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. REV. DR. T ALM AGE ON RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS l? Vhoy H?v? ?ia ?11? Ut HiUrlt, Ho Unys, ?5?O? Ooo l>ot>8 More Good TIIKU FI it y Pulplta-Ktlltorlnl Heei>ou?lblUty. lu ft previous discourse, .Dr. Tul roage having shown tho opportunities of too secular press, iu thin dlsoour.so spooks of tho mission of roligious nows papers. ??i,s text is, "Then I turned and lifted Up mino oyos and looked, and behold a Hying roil" (#iohariak v,l). In a dream tho prophet saw some thing rolled up advancing through tho noav'ens. It contained a divine message. It moved swiftly, as on .wings. It had much to do with tho destiny of nations. But if you will look up you will seo many Hying rolls. They omo with great speed and have messages foi all the earth. The Hying rolls of this century aro th? newspapers- They cirry message human and divine. They will decido tho destiny of tho hemispheres. There aro in tko United Stales about 20,000 newspapers. Tho religious newspaper of which I stn tho editor was born 10 years ago, but born again seven yeara ago. In this brief time it has grqwn to about 200,000 circulation, and, by tho ordinary rule of calcul?t ing Wi? readers of a paner, it baa about 10y000,000 readers. Our country wes bleat with many religious journals, tidited by consecrated mon, while /their contributors woro tho ablest and / best of all professions and occupations. / Some of thoso journals for half a cen* tury had been drooping their benedic tions upon the nation, and they live on and will continu?lohvo on until there will bo no moro uso for thoir mission, the world itself having be come a Hying roll on tho tempests of i tho last day, going out of existence. / There will be no moro uso for such agencies whon tho world ceases, be cause, in tho spiritual stulo, wo shall havo such velocity that wo can gather for oursolevos all tho news of heaven, or, seeing somo world in eouHagratiou may go oursolves in an instant to ex amino personally Ibo scene of disas ter. Was there room for another religi ous journal in this land, a I road y fav ored with tho highest stylo of religious journalism? Oh, yes, if undenominu tiona1., plenty of room. Kolbing cnn over take tho placo of tho denomina tional no wspa por. When tho millen nium comes in, it will lind no many denominations as thero ave now. Poo plo, according to their temperaments, will always prefer this or that form ol ohurob government, this or that style of worship. You might as woJl ask u -, all to live in ono homo as lo ask us ali to worship in ono denomination or tc abolisk tho regiments of an army iu order to make them ono great host. DENOMINATIONAL PAPERS. Each denomination must have itt: own journal, set apart especially tc prosent the charities explain thc work and forward the interests of that particular sect. Tho death of one de nominalional journal is a calamity tr all the othor denominations. I wouh almost feel that a great misfortunt had hapnencd mo if Tho Christian lu telligencer of the Reformed churol (my.mothor church) did not como tom; houso ovory week, for I was brough up on it, and it has broome a house hold necessity. Such a den om i ur tional journal had better b edited by somo ono who rooke in the cradle of that church and ordained at ber altars, having bi come vonorable in her service, sit spectacled and wise and, with heal full of sacred memories, addresses th . living of today. In the most sucre <r crypt Of om. memory stands the statu of the religious editors Abel Steven and Joshua Leavitt and tho roy* family^ of tho primes I reo mitti an Eusebius, whilo others linger on th hanks of Jordan, whore they will nc have long to wait for Elijah's charlo! and when they yo up, if wo still L sitting at our editorial desks, wo wi , cry out in the memorable woids, "M. father, my father, tho chariot of 1 rael and the horsemen thereof I" But. thou, there aro great mov< ments in which all denomination wish to join, and wo want moro undi nominalional nowspapors lo marsh) and advanco and inspire such mov< monts. Yet such journals have a di iioulf task, because all Christian mer if they havo behaved well in their d< nominations, for somo reason pref< the ono of their natural hud spiritui nativity and even looking off upo the general Held and attempts g widt work, will bo apt to look at thin/: tkrough denominational pvc feront and to ' ," them with a denOmim tional twist. In the issuing of tho religion*; jouri al whoso seventh anniversary I proac that ditliculty has beon mot and ove come by the fact that ils publisher is Methodis and in its editorial roon there are a Presbyterian, an Episcop; lian and a Congregationalist, and rLv line of denominational prejudice i editorial or reportorial column woul run against immediate protea Against John Wesley's "l'Yco Grace or Calvin's "E'orual Decrees," or Bi hop Mollvnino's "Canonicals," or D Bowling's "Baptistery," from year end to year's ono* not a word is writtc or printed. On all tbeso subjects v have convictions, but undenomin tional journalism is not the place State them, lie who tells all ho kno\ and expresses all ho he thinks on a ? occasion and in all places without r ?orenoe to the proprieties is a boor i a orank and of no practical servi either to church or state. TUB UNDENOMINATIONAL PRK 33. Undonomiuational journalism absolutely necessary to demonstra the unity of tho Christian worl Wido and desperate attempt is mat to show that tho religion of Jes 'Christ is only a battleground of seel and tho cry hos boon : "If you wa us to accept your roligion, agree, ge tlemen, as to what tho Christian i ligion roally is. This denoniinalk says a fow drops of water drippii /rom tho end of tho lingers is bnpiur and another demands tho subnu genco of tho ontiro body. This o prays with book, and that ene mah oxtempc "..ucous utterance. Tim rt ter of ono delivers his sermon in gown, whilo tho backwoods preach of another sect addresses tho peoplo his shirts sleeves. Some of your tl nominations havo tho majestic domi antin tho sorvico and others spent? oity. Some of you think ihat fro c. all otornity some wero pr?destin?t to bo saved that from all eternity ot ors were doomed." Now, it is the bu ness of Young Mon's Christian assoc tlons and tract societies and Sunt! sohool unions and pronounced uni nominational journals lo show t falaity of tho charge that wo aro fig 1 ing among ourselves by gathering i Christian denominations, on ono ul, form or launching tho united son mont of all Christendom from o f.tylo of religious printing press. Unity, completo unity. Nevor ^ any other army on oarth so thoroup ly unitod under one Hag and inspir hy ono sontimont and lcd by ono co mundor as is tho church milita Christ commands all the troops of i denomination's of Christians, and th aro going to shout together in tho Hi victory whon tho whole world is dctfhv?d, But wo havo in alJ our denomina tions got tired of trying to mako othor people think as wo do on all points. Tho heresy hunters in all denomina tions aro nearly all .dead, thank God, and Wo aro learning thu v/hon mon Set wrong in theiv f?lthi Instead of martyrizing them by arraignment wo do butter to walt for tho natural rall of years to romovo thom. Mon db, but tho truth liva? on. We may not all agree as lo tho number of tc.Mn in the ?Jaw wile with which. Samson slow tho rid Misti! io s, or agreo as to what was tho exact color of tue foxts which he sot ou bro to barn up tho corn shooks, but on tho vitals of reli gion wo all agree. If we could oil into ono great con vont|?n thu Uir>,5G'0 Episcopalian*, tho 1.420.905 L UhorauP, tho 1 400 310 Presbyterians, tho 4,163,857 Baptists, the 5,053,??89 Methodist?, putting unto them tho following questions, wo would got unanimous uuswer in tho aJUmialivo: Do you b?liove in God, good, holy, just, omnipotent? Do you bel io v o in Jesus Ohrist nj a Siviour) Do you believe in the convicting, Con verting und sanctifying po.vov ot tho Holy Ghost? DJ you bolievo that tho gospel is going io couquer uti natioat? Ii; you should put iho?o qu.stioui to those aw-: m bimi millions un millions, while there would not bo a solitary negative, Hiero would be an aye, aye, aye, loud enough to mako thu fouu dations of tho oavth tremble and Hi ?i arches of tho horons resound. Ij>t there ba platforms, let Ibero bo gruit occasions, Jet tru ro bo undenomina tional printing presses to thundor forth the unity of all Ohristoudom. One L rd. Ono faith. Om baptism. Ono God and Father. One Jesus Ohrist. O. i o cross. Ooo heaven. Bo also there ia room for a religious journal that stands for liberty ns against all oppression. No authority, jiolilictl or ecclesiastic, must/-bo per I milted to mako us believe this or thai. Liberty of tho Armenian to worship God independent ol' tho Turkish gov ornmont. Liberty of Cuba aa against Spanish domination. Liberty ot Uv wau as against all monarohioal au thority which it bas thrown off. Oivil lib viv. Political liberty. Religious liberty, The roi ig ions journal on whoso sav onth anniversary I preach lias had for its owner and publisher ono who itt his ancestry experienced just tho op posite, l?is fainer, an oxil? from his native land because of his opinions, his property confiscated, lila lifo im periled, landed ott American soil be reft ot everything that foreign ?ppres .sion could rob bira of. Naturally bia son knows right well how lo appreoi ate liberty. Tho most of us uro dd Seen ded from lho>.o who imperil lett ul 1 to {jain their natural and religious rights, Lit tho type und tho printing presses and tho editorial chairs bo overthrown which da.ro to surrender to any attempt again lo put on tba shackles. Tho movement has started for tho demolition of all the tyrannies of church and stale. Religious nows papers mint stand shoulder to shoul der iu this mighty mareil for God and tho world's reiche. OLD PASHIONBU KV?NQELISM Again, Ob this seventh anniversary I sc.y Ibero is room foo a religious pa per charged with old fashiono ' evan gelism, Olhor styles of religious news j paper may do for advertising purposes j or for the presentation of ublo essay? on elab?rale tho .ma, but if th?3 world is eyer brought to Girod it will b' through unqualified, unadulterated, unmixed, uti mistakable evangelism, ? was astounding that the Lord Al mighty should havo gone into gr?a bereavement, submitting to the loss o hits only Son) that Bon stopping oil tba duorsill of heaven into a dark UCL-: and an abysm thal no plummet hai eva' yet been able to fathom, ant through that funeral of tho heaven lifo ii offered to our world. Hut hov to <:et tlib tidings to all peoplo arni ii such, an attractive way thal they wil tako hold of thom is tho absorbiuj qn stiori. Tho human voice can tra ve only a f<iw feet away, and tho wprh wants something further and wide: reaching und that is toe newspapo: press, and as tho Recular press mus necessarily give itself chi. Hy to scOu lar affairs lot tho i ellgious news pa per give itself lo tho p.osont and everlast ing salvation of ali w)io can read, o if notable lo road, have oars to heft others read. If there bo an opportu nity higher, deeper, grander, thai that offered to newspaper evangelism name il and guido m to it, thai w may see its' altars, its pillars, it domes, its inti thuda. Again, on this seventh anniversar; of The Christian Hordld ? notice thor is room for a religious paper thorough ly humanitarian. Tho simple fact i tho majority of tho Inman raoo hav not enough io oat or wear. 'J:ho ina jority (if tho human race avo in trou ble, Hos-/ to multiply loaves of bretti and increase tho fuel and heal th wounds and theiler tho homeless ar questions that Christ met equally a soon au ho did spiritual necessities The first heart to respond to tho cr, of stifftirers from drought or flood o earthquake or cruelty should bo th Ohrisiiiiu heart. Thcreforo let th pages of religious journalism sprca out the story of all such woes uiv collect relief and disburse alms al around our sulfo.i Jg world. B?ligipu j uimalism ought to beoonie the aqut duot through which tho Oh ris tia charil iosol ibo world should pour ur til thero is no more hunger to bo fe and no moro ignorance to bo educa od and no moro nakedness to t clothed and no moro suffering to a: suago. In trying to do that practic. thing the religious paper whose ann versavy I celebrate has, during tli past sb von year?, raised and distribi ted over ?MU0.000 for tho reliof of ph] sical distresses. AN OPXIM?STI? PIIBS8 Again i on thic seventh anniversai of a religious publication X notice llb tliero is an especial mission for a r ligioits journal truthfully optiniis'.i Tho most optimistic book I know:? is tho Bible, and ils most in.pre.ssh authors were all optimists, jJavid n optimist. Paul an optimist. Si. Joli un optimist Our blessed Lord na o Umist, I cannot look upon a dows bul I am by the old hook remind* that it will "blossom Jika as the rose, I cannot ia a menagerie look upon lion find ^ leopard but 1 am rcmindt that "a little child shall lead thom I cannot .soe n collection of gems in jeweler's window without thinking i heaven iilish and ubln/o and inoadi cd and empurpled with all manner i precious stones. I cannot hcaij trumpet but I think of ?hat ono whit shall wake tho dead. All tho ages time bounded on ono sido by tho pg ad iso in which. Adam and IS ve walk? and on the oilier eldo by tho pa rad i which St. John ;mr/ in apoclyp! vision. Tba Scriptures optimistic and thc authors optimistic, ull religious new papers ought to bo optimistic, N only should all ministers and all i ligiousoditors havo their heart rig! but thoir liver right. Tho world h enough trouble of its own witho giving them an extra dose in t shapo of religion. Thia world is fl ing to bo saved, and if you do not t Hove it you ara an infidel Nono us want, to get on board a train whi< insle&d of reaohing tho depot, is sure going uown tho ; embankment. A aboard for th? millennium I For t most pnrl iu a religious journal lot t oditorlata.be> ?h?orful and the pictures cheerful. If lu ono column there ho iv ghastly woodcut of tho famine atrlokon in India, in tho ?uxt column have a list of contributions for allevi ation of tho suffering or a picture of a ship oaveyiug broedstnlTi. If in ono column there ba a death of an old minister of tho gospel whom we can not spare, in the next, put the namo m ! some yoting Elisha who oi n weri the I mantle of Elijah. If some evil of oo ci'tty ia depicted in ooo column, in tho next show tho goopol machinery that ia to drive it back into tho perdition from which it usoooded. More and more sunshine lot thora be iu ?'?lig> ious journalism. Publish in it more ser (tums on toxts like; "O glya thanks unto the Lord, for ho is good," and fewer on text3like, "Outof the dopths Of bell have I cried unto thoo, O Lord." If auy one 1 ai anything gloomy to say, let him cuy it to him self. If ha must wi ita it, lot him not send it to editorial rooms, but put it lui the pigeonhole of his own dode for his heirs and assigns to read it further pu, for probably they can aland it bet ter than we. I ono i pavo #7 to hear donny Lind sing. I novar will give a calli to byar a mau groan. Up with the blind? and throw bsok tho shutters and lot tito morning li;>;bl Ohme i u. There is not so much religion in tho dampness ?f a bollar as in tho breath of im apple'Orchard Vii blossom week. What a victory David uot over him self whop he closed tito Psalms with six chapters of "Praise yo tho Lord," S iv . ing it over aiid over again until in any other book it would have become monotonous. If in our diaries and our family records and our religious newspapers we would write two hon est catalogues, tho ono a catalogue o? blessings and tho other a catalogue of troubles, tito former would ba live times hvgor than the latter. PRAY1CRS VO?I RELIGIOUS l'A PIOUS . Pray for tho religt?u'ahewspapers ot America because of the feel that ii thoy haye ibo right spirit each om docs as much e.ood as fi or ?0 or 201 chuf?nos, What aro tho 500 pr 6,001 people making up a Sabbath,abdleuct compared with tito 10,000 c 50 000 bi or 800,000 that tho religious journal addresses? Such j namala are pulpit; that preach day and night. .They re tch weekly those who through in v&?d i s m or through indifference ne'v?? oiitor churches. They reach people ic their quietude, when their attention i: not.distracted as in church by the lint milliner^ that appeals to tho nyeo-, the rustle of attire that attracts tin ear. It will always be our duty ant our privilege not to forsake the as aemblihg Of ourselves together, but J believe tho consecrated printing pres: is tho chief agency under God to sa'vt tho world. Pray nUo for tho religious news pa pars of America thal they may resis tho temptation to become acerb, liars I an<l damnatory of those who thiai differently fromthomsolves In all do nominations there are disappointei people who put mean tirings in re iigious newspapers about minister and of>er prominent Christian work ora. Unsuccessful mon and womei never liko successful men sud women There ave editors and reporters who instead of writing with mk, dip thoi p wi iu oil of vitro! or lampblack When a religioui newspapor does lie it b?ats all seoul ar j mrnalism in con lom pta bi I Hy. Asr Adam Clarke, th commentator, said, "3omo peopl servo tho Lrrd ns though tho devi were in them." ThatOnly is a holt, ful newspaper which, aa wo 'old it u after reading, leaves U3 in a mood t pray for all mon and in a spirit 'this wishes pro J pi* ri ty for all Chris?a workers, whether they work our wa or sorce other way. and wo foal ? though the ap gel, Hying through th midst of heaven, having the o verlas ing gospel to preach, had with tb napping (if his wing stirred the air ? our cheek, and forehead. Pray also for religious journalist that it may bo ahnt-not abroaste tho ti rhea, but ahead of tho times. I this day, when by cablegram vye Beel to get from Europe new* liv boms before it starla, wo do not wai in our religious columns inforrnatiu sissored out of ah old newspaper or ii formatiou sent by moans of a lotti which corn?s tous through tho dead le ter p?st?llice because it waa misdirec ed. Nor do wo want to take tho plat of religious journalism ns il was i 1815, when Nathaniel Wilson starte his roiigpu? paner called tho Record? or when Tho Watchman waa bom i 1810, or when Tho Christian Itigistt made its ti rat a ppoaranoeia 1831. Tl canal boat drawn by mules ou a to path did vvoli in its rime, but now v prefer tho vestibule limited expr?s Becauso a thing is pious it ?etd ri' therefore ba dull. Tho printing pre may beat the Argus of mythology, f< that fabulous being had only abu died eyes, while tho newspapor has thousand oye?, and a thousand ear and u thousand arms. Tho steuli newspaper gives tho secular news ai docs not pretend to give its religio' moaning. Tho religious press nug to put all tho events of the day companies, regiments and bri gad and show us in what direction th divinely disciplined host ia marchi r. and let us know what victories f God and righteousness thoy will wi Tue Christianized printing preis is do in our.tiinobn a largo scale what t battering ram did in olden limo o>i smaller scale, That old war m.ich'u waa a stout timber, bur;g by chains a boam supported hy posts, and m:'.i men would lay hold of the stout th ber and sw ng it backward and f( ward until j getting under full u montuna, il would strike into awi demolition tho wall besieged. G grant that all of us who luv ? an thing to do with the mighty battori! ram of our century, tho printing pr< moy b? clothed of God with (.spec strength and oneness of put pose, a that, having nulled it back for o mighty assault, wo may al toge tl rush it forward, crushing into ev lasting ruin the lost wall of oppositi and the last fortress of iniquity. EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY, And no w iel all of us who ure c< nectod with either secular or religio journalism ru mom ber thal wo will called into linal account for ov< word wo write in editorial or ropor rinl or contributors column, for evt press wo move and for the style of cular or religious newspaper we y ronizo or encourage. In E/.jkb prophecy the angel of God, suppo; to ba Ch rut, appears wilban inkhr hung at bia side, us an altornoy's cl in olden ti ure had nu iulthorn al sido. And I havo no djubt tho i horn will have an important part the dey of judgment, thoso who hi used it well to re?oive eternal plaii and thoso v.iio have misused it to condemnation. Piled up in all tho world's print 0 ill ces, icon lar and religious, aro publications of past years, bound year by year, nutt in tho JO offUefl tl oan tell just what thoy printed for last 20 year?, and in tho great daj judgment tUl that wo have ever w ten or printed will bo rovoaled fr tho mighty volumes of otomity. thoso who havo ruthlessly pried i tho secret of unhappy domestic and despoiled homes, corno to ju monti All Ihoso who have by the asstwsina'od character, como to ju monti All thoso who havo had a thing to do with salacious and dnpi od litoraturo, como to judgment I thoso who have produced picturo* ministrativo ot vica, como to jidgmont No ono will thou dare say,] v,ijknow it was not tvno, nut! C only .intruded it ?ov a joke/' or, "? had l<;> imke my living, and tho paper I h fit Jfa worked for paid mo in proportion to ?Ho start ling mduro of tho siutf I prepared," j o>\ ''I corrected tho falsehood in tho ' next issuo," ov, "1 folt my j&wor in tim editorial chair, having o^^rtuni ty to address such multitudes '/eek by week, and I Wanted to keep Unchurch and tho world iu awe of IMO." Da that great day of j idginont ull the( power wo havo had on our tb wlU bo i'uaif/ni liymt compaiod with tho power that A?U pronounce our rapture or our doom and tbs t which might have been coe sid-ml a j >k-> info "composing room,". b?oa?V? ii humiliated au ens nay, will bo no j oke at all amid tho wreck pf mountains and seas, and ibo iakhorn will there toll of all wowroto anonymously luid ur.dor Ibo. imper sonality of unowspaper, as well as that which wau signed with our. own I hame. 13jr what a beautiful day for I a Frances Havorgal, when ?ho gols rei warded-foi* all tho kind things she I ever wrote with tho tears of her inval id ri th. or wli?u tho authors and authoresses of ali land? and t?goS aro ! v>ld how many came to upa yen I through their instrumentalities, and ! for all those who vise tim influen?a of I th? press to correct- tho errors and I extirpai J tho wrong ; and bro&k the sorfovui of mnnkiuo. I Thou tho inkhora by tho side of tho angel ot ibo now cove nant will ?pe;ik I out arid loll of what it had to db with I ail letters of kindness writtem f with I all ?mancipation proel vo?tions, with j oil editorial and reportorial eulogies of tho good, with ali tho inessago} of salvation to a lost V/brld. Buier in that day will it bj to have sot up the typo for ono lino of Christian encour agement, or writton one pvo'Agruoh of us?ful Sentiment, or published ono pago of helpful truth thau to have written books ai big aa Gibbon's live largo volumes concerning "The Da cline and Fall of tho iv nam Eh pi re," if thee.) volumes put Uhriutiani.ty nt a disadvantage, or.as brilliant ai Vol taire\i "DieCouroes 'Jpon M?,U," if they inculcated injurious theories; ov ns rhy thbiio as Byron's "Don Juan," if it sacrilteod tho decencies, On that day the flying roll which Zachariah of tho text 3.J.W thousands of years ago, and tho rolls which wo sra flying over all our towns und cities, and flying from ibo swiftest printing prosses that ,verd ever invented, will by iouod to contain messages diviuo or satanic. Not only the i ilk horn which Kzokiel saw, but all tho ink bernis will como to judgment. "Andi saw th J dead, small ?.od great, stand buford Gad, and the book i were opened." A CHAPTER OF ACJCIDr-lNTS. Offeug bitr-? Ojuuty liad U*r lTuU Bh?re It is tho lamo old story in Orange burg-or rather two ?stories-tho ever ready pistol and tho burniug of a ne )>ro child in a houso whore ft had boon loft by its p ?. rents. Tho series of accidents ns told by tho Oraugeburg correspondent of tho Co lumbia Register is about as follows: " L\uir.:d ly morning a uumbor of young negroes who spent their time loafing oh the streets decided togo out, ia ibo woods and show eaoh, other what they could do whan it came to playing cards. They supplied them selves with liquor and went out for ibo tun. Juit what they did or whore they went is not known, W hoir out neat' tho northern limits of the city, however, "Snowball," a young.negro Who is giv?? to mucli mouthing and .'fool dbiugSi',' as ono of live negroes expressed ii,, draw bia pistol anu tired three shots at John Royal, a {young mulatto. "3uowb.Ul" prot?iidM that ho was only in fun, but Royal say? differently. Owe of tho b.ilh struck Boyal'in the heel, tho reputed fatal spot for darkeys, but ho 13 still olivo und doing well. "Snowball" has been arrested and is uow behind tho bars. Tho oth?? familiar old story is that of leaving little nogro childron by their parents all alone in a houso to bj burned to death should a fire start. Thursday morning about ll o'clock tho houss of ISdwatd Smith, abmtono and a half miles from Orangoburg, on tim Bull 0 Wa mp road, caught dre and burned to tho ground, with a child in ii. Titree other children were bare ly saved by those who first roached the bur.ling building. Tho father and mother wore both absent iii Orange* burg, leaving four children iu the houso, tho cld.w.. being only ? years old. When lo.? children discovered the hons.J vms on fire they were so torror-stiiokon that they made no ef fort io escapo through the front door. They ran imo a back room, those tbut could wfllk, whore they couched in ooo corner like a terror stricken ani mal, where '.hey wore literally baking alive when acsistanoo arrived. Tho fire had cul( ll all approach fiom the front, and a buck window was broken open, from which tho throo 1 ?rger children wore taken just in time to say? them from cremation. The heat was so into SJ that it WI?M absolutely impossible lb secure (ho baby, which lay hoi pie* s and roasted alive. It waa a mus? horrible and heart rending .scene. There corieini y should ho homo heavy punishment meted out to such eireleas parents. I seems that accidents never como singly, and ia leas than twenty four hours two citi'??iv.? of Orongeburi* have bau a limb broken. Major W. V. J/.lar, a proiniuont citizen of this place, went to the Coast lune d^pot early Friday morning to meet gomo of his family who were oxpecled on the train. When near tho depot he fell into a deep ditch abd broke his log. The wounded member has boen dress ed, and Major I/lar is reported ns do lng ns well as could bo oxpooted un der the circumstances. M.*. J. Llgou Huevos, a woll known young man of O fa ugo burg, was re luming from a duck hunt near B ra n ch v i He Th u r sd ay night; with Mr. Fulton Dukej, when thou* horso bo came unmanageable and ran tho buggy against a slump. Mr. Reeves was tnrown out, and falling on his lott ario, broke it in or near tho elbow Joint. lie came on tD Orangeburg and his arm hus been treated by hw physician. Fortunately for Mr. Hooves he carried un accidenlly pol.cy. Wiuu, a Double IXttiigliif;, A Harmony1 Grovo Ga , dispatch to theConstltU ion says: Judge Hutchins tou."y senloncul Bud BfO.?ks to bo hanged in pr?vale ou Dt'.o.-nnbor 17, The Governor will be asked to respite Reynolds, sente need to bu hanged on DeOeuibar 8, wo that ho may bo hanged on tho fame day with his confederate. Bub Brooks and Grady Reynolds, his Partnerincrime, murdered Merchant Hunt for tho purpose of robbing him of aovoral thousand dollars. Tho crime ccaurrod a y oar ago. Tho Krui of a Drunkard, W. J. Burlan shot at his wife at Detroit, Wednesday with f\ revolver butsuooooded only in sligbly wound ing hor> Ila then snot himself doad. The top of tho thumb of tho woman's right hand was shot oft1 and tho bullot grazed nor hoad. Burlan had boon drinking heavily. yJoalousy wa? tho CAUSO of tho tragedy, / Imitat, Ww Ii, VHTERAN8 WANTS TRUE HISTORY BUKKCSUOU ns tu lloma tUnttoM io bo u;;hl lu Our Schaala, At ti mooting of Camp Haskell. U. O. V., hold nt Westminster on Nov. 20, tho followin/r preamble and rr ?ola "7'-" .. Cl ?5 U?.Ui.iii.wwoijr cvuu[Jlt1U : Whereas, Washington and his com peers who rebelled against their law ful sovereign, aro spoken of in all American histories aa heroes and pat riots, and southern mon who simply endeavored to ?mond a contract vol uutanly catered into by their forefath er s aro written in northern historiosas r?bela, and whereas in their effort to counteract this fatso teaching Confeti erato soldiers have boen accused of do siring histories ?artisan to the south, and warned against advancing the in teronis of thoso who have bistorlos for sale, Iboroforo, bo it resolved : ?, That wo have no p':cuuiary inter est in any history, aud emphatically assert that all that wo denim is that the truth bo published in regard to tho war. 2 That wo fought for the principles of local self government and State's rights as enumerated by Jefferson and maintained by Calhoun, liayuo and other southern statesmen, and in op position to a strong concentrated gov eminent as advoca'.ed by Hamilton, Webster and others. I). That wo have reason to believe that a, sufficient effort is not being mado by our southern people and ?especially by our teachers to educate the young paoplo in tho truo causes which led to che war and that lhere if? danger that in adopting tho northern pronunciation, cte, they imbibe north ! urn opinions also. ? 'A That tho war is au important and integral p*\rt of tho history of this country and cannot bo blotted out and [ that for tho south to bo silent simply , means endorsing tho northern ac ; counts. 0. That wc request tho Stato board of education, whenevor practicable, as ! a clear, conciso statement of ibo j "casus holli" to incorp?ralo into tho j South Carolina histories copies of tho I oaths taken before and since the war, j with a low explanatory remarks. C>.th bis fore tba war: "I do solemn ly Hwear (<>r uillrui) that I will bo faithful and lru? ullcgianco boar to tho Stato of South Carolina, so loug us I may ooutinuo a citizen thereof; and that lam duly qualiiitd, according to th? constitution of this Stato, to exer cise the office lo which 1 have been ap pointed; and that I will, to tho bast of my abilities, discharge tho duties thereof and preservo, protect and de fend the constitution of this Stato and of the United Stales, so help mo God." Oath after the war: ''I do solemn ly swear (or ailinn as tho case m ty be) that I am duly qualified according to the constitution of the United States aod of thia State, to exercise tho du ties of tho ollieo to which 1 have boon elected (or appointed) and that I will faithfully discharge, to tho host of my abilities tho duties thereof; that I re cogniza tho supremacy of thoeonstitu lioii and laws of the United States over tho constitution and laws o? any Si-uto, and that I will support, protect and defend tho constitution of the United States and tho constitution of South Carolina, as ratified by tho peo ple on the 10.it day of April, 1808. So nelp mo dod." 0 That until this CAO bo dono wo suggest chat tho Stato biard of educa tion havo leaflets, containing the two oaths, with explanatory remarks printed and sont to ouch county super intendent of education, to bo distri buted anion g the schools 7. That we urge on the teachers of tho Stale th>) importance of educating tho children thoroughly in regard to the causes which lod to the war. 8. That whilo we have accepted in good faith tho oath recognizing tho supremacy of tho constitution of thu United State-s over thal of any State, in justice to ourselves and the heroes ann patriots who sleep on many a bloody battlefield on accountof their devotion to Ibo "Lost Causo," wo de sire to put ourselves on record aii hav ing nothing to bo ashamed of and everything to be proud nf and still be lieve that our caa^o waa luly, just and true. 9. That thp. Columbia Stato, Charles ton News and Courier aud our county papers bo requested to publish these resolutions aud that a copy bo sent to thc Stato superintendent of education. S. P. Dendy, Captain Commander. Fi V. Marlie; Sec and Treas. MARTIN THORN CONVICTED. lils Aooastitlon ul atm. Nttck Availed Ulm Naught. Martin Thorn watt convi?led Wed nesday at Now York of m ur dei in the first degree, in killing William Gul donsuppo, his predecessor in tho affec tions of Urs. Augusta Nack, at Wood side, L I., on Juno 25. At tho ro quest of Thorn's counsel Ibo passing of tho de*th sentoneo wa3 deferred until next Friday morning. Thorn heard tho jurymen polled on thoir verdict, but his face never changed color dur ing tho trying ordeal. With lips ii om ly compressed, and jaws hard sot, ho faded tho Jiidgo, jury and Courtroom, full of spectators, with well feigned stoicism. About three weeks ago Thorn's first trial ?-i tho charge of murder was be gun, but owingto tho illness of a juror it had to be abandoned after threo days. A second trial opened a week ugo last Monday, and counting out three days on which tho Court dui not sit, the ?vial consumed six days only. Mrs. Nack's testimony during the mistrial madoitcompulsory for Thorn's lawyers to change their liuo of defence in tito second trial, and thov made a diroct charge against Mrs. Naok, and insistod that her alledgo confession was alie, and that sho herself was tho instigator and perpetrator of the mur der. Thorn b:iing ignorant of the kill ing until Guldonsuppo had boen shot by Mrs. Nack. Tho woman was nol produced during tho second trial, but I Thorn wont on tho stand and substan tiated all tho assertions made by his lawyers as to tho midwife's" guilt. His story, as tho verdict shows, did not? have tho desired effect upon tho jury men. When Court opened Wednesday morntug Lawyer Howe bogan a sum ming up in b.dialf of Thorn. Jttdgo Maddox's charge was carofully pre nared and well doliveivul. It was ac knowledged by tho lawyers for tho prisoner to bo cxtrornoly lucid, fair and impartial Tho jury remained in deliberation just threo boura, when they sent word to tho Judge that they were ready to render a verdict. Tho fact of thoir rornaining out so long gave bono to tho dofence, but as each one of them took his seat in tho jury box his facial ex pref sion told very dis tinctly tho result of tho threo hours' conference. "Guilty of tho charge preferred," woro the ominous word? which fell from tho lips of tho foreman of the jury. Thorn's lawyers moved for a now trial on tho ground that tho vordlot waa not in acoordanoo with tho weight of ovldenoo, but tho motion was ovor rulod. Just what will become of Mrs. Nack has not been made known by tho Queans County authorities, hut it is generally thought that tho paoplo will accept a plea from her whioh will noi oall for capita) punishment, ?OME HISTORICAL FACTS. " >.. .?Clio Ktl?tlv3 Utr*ngthot tho North uml Mouth itt tho K,?to Wftjf. The seceding Stales itt 1801 had a population of 8,000,000, about 4,000, 000 of whom were slaves ; the non H??ftdino- ?t?fes, 21,000,000 IS'oops o?iistod ' by United States, 2 778 304; by Confederate States, 600, 000? Tb? United Staten army, in HB re port for May 1, 1805, had present for duty 1.000,516 ami equipped ready for call 602.598. Tho Conf?d?ral*?, on April 0, 1865, bad 174 233, who woro paroled, wbiob, added to their prisoners then in .Federal prisons, 98,802, mado an army of 272.025. At tho date of surrender tho armies stood: United Stales, 1,000.616: Con federate State?? 272,025? . From tho ofllco of the Adjutant Gonoral of the United Statos, July 15, 1865: Total onlislmonts in Union army... 2,778,30-1 Indinas (to bo deduoted).-.....3,630 Nogroos (to bo doduotod) 178.?75- 182,606 Total enlistment of While mou...2-695,799 White soldiers furnishod to United Stales army by seceding sintco... 80,009 Whito soldiers furnished tho United fcjtntcs army by non-seoeding slates. ,190,430 Tolnl troops furnished Untied Hintes nriny by slave holding states. -105,1 H Nuinbor of foreigners bi United Stntos army: Germain. 17(5.800 Irish . . 141,200 Rritish-Amcrioana. 63,600 F.iglish. 46,600 Othor foroignors..;. 74,000 Tolnl. .1 494-900 Add to Ibis whilo troops , from Ibo south, mut negroes. 465,414 Tolnl. 960.361 Thus it will bo soon that tho Feder ai army was much largor th?n tho on tire Confederate States army without drawing a singlo mau from the North. Now York with. 418,850 Pennsylvania with. 337,030 Total (outnumbering Ibo Confed erates) . 78U.780 illinois With. 259,002 Ohio with . 313,180 lndinnn with. 190,303 Total (outnumbering Ibo Confcd e-raloa). 708,035 Now liugta?d Stales. 303,102 filnvo statos. 310,424 Total (outnumbering tho Confed erates). 070,580 Statos west of Ibo Mississippi Kivor, oxolusivo of Missouri mid otbor Southern slides, onliBtod. 309,60: Delaware, New Jcrsoy and District of Columbia. 105,032 Total. 415,105 This shows four armiesjis large or larger than tho entire "Confed?ralo army, Tho largost muster roll of tho Confederacy for troops ready for du y at any ono time was January 1, 1864 ! 472 781. FER OK NT First Texas lost at Sbarpsburg. 82 3 Twenty-First Georgia lost nt Ma. nasHis. 70. Twenty-Sixt a North Carolina lost at . Gettysburg. 71. Sixlh Mississippi lost nt .Shiloh........ 70. Eighth TonnoiSOO lost ot Murfrossboro 08, SovonIeonth South Caroliun lost ut Mantissas. GO. Fifteenth Virginia lost nt Sharpsburg 68. KILLKD AND 1)1 KD Ol' WOUNDS. Gormans in Franoo-Gcrman war. 3.1 Tho Austrians in war of 1800. 2.0 Tho allies in tho Crimea. 3.2 Fedorala. 4.7 Confederates. 9. Tnis is tho largest proportion of any modern army that .fell around its standard. Numbar of Confederate soldiers in Northern prisons, 220,000; number of Northern soldiers in Southern prisons 270,000. Tho death rats in Northern prisons was 12 per cont; in Southern prisons it was less than 9 per cent. These prison statistics aro taken from tho report of Secrotary Stanton mado July 19, 1866, and corroborated by tho report of Surgcon-Goucrai Barnes tho following Juno. The Qrand Old Humbug. Tho Republican party insisted in 1896 that there was need of currency reform and tho people of tho United States wero quite willing to agree, in asmuch a? tho currency is exactly what tho Republican party made it. But whilo Republicans, restored to power, still talk of need of currency reform they discover that they have no plan or aro fruitful in objection to such niau as is upn-oflicially suggest ed. When Cleveland, to maintain tho gold reserve,?.s"ued inloroat-b:;aring ob ligations tho Republican party cried out against what they described as an illicit proceeding. They represented it as im polite as well as illicit, and now they themselves are talking of issuing long limo gold bonds to redeem de mand notes bearing no intorest. But even aa to this program lhere is no unanimity. Tho only agreement in t ie premisos seems to'bo that whi'e there is need for Republican reform cf tho currency created by Republicans, thero ought not at this time ba any at tempt at such reform lest it might bo unpopular. The Republican party is a grand old humbug. It creates a situation which needs reformation and regains power on tho promise that it will roform, and whon it has seized tho spoils and increased tho taxes it leans back confessing practically that it luis no intelligent plan of reform and that if it had it has not tho cour age to carry it into execution. Tho party will not retire the greenback, it will not authorize tho increased of national Dank circulation, it will maintain tim situation exactly aa it ex ists, a situation which a year ago it said was unendurable. But it was mighty swift in Uiopussago of a pro lection rneasuro moro drastio than any ever before ventured by this ag grt'galion of spoilsmen. - Chicago Ohroniolo. _ Nu: M Oalli Domoorttt. Mr. Bryan tolls a good story at tho expense of thoPalmer-Buoknor Domo crats: " A traveling man on a Mia souri train said that ho could toll by tho looks of tho passongors what political party thoy bolonged to 4'This mau hero," said tho traveler "ls a Republican." "Yos," said the pasiongor "that is my politic*." "That man over thorn is a Democrat," "That is correct," responded the socond pas songer. "That man in tho third scat isa Populist." "Correct you are, said tho Populist, "And that man furthor on is a gold standard D<mi erat." ''No ? am not," promptly re snooded tho fellow. "Pvo boon sick That's what makes no look this way Hilton'? Iodoform Liniment is tho "noo plu ultra" of all such preparations in re moving soreness, and quiokly boulin frosh outs and wouuds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill tho pois on from 'Toison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will counteract tho poison from bites of snakos and stings of inseots. It is suro ouro for soro thtoate Will cur any ouse of sore mouth, and is a supe rior remedy for all pain? tand aohos Sold by druggists and dealers 25 oonts ta bottle. \ Ulu Own l'lnttotm, Tho announcement of Benji mili M. Blackburn, editor of the'Daily Com mercial, of Atlanta, of his candidacy for tho Democratic, nomluatioh for Congress to succeed Col. Livingston, from tho Atlanta district, brings out a now platform. After dedaring him RUJ? lu ?wor or me oxtromo interpre tation of. tho Ohiongo platform, he adds to it this: *'I believe in a Dem ocrat. Having some ideas of his own. and 1 favor a great many things that I believe to bo fruitful of good results to my peopJo that aro not to be found in tho platform. I * am in favor of lynching brutes for the usual crime, beeuuse I believe tuat it is our relig iousduty to keep Southern bonus pure und undefiled, I beliovo tho South waa right iu tho sixties, and that tho sentiment of her people will sustain mo to day. I am opposed to any sys tem that gives brutal and cowardly syohophants tho right to shoot down innocent labor as was lately done in Pennsylvania." KUI on tho JU (Ol. Ed Brown, a middle-aged negro was atruck by a passenger train op tho South Carolina and Georgia Railroad nearSaveu mile Crossing, Wednesday morning mid instantly killed. When they put a mari in jail, ho cannot follow his natural inclinations. Ile cannot eat what ho wants to-he io limited to a very frugal diet. Is it not equally truu of a dyspeptic? For all ol the real eej)ymout ho gobi out of life, ho might as well be iu j til. He cannot eat what he tikis, nor enough. Hesuilo;.s muoh, gets little sympathy. At ht ht, porbaps u little heaviness ia the stomach, a little sourness, windy beichte gs and heartburn ; headaches and biliousness aud a foul taste in the mouth in tho morning. Chronic con stipation is almost inevitable, and means that the buoy is holding poison ou8, impuro maller that should bo got ten rid of. Tho poison is being real) sorbod iuto blood an? tho whole body. Impurity in tho blood may lead to ul most any disease. Constipation is the start of it all. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pelleta euro constipation, cure Uso it stays cured. No other remedy in tho world will do that. Sand 21 cunts in ono caul stamps to World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, B?llalo, N. x., and receive Dr. Pierce's 10U8 pago COMMON HMNBK MKDI GAL A?Vi?iflU, illustrated. Hilton's Lifo for tho Liver and Kid noys is the moat complete regulating mdoioine. It is mild in ita operation. Is agreeable aud pleasant to the atom ach. Il will certainly build up ? weakened and bro icon down digestion. Ha J none of the harsh action o. pills and other drastic purgatives. Is the best of all appolizita, Q.iiek in its beneficial oiToei on tho kidneys. Is purely vegetable, Can betake? at any limo. 25c, 5dc and $1 00 bottles. I Young (j""* r \ Lochinvar V v. s who, accord as Vv . lng to the -I > \\\\\ story, ran fc. ?,VO away with Ida :.7 ?V \|? i brido, did not v v j love her one Vs-j . ; ^\-.~ I particle ?nore ^''.^V??1- devotedly / . :\ O than a thou ??' ? :. Vi \ J* sand honest . -\ ,. yJ husbands of t v *.yy Hie present ! \\ I -OM / d?ylovo lhch J) v?l? .' '// wives, f, 7;:HV-? KV N? novelist ??'W it \J could invent %y fi /. . / a story of truer fir W ' manly devotion "ff rft y than the "humble ' romance " revealed ~' by the following letter from Mr. Harry Chant, of 211 Haskell Avenue, Dallas, Texas. "About fourteen or fiflcen months ago I wns working with n gang of men mid happened to say to one of lltcm, 11 hone lt witt not rnln ns I have a big washing to ?io for Hie children.' The man saul, 'What ls the limiter with your wirer" " l'or years my wife had been suffering front what the doctors called prolapsus of uterus. Sh*, was nervous, hud cold hands and feet, palpita tion, headache, backache, constipation, a disa greeable drain, with bearing ?Iowa pains; no ap petite. She ?ot HO weak she could not get around. I am only a laborer sowas always In debt with the doctors, anil nil for no good, ns none did her any good. We bega ii lo think that she was never going lo get well." " 1 told Ibis nihil what the doctors said was the matter with her." and be said " ' did you ever hear of Dr. Pierce's Vavorile Prescription ?' " " I told .lim no, but I lind tried so ninny patent medicines that I was tired of them all, and besides I did not have enough money to pay thc doctor and the drug store. He said If I would git two or three bottler: Stir) try them, ami if il did not do lily wife nny good Hint he would pnv for the med icine. I went to the drug slore (Mr. ?lawber's on Ijltn Slreet), and bought a bottle. Thc first and second did not seem to have much effect but the third seemed lo work like n charm. She has taken in all about thirteen bottles and she ls to day ns siout and heallhv as anv woman In the United States, This is not the only case. When ever 1 hew tell of any woman who is sick in the neighborhood I inst neild the book and paper that ls wrapped around every battle nnd that docs tho businc-i-R. I nm no longer bothered about doing my own washing and cooking, for my wife can do" it all In one day and never seems tired or out of spirits now." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti pation, promptly and permanently. mmmmmmmmmsm W? From Maker Direct to Purchaser, SS) i ? ?srood ,f m W^mbmMm wmiastafow m ?&A A-?::--.K?f.'. VIf^'h?Avyours and /ras lM ^^XW^^mi ?ivo endless WI Agg The ^^SSsmm vexation. ?|| ? Maflmshek I ?K always Goon, always riollnblo, ?fc? always MallslUeiory, ulwnya Lust- Atti} ??! lng. Yon take no ohtlQUCd lu buy- ?OT '"fttiviis Koinowbat moro than a ww Vi'? e/ica/'. /"">>" JiUtno, but is much tho //fS &>/l ol-nipin tho ond. ?<23 'tjdt No. M her High tirade IMnno sold HO vv?i roNsonftbi?. factory pri?es to rotall ^yi (?S. buyers, e'usy payments. Wi-How?. jyS M fUCJOROa & BATES, t? ??} P?va?liali, On-, mu? Net? Vori; City. <fe? Address: D A. PBE3SLEY, ?geni COLUMBIA, S. C. _ MCMILI?AJN?'S GXIIPP1? COUGHI GCTllIO. WILL UMLIKVK Til AT O^UGIl AND OlYE VOU UK ALT timi 1. 1UUT. GOOD FOB GOOD FOB 8??sUJn W/l/rKlli?o?0. 8, Qi F-<by 27. 18t?7 DBA.lt M.t:~-lluviuKWUU.'rv-a sevnr.u u^>^ who "lin Grippe" ami gatling no teilof from many ether oough mudloiao, 1 tried McMillan'?- Grippe Gough Gare, I, ran truthfully bay X round lt ibo best romody 1 have ever trlett, before nulsbing tho bottle was cured, ltospontfuliy. GOL. B. STOKJ?8. 20 cents for largo bottle. For salo by all Druggist!. IC your druggist doosn'c keep lt,'send'ns '?5 conta and wo wilt send lt by return oxprcss. \V. G. MOKILLA^. Druggist, Oct. 29 Golnmbia.Mf O.f JIN 8PE' I AL Announcement. Piano Organ Exhibit at 1509 Main st: Columbia, S* CL BR>T GOODS At Fair Prices, Remember I Exhibit at My store, seo my bargains. M. A: MALONE, 1609 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. 0., PI A yo? AJSTP ORG A J*-? LIQUOR, OPIUM AND TOBACCO EtUtllOVASD FHONI COILIJMIII?. m KEELEY IMT?TE Wotefco phnsnre In calUn^ yon? ?tto ? Hon to * remedy so long needed in carry? lng children safely .thron g li the critical stage of teething. It Ia ?ii Incalculable ble?tog to mothar and ohUd, If you ar?. illQtotboCL ?t night with a tilcfic, ireiCnl, stiling child, usa I'ltta' (JavmJuatlve, H teUl gVtn imitant relief, and regulato th? hamil, nud nu-, ko teething safe and w.uy. Jt eave Dysentery ?nd pit?kK4'?v JTUb O-nnluntlve lo ?n Instit "ollof to - oollp of 5:-.Vv.i;t--i. ?| will pvomo'.e dlse?tlcm glietone ftn.l ono/tgy to tho fiwraaoh an V' r-owals. Tho Blofc, puny, suffering ohM will econ become the tnt ?nu frothednt* joy of 4h? honsohok*. Ii ls very plo?*xn', \ ; b<? Kw to M<i ouiv oort ar? cta?v* TK?V ?V??' . Sold >iy AravtfeUi \n \ br THE MURKAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. HILTON'S || KIDN BV? aa ?a oam*hnp?ts,| i meals medicine to aid dig st rn Prevent. Headache*. 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