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THE BAPTIST CONGRESS. Dr. Brown Arrives In London-Re Tells of Tile Opening of the World's Congress and Begins Sightseeing. London, England, July 13. It makes no difference as to where 3 **was at" when I ended my former epistle. I am now iii the city of Lon? don. A hundred and one things have happened during the ten days past which one could readily weave into a letter to the folks at home, but alas ?nd alack! how can a man find time to sit quietly and write a letter in the midst of a world which seems to whirl ?nd go whooping by him. Before leaving home, I publicly declared I would n^t return to lecture about What I saw abroad. I fear now I shall have to change my mind. I am anx? ious to, tell the home-folks something of what I have seen and heard, and now shall I ever have patience and time to sit and write it out on paper? -Really I shall have to talk it without the trouble of writing it During our 4th of July celebration -while on the bosom of the deep, Mr. Simeon Ford, of New York, a great master of quiet wit and humor, said, ?n an address, that our boat was loaded with pig iron and Baptist preachers; the former gave her sta? bility and the latter respectability. Of course we all cheered and applauded him. The Celtic had made 40 trips nitherto across the ocean, but never Ibefore one so calm and beautiful as this, "We reached Queenstown on the southern end of Deland, on Saturday, Stn, at 8.30 a. m. A number left us tor a journey through that land of -the green, which, as seen from the "boat in the early morning, was the most beautiful I have ever seen. All that day we sailed up the Irish Sea northward, and came to Liverpool at night, but did not land until the next morning. By 10 a, m., we were all at the London ?nd Northwestern Ho? tel, where we stayed until Monday morning. Many of us went to the -Baptist church on Myrtle street, to hear Dr. Jno. Thomas, successor to T>r. Hugh Stovall Brown, of gracious memory, while not a few stayed t ? ? ?way to take a peep at ""Tan Mc Xaren/' who made his fame "Under the Bonnie Briar Bush." The many things one might say about Liverpool must all be passed .over. They will keep for another *5ay. At G. 40 on Monday; we board? ed the train for London, and sped away at the rate of 60 miles an hour. I had often read and been told of the English apartment car, but no just idea of how they were arranged had . -ever been conveyed to me, nor shall ? attempt it here. I have made a Tough drawing of one in my note hook, and will undertake to explain lt at a later day. Surfice it to say that each coach can carry but 22 persons. In one end i s an apartment .for baggage, 4 by 8 feet; next comes ? little room with seats for 8 people, io ur riding with face to the engine; the third division, about 8 by 8 feet, has seats for 4 only, and these can be converted into sleeping berths tor " two; adjoining this apartment is a little 3-foot passage running across 'the car, with a door at each end for centering the coach; the fifth division has seats for 8, which run lengthwise, and here the smokers sit, whil? in the other enc1 of the coach *s a dim? inutive lavatory. The English admit freely that our railroading surpasses tbeirs in comforc, but they ai-jo say that tbeir methods are all that is needed, firasmuch as they have no jong rur^ffi-equiring days of travel, their coujcry being small and the dis? tance between places short. In the coaches we found no water, except about a quart, and that in a bottle in the lavatory. Once within the little coach, the side-door is shut by the conductor who cannot reach the coach again to collect tickets until the train stops at some station. Over? head on each side is a chain which one can pull and stop the train in cases of absolute necessity, but one is punished by prosecution for pulling the said chain maliciously. A train ls composed- of many-say 20-of these little coaches, and the rate of travel is at the rate of 60 miles an "hour. So far I have noticed that the Toads have four tracks, two for -freight cars and two for passengers. The cross ties are about 5 by 8 inches, sawed and not hewn, and the rails are ?crewed to these by means of heavy .-frogs and bolts, and not spiked down, ?s in our country. There is an air of strength and stability everywhere. YThe bridges and culverts are all built *of brick, stone and iron, and rock ballast, gives steadiness to the track. About 9.30 on Monday, we rolled .into Chester, one of the oldest English 'Cities, the portal to North Wales. Sere we were allowed to tarry for two -hours in order to visit the city. The .old wall, built by the Romans 2,000 years ago, is the greatest curiosity. JOf course the city has outgrown it, ?aid streets are cut through it where necessary, but one can walk along the top of it, and see the parapet and the moat at the base on the outer side ?now converted into a caned for boats) and so get an idea of the ancle: methods of defence against foes, J the northwest corner is tho Pho^n Tower where Charles I stood and sa his'army defeated on the Rowtc Moor. We visited the house where tl Earl of Dudley lived, saw the seer closet in which he was concealed f< six weeks, the underground passa? to the water tower to wrhich he wi carried and beheaded. The who story is told in Walter Scott's Pever of the Peak, which I must most sure] read again. I visited the church i which Matthew Henry, the grei Presbyterian commentator was fin buried, and then went to the mom ment which marks his present restin place. The Chester Cathedral, is o the bank of the river Dee, a part of is modern and a part more than thousand years old. A whole lette would be necessary to describe th' ancient pile, and so I must pass on. At 11.45, our train pulled out c Chester. At Crewe, a truck full c baskets was pushed along the plat form. We found that they containe lunch, and bought one for two shill tugs and six pence. The basket con tained chicken, ham, bread, lettuc salad, cheese, butter, mustard, sal and pepper, with knife, fork, an? paper napkin, and these last, with th basket, were left in the coach o: reaching London, where we arrived a 4 p. m., coming in at the great Ent?oi Station of the London and Nortl Western Road-. Here the din an< tumult began. The baggage check ing system is unknown in this country Each man goes to the baggage vai and claims his own. His hackmai then loads it on the cab, and away h< goes through a hurrying, crowded clamoring world, at the cost of on< shilling for any distance less than twx miles, and an additional half shillins for each mile beyond two. We drov< into the hollow court of the grea Hotel Cecil, and after a hasty toilet I reported at the Baptist Headquart? ers, 4 '. Southampton Row, where 3 found the executive forces of the 3Baptist Congress. The Congress did not begin until Tuesday-the next day-at 5 p. m., so we utilized the morning home tc see something of the city by taking a ride of seven or eight miles up and down the River Thames, beginning near London bridge, so fabled in child hood's stories, along the Victoria Embankment, the Houses of Parlia? ment, and on to Hammersmith, seven miles up the river. The Thames in London rises and falls about 18 feet with each tide. Its ebb tide is tremen? dous, and would sweep one away without mercy. Along the great Embankment, walled in and paved with stone, and nanning from the Houses of Parliament to the Black Friar's Bridge, one sees many life preservers hanging in convenient nooks, to be thrown to persons who have the misfortune to fall into the mad river. At 5 p. m., Exeter Hall, with room for 3500 persons was as full of men and women as it well could be. I had read of Exeter. It was the hall in which Mr. Spurgeon preached some? times, it was the hall where Mr. Beecher spoke in '63, and when the sympathy of the English people for the North and away from the South. During his wonderful oration he told of ail the issues, and then declared that for six months the Northern army had been within 30 miles of the capital city of the South. A wag in the audience cried out, "Why do they not enter and capture it?" Like a flash of lighting, the answer came. "Be? cause we are fighting Americans and not British." While the hall is large, it is not large enough. It is merely a great room possibly 120 by 300 feet in size, having a large raised platform and organ at one end, an inclined floor, and a small gallery for 300 at the other end. The acoustics are bad, and made worse by the flags of all the nations hung on wires across the room. One who sits 100 feet from the speakers can hear but little, and on the whole, it is to be regretted that the Congress did not meet in Spurgeon's Taber? nacle, where the arrangement is per? fect and where 1500 more persons could have found seats. After brief worship in prayer and song, with a distinguished layman, Judge Willis, as temporary chairman, there began the most marvellous fea? ture of the great Congress. The roll call of the nations-one delegate from each country having been appointed to respond in a three-minute speech, and all the delegates from his country rising to their feet at the close of his address and joining in the singing of some favorite hymn or well-known national air. This roll call proclaim? ed the fact that the baptists haye taken hold all over the whole world, and have sent delegates here to represent them. The roll call included and brought responses from all the fol? lowing countries-Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, China, India, Japan, Congo, South Africa, United States, Canada, Mexico, West Indies, Austra? lia and New Zealand. No full and proper report of the meeting can be made without outlining the three minutes speeches of these delegates, but if I undertake it here, to what ex? tremities will this letter go? It must suffice to say that the Baptist faith and the English language seem both to be cosmopolitan, for every man who spoke used the English language. This was true in the case of a Russian uoble?uan who came from his castle in the far north of Russia, true of a coal-black brother from Congo, true of the brother from Norway, who de? clared that even there it was never too cold to baptize people in water, and true of the Australian as well as of the young man who came from the province of Assam in northern India. Of couse their speech was rude and broken, but still it was the English tongue they used. In singing their home songs however, not more than one stanza being given, they used their native speech and native air. To me it seemed that the Russian and the French labored most in using our language. The Frenchman, accord? ing to his nature, was nervous and gushy. He said his happiness knew no bounds; that on reaching Eng? land, he had a desire to kiss every one he met. Thereupon the venerable presiding officer, Judge "Willis, arose, and he and the French delegate smacked each other on the cheek with a resounding kiss. The next morning, Wednesday the 12th, a serious question arose-the Congress is to meet daily at 9.30, at 3 and at 7 o'clock, thus taking up the whole day, while yet here is the Lon? don of my boyhood dreams, full of history and story and fable, to be seen and visited. I decided to do some judicious skipping with reference tc? both the city and the Congress, and by this rule I am ?cill being guarded. To tell all I have seen and heard here on this paper would be impossible. But Dr. Alexander McLaren, the greatest living sermonizer-not the greatest preacher-whose produc? tions pass current in the religious pa? pers of all denominat.ou";- ?'0 years pastor -of the church at Manchester was to be. elected permanent chair? man; so I attended the congress dur? ing a part of the morning, and then went to the Tower of London. Dr. McLaren is a venerable gentleman, 80 years old, rather small of frame, with a sharp, small voice, and a face all aglow with light. Near to him sat Drs. L B." Meyer and John Clifford, whose names are now fixed in history. Near to these dignitaries sat Dr. Pres bridge from the United States, of whom Dr. McLaren spoke in his opening address as the "putative father of the congress." This is all too true, for no matter who first proposed the meeting, Presbridge did most in making it up and in bringing it to pass. By 12 m., a party of u s had set out to visit the London Tower, on the banks of the Thames, once a castle, then a palace and finally a prison now a store-house of all manner of curiosities. This tower is composed of a series of many buildings around an open square, and reaches back a thousand years or more into English history. I have no time now to hunt up days and dates. I must try to tell about it in some other way. I went into the Bloody Tower, where prisoners languished until summoned to die at the block. I read dozens of sorrowful inscriptions they had traced upon the walls. I saw the spot where Annie Boleyn, Katharine Howard and Lady Jane Grey were beheaded. They pointed out to me the room from whose window Lady Jane saw her husband carried to the scaffold to be beheaded, not more than 100 feet away, to which same scaffold she herself afterwards went. I saw-but it would take a book to tell it all, and I must bide my time, which may come at some later day. C. C. Brown. Eight persons have been arrested within the past few days for violation of the trash and garbage ordinance. It looks as though some of the colored race are determined not to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, although they have been, in some in? stances, before being arrested, kindly requested not to throw watermelon rinds, or to pat out trash and other rubbish from yards unless the stuff is properly boxed or barreled. Then some will put cut trash, etc., after 10 o'clock a. m., no matter how many times they are requested not to do so. A number of cases have been broaght before the Recorder recently, white and colored, for other violations of the sanitary ordinances. The health officer has been very active in police court circles and he is kept pretty busy. The policemen are also watching very closely for violators of sanitary laws. Bis Honor Judge Hurst is in hearty sympathy with tue officers of the law in regard to enforc? ing all health laws, and has notified t ie officers that be expects to see that the laws are obeyed and enforced. Good for Stomach Trouble and Ons-Sl patton. ."Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv*. Tablets have d*?e me a great dea of good." savj C. Towns, of Ra4 Portage, Ontario, Canada. "Beinf a mild physic the after effects an not unpleased and I can recom* mend ttwsa ti all who suffer iron stomach disorder." For sale bi all drrugrgl5t& OFF FOR COLUMBIA. Sumter Light Infantry and Second ? Regiment Band Go to Encamp? ment. From the Daily Item, July 27 The Sumter Light Infantry ?.r-d the Second Regiment Eand left for Columbia on the trein this morn? ing to go into cano with the Second Regiment. Capt. Teadon's command is in fine trim and should make a good showing at the encampment. The Second Regiment Band carried fiften men, and while it will muster fewer men than it had at the last encampment it will maintain the fine reputation it then won, and will add much to the pleasure and success of the encampment by the music it will furninsh. The Timmonsville and Darlington companinnes passed through the city this morninng en route to the en-, campment, their special coaches be? ing attached to No. 52 upon its ar? rival here. The train pulled out for Columbia with six coaches, two bag? gage cars and mail car. Chaingang Cruelty . From the Daily Item, July 26. County Supervisor Seale, referring to the statement made in the Item's Columbia correspondence Tuesday, that an official of the State peniten? tiary had charged the county chain gangs with cruelty to convicts and not giving them proper care, said this morning that the penitentiary official should have specified what county chaingangs he referred to, unless he intended to condemn all the chain gangs in the State. Supervisor Seale says that so ?sweeping a charge cannot be substantiated, for not all the coun? ty chaingangs are so inhumanely con? ducted as charged. Insofar as Sum? ter county is concerned he asserts most positively that the charge is not true. The convicts doing time on the Sumter county chaingang are well clad, well fed and receive proper care and attention. They are not over? worked and they do not leave the gang physical wrecks as a result of overwork and cruel treatment. In addition to the county convicts this county has hired convicts from the penitentiary, and the chai.ngang has been inspected at regular intervals by i representatives of the penitentiary, 'and so far as Supervisor Seale has been informed no charge has been made that the convicts on the Sum? ter county chaingang have been cru? elly treated or improperly cared for. On the contrary, the State convicts have expressed a preference to re? maining on the chaingang rather than return to the penitentiary when offer? ed an opportunity of doing so. Supervisor Seale says he has made every possible effort to conduct the chaingang properly and to make the lot of the convicts as endurable as possible, while exacting full work of them, and he does not feel that the penitentiary official quoted was war? ranted in bunching ail the chain? gangs together in his damaging charge. Do You Want Strength? ?If you want to increase your strength you must add to and not take from the physical. In Dther words, the food that you eat must be di? gested, assimilated and appropriated by the nerves, blood and tissues be? fore being expelled from the intes? tines. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure adds to the physical. It gives strength to and builds up strength in the human system. It is pleasant to the taste and palitable, and the c>nly combina? tion of digestants that v.-ill digest the food and enable thesystem *o appro? priate all of its health and strength giving qualities. Sold by all drug? gists. HOLLISTER'S Rocky Mountain Toa Nuggets A Busy Medioine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. ? specific for Constipation, Indigestion, Live and Kidney Troubles. Pimplesi. Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Slu^srish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Ifs Rocky Mountain Tea in tab? let form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLISTER DRUG COMPANY, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE J. V. STILLER d SiN DEALERS IN HARNESS, SADDLES, LAP ROBES ID WHIPS. REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY. ll East Liberty Street. May 17-tf. Say Plainly !o Your Grocer That you want LION COFFEE always, and he, being a square man, will not try to Bell you any? thing else. You may not care for our opinion, but What About fte United Judgment of Milliers of housekeepers who have used LION COFFEE for over a quarter of a century ? Is there any stronger proof of merit, than the Confidence of the People and ever Increasing popularity? LION COFFEE ls carefully se? lected at the plantation, snipped direct to oar various factories, where lt ls skillfully roasted and carefully packed In sealed pack? ages-unlike loose coffee? wldck ls exposed to germs? dust, in*, sects, etc. LION COFFEE reaches you as pure and clean as when lt left the factory. Sold only in 1 lb. packages. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. -I mr WHISKEY I MORPHINE ) CIGA RETTE HABIT. I HABIT. j HABIT. ALL DRUC AND TOBACCO HABITS. Cured by Keeley Institute of S. C. 1329 Lady St., (or P.O. Box 75) Colombia, S. C. Confidential correspondence solicited W. A. BOWMAN, Prest. I Hi. MUMU Seo. I ir ear The Sumter Banking & Mercantile Company, Sumter, S. C. mmo&em?apital Stock $50,000???*?***?? Wholesale Grocers, Fertiliz-' ers and Farmers' Supplies. Sole agents for the celebrated brand of Wil? cox &??Gibbs Fertilizers. We are prepared to quote the very closest cash or time prices on all lines of r Groceries, Fertilizers and Farmers' Supplies, And invite your investigation before making* your arrangements for another year. Come to see us. We will save you money, and give you a hearty, courteous welcome. Sumter Banking I * Mercantile Company, Masonic Building, Sd door from the Postoffice. Sumter, S. C. 1 Reduced Prices on Real Estate. Cotton has fallen in price and with its fall comes business depression in this sec? tion. Have several tracts o< (and on which the prices have been reduced in conse? quence. Now is the time for the man with money to buy. The depression is only^ temporary and with the rally will come a profit. ter, new 5-room house and rew barn, with btables for 4 horses. Frc m $3,0C0 to $2, 500. 105 acres, 50 acres cleared, four miles from Sumter. New house ; reduced from ?35 to $25 per acre. 1014 aerea, n n>iles from city, 500 clear 450 acres in Clarendon, four miles from [ Summerton, 200 acres cleared ; reduced ed, well tenanted ; reduced from $15 to | from $75500 to ?6.50C. $12.50 per acre. Also several others tract reduced m/i 108 acres, 75 cleared, 6 miles from Sum-1 similar pioportions. Call and see me. Can offer some good investments. R. B. BELSER, Attorney at Law Court ^ouare Real Estate Broker Phone 12 .Atlantic Coast .Lime, Effective June 19, 1905. Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter*! Train 35 Florence to Augut.ta Arrives 5 15 am u 54 Columbia to Wilmington ** 8 10 am " *77 Florence to Sumter " 9 20 air u *57 Fayetteville to Sumter " 9 20 am " 52 Charleston to Greenville heaves 9 ?l am " 46 Orangeburg to Charleston (Tuesd'y, Thursd'y, Saturd'y) " 9 3-> am " *78 Sumter to Lucknow Leaves 9 50 am. j *' *77 Lucknow to Sumter Arrives 6 CO pm J " 63 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston * 6 30 pm ^ ** 32 Augusta to Florenoe M 6 30 pm " *56 Sumter to Fayetteville u 6 50 pm " *78 Sumter to Florence Leaves 7 10 pm. u 47 Charleston to Crangeburg (Tuesd'y, Thursd'y, Satu* ..'y) .. e 20 pnu ' 55 Wilmington to Columbia " 9 35 pm 44 78 Sumter to Bishopville Leaves 9 50 am " 77 Bishopville to Sumter Arrives 6 00 pm Freight Trains carrying Passengers. ci Train *24 Sumter to Hartsville Leaves 8 15 am *19 Sumter to Robbins Leaves 10 00 am u *20 Bobbins to Sumter Arrives 7 30 am M *25 Hartsville to Sumter Arrives 9 10 pm Northwestern Railway. Train *70 Camden to Sumter M *71 Sumter to Camden " *68 Camden to Sumter " *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter " *73 Sumter to Wilson Mill ? *69 Sumter to Camden Trains marked * daily except Sunday ; all other trains daily. For further information, apply to Arrives 9 00 au Leaves 9 36 am ** 6 45 pm Arrives 12 30 pm Leaves 3 30 pm K 6 31 pm J. T. CHINA, Ticket Agent A. C. L.