The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 23, 1905, Image 5
LOSSES >ER A MILLIOf1
For Four^ (t Originating
in a Drug EstaBTranJent Threatenec
the Entire Wholesale District of th<
City, But Were Finally Controllec
After Extensive Ravages.
Indianapolis, Special.?Fire which
started in the large wholesale millinery
liouse of Fahnley 7? McCrea, located in
South Meridian street, Sunday night
spread to adjoining buildings, and
within 45 minutes had completely destroyed
eight buildings and is now messing
that portion of the wholesale
district bounded by Meridian street
and Georgia street, Jackson Place and
thf 1 Tninn cfattnn
Several explosions have occurred In
the A. Kiefer Drug Company's warerooms,
and on account of the inflamable
material stored In the adjoining
buildings tht Are is yet beyond control.
A 3torra of firebrands Is falling over
Abe business portion of the city, and
many fires are expected to result. The
damage already done is estimated at
<wer_a million dollars. *
"Among the heaviest losers are ^hnley
& McCrea. wholesale milliners;^ie
.A. Keifer Drug Company; Grifmh
Bros., wholesale milliners; Delmetsch
& Co., toys and druggists' sundries; the
United States Express Company's warerooms;
the Savory Hotel; St. Charles
Hotel, and Sherman House. The roof of
the sheds at the Union depot is on fire.
Liiter?The total loss is $1,500,000.
When the fire was brought under contra?,
eight buliditigs, among which were
three hotels, had been completely de
stroyed. One fireman was hurt Dy railing
walls.
Death or Young Battle.
Annapolis, Md., Special.?Midshipman
Samuel Westray Battle, of the
second class at the Naval Academy,
and a son of Surgeon Samuel Westray
Battle, United States Navy, retired, ol
Asheville, N. C., dropped dead as the
brigade of midshipmen were called to
dinner formation shortly after 12
o'clock Sunday. He had just taken
' his place as third petty officer of the
second battalion's ninth company
when he was stricken with heart failure.
He fell before any one reached
Him, ana was aeaa wnen pitneu ujj
by bis mates. Young Battle entered
the academy in August, 1902. from
Aaheville, and was 21 years old. He
was popular with his class and schoolmates
and stood well in his* studies.
He was an oarsman and pulled stroke
in Inst year's varsity eight at the
academy, but did not become a candidate
for the crew this season. He
was also a member of the academy
hop co?.imittee and was prominent socially.
His parents have been not!
lied by the authorities, but no arrangements
have been made yet regarding
the funeral.
Will Be No State Funeral.
, St. Petersburg?By Cable?It has
now been definitely decided that th
remains of Grand Duke Sergius will
Ha KrnihyKt ir% Qt PAtAPshnrfiT fOI
the present, but will be placed in a temporary
receiving vault of the Chaudofl
Monastery to await the completion ol
the alterations now in progress in the
Romanoff mausoleum in the cathedral
of St. Peter and St. Paul, where the
permanent interment will occur
amorg the tombs of his ancestors.
Another reason Is that even Governoi
General Trepcrff has recognized the
' fact that no precautions can furnish
an absolute guarantee of immunitj
against an* act of terrorism; arnlay
great
BUM
Crowley.
MARTHA WASHINGTON'S LETTER. ^
Tfcenka fio*. Trumbull For Hie gjvnpeth)
| on the l>e?tli of Her Heibaed. r
f The following text of a letter "written
by Mrs. George Washington to Uov
"'- bull ~* OamienMimt In rn.
I ClUUl XlUUlUUtl, Ul WUUWKVt %f am ?v
ply to liis letter of condolence Aipon ttie
death of her husband, is oi interest
? in connection with the recent observI
ance of the one hundredth anniversary
of the historical event The original
letter is in the collection of J., S. Bradley,
of this city:
i Mount Vernon, January 15, 1800.
Dear Sir?When the mind vs deeply
affected by those irreparable losses
which are incident to bumni/Hiy, the
good Christian will submit without re1
pining to the dispensations of Divine
Providence, and look for consolation
to that Being who alone can pour
? balm into the bleeding heart, and wuo
has promised to be the widow's God.
But in the severest crials we tind some
alleviation to our grief in the sympathy
of sincere friends, and 1 should not do
justice to my sensibilities was 1 not
to acknowledge that your kind letter of
nf the HOth of December
was grateful 10 my feelings.
I well know the aPectionate regard
which my dear deceased husband always
entertained for you, and there,
fore conceive how afflicting his death
must have been to you; the quotation
which you have given of what was
written to you on a former melancholy
occasion is truly applicable to this?
the loss is ours, the gain is his. |
| For myself. 1 have only to bow with
j humble submission to the will of that
I God who giveth and taketh away, lookj
ing with faith and hope to the moment
when 1 shall again be united with the
j partner of my life. But while 1 conj
tinue on earth my prayers will be of;
fered up for the welfare and happiness
! of my friends, among whom you will
always be numbered. Being, dear sir,
your sincere and afflicted friend.
MARTHA WASHINGTON.
Washington.
Simple and brave, his faith awoke
Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;
Armies won battles when he spoke,
And out of Chaos sprang the State!
, ?Robert Bridge*.
WASHINGTON IN 1787.
, I From the original portrait, In tbepos;
session of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Phil,
j adeiphia. Canvas, nineteen by twenty-four
inches. During the session or
the convention to frame a Constitution
i for the United States, which met in
Philadelphia, May to September, 1787,
i Washington enters in his diary three
sittings to I'eale, "who wanted my picture
to make a prlnJ or metzotlnto
(sic) by." The print Trom this por,
trait is among the rarities of early
American engravings, and the painting
was reserved l>y I'eale for his own
( gallery, whence It was sold In 1854
i and purchased foiv.Mr. Harrison. from
It Charles I'eale l'olk, a nephew and
jprpymrrm
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
MAUD BALLINCTON BOOTH, OF
THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA.
Subject: Freedom Through Chritt.
Brooltlvn. N. Y.?The seatincr caDac
Ity at the Majestic Theatre was taxed
to its utmost Sunday afternoon at the
meeting under the auspices of the Y.
M. C. A. and many were unable to secure
admission. At the close of Mrs.
Booth's address there was a most impressive
sight. As she gave the invitation
for men to deflnitely accept Christ,
men ail over the house stood with
heads bowed and after a moment of
prayer the audience was dismissed.
Mrs. Booth said in the course of her
address:
I esteem it a great privilege to have
the opportunity of bringing a message
from my heart to this great audience
this afternoon, and I am so glad that
I come to you merely as a messenger;
that I have not to rise before this
audience to exploit some hobby of my
own; that I do not come to you with
some theory, but that I realize as 1
stand up and speak that my message
is not only my own. but that I come to
you as I went to my audience this
morning with a message from One who
can follow the message with the divine
touch. As I looked down upon and
out upon this audience trying to gather
something from the faces of those
whom I was to address I saw arise before
me again my audience of this
morning, a very different one in one
sense and very similar in another. It
was an audience of men?all men?and
an audience perhaps nearly as large as
the one which I address this afternoou.
but. ah. what a difference. It was an
anience behind prison walls. An aujynce
of men who have lost their
frbance, an audience of men shut away
from the world and its sunlight and
blessings and happiness and freedom
and joy. and who in the darkness of
prison walls have learned to the full
the bitterness of a life of sin. and yet
as I rise to speak to this audience this
afternoon my message will be very
much the same as my message to that
audience this morning, for I eoine not
here to speak to Christians this afternoon.
My message is a message to the
captive, a message of liberty to those
who are bound, and it does not take
the walls of Sing Sing; it does not take
those narrow cells to make bondage,
but there are many who walk the
sireeis 01 uroosiyn 111 lub suiisiuue today
and who boast that they are free
citizens, who are shackled and bound
because they have not yet learned the
freedom that the dear Christ can
bring.
As I spoke to my boys this morning
I quoted to them two lines that somehow
or other canje to my notice a
little while ago, and I told them that
there were just two classes of prisoners
before me in that prison. The
lines are these:
"Two men looked out over prison bars.
One saw the mud, the other saw the
stars."
And I say to you in this audience today
that there nre just two classes of
men in this great theatre. There are
those who are looking out upon life,
looking down, living in touch with the
world, with the evil in-it, with its impurity.
with its doubt, with its sin,
with its darkness, with those dread
things that steal into the souls of men
and drag them downward. And there
are those who look up in hope and who
keep their eyes upon God's love, and
God's might and Gou s power, and
walk in the light of freedom and victory
and power, who do not stand
quivering at the thought of the pitfalls
in the way, but realize that they are led
as truly by the Light from above as
were those wise men and those shepherds
of old by the rays of the star
to Bethlehem. And it is to those who
are in darkness or in doubt that 1
would speak this afternoon, and I
would speak to you not only from my
own experience but of the experience
of many to whom God has sent me.
There is a wondrous freedom, a wondrous
power, a wondrous exultation.
wondrous strength in that dear Christ
of Calvary, who is not a deadGot^rfJ
the past, who is
There are in w^^HflRHHH
sands of men who dar?H01VRne
message of xalratiou^wno dare to
stand up and criticise :ne story of the
dear Christ, His death and passion, His
life and power and strength for us.
They stand outside as critics and then
think they are in a positiou to judge.
There is one Dlace from which the man
cau dare to judge that which is divine
and infinite, and that is with the
light of God upon it. Come to the
foot of the cross! Come to the place
where your heart cries out for light
and God will give it to you. For wbeu
we want to know and when we want
to see then the light will come to us;
a revelation will come and we shall
learn in truth the message of C^ist,
but we must leave our position fs a
critic and we must come down and as
a penitent sinner at the foot of the
cross and the light and glory of revelation
will stand behind that diviue
and beautiful figure of the loving, tender.
compassionate Christ and we
shall see Him. not a dead Saviour,
not even a great and mighty judge
of the world in the future, but our
own tender, loving, personal friend.
What is the next thing that seems to
me the greatest hindrhuce of meu who
should swiftly run the race, to the
men who should bravely climb the hills
of power, to the men who, with their
manhood and strength, should Dattie
on the side of Christ? It is one word
and it is that word that has done more
to fill our State prisons than anything
else. It is weakness. We are not accustomed
when we speak of the human
race to think of men as weak. Woman
is always spoken of as the weaker vessel.
but I speak not of comparison between
men and women, but between
men und men. It is weakness that
has led men to go with the tide, instead
of lighting against it. It is
weakness that has made them yield in
the presence of evil companiorisiiip
and do that which their manhood and
conscience rose against. It is weakness
that has made them sed their souls
to drink. It is weakness that lias
made them, instead of being the protectors
of the weak, trample even
women under their feet. It is weakness
that lias made them hide their
colors when the name of God is taken
in vain or when ribald jokes are made,
when they should rise aud proclaim
their indignation against it. and, .if
you should ask me what keeps these
men between prison walls, I should not
answer the desire for any of these
things, but weakness. And no man
can have strength unless the spirit of
(iod is within him. It is weakness
that drags him down and strength
that enables him to mount above, and
strength can only come from the touch
of the hand divine.
Perhaps you say to me: "Do you believe
that all men are weak?" Indeed,
I do not. I have known men, strong
men, but I have known no man strong
enougn 10 ue strong wuuout me uivine
Christ. I have known strong men
who have said that they word strong
enough to light the evils of this world
and it has seemed that the grosser
evils have passed them by because of
the strength and nobility of their character,
but they needed something more
than that. If they would be a blessing
to the world that needed more than
their great, manly strength?they needed
the strength divine. And even into
these very strong men's lives have
come some one temptation stronger
than themselves, and I have known
what it was to see the strong man defeated.
And yet I have known what it
was to see poor weak men, men whom
I have seen wrestle in anguish over
the past, men who have said to me:
"I cannot live right. Look what the
past has been?a series of attempts
to do right?and all have failed. I am
too weak." And 1 have seen them
Ir* Hmle Imlnloccnftcc fhomSph'P.Q
upon the strength of the divine heart.
They have come to the end of their
strength, they have acknowledged
their weakness, and God has stepi*'d
in and said: "You have come to the
place where you need Me and I will
help you." r And I have seen these
men go through life far more abie to
fight their way than the strong man,
and theyha^ beeu able to see that
their weakness has
I^HH^^^H^wrength.
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