Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspapef in the Frith Congressional District of S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY ACT) FRIDAY. . . wfe The ReH»billt]| tiser Who umns of This A Newspaper in all that th^ ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. GAFFNEY, S. C. ( FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1901. 81.50 A YEAR, MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY D. Captain J. Q. Carpenters Com pany of S. C. Volunteers. A LIST OF CASUALTIES. Itflil atvrn 111 Hope, That IU Publication Will Secure Correct Cut of Canualtlea A Favorite Frcacher—Fenonal and Locals. (Correspondenc, of The Ledger.) Etta Jane. May 21.—We know of notiiiig more interesting that we Name Rank Enlistment J Q Carpenter Captain April 13, 1861 FJ Latham 1st Lieut April 13, 1861 (Detached service on General’s staff) can give our’ readers than tfee original muster roll of Captain J. Q. Carpenter’s Company (D.) 5th Regi ment (3rd brigade) S. C. Volunteers commanded by Colonel Micah Jen kins, together with the rank, time and place of enlistment of each man. This roll Is a duplicate of the original company roll now in poases- sion of Capt. J. W. McLure, of Union, who so kindly sent it to me to copy. We hope that the publica tion of (hia roll will be the means of securing an absolutely correct list of the casualties in the company which is now becoming euch an important part of our country’s history. Here it is hi full, casualties are masked in parenthesis: Date of Place of Enlistment. Limestone Springs, 8. 0. Limestone Springs, 8. 0. 2nd Lieut 3rd Leiut 1st Sergt 2nd Sergt 3rd Sergt 4th Sergt 5th Sergt 1st Captain 2nd Captain 3rd Captain 4th Captain 5lh Captain 6th Captain Surgeon Private June 4 1861 April 13 1861 June 4 1861 April 13 1861 J W McLure 8 8 Robs J Banks Lyle Win T Morris A A Sarratt W.T Littlejohn Wm A Lipscomb W 1$ Lemmons J J Camp Robt M Gaffney Wm A Price Wm R Rowland Pinckney Uouner T E Nott J W Alexander W 8 Alexander D M Allison J L Ailison J C Blanton John Blanton 8 D Blanton Thomas Blanton -'B F Bonner Ed Bonner G W Bonner Wm Bridges ^liver Bright MEan Byars E Camp ^ugustus Colbert T Colbert J Cline B Collins J P Collins J M Coyle M T Davis Wm R Davis A C Foster Charles J Fowler G B Fowler (Fransfered to Co. E. Cspt. Glenn) T E Gaffney J J Goforth P Goforth J A Goudelock “ “ £(dipd in hospital Charlottesville, Va. Aug. 4 1861) Orangeburg, S. C. Limestone Springs, S.C. Orangeburg, 8. C Limestone Springs, S. C. Genersl R. R. Hemphill, of the Abbey A'JVedium. and also clerk of the StateMnafe, has our thaoks for a very intereetiog sketch he baa written of Nfcpoleon, also for a joke he telle on the Rocky Creek Irish of Chester county. In speaking of tha last General Assembly meeting on January 8, the 86th anniveraary of the battle of New Orleans, he goes on to say: “The battle was fought after a treaty of peace bad beau made be tween England and America. There were no telegraph lines in those days and naws traveled slowly. A treaty of peace had been agreed upon at Ghent, December 24th 1814, or fifteen days before the great battle, but the news bad not reached General Jack- son. Gen. Jackson bad some negro troops under him and expressed eat- isfactlon at their conduct. Geo. Packeoham commanded the British army and waa killed, htTlng been shot twice. He was a brother-in- law of the Duke of Wellington and fought with him against Napoleon in the Peninsular War. Hia body was placed io a hogshead of rum to pre serve until it reached England. It was started on the way, but some how was diverted from the proper route and at last reached a store near Blackstocks, Chester county, South Carolina, where the rum waa sold out in the regular course of business. Packenbam’s body was not found in the hogshead until the rum was all gone. From that day the Rocky Creek Irish turned against rum and the few who drink at all always take whisky straight.” It was our 'pleasure to form the acquaintance of General Hemphill et the Columbia ra-uniou, and we find him an eocyclopaedia.of valuable information, a scholar in every sense of the word and a gentleman of the old school of South Carolina. J. L. B. THE VELVET BEAN. * June 4 1861 April 13 1861 Orangeburg, 8. C. Limestone Springs, 8. C. Private II L A Goudelock J W Harris Rice Harris “ W G Holmes ** J M Humphries ” Jas Huskey “ Wm li H James “ R M Jolly Jonas Kirby ** Jeff Lavender* “ Will A Little (killed in battle July 21 1861) Private April 13 1861 Limsestone Springe, 8. 0. • t 44 14 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 M Lipscomb 8 Lipscomb Jas A Littlejohn N R Littlejohn 8 L Lockhart E B Logan J E Love J) L Maberry Harvey Mayberry R F Montgomery W D McPherson M C McCombs A Morgan E C Mitchell M G Peeler W L Perry John Porter H Ramsey A C Robbs A A Ross T 0 Ssrrstt I G Sarratt Jno M Sarratt O C Sarratt D E Scruggs W W Shipp/ E C Smith , W R Stacy D W Tate R M Tolleson R G Taylor P Thrift G W Vassey J T Vassey R S Webb (wounded in battle July 21 1861) April 13 1861 Limestone Spriogs, 8. C. 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 • 4 44 • 4 4 4 May 25 1861 April 13 1861 June 18 April 13 1861 May 25 1861 April 13 1861 44 44 44 May 25 1861 April 13 1861 44 44 44 44 44 4 * 44 Sullivans Island. 8. C. Limestone Springe, 8. C. 44 41 Richmoud, Va. Limestone Spriogs, 8. C. Sullivans Island, 8. C. Limestone Springs, 8.0. 44 44 44 44 44 Sullivans Island, 8. C. Limestone Springs, S. C. 44 44 • 4 44 44 44 J C Winsmith GT Wood A M Latham 44 44 May 25 1861 April 13 1861 Sullivans Island, 8. 0. Limestone Springs, 8. C. & r It will be noticed that the casual ties noted were those which took place right at the beginning of the war. When they are all in the list will nresent quite a different aspect The list, we hope, will be re vised by the survivors who can and feel an inclination to do so. Last Sabbstb our better half with ourseif attended sacramental meet ing at Hickory Grove Presbyterian church. Farmers are rejoicing over the season in tbe ground and tbe pros pects of a stand of both corn and cot ton, though a good deal of tbe former Is yet to plant. Oats are doing well. Tbe rain will make tbe early sown. Last Tuesday night some of the boys attended the entertainment at the Broad river academy on tbe York tide where Miss Flemming has been teaching, and they report a pleasant time. Next Friday night they are invited to a similar occasion at the Mt. Joy school in Union county where the accomplished Miss Mary Lee Hardin, of Chester, has been teaching this and last year. During the Memphis re-union tbe South Carolina Sponsors will occupy rooms st the Peabody hotel in that ity and Msjor Geo. 0, X, Wilker will live in bis private car at the Southern Railway depot and have bla business headquarters at tha Confed erate Hall, where the State Division will hold ite meeting. Mre. Mary Walker, of Bannyeide, we regret to learn, la vary sick, .but hope she will soon recover. Several of our farmers are eowin millet seed, the German variety, is said to be the most prolific forage crop our farmers can raise. Rev. 8. T. Creech did not preach at Mesopotamia last Sabbath. He has been spending a week io Lanreos where be baa been helping Rev. J. T. Fowler in a revival meeting. Wo hope to hear a good report from bit labors. If they want plain preach ing be is the man to give it to them, and be will be careful to call things by tha right name too. Of all tbe eminent men In the wonr, we don’t know of a single one who I greater adaptation to svsngeleetle work than Rev. Mr. Creech has, and it strikes os that ha ia * tha man to stir np oommonltiae Io whleb be labors. He Is a favorite with all denominations. He Is liberal In hia religions viewr. He is not a spiritual dwarf as so many are that they can see no good In anything except their obureh ind ite orted. A Planter* Experience With It in Tbia Sec tion. Mk. Editor:—I have seen some thing in the Carolina Spartan concer- ing the velvet bean again. Now Mr. Editor, I will say for tbe benefit of tbe farmers in this country, that I have tried the velvet bean and I find it will not suit this country as it ia too high up, or tbe climate does not suit tbe beau. Last year I sent and got some of tbe beans and gave them a fair trial, I prepared the land as I was directed to do, and still I made a failure. As to tbe vine, they will make all tbe vine yon want, bat tbe bean will not mature. Whoever tries the beau may depend on baying hie seed every year. I see that Mr. Kalins 0. Yarn thinks that tbe velvet bean will take the place of the old cornfield and whipporwill peas, but I beg to differ with him. I think the "old-fashion” peas suit this country tbe best, though I am williug to try aoy other that may apriog op. But I have □ever found anything that will equal or beat the old cow peas for improve- ing land. In 1897 I sowed eight acres of land in wheat sod made tbirty-aix sod a half boats 1 *. I followed it with peas In 1898 and made fifty-two bushels. I need it for peas agaio, and In 1899 I made sixty-six and a half bnibeis. In 1900 I made 108$ bushels on tbe same land. 8o yon see that the peas and the vines brooght the land up very fast. This year I have tbe same eight acres in cotton, and I want eight begs from tbe same land I raised the wheat on. 1 have taken seven more acres sod have It in wheat this year. I expect to follow this with peas for four years, sod my neighbors can apeak for the hi 1 tnee. T. C. I wt. y. This Will lateraa* Mmmj. To qnickly introduce B. B. B. (Bo tanic Blood Balm), the famous South ern blood cure, ioto new homes, we will tend, absolutely free, 10,000 trial treatmeota. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) quickly cures old ulcers, scrofula, eczema, Itching akin and blood humors, cancer, eating, festering sores, boils, carbuncles, pimple* or offensive eruptions, pains in bones or joint*, rheumatism, ca tarrh, or aoy blood or skin trouble. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) heals every sore or ■pimple,' makes the blood pore and rich and stop* all aches and pains. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) thoroughly tasted for 30 years in hospital and private prac tice, and has cured thouaaods of eases given up ae hopeless. Sold at drug stores, $1 per large bottle. For free treatment write to Blood Balm Go., Atlanta, Ga. Medicina sent atones, prepaid. Describe trouble and free medical advice given. Ebtanlc Blood Balm (B. B. B.) gives nfe, vigor and strength to tbe blood. The finest Blood Furifier made. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) gives a healthy Blood •apply to tbe skin sod entire system. To hit the nail on the bead does not make near so much impression as to hit tbe nail on tbe thumb. A woman who has bad experience with tbii disease, tell how to prevent any dangerous consequences from it. She says: Our three children took whooping cough last summer, oar baby boy beiog only three months old, and owing to oar giving them Chamberlain’• Gough Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness and came oat in much better health than other children whose parents did not nse this (remedy. Our oldest little girl w)uld call lustily for ooogb •jrup between wboope.—Jessie Pinkcy Hall. Bprlngville, Ala. This Remedy it for ttlt by Cherokat Drug Go. Washington, May 19.—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is in accord with all Innocent hilarities, while it reprehends amusements that belittle and deprave; text, II Samuel ii, 14, “Let the yonng men now arise and play before us.” There are two armies encamped by tbe pool of Gibeon. Tbe time bangs heavily on their bands. One army pro poses a game of sword fencing. Noth ing could be more healthful and inno cent. Tbe other army accepts the chal lenge. Twelve men against 12 men, the sport opens. But something went adversely. Perhaps one of the swords men got an unlucky clip or in some way bad his ire aroused and that which opened in sportfulness ended in violence, each one taking his contestant by tbe hair and then with tbe sword thrusting him in tbe side, so that that which opened in Innocent fun ended in tbe massacre of all tbe 24 sportsmen. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then and is true now— that that which is innocent may be made destructive? Wbst of a worldly nature is more im portant and strengthening and inno cent than amusement, and yet what has counted more victims? I have no sympathy with a straitjacket religion. This is a very bright world to me, and I propose to do all I can to make It bright for others. I never could keep step to a dead march. A book years ago Issued says that a Christian man has a right to some amusements. For Instance, if he comes home at night weary from j^s work and, feeling tbe need of recreation, pats on his slip pers and goes into bis garret and walks lively round tbe floor several times there can be no barm in it I believe tbe church of God has made a great mistake In trying to suppress tbe sport fulness of youth and drive oat from men tbeir love of amusement If God >ver implanted anything in us, he im planted this desire. But instead of pro viding for this demand of our nature tbe church of God has for tbe main part iguored it As In a riot tbe mayor plants a battery at tbe end of the street and has it fired off so that ev erything is cut down that happens to stand In the range, the good as well aa tbe bad, so there are men In the church who plant their batteries of condemna tion and fire away indiscriminately. Everything is condemned. But Paul tbe apostle commends those who use the world without abasing It, and in tbe natural world God has done every thing to pleaae and amuse ns. £▼11* of Corrwpt Atw—to. And I am glad to know that in all our cities there are plenty of places where we may find elevated moral en tertainment But all honest men and good women will agree with me In tbe ' statement tbst one of the worst things In these cities is corrupt amuiement Multitudes bare gone down under tbe blasting Influence, never to rise. If we may judge of ^hat is going on to many of the places of amusement by the pic tures od board fences and In many of tbe show windows, there is not a much lower depth of profligacy to reach. At Naples, Italy, they keep sack pictures locked up from indiscriminate Inspec tion. Those pictures were exhumed from Pompeii and are not fit for public gaze. If tbe effrontery of bad places of amusement in hanging out Improper advertisements of what they are doing night by night grows worse in tbe same proportion, la 60 years some of our modem cities wUl best Pompeii. I project criMtia principles by which you may judgiln regard to any amuse ment or recreation, finding out for yourself whether It la right or wrong. I remark) in tbe first place, that you can judge of tbe moral character of any amusement by Ite healthful result or by Its baleful reaction. There are people wbo seem made np of hard facts. They ere n combination of mul tiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an exquisite picture, they will begin to discuss the pigments In volved In the coloring. If yon show them a beautiful rase, they will sub mit it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post mortem examination of a flower. They have no rebound In their nature They never do anything more than smite. There are no great tides of feeling surging op from tbe depths of tbelr soul to billow after billow of re verberating laughter. They see® as if nature bad built them by contract and made a bungling job of It But blessed be God, there are people to the world who have bright faces and whose life is a song, an anthem, n paean of vic tory. Now, It ia these exbilarant and sym pathetic and warm hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amuse ments. In proportion as a ship is swift It wants n strong helmsman, In propor tion as a horse to gay it wants a stout driver, and these people of exuberant nature will do well to look at tbe reac tion of all tbelr amusement*. If an amoseucot sends yon home at night nervous, so that you cannot sleep, and you rise up to tbe morning not because yon are slept out but because your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a man next day to his work with bis eyes bloodshot yawning, stopld, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amnaement They are entertainmenis that give a man dtegust with tbe drudg ery of life, with tools because they are not sword*-with working aprons be- can## ttof pt^BOt.rrtfVWlU caWf because they arc not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends you home lousing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that takes poiiiou aud shoots itself, moonlight ad vent uies and hairbreadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are tbe sacrificed victim of unsanclified pleas ure. Our recreations are intended to build us up, and if tbey pull us down OS to our moral or os to our physical strength you may come to tbe conclu sion that tbey are obnoxious. * Depravlne Inflnenee*. There is nothing more depraving than attendance upon amusements that are full of innuendo and low suggestion. The young man enters. At first he sits far back, with his bat on and his coat collar up, fearful that somebody there may know him. Several nights pass on. He takes off his hat earlier and puts liis coat collar down. The blush that first came into ids cheek when anything indecent was enacted comes no more to his check. Farewell, young maul You have probably started on the long road which ends in consum mate destruction. The stars of hope will go out one by one until you will be left in utter darkness. Hear you not the rush of the maelstrom, iu whose outer ciacle your boat now dances, mak ing merry with tlm whirling waters? But you are being drawn in, and the -gentle motion will become terrific agi tation. You cry for help in vaiu; you pull at the oar to put back, but the struggle will not avail. You will be tossed and dashed and shipwrecked aud swallowed in the tvldrlpool that has already crushed in lis wrath 10,000 bulks. Young men who have come from the country residence to city resi dence will do well to be on guard and let no one Induce them to places of Im proper amusement. It is mightily al- luriug when u young man. long a citi zen, offers to show a newcomer alt around.' Still further, those amusements are wrong which lead you into expenditure beyond your means. Money speut in recreation is not thrown away. It ia all folly for us to come from a place of amusement feeliug that we have wast ed our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction that yielded you hundreds or thousands of dollars. But how many properties have lK*en riddled by costly amusements. Tbe first time 1 ever saw tie city—It was the city of Philadelphia—1 was a mere lad. 1 stopped at a hotel, and L remember in the eventide one of these men plied me with bis infernal art. He saw I was green. He wanted to show me the sights of tbe town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like efiterald. but I was afraid of him. L shoved back from tbe basilisk—I made up my mind be was a basilisk. 1 re member bow be wheeled his chair round io frout of me and with a con centered and diabolical effort attempt ed to destroy my soul, but there were good angels in tbe air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but It was tbe ail encompassing grace of a good God that delivered me. Be ware, beware, O young man! “There Is a way that seemetb right unto a man, but the end thereof is death.” Woes ol latemperanee. The table lias been robbed to pay tbe club. The champagne has cheated tbe children's wardrobe. Tbe carousing party has burned up the boy’s primer, Tbe tablecloth of the corner saloou Is In debt to the wife's faded dress. Ex cursions that In a day make u tour around a whole month’s wages, iodiea whose lifetime business It is to “go shopping,” large bets on horses, have tbeir counterparts iu uneducated chil dren. bankruptcies that shock the mon ey market and appall the church aud that send drunkenness staggering across the richly figured carpet of tbe mansion and dashing Into the mirror and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sous come home to break tbeir old,mother’s heart. I saw a beautiful home where tbe bell rang violently late at night. Tbe sou bad been off in sinful Indulgences. His comrades were bringing him home. They carried him to the door. They rang tbe bell at I o'clock Iu the morn ing. Father and mother came down. They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the comrades, as soon as the door was opened, threw tbe prod igal headlong Into the doorway, crying: “Tliere he is. drunk as a fool. Ha. ha!” When men go into amusements that they cannot afford, they steal what they cannot borrow. First they go Into embarrassment and then into lying and then Into theft, aud when a man gets ns far on as that lie does not stop short of the penitentiary. There Is not a prison io Hie laud where there are not victims of uusnnctified amusements. Merchants. Is there a disarrangement in your accounts? is there a leakage In yotir money drawer? Did not the cash account come out right last night? i will tell you. There is n young nmn in your store wandering off into had ainusemeuts. The salary you give him may meet lawful expenditure*, but uot the sinful indulgences iu which be has entered, sod be takes by theft that which you do uot give him io lawful salary. How brightly the path of unrestralu- ed amusement opens! The young man says: “Now I am off for a good time. Never tnlud economy. 1*11 get money souteliow. What a fine road! What a beautiful day for a ridel Crack tbe whip, and over the turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses! Drink I Long life, health, plenty of rides Just like this!” Hardworking men hear the clatter of tbe hoofs and look up aud say: “Why, 1 wonder where those fel lows get their money from? We have to toil and drudge. They do uotbing.” To these gay men life Is a thrill and an excitement They stare at other peo ple and In turn are stared at. The watch chain jingles; the cup foatne; U»« cbeefct flusir tha tys# Otiti; tbe midnight hears their guffaw; they swagger; they jostle decent men off the sidewalk; they take the name of God In vain; they parody the hymn they learned at their mother’s knee, and to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out, “Who cares?’’ and to the counsel of some Christian friend, "Who are you?” Passing along the street some night, you hear a shriek in a grogshop, the rattle of the watchman's club, the rush of the police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grogshop fight. Carry him home to his father’s house. Par ents will come down and wash bis wounds and close his eyes in death. They forgive him all he ever did, al though be cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy and push back from the bloated brow tbe long locks that were once her pride, aud the air will be rent with the agony. The great dramatist says, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” Healthful Recreation. I go further and say those are un christian amusements which become the chief business of a man's life. Life is an earnest thing. Whether we were born In a palace or hovel, whethir we are aflluent «r pinched, we have to work. If you do uot sweat with toil, you will sweat with disease. You have a soul that is to be transfigured amid tbe pomp of a judgment day, and after the sea has sung its last chant aud the mountain shall have come down In an avalanche of rock you will live and think and act, high on a throne where seraphs sing or deep in a dungeon where demons howl. In a world where there is so much to do for ourselves and so much to do for others God pity that man who has nothing to do. Your sports are merely means to an end. Tbey are alleviations and helps. The arm of toil is the only arm strong enough to bring up tbe bucket out of the deep well of pleasure. Amusement is the only bower where business and philanthropy rest while on tbeir way to stirring achievements. Amusements are merely the vines that grow about the anvil of toil and the blossoming of tbe hammers. Alas for the man wbo spends bis life in laboriously doing nothing, his days In hunting up loung ing places and loungers, bis nights in seeking out some gasliglited foolery! Tbe man wbo always has on his sport ing jacket, ready to bunt for game in the mountain or fish In the brook, with no time to pray or work or read, is not so well off as tbe greyhound that runs by bis side or the fly bait with which he whips the stream. A man who does not work does not know bow to play. If God had intended us to do nothing but laugh, he would not have given us shoulders with which to lift and bauds with which to work and brains with which to think. Tbe amusements of life are merely tbe orchestra playing while the great trag edy of life plunges through its five acts—infancy, childhood, manhood, old age and death. Then exit tbe lost earthly opportunity. Enter the over whelming realities of au eternal world! I go farther and say that all those amusements are wrong which lead into bad company. If you go to any place where you have to associate with the intemperate, with the unclean, with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in tbe name of God quit it They will despoil your nature. They will undermine your moral character, They will drop you when you are de stroyed. They will give not one cent to support your children when you are dead. I bad a friend in the west—a rare frb nd. He was one of tbe first to wel come me to my new home. To fine per sonal appearance he added a generos ity, frankness and ardor of nature that made me love him like a brother. But 1 saw evil people gathering aronnd him. Tbey came up from the saloons, from the gambling hells. Tbey piled him with a thousand arts. Tbey seized upon bis social nature, and he could not stand the charm. They drove him ou tbe rocks, like a ship, full winged, shivering oo tbe breakers. I used to admonish blm. I would say, “Now, 1 wish you would quit those bad habits and become a Christian.” “Oh." h 1 would reply. “I would like to, I would like to, but I have gone so far I don’t think there Is any way badg^ Iu his moments of repentance be woold go home and take his little girl of 8 yean and embrace her convulsively, and cov er her with adornments, and strew aronnd her pictures and toys and ev erything that could make her happy, and then, as though bounded by an evil spirit, be would go out to tbe inflaming cup and tbe house of shame like a fool to the correction of tbe stocks. Th« Delilah at Slo* I was summoned to bis deathbed; I hastened; I entered the room; I found blm, to my surprise, lying in full ev eryday dress on tbe top of tbe couch. I put out my band. He grasped It ex citedly and said, “Sit down, Mr. Tal- mage; right there.” 1 sat doWn. He said. “Last night I saw my mother, wbo has been dead 20 years, and she sat Just where you sit now. It was no dream. 1 waa wide awake. There was no delusion In tbe matter. 1 saw ber Jost as ftalnly as I see you. Wife, 1 wish you would take these strings off me. There are strings spun all aronnd my body. 1 wish you would take them off me.” I saw it waa delirium. “Oh,” replied bis wife, “my dear, there ia nothing there; there is nothing there!” He went on and said: “Just where you sit. Mr. Talmage, my mother sat She said to me, ‘Henry, 1 do wish you would do better’ 1 got out of bed. put my arms around her and said: ’Mother. 1 want to do better. 1 have been trying to do better. Won’t you help me to do better? You used to help me.’ No mis take about It; no delusion. I saw ber— tfet f*p aid Um apron gad tba ipecU dee—Just a* she used to look 20 years ago. But I do wish you would take these strings away. They annoy me so I can hardly talk. Won't you take thorn away?” 1 knelt down and pray ed. conscious of the fact that lie did uot realize what I was saying. I got up. I said: “Goodby! I hope you will be bet ter soon.” He said. “Goodby, goodby!” That night bis soul went up to tbe God who gave it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said: “Don't bring him iu the church. He was too dissolute.” “Oh,” I said, “bring blm. He was a good friend of mine while be was alive, and I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to tbe church.” As I sat In tbe pulpit and saw his bodj coming up through tbe aisle I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day: “This man had his virtues and a good many of them. He had his faults and a good many of them. But If there Is any man In this audience who Is without sin let him east the first stone at tills coffin lid.” On one side the pulpit sat | tlsit little child, rosy, sweet faced, as beautiful as any little child that sat at your table this morning, I warrant you. She looked up wistfully, not knowing tbe full sorrows of au orphan child. Oh, her countenance haunts me today UK some sweet face looking upon us througli a horrid dream! On the other side of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him. There they sat, hard visaged, some of them pale from exhausting disease, some of them flush ed until it seemed as if tbe fires of in iquity flamed through the cheek and crackled tiie Hpv They were the men who had done the work. They were the men who had bound him hand and foot. Tbey had kindled the fires. They had poured Dm? wormwood and gall into that orphan’s cup. Did they weep? So. Did they sigh repentlugly? No. Did they say, “What a pity that such a brave man should be slain?” No, no. fcot one bloated hand was lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at tbe coffin like vul tures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out! I cried in their ears as plainly as I could. “There is a God and a judgment day!” Did they tremble? Oh, no, no. They went back from the house of God, and that night, though their victim lay In Oakwood cemetery, I was told that they blasphemed, and they drank, and they gambled, and there was not one less customer in all the houses of in iquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but De lilah sheared him, and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out and threw him into the prison of evil habits. But iu the hour of his death he rose up and took hold of the two pillared curses of God against drunken ness and uncleanness and threw him self forward until down upon him and bis companions there came tbe thun ders of an eternal catastrophe. CnltiTate Domestic Joya. Again, any amusement that gives you a distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amuse ments! The father went off, the moth er went off, the child went off. There are today the fragments before me of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back to the sound of that one word “home.” Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see, fattier, that your children are soon to go out into the world, and all the in fluence for good you are to have over them you must have now? Death will bjifak in ou your congenial relations, and alas If you have to stand over tbe { rave of one who perished from your egiectl I saw a wayward husband standing at the deathbed of his Christian wife, and I saw ber point to a rlog on ber finger and heard her say to ber bus- band, “Do you see that ring?” He re plied. “Yes, I see it “Well,” said she, “do you remember wbo put it there?” “Yes,” said he, “I put it there.” And all tbe past seemed to rush upon him. By tbe memory of that day when. In the presence of men and angels, you promised to be faithful in joy and Mlfr- row and in sickness and In health; by tbe memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in yoor new home talking of a bright future; by tha cradle and tbe joyful hour when one life was spared and another given; by that sickbed, when tbe little one lifted up tbe bauds and called for help, and yon knew he must die, and be pat one arm aronnd each of your necks and brought yon very near together In tha! dying kiss; by tbe little grave In tbe cemetery that yon never think of with out a rash of tears; by tbe family Bi ble. where, amid stories of heavenly love, Is tbe brief bat expressive record of births and deaths; by tbe neglects of tbe past and by tbe agonies of tbe future; by a Judgment day, when bua< bands and wives, parents and cbiidren. In Immortal groups, will stand to be caught up in shining array or to shrink down into darkness—by all that I beg you give to home your beet affections. Ah, my friends, there Is an hour com ing when our past life will probably pass before ns In review. It will be oar last hoar. If from oar death pillow we have to look back and see a life spent in sinful amusement, there will be a dart that will strike through our soul sharper than tbe dagger .with which Vlrglnlo* slew bis child. Tha memory of tbe past will make us quake like Macbeth; the iniquities and rioting throngh which we have pa—ed will come upon us weird and skeleton ae Meg Menilies. Death, tbe old thy lock, will demand and take tbe remain* ing pound of flesh and the remaining drop of blood, and upon our last oppor* tunlty for repentance and ear teal chance for heaven tbe curtain will for* ever drop. J A