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f HELD IN STOUT GRIP BSKSrll?r*"' ;.v Dr. Taimage Draws a Lesson ?p>U. From Eleazars's Tenacity. CLOSER HOLD ON GOSPEL. The Noted Preacher Says He Will Not Cease to Preach Because He Resigned His Pastorage. In the first notice concerning Dr. Talmage that Pastor Charles H. Spurnf London wrote the sr^at English oy- p minister said he was glad to find a preacher that believed something. This discourse of Dr. Talmage is in that Tein and urges close adherence to the old gospel; text, II Samuel xxiii, 10. "And his hand clave unto the sword." What a glorious thing to preach the gospel! Some suppose that becai se I have resigned a fixed pastoral- I will cease to preach. No! No! I expect to preach more than I ev.r have. If the Lord will, four times as much, though iu maDifold places. I would not dare to halt with such opportunity * to declare the truth through the ear to ^ audiences and to the eye through the printing press. And here we have a stirring- theme put before us by the prophet. A great general of King David was Ele^zar, the hero of the text. The Philistines opened battle against him, r- - and his troops retreated. The cowards fied. Eleazar and three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for four men with G-od on their side are stronger than a whole regiment with God against them. "Fall back!" Bhouted the commander of the Philistine army. The cry ?a aioDgthe host, ''Fall back!" Eleazar,,having swept the field, throws himself *on the ground to ^ .1. 1 j ^ v, rest out cue iXlUSUieS itliu 31"cno UI ma hand had been so long bent around the v hilt of his sword that the hilt was imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the haDd, and lie could not drop this sword which he had so gallantly wielded. <;His hand cla?e unto the sword." That is what I call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel And we want more of it. I propose to show you how Eleazar took hold of the sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to the conclusion that he took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled ? had no trouble in dropping their swords. As they fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanging in every ? direction. It is easy enouxh for them to drop their swords. But Eleazar's hand clave unto the sword. In this f Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the gospel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the tmt.ii Tt -makes me siek to see these Chrisiian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go, so that the Philistines, seeing W the loosed gra-p. wrench the whole swerd away from them, r The only safe thing- for us to do is to put our thuirb on the book of Genesis and sweep cur hand around the book until the New Testament comes into the palm and keep on sweeping our hand around thr^-h^-nntil tbi? the fingers clutcrn at the words, "In the ' beginning Go? created the heavens and ' ?the earth. " I like an infidel a great deal better than* I do one of these namby pamby Christians who hoid a part of the truth and let the rest go -? ? -i- o.j ?: J d.U. ' s>y miracle. vrou preserveu tuia utviv just as it is, audit is a Damascus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then, when the sword is let loose, it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God's truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way aDd that wav and wound this vrav and that way. but it always comes back to its own shape. Thick of it! A book written near 19 centuries aeo and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in onr time the average sale of this book is 'more than twenty thousand copies every week and more than a million copies a year. I say now that a book which is divinely inspired and divinely kept and w divinely scattered is a weapon worthholding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso 1 will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, snl Strass will come along and try to v.rench out of your hand the miracles, and Renan will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the entire life KJJ. tuc ?J\JL u. ywuo CLLtvL j> uui aosociates in the office or the factory or the banking house will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar's grip hold on to it Yot gue up.the Bible, you give up any part of it, aod you give up pardon and peace and life and heaven. Do not be ashamed, young man, to have the world know that you are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of all that is good, and it is the sworn enemy of ail that is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man who Mood in a cell of a western prison. This criminal * had gone through all styles of crime. and he was there waiting for the gallows. The convict standing there at the window of the cell, this wrirersays, "looked out and declared, 'I am an infidel.' He said that, to ail the men and women and children who hap;>ened to be gathered there, 'I am an infidel,'" and the eloquent writer says, "Every man aDd woman thers believed him." And the writer goes on to say, "if he had stood there sayiDg, 'I am a Christian,' every man aDd woman would have 3aid, 'He is a liar!' " This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and it is the friend all that is good. Oh, hold on it! Do not take part of it and throw the rest away. Hold on t<- all of it. There are so many people dow who do not know. You ask them if the soul is immortal, and they say: "I guess it is; I don't know. Perhaps it is; perhaps it isn't." Is the Bible true? "Well, perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at L all." They despise what they call the apostolic creed, but if their own creed H were written out it would read like this: i "I believe id nothing, the maker of |?:- heaven and earth, and in nothing which | Bfc it hath sent, which nothing was born of j nothing and which nothing was dead j Rk and buried and descended into nothing IK. and arose from nothinsr and aseeRaed to ' Hi nothing and now sitteth at the right ! R hand of nothiog, from which it will ^^^^come to judge nothing. I believe in ^^ly agnostic chuich and in the JfcjB^ofnothingarians and in the [baling, and the returg&ylin thft life that fci^That is the feKoeople in feidopt ??? - ? CT ; in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, ar.d in Jesus Christ and in the holy catholic church and in j the communion of sain :s and in the life , i everlasting. Amen." Oh, when I see ! I E.'eazar taking such a stout grip of the j sword in the battle arainst sin and for I righteousness, I come to the conclusion j that, we ought to lake a s'outer grip of I Qf d's eternal truth?the sword of ! righteousness. What have we sufferred in comparison with tho^e who expired with suffocation or were burned or were chopped ! to pieces tor the truth's sak?? We | talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much persecution going on now ia various ways. In 1849, in Madagascar, 18 men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to j be hurled over tbe rocks, and before they were hurled over tDe rocns, in order to make their death the more dread ful in anticipation, they were put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they mijjht see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swiDging in these baskets over the rocks tbey sang: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high. Then they were dashed down to death. Oh, hew much others have en- | dured for Christ, and how little we ea- j ! dure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping car, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up early, so we can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all the ! salve, for our hand is hurt, while Elea 2ar doe3 not know his hand is hurt. ' ' " * * .1 - J j "His band clave unto tne swora. As 1 look at Eleazer's hand I come J to ihe conclusion that he Has done a ! great deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised when I see that these four men?Eieazar ana'his 'tinee ceropanions drove back the army of Fhilistines? that Eieazar s sword clave to his hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end of the s^ord wounded hiai. When he took hold of the sword,,the sword took hold of him. Oh, we have found an enemy who Mnnnf. h* f?r>nmiftred bv rosewater and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust. There is intemperance, a^d there is fraud, and there are ten thousand battalions of iniquity, armed Philistine iniquity. How are they to be captured and overthrown? Suft sermons in morocco cases laid down in front of an exquisite audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right name. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic words to iniquity we are about to capture it. And we must go with sword, silver chased and presented by the ladies and we must ride on white palfrey under embroidered housiDg, putting the spurs in only just enough to make the eharger dance gracefully, and then we must send a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask the ?ld block giant of sin if he will nr: surreEder. Woman saved by the graci of God and on gloriQnsmishiou sent, detainpd from Sabbath classes because their new- nat is not i done. Churches thafshook our cities revivals"sending around to i ask some demonstrative worshiper if he | wiil not please to say "amen" and 1 - 1:1.^. ?Ci.? TV iiaiieiuia,n a, nunc aunei. h cccuw i as if in our churches we wanted a baptism of cologne and Dalm of a thousand flowers when we actually need a baptism of fire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But we are so afraid somebody will criticise our sermons or criticise our prayers or criticise our religious work that our anxiety for the world's redemption is loet in the fear we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazar went rtrtnflirtf. V>?? Kan^ I iiAWV VUV VWUU*VVJ ~ ~ unto the sword." . But I see in the next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parted. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grashed around the sword he could not drop it when he proposed to drop it, and his three comrades, I suppose, came up and tried to help him, and they bathed i the back part of the hand, hoping the I J 1 u T?..* sinewsauu muscies wuuw iej<t.a.. x?ut do. "Hia hand clave unto the sword." Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pull back the thumb, but no sooner were they pulled back than they closed again, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But after awhile ihey were successful, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the hand corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His hand clave unto the i sword." I had in but parish in Philadelphia a very aged man who in his early life had been the companion and adviser of the early presidents, Madison and Monroe. He had wielded vast influence, but I only knew him as a very aged man. '1 he most remarkaHIe thing about him was his ardor for Christ. "When he could not s:and up in :he meetings without propping, he would threw his arm around a pillar of the church, and, though his ruind was partially eoue, hia love for Christ was so great that all were in deep respect and profound admiration, and were moved when he spoke. I was called to see him die. I entered the room, and he said, "Mr. Talmage. I cannot speak to you now." He was in a verv nloasanfc dfllirintn. as he imagined he had an audience before him. He said, ':I must tell these people to come to Christ and prepare for heaven." And then in this pleasant delirium, both arms lifted, this oetogenarian preached Christ and told of the glories of the world to come. There lying oq his dying pillow, his dying hand clave to his sword. Ok, if there ever was any one who had a right to retire from the conflict, I it was old Joshua. Suldiers come back j from battle have the names of the bat ties on their flags, showing where they j distinruif-hea themselves, and it is a | very . -nropriate inscription. Look at p ry it i r\ I mil ik ' 01 oiq general josnua. ud it Jericu-;, Gibeon, Hazar, city of Ai, and instead of the stars sprinkled on the flag the sun and the moon which stood still. There he is, 110 years old. He is lying flat on his back, but he is preaehing. His dying words are a battle charge against idolatry and a rallying crv for the Lord of Hosts as he says, "Behold, this day I go the way of all the earth, and God hath not failed to fulfill hix promise concerning Israel." His dying hand clave unto the sword. There is the hra lless body of Paul on the road to Ostea. His great brain aud his great heart have been severed, ? The elm?:ood rods had stung him fearfully. When the corn ship broke up. he swam ashore, coming up drenched wiih the brine. Every day since that ! dav when the horsi; reared under him i in the SDburbs of Damascus, asthesu- ; pernatural light fei.l, down to this day, 1 when he is 63 years of age and ill from \ the prison cell of the Marnertine,- he i * has been outra?eonsly treated, and he i3 waiting to die. How does he spend his last hours? Telling the wi>rid how badiy he feels and describing the rheumatism t! at he got in prise d, the rheumatism afflicting his limbs, or the neurulaio niuminir hi* fpmnr thf* thir.it -v-v that fevers his tongue? Oh, no! Ilis last words are the battle shout for Christendom: '"I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at band. I have fought the good fight." And so his dying banc5 clave uuto the 8word. I intend this sermon as a tonic. I want you to hold the truth with ineradicable grip, and I want you to strike s > hard for God that it will react, and while you take tbe sword the sword will take you. You notice that the officers of the northern army every year assemble. and you notice that the officers of the southern army every year assemble. Soldiers coming together are very apt to recount their experiences and to snow their scars. Here is a soldier who pulls up his sleeve and says. "There, I was wounded in that arm." and shows the scar. And another soldier j.nils down his collar and says, "There, I was wounded in the neck." And another soldier says, "I have had no use of that KwtVt f-ViA rrn H TA Oh iiUJ U O li-i Ut WJLL^ I^UUJUVW liuvvuiv. V S?, my friends, when the battle of life is over; and the resurrection has come, and our bodies rise from the dead, will we have on us any scars showing our brayery for God? Christ will be there all covered with scars. Scars on the brow, ocars on the hand, scars on the feet, scars all over the heart, won in the battle of redemption. And all heaven will sob aloud with emotion as they look it those scr.rs. Ignatius will be there, and he will point out the place where the tooth and paw of the lion seized him in the Coliseum, and John Huss will be there, end he will show where the coal first scorched the foot on that day when his spirit took wing of Same from Constance. M'Millan and Campbell and Freeman, American missionaries in India, will be there?the men who with their wives and children went down in the awful massacre at Cawnpur, and they will she* where the daggers of the sepoys struck them. The Waldenses will be there and they will show where their boaei were broken on that/day when 1 J xl tJie fiedmontese soicuery pucaea mem over the rocks. And there will be those there who took care of the sick and who looked after the poor, and they will have evidences of' earthly exh ^-? tion. And Christ, with his sc;? < ; hand waving over the scarred multi will say. "You suffered with m<> on earth; now be glorified with me in lieaven." And then the great organs of eternity will take up the chant, and St. John will play, "These are they who camc out of great tribulation and had ?t-.j ?j ? tneir roDes wasneu aim mauc nuns the blood of the Lamb." But what will your chagrin and mine be if it shall be told that day on the streets of heaven that on earth we shraDk back from all toil and sacrifice and hardship. N.o scars to show the heavenly soldiery. .Not so much as one ridge on the palm of the hand to show that jnst once in all this battle for God and the truth we grasped the sword so firmly and struck so hard that the sword and the hand stuck together and the hand clave to the sword. .Oh, my ijOTP. uesus, ruuse us iv iuji swnw. Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die. They see the triumph from afar And seize it with the eye. When that illustrious day shall rise And all thy armies shine In robes of victory through the skies, The glorv shall be thine. A Bad Mess. "Political pressure," said Gen. Eagan, (the official pet of President McKinley and Secretary of War Alger, and who was at the head of the commissary department during the war with Spain,) to the lawjer of the Texas cattle raisers who wanted to sell the government beef on the hoof, "is what gets contracts," and when Eagan said that he was not lying in his throat, nor any other part of his body either, sa.\ s the Nashville American. A packing house expert, Lees by name, testified that "one-third of the animals used for canning would be condemned in an English market." And so it goes. .But the evidence is so accumulative and there is such an amount of it to the ef feet that the beef was putrid and "utterly unfit for human food," as Gov. Roosevelt said of it, that the case ? against the packers ana someuuujr iu the War Department is compete- ^ b? that somebody or somebodies are will probably never be proved* although they are pretty well kn?wn-. The strange part of it is that the President, who knows now if he never did before that rotten beef was furnished shows not the slightest resentment that a<*" ministration has been imposed upon c such a shameless manner or that it has been harboring rascals in high places. On the contrary he seems to resent the meddling into the private aifairs of the government. In spite of the most con YiLiv;iii? cviucuic, uu Luau <juljuc^icu with the damnable poisoning of soldiers has been punished. Eagan has been retired, but that was because he spoke unbecomingly of Miles, and hia wounds were immediately balmed by the President by giving him a furlough on full pay, at the same time apologizing for this much punishment with the statement that the circumstances were mitigating. Unless the administration takes action of its own motion to punish the depraved beasts, for they were without the attributes of human beings, who knowingly compounded and sent-to the soldiers diseased food, the only conclusion that can be drawn a fViof An xo viAttu cuw auuiiux^uauvu tuuviuvo such proceedings. Senator Hauna's reference to Major Lee. whose outrageous work in bringing to light the illsmelling scandals deserves the highest praise, shows where his sympathies are. Where are the President's sympathies? Dr. William Nelson, a leading physician of the south side of Virginia, died at Danville on April 6. While performing an operation, March 26, on a little girl for appendkitis. Dr. Nelson punctured the skin of the index finger of his right hand. The puncture was exceedingly minute. The same niaht. bis arm became swollen, and from that time on there was a fight asrainst the poison in his veins. Dr. Nelson and his brother. Judge Frank Nelson. ov Campbell County, were the original Willie and Frank, the heroes in Thomas Nelson Page's book, "The Two Little Confederates." At a school exhibition in Orange, N". J., the children were allowed to enter into a public discussion as to whether Adam or Eve was the bigger sinner. Isu't this a rather unbecom- I ing >ort of intellectual skylarking? To I millions of people the old story of Adam and Eve, if not a revealed truth, is a serious allegorical and ethical story, touching the de&tiuy of man and of sp-ave import, and should not be used in a frivolous manner. ! BUTLER'S BRIGADE. I i I i An Account of Its Services in Vir! nrinio S"'"* I IT WAS A GALLANT COMMAND .. | The Battle of Hawe's Shop and Cold Harbor, in Which the Brigade Bore a Part. The following letter is clipped from the Charleston Courier of Sept. 21, j 1864: Army Northern Virginia, ) September 5, 1864. ? The campaign of 1864 has been without exception ..he moat active of all the preceding years siuce the inauguration of the war, as will be admitted. Hence the amount of work done by the army is without parallel in the past three years. Tnc use of cavalry in a country like ours has been indispensable, and of great utility. That branch of the service has rendered our defence effective, much to the annoyance of the foe. Armed as they are with the most severe ana dangerous weapons, have rendered great service, and proved the cavalry to be indispensable in time of war. The mode of fighting cavalry in these modern times differs vastlv from that j in years past in any of the foreign wars. In the present war they map be rightly termed as nothing else but mounted infantry. In innumerable instances the cavalry has been dismounted and thrown against-t'ne enemy with { complete success. In the great drama of this year's campaign, as far as it has advanced, General Butler's South Carolina Cavalry Brigade has had a prominent part in it and done its share of work. With these few introductory remarks upon the utility of the cavalry service, mode and style of fihting cavalry in a coantry like ours, I will give a summary in this my second, as 1 promised in mytfirst, and show what our South Carolina Brigade has been doing. The Fourth Regiment, commanded by Col. B. H. Rutledge, was, it will be remembered, one of the finest reriments the State of , South Carolina has ever sent to the I fields of Virginia, numbering nine hundred and eighty-seven men, well mounted and equipped for service, and one of the regiments comprising Butler's Brigade. This regiment had encamped at Atlee's Station, near the Central Kail Road, after a march of twenty miles from the South Anna'river. On the following morning, being 28th May, the Fifth Regiment, under command of the able and esteemed commander, Col. John Dunovant, was met by the Fourth Regiment at "Hawe's Shop," waiting and ready to act in conjunction against the enemy at that place. The .Fourth Jftegiment was ordered by Gen. Hampton to dismount and move forward, Lieut. Col. Stokes commanding, (Col. itutledge in command of tie brigade.") On arriving at the front the regiment was ordered to take position on the right line, moving uuder fire some four hundred yards. Just as they had formed line of battle and commenced moving into position, ^1- j *?2 1 l. me oruer was receiveu to remove it uaua. to the left again, during which time the bullets were flying thick and fast; but nothing daunted they heeded them not, and wiih uncerved.stepstaey wot? pressing to that point to which they were ordered. They had just reached the centre of the line when they wei? ordered to halt and await orders, atd in the midst of a mo*t terrific fire from the enemy's forces. They were kept in this position for upwards of an hour, durtxrtiioVi tmo c^raro\ Foil ftnH i.11^ i UAVU .AUiV/ gv ? w ?** *WA wounded. The fiaht continued with great fierceness and unabating in its violence between the forces then engaged. An nour and a half had elapsed, when the Fourth Regiment was orderea into action, moving up with cheers and yells, evincing a spirit anxious and desirous to engage the enemy. The enemy at tnis time were pressing back, by their greatly superior force, our forces. The Fourth Regiment, led by their gallaut Lieutenant Colonel, Stokes moved a little more to the left of the line and deployed across an open field to the support of our wavering line, at the doub:e quick, with Capt. Pinckney acting Lieutenant Colonel, and Capt. Berber as Major; pressing onward under a complete shower of bul'ets, until within about fifty yards of the enemy's line, when they were ordered to commence firing, which was done, giving them volley after volley, which was so terrific that the enemy wavered and give back. Reinforcements of infantry cime to their aid and support. Still the gailant Fourth held their ground l.ke veterans, nobly and unwaveringly, pouring in the contents of their Enfields with a complete and steady fire into their columns. This continued ' for ! three ouarters of an hour, the battle raging at its highest pitch conceivable, wnlj'jut intemission or cessation, but one coniiuual roar of musketry, it seems impossible that a man could escape. At this juncture of affairs the noble Fifth, under command of the gallant Col. Dunovant, came in, joining in the bloody contest, and at the time when the battle was at its sever-st pitch making a bold dash in a charge upon the ep.emy's lines, though under great disadvantages, through a bog and up a hill, doing great execution and injury to the enemy, driving them a few hundred yards back. During this period of the battle Col. John Dunovant received a painful wound in the hand, the battle still raging with unremitting severity, when it was perceived that the left wing of the line was fast giving away, and they were about being surrounded. They were then ordered to retire firing, which they had to do for three hundred yards, across an open field. At this time of affairs Captain Pinckney was captured, and the 4;h regiment sustained a loss of twentyfiTTA rtf n VtAtif f ? 1-1 rvn Vrt/J aa uvc uutui auuuu iuui iiuuuicu v;diiicu into action, and the 5th regihieut a lose of thirty. ' Xo body r>? men ever behaved with more roolness under such a fearful and j terriliu tire, and being the first general engagement that a majority of them had ever been into, it was generally acknowledged by 'hose who saw the 4th regiment go into action that they never saw men go in better or behave more ; gallantly. Oo another occasion, after this entacement, the fourth and fifth were in column, en route, and passing a body of troops drawn up on the right of the road. It was asked if these were not South Carolina boys. They were told yes. they were. "Ah." said several, "'these are men that don't know how to run. but are like the trees." Would that I could here award to each one of the men and officers individually who were engaged in this fight, a tribute of praise commensura-e with the valor displayed; actuated as he is by the highest degree and feelings of patriotism which entitle him exclusively to ' the right of the highest encomium and everlasting remembrance in the heart of his country. The lorces fell back across an open j field, exposed to a heavy and severe j fire from the enemy's line whiie retreat- : ing. They were ordered to recover their horses and re-mount and remain on the , ground, which was done, expecting the ; enemy to advance. It became, evident, { however, that we had injured them ; somewhat, and probably to a greater ex-i tent than we had sustained, as they were j not anxious to resume the fight. The ; numerical forces of the enemy in this ! fight must certainly have been five to one, if there was one man in it, and having in their command a large number that they could bring up at any time. It speaks well for our men, and shows the material, of Southern blood and valor. If there is any better men in the world for fighting it is-yet to be known, and I regret that they are wasted on such a horde as the North' brings agaiDSt them Having given you a de scription of the Havre's Shop battle I will now annex the Mattadaguin Creek fight, (commonly called Cold Harbor.) On the morning of the 30th May, Gen. Butler, pursuant to orders, moved from Mechanicsville in the direction of Old Church, (being in Hanover county,) with the object of finding out what the m?>mv wpta fthnnfc and tn ascertain their strength; Col. Gary, with his command would co-operate with him. The march was somewhat lengthy, but i: was not long before we arrived at Mattaaaguin Creek. It is here the fight took place, so incorrectly located at Cold Harbor. Cold Harbor is some two miles below. It is a mistake, therefore; the correct name should be the Mattadguin Creek battle. The forces fell back to Cold Harbor and made a stand. lien. Uutier, witti tne -itn ana otn regiments, in conjunction with Gen. Gary's cavalry, encountered the enemy about 3 o'clock on the above day, contending against superior odds of the -J-* i-i l\. enemy, aispuuug ganauuy ime giuuuu, with a desperate and firm spirit, under a heary fire of musketry and artillery. The forces were sent forward into action by sqadrons from each regiment at such times a? was thought necessary by our able commander, Gen. Butler, who was to be seen moving up and down the midst of the fight attending to his duty. Among the officers whom I saw upon the field Lieutenant Colonel- Stokes Dure <1 piUi-LLJLUCU t jjclhj auu AO a mvou gallant and efficient officer, daring and fearless in the din of battle. The second squadron was the last to he sent in; this squadron is formed of Company B, Captain Barber, and Company K, Captain Colcock: both captains being unavoidably absent, Lieutenant Osborn, commanded company B, and Lieuten ant Lionel Nowell, company K, well known to the readers as the Charleston Light Dragoons. General Butler addressed the squadron and said: "Men I have stood it long enough. I wish the enemy driven from that house in the field," which was about a quarter of a mile off. The squadron dismounted, formed into line and went forward at the double quick, making the welkin ring with the old charge shout and yell. Never did men appear so enthusiastic and intent upon an object as they did. They arrived in che lane or road as it may be called, fenced on each side, company K, taking the lane as their position, and company B, the right, in an open wheat field. They opened upon the house a blazing fire, when the Yan1 1. i v.:? uiuj sees oegan cu leave, tuau^ ueiug mucu and wounded in the attempt to escape, and some were captured. While this was going on another poitioc of the forcos were involved more to the left in a portion of woods. The battle waged until about six o'clock, hot and sharply contested. The wounded were seen in every direction. .Lieutenant Colonel Jeffords, comM&adinr 1st reeiment. received a very . wound in the thigh in this battle. The house was taken and burnt, as it was used as a shelter to the enemy. The enemy was not idle, but pouring it in on the left sharply and brought up rein forcements, and thus outnumbering us by a large majority, and were fast flanking us. The order wks then given to fall back, aad in a very favorable time, a? the ammunition had given out. The retreat was made, but with some little confusi )n, the enemy pressing us closely. The day was very warm and the retreat was exhausting; many gave out and could not go further, and stopped breathless, and were captured. It was during this period that the gallant Lieutenant Nowell was captured and many killed, wounded and missing from that old time honored corps, knowu in the city as tho Charleston Light Dragoons, and many more unheard from. Information gathered from prisoners taken in this fight state that we were engaged with the left wing of Grant's army, an overwhelming force. Butler's brigade has been well worked and done its full share in this campaign. No body of troopers is more deserving of * ' * ?* ' J T_ ? J.-L . credit ior gaimntry ana Dravery on me field of liattle than General Butler's South Carolina Cavalry Brigade. .Night came on and the forces retired to their encampment near by, leaving a detachment on picket. On the following morning they were brought forward again, expecting an attack from the enemy, and formed into line of battle: when about twelve o'clock the brigade was relieved by fresh troops. The 1st Regiment in this fight met with a loss of fifty-two killed, wounded and missing. The 5th Regiment sustained a losi of ?ixteen killed, wounded and missing. Orlando. Pressley's Parlors. Mr. D. A. Pressley, of Columbia, who represents the Ludden & Bates Southern Music House, has just fitted up his exhibition parlors. Here may be found specimens of the standard instruments which he handles?Mathushek pianos, Mason & Hamlin and Sterling Organs. These are first-class instruments of established reputation. Mr. Pre3sley invites lovers of music and admirers of high grade instruments to give him a call. He stands ready, also, to give prompt attention to all inquiries addressed to him by mail. See advertisement in another column. An interesting point has been raised in Columbia. A negro woman was in dieted for stealing a ring from Mrs. Philip Epstin. Mr. P. H. Nelson raised the point that the indictment w?q in l-.Tm nfiarsra alirmM have been that the ring was stolen from Mrs. Charlotte Epstin and not from Mrs. Philip Epstin. Judge "Watts sustained the objection and the negro woman rejoices that there is, after all, somethiag in a name. It was stated that the point was entirely new, and that there is no record of the question having been raised, but that in law a woman goes by her given name and not that of her husband. Both night be used for identification, so to speak. The other day a hugging bee was given out in Arizona, and it wa3 fifteen ' cents a hug. A man, while blindfolded, hugged his own wife for several minutes. When he found out who she was, he S got made demanded his 15 cents SOWil ARABIAN t?lOU?TTH To Inquire About a Wife's Welfare If a Gross Impertinence. j Social etiquette among the Arabs is a factor in life to be considered seriously, if you wish to live among them without f-ictlon. Its obligations are not to be completely mastered in a fewmonths. Sometimes when I hare had UUUipUllIUIlS Yi 1UU U1C jjicouuiauij thoroughly au fait with all things Mohammedan, the narmony of the occasion has been seriously endangered by some thoughtlessness or Ignorance on their part, which to the Moslem could-jfppear only as a contemptuous want of consideration. No greater insult could be offered to an Arab than a friendly inquiry as to the welfare of his wife?to as a natural civility, but to him a gross impertinence bitterly resented. On one occasion I nearly made a similar blunder. I was invited by a neighboring sheik to go to see him, and was on the point of riding up to his tent door and dismounting there. Fortunately, however, I recollected in time that eti quette demanded that I should foaitnrty yards off, and call in a loud voice: "Have I your permission to approach?" This gives ti-ie to bundle off any of their womenkind who may he about, preparatory to the admission of a stranger. It is curious also to notice tha+, in spite of the real effection existing between father anu son, the sense of respect dominates all other feelings, and the sons will never sit at meat with their father in the presence of a guest, but will wait upon both until the father, rising, allows them the opportunity of breaking bread with their visitor. Work That the Heart Doe*. The work of the heart is the circulation of the life-giving blood throughout the body. With each stroke or beat of the heart it projects something like six ounces of blood into the bodily conduits, throwing it for a distance of nine feet. This it does C9 times each minute, 4,140 times each hour, 99.360 times in a day. 36.260.400 times in a year, and 2,540,337.120 times in a lifetime of seventy years (including leap years.) The blood is propelled by the heart nine feet each beat, 207 yards each minute, seven miles in an hour. 169 miles in a day, 01.S17 miles in a year and 4.330,063 miles in the 70 years. The total force exerted by the heart every 24 hours has been calculated to be equal to 124 foot tons?that is, if the whole force expended by the heart in 24 hours were gathered into one huge stroke, such a power would lift 124 tons one foot off the ground. Speaking Clocks. In Switzerland they have commenced making phonographic clocks and watches which, it eppears, leave anything heretofore accomplished far in the shade. By merely pressing the button of the new timepiece, it pronounces the hour distinctly. The alarms call to the sleeper, "It's sis o'clock; get up I" There are some which even add the words. "Now, don't go to sleep again." The form can be changed to suit the buyer and make the warning more or less emphatic. This application of the phonographic principle is due to .a French watchmaker settled at Geneva. He introduces into clocks and watches lit+io siflhs of vulcanized rubber, on which the uesired words are traced In grooves corresponding to the hours and fractions of hours. Th? Diving: Spider. There is nothing new in the diving bell. Long before man thought he Invented it, the water spider knew all about It The water spider shins down a reed, dragging his diring bell with him, and anchors it under water on a level keel, so that the air it contains keeps the water out. When this air becomes foul, the spider swims to the top, captures a bubble with a flirt of its tail and carries It down to the bell for future reference. There the spider lives in snug comfort and no storm disturbed his lowly home. World's Big jest Crop. a nroMfr* man if asked what is the JLlit tfc ? most important crop of the world would unhesitatingly say, '-wheat.'' This is true in the United States, but far from the case in the world as a whole. The first place must be given the potato. Of all the staple crops of the world the potato takes the first place, the annual crop being more than 4,000,000,000 bushels, against 2,500,000,000 bushels of wheat and 2,600,000.000 bushels of corn. Of the total potatoe crop Europe produces fully seven-eights, and one-half times as much as her wheat, and all the cereals together are but 50 per cent more. An Etruscan Tomo. Lightning recently brought about the discovery of an Etruscan tomb near Volterra. It struct an old pine tree on a hillock and in cutting down the remnants of the tree the workmen found the top of the sepulcher under the roots. gas | 41S^iSIS I THIS I Migh Hrm Sewing fjj: Fully guaranteed for ten y< Ej all the latest attachments, t g | mentcd wood work. il Price SI8.C Money refunded after 30 da] I! is not as good as the $40.00 to ** ' | j . sold by agents. Send for circulars Mid state I ; We are headquarters for FurnJ Mattings, Carpets, Sewii g Baby Carriages, etc. - I IN... -- -Address jj IIIO & 1112 Sn - WEATHEE ASDj^SpEEPOETS. i i i i #eeklv Bulletins Sow Beins Issued by _ | , Director J. W Bauer. "\Tr .r W Tl*Ti<?r wAflthpr dirp^tftr. I has begun the publication of weekly ulletins of the condition of the weathr and crops. The bulletin co-tains a general summary" for the State, and contains an pitomized statement from each county imilarto the following from Aiken: Aiken.?Windsor: Some raio, plenty of ice and heavy frost; ground very wet; some cotton planted; corn coming up; wheat doing nicely; oats good; gardens oackward; cool weather and high winds *ere unfavorable for all ciops.?B. B. Sightower. Following is the general summary: Columbia, S C., April 11. 1899. The week ending April 10th averaged nearly 10 degrees per day colder than usual, with frequent heavy to killing frosts that injured corn, fruit (espec ially peaches) aod vegetables. Ice was observed on two mornings. There was from 1 to 3 inches of rain ovei the whole state, further delaying j farming operations, which were already from two or three weeks later than usual. O^er the western portions of the State plowing has been impracticable the entire spring, owing to the wet condition ot the ground, and, of course, iittle or no plantiog has been done except in patches. Over the central and eastern portions of the State the weather conditions previous to last week were more favorable, and in places corn j planting is beiDg finished, with the earj iiest planted up. Germination has ; Deen slow, and some seed rotted in the i ground, owing to the cool weather, i r.snrls fnr nottnn have been DreDared in ! this section, and .some seaisiand and a | little upland cotton has been planted. ' Preparing aoJ planting rice lands has ; made favorable progress, but some rice ifields have been recently inundated. JSome cane has also been planted, j Tobacco plants in beds are available j to set out as soon as the weather be- j j comes warm enough: a littb has already j j been transplanted. ! It appears from correspondents' re- I ports that peaches an: about all killed, j but that apple, pear and cherry trees ! ; are blooming profusely. Gardens are! : late, and not growing well. Truck has i received another set-back by frost. { The season as a whole has been unI favorable, except that wheat and oats | generally look promising. There has i I been but little spring_oats sown. Flour Mill I I Machinery. CONTRACTS TAKEN TO FURNISH COM?PLETE EQUIPMENT FOR? I Roller Floor Mills. i ?REPRESENTING THE? Bichmond City Mill Ms, I One of the aar'iiu'ii'i' ! Vft{| WT irt r.h l /M.I jfl'-j JL' IV U1 'Alll 'X * J 14 v k / v '* ? vi ^ and ttiyiageipifieaiei *Iit> I am prepared to build mills on the most improved plans and at prices to compete with any one in the trade. We guarantee the products of our mills to equal the grades of the best Western mills. Before placing your orders write to me. [ I also handle a complete line of Wood i Working Machinery: Saw Mills, En j gines and Boilera, Corn Mills and Maj chinery in general. Having been established in business here for sixteen years, I have built up ! mT trade hv sellinc the verv highest ; class of machinery, and am in a better ; position to serve the interest of my customers than ever before. V. C. Badfaam, { 1ST BARG I Machine ears, fitted with jP ture, Stoves, JUfw?|||| ng Machines, The Padgett Furri >ad Street, mm MB ? Keeley 12G smith street. || Cor. Yandesiiorst, fi (111 Charleston, s. c. "" ^ AijVJUaULi. .-j,. MORPHINE OPIUM : TOBACCO .... .7 J CIGARETTE " using.:; * 7 Produce.each a disease haviDg defin ite pathology. The disease yields easily to the Double Chloride of Gold Treatment as administered at the above Ketley Institute. ' r a X. B.?The ' Keeley Treatment is administered in South Carolina ^ ?W CHARLESTON, d We are State Agents for and make SPECIALTY of equipping improvec modern ?iuneries with the celebrated? Murray ginning System; the simplest and best Cotton ginned on this system commands a higher market price than any other, and the machinery itself is a marvel of simplicity We control for this State the improved. Murray Cleaning Feeder, which is unquestionably the best gin feeder eveyet invented. Parties contemplating a purchase of machinery of thi? kind are invited to correspond with us. Machinery and Mill Supplies of all kinds at lowest manufacturers prices. Now is the time to place your order for a threshing machine; buy the best, we sell it?the FARQUHAIL W. H. GIBBES & CO., COLUMBIA, S. C. State Agents for:?Liddell Co., Eagle Cotton Gin Co., A. B. Faranhar Co. ~ - a m Write Quick ?TO THb COLUMBIA, S. C., for catalogae. Free scholarship3 on easy conditions to those who write soon. Rail- ' . road fare paid. Cheap board. Notes accepted. Can. pay part: of expenses by working in the- J; college -office. Address, men- --/I tioning course d-sired, W. H- NfiWBBJagr, Preaife ' ^ Frc^ Ji'aker Cirect to Purchaser ? iV Cs-ooct ? 1 jflBBl si?ff? ? ^j^?zWZ jcymenl. . flfi J H A Poor Plan? fi yilllastafew fi > ^ *? i5 Is ajways Good, always ReUaWOi S % always Satisfactory, always Laat> 9B ^ SS5 inz. 3Tou lake no dances In boy- W ' - ' gS ?Dglt. 3ss it costs somewhat _.?re than |g . Ak cheap, poor piano, but Is much the jm ?s cheapcJ. in the end. JSC- Noother Hlsh&raicie Pianosoldio ? SSB reasonable. Factory prices to retail H . ftti. buyers. Easy payments. Wrttew. w g UiDOEfi & BATES, ? jjyt SttTonnah. <Va_ and York City. jg ?aww ,:?| Address: D. A. PJK.ESSLEY, Agent COLUMBIA.. S C. iAINS! /V J. THIS ELEGANT Ho. 8 COOKING STOVE % i umy <35 IU.VU. Has 17x1" inch ove-n, four S inch Si J ?t holes: large flues ana guaran-.3 - tra -fl* H cu a gwu uuau. ?r v ? ove up with forty pieces of ware eluding the latest stove ware. To advertise our business we r:\2bi ill sell tl:i> No. S Cooking Stove, ;te<i with -JO pieces ot wnre for 'O . $70.00 CASH. - liture Co. ; ___ j Augusta, Ga.