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"1 DUG CtHTORY." |i * j i IHt. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY THKMK. < He Discusses It ?t an Hour When Our J National Legislature Is About to As- \ semble. < t Text: "Thus salth the Lord, Set thins t house In order, for thbu shalt dlo and not 1 lire."?II Kings xx., I. t No alarm boll do I ring in tho utterance of J this text, for in tho boalthy glow of your t countenances I And causo only for cheerful . prophecy, but I shall apply the text as ? spoken in the oar of Hezekiah, down with a . bad carbuncle, to the nineteenth century, now closing. It will tako only four more long breaths, each yonr a breath, and the . century will expire. My theme is "The Dying Oenturv." 1 discuss it nt au'hour when our r National Legislature is about to assemble. " some of tho members now here present and others soon to arrive from the North, South. Kast aud West. All the public conveyances " coming this way will bring important addl- ^ liens of public men, so that when on Dooom- ? ber 7, at high noon, tho gavels of Semite and ? House of Benresontativea shall lift nntl fall the destinies of this Nation. ami through it the destinies of all Nations struggling to ho free. will ho put on solotnu nud tremendous trial. Amid such intensifying circumstances ^ I stand by the venerable century and address it in tho words of my text, "Thus saitli the . Lor', Sol thine house in order, for thou shall din and not live." Eternity is too big a subject for us to understand. Some one has said it is a . great elock that savs "Tick" In one eon- , tury and "Tack" in another. But we can better understand old time, who has many 0 children?and they are the ceuturies?and % many ^rnudotiildren?and *thoy nro the 5 youts. With the dying nineteenth century we shall this morniug have a plain talk, 9 tolling him some of the good things ho has c done, and then telliug him some of the ? tilings he otight to adjust lioforo ho quits this spliere and passes out to join the eternities. We generally wait until people are den I before we say much in praise of thorn, funeral eulogium is generally very pathetic nucl eloquent witli things that 0 ought to have bueu said years before. We ' put on tombstones wlint wo ought to have put in tlio warm ear* of the living. Wo curse Charles Sumner while he is living ami cudgel him into spinal meningitis ami wait until, in the rooms where I have been living the Inst venr. lie puts his baud on his heart ami cries "Oh'." and is gone, and thou we make long profession iu his honor. I)r. Hundorlaud. chaplain of the ' American Senate, accompanying; stopping long enough to allow the dead Senator to lie in slate in Independence Hall, I'hiladclphiii, nud halting at Boston Statehouse, whore not long before damnatory resolutions had been passed in regard to him, and then move cn, amid the toliiug hells and the boom of miunie guns, until we bury liiiu at Mount Auburn nud cover him with Mowers live foet deep. What a pitv lie could not have been awake at his own funeral to hear the gratitude of the Nation! What a pity 1 hat one green loaf could not have been taken from each one of the mortuary garlands and put upon his table while lie was vet alive at the Arlington! What a pitv that out of the great choirs who chanted at his obsequies one little girl dressed in white might, no! Have sung to his living ear a complimentary solo! The postmorten expression contradicted the antemortem. The Nation couidnot huvo spoken tit*- truth both times about Charles Suiuuer. \V as it before or after his decease It lied? \ > such injustice shall ho indicted upon this venerable nineteenth century. Before lie goes wo recite in his hearing sopio of the good things ho has itccornplistio L What hu addition to the world's intelligence he has made! Look at the old schfoolhouso, with the snow sifting through thel roof and the lllthy tin cup hanging ovot the wntoj pail in the corner, ami the little victims 011 the long benches without ImNks, ami the s lilliorato sotioolmastor with his liiclcnrv end I nnd thou look at our moderfi palaces of free schools under raou nnd wonion culturoil nnd roll mid to tluthighust excellence. Hotlint whereas in our childhood wo lin t to bo whipped to go to school, children now cry when they onnnot go. Thank you, venerable century; while atthosrine time we thank God! What an addition to the world s inventions?\yithin our century the cotton Ki?. the agricultural machines lor [ idainiug. reaping and thrashing; the tele- ; graph; the phonograph, capable of proserving a human voice from generation to generation; the typewriter, that rescues the World from worse and worse penmanship, and stenography, capturing from tli" lips of the swiftest speaker tuoro than 200 words a minute! Never was I so amazed at the facilities of our time as when a few days ago I telegraphed from Washington to New York a long aud elaborate manuscript, and a few minutes after, to show its accuracy. It was road to me through tie* long-distance telephone. and it was exact down to the last scnt'colon and comma. What hath God wrought! Oh. I am so glad I was not horn sooner For the tallow candle the electrie light. For the writhings id tne surgeon's tahle God given niuosthctics, and the wh<de physical organism explored j by sharpest instrument, and giving not so j inu-'h pain as the taking of a splinter fr in j under a child's linger nail. For the lumbering stagecoach tic* limite 1 express train, i And there is the .-peotroseopeof Fruunhofer, | ><y which our tno lorn scientist feels the pulse :?f otUi-r worlds throbbing with light, .leu-j tier's arrest by uioeitlation of one of the I wor>d's worst plague.-. In. Keeley's cmanci- j r..f ... - ... . I ivi iiiiiiuuiiwii iiiai iin' , virus of nia.hh-ni'il caniiio nn<) cancer an I j il r? nsiitiiplioii arc yot t-> ho biilko 1 l?y tnu'-jni- s lloi'iil am lienl I!* -:tt:ii--ii(. Tlio ? yosiifht of *' lli'' ilo -ior sli:ir:i"iio<l I ill ho 0:111 look tlir oi^h thiol. Il'v-li an l IIli<t 1I10 hi Inn; pliioo of tin* ? bullet. What a lvutii'iMiii'iit in geology, or llm aleeiii-un of tin mountains; chemistry, j ' or tho > it.* liism of tli''i<!i)iut'iit>;iistrononiy, j ! or tin* oaii' In-ai <?f tlr- .-tar-. elect rolojjy, <>r ; ' tin- -atoifin.-ai of tin* liitlittiim;-. What n.!- '' van iiii-ii' in music. At tho h"i;iniiiiii;of this e i-i'iitiirv, uilltiin^ itM-lf, so far a- tlio 1 l' Kroat ina.-sfs of tho people vvi'io con- j " .-erii'-'l. to a few air- drawn out <>11 f a<-?- r Hon < r r a-.-:i I on chureh li,a-s ' '' vio . now on-hair ilroi'iMUi; Irom ^ lliou-:.inl-o tinker- ,u il.m l-'i - ' ('oij.'i'rt" ' In h f-'.ai. or tiuil'i.ant's Soiia'a I a !> 1 0 Miliar" than'.- t > .:, <? -'I'titury. I> ifor?-| v \o.i .In-, for tin- as. lain- 01 inerev that y??u ! imvi' loiui h'-;- flu- l.lunl - . i 11 with tii"ir . 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[n 1816 Anierlcaa Bible society was born, [n 1824 American Sunday-school union rat born. In 1810 Amorican board of commissioners for foreign missions, which ias put its saving band on every Nation of he round earth, was born at a haystack In Massachusetts. The National Temperance society, the Woman's Temperance society, ind all the other temperance movements rero born in thlscentury. Africa, hidden to >ther centuries, by exploration in (his oenury has been put at the feet of civilization o beoccupiod by oommreoe and Christianty. The Chinese wall, ouco an impassable >arrler, now is a useless pile of stono and >rick. Our Atnurican Nation at the opening < >f this century only a slice of land along i he Atlantic oonst, now the whole continent n possession of our schools and churches ind missionary stations. 8ermons and reIglous intelligence waich in other times, if i loticed ut all by tho newspaper pross, were I .llowod only a paragraph of throe or four ; ln"s, now find the columns of the secular I iress In nil the cities thrown wide | pen. and overy week for twenty-six ' ears, without the omission of a single ' reek. I have been permitted to preach i >ne ontiro gospel sormon through the newsiHD?r press. I thank Ood for this groat l pportuulty. Glorious old century! You ; hall not bo entoml?ed until wo havo, faco to ace, extolled ycu. You wore rooked in a ough cradle, ami the iuhuritanco you reelved was, for the most part, povorty and trugglo and hardship, and poorly covered [raves of heroes and heroines of whom the irorld had not been worthy, and atheism and ailitary despotism, and the wreck of tiw 'roneh revolution. You iuhoritod tho Intlunees tnnt resulted lu Aaron Burr's treason, nil another war with England, and battle if Lake Erie, and Indian savagery, and ^undy's Lane, and Dartmoor massacre, and lissentton, bitter and wild beyond measureaent, and African slavery, which was yet to ost a National hemorrhage of four awful 'ears and a million precious lives. Yes, dear old century, you had an awful tart, and vou havo uone more than well, onsld-ring your parentage an 1 your oarlv nviroument. It is a wonder you did not urn out to bo tho vagabond century of all ime. You had a bad mother and a bad traudmotber. Some of tho preceding cenurles were not 11. to live in?their morals voro so bad, their fashions were so oulrageius, their ignoranco was so dense, their iniiimanityso terrille. Oh, dying nineteenth entnry. before you go we take this opporunity of telliug you that you are the best mil t he mightiest of all the centuries of tho Christian era except th" tlrst, which gave us ho Christ, tiud. you rival that century in the act that you more than all the other centuries put together aro giving tho Christ to all he world. One hundred and twelve thousand lollars, at one meeting a few days :vgo eonributetl for tho world's evangelization, jook at what you havo done. O thou ibused and depreciated ceutury. All he I'ncillc Isles, barred and bolted igainst the gospel when yon oegau o reign, now all open, and. some of them noro Christianized than America. No more, is once written over the church doors iu Jape Colony, "Dogs and Hottentots not adnitted." The lute Mr. Darwin contributing r'25 to thoSouthern Missionary Society. C intiballstn driven off the face of theearth. The jates or nil Nations wide open for the gospel 'ntrancu when the church shall give up its ' ntolleetunl dandyism, and quit fooling with tigher criticism, ami plunge into the work, \ is at a life saving station the crew pull out vith the lifeboat to take the sailors ofT a hip going to piocea in the Hkerries. I thank rou. old and dying century. All heaven hanks you, and surely all the Nations of the 1 arth ought to thank you. I putboforo your lyes, soon to bo ilim for the last sleep, the a'*;* tro-M^ndou". T tn';n your wrinkled old in ail- i ; il ia uulatlon. I bat ho 1 'u?r iVw ! \v in I fresheu your parched ips fro.a iir- fountains of eterual victory. Hut niv le.xt suggests that th'ero are some ' hings that this century ought to do before , 10 leaves us. ''Thus saith the Lord, "Set hitie house in order, for thou * . tit die and tot live." Wc ought not to lot this century jo before two or three things are set in order 'or one thing tnis <|tiarrel between la'ior and apital. The nineteenth century inherited t from the eighteenth century, but do not ot this nineteenth century bequeath it to he twentieth. "What we want, says labor, 'to set us right is more strikes and more vlgirous work with torch and dynamite." 'What we want." says capital, "is a tighter trip on I lie working classes and compulsion o take what wagon* wo choose to pay, w.then referee t?> tin-lr r.oo Is." l$>th wrong is -in. I; ah dc.i uu. Until the day of judgnont no settli-incut of the quarrel it you leave t to liritlsh, ltiisslnn or American politics. Pho religion of Jesus Christ ought to come n w.thin the next four years and take the land of capital an l employe and say: "You utve tried everything else and failed. Now ry tlio gospel of kindness." No more optression and no inorestrikes. The gospel of esus Christ will sweeten this acer>it.v, or it will go on to he end of tlmo. and the fires that 1 uirn the worlil up will crackle in the oars of rrathful prosperity and indignant toil white heir hands are still clutching nt each other's hroats, IJeforo this century sighs its last ireatli I would that swarthy labor and easy ipulence would cctno up and lot the Carponer of Nazareth ioin tiielr bands in pledge of ' veriesting kindness and peace. When men ,11(1 women arc ilyimt ttiey aro apt to divide ' nnonu their children mementos. anil ono Is liven a watch, and another a vane, and author a picture, and another a rope. Let his veteran century before it dies handover 0 the human race, with an hnproaslveuess : lint ahull la-t forever, that old family keep ike, the ituldcn keepsake which nearly 1UU0 ears n^o was handed down fr >m the black j oek of the mount of beatitudes, ''Therefore II things whatsoever ye would that men Itoiild do to you. do ye even so to them, for ' or this is the law ami the prophets." ! Another tiling that needs to he set in 1 r.ler before the veteran century quits us * a more thorough and all embracing |>lan r the worl l's ^ardenlzation. We have een trying to save the world from the op, and if cannot be done that way. It as ?ot to he saved from the bottom. I'he j hiir 'h oii^lvt to be only a West Point to rib soldiers for outside battle. What if a lilitiary academy should keep its students roni aye to a^e in the messrootn and the arracks? No, no! They are wanted at bmb'/.uma and Ciiaptutopei and South buintau. an I .Missionary ltid;<?, ami the I luireh is no place lor a Christian to stay cry lonir. He is wanted at the front. U?* s ti ' b-1 in the desperate charge of tnkituj lie parapets. The last itre.at battle for | I js not to lii fouitht en the eatnptis of | 1 .-n'l.'^e or the lawn of a church. It is to fought at Missionary 11 Id if o. IJofore j ills eenlurv quits us let us establish the libit of ifivini" the forenoon of the Sab- | nth t the churches an I tho afternoon and \ lie evening of the Sabbath to fjrspel work , a the halls an l theaters and streets an 1 lei N an 1 -111 in . an 1 wildernesses of sin I imt s irroiv. Why do Christians who have I tulTe | themselves Willi "the strom,' meat of In- word" an I all uuspel viands on Sabbath ui'i'U i uis want t up to a see >nd ser- ) a an I -titIT themselves lufain? These old ' rm tu li t-a' the gospel feast nee l to /et | lit out I i r work with the outdo ir gospel hat wa- (ircaelie 1 on the batiks of the Jor- | tati, an I >!i the :l-lnii_? smaeksof Lake (lallee, and in the tileak air of a.-sn r.an nioiinauis. f an I 'll that throughout nil our \ a a n e : i I S i .bat It > vviet n . \ Mirivi - -|' irsely, veil, .i '.'r.t . I.. .1:ii-:i I. !. .iii'I m tln? 1!1 stress "n I,*..I ali i < ! <111 <>nt pastors who 1 -ia^ tM'-ir li'araiir.; mil piety neforo pews j ot v for their in >> montiey. What is the [ : VI t 'Iit 1 ;lI III'' Hill.a" The irreutest of all I \ in ; . ! iie-e |!ili|e 11111 reeentlv -*11 icI t*. it t i" . a.11^ -ervi -es in all the1 ;r -ii' < > t1:ru 1 int the most popular tv|e . f 1 \ Ili^el,.', :i.i-etit|Os r Ul-I'ler-. s.ir-.v the 1 -v.- 1 w >rili making. If lli.lt (lofS Dot >l| I ! , it it".'-, HO 'lit i I > 1110 all the . |niri,..v ' . . * - .*.1:0 I SUiU 'ieilt evi'lllll.; . t" .-hut | Hp th r.' I'liil-liiu,'- 1' 1 ami no where the 1 pl'Ople tiro ale! itivitt lll? '? t" t'OlhA to the I gospel l<:i!l<|i|et, I.ef the Christian I."iintifully f<vl in vUv m 'rutuK. ifo lot. . . ihu utteruoou nu?l I evening to feed the multitudes of outsiders starving for the breed of whtoh It man eat be shall never again hunger. Among those clear down the gospel would make more rapid conquest than among those who know I so much and have so much that God can- ' not teach or help them. In those lower depths are splendid fellows In the rough, like the shoeblack a reporter saw near New York Olty Hall. He asked a boy to blaok his boots. The boy came up to hla work provoklngly slow and had lust begun when a large boy shovod him aside and begad the work, and the reporter reproved htm as being a bully, and the boy replied: "Ob, that's nil right. I am going to do It for 'lm. You *eo he's boon sick la the hospital more'n a month, so us boys turu In and give 'lm a lift." "Do all the boys help him?" asked the reporter. "Yes, sir. When they ain't got no job tbomselves and Jim gets one they turn lu and help 'lm, for he ain't strong yet, rou see." "How much percentage does he ?lvo you?" said the reporter. The boy replied: "I don't keep uono of It. 1 ain't no moh sneak as that. All the boys give np tvhat they git on his job. Fd like to catch my fcllor sneaking on a sick boy, I would " i no reporter gave Dim a twenty-live cent piece and said, "You keep ten cents for yourself and give the rest to Jim." "Can't lo it, sir. It's his customer. Here, Jim." Such big souls as that strew all the lower iopthsof the cities, and, get them converted o God, this would no tho last full oonlury of :he world's siu and but little work of ' ?Angelizitlon would be loft for the next ?entury. Before this contury expiree let here bo a comblued ofTort to save the great :ltios of America an 1 Groat Britain and of all Christoudom. What an awful thing it would be for you! O <lylng contury, to bequeath to t*ie coming century, as yet innocent nnd unsenrred with a single sin or burdened with a single ?orrow, tho blasphemy, the lawlessness, the Uhelsm. tho profligacy aud tho woes of great jltlesstill unevangolized. What we ought to sec, O dying century, is a revival of religion that would wrap the continents in conflagrations of religious awakening, and that would make legislation and rherclinndiso and all styles of worldly business wait awhile nt tho telegraph offices aud tho telephone offlces bocause they are occupied with telling tho ?tory of citios and Nations born in a day. Nearly nil tho centurios closed with something tromeudous. Why may not this century jloso In the salvation of America? I do not know whether our theological friends, who linvo studied tho subject moro than I have, lire right or wrong when they say Christ will come in person to sot up His kingdom In this world; but though wo would be overwholme I with our unworthiness I would like to see Christ descend from heaven in one of the clou Is of this morning, and planting His feet on this earth, which He cauie centuries ago to save, ucciaro ms reign 01 iovo and i mercy ami salvation on eartn begun. And what mora appropriate plane?I gay it rev- I orentlally?or such a divine landing than the capital ot a continent never cursed by the tyrannies and superstitions of the Old World? What has this dying nineteenth oeniury to tell us before b? goes? We all love to hear septuageuariaus. octogenarians, nonagenarians and centenarians trdk. We gather around the armchair aud listen till it is far on into the night and never weary of hearing their experiences. But Lord Lvulhurst. nt eighty-eight years of age, pouriug into the gars of the House of Lords in a four hours' address the oxperieuces of a lifetime, and Apollouius, at 100 years of age, recounting his travels to thrilled listeners, and Charles Macklin, at 107 years of age, absorbing the attention of his hearers, and italph Farnham of our country, at 107 years, telling the Prince of Wales the story of Bunker Hill, can create no such interest us this dying centenarian If ho will only speak. Tell us, O nineteenth century, before you go in a score of sentences, gome of the things yon havo heard and seen. Tho veteran turns upon us and gaya: "I saw ' Thomas Joffrrssn riding in unattended from Monticollo. only a few steps fjrpin whore you aland, dismount from his horsey aud hitch the bridle to a post, and on der hill take the oath of the presidential S oflloe. I saw yonder oapital ablaze with ' war's incendiarism. I saw tho puff of the llrst steam ongine in America. I heard thd thunders of Waterloo, of Sepastopol and Sedan and Gettysburg. I was present at nil the coronations of the kings and queens and emperors and empresses now in the world's palaces. I have seen two billows roli across this continent and Irom ocean to oceau?a billow of revival joy in 1857 and a billow of blood in lst>4. I havo soon f >itr generations of the human rr.co march across this world and disappear. I saw IIJ' II unmra Hi'-tvcn mm moir urnves uui;, I have heard tho wedding bolls anJ the death knolls o( near a hundred years. I have olappt d my liunds for millions of joys and wrung thetu in millions of agonies. I saw Macroady and Edwin Forrest net und Edward I'ayson pray. I hoard tho first ohiino of Longfellow's rhythms, and boforo anyono else saw then I road tho first line of Bancroft's history and the first verse of Bryant's "l'hanntopsis" and the first word of Victor Hugo's almost supernatural romance. I hoard tho music of all tho grand marches and tho lament of all tho requiems that for nigh ton decades inado tho cathodrnl windows shako. I havo seen more moral and spiritual victories than all of my predecessors put together. For all you who hoar or read this valedictory I havo kindled all tho domestic firesides by which you over sat and roused all tho hnlloos and roundelays and merriments you havo ever hoard ami unrollod all the pictured sunsets and starry banners of the midnight heavens that you have over gazed at. But ere I go tako this admonition and benediction of adylngcentury. Tho longest life, like mine, must close. Opportunities goue never comeback, us I could prove from nigh a hundred yeurs of observation. The eternity that will soon take me will soon tako you. The wicked live not out half their days, as I have seen In 10,000 instances. The only iufiucneo for making the world happy is an inlluenco that 1, the nineteenth century, inherited from the first century of tho Christian era?the Christ of all tho centuries. Bo not dee-ived by the fact that 1 have lived so lone, f >r a century is a largo wheel that turns 100 smaller wheels, which are the years, and each one of those years turns smaller wheels, which are tho days, an 1 e.i rh mie of the .'ho lays turn-. 21 smaller wheels, which are tlm hours, each one of tho-o 'Jl h ir' turn 00 smaller wheels, which ar.< the minutes, an 1 those (1) minutes turn still smaller wheels, which are the seconds. And all of this vast machinery is in perpetual m /.ion ami pushes us on and on toward tho ,.tr.i.nll.f II.K...... II ...in -i in - < w ... i . .. i.n 111, iii i j u ciui'k of the winter ni^lit i?.?t\v??t?ii tho your 1900 an 11!? ' year 19:)J open before me, tho ilyimr century. I quote from the throe inscriptions over tlueo doors of the entlc* tral of Milan. Over ono <| .or, a ni?l a wreath of sculptured roses. 1 read. "All that wl.iali pleases us is Init for a moment." Over another <loor, uroutul a s-'ulpture.l eros.s, [ read. "All that whi.'h tr .ii'des us is but for a moment." But over thoectitral iloor, i read. "That only is important which is eternal." O,eternity, eternity, eternity! My hearer-, a.-. th? nin- tcent h century was horn while tho fa.m of this Nation was yet wet with t"ars h 'e iu-e of the fatal horseback ridetnat Washington took out hero at Mount Vern >n threiiifh a 1 > 'emher snowstorm, I wish the n> xt century miifht ha born at a 1 i:?i > wh.ui the fa <>f this Nation shall bo we with fi'. I1 -.r. <.f t!i>. literal or spiritual ar aval ... the iireal 1> diverer of Nations, of wh en st. .1 >hn wrote witti apocalyptic pen, "And 1 - iw. and behold ;i white hors"! And lie that sat > n llun hn?l a how. anil a crown wh- ifiven unto Him, nnd lie wont forth coii.pierinif in..I t > > 111. r. I iiiloiiiie.l Street sweepers, f'itt urt has ad pted Colonel Waring'* uniforms, and ail tiie men m tho Street <'leiiniiiit I>..pariiii-mt ar > to be uniformed similarly to tii-* Mow Y .r;. force. Was I lie l?aui;1iter nf a Siamese Twin. Mi-, Victoria Bolein.'k, ngod forty-llvo, daughter of ("ham.*. > i ol tie* Siamese twins, li-.l at Kuowille, 1'. nil., from tuo effects of I a surgical optrnti-.u. Will EUM'S POIJCT. Says He Wants to Unite the White People. HIGH AND PATRIOTIC PURPOSE. He ( at Work on Ills Inaugural. What May he Expected ? On a New Line. Mr. E. J. Watson, a representative of tha Columbia State, one day last no.V _kiU 1.1 1 ?vv*| n UUO UU UID 1UIIUUO, UUllUU lip I against Governor-elect EUerbe at Treatoo, and below is an interview be had with the next Governor of our State: "At this point, starting tor Columbia, I met the man who soon aftor the second Tuesday in January next is to assume tbo direction of the State government?Governor-elect William H. EUerbe?and spent several hours with him. He talked pleasantly and patriotically of the future of his State, and forces one to the couclusiou that his aim is to bring about genuine peace and unity among the whole people, if he is givon the proper support. The governor-elect takes high ground on matters of great public concern and says his desire is to give the cntiro people of South Carolina a cleau,impartial administration of tho a flairs of the State government, no says ho has clearly marked down tho lines of bis policy and expects to hew to them, trusting to the truly patriotic men of both factious to lay aside factional differences uud personal matters and give him their assistance. "The Governor-elect is looking woll just at this timo. Ho says his health was bad just after tho caiupaigu, but uu is iK>w quire wen again. no expects to move his family to Columbia as soon bh he is inaugurated, and they will reeido at the executive mansion. Ho smiliugly remarked that ouo leading manufacturer of bicycles had offered him a handsome machine if he would take bis exercise iu that way: he added with a smile, 'Hut I think walking is safer and better for me. I am accustomed to walking about the farm. "Mr. Ellerbe occupies a porition somewhat distiuct from his predecessors in the gubernatorial chair. His election was one of the unanimous kind and he is not bound by promises, neither is he tied up with obligations to any one for support. About his only promise given tn the campaign was that to the people of Charleston thut if they would enforce the dispensary law he would remove the metropolitan police. When I asked him about this he declined to have anything to say on tho subject, but those who know him are assured that that promise will be kept. "As to tho dispensary problem, tho Governor-elect, whilo he will deal with it iu his inaugural, will not make any suggestions or recommendations to the General Assembly. Ho will, however, I feel safe in saying, call upon the people of the Stuto to stuud to him and help him enforce tho law to the letter as long as it is on tho statute hooks. Mr. Ellerbo has studied the subject thoroughly aud has his views as to what should be done, but those views he is not nmkiug public, nor will ho be likely to have aiivthimr to sav at all. unless it be in a special message after bis inauguration. "Mr. Ellerbe has already begun work on his inaugural address. Iu that address ho will take a new lino. Ho will hardly dovote it to recommendations to tho General Assembly, but will very plainly make it an address to the whole people, general in its character and bread in its scope. l''or Mr. Ellerbe believes that an inaugural should bo addressed to tho people themselves. "I asked Mr. Ellerbe about tho chnnce of getting a reduction in taxes in South Carolina, lie said this was a matter to which he hail given most serious consideration ami much time, but ho had failed to onvolvo any scheme. The only thing he could seo was the increase of the taxable property in the State. This could bo broughtabout by bringing more people with mouey into the State and by encouraging the settlement of emigrants here. It would cost no more to run the Stato government with this increase of property and taxes would be lowered. "Mr. Ellerbe has outlined an exe?-llent policy as to tho making of all appointments. but in regard to this as in nearly everything else he is exceedingly ret icon t. "He hail just left Senator Tillman when I saw him. He and Senator Tillman and members of the curriculum committee of the Clcrnsoti trustees, 1 und he had come downtosce the Senator about tho condition of aflutrsat the college. The death of Prof. Mcdco ! deprives the college of n professor of agriculture, thus leaving one of times* | gentinl departments without a director, i There seeuis to he a great difiieulty | ahout finding a man to till the place. It j has heen agreed upon filially, Mr. | Kllerhe says, to leave th? matte! open 1 until Dee. II, when the trustees meet at the mllcnre commencement Mr Ellorho snya Senator Tillman is to | mnko two speeehea soon?one at St. J Matt hew h on Dec. d, ii, aid of the Cal \ hoiiu county Hcheuie; the other at | Gnfl'noy on Dee. f>, in aid of the new county of which that ?!ac c di sires to j he the county seat. The Philadelphia I.edger sagely says: 'Never argue; if any person differs , from yoi: how and turn the conversation." I i elo r after linaneial in formation i ' ?*. ? ill have to keep ducking prei ! i ?> i that advice. ? Proposed Only Twice. Beethoven never married. But It was from no defect of sensibility that the tribulations which were distributed among many successive housekeepers were not heaped upon the devoted head of a wife. If love be a disease, Beethoven wns always 111, or at best but convalescent. No less thnn forty ladles, save four, bus he Immortalized by his dedications to them. To Bettlna von Arnlm?CJoetlie's Bettlna ?for whom he long cherished u hopeless passion, he once said, after trying over a composition which he has Just written. "I made that for you; you lnsplrinl me with It. I saw It written In your eyes;" and this is but a specimen of the gallantries to which he was addicted. Twice at least he proposed?on one occasion to n lady who, as he found to his mortification was already the fiancee of his friend Hummel. That marriage would have saved him from a good many worries, is certain enough; for It must be allowed that, us Emll Naumann delicately puts It, he "did noi i>osri<'SM any aptitude for household Qiuiiagcinout."?Blackwood's Magazine. Mntnnlly Knfe, He?I never mean what I say to a. summer girl. She?And I never believe what a summer man says to mo. lie?Good. Then we might as well be engaged without further loss of time. ?New York World. SBMBBimpdh CURES WHtftt ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Coutth Syrup. Tastes tkiod. VJeo In tlmo. Sola bv (IrtiKitlsts. It Union Barber Shop For a haircut truly ton-orial. For a shave tliat will give you deligli For a rouil; and bn;.-.h admiil the great crush For two burlier* that will do you all right Go to ('ar.-on A 1 lowell Cars Mt ?N: Ilowe'.l are artists "Good" work is ever tlieii text Their chairs are easy and tlieii puiloi* are bree/y. Now lie sure you are always t he iieM'.'At the I'nioit Burlier shop. Who are Hawkins and Thomson? They are theliest kuliers in town, i hi mu>n .hi'i I'lviuiy No better can l>o found. If \??ji will bill give us a trial Yi>u will uevei go elsewhere, For those who have done so have never Let an\ other kill >ev cut theii hair. (Jut ic. '! s are bright ami keen Our to .els are new ami clean Wiil shave you in short tine; Ami "what, do you think! Wi.l shave you ior a dime Am! aive von a drink?" CLOSIHG OUT SALE. I ()!'. TS'K Ni:.\r Thirty Dnys Wo j .ojiose to - !o?e otir the i::.?jor;ty o< us:- sto: k al lU'gulit* i ut-l'liriiiil lYircs. We wid do this for the season that we intend to reorganize .Jan. 1, and increase our stock lor o u new brick stor* oil south side of laihoad. For next *'C days we offer Best 10c. Outing at 81 cents. Best 01c. Outing at 5 cents. All wool suits at $0.00. All wool twill tlannel tit 1*2$ mits. extra wide. Family Flour at So.OO per barrel, great bargain. 0 pounds soda 20 cents A largo lot of mens solid Sunday shoes to go at 98 cents Si.50 shoes at $1.55. J. J. L1TTLEJOHM fcp. LOOK! LOOK! We have added to our Large ami Complete Line of Fresh Drug's, The Largest ami I Jest Selected Stock of Lamps, Lamp Chimneys, Perfumery ami Toilet Articles, ever brought to I'nlon, which we are going to sell at prices that will make them go. We also have the agency for D1AMANTA SPECTACLES. Rct.'f V N O ' l 13Y P MYSICIANS. You cannot affmd fo wear inperior ^lassos ami iiism your eves when wo aro solium Hu so iiiii i v;ilio<l ?Hav;os at sueli ;i low prion Conio at oiioo and *^oi lit Ik). Carolina Drug Co. SURVEYING. I will be in ( it ion until no.\t June prepared to do surveying in the afternoons and on Satin days- Call at the (irailed School or Mr. Jacob Rice's. DAVIS JEFFRIES. (10?t. r. C, P. Townsend, Asst. Atty Gen'l., Columbia, 8. C Ben F. Townsend, Union, S. C. TOWNSEND St TOWNSEND, . Attorneys at Law, Union, S. C. Office Judge Townsend's old stand. gIMS & DIXON. Atty'e at Law. All business placed in our hands will re? ceire prompt attention. Office No 1 Law Raug*. O CHUMPERT, BUTLER & MoUOWAN. Attorneys at Law A ? n n *1.1 n(T...a j Ab V>. V. \'UI|? D WIVI VU1VVD. K. Hydrick J. A. Sawyer, Spartanburg, S C., Union, S. C O VDRICK & SAWYER. Attorneys at Law Col. McKissick's Old Office. M UNRO & M UN HO, Attorneys at Law, No. 2 Law Range. g S.STOKES. , Attorney at Law and Trial Justice. Office Hear of Court House. DR. MAR LEY B. LINDSAY," Dentist, Office on the corner of Main and Judgement sts., near the Court House. UNION MARBLE -AND- '** Oraiiite Works. GEORGE GEDDES I i S. S. LINDER, M. D., A "Will prartire Medicine ami Surgery in M all its branches. Otliee in room over Smith Clothing Company; Residence on T5 Church street; Telephone, 47. fan. _ V ( $(9.5() For a Sow- M ing- Miiehino. 1 S4S.00 for a .?('?").00 Organ. 1 S-"17.00 for a Su|N>rh Upright (?r--?t I Piano, reduced from S42A.OO. I buns and Clocks accordingly. Prices Ir will advance after Christmas. Now is the time to buy. W, 31. RICE, .Jr., IT. I DOUBLE BUGGY HARNESS AND TENNESEE WAGONS rO!< SALE EY F AA T BROS Bit I NO VOUlt Job frinliii? to Tin; Times g It will lie ncatlv executed ! Smooth I Skin I For Ymir Fnrp I 1 _ ? ? m v m*m * m W W A |l It probably needs renewing, for It Is rough, rod, ;4| freckled, hlotehed or pimpled, until It linn hecniuo y repulsive instead of nttrnetive. Healthy .skin Is , always bonutlful The huh and w|od, impure .,1 soaps and cokuiutlce Injure tlio skin. s Viola Cream J eleansos, nourishes rind restores thoskln, making '( It soft, white ttnd bountiful. It Is ma u cosmetic ?does not cover up, hut removes hlemlslies. It Is harmless and always does just what we claim It fit. The tnily prostration that will positively remove Freckles, lllnckheads. Tnn. Sunburn and ritiiplcs. Hundreds of testimonials from prouil- B I nent ladles. I'rlce 50 c?nta u jar ut druggists. ? Q. C. BITTNCR CO.. TOLfUH>! OHIO. 1 Wanted-An Idea Sn3S ] I PrOtACt your Ideas; they may brine vou wealth. Wrllo JOHN WF.l?i>RRBUHN A CO ."J'fttent Attor neys. Wa^htnitUin. 1> C., for their prIM offer aud lint of two hundred InvoAtlou* ttuuted. Tt'SH'lliT JollUtlic, (l<> J'oll know wllill .lolmni ' CIiatHe Yea, sir; that's what you ?or?t-t witli.?Texas Sifier. ? I