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Wasuinqton, Oct. 22.—In this dis
course Dr. Talmage employs a very
bold figure of the Bible to bring out
the helpfuluess of religion for all those
In any kind of struggle. The text Is
Isiiiali xxv, 11, "lie shall spread forth
his hands in the midst of them, as he
that swimmeth spreadetb forth his
hands.”
In the summer season multitudes of
people wade Into the ponds and lakes
and rivers and seas to dive or float or
swim. In a world the most of which is
water all men and women should learn
to swim. Some of you have learned
the side stroke Introduced by George
Pewters in IHCiO, eaeli stroke of that
kind carrying the swimmer a distance
of six feet, and some of you may use
the overhand stroke invented by Gar
dener, the expert who by it won the
50b yard championship in Manchester
in 1802, the swimmer by that stroke car
rying his arm In the air for a more
lengthened reach, and some of you
may tread the water as though you
had been made to walk the sea, but
most of you usually take what Is call
ed the breast stroke, placing the hands
with the backs upward, about live
inches under the water, the inside of
the wrists touching the breast, then
pushing the arms forward coincident
with the stroke of the feet struck out
to the greatest width possible, and you
thus unconsciously illustrate the mean
ing of my text, "lie shall spread forth
his hands in the midst of them, as he
that swimmeth spreadetb forth his
hands to swim.”
The i'shernian seeks out unfrequent
ed nooks. You stand all day on the
bank of a river in the broiling sun and
fling out your line and catch nothing,
while an expert angler breaks through
the jungle and goes by the shadow of
the solitary rock and, in a place where
no fisherman has been for ten years,
throws out his line and comes home at
night, his face shining and his basket
full. 1 do not know why we ministers
of tbe gospel need always be lisbing in
the same stream and preaching from
tl.e same texts that other people preach
from. 1 ciiunot understand the policy
of the minister who in Bhickfriars,
London, England, every week for 30
years preached from the Epistle to the
Hebrews. It is an exhilaration to me
when 1 come across a theme which I
feel no one else has treated, and my
text is one of that kind. There are
paths in God's word that tire well beat
en by Christian feet. When men want
to quote Scripture, they quote the old
passages that every one has heard.
When they want a chapter read, they
read a chapter that all the other people
have been reading, so that the church
today is ignorant of three-fourths of
the Bible.
l*iii.li Do tv it Iiiliintty.
You go into tlie Louvre at Baris. Y T ou
confine yourself to one corridor of that
opulent gallery of paintings. As you
come out your friend says to you,
“Did you see that UembrandtV” "No.”
“Did you see that UubeusV" “No.”
"Did you see that Titian?” "No.” "Did
you see that Raphael?” "No.” “Welt,”
says your friend, “then you did not see
tlie Louvre.” Now, my friends, I think
wo are too much apt to confine our
selves to one of the great corridors of
Scripture truth, and so much so that
there is not one person out of a million
who has ever noticed tlie all suggestive
and powerful picture in the words of
my text.
'rids text represents God as a strong
swimmer, striking out to push down
iniquity and save the souls of men.
“lie shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of them, as he that swiimneth
spreadetli forth Ids hands to swim.”
The figure is bold and many sided
Most of you know how to swim. Borne
of you learned it in the city school,
w here this art is taught; some of you
in boyhood, in the river near your'fa
ther's house; some of you, since you
came to manhood or womanhood, while
summering on the beach of the sea. It
is a good thing to know how to swim,
not only for yourself, but because you
will after awhile perhaps have to help
others.
1 do not know anything more stirring
or sublime than to see some man like
Norman McKenzie leaping from the
ship Madras into the sea to save
Charles Turner, who had dropped from
the royal yard while trying to loosen
tin* sail, bringing him back to the deck
amid the huzzas of the passengers and
crew. If a man lias not enthusiasm
enough to cheer In such circumstances,
he deserves himself to drop into the
sea and have no one help him. The
Koynl Humane Society of England was
established In 1771, its object to ap
plaud and reward those who should
pluck up life from the deep. Any one
who lias performed such a deed of dar
ing has till the particulars of that
bravery recorded in a public record
and on Ids breast a medal done In blue
and gold and bronze, anchor and mono
gram and Inscription, telling to future
generations the bravery of tlie man or
woman who saved some one frout
drowning. But if it Is such a worthy
thing to save a body from the deep I
ask you if it is not a worthier thing to
save an Immortal son!. And you shall
see this hour tlie Son of God step forth
for tills achievement. “He shall spread
forth Ids hands In the midst of them,
as In) that swimmeth spreadetli forth
his hands to swim.”
Mon( Iliilcfal Word.
In order to uuderstand the full force
of this llgute, you need to realize that
our race Is in a sinking condition. You
sometimes hear people talking of wont
they consider the most beautiful words
In our language. Oik* mnu says It is
"home,” another tiinu says it Is tho
word "mother,” another says It Is the
word ".Igsns,” but I tell you the bitter
est word in ^11 our language, the word
most angry and baleful, the word sat-
united with the most trouble, the word
that accounts for all the loathsomeness
and tlie pang and tlie outrage and the
harrowing, and that word Is "sin.”
You spell it with three letters, and yet
those three letters describe tliu circuit!-
feren and pierce the diameter of ev
erything bud lu tlie universe. Bln Is a
sibilant word. Yntt cannot pronounce
it without giving the si»s of tlie Hume
or the hiss of the serpent. Bin! And
then If you add three letters to that
word It describes every one of us by
nature—sinner. \Ve have outraged the
law of God, not occasionally, or now
and then, but perpetually. The Bible
declares It. Hark! It thunders two
claps: "The heart Is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked.”
"The soul that slnneth, It shall die.”
What the Bible says our own con
science uft>ms.
After Judge Morgan bad sentenced
Lady Jane Grey to death his conscience
troubled him so much for the deed that
he became insane, and all through his
insanity be kept saying: "Take her
away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take
her away! Lady Jane Grey!” It was
the voice of conscience. And no man
ever does anything wrong, however
great or small, but bis conscience
brings that matter before him, and at
every step of Ids misbehavior It says,
“Wrong, wrong!” Sin is a leprosy; sin
is a paralysis; sin Is a consumption;
sin Is pollution; sin Is death. Give It
a fair chance, and It will swamp you
and me, body, mind and soul, forever.
In this world it only gives a faint Inti
mation of its virulence.,,You see a pa
tient In the first stages of typhoid fe
ver. Tlie cheek is somewhat flushed,
the hands somewhat hot, preceded by
a slight chill. "Why,” you say, "ty
phoid fever does uot seem to be much
of a disease.” But wait until tlie pa
tient has been six weeks under It, and
all his energies have been wrung out,
and he is too weak to lift his little
finger, and his intellect gone, then you
see the full havoc of tlie disease. Now,
sin in this world Is an ailment which
Is only in its first stages, but let It get
under full sway, and It Is an all con
suming typhoid. Oil, if we could see
our uupardoned sins as God sees them,
our teeth would chatter aud our kuees
would knock together, and our respira
tion would be choked, and our heart
would break. If your sins are uuforgiv-
on, they are bearing down on you, and
you are sinking—sinking away from
happiness, sinking away from God,
sinking away from everything that is
good and blessed.
IliKlt Water Marie.
Then what do we want? A swim
mer—a strong swimmer, a swift
swimmer! And, blessed be God, lu my
text we have him announced. “He shall
spread forth his hands In (lie midst of
them, as he that swimmeth stretcheth
forth his hands to swim.” You have
noticed that when a swimmer goes to
rescue any one lie puts off his heavy ap
parel. He must not have any such im
pediment about him If he Is going to do
this great deed. And when Christ step
ped forth to save us he shook off the
sandals of heaven, and his feet were
free, and then he stepped down into
tlie wave of our transgressions, and it
came up over his wounded feet, and It
came above the spear stab in his side
— aye, it dashed to the lacerated tem
ple, the high water mark of anguish.
Then, rising above the flood, "He
stretched forth Ids hands in the midst
of them, as he that swimmeth spread-
eth forth his hands to swim.”
If you have ever watched a swim
mer, you notice that his whole body Is
brought into play. Tlie arms are flex
ed, the hands drive the water back,
the knees are active, the head Is
thrown hack to escape strangulation,
the whole body is It! propulsion. And
when Christ sprang into the deep to
save us he threw ids entire nature into
it- nll Ids godhead, Ids omniscience, his
goodness, ids love, his omnipotence,
head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We
were far out ou the sea and so deep
down in the waves and so far out from
tlie shore that nothing short of an en
tire God could save us. Christ leaped
out for our rescue, saying, "Lo, 1 come
to do thy will!” aud all the surges of
human and satanic hate beat against
him, and those who watched him from
the gates of heaven feared he would
go down under the waves and Instead
of saving others would himself perish;
hut, putting ids breast to tbe foam
and shaking the surf from Ids locks, he
came ou and ou until he Is now within
the reach of every one here, eye om
niscient, heart infinite, arm omnipo
tent, mighty to save, even unto the
uttermost.
Oh, it was uot half a God that tram
pled down bellowing Geuncsuret; It
was not a quarter of a God that mas
tered tlie demons of Gadara; it was not
two-thirds of a God that lifted up Laz
arus into the arms of his overjoyed
sisters; it was uot a fragment of a God
who offered pardon and peace to all
the race. No. This mighty swimmer
threw Ids grandeur, Ids glory, Ids
might, his wisdom. Ids omnipotence
and his eternity into this one act. It
took both hands of God to save us—
holli feet. How do I prove It? On the
cross were not both hands nailed? Ou
the cross were not both feet spiked?
His entire nature involved In our re
demption!
Jesua Alone.
If you have lived much by the wa
ter, you notice also that If any one Is
going out to the rescue of the drown
ing he must he Independent, self reli
ant, able to go alone. There may be
a time when he must spring out to
save one, and he cannot get a lifeboat,
and if he goes out mid has not strength
enough to bear himself up and bear
another up he will sink, and Instead of
dragging ore corpse out of the billows
j’ou will hata two fo drag out. When
Christ sprang out luro the sea to de
liver us, lie had no life buoy. His
Father did not help him. Alonu In the
wine press, alone lu the pang, alone In
the darkness, alone on the mountain,
alone In the sen! Oh, If ho saves us he
shall have all the credit, for "there
was none to help," no oar, no wing, no
ladder! When Nathaniel Lyon fell In
the battle charge In front of his troops,
lie had a whole army to cheer him.
When Marshal Ney sprang into the
contest and plunged In the spurs till
the horse's llnuks spurted blood, all
France applauded him. But Jesus
alone! "Of tlie people there was none
to help." “All forsook him and fled.”
Oh, It was not a fiotlUa that sailed
down and saved us. It was not a clus
ter of gondolas that came over the
wave. It was one person, Independent
and alone, "spreading out his hands
among us as a swimmer spreadetli
forth his hands to swlin!”
Behold, then, the spectacle of a
drowning soul and Christ (lie swim
mer! I believe It was lu 1848 when
there were six English soldiers of the
Fifth fuslleers who were hanging to a
capsized boat—a boat that had been
upset by a squall three mile* from
shore. It was lu the night, but one
man swam mightily for the beach,
guided by the dark mountains that
lifted their top through (ho ulght. lie
came to tbe beach. He found a shore
man that consented to go with him
and save (lie other men. aud they put
out. It was some time before they
could find the place where tho men
were, but after awhile they heard their
cry. "Help, help!" and they bore down
to them, and they saved them and
brought them to shore. Oh, that tills
moment our cry might be lifted long,
loud and shrill till Christ, the swim
mer, shall come and tako us lest we
drop a thousand fathoms under!
Tfc«t tiospel l rui'nt.
If you have beau much by the water,
you know very well that when ouu Is
In peril help must come vary quickly,
or it will be of ue use. One minute
may decide cverythiug. Immediate
help the man wunm or no help at all.
Now, that is just tlie kind of relief we
want. The case Is urgent, Imminent,
Instantaneous. See that soul sinking!
Son of God, lay hold of him. Be quick,
be quick! Oh, 1 wish you all under
stood how urgent this gospel la.
There was a man In the navy at sea
who had been severely whipped for
bud behavior, aud he was maddened
by It and leaped Into the sea, and no
sooner had he leaped Into the sen
than, quick as lightning, an albatross
swooped upon him. The drowning
man, brought to his senses, seized hold
of the albatross and held on. Tbe flut
tering of the bird kept him on the
wave until relief could come. Would
now that tlie dove of God’s convict
ing, converting and saving spirit might
flash from the throne upon your soul
and that you, taking hold of its potent
wing, might live and live forever.
The world has had strong swimmers
besides tbe one of the text, perhaps the
greatest among them Matthew Webb
of the British mercantile marine serv
ice. He leaped from the deck of the
Russia, the Canard steamer, to save
the life of a sailor who had fallen over
board. No wonder the passengers sub
scribed for him a large reward and tbe
Royal Humane Society of London dec
orated him with honors. A mighty
swimmer was he, by the strength of his
own arm and foot pushing through the
waters from Blackwall pier to Graves
end pier, 18 miles, and from Dover to
Calais, JO miles, where he crossed, yet
he was drowned at last In our Ni
agara's whirlpool. But the strong
swimmer of my text put out alone to
swim a wrathier sea and for vaster
distance, even from world to world, to
save us who were swamped In guilt
and woe, and brought us to the shore
of safety, although he at last went
down into the whirlpool of human and
satanic rage. "He descended into hell!”
Not a New Invention.
New modes have been invented for
rescuing a drowning body, but there
lias been no new invention for rescuing
a drowning soul. In 1785 Lionel Lukin,
a Loudon coach builder, fitted up a
Norway yawl as a lifeboat and called
it the Insubmergible, and that has
been Improved upon until from all the
coasts of tlie round world perfect life
boats are ready to put out for the relief
of marine disasters. In Id years the
French Society For Saving Life From
Shipwreck, by their lifeboats and gun
apparatus saved 2,121) lives. The Ger
man Association For the Rescue of
Life From Shipwreck, the Royal Na
tional Lifeboat Institution and our
United State's life saving service
have done a work beyond the power
of statistics to commemorate. What
rocket lines and sling life buoys and
tally boards and mortars and ham
mocks and cork uinttressea and life
saving station* filled with machinery
for saving the bodies of tha drowning!
But let me her# and now make it plain
that there has been no new way In
vented for tbe moral and eteraal res
cue of a struggling soul. Five hundred
attempts at such contrivance have been
made, but all of them dead failures.
Hear It! "There Is none other name
under heaven given among men where
by we must be saved” than tbe uame
of Jesus. The mighty swimmer of my
text comes down off the bench of heav
en and through the breakers, comes
buffeted and bruised, and, reddening
the waves from his own lacerations, he
cries: “Lay hold of my arm! Rut your
head on my shoulder! Hear the beating
of my loving heart! Be ye saved, for I
uni God, and there Is no other!”
I want to persuade you to lay hold
of this stroug swimmer. "No," you
say; "It Is always disastrous for a
drowning man to lay hold of a swim
mer.” There Is not n river or lake but
has a calamity resultant from the fact
that when a strong swimmer went out
to save a sinking man tlie drowning
man clutched him, threw his anus
around him, pinioned his arms, and
they both went down together. When
you are saving a man In the water,
you do not want to come up by his
face. Y'ou want fo come up by his
back. Y’ou do uot want him to hold
you while you take hold of him. But,
blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so
strong a swlrair.er he comes not to our
back, but to our face, and he asks us
to throw around him the arms of our
love and then promises to take us to
the beach, and lie will do It. Do not
trust that plank of good works. Do uot
trust that shivered spar of your own
righteousness. Christ only can give
you safe transportation. Turn your
face upon him, ns the dying martyr
did In olden times when he crlod out:
"None but Christ! None but Christ!”
Jesus has taken millions to the land,
and he Is willing to take yeti there.
Oh, what hardness to thrust him hack
when he has been swimming all the
way from the throne of God. where
you aro now, and Is ready to swim nil
the way back again, taking your re
deemed spirit!
Don’t Slrnitvle.
I have sometimes thought what a
spectacle the ocean bed will present
when In the last day tlie water is nil
drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks
from beach to bench. There Is where
the harpoouers went down. There Is
where the line of battle ships went
down. There Is where tlie merchant
men went down. There Is where the
steamers went down, a long line of
wrecks from bench to bench. What a
spectacle lu the last day, when the
water Is drawn off! But, oh, how
much more solemn If we had an eye
to see the spiritual wrecks and the
places where they foundered! Y’ou
would find thousands along our roads
and streets. Christ came down in their
awful catastrophe, putting out for their
souls, "spreading forth his hands as a
swimmer spreadetb forth Ids hands
to swim,” but they thrust biiu In tbe
^re heart, and they smote bis fair
cheek, and the storm and durkneNA
swallowed them up. I ask you to lay
hold of this Christ and lay hold of him
now. Y’ou will sink without 1dm.
From horizon to horizon not one sail
In sight, only one strong swimmer,
with head flung back and arms out
spread.
'I hear many saying: "Well. I would
like to be a Christian. 1 cm going to
work to become a Christian.” My
brother, you begin wrong. When a
man is drowning and a strong swim
mer comes out to help him, he says to
him: "Now, be quiet. Rut your arm on
my arm or ou my shoulder, but don’t
struggle, don’t try to help yourself, and
I’ll take you ashore. The more you
struggle aud tbe more you try to help
yourself tlie more you impede me.
Now, be quiet, and I’ll take you
ashore.” When Christ, the strong
swimmer, comes out to save a soul,
the siuner says: "That’s right. I am
glad to see Christ, and I am going to
help 1dm in the work of my redemp
tion. 1 am going to pray more, and
that will help him, and 1 am going to
weep extravagantly over my sins, and
that will help him.” No; It will uot.
'Stop your doing. Christ will do all or
none. You cannot lift an ounce, you
cannot move an inch, in tlds matter of
your redemption.
I.ny Hold of Christ.
This is the difficulty which keeps
thousands of souls out of the kingdom
of heaven. It Is because they cannot
consent to let Jesus Christ begin and
complete tlie work of their redemp
tion. “Why,” you say, “then is there
nothing for me to do?” Only one
thing have you to do, and that is to
lay hold 7>f Christ and let him achieve
your salvation and achieve it all. I
do uot know whether I make the mat
ter plaiu or uot. I simply want to
show you that a man cannot save him
self, but that the Almighty Son of
God can do it and will do it if you ask
him. Oh, fling your two arms, the
arm of your trust and the arm of
your love, around this omnipotent
swimmer of the cross!
"Have you ever stood by and seen
some one under process of resuscitation
after long submergence? The strong
swimmer has put him on the beach aft
er a struggle in the waters. To excite
breathing in tlie almost lifeless body
what manipulation, what friction of
the cold limbs, what artificial move
ment of the lungs, what breath of the
rescuer blown into tbe mouth of the
rescued! Aud when breathing begins,
and after awhile the slight respiration
becomes the deep sigh, and the eyes
open, and the blue lips take on a smile,
what rejoicing, what clapping of
hands all up aud down the beach, what
congratulation for the strong swimmer
and for all who helped in the restora
tion, what shouting of “He lives, he
lives!” Like this is tlie gladness when
a soul that has been submerged in sin
and sorrow Is "coming to.” What de
sire on tlie part of all to help, and,
when under the breath of God and un
der the manipulation hy the wounded
hands of Christ, the life eternal of the
soul begins to show itself, all through
the ranks of spectators, terrestrial and
celestial, goes the cry: “lie lives! Re
joice, for the dead is alive again!” May
the living Christ this moment put out
for your rescue, “spreading his hands
in the midst of you, as a swimmer
spreadetb his hands to swi-*!”
GOT HIS DISCHARGE.
THINGS CAME JUST RIGHT FOR THE
NAVAL MACHINIST.
An Incident of n Three Yenrw’ ('mine
on Hie Vennonl XV lileli (iocm (••
Show How SinnII, After Ail. Thin
(treat World of Ourti Kently In.
Several years ago a quiet young
chap shipped as a machinist in the
navy abosn# the receiving ship Ver
mont at the Brooklyn navy yard. He
gave San Francisco as his place of
nativity. He was assigned to a cruiser
about to start for tho China station by
the Suez canal route. He was a crack
mechanic and very soon showed the
engineers that he knew how to earn
his rate and wages. He never said
much about himself. He wasn’t any
thing of what Is called a “inan-o’-war
chaw,” and, although he had been
up and down the world a good deal,
S he let others do tlie talking. He was
j perhaps the quietest man lu the Amur-
j lean navy at the time he served.
His ship got to the Asiatic station
| all right and cruised back and forth
I there between China and Japan for
i close on to three years. Then she was
I ordered hack to the United States.
| She had a lot of “overtime” men
[ aboard of her by that time, sailors
whose time had expired, but who pre
ferred to wait until they reached the
United States before they took their
j discharges. When the ship was or
dered back home, a lot of overtime
men from other ships on tlie Asiatic
station were sent to her to be brought
back to this country.
This machinist—call him Beall—had
just 21 days left of his three year en
listment wlien the ship left Yokohama
for San Francisco via the Hawaiian
Islands. All of the overtime men
were talking about their trip around
from San Francisco to New York by
passenger steamer. They had all ship-
lied at the Brooklyn navy yard, and
the navy always sends men to the
point whence it takes them when they
enlist unless they “waive transporta
tion” for the purpose of stopping oil’
at an intermediary point.
It took the ship 1! days to “fetch up”
Honolulu from Yokohama, and then
Beall, the machinist, had live days yet
to serve.
“Are you going to waive transporta-
The Place *o
Buy year Fresh Meal:
ill L. W. MeUninn'.-i up-nufUn iii.-ut
1 marki .. tlio only market run In city style.
I alwiys lie vi fine hi i f, Pork. Miition,
Sausa/i: and I isii; a Is j ( ountl v Pl<vliice Hlid
' Poultry when they can lx* (rotten. Fancy
j Gro 'i t ii **. < i. ir- and Tob.n'i ■
('nine, ol rail phone No. tilt. IhirneM block.
Good fat rattle and _"’ecn hides wanti<1:
wlU-puy spot r. »h for t hem.
Respect fell y
L. W.
S. C. Si G. E. R. R. CO.
Schedule No. j.
In Eflect 12:01 A. M.. Sunday, October, 1st, 1899
Between Camden. S. C.. end Blacksburg, S. C.
i: \sri.ttN miK.
STATIONS.
Sunday,
r. m.
Except
Sunday.
tion and drop <
are you going
The Conversion of Chinn,
William Elliott Gritlis, a writer on
Chinese mutters, says: “If Christian
missions in China advance in tlie next
35 years In the same ratio as in the
past 35 years, there will be at the end
of that time 26,000,000 of communi
cants and a Christ ;n community of
100,(XX),000 people, one-fourth of the
Chinese nation.”
A Conpr Servlet*.
In romote parts of Scotland tlie old
Covenanters’ love for long services on
the bare hillside still lingers. At Ding
wall a recent communion service In tiie
open air lasted from 10 a. in. until 4 p.
io. without exhausting the staying pow
er of the congregation.
The Limestone Slur.
Tho young ladies wlio edit the
Limestone Star are nothing if not
progressive. They have issued the
following circular to the former stu
dents of tlie college:
To Alumnae and former students of
Limestone:
The “LimestoneStar” hasjust risen
upon the literary world, and to each
old student of Limestone into whose
home it sheds its beams this month
tiie editors send loving greeting. A’e
hope you will feel the need of its
light each month. We have chosen
the name advisedly, for Limcsone is
a place which fosters lofty aspira
tions. The “Star” is to scintillate
with the wit and wisdom of its con
tributors, and the sentiments ex
pressed are to lift our minds above
tho dross of earth to the starry
heights of tho literary world. All of
us who have studied at Limestone
and have gone away know how
eagerly wo glean every item of news
about the ohl girls and how much we
are interested in all that pertains to
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with your Alma Muter. The paper
will be a bond of union between us
and those who are absent- Every
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read it many pleasant memories of
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to our business manager to be entered
on the subscription list? Wo feel
that you are ready to encourage us
in any worthy uuderlaking and we
shall feel disappointed if even one
old student is not numbered among
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V’ery truly yours,
Vikgixia Bates,
Annuo May Martin,
Violet Mookeiieai*,
Agnes Littlejohn,
Sl'HtE Dukst,
The Editors.
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with us?” the men asked him when tlie
ship pulled into Honolulu.
“Don’t know yet,” the machinist re
plied.
After coaling at Honolulu—which
took four days, done leisurely—the
skipper of the ship decided to take a
bit of a run around tlie Hawaiian Is
lands before up anchoring for San
Francisco. Beall's time expired on the
morning that his ship was headed for
Lahnina, on the island of Maui, a lit
tle sail of about 85 miles from Hono
lulu. The ship dropped her anchor
within about 300 yards of the Lahaina
beach along toward 3 o’clock in the
I afternoon.
The Island of Maul is very beautiful
to look upon—a veritable gem of the
ocean. If swell a one was ever fashiou-
| ed by tho hand of the creator. Beall,
j the machinist, was off watch and
standing on tlie toVallant fo’c’sle,
' smoking his pipe, when the ship cast
j her anchor off Lahaina. There was
some longing in his quiet gray eyes.
He knocked the ashes out of his pipe,
stretched ids arms and then walked
down to the mainmast ami told the of
ficer of the deck that lie wanted to see
the commanding officer. The command
ing officer came out of his cabin.
“What is it, my man?" he asked the
machinist.
“My time Is out, sir.” said the ma
chinist. "I guess I’ll take my dis
charge here.”
The commanding officer looked sur
prised.
"This Is rather a queer notion,” he
said. “Y’ou shipped in New Y’ork, did
you not? I should think you would
want to get back to the United States
after your three years on the China
station. Or, at any rate, that you
would prefer to wait until we get back
to Honolulu, if you want to waive
transportation mid take your discharge
down here among the islands. Why do
you want your discharge today aud
here?”
The machinist smiled as he replied:
"Because this island here, Maui, Is
my home. At this moment my father
and mother and seven brothers aud
sisters are on this island. They are at
a place not very far from Lahaina, call
ed Spreckeisville. The girl that 1 am
going to marry is also there. I was
fiorn in Frisco, but my father came
down to lids Island as engineer of a
sugar plantation when I was 2 years
old. None of them know that 1 am
within just a few miles of home now.
I want to give them a little surprise.
1 waive transportation, aud I’ll tako
my discharge now.”
The commanding officer listened to
the recital with interest.*
“Of course we’ll give you your dis
charge, son,” he said, “although I’m
sorry to lose you, ami I had hoped you
might ship over. Close mouthed men
are wanted in tin* navy. You owe us
some thanks, 1 think, for starting you
off at New York, taking you around
the world for three years and then
fetching you up within an hour or so
of your home on the very day your
time is out. To all intents and pur
poses, we have been a yacht for you.”
It was rather a remarkable happen
ing for a fact. The machinist packed
Ids tilings and went over the side, amid
the pleasant salutations of the men,
about two hours later, with Ids bag
mid hammock and a couple of thou
sand dollars in gold, his savings dur
ing the cruise. A couple of hours later
he was with Ills people and his sweet-.
h(*nrt in Spreckeis ville. it is u small
world.— Washington Star.
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1 C«c<lctis«!l Srli».iIiito of Tatsen^ep Train*.
In Effect June llth, 1300.
Ven.
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ilenuty la Blood Deep.
Clcfin blood means a clean skin. No
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tic clean your hlood and keep it clean, by
-tining up the lazy liver and diiving all im-
jiuritie* from the bodv. Begin to day to
Inni'-h pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and timt sickly liilious complexion by taking
Was the result of ins iplondid I Cascarets,—beauty for tenants. Alldrtn-
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Business Manager.
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They develop every power of brain
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get a I :’i e sainplg
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edy ul tlie ;>go,
Ar Atlanta, C. T.I 3 lu
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Chesapeake! Linn iS'eaniera in daily aervio*
between Norfolk mid Hu tinioru.
Nos. 87 nnd its—Daily. \\ ashuiuton and South-
western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullmaa
sleeping ears betwiMju Now York ami New oi
lcans. vm Washington, Atlanta and Montp on
ery, and also ts-fween Now Y’ork and Memphis,
viuW.ishini'ton.Atlantaand Binuin^liuin. Als4
*l<imnt PULLMAN LiHHAKY UBSICRV.V
TION CAR8 tjotwemi Atlanta nml Now 3'ork.
Ptrst Ths« thoroughfare coaches between Wa.-h*
inKloiiaml Atlanta. Dinlnirearx nerveaU meitll
on route. Pullman dinwinit-rooc: slroiiluKeuri
between Gtei'iislioro and Norfolk Close con
nection at Norfolk forOLD POINT COM POUT.
Nos. 35 and 8ii—United Hatoa Fast Mail
runs solid be*wrHti Washington and New Or
ion.is, \ in Southern Hallway, A. Ac W. P. K. 1L
■ml L. A X. It. Ji., being coiniHMod of huggaif*
car and conches, through without change fof
) iisseugers of all classes. Pullman drawing
room sleeping ears lietweeu New Y’ork ana
New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery nod
between Charlot’e ami Birmingham Alss
} ullmnn Drawing Itooiu Buffet Sleeping Cart
1 etwe.ui Atlanta nnd Asheville. N.C. I.eavim
Wii-hington rneh Tuesday nnd Friday, a
tourist sleeiting ear will rmi through beiweea
Wnshingti .i amt San Francisco without ahang*
Dining ears serve ail meals *nrout«
N'ti 11,3.1. 84 and 12 Pullnmn nb-enfirg car*
be! a oen Richmond and • ’h t rlo tr, vl i llaii villix
Mtuihhounl Nos. 11 aud tsi, noiThUmnd Xus.
b4 uml 13
FRANK S. HANNON, J. M CULP,
Third V P. & Hen Mgr., Traffic MVr.
\Viistdugton, D. O. Washington, D. CL
W A TURK. b. H H ARDWICK,
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