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THEHOUSEOFDAVID Saved From Extinction by Jahosheba's Heroic Deed. THE SAVING OF SOULS Rev. Dr. Talmage Draws a Useful Lesson From the Rescue of Joash From the Murderous Athaliah. In this disoourso on a neglected inoident of tho B*blo l>r. Talmago drawn sotno oomforting Ijssons and shown that all around us aro loyal naturos that wo uiay help dolivor. The text is 11 Kings xi, 2, 3: "Johoshcba, tho daughter of lvintr -Inram eiulnr nf A lia.i.li ?, >, > l Joash, thoson of Ahaziah, and stole him from among tho king's sons which woro slain, and thoy hid him, ovon him and his nurso, in tho bedchamber from Athaliah, so that ho was not slain And ho was with her hid in tho homo of tho Lord Bix years." Grandmothers arc more lonicnt with thoir children's children than thoy wero with their own. At 10 years ol ago if discipline bo necossary chastise iuent is usod, but at 70 tho grandmother, looking upon tho misbehavior of tho grandchild, is apologotio and disposed to substitute oonrootionerv for whip. Thcro in nothing inoro boauti ful than childhood. (J randinothor . takoH out her pocket handkerchief and wipos her speclaolos and puts thorn on and Iooks down into tho faoo of hor misohtovous and rebellious djsoondont and pays: "1 don't think ho meant to do it. Lot him off this time. I'll be responsible for his behavior in tho fu turo." My mother, with tho sooond generation around her, a boistorous orow, said ono day: 4'1 suppose thoy ought to bo disoiplinod, but I can't do it. Grandmothers aro not fit to bring up graudohildrcn." Hut horo in my text wo havo a grandmother of a differont type. I havo boon at Jerusalem, whoro the oeourrcnoo of tho toxt took place, and tho wholo soeno oamc vividly boforo mo while 1 was going over tho silo of tho anoient tomplo and climbing tho towors of tho king's palaoo. Hoio in tho text it is old Athaliah, tho royal murderess. Sho ought to havo boon honorablo. Her father was a king. Her husband was a king. 11or sou was a king. And yet we find her plotting for tho extermination of tho entire royal family, inoluding her own grandchildren. The excoutionors' knivos aro sharpouod. Tho palaea is red with tho blood of prinoos and prinoessos. On all BldllH urn fc,pri?ku ar>rl korwlo thrown up and slrugglo and death groan No mcroy! Kill kill! Hut while tho ivory floors of the palaoo run with carnage and tho whole laud is under the shadow of a great horror a floot footod woman, a clergyman's wife. Johosheba by naino, stealthily appraohes tho itn perial nursery, soizes upon tho grandohild that had somehow as yot escaped masBaore, wraps it up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it against her, flies uown tho palace stairs, hor heart in her throat lost she bo difcovered in this compassionate abduction, (let hor out of tho way as quick as you can, for she oarrios a precious burden, evon a young king. With this youthful prize she presses into tho room of tho auciont tomplo tho churoh of olden timo, un wraps tho young king and pu's him down, sound asleep as ho is and unoonsoious of tho peril that has been threatened, and them for six years he is sooroted in that churoh apartmont Meanwhile old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction and thinks that all tho royal family arc dead. Hut tho six years expiro, and it is timo for young .Joash to como forth and tako tho throne and to push back into disgraoo and death old Athaliah. The arrangements are all mado for political revolution. Tho military oomo and tako possession of thulemplo, swear loyalty to tho boy Joash and stand around for his defenso. Sco the sharpened Bwords and tho burnished bhiolds! Everything is ready. Now Joash, half affrighted at tho armed tramp of his defondors, scared at tho vooiferation of his admirers, is brought orth in full rogalia. Tho soroll of authority is put in his hands, tho coro net of government is put on bis brow, and tho people olapped and waved and huzzaed and trumnntrd "What 5c that?" said Athalaih. "What is that Bound over in tho temple?" And sho flioB to boo, and on hor way th< y uicot hero and Hay: "Why, havon't you hoard? Vou thought you had Blain all tho ryoal family, hut .Joash has oomo to light." Thou tho royal murdoroBB, franlio with rago, grabbod hor mantlo and toro it to tatterB and oricd until oho foamod at tho mouth: "You have no right to orown my grandson. You have no right to tako tho govornmont from my shoulders. Troapon, treason!" While sho etood thoro orying that the military started for her arrost, and sho took a short out through a baok door of tho ternplo and ran through tho royal Btablon, but the battlcaxoB of tho military fell on her in tho barnyard, and for many a day whon tho horsoa were boing unloosened from tho ohariot after drawing out young Joash tho dory stoodB would snort and rear passing tho plaoo as thoy smell tho placo of tho arnago. Tho first thought 1 hand you from this subjoot is that tho oxtormination of rightoousnoss is an impossibility. Whon a woman is good, sho is apt to Ka vnrty ctc\f\A 1 *1 - tv./ bv>wu, ?u\? rriiuu nuu in uau mho is apt to bo very bad, and this Athaliah was ono of the lattor sort. 8)10 would eitorminato tho last scion of tho house of David, through whom Je6us was to oomo. There was plenty of work for embalmers and undortakors. Sho would olear the land of all God foaring and God loving peoplo. Sho would put an end to everything that oould ia any* wise interfere with her imperial oriminalty. 8he folds hor hands and says: "The work is dono. It is oomplotoly done." Is it? In the swaddling olothos of that ohuroh apartmont are wrappod tho oauso of God and the oause of good government. That is tho soion of the house of David. It is Joash, tho God worshiping reformer. It is Joash, tho friend of God. It is Joash, the demoralizer of Daalitish ? f TSTTT -I? ...J Idolatry. Hook him tenderly, nurse I him gently. Athaliah. yoi may kill all i the othor ohildrui, but you camot kill < him. K'.crnal dofonses aro thrown all around hiiu, and thin clergyman's wif >, .lohoshoba, will snatch him up from tho palace nursery and will run down with Kiin into the houso of the L>rd, and there she will hido him for six years, and at tho ond of that ticno he will ouuo forth for our dethronement and obliteration. Well, my frionds, just as pior a botch doos tho wot Id alwajH make of cxtin guishing nghtoous iosh. S tpors'.ition rises up and says, "I will just put an end to puro religion." 1) mitian slow 40 000 (Christians. Dioc'otiau slow HI!,000 Christians. And tho soytho of pir seoution has hocn swung through all tho agos, and tho 11 tuios hissed, and tho guillotino ohoppod, and tho ltiHtillc groaned, but did tho foos of Christianity oxtorminato it? Did they exterminate Alhan. tho first British sacrifioo, or Xwingli, tho Swiss reformer, or .John 1 liilnoutln I tin l^rlotian r> V.l ? " "" Abdallah, tho Arabian martyr, or Anne Askew or S mders or Crancncr? Croat work of extermination they inado of it. .Just at tho timo whon they thought they had slain all tho royal family of Jesus Homo .loash would upline up and out and tako tho throno of power and wield a very socptcrof Christian douiin ion. Infidelity says, "I will extorminato tho lliblo," and tho Horipturos woro thrown into tho street for tho mob to trample on, and thoy were piled up in the public wjuaros and sot on lire, and mountainH of indignant oontouipt woro hurled on them, and learned universities decreed tho Hiblo out of existonoo Thomas Haiti said: In my 'Age of Hoason' 1 have annihilated the Sorij?tores. Your Washington is a pusillanimous Christian, but 1 am the loo of Hibles and of ehurohes." Oh, how many assaults upon that word' AH tho hostilities that havo ever boon created on earth aro not to ho compared with tho hostilities against that one hook Said one man in his infidel desperation to his wifo, "You must i ot ho reading that Hiblo," and ho snatched it away from hor. And though in that Hiblo was a look of hair of tho dear child tho only child that Cod had ever given Idem?ho pitchcdtho book with its oontentH into tho firo mid Btircd it with tho tongs and spat on it and cursed it and said, "Susan, nover have any more of that daniuahlo stuff hero." How many individual aod organized attempts have boen made tocxtorniinate that Biblo? Have its onemios dono it ? Have they exterminated the Ainerioau Uiblo society? Have they exterminated tho llritish and Foreign Uible society? Have thoy exterminated tho thousands of Christian institutions whosi only ob joot it is to multiply copies of tho Soripturcs and spread them broadcast around tho world? Thoy havo oxter minatod until instead of ono or two copies of tho Hibio in our houses wo havo eight or ton, and wo pilo them up in tho oornors of our rfabbath sohool rooms and send groat boxos of thorn overywhoro. If they got on as woll as thoy aro now going on in the woik of extermination 1 <h? not Un,? V.i.# ? , . ? V, u / v ? II V n IMtV mill oar children uiay live to sootho millennia ai. Yoa, if there should 001110 a time of persecution iu which all tho known liiblcs of tho earth should ho dcHtroycd, all those lamps of life that blaze in our pulpits and iu our families extinguished, in tho very day that infidelity and sin should bo holding jubi leo over tho universal extinction thero would bo in some closet of a backwoods church a secreted oopy of tho Hihlo, and this .leash of eternal litoraturo would come out and ouio up and take the throno, and tho Athaliah of inlido'ity and poisooution would fly out tho backdoor of tho palaoc and drop hor miBorablo oaroass under tho hoofs of tho hoises of tho king's stables. You cannot cxtorminito Christianity! You cannot kill Joash ? Tho second thought 1 hand you from my subject is that there arc opportunities iu which we may save royal lifo. You know that profane history is roolote with Htorins fit' ntraiinrl?.t , - w. ?vi>tiiyuu uivuaiuiin and of young princes who havo been put out of tho way. lloro iH tho story of a young king Haved. How .Johoshoba, tho olorgyman's wife, must havo trembled an aho rushed into tho imperial nursory and Hnatohod up Joash! How she hushed him lost by his cry ho hinder the escape! Kly with him Jehosh oba! You hold in your arms tho eauso of God and good government. Kail, and ho it) slain. Suoooed, and you turn tho tides of tho world's history in tho right dircotion. It hooihh as if betwooD that young king and his assassins thoro is nothing but tho frail arm of a woman. But why should wo spend our time in praising this bravery of oxpodition whon God asks tho samo thing of you and mo? All around us tho impcrilod ohildron of a groat kiDg. Thoy aro born of Almighty parentage and will oomo to a throno or a orown if permit ted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to tho massooro. Murderous tomptatioDH aro out for tho asssassination. V'alons, tho omperor, was told that thoro was somebody in his realm who would usurp his throno and that the namo of tho man who should bo tho usurper would bogin with tho lottcr.s T, II, K, O, D, and tho odiot wont forth from tho emperor's throno, "Kill ovorybody whoso namo begins with T, 11, K, 0, D." And hundrods and thousands woro slain, hoping by that massaoro to put an end to that ono usurper. But sin is moro torrifio in its denunciation. It mattors not how you spell your namo, you oouio undor its knifo, under its sword, under its doom, unless thoro bo somo omnipotent relief brought to tho rosouo. But, blessod bo God, thoro is suoh a thing as delivering a royal soul. Who will snatch away Joash? This afternoon in your Sibbath sohool olass thoro will bo a prinoo of God, Homo ono who may yet reign as king forovor before tho-throno; thoro will bo some ono in your olasa who has aoorrupt physical inhcritanoo; thoro will bo Bomo in your olans who ban a father and mother who do not know how to pray; thoro will bo aomc ono in your olaBB who ia dcatinod to oouimand in ohuroh or atato, somo Cromwell to diflsolve a parlimcnt, lomo Boothovon to touoh the world's harp HtringB, somo John Howard to pourfrosh air in tho lazarotto, aomo Floronoo Nightingalo to ban dago tho battlo wounds, some Mifls l)\x to sootho tho orazed brain, somo John Frodorick Oborlin to educate tho besotted, some David Brainerd to ohango th? Indian's warwhoop ? J VL. JJL' 1 to a sabboth song, some ?toho Wesley to marshall thrco fourths of Christendom, some John Knox to make q'icons turu palo, somi Joash to demolish idol atry and strike for the kingdom of heaven. Thoro aro slcoping in your cradles by night, there are playing in your nineties by day, imperial souls waiting for dominion, and whiohovor sido the cradlo they got out will do oido the destiny of ompires. For caoh ono of those children sin and holiness o intend - Aihaltth on tho ouo sido, Johoshcba on tho other. Hit I heir peoplosa.: "What's tho uso of both oring ohildron with religious iustruotion? Let them grow up and ohooso for thcHisolvos. Don't iutorfero with their volition." Supposo somo ono had said to Johoshcba: "Don't intorfero with that young .Joash. Lot him grow up and dooido whothor ho likes tho palaoo or not; whether ho wants to bo king or not. Don't disturb his volition." Johoshoba know right well that linloan that <t?o ir.-~ ...u jrv.UUJt, IVIIJK wan rescued ho would never bo recoued at all. 1 toll you, my friouds, tho reason wo don't roclaim all our ohildren from worldinosH is booauso we bogin too lato. Parents wail until their children lio before thoy toaoh thoui tho valuo of truth. Thoy wait until thoir ohildron swoar boforo thoy teach them tho imporlanoo of righteous con vernation. They wait until thoir children are all wrapt up in this world boforo they tell them of a better world Too lato with your prayers. Too lato with your discipline Too lato with vour boncdiotion. You put all oaro upon your children botween 12 and 18 Why do you not put tho chief oaro bo tween I and 9? It is too lato to ropair a vossel when it has got out of the drydooks. It is too lato to savo Joash after the executioners have broken in. May (lod arm us all for this work of Hnatohing royal souls from death to coronation. Can you imagino any sublimor work than this soul saving? That was What flushed Paul's check with enthusiasm; that was what led Muuson to risk his life amid Itorncsian cannibals; that was what ncnt l>r. Abcol to preach under tho consuming skies of China; that was what gave oourago to l'hooas in tho third ocntury. VVhon tho military oiliocrs came to put hin? to death for Christ's hake, ho put them to bod that thoy might rest, while ho himself wont out and in Iub own garden dug hit) grave and then oamo hack and said, "L am ready." But thoy wcro shookod at tho idea of taking the life of thoir hoHt. llo paid, "It is tho will of God that I should die," and ho stood on the margin of his own grave, and thoy bohcadod him. You Pay it is a mania, a foolhardiness, a fanatoisUQ. Hither would I oall it a glorious aolf abnegation, tho thrill of eternal satisfaction, tho pluoking of .Joash from death and raising hiui to coronation. Tho third thought I hand to you is that the church of God is a good hid ing place. Whon .lohoshoba rushes into tho nursory of the king aud picks up .Joash, what shall she do with hiui? Shall sho tako him to some room in tho palace? No, for tho ofToial despcradoos will hunt through overy nook and corner of that building. Shall sho tako him in tho residcnco of iimo wealthy oitizcn? No; that oitizon would not daro to harbor tho fugitivo. But sho has to tako him somowhore 5lie hears tho cry of tho mob in the streets; sho hcarH tho shriek of tho dy ing nobility; so oho rushes with .leash unto tho room of tho tctnplo, into tho house of God, and thoro she puts hiru down. Sho knows that Athaliah and her wioked assassins will not bother tho tomplo a great deal. They are not apt to go very muoh to ohuroh, and so hIio sots down .loash in tho tctnplo. There ho will be hearing the songs of tho worshipers year after year; there ho will brcatho tho order of thegoldon oensors; in that sacred spot ho will tarry, socrotcd until tho six years havo passed and ho ootno to onthroooinont. Would Uoi that wo wero all as wise as Jchoscba and knew that tho ohuroh of God is tho best hiding placet Per haps our paronts took us thoro in our oarly dayB. They snatched us away from the world and hid us behind tho baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles and psalmbooks. () gloriousonolosure 1 Wo havo been broathing tho breath of tho goldon oensors all the timo, and wo have soon tho Lamb on tho a'tar, and wo havo handled tho vials in which , V. A r i? am uiu |irayvrd 01 ail saints, and wo hovo dwelt under tho wings of tho ohcribim. Glorious inolosure! When uiy father and mother died and tho proporty was scttlod up, thoro was hardly anything left. Hut thoy endowed us with a proporty worth inoro than any earthly possession beoauso thoy hid usin tho tcmplo. And when days of tomptation havo oomo upon my soul 1 havo gono thoro for shelter, and when assaultod of sorrows I havo gono thoro for oomfort, and thoro I moan to livo. I want, liko Joash, to stay until ooronation. 0 men of tho world outsido thoro, botrayed, oarioatured aud cheated of tho world, why do you not oomo in through tho broad, wido open door of Christian communion? I wish I oould aotthc part of dehosheba today and stoal you away from your perils and hido you in tho loinplo. How few of us apprcciato tho faot that tho ohuroh of God is a hiding plaool Thcro aro many pooplo who put tho ohuroh at so low a mark that thoy bogrudgo it ovorything, ovon tho fow dollars thoy givo toward it. Thoy mako no saorifioos. Thoy dolo a littlo out of thoir surplusago. Thoy pay thoir butohor's bill, and thoy pay their dootor's bill, and thoy pay thoir landlord, and thoy pay ovorybody but tho Lord, and thoy oomo in at the last to, pay tho Lord in his ohuroh and frown as thoy say: "Thoro, Lord, it is. Send mo a roooipt 1M f..ll >u ?uu uuii t uomor mo rood again. There is not moro than ono man out of a thousand that approoiatCB what tho ohuroh is. Whoro aro tho souls that put asido ono tenth for Christian institutions?ono tenth of thoir inoomoV Whoro aro thoso who, having put asido that one tenth draw upon it ohoorfully? Why, it is pull and drag and hold on and grab and olutoh, and giving is an a tlliotion to mostpooplo who it ought to bo an oxhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that God would romodol our souls on this subjoot and that wo might approoiato tho house of God as tho groat rofugo! If your ohildron aro to oomo up to lives of virtuo and happiness, thoy will oomo up under tho shadow of tho ohuroh. If tho ohuroh does not got them, tho world will. k i Ah, when you pass away?and it will not be long before you do?whon you pass away, it will bo a satisfaction to boo your obildroo in ChristianHooioty. Von waul to havo thou Bitting at the holy nao'a'ncntB. You want them mingling in Christian associations. You would like to havo thorn die in thesacod pro oinotn. VYhon you are on your dying bod and tako yoir little onosoomo up to tako your last woid and you look into thoir bewildered faoea, you will want to leavo them under tho ohuroh a ben ediotiin. L do not oaro how hard you arc; that is ho. 1 aaid to a man of tho world: "Your son and daughter aro going to j >in our ohuroh noit Sunday, llavo you any objections? ' "BIosr you! 1 ho said. "O >j lotions? I wish a'l my ohildron belonged to thu ohuroh. 1 doa't attend to thoso matters uiysolf? I know I aui vory wiokod -but 1 am very glad they aro going, and 1 shall ho there to soo thorn. I am vory glad, sir; 1 aui very glad. 1 want them thcro." And so, though you may havo boon wandorcrs from God and though you may havo somotimcs oarioaturcd tho ohuroh of Jesus, it is your great desiro that your Hons anu daughters should bo standing all their lives within this saorod inoksuro. Moro than that, you yourself will want tho church for a hiding plaoo when the nrortgago is foroolosod; when your daughter, jijst blooming into womanhood, Buidonly olasps her hands in a slumber that konws no waking; when gaunt troublo walks through tho parlor and tho silting room and tho dining hall and tho nursory, you will want some shelter fro:n tho tempest. Ah, soino of you havo been run upon by misfortune and trial! Why do you not oomo into the sholtcr? Church of God, ho a hiding plaoo to all theso people! (Jivo thorn a soat where thoy can rost their woary souls. Kl&sh souiolight from your ohandcliors upon their darkness With somo soothing hymn hush thoir griefs. Oh, ohuroh of God, galo of hcavon, lot mo go through it! All other institutions are going to fail, hut tho ohuroh of God? its foundation is tho Hock of Agos, its ohartor is lorovorlasting years, its keys urn linlll VlO I tl?? imiimr. nl llr .r.inln. H. W ..v?v? V.J iiiv uui V wirai i iU|>IIUlUI, its dividend is heaven, its proBidout is God! Suroas thy truth shall last, ToZion shall be given Tho bigest glorieH oaith oan yield And brighter bliss of heaven. God grant that all this audionoo, tho youngost, tho oldest, tho worst, the best, may lind their sale and glorious hiding piaoo whore .Joush found it?in the temple! How's This? Wo olfor Gno Hundred Dollars Heward for any ease of Catarrh that oannot be ourod by Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. -) CIIKNKY A CO. Drops., Tolodo, 0 Wo, tho undjrsignod, have known F. J. Cheney for the last If) yoars and bolieves him perfectly honorable in all businoss transaetious and liuanoially able to oarry out any obligations made by their firm. Wkst & Fiiuax, Wholosalo Druggists, Toledo, 0. Wai.kinu, Kinnan & Maiivin, Wholesale Druggists, Tolodo, O. Mali's Catarrh Cure is takon inter naby, aoting dirootly upon tho blood and muoous surfaces of tho systom. Drioo Tie. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. Hail's Family Dills arc tho host. Dr. W. 11 Lewis, Lawronccville, Va writes, "1 am using Kjdol Dyspepsia Cure in my practice among severe oases of indigestion and find it an admirable remedy." Many hundreds of physicians depends upon tho use of Kodol Dyspepsia Curo in stomach troublos. It digests what you oat, and allows you to cat all tho good food you need, providing you do not ovoi load your stomaoh. Gives instant roliof and a permanent euro. Dr. Fi. Norton. Curo digests what you oat and givos tho worn ouLstomach perfect rest. It is tho only preparation known that completely digosts all classes of foods; that is why it oures tho worst cases of indigestion uud stoinaoh troublos aftor everything clao has failed. It may bo takon in all conditions aud oannot help but do you good. Dr. h) Norton. tioxera oil Top. The governor of Hong Kong, China, has been informed that 4,000 villagers in (ho Sauitoohuok Kwaishin district wero attacked by rebels at I'ougkok. Tho villagers were defeated and 2,000 of thorn killed. Tho rebels, who lost 400 killed, burnod two villagos containing 8,000 housos. A foroo of 2,000 troops wont to tho assistanoo of tho villagors and engaged tho robols on October 22nd. No details of the rosuit havo boon roocivod. Gen. IIo, with 2,000 troops has returned to Hong Kong, having burned tho villagos of Shan Chautiu and Malantau. It is well to know that DoWitt'e Witch Hazel Salvo will heal a burn and stop tho pain at onoo. It will ouro oczoma and skin diseases and ugly wounds aud sores. It is a certain ouro for pilos. Counserfoits may bo offered you. Soo that you got tho original DoWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo. Dr. K. Norton. Thft Pi11"a1w vi ? ?m ? ? v* J MUDAUVOO V iOW . Wo havo spent upwards of $200,000000 in tho Philippines, saorifiood tho lives of 3,000 Amorioan boys and ruined tho hoahh of 18,000 othors, and all for what? For tho privilogo of soiling to tho Philippines tho beggarly amount of $1,080,149 worth of Amorioan goods. Tho valuo of tho goods wo havo?sold , thorn sinoo tho battlo of Manila would not pay for tho powdor wo havo burnod ovor thoro. Is tho garno worth tho oandlo? This is tho soason wl on mothors aro alarmed on aooount of oroup. It is quiokly cured by Ono Minulo Cough Ouro, whioh children like to tako. Dr. E. Norton. Tracing a Thought. I'rof. Trigg, ofUho Univoraity of Chioago, thinks tijat Rookofollor is a greater genius thtfi Shakospoaro was. Prof. Trigg's salary is paid from tho inoomo of a fund dotaatod by Rockefeller. Tho bost method of oloaDsing the liver is tho usotif the famous little pills known as DoWitt's Littlo Early Risors. Easy to take. Wvor gripe. Dr. E. NortoaaTV. CLOSING CROP YEAR. Interesting Facts Ab"U> a R?markr-ble Season. DIRECTOR BAUER SUVIMARY. The Facte and Figures for the M jnth of September W is A'eo Rema'kable Director Bauer of tho South Carolina section of tho United States weather bureau's olimato and orop sorvioc, baa issuod tho following interesting roviow of tho crop yoar id this Stato, and monthly bulletin for Soptombcr: A Shout Rbvibw. Tho year of 11)00 has boon a notoworthy ono in South Carolina, in tho mattors of rainfall and tompcraturo, and thoir influcnoo on orop produotion. Tho tompcraturo during February was unusually cold, but after that month and up to August it differed but slightly from tho normal for tho samo poriod. During August and tho great or part of Soptombor it was oontinously high, at times higher than over beforo known, and too high for tho normal dovclopmont of field orops. In thoso months, tho heat and dryness of tho air, giving it an unnsually largo ab sorpuvo oapaoity. togothor with tho soant rainfall, also inoroascd the sovority of tho drouth. mi.. ... n'u avorago rainiau curing April (5.41) was with ono oxception tho hoavtcst on rccoid for that month; during May it was slightly deficient, but owing to tho amount of moisturo in tho ground, orops did not suffer from tho doGoionoy; during Juno tho rainfall wan again vory heavy (I! 94), and avorago greater than over boforo rooordod for tho month. Coming at tho time whon Geld crops arc usually cultivated to proiuoto thoir growth and to clear them of woods, which work was greatly imptdod, its effuots on crops was un favorablo, but as tho following July had only modorato rains, orops woro again put into good, oloan oondition. August had tho loast rainfall on rcoord for that month (2 13), and during tho Bccond woek ot August orops fai od rapidly under the combined intluonco of tho abnormally high temperature and lack of moisture, with subsequent weather conditions advorso to their rooovory until most of tho orops had reached maturity. Tho weathor conditions woro so abnormal during portions of tho year that it is highly improbablo that thoro will soon bo a repetition as disastrous to agricultural internals. fhoso orops that roaohod maturity boforo August, such as tho various ooroals, most of the fruits, and tobacco, woio fully up to, or abovo, thoir normal yiolds, whilo thoso that oamo to maturity subso qucntly, suoh as oorn, ootton, peas, cane, and sweot potatoes (oxoopting rivor rico which was a large crop), woro verv nnnr Climatdlouy Foil Skpaembbh. J Tomporaturo, in Degreos Faronhoit ?Tho mean tomporaturo for Scptom ber, 1900, was 77 1 degreos, whioh is 5.9 above tho normal. Tho highest looal mean was 79.9 at Beaufort, and the lowest lioal mean was 73 0 at Holland. Tho highest tomporaturo for the month was l()f degrees at Chcraw (1), Columbia and Santuo on tho 13th, at Totnporanoo on tho 14th, and at Yorkvillo on tho 12th; the lowest torn poraturo for the month was 45 at llol land and Walhallaon tho 17th, mak ing tho State rango 55 degreos. Tho greatest looal monthly rango was 53 at Santuo. and the least looal monthly rango was 29 at Charleston. The mean of tho daily maximum tompcraturos was 88 0. and of tho daily minimum temperatures was GG 2 Precipitation, in Inches?Tho State avorago precipitation for September, 1900, was 2 83 inches, whioh is 1 30 bolow normal. Tho greatest looal amouut was G 15 inches at Trial, and tho least looal amount.was 1.08 inohos at Tomporanoo. Tho greatest 24 hourly fall was 3.GO inohos at Liberty on on tho 14th. Tho avorago number of days with rain, for 50 stations, was 5, ranging from 1 at Kffineham and Winnsboro to 11 at Botufort Excessive KaioH?Allondalo. 1st, 3.40 in 4 hours 30 minuios; Batesburg, 10 h, 2 03 in 8 hours; Boaufort, 15th, 2 50 in 24 hours; Kioronoe, 14 15th. 1.83 in 2 hours 5 minutes; Liberty, 14, 3.60 in 24 hours; Little Mountain, 1415th, 3 43 in 24 hour*; Suminorvillo, 15th 3 04 in 24 hours; Trial, 15i.h, 3 31 in 15 hours and 30 minutos; Walhalla, 13 14th, 3 00 in 24 hours. VVoathor?The avorago numbor of clear days was 19 of partly cloudy days 8, and of cloudy days 3 Winds?Tho prevailing dirootion of tlio wind was from tho northeast at 19 stations; from tho oast at 9 stations; from tho southeast, south and wost at 4 stations oaoh, from tho southwest at 2 stations, and from tho northwest at 1 station, High Winds?Boaufort and Charlestion Oth, Shaw's Fork, 13th. Torturing skin oruptions, burns and sores are soothod at onoo and promptly healed by applying DoWitt's Witoh Hazel Salvo, tho best known ouro for pilos. Bowaro of worthless counterfoils. Dr. E. Norton. Nothing In It. Tho Mobille Register says "muoh is mado by tho ropublioan journals of tho botting on the elootion in New York, dui a correspondent of tho St. Louis Post Dispatch writes that thero is nothing in it. Thero is not, ho says, $100,000 wagered in New Yoik on the oleotion, and tho talk about betting is a bluff for election purposes." Feelings of safety pervade tho household that uses One Minute Cough Curo, the only harmless remedy that produoos immediate results. It is infalliblo for ooughs, oolds, croup and all throat and lung trouble. It will prevent consumption. Dr. E Norton. Where Oirli Are Cheap A Kansas fellow got the oonsent of a man to marry bis daughter on condition that ho would vote for MoKinley. That is a somewhat novel kind of bribery. Girls must be oheap in that State whon they oan be bought with a vote. - I ? ? * two Lynched. A dispatoh from Macon, 0?., says a story reaches there of an extraordinary lynching near Wellston, Houston county. Last week a negro was lynohod at that plane for assault on white woman. Sunday another negro ash?u'u d a girl of his own raoo. Tho man was captured and negroos of tho vioinity a* ked the wbito oitizens to lot thotn have him. This was complied with and tho negro was lynohod in tho woods. Atlantic Coast Line RAILKOAJ) COMPANY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Con!>en8m> Schedule. Trains Gointr South. Dated Not. 19, 1899 No.66* No.81 P. M. A M Leave Wilmington 8:46 Leave Marion 9:34 Arrive Florenoe 7:16 Leave Florence *7:46 *2 34 Arrive Sumter 8:67 8 66 No. o'2 A. M. Leave Sumter 8:67 *9 4<i Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 00 No. 6*2 runs through from Charleston via Central R. It., leaving Charleston 7:00 a. m Lanea 8:34 a m.f Manning 9:09 a. m. Traina Going North. No 64* No.6>A. M. P. 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