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A TALMAGE Vy Rev. FRANK DE WiTT TALMAGE. D.D. Pastor of J^fffrsnn Park Presby- torian C lurch, Chicago Chicago, July ^7.—In this discourse Rev. Frank Do Witt Talinage shows how the qualities which characterize n succossful fisherman may be utilized In Christian work. The text is Matthew Iv, li). “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Are you a fisherman? “Oh, yes.” you answer; "1 have been a fisherman all my life. As Izaak Walton, the father of angling, used to say that true fish ermen, like poets, were born, not made, so I was born with a love for the rod and the reel. As a little boy, many and many a time 1 have been late for school because I loitered on the way under the shadow of the old wooden bridge to cast a crooked pin used for a hook. Now that I am grown I love to go back to the scene where I was born. I love to wade In the old fa miliar brook and catch the speckled trout. I love to take a boat and pull out into the river which flows through the valley where my father is buried and try to coax to my hook the black bass and the timid p-rch.” No. my friend, you are not a true fisherman. A true fisherman is one whose life employment, not his sum mer vacation, is devoted to catching fish. You arc no more a fisherman than William M. Evarts was a farmer. Mr. Evarts for recreation used to play at farming. He used to take the mon ey which he made as a lawyer in New York eity and put it into his Vermont farm. Hut Mr. Evarts never made a living off Ids Vermont farm. Farming was such an expensive luxury to him that one day while he was entertain ing some fellow senators at his farm ho offered them in one hand a glass of milk and in the other a glass of champagne as lie said, “Take your choice, gentlemen; they both cost me the same." There is Just as much difference be tween the nan who makes ids living by fishing a: <1 one who fishes for sport kis there is between the man who farms [to make a living and the man who farms for recreation. It is the differ ence between work and play. It is the difference between the man who sets sail in tin* fishing smack from Nan tucket or New Heal ford and spends six long months off the banks of New foundland. facing the dangers of tem pest and collision, and the man who paddles about in a canoe on a quiet stream, it is the difference between tin* man who is ready to defy the dan gers of Lake tlaliiee—the most treach erous inland sea in the world—and the man who stands upon a rock on a sun shiny afternoon and casts Ids expen sive line into the brook for a few hours’ pastime. The I'InIiermen of Galilee. Now, th - two brothers, Peter and An drew. to wnom Christ spoke the words of my text upon the shores of Lake Galilee, were real fishermen. They were not dilettanti. They did not go out intrt the country for a few days with a hundred dollar pole to catch a dollar’s wonh of fish; but the^ made fishing their life’s business. They be longed to what is perhaps the bravest class of nun on earth—the fishermen. Christ, when he saw them mending their nets, turned and said: "Come, leave your nets and follow me. Give up your work of catching fish and I will teach you how you may use your energy and bravery and consecration and will make you fishers of men. Come with me and I will make you fishers in the great troubled sea of humanity and will call you my gospel fishermen.” The true gospel fisherman is a one purposed man, whose life is dedicated to the single object of saving souls. Every sportsman knows that it is an Impossibility for a successful fisher- ■man to think of .anything else but his fish at the time of fishing. He cannot plan about business and attend to his line. He cannot read a book and watch his bait. He cannot dream of the woods and troll at the same time. When a real fisherman fishes, he con centrates his entire attention upon his fishing and excludes every other thought from his brain. Because fish ing is so fascinating and absorbing, some of the greatest men of the world have found their recreation in the sport. Daniel Webster, whom the Mas sachusetts fishermen used to call Itlack Dan because he became so sunburned when fishing with Seargeut S. Prentiss off the shoals of Nantucket, used to for get his senatorial cares in watching Ids line. Christopher North, the Intellec tual giant of old Scotland, prolonged his life far into the eighties by his habit of running away from Edinburgh with ids rod and reel. Chester A. Ar- ' thur and Grover Cleveland at every opportunity would exchange the com forts of the stately White House for the absorbing delight of baiting a hook and casting a line. So a man cannot become a true gos pel fisherman unless he consecrates himself, body and mind and soul, to the one purpose of saving men. lie must live and eat and breathe and sleep only for the hope of bringing sinful men and women to Christ. He must be as deeply absorbed In the work of saving souls ns was John Knox, who ‘used to arise frequently In the middle of the night to pray. And one night, While he was pleading with God to help him In the work of saving souls, bis wife chided him and told him to come back to bed. The great reformer turned and said. “Woman, how can 1 shop when my country is not saved?” Then he continued ids supplications with litis earnest cry: "O God, give me Scotland or 1 die!” I*tit Your >llml Into t!io Work. Never was l more linpn ssed with Ute thought that in order to be a true gos- pi 1 fisherman a man must surrender himself, hotly, mind and soul, to the M.. \t’s servlet* than when some years ago 1 went with a party of gen- tlemc’i fishing for Atlantic llountlers. At that time 1 was not much of a fish erman. I was so absorbed in the beau ties of nature that when I threw out my li ie I would forget all about it, and the fish would come and nibble off the bait and swim away. In the meantime I was admiring the curving waves; I was watching the winds pile up the clouds into valleys and mountains and domes and arches and fortresses and obelisks; 1 was watching the sea gulls take their morning baths or swoop down to clutch a fish in their talons, and then with a wild cry start away for the nests where their young were clamoring for food. And as 1 watched those sen gulls my mind wandered on, and 1 soliloquized: “What if death had slain my father and mother when I was young just as a cruel marksman for mere sport might shoot yonder bird? Would I then have died as the bird fledgelings would die of starva tion, or would I have lived lo grow up a Christian man or have fallen into crime and finally been put behind iron bars as a convict?” And thus I dreamed the whole day away and only caught one small fish! But right along side of me was a man who had the same kind of bait, the same kind of line and practically the same position. He differed from me only in the fact that he put his whole body and mind into his work. He did not go down New York harbor to watch the clouds or the birds or the waves. He went to fish, and he fished until the perspira tion rolled off his face in streams; he fished until his hands were dirty and till ids clothes were dirty. He fished until lie forgot everything but his line. But the result of putting ids whole force into his work was a basketful of at least fifty or sixty big flounders. So. my brother, if you and 1 are to become one purposed Christians, if we want to live to save men, we must surrender ourselves, body, mind and soul, to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. We must leave our worldly nets down by the shores of Lake Gal ilee and follow him. Jesus demands that wo make his service a life’s con secration, not a Sabbath’s recreation. He demands unceasing toil, not a sum mer’s sport. The True Gowjiel Fisherman. The true gospel fisherman is a brave man. We have been taught to regard the soldier as among the bravest of men. True, it needs a brave heart to stand unblanched amid a storm of shot and shell and to walk up to the can non's mouth when the bullets are fall ing around like hail pattering upon the pavements. But the soldier never has to face great dangers continuously like those the fisherman has to meet. 1 suppose that among ail the different classes of men there is not one among which the destruction of life propor tionately is so great as among the men who make the harvest of the sea their avocation or life work. During a recent journey across the Atlantic and after we had been out a couple of days from New York har bor I saw two men pointing to a dark cloud ahead. I heard one of them say: “We are going to have a bad night. That is the Newfoundland fog bank." Soon the thick mists begun to settle around us. All that night the gloomy fog horn blew. 1 said to the commander of the Cunarder: “Captain, why do you blow that terrific fog horn? Surely the danger of collision with a passing steamer is comparatively small.” “Ah,” answered the captain “we are blowing the fog horn chiefly to warn the fishermen. All about these waters are hundreds of little fishing smacks. The fishermen come here and anchor. They stay month in and month out until they catch their cargo, and scores and scores of these poor fel lows are run down every year. We want to warn them, if possible, that we are coming along.” Go to any of the little fishing towns along the rocky coasts of old Scotland. There you will find women who have lost fathers and brothers and husbands and sons in the awful dangers of a fisherman's life. Every seaman will toll you that the perils of a sailor’s life are compara tively nothing if there .are only sixty fathoms of water under the ship’s ket 1. But the fisherman rarely puts out to the deep sea. He must fish compara tively near ‘be shore. Then the storms come up and threaten to drive the frail craft upon the rocks. Then the fogs settle so thickly that the steersman can hardly see the prow of the boat from the stern. Yes, the true fisher man’s life, whether it is found on Lake Galilee or off the coasts of Scotland or in the Newfoundland fogs, is a life of overwhelming danger. Brave must be the man who would follow so perilous an avocation. So the gospel fishermen, too, must he brave men! They must be as coura geous as were rotor and Andrew, who, to become gospel fishermen, laid down their lives for Christ. They must he as brave as the heroic Father Damien, who In order to minister to the sick and the dying went to Molokai, the Leper island of the Pacific, and him self became a leper and died. They must be as brave ns that Salvation Army girl who stands and sings and prays upon the street corner amid the scoffs and the ridicule of the passers- by and who penetrates the dark alleys, humanly unprotected, to seek out souls for Christ They have to be as brave as that young Christian clerk who goes from saloon to saloon giving out gos pel tracts and leading In prayer where the proprietor will allow him to pray. To show the kind of heroic stuff out of which the gospel fishermen are ni. ;** I . ouH point you to the tragic L'i; <vy . f * greatest missionary of li.* Fiji . dai.ds as he persona.ly told it in* . M.T.y years ago the ennui- btiis of those islands killed and ate the first missionary who had been sent there by the London Missionary so ciety. Immediately after that event this missionary, then a young man, ap plied for appointment to the post of danger, lie went forth with his young bride to what most of their friends thought was certain death. When the ship dropped anchor in the harbor of Suva, the native chief sent out word, “Give us another missionary, and we will make a meal out of him.” In the face of that threat ttud of all these dangers the young missionary and his bride disembarked. For ten long years they never saw the face of a white man, except when the missionary sup ply boat made its biennial visit. The young missionary’s children were born there. In the woods. Two of his chil dren died because he had no proper medicine. He lived there alone with his heroic wife until he transformed the whole Island. Such Is the career of one heroic gospel fisherman. Are you and I ready to be as brave for Christ as were that noble missionary and his devoted wife? Are we ready to be in spired with that holy fearlessness and disregard of ourselves that we may save souls for Christ wherever we can find them, which all Christ’s fishers of men should show in his service? The truo gospel fisherman must be spiritually a strong man. Peter and Andrew, to whom Christ spoke, were net fishermen. 1 think they rarely, if ever, fished with a line or a pole. They were in all probability the kind of fishermen you perhaps have seen off the Massachusetts coast. There the fishermen fasten their net to stakes that have been driven into the ground and the tops of which can be seen above the surface of the sea. They were physically strong men, else they could not have handled and set the nets, or they may have been fisheimien who watched the surface of tlx^-ea, just as the fishermen used to do along the Long Island coast. Then, as soon as the sea would be ruffled by the schools of swarming fish, the signal flag would be lifted, the fishermen would gather upon the beach, and the longboat, filled with the piled up net, would be launched. Then the fishermen on shore would hold a rope attached to one end of the net, and the boat would be rowed out around the school of fish. Then, when the whole net had been “paid out,” the boat would approach the shore, the other end of the net at tached by a rope to the stern. Then the men would begin to pull the ropes at either end of the net, dragging the fish nearer and nearer inshore until at last they would capture the whole school. Yes, fhftse fishermen had to be physically strong men. Their nerves had to be steady, their muscles linn, or they could never have dragged in those heavy nets burdened with many fish. A Stronwr Spirit A'«m*c1«**I. The true gospel fisherman must be spiritually, as well as physically, a strong man. The gospel net of faith is a wide net, a long net, a heavy net, and unless supernatural power be given to the gospel fisherman he will never lie able to handle it. How could Charles G. Finney have been able to load thousands and tens of thousands of immortal souls to Christ unless he had been spiritually a strung man. In his own strength as a goftpel fisherman he could do nothing, hut with Christ he could do all tilings. To show how absolutely Mr. Finney depended upon divine strength for the handling of the gospel net, one of my old Pittsburg elders used to tell me of a remarkable scene lie once witnessed in a New York theater. Mr. Finney was preach ing there, and the building was packed with people. After the noted evangel ist had been speaking about ten min utes, he suddenlv stopped and said: “Brethren, the Holy Spirit's influence is not hen* today. \Ve must get the re enforcement of the divine power, els* we are helpless. Let us pray.” With that he knelt upon the stage, and ho prayed until the audience was melted to tears. He prayed, and such was the re-enforcement of divine strength at that meeting that tin* gospel net gathered the sinners in by the score and by tin* hundreds, although during that entire service Charles G. Finney did not preach another word. lie simply prayed — pleadingly prayed. How could John or Charles Wesley, or George Wbitefield. or George Muller, or D. L. Moody ever have handled the gospel net as he did unless he had boon spiritually inspired and strength ened, unless he had been a man of deep faith and fervent prayer? The Christian believer must be spir itually inspired if he is ever to become a successful fisher of men. My mother used to Impress this thought upon tm all my life, and especially did sb * try to do so after I had entered the gosp* 1 ministry. There was hardly a letter which she scut to me after my ordina tion that did not read like this: “My dear boy, it is Important for you to he mentally equipped for your church. But, remember, a true gospel minister Is essentially one who is inspired by the Holy Spirit. You cannot lead souls to Christ unless you yourself are di vinely inspired. You cannot lead souls to Christ unless you have been much in communion with God, unless much upon your knees In prayer. You must plead at the mercy scat in your own home if you would plead aright for Christ In the pulpit.” The mother can not become a fisher of men and h ad her children Into spiritual lives unless she 1 erself has experienced this divine Inspiration. The Sunday school teach er cannot lead his class to the feet of Christ unless he himself has first been baptized by the Holy Spirit. The min ister cannot truly preach Christ unless he has first taken Christ Into his own heart and life. Pet*r and Andrew be ' came gospel fishermen because they themselves had first seen the Master’s fac • and obeyed his vole * when he said, “F ow me, j.-.d 1 will n. ke you fish- on- f men.” Tin- Imitnrfance of Revivals. People have often asked me whether 1 believed in revivals of religion. Of course I <b . Every one of the different Protestant denominations has been started under the influence of a re vival. Nearly all the mighty men of God, past or present, have confessed ■the Saviour through the influence which lias directly or indirectly come from some revival. But revival serv ices can do harm as well as good. When a great number of sinners are brought to Christ through the influ ence of a revival and then neglected, nobody looking after the converts, no body caring for them, nobody trying to have them identified with a Sunday school class, a prayer meeting, a Chris tian Endeavor society or Christian work of any kind, there is an awful lack somewhere. It is all important to lead men to Christ, hut it Is also Important not to let them backslide by neglecting them after they have once been brought to the feet of Jesus. A few years ago In Neuchatel. Swit zerland. a number of Christian men and women got together for an inter esting experiment. They meant to see what personal work among the crimi nal classes might do for the Master. The criminal records of that county showed that (><> per cent of all crimi nals liberated from the penitentiary usually returned to crime and ulti mately went back to the convict cells to serve out a second and a third term. So these Christian men and women put into practice this plain, simple plan: Whenever a criminal was incarcerated some one of their number was detailed to look after that convict. In a sense he was the prisoner’s guardian. This gospel fisherman would visit the cell: he would pray with the prisoner; he would send him books and give him advice, and when that convict had served his term this Christian guardian would find work and set him upon his feet. Did this gospel plan work? The records of that county of Neuchatel proved that by this gospel process the ntnnber of the returned convicts was decreased over r>0 per <0*111. Instead of i»<J per cent of criminals being re turned to the penitentiary for a second or a third term there was only 1- p< r cent. So it is not only important tor the gospel fisherman t*i bring souls to Christ, but it is also important to have the new converts inUrcsted in mi ! identified with Christian work. W1 • a an immortal soul is brought to ihe mercy scat, the true work for the gos pel fisherman has just begun. If a : n- ncr is allowed to eoiuess <'liii.-t and then on account of tiie indifference of so called Christian friends allowed to drift back into sin. his last condition is worse than his first. L 11 <1 <*r the Muiiter’n Eye. But the true gospel fisherman is al ways working under the Master's eye. whether Christ's face is visible to him or no. After 1’eter and Andrew be came Christ’s fishermen lie never left them. One night when these brethren, with John the Beloved, who was also a fisherman, and some of the other disciples, were tossing about on Lake Galilee they thought they were going to he drowned, but Christ was watch ing their struggles, and in the fourth watch of the night, or just about o’clock in the morning, Jesus was seen walking toward them upon the waves of Lake Galilee. And after the cruci fixion, when Deter and ids brethren went buck to their old avocation of fishing, Jesus again appeared unto them by the shores of Lake Galilee and told them to cast their nets upon the other side of the boat. The true gospel fisherman can feel that Christ is always ready to help him; that Christ will always come to his rescue when tlie waters of trouble begin to roll too high and the mists are settling too thickly around the gospel lifeboat. Christ’s care for his gospel fishermen it; a constant and tender care. In the Scotch fishing villages the mothers and v.Ives and daughters illustrate by a beautiful custom which prevails among them their care for their sons and hus bands ami brothers who have* gone off to lish. When the fogs settle down up on tlx* coast and the lighthouses can no longer he seen, the women go out and sit upon the rocks. When the return ing fishermen begin to approach the shores and while yet unseen, they start a tishers’ song. The loved ones wait ing upon the rocks listen until they hear the familiar notes wafted through tii<* fog. Then the mothers and wives and daughters ami sweethearts also begia to sing, and tiie bsbciniu 11. bear ing tin* voces of their loved ones, know which wa\ to steer. Fo win 11 1 lie gospel usher.lien in times <>! trou ble end to Christ be always answers th.'r < . ! An<l the Fnvh ers voice, sin... a ii .r .iitiiti tie voii.'i s of the !o * •! in. ..*0 ;mm* beyond, will id.in ; \ ie the ,,'< l ii-iicruicu ...1:1. 1 ui.icd si.; i i ii.e into the gr at 1.... i . • 1 eternal peace. Arc .' >0 ; a 1 a iiling lo become gos pel Ii: .,er 11 i.* 117 Are we ready to be one purpo-ed Ctn i tians, ready to be fcar- h s-. ready to be spiritually inspired, to bee me li: Iws of men? Are we ready to surrender ourselves, body, mind and soul, to the service of the Lord? When Dr. Nott, who for years labored among the south sea islanders, was one day asking a native to give his life up to tin* service of the Master, the missionary explained, "I can only afford to pay you 15 shillings a month for your services.” With that the na tive said, “Sir, I cannot afford to give up my time for 15 shillings a month, but I can afford to give it up for Christ.” Like the south sea islander, have you such love for Christ that you are ready to consecrate your life to tho Master’s sendee regardless of remuner ation, so that you may become one of his fishers of men? [Copyright, 1902, by Louts Klopsch.] CROP BULLETIN. ( i.iiilll i*j: of fiirollim 1 rops As Ko|u>rt<‘il t*.v riiiiont of Aglcurltare. l ougMiitA, JuU ^9—Ihe tempera ture eversged about three degr*-<* h*• tow n< rmal during the weik er.dieg Monday July 28, with a mean of about seventy.eight degrees Th« maximum was ninety-eight degrees at Conway on the 22 t tho mimmn sixty degrees at Greenvil e on ihe 22*1 and 2(j , n, and at Bateeburg on tb -*> I I he stinsbin- was h*-low no* mal, with much threatening weather, but with little rain. The winds were generally light, and during the greater uori Ion *>t ! wee* «. ert- « rt-u-l. >. Tin-re were frequent loct I shuwere, copious in tt e southeaster, counttee and it) a tew I. Calities elsewhere, but gen*-ra 1 ly lik/tt. Seme ran f. |i in every county, but by far the greatei portion of the State tied an if Soffi'd* nt amount aid in most piaeis toe | r< vailn g or. Ui.tit be came intens fi o wbne et a tew points if wa-< relievi d I In- greatesi amount *v-i- 2 58 n.cues at Y-marsee Inn 1 ne Sia.e *1 v r»ig.- was less '• Hat half of file m rmat ailioUi t, wnli a eUtnb- r of p in t* that had no ram 1 fe ge erm ernp *n 1.1a ice !*■ o 1 Mi UU t 11. in fi » s 1 cu ra> e 11 , m c» ijm- 11 IS so V b t I hie I el|ty * X'*.e* (in g V |. font 1 -i • a ** tic r** Die rains we re h*aV* »tid v. r> p or 11 t ne 11 ry sections, *i?h n t1 me• la e yr»daiio"s where tin- r..n s wer puma fin*- n j city of tiie r- porix moienie a general de t rn*r-»t|on diirintf »• h ■ie*-i* m in> staple as well as the minor crops. E l'iy tor Is tiring Stripp'd of *er -U<] M> f Mil r a e if Is I w e a * h * r i-oo'ii 1 ns f*u t I a f ► r p an 1 • mgx ea.'i be m er'a>»> improved r j. j ired B f 0(1: 'a 1 d corn 1- v r* fi. e, while ' p Ill'l e.ipn |s *-llfi H> *. for ram lo maces upia'.d cor.. 1 “fir. g ’’ I lo re is h w i '. sp -ea-i and gt-n. r • comp a -1 I ill 1 (•' .ion is i s 1 eg i; | and «i • • dd i.. g Ie V x a rid xqu . r x a- well ax vout.g bo 11x, al'hough 1 to lat t* f is riot s c i.nm in w it :• . xc»-p j t.'in s w be fe the p; ,1, I x O |. I nice 1 O I gO.l V and a e *).-ttVi y Ifll.led V I *d ; ..!! colon hi' ti-eii 1 a <d ’> V X t ) Only 50 Cents to make your baby strong and I tve II. A fifty cent bottle of Scott’s Emulsion | will change a sickly baby to n plump, romping child. Only one cent a day, think of it. Its as nice as cream. Send for a free sample, and try it. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, I 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and |i.oo; all druggists. tha* some fi dels «r receiving thtir ! la -t plowing. B I K irm- n V ap- ! pi-ared in Ander-On 1* e-na ure ; opening is report'd from Code; ■■ a <t Newbern c unties. In general, jibe crop ha-i deterioarted sightly i during the week, hut cornn iies to j pm on frun, altough blooming too much to file top. Rust has develo- • d n many localiti x. i hm **.* jx n,o r y uli cured ai d is n ti e> imp W{ ,1 I tl*-' It a vex !i it i j i j lOao U* Uin. ill pini'.e • f.’iv Ciup , rioei eil prem 1 . rei,- Imiiii Vin I ourn R ce 1 ii.pi v* 0 genera'll ; and ix t ead.i g n ar tin- cun- , a d i- | “shnntii g’ 1 '> ot In r sec nms Up- I a 1 ii rice is very poor and is rusting. 1 Sweet potato! s look promising in j places an i in oilier ar*- poor; they are yielding we I i i Charleston county. Fall truck is growing nicely j but gardens are generally poor. A I general rain ix needed for all crops. WrbHter J'a’atcntphs. {Correspondence of The ledger.) WntsTivK, J ol> 80.—»’t-ildrei.’x Dai was held «t Mt. Zi 1 R.ij tier ciair-h on th** L.iirth Lord’s day in July i lit,-re were about 'tx hundred on 'he ground, and ever body seemed t- enjoy themselves. It wax on. of 1 ht be't Children's Da> x t vo r h< Id -it M1 I Zion B <ptisr church, (col ) We love to see our children go to I Sundi y-xciiool anil bar!’ of a i*ijvi r | win) do d for ail ai l on the third - 1 • 1 i arose again from t# dead uni i.scen | ded to our borne in Heaven above. The best tor the day was an <-say j read by Miss Lesca Liftlej ihn. a j blind Indy who ix a graduate of Cedar Springs. Her sui j* ct was “The Way to -'ueci s The r. adit g on tin* pa per with her fingers was very inter taining to all who saw In r The collection received that day wa- $13 05, \ b. o ]) < k-y’s Dyspepsia Cur.- cures in- digest on, soi.r stomach, heartburn, costi veness, gnawing uni burning pains a f pit of sf/mnach, sb k head ache. Try it One bottle will give you relief S B Orsw lev & Co. —Sure Cure Sar-apariiia 50c, The great Blood medicim . —SureCure Sarsaparilla, 50c.. for men and women. —There’s heaito in Sure Cure Sar saparilla 50c. SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS St-nutor Tillman Deuirit That lie Ha Takeu Any eart tu the Cainpalgn. f olumbia, S. C., July 29th.— Sena- uu I’ll.man has felt that be had to c.iime out in the public prints. He nws not. had anythu g whatever to sH* about the present campaign, but w »s heard from tonight from [’renton : “Trenton, S. C., July 29.—There »pp* arm 10 toe Atlanta Cons itution }*st.ruay a telegram from Charles ton saii' g that in ihe guoernatorial 'a. e tui inmal lines were being drawn and trial Senator Tillman was using tux i* flut-nce in behalf of Talbert and •i a ui* s li. lillmau against Heyward, * wimse candidacy,’ the di-patcn adds, w.,s not .xanctio.ied tiy Senator Till man.’ ” i' day your correxpor dent called on Senator 1 iluiiaii at his home here .0 r gurd to the story in theConstitu- inui. When he read the article, the x* natnr remarked : ‘li ix a piece of newspaper work that is made when no news can be • nod It is the most absured thing I rV-r heard tout Heyward should g-' a sanction to run for governor. Any man ix free to enter tne race and l nav not dug to do with if. It is the h'gges! piece of foolishness I ever Omni of.” Trie senator went on to say that oia lines of demarkaliou of Tillman aod anti lillnian had been obliterat ed. Men weie supporting him now who u-ed to tie antagooiz d. Contin uing he said : * 1 have gained more friends than I b<*vc lost and in tnis campaign no can didate wnl be voted for or against by eil ut-r of the old factions I am only drawing lines wtien 1 see a R'-pubii- ca.. nisguised ax a Democrat who has the impudence to enter the Democrat ic primary,” Continuing the senator said he ; . ■! • . ' i t o <ni j: , f - Ci it • In i i I r • ■' lie races ibis was positive and final. A K. The Cherokee Kiflea. A numb r of tho public spirited young men of the city me' in the court housed t ■ vv nights ago and organized a aiiiititry company which bears the name of the Cherokee Rifles. The meeting was largo and representative and the matter of forming a military company was en tered into with that degree of zeal which assures success. After a sufiiciet number of names had beer, enrolled they went into an election for comrnisxi' ned < ilio-rs, winch resuited in the election ol Jas. A Willis, captain; \V. Judson Sar- r.itt, 1st lieutenant; i\ J. McAllix'er, 2nd lieutenant and Dr. C. A Jef feries, surgeon. Tiie non-com mis sioned otfio rx will he up ointed at an early meeting of the c mpiuiy. Tne Cherokee R fl-s h. v been most fortunate in th e ction of th-ir eomtn'xsiom d < Hi • r~, a i of them having militarv training. G ipt Willis wax an oflict r i ■ tiie First, Souil) Carolina Yolu *eers in the Spe ni sit-America ri w r 1st Lieutenant Surra’t is a groin < e of Ch-mson College a-d Liuui.ant M A'lixter wa- for a number of years c o ' ec*t*d with the Nor’h (’.iroliua National Guardx. The young men who compose the I company are high spiriteo t r,old of ! Gherok- *i county ai d .»ur yo ' •’ city and will do much to n k Doth proud of The ' to r ke R il s. 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