x_. * t- * -? ?""? ?" ms leetn. The book whs read on ell sides until the rough nr.d vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started and on eu'.ighetened commonwealth established, und the world's history has no more brilliant page than that which tellsof the transformation of a nation by one book. It did not seem of much importance whether tho sailty* continued -to hold the book in his leet h or let It fall in the breakers, but upon what small circumstances depended] wfiat mighty resultsl Practical inference: There are no insignificnnces in life. jThe minutest thing is part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of infinitiesimnls; great things an aggregation of small things. Bethlehem ina-Ag?. pulliuw ->n a star in the c*r&rrt /nenook d~aTI Pi'MPbhcVtllor's ulHn the evangelization of n multitude, due boat >f papyrus on tho Kile freighted with rveuts for nil ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket ?wn from a window on the v. bat you do, do well. If you n ope, muke it 6trong nud t*uc, y?u know not how much n iy d on your workmanship. If you ' i?n a boat, let it bo waterpro< f .* you know not who may aai jn - f you put a ltible lu the trunk v ir boy us he goes from hom- le' be remembered in your pray- ' it may have a mission as fane r as the book which the 6:illor i rr i in his teeth to the Fltcairu > - The plainest mau'e 11 fo 1a < ! id between two eternities??lcri ' > past rippling against his sb.tii . eternity to come touching b* . The casual, the occiduutal, t! it which merely happened so, ar pat's of n great plan, nud the rope v. ?t bs the fugitive apostle from t'e D -uascus wall is the cable that told to Its uioorlng tho 6hip of the n in the storm of the centuries. Again, notice unrccog ..od and unrooorded acrvice. Wbc. spun that rope? Who tried it tetbe I asket? Who steadied the illustrv.s preacher nK >,?. <r.?? v*. ?1 a not a muscle of the arn;ci dismissed an anxious look from fci f.ioe until the basket touched thu ground and discharged its magnittoi t cargo? Not one of their natues'os come to us. But there was no wot (lone that day in Damascus or in a! i;bc earth compared with the impvWance of their work. What if they tad in their agitation tied a knot thatcould slip? What if the sound of tbemob ut the door had led them to ay; "Paul must take caro of himsej, and we will take earo of oursclvec." No. nol They hell the rope, and - doiug so hau any" (rid of V. fcvill ever aooinplish. lSut God knu'jrs uud has lado record of their ifndertuking. ind they know. How exultant they must bare felt rheu they read hie letters to the tomans, to the Corinthians, to the raiatlans, to the Epheshms, to the 'liillppians. to the Coloss:ans, to the Tiessalonians, and wheu they lieard now he walked out of prison, with he earthquake unlocking the door or him, and took command of the Uexundriun corn ship when the .ailors vraro nearly scared to death ind preached a sermon that nearly ihook Felix off his judgment scat. 1 iear the men and women who helped ilin down through the window and jver the wall talking in private over :he matter and saying: "How glad [ am that we effected that rescue! In joining times others uwy get the rlory of Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of the t.ut Ufactlon of knowing that we held the rope." Something occurs to me quite personal. 1 was the youngest of a large family of children. My parents were neither rich nor poor. Four of the sons wanted a collegiate education, and four obtnined It, but not without great home struggle. We never heard the old people say once that they were denying themselves to effect this, but I remember now that ray parents always looked tired. 1 don't think they ever got rested until they lay down in the Somervlile cemetery. Mother would sit down in the evening nnd nay: "Well, I don't know what makes me feel so tired." Father would fall Immediately to sleep, seated by the evening stand, overcome with the day's fatigues. About 35 years ago the one and about 37 years ego the other put down the burdens of this life, but they still hold the rope. But tbero must come time when wo shal, And out . who these Dumascen -s were who lowerod l'aul In the basket, itid greet them and all those who hnve rendered to God and the world unrecognized and unrecord ed services. J nut is going to be one of the glad excitements of .Heaven the hunting up and picking out ol those who did great good on cart! and got no credit for it. Tlere thi church hns been going on 10 ocn turies, and yet the world hus no recognised the acrvices of the peopli good fortuno of Col. William A. Noa as a precedent to bo followed in th< future to look well to his sooial posi tiou, tho number and standing of hii friends, and hissenBitivo disposition t( IT t _ J __ ? I.. suiier numiuauon ana ropenianct, iui otherwise some poor dovil who hai sold Kin crop under lien, and failed t< pay tho debt secured thereby withii ton days, may wako up to fiod tha whilo he slept in the darkness of hii friendless despair, so aholtorod tha this "bounteous rain c-f Heaven" hac run off the eaves and had failed to wo him. It is to be hoped that tho future wil not recall that"Mercy is not itself, oft looks so, 1'arJou is still the nurss of second woe." Will It Pay? A dispatch from. Atlanta sajs th cotton growors will hold thoir oottoi this year until thoy can got 10 cents pound. Officials of tho ootton growct association dcoidod on this plan for th planters at a meeting in tho Kimba house Friday and thoy will work t havo tho plan adopted in all the assooit tion throughout tho south. hi that Damascus baloon/. Charles { G. Finney said to a dying Christian: "Give vaj lovo to St. Paul when you meet him." When you and I meet _ him, a* wo will, 1 ahall ask him to introduce mo to thoso who got him out i of tho Damascene peril. | Wo go Into long ecrmons to prove that wo will be able to recognize poopic In Heaven, when there is one rca son we fail to present, and that is better than nil?God will introduce us. We shall have tliein nil pointed out. A You would not be guilty of the impoliteness of having friends In your x>urlor not introduced, and celestial politeness will demand that we bo made acquainted with all the Heavenly household. What rehearsal of ?fld times ami recital of stirring reminiscences! if others fail to give introduction, God will take us through, nxul r before our lirst VJ4 hours In lleuvcn? I if it worn nnlniilri t hv mirtlilir tim??- _ "" "V "Vt V VUIV"...v% ? "J J ^ pieces?have passed we shall meet Htul talk with more Heavenly celol>rlti< s thuu in our entire mortal state we inct J with earthly celebrities. Many who i made great noise of usefulness will sit ^ on the last seat by the front door of the Heavenly temple, while right tip 1 within arm's reach of the Heavenly throne will be ninny who, though they could not reach themselves or do great j exploits for God, nevertheless held the rope. Come, let us go right up and accost j those on the circle of Heavenly j thrones. Surely they must have killed ^ In battle a million men. Surely they must have been buried with nil ibe 1 cathedrals sounding u dirge and all I the towers of all the cities tolling the | national grief. Who art thou, mighty j one that 1 might take care of my parents " in their old age, and I endured with- ' out complaint all their querulousness I and administered to all their wants ^ for 20 years." I.ot us pass on round 11 the cirele of thrones. Who nrt thou, w mighty one of Heaven? "I was for 30 years a Christian invalid and suf- 1' ferecl all the while, occasionally writ- bl iog a note of eyrnputhy for those 0 worse off than X, and wfis general con- ? fidant of all those who had trouble, f< and once in awhile I was strong p enough to make a garment for that a poor family In the buck lane." Pass ii on to another throne. Who art thou, n mighty one of Heaven? "I svas the d mother who raised a whole family of p children for God, and they are out In s the world Christian merchants, Christlan mechanics, Christian wives, and j I have had full reward for all my toil." t Let us pass on In th? circle of thrones. | "I had a bnbbuth school class and (_ they were always on my heurt, und 0 they all entered the tyngdora of t God, nnd X am waiting for their ar- t rival." Put who art thou, tlio mighty ^ ono of Heaven on this other throne? 0 "In tlrno of bitter persecution I owned ^ & house in Damascus, a house on the g wall. A man who preached Christ was ^ lvnimrlArl from ctvppt tn utropf nnd I hid him from the assassins, and when I found them breaking into my house I nnd 1 could no longer keep him safe- s ly I advised him to flee for his life, H and a basket was let down over the v wall with the maltreated man in it, 1 and 1 was ono who helped hold the 1 rope." And I said: "Is that all?" ' And lie answered: "That is all." And s while I was lost in amazement 1 heard r a strong voice that sounded as though ^ it might onoe hato been hoarse from I ranny exposures, and triumphant as J though it might have belonged to one ? of the mnrtyra, and it Bald: "Not 6 many mighty, not many nobio ore t called, but God halb chosen the wenk c to confound the J things vijWHHVgb ty, unrttTscT^ | things of the world nnd things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and ^ things which ure uot to bring to . naught things which are, that no flesh , should glory iu Bis presenoe." And J*: 1 looked to see from whence the voice enme, and lo! it was the very one who had said: " Through a window in a basket was X let down by the w all." J Henceforth think of nothing as Insignificant. A little tblug may decide P your all. A Cunardar put out from ? Kngland for New York. It was well equipped, but la putting up a stove I in the pilot box a nail was drivon too * near the compass. You know how i that nail would affeot the compass. 1 The chip's officers, deceived by that t distracted compass, put The ehip 200 C miles off her right course, and sudden- o lv the man on the lookout cried: v "I.and hoi" and the fillip was halted 1 within a few jurils of her demolition i on Nantucket shoaU. A sixpenny nail v came near wrecking a Cunarder. t fltnall ropes hold mighty dcstinUs. ( A minister seated 7n Boston at hie \ table, lacking a word, puts his hand , behind his head and tilts bunk his chair 1? mien, anu ioe gcmuy inun and crushes the table and would Lave crushed ldm. A minister in Jamulca at night, by the lighl of an insect called the candle tiy. 1s kept from stepping over a precipice a hundred feet. H. \V. Ilobertson. the celebrated English clergyman, said that he entereS the iTiiniftry from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown one way on a certain day the Spanish inquisition would hare been established in Ilngland. Hut it blew thn othor way, and that dropped the accursed institution, with 75 tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea or flung the splinVrad logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Threo naughts placed on the right side of the figure one mnkea a thousand, and six naughts ou the right side of tho figure one a million, end our nothingness plaoesd on tho right side may b* augmentation illimitable. All the uge$ of tiiac nnd eternl; ty ufTected by the bosket lei down from a Damascus balcony. J Still tu flie naaliiraa. , Church?I see a man milliner up , town has gone Into politics. | Gotham?Well, he's a trimmer yak ?You he is Mute; man. 11 Drowned at Sea. > The navy depart moot Thursday ro' ooivod a cablegram from'(Capt. Craig, of s tho Albany, dated at Aden, announcing > that Frank Sohilz and Timoth Mor Carthy, whilo slcoping on tho poop ' dook of tho Albany on last Sunday > night slid cvjrboard, buring an oxoop1 tionally hoavy roll of tho vessel. Ca|>t. 1 Craig * oablograin {stated that ho ro1 l ojainud in tho locality where the ao1 oidont ooourred all Sunday night and ' until aftor daylight Monday, but the t uion wero not again seen, and thoir bodies oould not bo rooovoreo. On tho I following Monday Coorgo l'erkins wont overboard and was drowod, but his body was reoovorcd and will bo bnriod ashore at Aden. Four Men Killed. o In an aooidont Monday at tho new n bridge whioh the Southern railway is a building across tho Congarco river, near 's Columbia, four ruon wt.ro killed, thrco o injured, ono fatally and two seriously. II Tho aooidont ooourred at 8:30 o'olook ,o Monday morning and was caused by the k- falling of two steel girders about 70 feet long, weighing fourtcon tons caob. ) \ I tFSUMES ITS WORK. h? P.Ill c*l Summir School Optns Onca Mot*. L MA Ton u?l iliniu taoruT Lim i ks r\ iriv.i.n\ir\i 11 n o B c 11 I i Mili President Presen's the C. mmerclil D*mccr*cv'? fide rf the A gumint. "Th* Ohio Bps> k*f*. Tho Sato Politic*1 Summer Sohool turned f p ration at Spartanburg cn 'uerday of la?t work Tho meeting ras devoid of sensational features. Tetre were present Mostrs. Hemphill, ohnstooe, lit ndoreon, Lvtimcr and Cvans, but a uow voluutcor leoturer on ho textile industry?Col. Carey, a nil! president, entered the arena. IION J J HEMPHILL The first speaker introduced was ;he lion .J J. Hen phill who delivered k rattling good spceoh; pucc'.uatcd with kos, and made a good impression Ho remirded ono of a trained athlete ipon a gymnasium floor, boirg easy eud graceful as well as displaying the power ho possossol. Ilo took it for iranted that tho people had assembled here to discuss istues that wcro vital to kfcMMMMII 1.1 ll lli'i ocuntry. These now issues in tame, but hey were as eld ao tho fundamental tinoiplcs of the great parties. He eld that this neccebity had arisen by ascu of tbo efforts of one man to raise hole planks from the Republican plat jrm and put them into the D?.inoora.io latfoim and then feroo tho people to Land upon ibem. The loading istue f o. urso was tbo question of expansion -nioocrn expansion. Kxpansion was iunecd, ho bold, upon Democratic nnoipies; but this new variety was on n comely different plan?one utterly oicigu to our customs, institutions and lodes of thought. Tho speaker then ctonbed tho Philippine islands and resented many facts and figures to bow how many cotton goods America Did them last year. He figured that bo islands bought irom us goods mounting to 7 cents per oapita, and hat if t. is trade is divided up Stu b laiolica will got ono hundredth part f a mill. He discussed the small trado o bo secured and applied tho same easomcg to China 'i hen ho compared he results of trado with theso foreign . untricb with those e>f our tiado with atada, showing that Canada with ivo millions population did huadrods f times rncro business with us than zhina. Ho wanted true expansion tushed but with the people who had coiothing to expand. He went on to how that Spa n bad ail along oeen a etak natiou and if any of the big towers had wanted the l'hilippinos hey c.uli long ago bavo taken them io was oppoeeu 10 inc .snip BUDsiay .beotuicly and cabled all laws putting CbiriOliucB upm ships Moating the \ii_eticua Mag le-ptaltd. They should >c built and owned in this ojuntry. Liico ho entered into the much vaunted ihip tubsidy of Great Britain and ihowoc that she had u ercly paid for .no oairying of the mails as wo do, lu .ho a as paying oniy 40 cents per ton iguinai our $ 1 23 for the same seivio?. uced and ho made a forceful speech, r.oioughly command.ng tic attention 1 his hearers. He oallod attention to lu ?a:t that today was tho atomr try of tho date of tho primary for 'cited States senator to bo hold one car honce. There was on foci a do iberale ctl-rt to overturn the prinoiIt s of Democracy, those priuoipiea as id as tho country itself, lie bad tvciy ailh in the people aud behoved that bey Would stand to thoso priLo.ples nd kill out this effort now in its very ncoption. Senator MoLaurin had told hern at Chariotto tt.at it was about imo f.r tin in to abondon these prmiplts and embraoo thoso of llopubii auistu lie was berry the junior senator ?as not present. Ho wanted to see utu on liio stump >n order thai thee siues to has ta sed might bo futly dia:uG8cd. MeLaunn haa shown a oispo mien to avoid thebo meeiinKS. At j*Mncy Tilin.au hadtektn him unavarts. When trie opportunity oaino to Su cues these things MoLaurin was al .fays unavoidably cotaiued. Ho would not miss'ato the senator's position, t he lenatcr lul been calling lor iiepubliiau principles--what ho advooatcd was tuertly lleuiccralio so name. Mr. Henderson read ocpiouely from Senator MoLaurin s speech delivered" a few days before the ratification of the Talis treaty, in which he hold tl at a co!o Dial policy wis uucoDbtr.utiouai and thai u was out i roper lo opioid religion at tho pomi ot ihe bayonet. Mr. Llcndeiton called attention to that po sition ana that io<t uitumoi. Could ihc> take such a ui*n as a leado.T If later on when it came to the Stale con vcntion to oicot dolcga'.os to tho Kiosks City ooDventtoa ho hold thoso views ho should Lave oal.td on the pccp.o oi Marlboro to send him to that convention so ho could have presented those views before those charged with the rnAiug of the parly piatfortn. Mr. iioLdeison paid high tribute to Gen V\ ailc liatnptcn, boicg heartily ap plauded, ano real from the general i recent interview. lho?peaker then rat over the political history of tho country showing what wero tho fundaments prinoip.co of Demooraoy and oonliast log tin in with 11 .publican principles. COL JOUNSTO.NK Cel. Georgo Johnstone made anothe oharaouniiioally strong speech and b; his czprostivo delivery ud fototfu way of putting thing he won friend just as ho did at Union. Ho said i was tho imminent peril he cousideroi South Carolina to bo in ju9t now tha brought him beforo tho pooplo. H gave, as at Union, the reasoning b; which ho had reached his conclusion Oi tho iesuos now beforo tho pooplo. H had observed South Carolina's onwar inovomont sinoo 1S76 and bolicvod tha South Carolina would soon bo tho lead ing tcztilo Stato in tho Union, llo ha looked oarofully at tho men who advc catcd those now principles and four.' souio who had voted for Hryan exorcs! ing jmblioly tho hopo that McKin'.o would bo eleotcd. The principles it volvcd in all this woro thoio of ou forefathers, those .Jcfforeoa bad fougli for. Thoy wore calling it Commoroii Democracy. Ho didn't know cxaotl in woat it watt oouimeeoial unions i waa in federal patronago This wi tho artiolo of couiinoroo and tho poe office tho exchange of Bmall trado II dwelt upon tho fact that tho Dotm cratio party had always boen tho broa party; that it had always had tho trt expansion polioy. Hut this is a vei different expansion from that we a 1851 WURMAN U QREENVII A. P. Montagus, Ph. D, L. L. D., Two courses are offered leading to the c Miini or Ain (M. A.) Llbra/y end Read oal laboratories. Junton-Aumni Hall, just oompleted end furnished et e ooat of Dosmitost Expenses reduoed to a mini circulars of Information on request. For rooms apply to Prof. H. T. Cook, Greenville, 8. ( Presbyterian College Noxt Session opens Sept. 2d, 1901. Spo number can be accommodated in Dormltor; matriculation, and tuition, for Collegiate in faculty. Moral influences good. Cour M. A. Fine Commercial Course. Write 1 now called apoo to adopt, lie said there had been no expansion from the elder Adams on down which tho Democratic party had not originated; likewise there had been no treaties it did and docs stand for these things. It was preposterous now to twit the Djeuocratio party with stagnation add inac lion. Col. Johnstone then oloatly pointod out the difierenoe between the expansion of those days and the im pcrialism of the present day. The c;n teat wo are now engaged in, ho said, ie no ordinary one. It is a death grapple of tho forco3 of Freedom and M inarch; and in it is the germ of destruction o tho institutions which we bavo buili np and stood for. Col. Johnstouo thoi tcck up the rcligiouB destiny id .a, and disclaiming any intention to be irrovor ent asked as at Union, how Chris would look in tho uniform of an Ameri oan general marching at the head of ai . p.", a i a. qfsijii n r flis to 'o those who did not went it ANOTHER MILL PRESIDENT. Congressman Lstimrr was presented as tho next speakor. Bjfore ho oiuld say anything a man in tho hall wanted to ask him something about a Populist oonvenlion. tie tola his 'luoftioner be would answer later and proceeded to say that there bai been an idea aII iat sinoo the Union meeting that some attack had beon made on the cotton mill presidents and ho wished to give a portion of his time to one of them to make a roply. He thereupon presented Col. J no. B. Carey, president of lbs Lickhsrt mills. Mr. Carey was greeted with vigorous appiauso and was given a most rospootful hearing. lie made q lite an elcqaent defease of tho cot ion mill presidents. lie said an honor able class of mon had been attacked at Union and their oharaoter had boon as sailed. He was not a politician, but merely wished to present a few facta. tL gave an interesting aocount o* who those mill men were, most of them true South Carolinians; Confederate soldsers and toos <>' Confederate soldiers. Others were thoso who had come and cast their lot among us. He pioiurod what tney had done for tho Stato. Ho denouoccd the politicians for having brought on this war, and said that now it wsa on wo ought to accept the const n lecoae and do the best possible. The mill [residents wore all men of D3aa<?. Us gave an outline of expansion as the mill men saw it?an expansion of trade. He said, "Expansion as the miil men understand it is the rcaohiog out from our o vn shores and extending into the marts of the world, with our ships sail ing under our own tl*g, laden wui American produois of tno loom, of the shop, of the mine and of the fiiid." LATIMER HITS HAUL) Mr. Latimer thon took the atans 4PK~aud'maiu whioh took woll with the crowd. The man in the audienoe who questioned him when he first aroso accused Latimer of having been in a Popilist oonvontion at Kansas city. Mr. Lati mcr denied this, and said that after tho Democratic convention ia .'"anaaa City had completed its business an Ollur Lml aiBuiuhlt-d, but. he had nut been a member of it; nor had ho had anything to do with it. Then the congressman dived into Senator MvL?u rin with tho gloves off, and vigorously denounced him. Hcsaid MoLvirmhai betrayed everything ho had ever had anything to au witn. lio had stalled out opposing the Reform nov.m.ai. Lie haa uaueriskeP to ran the campaign of W. D. Evans and elected bim ten. He had been opposed to the dis penfarv, after the Darlington trouble. A year or two ago in Washington Mo Liutin had oomo to Congressman Sirait au i Wilson and himself and had tried to got them to sign a prooiama uju with him to lead tno people intc the Republican party. EVANS TEI.1.S A TALE. Ex Governor John Gary Evans wa< ai his new hcmi today, tie wai giver hear.y cheers when he was presented He stated that ho hai not intended l< m?kc a speech tcda> , thai he had ex p,o ed to give his time to other opeax e:s. He did ia/ a few things of in Urcat, however. He asserted that hi had known ail this time, and oUirnei credit for prodioncg it. that McLaarii would do as ho had done. Lie had bee! in Wauhington occe aud had gone i< Tillman aud our congressmen and toI< them that MoLaurtn was a K.'puoiioai at heart, and asked them to wate him. Lie had told Latimer abiut i aDd told Latimer to go ahead aud op pose him; that he would step asid as he had just been defeated aDd di Dot oate to run again just then. Lit mor had said nc had plenty of doou meats that would beat him, but. he di not run. E. J. Watson. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannt rcaoh the aiseated portion of tho ca; There is only one way to oure deafnosi at.d that is by oonHlitutionai romodiei Deafness is caused by an inflamed cot ditiou of tho muoous lining of tb j Eustachian lube. 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