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gagg ggjfcg ii" ggagag SSS vf i? ^;^ffy;>^-r The Couquofed Dunner. " . BY KAT ll KU BYAN; Furl that Banner, for "tis weary; Hound Its staff 'tis diooping dreary; - - Furl lt, fold it, it ls best; For thore's not a man to wave lt. And there's not a sword to save lt, ' And there's not one left to lave it In the blood which heroes gave it: And its foes now scorn and brave it; Furl it hide it-let it rest! 'rake tir?t Buhner down! 'tis tattered: Broken is its stall and shattered And the valiant hosts are scattered Over whom it lloated high. Oh; 'tis hard for us to'fold it; Hard to think there's none to hold it; Hard that those who once unrolled it "Now must furl it with a sigh. Furl that Banner! furl it sadly! Once ten thousands hailed it "gladly And ten thousands wildly, madly, Swore it should forever wave; * Swore that foenian's sword should never Hearts like theirs entwined dissever, Till that Hag should lloat forever O'er their freedom or their grave! Furl lt! "for the hands that grasped it, And the hearts that fondly clasped it, Cold and dead are lying low; And that Banner-it is trailing! While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For; though conquered, they adore it! Weep for those who fell before it! Pardon those who trailed and torc it! But who furl and fold it so. Furl that Banner! True, 'tis gory, Yet'tis wreathed around with glory: And 'twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust: For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages. Shall go sounding down the ages Furl its.folds now we must. Furl that Banner, softly, slowly! Treat it gently-it is holy For ii droops above the dead. Touch it not-unfold il never, Let it droop there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead! [CONTINUED FROM 1'AOlS ON 15.] will go down through the annals ol' history unto generations yet unborn as heroes worthy of the great cause for which they offered their lives a willing sacratice. TO RECOUNT AND RISCA LL; It is to give expression lo such senti ments as these that we are now assem bled, lt is to do honor to the memory of those brave spirits who have gout before and to comfort and cheer those v/ho still linger herc. It is to recount and recall thc memories o? the pas and once again take hope and mo vi forward. To this end, as opportunity alfords let us come together in tile spirit o the soldier, who while brave in battt in none the less geuerous in peace; lc us while cherishing the proud recoll?e tions of the past look with hope un abated tu the future: lot us, thougl now in thc noon-tide of life when th shadows grow long and age with it oft infirmities grows upon us. stil looking forward lo the day when bop shall be swallowed up in victory an those of us who tarry shall yet wittie* the fruits of this great travail. The truth of a "life through death announced toa captious but inqtii ing multitude of Hil? "who spake ; never man spake." in one of his mittel less parables: " except a corn ol' whet fall into l*,;?g:\?und and die it al.?del alone, but if it die it bringet'i fort much fruit," bas other sighificam than thc great spiritual truth wit which the Master was then dealing. Yes this principle is true in ll whole realm of natute and fruit is tl result of all true and noble sacrifice, When our Hag was for the last lin furled and you returned to your hom and dear ones lowliness naught bi desolation and ruin it did indeed see as though all was lost and that tl sacrilice of blood and treasure with you had so fively made was indei vain and waste. tooking, however, back tin oin the vista of thc one-third of a cen tu we see that our great sac ri lice com too within the realm ol' this gre; principle. Is'o, all has not i mid ced been los but the great achievements of tl past have boen eclipsed and will coi tinue to bc eclipsed by the great? achievements of the. future. Tl rapid progress and the niatcri; developeinent of our country be: ample testimony ol' this nulli, -iii the fruit of this sacrilice will yet ! seen in one reunited country going fo ward step by step until it shah stan foremost among the nations of tl world. Survivors of this cause, you hin been assembled to perpcl nate its men ory and unto this reunion Columbi gladly welcomes you. At the rcqiic; of her good people and as liiere rep ri sentative I extend to you a most co dial welcome. While with us ni; God's protecting cart! be round aboi each of yon, and when you shall bi us farewell may (ind bc with you a till we meet again. TIIK CITY'S WKI.CO.MK. Mr. Clark was followed by Hr; Hoi Port Sumter Karie, mayor ol' the cit. who in a graceful speech gave tl veterans a welcome to ?lie eily whit belongs to them. Hut the enthusiasm of the vc erahs seemed to have been kept i check until Miss elizabeth Lumpki who addressed the veterans last, yea was presented by Capt; Starling. SI had stirred the hearts of the o soldiers when ll rs t'she came to tip with a greetingand with a message love from the sons and daughters < Confederate soldiers. Wednesday si deepened her hold upon the ali'oetio of thc thinning ranks of gray. Pr qttently she was made to pause b cause of the cheering of thc enthusi ?ind admiring auditors. This daughter of an eloquent lathe reared in a home where the Oonfc erae.y is reversed as a cause, holy ai imperishable, addressed the velera as foll JWS: r[ They have asked me to talk to y< again. I tun to talk to you as one you, as belonging to you. 1 t hank Ci that I do belong to you that I n one of you. There is nothing stronger or un splendid on this wilie earth than have borne the sorrow you have born than to have endured the pain lb you have endured for love's sake: ai f >r you we can say: "Greater lo hath no man than this, that a tn: lay down his lib- for his friend." A\ von fought and i doti and (?led and liv fjr that cause, and though "We furled our Hag in soi row Nor could hope or comfort bono'... From the promise bf the morrow j For that Hag bad ceased to wave. And we knew, no more defying Foes, we'd see it o'er tis living. Us lo cheer, and soot ii t he dying. For 'twas furled o'er l>ixic\s giave we knew t hal. "Those who bore I bib ii i.i lovel And though conquered, Uvv.-.\ ha proved lt Upon many a Held of si rile. They have borne it when 'lwas l'i\C When by ?ery t??lp?ats drivent For its triumph fought and striven} And to shiera its honor, given Heart and arm and blood and lifo?' And though they put shame and death on you then; we who hold your names above ult other names on earth, not only remember those who "never came back," but we elvo our bauds in deepest reverence to those who did como back, to you among us now; aud lor every blow they struck you we give you glory; for every wound they made we give you love; and upon your tired heads we place the crowns of victory, WOWAN'8 LOVE. .. A woman's love is the tenderest thing ou earth and the most. wonder ful. lt crowns you like a diadem; lt shines on you like a star. "God pity the man who has never seen the smile of thc woman he loves.*' A blind man said: '.'Just to see you, and then go blind again.i' Once there was a gal lant old Confederate soldier, who bad starved in death in prlsonT Ile had uot seen his beloved for two years. He was dying in that prison, and they told him, if he could live to get home he mii.'ht go. In sight of thc old home she came out to meet bim, and their two boys were at her side. "Oh, I ara at home and well again, well again, be loved!" he cried. Then he held out his arms, smiled and died. And that smile never left him-like an angel of light sitting triumphant in the whit ened ball of death. Aye, even pu thc conqueror's own throne, and proclaim ing that there bc earthly loves which "build their temple on the stormy brnW oT dissolution itself." Daughters of South Carolina, for our fathers' sakes wc should love-und honor these old men. My father fought beneath Hie (Jonfederate Hag. A lid though without that glory to crown bis dear head, I would love and honor bim above all men; still, with that heritage he gives me he must needs bc a thousand fold greater lo mc, And there is one regret concerning t he men we may love, and marry-they cannot be Confederate soldiers! 1 hat rallier be a woman than a man. What woman would not, if she could be J southern woman and bc loved ly southern men? Hut there is a time I would have been a mau. 1 would have chai ged with L'lckctt af Gettysburg when every hope was lost; or walcbec willi flood on Winston's Hill, "whet he gave his fateful orders for the bra vi brigade to go down to their death," o stood by Forrest, when the "grea cavalry leader of the Confederacy lau down his sword long enough to mol his Iron soul in sorrow." I would hay been at the front near Nashville "when from tl c second day of tba freezing December until thcsix teen tl Hood's remnant of an anny stood an tired and froze and when that stol born freezing, dying retreat that eta ed the war and burled thc Hags of tl Ii ist Cause in the soil of their birth THIS SOM. is n ALLOW Kl). Von young men in whose veins be; the blood of those heroes, uncovi your heads for the land in which ye live is holy, hallowed by the blood i your fathers, purified by the tears your mothers, for every drop bf bk? ? sent hern soldier sp lied mingled wil a tear a southern woman shed ai sprang up into thc lilies of Memo thal, shall blossom through the ages. I would know each one of you, win I meet you. We. your sons ai daughters, should know you that 1 . may do you reverence, for the mau w does not lift bis hat. or thc worn; who does not how her head when s , meets one (d' you is not worth ol' t . name (d' southerner! if 1 could write, 1 would write I you the lt nest poem ever penned. ; would tell how men starved and di with a sob in their breast for til dear ones and t he light of battle sh { hut on their pinched faces. I would tell how J on hs* ?ti and F rest ami Cobb and Cordon and Hair ton fought and prayed; I would t bow the women went through agon that no man knew and "opened r their lins" 1 would tell all this-an< would tell something more. 1 wm tell how the private fought: bow lay all night in the muddy Heids; fell where, no man saw. Ile ne\ caine back and no man remembered he came back and fought poverl ruin, sometimes degradation for 1 dear ones a!, the Lands of brutal mt he did all t his, I tell you, and no m gave a helping hand, sometimes 1 cause no man could. Hut now we c and the men vim loved ?iud lived us we will stand by even unto deal Someone said that the south did i hate the nort h, and I pray God tl timi; may come when some great pt will rise up and tell in blazing wo that when thc country had her ipi rOI with Kngland, through it did i concern t he south, she gave the 'I tilood of her chi valry and stood by I northern brethren till the. bitter ei liol when thc time came for her stain! up for herself, brave and bril and beautiful as thc wurri?r-mai< of centuries ago -thank Cod, i did it : UK TOI'l UKI? THE Iv KY NOTE, Krom among you one has been ci e l by his Captain over the river grand old hero has left you-the Hf of Ilea ven shining on his silvery li and smiling hack from his tired li Ile I ouched the keynote of South C (dina ?ind al! the land vibrated w the mighty music. Hut the music cease 1, the groat chord is lost i "Only in Heaven shall we hear t grand amen.' I ..(;(> Glory, and forever guard < Mircbicflian's hallowed dust, And Honor! keep eternal ward. And Fame he Ibis Illy trust." I have seen great cathedrals wb spires reached up and seemed aim to be pillars for the clouds- and tl were wonderful. 1 have seen pictll by great masters that made thc he beat faster and thc blood th rbi) in veins: 1 have seen bronze statues : marble shafts that toll? of the deed the human life or the story ol splendid nation, but. thc long can ? pr iver of my heart is that my ( I may soon seo resting on the same j wherein rest his ashes, a bronztr sta j or ?i marble shaft, huilded lo ; knightliest mau that ever trod i soil (d' South Carolina, Cen. W i Hampton! I Cel. every man. every woman, IA j child of South Carolina give so j thing lo help build this monument I Legions of Hampton! he led you 1 (he. bailie and charge. Von are p (hg swiftly. Soldiers of fdic gray, I there be one more charge. Head your sons and (laughters, to climb the top of the hill, and to place ll ?i monument lo Hampton that s last with the centuries. To you men among us now, to. j ye splendid soldiers of a splendid ri on whom the mantle of bis g rests, 1 give welcome, a thousand 1 comes. I give you welcome add l\ you love -?i love that would draw hack from death, a love that wt hold yon a little longer with us; a 1 that would send you before the Un bli God Wlt?l a smile tn) your* Taco fthtl ! the echo ?t ? great joy rinding through yo?rsouli " I saw a sadie, td a Confederate 'twas given, And ho was old, The sun broke forth, I saw that smile in heaven Wrought Into gold. G dd of such lustre never was vouch-1 safed to us, It made thu very light o? day more luminous. I jaw a toiling soldier bending down Footsore and cold. A s?ft hand covered him, lils wounds | and scars Wrought in gold, G rew straight imperishable and will be shown T'?j smiling angels standing round the I judgment throne. We who pass down life's hours so care el lesssly I Cipuld make this dusty way a path of f Howers if we would try. Ajnd all the deeds we do for them and kind words given ty rough t into gold will make us won drous rich in lleavcn." CAMI' HAMPTON DELIGHTED. Thc welcome on behalf of Camp Clampton was delivered by Capt. An imus P. Browne, one of the gallant anembe rs of that camp, who attends i'ts meetings regularly and helps to lf;eep up thc spirit of the Lost Cause Uly reviving around the camp lire the d?eeds of valor on great battlefields. IN ItKHALK Ob* THE V1SITOKS. In responding to all of these mes-1 s.jges o? good will from the city of| Cvdumbia, from the business man and [irom the women, Geu. Carwlle said: 'lit becomes my pleasing duty, as the omicinl head of these brave men who brittled Tor their rights from 18(11 to lipdld and w ho are ever ready to take U p the Hag tb protect the honor of South Carolina--not only of South Carolina, Mr. Chairman, but our Vvhole country. When you touch this e ouutry the South Carolina veteran is willing and ready to stand by her dolors as they did from 18til to 18(i;?. {And to you good people of Columbia, (iud you. Mr. Chairman, who devoted (ko much time to thc preparation of entertaining these people I have the ?honor to represent, wc as a man re Iturn to you our most heartfelt thanks, and I say to you and to the good peo ple bf Columbia, and lo the ladles, God bless each and every one. We ?.will go home to our people and tell ??them how the good people of Columbia I .opened their home and hearts to the limen who protected this land, ami in 'their behalf, Mr. Chairman, J return ? tn you our heartfelt thanks for this reception." IN M EMOH Y OF Tl IK DEAD. The convention, after being form ally opened by Gen. Carwile, gave a tribute to the Confederate dead. At ?the conclusion of the reading of thc tribute the vast audience arose, and voiced the grand response. "They died for their country." The tribute itself was the glorious Inscription of 'Prescott which makes doubly grand the Confederate monument winch Stands in front of the Stale house. \ beautiful tribute to the women 'who sacriliccd comfort,I.lome and even fche bread of life for the cause .>.' ?buthorn rights, after which the ex oldiers of that great army responded: .'God bless thc women of the Con federacy." lt was more than the benediction of men now about lo close the chapel ol' life, il seefhed thal there was in that grand response an unspoken prayer that thc women of the south would always be of the type of the women of the Confederacy. YOUNO M KN IIONOIt THEM. < Gen. Carwile f en presented "the oung man who has worked harder lilian any other to make this reunion a success"-Mr. E. J. Watson, secre tary of thc Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Watson was given a cheering re ception by the veterans who knew of his efforts to make them have a good time. Mr. Watson paid a splendid tribute to the private soldier of the Confederacy. MK. .1. KICK SMITH, l'KIVATK. den. Carwile presented to the vete rans one who was not a general, not a major, not a captain, not a lieuten ant, merely a private; and when bc was made a corporal just before Appo mattox Gen Lee was forced tb surren der to save the army-Mr. .1. Kioe Smith, a native of the Shenandoah and for 10 yeare a resident ol' South Carolina, and now State, senator from Augusta, Ga. When Mr. Smith advanced lo the front of the stage there was some con fusion in thc ball. "Speak louder," several veterans called. "All right," replied Mr. Smith, "assoon as tsorter get myself .together." Ile then told thestory of the Confederate soldier on picket duty who in the act of clean ing bis gun was surprised by the ofliccr pf the day. When chided for his lack of interest in thc regulation of war thc private replied: "Well, you sorter wait until I sorter get my gun togeth er and I will sorter nive j ou a sorter salute." The joke was told in a way which gained thc attention of the veterans, who listened attentively lo the splendid presentation of the glory of the south and the causes lead I hg to secession. Ile denied the charge that he had never held an olllce. Some tithe after the war he was coining from Virginia on a trip. When lie got to Wilmington he was called "Cap'n Smith"; at Charleston it was "Majab Smith"; at Atlanta "Colonel Smith.:' He wrote home, "Promo tion rapid. Will be a major general hy the time I get to New Orleans." A Sl'LKXDID ORATION. Mr. Klee's speech took the form of lan oration, a superb summing up of the causes provoking secession, a line description of the part the south took in the struggle, and a recital of the aftermath of that war. When he spoke of tho part which Hampton bad taken, the bouse shook with the tremendous applause his words evoked. Mr. Smith spoke at eonsideroble length, but with such Hue effect that| the veterans before bim did not tire. At lu minutes past ll o'clock Gen. Carwile dismissed the convention. A Church D.vnuiiiiw-il. Al Chicago recently dynamite, sup posedly burled by som.? fanatical pd icy player, partially wrecked the Institutional Church just as tho con gregation, to whom the Kev. Dr. Han som, pastor ot tile church, bad made a burning speech against policy gambling, had left the building. The explosion was terri lie and shook every structure for blocks around, shatter ing windows and frightening women Into hysterics. Dr. Hansom, who] lives in thc parsonage which forms a part of the IusfltutionalCliiirc.li, wasj sun.moued to the telephone and warned not lo preach against thc policy Sunday night or there would be trouble or calamity. The party said: "I wain you ?isa friend lo stop your crusade." CHANCE^ FOE JOBS, iltteruul Revenue Service KJuUliinn tiou iii Columbia. -'An examination will be held In Columbia jim June. 2!) for positions hi this Internal revenue district. This ex amination is open to all citizens of the United States who are 21 years of age and who comply with the require ments. Competitors will be rated without regard to any consideration other than the qualifications shown in their examination papers, and eligibles will bc certified strictly in accordance with the Civil service law and rules The deparement usually, selects for appointment an eligible who Js a resi dent Of the district hi winch thc vacancy exists. Persons who should desire to com pete should at once apply cither to tlie United States civil service com mission, Washington, 1>. C.. or the secretary of the local board of ex aminers at thc postotlicc at Columbia, S. C., for application form 101, which should bc properly executed and bled with tho commission at Washington. In applying for this examination thc exact title as given at the head of this announcement should bc used in thc application. Persons who arc linallie to lile their formal applications and who notify the commission of this fact, either by letter or telegraph, with thc request that they be permitted to take the examination, will be examin ed, provided their requests arc receiv ed at tlie commission in sutlleient time to ship examination papers. The ex amination will consist ol the subjeeis. mentioned below, which wit: uti' weighted as follows: Spelling (2U words of more than av erage difficulty), 5 per cent. Practical arithmetic (comprising fundamental principles, common and decimal fractions, and practical prt - l<lems in the elements of percentage j and mensuration), 40 percent. Letter writing (a letter of not less than 150 words on some subject of general interest. Competitors arc permitted Iii select one of two subjects given), ir> per cent. Penmanship (thc handwriting of competitor in thc subsequent copying will bc considered with special refer ence to tlie elements ot legibility, ra pidity, neatness, general appearance, etc.), 10 per cent'. Copying from plain copy (a simple test in copying accurately a lew print ed lines io tlie cum pct! tor's handwrit ing), 10 per cent. Elementary physics pertaining to gauging, 20 per cent. '"i Total. 100 per cent. I temi y for War. A dispatch from Washington says for sveral months past the general board of thc navy ol' which Admiral George Dewey is the president and Bear Admiral Henry C. Taylor the next ranking officer; has been at. work making plans for the defense ol' the Philippine Islands and for naval cam paign in thc event til'war with Russia. lt is understood that, the opinion uf tlie general board relative to what should bc done at the event of a eon llict with Russia over Manchuria has been prepared and submitted to Ac ting Secretary of the Navy Darling. Although few naval officers believe that the United States will at any time in thc near future have warwitn Russia, it was deemed necessary, in view of the uncertainty still Existing relative to Russia's final actions in Manchuria, to prepare a probable plan of campaign against that 'jotijiiry. In the opinion ol' the general bpard the war w :ffiJrV?.a<?f ry^lt^Jn^- platte waters a?a' In Manchuria:""*.? i Regarding thc recommendations of tlie general board for the defense of Manila and other ports of tlic Philip pines, they will probably be ignored, unless thc Navy Department should deem it necessary to make some re commendations along this linc to Congress. In such au event, the War Department would certainly make a vigorous protest and call attention to the fact that the engineers of the army are nuw busily engaged in devis ing plans to defend Manila and tlie coast td* the. Philippines. The oil i ce rs of the army rea I i xe, as well as their hrcthicn in the navy, th.tt in the event ol' war with Russia or Germany the Philippines would be the vulner able point of attact by the enemy. Let us all devoutly pray that this country will not now or at any other time become envolved in a war with; Buss i a or any other nation. Poisoned \Vldnkej. As thc result ol'drinking what they thought was whiskey, live men pm j ployed at thc Adams Express ware house in Cincinnati; were poisoned Thursday night, one dying shortly after arriving at the hospital. The other lour men arc in a serious condi tion. A bottle was received from Memphis addressed lo Kale Nobbe, in this city. Itihauillingl.be bottle. J. 15. Kicker discovered a leak lind remarked. " This is a nice bottle of boo/.'', and too good lo let go toj waste.' One of tin- men procured a t in cu]? anil each took a di ink. Tiley became violently ill in a lew moments' and were rushed to thc city hospital.; Kicker died on arriving there, while! William Stevens, George Illirie, Louis Burbank and William Daly are re ported in a serious condition. Nt'Kio Not Wanted. Wm. ll. Jackson, Republican mein-, ber ol'cong ress from the Pi ist Maryland district, announced Wednesday that he will ask for thc discontinuance ol' thc post?nico ut (?uitidocquia, in Sumo rest county, Md., to which Andrew J.j Day, a negro, was recently appointed,! This is said to be the first colored postmaster appointai hi Maryland.! Congressman Jackson says he will ask for tlie discontinuance because it is1 unnecessary and because Day is not a proper person lo hold such an office. Kill?!?] Oy ii Kn I li UK Tree. Near Kirkland, Ca., Lld red iiiul Lyman Newborn, father and sou, were rel in ning to t heir farm Thursday dun lng Hie storm in a wagon. A mile out ol town the wind lore down a big pine tree and threw it across th? wagon, which was crushed. Ly ina if Newborn was killed instantly, hif lather seriously and perhaps fatalH injured, and the. two mules so badi j crippled that they had lo be sind. i Dropped Drud. Carrie Lipscomb; a negro woman' dropped dead in font of the Sou then passenger depot, Wednesday night af ixrceiiwond. She had come up fron1 Augusta and was on her way ti Ninety-Six. While waiting for tlie' train slid dropped without a wordf Dr. Kpting was summoned, but liftr was extinct when he arrived. Ilcarf disease is supposed to be the cause or lier sudden death. win: . STROM ADDRESS l?ade by Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, in Atlanta. TOUCH ON RACE OUESTION. S|iyB In Plain LiiuRuajto That tho North Mado a Groat Mistake in Makins Negroes Oitzetia. The Atlanta Journal say a large cti'owd heard Dr. Charles H. Park hurst, of New York, deliver a mag ilieent sermon Sunday afternoon at 3: :10 o'clock at the Baptist Tabernacle. ti\ was t'ne conference sermon preach ed I to tile delegates to the National Conference of Charities and Correction bait there were many Atlantians tliere ii i addition to the conference delegates aud thc Tabernacle was crowded to olverllowing. I Dr. Parkhurst took as his text the Hjf teen til verse of the tifth chapter of at. Mark, read as follows: "And they came to Jesus and saw liihi that was possessed with the devil, and had thc legion, sitting and c lothed and in his right mind." Dr. Parkhurst spoke in part as f?l lt 3 ws: "Wc arc met herc in conference, nut in tlie interest of tenement reform pfrimarily, but in the interest of ten . Ut reform. v j "There is strong incentive iu the fillet that to whiten and sweeten the condition of man is an enterprise so flull of large appeal that even Almighty Clod moved upon his throne in re sjp?nse to tho appeal, opened personal cjommunication with the race, and rtiade a man of Himself that Ile might niake small Cods ol us. ! "The vermicular theory that we ^ive cpression to when we sing snell flymns as 'O What a Worthless Worm Am 1' does not square with thc his boric .fact of Calvary. God docs not die for grubs or cchionderms. "No man can do great work who ls not impressed with Hie magnlliceuce c>f the material he is working in. "Of course there are specimens of humanity-sick specimens, crazy Specimens, horribly depraved speci mens, ahorded specimens, specimens {hat arc a prophecy only, with no irospect of fulfillment,' that arc an iwful discouragement. In our dis cussions together you will have a good (leal of this kind of discouragement to incouuter. "Hut there is always a great deal jeft that includes thoughtfulness, and with regard to any questionable resi lue, 1 want to adduce this principle if judgment and measurement that we shall estimate men by the stand ird of the best, not the poorest . "What we do professionally never niters into the personal life of the bi li vidual or the community that we io it to. A reformer who reforms in Ibis capacity as a reformer defeats his pwd purposes: so ol' a teacher, preacher, humanitarian in any line. iChrist would have donc nothing to ward Saving the world ir he had been supposed to be working in his capacity as a Savior, and would have done nothing as God if He had not been able to forget that Ile was God. "On March Otb, i say, I read the following paragraph, which hud boen apparently telegraphed to a paper 1) from Wisconsin: "The i nia tl a l ory ?Stops for the convention to settle the race t|iiestion were taken in thc sen ate this morning when Senator Pat ten presented a joint resolution au liorizing and requesting the governor tt> call upon governors of other states to appoint ten delegates to a conven tion to lie held in Atlanta, commenc ing July 4.' i "Now, a small thing that is stupid does not count for much, but a thing so colossally stupid as that is refresh ing, anti not only refreshing but illu minating. **The scions from Wisconsin or from thc entire north, with the south combined, cannot put events upon a double quick. Wc can hoe anti har row anti water, but thc growing is otherwise provided for. "There are two lines somewhat dis tinct from one another, and yet mutu ally supplementary, upon which ef forts at amelioration can be prose cuted. One line aims directly to im prove people themselves, tile other to improve their conditions-although, of course, with a reference mort; or less dclinite to their personal better ment. "Providentially, or as a result of the war -according as each one may interpret the case-thc slaves were emancipated. Kow this was a great event in the history of the colored people. If a man has been in jail even live years it is a momentous in stant for him when the wanlen slips the bolt and he steps out a free man. Hut if be was a criminal live minutes before he was set free he was just as much a criminal live minutes after he had been let out into the fresh air. Moving the holt reshaped his circum stances, but without doing anything to him, and thc proof of that is that according to prison statistics, inside of six months he is quite probably back in jail again. "This supposed instance ol' the con vict is in principle exactly what oc curred in thc case ol' thc blacks, t?inahcipatton pushed thc bolt for them; it let them out into thc .sun shine. There was a great deal of heroism in thc course of thc war, north anti soil th, but there was not much statesmanship in the construc tion ol' a peace, and one of the radical mistakes made was in supposing thai altering the colored man's condition alteret! the colored man, that letting a wolf out of a cage domesticates thc wolf, that substituting coat anti trous ers for swaddling clothes makes of an infant a man, and thal emancipation ind, only relieved Hie slave uf his fet ters, but qualified him to be a citizen. "(mange of circu?osla noes ls no in dex ol change bf character. Con structive work has ti rsl. of aillo he put into persoiialify. not into condi tion, ami it is interesting-1 may re mark, hy Hie way -that Hie more considerate and sensible members bf thc emancipated race are coming to recognize finit fact, and are being en couraged to recognize it by their more intelligent leaders, in thc liest Rouse or the term a right does not be come a right by any pure act o? legis lation, whether state or federal. A genuine perrogatlve has Its grounds in the individual, in his personal quali fications for thc exercise or that pre rogative. In the long run-a man will get all that lie earns, not a farthing more nor a farthing less, and when he has earned it -if there ls that In him iliat i?akea hlui able ??rb lt-l???i? lug eau permanently! kpep rd ?4 out ot his earnings. ? 'FDhi Jua principle that applies equally to all. ?j African or Caueaslau, now and everlastingly: ?? ?'Dawinlsm teaches tho doctrine ot the survival of tue'fittest* which Is tho scientific formula for 'Devil take tho hlndermost.' Christ steps for ward with His gospel, relieves tho devil and say*, 'I will take the hinder most.' That ls always with the under dog. That ls the geulus of Chris tianity so far as the matter of humani tarian eliort is concerned. To stop with enjoying people that are at our level and that arc congenial is pagan. Paganism is very pleasant and eom> fortablc, and is just as pagan as ever it was and more elegant: just as mean and more aesthetic. Christ readied down and pulled up the man that was at the bottom. In His scheme of re gard and helpfulness there were no ex ceptions. He was about thc only Christian that ever lived that was not fastidious. We are ready to do almost anything for people that aro nico. He was equally ready to do for people that hardly seemed to be nice. He loved to work on vertical lines; we pre for.horizontals. The bigger and grand er the man the lgwer he can stoop. Thc stronger he is thc more weakness appeals to him; the purer is he the less afraid he is of being tainted by im purity; the moro complete he is the more he is touched by thc cry of hu man incompleteness. The real mother revels in the helplessness of her child, and immerses herself in the inarticu late pain of her infant-which is as near like God as she knows how to be, who leaches all the way from His throne and lays His ungloved linger on the decayed llesh of thc leper. How many clouds of diiVlculty and per plexity there arc hovering over the civilization of tile north and the south that will melt into clear sky when once the air has become thoroughly warmed with the genial and tender light of Christ and his gospel." Dr. C. R. Duwman opened the ser vices with prayer Kev. G. W. Hull read a chapter from the Bible, after which Dr. Parkhurst delivered his elo quent sermon. Music was furnished by thc choir of tlie Tabernacle. MAKES A FULL CONFESSION. Thc MluHoiiri Legislature Seems to bc a I>en of Th leven. Thc Missouri Legislature must be a veritable den of thieves." Friday at St. Louis unable to bear thc mental strain of torture which he says bc has suffered since the grand Jury inves tigation into legislative boodling was Instituted, former State Senator Fred L. Busche went before Circuit Attor ney Folk Friday afternoon and made a complete and far-reaching confes sion of ins connection with corrupt deals extending overa period of eight years. Moselle's declarations Iii volvo several men of prominence and ho names those who have been conspic uous at the Stale capitol as distribu tors of boodle. Later Busche was taken before thc grand jury, where he remained an hour. When lie emerged from tlie jury room tears were streaming down his checks. With his face buried in his handkerchief he hurried away. "1 had to do these things,'' said Busche in relating lbs story to the at torney. "The.e were circumstances that made a fellow take money or else get the wirrst of it." L?sche then told ol' his connection with legislation four years ago. II. prefaced his remarks by saying that all sorts of money was used at that time to influence legislation. '"Money," he said, "wasoffered on pretty nearly everything of impor tance. The steam and street rail way interests werealways very active, and their representatives paid us." Going back to the thirty-eighth as sembly, when thc bill to create a school hook commission was one of the principal issues before the legislature, Busche said that the school book trust put up a big fund. ''1 got $1,000," he said, "and others got just as much, some maybe more." j "oh one occasion," he said, "there was a resolution presented to have all bills held in committee. I got $25U for holding up that resolution." "Killing hills by smothering them in committee was very common." Because of the statute ol'limitat ion, which prevents prosecution three years after thc crime is committed, none of thc men against whom Busche has testified can be indicted. Munged ll linnell'Smoking. At Philadelphia, Pa., Tony Wander, a baker, hanged himself herc ami while dying calmly smoked a corncob pipe. When the body was discovered a patrolman was called in and lie cut the rope. It was then noticed that Wander's lips were closed on a new corncob pipe, the teeth being so tight ly clenched that force was necessary to pry them apart. Beneath the corpse lay a half-lilled bottle of beer and a partly burned match, it was plain that Wander had indulged in a farewell drink and smoke before tak ing his lifo. Investigation showed that Wander cut a piece of sasli cord from an entry window, and after ad justing one end about a gas pipe in the cellar had fashioned a noose about his neck. Then ho sipped the beer, and lighting his pipe had calmly pu lied away until unconsciousness came. A Futui Kow. W. II. Abrams, a young man of Conway, was shot and fatally wound ed by Latinean Stack house, a son or Senator Stackhousc of Marion, on Wednesday. Stackhousc had come to Conway on business. As lie was wane ing up town, bc was interfered with by Abrams who was drunk. Abrams when told to hush reached towards his hip pocket and rushed towards Stack house, who shot him. Abrams ha? since died. Shipwrecked. Over four hundred shipwrecked Portuguso immigrants. :?'J0 men and al women, d ri voil ashore on thc North Carolina coast In a terrible storm on last Sal unlay night, were still being cared for on tho coast flus week. One perished from starvation before rescue. Thc immigrants will lie taken to Massachusetts, where their ship was bound. A Hint. Four negroes were killed in a race riot in New Orleans Saturday night. The negroes armed and threatened violence because one of their number was heal en. The whiles met them and a pitched battle ensued with the result ol' the death of four of the negroes. Peace was then restored and the trouble ls over. I* ? new and .tlcMUOc compound nada irena root?, barba and barks-centaine neither oblatas lier poison?, lt purifies tho blood ?nd remevae tb? ecus ca cf rheumatism and all blood discuta. Anyone cnn take RHEUO ACID B wi ti? abso lut? safety. Doce cet lojura tba dlgeeUve.organs. TWO CURES. FLO BK if Ol ..S. C.. Ausr. 10.1803. Gentlemen :-I bogan to suffer (ron rheumatism about throe years ago, and had lt very bad ia my Umba. At times I could hardly "walk. Was treated by a pbyslainn wi thou t bonotu. Moro than a year ago, Mr. George Wilson, an engi neer on the Coast Line, uvlnz in Flor ence, told me that "RHEUMA o ID a" cured him.. I got a bottle and it b?Be fitted me. I took fl vo bottles and am now as welt as I over waa in my life'. I regard "RntDMioius:" aa a grsat medicina. I know of others lt has cured. Truly, 8. T. BURCH. OArtLifiQTOif, 8. G., Aug, 18th, 190). Gentleman;-About two years ago I had a Tory eavere attack of inflamma tory rheumatism. 1 suffered great pain . and. was confined to my bcd ror fivo weeks. During tho time I was treated by two Phys lulu na without, permanent relief. Capt. Harker, a conductor on tho Atlantic Coast Lino beard of my condition and e.wot me two bottles cf "RHEUM A GIDE." I began to take lt and in a wonk I got up and walked on crutches. After taking three bottles of the remedy X got entirely well and went back to my business. 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We all belong to the same great race of people aud inherit pretty much thc same ideas of things in general. Believing this with all our soul, we are not at all surprised to lind the white people of the North arraying themselves against the negro as a race as they become better acquainted with him in his social and industrial life. This is the reason that wealthy New Yorkers have drawn the color line so sharply against- negro residents at Babylon, L. 1., where many persons well known in society and business have their summer homes. A tenement house occupied by ne groes has long been an eyesore to the members of Christ Episcopal Church, one of the most fashionable in the Long Island diocese of Bishop Bur gess. The vestry tried to buy the property on which the tenement house .-.lauds and ottered $2,200. hut it is said the owners, Mrs. Keenan, of Brooklyn; asked 97?201) for the prop r ty. BJ win Hawley, wealthy railroad man, who owns a large estate on the other side of Mrs. Keenan's property; tried to purchase it, but failed. Two months ago he put up a high tenee to shut out from view the tenement house, '.vliich is old and dilapidated. This week the vestry of the church beean the erection of board fences, 12 feet high and int feet long, on the east line of the church property to screen from view thc tenement. This tenement property comprises less than three-quarters of an acre and is situated on the old South Coun try road, lu the most fashionable sec tion. The bouse, which occupies nearly the entire front of thc proper ty, is two stories high, lt has no front yard, the house being within a few feet of the roadway. The tene ment bas nut in a ljug period been a dividend payer to any great extent, and for some years bas been occupied by negroes. This incident shows that the white people of New York does not want to ?et too close to the ne gro any mor ? than the Southern white man does. It also shows that the same feeling exists at the North and thc South on the negro (piestion, and as time goes un the feeling at the North is going to become more intense against the negro than at the South. At least this is the way it looks lo us. KuriliOI-M' IiislilutCH. By authority of the board of trus tees bf Clemson college, local insti tutes wilt lie held in such counties as send requests, signed hy 1."? farmers, before Hie lsith ot .June, to .1. S. New man, director of farmers instit utos, Clemson College, S. C. Thc petition ers will name thc places af which in stitutes are desi red and the dales will bc arranged by the. coll?ge authori ties. Thc State institute will he. held at Clemson College commencing Mon day evening, Aug. 10, and closing Friday evening, Aug. l-l. Muzzling tho I'l-esM. 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At Toledo, Ohio, during the funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Marry Kemm the drivers of backs struck and refused to work because the hearse was driven by a nonunion man. Thc officiating undertakers filled the strikers' places just in time to prevent a scene, as the casket con taining the. remains wi s being taken from tile hearse just as the afluir was si ra i gb tened. AN editor out West stated recently that he hail been kissed by one of the most beautiful married womon In town. He promised to tell ber name in the llrst issue of bis paper the next month. In two weeks the circulation of his news paper doubled. But, when l.c gave tho name of his wife asj,the woman who had kissed him, he had to leave town._ FIVE thousand old Confederate veterans wero in Columbia last week at thc reunion, and the good people of that city had nothing that was loo good for the old heroes. They were treated royally.