The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 01, 1900, Image 4
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
?
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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
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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!
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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. M
Leave Columbia *6:40 *4 16
Arrive Sumter 8:06 6 36
No. 8'i
P. M
Leave Sumter *8:06 C 06
Arrive Florence 9:20 7 '20
Leave Florence 9.60
Leave Marion 10:80
Arrive Wilmington 1:16
Daily.
*no. 68 runs through to Charleston, B. C.,
via Central R. 11., arriving at Mauning (1:04
p.m., Lanes 6:43 p. m., Charleston 8:80 p. m
Trains on Couway Branch leavo Chad
bourn 6 86 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p m,
returning leave Conway 8 80 a in, arrive
Chadbouru 11 '20 a m, leave Chadbourn 11 60
a m, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave
Hub 8 00 p m, arrive Chadbourn 8 86 p m
Daily except Buuday.
J. R. Kenly, General Manager.
T. M. Emerson, Tratlio Manager.
H. M. Emerson, General Passenger \<eo
THE LEAOERINOEED.
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Domestic
Sewing Machine
It Leads in Workmanship, Ueauty,
Capacity, Btrougth, Light Running.
Kvory Woman Wants One.
Attachments, Needles and
Parts for Sewing Machines
of all makes.
When ordering needles send
sample. Price 27c per dozen,
postpaid.
Agonta Wanted in Unoooupied Torri
lory.
J L SHULL,
1219 Taylor Street,
COLUMBIA, S. 0
WiliHngtin and Conway
Railroad.
Dallj axoept Sunday.
Southbound.?No. 97.
Laava Hub... 8 00 pm
Laaya IUoas 8*10 pm
Arrlra Okadbaura.. t 86 pm
Laava Ckadbourn 6 86 pm
Laaya Claraadon 6 00 pm
Laaya Mt Tabar 6 16 pm
Laaya Loria 6 86 pm
Laaya Sanfard 8 60 pm
Laava Bayboro 7 00 pm
Laava Prlvatta 7 09 pm
Laava Adrian 7 12 pm
Axrlva Coaway 7 40 pm
Northbouad.?No. 98.
Laava Conway 8 80 am
Laava Adrian 8 66 am
Laava Privatta 9 00 am
Laaya Bay bora 9 10 am
Laava Sun ford 9 20 am
Laava Loria 986 pm
t?*?. rr-v--- ./???
w.?.? -.v iuiu am
Leare Clarendon 1140 am
Arrive Ckadbourn 1120 am
Leave Ohadbourn 1140 km
Leave lllona 1216 pa
Arrive Hub 1216 pa
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and all atomach and bowel trouble* oollo or
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burna. It la aa good antiaoptio, when looally
applied, aa anything on tha market.
Try it aud yau will praiae it to othera
If your druggiat doean'l keep it, write to
MURKY DRUG COMPANY,
OOLUMBIA, 8. 13
WAOOAMAW Lift! STKAM BKS.?The
Steamer will leave tha wharf at Conway
every Monday and Wedneaday morning
for Qaorgetown at 4 o'olook, touohing all lntarmadiata
polnta; and will leave her wharf
at Qaorgetown every Tuaaday and Friday
morning for Conway at 4 o'olook, touohing
at all Intermediate peinte.
D. T. MnN?lll
Gen'l Agt. and Treaa., Conway, 9 C.
B. A. Munnorlyn
J Agent, Georgetown, 8,0.
noticeT
Conway Lodge, No. #0. Knlghta of
Pythias will meet regularly the first and
third Thursday nlghta of each month until
otherwise ordered.
D. A.Bwitbt
Chan. Com.
J. C. Bpitbt
K.B.A8
May 14th, M. ly
H. H. WOODWARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
CONWAT, S. 0.
S9*Offiee up stairs orer Herald oAoe
opposite Bank.
R. B. Scarborough,
Ooswat, 8. 0.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Dr. H. H. BURROUGHS,
LORIS, 8. C.
Calls promptly answered nigh
I or day.
Saw Mills,
Corn Mills,
Cane Mills,
liice Hullers,
I Pea Hullers,
Engines,
Boilers,
Planers and
If A 1
luaicners,
Swing Saws,
ltip Saws,
and all other kinds of wood
working machinery. My Sergeant
Log Beam Saw mill is
the heaviest, strongest, and
most ellieient mill for the
money on the market, quick,
accurate. State Agent for H.
B. Smith Machine Company
wood working machinery.
For high grade engines, plain
slide valve?Automatic, and
Corliss. write me- Atln*
Watertown, and Strutliers
and \V ?11 a
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132b Main St., Columbia, S. C.
A Pointer.
Money saved is money earned.
Wo can save you money;
Lot us earn some for you.
WHEN;YOU
want MACHINERY or APPURTENANCES
of ANY DESCRIPTION,
consult us. Wucau furnish
you the best value the market
affords, at lowest prices consistent
with high quality.
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Engines, Boilers, Saw and
Grist Mills, Brick Machinery,
Rice Hullors, Wood Working
Machinery.
The Murray Cleaning and Distributing
Ginning System?simplest
and most efficient. Liddell
High Speed Automatic and
Plain Engines.
liine City Iron Works Boilers
in stock for immediate delivery.
Car load of Wo#d Split Pulleys _ tl
just received.
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8<>4 Oervals Street,
COLUMBIA, S. O.
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Inflammatory Rheumatism,
Aches and Pains, Chapped
Hands and Lips, Erysipelas.
It is something everybody
needs. Once used always used.
For sale by all druggists and
dealers. At wholesale by
THE MURRAY DRUG CO.,
Columbia, S. C.
Oilman Pays
the EXpress
Steam Dyeing of every
description. Steam, Naptha,
French Dry and
chemical cleansing. Send
for our new price list and
circular All work guar
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Ortman's Steam Dye Works
1310 Main Street
Columbia, S. C
A. L. Ortman, Proprietor.
Murray's
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Mouth
Wash
Whitens the Teeth
Cleanses the Mouth
Sweetens the Breath >
The?
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Drug Co.,
COLUMBIA, 3.0