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GLORIOUS DELUSION Dr. Talmage Satirizes the Antagonists of Christianity. THE GEEAT PREACHER Depicts in a Very Unusual Way the Triumphs of the Gospel. A Delusion Which Overpowers the Strongest Intellects. The antagonists of the Christian religion are in this sermon of Dr. Talmage tnct in a very unusual way, and The text is Kzekiel xxxi, 21, "lie made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver." Two modes of c.iviniation by which the king of llabylon proposed to find out the will of (led. lie took a bundle of arrows, put thorn together, mixed them up, then pulled forth one and by the inscription on it decided what city he should first assault. Then an animal was slain, and by the lighter or darker color of the liver the brighter or darker prospect of success was inferred. That is the meaning of the text, "lie made his arrows bright: he consulted with images, he looked in the liver." Stupid delusions. And yet all the ages have been filled with delusions. It secies as if the world loves to be hoodwinked, the delusion of the text only a specimen of a vast number of deceits practiced upon the human race. In (lie latter part of the last century Johanna Southeotc came forth pretending to have divine power, made prophecies, had chapols built in Iter honor, and 100, 000 diciples came forward to fallow her. About five years before the birth of Christ Apollonius was born, and he came forth, and after five years being speechless, according to the tradition, lie healed the sick and raised the dead and preached viituc and, according to tiie myth, having deceased, was brought to resurrection. The Delphic oracle deceived vast multitudes of people; the Pythoness, seated in the temple of Apollo, uttering a crazy jargon from which the people guessed their individual or national fortunes or misfortunes. The utterances were of such a nature that you could read them any way you wanted to read them. A general coming forth to battle consulted tbe Delphic oracle, and he wanted to find out whether he was going to be safe in the battle or killed in battle, and the answer came forth from the Delphic oracle in such words that if you put the comma before the word "never" it means cnc thing and if you put the comma after the word "neve; ' h means another thing just opposite. The messages from the Dclpliic oracle to the general was, "(Jo forth, return never in battle shall thou perish." If be was killed, that was according to the Delphic oracle; if he came home safely, that was according to the Delphic oracle. So tbe ancient auguries deceived the people. The priests of those auguries, by tbe flight of birds or by the intonation of thunder or by the inside appearance of slain animals, told the fortunes or misfortunes of individuals or nations. I'he sibyls deceived tbe people. The sibyls were supposed to be inspired women who lived in caves and who wrote the sibylline books afterwards purchased by Tarquin the I'roud, So late as the year 1829 a man arose in New York, pretending to be a divine being, and played bis part so well that wealthy merchants became his dicipies and throw their fortunes into his keeping. And so in all ages there have been necromancies, incantations, witchcrafts, sorceries, magical arts, enchantments, divinations and delusions. The one of the text was only a specimen of that which has been occurring in all ages of the world. None of these delusions accomplished any good. They deceived, they pauperized the people, they were as cruel as they wcro absurd. They opened no hospitals, they healed no wounds, they wiped away no team, they emancipated no serfdom. liut there are those who say that all these delusions combined arc as nothing compared with the delusion now abroad in the world, the delusion of the Christian religion. That delusion has today 400,000,000dupes. It proposes t) encircle the earth with its girdle. That which has been called a delusion has already overshadowed the Appalachain range on this side the sea, and it lias overshadowed the Balkan and Cauoasion ranges, on the other side the sea. It has conquered England and the bailed States. This champion delusion, this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as it has been called, has gone forth to con quer the islands of the Pacific, and Melanesia and Micronesia and Walayan Polynesia have already surrendered to the delusion. Yea, it has conquered the Indian archipelago and Borneo, and Sumatra and Celebes and .Java have fallen under its wiles. In the Fiji islands, whore there arc 120,0(10 people, 102,000 have already become the dupes of this Christian religion, and if things go on as they are now going on and if the influence of this great hallucination of the ages cannot be stopped, it will swallow the globe. Supposing then that Christianity is the delusion of the centuries, as some have pronounced it, I propose to show you what has been accomplished by this chimera, this fallacy, this hoax, this swindle of ages. Admiral Farragut, one of the most ftilmipwl mon nf tlir> Aninfinor .v,.... early bocame a vjctiai of this Christian delusion, and, seated not long before bis death at Long Branch, he was giving some friends an account of his early life. He said: "My father went down in behalf of the Cnitcd States government to put an end to Aaron Burr's rebellion. 1 was a cabin boy and went along with him. I could swear like an old salt. I could gamble in every stylo of gambling. 1 knew all the wickednoss there was at that time abroad. One day my father cleared everybody out of the cabin except myself and locked the door. He said: 'David, what arc you gwing to do? What arc you going to be?' 'Well,' 1 said, 'father, i am going to follow the sea.' 'Follow the sea and be a poor miserable, drunken sailor, kicked and culled about the world and die of a fever in a foreign - hospital! 'Oh, no!' I said. 'Father, I will not be that. 1 will tread the quarter dock and coram and as you do.' 'No, David,' my father said. 'No, David. A person that has your principles and your had habits will never tread the quarter deck or command.' My father went out and shut the door after him, and I said to him: '1 will change. I will never swear again. 1 will never diink again. I will never gamble again, and. gentlemen, by tl o help of Clod, 1 have kept those three vows to this time. I soon after that became a Christian, and that decided my fate for time an 1 for eternity." Another captive of this great Christian delusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus on horseback at full gallop. Where is he going? To destroy Christians. lie wants no better play spell than to stand and watch the hats and coats of the murderers who arc tnas ruv/i ni{s \?wia n vii ii'ii v.11* iiv-iv; the same man. This time he is afoot. Where is he going now? doing on the road to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried to whip it out of him, they tried to scare it out of him, they thought they would give him enough of it by putting him into a windowless dungeon, and keeping him on small diet, and denying him a cloak and condemning him as a criminal, and howling at him through the street hut they could not sweat it out of him, ami they could not pound it out of him, so they tried the surgery of the sword, and one summer day in (It! lie was decapitated perhaps the mightiest intellect of the (>,000 years of the world's existence hoodwinked. cheated, cajoled, duped by the Christian religion. Ah, that is the remarkable thing about this delusion of Christianity; it overpowers the strongest intellects, (lather the critics, secular and religious, of this century together and put a vote to them as to which is the greatest book ever written, and by large tnnjori ty they will say "Paradise l.ost. Who wrote "Paradise Lost?" One of the fools who believed in this Bible, .John Milton. Benjamin Franklin surrendered to this delusion, if you may judge from the letter that he wrote to Thomas Paine begging him to destroy the "Age of Kcason" in manuscript and never let it go into type and writing afterward in his old days, "Of this .Jesus of Nazareth I have to say that the system of morals he left and the religion he has given us arc the best things the world has ever seen or is likely to sen;" Patrick Henry, the electric oJiam : of liberty, enslaved by this delusioi ?. that lie says, "The book worth all < iiei books put together is the Bil Benjamin Bush, the loading physit "gist and anatomist of his day, the g cat medical scientist, what did ho say? "The only true and perfect religion is Christianity." Isaac Newton, the h ading philosopher of his time, what did he say? That man, surrendering to this delusion of the Christian religion, crying out, "The sublimcst philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the gospel." David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over uueovers his head, David Brewster saying, "Oh, this religion has, been a great light to 111c, a very great light all my days." President Thiers, the great French statcman, acknowledging that he prayed when ho said, "1 invoke tho Lord Cod. in whom 1 am glad to believe." David Livings tone, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this delusion, this hallucination, this great swindle of of the ages, so when they find him dead they find him on his knees. William K. Gladstono, the strongest intellect in England, unable to resist this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion of the Christian religion, went to tho house of God every Sabbath and often at the invitation of the rector read tho prayers to the people. If those mighty intellects are ovorborno by this delusion, what ehanoc is there for you and for me? Besides that, I have noticed that lirst rate iniidols cannot be depended on for steadfastness in the proclamation of their sentiments. Goothc, a leading sceptic, was so wrought upon by this Christianity that in a weak moment he cried out, "My belief in the Biplo has saved 1110 in my iitcrary and moral life." I > n i nousscau, one 01 the most eloquent champions of infidelity, spending his whole life warring against Christianitycricsout, "The majesty of the Scriptures amazes me." Altemont, ilie notorious infidel, one would think he would have been r.afe against this delusion of tha Christian religion. Oh, no! After talking against Christianity all his days, in his last hours he cried out, "Oh, thou blasphemed but most indulgent Lord (lod, hell itself is a refuge if it hide me from thy frown." Voltaire, the most talented infidel the world ever saw, writing 250 publiontions, and the most of them spiteful against Christianity, himself the most notorious libertine of the century, one would have thought he could have been depended upon for steadfastr.es ia the advocacy of infidelity and in the war against this terrible chimera, this delusion of the Gospel. Hut no. In his last hour he asks for Christian burial and asks that they give him the sacrament of the liord.Jesua Christ. Why, you cannot depend upon these first rate infidels: you cannot depend upon their power to resist this great delusion of Christianity. Thomas Cain, the god of modern skeptics, his birthday celebrated in Mow York and Hoston wun great enthusiasm Thomas I'ainc, the paragon of Hible haters; Thomas Pain. about whom liis brother infidel, William Carver, wrote in a letter which 1 have at uiy house, saying that lie drank a quart of rum a day and was too mean and too dishonest to pay for it; Thomas Paine, the adored of modern infidelity: Thomas Paine, who stolo another man's wife in (England and brought her to this country; Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and so loathcsomc and so drunken, and so profligate, and so beastly in his habits, sometimes picked out of the ditch, sometimes too filthy to he picked out; Thomas Paine, one would have thought that ho conld have been depended on for steadfastness against this great delusion. Hut no. In his dying hour he begs the Lord Jesus Christ for mcr?y. Yes, this chimera of the gospel is not satisfied until it goes 011 and builds itself into the most permanent archi tecturc, so it seems as if the world is never to get rid of it. What are some of the finest buildings in the world? St. Paul's, St. Peter's, churches, cathedrals of all Christendom. Yes, this impertinence of the gospol. this vast delusion, is not satisfied until it projects itself and in one year gives, contributes, $<>,250,000 to foroign missions, the work of which is to make dunces and fools 011 the othc. side of the world people wo have never seen. Deluded doctors 220 physicians meeting week by week in London in the Union Midioal Prayer circle to worship God. Deluded lawyers Lord Cairns, the highest legal authority in Kngland, the ex-adviser of the throne spending his vacation in preaching the gospel of .Jesus Christ to the poor people of Scotland. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, once secretary of state, an old fashioned Kvangolical Christian, on elder in the Ko'orincd church: John Fright, a deluded tjuakcr: Henry Wilson, -the vice president of the United States, dying a deluded Methodist or ('ongregationalist: Karl of Kintore dying a'deluded Prtsbyterinn. And to show the immensity of this delusion, this awful swindler of the gospel of Jesus Chrsst., I open a hospital and 1 bring into that hospital the death beds of a great many Christian people, and I take you by the h/.nd and I walk up and down the wards of that hospital and I ask a few questions. I ask, "Dying Stephen, what have you to say?" "Lord .Jesus, reccivo my spirit." "Dying John Wesley, what have you to say? ' "The best of all is (Jod is with us. " I tying Kd ward Payson, what have you to say?" "Ifloat in a sea of glory." Dying -John Brndford, what have you to say?" "If there he any way of going to heaven on horseback or in a fiery chariot, it is this." "Dying Nenndcr, what have you to say?'. "I am going to sleep now, good night." "Dying Mrs. Florence foster, what have you to say?" "A pilgrim in the valley, hut the mountain tops arc all aglcam from peak to peak."' "Dying Alexander Mathew, what have to say?" "Tho Dord who has taken caro of me 50 years will not cast me oil now; glory he to God and to the Lamb! Amen, amen, anion, amen!" "Dying .John I'owson, after preaching the gospel so many years, what have you to say?" "My death bed is a hod of roses.' Dying Dr. Thomas Scott, what have you to say? This is heaven begun. Dying soldier in the last war, what have you to say? Hoys, 1 am going to the front. "Dying telegraph operator on a attlcficld of Virginia, what have you to say? The wires are all laid and the poles are up from Stony Point to headquarters. Dying Paul, what have you to say? "I am now ready to he offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good fight, 1 have finished my eourse, I havo kept the faith. O death, where is thv stinir? () grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be unto Cod who givcth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." O my bold, my (lod, what a delusion, what a glorious delusion! Submerge nic with it, fill my eyes and cars with it, put it under my head for a pillow, this delusion; sproad it over me for a canopy, put it underneath me for an outspreading wing, roll ;t over me in ocean surges 10,000 fathoms deep. If infidelity and if atheism and if annihilation arc a reality and the Christian religion is a delusion, give me the delusion. The strong confirmation of every reasonable man and woman is that Christianity producing such grand results cannot be a delusion. A lie, a cheat, a swindle, a hallucination, cannot launch such a glory of the centurios. Your logic and your common sense eonvinco you that a had cause cannot produce an illustrious result, Out of the womb of such a monster no such angel can he horn. There are many who began with thinking that the Christian religion was a stupid farce who have come to the conclusion that it is a reality. Why are you in the Lord's house today? Why did you sing this song? Why did you how your heads in the opening prayer? Why did you bring your fami 1 v with vnn? Wtiv wlmn I ?<>!! \'<?n n( . J) ??v.i ?- j *? \* v/rn the ending of all trials in the bosoiu of God, do there stand tears in ?your eyes, not tears of grief, hut tears of joy, such as stand in the eyes of homesick children faraway at school when some one talks to them about going home? Why is it that you can bo so calmly submissive to the death of your loved one about whose departure you once were so angry and so rebellious? There is something the matter with you. All your friends have found out there is a great change, and if some of you would give it in scholarly style, and others, giving their experience, would give it in broken style, but the one experience would bo just as good as the other. Some of you have read everything. You are scientific and you are scholarly and yet if I should osk you, "what is the most sensible thing you over did?" you would say, "tho most sensible thing I ever did was to give my heart to God." Hut there may be others who have not had early advantages, and if they were asxeu to give their experience tlicy might rise and give such tcstimoiiv as the man gave in a prayer meeting when he said . "On my way here tonight I met a man who asked 111c where I was going. 1 said, 'I am going to prayer meeting.' He said, 'there area good many religious, and 1 think the most of them arc delusions. As to the Christian religion, that is only a notion, that is a mere notion, the Christian religion.' I said to liini, 'Stranger, you sec that tavern over there?' 'Yes,' he said, 'I sec it.' 'Don't you sec mo?' Yes, of course I seo you.' 'Now, the time was when everybody in this town knows if I had a quarter of a dollar in my pocket I could not pass that tavern without going in and gotting a drink, all the people of .Jefferson could not keep 1110 out of that placo. Hut God has changed my heart, and the liord .JesusChrist ll!lQ (lnuh'AUn/1 tliawat ..vixiuj^u in; iiuint 1UI BlIUIl^ drink, and tliore is my wholo week's wages and L have 110 temptation to go in there. And stranger, if this is a notion I want to tell you it is a mighty powerful notion. It is a notion that has put clothes on my children's hack and it it a notion that has put good food on our table, audit is a notion that has filled my mouth with thanksgiving to God. And, stranger, you had better go along with mo; you might get religion, too;lots of people arc getting religion now." Captured and Shot. A dispatch from Santo Domingo says two of the assassins of President Henrcaux have been captured and shot. THE PENITENTIARY. I j LContinued from First I'ago.J ^ by ono of the Kagsdale notcH. Tlio | State lias been left out for the entire three years nnd iti 1898 neither Watson nor t he State has been paid anything, j In November, 1895, Mr. Ncal collected of W. Hammond $500 on convict j hire, which he ke| t and used. In December, 1895, ho eolleetcd from Cooley & Fowler $500 convict hire, which he also used. Iti February, 1897, he collected from these two firms over $15,- j 000 and deposited to his own credit and used $539.95 of the same, lie collected from J. .J. Fretwcll $587.17 for oats (Fx. M) and failed to pay it in. lie , gave a check to the bookkeeper for$172 to balance his account for cash in hand and there was nothing in bank to pay it and it has not been paid, lie took a note of W. W. Kusscl for $000 for his j own accommodation and endorsed it as superintendent of the penitentiary and placed it in bank, and it has never been paid the bank is after the penitentiary fur I hp 111 < 111 #' v unit Mr \"n;il oilmilu that he is liable therefor. He collected #710 stable rent, which was unauthor ized, but which lie claims was allowed by the board of directors, which they deny, and which appears to have been approved in the prison pay roll, lie has gotten supplies from the penitent iary for which he has not paid, amounting to $(>118.20. His family washing has not been paid for and he got a carload of cotton seed to plant, which ho should pay for. All these matters, ta- j ken with his presents of State property to his friends and his having his superintendent, Hagsdalc, to furnish the cows to the penitentiary at a big profit. which profit Mr. Neal got, his keeping open house for his friends at the penitentiary at the State's expense, stamp him as being utterly deficient in the faculty of distinguishing between what is his and what is the State's, accompanied with a remarkable faculty of ; being generous with the State's assets and especially to himself. W'c hold that both W. A. Neal and J. II. Watson arc liable for the convict hire for convicts to he worked <>n Ncal's plantation for the years 1890, IH',17 and 1898. for the reason that Watson contracted to pay for them and Neal got the benofit of the labor and violated his duty in procuring thorn to he worked for his benefit and deceiving the hoard of directors. Their labor was an asset of the penitentiary as much an the produets of the labor on the State farm, and he cannot taso either and refuse to pay for it. A conversion of one is the same as a conversation of the other We also condemn the practice of the 1 superintendent's endorsing paper as superintendent and thereby pledging ( the credit of the penitentiary without express authority from the hoard of di- ' rectors in each instance. We especially condemn Mr. Ncal's action in endorsing the $850 note for .1. H. Watson and thus making the penitentiary borrow that amount of money merely for Watson's accommodation. We also condemn its use in the Kagsdalc notes and W. W. ltllHRnll nnlo The following are the amounts now 1 admitted by Mr. Neal to be due from him to the penitentiary, it being ae- ' knowlodgcd that there is a shortage to 1 that extent Amount eollcetcd of -J S Few- ' lcr, Dec 181)5 $ 500 00 1 Amount collected of W 0 Hammond, Nov 1805 500 00 Amount collected Fowler A Hammond A Kent Feb 07. 530 05 1 W. \V. ltusscll note 000 00 Collected from W. T. Magill 1 for brick sold at DeSassuro farm 40 00 5 5 book eases at $12.00 each.. 00 00 ' 1 hat rack 10 00 1 0 small tables, at $2 each.. . 12 00 1 bedstead 10 00 Fainting furniture at home.. 10 00 700 bushels cotton seed at 15 cents 105 00 Commissary account 0 years.. 038 21) Check unpaid and [carried by Burriss 172 00 1 Collected of .) .1 Frctwell for Oats. April 1808 387 17 I $3,584 41 1 We find that he is liable in addition for the following amounts, which are contested by him: Convict hire on the Watson contract for the years 181)15, 181)7 and 1808 $ 7,400 00 1 We think lie should refund stable rent which should never have been paid 740 00 $11,724 41 There appears to be due the peniten- 1 tiary the following items which have not been properly charged on the books or collected, being found on an old brickyard book and commissary book and which the parties arc no doubt ready to settle on presentation of bills: lion W 11 Ellcrbc, commissary account $154^11 ' Hon .John Gary Evans, commissary account 181 14 \ Hon 11 11 'lillman, commissary , account 57 0G J Hon 11 R Tillman, carload of brick 72 00 Hon 11 11 Tillman, oats, no ! amount giyen; he simply informs us that ho owes for them and we do not (ind any record of it. We append as Exhibit A a statement 1 of the property purchased, improvements made and labor furnished to public institutions by the penitentiary 1 during Mr. Meal's administration, ag- ' grcgating in all $175,845 17, being the 1 value placed upon the samo in the re- 1 ports of the board for the six yc?rs. The cvidonec taken is herewith submitted. The proper steps to bo takon ' as a result of this report and the cvi- ( dcncc will be determined no doubt by . yourself and the attornoy general, llospcetfully submitted, W F Stevenson, J T llay, Knox Livingstone, Thos F Me Dow, 11 Cowpcr Fatton. i F. X III It IT A. lieport 181)3. p. 7. Clemson College convicts, for guards, otc..$ 3,118 11) p. f>. 2 olectric motors, etc. 2,(KM) 00 1 p. 7. Convicts Clemson col lego and guard hire... 14,580 00 ( p. 7. Convicts, guard hire, etc., for Winthrop... 10.080 00 $30,078 41) : It o port 1894. [>, 0. Old hosiery mill (over hauling) $ 4,000 00 p. 0. New hosiery mill rebuilt 15,000 00 p. 0. Improvements in the yard. inclusive of above items 80,000 00 p. 7. 7 head mules and horses 700 00 p. 7. Labor and cash to colleges 22,852 32 153,552 32 Itoport 1805. !>. 7. 08 mules for Slate farm, engines, gins, wagons, tools, farming implements $12,000 00 p. 8. To colleges, labor, cash, etc 17,114 30 $20,114 30 Iteport 1800. p. 17. Improvements penitentiary proper, barns stables, sheds, oto ...$ 5,000 00 I'rison building and other improvements inside yard 1,000 00 Buildings at Heeds farm 2,500 00 BeSaussurc place <(uar tors for guards, dining room, smoko house, hay sheds, grist mill, engine hoilors, guano house on railroad, etc. 2,100 00 $10,(500 00 lie port 181(7. p. 10. New laundry complcto $ 800 00 Kccd farm, now barn for mules, hospital building, lot fencing, fencing 400 acres pasture land 5,000 00 $ 5,800 00 Report 1808. Report of board of directors on pages "> and (1. I'aid purehaso real estate with interest accruing on purchase money $0(5,000 00 lluilding dykes, clearing land, etc 10,000 00 $1(5,000 00 TILLMAN AND EVANS. Write Letters to the Penitentiary Investigating Committee. Senator Tillman and Kx-G over nor 10vans never did appear before the penitentiary investigating committee. Hut each of them wrote a letter to the 30 mm it tec. Senator Tillman's letter was as follows: Trenton, S. C,, Aug. 1. Dear Sir: Your letter of .1 line 2-1 endosing copy of the account on the commissary book at the penitentiary re3civcd. I have no recollection of any )f these matters, and am morally certain that 1 paid everything 1 owed the penitentiary when I left Columbia at he expiration of my term as governor. Hesides, I left all the corn and hay 1 liad on hand at the executive mansion tvitli the understanding that Governor Kvans would take it and pay for it, but lie told me that Col. Ncal used it. The mansion was unoccupied for several weeks after 1 left, undergoing some rcittingand ovcrhaulding, and Ncal probably do not feel that 1 owe the State inything on thatycore. The brick 1 am willing to pay for at the price 1 could have bought them in Augusta at the tune, ? 1 at the kiln, or r(> delivered at Trenton. 1 paid the freight on the carload of brick which Uol. Neal shipped me. Respectfully, It. It. Tillman. Ex-Governor Evans writes as follows: Watcrbury, Conn., .Inly .'10, 1MU. lion. W. K. Stevenson, Cheraw, S. C. My Pear Sir: Your letter io reference to the penitentiary investigation was handed ine by my brother while in Edgcticld, and the reason I had not answered before is that I fully intended to be with you at the next session of your committee. Circumstances over which 1 have no control will prevent my being with you as anticipated. So far as the statement that " I worked convicts upon my farm" is concerned, 1 am satisfied that you have had ample proof of its absurdity. I had no farm upon my occupancy of the governor's mansion. I was informed hy the superintendent of the penitentiary that my predecessor had rented a small plat of ground, about five acres, in or near the city limits, and that he (the superintendent) had sown for the governor and made rough forage for his horse and that he would make the same terms with me if 1 desired. I did so, and paid the owner, Mr. Geo. II. Newman, &H) rent and have his receipt. So far is tho harvest-was concerned, it was pretty expensive, as my share was not mtlicient to reimburse me for the rent. The property being city lots, however, I suppose we got out as light as most ''llelgian block fanners." As to the account I owo the managoncnt of the penitentiary, I will state \>r the information of your committee hat the articles I purchased were at narkct prices, such as any ordinary iti/.cn could buy, and it was no espcciil favor to me. The account will be paid when a cor'cct bill is rendered, and not before. It s no fault of mine that it has not boon icttlcd boforo. I am sorry that I canlot be with you, as I would gladly renter you any assistance in my power. I vould respectfully call your attention o my message to the genoral assembly md their references to the management )f the penitentiary. With assurance of my high esteem or you and your committee, I am Respectfully yours, John Gary Kvans. Hanged by Alabama Mob <J?1 T ? - * ouiumuii ouuuh, a negro, was nangcu jy a mob near Forrest, (Ja., for attcmptng to assault a young white woman. NOTICE, Conway Lodge, No. 00. Knight* of Pythias will meet regularly the firat and bird Thursday nights of each month until jtherwlse ordered. I). A.Spitkt Chan. Com. J. C. Spiviy K. It. A 8 May 14th, 08. ly m. LL&K NOTHING UKK IT FOR Constipation, Indigestion, ial Regulator it Kidneys. Wholosalo by? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. Dr. II. BAKU, o 11 V1IAI 1V91U11, U? V. ?LIFE? A vegotablo for Mild, euro for Liv- the Pleasant, er, Kidney & LIVER Sure. Btoinach troubloi. and 25, 50, $1. -KIDNEYSSold wholonalo by? Tbo Murray Drug Co. Columbia Dr. II. Haer, Charleston, S C, Macfeat's School of SHORTHAND ?AND ? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. This Sohool has the reputation of being the bebt business institution in the State. Graduates are holding romuneratiTo positions in mercantile houses, banking, insurance, real estate, railroad offices, &o., in this and other otates. Write to W. IT. Maofeat, Court stenographer Comulbia, H. 0 for terms, eto Ginning Machinery. o The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System la the simplest and most oflicicnt on the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; caoh one giving absolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw Mills cannot bo oquallod in design, efficiency or prioo by any dealer or matiu cajturer in tho South. Write for prioeB and catalogues. V. C. Badham, 1320 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. It is the= Custom Bat a very poor ouo, to wait until the ginring aemon is on before locking to see what fix the gin is in Now is the time to HURRY IV7UIV Ulil 1U 1 ii Ti ELLIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS. ' Do not delay and then ask us to let you have it at once, for thorough work canno' he done in a hurry. 'Ihe attention givei this matter now will more than repay yon whon the ootton is white in the fields and the gin house crowded. The workis coming in already, so ship at once to the undersigned, located at tho old electrio light engino house. e orouces by permission:?W. II. 11 i ? & Co , V C. IJad lis in, Jno. A. Willis. Z^f.Wark your name and shipping point on work sent and propay tho freight. Tin Elliill Gin RjjuirWariis, W. J. ELLIOTT, Proprietor, No. 1314 Gates Street, COLUMBIA. S. C. =Koeley 126 SMITH STREET, || Coit. Vandkruohht, l||l| ij CHARLESTON, S. C. V ALCOHOL MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO CIGARETTE USING Produce each a dieoasc having defin ite pathology. The disease yields asily to the Doublo Chlorislo of Gold Troatmont as administered at tho above Keoloy Institute. N. B.?Tho Keeley Treatment is administered in South Carolina ?aty CHARLESTON. H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Conway, S. C. ""Office up stairs over Herald office opposite Bank. Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. 97. Leave Hub 3 00 pm I.?ave I lions 8*10 pin Arrive Chadbourn 8 36 pm Leave Cbadbourn 6 36 pm Leave Clarendon C 00 pm Leave Ml Tabor 0 16 pm Leave Loritt 0 36 pm Leave Haoford .. 0 60 pm Leave Bayboro .. 7 00 pin Le ve Privette 7 09 pm Leavo Adrian 7 12 pm ^ Arrive Conway 7 40 pm Northbound.?No. 98. Leave Conway H 30 am Leave Adrian H 66 am Leave Privolta 9 00 am Leave Bayboro 9 10 am Leave Sauford 9 20 am Leave Lorie 9 85 pm Leave Ml Tabor 10 10 ain I mivo ('Inruu Ion 1 40 am Arrive Chadbourn 11 20 am Leave Chadbourn 11 60 n'n leave llions 12 16 pm Arrive Hub 12 26 pin R. B. SCARBOROUGH, Attorney at Law, CON WAT, S. C. Agent Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. WACCAMAW LINK NTK V VtKllS.?The Steamer will leave the wharf at Conway cvory Monday and Wednesday morning for Georgetown at -1 o'clock, touching all intermediate points; and will leave her wharf at Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday morning for Conway at 1 o'clock, touching at all intermediate points. D. T. McNeill, Gon'l Agt and Troas., Conway, 8 C. II. A. Munnerlyn, Agent, Georgetown, 8 C. J. It. Tolar. J. II. Hart T. II. Blachly. TOUR. HART 8 CO., 1 (>() Front Street, N E \V Y O It K , Commission Merchants and .Jobbers of Naval Stores. Liberal advances on consign mcnts of Naval Stores and Cottou. Monibera of the New York Cotton and Produce Fix change. To get strong and healthy use one bottle MurT? A "1%/I" IV A X O 1 LtUi> miATURE. Price 50c III MURRAY DRUG GO-, All We Ask of s^YOU " S?ANYTHING lInt,,? Maohifiofir or Ill UUU1UUI J Mill Supply Line Is that you givo us an opportunity to submit our prices aud mako comparisons. We ask this because we believe wo can make it to YOUR advantage. TRY US. Wo make a specialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN GINNERIES OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING {APPARATUS IN EXIST E NC E-T11E M U RR A Y SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending purbcasors solicited. W. H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. C. houtii carolina aokncy Liddoll Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, IV Eaglo Cotton Gin Co., Bridgewater, Macs. Straub Machinery Co., Cinoinnati, O. ! Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Condensed Schedule. Trains Going South. No 66* No-86 P.M. A.M. I.eave Wilmington 3:46 Leavo Marion H:3t Arrive Florence 7:16 f lm " - ' ? uvmo *7:46 *3 26 Arrive Sumter 8:67 4 29 Leave Sumter 8:67 0 40 Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 00 No. 62 runs through from Charleston via Central R. II., leaving Charleston 7:00a. m , Lanes 8:34 a. m , Manning 9:01) a m Trains Going North. No 64* No.63 A. M. P. M. Leave Columbia *0 60 *4 00 Arrive Sumter 8:16 6 13 Leave Sumter *8:16 0 (Hi Arrive Florence 9:30 7 20 Leave Florence 10.00 Leave Marion 10:40 Arrive Wilmington 1:26 *l)aily. No. 63 runs through to Charleston, 8. C., via Central R R., arriving at Manning 6:41 p.m , Lanes (1:17 p. m., Charleston 8:00 p m. Trains on Conway llranoh leave Chadbourn 6 36 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p in, returning leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrivi CUadbourn 11 20 a m, leave Chad bourn 11 60 a m, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave y Hub 3 00 p arrive Chadbourn 3 86 p in t Daily except Sunday. J. R. Kenly, General Manager. T. M Emerson, Traffic Manager. H.M. Emerson, General Passenger Agen