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A SILENT RELIGION. | Dr. Talmage Sets Forth Its Erlli in His Sermon. Itnf? f thrlatlaua to tprak Out Btarlll; ou ikr Hide of IttshtaananfM?('mtlni Out lb* Dumb Spirit, (Copyright, 1S01. by l<ou!s Klopsoh, N. T.) Washington, Ksb. Id. In this di&eoura* Lit. Taltnnge calls lor a uiorc demonstrative religion and a hearty speaking out 011 the right side of everything; text, Mark "Tliou dumb and. deaf spirit, 1 charge thee, come out of him." /t. H?r? was is case of great domestic anguish. 'J he aou of the household whs possessed of an ? 11 spirit, v. Itioh, among other things, puraly/cd his tongue nnd madohiip speechless. When the influence Ha.s on the patient, he could not way a word?-articulation was Iw possible. The spirit that captured thia member of the household was a dumb apirit??o called by Christ?a apirit abroad to-day und as lhely and potent aa in the New Testament times. Vat in all the realms of aerutuudoin 1 cannot And a discourse concerning ibis dumb devil which Christ chaiged upon In my text, saving: "Come out of him." There has been much destructive superstition abroad in the world concernla g possession by evil spirits. Cndei i the farm of belief in witchcraft, this delusion swept, the continents. Parsons ware supposed to be possessed with souae evil apirit, which mad* them able to destroy others. In the sixteenth century in Geneva 1,500 persons were burned to death as witches. In one neighborhood of France 1,000 persons were burned. In two centuries ZOO.OOh parsons were slain as witches. So mighty was lbs delusion that it iucltid ad among its victims soma of the greateat intellects of all time, such aa Chief Justice Matthew Ifala and Sir K.dward Coke, and such renowned ministers ef religion aa Cotton Mather, one of whose booke, benjamin Franklin said, shaped i* lire?and Ktrhnrd Hnxfer. and Archbishop Cranner and Martin Luther; and. imonic writers and philosopher*. Lord Uaron, That belief, which' ha* Wconx the laughing stork of all xen dble people, counted it* disciples among the wisest and best people of w*d??, Germany, England, France, pain aad New England. Bat while we eject witohcraft, anj man who believes the Bible must believe that there are diabolical agencies abroad in the world. While there are ministering spirits to blest there are infernal spirits to hinder, to poiaoa and to destroy. Christ wae speaking to a spiritual existence when, standing before the af toted one of the text, he said: "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, CQme out of him." Against this dumb devil of the text 1 put you on your guard. Do not think th at this agent of evil hns put his blig ht on those who, hp omission of the vocal rgans, have had the golden gates of peech bolted and barred. Among thoae who have never spoken s word are the most gracious and lovely aud talented souls that were ever incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell you enchanting ctaries of those who never called the lime of father or mother or child, and nany of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in thin world speak the aanie of God or Christ. There has been apotheosir.ation of silence. Some one has snid silence is golden, and sometimes the greatest triumph is to keep your mouth shut. Hut ometiwes silence is a otime and the direct result of the baleful influence of ji...?n ti t ? v uwtii V/a wui WJA I, 1 I1VI r IV hardly a man or womnn who ha* not teeca present on toms occasion when tha Christian religion breams a target far raiilsrj. Perhaps it ws* orer in tha atare aoiro day whco there was not anuth going on, and the clerks were in a group, or it was in the factory at the soon spell, or it was out on the farm wader tha treaa while you ware resting, r it waa in the clubrooin, or it was In a social circle, or it was in the street on tha way home frotn business, or it waa on some occasion which you remember without my describing it. floma one got the laugh on the Bible and caricatured the profession of rail flan as hvpocriay, or made a pun out f something that Christ said. The laugh started, and you joined in, and sat one word of protest did you utter. .What kept you silent? Modesty? No. Incapacity to answer? No. Lack of opportunity? No. It was a blow on teeth your lips by the wing of the dumb Uarll. If some one should malign your father or mother or wife or husband or child, you wauld flush up quick and cither with an indignant word or doubled up fist make response. And yet hare is our Christian religion which teas done so muoh for you and so much Tor the world that it will take all eternity t? eelebrata it, and yet when it was attacked you did not so much assay: *T differ. I objaot. I am sorry to hear yon say that. There is another aide to this." You Christian people aught In such times as these to go armed, not with earthly weapeas, but with the arword of tha spirit. You ought to hart emir Mr ? ? ?ulitU?. nl?V. .? < -- -I ....... "?v? Jv ould confound any man who attacks Christianity. A man 90 ycara eld was tailing at haw ba put to flight a aco ffar. Hj ared friead said to the aksptic: "Difl yo? erar read the history of Joacph la the Bible?" "Yea," aald the xaan, "it ia a fine story, and as interesta story a* I tear read." "Wall, now," said my old friend, "suppoae that coeunt af Joaaph stopped half way?" "Ob," aaid the roan, "then it would not ba entertaining." "Well, now," aaid nay friend, "we have in this world only half of everything, and da you not think that when wa hear the laat half thtnga say ba aonslatent, and that than wa sag And that Gal waa right?" Ob, frlenda, hatter lead up with a few intrreyation nolatal You cannot afTillman Endorsed. Id the Sonato Thursday Senator Aid rloh offered the following oonourren resolution, which was adoptod without disoussion or dissent, and sont to the house: lie it resolved by the sonato, the house of representatives concurring, That the aoknoledgments of tho genoral assembly are heroby tendered to tho Hon. B. 11. Tillman for his able, pa triotio and consistent course in tho 1 United States senate, throughout his ' ervioe in that body, whioh course is J hereby indorsed and pronounood worthy of bis State and people. Mr ford to be silent when God and the Bible end the thing* of eternity are as ailed. Your silence gives consent to the bombardment of your Father'* house. You allow a slur to be cast on jour mother's dying pillow. In behalf of t he Christ. who for you went t h rough the agonies of assassination on the rocky bluff hack of Jerusalem, you dared not face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few questions, so that next time you will be ready. Say to the coffer; "My dear air. will you tell me what makes the difference betweea the condition of woman in China and in the United States? What <*? you think of the sermon on t.he mount? How do yeu like the golden rule laid down In the Script\ires? Are 3 ou in fa?ur of tlie Ten Coinmandhaents? In vour large and extensive reading have you co me across a lovelier character than .testis Christ? i 11 t on please to name the triumphant deathbeds of infidels and atheists? How do 1011 account for the fact that unions the out and out believers in Christianity were such persons it Benjamin Krnnkiin. John Bus kin, Thomas Carlyle, Babington, Mac aulay, William Penn, Walter Scott. Charles Kingsley, Horace Biixhnell. James A. Garfield, Robert K. Lee. Stenewall Jackson. Admiral Foote. Admiral Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant. John Milton, William Shakespeare. Chief Justloe M a rshall, Joh 11 Adams, Da n iel Web ater, George Washington? How do you account for their fondness for the Christian religion? Among the innumerable colleges and universities of the esrth will you nsme me three started by infidels and dow supported by infidel*? Down in your heart ate j you really happy in the position you oecupr antagonistic to the Christian religion? When do you hare the most rapturous views of the next world?" Oo at him with u few inch questions, and he will get *0 red in the face as to uggast apoplexy, and he will look at ] his watch ami *sv he has an engage | turnt and moat go. You will put him in 1 a sweat tkst will beat a Turkish bntli Yeu will put hint on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no time at all. A rrr. yourself, not with arguments, but interrogation ; points, and 1 promise y ou victory . Shall < uch a man aa you. shall such a woman | as you. surrender to one of the meanest spirits that, ever smoked up from 1 the pit.?the dumb devil spoken of iu the text? But then there are occasions when | this particular spirit that Christ oxer- j cited when He said- "! ? . r, . I to come out of him," takes people by 1 the wholesale. In the roost responsive religious audience have you noticed hoy* many people never aing at all? They have a hook, and they haif a voioe, and they knen hon to read. They kuow many of the tune*, sad yet i ar* ailnnt while the fraat raptures of muaio pat* by. Among those who sing not oue out of a hundred aing* loud 1 enough to hear hit own voice. They hum it. They givo a sort of religious ' grunt. They make the lip* go, hut it is j inaudible. With a voire strong enough to stop a street car on* block uti) all I thoy can afford in the praia* of God is ibout half a whisper. With enough j sopranos, enough altos enough bassos to make a small heaven between the four walla they 1st the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of voice i that asoenda from the largest audience ' that ever assembled ought, to be multiplied two thousandfold. But the minister rises and gives out the hymn, the organ begins, the ohoir or precentor leads, the audinuce are standing to that the lungs may have full expan tiou. and a mighty harmony is about to ascend when the evil spirit spoken of in iuy teat?the dumb devil?spreads hia two wings, one over the lips of one half the audience nud the other wing ever the lips of the other half of the audience, aud the voices roll hack into the throa ta from which they started, and ouly here end there anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the holy power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, se he flies away, says: "l could not keep Isaac Watte from writing that hymn, and I could not keep Lowell Mason from composing the tune to which ; it is set, but 1 smote into silence or half silence the Hps from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighborhoods and cities and then mount the \A i il A )veeraw? " n: 1 L % V,.V? ...men*. VJ1VP mf ionp' meter doxology thr full support of Christendom, nnd those four lines would take the whole enrth for C.od. That hymn, "Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing," win suggeMed to Charles Wesley by Peter Ilohler, who, after his conversion, snid: "I had halt er keep silent about it." "No," , aid Wesley, "if you had 10,000 tongueR, you had better use them for : Christ." And then that angel of , hymnologr penned the words: Oh. for a thousand tongues to sing My Jesr Redeemer's praise. The glories of my God and King. Tho triumphs of His gracs! Jesus, the name that calms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; 'TIs music In the sinner's ears, 'TIs life and health and peace. While luuoli of tho modern music is a religious doggerel, a consecrated aousense, s sacred imbecility, I would like to see some great musician of our time lift the baton and marshal "Luther's Judgment Hymn," "Yarmouth," "Dundae," "Ariel," "Rattlestreet," "Uxbridge," "Pleyel's Hymn," "Harwell," "Antloch," "Mouut Pfaguh" and "Coronation," with a few rrgiments of mighty tunes made in our owu time, and storm Asia, Africa and America for the kingdom of Uod. But the first thing to do is to drive out the dumb devil of the text from all our churches. Do not, however, let us lose ourselves in geaeralltiea. Not one of us but has had our lives sometimes touched by tho evil spirit of the text?this awful dumb devil. We had just oaa opportunity of saying a Christian word that night have led a nan or women into a Christian Ufa. Tho opportunity was fairly put before us. The word of invitation ar esaolatioa or warning earns to the Pensions Goloro. It may intorost statisticians and nor-1 haps others to know that the aggrogato amount of money appropriated by eongress for pensions sinoo tho ond of tho Civil war in 1865, plus the amount oarried by tho ponding pension bill for the fiscal yoar 1902, is $2,821,117,426 Another yoar will oarry tho total far boyond tho three billion mark. By the oonsus of 1860 the entire valuation of the 11 southern States afterward oom posing the Confederacy?the true valualion, not assessed, of all property, real i ind personal, in those 11 States?was ' 16,202,166,207.?New York Sun. , \ ? tJr m mi inside gate of the mouth, but thero tt halted. Some hindering power locked the jaws together no thnt the/ did uot oprc. The tongue lay flat and still in the bottom of the mouth hs though struck with paralysis. We were mute. Though God had given us the physiological apparatus for speech and our lungs were filled with nir which by the conamaad of our will could have made the larnygeal muscle* move aud the vocal organs vibrate, we were wickedly and fatal- I 1 y silent. For all time aud eternity we missed our chance, or it was a prayer meating. and the service was thrown open for prayer and remarks, aud there was a dead halt?everything silent as a graveyard at midnigh t. Indeed, it win a graveyard I and midnight. An cnibarraaaing pause took place that out a wet blanknt 1 on nil the meeting. Men. bold enough | on business exchange or in worldly , circles, tihut their eyes an though they were praying in silence, but they t Were not praying ut all. Thcv were busy hoping somebody else would do ( his duty. The women flushed under j the awful pause and made their fans j more rapidly flutter. Home brother, { with no cold, coughed, by that sound ^ trying to All up the time, end the J meeting was slain, lint what Willed H it? The dumb devil. This is the way ( 1 account for the fuct that the stu- s pidest places ea earth are some j prayer meetings. 1 do not see how ^ a man can keep any grace if he regu- ^ larly attends them. They are spirit- j ual refrigerators. Religion kept on ^ ice. JIow many of us have lost occa- ^ sions rf usefulness? In a sculptor's ^ studio stood u figure crt the god Op- , port unity. The sculptor hail made the hair fall down over the faee of the statue so as to completely cover ' It, and there were wings to the feet. 1 When asked why he so represented I Opportunity, the suulptor answered: ; "The face of the statue is thus covered because we do not recognize Op- ' portunity when it comes, and the wings to the feet show tnat Opportu- ' nlty is swiftly gone. 1 But do not let the world deride the I church because of all 1 his, for t he dumb ' devil is just as conspicuous in the world. The great political parties assemble at C the prooer time to build platforms for " the candidates to stand on. A commit- 1 tee of each party is appointed to tnake c the platform. After pronsr delibera- 9 tion, the committees com* in with a ranging report: "Whfreu," and k "Wherean," and "Wlieresi." Pro- ?" nuaoiatneatos all shaped with thr ona 1 idaa of getting thr inoat votes. All ax- i presaiou in regard to thr great moral I vlla of tha country ignored. No rx- V presaien in brhalf of temperate liv- r ing. for that would lose the rote of tha I A liquar traffic. No expression in regard c to the universal attempt at tha denioll- 0 tion of tha Lord's day. No recognition j of God in tha hiitory of nationa, for ^ that would loia thr rot-r of athrista. ( But "Whereas." and "Whereas." aud ^ "Whereaa." Ninr cheers will be given c for the platform. The dumb devil of t tha text put* one wing over one platform aud the other ? inj over the other Q platform. Those great oosventione are opened with prayer by their chap- ^ laina. If they avoided platitude* aud ^ told tha houeat truth in their prayers they would say: "O Lord, we want to be postmasters and copbuIr and foreign ministers and United States district 0 attorneys. For that we are here, and . for that we will strive till the election next November. Give us office, or wo v die. Forever and ever, amen." Tha r world, to say thela as t.isno better than * the ohurch on this subject of silence at 0 the wrong time. In other words, is It 1 net time for Christianity to become ' pronounced and aggressive aa never be- ? fore? Take sides for God and sobriety 0 and righteousness "If the Ixird be h God, follew Hiin." Have you oppor- D tunity of rebuking a ein? Rebuke it. I Have you a chance tooheer a diahear.t- a ened soul? Cheer ft. Have you a use- d ful word to speak? Speak it. a Be out and out, up and down for t righteousness. If your ship ie afloat on the Pacific ocean of God's mercy, e hang out your colora from t>ie n?n?t- u head. Show your pansport, if you 1 have one T>? ^ - ? 1 - ?? jour soul N into the harbor of Heaven. Speak o out for Ood! Clone up ihe ehnpter 1 of lost opportunities and open a new "J ehnpter. Rcfore you get to the door % on yo\ir way out shake hands with J some one and ask him to join you on n the road to Heaven. Do not drive up t to Heaven in a two-wheeled "sulky" , with room only for one, and that , yourself, but get ths biggest (J ok pel ^ wagon you ean find and pile It full { of friends and neighbors and shout till they hoar you all up and down ^ the skies: "Come with us, and wo will do you good, for the Dord hath promised good concerning Israel." g The opportunity for good which you b may consider insignificant may bo o tremendous for results, as when on g the sea C'apt. ITaldano swore at. the t ship's crew with sn oath that wished b them all in perdition, and a Scotch y sailor touohed his cap aad said: 0 "Captain, Ood hears prayer, and wo Q would ho badly off If your wish wore c answered." Capt. Baldane was eon- Q rioted by the sailor's remark and con- n rted and booame the means of the ft salvation of his brother Robert, who ^ had been an infidel, and then Robert q became a minister of the Gospel, and ^ under his ministry the godless Fells ( Neff beeaoao the world-renowned mis- , sionary of the cross, and the worldly Merle d'Aubigne tyoarae the author 8 of "The History fff the Keformation" 1 and will be the glory of the church 0 for all ages. Ferhops you may do P a much as the Scoteh sailor who just 1 tipped his cap and used one broken P sentence by which ths earth and the heavens ara atill resounding with poi.s... v> **-* ? i?ui innusnvin< noin?iainf( tor Ood, and do it right mwmy or jou will n nmr < it at all. 8 S Tim? flit* away fast. r Tha whtlo w? naver rememhar; Haw aeon our Ufa hara B Grow* aid with tha yaar h That 4Uaa with tha naxi Dacemharl f A Bad Teacher. J" o A spcoial from Hnntsville, Ala., says: g "Nowfl roaohod hore tonight of great 'i excitement in Marshall oonnty over a n CR90 of oriminal assault. A white sohool toaobor named Hall, near Guntersville, it is said, oommittea a oriminal assault h upon a 13-year old girl. A mob soonred " the oountry for tho toaoher, but he fell into the hands of officers and this even- A' ing was lodged in jail at Qnnteraville ol A report says hundreds of people have b< gone there from the oonnty intent on breaking into the jail and lynching vi Flail. WORK OK VANDALS. Th? Bumng of CoiumbU by 0*n. . " * 8h?fmnn't A<my i T HiRl Y FIVE YEARS AOO I A Story ft Suffering, Cruelty I Htiri Vandalism .Ornphl* ca'lv Trld by C?pt D. A LDIckert. '] he following is tho sit ry of the Klirr ino nf (Vlnn.Kle in ICyiJfv VI uviouiuiB iu riuiulll)', IOUi>, by 'Jen. Sherman's army as relateu by ] lapt. I). Augustus Dickcrt in his his- * ,ory of "Kerslaws Brigade: ' 1 When She rrnan j ut his mighty ma ! jhitie of war in u ouon Kershaw's brijado wah hurried back to Charleston ind up to George's Station, thon to the nidge on tho Fdifto. Raiding parties vcro out in every dircotion, destroying . jric'g'H and railroads, and as the KUthcrn army 1 a 1 no pontoon corps , ior any methods of crossing the deep, , iluggish streams in their roar 1 ut by ridges, it can b en seen that tho eating of ono bridge alono might bo fatal ,o tho army It wat discovered oarly . n tho march that Sherman did rot in,end to turn to the right or to tho left, 1 iut to continue on a direct lino, with Jolumbta an tho contre of operations A'o were removid from tho Kdisto baok 0 Charleston, and up tho Northwost?rn railroad to St. Stophen's, on tho lanteo. It was feared that a raiding larty from Georgetown would oome up ho Santoo and out tho bridge, thereby solating the army llaideo had in Char(Hion and vioidity. Slowly Shrrnian 'dravped his weary longth along " ()i he 13ih of February tho corps of G jn. tUir reaohed Kingville and drovo cur 1 okcts away from tho bridge over tho ) nga ce. Un the 15th rf February tho advance ioIuiuq of tho Twentieth corps oamo in ightof Columbia. All tho bridges load rg thereto were burned and the south in troops withdrawn to tho eastern ido. Frank Blair's corps left tho road naditiff In (!nlnmhin ?t TlnnL-ino ?n?l ;cpt a diroot lino for Camden An 1 'lor corps, tho Fiftoonth, orosfed the lr)ad at Columbia, whilo tho Four * tenth and Twontioth wcro to oross at t ffcshloy's and Alston. Ordtrt had v eon giveD to cvacuato Charleston, aud 1 11 the troops undor Gon. MoHaws, i i Four Hole Swamp. aud along tho t least wtio to rendtzvtut at S\ Sioph ! n's on tho San'oo, and cither mako a c uuction with tho western auny at r 'hestor, S. C., < r if not possiblo, to o >n \ inuo to Chcslt rfield or Chtrnw. Tho t i'an of tl c campaign was now to on- i ontrate all tho forces of llooo'a Stato t reojsand Hardee's at some point in ( tpptr South Carolina or in North Car- t lina, an 1 mako one more deporato ) t?nd, aid hv united aotion oru-h and t ivcrthrow Shormans army, thereby n clieviDK Leo. c On the n orningot February tho 1G h t he ooomy, without any warning what j ver, begat) shelling tho oily of Coluni o da tilled with wouion aid ofildroo. t Jow it must bo remembered that this k ras n< ? lor the rurposo of crossing the 1 ivor, fjr oco of Sherman's corps had ti iTiauy crossed below tho oity and two t thers above. One shell \ assod through j ho hotel in which Gen. Beauregard t raB at tho tiuio, othors Htruek the * Itato house, while many fell through i ut tho oity Gen. Hampton withdrew h lis small foroe of aavalry early on tho f uorning of the 17th, and the mayor of v ho oily met an officer of tho federal rmy undor a flag of truoo and Ion ,orod him tho surroudtr of tho city, r nd o'aimrd protection ftr its inhabi ? ants. This was promised. All during tho day thousands of tho v ncmy pou'ed into tho city, Gen. Slior ^ ran entciing about midday. G cs y ).ivis' and Williams' oorph crossed tho v laluda and oontinued up on tho wost j rn bank of Broad river, ono crossing ^ 0, tho other 25 miles ab^vc Columbia 'ho pcoplo of Columbia had hopes of I . I .f ? - P peaoeiui occupation oi tho city, but. y uring tho day and along towards ightfall, tho throatoniDg attitude of ? ho Boldiora, thoir ominous words, t brea's of vorgcaroc, were *oo personcut for tiio pco| le to misunderstand y r to expict uieroy. Those signs, j hroats and muttorings wore but tho reludo to that whioh was to follow. n KIRK ALARM i About 9 o'clock tho alarm of tiro was t ivcn and the dread sound of the tiro o oils, mingled with tho 1 urn and roar n f ton thousand voicos and tho (road of n s many troops 1 uriyiog to and fro on S heir ourHod mission, could bo hoard p y tho now thoroughly frightoned pop- v* laoo. Tho people, with blanohed a ountenanocs, sot features, looked in b luto silcnco into the fac s of eaoh oth o r. All know and felt, but dared not ven to thomsolvos to whispor, tho un h listakablc truth. Now anothor alarm, G nothor tiro bell mingles its sound with a ho g? neral ohorus of discord, shouts L f tho soldiory, the frightoned ones d f tho pooplo?y? lis of tho druukon q roops?all a seething, maddening tur- t ulonoo in tho crowded streots. A lurid n laro shoots up abovo tho houao V ops, then tho oraokling and roaring f tho dread dements told but too n ilaidy that tho bountiful city was soon o o bo wrappr d in flames. Tho saok and t dllago ha t begun I o TIIR LOOT OK THK YANKEES. n Fow men being in tho oity, tho wo p ood, with raro heroism, sought to savo s ome little ncoossity of life, only to t eo it struok to tho floor or snatched t rom their hands and scattorod in tho o treots. Horo would bo a lone woman n tugging an infant to her breast, with a n ow strips of clothing hanging on hor t! rim; helpless orphans lugging an old 4 runkorohtst, now containing all they tl ould oall their own?these would bo Datohed away, broken open, oontents o ifled by the drunken soldiers, or if b ot valuablo, trampled under foot. w Soldiers, with axos and hammers, s< ished from house to house, breaking gl i doors, smashing trunks, boxes, bu- tl )aus and robbing them of all that was ei aluable, then leaving the houso in tl ames. Helpless women, screaming lildren, babes in the arms, invalids in ids, jolted and jostled against tho w irging mob?none to help, none to ad- tl se?these defenceless sufferers rush- d< I aimlessly about, their sole purpose tl being to avoid tho Hamcs and seek a rla<?e of safety. The fires originated Drinoipally in the southern section of the city, and aa the tiro ate its way up, the howling throng followed, driving the innocent and helpless ahead. As the night woio on, the drunken poldiern, first made intoxicated by tho wino in private cellars or the liquors in government buildings, now booamo beastly drunk in their glee at the sight nf tho dostruotion they had wrought Tho women and ohi'dron followed tho dark background of that part of tho oity A A ' J _ mi v iiui yoi in names. i no ledcral olftoers, iof-toad of offering asMilanoo or a help ing hand to the ruined and distressed pooplo, addod n suit to iojury hy jo n ing with tho privato soldurs in tho plucdcriog of tho city, insulting tho we 1110o and adding fuol to tl o flame. All night long did the flames rage, leap, and Holt tho clouds as ono Mock :?f buildirgs after another fell?food for ihe dovouring clenientH. Thin drunk n orgio w*h kept up till their oravcu iioarts wcro fully satisfied. A fow iquaros in tho northeastern | art of tho 31 ty wero loft, also several ohurohos, md into theso tho women and el il Iren were hauled and packed, and had o remain for days and houio for woeke, ilmoft ou I ho verge of starvation Tho edoral oomtmndor, through the bi und els diotatcH of his s> mpathetio heart, titer destroying all that fire and rapine lould reach, left tho starving tliousinds a few rations each of the plunder io had robbed of tho planters iti tho lountry. DESTITUTION. No vohioli s or horsos wero left in the iit>'s limits ? tho bridges burned that ed aoross tho river to tho west To ho oast, Blair's1 Corps was laying vasto everything in its pathway, whilo thnve and below tho oity, for a distance if 50 nailos, Sherman had swept the lountry as bare as if a blight had fallen ipon it. How tho poc p'o of Columbia ub istcd dorit g tho time tiny wire itDocd in the oity churches and the cw buildings left, will tver remain a .... " U -- .1 ii/nvvi j, oiiu %.\J IIUUU OU IIIUOIl II1C ufTorcrs thomso'ves. Grains of or ru woro cagorly picked ip in t) c streets as thoy dropped from ho wagons, and tl o women and ohil Iron of tho lo*er class and tho negroes looked to tho decried oatnpa to gathor tp the orumhs left by tho soldiers or he grains trampled under foot of tho lorses. Each house in a strotoh of 50 milo6 vas ontoicd and insults and indignities tiered the dtfocelois women whioh voula havo shamod the savago Turk, ^adies wero forocd to diso'oso at the mint of tho pistol or the sahro, the rdiug (laoeof their little va uables ?omo wero forced to cook meals and vait u|"ou tho ln.ll hounds, whilo thoy cgahd themsolvos upon vho ohoioe nat ds or modicinal wines of the plan era' w^ves. But bo it known to their mmortal honor, that it was only ou ho most rare occasions that the prond lames of the South could, oither bj hroat or brutal treat meut, be forced to icld to thoir insolent demands. With he orders In in the soldiers to "prepare i meal" or 'uisoloso tho whereabouts ?f their money or valuables, oame the hreat, "Wo will burn your house if -ou do rot.', But almost invariably arno tho quiok response, "Burn it urn it, y u otwardly wrotche^, nn'i til 1110, if you wish, ami all of us, but will n vorsoil uy hands by waiting ipon a oiwardly Yankee, nor tell you ho place of oonocalmont- find it if 'ou can." The soldiers would question be negroes to find if thcro wero any yatohos, silver plato. or moncv bolonar ng lo tho household; if bo, they would lyasysttmof irqiesitioo, attempt t) oroe tho women to givo it up, but in 'ain. A ItRAVK WOMAN. A woman, Mrs Miller, tho wife of a minhhor of mine, had her husband's ;old watoh in her bosom, and rofured o give it up when demanded, even phen a cocked pistol wrh at her head Pho vandal rtruok her a stunning blow pith tho butt end of tho pistol ?all in ain. Tho bravo heroine hold to the teirloom, and stoutly resisted all enroatics and threats. Two old pcoplo living near mo, broth r and maidon sister, named Loner, 10th past thrco scoro, were arked to ivo their money. They had none But no of tho ruffians threw a fire undor ho bed, raying: ' I will pi1, it cu' if you wiM toll me phero )on keep your money, yi.u have t, for 1 vo boon so informed.' ' Lot it burn, answertd tho old wo nan "Do you think to frighten or otimida^a mo by burning iny Iiouhc hat 1 will toll what 1 ohoose to ooneal? Do ycu think 1 oaio so much for ny homo and i's bolongirgi? No, o; you mistako tho wonitn of the louth, you will nover oonqucr hor pco do by making war upon dofonoolcss ronien. Lot tho house go up in flames, nd my ashes minglo with its ashes, ut I will remain truo to m>solf, my ountry and my God." Soon all that was left of tho onoe appy homo was a hoap of ashes. Will lod, in His wisdom, over have oauso to gain create suoh women as thoro of bo Southland? Or werothoro cvoroon itions ia tho wold's history that ro uircd tho ptcsoeoo of suoh noblo maryrdom as was displayod by tho wo ion of tho South during tho Civil Var? But a Nomosis in this oaso, as in Daoy others, was lurking noar. Binds f Confodoratos and soouts had soatercd thomsolvos on tho flanks and roir f tho enemy; old men and boys and i cabled votorans wore lying in wait in ?any thiokots and out of tho way ilaoes, ready to pounoo upon tho uauspooting freebooters and givo to them hoir just dosorts. Was it any wonder hat so many hundrods and thousands, f tneso Goths failed to answor toShnolan's last roll oallY Boforo the sun was lany hours older, afior tho burning of ho Lonor homestead, tho dreaded 'bushwhaokers" were on tho trail of ho vandals. For years aftorwards pooplo, from riosity, eamo to look at a heap of ones in a thicket noar, bleaohod by inter s rain and summer's sun, while )me of tho oldor men, pointing to tho bostly relios, would say, "Those aro 10 remains of Sherman,s houscburnrs." And suoh were the soenos from 10 Saltkabatohie to tho U?pe Fear, fho were to bltine? Sherman now direots his maroh toards Winnsboro and Chester, still in 10 four great parole burning and plunering as they go. It socms-that in leir maroh through Georgia they were only whetting tfroir appetites for a full gorge of vandalism in South Carolina. Afio their car n>va! of ruin in Columbia tho Federals, like the tiger, which, with the taste of blood, grows more rav enous, brcuue uioro destructive tho uioro destruction they saw. Great oloudsof blmk smoke rose up over the whole country and darkened the sky overhead, whiloat night tho heavens wore lit up by the glate of tho burning buildings. The ru lroad tracks wore torn up and bridges burned, tho iron being laid aoross heaps of burning tics, theu w hen nt red heat, w< rc wiapped around trees nod telepraph posts?tho?o last th ough pure wantonness, as on ttiujy was >n tnoir rear that oou>u ever use the again. Beware of Oiotnunis for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy thoeoose of suioll and completely deraogo the yy iiuiu Mymcill WD6D entering U tlirOUgtl tho mucous surfaces. 8uoh antioloB should uever ho used except on proscri ptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do 11 ton fold to tho good j ou can possibly dorivo from thorn. Hall's Catarrh Cure, maoufaouturcd by F. .J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O , contains no mercury, and is tiken iDtcrally, acting directly upon the blood aud mucous surfaces of the system In buy ing Hall's Catarrh Cure bo t-uro joueet the gonuino. It in taken internally, And made in To'edo, Ohio, by F. J Cheney & Co. Testimonials fico Sold by Druggists, prieo 75o. per bottlo. Hall's Family Pills are tho bent. Atlantic Coast Line RAILROAD COMPANY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. CONDRNHKI) SOIIRDDI.I Trains Going ''outh. Dated Nov. 19, 1899 No.66* No.?r P.M. A M Leave Wiltuingtou 8:46 Leave Marion.. 0:84 Arrivo Florence 7:16 T PI? -- - - "" " injuTc r luirurc wv:*o "75 91 I Arrive 8uinter 8:67 8 6t No. 6'2 A. M Leave Sumter 8:67 *9 4( Arrive Columbia 10:'20 11 (K No. 6'2 runs through from Charleston vis Central B. It., leaving Charleston 7:00a. m Lanes 8:84 a. ra., Manning 9:09 a tn. Trains Going North. No. 64* No.6? A.M. P. >1 Leave Columbia *9:40 *4 It Arrive Humter 8:06 6 8t No. 8'. P. M Leave Humter *8:06 6 IK Arrive Klorenoe 9:20 7 '21 Leave Klorenoe 9.60 Leave Marion 10:80 Arriva Wilmington 1:16 Daily. >0. 68 runs through to Charleston, 8. (J via Central K. K., arriving at Mauning 9:04 p. in., Lanes 9:48 p. m., Charleston 8:80 p. id Train* on Conway Branch leave Chad bourn 6 86 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p n. returning leave Conway 8 80 a m, arriv< Chailbourn 11 '20 am, leave Chadbouru II 6f a m, arrive Hub 1*2 '26 p m, returning leavt Hub 8 (K) p in, arrive Chadbourn 9 8ft p m Daily except Huuday. J. R. Keuly, Oeueral Manager. T. M Emerson, Tratlio Manager. II. M Emerson. Oeueral Passenger Agent Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. U7. Loavs Hub 8 00 pss Lea to (lions ?... 3*10 pn Arrive Chadbourn t 36 fm ueave UhMlbourn 6 86 pa* Leave Clarradsa ft 00 p? Leave Ml Tabor - 6 16 pat Leave Lorls ~ 6 16 paa Leave Saaford 4 60 pm Leave Bay bore 7 00 pm Lu.ro Privette 7 09 pm Leave Adrian 7 13 pa> Arrive Con ivav 7 40 paa Northbound. ? No. 98. Leave (Jon way 8 SO am Leave Adrian - 8 66 aaa Leave Privette 9 00 am Leave Bayboro 9 10 aai Leave Baa ford 9 20 am Leavo Loris 9S6 paa Leave Ml Tabor 1010 aaa Leave Clarendon 1140 aaa Arrive Chadboura 1130 aaa Leave Cbadbourn 1160 aaa I eave Ilieae 1316 paa Arrive Hub 1346 paa PITTS' ANTISEPTIC INVI60RAT0RI (Jurea La Grippe, dyepepsia, Indigestion and all atomftoh and bowel troubiee, eolio or ohelera morbus, teething troublea with ohildren, kidney troublea, bad blood and all aorta of aoree, riainga or felona, outa and burna. It is as good antiaeptio, when looally applied, a? anything on the market. Try it and you will praiae it to others If your druggist doesn't keep it, WTite to MURRY DRUG COMPANY, hOTJTMftlA. 8. C IVOTIOK. Conwar Ijodre. No. 9ft ?> 1'ythlaa will meet regularly the Urat tad third Thursday nights of each mouth until otherwise ordered. D. A.SriTUT Chan. Com. J. C. Sriva* K. It. A B May 14th, 90. ly WAOOAMAW LINK 8T8A MEM.?The Steamer will leave the wharf at Cea* way every Monday and Wednesday mernlag fer Georgetown at 4 e'cloek, touehlag ell la> teraeediate points; and will leave her wharf at Qeergetowa every Tuesday aad Friday morning for Conway at 4 o'clock, teaching at all intermediate points. D. T. McNeill, Oen'l Agt. and Trees., Conway, 8. 0. Jehn B. Beaty, Agent, Georgetown, 8,0. H. H. WOODWARD, ] Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ) Coif WAT, S. 0. * JVOfloe up stairs over Herald else ( opposite Bank. t DR. H. H. BURROUGHS, ] jbuiua, a. u. j Calla promptly answarad nigh 1 or day. J R. B. Scarborough, \ COXWAY, 8. 0. ATTOBNEY AT LAW. Dr. E. Norton. < U-X.V* . SawMills, Corn Mills, Cane Mills, Bice Hullers, Pea Hullers, Engines, Boilers, Planers and M ateliers, Swing Saws, Rip Saws, and all other kindw of wood working machinery. My Sergeant Log Beam Saw mill is the heaviest, strongest, and most efficient 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: Atlas, Watertown, and Struthers and Wells. V. C. BADEAM, 1320 Main St., Columbia, S. C. THE LEADER INDEED. ThftNawRall RA^rinor . ..V I WMI * WVM1 Domestic Sewing Machine Ii Leads in Workmanship, U< %uty, Capaoity, Htrougth, Light Running. Every Woman Wants One. Attachments, Needles and Parts for Sewing Macljii.es of all makes. When ordering needles eeud sample. Price 27c per detail, postpaid. Agents Wanted in Unooou| i ?d I'crri, torv. J. L. SHULL, 1219 Taylor Street, COLUMBIA, S. C Hard to Beat our Line of Machinery and Mill Supplies. LEADERS: Lane, Chase, liege,^Liddell and High Point saw mills The Murray Cleaning ani Distributing System. f Linden Automatic ami plain Eugines. "Sioux" Oortiss Engines. "Now South" Briok Machinery. Far.juhar Threshers and (Jruin Drills Disston Saws and Files. Peorless Packings, Sevens Sewer Fija. ami Supplies generally. Erie City Engines aud Itoilers Egan Wood working Machinery. "Queen of the South" Grist Mills KeHoy Duplex Feed Milln Dundy Traps and 8toam Specialties Magnolia and Columbia Uabbett Nletala. #f. H. Bibbes & Co., MACHINERY and MILL SUPPLIES 804 Otrrals Street, COLUMBIA. 8. C Murray's Aromatic Mouth Wash Whitens the Teeth Cleanses the Mouth Sweetens the Breath The? Murray Drug Co., COLUMBIA.* C. TKM>B MARK. w- r/9* - t '" OLD NORTH 8TATK OUST MLBNT, the Great Antiseptic Sealer, cures Piles, Eczema, Sore Eyes, Gianulated Eyelids, Carbuncles, Boils, Cnts, Bruisjs, Old Sores, Burns. Corn Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails, Inflammatory Rheumatism/ holies and Pains, Chapped Elands and Lips, Erysipelas, [t Is something everybody leeds. Once used always nsed. Pot sale by all druggists and lealers. At wholesale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. 0.